The HIDDEN SECRET Who The Teacher Is - Little Nightmares 2 Theory 

I feel like the little nightmares 2 is very metaphorical and how a child views the world especially with the teacher as in the saying "teachers have eyes behind their heads" and how the teacher with here long neck can hear or feel even the slightest misbehavior by anyone.

I don’t think she’s wearing a mask since her face seams seamless, and with all the ways we’ve seen her head from various contorted angles, we don’t see any evidence of her wearing one.

Can we acknowledge how GOOD of a teacher she actually is? I mean, besides the ruthless killing of "misbehaving" children, all throughout her segment she is seen creating lesson plans. She prepares frogs for dissection, and even composes original music right before our eyes, in preparation for a music class. She maybe a horrible person, but you can never say she's a horrible teacher.

Someone pointed out that the keys she hits on the piano are D, E, A then D again DEAD

For me, the Teacher was the scariest boss in LN2. Those unblinking eyes and her long neck freaked me out. The piano composition scene was a nice touch, showing a different, artistic side to her. I hope we do see her in a future game, if another one is made in the series.

There really should be a video speculating as to WHY all the children in little nightmares are subsequently hunted or killed in the first place.

If they’re going to do the best thing possible and make this game a trilogy, I’d imagine LN3 would be more focused on the eye. They fight to break the control of the eye to restore peace and sanity to the world lol

I dont agree with the theory that the teacher is the pretenders mother. Maybe she could have been the pretender's governess or tutor?

I think the signal deforms people into a form that's useful to it, "letting them go at a price" essentially. The teacher educating the bullies, using her neck as a means to keep them from escaping and misbehaving. The doctor using the ceiling for quicker access around the hospital and to his patients. The thin man/Mono's powers ultimately being used as a means to broadcast its influence in a loop. The viewers are just fodder, being absorbed by the eye to add to its mass and strength.

For a man who only hangs around in one place. The Hanging man is really important

She’s drawing the maw on the chalkboard

So a few details. She's very capable of teaching many subjects in various specialist areas. Music and science being the best examples. She also teaches bullies whose descriptions include that they are horrible with no reason for it, yet she gets them to behave. I get the vibe that she's teaching preteen-age children so she's a primary/elementary school teacher. There is a point in the game in the school where there is a whipping sound, I assume the ruler being put to use. I imagine the reason for the broken porcelain heads is from the ruler, it may not be fatal but it does severe damage, instilling fear in the children. So corporal punishment is her primary means of discipline. Where I'm going with this. She's a very traditional old style of teacher isn't she? It may hint at the time period the universe is set in (as do the old style TVs). Also, she's very 'ideal' for that time period. Having to be good at all subject areas and making the boldest of children behave. Either she's extremely experienced at the profession or it may have been a byproduct of the TVs distortion. 'Making' her into the 'ideal' teacher persona.

Finally someone questions the existence of the school. It's importance seems very out of place, it serves no purpose to the tower so, why? The bullies are the center of my attention, it was gnawing at me for a long time. WHY DO THEY EXIST?! Why teach porcelain children. There are children like Six, and Mono. Well the population of children kinda stops there, doesn't it? Other than the glitchy remains of deceased children, there are no other children seen alive. I find this important because (tho for important reasoning) there were children in the Maw, live children. The Pale City has the Bullies, fake children, the Bullies are porcelain children, dolls made to mimick the idea of children. As we see in the game the Bullies do have somewhat childlike behavior, all be it rowdy, even playing jump rope. But why, why imitate children? I don't think it's only for the Teacher's obsession for her profession, or at least I don't think it started out that way. I have reason to believe that the citizens of the Pale City had children at one point. Think about it, there had to have been children in this city at one point, it's a city for crying out loud! Perhaps the glitchy remains we see in the game weren't just passersby, but former citizens of the Pale City. But what happened to them? Perhaps they all died due to a similar cause, like an illness, the children of little nightmares do seem quite thin, and Six does seem to have a cough, maybe the children in the Maw are dying naturally? Or maybe it's something more sinister, if the Pale City did have children at some point, there are no longer children now, and the civilians seem to be hostile to children, we can insinuate what happened to their children. Gruesome. Did this happen during the transformation of the tower? Well the Pale City's lighting is colored blue, a color associated with sadness and grieving. The entire environment seems to be grieving, and it is possible that every boss we see is grieving someone or something in some way. Let's read the official description of the Viewers, "The Viewers live life through the screen and cannot imagine a world without it. All those wonderful colours, sounds and shapes, dancing before their eyes, mesmerising them, pacifying them, fattening them up. The Transmission gives them all they need, and demands only one thing in return..." this quote mentioned a price that the Transmission requires, while this could be their life force, I believe it may have somehow been their children, and their lifestyle is a result of their grieving. Using inanimate materials to fill the void of loss is a common problem we can find in our own society. It's familiar enough so that we can understand. Now let's look at the patients, "The Patients cannot live with their selves. They look in the mirror and hate what stares back. Seeing nothing but the flaws and ugliness of nature, they beg The Doctor to fix them, to work his magic, and make them whole again." Now this could be seen as just a distaste for their looks as it suggests, but this could be more than just that. The patients "cannot live with themselves", I don't know about anyone else but this insinuates guilt to me, and in the context of this theory, this guilt can mean multiple things. When people we are close to die sometimes we tend to blame ourselves, ask what we could have done more, maybe this is what the patients are doing, or perhaps this is more sinister and implies direct guilt. If we remember that the transmission deforms people into the worse version of themselves, if the patients committed an awful crime against their children then that would reflect in their deformed appearance. Maybe the patients were the parents of these children and even further deformed by their grief/guilt, thus leading them to seek out the doctor, to fill the void, to "make them whole again." And to conclude my theory, the Bullies. I think the Bullies were a failed attempt to replace the children of the citizens. Clearly the Bullies are annoying demons, so they were sent to the Teacher, as implied by the beds in the school the Bullies reside in a boating school, commonly known to shape rowdy kids into discipline youths. If these Bullies are imitating children then we have to assume they have parents. Maybe the "parents" of these Bullies were hoping the discipline of the Teacher would shape the Bullies into suitable children for them. But that didn't happen...

The teacher isn’t just another creature, she’s a rokurokubi. A very specific yokai type. It fits the theme of the Japanese restraunt in the Maw.

Actually, the teacher's ability to stretch her neck reminded me of this..... when I was in elementary school having tests, the teacher would often say "stop being long neck giraffes" as in "do not cheat!" in Chinese. Giraffes have long necks obviously, and when we cheat, we often look over to other student's papers, almost like we're being giraffes reaching for the trees to eat leaves.

I think an important thing to note about the teacher is that at the end she willingly gave up chasing you whitch is something we haven't seen from a little nightmares boss yet. Usually they either get killed or something makes it impossible for them to get to you

Plot twist: when the teacher chase you through the vent, the vent collapsed and killed her.

ironic how school is suppose to fill your head with knowledge and stuff but when you smash the children's heads....it's empty.

The teacher reminds me of my fifth grade teacher...

If the hanging man and the teacher really were a couple, we could have a reason behind his suicide. When the signal came on, he could have fled to the maw and his wife either wanted to stay behind with the children, he could have thought that she died or knew the signal would destroy her mind. So he lost everything and took his own life.

aside from the beating of children, she is actually a pretty good teacher (constantly preparing lesson plans, making ORIGINAL songs for music class, etc..) she seemed to be very passionate about her work before she fell under the influence of the signal tower. i think this is part of what the game is trying to tell us, you become the thing you fear the most. the signal tower uses something you LOVE to turn you into something you hate, like what happened with six towards the end. in the teacher’s case the signal tower used her passion for teaching children

The sad thing is, when you finish the game, you wished you played it again not knowing the ending

I just want to know why she didn’t die but all the other bosses did die. The hunter got shot, doctor was burned alive, but what happened to the teacher? And it sucks cause the devs said they wouldn’t make another LN game. Also I believe the “hanging man” is Mono (“thin man”)

The teacher is likely a Rokurokubi - a japanese yōkai (most of the time) usually depicted as a woman who looks human, but has a neck that stretches when they are asleep. They're usually associated with karma as well. In some stories, rokurokubi are not a yōkai, but rather people who have an affliction that affects the body. For example, the Edo period author Ban Kōkei in his work "Kanden Kōhitsu" told a tale of a geisha at the Yoshiwara brothel whose neck would elongate in her sleep. It stated that her neck stretched to due her "heart becoming loose"

The *teacher* is like a *monster* version of *Mrs. Incredible*

I had a teacher like this once...I don’t mean the long neck, but one of my teachers was just as cruel and disheartening as this one. She was very frightening.

The teacher wears a mask, that’s why she doesn’t blink. Under That mask I presume she has a viewer face. She makes the same noises as the viewers and walks the same. Her power is just a bit different, meaning maybe she spent a lot more time in front of a tv

Hear me out but if you know the little nightmares last dlc about the lady's residence you could surely see painting of the teacher, doctor, and other mysterious creatures that we see throughout the world of little nightmares, im kind of curious on why the lady has pictures of different people outside the maw, i think it could be possible that six will encounter the other people we see in the lady's painting puzzle room, as we see her encountering the teacher and the doctor, which you coule clearly see that the lady has a painting of them in her room which the runaway kid solves it, could it also be a teaser about the upcoming bosses? If they will ever create a little nightmares 3, anyways i just wanna point this out since i dont think many people know or noticed about the last dlc of little nightmares

i would like to see some fan art of the prediction of how she looked before the loop or eye same with some of the other monsters with humanoid faces

Maybe the teacher is the pretender's mother? Pretender means "a person who claims or aspires to a title or position", so if the teacher was The Lady's sister, the Pretender could be heir to the Maw. And if the hanging man is her dad, it gives him a reason to be on the Maw. Also, remember how everyone thought Six was The Lady's daughter because there's pictures of a girl in a yellow raincoat in her room? Maybe The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat from Very Little Nightmares is her, and she is known by the children on the Maw (there are drawings of her that can be found I'm pretty sure) and escaped the Maw in a hot air balloon that crashed in the Nest.

the teacher was my favourite antagonist in the entire franchise simply because of how strange yet cool she is.

Because of Cory Kenshi I thought the little girls name was Sasha 😂

Gotta say that the teacher may be my favorite antagonist of LN2

the teacher looks like my AUNT who is a STRICT TEACHER too and throws a chalk at me lol

Such a scary character 😨 the way her neck could stretch that far lol

Here's a theory that just POOFED into my head. Idk EVERY little detail about all of the Little Nightmares games, but based on the picture of The Pretender child and the two adults standing beside her, I feel like I know why the hanging man is, well, hanging. Hear me out. Just a little thought, but perhaps The Hanging Man and The Teacher were The Pretender's parents? From what I understand, The Pretender is a homicidal child that attempts to kill The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat at the end of Very Little Nightmares. Maybe she was taught to be so malicious by her mother, The Teacher? We see the way The Teacher nurtures her porcelain pupils in the Pale City School, so it would make sense, right? At the end of Very Little Nightmares, both The Pretender and The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat fall off of the cliffside of The Nest to their (possible) deaths. What if The Hanging Man got word of this and committed suicide due to grief, and the letter found by his feet was for his spouse, The Teacher??? Lmk what yall think. Edit: I AM SO SORRY!!! For the creator of the video and the people who read this. I was not trying to steal ANY credit from anyone. I thought of this the second I saw the painting of The Hanging Man, Pretender, and Teacher in the video, which was about thirty seconds in? Again, so sorry.

The school level really felt like something I would've considered a nightmare as a child; a teacher whose scribbles on the board make no sense, only cares about bad behavior within her domain, couldn't care less for any hostility or bullying outside her classroom and aggression or at least unhelpful otherwise. The level certainly feels like it was from the perspective of a victim of bullying and during a time where adults (especially teachers) weren't as concerned with such a thing. The hairstyles of the women throughout the series are either very timeless or a bit retro, possibly pointing to the series taking place when such nightmares would be more likely to be a reality. I do like the idea that children can't be controlled by the eye monster and this results in so much hostility towards them. I just don't think it would be very sustainable because then the eye won't be able to control them once they're old enough to do so. Though the hostility also makes sense if there's a fear that children can use their immunity to fight back and stop the eye monster and I guess this means the eye monster isn't concerned with maintaining generations of control.

Also I don’t think the doctor is smiling. It’s his mask rolling back because he’s always upsidedown :)

A little fun fact about the Teacher, when you're in the room where she's playing piano and Six and Mono are opening the door to the vent, if you let Six try and open the vent and wait until the Teacher stops playing, she'll hear Six and come up there with her neck. If you take that time and jump down from where the vent is, she'll aim for Six, not you. The Teacher and the Bullies are one of the only monsters who aim for Six over Mono in LN2. Just a fun little fact I thought I'd share

A strange thing I saw in a video where the game was in first person is that the Teacher is hitting herself when we hear her hitting something with a ruler. This happens when Mono hides in the celling. She is hitting herself which makes me think the Teacher is aware she has been changed and hates herself. I also think the monsters are obsessed with something in there lives (ie being a teacher, the music box for six, revenge for mono, ect) and that obsession is manipulated by the eye monster. It feeds off their obsession or infatuation with something and that morphs them into something else. The Eye monster does this by using Mono's power and making it's self a signal tower to amplify the corrupting signal. SO many good theory's and clues in the game! ALSO ANYONE NOTICE THE PORTRAITE AT 5:42 IN THE VIDEO? His picture is seen through the ENTIRE game and he seems to be important to the world. Multiples of this picture is in the Hunters House, The School, The hospital, and the Pale City. It is always in a place you can't miss it as the player so I feel like the devs want us to remember that face.

i hope we get Little Nightmares 3 or Little Nightmares 2 DLC where we see characters such as The Barber and even more people like The Waxbellman or even The Ferryman

On a completly Unrelated note I just realised that the Chair that Mono & and The Thin Man sit on is the same as the Chair from the First game with the Hanged Man.

I don’t think the teacher has a mask and that’s just her face

Imagine if our teacher has a long neck to check the students when they're cheating in class XD.

I noticed that the hanging man’s chair was the exact same chair as the one Mono sat in and became the Thin Man. As well, the door in the hanging man’s room had an eye on it like the one in the Thin Man’s room. Plus both the Thin Man and the hanging man are very lengthy and thin. Just something to point out.

5:38 i am not sure if that is really the Maw, the Maw moves every year and definitely doesn’t resemble that form

I think the eye resembles us the player as we are always watching, controling everything and ensuring that the loop continues by playing the game.

The Noted the teacher plays on the piano are D E A D on repeat

FINALLY SOMEBODY TALKED ABOUT THE TEACHER BEING IN THE PAINTING

I keep wondering how much can she actually stretch her neck

These are some of the most amazing and interesting games I've played in a long time. There's so much to think about and figure out about the story and lore. Great video!

Idk if you noticed but the chair the hanging man used to hang himself is the same chair Mono sits on in the end of Little nightmares 2. It has the same colour, the same shape, even the same little scratch on the left side.

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Teacher:I HAVE THE HIGHGROUND

Do you know who the man is in the painting at 5:39? His picture is in both 1&2 or at least one of the DLC's. I seem to remember him from the portrait room in the last LN1 DLC. I think we might see him again.

I love your theories! They’re very interesting, definitely something I’d never think of.

This long neck thing reminds me of one of the creatures in japanese folklore called Rokurokubi. This creature at daytime look like any other human (mostly women) but at night they neck can stretch out as long as they want. There is another almost similar creatute Nukekubi, the difference is that at night their heads gets de attached from their body and wanders around freely but if they can't find their body until the sun rises they die. They believed you can get rid of Nukekubi if you hide her body while her head wonders around at night. Possibly a bit off topic, but this came to my mind from this character.

Fact: if you get into the first person mod (you can WaTcH it from nikko channel) in one part, you can see teacher hitting herself with her ruler. İts not likely a glitch, they even put animation of it into the game

When I first saw the Teacher : Oh My Gosh they literally made a Rokurokubi as a teacher, this fits perfectly well with most teachers who always have their eyes on their students and Rokurokubi are known to always have their eyes on their victims due to their long necks

10:30 gave me an idea. Maybe that's accurate! Children always obey in front of the "smiling" teacher but are more relentless behind their back. They are also often afraid of doctors thus the doctor. Most can say that adults watch too much television which makes them abusive (viewers). They can even be terrified of growing up to be like their poorly behaving parents (mono turning into thin man). I know this theory cant really be true but its cool!

When it comes to why the "monsters" seemingly prefer dolls over actual children, I would argue it's because of how kids can hold this idea that adults only want "perfect, obedient, and quiet" children. Kids are often punished or reprimanded for "being too active," "too rough" and even "being too unique" . The dolls then are the representation of the "perfect child", clean, pure, never talks back, always listens to what they're told, and (most importantly) can become whatever the adult wants them to be. As for the Porcelain Bullies behaviors, it could be a representation of how school bullies often get away with their harassment. They behave themselves in front of the teacher, but start acting wild as soon as the teacher is gone. School kids who are victims of bullying often feel that teachers don't do anything substantial against bullying when it doesn't happen right in front of them, or they turn a blind eye to the harassment because the bully is "so well behaved in class".

somebody needs to make a theory on how mono got his outfit pls make a theory on that @GamerSault

Can't wait! Ihave ly own theory so i hope yours matches mine!

Why do I feel like we’ll be helping or having the teacher on are side in little nightmares 3 because when we see her play the piano it seems like she has a good side

I have a theory too of why all the nooses after the hanging man died she tried to hang her self but her neck streched and she couldn't kill her self

I feel like we should call the protagonist in Very little nightmare 0 because maybe she was the real original protagonist also if there is a dlc I hope it’s a girl this time maybe the Cloaked kid or maybe the girl from the Hospital or maybe the Toddler we can see his story

If there is a loop and some people know they are in it, when does it actually loop back around? Also, is there a world outside this loop that knows what's going on inside?

When i sub to u got only a 1k now u had so many really growing so fast keep it the hard work :)

Maybe the children are not affected by the eye because they don't have a purpose yet. They haven't got addicted to the TV, or dedicated themselves to research, teaching, building, etc. The Eye therefore has no material to work with. Six would be an exception because of her obsession with the music box.

The teacher and doctor related plot twist 👀

Listen I'm so damn curious. The picture shows her eyes or around her eyes is red in picture but in game is not. Is she on some stuff? or Is she got use to not blinking and that is why around her eyes is red?😂😂😂

I think you are spot on with a lot of these theories. The little nightmares story thematically seems to really be about conforming children to the norms of society. They are taken because they are innocent and are purely vulnerable to being changed into what the society wants them to be. Yet in their young age, they still see life differently and try to escape what society wants them to become. The adults who have already been conformed are simply used up for what the "the man" wants them to be used for. Both metaphorically in the real world and in the story. And then when that old generation dies out, they are simply replaced by the conformed children, and the cycle starts again. I have been wondering a lot about what the story its self is actually trying to say about the world, and not just what it is, and I think we are kind of onto something here.

absolutely adore these videos, keep it up!

She reminds me of a teacher I had when I was little. She was so rude and mean 😭 and would yell ugh. And she would only pick on me since I was different from the others but I was always a good student and I don’t get it tho lol. Did somebody had this problem too as well. 🙀😹😥😭😤😡😡😡🤬

These theories are super cool and this video was made really well! I just want to add that other players noticed that the notes that the teacher plays the same three notes over and over in the same order, DEA DEA DEA DEA, which just spells out DEADEADEADEADDEAD... I thought that was interesting!

The teachers old teacher:what do you want to be when you grow up. Someone els says:somebody says Colorado the teacher:IM A GIRAFFE

What if The Teacher’s eyes were sewn by her eyelids? In some photographs, her eyes are constantly looking down, and not directly at the camera while other photographs are. It’s only natural that human look down in need of moisture for their eyes. And, The Teacher never blinks and she has the ability to move her mouth (so no evidence of a mask like many antagonists/nightmares). Some people theorize she doesn’t blink to not miss any detail, and that sounds plausible, but I rather go with the theory her eyes were sewn by her eyelids. Although, I haven’t gotten the chance to *actually* look closer at The Teacher’s face, so I can’t confirm my theory.

I love your videos man

If my teacher look like that. "Mom can we move!?"

they captured the "psychotic teacher with creepy fake smile" face perfect.

The monsters are trying to do the humans' jobs, but they don't seem to do it well, that is why the teacher is drawing things that doesn't make any sense, or cannot play the piano very well

Ur commentary is 🔥

The scribbles the teacher makes in the classroom kind of looks like the maw.

Nice theory video man. Do consider using more varied clips to make it more engaging. I keep seeing the same few clips looping over and over again. Keep it up!

Oh my god this video was a great freaking watch! This is my very first video of you and i gotta say you really pulled me in! But I’m very new to the little nightmares story. My question for you is where is a good place to start on your channel for me to fully understand little nightmares 🤨 my only knowledge is the 2 games AND The youtuber im watching hasn’t completed 2 yet so im still behind 😭 if you or the rest of the viewers could point me in a direction that be great! 🤓

oh my god that poor hanging man is literally mono trying to escape the cycle, i feel so bad for him

No one ever talked about how six is unaffected by the TVs and signal . Considering this game is a prequel and six didn’t consume the lady’s power yet

She sounds like a lovely teacher to me. I'd finally have a quiet classroom, and she'd hit that one kid who yells and says "nO!" To everything. And I can finally use my empathy without her questioning why I'm so calm-

I was watching a playthrough of The Residence dlc, and in the painting puzzle, was when I first noticed the Teacher had a portrait. There might have been some for others, but I never noticed.

I can't help notice the relation between her and the Hangedman, maybe her stretched neck and the nooses around the level is a reflection of her trying to follow his example but potentially failing because the distortion of her body just made her neck elongate no matter how much of a drop she attempted.

Real story is that she wanted the fantastic 4 powers but only the neck stretch .-.

Her scribbling looks like "The Maw".

I actually like the theory that everyone is pretending like their normal people. I like to think that mono (or anyone that turns into the thin man) desperately wants a normal life so he uses his power to create that. It also makes sense as to why the lady does what she does. She used to run the Maw and is also pretending/ re-enacting what she did.

Thank you for this amazing video!!

My understanding of the little nightmares universe is that children aren't actually hated, but rather the things they bring are hated. In the comics, there are several entities hunting for kids, some hunt them for fun, like the north wind, while others hunt them to keep them "safe". The maw doesn't kill kids, they kill escapees. The kids are treated relatively well and are fed, clothed, and sheltered. The only reason roger tries to stop you is that kids escaping may lead an entity to the maw and destroy it. The maw probably only accepts visitors as a facade to keep the north wind and such away by tricking it into believing it's just a floating restaurant. Also the lady doesn't kill kids, she turns them into gnomes. This could be to remove the troublemakers without 'removing them'. And the place from really little nightmares probably ships out the children to the maw if they don't cause trouble and turns the rest into dolls. And some more evidence is that the two chefs look like brothers, they are very young-ish and seem to use the same sized beds as the rest of the kids; implying they were imprisoned kids at the maw. And even though they kill you, it's probably because they see you as a pest like a rat or roach since they probably aren't used to kids being bright yellow and shiny. The boatman is also really friendly compared to the other people in the universe, he even asks if the kid wants to go to the maw before taking them. The maw might be trying to save kids from certain entities.

Twin chefs : were invincible do I look like a joke to you

The notes she playes on the piano are d e a over and over which means she literally plays dead on the piano

I think this is actually a prequel to the first game/DLC. The Teacher is seen drawing a maw on the chalkboard. Could she have designed it? Is this why she is shown in oil paints in the depths of the maw? Six also finds her raincoat as well. The Signal Tower got too out of hand and many died, so the Teacher and many other built the maw where only few lived. Things like the doctors masks and the Teachers rope were also packed on. Teacher had died as she was seasick as the maw traveled.

Thank you for lowering the creepy with a bunch of your gifs

Did you know you can find the hunters picture in the secrets of the maw dlc but you see it from a side angle when you light it up in the residence and there be the doctor

i really like your videos bro keep it up