History WMG / SaintsRowIV

[[WMG:DLC will feature Dex returning]] Dex threatens to wage war on the U.S. unless his demands are met. Dex will have an army of aliens(possibly enemies of the Zin) cyborgs(think Metal Gear Rising Revengeance turned UpToEleven) and gangsters under his command. The boss(now president once again with the Earth being restored) uses the simulation along with the time travel device to recruit more allies(Donnie, Troy, Lin, Carlos, Oleg, Josh, Kiki, Viola, etc).Then the saints track down Dex to some WretchedHive city overseas called Stalwart where he rules with an iron fist. You manage to stop Dex's terrorist plans early on but get stranded in Stalwart with no transportation(Dex has a forcefield that prevents any UFos or gunships from arriving), so you then have to free the all the territories from the control of Dex's army. You get guns that have elements of your superpowers(I.E. freeze-ray, mind-control gun, TK device) along the way. When you finally confront Dex at the end, it's revealed that he was responsible for the Zin coming to earth in the first place as he found some of their technology and used it contact Zinyak and somehow convinced him to go after earth(something like he lied to Zinyak that the boss was planning to invade and/or blow up other planets and that the Zin were next, which was convincing enough to Zinyak due to your characters sociopathy and Zinyak's own ambition to be leader)

Well, there must be a reason why she was the one specifically snogging the boss in one of the VideoGame/SaintsRowIV trailers. Not to mention the ShipTease in another trailer when she thinks the boss was saying she was beautiful (he was talking about a giant robot, but still). On top of that, one of the bosses in SaintsRowTheThird confesses love for her when she says she'll swipe the Daedalus's specs in the [[spoiler: Kill Killbane]] ending.

First of all the story will be slightly different depending on which final mission you did first if you have a game save of SaintsRowTheThird, or, if not, the game gives you a choice of whether or not [[spoiler: Shaundi is alive]]. No matter the choice, the Boss is forced to return to Stilwater either way, but the HOW is different:

[[spoiler: Shaundi from SaintsRowTheThird meets her old self from SaintsRow2, so at the very least it will be touched upon.

[[WMG: SaintsRowIV will be a ShoutOut to ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''.]]
* Alien invasion. Ramping up the emotion. Reliving traumatic events. Atlas mechs. KeithDavid teaming up with who you can make Shepard. It's pretty much inevitable.

* No shit right? However like the third game you have to make choices. Well SaintsRowIV look to be going for more emotional punch. In the third game you had to choose whether to sacrifice her to kill Killbane. In the fourth there's two Shaundis. What if you could only save one and that determined to some extent the ending?

[[WMG: Any post-ending DLC will feature [[spoiler:JaneAusten as a homie.]]]]

Alternately, after taking a beating from Gat, Zinyak teleported straight to his time machine and headed back. The reason he couldn't do that when the Boss started beating on him (and thus had to rely on his giant mech) was because Kinzie and King's plan to destabilize the simulation had also damaged the time machine and he wouldn't have been able to fix it quickly enough to escape from a power-armored badass whose VoiceWithAnInternetConnection friend could track his every move.

[[WMG: Saints Row V speculation.]]
* A prequel focusing on Julius and Ben King and the Origins of the Saints.
* A [[spoiler: Time Travel Quest, involving, saving Aisha, and saving Johnny from being abducted by Zinyak.]]
* A StealthSequel, advertised as a reboot with a new protagonist, [[spoiler: with Earth somehow restored.]]
* An alternate continuity sequel ignoring [=SRTT=] and [=SRIV=]
* Given Deep Silver taking the reigns and putting in a couple of [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]] to [[DeadIsland a certain game]] there'll be a part where we get to do to [[spoiler: Charon]] what we would have really loved to do in that game.
* It'll be revealed that [[spoiler: Earth's destruction]] was a simulation for ultimate emotional torture and when the Saints go home, they are public enemy number one because [[spoiler: Dex has used resources to take over the world in the Saints absence.]] So basically a larger scale SR2.
** Or if they aren't joking with the ''DeadIsland'' crossover, it'll be revealed that the events of the first two DI games took place in the Saints absence. The Boss will have the ability to telepathiclly fuse himself/herself to a playable character in Dead Island, fusing the player traditions of both games.

[[WMG: If there is another game, it will be an alternate universe where the Kill Killbane ending of SR3 is canon.]]
It would basically be a gritty reboot/sequel that would return the franchise back to its gangster roots. Saints Row 4 could be some sort of fan fiction written by someone. Matt Miller maybe, or even the protagonist. Johnny stays dead, Shaundi is dead, and the Boss would be on a downward trajectory of sorts.
** Semi-Confirmed for "Enter the Dominatix", which opens with Pierce as Mayor of Steelport, and Shaundi understandably saying [[KilledOffForReal it was the worst idea they had]]... [[UnexplainedRecovery In spite of being alive and well when the Zin lay siege to Steelport]].

[[WMG: Saints row V will feature SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong as it's key component]]
The entire storyline consists of using the time machine to head to the Boss pre-invasion and giving him a set of notes, but if two of the same person are in a room, reality breaks, so the Saints have to run around themselves.

Except Gat.

The problem? Time Machine's half-busted and fixing it inovlves running across space and time stealing stuff from everywhere, getting back from malfunctioned attempts, and hijinks.

* The Boss ran as candidate of the "Ain't No Party Like A 3rd Street Saints" party.

* A smear campaign against the Boss stated that the world [[HarsherInHindsight would be destroyed if s/he got elected.]]

Think about it. He captues Gat several years before the events of [=SRIV=], because the first time he tried to invade the planet, He met resistance from The Saints, and concluded that Gat was the greatest warrior. Zinyak fails at applying trial and error against the boss because it takes too long for him to realize how big a threat the boss really is. Huge mistake, which costs Zinyak his life and emipre.

* This make's Kinzie's cyber-nightmare even more extremely creepy than it was, given that she was ''married to him''.

An smear campaign against the Boss stated that the world [[HarsherInHindsight would be destroyed during his/her administration.]]

The problem? Time Machine's half-busted and fixing it inovlves running across space and time stealing stuff from everywhere, getting back from malfunctioned attempts, and hijinks.

Think about it. He captues Gat several years before the events of [=SRIV=], because the first time he tried to invade the planet, He met resistance from The Saints, and concluded that Gat was the greatest warrior. Zinyak fails at applying trial and error against the boss because it takes too long for him to realize how big a threat the boss really is. Huge mistake, which costs Zinyak his life and emipre.

When he replies that he doesn't swing that way in response to the Boss' suggestion to casual sex, he means that he dislikes having sex without a meaningful and romantic relationship with it. But the Boss is a generally charming and powerful person, so he couldn't resist.

** Confirmed, in that they both get grabbed by [[spoiler: [[BastardBoyfriend Veteran Child]]]], and a SadisticChoice is presented... [[spoiler: but Jossed when then they both go "[[MeaningfulEcho Fuck. That.]]", and mutually finish him off, [[BadassDamsel all without your help]].]]

It would basically be a gritty reboot/sequel that would return the franchise back to its gangster roots. Saints Row 4 could be some sort of fan fiction written by someone. Matt Miller maybe, or even the protagonist. Johnny stays dead, Shaundi is dead, and the Boss would be on a downward trajectory of sorts.

Just Throwing it out here, It's said that ETD happens in [[spoiler: an alternative Zin Invasion storyline, Where the Saints are trapped in a simulation ran by an AI program known as the Dominatrix.]] so there is open room for the chance to Meet the King, Bonus Points if we find out that the King is Cid and Twice the Points if [[spoiler: Cid is a Raptor]]

* The BigBad will be [[spoiler: a Nazi that followed the Saints throughout thier time travel adventures creating timelines where the Nazi's rule the world and probebly the universe, with STAG and Zin techonogy.]]

** Alternatively, it will end up a parody of said game. It would feel good to have [=ME3=]'s Gainax Downer Ending parodied.

** Alternatively, it will end up a parody of said game. It would feel good to have ME3's Gainax Downer Ending parodied.