#cube hypercube

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Welcome to "Pouet-Pouet in the Fourth Dimension", an absurd AI-generated audio adventure!

In this chaotic crossover, Simon (a very angry survivor of an hypercube from the movie "Cube 2"), Samuel (a sarcastic nerd frome the movie "Ginger Snaps"), and Billy Bob (a carefree redneck from the movie "Slash") try to make sense of a reality-breaking nightmare… with mixed results.

Having seen Cube 2: Hypercube and Cube Zero recently, I figured I'd had to add to the headcanon that I had been working on before (that the series takes place within or near Night Vale).  Previously, I focused on only the first movie--with my ideas as to how people were brought inside and what they were like before.

Please note that this will contain some spoilers for the two sequels. If you haven't seen them and you don't want spoilers, you've been warned.

Let's focus on Hypercube first and we'll move forward. Bare in mind I haven't seen these in a few months so my memory is rather fuzzy. This is my own headcanon, so it's probably just going to sound like me talking out of my ass.

Hypercube is the oddity of the trilogy. Where it fits in the series is questionable and how is just bizarre. I've yet to figure out how it even works in the spectrum of the Universe. But anyway, like with the previous--people find themselves inside the structure and need to find a way out. This time, things get more perplexing when we see that the laws of physics and gravity are affected inside--leading it to be revealed they're inside a tesseract, a four dimensional hypercube or "4-cube" .

Like with Night Vale, the laws of gravity and physics are much different than they are in other places (perhaps even more different than in neighboring Desert Bluffs. The rooms, like with the first, seem to move. The difference here is that they move in very odd ways. For example, there is a repeated number sequence from one room that appears to move from wall to wall, which will have a meaning later on. One other interesting thing to note is that not only are gravity and physics affected, but time as well.

Throughout the course of the movie, different rooms show things that aren't of the norm--from past or future versions of those inside repeating what they did before, or a split off universe where something happens to them; similarly to how clocks and time have been affected in Night Vale.Similarly to Cube, each of the characters inside have something to contribute, eventually finding out they're all connected to each other in some way. From Jerry, who designed the touch doors in the structure to Ms. Paley, a mathematician who worked for a company call Izon (which most of the people inside are familiar with for reasons that will be revealed).

The curious Izon feels strikingly familiar to the SGA, probably using people to test out a device for quantum transportation or teleportation. According to the almighty Wikipedia, special features on the DVD reveal that the government is responsible for what takes place. SGA much? There isn't too much to add here. Now, Zero.

Zero is the last movie of the series, but is in canon the first. This is where we see who is responsible, but in my own personal opinion, even then we have a lot of unanswered questions. In this, we see that there is a file on everyone who is a subject--with dozens of filing cabinets that cover the walls. According to Wynn(?), each person inside is an enemy of the state who consented to being placed inside, even if they don't remember it. This could perhaps further confirm the theory I mentioned before when it came to Rennes, who in said headcanon, would be freed if he could escape.

While there isn't too much to add, the main reason I bring this up is when we see who is responsible. Going simply by Wiki, let's say that for the sake of time that the curious Izon from before is responsible. Towards the end, a character is lobotomized and placed inside--leading to the possibility that Kazan from the first was an former Izon employee. An interesting thing to note here is that Izon appears to wipe the memories of people who are placed inside, though some retain vague memories. Perhaps, a similar branch group to Strex Corp who use re-education on others (possible critics who are a threat to the company and society if word of their actions got out).