“I ask myself every day, where did it all go so wrong?” Wilford Warfstache, the Ned Affair. Well to answer that question, we have to refer to Who Killed Markiplier?, as that series really give a lot of insight into his character. But if we’re just going off of his behavior as Wilford Warfstache, he hasn’t really changed too much since his inception. That is, up until Markiplier TV. The only time he drops his over-the-top accent and bubbly attitude is during the bubble commercial when his narration, “Are you constantly haunted by the ghosts of everyone that you killed and maybe you think that it was you that was the problem and it wasn’t just a misunderstanding where you were trying to tickle them with a knife?” suggests that he remembers and understands the consequences of both the events of WKM? and the other murders he’s committed more than he lets on. This could mean that his different behavior and personality are, in part, due to the trauma relating to his friends’ deaths. At the end of WKM? he’s had to deal with both Asshole Mark and the DA seemingly dead at the foot of the stairs (both of whom he accidentally shot), and his ex-girlfriend and her brother mysteriously disappearing (he doesn’t know they’re dead). When the DA comes back from the void, the Colonel has already been sitting in shock for ten hours from …show more content…
accidentally shooting them and deliberately shooting Abe. The Colonel was on a downhill spiral from each event in the manor. Seeing the DA come back from the dead was what finally triggered an outward response to everything that was going on. As The Colonel, we’ve seen him use humor, teleportation, goofy antics and angrily lashing out at people as defense mechanisms and as a way to deal with the tragic events throughout WKM?. In each episode, he was shown as being cheery until someone said something he didn’t like. Then he became very angry and violent, often pulling his gun on them. This rash behavior unfortunately led to Abe being shot and the DA dying. Afterwards, his more innocent coping behaviors become more extreme, like he’s having to try harder to mask his true feelings. The first instance of him being Wilford Warfstache, he’s comically exaggerated his accent and, again, it isn’t until Mariplier TV until it’s finally regressed back to a point where it’s recognizably more like the Colonel than Wilford. In regards to his less innocent coping behaviors, The Colonel had a long history of causing peoples’ deaths, accident or not if Abe’s files are anything to go by.
Wilford continues that streak right off the bat in the Warfstache Affair. In a state of panic, the first thing that comes into his head to deal with the situation is to recreate the “Mmm, Watcha Say” skit from SNL and continuing to kill all other witnesses to the incident. This extends into the Ned Affair, Warfstache Interviews Markiplier, and Markiplier TV. The last truly accidental death that he caused was the DA’s. From then on they were all deliberate, even when he claimed
otherwise. I’m not entirely sure Asshole Mark being “stabbed 37 times, poisoned, beaten, strangled, drowned, and shot” was solely of his own doing. Maybe The Colonel had stabbed him as well as accidentally shooting him in the game of Russian Roulette the night at the manor. Wilford stabbed Mark a few times during his interview after getting angry over his complaints about the show so it wouldn’t be out of character for him. This could explain his flippant attitude towards Asshole Mark’s “final” death and thinking that death as a whole is a joke: He killed Asshole Mark before, and maybe also knew that he always came back from his self-inflicted deaths. It would also explain his ease in believing the DA, Damien, and Celine weren’t dead. The only reason he was so concerned about the DA was because they didn’t immediately come back like Asshole Mark probably did. If the DA can come back from the dead, why can’t anyone else the Colonel has killed? Their returning from the void cements in his mind the idea that the dead don’t stay that way. As Wilford, he takes this idea to the next level. He kills without a thought or hesitation because, oh well they’ll come back from the dead anyway. Or will they? In Markiplier TV it’s outright stated that he is haunted by the ghosts of everyone he’s killed, and with what was going on in Markiplier Manor that may even be literal. So even if he thinks killing those he finds offense with is the right thing to do in the moment, he always winds up regretting it later. As ever, his quick temper and habit of not thinking things through come back to haunt him. PTSD: For the other part of the equation, we have to go back even further. The Colonel wasn’t called that for nothing. It’s very likely that the true catalyst for his descent into madness isn’t his friends dying, but PTSD. It seems that prior to his serving in the Army, he was a pretty laid-back happy guy. Afterwards, he became defensive, paranoid, nervous, quick to anger and quick to solve all his problems with guns. Even Celine admitted that The Colonel changed, “He’s a good man, but he’s dangerous now.” This is seen whenever he draws his revolver on Abe the Detective throughout WKM?, especially at the end once he sees that Abe’s been keeping tabs on everyone and jumps to the conclusion that he’s actually the one behind everything. What really drives him over the edge is when Abe brings up Celine and accuses The Colonel of murdering Asshole Mark. He shoots Abe, but immediately looks surprised that he did it. His tendency to rush into things resulted in the deaths of both the detective and the DA, which was his greatest downfall and only expedited his transition into Wilford Warfstache. His “it was all a joke” at the end of WKM was a combination of him snapping, and the reaction of someone in serious shock and denial. William Warfstache isn’t a different person than The Colonel, but a more extreme version. PTSD started his descent into madness, and shooting the DA was the straw that broke the camel’s back. This line marks the end of his existence as The Colonel and the beginning of Wilford Warfstache. and later on when he continues to do so in every video he’s in as Wilford Warfstache.
Sergeant Tony is an experienced officer who has worked a few different job during his years in
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Lipking, Lawrence I, Stephen Greenblatt, and M H. Abrams. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume 1c. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2006. Print.
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