I realize this would have made too much sense, but...
Why didn't anyone just use the stupid coin to wish eternal death on the dumb-@$$ leprechaun? I'd really like to see the series end that way, nice and anticlimatic, and final.
shareBecause you can't use a lepruchaun's coin against them! Ugh! WE'VE DISCUSSED THIS BEFORE!!!
jk, but really that's why.
...and what the hell was up with that ending? Sheesh!
Here's my theory on the Lep 3 ending. First of all, you can't destroy gold with fire. You can melt it, which will change the shape of the pieces but won't harm the metal. So when the pot of gold disappeared, that was just the Leprechaun using his magic to get the gold away from the geeky human with the flamethrower.
It's hard to say exactly why the Leprechaun burst into flames. Maybe he and the gold really are linked so that heating up the gold made him overheat too, or he could have been playing a magical trick on the humans. But the rest of the series makes it clear that fire doesn't do any lasting harm to leprechauns, so he's still very much alive.
Yeah. I'd say the Leprechaun's physical form was linked to the gold....you harm the gold, the Leprechaun feels the pain. The gold wasn't destroyed (or even melted much by the looks of it) but the Leprechaun was weakened enough to put him out of action for a good long while. His body melted but I believe that he regenerates over time as his strength returns. Or something like that. I'd have just chucked the medallion back on him, personally, and turned the little bugger back into stone.
shareI don't think the good guys knew the medallion could do that. They knew the Lep didn't like it and would leave them alone (sort of) while they had it on them, but nothing more than that. Once they thought he was dead, they probably figured there was no further use for the medallion.
Yeah, and they had thrown away the coin at the end, so it really would make no sense for him to go after them again.
shareThe Leprechaun is fond of killing, and most of the time he doesn't forgive people for having had his gold for a while or even THINKING about taking it, so revenge would be a good reason to go after them.
I hadn't thought of that. Which maybe the reason why none of the characters from previous movies are ever seen again.
shareI've always wanted to see what happens five minutes after the first movie ends, when the four heroes try to explain to the police why there's a dead, mutilated cop on the property and a burned, childlike body in the well. If you watch carefully, right at the end you can see the police hustling them toward the cop cars, and it's easy to assume they're under arrest at that point. Later on the police will also find Dan O'Grady's dead body and Jennifer Aniston's fingerprints all over the crime scene. When the Leprechaun eventually gets out of the well and comes after them, they'll all be penned up like lambs for the slaughter.
A similar principle applies to all the other movies. There doesn't seem to be anything that makes the Leprechaun stay permanently dead, and the heroes usually throw their protection away at the end of the movie. So anyone who's still alive at the end probably isn't going to stay that way very long.
#3 says you can kill a Leprechaun by destroying his gold. But the only way you can truly destroy gold is with an atom splitter. Extreme heat will melt it but it'll still be gold, and you can turn it back into coins again later on. The good guys didn't even get as far as melting it before it vanished. I figure that the Leprechaun magicked it to a safe place, but it had gotten hot enough to make him burst into flames. Several of the other movies demonstrated that the Leprechaun doesn't like fire but it doesn't kill him.
Actually, that medallion was lost at the end of the movie when the Lep tore Tammy's coat in half.
shareWell, if you melted the gold down and used it to form an alloy of some kind, wouldn't that work, as it would no longer be pure gold?
shareIt's my understanding that creating alloys doesn't cause any chemical or molecular changes in the materials; it just mixes them together. So all the gold atoms would still be intact. We humans might have a difficult time separating the gold from whatever else it had been mixed with, but it would probably be easy for the Leprechaun to do it magically.
shareDidn't I read somewhere that iron is used against him in one of the films? That should mean that turning it into a gold-iron alloy should really mess with him!
shareIron bothers him a lot in Lep 2 and to a much lesser extent in Lep 5. It doesn't bother him at all in Lep 6, and the pot he keeps his gold in appears to be made of cast iron in some of the movies including Lep 3, the "destroy the gold to destroy the Lep" film. Traditionally, iron is harmful to 'fairy folk' type beings, but how much it bothers the Leprechaun depends on what the writers want to do in any given movie.
share Here's something else to think about. At the end, it _sounds_ like the gold coin hits the edge of some ornamental fountain, before splashing into the water. But, with her sleight-of-hand training, how can we be _certain_ that Tammy actually threw it away. It could just as easily have been a quarter from somebody's slot machine tray!
And, even if it was the result of Mitch's idle wish, she still demonstrated a kinky side to her nature, during that elevator scene. A kinky side that might have been brought to the surface more than magically induced!
If such is the case, Scott might be in for one sadomasochistic ride (semi-figuratively speaking), re: his relationship with Tammy.