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Kajagogo posted...

Okay so I've seen this movie a couple of times, and I rarely see anyone ever talk about the actual plot, especially the ending.

Was Dr. Frank N Furter banned or exiled from Transsexual? Was Riff Raff and Magenta sent to Earth with him to keep an eye on him? Was creating Rocky a loophole to go back to Transsexual and that's why Riff Raff killed him?

Was all of this explained, and I just missed it every time?

It's never really explained why Frank and the gang are on Earth, but Riff Raff kills him in the end because Frank doesn't want to go back to Transylvania and he and Magenta do. I think the implication is that Frank wants to stay on earth to engage his hedonism, like a big fish in a small pond sort of situation. He wanted Columbia, he got Columbia. Then he shoved her aside for Eddie and got Eddie. Then he tired of Eddie, froze him, used half of his brain to create a dimwitted muscle-man homunculus and murdered him with a pickaxe. Frank-N-Furter was perfectly content stringing people along for his own twisted games, and Riff Raff acts at the end because he wanted to go home to Transsexual, Transylvania.

Edit: post 4 makes a good point about the mission. I think it's a combo of Frank's lifestyle "being too extreme", as per the end of the Floor Show, as well as his wanton and frivolous diverging from whatever agenda they initially set out with.

You could be right that Magenta and Riff Raff were sent to keep an eye on him. However, Riff Raff could have followed Frank out of his own affections for him. Listen to his freakout about Frank never liking him - that could be heartbreak.

I think creating Rocky was just his twisted way of creating the perfect partner. Strong, attractive, and with intelligence like that of an animal so he's good for sex but he'll never rear up and challenge Frank's authority.

Frank-N-Furter is a super fucked up character, but he's so fun and Tim Curry's charisma is so incredible.