Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Futurama season 12, episode 2!
Summary
Futuramais back, and the revival is continuing a series trend by killing off every character for the second time in 14 years. Besides every mainFuturamacharacter still being around, each member of the Planet Express crew has died a surprising amount of times. However,Futuramaseason 12 just doubled down on this idea, with it killing off the entiremain cast ofFuturamaonce again.
Futuramaseason 12, episode 2, “Quids Game” continues the second season of Hulu’sFuturamarevival, putting the cast of characters in another parody episode. In the episode, Leela invites most ofFuturama’s supporting characters on board the Planet Express ship, with them planning on celebrating Fry’s birthday. However,they eventually find themselves stuck on a planet where they are forced to play torturous gamesthat have deadly consequences.
Why Futurama Was Cancelled (Every Time)
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Futurama Season 12 Just Killed Off Every Character In Its Squid Game Episode
Futurama’s “Quids Game” is a clear parodyof the Netflix seriesSquid Game, in which a group of contestants participate in childhood games, with the losers being killed off. TheFuturamaepisode lifts nearly every aspect of this, with theFuturamacharacters who don’t win being murdered in various ways. Fry, Bender, Leela, and several dozen other characters die in the episode, with the only survivor being a side character named Hattie McDoogal.
“Rebirth” was the premiere ofFuturama’s revival on Comedy Central.
Despite eachFuturamacharacter facing a violent end,they are all safe and sound by the end of the episode. This is because the aliens who rule the planet decide to revive every character once the challenges are over, with everyone being surprised that they are back alive. This allows theSquid Gameparody to work while not changing the status quo ofFuturama, even though it killed off every main character.
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Hulu’s Futurama Killing Off Main Characters Continues A Series Trend
Futurama Characters Die All The Time
“Quids Game” isn’t the first time that theFuturamacast has died, as this is something that has happened several times in the series' past.Futuramafamously killed off every main character except for Farnsworth in the 2010 episode “Rebirth,“with Farnsworth having to use a machine to bring everyone back to life after a devastating ship crash.
Characters have also died individually throughout the show, withBender dying 10 times throughoutFuturama. The rest of the gang has been killed off in non-canon anthology episodes and in other stories that allow them to come back to life at the end.Futuramais surprisingly violent with its main characters, and “Quids Game” proves that Hulu’s revival has no plans to change this.
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Futurama is an animated science fiction series that follows Philip J. Fry, a pizza delivery boy from late-20th-century New York City. He is accidentally cryogenically frozen for a thousand years and becomes an employee at Planet Express, a delivery service in the retro-futuristic 31st century.
