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The Pixar universe or Pixar Theory is a theoretical "shared universe" in which every character that is created by Pixar exists, sharing characteristics and an internal logic. Media discussion about a "Pixar Universe" has existed since at least 2003, and has been referred to in disparate sources such as SlashFilm, Washington Times, Reno Gazette-Journal, and MTV News.

The Theory
In his 2013 thesis entitled "The Pixar Theory," Jon Negroni wrote that every character created by Pixar lives within a single fictional universe. He acknowledges that the concepts behind his thesis were derived from an episode of the Cracked.com video series After Hours, written by Daniel O'Brien. In his post, Negroni discusses all of the films and how they relate in a timeline of events. The films, in chronological order are The Good Dinosaur, Brave, The Incredibles, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, Toy Story 3, Up, Inside Out, Cars, Cars 2, WALL-E, A Bug's Life, Monsters University, and Monsters, Inc..

The Loop
The Pixar Theory spans over centuries and focuses on the struggle for domination on Earth between humans and both animals and inanimate objects with humanlike characteristics. It claims that all Pixar films exist in the same universe. The theory begins and ends with Brave.

In Brave Merida discovers the will-of-the-wisps magic, which turns her mother into a bear. This magic is what makes animals and inanimate objects behave like humans, and it eventually leads to the evolution of superheroes.

The next movie on the timeline is The Incredibles, which shows superheroes ruling the world until a wannabe superhero creates zero point energy (found in vacuums) and toys start to subsume the superheroes' powers.

Next comes Toy Story where toys show their first signs of life and how they learn that human love is a major source of energy. The toys start to feel sad when they aren't around humans. In Toy Story 2 the toys are exposed to the dangers of not being around humans. Being neglected by humans is what leads the toys, and even animals, to resenting them.

This resentment is carried into Finding Nemo because humans are polluting the earth and experimenting on fish, both of which lead to curiosity in humans with more humanistic behaviors.

The next movie is Ratatouille. A rat can cook better than some humans and the main chef disappears. At the end of the movie the chef gets the restaurant shut down because of the rats in the kitchen. The rats form feelings of fear and hatred towards humans.

In Toy Story 3 the resentment is heightened because of the physical and emotional abuse they have received from humans. Objects, animals and machines are ready to take over.

In Up the corporation Buy and Large (BnL) forces a man to give up his house and land because the city is expanding. This corporation is polluting the earth and wiping out homes. Up foreshadows the fall of civilization to BnL (this corporation is found in many Pixar movies). This movie is the tipping point between animals and humans.

When animals finally go against humans the machines side with humans to help them win the war. Bn: sends the remaining humans into space to love out their days before returning back to earth. The machines are left to run things in the world, as Cars portrays. Cars 2 shows that the machines have expanded globally, in Japan and Europe, with no sign of humans because the planet is unfit to support life thanks to BnL.

After earth completely runs out of resources Wall-E is the only machine left. The movie Wall-E hints at the previous war between humans and animals and puts BnL at fault for destroying the planet. Wall-E is fascinated with humans and strives to save the human race and to start a new beginning. The end of the movie shows the last part of plant life.

A Bug's Life shows the plant from Wall-E has grown into a might tree that supports the insects. There is little mention of human life and animals are the dominant species.

The radiation from BnL changes animals into monsters and completely eradicates all human life. In Monsters University monsters are taught that humans are dangerous and from another dimension because they fear that the humans will eradicate them. The monsters, however, end up regretting this because they realize humans are their source of energy and are needed to sustain life. In Monsters, Inc. the monsters use doors to travel to other dimensions where the humans are, introducing Boo. She becomes obsessed with a particular monster and figures out that wooden doors are the key to finding him.

The character of Boo creates a time loop and goes back to the will-of-the-wisps magic from Brave because her evidence can be found in two carvings of wood in Brave.

Support
In To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios, the companion book to documentary The Pixar Story, Karen Paik states that there are many internal references between various films in The Pixar Universe. In 2009, CityNews Toronto made comparisons between nine "Pixar Universe" films.

Denial
Pixar employee Jay Ward (not to be confused with cartoonist Jay Ward) denied that the films take place in the same universe, saying: "It's almost like the 9/11 conspiracy theories... it's like, really? No, the movies were sort of made in a different order by different directors in different times, in different places. It's cool that it all worked out that way, but it probably was not intentional."

At the 2015 D23 Expo, during the "Pixar Secrets Revealed" panel, director Mark Andrews reiterated previous denial of the theory, saying: "It's not true—come on!" At the same panel, co-director Ronnie del Carmen said: "Do you know what kinds of meetings we'd have to have to make sure all our movies line up?!"