Warning: Spoilers ahead for Beetlejuice 2!Beetlejuice 2 Delores and Rory’s fate seemed to be a mystery after a sandworm ate the duo, but that’s not really the case. Before Betelgeuse is sent back to the afterlife Beetlejuice 2In the end, the “ghost with the most” helps defeat his vengeful ex-wife Delores and Lydia’s manipulator Rory. Lydia is supposed to marry Rory, who has been exploiting her and her ability to communicate with the dead since the two of them met. Although Betelgeuse helps end this possible marriage, the wedding between him and Lydia is put on hold when Delores arrives.

Beetlejuice 2In the Italian flashback, you’ll learn more about Betelgeuse’s background, including how he met, married, and killed Delores, a soul sucker leader. She is revived at the beginning of the sequel and hunts down her former lover for the duration of the film. After Astrid uses the Manual for the Recently Deceased, the teenager manages to open a trapdoor in the church’s floor, allowing the sandworm to enter the realm. Betelgeuse uses his bullfighting skills to control the sandworm before causing the creature to eat Beetlejuice 2The new characters Delores and Rory.

The Beetlejuice 2 manual revealed what happened to Delores and Rory after they were eaten by the sandworm

Rory is really dead in the Beetlejuice universe

Once Delores and Rory are eaten by the sandworm, Beetlejuice 2 does not delve deeper into her fate. Instead, Betelgeuse is relieved that he no longer has to deal with his ex, while Lydia narrowly avoids marrying someone as sleazy as Rory. However, Tim Burton’s sequel reveals what happened to Delores and Rory. As Astrid browses through the Manual for the Recently Deceased at various points in the film, she looks at the page that explains how to summon a sandworm. The book not only explains how to do what she followed for the church scene in the film, but also The manual also reveals the fate of those eaten by a sandworm:

“Proceed with caution as sandworms can be extremely dangerous to both the living and the dead. If a deceased soul is eaten by a sandworm, they remain in the afterlife. The same goes for the living; They must live in the afterlife a million tiny particles.

While one can assume that Delores would have ended up back in the afterlife, the real question pointed to Rory, who was a member of the living before his encounter with the sandworm. Be dead in the end Beetlejuice’The afterlife is one thing, but being forced to live in that realm as “a million tiny particles“is not the fate one could have predicted for a sandworm victim. Considering how terrible he was with his manipulations and scheming for Lydia and the Deetz family, it’s unlikely that anyone would be overwhelmed by guilt, even if they know his true fate.

What Rory’s Death Means His Fate in the Afterlife (& Justin Theroux’s Possible Return for Beetlejuice 3)

Rory’s arc likely ended in Beetlejuice 2

Think about how Beetlejuice 2 With questions surrounding the characters’ fates remaining unanswered, some may have been hoping that Justin Theroux’s Rory could return Beetlejuice 3 when the movie happens. However, with the clarification in the manual It seems unlikely that Rory can resurface if he’s trapped in the afterlife as tiny floating particles rather than a ghost. The franchise may have ways to bring Delia, Delores, and others back from the afterlife along with Betelgeuse, but another sequel would have to put a different twist on the Handbook rules to allow Theroux to reprise his role.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the sequel to the original Tim Burton classic starring Michael Keaton and Wynona Rider in a horror comedy where ghosts try to stop new home buyers from taking over their home. The sequel brings back Michael Keaton as a hilarious and seedy ghost with selfish intentions, now with Jenna Ortega in a new role.

Release date

September 6, 2024

Sales partner

Warner Bros. Pictures

writer

Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Mike Vukadinovich, Seth Grahame-Smith, Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson

Pour

Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Jenna Ortega, Justin Theroux, Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci, Arthur Conti, Nick Kellington, Santiago Cabrera, Burn Gorman, Danny DeVito, Sami Slimane, Amy Nuttall, Mark Heenehan, Charlie Hopkinson, Liv Spencer, Skylar Park, Matthew Lyons, Jane Leaney, David Ayres, Sophie Holland, Walles Hamonde

Duration

104 minutes

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