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* Why did the scientists do so many unrelated experiments on Batty? Aside from being horribly unethical, it's just bad science. Have they never heard of confounding variables?
** It's to play up on the whole [[Humans Are
** In fairness, all we know of the experiments (the lyrics of the "Batty Rap") are coming through a ''seriously'' [[Unreliable Narrator]]. The whole experience was clearly traumatic, but who knows exactly what was going on when not viewed through Batty's eyes?
** Animal testing still goes on, and it's horrible. Look it up on the Internet sometime - makeup testing is particuarly common. It depends on where you are whether it's legal or not - but I assumed that while Batty was clearly experimented on, that doesn't mean all he related happened to him - perhaps he witnessed other animals being tested on too. Which would make it worse to escape but not get anybody else out with him.
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* And if Hexxus ''eats'' pollution, why exactly is he a force for destruction, anyway?
** He's a force for the destruction of nature. Doing so would pave the way for decadent civilization, with its factories and cars and industry, and with all that, ''gallons'' of pollution for him to gobble up.
*** Right, which means he [[Unfortunate Implications|eats whatever pollution the industrialized area creates, thus resulting in minimal or no pollution]], thus making the whole story utterly pointless. What a handy way to [[Broken Aesop|"go green"]]
** It's implied that Hexxus doesn't "eat" the pollution as much as he ''assimilates'' it. When he consumes the Leveler's exhaust, he doesn't destroy it, he bulges and grows with it. What the Magi and her folk are trying to do is keep him from reaching a [[A God Am I|"God" level]] amount of pollution. After that, he'd probably be able to blanket large areas, choke wildlife with poisonous gas and taint rain water to the point of 1-PH Acidity. More or less allow the [[Villain Song|Toxic Love song]] to come to a dark and grimy fruition.
** I always felt like he was like [[Godzilla|Hedorah]], he consumes pollution but it just makes him more deadly and is ultimately much worse than the pollution itself.
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* What, so trees experience pain? Wow, those beavers and termites and woodworms are complete and utter BASTARDS.
** The movie probably operates under the logic that only humans are not part of nature, so only humans can do things wrong. Beavers and termites and all those things are "natural" so the things they do don't count.
*** [[Humans Are
** But the thing is is that trees don't feel pain in the first place due to lacking a nervous system, so there is no way for beavers or termites to hurt them. If I had to guess why Zack hurt the tree, I would say it's magic. The film does have a theme of human technology being bad and nature being good, and pretty much attributes both to magic. So using an "unnatural" metal knife on the "natural" tree is what caused the tree to hurt in the first place. If this is the case, beavers and termites wouldn't count.
*** Beavers and Termites are fulfilling the niche they carved (so to speak) for themselves in their ecosystems long ago. Humans are consuming for the sake of consuming.
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*** Because there aren't any rain forests in America?
**** Well, there's the Great Pacific Northwest, but it's cold and mostly filled with Neo-Nazis instead of Fairies.
*** No, most of the Neo-Nazis are in northern Idaho, not the PNW proper. My guess would be because not only is it a completely different type of rainforest, but most of the Olympic Peninsula's forests are on national park land and thus safe from logging. Also, it would be a lot harder for fairies living in any of that forest to not know humans actually
** The humans have Australian accents in the sequel. Including Zack's skinny co-worker who gets a short cameo.
* When Crysta walks upside down, why doesn't her skirt go fall down?
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