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It’s not only blurry Mars images that get scrutinised by nerds in basement apartments. These dwellers of converted laundry rooms also pour over the latest Disney movies in hopes that they will spot some hidden easter egg that would make them a conspiracy superstar.

One such ‘investigator’ might have just stumbled across a clue that could set the animated world ablaze, or at least spark a small brush fire. Not really, but let’s give him a few minutes, and go along with it.

An unofficial ‘House of Mouse detective’ sent shockwaves through Disney fandom after floating a rather dark fan theory that links the 1989 animated “Little Mermaid” with 1953’s “Peter Pan. More specifically, it might just prove that Captain Hook killed Ariel’s mother.

Professional Disney scrutiniser, Ivan Mars, frequently posts film-based conspiracy theories to his 2 million TikTok followers, like some sort of cinematic “Da Vinci Code”. He notes that Ariel’s mother Athena — who was killed by pirates, per the 2008 sequel “The Little Mermaid III” — was also in “Peter Pan.”

In a scene from the 1953 classic, Pan chats up a red-headed dead ringer for Ariel in the Mermaid Lagoon, which coincidentally shares a name with the place where Athena was attacked in the aforementioned sequel. Pretending that all this is real, we can safely assume that Ariel would look a lot like her mother after the 36-year time lapse between the two movies.

Given that Ariel’s mom died at the hands of pirates, and that Captain Hook was the baddest pirate of them all, it then stands to reason that Peter Pan’s nemesis was the dirty rotten scoundrel who murdered Athena. To take it a step further, many sleuths suspect that it is Athena’s likeness that even adorns the Captain’s prow.

@its_ivanmars THIS IS CRAZY 😱 #thelittlemermaid #disney #fyp #foryou #conspiracy #screammovie ♬ original sound – Ivan Mars | MovieDetective

Mars might be correct, but does all this really matter when we have it on good authority that if you watch The Little Mermaid in reverse, it reveals the moon landings as fake?

Ariel’s mom still dies though as Disney doesn’t take kindly to mothers. Usually they either die early on in the storyline and then get replaced by an evil stepmom or witch.

Either way, the ‘Ariel theory’ can now be filed in the Schrodinger’s Cat paradox box. It’s true, or complete nonsense.

Either way, Ivan Mars got to bask in fandom glory for a day, while the rest of the world really doesn’t care too much.

[source:nypost]