#ahwm explanation livestream

[ind1c0lite]

ok first of all: actor wants to play the leading role in the story. he wants to be the main person behind it and what better than being the literal title character. not only that but date/hiest/space mark have the same name as actor mark which is mark i plier. Actor is well an actor so hes able to play the hero role very well, hence why a lot of people like date/hiest/space mark. Actor is making these stories in order to enertain us the viewer (aka da). He wants an audience for his stories and us stuck in the mirror is the perfect choice. However even though actor is a narristic asshole hes still techinally human and cant act forever. hence why he might whine or pount when we wont seperate in hiest or why he might apologize to us iswm because he does indeed regret things even if he is an asshole. also there is the whole meta ending in date and the moment he shows up in iswm part one.

mmm yeah that does make sense! I can totally see that asshole playing it all out for us GJKHLJ;

[type40thiefoflight]

Happy one year anniversary.

I’m still mad that Mark specifically wrote ISWM in a way that would bait us into thinking Engineer was Actor but then saying in his livestream that he isn’t. Besides this one statement, there isn’t anything to support this. If take the series at face value, without taking Mark’s remark into consideration, there is so much evidence pointing to them being the same character.

If he had written Part 1 to lead us on but then in Part 2 he gradually peppered in hints and a reveal that they were in fact separate characters, I wouldn’t be upset at all. I would consider that clever storytelling while playing with the audience’s expectations. I would think, “Wow, he really had us there, but what a twist!”

Instead we got a comment on an explanation stream that turned everything on its head.

However!

Here’s why Mark saying Engineer isn’t Actor doesn’t matter.

What Mark says in explanation streams can explain his vision and intention for his stories, but it can’t be considered canon. What he’s saying is “Word of God,” meaning that it’s something that he meant to be true but never made it into the final product. He can say something like wanting Actor to die from him and and Wilford playing Russian Roulette in the wine cellar, but until it shows up WAIA it isn’t actually canon.

He specifically said during his WKM explanation stream, “If it’s not in the story right here then anything else could be anything. What exists is what’s on the screen.”

That being said, here’s all the reasons why Engineer is Actor:

In his 10 Years of Markiplier ISWM explanation stream he said, “Engineer Mark is not Actor Mark, but Actor Mark might just be Engineer Mark.”

So what does this mean?

It means that just like Noir and Murdock, Actor is Engineer from another universe that the wormhole accesses. If you’re familiar with the Loki show, Actor is a variant.

“Who Killed Markiplier” takes place in one of the many universes that Captain gets sucked into while they’re traveling through the wormhole. That’s why ADWM and AHWM are from the viewer’s perspective. It’s the perspective of Captain seeing different variants of themself, Engineer, and the rest of the crew live out different lives.  

The problem is that that particular universe just so happens to be the home of a sentient, inter-dimensional house that behaves similarly to the warp core crystal.

This means that there are two paradoxes that converge: One stemming from the warp core crystal, and the other from the house.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Paradox 1: Time Loops:

Engineer finds a warp core he knows nothing about but still integrates into The Invincible II anyway.

A bunch of systems malfunction and the warp core goes offline before disappearing into a wormhole, attempting to resolve an unknown paradox. After repairing the systems, Engineer gets the idea for him and Captain to jump in to find the warp core and bring it back to close the wormhole.

This is not very successful.

What they do succeed in doing is dying a lot and get split up so they’re spat out in different universes at different times. At one point, Captain winds up in a weird, dimly lit version of the warp core room where it entrusts them with its crystal so they can resolve the paradox. Throughout their involuntary space-time jumps, they encounter many different variants of Engineer, including Actor wanting to go on a second date wearing the same suit from ADWM, him in his green room stating his parole is almost up wearing his red robe from WKM (a direct follow-up to Actor saying he only has five years of parole left in one ending of Date), and a noir detective who wants to ask them out on a date.

There are two certainties in the multiverse: Wilford Warfstache and a Mark variant wanting to date a Captain variant.

Engineer and Captain repeatedly encounter Agent Alu Minium from the Universal Stability Agency who accuses Captain of being deliberately responsible for mulitversal devastation. They eventually explain that the two aren’t in a time loop and resetting the ship each time; Captain is actually killing off each universe they go through whenever they make destructive decisions.

“The multiverse is littered with the corpses of your failures.”

After so many trips through the wormhole and attempts to fix things resulting in the ship getting destroyed, Engineer becomes distrustful of Captain and begins to believe Alu’s accusations. He decides to hole himself up in the warp core room and “rebuild” the warp core from scratch so he can use it to go back in time and stop Captain from destroying everything. Captain eventually appears in the warp core room, Engineer takes their crystal to power the warp core, and convinces them to let him go through the new wormhole back to the past.

Once back in the past, Engineer sneaks onto The Invincible II so he can sabotage the warp core, support systems, and Captain’s cryo-pod to try and prevent them from destroying the multiverse.

This backfires and causes a time loop. After another lifetime of universe hopping, Engineer sends himself, Captain, the warp core, and accidentally Alu to the void as a last-ditch effort to save the multiverse. The warp core initiates a universal reset so it can have another chance to resolve the paradox, starting another set of time loops. In every time loop but one, Captain lets Engineer go back to the past. In the last loop however, they instead decide to take the crystal from the warp core and throw it into the wormhole, finally resolving the paradox.

Engineer realizes that without him going back to the past, the warp core won’t be there to power the ship and he won’t be there to sabotage it and the systems so nothing malfunctions and the wormhole functions as intended. The multiverse explodes and is reset one final time with him and Captain making amends when faced with their new home planet.

Paradox Resolved.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Paradox 2:

Actor and Wiford grow up in a house that can control space, time, and reality. After years of being exposed to this phenomenon, the two have absorbed and honed these abilities.

Wilford can teleport throughout the house by traversing the Upside-Down (the in-between dimension that looks grey and has floating dark particles everywhere). He also teleports onto the Invincible II, and can control time and wormholes. He can also traverse and bleed through the void dimension in the house as shown by him appearing in Abe’s noir pocket reality and Damien being able to hear his conversation with Abe from Celine’s. He has a pocket reality of his own that serves as his interview studio.

Actor gains immortality (or at least the ability to possess his own corpse), traps Damien and Celine in the void without a way back to their own bodies, possesses Damien’s body, is able to enter Celine’s pocket reality she is keeping Damien safe in, and utilizes the house’s reality-shifting properties to write stories where he is the hero and the District Attorney trapped in the mirror plays his oblivious sidekick.

Actor writes “A Heist with Markiplier” where he and Heist Partner steal a box containing a warp crystal from a museum. Immediately upon removing the box from its pedestal, reality around that spot glitches into red, blue, and green, indicating the triggering of an anomaly. Merely being in possession of this crystal causes a whole bunch of universe jumps where Actor and Heist Partner get into many strange scenarios and meet some weird people, most importantly Professor Beauregard. She identifies the crystal (well, the crystal’s box) as the instigator of the anomaly causing all the multiversal destabilization.

The crystal not only transports Actor and Heist Partner through alternate universes as shown by the different choice paths and Yancy’s tattoos, but it also controls time. Opening it in Ending 16 (The Interview) sends Heist Partner all the way back to “The Fall of Slenderman,” Wilford’s first appearance on Mark’s channel, before he closes it and starts interviewing Heist Partner. Opening it during Ending 6 (The End) rewinds everything back to the beginning of AHWM, where Actor decides to forgo the heist and asks Heist Partner out on a date, directly leading into his next story, “A Date with Markiplier.”

Anomaly Resolved.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

How the Paradoxes Interact:

Remember when I said the house can manipulate space, time, and reality?

WKM, WMLW, DAMIEN, ADWM, AHWM, and parts of ISWM all take place in the past and inside the house. Or at least, they take place inside realities created in the void accessed by the house. That museum? Yup, that’s in the house too. The house can alter reality and the crystal can teleport across realities, so it’s not outside the realm of possibility that it would be attracted to and land in a place with similar properties to itself.

This means that when Captain throws the warp crystal through the wormhole when it comes out the other side it lands right at Darkiplier’s feet inside a reality connected to the house. He immediately recognizes the crystal, making it the same one housed in the museum.

“So much trouble, all for something so small.”

Based on his shoes and bit of sleeve cuff we get a glimpse of, he’s probably also wearing the same suit as when he brings Heist Partner to Warden Murder-slaughter’s desk in the void. It’s not clear how the crystal wound up in the museum specifically.

The huge wormhole ripped open by the warp core is allowing universes to bleed into each other. 

Variants of Engineer bleed together when he glitches after going through the wormhole so many times in the “Jump in Again” section.

Actor’s character Heist Mark is in “Where in the World is Markiplier?” disguised as the man hunting him down. He uses the reality warping power of the crystal he stole to transform back when Captain calls him out on his disguise. Noir and Captain run into Abe, who seems to be existing in the same reality as him, meaning they hopped into a reality inside the house.

Engineer’s speech about good vs. evil is echoing his mannerisms from his experience as Actor wanting to be the hero vs Damien’s/Darkiplier’s villian.

The environmental lighting turns red and the WKM ending music (Who’s There 2 by Peter Sandberg) plays when Engineer realizes he built the warp core.

After putting out the fire on the bridge Captain gets transported to the Upside-Down, full of “Don’t wake the Captain” posters. They later get transported to the universe the Upside-Down showed them where Engineer is the only one alive on the ship. “I go and I come back and I go and I come back and I ALWAYS COME BACK!” could just be a Springtrap reference on top of being about Engineer’s multiverse jumps but it could also refer to Actor’s many deaths that didn’t stick.

Yancy is there and he and Captain recognize each other. He thinks they’re Heist Partner because they are. That’s another life they lived when traveling through the wormhole. His tattoos also shift to reflect the new choice paths and his knuckles say WARP CORE instead of DARK MARK.

Wilford appears on the Invincible II, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything when he can hop around time and space willy-nilly. BUT he does see us in WMLW when he’s simultaneously talking to Abe and complains about how he has to re-schedule our interview that happens in AHWM.

Celine is a variant of Celci, that’s why Noir has a sticky note in his locker “Dorene=Celci?” It explains why Celine’s pocket reality was a snowy forest; Celci’s the head of Cryo.

Dorene Whitacre is obviously Celine, she dresses nearly identically, constantly reminds Engineer that she’s divorced, and even quotes her brother’s [redacted] catch phrase, “Life is ours to choose.” She’s supposed to be asleep in her cryo-pod but isn’t: Celine is supposed to be asleep in Darkiplier but might be waking up? Darkiplier with Damien fully in control wears mostly black with some white, maybe Darkiplier with Celine Fully in control is the inverse? AHWM is the only time his suit is white with a black shirt rather than black with a white shirt, reflecting Damien’s mayoral tuxedo.

Dorene/Darkiplier can appear in the Invincible II the same way Wilford can: they gained the power to teleport and warp reality. How else could they bring Date and Heist Partner into their void for private conversations?

Heehoo from Unus Annus is canon now?! He’s probably just a joke reference.

Illinois finds Captain in the cryo-pod, no idea how he got on the ship.

Professor Beauregard comes back.

Captain sees Alu in the warp core room but it’s in the Upside-Down.

Field Reporter Jim from WKM interviews Captain at the USA.

Too many references to the WKMCU: Chef, Actor, Date, and Heist Mark, WMLW Abe and Wilford, all the stories Stan/Dad decided not to read

TL, DR:

Heist Partner, Date, and District Attorney are all Captain variants.

Actor and all of his characters are all Engineer variants.

Engineer is not Actor, but Actor is Engineer,and thanks to the overlapping paradoxes, what I just said is simultaneously correct and incorrect.

There might be a universe where Engineer is Actor who got way too lost in his role the way Engineer does with the bomb squad technician and camp councelor.

[thedoctormcdonald]

ISWM Pt 2 Theory; Hot ‘n Fresh

Having just watched through a significant portion of the mesmerizing, eMotional, iMaginative MINDFUCKing masterpiece that is ISWM pt. 2, I already have thoughts I feel I need to share about this little moment from the ‘good’ ending that brought both joy and dissapointment;

Now the first thing I have to say is OF. FUCKING. COURSE. Fischfuck would red-and-blue ball us like this!  I mean, ELSEWHERE in ISWM pt 2 he pulled the equally infamous, “oh you want a new song from Yancy do you? WELL GUESS WHAT YOU DONT GET TO HEAR IT! NENENENEH NEH NEH!” That being said, though, there is a tiny spark of hope in this as it means that the whole Dark/Actor story isn’t concluded and we’ll probably get a proper appearance from the 3-Demon in the future.  And if we don’t, Mark, your kneecaps are officially collectively ours.

But after seeing this scene and thinking of its clear implications for The Lore™ I had some thoughts.

First, before we even GOT this scene people were noticing the obvious similarity between the Warp Crystal from ISWM and the blue jewel on The Box in Heist.  Now WITH this moment and Mark clearly recycling the audio from Dark’s line in Heist AND a link to AHWM popping up right after we hear Dark say it, it seems pretty clear that Mark is heavily implying that Dark is the one responsible for that connection. And not only do I think that’s the case from what we get from these ten seconds, I also think its likely due to the IRL inspirations for Dark in the first place.

Because in the first ever explanation livestream Mark did for ADWM he explicitly stated that canon Dark was directly based off of the Gman from Half-Life.  And while we did get a beat of Gman-like behavior from Dark in ADWM of him coercing a choice out of us by giving us only one viable option forward (much like the Gmeister did to Gordon at the end of HL1), the similarities between our beloved demonic angsty off-brand Rod Serling and the galaxies creepiest bureaucrat have been largely aesthetic (suit and tie, reality warping, creepy way of speaking etc) up to now.  But since later in the HL series its revealed that the Gman was the cause of the events of Black Mesa by GIVING THEM A PARTICULAR CRYSTAL;  I just can’t help but see the parallels and further see this as Mark ‘bringing Dark back to his roots’ by having him make a G-Man like move of setting the crazy events of a story (Heist) in motion by making sure that a strange, alien, reality-warping crystal is properly in place.

[cyber-flight]

Notes from the AHWM Explanation Livestream

This will be long, so fair warning! If you're on computer, you can press the spacebar to skip this post if you want!

There was CG smoke for the bomb

The last shot was running after the bomb goes off, filmed during the day

Many cursed images

(0:56 - Guns Blazing) November 5th = gunpowder treason & plot (a reference)

Ethan is the one yelling during the run

Helicopter/Car was filmed in a place formerly known as Spiderwoods (spiders, snakes, and bugs everywhere)

Mark's patented method to get rid of snakes is to tell them to fuck off

There was big black snake near the library

Chica snore-grumbles

Most of the choices were pretty evenly split in the video data

The guy who owned the field in Helicopter/Car also owned the helicopter

It was hard to get the cameraman to know that the camera is an interacting character

They filmed up to 10 pages a day

Prison was the first 2 days of shooting, as well as the part with the most characters/extras (12 people)

Mick gets typecasted in roles of authority

The Prison location is a functioning mental hospital

John was a Prisoner, first mate, and is a realtor IRL

There is no "why" to recording this to keep a broad audience and have fun after Mark was in a depression and made WKM

The Gregory Brothers / Schmoyoho made 2 renditions of I Don't Wanna Be Free (which is on Apple/iTunes/Spotify)

The musical was a production/recording nightmare on the 2nd day

They had 20 minutes max. to learn each segment; they had a choreographer helping them learn the dances

The original vocals didn't have the accent

Mark had to do the vocals, acting, blocking, etc. in 30 mins

Mick was supposed to cross frame during the top-hats-part, but they had already recorded it; the producers weren't comfortable telling Mark "no" yet, so they had Amy do it

The smashed bricks were styrofoam; Mark was typed to a rope that was pulled

The director of photography was Phillip J Roy; he took a pay cut to work on this project

Yancy's sleeve tattoo is the whole map again

Yancy's tattoos are Tiny Box Tim and Mark/Dark across his knuckles; those were Makeup's ideas

The Musical was only 1/4 of a recording day

There was 3 work weeks of shooting (15 days)

Day By Dave made a remix

Yancy was named "Prison Mark" until the fight scene started to be made in post-production, where he needed a name; Mark liked Yancy and Amy was very against it originally

Yancy killed both of his parents; Mark knew people were gonna fall in love with him anyway

"Yancy stans, go, march on"

Yancy has an emoji bandaid

Heapass (canonically) makes an appearance in Thanks and also Yes Please; he had "Heapass" on a cast, but it was on the wrong side from the camera

Holt Boggs (the cell guard) is an amazing man; he was overqualified ("soft hands")

The cell was in a green-screen soundstage, so there was more improve

Yancy was supposed to be hidden in the ceiling or beside the bed, but under the bed turned out better; he's hidden under the bed the whole scene

The Red Gemini was the camera that they used for this project

Mark just runs off frame in Thanks and also Yes Please

The audio-only part was very convenient for filming and fitting for a 1st-person perspective

Yancy's talk at the gate was Mark real-acting & the late shot of the 1st day of filming, which made all of them realize that the project could actually work

Yancy WANTS to be in prison; he knows all the ways out - he'd leave if he wanted to

The items in the box are more representational achievements

Mark needs our help to promote AHWM, through liking the video(s), commenting good things, and spreading the project; the performance of this dictates the ability to make another similar project

Mark worked for FREE for 5 months, taking no cut of the budget for himself

"Yancy is just Prison Mark with amnesia" "There could be a time-skip there; it could work"

Robert Rex, "a god walking amongst mere morals;" has always wearing the same thing; Mark didn't know that he was going to do different accents

Amy is the hand with the feather-duster

The Warden's desk moves into the hallway after a smash-cut

Mick's line had to be rewritten so it can be ambiguous; you can only tell if you were looking

The Warden embodies "big strong hands," something Mark writes into dialogue a lot (along with "trust you me"); everytime he touches something it cracks (his desk, Yancy's shoulder)

Pulling stuff from behind Mark's back was on-the-spot

The dirt joke was a prop-person and Mark throwing buckets

Mark helped Holt Boggs make a short video

HOLT BOGGS

The truck in Prison was a one-take-wonder; they actually bashed the truck through the wall in a such a cartoony, perfect way

The Bob/Wade skit was a reference to Prop Hunt

Mark comparing the disappointment of people not liking the video to a cup of dirt under the Christmas tree

The lid to the sewer says "a heist with markiplier"

The sewer was in an actual sewer treatment plant, which took about a week of filming; some parts were flooded so they couldn't film there; this place was scheduled to be torn down

Mark forces us to choose the Light Tunnel first

Cranbersher, GrittySugar, and Lixian collaborated for the Light Tunnel; it was originally going to be live action with a green-screen and a pre-made raft; Cranberser offered when he had a 3-month break from other projects

Amy notes that Mark did a lot of "falling"

Mark had to carry a 200 pound man and a heavy camera rig to carry Y/N

There was poison ivy, snakes, spiders, etc. on the island

The Game Grumps voiced the aliens; Erin originally was meant to play the Warden & Danny was meant to play one of the guards

Many roles fluctuated due to scheduling

Getting abducted is a reference to ADWM ("not again!")

Mark loves MatPat's scenes and acting (Build a Shelter)

There were so many mosquitos near the Cave and the actors couldn't put on bug spray because they had to preserve their makeups

There was a giant hole in the Cave from which grasshoppers rained down

They were a mile into the cave; they weren't able to staff them for 3 days, so they recorded for 2 days and had fo cut some shots

The Cave freeze-frame was unscripted; the camera director didn't tell cut and it was too funny

The Hermit was originally supposed to be Jacksepticeye but scheduling errors were in the way

Mick was originally supposed to be Crazy Ed

When the sound-guy didnt have a sound effect, one of them riffed something at the mic and it was modulated to fit as best as possible

Mark's camera loses signal/battery power

Mark has done the hot-wire-while-moving in Car before (van videos)

The blue flash during Car is you from the future/another timeline

Mark was actually driving the car; someone flashed the blue light so it was a bit dangerous

Tyler and Ethan make appearances as Zombies

Tyler actually let Mark hit him with a rock

There was a dead beaver in the shed during the Zombie Apocalypse

The Zombie Apocalypse shots were in VERY hot weather

The barricaded front door but very open back door was intentional humour

Ethan's zombie handshake was thought up on the spot

Moe was the man screaming from the fire and zombie attack, making everyone behind the camera laugh

Rosanna Pansino sings opera & speaks Chinese

The Scientist had to be broken up (the cuts are in the gunshots)

243 is a chemical identification symbol in an actual laboratory, nothing meaningful to the plot

The code leads to the AHWM website

What's truly inside the box is the real timeline, which is the team making the project

The room where the monitor was in (Amy, script manager, etc.) was locked out and no one could see what was going on, only hear it through headsets

Mark threw 2 dummies (main video, Absolutely Not!)

Chica likes to climb through the cords underneath Mark's desk

The true/canon ending is For The Greater Good, which leads to ADWM

SodaPopIn hasn't really done this before, but he went with it because he was told Mark was nice; he continued even during harsh weather, many planes, and a long take/monologue

The sandwiches are a callback to ADWM

The montage endings were inspired by the ones Amy made for ADWM

There was never any time set aside to get photos for the montages, so they had to continuously get pictures

Catherine makes an appearance in the Warfstache bit

Warfstache is just a meta joke > you respond by writing in the comments as a survey, producer Catherine is more powerful than the video-editing, ringing the bell for notifications

They rented the same place for the Warfstache bit that they used to film all the other previous Warfstache bits

Dark inserts himself wherever he feels like being

There is charity (#TeamTrees) merch for each of the egos/Mark characters in this project (including the new ones)

Edge of Sleep's last episode aired yesterday (as of the stream - 6/11/19)

A "reverse" charity livestream is happening soon

The next project(s) are already in the works

SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT HEIST

Amy originally wasn't going to work on this project until they went to Texas; she became Creative Producer once Mark put himself into too many places

Iba originally auditioned for the man in the burning truck, but his voice was so good he became the seer/guide

The project has been "cooking" since May

The next project would be a completely different project, not a continuation

SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT HEIST

Regular uploads start again tomorrow (7/11/19)

[a1t-alt]

Anyone want some tea? That juicy drama? Are you wanting to know more about AHWM?

Well good for you because Mark is live!!

[crackedegotheories]

If you watched the FNAF Crowd Control segment of the recent Game Theory livestream for St. Jude’s, which absolutely smashed its goal of $1 million for the charity, you may have caught a little moment where MatPat remembered his time in AHWM and Mark invited him for another one. Of course, that was just between Mark, MatPat, and only about...20 million viewers, at most.

“Don’t tell anybody!”

With the not so subtle hint that MatPat could possibly make a return for the AHWM sequel, there is a chance he could reprise his role as the hermit. Or, it’s entirely possible MatPat could be invited to play a different character entirely. Mark isn’t the only one who’s played different characters across his first person POV-style videos, so we can still only guess at this point.

Which is why this is less of a theory and more of an “imagine if”, but...what if we got a courtroom scene? In AHWM, getting caught during the heist leads directly to jail, and we never actually got a trial. Aside from the possibility for all the Law & Order and/or Phoenix Wright references, it would give a chance for a nice recap of previous events, assuming it is a direct sequel.

And there could also be some fun casting opportunities there:

Jury: 12 other guests that make appearances at other points in the story, all ready to heckle any and everyone. Probably includes Bob, Wade, Ethan, and Tyler.

Bailiff: Robert Rexx, who has already played a security guard/chef/other duties in the prison in AHWM, and could believably intimidate an unruly defendant into silence.

Prosecuting Attorney: MatPat, who is trying to pick apart flaws in the defense while giving a more or less surprisingly accurate recount of all of the events up to that point, only to finish with the admission that it’s “just a theory.” His ideas about some magical, paradox-creating box are dismissed out of hand. Bonus points if he returns with his hermit hair and makeup, his only explanation being “quarantine was rough.”

Defense Attorney: The viewpoint character, us, either defending ourselves or a character played by Mark (or both). Added benefit: keeping the DA title relevant, and giving our character a chance to lawyer up with some of that short-lived District Attorney experience.

Judge: Mick Lauer, mainly so that his face is the one criminals see all the way from being arrested (Detective Abe Lincoln), to trial (Judge Nomercy), to jail (Warden Murder-Slaughter). While the Warden’s hands are accompanied by breaking and snapping sound effects, every time the judge uses his gavel it makes a squeaky noise.

Again, less of a theory and more just fun to consider.

[eclecticspaceace]

Markiplier Universe Timeline and Interaction With It

In the Markiplier Cinematic Universe, any interactive media will take place in the same chunk of time way after Who Killed Markiplier, and any non-interactive media is relatively soon after WKM.

The reasoning? If we cannot interact, we are still trapped in the mirror.

We were able to interact throughout WKM, up until we were trapped in the mirror. Then, Dark went away without us, the first time in the series that we couldn’t just look and follow the events. We were no longer able to interact with events.

Concurrently or soon after the end of WKM, we had Wilford Motherloving Warfstache and DAMIEN. And throughout these two glimpses into the universe, we could not interact. We were quite literally a viewer of the events of these videos. Still trapped in the mirror.

And if Mark’s little story in the DAMIEN explanation livestream about Wilford and Dark meeting and discussing Markiplier TV is to be taken as canon, Markiplier TV is also relatively soon after WKM. We still couldn’t interact in this video, being a passive viewer of shenanigans. Still trapped.

Then an unknown amount of time passes, and we get A Heist With Markiplier and A Date With Markiplier. These are canonically after both the WKM/WMLW/DAMIEN videos and Markiplier TV. Heist (and thus Date) is clearly after WKM and accompanying videos because Wilford is fully formed as his bubbly pink self, and Dark is fully glitched and has realized he should be pissed at Actor!Mark. It’s also placed after Markiplier TV by lovely Producer Kathryn’s appearance, and her lecture along the lines of “I know you’re not about to kill another guest.” And in these two videos, suddenly we can interact in the same way that we could during WKM.

TLDR; we were set free of the mirror and could thus interact sometime between Markiplier TV and AHWM. Thus, interactive media is set near or after AHWM, and non-interactive media is set near or after Markiplier TV but BEFORE the interactive media.