WMG / Super Solvers

The Shady Glen games are set after an extinction-level event.

There is almost no sign of human presence in the town aside from Morty, the Super Solver, and a single security guard in Outnumbered!. Aside from them, all the buildings you're exploring seem completely empty. There are sometimes references to there being other people in town, but we never see them. Morty has no human assistants, only robots. The entries you read in Midnight Rescue! go back a few decades, but there's no sign that anyone is still attending school. Morty can take over any building he wants with no notable resistance, and nobody ever shows up to stop him aside from the Super Solver.The answer? Shady Glen (or the entire world) has likely been hit with a biological weapon that kills people while leaving the landscape intact. Morty, the Super Solver, and the guard are the only survivors. The news reports you read in Outnumbered! are the last news reported before the town was hit. Morty and the Super Solver are trying to avoid facing the truth by having nonsense "contests" with each other, while pretending the town is still full of people who would be affected by their actions.

• Morty does talk about there being people in Shady Glen in the intro of Mission T.H.I.N.K, but considering his manchildishness, he could just be delusional.

Going by the above, the Shady Glen games are set in a Bad Future where you did not succeed in Operation Neptune.

Since you failed to get the toxic chemicals under control, Shady Glen was contaminated and most of its population wiped out.

Zoom the dolphin is from Eluria.

A friendly dolphin who helps you get undersea pollution under control, in a computer game released in 1991. It's unlikely to be a coincidence.

Morty Maxwell isn't really evil.

He simply likes to challenge Super Solver. This is partially based on Brutalmoose's comments on how he isn't exactly an intimidating villain in Mission: T.H.I.N.K. There are also a few lines in Midnight Rescue from Morty himself that suggest he's not too keen on succeeding with his plans, especially how he congratulates you when you get a question right. It's especially evident in his line when you collect a clue that you already have. Morty congratulates you, then suddenly changes his tone to mocking, as if he forgot that he's supposed to be evil.

"Good job! But- haha! You have already collected this clue!"

Assuming he really is evil, Morty is severely misanthropic.

Although it's probably safe to say that the dude has a lot of issues, this could be at least one of them. Ever notice how he's never had a human sidekick (not even something like The Igor)? Maybe it's because, for one reason or another, he hates people in general. Maybe he believes that the computer brain of a robot, especially one programmed by him, is superior to any human brain. But of course, robots are not perfect, and as we see throughout the series, neither are Morty's. Yet he keeps using robots, implying that he refuses to change his mind on the matter. Maybe there's meant to be a subtle moral that human intelligence is better than artificial intelligence, which fits nicely with the series' goal of educating children.

Morty is a Time Lord.

It had to be said. He can create highly advanced robots, he lives in a suburban town but can travel to fantasy worlds, and more. He's clearly got something supernatural going on.

The robots in Mission T.H.I.N.K. were not originally created by Morty

"As for you, my chrome domes, don't forget: I was the one who rescued your broken parts from the recycling center, and put you back together!"

This line seems to hint that the robots have a rather complicated past. They must have been created by someone else who eventually stopped caring about them, disassembled them (or worse, tried to destroy them), and left their broken parts in the recycling center. Morty, needing a new robot army, came to the recycling center and found their parts, so he decided to rebuild them to be his new minions. For whatever reason, Rusty is the only one who Morty didn't, or couldn't, reprogram to obey him.

• Dogs are known for their Undying Loyalty. Maybe Rusty is more like a real dog than we think, and he still wants to follow his old master, even though they abandoned him.
• If this is all true, then the fact that Morty decided to keep Rusty despite knowing that Rusty would disobey him is really sweet.

The events of this series are directly connected to Five Nights at Freddy's.

I mean, come on, it makes so much sense! The YMMV page even points out how similar Midnight Rescue is to FNAF, with you trying to survive in an empty building at night against a team of homicidal robots. The main antagonist in both series is a human who has total control over these robots and uses them for malicious purposes. And, as shown in the above entry, what does Morty say to his robots in Mission T.H.I.N.K.? That he put them back together! (This is all in Humor Mode, but it's something to think about.)

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