#iswm analysis

[alperson18]

Love the similarities in how Lady tries to suppress their anger by repeatedly pushing the button and then later shooting Mark

[ironwoman359]

Space Was So Cool:

In Space With Markiplier and the Medium of Choice

*This essay contains spoilers for In Space With Markiplier parts 1 and 2.*

In Space With Markiplier was, and I am in no way exaggerating, a masterpiece of not only visual storytelling, but interactive storytelling that I truly believe could only exist to its fullest potential on youtube itself. Everything relates back to youtube, from the collection of guest stars and in-jokes, to the fully interactive and self-referential style of storytelling, and even the theme of the story itself; youtube is integral to every aspect of the project. And I don’t just mean that in a corporate way because YouTube funded the show, I’m referring to the medium of youtube.

There’s an expression coined by media theorist Marshall McLuhan: “The Medium is the Message.” What that essentially means is that the type of media chosen to deliver a message or story has a significant impact on the message itself. To rip off an example from Lindsay Ellis, the story of Les Miserables is the same story every time, but the way the story is told and how you react to it are different when in the book vs. the tv mini-series vs. the broadway/west end musical. Those are three different mediums, and each one is able to highlight different elements of the message in different ways. One is not inherently better than another, but some mediums are better for certain kinds of stories.

YouTube, just like film or the stage or Netflix streaming, is a medium. And while a story about a Captain and a Head Engineer trying to save their ship from universal collapse could be told in a book, on a mini-series, or in a Broadway musical, the way it was told here in ISWM was unique to the medium of youtube. When a creator is working in a medium they aren’t very comfortable in, such as a stage director trying to make a movie or an actor who doesn’t have the best voice trying to sing in a musical, it can sometimes be distracting. But on the other hand, when a creator knows a medium well, the medium doesn’t just fade into the background, it is highlighted and celebrated by the work.

And I’ve never seen a creator really use the full potential of YouTube as a medium quite like Mark has.

Everything about ISWM uses the power of youtube to its full potential, from the numerous guest stars and cameos that a viewer familiar with these youtubers would appreciate, to the use of jokes and callbacks to Mark’s own youtube channel, to of course the most iconic thing about ISWM, and all of Mark’s work in the “Markiplier Connected Universe,” the concept of You the Viewer as a Character within the world, making choices.

While Mark isn’t the first filmmaker to ever use first person perspective (let’s not forget the 2016 experimental action film “Hardcore Henry”....oh you did forget? That’s ok, everyone did), he IS the first who, in my opinion, really used that perspective to its greatest potential. In Hardcore Henry, Henry is still, well, Henry. The experience is immersive, but you’re still seeing the world through someone else’s eyes. Mark, ever since A Date With Markiplier, invites you to explore his universe through your eyes, literally. In every first person Markiplier project, the viewer is not just a bystander, they are an integral part of the story, with a role to play and, most importantly, Choices to Make.

Choose Your Own Adventure books are a medium, just like any other. And just like any other medium, it has a type of story that it tells particularly well. In this case, that type is of course a story with multiple endings or outcomes, as the reader chooses what decisions the characters (who are often first person self inserts) make along the way. These books bridge the gap between reading a story and playing a game, creating an adventure that, as the title implies, is yours to choose. And YouTube is the perfect medium to bring that style of storytelling to life.

A Heist With Markiplier is a prime example of this; with thirty one unique endings and settings that take you everywhere from the sewers beneath a museum to a pirate ship on the high seas to a zombie apocalypse wasteland, the choices that you make as a viewer fundamentally change the course of the adventure. Heist is a great example of both a series that could only exist on youtube, due to its interactive nature and use of annotations, and of a choose your own adventure story. However, at the end of the day, a choose your own adventure story isn’t the first medium you think of if you’re aiming to tell a story that packs a certain level of emotional punch.

This is where Space comes in.

See, In Space With Markiplier takes both the medium of youtube and the medium of a choose your own adventure and, in scientific terms, makes them its bitch. It presents itself in the framework of a choose your own adventure, but as you quickly begin to realize, and as one of the characters asks you point blank, “do any of our choices matter?” No matter what you do in part one, no matter what path you go down or what choices you make, your eventual fate is inevitable. The universe will collapse, swallowed up by the wormhole, and every living thing in existence is swallowed up with it.

Cheery!

And then comes part two, the universe is ‘reset’ and we get a second chance to fix things. But as Dorene so wisely says to us in part one, you can’t really have second chances. The universe is still dying; a mass of different timelines and realities are colliding together and everyone in them is being thrown haphazardly between universes, and your only chance to stop it is to resolve the paradox. And then, lo and behold, just like in part one, we find that at the end of the day, not all of our choices matter. We always end up at the same places, over and over again, eventually confronting Mark (or is it Mark who confronts us?) at the warp core one final time.

I’ve seen some people (read: one person, but the comment really stuck with me) say that they didn’t understand the overwhelmingly hyped response to Space. That while yes, the production quality was even higher and it was clear there was so much passion on display for the project, that it was less impressive because it “reuses” so many videos and only has One ending, whereas Heist had over thirty. And to be honest? I can see the argument that Heist is a better Choose Your Own Adventure story, since it, you know, actually lets you choose your own adventure. But this is where we come back to our conversation about the Medium being the Message.

Heist is a Choose Your Own Adventure story.

Space is a story that uses the choose your own adventure medium to tell a story about Choice.

The fact that there’s only one ending to ISWM isn’t a failure, it’s the entire point. You’ve been trying to fix this problem, over and over and over, in dozens of different universes, hundreds of lifetimes. When you find Lady in the void at the end of the universe and she says that there must still be a way to save everyone, if you look at the video description it says: “You're not the only one making choices, Captain. You're not alone... you never were.” Lady has been traveling through the multiverse just the same as you, trying desperately to undo the damage caused, and in their last moments, they wonder if maybe she’d done things differently, she could have succeeded. Both Old Mark and the Mark rebuilding the warp core at the end express the same sentiment: if only they’d made different choices, if only they could try again, maybe things would be different. But you’ve already made every possible choice, and none of it mattered at all, right? Well, not quite.

The final choice of the experience is “Let Go” or “Hold On.” Clinging to Mark before he’s sucked back in time, you have one final choice, one final chance to end things. Mark pleads with you, begs you to let him go so that he can go back again and try to stop this all from happening, but we already know the results of that. An endless loop of suffering caused by a wormhole out of control that none of you can stop. And if you choose “Let Go,” the cycle continues again. You loop back all the way to the beginning again, to make the same choices and get the same results.  

In this entire story, across both parts and all the countless universes that you visit, there’s only ONE choice that matters. And it’s the choice to “Hold On.” Holding on and refusing to let Mark go back in time stops the destruction of both the Invincible and of the universe, and Mark breaks down as he realizes that all this time, it was his fault that everybody died, his fault that the paradox was created. But now, thanks to you, everything is over, and the universe can reset again, back to its original state. This is the only true ending, because while not all choices matter, some choices are everything, and this choice, to stick by Mark until the end and ultimately stop him, is what saves the entire universe.

And those themes, of choice and the illusion of choice and how our choices affect the people around us? They are enhanced so greatly by the use of youtube as an interactive medium. While I do believe that the story would have still been good if it were told in a more traditional way, everything about the interactive, self-insert style that Mark used enhanced ISWM to greatness, right down to the use of fake annotations to show reality collapsing as the wormhole consumed your choices right from under you. And that's all without even touching on the metanarrative, and how youtube affects and enhances that.

I could go on, about the story and the characters and the themes and the ARG between parts 1 and 2, but I’ll go ahead and leave this where it is for now; if you’d like to hear my thoughts on the rest of the elements of ISWM I’ll probably make another post about it, it has consumed my life after all. But for now, have a fantastic day, and remember, if you see a wormhole out there, remember! PEDL!

[celery-juice]

The Mugs of ISWM

I absolutely love the strangely topical mugs of ISWM 2, but I don’t think many people noticed them! So, allow me to enlighten you:

The first mug you’ll see is always:

“I Destroyed The Universe And All I Got Was This Stupid Mug!” It’s funny and cute, but a bit melancholy in the context of the scene. You see it when you first encounter old man Mark and he reflects on how his mission to fix everything has done nothing but ruin his own life. That mug really is the only thing he gained from decades of thankless work, from so many lives lived over and over again. It’s also a double entendre, not only alluding to Mark resetting the universe but also him being the reason the universe needed resetting.

You encounter old man Mark and his mugs again right before the endings.

For most of the scene he is covering the text with his fingers, so it’s hard to read, but you get a good look after he disappears. It says “I Don’t Want To Be Free”. Throughout the scene Mark reveals that he can feel the end coming, and he’s happy about it. He doesn’t want to be free to hop universe to universe, live life after life. At this point Mark’s lived an unknown number of lives, all with a constant stress and urgency overwhelming him, forcing himself to move forward. He’s happy to stop, to finally be able to remain in place again.

Each ending has their own mugs, but let’s start with if you hold on to Mark.

In this ending, the Invincible has successfully traveled to it’s destination without the warp core. When you wake up the crew is bustling around, complimenting you, preparing for landing. Everyone is happy and everything is amazing. Mark woke up before you and has a mug that says “Wakey Wakey Protocol.” By being a simple "gotta have my coffee” joke, this mug really adds to the mood of serenity. Although Wakey Wakey Protocol hasn’t been a good phrase throughout ISWM 1 nor 2, that’s purely by association. The warp core’s time loop corrupted the phrase to mean failure, but it was originally just a silly name for a wake up procedure. Now that the core has been destroyed, the mug’s label reinstates it as a joke. Everything really is as it would be without the warp core.

In the other ending, when you let Mark go, a woman listed in the credits as “Dorene L. Whitacre” gives you a mug.

It simply says “Buh Bye!” This seems more ironic than anything, as you are not truly saying goodbye to anything in this scene. Dorene is certain she’ll see you again soon, and you’ve just perpetuated a time loop, so you’ll certainly be back.

Dorene also has her own mug, but it is very hard to make out.

My best guess is that it says “Have We Seen You Here Before?” But that’s not all! When talking about the alternate ending earlier, I neglected to mention that you have your own mug. When Dorene sits down, you can briefly see the other side of her mug and..

They’re the same mug! Saying you are Dorene is definitely a stretch, but this implies you and Dorene have a lot in common. It is also very telling that you see only one side of the mug depending on whether you or Dorene are holding it. If the text is “Have We Seen You Here Before”, then Dorene is most likely even more familiar with the timeloop than you, having replayed this specific conversation multiple times already. Combined with her sudden appearance yet complete preparedness, Dorene may be able to control her universe and time travel.

In your hands the “#1 Captain” moniker doesn’t mean much. I’m not sure it means anything for Dorene either, but if it does she may have been captain of the original Invincible. Perhaps your mug was originally hers.

[autumninthelibrary]

In defense of the Actor, and the importance of subplot

Okay I’ve had a lot of time to think about what I wanted to write on first regarding ISWM, and the more I sit and think on it the more I find myself shoehorned into writing about Yancy as a plot device

It should go without saying, but spoilers below this point, and it’s a long read so apologies in advance lol

Yancy exists within this story line as a brief look into the Actor’s psyche. Their stories are fairly parallel; they’ve experienced a lot of grief thanks in large part to their own actions and reactions to events, they’ve both got anger issues and violent tendencies, they adore to create for the people around them and they exist as part of a system that operates outside of standard society, with Yancy’s being the prison system and the Actor’s being whatever universal gook he Dark and Will operate in thanks to their time spent in the house.

So if you haven’t watched @eddeha’s video yet, one where have you fucking been but two a fairly significant point he makes in this is that most of the egos that we have seen thus far aren’t actually true egos in the sense that Dark and Wilford are, but rather simply roles that the Actor takes on so he can still act in his projects after his starter role has been displaced. Operating under this logic, Yancy would also be one of those roles the Actor took on after his main role was beat the fuck out of in the prison. Like I said earlier, there are a large number of similarities between the role of Yancy and the backstory of the Actor, and this makes it easier for a little bit of truth to sort of, bleed into Yancy’s role.

We can see based on the choices he makes during heist approximately where his own opinion of himself really lies. He’s aware that he’s hurt the people closest to him, evident with giving Yancy the trait of having murdered his parents. He’s aware that Yancy doing so was a wrong thing, evident by him existing in part of the prison system at all (and that also subtly ties back to a remark made by Damien in his animation in which he refers to acting under, uh, the actor, in this universe as akin to being held prisoner). His refusal of parole is akin to his own believed lack of genuine redemption for his actions. I mean, he’s in a prison that is explicitly stated to having focus on rehabilitation over punishment, and Yancy is actively avoiding applying for parole. He obviously does not believe rehabilitation is possible at this point in time, and that’s why it’s so incredibly significant that he does finally apply during his route in ISWM, especially considering what all happens in the primary plot of Space.

Yancy, in his little clip during ISWM is shown making amends to his role. He’s cleaning up his act, and for reasons outside of personal gain. He’s taking steps to stop causing other people suffering, no matter how habitual that suffering has become. Hell, he’s been stab free since he last saw us, which depending on what time we warped back into his universe in could be three years or ten days, but it’s still a significant amount of time that he expresses his own pride in commitment to, which shows that he’s both capable of and willing to change his actions for the better. He’s still creating while he’s improving his choices as well, which show that he’s starting to better define the lines between who he was and who he wants to be, the parts of himself he enjoys and the parts he wants to change for the better. Most notably, he applies for parole. This character, who previously believed himself completely irredeemable, someone who by definition could not be rehabilitated, has made the choice to apply for parole. Not only does he now want to atone for his mistakes, he believes he can and has actively started to, and this is all incredibly symbolic of the Actor finally changing his ways.

The Actor up to this point has been a very one dimensional character; he’s a narcissistic asshole with a massive ego who hurts those around him. That’s it, that’s his whole role. But we see in this project, that starts to chip away bit by bit, because again, the Engineer is another character that it is really easy for the Actor to empathize with. He’s the main guy in charge of a closed system, he’s got all his friends with him and all of them look up to him to some extent, he’s kept the camaraderie with the same friends and the animosity with the same not-quite-friends-anymore, and out of nowhere shit hits the fan and he’s gotta fix it but is completely unable to. Actually, if you pay close enough attention to the Mark Lives!Wake The Crew route in part one, the script up until the snapshot parallels almost exactly the plot of episode one of Who Killed Markiplier, just viewed through the lens of interstellar catastrophe instead of the lens of a poker night gone wrong, and then the snapshot is just the Viewers perspective from trapped inside the mirror at the end of part four of WKM, so it’s safe to say this role comes really easy to Actor Mark here.

So, just like with Yancy, it serves us well to pay attention to his choices as the head engineer, and how the different hims interact with each other and those around them. We get to talk to different versions of the Engineer at different stages of personal development, some in complete denial of any wrongdoings and others wholly mourning the loss of everything at their own hands, and eventually, come the one and only ending to this project, the Actor owns up to his mistakes, apologizes more than once, and takes action, or rather inaction, to make sure the cycle of pain doesn’t continue. This character who has unwillingly shoehorned him self into the role of the asshole bad guy, who up to this point seemed to be making no steps to change this, suddenly breaks down in front of us and genuinely apologizes. He’s no longer expecting automatic redemption in the eyes of the audience just by simply playing the hero, he’s working for it.

See, it’s really, really hard to get a read on who the Actor genuinely was as a person, as we’ve really only seen him operate as The Actor while under the influence of the Entity. Given that the Entity’s primary function is to manipulate the people around it by planting ideas in their heads that cause them to act in the Entity’s interests, while also convincing the person that they’re manipulating that the ideas are their own and are for their own benefit, you can see how it is hard to grasp what really lies underneath all that smoke. The only real foundations we have for the Actor are “heartbroken idiot who believed the ends justified the means”, which admittedly isn’t a whole lot to work with in terms of personality, but it does set him up perfectly for a redemption arc.

So, Yancy has applied for parole. Awesome, we’re seeing character development for one of the main ego idiots tumblr has been drooling over since his inception in Heist. Yeah there’s a lot of parallels between the two’s roles in heist and space, but how can you be sure that’s what they meant by it all?

It becomes more clear at the end of part two how his time spent in the role of Yancy has shifted his line of reasoning. As the actor, it was impossible for him to be in the wrong, because in his mind if you make mistakes that makes you the bad guy, and it is an impossibility for himself to be the bad guy here so therefore it is an impossibility for him to have done anything wrong. Him having made mistakes is completely in-congruent with his own self concept, so he rejects anything that may have implied such. However, he knows something wrong has happened, and as his internalized role as the Hero that makes it his job to go and fix it. So, he gets to work trying to make it better, but because of this logical fallacy he is looking in all the wrong places, and continuing to hurt those around him and make the problem worse. It is only after playing Yancy, a character who was the irredeemable bad guy who later made choices to redeem himself, a character that it is easy for the actor to empathize with, that he was able to see where his logic was flawed and where the actual error lay.

The speech given as the Engineer really serves to drive home this idea of genuine understanding at his wrongdoings, even outside of ISWM, so let’s dissect it a bit.

Starting with the line that I think broke all of our hearts here, “I, Captain I’m tired. I don’t know the last time I’ve slept was. I don’t know if I’ve slept at all. Have you?” Immediately after being faced with an identity shattering truth, we have the Engineer reciting almost a direct parallel to Celine’s speech in DAMIEN, spoken after she had worked for eons to keep the person she cared for most safe, who had also just faced an identity shattering truth, a line which was used to signify Celine’s own acceptance of what happened and willingness to move on from the grief, and which was accompanied by the same track of music that has followed the evolution and growth of the entire primary cast post the events of WKM, a track of music Mark one claimed he would never use again following the end of DAMIEN but has dug back up due to its significance to the story.

Not only that, he turns the script on us. He doesn’t know the last time he’s slept, if he’s slept at all, because he knows he’s spent lifetimes working to undo and fix this mess, but he is also now aware that we have been doing the same thing, working just as hard across multiple different lives trying to fix the mess that he was continuing to create around us. He recognizes that his actions have had an impact on us, and he apologizes for it.

“I’m really sorry. I thought the only way to stop this was to stop you, stop all this from happening in the first place, but it was me”. He’s allowing this information to sink into his head, because before this point he knew the two main people in charge here were him and us, and according to his previous logic it was impossible for him to do anything wrong, and that just left us to be the bad guys here. However, he’s no longer shying away from the reality that he is flawed, despite how much pain it brings him, because after having spent so much time focused on trying to resolve all the suffering of the people around him, which has taken long enough for that pain to become a solidified and undeniable fact to him, finally having a place to rest the blame that objectively makes sense is enough to override whatever self defense mechanisms might exist to protect his ego.

It also follows that this is applicable to the timeline outside of ISWM, as we can see the Warp Core with us in the Upside Down just before the universe reboot in part one, which works to imply that the Actor was using this project as a sort of medium to fix his reality. The only other times we’ve been pulled into the Upside Down outside of WKM was done by Dark, and it was done against the original plot of the story and to meet a personal agenda. It’s safe to say that if the Actor is bringing us there, it is in tune with his goals for that project and for himself, and since he wanted to leave us there he genuinely did not want us to be able to have an effect on his stories anymore, implying he believed our effect on his stories in the past is what caused all of that suffering in the first place.

Instead of trying to hide from his actions when faced with them, he meets them head on and apologizes for the mistakes made across multiple lives. “All those mistakes, all those lifetimes, all those people”, he’s no longer talking about just ISWM here, he’s talking about way back in WKM, and every project that followed. He’s put so much effort into fixing the mess he’s found himself in, and unknowingly until now been making everything worse. It’s here we see him actually come to terms with the significance of what all he’s done.

Which takes us to the final tear jerker, “I guess I lost hope. But you didn’t, you never did”. He recognizes that he has caused strife. He recognizes that he has made terrible choices, that have cost the people around them their lives. And he recognizes that we have been working just as long as him to fix this mess, and that at no point in our journey to this point in the timeline did we ever fully give up on the idea that things could improve. That he could improve. He had lodged himself into this idea that he was a static good character, and now he realizes that’s not exactly the case. And before he could fully settle into the alternate mindset of static bad, he realizes that we could see that he wasn’t a perfect character, and despite that we still followed him into the fray every time, still chose to believe in him even when he couldn’t believe in himself. He doesn’t see himself as wholly good, but we haven’t given up on him so we must not see him as a wholly bad either, which is the first open door he’s had towards allowing a grey and dynamic morality.

Now, that’s a lot of character development to come across in ten lines, after having been so one dimensional for over half a decade. And it’s a wonderful thing! I applaud this fictional character for taking that final step towards growth. The point I am trying to make here, is that the Actor needed to see that this level of change was possible before he was willing to attempt it for himself. The time in his roles with characters who are unsavory on the surface level, like Yancy, characters he can easily empathize with, were the essential first step towards growth. The Actor has been put through an eternity in a hell of his own creation, and he’s spent lifetimes believing the only two states of being are universally good and universally bad, and that mindset has let him continue to hurt the people he cares for. He was able to see a little of himself in the personality of Yancy, and watched him still start to get his happy ending despite how much shit he’s done wrong, and saw that that only came when he accepted that he’s imperfect and still strove to be better than he was yesterday, and because of that the Actor was able to rationalize in his head that maybe the same would be possible for him, and we see that come through in his apology speech as the engineer.

We still don’t really have a solid read on the Actor as a definite character, which is why it’s so important to pay attention to the roles he casts himself in for these projects. It’s a means for us to see what lies underneath all the smoke left behind by the Entity, and given the events of these past two projects I’d be willing to bet money that the end of ISWM was just the beginning of the shift from the Actor having a subplot to the Actor’s development being the primary plot, one of which I am more than excited to watch unfold. Nobody is completely irredeemable if they don’t want to be, and I cannot wait to see what comes next now that the Actor has begun to believe it.

[projectwkm]

people underestimate dark’s part in all this LOL not once has he been of any help to us 😭 we know he’s not just composed of celine and damien, that the manor entity is a part of them too, and though i’ve seen people using mark’s description of dark as a “social manipulator” for ACTOR, i think it still very heavily applies to dark. dark clearly wants actor gone from the picture and wants his revenge on actor, and wants . something ? from us, but other than cryptically reminding us of the past in heist + complaining in date, he… really hasn’t been much help.

sure, we shouldn’t trust actor, but we have even LESS reason to trust dark too. he’s not the villain, sure, but he’s far from the hero — trusting either of them entirely is the viewer’s downfall.

[interdimensionalspaceworm]

A short musical analysis of ISWM from someone who knows nothing about music

so i'm going through iswm again but specifically listening to the music this time, because i've been watching videos about movie music lately, so despite me knowing absolutely nothing about music i'm trying to pretend i do. ANYWAY.

preliminary findings: Yes, Space Is So Cool is EVERYWHERE. it's in the main theme, it's in the scene at the beginning where the crew give you a toast, it's in the noir world, variations of it pop up in almost all the alternate universes in part 2. at the very end, while the first ships are departing for the new planet, you can even hear a subtle version of the 'millions and billions of stars' part of it, which i had never heard before, and thought was really cool. but it's not the only thing going on.

i've been trying to find musical cues for the crew and... i don't know... i want to say there aren't any, because the musical choices are so all over the place, but there definitely are at least one or two. there is for certain a military-style snare drum thing going on for gunther (go to his introduction in 'wake the crew', when he's talking about going 'rat hunting' in 'call an emergency meeting', and his mutiny) and a cymbals effect used pretty often with burt, though this might just be coincidental (again, in his part in 'wake the crew' and a few times in 'call an emergency meeting'). I can't find much for celci, except for a different, 'techier' version of a track we hear a few times as she appears in 'wake the crew'. I'd argue that 'Space Is So Cool' is Mark's cue, and not only for our Mark but EVERY Mark, since not only does (multiple versions of) Mark deliver its reprise, but we also only ever hear it (afaik) when some version of Mark is with us or near us.

theme music is mostly reserved for important moments, with the rest having subtle or no music at all. it's honestly really inconsistent. there is, however, a definite musical language. the warp core has its own music that plays when we are in 'warp core space' when we get the crystal and again when we meet a dying Lady. the scenes on the invincible often utilize similar sounds and musical style to each other, which i realized as i was writing this is variations of the iswm theme that plays in the credits before the last goodbye. the alternate universes are tied together by the familiar, yet different sounds of the 'Space Is So Cool' variants just as they are thematically tied together by the familiar, yet different variants of Mark in them. Even the false 'good' ending in part 1, where we become paranoid and seal the colony away, has the same music as when we emerge and check on the crew at the real ending in part 2. In the true ending, however, the music eventually turns into a more hopeful piece of music as you realize that everything's genuinely okay.

i could go into how i think the background music also acts as a kind of indicator of the Captain's emotions when they are alone and their hands and movements aren't enough to portray how they feel but that's a post for another day and this one's long and rambly enough as it is.

anyway uh yeah. another layer to an already complex project. look for yourself if you don't believe me... maybe you'll find something i missed!

[do-angels-dream-of-starry-seas]

All dialogue in In Space With Markiplier

Keep in mind that it might not all be accurate as it might not be the correct people speaking.

Lio: This is your ship, correct?

Mark: Oh, yeah! That's my ship, it's my pride and joy, The Invincible.

Mark: I mean it's our ship actually, this is the captain so technically, they [the viewer] are in charge.

Lio: Oh. *to viewer* You're in charge?

*overlapping screams*

Masculine voice: Make way!

Tyler: I don't know what's happening, Captain.

Lio: So this ship is your responsibility.

*overlapping*

Pam: Mark, look at this [too muffled]

*after an explosion shot*

Mark: I swear, if one more thing happens on my ship, I'm gonna lose it!

*Mark screaming as he dies*

Computer: Warning: large object on comission course with ship. Brace for impact.

*Mark screams*

Mark: It's up to the Captain.

*Mark yelps*

Mark: They haven't let us down yet.

*Mark screams*

Mark: Captain, something is very wron-! [glitches out to next dialogue]

Mark: - And we seem to have this situation all under control.

Pam: We have to fix this now or we're all gonna die!

*overlap with Mark's screams*

Mark: *strained* Captain?

Mick: It all comes down...

*overlapping*

Mark: They wouldn't do that.

Mick: To bad leadership.

Mark: *distant yelling* CAPTAAAAAIN!

*Mark yells*

Feminine voice 1: Have you ever considered that there is no right answer?

Feminine voice 2: Have we been here... before?

Lio: Every mistake is costing lives of people who have trusted you!

Mark: Which means that if I'm seeing it, I must be crazy, but I'm not crazy!

Pam?: Everything has to end.

Mark: (indistinguishable) and I go. Then I come back and I always come back!

Pam?: And everything has to begin.

Mark: Hey there Captain. I don't feel so ho - (various animal noises). Ow.