Who is the astronaut in zathura

Follow TV Tropes. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. When Danny and Walter are talking about astronaut dude, and Walter complains that he's eating all the food, Danny replies, "So? Lupe just went shopping. The Astronaut is also Walter's adult counterpart. Danny and Walter went to a parallel dimension which was 15 years later. The Astronaut was Walter in an alternate past where he played the same game with his brother 15 years ago.

Make a wish as it passes. After that it is presumed he stayed in space on his own for the next 15 years. Image Gallery [ ]. We were fighting a lot back then. And when the game started, it got even worse. Every time we spun, we got madder and madder at one another. And then I landed on the Star Space, the same one that Walter just landed on. I made my wish. Walter : What'd you wish for?

Astronaut : I wished that my brother had never been born. Danny : Oh my god. Astronaut : As soon as I did, it felt horrible. I thought, you know if I could spin again maybe I, I could land on another Star Space and wish him back but, the game wouldn't let me.

So it wasn't my turn. Walter, there are some games you can't play alone. Astronaut : Are you telling me to leave? Walter : Well, once you're finished eating Astronaut : Well, he spun me The Zorgons take away the board game, which leaves the siblings and the astronaut struggling to get back the game. Eventually, Walter and Danny reconcile and manage to finish the game, thereby returning to reality. The astronaut reveals that he wished for his brother to be never born during one of his turns, thereby leaving him without a partner to finish the game.

The astronaut reveals that he is actually Walter from the future, who got stuck in the game without Danny. In a film filled with an angry robot, a meat-eating alien race, black holes, and pulverizing meteors, the saddest part is a brother wishing his sibling never existed.

The astronaut binds the thematic underpinning of the film together. Walter and Danny are in a state of perennial antagonism, as is the case with most siblings their age.