Here’s If [Spoiler] Is Really Dead in The Electric State & What It Means for the Future of the Franchise
The Electric State definitely has an electrifying ending. After a mission to find her sibling in the new Netflix release, will Michelle be reunited with her brother soon?
The movie revolves around Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown) who is approached by a robot called Cosmo who seems to be controlled by her long lost brother Christopher Determined to find the beloved sibling she thought she had lost, Michelle sets out across the American southwest with Cosmo and soon finds herself joining forces with Keats (Chris Pratt), a low-rent smuggler, and his wisecracking robot sidekick, Herman (voiced by Anthony Mackie). As they venture into the Exclusion Zone, a walled-off corner in the desert where robots now exist on their own, Keats and Michelle find a strange, colorful group of new animatronic allies and a sinister plot that ties an evil company with the existence of his brother.
In the last arc, the gang finally finds Michelle’s brother and by communicating with him through the Neurocaster realizes that Christopher is tied to Sentre and if Sentre dies — his physical body cannot survive. Michelle is morally and ethically confused, but decides that the greater good of the world depends on her brother dying.
Is Christopher really dead at the end of The Electric State?
Though Michelle pulled the plug on Christopher’s life support at the end of The Electric State, there are hints that Christopher is alive and could be revived. They hint that Chris’ consciousness might still reside in Cosmo which may still be alive.
Michelle had to sacrifice her brother for the greater good, but there’s still a shred of hope for her. “Once she realizes her brother is out there, I think she has this really beautiful journey … ‘I must find him,” Millie Bobby Brown said of her character to ScreenRant. “‘I must get him back to me.’ Toward the end, she realizes that in order to get him back, she has to let go of him and remember him for who he was. I think that letting go was very therapeutic and cathartic for her. It’s exactly what she needed to move forward in her life.”
As to whether there is actually a sequel in the works, the Russo Brothers are planning to expand the world. “We love immersive worlds, so we always try to build worlds that have the capability for future storytelling, because that’s what we like,” Joe Russo told Entertainment Weekly. “There is a game currently that’s being released with the movie, and we’re in discussions around a potential show idea that could work for it, but no sequel conversations as of yet.”
