Emmet Brickowski

**Emmet Joseph Brickowski**, later known by his alter-ego **Radical Emmet Xtreme "Rex" Dangervest**, is a Lego minifigure character in the _Lego Movie_ franchise and the protagonist of _The Lego Movie_ (2014) and its sequel, _The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part_ (2019). He starts out as an everyman construction worker in his home city of Bricksburg, and later, unexpectedly, becomes "The Special" Master Builder.

#### _The Lego Movie_

Emmet eventually and unexpectedly discovers that he was chosen by the prophecy of "The Special" Master Builder, proclaimed by wizard Master Builder Vitruvius, to find the Piece of Resistance to save the Lego World and stop the evil Lord Business. In addition, he meets his future girlfriend, Lucy (aka "Wyldstyle").

At first, Emmet is stubborn and constantly fails to do things right when they have to be, being used to following instructions, unimpressive to the Master Builders. But when he discovers that everything in the Lego world is from the imagination of a child with amazing creativity, he finds his own inner power of creativity and becomes a true Master Builder. He is sent back to the Lego world where he makes a speech to Lord Business and saves the world celebrating with his new friends. Wyldstyle becomes his girlfriend, with Batman's blessing, at the end of the film.

#### _The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part_

In the sequel, Emmet must use his Master Builder skills to save his friends from a new danger. It turns out Emmet maintains his livelihood and is unaffected by the aftermath of the Duplo invasion unlike everyone else in Bricksburg (now called "Apocalypseburg"). Emmet also wants to have a bright future with Lucy, but Lucy disagrees due to the fact that everything is rather bleak than awesome. After Lucy and his friends are abducted by General Sweet Mayhem (Stephanie Beatriz) of the Systar System, under the orders of shape-shifter Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi (Tiffany Haddish), he meets Rex Dangervest (Radical Emmet Xtreme), a galaxy defending (referencing Peter Jason Quill from _Guardians of the Galaxy_) archaeologist (in turn to the speculation that Chris Pratt was to be the next Indiana Jones), cowboy (referencing Josh Faraday from _The Magnificent Seven_), and raptor trainer (referencing Owen Grady from _Jurassic World_), who is later revealed to be a version of Emmet from the future, as a time-traveler.

After he destroys the cake wedding of Wa'Nabi and Batman, Emmet realizes the real intentions of Rex Dangervest, and Rex knocks him under the same dryer to ensure his existence where he and Rex began to fight but Rex defeats him by breaking him in half, but Lucy rallies the others into escaping from the storage bin (bringing them back into the LEGO world), and rescues him from Rex. They both overpower Rex and destroy his time machine and he is erased from existence. The LEGO universe is transformed into a mix-up of Apocalypseburg and the Systar System called "Syspocalypstar" which is peaceful. Emmet's dream house is rebuilt and Lucy reveals that she was one of the original artists of "Everything Is Awesome", much to Emmet's surprise.

It was initially rumored that Emmet was going to have a sister in the second film, but around a month before its release, it was denied and the sister role ultimately went to Bianca.

### Spin-off films

Emmet's first, and so far only, appearance in films not related to the original story was in the first spin-off film, _The Lego Batman Movie_. In the beginning of the film when a local Gotham News Anchorman is explaining the results of Joker's bomb blast, footage of Emmet falling into the Infinite Abyss of Nothingness is shown to illustrate what would happen.

#### _The Lego Movie Videogame_

Emmet appears as the protagonist in the game, voiced by Keith Ferguson. He has several variants of himself, which can be used as entertainment or disguises required to make progress in a level.

#### _The Lego Movie 2 Videogame_

Emmet appears again as the protagonist in this game, but this time voiced by A.J. Locascio. Like the first film's game, he has several variants of himself, which can be used as entertainment or disguises required to make progress in a level.

#### _Lego Dimensions_

Emmet appears as a playable character in _Lego Dimensions_. His Fun Pack also includes his excavator. Chris Pratt reprises his role.

### Other media

Emmet has also been portrayed in other uses of popular media.

He appears in three episodes of the YouTube series _How It Should Have Ended_ (HISHE): _The LEGO HISHE_, _The LEGO HISHE 2 - The Alternate Ending_ and _Lego Batman Is Jelly_. In _The LEGO HISHE_, Emmet is seen defeating the Duplo Aliens and saying hello to Lego Superman and Batman in the café. In _The LEGO HISHE 2 - The Alternate Ending_, he is seen with other characters from the first movie in an alternate ending to the film where they have President Business jailed for his crimes, despite his change of heart. In _Lego Batman Is Jelly_, Emmet appears to be disguised as Star-Lord (referencing their shared actor, Chris Pratt) as his "secret identity" after hanging around at a park playing banjo before going through "recreation".

Emmet and Lucy make an appearance in a 2014 episode of _The Simpsons_, "Brick Like Me".

## Fictional biography

According to the first film's script, Emmet is 22 years of age, thus making him 27 in the sequel if accepted, with his year of birth as 1992. This would have meant that Emmet was about 13.5 years old when Lord Business stole the Kragle, as Emmet found the Piece of Resistance eight-and-a-half years later.

### Name

Despite being credited as so in the end credits of _The Lego Movie_, Emmet's surname "Brickowski" is barely mentioned throughout the storyline of the franchise. In one scene from _The Lego Movie_, Lord Business briefly refers to Emmet as "Brickowski", although this at first could have been interpreted as a clever insult. In _The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part_, Rex Dangervest calls Emmet by his first name and surname, and jokes about it stating, "you're the reason I started wearing vests."

Although it is seen as a clever pun on a real person's surname ending in "-owski" (with "Brick-" coming from a Lego brick), Emmet's surname is believed to have drawn inspiration from former NBA player Frank Brickowski.

## Infobox (character)

- **series**: The Lego Movie (franchise), The Lego Movie
- **name**: Emmet Brickowski
- **creator**: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
- **first**: _The Lego Movie_ (2014)
- **last**: _The Lego Movie 2 Videogame_ (2019)
- **species**: Lego Minifigure (human)
- **gender**: Male
- **occupation**: Master Builder construction worker
- **significant other**: Lucy "Wyldstyle" (girlfriend)