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Who Killed Markiplier?

Throughout all chapters

• The Running Gag of lightning striking whenever someone says the word "murder".
  • Also when several people say "killed" instead of murder they pause to wait for a lightning strike that doesn't happen.
• All of the Jim Shorts, especially DEMONS, JIM, DEMONS!!

Chapter 1

• The characters' reactions to discovering Mark's body one after the other:
  Detective: Anyone hear that lightni– Oh my God! There's been a murder! (lightning)
  Butler: Excuse me, did you hear light– Oh my God, murder! (lightning)
  Chef: Did you– MURDERRRR! (lightning)
• Anything the detective says.
  Detective: Who's in charge around here? Trick question! That guy! And he's dead now, which makes me in charge, so you'd better listen up good, bucko.
  ———
  Detective: But I'm a detective–
  Chef: Oh yeah? Prove you're a real dick!
  ———
  Butler: Sir, the body's cold, he's been dead a while.
  Detective: A likely story! ...That I happen to believe completely.
  ———
  Detective: Ah, those are my old partners. Don't ask me about them. Fine! I'll tell you!
  ———
  Detective: You're my new partner!
  District Attorney: (immediately shakes head "no")
  Detective: (laughs) That's what all my old partners used to say. Right before they died. (Pan to Chef who has the most bewildered expression on his face)
• The Detective's Curse causing his partners to die? Disturbing. This happening so many times that the collection of pictures reaches from his shoulders to his waist? Darkly Hilarious.
• When you turn around to find the Detective's fingerprinting kit and don't, you turn around again and find out it's already been taken care of. He then proceeds to casually toss the kit aside without breaking eye contact with you.
• Whoever made the tape outline of Mark's corpse had the wonderful idea to include Mark's penis in the outline.
• How does the Detective determine Mark's time of death?
  Detective: Judging by the temperature of the body that I measured rectally, which is obviously the most accurate way to get the inner body temperature of a corpse. That's a fact, totally procedure. Don't tell anyone I did it.

Chapter 2

• After Mark's body disappears, the Detective is furious and starts wondering who moved it.
  Detective: WHO DID THIS?! It certainly wasn't me! No, no, somebody, NOT ME, must have moved it between the time I was the last person alone with the body in the room and then stepped out for a few minutes to take care of some personal business that you don't need to know about! Could have been anybody... except me.
  • And then the Butler walks in.
  Butler: What the hell happened here?
  Detective: The body's been moved.
  Butler: On its own?
  Detective: No, of course not. Unless it did, in which case we've got way bigger problems than a simple murder.
  • Then Chef walks in.
  Chef: What the hell happened here?
  Butler: The body's moved.
  Chef: On its own?
  Detective: We haven't quite ruled that out just yet, but let's not forget we've got a murderer.
• The Colonel defines the Cloudcuckoolander trope, especially in his vitriolic interactions with the detective.
  Detective: This psycho tried to shoot me!
  Colonel: That's a baldfaced lie! I was merely doing some light target practice.
  Butler: Inside?!
• "SHUT UP! YOU KNEW I WAS ONTO YOU AND YOU WERE TRYING TO WHACK ME OFF BEFORE I COULD FINGER YOU!!" (awkward silence) "AS THE MURDERER!"
  • Made even funnier by the pause. Especially with the detective's reaction. It's not explained though if he either lost his train of thought or was just realizing what he just said.

Side Stories

Wilford 'MOTHERLOVIN'' Warfstache

• The entire sequence of Abe trying to arrest Wilford Warfstache at the disco. Wilford's movements really sell it, as he misinterprets Abe's orders and just continues to dance, and it takes Abe shooting the speaker playing the music to finally get him to knock it off, but even then, he's oblivious to Abe at first:
  Warfstache: Why'd the music stop?
• Abe's over-the-top freaking out in response to Warfstache somehow reading his mind. Especially when he just shouts random words to see how Warfstache will respond.
  Abe: (In his head) Aardvark. Pumpernickel.
  Warfstache: What are you doing?
  Abe: (In his head) Calabasas!
  Warfstache: Are you okay?
  Abe: HOW ARE YOU IN MY HEAD?!
  Warfstache: Why are you shouting?!
  Abe: (In his head) GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
  Warfstache: (Also in his head) YOU'RE STILL SHOUTING!
• A minor running gag involving Warfstache never getting to drink his martini, no matter how much he tries. Mark even lampshades it during the breakdown stream, noting how a brief moment where Warfstache is in the background when the camera is on Abe as the latter attempts to put Warfstache under arrest is the only time he actually gets to sip the martini.
• Frustrated with Warfstache's constant evasiveness while being interrogated, Abe starts throwing some of his old aliases at him... literally.
  Abe: (pulls out some files) Is it... William J. Butterfield?
  Warfstache: (chuckling) Well- well now, that's a name I-(Abe throws first file in his face)-oowww...
  Abe: Wilson Jackson Bartholomew III?
  Warfstache: Well now I actually married into tha-(gets hit by second file)-aaat... name...
  Abe: Wingleheimer?! (pauses, then checks file) Wait, just... "Wingleheimer"?
  (Beat)
  Warfstache: Alright, I may have been having a little bit of fun with that one- (third file) Oo-OW.
• Warfstache tells Abe that there's something he's been meaning to give him after all the years that have passed, implying he's still angry at Abe for what happened back at Markiplier Manor, then proceeds to hug the detective and apologize, accompanied by an audible squeaking noise.

DAMIEN

The Warfstache Automated Interview Automaton

• Just the very beginning. The lights come on, and the viewer is confronted with a dilapidated FNAF-esque animatronic version of Warfstache, lying slumped in a chair. Warfstache's voice is suddenly heard...
  Warfstache: Well... that's terrifying. One moment! (the lights go out again)
• Warfstache calls the automaton the WAIA for short — not the W.A.I.A., but the WAIA, making it sound like a drunken wail every time he refers to the machine.
• If the viewer selects that they couldn't hear the numbers and it "sounded like nightmare garbage" on the first video, Warfstache tells the viewer that this was a poor choice of words.
  Warfstache: Oh, I forgot to mention, please do not say the word "nightmare", or, ah, "garbage", or "nightmare garbage", or any combination of those words. The WAIA is just a little bit sensitive, you know. A little touchy-feely. Well, not really touchy-feely. Well, actually, really touchy-feely. Depending on your definition of "touchy" and "feely". It's reeeaaally— (The WAIA attacks the viewer.)

Meta

• There was a slight issue for a small bit of time about how to differentiate between referring to the actor Markiplier in the videos and IRL Markiplier. A common name used for the actor one? Asshole Mark.
• As always, the BTS content is chock full of jokes.
• Mark and co. have many stories to tell about their experience with the project.
  • It was revealed (very vocally) that Chef's "Little Buddy" wasn't brought by Mark and co.: it just happened to be there. They taped a wig on and it was a spitting image of Robert Rexx (Chef's actor).
    • Similarly, they confirm that the mustache on the suit of armor was not put there by them: it also just happened to be there.
  • When the crew was explaining the foreshadowing aspect of the Binge Montage, they try to pass off the blue lighting in one scene as foreshadowing. Emphasis on try to.
    Mark: Also he's (Damien) conveniently...in blue?
    Amy: On purpose!
    Mark: On pur — that is so on purpose, he's in blue, right there! There you go! That's the one! Okay. Anyway...
    • He tries again to pass off something he didn't think of interpreting when writing the script with Benjamin saying guests (plural) instead of guest (singular).
      Tyler: I believe the script says "other guests".
      Mark: Then that's just my error, I think.
      Tyler: No, but I liked it because then, it gives the illusion and somewhat foreshadowing that there's someone there that you don't know is there.
      Mark: Let's go with that one then!
  • Mark seemed to be getting slightly annoyed that everyone thought the grayness caused by lighting was Foreshadowing, so he decides to set the record straight.
    Ethan: "He (Damien) turns grey." We just talked about that.
    Mark: We j— we just talked about that! Do we need to go over this again? It's the lighting! Alright, that's the lighting. Here's lighting when other people come in! You wanna see people turn grey? Look at his (Chef) hand! It's grey! It's the lighting! It doesn't mean shit! Here comes the Butler in! Maybe the Butler's Darkiplier! He's grey as shit!
    (everyone bursts into laughter)
    Mark: No! Not!
    • They later poke fun at this again.
      Ethan: The sky doesn't exist because— (makes strange noise) Dark— Darkiplier! Or whatever.
      Kathryn: The sky! It's grey!
      Dan: Those stones are kind of grey.
      Mark: You think those are Darkiplier?
      Dan: Could be Darkiplier, could be.
  • Mark revealed that the Colonel's dialogue during his argument with Damien was filmed at the last minute. How late was it filmed, you ask? It was filmed in the dressing room of Chicago, Illinois while he was on tour... which was the day before the first episode aired.
  • Mark is right about to explain the many deaths of Asshole Mark, but just before he does...
    Mark: (reading Mick's line) "...in my thorough analysis of the corpse's anal cavity—"
    Kathryn: He said he'd get to the bottom of it.
    Everyone else: (assorted laughter)
    Ethan: (slow clapping)
  • Mark is explaining how the purpose of the "Mayor" ribbon was to make it obvious that Damien was a mayor. Then Mark's camera falls over. An explanation doesn't do it justice.