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* AxCrazy: The Operator is a sadistic and possibly psychopatic entity who apparently loves manipulating humans into killing the ones they love or close to them for sick amusement.
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* AxCrazy: The Operator is a sadistic and possibly psychopatic entity who apparently loves manipulating humans into killing the ones they love or close to them for sick amusement.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: [[spoiler: The Operator kills Milo's beloved dog Marty without any particular reason.]]
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: [[spoiler: The Operator kills Milo's beloved dog Marty without any particular reason.]]
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* DaylightHorror: The Operator can pop up at any time, day or night.
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* EvilDetectingDog: Marty...some of the time.
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* InvisibleToNormals: A slightly unusual variation. Nobody can see the Operator, except through a camera, not even the people he's stalking. Oddly, this is a departure from the original WebVideo/MarbleHornets series, where it was established that characters could see the Operator without a camera.
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* InvisibleToNormals: A slightly unusual variation. Nobody can see the Operator, except through a camera, not even the people he's stalking. Oddly, this is a departure from the original WebVideo/MarbleHornets series, where it was established that characters could see the Operator without a camera. As revealed in the 2020 anniversary stream, this was an idea floated around by the THAC team, but they scrapped it due to the aforementioned contradiction.
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* TheCameo: Creator/DamonGupton and Angus Scrimm appear in minor roles.
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A small town news team is on the hunt for a story. While following a crew responsible for clearing repossessed houses, they stumble on one house that isn't like the others. Unlike the previous houses, which have been mostly emptied by their former owners, this particular house still has almost all of its previous owners' possessions still in place. Upon searching the premises, the news team discovers a collection of tapes belonging to the family that lived in this house. As they go through the tapes, the members of the news team begin to find disturbing evidence that the family was being stalked by a mysterious figure...a figure only visible through the lens of a camera. As the members of the team struggle to learn just what happened to the unfortunate family, they begin to notice a figure appearing in their cameras, a [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos tall, thin, blank-faced stranger in a suit]]. The intrepid reporters find themselves in a race to solve the mystery behind the Operator before they become its next victims.
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A small town news team (Creator/ChrisMarquette, Alexandra Breckenridge, and Creator/JakeMcDorman) is on the hunt for a story. While following a crew responsible for clearing repossessed houses, they stumble on one house that isn't like the others. Unlike the previous houses, which have been mostly emptied by their former owners, this particular house still has almost all of its previous owners' possessions still in place. Upon searching the premises, the news team discovers a collection of tapes belonging to the family that lived in this house. As they go through the tapes, the members of the news team begin to find disturbing evidence that the family was being stalked by a mysterious figure...a figure only visible through the lens of a camera. As the members of the team struggle to learn just what happened to the unfortunate family, they begin to notice a figure appearing in their cameras, a [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos tall, thin, blank-faced stranger in a suit]].suit]] (Creator/DougJones). The intrepid reporters find themselves in a race to solve the mystery behind the Operator before they become its next victims.
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* HateSink: While The Operator is a wicked and malevolent SerialKiller in general the fact that [[spoiler: he first manipulates a father into killing his own daughter and then kills Milo's dog just for kicks]] makes him purely despicable at the audience's eyes.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: The Operator always leaves his CallingCard on the scene of his crimes in a sort of sick friendly reminder.
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* ForTheEvulz: The Operator gains absolutely nothing by viciously killing people of all age. It's basically like a human sadistic SerialKiller but with supernatural powers.
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* SilentAntagonist: Very predictable, The Operator never utters a word.
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* SilentAntagonist: Very predictable, The Operator never utters a word. Despite this he's shown to have a very distinct personality. Unfortunately not a pleasant one.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Unlike how it's portrayed in the original WebVideo (some sort of living virus), this version of The Operator is a supernatural and manipulative SerialKiller who apparently influences people to kill each other apparently ForTheEvulz.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Unlike how it's portrayed in the original WebVideo (some sort of living virus), this version of The Operator is a supernatural and manipulative SerialKiller who apparently influences people to kill each other apparently simply ForTheEvulz.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Unlike how it's portrayed in the original WebVideo (some sort of living virus), this version of The Operator is a supernatural and manipulative SerialKiller who apparently influences people to kill each other apparently ForTheEvulz.
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* KarmaHoudini: You probably already guess who by now. Anyway,[[spoiler: The Operator kills all the protagonists, dog included, and get away scott free without even an injury. The last shot of the movie suggests that it will target another family.]]
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: The Operator kills Milo's dog in one scene probably just to smite him.]]
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: The Operator kills Milo's dog in one scene probably just to smite him.]]
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* SilentAntagonist: Very predictable, The Operator never utters a word.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: The Operator's MO is relentlessly stalking his victims day and night until it decides to kill them.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: The Operator's MO is relentlessly stalking his victims day and night until it decides to kill them.
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A small town news team is on the hunt for a story. While following a crew responsible for clearing repossessed houses, they stumble on one house that isn't like the others. Unlike the previous houses, which have been mostly emptied by their former owners, this particular house still has almost all of its previous owners' possessions still in place. Upon searching the premises, the news team discovers a collection of tapes belonging to the family that lived in this house. As they go through the tapes, the members of the news team begin to find disturbing evidence that the family was being stalked by a mysterious figure...a figure only visible through the lens of a camera. As the members of the team struggle to learn just what happened to the unfortunate family, they begin to notice a figure appearing in their cameras, a [[TheSlenderManMythos [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos tall, thin, blank-faced stranger in a suit]]. The intrepid reporters find themselves in a race to solve the mystery behind the Operator before they become its next victims.
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* NamesTheSame: Sarah shares her name with a minor character from the original series.
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* WhamLine: Debated, but this line does raise eyebrows: [[spoiler: It's working right now! It even came with a tape in it, [[WebVideo/MarbleHornets Somebody's art film or something]]." "What do ya mean?" "I don't know: [[WebVideo/MarbleHornets Some kid chasing a guy in a suit in the woods with a flashlight.]]]]
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* WhamLine: Debated, but this line does raise eyebrows: [[spoiler: It's "It's working right now! It even came with a tape in it, [[WebVideo/MarbleHornets Somebody's art film or something]]." "What do ya mean?" "I don't know: [[WebVideo/MarbleHornets Some kid chasing a guy in a suit in the woods with a flashlight.]]]]"]]]]
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* PaterFamilicide: [[spoiler: The Operator directs the father to kill his wife and child.]]
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* ShoutOut: [[spoiler:[[WebVideo/TribeTwelve The character named Milo is the one to kill himself. Gee, that sounds familiar...]]]]
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* NamesTheSame: Sarah shares her name with a minor character from the original series.
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As the title would suggest, this film takes place in the MarbleHornets universe, but does not feature any of the characters of the original series (with a single major exception). The film was released on April 7th, 2015 through Video On Demand services and will be receiving a limited theatrical release on May 15th.
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As the title would suggest, this film takes place in the MarbleHornets WebVideo/MarbleHornets universe, but does not feature any of the characters of the original series (with a single major exception). The film was released on April 7th, 2015 through Video On Demand services and will be receiving a limited theatrical release on May 15th.
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* OutOfSightOutOfMind: At one point they guess that since The Operator can only be seen when the cameras are on, turning them off will, logically, make him go away and render him powerless. [[spoiler: [[WrongGenreSavvy They're wrong...]] ]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Milo tried to [[HeroicSacrifice kill himself in order to safe Sarah and Charlie from The Operator]], but this doesn't work. The Operator instead uses Milo's body to kill Charlie, teleport Sarah into the cabin, and has Milo kill her too, before dropping Milo's lifeless body onto the ground]].
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Milo tried to [[HeroicSacrifice kill himself in order to safe save Sarah and Charlie from The Operator]], but this doesn't work. The Operator instead uses Milo's body to kill Charlie, teleport Sarah into the cabin, and has Milo kill her too, before dropping Milo's lifeless body onto the ground]].
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** An earlier one takes place when [[spoiler: Charlie gets a tip that the father's credit card was used in Colorado, indicating that the disappeared family might have actually managed to find a way to escape the Operator. Sadly, those hopes are dashed when they arrive at the address only to find a burned-out ruin. Then those hopes are smashed into even tinier pieces and thoroughly stomped on when they discover the father's secret bunker and find the video of what happened.]]
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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: The father smother's his daughter with a pillow while under the Operator's control.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Milo tried to [[HeroicSacrifice kill himself in order to safe Sarah and Charlie from The Operator]], but this doesn't work. The Operator instead uses Milo's body to kill Charlie, teleport Sarah into the cabin, and has Milo kill her too, before dropping Milo's lifeless body onto the ground]].
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* WhamLine: Debated, but this line does raise eyebrows: [[spoiler: It's working right now! It even came with a tape in it, [[WebVideo/MarbleHornets Somebody's art film or something]]." "What do ya mean?" "I don't know: [[WebVideo/MarbleHornets Some kid chasing a guy in a suit in the woods with a flashlight.]]]]
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* InNameOnly: Not that it hurts the film. While it's called "''A Marble Hornets Story''", the film does not mention or talk about the [[WebVideo/MarbleHornets original story itself]], although it takes place within the same universe as the web series, and there's even a MythologyGag of Alex missing in one of the scene.
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* LoveTriangle: ''Sort of''.
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* InvisibleToNormals: A slightly unusual variation. Nobody can see the Operator, except through a camera, not even the people he's stalking. Oddly, this is a departure from the original MarbleHornets series, where it was established that characters could see the Operator without a camera.
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I\'ll confess I heard this on the Unfiction forums and haven\'t watched the film myself, so go remove/correct what I added if you want.
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* CassetteCraze: The film starts with the news team finding a pile of video tapes. [[spoiler: It ends with some unlucky schlub buying their camera after their violent deaths, along with tapes about "some kidd chasing a man in a suit in the woods."]]
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* CassetteCraze: The film starts with the news team finding a pile of video tapes. [[spoiler: It ends with some unlucky schlub buying their camera after their violent deaths, along with tapes about "some kidd kid chasing a man in a suit in the woods."]]
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* ArcSymbol: The Operator Symbol makes its return. Of course, since the film is an official part of the series that spawned the symbol in the first place, it makes more than a little sense.
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* ArcSymbol: The Operator Symbol makes its return. Of course, since the film is an official part of the series that spawned the symbol in the first place, it makes more than a little sense. Among other things, the Operator apparently likes to [[spoiler: brand the mark into the skin of his chosen victims while they sleep.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: The wife of the family from the tapes, after surviving the attack of her possessed husband, attempts to burn down the house with herself inside. However, she survives. Milo comes to the conclusion that the Operator can only be stopped with the death of the person who first drew his attention and hangs himself to save Sara and Charlie. It doesn't work.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: The wife of the family from the tapes, after surviving the attack of her possessed husband, attempts to burn down the house with herself inside. However, she survives. Milo comes to the conclusion that the Operator can only be stopped with the death of the person who first drew his attention and hangs himself to save Sara and Charlie. It doesn't work.]]
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* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: As the team retreats to a cabin and set up their cameras, the Operator shows up once again. Milo has determined that the only way to stop the Operator is to kill the person who drew its attention in the first place and hangs himself to save Sara and Charlie. It works. The Operator vanishes. The video distortions it causes come to an abrupt halt and everything seems to go back to normal. Sara and Charlie hug with Charlie saying that everything is going to be okay...[[OhCrap then Milo gets back up]].]]
* PeoplePuppets: How the Operator apparently gets things done when it finally goes in for the kill. One of the people in the opening scene is its first puppet while, later on [[spoiler: it apparently possesses the father of the family and uses him to kill the daughter before going after the wife, who manages to survive the attack and kill her possessed husband by pushing him down the stairs. Later on, it possesses Milo in the most disturbing manner possible, ''after he's hanged himself''. Milo actually stands back up and snaps his broken neck back into place before brutally killing both Sara and Charlie. In all the cases, the characters move and behave as though they are being physically manipulated. After he finishes with the other two, Milo collapses almost exactly like a puppet whose strings have just been cut.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: When Milo and the others first spot the Operator lurking in shots of the family's tapes, their first impression is that they are watching a potential serial killer. Unfortunately, the truth is much worse.
* PeoplePuppets: How the Operator apparently gets things done when it finally goes in for the kill. One of the people in the opening scene is its first puppet while, later on [[spoiler: it apparently possesses the father of the family and uses him to kill the daughter before going after the wife, who manages to survive the attack and kill her possessed husband by pushing him down the stairs. Later on, it possesses Milo in the most disturbing manner possible, ''after he's hanged himself''. Milo actually stands back up and snaps his broken neck back into place before brutally killing both Sara and Charlie. In all the cases, the characters move and behave as though they are being physically manipulated. After he finishes with the other two, Milo collapses almost exactly like a puppet whose strings have just been cut.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: When Milo and the others first spot the Operator lurking in shots of the family's tapes, their first impression is that they are watching a potential serial killer. Unfortunately, the truth is much worse.
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A small town news team is on the hunt for a story. While following a crew responsible for clearing repossessed houses, they stumble on one house that isn't like the others. Unlike the previous houses, which have been mostly emptied by their former owners, this particular house still has almost all of its previous owners' possessions still in place. Upon searching the premises, the news team discovers a collection of tapes belonging to the family that lived in this house. As they go through the tapes, the members of the news team begin to find disturbing evidence that the family was being stalked by a mysterious figure...a figure only visible through the lens of a camera. As the members of the team struggle to learn just what happened to the unfortunate family, they begin to notice a figure appearing in their cameras, a [[TheSlenderManMythos tall, thin, blank-faced stranger in a suit]]. The intrepid reporters find themselves in a race to solve the mystery behind the Operator before they become its next victims.
As the title would suggest, this film takes place in the MarbleHornets universe, but does not feature any of the characters of the original series (with a single major exception). The film was released on April 7th, 2015 through Video On Demand services and will be receiving a limited theatrical release on May 15th.
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*ArcSymbol: The Operator Symbol makes its return. Of course, since the film is an official part of the series that spawned the symbol in the first place, it makes more than a little sense.
*TheBlank: Guess who.
*CassetteCraze: The film starts with the news team finding a pile of video tapes. [[spoiler: It ends with some unlucky schlub buying their camera after their violent deaths, along with tapes about "some kidd chasing a man in a suit in the woods."]]
*EvilDetectingDog: Marty...some of the time.
As the title would suggest, this film takes place in the MarbleHornets universe, but does not feature any of the characters of the original series (with a single major exception). The film was released on April 7th, 2015 through Video On Demand services and will be receiving a limited theatrical release on May 15th.
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!!This film provides examples of:
*ArcSymbol: The Operator Symbol makes its return. Of course, since the film is an official part of the series that spawned the symbol in the first place, it makes more than a little sense.
*TheBlank: Guess who.
*CassetteCraze: The film starts with the news team finding a pile of video tapes. [[spoiler: It ends with some unlucky schlub buying their camera after their violent deaths, along with tapes about "some kidd chasing a man in a suit in the woods."]]
*EvilDetectingDog: Marty...some of the time.
