What’s next for Betelgeuse and the Deetz family

Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

The sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Takes viewers on a twisty adventure through the netherworld, leading to a hilarious ending with deeply emotional messages. Since the end of BeetlejuiceLydia Dates became an on-screen psychic, has a child named Astrid, and is in a relationship with her manager, Rory. The psychic is forced to confront her past when the Deetz family gathers to mourn the passing of Charles. When Rory wakes up, Astrid gets on her bike and rides off in a storm. Astrid crashes her bike through a fence, where she meets a teenage boy named Jeremy.

When she goes over to his house for their date, she learns that Jeremy is a ghost who wants her help to come back to life. She agrees to help. However, Jeremy is not the innocent young man he seems to be. After learning about Jeremy’s true past in Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceLydia rushes to his house to save Astrid from the nefarious spirit. However, her daughter is already in the netherworld. desperate, She calls Betelgeuse to help save her daughter from the audience. This leads to a hilarious, fast-paced ending that answers central questions while leaving the door open for Beetlejuice 3.

How Beetlejuice and Lydia rescue Astrid from the afterlife

Lydia agrees to marry Betelgeuse in exchange for his help

To help Lydia save Astrid, Betelgeuse illegally breaks Mom into the netherworld, hoping they can stop Jeremy before he gets his passport to trade life stamped at the immigration department. However, they arrive after Astrid’s life force has shifted into the ghost, making the situation seem hopeless. At this point, their only way to stop Jeremy is to prevent his passport from being finalized with a stamp. Also, Lydia must prevent Astrid from getting on the soul train because you cannot be brought back after the train departs for the afterlife.

Luckily, Lydia gets to Astrid just in time, pulling her off the train. Meanwhile, the ghost with the most impersonates a worker to fake stamp Jeremy’s passport, making Astrid’s life force return to her. Rubbing salt into the wound, Betelgeuse drops the teenage ghost into a fiery pit, seemingly ending his existence. Unfortunately, saving Astrid comes at a price, with the titular ghost trying to enforce Lydia’s promise to marry him. This leads to one of the most entertaining scenes in the movie, the campy and dramatic musical number to the song “Make Lydia’s Wedding.

What happened to Rory and Delores after they were eaten by the sandworm?

Rory and Delores are not seen again in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice after getting eaten

At Rory and Lydia’s wedding, which happens to be Betelgeuse and Lydia’s wedding, the groom and Delores are eaten by a sandworm. The movie doesn’t explore what happens to them after that moment, but there are two primary theories. Firstly, they could go back to the Netherworld waiting room, killing Rory in the process. This would correspond with the events at the end of the first Beetlejuice Movie.

Alternatively, the sandworms eating them could have sent the pair to Saturn’s planet, the creature’s homeland. Since the sandworms primarily eat ghosts, there is no guarantee that Rory and Delores will have the same experience after being eaten by the sandworm in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

Jeremy’s real backstory explained

Jeremy is a homicidal teen ghost with nefarious intentions

When he first appeared in Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceJeremy introduces himself as a man whose father has just been laid off from his job, causing an outburst in the house. However, Astrid learns that he is actually a ghost when she goes over for Halloween. The supernatural teen tells Astrid that he died by hitting his head. however, Lydia eventually learns from the realtor that Jeremy was homicidal before his death. He killed his parents, and Lydia sees the option when he runs back there to save Astrid. Apparently, Jeremy pushed an egg beater through his mother’s eye and put a saw in his father’s head.

The fact that ghosts haunt the house explains why his house is haunted and avoided by the children who are out trick-or-treating. No one lives there anymore and people call it the murder house. Jeremy’s background in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Including him hiding in his tree house after killing his parents and dying by hitting his head after the police came for him. Based on his vinyl records, it seems he died in the 90s. Furthermore, the location of his death explains why Astrid first finds him in the tree house.

Does Astrid have the same ghost powers as Lydia?

Astrid sees Jeremy imply that she is also psychic

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Confirms that Astrid has the same ghost powers as Lydia based on her ability to see Jeremy. A deleted Beetlejuice Scene explains that Lydia can see ghosts for two reasons. First, she is funny and unusual. Second, she has no fear of dying, a state of being caused by her mother’s death. Both of these criteria also apply to Astrid, who is obsessed with the macabre and lost about life.

The timing of her powers likely had to do with the loss of her father and grandfather. Before the beginning of the Beetlejuice Sequel, Lydia refuses to talk to Astrid about Richard’s death, which may have contributed to Astrid’s ability to grieve and see ghosts. When she goes to the Maitland house, she finds a box of his possessions and starts talking to her mom about her dad. This, in combination with Charles Deutz’s passage at the beginning of fShe was able to start the sad process, making sure she met the second criterion.

What really happened to Astrid’s father, Richard

Astrid’s father died in the Amazon

The death of Astrid’s father, Richard, in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Drives a wedge between Astrid and Lydia. Astrid has had no closure since he disappeared from the Amazon, and they never found his body. She also doesn’t know exactly what happened because Lydia can’t talk to Richard’s ghost. On the other hand, Lydia does not like to talk about her deceased husband, telling Astrid that their relationship was over before his death. The fact that she can’t talk to Richard troubles her too, although she doesn’t admit it. It turns out Lydia can’t talk to him because he works in the non-world’s immigration office.

Based on his appearance in the netherworld scenes, piranhas seem to have eaten him alive – a gruesome way to die that fits perfectly in the Beetlejuice World. He took out pieces of his face, and some fish are still sticking out of his skin. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Can’t confirm how or why he got a job in the netherworld instead of haunting his place of death. It seems plausible that he does not haunt his place of death since he did not die in a specific building, dying in nature, although this is only speculation.

Delia’s fate and reunion with Charles explained

When Charles dies in the Beetlejuice Sequel, Delia shows her grief in strange ways, including creating an art installation, screaming for a camera, and purchasing ASPs. Even though she thinks the ASPs are locked up, they bite her, kill her. Although she displays them in unconventional ways, her emotions and grief feel genuine. This makes it all the more emotional when the end of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Shows Delia and Charles reuniting on the platform for the soul train and departing for the afterlife together.

The couple reuniting feels right. Charles and Delia are the perfect match for each other’s quirkiness, and it would be challenging to see Delia either with someone else or alone. The movie impressively manages to make their ending deep and resonant despite Charles being half a body – a testament to the creative team on the project.

The true meaning of the end of Beetlejuice

Grief can heal just as much as it hurts

Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceIt has deep character arcs and emotional messages, culminating in a powerful ending. The first takeaway from the movie’s ending is that prioritizing family is important. Lydia and Astrid have the best connection when they work together as a team to get out of the netherworld because Lydia is putting her daughter first for once. This makes Astrid feel seen by her mother, something she has not experienced throughout the rest of her life.

Additionally, the long-awaited Beetlejuice Sequel shows that Grief can help people heal from their loss, painting it as a constructive force instead of a destructive one. Astrid and Lydia finally begin to understand each other better after they come face-to-face with Richard and confront their emotions about his death.

Is Beetlejuice really gone? As the sequel set up Beetlejuice 3

The Betelgeuse nightmare implies that he is still out there trying to contact Lydia

The end of Beetlejuice Includes a dream sequence that starts out nice but becomes disturbing. Lydia and Astrid go to Dracula’s castle as they always planned, and the daughter meets a young man who she falls in love with. The couple married. Afterwards, Astrid is in a labor and delivery room with Lydia there. However, the dream takes a turn when Astrid gives birth to the Betelgeuse baby that the ghost with the most forced Lydia to give birth to earlier in the film.

This raises the possibility that Betelgeuse did not die after being blown up like a balloon. He may still be trying to contact you psychically, like before. Alternatively, the baby Lydia born earlier in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice could have been real rather than a disturbing vision caused by the eponymous ghost. One of those circumstances leaves the door open for a third movie in the cult-classic franchise, a daunting but exciting prospect after the success of the original movie and the sequel.