#MAZE RUNNER 2 MOVIE#

#MAZE RUNNER 2 MOVIE#

But in both the book and the movie he has a number of leadership skills that set him apart: His courage, his ability to think under pressure, his knack for giving inspiring speeches at opportune times. In fact, in The Scorch Trials book (written by James Dashner), the boy has been given a neck tattoo that singles him out for slaughter. Thomas and his cadre, after all, are precious vessels, perhaps holding the secret to saving all of mankind. And, of course, there’s always WCKD-chasing, pursuing, hunting. Outside WCKD’s fabricated confines, there’s only a shattered wasteland, filled with sand and heat and inexplicable lightning storms … and Cranks. Only this time there’s no maze to run, no spiders to kill. So Thomas gathers a few old friends and a couple of new ones, and they escape-again. Especially if you happen to be, y’know, a teen and all. Isn’t the survival of the human race worth turning a few teens into jerky? WCKD wants to find a cure, and they discovered that the younger you are, the more likely you are to be immune to the Flare, and thus potentially have a vaccine locked away in your colorful corpuscles. The world outside has seen better days, and most of humanity has succumbed to something called the Flare-a disease that turns folks into crazed, zombie-like beings known as Cranks. (And no, I don’t quite know why they’re leaking blue, either.) Frypan, meet fire. Whew!Īlas, the soldiers turn out to be pretty WCKD themselves, as evidenced from the bevy of comatose teens locked away in a back room, plastic tubes draining them of blue fluid until they’re dead. And after the teens made their escape, some soldiers swooped in and rescued them from the dastardly scientists of WCKD. When last we saw Thomas, he was dodging cyborg spiders, outwitting nefarious scientists and flirting with that ugly wallflower called Death.īut the Maze finally bid Thomas and his pals adieu without so much as a parting gift.

Maze runner 2