A Complete Guide to The Cloverfield Franchise
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- Clover? Aliens? Multiple dimensions? TIDO Wave? Seabed's Nectar? Bold Futura? Slush-o? Chuai Station? Jamie and Teddy? Tagruato?
All the mysteries explained, and all your questions answered, about Cloverfield.
00:00 Intro
02:30 The Movies Summarized
05:39 Stuff You Missed in the Movies
10:38 The ARG - Cloverfield
18:44 The ARG - 10 Cloverfield Lane
20:03 The ARG - The Cloverfield Paradox
21:14 The Kishin Manga
22:55 The Blu-ray - Special Investigation Mode
23:39 Statements from the Creators
24:27 Fan Content
25:37 The Biggest Mysteries Explained
33:40 The Full Story
39:03 Mystery Box Review
42:41 Conclusion
Huh, I guess we accidentally made an iceberg video.
Thanks to @elitefreakozoid for help with the theory-crafting.
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Some relevant links (links with an asterisk are no longer accessible without the Wayback Machine):
www.tagruato.jp
www.slusho.jp
www.1-18-08.com *
jamieandteddy.com *
tidowave.com *
missingteddyhanssen.blogspot.com
www.funandprettythings.com *
www.041828.com *
Full breakdown of the Cloverfield ARG by Dylan B:
• The Cloverfield ARG - ...
• 10 Cloverfield Lane AR...
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I remember exploring the Cloverfield marketing ARG before seeing the movie in theatre. It all implied that the monster was unleashed by a Japanese company messing around at the bottom of the ocean.
Yeah it would’ve been cool as a prequel to Pacific Rim
I am old. I remember being so excited to run home after seeing Transformers to find out what that date meant and finding the website and doing the ARG and all that fun stuff I’ve done it for all the Cloverfield movies.
You're old??!?! I used to walk a mile uphill to school, both ways! Had to cross the hypodermic needle fields and swim the river of denatured alcohol just to get to the playground, which was a construction site(now known as The Pyramids at Giza). 😂😂😂
@@RealBradMiller I’m old just not that old!!! Not my fault you missed the fun of being in the theater to watch that first trailer running home to figure out what it was all about playing the ARG just having a good time with something that was new at the time you young whippersnappers know nothing about that nowadays!!!
Hey, who knows? Maybe the Cloverfield Paradox, they caused the event in Lost.
I've always loved Lost and after Cloverfield paradox came out I started thinking that the show and movies were connected somehow. Especially how they have to control a reactor/collider on the island and every time it goes off something bad/wierd/strange happens after. I didn't realize that the Drama initiative logo was in any earlier Cloverfield movies besides Paradox, unless I misunderstood that part in this video. I really enjoy how JJ Abrams connects all his works
i always thought sea bed necture was harvested from clover and thats what woke her up
Yes.
Honestly, the fact that Lane and Paradox got some gentle rewrites to fit into a similar box made for the first Cloverfield sorta kills any shared lore between them.
At best, you can say they’re all parallel stories in different universes, sorta like how Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episodes are usually self-contained, but set within an overarching “universe.” Thusly, the Cloverfield movies are self-contained, only connected by references and nods.
Also, talking about the whole “fandom might not be accurate” bit drudged up a core memory; I was sucked into the ARG as a young adult, with Cloverfield coming out a couple months before my 20th birthday, and I absolutely remember the whole “Ethan Haas Was Right” gamejacking. Good times lmao
This is incredibly well done!
I believe that the interconnected Easter eggs are mostly an afterthought to three completely separate films that were written as stand alone stories never meant to be a part of a larger universe. Abrams company optioned the scripts, filmed the movies and then afterwards added some very loose connections. These were never written as a larger shared universe.
Lol I dont think the creator even know their story timeliness is off. We need a QnA with the creator and a red shirt guy.
Almost less of a 'franchise' and more like an industry stamp that JJ Abrams puts on all of the science fiction movies he produces through Bad Robot. Everything but the first movie was a spec scrip, though. Meaning it was written independently of that franchise and just given some light re-writes to squeeze it in. Kind of like the middle run of Hellraiser movies like Inferno and Deader. Those were just generic scripts that got branded.
This. There is no cloverfield lore
Similar to what happened with True Detective: Night Country. Was its own thing, and HBO asked for it to be rewritten under the TD label. They had me all the way up until the end. I'll never understand how so many shows drop the ball at the end.
@@RealBradMiller "So many shows drop the ball at the end" American Horror Story like every season right there.
@@RealBradMillertrue detetctive was always ment to be am anthology series tho
JJ's track record makes me think that he probably has no real answer to the questions you're asking
Even if you got JJ Abrams to sit down with you, he couldn't explain everything to you because there _is_ no explanation. His problem with "Mystery Box" stories is that he creates the mystery, but never bothers to create the solution. He doesn't even care about the solution because the "mystery" is supposed to be enough to get people to watch his movies or shows. None of it is prepared, not thought goes into the reasons _why,_ he just throws everything at the wall to see what sticks.
This, pretty much. Also Marvel has made saying "it's a multiverse" and letting fans draw their own conclusions an easy and accepted way to handwave away inconsistencies, so any future movies are probably going to lean even harder on that rather than trying to actually tie everything together in any logical way.
I live near a clovercraft court that’s next to this power station and any vegetation is kudzu… building engulfing vines that grow super fast…. One time in that area I was knee deep in kudzo in the middle of the night… and it sounded like someone was belly crawling underneath the kudzo right behind me.
Scarie!!
Futura Bold is the name of a computer font that Bold Futura is written in.
You can grab three random DVDs, tape them together and call it a trilogy.
Thats the Cloverfield franchise.
Oh yeah the Cloverfield ARG was a pretty interesting thing, honestly this is where most ARG's have their roots, in movies but I can be wrong and the idea could go MUCH further back.
I think most scholars conclude that while Blair Witch has a few elements that set the stage for ARGs, Cloverfield is the one that set the pattern.
@@BlueJaguarRanger Yeah I believe that is correct on Cloverfield setting down the ground work or gave some sort of an idea for it while Blair Witch project was the one to popularize the idea of the ARG. To be honest ARGs have become a thing of their own and do so many interesting things to tell a story.
They are modern, but you would be surprised to know they have been around since around the 1900's. Yeah, blew my mind too.
Alternate sky fall theory:
That the hatched baby, looking for its mommy, or the mommy looking for its baby.
Why are there so little views for this INSANE quality. Keep up the work!
Excellent work my friend. I saw it in theaters in my senior year of high school and been obsessed ever since.
In older style video cameras you sometimes had ro set the date. If you didn't set it or set it wrong the dates may be wronf but it would keep time. So the handheld camera being a month apart is more important than the date. We are so used to our electronics keeping time we forget that years ago it was a VERY big deal to remind peoole to change all their clocks for day light savings time. So maybe they never set the date on the camera
This is what I'd like to believe.
JJs hair looks like it would make a sound like mashing up a bag of lucky charms when you pet it
Slusho appears in all 3 films is primarily to show TC existed in all 3 universe linking all 3 together.
Great vid. As someone who was trying to bf to figure this out in 2008, it is awesome to see it still alive and well.
It’s still alive indeed.
Great video man, keep up the quality. I especially love listening to videos about movies when at work and this is a great piece to listen to. You’re doing great
The debris fall to earth in to sea was a piece of the space station that was destroyed as pieces of it were sent across the Multiverse shortly after the Cloverfield monster appeared.
The fan content even if false is kinda cool as it's like a Pot luck dinner fandom with everyone contributing to the menu I feel even if false it keeps a fandom alive now if they could just state it as fan fiction than canon im all in on it tbh.
"Is Clifford the Big Red Dog a kaiju?"
This question got you a new sub!
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It's criminal that this guy has so little views! I'm glad I didn't look this over
Was not a boring part in this video at all. . . Great work and glad i ran into your channel. . .🎉💯
Big Thanx for this & all the research, it was excellent!
This channel kicks ass
Awesome video man!
Excellent content, great job my dude
The cult from the cloverfield manga is canon to the movie because the hasbro produced toy that came out with the movie has a backdrop piece of destroyed buildings and one of the windows u can see him lurking
Bravo!!! Loved this explanation of the timeline/ connections. Well done thank you for creating this.
I think some of the best stories and mediums of art, is in the story telling of the mystery box. Being dropped off in a plot that feels it’s been taking place and will continue to do so even when the credits roll. The mystery of what took place prior to a plot all the while leaving you wanting to see what would happen in the next chapter.
love the breakdown and dedication. keep it up and will wait for similar videos but for other IPs.
This was super interesting! I never got into Cloverfield because motion sickness prevented me from actually "Watching" the first movie, so this was great because I was always interested in it!
This is a satisfying enough explanation
thank you for this!! i just watched cloverfield for the first time and rewatched 10 cloverfield lane, and I was super hungry for more content. this was super informative and entertaining :)
I give this guy a lot of credit going through all of that. It seems very convoluted.
It seems convoluted because these scripts were written separately and the studio made them be cloverfield movies. All the "sequels" weren't supposed to be. That's why you can watch the sequels so independently. That's been covered by tons of film critics and admitted by the crews of the movies. 10 Cloverfield lane was meant to be a separate movie, and aside from the name has literally nothing to do with cloverfield
To be fair, this video has been done years ago by another creator.
Well done on this video Blue.
When will the actual sequel come out!!!!! I heard that they were done filming.
I hope soon… I loved the first movie
I’ve always said the clover field franchise is amazing story wise it’s a cool idea but it’s JJs films😂He’s a horrible writer but he has awesome ideas just like lost cool concept trash execution. If I was rich I would want to just buy a idea from him and just tell him to go away all I want is the idea we’ll figure the rest out😂🤣
JJ Abrams didn’t write any of the movies. He bought 3 different screenplays from 3 different independent writers. None of the screenplays had anything to do with each other. JJ Abrams is one of the biggest frauds in the industry.
@@krillin7653 oh wow makes it worse🤣Yeah idk I’ve never liked him
@@JessChillN_ yea you referenced “Lost” in your comment and that’s a perfect example. JJ is good at producing but if he has too much control over a project his work quickly turns into smoke and mirrors.
@@krillin7653well, I don't think anyone thought Lost was going to work for more than a few episodes. 😂
@@RealBradMiller that’s just factually wrong. Lost was extremely popular for the first few seasons and is regarded as one of the greatest tv series of its time. The show only became bad its last season.
Probably all happening at the same time
From your findings wouldn’t the most possible answer to who the whistleblower would be, be Randy from the tape where teddy tells his gf to listen to Randy he’ll know what to do while talking about the Japanese company possibly “hunting” him
I considered that, but it didn’t quite fit. The whistleblower is someone working undercover for Tagruato. Randy is a public facing member of TIDO Wave, with his name on the website. If Randy was the whistleblower, it would be pretty easy for Tagruato to find him out. The idea isn’t impossible, but it felt silly to say Randy was the whistleblower just because he’s the only named character anywhere near that part of the story.
Good video bro
I had no clue any of the extra stuff existed.
I've found all the movies intriguing, albeit found no real connection. This video wraps that issue up neatly. Good show!❤
This was cool video
The monster couldn’t have attacked in January…leaves on the trees
Thank you so much for this. I remember being a kid when the first movie came out with dial-up internet, it was impossible for me to keep track of the ARG. This sort of worldbuilding for a franchise is far more appealing to me than a bunch of installments. It's like being a movie archaeologist.
Have you thought of making a video about This House Has People In It? Its a really wacky and deep ARG.
im excited were getting an official sequel to the first one
All I’m gonna say is they really whiffed by not making overlord a cloverfield movie, they already referenced it in paradox and they just just wrote it into the universe just to remove it, lost faith at that point thinking they were done with the franchise 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
This is very good content, criminally underrated channel. One thing id like to point out tho, personally I think the blue line around the video is very annoying to the eye. Maybe consider making it a darker blue. Other than that keep up the good work
Just to let you know, it has been confirmed that it died in the first movie
I loved piecing together Cloverfield as a teen but watching this years after paradox came out I honestly can’t stand it. Talk about the mishandling of a concept. Part of me wishes that the original concepts for the movies were able to just stay independent of each other. Sad to see it all fall apart in the end
I’m so ready for a more capable writer to run with this franchise and tie up all these loose ends 😭
Be easy on Harold. He was married to Roseanne for over 10+ years. That would make anyone crazy
If anyone knows who Steve Zaragoza and Mike on a lil show called “Cloverfeels” best early 2010 podcast you can barley find nowadays
He was so deep into it I got lost no Diddy
I just thought of something. Baby Clover looking for it's mom, it's mom in the Cloverfield paradox was transfered to a different reality. So baby clover did not know where mommy wad
I think Cloverfield Paradox opened up multiple portals
One is where the baby alien shot out of and then landed in the ocean on earth in Cloverfield
I think at the end of Paradox that’s either the baby alien all grown up and the Cloverfield ship being gone caused a planet of the apes situation where they come back and the alien is fully grown after destroying earth because time passed differently so now it’s bigger
Or that’s the aliens mom that came out through that same portal the baby came from and went to earth herself, so they’re seeing mom who is much bigger than the baby
Or maybe Paradox opened the portal for the monster and it starts going around hitting Slusho rigs, then the thing that lands in the ocean is aliens there to kill the monster waiting until it hits the right near the city, and either it takes them longer to regroup and we don’t see them attack the monster because the cameraman dies or they intentionally wait so they don’t also have to fight the military, then Lane shows the aftermath of them killing the monster and enslaving humanity
Cloverfield Lane is either another universe or it’s just in a different area than Cloverfield 1?
So either the aliens pop out of a different portal on the other side of earth from where the alien landed and start invading from the other side and that’s why the aliens are a bigger threat than the monster, or Cloverfield Lane takes place after paradox and Cloverfield 1, we tried beating the monster(s) and failed, so aliens came in and killed them and then enslaved the rest of humanity, maybe the monster(s) left America after destroying New York and got nuked in another country, it’s still fresh news and far away which is why the aliens get to this area first
And then I think Overlord if it stayed in the universe would’ve had a post credits scene where a portal opens up and a horde of zombies go through, implying they also go to the earth of Cloverfield 1, and I think it would be cool if they come in after the aliens and take out the aliens, then you have a new Cloverfield zombie movie where groups of humans are fighting zombie Nazis and aliens and maybe a zombie Cloverfield monster pops up at the end of
Edit: Also, the reason the baby alien shot into the ocean there is because an “oil rig” hit something, it’s actually an undercover Slusho mine, they get whatever ingredient they need from somewhere deep in the ocean, maybe this is why the alien landed there, whatever they’re mining for Slusho is also a food source for the alien, I don’t think it’s sea weed or whatever, it’s something they need to mine
I wonder if that movie that came out (with Mary Elizabeth Winstead too might I add, maybe she was attached before it became standalone) where a girl could like mentally control a monster ravaging a city (I haven’t seen the movie I think it ended up being metaphorical so I could be so wrong)
Maybe that monster was originally Clover and then it became its own thing
I say this because of the comic you brought up I had never seen it before
What if the girl from Lane came back in a sequel and helped take down the monster while the survivor from Paradox (and any survivors from Overlord if it was apart of the canon) and others come together to defeat the aliens, and the zombies too or save that for another movie lol
The cloverfield movie and the paradox one were my fav and made the most sense for each other but the 10 cloverfield lane I thought was rather boring.
I always hate that these three movies are in the same franchise but just different universes.
Like you can do that with any three movies in the same genre and say "same franchise, different universes". The Cornetto Trilogy is basically that but they at least use the same actors and ice cream brand.
Literally the only thing connecting these movies is the name. the interdimentional monster species is only featured in two of these three movies.
I do like the movies though, as stand alone films.
*Theres an upcoming film which is a direct sequel to the first.*
i tink that tagurato colud be the same organisation in all the paralel dimencions
1k views for this is criminal.
I loved Kishin quite a bit. Awesome video was happy i watched this.. like number 888 i loved the popping head in a criminal fashion plus WHO CAN RESIST A TALKING JAPANESE MOOSE! also the clover lice I think mimic real lice as when I think they bite you your blood rushes to the surface I think by some I guess you could call a venom or like a chemical agent they use to feed this is what I've heard at least. I always wondered how baby clover didn't get dropped when you are dropping heavy ass bombs or 155mm shells I've seen overseas what 155mm shell blasts do to a human body I don't think it might one shot one kill clover but a round to the forehead or hell the eye? It would redirect itself back to the sea god forbid they use white phosphorus or flechettes ripping like steel darts.
20:39 Oh! So that was a Mark Stambler interview from a different timeline!? How did it cross over before the ship did what it did, though?
I don't know if I'm being odd but Tagruato doesn't sound all that Japanese to me but I'm prob mistaken. Kinda like the Yutani in Weyland-Yutani they sound hyper fictitious I mean I connect named from those in Japanese media such as music, games, anime/manga, politics, modern and feudal warfare I just have never seen in my 40 years a Tagruato or Yutani.
Did no one point out that according to the lore of Cloverfield, Clover, The monster, was from Earth and was awoken by Japan, and I know I sound like a nerd.
😮Bro who jizzed on the ice machine
Why not make the numbering system for the universes is confusing is the movie's timelines?
A,1,chi(X), delta(∆),ichi(-)
In 10 clover field lane tangarato is messing with deep space communication.
Monster ? Satellite ?
Dammm, I always thought that it was the survivors from the Station or something;
as the Cloverfield_Paradox's last scene resembles pretty much what we saw falling into the ocean in Cloverfield_2008;
The "Mother" looking for her "baby" also would add up to that (in the last seconds of the last scene).
But yeah... Guess I was wrong. Thanks for the video !
my space does still exist, you just have to pay money for it and it smostly music and other arts
It's only Cannon if it appears on screen animated or live action comics books fandom dose not count .
U theory breaker channels need to be hired by the FBI…my mind is blown😅
0:58 dosnt cloverfield fail on no8?
I could probably make a case for 9 been a fail too, 6 is open to interpretation aka you say paced out I say drags out.
Ied also say that about 80% of the audience have now idea about half of the mysteries/lore of the setting as they don’t have time to search the internet for hidden videos and to ring phone numbers to solve args.
Tagruato is not a Japanese name. “gru” is not a Japanese syllable.
I would have preferred it if the movies had stayed unconnected.
It's clear that cover ups happen..signs..symbols....
A.R.G. means Augmented Reality Game not Alternate but this is a great video just wanted to pass along the info
It absolutely does not. ARGs and Augmented Reality are two completely different things and are not at all related. This has been one of the most commonly repeated misconceptions since ARGs first became a notable and documented medium. They have absolutely nothing to do with one another beyond containing the word "reality" and beginning with the letter "a". That's literally all.
@BryanTheDM ok buddy, calm down. 👍 the game is playing out like it is happening within our reality, but there are things that only happen within the game, not our reality, therefore augmenting our reality. For a visual version of an ARG, there are things like Pokémon Go. Both types of games use our real world as the setting in our reality but then add things to it, changing or augmenting it.
Wasn’t the guy in the navy played by this same actor in the Godzilla movies? And they also include multiverses or something or am I trippin
Would marry Mary Elizabeth Winstead so hard
Ewan McGregor alt account
Whistleblower is randy?
Rob was too good for Beth anyway.
Cloverfield was pretty great, but JJ Abrams should never be forgiven for Lost. He should have gone to prison for the way he defrauded audiences with that series.
JJ Abrams was barely involved with Lost after season 1 had ended, and the last episode he officially worked on was as the co-writer of the season 3 premiere.
Came here from his tik tok video. I’ve always loved cloverfield but never understood the full story.
Thank you for your dedication to this franchise.
All right bro let me stop you right here. All movies in the Cloverfield franchised are repurposed scripts. That's why none of them seem to truly fit correctly. But they were other movies that were not Green lit but were given The go-ahead only if they could make them a part of a new Cloverfield franchise. They were all simply just giving the Cloverfield name. But all movies in reality have nothing to do with each other other than a few extra lines thrown into tie them all together.
He literally said that
Why would anybody know how to do any of that stuff
Cant wait to know what JJ Adrams is cooking for the 2008 sequel
Amazing video, great work.
this video gives a lot of presumption that jar jar abrams is a good writer when actually the guy is a decent film maker, but couldn't write himself out of damp paper towels.
cloverfield : best movie ever
cloverfield 2 : useless movie renamed like that for gods know what reasons
cloverfield 3 : shameless horseshit
Paused at 2:30 for context. The narrator might get to this at some point but I want to say it myself. The Cloverfield trilogy is a fake movie trilogy. None of these movies were meant to be linked. All the movies are written by different people independently. JJ Abrams bought story and added very little to try and weave in a connection. IMO the Cloverfield movies is the most disappointing trilogy in cinema history. I say this because of how much promotional effort went into this trilogy outside of the actual film. At the end of the day we got a confusing nothing burger of a trilogy with no real context of what’s going on
I want a real part 2 to the first movie. not this multiverse movies they gave us!
Thanks for going through all this convoluted garbage so I don't have to.
1:26 - They were NOT written and produced by JJ Abrams. They were already made and then he slapped some cloverfield on top of them.
Youre hella late bro...all of this is common knowledge by now😂😂
April 2007 is when it fell into the ocean bud.