Paradigmadness 2

**Paradigmadness 2** is a *Madness Combat* tribute collaboration organized and storyboarded by Jsoull and the sequel to the original *Paradigmadness* collaboration hosted by Alpha-Nuva. Paradigmadness 2 was originally under development sometime around 2013-2015 by Alpha-Nuva and a few other popular animators at the time, but due to negligence and a lack of motivation to complete the project on-part of several of the members, the entire collaboration died and little is known of this iteration today. This was entirely unknown to the community for many years, including Jsoull in 2017 - who began to plan what he thought to be the first attempt at a sequel to the original Paradigmadness. Development of this finished iteration was stated by Jsoull to be "...one of the most difficult experiences I've ever had in the community as of yet.", citing instances of several collaborators abandoning the project, sabotage at the hands of competing collabs/animator groups, and some cases of data loss. The completed collab was posted to both Newgrounds and the Youtube on Madness Day 2018, with a soundtrack from Fleetwire/Cryono77.

## Plot

The animation opens at the location where Seeker was stabbed through the chest. After recovering from his wounds, Seeker gets up and steps outside the building.

The scene then shifts to where Dimb was killed. An Eye Monster retrieves the package he was carrying from his dead corpse. However, the Eye Monster is eyed by Awez, who steps into the room and begins killing the Eye Monsters.

Killing all the Eye Monsters present, Awez retrieves the package and proceeds to the next room, where he finds a group of uniformed Eye Monsters. After killing all of them, Awez moves onward into a room where several Eye Monster scientists are attempting to contain a Mag Eye Monster who appears to have gone haywire.

Awez goes over to the room's mail slot to deliver the package to its next correspondent, but before he can do so an Eye Monster scientist hits a button to lower the metal spikes keeping the Mag Eye Monster contained. Awez leaps on the Mag Agent and attempts to kill it with his ax, but while he breaks the Mag Eye Monster's visor he does little to slow it down. The Mag Eye Monster then tosses Awez to the ground and prepares to finish him off, but before he can do so Awez throws the package over to the button, causing it to hit it and cause the spikes to go up again right as the Mag Eye Monster was stepping over them, impaling the Mag Eye Monster before ricocheting over into the mail slot and down to the next checkpoint. A trio of Agents then enter the room. One of them steps forward to finish off Awez by shooting and killing him.

The package goes down the mail tube to its next checkpoint, however it is picked up by a uniformed Eye Monster rather than its intended correspondent. The uniformed Eye Monster carrying the package is then shot at by a group of three Grunts. The Eye Monster shoots and kills all of them, but soon discovers that while he was distracted the package was taken by its correspondent.

The correspondent runs into a room with several Eye Monsters and kills all of them. The uniformed Eye Monster then shows up but the correspondent flees into the next room. The uniformed Eye Monster chases down the correspondent and pins him to a wall, but the correspondent kills the Eye Monster by stabbing him through his eye and shooting his head.

A Grunt then runs forward which the correspondent mistakes for an Eye Monster and shoots. Realizing his mistake, the correspondent turns to the Grunt's companion to assure him of his allegiance, but is soon shot at by the Eye Monsters. Running outside, the correspondent kills an Eye Monster next to a cannon before loading the package into the cannon and firing it to transport it to its next checkpoint, getting shot and killed just as the cannon fires off.

Meanwhile, Abaddon ascends the side of a building where the next checkpoint is. Killing a uniformed Eye Monster guarding the balcony, Abaddon shoots through the door, killing two more uniformed Eye Monsters before proceeding inside the building. He encounters an Elite Eye Monster but is able to kill it with little effort. Moving on to the next room, Abaddon kills another uniformed Eye Monster and an elite Eye Monster with his gun and a laser from his visor respectively. Another Eye Monster enters but Abaddon kills it by ripping out its eye before moving onward to the next room. As Abaddon exits however a demonic Eye Monster arises from mysterious markings drawn on the ground.

In the next room, Abaddon prepares to stab a uniformed Eye Monster only for it to be killed when the package hits it. Abaddon picks up the package to deliver it to its next correspondent but right after eyes a grunt stabbed to the wall with swirly markings drawn in blood around. As he hears pounding coming from the door he came from, Abaddon proceeds outside onto the balcony. As he prepares to throw the package he has spikes shot through his head by the demonic Eye Monster. As Abaddon prepares to leap a spike is shot through his head that causes him to fall off, down to the next correspondent.

After Abaddon's body falls near him, Kryy picks up the package to deliver it. Three Eye Monsters then teleport in to kill him and recover the package, but Kryy kills all of them. Several more Eye Monsters soon show up but Kryy fights his way through them. Entering a building, Kryy kills the uniformed Eye Monsters guarding its lobby before moving onward to the next room. Several uniformed Eye Monsters as well as Agents appear to kill Kryy, but Kryy is able to fight them off. Picking up a pair of tangerine sunglasses from a fallen Agent, Kryy uses them to control an Agent to shoot at his brethren before having him commit suicide by shooting himself through the head to kill both him and another Agent.

Kryy then seemingly dies after he is hit in the head with a laser beam from an Eye Monster, who then takes the package from him, but Kryy recovers thanks to his regenerative abilities before killing the Eye Monster and retrieving the package. Kryy then enters a garage and kills the three uniformed Eye Monsters stationed in it before getting into a caravan and driving off with the package, pursued by Eye Monsters on motorbikes. While shooting at his pursuers, Kryy crashes the car into the front of a building, killing an elite Eye Monster. Kryy then gets out and tosses the package to its next checkpoint before killing himself by shooting himself through the head.

The package is caught by SM28, who kills several Eye Monsters who get in his way before leaping off the building. He lands on a ledge leading to another building where he kills an Eye Monster and a uniformed Eye Monster. An Eye Monster then runs up and stabs him with a knife, briefly downing him before he gets up again and kills the Eye Monster. SM28 then heads in until he gets outside to another ledge with a zip line attached to it. Killing the two uniformed Eye Monsters guarding the zip line, SM28 places the package on the zip line and sends it off. An Eye Monster runs at him, but SM28 kills it before turning to a uniformed Eye Monster, who chooses to surrender rather than be shot and killed.

The zip line leads to a balcony where its next correspondent is currently killing a uniformed Eye Monster. The correspondent takes the package and after killing two more Eye Monsters heads inside. Several more uniformed Eye Monsters enter the room and shoot at him, causing him to fall down a trap door and into another room. The correspondent kills two more Eye Monsters before proceeding onward to the balcony, where he kills two more Eye Monsters but is injured by a shot to the head. Not down yet, the correspondent walks over to the balcony and pushes the package off it down to its next correspondent.

The package is taken by Mekeek, though he soon loses it when a Grunt grabs it from him. As he chases after the Grunt, several Eye Monsters teleport in to kill him, but Mekeek shoots and kills them instead. A trio of Elite Eye Monsters then arrive, but Mekeek kills them too. Before he can take the package from the Grunt however, the Grunt is killed by an elite Eye Monster, who promptly kills Mekeek as well before directing two regular Eye Monsters to load the package up onto their hovercraft.

On board the hovercraft, Cethic, who is imprisoned on board, breaks free and arms himself to recover the package. Two Eye Monsters and an elite Eye Monster then enter the room but Cethic kills them after scanning them to determine which has the greatest threat level. Picking up a modified revolver, Cethic proceeds to the next room of the hovercraft, where he kills several more Eye Monsters and elite Eye Monsters before moving onward to the bridge. Cethic kills an Eye Monster stationed there before getting into a melee fight with the hovercraft's pilot. After killing the pilot, Cethic goes over to the controls of the hovercraft only for an Eye Monster to come in and take the package while he was not looking. The Eye Monster heads out onto the balcony of the hovercraft but is pursued by Cethic, who quickly kills him by slamming his head into the railing before tossing his corpse off. Cethic then grabs the package but, seeing that the hovercraft is about to crash into a mountainside due to a lack of a pilot, tosses it off before the hovercraft crashes.

The package is spotted by several AAHW units, who go to pick it up at its target landing spot. However, several Eye Monsters soon show up to take the package for themselves, leading to a fight between the two factions. While this is going on, Gabriel Barsch arises from a puddle of yellow blood from an A.T.P. Engineer who was torn in half by two Eye Monsters. Seeing that the Eye Monsters are about to retrieve the package, Gabriel swoops in, kills the Eye Monsters surrounding it, and takes the package. Several more Eye Monsters soon arrive to take the package, but Gabriel grabs one of them and makes it fire its laser beams at its comrades. After killing the Eye Monsters, several A.A.H.W. troops show up and demand Gabriel hand over the package, but Gabriel refuses and runs away.

Meanwhile, Jack Wernicke steps out of an outhouse, but three Eye Monsters and an elite Eye Monster sight him, causing him to run back inside and teleport before the outhouse is blown up. The scene cuts back to Gabriel, who is attempting to evade the Eye Monsters to deliver the package. As several Eye Monsters swarm around him, they are blown away by flashbangs fired by the A.A.H.W. units, though one also injures Gabriel. Gabriel gives the package to a drone to take it to its next correspondent before AAHW units shoot and kill him, before they themselves are killed by the Eye Monsters. The Eye Monsters go over to Gabriel's corpse but find he does not have the package.

The drone delivers the package to its next correspondent, Spots, who heads into the Agents' facility from *Rebooting The Madness*, to deliver it. Killing several Agents and Eye Monsters, Spots heads further into the facility to give the package to its intended recipient. However, he is killed by a uniformed Eye Monster with a shotgun, who promptly takes the package. However, as he is heading off with the package, Sentry Turbo swoops in and kills him before taking the package. Proceeding through the facility, Sentry Turbo fights off hordes of Eye Monsters before eventually being killed by them. A uniformed Eye Monster then takes the package and heads into the next room, but trips and drops the package.

Before the Eye Monster can pick it up, he is shot through the head by Koty, who picks up the package instead. Heading into the next room, Koty kills several more Eye Monsters and Agents who attempt to retrieve the package from him. However, he is eventually killed by two elite Eye Monsters. Before the two elite Eye Monsters can run off with the package though, Seeker bursts into building through the ceiling and kills both of them. As several Agents and Eye Monsters descend the staircase to kill Seeker and claim the package, Seeker reloads his guns and shoots all of them. Several more Agents come in through the hole in the roof Seeker created but Seeker kills them as well. As several Eye Monsters enter the scene, Seeker attaches an explosives device to the wall and kills the Eye Monsters. After the Eye Monsters are all dead, Seeker activates the device and blows a hole in the wall, which he jumps through to come in on the scene at the end of *Rebooting The Madness 2* of Newton Greenshades facing off against a scientist and two Eye Monsters.

In the post-credits scene Seeker is shown, having killed the two Eye Monsters and the scientist, handing Newton the package. After a short pause, Newton opens to reveal a pair of white glasses, containing powers only limited to the user's imagination.

## Deleted Scenes

ParadigMadness 2's hectic development resulted in multiple scenes that ended up being unused due to the animators becoming busy in school, lacking inspiration, and/or had other obstacles that disallowed progress. A multitude of animators had joined the project throughout the harsher parts development, but the majority of those that started their work never finished it. As a means to showcase the leftover effort that went into these scenes and as to not put them to waste, a short montage of these incomplete scenes plays after the main credits with the animator's name and reason for departure being present on the top-left of each feature. A notable few of these scenes are featured below:

## Trivia

* All of the original animators for Paradigmadness were contacted by Jsoull during the development of the sequel, however all were either uninterested in re-joining the community, were unresponsive, or sited alternate reasons as to how they couldn't manage to contribute to the project.
* Within the film are several references, inside jokes, and amusing/intriguing details that are worthy of note and will be listed below:
	+ At 5:59 during Jsoull's scene, the auditor is visible for a few frames after Abaddon catches a second railgun spike to the head, seemingly shattering his halo and in the process vaguely implying the Auditor's demise.
	+ At 6:44 within Kryy's scene, a large board is visible above a workbench which has pinned photographs of several Madness Animator's OCs including Jack Wernicke, P3M, DaskerKS, and many others. Given how the phrases "Where", "When", and "Why" are pinned next to these characters,(And given other knowledge surrounding the collab's chaotic development), this is likely a comedic jab at members of the collab that bailed from development.
	+ At 16:02 in Gabriel Barsch's scene, Jack Wernicke can be seen in the background escaping the battle in the same truck he stole in Madness Infiltration.

## 'Original' Paradigmadness 2 (2013-2015?)

### Overview of Released Materials:

What remains of the original Paradigmadness 2 is of only a few scant unfinished scenes and screenshots/assets. Judging from the materials we've seen, it is highly likely that the project fell apart while it was still very early in development. This is supported further by the unfinished intro animated by Alfa-Nuva, which features a far different set of events than what is seen in Jsoull's released version of the project. It features Seeker surviving the stab wound he receives in Paradig 1's intro as in-turn stabs his assailant. After a 2 month timeskip, Seeker is gearing up at a previously unknown HQ of his allies known as the "E.A.R.S". It is here that we are introduced to 'Leecher', a character mentioned in Paradig 1 and who was intended to be the recipient of the package. After some time, 'Leecher' detects seismic activity around the Rebooting The Madness Agent HQ, to which Seeker heads off to on a motorbike as the title drops.