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Donnie Darko is just Final Fantasy!

By Romination October 23, 2010 3 Comments

I was sitting around the other day, thinking about the plot of the original Final Fantasy, as I sometimes do because it's bananas, when all of a sudden something happened... I had a revelation. Now, I'm sure you surmised, possibly, what it was, but let me remind you...

Donnie Darko's plot is just like Final Fantasy

It's a metaphor for discovering a pederast

Well, not just like it. Obviously, DD could use more elemental fiends, and FF could use more rabbit suits but hold on a second holy shit they both abbreviate down to one letter repeated twice. IS THIS A COINCIDENCE?!?!

As for the plot...
An alternate universe is stuck in a time loop. A hero (or heroes) enters in and must fulfill their destiny and kill the person who caused the time loop in order for everything to go back to normal. Sound familiar? CUZ IT'S BOTH OF THEM.

YOU'VE JUST CHANGED MY LIFE FOREVER

I know. I know. But let's just get down to the actual specifics here. Final Fantasy deals with a knight who finds a loophole in time and creates a time loop with it. In this loop, he can live forever, with the help of the elemental fiends, who must be defeated by the 4 Warriors of Light, from another dimension, who can disrupt the balance as an unexpected variable. So they go and ghost the knight's ass during the time when the loop started.

Donnie, seen here about to enter a random battle

Donnie Darko, meanwhile, is about a time loop that starts when a jet engine hits the Darko's house and no one dies-but Donnie was supposed to die. An alternate universe splits off that just repeats as a time loop because of this. Donnie, with the help of a dude in a rabbit suit, defeats fiends in some way or another (Swayze's house with all its child porn), but then rabbit dude leads him to his destiny of destroying the person who caused the time loop- HIMSELF. In this case, it can be argued that the rabbit guy is a Warrior of Light stand in, as he is a variable introduced during a later part of the time stream to right the wrongs.

Yeah, you read that right

It's almost like playing mad libs, only all of the answers are the same. So nothing like playing mad libs.
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Forget I said that BUT THIS CANNOT BE UNSEEN. Clearly, one of them plagiarized from the other! However, since both involve time travel and alternate universes and time traveling in alternate universes, the true culprit cannot be truly discovered. One of them is guilty, though... and I'm tempted to say Final Fantasy because all it's doing is laying fantasy metaphors for everything from DD. Suspicion much? No wonder pretentious college students love Final Fantasy so much- it's based on their favourite movie.

-Rom

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