FANTASTIC BEASTS

Argument[edit]
Somewhere inEurope, some Aurores are on the hunt for someone, but they are
quickly defeated by this individual. Throughout the magical community in Europe, there
They publish in newspapers the acts of violence caused by the dark wizard, Gellert.
Grindelwald.
In1926Newt Scamander arrives atNew Yorkby boat, carrying with him a mysterious
suitcase that houses a dozen magical creaturesas.3
In the streets of the city, he meets Mary Lou Barebone preaching about the
existence of witches and other magical people. While Newt listens to Mary Lou, a
Escarbato (a furry creature with a strong attraction to precious metals and gems) escapes.
from his suitcase and flees towards a bank. Newt chases him, creating chaos in the bank and
unintentionally drags a No-Maj (the American term for referring to a non-magical person)non-magical person)
called Jacob Kowalski, a veteran of theWorld War Iand current worker of a
canned goods factory that was at the bank looking for a loan to open its
ownbakery. After retrieving the Niffler from the bank vault, Newt takes to
Jacob is outside and prepares to erase his memory, but Jacob is still impressed by the...
happened hits Newt with a suitcase and escapes. Porpentina 'Tina' Goldstein, a former auror
arrests Newt and takes him before Seraphina Picquery, the president of theMACUSA(Magicongreso
Unique to the American Society), who ignores them by considering the case irrelevant.
The Director of Magical Security Percival Graves arrives at Tina's office and demands to see what
there is in Newt's briefcase once Tina explains the situation. When Newt opens it and
Tina is surprised to see that they actually brought with them Jacob's briefcase, which was
full of pastry samples. Newt realizes that he accidentally changed his briefcase.
with Jacob's. Back in his apartment still confused by what had happened Jacob
accidentally opens the suitcase and releases several of the magical creatures.
Meanwhile, Mary Lou, who runs a kind of orphanage, indoctrinates the children to her
beware of stories about wicked witches and use them to distribute anti-witch pamphlets. Their
youngest daughter, Modesty, proudly sings a song about killing witches, while
that your eldest son, Credence, is isolated and shows discontent with the ideology that
Credence, behind Mary Lou's back, is visited several times by Graves, who has
ordered to find a child of astonishing power, who is actually possessed by a
Obscurus, whom Graves thinks is connected to a number of inexplicable and destructive.
magical incidents that have recently occurred in New York. Graves promises to
Credence to rescue him from his stormy life and teach him magic if he succeeds.
Newt and Tina arrive at Jacob's home where they find half of his apartment destroyed.
and Jacob apparently sick due to the bite of a Murtlap, one of the
animals that escaped. Newt repairs the apartment and Tina takes them to her house, where
They know Queenie, her younger sister who is an expert in Legilimency. Newt and
Jacob spends the night at their house. Newt shows Jacob the inside of his suitcase.
Where is your collection of magical creatures that are misunderstood by the world.
As he strolls through several of the habitats inside the suitcase, Jacob encounters an entity
dark and small, which Newt describes as an Obscurus, and warns Jacob not to
touch it. Newt after counting his animals, discovers which ones are missing. The two
they set off in search of the Erumpent (a species of rhinoceros that injects a material
explosive with its horn) but Newt realizes that his Erumpent has escaped again and it
recapture in a jewelry store after a brief struggle with him. When they meet with
various ordinary animals like a lion and an ostrich realize that the Erumpent is
at the Central Park zoo. Tina and Queenie realize that the two men have
I go so Tina goes out in search of him. She witnesses how Newt and Jacob catch the
They burst out and while they put the animal into the suitcase, she closes the suitcase from the outside with
they inside. Determined to prove that she was right before the MACUSA, she takes the
suitcase to the offices. Meanwhile, at MACUSA, there is a meeting of several leaders of
magical communities that had come to discuss a dark force that terrorizes
to New York, and that he had appeared and murdered a senator of the United States. Tina told them
explain to President Picquery, Graves, and the other international wizards the problem of
Newt, however, Graves ends up arresting Tina, Jacob, and confiscating the suitcase.
Graves interrogates Newt about the presence of an Obscurus inside his suitcase. He explains
that the Obscurus is a dark force created inadvertently by children who have repressed
its magic, out of fear of being discovered or due to persecution by the non-magical community. A
A secondary effect is that the child who harbors the Obscurus, known as Obscurial, dies.
before reaching ten years old. Newt had captured the Obscurus in his suitcase after
that killed the Obscurial, a Sudanese girl. The child Graves is looking for is actually another one.
Unidentified Obscurial, which has continued its destruction through New York and killed the
United States Senator Henry Shaw Jr. at a banquet. Graves sentences Newt and to
Tina to death. Queenie finds out while reading her sister's mind, so she manages to.
free Jacob and set out in search of the others. Newt uses one of his newly captured ones.
animals, the Swooping Evil, to escape from the executioners. Once all gathered
they escape from the MACUSA barracks.4
Meanwhile, Credence becomes more unstable due to his abusive home.
she finds a wand under Modesty's bed, Mary Lou assumes it is his so that
decide to punish him by whipping him with his belt, something that happens frequently. Modesty
she confesses that the wand belongs to her, when Mary Lou is about to hit her the Obscurus
he manifests, destroys the house apparently killing the others except for Modesty
and Credence. Graves finds Credence unconscious and urges him to find Modesty,
Who does she think the Obscurial girl is? Newt, Tina, Jacob, and Queenie visit a Clandestine Bar.
magic to ask his owner Goblin, Gnarlak, about the location of the last beast, a
Demiguise (a species of primate with fur that can make it invisible). After that
Newt intends to exchange his Bowtruckle (a small, plant-like creature useful for opening)
locks) for information Graves and his auras are raiding the nightclub, already
that they had been informed by Gnarlack about the presence of Newt and company. Newt and his
friends escape and find the Demiguise in a department store, where they discover
that I was actually there because I was taking care of a newborn Occamy (a snake
embroidered with the ability to shrink or grow according to the space where it is located) who
took residence on the roof of a Macy's and grew to the size of a dragon. Newt, Tina, and
Jacob tricks the Occamy into shrinking into a teapot and Newt proceeds to return it.
to the briefcase, capturing all the creatures that escaped.
Graves and Credence find Modesty in her old house, where she used to live with her family.
biological. After Graves cruelly rejects Credence for being useless to him as he is
aSquib(someone who cannot use magic despite being a descendant of a wizard) for it
who could never escape her unhappy life, proceeds to trap Modesty. However,
Credence reveals himself as the Obscurial. Driven by his hatred towards Graves, Credence unleashes
the power of the Obscurus. Now incorporeal, Credence causes disaster in the city of New
York, creating chaos and destruction in its path. Newt noticing that the lack of
Information would lead the Aurors to kill Credence, he runs in search of him. He finds him.
in a subway station, where he calms Credence and manages to bring him back to his form
human. The arrival of Graves and Tina causes Credence to return to his incorporeal form.
When President Picquery and the other aurors arrive, she gives the order to kill
Credence to protect the secret of magic. Despite Newt's protests, Tina and
Graves the aurors kill Credence. Furious, Graves challenges MACUSA for their actions and
his obsessive need to keep the secret of magic from the no-majs, which has caused
situations like the one that occurred and the preferences of the non-magical community's interests
about the needs of wizards. Picquery orders Graves to surrender but he fights
with them and starts winning when Newt subdues him using the Swooping Evil. Using the
Revelation enchantment, Graves actually reveals himself as Gellert Grindelwald, the wizard.
the most notorious in the world. He is arrested and taken to the MACUSA. Before the
the President's concern that all the no-majs saw the Obscurus, Newt uses his Bird
of thunder (A bird native to the United States that Newt had rescued from some
smugglers in Europe and intended to release it in Arizona) to spread a
potion to erase the memory of all non-mags who witnessed the magical destruction.
Picquery thanks Newt for his help in the contingency and apologizes for the incrimination.
who had, however, orders him to also erase Jacob's memory, for which he gives him a
moment for everyone to say goodbye to him. Everyone objected that it wasn't fair, but Jacob
voluntarily agrees that he must lose his memory to no longer harm his friends and
decide to go out in the rain. Queenie, who had developed feelings for him, says goodbye with a
kiss.
Some time later Newt runs into Jacob who was back at his unhappy job at the
canned goods factory. After bumping into him again (although he did it on purpose), Newt
he exchanges his suitcase again with his. When Jacob takes the suitcase and realizes.
that is not hers, as it is very heavy. Upon opening it, she realizes that it is full.
from Occamy egg shells, which are made ofsilverpure, along with a note of
Newt, who tells him to use the eggshells to be able to open his desired bakery. Tina is
reincorporated as Aurora in MACUSA and says goodbye to Newt who will set sail towards
England again. Newt promises her that he will return to give her a copy of his book, to which
She suggests that it should be called 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.'
Meanwhile, Jacob opens his bakery and is very successful with his artisan bread inspired by
in the form of Newt's fantastic beasts despite not remembering them. The movie
ends with Jacob seeing Queenie among the customers and at her smile, he seems
to be able to recognize her.

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