Everything Everywhere All At Once Villain Explained: Origin, Powers & Plan
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Everything Everywhere All at Once dives right into the multiverse and, with Evelyn Wang being chosen to save it, she must defeat the villain first. That is easier said than done, however, since the film's antagonist has quite a lot of power and a plan to go along with it. Like every villain, Everything Everywhere All at Once's Jobu Tupaki has an origin, a reason for existing, and we're breaking down her story and abilities.
Written and directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (known collectively as Daniels), Everything Everywhere All at Once sets up Jobu Tupaki, the Alpha-Verse iteration of Joy Wang, as the central villain who is supposedly ready to destroy the multiverse. However, Jobu Tupaki is somewhat of a misunderstood antagonist, someone whose initial plans aren’t exactly what they seem. It’s what makes her a layered character and an intriguing nemesis to Evelyn throughout the film.
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Jobu Tupaki is an incredibly powerful being and her journey has everything to do with why she is the way she is. Everything Everywhere All at Once gives the character a very metaphysical and grounded story. But what exactly are her abilities and why did she create the black bagel at all? We break down the villain’s story, Joy’s rise to becoming Jobu Tupaki, the extent of her abilities, and how Evelyn saved the multiverse.
Jobu Tupaki grew up a bit differently from Joy. Because the Alpha-Verse has access to technology that allows people to jump from one universe to another by way of entering a doppelgänger’s consciousness, Jobu Tupaki was pushed to further her verse-jumping
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