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(the director of  Mad Max) in the impor-  have begun to find their way into the   stopped meeting in person, and became
            tant role of Tarman, who is the captain of   mist; these entities are called BTs (bea-  more isolated. Social, cultural, and politi-
            the ship, one of the narrative centres, and   ched things). When they come into con-  cal ties between humans began to break
            the base of operations for this story. He   tact with humans, the result is instant   down.
            is a fine character. Additionally, we also   annihilation, leaving a void and a massi-
            have the Philippou brothers, who will re-  ve crater in their wake. But that was only   Death Stranding hastened the extinc-
            lease «Bring Her Back» in cinemas in sum-  the beginning; a strange rain began to   tion  of  humanity.  Seeing  this,  Bridget
            mer 2025, following the success of «Talk   fall from the sky and quickly influenced   Strand, the last president of the United
            to Me», along with notable performances   everything it touched, a phenomenon   States of America, founded Bridges. Bri-
            (not credited) by Guillermo del Toro and   nicknamed ‘Timefall.’ Structures sud-  dget Strand founded Bridges to provide
            Nicolas Winding Refn in key narrative ro-  denly rusted and  collapsed. The world   a future for all of humanity. Sam was a
            les.                              became completely unrecognisable; the   humble courier who also possessed uni-
                                              people who survived these changes be-  que  powers of  repatriation  (he  never
            In this storyline, the world as we know it   came afraid of Timefall and the BTs and   dies; he is repatriated from the world of
            is in  a horrible state,  all because of the   retreated to the remaining cities, which   the dead). Equipped with a Q-pid (a ne-
            ‘death stranding’ that has blurred the   in  turn  closed  their  doors  to  the  out-  cklace-shaped computer) from Bridget
            lines between life and death. The dead   side world. People stopped travelling,   and a BB (future baby Lou), he embarks
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