Salmon Run Next Wave: My thoughts and theories! 

I totally believe the new Grizzco office being in a laundromat is a reference to money laundering. This guy essentially makes his money off of private military contractors committing war crimes on his behalf; he's definitely laundering that money.

Salmonid look so scary, seeing them illuminated by nothing but a headlamp would be amazingly terrifying

I noticed that nobody is talking about the differences between little buddy and the salmonids in Splatoon 3. Salmon in real life have different looks for their spawning phases, and the salmonids in both Splatoon 2 & 3 appear to be in said spawning phases but little buddy isn’t. Also salmon runs only happen every 70 years, but it’s *still* happening in Splatoon 3. Something might be causing this unnatural behavior in the salmonids that we might look into in Splatoon 3.

I really like the idea that the salmonid kaiju is a result of grizzco tampering with salmonids' way of life the way humans tampering with nature brought forth gojira

I feel like Splatoon is in a really weird position where they could tell an interesting story about how no party is truly good and everyone's motives are morally grey. But at the same time this is a Nintendo game. Edit: My point is while there are a lot of dark and heavy themes in Splatoon, they are rarely explored outside of vague lore statements. Usually the main plot stays pretty light. An example is how DJ Octavio is an insane tyrant, but this is barely addressed and he's portrayed as a goofy pun-slinging DJ. Now of course Octo Expansion stands in stark contrast to that with its heavy dark events. But the actual primary theme of racism is only lightly touched on in some Captain Cuttlefish lines and mem cakes. Because of this I have doubt that Nintendo would make a theme of no one being truly good or bad (or any other heavy theme) prevalent in the story. This would reflect games like Zelda and Kirby where, while the events are dark, the themes aren't really prevalent. (Majora's Mask is over 20 years old now so I don't think it works as a good example since it doesn't represent the current direction of Nintendo's writing.)

Maybe the camera inside Grizzco pointing at the Stairs to the online lobby could be them trying to scope out potential employees for Salmon Run. Who to look out for as "Profreshionals".

21:06 "like a bear from outer space" *WHEEZES*

"I don't want Grizzco run by a bear from outer space" It isn't. Not anymore...

I think that the Salmonoids might have salvaged technology from the NIHLs statue, which is how some of these new bosses have unique technology, and how they made their own version of the Blender melody. Maybe this is how the new Entity found out about the Salmonoid's resistance to the Special Ink types (Sanitized ink and Fluffy Ink)?

"I really hope the one running grizzco is not a bear coming from space" Well...

It would be so cool if when picking salmon run it gives you options to do “egg collection” or a mode like the girl power station from octo expansion where you defend something but then after the waves you have to evacuate to a location on the map with your team and hurry before the King Salmon gets you

Since it seems like the Mr. Grizz bear statue only plays automated messages, doesn't that mean that Mr. Grizz doesn't have to directly be there to operate his business? He could still be involved in the main storymode; I would be surprised if he wasn't. If Grizz were to be defeated the radio wouldn't stop playing messages.

im thinking that at least with the salmon run lore mr grizz is artificially extending the rush period and the salmonids are getting more desperate to not die hence the king salmonoids

I also thought it was off the hooks helicopter, good to know im not the only one to make that mistake.

21:00 "like a bear from outer space" that aged well

i’ve always thought that the giant items in the background of the octo expansion levels were a reference to deep sea gigantism

Hey rassicas, I have no clue if you’ve been blown up by it already or already aware but didn’t include it in the video, the new song and the blender song aren’t the only songs that have the same melody, the towers from the octo expansion levels on tower control uses the same melody, this most definitely proves that this is a kamabo co (pure conjecture) melody and probably signifys that maybe the salmonids are (or were) working with kamabo co, for sure this has to tie in with the lore of the single player. Maybe they had a trade agreement too

Now that Splatoon 3 is out, it's pretty clear that "fortress" turned into Gone Fission Hydroplant. Note the perfectly square spawn area and the narrow low-tide route.

Can’t wait for grizzco to be a monopoly on the inkopolis (or hell maybe even the world’s) power supply and start gouging prices leading to a forceful intervention to sever the company to be the story of splatoon 5

I was expecting the flip flipper to be convergent evolution where an animal evolves to look like another one to feel the same ecological niche because it is free (usually because the other species went extinct)

When I saw the lights on the hats, I imagined a mode that was completely dark except for the head light. I thought this would be an amazingly creepy way to utilize the King Salmonid’s… scariness. Imagine that, the King Salmonid lurking around in the darkness while you’re trying to collect eggs…

SPOILERS "I would hope the company is run by an inkling or something, and not some insane external force like a bear from outer space." ... well i guess he isn't FROM outer space.

21:08 Aged like milk

something thats really cool about the flipper flopper is that in the handbook at grizzco, its stated that it idolizes an animal that once flourished the seas and wears the mask to look like that animal, i rlly dont know what it could be thi

“Like a bear from outer space” wow. Called the game long before they knew.

Damn, you predicted Mr.Grizz identity far before the game launch

Honestly the Fish Stick reminds me of the obelisk from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Considering how the Fish Stick is initially shown with a jingle similar to Tartar's blender reveal I don't think that's an accident.

I hope the end of the story mode lets us choose to release little buddy, even if it's a false choice and he comes back anyway. That would be cute and sweet and even if he's thought of as pet at the start, that would redeem New 3 as they come to acknowledge that salmonids have will and should be respected too

Grizz could still be the villan, didn't the devs say the radio might be automated?

21:07 I come *bear*ing bad news...

Gosh, this whole thing is honestly really neat. Grizzco possibly not being the villian opens up so many possibilities and it's really exciting. Like you said, it really changed the thoughts most of us had, but the lore is even more interesting now! Hoping Grizzco gets even more strength and comes back for the next story! Itd be much cooler with even more buildup ahah.

Glad didn't watch this video before play the story mode, I would get spoiled for how close that theory is. Space bear is still pretty epic.

Imagine an endless salmon wave where it's goes into all of your team dies and you can still revive your teammates

As someone who works in a very labor intensive job (literal boring, as in, boring holes in the ground) our 'shop' (a place to store the trucks and meet up at every morning) that washer is dryer is 100% there for the workers benefit. At our shop, we got a washer and dryer right by the entrance, and it gets used pretty frequently as far as im aware (never had to use it myself tho). Considering the inkling are going into a very wet and muggy environment, one which is also polluted, they probably have to wash their uniforms pretty regularly. Then again tho, this could absolutely just be me assigning way more meaning than really necessary.

I’m wondering how all of these will come together in the final game, time will tell I guess

21:06 AGED LIKE FINE WINE

Can I just say that i want to have 2 person splatoon. like we get a game mode where you can hook up controllers and play splatoon with the people who are using the controllers. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE LIKES! I've never had this attention before T-T

I definitely have hunk that little body is a rebel of some sort. Either that, or he was hatched by new agent 3 and sees them as a mother.

What if the New Hero mode boss is new? As, not Mr.Grizz, nor Tartar or DJ Octavio, but something new all together?

Late to the party but always fun to comment later on. BUT me and my friend collectively agree with how the Salmonid's are "barbaric" Little Buddy hungers for war and cheers you on from the Helicopter during Salmon Run. He's there so he doesnt accidently get splatted lmao.

"a bear of outer space" dear blobfish, are you spying Nintendo or they are spying you.

Tbh the first thing I thought of when I saw the King Salmon was "deep sea predator". Lots of deep sea fish are huge, bulky, and sneaky, and often have those bulging, blank eyes like we see in the trailer. That, and chains are usually used for an abyss look, and the greyscale camera we see used has the same quality as cameras used to observe marine life in the lower parts of the ocean. My biggest question is why would there be a deep sea salmon, if what I'm thinking is right

I can not wait to yell “YA-YEET” each time I throw a golden egg,and make my family hate me

Its a small thing, But the Flipper-Flopper really reminded me of one of the splatoon1 bosses, Where the boss would be within ink, and would appear, in a circle, around you. That circle would be filled with enemy ink and you'd have to escape. I don't remember the name at the moment though

i absolutely love the detail of the suits being taped closed.

A bit late to this, but the Mr. Grizz from Splatoon 2 could potentially not be the same Mr. Grizz from Splatoon 3, if that makes sense. Like Grizzco is under new management or something. Would definitely help explain why Grizzco still exists yet it is hinted that Grizz will be a major villain EDIT: [ROTM SPOILERS] . . . . . . . . this was right but not in the way I expected lol

I still think the King Salmonid was a result of mutation from radiation. Anyways, you did such a great job analyzing this trailer.

This bring up a few more questions than answers… Especially for both the Story and Salmon Run.

hey just an interesting thing I noticed in splatoon 2 there are pieces of art descripting the king salmonid in salmon run. Its an interesting bit of foreshadowing.

Wait are people saying they don’t like the music? I’ve just heard a lot of people really jamming to the track

Coming back a few weeks after Splatoon 3 dropping, and knowing Mr Grizz is actually the villain, is awsome

Well Splatoon 3s story fully reveals the intent of Grizzco. I’m not going to reveal what that is for those who haven’t beat the story yet and have unlocked all its content, but it leaves a ton of questions as to what role the salmonids play in the greater picture in this lore. Hopefully the DLC will reveal that to us

21:03 ... this line aged like wine or milk depending on your pov (Like wine for me)

21:04 hey so I’ve got some news for you…

I really hope it’s a inkling and not a bear from outer space: Bonus kettle

i feel like if nintendo didnt add salmon run back in 3, people wouldve inevitably start complaining they took a core feature from 2 out of the sequel, so them reworking assets doesnt bother me in a technical standpoint but BOY DOES IT SURE MAKE ME EXCITED FOR THE LORE LOL

I just have one question: Don't Salmonoids only attack Inklings after every 72 years or so? And if so, what's causing them to come back or still be around? It's obvious that not many years have passed so I'm curious about that :0c

A bear from outer space... Well..

I'd like to point out that later in the trailers song, roughly around when the yelling noises start, very VERY faintly you can hear tartars garbled speech noises in the background!

"A bear from outer space" hmmm where have I heard that before... (DAMN THE SECRET LOG)

With the direct my idea is after you beat grizz in the story mode you can’t shut down grizzco because then who would organize the resistance force against the salmon invasions during big run

About the jingle at 4:41 I believe that jingle has also been used in tower control, if you hear it not through the amount of chaos going around. It's speed up and it's like some kind of music box. I don't have any current theories about it yet

I just finished the main story, I'm just gonna say Yes, you are correct

SPOILERS FOR SPLATOON 3 HERO MODE Rasaicas actually did accurately guess about grizzoco being the enemy. Congrats!

I like to think that the king salmon is the salmonoid buddy's mom and she's trying to get buddy back, probably not cannon but I like it

If Grizzco isn’t revealed to be Splatoon 3s antagonist, that just gets me more interested in seeing just how far Grizzco is gonna go before we get to take it down

Reading your description, I would love to see your reaction to the final boss as it's almost EVERYTHING you think it won't be.

As long as we don’t have to fight octavio for the third tome I’ll be happy

Maybe the King Salmonid destroyed the Grizzco boat (hence the anchor) and now Grizzco uses helicopters to avoid these new threats now that they're pushing deeper into Salmonid territory.

As much as I don't want them, salmonlings still make sense as an idea, I mean, the octarian race is a vast one that is sentient, and yet octolings still exist. I wouldn't be surprised if salmonlings exist, but then again this is Nintendo, if I won't be surprised by it, it probably won't happen. Either way, great video and I wish I could like the video twice.

In my opinion, the king salmonids are actually rulers, which can be true if there's an emperor

Can't wait for Splatoon 4: Honey I shrunk the Squids

2:15 I would love to see total dark waves where that head lamp would come in handy with :D

Coming back to this having played story mode while I wait for Rass to make another video.

16:58 Oh this "being wrong" aged like milk. 21:02 21:57 HOLY SHIT THIS AGED EVEN WORSE THAN MILK

@16:55 In retrospect, Imagine be so spot on despite thinking you were wrong. lol Also 20:07 did they mention that somewhere in docs or interview or did you srsly guess that while writing the script.

0:11 hmm...seems to be the theme of these trailers. This was a very interesting video! I actually didn't know that the giant foods in the stages were statues, the fish stick was actually comprised of baby stingers, or that the water was polluted (though looking back, it 100% is). I don't have anything new to add really (that isn't dumb or stretched that is), but I look forward to new information coming in the future!

Random theory: I want to believe that the King salmon is so big is because it was selectively fed. Like how queen bees at larva stage are fed a strict diet of Royal Jelly. Idk what the salmon/splatoon equivalent would be for salmonoids but that's just my crack theory.

At the end of the Salmon Run trailer, there’s a horror-esque violin riff that plays. Going off the logic of the prior two trailers, is there anywhere in the two previous games that a similar violin riff plays? If so, it could give us insight into the next trailer…

My guess is the name dropped is a hint on what the King Salmonid is, a boss, and the titular next wave, a 4th wave with a co op boss you have to beat to leave and not fail maybe.

They missed a giant opportunity to make the helicopter a chinook helicopter after the chinook salmonid

being subscribed to this channel and prochara's is a wild trip bc on one hand we have a "we know that the salmonid have a trade agreement with the octarians" review and on the other we have a "it is absolutely vile that you can squid roll twice" review

3:26 truly a professional at work here

Only splatoon RU-vidr I’m actually hyped about watching 👀👀👀👀🔥🔥🔥 can’t wait for more

I theorise that lil buddy was kicked out for whatever reason and somehow agent 3 helped them maybe nursed them back to health so agent 3 has a reason to work for grizco other than money maybe the reason they were kicked out has something to do with why they don't appear to be affected by the weird stuff we throw it at

what if the uh the fuzzy ooze is explained to be the reason for the salmon king's transformation. I mean It does resemble a small fry with being bottom heavy instead of top heavy then the size of its fins and shape of its head

i think the reason the big chungus king salmon is large because the power rangers defeated it and it got grown by rita's magic and then the megazord was flooded before the power rangers could defeat it and then the power rangers died

I also found some thing else in the trailer it’s not really important but when you’re introducing the fish stick it’s kind of sounds like if you listen really closely kind of sounds like a part of nasty majesty from Splatoon two Octo Expansion

i know this is a bit late but i noticed something that points more towards the person/people behind mr grizz being someone who’s part of inkling society/culture. you mentioned in your video about mammals being extinct that the inklings somewhat view the sea in a religious lens, and in both mr grizz’s dialogue for salmon run shifts (specifically the dialogue for 100+ eggs where they say something along the lines of “you have been blessed by the sea’s bounty!”) and their final splatfest dialogue where mr grizz is written saying that they believe the sea answers all questions and generally views the sea as more important than the conflicts of the inkling society, that could suggest that the person/people behind mr grizz might view the sea in a religious way like inklings, so they could be inkling-affiliated beings or, at the very least, not tartar again because i’m guessing with how much distain tartar has for inkling/octoling culture he wouldn’t have a religious view of the sea. what do you think? i’m by no means a splatoon lore expert, but i think this tracks?

fun fact. the blender theme also plays while riding the tower on the tower control tests

My theory for little budy is that it was abandoned by it's kind and now helps the inklings to try and get revenge

Your videos are so amazing, dude! I hope you get enough breaks from everything (including RU-vid) to relax and do whatever you want, man. You put so much effort into this stuff and it’s so appreciated so if you need a bit before catching up and making more stuff, take a while because we’ll all love what you’ll come back swingin with

Rassicass rn:the lore its broken! Oh wait spoke too soon

Interesting thing about the helicopter I heard somewhere, don't know if it checks out. Supposedly, the guy who was in charge of salmon run at nintendo made so much money they just decided to buy a helicopter. And now they modeled it into the game.

17:34 spoiler alert for splatoon 3 story mode! well, that didn't age well.

21:08 "like a bear from outer space" nintendo laughs.

I know it's weird but I am mostly really excited for the music, because Splatoon does one of the boldest things in music for games and *includes* it in game. Hopefully Rassicas will also do a "Lore of Splatoon 3 Music" for the next Soundtrack ^^

Well at least Salmon Run is back, it’s what we wanted.

tbh I don't mind that Salmon Run returned since almost everyone believed it wouldn't come back, and there'd be some major plot twist. Since everyone already thought that this would happen it wouldn't be fun to put that storyline in the game since everyone already expected it.

At 15:41 “Why does Grizzco have cameras there?” That’s at the front of the new Grizzco building.