Christine is a Transformer.
A very depraved Decepticon.- Or possibly another Autobot who went insane as a result of witnessing Cybertron's destruction and becoming a space exile.
Christine is from the universe of Cars.
Somehow she crossed into our universe, only to find that it is a horrific place where her kind are mindless zombies being controlled by parasitic monkeys. She soon Goes Mad From The Revelation, and suffers a psychotic episode. Hell, I'd bet the Cars answer to Stephen King wrote that exact story.Christine is inherently evil, she's not possessed.
Christine was shown to be evil on the assembly line. Surrounded by perfectly normal cars nearly identical to her. There was no horrific accident, no vengeful spirit that met its end in her. There is absolutely no reason for any spirit to be attached to that particular Plymouth Fury. Christine is an entity in and of herself, a Yandere automobile that inexplicably manifests.- That, or she was possessed right from the start.
- Well, in the movie thats how it is, but it's never really addressed in the book. Though it seems more to imply that Roland imprinted his rage and hatred upon the car, eventually corrupting it to the point we see in the story.
- She's not just possessed; it's like The World of Darkness level of spirit...the car is alive in the Umbra..a love/rage spirit whom took on the form of a car.
- By the end of the novel, once we get the full perspective, and all the truth comes out, only one thing doesn't fit the concept that Christine was just a normal car until after Le Bay's death, and all the supernatural stuff involved was due to Le Bay's spirit, while everything bad that happened before, was due to Le Bay's anger/obsession. That one thing is the American Legion story, where Christine somehow managed to drive forward with her rear tires off the ground.
- Christine was probably bad from the start, she just needed Le Bay's rage to get her actively moving. Or in other words, she was a very willing and eager vessel for his endless fury.
- I read an interesting theory in a Supernatural crossover fic Nor Hell a Fury
, where Dean and Sam help Dennis stop Christine for good; they determine that Christine is actually a 'hell-stead', which is essentially the transport of a dead man (the original hell-stead was a horse, but other examples are a train, a small boat, and a helicopter) that became imbued with his rage after his death, Christine now drawing on that rage to attack those who her owners resent. - Or it could be a case of accidental demonic possession, like what happened to the laundry pressing machine in "The Mangler": the wrong stuff fell into the cogs and horror ensued.
- Well, in the movie thats how it is, but it's never really addressed in the book. Though it seems more to imply that Roland imprinted his rage and hatred upon the car, eventually corrupting it to the point we see in the story.
Christine had a thing for Dennis as well as Arnie.
In the book Dennis decides to sit inside Christine alone while Arnie was buying the car from Roland. Instead of outright killing or hurting him like she did to most people intruding on her; she gives him a vision of her past. In the movie, when Dennis inspects the car, the song, "You keep a knocking but you Can't Come In." is played, cutting out when the lyrics say "Come back tomorrow and try again." pretty much implying that he's welcome to ride in her. She was still being fixed up at the time so to her, it was like walking in on someone while getting dressed. This is backed up later on when Arnie and Dennis go joyriding on New Years, since unlike with Leigh, she doesn't seem bothered by Dennis' remarks. Not even doing a radio scare like she did last time. Even when Dennis was fighting her with the Bulldozer, Christine seemed more fixated with running Leigh down than trying to knock down the Bulldozer.- Christine knew she couldn't disable the bulldozer, so she set about to killing Leigh, who was almost helpless.
- Not just Dennis, but men in general, a vehicular Femme Fatale.
Christine is somehow related to Herbie.
Two cars that have minds and can drive themselves? They've got to be somehow connected. Made by the same process, perhaps? Only Herbie is kind and protective of his owner, while Christine is insane and possessive.- Why not a little Maximum Overdrive to go with it? In the 60's, the aliens tried to automate a machine but only succeeded in a car that was almost human. Okay, time to reformulate the creation. In the 70's, a car that is a Yandere. Close, but not murderous enough. Success is found in the 80's with killer vehicles for the entirety of the human race.
Christine was somehow infused with Catoms - Programmable Matter
She is not so much supernatural and more some part of her—like the raw steel that was used to build her body and chassis—was infused with Catoms. Catoms are, in essence, programmable matter that can change its shape and properties at the atomic level. It would explain how she was able to crush herself in order to get at Moochie and repair herself later on. It also explains how she can retain parts that were added like the garage door opener and license plates; she absorbed them and incorporated them into herself. In essence, she's an artificial being. It wouldn't be a stretch for her to be able to actually talk using a smart phone with a text-to-speech app simply laid on the front seat if such technology was available at the time.Christine was brought to life by the driver of The Car
King has stated that he drew some influence from the film The Car. So, why not extend canon out to include it? For The Car, it's suggested that it might be Satan behind the wheel. And for Christine, some promotional material used the line "Hell hath no Fury like Christine" and the original trailer for the film describes her as being "possessed by Hell" and "Body by Plymouth, soul by Satan." Maybe before he got his hands on the Car, he decided to take Christine for a ride, and gave her life just for fun.If/When a new film adaptation occurs
Christine will be a Cool Car from the 80's or 90's and subsequently play music from that era, like Hair Metal, Grunge, and/or Hip-Hop. After all, the 80's and 90's are to The New '20s what the 50's were to the 70's and 80's.- This is unlikely. Not only because fans of the book would go nuts if they changed Christine's model, the '58 Fury is just associated with Christine more than anything else, ironic considering that King chose the Fury because it wasn't a well-known '50s car before he wrote the book. It would be like Herbie being anything other than an old VW Beetle, the association between the two is just too strong. Same with the music choice, Christine is stuck in the '50s so anything newer wouldn't fit.
- If we're talking about a Plymouth, there's the Plymouth Laser produced from 1990 to 1994 which is a rebadged Mitsubishi Eclipse. Those are rare, unique and they're pretty damned fast too in RS form (Turbo-charged with all-wheel-drive). So why not a 1994 Plymouth Laser RS with a 5-speed manual transmission in autumn red? It would be a suitable update to the Fury as both are top-of-the-line performance models and a formidable performer against modern vehicles. Being supernatural and capable of self-repair, the laws of physics can be tossed out the window making it crushing a modern Camaro not seem silly. Or she could nose under a taller vehicle and flip it on its side. Being all-wheel-drive also means she can easily chase down vehicles and people on dirt and gravel roads and go off-road without getting stuck.
- Or the Eagle Talon TSi, which was produced until 1998. Eagle is another brand under the umbrella of Chrysler Corporation. Both cars were available in red and some came with red interior trim
- Or, if you want even more power and closer-to-supercar performance, the Mitsubishi 3000GT or Dodge Stealth R/T Twin Turbo.
- As to menace. Besides the factory radio that would only play 90s hits, we have a pure-bred sports car whose menace is in precision like in the book. No scraping the walls or screeching rear-wheel-drive burnouts. Imagine a predator that would spool up its turbo and pounce on all four wheels after its prey. Before crushing Moochie, we have that turbo spooling up and then... pounce! She strikes right into his midsection. Not only that, but she doesn't even need to crush herself to get at him. Being smaller, nimbler and faster makes her even more dangerous. "He got hit so hard that he split in half. They had to scrape him up with a shovel."
- Buddy Repperton's vehicle could be a 5th-gen Camaro or perhaps a Chevy Silverado 4x4. With a taller vehicle, striking it in the right place would cause it to roll-over and then she could ram it from the bottom instead of the side. Or, if the truck was lifted, Talon's lower profile could cause her to launch a lifted truck into the air or into a roll-over crash if she ran at it head-on.
- The music is the tough one. Is there anything more apropos than "Itty Bitty One" or "Rock and Roll is Here to Stay" as taunts?
- After thinking about it, there are no shortage of songs that would work. "Just A Girl" by No Doubt, "My Favourite Game" by The Cardigans, "With or Without You" and "Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car" by U2, "Got You (Where I Want You)" by the Flys, "In Your Eyes" and "Steam" by Peter Gabriel, "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds", "Heart-Shaped Box" by Nirvana. Notably, there could be quite a few nods to other 1990s films and television shows such as "Disturbing Behavior" and "The X-Files".
- Or, you could consider this less a remake and actually a distant sequel. Christine's crushed remains, forgotten, end up getting sold for scrap, recycled and part of the unibody of a new 1994 Laser or 1998 Talon made in Japan and imported back to the United States. 25 years later, Christine is very much back to her old tricks. Her radio could play both 1990s and 1950s music to bridge the gap. Maybe even have certain elements of the '58 Fury show up in the 94/98 Laser/Talon such as her interior and exterior colors and her V emblem. Maybe even a hint of her original V8.
- Or, since it hasn't been mentioned, it can be a second adaptation of the novel that's truer to the book, including the setting of 1979 and keeping Christine as a 1958 Plymouth Fury (maybe this time, using the 1957 Plymouth Savoy 4 door model being rebranded as a '58 Fury, as King made Christine a 4-door Fury, which never existed in real life).
