Is Misty a sociopath?

Yes, Misty's a complete sociopath who destroys the airplane black box that might have seen her and her teammates rescued before they had to start eating each other, but her genuine longing for acceptance and friendship is so compelling and relatable that it's difficult to outright hate her for what she's done.
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Is Misty a sociopath in Yellowjackets?

Kailey Schwerman/Showtime. Misty is a sociopath, but you still feel for her. There are those early scenes where the other girls on the team call her up just to tell her she's ugly. And you have to play her as the sociopath who still remains somewhat endearing and a person people root for.
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Is Misty from Yellowjackets crazy?

Misty is a geeky, eager-to-please outcast who serves as the equipment manager for the WHS Yellowjackets, a team headed for the nationals. As an outcast, she sometimes receives prank phone calls from classmates, who tease her for being ugly.
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Is Misty In Yellowjackets evil?

There are many terms that could be used to describe Misty: evil, crazy ... batshit insane. And though they're harsh, they honestly do underscore just how interesting of a character she really is. The struggle facing Misty is one that is universal: She wants to feel needed and valuable to others.
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What does Misty do in Yellowjackets?

Misty is the Yellowjacket's equipment manager. Eager to please and easy to overlook, Misty's abundance of team spirit belies a hidden dark side. Misty is the Yellowjacket's equipment manager. Eager to please and easy to overlook, Misty's abundance of team spirit belies a hidden dark side.
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Does Coach Ben like Misty?

Yellowjackets' Samantha Hanratty says she's excited to see how her character Misty will react after finding out that Ben doesn't actually love her.
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Why does Misty poison coach?

Coach Scott is poisoned by Misty after resisting her advances. When she confesses to having a crush on him, he claims to feel the same way, but tells her they have to keep it secret because of him being an adult and a teacher.
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Is Lottie the antler queen?

Even though it is obvious that Lottie took on the role of the Antler Queen, Yellowjackets has not yet confirmed that onscreen. In season 1, there was a slow buildup to Lottie's thirst for power, which ended with Van and Misty supporting her as she appealed to the spirits in the woods.
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Why does taissa eat dirt?

It seems that the primary catalyst for Taissa's dirt-eating habit is stress, as she first begins the habit when in the stressful situation of trying to survive in the wilderness, then returns to it in Yellowjackets' 2021 timeline when the stress of the campaign and Jeff secretly blackmailing them takes a toll on her.
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Who did Jackie See Yellowjackets?

The role of “Hunter” is played by William Charles Vaughn. Based on the supplies of food and ammunition, the man living in the cabin was certainly either a hunter or a survivalist, so this is likely the identity of the man in Jackie's vision in the Yellowjackets season 1 finale.
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Why does Misty destroy black box?

Misty's bananas behavior has deep roots. When she was a teen-ager, in the nineteen-nineties, she and her high-school soccer team were in a plane crash in the Canadian Rockies, and she destroyed the plane's black box to insure that her cohort could not easily be rescued.
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Who is the villain of Yellowjackets?

Taissa, played by Tawny Cypress and Jasmin Savoy Brown, appears to still have night terrors that make her a danger. It's Misty, though, who is the clear winner. Played by Sammi Hanratty in '96 and Christina Ricci in the present, Misty is a mouse with a serial killer's temperament lurking beneath blonde curls.
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Is Yellowjackets based on a true story?

Though not entirely based on the Flight 571 tragedy, Yellowjackets seems to draw inspiration from the disaster. The group of sports players, the plane crash, the cold climate, and violent, cannibalistic actions are all paralleled in this series, which means it's loosely based in reality.
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What box did Misty break?

Misty destroys the plane's black box in Yellowjackets because she has the overwhelming desire to feel needed. Misty's role on the team is technically the assistant, but she acts sort of as a gopher who is very happy to do whatever anyone needs.
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What did Misty do at the end of episode 2?

Misty is the one who realizes Coach Ben's (Steven Krueger) leg has to be amputated and doesn't hesitate in chopping it off with an ax. She also takes care of his bandages and even cauterizes his wound in addition to helping others with slings and all kinds of injuries one would expect plane crash survivors to have.
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What did Misty break episode 2?

It's Misty. She takes a burning axe and cauterizes the wound for Coach's severed leg. In the middle of the night, Misty heads off and finds the flight recorder, blinking with a red light. Instead of sharing with the others, she smashes it up completely, making sure they can't be tracked.
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Is Tai The lady in the tree?

As the episode closes out, we finally get some answers over who the woman in the tree is that Sammy has been seeing. It's Tai. She awakens with a bloodied hand, that same strange sigil from before and a confused, panicked reaction over what's going on.
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What is wrong with Taissa Yellowjackets?

In addition to her sleepwalking, Taissa also sees a man with no eyes appear after her grandmother's death, and her son seems to be eerily affected by an as-yet-unknown supernatural malevolence - possibly Taissa's alter ego herself.
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Who sent the postcards in Yellowjackets?

All Clues To Yellowjackets' Jeff Twist

One of the biggest clues suggesting early on that Jeff might be the blackmailer was that Shauna did not get a threatening postcard like the other women did, which they assumed were from Travis' killer.
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Is Lottie schizophrenic?

Yes, Lottie was schizophrenic, Tai might have just been sleepwalking, and there could be something other than cosmic forces bringing everyone back together.
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Who painted spill in Yellowjackets?

She's down by 20 points in the suburbs and her angry reaction to Diane last episode isn't doing her any favours. That stress manifests once more in seeing a wolf out in the street… and ominous red paint on the door reading “Spill”. The culprit is actually Sammy, who has red paint under his bed.
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Who is the leader in Yellowjackets?

One of the biggest mysteries in Yellowjackets season 1 is the identity of the leader of the cannibals, dubbed the Antler Queen by fans, but a lot of evidence suggests that the Antler Queen is Lottie Matthews.
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Who broke their leg in Yellowjackets?

At the reunion, Allie (Tonya Cornelisse), the girl who broke her leg and narrowly avoided the plane crash, takes the class through a slideshow that memorializes the soccer team. Surprisingly, it's after the reunion where things get more interesting and more dramatic, for each of our four main protagonists.
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Is Lottie dead Yellowjackets?

Lottie Matthews is still alive!

Turns out, it was Lottie who drained Travis' bank accounts after his death. We haven't seen much, if any, relationship between Lottie and Travis in the wilderness—except when she leads the girls into hunting him for meat, I suppose—so it's anyone's guess how they're connected now.
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Is Shauna's husband cheating Yellowjackets?

After spending a good chunk of the show judging him for cheating on Jackie (Ella Purnell) when they were young and then also seemingly cheating on Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) as an adult, it was revealed that Jeff was actually one of Shauna's biggest supporters.
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