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The "Deanverse"
In General
True Forces Of Mass Destruction (TFMDs)
Various paranormal individuals, entities and even flora of varied origins that inhabit the "Deanverse" and terrorize its citizens.- Eldritch Abomination: The vast majority of them don't resemble humans at all, with the only notable exceptions being Freedom, the Angel (kind of...), and the Canyoncrowns. And even then, all three of those Were Once Human!
- Meaningful Name: All of them are named after the monument that contains them or are infamous for having ties with. For example, the Libertylurker is contained inside the Statue of Liberty, the Air Force One Angel is notorious for having hijacked that very same plane, etc.
- Names To Run Away From Very Fast: A designation that several anomalies throughout the series get is the fitting title of "True Forces of Mass Destruction" or "TFMD" for short.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Most of them are contained inside famous monuments in the USA.
The Liberty Lurker
The Libertylurker / George Washington / The Horned Serpent
If you have any family members who were last seen at Ellis Island between the years 1949 and 1954, you may be entitled to compensation.
"People often ask why the pedestal is so disproportionate to the statue, all I can tell them is, "Ask the Americans." But I know why the pedestal is so massive, so tall. I simply cannot bring myself to tell them the truth, I am not strong enough. The truth being that I designed an abattoir. Just for him."
— Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
The Liberty Lurker is a True Force of Mass Destruction that was situated underneath the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island. It first appears in LIBERTYLURKER.
- Allegorical Character: To the United States' often less-than-ideal treatment of incoming immigrants, only this time the negligence and exploitation turns into outright human sacrifice, giving the victims a confined and ironic fate inside the depths of the Statue of Liberty. The fact that George Washington himself is doing this adds another layer of allegory, considering Washington committed acts of genocide against the Iroquois tribe and owned slaves.
- Body Horror: The thing is George Washington, stretched out within Wonderland for a long amount of time. He's so stretched that his current state is completely unrecognizable as a human being.
- Chekhov's Gunman: The first anomaly to be introduced and initially among the least explained of them all happens to be one of the most diabolical and plot-relevant creatures in the series, whose influence ends up dipping into several other events and storylines.
- Evil Smells Bad: The sheer amount of waste and human remains left in its wake after years of feeding were so mounting that passerby were overwhelmed by the whiff of it, and birds outright died from the stench if they got too close.
- Greater-Scope Villain: The Liberty Lurker is revealed to be none other than the Horned Serpent/George Washington, the mastermind behind the Statue of Progress, the Suez Canal and the Special Trees (implied to be its horns).
- Human Sacrifice: Human sacrifice from immigrants were needed in order to sustain it. The waste storage zone found by authorities was even compared to a mass grave site.
- Nothing Is Scarier: Nothing besides the tip of its body is ever shown. Ellis Island being shown again in AIRFORCEONEANGEL reveals that both it and the Statue of Liberty are gone entirely. LIBERTYLURKERS reveals what may be it emerging from the pedestal, but all we get to see is a straightforward segment of it that's not nearly enough to form a full picture, yet so gigantic as to be utterly horrifying.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Up until 1985, the Liberty Lurker resided underneath the Statue of Liberty before migrating. LIBERTYLURKERS indicates that the same applies to the Statue of Progress.
- To Serve Man: It has eaten dozens, possibly hundreds of people before it left the statue.
- Transhuman Abomination: The level of abomination will depend on whether he's the same Horned Serpent MAIZE tampered with or not. But at the very least, he was once but a man, and is now a stretched-out thing that eats people, needs to be contained in a great structure, and can somehow seep into the dreams of people thousands of miles away.
- Two Aliases, One Character: LIBERTYLURKERS reveals not just that George Washington is the Liberty Lurker, but that the Lurker is also the Horned Serpent.
- Was Once a Man: According to LIBERTYLURKERS, it's none other than George Washington after having been exposed to the Special Trees' dimension.
Lincoln Looker
Lincoln Looker
"It was no wild animal."
"They don't care if I talk about it or not. No one would take me seriously. Lincolnlooking is just too absurd."
An unknown entity imprisoned within the Lincoln Memorial. Or, at least, it was imprisoned in the Lincoln Memorial...right?— Maya Arnoldson
- Documentary of Lies: ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE reveals that the concept of Lincolnlooking was embellished by the ADA as propaganda. Whether or not this means the thing lurking beneath the Lincoln Memorial is also a complete fabrication is less clear.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Despite ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE suggesting the ADA made up Lincolnlooking as propaganda, Alex has said that LINCOLNLOOKER still happened and Lincoln Lookers do exist. Whether this refers to people who are abducted for Lincolnlooking, or some being within the Lincoln Memorial, is unclear.
- No Name Given: The creature which emerged from Lincoln is never given a name, or even classified as a TFMD. Given that it debuts in LINCOLNLOOKER and crawls out of the Lincoln Memorial, well, one would assume there's a connection between the two.
- Put on a Bus: The only appearance of the Lincoln Looker, or the Lincoln Memorial itself for that matter, has been LINCOLNLOOKER, the second episode of the series. It likewise hasn't factored into the story since, nor has any information that can be connected to it been revealed. This was eventually explained by the series finale ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE, which reveals that Lincolnlooking was never real in the first place.
- Unknown Character: The complete paucity of information related to the Lincoln Looker has resulted in next to nothing being known about it. Aside from its appearance in the eponymous episode and being located at the Lincoln Memorial, there isn't even confirmation that the creature has anything to do with the practice of Lincolnlooking – Lincolnlookers, by the name, are implied to be looking at something, which is impossible to do if they were underneath the Lincoln Memorial, and likewise the American public at large believed the Lincolnlookers to be held prisoner behind White House presidential portraits, not at the Memorial itself. It's not made clear if the creature is unique at all, or if it's part of something already seen before, like a Special Tree, or even part of the Horned Serpent.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Was stored within the Lincoln Memorial since times unknown.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Of the Libertylurker, at first. As it was the second anomaly to ever be revealed, the two shared the common trait of emerging from a colossal statue which slid open to release it. Of course, the series has diversified quite a bit since.
- Was Once a Man: Possibly. As stated above, we have no confirmation that Lincolnlookers were literally imprisoned within the Lincoln Memorial, but assuming they were, given the circumstances surrounding other anomalies in the series, it's not unlikely that whatever the Lincoln Looker is, it used to be human.
Alcatraz
Alcatraz
Alcatrazosis
As of 2020, the Alcatraz Zone extends to West Texas.
Alcatraz, as many already know, is a prison island situated near California. However, in this universe Alcatraz is much, much different, and alive. It first appears in ALCATRAZATTACK.
- The Assimilator: What's most probably the end result if and when it reaches land, with the affected area on the map of its projected course being blackened out as if it were feeding on the city itself. The more it eats, the larger it'll grow. In ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE, it is said that it consumed the entirety of America and replaced it with an exact replica of itself.
- Bolivian Army Ending: Following a dose of radiation therapy to try and thwart it, Alcatraz multiplies into copies of itself. With one Alcatraz being hard enough to contain already, a whole group of them making their way to American shores is bound to lead to an uncontrollable disaster in the coming decades.
- The Bus Came Back: Alcatraz disappears and reappears several times over the course of the series. It is mentioned just once following its debut in Season 1, only to return for a major part in the Season 2 finale. Subsequently, it is revealed to have a central role in the plot of the Nixonverse spinoff. After being mostly absent from Season 3, it receives its first new mention in Season 4's FOOTAGE OF FINAL TRUMP RALLY, where it's implied to have been responsible for Trump's death or assimilation in the aftermath of Operation Seed.
- Eldritch Location: Alcatraz is a living prison island with the ability to duplicate itself.
- From Bad to Worse: Alcatraz was originally projected to have reached mainland California by around 2030, leading the government to attempt radiation therapy on it to neutralize it. Not only did this not work, but it caused Alcatraz to multiply, leading to America up to the West of Texas to now be part of an "Alcatraz Zone" in 2020. The worst part now is that all of America has been consumed by the prison, and have copies made of everyone within America in ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE.
- Genius Loci: Alcatraz, as described before, is a living island with the ability to multiply similarly to a single celled organism. THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE reveals it goes even further: everything Alcatraz matter assimilates is alive. As it says, "Every particle is a neuron. Every object is a brain. [...] Can you feel your atoms thinking?"
- Greater-Scope Villain: A multiversal example, in fact. Not only does it produce Richard Nixon and his offshoots in the Nixonverse, it also created the Debate Demon and the Monument Monster in the Modern Day timeline.
- Leitmotif: A slowed-down, distorted version of "This Time It's Real" by Horace Heidt plays for it in ALCATRAZATTACK, as well as in THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX when the Alcatraz Checkmate destroys the Lunarians and covers America in Alcatraz matter.
- Me's a Crowd: As shown in ALCATRAZATTACK, one day after radiation therapy already caused Alcatraz to multiply at least five times over.
- Mighty Glacier: It may take decades for the island to finally reach land, but the situation is made out to seem nearly impossible to contain and the damage will be catastrophic once it makes contact. Then Alcatraz manages to assimilate and replace the entirety of the United States in just one night without anyone knowing.
- Monster Progenitor: A piece of Alcatraz matter that and escaped the Horned Serpent also assimilated some of its properties, becoming Richard Nixon and his extensions. It also was likewise behind the creation of the Debate Demon and the Monument Monster.
- Mysterious Past: While most anomalies in the Mythos have some sort of origin or explanation, nothing of the sort is ever given for Alcatraz: it merely is.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Though it technically only really appears in two episodes, its assimilation of the United States is later revealed to be a pivotal moment in The Nixonverse, as its anomalous properties enable Richard Nixon to assimilate some of the Horned Serpent's abilities and escape the Great Division.
- Visual Pun: The reason Alcatraz has the ability to multiply similar to a single celled organism is due to the fact that, if seen from a far enough view, the layout of the island itself looks similar to a single celled organism, and in the Monument Mythos universe, it even has structures that further its existence as a unicellular eukaryote, such as a nucleus and various organelles (i.e., mitochondria and a golgi apparatus). You could say that Alcatraz is a prison cell now!
- Though, being a prison, that would make it multicellular, wouldn't it?
Special Trees
The Special Trees
"The Trees are not trees."
The forest fell swiftly,
As the lumberjack swung.
Except for the special tree,
Which could not be stung.
She missed her friends,
And the hymns they sung.
So she started a tune,
That broke the man's lung.
As the lumberjack swung.
Except for the special tree,
Which could not be stung.
She missed her friends,
And the hymns they sung.
So she started a tune,
That broke the man's lung.
The Special Trees are peculiar, otherworldly trees. Gigantic in height, and without branches. One is inside the Washington Memorial, while another was at the Rockefeller Center, and larger groups of Special Trees appear later in the series. They first appear in WASHINGTONWORMHOLE.
- Bizarrchitecture: The one inside the Washington Monument was able to make the memorial bend just as it does itself. Their "homeworld", Wonderland (a.k.a. the Horned Serpent Metastructure), is shown to be infinite in size, with Special Trees extending up and down endlessly, without end.
- Bloodlust: Virginia believes that the Tree inside the Washington Monument "likes pain" and that they're more than content to drink her and the rest of the Washington Absentees' blood for multiple decades.
- Botanical Abomination: They're all but indestructible, have no branches, tower over almost everyone around them, and have the ability to warp people to other dimensions via lightning they produce. Everett implies to Virginia in WASHINGTONWONDERLAND that they're not even trees at all. LIBERTYLURKERS reveals they're merely part of something much worse.
- Eldritch Location: Wonderland, a world full of Special Trees meeting end over end endlessly. Those within it get randomly teleported across its many layers, and time has no effect on it - Virginia and Everett seemingly spend centuries in Wonderland, but never physically age. And as its official classification in LIBERTYLURKERS suggests, it's all part of the Horned Serpent.
- Hell Is That Noise: The music they make? Just like the rhyme says, it doesn't stop in whatever realm they come from. As cthonauts delving into the Wonderland showed in LIBERTYLURKERS, they all sing down there, and the result is a nightmarish, howling cacophony of infinities that "may damage your brain" with prolonged exposure.
- Mind-Control Music: The trees can produce this to manipulate others. As shown in ROCKEFELLERTREETRAGEDY one of them used this on Rockefeller to make him move it to the New York Center and another used it in WASHINGTONWONDERLAND on Virginia to get her inside the Washington Monument.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: The trees are near impossible to chop down and just as equally immune to things like dynamite. It took the team hired to take one of them to the Rockefeller Center three years just to dig it out from under the ground. Before 1945 (see Nuclear Option below), the only way to contain them in some way was to continually "prune" them with Giza glass swords.
- Nuclear Option: Apparently the only way to kill one, as the government operative in STARRYSPHINX mentions that no permanent solution to the trees has ever been discovered "until 1945."
- Our Wormholes Are Different: Given the title of WASHINGTONWORMHOLE and what was shown in ROCKEFELLERTREETRAGEDY with Virginia, these trees are not just trees, but also gateways to other dimensions.
- Revenge: The poem at the beginning of WASHINGTONWORMHOLE implies that at least one of the tree's motivations is this, missing the other trees.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Due to the nature of the Trees, many of them are contained in various monuments.
- The Washington Monument notoriously contains one, which due to the Tree's properties was used as a way to dispatch of war criminals, ADA members, and more.
- A countless amount of them are inside of the Pyramids. By the end of STARRYSPHINX, they all break free. Although given how ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE reveals that Leonard was coerced into reading that section of the documentary, and how Egypt is inexplicably back to normal in SUEZCANALCRAB, it's likely that these never existed in the first place.
- Treants: The ending of ROCKEFELLERTREETRAGEDY explicitly states that the 1934 Rockefeller Christmas Tree resembles a man far more than a tree. In WASHINGTONWONDERLAND, we catch a clearer glimpse at the tree, which is revealed to have taken the form of a woman with bizarre proportions who seems to still have the texture of a regular Tree.
Wonderland
Wonderland/The Horned Serpent Metastructure
The Trees looked like they ended. But above them were upside-down Trees. And above those there were Special Trees, like they were reflected forever.
Should one be hit by the lightning of the Special Trees, they're teleported to a dimension in which time and space are rendered completely irrelevant, coloquially known as the Wonderland. A dimension that is described as a valley full of infinitely reflecting Special Trees, and as it is implied, their homeworld.—Virginia
- And I Must Scream: WASHINGTONWONDERLAND reveals that one can artificially enter Wonderland without the need of a Special Tree activating via falling from a great height nearby one. This results in its victims "falling" down to Wonderland, being forced to stay in an immobile state as the Tree they fell on drains their blood and enjoys their suffering for what seems to be infinity until the Tree is activated... The thing is, the Tree only seems to activate under certain conditions, such was the case of the 2003 Infection, leaving its victims effectively in an infinite cycle of torture without outside help.
- Brown Note: The Trees' collective singing is noted to be harmful to the brain with prolonged exposure, and it's definitely unpleasant in the short term.
- Connected All Along: LIBERTYLURKERS finally gives Wonderland a proper, formal name: The Horned Serpent Metastructure. And it's no wonder, as this place was the sole reason of it's existing, and also part of itself.
- Eldritch Location: To be expected from the homeworld of the Special Trees. This is a colorless dimension without time, seemingly infinite space with equally infinite Special Trees above and below it's surface, which is made out of a substance similar to baby powder, by the way. Due to the nature of the Special Trees, whoever has the misfortune to end in this place will be doomed to teleport through the layers of the dimension for years on end without stop, and that's only if you normally entered the realm...
- Maker of Monsters: Climbing a Special Tree on Earth is mostly fine and will (most likely) not do anything to you. In Wonderland, though? If you climb a Special Tree in Wonderland, you will be stretched out throughout all of it's infinite layers, completely charring you and changing your physiology to grow horns and, if the Nixonverse is taken into consideration, completely revamp your skull into looking like that of a snake. These creatures are called "Climbers" by Virginia and Everett. This very same process was responsible for the creation of the Horned Serpent, or as he was known prior to climbing a Tree, George Washington.
- Me's a Crowd: WASHINGTONWANDERER states that Wonderland keeps copies of the people that enter it, essentially working as some sort of "cloud storage".
- Place Beyond Time: Wonderland is a timeless place where people could spend as long as 500 years inside it and not age one bit.
- Stable Time Loop: Due to its nature as a timeless place, Wonderland is the cause for many of these.
- If the Everett that Virginia met during her first entry and Everett Arnoldson are one and the same, then it's entirely possible that he was looking for her not only to keep her safe, but to also ensure that his birth happens as it should.
- The biggest one of them all is the existence of Wonderland itself. Wonderland is literally referred to as the Horned Serpent's Metastructure, yet it's existence was the cause for the Horned Serpent's existence and by extension itself. This makes Wonderland a paradox truly without origin.
- Year Inside, Hour Outside: Time doesn't exist in Wonderland, as Virginia spends possibly hundreds of years there but never ages a day, and when she leaves Wonderland, she arrives in the Deanverse with no time having passed at all.
The Angel
The Angel
"LEAVE US ALONE OR JOIN THE ASH PILE."
White House Officials later disclosed that the unusual flight of Air Force One was unauthorized and unmanned.
The lone figure inside the plane, dubbed the Air Force One Angel, has yet to be identified by federal authorities.
The lone figure inside the plane, dubbed the Air Force One Angel, has yet to be identified by federal authorities.
A peculiar being, also known as the "Air Force One Angel," which hijacked Air Force One in 2003. They first appear in AIRFORCEONEANGEL.
- Action Bomb: In AIRFORCEONEFALLENAGEL, they were shot down, as they flew into unauthorized airspace. The ADA claim that they became a "walking atomic bomb," and they will use them to divide the three zones into as many states as they can.
- Allegorical Character: Perhaps as a representation of the countless soldiers lost and sacrificed by the USA, it's only fitting that the gravely wounded Angel would land on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a memorial built to honor the remains of soldiers so disfigured they're unrecognizable.
- Angelic Abomination: They're described as an angel for their mysterious and incognito hijacking of Air Force One, but they're anything but holy in appearance and goals.
- Assassination Attempt: They're revealed to be the one that took and probably killed John D. Rockefeller in ROCKEFELLERREVELATION.
- Body Horror: Closer inspection of known photographs reveals the "Angel" to most likely be a walking, thinking and exposed nervous system and brain.
- Creepy Good: Possibly. Whatever they did to the national monuments seemed to awaken them, which while clearly destructive seems to have let the public in on a number of the government's dirty little secrets, which happens to have been the goal of the ADA around 2003 as well, implying that the entity is working with them somehow. And if it's opposed to the government which inadvertently created it, then it is far more likely to be mostly benevolent in nature than most of the other anomalies on this list.
- As of AIRFORCEONEFALLENANGEL, they are officially the Big Good of the ADA. And given the ADA's track record and stated plans for them, this still makes it very ambiguous as to whether they are actually a Big Good.
- ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE firmly establishes the Angel as a neutral character who simply wishes to live in solitude, as indicated by the graffiti left outside the Lincoln Memorial.
- David Versus Goliath: AFTERANGEL gives us a very solid idea of how their confrontation with Freedom went. They don't even reach her knees. Regardless of any size difference, ANGELASHES reveals that they came out on top victorious.
- Death Ray: Originally, their creation was meant to power or enhance the heat ray meant to shoot down German airships in the First World War. By the time they comes to enact revenge on Rockefeller, they're seemingly able to fire heat rays at will, with authorities noting that whoever made Rockefeller vanish had access to the most powerful heat ray ever conceived to breach his security bunker.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: In their indirect first appearance in RUSHMOREREVENGE, their Graffiti of the Resistance reads "I will introduce infection next week," but in ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE, they refer to themselves with a Royal "We".
- Expy: The circumstances of their creation and their eventual form might make them one for Dr. Manhattan. The soldiers disintegrated by an advanced military construct lose their form and drift as free consciousnesses until eventually reuniting and forming up as an ethereal brain and nervous system, just like what happened to Manhattan shortly after his death.
- Fusion Dance: The "Angel" is actually a fusion of the seventeen soldiers who activated the Death Ray on top of the Great Pyramid.
- Graffiti of the Resistance: It's implied they are responsible for the graffiti on the monuments just before their fateful flight on Air Force One.
- He Was Right There All Along: ROCKEFELLERREVELATION reveals them to have been in the two photos of the Special Tree that Rockefeller took, stalking him the whole time.
- Humanoid Abomination: What little we know of their appearance indicates they've got the general silhouette of a human, but is incredibly thin and seems to have an exposed brain.
- I Am Not a Gun: After they realize they're being used as nothing but mere weapons by the ADA, they turn them all to ashes.
- Leitmotif: "Soul Coaxing" by Michel Polnareff plays in both AIRFORCEONEANGEL and AIRFORCEONEFALLENANGEL, videos which focus on the Angel. A Dark Reprise also plays at the start of ANGELASHES.
- Meaningful Name: Not the angel itself, but one of the soldiers who became the Angel, Allan D. Arnoldson. His name's initials, ADA, are the same as the soon to be Anti-Dean Association. This fits, as Nathaniel and Maya Arnoldson, two Arnoldsons themselves, would become members of the ADA, and the Angel itself acts in a rebellious nature against the United States similarly to the ADA. Note that Allan D. Arnoldson is only mentioned in a now deleted and decanonised video, however.
- Their title as an "Angel" not only refers to their flight around the country delivering "gifts," but once they're shot down from the air and falls back to Earth, they're literally a Fallen Angel now serving the unscrupulous and morally ambiguous ADA after having decided to turn against their former masters.
- Monster Progenitor: In the modern age, this seems to be their current role with the disease spreading around national monuments. The flight trajectory of the plane they hijacked while visiting national monuments around the entirety of the USA has them dropping off packages containing something that’s either spreading or awakening a horrible infection in sites like Mount Rushmore. If not enacting straight up sabotage to American monuments, they're at least drawing far more public attention than the US government would care to have on their hidden conspiracies.
- Noodle Incident: The Angel's flight achieved what the government ended up calling "the Unification of 2003." Aside from it seriously messing up state borders, nothing else is known about the incident.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: ANGELASHES reveals that the Angel destroyed Freedom during Operation Thunderbird and lived, although they don't quite consider it awesome.
- Power Glows: The Angel is almost always glowing a light blue, as if it were an Energy Being. It's most overt in ANGELASHES.
- Reality Warper: Whatever they did to various monuments from Air Force One, it was significant enough to cause the "Unification of 2003", with Special Trees covering Mount Rushmore and Washington apparantly becoming a forest of them. ANGELASHES goes a step further: their divided particles are able to travel across time, and somehow, this prevents the Great Division from happening.
- Revenge: The true motivation of the Angel is this, being all seventeen men who were dissolved and fused into one, and thus seeking revenge for having their lives taken from them by Rockefeller.
- Person of Mass Destruction: They show their true capacity for destruction later on; the ADA is convinced them alone can crack the USA wide open and seek to do so, to release the Horned Serpent. For trying this, the Angel exterminated them completely... and then proved them right, when the Government attempted to get rid of both them and Freedom by pitting them against each other; whatever happened when they tried to blast her blew up the planet.
- Phlebotinum Rebel: The Angel does not take kindly to being used as a weapon by the United States and then forgotten. The only group the Angel gets more angered with than the US is the ADA when they try to use them as a weapon as well, killing every last member of the splinter organization the Advocates."THE ADVOCATES WERE DERANGED. THEY ARE ALL ASHES NOW. WE WILL NEVER BE WEAPONS AGAIN. LEAVE US ALONE OR JOIN THE ASH PILE."
- Redemption Equals Death: Following Cthnonaut A's advice, the Angel divides themself until they "no longer can". It goes a step further, as the Angel's divided particles are scattered through time, and influence the brain of the Angel in the past to allow Freedom to kill it during their fateful confrontation – thus undoing the Great Division.
- Retired Badass: After they turn the ADA into ashes and leave their ultimatum to the UZA, they escape to Babylon Forest for 19 years until they're found by the UZA again.
- Royal "We": Due to their multi-being nature, they refer to themselves as "We," as seen in the quote above.
- Stalker without a Crush: Followed and stalked Rockefeller before they "evicted him from reality." They were even present in the photos Rockefeller took of the Special Tree, showing that they followed him everywhere.
- Suddenly Voiced: ANGELASHES shows the Angel speaking for the first time after three seasons, where they use overlapping voices.
- The Penance: After causing the Great Division, the Angel commits suicide out of guilt. Twice, actually.
- Turned Against Their Masters: Unsurprisingly, the Angel is not very pleased with the American government. Nor with the Advocates for the Division of America, who the Angel disintegrates to ashes.
- Voice of the Legion: In ANGELASHES, the Angel speaks with multiple overlapping voices. Appropriate, as they are seventeen men in one.
- Was Once a Man: As stated above in Fusion Dance, they are former US soldiers who were disintegrated and turned into the Angel.
Canyon Crowns
Canyonggalans (Canyon Crowns)
My dad said the reason we went on this trip was so he could find his sister Maya (...) I think that was Maya.
"However, the Crowns are not men or women. Nor are they animals. They are merely the decayed shells of ignoble criminals. They do not qualify for the same freedoms exercised by ordinary civilians."
—John D. Rockefeller
Canyon Crowns (also known as Canyonggalans) are human beings whose heads have been cut off with Giza Glass. They stay around the Grand Canyon and require a supply of Vinegar to keep them from mutating further. They first appear in CANYONCROWN, and are implied to be the being spotted in FALLENFATHER.
- Body Horror: The heads of the Crowns will slowly swell up if not supplied with vinegar.
- Flying Face: Being decapitated by Giza Glass doesn’t give victims the luxury of death, but they're somehow able to control their severed remains afterwards. Based off of brief glimpses of their appearance, they don't look at all pleasant or healthy from their time in their state.
- Losing Your Head: Despite losing their heads, Crowns are still very much alive afterwards. Some pictures even show that they're able to control their headless bodies in some capacity.
- Kill It with Fire: In the First World War, one of the few weapons that could reliably take down airships with Crowns guiding them were, of all things, heat rays that cut right through all of their defenses send them crashing down in flames.
- Nightmare Face: Having grown to huge sizes, being exposed to harsh sunlight and with nothing but dry weather to live in for years, the faces of those in the Grand Canyon look pretty burnt, dried up and grotesque. The one briefly seen in the image to the right has its eye wide open and the skin of its nose and lips receding from said living conditions, resembling flying a 'shrunken' head more than their original and intact selves.
- Non-Malicious Monster: They don't seem to be at all aggressive towards humans, which is unsurprising given their origin (see Was Once a Man). At best, they just glare at others, which may simply be an attempt at communicating. At worst, they serve as bait to lure ADA members to Freedom.
- Powered by a Forsaken Child: Before World War 1, Rockefeller had bartered Germany to sell hundreds of Crowns and American specialists in order for Germany to create their airships, which they boasted as the ultimate machines of warfare, and became a massive pain in the ass for the Allies to take out once the Great War broke out. Most of the structure of the airship remained the same, save for the fact that the Crowns within had been either bundled up with dozens of their kind or one Crown was allowed to grow to massive and tumorous proportions in order to grant the vehicle its perfect flight and controls, while the crew in the gondolas let loose bombing runs on targets below.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: The "ggalan" of Canyonggalan originates from the Penanggalan of Malaysian Mythology, a witch whose head detaches at night after meditating in a ritual bath of vinegar.
- Slave Race: The Crowns have been utilized as a slave race by the United States multiple times, due to the refusal to see them as human. First, they were used by Rockefeller in order to keep the United States economy from destabilizing, then were used again by Freedom in order to draw any ADA members near the Grand Canyon, where they could be decapitated and turned into more crowns.
- Trouble Follows You Home: Lauren Arnoldson, after nonchalantly brushing off spotting a massive Crown lunging at her, went home to continue her home movies when she noticed that a Crown had followed her home. She immediately ran back inside and shut the window blinds to hide, with the giant and head-shaped silhouette of the Crown inching forward to investigate.
- The Voiceless: Crowns have lost the ability to speak ever since being decapitated.
- Was Once a Man: All of them were once people whose heads were cut off with Giza Glass.
Freedom
Freedom
"The rocks won't shoot her down."
"Inside Freedom, Thomas and Nina are protecting America. Together."
— Louisa Crawford
Freedom is a statue made by Thomas Crawford that was made to stand atop the Capitol Building. In our universe, Freedom sits atop the Capitol and isn't alive at all. However, in the Monument Mythos universe, Freedom was knocked off the Capitol in 1977 and is very much alive. She first appears in FREEDOMFALLER.
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: Due to the anomalous properties of Giza Glass, which her sword is made out of, Freedom's Sword can cut through the human body like a hot knife through butter.
- Brick Joke: During her escape attempt, Freedom deforested a strip of the Rock of Gibraltar to clear a path for herself. In ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE, the US Department of Technology’s animation of Operation Thunderbird has her nonchalantly chop a single tree in passing after her release.
- Death by Irony: Freedom would decapitate intruders at the Grand Canyon. ANGELASHES shows that after her battle with the Angel, her head was the only part of her that survived.
- Death Glare: Seems to give one to the cameraman present during the attack on the Capitol, leaning just out of the doorway to glare at who's likely a soon-to-be-victim
◊ before the video ends. While unseen due to the lens cap being on the camera, she was also content to stand and stare down Maya once she confronted her at the Grand Canyon, then quickly moved in for the decapitation. - Evil Is Bigger: On top of being openly malevolent and her current job as the government's secret executioner, Freedom stands at nearly 20 feet tall.
- Expy: In a Q&A, Alex said Freedom is his take on Dracula, with Freedom being an immortal supernatural entity who skins and "eats" human flesh (as in old vampiric legends) and arrives from Europe to America as cargo on a boat (just as Dracula arrived to England in the original novel).
- Flesh Golem: A variation of it. After slaughtering many in Gibraltar in an attempt to gain freedom, Freedom ended up gaining a form of flesh that required her to be flayed alive in order to get the actual statue back for the Americans. It later regains said flesh during the attack on the Capitol from the ADA, likely from the surrounding ADA members she killed.
- Foil: To the Air Force One Angel. Both are entities composed of multiple individuals that were created in service to the American government. Both are also actively malicious, and are now used as living weapons by the American government and the ADA, respectively.
- Genuine Human Hide: The flesh she gains from her victims is apparently harvested the old-fashioned way, skinned and worn on the spot. During the attack on the capitol, after her initial peek, you can hear her chop a woman's head off, peel her skin off and stretch it before she peers back out in a pale flesh toned form seen at the end of the video (see Death Glare for image).
- Hive Mind: Alex states that Freedom's mind is that of Nina and Thomas', fused together as one.
- Irony: Originally, Freedom was built by Thomas Crawford to uplift others and give a symbol for the oppressed. After the 1977 Incident in which 150 ADA members were killed, Freedom is now used as an oppressor for any dissidents. Additionally, she was caught after she attempted to flee for freedom in Gibraltar, and put through a long ordeal that ended with her being effectively trapped and subservient to America.
- In addition, her fate after her first rampage on Gibraltar. As Phillip Reed said, she craved freedom so much that she decided to take it. The US government, upon seeing a literal living representation of Freedom, ordered a slave against his will to strip her of that flesh. All because they'd rather have a symbol of Freedom than the real thing.
- A final, fittingly apocalyptic instance: after being manipulated into causing the Unification of 2003, the Angel destroys the ADA and offers America an ultimatum: stop using anomalies as weapons, or join the ash. The government's response? Use Freedom as a weapon to attack the Angel - hoping for mutually assured destruction. The end result? Well, they were kinda right... but even then, the Angel survived.
- The Juggernaut: She's a 20-foot tall Living Statue who carries a Giza Glass sword and gunfire only angers her. The United Zones' government thinks this well as during ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE, their plan to deal with the Angel is basically "toss Freedom at it and hope they both die."
- Lightning Bruiser: Described as such during her escape through the woods, moving at high speeds and cleaving through trees with swings so quick that the stumps are hot to the touch long after she passed through, and fires have broken out in other places.
- Living Statue: Due to having the bodies of Thomas and Nina Crawford inside of her, Freedom is granted life.
- Mascot Villain: Freedom has been used as the mascot of the series, appearing as the centerpiece of the Season One trailer and having the most complete backstory and plot relevancy in terms of anomalies.
- Monster Progenitor: After falling off the capitol building, it was relocated to the Grand Canyon for reasons the public aren't aware of. As it turns out, it currently exists to execute enemies of the USA and turn them into Canyon Crowns.
- Nothing Is Scarier: Maya accidentally running into Freedom out in the wild isn't seen due to the lens cap of her camera still being on, all that's heard is Maya's terrified pleas for mercy and cries of terror as the sound of Freedom dashing towards her at high speeds and the sound of her sword chopping her head off play off.
- Off With Their Head: Her preferred method of attack is to go straight for a decapitation with her sword. After the incident at the Capitol riots, she was relocated to the Grand Canyon and readied to put her sword made of Giza Glass to good use, an anomalous material that can't kill its victims no matter what kind of wounds are inflicted, ready to deliver executions far harsher than death to enemies of the USA.
- Was Once a Man: Thomas Crawford used his own flesh as a way to grant Freedom itself a form of life.
- Would Hurt a Child: The statue sliced up Nina's body so she could join her father inside. While Giza Glass deals no pain to victims, it doesn't detract from the fact that Nina was chopped up so thoroughly that her remains were compared to a splayed set of clothes.
The Horned Serpent
The Horned Serpent / Hanodaganears
"The devourer of villages." It was the name given to George Washington by the Iroquois. This was no coincidence.
Click here to see it escaping the Statue of Progress
Click here to see it when freed (SPOILERS)
"I could not bring myself to lie to everyone. I did not choose to build the Canal. The man beneath America ordered me to. Any night, he can sink into my dreams."
—Ferdinand de Lesseps
The Horned Serpent is a gigantic beast resting dormant underneath the USA. It was used as a basis for technology produced by Maize before a certain incident occurred that put a stop to those ventures. It first appears in MAIZEMOVIEMAKER.
For tropes applying to its previous appearances in the series, see the Libertylurker and George Washington above.
- Animalistic Abomination: The Horned Serpent is so ginormous that it can span from California to Pennsylvania, while still curving at the same time.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: It is absolutely massive, with its depiction in MAIZEMOVIEMAKER being the size of the contiguous USA. ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE shows that it's actually closer to the size of the Earth!
- The Bad Guy Wins: ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE ends with it emerging from the Earth as it is destroyed, seemingly unaffected by the clash between Freedom and the Angel.
- Expecting Someone Taller: Inverted. Despite Maize's schematics, the Serpent isn't just as big as the USA. In fact, as revealed in ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE, it's as big as the entire Earth.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Several videos indicate that it is this, with MAIZEMOVIEMAKER indicating the Special Trees are actually its horns and AIRFORCEONEFALLENANGEL featuring an ADA statement accusing it of being the true master of America. And as LIBERTYLURKERS reveals due to George Washington being heavily implied to be the Horned Serpent, he also masterminded the creation of the Statue of Progress and the Suez Canal.
- Ultimately, it's also responsible for the events of the Nixonverse as well, as it's destruction/assimilation of the Earth caused Nixon to escape from it into the Nixonverse
- The Great Serpent: The thing is absolutely gigantic, with its body being long enough to cover a large portion of America. And, as it's revealed in ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE, the entire Earth.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: While George Washington was admittedly not the best individual, he was far less villainous than the Transhuman Abomination living in the crust of the Earth of his counterpart.
- Horns of Villainy: As its name suggests, it has two massive horns. They used to be a bicorn hat prior to Washington's transformation.
- Noodle Incident: An undisclosed incident, hinted at with only hideously loud howling and electrical storms that struck the USA, led to a ban on Maize computers across the country and is likely the main reason why technology in the series is far less advanced than their real-world counterpart.
- Not Quite Dead: THE D-DAY KNIGHT reveals that the Horned Serpent still lives in some capacity through the D-Day Knight, who used what is presumed to be its skull as a helmet. Subverted in THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX, where it's revealed that the Horned Serpent is Deader than Dead, but its legacy still lives on.
- Organic Technology: Up until the disaster in 1980 in Pennsylvania, the Horned Serpent was used as a basis for the rapid production of Maize's computers. ROCKEFELLERREVELATION also shows what is possibly another Horned Serpent's skull being used as the lens for the Death Ray.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: The Horned Serpent is named after the Horned Serpent of Native American mythos, a snake with properties of thunder and lightning associated with it. It is also said to be the "ruler of the underworld," which fits with it being underground most of the time.
- The symbol for the Advocates of the Division of America in AIRFORCEONEFALLENGANGEL also links it to Ophion, a divine serpent in Classical Mythology which wraps itself around the World Egg.
- The symbol for the Advocates of the Division of America in AIRFORCEONEFALLENGANGEL also links it to Ophion
- Shock and Awe: The Serpent has abilities related to lightning, as seen from how the Maize facilities near it have a large amount of charged air inside.
- Shout-Out: What is shown of the snake as a serpent split into multiple pieces is a reference to Benjamin Franklin's famous "Join, or Die" political cartoon.
- Snakes Are Sinister: It's an eldritch, world-destroying monster in a serpentine form responsible for much of the horror in the series. According to MONUMENTMYTHOLOGY, it was like this even before becoming a cosmic monstrosity (not clear how Washington fits into this new backstory), as it's revealed that it and two other snakes tricked the gods into giving them immense power and then killed them using a weapon they had tricked humanity into creating. Then they subjugated the natural world for a very long time before upgrading themselves to a cosmic scale.
- Spikes of Villainy: When it escapes the Statue of Progress, it notoriously has many spikes resembling Special Trees all over its body.
- Stable Time Loop: If the Special Trees are an extension of the Horned Serpent (as Wonderland's classification as the "Horned Serpent Metastructure" suggests), then it is responsible for turning George Washington into itself.
- Tiny-Headed Behemoth: As opposed to what was seen in the "Project Horned Serpent" schematics, its head is notoriously small in comparison to its body, as seen in LIBERTYLURKER and THE D-DAY KNIGHT.
- Was Once a Man: LIBERTYLURKERS reveals that George Washington himself is the Horned Serpent after trying to climb one of the Special Trees in Wonderland.
- You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Alex has said the Horned Serpent is an abstract being that human brains, attuned to three-dimensional space, cannot fully comprehend, with both it and Wonderland appearing to be separate, yet also one and the same.
"Climbers"
Climbers
They were stretched and burnt.
"Every now and then, we would flash to another layer of dust. Above or below, who knows. But we would always see the Climbers."
Strange, disfigured beings who seemingly inhabit every "layer" of the Horned Serpent Metastructure. There's no telling how many there are... or if there's more than one at all...—Virginia
- And I Must Scream: Virginia implies that Climbers are seen on every layer of Wonderland, but this presents an interesting question: is she really seeing multiple Climbers, or is it all just one Climber, who has been transported to different levels for God knows how long, leaving behind a charred, twisted part of themselves wherever they land?
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Virginia names the Climbers based on her belief that they're the result of someone who was transported to another layer of Wonderland while trying to climb one of the Special Trees.
- Foreshadowing: The only Climber that Virginia illustrates has a head which looks suspiciously like the Libertylurker.
- Was Once a Man: Virginia believes Climbers to be the results of humans trying to climb Special Trees.
The Suez Canal Crab
The Suez Canal Crab
"The Americans destroyed the Suez Canal and released a demon. Great."
— An exasperated TWTTR user.
The Suez Canal Crab is a gigantic crustacean-esque creature that was awoken by a thermonuclear bomb intended to free the Ever Given from the Suez Canal. It first appears in SUEZCANALCRAB.
- Animalistic Abomination: The crab itself is gigantic, and apparently would have been a candidate for being a TFMD (which are supposed to be forces powerful enough to end the world) if it killed anyone.
- From Bad to Worse: The crab wasn't really all that threatening in the grand scheme of things, and while humanity was trying to find a way to guide it back to the sea and save the cargo, its curiosity got the better of it when it walked up to investigate all the people inside the Cairo Tower. It stumbled on something, crashed into the tower and spilled the entire contents of the ship as well as its own blood on the ground. The initial chaos and tragedy of the situation gave way the ADA and American citizens flying over to the wreckage to loot everything, which led to intense armed response from local military, which led to an absurd amount of death and madness in the hours after.
- Giant Animal Worship: After the whole situation in Cairo, the survivors of the incident formed a religion based upon it known as the "Church of the Ever Given."
- Giant Enemy Crab: As the name implies, it's a gigantic crab. The "enemy" part is subverted however, as it has no ill will against mankind.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: The Crab, being completely passive and curious, accidentally destroyed the Cairo Tower and was mortally wounded in the process, ending its significance in the video. The remaining half of the documentary goes into extensive detail about the ADA calling a mass movement for American citizens to swarm the site to pilfer the goods that had fallen off the boat the Crab was carrying (calling the occasion "Finders Keepers Day"), claiming that the whole event was a conspiracy by the Egyptians to get the cargo the Crab was carrying to fall under their own hands. The Egyptian authorities, meanwhile, do not take kindly to the swarm invading the site of this tragedy they were cleaning up and react with harsh brutality once everyone arrives. The subsequent bloodbath involving an absurd level of human greed, mass hysteria, children fighting to the death, and the desperate trying to flee but being trapped and annihilated by Egyptians lying in wait shows that whatever else the Crab could have done wouldn't have outdone what the humans in Egypt can do to themselves.
- Non-Malicious Monster: Unlike most other anomalies in the series, it bears almost no ill will towards humanity. The entire reason anyone dies around it is due to it tripping over rather than any actual malicious intent.
- Overdrawn At The Bloodbank: Once it's hurt, the Crab bleeds an absurd amount of blood, sea water and bodily fluids, contaminating the ground and providing a ridiculously slippery surface that knocked many cleanup crews off their feet.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: A giant crab creature suddenly taking a cargo ship with it as it rises from the water? Human governments treat it like an odd development and civilians are more pissed off about the sheer negligence than impressed about the monster, with anomalies being public knowledge at this point.
- Violation of Common Sense: For whatever reason and for some reason approved by the Egyptians, the USA thought firing a nuclear warhead into the ocean to create tidal waves strong enough to dislodge the Ever Given was a good idea. It barely worked, but not in the way anyone was expecting.
- Although, given what is revealed to also dwell beneath the Canal in LIBERTYLURKERS, one might start to wonder if the American government perhaps had an ulterior motive.
The Sphinx
The Sphinx
"There are no extraterrestrials."
"They were towers. Infinite towers. All three of them. Towers which contain enormous species of metaphysical fauna. Who knew that the Pyramids were merely the tips of buildings?"
The Sphinx is a statue first spotted roaming the surface of Mars by rovers, followed by it leaving the planet and setting off on a course to Earth. It currently resides in Egypt, surrounded by the Pyramids. Its silhouette and anomalous effects first appear in GIZAGUARDIAN, and then it makes its full appearance in STARRYSPHINX.— Leonard W. Morlin
- Ancient Astronauts: Played with. It's made clear that the Pyramids were made by the ancient Egyptians to contain what the anomalies brought to their world. The Sphinx, however, seems to have been built as a mothership of some sort from Mars, or maybe even is an anomaly in and of itself. Given that
Word of God confirms that there is no extraterrestrial life in the universe, the question of how the Sphinx seems to be a "mothership" or why it came from Mars grows even more confusing, at least until ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE. - Animate Inanimate Object: It makes no movement to speak of, but it slides across the deserts of Mars and Earth and travels through space as if being dragged around.
- Bolivian Army Ending: A diagram created after its anomalous effects took hold makes note of two icons, one for the Sphinx and one for the Pyramids in order to represent the current situation. The following slide shows the sole Sphinx surrounded by hundreds of Pyramids rising out from the ground, and are likely bound to overwhelm the desert and spell massive trouble for Earth...if only they were real.
- Eldritch Starship: It's described as a "ship" multiple times, and seemingly has eldritch properties (such as its creation of the False Children, the complete ineffectiveness of human weaponry on it, plus almost sentient behavior). Given that the Sphinx is also considered a TFMD, it certainly applies.
- Fiction as Cover-Up: ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE reveals that the Sphinx was merely ADA propaganda created in order to sow further citizen discontent against the government. The False Children, however, are very real.
- Genius Loci: Possibly. What exactly resides within the Sphinx is a mystery, leaving it unknown where the statue is animate or if something is piloting/guiding it. What's currently been shown makes the structure itself seem animated and have a will of its own.
- No-Sell: Shortly after arriving in Earths atmosphere, humanity responds by firing high explosives at it to no avail.
- Portal Network: Not long after its landing, hundreds of Special Trees begin to rise from the sands of Egypt, encased in pyramids and are spreading quickly.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Not really the Sphinx itself, but the Ancient Egyptians were very well aware of the nature of the Special Trees, and took measures to thwart their growth and built the first great Pyramids around them to contain them, which somehow extend indefinitely into the ground to seal them in for good. The Sphinx arriving in the desert, however, awakens hundreds of these trees to extend into the sky.
False Children/Starry Sphinx
False Children/Starry Sphinx
False children organize into the STARRYSPHINX
The False Children are unknown entities which emerged alongside the appearance of the Sphinx on Earth. They later organize into the Starry Sphinx.- Minor Major Character: It's heavily implied that they're the "rare constellations" that cause the creation of Giza Glass, a material which caused the creation of Freedom, Laser Weapons, and more, and yet they only appear in just three episodes, with two of them being just cameos.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Whatever they are, it is clear that they came from the Sphinx. Meanwhile, they formed the Starry Sphinx to distract onlookers as the Sphinx "escaped," which might mean the Sphinx is just gone altogether. Yet, the False Children remain. Later Subverted, as ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE reveals that the Sphinx/Mothership's section of STARRYSPHINX was nothing but a Documentary of Lies.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Of the Special Trees. Alex states this is why they are referred to as "False Children."
- Unknown Character: Given The Reveal that the Sphinx "Mothership" never actually existed, little is known about the False Children's actual origins, or what purpose the "Starry Sphinx" ever actually had.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Their first appearance shows that they are capable of shapeshifting into several geometric figures, patterns, and ultimately, into a copy of Special Trees -– electric powers and all.
- You Don't Look Like You: In their debut appearance, the False Children are neon green, fluorescent orbs, but in ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE, they are depicted as identical in appearance to Special Trees, with the exception of being a shining white, as opposed to a burnt black. That said, STARRYSPHINX only showcased them from a distance, and they were shown to have the ability to shapeshift.
Giza Guardians
Giza Guardians
Sightings of swordsmen in the Grand Canyon continue to this day.
"The U.S. Government claims that Project Giza Guardian was shut down in 1969."
A select group of unusually tall, Greco-Egyptian swordsmen who patrol the forbidden zones of the Grand Canyon, armed with fine blades of Giza Glass.
- Ambiguous Situation: GIZAGUARDIANS marks the only appearance of the eponymous Guardians. Doctor Disturbing says they were officially "discontinued," but then goes on to say that "swordsmen" have continued being sighted in the Canyon. But, as the video may then imply, these sightings aren't actually of the Guardians... they're of Freedom.
- Living Statue: Assumedly, thanks to Doctor Disturbing's video showing pictures of statues alongside his description of the Guardians, followed thereafter by how fellow living statue Freedom took up their role in the Grand Canyon.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The Giza Guardians are... weird. What they actually are is a bit of a mystery - they're described as "unusually tall Greco-Egyptian swordsman" which, unusual and ambiguous nomenclature aside, doesn't really imply they're anything but human. Yet, they are represented by photographs of massive Egyptian statues, and are furthermore described as being "discontinued" in 1969. The wordage used to describe them, therefore, gives a poor idea of what the Guardians actually are.
- Predecessor Villain: To Freedom, serving as the "protectors" of the Grand Canyon before her relocation.
Everett
Everett Arnoldson
He had no say. He did not even say his first word.
Everett Arnoldson, commonly referred to as the 20th Washington Absentee, is a humanoid creature that is purported to inhabit the forests of the Washington Zone.
Virginia Arnoldson's unborn child, whom she named after her mysterious protector who traveled with her during her interdimensional interregnum. After Virginia was taken by the Special Tree in the Washington Monument, Everett disappeared.
- Dead Guy Junior: He was named after another man who Virginia met and played with for what felt like centuries before she was inexplicably released from limbo without him. Virginia was also the one who gave the name Everett to that man, however. Since counterparts of people exist and the two met in some sort of limbo between worlds, this could have very well been some version of her not-even-close-to-existing son, or even the exact same person that the lost fetus grew into.You could be her, anyone could be her. I promise I will not leave you.
- Missing Child: Virginia came to the Washington Monument with Everett in her womb. She left the Monument without him.
- Noodle Incident: The final moments of the documentary focusing on Virginia makes note of the "Washington Zone," and more importantly, refers to Everett as a humanoid creature who lives in the area, implying he's alive, grown up and apparently not in good shape in the present day.
- Trapped in Another World: Having lost her unborn child during the jump between worlds, Virginia prays that Everett is still alive and playing in the Wonderland she left a decade ago. Given she met a grown man named Everett while she was trapped in the space between worlds, and the time and dimension distorting abilities that the Special Trees have, it would be a fair possibility that Everett or a counterpart of him has spent an eternity wandering around in limbo, or alternatively, was eventually released sometime as what's referred to as a creature within the Washington Zone.
The Survivors (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
The Cornerfolk
TRANSDIMENSIONAL SPECIES
"Survivors of the Great Division are known as Cornerfolk"
After the Great Division, whatever's left of its survivors transformed into this.
- Ambiguous Situation: What happened to them after the Deanverse got restored by the Angel? Do they still live through other "Deanverses" who suffered a Great Division of their own or are they gone entirely?
- Canon Welding: Originally, they were the titular protagonists of their own webseries, which was seemingly completely unrelated to THE MONUMENT MYTHOS, but as of ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE, they were revealed to be the remains of the survivors of the Great Division.
- Dimensional Traveler: They can travel through dimensions at will via corners and the Cornerworld.
- Mythology Gag: The Great Division ends up looking like the Cornerworld from CORNERFOLKS, which may indicate that the Deanverse became the Cornerworld itself.
- Walking Spoiler: Their existence reveals a lot, not only showing that the world of THE MONUMENT MYTHOS has ended, but that it is interconnected to the CORNERFOLKLORE as well.
- Put on a Bus: Despite their lore becoming critical to the plot, the Cornerfolk never appear again; not in the Nixonverse; not in Season 3, not in Modern Day, not even their standalone series which pre-dates the Mythos! Their presence becomes even further diminished when Season 3 reveals that the Angel was able to undo the Great Division, essentially retconning the Cornerfolk's existence altogether... maybe.
- Was Once a Man: They're the survivors of the Great Division, turned from humans into whatever the Cornerfolk are.
Cthonaut A. (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
Alex Kansas
TRY AGAIN, FOOLS.
"I had to save a goddamn teenager from being murdered by the vice-president. Yet you still support Mr. Dean. Grief makes monsters, and monsters stay in power. Yet you still see me as the monster. Why don't you look in the mirror sometime?"
One of the Cthonauts from the Deanverse. Quite possibly one of the last human survivors of the Great Division, who survived after migrating to another universe (heavily implied to be OUR universe) to spread the word about his universe's story and destruction by orders of Leonard.—Cthonaut A.
- Ambiguously Human: When he meets the divided Angel, we can't see anything of his face, just a blinding light emitting from his helmet and an ethereal booming voice. DEANDEVIL confirms him to be some sort of deity in the Montyverse. He's seen keeping Howard and Dean in check, with him implying that he has stopped them from killing eachother again and again in order to keep some sort of universal balance.
- Dimensional Traveler: Revealed to be one of the "Cthonauts" that traveled into the Horned Serpent Metastructure. He traveled into our universe to tell the story of Deanverse's America.
- Fling a Light into the Future: Sent to our universe to tell the story of Deanverse's America in "theatrical fashion" after his world was destroyed.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: His monologue in CLIFTCHAOS appears to be directed as much towards the viewer as it is towards the people of the Montyverse for their love of James Dean, given the appearance of a community poll's results on who should be elected president (with Montgomory Clift, to whom Dean is a running mate, winning by 74%).
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: It's very hidden in there, beneath him mocking humanity for their selfishness and the viewers for still siding with Dean despite his attempted murder of innumerable people just to kill Howard, who was a teenager, but in the description for ARNOLDSONALONE, he shares his sole unambiguously positive message.
Cthonaut Transmission
Good luck, Everett Arnoldson.
- Knight in Sour Armor: He seems to regard the Montyverse (and the viewers) with contempt regarding their love for James Dean, even after he had to save the teenaged Howard Melrose from being killed by him. Nevertheless, he says he will leave the Montyverse alone once he sees an act of genuine kindness, and he makes good on that promise in FREEDOMFOREVER, thanks to Everett.
- Last of His Kind: After the Earth exploded, obviously he's one of these. Later subverted with Season 3's AFTERANGEL and ANGELASHES which show the undoing of the Great Division and thus the prevention of Earth's destruction.
- Narrator All Along: He came to our universe with hopes to spread the word about the Deanverse's story and destruction in a theatrical manner.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: His goal in the Montyverse seems to be to prevent the Great Division by causing changes in the timeline, including having the Angel destroy itself and calling out James Dean and Howard Melrose for their actions.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: What seems to be a regular human with an aura in the shape of a blinding white light, who had survived the Great Division and is now heavily implied to have become a deity in a brand new universe. Sound familiar?
- Walking Spoiler: He's the owner of the channel Monument Mythos is uploaded onto, and he's from the universe it takes place in.
- Year Outside, Hour Inside: Came to our universe the day his YouTube account was created, October 1st 2016. In the Deanverse, this was February 22nd 2022, the day ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE was uploaded to YouTube and the day the Deanverse's Earth was destroyed.
- Your Size May Vary: Logically, he was originally a normal sized human before his exposure to the Serpent destroying the Earth, but afterwards, he appears anywhere from the size of a normal person (I.E. the size of the Angels speaking to him) to his "face" dwarfing the Earth. And in the ending of Season 3, he disappears as a shooting star, no larger or smaller than any others in the constellation, though they're hardly normal stars either.
The Montyversenote
Returning
Past Angel
The Past Angel
"Please kill me."
"FUTURE ANGEL'S ASHES SLIP THROUGH TIME, AND SHIFT THE NEURONS OF PAST ANGEL."
A version of the Air Force One Angel whose neurons were changed by the Deanverse Angel's Ashes. Effectively making them lose on purpose to Freedom, avoiding the Great Division from ever happening in the Montyverse.
Besides the tropes that apply to their Deanverse counterpart, the Past Angel showcases an example of:
- Become A Real Person: The Angel implicitly appears as their own separate being at the end of FREEDOMFOREVER, as there are 18 stars/souls in the Mister Manticore constellation, not 17. The DC Representative explains that groups of individuals tend to have behaviors that are broadly different from those forming them, which means that "Teams can function as units of their own;" The Angel, being made of an entire group of individuals, carries life of their own.
- The Cameo: You can briefly see their blue light on the background of the final shot of ARNOLDSONALONE, foreshadowing their eventual role in the following episode, FREEDOMFOREVER.
- Flying Face: FREEDOMFOREVER shows that the Angel became a Canyon Crown after Freedom decapitated them, though it glows blue and lacks both a nose and a jaw.
- Fusion Dance: In FREEDOMFOREVER, the Crown Angel fuses with Freedom and Everett into a composite being resembling a purple version of their original form, to help stop the Martian Serpent.
- Heroic Sacrifice: To prevent the Great Division, the Angel willingly lets Freedom decapitate them. This didn't kill them, but they later give their lives, alongside Everett and Freedom, to stop the oncoming Martian Serpent.
- In Spite of a Nail: Despite the Deanverse Angel's ashes intervening with the past, present, and future of the timeline, the confrontation between Past Freedom and the Past Angel still happens exactly as it goes in the Deanverse.
- Leitmotif: "Soul Coaxing" returns for the Angel in FREEDOMFOREVER, though it's even more distorted and altered befitting their altered state as a Canyon Crown. They also end up sharing it with Freedom and Everett after the three fuse together.
- Off with His Head!: They were decapitated by Freedom, what else did you expect her to do? Of course, her previous victims didn't die from this, and the Angel is no exception.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The Angel is known to refer to themself exclusively in plural, not in singular. The one time we hear them refer to themselves as one (Early-Installment Weirdness aside) is when they beg Freedom to kill them, saying "kill ME".
- Stars Are Souls: After stopping the Martian Serpent, the Men become part of the newly-formed Manticore constellation, alongside Nina, Thomas, and Everett.
Past Freedom
Past Freedom
Freedom decapitates Angel.
The Montyverse's version of Freedom, who turns out victorious in Babylon Forest after the Angel's neurons are shifted by their Deanverse self.
Besides the tropes that apply to her Deanverse counterpart, Past Freedom showcases an example of:
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Freedom comes to her senses and decides to help Everett after realizing he hasn't tried to hurt them, like so many before him had.
- Become a Real Girl: At the end of FREEDOMFOREVER, Freedom, the statue, is implied to be a separate entity from Nina and Thomas who even has her own soul. The DC Representative explains that groups of individuals tend to have behaviors that are broadly different from those forming them, which means that "Teams can function as units of their own;" Freedom, being made of two individuals, carries life of her own.
- Facial Horror: When confronting the Angel Crown in FREEDOMFOREVER, she tears her face open, creating a macabre "jaw" with a fleshy interior.
- Fusion Dance: She fuses with the Angel and Everett in FREEDOMFOREVER, with the resulting being wearing her crown of stars as an angelic halo.
- Heel–Face Turn: In FREEDOMFOREVER, Thomas and Nina willingly fuse with Everett and the Angel's Crown to put an end to the Martian Serpent.
- In Spite of a Nail: Although James Dean never became president (and thus the ADA never formed and never stormed the Capitol), Freedom is still missing from the top of the building in CLIFTCHAOS, and she is still sent to destroy the Angel in 2022. Though, FREEDOMFOREVER does briefly suggest that Dean did become president, which may be the reason for the former.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: When the Past Angel requests her to kill them, she doesn't even hesitate for a second before decapitating them.
- Stars Are Souls: After defeating the Martian Serpent in FREEDOMFOREVER, Nina and Thomas and even Freedom herself become stars in a new Manticore constellation alongside Everett and the Men.
AWS Victims
AWS Victims/Climbers
While Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS) is a brain-related condition, AWS is not.
Not all victims of Wonderland wind up clinically insane with a horned-serpentine look, no. Extreme distortion of the human body beyond any recognition comes in various shapes or forms!
These are individuals who, after prolonged exposure to Wonderland or an equivalent, have been afflicted with a condition that left them deformed and scarred beyond recognition, were it be mentally, physically, or both. This condition is known as the American Wonderland Syndrome (AWS).
- Benevolent Monsters: ARNOLDSONALONE implies that some of them are able to keep their sanity and reintegrate into society just fine.
- Bury Your Disabled: CTHONAUTC explicitly states that AWS victims have the option to get put down via Euthanasia.
- Connected All Along: As it turns out, the Climbers were one of the many distortions caused by AWS.
- Mythology Gag: The AWS Victim in CTHONAUTC bears an uncanny resemblance to the "Yellowman" from another Mister Manticore production.
- Was Once a Man: They're people who were distorted beyond recognition by over-exposure to Wonderland. Notably, Washington Absentees and Cthonauts, the latter seen in the folder image.
The Child's Copy (SPOILERS UNMARKED)
Everett Arnoldson
"I can protect everyone from the Hell above. I must save everyone."
Click here to see him as a child
American Wonderland Syndrome is characterized by an extreme distortion of physical attributes."For Father. For Mother. For everyone."
A Wonderland-created-copy of an infant Everett Arnoldson, who Cthnonaut C takes a certain affection to. After being ripped away from C, Everett is afflicted with American Wonderland Syndrome, becoming a deformed being that is akin to the Special Tree Lady. Despite this, he seems to be the most pure of heart out of anyone in the season 3 cast, selflessly willing to sacrifice himself against the Martian Serpent.—Everett Arnoldson
- Ambiguous Situation: In contrast to his Deanverse self, Leonard doesn't mention him in his final speech, only mentioning Virginia instead. This was initially believed to imply that Everett became an Unperson, but CTHONAUTC reveals that people remember Everett even by name. Whatever made Leonard not mention his own son in his speech is currently unknown.
- Bare-Handed Blade Block: When confronting Freedom in FREEDOMFOREVER, Everett manages to block her Giza Glass sword using only his "hand".
- Big Good: After spending what's practically an eternity in Wonderland, Everett knows the horrors of being inside there more than anyone else, saying that no one else should live a life like his. When Earth is facing another Horned Serpent who is implied to be set on a warpath, his immediate reaction is to leave his story to the world, before going off to stop it. He even manages to convince Freedom to assist him and the Angel in this endeavor, giving Cthonaut A the act of genuine kindness he wishes to see before leaving the Montyverse alone.
- Character as Himself: The credits for ARNOLDSONALONE list Everett as being played by himself.
- Fusion Dance: Everett unites with Freedom and the Angel in FREEDOMFOREVER to stop the Martian Serpent for good.
- Parental Substitute: Like his mother before him, a lost Everett found a father figure in Cthnonaut C., who fed and protected him during his stay in Wonderland. When Everett is teleported out of Wonderland, C mourns his loss and starts to draw his story on random sheets of paper he found before eventually "joining" him.
- Stars Are Souls: By the end of FREEDOMFOREVER, Everett becomes a star in the newly-formed Manticore constellation after defeating the Martian Serpent, alongside his fusees Thomas, Nina, and the Men.
- Transhuman Abomination: Heavily implied to have been afflicted with American Wonderland Syndrome at the end of CTHONAUTC, causing his physical attributes to become extremely distorted. This and the fact that he was born in what he describes as "Hell", leads him to become the purest out of the entire cast so far, arguing that no one should live the life that he had.
The Union (SPOILERS UNMARKED)
A more perfect Union
Together.
"What are you made of?"
"Good people."
"Good people."
— Lauren Arnoldson and the Union
The ultimate union between the three former anomalies to put an end to the Martian Serpent once and for all. After their mission is complete, they form a brand new constellation in the system, known as the "Mister Manticore."
- Happily Ever After: Ultimately, their fates. The Men, Freedom, Nina, and Thomas wanted to live in peace where no one would hurt them or use them as weapons ever again, whereas Everett wanted to make sure no one would ever go through Wonderland as he did. In the end all of them got that, and with this inner peace, they all retire to the stars to form the Mister Manticore constellation.
- Meaningful Name: From the very first line of the United States Constitution: "We The People, in order to form a more perfect union". Given the rest of the series being steeped in American history, it's a given that The Union represents the ideals the document were meant to represent, not what they might become later as the Serpent.
- Mythology Gag:
- President Rockefeller once claimed that "Crowns cannot form unions." Years later, his crownified killer literally unionizes with their fellow anomalies to form a warrior that cleans up the mess made by another Crown slaver.
- Virginia's arc started by her wanting to place a star on top of the Rockefeller Christmas Tree, and it ended with her placing a star in the sky.
- The existence of a Mister Manticore constellation is something that older fans are certainly familiar with.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: They're a purple, four-armed, winged version of the Angel with a halo made out of stars (directly inherited from Freedom). How cool is that?!
- Purple Is Powerful: Indeed it is. They're the fusion of Freedom, the Angel, and a Wonderland-produced Everett, and they were shown to be able to defeat the Martian Serpent. This could potentially make them one of the strongest characters in the entire franchise.
- Sentient Stars: All of them retire to space itself, becoming stars that form the "Mister Manticore" constellation.
New Anomalies
The Washington Wanderer
Washington Wanderer
NO ONE IS GONE FOREVER
"Wonderland Keeps Copies."
— Howard Melrose
The Washington Wanderer is a mysterious figure that appeared at the top of the Washington Monument after it was destroyed by the special tree within it. She makes her first appearance in WASHINGTONWANDERER.
- Ambiguously Human: She appears human in shape, but her discolored appearance, her manifestation above the Washington Monument, and her association with Wonderland make it highly questionable if she is human.
- Ambiguously Related: Her appearance in Wonderland is accompanied by the Special Trees' song changing to "Heavenly Dream", implying some kind of connection to Virginia or Everett. Her pose atop the ruined Washington Monument, however, is highly reminiscent of an iconic portrait of George Washington◊, which may indicate there's a connection there as well.
- It is possible that the echo of Virginia who leads Everett out of Wonderland is the Wanderer's true identity.
- One-Shot Character: Appears only in WASHINGTONWANDERER, after that she is neither seen nor mentioned again.
- Put on a Bus: See above. The Wanderer completely disappears from the story following her introduction, and seemingly the only relevance to the plot she served is demonstrating how Wonderland makes copies. Unless she is the echo of Virginia seen in ARNOLDSONALONE.
The Second Serpent (SPOILERS UNMARKED)
The Martian Serpent
"Another World Egg was too cold and that Baby froze."
"We do not know Mars."
— Elon Musk
A second Horned Serpent that laid dormant in the crust of Mars. While its origins and true identity are currently unknown, one thing is certain: it's awake and heading for Earth.
- Ambiguous Situation: Just who are these Serpents? Are they also historical figures like the Earth's Serpent? Are they also George Washington? Why is the second Serpent's head seemingly split in half? How did they even get to different planets?!
- Ambiguously Related: After Cthonaut C attempted to explore the Martian Serpent Metastructure, he wound up being sent back to Wonderland, suggesting an even stronger connection between the Martian Serpent and the Horned Serpent.
- Eldritch Location: Just like its Earthly counterpart, the Martian Serpent has a "Wonderland" of its own, called the Red Wonderland in the CTHONAUTC credits. From the little we see of this place, we can see that it was a red version of Wonderland with red Special Trees and all. It is also connected with the Earthly Wonderland, with Cthonaut C saying that it had sent them back home after minutes of being in there.
- Foreshadowing: The existence of a second and third Horned Serpents was implied in MONUMENTMYTHOLOGY, where three baby serpents went to rest at the core of three different "World Eggs." One in particular died because of the sheer cold of said World Egg.
- Killed Off for Real: Thanks to the Heroic Sacrifice of Everett, the Angel, and Freedom in FREEDOMFOREVER, the Martian Serpent appears to no longer exist.
- Not Quite Dead: MONUMENTMYTHOLOGY stated that the second and third serpents were dead and gone. MUSKMARS begs to differ.
- Outside-Context Problem: Not only did no one expect for there to be another Serpent on Mars (except maybe for people who believe in Mythology), but Earth's forces now have to figure out a way to stop it before it reaches Earth. Way to go, Musk!
- Sealed Evil in a Can: The Serpent was dormant inside the crust of Mars. Until Musk decides to nuke the planet's ice caps and his own Glass Mine, that is.
- Snakes Are Sinister: According to MONUMENTMYTHOLOGY, the three serpents tricked the gods into giving them immense power and then killed them using a weapon they had tricked humanity into creating. Then they subjugated the natural world for a very long time before upgrading themselves to a cosmic scale.
The Third Serpent
The Third Serpent
A third Horned Serpent whose existence has only been implied so far. It's likely that it's laying dormant in Venus, the hottest terrestrial planet in the Solar System.- Ambiguous Situation: Just who are these Serpents? Are they also historical figures like the Earth's Serpent? Are they also George Washington? How did they even get to different planets!?
- Foreshadowing: The existence of a second and third Horned Serpents was implied in MONUMENTMYTHOLOGY, where three baby serpents went to rest at the core of three different "World Eggs." One in particular died because of the sheer heat of said World Egg.
- Left Hanging: Season 3 ended without giving it any kind of relevance outside of MONUMENTMYTHOLOGY.
- Snakes Are Sinister: According to MONUMENTMYTHOLOGY, the three serpents tricked the gods into giving them immense power and then killed them using a weapon they had tricked humanity into creating. Then they subjugated the natural world for a very long time before upgrading themselves to a cosmic scale.
- Uncertain Doom: MONUMENTMYTHOLOGY states that it died from the heat of the planet it chose to hibernate on... but then, it also said something very similar about the Martian Serpent, which later turned out to be very much alive. Only time will tell if this serpent is similarly Not Quite Dead.
Modern Day
The Debate Demon
The Debate Demon
"i do nothing for God, william"
"CHAOS WINS. MAKE NOISE, VIVEK."
— The Debate Demon
A bizarre, yet-unidentified entity that has involved itself in American politics. Haunting events and directly involving itself with the Republican party, it appears to have a distinct agenda to impose upon the United States.
- First-Name Basis: It always addresses people by their full first name, ignoring any personal or public preferences. It's especially jarring in cases like Nikki Haley (who it calls Nimarata) and Bill Clinton (who it addresses as William).
- Greater-Scope Villain: It may have one in whoever or whatever is responsible for "Operation Seed." Given that said operation has proliferation of assault weapons across the United States as one of its core goals, the Demon's obsession with keeping people from making progress on gun control seems too coincidental to not be connected. ALCATRAZ, ALWAYS reveals that it, the Monument Monster, and Operation Seed were the product of Alcatraz, hoping to destroy the world in nuclear and consume the remains. It succeeds.
- The Man Behind the Man:
- When it comes to debates on gun violence between Republicans, it appears to either explicitly approve of their more pro-gun stances or actively direct them towards such, addressing each figure by name in the middle of the debate. None of the participants go unaddressed, even if it's only to tell them it has no further comment. Given its other implicit and explicit appearances, it appears to be the man behind every man when it comes to school shooting discourse.
- It is this to Donald Trump as well, who produced a drawing of it called "My Boss" during his time as president.
- Maniac Monkeys: Its skull is very distinctly that of a primate, and even if it's has seemingly not directly attacked anyone the thing is apathetic at best about gun violence and at worst openly giddy about it.
- Meaningful Name: While its appearance at the republican primary debate would seem to make the name obvious, it appears to actually hold its title because it makes sure that people are too busy debating gun violence to actually make any progress towards stopping it.
- Straw Character: An exceedingly bizarre one for Republicans. A swastika-shaped figure standing right over the Republican Party, directly ordering them to "PROTECT ASSETS" of gun manufacturers, sow ideological chaos and generally ensure pro-gun ideas remain spread no matter how much death comes from it, and explicitly acknowledging God has nothing to do with it. All that said, it's made clear that it has manipulated every president since Clinton, Democrat or Republican, so it's not merely a Straw Character for Republicans.
- Was Once a Man: 'VIRGINIA'S WINTER WONDERLAND seems to heavily imply the Demon was once the Modern Day's Virginia Arnoldson.
- Would Hurt a Child: It appears any time discourse around school shootings occurs, seemingly just to ensure that no progress towards preventing further school shootings can ever be made.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once Operation Seed has succeeded and most of Earth has been destroyed in nuclear fire, Alcatraz has no use for it or the Monument Monster anymore, and plans to reabsorb them.
The Monument Monster
The Monument Monster
"HAVE YOU SEEN ME?"
Another bizarre entity that has involved itself in American politics. It involves itself with the Democratic party in contrast to the Debate Demon.
- Ambiguously Related: The "M" its ears make is drawn over art of monuments that have appeared in the first three seasons of The Monument Mythos, including the broken Washington Monument and the pyramids of Giza, and another drawing depicts its head bending just like an active Special Tree, but how it relates to those concepts is unknown as of now.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": Its ears are drawn as a stylized "M" by various presidents, with the letter appearing over their sketches of various monuments.
- Driven to Madness: Its presence seems to make presidents associated with it undergo Sanity Slippage.
- Foil: To the Debate Demon. It's a bizarre mammalian-like creature that involves itself in American politics just like the Demon, but where the Demon resembles a primate it has a mix of different mammalian features, and aligns itself with the Democratic party.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Just as it shows up on the screen, a brief "Hello Viewer" appears just as its image appears with the tagline "Have You Seen Me?". The end credits list "A video by THE MONUMENT MONSTER" and "HELL ON EARTH 2023" instead of the usual "A film by Alex Canasas' and the month and year of its release, implying it had tampered with the video's creation itself.
- Hell Is That Noise: It's implied to be the source of the unearthly sounds emanating from the Oval Office during Robert Pattinson's term.
- Humanoid Abomination: Despite its monstrous head, Pattinson's and Biden's drawings of it depict it with an otherwise humanlike body, even wearing simple clothes.
- The Man Behind the Man: Both Joe Biden and Robert Pattinson produce drawings of it calling it "My Boss".
- Meaningful Appearance: The Monument Monster's prominent ears strongly resemble a donkey's ears; a donkey acts as the mascot of the Democratic party it associates with.
- Pointy Ears: It has four of these; two small ones on its side resembling human ears, and two more up top that are much larger and resemble donkey ears.
- Rubber Orifice: Pattinson's drawings indicate it can stretch its mouth incredibly wide, with one piece depicting it with the top half of its head hanging downwards in a similar way to how Special Trees bend in an arc.
- Rule of Symbolism: THE MURDER OF MICKEY MOUSE implies that the Monster is essentially a version of Mickey Mouse stretched into uncanniness by AWS. Juxtaposed with the Debate Demon's resemblance to a swastika, it signals the Democratic Party's alliance with corporate interests as compared to the Republican promotion of far-right interests under the Demon's oversight.
The Nixonverse
In General
Much like the Deanverse, the Nixonverse has various strange beings and anomalies that inhabit it. Most of them are implied to have migrated from the Deanverse following its destruction, and look rather humanoid as a result.
- Ambiguously Evil: The Last Son and the Knight initially started out as this, with Ed Dwight claiming that the Last Son's heroic behavior is sporadic and the Knight having some sort of connection to the previous universe's Greater-Scope Villain, The Horned Serpent. Subverted later on, when it's revealed that both of them are genuine superheroes with heroic motivations (though the Knight is more of an Anti-Hero).
- Ambiguously Related: The Last Son, the Knight and Luna all have some sort of connection to the anomalies of the Deanverse.
- Anti-Villain:
- The Last Son and Luna are of the Woobie variety. Both were willing to help uplift and aid humanity, only to be met with constant violence at their hands. The Last Son more so, since he is repeatedly nuked and brainwashed to be used as a destructive weapon of war. His version of the Horned Serpent is also this, because it is the result of his trauma manifesting in him becoming the Big Bad.
- Nixon/The Moon God has shades of the Well-intentioned and Woobie variants, since he's a survivor of a nightmarish apocalypse whose creation of the Last Son, The D-Day Knight and Luna was an attempt to establish their morality instead of being out of malice. His killing of Ed Dwight and "fictionalization" of the Nixonverse are also heavily implied to have been motivated by a desire to make sure the Nixonverse does not meet the same fate as his own.
- Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: Subverted. Luna has no problem with ordering the Last Son's abduction and turning him into the Crescent King, while the Knight also has no problem consuming Luna and the Lunarians using "Alcatraz Matter."
- Beware the Superman: Deconstructed. The Last Son, The Knight, Luna and the Lunarians all started out as benevolent beings who held no ill will towards humanity and even tried to help them. Humanity (the United States in particular) attacking them and causing them to lose their sanity is what turns them evil and makes them lose their sanity.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": Averted. Unlike their inspirations, all three of the Nixonverse's trinity lack any insignias or logos on their costumes.
- Cast of Expies: All of them (except for "Her") heavily resemble DC characters, with the Last Son Of Alcatraz and the D-Day Knight's names being direct references to Superman and Batman.
- Dimensional Traveller: Survivors of the Great Division that are now inhabiting the Deanverse, who have somehow managed to avoid becoming Cornerfolk and become powerful beings instead. The Knight and Luna both reference Deanverse concepts, with the Knight in particular outright stating that statues contained souls in his world. Zig-Zagged in NIXON IS GOD, where it's revealed that the Nixonverse's trinity are extensions of Nixon, who is an actual refugee of the Deanverse.
- Eldritch Abomination: By the end of the series, the D-Day Knight and the Last Son have both been turned into unrecognizable monsters. While the Knight manages to somewhat keep his sanity despite being a black blob, the Last Son's trauma and self-loathing turns him into a new version of the Horned Serpent complete with horns.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: Unlike the anomalies of the Deanverse, the superhumans of the Nixonverse didn't start out as monsters. It is instead the misdeeds of humanity that turns the Nixonverse trinity evil. The Last Son in particular suffered so much to that point that he became the Horned Serpent.
- Humanoid Abomination: In contrast with the majority of supernatural anomalies of the Deanverse, they all resemble humans. Justified, since they're most likely human survivors that somehow managed to obtain powers.
- Historical Domain Superperson: All of them with the exception of "Her" are shown to be actual celebrities (or at least recreations of them in the case of the Trinity) granted superhuman abilities.
- Out of Focus: Luna and the D-Day Knight pretty much disappear after their titular episodes, while the Last Son takes center stage and plays a much larger role in the story. The D-Day Knight would later return in the aptly-named THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS, while Luna is nowhere to be seen (made worse by her subjects, the Lunarians, invading Earth and becoming the main villains) and only reappears during the finale.
- Tragic Villain:
- Luna initially started out as a benevolent queen who was willing to welcome humanity to her kingdom. Two violent encounters with humanity that result in Luna getting shot and the death of an innocent Lunarian later, and she fully accepts that Humans Are Bastards.
- The Last Son was a genuine superhero that wanted to help others, but was brainwashed by both the United States and the Lunarians into becoming their weapon. Upon regaining his sentience both times and realizing that he's responsible for their atrocities, he has a complete mental breakdown and turns into a new version of the Horned Serpent.
The Last Son of Alcatraz
The Last Son of Alcatraz/Jesus Christ/The Crescent King
"I AM NEITHER GOD OR MAN"
Click here to see his appearance during the Vietnam War (SPOILERS)
Click here to see him during his retirement (SPOILERS)
IT IS A COPY OF MY CHILDHOOD HOME. IT IS HOW I WISH TO PRESENT TO THOSE I'VE HURT. Click here to see his appearance after returning from retirement (SPOILERS)
EVOLUTION OF THE LAST SONClick here to see him as a boy (SPOILERS)
"On those long, lonely drives to school, the boy would think about his role in the universe."Click here to see his final form (SPOILERS)
"He was not born the height of a man. He was born much taller. Even as a child, he could stand over us. However, he chooses to be the height of a man. Why? Because he thinks of himself as a man. In war, the man changes size often. Sometimes to protect us. Sometimes to hurt us. Sometimes to scare and humiliate us. I believe one day that man will become a giant to conquer us all."
—Ed Dwight
The Last Son of Alcatraz is a mysterious entity resembling a human man with unearthly powers that inhabits the Nixonverse. He's quite obviously a Superman Substitute with the added power of Size Shifting, who is shown to aid in wars for both sides as he sees fit, claiming that he belongs to no nation. Despite all of this, The Last Son is genuinely a good man with a heart of gold. That all changes when he ends up captured and brainwashed by the USA Government for his unpredictable behavior in war, turning him into a Person of Mass Destruction as an impersonator of Jesus Christ. He'd soon break free of this brainwashing, only to be brainwashed again by the Lunarians.
For tropes applying to his "equivalent" in another universe, see The Crescent King below.
- 10-Minute Retirement: After regaining consciousness and realizing what he had been forced to do in Vietnam, he vows to live a peaceful life in the ocean, shapeshifting into his childhood house. This doesn't last long, however, as the Lunarians, believing him to be their prophesized King, force him out of his retirement and disfigure him into the Crescent King.
- Ambiguously Related: To Virginia and Everett Arnoldson. In THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS, it's stated that he had a "Heavenly Dream." Heavenly Dream by James Pastell was the song that played during the credits of WASHINGTONWONDERLAND.
- And I Must Scream: The defeat of the Lunarians in THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX frees him from their control, and his grief upon realizing the atrocities he committed under the Lunarians turns him into a large bipedal monster who barely resembles what he used to be. He's completely aware of this, and constantly cries at not being able to kill himself.
- The Atoner: After what he was brainwashed into doing in the Vietnam War, he retired to the ocean and became this. Sadly, it didn't last.
- Beauty to Beast: The Last Son goes from a healthy young man to a gaunt and sickly man as result of his transformation into "Jesus." This is exaggerated once he turns into the Crescent King, as he's basically been turned into a large Eldritch Abomination.
- Beware the Superman: Ed Dwight comments that during war he would help, hurt or humiliate the United States as he saw fit. While he seems to have been responsible for bringing peace in multiple wars, Ed personally believes that he will eventually become a conqueror. This is subverted during THE MISSING EYE OF JESUS CHRIST, where he's subdued by the U.S. using nukes and turned into a superweapon.
- Big Bad Slippage: And it isn't even his fault! A lifetime of being brainwashed and used to harm humanity ever since JESUS IN VIETNAM leaves him as a monstrous being that Molly Avenue identifies as a renewed version of the Horned Serpent.
- Born as an Adult: Or, at the very least, as the size of an adult. It's debatable if he was actually reborn or if it's merely symbolical. The way his backstory is told in THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS states that he was just a regular baby.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: THE MISSING EYE OF JESUS CHRIST reveals that the Last Son of Alcatraz was brainwashed into becoming an impersonator of Jesus Christ after being transplanted with a Lunarian eye. After a brief retirement in the ocean, he's brainwashed yet again by the Lunarians.
- The Chosen People: As "Jesus," he made the people of the United States his chosen people, and was willing to destroy anyone that stands in its way.
- Corrupted Character Copy. Downplayed. While Supes is the Trope Codifier for The Cape who is unquestionably on the side of good, The Last Son has more ambiguous allegiances and supposed connections to the Deanverse's James Dean. That being said, The Last Son is shown saving lives, lessening casualties during wars and bringing an end to the Korean War, all heroic deeds. This is subverted during THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS, where he was revealed to be a genuine hero that wanted to help people.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: The Vietnam War is implied to have been much shorter than in real life, owing to the fact that his brainwashed self was on the United States' side.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He had a painfully lonely childhood, with his parents blatantly neglecting him and his classmates not treating him any better.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Much like the Knight, he appeared as a completely black silhoutte in old photos prior to JESUS IN VIETNAM. Unlike the Knight however, the Last Son is later revealed to have been a genuine superhero who wanted to help people.
- The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: After transforming into the Crescent King, Alice reveals his backstory through radio signals in hopes for him to remember his true identity. The D-Day Knight sadly returns and kills her before this could be possible, though.
- Dimensional Traveller: After the Deanverse's destruction, he came to the Nixonverse as a Superman-like figure to aid in war.
- Dramatic Irony: Despite being one of the only beings in the Nixonverse with true free will (or at the very least, considered to be one), he became a brainwashed slave for not one, but two separate factions in order to be weaponized. He is more often than not shown to be in situations where he has no other choice than to comply with his captors. Subverted as of NIXON IS GOD, where it's revealed that he never had any free will at all and that he was always destined to become the Crescent King.
- Expy: Though introduced before him, chronologically, the Last Son appears to be an Expy of the D-Day Knight: both are shapeshifting, cape-wearing Deanversers who intervened in America's 20th-century wars and are portrayed in photographs as complete silhouettes. In fact, prior to THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS, the Knight and the Last Son were assumed to be the same individual who simply acquired new nicknames as the years passed. This is later somewhat justified by NIXON IS GOD, which reveals that both were merely constructs created by the Moon God to test humanity's character.
- Eye Colour Change: In the "Heavenly Dream" sequence in THE D-DAY KNIGHT, the Last Son obtains Innocent Blue Eyes after awakening his superpowers.
- Eye Scream: He loses an eye after being hit by multiple nukes. It eventually gets replaced with a Lunarian eye.
- Face–Monster Turn: Happens to the poor guy three separate times.
- After being abducted by the United States, his lost eye was replaced by a Lunarian one. This triggered his transformation into a deranged parody of Christ, who was used by the United States to perform a "Sweep And Redeem" of Vietnam.
- After regaining his sentience, the Last Son became The Atoner and retired to the ocean. This would not last long, as the Lunarians would later find him and turn him into their king. The "Crescent King" would later turn English into a Lost Language.
- Upon regaining sentience for a second time, the trauma of his previous transformations combined with the deaths of all the Lunarians made the Last Son lose whatever remained of his sanity and get consumed by grief. This grief would eventually manifest in him turning into a renewed version of the Horned Serpent.
- Fallen Hero: While the Last Son was occasionally shown fighting enemies of the Americans, "Jesus" performed a "Sweep And Redeem" of Vietnam under the U.S., likely ending thousands (if not millions) of lives, while the Last Son actually lessened the number of casualties during the Korean War. And then there's what he does as The Crescent King...
- Fate Worse than Death: In THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX, after the death of every single Lunarian except for him (presumably ending up freed from their mind control), he can't do anything but perpetually cry at such an unfathomable loss and presumably the weight of his own actions, which are even worse than what he had done in Vietnam. At the end of the day, he was the one that grief turned into a monster. A Horned monster.
- Formula for the Unformulable: Espouses the Peace Equation to justify his Moral Myopia.OUR FREEDOM > YOUR FREEDOM
OUR CHRIST > YOUR CHRIST
= WORLD PEACE - Flying Brick: Comes with being a Superman Substitute. He's seen flying, sizeshifting, and even lifting a bomb mid-air and taking a tank blast to the face. His two greatest feats thus far are surviving the Great Division itself and taking multiple nukes, sufficient to practically destroy the entirety of Alaska, to the face and surviving with most of his body intact.
- Good All Along: We learn in THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS that he was a genuine hero whose goal was to help people after gaining super powers.
- God Guise: After being brainwashed by the USA Government, he's brainwashed into believing he's Jesus Christ himself.
- The Heavy: His brainwashed self has constantly served as a xenophobic conquerer's Walking Weapon.
- As "Jesus," he was the United States Military's weapon of mass destruction during the Vietnam War where he performed a "Sweep And Redeem" on its people and unleashed napalm on them.
- As The Crescent King, he would aid the Lunarians in their erasure of Human language.
- Historical Domain Superperson: Possibly. Candidates for the Last Son's identity include a clone of Richard Nixon, Kirk Alyn (the first actor to ever play a live action Superman), or Donald Turnupseed (the man who caused the car crash that killed James Dean in the first place). Although given how none of their childhood houses share any similarities with the one seen in SEA OF THE LAST SON, it's likely that he's an entirely new character.
- Home Base: He set up his own fortress in Alaska, clearly based on the Fortress of Solitude. The United States government nuked it to smithereens along with the rest of Alaska. Later on, he builds (or rather, becomes) a new home in the ocean.
- Horrifying the Horror: As the Crescent King, he terrifies even the all-powerful Nixon.
- Humanity Is Infectious: Ed Dwight claims that he is not human, but decides to willingly fit in because he perceives himself as such.
- Humanoid Abomination: Given that he's a "son of Alcatraz," he's more than likely not fully human.
- I Am a Monster: Being freed from brainwashing a second time and realizing that he's complacent in the Lunarians' atrocities does a number on whatever is left of his sanity, and this realization transforms him into a monstrous abomination who can only weep at his cruel life.
- I Am Who?: Originally, he isn't even aware of his true origin of being created by Nixon, and believes himself to be as human as anyone else. It also isn't until he kills James Dean that he even awakens his powers.
- I Cannot Self-Terminate: He loses his will to live in THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX as a result of turning into a monster driven by grief and his Trauma Conga Line in general. Unfortunately for him, he's functionally immortal and unable to physically kill himself. Totally aware of this, he constantly weeps at being alive.
- Last of His Kind: He is one of the few survivors of the Deanverse's destruction. The only other known survivors being The D-Day Knight and the Queen of the Lunarians. And as it turns out, Richard Nixon, who they're all descended from.
- Legacy Character: After breaking free of the Lunarian mind control, the Last Son completely loses all will to live, yet being unable to put himself out of his misery. He loses his mind completely and shapeshifts into what Molly describes as "The Horned Serpent." Not only filling a similar role to his predecessor, but also "becoming" him.
- Mind-Control Eyes: Played literally. The United States Government quite literally changed one of his eyes with a Lunarian eye to successfully brainwash him.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Understandably becomes a bit horrified after comprehending the terrors he committed in Vietnam, leading him to flee to his home in Dark Alaska and settle down... as a House in the Ocean.
- It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: Originally being a seemingly normal kid with a heavy need to help those around him, he becomes super-powered after a car accident. Inspired by the man he had accidentally killed, he would go on to become a superheroic figure to aid in war, only to be used and brainwashed multiple times by many different factions to use him as a Person of Mass Destruction.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: While he was admittedly a Wild Card during the entire war, how does the Government thank him after he saved countless of lives and brought the Korean War to an end? Why, by nuking him, kidnapping him, and brainwashing him to use him as a weapon of war, of course!
- Person of Mass Destruction: As Jesus, he performs a "Sweep and Redeem" of Vietnam. It is unclear what this involves, but he can be seen unleashing large plumes of fire in one image. He "saves" Vietnam at the cost of potentially millions of its people.
- Saying Too Much: Implied to have happened in SEA OF THE LAST SON. When the Lunarians ask him about what he is now - after his retirement - he replies that he is "Neither man or god," which possibly further convinces the Lunarians that they're dealing with their prophetized King, as it was said that those who were chosen by "Her" were beyond regular people and on their way to become gods."Your powers are more similar to a Lunarian King than a man."
- Screw Destiny: Assumingly, he should be able to also bend fate due to the destruction of the Deanverse.
- Series Continuity Error: The Last Son of Alcatraz is said to have realized he had superpowers following a certain car accident which took place in 1955. However, the Last Son was an active participant in The Korean War, which ended in 1953, at least 2 years before he supposedly gained his superpowers.
- Shout-Out: His title, "The Last Son of Alcatraz," is a clear reference to Last Son of Krypton.
- Sizeshifter: As an extension of his Voluntary Shapeshifting powers, the Last Son is able to change his size at will, mainly to grow. Ed Dwight even claims that because of these powers he wasn't born the size of a man, and that he could tower over the average human as a child.
- Sole Survivor: The only one on the Lunarian side to escape the Knight's "Alcatraz Checkmate."
- Superheroes Wear Capes: As is regular for an Expy of Superman, the Last Son is always seen sporting a long cape.
- Superman Substitute: A very obvious Expy of Superman, to the point where the video uses the audio from the old The Adventures of Superman radio show when describing him. THE MISSING EYE OF JESUS CHRIST reveals that he even has his own Fortress of Solitude in Alaska. Well, had.
- Tragic Monster: Had shades of this as "Jesus" and The Crescent King, since he was a well-meaning superhero brainwashed by evil empires and forced to do their bidding. He then firmly became this in the series finale, turning into a horrific abomination due to his horrid and tragic life.
- Tragic Villain: Having been abducted by the Lunarians (after he already became The Atoner for the actions he was brainwashed into taking during the Vietnam War) and forced to become the king from their prophecy. The grief over his Trauma Conga Line eventually led him to devolve into a broken, large gargantuan heap, with his crescent head becoming horns.
- Two Aliases, One Character: The Last Son is later known by a different name: Jesus Christ. Even later, he goes by yet another name, The Crescent King.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Although not using them on screen, he has the ability to shapeshift, which he mainly uses to change his size. It's likely that he does it to invoke Power Misidentification. In SEA OF THE LAST SON, he becomes a replica of his own childhood house in the middle of the Ocean after realizing what he had done in Vietnam. And in THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX, during his mental breakdown, he turns into what is described as The Horned Serpent itself.
- Was Once a Man: Was once a normal boy whose dream in life was to help other people. He got his wish, for better or for worse.
- Walking Spoiler: The Last Son plays a huge (no pun intended) role in the Nixonverse, and his later actions end up having lasting effects on the entire universe at large.
- Wild Card: Seems to be this, as he's fought both for and against the U.S. Military during the Korean War. He makes this pretty clear to the Lunarian Cloud Ship."I BELONG TO NO NATION."
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: A lifetime of being attacked, brainwashed and used as a weapon by genocidal empires makes him finally snap in THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX.
- You No Take Candle: Played for Horror. Under the guidance of the Lunarians, The Crescent King mangled the English language into barely legible world salad in a bid to replace it with its own.
The D-Day Knight
The D-Day Knight
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"Grief can make you a monster.""The ten million men who were drafted for World War II had no free will, and the men that day who landed in the water had nowhere to go but forward. The atoms of these men led them all to a moment of almost certain death. That all changed with The Knight."
—Alice Avenue
An entity similar to the Last Son in terms of powers and appearance, the D-Day Knight is the (despite his powers...) Batman Parody of the Nixonverse, serving as an Horrifying Hero during the times of World War II, notoriously saving countless lives in D-Day and bringing hope into the hearts of those in need with his supernatural powers and his ability to presumably Screw Destiny. The Knight is later revealed to be an extension of the Moon God, Richard Nixon.
- Apocalyptic Log: THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE separates each video with an excerpt from the Knight's journal. These start out fairly normal, but by the time it gets to THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX, it's nothing but "HOUR FAWTHUR" over and over again, covering the entire screen.
- The Assimilator: THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX has the Knight emulate his semi-progenitor of Alcatraz by spreading out across the entire country, as Alcatraz once did, consuming every last Lunarian in its wake.
- Accidental Murder: D-DAY KNIGHTFALL reveals that he didn't intend to murder Alice Avenue, but that he "lost his temper."
- Ambiguously Evil: While he did save countless people during D-Day, the Knight has an air of mystery to him which connects him to the Horned Serpent. In THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS, he also shows up just in time to kill Alice Avenue. Although in D-DAY KNIGHTFALL he admits that the kill was completely accidental, and that he had just lost his temper.
- And I Must Scream: His grief renders him as a black blob that is still very much alive and aware of his fate. If Luna is to believed, he's also deaf and speechless in this state. Doesn't stop him from pulling an Alcatraz Checkmate on the Lunarians though.
- Anti-Hero: Of the unscrupulous variant. The D-Day Knight, despite his wearing of a deformed human skull during D-Day and connections to the Horned Serpent, saved countless people during D-Day which he's implied to have done out of a genuine desire to do good. One of his journal entries in THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE has him note the Son stopped him from going "too far" in the Korean War, whatever that might have entailed. Despite killing Alice Avenue in a fit of rage, the Knight later sticks around to fight the Lunarian invaders and admits that he only did it by accident. Despite being turned into an unrecognizable monster by the end of THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS, he still keeps his heroism and rejects Luna's offer to join her kingdom. His utter destruction of the Lunarians, while horrifying, is a good thing that results in the language being restored.
- Anti-Hero Substitute: Ironically serves as such to the Last Son despite being his predecessor. Unlike the Last Son (who's revealed to have been a genuine hero), he's a Horrifying Hero who wears The Horned Serpent's skull in battle (possibly to strike fear in the hearts of the enemy). He's also revealed to have a pretty bad temper, enough to murder Alice Avenue in a fit of rage. And then there's the reveal that he's a chunk of Alcatraz matter who is nonetheless on the side of good.
- Badass Boast: When the Lunarians attempt to recruit him as prince in a similar vein as the Last Son, he rejects them immediately and kills the entire Lunarian race."THIER IS NO PROFESY. THIER IS ONLEE ME."
- Bad Powers, Good People: "Good people" is a bit of a strech, but the D-Day Knight is shown in THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX to have the assimilation powers of Alcatraz. Despite this, he only uses this power to wipe out the Lunarians and restore the English language.
- Batman Parody: While his powerset is more in line with Superman, it's clear that he's supposed to be a reference to Batman. Most of the titles of the episodes he appears in are clear references to Batman stories, as well as The Knight being the original super-hero in the Nixonverse is a reference to how, in some DC Comics media, Batman was one of the first costumed vigilantes and inspired Superman. Not to mention the usage of a horns in his original costume, which are reminiscent of Batman's iconic cowl. One of his journal entries in THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE has him note that he and the more naive Son form a "balance", not too dissimilar to how Batman and Superman are together considered the "World's Finest".
- Big Damn Heroes: Subverted in THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS. Despite Alice saying that The Knight's return is their next best hope if the Last Son does not come to his senses, the Knight immediately kills her soon after his return.
- Blood Knight: The original series hints he's one, but THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE establishes him further as one of these in its extra scenes, with his M1 helmet in Vietnam being covered almost entirely with Kill Tallies.The Knight's Journal: As long as there is a war, I'll keep fighting. I'm an American, it's part of who I am.
- The Bus Came Back: After mostly being absent from the narrative since his debut episode, he returns in THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS to kill Alice Avenue.
- Canon Character All Along: THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX reveals the Knight is, in fact, a piece of Alcatraz that took on a humanoid form. As an extension of Nixon, it implies the same is true for Nixon, the Son, and the Queen.
- Cavalry Betrayal: He comes back in THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS not to save humanity and drive back the Lunarians, but to murder Alice Avenue for "sharing secrets." This is subverted in the very next episode, where it's revealed that the Knight murdered Alice by accident. The Knight then stays to combat the Lunarians, though it's mostly ineffectual until he uses Alcatraz's power in THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX.
- Chess Motifs: When speaking with Luna, both are represented with their respective chess pieces: the Knight and the Queen. Much like the Knight in Chess, the D-Day Knight does an unpredictable move that drastically changes the balance of power.
- Civvie Spandex: In the small drawing of him seen at the end of NIXON IS GOD, he's shown wearing a coat instead of a superhero-like costume. Downplayed in that he also wears a cape in the very same drawing.
- Cool Helmet: He once wore a deformed human skull with horns as a helmet prior to losing it in D-Day. During the Vietnam War, he wore an M1 helmet with "MY WAY" and kill tallies written on it. Later on, he temporarily used The Alice Avenue memorial statue's head as a helmet as well, before throwing it away one day later after the realization that she was actually dead.
- Creepy Souvenir: As stated above, he somehow kept the Horned Serpent's skull as a trophy and used it as a helmet before it got blasted away.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Delivers one of these to the Lunarians after they attempt to recruit them into their kingdom as prince, destroying Lunarians bodies and cloud ships in just a few seconds.
- Dark Is Evil: While he is Ambiguously Evil, he does indeed appear as completely black in every single silhouette seen of him thus so far.
- Deuteragonist: He is the second-most prominent hero after the Last Son, particularly in THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE where excerpts from his journal bookend each segment and shine more light on the world and his thoughts on it and other characters, including the Son.
- Dimensional Traveler: Yet another refugee of the Deanverse's destruction, who became a super-hero after gaining superpowers. He uses his knowledge from the Deanverse to determine that Alice Avenue lives through her own statue, or even that he put her in there."IN MY WURLD, STATUUƎS HƎLLD SOLƎS."
- Expy: Inverted. The Last Son is an expy of him since the D-Day Knight came first. They are both Great Division survivors that use their new-found powers to intervene in American wars.
- Eye Colour Change: Implied. In a similar vein to the Last Son, he has Innocent Blue Eyes in the cover for Night and Day.
- Face–Heel Turn: Subverted. Although THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS shows him murdering Alice Avenue for revealing the secrets of the superpowered, he is clearly remorseful from doing so in D-DAY KNIGHTFALL, even admitting that he didn't mean to hurt her, and that he had only lost his temper.
- Face–Monster Turn: In D-DAY KNIGHTFALL, he turns into a barely recognizable black blob by the end of the video. It's implied to be the result of grief stemming from his realization that he truly murdered Alice Avenue. Downplayed in that he didn't actually turn to the side of evil, but became way more reckless and willing to use crueler strategies to beat the Lunarians.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: In THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX, when he "checkmates" Luna, you can hear Alcatraz's Leitmotif mere seconds before The Reveal that he's a chunk of Alcatraz Matter.
- Flying Brick: Much like the Last Son. He's said to have deflected bullets, destroyed anti-aircraft guns and lifted men out of harm's way.
- Guilt-Free Extermination War: For a given measure of "war," anyway. His "Alcatraz Checkmate" of the Lunarians completely wipes out their entire race, with only their king being left alive.
- Handicapped Badass: Losing all of his senses by the time of THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX doesn't stop him from unleashing his full power as The Assimilator and wiping out the Lunarians once they attempt to convince them to join their side.
- Historical Domain Superperson: The beginning of D-DAY KNIGHTFALL heavily implies that he's none other than the Deanverse's Frank Sinatra. THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE further alludes to this with him having written "MY WAY" on his M1 helmet during the Vietnam War. NIXON IS GOD reveals that he's an extension of Nixon, meaning that he might just be a recreation of the singer.
- Horrifying Hero: How else can you describe a powerful entity who wore a deformed human skull as a helmet? Even more so after we find out the truth about him. A chunk of The Assimilator turned heroic, but with all the baggage of being an all-consuming and all-replacing form of matter and seemingly struggling to hold it back the whole time, if not completely unaware of it.
- Humanoid Abomination: His powers are already strange as is, and combined with his odd outlook and behavior and particular immunity to fate the D-Day Knight seems odd even for a superhero. And then it's revealed he was, essentially, Alcatraz matter trying its best to imitate a human and making several missteps along the way until grief and rage made it drop the act.
- I Am a Monster: The Knight undergoes a monstrous transformation in D-DAY KNIGHTFALL, apparently from the realization that Alice Avenue's memorial statue does not contain her soul.
- The Illegible: The "letter" he writes to the World Nightly in D-DAY KNIGHTFALL looks like it was scrawled on a paper by a child, not helped by the Curse of Babel the Lunarians put on him.
- Immune to Fate: Alice Avenue suggests that, because of the Deanverse's destruction, he can fight destiny and save the lives of those who were "fated" to die. Even when it's revealed that Nixon laid out a said path for him, he immediately disregards that by rejecting his fate as a Lunarian prince and upending the entirety of the Lunarians' prophecy through wiping them out.
- Irony: Despite being the Batman Parody of the Nixonverse, he has very little in common with the Caped Crusader in terms of personality. He's evidently not very intelligent, with his handwriting in particular being poor (although this is likely moreso because of the Lunarians' destruction of the English language). His temper is also pretty bad, enough for him to murder somebody in a fit of rage. Batman on the hand, is known for being smart enough to be the Trope Namer of Batman Gambit and for being The Stoic.
- Kill Tally: An added scene in THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE shows the Knight owned an M1 helmet covered almost entirely in tally marks (as well as the words, "MY WAY").
- Law of Chromatic Superiority: His text in THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX is colored red, and it is in this epsiode that he single-handedly defeats the Lunarians using Alcatraz matter.
- Leitmotif: A slowed down version of Night and Day by Frank Sinatra plays at the beginning of both D-DAY KNIGHTFALL and THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX.
- Literal Metaphor: His grief at the realization that Alice Avenue is truly dead literally turns him into a monster.
- Manchild: Possibly implied by his child-like handwriting and his Accidental Murder of Alice Avenue because he, in his own words, "lost his temper" because of her sharing secrets. That said, Earth was under a Curse of Babel at the time, and his journal excerpts in THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE are much more well-written and coherent.
- Meaningful Echo: One of his journal excerpts in THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE has him note that, despite the Last Son's naivety, the Knight thinks, "he's already a better hero than I'll ever be."
- Person of Mass Destruction: By virtue of being less of a person, and more an all-consuming, all-assimilating Genius Loci masquerading as a (super)human being. Once the mask comes off and it just stops caring about trying to be human, the entire Lunarian civilization is swallowed by the mass in a matter of moments, completely destroyed when the rest of the USA could do nothing against them.
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Unleashes one right before spreading across the entire United States and annihilating the Lunarian race:THIER IS NO PROFESY, THEIR IS ONLEE ME
- Precursor Heroes: He's seen fighting in D-Day long before the Last Son even got his powers.
- Screw Destiny: Alice Avenue suggests that if Determinism is true and everyone has a set endpoint, then the Knight flies in the face of that, being able to challenge destiny and save people who were "supposed" to die. Subverted in NIXON IS GOD, where we find out that he was following a set path all this time. Then double subverted in THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX, where he rejects his purported fate as the Prince of the Lunarians, and destroys them instead.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: An extra scene in THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE shows the Knight was once part of the US Army, only to have one day abandoned his post, likely as a result of the Last Son being used by the United States as a weapon against Vietnam.
- Shout-Out:
- The title he's given during WW2, "The D-Day Knight," is in reference to The Dark Knight.
- The title of every episode he appears in are references to renown Batman comics. THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS is a reference to The Dark Knight Returns, and D-DAY KNIGHTFALL is a reference to Batman: Knightfall.
- His appearance in THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS when he throws Alice Avenue off the Chrysler Building calls to mind King Kong.
- The reveal in D-DAY KNIGHTFALL that the Knight may have once been Frank Sinatra shows the singer sporting a hair curl evocative of Superman's trademark hairdo.
- Sizeshifter: He seemingly possesses this power much like the Last Son, given how his appearance in THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS shows him to be big enough to stand atop the Chrysler Building akin to King Kong.
- Stylistic Suck: The "letter" he sends to the World Nightly is riddled with spelling errors and is written in poor handwriting. Justified in the spelling errors, as the English language was under a Curse of Babel during the time he sent the letter, but it still doesn't justify the poor handwriting.
- Theme Music Power-Up: Alcatraz's music from ALCATRAZATTACK faintly plays prior to his rejection of becoming a Lunarian prince, and said music is played at full volume when he utterly decimates the Lunarians with an Alcatraz Checkmate.
Luna
Luna
"There's a great division coming about on this planet."
"And those who are beautiful enough - I don't mean physically but something beyond that - they will have the chance to learn how to fly, to be beautiful, to rise above the level of the normal human - to be superior beings first and eventually gods and goddesses."
—Luna
The Queen of the Lunarians, who gives the three astronauts of the Nixonverse's Moon landing a long and deep speech about the beauties and flaws of mankind. She's (depending on who you ask) the Wonder Woman Wannabe of the Nixonverse.
- Ambiguously Evil: Did she order the Lunarians to abduct the Last Son and turn him into her king? Did she also order their current invasion of Earth? Are the Lunarians somehow acting indpendently of her? The only clue we get from Nixon is him claiming that she will "go mad" like the rest. THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX reveals that she didn't start out evil, but her deadly interactions with the humans of the Nixonverse had driven her to villainy.
- Ambiguously Related: To the Air Force One Angel, both being former humans seemingly made out of sheer light who have the ability to "evict" people from reality.
- Authority in Name Only: In her expanded backstory in THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE, it turns out that although she's the Queen of the Lunarians, she is in fact the only Lunarian, and the city and parks she made for her people are completely empty. She welcomed the Apollo 11 crew believing they were her subjects having finally arrived, only to be attacked for her troubles. Her subsequent invasion of Earth was to finally have the subjects she believes she was meant to rule over, and to no longer be alone.
- Back for the Finale: After not appearing since her titular episode, she returns in THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX to convince the Knight into becoming her prince.
- Big Bad: Luna is directly responsible for a number of events in the series. She had the Lunarians kidnap the Last Son and turn him into her king, ordered the Lunarians to invade Earth resulting in the events of THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS and D-DAY KNIGHTFALL, and unwittingly revealed the magical Lunarian anatomy to the United States. THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE takes it a step further with its revelation that there aren't any Lunarians at all: the entire attacking force is all Luna herself.
- Born as an Adult: THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE elaborates that as a creation of Nixon, she was born as a fully-grown woman, only knowing that she was "the Queen" without knowing how she got to the moon or what her name was.
- Chess Motifs: When speaking with the D-Day Knight, both are represented with their respective chess pieces: the Knight and the Queen.
- Corrupted Character Copy: Arguably, of Wonder Woman. Both are superpowered royalty who encounter humanity by accident. Both also learn the cruelty of the humans first-hand, but react to it very differently. Whereas Diana believes that there is good in mankind (though Steve Trevor played a hand in that) and that their aggression can be downplayed, two Moon encounters gone wrong have totally convinced Luna that humanity's peace is "built on inequality" and that they deserve to be invaded and subjugated.
- Cosmic Motifs: Not only is she literally named after the moon, but if the drawing at the end of NIXON IS GOD is to be trusted, she also has crescent moon earrings and forehead tattoo.
- Dimensional Traveller: She's implied to also be a survivor from the Deanverse, being aware of the Great Division and the process that turned the Last Son and the Knight into a super-humans. However, like those two she is in fact a creation of the actual traveller from the Deanverse, Richard Nixon.
- Eaten Alive: The first victim of the Knight's "Alcatraz Checkmate," which involves being consumed whole by Alcatraz matter.
- Eye Scream: THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE elaborates that she was the Lunarian whose eye the Apollo 12 crew took and the United States used to corrupt and brainwash the Last Son.
- Face–Heel Turn: She was a genuinely benevolent ruler who only wanted what was best for her subjects, but her brief interaction with humanity on the Moon, followed by the appearance of a prophecy on her throne, is what causes her to invade Earth.
- The Ghost: Pretty much disappears after QUEEN OF THE LUNARIANS, and is never seen on-screen for majority of the Nixonverse despite playing a large role in it. This is averted in THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE, which further expands on her backstory and motivations.
- Gideon Ploy: THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE reveals that this is what the Lunarian invasion she oversees amounts to. Despite their cloud ships and far reach, Luna is the only true Lunarian that exists, yet she manages to conquer Earth and convince the wider populace that the species is an extant race.
- Historical Domain Superperson: It's heavily implied that she's a superpowered Donyale Luna. First off, the words the American astronauts (who are supermodels in our universe, the same as Donyale) use in the beginning to describe her were once used to describe Donyale. Furthermore, her entire speech to the first men on the Moon is taken directly from an interview with Donyale. NIXON IS GOD reveals that she's an extension of Nixon, meaning that she's likely a recreation of Donyale and not an Alternate Self.
- Humans Are Flawed: The speech she gives the astronauts is half about making this point, saying that many will die because they refuse to change, but those who can change will have the opportunity to become greater than human. Fittingly, she's shot once she finishes it. After she's proven wrong not once, but twice in both moon missions, Luna adapts a Humans Are Bastards vision, fully understanding that the human's definition of peace is built on inequality.
- Light Is Not Good: Appears as a completely white being with a female outline in pictures taken of her. After the QUEEN OF THE LUNARIANS, she completely turns on humanity and orders the decimation of their language through her kidnapped king.
- Lunarians: Yeah. The Queen of the Lunarians is a Lunarian. Crazy, I know.
- Magic Wand: The object she used to evict John Glenn from reality is referred to as such. She is also seen wielding it in some pictures.
- Motive Rant: The first half of her speech to the D-Day Knight has Luna justify the destruction of the English language by saying that humanity's peace is built on inequality, and the United States' Peace Equation is a blatant example of that.
- Non-Action Big Bad: Despite the Lunarian invasion being her doing, she doesn't personally engage in any of their atrocities unlike the brainwashed Crescent King. She only arrives on Earth in the finale to persuade the Knight into becoming a Lunarian prince, and is instantly consumed by his Alctraz matter without putting up so much as a fight. Averted in THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE, where she's a more active player and the one and only Lunarian.
- Pet the Dog: Doesn't harm Ed Dwight, the man who shot her, but instead evicts the man who gave that order, John Glenn, from reality.
- Powered by a Forsaken Child: In THE MISSING EYE OF JESUS CHRIST, the Lunarian Eye is represented with the same icon as the tip of her Magic Wand, implying that it's powered by an eye.
- Shooting Superman: Ed Dwight attempts this, with a Ray Gun no less, after she finishes her speech. It's as ineffectual as it would have been against the Knight or the Last Son.
- Single Specimen Species: THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE explains that there are no Lunarians aside from Luna herself. Despite this, she believed that her subjects were simply absent and would one day return. And when they didn't, she sought to create them herself out of the human race.
- Steven Ulysses Perhero: Who would have guessed that the Queen of the Lunarians would be literally called Luna?
- Then Let Me Be Evil: When the Apollo 11 mission lands on the Moon, she was more than willing to welcome them and treat them as equals. However, when Ed Dwight shoots her on the orders of John Glenn, and after her eye is shot out and stolen by the Apollo 12 mission, she ends up turning against humanity and allows the Lunarians to brainwash the Last Son into becoming the Crescent King and ends up mangling the English language in America.
- Tragic Villain: What THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE ultimately reveals them to be. A lonely super being that was destined to be a queen, and a genuinely benevolent one at that, only to be met with human cruelty. Left a scarred and broken mess, upon coming across a prophecy written on their throne they become a vengeful conqueror hell-bent on spreading peace upon humanity whether they like it or not.
- Villain Has a Point: She's not exactly wrong in her assessment that human peace is built on inequality, and that the United States' "peace equation" is a blatant example of that.
- We Can Rule Together: Attempts to convince the Knight to join her and the Lunarians as their Prince. He decides to reject the offer with destructive results.
- Wonder Woman Wannabe: She's debatably this.
- Both are monarchs in their colonies, which are composed by human-like beings created/given the blessing of gods, the Amazons and the Olympian Gods in Wonder Woman's case and the Lunarians and presumably "Her" in Luna's case.
- Said colonies were discovered by accident during a flight, Steven Trevor's plane crash and the Apollo 11 Moon Landing respectively.
- Both have last names that relate to their role, PrinceNote and LunaNote respectively.
- The two prior episodes introduced a Superman Substitute and a Batman Parody respectively, two of the three members of DC's Trinity, it is only natural that the next anomaly to be introduced would be a Wonder Woman Wannabe.
Lunarians
The Lunarians
"Foolish. Our prophecy is set. You will sit on the throne that is rightfully yours."
An enigmatic race of human-like creatures living on the Moon.—The Lunarians
- Alien Abduction: SEA OF THE LAST SON has them abduct and coerce The Last Son into becoming their new king.
- Aliens Are Bastards: From their abduction and forced crowning of the Last Son, to them forcefully destroying all human language and performing mass lobotomies in order to enforce their own upon the Earth, the Lunarians certainly win no favors when it comes to how they act.
- Alien Invasion: They seem to be performing a particularly subtle version, by destroying human language and replacing it with their own.
- Aliens Speaking English: Every time we see them, they're speaking fluent English. Possibly justified, given that they're implied to be former humans.
- Subverted later on. After the Last Son became the Crescent King, they began to slowly destroy the English language and built schools to teach Americans the Lunarian language.
- Asshole Victim: It's implied by the return of the English language in later videos that they were decimated by Nixon along with The Crescent King. Then THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX reveals Alcatraz matter essentially ate them alive aside from the King. Given that their crimes up to that point included language erasure, abduction, brainwashing and mass lobotomies, it's no question that they absolutely deserved it.
- Bait-and-Switch Compassion: Their attempts to comfort the Last Son about his atrocities in Vietnam turn out to be nothing but a twisted way to convince him into becoming their king.
- Because Destiny Says So: Their belief in fate is as strong as the US Government's, going as far as forcing the Last Son into becoming their new king because "[he] might be the king in [their] prophecy."
- Bizarre Alien Biology: THE MISSING EYE OF JESUS CHRIST describes their anatomy to have "magical" properties. Later on, a Lunarian eye is used to brainwash the Son into becoming an impersonator of Jesus.
- Corrupted Character Copy: Arguably, of the Amazons from Wonder Woman. They are both human-like creatures who initially live undisturbed in complete isolation from humanity that have a queen as their ruler.Unlike the Amazons who are compassionate beings despite their distrust of humanity, the Lunarians are shown to be xenophobic conquerers who think lowly of humanity. Whereas the Amazons want to use their advanced technology to spread peace throughout the Earth, the Lunarians use it to turn the Superman Substitute into a monster and erase all human languages.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Their demise is not pretty. The D-Day Knight uses Alcatraz Matter to basically eat them alive, all in a few seconds. The ones in the cloud ships aren't lucky either, with the ships being completely destroyed with them still on the ships.
- Curse of Babel: Their plan for Earth starts with a variation on this, although instead of creating multiple languages out of one they are erasing all languages other than their own.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Lunarians disallowing humanity to use their own languages and replacing them with their own through the usage of schools is a clear parallel to cultural erasure.
- Eaten Alive: Their ultimate fate in THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX, being quickly consumed by the Knight's Alcatraz matter.
- Evil Versus Evil: We have the Lunarians, a race of xenophobic aliens who want to conquer Earth and who turn the Last Son into their weapon. They are fighting against the United States of America, a xenophobic nation that used the Last Son to perform a "Sweep And Redeem" of Vietnam that also wants to conquer the Earth. The only difference between the two is that the Lunarians use mass lobotomies and language erasure while the United States just uses nukes and other weapons of war.
- Faux Affably Evil: They presented themselves to the Last Son with a friendly and concerned demeanor, and even tried to comfort him for what he had done in Vietnam. Their masquerade quickly falls as the Last Son denies joining their kingdom and becoming their new king.
- Foreshadowing: The English used in the descriptions of D-DAY KNIGHTFALL and NIXON IS GOD is completely normal, despite the Lunarians ostensibly trying to erase it and succeeding prior to this. As it turns out, this is because they were wiped out by the Knight.
- The Ghost: Despite the role they play in the Nixonverse, we never see any Lunarians in-person besides the Queen. THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE elaborates that this is because Lunarians don't actually exist. The Queen is the only one of her species.The Knight's Journal: There are no Lunarians. We are alone.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: They have a ship that can pass off as a mere cloud.
- Human Aliens: If Luna's appearance is any indication, the Lunarians heavily resemble people. Justified, given the implications that they are former humans.
- Invincible Villain: Humanity as a whole is powerless to stop them from destroying the English language and conducting mass lobotomies. Even the D-Day Knight is shown to be unable to repel their invasion at first. It takes a full show of power from him to actually put an end to their threat, and a horrifying power at that.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: After brainwashing the Last Son and turning him into their king and wrecking havoc on the earth for God knows how long, they finally get their comeuppance in THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX where they are completely wiped out by the Knight.
- Light Is Not Good: The cloud ship which they use is completely white, but they're a bunch of invading aliens who erase the human language and turn New York City into a hellhole. Said cloud ship is even used to perform mass lobotomies.
- Lunarians: A bunch of vaguely human-like beings who live on the Moon. Yup, they're Lunarians alright.
- Lobotomy: Their Cloud Ships are able to conduct an electrical brain surgery on civilians and super-powered beings alike, as shown in D-DAY KNIGHTFALL.
- Mirror Character: Ironically enough, to the United States of America. Both are xenophobic and genocidal maniacs who believe in fate, often to an insane degree. They have both used and transformed the Last Son for their own sinister ends. They both have aspirations to take over the Earth and are more than willing to destroy thousands of lives in order to achieve that goal. The only difference between them is that the Lunarians are more subtle in their invasion and act Faux Affably Evil while the US is anything but subtle (they did glass Alaska after all) and spread propaganda that doesn't hide their bad intentions.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Their slow destruction of the English language is terrifying, but their main victim so far is the United States. The same United States that attempted to shoot their queen during first contact, nuked Alaska, brainwashed the Last Son, forced the Last Son to do a "Sweep And Redeem" of Vietnam, and spread The House In The Ocean as a way to cover up the Last Son's transformation into The Crescent King.
- Short-Lived Aerial Escape: The Lunarians piloting the cloud ships are not safe from the Knight's "Alcatraz Checkmate," and are destroyed along with their ships.
- Uncertain Doom: The English Language appears to return to normal in D-DAY KNIGHTFALL, implying that something probably happened to them. THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX confirms that this is the result of them being killed by the D-Day Knight.
- Vichy Earth: As of D-DAY KNIGHTFALL, they seem to have had the run of Earth for quite some time, long enough for Alice Avenue to have had a memorial statue built to her. They've also moved up from language erasure to mass lobotomies.
- Was Once a Man: Possibly. Luna, the Queen of the Lunarians, is implied to be Donyale Luna, a human supermodel. Later on, it is shown how the Lunarians abducted the Last Son to make him become their king. In THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE, Luna converts other humans into crescent-headed beings in an effort to create "true" Lunarians (as the species, in fact, doesn't really exist).
The Moon God
The Moon God/Richard Nixon
"But they will go mad, each in their own way. Your world is not kind to them.Your world will never be kind."
Click here to see him before the Nixonverse
"To hell with it, I'm voting for you. You're already a better president than I'll ever be.""Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen."
—Matthew 6:9-13
A strange entity photographed on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 Mission that heavily resembles a certain Richard Nixon. Unlike the other Nixonverse entities however, he's either an expy of the Abrahamic God or Doctor Manhattan rather than any Justice League character.
- Alien Non-Interference Clause: He could have interfered all this time, he certainly has the power to. But he chooses not to, as he perceives that interacting with humanity will only result in more chaos.
- All-Powerful Bystander: Despite being incredibly powerful, Nixon chooses not to intervene in any of the Nixonverse's conflicts due to his distrust of humanity. The sole exception to that is The Crescent King, who even he views as a threat to the universe.
- All Your Powers Combined: As a mass of Alcatraz matter that managed to assimilate the properties of the Horned Serpent and Wonderland, Nixon is effectively a composite of the myriad anomalies that affected the Deanverse.
- Always a Bigger Fish: NIXON IS GOD implies that he views the Crescent King to be this for him.
- And I Must Scream: Heavily downplayed. Nixon is basically stuck on the barren Moon without any of his friends or family and without any of the human luxuries he had back in the Deanverse (including racing) , but he doesn't seem to mind this due to wanting to stay as far from humanity as possible.
- Antagonist Title: The Nixonverse is named after him.
- Anti-Villain: Seems to be a Well-Intentioned Extremist. Nixon only created his three "extensions" so that he can see if humanity will accept him or not, and even then he most likely wanted them to benevolent. The cruelty of the Nixonverse to his creations has turned them into insane monsters, which has disillusioned him from interacting with humanity.
- Apologetic Attacker: Apologizes to Ed Dwight before he murders him, as THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX reveals.
- Ascended Extra: Goes from an unsuccessful presidential candidate and Dean's friend in the Deanverse to being the literal God and namesake of the Nixonverse.
- Boomerang Bigot: Yeah sure, he's pretty far from human now, but Nixon is a bit of a hypocrite for chiding humanity's lack of kindness despite formerly being a human.
- The Bus Came Back: After not being mentioned since DEANDISASTER, the Deanverse's Nixon is revealed to have survived the Great Division by splitting from the Horned Serpent and has become the God on the Moon as the progenitor of the Last Son, the Knight, and the Queen.
- Composite Character: Seems to be an Expy of two different versions of Doctor Manhattan. His original appearance in Watchmen and his appearance in Doomsday Clock. His similarities with the original Doctor are described in the entry for Expy below, but as for the Doomsday Clock Doctor, both are depicted as god-like beings from an alternate universe (and, in a Meta Example, they're both from different stories) that have come to a new universe to reshape it. Manhattan with the Post-Flashpoint timeline, and Nixon with the Nixonverse after the alterations that Immune to Fate creations made. These two are also forced to destroy the timeline that they created by interfering, resulting in a timeline that the viewer is more familiar with.
- Cynicism Catalyst: Surviving the Great Division and choosing to live on the Moon for many years while watching his extensions be slowly turned insane by the humans of the Nixonverse has taken a toll on his idealism. This has left him with quite a dim view of humanity, not helped by the death of his best friend's Alternate Self.
- Deity of Human Origin: Previously a normal human who unsuccessfully ran against President Dean and became his best friend, surviving the Great Division gave him otherworldly powers.
- Dimensional Traveller: He's the Deanverse's Nixon (or at least, an Alcatraz replica of him) after being imbued with powers during the Great Division.
- Early-Bird Cameo: His first appearance was in JESUS IN VIETNAM as a still picture, but he didn't play a major role until NIXON IS GOD. NIXON IS GOD also reveals that he was the thing that was shown to leave the Horned Serpent in the very first episode of the Nixonverse, and not only that but that he is the Deanverse's Nixon, meaning that we've heard from him since DEANDEMOCRACY.
- The End of the World as We Know It: His "fictionalization" of the world basically ends the Nixonverse and overwrites it with a new reality. Despite this, he does it without bloodshed and it is still preserved in some sort through a comic book.
- Expy:
- The Moon God heavily resembles the Biblical God in a few aspects. Both of them live above the Earth, with God living in Heaven while Richard Nixon lives on the Moon. Both of them sent their "children" to "test" humanity, and their children end up meeting some horrific fates thanks to humanity.
- He also has obvious inspiration from Doctor Manhattan as well. A powerful, formerly human entity likened to being God, who ultimately becomes disillusioned with humanity and resigns himself to live away from them on another celestial body in the solar system. This also applies for his abilities, as there's limited Reality Warping and Precognition in both of their arsenal. The image for NIXON IS GOD of him sitting on a moon rock is even similar to a panel of Manhattan sitting on Mars.
- Foil:
- To the Deanverse's James Dean. Dean was regarded as Satan despite his clearly good deeds and having improved his world overall after both of his terms, whereas Nixon is regarded as "God" despite being more morally ambiguous and having released not one, but three threats to the universe in the form of the Last Son, the Knight and the Queen. Additionally, while Dean is more than likely powerless but wins people over through his charisma, Nixon is seemingly all-powerful but elects to stay on the Moon out of the prospect of mankind hating him. There's also the very noticeable fact that they both are the namesakes of the universes they changed the most, the Deanverse and the Nixonverse.
- To the Horned Serpent, both being actual historical figures from the past who have served as presidents, imbued with god-like abilities and reshaping the universe as they see fit. But whereas George Washington ended up being deformed and went completely insane after his transformation into the Horned Serpent, he's still the implied mastermind behind most of the events of the Deanverse, meanwhile Nixon remains in a humanoid form and is pretty much still sane, but it's clear that he never had a plan for his three extensions and the destruction that they have caused was a side effect of human intervention.
- Friendly Rival: With President James Dean, who he raced cars with in DEANDEMOCRACY despite being his presidential opponent. By the time of DEANDISASTER, they've become close friends.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Much like the Horned Serpent he separated from, Nixon serves as this for the entire Nixonverse. He's responsible for the creation of the Last Son, The D-Day Knight and Luna in order to "test" humanity. Downplayed in that all three were supposed to be benevolent, but the cruel actions of humanity had driven them to villainy.
- Genre Savvy: Knew that stepping foot on an alternate Earth was a bad idea. He instead had the Last Son and The Knight visit Earth in his steed. He's later proven right.
- God Is Evil: Played with. Nixon doesn't seem to be inherently malevolent, but his extensions eventually all lost their sanity and became a menace to humanity all in different ways, though Nixon does try to warn Ed Dwight about it, resulting in Ed killing himself. However, it is later revealed that Nixon actually murdered Ed Dwight, though he did apologize before doing so.
- Graceful Loser: Upon losing the election to James Dean by a landslide, he accepted the president-elect's offer to go race-car driving.
- The Hermit: The loss of his extensions' sanity has convinced him that he cannot risk stepping foot on Earth either and that he's content to live in isolation on the Moon instead.
- Heroic Neutral: "Heroic" is a bit of a stretch, but Nixon is content to leave his rogue "extensions," the Lunarians and humanity to its own devices. Despite this, he says that he will have to interfere in order to destroy The Crescent King, who even he says is dangerous and poses a threat to the universe.
- Historical Domain Superperson: The Moon God is revealed to be Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States.
- In Mysterious Ways: He's willing to let his "extensions" go mad and turn on humanity for one. He also killed Ed Dwight for reasons only known to him.
- Humans Are Bastards: He thinks that humans, or at least the ones living in the Nixonverse, are incapable of being kind. And given what we've seen so far, he has a point.
- Last of His Kind: One of the only surviving humans left alive from the Deanverse.
- Legacy Character: This Nixon is really a mass of Alcatraz matter taking on the original Nixon's form, with said original being old and senile (or even long dead, as in our world) by the time the Great Division occurred.
- Me's a Crowd: After surviving the end of the Deanverse, Nixon landed on the Moon and created three beings out of himself to see how this new world would react to him: The Last Son, the Knight, and the Queen. All three of them end up losing their sanity.
- Offing the Offspring: For a given measure of "offspring." Nixon has to destroy the Crescent King, one of his "extensions," since he will become one of the most dangerous leaders in the universe.
- Richard Nixon, the Lord and Savior: Richard Nixon, rather than being President of the United States, is instead a God-like entity known as the Moon God.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Zig-Zagged. It's clear that having spent many years with Dean as a close friend has mellowed him out, but after surviving the Great Division, living in solitude for many years on the Moon and seeing how extensions of himself slowly go insane (and one of them even killing an Alternate Self of his friend). He grows a more cynical look towards humanity, claiming that they'll never be kind. Even then, he has the decency to explain his motivations to Ed Dwight and even apologize to him as he dies.
- Villain Has a Point: Again, he isn't really a villain. He doesn't have a high opinion of humanity and claims that they will never be kind. Given what they have done to his extensions, including using one of them as a weapon against fellow humans, he absolutely has a point.
- Walking Spoiler: It's impossible to know anything about Nixon without revealing his connection to the other mysterious entities in the Nixonverse, how said entities are all connected and how Nixon himself is connected to previous seasons.
- Was Once a Man: Prior to the Great Division, he was just a regular man who was friends with President Dean. The Great Division gave him godly powers, and turned him into whatever he is now.
"Her"
Her
"Win."
"Beauty is something else, something inexplicable that each person carries inside. This form of beauty related to Her visions."
—Luna
A mysterious, if notional, entity present within the Nixonverse.
- Cosmic Motifs: According to the Last Son's vision, where she is surrounded by ringed planets.
- Left Hanging: We never learn anything about "Her" in the Nixonverse's finale, or if she even exists at all. The series ends on this note. Word of God would later confirm her existence, but that's about it.
- One-Shot Character: Appears only in THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS as a mysterious vision. She completely disappears from the series after this episode and is never seen again.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: One of the visions a teenage Last Son has of "Her" shows the woman with completely red eyes.
- Retcon: Word of God implies that "Her" also appeared in Season 2's WASHINGTONWONDERLAND as the tree that talked to Virginia.
- Unknown Character: Next to nothing is known about "Her." She has thusfar never actually been featured in a video, and her only confirmed "appearance" is when Luna mentions Her during her speech to the crew of Apollo 11. The fact that Luna ascribes her philosophical beliefs to "Her" might imply that she has some sort of overall significance to Lunarian beliefs, but this is never confirmed. Likewise, when the Last Son's own philosophical outlook is described by Alice Avenue, he is shown having visions of a mysterious female figure – which Word of God states is Her.
- Voice-Only Cameo: Word of God states the voice which commands C/H/A/S/E to walk to Antarctica is "Her."
House in the Ocean
The Houses in the Ocean
The Houses in the Ocean
There is no House in the Ocean. There is only the house in your head.
"We had the newest, most expensive firearms of the time. Well, those Houses never budged. They took everything we gave them."
—Ronald Reagan
The titular antagonists of the series, mysterious houses that have appeared on the Ocean as early as 1939. Various groups, coined the "House Clubs" have attempted to attack it, to no avail. The Houses are revealed to be nothing but a manifestation of the psyche and body of whoever's seeing them, causing everyone who shoots at it to automatically be damaged back. Or something like that.
- Attack Reflector: On top of being practically immune to most human artillery, the Houses can and will reflect the damage it's attacker do to them.
- Body Horror: Since they can reflect damage dealt to them onto to their attacker(s), more powerful firepower will result in this to varying degrees. Ronald Reagan gets half his face covered in skin, while the Bushes are turned into horrifying blobs barely resembling people.
- Canon Foreigner: Unlike the other anomalies shown in the series, they're completely original to the House in the Ocean series.
- Fiction as Cover-Up: They, alongside the entirety of The House in the Ocean series, are revealed to be nothing but a cover-up story. In reality, the Houses are based on the Last Son of Alcatraz's form after retiring: His childhood house.
- Genius Loci: They were shown to be aware enough to Ambush the Bushes.
- Immune to Bullets: Completely No Sells any kind of bullet fired at it. More senior members of the "House Clubs" have claimed to have put a hole or two in the houses, but that's about it.
- Invincible Villain: Nothing can seem to damage let alone destroy them, rendering them this by default.
- Meaningful Name: The true reason why they're called the Houses IN the Ocean and not the Houses ON the Ocean is simple: Your brain is suspended in fluid. The Crescent King is in your head. Your brain is a house for him. You are the only House in the Ocean.
The Crescent King (HITO SPOILERS UNMARKED)
The Crescent King
Now he's in YOUR head, too.
"The Crescent King arrives in three cycles. You are his container."
A mysterious entity who fell from the stars directly into the Ocean.—Starfish-Like messengers.
- Big Bad: Of the House In The Ocean series, being the malevolent entity responsible for the creation of the titular houses, twisting the words of political figures so that people will shoot the houses, causing chaos throughout the East Coast through the Crescent Creatures and (possibly) manipulating C/H/A/S/E into ending the world. And in another sense, he's also the major threat facing the entire Nixonverse, seeing as he's also the Last Son.
- Blatant Lies: In the "Restored" version of Bush's last call, he says that the Bushes were "saved" while their distorted screams of agony play in the background.
- The Bus Came Back: Two times, actually. First, he reappeared in the House in the Ocean after having his entire video series unlisted, before the original House uploads were deleted. But they seem to have come back, this time in the Nixonverse.
- Canon Welding: The videos featuring the Crescent King were originally unrelated to the Monument Mythos, but then were included in the House in the Ocean series, which then was subsumed by the Nixonverse canon.
- The Chessmaster: The entire House in the Ocean series is his doing. Throughout the series he attempts to get the public to be more and more aggressive towards the Houses, possibly manipulates C/H/A/S/E into "voiding" the planet, and succeeds in doing so.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humour: When he inserts a clip of George Bush into his "restored" version of his last phone call, he briefly says that George's pronunciation of "ship" sounds a lot like "shit." Keep in mind that he just indirectly caused George's death.
- Fiction as Cover-Up: His appearance in The House in the Ocean is nothing but a cover-up story. In reality, The actual Crescent King is none other than the Last Son of Alcatraz after being forcefully turned into the new king of the Lunarians.
- Foregone Conclusion: If you're even a little bit aware of his existence, he would already have entered your head.
- Hate Sink: The Crescent King is a pretty unlikeable guy and a clear-cut villain in a series filled with moral grayness, given that his methods of getting people to shoot the houses include Twisting the Words of beloved political figures and he shows no remorse for the thousands of deaths he indirectly causes. As it turns out, it may have been deliberate on the United States Government's part to make people hate the real Crescent King aka The Last Son.
- I See Them, Too: It's heavily implied by the line "Did you really think it'd only end once?" that he is very aware of the Great Division and the viewer's familiarity with it. As well he should, since he came from the Deanverse.
- Manipulative Bastard: Constantly manipulates everything ranging from broadcasts to situations in order to get his way. He edits multiple videos of political figures to get people to shoot the houses, causes the whole East Coast to panic and calls it a good thing, and likely manipulated C/H/A/S/E into exploding the planet.
- Manipulative Editing: He's implied to be the responsible for the "Restored" versions of the videos, where he deliberately twists the words of various political figures to get the people to shoot the Houses.
- Master of Illusion: His entire M.O. is this. He's the one responsible for the creation of the Houses, as well as altering several videos of recognized figures to spread misinformation about the Houses.
- Ret-Canon: Came back into the Mythos' canon. Twice.
Crescent Creatures
Crescent Creatures
"You can already feel it in the air. A pulsating warmth from those Crescent Creatures."
"Large figures have appeared across the south-east. Every night, their breathing grows louder, and it's making everyone nervous."
—Eli Tillon
Mysterious creatures which begin appearing across the southeast United States.
- Fiction as Cover-Up: SEA OF THE LAST SON reveals them, alongside everything shown in The House in the Ocean to be a cover-up story for The Last Son's transformation into the actual Crescent King. Besides this, they're a clear allusion to the very real Lunarians.
- Hell Is That Noise: According to Tillon, their breathing is audible. And every night, it somehow grows louder.
- Lunacy: Tillon's comments about the Crescent Creatures implies that they are "powered" by the Moon; the closer the Moon is to Earth, the stronger the Creatures become.
- One-Steve Limit: Subverted, albeit not obviously – Word of God states the form the Crescent King/Last Son of Alcatraz takes post-Alcatraz Checkmate is also called "Crescent Creature," though this name is never applied to him in the video itself.
- Person of Mass Destruction: Studies of the Creatures show that their metabolisms are akin to a nuclear reactor experiencing a meltdown. Tillon theorizes that when the Moon aligns with the Crescent Creatures' heads, they will release some sort of "massive heat wave." We never really see what happens, exactly.
C/H/A/S/E
C/H/A/S/E
COME BACK HOME CHASE EVERYONE MISSES YOU...
"She was created last year as a special effect for a summer blockbuster. At some point during production, the producers wanted C/H/A/S/E to exhibit free will for an improvised scene. So, C/H/A/S/E's creators reluctantly enabled her artificial intelligence. That's when she left the studio."
—?
A gargantuan robot actor, built by a movie studio to be cast in a movie.
- A.I.-cronym: Although what her name stands for has never been said.
- Ambiguous Situation: After The Reveal of The House in the Ocean being nothing but a cover-up story in the Nixonverse, it's unknown if C/H/A/S/E actually exists.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: One of the main implications of the "Don't listen to your captors, proceed to Antarctica" line is that she isn't doing this out of free will, but rather being controlled by some sort of outer force.
- Canon Welding: Twofold. The original video featuring C/H/A/S/E was a standalone short, which was subsequently joined to the canon of The House in the Ocean. After that, the entire THITO series was taken down and reuploaded as a part of the Nixonverse.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite being a completely dark robot with a somewhat threatening appearance , C/H/A/S/E is implied to not actually be evil and is under brainwash or mind control from The Crescent King.
- Meaningful Name:
- The robot known as C/H/A/S/E is heavily implied to be chasing some sort of humanity, if the video sent by the studio to her is any indication.
- In a more obvious and face value meaning, the military are indeed chasing a wandering robot.
- Identical Stranger: Her design brings to mind the Crescent Creatures, which is likely intentional to signify a connection.
- Violation of Common Sense: Ignoring for a moment why and how a random movie studio built a skyscraper-sized automaton just to star in a summer flick, giving it artificial intelligence is a monumentally stupid (and, when you think about it, completely pointless) decision, as is turning it on during filming because you want to see a robot do improv. There's also the fact that C/H/A/S/E somehow has the ability to create literal stars — why an acting robot would be built with such a functionality is anyone's guess.
- Weapon of Mass Destruction: Despite being built by a movie studio for an action film, C/H/A/S/E somehow has the ability to create stars out of nothingness. She ultimately uses this power to spell out "VOID" in the sky over Antarctica, which entices a random voice evidently commanding her to "void" the entire planet.
