The Stanley Parable: Not Stanley Ending

The Not Stanley Ending is the ending that occurs when you unplug the phone after taking the cargo lift across the Warehouse without jumping off of it.
Obtaining The Ending
Exit Stanley's office. At the 2 doors, pick the one on the right. Proceed through the Employee Lounge and walk past the open door on the left. Enter the Shipping and Receiving Room and take the cargo lift across. Enter the Phone Room and unplug the phone from the wall. As The Narrator finds out that you're not Stanley, you will be shown an interesting video on decision making, then be led back to the Two Doors Room. The Narrator will brief you on what Stanley would do in this scenario, and then presents you with the same left-right choice as the first time.
If you enter the right door, the hallway will appear to have been drastically changed due to "narrative contradiction", as the Narrator puts it. Exiting the hallway and going through the left door will prove futile, as the Meeting Room has also succumbed to chaos. The Narrator becomes furious and shuts down the game. The player reappears in a partially-destroyed Two Doors Room. The Narrator comments on how you could have gone through the left door, making everything fine and grand.
If you enter the left door, the game will progress as it normally would have, but the option to descend the staircase is blocked by an extended railing. Upon entering the Boss' Office, you are presented with a voice receiver, instead of a numeric password, in order to access the Mind Control Facility. Because the player cannot speak and the game does not employ any usage of an internal or external microphone, the Narrator grows angry once more. He becomes furious at you for mocking him, and comments on how you could have gone through the right door and done "whatever the hell [you] wanted" after your choice.
The Ending
When both endings have been performed once, the player will teleport over the ceiling of the Two Doors Room (within the scope of this ending) and look at Stanley for the first time. The player has detached themself from Stanley's body, leaving the latter motionless and unable to think for himself. The credits will roll as the Narrator becomes worried over Stanley's inability to do anything.
Trivia
-Originally the Not Stanley Ending would be obtained by not answering the phone in the Phone Room less than 15 seconds, as seen on the Museum.
-The office uses the same green wallpaper that is used in the Green room in the demonstration.
-During the Not Stanley Ending, it is possible to walk around on the cargo bay floor, because Stanley isn't meant to be able to get there. This can only be achieved with cheats.
-That is, of course, unless you back out of the blocked lift after unplugging the phone. You aren't meant to do this, and since it is actually a completely different map, you can walk on the ground (due to no code existing to stop you).
Walkthrough Credits: thestanleyparab...

[@Nexsusthepro]

I love the line "Whatever choice you make is just fine they're both correct, you can not be wrong here we can work together, I'll accept whatever you do".

[@gulzaarbains7908]

Voice actors deserve just as much credit as regular actors because they can make you feel something the same way as normal actors with just there voice

[@Her_Imperious_Condescension]

This is the only ending that actually gives you credits. So I wonder if this means that breaking out of Stanley is the real ending.

[@picoultimate7707]

Well, the Museum Ending has credits on one of its walls as well.

[@KenDuntington]

@@picoultimate7707 Another ending in which you break out of stanley I think, since stanley gets crushed, as the female narrator makes clear. i suspect. Just a guess.

[@_mumbles_]

One heartbreaking thing is that players actually got this, quit and never came back leaving the Narrator to wait.

[@JacobKinsley]

I like to imagine this is the canon ending where the player stops playing the game after discovering every other ending. It's not just the credits, it's the fact it requires you to make so many wrong choices which aren't obvious, being the last one you discover. The very last thing that happens is the player quits the game forever and the narrator waits for the player to come back.

[@bing_crystal4831]

Bruh my heart 🥺💔

[@GoIdBlud]

Eh, the Narrator just needs to wait 5 years and maybe the player will come back.

[@lucynorris2255]

That's just sad bro!

[@Bob-thebuilder]

Imagine if he remembered what he did to stanley that's why he got sad and thought he was dead or something.

[@Brimmsune]

I'm going to post a video that sorta explains the lore, basically the narrator explaining lore himself

[@lucasdacarinha]

i just wanna know who was the first person to discover this ending, cuz it looks so well hidden.

[@мартин-х2о]

it's actually the first ending I got while playing😬

[@lucasdacarinha]

@@мартин-х2о 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶

[@LumarEstellar]

the narrators voice at the end makes me cry so much like its so heart breaking that his voice breaks

[@yamameeven967]

I find this as the saddest ending btw

[@bing_crystal4831]

Seriously. This and the Transcendence ending. This game is everything. It’s funny, creepy, annoying, and heart breaking.

[@edmenjoyer1039]

i will say that the zending and skip button are pretty close contenders, though. this game can be /shockingly/ dark at times.

[@Total_DuDe]

If there was ever a sequence of events to illustrate the frustrations of a DM, it would be this game. This ending is just the most relatable.

[@thecelestialstarship]

He sounds so sad at the end 😭and it just feels so depressing and horrifying to me how it's just empty and Stanley is this empty guy who does nothing for all eternity and the narrator can do nothing but wait and the It's midnight i don't even know, i'm just rambling but like do u get what i mean

[@ShroomCritter]

' stanley, hello? are you-.. is everything okay?.. stanley please? i-.. i need you to make a choice, i need you to walk through a door.. are you listening to me? can you hear me?.. is everything alright?.... stanley this is important... the story needs you, it needs you to make a desicion.. it cannot exist without you! do you under stand me?.. Whatever choice you make is just fine they're both correct, you can not be wrong here we can work together, I'll accept whatever you do... i simply need you to take that step forward! please?.... chose?.. do something?.. anything.... this is more important that you could ever know! i need this.. the story needs it... so.. can you hear me?.. are you there? are you listening to this? stanley are you there?.. its... okay.. its okay i can wait.. you need time to decide! to make sure your choice is correct, that is the best.. choice.. thats alright.. i can wait for you to choose what to do... Take as much time as you need. '

[@galaxy_mooncat779]

13:36 i like to think the narrator walked into the a curled up depressed Stanley who curled up into a ball, in a corner of his office his hands in his head as he felt like his life had no meaning, no reason to carry on living his life as his Co- workers showed no signs of ever returning so now he’s stuck with this man inside his head control everything he does and no matter how many times he jumps to his death the narrator keeps returning. So the narrator kneels down to Stanley’s eye level and forces him to look him eyes he allows Stanley to cling on to him as he Shushes him and gently rub his back and sways with him.

[@LatteWiiU]

6:51 *NO! WHY DID YOU DO THAT!?*

[@onychophorum]

Take as much time as you need.

[@khylianvods6699]

Some say. Stanley is still waiting for 6 months

[@Darius13456]

@@khylianvods6699 make that 5 years

[@JamiroquaiEnjoyer]

@@Darius13456 And he gets an achievement!

[@Randomboiwithnosanity]

@@JamiroquaiEnjoyer and waits forever

[@Najayourfriend]

Tbh i feel like the confusion ending and the not stanley ending are pretty connected to each other. Like remember when it said that narrator has to restart the game 8 times, which leads that stanley dies and the narrator leaves? Look what happened to them rn

[@amaltheacatherinehughes9672]

The Narrator sounds so sad at the end. the genuine concern in his voice :(

[@amaltheacatherinehughes9672]

“Stanley, are you there?” AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH.

[@jackcutter2]

The saddest ending. 🥺

[@anzalnaxue2858]

True

[@bing_crystal4831]

This and transcendence ending. This game is everything. Funny, creepy, annoying, and heart breaking.

[@Thron2111]

Nah the saddest ending is the one were the narrator is finally happy and stanley has to kill himself to make the narrator sad. You really feel how the narrator gets more and more hearth broken while stanley gets more and more broken.

[@bing_crystal4831]

@@Thron2111 Seriously. The guy legitimately sounded like he was in tears. 😢I wanted to help him so badly.

[@ChimneyCrab737]

@@Thron2111 agreed, that will always be the ending that makes me feel the saddest, the narrator genuinely sounds so heart broken

[@winstongchurtil]

I feel bad for the narrator

[@JacobKinsley]

If this game is about how writers react to how people play their games, I imagine this ending represents the conflict of whether you want to see your game broken and torn apart, to have someone not take it seriously and intentionally ruin the message, VS keeping it to yourself and never having someone experience it. Almost like the message behind the beginner's guide, that choice of either fading into irrelevancy or having people completely misinterpret your work.

[@unknownuser8393]

This guy means "Sad Ending"

[@BananaDope]

you forgot what's after. if you wait there are pages all over the floor

[@remainsunknown8196]

That's another variant of the office. If you keep on resetting the game, there's a chance you'll encounter that room.

[@ilexdiapason]

that's unconnected

[@АртурЮрченко-ъ6ы]

Poor narrator...

[@paul_gaming43]

Additional Art Assets: Valve Me and the rest: **Shooketh**

[@dallashackney9840]

When I first got this ending and got to the voice recorder thing I thought I actually had to do something with my microphone lol

[@Rat_InUr_Floorboards]

The narrator's voice at the end made this all the more saddening. The sound of pure confusion, trying to bargain with being unliving. Watching as a man we knew as a controlling and dangerous being slowly deteriorates into nothing but pure fear, emptiness, and frustration.

[@Bluey]

Clearly the office is a spaceship, it has escape pods like any regular spaceship would have! joke

[@eckso4237]

80% of the video is just saying 'Why did you do that?'

[@hipercubeiii2879]

My Story! YOU DESTROYED MY WORK!!

[@tomyk9233]

that's actually so sad

[@ScrewdriverGaming]

This is honestly heartbreaking.

[@EdgiB0Do]

I wonder if this happens even if you stand still at the very beginning

[@angela-cz7iw]

aww poor narrator

[@helloitsVehere]

Narrator best boy

[@cakcna]

i wonder what would happen if you were still playing as stanley, but you stood still like you did in the ending?

[@lilythearcticfox]

Why does he kinda sound like Winnie the Pooh when he's sad

[@Influx27]

Best ending

[@ollieVR970]

i feel bad for like, the story maker man

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

The Best ending - pop out of the game and just view it.

[@elektriiik_8227]

In my first playthrough, this was legit the first ending I played.

[@tallmunchkin868]

I’m not a serial killer.

[@makaronilaatikko1780]

Good.

[@angmering5899]

That's quite a problem you got there, what kind of a problem have you got there?

[@LatteWiiU]

I'm a cereal killer 😔

[@TheVr71]

@@LatteWiiU ok wait what

[@xerotonin6776]

Well then go outside and get yourself some fuckin' abilities.

[@scyrossel.900]

0:15 I had to come to see a video to be sure that I didn't forget how was the hall before the two doors, because after this ending there was other with blue walls and different windows, so, I though I got crazy but no bro-

[@АндрейДемидов-у1г]

I thought my game was broken, because I couldn't input the code...

[@Shadow_the_menace]

I did this ending and i regret it.

[@tweets009]

at least the narrator has some kind of distraction in the bucket version of the ending but he would definitely not be happy when he found out the situation but also knowing how he is and the skip button ending that would probably take a long time of him rambling

[@bo0neff504]

Narrator is just as stuck as Stanley

[@MINGUS-g6i]

Honestly, Narrator deserved it, "stanley" or I guess "us" literally can't talk, bro chose to yell at us for not having the capability to speak

[@edmenjoyer1039]

i mean, he didn't really know, i guess? it's pretty obvious that the narrator believes the player is deliberately ignoring him and refusing to cooperate despite that not being the truth. he probably would've said something otherwise. the narrator a pretty unabashed dude and goes out of his way to state the glaringly hurtful truth of a situation in multiple other instances; he was just upset that his most sterling work got destroyed right in front of him.. then the person who basically just shattered his dreams "pretends" to get along, then refuses to be nice again. the narrator was overwhelmed, and was reading too far into things.

[@kmjh4720]

What is the red door at the opposite end of the meeting room?? Has anyone ever reached it??

[@josephbennett3482]

The red door in the game comes up when you continue to go through the right door when the narrator tells you to go through the left door and you don't.

[@rgerber]

dont feel sorry for the narrator, he deserves all the suffering. He mocked and devalued the player/stanley at every opportunity given. This is just a psychotic way of emotional blackmail, because he LOST control over Stanley. He is actually depending on Stanley.

[@_tangerinee.]

10:30

[@gamertcell8425]

The ending would be much more depressing with piano music

[@Aca-eq4py]

Fun fact you can unplug the phone

[@buttersmoothest]

That's literally what he did. Did you even watch the video?

[@DussyBestroyer69]

No shit fr? /s

[@GelatoNYC]

Why didn’t you speak

[@Sypaka]

How? All we can do here is pressing E, and it does nothing. I believe, there is nothing behind the door at all.

[@4Syorha]

It was made so he can't. XD this specific ending in the game is making fun of the 'silent protagonist' trope. Stanley is an example of one, and because the game doesn't provide the player with any voice input commands, this infuriates the Narrator in a rather funny way.

[@isuck7463]

@@Lord_Fong no, it doens't have that kind of functions

[@picoultimate7707]

@@isuck7463 The game wouldn't pick up any sound from internal or external microphones, nor does using the chat option do anything to help.

[@weeewee9781]

@@Lord_Fong you can't. That is the ironic "silent protagonist" thing

[@toainsully]

3:32 This scene was originally racist

[@spaceaster]

Huh?

[@toainsully]

@@spaceaster It's true. I looked it up

[@labrynianrebel]

You thought you did something there didn't you? Go reflect outside, experience the world, live.