History WMG / TheSlenderManMythos

[[WMG: Slendy is related to WebOriginal/TheRake somehow.]]

[[WMG: Slenderman is a humanoid [[Characters/RWBYCreaturesOfGrimm Creature of Grimm]].]]

* Color scheme: Grimm Creatures are mostly black with some white and a little bit of red. Slenderman's black suit and black CombatTentacles account for the majority of his color, his skin is white, and his tie has been varyingly depicted as black or red.
** Mimicking the WhiteMaskOfDoom aesthetic - Slenderman with his [[TheBlank blank face]] and the Grimm creatures with their skull-like markings.
* Reaction to negative emotions: Grimm Creatures are explicitly stated to be drawn towards negative emotions. Slenderman's typical hunting pattern involves [[JustToyingWithThem way more stalking and chasing]] than is [[GetItOverWith strictly necessary for capture]], which implies that he's deliberately provoking fear for as long as he can get away with doing so.

Slenderman can outperform a few key vampiric powers and exploit a few key vampiric weaknesses. A DaywalkingVampire will [[DaylightHorror not be safe from Slenderman during the day]]. Unlike some vampires, Slenderman can [[OffscreenTeleportation teleport]] across [[CannotCrossRunningWater running water]] and break into where he's [[MustBeInvited not invited]] (granted, he might have a little bit of difficulty), which means he can outmaneuver and corner vampires with those weaknesses. Slenderman's OffscreenTeleportation can keep up with vampires who turn into SuperSmoke or [[{{Animorphism}} a bat]] for faster travel. His CombatTentacles can fend off a ZergRush of vampires. To add insult to injury, Slenderman's blood ([[BizarreAlienBiology if he even has any]]) is probably toxic to vampires.

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[[WMG: The tulpa Slender Man was created by LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya]]

* Cursed to wander the earth, "marked" in a certain manner... committed the first murder.... Cain's a likely candidate for Slendy as well. God Himself warned Cain that his hate and sin could potentially consume him completely if he did not keep it under control (Genesis 4:6-7). The Mark of Cain that causes harm done to rebound on the doer sevenfold is the crossed-out circle. Plus, Slendy might be a ''zombified'' Cain: in Literature/TheBible, Lamech, sixth-generation [[TheDescendantsOfCain descendant of Cain]], ''apparently killed him'' (at least that's one way of reading Genesis 4:19-24) and boasted that "if Cain be avenged seven times, then let Lamech be avenged seventy-seven times!" Not much is mentioned about what happened to Lamech afterward, [[spoiler: so it must have been something so horrific that even the gore-loving Old Testament writers wouldn't write of it]] but apparently the First Murderer's up and about again.

[[WMG: The Slender Man is H.P. Lovecraft himself.]]

[[WMG: Slender Man is the ghost of Abraham Lincoln.]]

Hupias have no definite form, but sometimes appear as faceless humanoids. In ''Book/JurassicPark'' by Creator/MichaelCrichton, hupias are described as "night ghosts, faceless vampires who kidnapped small children".

[[WMG: The Slender Man is actually [[Wiki/SCPFoundation an SCP object]].]]
He is a Keter level SCP object that has been deemed impossible to contain by the Wiki/SCPFoundation. Thus they just opt to register all cases of people interacting with Slendy and administer amnesiacs to all involved. The bouts of LaserGuidedAmnesia are not caused by Slendy, but rather by Foundation agents who regularily memory wipe all who interact with Slendy. To support this, they also keep up a disinformation campaign to paint all reports of Slendy as mere [[AlternateRealityGame Alternate Reality Games]]. A percentage of all the Slender Man related sites are most likely fakes kept up by the Foundation to make the real reports seem unreliable.

[[WMG: Wiki/ThatOtherWiki's page deletion is the result of Slendy]]

* Hence my skepticism. Instead, I believe the page was deleted as a way of freaking people out more...somehow. Instead of having all the information you need about him in one spot, you are forced to scour the 'net for info., thus becoming deeper involved in the mystery, whereas if there were one comprehensive page (because let's face it, Wiki/TVTropes, this page just isn't comprehensive enough) you could skim it, go 'eh', and not give a damn.

[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Man_factor The “Third Man Effect”]] (named for a line in T. S. Elliot’s ''Literature/TheWasteLand'') is a RealLife phenomenon where people in danger (typically in the wilderness) report feeling as if another person is there beside them, often helping and guiding them to safety. There are a variety of psychological explanations for how this may be a survival mechanism produced by the human mind, but more spiritually-inclined people who have experienced it tend to prefer to interpret it as a real GuardianEntity, possibly an angel. (The book that coined the term moves towards this interpretation at the end, with the author wondering if there is “only one Third Man” that can only be in one place at a time.) Like Slenderman, the Third Man was only written about as a larger phenomenon in the 21st century, but stories of such incidents can be found in art and literature going back much farther, most famously among the polar explorers of the early 20th century. (Titus in the novel ''Literature/TheWhiteDarkness'' is based on these reports.) Just like Slenderman sometimes seems to shapeshift and appear as other people, in some Third Man cases, the people rescued felt like the entity helping them was someone specific, often a deceased loved one. Slenderman is also (sometimes) encountered [[TheLostWoods out in the wilds]], but (usually) harms people instead of guiding them to safety, and is frightening and madness-inducing while in most Third Man stories, the entity is calming or at worst CreepyGood. Maybe Slenderman is the Third Man’s evil opposite, or a similar kind of entity that was somehow corrupted? (If we go with the other theories here that Slendy ''is'' benevolent and trying to help but just bad at it or misunderstood in his actions, maybe he’s just a faulty or confused Third Man?) This can also tie in with the theories of Slendy being a fey or the Mothman— these could also be varying manifestations of the same entity.

[[NothingIsScarier Barely anything is concretely known about Slendy]], [[NightmareFuel he's certainly scary and dangerous]], and primarily [[AdultFear targets kids.]] Sounds like the kind of Anvilicious Strawman you'd see in a stranger danger PSA. As suggested elsewhere, Slendy is the fear of strangers embodied. Nowadays, strangers are more scarier when it involves kids, mainly because [[PaedoHunt of what they might "do" to them.]]

* I know i'm late to thr party, but I would like to add my two cents its an Ironic Hell for him. HP Lovecraft was a notirious white supremacist who fered the unknown as being [[Main/EldritchAbomination EldritchAbominations]], so the Powers That Be turrned him into a pale tentacled monster who has no face and thus no (white) identity, while being unknown and unknowable to all.

[[WMG: Furthermore, Slenderman is capable of having kids with [[Characters/RWBYSalemsFaction Salem]].]]

Perhaps Slender is a RealityWarper entity that escaped from the Backrooms.

Maybe being chosen by Slender is one way to be sent to his home level.

He allows getting caught on pictures and tapes, as well as being subject of blogs, so he can make people contemplate his motives more, as this makes his job easier and people respecting him. He is trying to go after people like [[Webcomic/{{Sonichu}} Chris-chan]] or [[Webcomic/CtrlAltDel Tim Bukley]], as their hatedoms would cheer for him killing them, but he is planning to make the deaths ironic. He, however, is The Entity stalking [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] - defeating and breaking a popular reviewer will leave his fandom terrified of him and send a stright message - make good fanfiction or at least decent fanfiction, or else.

[[Franchise/TheFearMythos Fears]] are allies or other rogue agents he brought to help his cause...or have an agenda or their own. [[WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID HABIT]] might also come from TheMultiverse and has some sort of plan, but Slendy finds it too ridiculous to thinks of him as more than mere annoyance.

Slender Man goes after kids, because they have wild imagination and often likes to create stories, that would come out as sueish, if written by older people. All children he killed? They had potential to create MS when they grow up. Of course, they had potential to actually learn and become skilled writers and now all stories they could give us are lost forever. Which means that he might be threat to his native Multiverse - by killing future creators he will immiediately cut out Multiverse's supply of new worlds. Without writers there will be no fiction. Without fiction Multiverse will stop evolving. And what cannot evolve, must die. He will throw our world into depths of despair and apathy created by lack of creativity and entertainment and doom his own, along with countless of others.

* The Fanfic/AntiClicheAndMarySueEliminationSociety apologizes for the actions of Agent Slendy.

*** Bite me, clicher. We've got the fucker's dossier. He's one of ours. You want the scumbag, you'll have to go through Internal Affairs. And we'll be bringing Security Dandelions as backup. We are the PPC. We handle our own. No matter the cost. So push off, if you know what's good for you.

Slender Man is a rogue agent of the WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum or Fanfic/AntiClicheAndMarySueEliminationSociety that decided the only way to get rid of badly written fanfictions full of [[MarySue Sues]] and [[PlotHole Plot Holes]] that haunts TheMultiverse was to eliminate their creators by killing them, driving them crazy or scaring them shitless.

H(a)unting is his StartOfDarkness, where he entered the world created by bad Mary Sue fanfiction of himself, worse, he has to fight his own copy, that had become local Sue's guardian. And he lost. This lead him to conclusion that his mission could never be acomplished, as every world he fixes was replaced with two more, each being even bigger mess that previous one. He found a way to travel beyond the Multiverse, to the world that, as he found out, is home of writers, who created all other world. To our world. He wanted to punish those mad demiurges, who dare to pollute his precious Multiverse with their crap, but thanks to some sort of TimeyWimeyBall he appeared before H(a)unting was created, bringing creation to his own mythos. All those badly-written fanfictions that sudennly stopped updating and their creators dissapeared from the web? He killed them.

He allows getting caught on pictures and tapes, as well as being subject of blogs, so he can make people fear him more, as this makes his job easier and people more afraid of him. He didn't go after people like [[Webcomic/{{Sonichu}} Chris-chan]] or [[Webcomic/CtrlAltDel Tim Bukley]], as their hatedoms would cheer for him killing them, and he doesn't want to be loved or worshipped - only feared. He, however, is The Entity stalking [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] - defeating and breaking popular reviewer will leave his fandom terrified of him and send stright message - nobody is safe.

* or relatives http://aelur.deviantart.com/art/Jack-and-Slenderman-169959022

Realizing people nowadays are harder to scare, Jack Skelington decides to do some field research. After learning about what people are scared of nowadays, he comes out for a fresh new idea for scaring people in the form of The Slender Man. Notice how both Slendy and Jack are really tall and really, well, slender.
He does what he does because scaring is what he does best.

[[WMG: The Slender Man is [[TheMissingno Missingno]]. ]]