Includes spoilers for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Bob quickly became a fan-favorite of Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceRaising questions about the character and his original fate. Characters in the afterlife often resemble some form of themselves, allowing the film to demonstrate how they diedOften in absurdly brutal ways. Members of the Beetlejuice 2 Cast, including Monica Bellucci’s Delores and Santiago Cabrera’s Richard, are shown to be dead, with notable visuals indicating their causes of death: dismemberment and a piranha attack respectively.
As for Bob, he lives among the dead in the afterlife, but it’s hard to say exactly how he died, seeing as how he doesn’t speak and his appearance is quite irregular. Bob is among similar company in his group, The ShrinkersWho works for Betelgeuse in the call center. As the main representative and leader of his organization, Bob’s hilarious presence in the comedy horror sequel quickly became beloved, adding to the pain of his second death in the Beetlejuice 2 ending
Did Bob die from his shrunken head in Beetlejuice 2?
Bob, most likely, his head was shrunk in the afterlife
While the Beetlejuice Movies demonstrate some fairly irregular deaths, such as the shark attack and piranha attack, it seems unlikely that Bob and each of the other shrinks somehow died from shrunken heads. In the original BeetlejuiceThe character named Harry the Hunter had his head shrunk by the Witch Doctorwho were both in the waiting room. The movie then ends with the Witch Doctor doing the same to Betelgeuse.
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Of course, Bob’s life as a man had nothing to do with his shrunken head, and another tragedy must have befallen his poor mortal soul. then, He would have arrived in the audience waiting room and had his head shrunk by the witch doctor. Beetlejuice 2 Doesn’t really provide any concrete information on the matter, but this seems to be the most likely origin for the Shrinkers. If there is ever a third Beetlejuice Movie, briefly exploring the life of Bob and the Shrinkers is absolutely superb.
Bob dies (again) when his soul is sucked by Delores in Beetlejuice 2
Delores kills Bob for a presumably final time
Unfortunately, Bob is among the characters that die in Beetlejuice 2 After his soul is sucked out by Delores when she storms the office room. For a moment, it even seems like Bob is about to speak before he dies but doesn’t get the chance. He is killed once again, marking the final end for Betelgeuse’s right-hand man And of course the sad death in Beetlejuice 2Given how quickly audiences have grown attached to the shrunken-headed zombie. It’s a devastating blow, but at least the end credits gave him a special, well-deserved RIP nod.