Bugonia (2025) ending explained: Teddy was right: unpacking the alien truth behind the mass extinction

Featuring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia is a dark comedy thriller film which was released on October 24, 2025, by Focus Features. The plot follows an amateur beekeeper and conspiracy theorist Teddy Gatz (Jesse Plemons), who blames the chemicals from pharmaceutical giant Auxolith for the collapse of his bee colonies and the persistent vegetative state of his mother.

Being convinced of Emma Stone's character, Michelle being an alien, Teddy, along with the help of his cousin Don, kidnaps Michelle, who Teddy believes to be an alien from the Andromeda galaxy sent to extinguish the human race. Teddy tortures her confronting her to accept that she is an alien and that her company is responsible for the destruction of his bee colonies and the vegetative state of his mother.

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During the conclusion of Bugonia, it is revealed that Michelle is indeed an alien and Teddy's conspiracy theories were mostly proven true. After escaping, Michelle confesses the truth to Teddy and tells him that the Andromedans (an Alien race) do exist and that humans are destroying themselves and those around them.

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Bugonia ending explained: Emma Stone’s shocking alien revelation and the fate of the Earth

A still from the film's trailer (Image via YouTube/Focus Features)

Yorgos Lanthimos’s dark comedy thriller Bugonia centers on the core conflict that revolves around Teddy Gatz (Jesse Plemons), a low-level warehouse employee and amateur beekeeper whose honey bee hives are succumbing to Colony Collapse Disorder.

Teddy blames Auxolith, the pharmaceutical megacorporation run by CEO Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone), whose products he also holds responsible for his mother's persistent vegetative state.

Driven down a rabbit hole of internet conspiracy theories, Teddy latches onto the idea that Michelle is an alien-in-disguise from the Andromeda galaxy, part of a sinister plot to wipe out humanity by first killing off the bees. This belief motivates Teddy and his easily manipulated cousin, Don, to kidnap Michelle, starting a harrowing period of captivity and torture.

After fighting his conscience over the guilt of the kidnapping and his inability to reconcile his loyalty to Teddy, Don takes a shotgun and blows his head off in front of Michelle during the final scenes of Bugonia. Michelle takes advantage of Teddy's grief to convince him that she has been keeping the Andromedan treatment for his mother's illness in an antifreeze bottle in her car.

A still from the film's trailer (Image via YouTube/Focus Features)

Teddy rushes to his mother’s long-term care facility and administers the antifreeze through her IV line, killing her in a misguided attempt to save her. Though she manages to free herself, Michelle chooses not to escape immediately. She confronts Teddy, giving him a complex, self-serving confession about the history of her alien race during the final scenes of Bugonia.

She claims the Andromedans arrived on Earth during the age of the dinosaurs, accidentally causing their extinction, and subsequently created a new species, humans, in their image to repopulate the planet.

Michelle tells Teddy he was fundamentally wrong about their true intentions; the Andromedans were not trying to infiltrate and poison humanity, but rather they have been desperately working to save the human race from itself, citing the destruction humans inflict through climate change and war.

Nevertheless, the shocking truth is revealed when Michelle decides to teleport Teddy to her mothership via a teleportation closet in her office. Before he enters, Teddy reveals a bomb vest. While Michelle seems to type a code to teleport him, the vest detonates, blowing Teddy to pieces and knocking Michelle unconscious.

A still from the film's trailer (Image via YouTube/Focus Features)

Michelle recovers and races back to Auxolith, where she finally enters the closet and beams herself up to her mothership using the calculator. It is here that Michelle’s true form and significance are exposed: she is, in fact, the Empress of the Andromedans.

The final scenes of Bugonia confirm that Teddy, despite his delusions, was right about many minute details, including their hair acting as communication and the exact design of their spacecraft.

A final council with her Andromedan advisors leads to the ultimate, dark conclusion where Michelle claims that humanity is a "failed experiment." In the film's chilling final moments, Michelle pops a bubble surrounding a model of Earth. This act causes every single person on the planet to instantly drop dead without bloodshed.

Bugonia concludes with an extended montage, showing corpses scattered wherever they fell across the globe. However, it also offers a sliver of hope, as the bees are shown returning to their hives, suggesting that while the human experiment failed, the planet itself remains salvageable.

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Bugonia hit the theatres on October 24, 2025. Stay tuned for more updates.

Edited by Suchita Patnaha