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Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

★ 7.1 · 8,363 ratings on TMDB

The end will be WCKD.

Maze Runner: The Death Cure poster★ 7.1

Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.

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Maze Runner: The Death Cure keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E4/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing disease, authoritarianism, rebellion.

zero-distanceUSdiseaseauthoritarianismrebellion
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6diseasea universal fatal virus (the Flare) infects all humans, turning them into Cranks unless cured (biology · universal)