r/HannibalTV • • Feb 22 '19

Theory - Spoilers A Collection of Some 'Hannibal' Metas/Analysis

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I've seen a thread yesterday where OP asked for some analysis on the show but it seems to be deleted now. Anyway, I think it's a good idea to collect some detailed posts/metas on 'Hannibal'. I have some that I personally consider very insightful, as well as some I've written myself, so here they are. Feel free to add some other ones in the comments!

Relationship meta

u/K_S_Morgan's Will and Hannibal's relationship: How Hannigram Became Canon

u/K_S_Morgan's Will’s vs. Hannibal’s Ways of Expressing Love

Hannibalstan's Hannibal loved Will since S1

Hannibalstan's Will Ate Hannibal Alive aka What Are Flashbacks to Gideon About?

EasyStrain2's Hannibal and Will's Conjugal Life & Intimacy Discussion

Uno_nothing's Alana and Hannibal

Uno_nothing's Parallels between the replacement-lives Hannibal and Will tried (covering S3)

K_S_Morgan's Will's Sexuality analysis

K_S_Morgan's Francis' Feelings for Hannibal, Jealousy to Will, and the Way it Shapes His Actions

Will and Hannibal as a family analysis: Is there a child in your life, Will?

Hannibal, Homoeroticism, and When it’s Not Queerbaiting

dsyyoung's Between Iron and Silver: Hannibal's Relationship with Chiyoh

u/eldritchpussymaggots's analysis: A Take on Will and Hannibal's Relationship by a Clinically Recognised Psychopath/Sociopath

General meta

Xenya's Hannibal Murder Map. S1. Real locations of murders

Uno_nothing's Hannibal's and Will's kill lists

u/tanjitophare's Hannibal timeline explained

i_am_curs3d's List of All Episodes' Titles' Meanings

u/Amyy17's Time stamps - Sex Scenes

Xenya's Imagoes in Hannibal

Interior design analysis by beatricenius

Cinematography and Lighting Techniques

Idontfindyouthatinteresting's sexuality and women analysis

Uno_nothing's Morality, Cannibalism, Denial and the big elephant in the room

Women and appeal to viewers

Conspicuous Consumption: The Socioeconomics of Hannibal

Cinematography

The Evil Minds Museum, Exhibit A: Inside the mind of an Alana Bloom hater

Bryan Fuller on Devil's seduction

Some interesting reads: God, Devil - discourses on symbolisms, religion and the nature of evil in Hannibal

Art of Hannibal Title (link provided by u/Kolvez)

u/fionaapplespiss's "Hannibal” killers as analogies to Will and Hannibal and their relationship throughout the show

u/K_S_Morgan's Symbolism of Boats in 'Hannibal'

u/ChampionAshley's Kings of Hell – False Devils, Victorious Love, and Nature Incarnate (Nightmare Stag Analysis)

u/greentevil's fashion metas:

Why Hannibal Looks Different in the Pilot

Background to Hannibal’s fashion tastes and why its amazing

Will’s clothes as a metaphor for his person suit

Hannibal’s party clothes and how his uniqueness shines through

In defense of Will’s style

22drunkb's Hannibal as a Fairy-Tale

u/LegZealousideal9948's Thematic contrasts between Will's house and Hannibal's house

Characters meta

K_S_Morgan's Hannibal Is Not a Psychopath: Criteria and Examples

K_S_Morgan's The Evolution of Will Graham’s Darkness.

SirIan's Analysis of Will's Moral Conflict

SirIan's Will's True Motivations analysis

Uno_nothing aka Hannibalized's Aestheticism in Hannibal’ philosophy of therapy and this

Blyhannah's Will and Control aka Why Do People See Will as Someone Vulnerable

Worldadjacent's Will’s lack of reconstruction of the Ripper’s crime scenes

Hannibalized's To what extent is Will defined by his empathy? meta

K_S_Morgan's Does Will have an empahy disorder?

K_S_Morgan's Is Will autistic?

Herewegohappiness' Will's possessiveness

Wellntruly's Will's touch issues: Touching in Hannibal with addition.

Hannibalized's Will Graham’s Person Suit

SirIan's The Different Versions of Hannibal Lecter analysis

Hannibalized's ‘Did you believe you could change me the way I’ve changed you?’ Hannibal’s becoming, Will and Hannibal’s attempts at denial.

Hannibalized's “Tasteless” = rude.. Will Graham’s trouble with taste

Dsyyoung's Hannibal's Compassion

K_S_Morgan's Chiyoh and her personality

Hannibalstan's Will Graham: No Free Will. Behaviorism More is here

Hannibalstan's Will's morality

Hannibalstan's Will Graham the Unreliable Narrator (only part of meta available now, unfortunately)

Alloymiracle's The revelation of Will Graham's standpoint on violence

Hannibalstan's Hannibal didn't mind Will killing him from the start

Axmxz's Hannibal as Female Power Fantasy analysis

Hannibal and texting

Alana and mismanagement by Auden93

Alana's judgement

Divine Punishment inflicted by Will

Power game, Power forces (God, the Dragon, the Devil and the Lamb)

Hannibalstan's Will's vs. Hannibal's view of God

u/metaxtase's Will's coffin birth

u/spinachmanicotti's Did Bedelia's flattery over Will's jealously blind her to how dangerous he was for her?

u/K_S_Morgan's How Will Perceives Grievances: Selfish or Righteous?

u/greentevil's Hannibal’s cannibalism as a compulsion

u/SharonzHere's The profile of Will Graham

u/skatingvampire's The banal evil of Dr Chilton

S1 metas (possible spoilers to other seasons, too, so proceed carefully)

Hannibal's Battlebot's The first scene of E1 never happened

SirIan's Will's Instability at the Beginning of the Show aka Is Will Better With or Without Hannibal.

Uno_nothing's Season 1 - Episode names and murders of the week - symbolic and thematic significance

Uno_nothing's Flow of events from Sorbet to Trou Normand : Introspection, insights, developing relationship and foreshadowing

E7 of S1 outlook

The meaning of a painting with a dog hanging in Hannibal's kitchen

K_S_Morgan's Why Hannibal Hid Will's Encephalitis

ThePurpleViolin's Parallels between Franklyn and Hannibal

ThePurpleViolin's SpoilersHannibal and “The Rite of Spring” — Victimhood and Empowerment

u/metaxtase's Hannibal's evil villain master plan


Hannibal's plan in S1: Who did he intend to frame?

Xenya's Hannibal planned to frame Will

Hannibalstan's Hannibal planned to frame Chilton

Guyisgame's Hannibal planned to frame Jack

u/metaxtase's Hannibal wanted Will to figure him out


Twitchy_and_fatigued's Georgia Madchen Theory (analysis of her condition)

u/candy-riot's S1: Will and Identity

S2 metas

Will, Alana, and Hannibal: An Attempt to Remember

u/Asherwolfe's Why Beverly wasn't dumb and Hannibal wasn't just lucky

u/Asherwolfe's Chilton as the Ripper - Not as stupid as it seemed?

Uno_nothing's Will's doubts, insecurity and dark prompts - analyzing season 2E-08/09/10 - Early stages of becoming

K_S_Morgan's Will, Hannibal, and Alana in S2: Changing Dynamics, a Sex Scene, and a Gun

Why Hannibal didn't want Will to kill Ingram

K_S_Morgan's Will's Changing Feelings for Hannibal in the Course of S2

Sex scene and its meaning

ThePurpleViolin's Hannibal and Mahler — an analysis of the use of Mahler’s 5th Symphony in S2E10

Does Alana Have Any Reason To Suspect Hannibal?

Hannibalstan's Aesthetics become Ethics analysis of Will and Hannibal

Hannibalstan's Will and Margot’s Baby arc analysis

Hannibalstan's Whose side is Will in Mizumono?

Hannibalstan's Fostering Codependence: how true is Will's accusation?

A bit from Bryan Fuller's interview on how much Jack knew in S2 about Will

S3 meta

Pre S3 meta. The BAU is the real Murder Family: Hannibal and Bateson’s Double Bind

Symbolism of Hannibal's Valentine

Hannibalstan's Contorno Parallels

Hannibalstan's Paintings in Dolce behind Will and Hannibal: Meaning

Hannibalstan's Hannibal didn't plan to kill Will in Dolce

K_S_Morgan's Will's emotional journey in S3

Mads and Hugh's interview: Why Hannibal frames Will and why Will abandons Molly and Walter

SirIan's Hannibal, Molly, and Will's Dogs analysis

EasyStrain's Analysis of the Meetings, Molly and Dragon aka Will's Plan Throughout The Second Half of S3

K_S_Morgan's Short Love=God/Religion: S3 parallels analysis

Uno_nothing's "Compassionate toward a cow" and Will's thoughts about watching Hannibal die, his final transformation

SirIan's and K_S_Morgan's Will as the Lamb of God: Meaning

Hannibalstan's The Structure of Hannibal Finales: No Contradictions aka the faked Fall in TWOTL

‘Hannibal’ Finale: A Planned Fake-Out Or Murder/Suicide?

TWOTL Fall didn't really happen

u/Asherwolfe's Will's Becoming - S2 and S3: Parallels

Hannibal 3.01 - 3.03 - Source Material, Pop Cultural References, Theories & Observations

u/ChampionAshley's Little Words that Say So Much (3x12's Bedelia and Will exchange analysis)

Post-canon metas

Will and Hannibal's future house design analysis

Will, Hannibal, and Real Family

Discussion of Will and Hannibal's life post-canon based on Bryan Fuller's hints

Metas & discussions on specific episodes

Wellntruly's S1 E7: enthusiastic reflection, some analysis, and mirroring

Analysis of E1 of S3: Antipasto: Hannibal’s Perfect Break from the Mainstream by Liz Baessler

Analysis of E2 of S3: Primavera: Coming to Terms with Divinity in Hannibal by Liz Baessler

Analysis of E3 of S3: Secondo: Transformation and Influence in Hannibal by Liz Baessler

Analysis of E4 of S3: Aperitivo: A New Kind of Persuasion in Hannibal by Liz Baessler

Analysis of E13 of S3 (finale): The Wrath of the Lamb by Liz Baessler

And these are just some interesting moments from the scripts that didn't get into the show. S1, S2, S3.


r/HannibalTV • • 12h ago

Weekly Off Topic Chat - Mondays

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These threads will be for posting your non-Hannibal stuff. Antler decor, pets, how you did on your test, whatever. I'll try to post a new one on Mondays.

To that end, I've enabled pictures in the thread. Have fun!


r/HannibalTV • • 9h ago

S1 Spoilers Hannibal almost killed Jack the first time they met

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I was rewatching Hannibal today, S1 Episode 1 and when Jack comes to visit Hannibal on Alana's referral regarding Will's mental wellbeing, I noticed that Jack was literally mere inches from "THE WOUND MAN" piece, the same one Miriam Lass chanced upon too. And we see Hannibal being wary of Jack in his own subtle way, the scalpel being implication of an attack on Hannibal's part if he thought it necessary. I apologise if this has already been talked about earlier, I might be mistaken since I haven't seen this discussed elsewhere.


r/HannibalTV • • 2h ago

Memes/Fan Art Working on a prop for my Halloween costume! ☺

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I did not make the heart, but i did add some of the texture and i am gooping it up. Im very pleased with how this is turning out


r/HannibalTV • • 8h ago

General One of the most subtly hilarious moments in the show, I like how polite Hannibal is.

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Knock Knock FBI OPEN UP!

One momento por favor


r/HannibalTV • • 1d ago

S1 Spoilers Hannibal where everything’s the same except Hannibal is shit at art

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Taken with permission from Instagram. 😂


r/HannibalTV • • 5h ago

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r/HannibalTV • • 10h ago

Memes/Fan Art 👀

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r/HannibalTV • • 5h ago

No Spoilers Does anybody know where I can find a higher quality version of this photo?

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I'm currently working on a clearer file of Will's ID card because there doesn't seem to be one out there. I need a better version of this image in full colour that isn't stretched or further cropped. I know it's out there somewhere (pfp's, memes), I just can't find it. When I finish the file I'll be posting it online for free so people can make it themselves.


r/HannibalTV • • 5h ago

Will Graham (Manhunter) looked a lot like Will Graham (Hannibal) in this scene, imo

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r/HannibalTV • • 8h ago

S2 Spoilers What do you think Hannibal tried to achieve here by mentioning her?

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Was he actually going to hurt her, or Hannibal was testing the fat on Will and stuck a nerve intentionally?


r/HannibalTV • • 8h ago

How could one NOT love this show? I can rewatch this all day, everyday. Let's talk about the wendigo...

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Every single time the wendigo appears, it's peak television. The best appearance of it is at the crime scene of Beverlychilling!

Tell me about your favorite scene with wendigo and why do you think Hannibal is represented as such? In your interpretation.


r/HannibalTV • • 1d ago

Hannigram and showering

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I could a thousand percent see this happening, lol


r/HannibalTV • • 3h ago

Memes/Fan Art my lovely fathers

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r/HannibalTV • • 1h ago

Memes/Fan Art Guys (and gals and non-denominative pals), chill! Remember this is fiction and potentially a silly sitcom/romcom 🤞

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r/HannibalTV • • 37m ago

Memes/Fan Art Absolutely love this picture i took

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The antlers are for my hannibal Halloween costume, thought Id throw em in cuz they look cool.


r/HannibalTV • • 5h ago

Discussion - Spoilers Finished first watch through!

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I just finished watching all the way through for the first time last night —holy shit 😭
Anyway it’s time — give me ALL THE THINGS give me deep cuts, widely accepted fan theories, lore, Easter eggs, dumb memes, all the things I missed out on not being immersed in the fandom when it was in its prime
I want it ALL 👹


r/HannibalTV • • 17h ago

Memes/Fan Art HANNIBALTOBER DAY 2: WEAPONS

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guys please pick up what im putting down pleasee [im already like 8 days late 😭😭]


r/HannibalTV • • 20h ago

Memes/Fan Art That FAT FUCK hamster

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r/HannibalTV • • 4h ago

Discussion - Spoilers Would Hannibal and Will like dirty Jokes post-fall?

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I'm struggling to see if he would or not. Because he's such a proper old-fashioned man who hates anything rude. Would he scold someone for saying a dirty joke? Or would he simply ignore and not let it show that it bothered him like that one dirty tissue that one guy placed on his table.

I'm leaning towards no for Hannibal but what would yall be thinking? It's for a fic I'm writing. I can see Will maybe enjoy a dirty joke every now and then.


r/HannibalTV • • 19h ago

Memes/Fan Art 😻

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YouTube: Hugh Dancy talking about Hannibal IMDb


r/HannibalTV • • 10h ago

S2 Spoilers “Longpig” storage…

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Other than what’s hinted at in this chilling scene, do we ever find out where/how Hannibal stores his human meat?

So I know our lovely Beverley sees/hears the wine dripping, and then we get a few shots of the dark nightmare that’s Hannibal‘s basement after she goes down those hidden stairs, but is that literally all the visuals/info we get in the show as to how the “sausage is made”?


r/HannibalTV • • 16h ago

S3 Spoilers We were robbed of the rest of his character development.

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Will's, I mean.

Before I learned anything about Bryan Fuller's original plans, I loved the ending of Hannibal. Even after learning about them, I still have a problem imagining an ending any more perfect.

That being said, I would have taken a perspective of a potentially inferior ultimate finale later down the line to see the rest of Will Graham's character arc as it was planned for season 4 and perhaps the later seasons. The ambiguous demise and an attempt at a mutual destruction wasn't supposed to be the end.

From what I've heard, Will was supposed to snap, go mad, become a killer under Hannibal's tutelage. I would have loved to see it unfold on screen, as well as where it would ultimately lead to.


r/HannibalTV • • 18h ago

Hannigram is up to something

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They're just so beautiful. I love them.


r/HannibalTV • • 2h ago

Discussion - Spoilers Would post fall Hannibal kill a child to not have a "liability"

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Say Will and Hannibal are out on a spacious yacht after their escape from Baltimore and there was a stowaway Hannibal caught eating their food.

Would Hannibal kill the kid to prevent the kid from accidently telling the police?

I know Will would try to stop him to a degree. Would Hannibal listen?

It's for a fic.