History WMG / DeadSpace

Think about it. Just don't think about it ''too hard'' or you'll suffer [[SanitySlippage]].

According to Dead Space 2 [[spoiler: Another Marker has been made.]] The reason for the second outbreak could be that [[spoiler: Now that there are two Markers again, The original Marker is no longer 'Whole']] and wants Isaac to do what he did in the first game in order to 'Make Us Whole Again'.

* That would explain the Healing Factor, and the fact that it comes back to get Issac personally after being incapacitated the first time.

The markers are pure evil. It's the ''pedestals'' that are good, and which are trying to prevent the infections.

Also, the reason why the hallucinations seem so disjointed and what not is because the aliens who built the marker didn't know anything about humans, much less how their brains worked, and thus the marker's mind control is... let us say... inefficient.

In any case, the biological weapon got out of hand, so the precursors then built the original marker - perhaps even a big series of them. Aware that the necromorph infection might take a bit of effort to stamp out, they design the marker(s) to be capable of mind-controlling other species, and putting necromorph DNA in the runes so that people can figure out a cure. Eventually, it was too late so they decided to completely blow up a planet, sending the marker as well as a lot of necromorphs flying. After a few million years, both the marker and the necromorphs land on Earth, and the rest is history. The reason why it ''seems'' like the marker(s) cause the necromorph infection is because of the actions of Markoff and his version of Unitology, who only translated the marker symbols that describe the necromorph infection itself without translating anything else and believe it's a way to achieve eternal life.

The Red Marker prevents the Necromorph virus from animating dead flesh. This is because the "dead space" around the Marker prevents certain proteins in the Necromorph virus from activating. The Necromorph virus was probably never meant to be removed from around the Markers; sticking the virus in a ''living'' human causes seemingly no effects. However, if a living human with the virus is brought within the "dead space", it may provide immortality; the Unitology belief that "death is not the end" is true, as the end is the immortality provided by the Marker and the virus. Necromorphs are the result of the virus attempting to bring back dead flesh and [[CameBackWrong coming back]] [[GoneHorriblyWrong horribly wrong]]. Given the amount of times Isaac is attacked over the game, it's highly likely the virus made its way into his system, one way or another. During the final boss fight, he was in close enough proximity to the Red Marker to activate the virus and make him immortal. It's the only way he survived an attack by Necro!Nicole in a ship in the middle of space.

Working off of one of the previously listed WMGs, Alex Mercer is the original black marker. Several decades after the events of Prototype, the epidemic created by the [[TheVirus Blackwatch viruses]] has spread to the point where [[spoiler: Alex can no longer control it, and it develops an autonomous hive mind]]. To combat the ever-increasing epidemic, Alex sacrifices most of his considerable power to seal away the viruses, becoming the black marker in the processes. At the end of Dead Space 2, some government-funded scientists break the black marker, releasing Alex from his inanimate imprisonment and unleashing a viral pandemic on a scale far greater than that of Dead Space 1 or 2. In Dead Space 3, Alex, whose stint as the original marker has made him significantly weaker than his Prototype incarnation, fights alongside Isaac against the new necromorph threat. Accordingly, Dead Space 3's co-op mode will allow both Isaac and Alex as playable characters.

[[Issac is a decedent of [[{{Team Fortress 2}} The Engineer]].]]
This is why, even though he's an engineer, his skill at killing things beats a fully armed warship and his engineering skills specialize in turning things into lethal weapons even though the way he does it doesn't make any sense. His father (or great x a fuckton granfather) is the Engineer.

Sliders states that there is an alternate universe for everything. Dead Space is a universe where the Flood evolved differently and the Forerunners and Precursors never existed (or maybe they did), nor did any alien life seen in Halo. The Flood and the Necromorphs have alot in common (I wouldn't be surprised if they had finished a Halo marathon right before coming up with them). They both use biomass to create forms, they both also use this biomass to transform the walls of a place into a similar fleshy homes, they both are controlled by a tentacled hivemind also made out of biomass and they both have an affinity for turning body parts into weapons.

Working off of one of the previously listed WMGs, Alex Mercer is the original black marker. Several decades after the events of Prototype, the epidemic created by the [[TheVirus Blackwatch viruses]] has spread to the point where [[spoilers: Alex can no longer control it, and it develops an autonomous hive mind]]. To combat the ever-increasing epidemic, Alex sacrifices most of his considerable power to seal away the viruses, becoming the black marker in the processes. At the end of Dead Space 2, some government-funded scientists break the black marker, releasing Alex from his inanimate imprisonment and unleashing a viral pandemic on a scale far greater than that of Dead Space 1 or 2. In Dead Space 3, Alex, whose stint as the original marker has made him significantly weaker than his Prototype incarnation, fights alongside Isaac against the new necromorph threat. Accordingly, Dead Space 3's co-op mode will allow both Isaac and Alex as playable characters.

[[WMG: The Black Marker is {{Prototype Alex Mercer}}.]]

The crew on Issac's ship died when they were trying to enter the SS Ishimura, and Issac imagined the rest of the game up just to be reunited with Nicole.

[[spoiler: She survived and woke up]], but later discovered that [[spoiler: she had stopped aging and gained regeneration, though nowhere near as powerful as Alex's.]] Alex isn't around because he was captured by one of Blackwatch's survivors (or maybe descendants/successors) and eventually killed... somehow. One of the Blackwatch had freeze-dried (no immunity to extreme cold) some cells for some reason or another and later became one of the [[spoiler: government high-ups manipulating Unitology]], leading to the cells getting marked in the files as "possibly useful with tweaking" and forgotten. Challus Mercer stumbles across the files at some point and dismisses it as unimportant until he tries to create the Hunter. The sample is used in conjunction with the Necromorph tissue, but being freeze-dried and mishandled through the centuries before being mixed with Necromorph tissue greatly diminished its capabilities, only helping to create the Hunter and give it regeneration and toughness in the end.

During the scene where you fight off the necrmorphs as they attack Nicole, a hallucination herself, she's busy trying to get a door open for you. This doesn't make much sense as, first, they're attacking an individual that only Isaac can see and second, being imaginary, Nicole should not have the ability to open doors for you. The obvious answer is that in this instance, both the Necromorphs and Nicole are hallucinations. It's the Marker's mind-controlling tool of influence (Nicole) being attacked by the Hive Mind trying to take over. The door was open the whole time and you spent a few minutes shooting a wall.
** An excellent theory, except that the necromorphs in that sequence still drop money and ammunition that you can pick up with Kinesis afterwards.
*** Easily explained by [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Gameplay And Story Segregation]]

[[WMG: The Marker telepathically took control of Nicole's infected corpse]]

And alternative to the above theory. Nicole isn't actually a hallucination, she was infected and turned into a necromorph after committing suicide, and the marker, after realizing that Isaac could help it, mentally dominated her corpse to aid him. It uses a normal hallucination to make the corpse look believable and talk. This explains how she was able to physically open a locked door for Isaac and why necromorphs are able to attack and kill her, and is also supported by the fact that a necromorph with Nicole's face attacks Isaac after the marker is destroyed, thus losing control over her.

[[WMG: Weller is dead]]

* I agree but think all of them are dead because the only decent shot just hacked off his right hand with a Laser Pick.

[[WMG: Unitology is the evolution of Scientology]]
After it faded into obscurity in the late 21st Century, it was assumed that the world had seen the last of it. Many centuries later, it was rediscovered by Michael Altman. Liking what he saw, he decided to ressurect it. With this and the Black Marker, he began the religious movement known as Unitology.
* {{Jossed}}. Dead Space: Martyr tells us that [[spoiler: Altman ''never'' worshipped the thing, hated being revered as a prophet, and was actually killed by one of his own 'followers' while they planned to use this new cult for their own agenda.]]

[[WMG: Isaac really was attacked by Nicole's Necromorph in the ending]]

** This troper seconds this theory. Mostly because its a better alternative than him getting killed after all that.
*** A trailer for the sequel implies that it was a hallucination; because it features Nicole whispering "Isaac... where are you going? It's not over between us... you can't run from me forever..."

[[WMG: Doctor Mercer is related to [[{{Prototype}} Alex Mercer]]]]

[[WMG: Isaac is CrazyPrepared in Dead Space 2]]
Kinda of a no brainier here, but the Rig suit Isaac has now is a custom job that he spent the last two years making just in cast the morphs ever come back
** no I think that the sprawl (being more than a planet cracker) has more advanced and/or a wider range of suits. Remember Isaac was in an insane asylum.
*** ignition implies that Issac's CrazyPrepared was planned in advance.

[[WMG: [[http://deadspace.wikia.com/wiki/Concordance_Extraction_Corporation Concordance Extraction Corporation]] owners of the Ishimura a future version of Clamp Enterprises from {{Gremlins}} 2 ]]
They both have a similar symbol at least

[[WMG: Isaac was attacked by a real necromorph at the end of the game, but it was only a necromorph ''physically''.]]
With the Hive Mind dead, Nicole regained at least a part of her mind and attacked Isaac in order to both die cleanly and provide him with a corpse to mourn. After all, what were the chances of the necromorphed Nicole being the last one to attack him?

[[WMG: Isaac was attacked by a real necromorph at the end of the game, but it was only a necromorph "physically".]]

[[WMG: Isaac was attacked by a real necromorph at the end of the game, but it was only a necromorph "physically". With the Hive Mind dead, Nicole regained at least a part of her mind and attacked Isaac in order to both die cleanly and provide him with a corpse to mourn. After all, what were the chances of the necromorphed Nicole being the last one to attack him?

They both have a similar symbol at least

[[WMG: [[http://deadspace.wikia.com/wiki/Concordance_Extraction_Corporation Concordance Extraction Corporation]] owners of the Ishimura a future version of Clamp Enterprises from {{Gremlins}} ]]

** no I think that the sprawl (being more than a planet cracker) has more advanced and/or a wider range of suits. Remember Isaac was in an insane asylum.