As a result of the father allowing Finn's younger sister to join them in playing with his Lego sets, aliens from the planet Duplo beam down and announce their plans to destroy everyone, leading into the events of The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part. Finn's father reconciles with his son, which plays out as Business having a change of heart, capping the Kragle with the Piece of Resistance, and ungluing his victims with mineral spirits. Through a speech Emmet gives Business, Finn tells his father that he is special and has the power to change everything. Meanwhile, Finn's father looks at his son's creations and realizes that Finn had based the villainous Business on him. Finn returns Emmet and the Piece of Resistance to the set, where Emmet now possesses the powers of a Master Builder and confronts Lord Business. Realizing the danger his friends are in, Emmet wills himself to move and gains Finn's attention. The father, revealed as "the Man Upstairs" chastises his son for ruining the set by creating hodgepodges of different playsets, and proceeds to permanently glue his perceived perfect creations together.
Inspired by Emmet's sacrifice, Wyldstyle rallies the people across the universe to use whatever creativity they have to build machines and weapons to fight Business' forces.Įmmet finds himself in the real world, where the events of the story are being played out in a basement by a boy, Finn, on his father's Lego set. Strapped to the self-destruct mechanism's battery, Emmet flings himself off the edge of the universe and saves his friends. Vitruvius reveals he made up the prophecy as he dies, but soon reappears to Emmet as a ghost and tells him it is his self-belief that makes him the Special. However, he and his allies are captured and imprisoned, and Vitruvius is killed by Lord Business, who sets his headquarters to self-destruct and leaves everyone to die. Emmet devises a team plan to infiltrate Business' headquarters and disarm the Kragle. Bad Cop's forces attack and capture everyone except for Emmet and a few others. They then go to Cloud Cukoo Land, where they meet Unikitty and attend a council of Master Builders, who are unimpressed with Emmet and refuse to fight Business. Though disappointed to find Emmet is not a Master Builder, Wyldstyle and Vitruvius are convinced of his potential when he recalls visions of a humanoid deity called "the Man Upstairs".Įmmet, Wyldstyle, and Vitruvius evade Bad Cop's forces with the aid of Batman. Lucy rescues Emmet, believing him to be the Special, and takes him to meet Vitruvius.Įmmet learns that she and the wizard are Master Builders-people capable of building anything they need without instruction manuals-who oppose Business' attempts to suppress their creativity.
There, Emmet learns of Business' plans to freeze the world with the Kragle, a tube of Krazy Glue with the label partially rubbed out. He awakens with the Piece of Resistance attached to his back in the custody of Bad Cop, Business' lieutenant.
Compelled to touch it, Emmet experiences vivid visions and passes out. He fails to do so but prophesies that a person called "the Special" will find the Piece of Resistance capable of stopping the Kragle.Įight and a half years later, a construction worker named Emmet Brickowski comes across a woman named Lucy (her friends call her Wyldstyle), who searches for something after hours at Emmet's construction site.Įmmet falls into a hole and finds the Piece of Resistance. In the LEGO universe, the wizard Vitruvius attempts to protect a superweapon called the "Kragle" from the evil Lord Business.