. President James Dean is a major protagonist in the alternate history analog horror series THE MONUMENT MYTHOS and a posthumous protagonist in THE MONUMENT MYTHOS: THE NIXONVERSE. Even if the government is openly searching for them and arresting them by the dozen for forcible rehabilitation. Alcatraz, as many already know, is a prison island situated near California. Then Alcatraz manages to assimilate and replace the entirety of the United States in just one night without anyone knowing. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Their otherworldly counterparts have also gone missing, and they incidentally arrived in their world to their 'parents,' only for everyone to realize that something has gone horribly, horribly wrong once the kids are examined. They first appear in WASHINGTONWORMHOLE. All because they'd rather have a symbol of Freedom than the real thing. Vice President 1: April 30, 1789 . Your brain is a house for him. Virginia believes that the Tree inside the Washington Monument ", As cthonauts delving into the Wonderland showed in, A countless amount of them are inside of the Pyramids. shot down, as they flew into unauthorized airspace. The official subreddit for the Monument Mythos. Both of them sent their "children" to "test" humanity, and their children end up meeting some horrific fates, A powerful, formerly human entity likened to being God, who ultimately becomes disillusioned with humanity and resigns himself to live away from them on another celestial body in the solar system. Nixon then proceeds to tell him, After Nixon warns him about his three creations going insane, Ed ends up killing himself with his, After not appearing in the majority of episodes until now, the first sentence in, A photo of him and his family is briefly shown before he committed suicide. Their air siren scheme only made Americans love for Dean go through the roof when he, with help from Maize, introduced hearing implants for countless Americans who needed them following the incident, effectively, The Anti-Dean Association, despite being incredibly ruthless and willing to take innocent lives, are correct in their assessment that, The Anti-Device Association's opposition to Maize and the Department Of Technology is not unfounded, given that these are the same people who attempted to control. ", Grant told me that he used to be normal like us, breaks the rules of the game by drifting to another square outside its move. A character page for the Monument Mythos. Jennings, on the night of the broadcast, would also call it "the greatest gift to the American people." Over 60 million Americans would watch the broadcast due to the hype it would receive. The Lunarians disallowing humanity to use their own languages and replacing them with their own through the usage of schools is a clear parallel to cultural erasure. I will not bring about an end like that of my own world. r/THEMONUMENTMYTHOS Is James Dean just a walking, talking cognitohazard in the Monument Mythos or is he just a regular human who is just that good? Has no problem stepping foot on the radioactive ruins of Alaska to report on the Last Son's fate. Character Synopsis. Both also learn the cruelty of the humans first-hand, but react to it very differently. 1931) Democratic: 1968: Jeane Kirkpatrick: 1972: 38: January 20, 1977 . Combining the concept of analog horror with Alternate History, the series takes the form of Mockumentary videos focused around an America where things took a slightly different course, and where bizarre and unexplainable events occur near national landmarks like the Statue of Liberty or Mount Rushmore. LOVE, POVERTY, WAR AND Also by Christopher Hitchens BLOOD, CLASS AND EMPIRE: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship A LONG SHORT WAR: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq WHY ORWELL MATTERS LEFT HOOKS, RIGHT CROSSES: A Decade of Political Writing (edited with Christopher Caldwell) LETTERS TO A YOUNG CONTRARIAN THE TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER BLAMING THE VICTIMS: Spurious Scholarship and the . Ed Dwight's Alternate Self in a reality that overwrote the Nixonverse after its fictionalization. It then veers into him revealing that he never actually read the speech nor did he build the Canal of his own free will. He became the 37th president after he was inaugurated on January 20, 1969 and manage to serve the country until January 20th, 1977. -Welcome to the Hero/Protagonist wiki! Both are monarchs in their colonies, which are composed by human-like beings created/given the blessing of gods, the Amazons and the Olympian Gods in Wonder Woman's case and the Lunarians and presumably "Her" in Luna's case. They went out to shoot some houses, and end up being ambushed by the houses which leads to both of them meeting terrible fates. ", Much like the Deanverse, the Nixonverse has various strange beings and anomalies that inhabit it. They're revealed to be the one that took and probably killed John D. Rockefeller in, of the ADA. with the government's involvement in them shown to have been embellished. If you can help us with this wiki please sign up and help us! 0 coins. THE SUEZ CRAB (Monument Mythos) Vertex-Son. Gigantic in height, and without branches. He'd soon break free of this brainwashing, only to be brainwashed again by the Lunarians. Honorable President, President James DeanDeanPresident DeanSatan Jimmy, Superhuman durabilityRace car drivingSuperhuman charisma. I think we as a society should convince children that James Dean was actually a president like in monument mythos. Valheim Genshin . Debut. The Great Depression is avoided entirely due to Rockefeller's dealings with the Germans, who was the United States president at the time. erasing all languages other than their own, that attempted to shoot their queen during first contact, electrical brain surgery on civilians and super-powered beings alike, mastermind behind most of the events of the Deanverse. comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment More posts you may like. The United States Government quite literally changed one of his eyes with a Lunarian eye to succesfully brainwash him. he created The D-Day Knight, The Last Son and the Queen of the Lunarians, and it ends with the Last Son of Alcatraz suffering a. in order to save his universe from the destruction that fell the Deanverse, Richard Nixon fictionalizes it by making an alternate universe counterpart of Ed Dwight overwrite his universes story into a comic book, hence saving it from The Horned Serpent who is reborn as The Crescent King. The first man to ever set foot on the Moon. falling in love and then becoming pregnant, Nixonverse to spread the word about his universe. Instead of pioneering animation and creating one of the biggest companies on Earth, Walt Disney stayed in the medical field following World War One and went on to fund the hospital shown caring for Dean in. The story about the Lincolnlookers, as well as certain other details, turn out to have been partially exaggerated by the ADA to discredit the US government and make them look bad; while the government certainly aren't flawless, they seem closer to. The series ends on this note. 3 25. Given she met a grown man named Everett while she was trapped in the space between worlds, and the time and dimension distorting abilities that the Special Trees have, it would be a fair possibility that Everett or a counterpart of him has spent an eternity wandering around in limbo, or alternatively, was eventually released sometime as what's referred to as a creature within the Washington Zone. It takes a full show of power from him to actually put an end to their threat, and a horrifying power at that, After brainwashing the Last Son and turning him into their king and wrecking havoc on the earth for God knows how long, they finally get their comeuppance in, Their slow destruction of the English language is terrifying, but their main victim so far is the. 3 4. virginia and the last son meet up. The Monument Mythos is a Youtube Web Series envisioned and created Alex Casanas which combined Alternate History and political satire with Analog Horror. In order: Lauren and Quinn Arnoldson (the former revealed to be the second Doctor Disturbing), Leonard W. Morlin, the, How the US Government ultimately disposes of both Freedom and the Air Force One Angel, in a bout of "mutually assured destruction.". "The ADA's repeated efforts to stop James Dean's election proved unsuccessful, and after a failed insurrectionist protest at the Capitol Building on January 6th which resulted in over 150 casualties, Dean officially became president on January 20th, 1969." What kind of verse is this? The speech would be so well liked, when other inaugural speeches occurred, if Americans did not agree with the President at the time, they would instead celebrate Dean Democracy Day, rewatching his address over the current one. As it turns out, it's because his fate was already revealed in. Despite his superiority over America, James is quite good natured and nice to talk to, happily racing cars with his political opponents. False children organize into the STARRYSPHINX. As it turns out, Maize's statement that aliens are not real turns out to be the case as the Sphinx (, But I know why the pedestal is so massive, so tall. Said cloud ship is even used to perform mass lobotomies. a barely visible silhoutte of her corpse falling from the Chrysler Building in. After the Great Division, whatever's left of its survivors transformed into this. These similarities are because the second Doctor Disturbing is actually Lauren Arnoldson. James Dean is a character in the analog horror series Monument Mythos. The official subreddit for the Monument Mythos. A peculiar being, also known as the "Air Force One Angel," which hijacked Air Force One in 2003. but was brainwashed by both the United States and the Lunarians into becoming their weapon. A second Horned Serpent that laid dormant in the crust of Mars. Surgical androids would be built by Maize Machines to help increase surgical efficiency by 250%. He ushered his staff out of the bunker and mobilized the National Guard to deactivate the millions of running cars on the highway to stop carbon monoxide production. The truth being that I designed an abattoir. The designer for both the Statue of Progress and Statue of Liberty. That last detail turns out to be VERY important later on. Him ordering Ed Dwight to shoot Luna, combined with the Apollo 12 mission shooting a Lunarian and taking their eye convinces Luna that. They stay around the Grand Canyon and require a supply of Vinegar to keep them from mutating further. monument mythos james dean. The D-Day Knight uses Alcatraz Matter to basically, Their plan for Earth starts with a variation on this, although instead of creating multiple languages out of one they are. And how. If the Everett that Virginia met during her first entry and Everett, Their title as an "Angel" not only refers to their flight around the country delivering "gifts," but. Advertisement Coins. It goes a step further, as the Angel's divided particles are scattered through time, and influence the brain of the Angel in the past to allow Freedom to kill it during their fateful confrontation thus undoing the Great Division. Drew President Washington. Richard NixonMaizeUS Department of TechnologyUS Department of the InteriorSpecial TreesFreedom The Houses are revealed to be nothing but a manifestation of the psyche and body of whoever's seeing them, causing everyone who shoots at it to automatically be damaged back. Through the form of Mockumentary and Found Footage-style videos, The Monument Mythos tells the story of an alternate America where history took on a strangely different yet eerily familiar course, one where beloved actor James Dean never died . They are fighting against the United States of America, a xenophobic nation that used the Last Son to perform a "Sweep And Redeem" of Vietnam that. A local astronomer who after attempting to investigate a phenomena with a friend, turned into a "Container" for something he couldn't even fathom. She's (depending on who you ask) the Wonder Woman Wannabe of the Nixonverse. he tried to hack down a Special Tree, most certainly without anything resembling an idea of what it really was. Long before active campaign and debates started, Dean was shown to have a landslide popularity lead versus Richard Nixon and George Wallace, even through 1967 and 1968. Shouts this before Freedom decapitates her in. It eventually gets replaced with a Lunarian eye. Instead, he creates monuments. in retaliation for "interfering" in the Korean War. The official subreddit for the Monument Mythos. their abduction and forced crowning of the Last Son, to them forcefully destroying all human language and performing mass lobotomies in order to enforce their own upon the Earth. The documentary would narrate Dean's rise to power, from the original transmission of the DEANDEMOCRACY ad, to the foundation of the ADA and to the DEANDISASTER. Both events end with the same superpowered entity regretting their decision to tamper with the universe's timeline and making an uneasy sacrifice to finally restore the timeline into what it was originally meant to be. His "fictionalization" of the world basically ends the Nixonverse and overwrites it with a new reality. After causing the Great Division, the Angel commits suicide out of guilt. Chaoslord: he is a chaotic MASTERMIND and we love him for it. Given what they have done to his extensions, including using. This reputation may also be due to his superhuman charisma, creating a cult of personality out of thin air. By far the most extreme detail doctors noted was that. In addition to the above, a pair of African-American fashion models, Pat Cleveland and Beverly Ann Johnson, are also listed as astronauts. It's implied by the return of the English language in later videos that they were decimated by Nixon along with The Crescent King. In the Nixonverse, a counterpart of James Dean that was more akin to his real life self was living there. Much like the Horned Serpent he separated from, Nixon serves as this for the entire Nixonverse. the foundation of the Department of Technology. A French diplomat and the developer of the Suez Canal. James Dean shut down the Giza Guardian program and established the Department of Technology. He had a painfully lonely childhood, with his parents blatantly neglecting him and his classmates not treating him any better. and when the Great Division took place and then, without anything visible happening in the footage, The men execute a counterattack shortly after this, The Lunarians are either this or firm believers in. the ADA had been forcing him to contribute to reports on bogus anomalies such as Lincolnlooking and the Sphinx. Even the D-Day Knight is shown to be unable to repel their invasion at first. The ADA claim that they became a "walking atomic bomb," and they will use them to divide the three zones into as many states as they can. being created by Nixon, and believes himself to be as human as anyone else. After arriving to the Deanverse a second time as an adult, she underwent an unsuccessful lobotomy and gave people a more complete version of the fact, this time with the segments of Wonderland almost intact. After regaining his sentience, the Last Son became, Upon regaining sentience for a second time, the trauma of his previous transformations combined with the deaths of all the. himayamata. We never really see what happens, exactly. And then there's what he does as The Crescent King Espouses the Peace Equation to justify his. On April 20th, 1969, Dean would attempt to broadcast to Americans about his first 90 days in office, not before being cut off six seconds in. "Another World Egg was too cold and that Baby froze. Heavily downplayed. I promise I will not leave you. Powers and Abilities: Peak Human Durability, Social Influencing, Extreme Luck and Inhuman Charisma . In our universe, Freedom sits atop the Capitol and isn't alive at all. The soldiers disintegrated by an advanced military construct lose their form and drift as free consciousnesses until eventually reuniting and forming up as an ethereal brain and nervous system, just like what happened to Manhattan shortly after his death. By the time they comes to enact revenge on Rockefeller, they're seemingly able to fire heat rays at will, with authorities noting that whoever made Rockefeller vanish had access to the most powerful heat ray ever conceived to breach his security bunker. Archivist's Note:-Excerpt from the 2002 documentary "DEANDEMOCRACY: A Look Back at America's 37th President."Narrated by Molly Chen(https://www.instagram.com. He would instead organize a country wide radio broadcast with TV subtitles about the event, where he would apologize for the disaster and set up a headhunt for ADA members. He's so stretched that his current state is completely unrecognizable as a human being. Despite her constant praise of the Knight and yearning for his return. She would be used for assassination of ADA members by Maize and the US Government. Washington strikes the tree, but ends up falling through the earth and landing in a parallel world, before his image is stretched into the shape of the Special Trees. The Monument Mythos takes place in an alternate history; one where James Dean became president, personal computers were banned in the late 20th century, and national monuments hold dark secrets. Dr Manhattan vs Son of Alcatraz | DEATH BATTLE! Various groups, coined the "House Clubs" have attempted to attack it, to no avail. Downplayed in that he isn't physically harmed, but the Horned Serpent is capable of literally entering his dreams. After a failed attempt of escaping Wonderland, George Washington became the Horned Serpent, whose head was contained in the Statue of Liberty. We have the Lunarians, a race of xenophobic aliens who want to conquer Earth and who turn the Last Son into their weapon. She first appears in FREEDOMFALLER. Both Alice and Maya were supposedly doomed to live inside a statue, only to be freed, and decapitated by an anomaly soon after. Richard Milhous Nixon, also known as The Moon God or simply God, is the secondary antagonist in THE MONUMENT MYTHOS franchise, serving as a minor character in the alternate history analog horror series THE MONUMENT MYTHOS and the overarching antagonist of it's analog "superhorror" sequel series, THE MONUMENT MYTHOS: THE NIXONVERSE. WTFBOOOMSH. the still-living flesh of both Thomas Crawford and his daughter. Dean would perform bongos at the end of his speech, not before racing Nixon on the track publically for the third time. For a given measure of "offspring." Even more so after we find out the truth about him. After they realize they're being used as nothing but mere weapons by the ADA, they turn them all to ashes. By May 27th, 1969, all Americans whose hearing was affected by the Anti-Dean Disaster would be eligible for Maize Kernels, with no cost. brutally torn apart and incorporated into the Statue of Freedom, By 2003, the United States of America is now legally called the United, The Advocates for the Division of America want to accomplish this by using The Angel as a, by 2022, it has replaced the entirety of the United States with copies made by itself, all the way to the buildings, the populace and down to the, currently surrounded by thousands of pyramids, each with an unknown number of "Special Trees" within, provided they're not an ADA hoax, The entire Deanverse becomes this at the end of, seeing the destruction of the universe we've been watching this whole time. " I'm surprised." James Byron Dean (born February 8, 1931) is an American politician who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1977, he was previously also an actor. Many would believe the broadcast would be Dean related, and tuned into the ABC evening news the night after, only to be met with an ADA ad claiming Dean's American is hell. their divided particles are able to travel across time, and somehow. The symbol for the Advocates of the Division of America in. The D-Day Knight seems to challenge this system. While the Knight manages to somewhat, Unlike the anomalies of the Deanverse, the superhumans of the Nixonverse didn't start out as monsters. He is more often than not shown to be in situations where he has no other choice than to comply with his captors. John D. Rockefeller, instead of becoming a billionaire, becomes President of the United States. Twice, actually. surviving the Great Division, living in solitude for many years on the Moon and seeing how extensions of himself slowly go insane. George Washington aka The Horned Serpent serves as this for the first two seasons as the power behind Maize and the ADA. [SPOILERS TO MONUMENT MYTHOS] BSI and maize team up, Virginia doesn't get affected by the "tragedy" so she's still here, Maize decides to bring . The Monument Mythos WASHINGTONWORMHOLE. Then, the Last Son into becoming their new king because "[he] might be the king in [their] prophecy.". I have seen it wandering in the Plaza on many occasions. When the ADA attacks the capitol in 1977, knocking down the Freedom statue from atop the Capitol building, Dean and his administration, along with the Department of the Interior, would decide to relocate Freedom to the Grand Canyon, as a replacement for the Giza Guardians. You won." 0 coins. crueler strategies to beat the Lunarians. Luna sees this as an act of war and starts a full on invasion on Earth. But he chooses not to, as he perceives that interacting with humanity will only result in more chaos. It makes its first appearance in WASHINGTONWANDERER. Following Cthnonaut A's advice, the Angel divides themself until they "no longer can". He first appeared in CANYONCROWN. The United States government nuked it to smithereens. Type of Hero The United States government uses it (and by extension Thomas himself) to slay any dissidents, and later pit it against the Air Force One Angel perhaps the only party who wanted the US to stop using anomalies as weapons. Dean wanted to appear on public TV for an announcement about the event against his doctors orders, but a look in the mirror discouraged him, due to the tears and bruises on his skin. both the Cornerfolk and the Special Trees share multiple similarities. This most likely triggered its transformation reflex, and he got sent to Wonderland, As it turns out, the fact that the Horned Serpent shares this same nickname is. She first appeared in CANYONCROWN. ", Had shades of this as "Jesus" and The Crescent King, since he was a well-meaning superhero. One night during a ABC evening news broadcast, anchor Frank Reynolds told viewers that they " will witness the start of a glorious adventure." Our Presidents Are Different: President James Dean is treated as a President Sue, being such an awesome, progressive, . She had the Lunarians kidnap the Last Son and turn him into her king, ordered the Lunarians to invade earth that results in the events of, After she's proven wrong not once, but twice in both moon missions, Luna adapts a. Distinctive Voice: what are we waiting for, he fits this trope! Whether he was simply vaporized to the point absolutely nothing was left or actually taken elsewhere entirely remains unanswered. Freedom would decapitate intruders at the Grand Canyon. The frame of the airship simply seeks to force them into a certain shape. Dean would later propose a project to the Department of Health after getting his own Maize Kernel hearing aid implant from Maize Machines. Upon regaining his sentience both times and realizing that he's responsible for their atrocities, he has a, That all changes when he ends up captured and brainwashed by the USA Government for his unpredictable behavior in war, turning him into a. the Lunarians, believing him to be their prophesized King, force him out of his retirement and disfigure him into the Crescent King. And of course, every once in a while a more general piece of alternate tech appears, like a Concorde jetliner being used to represent a 2021 airliner. The Horned Serpent is a gigantic beast resting dormant underneath the USA. Downplayed in that all three were supposed to be benevolent, but the cruel actions of humanity had, Knew that stepping foot on an alternate Earth was a, Played with. Whereas. do not listen to your captors, proceed to antarctica. The US government, upon seeing a literal living representation of Freedom, ordered a slave against his will to strip her of that flesh. "Heroic" is a bit of a stretch, but Nixon is content to leave his rogue "extensions," the. The first half of her speech to the D-Day Knight has Luna justify the destruction of the English language by saying that humanity's peace is built on inequality, and the United States' Peace Equation is a blatant example of that. but they're a bunch of invading aliens who erase the human language and turn New York City into a hellhole. Unlike the Amazons who are compassionate beings despite their distrust of humanity, the Lunarians are shown to be, Their demise is not pretty. In 2002, a documentary about Dean's presidency titled "DEANDEMOCRACY" would be released to the public. The truth being that I designed an abattoir, the conflict between Freedom and the Angel brings about the end of the world and the apparent "freeing" of the Special Trees and the Horned Serpent. However, in this universe Alcatraz is much, much different, and alive. the trope still applies but with the roles flipped, the US government being the gray and the ADA being the black. He is what appears to be a human, however he generates a cult of personality simply by . Screams at the top of her lungs as she falls from the Chrysler Building in, The official name of the Last Son after being freed of Lunarian control. Despite being one of the only beings in the Nixonverse with true free will (or at the very least, considered to be one), he became a brainwashed slave for not one, but two separate factions in order to be weaponized. The Lunarians piloting the cloud ships are not safe from the Knight's "Alcatraz Checkmate," and are destroyed along with their ships. A piece of Alcatraz matter that and escaped the Horned Serpent also assimilated some of its properties, becoming Richard Nixon and his extensions. Dean actually does care about the American people and actively tries to help them, whether personally or by rousing the government into action, but also uses his opposition as sacrifices for Special Trees and Freedom, and has likely elected someone to be a Lincoln Looker as per tradition.