WARNING! This article contains major SPOILERS for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice!After Adam and Barbara’s ghosts vacated the Winter River house,Beetlejuice 2’s big death twist reveals the couple has new deceased replacements. Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis led Tim Burton’s 1988Beetlejuicemovie as recently deceased couple Adam and Barbara Maitland, who were forced to spend the first 125 years of their afterlife in their Winter River house after dying in a tragic car accident. The movie then saw the pair attempt to scare away their house’s new residents,Beetlejuice’s Deetz family, by recruiting Michael Keaton’s mischievous “bio-exorcist.” However,the Maitlands are nowhere to be found in the 2024 sequel.
While the Maitlands and Deetzes learned to live harmoniously together inBeetlejuice’s original ending, the sequel reveals thatAdam and Barbara found a loophole in the afterlife’s rules and were able to “move on” from the house. This leftBeetlejuice 2without any dead characters haunting the iconic Winter River house – but only for a short time. Following Adam and Barbara’s ghostly exits, two new ghosts take their place after bothDelia and Charles Deetz suffered tragic deaths inBeetlejuice 2.
How Charles & Delia Deetz Become Beetlejuice 2’s Adam & Barbara Replacements
Charles & Delia Are The Sequel’s Recently Deceased Couple Replacement
Adam and Barbara served asBeetlejuice’s main characters and the primary link between the realms of the living and the dead. The couple themselves had to navigate the world of the afterlife following their deaths, but spent the majority of the 1988 movie in the world of the living as they tried to scare away the newcomers in their home.Without Adam and Barbara, this more direct link between the living and dead inBeetlejuice 2was weakened – until Catherine O’Hara’s Delia Deetz diedin the third act.
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Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis' Adam and Barbara Maitland are absent from Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, but where exactly did their ghosts go?
Original characterCharles Deetz dies at the start ofBeetlejuice 2after his plane crashes in the ocean and he’s eaten by a shark. Charles’ corpse then wanders the afterlife without a head or neck until being reunited with Delia, who is killed after being bitten by two venomous snakes at her recently deceased husband’s grave. While serving as the living folks taking over the dead’s space in the 1988 movie,Charles and Delia Deetz now take on Adam and Barbara’s roles as the recently deceased couple who are likely to spend their afterlife haunting the Winter River house.
What Charles & Delia’s Deaths Mean For A Beetlejuice 3 Return
Charles & Delia Can Become The New Ghosts Haunting Winter River’s “Ghost House”
Since Charles and Delia’s ghosts still aren’t seen in the Winter River house byBeetlejuice 2’s ending, it’s possible that this role could be fulfilled more in another movie.IfBeetlejuice 3happens, the ghosts of Delia and Charles Deetz could inhabit the home with Lydia and Astrid potentially moving in full-time. It could also be the case that the other Deetzes return to the Winter River home with new members of the family, setting up a chaotic story afterBeetlejuice 2involving Charles and Delia’s ghosts haunting the house and interacting with living.
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the sequel to the original Tim Burton classic that starred Michael Keaton and Wynona Rider in a horror-comedy that involved ghosts trying to scare off new homebuyers from taking their house. The sequel brings back Michael Keaton as the hilarious and sleazy ghost with selfish intentions, now joined by Jenna Ortega in a new role.
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Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice stars Michael Keaton as the titular “bio-exorcist”, an obnoxious spirit who specializes in driving living occupants out of homes. When Barbara (Geena Davis) and Adam Maitland (Alec Baldwin) die suddenly, they pass into the spirit realm, and must stay in their home. However, in the living world, the Deetz family purchases the house and moves in, prompting the Maitlands to enlist the help of Beetlejuice to drive them away.
