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So, a lot of people say that Watevra is actually evil indeed for various reasons (Rex’s past being the most commented). People say that Rex’s past while he was in Undar added to the whole brainwashing thing actually made Watevra the bad one the whole time. BUT, I have to agree AND disagree with this.

There are in fact, at least two circumstances where Watevra did showed at least two villainous traits over the course of the movie, of which I can’t deny because they’re true:

1) I DO agree that Watevra DID manipulated Batman by using the uno reverse card on him by hitting his ego (he deserved it) and by telling a believable lie; that she didn’t like him and could choose any other hero (that wasn’t from Gotham City) to marry with, and using Superman was what made Batman change his mind because he did NOT wanted to be rejected, or, at least that’s what I think he was thinking at the moment. That was indeed manipulation.

2) Also, I don’t see a lot of people commenting on this but her singing her first song DOES sound like a veiled threat regardless of how horrible her communication is. I mean, while it did eventually turn out to be an unbelievable truth, singing a whole song about how “not evil” you are does NOT help you to lower people’s suspicions. It only creates EVEN MORE suspicion.

However, people don’t mainly focus on these two topics whenever they talk about Watevra being a villain, instead, they focus more on Rex’s flashback in his timeline, or rather, the timeline where Emmet failed to save his friends and landed on Undar, which eventually led him to become Rex. So people don’t actually think that Watevra was trying to necessarily cause the Armamageddon because this would also take the Systar System with it too, while in real life, Bianca wouldn’t be able to make her mom to only demand Finn to put away his toys without getting her own toys taken too in the process.

A lot of people actually do bring up valid arguments whenever they talk about this specific topic:

People mainly point out that the reason why nobody went to search for Emmet even after the wedding was concluded was because Watevra was actually a manipulator and kept everyone partying forever in the Systar System.

Some also point out that Watevra somehow manipulated Lucy too into keeping her in Systar as well so she wouldn’t feel Emmet’s presence nor go search for him after the wedding, which would make up for the whole “Even Lucy abandoned me” mentality from Rex.

These two arguments are actually really valid and they could actually work. HOWEVER, I would actually agree with all of this IF there wasn’t stuff in the movie that ends up contradicting everything that people mainly point out, and read everything so you can understand my point, even if you don’t agree with me:

1) Emmet was the one who created Watevra. That itself AUTOMATICALLY annullies any possibility of Watevra being a villain, whether you agree with me or not. Because, think with me, the Duplo Aliens were INDEED evil when they invaded Bricksburg, but they quickly changed their minds when Emmet created that one heart (that eventually became Watevra).

Now, think with me, what is the sense of Watevra being a villain if she was created by Emmet? Because Emmet is probably the most positive guy I know in this movie, and plus, he decided to offer PEACE instead of going on a fight like the rest of the cast was about to do. Emmet would NEVER create something malicious in the first place. Sure, it wasn’t his intention to literally create life, but Watevra is pretty much based on Emmet.

2) Watevra’s supposedly intending to keep everyone partying forever IN THE SYSTAR SYSTEM contradicts ENTIRELY her whole role in the movie (and Bianca’s role too). This was stated EVEN IN THE LEGO MOVIE 2 INTERVIEWS. Watevra’s role in the movie was revealed to actually unite Systar and Apocalypseburg in harmony rather than brainwashing everyone and keep them partying forever in Systar. The creators (including Tiffany Haddish herself, who’s Watevra’s VA) EVEN CONFIRMED THIS IN INTERVIEWS.

Not only that but this would also discharacterize Lucy as a whole. Lucy is FAR from an idiot, and even if Watevra was actually evil, the movie itself already tells us that Lucy wouldn’t easily fall for Watevra’s temptations, so if Watevra was actually trying to brainwash everyone into partying, Lucy would have eventually realized it sooner or later because she’s NOT DUMB.

This also completely discharacterizes Watevra and her role as a whole. It was clearly stated that what she wanted is to unite both worlds together, so her trapping everyone into partying in SYSTAR doesn’t make any sense. Now let’s say that Watevra DID wanted to trap everyone into partying but also uniting Apocalypseburg and Systar, that wouldn’t make any sense either not only because that sort of repeats the whole Lord Business totalitarian regime but because there’s absolutely NO WAY that she could make the whole Syspocalypstar city to believe on her, in case she was evil, because at some point, someone would eventually notice that something is wrong and would try to end the system.

You see my point on this? Basically what I’m trying to say is that Watevra being evil completely discharacterizes her role and Bianca’s role too (Bianca was rather just wanting to play with Finn rather wanting to steal his toys).

Now the last point: Emmet being in Undar.

This was actually poorly explained by the creators and writers of the movie, because no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE commented on what was everyone else’s perspectives after Emmet went missing. We only see Rex’s vision on his own timeline, not everyone else’s.

Now here’s what I think it could’ve happened:

There was absolutely NO WAY that Lucy would give up on her love interest, let alone falling in Watevra’s temptations in case she was evil indeed. Because at some point, after the wedding, Lucy would have eventually started to miss Emmet’s presence, and she WOULD have asked if they could at least get Emmet or come back to Apocalypseburg.

Look, you can disagree on this however you want, but Watevra’s intentions were clearly set to unite both worlds, so eventually after the wedding, the main gang and Lucy would have to return Apocalypseburg and explain the whole misunderstanding. That’s where they’ll realize that Emmet has gone missing and start their search for him.

Emmet at some point WOULD HAVE been found by the Systarian Guards or the main gang. But why wasn’t he found then, you may ask? The only solution I see to this problem is that Undar was ALREADY considered a dangerous place even before movie 2 events, and Watevra would have probably forbidden anyone from approaching there so they wouldn’t get lost in there forever.

I could use the argument that the Undar wasn’t located in the The Man Upstairs realm, but that isn’t valid because everyone went there to rescue Emmet near the end of movie 2 and nobody was forbidden to reach there so…

Feel free to disagree with me however you want, but that’s my whole point. Narratively speaking, it makes no sense for Watevra to be evil because if she truly wanted permanent control and party forever, then would she keep encouraging reconciliation? She keeps constantly pushing for merging worlds instead of partying forever.

Look, I'm not sure if this is the real reasoning for the ship's popularity or if I'm just mistaken, but this is what I started to think after rewatching the movie several times.

Usually, ppl ship these two together because it's the "Opposites Attract" trope thing, and because both Benny and GCBC got dismissed by their own teams (Benny not being allowed to build spaceships while GCBC getting fired for ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD REASON).

But back to the point, we gotta recall what our poor cop boy was forced to do while working for Octan. And I'm not gonna count with his parents, but I'll count what he did to the main gang:

-Emmet: He treated Emmet like absolute garbage in their very first seconds of interaction.

-Lucy: Even if this wasn't directly caused by him, GCBC had an indirect key role in developing Lucy's darker side that she used as a shield to guarantee her own safety and hide her shame of having indirectly cooperated with President Business' totalitarian regime through her the POPular Band and the Everything is Awesome song.

-Batman: Honestly, I can't think of a single thing that GCBC may have done to Batman besides hunting him and the Justice League in general.

And here are the heavier examples (at least in my opinion):

-Unikitty: This time, GCBC directly caused harm to Unikitty by raiding the Cuckoo Cloud Land with Business' robots and LITERALLY DESTROYING IT PIECE BY PIECE. I mean, that itself is heavy already, especially considering that Unikitty is just a little kid. Like, CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW IT FEELS TO HAVE YOUR HOME DESTROYED?!

-MetalBeard (my fav character): Once again, GCBC indirectly was responsible for MetalBeard losing not only his pirate crew, but his whole body as well, if you don't count the head, of course. Even if the raid only failed miserably because of the robots and Octan's security system, GCBC was already working there.

-Vitruvius: Honestly, I can't really put the indirect blame on our cop boy again on this, because, like, most of the harm Vitruvius suffered (getting blinded and later dying) was rather caused by Business himself than GCBC.

After listing all of this, here's what I think:

Benny is also a Master Builder, so he wouldn't be an exception to being oppressed. Therefore, the only kind of "suffering" I can imagine him having gone through during Business' regime was having to hide his identity, because most of us know that his real name is "Benjamin", so I came up with a theory that he and the Space Crew likely had to use codenames to avoid getting kidnapped by robots, so that way, Business wouldn't suspect that there are Master Builders in the Space Crew, and would ignore them.

I could be wrong, but this is the only explanation I could think of.

Therefore, out of the main gang, Benny likely went through a less traumatic experience compared to the rest. In fact, the movie kinda tells us that already, because he's mostly being restricted or not being allowed to build.

That, combined with my headcanon about his past, ultimately makes Benny the less hardened of the Fellowship.

Finally, we have that famous scene near the end of the movie where, after Scribble Cop was created in order to replace Good Cop and finally quit Octan for once and for all, Benny was the very first person from the Fellowship of Strangers with whom he showed niceness.

A lot of ppl think of this scene as a ship sail because Scribble Cop was technically the very first person to actually allow Benny to build a spaceship in the movie. But to me, I like to think of this scene as Scribble Cop's first step on redemption; by acting nice to the first person that showed up in front of him.

I can't really tell what Benny thinks of Scribble Cop, but given his nature, it's safe to say that he's likely very open to accepting someone like him if the former is trying to change, whether in a platonic or romantic way.