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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