Everyone in the Little Nightmares community starts out just watching a couple youtube theory videos because they want a bit of extra content about the game. But we all eventually become the Pepe Silvia meme.
That’s because you like little nightmares you don’t like school Ik that because your not learning that much because your bored and not in to it. But hey that just a theory a fnaf theorist theory.🥵🥵🥶🥶
Everybody is trying to find answers to questions like "why did Six betrayed Mono" or "who is the Thin Man". My question is if there are kids in the game, who the hell are giving birth to them?
thin man is so hype. this makes me love the character even more. This could also explain why six and mono aren’t destined to be together. While the lady is the leader of the children-snatching Maw, the thin man is trying to get the kids back. They just aren’t compatible, even in child form.
@@vcommandarv5916 HOLY SHIT this makes so much sense!!!!! The place where the distorted six were was in a comfortable place, with even her music box, which is a comfortable toy for her.
@Cristel Garcia Oh-oh-OH! In the digi comic, there's this lil baby child called the Toddler! And this tot wears a bandana across his eyes! And he lives in the forest, where the Hunter is. He finds a telly in the forest and it comes on, and guess who pops out? It's Thinman! But I speculated the Toddler might be Roger (the Janitor) because of the eye covering bit. But what if this IS a thing? Thinman captures children to save them, but they turn into nightmare abominations anyway? The ones that survive to adulthood, become the monsters Thinman was trying to save them from? Ooh, this is so heartbreaking....
The ”Thin man” who hangs himself, also was waiting on a chair behind a door with an eye on it. These games are filled with so cool little details. I played through little nightmares 1 DLC today and after the credits, you can see a teaser for the ”thin man”. There was a movie series back in the 1930s about a PI that was called ”the thin man". Maybe the thin man in ”little nightmares” is loosely referring to the movie series.
It doesn’t relate to Little Nightmares. I’ve watched all 5 “The Thin Man”, movies. Loved every single one. Quite opposite genre. But I’d like to hear your reason from that film.
Thin Man is true Protagonis, He not even act like boss. Over all boss, thin man is very easy to kill, just grab your button left right left right and you win. Thin man not wanna fight you, cause he is Protagonis, he save children from their parent that sold children soul or eat their child like in Mao, every child is mutant (have super power relate in comic), the parent is scare and wanna kill their own children or sell them or eat them. Tower signal that create by Thin Man is just help parent calm and stop doing anything. Six that grow up to mirror Lady also save children, She can change children to gnome that they know the parent not eat gnome, when all parent died its time to Mirror Lady change them to children again. Six is create by Thin man 6 times already by separate into 2 soul, and Pretender as mirror Lady partner can bring soul to a doll and Lady create six and mono again. They need to regenerate their power and will lose the power when they save as many soul as they can, they need to create Six and Mono again and again and transform to Lady and Thin Man again and again to save all children. That's why Six left Mono behind, cause they make this plot, they know it.
Well another thing that points to Mono and the Thin Man not being a set entity could also be from the way the clothes work, seems odd, but here me out. As Mono grows up (in the cutscene and the art) his clothes slowly morph into Thin Mans clothes insisting the tower has some ability to morph an entity’s appearance (like six, huh) meaning anyone could be underneath the suit and the surface level look, meaning any number of children could’ve been turned into Thin Men and what not
@@cacomeatballmarinara2014 i might have an answer to that question, we know six seems to have the ability to absorb the powers of others through touch or consuming them. But other thin men might have all had mono's same set of powers which can explain why there's only ever two people with Mono & Thin Man's abilities
@@vcommandarv5916 To be honest, I think the powers in little nightmares are exclusive to specific characters. The only exception should be six. But even then, she has only stolen some power from the Lady and it fell quite nicely into the concept of hunger and consumption. I also hate the idea that six stole some of Mono's power because it simply makes no sense.
well, that might be the reason why thin man did not kill Six. when he was a PI he searched for missing children, now he has this special power so he is taking them to the signal tower, to keep them "safe" in his own way
I used to think that this whole phenomenon just appeared suddenly out of the blue. However, if it makes much more sense if this thing developed slowly over time.
Like if the signal tower was just a normal tower for TVs, and one day mono did something and TVs started sucking humans and their insides into a hivemind within the signal tower. I dont subscribe to the elder gods idea where greater beings are controlling the timeline/s and toying with humans. It seems like a butterfly effect kind of disaster. Edit: just as i made this comment he mentions butterfly effect xD
Angela Kartolína Luntian I do believe it’s an inter dimensional, all-powerful entity. It makes more sense if that’s the case. But I do like this PI investigator theory. I was always curious about how the time loop started, and it’s a valid argument. This character could be someone important to Mono, maybe even his father. Once he was trapped in the loop, he took influence from his father’s occupation. Mono knew that his father was trying to find missing children. The Thin Man takes children, to try to “protect” them possibly. It’s a stretch, definitely. It would suggest that Mono was born before everything went down the toilet, but we don’t know that for certain. If this phenomenon developed slowly over time, then that means that this entity arrived and no one noticed. The signals started corrupting everything and people went missing. The entity need someone with Mono’s abilities, probably to amplify its reach to distort and consume more people. Again, it’s a stretch, but it’s something to think about. Fun fact: I’ve heard, from the art book I believe, that the mass of flesh and eyeballs is called the Squirming Abyss. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk, if you’ve read for this long.
If see then we understand that in little nightmare 2 every of boss of belcity is good because teacher just teaching students and then doctor doing care of they petions
This reminds me of the cycle of abuse. Often a child abused will grow up to be an abuser themselves. Maybe the Thin Man abused mono, and so when mono grew up he became him.
@@queenqueen977 but its true most of the time abusers have been abused themselves, normally in childhood meaning they never learned the proper way to deal with a situation so they just model what they know. Its not an incorrect statement.
@@xxcallmeniaxx3272 what you said is accurate, yeah, that most abusers experienced abuse. but that's very different than saying that most people who are abused become abusers. all squares are rectangles, but very few rectangles are squares.
Something to add to the theory, maybe the reason the thin man is taking the kids is to find the next thin man. When we find six we see that they became a monster l. Maybe this is because they wanted to see if they were the next thin man. It also would explain why they only go after kids. The kid have not been distorted yet meaning they could be transformed into the thin man.
I have the same theory. Adding on to it, being stuck in a room for most of your life is undoubtedly depressing, so they probably try to find a new thin man so that they can be free.
@@Tericho Yeah! 100%, Tarsier Studios are so talented as the Little Nightmares franchise proves, they will make some amazing games. But I’m still holding out hope that something else from the Little Nightmares franchise will appear 😂
Fun fact: The Thin man is made out of TV static, if you look close at his model you can see that everywhere on his body is weird dots looking alot like TV static
When you mentioned that there may have been more than one Thin Man, I remembered something: from the comics app, we see the Thin Man just two times, in the second and sixth chapter. I noticed that, in the second comic, the character that snatchs the kid may have the hat, but doesn't have a suit, or at least, not long sleeves, unlike the Thin Man that gives chase through the game. And also, the character that keeps snatching children in the last chapter is thin and has no long sleeves. However, in his shadow, there appears to be no hat on his head. Other than that, I liked your theory, very mind-blowing!
I don't think that the man in the 6th comic is the Thinman for that exact same reason: if he was the Thinman they could have showed us without being so ambiguos, that along with the fact that the comic is set in a building we haven't seen yet leads me to believe that the guy is another morphed adult. My theory is that the building is an orphanage (it would explain why there are so many children together when in this universe they usually travel alone) and the man is their caretaker, since he follows the same kind of mental degeneration as the others, he still cares for the children and will not hurt them unless they try to escape like they do in the comic.
@@sieghardtofcatarina7827 Hm, that makes sense. If we actually take a look at caretakers along the Little Nightmares universe, their behaviour is the expected one, but (as Tericho mentions) more twisted, and the children they take care of aren't exactly comfortable with their pressence. Take for instance, the Janitor, he takes care in a "nursery" aboard the Maw, but he is later wrapping and trappind dead or living kids; and some children run away from him. The Butler in Very Little Nightmares, takes care of the Pretender, but if he spots another living kid, he will attack. This "Thin Guy" of the app comics may have been the caretaker of this supposed orphanage, maybe trying to move the children to a safer spot in the building that was in fire, but the children fear him and try to avoid him (just like Mono did). I don't have enough proof to know how harmless or hostile he could be... but if he is the one that was before the Thin Man/adult Mono, and the same one that stole the kid from the second comic, why would he be in an orphanage? Is he recluting children that are alone in dangerous places? Was Mono always there, if not or if so, where was he before?
@@sieghardtofcatarina7827 In the second comic with the Thin Man’s hand coming out of the TV, there were no sleeves. So going off of that, it’s still extremely likely that was him in the sixth comic. They just didn’t draw him with any sleeves
@@Im.Smaher It was not just the sleeves, it was mainly the hands that seemed off in the sixth, plus if the Thinman actually grabbed Mono how can he still be alive at the start of the game?
@@Im.Smaher Even if it was a last-minute drawing choice, what about the fleshy-cracking sound that finishes the sixth comic? The Thin Man is more like a glitch and he couldn't have bones to crack; that cracking noise sounds something that would come out of a viewer (I say so after listening to the Viewers' "voice clips" published in RUclips). Which are far from being something like the Thin Man's echo noises.
I'm still for the thought that Mono is just a younger version of Thin Man and he grows up to become the Thin Man and its a never ending cycle of betrayal and failure.
@@vcommandarv5916 yea but that’s unsatisfying, there’s gotta be a better reason than that, especially cuz we don’t see any examples of the signal doing that
you could argue that the Signal Tower is absorbing the world around it, not just the people. The more powerful it grows, the more energy it robbed from the land, the more corrupt and dystopia the land becomes. Starting with ground zero, since the woods were relatively normal. But you see when they ride the door across the sea/lake, the shore where the water rises against the buildings. The buildings are too, cracking and crumbling into the water.
Could it be that the original "thin man" was looking for children who became gnomes? the lady seemed really old so she may have abducted some children early on too?
I always got a "Men in Black" vibe from Thin Man, and thought of him as a "G Man" from Half-Life like character before the end reveal. So, to add to your theory, what if he was an investigator for some hidden organization that eventually caused the world of Little Nightmares to be how it is? He worked for them until he was also mutated, or perhaps he was in charge and used his powers to create the Flesh Wall monster. Another theory, what if he is Mono, but before the world's transformation and the Pale City was his home before everything was destroyed? Little Nightmares II could be a sub-universe he created after he died in the Maw that either appears visually similar or manifested over the city's location where he grew up in, thus the time loop and Mono's existence is him projecting his regrets or fears from his unfinished work directing in a bubble over that area. Mono could be how he saw his childhood, scared but determined in a lot of what he did. Maybe the "Return to the Signal" is him confronting the cause of the world's destruction at its source or where he got his powers, but his encounter with the Lady ended up getting him killed; that area in the first game honestly makes it look more like he was murdered to me as he is nowhere close to the still standing chair and the floor above him was broke through which tells us he was tied to the above room's ceiling. Due to his power, he manifested in the TV after dying and traveled to the broadcasting tower where he transformed the surrounding areas into a twisted sitcom starring his younger self. Somehow Six ended up in the sitcom world and rewrote the script which allowed Mono to attempt an escape, but in the end her betrayal allowed the sitcom to restart from the beginning. To add to that last bit, maybe the Thin Man and the Lady were enemies; so, to have his revenge from her perhaps murdering him, he purposefully mutated Six by separating her in two and manipulating her Shadow Six self into taking revenge on the Lady in his stead.
Oh my God, I'm so happy you're one of the first people to recognize and theorize about that room! I knew it had some significance to the lore, as it really did look like a police office to me at first glance. When you mentioned that the first Thin Man lived a life of solitude with no time for relationships, I immediately thought about that one video you did about Mono's Tragic Backstory. Could the very, very first Thin Man be Mono's father, then? As an investigator for missing children, he had a son himself (Mono), and he could only imagine how it felt like if he went missing. But unfortunately, he didn't have any time to spend with Mono, he sent him to a boarding school. Considering that he smoked a lot, he may have had to go to the hospital numerous times as smoking damages your lungs. So that may play a role on Mono's fear of the hospital. Mono grew up with the only thing he knew: loneliness. He ended up becoming like his father, who became isolated from the world, but he knew what it felt like to lose a child and lose a parent at the same time, so he followed in the footsteps of his father until he became stuck in the loop and corrupted. Edit: (Slight spoilers? If you haven't seen/played The Residence DLC on Little Nightmares). At the very end of the credits of The Residence DLC, you can see a similar ash tray on a couch. The thin man appears on that TV, and maybe perhaps he transports through that TV because that is his home, correlating him to be the INVESTIGATOR? :0 Edit #2: Oh "maw" lord, I have found the same room in Little Nightmares 2 as well! In one of the apartment complex there is a room similar to the one after the credits. There is a burning ash tray on top of the table and plates stacked upon each other just like in the credits! There is the same couch and the TV still across from it. You can't tell me that this isn't a coincidence! I don't know. Just a theory. ಠ︵ಠ
Maybe this could also explain six's amnesia as well, maybe it's a sort of thing where she's now starting to forget the things from the previous timeline when she travelled to this new one. 🤔
This theory seems so spot on!! After using Thin Man's hat on Mono, I actually thought "He looks like a little detective!". Back in the day, this is how PIs dressed. I have a few questions for you, though: 1 - Game developers say Mono hides his face because people hate him and want him to fail. How does this fit in this theory? Why do they hate him and what do they want him to fail? It could also explain why Six didn't save him (aside from revenge): it was the first time she saw his face... so, she recognized him and, like everyone else, she hates him? 2 - While all adults are distorted, monster-like beings, kids seem normal and cute (despite being small and skinny)... But Mono seems to be the only one whose looks are spared, for some reason. When we see a close up of him growing up in that chair, he looks very normal and actually handsome. He simply grows old. Why? 3 - Everyone says the Thin Man captures kids, leaving behind their glitched soul... But he's not the only one. While we do see a kid being captured in the comics, and then Six... many of the glitched souls belonged to kids who were killed by other people: the teacher, the doctor, and so on... So, the Thin Man might capture a few kids, but many are killed by other adults.
Here's a theory. What if the thin man is a detective... but he's not actually real. What if he came from the TV, as evidenced by the tv static around him. There could be Multiple thin men from multiple seasons. It's a widely known show, but an adult one. Only adults would watch the show, plus a few children (maybe six) that didn't listen to their parents. Essentially a teen and up, but kids don't care. When the TV got corrupted he was released. Why would they want Mono / Thin man to fail? The plot twist is that the thin man is the villain of the show. Everyone knows he's the villain, but they all get corrupted before he can be stopped. I don't know about the glitched kids though.
This makes me think that the thin man is like mono’s father. There’s a big chance of kids growing up adapting to their parents behaviour without knowing, may even become an exact duplicate if they weren’t raised well. And the loop theory makes a lot of sense bc of this
Theres a sense of irony in the thin man being a detective type mystery solver, it sort of mirrors the players and fanbase trying to figure out what's going on
Love this take! I think one important piece to the "loop" theory that ties into this one well is the idea that Mono and the thin man are not inherently the same person. BUT since this is has heavy elements of childhood/growing up, we have to think about the idea of the children making the same mistakes as their parents. This idea enforces the cyclical nature of the time loop while simultaneously allowing for changes with each iteration (or the butterfly effect as in the video). Not saying the thin man is mono's dad, but rather just that idea that generations will often ' grow up to be their parents' is too strong a motif to dismiss. :)
I always took the thin man to be symbolized as Mono’s father/his fate. And it was always sad to me because it seemed like he was trying so desperately not to grow up and become his father/fate, but in the end his circumstances just created what he didn’t want to become.
Here’s a theory that I just thought of if this is all established in monos nightmare then maybe the thin man is Monos dad in real life and his father smokes and does bad things so then that might be the reason why mono becomes him at the end of the game because that’s his greatest fear becoming his father.
The Nightmare Loop... each time the nightmare occurs something different happens. It could even be a nightmare dreamt up to explain how the last one began... or ended perhaps?
I'm no theorist, but even before seeing the final timeloop/thinman scene I thought the glitches were the souls of the main character that died in different timelines during his "adventure". In another note, I also think the tittle itself plays a role in the story. The little children might be, somehow, the nightmares of the monsters/world we see, not the other way around.
I see no one seeing that he is talking about parallal universe theory. It could mean that "the tv" acts as an portal to another parallal dimension. If this is true then my theory is the signal tower manage to create a route to travel to another parallal dimension which lead to drastic outcomes it could also mean that six got travelled to completely different dimension love your theory by the way bro keep it up
12:46 I can explain, if you play the game "very little nightmares" somewhere at the end of the game you can see two portraits. The first one is him on the left, in the middle is his daughter and on the right it's his wife which see looks like the teacher (because his daughter was sort you could only see his legs as like the teacher's legs and the whole body of the pretender (his daughter)). On second portrait you can see a chair and two hanging long legs with black clothes above of the chair. The game's name is very little nightmares and can only find it on the Google app store because it's a game only for phone.
I was thinking and I think I have something. There’s something that came to my mind that’s been right under our noses all along, the title ‘little nightmares’ nightmares. Nightmares suggests maybe this all is a nightmare? Proof to this is that all the ‘monsters’ are people that children would typically be scared of? Teachers, doctors, hunters, mannequins, the dark (in the hospital level), and even tall mysterious figures. The fact everything is big compared to Mono and Six is also suggesting it’s all a nightmare as for once again, big things would scare a typical child too..
Okay, probably a weird idea, but imagine someone made an AU story where Mono grows up to be a PI and just goes around solving crimes and mysteries. Kind of like in the old detective noir shows. Honestly I think that would be kind of cool! 😆😆
Amazing, I had the same thoughts with this theory when we were discussing / hinting at the theory in the stream! The idea of the Thin Man being actually a lineage of Thin Men corrupted by the NEED to save other children, but just not right, is so very well good. The PI official arts are so detailed it's almost sad they didn't add it all in but I understand the time constraints and limitations of story/or keeping the flow of the story. The idea that Mono was plucked up / chased for the whole game really makes you think how long it took the Thin Men to take the other children. All of the areas, where they saved before their deaths or afterwards? Where they taken to the Tower in the wrong timelines? Was it possible that they were already there and thus the PI was sent to investigate and got twisted on the way? That hanging man theory was brilliant, that dot connection makes a lot of sense. I really do think it was a form of Thin Man, or just another easter egg / hint for another game. Those chairs are too damn similar to not be connected haha. Also the note, I really wish we could read what it said! Maybe it could of been the PI's last words or a hint at what he found out before he was killed/murdered/staged to death in that lonesome room. Gods, this series is just living in my head with so much information and yet nothing is confirmed or solid lmao Excellent work, Tericho! Fantastic video and can't wait for the next ones to follow, about this or newer games you fancy!! :D
This is a brilliant theory! This also plays into The Lady originally being a Japanese hostess before the corruption whos entire job is to feed and indulge guests to get as much money from them as possible as they work essentially on comission, the whole livelyhood hinges on them being beautiful, which is why she is so worried about her looks and why the guestd are so gluttonous! This is potentially the key we needed!!!
This is exactly what I need when I have school tomorrow. Thank you for uploading at th right time. Also, another way to prove your theory is to look at the concept art for the billboards. On one of them you see a man smoking a cigarette, who looks like the thin man. Perhaps the office logo?
I agree with your theory that the signal tower has been distorting the city for ages. Dave Mervik (Lead designer I think) said that the residents were distorted because the ignored a problem for too long. And I, personally, think that problem was addiction. The viewers have TV addiction, The guests are addicted to food, the lady is addicted to her looks and others like The Janitors and The Chefs are addicted to they're work.
I think the maw could be the main reason why the children were going missing, maybe even the nest, as it kept children captive there as well... It adds on to the theory nicely and it makes more sense, as the maw captures children for the guests to eat. The same goes for the nest, only some of these children could get killed by the pretender or get turned into dolls. I really enjoyed this theory, keep up the great work!
11:15 Notice something big and disturbing right there. You have a glitch-child on top of a stained mattress with no blanket, polaroid photos scattered around it and an ashtray sitting in on the window seal. Almost as if someone who abducted the child was doing something...nefarious with it.
I also think the Thin Man could be a movie producer. Maybe he is trying to "recruit" certain kids and adults to become a part of the signal tower. Maybe he is building a TV project, just not the right way. He also sits in a chair as a representation of an interview. Normally movie directors sit in a chair when they are interviewed.
I replayed the DLC today and noticed the gnomes would draw the thin man in multiple places. So it would make sense that he was on the maw or even that they were once children he talked to when he was a PI.
We don’t need a thin man for mono but we do need a mono for thin man. The thin man could have existed before the corruption. The eye must have found out about the thin man and started the loop. By using six. The evil broken child that has a dark side. Dark six wasn’t so dark. Dark six started out as a part of six that helped mono find six. Mono is given powers and six is sent to the nest by the eye. When they meet the loop begins. The eye is now more powerful then ever.
I do like this theory, and it kind of explains why Mono bothers rescuing Six, especially if it happens over and over again. Maybe even Mono is trying to stop the loop and rescue Six at the same time.
Another thing : can we just talk about how the team had the idea of making Veronica an enemy at some point ? If we look at the artworks, we can see an image of a monster cooking in a kitchen very similar to Veronica's, although not exactly the same, with clothes that look very much like those Veronica wears. Maybe she is actually in the game and we just didn't know it. Remember those noises we hear in the kitchen after saving Six ? It couldn't have been the Hunter, because the Hunter was outside this whole time. The door leading to the back of the house was locked this whole time and can only be unlocked from the inside, which means the Hunter couldn't have been in the kitchen and be in the back after. Also, there are fresh footprints in front of the loo that goes in the opposite direction of where the Hunter is. If he had gone through the door, the footprints would have been going in the opposite direction. So there was something else in the kitchen that wasn't the Hunter. And looking at the artwork and the fact that the Hunter's kitchen is awfully similar to Veronica's (although I know you don't think it is), what if Veronica was in the game this whole time and we just didn't know ?
This is amazing, knowing that time is messed up, and that timeliness are effecting so much is interesting and mind blowing, connecting dots to previous littles nightmares games is fascinating, but this comment not might get noticed but me and my BF have noticed something from little nightmares 1 as you see in the beginning of the game you walk into a room to jump onto a bed and the door window, well from what my BF noticed is that as we walk we see a monster or something huge walking behind the big door and seems to see a yellow color of a rain coat, he claims to say that it's twisted six as we see the creature stops and notices us yet walks away, but sharing this i could be entirely wrong but we'll have to see in the future, Sorry for bother 😅 (also sorry if it doesn't make sense)
After six turns to normal, she just ran away and didn't wait Mono and so she betrayed him, my theory has different reasons 1 Mono destroy the music box 2 Six's soul(is a good soul) went out of her body but the body doesn't have too much memories with Mono helping her
@@laei6391 in the first game theres a room past the first collectable doll, in the doors window theres what i think is a yellow hood, its weird you gotta look, its been there sice the games release
It would be pretty cool to see telltale style adventure detective game where you play The Thin Man investigating the disappearances as the city slowly corrupts.
Theory: what if the hanging man/thin man didn’t really hang himself and it was staged because if he really did hang himself the chair would be tipped over
Yo, I love the way you've carefully crafted and written these theories! Not only are they well thought out, but you present them and your thoughts very well. Even if a theory might be a bit of a stretch, they are fun and interesting to watch nonetheless. Subscribed!
@@Tericho i have a theory about the glitched remains. i think the glitched remains are, in fact, the victim's "inner child" and their location is where they lost them. most of the glitched remains are seemingly doing something childish or sad as though the childish ones got killed which left their inner child behind or they lost them due to the terrible world they live in and when they lose this "inner child", they become a monster. (the thin man most likely speeds up this process when he takes them) this could also be why six drops mono, because her friendship with mono is connected with her inner child and most people stop hanging out with their friends when they grow up which could also fit into the whole "little nightmares is a metaphor theory"
To me I feel like the first ever mono grew up alone with no friends and ended up getting bullied. Seeing the hospital maybe means he was there multiple times, and then the city as he would travel there and grew up distant from family and into his work finding these children. Then the eye corrupts him and he become the PI, but twisted. Then a new paradox is begging as mono goes to pale city and sees the corrupted thin man. It’s very confusing but it’s a nice theory
I was playing through Very Little Nightmares again, and there's a book about the Maw (it looks like it) when you get to the playroom with the slide before you meet The Pretender, it's probably nothing to do with this but it's a nice little detail
WAIT, the "other version" of the original PI thin man may have been another personality, maybe the original thin man had "multiple personality disorder"
This ties in with a theory I have about this game, its not yet fully complete but with more ideas it can be a fully fledged theory explaining everything about little nightmares. Terichos theory’s help with mine a lot.
The picture in the thumbnail of Thin Man at a desk looks like he's a detective to me. Plus Mono's trenchcoat. I wonder why if it's intentional. EDIT: I commented this before I watched the full thing. Interesting. Moths also symbolise transformation btw.
So if we are saying that theres multiple thin men and mono is a young one and when hes sat in the room its not showing him age its showing different hims and thats why mono goes to the signal tower, in the secret ending six looks down at the picture of the maw and thats why mono wanted to go through the portal and go to the maw for some reason? maybe to find nomes like the one in the hunters house or to find seven?
teacher: *teaches*
doctor: *does surgery*
hunter: *hunts*
thin man: I was a business man doing business
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Lol My Fave character is Thin Man and in roblox i am the thin man LMAO
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Mono: i am thin man
that last one reminded me just of Vincent Adultman from Bojack Horseman hahahsh
Everyone in the Little Nightmares community starts out just watching a couple youtube theory videos because they want a bit of extra content about the game. But we all eventually become the Pepe Silvia meme.
It’s not even funny how true this is.
@@Tericho yeah
I'm learning more about the Little Nightmares series than my school works to be honest
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That’s because you like little nightmares you don’t like school Ik that because your not learning that much because your bored and not in to it. But hey that just a theory a fnaf theorist theory.🥵🥵🥶🥶
Same pickle, same..
Everybody is trying to find answers to questions like "why did Six betrayed Mono" or "who is the Thin Man". My question is if there are kids in the game, who the hell are giving birth to them?
IK- Where are the parents at? 💀🤚
The monsters we see a male and female viewers in the ghost girls comic
@@jestafreak. they went to the store to buy milk
It happened after they are born, that’s why we don’t see any babies. Life changed all of the sudden apparently
good one
thin man is so hype. this makes me love the character even more. This could also explain why six and mono aren’t destined to be together. While the lady is the leader of the children-snatching Maw, the thin man is trying to get the kids back. They just aren’t compatible, even in child form.
Maybe the thin man kidnaps the children and keep them in a safe place with what they like, like how he did with Six
Him just wanting the kids back makes it sound like they're divorced and fighting over custody lol.
@Cristel Garcia I'd rather become a demon than be the food of one.
@@vcommandarv5916 HOLY SHIT this makes so much sense!!!!! The place where the distorted six were was in a comfortable place, with even her music box, which is a comfortable toy for her.
@Cristel Garcia Oh-oh-OH! In the digi comic, there's this lil baby child called the Toddler! And this tot wears a bandana across his eyes! And he lives in the forest, where the Hunter is. He finds a telly in the forest and it comes on, and guess who pops out? It's Thinman! But I speculated the Toddler might be Roger (the Janitor) because of the eye covering bit. But what if this IS a thing? Thinman captures children to save them, but they turn into nightmare abominations anyway? The ones that survive to adulthood, become the monsters Thinman was trying to save them from? Ooh, this is so heartbreaking....
The ”Thin man” who hangs himself, also was waiting on a chair behind a door with an eye on it. These games are filled with so cool little details. I played through little nightmares 1 DLC today and after the credits, you can see a teaser for the ”thin man”. There was a movie series back in the 1930s about a PI that was called ”the thin man". Maybe the thin man in ”little nightmares” is loosely referring to the movie series.
OH IMMA SEARCH ABOUT THAT MOVIE SERIES-
It doesn’t relate to Little Nightmares. I’ve watched all 5 “The Thin Man”, movies. Loved every single one. Quite opposite genre. But I’d like to hear your reason from that film.
@@Skipsenberg That’s a fan name
I like how kids mistook Bellman for Thin man
Thin Man is true Protagonis, He not even act like boss. Over all boss, thin man is very easy to kill, just grab your button left right left right and you win. Thin man not wanna fight you, cause he is Protagonis, he save children from their parent that sold children soul or eat their child like in Mao, every child is mutant (have super power relate in comic), the parent is scare and wanna kill their own children or sell them or eat them. Tower signal that create by Thin Man is just help parent calm and stop doing anything. Six that grow up to mirror Lady also save children, She can change children to gnome that they know the parent not eat gnome, when all parent died its time to Mirror Lady change them to children again. Six is create by Thin man 6 times already by separate into 2 soul, and Pretender as mirror Lady partner can bring soul to a doll and Lady create six and mono again. They need to regenerate their power and will lose the power when they save as many soul as they can, they need to create Six and Mono again and again and transform to Lady and Thin Man again and again to save all children. That's why Six left Mono behind, cause they make this plot, they know it.
Well another thing that points to Mono and the Thin Man not being a set entity could also be from the way the clothes work, seems odd, but here me out. As Mono grows up (in the cutscene and the art) his clothes slowly morph into Thin Mans clothes insisting the tower has some ability to morph an entity’s appearance (like six, huh) meaning anyone could be underneath the suit and the surface level look, meaning any number of children could’ve been turned into Thin Men and what not
Then, is the Candidate given Powers like Mono?
@@vcommandarv5916 That is an excellent question
@@cacomeatballmarinara2014 i might have an answer to that question, we know six seems to have the ability to absorb the powers of others through touch or consuming them. But other thin men might have all had mono's same set of powers which can explain why there's only ever two people with Mono & Thin Man's abilities
@@vcommandarv5916 To be honest, I think the powers in little nightmares are exclusive to specific characters. The only exception should be six. But even then, she has only stolen some power from the Lady and it fell quite nicely into the concept of hunger and consumption. I also hate the idea that six stole some of Mono's power because it simply makes no sense.
Good theory
well, that might be the reason why thin man did not kill Six. when he was a PI he searched for missing children, now he has this special power so he is taking them to the signal tower, to keep them "safe" in his own way
I used to think that this whole phenomenon just appeared suddenly out of the blue. However, if it makes much more sense if this thing developed slowly over time.
Like if the signal tower was just a normal tower for TVs, and one day mono did something and TVs started sucking humans and their insides into a hivemind within the signal tower. I dont subscribe to the elder gods idea where greater beings are controlling the timeline/s and toying with humans. It seems like a butterfly effect kind of disaster.
Edit: just as i made this comment he mentions butterfly effect xD
Angela Kartolína Luntian I do believe it’s an inter dimensional, all-powerful entity. It makes more sense if that’s the case. But I do like this PI investigator theory. I was always curious about how the time loop started, and it’s a valid argument. This character could be someone important to Mono, maybe even his father. Once he was trapped in the loop, he took influence from his father’s occupation. Mono knew that his father was trying to find missing children. The Thin Man takes children, to try to “protect” them possibly. It’s a stretch, definitely. It would suggest that Mono was born before everything went down the toilet, but we don’t know that for certain. If this phenomenon developed slowly over time, then that means that this entity arrived and no one noticed. The signals started corrupting everything and people went missing. The entity need someone with Mono’s abilities, probably to amplify its reach to distort and consume more people. Again, it’s a stretch, but it’s something to think about. Fun fact: I’ve heard, from the art book I believe, that the mass of flesh and eyeballs is called the Squirming Abyss. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk, if you’ve read for this long.
@@maddiepilgrim3955 i just like your glasses )
Ayub Chechen Aw shucks. Thanks🤗
@@maddiepilgrim3955 Ive got a thoery
*DUN DUN DUUUUUNNNNM*
six's shadow also cast a shadow of the THIN MAN when she's looking at her shadow self!!!
IM GLAD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO SAW THIS
No thats just her shadow elongated cause of the light from the tv
@@thefifthbean Totally not THOUSANDS of tv.
@@fireylegacy2396 xD too true
This is probably the best little nightmares theory I've come across
I agree
@@chibi_okami yes sir
I like all of them I could never choose
Yo bro I agree but you may want to upload something
Nice
I love how any one these thin man theories just makes mono way cooler.
Six: mono what do u what to be when you’re older?
Mono: T h i n m a n
Six: 😀 what
If see then we understand that in little nightmare 2 every of boss of belcity is good because teacher just teaching students and then doctor doing care of they petions
@Flower Return to malnutritional adult male.
I think thin man is supposed to be mono- but I geuss he still felt betrayed by 6 and I geuss turned evil-? (Just a theory)
@@MarcoAdventures hahahahahsh
not his c h o i c e
This reminds me of the cycle of abuse. Often a child abused will grow up to be an abuser themselves.
Maybe the Thin Man abused mono, and so when mono grew up he became him.
Lets not blanket statement abuse that way. Not "often".
@@queenqueen977 but its true most of the time abusers have been abused themselves, normally in childhood meaning they never learned the proper way to deal with a situation so they just model what they know. Its not an incorrect statement.
No its Not true ok
First of Mono became like because of Six
@@xxcallmeniaxx3272 what you said is accurate, yeah, that most abusers experienced abuse. but that's very different than saying that most people who are abused become abusers. all squares are rectangles, but very few rectangles are squares.
Something to add to the theory, maybe the reason the thin man is taking the kids is to find the next thin man. When we find six we see that they became a monster l. Maybe this is because they wanted to see if they were the next thin man. It also would explain why they only go after kids. The kid have not been distorted yet meaning they could be transformed into the thin man.
Looking for a disciple
@@vcommandarv5916 That, or eliminating the competition.
@@StoicVeR yes, like mono thin man would do.. to stop the loop
@@vcommandarv5916 lookin for a disciple to stop a tall signal object lookin as thiccc
I have the same theory. Adding on to it, being stuck in a room for most of your life is undoubtedly depressing, so they probably try to find a new thin man so that they can be free.
It’s a shame that Tarsier Studios aren’t making another Little Nightmares, I’d love a perfect end to the trilogy 😩 💔
Agreed, but I’m excited to see what they make next!
@@Tericho Yeah! 100%, Tarsier Studios are so talented as the Little Nightmares franchise proves, they will make some amazing games. But I’m still holding out hope that something else from the Little Nightmares franchise will appear 😂
they're not making another one? 😩
@@emi_wuuuuu no, Tarsier Studios are focussing on new games and ideas, but Bandai Namco want another one. It just won’t be the same though 😔
@@NotAgnor aw man :(( i would love a sequel where mono finally breaks out of the loop. Fingers crossed everything works out in the end ahaha
At First I thought it was a bit of a stretch but it all made sense in the end, nice theory!
Yeah it requires a little bit of patience, I’m glad you enjoyed it though!
@@Tericho at 5:45 that's not a child but a picture of toilet .
A private investigator is sometimes referred to as a Private Eye. So, the eye symbol may be connected (?)
@@Eric_The_Eccentric oooh I like that a lot!
A "stretch", ay? ;')
Just a thought, the thin man is a reporter, people get “glued to the tv” when reports of missing children are on.
holy shit your right good job
I click faster than six letting go of mono's hand
So under 8 seconds
F
Stop--
Too soon. Too soon.
It took her a while
Fun fact: The Thin man is made out of TV static, if you look close at his model you can see that everywhere on his body is weird dots looking alot like TV static
That’s really cool
Probably because he was living in the Eiffel Tower for a longggg time.l
See if even twisted monsters can wash their hands so can you! Keep safe!
Not to ruin the moment but he dipped his hand in water lol.
Jokes on you. I don't have hands.
@Ethan Tanudirdja no. I used my nose to push the microphone button.
@@hunteraitor2107 lol
And wear a mask like me
"This picture that looks VERY much like the Ferryman"
_shows a picture of a black smudge with smaller grey smudges_
When you mentioned that there may have been more than one Thin Man, I remembered something: from the comics app, we see the Thin Man just two times, in the second and sixth chapter. I noticed that, in the second comic, the character that snatchs the kid may have the hat, but doesn't have a suit, or at least, not long sleeves, unlike the Thin Man that gives chase through the game. And also, the character that keeps snatching children in the last chapter is thin and has no long sleeves. However, in his shadow, there appears to be no hat on his head.
Other than that, I liked your theory, very mind-blowing!
I don't think that the man in the 6th comic is the Thinman for that exact same reason: if he was the Thinman they could have showed us without being so ambiguos, that along with the fact that the comic is set in a building we haven't seen yet leads me to believe that the guy is another morphed adult.
My theory is that the building is an orphanage (it would explain why there are so many children together when in this universe they usually travel alone) and the man is their caretaker, since he follows the same kind of mental degeneration as the others, he still cares for the children and will not hurt them unless they try to escape like they do in the comic.
@@sieghardtofcatarina7827 Hm, that makes sense. If we actually take a look at caretakers along the Little Nightmares universe, their behaviour is the expected one, but (as Tericho mentions) more twisted, and the children they take care of aren't exactly comfortable with their pressence. Take for instance, the Janitor, he takes care in a "nursery" aboard the Maw, but he is later wrapping and trappind dead or living kids; and some children run away from him. The Butler in Very Little Nightmares, takes care of the Pretender, but if he spots another living kid, he will attack. This "Thin Guy" of the app comics may have been the caretaker of this supposed orphanage, maybe trying to move the children to a safer spot in the building that was in fire, but the children fear him and try to avoid him (just like Mono did). I don't have enough proof to know how harmless or hostile he could be... but if he is the one that was before the Thin Man/adult Mono, and the same one that stole the kid from the second comic, why would he be in an orphanage? Is he recluting children that are alone in dangerous places? Was Mono always there, if not or if so, where was he before?
@@sieghardtofcatarina7827 In the second comic with the Thin Man’s hand coming out of the TV, there were no sleeves. So going off of that, it’s still extremely likely that was him in the sixth comic. They just didn’t draw him with any sleeves
@@Im.Smaher It was not just the sleeves, it was mainly the hands that seemed off in the sixth, plus if the Thinman actually grabbed Mono how can he still be alive at the start of the game?
@@Im.Smaher Even if it was a last-minute drawing choice, what about the fleshy-cracking sound that finishes the sixth comic? The Thin Man is more like a glitch and he couldn't have bones to crack; that cracking noise sounds something that would come out of a viewer (I say so after listening to the Viewers' "voice clips" published in RUclips). Which are far from being something like the Thin Man's echo noises.
I'm still for the thought that Mono is just a younger version of Thin Man and he grows up to become the Thin Man and its a never ending cycle of betrayal and failure.
Don't go showing my secrets
Too late! They are out there now. Sorry not sorry.
Stop keeping secrets then
@@commitingsins8787 true, past me
@@itsjustjuju7945 yes, future me.
@@commitingsins8787 WTF!!
okay but this is one of the best theories ive seen yet. When you tied it into Mono finding the glitches, my mind was blown
I don’t know why no ones made a theory on the massive crack through the city. My theory is that the signal tower sprouted from underground
Or that as it controls and bends reality it created those, like how Mono's power works
@@vcommandarv5916 yea but that’s unsatisfying, there’s gotta be a better reason than that, especially cuz we don’t see any examples of the signal doing that
you could argue that the Signal Tower is absorbing the world around it, not just the people. The more powerful it grows, the more energy it robbed from the land, the more corrupt and dystopia the land becomes. Starting with ground zero, since the woods were relatively normal. But you see when they ride the door across the sea/lake, the shore where the water rises against the buildings. The buildings are too, cracking and crumbling into the water.
Most likely the bends in reality caused by the signal tower began to rip the world around it apart.
I feel it’s a giant parasite that eats and consumes constantly
Could it be that the original "thin man" was looking for children who became gnomes? the lady seemed really old so she may have abducted some children early on too?
I always got a "Men in Black" vibe from Thin Man, and thought of him as a "G Man" from Half-Life like character before the end reveal. So, to add to your theory, what if he was an investigator for some hidden organization that eventually caused the world of Little Nightmares to be how it is? He worked for them until he was also mutated, or perhaps he was in charge and used his powers to create the Flesh Wall monster.
Another theory, what if he is Mono, but before the world's transformation and the Pale City was his home before everything was destroyed? Little Nightmares II could be a sub-universe he created after he died in the Maw that either appears visually similar or manifested over the city's location where he grew up in, thus the time loop and Mono's existence is him projecting his regrets or fears from his unfinished work directing in a bubble over that area. Mono could be how he saw his childhood, scared but determined in a lot of what he did. Maybe the "Return to the Signal" is him confronting the cause of the world's destruction at its source or where he got his powers, but his encounter with the Lady ended up getting him killed; that area in the first game honestly makes it look more like he was murdered to me as he is nowhere close to the still standing chair and the floor above him was broke through which tells us he was tied to the above room's ceiling. Due to his power, he manifested in the TV after dying and traveled to the broadcasting tower where he transformed the surrounding areas into a twisted sitcom starring his younger self. Somehow Six ended up in the sitcom world and rewrote the script which allowed Mono to attempt an escape, but in the end her betrayal allowed the sitcom to restart from the beginning.
To add to that last bit, maybe the Thin Man and the Lady were enemies; so, to have his revenge from her perhaps murdering him, he purposefully mutated Six by separating her in two and manipulating her Shadow Six self into taking revenge on the Lady in his stead.
The man in the hat = Thin Man
Mono = Mono
Six = Six
Raincoat girl = Raincoat Coat
I feel like in every loop, the thin man was losing himself as he was copying the behavior of the predecessor.
With this and how the Thin Man looks I'd amagin that he sounds like Nick Valentine you know from fallout 4
Perfect choice 👌🏼
Use your amagination
Mm yes, such a nice amagination you have.
Oh yes such a nice amagination you have.
Im ag I na tion
Oh my God, I'm so happy you're one of the first people to recognize and theorize about that room! I knew it had some significance to the lore, as it really did look like a police office to me at first glance.
When you mentioned that the first Thin Man lived a life of solitude with no time for relationships, I immediately thought about that one video you did about Mono's Tragic Backstory. Could the very, very first Thin Man be Mono's father, then?
As an investigator for missing children, he had a son himself (Mono), and he could only imagine how it felt like if he went missing. But unfortunately, he didn't have any time to spend with Mono, he sent him to a boarding school.
Considering that he smoked a lot, he may have had to go to the hospital numerous times as smoking damages your lungs. So that may play a role on Mono's fear of the hospital.
Mono grew up with the only thing he knew: loneliness. He ended up becoming like his father, who became isolated from the world, but he knew what it felt like to lose a child and lose a parent at the same time, so he followed in the footsteps of his father until he became stuck in the loop and corrupted.
Edit: (Slight spoilers? If you haven't seen/played The Residence DLC on Little Nightmares). At the very end of the credits of The Residence DLC, you can see a similar ash tray on a couch. The thin man appears on that TV, and maybe perhaps he transports through that TV because that is his home, correlating him to be the INVESTIGATOR? :0
Edit #2: Oh "maw" lord, I have found the same room in Little Nightmares 2 as well! In one of the apartment complex there is a room similar to the one after the credits. There is a burning ash tray on top of the table and plates stacked upon each other just like in the credits! There is the same couch and the TV still across from it. You can't tell me that this isn't a coincidence!
I don't know. Just a theory. ಠ︵ಠ
I think my brain is broken, I’m a porcelain child now
*The porcelain children has brains?*
No, mine was Broken, so the doctor took it away, now I am porcelain child
I'm an apple!
I’m a ghost!
- whezzeeeee -
Maybe if Mono put his grocery bag mask back on after the fight of the Thin Man aka future mono, Six wouldnt throw him off the edge
Maybe this could also explain six's amnesia as well, maybe it's a sort of thing where she's now starting to forget the things from the previous timeline when she travelled to this new one. 🤔
This theory seems so spot on!! After using Thin Man's hat on Mono, I actually thought "He looks like a little detective!". Back in the day, this is how PIs dressed. I have a few questions for you, though:
1 - Game developers say Mono hides his face because people hate him and want him to fail. How does this fit in this theory? Why do they hate him and what do they want him to fail? It could also explain why Six didn't save him (aside from revenge): it was the first time she saw his face... so, she recognized him and, like everyone else, she hates him?
2 - While all adults are distorted, monster-like beings, kids seem normal and cute (despite being small and skinny)... But Mono seems to be the only one whose looks are spared, for some reason. When we see a close up of him growing up in that chair, he looks very normal and actually handsome. He simply grows old. Why?
3 - Everyone says the Thin Man captures kids, leaving behind their glitched soul... But he's not the only one. While we do see a kid being captured in the comics, and then Six... many of the glitched souls belonged to kids who were killed by other people: the teacher, the doctor, and so on... So, the Thin Man might capture a few kids, but many are killed by other adults.
Here's a theory. What if the thin man is a detective... but he's not actually real. What if he came from the TV, as evidenced by the tv static around him. There could be Multiple thin men from multiple seasons. It's a widely known show, but an adult one. Only adults would watch the show, plus a few children (maybe six) that didn't listen to their parents. Essentially a teen and up, but kids don't care. When the TV got corrupted he was released. Why would they want Mono / Thin man to fail? The plot twist is that the thin man is the villain of the show. Everyone knows he's the villain, but they all get corrupted before he can be stopped. I don't know about the glitched kids though.
This makes me think that the thin man is like mono’s father. There’s a big chance of kids growing up adapting to their parents behaviour without knowing, may even become an exact duplicate if they weren’t raised well. And the loop theory makes a lot of sense bc of this
So you gonna bringing parents in this
Adapting to their parents behavior? So what do they just kidnap children because their father tried to kill them? Who would Mono’s mother be?
"that he-"
**hanging from roof**
"I've said before that I dont think this man is the thin man"
(**chef kiss**)
Your theories are so insightful compared to other theorists who only cover things we can see on the top. I enjoy them so much!
Theres a sense of irony in the thin man being a detective type mystery solver, it sort of mirrors the players and fanbase trying to figure out what's going on
Fun drinking game: take a shot everytime he says “thin man”
Ouch now i'm dead,lol.
Love this take! I think one important piece to the "loop" theory that ties into this one well is the idea that Mono and the thin man are not inherently the same person. BUT since this is has heavy elements of childhood/growing up, we have to think about the idea of the children making the same mistakes as their parents. This idea enforces the cyclical nature of the time loop while simultaneously allowing for changes with each iteration (or the butterfly effect as in the video). Not saying the thin man is mono's dad, but rather just that idea that generations will often ' grow up to be their parents' is too strong a motif to dismiss. :)
I always took the thin man to be symbolized as Mono’s father/his fate. And it was always sad to me because it seemed like he was trying so desperately not to grow up and become his father/fate, but in the end his circumstances just created what he didn’t want to become.
Here’s a theory that I just thought of if this is all established in monos nightmare then maybe the thin man is Monos dad in real life and his father smokes and does bad things so then that might be the reason why mono becomes him at the end of the game because that’s his greatest fear becoming his father.
Yo dude that’s my basically my theory without the nightmare part
woahh damn nice theory!
The thin man's way too old for that.
I don't think that's the reason because what about six man. Plus six wouldn't have the same nightmare
The Nightmare Loop... each time the nightmare occurs something different happens. It could even be a nightmare dreamt up to explain how the last one began... or ended perhaps?
The “multiple thin men” theory is the personal theory that I’ve had all along. Glad to see it finally being talked about in this video. :)
I'm no theorist, but even before seeing the final timeloop/thinman scene I thought the glitches were the souls of the main character that died in different timelines during his "adventure".
In another note, I also think the tittle itself plays a role in the story. The little children might be, somehow, the nightmares of the monsters/world we see, not the other way around.
I see no one seeing that he is talking about parallal universe theory. It could mean that "the tv" acts as an portal to another parallal dimension. If this is true then my theory is the signal tower manage to create a route to travel to another parallal dimension which lead to drastic outcomes it could also mean that six got travelled to completely different dimension love your theory by the way bro keep it up
I just want the devs to spill the real story so I can stop thinking about it constantly lmao
12:46
I can explain, if you play the game "very little nightmares" somewhere at the end of the game you can see two portraits. The first one is him on the left, in the middle is his daughter and on the right it's his wife which see looks like the teacher (because his daughter was sort you could only see his legs as like the teacher's legs and the whole body of the pretender (his daughter)). On second portrait you can see a chair and two hanging long legs with black clothes above of the chair. The game's name is very little nightmares and can only find it on the Google app store because it's a game only for phone.
-kicks in the door- THEORY TIME?!
You know it!
BUT THATS JUST A THEORY
@@Mailodi47 A GAME THEO-
I AM CEREAL A BEAVER THEORY
Shadow Bonnie=Thin man
I was thinking and I think I have something. There’s something that came to my mind that’s been right under our noses all along, the title ‘little nightmares’ nightmares. Nightmares suggests maybe this all is a nightmare? Proof to this is that all the ‘monsters’ are people that children would typically be scared of? Teachers, doctors, hunters, mannequins, the dark (in the hospital level), and even tall mysterious figures. The fact everything is big compared to Mono and Six is also suggesting it’s all a nightmare as for once again, big things would scare a typical child too..
Okay, probably a weird idea, but imagine someone made an AU story where Mono grows up to be a PI and just goes around solving crimes and mysteries. Kind of like in the old detective noir shows. Honestly I think that would be kind of cool! 😆😆
This is an absolutely thrilling theory, completely unique.
Amazing, I had the same thoughts with this theory when we were discussing / hinting at the theory in the stream! The idea of the Thin Man being actually a lineage of Thin Men corrupted by the NEED to save other children, but just not right, is so very well good. The PI official arts are so detailed it's almost sad they didn't add it all in but I understand the time constraints and limitations of story/or keeping the flow of the story. The idea that Mono was plucked up / chased for the whole game really makes you think how long it took the Thin Men to take the other children. All of the areas, where they saved before their deaths or afterwards? Where they taken to the Tower in the wrong timelines? Was it possible that they were already there and thus the PI was sent to investigate and got twisted on the way?
That hanging man theory was brilliant, that dot connection makes a lot of sense. I really do think it was a form of Thin Man, or just another easter egg / hint for another game. Those chairs are too damn similar to not be connected haha. Also the note, I really wish we could read what it said! Maybe it could of been the PI's last words or a hint at what he found out before he was killed/murdered/staged to death in that lonesome room.
Gods, this series is just living in my head with so much information and yet nothing is confirmed or solid lmao
Excellent work, Tericho! Fantastic video and can't wait for the next ones to follow, about this or newer games you fancy!! :D
This is a brilliant theory! This also plays into The Lady originally being a Japanese hostess before the corruption whos entire job is to feed and indulge guests to get as much money from them as possible as they work essentially on comission, the whole livelyhood hinges on them being beautiful, which is why she is so worried about her looks and why the guestd are so gluttonous! This is potentially the key we needed!!!
This is exactly what I need when I have school tomorrow. Thank you for uploading at th right time.
Also, another way to prove your theory is to look at the concept art for the billboards. On one of them you see a man smoking a cigarette, who looks like the thin man. Perhaps the office logo?
I agree with your theory that the signal tower has been distorting the city for ages. Dave Mervik (Lead designer I think) said that the residents were distorted because the ignored a problem for too long. And I, personally, think that problem was addiction. The viewers have TV addiction, The guests are addicted to food, the lady is addicted to her looks and others like The Janitors and The Chefs are addicted to they're work.
ive always thought that the thin man existed before mono!
I think the maw could be the main reason why the children were going missing, maybe even the nest, as it kept children captive there as well... It adds on to the theory nicely and it makes more sense, as the maw captures children for the guests to eat. The same goes for the nest, only some of these children could get killed by the pretender or get turned into dolls. I really enjoyed this theory, keep up the great work!
I remember when we all got hyped in Tericho's latest stream when he talked about this.
11:15 Notice something big and disturbing right there. You have a glitch-child on top of a stained mattress with no blanket, polaroid photos scattered around it and an ashtray sitting in on the window seal. Almost as if someone who abducted the child was doing something...nefarious with it.
bandai and tarsier watching this video: WRITE THAT DOWN!
edit: yo ty so much for over 100 likes :D !
Lol
Your pfp is cute by the way
*Only Bandai
@@daffaardyanta4710 oh yeah, true! sorry about that :)
@@chibi_okami awe thank you!
I also think the Thin Man could be a movie producer. Maybe he is trying to "recruit" certain kids and adults to become a part of the signal tower. Maybe he is building a TV project, just not the right way. He also sits in a chair as a representation of an interview. Normally movie directors sit in a chair when they are interviewed.
Now that's a really interesting theory!
I replayed the DLC today and noticed the gnomes would draw the thin man in multiple places. So it would make sense that he was on the maw or even that they were once children he talked to when he was a PI.
I can tell by the title that this is gonna be a good one!
your theories are far the most accurate ive seen. your work is amazing,looking forward to binge watching your channel:)
Glad you like them!
We don’t need a thin man for mono but we do need a mono for thin man. The thin man could have existed before the corruption. The eye must have found out about the thin man and started the loop. By using six. The evil broken child that has a dark side. Dark six wasn’t so dark. Dark six started out as a part of six that helped mono find six. Mono is given powers and six is sent to the nest by the eye. When they meet the loop begins. The eye is now more powerful then ever.
Wait your suggesting LN2 Comes before VLN
@@sbeveloaf1120 If that how it works, then six die first :D
@@Chill-Sama the main character in VLN is not six, it's the other child
@@fandubindo1891 yeah I know, it's the yellow raincoat girl?
I do like this theory, and it kind of explains why Mono bothers rescuing Six, especially if it happens over and over again. Maybe even Mono is trying to stop the loop and rescue Six at the same time.
I love the lore building theories make. But I really just miss mah boi Mono
I always thought it was weird that the thin man would take six just because, but no one else seemed to be questioning it. So thank you for this video
Last time I clicked so fast RK was still alive.
Damn
Hi creepy hand man
@@greengd2456 Well, not really hand anymore, eh?
@@baldwinthefourth4098 yeah
@@baldwinthefourth4098 you deserve a pay raise you lost your arms for you work
Another thing : can we just talk about how the team had the idea of making Veronica an enemy at some point ? If we look at the artworks, we can see an image of a monster cooking in a kitchen very similar to Veronica's, although not exactly the same, with clothes that look very much like those Veronica wears. Maybe she is actually in the game and we just didn't know it. Remember those noises we hear in the kitchen after saving Six ? It couldn't have been the Hunter, because the Hunter was outside this whole time. The door leading to the back of the house was locked this whole time and can only be unlocked from the inside, which means the Hunter couldn't have been in the kitchen and be in the back after. Also, there are fresh footprints in front of the loo that goes in the opposite direction of where the Hunter is. If he had gone through the door, the footprints would have been going in the opposite direction. So there was something else in the kitchen that wasn't the Hunter. And looking at the artwork and the fact that the Hunter's kitchen is awfully similar to Veronica's (although I know you don't think it is), what if Veronica was in the game this whole time and we just didn't know ?
This is amazing, knowing that time is messed up, and that timeliness are effecting so much is interesting and mind blowing, connecting dots to previous littles nightmares games is fascinating, but this comment not might get noticed but me and my BF have noticed something from little nightmares 1 as you see in the beginning of the game you walk into a room to jump onto a bed and the door window, well from what my BF noticed is that as we walk we see a monster or something huge walking behind the big door and seems to see a yellow color of a rain coat, he claims to say that it's twisted six as we see the creature stops and notices us yet walks away, but sharing this i could be entirely wrong but we'll have to see in the future, Sorry for bother 😅 (also sorry if it doesn't make sense)
Long comments are always underrated. U deserve more likes
After six turns to normal, she just ran away and didn't wait Mono and so she betrayed him, my theory has different reasons
1 Mono destroy the music box
2 Six's soul(is a good soul) went out of her body but the body doesn't have too much memories with Mono helping her
@@laei6391 not to be rude, but what does that have to do with this comment? No offense
@@ahmadaqilnasrullah6448 Just my theory about what she says
@@laei6391 in the first game theres a room past the first collectable doll, in the doors window theres what i think is a yellow hood, its weird you gotta look, its been there sice the games release
It would be pretty cool to see telltale style adventure detective game where you play The Thin Man investigating the disappearances as the city slowly corrupts.
Theory: what if the hanging man/thin man didn’t really hang himself and it was staged because if he really did hang himself the chair would be tipped over
Truuueee, but it could just be that way for the sake of game mechanics. We needed the chair to open the door after all.
Yes but no since he put the rope high enough so that his feet couldn’t touch the chair
@@zyzzenjoyer7825 he *glit ched* up there
Yo, I love the way you've carefully crafted and written these theories! Not only are they well thought out, but you present them and your thoughts very well. Even if a theory might be a bit of a stretch, they are fun and interesting to watch nonetheless. Subscribed!
well hello there!!!
Oh hey!
@@Tericho hi
hello.
Hi
@@Tericho i have a theory about the glitched remains. i think the glitched remains are, in fact, the victim's "inner child" and their location is where they lost them. most of the glitched remains are seemingly doing something childish or sad as though the childish ones got killed which left their inner child behind or they lost them due to the terrible world they live in and when they lose this "inner child", they become a monster. (the thin man most likely speeds up this process when he takes them) this could also be why six drops mono, because her friendship with mono is connected with her inner child and most people stop hanging out with their friends when they grow up which could also fit into the whole "little nightmares is a metaphor theory"
To me I feel like the first ever mono grew up alone with no friends and ended up getting bullied. Seeing the hospital maybe means he was there multiple times, and then the city as he would travel there and grew up distant from family and into his work finding these children. Then the eye corrupts him and he become the PI, but twisted. Then a new paradox is begging as mono goes to pale city and sees the corrupted thin man. It’s very confusing but it’s a nice theory
I'm still gonna hang in there for theory until we solve the real story.
I love just how meticulously you work on these videos and theories. Beautiful one this time man.
The second picture is of Veronica holding a knife singing her song not a child
I was playing through Very Little Nightmares again, and there's a book about the Maw (it looks like it) when you get to the playroom with the slide before you meet The Pretender, it's probably nothing to do with this but it's a nice little detail
WAIT, the "other version" of the original PI thin man may have been another personality, maybe the original thin man had "multiple personality disorder"
Oh s**t you might be right.
Omg i'm so happy that i've found you! you're making the game more clear at every of your theories now i see the game so differently thank you!
I wonder what happens if mono try to get up from the chair
"Yo, sit back down watchu doin?"
This ties in with a theory I have about this game, its not yet fully complete but with more ideas it can be a fully fledged theory explaining everything about little nightmares. Terichos theory’s help with mine a lot.
Y'know as GLaDOS once said
“the beat solution is usually the easiest one”
Mono: *running*
Thin Man: *"Sir, sir! Would you like to talk about the lord, Sir don't run from the lord!!!"*
You know, I like all these theories and speculations about different stuff,
but man I just want a reason why Six yeeted mono into the abyss.
You have become my favorite theory youtuber for little nightmares, no doubt of that. The way you make things just make sense is amazing
The picture in the thumbnail of Thin Man at a desk looks like he's a detective to me. Plus Mono's trenchcoat. I wonder why if it's intentional.
EDIT: I commented this before I watched the full thing. Interesting. Moths also symbolise transformation btw.
My mind got mega blown when you brought up Mono also collecting the glitches, my mind blew apart. Love this!
So if we are saying that theres multiple thin men and mono is a young one and when hes sat in the room its not showing him age its showing different hims and thats why mono goes to the signal tower, in the secret ending six looks down at the picture of the maw and thats why mono wanted to go through the portal and go to the maw for some reason? maybe to find nomes like the one in the hunters house or to find seven?
Mad pursuit for children.
Wears a suit.
Has no friends.
...Social services worker.
Do Teacher, Doctor and Hunter hads their child versions in this like "TV Show" city?
Yes, i believe this theory
The ghost child = the hunter
Lollipop kid = the barber
The nosebleeded girl = the teacher
The toddler = janitor
This is my favourite theory so far! Good job coming up with it 🤩
Ok we need a dlc. NOW.
Excellent work buddy! This is one of the most plausible theories I've seen. Keep it up ❤️