Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Beetlejuice gives surprisingly little information about its titular character, resulting in a slew of fan theories attempting to explain away the backstory of the sleazy bio-exorcist. Despite Michael Keaton's brilliant performance, Beetlejuice doesn't have all that much screen time in his eponymous film, resulting in extremely little being known about the source of his powers or his past.
There's a surprising number of smaller details throughout the film that support this theory. For one, no other ghost is ever seen eating other than Beetlejuice, who takes the time to slurp up a few bugs. It's possible that while trapped in the model village, Beetlejuice survived on insect meat, which would be proportionally-scaled for his tiny body.
6 Beetlejuice Died From Drinking And Drowning His appearance could confirm a different cause of death As previously stated, ghosts in the Beetlejuice universe typically carry over the cause of their death into their spectral appearance. A diver appears with a shark still around his leg, and a flattened man killed by car crash still moves about the eternal waiting room with a tire track marking his body.
Beetlejuice's amazing cosmic powers may seem to support a possible demonic nature, playing by rules neither other ghosts nor humans are seen to be able to operate on.
3 Beetlejuice Was Bozman Of The Bozman Building He may have had more of a connection to the events of the film as a human Beetlejuice comes into contact with the Maitland family for the first time only after becoming a ghostly con artist, but one theory supposes that he has more of a connection with their dealings than he may have originally thought. One theory supports the idea that before Beetlejuice became Beetlejuice, in life, he was known as Bozman.