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If we want to understand Mister Mushroom,
then the obvious place to start is with Schrödinger’s

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Equation.

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One of the most prevailing theories in the
realm of quantum mechanics is the many world

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interpretation first postulated by Hugh Everett
III.

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The seeming collapse of the wavefunction of
a photon first demonstrated by the now infamous

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double slit experiment is no longer an issue,
because the superposition is extended beyond

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the particle to include the measuring device
and the human observer.

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Team Cherry are clearly fans of Everett’s
work, as Mister Mushroom is definite proof

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of the many worlds interpretation being true
in the world of Hollow Knight.

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Now video games having multiple or parallel
universes is not a unique concept.

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Dark Souls I uses it as a clever excuse to
allow for a canonical explanation for PvP.

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Dark Souls III uses it as a lazy excuse to
reuse characters for the sake of fanservice.

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Undertale uses it as well, but I’m not touching
that game with a ten foot pole.

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But Mister Mushroom is a bit more unique.

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Just to catch anyone up who doesn’t know,
Mister Mushroom is this weird NPC that shows

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up in various places throughout Hallownest.

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His location is hinted at by this strange
lore tablet located in the Kingdom’s Edge.

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The tablet begins by saying “We speak the
path of the Master Herald, he who would signal

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an Age's end.”

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Mister Mushroom will only appear after the
Knight has destroyed the three Dreamers.

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So the ending age in this instance would appear
to be the end of the stasis over Hallownest.

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After interacting with Mister Mushroom with
the Spore Shroom charm equipped in every location,

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he will literally rocket into the sky like
how I assume Elon Musk gets around.

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He then appears after the game’s credits
as the words “To Be Continued” are thrown

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on the screen in giant letters like this is
a fucking JoJo reference.

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[Funny Meme Music]

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Now the fact that “To Be Continued” only
shows up with Mister Mushroom implies that

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he is connected to a future game from Team
Cherry.

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And as we start to analyze his dialogue, we’ll
see that this makes like 40% sense, which

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is pretty good for Hollow Knight lore.

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So basically you can encounter Mister Mushroom
a total of seven times in game.

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Each time, he is basically ignoring us and
appears to be talking to somebody else.

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Now, mushrooms in Hollow Knight exhibit a
shared mind, meaning they can talk to each

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other in a manner similar to telepathy.

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So it makes sense that Mister Mushroom could
be talking to somebody else.

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Once we meet Mister Mushroom for the final
time, he finally does talk to the Knight,

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giving a flowery speech about journeys and
destinations and all that garbage.

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But what is more interesting here is how he
has conversations with creatures we cannot

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see.

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Who exactly is Mister Mushroom talking to?

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Well, I would say we know with a good deal
of certainty what at least two of these conversations

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are actually about.

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Let’s start with the first conversation.

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Mister Mushroom mentions that the person he
is talking to was able to save their friend,

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and also mentions that this person isn’t
hungry anymore.

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This is a pretty obvious reference to Hungry
Knight, the first game ever made by Team Cherry.

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Hungry Knight was made during Ludum Dare 27,
a popular game jam event.

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William Pellen and Ari Gibson used this game
jam as a way to practice working together

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on games, and Hungry Knight was the result.

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In this game, you play as the Hungry Knight,
who has to eat cherries to stay alive so they

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can bring their friend back from the dead
by collecting masks.

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But apparently, this character we see in Hungry
Knight is somehow talking to Mister Mushroom

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from Hollow Knight, which in turn, would mean
that the Knight and the Hungry Knight are

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in the same multiverse.

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Now before you shit my pants and try to tell
me that this completely breaks the entire

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lore of Hollow Knight, let me point out that
Team Cherry does this type of stuff in other

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parts of the game as well.

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Let’s take a look at the Shrine of Believers.

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In the Spirit’s Glade, the Knight is able
to access a hidden area, full of strange tablets.

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The text on these tablets are actually messages
from Kickstarter backers, who backed Hollow

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Knight in 2014.

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Some of these are pretty interesting, like
the references to Dark Souls, because you

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guys remember Dark Souls, right?

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This one is a stolen quote from H.P.

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Lovecraft.

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This one just says “The Collective lives
on.”

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This one talks about a guy named Baron Robert
Apples who was the first of his kind to enslave

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a Gantrus.

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What the fuck is a Gantrus?

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Let’s see here.

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Uhh…

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Umm….

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I’m just gonna…

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Anyway, this area is guarded by this solitary
moth spirit who explains that these utterings

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are from a group of people united in a mysterious
cause who exist in another world.

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This implies that the Hollow Knight kickstarter
and our very reality are actually a part of

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Hollow Knight canon.

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This means that technically King of the Hill
and Hollow Knight are in the same universe.

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So basically what I am saying is, expect a
Bobby Hill lore video very soon.

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Getting back to Mister Mushroom, we have a
pretty good idea about what his third conversation

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is referring to.

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He is talking about how the dead have no use
for wealth and how this person is providing

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for a big brood.

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This is a clear reference to the other game
Team Cherry created before working on Hollow

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Knight: Tomb Cat.

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This was a game where you raid pyramids for
money so that you could take care of your

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young.

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These two references are the most obvious.

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In fact, in his final encounter, Mister Mushroom
hints at these games again.

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He says:

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And if those stops can't be lovely things,
wouldn't you say?

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Transcendent plateaus, distant sandy lands,
vast ancient kingdoms.

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Yours was not the first, nor will it be the
last, but it's a unique and special thing

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nonetheless.

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Transcendent plains, distant sandy lands,
and vast ancient kingdoms seem to relate to

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Hungry Knight, Tomb Cat and Hollow Knight
respectively.

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This dialogue also reinforces the idea that
Mister Mushroom is some kind of traveler,

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moving through the lands created by Team Cherry.

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But of course, this is where our tracks stop
cold.

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Mister Mushroom still has five more dialogue
entries we need to analyze.

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And I’m sure you’re a super busy person
with very little free time to waste, so let

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me just say that we are about to enter pure
speculation territory.

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I have spent the last three years of my life
thinking about this shit, but at the end of

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the day, this dialogue is just too open ended
to really nail down.

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Now there are other games that have been produced
by William Pellen and Ari Gibson separately.

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Through his job at an animation company, Ari
Gibson worked on classics like de Blob, Megamind:

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Mega Team Unite, de Blob 2 and M. Night Shyamalan’s
The Last Airbender.

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Now it’s been a while since I’ve watched
Shyamalan’s breathtaking film, but I think

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there is something to do with Sokka’s girlfriend
becoming the spirit of the moon because the

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previous spirit of the moon was killed when
the fire nation attacked.

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And in conversation six, Mister Mushroom says
to trust the moon.

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So maybe he is talking to Sokka?

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“It’s a giant mushroom.”

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Megamind is all about how our perceptions
of heroes and villians often lack nuance,

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and tend to change over time.

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This theme lines up pretty nicely with conversation
four.

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As for William, he worked on several video
games by himself in his free time.

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The two most popular games like this are Return
to Booty Grotto and Lulanda.

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Unfortunately, neither one of these games
seem to be related to Mister Mushroom at all.

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But of course, William has come up with several
games that we only know a little bit about.

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When he was a kid, William would make game
manuals for his own game ideas.

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What if Mister Mushroom is actually talking
to characters from these games William designed

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back in the 90s like Castlemania III or Shadowmaster:
Quest of the Past.

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In fact, William actually designed a board
game called The Egyptian Game.

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In this game, you had to find a sphinx's nose
while avoiding evil Mummies and…

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Sonic?

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Now this is clearly just a Chutes and Ladders
rip off.

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But this game is all about finding a nose,
and in conversation two, Mister Mushroom mentions

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“if you have a keen nose, use it”.

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This is an oddly specific reference.

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Also he says to beware of those who are hunting
you.

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ie the mother fucking mummies and the mother
fucking Sonic.

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So in this instance, Mister Mushroom would
be talking to whoever played this board game

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that William made when he was a child, which
makes a lot of sense if…

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if you… think…

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Okay this might be a dead end.

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Let’s rethink this.

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We have five conversations left to figure
out, but they don’t seem to be referencing

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any games William and Ari worked on separately.

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Perhaps these are references to games that
Team Cherry didn’t actually work on.

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But how would we ever figure out which games
these would be?

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I mean, just think about how many games exist
today.

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There must be at least 30.

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Well, it would make the most sense to look
at games that we know Team Cherry took inspiration

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from when making Hollow Knight.

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This includes Zelda II, the Adventure of Link,
Faxanadu, Paper Mario, Pikmin, Mega Man X,

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Super Metroid, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow,
and Ori and the Will of the Wisp, er…wait.

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If we dig through these games hard enough,
maybe we can see some connection between them

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and Mister Mushroom’s dialogue.

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As it turns out, conversation six actually
kinda lines up with the story of Castlevania:

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Aria of Sorrow.

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We, of course have the moon, where Dracula’s
castle was sealed away in 1999, as well as

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the double crossing Graham who actually is
only interested in becoming the reincarnated

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Dracula which he thinks is possible because
he was born the same day Dracula was destroyed

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and that…

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I’m sorry, what was that?

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You have no idea what the fuck I’m talking
about?

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Well… maybe you need a little context.

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The lore of Castlevania begins in the year
1094.

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Leon Belmont is a hero of knighthood, but
one day his fiance Sara was kidnapped.

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Leon learns from his bedridden friend Mathias
Cronqvist, that his love has been stolen by

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a malicious vampire going by the terrifying
name, Walter.

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Unfortunately, by the time Leon finds his
beloved, Sara has already been tainted by

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the vampire, so she sacrificed her soul to
enchant Leon’s whip, turning it into the

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Vampire Killer.

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So Leon kills Walter, but it turns out this
whole thing was orchestrated by Mathias, who

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then becomes a vampire himself and flees into
the country, becoming known as Dracula.

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In retaliation, Leon Belmont swears that the
Belmont family will hunt down vampires for

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as long as the game franchise is profitable.

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And so Dracula keeps trying to wipe out humanity
as the Belmonts keep bitch slapping his ass

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back into his coffin for another prolonged
hibernation.

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It isn’t until 1999 that the epic Demon
Castle Wars take place and it is believed

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that Dracula is finally destroyed once and
for all.

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His giant castle is sealed away inside the
darkness of an eclipse and the Catholic church

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tries to erase all memory of Dracula or the
Belmont family.

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This brings us to 2035, when the events of
Aria of Sorrow finally take place.

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Two childhood friends, Soma Cruz and Mina
Hakuba are going to the Hakuba Shrine to witness

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the first solar eclipse of the century.

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But they end up actually traveling into the
eclipse and arriving at Dracula’s castle.

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Soma learns that he has the power to control
monsters, and starts on a quest to escape

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Dracula’s castle and learn a little bit
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To do so he leaves Mina behind in a protective
barrier created by Genya Arikado, who is actually

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Dracula’s son Alucard in disguise.

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You see back in the 15th century Dracula fucked
doctor but then she… you know what, nevermind.

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It’s a whole thing.

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Anyway, Soma meets a cast of colorful characters
who also happen to be running around Dracula’s

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castle, such as Genya, Yoko Belnades, Hammer,
and Julius Belmont.

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But there is one character, Graham Jones,
who believes he is destined to become the

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next Dracula.

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He doesn’t mention this when Soma first
meets him, and Yoko even warns Soma to be

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weary of Graham.

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So yeah, a lot of this tracks to what Mister
Mushroom actually says.

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Mentioning that the person left a girl somewhere,
telling them to trust in something, but not

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a certain man, mentioning the moon.

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Not sure why you would trust the moon, but
you know what let’s just ignore that.

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So that just leaves us with four more conversations
to figure out.

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As for conversation two, the comment about
not relying on your eyes and using your nose

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might be a reference to Pikmin, because Captain
Olimar’s eyes are never fucking open and

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he’s got a giant ass schnauzer.

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And there are numerous natural predators to
the pikmin.

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Such as the Bulborb, the Waterwraith, the
Smoky Progg, the Scuttlebug, Celine Dion,

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the Albino Bulborb, the Puffstool, the Fiery
Young Yellow Wollywag, and of course, the

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Bike Bulborb.

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As for conversation five, it mentions coming
back up because things down below are dangerous,

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and that they could come back up and wander
around aimlessly.

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Now this sounds like the general experience
people have while playing a Metroidvania,

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so I could see this being a cheeky reference
to Metroid or Super Metroid, since those games

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start from the top and then go downward.

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Also, maybe I’m just stupid but it’s really
easy to get lost in these games.

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Conversation four uses both the words “hero”
and “time”, so let’s just say that’s

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a reference to Zelda.

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That just leaves one final conversation from
Mister Mushroom.

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“It’s not by tools that you’ll triumph,
it’s through your smarts, your speed, your

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determination...”.

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Now this is so nondescript and vague that
this could be talking about anything, Paper

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Mario, Mega Man X, or maybe even one of these
weeb shit games.

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So to recap, these are the characters Mister
Mushroom might be talking to.

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But to be honest, this whole thing seems a
bit weird.

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Would Team Cherry really try and shove their
own character into the lore of other games?

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Like, is that even allowed?

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It’s one thing when Dead Cells includes
a picture of the Knight in their game, but

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to have your character actually talk to characters
from another universe?

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What if JK Rowling decided to tweet that Harry
Potter did blow with Patrick Star?

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You know what?

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Fuck the entire notion of fiction.

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From now on I’m sticking to real stuff like
true crime podcasts and professional wrestling.

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But of course, there is one other explanation
for Mister Mushroom’s additional lines of

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dialogue.

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Perhaps Mister Mushroom is reaching forward
through time to talk to characters from games

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Team Cherry hasn’t even made yet.

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So in this case, it would literally be impossible
to know what Mister Mushroom is talking about,

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because these games don’t exist yet.

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Of course there is Silksong, which could theoretically
line up with either conversation five or seven

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since they reference things like hunting,
gathering and tools.

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Aside from that, we are aware of one other
game Team Cherry might be working on.

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Another Hollow Knight YouTuber known as Relyea
made a video discussing the discovery of a

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trademark filed by Team Cherry for the phrase
“Fearless Fox”.

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And after doing a bit of sleuthing myself,
I discovered that foxes actually have noses.

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So this could be a reference to conversation
two.

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But that’s where our leads drop dead.

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Maybe Team Cherry will go back and make “Castlemania
III”, or “War of S.P.O.R.E.

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II” or maybe they’ll finally make “Ultra
Dangerous Guys 64”.

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So I guess I’ll have to make a follow up
video to this in 30 years once Team Cherry

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has made two or three more games.

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And so this video comes to an end.

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Mister Mushroom is definitely supposed to
be some kind of Easter Egg character that

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makes references to other video games, and
in doing so, proves that Hollow Knight is

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a part of some kind of multiverse.

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And who knows, maybe the Knight will be able
to travel to different parts of the multiverse.

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Maybe it will make a cameo in Fearless Fox,
or some other Team Cherry game.

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Maybe it will even help the Avenger’s by
climbing inside Thanos’ asshole.