Alita: Battle Angel has many fans fighting for a sequel, while others are hesitant. After rolling into theatres in 2019, James Cameron and Jon Landau's masterpiece, which was adapted from a comic book series, beguiled movie-goers with high-budget CGI, well-choreographed fight scenes, and a remarkably humanistic robot that is just on a search to find herself.
Of the arguments toward creating a sequel or keeping the film as a standalone work, here are some popular reasonings.
10 Needs a Sequel: Many Comic Books
As a movie forged from a comic book, there are already many, many already established plotlines for a sequel to follow. If the producers made the choice to stick to the comic books, they would have a plethora of issues to choose from. Alita: Battle Angel could even serve as a catalyst for the film's own franchise/cinematic universe.
Just as DC's has created the DCEU and Marvel with the MCU, with both being based on comic books, Alita: Battle Angel has the platform to launch its own comic into a cinematic franchise.
9 Does Not Need A Sequel: A Story About Finding One's Self
Alita: Battle Angel has a self-discovery plot arc where the teenage main character is focused on understanding who she is in this coming-of-age postapocalyptic film. The nature of these types of stories, where the main character is tasked with finding themselves, is that they are meant as standalone narratives, like The Perks of Being a Wallflower. And Alita's plot arc has followed the same patterns ending with her not only figuring out who she is but also confidently moving forward with her life.
8 Needs A Sequel: Nova
Nova's character was introduced at the very end, with his final appearance being him finally unmasking himself. This ominous introduction begs for a sequel of which the character can be integrated deeply into the plot. The insinuation of the final scene where Alita is getting ready to win her match and is looking up at her ultimate foe, Nova, is simply taunting its audience with the idea of a sequel.
7 Does Not Need A Sequel: Wrapped Up Most Loose Ends
While Alita: Battle Angel was tasked with conveying a semi-realistic story about a battle warrior robot on a quest to find herself, the film had its work cut out for itself in terms of building a dynamic story that could conceivably not only introduce the complex world but explain everything fully. If audiences looked past the pseudo technology and laws of physics, the film actually wraps up its loose ends so well that a sequel might add more knots and loose ends that are disregarded.
6 Needs A Sequel: Not All Loose Ends Were Wrapped Up
While most loose ends were wrapped up, the movie lacks some serious clarification, like why would they build a teenage robot to serve as a military robot? Also while the ending begs her story to be continued, it's difficult to argue against adding on another followup film. Without a sequel, the ending is rather unsatisfying.
A sequel would be able to tie the remaining loose ends up and put a bow on the Alita: Battle Angel package.
5 Does Not Need A Sequel: But Perhaps a Prequel?
Throughout Alita's quest to remember who she was before Doctor Ido rebuilt her, she recollects snippets of her past as a super hi-tech warrior. Though important to the plot, these fractured memories do not leave enough of an impression for viewers to completely understand Alita and where she came from. Perhaps instead of producing a sequel to the blockbuster, it could be worth delving into Alita's past and her experiences with The Fall. This installment would give a lot more context to the world of which Alita lives, the purpose she was built for, and how she ended up disembodied in a waste pile.
4 Needs A Sequel: Alita's Motivated Stance During The Final Scene
To follow up with a point made earlier, the warrior stance that Alita positions herself during the final scene begs for more to come in terms of a sequel. It's visually dynamic and shows the audience that not only has the battle angel discovered who she is, but she's also confident in her abilities and ready to take on the world. This is a classic way to tie together the formal ending to a coming-of-age narrative.
3 Does Not Need A Sequel: An Origin Story As A Standalone
As an origin story, Alita: Battle Angel is meant to simply introduce the character in a quest for self-discovery. It could be argued that most films that center around the main character discovering who they are are origin stories, but they don't necessarily require a followup film to build their story out, because as a standalone origin story, this production is solid.
2 Needs A Sequel: An Origin Story As A Starting Point
While there may be some reasons to not make a sequel, based on the fact that the narrative is an origin story, Alita: Battle Angel could actually benefit from an additional quest beyond recognizing her origin.
The nature of an origin story is to get audiences to quaint themselves with a new character that is meant to be a member of a larger franchise. This is most commonly seen in Marvel's Avengers and DC's Justice League.
1 Does Not Need A Sequel: Most Character Arcs Are Complete
The setup of the overall plot arc of Alita: Battle Angel was successful in the fact that almost all of the characters' arcs are complete. Whether it be through personal growth and acceptance like Doctor Ido, completing your quest of self-discovery like Alita, or even redeeming yourself like Chiren, many of the main characters' stories were given some sort of a resolution.
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