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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** It isn't too long before the mall becomes too much for Wyatt, and he decides to get out. Unfortunately, things aren't gonna be that easy...
** [[spoiler:In ''Dispersal'', after the original fatal escape attempt replays at when the Giant crashes into the catwalk and damages some of the mall's structure, things playout as before except Wyatt avoids falling to his death this time. Wasting little time, Wyatt makes what seems to be an adrenaline-fueled sprint up the newly-found stairwell tunnels to reach the surface.]]

** ''Dispersal'' involves what initially appears to be a SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong scheme. [[spoiler:Time is apparently reversed to allow Wyatt to successfully hop to the escape stairwell he lethally failed to reach in the previous timeline. This allows for a new ending where Wyatt escapes back to his car and leaves the anomaly site.

* TimeCrash: Of the "fast forward through time" variety. The mall's first ''possible'' time skip is when Wyatt tries leaving the mall only to find that [[spoiler:the great stairwell he entered from has caved in]]. However, the most definite leap through time is when Wyatt ends up in a "future" with the mall overgrown in foliage.

** The exact nature of the events of "Dispersal" are unclear. Though Wyatt [[spoiler: died at the end of part three, part four opens with a rewind to just before he fell, with him escaping the mall and making it back to his car in the real world. The section ends with a POV shot of what is (presumably) the Rolling Giant, having also escaped the mall and following Wyatt.]] Is this some kind of DyingDream? Did the Giant/the Mall somehow reverse time, and if so, is Wyatt aware that he was [[spoiler:saved from his original death?]] Is the outside world even the "outside" and Wyatt is still in the mall? Are Wyatt and the Rolling Giant now, somehow, the same being?

** The exact nature of the events of "Dispersal" are unclear. Though Wyatt [[spoiler: died at the end of part three, part four opens with a rewind to just before he fell, with him escaping the mall and making it back to his car in the real world. The section ends with a POV shot of what is (presumably) the Rolling Giant, having also escaped the mall and following Wyatt.]] Is this some kind of DyingDream? Did the Giant/the Mall somehow reverse time, and if so, is Wyatt aware that he was saved from his original death? Is the outside world even the "outside" and Wyatt is still in the mall? Are Wyatt and the Rolling Giant now, somehow, the same being?

** The exact nature of the events of "Dispersal" are unclear. Though Wyatt [[spoiler: died at the end of part three, part four opens with a rewind to just before he fell, with him escaping the mall and making it back to his car in the real world. The section ends with a POV shot of what is (presumably) the Rolling Giant, having also escaped the mall and following Wyatt.]] Is this some kind of DyingDream? Did the Giant/the Mall somehow reverse time? Is the outside world even the "outside" and Wyatt is still in the mall? Are Wyatt and the Rolling Giant now, somehow, the same being?

** [[spoiler:In ''Dispersal'', after the original fatal escape attempt is played again back at when the Giant crashes into the catwalk and damages some of the mall's structure, things playvout as before except Wyatt avoids falling to his death this time. Wasting little time, Wyatt makes what seems to be an adrenaline-fueled sprint up the newly-found stairwell tunnels to reach the surface.]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: It isn't too long before the mall becomes too much for Wyatt, and he decides to get out. Unfortunately, things aren't gonna be that easy...

** Part 3 can be seen as more of a {{Pastiche}} of the FoundFootage episodes of the Backrooms series, but there are key differences that flip some things around. The basics are all there: Protagonist gets trapped in a nightmarish, otherworldly liminal space while filming a video, and they get stalked and chased around said space by a mysterious and seemingly hostile entity. However, unlike the biological Bacteria entity, the main antagonist is a haunted mechanical construct who exhibits malicious traits and can even outright ''teleport''. The mall itself also seems to have a sentience as the place suddenly powers up and starts playing music and the entrance that Wyatt entered from is [[spoiler:replaced with a wall of debris]]. The video also differs in that, [[spoiler:while the protagonists of both Backrooms Found Footage videos meet with UncertainDoom, Wyatt's death is actually confirmed on-screen.]]

** The exact nature of the events of ''Dispersal'' are unclear. Though Wyatt [[spoiler: died at the end of part three, part four opens with a rewind to just before he fell, with him escaping the mall and making it back to his car in the real world. The section ends with a POV shot of what is (presumably) the Rolling Giant, having also escaped the mall and following Wyatt.]] Is this some kind of DyingDream? Did the Giant/the Mall somehow reverse time? Is the outside world even the "outside" and Wyatt is still in the mall? Are Wyatt and the Rolling Giant now, somehow, the same being?

* BackFromTheDead: A unique example. In "Dispersal", [[spoiler:the Giant somehow alters time so that Wyatt doesn't fall to his death in "The Rolling Giant" when the ledge breaks under him. When the scene repeats, Wyatt makes the jump and the ledge holds, allowing him to escape the mall]].