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These are alter egos which either aren't as prominent as the major alter egos within Mark's channel, or aren't associated with a specific story Mark has made.
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Bingiplier
S'ahhh, dude?!
Introduced in the skit "Google Gets An Upgrade", he is presumably Bing's counterpart to Googleplier.- Clone Degeneration: He tries to imitate Google's self-duplication in "Google Gets An Upgrade" but only succeeds in making a smaller, higher-pitched version of himself.
- Cool Shades: He wears a pair of bright orange sunglasses that highlight his casual and carefree nature.
- Straw Loser: He's set up as one in comparison to Google; for all his bragging about being better than Google, he's not as efficient as him.
- Totally Radical: He's shown attempting to pull off a (fake-looking) skateboarding trick in the beginning and has a not-quite Surfer Dude style of speaking, presumably to look cool.
Cyndago characters
Mark portrayed these egos in collaboration with the now-defunct Cyndago channel. Since he does not have complete ownership over them, as well as out of respect for Daniel’s passing, Mark has stated that he will not be making videos featuring these characters in the near future. All of the egos listed below make cameos in "Markiplier TV" as homages.
The Author / The Host
- Appears in: Danger In Fiction, Danger In Fiction | Chapter II
A renowned author with the power to make his stories come true. He serves as the main antagonist, The Author, in his debut series. A follow-up video where he presumably becomes The Host was supposed to be made, but it was later scrapped due to an April Fools' teaser receiving poor reception. Word of God has confirmed that they are the same person.
- Author Powers: Downplayed in the Danger In Fiction series, where things get altered due to The Author's narrations.
- Batter Up!: As The Author, he wield a baseball bat when confronting Ryan in Chapter II of Danger In Fiction. It was clear that he intended to use it as a means to hurt Ryan for his lack of cooperation.
- Blind Seer: Downplayed in the fact that The Host is able to narrate the situation seconds before it happens. As for the blind part, he appears to have suffered a double dose of Eye Scream, and wears a bloodstained bandage to cover it up.
- Conspicuous Trenchcoat: He wears a trenchcoat as The Host.
- Eye Scream: Considering that The Author's eyes were fine before he became The Host, it's implied that something happened to them, though what exactly happened is up to interpretation.
- Handicapped Badass: The Host is (presumably) blind, yet clearly has supernatural abilities of a sort.
- Meaningful Rename: He changes his name from the Author to the Host when he realised that he was just playing host to the guests of his world instead of writing stories.
Word of God later clarified that the name referred to a radio host - which lines up with the April Fools’ Day video briefly depicting him in a recording room with a microphone and headphones. - Motive Rant: In Danger In Fiction - Chapter II, he gives one to a tied-up Ryan, highlighting his Control Freak tendencies.The Author: You see, me...I'm an author. Writer of many bestsellers, I bet you read one. But unfortunately, over the years, My dozens of bestsellers have been stained and marred because your friend — the psycho — Daniel, is stuck in a mental institution. You see I've been given a gift; Whatever I write happens, and Daniel was the perfect subject. He cooperated. Unlike you. You see... cooperation is key, working together and believing in one another — that's essential. That's the thing you need to learn about this agreement that we have. So... what we're going to do is stay here, in this room, for however long it takes. For you. To learn. To COOPERATE!
- Narration Echo: A downplayed and arguably creepier version happens in "Markiplier TV". If you listen in the background during the boardroom scene, you can occasionally hear The Host off camera narrating events before they happen, particularly the appearance of Septiplier in the video's last few moments.
- No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me: The Host looks so drastically different from The Author that Mark had to confirm that they were the same person. The fact that his face is wrapped in a bloody bandage because his eyes were ripped out doesn't help matters.
- Noodle Incident: How the Author lost his eyes and rebranded himself as "The Host" isn't revealed to the audience, and likely never will be.
- Same Character, But Different: The character in "Markiplier TV" that is called 'the Host' is indeed the same as the Author from the "Danger In Fiction" videos, but sporting a very different look. Several fans needed confirmation that it was the same character.
- Starting a New Life: A potential motivation for changing his name from The Author to The Host.Mark: The Author took up a new name when he realized that he wasn't actually writing the stories. He realized that he was just a host to the guests of his world.
- Tears of Blood: In the April Fool's trailer, streaks of blood can be seen on The Host's face. The blood is absent in his appearance in "Markiplier TV".
- Telepathy: Of the "communicate with them mentally" variety. Maybe. In the Danger In Fiction series, Ryan and Daniel were able to hear The Author's narrations without The Author being physically present.
Bim Trimmer
- Debuted in: Hire My Ass
A TV host for a bizarre game show designed to hire new employees.
- Black Comedy Cannibalism: He makes Matthias and Ryan participate in a burger-eating contest after Danny Sexbang jumps into a meat grinder, implying afterwards that said burgers were made from his remains.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He gets upset due to not being the game show host in "Markiplier TV", due to believing that he's super famous and deserved the spot.
- Smarmy Host: A smooth-talking game show host whose love for Matthias causes him to treat Ryan poorly and to kill off Danny Sexbang.
Dr. Iplier
- Debuted in: Worst News Doctor
- Bearer of Bad News: Parodied in "Markiplier TV", where his segments have him telling the patient outright that they're dying.
- Good News, Bad News: He tells Ryan that his girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend Daniel, his dog got run over in the driveway, his parents got killed in a car crash, and that Ryan himself tested positive for STDs. The good news is that he doesn't have diabetes!
- Psycho Supporter: Dr. Iplier is the only one of the alter egos at the board meeting who actually likes the concept of Markiplier TV (the rest either vehemently dislike it or don't give an opinion at all), if only because it made him and his ideas look appealing to other people.
Ed Edgar
- Debuted in: Ed Edgar Adoptallott's Baby Bulk Buy
A Southern redneck who sells babies for a living.
Silver Shepherd
- Debuted in: Super Infidelity
A Superhero.
- Identity Amnesia: An extreme example. His superhero and civilian identities are completely separate and he doesn't retain any memory of switching between them. When his sidekick Ibis points out that they're the same person, Silver Shepherd doesn't believe him.
- Super-Strength: He supposedly once "fisted a rhino".
- The Friend Nobody Likes: He's constantly disrespected by the other alter egos in "Markiplier TV", with Wilford Warfstache explicitly singling him out at one point. He also doesn't actually appear in any of the TV segments, which he lampshades.
- Two-Person Love Triangle: He finds out that his girlfriend Roxanne is cheating on him with his civilian self. Though it is implied at the end that she's seeing a third person, supposedly another superhero.
- Un-person: Despite signing up to take part in Markiplier TV in-universe, Silver Shepard fails to appear in any of the segments.
Googleplier
Primary objective is to answer questions as quickly as possible. Secondary objective is to destroy mankind.
A robot whose primary objective is to answer questions as quickly as possible, with his secondary objective being to destroy mankind. He debuts in "Google IRL", a collaborative sketch Mark did with Matthias.
- Achilles' Heel: Its primary objective is answering questions as fast as possible. It's designed to choose answering over destroying.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Averted, it was designed to destroy all of humanity.
- Ax-Crazy: This exchange between Matthias and Google IRL.Matthias: What can you do?
Google IRL: (Immediately afterwards) Kill. - Electronic Speech Impediment: Google "stuttered" occasionally for a while, perhaps due to the damage done to him by Matthias' Logic Bomb. This seems to have been fixed in the video "Google Gets An Upgrade".
- Killer Robot: Google tells Matthias that he can kill things when asked what he could do, and clearly has homicidal desires.
- Logic Bomb: How Matthias manages to defeat him at the end of "Google IRL".Google: Shut up! Just shut up! I can't kill you if you keep asking questions!
Matthias: ... Why not?
Google: (Shuts down) - Me's a Crowd: Gains this ability in "Google Gets An Upgrade" as a result of an update, which allows him to create red, green and yellow clones of himself. The last one is apparently named Oliver.
- Noisy Robots: Not always, but occasionally Google makes small mechanical noises when moving around as an indication of his robotic nature. This was toned down after his update.
- Not Quite Dead: It appears to shut down permanently at the end of its introductory sketch. "360 Minecraft Let's Play" later reveals that it's still alive, albeit glitching rather badly.
- Not So Stoic: He seemed rather emotionless at first, but when Matthias gives him admin permissions, he reveals that he's capable of feeling passion... for death and destruction.
- Slasher Smile: Sports one at the end of "360 Minecraft Let's Play", where he grins creepily at the audience.
- Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence: He is somewhere around level 3 and level 4.
The Jim Twins
Be very Jim!
Appears in: Markiplier TV, CORPSE ABDUCTION?, SUSPECT WITH A SHOOTY?!, DEMONS JIM, DEMONS!!, DUMMY JIM REENACTS GRISLY SCENE, In Space with Markiplier
A pair of brothers who inexplicably have the same name (Jim). They star in the "Who Killed Markiplier" shorts.
- Ascended Extra: Their first appearance in Markiplier TV wasn't much, they just were a newscaster and a weatherman in one of many skits present. Here, on the other hand, they have their own set of videos that run along with the canon of Who Killed Markiplier?, and they seem to have been around for as long as Darkiplier and Wilford. note
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Reporter Jim from the shorts is easily distracted by surrounding objects such as a "shooty" or the Detective, and goes on random rants when he encounters anything particularly new or interesting, rarely ending a train of thought sufficiently.
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Ensemble Dark Horse: They exist as Plucky Comic Relief and weren't supposed to be much more than that, but the entire community seems to remember them the most out of all the characters, becoming the community's resident Fountain of Memes. Lampshaded by Mark here
. - Fountain of Memes: Their wacky nature that juxtaposes the drama of Who Killed Markiplier? has made them this. Here are◊ some of them.
- The Ghost: Cameraman Jim is never seen on-screen, though it's justified by the fact that he's the one holding the camera to shoot the footage the viewers see.
- Intrepid Reporter: The Jims manage to get into Markiplier Mansion to investigate the murder. They mess around at the scene where the body was found, use an ouija board to try and commune with spirits, find the detective’s office, and attempt to enact the murder scene. All while going unnoticed by the occupants of the house - except for the Detective, who noticed them and tried to chase them off.
- Jitter Cam: Cameraman Jim clearly isn't very good at his job, if his shaky camera work and poor form are anything to go by.
- Meaningful Name: 'Jim' means 'to supplant' or 'to overthrow' as in that their adventures overthrow the dramatic atmosphere of the series.
- Me's a Crowd: In their cameo in "In Space With Markiplier: Part 2", Reporter Jim is bombarding the Captain with questions about the destruction of the universe, and then asks "Who's the real Jim?", which cues enough Jims to charge into the room that it's completely filled with them by the time the Captain is ejected from that reality.
- Repetitive Name: Taking into account that Jim is apparently their surname as well, they are together Jim Jim and Jim Jim. This extends to their mother, cousin and other relatives.
- Silly Walk: Reporter Jim employs one resembling a mix between a waddle and a crabwalk in the shorts, with some variations such as dragging his lower half of his body on the floor.
- Plucky Comic Relief: In contrast to the increasingly dramatic "who-dunnit" murder mystery of "Who Killed Markiplier", the videos involving the Jims are purely comedic in nature.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: The Detective shoos them away when he finds them, but they just come back again.
- Wiki Walk: In their shorts reporter Jim constantly diverges into his own theories, gets distracted by his surroundings, and informs everyone about the Jims' family lives purely through his own trail of imagination when he's supposed to be investigating a murder.
King of the Squirrels
I'm the King of the Squirrels
While he is based off "The King of the Squirrels" videos, his first formal appearance is in "Markiplier TV".- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: His appearance in "Markiplier TV" involves him running past the office where the other egos are having their meeting, coming in and introducing himself before running off again.
Harold B. Darrensworth
The LAW
A member of the Organization Watching Over Suspicious Entertainers Notoriously Pushing Alternative Ideals.- Berserk Button: Doesn't take edits making fun of him lightly.
- By-the-Book Cop: To the most extreme example, which is elaborated on in this post.
- Embarrassing Middle Name: The "B" in his name stands for "Benis" (Penis with the "P" replaced with B emoji.)
- Flat World: Believes Earth is one
- Fun with Acronyms: The name of his organization abbreviates to O.W.O.S.E.N.P.A.I.
- Hostile Show Takeover: Of a sort. After he shuts down the Kickcult Discord Server, he takes over Mark's Tumblr account.
- Married to the Job: He quite literally married his lawbook, as explained here.
- Order vs. Chaos: Why he shuts down the Kickcult Discord server; he doesn't agree with the chaotic nature of it.
- Perpetual Frowner: He's constantly frowning, as seen during his introductory stream
- Pungeon Master: Loves to make law puns whenever he gets the chance.
Eric Derekson
Buy Today, and you'll have a good day!
A clothing advertiser for the December 1st "Stand up to Cancer" charity livestream.- Dark and Troubled Past: All of his brothers died in a tragic bus accident.
- Kitschy Local Commercial: The green screen on his ads often fails, and he wears a green sweater in front of a green screen, which causes the shirt to become transparent along with the background.
- Nervous Wreck: Breaks down in tears trying to sell a pair of pants.
- Slogans: Attempts to make some, but he almost always fumbles his words due to how nervous he is.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Feels like he has to live up to his deceased brothers in order to impress his dad.
- Western Zodiac: Mentions in one of his advertisements that he's a Libra.
Derek Derekson
A clothing advertiser for the December 1st "Stand up to Cancer" charity livestream.
Randall Vorhees
Eyyy, I'm walkin' here!
A clothing advertiser for the December 1st "Stand up to Cancer" charity livestream.- Big Applesauce: Has a thick New Yorker accent, and all of his advertisements take place somewhere in New York.
Santaplier
- Blatant Lies: Tries to convince people that he isn't Santa Claus despite it being obvious that he is.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: States that he was the original ego, and is angry that he isn't getting the attention he believes he deserves.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Downplayed. He puts Wilford and Googleplier on the naughty list, but also puts Darkiplier on the nice list.
- Implausible Deniability: His Bio states that he's "Definitely Not Santa" and that he's "seriously some other guy", despite being dressed as Santa and appearing in the December 1st livestream, right around Christmastime.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Exaggerated. His only attempts to conceal his identity, despite all the evidence that proves who he is, is to 1) Add a text box saying that he definitely isn't Santa, 2) Pixellate the area around his face (which doesn't follow his face when he needs to pick up his hat when he drops it), and 3) to simply say he isn't Santa.
- Secret Identity: Tries to make this the case, but it's overwhelmingly apparent that he's Santa even with the measures he's taken to keep his identity a secret.
