Little Nightmares 2 Timeline Explained! | Little Nightmares 2 Theory

The timeline of little nightmares is incredibly confusing.
Some people think it's a sequel, others think it's a prequel.
In this video I offer one theory that could explain the timeline of little nightmares 2!
Trust me, it's not what you think!
This ties in very nicely with the timeline video made by! ‪@SuperHorrorBro‬
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[@TheSaharay1]

Time being broken would explain the broken clocks on the cover

[@moosh8707]

woah i never thought of that

[@toiletuser6988]

I think the game is definitely a sequel but the end is a loop where it turns back to the past and go back to the ending its a never ending loop this is my theory In the past,six went to the Maw to kill the lady but she lost half her soul in the future and decided to go there again In the future,six dropped mono and he becomes the thin man and he wanted to kill six in a loop where mono and six journey to the fall and becomes thin man over and over So in my opinion the loop already began when six was in the maw till the betrayal she did it in the past but the reason is in the future its like you can never go further within these 2 timelines it stuck in the middle

[@jmmanaloto1558]

@@toiletuser6988 for short, the timeline is f*cked

[@rrinnlonginus]

@@toiletuser6988 Good point. If a sequel has to happen, if it still is related to these 2 games, it must be introducing something/someone that would break the loop. But then it would mean that there was at least 1 thing that was not affected by the loop (it was not looping along, and decided to change something later on)

[@Buddhasenpai69]

@@toiletuser6988 I was thinking that the secret ending shadow of the girl was the real 6 using her dark magic to contact our new girl

[@cliosutherland2385]

It’s like a bad dream they can’t wake up from, hence why whenever you die you wake up at the last checkpoint

[@user-ur4hv1br2c]

That makes sense, I remember that when I was little I had a bad dream and years later I had the same dream but it continued.

[@yourcatscute7074]

That’s why it’s called little nightmares that makes sense

[@kaylaalannahunterhassen6880]

@@user-ur4hv1br2c That happend to me too it was weird and I just woke up after like I think a few minutes after just wondering why I had that dream again

[@babushkasnek3558]

@@user-ur4hv1br2c same i got three parts of the dream,still continuing,cant wait to see what happens next lmao.also sometimes the dream goes back in time for me and it will change like the entire storyline,when i finish the dream,it will repeat after a long time.

[@Bozitico]

Checkpoints are in other games. Like Bendy, or Roblox. But that don't mean it is a bad dream though!

[@nkondilis1997]

Prequelist: IT'S A PREQUEL Sequelist: IT'S A SEQUEL Tericho: *YES*

[@Kiltonenjoyer]

Ikr

[@RealBradMiller]

Not a sequel. Not a prequel. An equal.

[@Bob-thebuilder]

@@RealBradMiller sequel

[@zangyloveskawaii6003]

@@Bob-thebuilder nah

[@albedokreideprinz1012]

@@Bob-thebuilder equal 😌

[@rainbowbrony12]

IT'S A SEQUEL! IT'S A PREQUEL! FNaF Fans: "First time?"

[@ri1681]

Broooo u just reminded me of this

[@dice6650]

I'm bouta go through my second fnaf faze cuz of this

[@spiral_playz6195]

I can relate to this lol

[@angeline_27]

Lmao yes

[@ikaiju-eu9wn]

I thought about it too ps timeline is 4,5,2,1,3,6,ucn,help wanted,special delivery,security breach only games that i can't point out on the timeline are fnaf world and freddy in space 2, fis 2 takes p,ace after fnaf world becouse first fin was in fnaf world and it's definitely a sequel and now i think that fnaf world was happening in the same time as ucn becouse fnaf world enemies can sometimes spawn on your desk in ucn

[@nrgao]

Also, with your tv show theory, the comics are also labeled "episodes". I think you are definitely on the right track.

[@nikles1399]

Oof

[@izyoa260]

OMG BRO I LOVE STUFF LIKE THIS

[@Voidster101]

Can I give you my theory as a reply on this comment?

[@mslightbulb]

@@Voidster101 this is the internet, no one but KZbin’s censorship can tell you no. Even if they want to.

[@igorkieczka549]

Where can I read them

[@wren944]

is this what the creators meant when they announced that they were “making a tv show”? i was wondering how a tv show of little nightmares would work because there’s no dialogue, but if this is what they meant it makes so much sense

[@kijinyx]

:00000

[@AshPines_NH]

@Utara North I think it's supposed to be a Netflix show coming out later this year.

[@wren944]

@Utara North i know, but i'm pretty sure they announced a while ago that a tv show was being made

[@ariezon]

@@wren944 we'll see if what you said is right. Damn I'll scream your name if you were right.

[@wren944]

@@ariezon hehehe it probably isn't right

[@ichika4920]

I'm addicted to Little Nightmares theories lol

[@Tericho]

Same, I cannot stop thinking about the game!

[@lolcollin9055]

𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚘𝚕

[@Kiltonenjoyer]

Me too!

[@bigklittlekfoster8858]

Same

[@snowysecrets7362]

Mood lol

[@imjustelm]

the details of the antagonists already having suffered their defeats is such an excellent thing to point out, i’m blown away!! loving your videos!

[@arwynartsarchived551]

There was a lot of clocks throughout the game with random times that don’t make sense chronologically speaking, also is a big hint to time being messed up

[@edgymoji8260]

I sort of assumed that was meant to be a reference to how you can’t observe a clock working as it should in a dream/nightmare

[@stumbling_]

@@edgymoji8260 I assumed that with no one being of sane mind that the clocks all just eventually stopped/started to slow down.

[@Tacoo2skibidi]

I didn’t know if you knew this but in the hospital and there’s a door you can go behind and one of the bars are broken and you can go through there to get to a room with tally marks and a hole with a spoon right next to it...

[@ethanhughes8180]

Wait really, people need to know this. It could help understand!!

[@moonshinedreams3745]

If you read the comic app, it's a good nod to the Girl with the Spoon.

[@fussel676]

You have to go there because there is a glitchy remain. Btw its right before the hall oh all the arms

[@selsja8586]

YES WHEN I SAW THE ROOM THEN THE COMICS MY JAW DROPPED

[@sweettarts1285]

I saw a shadow near a bike and assumed that was lollipop kid, and maybe even the shadow in the wilderness is that one kid with a leaf hat?

[@jjcheng8647]

3:01 the signal tower makes it look like the thin man is wearing a transparent paper bag lol

[@Tericho]

Omg it does! nice spot!

[@Roman_Trickster]

wait didint see that

[@yudhadwiprabowo]

It does, lol

[@Roman_Trickster]

@Mono i thought....

[@Roman_Trickster]

@Monodont turn into me the room smells fishy (should call janitor)

[@ivon1671]

"The Maw is the only place in the world that makes sence" Remember that

[@Mewos-l8z]

I think at the secret ending six plans to go back to the maw because there's no life to consume unlike in the maw and in ln2 she's fading probably because she left the maw and couldn't find any life after

[@heisenberg4136]

@@Mewos-l8z I agree

[@metathesiophobia1039]

I believe the Maw is a refugee place...before the Lady starts doing witch magic. It would explain why the Maw always moves around every year as if the Lady is trying to escape the rays of the tower. The Lady must've been an inhabitant of the pale city which would explain the lady sculpture in a secret room, the painting of the teacher in the DLC, and so on. But then again the Maw could also be a restaurant this whole time and the Lady is just kidnapping children.

[@ivon1671]

@@metathesiophobia1039 a producer or something (I can't remember the name) said a few years ago that the maw was something else before. So you might be onto something

[@deliriousautist]

Tericho: Who would put number two on a prequel? Me: *laughs in fnaf lore*

[@soulsborne8292]

Laugh in red dead redemption 2

[@gabriel55671]

And me: *laughs in Devil May Cry*

[@catalyst539]

*laughs in xeno 2*

[@estrikapllani3159]

Also me: *Laughs in Bendy and The Dark Revival*

[@xxabsorbeochannelaxx1463]

Laugh in Angry Birds

[@uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweug185]

A key piece of the puzzle I believed you looked over is the hanging man, in LN1. Its clearly important as the camera pans on him, he also resembles the tall dude. Maybe we’re not dealing with different points in time but maybe different parallel universes mixing together, thus the glitched and seemingly out of place objects.

[@iroquoiskaram8639]

The Hanging man IS the Thin Man. The way the chair on the left distorts in height all the way to reach him looks VERY similar to the way the buildings in the Pale city are distorted and leaning towards the Signal tower, and many many things in the environments look the same.

[@juh.leeuhh]

Going with the tv theory, since the viewers are the huge eyeball monster in the tower could be symbolism that the viewers are the true gods of fictional realities

[@Tericho]

Yes! Changing the channel is literally godlike to people inside the TV!

[@Yokyle4356]

Little nightmares two reminds me episode from the Twilight Zone

[@captainrick4513]

I think people said that Zeno from DBS represented irl audience in the same way. Changing the channel is like basically erasing that universe.

[@canadianbacon8320]

@@Yokyle4356 which episode?

[@Yokyle4356]

@@canadianbacon8320 oh damn it's been such a long time I was 9 years old at the time I think it was a one word that guy I evolving around a clock in the guy with trap in a black and white world and he took too much time it shut and he was trapped in there forever I am trying to remember it was such a long time ago

[@bobatea2845]

"why would 2 come before 1???" ever heard of five nights at freddy's?

[@elitefdc2171]

Metal Gear Solid

[@faritt035]

Zelda

[@Xiauros]

does red dead count

[@angeline_27]

Y e s

[@PatchesNStitches]

Very true

[@kaylarivas2452]

The people who made the game: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN

[@aheenobarbushenocied9880]

ikr :D

[@therunawaykid6523]

Me trying to understand this theory: er.......🤯

[@Tay20]

Right they make things up as they go.

[@WauryD]

Honestly I feel like if this isn’t it, the bar is very high for them to give a better explanation.

[@captainrick4513]

Sadly, they've abandoned it, let's hope the next devs if any will look at these theories and try to make something cohesive yet original.

[@BasementDweller_]

We don’t see 6 pick up the rain coat in Very Little Nightmares. It probably washed up on shore and got picked up and dropped off in the city.

[@yougurt7593]

Yeah that does make sense

[@mememe1468]

i don know. it was pretty deep in the city.

[@thisdraco4794]

@@mememe1468 The wind is a strong and determined thing. Especially in the Little Nightmares universe.

[@fennecwolfox]

@@thisdraco4794 Also, there can be more than one raincoat.

[@lordofallusion5862]

TV is a weird time loop as it is. A little portal that can take you to different times(reruns) or show the world in different ways. You can watch half an episode of Friends, turn it off, and then come back later and finish. If you watch Season 1 of the Sopranos for the first time in 2011, The finale season has already aired.

[@lordofallusion5862]

Excellent video, not confused at all, tbh.

[@kiefxd-musicandcovers5903]

The tv theory reminds me of how WandaVision's tv thing works, the more far away you go from Wanda, you stop moving or you're stuck in a loop animation, kinda like when you get far away from the Signal Tower, you cant move at all

[@Teflora]

Amazing theory, I like it a lot! It also reminds me of Schrödingers cat, that things only "happen" when they're observed! The eyes could be the observer and everything in the signal could be the cat! Everythings happens and doesn't happen, it's more of a cloud of probabilities! Not infinite possibilities, but multiple ones, and each game is a certain collapse of them into one. Something along those lines haha

[@Tericho]

Oooft, the "observer" part of your theory could absolutely explain some of the mysteries of the eye!

[@jamiestanway4530]

I think the eye just shows the evil in the signal tower like the goopy mess has so many eyes

[@walking_deaddd4626]

Dark TV Show

[@thevioletskull8158]

The problem with the cat thing is that is is happening just because we don’t see it,dosen’t mean it isn’t happening

[@Teflora]

@@thevioletskull8158 if you read my comment further, I explain what I meant by "happen". It's the probabilities collapsing into a stable state.

[@iris-evelina6152]

Your theory actually makes sense, I'm obsessed with LN theories :)))) My take on it is that it's actually a nightmare (like the name implies) that is happening very randomly like a dream would do, and the "scenes" that they come across are actually real life traumas, like maybe the "hunter" was the representation of a grampa who likes to hunt animals and taxidermy them which is very scary, and next it's the school where are bullies everywhere and the teacher is very strict and the long neck might represent the fact that they are always watching our every move.. the doctor might represent the take on a kid to his work, like people go there to "fix" themselves and they become other beings after surgery or something like that. The TV part with the Thin Man is representing people who are brainwashed by technology.. Maybe this is all just in the head of a mentally ill kid who has hallucinations or something.. I dunno, can't ramble too much tho, it's just an idea😂😂

[@MiraMirror]

Tericho, what if the tally marks are for each 'episode'/loop of the time before kids are meeting their deaths? I think that would be very spooky

[@prettyoriginalnameprettyor7506]

I was thinking that too, a way of marking each time they’ve been through. Reminds me of “the silence” from doctor who where they tally themselves to remind them how many times they’ve seen an enemy that instantly wipes their memory once looked away from

[@EllaP593]

Oh dang this makes so much sense wtf??

[@1bingbongtingtong1]

Oh that's really dark. But I love that theory.

[@corporalanonymous4589]

Gamers: Is LN2 a prequel or a sequel? Developers: Yes

[@TheSaharay1]

The names of some of the songs off the soundtrack lend to your theory as well "Captive Audience", "Disposable Entertainment"... that sounds like TV/Programmer speak to me

[@BeshenayaVishnya]

Good one

[@pekopekoyama537]

I think the Thin man was trying to help Mono so that he didn’t die

[@appl3death]

Little nightmare's timeline: This Zelda time line: FINALLY! A WORTHY OPPONENT! OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY!

[@Yokyle4356]

I activate my trump card little nightmares 3 that destroys the whole time space continuum

[@LFMguitar]

Fnaf timeline: Fools

[@Luxstar13]

Kingdom hearts : did someone say *TIMELINE*

[@Yokyle4356]

@@Luxstar13 🚪 open the door noting bad will happen 😉

[@captainrick4513]

@@Luxstar13 Metal Gear Solid: Pathetic.

[@twst3177]

to back up your theory I noticed at the very start of the game when you go inside the tunnel and move around a bit you’ll notice mono touching the fourth wall (us the viewers) the exact way he touches the tv screens to teleport!

[@userblock5086]

I don't even understand the theories but still addicted to it

[@Ace_747]

Yes me too

[@quazzhd3583]

Littile Nightmares 2: my timeline is very confusing Five Nights at Freddy's: First time?

[@SirenHead00]

scp: amateurs

[@chibi_okami]

Bruh

[@chibi_okami]

I know FNAF since 2016 but I'm still confused till this day even after I watched game theories

[@sammich1009]

Legend of Zelda: 😌😌

[@cbellostudios6386]

I mean there are such things as prequel sequels.

[@nathanielmalikgan5527]

Fnaf 2 is an example

[@cronicunknown8989]

@@nathanielmalikgan5527 why explain never played fnaf 2

[@jamiestanway4530]

Prequal no debate lol

[@mike-ns6sw]

@@cronicunknown8989 five nights at freddy's 2 is a prequel to fnaf 1 So saying little nightmares 2 is a sequel to ln1 just because it's got a 2 doesn't really hold up

[@PrimalDragon1740]

@@nathanielmalikgan5527 So is Nioh 2 in a sense

[@Skemati]

If your theory is correct then it may explain a few things. Like inside the school notice how some of the students already have their heads cracked. Maybe they were already killed by Mono before and after. Another thing is that one of the traps where a light swings down and hits the table notice how theres actually a mark on the table where the light hits the table. I'm guessing this is because this trap has been setup many times and has damaged the table multiple times before and after. And if your theory is correct it could also explain the very distorted and weird looking enemies you see. This part might sound confusing but let me just try to explain. This may be because their bodies are still aging but not really at the same time. For example they do not get hungry because it stays the same and their body does not grow taller or smaller. However their body textures and facial do change. So what I think is happening that they are aging and they are getting to a point that is beyond old. Their weird distorted faces form because they are growing up but because since they can't die of old age they go to a point that is beyond old. Does not make sense i'm not sure if i'm making sense. But i hope some of you guys understand.

[@interdimensional4288]

That makes a lot of sense actually. Like, they are growing and aging disproportionately. And, the "bosses" or the main antagonists are in the latter stages of what will eventually happen to the viewers that escape. It makes you wonder if the longer this cycle goes on, the more warped and twisted the world and people will get until the "game" is unplayable because everything is falling apart and just barely alive. What I said is not really a theory because there's no evidence, but it's cool to think about.

[@esh8426]

In the little nightmares comics its shown a little boy with a lollipop defending himself from the bullies/students. He used his lollipop to crack the porcelain so that may be how some students have their heads cracked.

[@mercury8349]

But the dolls’ heads are not in fragments like how you see in the games. I believe it’s from that kid with the lolipop and basically the dolls’ general roughness, the only doll head that doesn’t shatter when six or mono kills the doll is the one in the kitchen that mono uses, and it’s been a while but I think that shatters too after mono is done with it. But I do believe that we didn’t cause what happens to the monsters. It could be explained that the hunter couldn’t get a mask one way or another and uses a bag as a substitute, because if you take a close look, six and mono don’t shoot it in the face, they shoot in the general torso region, I think majority of the weird things are from the interference of the tower, like the hunter using the arm with stuffing in it like a regular arm, the same could be said for the teacher’s neck too because if it’s already been twisted and elongated then why isn’t her neck twisted in game, or why can she still breathe? Also the doctor’s “ashes” could be pieces of the ceiling falling and it’s just barely holding him up because we actually see the ceiling bend while he’s on it, the next thing is that the buildings are aged and some are not aged as much, but when the thin man is chasing mono if you manage to get quite far away time actually returns to normal, I believe this “field” of slowed time is the reason why some buildings are aged more than that of others, maybe mono learns to pretty much control the signal that the tower is putting out and thus is able to literally teleport through TVs or change his distance from the tower to him, maybe he learns that he can output the signal, and the tower is just using him to output the signal 24/7 and thus wanes because of the constant use, which also explains why mono bests the thin man and this is the tower replacing the thin man because his power has waned too much, and the tower is using the signal to absorb the life force of the viewers and thus dementing their face and extended exposure allows them use a concentrated burst of energy to kill. There are probably some holes in my theory but I think the theory in the video also has some holes too, like how did roger escape the signal if he was there?

[@hollywebber1461]

So happy I found these videos, so interesting and its cool to read so many theories!

[@Tericho]

I'm so happy you are enjoying them!

[@jamiestanway4530]

Me too those 3 dislikes just not getting it

[@anaburgos2829]

Your welcome

[@prettyoriginalnameprettyor7506]

That’s the best thing about this fandom, so many ways to interpret this game

[@annana6098]

I like the idea of Six looping with Mono and figuring out what is going on and potentially trying to save Mono from the loop, and realizing that she can only escape without him. So not only has she suffered some variation of everything that happens to her in this run, but she's done it several times and has reached her limit. If he comes with her, his power comes with him, and she hasn't found any way to stop it.

[@thelionking1899]

In little nightmares 1 the ending when the thin man was on the tv when the cradit finish and there is a room which looks like the one which is 6:13 and is same in 15:34. And your theory makes so much sense Edit : WOW I got so many like thanks guys!.

[@toiletuser6988]

So it could be one of the fat man in the first game that smoke also the developers said this game is a SEQUEL

[@user-jk6iu6lf6b]

@@toiletuser6988 yeah I tried to explain that to the People who said it's a Prequel that the Game is in Truth a Sequel but they won't believe me. I mean like the Devs even directly said it's a Sequel and I said that to them too but they still didn't believe me!

[@bakhurr]

Good idea, the room you're talking about is the room Mono gains the tv remote tho.

[@FemmeAngel]

@@user-jk6iu6lf6b i mean there are things as sequel prequel

[@user-jk6iu6lf6b]

@@FemmeAngel well yeah but LN2 is a Sequel

[@hielokit-kat1232]

I feel like when Six got her rain coat, it made her slowly, and slightly evil. Because in the beginning of Little Nightmares 2, she doesn’t seem hostile. She’s friendly to Mono, she even helps him. But she doesn’t seem all interested in his adventure. As you can see when you get to the school, she plays with the toys on the playground, and only follows Mono after a moment or two. But when she gets her rain coat, she slowly becomes evil. She can still control herself, but she can’t sometimes. Remember when she..well, eats the gnome in Little Nightmares 1? Well, if you look up while she’s doing that, you can see a glitch of herself. The glitch that you can she of her in Little Nightmares 2. I believe that her glitch is the evil part of her. Yes, the glitch helped Mono find Six in the second game, but as you keep dying as you are fighting Six, i think that’s what the glitch is trying to actually do is not help you. It wasn’t to kill you. And you may be wondering “well, if she becomes evil, why is she nice to the gnomes in the first game?” Well, like I said before, she CAN control herself. Rarely, but she can overcome the evil in her. This theory I have makes me believe that yes, Little Nightmares takes place in the past, not in the future. Hope you enjoyed reading this :) (I haven’t watched the whole video, I’ve been writing this whilst listen ING to the video, so tell me if he said any of this in the video please ;-;)

[@ipeknaz097]

I partially agree with this. Six really cared about Mono. She helped him many times protected him and trusted him -and even when she was a monster she didn't hurt Mono until Mono broke the musicbox. She really sees Mono as her friend, if she didn't why would she pull Mono out of the TV so many times or why would she catch him in the first place (even though he would drop him) in the final scene? If this was a real betrayal she would have kept running without looking back I think the raincoat is from RCG and she wasn't a very nice guy either (she closed the door in Six's face, ik se did this to protect herself. But if we look at it that way, Six left Mono for the same reason). Glitches spotted after catching Thinman Six, so this has nothing to do with the raincoat And I think Six not evil kid dhe's just a survivalist (the 2. game of about says so in the about Six section) and she's doing to do anything for it. She didn't hurt the other nomes cuz she's not a sadist. She doesn't hurt anyone for no reason. But if she's in trouble, she does it (the nome RK, Lady and Mono where he left his hand. I still don't think what her did to Mono was betrayal but whatever)

[@Sqquidd.]

I love the pictures in each game showing up both places. I found a small portrait of a porcelain kid with a broken head in the lady’s quarters in the LN1 DLC. I know there’s others like the teacher but for some reason a porcelain kid picture blew my mind haha. Deciphering every photo and drawing gives so many clues and I get so frustrated when it’s too dark or blurry to fully see. It’s interesting that residents would have photos of the teacher and school children in their houses though

[@corporalanonymous4589]

This is actually makes sense. Remember there are six children in one picture... I forgot but I've seen a picture where there are Six children. If you combine the boss from LN1 and LN2, there are six bosses.

[@mary-gaby1809]

Six...

[@detroxphen2422]

There aren't six bosses.

[@Shrederthank]

You know what this theory is my favourite so far this actually makes a lot of sense based on what we see in little nightmares 2 and what you said in this video like it

[@lukehayward3884]

This actually makes so much sense thank you for explaining it

[@hootertooter4005]

I believe that all the scattered tuxedos are remains of the previous thin men

[@edgymoji8260]

I was thinking maybe that’s what the flesh and eyes are made of, all the people just snatched and melded together

[@therunawaykid6523]

@@edgymoji8260 kind of like the hive in inside

[@drag0n01]

@@edgymoji8260 if u look at some old concept art u see they get. Sucked in TVs and dropped into the squirming abyss

[@iroquoiskaram8639]

Damn this is crazy. I really hope we get to see a LN3 game.

[@buffgamer1017]

I was hoping to see a dlc for ln2

[@iroquoiskaram8639]

@@buffgamer1017 Same.

[@22Owls]

I want either DLC for LN2, LN3, or just a new game

[@iroquoiskaram8639]

@@22Owls I want anything related to Little Nightmares

[@brandonhicks9926]

Your hopes have been fulfilled

[@acestalwart8682]

I like to think that when Six is kidnapped she’s spat out a tv and landed on the suitcase in the first game. So while Mono is trying to save her, Six is experiencing what happens over and over in the first game in a time loop and the repeated gaining of the black magic warps her. She treasures the magic box because the music is something peaceful in the world of their enemies. So the suitcase by her when Mono gets to her is her being spat out the tv above it out of the viewer’s sight and she is warped and stretched because of the repeated dark magic gain and loss

[@peanutmuttplays104]

Dang, Tericho is really thinking fourth dimensionally here.

[@luckyella]

This is a really good theory! I've been watching alot of theory videos on this game and its good to see so many and that they all make sense in its own way. This one particularly connects alot of dots which I didn't even think of. Great job!

[@GhostWhatcher]

FINALLY a little nightmares theory that takes everything into account

[@alisha5207]

Even the confusion is confused. 👁️👄👁️

[@TheSnoozeFox]

the devs and writers behind this series are amazing, it really is a modern day gothic fairytale. Feels a lot like the old brothers Grimm stories but modernised.

[@Roman_Trickster]

Thin man is confused *I left the server*

[@los4338]

are you mono ?🎤

[@Roman_Trickster]

@@los4338 the older version of mono

[@jotarokujo5059]

Yare yare

[@Coopkeke]

Love your pfp 😎

[@vunknownvictory]

@@v6valkyrie well what are you going to say?

[@matty_mather]

This is such an interesting theory and not one I would’ve ever thought of myself! Time is definitely broken and distorted in this world and the reason I believe they decided to make it that way is that it allows for so much theorising and speculation, makes things less predictable and opens up opportunities for them to pretty much anything they want with the series without it having to follow a chronological order.

[@skyrogue1977]

If a DLC comes out, it could add to this theory.

[@SirenHead00]

it could be you playing as the dead guy on the chess board

[@carrotisalie]

There is one (nome's attic) but I don't know if it adds much to the timeline

[@catalyst539]

@@carrotisalie, the only thing it adds is nomes in the pale city

[@therunawaykid6523]

@@SirenHead00 interesting......

[@therunawaykid6523]

@@carrotisalie I would say it adds nothing to the timeline I hope we get extra dlc chapters of the comic book kids

[@avatarsumual4513]

Little nightmare 1 : so, do you want to be a Prequel or a Sequel Little nightmare 2 : yes

[@azmoazmoazmo]

The maneguins seem to actually have human torsos, so they arent fully inanimate. Just a lil detail i noticed. Still this is a great theory!

[@chewykoifish2070]

@@v6valkyrie There's actually a theory that since the signal tower seems to keep the souls of the dead stuck in place (the glitches), the doctor used that to keep his patients alive. So he gave them hooks, mannequin parts, etc. and then put their glitched souls back into their new bodies. This also fits because they freeze when light is shined on them, like the bright surgery lights the doctor may have used.

[@iroquoiskaram8639]

10:49 best part of your theory. It makes sense especially because you can hear the doctor breathing heavily and acting very rushed when chasing you, knocking over shelves and destroying so many patient parts on the way to get you. And when you burn him, he starts crying... as if this really happened to him before.

[@its_ethan6614]

That theory have a lot of logic, I understand more now.

[@sixxityy]

Another thing that could stretch further into this, the reason behind the pale city crumbling could be because its been so worn out by the fights that have happened throughout the 'tv show', which caused them to break. Also, when we go closer to the Thin Man, we can see him glitching out, which happens when Mono starts deteriorate near the TV's. This could be because the Thin man has been defeated, and we can clearly see the particles that appear on screen when the Thin Man is defeated, and they do indeed seem very similar.

[@puurfectlysplendid]

I love this theory! This makes so much sense and gives so much meaning. Hopefully we could see some of the stories about Veronica in the next little nightmares 3. She seems very interesting

[@haremk1ng]

16:56 the real answer to those questions

[@peanutmuttplays104]

If this had been a try not to laugh challenge, I lost at 1:40. That Mono scream was too much. XD

[@Yokyle4356]

I started this video from the time it started from the time it ended how did I miss that how did I miss that I must be stuck in a loop to

[@yourcomrade4803]

I realize that in the end, six leaves through a TV, furthermore proving that they were stuck in a channel or “episode”.

[@mastatheif9909]

PREQUEL! easily since she doesn't have her powers or her iconic suit till the end where you can audibly hear her stomach rumble

[@Derakon_]

I agree completely! Did everyone forget about that x.x?

[@mastatheif9909]

@@v6valkyrie it's a prequel and a sequel for the box head character cause we see him turn into the thin man but Six escapes the town and gets the hunger after she betrays him, can't be a sequel without the signature hunger we know she doesn't have cause she had powers

[@mastatheif9909]

@@v6valkyrie like what? Her in the pink room is literally her with the music box from the beginning of the game,

[@mastatheif9909]

@@v6valkyrie ....? Superhorrorbros has a timeline vid so we better watch it for different perspectives

[@mastatheif9909]

@@v6valkyrieit seems like the tower can distort the time like he said because of mono being in the paradox the time doesn't change for 6 but we see stuff from the future in the pink room because the tower already saw it inside of the maw since we also saw the same eye character in it

[@_linski_8924]

I have a question- what exactly did the developers said about the game being a sequel? Is it possible that the true message behind it was that LN 2 is a sequel to very little nightmares? But, on the other hand- I can really imagine the developer saying this was a sequel, implementing the time travel that is possible through television and knowing that none of the readers would understand at this point...

[@jamiestanway4530]

I also believe the taxidermied family are like the maniquans at the hospital. The light above them hold them still but when it goes dark they can move. This makes the hunter much more interesting and bigger part of the game.

[@jamiestanway4530]

And you can see the bullet didn't go into his face it was a body shot 🤣 I'm proving all this wrong.

[@Slipperyslab]

@@jamiestanway4530 the bullet couldve hit his arm which is why it looks like it’s ripping

[@pavolkucera7458]

If it is Little Nightmares 2 by naming standers it's a sequel. FNAF: That statement was false by many means

[@_elenaio_]

1:28 the mufasering made my day. Also, impressive theory!

[@Tericho]

Haha thanks! I am glad my short film was appreciated xD

[@fIorapetals]

This theory legitimately blew me away. I love watching these kinds of videos but I’m garbage at picking apart every little detail like this. When you pointed out that the hunter’s bullet hole could’ve been caused by US because we shot them and that the doctor is already ashy (something I didn’t notice because of the darkness of that level and my tendency to tune out particle effects) because we led him into the incinerator I had to cover my mouth and just thought “WOAH. That’s crazy but it makes so much sense!” Very well done my friend!

[@ThePhantomKing]

2:06 *Red Dead Redemption II entered the chat* So if this is a true sequel, the secret ending has to mean Six is going back to the Maw to stay and become the Lady and her powers only work at the Maw.

[@emerakii]

One thing that i think is worth mentioning whenever i see all this stuff about the hunter covering himself with the bag after death is that his design seems much more based around him being chosen to be shot or killed by someone else. People set to be executed used to have sacks tied over their heads (notice the rope on him too), but you also see victims about to be shot by assassins/kidnappers or something often covered up in movies. This point leaves it pretty vague as to why someone else would have him prepared to be killed rather than a sudden shooting like with six and mono, but it still seems like it holds up imo

[@adnane627]

I think it’s a sequel because the devs clearly said it and because of the suitcase with monster six as well as other items related to the maw meaning she’s already been there. Also people think it’s a prequel because of the raincoat but we saw that she got that already in very little nightmares. I think she dropped it after coming from the maw. What indications are there for that? There are drawings of nomes AND it is in a place full of boxes and mails. Maybe here the maw and the pale city are connected, sending boxes and other items from one place to the other. Probably she got here from the maw and maybe left the raincoat to hide better. Why does she not use her powers? There could be many reasons tbh. Maybe using the powers has consequences. Maybe they’re afraid. Maybe something else. Ultimately Mono also has powers which he only uses once against the thin man. Why not before that? Also when she takes her raincoat in LN2 the light flickers the same way it does when she has hunger or when she gets the lady’s powers. Maybe an indication she has the powers. Why at the end would she want to go back to the maw? Simply because of her hunger. It’s the only place she can eat. So after killing the lady she’ll go back. Keep the maw running. Invite guests. Eat the guests and keep her hunger under control. Maybe even become the lady or just a lady. Also I remember hearing that Six was fading, maybe it was mentioned on the website. So what if her eating is to keep herself (her glitch maybe) from fading. That’s why she’ll have to go back to the maw. Just a theory though, obviously.

[@_Gouki]

Exactly! When six escapes the TV at the end of little nightmares 2, then begins her journey into little nightmares 1. Also when playing little nightmares 2 you can see many clocks throughout the game and they are all stuck at different times, it could just be coincidental but there are so many intentionally placed around the game it seems purposeful.

[@The_Desert_Hero]

After the Devs statement today it looks like we might not get Little Nightmares 3 considering Tarsier Studios is done with the franchise as they want to create new IPs.

[@KvngLeroy1]

Why would they end it like thisss? Ahhhhh

[@AlbertusSalvatierra]

Welp. I hope we get a DLC that set things straight :/

[@Tericho]

Where is this statement? I can't seem to find it?

[@The_Desert_Hero]

@@KvngLeroy1 It said in the statement that they're looking to create new IPs. It's a bit stupid if you ask me, Little Nightmares has a huge fanbase!

[@KvngLeroy1]

@@The_Desert_Hero pain😔🔫

[@prettyoriginalnameprettyor7506]

Also explains why all the clocks in the game show random times rather than being consistent whilst the ones in the maw seem to work. Pale city is preserved in a bubble created by the signal tower that breaks time and space meaning the effects of events happen before and after the events happen like time travel, maybe the “nightmares” hate six and mono because they’ve already been killed by them. This fits in well with the lady theory and why she’s so scared of six. One small thing is that the doctor could just be covered in ash because he burns a lot of patients, he is “obsessed with perfection” after all.

[@waifu-of-cthulhu6080]

Broke: It's a sequel Woke: It's a prequel Big Brain: It's a midquel Ascended: There is no time line, because time doesn't exist in this world. The Eldritch blob of eyes doesn't permit it.

[@carrotisalie]

Decended: we as the players/viewers are the Eldritch blob

[@dundyne]

Idk if you talked about it and I just forgot but: when you enter the tower you're suddenly in a place that looks like an orphanage. When I played the first time I totally missed the time loop clues and I love this theory but I especially like the idea of six growing up in the orphanage, only owning what she had in that suitscase and then attending the school where she was treated very poorly by the other kids as we see when she gets taken by them and hung by the cieling. The music box is a symbol of her trauma and I think its interesting how she clings to it in the end game, refusing to let it go even though it corrupts her. Either that or it could resemple some sort of goodness in her that you destroy. The door you constantly have to crack open also has a lot of symbolism behind it and I love it. I also like the idea of six seeing monos face clearly for the first time when she lets him go, realising he grows up to be the thin man. Maybe she let him go thinking it would prevent that from happening, not realising this event is the beginning of mono becomming him.

[@cainhurst7546]

I love hearing your point of view, first I still need to play DLC in first game but you know what, I’m just gonna hear u out anyways cause your too entertaining to sit down, eat, and listen to Edit: my god I agree with this theory it makes so much sense!! More sense than I though!!

[@Tericho]

Thank you! I am really glad you enjoy my content! :D

[@cainhurst7546]

@@Tericho this makes so much sense just watched 2/3 of vid so far keep up the content!

[@thatbarkingdog]

i really love these theories. Keep up the good work sir

[@chairmankurihara8658]

Prequel or Sequel? Mr. Marklovitz: **snaps finger** Yes!

[@jakewoodhouse9817]

I have a bit of a mini-theory that works with the time loop theory: the mono and six we play as in the games are actually the seventh loop. The original mono and six (I'm just going to refer to them as the Powers collectively) ran into each other in a similar situation to LN2, but six never betrays mono, nor does she steal a bit of his powers and thus fracture her soul. Instead she keeps the original version of her absorption ability, that being contact instead of consumption. The years pass, the Powers grow up and find ways to boost their abilities or get around downsides, but one day they do an experiment that involves combining the supernatural forces they control. And it goes wrong. They are sent out of the timeline partially, in a constant loop. And their abilities have changed as well, while not able to be used on each other, they have gained new facets. Six could now project abilities like a SIGNAL booster, but whenever she absorbed something it would add to her biomass. She would become the signal tower. Mono could now control people's minds and draw them to him, but using the power on machines like he used to would cause him to slowly absorb the device, causing him to grow in size and become more technological. He would become the maw. They realise this, and anchor the loop around themselves and decide to look after each others counterpart, before going to different locations and letting their abilities to take over to become the forces we know now. Okay, read that back and noticed that it isn't a mini theory, more a full theory mixed with headcanon.

[@emiliolira5118]

If thin man (mono) is trappeded in the signal tower how he hung himself in the maw? as we see in the first game.

[@SirenHead00]

thats not thin man

[@SirenHead00]

or it could be thin man but one of his attempts to break the loop which didn’t work

[@charybdis7958]

that's not guarrented to be the thin man

[@blackadder5346]

Definitely added a lot more to the paradox theory. Loved this.

[@outlawruby]

So that could explain the hunter’s behavior. He is trying to hunt down the people who will shoot him because he was already shot by them.

[@dafilmqueen556]

If I had a nickel for every time I saw a theorist make a theory video about an fandom being set in a television show, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but I love that it’s happened twice. First Alex Bale, and now Tericho. My man, you made a great theory, so I salute you and hope you can make more compelling theories coming forward..

[@Mooncake26]

I’m a little confused with the hunter one because he was shot in the stomach But I’m a idiot so I don’t know anything

[@rejectsociety3525]

I was thinkin that too but maybe he gets shot in a different place everytime

[@therunawaykid6523]

@@rejectsociety3525 so is the hunter immortal?

[@SirenHead00]

@@therunawaykid6523 yes he keeps getting shot and keeps recovering over and over , but his wounds stay. Probably from previous mono and six and there previous and their previous n so on

[@Mooncake26]

Oh OK That explains it

[@trekadouble757]

Some types of hunting guns fire bullets that explode in many little pieces like a grenade of some sort. Maybe that could explain why he would seem like he had been shot in multiple places.

[@Koretheroy]

my head hasn't hurt this much since the five nights at freddys timeline i hope they make a DLC or even a little nightmares 3 but idk how they are going to do that because everything is like a time paradox

[@pootispaghetti]

I'd love to see a list of all the paintings and your thoughts on them, I haven't seen a list of them anywhere for either game yet which is surprising

[@4evermilkman]

This is the most brilliant theory I have heard. I think you nailed it man! With your theory uts possible that Little Nightmares takes place, while Six is stuck in the TV, and ends when Mono pulls her out. Probably not, but its possible. You are definitely an outside thinker :) in so glad you are reaching out to play other games and not burning yourself out on Dbd because you are better than that!

[@tomparkesgames9768]

How did the raincoat get there maybe like other clothes around the city

[@maxclark4957]

it seems very similar to the pretenders powers from very little nightmares. they are actually linked because the teacher is the pretenders mother and her father is the hanged man, from little nightmares 1

[@dylantb619]

in the room we find six in, it looks like she drew an image of the signal tower on the wall. this implies that she has been to the pale city before, which means she could have left the coat there.

[@KvngLeroy1]

We see clothes and people drop from the sky as well as in the tvs, safe to say that the entity is able to absorb people and add their flesh to itself.

[@SirenHead00]

in the city people disappeared and clothes only remained what if that was another six that vanished with them? and six arrives at the vanished six to pick up coat. time is really fu**ed

[@chocilota]

I actually had a similar theory about the Thin Man. Time and space are wrapped in the Signal Tower. So when Mono gets trapped in the Signal Tower, he is in it and also not in it across all time, kind of existing in his own timeline, until the next Mono frees him which ties him back into the next Mono’s timeline. Kind of like schrödinger’s cat, that is both dead and alive until someone opens the box, which solidifies the cat into one of the two states. Or I guess like tv episodes.

[@_deletus_]

13:52 “Notice the mic boom arm and the twisty face guy!” *Which one?*

[@Tericho]

One of them is found in pictures throughout LN1 and 2.

[@etopihpih2234]

14:04 " maybe all that I've work on is not exactly true.. BUT it's awesome to think it is" XD

[@shibedogg1767]

The chair that mono sits on at the end of the game is the same chair we see near the start of little nightmares 1 where a tall person presumably hung themselves.

[@Xainos28]

So here's a thought about Spoon girl or 3 as some people call her. The reason her nose is always bleeding is she's in something called a Temporal Displacement, where she's stuck outside of the timeline and as you said, it's like a tv show, so it's stuck on rerun constantly to where she always loop back, this is why whens he digs her hole, she ends up back where she was and how she keeps getting a spoon when it breaks. Also fun fact: If you go to her room in game and jump down the hole, you don't travel anywhere, you die, but you hear lots of squeak sounds as if the girl may have died to a rat infestation maybe?

[@AlbertusSalvatierra]

It would be interesting to know what an un-altered Viewer would look like. Though the many advertisements scattered throughout the city portray the citizens as eyeless, which is a bit odd because of how accurate it is. So does that mean that the Thin Man’s signal has been going on for much longer than we think. And how long does it take for a Little Nightmares human to grow? Based off of what we see in the Hunter’s cabin and with Mono, the children are incredibly small up until they reach puberty, which is when they grow incredibly tall, though only certain individuals grow to be as tall as the Thin Man or Lady. This is also also shown with the Hunter, Teacher, and Viewers, as all three are relatively the same height- meaning that they are what is to be considered the average height for a full-grown adult in the LN universe. Also, what exactly is the setting? The Pale City seems to be fashioned after an early to mid 20th century Japan. To further this, the many advertisements are in Kanji. The Governess is also a Geisha and her Maw is a mixture between Industrial and Edo Japanese architecture, and her guests are seen wearing Kabuki masks.

[@Slipperyslab]

I like this

[@AlbertusSalvatierra]

@@Slipperyslab Thanks

[@paperfadora7709]

THIS THEORY WAS FRICKIN CONFIRMED WITH THE AUDIO SERIES OMG TERICHO YOU ARE A GENIUS

[@gruffin7760]

Statement about the "every 2 usually happens after the first" the game series known as FNAF has other opinions, because that game jumps around the timeline like hopscotch.

[@CrazedFROG]

i also noticed that there is night time from the begining until the end which doesnt make sense for a small kid to do all of that in one night in terms of speed and not get to the next day?, so maybe the present is broken or in shock,or that just could be because of nightmares are always dark and takes a really long period to recover/wake up

[@Mewos-l8z]

The way I'm watching this at 1am and knowing I wouldn't be able to sleep after it but this more important anyway

[@_starcrabs_1325]

i agree. i haven’t completely finished the game yet but looking back on what i’ve played so far it makes sense. maybe LN1 was a bonus episode? like an episode staring the other main character on a different set? or even a different show and the same actors. 🤯

[@jchadwell4279]

The mini film...lol

[@azurebluefox2437]

Another thing about reliving the same timeline, When you Die, you re-spawn right before the event (for obvious game reasons) Rewinding or purgatory. Does this help with the Theories? Cause some games like Undertale did this that when you reload, your actions are remembered, but un-done. also, nice to have found your channel man, I saw you grow from the hundreds. im Happy for you, you seem like a nice guy :)