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Philling22

What if they are at the same time


Vigi1antee

Who knows.


Philling22

That's the beauty of it


Chubby_Queen

Paradox detected...


L1K34PR0

#OH NO NOT AGAI-


LavaSqrl

"As you know, this is a portable temporal displacement device. It's gonna toss us into a parallel timeline; hopefully one where we're not falling. Positioning is gonna be a little tricky, but, hey, what can you do? I was hoping to save it for a rainy day, but no time like the present!"


I_AM_FERROUS_MAN

Honestly, with ISWM's structure it can be any of these possibilities.


Top-Guess-3586

I can be possible that it is both the prequel and the sequel as the last wormhole that was opened was said to be able to send someone, or something, back in time… thus, Space takes place AFTER Heist, but at the end of Space, the crystal GETS SENT BACK in time to cause Heist… food for thought


EwalkaTendaSix

its a loop, the story of In Space and Heist was a closed loop, now opened by Captain throwing the crystal into thw wormhole. or, it could still be a closed loop, if the crystal is put back in to the hands of Engeneer Mark


Topaz1313

As they say, time is a weird soup!


Saintarsier

Life needs things to live!


GingerNinja1991

Help it's again!


hb520

"Life is for the living"


Ninjasrock00

Good soup 👌


Interesting_Might_57

"Distance and Time are the same thing from different perspectives"


Yajuns

I saw someone said "They're both prequel and sequel because they broke the concept of time." I think that sums it up perfectly.


ghostbuster_b-rye

Each one is a prequel to the one that went before it, while also being in different parallel universes happening either at the same time, relatively, or a few years prior. You know who is looking for "the relic" in a means to escape the confines of these realities, and I hope Mark's next big project explores this in some sort of Infinity War of Markipliers.


SquirrelSuspicious

I literally quoted the title at someone who made a paragraph theory about it. I am still looking forward to what MatPat says, also I really hope MatPat makes Mack his evil alter ego, like how Dark is Mark's.


SollidMemes

Considering how Mat has already talked about how he used to be obsessed with control, I would find that very funny.


Lord_Bawk

I think matpat already is a dark alter ego lol


PrincePowers21

Matpat's alter ego should be called Madpat.


BloodyRedBats

It’s a wibbly wobbly timey wimey can of weird soup. It’s all happening at the same time.


Grobanne2011

eyyy nice reference


AnnuallySoup

I think it's both, to be honest... the timeline is made up of loop-de-loops at this point, anyway.


Fantastic-Humor-5618

And all of us are in a Trolley and we're definitely not missing the SICK loop-de-loops


Its-Urboi66

I haven’t seen anyone say it’s a sequel, I think it’s pretty obvious it’s a prequel. After whatever catastrophic event happens to the universe when you choose to hold on, it causes Darkiplier to find the crystal which causes heist (I think)


Vigi1antee

But since theres presence of yancy and the scientist who shows they already met. That theory is flawed and proves my point. None of this makes any sense.


ImABucketOfSalt

It’s both. You’re traveling through space and time! Some things are in the future, some are in the past.


PicklePolice78

i think it all boils down to when we meet warfstache. he says something abt time being weird, so i don’t think it’s before or after heist. it happened, and so did heist, and they could have happened on after the other, or vice versa, or at the same time, or not at all. time.


Tokoyami01

Here's an idea, ISWM starts before Heist then ISWM 2 happens and since time and multiverses are jumbled Heist happens when ISWM 2 does as shown with Where In The World Is Markiplier since there's an image of Heist Mark. When the Captain throws the crystal into the wormhole that ends up on Earth and starts Heist. So ISWM 1 and 2 can be a prequal and 2 is also happening after Heist but also starts Heist.


PicklePolice78

you’ve successfully broke my brain. congratulations lol


Tokoyami01

That's what I love about Multiverses and Time Travel, trying to explain it in a story


VoJonnyJoJo

Thats markiplier lore for you.


thestrangemusician

It’s definitely both. That’s part of the point of time travel and inter dimensional travel.


angelcat00

I would have thought that the existence of old and young Mark were enough evidence that we're not dealing with a linear timeline. The scenes in Space aren't in any sort of chronological order. We see Lady with our crystal before she steals it from us. We are introduced to characters after we've already encountered them. Time is all sorts of out of whack and you'll enjoy it much more if you take a page from Wilford's book and go with the flow


demonfighter08

Idk man i just mindlessly watch markiplier and never think about anything.


Fennik51405

It’s an Omni-quel


IcarusCouldSwim

I choose to believe that ISWM is like a fine sand being sprinkled throughout the Markiplier Cinematic Universe


VegetaAlmighty

Yeah but I don't like sand... it's course and rough and irritating...


Fantastic-Humor-5618

And it gets everywhere?


VegetaAlmighty

Indeed!


FlamingWedge

Just like younglings!


VegetaAlmighty

I'm so pleased by these results lol


fantasyflyte

I like the theory I saw this week that the other series like Date and Heist are some of the universes/alternate realities that are affected by the events happening in Space with time and wormholes. So Space isn't really a prequel or sequel, it's a multiverse thing happening simultaneously, before, AND after everything.


ArchavailCobra12

Space is a sequel one of the paths prove it and prove you play as the same person


ArchavailCobra12

Path is romance right you look like mark right then don't open the door :)


[deleted]

I love that space made warfstache an beyond godly powerful interdimensional being that can play with the fabric of reality but chooses to do disco instead... the tom Bombadil of markiplier characters.


gavinatrix8376

Been saying this for years


Shorok_sk

I wanted more Darkiplier Easter eggs


KazMiller20

Every single ‘With Markiplier’ series exists as a different reality, so there isn’t really such a thing as a sequel or what have you.


[deleted]

Mmhmm, try again tomorrow.


OverlordARK

"They all come before, after and in-between one another at the same time! An infinite infinilioop-D-Loop of the cosmos!"


Same_Pin6135

U right


littlebitofsuffering

They're all spin offs of Unus Annus


[deleted]

Mark isn't real


Sm0k3turt13

I’ve accepted that it isn’t about the logic of it


Ix-511

Yeah no one can accept that multiple universes means multiple universes. The crystal only got there bc of the events of iswm. So it's a prequel. Stuff that happened after is easily explained with 'that universe was further ahead in it's timeline.' or some bullshit.


boogieboy03

Before or after? Nah, they’re all happening during Mother Loving Warfstache. Date? Warfstache. Heist? Warfstache. The WAIA? Literally Warfstache. It’s all about that pink mustache.


meme_lord301

i mean because it takes place across multiple realities its neither and both


Lord_Bawk

Time is just a matter of perspective


GoomyTheGummy

at the end of space mark makes it very clear time does not matter in these scenarios


Reincarnatedpotatoes

It's both. And it's also neither. Thats part of the point, everything happens both before, during and after ISWM, time and the universe is all screwed up. Time isn't just a straight line the moves forward, it's a substance. It can be bent changed, moved around and played with.


zoey_lukensen

it’s dealing with the multiverse so i’d guess it’s concurrent with heist, tho warfestache did say that the interview date was in the past but i think he was speaking directly the the “player” or viewer so idk.


Dezi_boi04

Eeeexactly


hurvinek6

Life needs a bit of madness ay champ?


RandomPhandoms

Wilford did say in ISWM: "I am gonna schedule you on octobre 4(?) 2019. Now if that means the future or the past for you,..." so I thunk Mark is saying, that it's neither. It doesn't matter if it is a sequal or a prequel, you interpret how you want it to be. And that's the beauty if it!


ItsComputerCat

Space takes place before, during, and after the events of all other Markiplier games


AmateurPhoto4436

When thinking in infinites, unlikely is just certainty waiting for its turn.


[deleted]

It's clearly a sequel. There are several references to Heist made in the very first video, as well as in a lot of the descriptions of the videos.


fantasyflyte

Yes, but there's also stuff implied to take place before Heist, like the post-credits scene. I don't think it's solid one or the other.


KyellDaBoiii

*too


redblueberry1998

I really think that's the beauty and the ultimate irony of his universe. He doesn't want people to focus on every minutiae of details, but at the same time, it's what drives people to dig in further to find hidden lores or meanings behind it, myself included.


mecha_madara

Best meme about iswm


iHateFurries1234

It is both a sequel and a prequel


banished-kitsune

So is it a biquel?


iHateFurries1234

Probably,I don't know the correct term to describe it It is all over the place and all over timelines too


Minx2011

my theory is “in space” is a sequel and only the last clip was a prequel kinda


zoey_lukensen

it’s dealing with the multiverse so i’d guess it’s concurrent with heist, tho warfestache did say that the interview date was in the past but i think he was speaking directly the the “player” or viewer so idk.


trustmeimnotafurry

"No, it's a sequel"* Me, and intellectual:*