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00:00One of the many wonderful things about cinema is its subjectivity.
00:05There are theories and flat-out confirmations from the filmmakers themselves
00:09which might force you to think twice about what you think you know.
00:12Case in point, the nature of these eight movie characters
00:15is fundamentally different from what you most likely expected.
00:19But not for much longer, because I am Gareth, this is WhatCulture,
00:22and here are eight movie characters who aren't what you think.
00:26Number 8, Baby Groot, is Groot's son, Guardians of the Galaxy.
00:30Guardians of the Galaxy memorably concluded with Groot sacrificing himself
00:34in order to save the Guardians,
00:36leading to him regrowing from a sapling as the adorable Baby Groot.
00:40And while most fans understandably assume that this was the very same Groot,
00:44James Gunn eventually tweeted confirmation that the original Groot is indeed dead,
00:49and Baby Groot is his quote-unquote son.
00:52This entirely recontextualizes Groot's initial sacrifice, of course,
00:56even if it raises a host of questions regarding the internal logic of Groot's physicality.
01:00Like, what can happen if you snap part of him off?
01:03Yep, just think over that for a second.
01:05But rest assured, the Groot we're left with is not simply a regeneration of the original,
01:09who will eventually remember his prior life as he continues to mature into adulthood.
01:13This is an entirely new creature.
01:15And if that's not devastating enough,
01:18Gunn also confirmed that Groot's final word to Rocket before turning to dust at the end of Infinity War was...
01:24Well, it was Dad.
01:25You can't do that to me, James.
01:26It's just not fair.
01:27And while we're talking about superhero death scenes,
01:30I want to know right now,
01:31what is your favourite ever superhero death in a movie?
01:34You let me know in the comments section down below.
01:36Number 7.
01:37Dumbledore is Death.
01:38Harry Potter
01:39Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore is one of Harry Potter's most beloved and ultimately tragic figures.
01:46But fans who decided to dig deep into the tale of the Three Brothers,
01:50a fairy tale which appears in animated form in Deathly Hallows Part 1,
01:54found evidence that Dumbledore is actually the personification of death itself.
01:59And by evidence, we mean circumstantial links which amount to a fan theory.
02:02But it's a strong one.
02:03In the story, the Three Brothers outfox Death, and he offers them each a reward.
02:08The First receives the Elder Wand, but is killed in his sleep.
02:11The Second seeks the ability to resurrect the dead,
02:14but kills himself after learning that the Resurrection Stone can't fully restore life.
02:18And the Third receives the Cloak of Invisibility in order to evade death,
02:22living to a ripe old age and greeting Death warmly when his time finally comes.
02:28It's widely accepted that the First Brother is Voldemort,
02:30given his fondness for the Elder Wand.
02:32The Second is Snape, due to his love for Harry's dead mother.
02:35And the Third is Harry himself, who was given the Cloak by Dumbledore in the first movie.
02:40As for Dumbledore, in addition to giving Harry the Cloak,
02:43he owns the Elder Wand and Resurrection Stone,
02:46played a vital part in Voldemort and Snape's deaths,
02:49and greets Harry at King's Cross after he is struck with the Killing Curse in Deathly Hallows Part 2.
02:54Number 6. The Aliens Are Actually Demon Signs
02:58M. Night Shyamalan's sci-fi thriller Signs is, on the face of it,
03:02a film about extraterrestrials invading Earth,
03:05and humanity's subsequent and successful attempt to repel them with water.
03:10The powerful H2O.
03:12Reports ever since the movie's release have suggested that Shyamalan wrestled with the studio
03:16over the more prevalent faith-based themes present in his original script,
03:20and was encouraged to tone them down in favour of a more conventional sci-fi film.
03:25Legend dictates that Shyamalan's script originally depicted the Aliens as demons,
03:30a concept lent further quote-unquote credence by a mock interview misinterpreted as genuine by many fans,
03:36and various subsequent convincing fan theories.
03:39The, uh, evidence is myriad.
03:42The Aliens aren't scientific or evolved in any conventionally extraterrestrial way,
03:46with their crude appearance matching our typical conception of demons.
03:50Their trickster-like behaviour is consistent with mischievous demonic actions,
03:54and if they are indeed demons, we can assume the water that killed them was holy water.
03:59Above all else, it makes the Aliens look decidedly less stupid for coming to a water-rich planet,
04:05because as demons, the presence of holy water likely just caught them by surprise.
04:09It's a tight enough theory that many fans have taken it as gospel,
04:13even if the original script has sadly never found its way online.
04:165. Ursula is Ariel's Aunt, The Little Mermaid
04:20Ursula is, of course, the villainous sea witch who strikes a deal with Princess Ariel in The Little Mermaid,
04:26allowing Ariel to become human for three days in exchange for her voice.
04:31But in actuality, Ursula was originally intended to be the sister of Ariel's father, King Triton,
04:36making her Ariel's aunt.
04:38Families, eh?
04:39The idea was scrapped during production, yet not ejected out of the canon entirely.
04:44As Ursula mentions previously residing in Triton's palace.
04:47In my day, we had fantastical feasts when I lived in the palace.
04:51Were the words uttered?
04:53And despite being only ever hinted at in the final movie itself,
04:56there's actually nothing within the release product which contradicts those original plans.
05:00It's worth noting that they did finally go as far as to make this family connection official in the live-action remake, though.
05:06So better late than never, I guess.
05:08Thank you very much for checking out this list today, my friend,
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05:17Number 4. Vincent Hanna is a secret cocaine addict, Heat.
05:21Now, it's no secret that LAPD Lieutenant Vincent Hanna is a bit of an eccentric character
05:26in Michael Mann's crime masterpiece that is Heat,
05:29as evidenced by the sheer number of Al Pacino loses his cool in Heat montages on YouTube.
05:34Go check him out after this video.
05:36And while most fans simply put it down to the character's inherent intensity,
05:40in 2016 Pacino completely flipped the audience's perception of Hanna
05:45by revealing that he was hoofing cocaine throughout the story.
05:48Hanna, not Pacino, that is.
05:50Better still, this wasn't simply an affectation Pacino decided to infuse into his performance.
05:55It was actually part of the original script.
05:57Mann ultimately ended up cutting any direct allusions to it,
06:00but given the excitable nature of Pacino swinging for the fence's performance,
06:04it certainly lends some curious, morally ambiguous added context.
06:09This detail was then very much confirmed in Mann's Heat 2 novel,
06:12with Hanna's drug-taking habits being present in that follow-up book too.
06:17Number 3. Nicholas Winding Refn's protagonists are the same mythological creature.
06:22Trust Nicholas Winding Refn to offer up a game-changing,
06:25idiosyncratic interpretation of his own material,
06:28revealing in an interview a few years ago that main characters from his movies Valhalla Rising,
06:33Drive, and Only God Forgives are in effect the same archetypal entity.
06:38Refn says that One-Eye, the Driver, and Lieutenant Chang are all, as he put it,
06:43a mythological creature that has a mysterious past but cannot relate to reality because he's too heightened.
06:48And his pure fetish, One-Eye, Driver, and Chang are very much rooted in fairytale mythology,
06:55of people with supernatural powers.
06:57Again, part of my, I guess, intense fetish of masculinity.
07:01It goes without saying that there's no point trying to fully literalise Refn's commentary,
07:05but the similarities between the characters are myriad.
07:08Their few spoken words, their mysterious pasts,
07:11and their ambiguous motivations, for starters.
07:14Refn has even toyed with the idea of making another movie featuring One-Eye
07:18to bring the journey across this metaphysical quasi-franchise full circle.
07:22But nothing has yet materialised.
07:24Number 2, Missy Armitage is being John Markovich's Maxine Lund, Get Out.
07:29The casting of Catherine Keener as the creepy hypnotherapist Missy Armitage
07:34in Jordan Peele's Oscar-winning horror film Get Out
07:37prompted much speculation from fans that Keener was actually reprising
07:41the Maxine Lund role she first played in Being John Markovich.
07:44Both films, of course, see Keener playing a manipulator
07:47who toys around with the metaphysics of the human mind.
07:50In Get Out, it's black people.
07:52In Being John Markovich, it's, uh, well, it's John Markovich.
07:55And the fan theory suggests that Maxine's experiments
07:58led to her somehow eventually marrying into the Armitage family.
08:02While Being John Markovich ends with the portal into Markovich's mind being closed,
08:06it's not a major stretch to assume that Maxine would continue to obsessively pursue
08:10alternate avenues to experiment, possibly resulting in her lover Lottie's death,
08:15and forcing her to change her name to avoid suspicion.
08:18Furthermore, given that Malkovich protagonist Craig is trapped within the mind
08:22of Maxine's daughter Emily at the end of the movie,
08:25that mental dysfunction would perhaps explain how Emily grows up
08:28to become Missy's murderous daughter Rose in Get Out.
08:32Jordan Peele himself eventually caught wind of the theory and was so amused by it,
08:36he decided to ascend it to canon status, confirming it to be true.
08:40And even if you insist that it really needs the sign-off from Markovich director Spike Jones also,
08:45he reportedly laughed when Peele told him about it.
08:47So we'll just take that as an endorsement, right?
08:50Number 1. John Blake isn't Robin. The Dark Knight Rises.
08:54Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises left fans squabbling over one seemingly ambiguous
09:00hanging plot thread during its operatic final sequence,
09:03where Gotham PD cop John Blake inherits the Batcave from a fed-up Bruce Wayne.
09:08As Blake collects his loot from the Wayne estate,
09:11he gives the clerk a card who tells him he should use his real name, Robin.
09:15This immediately caused a substantial portion of the audience
09:18to assume that Blake was implied to become the next Robin,
09:21despite Gotham now being without a Batman,
09:23and Blake being gifted the entirety of the Batman setup.
09:26Clearly, this was nothing more than a cutesy nod to Blake's role throughout the film
09:30as a sidekick of sorts to Batman.
09:33But the real implication is absolutely that he will take up the Batman mantle in the future.
09:37This is no boy wonder, folks.
09:39This is your next Dark Knight.
09:41Or he would have been had the universe not been rebooted a million times.
09:44Ah, what could have been?
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