The Carmen Fan Theory That Changes Everything In Starship Troopers

From the start of the film, viewers can tell that Carmen is going places. She's a strong student, which helps her fulfill her dream of entering the training program for starship pilots. In a scene during her first tour, Carmen takes it upon herself to replot the course of the ship she's working on for efficiency's sake. Seconds after her supervisor confirms that she has plotted an optimal course, the ship suddenly encounters a rogue asteroid. Carmen is able to avoid a full-on collision, but the top of the ship still hits the space-rock, causing it to lose its communications array. It turns out, the asteroid came from Klendathu, the Bugs' home planet, and when it hits Earth, it kills millions of people in Buenos Aires, the hometown of our core group of central characters. After that, Earth launches an all-out war against the Bugs.

A user on Reddit theorizes that, in fact, the whole war is therefore Carmen's fault. "I'm no expert on physics in space, but I'll still bet that when the ship struck the meteor it changed the rock's trajectory," u/anthemlog posted. "On a small scale, this means nothing. But on a galactic scale this little bump makes a huge difference. A difference so big that this rock was now sent straight to Earth just from this small bump. Had it not been touched it probably wouldn't even have gone anywhere near Earth."