So, Mayhem really isn’t 17 (Investigation complete)
Hello there people! So, back on April 29th, I started an investigation on Sweet Mayhem’s age to see if the rumors about her being 17 were true or not. See the post here. And while I was pretty occupied with other stuff like that, yesterday I finally got the last confirmation that the rumors were indeed fake and she has no actual age stated at all.
In my post, I talked about how the wiki for the Lego movie is a place that can easily be edited by anyone, which means that anyone could’ve added anything to the site. According to @benny-the-spaceman, someone added a whole page about the “Green Rex” being up uncontested for a long time even though the Green Rex was actually just a silly thing that the fans made and was obviously not a canon thing, yet people took it for some unknown reason took it as canon and brought it to the wiki. Besides that, there were lots of rumors too about Lucy supposedly being born in 1990 and being 40 or something like that, even though we actually really don’t know where these facts even come from. The only characters that have a confirmed age according to some scripts is Emmet (22 in movie 1, 27 in movie 2), Unikitty (12 years; but only her spinoff show variant is confirmed, the lego movie variant Unikitty doesn’t have any age confirmed but she’s likely still underaged) and lastly Vitruvius (the oldest one from the group). Anyone else has no confirmed age and is up to interpretation.
The biggest issue isn’t someone having an interpretation about something, it is about them trying to get their interpretation to be a canon fact and put in the wiki. To make it worse, they don’t even list any source that could possibly indicate or confirm that, so it really makes me think that the lego movie wiki isn’t a reliable place. From what I’ve seen, whenever people address her being 17, they mostly mention the wiki only stating that it’s said on her wiki page and no other place, which just reinforces my whole point about there being no reliable source.
But back to the topic, here, I’m gonna unveil that the rumors where fake:
An user called @ayupglitterz (THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE INFO MAN!! 🙏) told me that there was a dvd about tlm2 which contained some extra stuff about the movie (this was the dvd I was trying to find recordings but when I asked some people out there, they told me that they don’t have any recording of it), and the user told me that the closest thing about her age was this quote “She talks like a kid trying to be tough”, yet this doesn’t confirm anything about her age, in fact, it only leaves an ambiguous interpretation, which means that Mayhem could actually be an adult whose mentality is childish but tries to act tough, which is honestly the most plausible interpretation for Mayhem, given what we know about her.
The main claim about her being 17 other than the whole “Bianca doesn’t know how long it takes to be a general” argument was mostly justified by her not being afraid to act girly when she’s not in general mode, but that argument itself is very useless. In fact, there’s a living proof that age isn’t determined by personality; Take Emmet for example, who is a grown up man living his best life and isn’t afraid to act childish around people.
Lastly, the last proof I found that really confirms that the whole “Mayhem is 17” claim is false is this one video I’ve found yesterday while searching for random lego stuff in tumblr, which gave me the link to a youtube video which contained some of tlm2 deleted scenes that either were changed or were really removed. This image may be shocking but here it is:
But particularly, Mayhem’s face:
(Here’s the link for the video, and it’s real.)
That already tells us a lot, and I’m not necessarily stating that Mayhem really is lesbian or something, but she probably did feel some sort of admiration there for Lucy (her facial expression says a lot). I’m not necessarily shipping these two, but I’m just saying that this implies that, if the directors were planning for Mayhem to feel some sort of attraction for Lucy, either platonic or romantic, then they wouldn’t make her a minor at all in the first place if that really were the case, because if she was really a minor and this scene made to the movie, they would sure get in a controversy for that.
Either way, I wanna thank all of the people who helped me with this investigation and I hope I clarified everything for those who were in doubt about this rumor. As for the wiki, don’t really trust it, it’s an editable website and anyone could easily go there and put false info without source confirming it.
Thank you @benny-the-spaceman for the “Green Rex” info and HUGE THANKS to @ayupglitterz for the dvd info, that REALLY helped me a lot. :D
