Why would WCKD be willing to kill the Gladers?
This may have already been asked, but because WCKD wanted to save the human population but at the same time they are killing part of the population by sending in over 50 kids to the Glade and given 2 years to get out of the maze. But why would they kill the kids? they are trying to save humans so why kill them?
If the kids never fought in the Glade against the invading Grievers, and if the Gladers stayed, would they all have died? A bit of clarification would be nice thanks.
Best Answer
The children are mostly immune to a disease, a virus, that WCKD created. This immunity only comes from active mental activity, mainly survival type thinking, i.e. a deadly maze. That brain activity produces an enzyme in the kill zone part of the brain that makes them immune. In the books, WCKD needs the perfect brain of the best child to dissect and study to make everyone immune and end the virus. In the movies, they need to drain the children like blood donors to produce the cure en mass.
To WCKD, the children are nothing but collateral damage in their effort to save and control the population from their own mistake. Lab rats in a maze.
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Why were the Gladers put in the Maze?
They were trying to figure out why these kids were immune to the Flare, and so they put them through Trials to test their brain activity but in order to figure out a cure for the virus, they needed to have non-immune's too.Why did WCKD put Grievers in the Maze?
A Griever is a creature that lives in the Maze and comes out mainly after dark (this is not always the case, they have sometimes been known to come out in the daytime). Its purpose is to harass and even kill the Gladers who venture into the Maze.What does wicked want in maze runner?
WICKED is trying to find a cure for the disease caused by the Flare. In order to do that Dr. Ava Paige wipes the memory of teenage boys and sends them into the maze. She does this to experiment if the children are the key to everything.Why did WCKD put Thomas in the Maze?
Newt reveals to Thomas that he has been infected by the Flare, as revealed by the black veins on his right arm. Newt reveals that the reason WCKD put him in the Maze was because they wanted to tell the difference between Immunes like Thomas and people like himself. Thomas tells Newt that he can cure him.MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS Clip - \
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