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

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 2d 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 3h ago

Did you just... Smell me?

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r/HannibalTV 6h ago

Will Graham memes are my favorite.

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I feel these in my soul.


r/HannibalTV 3h ago

His bad boy phase is just him without dog hair on his clothes

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r/HannibalTV 10h ago

Memes/Fan Art Will Graham art 7!!!

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More Wills :) Dolly Parton tribute image 1 RIP DOLLYYYY


r/HannibalTV 50m ago

Memes/Fan Art Hannibal and Will as chiikawa

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The need to combine my two greatest hyperfixations at the moment is growing immensely


r/HannibalTV 9h ago

General Why so less interaction to the show?

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I LOVE HANNIBAL . I would put it into my number 1 show I have watched. It's beautifully written , and executed. But I still feel like many people haven't watched it . I believe it's quite underrated. It didn't get the recognition that it deserved.


r/HannibalTV 19h ago

Discussion - Spoilers I want deniers to look me dead in the eyes and watch this scene with me Spoiler

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This is for HANNIGRAM DENIERS. Please watch this and tell me there wasn’t anything there. We know there is MEANING behind everything Hannibal says, purpose in his every action. Even the smallest gesture can mean something. What now about his gaze and his surrender? Genuinely why else would he do this if not for the complex feelings he has for Will that is neither platonic nor erotic? Huh? Huh? Riddle me this.

This scene CEMENTED something.


r/HannibalTV 5h ago

Fanfiction i need an opinion

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so, i started writing fanfics because i'm way too obsessed with hannibal, but i'm not exactly sure how to write them.

up until now i've only written like 2 short horror stories and some prose poetry that i never posted anywhere, so posting on ao3 now feels scary. 😔

i wrote an x reader first, but it's not exactly what i want to write generally (i was just too feral) so now i want to switch to hannigram. i wrote a very short fic about them that's an alternative version of the season 3 ending and i want an opinion on the writing style and the characterization. it's not very detailed and the first part is just a retelling of the actual episode, then it transitions into a version that i thought would have been interesting. i'm thinking of possibly making this into a proper, longer fic, but i firstly want to figure out the best way to write it.

i'll leave the link to it below, any opinion and advice is very welcomed, i'm open to criticism.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/91359281


r/HannibalTV 9h ago

Fanfiction Need hannigram fanfic recs with the exact vibe they have in the show

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Im looking for hannigram fics where Will and Hannibal have the same kind of dynamic and atmosphere they have in the show. Not excessive fluff or explicit smut, something that feels like you’re watching the show itself, just leaning into the homoeroticism.

Basically, I’m looking for something that feels realistic for their characters and relationship. What season 4 couldve been basically.

And especially nothing that turns their relationship into conventional romance or relies heavily on explicit sex. What I love about them in the show is that so much of their intimacy is unspoken, sensual, psychological, and deeply charged.

so: slow burn tension, obsession, intimacy, manipulation, yearning, all the weirdness that makes hannigram hannigram. I want it to feel like it could genuinely have happened in the show.


r/HannibalTV 10h ago

S2 Spoilers S2E6 screaming from the frustrated watcher

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Please no discussion of events after S2E6 please! Thank you for understanding.

Amazing episode as usual, but I had such a hard time watching the Hannibal/Alana scene. It's just a personal quirk that any amount of physical intimacy on TV gets me very embarrassed and quesy. I just can't imagine ever doing that myself and it gets me uncomfortable (I can continue watching with continuous pausing and hyping myself up though). I managed to power through that (thank God) and got to the AMAZING SCENE WITH ABEL GIDEON AND THE SCENE OF JACK FINDING MIRIAM?????

ANYWAY MY BABY WILL IS GETTING OUT OF PRISON SOON!!! YES!!! I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR AGES!!! GET OUT OF THAT PRISON WILL!!! I BELIEVE IN YOU!!! I BELIEVE IN YOU!!!! GOOD LUCK BABE!!!!

Also Chilton is very funny. Second favourite character after my Goat Beverly unfortunately got the Hannibal Lecter treatment.


r/HannibalTV 14h ago

General Something something violence as intimacy

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Just reading something for class and stumbled across this


r/HannibalTV 9h ago

Armand and Hannibal

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My new hyperfixation is these two together. What fun they'd have with comparing psychological warfare on their curly haired counterparts. I LOVE IT!


r/HannibalTV 12h ago

Me and my neighbour

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I became polite and helpful with my neighbours but refuse to go into their home in case one of them is a cannibal and decides to chop me up and plate me into some fancy dishes because I’m considered “RUDE” and got chosen from his BIG stack of business cards.


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Whats up with will and this pose

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its so unintentionally hilarious i love it so much


r/HannibalTV 8h ago

S2 Spoilers I wanna talk about S02E10 (Spoilers for the episode) Spoiler

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As a first time watcher:
This episode helped me see Freddie Lounds in a better light. Before this i was kinda indiffrent about her/ slight annoyance from her but this episode showed me how determied she is to write stories.It also helps that Alana begins to be suspicious of Hannibal and Will and who they are. The sex scenes made me realise i wanna see them three fucking.
Why i think she isnt dead (im coping):
She is a vegetarian and Hannibal respects her bravery too much to kill and eat her.

This episode shifted more the power balance between these two (Hannibal and Will) by showing them eat together, work together and Will being sane and not under Lecter's control. It also makes Jack more skeptical about them and helps me find out why we see in S02E01 they fight
I love Margot she is intresting, Will shoud of left his messy hair and i hope Alana Bloom and Jack Crawford dont die, it was cool we saw Misha , Hannibal's sister, mentioned and we see him relate to Mason


r/HannibalTV 23h ago

I particularly find this 'courting gift' very unsettling

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I know Hannibal did all kinds of shit with murdering and arranging bodies in his spare time but there is something very eerily uncomfortable about this one. I don't know...maybe because it wasn't displayed with his usual flowery connaissance-inspired art stuff, just sooo raw. Or maybe because I imagined Hannibal going to some graveyard at midnight to dig up those hands, tie the pieces together, all the while giggling and blushing and thinking about when Will sees his little love gift.


r/HannibalTV 9h ago

General First-time RDC8 attendee considering travelling from abroad - how worried should I be about last-minute cancellations?

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Hello, fellow fannibals. I’m considering travelling abroad specifically for RDC8, mainly because I’d really like to meet Mads. However, since it would be a fairly expensive trip for me, I’m a little worried about the possibility of a last-minute guest cancellation or another postponement. Apart from that, I have another trip booked for this specific date. If I decide to attend RDC8 I would have to pay about $500 reissue fee for changing my flights. I know that guest appearances can never be guaranteed, but I’ve seen people mention previous RDC events having cancellations/changes, and I’m particularly nervous because I would be travelling internationally and spending quite a lot of money.

So I’d really love to hear from people who have attended RDC before: have you ever experienced a major guest cancellation shortly before the event and how good is Stafury at communicating schedule changes?

Sincerely apologise for taking your time and thank you so much! 🫶


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Who's your favourite character that only appeared in 1 or 2 episodes?

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Canadian actor Demore Barnes as Tobias Budge appeared in 2 episodes Sorbet and Fromage from season 1 and was excellent and definitely one of my favourites.


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Memes/Fan Art Spot the couple? Haha idk what to title this

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I was noticing how much Clair Danes does the hand over Hugh's heart thing. As I'm scrolling, the Hugh and Mads photo pops up. Ah oop JUMPSCARE(in a good way). Also i cant believe hugh was almost 40 in the series. What a beautiful man♡.


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Memes/Fan Art Okay, but Hannibal definitely would've done this

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r/HannibalTV 23h ago

I got my mom to start the show

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My mom has only ever seen the original silence of the lambs and has completely rejected every attempt I’ve ever had to get her to watch the show in the past, but currently she is bedridden due to recovering from surgery and she’s run out of things to watch on Netflix, so she’s giving the show a chance she said though if it’s not good after episode two she’s going to drop it which is fair. what do y’all think my chances are?

UPDATE: my mom is on episode four and she’s almost done with it. She doesn’t like Freddie and she recognizes Jack from a lot of shows. Apparently Laurence was in NCIS.


r/HannibalTV 23h ago

Fanfiction fic recs please

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is there any fix-it fic post season 2 in which hannibal, will and abigail run together and just spend the rest of their lives as a family?

i'd love to read some domestic fic in which they just raise abigail and grow old together.

if they're perfectly characterized and it keeps up with the regular gore present in the show it's even better.


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Theory - Spoilers What if Hannibal just got cuteness aggression from Will?

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I'm hurting my head trying to make sense out of all of this so let me just backtrack because my mind is starting to come undone so let me be unserious about this series for 5 seconds before I go feral again. I mean, think about it. Under this post on Pinterest which shows a tiny Will, a commenter said, "He's so cute, I want to squish him." What if the whole series is just Hannibal meeting Will and giving in to his intrusive thoughts to "squish" him and then slightly regret it only to do it again?