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Rambling about the 2015 Pitch Bible of Glitch Techs because I really, really want to talk about it.
(Also hereâs a link to the 2015 Pilot of Glitch Techs, and the Production Trailer from the same year. Go watch them theyâre super cool)
Big ramble about all kinds of things beneath the cut.
First off, everything looked different.
Artstyle looked completely different, more reminiscent of Eric Roblesâs other main claim to fame that is Fanboy and Chum Chum. It changes a ton in the 2015 Pilot and Trailer that also came from this era since it was made by a team of artists instead of one Eric Robles, but you can get the general picture for character design from this, plus it seems like all of the non-artstyle stuff would have carried over in this version. The one exception is BITT, who did change design significantly between Pitch Bible and Pilot, but heâs an exception and Iâm out of pictures I can use, so just watch the Pilot or Trailer to see his design.
Also that huge robot is BITT. Forgot to mention that. Apparently in the original concept for the show, BITT was actually a main character, and belonged to FIVE instead of Phil. (It kind of makes me wonder if Alpha in the real show is a slight reference to this. A big tanky robot owned by Five.)
Fiveâs hairstyle is completely different and heâs white in about 50% of all the pictures in the pitch bible, but I can ultimately see the resemblance between him and the real deal. Miko changed significantly more over time. Her haircut was short with pigtails instead of the long cut she has now, her hair in general was pink instead of purple, and that yellow cat shirt she wears everywhere used to be a black and white striped shirt. Also, Iâm like 40% sure Beta Mikoâs Plaid Skirt went on to become that blue hoodie thing she keeps around her waist.
Also, the colours of Hinobi and stuff with the Hinobi brand on it used to be light brown and green instead of 2020âs Blue and White.
The premise is the same, Hinobi hires secret team of elite monster hunters to deal with glitches that come from their own games, just with some larger differences in the specifics. (Also the Pitch Bible brings up that part of the reason tech support is so slow and involves being put on hold a lot is because the those same techs are busy dealing with glitch monsters, which I think is kind of funny.)
For a tiny example, it turns out the town of Bailey was originally called Bushnell Pines. (Another fun fact, the Strip Mall where the Hinobi Store is located in canon is called the Bushnell Mall, which probably comes from this little detail. (And yes, I do know about Nolan Bushnell, who both Bushnell Pines and The Bushnell Mall are definitely named after))
Main Characters:
Limiting my use of images because of tumblrâs limit, but Five and Miko still existed as themselves in 2015, but were different in a few ways.
Miko is the most unchanged. Immune to Resets, has a lot of natural skill with games, bores easily without any kind of stimulation and has a tendency to act without thinking things through, itâs Miko.
She does have a few changes though. For one, both her and Five are younger. Mikoâs age isnât stated, but assuming she and Five are the same age sheâd be 13 instead of her canonical 16, or possibly 14 if the detail of Miko being a year older than Five but held back a year at some point was a thing at this point.
For two, she might not have any siblings, or at least not not to our knowledge. The Pitch Bible only mentions her being raised by her father and moving from town to town for most of her life, with no mention of any siblings or even her mother.
For three, Beta Miko is stated to have a lot less of an interest in being a glitch tech and moving up through the ranks compared to Five, and is stated to have no real loyalty to Hinobi as a company, more content to just have fun with her new job. In canon Iâd say that theyâre both equally interested, but also I have to point out that Beta Five has a massive interest in moving up the corporate ladder in a way that Canon Five and Canon Miko just donât. Even Canon Mitch doesnât seem to have the same fixation here, so this detail probably got cut as Five and the entire plot of the show was changed over time.
Speaking of Five: Heâs a completely different person.
You can see the similarities between Beta Five and Real Five, theyâre both heavily detail and plan-oriented, lacking in that natural skill that Miko has but making up for it in knowledge, practice and an ability to strategize, and you can see how one morphed into the other, but compared to Miko and her Beta Counterpart theyâre very different.
For one, Beta Five STARTS as a glitch tech, albeit a low-ranking one, with Miko being recruited in the pilot episode, instead of canon where both are recruited at the same time.
Also, this isnât present in the pitch bible but is instead a part of the Pilot from the time, Five has some slightly different father issues this time around. We donât know the specifics, just a single line from Phil chewing Five out and mentioning âIâm just glad your father wonât see thisâ, but just the fact that Phil brings him up means that not only is Emilio Nieves in this timeline either in prison like canon, dead, or who knows what, but the man was also probably a glitch tech instead of just a programmer. Most likely a high ranking one.
Beta Five is a lot more focused on the job. From what I can gather from the plot overview his main motivation is becoming a Corporate Agent, aka the highest possible rank of Glitch Tech achievable, and heâs a bit more serious than Canon Five because of it. This focus on rising up the ladder and by-the-books loyalty towards Hinobi is also why Miko is called out for having no real loyalty or desire to move up in rank. Itâs so she can contrast Fiveâs single minded determination towards achieving more.
And then you have BITT:
Unlike Canon, BITT is closer to Five than Phil, is 100% Sentient with a full personality, and actually fulfills his roll as a Binary Intelligence Tech Trainer. Or in the case for this BITT, Binary Intelligence Tech TOOL.
He was originally just a robotic backup and tech trainer given to Five since heâs still a tech in training (and also because a 13 year old probably shouldnât be allowed to drive), but Beta Five has modified him over time to make him into a proper friend with an actual personality. Heâs described as a big softie, and Fiveâs best friend. He also has a tendency to call Five âSirâ, but itâs just a remnant of his original programming. âWhen Bitt says Sir, he means Buddyâ.
Also apparently Five and Miko sneak him into their high school and pass him off as a regular (but weird) kid on several occasions, which I find cute.
He was also meant to be the balancing force between Five and Mikoâs opposites, in comparison to canon where the two of them bounce off each other without any real force like that being present (Unless you somehow count Mitch, but Iâd say he more gets dragged into their situations and causes problems then he balances anything.)
Side Characters:
âBut if BITTâs like this, whatâs Phil like?â I hear you ask.
Apparently not much actually. As mentioned in the Pitch Bible, Phil Altiere exists, and the creators had a vague idea of what they wanted his general vibe to be, but they hadnât properly developed a personality for him, and were âWide Open on takesâ. Also, heâs younger in the Beta than canon, being somewhere in his 30s instead of 40s.
My guess is that once Five lost that detail of âalready being a techâ along with that focus on climbing the corporate ladder, BITT as a friend and trainer kind of fell apart, and was given to Phil with the job of running the store and being a helpful little guy whoâs a lot more robotic with very little personality.
Also Mitch exists and heâs worse now:
Ok to answer the first question you probably immediately have with Mitch, mainly why why the hell he looks like that, Beta Mitch is supposed to look like the real-life person he gets his name from, the infamous video game champion Billy Mitchell. Also by the time of the 2015 Pilot and Trailer, his hair was changed to be dyed blue, although you canât tell since the pilot is an animatic. I know this from a bit of concept art from the time.
(I also have a conspiracy that his Beta Design would later go on to inspire the designs of Bergy and especially Nix but thatâs just a theory.)
Canon Mitch is a dick (Affectionate). Beta Mitch is a dick (Derogatory). The same personality traits, but in a worse way, and not redeemable in the way Canon Mitch is. In Canon, Mitch is being forced through character development by Five and Miko to make him less of an asshole and get him to work more as a team member. In the beta, a plot point of the later seasons is the risk of Five letting his rank go to his head and making him more like Mitch.
Also, Beta Mitch just has a lot less redeeming qualities to him. In Canon, Five looks up to Mitch heavily and credits him for basically being a big reason he knows how to play games the way he does. In the Beta, Mitch is little more than a bully who likes to mess with the newbie that is Five, chasing him down with a tech van that heâs modified into a tank while mocking him the entire time and planning to steal the glitch of the pilot by killing BITT (who in this version of things is basically Fiveâs best friend) via self destruct.
Beta Mitch is still a big name as well, but in a different way. Canon Mitch is a former streamer of both his own channel and the Furious Four, and heâs been participating in various gaming tournaments for years including in the first episode of the show, meaning heâs still active to some degree and people definitely know who he is, but at the same time he seems kind of niche, only really known ďżźby hardcore gamers or people who actively keep up with certain competitive gaming scenes and not exactly someone youâd recognize on the street or really care about unless youâre part of a small group of people, Five included in that group.
Meanwhile Beta Mitch is a local celebrity straight up, with it being mentioned that he or at least some part of his family is a brand name that can be found on basically anything, from food to furniture, and a âpotential episode plotâ found in the pitch bible implies that heâs pretty wealthy too. Hardcore Gamers basically worship him, but anyone who actually knows him as a person keeps their distance because heâs an asshole who lets the fame go straight to his head.
I have no idea what changed for him (although I do have a conspiracy that the design change might have happened in part due to Billy Mitchell suing Cartoon Network due to a parody of him in Regular Show around the same time as the Pitch Bible and Pilot being made), but Iâm very glad we got the Mitch we got in 2020. We dodged a bullet here.
Sadly, the beta versions of existing characters stop here, as Zahra, Haneesh, Bergy, Nix and even Simi didnât exist at this point in time.
A few more techs ARE mentioned and shown, but none are particularly interesting or play any kind of larger role, and all seem to have been scrapped a long time ago.
Now that I think about it, the leftmost tech in the image MIGHT have eventually inspired Bergy, but I also might just be going insane because I struggle to tell the difference between brown hair and orange hair a lot of the time. (I literally thought Ridley had orange hair for a long time itâs a genuine problem of mine)
Other important side characters:
Hinobi Corporate, and Hinobi as a whole:
Going in no particular order: Agent 68 might look a bit familiar. To me at least, he looks a bit like the tech specialist from Im Mitch Williams. Or at least like the skeleton of the Tech Specialist, like you can see how one could eventually become the other.
Other big thing I have to say about the guy, heâs very obviously (to me at least) the beta equivalent of Inspector 7. Corporate Hinobi worker whose name consists of a title and number. Even the suits match, at least when you take into account how Hinobiâs main colours in this timeline are Brown and Green instead of White and Blue.
Moving to Woz, Woz is very important to the story of 2015 Glitch Techs, but I donât think thereâs any way that that story still applies to 2020 Glitch Techs. Too many elements are different for it to work, and 2020 Glitch Techs was building towards Bolypius by the looks of things, who seems to be completely absent in 2015. Or at least, theyâre not present in any form weâd recognize.
To put him simply, Woz is the cofounder of Hinobi, designed a large amount of its early technology, and based on the wording from the pitch bible, was likely demoted at some point, given that heâs a FORMER creative partner, but wasnât fired, given that heâs still very high up in the company.
Woz seems harmless, but in reality is a lot more malicious than he seems, being responsible for glitches entering our world (glitches work VERY differently in this timeline), purposely spreading them, manipulating events behind the scenes and being somewhat of a puppet or right hand man for a much larger outside-context threat.
Said threat is definitely not Hinobi. The guy named Hinobi. Hinobiâs CEO. That Hinobi. Hinobi The Guy (fuck it, Iâm just gonna call him The CEO) has basically nothing in terms of lore or relevance compared to Woz, and Iâm almost willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and say heâs basically harmless, with priorities more in-line with your typical big tech company CEO; Make money and keep Hinobi as a household name. If anything, heâs probably the reason Woz is a FORMER Creative Partner and is probably responsible for a lot of Hinobiâs better qualities.
Also worth noting is that Hinobi as a company is very different in the Beta vs Canon.
In Canon, Hinobi is definitely shady, especially when you look at the higher ranks of corporate, and theyâre willing to do bad things like whatever might be in Philâs files, possibly some stuff related to Emilio Nievesâs imprisonment (although there isnât much evidence for it) and anything else they might have covered up in the past, but ultimately they havenât shown any signs of being properly EVIL. Theyâre a big company with plenty of shady bits, but ultimately they seem to be more âdoing bad things for ultimately beneficial reasonsâ than actually evil.
They donât make Glitches on purpose, more just studying them and attempting to figure out how they work with their most shady and restricted parts most likely being morally questionable or unethical experiments and tests, or stuff they had to cover up for the sake of Hinobiâs secrecy. Even whatever theyâre planning with Miko being referred to as âthe Subjectâ seems to ultimately be an attempt at locating and either capturing or destroying an extremely dangerous and intelligent glitch thatâs evaded capture for years and probably caused countless problems for them over that time.
Agents are rarely (or in the case of the show, never) seen, and Inspectors seem to just be a regular occurrence by store standards. Sure Inspector 7 specifically has some things going on with her with the whole âlocating Bolypiusâ thing, but Inspectors as a whole do seem to only be called out to stores for yearly inspections and to oversee maintenance.
Now to play devils advocate, this is just what we know. Hinobi COULD be completely evil and it would have been revealed in season 3, but I do think itâs unlikely. Canon Hinobi is shady and willing to abandon conventional morals in its attempts to hunt and study glitches while keeping it a secret from the world, but theyâre ultimately doing things for a good cause. At least, a good cause in the âHinobi successfully saved this town from a problem their own technology caused, and the public doesnât knowâ kind of way.
They donât have much of a reason to go full âtake over the worldâ mode because why would they? Theyâre an international organization that probably influences stuff on a global scale just from being a massive corporation with a near-bottomless budget. They donât need to take over the world and start replacing governments. Theyâre already stronger than some governments and thatâs before you bring out the mind-wiping technology.
In the Beta though, Hinobi is explicitly evil, although it only really hits that point once you hit the mostly Woz-controlled upper echelon that is Corporate. Agents frequently meddle with and cover up cases, and the company itself is filled with conspiracies just below the surface. Iâm willing to give the CEO the benefit of the doubt and say heâs probably fine, and is probably the reason Hinobi as a whole hasnât immediately descended into villainy, but he seems to have much, much less power than Woz, who seems to basically run things from the shadows despite seemingly having been demoted, and even he has a master above him with very bad intentions for the human race as a whole. Not to mention that becoming an Agent in this timeline involves having your mind and memories completely erased, making you a permanent part of the corporate collective.
Most store-level techs are fine, but once you step into corporate territory things get shady and dark fast, with corporate in Beta-World crossing lines that Canon Hinobi would probably hesitate at, with ultimate plans for making the world into little more than a playground for forces beyond comprehension.
Speaking of those Forces beyond comprehension:
Glitches (that arenât really glitches)
In the Beta, glitches are NOTHING like glitches from canon, and i think thatâs one of the main reasons why the original beta plot for Glitch Techs no longer applies, and why Hinobi isnât evil in the canon we got.
In canon, Glitches are artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on artificial and whatever the opposite of an emphasis is on intelligence. With a single canonical exception, Glitches are limited in intelligence and are restricted purely to their programming (Chomp Kitty focusing on anything it recognizes as a pellet, The Team from Oversight Squadrons calling themselves âTeam [Enter Name]â because they arenât connected to any actual team of players, etc) and a tiny bit of ad-libbing to avoid crashing when they see something they donât understand (Count Nogrog using referring to two people at once in a one player game, Team [Enter Name] making up Map dialogue in what their code believes should be a new map, etc). They canât think for themselves, and they arenât intelligent. Even plixel constructs like Ally and BITT, as smart and lifelike as they appear, are still just code, with BITT being closer to a Large Language Model (albeit one thatâs leagues more advanced than anything in our world) than something with genuine human intelligence.
Meanwhile in the Beta Timeline, Glitches are fully intelligent. Theyâre heavily focused on the forms they take, for example the Rock God Wizard that appears in the 2015 Pilot acts like he does in-game, but heâs also fully intelligent just like any human being.
Just going off some entries from The Pitch Bibleâs list of glitches, one Glitch from a Candy Crush game is capable of developing a crush on BITT, and another one called The Chief (a combination of Master Chief and Samus Aran) does his thing simply because he gets bored of the real world not having any real wars or armed conflicts to fight so he decides to wage his own war against the local glitch techs. Theyâre capable of the full range of the emotional spectrum, and are fully intelligent, even capable of being reasoned with.
Then thereâs the fact that Beta Glitches arenât AIs. Theyâre explicitly supernatural, closer to aliens or the ghosts from Danny Phantom, coming from their own alternate world INTO ours through Hinobiâs technology (Helped by Woz). In fact, Plixels as a whole are never mentioned in the Pitch Bible, and probably donât exist. These things donât have root forms, root forms as a whole donât exist, and they arenât created when plixel tech goes wrong. Theyâre beings of pure energy released into our world, with your broken PS4 creating the portal.
Wozâs master? The thing he takes orders from? That thing, whatever it is, is a glitch of some kind, originating from this alternate dimension and wanting to breach into and either destroy or enslave the human race. It might have also eventually become Bolypius once things turned into canon, but I have no evidence for that. Just vibes.
Also thereâs this thing called Ava-Thrar. Can I talk about Ava-Thrar? I really want to talk about Ava-Thrar.
HmmmmâŚ
âGlitchy parasiteâ
âBecomes a living avatar that possesses the userâ
âUser gains super strength along with other supernatural powersâ
âIf the parasite feeds for too long it will no longer be able to be removed from its hostâ
Thatâs a fucking possessor glitch. You canât fool me I know what a possessor glitch looks like.
Or at least, itâs the thing that would eventually inspire the creation of Possessor Glitches. Since Root Forms donât exist at this point and all that.
(Also also, I know about a Season 3 episode called âAvatar: The Last Glitch Techâ. I have an animatic of its climax/ending (and will provide if asked). Thereâs no way this thing didnât at least slightly inspire the glitch of the episode.)
Anyways, at some point between 2015 and 2020, the lore of glitch techs changed massively. Glitches went from Interdimensional aliens capable of intelligent thought, to AIs made of plixels, unintelligent game code acting on a pattern, and as a result, the whole Woz thing and Hinobi working with glitches to enslave humanity no longer works.
Woz no longer has an Alien Eldritch Abomination to take orders from and these new glitches as a whole donât care about destroying the planet or enslaving humanity, theyâre just code now with at most a pale imitation of intelligence, itâs like taking orders from a trained dog or maybe an automated blender, so Woz or Hinobi corporate or whoever no longer has a reason to take orders from glitches or intentionally spread them, so thereâs no longer a point for Hinobi to be completely evil, so Hinobi goes from Evil Incorporated to a secretive, shady organization thatâs ultimately trying to do good (or at least protect their own reputation and bottom line).
That of course, opens the door for a new final antagonist since the old ones donât work anymore, and in steps Bolypius (who might have been Wozâs original eldritch abomination boss before everything changed but we donât know that).
Also another cool detail that I canât fit in anywhere else: Glitches would originally keep their unique artstyles when leaving their games! Itâs not noticeable in the Pilot due to it being an animatic, but the coloured and fully animated production trailer shows a 3D Computer Animated Rock God Wizard existing in the 2D Artstyle of Glitch techs. I get why it wasnât done in the real show, too expensive probably, but itâs such a cool concept.
And finallyâŚ
Equipment:
Tech Gauntlets exist. They look quite a bit different but theyâve always been a thing. And Tech Vans have gone almost completely unchanged save for a change in colour to Modern Hinobiâs White and Blue.
To be honest, i donât have much to say about tech gauntlets other than one little change. In the Beta, there are something called Tech Journals. Basically just Hinobi Smart Tablets for research, calling other techs and basically just being a tablet.
Wanna know why they exist? The answer is right there in the photo that mentions them.
Because Tech Gauntlets from this era donât have screens.
At some point between 2015 and 2020, the Tech Gauntlet and Tech Journal were merged into one single thing, and the end result was the tech gauntlet with build-in screens we see in 2020. Itâs a tiny thing but I think itâs neat.
(Also I think Tech Gauntlets having a precursor in the form of the Hinobi-Mote is extremely cool and will be incorporating it into my headcanons)
Extra Stuff i thought was neat:
Taken from the Pilot, Mikoâs line about being âThe Oneâ and âChosen by destinyâ has existed in every single pilot episode. From the 2015 Pilot to the First Real Episode of the Show to the only recovered clip of the Pilot from 2020 that uses everyoneâs final designs. That one little line has survived every change the showâs gone through and I think thatâs cool.
Same goes for the gag in the first episode of Miko beating Five in various games and Five holding a slight grudge over it. Only difference is in the 2015 Pilot Miko actually realizes who Five is.
During the plot overview, an important character that gets brought up is named Tester. Heâs described as a kid who originally had the job of testing hinobiâs video games, but somehow gained glitch-like powers from some tests that were run on him. He then proceeds to use those powers to go against Hinobi, trying to discover their more sinister details while evading capture. I have no evidence for this. Just a pure get feeling. But until I see evidence for the contrary I am choosing to believe that Tester would go on to eventually become Ridley. I just know it in my bones. Some lore changed and all of a sudden Tester was no longer needed, mainly since Hinobi was no longer explicitly evil, so they made him into a hacker with the knowledge of how to manipulate and modify glitches. I just feel it in my bones.
A mentioned episode plot idea involves Miko overusing a bunch of stat-boosting glitch items for selfish purposes which proceed to get stuck to her and eventually force her to transform into a dangerous glitch, with Five needing to fix it before any other techs try to kill her. Now where have I heard of that plot before⌠Miko using some hacked, glitchy item to cheat at something and turning into an extremely dangerous glitchâŚ.
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