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>SPOILERS:
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>I kept wondering if Jeff Daniel's main henchman dude was
>actually his younger self. It wasn't clear, and I wonder if
>that was on purpose.
>
>I also was hoping the main character would've somehow still
>been alive in the end. Because by shooting himself he wouldn't
>have been able to come back in time later on, and there
>wouldn't have been a Rainmaker so the whole ordeal wouldn't
>have happened and he wouldn't have had to shoot himself. This
>is confusing to write. I think some of you probably
>understand. But it would have been a fun ending that would
>have confused half of the audience.
>


I believe Abe and "Kid Blue" were indeed the same individual. It explains, in his own way, Abe was "protective" with him, and Kid Blue fought so hard to prove himself towards Abe to show he was indeed competent.

Well, and I just thought about it after you posed this question, Joe prior to his self-sacrifice still would exist UP to that point at least, however, by not only altering the future to where Cid won't become the rainmaker, the old Joe killed off all the loopers, including ABE in which alters THAT part of the future too. Which very well possible that he would become somewhat similar to the RAINMAKER due to the fact prior to meeting Abe, he had the same EXACT motives for the same EXACT reasons as Cid!