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K'nids know how to spell more than just "SCRAM".
They're all under a curse that makes them aggressive and vermicious (or at least all the ones we see are), and "SCRAM" is a much shorter thing to spell than "PARDON ME, I DO NOT WISH TO ATTACK YOU, BUT IF YOU DO NOT LEAVE IMMEDIATELY I WILL BE FORCED TO DO SO AGAINST MY WILL." It also includes no spaces, since for a k'nid to spell a space, it would have to disappear or become invisible.- ...or stand further from its neighbor?
- Or it's just because they can only work in fives.
Wonka doesn't just use Wonka-Vite because he's already tired of life.
His claims of it being too valuable to waste on himself seem... forced. Wonka on the other hand has felt betrayal of pretty high order, so he feels Who Wants to Live Forever?. If it's really too valuable to waste on himself, it's certainly too valuable to waste negative-izing someone.- Alternatively, maybe he was already bitten by a Gnoolie during his previous journeys to Minusland, as evidenced by how he knows exactly what these creatures do even though you can't sense them until they bite you. That would explain why he looks so much younger than he actually is, and why he needs a successor so badly.
It isn't the friction that gives Vermicious Knids so much trouble—it's the Oxygen and/or Nitrogen.
If it was the thick atmosphere causing the Knids to burn up on entry that protected Earth from them, then Venus wouldn't have been a target because its atmosphere is even worse in that regard. But what Earth has that neither Venus, Mars, nor the Moon have is a lot of Oxygen and Nitrogen—Venus' and Mars' atmospheres are made mostly of Carbon Dioxide, with very little of anything else, while the Moon doesn't even have that much. Earth's atmosphere, meanwhile, is mostly Nitrogen with a not-insignificant chunk being Oxygen (roughly 78% and 21%, respectively), so it's possible that either/both of those could be reacting combustively with the Vermicious Knids, for one reason or another, as they enter the Earth's atmosphere. Setting
Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator takes place in an alternate timeline.
They have a space hotel in 1972. 'Nuff said, people.- Perhaps an alternate timeline where the Moon landing never took place? The Space Hotel is said to be the "most exciting space mission ever attempted" or some such thing... so landing on the Moon isn't good enough? Perhaps it's an alternate timeline where the resources put into landing on the Moon were instead put into a more commercially profitable venture.
The Great Glass Elevator takes place in this timeline.
The k'nids were just an excuse to quietly shut down the space hotel before they told anyone. The incompetent leaders were just a cover for the criminal masterminds who really ruled the world, and the leader of those criminal masterminds was Willy Wonka, who raised and trained the k'nids himself! k'nids are only dangerous to oompa-loompas, and we all know how much he cares about the safety of the oompa-loompas. The whole thing was a way for Wonka to get a free chocolate factory branch IN SPACE!, and since the oompa-loompas could fix the roof, he wouldn't have to pay a single cent! Crossovers
Minusland is Hueco Mundo, and the Gnulies are Hollows.
Mr. Wonka describes the Gnulies as invisible with nasty teeth. If they eat you, you get subtracted, then suffer a long and painful division, and finally, you become one of them. They sure sound like Hollows to me. It thus follows that Minusland, where the Gnulies live, is Hueco Mundo. (As an added bonus, Hollows are occasionally referred to as in Bleach as 'menos,' which is Spanish for 'minus')
- And normal spirits in Bleach are called "Pluses". So Hollows being called "Minus" is no coincidence.
The Vermicious knids are Shoggoths.
Large, dark, amorphous, violent shapeshifters, who can survive in harsh environments. Yes, the Wonkaverse has Eldritch Abominations.- Any 8-year-old unable to sleep for weeks after reading ''GGE'' could have told you that.
Willy Wonka is The Thirteenth Doctor.
- He finally fixed the TARDIS' chameleon circuit; the factory is the TARDIS, and the elevator is just really good Time Lord tech. He's retired to open a candy shoppe, and stays out of his own affairs. Jelly Baby?
- He tests the morals of the children.
- Jossed. The BBC has confirmed that the Thirteenth Doctor will be a woman.
- Doesn’t stop him from being the Doctor. Eleven retired in Victorian London. Maybe it’s just something he/she does?
