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- There's basically no reason given why being murdered should send Capt. Logan, Billie, Thea, Kelly, Bill, Ted, and the entire band directly to Hell.
- Even Captain Logan. Yeah he's strict and threatens to send Ted to military school, but look at it from his perspective. His son wastes all his time on his garage band despite neither member being able to play a note, and almost flunking out of school in the process (in the first movie, before Rufus shows up with the rescued princesses, even Ted's worked it out that they've been going about it all wrong). Ted's father relented on sending him to military school when he managed to pass, and that's after catching his son helping a bunch of people escape the police lock-up. Clearly Captain Logan's an extremely patient man who's just had it up to here with Ted being a bonehead slacker his whole entire life.
- True. In the second film, Bill and Ted ended up in Hell because Missy sent them there thinking they were evil spirits. However, if you really want to hand wave it, it could be possible that the laser weapon used by Dennis may have been accidentally designed to send people to Hell upon their demise (which explains how Dennis knows where Billy and Thea were sent to Hell and not Heaven), which was a problem that wasn't fixed by those in the future due to the limited time they had to create Dennis for his mission. But, if that seems too much of a stretch, then it's best not to think about it, as the films have never had solid answers for everything. I mean, after all, when Ted's father is lasered, both him and the SWAT van behind him got sent to Hell, as well as Dennis after he shot himself (which Dennis being in Hell is lampshaded, so the whole situation of everyone being in Hell could be lampshaded).
- Or perhaps since the people in the future can travel through time and space, they've discovered Heaven and Hell as realms and are able to travel to/from them. It would explain how Kelly is able to talk to her mother from Hell. Maybe the weapon isn't meant to kill but simply transport people and objects to Hell; which effectively accomplishes the same goal. That would explain how the SWAT van, smartphones and other personal objects end up there. They just use Death to help them leave as he had the ability to get people out and The Great Leader either couldn't, or wouldn't.
- It would also explain how, despite getting killed in different time periods, they end up together in Hell a short time apart. The same robot shot them with the same weapon mere hours or minutes apart. The weapon might actually be synced to San Dimas time as the watch is.
- Well, time was unraveling at that point.
- The robot outright says "I sent them to hell", not "I killed them", obviously the ray gun was design to send people to that specific location which is probably considered Another Dimension in the future.
- One of the visual gags was Jesus getting yoinked from the Last Supper and yeeted through time. If He is never sacrificed on the cross for the sins of the repentant, nobody who dies gets to go to Heaven no matter how good they were.
- Didn't Bill & Ted already achieve world peace at the end of Bogus Journey with "God Gave Rock & Roll to You?" All the newspapers seemed to imply it only took them a few years.
- More like a few decades since getting to Mars is still in the planning stages IRL.
- It could be explained as a retcon.
- Or the people who wrote the history books deliberately kept out the details of the singular event that unites the world to keep the real authors of the song—Billie and Thea—from becoming targets of someone like De Nomolos or the misguided actions of the Great Leader.
- It did for a little bit, it just didn't stick beyond the performance.
- The two writers behind all three films stated that the newspapers seen at the the end of Bogus Journey, are non canon, as they were not written by them.
- What does Mozart say? He's clearly excited when he first hears Hendrix playing electric guitar.
- Why does Dennis look so much like Death? Were they meant to be the same character from different timelines or something? Okay, I guess the creators might have simply wanted to reuse designs/costumes, but was there a deeper meaning to that?
- How did San Dimas Time work from the perspective of future Bill and Ted?
- Were they told that reality was going to end in 70 minutes and then it didn't?
- They were told that reality was going to end if they didn't do something to stop it- they did.
- Why were future Bill and Ted convinced that their wives were going to leave them forever and they wouldn't be able to write the song even though that very clearly did not happen in the past?
- Dennis Caleb McCoy being in Hell does make sense since he has become self aware and gained a soul as well as the ability to tell right from wrong and feel guilt... but why does the police van behind Ted's father get sent to Hell too? What could a police van have done to warrant eternal damnation? I mean...1312.
- From the pair's first trip to the near future until at least the Grohl house scene (but perhaps not the prison or the retirement home), the future Bill and Ted seem to fully remember every encounter they'd had with themselves, suggesting a Stable Time Loop. Yet later events seem to preclude this, especially once the princesses reconcile with their husbands. So what exactly did that future Bill and Ted experience between leaving Grohl's house (as the younger them) and the big 7:17 moment and its aftermath? Did they ever go to Hell or any of the rest of it? And most critically, what did they experience when the watch from Rufus reached zero, after which they apparently had normal (if sad) lives rather than the universe vanishing?
- So Bill and Ted have a restraining order against Death. Shouldn't that make them immortal? Why could they die in this movie? Death did mention being demoted, but he also seemed to be the one taking the dad to hell, so what's going on here?
- Death didn't personally take everyone to Hell—we don't see him escorting Billie and Thea's group, for example, so there do seem to be other ways to die in this universe. Another entry suggests Dennis' ray wasn't so much a "vapourization" ray as it was a "send target to Hell" ray, since he knew right away he'd sent the girls to Hell rather than Heaven.
- Why would a bunch of master musicians not even try to play off of eachother until Billie and Thea showed them how?
- Musicians are not necessarily fluent in styles outside of their own and whatever musical styles came after they died would be completely alien to them. Not sure specifically about Louie Armstrong but many jazz musicians read charts whereas many classical musicians read sheet music and prehistoric flute players probably don't have that vocabulary. It also thematically fits into the newer industry of DJing and musical curation that Billie and Thea were adept in and the theme that you don't have to be a virtuoso to change the world.
- How would Bill and Ted's daughters have known of the virtuosity of anyone in prehistoric times?
- It was a tip-off from Ling Lun. Presumably Grom is a legendary in Ling Lun's time as Ling Lun is in our's.
- Given how Bogus Journey ended, how can Ted's dad still not believe in Bill & Ted's time traveling escapades? Sure, maybe they think Death is just an albino, and that Station are just people in costumes, and that the phone booth appearing and disappearing was just stage magic. But how do they account for the lifelike androids of Bill & Ted? Or De Nomolos being able to hijack every TV transmission in the world? Or the sudden appearance of Little Bill and Little Ted?
- It is said that, a few years in the future, Bill & Ted developed English accents from living overseas. How, then, do their British girlfriends not lose their accents from living in the States for decades?
