History Headscratchers / TheLEGOMovie

* Is Unikitty a Lego creature that the The Man Upstairs bought and assembled according to instructions, or did Finn build her out of spare pieces? If it's the former, does that mean he owns a spacesuit-variant Unikitty? And if it's the latter, where could her faceplate have come from originally?

** But in the movie, the only time we see Uni-Kitty in the real world is when she's wearing her spacesuit. In that case, the other versions of her in the Lego world are all depicted in Finn's mind.
*** There's no reason to assume that they didn't have alt-costumes for Unikitty or for that matter, ''other Unikitty's''. Chances are, Finn just replaced Unikitty's model with another model of the same character wearing a different outfit.

* So, Metalbeard has a cyborg body because he lost everything 'except his head'. So he was able to escape with his head (and a few organs), build a new body, and make it work. So how come Vitruvius is permanently killed from getting his head cut off?

** Remember, Metalbeard escaped with only his head... and his organs. Vitruvius didn't even have those.
*** Also, even before Metalbeard had his robot body, he had his trademark metal beard. Maybe it includes built-in life support. Alternatively, maybe he just could survive for a few minutes longer without his body because he was still young, and the robot body was built quickly enough to keep him alive after that.

** Metalbeard was there once too, and had seen rooms like the relic room and the Think Tank. So he could have aided them with getting around the place.

** Could it not be possible that the floors have a repeated pattern? Like every 10 floors, the pattern repeats? So Floor 1 and Floor 11 are identical, Floor 2 is identical to Floor 12 and so on. That would make it easy to figure out what's on each floor and whatnot. The infinitiesth floor could be totally identical to Floors 10 and 20 structure-wise. All towers in the city are constructed exactly in this way- they all have a set of 10 plans, one per floor, and just repeat the pattern over and over again. This way, it wouldn't be a problem if the Roof Team keeps building the roof higher, and would explain Emmet's knowledge- he knows all 10 floor variants by heart and knows the system they go in and whatnot. Metalbeard does refer to "overbearing assistants" while the camera is showing what looks like a reception desk.

*** It's one of Lord Business's relics. The same one Unikitty swiped to draw on her Bizniz Kitty disguise.

* It makes sense for Emmet to talk to Lord Business instead of beating him up or killing him, because he's just that kind of guy. And then since the two of them shared that moment and Business put the Piece of Resistance on the Kragle by his own hand, it makes sense for them to sort of become friends. But then during the very last scene, they're ALL shown together as a group, and I have a hard time believing that all of them would forgive Business that easily. He killed Vitruvius (he's a ghost, but it seems like death and becoming a ghost must impair him somehow, or else why would it matter whether anyone else in the movie lived or died?), he left Metalbeard a severed head (again, he has a new body, but he's clearly unhappy with it as he calls it a 'useless hunk of garbage' and seems to much prefer his original body), he kidnapped and tortured Master Builders for years, and his minions wreaked havoc all over the world and destroyed Cloud Cuckooland [[BreakTheCutie (particularly traumatizing Unikitty)]]. I realize that the real-world context of The Man Upstairs means that the only thing Lord Business "really" did was Kragle everything and the rest of it was just Finn exaggerating, but that threatens the reality of the story and characters that we are supposed to care about. And of course, Emmet had been to the real world and saw that The Man Upstairs was behind it all, but he doesn't seem like he understands what's going on, and it's even more doubtful he could explain it to the others, especially in such a short time. It seems to me that he would've talked to Lord Business instead of fighting anyway and the real-world scenes mostly just provide a new context for the audience (and give Emmet a way to return from his HeroicSacrifice as a Master Builder). Obviously, the big deal is that Lord Business decided not to end the world and used the anti-Kragle, and I suppose that is a sort of redemption, but that doesn't mean everything else he did shouldn't count against him.

*** So you're looking for an explanation within the LEGO 'verse, right? I'll give that a shot. I think it might just be that because Emmet was willing to give President Business a second chance, so was everyone else, because everyone believes in Emmet, even if they've never met him, because of what they were told about him by Wyldstyle and what they saw him do. It would be hypocritical of Wyldstyle to not do so, as she herself held a very extreme position, just the opposite of President Business's, to the point that she looked down on other people. It doesn't seem unreasonable at all that Uni-Kitty and Benny could forgive him with little or no hesitation considering their attitude. Metalbeard is the odd one out, but I think it's possible that he falls under "if Emmet and Uni-Kitty forgive him, so do I", considering that in the video game he's willing to trust Bad Cop because Uni-Kitty does (possibly because both he and Uni-Kitty faced great loss thanks to President Business). Bad Cop probably forgives him because he has Good Cop, who is like Benny and Uni-Kitty in the sense that they're very open to giving second chances due to their natures, and we've seen that Good Cop does have an effect on how Bad Cop acts and vise-versa. Considering they all forgive Bad Cop very easily, it's not unreasonable they forgive President Business. After all, Bad Cop was the one who headed the destruction of CloudCuckooLand and probably had something to do with what happened to Metalbeard and his crew. Nobody in the LEGOverse here seems to hold grudges if they can find a reason to forgive someone. After all, most of the people (the general people, not the main party outside Emmet) hear this every day: "Everything is awesome/ Everything is cool when you're part of a team/ Everything is awesome when we're living our dream/ Everything is better when we stick together/ Side by side, you and I gonna win forever, let's party forever/ We're the same, I'm like you, you're like me, we're all working in harmony". So it seems natural they'd forgive and forget so that nobody's left alone. I hope that helps/makes sense.

[[folder:How did they clean Unikitty?]]

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[[folder:Metalbeard’s existence and design]]
Who built him on the LEGO side of things?
Why is his telescope-holder on the same side as his eyepatch? He had the eyepatch in the flashback too.

** "Master Builders" appears to be Finn's way of incorporating the minifigs his father collects who don't seem to fit into a particular theme into his game. A lot of the ones we see appear to be the kind you often buy in those individual bags where you get a random one each time (there's probably a display on the wall nearby somewhere). They don't fit anywhere else and they're "special" (i.e. special edition), so Finn incorporates them into the game as the "Master Builders". Outside Finn's imagination, Finn's dad or Finn himself probably bought or was given a Simpsons-themed random minifig bag at some point, and it just happened to be Milhouse inside.

* Or more specifically, how is it animated? Our main page claims it to be a hybrid CGI[=/=]Stop Motion flick, but Wiki/ThatOtherWiki says it's just CGI. The animation does, of course, look extremely similar to stop motion but I just can't tell! Can anyone help me out?

* Emmet isn't a master builder or magical, so he probably did just stack one couch on top of another without modifying them in any way. So how exactly do 3 people fit underneath the cushions of one couch? RuleOfFunny?

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** "Master Builders" appears to be Finn's way of incorporating the minifigs his father collects who don't seem to fit into a particular theme into his game. A lot of the ones we see appear to be the kind you often buy in those individual bags where you get a random one each time (there's probably a display on the wall nearby somewhere). They don't fit anywhere else and they're "special (i.e. special edition), so Finn incorporates them into the game as the "Master Builders". Outside Finn's imagination, Finn's dad or Finn himself probably bought or was given a Simpsons-themed random minifig bag at some point, and it just happened to be Milhouse inside.

** Maybe Finn wanted to [[Memes/TheSimpsons make Milhouse a meme]].

[[folder: Why is Millhouse a Master Builder?]]

[[folder: Why is [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Milhouse]] a Master Builder?]]
I'll be the first to admit, I'm not fully versed on Simpsons lore (though I have been catching up on the first 8 seasons), so maybe there's something I'm not getting here, but why, out of all the characters, is Milhouse van Houten a Master Builder, and not someone like Bart, Lisa or Homer?

** [[JokingMode Has anyone in here had siblings or played with cousins before?]] Getting your younger relatives to stop playing with your stuff is HARD. Considering how abrupt the scene was, I thought it was made clear that the little sister just uninvitedly barged in there with her toys. After much begging and crying either her dad gave up, she snuck in, or her dad had a change of heart. In fact, if Finn's dad had a change of heart, it would be a nice mini NiceJobBreakingItHero, moment.

** [[JokingMode Has anyone in here had siblings or played with cousins before?]] Getting your younger relatives to stop playing with your stuff is HARD. Considering how abrupt the scene was, I thought it was made clear that the little sister just uninvitedly barged in there with her toys. After much begging and crying either her dad gave up, she snuck in, or her dad had a change of heart.

** [[JokingMode Has anyone in here had siblings or played with cousins before?]] Getting your younger relatives to stop playing with your toys is HARD. Considering how abrupt the scene was, I thought it was made clear that the little sister just uninvitedly barged in there with her toys. After much begging and crying either her dad gave up, she snuck in, or her dad had a change of heart.

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* Is it just me, or did the writers and for that matter, Finn ''really'' not like Green Lantern?
** Given AnimationLeadTime, it ''might'' have been a reference to the poorly-reviewed movie.
*** Given GL's costume seems to be the same one as said poorly reviewed movie, that's probably the case
** Sorta weird that this came out just weeks after another [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueWar movie]] that had GL be a ButtMonkey.
** To be fair, it's not as if Green Lantern is so universally beloved a character that the fact that a kid (or the movie writers) might not actually like him is a puzzle or anything. He's just not Finn's favorite superhero. It happens.
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[[folder: The denouement (spoilers)]]
As much as I absolutely ''love'' this movie, lately I've been thinking that it could've used more of a denouement (meaning, the final scenes after the conflict is resolved). It makes sense for Emmet to talk to Lord Business instead of beating him up or killing him, because he's just that kind of guy. And then since the two of them shared that moment and Business put the Piece of Resistance on the Kragle by his own hand, it makes sense for them to sort of become friends. But then during the very last scene, they're ALL shown together as a group, and I have a hard time believing that all of them would forgive Business that easily. He killed Vitruvius (he's a ghost, but it seems like death and becoming a ghost must impair him somehow, or else why would it matter whether anyone else in the movie lived or died?), he left Metalbeard a severed head (again, he has a new body, but he's clearly unhappy with it as he calls it a 'useless hunk of garbage' and seems to much prefer his original body), he kidnapped and tortured Master Builders for years, and his minions wreaked havoc all over the world and destroyed Cloud Cuckooland [[BreakTheCutie (particularly traumatizing Unikitty)]]. I realize that the real-world context of The Man Upstairs means that the only thing Lord Business "really" did was Kragle everything and the rest of it was just Finn exaggerating, but that threatens the reality of the story and characters that we are supposed to care about. And of course, Emmet had been to the real world and saw that The Man Upstairs was behind it all, but he doesn't seem like he understands what's going on, and it's even more doubtful he could explain it to the others, especially in such a short time. It seems to me that he would've talked to Lord Business instead of fighting anyway and the real-world scenes mostly just provide a new context for the audience (and give Emmet a way to return from his HeroicSacrifice as a Master Builder). Obviously, the big deal is that Lord Business decided not to end the world and used the anti-Kragle, and I suppose that is a sort of redemption, but that doesn't mean everything else he did shouldn't count against him.

** 8-year-old boys aren't entirely as immune to romance as you might think. They might groan and pull faces whenever a kissing scene appears on TV, but that doesn't mean they don't have romantic impulses, they just get expressed in ways that are different and -- because, being eight-year-olds, they usually don't understand or like these impulses -- usually rather silly (the old cliché about a little boy pulling the pigtails of the little girl who becomes his girlfriend a few years later, for example) but it's nevertheless there. I wouldn't be entirely surprised if there was an 8-year-old girl ([[spoiler: possibly called Lucy]]) somewhere in Finn's life -- at school or on the same street, for example -- who he would very much like to hold hands with.

** I'm pretty sure that's because [[spoiler: the line between the LEGO and real worlds can get blurry at times. Finn probably forgot that dangling legs were a non-issue for minifigures when he scripted that part.]]
** Also, it's possible that [[spoiler: Finn brought up the idea to his dad in real life, and Lord Business' response is just Finn parroting his dad's own response.]]