They just didn’t know it yet.
Carter’s arc: He begins as the man who runs toward danger to avoid intimacy. He ends—spoiler—not by killing Issus with a sword, but by trapping her inside the one thing she cannot consume: the love between a father and son. john carter movie 2
Dejah walks to him. She doesn’t speak. She just takes his hand. They just didn’t know it yet
Logline: Haunted by the ghosts of a war he didn’t start and a family he can’t protect, the immortal Warlord of Barsoom must unite the dying planet’s fractured city-states against a parasitic god from beyond the stars—only to discover the greatest threat to Mars is the Earth he swore to forget. I. The Weight of Victory: Where We Begin The film opens not on Mars, but in a rain-slicked alley in 1888 New York. John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), now a silent, restless ghost in his own world, walks among the living but belongs to the dead. He has returned to Earth to honor his promise to Dejah Thoris: to find a way to bring their infant son back to Barsoom safely. But Earth feels smaller now. Gravity is a cage. The colors are mud. And the nightmares—green tharks, white apes, the blue-lipped smile of Matai Shang—arrive with every thunderclap. Dejah walks to him