An Experiment 

How to rip hands off a Madness character: 1. You can't

Lets be honest, Madness is basically psychological horror at this point.

You know, when he was stuck on the ceiling, I’d thought he’d start guttering around and would start making gmod prop noises

I just like how, despite being expressionless, Deimos and Sanford are clearly thinking “Yeah, let’s NEVER go there.”

*shatters the pre-existing laws of your own crafted universe* “Damn, that’s crazy”

The question: What happens if you separate the arms and body? The answer: Do not

I find it interesting that this confirms that the characters in this universe genuinely look and function that way and it's not just an animation style

I love how Madness series is always so connected to coding, is like if everyone was a character coded into the world, and if you mess with the character's physics, weird things can happen in the world

Seeing how lively the character movements are despite being simple, seeing scrapeface just walk in a straight line without any movement is genuinely scary.

Elevators must be such a safety hazard in the madness universe

This means the madness combat characters are self aware about their animation style because they considered having detached floating hands something worth experimenting around

everyone else moving: *very smooth walking* scrapeface: *proceeds to float with no movement at all*

One day, on Krinkels' Curious Cat page, someone asked him what stops a grunt from extending the distance between their body and their hands. Krinkels responded with the answer of "pain," the question, and question of possibilities, persisted, and was probably here before this day. Today, this video was uploaded.

- Hey ever noticed how our hands do not connect to our body and yet we can control them anyways? - Huh.....you're right.....that's crazy... _Breaks reality_

SO, THEY AREN'T HUMANS THEN, I ALWAYS THOUGHT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT PEOPLE IN A WAY, BUT THEY ARE LITERALLY JUST COMPLETELY PHYSIOLOGICALLY DIFFERENT

1:56 I like the subtle shaking of the soldat after witnessing what happened to the engineer

Krinkles should totally go further with these handy experiments.

*Oh So that's how Hands Work in the Madness Combat Universe...*

Lesson learned: Never take a Madness character's hands too far from them, unless you want to create a living creepypasta and kill everyone on the building you are in

Fun fact: The sedan at 2:27 is the same sedan from the start of madness combat 9. This confirms that this episode takes place between 7.5 and 9 since Sanford and Deimos are notified that hank is dead in 7.5 and the sedan they used to get to him is in this episode. Interesting, right?

“you do not break reality” “reality breaks YOU”

1:39 the easiest thing krinkels has animated in years

I thought it was an animation style I didn't know they actually function like this

so canonically speaking this is madness 8.5 right?

its nice to see a in-universe physics engine distortion, i love to see a story where ragdoll abuse and sequence breaking is a story element.

You don't break Physics Engine. Physics Engine breaks you.

If Project Nexus had anti-piracy measures, it would be this guy. He would probably follow you around with no animations & insta-kill you on touch.

Engineer: "If I pulled those off, would you die?" Grunt: "It would be extremely painful..." Engineer: "You're a big guy." Grunt: "...For you."

Any day is automatically a good day when Krinkels uploads

Moral: If you separate the hands of a grunt he will separate you head from your body.

Hank: What happens if you separate my arm and my body? Deimos and Sanford: *DON'T-*

Oh god, probably the creepiest thing Kirnkles has ever uploaded. So if the hands are enough of a distance away from the body they become a sperate being and because the further away the hands are away from the body the more painful it is so the body must destroy itself as a consequence. The dude probably died at 1:08, however in order for the hands to move it needs a vessel so it likely calls out to the now dead body. But the hands becoming a separate entity violates many laws of the Madness universe so it gains access to the hard code of the universe and can do some pretty crazy things making this new entity extremely powerful but short-lived as the World auto-corrects any violations, the hands' existence being one of them.

2:34: Deimos:Should we tell hank about this? Sanford:Definetly not.

This better be a secret boss in the new project nexus

Essentially, a Grunt is hardwired to having their body as close to them at all times. When they reach their limit though ( i.e. 1:14 ), that "hardwired code" gets corrupted, and glitches everything else. This is probably why the Grunt starts to brutally scrape their face off, and later, kill themselves entirely and destroy the whole building. Their code is broken, and *nothing* is able to stop that.

This is the only time madness actually made me feel uncomfortable

Tricky: I am the most conceptually horrifying thing in the entire series. Some actual nobody:

It's a good think MC characters usually don't make sounds. Do you imagine the SCREAMS of agony that guy must've been doing if he could talk? or if we could hear him That kind if thing if what gives chills to the toughest of warriors

I feel bad for the grunt. He didn’t do anything wrong

Scrapeface: **gets granted reality defying powers** Tricky and Auditor: welcome to the club.

I find it terrifying the fact that everything is so well animated But when the guy get back his hands He just float without movement

You can see the code while the hands are grinding against the box, this is not just a stylistic thing, that code is the very thing their reality is made of

Krinkles, the way you and Kelzad did the entire animation, it impressed me. I love the design for Scrapeface, as it was so high quality. I did feel sad for the poor grunt, in lots of pain. This video was like owning a dream house. Just amazing. This is actually my favorite canon MC short. Thanks for making this series. It was perfect. Favorite Part: 1:38

"But what would happen.." Some horrifying creepy pasta shit apparently, wonder what would happen to a mag agent..

Note to self: NEVER SEPERATE HANDS FROM THE BODY AGAIN

Its movements are horrifying, it just glides, doesn’t even move like a normal grunt. It just glides. Edit: Sheesh, most comments I ever got for just a simple opinion. Thanks I guess.

Scrapeface is hands down one of the creepiest MC characters honestly.

Let me try to break down what happened here from a psuedo-scientific perspective. As we all know, people in the Madness world seem to have floating hands - previously, we considered this merely Krinkels' art style, however, this confirms that everything about Madness characters is *exactly* how it appears in the animation. The hands are actually floating detached from their bodies, suggesting a bizarre and alien physiology. How the connection between hands and bodies works is unknown. By trapping someone's hands and floating them away from the body, both hand and body start to break reality, glitching everything around them. They're not *meant* to be separate. Separation does seem to create a wound - there's an initial blood splatter inside the hand-box, and they seem to spread more blood around when they rub against surfaces - but it only seems to effect the hands; the same sort of splatter is not seen on the body. The hands seem most interested in returning to the general vicinity of the body, but the body... appears to attempt what can only be described as a disturbing and bizarre suicide, grinding its face off on the walls until all that's left is a red smear. This attempted suicide fails - it seems the body cannot self-terminate at this stage. When the hands return, it seems to go completely feral, attacking anything in the vicinity while reality breaks around it. Only after the people responsible for the experiment are dead (the two scientists who forced the Grunt to participate) does the affected host finally succeed in suicide. This is only achieved by essentially grinding itself down into nothing. Then, to top it all off, the entire building proceeds to self-destruct as well, splitting in half before the bottom half appears to disappear. Perhaps, due to being the site of such a reality-breaking event, this was done as a "purge" of sorts, removing evidence that the experiment occurred. Overall, it seems as though separating one's hands from their body is an incredibly painful, and not to mention extremely dangerous procedure that will invariably result in the creation of an ungodly abomination and the deaths of everyone around it.

"Pain cannot be removed from the equation..." "A simple answer, for an incredibly big question, since we noticed that stretching our arms further would produce unbearable pain in our body, and cause us to withdraw our hand almost instantly, we have been looking for a way to "remove" the pain of the "equation"....but what if instead of removing it...we had to extend it..... take it beyond its capacity. I don´t have the answer to this question, but in order to solve this unknown in our strange world, today we will carry out..." *An experiment.*

Why out of LITERALLY everything in the madness series the hands just starting to bleed makes me uncomfortable

The way the normal lively Madness music cuts out upon the reveal of Scrapeface is so fucking disturbing, and so fitting. He defies the laws of the world, its rules, everything. He is a completely bastardization of the fragile reality they live in, and it's represented clearly. He is simultaneously in control of the situation, quite possibly the strongest entity to ever exist by virtue of defying these laws, and yet, it's suffering is endless. It has no control over itself, its powers, it simply wants revenge, and to end its own agony. Fucking terrifying.

what im getting from this is that if one entity's limbs gets too far away from its body, the universe tries to put it back together. probably because they're not meant to be that far away from any given entity, even if they dont have "full" limbs. however since the limbs are enclosed in a space where it cannot return, some overflow code stuff happens that breaks reality.

When an animation scares you more than a horror movie

HOW TO FLY: Step 1: Become a Madness Combat character (It is reccomended to be a vendor). Step 2: Raise one of your hands and push it away from your body with another hand. (Not too far away, though). Step 3: Now you can fly in the direction you chose to push your hand in. U MAD?

“The test is simple. Remove your hands from the box, and you die.” “…What’s in the box?” “Pain.”

_Pulls pin off grenade_ _Throws hand holding the grenade_

This guy just got first-hand experience of breaking his own world's laws of physics

TIL: don't take a grunts hand too far away otherwise the game engine breaks

this is terrifying SCP shit right here. super fucking creative way to turn the most inconspicuous artstyle choice into horror

I like to imagine that this is true to Mii characters as well.

The grunt is an artist: he just drew a masterpiece.

I love how this confirms it isn't just the artsyle, the characters are literally built like that Scrapeface is the tragic, glitched product of his own reality

Sanford: Actually thought of doing that someday. Deimos: Yeah, maybe let's not do that.

Moral of the story: Never lend someone a hand

Question: What happens when a grunt's hands are separated? Answer (My Take): The grunt's body will attempt to reunite with the body, possibly causing severe damage in the process. The system will start detecting unusual physical movement, and immediately start sending counter-measures to the movement. This usually fails and causes the grunt to move at slow yet unbreakable speeds, suddenly increase in speed incredibly, gravitational shifting and severe visual glitching. The grunt will die 1 minute after their hands are separated, but the corpse will continue to bug out. This continues for several days until it is finally erased.

The way scrapface is just able to levitate towards their enemies is really unnerving

He’s just gliding there... *MENACINGLY*

This is by far my favourite episode, its much more horror themed than the rest, the implications and animation are horrifying, and even the music glitching adds to the 4th wall break Also deimos at the end is such a mood

*Logic: exists* *Krinkels:* I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that.

It’s so scary how scrape face just glides so slowly towards his victim

1:21 He's an artist!

Even a year later, this is still the darkest and scariest of madness combat. Not even Nexus can compare to this pure Horror.

So answers: If a grunt's hands gets too far from it's body, the reality about him begins breaking down, and eventually results in an explosion large enough to reduce a building to rubble. *You do not want to be around if that happens.*

"It's very painful" "THE PAIN IS NECESSARY. IT CANNOT BE REMOVED FROM "THE EQUATION"" Damn. Now I think that the Improbability Drive acts like a game engine. If some simple laws are broken, it can create horrible abominations.

building: *FUCKING EXPLODES* Deimos: damn thats crazy

why is nobody mentioning how fucking terrified the engineer is when he sees the floating hands reuniting with scrapeface's body

"Hello? This is the scp foundation?" "Yes, what is your problem?" *"yes"*

1:38 Look at how terrified that engi is. He reaches for his face and shivers in terror as he sees that glitched horror move towards him.

Everybody gangster til people realize their hands ain’t coming off

I love that cute little fist pump and high five the engineers in the beginning did. Goes to show some spirit can be maintained in the darkest crevices of Nevada.

This is somehow the only Madness Combat animation that actually makes me uncomfortable, I don't think pain and agony are enough to describe what that poor guy went through

Moral of story:don’t try to force a madness character into wall clipping.

I can imagine people who witnessed that in the madness universe were like "Okay ima keep my hands on me at all times from now on."

1:40 the engineer covers his mouth and cowers back, its crazy how expressive these characters are

Scientist: "What would happen if we separated a person's hands from their being?" The no-longer Euclidian state of Nevada: "So you have chosen....death."

I have many things to say about this. 1: Oh lawd he back! 2: This strongly supports my theory that the hands use some sort of magnetic field or something. 3: It is good day for Deimos to be NOT DEAD

Clicked on this so fast the video doesn’t even exist yet

0:13 Friendship of 2 Engineers 1:27 *Betrayal after one of the Engineers gets an Upgrade *

I must know more about this character. Scrapeface seems to bend reality around him. Even more than tricky does. Whenever scrapeface activates, the background music changes into a distorted mess in his presence. He even freezes up and glitches periodically. I don’t understand how separating the bond between the hands caused the grunt to convulse and levitate, or why they smashed their face across the wall after the bond was separated. But the detail I wish to know the most about, why did scrapeface suddenly ram what remains of his body into the ground, and than throw his lower torso at the scientist.

Experiement Results: If you mess with hands, you end up corrupting reality itself. Damn, that _is_ crazy.

That grunt was just transfered to source 2 engine that's why he's buggy as hell

*Has a machine that can break several laws of physics* Madness universe: ok "Hey lets see what happens if we separate someone's body and hands" Madness universe: STOP YOU VIOLATED THE LAW

i love the atmosphere this sets up for the show. Death is merely an inconvenience for some, as hank has proven. and the fact that reality breaking experiments can be created this easily is insane. Really hyped for whats to come.

The fact that even the music glitches when Scrapeface glides just adds to the creepyness

Grunt: _Literally breaks reality_ Deimos: *Damn, that's crazy.*

A list of things that are blue in the Madness Combat universe: A blue button.

Funny how you can completely unravel the fabric of reality with barely any damage to the code, but messing with a simple function such as hand placement on a single grunt results in a violent backlash from (seemingly) the core system itself.

My theory is that, considering that krinkels say that there's no limit on how much you can separate a hand from a body except pain, and that pain cannot be removed from the equation, i think that what happened is there was an "int overflow" of pain. and because of that it glitched out everything surrounding the affected individual. which made him insane an powerful if only temporarely.

Losing an arm IRL: Become disabled. Losing an arm in Madness: Become ENABLED

I expected him to just start phasing through the wall like some gmod shit