The detail in Alita: Battle Angel that doesn't make any sense

It's been more than a year since the release of Alita: Battle Angel, and fans of the popular manga it was based on still have some questions surrounding the film.

The popular sci-fi action film follows the story of a young cyborg girl, Alita, who was dumped in the trash, and restored to her full strength by a kind cyborg doctor in his clinic. But Alita (Rosa Salazar) has more questions than answers about her origins. She has no memory of who she was before she appeared in the trash, no idea where she came from, and no understanding of the human world she suddenly finds herself in. It's an action-packed two hours, but somehow, by the time the credits roll, many of the questions from the start of the movie have still not been answered.

To name just a few: we still don't know who created Alita the first time around, and we don't understand why, in the flashbacks of her past life, she was attacking the floating city of Zalem. We don't know or understand the significance of the most prominent figure in her flashbacks (played by Michelle Rodriguez), and we have no idea why Alita, who it is strongly implied is infinitely valuable not only for who she is but for her parts, has been dumped in the trash heap of Iron City.