How did Quynh survive?

Now, it's a mystery as to how she escaped from the iron maiden in the water. Over time, perhaps, the metal may have corroded to the point where Quynh was able to break free. Or someone retrieved the tomb and opened it while exploring the sea or finding the device ashore, allowing Quynh to come back to life for good.
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How did Quynh escape ocean?

A Quynh-like character named Noriko did exist in the original comic books, but she wasn't sent to the bottom of the sea: instead, she was thrown off a ship and sent into a nonstop storm, which also caused her to drown again and again.
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How was Quynh saved?

After numerous execution attempts failed, their tormentors found a way of dealing with Quynh. They locked her in a medieval torture device known as an iron maiden and threw her into the water. Leaving her to a fate of centuries of drowning to death, reviving and then dying again and again.
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Did Andromache lose her immortality?

After her mother's death, she was honed into the warrior she is today until one such elder became jealous of her and sent her off to battle. This resulted in Andy's first death, after which she came back to life again and found she was immortal.
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Is Quynh a villain?

It all started with Andromache of Scythia, or Andy in the film. In the comics we learn that she was born as far back as 4500 BC. She was part of a tribe of warriors but was betrayed and then resurrected, later saving her tribe.
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How old is Quynh?

Quynh - Approx.

That puts her date of birth some time in early 500 AD, which would make her around 1500 years old during the events of The Old Guard.
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How old is Andromache Andy of Scythia?

In the comics, Andy says that she's 6,732 years old. That would put Andy's birth year around 4700 BC, more than 3,000 years before the birth of the region of Scythia around 1100 BC.
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Did Andy regain her immortality?

After Andy gets cut with a knife and is unable to heal herself, she realizes she's become mortal. Later in the movie, she speculates that she lost her immortality when Nile, the group's new member, became immortal. But in the comic (up to #4 of "Force Multiplied), Andy is still immortal.
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Is Andy still immortal The Old Guard?

The ending of The Old Guard, however, put several things in stark perspective for Andy, Nick, Joe, Nile, and Booker from the reveal that Andy is no longer immortal to the twist that her partner, Quynh is alive.
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Will there be an old guard 2?

The Old Guard 2 won't be coming to Netflix this year, but rest assured, the sequel is definitely happening.
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How does Quynh escape old guard?

Now, it's a mystery as to how she escaped from the iron maiden in the water. Over time, perhaps, the metal may have corroded to the point where Quynh was able to break free. Or someone retrieved the tomb and opened it while exploring the sea or finding the device ashore, allowing Quynh to come back to life for good.
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How long was Quynh drowning?

She was imprisoned in an iron maiden and thrown into the sea. Because she's immortal, she's been endlessly drowning for over 500 years. But by the movie's end, Quynh has somehow managed to escape her underwater prison and surprises Booker in Paris, where he's currently spending his time while exiled from the team.
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Why did Booker betray The Old Guard?

Booker betrays his friends to the sadistic pharmaceutical executive Merrick (Harry Melling) because he is sick of his long life. He cannot handle the pain he experienced when his son died cursing his name, and how the agony only grows over time. Booker wants Merrick to end their boundless suffering.
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Do they save Quynh?

It's a dark moment, though it's built on the hope — however withering — that Andy can find her and restore their long-lost relationship. But at the end of the movie, we see that Quynh has, indeed, escaped her underwater metal chamber.
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Why do The Old Guard lose their immortality?

Andy realises that she's lost her immortality when a stab wound from an earlier fight doesn't heal. This means that when she's captured by Merrick and during the final battle, a fatal wound will be just that: fatal.
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Who was the girl at the end of The Old Guard?

This woman, as you may remember from earlier in the film, is Quynh (Da 5 Bloods and Star Wars: The Last Jedi star Veronica Van Ngo)—one of the original two immortals. It was clarified in a flashback scene earlier that she was the second oldest of all of them, and that she was a friend and inseparable with Andy.
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What happens to Noriko in The Old Guard?

By the time the others catch up with Andy, Noriko has already disappeared. Andy finds Noriko tailing Nile outside a bar and asks to talk. Noriko makes Andy feel guilty about giving up on searching for her and explains that she drowned repeatedly for years.
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How old was Andy in The Old Guard?

The simple answer is that Andy is over 6,000 years old. According to The Old Guard comics, she is 6,732 years old. There it is.
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Is The Old Guard a true story?

Andromache From Netflix's The Old Guard Is Based on Wild Stories From Ancient Myth.
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Who survives in old?

Anyway, one by one, each of the people at the beach is killed off – some whilst trying to escape, some after succumbing to their health issues or old age, and some of them brutally murdered – leaving siblings Trent and Maddox as the only survivors.
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What did Scythians look like?

Other than tattoos, what did the Scythians look like? Some of the women have fair hair and blue eyes but the men are strongly built and have red or dark hair. Scythian craftsmen were good at casting metal.
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What does Quynh mean?

What is the meaning of the name Quynh? The name Quynh is primarily a female name of Vietnamese origin that means Night Blooming Flower.
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When was Andromache of Scythia born?

The character of Andromache of Scythia was born as far back as 4500 BC, according to the comic book. She was born in Eurasia, which was Scythia under the Roman Empire and belonged to a female tribe of warriors.
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Does Andy and Quynh?

Andy found Quynh wandering alone in the desert before she collapsed from dehydration. They later found Lykon, but when he permanently died in battle, Quynh and Andy realized that their immortality doesn't last forever.
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Does Booker betray Andy?

Booker shoots Andy, giving her a potentially fatal wound to her side and exposing the truth: She can no longer heal, a sign her immortality has faded and she can actually die. Booker exposes himself as a traitor, allowing himself to be taken into custody by Merrick alongside Andy.
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