Secret of the Octolings REVEALED! The Mysterious Octoling Theory

[@NaiefThegoony]

The octo expansion actually explains this in the texts, it’s amazing how accepting pearl was of marina saying it doesn’t matter if she’s an octoling as long as she’s her friend. Ya’ll we need more people like pearl in this world.

[@IDK098]

Yep

[@RoseIsHere9089]

This video was made before octo expansion so he didn’t know your reason is correct tho

[@CursedCaptainGaming]

Yeah

[@princesswibbles7695]

@@RoseIsHere9089 he knows

[@bella_daze3092]

FACTS

[@Bomberninja]

The funny thing is now we learned that inklings never even knew Marina was an octoling. They just thought she was an odd looking inkling.

[@finbarrsheehan8304]

Bomberninja Animations and Games “exotic” you mean

[@burgerhouseinthehouse2079]

I didn’t know that marina was an octoling until my sister told me.

[@Bomberninja]

BurgerHouseintheHouse ....

[@agent3djparty955]

Party only:I knew that scence bigening No you dint

[@clasher138]

I'm pretty sure that at least Marina and agent 3 knew

[@chronorebel_greatgryffon1312]

It's revealed in Splatoon 2's Octo Expansion that Octolings aren't brainwashed, but just indoctrinated since childhood, but the Calamary Inkantation the Squid Sisters sang during Splatoon 1's final boss resonated so much in their soul that a good part of the Octolings started to question the state of never-ending war against the Inklings DJ Octavio got the Octarians in, leading them to desert ; that what happened to Marina, but also Agent 8 as we learn throught the mem cakes.

[@cathedral1375]

but if you really think about it indoctrination is just a different and more difficult to achive form of brainwashing.

[@itsyourboiguyintheblackhoo5269]

Dude dont spoil man. Say spoiler alert or you ruin peoples fun

[@jo3m4ma60]

MEEEEEEEM MEEEEEEEM hopefully you don't know this old meme

[@Spritzine]

Thank you for this ... i was never going to be able to get all of the mem cakes and this makes so much sense. :3

[@thedripcritic9379]

callie marie inkantation..... just realized why its called that

[@lem0ncrunch]

Pearl: You were an octoling?! I just thought you were weird Marina: 🤨

[@laurietheking4645]

WHY?

[@squidkidinkie9247]

Marina: girl,u always would of known IF YOU EVER EXPERIANCED THE PAIN I GET FROM LOSING EVERY SPLATFEST WE HAVE EVER DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and no its not because of popurlarity.

[@jaimereo]

the two inklings next to the window: what in the world is happening?? wait marina is an octo?

[@barksanddreams2234]

"Very few octolings" Octo Expansion: "10008 participants"

[@OutlawRunnerSDC]

But Iso Padre was a test subject himself, albeit a failed test subject, so not all of them were Octolings

[@christinashearer8096]

Just more octolongs who were able to take there glasses off while octavio as getting his butt handed to him. Wow... he is not a good leader XD

[@darafina]

Barks and Dreams HA I WAS GOING TO SAY SOMTHING LIKE THAT!!!

[@Squiddy_was_here]

Veemo!

[@laurietheking4645]

That Is Really True AND I Am An Octoling!

[@ashleyortiz3094]

"We might be able to play as octolings in the future" *cough cough* octo expansion *cough*

[@Kid_Cat64]

Imagining octo teamwork would be crazy for octolings and inklings octo teamwork on the statue 🐙🐙🐙🐙

[@kimberlykendrickrowe7236]

That’s already happened

[@JoeyPaone]

Kimberly Kendrick Rowe no you

[@jakehouang]

8 months nothing

[@MA-mx5tk]

Lol yeah

[@reese60678]

“One of very few octolings” Heh... heh... riiiiiight... *Octo expansion*

[@jennifercanaarrocena1413]

Heh... heh... riiiiiight... MARINA IS A PROSTITUTE FOR THE GUYS IN TEAM ORDER. Maybe they ordered something weird. The irony in this game is that it's for kids. FANS ARE CRAZY! Pearl's solo gay fan made lyrics: KISSS MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Well they truly have chaos.

[@jennifercanaarrocena1413]

SUPURATUUN TUUUUU (Japanese accent) IS RATED R

[@AquariusSubscribeToTechnoblade]

Tartar: *10008 participates*

[@laurietheking4645]

-_-

[@iatemyshit3800]

I think I’m seeing more octos now than inklings-

[@somerandomidiot8050]

And then the octo expansion basically proved this theory

[@Pezzato719]

It said she was an octarian so yeah. Also poor marina I feel bad for her cause most of her life she was being mind controled

[@laurietheking4645]

Ye

[@Gghoulll]

frick I exist weren’t all of the octolings

[@Pezzato719]

@@Gghoulll yes

[@gachamail7613]

My brain before watching this thory: Octoling's shud die HAHAHAHHAHA My brain after watching this thory: Save octolings , octoling's are not vilians dj.Octavio is

[@etgotlost9148]

Like 8 months later: OCTO EXPANSION!!! Here’s my theory. So. We all know that SPOILERS: you get real close to getting smoothied into this goo, to create better life form. But, how does this process really work? Well, I think that when you enter the facility, you get your memories wiped. That ensures that only the best will emerge form the tests. For exampl, if you were a high trained octoling, of course you would nail the tests. However, you get wiped so you have an equal chance as everyone else. If you pass these tests, you become part of the goo. If you fa-TEST FAILED-il, you become sanitized. The way this process works is that you go into a test tube (like the one in the player select menu) filled with the goo. It turns you into this perfect little minion. This also causes skin and hair colour to change. After this is complete, you get your memory wiped, and you get programmed to work for the facilities tests. Those are the ocotlings you fight in certain levels. (Like girl power station. Man I hated it so much.) The case with Agent 8 was that, she was found fighting Agent 3, and she showed potential. She was then Squidnapped and taken to the facility, and she was wiped (per the process I talked about earlier) She then did the tests, you know the rest. Now what about Dedf1sh? We know that she wandered into the facility, -like the description about her said- and no workers knew anything about her. They then found out that she spend her time as a DJ. They then saw that she had no potential at all, and Sanitized her. In her description, it states : ‘little of her former self remains’ I think that when you are wiped, you keep some basic memories, like your interests. But these interests are outweighed by the programming that happens to you. So she feels the need not to DJ, even though she remembers it. Kinda. After you are sanitized, you fight in the tests, like I said. This is because Commander Tartar needs enough SPOILERS: goo to cover Inkopolis. The sanitized octolings also fight in Here Mode to find more octolings to join the tests. I think the way you are programmed is by the Glasses. We know that SPOILERS: Callie is the final boss of Octo Canyon, and this is because she was brainwashed by DJ Octavio. The Shades Callie wears brainwashed her, and I think it’s the same with the other octolings. The glasses are put on, and they do the work. (I think Erickson Gaming did a video taking this part further. I think the thumbnail has Marina on it if you want to go watch it) Now, what if Agent 8 was ALREADY sanitized? In the start of the Octo Expansion, Captain Cuttlefish states that you were humming ‘Callimari Inkantation’ right before you came to. What if Agent 8 was freed my the song, (like Marina) but then got Squidnapped back to the facility? I think that not all octolings escaped. Only the lucky. Most got taken back, to redo the tests. This might also explain Marina’s glowing fingers, which are blue. The sanitized octolings are blue. When Marina was freed, her skin went back to normal. Well, most of it. That’s also why the end of her hair is blue. Because not all original colour was returned. Well, that’s my theory. If you made it this far, thanks for your time, I know it was long. Please like if you thought I put was good, this took me almost an hour to write. Stay Fresh!

[@woomytoons6499]

Speaking of sanitized. SanSitized

[@mystiqchaossss1996]

👍

[@Whos_D0T]

How long did this take you

[@tailsrhtatonslice1418]

“bUt wHy is hEr HaiR BrOwN aNd nOt REd?” she used to be an elite octoling, they have brown hair.

[@shu3779]

👌 but should squidnapped be octonapped? Wait it doesn’t sound right squidnapped it is

[@aitamopoldaccount1497]

What if the cephalopods want world peace, But DJ Octavio said, "No can do buckaroo"

[@doccorre]

The funny part is, I can imagine him saying that

[@vickytaylor9972]

Marinus is one of The Good Guys and Marie is one of the bad guys

[@someoneawesome8717]

That's kinda what happened, Octarian society is highly oppressive. The Inkantation freed their minds

[@emeraldrocks0013]

Shpunky XD

[@ultmewtwo]

Dj guy is crazy about winging the war again that he can not let go of his past he use to be friends with captin

[@catsinwonderland7473]

PSA: Octolings are not evil. They are brainwashed by Octavio. Not all a friendly too!

[@helterspider]

PSA: There is no proof of this theory being true, it’s a theory. Therefore you cannot say that it’s true

[@flickerodette6636]

I prefer octos

[@entitylockington]

*Octavio and The Telephone

[@HomieUnicorn]

@@flickerodette6636 why? out of the squid/octo forms I prefer I def like squid betta. octos look pretty weird

[@futabasakura6375]

@@HomieUnicorn the only thing good about octos are their moostaachess

[@MaxMallard]

And then Octo Expansion explained everything. Actually it' still seems like the Octolings that make it to Inkopolis still pretend to be inklings, being afraid of what would happen if people knew what they were. Most likely Inklings would be confused about Octolings actually being alive, and maybe scared by the revelation since they were convinced the Octarians were extinct.

[@CSDragon]

turns out everyone thinks it's a hairstyle, lol

[@deulalune]

•KitsunePlayz• they think it’s make up

[@LunaMinuna]

Pearl does

[@lailarosales2355]

Well it may not be so wired because Marie and Callie have different hairstyles that no other inkling has so all the inklings thought it was some kind of hairstlyle

[@manekicat279]

I thought the hair and eyes not connecting was just makeup and a hairstyle and I kept searching up how to get the “ponytail”.

[@fruitsellerzik]

Laila Rosales if you have octo expansion and read the chat It just that everyone doesn’t know that Marina is an octoling

[@kyledake6020]

As said in the sunken scroll showing Marina it says many octarians had a change of heart that day and at the end of Splatoon 1 the end credits showed Inklings and Octolings getting along. It's very possible that the Octolings in Splatoon 2 are being brainwashed just as Callie was. Having them be playable in a future update would be great and make sense as we have defeated Octavio once again setting the Octolings free. Besides I just LOVE the Octoling design and would love to have the option to play as one! Hopefully in OCTOber?

[@MagicWolfPlayz]

liked just because of the OCTOber

[@kyledake6020]

MagicWolfPlayz clever huh

[@cometvaudin2850]

Kyle Dake Turquoise October

[@cherlykoki]

Man, do I really need to wait until OCTOber?

[@ModernAegis]

Octoling. October. Halloween. MARINA = IZANAMI CONFIRMED. WAIFU.

[@wuh-huw9950]

I think Callie WAS upset after the Splatfest results and DID intentionally separate from Marie. I think at this point DJ Octavio saw his chance because the two were separated(power in numbers and all that). So Callie being vulnerable, he easily hypnotized her. After Callie’s Hypnoshades were knocked off, it still took some convincing by Marie to get Callie to join her, hinting towards the fact that Callie was still feeling some emotional unrest. So I think the driving point of Callie’s siding with DJ Octavio was a combination the Hypnoshades and Callie’s emotional inner conflict after the results of the Splatfest.

[@manman-x]

thats why marie was in the campaign as an ally instead of the final boss. would of happened but switched around if callie won.

[@cousinparty7266]

if you read even chapter 1 of the squid sister stories than thats not the case

[@crazychick3549]

Wrong.

[@VickDuck]

4:04 wait..... Octo expansion came out when I am watching this and they absolutely do NOT look like this in octopus form.

[@plonk8675]

Yea, they kinda do. Plus this was from the first game (4:04)

[@somerandomidiot8050]

The playable octo forms look different than the ai octo forms

[@vickytaylor9972]

I love your Marina

[@vickytaylor9972]

I love you Marina

[@sagee9733]

honestly i'm glad they changed them

[@FFmax33]

half a year later... Octo expansion

[@luchivsnapopadula4863]

HaloMax 33 you get me

[@planterbox]

If you think I'm paying 20 dollars for this crap then you're damn right

[@branbmxxd7567]

Yes pls

[@gamerletter1986]

FFhalomax33 Annnnnnnd its out

[@ihnayacookie6426]

SubNex Gaming IT IS FREAXKING WORTH IT. IT HAS SPLATOON 1 REFERENCES

[@jr1zg7kt3g]

octo expansion is finally out, all has been answered

[@Im_Tired55]

yeap

[@buguiui7514]

How? Im curious

[@AmeButCool]

GokuThePantheon The octolings live under oppression. After hearing the calamari inkantation they basically realize that and they then escape. It's kind of hard to explain you just gotta play the expansion yourself.

[@owlettie9162]

also it seems like most inklings cannot recognize octolings and just think their hair is a special haircut, and seem to not see the difference between their squid forms and the octoling forms

[@Ze_eT]

Here: splatoonwiki.org/wiki/Sanitized_Octarian

[@teavikyu]

The Octo Expansion says once an octoling like Marina hears “Calamari Inkantation” that they can’t stand being bad. Edit : Pearl says “Octolings are extinct” in the squid vs octopus splatfest. The inklings don’t know Octolings are still alive.

[@doccorre]

they.... they what now?? THEY DON'T KNOW THEY'RE EVEN STILL ALIVE??????????? thEY JUST THOUGHT "OH THE GREAT TURF WAR WAS JUST A MASS OCTARIAN GENOCIDE OKAY"

[@letmetakeajormungandrattha8591]

PEARL WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU OKAY? But, seriously, I think she was covering up the fact that Marina was an Octoling. In the DLC, one of the chats say that Marina doesn’t want the citizens to know, or whatever.

[@grapiesoo]

*Casually sneaks in as an Octoling.*

[@magiveem]

Pearl is WITH an octoling.

[@subydyber4439]

Octarians: *create giant civilization under inkopolis with a very visible manhole as an entrance*

[@ooftheperson3647]

Therorists: IT'S ALL ABOUT *THIS* Nintendo: ...Hold my beer.

[@jovanmichelsen2954]

What about when Pearl says at the beginning of your game “Hey, I’ve seen those hair styles before.” And Marina starts getting cagey

[@MA-mx5tk]

Hey dude. If you get octo expansion, it explains more of why octolings are bad. Marina Ida says that the Calamari Inktation had changed her life. And in the beginning, *cough cough* SPOILERS *cough* a totally innocent octoling is taking a walk, LISTENING TO THE CALAMARI INKTATION, when Captain Cuttlefish gets agent 3 to attack him/her. When he wakes up captain cuttlefish is standing over the octoling, which has lost its memory. Then captain cuttlefish mentions that the octoling was humming the calamari Inktation. On chat sessions 6, 7, and 10 it talks about octolings being in inkoplis. If you buy octo expansion, maybe make a 2nd part to this video adding to the theory. And when you beat the final boss in octo expansion, you have the option to play as an octoling.(And yes, I know octo expansion wasn't out yet when this video was published. Stay Fresh~!)

[@icy101yt]

Hey dude i think he knows this now

[@jaimereo]

hang on let me get my switch..

[@fate7418]

Well the octo expansion wasn’t out at the time this video came out-

[@spacecoconut4021]

2018 yeah why is a octoling there! 2019 boiiiiiiiiii

[@angrycursedcatcatchinghand6739]

2019: marina was changed with the calamari inkantation. ( it was on the octo expansion. ) 2017:nothing.

[@tyranitarmemer6284]

2018*

[@vincentperez3831]

Stolen. Yikes!

[@Fer-fy8dx]

I can smell Splatoon 3's story in development already.

[@goodtoast8490]

Yes I fear we will have to wait for another game. 🍻

[@nunoosorio3832]

FerWitness You bet it is.

[@nunoosorio3832]

Sky The Trashcan Nah, dude, Nintendo's next entry will take a loooong time to come out, along with Splatoon 3.

[@kensevk]

FerWitness I BET YOU 💯 THAT THERE IS GONNA BE BOY POP STARS I BETTT YOUUUU

[@jadentheorganharvest3548]

we've done like three splatoon 2 splatfests, hold your ink horses there

[@kirmato]

this theory seems even more legit because of the upcoming dlc for splatoon 2 where when you finish the second Campaign Mode you can play as your octoling character even in turf battles, and in the trailer the octoling player doesnt have glasses, but the green octolings she attacks do wear those glasses with the red dots,

[@popsicIes]

The thing is though, Agent 8 walks PAST the Octolings with the glasses on, and they make no move to attack her. Yeah, there's the scene in which the Octoling has an Inkjet and is attacking Agent 8, but in another scene 8 is walking in a cargo of the subway and the Octolings make no move towards her.

[@eridanampora3024]

Pupsicle Cc

[@popsicIes]

CC?

[@xerospace.]

are you talking about the octoling? if not its agent 3

[@popsicIes]

I was talking about the Octolings that are blue-green, not Agent 3.

[@olivelovespit]

Wow this theory is actually really good (the editing was amazing) (Congrats on 50k)

[@EricksonGaming]

Thank you Annie!

[@rs9961]

Thunder,Tommy, Bird,Dog WE NEED TO GO DEEP FOR SPLATOON THEORYS!!!!! (Good theory breaker reason) We don't go THAT deep, right?

[@greenbubblegumdino3687]

A GAME THEORY

[@kathyhalligan6809]

Erickson Gaming p

[@kathyhalligan6809]

Thunder,Tommy, Bird,Dog l

[@XGreen_C]

Marina was found on mount Nani she new nothing about inkopilous until pearl taught her

[@TheDecinc]

You know, mount Nani and inkopilous

[@randomcoloradan2878]

"inkopilous" Inkopolis

[@icy101yt]

Mount what?

[@Spring_312]

Mount Nani?!

[@evagarcia865]

MOUNT NANI!?!?!?!?

[@ihnayacookie6426]

I just played and finishes the DLC and..... (Spoilers Inkoming don't proceed if you don't want to be spoiled) In the text messages with Cap'n Cuttlefish, Pearl and Marina, Cap'n and Pearl talk about marina and she used to be an Octarian, Marina Ida, and when she heard Calamari Inktation, before vanishing she said, "This changes Everything". Then she met Pearl on Mt. Nantai and all of a sudden she was like LETS START A BAND. This is basically the origin of marina and how she ended up with pearl

[@kawaiipurin6148]

lul I love the LETS START A BAND part

[@itsyourboiguyintheblackhoo5269]

Finally some one cares about spoiling

[@ihnayacookie6426]

Its Your Boi Guy In The Black Hoodie 😳

[@jonitaylor6779]

When you say it like that it sound so cool

[@MaxEverywhereSystem]

Pearl: quit your job Marina: why Pearl: join my emo band

[@rydrew]

This video is not affiliated with The Game Theorists in any way, shape or form, Inkling and Octoling alike.

[@theaussieturtles1872]

Andrew Salao I

[@anilerdem5074]

Andrew Salao i hope you are joking

[@yeahvideosvioleagayubien5573]

Andrew Salao will have the best chance to be an option and not to mention the name

[@IEatSignificantAmountsOfAss]

Andrew Salao Hello, internet. Welcome to MEME THEORY

[@lamp1739]

Andrew Salao l

[@octaviogalicia8179]

I really like this theory, it makes sense and could mean that octolings could be playable

[@nunoosorio3832]

Octavio Galicia One day, they will. Preety sure Nintendo won't latch as long from giving us playable Octoling as Scott latched to a mysterious, poorly built, incosistent plot in his games.

[@Funkyy__]

i wanna play as an octoling

[@annaparada2691]

Octavio Galicia The octo expansion for 2018

[@circleception6026]

I think it’s because not one soul really knows what Octos look like, unless you have fought them

[@maxischew514]

It’s possible that the octolings didn’t know about the war based off the fact they thought the final boss battle in the end of the first game was a concert.

[@Fer-fy8dx]

The Game Theorists are shaking

[@linksayshi3893]

You fortune teller, you foreshadowed October expansion

[@contemplation_jpg]

It would've been cool if there was a Halloween event in the October expansion

[@contemplation_jpg]

Yeah

[@Palladium001]

"Screw you autocorrect..." lel

[@isabellethedoggo7884]

I’m planning on getting the October Expansion

[@neon.the.octoling]

The auto correct attacked and changed Octo to October

[@heyheyitsjae2475]

Man, watching a video like this in 2022 is an absolute trip. Amazing how much lore a single DLC can bring

[@maverickdarkrath4780]

Funny thing replaying the story mode the dialog changes DJ Octavio claims he's re remixed Callie's brain but Callie's reveals this time she put on the glasses because they looked cool despite knowing there mind controlling

[@KevinClay9915]

How Callie got brainwashed is sort of like how Louie from Pikmin 2 got took over by the Titan Dweevil. Think about it. While they both don't really do much during the final bosses, they both stand by the final boss' side. There has also been confusion to if these characters joined the final boss by choice. Also, both boss battles start off with the player finding these characters, both of which have been searched for before the boss. There are tons of other ways Callie and Louie are similar, but I just wanted to point that out.

[@nunoosorio3832]

KevClips Gaming Yeah, but the we'll eventualy solve why Callie did it. Likely because of some "ill will" of being famous. Aparently, Splatfests officially declare stuff as better or inferior, and Marie won, so.....

[@nightknight-7768]

Well it’s actually the other way around, the titan dweevil was controlling Louie.

[@cousinparty7266]

Thats what he said louie got controlled over by titan dweevil

[@nightknight-7768]

Cousin Party I just realized what I said, I meant to say Louie is the one controlling the dweevil. The titan dweevil is normally a passive creature. Louie’s the one who weaponized it, and ended up controlling it like a puppet.

[@vibrantbell6477]

My theory: The ocotlings WERE brainwashed by the goggles BUT when some of the ocotlings (like Marina, Agent 8) hear the squid sisters music there soul is enlightened and maybe sometimes swap sides! Even Marina states that the squid sisters music changed her in the Octo expansion DLC!

[@leexiong7488]

Agent 8 lost all of her or his memory

[@gamersodaguy]

Fun Fact: DJ Octavio is an octoling who was King during the Great Turf War. I personally think this is why he stays in octo form to avoid resembling the form that inklings are most of the time. Human Form.

[@prod.majin8088]

Welp, He was right. We will get to play octolings in the future aka the summer of this year! Can’t wait

[@elcheckmate]

I think the screams in the background of Splatoon 1 boss fights are octolings being hypnotized. This makes me think octolings are not as bad as we thought.

[@citrusblast4372]

A better theory I've heard is that the octo world is crumbling because of the lack of energy

[@N0rlight]

The screams are still present in the second game. I heard it along with my sister.

[@elcheckmate]

Norlight Nice! Thanks for letting me know!

[@lizrobert4137]

YTThe CMate while yes I do believe this theory I disagree with your statement. The screams were definitely not hypnotism at all. Think this: brainwashing in this case would be almost instant and there wouldn’t be any kind of reaction. The screams were most likely the sounds of death. You can hear things falling apart as even stated in the sunken scrolls that the Octarian world was deteriorating. It is more likely that something broke and then the screams can be heard of s me kind of creature, probably an octoling, as they fall to their death.

[@wayverleesoulsong]

YTThe CMate what screams?

[@TrickyJebus]

*NOW PLEASE DO THE ANALYSIS FOR THE DLC!* I know you're already doing it.

[@TrickyJebus]

Also, Watch the Chat Logs. Its waaaay better than sunken scrolls exposition.

[@chaoticcordi]

It always used to baffle me how different playable octolings and story mode octolings look. I mean, they look very different. Story mode octolings have thick tentacles and purple eye outlines, and playable ones have thinner tentacles and dark eye outlines of a different shape.

[@angeladamestech]

That annoying nerd kid was hilarious, great theory!

[@mothnoir2155]

But that's just a theory- A _splat_ theory!

[@Johne43453]

Astra Dreemurr just no

[@staceyreading8970]

no time for jokes , mugman , this is serious

[@elinlangholm6943]

No it's not it's funny😆

[@staceyreading8970]

Could you say that last month

[@staceyreading8970]

It used to be Mugman and now its bendy (This is a copy) Wait whaaaat

[@Nico-td6cm]

I have a theory that the final splatfest will be Inklings Vs Octolings

[@goodtoast8490]

Omg my thoughts exactly

[@KK-og6ee]

With all of the Octopush nonsense everywhere, Octolings will win in popularity. DEFINITELY. #octopull

[@jonathantapia9549]

Undergem Mun Gomi I don't think that's a theory it's more of a prediction

[@iKnowaNoah]

Undergem Mun Gomi or... You know... Pearl vs. Marina?

[@atsukana1704]

Undergem Mun Gomi they did that as one of the normal ones in japan actually

[@manekicat279]

So the brain washing part is right because when you battle octavio he brainwashed callie with the glasses. But when marie shoots the glasses off, callie is still brainwashed until Marie keeps telling her to remember and she finally remembers when marie plays the song.

[@HospitableSpirit]

So Splatoon 2 is... ww2

[@rugrug9997]

Cam SK HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[@noxxstellar]

yup

[@braylinbrantley8538]

Yes

[@horriblebadwolf]

Cam SK pretty much yes but the world sea level rosed a lot and with paint

[@sey_81]

Lawl

[@cuber8561]

Congrats on 50k

[@EricksonGaming]

Thank you!!

[@RaAres]

Erickson Gaming hi 😊😚😊😚

[@popplio4976]

Orange The Litten why would you say that to them if what he said has nothing to do with you?

[@danielvevers9201]

NO! 4K

[@tawnyar8690]

Cuber Knight

[@NintendYoshiSplatoon]

Octo Expansion basically solves this theory

[@Ze_eT]

Here: splatoonwiki.org/wiki/Sanitized_Octarian It Busts it, it does not solve it.

[@brujebutch1063]

this is about octarians, not octalings. the hypno theory still stands.

[@Ze_eT]

+Uidelsib E.N. Nope. 1. In the ads for Octo Expansion, they say "and uncover the secrets of the *Octolings*", not Octarians. 2. If you mean this theory, THE DAMN TITLE SAYS IT! 3. Sanitized Octarians? Did you TL;DR? Later in the entry it also states Octolings. Click "Read more" for more proof that you are just lazy and that the theory is wrong. I don't even get why you guys defend a theory that is already proven to be wrong. Quotes from splatoonwiki.org/wiki/Sanitized_Octarian : "The dialogue portrait for a Sanitized Octoling" "Sanitized Octolings in the Octo Expansion, each carrying different weapons." "Sanitized Octoling’s Octopus form and Agent 8’s Octopus form comparison." "The following Octarian types have Sanitized variations. Types denoted with an asterisk have only appeared as Sanitized: Octoling"

[@Ze_eT]

You are like that one guy that defends the "Sans is Ness" theory for no reason. You know you are on the wrong side, but you don't care.

[@yaoretian5104]

yeah!

[@papyrusthegreat4229]

Who’s watching this in 2021 when the octo expansion has been released and we can play as octolings

[@nikolausbears]

Who is watching this when they finished the octo DLC? Bc I am

[@sjtc4ever]

I’m watching it way after it was released

[@emeraldrocks0013]

Red SpaghettiOs Yeah lol

[@hearts4enanan]

Getting it now :p

[@abitofgrey]

this was somewhat confirmed in the DLC sooooo... you were right! (kinda)

[@cheesesauce1030]

eh

[@JonTheGeek]

Dude if the Octoling enemies in splatoon 2 are brainwashed too You should tie this into the new Octo expansion. Also I hella support this theory you go man. Bonus; I just realized that a octoling that didn't take off their goggles still has like that stupid cartoon "uuuh" mouth, as if they're brain washed still.

[@WYKLO]

Teenage Gamer oh and the octarian enemies in the octo expansion are clearly genetically modified. they're colours are screwed up

[@user-yq2nf1rl9j]

How do you get octo expansion?

[@Ze_eT]

Here: splatoonwiki.org/wiki/Sanitized_Octarian

[@cousinparty7266]

u have to pay for it

[@codymascall994]

The song that Callie and Marie sing can turn the octolings good it says it on page 2 of the lost scrolls “Anyone lucky enough to catch DJ Octavio’s opening set and the Squid Sisters headlining had their minds blown and their live changed that night.”

[@mariagromero7967]

Callie has a kraken tattoo nobody Saw?

[@WhoIsTzuki]

I saw it and it was no Kraken at all, it looked like an octopus

[@Thatpoyler]

?

[@airconditionednul]

“A GAME THEO- nah I’m just kiddin” U almost frickin got me there

[@theauberginebehindtheslaug4799]

Matpat intensifies

[@jordy9606]

I'm just glad some Octolings were smart enough to take off their hypno-shades and listen to Calamari Inkantation

[@nordin.munteanu]

Inkatation*

[@jordy9606]

that feeling when the first reply to a year old comment was correcting someone

[@theauberginebehindtheslaug4799]

@@jordy9606Those Guys just have no Life

[@8bitty192]

They have big dumb.

[@sparrow3394]

KitKat they are have stupid.

[@Vipadra]

For lore nerds coming across this video: It is literally stated in the artbook for splatoon 2 that the shades are for weaponry aim and nothing else. There is legit no proof to this except "oh these shades look similar" but a plot point as major as all octolings are brainwashed wouldve definetly been brought up.

[@TechnoTejay]

Haven't watched yet but let me guess. The glasses brainwash octolings?

[@ccrobat342]

TechnoTejay Ding Ding Ding

[@nunoosorio3832]

TechnoTejay Yeah, acording to Nintendo, *MUSIC controls the arm troopers*. So maybe the dar more inteligent Octolings would need this wierd gear too.

[@ren8028]

i knew it!

[@nunoosorio3832]

JNTN1553 Maybe.

[@anilerdem5074]

TechnoTejay yeah right you already watched it havent you?

[@adam-mkt4693]

Thanks for cheering up my day once again, James!

[@Ciielk]

Was I the only one that has a bad feeling of those shades? Like I was in the stage in which you fight octolings and I was like Those glasses/shades are weird.......WHAT IF DOES THINGS HYPNOTIZE THEM!?

[@nikki-yq8lv]

In splatoon 1 the octolings weren’t brainwashed at all, but in the final battle (which was set in a concert if I remember) the squid sister’s music made the octolings think “I don’t want to fight the inklings anymore” and they got brain washed. But some octolings (Marina) got away before they were brain washed. That’s my theory

[@JayLeu]

In the Octo Expansion, it's revealed that somehow, nobody knows that Marina is an Octoling. She heard the Calamari Incantation and said something about how "this changes everything". She would then get with Pearl and start Off The Hook.

[@nilok7]

Very minor spoilers: The reason why the populace aren't freaked out by Marina is because they think she is an "exotic inkling." The general populace probably don't know what an Octoling looks like, Pearl included, chalking it, and the fact she speaks a different language, up to some new fashion.

[@legiondaryspyrospyro8334]

Right when I saw her i knew she was not an inkling

[@power_plushi_emperor97]

I'm 100% sure that the octolings' glasses in Splatoon 2 are based of the glasses that the Terminator wore in the first movie after he removed his eye to prevent people seeing his exposed endoskeleton eye.

[@kai_824]

Because she is adorable that's all

[@gater4616]

O,maybe a new mode like cops and robbers will be added, like one team is octolings and the other team is inklings

[@nunoosorio3832]

Sniping_gater In one way or another, that already what Salmon Run is....

[@452pokemaster]

I believe that in splatoon 1, the octolings were battling by choice. However... We find out in splatoon 2 that Marina, inspired by Callie and Marie's song, fled in order to pursue a career in music. Agent 8 was also influenced by this song. I think that those two weren't the only octolings inspired. I think that there were many octolings who changed, some of them may have even started uprisings against Octavio. Octavio, seeing that he had a new growing threat, mind controlled every octoling.

[@traci1261]

More likely, the inklings are stupid. I MEAN USE TAPE TO FIX A SNOWGLOBE?!?!?!?!? No wonder DJ Octavio got out in Splatoon 3

[@bye7522]

“We may get to play as Octolings in the future” _laughs_

[@plope_]

For anyone wondering, THIS CAME OUT BEFORE THE OCTO EXPANSION WHERE THEY ACTUALLY GIVE AWAY EVERYITHING ABOUT MARINA. That was not meant to be rude, I just needed an excuse to use the caps lock key xd

[@bashi9]

i think Octavio wants to take over with octarians, and of course there’s the few that want it to be equal with inklings as well, so that’s where the hypno shades come in, so octavio hypnotised the octolings, but the ones that managed to get away (agent 8, marina) were touched by the calamari inkantation, so he decided to hypnotise Callie too! and also since marina used to design things in slimeskin garrison, he may or may not hypnotise marina as well, i think that would be cool, don’t get me wrong- it’s getting done repetitively and it can be annoying, but it would be cool to be against marina.

[@50upy._.s0up4]

Imagine not time traveling to the future and get the expansion and learn about the octolings

[@aaronpredum9907]

Cool theory, only problem, in octo expansion, it's shown that no one knew she's an octoling (somehow) and she just went awol

[@RikkuTakanashi]

People keep saying they "split up" but if you read the short stories they never officially split up at all. They both just had different interests, Marie in live performances and Callie in tv show appearances. Their work kept them apart but they were still very close, emotionally. However the huge workload was taking a major toll on them both, Callie it seems most of all. It's also explicitly stated that Callie held no ill will after the final splatfest, though Marie did wonder if she had but later felt silly for thinking it. In the end, it was when the two sisters "split up" that Callie got Squidnapped. Marie went ahead on vacation, expecting Callie to be there the next day; Callie couldn't come with her, initially, because she had a appointment she couldn't miss. Then a worn out Callie, apparently, was left to go home on her own which is likely when she got grabbed. As to why it took so long for her to recover, you try being brainwashed for potentially weeks and try and instantly snap out of it. The brainwashing also seemed to affect her memory to a small degree. What effect Marie's Low Tide Ink had, I'm not sure, but it may have helped her regain her senses quicker. If you watch closely, Callie is still singing for a while after the glasses are knocked off; likely she was still minorly under his influence. And also nobody is considering how long it actually may have taken to brainwash her to begin with. For all we know, she may have fought tooth and tentacle not to get controlled but eventually succumbed due to exhaustion.

[@kattman4605]

Heh yeah when after the first few times I saw Marina, I new she was an octoling. I'm glad to see that the two species are getting along. :]

[@louispiegelberg1525]

Upon playing the octo expansion you are 100% correct on most of this vod

[@XJ-0641]

"Very miniscule portion of you who thinks she's actually an inkling..." All of Inkopolis: 😱

[@ADHDingus]

My theory is that in a later Splatfest, mr. Grizz will turn out to be Octavio and be harvesting salmonoid eggs for octoling power, and will reveal himself to be so, then marina will turn with him onto team octoling and Callie and Marie will sing for team inkling while pearl decides to join octoling for a friend or inklings for her family, also depending on ur team is if ur an inkling or octoling for the player type

[@minnarewers3573]

Electric type Gamer nah

[@wuh-huw9950]

But the Salmonids technology is all borrowed technology from the Octarians. This would mean that relations are good between them, so they could have just traded with the Salmonids instead of creating a complex scheme to establish a workforce consisting of their main enemy to massacre their ally.

[@serenabpro1603]

are you ok ??????????????????????????????????????????????

[@ulb7345]

that end tho A GAME THERO....

[@KK-og6ee]

*Theory Soz, had to release my inner Grammar SWAT there.

[@user-vx6vn9ve4b]

But hey! that's just mean

[@shark_girl]

Not me watching this when Splatoon 3 is out, knowing everything about Octo expansion and the fact octolings are free in Splatoon 3.

[@BlooperStupid]

**Sees video's uploaded before Octo Expansion** Welp that explains it!

[@micahwissman7]

Here is another theory.....Why don't we see any adults in Splatoon? They are seen in the scrolls only in the first game and the only elder we see is Captain Cuttlefish.

[@viccole6793]

Aren't marina/ callie and marie adults? Not so sure about pearl.... The easiest guess would be that it's a nintendo game and the whole kid squid thing, not to mention all the npc characters we see for the most in say the hub area part are just squid kid variations, and likewise squid kids in the music concert cut scene. Nintendo could just be doing a toad, essentially. Mario games have an awful habit of making all toads look exactly the same, even if it takes away somewhat from the moment... So, to keep costs down they populate the splatoon game with variations of inklings. At least they have more variation then toads.

[@IEatSignificantAmountsOfAss]

4th line 1st word. 3rd line 1st word. BETHESDA CONFIRMED

[@citrusblast4372]

Because they are at work

[@destinydavis7135]

They only come out at night to secretly play turf war and tower control

[@micahwissman7]

Vic Cole The squid sisters look like the citizens, maybe a bit older but they still look young

[@thereed2x283]

Marina is wearing the same gear in the octo expansion on 5:50

[@thegamerFOX45]

i remember that the inklings dont see anything weird in the octolings because they just think its an inkling with some sort of new hair style or something

[@soap3348]

In 4:26 if u look closely Agent 3 is in there

[@aspicottufafeh9769]

Spoiler alert: WARNING WARNING Me: I already finished the game i can spoil more :D

[@youngshadowsmolcute1230]

This story is AWESOME, but just to let you know, I don't think Marina is holding the Goggles.

[@EricksonGaming]

I thought the same thing at first, but she actually is. If you look where her... lady parts would be... you can see the lenses of the goggles. -Andres

[@johnmarcusengreso8273]

Somewhere a few months back I actually thought that marina was an inkling untill I played the og game which made me get back in the splatoon fandom to watch more videos of splatoon, and now that im more observant that marina WAS an octoling.

[@ansh2861]

Either ways, I want those terminator glasses

[@nunoosorio3832]

RaNdOmIzEd Stuff We may never have them. The armour and the boots are datamined, but not the glasses...

[@ansh2861]

Nuno Osório They may add them at a later date

[@nunoosorio3832]

RaNdOmIzEd Stuff If they are added as a cosmetic, they'll be just replicas.

[@appojuce1286]

Nuno Osório It'd be still cool though

[@doomster99]

Just like Erickson gaming said… maybe we will be octolings in the near future! Then there was Octo Expansion

[@tokenra563]

This is a rlly good theory that is obiously true. But since the new octo expansion came out we know that agent 8 woke up in a test facility and lost her memories. Maybe after getting off the glasses they lose thier memory and remember that the glasses the octolings wear compared to callies are alike BUT NOT THE SAME maybe marina lost her memory and if thats the case, aww poor marina! ps:this is not part of my theory but what if the inklings lied to marina and told her she was never fighting to octavios side.

[@FELCURE]

Cesar HH well agent 8 was as i think an inkling but then they turned her into an "octoling" That explains the dots on her tentacels and the one round and one inkling ear on her head... But im not sure

[@wyatt3740]

Cesar HH this actually makes sense because, when you free Callie she says, "I remember" because if the heavenly melody. So possibly the only reason she did t lose hers was because of the song?

[@arisen7513]

One little problem. It's been confirmed by the developers that DJ Octavio and his immediate subordinates used music to enslave the octarian population in Splatoon. The goggles from splatoon 1 have no mindcontrolling properties.

[@darkdragoness5]

Arisen that also ties in with the dialogue in the Octo Expansion. Both Captain Cuttlefish and Marina said that Calamari Inkatation is a special piece of music, and that there were Octolings with that song in their souls (like Agent 8 and Marina).

[@speedygus2564]

Token Ra (even though the theory isn’t true)

[@thomashoward8468]

he paid ZERO attention to the mind control goggles on the octolings

[@bettypet6999]

Dj Octavio "These octarians just get splatted, weak." *sees inklings fighting better* "Hmm, Ima get octolings to fight! Octo inklings" Octarians *stares at Octavio* "My father got splatted for you and you say we bad! I quit." Dj Octavio *stares, looks at "Splatted inklings from octarians", Splat count: 2* "Yea, Ima get octolings"

[@fronk8701]

ALSO THE DONT HAVE THE LINES THAT CONNECT THEIR EYES wait what

[@JermTheSigma]

Maybe she wants to be a good guy.

[@louise07hill]

Your right

[@Skully_Ded]

Goggles are before th calimarie incantation hypno shades in splatoon 2 because the octolings in splatoon 1 didn't learn what was happening due to DJ Octavio's anti inkling properganda but hearing the squid sisters made them realize that there's a outside world to experience so the shades are to keep any octoling on the side of DJ Octavio