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What happens when he dies? (SPOILERS)

posted 2 years ago by Ace_Spade (9358)
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I don't mean during the film, I mean after it. He's pumped up on Omega blood at the end. Let's say that Cage never gets into another blood-needing condition again and he lives to be an old man and dies surrounded by friends, family, and loved ones. Does he go all the way back to the helicopter? Or are natural deaths exempt? The time reset could be a subconscious defence mechanism, activated when the subject wouldn't want the bad outcome to happen. But what if he died unfulfilled at the end of his life? Would he "regret it" and teleport back?

[–] blindfolded (1519) 2 years ago

I thought about this too....Given the rules of the universe as explained... I maintain that he 100% resets back to the helicopter 🤣

Gets together with Blunt, has some kids, grandkids, lives happily ever after...surrounded by his family on his deathbed. "We love yo-"

Snapcut to helicopter.

"Hmmm I wonder what Nance is up to...."

[–] Ace_Spade (9358) 2 years ago

I would watch a sequel dealing with the psychological ramifications of his perpetual time-loop reincarnation. Would he continue to savour multiple lives? Maybe on the second time around he's thinking he'll just get a blood transfusion, knock it out of his system and not need to deal with it, but without such tight loops (constantly on a battlefield) he might prefer to just keep going around.

Does he become paranoid? Maybe by life five he's having so much fun just having radically different lives that he's starting to worry he'll never get another go-around and he's now a shut-in, avoiding *anything* that might result in a blood transfusion. Does he join a religion that doesn't allow blood transfusions so that any hospital will let him crash rather than try and save him?

Or does he go around several times and then take a deliberate transfusion after living what he considers a "perfect" life?

Another weird question, but what would happen if he *donated* blood? The dilution of his blood makes the effect wear off when new blood is introduced, but what about if he just removed some blood? Presumably this isn't a problem, since he could die by bleeding out and still reset. In other words: blood loss alone won't conk out his ability. But, if he put his blood into other people, would they gain his ability to reset?

[–] ExTechOp (2750) 5 months ago

Transfusions won't work according to Rita. Sex neither

[–] Ace_Spade (9358) 5 months ago

I must've missed that dialogue. Thanks!

[–] Annkat (181) 8 months ago

The Omega needs a “suit” to anchor itself to a time point and then reset the day to it.

In the film it built itself a massive chamber which was the suit.

Make the connection between the suits the people wear and the omega.

[–] Ace_Spade (9358) 8 months ago

So... if he's out of the suit when he dies, he'll be fine?

[–] ExTechOp (2750) 5 months ago

I think the Omega sent him back to the helicopter because that was exactly 24 hours before he was doused in its blood

Just like he woke up on the pile of bags exactly 24 hours before he was doused in the Alpha's blood

So, if he dies later in life, he might go back to the helicopter EXCEPT ... he can't now that the Omega's dead

I could be wrong, but it seemed to me that the final reset was the Omega's dying reflex (allowing it to avoid its own death)

At the end, however, it was clearly dead and all the mimics left without any control, so there's now nothing left to reset the day

Cage's death only controls the reset. The Omega causes it to happen

[–] Ace_Spade (9358) 5 months ago

Yeah, that makes sense. So, because the Omega is dead, the time loop is closed and he'd need to find a different Alpha to make it all work? That kind of thing?