Warning: Contains SPOILERS for the Futurama season 12 finale!
Fry and Leela have gone through a lot throughoutFuturama’s25 year run, but the duo has just had thier biggest change yet in theFuturamaseason 12 finale. Hulu’sFuturamareboot has givenFry and Leela’s relationshipa lot of development, with them moving in together in season 11 and growing stronger throughout the subsequent episodes. However,Futuramaseason 12 just pulled off a massive character dynamic shift, and it did so in a way that nobody thought possible.
Futuramaseason 12, episode 10, “Otherwise"is the season finale of the second season of Hulu’sFuturamareboot, with it being one of the season’s strangest episodes yet. The episode sees the Planet Express ship finally get destroyed,with the Planet Express crew taking it to a multiversal ship graveyard. A series of bizarre events then occurs to the cast ofFuturama, with the episode ending with a massive twist that has multiversal implications.
Fry & Leela Get Married In The Futurama Season 12 Finale
Only As A Multiversal Couple
InFuturamaseason 12, episode 10, Fry, Leela, and a few other characters head back to the ship graveyard, where something strange begins to happen. Their ship is attacked by an invisible ghost ship, with them being hit and slowly falling into the multiversal waters before. Due to thier imminent deaths, Fry and Leela finally decide to get married before they perish, withZapp Brannigan’s role as the ship’s captaingiving him the authority to marry the duo. So, after 25 years ofFuturama, we finally got to see Fry and Leela get married.
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However,Futuramaseason 12’s finale pulls the rug out from under viewersat the end of the episode, revealing that the Fry and Leela that got married aren’t actuallyFuturama’s main Fry and Leela. Instead, they are multiversal counterparts of our main characters, with the real Fry and Leela being in the wreckage of the previous Planet Express ship. The episode ends with Fry and Leela still being unwed, although there is potential for this to change in the future.
Futurama Season 13 Could Finally See Fry & Leela Get Married
After Season 12’s Big Tease
Due to the effects of the mutliversal sea, Fry begins having flashbacks to the previousFuturamaseries finale, “Meanwhile.“This episode saw Fry and Leela become stuck in time and grow old together, although Hulu’sFuturamaseason 11 premiere undid “Meanwhile’s” ending. Fry and Leela have no memories of their previous relationship, but now that he is starting to have flashbacks, this could change.
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Futurama’s approach to death has become increasingly cavalier, which could have an impact on the stakes in future storylines.
On top of that,teasing Fry and Leela’s marriage would be weird ifFuturamadidn’t have plans for it in the future. Many fans were excited to see Fry and Leela finally get married in “Otherwise,” and revealing that it didn’t actually happen could be disappointing for some. So, ifFuturamaseason 13 does happen, the series could go all-in on seeing its two protagonists get married.
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Futurama is an animated science fiction series that follows Philip J. Fry, a pizza delivery boy from late-20th-century New York City. He is accidentally cryogenically frozen for a thousand years and becomes an employee at Planet Express, a delivery service in the retro-futuristic 31st century.
