Tragic Clown/theories

Apparently, the Sunny the Tragic Clown is dead by the Sims 3, but he is still alive in The Sims. Post hypothetical theories here.

Theories

 * Although I don't personally ascribe to the continuity theory of the three Sims games, he's haunting the painting in Sims 1 after he's dead in Sims 3, which is why he appears when you have the painting. Think the Mona Lisa in Sarah Jane Adventures.  Simple.
 * In the Sims 3, he died due to drowning because he is hydrophobic. TS3 is a PREQUEL to TS1, so he may have eaten the ambrosia, thus being alive in TS1. His clothing and other looks are very different between the two (TS3 he looks like a clown, TS1 he looks like a hobo with a dirty, ripped up one-piece PJ) so he may have lost everything somehow just before TS1 took place.
 * The Real clown is dead like in sims 3 but his son comes out to get his revenge to make people even more sad.
 * I think that the tragic clown from The Sims is not the same that the one from The Sims 3.
 * The fact that he's been dead for such a long time may explain why he is magically linked to a painting. Think Beetlejuice.
 * I think you're onto something with that. :D He may possibly be a ghost in The Sims as well, considering how he has such a strong connection with the painting of himself. (Maybe there's a painting of him in TS3?)
 * I think one of two things happened: 1, Sunny was so depressed that he faked his own death to get away from everything. 2, Maxis forgot that The Sims 3 takes place before The Sims. I believe the Second one =P
 * I think the clown in The Sims 3 is the dad of the clown in The Sims 1. He died, and that why hes always crying.
 * The third theory: Tragic means something bad happened to him, and catching the painting on fire kills him so it is just a strange ghost. He probably killed himself from depression which explains why he tries to cheer others but fails horribly.
 * I think that Tragic Clown doesn't actually exist, and like Social Bunnies, are the insanity/depression/hallucination of the Sims when they are lonely. --79.97.154.41 18:11, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Someone finally got fed up with him and killed him.
 * I don't think the creators would have made such a mistake with something like this, i think Sunny is simply a ghost or a hallucination. Either way, I'm just glad he's in some way back. *Maybe it will be possible to resurrect him... if it is, I sure will. He was awesome.
 * Maybe he died by a fire. Then he feeds off of the sadness of Sims, and he can resurrect himself with their own pain. His only weakness is fire because that's how he died.
 * There is a clown club dedicated to cheering sorrowful Sims. The grave in Sims 3 belongs to a senior member who is brutally murdered in the middle of carrying out his duty.


 * He is like Freedy Kruger, an Evil undead thing thing that. Instead he feeds of sorrow instead of fear.


 * Perhaps, after he was buried, a painting of him was made, and honored him as the worst clown ever. Furious, he cursed every copy of the painting ever made, so that, whenever a Sim looked at the painting and felt lonliness and sorrow, a phantom of the Tragic Clown would arise and feed off those emotions/make them feel worse. Gyromite 01:15, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I think that the painting is made up of some kind paint which causes weird gas and so when it is placed in the house people Hallucinate and see the man in the painting.


 * The Tragic Clown in Sims 1 and Sims 3 is the same. Since he's dead in the sims 3 and is a ghost too, and since if u have the painting of him in ts1 thats the only time he'll come out, so that means the the tragic clown in the sims 1 is a ghost aswell, and is the same clown as before. Thats what i see in my view


 * Someone have given him the food that will resurrect ghosts!
 * I think that the clown in the sims 3 is an ancestor to the one in the sims 1.
 * Maybe someone gave him a serving of Ambrosia, thus explaining his revival. The Clumsy and Loser traits may explain his bad skills. About the whole painting/clown thing, the painting may be a beacon for his Teleporter and like the Mariachis in "Sam & Max episode 204-Chariots of the Dogs" he arrives when people are feeling miserable (opposed to making birthdays) to try to cheer them up (how someone like him got the 75,000 points necessary is unknown. maybe his lifetime wish was being a clown). anyway, when the beacon gets burned, he has to teleport back, and the fire is a bad teleporting effect. the ashes are a side-effect and the urn is a beacon. the ghost is a after-image.--Lswgamer 23:33, 21 June 2009 (UTC)Lswgamer Rocha - Freelance Wiki Article Writer
 * Also someone above siad it took place before sims but it took place betweensims and sims2
 * I think it's like the Ring.
 * Ugh... Obviously, he died by drowning since his ghost is blue. Drowning = Water. In The Sims, when his picture catches on fire, he disappers. Fire and water are opposites, don't you see?
 * yeah :^D he died your way, by drowning, but the explanation of the sims is that he's a ghost.I never had the tradgedy clown or the painting( i was about 6 when i first played the sims and thought paintings a total waste of money-they are though!)but i read on a cheat website that you if you put a wall around him he just walks through it WALKING THROUGH WALLS=abnormal=ghost get me?
 * I think that if you create a female tragic clown than you might have a chance of reserecting him you. So you might not need a painting at all.
 * He drowned, then got so depressed he binge-eaten ambrosia.
 * I for one think that he's alive in the Sims in a way, but he has a connection with his painting, the painting revives him so he can help depressed, explaing why when the painting is burnt he leaves, the painting links him to the house, explaining why when selling the painting he leaves, and when he is happy he leaves because he has nothing left to do.
 * If you wish you can disregard this completely, but in my game I associated him with the late Big Steve Underwood, my epitaph for the clown reads: "Never annoy Big Steve when he's hungry..." while Big Steve's states: "Big Steve was promptly hanged after he killed the clown" So I supposed something along those lines could be the fate of that dad-burned clown.
 * Could it be that he died--but almost not quite--and is chained to his own portrait until the end of eternity. He exists but in a sort of half-life. Possibly trapped in a limbo between life and death. Perhaps he got on the nerves of the Grim Reaper so that instead of passing back into the spirit world he would be spiritually chained to the painting. He has to linger and annoy people for eternity---the uiltimate tortured soul.
 * Tragic Clown the ghost (from the Sims 3) WooHooed with someone and had a non-ghost boy named exactly after his father. This boy is the Tragic Clown from The Sims 1.
 * The tragic clown from the sims 1 maybe the tangible ghost of the tragic clown in the sims 3. Think about it... he could go through walls if you blocked his path in the Sims 1. Its similar to the maid in the sims 2 PSP.
 * I think that he is a ghost he maby haunting one object in this case the paiting and i think the clown cachers are like the Ghostbusters that catch the ghost and take away the pating in order to stop the haunting its simple logic!!! (P.S. I havent played the sims or the sims 3 I only have the sims 2).
 * I think that he is not really there, but still there, meaning that he died, came back alive, lost everything and died with water and randomly became linked with a painting, hence hauntings in TS3 but still being alive in TS1. Think about nervous subject from TS2 as well. Notice a link?
 * I see, that I'm not the only one thinking, that Tragic Clown from The Sims is a ghost of the one in The Sims 3. It all adds up perfectly - in The Sims 3 he died when he was onlty an adult, maybe even a young adult. That made him feel sad and when the portrait of him has been made, it made him feel angry, because he throught that it was made to laugh at him, not for a memory of him, so he started coming to the houses and scarying the people that had it. He also could walk through objects. But, when he camed, he forgot about how he feels about the owners of the house and he just walked there alosne, being sad. When people sold the picture, he had his memory refreshed and he remembered then and he decided to go - he throught that people don't want to laugh at him anymore.

I have two theories: 1. It's not the same Tragic Clown, because in the Sims, his name is Sunny the Tragic Clown, you would think his traits would be:  Clumsy, Over Emotional, Light Sleeper, No sense of Humor, either Loser, Unlucky, or Slob. 2. The Tragic Clown from the Sims is dead, but lives through the painting.