An Alcatraz Checkmate is when you look your opponent in the eye, shout "There is no prophecy! There is only me!" and violently upend the board. It is very difficult to pull off and requires patience and subtly.
the d-day knight basically saying “FUCK YOUR PROPHECY”, erasing literally every trace of the lunarians in one go with the ALCATRAZATTACK theme returning, and it being titled “ALCATRAZ CHECKMATE” has to be the single coolest thing in this entire series. love you mister manticore
Yeah. That was easily my favorite part lmao. I loved the whole concept of Alcatraz since the beginning, and it was lovely to hear the theme come back and to see Alcatraz do what it does best again lmao
I’m also a huge fan of Alcatrazosis being the Lunarians’ weakness. It’s like a multiversal Colombian Exchange, because in this timeline it’s an entirely unknown form of disease. And considering it’s from a different universe entirely, of course everything in the Nixonverse would be super weak to it, including the Lunarians.
@@maplebob23 he means this timeline's Ed Dwight. He has a counterpart in our world, didn't you know? He was a test pilot that was rejected for the space program in our universe, but apparently was accepted in the Nixonverse. In our timeline, he later became a sculptor
He just made regular monuments tho. He didn't have anything to do with the serpent or the trees. Ed is a good dude. I refuse to believe anything else 😂
So that explains cohesive language returning in the Knightfall episode description. Nixon managed to turn the Crescent King, Lunarian Queen, and himself into fiction; defeating them like what he intended to do. I guess he took the form of Ed Dwight and rewrote history to cancel out his death and be the man we all know and anticipate his confusion with the series.
This actually reminds me of Last Thursdayism. How are we so sure that everything wasn't created last Thursday and the memories we had weren't implanted into our heads? How are we sure that Nixon didn't erase history and rewrote it in a "normal" manner?
Woo's Alis?" "L i g m a b a l l s" "T h o m a s L u g a t t i" Well Well Well, The dead children I read about yours ago Beyond Top Secret web site from "FATE Magazine" a Austrialian or ever what them other places on the Upside Down Part of the Earth . This whole think is as if Thomas Logetti oration when he speaks of millions of creepy 'Small Peoples" who suck the Murmurous Thinking Brains whose thoughts become transient offal as of Swine Squeels and Rectumns Regurgations in that ungly little town where the 'Smalls" are as Ticks and Insects are the Internal Parts eyes of Black Widowe Spiders similatouse attack ....&tc I was born in 1949, this brings back memories of School Drills in 1956 in 2nd. Grade.
Monument Mythos: What if George Washington was a big monster Nixonverse: American civic religion corrupts those innocent and naive enough to believe and dedicate itself to the national project, and the same storytelling used to create the dangerous myth of American exceptionalism is the same weapon that creates the facade of a safe and peaceful world which keeps us sane, but at the expense of erasing those true heroes who kept us safe Cornerfolk: What if guys were small
Monument mythos: the title given to Washington is taken literally, he is the embodiment of what America really is under the surface, a monster that eats the poor, the sick, and outcast to fuel itself for another few decades
I will always be impressed with how Mr Manticor works their finales, it both wraps up the project so nicely and gives you reason to go back and find the details from before
How was everyone just understand this story so clearly? I watched the entire series AND a 3 hour analysis video on CZcams and still don’t understand anything…
I love how this channel went from panicked: "Oh my God! What's that coming out of the Statue of Liberty"!?! To unflinching: "Well, of course Richard Nixon is God...who would even have the audacity to question that"?
@@GussyBaka1972 YES just like TNO fans, unfortunately for TNO fans most of the characters in TNO are now dead. The closet we could have got was Dimity Yazov, only for him to died early in 2020 just before TNO was out. So I could see Nixonverse Fan having the chance to show this to Dwight
It just occurred to me that the title, "The Ed Dwight Paradox", is probably a play on "The Flashpoint Paradox", the DC Comics story that served to completely reset DC's superhero universe.
@@mywifesboyfriend5558 The entire series with this in mind would therefore be referencing Crisis of Infinite Earths, the Serpent perhaps referencing the Anti-Monitor and Nixon with his manner and speech I would assume to be Pariah.
Mister Manticore is an absolute master of storytelling. He continuously subverts expectations and manages to leave you with a dropped jaw by the end. Each episode leaves you wanting for more, and gives room for interpretation for the fans. If he manages to become a full-time film maker for cinematic-type movies, I sure as hell would pay to see them. Thanks for the dedication, M.M.
@@benrickinmarks3639 theres still a few questions left anyway, who is the person in CORNERGIRL, what does MISTERMANTICORE have to do with this, and most importantly, what would James Dean say about this?!
@@benrickinmarks3639 i still think there's one more, every season of MM is 12 episodes long, this was 11 episodes long. i could be dum but thats what i think
I knew the Cresent would become Horns! I teared up with a huge smile at the end of this. I’m so utterly overjoyed you acknowledged the real Ed Dwight, a brilliant and heroic man in both fiction and even more so real life. Go look up his monuments, it’s so worth it. This was a real trip you took us on, Mister Manticore, thanks for exploring this little corner of your own universe.
@@sussystories Nope, that was Crescent Knight lost his helmet, and even if he had it back, the horns are different. The scene is clearly made to trick you into seeing the Crescent shape so when he stands up you see that they are actually horns. Also, if it was Knight then Crescent gets no conclusion and Nixon doesn't have a reason to fictionalize everything.
@@Mortimer_RS you gotta be kidding… The Crescent King got turned into fiction. That was his conclusion. The Knight was turning into a monster aka The Horned Serpent so he doesn’t even need his helmet back. Oh and also “The Horned Serpent lives” was used in both The Ed Dwight Paradox and The D-Day Knight. If you really think that’s Crescent King after all the evidence then that makes you really dumb.
@@sussystories "Up in the sky, it's a bird is a plane" is used in both The Last Son of Alcatraz and D-Day Knight, that doesn't mean they both are the same entity, the repetition of phrases is made to create parallelism. Getting erased from history IS NOT a conclusion if we don't get to see their last moments, it's anticlimactic, and Mister Manticore is not like that, also, all of the entities got fictionalized according to Nixon, not only Crescent King. D-Day Knight doesn't have shape shifting abilities apart from changing size and when Alcatraz Matter gets unstable, he can't generate Horns out of nothing. Also, the horns clearly have a crescent shape in a certain angle, different from Horned Serpent's horns, that are plane. Also, from a narrative point of view "Crescent abomination stands up and it turns out it has horns now" it's more effective that "guy with horns stand up and surprisingly has horns" Mister Manticore doesn't do anything obvious, he likes to make an impression. And lastly, D-Day Knight doesn't have a reason to cry and not wanting to live anymore, he just felt grief when he killed Alice in a outburst of rage, Last Son has more reasons, as he was constantly used as a mere weapon, when he only wanted to help people.
It is ACTUALLY crazy how not once, not twice, but nearly FIVE TIMES that a final episode has slotted everything into place so perfectly after months of bizarre and spiraling conspiracy-esque theories and videos. Bravo again and again! Encore!
I don't think this is the end, even if it feels like it to some extend. There is still one loose end - House in the Ocean. All Nixonverse episodes bar that one are all set within 20th century Nixonverse and retall the events of that time. But HitO is set firmly in 21st century. While alot of it was a cover story and doesn't connect with the rest of the series, like about Obama and other presidents shooting houses, one thing remained relevant - the House. And so the question remains - what brought Crescent King from fiction back in to (their) reality?
@@user-kt3qs9ki8p This is actually a great question. Perhaps Nixon actually fictionalised the world during the 21st century. The Last Son could have been turned into the Crescent King during the 21st century, too. After all, we never really get a date past the Vietnam War.
@@Dynamo33 Oh true, but doesn't the Crescent King essentially shapeshift into the Horned Serpent? So is it possible after some soul searching in various forms he goes about life as a normal dude, before the visions of the Crescent king as seen in the House in the Ocean's final episodes returns him back to being the Crescent King? Or I'm way off base and this story has truly confused me.
@@GuyShōtō I'm not sure he's shapeshifted. I believe we were just misinterpreting the shape of his head before, and he always was just a horned giant. I don't know where you got the idea that he ever turned back into a normal person. All the madness that happened within the past 3 or 4 episodes take place within the time that the Last Son was turned into the Crescent King or, as we know now, the Horned Serpent.
Looking at the Chess metaphor I like how the moves track with what's happening. The Queen slides up to the Knight where, by the rules, he cannot harm her; only escape or be claimed, due to the way Knights move. By the rules she is safe and winning, as the Prophecy dictates. And then the Knight _breaks_ the rules like he supposedly breaks Fate, moves around outside his turn, and places himself where he can claim the Queen once he lets the rules reassert. Alcatraz Checkmate indeed.
It subtlety reminds me of a great piece of media where the Main character “breaks the bad”. Great that manticore is including references to other media
I have a theory I made only after watching AFTERANGEL The narrator at the end who says "In our world, Ed Dwight never went to the moon..." is *not* referring to our reality. By "our world" she was referring to the Deanverse. She is talking to citizens of the Deanverse, or rather, a Deanverse that never ended. This video is an Ed Dwight paradox. AFTERANGEL and ANGELASHES are the paradox of MM. How can a world that ended still be alive? Nixon fictionalized the Nixonverse, only for it to be fiction in the deanverse - the very reality he escaped from. This would explain why Dwight Comics exist within the Monument Mythos universe.
My early interpretation holds with this video. The horned serpent is a metaphysically massive being, which stretches through universes and the Great Division was able to sever a piece of him like in Ben Franklin’s “Join or Die” He lives, and is angry because we keep hurting him. It’s probable that the Horned Serpent isn’t even evil, he just exists and humans keep trying to tap into his power in multiple universes, like the Maize attack in the Deanverse.
i’ve always had that thought in mind, the serpent is only a casualty caused by the trees; there was no malevolent force. only outside forces like humans tapping into its metaphysical gateways chalking up to the great division. it truly makes humanity, in this sense, a true force of mass destruction
But it makes sense also that the knight is basically the horn serpent and and the lunarians and the sun all a part of Nixon is just a small little part that broke off of the serpent and at the end of the day the one that was the most in tune with the serpent pretty much was not going along with Nixon’s little schemes in fact I think for the longest period of time the D day knight started to go more haywire and considering that he has godlike abilities he chose to speak for the horn serpent in that moment and let them know that Nixon is not going to tell me how my life plays out there is no prophecy there is only me and I guess whatever he did he took back whatever little power he had and basically caused another Alcatraz out break But my God I can’t be surprise that it wrapped up the way that it did
@@sicIico exactly. I even think the trees are appendages of the serpent, like when Everett says “the trees are not trees” and the reason “wonderland” is actually called the horned serpent metastructure is because it’s “inside” his own space. With this interpretation humans are the villain of this story, he’s just a big eldritch noodle that we keep screwing with and it’s not his fault he’s angry. You mess with the bull you get the horns, but in this case instead of a bull it’s an unknowable lovecraftian being.
This gives me vibes from the time in 2011 that people thought the world would end in 2012 and the when it didn't happen conspiracy theorists started thinking that it did end and we live in a fake world.
Who says it didn't? After the Hadron Collider was used in 2012, many changes happened in our world. The entire timeline may have shifted. We are NOT what we were supposed to be.
I like how at 6:45 there's the text "Ed Dwight was twice the god that Nixon could ever be", tying back to when Nixon said that Dean was "Already a better president than I could ever be".
Reading “Alcatraz Checkmate” gave me goosebumps Edit: why does the queen of the lunarians speak in comic sans “LiKe ThIs” and the d day knight speaks in bold impact font
I heard the AlcatrazAttack music and I screamed in excitement and fear. Like a feeling of concern and joy. I knew the power that Alcatraz had and it scared me deeply to a level that is contained. So this is it. The Nixonverse is over? Fascinating. I absolutely enjoyed this series. It offered something unique to the community, bringing a stunning Analog Superhorror to life! Fantastic job to everyone who was involved in this. Amazing job good sir. What does the future hold? I’m not sure. Maybe I will see more in the next life. Thanks for this…
i think their is one more episode, monument mythos seasons have been 12 episodes long, and nixonverse is only 11 rn, i think the future we'll see more survivors and what happened to the cornerfolk.
@@chubbs912 Unfortunately, the playlists for both seasons of the Monument Mythos had 12 videos each: 11 main videos and 1 trailer for the series, usually released after the series is complete. The text at the end credits also confirms this to be the end. “Thanks for visiting the Nixonverse. Come again soon”
I’ll be honest, when the Alcatraz Demo music appeared, I had that feeling that I assume people get when they revealed a new character in Smash. I don’t know if that’s accurate, but I know that the Nixonverse and the Deanverse are link, I’m just saying that it’s been so long since we’ve had a direct connection between the two again that it felt like a sudden crossover.
Can I say the sequence of the Crescent King crying is seriously some absolutely fantastic horror. It really just speaks for itself with his context, and the audio and great visuals of such a powerful and giant being literally on his knees just weeping, that's something I will always just straight up adore about your work. I expected some sort of fight with the king, but instead seeing how he's always been his own enemy, that speaks way more, and is ahell lot more disturbing. Fantastic work all around
It reminds me of the lyrics to David Bowie's 'The Supermen'. "When all were minds in unithought Powers weird by mystics taught No pain, no joy, no power to right Colossal strength to grasp at fate Where sad-eyed mermen tossed in slumbers Nightmare dreams no mortal mind could hold Man would tear his brother's flesh A chance to die, to turn to mould."
@@ciannagle2117 2:21 The text clearly shows that it's the D-Day knight, the same ones we saw in Knightfall and in his first sighting, plus you can tell the difference between the Horned Serpent and the Crescent King, Crescent king has a white body, and his Moon shaped Mouth faces forward, as for the Horned Serpent has it's horns pointed to the sky.
@@Samuello2024 well you could argue that the phrase "grief made him a monster" could also apply to the king, as in he could be grieving over the loss of the lunarians or from being used as a weapon. As for his body, the only times he is seen white is in THITO and in the Nixon is god artwork, in most other appearances he has a black body.
@@99survivabilityratepandemi81 To be fair, most of the Monument Mythos episodes are a year old with some turning 2 years old soon while the Nixonverse episodes started 3 months ago so obviously the Monument Mythos episodes are going to have more views.
maybe the "not the voice of ed dwight" is saying that the person speaking is not ed dwight, but a voice actor portraying ed dwight. since we have multiple clips of him saying it in different emotions, like he's taking multiple takes to see what works well for the scene i think this fits the "fictionalizing the world" thing
@@99survivabilityratepandemi81 true, i was expecting a few more episodes before the final, i suppose it depends on whats going on in manticors personal life.
I think the Son and the Knight are two sides of the same coin. They both start out as heroes who intervene in wars and save people. Then they both go through immeasurable trauma and they make mistakes that they regret. The Son becomes one of the most dangerous beings in existence, but the Knight chooses to become a hero again. It's almost like we're watching one man go down two different paths.
If I’m reading this correctly, Nixon basically did a hard reset on everything (possibly influenced/persuaded by Dwight?), leaving only Ed Dwight with his memories. Kinda sounds like one of the resets DC would do sometimes haha
Holy shit! then that means Ed Dwight is Psycho Pirate! The entirety of Alcatraz Apocalypse was basically Alex’s Crisis on Infinite Earths. In the DC canon, after the universe reset for the third time (DC Rebirth), only one character remembers the old universe, a character known as Psycho Pirate. He is somehow able to remember the golden age comics and all the way up to the new DC universe. Ed Dwight could be that character in this scenario.
Ooh! And another tidbit actually, the title is a reference to the Flashpoint Paradox, one of DC’s resets where it explores alternate universes/timelines. Thanks TVTropes hehe
I think the best part about the Alcatraz Checkmate is the fact he not only moves into a valid position for his piece to move The Knight also moves twice in the same turn, mfer really wasn’t bound to the rules afterall :)
Shout-out to our hero Ed Dwight who finally got to go to space at 90 years old a few days ago. He was part of the Blue Origin crew. Absolute gem of a human being.
To protect the future, he destroyed the past. Belief is a powerful thing. Edit: Luna: Join us Knight, and we can rule together Knight: release restraint level zero Luna: Level what? ALCATRAZ CHECKMATE
I'm so astounded by the D-Day Knight redeeming himself from his grief. It goes to show that the D-Day Knight kept true to his word at the end, moved on from his grief, freed the world from the Lunarians, and helped preserved human life despite the fact they were also not kind to him at the end.
I rarely get emotional over internet content, but for some reason that final monologue always chokes me up. In a world of eldritch monsters and vast cosmic forces, it’s an ordinary, kind person that overturns it all. The Monument Mythos is often absurd and bizarre, but it’s the heart running through it all that really makes it worthwhile. “Ed Dwight was twice the God that Nixon could ever be. He was bold, he was kind, he was good”
"Even their peace equation is an inequality" why did it take me so long to get that she wasn't talking about how the equation is inherently inequal but rather how it's literally an inequality equation
So the D-Day Knight actually fights the Queen and destroys all Lunarians forces, ending their hijacking of Americans’ brains and biology and leaving the King all alone on Earth, spurring Nixon to effectively erase and rewrite history as to prevent himself and the other three from ever regaining power, all while martyrizing Ed Dwight in the process. -Alex Kansas- Mister Manticore you never cease to amaze and entertain
The Knight actually turned out better then the others, as he remains a hero of a sort. While he killed Alice, it was an accident he regretted. He goes on to defeat the Lunarians and restore language, just like Alice wanted him too.
See, Knight? That was all Alice wanted you to do, save the country from the Lunarians. You didn't need to drop her off a building for talking about the Son. So is Nixonverse America also gonna get replaced by Alcatraz material or...
Lmao, he thought she was already good enough, and when he dropped her, he was sure she would fly like him too, but as she started to fall closer to the road, it was too late, *uh oh, bad decision Knight*
How it started: Ha ha, Alcatraz is a literal prison cell How it ended: ALCRATAZ CONSUMES ALL Truly a beautiful series, thank you Mr Manticore for this great work of art!
This was honestly one of the best from a already great series. The part when the D-Day Knight says "There is no prophecy. There is only me" was fucking cool
When 5:23 hit I thought we might be getting comic book merch lol. I'd consider buying that if Mister Manticore somehow arranged it. As per usual, great work! Looking forward to what happens next.
I'm so late but I can't get over how the United States is flipped upside down like how the alternate timelines are flips of each other, as seen as the mirrored wonderlands The lil touches are just so good
I absolutely LOVED how before Alcatraz Alcatrazed all over the place, Alex put the music from the original video. I love how music from past videos are brought up, and in this case, with reverb too!
More abstract than surreal. True surrealism is meant to be as pure an expression of the subconscious mind as possible, so it frequently defies any logic or concrete meaning. It’s often heavy on symbolism that tries to evoke emotions, but interpretation of those symbols and what emotions it evokes is left entirely to the observer. Abstractionism is similar, but it’s more firmly rooted in logic and its symbolic elements are meant to convey specific ideas even if they’re not immediately apparent on the surface.
Holy shit. The Crescent King turned into the Horned Serpent. I didn’t even understand what it meant when it said “the Horned Serpent Lives.” The Nixonverse being a comic book explains why the series is comic book inspired as well. What an amazing, wild ending. The callback to the Monument Mythos with the “Alcatraz Checkmate” was absolutely wild.
I like how the situation is portrayed through the board. The knight is in an unwinnable position against the Queen piece who has omnidirectional movement in contrast to the knight's very limited "L" movement. Kind of like how the D-Day knight is kind of disabled in a sense, being unable to touch or speak. The queen has all the power, even going as so far to be right next to the knight, but then the knight, through his own powers, repositions himself in a way where he can easily overtake the queen, leading to a checkmate and the Alcatraz Checkmate.
the comments are half 'this stuff was great! really loved how (insert cool or good thing)' and half 'lunarians get dunked on by the knight lololololol' and i just find that so funny
A small overlooked detail I love is that the entire conversation is English Lunar dialect of being all misspelled. Even the Knights's "THIER IS NO PROFESY THIER IS ONLEE ME" is still screwed up in terms of spelling. However, the first phrase we see, that this new world sees thats spelled correctly is "ALCATRAZ CHECKMATE" Alcatraz makes the rules, it expects you to call it by the correct name.
"It's too late, Queen. I have depicted you as the soyjak and myself as the chad. T̸͍̼̈͗H̸̯̥̀Ĕ̵̦̹R̴̯̂̍Ȅ̴̼̳ ̴͓̋I̶͉̋S̶̥̣͗̕ ̶̖̺̔̿N̶͎̲̆̒Ō̴͚̕ ̵̮͊P̴̭͈̿͘Ŗ̴̪̇O̸̩̠̕P̵͈̈͠H̶̛͖͐E̶̮͂̚C̸̙͔͌Ỹ̶̠".
On a meta level, the audio not containing Ed Dwight's voice is absolutely true as it's not him speaking but instead a voice actor playing Ed Dwight. I think the multiple takes of his line at the beginning is a nod to this, which also plays into the deeper narrative of fictionalization.
“so this whole thing was just one big Monument Mythos then, eh?”
-Richard Nixon
then the guy criyng with the violins XD
He didn't say that.
We are in the verse of nixon?
Omg is that folk in the corner!?
@@Keygentlemen shhhhh let him have his moment
I really loved when he said "Its Nixoin time" and Nixoned all over Ed Dwight. Such a powerful moment
An Alcatraz Checkmate is when you look your opponent in the eye, shout "There is no prophecy! There is only me!" and violently upend the board. It is very difficult to pull off and requires patience and subtly.
You also have to understand Alcratraz Matter and restore the human language in just 9 months and your enemy must disinteragate in order to work
"He's like a trump card, if the card literally flipped the table over and shot the other player!"
And you also have to detonate a hydrogen bomb in your oppents face
"Do you know why I always win at chess? Cause I have a secret move. I kick over the board!"
Deep blue famously used this move to defeat Gary Casperove
the d-day knight basically saying “FUCK YOUR PROPHECY”, erasing literally every trace of the lunarians in one go with the ALCATRAZATTACK theme returning, and it being titled “ALCATRAZ CHECKMATE” has to be the single coolest thing in this entire series. love you mister manticore
Yeah. That was easily my favorite part lmao. I loved the whole concept of Alcatraz since the beginning, and it was lovely to hear the theme come back and to see Alcatraz do what it does best again lmao
"alcatraz checkmate" and "in my world, statues had souls" are the two parts of the nixonverse that hit hardest imo
I’m also a huge fan of Alcatrazosis being the Lunarians’ weakness. It’s like a multiversal Colombian Exchange, because in this timeline it’s an entirely unknown form of disease. And considering it’s from a different universe entirely, of course everything in the Nixonverse would be super weak to it, including the Lunarians.
Honestly didn't thought that an analog horror will have epic moment 😂
Yessir
Real-Life Ed Dwight is gonna find this sooner or later and be super confused
What do you mean, “real-life?”
@@maplebob23 ed dwight is an actual dude
That’s OK we’re doing him a favor by having him remember
@@maplebob23 he means this timeline's Ed Dwight. He has a counterpart in our world, didn't you know? He was a test pilot that was rejected for the space program in our universe, but apparently was accepted in the Nixonverse. In our timeline, he later became a sculptor
Or remember everything
“In our world, Ed Dwight never went to the moon.”
“Instead, he created monuments”
Holy shit, dude!
I mean. Our Ed Dwight is a sculptor, so..
Imagine if I said a sentance
well this shit got crazier
He just made regular monuments tho. He didn't have anything to do with the serpent or the trees. Ed is a good dude. I refuse to believe anything else 😂
I wish I were smart enough to know why this has any meaning, lol
“Alcatraz checkmate” has gotta be the coldest name for a killer move in the context of this universe
That sounds like some fighting game shit and I love it.
I said it in my Mortal Kombat voice 💀
When I heard the monument mythos music I just smiled, I swear that Monument Mythos had a fantastic soundtrack
Such a finishing move😌
D-Day Knight Wins!
FATALITY
Grief made The Last Son a monster.
It made The Knight a hero.
And made justice for little everret
And for nixon, it made sense.
And ed dwight isn't dead
Im still confused about that. The Son wasnt the Crecrent King? And the Knight won by turning avreything into Alcatraz?
@@juliane.mfarias9285 the son is the crescant king
I like how, no matter what, Alcatraz always comes back and pulls an Alcatraz
And on the finale again too
Alcatraz did haha funny thanos snap on lunarians
I heard fire does the trick
He said "IT'S ALCATRAZING TIME!"
and literally Alcatrazed all over them
Alcatraz: I ALWAYS COME BACK
So that explains cohesive language returning in the Knightfall episode description. Nixon managed to turn the Crescent King, Lunarian Queen, and himself into fiction; defeating them like what he intended to do.
I guess he took the form of Ed Dwight and rewrote history to cancel out his death and be the man we all know and anticipate his confusion with the series.
So, who's gonna tell to real life Ed Dwight that, in this story, he's actually god disguised as a man it killed?
Nah the D-DAY KNIGHT was the one who iced the Queen.
lunarian: "join us, and become our pri-"
knight: "JOIN DEEZ NUTS IN YOUR MOUTH GRAHHH!"
*alcatraz checkmate*
It will be better if they spoke in Lunarians language
@@alifakbar4232 joyn uz ahnd behcom our pry-
JOYN NOTZ IN YER MOWTH
@@lord_bobanewname4069 GRAAA!!
@@Phomehom alkatras chekmte
This actually reminds me of Last Thursdayism. How are we so sure that everything wasn't created last Thursday and the memories we had weren't implanted into our heads? How are we sure that Nixon didn't erase history and rewrote it in a "normal" manner?
thanks for that existentialism 🗿
There is only the house in your head.
I see you also watched that conspiracy theory iceberg.
Cause I was there two Thursday’s ago and I didn’t see no Nixon
@@memeconnoisseur4377stop please
"It's a shame that Alice Avenue died of ligma"
"Woo's Alis?"
*"L i g m a b a l l s"*
_The Knight and the Queens last conversation_
"ALCATRAZ "
"Alkatras?"
"ALCATRAZ THESE NUTS ACROSS YOUR FACE"
“our prophecy guarantees this”
“PROPHECY MY ASS”
*drops the alcatraz attack theme*
@@arempy5836 😰
Bro really said :🌩👨🏿🌩in time and 🌩👨🏿🌩ed all over thrm
Woo's Alis?"
"L i g m a b a l l s" "T h o m a s L u g a t t i"
Well Well Well, The dead children I read about yours ago Beyond Top Secret web site from "FATE Magazine" a Austrialian or ever what them other places on the Upside Down Part of the Earth . This whole think is as if Thomas Logetti oration when he speaks of millions of creepy 'Small Peoples" who suck the Murmurous Thinking Brains whose thoughts become transient offal as of Swine Squeels and Rectumns Regurgations in that ungly little town where the 'Smalls" are as Ticks and Insects are the Internal Parts eyes of Black Widowe Spiders similatouse attack ....&tc
I was born in 1949, this brings back memories of School Drills in 1956 in 2nd. Grade.
When that alcatraz beat dropped I knew it was gonna get real
Monument Mythos: What if George Washington was a big monster
Nixonverse: American civic religion corrupts those innocent and naive enough to believe and dedicate itself to the national project, and the same storytelling used to create the dangerous myth of American exceptionalism is the same weapon that creates the facade of a safe and peaceful world which keeps us sane, but at the expense of erasing those true heroes who kept us safe
Cornerfolk: What if guys were small
Monument mythos: the title given to Washington is taken literally, he is the embodiment of what America really is under the surface, a monster that eats the poor, the sick, and outcast to fuel itself for another few decades
Real
House in the ocean: there's a house in that there ocean no wait its a moon man everyone is DEAD!
Trinity Desk: What If a desk was invisible
MISTERMANTICORE: here's some goofy looking medieval drawings of monster with a sick ass backing track while we distort and violently move said images
THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is how you stick the landing.
Phenomenal work
I will always be impressed with how Mr Manticor works their finales, it both wraps up the project so nicely and gives you reason to go back and find the details from before
Wait is this the last episode of this series?
@@tripod_boi2056 perhaps the last one of this "season." Seasons 1 and 2 were both 11 episodes long.
How was everyone just understand this story so clearly? I watched the entire series AND a 3 hour analysis video on CZcams and still don’t understand anything…
I love how this channel went from panicked:
"Oh my God! What's that coming out of the Statue of Liberty"!?!
To unflinching:
"Well, of course Richard Nixon is God...who would even have the audacity to question that"?
Yeah, wendigoon didn’t want to sound like a conspiracy theorist during his mythos video.
*I don’t think he has a choice now*
If it weren't for Wendigoon, I wouldn't have even known about this series.
@@travisashmore6620 same here!!!! just as i was trying to remember how i found monsier manticore, i came across this reply....huh...
Loved the part where he said: "We have to make a monumental myth out of this Nixon Universe" 🤯🤙💪🔥📝
I loved the part when the knight said “You’re about to face an Alcatraz Apocalypse”
@@can-xe5ub absolute fire
The part where Nixon said "It's shootin' time" and started shooting all over the house was my favorite
Holy shit he kinda did though
@@derphunk5338 thats the neat part
Crescent King: "Don't turn me into a marketable comic book!"
Nixon: *turns them all into marketable comic books*
Dude someone NEEDS to show this series to Ed Dwight!!
I’m sure he’d be incredibly confused, but honored that he would be revered in such a fashion.
Now that it's pinned, Manticore'll probably show it to him
I wonder why he included Ed Dwight as one of the main characters (if not the main character)
same energy as TNO fans saying "Show him the mod" to people in their funny little ww2 map game mod
@@GussyBaka1972 YES just like TNO fans, unfortunately for TNO fans most of the characters in TNO are now dead. The closet we could have got was Dimity Yazov, only for him to died early in 2020 just before TNO was out. So I could see Nixonverse Fan having the chance to show this to Dwight
@@TheDudeWithTheHatN2 well Andreas Meyer-Landrut (funny reformist in ostland) is alive so.........
gigachad knight destroys the lunarians. nixon turns everyone into a comic book. wonderful.
Even when he's not Batman, Batman saves the universe again.
imagine going through all that trouble just to be turned into a comic book that some fat guy is gonna spend a few hours reading lol.
Then Ed Dwight is Omegachad
@@jackroberts2704 i still dont understand what ed did that depicts him as god
virgin loser king weeps
It just occurred to me that the title, "The Ed Dwight Paradox", is probably a play on "The Flashpoint Paradox", the DC Comics story that served to completely reset DC's superhero universe.
with the parallels to superman you’re probably spot on
Or the Crisis.
oh it 100% is. good catch.
oh shit. I didn't even consider that.
@@mywifesboyfriend5558 The entire series with this in mind would therefore be referencing Crisis of Infinite Earths, the Serpent perhaps referencing the Anti-Monitor and Nixon with his manner and speech I would assume to be Pariah.
Mister Manticore is an absolute master of storytelling. He continuously subverts expectations and manages to leave you with a dropped jaw by the end. Each episode leaves you wanting for more, and gives room for interpretation for the fans. If he manages to become a full-time film maker for cinematic-type movies, I sure as hell would pay to see them. Thanks for the dedication, M.M.
And his editing gives me nightmares even though its not ment to be scary
the Knight screaming was such a good twist even though it's movements foreshadowed it being aggressive
Omg I know right! Legit amazing!!
If this is the finale of everything: bravo. That's how you end a series. Congratulations Alex/ Manticore/ whatever. This has been quite a ride.
I don't think the series is truly over. This season is over, but I don't think the series is.
@@benrickinmarks3639 theres still a few questions left anyway, who is the person in CORNERGIRL, what does MISTERMANTICORE have to do with this, and most importantly, what would James Dean say about this?!
@@Alchem0re “I’m surprised.”
The season is over, at the end it says come again soon.
@@benrickinmarks3639 i still think there's one more, every season of MM is 12 episodes long, this was 11 episodes long. i could be dum but thats what i think
I knew the Cresent would become Horns!
I teared up with a huge smile at the end of this. I’m so utterly overjoyed you acknowledged the real Ed Dwight, a brilliant and heroic man in both fiction and even more so real life. Go look up his monuments, it’s so worth it.
This was a real trip you took us on, Mister Manticore, thanks for exploring this little corner of your own universe.
that wasn’t the crescent king tho. it was the knight still grieving
@@sussystories Nope, that was Crescent
Knight lost his helmet, and even if he had it back, the horns are different.
The scene is clearly made to trick you into seeing the Crescent shape so when he stands up you see that they are actually horns.
Also, if it was Knight then Crescent gets no conclusion and Nixon doesn't have a reason to fictionalize everything.
@@Mortimer_RS you gotta be kidding…
The Crescent King got turned into fiction. That was his conclusion. The Knight was turning into a monster aka The Horned Serpent so he doesn’t even need his helmet back. Oh and also “The Horned Serpent lives” was used in both The Ed Dwight Paradox and The D-Day Knight.
If you really think that’s Crescent King after all the evidence then that makes you really dumb.
@@sussystories Yeah but that's kinda weak since all three are part of Nixon, there technically a part of the horned serpent idk
@@sussystories "Up in the sky, it's a bird is a plane" is used in both The Last Son of Alcatraz and D-Day Knight, that doesn't mean they both are the same entity, the repetition of phrases is made to create parallelism.
Getting erased from history IS NOT a conclusion if we don't get to see their last moments, it's anticlimactic, and Mister Manticore is not like that, also, all of the entities got fictionalized according to Nixon, not only Crescent King.
D-Day Knight doesn't have shape shifting abilities apart from changing size and when Alcatraz Matter gets unstable, he can't generate Horns out of nothing.
Also, the horns clearly have a crescent shape in a certain angle, different from Horned Serpent's horns, that are plane.
Also, from a narrative point of view "Crescent abomination stands up and it turns out it has horns now" it's more effective that "guy with horns stand up and surprisingly has horns"
Mister Manticore doesn't do anything obvious, he likes to make an impression.
And lastly, D-Day Knight doesn't have a reason to cry and not wanting to live anymore, he just felt grief when he killed Alice in a outburst of rage, Last Son has more reasons, as he was constantly used as a mere weapon, when he only wanted to help people.
It is ACTUALLY crazy how not once, not twice, but nearly FIVE TIMES that a final episode has slotted everything into place so perfectly after months of bizarre and spiraling conspiracy-esque theories and videos. Bravo again and again! Encore!
I don't think this is the end, even if it feels like it to some extend. There is still one loose end - House in the Ocean. All Nixonverse episodes bar that one are all set within 20th century Nixonverse and retall the events of that time. But HitO is set firmly in 21st century. While alot of it was a cover story and doesn't connect with the rest of the series, like about Obama and other presidents shooting houses, one thing remained relevant - the House. And so the question remains - what brought Crescent King from fiction back in to (their) reality?
@@user-kt3qs9ki8p Alex brought the urban legend back, and that's why Manticore ate him 😎 jk
@@user-kt3qs9ki8p This is actually a great question. Perhaps Nixon actually fictionalised the world during the 21st century. The Last Son could have been turned into the Crescent King during the 21st century, too. After all, we never really get a date past the Vietnam War.
@@Dynamo33 Oh true, but doesn't the Crescent King essentially shapeshift into the Horned Serpent? So is it possible after some soul searching in various forms he goes about life as a normal dude, before the visions of the Crescent king as seen in the House in the Ocean's final episodes returns him back to being the Crescent King? Or I'm way off base and this story has truly confused me.
@@GuyShōtō I'm not sure he's shapeshifted. I believe we were just misinterpreting the shape of his head before, and he always was just a horned giant. I don't know where you got the idea that he ever turned back into a normal person. All the madness that happened within the past 3 or 4 episodes take place within the time that the Last Son was turned into the Crescent King or, as we know now, the Horned Serpent.
Looking at the Chess metaphor I like how the moves track with what's happening.
The Queen slides up to the Knight where, by the rules, he cannot harm her; only escape or be claimed, due to the way Knights move. By the rules she is safe and winning, as the Prophecy dictates. And then the Knight _breaks_ the rules like he supposedly breaks Fate, moves around outside his turn, and places himself where he can claim the Queen once he lets the rules reassert.
Alcatraz Checkmate indeed.
I like the part where the Knight said "It's knighting time." and then he knighted all over the lunarians.
SO TRUE
It subtlety reminds me of a great piece of media where the Main character “breaks the bad”. Great that manticore is including references to other media
Agreed
it was the most moment in the whole series
Yes
I have a theory I made only after watching AFTERANGEL
The narrator at the end who says "In our world, Ed Dwight never went to the moon..." is *not* referring to our reality.
By "our world" she was referring to the Deanverse. She is talking to citizens of the Deanverse, or rather, a Deanverse that never ended. This video is an Ed Dwight paradox. AFTERANGEL and ANGELASHES are the paradox of MM. How can a world that ended still be alive? Nixon fictionalized the Nixonverse, only for it to be fiction in the deanverse - the very reality he escaped from. This would explain why Dwight Comics exist within the Monument Mythos universe.
So the Nixonverse is really our universe. But just our own history was erased and rewritten
No, because now its fiction, it never happened ;)
What history?
@@juicyparsons Call it "backstory" now.
@@cesarcl317 But because some of it was preserve and the narrator has some knowledge of it and this universe, I don't think it's fiction in the story
The trees Probably still exist in “our” universe. But either so few or just we’ll hidden.
"I'M GONNA GO HIGHER. I'M PISSING ON THE MOON!" -The Knight
“HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT NIXON? I PISSED ON THE MOON, YOU IDIOT!!!”
- Also The Knight, probably
@@sassin5759 “YOU ALL HAVE 23 HOURS UNTIL THE PISS DRRRROPLETS HIT THE FUCKING EARTH! NOW GET OUT OF MY SIGHT BEFORE I PISS ON YOU TOO!”
Lol
"This world will be fictionalized."
Me: Amazing work Mr. Dwight, you're a brilliant writer.
"There is no prophecy. There is only me." -The Knight
"The only man in the sky is me." -Homelander
Same energy
One man’s sky
My early interpretation holds with this video. The horned serpent is a metaphysically massive being, which stretches through universes and the Great Division was able to sever a piece of him like in Ben Franklin’s “Join or Die”
He lives, and is angry because we keep hurting him. It’s probable that the Horned Serpent isn’t even evil, he just exists and humans keep trying to tap into his power in multiple universes, like the Maize attack in the Deanverse.
i’ve always had that thought in mind, the serpent is only a casualty caused by the trees; there was no malevolent force. only outside forces like humans tapping into its metaphysical gateways chalking up to the great division. it truly makes humanity, in this sense, a true force of mass destruction
Now is the time for us to start power scaling the dean verse
@@mattmetawolf8634 Let's not.
But it makes sense also that the knight is basically the horn serpent and and the lunarians and the sun all a part of Nixon is just a small little part that broke off of the serpent and at the end of the day the one that was the most in tune with the serpent pretty much was not going along with Nixon’s little schemes in fact I think for the longest period of time the D day knight started to go more haywire and considering that he has godlike abilities he chose to speak for the horn serpent in that moment and let them know that Nixon is not going to tell me how my life plays out there is no prophecy there is only me and I guess whatever he did he took back whatever little power he had and basically caused another Alcatraz out break But my God I can’t be surprise that it wrapped up the way that it did
@@sicIico exactly. I even think the trees are appendages of the serpent, like when Everett says “the trees are not trees” and the reason “wonderland” is actually called the horned serpent metastructure is because it’s “inside” his own space.
With this interpretation humans are the villain of this story, he’s just a big eldritch noodle that we keep screwing with and it’s not his fault he’s angry.
You mess with the bull you get the horns, but in this case instead of a bull it’s an unknowable lovecraftian being.
Ed Dwight is finally going to space! He’s on the passenger list for this year’s first manned spaceflight mission, the Blue Origin New Shepard NS-25.
This gives me vibes from the time in 2011 that people thought the world would end in 2012 and the when it didn't happen conspiracy theorists started thinking that it did end and we live in a fake world.
Haha WHAT? That's hilarious
Yep
It was a lot of people too
Who says it didn't?
After the Hadron Collider was used in 2012, many changes happened in our world. The entire timeline may have shifted.
We are NOT what we were supposed to be.
@@thegoldenchronicle8505 Oh hello there, man Mister Manticore is just amazing.
Loved it when the Knight said “It’s Alcatrazing time!” and Alcatrazed all over the Lunarian Empire.
"I'm gonna Alcatraz!"
That sounded very wrong ngl
OH GOD IM GONNA ALCATROOZ
True, it may have topped when the Cresent king went "It's Cresin' time!" And Crested all over the language
This comment section 💀
I like how at 6:45 there's the text "Ed Dwight was twice the god that Nixon could ever be", tying back to when Nixon said that Dean was "Already a better president than I could ever be".
I also think that the “Nixon is no god” is meant to parody the “Dean is no man” thing.
Nixon somehow could never be the MAN in any universe bruh
Reading “Alcatraz Checkmate” gave me goosebumps
Edit: why does the queen of the lunarians speak in comic sans “LiKe ThIs” and the d day knight speaks in bold impact font
same here
Ok hear me out, it made me laugh historically because I love the idea of the knight just expanding like a cell and eating all the ships
@@jamwrightiam I take it you meant "hysterically"? Or is this a stealth pun?
@@Kiss_My_Aspergers I mean yes but also no but I'm keeping it anyways
Not as much as "The Horned Serpent Lives"
THEIR IS NO PROFESY
THIER IS ONLEE ME
Best line delivery this entire series
That video of the crescent king crying felt do Horrifying and weird and just unearthly one of the best moments manticore has ever put to film
I heard the AlcatrazAttack music and I screamed in excitement and fear. Like a feeling of concern and joy. I knew the power that Alcatraz had and it scared me deeply to a level that is contained.
So this is it. The Nixonverse is over? Fascinating. I absolutely enjoyed this series. It offered something unique to the community, bringing a stunning Analog Superhorror to life!
Fantastic job to everyone who was involved in this. Amazing job good sir.
What does the future hold? I’m not sure. Maybe I will see more in the next life. Thanks for this…
i think their is one more episode, monument mythos seasons have been 12 episodes long, and nixonverse is only 11 rn, i think the future we'll see more survivors and what happened to the cornerfolk.
@@chubbs912 Unfortunately, the playlists for both seasons of the Monument Mythos had 12 videos each: 11 main videos and 1 trailer for the series, usually released after the series is complete. The text at the end credits also confirms this to be the end. “Thanks for visiting the Nixonverse. Come again soon”
1:50 woah the reuse of monument mythos music, and especially the ALCATRAZATTACK one kinda sent a chill to me
I got goose bumps from it and it was great but surprising hearing it again
So glad that I’m not the only one who recognised that music
It’s actually pretty good
Oh hey, you're the guys from the Siivagunner and other rippers comment sections :D
I’ll be honest, when the Alcatraz Demo music appeared, I had that feeling that I assume people get when they revealed a new character in Smash.
I don’t know if that’s accurate, but I know that the Nixonverse and the Deanverse are link, I’m just saying that it’s been so long since we’ve had a direct connection between the two again that it felt like a sudden crossover.
Can I say the sequence of the Crescent King crying is seriously some absolutely fantastic horror. It really just speaks for itself with his context, and the audio and great visuals of such a powerful and giant being literally on his knees just weeping, that's something I will always just straight up adore about your work. I expected some sort of fight with the king, but instead seeing how he's always been his own enemy, that speaks way more, and is ahell lot more disturbing. Fantastic work all around
It's not the Crescent King, it's the Dark Knight fully transformed into the Horned Serpent
It reminds me of the lyrics to David Bowie's 'The Supermen'.
"When all were minds in unithought
Powers weird by mystics taught
No pain, no joy, no power to right
Colossal strength to grasp at fate
Where sad-eyed mermen tossed in slumbers
Nightmare dreams no mortal mind could hold
Man would tear his brother's flesh
A chance to die, to turn to mould."
@@Samuello2024 I'm pretty sure that's the Crescent King.
@@ciannagle2117 2:21 The text clearly shows that it's the D-Day knight, the same ones we saw in Knightfall and in his first sighting, plus you can tell the difference between the Horned Serpent and the Crescent King, Crescent king has a white body, and his Moon shaped Mouth faces forward, as for the Horned Serpent has it's horns pointed to the sky.
@@Samuello2024 well you could argue that the phrase "grief made him a monster" could also apply to the king, as in he could be grieving over the loss of the lunarians or from being used as a weapon. As for his body, the only times he is seen white is in THITO and in the Nixon is god artwork, in most other appearances he has a black body.
Best way to sum this series up in a line: "All of that happened, and then None of that happened."
I am truly amazed that MM turned this move twice.
Nixonverse was The Return to the Monument Mythos' Twin Peaks. Very weird, didn't really understand it but consistently creepy and inspired. Bravo 👏
meh there's a reason these got less views than monument mythos.
@@99survivabilityratepandemi81 To be fair, most of the Monument Mythos episodes are a year old with some turning 2 years old soon while the Nixonverse episodes started 3 months ago so obviously the Monument Mythos episodes are going to have more views.
@@EPICboyGamer-kl3ep and the MM videos have tons of promotion from other big CZcamsrs
Nixonverse is Monument Mythos in a matter of speaking
@@loganknox7 I will do my best to get Wendigoon to come back for this now that its done
Nixonverse is just one big convoluted advertisement for irl Ed Dwight's art.
maybe the "not the voice of ed dwight" is saying that the person speaking is not ed dwight, but a voice actor portraying ed dwight. since we have multiple clips of him saying it in different emotions, like he's taking multiple takes to see what works well for the scene
i think this fits the "fictionalizing the world" thing
I will miss this universe greatly. Thank you, Mister Manticore, for your incredible work.
There is still one more episode to go since there should be 12 in every season
@@dapurpleoctipie9824 the 12th episode for monument mythos season 1 and 2 were trailers so i think this is the end for nixonverse atleast
this was pretty weak compared to monument mythos tbh.
@@99survivabilityratepandemi81 tbf monument mythos had 2 seasons to expand itself but yes, the firsts episodes of nixonverse were a little lackluster
@@99survivabilityratepandemi81 true, i was expecting a few more episodes before the final, i suppose it depends on whats going on in manticors personal life.
Now Mister Manticore just needs to release a physical copy of the Nixonverse comic, and then the circle will be completed!
You're living it.
Gotta get Ed Dwight in on it too
D-Day Knight went out like a badass!
"There is no prophecy, There is only me!!"
*Proceed to use Explosion Wave*
IT'S VERY EFFECTIVE
Dude really pulled a "No God. The only man in the sky... is me"
I think the Son and the Knight are two sides of the same coin. They both start out as heroes who intervene in wars and save people. Then they both go through immeasurable trauma and they make mistakes that they regret. The Son becomes one of the most dangerous beings in existence, but the Knight chooses to become a hero again. It's almost like we're watching one man go down two different paths.
If I’m reading this correctly, Nixon basically did a hard reset on everything (possibly influenced/persuaded by Dwight?), leaving only Ed Dwight with his memories. Kinda sounds like one of the resets DC would do sometimes haha
Holy shit! then that means Ed Dwight is Psycho Pirate! The entirety of Alcatraz Apocalypse was basically Alex’s Crisis on Infinite Earths. In the DC canon, after the universe reset for the third time (DC Rebirth), only one character remembers the old universe, a character known as Psycho Pirate. He is somehow able to remember the golden age comics and all the way up to the new DC universe. Ed Dwight could be that character in this scenario.
Ooh! And another tidbit actually, the title is a reference to the Flashpoint Paradox, one of DC’s resets where it explores alternate universes/timelines. Thanks TVTropes hehe
@@lopiditty oh my god! I’m convinced now that the Nixonverse is one of the infinite earths in the DC multiverse.
I think the best part about the Alcatraz Checkmate is the fact he not only moves into a valid position for his piece to move
The Knight also moves twice in the same turn, mfer really wasn’t bound to the rules afterall :)
He also did it in such a way that it would kill the queen in chess terms
Shout-out to our hero Ed Dwight who finally got to go to space at 90 years old a few days ago. He was part of the Blue Origin crew. Absolute gem of a human being.
I like how canonically the D-DAY KNIGHT is frank sinatra
To protect the future, he destroyed the past. Belief is a powerful thing.
Edit: Luna: Join us Knight, and we can rule together
Knight: release restraint level zero
Luna: Level what?
ALCATRAZ CHECKMATE
According to your sentence and lore, deanverse Ed Dwight is main villain of the entire story.
And I agree.
Was that a Hellsing reference?
@@user-kt3qs9ki8p Yes
@@blackgoat9826 villain?
@@angelarce9747 Since he made monuments, he most likely gave those monuments a life, a purpose, am I right?
I'm so astounded by the D-Day Knight redeeming himself from his grief. It goes to show that the D-Day Knight kept true to his word at the end, moved on from his grief, freed the world from the Lunarians, and helped preserved human life despite the fact they were also not kind to him at the end.
This whole continuation has left me absolutely mind boggled, even more than the original videos
I rarely get emotional over internet content, but for some reason that final monologue always chokes me up. In a world of eldritch monsters and vast cosmic forces, it’s an ordinary, kind person that overturns it all. The Monument Mythos is often absurd and bizarre, but it’s the heart running through it all that really makes it worthwhile.
“Ed Dwight was twice the God that Nixon could ever be. He was bold, he was kind, he was good”
0:50 "they've gone up the ventilation shaft"
"Even their peace equation is an inequality" why did it take me so long to get that she wasn't talking about how the equation is inherently inequal but rather how it's literally an inequality equation
So the D-Day Knight actually fights the Queen and destroys all Lunarians forces, ending their hijacking of Americans’ brains and biology and leaving the King all alone on Earth, spurring Nixon to effectively erase and rewrite history as to prevent himself and the other three from ever regaining power, all while martyrizing Ed Dwight in the process.
-Alex Kansas- Mister Manticore you never cease to amaze and entertain
The Knight actually turned out better then the others, as he remains a hero of a sort. While he killed Alice, it was an accident he regretted. He goes on to defeat the Lunarians and restore language, just like Alice wanted him too.
See, Knight? That was all Alice wanted you to do, save the country from the Lunarians. You didn't need to drop her off a building for talking about the Son.
So is Nixonverse America also gonna get replaced by Alcatraz material or...
Alcatraz is fiction now (or always was?or Is?) so no
Lmao, he thought she was already good enough, and when he dropped her, he was sure she would fly like him too, but as she started to fall closer to the road, it was too late, *uh oh, bad decision Knight*
The Horned Serpent lives.
He does not want to live.
He will not stop crying.
Grief made him a monster.
The horned serpent is still such a threat in a sense that I believe it will always be present in any new iteration of the universe
all because George washington wanted to cut down an apple tree
"This World...will be...Fictionalized"
E-excuse me?
Wait... the nixonverse is real?
Nixon: well yes but no
He basically archived time
My theory is It is a way to explain how the nixonverse is actually OUR universe.
Becomes a marketable world
How it started: Ha ha, Alcatraz is a literal prison cell
How it ended: ALCRATAZ CONSUMES ALL
Truly a beautiful series, thank you Mr Manticore for this great work of art!
"Come rule with u-"
"BUT DID I ASK THO?!"
**ANGRY BUZZING**
"YOUR PROPHECY DOESN'T MEAN SHIT, GET ALCATRAZ'D"
-D-Day Knight
THE ALCATRAZ THEME HOLY SHIT
he finally went to space
It ends not with a bang, but a rebranding
(Edited by Ed Dwight)
This was honestly one of the best from a already great series. The part when the D-Day Knight says "There is no prophecy. There is only me" was fucking cool
"There is no prophecy. There is only me." That line stuck with me even after this was taken down.
"Maybe the real Mythos was the Monuments we made along the way"
- Buzz Aldrin
1:47 So THIS is how the horsey moves!
Dude this whole series including the monument mythos must have taken so long to think and make cause it’s all so good man
When 5:23 hit I thought we might be getting comic book merch lol. I'd consider buying that if Mister Manticore somehow arranged it.
As per usual, great work! Looking forward to what happens next.
D-Day knight: *blows up universe with mind*
lunarians:our fuckin universe
1:52
The sheer disrespect in that move was satisfying as hell.
Lunarian queen: "wi mut fulfil te pr-"
D-day knight: "SHUT UP BITCH! アルカトラズの爆発! [ALCATRAZ BLAST]!"
“Join us, and become a prince”
“YOUR MOTHER HUNG HERSELF, RAAAAAAAGHHHH!!”
D-Day Knight went from villain to hero in one single strike. That's epic!
I'm gonna watch this a bit later with some questionable substances, but I just wanted to get a high five from the Manticore, the Myth, and the Legend.
So how did it go?
That screen name is outta control 🤣💀
I think I actually need to STOP watching these high lol
Maybe I could piece it better together if I was stone sober 😂
i just did this, and DAMN, it hits different
@@thefacethatstares I know!! Me too lol
This whole series is excellent I actually like how they're not necessarily in order 😁
I'm so late but I can't get over how the United States is flipped upside down like how the alternate timelines are flips of each other, as seen as the mirrored wonderlands
The lil touches are just so good
Based off of the map shown, the Queen confronted the Knight around lower Illinois. Small detail that i found from slowing down the video.
I absolutely LOVED how before Alcatraz Alcatrazed all over the place, Alex put the music from the original video.
I love how music from past videos are brought up, and in this case, with reverb too!
*ALCATRAZ CHECKMATE* is the funniest random shit phrase i have ever heard, dont ask me why
Does this count as surrealist horror
Pretty much.
More abstract than surreal. True surrealism is meant to be as pure an expression of the subconscious mind as possible, so it frequently defies any logic or concrete meaning. It’s often heavy on symbolism that tries to evoke emotions, but interpretation of those symbols and what emotions it evokes is left entirely to the observer. Abstractionism is similar, but it’s more firmly rooted in logic and its symbolic elements are meant to convey specific ideas even if they’re not immediately apparent on the surface.
Your name certainly does.
@@Kiss_My_Aspergers So is your name surrealist humor?
@@monstermaker73 Hmm... yes! I think it would count. Or maybe Absurdist? That's a thing, right?
Holy shit. The Crescent King turned into the Horned Serpent. I didn’t even understand what it meant when it said “the Horned Serpent Lives.”
The Nixonverse being a comic book explains why the series is comic book inspired as well. What an amazing, wild ending. The callback to the Monument Mythos with the “Alcatraz Checkmate” was absolutely wild.
I like how the situation is portrayed through the board. The knight is in an unwinnable position against the Queen piece who has omnidirectional movement in contrast to the knight's very limited "L" movement. Kind of like how the D-Day knight is kind of disabled in a sense, being unable to touch or speak. The queen has all the power, even going as so far to be right next to the knight, but then the knight, through his own powers, repositions himself in a way where he can easily overtake the queen, leading to a checkmate and the Alcatraz Checkmate.
Here and there with the Queen's Gambit and all that nonsense when you can pull out an Alcatraz checkmate like the cool kids. 😎
Knight really said “Checmait bich!”
I don't know how you managed to make me feel even slightly bad for a giant eldritch horror with a crescent head but here we are. Congrats! 🎊
the comments are half 'this stuff was great! really loved how (insert cool or good thing)' and half 'lunarians get dunked on by the knight lololololol' and i just find that so funny
A small overlooked detail I love is that the entire conversation is English Lunar dialect of being all misspelled. Even the Knights's "THIER IS NO PROFESY THIER IS ONLEE ME" is still screwed up in terms of spelling. However, the first phrase we see, that this new world sees thats spelled correctly is "ALCATRAZ CHECKMATE"
Alcatraz makes the rules, it expects you to call it by the correct name.
"It's too late, Queen. I have depicted you as the soyjak and myself as the chad. T̸͍̼̈͗H̸̯̥̀Ĕ̵̦̹R̴̯̂̍Ȅ̴̼̳ ̴͓̋I̶͉̋S̶̥̣͗̕ ̶̖̺̔̿N̶͎̲̆̒Ō̴͚̕ ̵̮͊P̴̭͈̿͘Ŗ̴̪̇O̸̩̠̕P̵͈̈͠H̶̛͖͐E̶̮͂̚C̸̙͔͌Ỹ̶̠".
On a meta level, the audio not containing Ed Dwight's voice is absolutely true as it's not him speaking but instead a voice actor playing Ed Dwight.
I think the multiple takes of his line at the beginning is a nod to this, which also plays into the deeper narrative of fictionalization.
DWIGHTVERSE LETS GOOOOOO