#voltron theory

[spectacularspatula]

Just over 7 years after the show debuted, I think I've figured out what the Blue Lion's purpose in the team is.

While at first glance, Voltron seems to follow the five man band trope (Leader, Lancer, Smart Guy, Stong Guy, Heart) pretty closely, color-coded and all.

Black is the leader: cool under pressure, and always able to see reason and the best course of action, and Shiro fits this perfectly.

Red is the Lancer: the leader's right hand man, the one to challenge them, the one who is almost as good as them, and the character foil for them. Keith matches up with this as well.

Green is the Smart Guy: the one with knowledge specialized to the setting, the one the team always looks to when they need something niche, and Pidge/Katie definitely fits here, with her extremely broad and extensive knowledge of technology.

Yellow is the Strong Guy/Tank: the team's hard hard hitter, the one who can take the most damage, and generally stereotyped as super loyal, and Hunk checks all of these boxes (his name even fits!)

Generally next in the list would be the Heart: the emotional center of the team, the one who keeps everyone together, the one always ready to give a pep talk, the one who makes sure no one is left behind. As the pattern follows, you would think this would go to blue (and so Lance), but it isn't. Allura is actually the one to fill this role.

Then where does that leave Lance? He clearly struggles with this question himself, saying he feels like a 7th wheel, like he's just an extra person. He struggles to find his worth on the team, surrounded by amazing people. This internal conflict over self-worth is what makes him so relatable and lovable to the audience, along with his humor. And here, I think is where we find his purpose.

Lance fills the role that I am going to call the diplomat in this variation of the five man band trope. He is the one that makes the team feel like it's not just the most amazing, perfect people out there that we could never compare ourselves to. He feels down-to-earth (pun intended), he's someone a lot of people can see themselves in. He's an extrovert who's great with people and longs for companionship. He's funny, and can make light of a situation, but when he needs to be serious, he is. Overall, Lance is a people person.

And to think of this in context of the show's universe, I think that position is quite important. Imagine if Voltron was real, and was what was protecting you and your home planet. Voltron is a great weapon, but it's larger than life. Even if it's protecting you, you'd probably still be at least a little scared of it, especially if the people piloting it were the best of the best. That's really intimidating. To have one of the pilots be someone you can see yourself in, it makes it feel more real, and less like it's something beyond your comprehension.

It's also important to have the diplomat for, well, diplomatic purposes. To charm those you want to make an alliance with, to mediate arguments, and to have someone the people of each civilization love. This part of the job is why Allura is able to pilot blue in the absence of Shiro.

However, she doesn't really fill Blue's role, and niether do any of the others. Allura is great, but she suffers from the same thing Shiro does in this regard, they're just too amazing. They're paragons of themselves. Allura is one of the last of the mythical Alteans, and she can perform the practically lost art of Altean Alchemy. Shiro is a perfect leader, he's handsome, and that makes him a little intimidating. Hunk is great in the way that he's loyal, but he's more focused on the people he cares about than anything else, and also just doesn't have the charisma that Lance has. Pidge is not the easiest to talk to, and you can find yourself getting lost in all the science lingo she throws around, and her long tangents that don't quite have all the context you need to understand them. Coran Keith speaks for himself, our little asocial emo boy. To be clear, this is not to bash the other characters, it's just to show why they don't really fill the role.

All in all, Voltron is a deviant of the five man band trope, not the poster perfect example it seems to be. Furthermore, Lance is far from the worthless misfit he sees himself as, he is the true charmer of the team.

#lance voltron #lance mcclain #voltron #vld lance #blue lion #voltron theory #five man band trope

[kidge-planet]

YOU KNOW WHAT ?!

I was thinking:

You know , when pidge announced that she was a girl , everyone ( EXEPT Lance ) knew it ..

I thought about how everyone discovered it :

Shiro : knew it because he knew her father and brother.

Allura: knows bc the mice told her.

Coran: just knew it ( even if he referred to her with masculine pronounces ..)

Now Hunk and Keith !

My theory is that Hunk discovered while reading pidge's journal in ep1 season 1 .

She probably didn't wrote stuffs about her being a girl but stuffs related .

And he understood. He kept her secret for him and respected the fact that she wanted to be called as a boy ( he though she was trans ).

As for Keith , he had doubts. He first thought by her size and voice that she was a young boy ( around 12).. Then they had that bonding exercise where they were supposed to open their minds and everyone could see in each other's head. I feel like Keef was curious and just looked in her head and discovered her secret . ( I think that because he was the only one to tell Pidge to stop think of her "girlfrien". So he clearly saw what was going on in her hand )

Also pointing the fact that she complained about the fact that Hunk was looking in her head .

I think Keith also knew real quick that Matt had a lil sis. So he kinda guessed after all and learned that she wasn't freackin' 12 but in reality a 15 yo that would turn 16 soon ....

That's all for me 😂

#kidge #voltron #pidge #voltron legendary defender #voltron pidge #keith voltron #keith and pidge #pidge and keith #keith #voltron kidge #hunk vld #hunk voltron #voltron theory

[nervousloveheart]

*cautiously pops back into the voltron fandom with another theory/universe alteration* *coughs for the attention of the people that were so nice to me the last time I had a theory and for the attention of others in the fandom*

Let's say that when Kuron tried to connect with the Black Lion Haggar sensed it because she put something in all of Shiro's clones that would alert her if they tried to connect with the Black Lion. She forced Shiro's essence to fight Kuron's essence for Kuron's body. Shiro wins, but Kuron's essence is still in the body that they now share, so now Shiro has to deal with Kurons trauma as well as his own.

When Kuron and Keith fight, Haggar intervened to make sure Kuron had control over the body that he and Shiro shared.

So the scene where Allura puts Shiro's essence into the body of the clone would be replaced with one where Allura releases Kurons essence into the fabric of the univers--or where ever dead people go to in the voltron universe--so that he can rest/be at peace.

#kuron #takashi shirogane #Shiro #Shiro vld #voltron #voltron theory #voltron legendery defender fandom #voltron legendery defender #keith kogane #vld keith #keith voltron #keith #haggar #Honerva #Allura

[lokimilf]

I FIGURED OUT LOTORS ORIGINAL PLOT

okay so this is just a theory, but i was thinking about it, and i have a feeling that i am somewhat correct.

this is the what lotor was actually doing at the colony:

yes, he technically “killed” those alteans. i think that they were in a type of death like stasis and that’s why bandor thought he was killing them. BUT. i have a theory that they weren’t supposed to stay dead.

i think lotor took their quintessence because he didn’t have a way into the quintessence field yet. he needed it right away and fast to keep the empire going. BUT. i don’t think he intended to just straight up leave them dead in a pod.

it was proven in season 6 that quintessence can bring someone back from the brink of death, example allura healing lance after pretty much dying from an electric shock.

i think lotors plan was to use the alteans temporarily, and then once he got access to his unlimited quintessence, restore them. they were never supposed to stay dead/on the brink of death.

lotor also states “we’re a few lives lost in the process? yes.” and we clearly see HUNDREDS of alteans still in the tubes. i have a feeling he’s referring to people who Actually died from this experiment and not the people in the tubes he was going to restore.

i’m typing this fast so hopefully it makes sense, but if this was not lotors original plan, i don’t know what was. just straight up killing his race for a dumb reason is out of character. this makes more sense to me, especially since his whole mission was preserving life.

#voltron theory #voltron #voltron season 6 #theory #lotor #lotor is good #altean colony #altea #p #i hope this makes sense #lmao i really hope i’m correct #when are those voltron ndas up

[viikt0rr]

- I have a Voltron theory -

( Season 7: episode 6-7 )

When all of the paladins were floating through space without any trace to go because they didn’t have their lions. What if they actually never made it to earth? The paladin’s never make it to earth and they were hallucinating everything as they slowly lose oxygen and die of starvation.

Sometimes I like to think that Shiro, Romelle, and Coran ( plus Kosmo, Kaltenecker, Chulatt, Platt, Plachu, and Chuchule ) Made it to earth and had to accept the fact that the Paladins are in fact, dead.

#voltron #keith voltron #lance voltron #voltron theory #chicken

[heynhay]

PBBBTHT SOUND EFFECT not going to finish this

#so because its a crummy wip u get it as a bonus post. dont say im never nice #klance #voltron #vld #art #my art #keith is not actually supposed to be galra purple but the brain autofills it that way i think #like lance is also Purple but bc we know galra r purpl e and i gave him galra eyes. it seems like he is #anyway. dont like that. #rare occasion where color theory backfires

[binart]

DTOK page 26! (First) (Previous) (Next)

ANYWAY PIDGE WON'T BE REBUILDING THAT DECODER FOR SURE AFTER THIS LMAO

and so the question remains... why IS keith still here.. o:

#klance #vld #voltron #vld lance #vld keith #dtok #dtok pages #bina's doodles #i'd love to hear ur theories about what will happen to this rugged traumatized keith

[klanced]

hey did the writers ever explain why they chose to make lance a farmer. this is a genuine question btw

#because I think I just came up with the funniest possible conspiracy theory #Voltron

[leenfiend]

based on the train chapter 95 of Observations by J-anon

#this is a stand alone chapter (in theory) like yes it is part of a larger arc but u can read it as is i promise #if u so cheese it…. #tho it hits harder after 94 chapters of build up lmaooo #anyway this was so much fun to do #it was nice to take a brain break from Voltron and return to my Forever Favs #spirk #my art #Star Trek #Star Trek aos #city on the edge of forever #<- literally the only kind of spirk art i do how embarassing #space husbands #Jim kirk #Spock

[akiraal]

he got arrested :/

#reemerging a month later to post another random fanart of my 90s au that builds slower than my skills in drawing #which is saying a lot because I still have no idea what I'm doing but hey. now it's colored! #brought to you by: my stubbornness. its 2am rn and I have a night shift tomorrow so I have to get used to staying up til dawn #I know the lines are messy and its /a lot/ but I just cant do simplified anything. hopefully I'll learn later on #btw this scene is supposed to be in the very beginning. right as he comes back from being drafted - he gets into a fight. as one does #he's not gonna get charges though. it's the post-soviet-type chaos we're talking about. that's also why the jacket is too big on him #I think the colors are weird but thats what you get when you dont learn color theory ig #voltron #vld #keith kogane #voltron legendary defender #keith vld #my art #brother 1997 #gonna hide under a rock now. bye

[silentdiece]

I'm just spit balling here.

The form to change Lucy Frostblades dieity was file "on her behalf" by Kipperlily. I think Lucy turned in the documents afterword to rescind it. Because Kipperlily couldn't persuade/influence Lucy she was killed. Or Lucy really was going to change Gods but a bunch of Ruvina followers were killed and she became one of the last of her clerics. And maybe that's why she was so sad because her family had died(it really could just have been depression tho). 🤷🏾‍♀️

The soul gem Lydia Barkrock has in her chest is fractured. So I believe Bakur is also fractured. There are other pieces of his soul around completing his plan to rez his Master. I also think that some pieces of himself are acting independently in this endeavor and that's how the mall situation happened. It tried to rez its Master using a God of a similar domain and in the Astral plane(the birth place of the gods).

I think that the Temple of the Earth Defiant was for this deceased god.(This thought feels really crazy.)

The Rat grinders are planning to use Kristen as a sacrifice in the gym to rez the dead god. Or kill/use Bucky to gain access to Helio's domain(office) to revive the god.

#I know im wrong #but this is the first time ive felt like theory crafting sense Voltron #i kinda miss it #dimension 20 #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #just spitballing here

[nervousloveheart]

*nervously steps into the voltron fandom and looks around for toxic fans* *coughs for the attention of the fans who won't rip me to shreds for having my own opinion about characters and their dynamics*

Much like how atomic boms can have side effects on people for generations, so does the trans-reality comet. When the comet whent off, it effected millions of species and realities. Over time the effects became a recessive gene to most families, skipping several generations at a time. Since all the paladins are/were still dealing with the effects of the comet, the lions choose them because the paladins have a part of the trans-reality comet in them and they happened to be the only self-aware/conscious species that tried to make a connection with them.

On another note, because of the bonds the lions share with their paladins, they can tell when there is a dire situation. When Keith flies the black lion he can only do so because the red lion transferred some of the /life force/trans-reality comet of it's and Keith's bond into the black lion, with the black lion making space for that to happen by transferring some of it's energy into the red lion temporarily. To get everything back to normal, Keith has to give up some of his /life force/trans-reality to the black lion for allowing him to pilot it {The way he does this is by transferring some of his blood--which has some of his life force in it--into the into the engine of the black lion}. The red lion gives back Shiro's bond thing back to the black lion.

I am aware that some of this stuff would happen off screen {with Allura explaining that a similar situation happened with the original paladins and how it was fixed} and some of the concepts in my theories may be disturbing for some people. But I can't just leave this magic system on it's own, I simply wanted to fill in the gaps for myself, and I thought I would share my theories with the rest of the fandom

#voltron legendary defender #voltron #keith kogane #keith #Takashi Shirogane #shiro #life force #trans-reality comet #vld fandom #vld shiro #vld keith #voltron legendery defender fandom #fandom #toxic fans #voltron theory

[vee-is-a-clown]

Keith has face blindness and color blindness.

#Color blindness because he's Galra and I give Galra cat features #and face blindness because he just like me fr fr #I like the thought of color blind Keith only having 2 colors in his closet so it makes it easy for him #but the paladins start gifting him clothes that aren't red or black and he doesn't know how to wear them #also artist Keith can't do color theory #also artist Keith drawing people's faces in an attempt to remember their features #voltron #keith voltron #vld keith #keith kogane #artist Keith #vld

[sapphire-gemstone]

random ass theory

okay so I’ve been watching she ra and voltron and I looked up when each takes place. Voltron in 2314 (I think) and She Ra in 2999. What if the First Ones were explorers from Voltron? Hordak talks a lot about portals in S2E3, and Voltron is full of universe-traversing. This might just be my dumb little theory brain but I think I’m onto something here. I’ll try to update as I gather more evidence.

#she ra #she ra and the princesses of power #voltron #voltron legendary defender #universe #theory #fan theory #it’s sunday evening lmao

[dusteebowl]

i had this dream last night where matpat game theory released another fnaf video, but it wasn't a traditional game theory video, it was a discussion video. but the thing was, he didn't make it a proper game theory video because he thought about something that blew all of the lore wide open, and he didn't want to make it an official video because he knew people wouldn't like what he had to say. so he sat down, (and i was there, of course, because we were besties) and he said "the answer has been right in front of us all along and we didn't realise it. scott [cawthon] said to look for clues in ALL fnaf properties. and there's one property we haven't looked at yet," and he stopped dramatically and said "voltron."

now, to awake dustee this is ridiculous because voltron is very much NOT a fnaf property, but IN MY DREAM it was. and in this dream, voltron was set AFTER what happened in the fnaf security breach dlc ruin and the clue was Cassie from ruin was ACTUALLY Pidge from Voltron when she was younger and somehow? this answered ALL the questions. like...all of them. and everyone who heard him say voltron was fnaf was skeptical at first but when he said that Cassie was actually Pidge Holt they were immediately on board. i dont know where i'm going with this, just that i've consumed way too much fnaf and voltron content over the years and i think i need to reevaluate my entire existence

#fnaf #fnaf security breach #voltron #pidge gunderson #pidge holt #game theory #matpat

[alien-blu]

I got a flyer for some engineering camp and it has the past guest speakers listed. And get this:

Kate Gunderson, flight test engineering student at the National Pilot School and formers NASA engineer

Idk about you, but Kate is pretty close to Katie. And a NASA engineer and flight test student, I mean. You know what I'm saying.

#Voltron #pidge gunderson #pidge #pidge holt #katie holt #vld pidge #conspiracy theory #vld conspiracy theory