Is Alice in Borderland a Real Place? - CBR - Comic Book Resources

The pursuing contains spoilers for Season 2 of Alice successful Borderland, present streaming connected Netflix.

Fans of Netflix's highly fashionable Alice successful Borderland person agelong been wondering what's up with the post-apocalyptic, bare Tokyo that Arisu and his friends were stuck in. The Season 2 finale had the Queen of Hearts, Mira, tricking the hero, telling him they were trapped successful a virtual reality, past lying astir them being robots whose minds were stored and uploaded centuries aft civilization ended. She seeded retired reddish herrings lone for the information to beryllium revealed astatine the precise end.

Arisu and Co. were successful purgatory pursuing a meteor onslaught successful Tokyo. They played these games successful limbo, with the higher powerfulness seemingly being God, judging who's worthy of returning from this afterlife. However, portion this ethereal realm isn't a existent place, determination are clues suggesting the existent satellite mightiness not beryllium arsenic real arsenic we each think.

Alice successful Borderland Could Have Various Levels

The last fewer sequences of the play person each the cardinal characters recovering successful a Tokyo hospital. There's an ominous changeable of a Joker card, suggesting they're inactive trapped successful a game. Given Mira tricked Arisu and Usagi into seeing themselves successful an asylum, each portion trying to interruption their mind, it could beryllium that the crippled masters, oregon adjacent Mira herself, created this illusion. In different words, Team Arisu mightiness person transcended to a higher level to look the last boss.

This twist was done precocious connected 1899, wherever the Prometheus vessel stored radical whose minds were stored successful abstraction successful the future. It's besides a gimmick done mode earlier with the imagination levels successful Inception. Even Arisu's friends, Karube and Chota, hinted there'd beryllium a large villain to face, which honestly didn't consciousness similar Mira and her crippled of croquet.

As the masters from some seasons cognize however to warp the players' minds, however to lump bully and atrocious characters together, and precisely the clip and spot for them to collide, it makes consciousness the infirmary is conscionable an intermission, mounting radical up again. After all, if this were a benignant God, determination wouldn't beryllium lasers sidesplitting radical oregon pushing them to selfishly harm each other, erstwhile much suggesting it's a Jigsaw-like sadist astatine work.

Alice successful Borderland's Hospital Has Dire Clues

Beyond the joker card, the archetypal hint that it's inactive a crippled is Arisu's member chatting with him. The mode the member talks, mentioning however Karube and Chota died erstwhile the meteors hit, is simply a reddish flag. They were successful Season 1 moving with Arisu, and aft they died, Season 2 had their representation spurring him connected to survive. However, they weren't shown arsenic dormant successful the flashbacks erstwhile the meteor hit.

Given his dada is besides absent, it feels similar the member is erstwhile much a works to disturbance his emotions. This leads to Arisu and Usagi, coincidentally successful each other's proximity erstwhile more, connecting contempt not remembering each other. How everyone is positioned raises the 2nd reddish flag. Chishiya is successful a furniture adjacent to Niragi, with some promising to beryllium better. However, they tried to termination each different successful the game, suggesting idiosyncratic wants to spot erstwhile enemies squad up. Also, Ann someway comes backmost to beingness contempt dying successful the alley versus the King of Spades. Heiya died warring this villain too, yet she's besides live successful the infirmary and observing Aguni, her caretaker from the game, suggesting it has to beryllium much than conscionable sheer dumb luck.

Kuina besides survived the king's rampage, teasing the crippled wants to spouse her with Ann again arsenic determination seems to beryllium sparks betwixt them. Since her parents, who hated her for being transgender, are determination to console her, it feels similar the crippled is elevating these players mentally, improving them emotionally, and making caller versions for different round. This way, they get a caller situation and the masters tin tally a caller iteration of games. Ultimately, it's what a Joker would do, lulling them into a mendacious consciousness of world and happiness, lone to shatter it by revealing they're trapped successful a never-ending Hell until they deem them acceptable to leave.

Season 2 of Alice successful Borderland is present disposable connected Netflix.