History Characters / TheMonumentMythosAnomalies

* DullSurprise: A giant crab creature suddenly taking a cargo ship with it as it rises from the water? Human governments treat it like an odd development and civilians are more pissed off about the sheer negligence than impressed about the monster, with anomalies being public knowledge at this point.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The Crab, being completely passive and curious, accidentally destroyed the Cairo Tower and was mortally wounded in the process, ending its significance in the video. The remaining half of the documentary goes into extensive detail about the ADA calling a mass movement for American citizens to swarm the site to pilfer the goods that had fallen off the boat the Crab was carrying (calling the occasion 'Finders Keepers Day'), claiming that the whole event was a conspiracy by the Egyptians to get the cargo the Crab was carrying to fall under their own hands. The Egyptian authorities, meanwhile, do ''not'' take kindly to the swarm invading the site of this tragedy they were cleaning up and react with harsh brutality once everyone arrives. The subsequent bloodbath involving an absurd level of human greed, mass hysteria, children fighting to the death, and the desperate trying to flee but being trapped and annihilated by Egyptians lying in wait shows that whatever else the Crab could have done wouldn't have outdone what the humans in Egypt can do to themselves.

* PutOnABus: Despite their lore becoming critical to the plot, the Cornerfolk never appear again; not in Season 3 season; not in the Nixonverse; not even their standalone series which pre-dates the Mythos. Their presence becomes even ''further'' diminished when Season 3 reveals that the Angel was able to undo the Great Division, essentially retconning the Cornerfolk's existence altogether... maybe.

[[folder:The Libertylurker]]

The Libertylurker is a True Force of Mass Destruction that was situated underneath the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island. It first appears in ''LIBERTYLURKER''.

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:The Libertylurker is revealed to be none other than the Horned Serpent/George Washington, the mastermind behind the Statue of Progress, the Suez Canal and the Special Trees (implied to be its horns).]]

* SealedEvilInACan: Up until 1985, the Libertylurker resided underneath the Statue of Liberty before migrating. [[spoiler:''LIBERTYLURKERS'' indicates that the same applies to the Statue of Progress.]]

* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler:''LIBERTYLURKERS'' reveals not just that George Washington is the Libertylurker, but that the Libertylurker is [[GreaterScopeVillain the Horned Serpent]].]]

* CavalryBetrayal: He comes back in ''THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS'' [[spoiler:not to save humanity and drive back the Lunarians, but to murder Alice Avenue for "[[SheKnowsTooMuch sharing secrets]]."]] [[spoiler:This is subverted in the very next episode, where it's revealed that the Knight murdered Alice by accident. The Knight then stays to combat the Lunrians, though it's mostly ineffectual until he uses Alcatraz's power in ''THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX''.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: It may have one in whoever or whatever is responsible for "Operation Seed." Given that said operation has proliferation of assault weapons across the United States as one of its core goals, the Demon's obsession with keeping people from making progress on gun control seems too coincidental to not be connected.

* MonsterProgenitor: [[spoiler:A piece of Alcatraz matter that and escaped the Horned Serpent also assimilated some of its properties, becoming Richard Nixon and his extensions.]]

* AmbiguouslyEvil: A given, since we've only seen Luna once so far. [[spoiler:Did she order the Lunarians to [[AlienAbduction abduct the Last Son]] and turn him into her king? Did she also order their current invasion of Earth? Are the Lunarians somehow [[AuthorityInNameOnly acting indpendently]] of her? The only clue we get from Nixon is him claiming that she will "go mad" like the rest. ''THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX'' reveals that she didn't ''start out'' evil, but her deadly interactions with the humans of the Nixonverse had [[FaceHeelTurn driven her]] to villainy.]]

* TheBusCameBack: After being mostly absent from Season 3, it receives its first new mention in [[spoiler:''FOOTAGE OF FINAL TRUMP RALLY'', where it's implied to have been responsible for Trump's death or assimilation in the aftermath of Operation Seed]].

* MindControlEyes: Played literally. [[spoiler:The United States Government quite literally changed one of his eyes with a Lunarian eye to succesfully brainwash him.]]

* AntiHero: Of the [[UnscrupulousHero unscrupulous variant]]. The D-Day Knight, despite his wearing of a deformed human skull during D-Day and [[AmbiguouslyRelated connections to the Horned Serpent]], saved countless people during D-Day which he's implied to have done out of a genuine desire to do good. One of his journal entries in ''THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE'' has him note the Son stopped him from going "too far" in the Korean War, whatever that might have entailed. [[spoiler:Despite killing Alice Avenue in a fit of rage, the Knight later sticks around to fight the [[AliensAreBastards Lunarian invaders]] and admits that he only did it by accident. Despite being turned into an unrecognizable monster by the end of ''THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS'', he still keeps his heroism and rejects Luna's offer to join her kingdom. His utter destruction of the Lunarians, while horrifiying, is a good thing that results in the language being restored.]]

** Though, being a prison, that would make it [[JustForPun multicellular]], wouldn't it?

A bizarre entity that has involved itself in American politics. It involves itself with the Democratic party in contrast to the Debate Demon.

* TheManBehindTheMan: When it comes to debates on gun violence between Republicans, it appears to either explicitly approve of their more pro-gun stances or actively ''direct'' them towards such, addressing each figure by name in the middle of the debate. None of the participants go unaddressed, even if it's only to tell them it has no further comment. Given its other implicit and explicit appearances, it appears to be the man behind ''every'' man when it comes to school shooting discourse.

[[caption-width-right:1000:"i do nothing for God, william"]]

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Just as it shows up on the screen, a brief "Hello Viewer" appears just as its image appears with the tag line "Have You Seen Me?". The end credits lists "A video by THE MONUMENT MONSTER" and "HELL ON EARTH 2023" instead of the usual "A film by Alex Canasas' and the month and year of it's release, implying it had tampered with the video's creation itself.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Just as it shows up on the screen, a brief "Hello Viewer" appears just as its image appears with the tag line "Have You Seen Me?"

* AmbiguouslyRelated: Her appearance in Wonderland is accompanied by the Special Trees' song changing to "Heavenly Dream", implying some kind of connection to Virginia or [[spoiler:Everett]]. Her pose atop the ruined Washington Monument, however, is highly reminiscent of an [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Gilbert_Stuart_-_George_Washington_%28Lansdowne_Portrait%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg iconic portrait of George Washington]], which may indicate there's a connection there as well.

* PutOnABus: See above. The Wanderer completely disappears from the story following her introduction, and seemingly the ''only'' relevance to the plot she served is demonstrating how Wonderland makes copies.

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* DimensionalTraveller: Survivors of the Great Division that are now inhabiting the Deanverse, who have somehow managed to avoid becoming Cornerfolk and become powerful beings instead. The Knight and Luna both reference Deanverse concepts, with the Knight in particular outright stating that [[LivingStatue statues contained souls]] in his world. [[spoiler:ZigZagged in ''NIXON IS GOD'', where it's revealed that the Nixonverse's trinity are extensions of Nixon, who is an actual refugee of the Deanverse.]]

* BloodKnight: The original series hints he's one, but ''THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE'' establishes him further as one of these in its extra scenes, with his M1 helmet in Vietnam being covered almost entirely with [[KillTally Kill Tallies]].

* TheGhost: Pretty much disappears after ''QUEEN OF THE LUNARIANS'', and is never seen on-creen for majority of the Nixonverse despite playing a large role in it. This is averted in ''[[CompilationMovie THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE]]'', which further expands on her backstory and motivations.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:The English used in the descriptions of ''D-DAY KNIGHTFALL'' and ''NIXON IS GOD'' is completely normal, despite the Lunarians ostensibly trying to erase it and succeeding prior to this. As it turns out, this is because were wiped out by the Knight.]]

* CoolHelmet: He once wore a [[OhCrap deformed human skull]] [[DefeatedAndTrophified with horns]] as a helmet prior to losing it in D-Day. Later on, he temporarily used [[spoiler:The Alice Avenue memorial statue's head]] as a helmet as well, before throwing it away one day later after the realization that [[spoiler:she was actually dead]].

* HistoricalDomainSuperperson: The beginning of ''D-DAY KNIGHTFALL'' heavily implies that he's none other than [[spoiler:the Deanverse's Frank Sinatra. ''NIXON IS GOD'' reveals that he's an extension of Nixon, meaning that he might just be a recreation of the singer.]]

* StrawCharacter: An exceedingly bizarre one for Republicans. A ''swastika-shaped'' figure standing right over the Republican Party, directly ordering them to "PROTECT ASSETS" of gun manufacturers, sow ideological chaos and generally ensure pro-gun ideas remain spread no matter how much death comes from it, and explicitly acknowledging God has nothing to do with it.

* GeniusLoci: Alcatraz, as described before, is a living island with the ability to multiply similarly to a single celled organism.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Though it technically only really appears in two episodes, [[spoiler:its assimilation of the United States is later revealed to be a pivotal moment in the Nixonverse spin-off Season 3, as its anomalous properties enable the people of the Deanverse to survive the Great Division.]]
* VisualPun: The reason Alcatraz has the ability to multiply similar to a single celled organism is due to the fact that, if seen from a far enough view, the layout of the island itself looks similar to a single celled organism, and in the Monument Mythos universe, it even has structures that further its existence as a unicellular eukaryote, such as a nucleus and various organelles (i.e., mitochondria and a golgi apparatus).You could say that Alcatraz is a [[PunnyName prison cell]] now!

* TenMinuteRetirement: After regaining consciousness and realizing what he [[spoiler:had been forced to do in Vietnam]], he vows to live a peaceful live in the ocean, shapeshifting into [[spoiler:[[WhamShot his childhood]] [[RetCanon house.]]]] This doesn't last long, however, as [[spoiler:the Lunarians, believing him to be their prophesized King, force him out of his retirement and disfigure him into the Crescent King.]]

An entity similar to the Last Son in terms of powers and appearance, the D-Day Knight is the ([[BadassNormal despite his powers...]]) BatmanParody of the Nixonverse, serving as an HorrifyingHero during the times of World War 2, notoriously saving countless lives in D-Day and bringing hope into the hearts of those in need with his supernatural powers and his ability to presumably ScrewDestiny. [[spoiler:The Knight is later revealed to be an extension of the Moon God, Richard Nixon.]]

* AntiHero: Of the [[UnscrupulousHero unscrupulous variant]]. The D-Day Knight, despite his wearing of a deformed human skull during D-Day and [[AmbiguouslyRelated connections to the Horned Serpent]], saved countless people during D-Day which he's implied to have done out of a genuine desire to do good. [[spoiler:Despite killing Alice Avenue in a fit of rage, the Knight later sticks around to fight the [[AliensAreBastards Lunarian invaders]] and admits that he only did it by accident. Despite being turned into an unrecognizable monster by the end of ''THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS'', he still keeps his heroism and rejects Luna's offer to join her kingdom. His utter destruction of the Lunarians, while horrifiying, is a good thing that results in the language being restored.]]

* BatmanParody: While his powerset is more in line with Superman, it's clear that he's supposed to be a reference to Batman. Most of the titles of the episodes he appears in are clear references to Batman stories, as well as The Knight being the original super-hero in the Nixonverse is a reference to how, in some DC Comics media, Batman was one of the first costumed vigilantes and inspired Superman. Not to mention the usage of a horns in his original costume, which are reminiscent of Batman's iconic cowl.

* {{Irony}}: Despite being the BatmanParody of the Nixonverse, he has very little in common with the Caped Crusader in terms of personality. [[spoiler:He's evidently not very intelligent, with [[TheIllegible his handwriting]] in particular being poor. His temper is also pretty bad, enough for him to murder somebody in a fit of rage. Batman on the hand, is known for being smart enough to be the TropeNamer of BatmanGambit and for being TheStoic.]]

* {{Manchild}}: Possibly implied by his child-like handwriting and his AccidentalMurder of [[spoiler:Alice Avenue]] because he, in his own words, "lost his temper" because of her sharing secrets.

* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Subverted. The D-Day Knight and the Last Son, long thought to be the same superhero that just changed aliases over the years, are revealed in ''THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS'' to be two different characters despite their abilities being near-identical.

* DimensionalTraveller: She's implied to also be a survivor from the Deanverse, being aware of the Great Division and the process that turned the Last Son and the Knight into a super-humans.

* TheGhost: Pretty much disappears after ''QUEEN OF THE LUNARIANS'', and is never seen on-creen for majority of the Nixonverse despite playing a large role in it.
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Downplayed when compared to Nixon, but Luna is responsible for a number of events in the series. She had the Lunarians kidnap the Last Son and turn him into her king, ordered the Lunarians to invade earth that results in the events of ''THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS'' and ''D-DAY KNIGHTFALL'' and unwittingly revealed the magical Lunarian anatomy to the United States. Despite this, she only appears in two episodes (one of them being the series finale).]]

* NonActionBigBad: [[spoiler:Despite the Lunarian invasion being her doing, she doesn't personally engage in any of their atrocities unlike the brainwashed Crescent King. She only arrives on Earth in the finale to [[WeCanRuleTogether persuade the Knight]] into becoming a Lunarian prince, and is instantly consumed by his Alctraz matter without putting up so much as a fight.]]

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: [[spoiler:When the Apollo 11 mission lands on the Moon, she was more than willing to welcome them and treat them as equals. However, when Ed Dwight shoots her on the orders of John Glenn, she ends up turning against humanity and allows the Lunarians to brainwash the Last Son into becoming the Crescent King and ends up mangling the English language in America.]]

* AmbiguouslyRelated: [[spoiler:It's unclear if, like their Queen, the Lunarians are creations of Nixon or not.]]

* EyeScream: [[spoiler:In the Apollo 12 mission, one of them is shot by an astronaut and gets their eye gouged out and stolen by the U.S. government. Luna sees this as an act of war and starts a full on invasion on Earth.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:The English used in the descriptions of ''THE D-DAY KNIGHT'' and ''NIXON IS GOD'' is completely normal, despite the Lunarians ostensibly trying to erase it and succeeding prior to this. As it turns out, this is because were wiped out by the Knight.]]
* TheGhost: Despite the role they play in the Nixonverse, we never see any Lunarians in-person besides the Queen.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Their slow destruction of the English language is terrifying, but their main victim so far is the [[EvilStatesOfAmerica United States]]. The same United States [[WeComeInPeaceShootToKill that attempted to shoot their queen during first contact]], [[NukeEm nuked Alaska]], brainwashed the Last Son, forced the Last Son to do a "Sweep And Redeem" of Vietnam, and spread ''The House In The Ocean'' as a way to cover up the Last Son's transformation into The Crescent King.]]

* {{Lobotomy}}: [[spoiler:Their Cloud Ship is able to conduct an [[LightningCanDoAnything electrical brain surgery on civilians and super-powered beings alike]], as shown in ''D-DAY KNIGHTFALL''.]]

* WasOnceAMan: Possibly. Luna, the Queen of the Lunarians, is implied to be Donyale Luna, a human supermodel. [[spoiler:Later on, it is shown how the Lunarians abducted the Last Son to make him become their king.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: It may have one in whoever or whatever is responsible for "Operation Seed." Given that said operation has proliferation of firearms across the United States as one of its core goals, the Demon's obsession with keeping people from making progress on gun control seems too coincidental to not be connected.

* GreaterScopeVillain: It may have one in whoever or whatever is responsible for "Project Seed." Given that said project has proliferation of firearms across the United States as one of its core goals, the Demon's obsession with keeping people from making progress on gun control seems too coincidental to not be connected.

* TheManBehindTheMan: When it comes to debates on gun violence between Republicans, it appears to either explicitly approve of their more pro-gun stances or actively ''direct'' them towards such, addressing each figure by name in the middle of the debate. None of the participants go unaddressed, even if it's only to tell them it has no further comment.

!The Nixonverse
[[folder:In General]]
Much like the Deanverse, the Nixonverse has various strange beings and anomalies that inhabit it. Most of them are implied to have [[DimensionalTraveller migrated from the Deanverse]] following its destruction, and look rather humanoid as a result.