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Not "unpopular" headcanons or interpretations or theories of characters, events, etc, because that suggests a degree of disapproval or lack of conviction. Just headcanons and interpretations and theories that you haven't seen shared or voiced by many (or any) other people. Especially stuff that runs counter to general fanon or stereotypes.

e.g.: I don't think Kirk was sexually promiscuous. I think he was fairly adept at being charming, but the combination of his dedication to running a taut ship and a professional crew, the number of times he's been taken advantage of in a romantic or sexual manner (usually by fucking with his head, like Nona and Elaan), and the fact that the handful of genuine romantic liaisons that he's engaged in onscreen all ended so poorly, caused him to mostly stay a bit too puritan during the five-year mission era.

Hmm, well I've discussed this with one person in real life and it may have come from somewhere else but-- the mean old cat Arya had to catch in the Red Keep is a warg Targaryan

Harry Potter:

- Aurors were at Hogwarts during CoS and PoA, but in disguise. Because it seriously makes no sense that they wouldn't want to be around when all those crazy things were happening. I'm pretty sure the real backstory is that JKR hadn't established Aurors yet, though.

Community:

- Abed writes for TV Tropes. Maybe even invented it.

- Annie secretly relates to Abed a bit because she has ADHD - this is hinted when Troy makes an "ass burger" joke, and Annie is very quick to say "it's a very serious disorder." (Of course it was also a douche thing to joke about, I don't have ADHD and would've had the exact same reaction, but for the sake of my argument...)

Parks and Recreation:

-The reason Leslie doesn't seem to know anyone in a small town beyond her coworkers is because Pawnee tends to be the sort of town most people leave between the ages of 21 and 40, so Leslie's peers have mostly left for other places. (My Mom's from a town like that. When you go, you see mostly kids, parents and grandparents.) But her workaholic tendencies mean she's also drifted from the non-political world, as much as she'd hate to admit it.

I like these. (HP & Parks)

Leverage: Sophie is a giant dork. Giant.

Heh, I'd call that canon.

+1

Personally I think every character on Leverage is a gigantic dork. I think that probably is headcanon though.

I'm not actually sure what the consensus is on fanons, because I've stayed out of the loop since the airing of series 2. Anyway,

BBC Sherlock: Irene Adler isn't the real Irene Adler, but an identity thief who stile some normal actress' name to protect her own identity. The real Irene Adler is living in a flat with her happy husband working in budget musicals, and occasionally gets really weird and bothersome messages on her answering machine.

holy crap, that's fantastic.

This is fantastic :D

Iron Man 3:

You know Chad Davis, the first supersoldier to blow up a few years ago and who everyone thought went crazy and made a bomb that killed him and a few other people? Harley's dad.

That's why Harley knew where Mrs. Davis, Chad's mother, was right away - she's his grandmother. Either Chad's mom left the picture way before even that point, or she was one of the people killed (or she's still around, but so shocked by what happened and the family lives on the edge of the admittedly-rural community because everyone else kind of ostracized them). And the reason why a kid with his kind of tech skills and stoic charm is still getting so harshly bullied in this day and age? He's the son of that crazy person who built a bomb to commit suicide and took a bunch of other innocent people with him.

Also, the pun: Harley Davis. :P

MCU Thor/Asgardians:

So now that MCU has pretty much officially taken the stance that the Asgardians are just really advanced aliens mistaken for gods, rather than actually gods themselves, the next question is, why the fuck do these aliens look exactly like humans? Answer: they are. The superhuman experiments are still in their nascence right now, but over the next hundreds/thousands of years, they get refined, distilled down to the genetic level, and distributed/spread out through the entire species of humanity. It is for this reason that humans managed to survive until the end of the universe, at which point our descendents realized they were screwed, so they managed to send themselves back in time, way back - possibly all the way to the beginning of the universe, or at the very least a few billion years ago. That's why they don't really have a planet, but just a weird asteroid/hunk of rock floating in its own little pocket dimension on the fringes of the space-time continuum - the machine/method/whatever was only able to encompass that much and everything in it, which is a good chunk of planet...but still just a chunk of planet. It's been so long that even the Asgardians have forgotten that they originally came from humans.

Other headcanon and/or bonus to this one:

The Asgardians, themselves, have a sense of spirituality and religion, and of course they sometimes name their children after them. So MCU Thor isn't the god of thunder, but named after the god of thunder whose name is Thor, and because of who/what his namesake was, he took an interest in hammers and lightning as a kid. Odin named his other son Loki as kind of an in-joke, and Loki also took after his namesake in a way that started out being about personal interest/research into an Asgardian myth from which his name came.

On Earth, the actual Asgardian history and the Asgardians' mythology got all mixed up, hence the messiness of Norse mythology as it stands now. Thor initially finds it funny that people call him the god of thunder, but then gets disturbed when people actually assume he is the legit god of thunder - from his perspective, it's his religion. It would be like us assuming that Queen Mary was actually St. Mary the Holy Mother of Jesus Christ just because that queen was named after that saint.

Edited (Forgot a few sentences) 2014-01-22 02:33 (UTC)

Gondor is homophobic.

The reasoning is that when Elendil brought his survivors from Númenor and founded Arnor and Gondor, he tried to rid his people of decadence and depravity that he saw infect Númenorian society (encouraged by Sauron). Same gender relationships were amongst what he made laws against.

Outside myself and Valandhir (I came up with the prejudice, she came up with the background), I haven't seen it in fics. I may not have read enough Gondor fics though.

Sherlock Holmes:

Watson had loads of hilariously awful vices, particularly in the early days of his time after (and/or during, and before) the war, and spent a lot of his time (of which he had plenty to spare in those days) carousing and sleeping around when not on cases with Holmes. Also, his club was not some staid gentlemen's club, but a terribly rowdy den full of bad influences and dudes who split their time between playing the stock market and being pool sharks.

My reasons for having this headcanon, in order of importance:
1. It really entertains me to think about it, because people assume otherwise for no concrete reason. Nothing in canon contradicts it, while it also makes sense that Watson would conveniently fail to elaborate on such embarrassing information. So why not?
2. Given his eager association with Holmes and his comments about it, Watson clearly really relished excitement, and back when Holmes's business was slow and Watson didn't have a practice or wife, I can hardly imagine him whiling away his days doing nice boring wholesome things. So why not go way off in the opposite direction? No reason not to.
3. Those various digs in canon about Watson's familiarity with women and gambling and his rapid loss of money/recurring broke-ness, and that evasive "I have another set of vices when I'm well" comment. Creativity is good!
4. This could be why he is so reluctant, even by the time of The Sign of Four, about criticizing Holmes's habits, and why he describes him as easy to live with in STUD, because he didn't see anything wrong with it and/or felt it would be hypocritical. Later however, when he started getting his act together and leaving behind his vices and Holmes didn't/got worse about them, he acquired a (slightly) more frustrated attitude towards Holmes's bad habits, which shows in his stories.
5. One more reason why he didn't think he was good enough for Mary Morstan and was so afraid she'd think of him as a scoundrel.

I always see in fics that Peter had a wife/kids before the fire. Until it's proven otherwise, Peter was a bachelor. I think he was too focused on power and manipulating others to even date someone let alone get married. When we saw him and Derek in the flashback, it was maybe a year or two before the fire and he didn't seem to even have a girlfriend.

Fandom likes to make Peter more tragic by giving him dead wife and kids. I totally agree with you though - he was way to busy looking out for number one.

I've seen someone write Levi from Attack on Titan as one of the few survivors of the Roma within the walls and his cleanliness as a part of that culture that he's trying to preserve. I have no idea if it's accurate or not, but I like the concept, especially since it gives a reason for his quirks other than 'OCD LOLOLOL'.

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