WEBVTT 00:00:10.550 --> 00:00:15.740 If we want to understand Mister Mushroom, then the obvious place to start is with Schrödinger’s 00:00:15.740 --> 00:00:16.740 Equation. 00:00:16.740 --> 00:00:20.369 One of the most prevailing theories in the realm of quantum mechanics is the many world 00:00:20.369 --> 00:00:24.140 interpretation first postulated by Hugh Everett III. 00:00:24.140 --> 00:00:28.590 The seeming collapse of the wavefunction of a photon first demonstrated by the now infamous 00:00:28.590 --> 00:00:33.040 double slit experiment is no longer an issue, because the superposition is extended beyond 00:00:33.040 --> 00:00:36.600 the particle to include the measuring device and the human observer. 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:41.260 Team Cherry are clearly fans of Everett’s work, as Mister Mushroom is definite proof 00:00:41.260 --> 00:00:46.309 of the many worlds interpretation being true in the world of Hollow Knight. 00:00:46.309 --> 00:00:52.670 Now video games having multiple or parallel universes is not a unique concept. 00:00:52.670 --> 00:00:58.220 Dark Souls I uses it as a clever excuse to allow for a canonical explanation for PvP. 00:00:58.220 --> 00:01:03.870 Dark Souls III uses it as a lazy excuse to reuse characters for the sake of fanservice. 00:01:03.870 --> 00:01:07.930 Undertale uses it as well, but I’m not touching that game with a ten foot pole. 00:01:07.930 --> 00:01:10.750 But Mister Mushroom is a bit more unique. 00:01:10.750 --> 00:01:15.160 Just to catch anyone up who doesn’t know, Mister Mushroom is this weird NPC that shows 00:01:15.160 --> 00:01:17.990 up in various places throughout Hallownest. 00:01:17.990 --> 00:01:22.470 His location is hinted at by this strange lore tablet located in the Kingdom’s Edge. 00:01:22.470 --> 00:01:27.520 The tablet begins by saying “We speak the path of the Master Herald, he who would signal 00:01:27.520 --> 00:01:29.050 an Age's end.” 00:01:29.050 --> 00:01:32.710 Mister Mushroom will only appear after the Knight has destroyed the three Dreamers. 00:01:32.710 --> 00:01:38.360 So the ending age in this instance would appear to be the end of the stasis over Hallownest. 00:01:38.360 --> 00:01:42.430 After interacting with Mister Mushroom with the Spore Shroom charm equipped in every location, 00:01:42.430 --> 00:01:47.570 he will literally rocket into the sky like how I assume Elon Musk gets around. 00:01:47.570 --> 00:01:51.430 He then appears after the game’s credits as the words “To Be Continued” are thrown 00:01:51.430 --> 00:01:55.000 on the screen in giant letters like this is a fucking JoJo reference. 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:57.630 [Funny Meme Music] 00:01:57.630 --> 00:02:02.120 Now the fact that “To Be Continued” only shows up with Mister Mushroom implies that 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:04.740 he is connected to a future game from Team Cherry. 00:02:04.740 --> 00:02:11.530 And as we start to analyze his dialogue, we’ll see that this makes like 40% sense, which 00:02:11.530 --> 00:02:13.560 is pretty good for Hollow Knight lore. 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:17.560 So basically you can encounter Mister Mushroom a total of seven times in game. 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:21.870 Each time, he is basically ignoring us and appears to be talking to somebody else. 00:02:21.870 --> 00:02:26.500 Now, mushrooms in Hollow Knight exhibit a shared mind, meaning they can talk to each 00:02:26.500 --> 00:02:29.120 other in a manner similar to telepathy. 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:33.250 So it makes sense that Mister Mushroom could be talking to somebody else. 00:02:33.250 --> 00:02:37.580 Once we meet Mister Mushroom for the final time, he finally does talk to the Knight, 00:02:37.580 --> 00:02:41.790 giving a flowery speech about journeys and destinations and all that garbage. 00:02:41.790 --> 00:02:46.450 But what is more interesting here is how he has conversations with creatures we cannot 00:02:46.450 --> 00:02:47.450 see. 00:02:47.450 --> 00:02:49.600 Who exactly is Mister Mushroom talking to? 00:02:49.600 --> 00:02:54.080 Well, I would say we know with a good deal of certainty what at least two of these conversations 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:55.460 are actually about. 00:02:55.460 --> 00:02:58.010 Let’s start with the first conversation. 00:02:58.010 --> 00:03:02.560 Mister Mushroom mentions that the person he is talking to was able to save their friend, 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:05.950 and also mentions that this person isn’t hungry anymore. 00:03:05.950 --> 00:03:11.490 This is a pretty obvious reference to Hungry Knight, the first game ever made by Team Cherry. 00:03:11.490 --> 00:03:15.900 Hungry Knight was made during Ludum Dare 27, a popular game jam event. 00:03:15.900 --> 00:03:20.310 William Pellen and Ari Gibson used this game jam as a way to practice working together 00:03:20.310 --> 00:03:23.900 on games, and Hungry Knight was the result. 00:03:23.900 --> 00:03:28.970 In this game, you play as the Hungry Knight, who has to eat cherries to stay alive so they 00:03:28.970 --> 00:03:32.130 can bring their friend back from the dead by collecting masks. 00:03:32.130 --> 00:03:36.640 But apparently, this character we see in Hungry Knight is somehow talking to Mister Mushroom 00:03:36.640 --> 00:03:40.580 from Hollow Knight, which in turn, would mean that the Knight and the Hungry Knight are 00:03:40.580 --> 00:03:43.050 in the same multiverse. 00:03:43.050 --> 00:03:47.110 Now before you shit my pants and try to tell me that this completely breaks the entire 00:03:47.110 --> 00:03:51.810 lore of Hollow Knight, let me point out that Team Cherry does this type of stuff in other 00:03:51.810 --> 00:03:53.420 parts of the game as well. 00:03:53.420 --> 00:03:56.080 Let’s take a look at the Shrine of Believers. 00:03:56.080 --> 00:04:02.240 In the Spirit’s Glade, the Knight is able to access a hidden area, full of strange tablets. 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:06.849 The text on these tablets are actually messages from Kickstarter backers, who backed Hollow 00:04:06.849 --> 00:04:08.890 Knight in 2014. 00:04:08.890 --> 00:04:12.961 Some of these are pretty interesting, like the references to Dark Souls, because you 00:04:12.961 --> 00:04:15.239 guys remember Dark Souls, right? 00:04:15.239 --> 00:04:17.380 This one is a stolen quote from H.P. 00:04:17.380 --> 00:04:18.380 Lovecraft. 00:04:18.380 --> 00:04:21.600 This one just says “The Collective lives on.” 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:27.150 This one talks about a guy named Baron Robert Apples who was the first of his kind to enslave 00:04:27.150 --> 00:04:28.150 a Gantrus. 00:04:28.150 --> 00:04:31.200 What the fuck is a Gantrus? 00:04:31.200 --> 00:04:33.100 Let’s see here. 00:04:33.100 --> 00:04:33.860 Uhh… 00:04:34.620 --> 00:04:35.760 Umm…. 00:04:36.180 --> 00:04:38.060 I’m just gonna… 00:04:38.060 --> 00:04:43.900 Anyway, this area is guarded by this solitary moth spirit who explains that these utterings 00:04:43.900 --> 00:04:49.689 are from a group of people united in a mysterious cause who exist in another world. 00:04:49.689 --> 00:04:54.759 This implies that the Hollow Knight kickstarter and our very reality are actually a part of 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:56.470 Hollow Knight canon. 00:04:56.470 --> 00:05:02.250 This means that technically King of the Hill and Hollow Knight are in the same universe. 00:05:02.250 --> 00:05:07.439 So basically what I am saying is, expect a Bobby Hill lore video very soon. 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:11.650 Getting back to Mister Mushroom, we have a pretty good idea about what his third conversation 00:05:11.650 --> 00:05:13.310 is referring to. 00:05:13.310 --> 00:05:17.979 He is talking about how the dead have no use for wealth and how this person is providing 00:05:17.979 --> 00:05:19.610 for a big brood. 00:05:19.610 --> 00:05:23.979 This is a clear reference to the other game Team Cherry created before working on Hollow 00:05:23.979 --> 00:05:26.129 Knight: Tomb Cat. 00:05:26.129 --> 00:05:29.759 This was a game where you raid pyramids for money so that you could take care of your 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:30.889 young. 00:05:30.889 --> 00:05:33.129 These two references are the most obvious. 00:05:33.129 --> 00:05:37.710 In fact, in his final encounter, Mister Mushroom hints at these games again. 00:05:37.710 --> 00:05:38.860 He says: 00:05:38.860 --> 00:05:42.759 And if those stops can't be lovely things, wouldn't you say? 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:48.509 Transcendent plateaus, distant sandy lands, vast ancient kingdoms. 00:05:48.509 --> 00:05:53.419 Yours was not the first, nor will it be the last, but it's a unique and special thing 00:05:53.419 --> 00:05:54.659 nonetheless. 00:05:54.659 --> 00:05:59.659 Transcendent plains, distant sandy lands, and vast ancient kingdoms seem to relate to 00:05:59.659 --> 00:06:03.409 Hungry Knight, Tomb Cat and Hollow Knight respectively. 00:06:03.409 --> 00:06:07.520 This dialogue also reinforces the idea that Mister Mushroom is some kind of traveler, 00:06:07.520 --> 00:06:10.610 moving through the lands created by Team Cherry. 00:06:10.610 --> 00:06:14.939 But of course, this is where our tracks stop cold. 00:06:14.939 --> 00:06:18.009 Mister Mushroom still has five more dialogue entries we need to analyze. 00:06:18.009 --> 00:06:23.220 And I’m sure you’re a super busy person with very little free time to waste, so let 00:06:23.220 --> 00:06:26.860 me just say that we are about to enter pure speculation territory. 00:06:26.860 --> 00:06:31.240 I have spent the last three years of my life thinking about this shit, but at the end of 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:35.479 the day, this dialogue is just too open ended to really nail down. 00:06:35.479 --> 00:06:40.520 Now there are other games that have been produced by William Pellen and Ari Gibson separately. 00:06:40.520 --> 00:06:46.440 Through his job at an animation company, Ari Gibson worked on classics like de Blob, Megamind: 00:06:46.440 --> 00:06:52.419 Mega Team Unite, de Blob 2 and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender. 00:06:52.419 --> 00:06:56.999 Now it’s been a while since I’ve watched Shyamalan’s breathtaking film, but I think 00:06:56.999 --> 00:07:01.349 there is something to do with Sokka’s girlfriend becoming the spirit of the moon because the 00:07:01.349 --> 00:07:04.749 previous spirit of the moon was killed when the fire nation attacked. 00:07:04.749 --> 00:07:08.839 And in conversation six, Mister Mushroom says to trust the moon. 00:07:08.840 --> 00:07:10.860 So maybe he is talking to Sokka? 00:07:11.540 --> 00:07:15.020 “It’s a giant mushroom.” 00:07:15.020 --> 00:07:20.020 Megamind is all about how our perceptions of heroes and villians often lack nuance, 00:07:20.020 --> 00:07:22.410 and tend to change over time. 00:07:22.410 --> 00:07:26.389 This theme lines up pretty nicely with conversation four. 00:07:26.389 --> 00:07:30.969 As for William, he worked on several video games by himself in his free time. 00:07:30.969 --> 00:07:36.029 The two most popular games like this are Return to Booty Grotto and Lulanda. 00:07:36.029 --> 00:07:40.330 Unfortunately, neither one of these games seem to be related to Mister Mushroom at all. 00:07:40.330 --> 00:07:45.620 But of course, William has come up with several games that we only know a little bit about. 00:07:45.620 --> 00:07:50.379 When he was a kid, William would make game manuals for his own game ideas. 00:07:50.379 --> 00:07:53.849 What if Mister Mushroom is actually talking to characters from these games William designed 00:07:53.849 --> 00:08:00.039 back in the 90s like Castlemania III or Shadowmaster: Quest of the Past. 00:08:00.039 --> 00:08:05.809 In fact, William actually designed a board game called The Egyptian Game. 00:08:05.809 --> 00:08:11.370 In this game, you had to find a sphinx's nose while avoiding evil Mummies and… 00:08:11.370 --> 00:08:12.479 Sonic? 00:08:12.479 --> 00:08:15.310 Now this is clearly just a Chutes and Ladders rip off. 00:08:15.310 --> 00:08:20.919 But this game is all about finding a nose, and in conversation two, Mister Mushroom mentions 00:08:20.919 --> 00:08:24.399 “if you have a keen nose, use it”. 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:26.990 This is an oddly specific reference. 00:08:26.990 --> 00:08:30.499 Also he says to beware of those who are hunting you. 00:08:30.499 --> 00:08:35.300 ie the mother fucking mummies and the mother fucking Sonic. 00:08:35.300 --> 00:08:39.780 So in this instance, Mister Mushroom would be talking to whoever played this board game 00:08:39.780 --> 00:08:45.800 that William made when he was a child, which makes a lot of sense if… 00:08:45.800 --> 00:08:47.060 if you… think… 00:08:47.930 --> 00:08:49.460 Okay this might be a dead end. 00:08:51.260 --> 00:08:52.640 Let’s rethink this. 00:08:52.649 --> 00:08:56.209 We have five conversations left to figure out, but they don’t seem to be referencing 00:08:56.209 --> 00:08:59.740 any games William and Ari worked on separately. 00:08:59.740 --> 00:09:04.550 Perhaps these are references to games that Team Cherry didn’t actually work on. 00:09:04.550 --> 00:09:07.540 But how would we ever figure out which games these would be? 00:09:07.540 --> 00:09:10.759 I mean, just think about how many games exist today. 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:12.660 There must be at least 30. 00:09:12.660 --> 00:09:17.340 Well, it would make the most sense to look at games that we know Team Cherry took inspiration 00:09:17.340 --> 00:09:20.000 from when making Hollow Knight. 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:28.399 This includes Zelda II, the Adventure of Link, Faxanadu, Paper Mario, Pikmin, Mega Man X, 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:34.160 Super Metroid, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, and Ori and the Will of the Wisp, er…wait. 00:09:34.160 --> 00:09:39.329 If we dig through these games hard enough, maybe we can see some connection between them 00:09:39.329 --> 00:09:41.399 and Mister Mushroom’s dialogue. 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:46.769 As it turns out, conversation six actually kinda lines up with the story of Castlevania: 00:09:46.769 --> 00:09:47.769 Aria of Sorrow. 00:09:47.769 --> 00:09:52.750 We, of course have the moon, where Dracula’s castle was sealed away in 1999, as well as 00:09:52.750 --> 00:09:57.080 the double crossing Graham who actually is only interested in becoming the reincarnated 00:09:57.080 --> 00:10:01.360 Dracula which he thinks is possible because he was born the same day Dracula was destroyed 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:02.360 and that… 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:04.380 I’m sorry, what was that? 00:10:04.380 --> 00:10:06.800 You have no idea what the fuck I’m talking about? 00:10:06.800 --> 00:10:09.400 Well… maybe you need a little context. 00:10:09.400 --> 00:10:13.629 The lore of Castlevania begins in the year 1094. 00:10:13.629 --> 00:10:19.360 Leon Belmont is a hero of knighthood, but one day his fiance Sara was kidnapped. 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:25.569 Leon learns from his bedridden friend Mathias Cronqvist, that his love has been stolen by 00:10:25.569 --> 00:10:30.570 a malicious vampire going by the terrifying name, Walter. 00:10:30.570 --> 00:10:35.500 Unfortunately, by the time Leon finds his beloved, Sara has already been tainted by 00:10:35.500 --> 00:10:40.649 the vampire, so she sacrificed her soul to enchant Leon’s whip, turning it into the 00:10:40.649 --> 00:10:42.480 Vampire Killer. 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:47.611 So Leon kills Walter, but it turns out this whole thing was orchestrated by Mathias, who 00:10:47.611 --> 00:10:52.510 then becomes a vampire himself and flees into the country, becoming known as Dracula. 00:10:52.510 --> 00:10:58.040 In retaliation, Leon Belmont swears that the Belmont family will hunt down vampires for 00:10:58.040 --> 00:11:01.300 as long as the game franchise is profitable. 00:11:01.300 --> 00:11:06.009 And so Dracula keeps trying to wipe out humanity as the Belmonts keep bitch slapping his ass 00:11:06.009 --> 00:11:09.009 back into his coffin for another prolonged hibernation. 00:11:09.009 --> 00:11:15.150 It isn’t until 1999 that the epic Demon Castle Wars take place and it is believed 00:11:15.150 --> 00:11:18.620 that Dracula is finally destroyed once and for all. 00:11:18.620 --> 00:11:24.100 His giant castle is sealed away inside the darkness of an eclipse and the Catholic church 00:11:24.100 --> 00:11:28.180 tries to erase all memory of Dracula or the Belmont family. 00:11:28.180 --> 00:11:34.339 This brings us to 2035, when the events of Aria of Sorrow finally take place. 00:11:34.339 --> 00:11:39.579 Two childhood friends, Soma Cruz and Mina Hakuba are going to the Hakuba Shrine to witness 00:11:39.579 --> 00:11:42.120 the first solar eclipse of the century. 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:46.709 But they end up actually traveling into the eclipse and arriving at Dracula’s castle. 00:11:46.709 --> 00:11:51.560 Soma learns that he has the power to control monsters, and starts on a quest to escape 00:11:51.560 --> 00:11:55.570 Dracula’s castle and learn a little bit about himself along the way. 00:11:55.570 --> 00:12:01.439 To do so he leaves Mina behind in a protective barrier created by Genya Arikado, who is actually 00:12:01.439 --> 00:12:04.540 Dracula’s son Alucard in disguise. 00:12:04.540 --> 00:12:10.110 You see back in the 15th century Dracula fucked doctor but then she… you know what, nevermind. 00:12:10.110 --> 00:12:12.389 It’s a whole thing. 00:12:12.389 --> 00:12:17.769 Anyway, Soma meets a cast of colorful characters who also happen to be running around Dracula’s 00:12:17.769 --> 00:12:23.990 castle, such as Genya, Yoko Belnades, Hammer, and Julius Belmont. 00:12:23.990 --> 00:12:28.380 But there is one character, Graham Jones, who believes he is destined to become the 00:12:28.380 --> 00:12:29.380 next Dracula. 00:12:29.380 --> 00:12:34.459 He doesn’t mention this when Soma first meets him, and Yoko even warns Soma to be 00:12:34.459 --> 00:12:35.459 weary of Graham. 00:12:35.459 --> 00:12:39.760 So yeah, a lot of this tracks to what Mister Mushroom actually says. 00:12:39.760 --> 00:12:44.389 Mentioning that the person left a girl somewhere, telling them to trust in something, but not 00:12:44.389 --> 00:12:47.540 a certain man, mentioning the moon. 00:12:47.540 --> 00:12:52.259 Not sure why you would trust the moon, but you know what let’s just ignore that. 00:12:52.259 --> 00:12:55.970 So that just leaves us with four more conversations to figure out. 00:12:55.970 --> 00:13:00.730 As for conversation two, the comment about not relying on your eyes and using your nose 00:13:00.730 --> 00:13:06.060 might be a reference to Pikmin, because Captain Olimar’s eyes are never fucking open and 00:13:06.060 --> 00:13:07.420 he’s got a giant ass schnauzer. 00:13:07.420 --> 00:13:11.209 And there are numerous natural predators to the pikmin. 00:13:11.209 --> 00:13:19.470 Such as the Bulborb, the Waterwraith, the Smoky Progg, the Scuttlebug, Celine Dion, 00:13:19.470 --> 00:13:27.449 the Albino Bulborb, the Puffstool, the Fiery Young Yellow Wollywag, and of course, the 00:13:27.449 --> 00:13:28.670 Bike Bulborb. 00:13:28.670 --> 00:13:34.870 As for conversation five, it mentions coming back up because things down below are dangerous, 00:13:34.870 --> 00:13:39.010 and that they could come back up and wander around aimlessly. 00:13:39.010 --> 00:13:43.649 Now this sounds like the general experience people have while playing a Metroidvania, 00:13:43.649 --> 00:13:48.470 so I could see this being a cheeky reference to Metroid or Super Metroid, since those games 00:13:48.470 --> 00:13:50.810 start from the top and then go downward. 00:13:50.810 --> 00:13:56.540 Also, maybe I’m just stupid but it’s really easy to get lost in these games. 00:13:56.540 --> 00:13:59.860 Conversation four uses both the words “hero” and “time”, so let’s just say that’s 00:13:59.860 --> 00:14:01.389 a reference to Zelda. 00:14:01.389 --> 00:14:04.620 That just leaves one final conversation from Mister Mushroom. 00:14:04.620 --> 00:14:09.820 “It’s not by tools that you’ll triumph, it’s through your smarts, your speed, your 00:14:09.820 --> 00:14:11.360 determination...”. 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:17.300 Now this is so nondescript and vague that this could be talking about anything, Paper 00:14:17.300 --> 00:14:23.310 Mario, Mega Man X, or maybe even one of these weeb shit games. 00:14:23.310 --> 00:14:28.540 So to recap, these are the characters Mister Mushroom might be talking to. 00:14:28.540 --> 00:14:32.269 But to be honest, this whole thing seems a bit weird. 00:14:32.269 --> 00:14:37.230 Would Team Cherry really try and shove their own character into the lore of other games? 00:14:37.230 --> 00:14:39.209 Like, is that even allowed? 00:14:39.209 --> 00:14:43.650 It’s one thing when Dead Cells includes a picture of the Knight in their game, but 00:14:43.650 --> 00:14:47.689 to have your character actually talk to characters from another universe? 00:14:47.689 --> 00:14:53.019 What if JK Rowling decided to tweet that Harry Potter did blow with Patrick Star? 00:14:53.019 --> 00:14:54.389 You know what? 00:14:54.389 --> 00:14:56.829 Fuck the entire notion of fiction. 00:14:56.829 --> 00:15:02.420 From now on I’m sticking to real stuff like true crime podcasts and professional wrestling. 00:15:02.420 --> 00:15:07.079 But of course, there is one other explanation for Mister Mushroom’s additional lines of 00:15:07.079 --> 00:15:08.259 dialogue. 00:15:08.259 --> 00:15:13.089 Perhaps Mister Mushroom is reaching forward through time to talk to characters from games 00:15:13.089 --> 00:15:15.730 Team Cherry hasn’t even made yet. 00:15:15.730 --> 00:15:20.790 So in this case, it would literally be impossible to know what Mister Mushroom is talking about, 00:15:20.790 --> 00:15:23.570 because these games don’t exist yet. 00:15:23.570 --> 00:15:29.579 Of course there is Silksong, which could theoretically line up with either conversation five or seven 00:15:29.579 --> 00:15:33.579 since they reference things like hunting, gathering and tools. 00:15:33.579 --> 00:15:38.319 Aside from that, we are aware of one other game Team Cherry might be working on. 00:15:38.319 --> 00:15:42.449 Another Hollow Knight YouTuber known as Relyea made a video discussing the discovery of a 00:15:42.449 --> 00:15:47.610 trademark filed by Team Cherry for the phrase “Fearless Fox”. 00:15:47.610 --> 00:15:53.540 And after doing a bit of sleuthing myself, I discovered that foxes actually have noses. 00:15:53.540 --> 00:15:56.720 So this could be a reference to conversation two. 00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:59.569 But that’s where our leads drop dead. 00:15:59.569 --> 00:16:04.430 Maybe Team Cherry will go back and make “Castlemania III”, or “War of S.P.O.R.E. 00:16:04.430 --> 00:16:08.790 II” or maybe they’ll finally make “Ultra Dangerous Guys 64”. 00:16:08.790 --> 00:16:12.720 So I guess I’ll have to make a follow up video to this in 30 years once Team Cherry 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:16.050 has made two or three more games. 00:16:16.050 --> 00:16:18.800 And so this video comes to an end. 00:16:18.800 --> 00:16:22.610 Mister Mushroom is definitely supposed to be some kind of Easter Egg character that 00:16:22.610 --> 00:16:26.749 makes references to other video games, and in doing so, proves that Hollow Knight is 00:16:26.749 --> 00:16:28.839 a part of some kind of multiverse. 00:16:28.839 --> 00:16:34.139 And who knows, maybe the Knight will be able to travel to different parts of the multiverse. 00:16:34.139 --> 00:16:39.290 Maybe it will make a cameo in Fearless Fox, or some other Team Cherry game. 00:16:39.290 --> 00:16:43.180 Maybe it will even help the Avenger’s by climbing inside Thanos’ asshole.