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The Animal No One Wants to Be


When the Heartless Woman catches David in his lie, she tells him as punishment, the hotel will transform him into the animal no one want to be. Any ideas which animal that is?

Personally, I can't imagine anyone would want to be a cockroach, and assume it to be a universally despised creature. However, I don't know if the technology in the movie's universe could have done human-to-insect transformations, as it seems most of the transformations described were human-to-four-legged-mammal.

Maybe a rat? They're pretty awful, too.

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Donald trump

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I assumed it was the Ass, Donkey? But I just assumed that from the first scene they shot.

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I think the point is to leave it up to each viewer to think about, but if there is a definitive answer I think he didn't turn her into anything. The animal no one wants to be is her.

In practical terms he'd have no idea how to execute a transformation, so we have to assume it's meant metaphorically and not literally.

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