NO ONE CAN ESCAPE | Alice in Borderland Theory

Does anyone truly escape the Borderlands?...
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In this episode, we explain the entirety of Season 1 of Alice in Borderland, as well as what Season 2 will have to offer, and how the rules of the Borderland end up killing all of its participants.
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[@arshad887]

What I love is that Alice in Borderland is also loosely based on Alice in Wonderland. Arisu is Alice, Chisiya is Cheshire Cat etc and the games also mirror some of the things Alice had to go through

[@challengemasters775]

and the idea of the queen of hearts controlling this other world

[@narnia_eclipse389]

i mean... that is why the title is called Alice in Borderland... i thought this was common knowledge?

[@challengemasters775]

@@narnia_eclipse389 fr

[@omegaminus2866]

also Banda and Yaba in the J❤ are the Bandersnatch and Jabberwocky in Alice in Wonderland.

[@user-sc2uw8yq7n]

In the Manga they call him alice

[@Trektech1980]

Season 2 was so freaking epic! The face cards did not disappoint. King of Spades and Queen of Hearts was amazing! I love how the show still didn't reveal the truth. Was the Queen lying of telling the truth. I m all in for a season 3. Big Joker baby!

[@TheHipisterDeer]

Idk if they will do a season 3 considering there is only like one plot twist left.... Would be better if they did an Alice in borderland movie "the final game" instead.

[@Trektech1980]

@@TheHipisterDeer I would be cool with that. The show ending was so perfect I would hate to mess it up.

[@AkiFujimaruVT]

Apparently The Joker respresents the real world

[@user-sc2uw8yq7n]

They revealed season 3 joker vs chishiya vs joker there a big crew and joker is a good fighter beating them all up

[@catrinakray]

the manga ending was AMAZING. i'm so excited for season two, it'll be fun to see how theyll show everything.

[@RemGames]

I’m about to start reading the manga, so I’m very excited!

[@nakunigame3330]

@@RemGames make a video about Sweet Home also a Netflix Show Its a good Show

[@rosannaa]

Did you enjoy it? I think it was perfect

[@nakunigame3330]

@@rosannaa yea i liked it so much

[@meccalovett4616]

I’m pretty sure the writers didn’t intend for anyone to overthink the food and water thing 😅. It’s pretty straightforward that they returned to the living world (aka they survived their near death experiences). SPOILERS: Especially when everyone is reunited with their loved ones. Arisu even goes back to the Borderlands when he experiences yet another near death experience in the short spin-off manga “Alice in Borderland Retry” (It’s only like ten chapters and just features one long game). And there’s another spin-off called “Alice in Border Road” that features a female protagonist that also experiences a near death event and is forced to go on a treacherous road-trip with 11 other victims who also experienced the same near death event. (It’s implied in the mangas that the Borderlands connects people that have all been through the same traumatic event. The original series featured a large scale disaster, hence why there were so many players and dealers). But yeah the Borderlands is essentially just purgatory, giving victims an opportunity to rejoin the living. They’re pretty lucky given that whatever trauma they experienced didn’t just kill them in an instant. But the show could go in an entirely different direction in the end, even though it’s been a pretty faithful adaptation so far save for a few changes.

[@danalynch118]

I really hope they make a movie based on retry, or a few minisodes about the games we didn’t see

[@dillonsomerville4729]

I'm pretty sure there's no eating/drinking problem. Any effects to the marionette's body is mirrored in the real world, however things like food, water and air are physical objects, so let's say you eat a loaf of bread; what you're doing is giving nutrients and sustenance to the marionette, you aren't sending a loaf of bread into the stomache of your real world body. That would be like saying if you filled your pockets with cash in the Borderland, you'd be rich when you return. You need to eat and drink in Borderland because that's where your body is, and so it has to follow their laws of physics while there. And even if your body carries over the food in your stomache when you return, you won't be stuffed, because while in Borderland time progresses faster, meaning your body digests faster relative to the real world.

[@apinkcirclefriendswithablu3777]

About the food and water, it could just be an illusion casted by the brain. If you eat something in borderland, it might not actually mean you are eating something irl. Plus, it could just be IVs. There isn’t anything suggesting that hunger or nutrition can be transferred just because damage is.

[@mightyn00dle64]

This hands down turned out to be one of my favorite tv shows. And to find out they are coming out with another season is epic

[@watermel0n210]

This show is seriously the best ever, in love with it

[@amazedpanda6815]

So season 2 clears that there aren't exactly 12 citizens. Some citizens aren't kings queens nor jacks. The King of Clubs had few other citizens with him

[@smallworldlifters]

I dunno random theory but they were clearly his friends based on his memories. It seems he was given a dealer visa and stayed loyal to his friends who were given player visas so he let them be on his team. He seemed like a fair, stand up guy to be fair to him, although obviously a little odd.

[@cleo6718]

Ah yes follow Arisu and his 2 friends, must be close friends until Season 2, amirite

[@milkytae1671]

Can’t wait to hear your theories ab the joker card at the end of season 2

[@LucumLuftra]

I think the whole eating and drinking and breathing might be more of an oversight or plothole rather than actually happening to the real body

[@heyheyikki4607]

Agree

[@weienong6952]

what if the joker planned for the characters to be injured in the borderland the same way they got injured when the meteor struck? (for example akane's chopped off foot) and i dont see how eating and drinking will affect their body in the real world because as mentioned, when they were in the borderland their heart stopped beating for a minute, hence the body shouldn't work at all in the real world and what they do in the borderland wont carry forward to when they decied to go back into the real world.

[@Roz4628]

Injuries may be carried over, but what proof is there that things like eating and drinking would have an affect?

[@RemGames]

If you’re able to die from lack of oxygen and drowning (like we see in the show), then that means there has to be something to prevent that, such as breathing. Same thing with eating and drinking. If you’re able to die from starvation and dehydration (like Arisu was starting to do to himself), there was have to be something to prevent that, like eating and drinking

[@plsstopsoph5632]

I came from your DHMIS theories and was super happy to see you on Game Theory. Thanks for covering Alice in Borderland, I really loved the show when it came out and its a shame it didn’t get as much recognition as Squid Game. Its great to relive my love for this show/manga, Thanks again!!

[@AlienVecna]

I ain't leaving the game, I am watching.

[@RemGames]

Hello!

[@AlienVecna]

@@RemGames Please reheart as I edited it lol

[@AlienVecna]

@@RemGames Thanks for the reheart

[@RemGames]

@@AlienVecna Np!

[@lyan240]

YES YES!!! not giving any spoilers, but the s2 ending was midnblowing!! you gotta make a video about it

[@thebe_stone_MC]

i think the guy might have been hit by one of the cars, which would make him between life and death

[@ryanmoore7098]

You completely lost me with the second part lol 😂. The food and the water were irrelevant. And the bathroom stall has nothing to do with being knock unconscious and dying for a minute, which is what happened to Arisu specially

[@Delulu_For_Bangchan]

Yay finally a theory video about Alice in borderland

[@turboldbatbayar2614]

I think that maybe eating in the show is part of making your brain feel like its not hungry anymore, as all damages on the body are all in the mind right

[@Ratatic_post]

The way this was made right as I finished the series

[@RemGames]

The timing!!

[@alastair4410]

Or the Battle Royale nature of... Battle Royale (2000)?

[@yumqzw5949]

Can’t wait for your ideas on season 2 ending and the joker card please make a video about this

[@sunsetskye483]

What if more than 12 people choose to become citizens? Are 12 randomly chosen and then the rest killed? And what if the citizens win? What do they do then?

[@RemGames]

These are good questions! To answer the first one, there can be more than 12 citizens, but there are 12 main citizens. These citizens are each represented by a different face card, but they can have teammates that are also citizens, as we can see in the King of Clubs game. As for the second question, because there can be more than 12 citizens, it would seem as if they would not be randomly chosen or killed, rather made as teammates. As for the third question, it doesn’t seem as if the citizens win anything necessarily. The same way that the players don’t win anything. The players only win the ability to return to their original lives, which isn’t really a reward as many never wanted to go to the Borderlands anyways, or they could become citizens. I would assume that if a citizen would “win” anything, it would be the ability to choose to remain as a citizen, or to return again!

[@sunsetskye483]

@@RemGames Well explained! Thank you

[@user-sc2uw8yq7n]

Yeah because at the end they resuscitate him outside the building on the street and not no where near the building but where's his friends they were right beside him. So was false about them transporting in the bathroom crazy

[@charxpearls]

Sweetheart the season 2 is coming on Dec 22 which is so close and I wouldn't wanna decide it so early but if that's the case how did they got teleported here in the first place.

[@RemGames]

Yes it is! I’ve been excited for it! Even if it’s not the BEST show ever, it’s pretty entertaining with the games

[@charxpearls]

@@RemGames true it's the most underrated show

[@RemGames]

I’m sorry, I’m not sure what you mean with the question

[@SatoKure]

Kinda makes me want to hear your theories on Kamen Rider Geats. It's the currently airing Kamen Rider show, where a bunch of civilians join a competition called the Desire Grand Prix. The players go through a series of games that involves monsters known as Jamato, and the player who makes it to the final round and defeats the boss gets their wish granted while the world resets, and the next "season" of the Desire Grand Prix starts anew.

[@syabilaazri7834]

Oh, i wish a lot of people start to watch Kamen Rider Geats. Because one: this show is basicly the Reiwa version of Kamen Rider Ryuki/Dragon Knight and two: with how this show and Squid Game are so popular, how come we cant enjoy a sunday tokusatsu show? I say, Kamen Rider Geats will getting brutal with it game the longer the show when on....

[@SatoKure]

@@syabilaazri7834 It's so much of a Reiwa take on Ryuki that the Ryuki riders are gonna show up in the upcoming Revice x Geats movie.

[@KourtneyBrooks-eq3yn]

Where can we watch

[@SatoKure]

@@KourtneyBrooks-eq3yn You can find fansubs on sites like nyaa

[@AlexGledhill237]

The entire series is Arisu playing his video game and all the characters in the show are other players that also live in Tokyo

[@Didgeridoo456]

Underrated theorist🤦‍♂️

[@just_an_internet_explorer8038]

Ikr 🤦‍♀️

[@laylanie88]

Spoiler warning for season 2: For the food aspect, I thought that represented that the user was on a feeding tube. So in season 1 Arisu gives up which if a patient is not responding or potential have so much brain damage, the offer to let the patient pass in peace would be to pull the feeding tube. He starved. Then there was activity that suggest he is still fighting so the reintroduced the feeding tube which is why you see him eat more. I imagine the amount of food would feel like a feast if you're in a comatose state.

[@trickster743]

Season 2 is out right now!!!!

[@Hoonsy2you]

I just want one question answered... if the dealer dies when the players clear his game, how the flying f could a dealer survive the seven of hearts? That game will ALWAYS end in a clear, or am I missing something here? The only way for the 7H to not be cleared would be if the dealer was playing the game and winning, like the 5S, but well... there wasn't a dealer (unless it was Saori, but she played and survived the 3C aswell, so she should be good).

[@neroclaudiuscaesaraugustus]

Well I think this only counts if the characters are participants in the game and nit just setting it up

[@uwuloluwu]

Hatter used a famous quote 💉 we are all in this together

[@j.a.shawkins7640]

OK, fair, and I totally agree with your math, but if you can never TRULY go back, why would they offer that as an option?

[@RemGames]

I don’t think that Haro Aso thought that far into it, it’s just a theory for entertainment value mostly. In reality, there would be no possible way to come back based on these rules they provided. I don’t think Haro Asu expected someone like me to challenge the rules of this universe 😂

[@j.a.shawkins7640]

@@RemGames XD You know what? Hard fair, and something to keep in mind if I ever devote myself to writing. Have answers for all the things! XD ^_^ Thanks!

[@RemGames]

@@j.a.shawkins7640 ofc! I wouldn’t say you need ALL the answers to everything, because sometime a suspension of disbelief is a nice relief from reality, but some common rules for your own world is always a good idea!

[@NamiiWavee]

Well I guess this is my sign too watch it because I loved Alice in Wonderland and this is basically the horror equivalent too it

[@rosewhip5332]

Okay but if everyone died at the same time when the meteorite hit the city... how come the characters who were at the Beach appeared to be there longer than Arisu?

[@tomedwards8966]

People close to the impact died a few seconds sooner than people further away, so they arrived in the borderlands sooner.

[@sunsetskye483]

The lady in white in the beginning said she got there two days earlier

[@leparraindufromage366]

@@tomedwards8966 But nearly all of the major characters including Beach members are shown to be at Shibuya crossing at the same time as Arisu at the end. Of course because of the difference in how time passes in the Borderlands vs the real world, it might still work out. I didn't like the 'true' ending much though, all the different possible explanations given by the Queen of Hearts seemed a lot more entertaining (and were probably referencing other films and series of the sort), but then they pull this kind of really unsatisfactory twist. It was almost as disappointing as how Life of Pi ended (in the movie), really diminished the struggle of the characters for me

[@tomedwards8966]

@@leparraindufromage366 They still could have been injured/died slightly earlier if they were all outside while Arisu and his friends were slightly protected being down in the station. When I originally heard this explanation, it was actual explaining how the citizens had been there for so long in comparison. They were the ones right at the impact site. I thought the ending was decent, tho the VR one could have been interesting too. My theory after season 1 was actually that they were dead, but I thought Arisu and his friends died in traffic like in the mental hospital ending. I think the meteor is better tho because it explains the fireworks and why everybody else was there.

[@alexmfs]

I agree with all of these

[@JS_02010]

At the beginning you said "if you want to leave right now because of spoilers" you know. I would WANT to leave but i'd rather stay instead of leaving and get my head blown off by a laser so yeah...

[@samus908]

Dats my boy FLUFFER-NUTTER WOOOO

[@RemGames]

Ayyyy!

[@jediarcherbc709]

Yo, fluffer-nutter your stuff is great!

[@DroneQuadcopter]

Your 4 day Visa was delivered

[@remjo]

I'm so excited for season 2

[@shalonsmith1337]

There's a huge fallacy with the overeating thing. Even though it's seconds in the real world, your body would still be starving burning calories and then you would be eating to refill them. If overeating is a possibility then logically your body is also starving when you are.

[@ekto250]

You should definitely check out hollow knight, it is full of loooooooooorrreee (plus there is a sequel coming out soon)

[@RemGames]

True! I definitely need to check it out!

[@ekto250]

@@RemGames I am looking forward to it!

[@nhennessy6434]

But it's not the Manga. It is based on it, but it stands alone. And no, they don't explode if they eat two meals a day for 30 borderland days, just because some of the stuff in borderlands impacts the characters' real life bodies, and 30 days is 10 real life seconds. It's called dramatic license, and the showrunners take it on matters like this. It's not that literal. Repeat after me: "It's only a TV show! It's only a TV show.....!"

[@Patichu]

Good job calling this a theory because if you called it something more click baity like "I predicted the ending of Alice in borderland" then this wouldn't have aged well

[@lonelywhale1030]

Brilliant video! I didn't think I need a theory on such an underrated show but here I am. I LOVE the video mirroring the Alice in Borderland gameplay style. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on Season 2!!

[@unmercy2326]

how about everyone who survived at the end.. they're all heart stops for 1 min?

[@thebanana1980]

Wouldn't you just digest the food as fast as it appears in your body in the real world?

[@powu.]

One of my favorites

[@Talkatonne]

I feel like everyone is talking about the joker card but their was also an Ace on the table come on people!!! The joker isn’t the last game the ace is the beginning of the end

[@undyingplace814]

I've already read the manga and know how the story ends 😈😈😈

[@CharcoalMarsh]

Could you do a theory about salad fingers? Because there is a LOT to unpack in that show. Also, if you don’t know what an object show is, ignore this, but could you also do a theory on cheesyhfj’s ONE?

[@juden420]

Did u watch the show? why would u say diamonds has only one likely winner?

[@the_other_seto_kaiba]

you got #3A answer wrong. you dead. Arisu heart stopped beating for one minute same with the others. they can eat drink all they want in borderlands clinically dead.... until resuscitated as in ending spoiler..... explosion from meteor buildings demolished leveled... real life.

[@Frantic_Edge]

Please do a we be bears theory

[@RemGames]

We bear bears! I used to love that show!

[@ceilinh6004]

I wonder though, if your body in the real world mirrors your body in the borderlands, wouldn't it, at any given moment be exactly as hydrated/oxigenated/etc. as it is in the borderlands? If your body in the real world exploded (or whatever) from overfeeding after a couple of meals, you would be dead, and how could you make it through the entire 75 days if your body died a few meals in? 🤔

[@-aDK360-]

Not true buddy

[@samwill7259]

If I may ask a question, since you're reviewing a J Drama here Do you have any familiarity/interest in things like Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Ultraman or the like?

[@FunnyIvri]

who/what is the purple one in cats are liquid?

[@Beniliayt]

Great video 👍

[@nonexistant2k3]

So paper cut out narrator is sticking? Not a fan.

[@TheGrossDemon]

I gotta say, I keep thinking your videos are gametheory vids based off your thumbnails, and idk if your goal was to steal some GT fans to come watch your theories, it's atleast worked on me lol

[@DanielWoof]

The last part was a bit dramatic

[@chess.tips47]

Who control this games

[@glitzey9]

2nd season is not the last ill tell ya that :)

[@ekto250]

Hello!!!

[@RemGames]

Hi!!

[@maxxmittelstadt4798]

Just watching this video makes me not want to watch the show.

[@snowowl01]

nah why this video make me lose the game, as in the other one

[@dave2711]

Hello

[@RemGames]

Hi!

[@ultracraft991]

Heellloooo!!!

[@RemGames]

Hi!

[@gianfrancozangari6617]

Why do you look like game theory with your thumbnails. Come on bruh

[@teddygaming393]

PaoPoqka

[@heavenlypath1065]

Season 2 theory now

[@hamishmccormack9879]

First Viewer

[@ParkourChildhood]

loveeee

[@Ftsqrl]

Lol reaching

[@LordBakon]

MatPat rip-off

[@prettibutdeadly4531]

Y’all need to stop with these theories…. The show and manga literally confirmed they are back in the real world. (Yes I know the manga changed some things like Chishiya surviving the diamonds game and not really explain who the joke was but still)