Ignoring Summoning Conditions

[Flashlight237]

So uhh.... In Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (yes, they actually made a time-skip sequel), I was given this piece of text.:

"He doesn’t need his name to be said three times to know when someone is trying to summon him and can simply teleport to their side."

So basically Betelgeuse can outright ignore his summoning requirements (saying his name three times) and can just appear from the mere intent of summoning him. What ability or resistance (more likely a resistance) would this grant him?

 

[AThe1412]

Teleportation and Summoning.

 

[SamanPatou]

I don't think it would grant any resistance, unless the conditions to summon him aren't simply a method but rather a key to unseal him from a prison of sort.
Anyway, that's ESP for sensing people attempting the ritual and then, of course, teleportation.

 

[Flashlight237]

I don't think it would grant any resistance, unless the conditions to summon him aren't simply a method but rather a key to unseal him from a prison of sort.

Technically it's both? Iirc, in the first movie, a depowered Betelgeuse is imprisoned in a model graveyard prior to summoning. That and the same method used to summon him is used to banish him.

 

[DimeUhDozen]

On second viewing, I think it’s just a side effect of him being in the Netherworld. The imprisonment only works in the world of the living, so the effects of his banishment only work in the real world. Delia who doesn’t know this attempts to try summoning BJ in the Netherworld only for him to teleport to her side regardless.

 

[Flashlight237]

On second viewing, I think it’s just a side effect of him being in the Netherworld. The imprisonment only works in the world of the living, so the effects of his banishment only work in the real world. Delia who doesn’t know this attempts to try summoning BJ in the Netherworld only for him to teleport to her side regardless.

....Oh.