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silver-wield:

We’ll probably get something even better 🤭❤️

cinnamonmagick:

Hi! I think there’s been a misunderstanding, sorry to disappoint - the conspiracy theories I was talking about are the ones I went on to write about in this post, which is probably how you found me. I’ve never given much thought to how the hypothetical sequels would happen, since it’s been so long they couldn’t make them anymore.

Though now you’ve got me thinking they could do a high school reunion sequel where we get to see them all as superheroes (Ethan and Zach are clearly in denial about the fact that they’re dating), and it’s really awkward because Will and Layla broke up a year ago, and he’s trying to restart things while she’s desperately dodging him. Of course Warren is already occupying the hiding spot she finds. They’ve seen each other sporadically over the years, usually on superhero/villain business. She’s not sure which side he’s actually on, but he’s so transparent she doesn’t really believe he could be one of the bad guys. They share a platter of cheese cubes Warren stole.

I have no idea how the rest of the movie goes, I’m sure there’s a big fight and some heartwarming message (actually, you know what, it’s kind of important to me that they get the anti-establishment superhero politics right, and Layla should have been the main character in the first place, but anyway), but in the end Layla finds herself at the Paper Lantern. Maybe Will stood her up again or maybe she just wants to be alone.

Warren shows up with his awkward and sincere wisdom as usual. His grandmother, who runs the place, mentions in passing that he made her start using recycled take-out containers (whether it’s implied that Warren has been mildly pining after Layla from afar the past few years and his grandma totally knows and is intentionally meddling is totally up to you, I mean I’m not saying that’s what’s happening, but). Of course, to Layla this is the equivalent of finding out a guy likes romcoms (I’m also not saying Warren likes romcoms). She comes on to him by fake-reading his fortune, and he takes the hint, so they kiss slowly across the table. It is suddenly important to me that these shots and their positions mirror the first movie, and that there is a little plant that blooms while they kiss. Warren grabs the slip of paper as he pulls back (she protests and he calls her “hippie”) and reads out the real fortune, which is a funny joke in the context of the rest of this movie which does not exist.

They hold hands across the table as they make plans to go out. Everything is very soft.

They probably cut to whatever’s going on with Will then, etc., but we will see Warren put his arm around Layla when Will finds out about them and is totally cool with it because Layla’s his best friend. They’re already mellow and undemonstratively but OBVIOUSLY affectionate with each other like they’ve been together for years. I’m talking like she fixes his collar without even thinking about it and he casually sets things on fire when people aren’t taking her seriously.

Everyone probably suits up and charges off to a new fight in the last ten seconds while a superhero theme plays because that’s how these things work.

So. I don’t know how that happened. I was just going to quickly send off that first paragraph and then all this snuck out. Hope you got something out of it!

(Anon who sent me a very similar message god knows how long ago, if you’re still here, hi to you too. I’m sorry I never replied. I am very depressed.)

cinnamonmagick:

Okay, listen up. First off, we have this rumor off of the TV Tropes website:

It’s since been taken down and isn’t exactly damning in and of itself, but bear with me.

A lot of the characters’ names in this movie mean something; of the central characters, there’s the Warren Peace pun, the obvious Will Stronghold, and Gwen Grayson, which a lot of people have pointed out may be a combination of Spider-Man’s girlfriend Gwen Stacy, and DC superhero Dick Grayson. The only main character’s name that doesn’t seem to mean anything is Layla Williams, which is weird considering she’s the female lead, and notably similar to supervillain Poison Ivy, whose alter ego is Pamela Lillian Isley, originally Dr. Lillian Rose, so they totally could have gone in that direction.

Now, remember the scene where they’re going through Steve and Josie’s old high school yearbook?

When they get to the picture of Warren’s father Barron Battle, Steve says “Always swore he’d have his revenge on me. And he totally stole the lead in Oklahoma!” and judging from Will and Josie’s reactions he still brings this up a lot.

Oklahoma! is a famous play in which the main storyline revolves around the male lead, Curly McLain, trying to convince the female lead, Laurey Williams, to acknowledge her affections for him. Spoiler alert: he succeeds and at the end of the play they get married.

Laurey Williams.

Layla Williams.

They just called her Layla because no one names their kid Laurey anymore (no offense to anyone named Laurey), and this is clearly foreshadowing Warren and Layla getting together: Warren’s father “stole” the lead in Oklahoma!, a role centered on a romance with Laurey Williams, from Will’s father; ergo Warren was going to “steal” Layla from Will in a future film.

To make the evidence even more damning, the secondary storyline in Oklahama! follows a guy called Will Parker and his quest to marry this girl Ado Annie. He doesn’t look twice at Laurey. I rest my case.

Of course, it’s perfectly possible that is just another one of those million weird coincidences that show up way too often in a medium where creators always claim they actually think about this stuff, OR

it’s. foreshadowing. Prove me wrong.

@vastiaisms