Kiki...alien the whole time?

So pushing a function key instead of the red key isn't subverting Zane's efforts?

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There's no point in Kiki being some kind of E.T. spy from the get-go, as supposedly 'they' didn't know what Zane was up to, so no point in sending someone to spy on him.

From their perspective, Zane had been fired and thus dealt with, and has no longer any power to do anything. They couldn't have known Zane would rig the whole neighbourhood to work for him (in a sense).

Zane had his wings cut, he was no longer a threat. Why waste resources on a non-threat?

Also, would Kiki have used those wooden legs if he wasn't a human? I mean, he would have much better legs of his own already, no reason to do a low-quality imitation of what he can do naturally.

Kiki appears immediately after Zane has set up his equipment - either they were spying on Zane all the time, which would negate a need to send an individual spy, or they had no clue what he was doing (and why would they, could they really anticipate Zane's zany move?), and thus would not waste time, resources, effort, etc. to send a spy (no motivation to do so).

Kiki would only make sense as a human kid.

I just thought of it.. Zaminsky has the word 'Sky' in it ..

Kiki was alien all the way.
When Zane tried to but the ice on Kiki's knee injury, Kiki removed it and complained that "damn it's cold!"

Also he got injured from spying on Zane.

Maybe younger aliens don't have the heavy duties the adult aliens do, like dropping the sucking globes.

As for Kiki noticing the alien gardeners, maybe he just didn't know them. Like humans don't know every human on the planet.

He wasn't alien until latter part of the film. Proof: he wrote 'KIKI' on the coldchamber Zane had build for his pirate satellitedisc network.
+the fact that he was so perplexed in the Gardener scene.

THAT would have made one of the biggest surprise endings of all time and I wish they would have been brave enough to do it. It also makes perfect sense if Zane suspected Kiki near the end of the film because he did not know him nearly as well enough as Char.

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if kiki was a human for some time then alien later on, then the filmmakes missed a scene or reluctantly left it on the cutting room floor (for their own reasons), but either way, that plot point can't be simply assumed by the audience...discussed for hours to know meaningful end, absolutely...but not assumed

i think he was an alien the entire time for the same aforementioned reasons...probably an alien spy sent to befriend and keep tabs on zane....that kiki was perplexed when the gardeners came to 'clean house' simply means he wasn't in the loop on killing zane...that he did nothing to stop them or mention it to zane only reinforces that he was an alien

he'd roll over on his mommy, his daddy, his two panty granny and the *beep* king of siam

It is a twist that is stupid and was thrown in there for nothing. It made no sense and never once did we understand HOW Zane knew by the end who the kid was.


Ridiculous!