One thing about the janitor is that he isn't actually covering his face. That IS his face. Basically, his skin is falling off his head, and it folded over his eyes, so that's why he's blind. Also, the head above the skin is his skull. Edit: Guys, it's not a mask. If you go on the wiki, it literally explains what I just said
It isn't actually skin. It is a mask, much like all of the other masks adults here wear. This one is broken, and is falling off. We even see the model for his mask in the doctor's office.
For the Granny, people theorize that she pursues the player not out of malice but because she craves interaction. If she lived alone for so long with no one to spend time with she would be desperate for social interaction. It is also theorized that she was the previous Lady of the Maw, since for the current one we see at the end of the DLC that her face is beginning to sag like the Granny's
Spoliers for Little Nightmares 2! I’m probably wrong here, but this is my theory on the Hunter. I don’t think he lived his whole life in the forest. I always thought that little heart etched into the tree was just a cute detail, and not connected to this villain at all. I’m guessing that the Hunter used to live in the Pale City, (or at least watched the TVs). Like the other viewers, his body - mostly his face - became distorted, but he managed to snap out of the trance before getting fully sucked in. He decided to flee into the forest where no one could see his disfigurement, and stay away from the heart of the broadcast. Somehow (I really don’t know how) the Hunter figured out that Mono is the Thin Man. He wants to kill Mono, hoping to end the time loop, and by extension, the broadcast, so no one else could be mishapen like him. This is why Six is in the Hunter’s basement. She’s bait for Mono. This is why the Hunter only shoots at Mono. Revenge. At least that’s my guess.
Notice how the Lady of the Maw's relfection actually doesn't reflect her actual face, that's more of what SHE and the others see her as, when in reality she isn't that ugly at all. Could be body dysmorphia where she sees herself as ugly and needs perfecting
Wasnt mentioned in the vid but the chefs are also wearing masks. The second twin can be seen scratching himself under it when he is working with the big meat chunk after you escape the freezer. For the first twin, im not sure when or how you can trigger it, or if its just an insanely rare idle animation, but between doing his laps in the kitchen, he sometimes lifts his mask up and licks his lips
She absorbs the life out of people so my theory was similar. Basically that the reflection is what she does/should look like but she has stolen so much life from others that it masks her appearance and makes her look youthful and beautiful on first glace.
The world seems like it was made for people to suffer in it (well duh, it's a horror game) so no surprise she is tormented in some way too by (a magical or not) body dismorphia
@@monovision566I think the signal tower actually uses the thin man’s anger to power the signal tower and effect pale city. Remember the signal tower is an entity itself
I feel like the entire story of Little Nightmares is a symbolism of someone's childhood. The thin man might symbolise a boy's father who have a very high position in a company and wants his son to join him in his business, which the son refuses but one way or another the son still grew up to inherit his father's job. The disfigurement caused by the TVs might be a symbolism of what adults who are addicted to TVs appear to children: soulless and sometimes mad at the children if they interrupts the show. The doctor might be an actual doctor in a child's life that always make them afraid. (I mean seriously who's not afraid of doctors when they're 5 lol) The Lady might be a symbolism of a mother who's overly obsessed with beauty, an irl problem associated with younger people. The chefs might be restuarant workers who sometimes scares the children when they see the knives and violent swinging actions who will shoo the children away when they walks too close. Overall, this series depricts an overexaggerated version of innocent childhood 'horrors' that's magnified so adults can experience it again.
@@chilly456 ik. The game is symbolic, but not in that sense, not majority, at least. Mono is taken from monophobia, fear of being alone, he does everything in his power to save six to not be/feel like he's the only one running and surviving, ironically she's the reason why he'll be alone and a slave to the tower forever doing it's bidding. His story is being abandoned by the very person he felt comfort towards. There are some aspects that are from a child's perspective, but the majority are actually from adults. In the first game, the Lady was damaged by looking at her own reflection. A sense of insecurity of her aging and an obsession with getting younger by absorbing the feasting guest's life force. The guests represent greed and no self-control of food intake. It also probably represents how they eat to satisfy/feel "better" in the gloomy dark world they live in or experience every day. Also, I'm excited about the 3rd game
@@chilly456 Also, the Thin Man is a representation of looking back and being like, "if only I," but it's too late and the never ending loop he's in is more of a constant memory of wanting to changing things or at least wanting to save yourself from misfortune.
I will never forget little nightmares, its one of my top favorite games aside from others, and I'm glad people are still talking about it. I almost cried when I saw that little nightmares 3 was official.
The Barber must be inspired by the German fairtytale "Der Daumenlutscher" ("The Thumbsucker"). In this fairytale a child wouldn't stop sucking his thumb, and because it is considered bad behavior by the adults, the barber would cut off the child's thumbs so he couldn't suck them anymore.
I like to think that The Hunter was once a kid himself and basically grew up in the forest and wore a mask to hide his identity as a normal human. He had took in a few kids (including the blindfolded one) but they all became victims of Thin Man and then he took in Six, found out Mono was taking her, thought he was a fake child basically a servant of Thin Man, and tried to kill Mono so he doesn’t lose Six like he did the other children
I also like to think that whenever an adult dies their souls get trapped in The Lady’s mirrors that’s why in Secrets of the Maw when you look at her face you’ll notice it looks like The Granny’s The only way you see the souls in the mirrors is if she takes off her mask in front of the mirror the said soul is trapped in
For the bit on the "child eating" the only one that seems to do that regularly is the Madam of the Maw. The rest of them just seem to stick anything in their mouth that will fit... and are also to product being served to the other guests. The Maw itself is one giant cannibal buffet.. Where even the cannibals are on the menu.
In the Maw the Guests eat children as well, well, Six anyway. When Six gets caught by the guests, they consume her, but that might just be their obsession of food, idk but Tmyk (The more you know)
I'm so happy you brought up the Hunter's little heart carving! I found it strangely adorable. There's also a heart cut out in his outhouse, I don't know if two hearts in his chapter would count as a motif, but I'm taking it as one. He's definitely canonically lonely enough to have taxidermied people to sit at the table.
The lady's face in Secrets of the maw isn't actually her face. In the game files I assume, her real face is shown and she is a beautiful Japanese woman
I heard a theory awhile back that I found quite interesting. In Very Little Nightmares, we can find a family portrait of the Pretender and her parents. However, due to how short the Pretender is, we’re only able to see their legs. _But their clothes match The Thin Man and The Teacher._ The theory is that time works differently inside the Signal Tower, so Mono grew up into The Thin Man, married The Teacher, and The Pretender is his kid. It also theorized that he was The Hanging Man, and that after The Pretender was “killed” by Six, he brought her onto The Maw as revenge, before offing himself out of grief. It was a few years ago so I might be missing a few details.
I would say that the Hanging Man and the Thin Man are two different characters purely based on the fact that the Thin Man is stuck in a time loop and probably couldn’t escape the pale city. Similarly I’d say that the Hanging Man is the Pretender’s father because there’s another painting seen in the nest of his feet alone which match exactly the feet on the portrait of the Pretender with her parents
Honestly this is a great theory but the Thin Man part doesn’t make sense, he was locked in the signal tower for his entire life, he never had time to get married or even have a kid, but even when he was released, his main goal was to catch Six and guide Mono to the tower, and since from what I know, Very Little Nightmares was the first game and why would Mono/Thin Man marry the Teacher? He was terrified of her and would never marry her, and she probably wouldn’t have said yes so she could continue her teaching career
@@Harpie8615 No? They said that for the old comics from the first game. But anyway, even if those weren't either, there's still plenty of evidence that he did that. For example, the presence of glitches like the one that appears when Six is captured. The existence of his drawings proves that children have already seen him. The company's own description of Thin Man also indicates this by saying that "He is on an endless journey through the pale city"
I remember seeing Cory play little nightmares and there’s a little emote where the chefs stop while walking to lift up their mask and scratch their face, I thought that the faces you showed were their actual faces but no it’s a mask!! I remember being like whaaat it’s a mask?!
15:30 The Barber looks like he was inspired by a german children's story: "Der Daumenlutscher" from a collage of stories called "Der Struwwelpeter". In the story, a kid is sucking on his index finger, even though his mother warned him of the 'tailor and his shears'. He continues anyway and then one day, the tailor comes rushed into his home and cuts of his index fingers with his speedy shears. The artwork resembles the original artwork VERY MUCH, especially the one with him and the child! The story is meant to convey the message of good behavior to little children.
Little nightmares it’s really my inspiration to actually be creative with things so when I try drawing monsters, they don’t look stupid like “oh! Long neck and one more extra arm” lol, cuz Little nightmares is really creative with all their characters cuz it looks like they put effort and sum thinking
That's an awesome place to draw creativity from! I love every design of theirs for one reason or another, and it's always because of a theoretically odd addition to the design. Keep it up!!!
7:13 Her face looks perfect and doesn't even match with the mirror thats because even if she doesn't age her reflection does that's actually The Granny's face maybe she fears that she will look like her the mirrors show her true self an old witch and reflect the magic of her mask onto her thats why she only can see mirrors when not wearing the mask this she loved seeing her reflection and beuty so she started suck the guests life so she could keep her beuty but when all the mirrors started showing her an old ugly face she broke them all and lock the few untouched mirrors in a room since she still couldn't refuse looking herself in these wishing to see her face
i think LNs shows/symbolize how f*cked up is the society when you grow up and turned into adult, as a child you see the world as a big and colorful place, you always find it amusing because its all new to your eyes(like a playground, cities with enormous establishments and to be specific - amusement parks), you always see the brightside in everything, then suddenly someone or something will change your perspective. Since the characters are children, you can feel their innocence and curiosity - you can also feel their fear (in the unknown), like you don't know the place/s and people outside your circle, what's gonna happen.. something like that, but also the children symbolizes optimism and hope, that's why they always going through the challenges even though they have limited capacities. (sorry for my English, its not my mother language).
I think he's based on that one Stuwwepeter story. If you Google "Struwwelpeter Daumenlutscher" yk what I'm talking about. Or just "Struwwelpeter thumb sucker" there's this guy that cuts off your thumbs with a giant pair of scissors if you suck on them
My theory for the maw: The Lady placed a “curse” on a town of regular humans, making them glutenous and therefore fat. This would attract them to the newly advertised ship, with unlimited food. I think the food is made from both the children and former guests. The Lady has employed multiple people (with the money from the guests for the tickets) to allow this operation to take place. The Janitor’s job is to prepare the children that have been delivered and catch intruders (possibly ship tech too). The Chefs’ job is to butcher and cook the prepared children and former guests. The whole operation is so the Lady can satisfy her need for souls by taking those of the guests (then sending them for cooking for the next lot). Maybe a bonus is she has employed the Ferryman to deliver the children to be dealt with, since we saw his supposed boat, and that tv song was probably about him.
i found out the other day that the song the lady hums in LN1, is actually Togetherness, just VERY slowed. this fuels me to believe that six is the lady even more than before.
It would make sense because she is missing a part of her soul from the thin man that causes her intense hunger, so she runs the maw so she can constantly feed of the souls of the customers
@@SquishyTheVampire I think she does know something, or at least put a few pieces together. She seems to have no empathy for threats, like breaking the hand's fingers in the hospital, strangling the bully, and warming her hands when the doctor burns. I think she might've realized mono was the same person as the tall man, or at least that they're similar enough that he might be a threat to her, and lost her empathy for him/became scared of him. She clearly still cares a little, by grabbing his hand at all, so I imagine it was a hard choice for her. He did help her a lot throughout the game. EDIT: HIS FACE!! I just saw someone else talking about it in another comment section, that's the first time she really gets a look at his face!! The thin man doesn't wear a mask so she must recognize then that they're the same/related somehow
If you look at the concept art, you can see the stuff coming out of the principals head might be a fungus. You can see it in other characters, including a cut enemy where the “Veronica song” cooking lady has these protruding out of her head.
I think the "black snakes" growing out of the Principal are actually fungi! It reminds me of the cordyceps virus, when the fungi grows up from the corpse of the bug to release its spores
13:42 my idea is that he is the reason the students (AKA bullies) are just porcelain, they where normal students until they where turned into porcelain by him
You know, it makes me wonder how big both LN1 & 2 would be if all of the cut characters were used for each game, without cutting any of the current bosses either. It'd be very interesting.
judging by the kid with the principal having the same fungi growing in that concept art, it might've been a scrapped idea of the kids being brainwashed by the school with the principal as the master hivemind. Seems like they replaced in favor of porcelain students
1:43 The Janitor isn't wearing a face covering/ covering his eyes. The skin on his head basically atarted like falling off and it covered his eyes. The line where the "Head covering" Begins is the Skeleton.
While playing in before watching any videos with these games I always assumed this was from a perspective of a child and as a child the world can be a very scary place but now I have a better understanding of the universe
I actually had to think of the tailor who cut little Konrads thumbs off when he wouldn’t stop sucking on them. It’s from a German kids fairytale. (Don’t ask…we have some fucked up bedtime stories for some reason)
One you forgot is the chef that most likely got turned into the twin chefs. The chef works on a cooking show set, and he has long necks that is either a huge wisk, or (a more likely theory) wires that he uses to control the tvs in The Pale City
I found this very popular theory about the hanging man. The hanging man was the thin man. Because Little Nightmares 2 is a prequel to Little Nightmares 1 and it's confirmed when you fought the nightmare version of Six, you could see the exact same suitcase you played as Six thats open with little pictures inside it. And when you unlock a secret ending at Little Nightmares 2 when Six came through the TV, the "glitched" version of herself pointed at the poster about The Maw. But, I don't know why the thin man wanted to come to the Maw? Maybe take revenge after she "betrayed" (?) Mono? I have no clue myself. But thats one of the most popular mysteries of the Little Nightmares world.
Because of the portraits in the lady's chambers and other evidence throughout the games I think the hanging man is the lady's son and the granny is her daughter, to start i think the dark shadow children in the dlc and the lady turning the runaway kid into a nome proves that the lady takes the lifeforce of children probably to preserve her own life and so the lady locks the granny, her daughter down in the depths to protect her from herself and this would also explain why she looks far older than her mother, more evidence for this is that in the portrait of the little girl in the lady's chambers she's wearing the same dress that can be found at the start of the granny's area meaning that she probably discarded the dress as she outgrew it, it also makes sense that the lady would be more pissed at the runaway kid than she was with six because he killed her daughter. The evidence for the hanged man being the lady's son is that in Little nightmares 2 there is a small apartment room with easter eggs from the first game, a doll of the lady and also a picture of her, and similar slippers to the ones that can be found in the hanging man's room so I think the lady's son left the maw to go live in the pale city which is why his eyes are scratched out of the portrait and it has been taken off the wall, there is also a shrine to the lady in a hidden area in the first game and another note like the one he left before he committed suicide, I think he loved and idolised his mother so he left the pale city and went back to the maw but when he saw what was truly going on with imprisoning and eating children as well as his own mother absorbing the life force of countless children and turning them into nomes plus the slaughtering of all the guests that enter to sustain the maw and feed the next guests that arrive, and also realising he couldn't go back to the pale city because of the transmission and all the other fucked up shit he decided to end his pain and take his own life.
A theory that isn’t mine, but now that I know about it, I can’t help but believe it: the Lady did have kids, but she didn’t birth them of course, she took them in. Those two kids are seen in the first game: the Granny, and the Hanging Man. In the Lady’s bedroom, we see two paintings of children, one in a yellow raincoat, and one in a dress. The dress looks highly reminiscent of the dress found in the Granny’s domain, not the one she was wearing, obvs. As for why the Lady would lock her own daughter in the basement, it’s because the Lady didn’t wish to consume her daughter. The Lady has consumed the spirits of children, but yet she still yearns to be a mother, seen by her humming a lullaby while nursing a baby doll. As for the Hanging Man, I think the Lady had two children, a son and a daughter. While the Hanging Man connection is a bit loose, I think this explanation makes sense: the Hanging Man left the Maw and went to the Pale City. In the Pale City, there’s a room that can be found that features Maw memorabilia, and a statue of the Lady. Whoever goes to the Maw usually doesn’t leave, so why would a person on the mainland know about the Lady and the Maw, if they didn’t leave it? As for what happened to him, after the TV plague began, he left and returned home, but was in hiding. The man wasn’t corrupted, but he was scarred, and if he realized the cruelty of his mother, it’d make sense that he’d commit die (or someone murdered him on behalf of his scornful and mourning mother, and make it look like a self death). Plus, that would explain how Six got to the Maw: she snuck into the Hanging Man’s suitcase, hence why she’s in the suitcase and is in the room next to the Hanging Man.
@@rosemary3029 yea ik it’s unfortunate but I’m not mad abt it bc it’s just best for the game and to let all the ppl at Bandai namco to work on it better
Glad that you mentioned a possible foul play with the hanging man, I always personally believed something was up with that. my personal theory is that her accession to becoming the Governess of the Maw was a fairly bloody affair. Judging by the blotched out portraits of other geisha, the Granny being exiled to the depths of the maw, and her dark magic. Something must've happened with these two that could make her either have him killed or played a part in his death. Especially with the chair not being knocked over, and the Hanging Man’s feet being above the chair.
Absolutely stellar explaining video! I’m happy you also included the cut characters and the very little nightmares characters! Great job, mate. Also, what is that intermission part from (the tvs in the corpses accompanied with the title cards), looks like a sick background. Thanks!
I do feel like the Ferryman / Candleman is a neutral character. It would be interesting if he was stuck in the in between. Unable to see what the worst horrors bring the children he help into the Nowhere. He can see some things, but he sees them as a good change nonetheless. The manipulation of a better world by means of horrors and this twisted world, makes it more the child's naive choice, rather than the Ferryman's.
What if none of the villains in LN2 are evil? Just recognize Mono as the thin man and the thin man is like, a powerful torturer that tries to end the lives of the adults.
I actually love that the creators admitted that the first Little Nightmares took heavy inspiration from Spirited away. Basically if it wasn't for studio Ghubili we would have this amazing game
Funnily enough, while I don’t know much about the game series, I already have the perspective that the setting is in a strange way a lot more animalistic and wild and that in a way, six may actually be the equivalent of an evolving human. Rather low on the food chain at the start, but slowly transitioning to the top due to their intelligence to kill off larger threats.
I'm assuming the Eye Entity (We don't even know what it's real name is or if it has one.) wasted no time pulling a Tzneech on the humans corrupting them over time. It has absolutely no use for children except maybe livestock. The Eye seems to have no other emotion except for anger. Even the thought of raising a hand to this elder overlord seems to result in fates worth than death meted out. As it demonstrated to Mono that as bad and harrowing the world is there is a Hell inside of Hell.
For the twin chefs it very much seemed like they too were wearing a mask. If you watch the gameplay, they are shown to scratch underneath their "skin." Maybe it's just fat folds but to me it always struck me as another case of a cover up.
15:37 that picture reminds me of my childhood, one of the bedtime storys they used to tell us at the kindergarten "Der Daumenlutscher". Ah i loved that one, a story about a man who cut of childrens fingers, especialy thumbs, if they repeatedly suck on them.
Too be honest there's some random theory in my head yet what if little nightmares we're trying too teach us too live and not too be too obsessed with gadgets/phones? What if six became "the lady" since we see her in a chapter feasting her neck and absorbing her dark power?
What if? As a theory, the janitor realised what the sound waves were doing or somehow snapped out of it for a second and he thought that covering his ears up with his mask was a way to block him from seeing the transmissions while passing as a mistake to other adults. But because the transmissions are still there they still corrupt him so now he can't fix the mask but still listens to the tv
I've only heard of the Hanging Man to be possibly related to the Thin Man because of their similar long, lanky bodies and outfit. Him and the Wax Bellman are new to me.
Cool that you’re able to create such content, I mean it’s not that we really get any information about the adults, so it’s cool to watch your thoughts, interpretations and theories about them. Every fan has his own speculation about Little Nightmares, as example I think that the real victim in Little Nightmares is Six, all the other children too but they are also the reason for her trauma. Six is one of the anti heros who became an anti hero in front of our eyes. To be honest I’m convinced that Six deserves a psychological analysis of her personality cause she’s very deep. But some of the fans don’t really like or even hate her cause she betrayed Mono and killed a rat, the janitor, a nome, a lot of guests and the lady. But these are just consequences of her being like a sponge to every experience she has in such a cruel and terrifying world cause she’s an innocent child. If Mono would leave Six in the tower she would be to be honest much happier. The developers officially explained that technically Six didn’t feel any pain or discomfort while she was deformed monster and more happy than not. The first time in her life she got time to calm down and just take a break of all the stress this world gifts the children. If that’s the case than technically Mono took her out of her safe zone and brought her back into the nightmare. Just think about it: Mono took her out of a safe zone in the forest at the start of the game, then was cold with her and left her with the bulllies, then Betrayed her and didn’t try to help when she was caught by the Thin Man (technically he’s the one who’s guilty that he even found out that they exist and where they are) and when she found a safe zone Mono destroys it so when she wakes she’s in shock of nightmare that became from something little bullies and adults to unexplained monsters made of flesh and eyes that slowly swallowing the whole room they’re in. It’s kinda a unhealthy relationship for her cause every time she was with him she hides from monster from monsters and is in danger. I like Mono but he’s in the first place the only reason why she had to go through all of it. When she “breaks up with him and letting him go in the tower” she can’t continue being innocent and kind. Mono broke her and now she only can think about surviving the nightmares she lives in. Now I want to write more, I notice how I went into the wrong direction but I hope you know what I mean with Little Nightmares being open for interpretations, speculations and theories and goes very deep Anyway can’t wait to watch you videos that are going to come out soon (I hope soon but everyone’s unique in the amount of time he needs for concrete tasks so take your time)
I find the teacher the most terrifying. Which I find ironic as I am a teacher. 15:28 Thank you! I’ve been saying this for years but you’re the only one I’ve seen mention that it could be a homicide!
A little late, but a theory i found that i found reasonable for Mono and the thin man. The thin man is trying to capture mono, his younger self, traveling back in time so he doesn't end up like the thin man; getting betrayed by six. Edit: He is a in a consistent loop because he keeps traveling back in time and is always going to be in different universes while doing it.
For the principal, i would wager those snakes could or been a sort of survailance system mono would have to hide from, alerting the teacher if he finds you, but might have been cut since the teacher's snake like neck prefered just as fine a job
To me, the things poking out of the principals head looked like fungi, and I think that bullies or just very unruly students who were unaffected by by the teacher’s presence would be sent to the principal, where he’d make the rule breaker inhale spores until they’d grow fungi out of their head and to added to a hive mind ruled by the principal himself then be sent to his own classroom away from the others. Though this is just my interpretation off the concept art which I took and ran with, I hope whoever reads it likes it!
I'm making a fan game called NULL. Your character, Called Null will be trapped in a insane asyulum city. And theres a chained door with 10 locks. Your job is to find the keys while encountering monsters. Such as: The hatter, The Dentist, The Lost Ones, The Kid, The Adult, And The Prisioner.
I think the barber is also heavly inspired by the villian in the game "clocktower", he has the same youthful, but old appearance, and the massive scissors
I still believe hanging man is Mono who got himself out of the loop. Same suit, same chair and same door and even a goodbye note on the floor. I think that's why Six finally wakes up in the Maw instead of the Hunter's forrest. Because she's been in the Hunter's house a lot if you look at the carvings on the wall where Six is being trapped with her music box. But that's what i think 😊
I think the adults in the game are all the kids after they have survived and succumb to the hunger. i.e. the kid that wished he was a twin became the fat twin chefs, the kid that saw himself 7ft tall is the person that was hanging dead, Mono the thin man. Basically if you don’t get your essence talk and become Nome then you just live long enough to be whatever is was you saw in the mirror. The grandma is the Daughter of the geisha. It’s goes on… just my thoughts probably wrong but these games and the whole world are so fun to speculate on.
Something about The Barber reminds me of a character from a childrens book i think my mom got for me and my sister when we were little little. Der Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffman. A collection of cautionary tales. One of the tales in it, The Story of Little Suck-A-Thumb and one of the characters in that tale is what seems to be a potential source of inspiration. It goes like this: One day, Mamma said, "Conrad dear, I must go out and leave you here. But mind now, Conrad, what I say, Don't suck your thumb while I'm away. The great tall tailor always comes To little boys that suck their thumbs. And ere they dream what he's about He takes his great sharp scissors And cuts their thumbs clean off, - and then You know, they never grow again." Mamma had scarcely turn'd her back, The thumb was in, alack! alack! The door flew open, in he ran, The great, long, red-legged scissorman. Oh! children, see! the tailor's come And caught our little Suck-a-Thumb. Snip! Snap! Snip! the scissors go; And Conrad cries out - Oh! Oh! Oh! Snip! Snap! Snip! They go so fast; That both his thumbs are off at last. Mamma comes home; there Conrad stands, And looks quite sad, and shows his hands;- "Ah!" said Mamma "I knew he'd come To naughty little Suck-a-Thumb."
First time I'm coming across this channel. Awesome video, and I really like the way you talk! It's relaxing but engaging, perfect for late night listening. I'm looking forward to seeing more!
One thing about the janitor is that he isn't actually covering his face. That IS his face. Basically, his skin is falling off his head, and it folded over his eyes, so that's why he's blind. Also, the head above the skin is his skull.
Edit: Guys, it's not a mask. If you go on the wiki, it literally explains what I just said
I used to believe that was some sort of blindfold
It isn't actually skin. It is a mask, much like all of the other masks adults here wear. This one is broken, and is falling off. We even see the model for his mask in the doctor's office.
@@plaidhatter1674 yep you are right.
To me, it always looked like something had fallen on his head, like a bowling ball. It looks more like his entire head has been caved in.
@@plaidhatter1674 If you look at his hands they are the exact same color as the face.
For the Granny, people theorize that she pursues the player not out of malice but because she craves interaction. If she lived alone for so long with no one to spend time with she would be desperate for social interaction. It is also theorized that she was the previous Lady of the Maw, since for the current one we see at the end of the DLC that her face is beginning to sag like the Granny's
That’s an interesting theory! There definitely seems to be a level of loneliness with a lot of the adult characters
i mean it does make sense why her name would be “granny” then, yk if she’s chasing children hoping for interaction with them
i mean it does make sense why her name would be “granny” then, yk if she’s chasing children hoping for interaction with them
i mean it does make sense why her name would be “granny” then, yk if she’s chasing children hoping for interaction with them
@@elerigwen8013hey you commented this three times
The Lady is such a serve. I think about her every other day. Her humming lives in my brain rent free
💅🏻💅🏻
Hm, hm, hmmmm, hm,hm hmmm...
Her humming is so beautiful, I love listening to it.
Spoliers for Little Nightmares 2!
I’m probably wrong here, but this is my theory on the Hunter. I don’t think he lived his whole life in the forest. I always thought that little heart etched into the tree was just a cute detail, and not connected to this villain at all. I’m guessing that the Hunter used to live in the Pale City, (or at least watched the TVs). Like the other viewers, his body - mostly his face - became distorted, but he managed to snap out of the trance before getting fully sucked in. He decided to flee into the forest where no one could see his disfigurement, and stay away from the heart of the broadcast. Somehow (I really don’t know how) the Hunter figured out that Mono is the Thin Man. He wants to kill Mono, hoping to end the time loop, and by extension, the broadcast, so no one else could be mishapen like him. This is why Six is in the Hunter’s basement. She’s bait for Mono. This is why the Hunter only shoots at Mono. Revenge. At least that’s my guess.
That does make sense.
Oh I love this theory! Hadn’t considered that the hunter once lived in the pale city.
Wait, mono is The Thin Man?
@@morth1994spoilers for little nightmares 2 ig
@@morth1994 oh no! I didn’t just spoil it for you, did I?
Notice how the Lady of the Maw's relfection actually doesn't reflect her actual face, that's more of what SHE and the others see her as, when in reality she isn't that ugly at all.
Could be body dysmorphia where she sees herself as ugly and needs perfecting
Makes sense since there’s no way that much face in the mirror fits under the mask perfectly as it does.
It's not that deep. Her face is grotesque, that's why she covers it. It's canon in this universe.
@@UnfazedPhoenix and it ain’t deep enough to reply like this.
@@UnfazedPhoenixdude fuck off and let people imagine shit if it makes their experience better
@@St-trinas_biggestfan😊
Wasnt mentioned in the vid but the chefs are also wearing masks. The second twin can be seen scratching himself under it when he is working with the big meat chunk after you escape the freezer. For the first twin, im not sure when or how you can trigger it, or if its just an insanely rare idle animation, but between doing his laps in the kitchen, he sometimes lifts his mask up and licks his lips
Yes I noticed that too. I think the doctor made the masks because we saw other flesh masks in the hospital
at 7:13 you can see that the lady's face doest actually look disfigured, I think the mirror just shows what she feels like/looks like on the inside
She absorbs the life out of people so my theory was similar. Basically that the reflection is what she does/should look like but she has stolen so much life from others that it masks her appearance and makes her look youthful and beautiful on first glace.
@ebolaevader9633 the way you described it reminds me of "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Definitely some weird magic shiz
The world seems like it was made for people to suffer in it (well duh, it's a horror game) so no surprise she is tormented in some way too by (a magical or not) body dismorphia
Sad part is, the thin man isnt even necessarily a villian, he just remembers how six betrayed him and is trying to save his younger naïve self
Yea it’s sad
He's trying to save mono from the suffering he suffered
He runs the Pale City, though. His media is what occupies the minds of its citizens. He's the worst leader shown in the games thus far.
@@monovision566I think the signal tower actually uses the thin man’s anger to power the signal tower and effect pale city. Remember the signal tower is an entity itself
I feel like the entire story of Little Nightmares is a symbolism of someone's childhood. The thin man might symbolise a boy's father who have a very high position in a company and wants his son to join him in his business, which the son refuses but one way or another the son still grew up to inherit his father's job. The disfigurement caused by the TVs might be a symbolism of what adults who are addicted to TVs appear to children: soulless and sometimes mad at the children if they interrupts the show. The doctor might be an actual doctor in a child's life that always make them afraid. (I mean seriously who's not afraid of doctors when they're 5 lol) The Lady might be a symbolism of a mother who's overly obsessed with beauty, an irl problem associated with younger people. The chefs might be restuarant workers who sometimes scares the children when they see the knives and violent swinging actions who will shoo the children away when they walks too close. Overall, this series depricts an overexaggerated version of innocent childhood 'horrors' that's magnified so adults can experience it again.
I thought smth like this too, but that's not the case
@@ChainSouls I think they mean in terms of theme
Ooohh, I think you’re onto something!
@@chilly456 ik. The game is symbolic, but not in that sense, not majority, at least. Mono is taken from monophobia, fear of being alone, he does everything in his power to save six to not be/feel like he's the only one running and surviving, ironically she's the reason why he'll be alone and a slave to the tower forever doing it's bidding. His story is being abandoned by the very person he felt comfort towards. There are some aspects that are from a child's perspective, but the majority are actually from adults. In the first game, the Lady was damaged by looking at her own reflection. A sense of insecurity of her aging and an obsession with getting younger by absorbing the feasting guest's life force. The guests represent greed and no self-control of food intake. It also probably represents how they eat to satisfy/feel "better" in the gloomy dark world they live in or experience every day.
Also, I'm excited about the 3rd game
@@chilly456 Also, the Thin Man is a representation of looking back and being like, "if only I," but it's too late and the never ending loop he's in is more of a constant memory of wanting to changing things or at least wanting to save yourself from misfortune.
I will never forget little nightmares, its one of my top favorite games aside from others, and I'm glad people are still talking about it. I almost cried when I saw that little nightmares 3 was official.
Same. Plus based pfp. Gaster is one of my main interests.
@@EnaOrLeo cool! Yeah gaster is interesting to me too
Same
It’s definitely a game worthy of the love it receives in my opinion!
@@PlanetDrewpiter yeah!
The Barber must be inspired by the German fairtytale "Der Daumenlutscher" ("The Thumbsucker"). In this fairytale a child wouldn't stop sucking his thumb, and because it is considered bad behavior by the adults, the barber would cut off the child's thumbs so he couldn't suck them anymore.
Oh interesting! What a horrifying fairytale 😅
Not me thinking of Freaky Fred from Courage the Cowardly Dog💀💀
"Der Struwwelpeter"
@@PlanetDrewpiter Have you seen the comics? The one with the Lollipop kid, If so I want to tell you a theory.
Avarage German fairytale
I like to think that The Hunter was once a kid himself and basically grew up in the forest and wore a mask to hide his identity as a normal human. He had took in a few kids (including the blindfolded one) but they all became victims of Thin Man and then he took in Six, found out Mono was taking her, thought he was a fake child basically a servant of Thin Man, and tried to kill Mono so he doesn’t lose Six like he did the other children
I also like to think that whenever an adult dies their souls get trapped in The Lady’s mirrors that’s why in Secrets of the Maw when you look at her face you’ll notice it looks like The Granny’s
The only way you see the souls in the mirrors is if she takes off her mask in front of the mirror the said soul is trapped in
It makes so much sense because mono is always the only one getting shot by him
he doesn't shoot six
For the bit on the "child eating" the only one that seems to do that regularly is the Madam of the Maw. The rest of them just seem to stick anything in their mouth that will fit... and are also to product being served to the other guests. The Maw itself is one giant cannibal buffet.. Where even the cannibals are on the menu.
In the Maw the Guests eat children as well, well, Six anyway. When Six gets caught by the guests, they consume her, but that might just be their obsession of food, idk but Tmyk (The more you know)
I'm so happy you brought up the Hunter's little heart carving! I found it strangely adorable.
There's also a heart cut out in his outhouse, I don't know if two hearts in his chapter would count as a motif, but I'm taking it as one.
He's definitely canonically lonely enough to have taxidermied people to sit at the table.
Glad you appreciated that part! 😊
The lady's face in Secrets of the maw isn't actually her face. In the game files I assume, her real face is shown and she is a beautiful Japanese woman
I heard a theory awhile back that I found quite interesting.
In Very Little Nightmares, we can find a family portrait of the Pretender and her parents. However, due to how short the Pretender is, we’re only able to see their legs.
_But their clothes match The Thin Man and The Teacher._
The theory is that time works differently inside the Signal Tower, so Mono grew up into The Thin Man, married The Teacher, and The Pretender is his kid.
It also theorized that he was The Hanging Man, and that after The Pretender was “killed” by Six, he brought her onto The Maw as revenge, before offing himself out of grief.
It was a few years ago so I might be missing a few details.
I would say that the Hanging Man and the Thin Man are two different characters purely based on the fact that the Thin Man is stuck in a time loop and probably couldn’t escape the pale city. Similarly I’d say that the Hanging Man is the Pretender’s father because there’s another painting seen in the nest of his feet alone which match exactly the feet on the portrait of the Pretender with her parents
Honestly this is a great theory but the Thin Man part doesn’t make sense, he was locked in the signal tower for his entire life, he never had time to get married or even have a kid, but even when he was released, his main goal was to catch Six and guide Mono to the tower, and since from what I know, Very Little Nightmares was the first game and why would Mono/Thin Man marry the Teacher? He was terrified of her and would never marry her, and she probably wouldn’t have said yes so she could continue her teaching career
@@Harpie8615The thin man wasn't completely imprisoned, he went out sometimes to kidnap children and take them to the tower as shown in the comics.
@@pedrohenriquecerqueira3883 didn’t the creators of the game say the comics weren’t canon?
@@Harpie8615 No? They said that for the old comics from the first game. But anyway, even if those weren't either, there's still plenty of evidence that he did that.
For example, the presence of glitches like the one that appears when Six is captured.
The existence of his drawings proves that children have already seen him.
The company's own description of Thin Man also indicates this by saying that "He is on an endless journey through the pale city"
I remember seeing Cory play little nightmares and there’s a little emote where the chefs stop while walking to lift up their mask and scratch their face, I thought that the faces you showed were their actual faces but no it’s a mask!! I remember being like whaaat it’s a mask?!
15:30 The Barber looks like he was inspired by a german children's story: "Der Daumenlutscher" from a collage of stories called "Der Struwwelpeter".
In the story, a kid is sucking on his index finger, even though his mother warned him of the 'tailor and his shears'. He continues anyway and then one day, the tailor comes rushed into his home and cuts of his index fingers with his speedy shears.
The artwork resembles the original artwork VERY MUCH, especially the one with him and the child! The story is meant to convey the message of good behavior to little children.
"So hunny! Basicly if you misbehave, a man will appear and cut your fingers with his shears. Sleep well!" German fairytales are BRUTAL lmao
Glad to see you included some from very little nightmares as well!
Absolutely!!! Thanks for watching 👹
@@PlanetDrewpiter thanks for remembering that game exists😂
One interesting thing about the janitor is that hes seemingly a nice person. Hes not seen hurting children or others at anypoint.
He’s caging them so he can send them to their deaths to be prepared and eaten. I don’t think a nice person would do that
Kid: " So I grow up become a monster? Okay, I will just retreat to the forest only hunting animals."
He seems like a more well-adjusted person than the rest of the adults ngl. Maybe not by a lot, but he’s still more mentally there.
The janitor, the lady, and the doctor gotta be best friends or smth bc the janitor makes the dolls, the lady collects them, and the doctor uses them
Little nightmares it’s really my inspiration to actually be creative with things so when I try drawing monsters, they don’t look stupid like “oh! Long neck and one more extra arm” lol, cuz
Little nightmares is really creative with all their characters cuz it looks like they put effort and sum thinking
That's an awesome place to draw creativity from! I love every design of theirs for one reason or another, and it's always because of a theoretically odd addition to the design. Keep it up!!!
7:13 Her face looks perfect and doesn't even match with the mirror thats because even if she doesn't age her reflection does that's actually The Granny's face maybe she fears that she will look like her the mirrors show her true self an old witch and reflect the magic of her mask onto her thats why she only can see mirrors when not wearing the mask this she loved seeing her reflection and beuty so she started suck the guests life so she could keep her beuty but when all the mirrors started showing her an old ugly face she broke them all and lock the few untouched mirrors in a room since she still couldn't refuse looking herself in these wishing to see her face
Sorry for my bad English
i think LNs shows/symbolize how f*cked up is the society when you grow up and turned into adult, as a child you see the world as a big and colorful place, you always find it amusing because its all new to your eyes(like a playground, cities with enormous establishments and to be specific - amusement parks), you always see the brightside in everything, then suddenly someone or something will change your perspective. Since the characters are children, you can feel their innocence and curiosity - you can also feel their fear (in the unknown), like you don't know the place/s and people outside your circle, what's gonna happen.. something like that, but also the children symbolizes optimism and hope, that's why they always going through the challenges even though they have limited capacities. (sorry for my English, its not my mother language).
Its shown that the lady's face is actually normal, but she sees herself as a monster in the mirror.
I hope the Barber is in the third little nightmares game.
I was thinking the same thing! I could definitely see it
I am hoping to see at least one of three characters in the third game: the Ferryman, the North Wind, or the Mirror Man.
@@rayceo4477 ferryman would most likely be a friend that would help the main character it would be cool to see him
I think he's based on that one Stuwwepeter story. If you Google "Struwwelpeter Daumenlutscher" yk what I'm talking about. Or just "Struwwelpeter thumb sucker" there's this guy that cuts off your thumbs with a giant pair of scissors if you suck on them
@@rayceo4477the ferryman is dead
My theory for the maw:
The Lady placed a “curse” on a town of regular humans, making them glutenous and therefore fat. This would attract them to the newly advertised ship, with unlimited food. I think the food is made from both the children and former guests. The Lady has employed multiple people (with the money from the guests for the tickets) to allow this operation to take place. The Janitor’s job is to prepare the children that have been delivered and catch intruders (possibly ship tech too). The Chefs’ job is to butcher and cook the prepared children and former guests. The whole operation is so the Lady can satisfy her need for souls by taking those of the guests (then sending them for cooking for the next lot).
Maybe a bonus is she has employed the Ferryman to deliver the children to be dealt with, since we saw his supposed boat, and that tv song was probably about him.
i found out the other day that the song the lady hums in LN1, is actually Togetherness, just VERY slowed. this fuels me to believe that six is the lady even more than before.
It would make sense because she is missing a part of her soul from the thin man that causes her intense hunger, so she runs the maw so she can constantly feed of the souls of the customers
I'll never forgive six for turning mono into that
I wonder why she did it tho. Maybe she knows something.
@@SquishyTheVampire I think she does know something, or at least put a few pieces together. She seems to have no empathy for threats, like breaking the hand's fingers in the hospital, strangling the bully, and warming her hands when the doctor burns. I think she might've realized mono was the same person as the tall man, or at least that they're similar enough that he might be a threat to her, and lost her empathy for him/became scared of him. She clearly still cares a little, by grabbing his hand at all, so I imagine it was a hard choice for her. He did help her a lot throughout the game.
EDIT: HIS FACE!! I just saw someone else talking about it in another comment section, that's the first time she really gets a look at his face!! The thin man doesn't wear a mask so she must recognize then that they're the same/related somehow
I always thought the long legged hanged man was the janitors brother from their differences in each other's long legs and then long arms
If you look at the concept art, you can see the stuff coming out of the principals head might be a fungus.
You can see it in other characters, including a cut enemy where the “Veronica song” cooking lady has these protruding out of her head.
I think the "black snakes" growing out of the Principal are actually fungi! It reminds me of the cordyceps virus, when the fungi grows up from the corpse of the bug to release its spores
13:42 my idea is that he is the reason the students (AKA bullies) are just porcelain, they where normal students until they where turned into porcelain by him
I think he's brainwashed too
@@Orderofgold yeah
You know, it makes me wonder how big both LN1 & 2 would be if all of the cut characters were used for each game, without cutting any of the current bosses either. It'd be very interesting.
13:46 i think that the principal's tentacles thingies may be a tipe fungi growing out of his head
judging by the kid with the principal having the same fungi growing in that concept art, it might've been a scrapped idea of the kids being brainwashed by the school with the principal as the master hivemind. Seems like they replaced in favor of porcelain students
that’s what i was thinking! it reminded me of cordyeps
@@elfplushie same
@@elfplushie TLOU??!!?!
The hanged man may be the same as Otto's teacher, since he was the first person to discover the other world.
That’s an interesting theory!! Especially since time works so strangely in The Nowhere
1:43 The Janitor isn't wearing a face covering/ covering his eyes. The skin on his head basically atarted like falling off and it covered his eyes. The line where the "Head covering" Begins is the Skeleton.
While playing in before watching any videos with these games I always assumed this was from a perspective of a child and as a child the world can be a very scary place but now I have a better understanding of the universe
The barber is definitely a nod to the Scissorman from clock tower.
I actually had to think of the tailor who cut little Konrads thumbs off when he wouldn’t stop sucking on them. It’s from a German kids fairytale. (Don’t ask…we have some fucked up bedtime stories for some reason)
One rule that I’ve learned to know about this world is that in this world if there’s something that looks like it’s alive it’s probably alive
One you forgot is the chef that most likely got turned into the twin chefs. The chef works on a cooking show set, and he has long necks that is either a huge wisk, or (a more likely theory) wires that he uses to control the tvs in The Pale City
I found this very popular theory about the hanging man. The hanging man was the thin man. Because Little Nightmares 2 is a prequel to Little Nightmares 1 and it's confirmed when you fought the nightmare version of Six, you could see the exact same suitcase you played as Six thats open with little pictures inside it. And when you unlock a secret ending at Little Nightmares 2 when Six came through the TV, the "glitched" version of herself pointed at the poster about The Maw. But, I don't know why the thin man wanted to come to the Maw? Maybe take revenge after she "betrayed" (?) Mono? I have no clue myself. But thats one of the most popular mysteries of the Little Nightmares world.
That’s a cool theory!!!
Because of the portraits in the lady's chambers and other evidence throughout the games I think the hanging man is the lady's son and the granny is her daughter, to start i think the dark shadow children in the dlc and the lady turning the runaway kid into a nome proves that the lady takes the lifeforce of children probably to preserve her own life and so the lady locks the granny, her daughter down in the depths to protect her from herself and this would also explain why she looks far older than her mother, more evidence for this is that in the portrait of the little girl in the lady's chambers she's wearing the same dress that can be found at the start of the granny's area meaning that she probably discarded the dress as she outgrew it, it also makes sense that the lady would be more pissed at the runaway kid than she was with six because he killed her daughter. The evidence for the hanged man being the lady's son is that in Little nightmares 2 there is a small apartment room with easter eggs from the first game, a doll of the lady and also a picture of her, and similar slippers to the ones that can be found in the hanging man's room so I think the lady's son left the maw to go live in the pale city which is why his eyes are scratched out of the portrait and it has been taken off the wall, there is also a shrine to the lady in a hidden area in the first game and another note like the one he left before he committed suicide, I think he loved and idolised his mother so he left the pale city and went back to the maw but when he saw what was truly going on with imprisoning and eating children as well as his own mother absorbing the life force of countless children and turning them into nomes plus the slaughtering of all the guests that enter to sustain the maw and feed the next guests that arrive, and also realising he couldn't go back to the pale city because of the transmission and all the other fucked up shit he decided to end his pain and take his own life.
A theory that isn’t mine, but now that I know about it, I can’t help but believe it: the Lady did have kids, but she didn’t birth them of course, she took them in. Those two kids are seen in the first game: the Granny, and the Hanging Man. In the Lady’s bedroom, we see two paintings of children, one in a yellow raincoat, and one in a dress. The dress looks highly reminiscent of the dress found in the Granny’s domain, not the one she was wearing, obvs. As for why the Lady would lock her own daughter in the basement, it’s because the Lady didn’t wish to consume her daughter. The Lady has consumed the spirits of children, but yet she still yearns to be a mother, seen by her humming a lullaby while nursing a baby doll. As for the Hanging Man, I think the Lady had two children, a son and a daughter. While the Hanging Man connection is a bit loose, I think this explanation makes sense: the Hanging Man left the Maw and went to the Pale City. In the Pale City, there’s a room that can be found that features Maw memorabilia, and a statue of the Lady. Whoever goes to the Maw usually doesn’t leave, so why would a person on the mainland know about the Lady and the Maw, if they didn’t leave it? As for what happened to him, after the TV plague began, he left and returned home, but was in hiding. The man wasn’t corrupted, but he was scarred, and if he realized the cruelty of his mother, it’d make sense that he’d commit die (or someone murdered him on behalf of his scornful and mourning mother, and make it look like a self death). Plus, that would explain how Six got to the Maw: she snuck into the Hanging Man’s suitcase, hence why she’s in the suitcase and is in the room next to the Hanging Man.
Credit to Tericho, I love his channel and his content.
I think the Principal definitely has a cordyceps thing going on. Brain-controlling fungus seems totally thematic and also works as a jab at schools.
Something I really like is how memorable all of them are
So unique that they really stick with you!
Who else is hyped for LN3? I already have it preordered!!!
😤 ME 😤
It has been delayed to 2025
@@rosemary3029 yea ik it’s unfortunate but I’m not mad abt it bc it’s just best for the game and to let all the ppl at Bandai namco to work on it better
Glad that you mentioned a possible foul play with the hanging man, I always personally believed something was up with that.
my personal theory is that her accession to becoming the Governess of the Maw was a fairly bloody affair. Judging by the blotched out portraits of other geisha, the Granny being exiled to the depths of the maw, and her dark magic.
Something must've happened with these two that could make her either have him killed or played a part in his death. Especially with the chair not being knocked over, and the Hanging Man’s feet being above the chair.
Absolutely stellar explaining video! I’m happy you also included the cut characters and the very little nightmares characters! Great job, mate.
Also, what is that intermission part from (the tvs in the corpses accompanied with the title cards), looks like a sick background. Thanks!
Fun fact: when you break the game or go out of bounds. Granny is a rock star before she dies :3
I do feel like the Ferryman / Candleman is a neutral character. It would be interesting if he was stuck in the in between. Unable to see what the worst horrors bring the children he help into the Nowhere. He can see some things, but he sees them as a good change nonetheless. The manipulation of a better world by means of horrors and this twisted world, makes it more the child's naive choice, rather than the Ferryman's.
What if none of the villains in LN2 are evil? Just recognize Mono as the thin man and the thin man is like, a powerful torturer that tries to end the lives of the adults.
I don't think it's a timeloop it could be just showing him and manipulating the world and surroundings to make him the thin man like it wanted
Totally possible!
I’m just watching little nightmares videos instead of revising for my university exams , pls keep posting
Good luck on your exams! Ha
I actually love that the creators admitted that the first Little Nightmares took heavy inspiration from Spirited away. Basically if it wasn't for studio Ghubili we would have this amazing game
I love this franchise so much because they managed to turn "the world we know" into cosmic horror materials.
It’s about time someone made the comparison about the hunter looking like Jason!!!
Right!!!
Funnily enough, while I don’t know much about the game series, I already have the perspective that the setting is in a strange way a lot more animalistic and wild and that in a way, six may actually be the equivalent of an evolving human. Rather low on the food chain at the start, but slowly transitioning to the top due to their intelligence to kill off larger threats.
This game has so many great monster designs
The Barber and the Art of him feel like a Hommage to either "Max and Moritz" or "Struwwelpeter", two really well known Tales in Germany.
I thought the Chefs were also covering their faces?
No, they just have very… interesting faces 😅
@PlanetDrewpiter Aren't there animations where they scratch under the masks, though?
@@FireTurkey
Correct
@@FireTurkeyexactly
Yo this was one the best videos discussing the Little Nightmares, You did a really good job making this video!
I'm assuming the Eye Entity (We don't even know what it's real name is or if it has one.) wasted no time pulling a Tzneech on the humans corrupting them over time. It has absolutely no use for children except maybe livestock. The Eye seems to have no other emotion except for anger. Even the thought of raising a hand to this elder overlord seems to result in fates worth than death meted out. As it demonstrated to Mono that as bad and harrowing the world is there is a Hell inside of Hell.
I love how planetdrewpiter makes a reference to the soundtrack when he says the twin chefs have a feeling for meat.
The stuff in the principal’s head looks to be fungus, search up zombie ant fungus and they look nearly identical.
For the twin chefs it very much seemed like they too were wearing a mask. If you watch the gameplay, they are shown to scratch underneath their "skin." Maybe it's just fat folds but to me it always struck me as another case of a cover up.
The extensions from the principal are definitely cordiceps by the looks off them. a commentary on controlling the actions of the bullies.
15:37 that picture reminds me of my childhood, one of the bedtime storys they used to tell us at the kindergarten "Der Daumenlutscher". Ah i loved that one, a story about a man who cut of childrens fingers, especialy thumbs, if they repeatedly suck on them.
The tendrils coming out of the principal reminds me of cordyceps
Props to the little nightmares team to still hunt and aknowledge the scrapped characters. And to still keep them in the lore
the thin man and the lady r so cool I can’t help but say it when I see them
Edit: and the teacher she’s bad ass
Agreed!!
Too be honest there's some random theory in my head yet what if little nightmares we're trying too teach us too live and not too be too obsessed with gadgets/phones? What if six became "the lady" since we see her in a chapter feasting her neck and absorbing her dark power?
I like that theory about it teaching us a lesson about technology!
Personally my favouritr adult is Roger, I love his design and I also love that when he catches Six he doesn't do anything to her.
What if? As a theory, the janitor realised what the sound waves were doing or somehow snapped out of it for a second and he thought that covering his ears up with his mask was a way to block him from seeing the transmissions while passing as a mistake to other adults. But because the transmissions are still there they still corrupt him so now he can't fix the mask but still listens to the tv
I’m excepting Six and Mono to be chased by Siren Head in Little Nightmares 3.😒😤
I’ll keep my fingers crossed too 🤞🏼
I don’t think the janitor is covering his eyes on purpose I think that’s his extra skin covering his eyes 1:33
I've only heard of the Hanging Man to be possibly related to the Thin Man because of their similar long, lanky bodies and outfit. Him and the Wax Bellman are new to me.
Cool that you’re able to create such content, I mean it’s not that we really get any information about the adults, so it’s cool to watch your thoughts, interpretations and theories about them. Every fan has his own speculation about Little Nightmares, as example I think that the real victim in Little Nightmares is Six, all the other children too but they are also the reason for her trauma. Six is one of the anti heros who became an anti hero in front of our eyes. To be honest I’m convinced that Six deserves a psychological analysis of her personality cause she’s very deep. But some of the fans don’t really like or even hate her cause she betrayed Mono and killed a rat, the janitor, a nome, a lot of guests and the lady. But these are just consequences of her being like a sponge to every experience she has in such a cruel and terrifying world cause she’s an innocent child. If Mono would leave Six in the tower she would be to be honest much happier. The developers officially explained that technically Six didn’t feel any pain or discomfort while she was deformed monster and more happy than not. The first time in her life she got time to calm down and just take a break of all the stress this world gifts the children. If that’s the case than technically Mono took her out of her safe zone and brought her back into the nightmare. Just think about it: Mono took her out of a safe zone in the forest at the start of the game, then was cold with her and left her with the bulllies, then Betrayed her and didn’t try to help when she was caught by the Thin Man (technically he’s the one who’s guilty that he even found out that they exist and where they are) and when she found a safe zone Mono destroys it so when she wakes she’s in shock of nightmare that became from something little bullies and adults to unexplained monsters made of flesh and eyes that slowly swallowing the whole room they’re in. It’s kinda a unhealthy relationship for her cause every time she was with him she hides from monster from monsters and is in danger. I like Mono but he’s in the first place the only reason why she had to go through all of it. When she “breaks up with him and letting him go in the tower” she can’t continue being innocent and kind. Mono broke her and now she only can think about surviving the nightmares she lives in.
Now I want to write more, I notice how I went into the wrong direction but I hope you know what I mean with Little Nightmares being open for interpretations, speculations and theories and goes very deep
Anyway can’t wait to watch you videos that are going to come out soon (I hope soon but everyone’s unique in the amount of time he needs for concrete tasks so take your time)
I’m sorry that I write so long and weird : (|
I agree 100% , Six is the man!!!!!!
Both, she’s a mentally masculine girl :D
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@@230kittygamer7 thanx, I’m very happy to hear that 😃
You're damn right Roger's a baddie 😏
I find the teacher the most terrifying. Which I find ironic as I am a teacher.
15:28 Thank you! I’ve been saying this for years but you’re the only one I’ve seen mention that it could be a homicide!
The thin man proves to me that any of the adults (especially with powers) could have once been children.
A little late, but a theory i found that i found reasonable for Mono and the thin man. The thin man is trying to capture mono, his younger self, traveling back in time so he doesn't end up like the thin man; getting betrayed by six.
Edit: He is a in a consistent loop because he keeps traveling back in time and is always going to be in different universes while doing it.
7:37 why did that throw make me laugh 😂
For the principal, i would wager those snakes could or been a sort of survailance system mono would have to hide from, alerting the teacher if he finds you, but might have been cut since the teacher's snake like neck prefered just as fine a job
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Tea!! You didn't have to do that!! Thank you so very much I've definitely got some good ones coming up that I'm excited for!!
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I’m sorry but the Doctor looks like Dr.Phil 💀💀💀💀
GOTTA be the inspiration
I think that Mano is stuck in a time loop. I figure that's why the Thin Man is so set on catching Six- she abandoned him there to keep herself safe.
13:38 those tall stalk, reaching out of his heads look a lot like fungi.
To me, the things poking out of the principals head looked like fungi, and I think that bullies or just very unruly students who were unaffected by by the teacher’s presence would be sent to the principal, where he’d make the rule breaker inhale spores until they’d grow fungi out of their head and to added to a hive mind ruled by the principal himself then be sent to his own classroom away from the others. Though this is just my interpretation off the concept art which I took and ran with, I hope whoever reads it likes it!
I'm making a fan game called NULL. Your character, Called Null will be trapped in a insane asyulum city. And theres a chained door with 10 locks. Your job is to find the keys while encountering monsters. Such as: The hatter, The Dentist, The Lost Ones, The Kid, The Adult, And The Prisioner.
ooh id love to give design ideas if you dont have any yet
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I think the barber is also heavly inspired by the villian in the game "clocktower", he has the same youthful, but old appearance, and the massive scissors
For some of us , the dread is somehow strangely reassuring .
Yeah, it doesn't seem to be like a bandage over the janitors eyes, but seemingly like some kind of overlapping skin,
I still believe hanging man is Mono who got himself out of the loop. Same suit, same chair and same door and even a goodbye note on the floor. I think that's why Six finally wakes up in the Maw instead of the Hunter's forrest. Because she's been in the Hunter's house a lot if you look at the carvings on the wall where Six is being trapped with her music box. But that's what i think 😊
Someone looked closely at Roger and realized that IS his skin thank you who ever did that
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THE CHIEF ARE SOO CUTE!!!
I think the adults in the game are all the kids after they have survived and succumb to the hunger. i.e. the kid that wished he was a twin became the fat twin chefs, the kid that saw himself 7ft tall is the person that was hanging dead, Mono the thin man. Basically if you don’t get your essence talk and become Nome then you just live long enough to be whatever is was you saw in the mirror. The grandma is the Daughter of the geisha. It’s goes on… just my thoughts probably wrong but these games and the whole world are so fun to speculate on.
Something about The Barber reminds me of a character from a childrens book i think my mom got for me and my sister when we were little little.
Der Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffman. A collection of cautionary tales.
One of the tales in it, The Story of Little Suck-A-Thumb and one of the characters in that tale is what seems to be a potential source of inspiration. It goes like this:
One day, Mamma said, "Conrad dear,
I must go out and leave you here.
But mind now, Conrad, what I say,
Don't suck your thumb while I'm away.
The great tall tailor always comes
To little boys that suck their thumbs.
And ere they dream what he's about
He takes his great sharp scissors
And cuts their thumbs clean off, - and then
You know, they never grow again."
Mamma had scarcely turn'd her back,
The thumb was in, alack! alack!
The door flew open, in he ran,
The great, long, red-legged scissorman.
Oh! children, see! the tailor's come
And caught our little Suck-a-Thumb.
Snip! Snap! Snip! the scissors go;
And Conrad cries out - Oh! Oh! Oh!
Snip! Snap! Snip! They go so fast;
That both his thumbs are off at last.
Mamma comes home; there Conrad stands,
And looks quite sad, and shows his hands;-
"Ah!" said Mamma "I knew he'd come
To naughty little Suck-a-Thumb."
First time I'm coming across this channel. Awesome video, and I really like the way you talk! It's relaxing but engaging, perfect for late night listening. I'm looking forward to seeing more!