The Pixar Theory

[doggans]

But in this reveal, it also means that the other TV series where characters guested on are in his head... and characters who were on their shows.

I never got the outrage some TV fans still have over that. If you're REALLY so concerned about, say, the Cheers universe being "real" instead of in the kid's imagination, can't you just assume that the kid, at some point, encountered the Cheers characters and incorporated the real people into his fantasy?

[RoninFox]

But in this reveal, it also means that the other TV series where characters guested on are in his head... and characters who were on their shows.

I never got the outrage some TV fans still have over that. If you're REALLY so concerned about, say, the Cheers universe being "real" instead of in the kid's imagination, can't you just assume that the kid, at some point, encountered the Cheers characters and incorporated the real people into his fantasy?

Or that that kid happened to see an episode of Cheers and cast someone he liked in his fantasy the same way he cast others around him, meaning the kid is in OUR universe watching the same stuff we are.

[Johnny Unusual]

Good point... except, that means he's free in OUR WORLD!  LOOK OUT!

EDIT: I've since been informed that people with autism are not monsters.  My apologies.

Still, I always like the idea that somehow all of these stories can take place in the same reality (or, in some cases, the same multiverse).  That's one of the fun things about the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the comic, not the movie.  There is nothing fun about the movie).  It takes place in a world where all books (and later on, general fiction) seems to take place in the same world.