History WMG / Barbie2023

** Thankfully, lawyers kept [[Franchise/{{GIJOE}} Duke]], ComicBook/{{Batman}}, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]], [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]], Film/KingKong, Film/{{Godzilla}}, [[Film/JurassicPark The T-Rex]], [[Film/{{TheTerminator}} T-800]], [[Film/RoboCop1987 Officer Alex Murphy]], [[Film/FirstBlood John Rambo]], [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]], [[Franchise/GhostBusters Slimer]], and [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Raphael ('Cuz he's cool...but rude)]] out of it...

** Thankfully, lawyers kept [[Franchise/{{GIJOE}} Duke]], ComicBook/{{Batman}}, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]], [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]], Film/KingKong, Film/{{Godzilla}}, [[Film/JurassicPark The T-Rex]], [[Film/{{TheTerminator}} T-800]], [[Film/RoboCop1987 Officer Alex Murphy]], [[Film/FirstBlood John Rambo]], [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]], [[Film/GhostBusters Slimer]], and [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Raphael ('Cuz he's cool...but rude)]] out of it...

** Either Creator/RobertDowneyJr could play an [[Main/AdamWesting Iron Man Mego Doll]] or Creator/CillianMurphy could play a [[Main/AdamWesting Scarecrow action figure.]]

** Thankfully, lawyers kept [[Franchise/{{GIJOE}} Duke]], ComicBook/{{Batman}}, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]], Film/{{Godzilla}}, [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]], and [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Raphael ('Cuz he's cool...but rude)]] out of it...

[[WMG: Other Kens who escaped Barbie-land included...]]
** Creator/WilliamShatner
** Creator/HarrisonFord
** Creator/BillyDeeWilliams
** Creator/LiamNeeson
** Creator/EwanMcGregor
** Creator/SamuelLJackson
** Creator/AdamWest
** Creator/ChristopherReeve
** Creator/MichaelKeaton
** Creator/ValKilmer
** Creator/GeorgeClooney
** Creator/SylvesterStallone
** Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger
** Creator/TomCruise
** Creator/ChrisEvans
** Creator/ChrisHemsworth
** Creator/ChrisPratt
** Creator/ChrisPine
** Creator/RobertDowneyJr
** Creator/ChristianBale
** Creator/BenAffleck
** Creator/BrandonRouth
** Creator/HenryCavill
** Creator/MarkWahlberg
** Creator/OrlandoBloom

[[WMG: Other Allans who escaped Barbie-land included...]]
** Creator/LeonardNimoy
** Creator/MarkHamill
** Creator/JeffGoldblum
** Creator/HaydenChristensen
** Creator/BurtWard
** Creator/ChrisODonnell
** Creator/MichaelJFox
** Creator/TomHanks
** Creator/TobeyMaguire
** Creator/AndrewGarfield
** Creator/TomHolland
** Creator/DonaldGlover
** Creator/PaulRudd
** Creator/TomHiddleston
** Creator/AdamDriver
** Creator/ZacharyLevi
** Creator/ZacharyQuinto
** Creator/EthanPeck
** Creator/SeanAstin

* Or an actor from that film will best cast in it.

* In addition to both being Warner Bros. products, they both seem to follow roughly the same rules for how their LivingToys function. They occupy a separate "pocket universe" where they live independent lives, but can be affected by those who play with them.
** Also Will Ferrel plays the same character, just at work vs at home.

[[WMG:A sequel could potentially explore Stereotypical Ken's life in Barbieland once that Stereotypical Barbie is gone]]

[[folderPre-release theories]]

!Pre-release theories.

!Post-release theories.

* Confirmed. [[https://youtu.be/Y2GZ0z-DleA/ A TV spot]] reveals that Barbies in Barbie Land are played with by multiple children in the real world. [[spoiler: Also, Sasha, the daughter of America Ferrera's character Gloria, is actually the owner of Margot Robbie's Barbie.]]
** [[spoiler: Jossed, sort of, Barbies are influenced by people playing with them IRL but Sasha hasn't played her Barbies in years because she considers them problematic and regressive. Gloria has lately started playing with them as escapism from the mundane grind of life and brought the problems of depression, anxiety, existential dread, feelings of inadequacy, etc. to the Barbie world.]]

The trailers and ads don’t even remotely hide that he and the other Kens basically got a whole “living accessories to their Barbies” thing going on AND that this is clearly weighing down on him. Then of course there’s [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1IgAEejvqM this whole song]] where he’s seen leading a charge of Kens to battle in the Barbie world in some kinda evil fur-lined wrestler coat garb. I think that Ken will genuinely start as a good guy and ally to Barbie, but as the movie goes on and he deals with more abuse as well as seeing how men and women are more equalized in the real world, he eventually snaps and ditches Barbie to go back to Barbieland to lead a Ken Rebellion. This would force Barbie to have to try and find her way back home and save it and when confronting Ken, the breakdown in the song would happen and Barbie would have to try and talk him down similar to how Emmet talked Lord Business down in the Lego Movie.
* Ken might have an encounter in the real world with an action figure (possibly [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse He-Man]] in a cross-promotional ShoutOut) and decide that's what he wants to be rather than an accessory.
* [[spoiler: Confirmed. While visiting the real world, Ken observes the flipped gender roles and more-stereotypical behaviors of men such as working out, riding horses, getting served beer by women in short dresses, and the like. He starts reading about patriarchy and teaches it to the other Kens, transforming Barbie Land to NoWomansLand amid Barbie's absence.]]

* [[spoiler: Confirmed. If the Kens discovering real-life sexism and then turning Barbieland into a chauvinist paradise where the Barbies are brainwashed into being subservient to them isn’t dark, nothing is.]]

** [[spoiler: All jossed. There are no references to any of the animated Barbie movies.]]

** [[spoiler: Almost. There's a wheelchair-using character early in the film, but she's a Barbie instead of Becky.]]

* Maybe: Magic Earring Ken [[spoiler: is a member of Weird Barbie’s rebellion against the Kendom, next to Sugar Daddy Ken. Some fans assume they are a couple.]]

* [[spoiler: Jossed. He is just like Dua Lipa's mermaid Barbie; they only appear briefly to greet the other Barbies and Kens.]]

* Jossed. [[spoiler: Barbie meets the ghost of Ruth Handler and takes the name Barbara Handler after becoming human, but the actual Barbara is neither seen nor referenced]].

* [[spoiler: Jossed. The teenage girls are just Gloria's daughter Sasha and her friends, but this might be a reference to Bratz since one of their more popular dolls is named Sasha.]]

* [[spoiler: Confirmed. Although all the Kens practically became secondary antagonists when Barbie Land becomes Kendom.]]

* There was a remix of the song in the last trailer, so it’s possible.
* [[spoiler:Confirmed with Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice's remix. It plays during the credits.]]

* [[spoiler: Jossed.]]

{{WMG: Slightly escalating from the above, Barbieland as seen in this movie is based on the Barbie play of individuals hired to work at Mattel.]]