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| “ | Yes. It is a disease. Finds a crack in your mind. It crawls inside and never lets go. A parasite. It will consume you bit by bit. Then swallows your empty shell into The ARK. | „ |
| ~ Skulls on what The Operator does. |
| “ | YOU ARE BROKEN. | „ |
| ~ The Operator to Adam |
The Operator is the main antagonist of Marble Hornets, being the overarching antagonist of the horror webseries of the same name and the main antagonist of the Marble Hornets comic book. They are a mysterious parasitic entity that stalked The Marble Hornets cast and crew, slowly driving them insane as of them, Alex Kralie, starts to murder people associated with The Operator.
History[]
Past[]
The Operator’s origins are unknown as of now, but according to Skully, The Operator is a parasitic being who invades the minds of people, seemingly broken people, and slowly consumes their body and sanity, before shoving their bodies into the Ark, a pocket dimension voided of time or perception. It is revealed that The Operator has stalked Tim ever since he was a child in a mental asylum, which Tim assumed were just hallucinations. Right before the start of the series, The Operator targeted Alex Kralie, the director of Marble Hornets, a small short film he made in college.
Events of Marble Hornets[]
The Operator made his debut in the first episode of Marble Hornets, stalking Alex throughout his documenting himself, his first ever appearance at Alex’s window, looking for him, and in another episode where he follows Alex through the woods.
The series reveals that The Operator may have been using Alex to kill the others, seen in Entry #86. Alex says that he was trying to help the others by killing everyone that has a connection to The Operator. Tim disagrees and tries to say that The Operator was only using him, only to be interrupted by The Operator himself.
Entry #86 reveals that the Operator used Alex to spread in power and appearance by effectively "infecting" individuals with his presence. These individuals, whom Tim called "Source(s)", are individuals who have seen or become stalked by The Operator. As a result, they begin carrying his presence with them, causing anyone who meets them to become a potential new victim and, thus, new sources.
Alex says that the only way to hold his spread is for all sources to die. Tim states that it is physically impossible to find and kill every source. There is also no practical way to be certain that every 'infected' individual would either have visible symptoms or even know.
The Comics[]
Appearance[]
The Operator's design is similar to Slender Man's appearance with a tall, suit wearing monster.
Operator wears a black suit and tie with a white undershirt. The Operator is tall compared to the average human though either due to him being able to modify his body or just inconstancy, Operator early on was not considerably tall at around only 6 or so feet tall though later on appears around 8-9 feet tall. The Operator has a blank face though sometimes has faint nose and eyeholes and is hairless and has white skin though in Always Watching, it appears to have fair skintone.
Powers and Abilities[]
Even though he has not had a major fight in the series, the Operator is an incredibly powerful figure. His most used ability is to instantly teleport himself and others to any desired location. He has a habit of warping his victims to large bodies of water to drown them. The entity seems to have a major degree of reality warping, as seen when he reduced the amount of time between the early afternoon and midnight in Entry #72 – time passes from day to night in a few minutes. The series hints that the Ark is a realm created by him.
The Operator can mess with the mind and emotions of his victims, able to send them to insanity, brainwash them or wipe their memories. He can also "infect" his victims, causing them to burst into violent coughing fits, suffer from seizures or experience sudden blackouts. The Operator can control technology as well. He prevented a voicemail arriving at Jay's phone, and his mere presence can disrupt and crash technology, such as cameras.
Other powers of the Operator include reanimating corpses (as seen in the movie where it reanimated Milo's corpse), using telekinesis (he can even suck others towards him), extending its limbs and possessing others outright, as it did with Eli. Additionally, in Always Watching, he is invisible to the naked eye, and can only appear in cameras though if thats canon in the webseries is unlikely.
The Operator is successfully immortal. Whenever it infects someone, they become a "source". When those sources interact with other individuals, they gain a connection to the Operator and unknowingly amplify his capabilities. For as long as these sources and others exist, nothing can defeat the Operator. Characters in the series theorize that they can only truly make him killable by destroying these sources and everyone they have interacted with – a near impossible task.
Personality[]
The Operator is an enigmatic entity that infects the minds of their victims, feeding off their bodies and minds before callously throwing them into the ARK once he’s done with them, using them as ways to spread his infection to get more and more victims. The Operator shows a special kind of sadism at times, using his teleportation on Tim, who he has been feeding off of for years when he was a child, when dragging him around, and in a specific moment in the comics, infected Jessica with the memory of Amy just to have it torn away, and mockingly tilted it's head at a dying Jay before dragging him to the ARK. The Operator showed some amount of protectiveness towards Alex, which Tim attributed to Operator using Alex to get more victims for Operator to use and feed off. For the most part, The Operator stands and teleports around and is infact, mute and so is more of a force than a character and usually has others do its work for it. The Operator has only been shown to physically attack someone two times in Marble Hornets when he, was attacked by Jay in a hotel room and when he grabbed Jay after he was mortally shot though its implied he attacked Alex which caused him to bleed from his head.
The Operator appears to generally prefers watching his victims struggle to find a way to stop him and suffer from fear from him.
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Trivia[]
- The name "The Operator" has thus far never been used in the series (except once on a scribbled sheet drawn by Alex, and in several Totheark videos); the name was ascribed to the character in interviews by series creators Troy Wagner (who portrays Jay) and Joseph DeLage (who portrays Alex).
- In an interview, Troy and Joseph were questioned about who plays as the Operator. They did not give an answer, originally stating that they would wait until the series was over to reveal the method they used. However, they later decided not to explain as it would ruin the fear that the series induced into the audience.
- They later confirmed The Operator’s creation, stating for the first part of the story, they used pantyhose for the mask and to make it look tall, they glued together stacks of flip-flops, before switching to stilts.
- The Operator is the first villain seen in a Slenderverse web series.
- It is worth noting that while The Operator and Slender Man may look similar to one another, they are actually two vastly different entities. In fact, the Operator is a mere inspiration of the Slenderman, rather than being the same entities. The depictions of The Operator has influenced the Slender Man mythos mostly as whole, as he was created before the contemporary mythos of the Slender Man started. The creators of Marble Hornets themselves have even stated that the two characters aren't the same beings.
- The ⦻ symbol, used by Alex represents Operator and the fact he has no face with the circle being his head and the X showing there is no face on his face.
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