This DARK Theory Explains Why Moana Looks EXACTLY Like Te Fiti

I think the simpler answer is that Te Fiti just mirrored the face of the person who brought back her heart. She's a nature goddess, I'd assume she can look like whatever she wants to look like since nature doesn't actually have a face

Anyone who has the heart of Te Fiti doesn't die. That would be why Grandma was doing fine until she gave it over to Moana who stayed alive while she held onto it.

She was chosen by the ocean for her heart and courage. As a toddler she fended off predators to help a turtle hatchling get to the ocean. The ocean saw this and realized, "This is the one. This is the one with a heart to change hearts. So to her I'll give the heart, for the sake of all hearts."

Theorist: even professionals would have a hard time swimming that deep Me: THIS IS A CHILDRENS MOVIE!

Changing Te'ka required an act of kindness. The Ocean chose Moana because she was kind (she tried to save the turtle) and had the heart of a voyager. I like this better than Moana being a Chosen One by virtue of birth or peril versus who she was and what she chose to do.

I agree that Moana may have spent much of the movie in a state between life and death, but not quite crossing over. When Tafiti's heart was restored, she may have taken on the appearance of the girl who brought her back since that girl was now an important part of her. The tapestry we saw at the beginning of the movie had been made by Moana's family and they may have been using their grandmothers as a model for someone they never actually saw.

I don’t think Moana did die, I think Te Fiti just looked like the person who saved her. I also think that her ‘superhuman abilities’ such as not dying in the storm and holding her breath underwater for so long isn’t demigod powers, it’s just Disney logic. I mean, isn’t any Disney character like that?

Alright my favorite theory is one I’ve kinda come up with myself. So basically Maui was abandoned by his family and cast into the sea right, so from that experience he gained abandonment issues and once he gained his Demi god status and began helping humans he did everything in his power to make them happy so that they wouldn’t leave him too. Though after stealing the heart and being cast onto an island all by himself he kinda changed. Both of those personalities (if you can call them that) weren’t all that good. He was so broken he bender over backwards for the humans and when he realized the humans wouldn’t and couldn’t help him when he needed it, he turned into a selfish guy for the most part. Now the ocean chose moana for a special mission: return the heart. It chose her after seeing the amount of kindness she extended to a baby turtle all while being a baby herself the ocean knew only she could complete the task. All thought she had to return the heart of life was to continue to exist that wasn’t all her mission was. She was sent out to help Maui right his wrong and change for the better, to realize his worth and that he didn’t need to do anything all that special for anybody. Pretty much teaching children that they didn’t have to go to the ends of the earth for someone if they couldn’t do the same while also teaching them that true friends help each other when they need it, both ways. That’s pretty much what I took from the movie.

I think that she may have survived everything because she had the Heart of Tefiti.

The reason the Ocean couldn't restore Tafiti's heart was because she was lashing out at everyone and everything that approached her. The one who restored her heart first had to bring her back from madness. Moana was able to do that because of the journey she had gone on, not because of her DNA.

Now hear me out. As a Hawaiin I'm just gonna say we all have very similar features to one another....you may be drastically off. On top of that each family was given an animal. My grandmother's family represented the owl and my grandfather's family represented the shark together the families represented intelligence and strength

Can we agree that Baby Moana is the cutest thing🥰

Te fiti doesn’t look like Moana. They both have the same ethnicity, similar facial feature, but they don’t look alike.

9:52 Anyone else think Moana looks GREAT in her final outfit? Maybe the ocean chose Moana because she looked like Tafiti originally did so that seeing Moana would help the goddess remember who she once was. After all, in the movie Tafiti stops and stares at Moana once Moana starts talking to her demonic lava form. Also, I have never really considered how impossible some of the things she did in the movie were (like being underwater without coming up to breathe for so long). These theories are interesting. I kind of like them but they are pretty dark.

actually in the Hawaiian legend this movie is based on Moana is actually a demigod

It could also explain why her Grandmother asked her if she knew who she was. Like obviously it could be seen the way Moana took, trying to remind her who she was and how she’d made it that far, or it could’ve been her asking if she’d yet realized who she truly was: a Demigod.

My theory - and this is just a theory- is that people who share an ethnicity have similar facial features in general, and since they're both drawn in Disney style, Moana and Te Fiti have similarities. Ik that's a little out there, but it's just what I believe :P

Honestly now that I look at it, I realize how in creative the designs were in moana

I think Te Feti took the face of the person that saved her, just like Moana’s grandmother, who came back as a sting ray. Moana probably didn’t cross over, she was just at the border

The grandma kept asking moana if she knew who she was and moana was clearly trying to find out why she loved the ocean so maybe when moana went on to save te fiti she found out that she is te fiti so she basically found herself. Hence why tefiti looks like her let's not forget tht she was listening to the calling in her heart b4 she even got te fitis heart and once the heart was returned flowers started growing etc... moana is te fiti the mission was for her to save herself by finding out who she really is.