Some people say that little nightmares one is an allegory for child abuse, how trauma can turn children into the monsters that made them. How the maw is an orphanage and such as well.
I was thinking that, or that the eye could be the fear of feeling like everyone's watching you, that you constantly have to do your best because you don't wanna let down the expectations of how others see you. Japanese culture is very big on respect and social acceptance, for example in schools most kids are expected to look the same (dress code and hairstyles have to be a certain way) and that goes all the way up to job hunting. Growing up in japan, kids are constantly expected to be good kids and not let anyone down. Which is why i think the eye represents the eyes of society. Imo its also another reason why people are afraid of loneliness, they think that if people leave and if they're alone, that it means they're just not good enough.
what if mono’s dad suffered an accident while hunting where mono shot him in the face (hunter has a hole in his head) but he survived, was in the hospital having to get facial surgery/a prosthetic and ended up dying from his injuries, mono goes to boarding school but gets bullied, and he ends up scared of being alone, sadly blaming himself so he maybe copes with his tv. thin man is locked in a tiny room, no windows, depressed, just sitting there waiting in his own personal lonely nightmare. your theory is one of the best dude
As a kid you often imagine different things based on your experience, tv shows you have watched etc. Hunter's place looks so out of touch with the world, it seems like it was fully recreated, based on things Mono could see on some discovery channel. What if his dad couldn't stand life any longer and decided to end his life in the woods but got rescued and Mono was next to him in the hospital while dad was there in the critical state? So he couldn't understand why dad got injured and imagined some hunting accident, it could be the story he told in the orphanage to the kids or something.
@@slavapie oh it was probably what his dad wanted to escape to. Some people have thoughts about dealing with job, daily assignments and want to get out into the fresh air. Which would be why Mono heads there because of how good his dad talks about it
@@jovanjahja5402 He doesn't see his dad has monster. He's afraid of the souless life of adulthood. His dad would be explaining that the woods is a place away from it all. Pretty sure you've heard that famous phrase before
Maybe the eye symbol is a metaphor for children’s parents. How there’s so controlling and look down at you, and in the end want to make you into something like them
Ahame you can't take like some kind of test or show some sort of skill in some way to get such a job. There should be some way other than a degree to get that kind of job kind of like good will hunting you know?
5:50 this is sad but what if the TV's aren't just about the viewers but about his dad? What if Mono's dad neglected him in favor of his TV so Mono sees everyone else like this too. And this could be why he's so lonely, his dad neglected him before getting hurt during the hunting trip and he had no friends so that's why.
@@ito-kun7640 That's true, in all honesty Mono would've been the quiet kid so they would all seem crazy and reckless in contrast with him which explains their behavior, that's how he views them.
Mono is not turning into Thin man, Mono is turning into his dad : tall (for a child perspective), always dressed for work with a sad face. Thin man is a loop of how he remembered his dad.
This is my theory as well! I personally think that the original Thin Man is Mono's father (or even grandfather, considering how old his model looks). This would explain why they have identical supernatural abilities, and any similarities in facial features could be explained away by this theory, too. Him becoming the Thin Man at the end could be a metaphor for neglected or abused children growing up to be the very thing they once hated. :(
I really like your theory about this game being in a Japanese City. Another thing that points to that idea is the large amounts of suicides taking place in the game. Japan has one of the largest numbers of suicide each year. Also, chapter of little nightmare with all the fat guest gorging themselves on food really reminded me of the scene from spirited away where Chihiro’s parents are turned into pigs.
@@anastasia_852 Exactly, Mono only needed to get trapped inside the signal tower and grow up in there and the fleshy entity that creates the broadcast could send him as a thrall to whatever time the broadcast has existed. Thin Man physically looks like a glitch that has escaped the TV because the future Mono AKA Thin Man is stuck inside the tower.
@@Tericho or what about the black children in the comics it clearly has a connection with them what are they are dead and burn to death or who knows he could have been the only white kid
@@Tericho okay the only parent we have ever seen and only only regular human adults is the hanging man and the lady the Thin Man doesn't count he was turned into a monster and he was already a monster from the beginning of his life
Monos mother dies in some sort of way leading monos dad to go into a depression, he gets "sucked into the tv" and rarely never keeps his head away from it, mono feels all alone hence his name mono and his father sees how sad he is and takes him on a trip to the family hunting cabin when mono gets there he's still a little decided from his dad but overtime he gets more happy and energetic, they go out hunting and mono accidentally shoots his father, while mono is in the hospital he sees amputees because he probably shot one of his father's limbs off ( probably his arm because the hunter looks like his arm is falling off) while in the hospital mono is probably shamed for severely hurting his father which causes him to put a paper bag over his head, he also sees the doctor giving the amputees new limbs which only makes him feel worse about making his father one of them, he's probably very scared of the doctor too because he probably shamed him alot, monos father is realeased from the hospital and sends mono to a boarding school, the school is probably for bad children which is why all the kids are bullies (it also ties into the fact that he would be shamed for shooting his dad), the teacher was clearly very strict and saw everything, he probably met 6 in the school to so they probably had a good friend ship, until mono was forced to come home to take care of his father, where once again he never kept his eyes off the tv and would scold mono and almost attack him for pulling his attention from the tv, his father died and mono is forced to stay at the school until he's an adult, six eventually leaves the school and also leaves mono behind, mono becoming the thin man is a representation of the average adult who has to twork to live and mono lives the rest of his days alone making up this false reality that is the game we play until he decides to go on to the maw and see six (the lady) and wants to reconnect but she wants nothing to do with him and he sadly kills him self becoming the hanging body on the beginning of LN1
I feel bad for my guy Mono he was alone for his whole life and when he genuinely loved someone (six) she betrayed him trapping him to darkness and loneliness for the rest of his life :(
@ZOE RALSTON she had no good reason too tbh because remember along the way in the present little nightmares, six meets seven and no eating takes place w him so I mean
Hello?! This theory actually made way more sense! That explains why Six letting go of Mono is perceived by him as a betrayal. Despite the growth of their friendship, they'll part some time in their lives. Six had to go onto her own path, and because of the separation, Mono is shrouded in loneliness. The chronic hunger she later encounters could be her need to search for something that would fulfill her. It's awesome to see the franchise tying to real life events! Everything in the game could be metaphors or exaggeration of what and how a child sees the world and the people!
I love this theory. It also helps explain the end: the whole time, he thinks he's Six's savior. Six sees this as a "misery loves company" type of situation. Also, she's always the one having to encourage Mono to jump the gaps, rather than being the other way around. If you think about Six's hunger appearing after she 'dumps him,' that's her ambition kicking in. She's off to the Maw, to take on the 'fat cats,' and dethrone the Lady of the establishment.
Have you ever met someone with a weird phobia? Welp, I actually have a phobia called Autophobia/ 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙤phobia. This is exactly what the internet says about this phobia:“Autophobia,or *Monophobia* ,is the fear of being alone or lonely.Being alone,even in a usually comfortable place like home, can result in serve anxiety for people with this condition. People with Autophobia/Monophobia needs to be around with another person,or other people in order to feel safe.” This phobia is legit the worst; but adding the fact this phobia has Mono’s name in it makes this my favorite horror game 😌👍
Well understandable, that also make what six really is... She wasn't evil, maybe they are childhood friend, maybe she's the only emotional holder for him after all that nightmarish things he thought happen. But she and "her mom", the lady has to move out of the neighbourhood and that left him alone again, hence the ending why six drop him in the end.. and six's nightmare is, well, part 1 of the game which we already played
My analysis on the Barber, who is definitely an interesting character. We have seen his portrait within one of the corridors of the Pale City school and within the residential quarters of the Governess, meaning the Barber has some sort of relationship with the Governess. This may indicate that he is a rather influential figure within the Pale City. Similar to how both the Teacher and Doctor have their portraits featured in the residential quarters of the Maw and are incredibly impactful within the Pale City. The Barber owns his own barber shop which is located somewhere within Pale City. The inside is quite well-kept, which is in complete contrast with the many dilapidated apartment complexes that surround him. The Barber seems incredibly sadistic towards children, as he attempts to kill any within sight with his hair-cutting scissors. Though this is common among most adults.
@@jasminewicker1750 He was a canceled enemy. A picture of him was seen in Little Nightmares, and he was supposed to appear in Little Nightmares 2. They actually have concept art. You can look him up.
i LOVE how both games work on both a meta, metaphorical level, AND on an in-game, rich story level. like obviously, in the world of the game, there are all these timelines and story and mystery. but i love how even if we step back outside of the game world, there is still analysis to be had. some people think that both games being nightmares would ruin it, but i love it, i think it makes it deep on not only an in-universe level, but also on a level of looking at it from outside.
The developers leave the "message" of the games intentionally ambiguous. So really you can take any interpretation you want! That's what makes these games so compelling for me!
@@Tericho Yessir! Also to clarify; just because I didn't agree initially doesn't mean I dislike/disliked your content, I just didn't think of it that way. I appreciate the uploads!
My small theory about the Thin man : "the Thin Man likely tries to capture his younger self to prevent Mono from becoming trapped in the Tower and repeating their fate on a loop" .
Theory: when Mono goes into the TV, this is him trying to accessing his memories where he’ll see the tall man. Six pulls his out to stop him finding his memories and realising that he was betrayed and became the tall man. As then he wouldn’t help six escape the nightmare. Might be a stretch but hey ho 😂
This is my theory✨ I think that mono remembers all the bad things that happened in his past and has nightmares about it, and every time he tries to wake up when he is about to get to that door on the tv six gets him because she is trying to use mono to save herself, so if she lets him go then she won’t be able to save herself, but then when mono was able to reach the door to scape the nightmare, he noticed it was not a dream anymore, and that he had to turn into what used to scare him, the tall man who I think COULD be his dad, which basically means that he did not wanted to be that way but everyone expected him to be like his father.
6:18 well as a japanese I can’t read those except some アイ以下に人or 死 or maybe 六without the top part. It doesn’t really mean anything but the word 以下 is just “less than”
I don’t think it’s Japanese, rather, it’s something designed to resemble a language close enough to one we know of in the real world, or if it is Japanese, they didn’t put much effort.
I find it funny how one of the most depressing and lugubrious (gloomy) games has one of the most dedicated and friendly community. It just feels like the game would appeal to a different type of audience.
Maybe the reason the Hunter has a hole in the bag and the raspy breath because he saw his dad accidentally (or purposely) shoot himself in the face. The last memory of his Dad was sitting in the hospital listing to his raspy breathing.
When I was a child, I had a reoccurring nightmare in a cabin in the middle of nowhere, and there was always a snowstorm outside. Every time, my mother would leave me alone at home to go to the store, and while she was gone, a creature would come try to catch me. Every time I was caught, the dream ended. The idea of Little Nightmares being a nightmare is the way I initially interpreted it because repeating the same scenario in an alternate world and trying to get a different outcome was the reality of my sleeping life. If LN is a nightmare, it would explain why there is a time paradox, why it appears that Mono knows where he is going, and why it appears that elements in this world can be remembered. Additionally, some of my nightmares involved switching perspectives. I may have spent part of the story in my body, but I would also spend some parts in the body of another significant character, a friend, or in another life within the same world. This would explain why we play as different characters throughout the series. I don't know that everyone has similar childhood experiences, but if so, Little Nightmares being a nightmare is the most believable explanation.
What makes me wonder is why Mono feels the need to open the door at the end of the corridor in the first place. When you play the game, Mono seems to be the only one with a purpose, always knows where he wants to go and what to do. Six doesn't seem to have a goal, she sits on a bench, plays with some toys or is generally uninterested in moving forward. Mono is the one who makes them go forward, he grabs her hand and seems to even forcefully drag her to go further. He seems to have o goal. But what goal? Does he want to save himself? Release himself from behind that door? Does the Thin Man call to him? To be reunited? And then he notices Six and takes her away to not repeat the cycle? I'd love to hear your thoughts on that.
Thank you so much for this theory. After seing the end of ln2 I assumed that the whole story of ln and ln2 is based on the life of little children, who see our world from a more abstract and horrifying perspective. Based on the ln2 trailer, where nightmares will be "described" I also thought the games could represent dreams of the adult people, who regret so many things in life, so their thoughts create those horrifying dreams, where their younger selves are haunted by their fears... and hate to see what they had become.
Maybe thin man is a RL business man who is monos uncle who has been setting him up to take over his huge company. Though mono is scared of this, eventauly his best friend leaves him, leading to him being alone and eventually turns into his rich business uncle
coming back to this theory after the sounds of nightmares podcast; it actually fits super well!! in episode 3 of the podcast, the entire theatre noone is in is based on moments of her past, where there's a giant eye-blob monster that wants her to stay with it because it's lonely, at the end. this literally feels like a carbon copy of ln2 - if we go off this theory - with everything in the pale city being based on mono's past outside of the nowhere, and the end of the game resorting in being surrounded by an eye-blob creature that also kind of doesn't want to be lonely...
If you pay attention, the eyes are almost always looking at you when they come along, representing your conciousness creating the nightmares to stop you as you progress through each stage. I believe number 1 is a dream as well for six. I believe either someone close to her hanged himself on a cruise, which lead to her losing more of herself and growing gluteness due to depression. I also think that the mirror used on the lady represented her insecurities of her looks, which is why she's always wearing a coat
Yooo... I realized something, everytime mono grew, his head started to slightly raise until he became the thin man and his head was completely raised. What I mean is, in the ending of little nightmares his head is down, moreover his sad and disappointed, when he is growing he is slowly raising his head and when he became the thin man, his head was looking straight as if he was just waiting for mono to open the door and stop the loop. I think it's pretty interesting to share uwu poor mono😭😢
I really really hope the developers of the game will see your videos!!! It's so extremly interesting and i always agree with almost everything in your different theorys.
the kids like a lot of the youth of japan live a nightmare of their own design. no matter what you do hunt, teach, cook, etc monotony gets to us all but loneliness keeps us in that shell of our own making and making it harder for someone else to have a connection with someone they may need: you, letting the cycle continue.
You do bring up very valid points. And especially for the fact that this is taking place in a Japanese place, considering the fact that The Studio Ghibli films (which is a Japanese animation company for anyone that doesn’t know) is one of the inspirations for Little nightmares 1 and 2.
So building off the video I wanted to offer a new timeline: Mono lives with both parents, the parents work a lot so finally they take a vacation to their grandparent’s house, something happens leaving mono’s dad in a bad position and they put the dad out of his misery, leaving the mother terribly sad to the point she’s hospitalized, to prevent mono from seeing her this way he’s sent to boarding school, he meets six and they become friends, for some reason six had to leave, mono perceived it as six wanting to leave him though, hence the end of the game.
This is a great theory and adding on there's another theory that the gaesha is Six as an adult so if the nightmare theory is true then in this world kids have nightmares about falling into a typical lifestyle and the only way to defeat it to be free is to defeat yourself, hence six and the mirror, which she learned through seeing Mono stuck in the loop, because after all, your own mind is your greatest prison
@@Tericho My theory is that it might take place in Europe or America (i'm leaning toward England due to all the rain or Washington state) with the rise of television or perhaps since reality/space is being distorted the countries and bending into each other.
@@angel7661 it’s definitely not England, we don’t have that many skyscrapers tbh. It could be Europe, but Asia is far more likely with the writing style and architecture.
@@Tericho Maybe new york city I have seen some building like that in new york city with the school and playground and the sky scrapers do fit there and since the fat kid in comic reminds me of little german boy with his overalls and lollipop makes me think of europe. I don't know much about asian architecture but it would make sense with the Lady and the theory of six becoming the lady. Maybe mono is from a different country/ biracial which is why he puts a bag on his head and the website said people hate his face. Since people have been bullied when they move to different countries.
Once I had a nightmare like this where I was at school with my only one friend and we stayed back for some reason or got trapped.After everyone left, she somehow got access to the school's security cams and we saw that the teddy bears from the toy room that nobody knew about had suddenly become sentient and were running down the halls along with some plastic rocking horses wanting to trample us.Soon, my mother came after the toys had settled and my friend left. Me and my mother stayed there for a while and after about 20 minutes, my father came and we got out of the classroom. By then I realized that our classroom was in an unfurnished apartment with no furniture and as we reached the front door, I looked into the other room and I saw a huge teddy bear start to move. This was around 6-7 months ago and I only remember this because I wrote It down on a piece of paper.
The ending of this made me sad. It is true, and even more because of Covid. I am getting social anxiety and want to communicate with my friends online instead of seeing them in person. You made me feel bad. Thanks! But seriously you have a good point. I need to see more people now that I fear having to interact with people again. Thank you for letting me see that. I appreciate it.
I think the reason that mono and six kill the hunter in this "nightmare", is because mono feels like it is his fault that his father was injured or possibly killed.
Maybe if its a nightmare then something happened to mono’s best friend involving the number six so that he couldn’t see them anymore, leaving him feeling lonely and knowing his friend was somewhere he couldn’t reach her ( explaining why the hand reached through the tv instead of, say another entity kidnapping them ) or maybe Mono’s friend went missing and people started theorizing that it had to do with some sort of devil out of boredom to make him have the name six for her in his nightmare ( I have no idea if any of this contradicts the actual lore of the games, I’ve never played them but I’ve watched a bunch of theories and play through )
This is more about the first game, but I have a theory: What if Six becomes the lady at the end of the first game just like Mono became the thin man? After all, they have the same powers, they honestly look pretty similar, and in the secret ending you see that she goes to the ship where the first game took place.
so ive recently noticed something about the thin man and mono. if you look at mono you can see he's quite pale, however the thin man has a seemingly blueish skin. it could just be lighting or something, but as we all know, its best to get every bit of detail that you can in little nightmares. so yeah, anyone have any ideas?
Hi I have something to add to this theory, mono's incident with his dad probably hit the news and the story became famous and everyone wanted to talk to him about it, but mono was probably shy so his friend,Six, helped him by making them go away and stuf like that and in the last chase sequence in the signal tower was just a bunch of people wanting to interview him and Six letting go of mono was probably her having to move to another place
I have a theory about that moth creature. It is a moth and moths are famous for eating clothes and there are lots of abandoned suits around the city. I think these moth bird hybrids were bred to remove the clothes of the dead once they disappear. Also the room with the tentacles in the bath could be the moth larvae.
I always wondered if Mono shooting the Hunter in face (other than the obvious trying to escape) meant anything significant. Like did he shoot his dad accidentall on a hunting trip. Either way great theory and great conclusion about the loneliness statistics.
Fun fact in the Art of Little nightmares II you can find a smol sketch of the two kids fighting the hunter with his leg stuck in a bear trap this could lead to that theory of the father getting an injury needing a prosthetic
"Children often don't have a full understanding of the world and use their imagination to fill in the blanks." Yeah, I can relate to this as when I was younger, I legit thought the vents in one of my aunts' houses had a fucking red desert underneath. I was quite the creative child
I was thinking that Mono is in a very deep coma that's why he's having this nightmare again and again util he will wake up to reality, and Six is maybe Mono's friend that was always with him when he needed help, at the end of the game we know that six dropped Mono that can mean Six exposed Mono in real life in front of his classmates/people with something, that's why he fall in that hole with giant eyes.
The Thin man is Mono's father and Mono is running away from home. The whole game is a metaphor of how society raises children to become sheep/slaves. And we see a child's point of view here, and his struggles to get away from the society's grasp. Everything is twisted and nightmarish from his point of view, and he doesn't quite understand why people are like how they are. It's so glaringly obvious.
I think a possibly overlooked point about the ending here is that mono sitting in a chair in a small dark room seems reminiscent of a sort of punishment. As though somewhere along the line he and six did something they shouldn’t have and rather than stick it out with him six let him take the fall (badumtiss). Perhaps the history of shooting the hunter, fighting in school and possibly killing a doctor all added up and they were both supposed to be punished but six pins it all on mono so he is left behind and ends up living a life that leads to him trying to be upstanding but constantly stuck ruminating about his mistakes and his friend that screwed him over.
another link for japan, the teacher having a long neck is like rokurokubi (sorry don’t remember the spelling) which is an urban legend about a lady cursed with a neck that can’t stretch very long
@Ellie Smith: I sorta of think this fits with much of this story. However, I think there is a lot more than we think. Little Nightmares 2 seems to represent a more nightmarish version of Mono's past with some events symbolizing Mono's friendship with Six. Six was probably Mono's first friend and the same could be said with Six. Still, it when we meet Six, she is all alone which could indicate that she recently moved in and had no friends. Hence, she played with her music box until Mono found her. Six is alright being alone at first which is why she runs away from Mono but eventually warms up to him as her first friend. Six and Mono both spent quite a bit of time together in the woods and sometimes got into trouble but luck always saved them at the last moment. This is represented by their chase with the Hunter in the woods and the various places they visit. At school, both Mono and Six went to a boarding school where they were bullied by the other kids because they were seen as different from the rest with Six being the new kid and Mono being the 'nerd' as he spent much of his time in the library instead of playing games with the other kids. Mono would spend quite the bit of time trying to save Six from the bullies but often times, this led to him getting into fights where he hurt the other children very badly because he was using tools to fight them. The teacher was also very strict towards the children and would spend much of her time making sure the other children were studying. Since Mono wasn't like the other kids, he and Six were not bothered by the teacher unless they bothered her. This journey is represented by the school trip. The kids are called bullies because Mono saw them as bullies towards him and Six. His mission to save Six from the bullies represent the countless times he had to rescue Six from the other kids. The school library trip represents Mono's main location at school when he was not learning in the classroom or saving Six. When Six kills a bullies with her bare hands, it shows when Six finally decided to stand up for herself instead of waiting for Mono to rescue her. This would lead to her getting in trouble hence why we visit the teacher's house. Six's parents were called in along with Mono's as the two were caught fighting the other kids in front of the teacher. Both would escape with minor punishments which is represented by their escape through the vents of the teacher's home. Sometime after this though, Six ends up in the hospital for a surgery or medical illness. Mono is the only one who visits her and continues to watch over her until she is released. The hospital trip represents this as Mono is going through many things on his own in the hospital and Six is often times not around and just doing her own thing. The mannequins represent the other patients at the hospital and Mono's fear of them as he believes that one of the pateints would hurt him if he let his guard down. Either way, Mono also find the hospital very disturbing as the many decorations on hospital walls are of charts of the human body which creep him out. This is represented by the various masks in the hospital that look almost humane and the numerous body parts that we see-throughout the trip. Mono also watches over Six during the operation and eventually leave the hospital together. This is represented by the doctor boss fight and the two leaving the hospital together in the elevator. Towards the end, we see Mono fight the Thin Man which symbolizes Mono's desire to never be alone or his fear of being abandoned by the one he cared so much about. Back in the real world, Six is still recovering from her hospital experience and once again finds solace in her music box. However, this leads to her neglecting herself and others which is represented by her monstrous self. Mono sees this and takes away her music box several times until it one day breaks. While Six is angry at first, she eventually reopens herself to the outside world as seen when she returns to normal. However she blames Mono for breaking her music box and doesn't forgive him for doing so. Eventually, they do forgive each other in the end but before their friendship can be reconciled, Six ends up moving again. The part where Mono and Six try to escape the collapsing bridge represents their path to forgive one another and Six catching Mono is a sign of this forgiveness. Her 'betrayal' symbolizes her family's move to a different place where she will have to leave her old life behind and let go of Mono. Mono doesn't want this but he can't do anything about this either. In the end, Mono isolates himself from the rest of society and allows his fears to take over while he grew up, hence his transformation into the Thin Man who is subsequently locked away. This isn't the end though. At the start of the game, Mono comes out of a TV and the story repeats. The entire game is a cycle of Mono's past, one that Mono chose to trap himself in. When Six left, Mono like six found solace in something else but rather a box of music, it was his past. His attachment to the past turned him into the very monster that he despised. Like Six, he needed to let go of his attachment in order to be free of his demons. However, whereas Six was able to move on from his past Mono was unable to, which is why Mono's story in Little Nightmares 2 is an endless cycle. Mono becoming the Thin Man was not because of Six's betrayal. It was his unwillingness to let go of the past that cause him to become the very thing he hoped to destroy.
Man the fact that their use television as a sign of only entertainment is basically referring to the real world where we would spend our days behind gadget. The director of little nightmare is genius
I don't really know if this theory makes sense, but what if in the first game the gnomes and children drew eyes all over the maw because the eye creature at the end of the second game is what the children were afraid of. idk, it just popped in my head.
Also, adding a tiny addition to the Pale City being Monos fears is that there was a scrapped barbershop level, where you presumably were attacked by The Barber with a pair of scissors. This is another common fear of children.
Whatever that guts-looking monster with multiple eyes are is the main antagonist in whatever this world is. That's why we see the eye everywhere. It's the nightmare that feast on this world's inhabitants.
I love this theory! Thank you, it's nice to hear something that isn't completely time loop centric - I never liked that theory. What if the original tall man isn't Mono at all, but a lonely monster broadcasted by the signal tower, Mono's nightmare of what the signal will turn him into. Which he finally does through being captured. A cool thing about dreams to note, don't know if it's true but I heard it from somewhere; you cant read words in dreams apparently, the words are scrambled up, maybe resembling something like words, but your brain doesn't recreate them exactly. So the words in LN looking vaguely like Japanese but maybe not exactly (if that's the case) makes sense if there is a literal nightmare distorting the world through a strange signal.
Some people say that little nightmares one is an allegory for child abuse, how trauma can turn children into the monsters that made them. How the maw is an orphanage and such as well.
I’ve seen with my own eyes and brain on how that works and that is true
Theory: eye entity uses children's imagination to twist reality into a nightmare.
This needs more recognition
The eye entity is actually what becomes of the viewers when they are sucked into their TV wich in turn is the signal tower.
I was thinking that, or that the eye could be the fear of feeling like everyone's watching you, that you constantly have to do your best because you don't wanna let down the expectations of how others see you. Japanese culture is very big on respect and social acceptance, for example in schools most kids are expected to look the same (dress code and hairstyles have to be a certain way) and that goes all the way up to job hunting. Growing up in japan, kids are constantly expected to be good kids and not let anyone down. Which is why i think the eye represents the eyes of society. Imo its also another reason why people are afraid of loneliness, they think that if people leave and if they're alone, that it means they're just not good enough.
This might make a bit more sense
Makes sense
what if mono’s dad suffered an accident while hunting where mono shot him in the face (hunter has a hole in his head) but he survived, was in the hospital having to get facial surgery/a prosthetic and ended up dying from his injuries, mono goes to boarding school but gets bullied, and he ends up scared of being alone, sadly blaming himself so he maybe copes with his tv. thin man is locked in a tiny room, no windows, depressed, just sitting there waiting in his own personal lonely nightmare. your theory is one of the best dude
Thin man could be the shadow of a man in front of a tv. This make so much sense. Mono was afraid of being one
As a kid you often imagine different things based on your experience, tv shows you have watched etc. Hunter's place looks so out of touch with the world, it seems like it was fully recreated, based on things Mono could see on some discovery channel.
What if his dad couldn't stand life any longer and decided to end his life in the woods but got rescued and Mono was next to him in the hospital while dad was there in the critical state? So he couldn't understand why dad got injured and imagined some hunting accident, it could be the story he told in the orphanage to the kids or something.
@@slavapie oh it was probably what his dad wanted to escape to. Some people have thoughts about dealing with job, daily assignments and want to get out into the fresh air. Which would be why Mono heads there because of how good his dad talks about it
But then why would mono see his dad as a monster ?
@@jovanjahja5402 He doesn't see his dad has monster. He's afraid of the souless life of adulthood. His dad would be explaining that the woods is a place away from it all. Pretty sure you've heard that famous phrase before
Maybe the eye symbol is a metaphor for children’s parents. How there’s so controlling and look down at you, and in the end want to make you into something like them
And as we’ve seen in the end it worked!
So Eyes could technically be the ones that are abusive?
Mhm
@@selimyucel741 Usually eyes on the walls are a representation of people looking at you, giving pressure
Your ability to connect visual dots would make you SUCH a good art historian. These videos are incredible, I love them so much!
Ahame you can't take like some kind of test or show some sort of skill in some way to get such a job. There should be some way other than a degree to get that kind of job kind of like good will hunting you know?
Mono’s fate is the saddest thing I’ve seen in years.
Edit: Yes I am Mono, I’m just the one that lived.
Indeed mono
Then you haven’t played The Last of Us part 2...
@@forastero54321 meh
@@Nikolas5842 I mean to say that it’s a soul crushing waste.
i got so mad at the ending that i dropped six off a cliff
5:50 this is sad but what if the TV's aren't just about the viewers but about his dad? What if Mono's dad neglected him in favor of his TV so Mono sees everyone else like this too. And this could be why he's so lonely, his dad neglected him before getting hurt during the hunting trip and he had no friends so that's why.
yeah and maybe at school he got bullied for that and that's why he sees those students as bullies
@@ito-kun7640 That's true, in all honesty Mono would've been the quiet kid so they would all seem crazy and reckless in contrast with him which explains their behavior, that's how he views them.
I think the devs said that the entire game is based on childrens fears. So yeah this theory is valid.
Mono is not turning into Thin man, Mono is turning into his dad : tall (for a child perspective), always dressed for work with a sad face. Thin man is a loop of how he remembered his dad.
And THAT would be a nightmare.
This is my theory as well! I personally think that the original Thin Man is Mono's father (or even grandfather, considering how old his model looks). This would explain why they have identical supernatural abilities, and any similarities in facial features could be explained away by this theory, too. Him becoming the Thin Man at the end could be a metaphor for neglected or abused children growing up to be the very thing they once hated. :(
@Cristina Cintron he was always the man
Plot twist: thin MAN is forced to kill mono when hes really warning mono to NOT destroy the music box.
@@anotherplague *sweet home Alabama*
Mono is a character that is afraid of being alone.
*Mono*-phobia is the fear of being alone.
*COINCIDENCE I THINK NOT*
*the fact that the WORD mono means only one/alone*
H m m m m m
yes along with isolophobia autophobia and eremophobia
WHATTTTT
Mono means monkey in Spanish tho-
I really like your theory about this game being in a Japanese City. Another thing that points to that idea is the large amounts of suicides taking place in the game. Japan has one of the largest numbers of suicide each year. Also, chapter of little nightmare with all the fat guest gorging themselves on food really reminded me of the scene from spirited away where Chihiro’s parents are turned into pigs.
that would explain the hanging man on the maw
But they were committing suicide by accident because they wanted to reach the TV
@@راميالبنّى-ك4ذ but where was the tv? Plus they would have been running to get to it. Not waiting and falling slowly
i don’t think it was suicide. they were either chasing a tv or consumed by the signal tower
@@راميالبنّى-ك4ذ
You mean the tower
Remember that mono becoming the thin man DOESNT EXACTLY MEAN mono got older, but it can mean mono got MUTATED by that dough of meat and eyes.
Ya kinda like Six, she didn't grow up but her arms and legs grew
@@skyleranimates7831 I think time goes different in the Signal Tower
@@anastasia_852 Exactly, Mono only needed to get trapped inside the signal tower and grow up in there and the fleshy entity that creates the broadcast could send him as a thrall to whatever time the broadcast has existed. Thin Man physically looks like a glitch that has escaped the TV because the future Mono AKA Thin Man is stuck inside the tower.
And six has amnesia which means
Six might’ve not known who mono was
But still I hate six either way
They created one of the most interesting characters I've ever seen and he barely even talks.
Tarsier Studios really outdid themselves with this game.
Agreed! I love this series.
@@Tericho I know you get notifications to this there is no point of acting like you don't
@@Tericho or what about the black children in the comics it clearly has a connection with them what are they are dead and burn to death or who knows he could have been the only white kid
@@Tericho okay the only parent we have ever seen and only only regular human adults is the hanging man and the lady the Thin Man doesn't count he was turned into a monster and he was already a monster from the beginning of his life
Monos mother dies in some sort of way leading monos dad to go into a depression, he gets "sucked into the tv" and rarely never keeps his head away from it, mono feels all alone hence his name mono and his father sees how sad he is and takes him on a trip to the family hunting cabin when mono gets there he's still a little decided from his dad but overtime he gets more happy and energetic, they go out hunting and mono accidentally shoots his father, while mono is in the hospital he sees amputees because he probably shot one of his father's limbs off ( probably his arm because the hunter looks like his arm is falling off) while in the hospital mono is probably shamed for severely hurting his father which causes him to put a paper bag over his head, he also sees the doctor giving the amputees new limbs which only makes him feel worse about making his father one of them, he's probably very scared of the doctor too because he probably shamed him alot, monos father is realeased from the hospital and sends mono to a boarding school, the school is probably for bad children which is why all the kids are bullies (it also ties into the fact that he would be shamed for shooting his dad), the teacher was clearly very strict and saw everything, he probably met 6 in the school to so they probably had a good friend ship, until mono was forced to come home to take care of his father, where once again he never kept his eyes off the tv and would scold mono and almost attack him for pulling his attention from the tv, his father died and mono is forced to stay at the school until he's an adult, six eventually leaves the school and also leaves mono behind, mono becoming the thin man is a representation of the average adult who has to twork to live and mono lives the rest of his days alone making up this false reality that is the game we play until he decides to go on to the maw and see six (the lady) and wants to reconnect but she wants nothing to do with him and he sadly kills him self becoming the hanging body on the beginning of LN1
Good theory, and it would explain the hanging man/thin man in LN1
this is an amazing theory
No he can’t be the hanging man cause hanging man is way taller compared to thinman
To the person who liked this thank you
@@zapzap9610 from what it looks like they are the same height, they even have the same clothes
"RUclips addiction" I feel called out, Tericho.
Me too.
@@Tericho hello senpai
@@TobyRossi idk, my gran... good point
=|
@@TobyRossi i do-
people are talking about all these serious stuff when the real question is how mono's clothes stretched so much while he grew up
The real question is how the chair grows with him
@@carpediem4508 the better question is how he grows
@@gabrielpokiak6859
*t i m e*
yes i know that comment is a joke but-
@MiserableDisfortune every decade mono is gonna shed his skin like a lizard /j
To be honest I am starting to not to trust Mono considering how he's more quiet than Six and how mystery he is
How is it that the fear of being lonely is Monophobia
And MONO has MONOPHOBIA?! HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
That creeps tf outta me😃
HAHHAHAHHAA-
Probably intended
*gasp*
I think it only goes as far as his name literally meaning "one" in greek roots and not much farther than that
I feel bad for my guy Mono he was alone for his whole life and when he genuinely loved someone (six) she betrayed him trapping him to darkness and loneliness for the rest of his life :(
@ZOE RALSTON she had no good reason too tbh because remember along the way in the present little nightmares, six meets seven and no eating takes place w him so I mean
Also he became an offbrand slenderman
@@sun-ru8gj that too 🥲
Hello?! This theory actually made way more sense! That explains why Six letting go of Mono is perceived by him as a betrayal. Despite the growth of their friendship, they'll part some time in their lives. Six had to go onto her own path, and because of the separation, Mono is shrouded in loneliness. The chronic hunger she later encounters could be her need to search for something that would fulfill her. It's awesome to see the franchise tying to real life events! Everything in the game could be metaphors or exaggeration of what and how a child sees the world and the people!
Nah she needed his power
I love this theory. It also helps explain the end: the whole time, he thinks he's Six's savior. Six sees this as a "misery loves company" type of situation. Also, she's always the one having to encourage Mono to jump the gaps, rather than being the other way around. If you think about Six's hunger appearing after she 'dumps him,' that's her ambition kicking in. She's off to the Maw, to take on the 'fat cats,' and dethrone the Lady of the establishment.
How can yall see these pictures!?!? They're so freaking dark!!
I would love to tell you it's because I eat my carrots.
Imposter vision
I know I mean like the brightness setting does NOTHING
you know Japan's society has become a corporation when they need a Minister of Loneliness.
Have you ever met someone with a weird phobia? Welp, I actually have a phobia called Autophobia/ 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙤phobia.
This is exactly what the internet says about this phobia:“Autophobia,or *Monophobia* ,is the fear of being alone or lonely.Being alone,even in a usually comfortable place like home, can result in serve anxiety for people with this condition. People with Autophobia/Monophobia needs to be around with another person,or other people in order to feel safe.” This phobia is legit the worst; but adding the fact this phobia has Mono’s name in it makes this my favorite horror game 😌👍
Well understandable, that also make what six really is... She wasn't evil, maybe they are childhood friend, maybe she's the only emotional holder for him after all that nightmarish things he thought happen. But she and "her mom", the lady has to move out of the neighbourhood and that left him alone again, hence the ending why six drop him in the end.. and six's nightmare is, well, part 1 of the game which we already played
the forest reminds me of suicide forest in japan..
WAIT WHAT IF HIS DAD WAS GOING TO OFF HIM SELF OR SOMETHING or maybe the other parent did it
@@Mari-stars omgggg
My analysis on the Barber, who is definitely an interesting character.
We have seen his portrait within one of the corridors of the Pale City school and within the residential quarters of the Governess, meaning the Barber has some sort of relationship with the Governess. This may indicate that he is a rather influential figure within the Pale City. Similar to how both the Teacher and Doctor have their portraits featured in the residential quarters of the Maw and are incredibly impactful within the Pale City.
The Barber owns his own barber shop which is located somewhere within Pale City. The inside is quite well-kept, which is in complete contrast with the many dilapidated apartment complexes that surround him.
The Barber seems incredibly sadistic towards children, as he attempts to kill any within sight with his hair-cutting scissors. Though this is common among most adults.
Whose the barber?
@@jasminewicker1750 He was a canceled enemy. A picture of him was seen in Little Nightmares, and he was supposed to appear in Little Nightmares 2. They actually have concept art. You can look him up.
Also if you look on the Little Nightmares subredit someone saod that the developers said if there is a third game the barber will definitly be in it!
@@knotsandkhaos7382 YES! And I cannot wait to see him in action 🤞
@@knotsandkhaos7382 link
i LOVE how both games work on both a meta, metaphorical level, AND on an in-game, rich story level. like obviously, in the world of the game, there are all these timelines and story and mystery. but i love how even if we step back outside of the game world, there is still analysis to be had. some people think that both games being nightmares would ruin it, but i love it, i think it makes it deep on not only an in-universe level, but also on a level of looking at it from outside.
I gotta say, I wasn't really believing your theories at first, but recently I've been agreeing with these more and more.
The developers leave the "message" of the games intentionally ambiguous. So really you can take any interpretation you want! That's what makes these games so compelling for me!
@@Tericho Yessir! Also to clarify; just because I didn't agree initially doesn't mean I dislike/disliked your content, I just didn't think of it that way. I appreciate the uploads!
My small theory about the Thin man :
"the Thin Man likely tries to capture his younger self to prevent Mono from becoming trapped in the Tower and repeating their fate on a loop" .
Loneliness and only being able to communicate through devices.. Hm.... S e e m s f a m i l i a r
Covid: *sweats nervously*
Sus
Omg this is definitely my go to theory now. It makes way too much sense to not be vaguely correct
Theory: when Mono goes into the TV, this is him trying to accessing his memories where he’ll see the tall man. Six pulls his out to stop him finding his memories and realising that he was betrayed and became the tall man. As then he wouldn’t help six escape the nightmare.
Might be a stretch but hey ho 😂
This is my theory✨
I think that mono remembers all the bad things that happened in his past and has nightmares about it, and every time he tries to wake up when he is about to get to that door on the tv six gets him because she is trying to use mono to save herself, so if she lets him go then she won’t be able to save herself, but then when mono was able to reach the door to scape the nightmare, he noticed it was not a dream anymore, and that he had to turn into what used to scare him, the tall man who I think COULD be his dad, which basically means that he did not wanted to be that way but everyone expected him to be like his father.
So six is a bitch ?
@@hafidelghazouani5272 ye
6:18 well as a japanese I can’t read those except some アイ以下に人or 死 or maybe 六without the top part. It doesn’t really mean anything but the word 以下 is just “less than”
I don’t think it’s Japanese, rather, it’s something designed to resemble a language close enough to one we know of in the real world, or if it is Japanese, they didn’t put much effort.
I just translated these
アイ以下に人 means people below the eye
死 means death
六 means six
sounds a bit familiar...
This is a very interesting theory! And if it's a nightmare, Six doesn't really need a reason for leaving/letting go.
When I saw someone did a Playthrough on this I just think, oh yeah its just how kids see things.. Theyre scared of teachers and Doctors
Here’s an add-on. Six was either in his boarding school, or was apart of the hunter’s family, but then moved away, leaving mono alone and going crazy.
These theories just get better and better. I love the little nightmares community.
Me too! Honestly the friendliest community I have made videos for so far!
I find it funny how one of the most depressing and lugubrious (gloomy) games has one of the most dedicated and friendly community. It just feels like the game would appeal to a different type of audience.
Maybe the reason the Hunter has a hole in the bag and the raspy breath because he saw his dad accidentally (or purposely) shoot himself in the face. The last memory of his Dad was sitting in the hospital listing to his raspy breathing.
wow him doing it to himself, I would have never thought of that but it’s genius it makes so much sense wowwowow amazing
and corona ain't helping with the whole not seeing other people thing
When I was a child, I had a reoccurring nightmare in a cabin in the middle of nowhere, and there was always a snowstorm outside. Every time, my mother would leave me alone at home to go to the store, and while she was gone, a creature would come try to catch me. Every time I was caught, the dream ended. The idea of Little Nightmares being a nightmare is the way I initially interpreted it because repeating the same scenario in an alternate world and trying to get a different outcome was the reality of my sleeping life. If LN is a nightmare, it would explain why there is a time paradox, why it appears that Mono knows where he is going, and why it appears that elements in this world can be remembered. Additionally, some of my nightmares involved switching perspectives. I may have spent part of the story in my body, but I would also spend some parts in the body of another significant character, a friend, or in another life within the same world. This would explain why we play as different characters throughout the series. I don't know that everyone has similar childhood experiences, but if so, Little Nightmares being a nightmare is the most believable explanation.
i always wonder what the devs think about all these interesting theories out there
Same
The biggest twist at the end would be all of this which is a child's bad dream a nightmare you make call
But if its just a dream why doesent they wake up?
@@mr.F.Castle Probably comatose and in bed in the real world. Where their parents pray that one day, they just might wake up.
What makes me wonder is why Mono feels the need to open the door at the end of the corridor in the first place. When you play the game, Mono seems to be the only one with a purpose, always knows where he wants to go and what to do. Six doesn't seem to have a goal, she sits on a bench, plays with some toys or is generally uninterested in moving forward. Mono is the one who makes them go forward, he grabs her hand and seems to even forcefully drag her to go further. He seems to have o goal. But what goal? Does he want to save himself? Release himself from behind that door? Does the Thin Man call to him? To be reunited? And then he notices Six and takes her away to not repeat the cycle? I'd love to hear your thoughts on that.
Thank you so much for this theory. After seing the end of ln2 I assumed that the whole story of ln and ln2 is based on the life of little children, who see our world from a more abstract and horrifying perspective. Based on the ln2 trailer, where nightmares will be "described" I also thought the games could represent dreams of the adult people, who regret so many things in life, so their thoughts create those horrifying dreams, where their younger selves are haunted by their fears... and hate to see what they had become.
I'm addicted to LN theories! Great train of thought Tericho, your perspective is an interesting one.
"Loneliness also linked to binge-watching tv according to medical daily."
me: *is watching tv at 7:00 in morning
also me: 👁️🩸👄🩸👁️
Maybe thin man is a RL business man who is monos uncle who has been setting him up to take over his huge company. Though mono is scared of this, eventauly his best friend leaves him, leading to him being alone and eventually turns into his rich business uncle
me watching tericho talk about loneliness at 6am and I haven't slept all day: 😐
I did not need my RUclips binging to be called out in such a manner. XD
I feelt the same way playing the game. They are calling me out by portraying TV as the bad guy. Lol.
Lol
Bear traps : DANGER
Shotguns : DEADLY
Wild animals: yup.
Im so addicted to watching theories of ln! Ever since i discovered it! This is a really good theory
coming back to this theory after the sounds of nightmares podcast; it actually fits super well!! in episode 3 of the podcast, the entire theatre noone is in is based on moments of her past, where there's a giant eye-blob monster that wants her to stay with it because it's lonely, at the end. this literally feels like a carbon copy of ln2 - if we go off this theory - with everything in the pale city being based on mono's past outside of the nowhere, and the end of the game resorting in being surrounded by an eye-blob creature that also kind of doesn't want to be lonely...
If you pay attention, the eyes are almost always looking at you when they come along, representing your conciousness creating the nightmares to stop you as you progress through each stage.
I believe number 1 is a dream as well for six. I believe either someone close to her hanged himself on a cruise, which lead to her losing more of herself and growing gluteness due to depression. I also think that the mirror used on the lady represented her insecurities of her looks, which is why she's always wearing a coat
I like this theory it's very different from others I've watch people have come up with its very creepy
Uh
Yooo... I realized something, everytime mono grew, his head started to slightly raise until he became the thin man and his head was completely raised. What I mean is, in the ending of little nightmares his head is down, moreover his sad and disappointed, when he is growing he is slowly raising his head and when he became the thin man, his head was looking straight as if he was just waiting for mono to open the door and stop the loop. I think it's pretty interesting to share uwu poor mono😭😢
You have so many contradicting thoeries that fit so well seperately
This theory is one of the better ones. Its very clear that the end part is about loneliness. And mono means alone.
Mono’s father probably got shot by mono, the family tried to do homemade stitching to help but got sick from an infection
I really really hope the developers of the game will see your videos!!! It's so extremly interesting and i always agree with almost everything in your different theorys.
the kids like a lot of the youth of japan live a nightmare of their own design. no matter what you do hunt, teach, cook, etc monotony gets to us all but loneliness keeps us in that shell of our own making and making it harder for someone else to have a connection with someone they may need: you, letting the cycle continue.
You do bring up very valid points. And especially for the fact that this is taking place in a Japanese place, considering the fact that The Studio Ghibli films (which is a Japanese animation company for anyone that doesn’t know) is one of the inspirations for Little nightmares 1 and 2.
So building off the video I wanted to offer a new timeline: Mono lives with both parents, the parents work a lot so finally they take a vacation to their grandparent’s house, something happens leaving mono’s dad in a bad position and they put the dad out of his misery, leaving the mother terribly sad to the point she’s hospitalized, to prevent mono from seeing her this way he’s sent to boarding school, he meets six and they become friends, for some reason six had to leave, mono perceived it as six wanting to leave him though, hence the end of the game.
so what is six story then?
I really, REALLY hope the ending of the series reveals it’s just a nightmare. it would be a bad ending but it would make me feel a lot better
This is a great theory and adding on there's another theory that the gaesha is Six as an adult so if the nightmare theory is true then in this world kids have nightmares about falling into a typical lifestyle and the only way to defeat it to be free is to defeat yourself, hence six and the mirror, which she learned through seeing Mono stuck in the loop, because after all, your own mind is your greatest prison
Bruh now I’m thinking that little nightmares 2 was a warning for us humans
I thought the pale city was probably took place in the 50's with all the tv's
It's definitely in a past era that's for sure!
@@Tericho My theory is that it might take place in Europe or America (i'm leaning toward England due to all the rain or Washington state) with the rise of television or perhaps since reality/space is being distorted the countries and bending into each other.
@@angel7661 it’s definitely not England, we don’t have that many skyscrapers tbh. It could be Europe, but Asia is far more likely with the writing style and architecture.
@@Tericho Maybe new york city I have seen some building like that in new york city with the school and playground and the sky scrapers do fit there and since the fat kid in comic reminds me of little german boy with his overalls and lollipop makes me think of europe. I don't know much about asian architecture but it would make sense with the Lady and the theory of six becoming the lady. Maybe mono is from a different country/ biracial which is why he puts a bag on his head and the website said people hate his face. Since people have been bullied when they move to different countries.
How about we keep it simple and just stick to Japan. My brain is broken enough
Once I had a nightmare like this where I was at school with my only one friend and we stayed back for some reason or got trapped.After everyone left, she somehow got access to the school's security cams and we saw that the teddy bears from the toy room that nobody knew about had suddenly become sentient and were running down the halls along with some plastic rocking horses wanting to trample us.Soon, my mother came after the toys had settled and my friend left. Me and my mother stayed there for a while and after about 20 minutes, my father came and we got out of the classroom. By then I realized that our classroom was in an unfurnished apartment with no furniture and as we reached the front door, I looked into the other room and I saw a huge teddy bear start to move.
This was around 6-7 months ago and I only remember this because I wrote It down on a piece of paper.
The ending of this made me sad. It is true, and even more because of Covid. I am getting social anxiety and want to communicate with my friends online instead of seeing them in person. You made me feel bad. Thanks!
But seriously you have a good point. I need to see more people now that I fear having to interact with people again. Thank you for letting me see that. I appreciate it.
I think the reason that mono and six kill the hunter in this "nightmare", is because mono feels like it is his fault that his father was injured or possibly killed.
Maybe if its a nightmare then something happened to mono’s best friend involving the number six so that he couldn’t see them anymore, leaving him feeling lonely and knowing his friend was somewhere he couldn’t reach her ( explaining why the hand reached through the tv instead of, say another entity kidnapping them ) or maybe Mono’s friend went missing and people started theorizing that it had to do with some sort of devil out of boredom to make him have the name six for her in his nightmare ( I have no idea if any of this contradicts the actual lore of the games, I’ve never played them but I’ve watched a bunch of theories and play through )
This is more about the first game, but I have a theory: What if Six becomes the lady at the end of the first game just like Mono became the thin man? After all, they have the same powers, they honestly look pretty similar, and in the secret ending you see that she goes to the ship where the first game took place.
so is the first game just was Mono imagined happened to Six?
so ive recently noticed something about the thin man and mono. if you look at mono you can see he's quite pale, however the thin man has a seemingly blueish skin. it could just be lighting or something, but as we all know, its best to get every bit of detail that you can in little nightmares. so yeah, anyone have any ideas?
Hi I have something to add to this theory, mono's incident with his dad probably hit the news and the story became famous and everyone wanted to talk to him about it, but mono was probably shy so his friend,Six, helped him by making them go away and stuf like that and in the last chase sequence in the signal tower was just a bunch of people wanting to interview him and Six letting go of mono was probably her having to move to another place
This would make so much sense!
Imagine sitting in a chair for years and it being a loop for eternity I can’t imagine that
I have watch every youtubers theory’s but yours made the most sense of little nightmares 2
I think the weird blobby eye monster thing is actually the dreamer who is thinking of these nightmares. Just a theory though :)
I have a theory about that moth creature.
It is a moth and moths are famous for eating clothes and there are lots of abandoned suits around the city. I think these moth bird hybrids were bred to remove the clothes of the dead once they disappear. Also the room with the tentacles in the bath could be the moth larvae.
I always wondered if Mono shooting the Hunter in face (other than the obvious trying to escape) meant anything significant. Like did he shoot his dad accidentall on a hunting trip. Either way great theory and great conclusion about the loneliness statistics.
Fun fact in the Art of Little nightmares II you can find a smol sketch of the two kids fighting the hunter with his leg stuck in a bear trap this could lead to that theory of the father getting an injury needing a prosthetic
"Children often don't have a full understanding of the world and use their imagination to fill in the blanks."
Yeah, I can relate to this as when I was younger, I legit thought the vents in one of my aunts' houses had a fucking red desert underneath.
I was quite the creative child
I was thinking that Mono is in a very deep coma that's why he's having this nightmare again and again util he will wake up to reality, and Six is maybe Mono's friend that was always with him when he needed help, at the end of the game we know that six dropped Mono that can mean Six exposed Mono in real life in front of his classmates/people with something, that's why he fall in that hole with giant eyes.
The Thin man is Mono's father and Mono is running away from home.
The whole game is a metaphor of how society raises children to become sheep/slaves. And we see a child's point of view here, and his struggles to get away from the society's grasp. Everything is twisted and nightmarish from his point of view, and he doesn't quite understand why people are like how they are.
It's so glaringly obvious.
This RUclipsr is so underrated it gives me good topic theory about little nightmares I subscribed now
I think a possibly overlooked point about the ending here is that mono sitting in a chair in a small dark room seems reminiscent of a sort of punishment. As though somewhere along the line he and six did something they shouldn’t have and rather than stick it out with him six let him take the fall (badumtiss). Perhaps the history of shooting the hunter, fighting in school and possibly killing a doctor all added up and they were both supposed to be punished but six pins it all on mono so he is left behind and ends up living a life that leads to him trying to be upstanding but constantly stuck ruminating about his mistakes and his friend that screwed him over.
another link for japan, the teacher having a long neck is like rokurokubi (sorry don’t remember the spelling) which is an urban legend about a lady cursed with a neck that can’t stretch very long
this is very true about being lonely..recently my granny died and I watched tv to help me..
@Ellie Smith: I sorta of think this fits with much of this story. However, I think there is a lot more than we think. Little Nightmares 2 seems to represent a more nightmarish version of Mono's past with some events symbolizing Mono's friendship with Six. Six was probably Mono's first friend and the same could be said with Six. Still, it when we meet Six, she is all alone which could indicate that she recently moved in and had no friends. Hence, she played with her music box until Mono found her. Six is alright being alone at first which is why she runs away from Mono but eventually warms up to him as her first friend. Six and Mono both spent quite a bit of time together in the woods and sometimes got into trouble but luck always saved them at the last moment. This is represented by their chase with the Hunter in the woods and the various places they visit. At school, both Mono and Six went to a boarding school where they were bullied by the other kids because they were seen as different from the rest with Six being the new kid and Mono being the 'nerd' as he spent much of his time in the library instead of playing games with the other kids. Mono would spend quite the bit of time trying to save Six from the bullies but often times, this led to him getting into fights where he hurt the other children very badly because he was using tools to fight them. The teacher was also very strict towards the children and would spend much of her time making sure the other children were studying. Since Mono wasn't like the other kids, he and Six were not bothered by the teacher unless they bothered her. This journey is represented by the school trip. The kids are called bullies because Mono saw them as bullies towards him and Six. His mission to save Six from the bullies represent the countless times he had to rescue Six from the other kids. The school library trip represents Mono's main location at school when he was not learning in the classroom or saving Six. When Six kills a bullies with her bare hands, it shows when Six finally decided to stand up for herself instead of waiting for Mono to rescue her. This would lead to her getting in trouble hence why we visit the teacher's house. Six's parents were called in along with Mono's as the two were caught fighting the other kids in front of the teacher. Both would escape with minor punishments which is represented by their escape through the vents of the teacher's home. Sometime after this though, Six ends up in the hospital for a surgery or medical illness. Mono is the only one who visits her and continues to watch over her until she is released. The hospital trip represents this as Mono is going through many things on his own in the hospital and Six is often times not around and just doing her own thing. The mannequins represent the other patients at the hospital and Mono's fear of them as he believes that one of the pateints would hurt him if he let his guard down. Either way, Mono also find the hospital very disturbing as the many decorations on hospital walls are of charts of the human body which creep him out. This is represented by the various masks in the hospital that look almost humane and the numerous body parts that we see-throughout the trip. Mono also watches over Six during the operation and eventually leave the hospital together. This is represented by the doctor boss fight and the two leaving the hospital together in the elevator. Towards the end, we see Mono fight the Thin Man which symbolizes Mono's desire to never be alone or his fear of being abandoned by the one he cared so much about. Back in the real world, Six is still recovering from her hospital experience and once again finds solace in her music box. However, this leads to her neglecting herself and others which is represented by her monstrous self. Mono sees this and takes away her music box several times until it one day breaks. While Six is angry at first, she eventually reopens herself to the outside world as seen when she returns to normal. However she blames Mono for breaking her music box and doesn't forgive him for doing so. Eventually, they do forgive each other in the end but before their friendship can be reconciled, Six ends up moving again. The part where Mono and Six try to escape the collapsing bridge represents their path to forgive one another and Six catching Mono is a sign of this forgiveness. Her 'betrayal' symbolizes her family's move to a different place where she will have to leave her old life behind and let go of Mono. Mono doesn't want this but he can't do anything about this either. In the end, Mono isolates himself from the rest of society and allows his fears to take over while he grew up, hence his transformation into the Thin Man who is subsequently locked away. This isn't the end though. At the start of the game, Mono comes out of a TV and the story repeats. The entire game is a cycle of Mono's past, one that Mono chose to trap himself in. When Six left, Mono like six found solace in something else but rather a box of music, it was his past. His attachment to the past turned him into the very monster that he despised. Like Six, he needed to let go of his attachment in order to be free of his demons. However, whereas Six was able to move on from his past Mono was unable to, which is why Mono's story in Little Nightmares 2 is an endless cycle.
Mono becoming the Thin Man was not because of Six's betrayal. It was his unwillingness to let go of the past that cause him to become the very thing he hoped to destroy.
Remember at the end of little nightmares 1 you see a tv and the thin man shows in the tv for a second?
This games is itself a chaos. Future is affected by past and its looping tho
little nightmares 2: get a life
Man the fact that their use television as a sign of only entertainment is basically referring to the real world where we would spend our days behind gadget. The director of little nightmare is genius
I don't really know if this theory makes sense, but what if in the first game the gnomes and children drew eyes all over the maw because the eye creature at the end of the second game is what the children were afraid of. idk, it just popped in my head.
Also, adding a tiny addition to the Pale City being Monos fears is that there was a scrapped barbershop level, where you presumably were attacked by The Barber with a pair of scissors. This is another common fear of children.
Whatever that guts-looking monster with multiple eyes are is the main antagonist in whatever this world is. That's why we see the eye everywhere. It's the nightmare that feast on this world's inhabitants.
I love this theory! Thank you, it's nice to hear something that isn't completely time loop centric - I never liked that theory. What if the original tall man isn't Mono at all, but a lonely monster broadcasted by the signal tower, Mono's nightmare of what the signal will turn him into. Which he finally does through being captured.
A cool thing about dreams to note, don't know if it's true but I heard it from somewhere; you cant read words in dreams apparently, the words are scrambled up, maybe resembling something like words, but your brain doesn't recreate them exactly. So the words in LN looking vaguely like Japanese but maybe not exactly (if that's the case) makes sense if there is a literal nightmare distorting the world through a strange signal.
traps:meh i can pass it
Hunter:i can pass it
Teacher: OH HELL NO I CANT EVEN GET TO THE PART OF THE TEACHERRR
Rather or not it's mono nightmare, I definitely agree that this was inspired off of the concept of loneliness
Tericho: "TV bad, social interaction good!"
Me: *Watching this alone in my room on my laptop*
Also Me: "Yeah! people should talk more!"