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Image 1 — Possible Still Life Origin based off of movie spoilers
Image 2 — Possible Still Life Origin based off of movie spoilers
Image 3 — Possible Still Life Origin based off of movie spoilers
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Possible Still Life Origin based off of movie spoilers

We all know the Still Life. But due to recent spoilers such as the image recently uploaded of the credits, we know there are 3 (possibly 4) Still Lives in the movie. I have come to a conclusion of their origins based off of what we have gotten so far.

Still Lives are undead.

Now you may be saying "But Kane said that this wasn't a zombie story and that people don't become the monsters!!!" But that's not what I mean by undead!

Now, we know that Still Lives are most likely failed recreations of people, a more advanced version of the Lifeform perhaps. But I propose that the reason they are so flawed isn't because of the Complex failing to mimic, it's plenty good at that, it's because it is mimicking the wrong thing.

Living organisms are constantly moving and changing, they would be hard to replicate by something that is used to recreating unchanging rooms and objects. It's recreation of the Hay Bacillus bacteria, while successful, was flawed because it cannot successfully recreate a living and moving organism. The Complex then looked to what seemed human and living enough but wasn't. In its attempts to make a human it began mimicking a combination of corpses and art, this is backed up by 3 pieces of evidence from movie spoilers.

  1. The still lives are made of something resembling modelling clay. We know this because in the description of the movie's violence on some website that I forgot the same of it said that a hand reaches into a humanoid's body and pulls out a gray mass. This gray mass could possibly be something similar to modelling clay which is (obviously) used for modelling statues and sculptures.

  2. Archibald Leland Sutter was a Canadian soldier during WWI, whether this is the correct person the Still life is based on or not, it tells us real people are being mimicked and made into Still Lives. Even the Bearded Still Life mentioned could possibly even be the Wall Dad or something.

  3. Pirate Clark is mentioned in the credits and played by Robert Bobroczkyi and could possibly be a recreation of the mannequin dressed as a pirate seen during clips of Cap'n Clark's Ottoman Empire, as it seems a combination of the mannequin and Clark himself serve as the mascots for his store.

This all leads me to believe that not only are Still Lives failed copies of humans made using statues and art as reference like we already thought, but they are also attempts to copy corpses. And that the Complex is a lazy bum which can't bother to try and recreate a moving subject, what a CHUD lol.

u/Leading_Ad_9463 — 11 hours ago