Futurama just found the answer to explain 25 years of plot holes and inconsistencies

The following contains spoilers for Futurama season 12 episode 10, “Different,” now streaming on HuluFuturamaThe multiverse twist in the season 12 finale could be used to explain any number of discrepancies and plot holes in the show’s canon. Futurama has always been able to push the boundaries of his comedic sci-fi world. Even concepts like death mean little in a show like this FuturamaA setting where the characters are resurrected in several ways and killed in many anthology episodes.

However, a core timeline has always been present in the show, even if some episodes didn’t adhere to all the biggest plot twists and turns. The formal introduction of a full multiverse in Futurama Season 12’s ending “Different” may be the key to explaining how all these elements make sense alongside one another. This episode formally sets up the multiverse for the world of Futurama As a way to kill off two of the show’s main characters even while exact copies continue their adventures Futurama Seasons 13 and 14.

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The idea that Futuramas various episodes have been across different realities Could explain plot-holes and ret-cans in the series. Season 12’s “Different” focuses on two versions of the Planet Express ship in similar but alternate dimensions. One version wanders into the depths of the multiverse, inadvertently encountering (and killing) variants of them from another timeline. In one of the two worlds, the story of Futurama is essentially closed, while the ends on the traditional looking version of the crew. However, this can really explain Futuramas casual non-canon events, like the end of the world earlier in the season.

In “Attack of the Clothes,” Professor Farnsworth’s wasteful approach to fashion seemingly doomed the earth. However, the next episode jumped forward as if it had never happened. It is far from the first time Futurama Has quietly broken his own continuity, however It can now be explained as another fact in Futuramas multiverse. This can effectively allow Futurama To reset the universe, explain why cataclysmic events can be seemingly resolved and forgotten between episodes. As in “Other,” the episodes with doomed endings are about Planet Express crew variants meeting their ends.

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How “other” connects “while” in a multiverse story

This isn’t the first time Fry has been linked to alternative versions of reality. Fry, Bender and Professor Farnsworth are the last survivors of their universe, which cycles through death and rebirth in season 7’s “The Late Philip J. Fry.” On top of that, “Different” makes repeated reference to season 10’s “Meanwhile,” where Frey and Leela accidentally broke time. This led them to spend a happy life together exploring the world. Memories of the other timeline flood Fry’s mind as he nears the multiversal chasmEven causing him to weaken and set off the divergence point in the timeline.

This suggests “meanwhile” effectively exists as an alternate reality in Futuramas timeline instead of just a reset version of the same world. how so Other past episodes can now be formally chalked up to other alternate realitiesrendering them non-canon. This could explain strange events like season 11’s “The Prince and the Product” or the ending “Attack of the Clothes.” It also gives the creatives room to experiment with concepts like closure in future seasons, as seen in the episode’s Doomed Frey and Leela. It gives Futurama A backdoor to explain any experimentation or cataclysmic events as multiversal stories.