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2[[caption-width-right:350:Vince shares some exercise tips with [[BeingWatched an engaged audience]].]]
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4->''What's up, Hybrids?''
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6->''Alright now, since this is [[{{Mockumentary}} a documentary]] of our [[ApocalypticLog real investigation]] of our [[ThisIsReality real situation]], um, I wanted to put this in here, I wanted to put this in this video and, uh, explain to whoever might be watching this at the end that... that um, I personally think that it's bullshit how we're just sitting here waiting and just beating around the bush about this shit. Clearly this is not just some [[ScoobyDooHoax dickhole messing with us]], clearly, this is not just [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos some man in a suit.]] This is something '''[[EldritchAbomination SO]]''' [[EldritchAbomination much worse.]]''
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8A series of Website/YouTube videos based on Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos. Three guys -- Vince, Evan and Jeff -- set up a fitness and exercise video-blog, in which they discuss the best ways to exercise, the best things to eat and the best ways to defend yourself from anyone who attacks you. Vince and Evan do the talking, Jeff's their cameraman. But while they're filming, there seems to be a weird gentleman, [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos a bit on the tall side]]--and as events escalate, a young [[Blog/CanYouSeeTheWords Princeton student]] finds herself swept up into their situation as well...
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10Anyone new to [=EverymanHYBRID=] should use [[http://everymanhybrid.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_2010 this timeline]] to guide them through the story, since the full story is spread across two Website/YouTube channels, two Website/{{Twitter}} feeds, Twitpic pictures, some archived live webcasts, a blog, a forum, and even a few Website/YouTube posts on unrelated channels. [[http://everymanhybrid.wikia.com/ The game's wiki]], which has useful things like transcripts of the videos, is also worth taking a look at. In addition, there is a fan-made [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuT4HwoZ4rOnFFVHL5kxe8pU-14AY99Gr compilation]] and a [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuT4HwoZ4rOkente3qcS9Jvy1_bqy-_-d special edition]], as well as an extremely in-depth [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-0gD2jU98Y analysis and explanation of the series]].
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12After almost nine years, the series concluded at the stroke of midnight[[note]]at least, if your timezone is EST[[/note]] on January 1st, 2019 with its final video, "[[https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yq07UvfMRoI Introductions]]".
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14If you want to do an ArchiveBinge without any guidance:
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16* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS7GZhNb7eM The first video]].
17* [[http://www.twitter.com/EverymanHYBRID Their Twitter feed]].
18* [[https://www.youtube.com/user/WickedStickyAlex The YouTube account of Jeff's brother Alex]], who has his own problems to deal with (unfortunately now defunct).
19* Blog/CanYouSeeTheWords, a [[http://canyouseethewords.tumblr.com/ blog]] and [[https://twitter.com/#!/youseethewords Twitter feed]].
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21Beware! There may be unmarked spoilers for the series below!
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23!!This series provides examples of:
24* AbortedArc: The conclusion of the Seven Trials of HABIT, an ARG-inspired element that was quite prevalent in the beginning parts of the series, never came to fruition before the series ended.
25** Now [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], as the final box (#7) has been sent to the last remaining Rabbit. A full ''6 years'' after Box 6.
26* AdultsAreUseless: Jeff and Alex's parents must be especially oblivious. [[spoiler: Mainly because they're dead. Or possibly never existed to begin with.]]
27* AfterlifeWelcome: While it's less an "afterlife" and more of just a place to wait for a new cycle of reincarnation, [[spoiler:Vinnie]] is met after death by Jeff, Corenthal, and [[spoiler:Evan]], who welcome him warmly, despite everything that happened in the previous iteration. [[spoiler: Thus, [[AndTheAdventureContinues the story continues]]; HYBRID regroups and HABIT can still get its butt kicked for good.]]
28* AlienGeometries:
29** A basement in an abandoned house in the woods in the middle of the day leads to below a pier in the middle of the night.
30** "77of76.avi" reveals that the guys were apparently [[GoingInCircles trapped wandering around the woods,]] no matter what direction they took they ended up at a large tree in the middle of a dead field of grass, a short walk away from the abandoned house. They couldn't reach the house, of course.
31** The basement somehow is connected to [[spoiler: the crawlspace of Alex's and Jeff's house.]] The connection was one way (to the basement), and vanished two days later.
32** "The property" contains a mix-and-match area of the main characters' houses, including: Jeff's pantry, Vinny's bathroom, Evan's basement, Vinny's basement, Steph's apartment and more, and that is just the start of the weirdness.
33*** "Le premier cours" has Vinny mention that during the events of that video he realized [[spoiler:there ''were'' no Alien Geometries. ''The main characters have been living in the same house the whole time and somehow NEVER NOTICED.'']]
34* TheAllConcealingI: A minor, if not unusual example; HABIT-centric videos are often filmed by what seems to be his own personal "cameraman" -- someone or some''thing'' that is never seen on-camera or identified. Whoever or whatever is holding the camera never says anything (in one video, Vinny asks it if it can talk, which it attempts to do but can only produce horrible choking sounds), never takes part in what happens beyond simply filming it, and HABIT never explains anything about it beyond saying "he's mine". In an early video, Candleverse!Vinny acts as though it is some kind of creepy-looking monster (a sentiment shared by the current iteration's Vinny) and alludes to there being more than one. In one of the last few videos, Dr. Corenthal has his own cameraman who he addresses as "[[spoiler:151]]", which the fanbase has taken to mean [[spoiler:Rabbit #151 from HABIT's seven trials]].
35* AlternateRealityGame: Fan interaction and investigation are much bigger in this story than any of the other Slenderblogs.
36* AlwaysABiggerFish: From a Corenthal Report found in one of the Boxes. "Apparently the Reverend didn't know the Man doesn't share."
37* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:"Introductions". Dr. Corenthal and the Candleverse versions of Evan and Jeff find Candleverse Vinny unconscious underneath the lone tree in the middle of the field at Baldpate Mountain, still clutching his neck from his newest iteration's death in the previous video. They wake him up, and he tearfully admits his guilt to Dr. Corenthal for the things he did in the newest iteration. The doctor hugs him and tells him it’s okay. Apparently, after everything he’s done, everyone else forgives Vinny. The good doctor then takes the camera from the cameraman and gives it to Vinny, but Vinny puts it down on the ground, stating, "We don't need it." The last shot of the series is the boys and the doctor walking away together, to Johnny Cash’s rendition of “We’ll Meet Again". Will the reiteration cycle ever be broken? Is it ''already'' broken? Where is HABIT? Is the song a message from HABIT to the boys? From the boys to Corenthal (and each other)? From the creators to the viewers? We will never know.]]
38** When asked during a Q & A session whether the ending of the series was supposed to represent the end of the story (akin to a book closing) or simply the beginning of a new chapter, the cast refused to provide a definitive answer, stating that while they had their own ideas about what happened next, they wanted to leave it up to the viewers to draw their own conclusions. That being said, OOG Vinny also encouraged viewers to "look at what's happened in the series", pointing out that the Everyman story has been going on longer than any of the players are aware (with Jeff adding that it would be "hubris" to regard the latest iteration as the most important).
39* AmbiguouslyGay: Vincent, although he was going out with Lexi, the librarian. Not that we see this, of course. Evan also mentions that Vinny had a crush on his sister, though not only do we never see Evan's sister, [[spoiler:it's likely she wasn't even real to begin with]].
40* AnachronicOrder: The aftermath of "Episode 6: Healthy Eating" is posted before the video showing the event. The rest of the "hidden" videos continue this.
41* AndTheAdventureContinues: The series ends on this (possible) note, [[spoiler:implying that the iteration cycle the cast is trapped in will continue, but we won't get to see what happens next; Vinny decides to leave the camera behind -- probably because he doesn't want to put any more hapless internet viewers in danger --]] forever, giving us a RayOfHopeEnding and the possibility that HABIT won't be undefeated forever. (Also, there's obviously an afterlife, so death isn't absolute.) After much trial and error, the forces of Good ''will'' win.
42* AnyoneCanDie: Started off with side characters and worked its way up. [[spoiler: As of ''All Good Things'', the only known survivor is Corenthal,]] though considering some of the hints dropped in previous "hidden" episodes and documents found by [=ARGers=], the rest may not have been KilledOffForReal.
43* ApocalypticLog:
44** Doctor Corenthal's reports, which are left in bags for viewers to find. [[spoiler:The weirdest part is that the three patients he mentions have the same names as the main characters, despite the reports supposedly being written in the 1970s.]]
45** "The Princeton Tapes" featured audio and writings from [[spoiler:the previous iteration of Vinny from the late 80s/early 90s]], in which he detailed his situation; the tapes end after he meets up with a doctor at Corenthal's old hospital, and suddenly collapsed, dying. [[spoiler:Except when the current Vinny travels to the hospital, the tapes start playing on their own and [[MindScrewthe ending changes to have the doctor become possessed by HABIT and start hunting Princeton!Vinny throughout the hospital]] (hinting at a possible [[ResetButton timeline reset]]).
46** HABIT's updates on "Can You See The Words?" included blogs written by people HABIT was torturing, speaking about their situation and what HABIT was doing to them, shortly before they ended up dying.
47* ArchetypalCharacter: By the end of the series, [[spoiler: the main trio -- Vincent, Jeff, and Evan -- are confirmed to be the embodiments of archetypal characters from the Everyman morality play: Vincent who insisted on filming everything that befell the group from a safe distance), is The Voyeur, Jeff (who wants what's best for those he cares about and takes it personally when they're hurt) is The Guardian, and Evan (who is volatile and hot-headed) is The Firebrand]]. It's also hinted that Dr. Corenthal --whom Patrick Andersen describes as "another [Vinny] from another time" -- is another incarnation of The Voyeur]].
48* AxCrazy:
49** Evan pulls it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNRk-Du9C9s here]], although we don't know for sure if it's canon. What is canon is [[spoiler: Evan trying to clobber Slendy with a bat. Which is probably even crazier, though awesome]].
50** ''HABIT'', oh so very much. Murder is just a fun pastime to him.
51* BackToTheEarlyInstallment
52** In the MindScrew episode that is "The Property", many strange things happen to Vinnie. He's in a place that is, against all logic, a seamless combination of random rooms from his and his friend's homes in one, and then gets taken to Dr. Corenthal's ethereal sanctuary. This episode also somehow took him back in time to the events of "Hidden Videos", a video from two years prior, and he watches the events of that video happen from a distance, in shock at everything he's experiencing.
53** Inverted in "Last week / taking it back", where through some unexplainable circumstances, Evan, Jeff and Alex mysteriously end up at Baldpate mountain. Based on evidence such as the clothes they're wearing and the location they ended up in, they were actually going through the events foretold in a mysterious video called "78of76.avi", received months earlier— they'd somehow gotten footage of something that happened to them in the future, and then lived those events in "Last week / taking it back".
54* BadassBoast:
55** [[spoiler:Dr. Corenthal]] in "The property"
56-->[[spoiler:"When [the monsters] come for me, they don't need to make an appointment, 'cause the doctor...is in."]]
57** [[spoiler: HABIT]] in ":D"
58-->[[spoiler: '''HABIT''': You think you're untouchable? Not even ''God'' can hide from me.]]
59* BadassInANiceSuit: Slendy, as usual.
60* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: At the end of the series, HABIT successfully gets everything he wants from Vinny, successfully tricks him into thinking that they're going to kill Slender Man (when in reality he wants both Evan and Vinny dead), and leaves Evan for good so that he can "evolve and change". The entire main cast is dead, and it appears that not even another iteration can save the boys.]]
61* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: HABIT likes to kill [[AnimalMotif rabbits]]. Now think of the implications this brings when you consider that HABIT [[FridgeHorror calls his followers "rabbits"]].
62* {{BFG}}: [[spoiler: Dr. Corenthal]] uses one against [[spoiler:Slender Man]] in "The property"
63* BatterUp: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_jW5WApYGQ BONK!]] (Spoilers for Ashen Waste)
64* BigBadEnsemble: [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]], Literature/TheRake, and HABIT.
65* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Dr. Corenthal]] pulls this to rescue [[spoiler:Vinny from Slender Man]] in "The property."
66* BigGood: The events of "Property" seem to confirm once and for all that [[spoiler: Dr. Corenthal]] is this for the Hybrids.
67* BlackEyesOfEvil: Sometimes seen on the background of Alex's Website/YouTube page.
68* {{Blackmail}}: Rabbit #052 (AKA [=FullRoundAction=] or [=The Warren Jester=]) was unable to participate in Trial #6 due to his hometown outlawing protests. However, he also possess the next box to advance the story. He'll only open it if he's let through to Trial #7. [[TheExtremistWasRight It]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu worked]]. HABIT was thoroughly unamused. Still no word on the box's contents though.
69** [[TheReveal The truth?]] [[spoiler: #052 never had the box to begin with.]] After attacking #052 in his home, HABIT allowed the other Rabbits to vote on whether he'd remain, and [[spoiler: [[VotedOffTheIsland he was voted out 6 to 1]] [[WhatTheHellHero for cheating his way through]].]] The backlash to FRA's actions on Unfiction was so immense that [[spoiler: Out-of-game Jeff had to post about it, outraged at their behavior. Jeff actually applauded FRA for making things interesting.]]
70* BlackScreenOfDeath: One of the effects caused by otherworldly occurrences. It happens a lot in "Alex" and also covers up the majority of what happened during "The Hidden Morse Code Videos".
71* BloodFromTheMouth:
72** [[spoiler: Evan]] near the end of "Ashen Waste" after [[spoiler:trying to kill Slender Man with a bat and failing miserably.]]
73** Subverted with [[spoiler: Vinnie]] near the end of "The Corenthal Connection": [[spoiler: the boys later said it wasn't blood.]]
74** Happens in "All good things" to [[spoiler: both Evan and Vinny]] shortly before their [[spoiler:respective deaths.]]
75* BloodLust: [[spoiler: Evan]] is seen licking blood from his hands in [[http://youtu.be/W-_LPn7FkCU May & June]]. Just after this, it's revealed that Evan [[spoiler:killed a deer in a violent way.]]
76* BodyHorror: From what we can see in May & June, [[spoiler: The Rake]] seems to be this.
77* BodySnatcher: HABIT claims to be one, in the hijacked blog Blog/CanYouSeeTheWords.
78* BookEnds: The first episode of the series is called "Introduction". The final episode of the series is called..."Introductions".
79* BoulderBludgeon: During [[spoiler:his fight with Evan in "All good things"]], Vinny grabs a rock and whacks [[spoiler:Evan]] with it in a fit of desperation.
80* BreakingTheFourthWall: Done in an extremely [[MindScrew bizarre]] and meta way in "Le premier cours" when Vince speculates that [[spoiler: he, Evan, and possibly Jeff are fictional characters.]]
81* BreatherEpisode:
82** A Day in the Life. Nothing happens except for a pleasant hike through the woods, and a brief exploration of an abandoned house... until we see short clips of extra footage spliced into later videos, that start adding a more sinister flavor to the day. Then there's the larger chunk of footage from the thumb-drive found in the episode "Jeff."
83** "In which I assume the role of a 13 year old Website/MySpace girl" ''should'' be one, but it's plagued with video and audio distortions.
84** A Day with Green Feathers, excepting the last minute.
85* BrickJoke: In ''Consensus'' the footage taken when Vinny wakes up in the woods is with a different camera from the one that was being used in the car. All the way at the end of series, in ''All good things'' this is finally explained (Vinnie switched to their "backup camera", which was used for the rest of the series). The footage where this happened was removed because it...[[BitchInSheepsClothing did not exactly show Vinnie in a good light]].
86* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: Evan, during "Ashen Waste"
87* BrownNote: "The Hidden Videos." It becomes clear that the Hybrids are really ''not'' meant to see them.
88* CallBack: In "Self Defense" Evan and Vin are practising what to do if your attacker has a knife, come "All Good Things", [[spoiler: they fight like this for real.]]
89** Also in the same video Evan comments "I forget you were left handed" while acting out the fight. In "All Good Things", [[spoiler: this is what gets him killed, with him saying the same thing.]]
90* TheCameo: The character of Roger in Princeton!Vinny's audio diaries from Box 7 is unmistakably voiced by [[WebVideo/MarbleHornets Tim Sutton]].
91* CarFu: Attempted in "Ashen Waste." [[spoiler: It doesn't work.]]
92* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: The girlfriend of one of the characters has gone missing, sparking a road trip in search of her.
93* CerebusCallback: "A Day In The Life" was a BreatherEpisode of sorts, until hidden clips in future videos paint a more sinister tone on the whole day.
94* CerebusRollercoaster: The first half of the series bounces between lighthearted and dark. The first few episodes are funny and lighthearted, but then a sinister shadow makes an appearance in "Upper Body and Arms", and then the first of the "hidden" videos shows up before "Healthy Eating" sees the Slender Man make his first real appearance...and then they blow off his appearance as a break-in and remain lighthearted... until "Joke's Over", where the series plunges facefirst into the dark.
95* ChekhovsClassroom: Fan speculation has it that the lesson on how to fight off an attacker with a knife is one of these. [[spoiler: Like, perhaps Evan himself.]] Possibly pays off in "Slender Man." Whether or not this is in canon however is another question entirely.
96** As of "All Good Things" the payoff is finally revealed when [[spoiler: Vinnie is able to stab Even with the knife branded with the [[ImmortalBreaker North Star.]]]]
97* ChekhovsGift: On Christmas Alex gives Jeff an air-horn, much to everyone's bemusement. [[spoiler:However, on a side note, HABIT uses the airhorn sound to link to the present from a possible past iteration clip involving a car honking it's horn.]] The next episode, he uses it to scare off an attacker.
98* ConspiracyKitchenSink: Slender Man, The Rake and Candle Cove? OH MY!
99* CopeByPretending: Jeff and his little brother Alex have lost their parents a year before. Alex struggled with moving on and continued to act as though they were alive--even using a tape recording of their voices to answer his questions. [[spoiler:Later, after the Rake killed his dog Sparky, he wore a sock-puppet and insisted it was Sparky.]]
100* TheCorruption: Evan's forearm gets clawed by the Rake in "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back." In every video since, the bandages begin to cover more and more of his arm. In "Noah," the bandages cover from wrist to shoulder. Unknown if this is an infection, psychological compulsion, or just Evan making a fashion statement.
101* CrazyPrepared: Evan keeps an "[[MacheteMayhem Emergency Machete]]" in the trunk of the car.
102* CreepyChild:
103** "Evan's Dream Log," featuring children taking him to Slenderman.
104** The first HABIT entry to CanYouSeeTheWords, about a girl named Dawn.
105* CrossOver:
106** In "Cops Checked, No Body" and "Consensus" [[CreepyPasta the Rake]] makes a prominent appearance. It has since been shown to be harassing Jeff's brother Alex.
107** A letter was found indicating a young Vince may have watched ''Literature/CandleCove'', and the group's attempt to watch the videos hidden from them caused them to revert to a child like state, talking to a black video screen about how they wanted to find the hidden treasure. The fans have taken to calling the dimension with the AlienGeometries noted above as [[http://everymanhybrid.wikia.com/wiki/Iteration_Theory#The_Candleverse.2FThe_Ark "The Candleverse"]], in reference to ''Literature/CandleCove'' (as well as the fact that it was full of candles).
108** Furthermore, the letter indicates new answers may be found in [[Film/SilentHill Centralia]].
109** Elsewhere in the Slenderverse, [[WebVideo/TribeTwelve Noah]] received an envelope with purple duct tape. Its contents included [[spoiler: a burned letter not unlike the Corenthal reports mentioning Milo, a burned Polaroid of "Milo, Mary, and Dr. C," a postcard with "Not an Observer" written in vaguely HABIT-like handwriting, and what may be another part of the Centralia note.]]
110** Noah's actor also made an unintentional appearance in Rabbit #84's Trial 4 video. [[spoiler: Adam Rosner later confirmed this was in-character Noah, presumably to simplify things.]]
111** In what can be described as a RedSkiesCrossover, it's later revealed that Dr. Corenthal met and treated a young Milo Asher, and also gave him the [[LivingMacGuffin journal]] that Noah Maxwell is currently posting excerpts from.
112** Evan made an appearance seemingly as himself in the WebVideo/TJAProjects as well when the two main characters get lost in Jersey and ask Evan for directions.
113** In the video "Noah," not only does [[WebVideo/TribeTwelve Noah]] make an appearance, but so does [[spoiler:the current trio of ''Dark Harvest''.]]
114** The WebVideo/TribeTwelve video DEUS EX MACHINA features a minor [[TheCameo cameo]] from HABIT (who appears in silhouette), as Firebrand hints that [[spoiler: HABIT was responsible for liberating him from the Collective.]]
115** We get another full crossover with WebVideo/TribeTwelve in "Severance"/"Bridge To Nowhere", in which HABIT teleports Noah to the "safe house", a.k.a. [[spoiler:Apartment 3103]] (in a manner similar to what Vincent experienced in "The Property") for a lesson on how to use the Collective symbol. In part two, HABIT kicks Noah out of the house, leading him to stumble into a bizarre [[EldritchLocation netherworld]] believed by many viewers to be The Candleverse. While in said realm, Noah has a run-in with a seemingly alive Jeff, who warns him not to listen to either HABIT or Firebrand [[Main/DrivenToSuicide (insisting that suicide is his best option).]]
116*** "Bridge To Nowhere" also features a brief cameo from Lee, the protagonist of WebVideo/WhisperedFaith, who appears as a passing motorist who offers Noah assistance.
117** And now [[WebVideo/MLAndersen MLAndersen0]] has been brought into the mix with the four-part crossover "BROTHERLY LOVE"/"HELLO"/"GOODBYE"/"Three's Company". [[spoiler: Shaun Andersen follows an anonymous tip to HABIT's house, where he's drugged (over tea with Vinny) and wakes up in the attic. HABIT explains that he's using Shaun as bait to lure in his brother, hinting that Michael/Patrick is an inhuman entity like himself -- and that the two of them have a ''long'' history. "GOODBYE" ends with Shaun seemingly being tortured to death, capping of with, according to a phone call between Patrick and Stan Frederick, being ''chainsawed into pieces'']].
118*** Patrick appears again in several of the [[https://everymanhybrid.wikia.com/wiki/Box_7#Audio_Files audio files]] on Tape 3, making phone calls to Princeton Tapes Vincent circa 1991. Turns out he's [[spoiler: trapped in an iteration cycle that is either part of (or runs parallel to) the one the boys are experiencing]] -- and he's been [[spoiler: living it out for a '''very''' long time]]. He also reveals that [[spoiler: Corenthal is a future version of Vinny, who managed to break free from the cycle]].
119** Sometime before the events of 2018, Vinny makes a cameo appearance in WebVideo/StanFrederick, where he encounters the titular character and Serena as they attempt to locate HABIT. Vinny uses this opportunity to ask Stan to help him escape Corenthal's mountain home, but is unable to do so due to the way dimensional travelling works for Stan and Serena.
120* DangerTakesABackSeat: Slender Man appears in the back seat of Evan's car, but the boys don't realize it's not Daniel, their fake Slendy.
121-->'''Vince:''' Is that Daniel in the backseat of Evan's car, dude?
122* DarkerAndEdgier: After things start going wrong and [[AnyoneCanDie people start dying,]] the fact that the series was ever called LighterAndSofter than the average Slender blog becomes HarsherInHindsight.
123* DarkestHour: Every time that the series seems to hit this, it finds a way to get worse.
124* DeadlyPrank: The parody of Slender Man seems to be what's attracting him.
125* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler: Evan recalls HABIT eating his and Steph's baby.]]
126* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
127** Evan's planning this towards Slendy. He gets his chance in 'Ashen Waste.' Time will tell if there's a rematch.
128** [[spoiler: Alex was planning this on The Rake as well, after it had clawed his arms in his sleep.]]
129** In ''Jessie'', Evan goes toe to toe with the Rake, (mostly off-screen, unfortunately) THRASHES it, and finally throws it out of a second story window.
130* DontGoInTheWoods: There is much tree symbolism. After the episode "Joke's Over", the crew has hopefully learned their lesson. In a later episode, TheCall proved to be too strong and they went back out in the woods anyway. The results were mixed.
131** Invoked during "All good things" by HABIT, as [[spoiler: he heavily implies that the woods they are in are quote-on-quote sick because these are the woods where Slendy lives.]]
132* DownerEnding: Practically the case in "all good things"; [[spoiler:Dr. Corenthal's attempts to save the boys have failed miserably, Vinny was revealed to be a manipulative creep that helped engineer the deaths of several of his friends, and Evan snaps out of his inHABITation to give Vinny a physical and verbal beatdown for his betrayal. At the end of the video, the two men kill each other in the most bitter and painful ways possible, leaving HABIT the sole victor.]]
133* DrivenToMadness:
134** The non-canon video "Slender Man" shows Evan reaching this point, but by "Welcome to the Ark" he's normal again. These two are entries to a horror contest and probably non-canon, but still should be considered part of the overall theme.
135** Evan even more so in "Ryan & the SEVENTRIALSOFHABIT" [[spoiler: He's talking to nothing just like in Slender Man, however, it's a lot more vicious and it seems to be coming from another personality. He even goes after Jeff at the end with a giant knife. Being the target of HABIT's possession and murdering Jeff while possessed didn't help things, eventually driving him to suicide via taking on the Rake.]]
136* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Vinnie, in "two thousand three hundred ninety-five."]]
137* DwindlingParty: Occurs to quite a few and it might not even be the first time this has happened to them.
138* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: Despite having been responsible for all of their deaths, and having screwed them over many times, Vinny gets this treatment by the rest of the boys and Doctor Corenthal in "Introductions".]]
139* EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: "Welcome to the ARK" suggests that this may eventually happen. Although the video appears to be non-canon.
140* EldritchLocation: From what little we've seen of it through the hidden videos and the WebVideo/TribeTwelve video "Bridge to Nowhere", the Candleverse definitely has this vibe. People who have died in the real world show up alive and well here, various paths loop in on each other, drinking water causes severe nosebleeds, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and it allows James Corenthal to smoke a cigar without actually lighting it]]. And that's just during the daytime. The place takes a turn for the worse at night, as ominous, distorted music plays throughout the place, and it's implied by Jeff and Evan that monsters start showing up in the woods after too long.
141* EternalRecurrence / ViciousCycle: Implied in the "hidden videos", and in some of the supplementary material.
142* EternalVillain: HABIT is one of these. In later videos, it's revealed that HABIT hasn't just tormented the boys during their loops, but has been tormenting them and their reincarnations since at least the '70s. Given that HABIT is an immortal body-hopper, he's been around long enough to exist in every cycle the boys go through in some shape or form.
143* EvilDetectingDog: Alex's dog paws at his closet every night.
144* EvilIsNotAToy: Vinny summoning HABIT in the episode titled "A Summoning" was not a very smart thing to do; as people in the comments section, and even HABIT himself, pointed out.
145* FakeMemories: Over the course of the series, it's revealed that [[spoiler: the three main cast members (and Damsel) are orphans from Centralia who died as children and were written back into reality as young adults (multiple times), complete with artificial memories of families that never existed and lifetimes that never happened]]. Towards the end of the series, the facade starts to fall apart as [[spoiler: the surviving cast members begin losing their memories]].
146* FamilyExtermination: Stephanie's DarkAndTroubledPast involves her coming home from school and finding her entire family not only killed by Slender Man, but dismembered and shoved into bloody garbage bags hanging from the trees. This caused her to burn down her house, with her family's corpses inside, and flee to New Jersey, where she met the [=EverymanHYBRID=] boys, and was done simply because Slender Man is possessive and wanted to hurt her. [[spoiler:Later subverted, as it turns out [[MindScrew her family may not have existed at all, apart from her memories]].]]
147* FauxAffablyEvil: HABIT. He likes to act whimsical and chummy, but the grinning facade drops when he gets annoyed or impatient (which is often). To quote Noah of Webvideo/TribeTwelve: "He's not just evil, he's like... he's like [[BuffySpeak silly-evil]]. And that's disturbing as shit."
148* FingerPokeOfDoom: In "All good things", [[spoiler:a dying Evan throws a knife at Vinny, who manages to dodge it for the most part, coming away with just a small cut on his neck. Unfortunately for Vinny, this knife was branded with a sigil that gave it the power to kill godlike beings. A small cut is all it takes for the knife to kill an ordinary human in short order]].
149* FreudianTrio: The impulsive, brash Evan is the Id; the reserved, protective Jeff is the Superego; Vincent fits somewhere in the middle. Also reflected in the villains, with the feral Rake being the Id, the distant Slederman being the Superego, and HABIT fitting between the two, being driven by base instinct but at least somewhat capable of longterm planning.
150* {{Foreshadowing}}:
151** Evan's dream lab entry towards the events of "Joke's Over." Specifically, his nightmare of following voices into the woods and finding 'bags.'
152** "Cops Checked, No Body" is the first episode to feature the Rake. Earlier in the episode, "The Rake's Song" by the Decemberists plays in in the background.
153** As of "All good things" it turns out there was a lot of this, including the knife defense lesson mentioned below foreshadowed [[spoiler: Vince killing Evan with a knife;]] Vinny's insistence on continuing to film foreshadowed [[spoiler: his role as 'The Voyeur' and the fact that he was the one who put hidden cameras in all of their homes;]] and [[spoiler:Vinnies panic in "The drive west" after the (previously deceased) Jeff showed up and begged him to help the (equally previously dead) Alex]] foreshadowed the fact that [[spoiler: Vince himself had actively contributed to Alex' demise, and as is implied might have also been aware that he was sending Jeff into danger and/or certain death.]]
154** In "The day the world ended", HABIT warns Vinny [[spoiler:to be careful when handling the God Killer knife since it's powerful enough to kill a normal human just by scratching them]]. In "All good things", [[spoiler:Vinny dies from a small scratch from the knife when it is thrown at him by Evan]].
155* FreudianSlip: In "Lexi", [[spoiler: Vinny talks to HABIT (in Evan's body) about events shown "HALLOWEEN HANGOVER" and nearly refers to Evan as "you", but stops himself short and says "Evan". HABIT laughs and mentions the trope by name, specifically saying "Freudian slip".]]
156* GallowsHumor:
157** In "December & early January," the Damsel rather soberingly says that she doesn't think the Slender Man has any weaknesses to exploit. [[spoiler:However, certain later entries of ''Marble Hornets'' do have evidence to prove this claim wrong.]] This prompts Evan to make a crack about how RammingAlwaysWorks provided you attach knives to the front of the car with bats spinning around and Alex doing a handstand on top.
158** In [[spoiler:the last morse code video, "-.-.", or C, Jeff says that protecting the package, "Everyman", involves throwing him into the woods and running".]]
159* GilliganCut: When the Rake is discovered to be lurking in someone's closet, the protagonists briefly consider piling things in front of the door as a barricade. A loud snarling voice starts issuing from the closet, scaring the hell out of all of them. One jump cut later, the door is CHAINED SHUT.
160* AGoodNameForARockBand:
161** One forum poster questioned why there would be a "Free Drink Refills" sign in a mental ward, leading another to suggest that was the name of the hospital's band. Guess what we learn in the Hospital Fire sound file.
162** How about "Celery and Sulfur" from [[https://www.youtube.com/user/EverymanHYBRID#p/u/18/cO8DToYQS-I Centralia]]?
163* HateCrimesAreASpecialKindOfEvil: HABIT has always been a cruel monster, but the true depths of his evil are revealed when he points out in one episode that he used to work with the Nazis. It was later revealed that not only was he a Nazi, but he was [[BodySnatcher possessing and controlling]] ''Josef Mengele''.
164* HauntedTechnology: Seriously, what is up with [[spoiler: the creepy tape Alex has of his mother's voice in 'One step forward, two steps back'? The Slendy-esque distortion and ambience in the background doesn't help make it any less unsettling.]]
165* HeterosexualLifePartners: The main three, but especially Vince and Evan in "A Day in the Life".
166* HiddenInPlainSight:
167** The fake Slendy used by the [=EverymanHYBRID=] crew.
168** Later, the same applies to the real one. [[spoiler: Big example in "I'm Okay", where he's quite literally on the other side of the grille, and Jeff looks right past him.]]
169** Some of the videos and edits in the series were not uploaded by the gang, and are somehow invisible to them. They at first think viewers are trolling them about their existence. When they get a fan to send them the collected "hidden" videos it doesn't end well.
170* HistoricalInJoke: Apparently the Egyptian revolution was [[http://twitter.com/SEVENTRIALS/status/36527049732661248 HABIT's]] [[http://twitter.com/SEVENTRIALS/status/36527421415108608 doing.]] He has also implied that he was, or at least possessed, UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper as well as Josef Mengele.
171* ICallItVera: HABIT calls a chainsaw he uses for torture "Rex".
172* IcyBlueEyes: Evan. This is especially noticeable in the entry May & June.
173* IdentifyingTheBody: Happened offscreen in an episode. Their close friend had died in a car accident heavily implied to be created by the monster tormenting them online, and the mutilation was so bad, his mother had to go and identify her son's body; Vinnie went with her, which is how he noticed some of the details not matching up with the official report.
174* IdiotBall:
175** The guys [[spoiler:abducting Damsel from her mental hospital, taping the whole thing, and posting it online. ''Then'' she tells them that she was going to be released later that day ''anyway''.]]
176** Vince in "Not Dead Yet", oh so much. To clarify: [[spoiler:he decides to check Evan's house after Jeff's been missing for a week, being last seen there. Evan is obviously evil by then, but he refuses to take any weapons with him, giving the viewers some bullshit "didn't feel right taking weapons with me" excuse. He also goes to the house at night for some inexplicable reason, and once inside refuses to turn on any lights he comes by. He then freaks out at seeing the bloodied chain and Jeff's shoe, and decides to "get out of there" immediately, which was seemingly the first smart decision he'd had that day. And he almost follows through with it, but then, mere feet away from the door to the outside, he hears some noise in one of the rooms... and ''of course'' he charges in, yelling "Evan!" as he does so. [[SarcasmMode Well, at least he uncovered a ton of information the fans had no way of knowing before, like Jeff probably being not that well]].]]
177** Vince in "A proposal" and "A summoning": [[spoiler:Vinnie finds an old book (in the middle of a ''new'' book store) that allows him to summon specific entities. Thinking that his only option is to summon HABIT (despite the fact that doing so would probably result in bodily harm, if not his outright death), he goes against the opinions of the viewers and performs the ritual -- and winds up at HABIT's house from ":D". It's no wonder that HABIT has a field day with this and nearly ends up murdering Vinnie for his stupidity.]]
178** Vince trying to test the edge of [[spoiler:the North Star Knife, a weapon inscribed with a symbol of pain and lethality capable of delivering mortality to things that do not have a concept of it]] ''on his own thumb''.
179** [[spoiler: After luring people over for HABIT to kill, Vinny just wants to go and asks HABIT to unlock the front door. HABIT does so. Vinny then proceeds to just stand in the open doorway, back to HABIT, looking at the outside long enough for HABIT to walk up behind him and knock him out.]]
180* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:Evan, while possessed by HABIT, ate his baby.]]
181* ImportantHaircut:
182** Inverted regarding Evan. As time goes on, Evan occasionally grows his hair out, rather than keep cut short. This usually happens when Evan's mind is more unstable than it normally is. After HABIT takes control over him, his hair remains unkempt for the rest of the series.
183** Played straight with Vinny however, who decides to shave his entire head shortly before the end of the series.
184* InfinityPlusOneSword: [[spoiler:The North Star Knife. It is literally capable of bringing mortality to things that do not die.]]
185* ItWontTurnOff: In "Isolation", Evan's car radio keeps playing "I've Got You Under My Skin" no matter what he does.
186* IntroductoryOpeningCredits: InUniverse, this was how Evan, Vinny and Jeff chose to intro their exercise series. The three of them would be shown in separate scenes with their names and role given to the audience, introducing Evan as the "Nutritional Correspondent", Jeff as "Camera and Editing", and Vinny as "the [=EverymanHYBRID=]".
187* {{Jerkass}}: HABIT is an asshole in addition to being an AxCrazy monster, and he takes pride in doing even the smallest and pettiest things to irritate and upset the other characters.
188** [[spoiler:Vinnie]], as "All good things" revealed that he was [[spoiler:a ManipulativeBastard all along]] and [[spoiler:might have actively contributed to Alex' demise]].
189* LaughingMad:
190** Evan in the "Joke's Over" video. When Vincent cuts open the bag of blood and gibs, Evan starts to laugh.
191** Evan, once again, in "Ryan & the SEVENTRIALSOFHABIT"
192* {{Leitmotif}}:
193** The Slender Man is represented with the standard audio/video distortion, although this series seems to define it more rigidly than other Slendervlogs; for example, in ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'' and ''WebVideo/TribeTwelve'', it seems to signal some sort of malevolent presence in general, but watching Everyman HYBRID would imply that the distortions mean that Slendy is ''definitely'' there and ''close by''. For example, in one video, He's right behind Vinny, but the video and audio only distort when His face is in the shot.
194** "Who Could Win a Rabbit" by Music/AnimalCollective for HABIT, especially in [[spoiler:the morse code videos.]]
195* LighterAndSofter: At first, due to the amount of allies and characters have in the form of their treasured fanbase, as well as the protagonists' good friendships and funny jokes. Things slowly start going downhill once the user interaction turns into TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou and [[AnyoneCanDie characters start dying]], until it shifts fully the other way into DarkerAndEdgier. There's also the possibility that [[spoiler:we, the viewers are being reset along with the crew, if the Iteration Theory is correct.]]
196* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: "All good things" reveals that [[spoiler: after Alex revealed to Vinny that the Rake had warned him of his treachery, Vinny deliberately drove out to a secluded road in the woods so that Alex would be taken by the Slender Man -- selectively editing the footage to remove anything that implicated him in what happened]].
197* MethodActing: For a while, the actors/creators didn't make out-of-character appearances, even on the forums. One fan won a chance to interview the trio; they got angry and walked off when the interviewer implied that the web series was fictional. They also chose not to appear in several podcasts which featured the creators of other series (such as ''WebVideo/TribeTwelve'' and ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets''), specifically saying that they weren't going to discuss the series until after it was over. They eventually were forced to break immersion after a fan accidentally discovered the Facebook page of Jeff's brother [[TheDanza Alex]] -- followed by the personal Facebook pages of the rest of the cast and their Website/{{Tumblr}} blogs. After a failed attempt at damage control, the guys eventually relaxed and began to interact freely with fans, both online and in RealLife. However, while they gladly discussed the process that went into filming and developing earlier episodes of the series, they adamantly refused to discuss the plot or hint at any future developments (except to say that viewers will "know when it ends"). After the official end of the series (January 1, 2019), Jeff promised fans that they will freely answer any and all remaining questions.
198* MindScrew:
199** In general, even more so than the usual Slender Man work, ''especially'' the more you analyze it and notice just how much exposition contradicts itself, as well as the several times that the characters subtly change clothing between scenes (and no, it isn't an error.)
200** The episode "Jeff". At 0:34, they knock on the door to Jeff's house, while some funny coloured bars start to appear on the screen. Then the door opens, showing [[spoiler:Jeff shrouded in darkness, with what seems to be purple tape on his mouth and a second figure shrouded in darkness behind him.]] Then, a distorted sound plays, the screen goes static-y and the video seems to have gone back to 0:33; they knock again, but Jeff's brother answers this time.
201** The ending of the episode "The Corenthal Connection (Jessie's Back)". It's fair to say that [=EverymanHYBRID=] is one of the screwier Slender Man vlogs out there.
202** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNRk-Du9C9s This]] and [[http://www.megavideo.com/?d=GXZTNDRW this]]; both are entries to a horror contest, so they're probably not canon, but it doesn't make them less pants-wettingly terrifying.
203** In "The property", Vinnie's [[spoiler: travels through the various homes of the characters. In order he goes from Baldpate -->to Jeff's pantry which is joined with his own half bathroom --> Jeff's basement to which he walks to Jeff's upstairs bathroom --> Vinnie's upstairs bathroom --> Evan's upstairs hallway --> wakes up in his basement -->Steph's apartment --> Evan's basement --> Evan's upstairs hallway again --> a sanctuary that Corenthal created --> Evan's upstairs again and finally Baldpate]].
204** "The drive west." features [[spoiler: multiple versions of Jeff appearing out of nowhere at different points of the video, despite him being dead.]] "Finding Fairmount." continues this thread with [[spoiler: ghost duplicates of Evan and Jeff appearing as Vinny explores what's left of the Fairmount Children's Home.]]
205* MissingEpisode: In June 2019, "In which I assume the role of a 13 year old [=MySpace=] girl", "Twenty-four months", "Next", and "Isolation" all got slapped with a copyright claim for the music they contained and can no longer be viewed.
206* MyFutureSelfAndMe: In "Tape 3", [[spoiler: [[WebVideo/MLAndersen0 Patrick Andersen]]]] implies that Dr. Corthenthal is not only [[spoiler: the adoptive father of the boys (in multiple iterations), but a future version of Vinny who has managed to break free of the interation cycle]].
207* NiceDayDeadlyNight: The Candleverse. In the daytime, the Candleverse is a peaceful and almost beautiful, if not strange dimension. At night however, it's implied by Jeff and Evan that monsters terrorize the woods, strange distorted music plays, and HABIT has a stronger hold over Evan.
208* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "Damsel" the [=EverymanHYBRID=] crew breaks Damsel out of the mental ward... on the day she was going to be released. Also counts as an UnwantedRescue and possibly a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}. Subverted in that [[spoiler:as far as anyone working there remembers, she was released days before the rescue, the room she was in actually ''exploded'', and the guard they fought died in a freak accident before the event as well.]]
209* NightSwimEqualsDeath: In a few clips from the hidden videos, there's a scene that shows Evan/HABIT drowning someone (implied to be Vinny) in the water.
210* NoAnimosityInTheAfterlife: Downplayed. Evan and Vinnie were [[spoiler:quite literally at each-other's throats, having a fight to the death as their friendship finally started to crumble.]] They then both arrived in the "Candleverse", where they were not only met by [[spoiler:Jeff and Corenthal,]] but were back to acting peacefully. All four of them, despite what they'd been through and how bad things had gotten, calmly walked off together, waiting their new cycle.
211* NoFourthWall:
212** The actors actively interact with the viewers, and often leave clues (in the real world) which are designed for the viewer to access and put online themselves.
213** The ninja tweets from our ALLCAPS pal HABIT. They're getting increasingly more directed at ''us''
214** During the meet up on 11/21 they revealed they're aware of everything, including the forums, IG. Think about that for a minute...
215** Taken up to eleven on 1/5. HABIT tweeted that he is aware of certain IRC rooms run by Hybrids, more specifically the Rabbits from the Seven Trials. (Specifically, he is aware of certain people mocking him in these rooms, the wisdom of this course of action notwithstanding.)
216** GreenFeathers, who found the first box out of HABIT's seven, and who accepted the offer of the [=EverymanHYBRID=] crew to have a Breather Day in the video, "A Day With GreenFeathers". [[spoiler:It's currently unknown whether GreenFeathers is a character in the series, or is an actual person who was interested with the ARG.]]
217* NoLoveForTheWicked: HABIT, the series' main antagonist, is completely asexual and uninterested in romance, being an entity who gets pleasure out of causing others pain, rather than out of having sex. This gets even more disturbing later on when he claims to have raped Nick's mother, amongst other people during his long life, which was done to inflict suffering rather than to derive sexual pleasure, and also to breed himself a strong host to possess since normal human hosts tend to fall apart after being shot a few dozen times.
218* NothingIsScarier:
219** In "Reunion," there's one shot in which you can see Slendy behind Vince while he reads out the poem. He sticks in the background for a while, causing distortion... then the camera leaves Vince and comes back and Slendy's missing. This is one of the more worrying parts of the video.
220** "Not dead yet" is a pretty intense one. Vince goes to Jeff's house - at night, which is never a good idea - armed only with a camera and a flashlight. The entire entry is spent waiting for either an AxCrazy Evan to pop out or [[HumanoidAbomination The Rake]] to attack, but nothing happens. [[spoiler: At least, until the very end, when we see Slendy poking his head around a corner.]] Though, oddly enough, that part might have actually [[spoiler: been a [[VillainousRescue deliberate act to scare Vincent away from a pool]] where he would have been killed by HABIT.]]
221* NotHisBlood: During "May & June", the boys get spooked by something they believe to be the Slender Man and Evan attacks it with a machete off screen. When they come back, they're covered in blood, which Alex initially thinks is their own. However, it was actually the blood of a deer Evan had slaughtered.
222* NoticeThis: In a non-video-game example, purple tape is often used to draw attention to some things.
223* OffscreenMomentofAwesome:
224** [[spoiler:Evan attacking Slender Man with a bat. Unfortunately ([[SpecialEffectsFailure or perhaps fortunately]]) we don't get to see the fight, it cuts to black for a while then Slendy is gone and Evan is disoriented. Even though it was most definitely a CurbStompBattle, the fact that Evan is alive afterwards is incredibly badass.]] According to Evan's description of the "fight" in one of the ustream sessions, there really wasn't much to miss. Slender Man blocked the bat with [[PsychicPowers telekinesis then inflicted some kind of damage on him the same way. Evan apparently also had a fight with the Rake in "Jim Thorpe".]]
225** The fight that Evan had with the Rake between WAKE UP and L'esprit de l'escalier: apparently [[spoiler:Evan managed to ''decapitate'' the Rake with a machete. Then he was attacked by both the headless body ''and'' [[DetachmentCombat the head itself]], and got disembowelled. [[HealingFactor Don't worry, he's fine]].]]
226* OhCrap:
227** Episode 6: Healthy Eating
228--> Vince: Wait, Evan, second story dude.
229--> Evan: [[CurseCutShort The f-?]]
230** Moments before, "Where's Daniel?" See DangerTakesABackSeat above.
231** "Joke's Over", when they hear the roar.
232** "Alex", when [[spoiler: the Rake growls after Evan says nothing's there]]
233** Fans tend to do this whenever a video opens with Vince being teary or shaken.
234** The ending of "Dead End With No Pulse".
235* OneSteveLimit: Possibly averted. There was a paranormal investigator/monster hunter named Roger Paladino who tracked HABIT for over 5 years before being killed by him and another guy named Roger (no last name given) who was the editor of the Princeton Paranormal Society magazine. However, the former was killed in 2004 and Princeton!Vinny met the latter in the late [=80s=], so it's possible that they're the same Roger, but it's not confirmed.
236* OnlySaneMan: Vince is portrayed as this at first, with Jeff running off and Evan being... Evan. Later, Evan points out that he's the only one who realizes that they're dealing with the real Slendy, not some fake.
237* PetTheDog: An odd example. In the episode Lexi, Vincent concludes that it's his fault for [[spoiler: Lexi getting involved because he started dating her]]. [[spoiler: HABIT]] then reassures him that it's an inherent part of human nature to [[spoiler: want to be around other people]].
238* PoliceAreUseless: Apparently, the cops provided zero help in looking for Jess.
239* ThePowerOfFriendship: The HYBRID team credits this as well as their fanbase for keeping them sane throughout all this crap.
240** However, [[spoiler:it looks like it's being subverted: the PowerOfFriendship didn't stop HABIT from killing most of the crew ''[[{{Irony}} inside one of the friend's body.]]'' And now that Vinny's marked as the next victim...]]
241** In fact, it seems the trope is fully subverted with the fact that, in reaching out to their fans and friends, the Hybrid crew has simply handed HABIT and Slendy a longer list of victims to murder horribly.
242** Ultimately absolutely averted in "All good things", as [[spoiler:it is revealed Vinnie had [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated his friends right from the start]], which leads to Evan attacking him and ultimately, to the both of them killing each other.]]
243* PrecisionFStrike: "What the ''fuck'' was that?" Said after a particularly [[MindScrew Mind Screwey]] moment in "The Corenthal Connection"
244* ProfaneLastWords: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. When HABIT [[spoiler: kidnaps Jeff in order to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture him to death]],]] all [[spoiler: Jeff can do before the torture begins]] is to tell HABIT is to go fuck himself. [[BreakingSpeech His response?]]
245--> '''HABIT''': Fuck you, fuck you. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Do you even know "why" you said that?]] No, no idea? Was it anger? Was it trying to get footing, trying to get leverage in this situation, trying to make me think? See, I've interrogated a lot of people, I've hurt lots of people, tortured a lot of people, I've done lots of terrible fucking things to people. [[HistoricalRapSheet I've had thousands of people, millions, billions across my tables.]] And you'd be surprised how many do that. [[ForTheEvulz One time, I had a guy's legs off, right? Hanging in front of him, and I was making them dance.]] And he said "Fuck you." He said "Go to Hell, and fuck you." You know why? 'Cause he felt "Got him! There's one punch I can throw, and that's it, a spit in the eye, a curse to the Heavens! Fuck that little bitch!" '''You know how little it matters?''' The last curses, the last desperate calls, an insult to me? When a pig squeals before it's slaughtered, do the butchers care? ''No.'' Some of them even relish. [[KickTheDog So thanks.]]
246* PsychicNosebleed: Inflicted on the whole party when subjected to what may have been an episode of ''Literature/CandleCove''.
247* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler: Despite it appearing that HABIT won in the end, it may not be so for long and the gang has another cycle to learn from past mistakes and defeat HABIT in the future.]]
248* RealAfterAll: Three guys thought they'd make one of those Slender Man web series that have been all the rage lately, just for a bit of fun. Then the real Slendy shows up, and it very quickly becomes not so fun.
249* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The reason why Damsel/Stephanie was killed off in "Next" and didn't appear for the rest of the series was due to real life complications with her actress.
250* RealityIsUnrealistic: "Damsel" has been the [[JumpingTheShark shark-jumper]] for a handful of viewers based on how the mental institution is obviously a school instead of a hospital and Jeff's ability to [[spoiler: tackle a security guard]] unhindered. In fact, many mental institutions look exactly like what we see in the film, some are actually built ''into'' schools, and many security guards aren't well trained, if at all, to defend themselves up close. Regardless of training, self-defense also doesn't tend to work well when the attacker charges full-speed before being spotted.
251* RedEyesTakeWarning:
252** [[spoiler: In the "Slender man" video, Evan has rather eerie red eye when he's talking to apparently nobody as well as when he attacks Vince.]]
253** HABIT's Twitter profile picture, featuring a bunny with glowing red eyes.
254* RedOniBlueOni: The Rake and the Slender Man respectively come across as this. Compared to Slendy's more drawn out and subtle M.O., the Rake so far seems to prefer taking out people fairly quickly with physical harm over chipping away at sanity, and its presence apparently doesn't ruin audiovisual fidelity. It does cause [[BlackScreenOfDeath Black Screens of Death]] though. This describes HABIT and Slender Man even better, made even more apparent by the tweets between the two. HABIT is openly AxCrazy, where as the Slender Man comes off as quite reserved.
255* {{Reincarnation}}: The single most popular theory of what the central plot actually is, titled by fans as [[http://everymanhybrid.wikia.com/wiki/Iteration_Theory "The Iteration Theory"]], is that Steph, Vince, Jeff, and Evan are incarnations of four individuals of the same name and personalities shown to have existed at least as far back as in the 1970s. These four have some unexplained connection to the supernatural, and are in a continuous conflict with the monsters in the series. The main four were also shown to reside in a "Candleverse" as [[ArchetypalCharacter archetypal characters]] (evidence suggesting names such as the Firebrand, Voyeur, and Guardian) who retain all the memories, presumably existing between reincarnations and before being "reborn" and starting the whole thing over again.
256** ResurrectiveImmortality: A subset of this theory (the "Death Iteration Theory") is that throughout the series, the main characters have died multiple times, only to be saved or instantly restored (several times the characters looked to have been doomed only to inexplicably be perfectly fine the next moment, coupled with intense disorientation, teleportation, and time shifts) via TimeTravel or the creation of an AlternateUniverse. In a sense, the same as the Iteration Theory but on a smaller scale in addition to the generational cycles.
257** "Le premier cours", "All good things", and the Princeton Tapes clarify this...somewhat. [[spoiler: The main cast are the embodiments of fictional characters (later confimed to be the archetypal characters from the EVERYMAN morality play) who have been written into reality. The current "players" were apparently chosen as children in the 1970s, and have been written back into existence every so many years as adults; the previous iterations (which include some of the hidden videos and the random scenes spliced into the "regular" videos) were versions of the "story" that didn't play out to satisfaction (and which may still exist as [[AlternateTimeline alternate timelines]]).]] To make it even stranger, [[spoiler: Dr. Corenthal may have been chosen as a previous incarnation of the Voyeur -- and some of the notes he scrawled on a bookmark hint that the cycle has been playing out, in some form, since the ''sixteenth century'']].
258* RevealingContinuityLapse: This is a constant happening in the series, thanks to [[spoiler: the "iteration" reincarnation cycle the characters are trapped in]]. From unexplained events found in secret videos only the viewers could see (including moments that could not fit the timeline as we know it), to an explosion somehow killing people in a hospital five minutes before the boys went to save their very-alive friend and fight a very-alive security guard, [[spoiler: to one of them coming back to life with no explanation given]], and much more. It's just as confusing for the characters as it is for the viewers when they're aware of an inconsistency.
259* RoomFullOfCrazy:
260** In "Sleep Deprivation," someone managed to cover a back room with scribbled-on pictures and purple duct tape in a ten-minute interval while no one was in there.
261** The entire "Blue Room" video, in a more subtle way.
262* RuleOfScary: Lampshaded when they open the store locker in 'The Corenthal Connection' and find a kid's rocking horse in the corner. Everyone points out that it has no reason to be there other than looking creepy.
263* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: Evan describes being the subject of SlashFic as both flattering and disturbing.
264* RunningGag:
265** There's a running joke amongst the fans that Unfiction Forum member Doc Jowles is actually Jeff in disguise. [[spoiler: He isn't. Probably.]]
266** Every video has several comments impatiently asking when they're going to start doing exercise videos again. One would assume they're jokes, but with Youtube comments you can't be too sure.
267* SanitySlippage:
268** Inevitably, all of the crew are losing their grip at various speeds and in subtly different ways. However, see AngstWhatAngst. Most apparent in "A Day with Green Feathers" (as well as pretty much every tweet after "Alex"), it seems as though the crew has become desensitized to Tall Dark and Faceless; even Evan seems stable as long as [[BerserkButton Slender Man isn't standing right there.]]
269** Alex has gone this way ever since his parents died. In 'One Step Forward, Two Steps Back', when Jeff suggests Alex comes to the library with the crew, Alex says he'll 'go ask mom' for permission. He comes back with a tape player which has a [[HauntedTechnology very creepy recording of his mother's voice]]. After the Rake kills his dog, he begins pretending a sock puppet is his dead dog. Even Vinnie tells Jeff this is well beyond the grieving process and something is definitely wrong with Alex.
270** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR4-aYKe33I&feature=sub Ryan & the SEVENTRIALSOFHABIT]], Evan appears to still be sliding down the slippery slope of madness as some spliced in clips show what appear to be Evan talking to himself and saying some [[AxCrazy pretty disturbing shit while brandishing his knife]] before Jeff interrupts him.
271* ShirtlessScene: Evan is shirtless in pretty much the whole ''OUTSIDE HELP'' video, just with bandages.
272* SilenceIsGolden: In OUTSIDE HELP, [[spoiler:the audio cuts out during the scene where Evan comes across HABIT's murder room ([[NothingIsScarier and presumably the bloody remains of his victims]]) and cries in anguish while punching the floor multiple times in response.]]
273* ShoutOut:
274** Like a few other works in the Mythos, this series contains one to ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' in the form of a copy of the book, found in Jeff's room and containing a couple of cryptic clues to his whereabouts. The same book also appears in the background of Vinnie's opening narrations and [[spoiler:in a small portion of overlayed footage in "Part 3".]]
275** While exploring a burned down building in "Reunion" Vince asks if Jeff found evidence in "this suspiciously Silent Hill-looking room." Silent Hill receives a second shout-out in "Centralia." The graffiti on the ground contains lyrics from Silent Hill 3's theme song.
276** In addition, there's a rather Slendy-like mannequin/doll behind Vincent in some of the opening narrations; it looks remarkably like the doll in WebVideo/MarbleHornets.
277** Since that was there since the beginning, one would assume that is somehow tied to their Slender Man series. You know, the one they were trying to make before the real Slender Man showed up.
278** Jeff's brother is clearly playing the song The Poet and the Muse from the game Alan Wake when the characters first explore his room. While not too similar, [=EverymanHYBRID=] and Alan Wake both deal with daytime horror, eldritch abominations, and eponymous everymen who fight them, not to mention that in both, a major character is held captive by the eldritch abominations.
279** The twitter feed is shared by all three protagonists, who sign off each tweet with the first letter of their names to show who wrote each one. This means that Jeff's are signed as [[WebVideo/MarbleHornets "J,"]] and he was even on the road at the time, like J at the end of WebVideo/MarbleHornets season 1. As if this wasn't blatant enough, Jeff's brother's name is Alex.
280** Jeff's slideshow set to the Music/DeathCabForCutie song "I'll Follow You into the Dark" has the song cutting and distorting at seemingly random places. The last line is warped into "I'll follow you in[[WebVideo/MarbleHornets to the ark.]]"
281** And then Evan's follow-up of Jeff's slide show looks like a sendup of the usual wacky video-responses usually posted on You Tube.
282** When Evan [[spoiler: goes after Vince with his knife]] in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNRk-Du9C9s Slender man,]]" the mute video suddenly erupts with sound in the form of a siren that sounds like the one from ''Film/SilentHill''.
283** In ''One step forward, two steps back'', the boys are playing Scrabble and Evan plays the word "Wifin". An action that costs $20 dollars for doing it in the club.
284** In Episode 4, Evan holds up a CreepyDoll that looks like the ones from the House in WebVideo/MarbleHornets, which he claims a little girl gave to him. (They later admit that this was part of their "Fake Slendy" hoax at the beginning of the series.)
285** "Amuse-Bouche" is the French term for "appetizer", a fitting title for the video that comes before "Le premier cours" ("the main course"). However, a more literal translation of "amuse-bouche" would be "[[Creator/{{Slimebeast}} Funnymouth]]", resulting in a possible shout-out to the popular Creepypasta.
286*** In the video itself, when HABIT!Evan is mocking [[spoiler:the man, who found the fifth box and whom he kidnapped asking him questions,]] one of the joke questions HABIT mentions is [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "What's your favorite color?"]]
287** To TV Tropes- during the 11/26 Ustream Jeff mentions that you'll waste hours here when it's mentioned in a question.
288* SmashCut: In "Alex," after Evan investigates the room. Cut to the three of them after they've finished barricading the thing in there. Also doubles as a GilliganCut; there's a little humor in it after the scare is over.
289* TheSociopath: HABIT fits the trope to a T. He's manipulative, impulsive, selfish, and has absolutely no moral standards.
290** To a lesser degree, [[spoiler:Vinnie]], since it is revealed in "All good things" that [[spoiler:he manipulated all of his friends from the start and might have actively contributed to Alex' death, all in order to get some answers.]]
291* SorrowfulStutter: One episode features a phone call between Evan and Vinnie. Evan asks if Vinnie remembers their friend Nick, and though Vinnie is light-hearted about it, laughing about how big Nick is, Evan is upset. He hesitates and struggles with explaining that Nick had not only ''attacked'' him, but that [[spoiler:he ended up killing Nick in self-defense]]. He sounds on the verge of tears the entire time.
292* SoundtrackDissonance: ''Twenty-four months'' has a montage of past events with up-beat swing music playing over it. Since the lyrics of the song say "the best is yet to come", it is slightly ominous though.
293* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler: Evan]] shows signs of this in "Ryan & the SEVENTRIALSOFHABIT", before he's shown [[spoiler:being out and out possessed by HABIT.]]
294* SpiritualSuccessor: Sometime called the "heir" of WebVideo/MarbleHornets.
295* StatusQuoIsGod: Much to the cast's disappointment but ultimately not to their surprise, "December & early january" establishes that [[spoiler: Damsel does not have any [[TheReveal reveals]] about Slender Man for them, and she, in fact, didn't know anything more than they do.]]
296* StealthParody: It started as one of Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos, particularly WebVideo/MarbleHornets, with a [[SpecialEffectsFailure very fake]] Slendy standing in very obvious places. Subverted In-Universe with Episode #6: Healthy Eating. See WhamEpisode.
297* StylisticSuck:
298** The advice in the fitness/exercise segments is either incredibly common knowledge or just not great.
299** The (fake) Slender Man's appearances in the first few episodes are intentionally unsubtle, such as being behind a signpost (where his arm is seen) and in plain sight as the characters push the car, with Vince occasionally taking a look at the fake Slendy.
300* SuddenlySpeaking:
301** While in text and not an audible voice, via one half of an unsigned twitter conversation [=EverymanHYBRID=] has managed to give The Slender Man ''dialog'' without sacrificing any creepiness. He's the non-allcaps one. (the allcaps are by HABIT) Indeed, it's not how strange he types, but how ''[[ParanoiaFuel normally he types]]''. [[http://everymanhybrid.wikia.com/wiki/EverymanHYBRID_Twitter You can read the conversation here.]]
302** There has been quite a bit of speculation saying that the normally-typed tweets aren't from the big man himself (and even then, since he's never been given a voice before, it's unlikely that it was Slendy in the first place), but rather from Doctor Corenthal. He does refer to the [=HYBRIDs=] as his "children," after all.
303* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic:
304** The Rake’s Song by Music/TheDecemberists plays in Cops Checked, No Body, shortly before The Rake itself appears.
305** HABIT inserts random clips with The Best is Yet to Come playing over them by Music/FrankSinatra in Twenty-four-months. HABIT later uses Frank Sinatra again in the form of I’ve Got You Under My Skin, as a way of trolling Evan as he searches for the Rake.
306** I Can’t Decide by Music/ScissorSisters plays after Jeff enters Evan’s house, which plays up until HABIT captures him.
307* ThousandYardStare: Some of the footage hidden from the gang is recorded through the eyes of creatures which are said to have this expression by Candleverse!Jeff.
308* TimeTravel:
309** Several instances, most visibly in "The Corenthal Connection."
310** In some of the supplementary material, we discover this somehow happened in "Damsel."
311** See also the WildMassGuessing and EpilepticTrees of this game for other possible/unverified instances.
312* TookALevelInBadass: Jeff in "Damsel." He even tackles a security guard!
313* TraumaticCSection: It is heavily implied that [[spoiler:HABIT did this to Jess.]]
314* TroubledFetalPosition: Evan at :22 in "....", the second to last morse code video.
315* UnconventionalFormatting: The participants in the unsigned Twitter conversations can be determined by the fact that one TYPES IN ALL CAPS and the other uses perfect grammar. ([[spoiler:ALL CAPS is HABIT; proper capitalization is believed to be Slender himself]])
316* UnnaturallyLoopingLocation: HABIT refers to Dr. Corenthal's house as being "in flux", as a place constantly shifting in impossible ways that even makes an immortal entity nervous. One of the results of this is that the house can loop, such as Vinnie and HABIT going to try and find HABIT's gun, only to wind up back where they had started.
317* UnreliableNarrator: What HALLOWEEN HANGOVER reveals [[spoiler: about the gang]]
318* [[spoiler: VillainousRescue]]: A couple of times this ''might'' have been what [[spoiler: Slenderman was up to]].
319* VisualPun: Evan, [[spoiler:and by extention HABIT]], is often seen wearing a ''Film/DeathProof'' baseball cap. [[spoiler:As HABIT's perfect host body with an incredibly strong HealingFactor, he is quite literally death proof (at least until "All good things")]].
320* WhamEpisode:
321** "Healthy Eating".
322** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNadDPoOavk "Joke's Over"]] provides a second one.
323** "Cops Checked, No Body" tops both, with a quick recap, the revelation of [[spoiler:Jesse being Corenthal's niece]], and of course [[spoiler:the first appearance of The Rake.]]
324** "The Hidden Videos." The Hybrids attempt to watch a DVD someone sent them with the hidden videos on it. The effect it has on them is... unsettling.
325** Also, [=HospitalFire.wmv=]. [[MindScrew According to hospital staff, Damsel was discharged a week before she was rescued. Also, the room she was in was destroyed in a fire five minutes before she was rescued, killing the security guard who tried to stop them from rescuing her (five minutes after his own death, apparently).]]
326** In OUTSIDE HELP, Evan reveals [[spoiler:that he was assaulted by Nick for no discernible reason and killed him. Oh, and someone planted spy cameras in his house]].
327** The two-part Jim Thorpe and Jessie [[spoiler: has Jessie getting killed by The Rake]]
328** ":D", in which [[spoiler:Evan, possessed by HABIT, tortures and kills Jeff.]]
329** Isolation, in which [[spoiler:Vince finds a hard drive holding a video of Evan striding into the forest to die fighting the Rake.]]
330** In "Le premier cours", Vince reveals that at some point he realized that [[spoiler:they might be fictional characters]], particularly when he was [[spoiler:examining the AlienGeometries that caused all of their houses to fuse together]] and determined that [[spoiler:they never lived in separate houses, it had been one house all along]].
331** In "All good things", [[spoiler: Vinnie is revealed as [[BitchInSheepsClothing the Voyeur]] who's manipulated everything since the beginning, is revealed to have planted the cameras found in "OUTSIDE HELP" and even deliberately led Alex and Jeff to their deaths. Evan and Vinnie fight, which ends with both of them killing each other.]]
332* WhamLine:
333** In "Damsel:"
334--->'''Damsel:''' I would be ''fucking stoked'' if [[spoiler: they weren't releasing me today.]]
335** And in "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back"
336--->'''Alex:''' [[spoiler: It's back.]]
337** At the end of "Intermission"
338--->'''Vinnie:''' [[spoiler: Alex isn't okay]].
339** The description of ":D"
340---> [[spoiler: YUP. HE'S DEAD.]]
341** The final line of "Next"
342---> [[spoiler: BEGIN FINAL ACT]]
343** In "March 21st," Vince reveals that [[spoiler:he plans to summon HABIT.]]
344** In "Le premier cours",
345---> '''Vinnie:''' [[spoiler: "It's because I don't exist."]]
346** In "Tradition."
347---> '''Vinnie:''' [[spoiler: "Oh. And those hidden videos we thought were a hoax all those years ago? Not that it means anything, but... I can see 'em."]]
348** "Half-acre of ash" has an out-of-nowhere line:
349---> '''[[spoiler: [[HesBack Dr. Corenthal:]]]]''' ''[[spoiler: Excuse me, [[AlternateRealityGame #151]]. Back up, please.]]''
350** Multiple in "All good things."
351---> '''HABIT:''' ''This is a scatter gun. Alright? I put buckshot in that.'' ''[[spoiler:You'll be able to hit [[BaitAndSwitch Evan]] no problem.]]''
352--->...
353---> '''Vinnie:''' ''[[spoiler:...[[NotBrainwashed Evan]]?]]''
354--->...
355---> '''[[spoiler: Evan:]]''' ''[[spoiler: He told me... [[DirtyCoward what]] [[UnreliableNarrator you]] [[WithFriendsLikeThese did]]. [...] [[TheReveal You put those cameras in our house!]] You started this ''all'', you [[CurseCutShort fu--]]]]''\
356...\
357'''[[spoiler: Evan:]]''' ''[[spoiler: How does it feel to be filmed by monsters while you bleed? [[BaitAndSwitch You]] [[TheWatcher voyeuristic]] [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]? You wanna tell all your fuckin' fans [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident what happened to Alex]]?]]''
358** The audio recordings from Tape 3 aren't immune, either. From "TOWER ON THE LAKE":
359--->'''Vince:''' ''(answering phone)'' ...Hello?
360--->'''[[spoiler:[[WebVideo/MLAndersen0 Patrick Andersen]]]]:''' Hi. Is this, uh... Vinny? Hey bud. ''(pause)'' No, you don’t have to say anything, I know it’s you...
361* WhatTheHellHero:
362** Evan makes it clear that he disagrees with Jeff sending the police after Damsel; and ''seriously'' lets him have it for, due to his obsession with finding Jessa, not noticing that Alex was injured. The Fandom was rather fond of calling Jeff out. To the point they started a [[http://everymanhybrid.wikia.com/wiki/EverymanHYBRID_Twitter#.23SaveTheDamsel_tag twitter hashtag for that sole purpose.]]
363** HABIT gives Vince an ''epic'' one for [[spoiler:willingly summoning him. The only reason that HABIT lets him live is because he is impressed by Vince's chutzpah, plus the fact that he is so offended by Vince's stupidity that he promises to make his death slow, painful, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking boring]] compared to how he killed everyone else.]]
364** [[spoiler: Evan gives a massive one to Vinny, his supposed best friend, in “All Good Things”. Why? Because it was Vinny’s fault for engineering ''almost every bad thing'' in the series, ''especially'' the deaths of their friends.]]
365* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: While discussing possible ways to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu kill Slender Man]], the best they can come up with is [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "bigger car."]] ..."with knives attached to the front and baseball bats swingin' around and Jeff's brother doing a handstand."
366* WhereItAllBegan: "The drive west." and "Finding Fairmount." both feature elements from early in series that were no longer used in more recent videos, such as certain locations, Slenderman being heralded by an air-raid siren, and the search for Fairmount itself.
367* WorldTree: Several significant events in the series happen near a lone big tree in the middle of a field at Baldpate Mountain. The final video of the series has [[spoiler:Dr. Corenthal, Jeff, and Evan finding Vinny underneath a representation of this same tree in Corenthal's "Eden" dimension]].
368* WrongGenreSavvy: The crew start thinking they're in a Franchise/ScoobyDoo style of story. Then they think they're in a SlasherMovie, and later only a few catch on that they just might be in a CosmicHorrorStory.
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