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The young man* wearing the shoes walks into the kitchen, grabbing a coffee mug labeled \u201cNJ Dept. Of Corrections.\u201d (MCR is from New Jersey.) He brews the pot and then looks through some clothes. The first is the jacket Gerard wore during the band\u2019s \u201cDanger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys\u201d album era, the next is a black jacket with golden buttons, looking like a shirt from the bands \u201cThe Black Parade\u201d album era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man grabs a black hooded cape and tares duct tape with his teeth. He tapes off the windows with black trash bags. The camera pans over a gas mask which is a symbol with triple meaning for fans, as it is the same one used in all three of Gerard\u2019s comics. The man puts on the vinyl of MCR\u2019s debut album, \u201cI Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love.\u201d He then proceeds to light candles around photographs of the band member\u2019s families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He walks with another candle and sits it on the floor. There is a pentagram in tape with an MCR album in each corner with\u00a0an ouija board in front of him. The camera focuses on his obscured face as his hands move the placet, blocking the question from the camera\u2019s view. The TV erupts with static, rapidly flashing five tarot symbols:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- The candle<\/li>
- The sun<\/li>
- The hand with a match<\/li>
- The blood drop<\/li>
- And a never before seen logo. Which I assume is this new album\u2019s logo. Correction, members of the witchcraft community in the comments have said that it\u2019s actually a sigle symbolizing MCR. I\u2019m still trying to verify this.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
The camera drops to the ouija board. Moving from around the O area over to spell out \u201cR-U-N\u201d as the front door is hit with loud knocking. The man looks through the peephole and sees three Draculoids from Danger Days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Unwelcomed guests. (Source: Youtube\/My Chemical Romance)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n The camera pans over a key ring labeled \u201cHotel Bella Muerte Room 512\u201d. Which is a reference to the song \u201cThe Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You\u201d off their album, \u201cThree Cheers For Sweet Revenge.\u201d The 512, however, is new. The only thing I could think of is that 5-8-12 was the last day they performed live. Or maybe it\u2019s the release date of this new album, May 12 2020?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man sprints into a red door with the candle on it. He runs into a bar with green and purple lights, the helmet from \u201cThe Ghost of You\u201d music video sits above the bar, it is clear that this bar is representing the album, \u201cI Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love\u201d. First room, first album, and all the references are from this era. (The song lyrics in the graphey, the posters, etc.) The patrons are drunk and watching the \u201cThe Ghost of You\u201d music video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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“The Ghost Of You” appears on the television. (Source: Youtube\/My Chemical Romance)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n Suddenly, a woman is sucking the arm of another woman and the camera flashes a man\u2019s vampire fangs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The three Draculoids reappear, the man runs through another red door. This one with the blood drop. The music is a slowed-down version of \u201cHelena,\u201d and the church this man has entered looks identical to the one from the \u201cHelena\u201d music video. He picks up a flyer for Helena\u2019s funeral. We see the blood-splattered couple for the album cover of \u201cThree Cheers for Sweet Revenge\u201d being married. They look back at the door, Helena stands, doing her dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The three Draculoids reappear, the man runs behind a curtain. He lights a match. (The matchbox is another song reference, labeled \u201cFire at Will.\u201d) He steps out of a coffin, and into the hospital from \u201cThe Black Parade\u201d where we see The Patient’s bed from the music video. Something is under the sheets. The man pulls them and the heart monitor stops. Showing 5-18-12. This is the events of TBP being shown from the other side. The three Draculoids burst through a red door with the hand and match. Our man hides and then sprints away as they follow. \t<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A red door with the sun appears he runs through. Suddenly he falls out of the passenger side of the \u201cDanger Days\u201d Trans A.M. [I screamed.] It speeds off while blaring Dr. Death-Defying\u2019s iconic radio transmission. The car circles back, almost running the man over. He walks past the mallets from the \u201cI\u2019m Not Okay\u201d music video. The Draculoids march forward, the man runs into a red door with the moon symbol. A nuke explodes like the beginning of the Danger Days comics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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(Source: Youtube\/My Chemical Romance)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n The man is lying in the middle of a circle of candles as five cloaked figures stand around him. It fades to black and the music becomes hopeful as he walks into the gymnasium from \u201cTeenagers,\u201d the door is black with the new logo. He follows a path of candles as he\u2019s suddenly in a stadium. The pentagram and ouija board is back, it says \u201cYes\u201d. The man looks up and smiles, the lights turn on to reveal, \u201cFORUM\u201d the symbol appears and city names fade in and out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the very end, we see the skeleton with the ex band member Bob\u2019s TBP jacket and the dead Draculoids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*I assume he, the nameless character, is a man. However Gerard Way is genderfluid and if this character is a representation of them, then it is reasonable to assume the character is he\/them. In a 2014 Reddit thread when asked about gender Gerard had said,<\/a> \u201cI have always been extremely sensitive to those that have gender identity issues as I feel like I have gone through it as well, if even on a smaller scale. I have always identified a fair amount with the female gender, and began at a certain point in MCR to express this through my look and performance style. So it’s no surprise that all of my inspirations and style influences were pushing gender boundaries. Freddy [sic] Mercury, Bowie, Iggy, early glam, T-Rex. Masculinity to me has always made me feel like it wasn’t right for me.\u201d
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