Line #11 WMG/Muse - TV Tropes


1	[[WMG: All of Muse's albums have a story, and all these story arcs are loosely connected.]]
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3	This is a bad take, and a wild one, but it's worth thinking about. It first starts out basically being a dramatized version of what's going on in real life before diverging off into its own batshit tales.
4	* Showbiz: Muse become rockstars.
5	* Origin of Symmetry: The members battle their own inner demons, likely being trapped inside their own minds.
6	* Absolution: The members escape to the real world but then decide to leave again because it sucks.
7	* Black Holes & Revelations: The members travel to another bizarre world (likely their own imagination) filled with SchizoTech and their subconscious continuing to haunt them.
8	* The Resistance: The band returns to the real world, only to find it being oppressed by a totalitarian regime, so they overthrow it.
9	* The 2nd Law: Then they run away to space because humanity is tearing itself apart, and there's nothing they can do about it.
10	* Drones: The band returns to Earth, which has been torn apart by war, and they tell what story they can from remnants, namely from a woman named Mary.
11	* Simulation Theory: The band enters a simulation [[RunningGag because, you know]], [[CrapsackWorld life sucks]]. But then they leave after they discover a virus that's infecting people.
12	* Will of the People: They travel to another world that's being ruled over by yet another totalitarian regime, overthrow it, and become the new rulers. [[spoiler:And then Matt (or someone impersonating him) grows into an old, crazy git who's obsessed with [[FullCircleRevolution retaining control over his people like a dictatorship]]]].
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14	What do you think?
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18	[[WMG: alternatively, there may not be a single long-running story, but a bunch of arcs tying certain albums together]].
19	* ''Simulation Theory'' must be tied to ''Showbiz''. They reference "Teignville", aka Teignmouth and "School", aka the Teignmouth Community College multiple times in that era's videos.
20	* Keep in mind that the arcs may not have consecutively released albums tied together, it could hop all around.
21	* Some albums might be tied into multiple arcs or alternate universes. [[MindScrew Try to keep track of that]].
22	* But there have to be alternate universes.
23	** Otherwise, how would have Muse showed up at their high school reunion to play "Pressure" if the whole world was nuked to pieces in the last album?
24	*** Maybe they were already in the simulation. (cue Film/{{Inception}} theme)
25	*** Maybe ''Drones'' happened in the simulation.
26	* Gonna tie this all together the best I can from everything above and below this mass edit (sorry!):
27	** ''Showbiz'': Muse become rockstars.
28	** ''Origin of Symmetry'': Muse deals with the struggle of competition, and may or may not get trapped inside their own minds.
29	** ''Simulation Theory'': Muse leaves the world to enter a simulation, then returns. Could fall anywhere from before oos to before drones, possibly after bh&r.
30	** ''The 2nd Law'': The earth falls apart.
31	** ''The Resistance'': Muse overthrows an oppresive regime. It could have happened before [=T2L=].
32	** ''Absolution'': Muse decides to just try to go back to normal life. They could have gotten some ability to read people's minds or see memories, or time-travel, giving them the ability to tell more far-out stories. This could have happened any time between Showbiz and Drones.
33	** ''Drones'': war kills everyone, but Muse escapes to another planet.
34	** ''Black Holes & Revelations'': Muse adapts to the environment and takes on some possibly superhuman abilities.
35	** ''Will of the People'': Muse helps a bunch of people overthrow another oppressive regime, this time the Ministry of Truth, and become the new leaders.
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39	[[WMG: The Muse members are not human, or at [[AmbiguouslyHuman least something similar]]]].
40	* How did they survive crashing into a planet? (As seen in the "Sing for Absolution'' video)
41	* The way they and basically everybody in the CGI-made ''Will of The People'' mvs are not animated with completely accurate mo-cap, but something similar that makes them move in a [[UncannyValley not entirely human-like fashion]]. See how they're always so smooth and never waver in the slightest?
42	** All of the members of the species of "the people" are also very muscular. You can see their pecs bulge through their jackets, best seen in "halloween".
43	** Perhaps they've adapted to living on a harsh desert-like planet.
44	*** Come to think of it, and we all thought it at some point, but it resembles that Mars-like planet from BH&R.
45	*** So, if I'm following all these threads, and they landed on mars, how did they learn to live there, and how long have they been there?
46	*** Dunno, in Cydonia, they were safely going around as holograms.
47	*** Did they die? or did they enter a sort of proto-simulation?
48	** And more obviously, they all look kind of fake when unmasked. see the WOTP mv and Won't Stand Down, Compliance....
49	* So what are they, then? [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Androids]]? [[HumanAliens Aliens]]? [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Ghosts]]? [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires]]?
50	** Dunno, but [[CloudCuckoolander Matt]] acts like all of the above AT ONCE.
51	* Well, in ''Simulation Theory'', Matt briefly went werewolf.
52	* It seems to be [[ZigzaggedTrope zigzagged]], as far as I can assume.
53	* If they aren't human, then what did they have to go through to become such badasses? by ''Absolution'', they could already qualify as astronauts.
54	** They might have stolen that ship and teamed up with someone to help them out of there.
55	*** Wait, there were missiles blowing up the earth when this was happening. so was this also running alongside the ''Drones' arc?
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59	[[WMG: The "people" in ''Will of the People'' are stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop, where they overthrow their leaders and then become them, only to get overthrown again, possibly by their reincarnations]].
60	It's very highly implied, with Muse [[RuleOfSymbolism tearing down statues of themselves]], and with all of the videos seeming to form an endless cycle of events that lead into themselves.
61	* How do they break out? Will they ever?

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