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[THIRD HEADCANON/FAN THEORY]
In my own insane (but somehow way less insane) take on the infamous (is it infamous, I just want to know that) Tommy Westphall Universe fan theory which claims not only are 500+ shows are in the same universe but they all take place in the mind of a twelve year old autistic boy with a snowglobe (yes, this is a real thing, blame St. Elsewhere), I propose that in this case for me not only are a decent handful of media are set within the same universe as each other but they all take place within the mind of the deadly, morally grey, femme fatale and early 20s sorceress Charmcaster — the Alien Force and Ultimate Alien Charmcaster to be specific.
How I see it is this is the Where The Magic Happens Trilogy Charmcaster (the pitch I did) specifically the second and third series Charmcaster where she's not only way more mature but a lot more darker, sinister, calculated and ruthless where she took all the lessons she's learned and built upon them and grew from them but not in the good way you think of at first. Obviously, as the second and third series go on, she redeems herself and this is teased throughout because in all three shows Charmcaster has a code, refusing to hurt people that she doesn't have to, expressing regret and disgust at herself for [SPOILER ALERT] decapitating Gwen when they first met, going back to when she doesn't need to to save Gwen and her friends when left behind etc.
She's torn between being a hero and a villain.
But here's where her secret universe within her mind comes directly into play, at the end of the first series, a now changed completely Gwen - no longer the spoiled, know-it-all, mean brat she was at the beginning of the series - gives Charmcaster a special snowglobe that originally meant a lot to Gwen when she was only little and in the words of her Aunt Sandra "finally being able to walk".
It turns out in the second and third series, it's a prized possession of Charmcaster that she won't let anyone else get near or even touch even Gwen who gave it to her in the first place.
How I see it is this is where Charmcaster's universe begins, all of the following are figments on her "imagination". Stories in her mind that only she knows of, it's her own personal secret that's all her fun and her fun only. One day when they're married, she'll tell her wife Gwen but for now, this is hers and hers only. That way, it makes her finally telling Gwen more special.
CHARMCASTER'S UNIVERSE
The connecting theme here are a total of three things which fits them despite being tonially and stylistically different from each other:
1). They focus on distinct but very unconventional types of protagonists and even ensembles having to not only fight the odds but face the highest stakes and the highest threats there is. At the same time, the protagonists aren't generic action heroes or the type who'd be the heroes of these scenarios but they have moral codes or just codes in general even if they're not always "good people" and always end up doing "the right thing". Way less of Tony Stark from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Frank Dux from Bloodsport and Steven Hiller from Independence Day and WAAAAY more of The Stranger from High Plains Drifter, The Driver from Drive and Michael "De Santa" Townley from Grand Theft Auto V.
2). The villains or main antagonists are always never one-dimensional or generic stereotypical bad guys. They're all fully-fleshed out or just fleshed out in general villains with their own personalities, histories and motivations. Some of them are genuinely tragic villains out of Shakespeare and some who are full-on villainous are dangerous and intimidating. Hell, some have codes too. They fall straight into the morally grey area with that if they have that. Way less Tonraq from The Legend Of Korra (ugh, that whole show sucks), Fire Lord Ozai from Avatar: The Last Airbender and Senator John McLaughlin from Machete and WAAAAY more of J. Nomak from Blade II, Davy Jones from Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest/At World's End and Thaddeus Sivina from Shazam!.
3). All of the events in them are either caused by, advanced and forwarded by or sometimes both by the protagonists. They make life-altering decisions that whether good or bad, whether they did or didn't do the right thing, will have massive repercussions. It's never something random as all hell happening to a certain individual, it's the opposite where they did something that caused or triggered this event to happen to them so they really have no one else to blame but themselves.
IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER:
• The Mummy (1999)
• Saving Private Ryan
• Overlord (2018)
• Inglourious Basterds
• Thief (1981)
• Heat (1995)
• The Long Kiss Goodnight
• The Invisible Man (2020)
• Upgrade (2018)
and that's just too name a few, there's much more to it than that but this gives you a great idea on what's going on in the mind of everyone's favorite teenage sorceress Charmcaster.
#charmcaster#ben 10#shared universe#tommy westphall#st elsewhere#the mummy#saving private ryan#overlord#inglourious basterds#thief#heat#the long kiss goodnight#the invisible man#upgrade#kari wahlgren#SoundCloud#Youtube
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happy white boy Wednesday 😜#whiteboywednesday #swag #hot #whiteboy #wednesday #fashion #style #best #likes #WBW #smile #cool #hair #selfie #love #tumblr #imwithher #summer #plur #humpday #happyhumpday #hardwork #inspiredaily #motivation #lifestyle #lovethegrind #erlick
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Hyperfixation wrapped
You watched 15 tv shows so fast you forgot most of the episodes
You joined 5 new fandoms
You had 13 blorbos
You bookmarked 103 fanfics at work
You had 437 headcanons
You bought 11 new action figures
You have 56 posts in drafts about your blorbos doing something mundane
You paused the tv 56,733,500 times to respond to a text message because you didn't want to miss anything
#why am i like this#john sheppard is literally all i think about#or spock tbh#stargate#star trek#or that hot minute i was obsessed with Wayne Fiscus#st elsewhere
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Best Best TV Drama: Bonus Round
#emmy#emmys#murder she wrote#dallas#dynasty#fame#magnum pi#st. elsewhere#miami vice#moonlighting#beauty and the beast#st elsewhere#best drama#poll#polls
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I’m actually stimming like this picture makes me so happy like wtf
*does flappy hands stim*
Nah cuz this photo is calling me out cuz I used to be obsessed with trains (still kinda am tbh)
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#HappyBirthday #ronniecox #actor #singer #edwardjellico #startrek #thenextgenerarion #StarTrekProdigy #deliverance #bonanza #alcatraz #thebeastwithin #beverlyhillscop #robocop #stelsewhere #TotalRecall #PerryMason #murderat1600 #TheOuterLimits #desperatehousewives #dexter #nashville #BeingtheRicardos #startrek56 @startrek @startrekonpplus @hbomaxla @tcmla
#happybirthday#ronniecox#actor#singer#edwardjellico#startrek#thenextgeneration#star trek prodigy#deliverance#bonanza#alcatraz#the beast within#beverly hills cop#robocop#st elsewhere#total recall#perry mason#murderat1600#the outer limits#desperate housewives#dexter#nashville#beingthericardos#startrek56
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Jack Morrison in St Elsewhere
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Getting my top surgery at st eligius
#st elsewhere#is this anything???#idk i just started watching this show like last week and now im obsessed so#have this i guess
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I feel like any fan of Goncharov should really look into the St. Elsewhere theory and how Goncharov fits into it. Both seem like mass pop culture hijinks and rabbitholes that would go really well together.
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unironically love st elsewhere
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Would you just send me a message in a bottle then, baby? 𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙨 𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙚𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚.
“𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓉𝒶𝓁”
- I did.
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What is the most expansive fictional universe ever created?
The Tommy Westphall Universe. A long time ago, in a fabled era known as the ’80s, there was a TV show called St. Elsewhere. It was about a run down teaching hospital named St. Eligius in Boston and the doctors who worked there. Dr. Donald Westphall was the Director of Medicine, a widower he was raising his two children by himself. One of those children was his autistic son Tommy. Tommy only appeared in fifteen episodes of the series. St. Elsewhere ran for six seasons, and won eleven Emmys, but all anyone cares about today is its final episode. In the final scene of the final episode, it is revealed that the building of St. Eligius is inside a snow globe being held by Tommy Westphall. And his father, who is definitely not a doctor, comes in and says the following:
I don't understand this autism thing, Pop. Here's my son, I talk to him, I don't even know if he can hear me. He sits there, all day long, in his own world, staring at that toy. What's he thinking about?
The entire six seasons of St. Elsewhere were, in fact, a child’s daydream while looking at a snow globe.
So here’s where things start to get a little complicated. The St. Elsewhere character Dr. Roxanne Turner was in an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street where she was accused of murder. But… if Dr. Turner was just a creation of Tommy… how could she possibly be on Homicide? …Unless Homicide was also a day dream of Tommy. There is an episode of St. Elsewhere where the doctors of St. Eligius decide to go out for a few drinks at a local Boston bar. That bar happens to be Cheers, the titular bar from the sitcom Cheers. So all of Cheers, and Frasier, and Frasier again are products of Tommy’s imagination.
Detective John Munch was a character played by Richard Belzer who starred on Homicide: Life on the Street, which we know never existed. After the cancelation of Homicide, the character was moved Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. Detective Munch also appears in the shows The Wire, The X-Files, and Arrested Development. So all those shows had to be the creation of Tommy Westphall.
Cheers spun off Frasier, which crossed over with Caroline in the City, which crossed over with Friends, which shared a character with Mad About You, which crossed over with Seinfeld. In a few centuries the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer will be Star Trek, but its distant past (sorry, spoilers) is the reboot of Battlestar Galactica. Doctor Who is canonically taking place in the same universe as I Love Lucy, Hannah Montana, Grey’s Anatomy, and All My Children.
And all of it is the creation of one child, which probably explains the continuity errors. Such as no one acknowledging the zombie outbreak in Georgia in The Walking Dead, which is happening at the exact same time as It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Arrow.
If you map everything out, there are at least 419 shows which are all in the same continuity with each other, and all are canonically the creation of Tommy Westphall.
The first person to propose the Tommy Westphall Universe was legendary writer Dwayne McDuffie. Which was in a blog post criticizing comic book continuity. It was about just how silly it was to try to fit vast and mutually incoherent works all into the same rigid continuity. But you know… he was kind of onto something with that whole Tommy Westphall stuff.
They did all crossover with each other.
By the way, the Collector in Guardians of the Galaxy has Tobias Fünke on his ship, which means Tommy Westphall is responsible for the MCU.
(Found on Facebook, attribution unknown)
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You know of the absolutely insane, fueled on old-school 80s cocaine fan theory called "The Tommy Westphall Universe" where not only are over a thousand fucking TV shows all set in the same universe but also take place in the mind of a twelve year old quiet autistic boy who stares at a snowglobe with a hospital in it thanks to St. Elsewhere.
What if we can do something similar or maybe even exactly like that but this time with feature films. I propose "The Charmcaster Universe" theory where not only are several (perhaps hundreds of) movies all take place in the same universe but also take place in the mind of Charmcaster from Ben 10, specifically the AF/UA one. A quality reboot version we've never gotten.
#charmcaster#tommy westphall#st elsewhere#theory#shaft#samuel l jackson#saving private ryan#steven spielberg#the mummy#brendan fraser
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