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== [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] does ''not'' write the [[John Carter of Mars|Barsoom stories]] in the movieverse. ==
The first few Barsoom books had the [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]] where Burroughs was just publishing the memoirs of his uncle (who actually gave permission). Eventually the pretense was dropped. John Carter's body was said to lie dormant in a vault as his consciousness was in a duplicate body hopping around on Mars.
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== The Therns aren't the only offworlders on Barsoom ==
The Black Martians, or First Born, aren't native to the red planet either in movie-verse. It's the only way their dynamic from the novels makes sense, as the movie Therns are so advanced that it's doubtful a native Barsoomian species could raid and manipulate them for centuries. Likely they've been playing out the same basic setup as depicted in ''The Gods of Mars'' across worlds for untold milennia, with Matai Shang not mentioning them in the movie because he doesn't want to admit weakness or fallibility in his people to either Sab Than or Carter- much less that they have ''enemies''.
This also frees up the designers to remove some of the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of having a major group of villains be black-skinned [[Human Aliens]] by making them obviously nonhuman in appearance (the depiction of Issus- herself a First Born- in the Thark temple is just a
== John Carter is an Earth-born Thern ==
In the original novels, John Carter is an immortal of uncertain age, with no explanation. In the movie, there are hints that such may be the case, albeit nothing explicit. He's also the only person in the film who ever makes use of Thern technology stolen from one, as opposed to given. And the Therns show specific interest in him, despite knowing well that Earth exists and has people on it. So, my theory: John Carter is actually a Thern ( or perhaps part-Thern ), probably the result of a rogue Thern operative on Earth some time in the past. He doesn't know this, but Matai Shang knows or suspects this, and it is for this reason that he is allowed to live.
* Part Thern makes the most sense (he has hair, after all), but since the film explained one of the big mysteries about Carter (how he gets to Mars) it certainly seems likely that they'd explore the other (his longevity). Alternately...
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They're the descendants of the White Martians who once ruled Barsoom, just like in the books. Their ridiculously advanced technology was either based on something their ancestors had but the Red and Green Martians have lost or something they invented since. Matai Shang was lying about their being offworld immortals purely to mess with Carter's head and try to make him despair. They ''are'' planning on moving to Earth (and are already scouting it out) because Barsoom is dying, but it'll be their first actual planet-hop.
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