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- Pluto’s death could count, considering he never actually does anything wrong in the movie, and him trying to blow up the Wilsons' car could be due to Red manipulating a child into actions he doesn’t understand. He just liked fire and seemed to want to play with Jason. Not to mention that he burns to death, which is a horrible way to go for anyone, let alone a child.
- The whole reveal of Red being the real Adelaide and that the woman we have followed for the whole movie stole her life and eventually kills her.
- In relation to that, it's shown that both aren't inherently good or evil. Tethered!Adelaide just wanted a normal life outside the facility and Red!Adelaide just wanted her life back after it had been stolen. Neither's actions are particularly sympathetic, but in the end they're both pawns in a horrific government scheme.
- Also related: it's mentioned that this is the first time they've come to the beach house since Adelaide's mother died. The original Adelaide will never see her mother again. The last thing she said to her was that she didn't need to go to the bathroom. And to compound all that, she probably knew, because of her mother's Tethered (the "real" version dying doesn't insta-kill a Tethered, but if Adelaide's mother died of old age her Tethered would likely do the same, or mimic symptoms if she was sick).
- How Red takes her time in her entrance to look around the beach house before stopping at the fireplace to observe a drawing that might be her mother hanging above it. If the beach house was her childhood vacation home, then it makes since why she took her time. She even states outright before her final fight to have missed her family and wondered how things would have been different if Adelaide chose not to attack her and came along to meet her parents peacefully. She's sure her parents would have chosen to raise them both.
- Adelaide’s mother’s distress over her daughter not being normal after the night at the fair.
- Even though they're jerkasses to the Wilsons, there's the deaths of the Tylers at the hands of their doppelgangers. Kitty is the last to go, having witnessed the murders of her daughters and husband. She even tries crawling towards her already-dead husband. Despite their arguing and strained relationship, she truly did love him.
- "Fuck the Police" can provide a short chuckle, but it's shortly followed by Kitty being horribly murdered. The same goes for Tex pretending to offer Kitty a helping hand, which a little funny, but at the same time, can also feel very mean-spirited given the situation.
- Kitty’s Tethered particularly shows just how tragic the lot of them are, relishing in the little luxuries that are in the house. But her breakdown suggests she realizes that the original’s life of material wealth could never be hers.
- Soon she hears her mate being killed, and she breaks down crying.
- Red's tale becomes this along with Nightmare Fuel when you realize what she had to go through. She has no love for her family, calling Abraham a brute and Umbrae a monster, and this makes sense with what's been noted about the possibility of her relationship with Abraham as noted in the Fridge Horror and Nightmare Fuel section. She's even crying as she compares how Adelaide's happy life made hers a living hell, thanks to the Tethered Psychic Link with their real selves.
- Doubling with Nightmare Fuel, Red states that Adelaide had to have a C-section to give birth to Jason. Red didn't have that liberty, and had to mutilate her body to give birth to Pluto.
- Everything about the Tethered. They were created by the government, but abandoned as a failed experiment. They've been left underground for so long that they've gone insane, and for years were forced to play out their counterparts' lives without ever so much as seeing the sun and with only rabbits to eat. The reveal that Adelaide was actually Red and what happened to her shows that they are capable of feeling emotion and having normal lives, but they were never given the chance.
- Adelaide's life as a Tethered, prior to her escape, is a sad one. While Red had loving if troubled parents, Adelaide has neither. Her father eerily presents her with a t-shirt whilst sporting what's supposed to be a smile, but instead looks like a pained grimace, and as soon as she snatches her "prize" away, her father drops the smile and walks off. Her mother is shown to be rigid, repeatedly glaring resentfully at Adelaide, in a reflection of how Red would come to view her own family.
- Umbrae's death is rather sad. She's impaled on a tree when Adelaide reaches her, and still swipes at her, giggling the entire time, but as she grows weaker as she dies, Adelaide shushes her reassuringly and Umbrae finally loses her constant, unsettling smile. Given Red calls Umbrae "a monster", Adelaide comforting her moments before her death is probably the only maternal affection she's ever received in her life.
- To make matters worse, in her final few moments, Umbrae's laughs turn into quiet sobs. After everything, it's hard to remember that she was still a teenage girl that had to go through a living hell.
- While it is unknown if they are forced to feel the opposite of their counterpart, this does get sadder if you think about it like this. Yes, it's sad what happened to Red and the
Unfortunate Implications of her and Abraham's children's births (as well what probably happened since Jason was born from a C-section). But it's even sadder to think that Red still didn't love her children (unwanted or not), and probably acted very emotionally abusive to them.- If this is true, then that means that just as Adelaide grew to blend into humanity, Red also grew to become a Tethered, even if she didn't know it or want to.
- Abraham's reaction to Red coldly saying "[You] met a handsome prince, but at that same time, [I] met Abraham" — he actually looks saddened by it.
- The amicable way Red throws her arm around Adelaide as she is impaled on Adelaide's poker, as though consoling her for what she's done — perhaps suggesting that even to the bitter end, she believed in the dream of joining Adelaide as her 'sister'.
- In a deleted scene on DVD, while Zora is walking Gabe to the ambulance on the boardwalk, they talk about what the future might hold. Gabe tries to reassure Zora, saying things might be a little different now that the Tethered are above ground. Zora tearfully says she doesn’t want things to be different at all, followed by Gabe hugging her, forever cementing the fact that they might have to live their lives fighting off the Tethered they may come across from now on.
