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3	[[WMG:The film was BannedInChina because of an image of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man the Tank Man]] appears in the part where Leeloo is reading about the dreaded W for War in the encyclopedia.]]
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5	[[WMG: The "fifth element" is actually Spiral Power.]]
6	The power of life, driven by love... able to overcome anything...
7	* Novelization says it's sex. Which invites implication about the Spiral Power...
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9	[[WMG: The movie is an [[AdaptationDecay adaptation decayed]] live action Franchise/CareBears movie.]]
10	Leeloo defeats the BigBad evil incarnate with a CareBearStare, complete with countdown.
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12	[[WMG: This isn't the first time Mr. Shadow got defeated this way.]]
13	At the end of the climax, we are left with a shot of Mr. Shadow's dead body floating above the Earth, with the Moon also visible. Maybe the origin of the Moon is just another of Mr. Shadow's attacks? Or even another baddie like him?
14	* Well it's supposed to happen every five thousand years.
15	* The moon we all know just represents the only other time that we let Mr. Shadow get that close to destroying us. One would assume that evil that works on such a manageable time frame (every five millennia) would be relatively easy to repel. The other moons created by stopping Mr. Shadow were stopped too far out to reach orbit!
16	** Indeed, all the materials were kept on Earth until fairly recently, and then the only reason there was such a time issue is because they ran into trouble on the way in.
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18	[[WMG:That plastic...thingy on Zorg's head is a cybernetic implant]]
19	He's rich and I want to believe there has to be a reason for anyone to have that on their head.
20	* No, that's just hair. Stupid, stupid hair.
21	** No, the stupid, stupid hair is on the ''left'' side of Zorg's head. The plastic thing is on the right side. As to what it is... a dumb fashion statement. His henchmen wear similar purple-tinted ones.
22	* Zorg is clealy a survivor of some weapons accident (his limp, for starters), and this thing covers the damaged part of his skull. His henchmen are butt-kissers and try to look like him, so that he has the illusion of looking like everyone else.
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24	[[WMG: The Mondoshawan are StarfishAliens.]]
25	The Mondos wear protective suits, even when piloting their ships. Their actual form is completely inhuman, probably something unfit to any environment but their own homeworld. Maybe they really look like huge jellyfish or octopi. Their exosuits are actually the closest they can get to looking humanoid.
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27	[[WMG: The Diva is actually not of an alien race, but is a genetically-engineered marketing gimmick for Listerine.]]
28	I mean, come on. Her blood looks just like the stuff.
29	* Looked more like grape koolaid to me, very dark blue.
30	* Half canon in the novelization where it says she was genetically engineered with [=DNA=] from every race in the galaxy bar the Mangalore's to be a GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe that appeals to everybody.
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32	[[WMG: This film takes place in the Franchise/StargateVerse.]]
33	Seriously. The Egyptian stuff. The ships look like they could be using the same tech as the Promethius. The clothes of the soldiers does kind of look like that clothing worn by Quinn's folks.
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35	[[WMG: The Mangalores were created to be warriors to fight on Earth.]]
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37	This is why they are exceptionally good at disguising themselves as humans. They were meant to be able to infiltrate human armies and groups. However, they TurnedAgainstTheirMasters. This is why the airport on Earth has a machine that can detect them.
38	* And Ruby is one of them! Remember when he's making out with the stewardess, he says he's never "felt this way" about a human before. He's a Mangalore in disguise who turned out to be a MinionWithAnFInEvil, after being ostracized for his high-pitched voice, because the Mangalores believe EvilSoundsDeep. So he used his high voice to start a successful singing and DJ career.
39	** Explains why he's so much more terrified of them than anybody else. As a traitor to his race, they'd do a lot worse to him than the other civillians.
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41	[[WMG: The black slime that comes out of General Staedert and Zorg is their inner evil liquefied.]]
42	It is the "badness" in them being made physical and drawn forth from their bodies towards the source of all the universe's evil - the Dark Planet. This also explains why Zorg had more of it than Staedert: we've all done something bad in our lives, and Staedert, a career military general of high rank, likely did some morally questionable things in his time (an idea supported by how readily he seemed to want to "shoot first" when the Dark Planet manifests - evil begets evil, as Cornelius says), but still doesn't leak as much "evil" as Zorg does despite being right in the Dark Planet's presence.
43	* Alternately, General Staedert may have been under the Dark Planet's employ, similar to Zorg, and the black slime was indicative of the Dark Planet working his direct mojo on them. Hence the General's TooDumbToLive moment. He literally didn't have a choice in the matter.
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45	[[WMG:Father Cornelius was asleep at the switch.]]
46	He either had been ignoring the signs of the evil arising again or simply didn't believe it. That's why the government is informed when it's almost too late.
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48	[[WMG: This film takes place in the WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} universe.]]
49	Wacky aliens? Check. Casual Interstellar Travel? Check. New York being built over Old New York? In-process check.
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51	[[WMG: Dallas has not had to deal with a long line of would-be armed robbers at his door]]
52	The huge pile of guns are all from the same guy, who tries (and fails) to rob Dallas on a daily basis. He's just too strung out and stupid, and Dallas is too awesome and badass, for it to ever work.
53	* This Troper here, Handwaved it as Korbin Dallas's neighbour from down the hall.
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55	[[WMG: The reason Korben is so lonely is that in the future, all women go for extremely feminine/metrosexual guys like Ruby Rhod and Baby Ray, while manly men like Bruce Willis are seen as unattractive.]]
56	Leeloo, being from thousands of years in the past, is immune to this and thus falls for him.
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58	[[WMG: Mr Shadow is spawn of [[Literature/CthulhuMythos Ghroth]]. ]]
59	They're sentient, celestial bodies who visit once in a while to cause mass death.
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61	[[WMG: Mr Shadow lied to Zorg about his objectives.]]
62	To knowingly make a deal with a malignant entity that wants to destroy all life in the universe would be a stupid thing to do. Nothing said entity could possibly offer you would be worth agreeing to be a pawn in his/her/its scheme. What makes you think you'd be around long enough to enjoy whatever your "business partner" promised you? Why shouldn't such an entity betray and discard you once you outlive your usefulness?
63	* There's actually a much simpler interpretation: Zorg did a deal with Mr Shadow because Mr Shadow offered him a lot of money. No questions asked. So why is he so scared of him I hear you ask? Because he's super intimidating and seems to be able to make people bleed from their scalp at will.
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65	[[WMG:''Film/ValerianAndTheCityOfAThousandPlanets'' takes place in the same universe.]]
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67	There's nothing stopping it from happening. Alpha could well have been in orbit - albeit much smaller and pre-release into space - the whole time ''The Fifth Element'' was happening. Valerian just happens later.
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69	[[WMG: Leeloo was originally Genderless/Intersex]]
70	Being a perfect Being, with DNA similar, but vastly more complex than ours, Leeloo probably wouldn't have anything we understand as full on "gender" however due to the reconstruction machine being a human made invention the process was "flawed" and with the remaining living cells in the hand being mostly XX, Leeloo was rebuilt functionally female, with any remaining XY cells being dismissed as contamination from the people handling the limb.
71	** Alternate take: Leeloo is naturally genderless/intersex but assumes a form that's compatible with who she's going to bond with that cycle. All of the elements need to be exposed to a sample of what they represent to be activated and Leeloo is no different, to activate the fifth element it needs a partner so when the time comes it assumes the appropriate form for whomever their destined to bond with this lifetime. Leeloo assumes a female form because that's what Korben is attracted to if he'd been gay Leeloo would have appeared to be a man instead. It doesn't matter that Leeloo didn't meet Korben until after a gender had been chosen as it was always going to be him that would act as the trigger to the fifth element.
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73	[[WMG: Mr. Shadow is the "Sixth Element"]]
74	And was originally the counterbalance for Leeloo, He was supposed to wipe out most of the current cycle and Leeloo would then seed the universe with life for the next cycle, the problem was Mr. Shadow was too competent at it's job, and grew to powerful causing it to be banished, Mr. Shadow is simply still trying to fulfil it's function, but is so Grossly Overpowered for it that it will wipe out ''everything'' instead of just enough to restart the cycle all over again.
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76	[[WMG: The nonsensical "meat popsicle" line was actually a code phrase.]]
77	The cops see no reason to investigate further, even when they're actively looking for a specific person, because he told them he was a meat popsicle. Given that he's a ridiculously experienced covert ops specialist, it's entirely likely that was a SpySpeak phrase that they recognized as "I'm a government agent, and you're in way over your heads."
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79	[[WMG: Zorg is a descendant of Professor Pacolis assistant Billy Masterson]]
80	Billy saw what the Mondoshawans did to the Professor and shoot at one of them, he than saw how they removed the statue and the stones (or at least he saw them removing something from the temple). From his perspective they werent exactly the good guys. The start of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI probably didn't help.
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82	He drew the Mondoshawans in his note book and probably wrote down what happend in the temple as well and this notebook was passed down in his family till it came to Zorg. The percipient mistrust towards the Mondoshawans in Zorgs head, that grew out of this was enough for "Mr. Shadow" to gain a foothold in his mind and that's all it needed.
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84	Additionally maybe the fear of the Mondoshawans return is something that drew Billy to gain wealth so him or his descendants can be ready for when they come, and Zorg is just the latest and richest in line.
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