What did Thomas do to WCKD?

He betrayed Wicked to the Right Arm, a military group opposed to WCKD. The Right Arm is much smaller than before. Since he's immune to the Flare, they thought he'd be more useful in the Maze than dead.
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Why is it Thomas fault in maze runner?

Newt reveals to Thomas that he has been infected by the Flare, as revealed by the black veins on his right arm. Newt reveals that the reason WCKD put him in the Maze was because they wanted to tell the difference between Immunes like Thomas and people like himself. Thomas tells Newt that he can cure him.
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What does Thomas do in the maze?

Maze Runner: The Death Cure. Thomas helps Newt, Frypan, Brenda, Jorge, Vince, Harriet, and the Right Arm rescue Aris, Sonya, and a group of Immunes and take them to their new hideout. At night, when Thomas leaves the hideout to go to the Last City to rescue Minho, Newt and Frypan join him.
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Why did WCKD create the maze?

The whole purpose of the Maze and their trials was to study their brain patterns. They were trying to figure out how the brain patterns of an immune differ from the brain patterns of a non-immune.
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What did Thomas do with the cure?

Instead, Thomas and Theresa fight back, then Theresa helps Thomas flee with the Right Arm, sacrificing herself in the process. At the end of the film, it's revealed Thomas did escape with a vial of the cure. In the third act of The Death Cure, the actual cure becomes somewhat secondary to the other crises playing out.
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Mary Tells Thomas About His Past [The Scorch Trials]



Why is Thomas blood special?

Thanks to these situations,the brain of the immunie begins to produce an enzyme in the blood. The enzyme can make the virus slower, but after Thomas was in the Scorch, the enzyme in his blood now has the ability to really CURE the virus.
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Did wicked find a cure?

After the attack, Paige writes an email to the other WICKED members saying that although WICKED has failed in their original attempt to find a cure, they have ultimately succeeded in their goal of saving the human race by sending the surviving Immunes to a safe place where they can start to rebuild civilization.
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Is Gally immune to the flare?

While leading Thomas, Newt, Frypan, Brenda, and Jorge to Lawrence's hideout, Gally tells them that he was found lying on the floor of the WCKD lab with the spear still in his chest by Lawrence's crew, who, after discovering that he is immune to the Flare, pulled the spear out of his chest and took him to the Last City ...
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Is Newt not immune?

Newt is separated from his sister and placed with other Group A members. He is aware of the fact that he is not Immune.
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Is Thomas immune to the flare?

Fortunately for Thomas, he and most of his friends are Munies — immune to the Flare. That's why they've been put through the Maze and the Scorch trials. The disease works by eating away areas of the brain.
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Why is Ben forced into the Maze?

Ben was a semi-minor character in The Maze Runner who went through the Changing, and was later banished into The Maze for attempting to kill Thomas.
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Is Thomas the only immune person?

The only known Gladers in Group A that are not immune are Newt, Chuck, Jackson and Winston.
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Why did Alby sacrifice himself?

After going through the Changing and learning about the devastations that have struck the outside world, Alby becomes withdrawn and loses his will to lead. Unable to confront the realities waiting for him outside the Glade, Alby sacrifices himself to the Grievers in a desperate attempt to protect his friends.
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How did Teresa betray Thomas?

For most of the trials, Teresa pretty much plays the role of temptress. She lures Thomas in, and then crushes him. Then she lures him in again, and she crushes him once more.
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What bites Thomas in the shoulder?

Next to the grave is a sign reading: “You can't escape through the Box Hole.” Just then, a Glader breaks through the woods and attacks Thomas, biting him on the shoulder. The two struggle, and when Thomas throws off his attacker, he realizes it is Ben, the boy from the Homestead who was stung by a Griever.
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Did Newt and Thomas kiss?

Dylan O'Brien and Thomas Brodie-Sangster had a plan to randomly kiss during a scene and surprise the rest of the crew — but Dylan backed out last minute.
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How did Newt get the flare?

Basically during the maze and scorch trials, he was pushed to his limit so his brain would have been under a lot of stress, which would then speed up the Flare.
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How did Ben get stung in maze runner?

The screams are from a boy named Ben; he was stung by a Griever, one of the monsters that lives in the Maze. After receiving an antidote called Grief Serum, Ben is going through “the Changing,” a painful process during which the victim is flooded with memories of his life before the Maze.
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Was Newt immune to the flare?

Let's start with the thing that WICKED was hiding: it's the fact that Newt isn't immune to the Flare. Worse: he has the Flare. Most of the Gladers who find out that they have the Flare become sullen and emotional, but not Newt. When he finds out, he just tells Thomas: "I'm not worried about the bloody Flare, man.
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What did the Grievers inject?

The Grief Serum is the antidote that the Gladers give to someone who is stung by a Griever. It arrives in a syringe with their weekly supplies.
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Is Teresa immune to the flare?

When the Flare began to spread, everyone in her village shunned and abandoned her when they found out she was immune to the virus, believing her to be a demon of some sort. In the end, Teresa told Thomas that her original name was Deedee.
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What is the right arm in maze runner?

The Right Arm is an organization against WICKED. Their leader is Vince. They believe that the money that WICKED has been using in their search for a cure to the Flare would have been better spent in preventing the disease being spread across the planet, keeping more people healthy.
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What does WCKD stand for?

World In Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department, generally abbreviated to WICKED (WCKD in the film adaptation), is a flagitious organization that was originally formed to find a solution to the Flare Pandemic, and are shown as the central antagonistic faction of The Maze Runner book trilogy and film series.
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Is there a cure to the flare?

In The Death Cure, WICKED tries to cut out Thomas's brain as they believe that by studying its tissue, and how its physical makeup allowes it to resist the Flare virus's power, they would be rewarded with the cure. By the end of the books, no cure for the Flare is found yet.
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