Headscratchers / Madness Combat

• Does Hank kick so much ass thanks to his outstanding combat prowess or because nearly all agency mooks are so ridiculously inept? I mean, look, none of them can land a single hit.
  • Both. The power difference between protagonists and mooks is simply for the sake of Rule of Cool. Also, Mooks sometime do land some hit. Hank is shot twice by agents in Consternation.
• Was that zombie guy accompanying Jebus in Apotheosis actually reanimated Sheriff?
  • No, it's a normal agent.
• Why there are no zombies after Depredation?
• How come in the finale of 9.5 there are suddenly two Hanks and how did the Dissenter/2bDamned know which is the correct one?
  • 2BDamned didn't care about which Hank he'll bring back. He literally used a coin flip program to get a random one out of the two.
• Also why did Hank kill the guy with the tablet in latter part of 9.5? The hapless dude wasn't threatening him in any way nor was he smoking.
  • Killing people is part of Hank's nature. He's a psychopath.
• If you're killed in Nevada you go to Hell. But what happens to those who are killed in Hell, be it regular or the Auditor's?
• Was the Auditor actually dead during Expurgation? Even though Tricky managed to mess him up real good he remained conscious and actually retain a limited control over his mental Pocket Dimension. Regarding his nature can Auditor even be considered a living being?
  • Krinkels confirmed that the Auditor didn't die, he was just teleported when he absorbed Tricky and choose to stay hidden while Tricky was toying with Hank and Sanford. Also, if he can think, then he's a living being, simple as that.
• Also the Auditor can absorb both living and the dead. Why couldn't he simply absorb Hank and Sanford?
  • Considering his curbstomp battle toward Jebus, he could have easilly killed Hank and Sanford in differents way too as he's Nigh-Invulnerable and can spawn any weapons he wants. The reason why he doesn't quickly end the fight is because he doesn't want to, not that he can't. He's just toying with them. He also doesn't seems interested in absorbing his enemies since he specifically didn't absorb Deimos's body at the end of Aggregation (episode 9).
    • At that time Tricky wasn't his ally either and he still absorbed him. However this one could be considered an accident.
  • I think that the Auditor can only absorb the employees who work for him, which explains why he didn't absorb Deimos and Jebus either.
    • Tricky wasn't the Auditor's employee anymore when he was absorbed.
• In Incident 110A Jebus managed to slice the MagAgent's cranium cleam open without actually damaging his brain. How did he achieve that using only his binary sword? Did the sword phase into some other dimension to avoid slicing the agent's brain?
• Deimos' adventure is apparently taking place after his death. When and how did he get revived?
  • "How" he got revived is shown in DedmosRebuilt, he was anchored back by 2BDamned using a device that appears to be able to hack reality or just Hell. "When" he gets revived is something that can be answered by future episodes.
• How does Deimos' black goo of a blood work like a Portal Pool? The substance bears an uncanny resemblance to the stuff which The Auditor "consists" of. But this black goo is seen dripping all over the Purgatory and even one of the reanimated possessed ATPs bleeds it.
  • Perhaps there is some connection with SCP-106 aka "Old Man"? He seems to be oozing a similar black mucus, which serves as some kind of an inter-dimensional portal.
• Where are all those chains coming from?
  • It's Hell, it doesn't have to make sense. They just sprout randomly from random places, often to torture Deimos.
• What is the agenda of those two guys in the beginning of Chase and what were they attepting before one of them was offed by a chain.
• In Dedmos Rebuilt what does FellowD9 do to Deimos? He's definitely 2BDamned's ally but why does he attack Deimos afterwards? And why is Deimos suddenly pint-sized?
  • 2BDamned also seems to be pint-sized but in Dissenter he was of normal scale. Why did he shrink? Or did everyone else grow taller instead?
  • Neither Deimos or 2BDamned are pint-sized (well, Deimos is canonically short, but it's not visible by the art-style), they are at their normal height, no one shrinked. It's the people they fight who are giants, you can even see two people becoming giant when they were normal (the first grunt and FellowD9). As for what FellowD9 did, it seems like he attached a tracking device on Deimos so 2BDamned could anchor him out of hell (anchors are the chains with a weight at the tip instead of a blade). The reason why he attacks Deimos may be because he became aggressive when Deimos made him bigger, accidentally or not. It could also be hell's influence.
    • Interesting. Then are the doors and all of the interior giant as well?
    • Well yeah. The architecture in hell is rather chaotic. In the first room of DedmosRebuilt, there is one door that is bigger than the others already big doors.
• In the finale of An Experiment Scrapeface grinds himself gainst a wall like you spread a butter on bread. What happened to his skeleton?
  • Considering how easily mooks get sliced in half with swords (notably the zombie agent in the fourth episode), we can assume that Madness Combat characters' skeletons aren't as solid as ours.
• Meta example: Which came first - the music or the animations? Many of them fit their soundtrack rather too well. Especially An Experiment and the entire Dedmos Adventure. It looks like Krinkels adjusted the scenario to match the music.
  • The animations come first. Some videos (Like Madness 9.5 part 1) came out late because while the animation was over, the music wasn't finished yet. It's the music that that is influenced by the visuals because the composers get to see the animations early so they know what kind of music to do.
• How is Tricky able to pull off all that stuff he did in hell like summoning a giant skeleton demon version of himself when his Improbability Drive was destroyed by Jebus at the end of MC7? No other person in hell has shown to be able to do that?
  • Tricky got his hands on Jebus' halo. Simple as that.
    • I'm talking about 9.5, He only got the halo in MC11.
    • As stated above Hell is utter chaos and Tricky is the most unhinged person in there. His sheer insanity translates well into the Hell's very nature; it's no wonder he retains some amount of control over it, especiall considering that unlike Auditor Hell, there's no governing entity for regular Hell. You do the math...

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