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Narrative
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Labyrinth takes place in the same universe as Brutal Legend
Both take place in a magical, fairly medieval setting. Both can transport mortals from our time into their time fairly easily. Of course, the most obvious parallel is that both feature thinly veiled versions of our world's rock stars. The movie takes place before the events of Brutal Legend, featuring David Bowie's counterpart, " Jareth the Goblin King". Seriously, if you take a close gander at the world outside of the Labyrinth (at the beginning of the film) it does look remarkably similar to Brutal Legend's landscape. Possibly, the events of Brutal Legend take place thousands of years after the events of Labyrinth, (being only twenty years in our time). Jareth, being not only a ruler of goblins, but also a titan, could have become a god with the rest of his titan kin, leaving behind artifacts and wisdom for the mortals to find.
The villains of the next game will be a based on different genres.
Techno: Robot warriors that were once servants of the Titans, but rebelled and were banished by their creators. They then went offline until the sheer power of Eddie's Metal awakened them by reminding them of their creators. With revenge in mind, they storm Bladehenge, cue epic war with Ironheade.
Country: A horde of nomadic cowboys and Native Americans that are the descendants of the human subjects of the Titans that feld from Doviculus and the Tainted coil who have returned to reclaim their homelands. Would probably be led by an Expy of Garth Brooks or Toby Keith.
Eddie's in a coma, and the game is All Just A Dream
Everything starts going crazy when Eddie gets into a backstage accident, and gets blood on his belt. In reality, he was critically injured in the accident, going comatose and imagining a perfect world, where the stupid nu-metal band he works for is killed horribly, he's transported into a perfect world of metal and rock, and he becomes the hero of all humanity, being fully appreciated for his roadie skills the entire time.
Doviculus will be brought back by the Sea of Black Tears
His head falls right into the Sea of Black Tears after the DECAPITATIOOOON! And the Sea seems to have this thing with bringing dead things back to life. It's just begging to happen. Doviculus could then lead the Drowning Doom, and possibly force Iron Heade and the rest of the Tainted Coil to fight together.
An expansion pack or sequel in which you fight Fletus and his people is coming
Fletus mentioned his people are plentiful and building an army. He has wings, a car and a weapon (his brass knuckles). All he'd need to be an Avatar in the MP would be an instrument of some sort. Obviously they live in a faraway land (the game is only set on the first continent/island) where car parts a more plentiful. Perhaps the island might also have other factions such as the ancient Hard rock Nation?
Axel Steel and Izzy Sparks from Guitar Hero are descendants of Eddie and Lionwhyte, respectively, and Lou is related to Doviculus.
Only, y'know, Axel became a full-fledged rockstar instead of a roadie.
Drowned Ophelia is Ophelia's despair made manifest.
At the end of the game, Ophelia cries a single black tear. She also seems to have some understanding of the events that took place- otherwise you'd think things between her and Eddie would be considerably more tense- and of course she managed to survive underwater for over three months. Drowned Ophelia was created by the Sea, yes, but rather than an entirely separate being, she was an Enemy Without of the real Ophelia, and upon Drowned Ophelia's death re-integrated with her original self.
As one of those who have been touched by the Sea, survived, and remained sane Ophelia now may retain her Drowned Ophelia powers.
The Next Leader of the Drowning Doom will be an expy of Voltaire
What better way to satirize Goths than have yourself be their leader in a video game?
The Age of Metal is not really the ancient past. Instead it is After The Metalocalypse.
Obviously Dethklok become Titans after they reshape the world in the prophesied Metalocalypse (a concert so Metal it awakens Ormagöden on it's own merits). This explains the Schizo Tech car parts and weaponry as it is a metal version of a Scavenger World, and why all those metal landmarks and species don't exist in our time because they were created during the Metalocalypse. Further more we have proof of uncertain canon that Eddie once worked for Dethklok .
Eddie traveled in time to help out Dethklock from an assassin.
The monster fighting skills he showed only came after he traveled to the Age of Metal. Something from the Age of Metal was sent after the band; so Eddie was waiting for them. After stopping it; he didn't need to make anyone any more sandwiches.
Brutal Legend shares a universe with Psychonauts and the entire game takes place within Eddie's Mind.
Sit tight, kids. This is about to get Freudian. WARNING: Unmasked spoilers to follow!!! Proceed with care.
Eddie was left in a vegetative state following the scaffold collapse at the start of the game and his trip into the game world is really a dive into the mind. Each character and faction represent a different aspect of Eddie's psyche and the conflicts they share are inner conflicts within Eddie.
Lars is a sort of idealized version of what Eddie would like to be: the last warrior in the metal militia fighting a desperate cause against commercialism and conformity. Lars represents Eddie back in his youth when he thought metal could take over the world. In a word, the Super-Ego
Lionwhite is the side of Eddie that "sold out" when he started being a roadie for nu-metal bands. He envisions him as a pretentious, power-hungry glam rocker to further juxtapose him to Lars. He is the ID that craves material payoff for his music. His betrayal of the human race mirrors Eddie's betrayal (however small and largely subjective) of true metal (Is it any surprise that Lionwhite is slain by a piece of a falling mirror?)
Ophelia is harder to describe. She represents the heavy-metal sub culture that is often maligned by the outside world as strange and dangerous. She is the community that surrounds heavy metal (shown by her devotion to Lars Naturally, Eddie loves this but ultimately has to turn away from it when it when he believes that she turned away from the true metal (by betraying Lars). Her defection to the Drowning Doom represents drug use (all of Lita's remarks about how she craved the Black Tears) as a way to deal with pain.
Doviculus is the devotion to Heavy Metal taken to the extreme and unhealthy (as any fanatical devotion can be). Doviculus is the diehard Stop Having Fun Guys that permeate the heavy metal community. Obsesses with brutality and purity, he forgets the true purpose of metal and perverts for his own aims. By ripping Ophelia's heart out, he seeks to consume the community for his own ends. Eddie realizes this and must kill him to reclaim the true purpose of metal: enjoyment.
Along the way, the various Expies of the Eddie's metal gods show up to guide him and bless his mission. Were Raz or any other Psychonaut to venture into Eddie's mind, they would experience much of the same things.
Succoria was male and Eddie exists only due to dark cloning magics that combined Riggnarok and Succoria's DNA.
Well Succoria used the male title of Emproer instead of Empress, wore the large men's shirt that Eddie wore in the game and according to Doviculous had a rather large "pair".
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