Army of Dead Time Loop Theory should you re-watch on Netflix

Army of Dead Time Loop Theory should you re-watch on Netflix

This is a spoiler alert for Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead! Beware, as we move forward, clues will lead you to a surprising Easter Egg seen by a forward-thinking audience.

Zack Snyder's "Army of the Dead" opened in theaters and on Netflix last week, and it didn't take long for fans to find a huge time travel theory to dig into. And that could mean big things for "Army of Thieves," the prequel to "Army of the Dead. All of which is presented below as Vandeloe cuts through the hordes of the undead.

The "Army of the Dead" "time loop" theory begins in Bly Tanaka's casino (around the middle of the film), where Dieter, played by Matthias Schweighafer, witnesses a horde of corpses that look just like his gang.

Van der Rohe (played by Omari Hardwick) also observes the bodies and asks, "Is it another team ...... Or is it us?" He wonders aloud. And he keeps talking, giving conspiracy-theory buffs a reason to act like Charlie Day heading for the corkboard in "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."

Vanderohe goes on to hypothesize that this band of corpses is "in an alternate timeline, caught in an endless loop of fighting and dying and fighting and dying." Heavy, isn't it? When you're fighting the undead for a big payday, this is not going to keep you up at night.

Of course, Vandeloe would not be silenced. He then compares Bly Tanaka to something far grander than the man who gave them their mission. Puppeteer, Devil, God," and "We are ...... nothing more than pawns in a perverse play, doomed to repeat their failures," he muses. And finally, a hauntingly ironic fact is revealed.

And the Internet agrees: Twitter user @SamParkerMetal (per GamesRadar) has generated a storm of tweets highlighting the minute similarities found in the film. One of the bodies Dieter saw had the same key necklace that Maria wears.

Then there was the gun in the vault. Somehow, three AKs identical to Guzman's are already in the vault. You can see some of them in the lower right corner of this press photo:

The vault must have been sealed for years, so how could those guns already be there? Is this the fourth time they have tried? Tweeter @LuchaSpursLucha wonders how Chambers is so good at killing the undead when he said he's never done anything like this before.

Dieter provides a montage of the film's events early on where everything falls into place. Twitter user @HailMother hypothesizes that there is a "what if" situation going on here because Mikey's friend is in Dieter's vision but not in the group's actual run.

There is also another vault in Dieter's montage, for all intents and purposes.

The Film Junkee's Vodka Stream asked Snyder about Tanaka's earlier attempts to request access to the vaults, and he confirmed that this was the case.

What has people in an uproar is what he said next. 'I will also ...... Let me also say that it is possible ...... I'm not saying this is 100% true, and in some ways it isn't: ...... But the group that is at the table, I mean, quite subtly, they are also at the table...... They go farther every time...... Possibly....... Possibly...... this time, have they made it to the prize money?" Snyder then smiled and promised that we would never know that this game was played entirely in a video game.

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