The Magnus protocol theories and thoughts [Ep. 1-10] 

the fact that alex actually posted “PLEASE DONT MAKE MR BONZO A TWINK HES A BEAR” will never not be funny

"Can he read?" is the new "You don't sound Russian." 😂

I cant describe how much I love "Getting Ushenka-ed" imagine if we called being body snatched and replaced as "Getting Saha-ed" or being beaten to death with a metal pipe "Getting Leitner-ed"😭

I also wish everytime I said Jurgen Leitner the classic slander would play quietly in the background lmfao

Of all the things bonzo might have been, a hitman was something no one expected Just like the Spanish Inquisition

I have a theory that the binder and more specific classifications is to weaken the powers influence. A lot of fear is derived from the unknown so if the fears are broken down into specific classifications then there is less of that fear.

something i'd like to point out is that a bit after that thing emerges from the magnus institute and before the voices start, you can hear the ambiance sound effect that would play either whenever jon used his eye powers or it's the one that would play whenever peter appeared in a room

12:05 Jon, Martin and Jonah were the only people in the panopticon as the fears were taken through and all had really strong connections to the fears so it makes sense that all three would be taken through and taken together. I know it was Elias' body but as Jon said, Elias was completely gone it was all Jonah and therefore Jonah's consciousness that got dragged through with the entities (I know you dont think JMJ is actually their consciousnesses but I think eitherway it makes sense)

I wonder if the voices in the computer aren't our John and Martin but maybe this universes John and Martin got Ushenkaed.

34:19 boy, aren't we gonna look silly when Chekhov's Bagel comes back to bite us on the ass (silly)

Itd be funny if bonzo was just a Fucked Up Guy. No magic, no big secrets, just a Fucked Up Guy in a Fucked Up Suit. Thats never gonna happen but

I recognized gerry's voice instantly cuz the voice actor also plays boardgames a lot on a different youtube channel so that voice is tattooed into my brain

The rest stop restaurant one actually really threw me because it seemed to incorporate almost all of the classic Fears into a single experience. Lonely is obvious, the elevator lady gives me distortion vibes, the "people" with copy-pasted features in the restaurant are Stranger all day, the choking darkness outside the windows is Darkness, the chef and the whole getting eaten thing is a Flesh/Hunt tossup for me, and there's even a nod to the Eye as the guests all just stare unnervingly at the victim. I think the Fears are cooperating and we're getting "hybrid" fears.

Girlboss robinson back alive again. Terrifying.

Great video to fill in the void that is no new episodes for a little while ! :D My personal theory is Celia is secretly Anabelle Cain, who had to fill a new body as she "tore" the previous one for her little scene in season 5. Because we don't know how orchestrated the kidnappings of the sewer cult, she's being too coy about elements of the first series, because she mentions how butterflies can't scare her and because the first talking case Chester gives her is about Hilltop Road. It makes absolutely 0 sense if you start thinking of the concept of time passing, but I will hold on to my nonsense until Johnny inevitably proves me really really wrong.

With the connection of the shared Error name, as well as specifically the sounds of a lot of whispering, radio static and chatter in the last couple of moments in episode 10 that we have heard the entity as it finds the phone, I don't find it all too much of a reach to think that it might be the amalgamated form of John, Martin and Jonah. They were after all the only living beings at the center of the actual hell universe when it collapsed in on itself. (Jonah being alive because his form is literally his eyes.) It's also the kind of body horror, and tragedy that the show doesn't shy away from. The being also sounding like it's dialing through several radio stations has interesting implications. It could be that it's dialing through dimensions like a radio. It could also be a transmitter (or relay device in this case), which relays information about this universe to the new crew through their obviously anomalous server their computers are using. After all, the eye sees through wavelengths, and wireless devices connect through wireless wavelengths all the same. Then again, it could also just be one of the new Magnus Institute's failed experiments that was left behind. There's not enough substance to say anything for sure about it yet. Whatever the case though. Wavelengths and wireless connections are clearly of thematic importance.

So excited for the next episodes. The last ones really felt like getting hit in the face on a weekly basis. I loved it. Fell from the sofa when Gertrude showed up. Sadly none of my friends are listening so I only have tumblr to satisfy the conspiracy goblin part of my brain but it has been so fun. Loved the video. Hope you do more recaps in the future :)

The perfect recap before I go and meet John. I have never been more excited for a writer to be at an event.

So, I think the reason the voices are Jon, Martin, and Jonah is that they were the ones still in the Panopticon. Could totes see your theory about their voices having been coopted by the entities. That said, I DO think the entities are all squished together and so those old categorizations aren't still around. Corruption homie was also decently End to me, the guy in the station had Lonely, Flesh, and Spiral, etc. That said, you're right that it's likely not to be super important.

there are very few tma/tmagp episodes that genuinely scare me. I think there were maybe 2 or 3 out of the 200 in tma, but tmagp 10 terrified me. cant wait to see just how actually scary tmagp will be... ALSO thx for making summary vids, makes it easier to keep track of everything, especially since i dont really undertsand the arg much

I think the Fears are composite now. Spreading into a greater universe has provided enough distinction that something as specific as Needles can generate and avatar. If you look for them, you can see them: The Slaughter and Web weaving music as the cost of your ability to play. The Flesh providing a meat suit to torment the Web's victim show host and guests. The dice of the Web portent the End.

I love how I've barely been following the show's speculation and I still, completely independently, decided either Collin or Celia would die first. Their death flags are too strong

mr bonzo is a hitman, meaning he is an avatar of the hunt 🔥

idk if this is talked about in fandom spaces but i do think that the fact that sam checked the box for response department stuff in episode one is important? like. the reason institute staff couldnt quit is presumably because they signed the paperwork, the reason why jon and gertrude and others were archivists were because they signed. not sure if thats accurate but. maybe it makes him more prone to the response part? like. the magic paperwork is making him more prone to curiosity stuff. im not sure

Finally watched this video WHILE WAITING for a Short about how Agnes is [ERROR] to render XD I hadn't really considered that Celia might be on the chopping block, but you make a good argument for it. I also think your theory about the OIAR splitting up the fears to keep them weaker is really interesting, though I'm not sure if it fits better than my own theory at the moment. Regardless, you've got some great theories here!

I watched your ARG recap and when the connections started connectioning around episode 7 or whatever I was like !!! The ARG and then we hit Bonzo and I just lost it.

My pet theory is that the entities have become a lot less deliniated. For example in the one where the guy is turning into a tree I was flip flopping between spiral and corruption for a lot of it - the guy was obviously hallucinating but also he got infected with tree. The charity shop one started with lonely - being abandoned by upper management and then morphed into stranger with the volunteers who weren't quite right and then there was a little bit of buried at the end with how full the shop got.

skimming the comments, and with the idea that extinction might play a much stronger role in TMAGP, I feel like it's now a new 'base' for the fears. Like,in TMA most fears would, at least indirectly, feed into The End, The Desolation, or The Spiral. Death, Destruction, and Insanity. I feel like Apocalypse is now a 'base' if not the ONLY 'base' fear. I think in part it'd be extinction first as it was the one with the least connections to tma's world / actively cares about 'moving on' so would've been the first to go.

I cant wait for the TMP to make me descend into madness

Your videos are so helpful!! I love Magnus but it’s hard to keep everything straight sometimes!

17:15 I like the theory that the desolation Ghost Lynn Hammond say in tma100 You Had To Be There is Agnes Montague, I've never heard of this theory before and it's a fun little detail

I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE!! TURN IT UP!!!!

I do say I think Mr bonzo might be of the corruption,because one of themes of corruption is like,on the literal sense for rotten stuff but also relationships that turn rotten(toxic) so I feel that a mascot that kids idealize would actually be like a murderer might fit that?also it takes opportunity to make his insides super gross and stuff,but then again he doesn’t reallly seen to fit any entity?

i'd say bonzo is the hunt

Bonzo is so clearly the buried for me, there is the berried buried word play Bonzo's handler talk about how he's trapped and Bonzo is a costume that hurts the ppl inside him. P.s great videos much fun 😊

I love this. And I love the night in the woods background muaic!❤

i definitly see your point with episode 8 (the architecture one) being Lonely but i purrsonally immediately clocked it as Extinction. the focus on brutalism as a style, you know? i could probably make a more compelling point if i relistened to the episode lol

Also curious that Needles is very clearly Flesh (iirc surgical needles also fell under Flesh's umbrella in TMA) with how insecure he is. He's so desperate for people to fear him that he basically begs them too until he has leverage of some kind. (I also just love Needles cos his voice is very poggers)

Loved the video (and subscribed!) At the end of ep10 we can hear the click of a tape recorder. So far we've only been hearing things through computers or security cameras, so the fact the recorders are still around is very interesting. Looking forward to see how it all develops in future episodes. And if any of your Agnes theories are right that would be incredible haha

OH YES IM SO READY

Omg new Pinkelotje tmp upload hiiii hiiiiii :33

As a kid who pronounced hermione as her-mee-oh-knee until I was 13 I felt the pronunciation thing

When I heard San Pedro Massacre I got chills down my spine since I go to school in San Pedro

Episch mijn dude

"They wanted a non fuckable monster" Im sorry but have they SEEN the internet!?

ill be honest the food theory makes sense as someone who grew up hearing stories about the fae so maybe tma was the whole 'dont give your name to the fae cause then they can control you' thing and maybe the thing with the food gives the people more control (since tmp seems to put alot of emphasis on the fact that these people are in these situations becauses they made choices that led directly to these outcomes instead of just stumbling on fear) but anyways the point with the fae conection is that its apparantly so good you physicaly cant eat other food n are forced to stay in the fae realm/wild but idk i mentioned this one to a freind n he just thought i was crazy so meh

I did hear that they they wished they would have done more with Agnes in TMA.

Rolling With It HAS to be the End, BECAUSE: Affecting fate, The End Dice or in general gambling for life, The End (Its in the manifestations on the wiki page) "And as my luck kept getting better and better I started to feel less and less… connected to the world. Like I was a lucky ghost, or something, walking with normal but not really one of them anymore." A lucky ghost, seriously, THE END. It sounds so much like losing a part of your humanity, like Georgie lost her fear. Also snake eyes make no sense flr the web. However, there was a snake in regards to the extintion in TMA, which is as we all know thanks to dekker was a part of the end once There was this one statement in TMA pretty similar to it, called Cheating Death (MAG 29), it even made it on the Tarot Card. I t h a s t o b e t h e E n d .

11:35 I ALSO THOUGHT IT WAS JURGEN LEITNER !!

Wait, it that not Jurgen Leitner? I was surprised to look up the casting and see it didn't match, but I kind of assumed it was a stage name or just a different credit for the same actor. It REALLY sounds like Jurgen to me.

They turned Mr Blobby into a hitmam

YO I ALSO HAVE A THEORY BOARD

Remembering that your favourite is Gertrude due to your love of evil old women i expect you were very happy when she showed up. (I remember the technoblade and akechi art.)

I think it's Lietner because his name also starts with a J, and he does sound similar

gnawing at wood rn- hold on

I just got recommended this and i didn’t even realise it was you omfg 😭

(could you maybe please change the title from [Ep. 1/10] to [Ep. 1-10]? I thought for a good long while it was just thoughts and theories for just the first episode :3 please

The Hilltop one, for me, felt a lot like the Extinction (or whatever the name was stupid umbrella you know it). Like, so many old items given freely to a place that doesn't need them is giving so trash heap. And then the volunteers manically embracing odd depravities in it, adding more and more constantly... Embracing their end with fanfare. That feels like the End, but there's a human element there as well... So yeah, Shitty Umbrella.

is it possible to get into the arg now? idk anythinh about it

I'm not sure if someone else has already mentioned it but [ERROR] in episode 10 was played by Beth Eyre, who was also Lucia Wright in TMA, the statement giver on episode 130, the Instanbul Flesh Ritual one.

i have a theory as to why the fears are more similar to desires in tmagp, because to me it feels like they’re less strongly footed, i do believe they existed in the tmagp universe from “the start of time” due to weird time things happening but they’re not as powerful as in tma (and they will get more powerful as tmagp moves forward, we are seeing them get established) but because they’re weakened they cannot feed off of a random passerby, but must instead seek out people who are inclined to either become a victim or an avatar which is why they seem to “desire” what happens to them i have a longer post about this on my tumblr, ill send the link if anyone asks

Am I the only one who doesn't know what the ARG is?😅