Line #51 WMG/SpyKids


1	[[WMG:The series is set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.]]
2	Aside from the advances in technology, the culture seems to have become more Hispanic. Note that street signs and billboards from the first film are written in both Spanish and English, implying a bilingual society. Many experts believe the Mexican population of the United States will greatly increase in the near future; ''Spy Kids'' is obviously set after that has already happened. Add to this the vaguely-described "dark and confusing times" about ten years before the first film, which doesn't seem to reflect the early 1990s.
3	* Always thought that was a TakeThat to the DarkerAndEdgier 1990's comics.
4	* But doesn't it take place in Mexico?
5	** If it did, why would the President of the United States show up so much? Not unless NAFTA has suddenly gotten much more powerful.
6	* Maybe it's set in a post-secession Republic of Texas where the Anglo rednecks who spearheaded the campaign to secede got swamped by the Hispanic demographic wave, as Keith Olbermann predicted.
7	* It appears to take place in Austin, Texas.
8	* [[TakeAThirdOption Or]], it takes place in Mexico after being annexed by the U.S.
9	* Demographic implications aside, it ''definitely'' takes place TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, because there's no way that Grandpa could've plausibly trapped the Toymaker in such an elaborate cyberspace in ''1973''.
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11	[[WMG:The Guy was a GuestStarPartyMember built into the Game.]]
12	It was all but explicitly stated. The problem is that everybody (characters and audience) assumes that he's a player character and the game's creators were contracting Nostradamus. It's canon that Demitra was both an AI and the Deceiver, so why is it so far-fetched that The Guy was a programmed character?
13	* And he was a special unlockable that is only found if specific conditions are met but they never met him because of how they were playing. They did have a cheat map, after all). He died so quickly because he was meant to show how difficult the final level is if you didn't find him before. If they HAD met him prior, he'd have been a GameBreaker to make the rest of the game extremely easy up to that point, including the final level. Note they said The Guy would've helpped win the unwinnable level IF you find him, they never did so he died. Had they found him before, he'd have helped them win the level.
14	** Or... the final level automatically kills the first character, PC or NPC, to enter it, [[FridgeBrilliance so The Guy did help them beat the level after all, and his whole job was to act as a bullet shield]].
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16	[[WMG:The Guy was [[VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy The Kid]].]]
17	He gets killed with one lighting attack, right?
18	* Also note that he got killed in a GuideDangIt trap that was impossible to see coming.
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20	[[WMG:In Response to the Above]]
21	We all know that the full title of ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'' is ''I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game'' (and if you didn't know, now you do). We were all meant to believe that was a joke, but [[LittleDidIKnow little did we know]] ''Spy Kids 3D'' is the fake title for ''I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie'', which everyone's favorite [[strike:game]] form of masochism was then based off of.
22	* Or: It's really ''I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game: The Movie'' making the video game adaptation ''I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game: The Movie: The Game'', as was prophesized by the ancient ones (read: some troper) who wrote the IWBTG page (it's the ColonCancer example).
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24	[[WMG:Juni and Carmen are now trapped in a virtual reality world.]]
25	This is how the virtual reality creations supposedly got into the real world and why the last few scenes of the third film made no sense whatsoever. It was cobbled together by the BigBad to make them think they'd defeated him.
26	* [[FridgeHorror That's disturbing, and yet it makes so much sense.]]
27	** So, does this mean that some day we'll see a crossover with either ''Literature/LogHorizon'' or ''Literature/SwordArtOnline''[[note]]If anyone wishes to use those ideas for fanfiction, you are more than welcome to[[/note]]?
28	* ... On the plus side, now he has a chance to get Demitra's email address! Yaaaaaay...?
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30	[[WMG:Creator/{{Disney}} forced a GeckoEnding]]
31	They found themselves with a movie that could only have a happy ending if they sacrificed logic. It's a children's movie, so they didn't want an unhappy ending. (Hey, even ''Film/OldYeller'' has what's intended to be an upbeat postscript.) Thus, the ending that's there.
32	* Which movie? And what does Disney do with Miramax anyway? Have they ever actually intervened? Furthermore, neither main pages list the movie you're talking about as having a gecko ending.
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34	[[WMG:The Guy was killed because he failed a QuickTimeEvent]]
35	A really annoying QuickTimeEvent that requires spilt second timing, with an invisible prompt.
36	* Maybe it's a DynamicDifficulty event, which requires you to react once for each life you have left within a certain amount of time. If you have five lives, it's quite difficult. if you have one or two lives, it's pretty simple. If [[NoFairCheating you cheated extra lives into the game]], or [[GameBreakingBug you're an NPC and the dev team forgot to make an exception for you]], it's effectively impossible.
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38	[[WMG:Carmen will grow up to have a daughter...]]
39	...named [[Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera Marni]]. The rest is history. Uncanny family resemblance abounds, to be one day remarked upon by said (now-late) daughter's best friend.
40	* Carmen could be the grandmother. She would be around 50 when Marni is born.
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42	[[WMG:Spy Kids (the first one at least) was made by [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment Buster Bluth.]] ]]
43	The movie is extremely childish, involves two kids on their own away from their parents (reflecting Buster's own secret desire to be rid of Lucille), and of course, there's a strange obsession with hands.
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45	[[WMG:The women in Ingrid's family are genetically predisposed to be attracted to {{Latin Lover}}s.]]
46	This is pretty much canon. I mean, one of them married Ricardo Montalbán and then her daughter married Creator/AntonioBanderas. Could also be a case of LikeParentLikeSpouse.
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48	[[WMG:The [[Franchise/TheMatrix Machines]] have won, and everybody is trapped in the VR for the rest of their lives]]
49	The only way to stop the machines was the transmooker device, which was destoyed in ''Spy Kids 2'' - the movie was [[ThePlan a plan by them to stop the competition]]. The Toymaker is really the architect. Not sure who is [[TheChosenOne The One]], its one of the main characters.
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51	[[WMG:The Guy was programmed to be killed to make the final level harder if not impossible.]]
52	Normally the guy comes and saves the player early on and takes over all the fighting making it impossible to level up but since he's so overpowered gamers don't care, then when they get to the final level the guy is killed while the player is at level 3 when he should be a level 80 or higher. So The Guy is an InfinityPlusOneSword up through the last boss.
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54	[[WMG:The Guy was Beck from ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising'']]
55	First off, ActorAllusion. Second, they both exist within a game. This would explain why Beck's whole story is not shown in ''Tron: Uprising,'' which got canceled.

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