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== Marsellus Wallace's soul is in the briefcase. ==
Classic theory. The briefcase contains the soul of Marsellus Wallace. The devil tore it out of the back of his head (hence the Band-Aid). Note the password on the briefcase is 6-6-6. It glows brightly and is beautiful enough to utterly disarm nearly anyone who looks into it.
* Something to point out that when Jules and Vincent kill Brett, the same color of the glow from the briefcase flashes across the screen. Soul leaving the body?
* Marsellus Wallace sold his soul for the power to run his criminal empire. But then he meets and married Mia... and the only way he can be truly fulfilled is to have his soul back, which he will pay any price to do - hiring the Wolf can't be cheap. Funny thing about souls, they are what lets people truly feel. Marsellus Wallace is a hard, ruthless man, having sold his soul, but part of the price of regaining it is to feel all the emotions that were numbed by its loss. Marsellus, the hard, ruthless criminal kingpin, must have caused immense anguish and suffering which would be reflected in his soul, if he had one. Then he regains his soul, and the suffering begins. (At the same time he's having his soul reseated, Mia Wallace overdoses on heroin and dies - whoever Marsellus sold his soul to wants it back, and takes Mia's soul in exchange.) A soul sold to the devil is cursed by God, and brings ill fortune to whoever possesses it. Only Jules Winnfield walks away whole, a man freshly set on a path of righteousness - judged, and declared worthy of redemption.
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== The briefcase contains the cocaine Clarence stole in True Romance ==
Not all of it, naturally -- alot of it was destroyed during the shootout at the end of [[True Romance|that movie]].
== The briefcase holds the same top secret mystery as the trunk of the car in ''[[Repo Man]]''. ==
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== The briefcase contains more than a film canister's worth of marijuana. ==
[[That '70s Show]] tells us that a film canister full of marijuana glows bright green. A suitcase full probably fills the mana gauge completely and starts glowing gold.
* Alternatively, it is a Gold Herb from the [[Resident Evil]] series and the marijuana in [[That '70s Show]] was just a lesser Green Herb. Although, that suggests the herbs in Resident Evil are marijuana, which would explain a lot...
== The briefcase contains something with only sentimental value, and is an exercise in "trust" and the nature of human perception. ==
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* The Gold Watch sequence gives credence to this idea.
* But Pumpkin calls it beautiful before he knows Jules has a gun on him.
** Not the OP, but if we accept this theory, Pumpkin could simply be a man who has a genuine appreciation for the smaller things in life. He's clearly a man with at least a few hidden layers beyond what we see; for one, he's an Englishman in America, so for all that he's an impulsive criminal now he probably had ''some'' motivation beyond small-scale robberies for moving out there, which hints at possible backstories and ambitions. Furthermore, despite his criminal tendencies it's clear he deeply and genuinely loves Honey-Bunny. Like Marsellus, who finds something of value in this seemingly small object that the ruthless, cynical criminals he hires can't see, Pumpkin is also capable of seeing something of value and beauty in it. By this logic and reasoning, it adds to a note of hope and redemption to Pumpkin and Honey-Bunny's story, that like Jules they have the possibility of walking away from their grungy and seedy criminal lives and rising above it to make a more meaningful life for themselves.
== The briefcase contains Butch's gold watch. ==
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Impossible. In the music video for "Oops, I Did It Again", Britney Spears as the queen of Mars clearly collected the necklace so she could give it to her astronaut boyfriend.
* To be fair, the movie is set in the mid-eighties to early nineties, before Britney Spears was more than just a wee Mousekateer and before Mars landers were pretty common. It's possible that the necklace eventually made it's way to Spears by this time, after getting tossed around in a massive mafia war that killed or incapacitated Marsellus and got into the hands of a music exec who wanted to reward the new pretty to the first pop mogul to set up a fanbase in space: an alternate universe Britney Spears, who instead of going mad and having a massive meltdown in 2007, decided to go into astronaut training.
== Samuel L. Jackson's wallet is in the briefcase. ==
The one that says Bad Motherfucker.
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== The briefcase contains another briefcase. ==
It's just briefcases all the way down.
* "What's in the smallest breifcase?" "Porn."
** Is one of them a [[Once Upon a Time In Mexico|Clash of the Titans lunchbox?]]
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== The briefcase shows each person his own destiny. ==
Everybody who looks into it is transfixed, but has a different reaction. Vincent looks confused and almost scared because it shows how he dies. Honeybunny and Pumpkin see that they give up their lives of crime and live peacefully thanks to Jules, hence "It's beautiful." Jules never actually sees what's inside, so he's able to become a free man with no knowledge of his future.
== The briefcase contains [[Superman|Gold Kryptonite]] ==
Which is why it's so highly vauled in the criminal community.
== The briefcase contains a [[Assassin's Creed|Piece of Eden]] ==
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== The briefcase contains [[Peter Pan|Tinkerbell]]. ==
It shines brightly. It's described as beautiful. It's very lightweight (look at little effort Vincent uses turning it over when he puts it on the counter in preppy kids' apartment).
Obviously the preppy kids are Lost Boys who owe alot of money to Marsellus, but they don't have the money so they catch Tink, tie her up and put her in the briefcase, then they kick back, eat some Big Kahuna burgers and wait for the pick-up. KNOCK KNOCK.
== The briefcase is Pandora's Box ==
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* Or to The Bride, who pawned it after giving up her life as an assassin at the end of Pt. II.
** Or Budd, since he admitted to pawning his Hanso sword sometime in the past.
*** {{spoiler|Budd lied about selling the sword. The Bride found the sword in his trailer and used it in the fight against Elie Driver.}}
**** Technically Budd never said {{spoiler|that he sold the sword. He said he pawned it. Pawning and selling are two different things; pawning is more of a loan. You give them something as collateral, they give you cash. If you don't pay them back within a preset time limit, they keep the property and can sell it. Budd could have pawned it and got it back later.}} However, {{spoiler|still wouldn't fit as Budd pawned his in El Paso, Texas, not L.A.}}
**** My guess is that its Vernita Green's (Copperhead), who was A) living in Pasadena, and B) didn't have her sword, either, when the Bride came calling.
== Marsellus Wallace and his gang work for Greenpeace. ==
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== The ''"Hand Cannon"'' fired at Jules and Vincent was loaded with blanks ==
As noted elsewhere, some of the bullet holes in the wall are visible before the guy starts shooting. Set in Los Angeles, one of the roommates is an actor who took home a prop gun loaded with blanks.
== The film is actually a prequel to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, specifically The Incredible Hulk ==
After the diner scene, Jules and Ringo both leave their life of crime. They are recruited into SHEILD and the Royal Marines respectively for their skills. Ringo receives the identity of Emil Blonsky, and eventually becomes Abomination, while Jules receives the identity of Nick Fury. Oh, and the briefcase contains the Tesseract.
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