How does old guard end?

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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Is Andy immortal at the end of 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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Who is at the end of The Old Guard?

What is The Old Guard ending, explained? In case you didn't recognize her, the woman at the end of the film is Quynh, aka Charlize's Theron's former immortal BFF (and, let's be honest, girlfriend, probably) who was locked in an iron coffin and thrown in the bottom of the ocean by witch hunters.
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What happens to Andy at the end of The Old Guard?

The Nile successfully frees Andy, Booker, Joe and Nicky. She evens manages to kill Merrick by tackling him out of a high rise window. Hence, Andy in The Old Guard lives after she is rescued by the Nile in time. Her wounds are treated and The Old Guards are, free and reunited again.
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Does The Old Guard have a happy ending?

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. "Booker," Quynh says, calmly taking a sip of water. "It's nice to finally meet you."
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How did Quynh escape?

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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Are Andy and Quynh lovers?

In the recently released sequel series, The Old Guard: Force Multiplied, the relationship of Quynh (called Noriko in the book) and Andy is revealed to have been a passionate love affair, similar to what Joe and Nicky experience in the present.
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Does 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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Does Andromache of Scythia get her immortality back?

This resulted in Andy's first death, after which she came back to life again and found she was immortal. She eventually became the leader of her tribe after defeating the enemies who killed her for the first time.
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Is Quynh evil in old guard?

If the comics are anything to go by, it's the latter. In the sequel series The Old Guard: Force Multiplied, the Quynh character (who is called Noriko in the comics) is the main villain, and Booker is her often unwilling accomplice.
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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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What happens to Quynh in The Old Guard comics?

One of them, Quynh (Van Veronica Ngo), had a close bond with Andy dating back hundreds of years and built on weathering a series of witch trials. This relationship ended abruptly when a group of priests, fed up with Quynh's perseverance, trapped her in an iron maiden and threw her to the bottom of the sea.
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Is Andromache of Scythia real?

Our Andy's full name is Andromache of Scythia. The Scythians were an ancient people from Siberia—and archaeologists believe that the group, which featured women warriors, may have been the inspiration for the Amazons.
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Is there a part 2 to The Old Guard?

The Old Guard Chapter 2: Force Multiplied is finally moving forward at Netflix. Here's what we know. It's coming up on two years since The Old Guard premiered on Netflix. Filming has finally now began on the long-awaited sequel and we've got new casting news.
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Are they making an old guard 2?

Charlize Theron and cast mates "go to work" on 'The Old Guard' sequel. With filming now confirmed to be underway for the sequel to the 2020 hit Netflix film, The Old Guard, the film's star, Charlize Theron has revealed two behind-the-scenes photos showcasing the return of several actors from the previous film.
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Who was the first immortal in The Old Guard?

Quynh - Approx.

However, in the movie it's not specified exactly when or where Andy and Quynh met, except that Andy found Quynh when she was wandering through the desert, and that she was the first other immortal that Andy ever met. Many have speculated that Andy and Quynh will fight in The Old Guard 2.
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How does Andy lose her immortality?

This was in the original comic book too, but the big change Rucka made in the movie was to have Andy lose her immortality. Andy realises that she's lost her immortality when a stab wound from an earlier fight doesn't heal.
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What happened to Andromache after the fall of Troy?

All her relations perished when Troy was taken by Achilles. When the captives were allotted, Andromache fell to Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles, whom she accompanied to Epirus and to whom she bore three sons.
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Who was the woman 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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Is The Old Guard based on a true story?

The Old Guard's Andromache is based on wild stories from ancient mythology.
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When was Andromache of Scythia born?

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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Is Andy in The Old Guard 2?

All of the main cast will return for the sequel, so that's Charlize Theron as Andy, KiKi Layne as Nile, Matthias Schoenaerts as Booker, Marwan Kenzari as Joe and Luca Marinelli as Nicky.
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How old is Andy in The Old Guard movie?

The simple answer is that Andy is over 6,000 years old. According to The Old Guard comics, she is 6,732 years old.
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Do they save Quynh old guard?

At the end of The Old Guard, Booker drunkenly stumbles into his apartment after Andy, Nicky, Joe, and Nile sentence him to 100 years of exile from the group. He finds a woman in his apartment drinking a glass of water, revealing Quỳnh to be alive.
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Is The Old Guard related to Hancock?

" The Old Guard, based on the Image Comics miniseries of the same title, ultimately has very little else in common with Hancock. Still, the 2008 movie has remained popular with some fans in the years which have since followed, and Theron is more than willing to jump back into that world with Smith.
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