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monition : freebooter ahead for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice!Beetlejuice 2takes viewer back to the afterlife , but novel detail involving all in characters make a Neitherworld rule in Tim Burton ’s original 1988 movie more puzzling . TheNeitherworld inBeetlejuiceis expandedin the sequel , featuring more location , quality , and rule regarding the afterlife process . While most ofBeetlejuice 2 ’s main charactersget a chance to chaffer the afterlife , allowing the realm to have a more salient presence , many details surrounding the Neitherworld were revealed in the first movie following Adam and Barbara Maitland ’s deaths .
Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis ' Maitlands are n’t inBeetlejuice 2 , but sequel characters get plenty of picture to ghosts and other spirits this time around . apart from the return of Michael Keaton ’s " ghost with the most , " Jenna Ortega ’s Astrid find herself stuck in the afterlife after swear a dangerous Winter River resident . Lydia ( Winona Ryder ) then teams up with Beetlejuice to deliver her teen daughter as the chemical group run across other members of the Deetz family , including Astrid ’s beginner , Richard ( Santiago Cabrera ) . ByBeetlejuice 2 ’s end , the centering shifts back to the literal world , but the ghost linguistic rule become more muddled .
Beetlejuice 2 Retcons The Afterlife’s Rule About Ghosts Becoming Civil Servants
The Neitherworld Presents Civil Servants Differently In The Sequel
When Adam and Barbara died in the originalBeetlejuice , they were led to the hereafter after read the Handbook for the Recently Deceased . While in the Neitherworld wait room , they encountered Miss Argentina ( Patrice Martinez ) , a notablymissing character fromBeetlejuice 2 , who assist as the receptionist . Beetlejuicealso confirmed that the civil servants working in the hereafter were those who exit by felo-de-se , include Miss Argentina . However , Beetlejuice 2seemingly retcons the fact that suicide deaths go to exploit as afterlife bureaucratsbased on who is run across in the Neitherworld during the sequel .
Considering his afterlife job , the assumption would be that Richard was forced to work there due to a end by self-annihilation , but that ’s not the showcase .
Not only doesBeetlejuice 2explain how Richard died , but the continuation also usher in Astrid ’s dad as a phallus of the Neitherworld . As she ’s being taken to the Soul Train in the Neitherworld , Astrid come across her dad working in the afterlife ’s in-migration section . count his afterlife business , the presumption would be that Richard was forced to work there due to a death by suicide , but that ’s not the casing . Richard was killed in a boating chance event where piranhas feasted on his trunk based on his hereafter appearance ; there ’s nothing about his death that propose self-destruction .
Beetlejuice 2 Makes The Afterlife Rules Way More Confusing Than The Original Movie
Several Neitherworld Rules Become Unclear In The Sequel
Beetlejuice ’s backstoryalso confirms he was poisoned by Delores ( Monica Bellucci ) during the Black Plague despite being Juno ’s ( Sylvia Sidney ) assistant before becoming a " bio - exorcist " in the original motion picture . The supposition that he , too , died by suicide came to an remainder with the grapheme ’s blood news report . By lurch the Neitherworld rule inBeetlejuice 2 , there ’s more confusion about how the afterlife realm operates in the franchise . Many of the civil servants seen inBeetlejuice 2seem to have pass away from freak accidents out of their control , so the self-destruction rules make established lore more puzzling .
The original Beetlejuice established interesting afterlife convention , but the sequel does n’t seem to trace one interesting Neitherworld aspect .
The Neitherworld ’s suicide rule is n’t the only view ofBeetlejuice ’s afterlife that has ensue in some head - scrape . There ’s also the 125 - yr rule andBeetlejuice 2 ’s lack of time dilatation as pit to the original moving-picture show . Though Beetlejuice showed that meter be active other than in the afterlife , that is n’t the guinea pig in the sequel . Additionally , Adam and Barbara will the home after find a " loophole,“bypassing the rule that would ’ve kept them in the house for 125 years .
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A Subtle Beetlejuice 2 Detail Could Explain The Afterlife’s Job Rules
The Sequel Has A Brief Clue Regarding Suicides & Civil Servants
Here ’s how every deceased major type who come along in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice met their final stage , both in the mortal realm and in the afterlife .
The insidious particular could just be a funBeetlejuice 2Easter nut or reference , but it could also excuse why a character like Richard became a polite servant even though his last was accidental . Granted , none of the hereafter oeuvre mention being pin down working in the afterlife nor do they query why the self-annihilation principle applied to them if it was wrong . That seems like clarificationBeetlejuice 2would have stated in further explaining the presence of some of Neitherworld ’s civil servant . Without any direct explanations , hereafter rules will continue perplexing whether there are retcons or not .
