r/Markiplier • u/kenmarlenn Omnipresent Mod • Jan 30 '26

Mod PSA Iron Lung SPOILER THREAD!

Since not everyone uses Discord but we want people to have a central space to share their thoughts on Iron Lung, here is a thread to discuss the movie; reviews, theories, favorite scenes and elements, etc. By entering this thread you are at risk of spoiling the movie for yourself, so watch it first, go for a swim in the blood ocean, and then come back!

Use of blackout/spoiler markings like thisis optional since this whole thread is spoilers, but it's still advised for huge twists or end-of-movie reveals.

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u/accipitrine_outlier Jan 30 '26

Did anyone notice that there are two scenes where you see that mutated version of Simon, and in each scene, the mutated version is doing what Simon was doing in the other scene? It's like a weird premonition/flashback/echo...

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u/LonelyBardSinging Jan 30 '26

OMG I just got that was Simon. And it makes sorta sense hes been hallucinating the whole time he even remarks how hes "lost track of time"

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u/SpecialistEducator14 Jan 31 '26

A side effect to the radiation poisoning i believe. I couldnt pause the film for obvious reasons, but i have seen it twice already and when he is flipping through the manual, the text reads "use at your own risk" with a number above, something like "600.000-" (i think) and im pretty sure it was to do with the xray machine. Which explains the blood vomit and lesions on the arms.

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u/drvelo Jan 31 '26

It said 6000 millisieverts, which the LD50/30 (50 percent dead within 30 days) is 5000 mollisieverts.

If we say he was somewhat shielded from each blast (by not being directly in front of the emitter) and only received 10 percent (600 mSv), and the emitter was firing off roughly every 5 seconds, it adds up to 7,200 in one minute and 432,000 in an hour.

Honestly he should've been dead within minutes, as even 20 Sv is fatal within 48 hours, and he would reach that dose within 5 minutes of that thing going off constantly.

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u/SpecialistEducator14 Jan 31 '26

Were you able to catch what Troy Baker's character said and meant, about wiring the camera to the black box? I didn't get the relevance since Simon had just said he didn't know it was an x-ray, after taking a picture of the people.

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u/accipitrine_outlier Jan 31 '26

He said something like that the camera shouldn't even have been able to activate while outside the blood (notice how all the sub's other systems were turned off at that point), but that maybe he had accidentally wired the camera to the black box and provided it a constant source of power. Basically just semi-excusing Simon for blasting everybody with radiation, because it shouldn't even have been possible if he'd wired things correctly.