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* The prawn at the end that most assume was Wikus was also green. Which might explain why those prawns saved him, they recognized him as one of their leader caste.
* This makes an awful lot of sense if you consider that Christopher's friend was yellow, a good fighter, very strong and really fast, which could signal he was his royal guard.
* This troper believes that greens are Leaders, yellows are Guards, reds are Soldiers, and the rest of the colors (browns, blues and blacks) are Workers. Think about it; greens (Christopher, Oliver and Wikus) are smarter than the others, the only yellow with characterization (Paul) dies protecting a green, the prawn on 'warning sign' in the eviction montage has a red face painted on it, ...
== Prawn society is much more complex and diverse than it looks ==
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== Christopher and his son are transformed humans ==
Christopher and his son are green, just like Wikus was after his transformation. Perhaps he and his son came into contact with the fuel and became aliens. He soon began thinking of himself as part of the aliens, learning about their culture and technology and began planning to rescue "his people." This explains why he and his son are the only aliens that wear clothes, understand the human legal system, and why his son doesn't know how many moons are on his home planet. As for the "cure" for the fuel, Christopher might have been lying just to get Wikus to get him into the MNU facility and get the fuel.
* Several of the other prawns in the film wear clothing, so it's hardly unique. His greater understanding of human rules could just be due to his greater intelligence and interest driving him to learn about them. And as for his son, well, the prawns had been on Earth for more then 20 years by that point. Chances are his son had been born on Earth.
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== The reason for the Prawn's social problems aren't based on any caste system, but are economic in origin ==
It fits the whole racism allegory better - the reason the other Prawns seem to be so listless is due to their new environment. They're hungry, they're lost, frightened, homeless, malnourished, and living on a planet where they're treated like dirt - dirt that you can eat to gain magical powers. They have no educational or autonomous governmental infrastructure. The whole 'they are unambitious and beaten-down because they're part of the worker caste' is just a canard to put a stop to humanity's guilt over the whole situation. Christopher and his son were just geniuses, not on a higher caste level, but just on the good side of the bell curve.
* Part of this depends on how long a prawn lifespan is, though.
* Note that this theory is ''exactly the same'' as what happens to humans in the same conditions. This movie is a [[Up to Eleven|even more depressing]] when you look at it as the [[Anvilicious]] allegory for racism/xenophobia/prejudice in general that it is, and realise that it's [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|absolutely spot on]].
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*** For the time being... (But yeah, I forgot about that.)
*** Well seeing how the whole thing is based on apartheid with an anti-apartheid message at that, D10 becoming a death camp would make it a [[Broken Aesop]], so the sequel would be about humans and prawns putting their past behind and working together.
**** True, but we could get a sequel along the lines of ''[[Inglourious Basterds|Inglourious Prawns]]'' if Christopher comes back to a Holocaust parallel. Just sayin'...
***** And I figured the sequel would be more like ''[[Independence Day]]'', but the aliens have firewalls.
****** Which both would be massive [[Disproportionate Retribution]] because its only MNU fualt, and again, a [[Broken Aesop]].
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== The film is set in the Warhammer 40,000 Universe. ==
Some time during the 41st Millenium, a Tau exploration ship gets sucked into a warp storm and teleported millions of years back in time. The warp jump kills the ship's systems, and the physically weak Tau soon perish, although some of their technology (battlesuits, plasma weapons) remains intact. The Kroot, after eating Earth insects, become the 'prawn'. The Nigerian gangs have seen the kroot's transformation through eating, and attempt to replicate it. Christopher is a Shaper, and if he successfully returns to the 41st millenium will bring the might of the Tau Empire down on Earth.
This will lead to Earth becoming part of the Tau Empire, causing a rebellion led by a man known as 'the Emperor'. How's that for a WMG?
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== The prawns are the [[Megas XLR|Glorft]]. ==
When word of their treatment reaches back to the prawn homeworld, their military forces arrive on earth and engage in a fullscale assault, eventually conquering the planet by the early third millennial. The remaining human army steal a prototype prawn mecha and reprogram it to allow them to access it, then plan to send it back in time to the turning point of the war, however a malfunction sends it further back than intended.
== The prawns are a collective of many different species, all of whome were affected by that fuel. And their form is best suited for interstellar travel. ==
* There were several different colors of them. It's also implied they are not a natural species, given what Wilkus goes through. It's possible that they are an empire or federation of sorts, and the insect form is simply best suited to alien environments. The prawns are very strong and acrobatic, their hardened skin supplies a natural armor of sorts, and those feline eyes are probably suits for darkness. Christopher said there's technology that could change Wilkus back. Why would they have that unless such transformations occur on a regular basis? My guess is they get turned into the prawn form when they go abroad, and when it's time to come home, they are changed back into whatever they were beforehand.
** Or they could be into body art and [[Amazing Technicolor Population|consistently paint themselves]].
** No, im sure the chitin coloration is either a caste thing or simply ethnic (much like the variations in human appearance).
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** Offense taken. Why would they come to South Africa, anyway, if that were the case? You know, ... one of the most advanced countries in Africa (along with others like Nigeria, ironically)? And in Johannesburg, of all cities? I know what foreigners think of the place, but around Jo'burg and Pretoria side, we're about at the same level of development as Louisiana and Mississippi. Which, I'll grant you, isn't much, but it's not exactly an anarchistic hell-hole.
*** Well, excuse me, but that's the way it was portrayed.
*** Dude, television ''lies''.
** To round off the argument here, I'm fairly sure experts in the movie theorize that Africa has a climate that makes the most sense to them (although I know that South Africa's pretty varied geographically, it's odd that they would choose a relatively arid region otherwise).
That's why they played the "stranded ship without any command and stuffed with scared, seek, aimless drones" card! To shake off suspisions and make people neglect them (they are useless, near-animalistic and generally dissapointing), to make an excuse for moving them to the ground (they are sick, hungry and helpless), to buy them time for collecting intelligence (they have no way of leaving). This way they wouldn't need to drop the landing troops during the actual invasion. The landing troops are already there! Adapted to the enviroment, familiar with the combat potential of the enemy, waitng for the signal to become the "fifth column". Oh boy, I just hope they have some Nukes armed and aimed at the D10.
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== The Prawns eat cat food for the Taurine. ==
Taurine is either addictive to them or they require a diet high in it. Cats [[wikipedia:Taurine#Taurine and cats|can't create Taurine and need larger-than-normal amounts of it in their diet]], so in the absence of energy drinks or the biological knowledge to extract it from animals, cat food it the best source.
* This troper just imagined the promo spot for new "Powerbolt" soda, featuring a Nike-clad prawn leaping in slow-motion from the half-court line to slam-dunk a basketball and the caption: <code>\' .; ',. '\ /|' |/" . /,. .' "|</code>
== Christopher lied to Wikus about the possibility of reversing his transformation. ==
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== Exposure to gasoline would turn prawns into humans. ==
It's not that the alien fuel has random unusual transformative properties. That's just how things work in the ''District 9'' universe.
== Cat food has no special effects on alien biology. ==
They eat it because they're destitute and it's pretty much the only thing the humans are willing to give them (or sell them at an astronomical markup.) The idea that it does something for them is a rationalization conceived by the humans doing the selling, to justify their actions.
* No, they're seen eating other things, mostly cow heads, and some references to eating tires from cars.
** Doesn't mean that they have the required nutrients. There are numerous cases of pregnant women eating dirt (any other usual things) due to having nutrient deficient diets. Who's to say chewing on tires isn't the same equivalent or just mindless crap made up by the news.
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* Except that actual Mayans say there's no "prophecy", the end of one calendar just triggers a rollover into the next one's year-zero.
* And the movie is set in 2002. The aliens landed in 1982 and have been around for about two decades when the audience meets Wickus.
* 2010, explicitly stated. The narration as the ship leaves states "The ship is moving for the first time in 28 years". A three year return would be 2013.
== The small pit-fighting alien bugs are newborn Prawns. ==
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* This would make sense as the prawns don't seem to have genders.
** If this were so, Christopher's son would not have said "Where's your friend?" but the far more poignant "Where's Mom?"
** Or, Christopher carried Oliver, but Paul [[Disappeared Dad|did a disappearing act]] when he found out. Several years later, he came back and asked if he could be part of his son's life again. Christopher being [[Dogged Nice Guy|Christopher]], let him in for a trial period, in which he helped with the fuel collection and took the risk of having the lab in his home. Then the MNU showed up with an eviction noticed and it [[It Got Worse|all went wrong]].
* Could be that they were a couple, just not for that long. This troper referred to her mum's boyfriend as 'her friend' until he'd been around long enough to become a permanent fixture. And before someone says that they'd been working together for 20 years, Paul shows signs of being new at what they're doing. So Paul helping out is kinda like him taking an interest in his partner's hobby, but sucking at it.
== The ship came to Africa deliberately to find people to convert into Prawns. ==
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== [[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It|James Cameron's]] ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'' is an [[Alternate History|Alternate Future]] of ''[[District 9]]''. ==
Note: Not just an expanded version of the "District 9 is a prequel of Avatar" guess above.
In the ''District 9'' timeline, the [[All There in the Manual|poleepkwa]]/[[Fantastic Slur|prawns]]/[[Ender's Game|formica]] stay in their ship, and the government has enough time to organize a group and resources to "[[Animal Testing|stu]][[A Nazi by Any Other Name|dy]]" them before sticking a can opener in the ship. In the ''Avatar'' timeline, they try to leave the ship for help as soon as they arrive, the humans [[Unnecessary Roughness|neutralize]] them, find a couple of inhabited planets on the charts, and head for the nearest one. When they get there (or partway there), they find that the [[Phlebotinum|phluid]] couldn't get them back home, and only barely got them to Pandora. They find that the ships recognize the local [[Green Rocks]] that were kicked up by the crash as an alternative fuel source, head back to Earth at a slowed rate, then return once they've adapted the technology to run more efficiently on Unobtanium (still not as quick or efficient as the fluid, though) and drill for more [[Unobtanium|space-oil]]. The humans [[Humans Are Bastards|don't care who they harm]] because they learned back in the 1980s that [[Broken Aesop|killing xenospecies for their resources results in consequence-free profit]]. Unfortunately for the Earth-Pandoran press, [[Can't Argue with Elves|the Na'vi]] were [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?|too pretty]] to pin as a demonic race of human-eating, [[
== The Prawns are related , but not closely, to [[Alien (franchise)|Xenomorphs.]] ==
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This would explain why their weapons are designed only to work for their own species.
== Poleepkwan scientists are... ==
* [[Crazy Prepared]].
* [[Author Appeal|In love with really big guns]].
* Mentally hardwired to provide [[No Kill Like Overkill|overkill]].
* Really big drama-queens who over-react, ''a lot''.
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