Army of the Dead time loop theory will have you re-watching on Netflix

Ground forces of the Expressionless time loop theory will have you re-watching on Netflix

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This is your SPOILER ALERT for Zack Snyder's Army of the Expressionless ! Be warned that proceeding past hither will clue yous in on some surprising Easter eggs seen past eagle-eyed audience members.

Final week saw Zack Snyder's Army of the Expressionless hit theaters and Netflix, and it didn't take long for fans to find a behemothic time-travel theory to dig into. And it may hateful big things for Army of Thieves, the upcoming Army of the Dead prequel. We intermission it all down below, like Vanderohe cut through a horde of undead.

Army of the Dead time loop theory — what is information technology?

The Army of the Dead "time loop" theory starts with a moment in Bly Tanaka's casino (around mid-style through the movie), where Dieter (played by Matthias Schweighöfer) spies a bunch of expressionless bodies that look but like the gang themselves.

Vanderohe (played by Omari Hardwick) also observes the bodies, and says wonders aloud if they are "another team… or is information technology us?" And then he keeps talking, giving conspiracy-minded fans reason to act like Charlie Day at the cork lath in It'due south Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead — (Image credit: Clay Enos/Netflix)

Vanderohe continues, hypothesizing if this bunch of corpses is "in another timeline and nosotros're caught in some infinite loop of fighting and dying and fighting and dying." Heavy, right? When you're fighting off the undead for a big stack of cash, this is the kind of thing that could proceed you upward at dark.

Of class, Vanderohe just won't shut up. He and then compares Bly Tanaka to something far grander than only the guy who gave them a mission. "The puppet-master, the devil, God," he murmurs, "Nosotros're … simply pawns in some in some perverse play where we're destined to echo our failures. Finally, in some heed-bending, ironic reveal — information technology all begins again."

Ground forces of the Dead time loop theory explained

And the cyberspace agrees. Twitter user @SamParkerMetal (per GamesRadar) produced a storm of tweets highlighting minute similarities seen in the film. And they start with the bodies: it turns out both one of the corpses Dieter saw has the aforementioned central necklace that Maria is wearing.

Then there'southward the guns in the vault. Somehow, there are 3 AKs identical to Guzman'southward already in the vault. You lot tin can see some of them in the lesser right corner of this printing photo:

The vault is supposed to have been sealed shut for years, so how could those guns have already been in in that location? Is this their fourth effort? Tweeter @LuchaSpursLucha wonders how Chambers was so skilful at killing the undead when she said she's never done something like this before.

Does the Regular army of the Dead heist e'er become right?

Dieter provides us with a montage of the picture show's events early, where everything goes well. Twitter user @HailMother hypothesizes that in that location'south some "what if?" state of affairs happening here, because Mikey'south friend is in Dieter's vision, but non in the grouping's actual run.

Dieter's montage has a different vault, likewise, for what it's worth.

Zack Snyder practically confirmed Army of the Dead loop theory

When The Film Junkee's Vodka Stream asked Snyder about Tanaka commissioning previous attempts to get into the vault, he confirmed that to be truthful.

It's what he said next that has people buzzing. "I will also say that… there's a chance – and I'm non saying this is 100% true, and in some ways it'due south non – simply the group at the table, I mean, information technology's pretty subtle, but that's them also at the tabular array as well as... they get farther every fourth dimension ... perchance... Is this the time they fabricated it all the way to the money?" So Snyder smiled, before promising that nosotros won't discover out this game all took place in a video game.

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