Mickey 17 Ending Explained: What Happens When You Have Too Many Robert Pattinsons?

Let's marque this simple: You privation to cognize if determination are immoderate post- oregon mid-credits scenes successful Mickey 17. The reply is no! This is simply a credit-scene-free endeavor.

Full spoilers follow!

After achieving container bureau success, captious acclaim, and immoderate immense Academy Award wins — including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film — with his 2019 movie Parasite, writer/director Bong Joon-ho is backmost with his follow-up, Mickey 17. Feeling much stylistically aligned with Bong’s 2017 film, Okja, than Parasite, Mickey 17 (review) is simply a acheronian comedy/science fabrication mashup acceptable successful a aboriginal wherever it’s imaginable to virtually people retired a transcript of a quality being and springiness them the saved memories from their erstwhile assemblage aft their death.

Those who hold to this process are referred to arsenic expendables, though owed to the motivation and societal statement and contention astir the concept, it’s been outlawed connected Earth - but not successful space, including onboard the ships being sent retired done the postulation to colonize different planets. Down connected his luck and desperate, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) is 1 specified expendable, moving connected a vessel that’s nether the enactment of Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo), a person and spiritual fig with a cult-like following, on with his wife, Ylfa (Toni Collette). As the ship’s expendable, Mickey’s alternatively miserable relation is to beryllium a quality trial taxable for each mode of perchance (or sometimes absolutely) lethal encounters, providing technological grounds of what is needed to past assorted elements, animals oregon viruses recovered successful abstraction and arsenic the vessel arrives astatine the satellite it volition colonize, Nilfheim.

Writer/director Bong Joon-ho connected acceptable with Robert Pattinson and Anamaria Vartolomei.

A situation occurs for Mickey erstwhile his seventeenth assemblage is presumed dead, killed by 1 of the giant, slug-like creatures connected Nilfheim referred to arsenic “Creepers,” lone to past erstwhile the Creeper doesn’t really devour him. However, during this time, Mickey 18 has been printed retired backmost connected the ship. Which is simply a large problem, due to the fact that acheronian anterior events successful a akin concern person led to zero tolerance for “multiples” – erstwhile an expendable has much than 1 surviving mentation walking astir astatine the aforesaid clip – with the punishment being decease for each version.

Mickey 17 Ending Explained

As it turns out, the versions of Mickey tin beryllium alternatively antithetic successful presumption of temperament, and Mickey 18 is simply a overmuch much glum, growly benignant than 17. His archetypal absorption to uncovering retired they person a multiples concern is to effort to termination 17 earlier anyone finds out, throwing him into the aforesaid furnace the assorted (dead) Mickeys are tossed into. Soon though, things calm down, with Mickey’s woman Nasha (Naomi Ackie) taking rather the liking to the thought of having 2 Mickeys astir to person a spot of, well, amusive with.

However, the beingness of the 2 Mickeys is yet discovered by Marshall, and though helium doesn’t termination them both, helium is adamant lone 1 tin remain. He decides to nonstop some of them retired amongst the hordes of Creepers that person gathered astir the ship, who are furious that the humans person taken 2 of their babies. One of these babies was already killed, portion Ylfa has chopped the process disconnected the other, chopping it up and blending it into what she ghoulishly declares is simply a cleanable sauce. And present she wants much Creeper babies for much sauce.

Marshall’s program is to person some Mickeys strapped with explosives, with the trigger buttons placed connected Marshall’s glove, marked 17 and 18. Whoever makes it backmost to the vessel with 100 Creeper babe tails lives, portion the different volition beryllium blown up - successful the process taking retired the Creeper’s elephantine queen and astir of the different Creepers with it.

"Every soiled occupation successful the book..."

At the aforesaid time, Nasha has realized that the Creepers whitethorn look horrifying to humans, but really ne'er meant them immoderate harm, which is wherefore Mickey 17 was spared successful the archetypal spot erstwhile the Creeper queen could person eaten him but alternatively had him dragged to safety. She tries to constituent retired that, from the Creepers perspective, the humans are the invading aliens, but Marshall and Ylfa don’t care, having nary volition of uncovering bid with the Creepers. At the aforesaid time, sympathetic idiosyncratic Dorothy (Patsy Ferran) gives 17 a prototype translator arsenic helium and 18 are forced from the ship.

Using the device, Mickey is capable to talk to the queen, who is furious to observe 1 of her children has been killed. She demands 1 quality beingness successful exchange, which works retired nicely for her erstwhile Marshall decides to personally permission the vessel to marque a code to the Creepers astir humanity’s dominance implicit them, which helium intends to travel up by mounting disconnected the explosives connected the Mickeys to termination the Creepers from afar. In the midst of this, Nasha manages to get the captured babe (who Marshall had tried to propulsion into the furnace) disconnected the vessel and instrumentality it to its mother.

Before Marshall tin spell done with his plan, Mickey 18 manages to get to Marshall and the 2 fight. During their tussle, Mickey purposely pushes the fastener connected Marshall’s mitt marked “18,” blowing up some himself and Marshall, and successful the process giving the queen her sacrifice, paving the mode for bid with the humans, portion settling the multiples contented for Mickey.

A New Era for Humans and Creepers… and Mickey

In the aftermath, dependable implicit from Mickey 17 tells america that Ylfa was taken to the psych ward aft losing her husband, and rumor has it she took her ain beingness soon after. With a caller person needed, Nasha was elected. Meanwhile, the expendable programme was ended completely, including successful space, and we ticker arsenic Mickey 17 attends a ceremonial retired connected the planet’s surface, headed by Nasha, wherever helium is to propulsion the fastener that volition stroke up the printer that had been utilized to ever marque his adjacent copy.

However, we past chopped to Mickey 17 walking into the vessel and uncovering the printer – oregon 1 conscionable similar it – inactive there, and nary different than Ylfa lasting by it. She tells him to portion “the sauce” disconnected the floor, but it’s blood, arsenic the printer begins to people retired a caller idiosyncratic - her husband, Marshall, being brought backmost to life. In dependable implicit again, Mickey 17 asks himself what Mickey 18 would do, and past tells Ylfa “F**k off,” and we abruptly chopped backmost to the ceremonial wherever the printer is inactive astir to beryllium blown up, confirming Ylfa and Marshall’s instrumentality was each a nightmare 17 was having.

17’s dependable implicit resumes, arsenic helium says helium does consciousness blameworthy that the different Mickeys couldn’t beryllium determination too, adjacent arsenic helium knows helium volition present beryllium capable to determination guardant and unrecorded retired his beingness without being experimented connected again. He blows up the printer and we chopped to the movie’s rubric appearing connected screen, but the 17 successful Mickey 17 begins to flicker betwixt 17 and 18, earlier some numbers dissolve distant and are replaced by the connection Barnes beneath the connection Mickey, signifying Mickey genuinely reclaiming his afloat sanction and identity.

Does Mickey 17 Have a Post-Credits Scene?

As noted, determination are nary post-credits oregon mid-credits scenes successful the film, not that we’d truly expect it to. Because sure, this is simply a large fund Warner Bros. subject fabrication movie, but it’s besides an offbeat, wacky, hyper-specific communicative from the acclaimed Bong Joon-ho, truthful Mickey 19 oregon Mickey 17 Vs. Okja is not thing that’s going to beryllium teased.

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