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33 Strange Questions and Implications Raised By Movie Realities

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Ever wonder about the wild implications of the ending of Django Unchained? Or the school safety implications of throwaway details in the 2017 Power Rangers remake? C’mon gang, we’re just trying to unwind after filing TPS reports all the live long day. Oh man, don’t even get us started on Office Space. Let’s be real, what Maui did to “save” Moana was actually extremely messed-up.

So, if (like us) you just can’t resist finding the brain-bending knots in some of your favorite plots, scroll on ahead.

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In Avengers: Endgame, during tests of the time machine it accidentally de-ages Scott Lang. The Avengers have invented immortality with all of its horrific implications. CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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Donkey loses one of his kids. CRACKED.COM Between the second and the third Shrek movie, the unique red donkey-dragon mutant baby disappears. — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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CRACKED.COM In 2017's POWER RANGERS Billy says the reason he got detention was that his lunchbox blew up. Then in the mid- credits scene, another locker explodes and he immediately says it might've been his fault. Billy has brought two explosives (that we know of) to school, and he's only gotten detention for it? — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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At the end of Django Unchained, Django murders everyone in Candieland and blows up the place. Now he's a free man... in a country that is still racist, in which its citizens are going to try to avenge the important people who died by Django's hands. CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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In Frozen, 13 years pass between the time we're introduced to Kristoff and Sven and the film's main events. The average life expectancy of a male reindeer? Around 12 to 15 years. Tick tock, tick tock. GRACKED.COM — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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33 Strange Questions and Implications Raised By Movie Realities — Source: 17 Inevitable, Bizarre Consequences Of Sci-Fi Technology

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There are no privacy laws in the future! Needles, Douglas Age: 47 Birthday: August 8, 1968 Not only does McFly's video phone display sensitive personal information, he doesn't even have to accept the call when his boss fires him. Mr Fujitsu just breaks through without warning. CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Inevitable, Bizarre Consequences Of Sci-Fi Technology

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TRON SAM FLYNN BRINGS QUORRA INTO LEGACY THE REAL WORLD. SINCE SHE PREVIOUSLY If E=mc2 ONLY EXISTED IN THE m=52kg DIGITAL REALM, THAT c=3x108 m/s MEANS HER BODY then... WAS CREATED FROM ENERGY. E = 4.68x1021 joules ENOUGH TO POWER THE ENTIRE PLANET FOR TEN YEARS, OR EQUIVALENT TO 22,361 (50 megaton) NUCLEAR BOMBS! Apparently his father developed a stable, almost limitless form of energy, and he used it TO MAKE HIMSELF A GIRLFRIEND. CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Inevitable, Bizarre Consequences Of Sci-Fi Technology

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The Fifth Element

POLICE ELL NYAD Flying cars, like in THE FIFTH ELEMENT, are fun and have long been a staple of the depiction of the future. This means that air traffic controller might become a more common job than fast food worker. CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Inevitable, Bizarre Consequences Of Sci-Fi Technology

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CRACKED.COM Empty Suit Tony Pepper IRON MAN 3 First in Iron Man 3, and again in Spider-Man: Homecoming, we see Tony Stark remotely operating the Iron Man armor when he's busy with other tasks, like attending weddings in India or dicking around in his basement. Doesn't that imply that there's no reason for him to ever physically go into battle? — Source: 17 Inevitable, Bizarre Consequences Of Sci-Fi Technology

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CRACKED.COM If we are living in the Matrix, it is possible that no one is actually 11 32 the overweight. Outside of the Matrix (where everyone is a human battery) the machines would logically be feeding the humans the exact amount of calories needed to fuel their bodies for maximum efficiency, rendering everyone a perfect BMI regardless of what their projected self image is like. — Source: 17 Inevitable, Bizarre Consequences Of Sci-Fi Technology

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Can the Universal Translators in STAR TREK Read Minds? This would explain how they can translate idioms or figures of speech such as 'fall in line' and still get the right idea across to an alien species! CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Inevitable, Bizarre Consequences Of Sci-Fi Technology

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Star Wars

HOLOGRAPHIC MEETINGS IN THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE ARE COMMON, BUT ALWAYS INVOLVE STATIONARY PARTICIPANTS. HOWEVER, IN THE LAST JEDI, WE SEE MAZ KANATA IN A HOLOGRAM CALL DURING A GUN BATTLE! CRACKED.COM DOES SHE HAVE A CAMERAMAN FOLLOWING HER WHILE SHE MOVES AROUND FOR COVER??? — Source: 17 Inevitable, Bizarre Consequences Of Sci-Fi Technology

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The automatic steel doors from every sci-fi universe are potential deathtraps. Galaxy Quest Hospitals in the future probably have entire Alien 3 wards for treating people who've had a steel door drop onto their head. The Fifth Element CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Inevitable, Bizarre Consequences Of Sci-Fi Technology

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Iron Man's weapons are activated by the user's neuron activity. Does that mean that any impulsive thoughts would have caused the armored suit to misfire? Using that suit must've been mentally exhausting! CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Inevitable, Bizarre Consequences Of Sci-Fi Technology

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33 Strange Questions and Implications Raised By Movie Realities — Source: 17 Inevitable, Bizarre Consequences Of Sci-Fi Technology

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CRACKED.COM The Ninja Turtles are carrying salmonella bacteria, the hepatitis A virus, tapeworms, and many more germs and parasites. You get those from direct contact with sewage. The Turtles live in a sewer. — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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In Tangled, every year on Rapunzel's birthday, lots of lanterns are released from the island city into the sky. They fall back into the water, and that ritual has been going on for 18 years. So, that's tons and tons of paper slowly destroying marine habitats, killing fish and other underwater life, and driving fishermen out of business. CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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CRACKED.COM In the world of Brave, horrible deaths and murders nobody knows about have to be semi-common. In that world, you can become an animal if you badly phrase a request for a witch's favor, and it's very hard to change back. So, many people must have been turned into bears or other woodland creatures over the years, most of whom were probably killed in the forest by disease, natural predators, or human hunters. — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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In saving Druidia, our heroes doom the inhabitants of Planet Spaceball to slow deaths. Skroob might be deposed, but without undoing the effects of his air management policies, anyone on his planet who can't afford a continuous supply of canned air will asphyxiate. SPACEBALLS THE PICTOFACT CRACKED COM — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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After The Nightmare Before Christmas, it is unlikely that it will be easily forgotten that Jack tried to take over another town's holiday... Since he 's shown that it's possible, some worlds might even launch preemptive attacks to avoid it happening again. An Easter/Christmas war might be coming next. CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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Animal people disappeared from the show during the time between Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z DRAGON BALL NOTICE DRAGONBALLZ Which implies that, at some point, a furry genocide occurred. CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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CRACKED.COM WALT Disney Snow White AND THE SEVEN OWARFS In this movie, the dwarves can't bring themeselves to bury Snow White, so they put her in a glass coffin in the middle of the woods... SO THEY CAN WATCH HER BODY DECAY? Also, the prince literally didn't hesitate to kiss her presumably dead body. Gross. — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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E.T. It was discovered that THE EXTRA- TERRESTRIAL Elliot and Е.Т. were ELLIOTT linked with CRACKED.COM complete coherence and synchronization C.T. of brainwave activity. for a period of time. So, even though Е.Т. escaped... Elliot will likely be spending much of his life HAVING HIS BRAIN EXAMINED BY GOVERNMENT SCIENTISTS. — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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Mary Poppins is set in 1910, so what major events await the kids in the near future? Heck, little Michael Banks will probably be drafted in WWII. CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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SUPERNATURAL INNATURAL The Winchesters used to exorcise demons to spare the lives of the hosts in earlier seasons. Now they just put the Demon-Killing Knife or Angel Blade through their chest and call it a day. Murder is much more convenient than exorcism to the Winchesters. CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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In Nanny McPhee, we learn that the title character at first appears hideous, but slowly turns beautiful as the kids learn their lessons. The process repeats in Nanny McPhee Returns. Does she return to being ugly CRACKED.COM every time a family needs her? Was she cursed? If so, how and why? — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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CRACKED.COM HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA Relationships between humans and vampires are almost certainly doomed to fail. The vampire will be faced with either turning their partner into a vampire or watching them grow old and die. — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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Remy probably only has a year or so left to live after the opening of La Ratatouille restaurant. Disney PIXAR RATATOUILLE (rat.a.too.ee) CRACKED COM A typical rat has a lifespan of around two or three years. Given that his father is still alive (and counting his days), we can assume that Remy is in his mid-life, because one human month is equivalent to 2.5 years for adult rats. — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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Kingsman THE SECRET SERVICE Eggsy refuses a direct order to shoot his dog and fails the Kingsman test. The gun is later revealed to contain blank bullets. It's a good thing he Bottle: doesn't pull the Shot with trigger, because a blank from that distance, bullet at the blank bullet close would've blown range. the dog's brains out anyway. CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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