2024 Red introduces the winter witch Gryla (Kiernan Shipka) and her plan to end Christmas, but the film leaves a gap in her plan that everyone has forgotten amid all the action. Red arrived with a mix of action, comedy, fantasy and bits of drama along with the Christmas spirit, led by Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans. Directed by Jake Kasdan, Red takes audiences to the North Pole as Callum Drift (Johnson), commander of Santa Claus Logistics and Fortification (ELF for short) faces a major emergency: Santa Claus (JK Simmons) being kidnapped.
The investigation into Santa’s kidnapping leads the MORA (Mythological Oversight and Restoration Authority) to hacker Jack O’Malley (Evans), with whom Callum is forced to team up. Together, they discover that the person behind Santa’s kidnapping is Gryla, the winter witch and powerful troll who can take the form of anyone, as she is also a shapeshifter. Gryla’s plan includes creating many, many snow globes to trap people in them.but this leaves a plot hole that everyone forgot about for the rest of the Red.
Red One forgets Gryla’s first snow globe target
Gryla tested her snow globes on the first name on the naughty list
What Gryla wants is to end Christmas by getting rid of everyone on the Naughty List. To do this, Gryla gets her hands on the “glaskafig”, a magical snow globe that traps whoever touches it. As there are many names on the Naughty List, Gryla uses a toy duplicating machine in Santa’s old workshop – and it is revealed that Santa never left the North Pole, as Gryla’s lair is underneath the North Pole, in the current headquarters of Santa Claus. old unused workshop. Gryla successfully duplicates the snow globes and puts her plan into action by sending one to the first name on the list.
With the help of his shapeshifting children, Gryla sends a snow globe to the man at the top of the Naughty Listleaving it as a gift inside his car. The man gets stuck in the snow globe as soon as he touches it, and one of Gryla’s sons takes the snow globe with him. Later in RedJack and his son, Dylan, also become trapped in snow globes and are taken to Gryla’s lair – however, the snow globe with the first target is nowhere to be found.
Gryla’s defeat does not mean the automatic freedom of her prisoners.
Dylan and Jack have a heart-to-heart while in their respective snow globes, which magically makes them “cooler” in the snow world. Red and just like that their snow globes shatter, freeing them. After Gryla’s defeat at the end of Redwhich includes your own prison in a snow globe, it is unknown what happened to the first target in a snow globeas Gryla’s defeat does not mean the automatic freedom of her prisoners.
Gryla’s plan in Red One doesn’t make much sense
Gryla’s plan left many doubts
The fate of Gryla’s first victim in Red is just one of many questions that remain about his overall plan. It’s unknown what Gryla’s true motivation is in wanting to get rid of everyone on the Naughty List, and even if it’s just assumed that she’s evil, it’s not such a great plan for a villain. If Gryla wanted to end Christmas and actually get rid of Santa Claus and the North Pole, she would have imprisoned those on the Nice List instead of the “naughty” ones.
It’s also unclear what she planned to do once Christmas was over and what she would have turned the North Pole into, as even if she managed to nab everyone on the Naughty List, the list would have new names the following year. Gryla’s plan is nothing more than a plot to kidnap and rescue Santa Claus in Redand as such, it leaves a lot of questions and at least one plot hole.