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Chapter 1: Canon Evidence

NOTE: This is my first Fanfiction and Theory, so if something is wrong or makes no sense, please go easy on me. This theory is not canon - although the evidence for the theory is canon - just pure speculation, so if you like it, GREAT! If not, that's cool. Also, if it seems to fast-paced, I just want to let you know that I will always be making additions and editions of this fanfiction (and most likely every fanfiction in the future). _

To prove this theory, we need evidence - so let's start with something canon. I've watched the movie a dozen times, and I haven't really seen or heard anything suspicious (except Judy Hopps saying, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," a quote from F.D.R., but that isn't crucial), so I watched the teaser trailer, and found something that got me going. The first sentence of the teaser trailer is, "In the World of Zootopia, humans never happened." You'll notice that on the screen it shows the word "humans," then the word is shown being crossed out as if there were humans before. As if humans got wiped out, taken away, erased, cut, separated from reality forever. "Humans never happened" could just be ruled off as a bold-faced lie. But lying for a reason. There must be a reason for lying about animal-kind's past.

You know when you do something bad - like accidentally breaking your neighbor's window with that baseball bat your neighbor told you to stop swinging - you can cover it up, say it didn't happen, pin the blame on someone else etc. In this case, animals don't have anyone to blame wiping out humanity, so they just say humans just didn't happen. They do this because they don't want the animal race to feel bad about themselves, about what they've done. They don't want someone to feel so bad and start an army to commit genocide. That's crazy! No animal would feel so bad that they would commit genocide. I already hear you typing away objections in the comment section.

And I say, think about Hitler. He didn't feel sorry about wanting to wipe out an entire race but saw them – the Jewish people – as an imperfection, so he honestly tried to get rid of the infection. Only the Jews were hundreds of thousands of people – and humanity is a whole species. What's my point? Hitler is committing genocide against a people just because he thinks them as an imperfection. And if animals wiped out an entire species, it would be way more likely to feel bad, especially if a wacko comes down the road. And just imagine, you (as an animal) found out that your species is responsible for the death of millions of billions of people! And knowing that your species are the ones who wiped it out. You wouldn't have to be that crazy to commit genocide! And another thing - how would the animal narrating the teaser trailer even know about humans if they didn't exist? And again, I know you're typing in the comment box…That was the Narrator talking! The Narrator is probably human! Jason Bateman was talking; the voice of Nick Wilde. In a lot of movie trailers, the main character is narrating their life, where they live, for instance:

The Emoji Movie Trailer: "Welcome to the world inside your phone, where everyone is expected to act one way their whole life."

-Gene the Meh Emoji

The Beginning of Tangled: "This is the story of how I died. But don't worry, this is a very fun story and the truth is it isn't even mine."

-Eugene Fitzherbert

The beginning of Wreck-it Ralph: "My name's Ralph…and I'm a bad guy…uh…I'm nine feet tall…got a little bit of a temper on me."

-Wreck-it Ralph

These are all the main characters telling their life story. The voice from the Zootopia teaser trailer could be Nick Wilde Narrating the trailer, telling how he lives his life. Telling the lie to whoever's watching that humans, "never happened." So, how would Nick Wilde know humans existed unless he knows the truth? The real reason why predator and prey "evolved beyond their savage ways" and joined forces.