Hey guys, Pete here.
Today I'm going to do a Dark video to follow up my family trees video from last year.
At the end of that video I mentioned how many unanswered questions we have about the family
connections in Netflix's Dark.
This video will look at those with some of the popular theories that surround them.
I'm going to talk about everything we know with plenty of speculation, so this will contain
spoilers if you haven't made it through the first two seasons of Dark.
This would be your chance to leave if you wandered in here by mistake.
The day after I made my video about the families the team behind Dark released this official
family tree.
Thiers looks great, but it didn't really add any extra information to the dozens of fan
made ones that were already out there on the internet.
Beyond the arrangements of the characters what was really interesting about this one
was the question marks they added in some of the places.
They really draw your attention to some of the people we don't know.
I'm going to go around the family tree and talk about each of those question marks, some
of the underlying mysteries, and the theories people have about these complicated family
connections.
We're obviously moving into new territory in season 3, so this will only be discussing
the families in the Winden we spent the first two seasons of Dark getting to know.
We can start at the bottom, and the first big question is who is Regina's father?
Claudia is a central figure in the story in her role at the power plant, her time as a
traveller, and she earns the moniker of the White Devil because of her influence in her
old age.
The fact that they haven't revealed her the father of her child seems intentional at this
point, and out of all different questions the popular theory for this one is pretty
solid.
Most fans would agree that Tronte Nielsen is the best candidate because we know they
had a relationship.
They knew each other as kids, and it's hinted that they had an affair as adults based on
their interaction at the power plant.
His wife was actually ready to leave him before Mads disappeared because she knew he was cheating.
There's several questions surrounding Tronte as a character and we'll get into that later.
But, here's what we know for him for sure - he's married to his wife Jana, and the father
of Mads who went missing in the 1980s timeline.
His other son is Ulrich Nielsen who is the father of Magnus, Martha, and Mikkel in the
2019 timeline.
So if Tronte is Regina's father that would connect the Nielsen and Tiedemann families.
Mikkel Nielsen travelled through time and was taken in by Ines Kahnwald.
That connects the Nielsens and the Kahnwalds, and more importantly Jonas to Martha.
Since Martha and Mikkel were siblings that makes her Jonas's aunt.
The next question mark is in the Kahnwald family.
Who is Daniel's wife and why is she important?
We've had mention of her in his conversations with Egon at work, and we know their daughter.
I think in this case it's hard to come up with theories since we don't know why or even
if she's important to the big picture.
It's notable that they haven't revealed her identity, and that they made the choice to
add a question mark here on this family tree.
After all we don't know who Hannah's mother is, but her father Sebastian Kruger doesn't
have a question mark where his wife's name would be.
One female character that might be a candidate is Silja.
She fits in somewhere, and there's a possibility that she might have a child in season 3 - which
I talked about in my the End is the Beginning video, but there isn't enough groundwork to
turn this into a solid theory.
Silja is a mysterious character.
We know she is Elisabeth's sign language interpreter in the 2050s timeline, and we know from this
blurb on the darknetflix2053 Instagram account that Elisabeth is also her foster mother.
Her image appears on Adam's big photo wall below the main families off to the side of
Noah and Agnes.
That hints that there might be more to learn about her but doesn't tell us much else.
The other place she might fit in is in the Doppler family line.
We don't know who Peter's mother is yet.
In this case most of the theories revolve around where Peter came from since he arrived
in Winden in 1987, and if Helge is actually his father in the first place.
Based on his diminished state some fans have questioned if he would have been able to father
a child.
The simple answer is of course he could.
Helge wasn't a bright kid, his mother was cold and possibly cruel, and he certainly
experienced trauma at the hands of Ulrich as a child.
None of the really translates to him being unable to have a relationship though, and
we don't know what he was like as a young man in the 33 year gap.
He was manipulated into doing terrible things by Noah, and it's possible that that wasn't
his only interaction with travellers.
Peter's strange backstory of coming to come to town in 1987 without any other details
has led some fans to speculate that he's a time traveller himself.
It's certainly possible, and the fact that his teenage photo on Adam's wall is in black
and white makes you wonder.
The thing that contradicts this is that he seemed unaware of time travel before he witnessed
Mad's dead body arriving at the bunker.
You could say that maybe he travelled as a child like his wife Charlotte, so he didn't
have a memory of it, but then what is the point of having him arrive in 1987.
Before we move on to the biggest question I have it's worth pointing out that Greta
Doppler hinted that Helge might not be Bernd's biological son.
As far as we can tell he raised him as he was, but Greta told Noah that he was not conceived
by love.
The theory is that she may have been raped, but there isn't any evidence pointing to a
prime suspect.
That leads us to the last question mark, and arguably the biggest question of all - who
is the father of Tronte Nielsen?
His mother Agnes is also a mystery, and we don't know who her parents are either.
She's Noah sister.
We saw her as a child in the 1920s timeline, and she returned to Winden in the 1950s timeline
renting a room with Egon and Doris Tiedemann.
There's been a lot of speculation about who Noah and Agnes's parents were.
One of the most popular theories is that it's Magnus and Franziska.
We know they do travel to the past, we know they're part of Sic Mundus in the early days,
putting them in the right place, but it seems odd when we meet Noah and Agnes that they're
being raised by Erna rather than their parents who are in that same time.
If this was the case the Nielsen family would be a loop like the Doppler's.
which it would be connected to through Franziska.
We Agnes and Tronte arrive she described her husband to Doris as a pastor that wasn't a
good man.
Tronte had mysterious burns on his arm that were never explained.
They look like cigar burns.
And, could be signs of self-harm, or signs of an abusive father.
As far as who that father is?
The most popular theory has been that it is Bartosz.
This is primarily because he is an important character that we imagine would pair up with
someone.
In my mind he doesn't seem like someone who would burn their child, but as mentioned we
don't really know what's going on with the injuries.
They do factor into the most recent theory, which is that the new character who appears
as a trio in the new trailers could be Tronte's father.
In the little bit of footage we've seen we see the characters come off as menacing, and
they may be capable of harming children.
At the same time we don't know much about them, so it's really just a guess at this
point.
Either way this new version of the family tree that showed up in the trailer brings
up a lot of questions because it's mirrored in the middle and joined with an infinity
sign.
Agness is the character who is connected to that sign with her son branching off from
there.
This has led people to think perhaps whoever is Agnes's mate is maybe involved with whatever
happened to cause these two worlds to split off in the first place.
Another thing about this family tree that I won't go into too deeply is the character
Boris Niewald who takes on the identity of Aleksander Kohler, and then marries Regina
and becomes Aleksander Tiedemann who later is running the power plant.
Boris just shows up in the woods, and you could really make a whole video about this
so I don't want to go too far.
One of the things I know will get posted in the comments if I don't bring it up though
is that his last name is Niewald.
Which, if you put the name Nielsen and Kahnwald together you get Niewald.
This is a curious thing that they decided to do.
There's definitely more to this character than we have to learn, but I really don't
even have a favorite theory here.
I think it's safe to say that Boris was manipulated by time travellers.
He's carrying the gun that will eventually be used by Adam to kill Martha.
So he has a connection there.
Whether he was a traveller himself or he was just put on his path by somebody who was working
behind the scenes for either Adam or Claudia remains unclear.
But fans really enjoy this idea that his last name is Niewald and some speculate that perhaps
even though Hannah is in her late forties when she travels back in time might have a
child and may give them this name as a combination between Ulrich's last name and hers.
Beyond that there is just one more thing I want to mention and then I will wrap it up.
On Adam's board there's one character who is never been identified.
I can't even really tell if it's a female or a male.
It looks like a young girl to me, but I've seen a lot of people refer to it as a boy
and you really can't tell.
It's above the families.
It's to the side of where the missing children are, and I'm really curious as to who this
is.
So let me know if you have any theories about this because it's strange that there's just
one picture on this entire thing that we can't really agree on.
So, with that I will end it here.
I hope this clears up any additional questions you had about the family tree.
If not, please ask them in the comments.
I'll try to answer as many as I can.
Let me know how you think each one of these mysteries will be solved.
What your favorite theories are, and who you are hoping is involved in the unrevealed parentage
of these characters.
Let me know what other theories you've got kicking around in your head, and what you're
looking forward to in season 3 when it drops in just 9 more days.
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