- Alternative Character Interpretation: In hl2-2011-08-03-16-08-41-33, Nick attempts to gun down the player before realizing that he's out of ammo and being promptly smashed against the wall with the physgun in latter's self-defense. Is he trying to kill the player out of spite or he's sick of participating in the videos and decide to deal with them the hard way?
- Retold-III reveals that The player was not Nick's target. It was an unknown ragdoll antagonizing him earlier which promptly disappeared, causing Nick to shoot at where the player was coming from when he heard footsteps.
- Nightmare Fuel:
- The Smash to Black in The Annoying Redneck, where the player suddenly shows up as Ellis glances at him before the former runs towards the screen and the "undo" sound is heard in the background.
- In Moonstruck, it gets worse. While it features Nick standing ominously in the darkness with a lamp moving like a pendulum, the frames reveal that both the player and Ellis were genuinely concerned about Nick's severe gunshot injury from the video mentioned above, leading to an implication that he has gotten insane and grown hatred towards both regarding the past incident.
- Left Behind seems to be a follow-up of Moonstruck with Nick waking up from the nightmare screaming. Before getting the chance to move on, he suddenly gets teleported to rp_evocity only to fall into the ground and become unconsious. Then, the player caught his attention and glances at him out of surprise. After this, a morse code implies the following message:
"At most times, there is light in the darkness, but for me, there is darkness in the light. The times where I would be the wise-asshole would backfire immediately, as I met a strange fellow, he gave me such kindness rather than being treated like a toy. But even then, my hatred still grows against him, as the others would disagree and listen to him instead. This so-called "Player" has been making them look like ragdolls, and they seemed to be completely fine with it. How are they okay being treated like toys? No matter, the revolution of my own will begin shortly, I shall not wait any longer."- Everybody Hurts (aside from being juxtaposed with a slowed, pitched-down version of the eponymous track by R.E.M.) features a couple of shots of cs_office, gm_bigcity and cs_militia maps in addition to one where Nick is shown about to shoot Louis as the latter is begging for his life. And later, a frame shows Ellis getting shot right before the screen instantly turns to black. In the end of the video, it's implied that Nick's second step for his revolution against the player will commence shortly. Then in the following video Insanity has Nick glaring at the viewer with a nasty Kubrick Stare. The description is nothing short but chilling once the morse code is decrypted:
"He went MAD."
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