At the end of the day (end of the year fallowing origins) the best explanation I could come up with was this:
Origins, like MOTD, is in hell. I do not base this off the fact they were soposely "made by the same team" forget that, it's not important. My reasoning was why would they even have MOTD if It has nothing to do with zombies. But then it hit me: The same hell-based scenarios from MOTD's hell are Origin's basis.
Origins is hell, according to my theory:
Evidence (not proof, but evidence):
-Who is actually in hell:
-Tank Dempsey (Died on moon)
-Takeo M. (Died on moon)
-Nikolai B. (Died on moon)
-Richtofen's body (Died on moon)
-Samantha's voice: Bound to richtofen's body.
-Maxis
The way maxis enters the game is also important: Remember, we never see a living breathing maxis, we see his corpse laid out; His body, then later his mind joins the group. In the real world, maxis's body was dead long before his body was as well.
-Mob of the dead has many references to Dante's Inferno as hell. In Origins we see, not as diffident, but apparent things from "Inferno" as well: Muddy landscape (7th layer), massive beasts, gargoyles (panzers) winds that blow the damned, ice that freezes the damned, fire that burns the damned, and storms which… you get the idea.
-If this is hell, it's currently being shared by all 4 souls, or in this case, 3 souls and richtofen's basic biology (who he would be if he never touched the MPD) Its possible origins is the only place this could have happened.
- If this is hell, it would explain all the paradoxes in the story created by origins, as multiple things would be questioned to happen in origins as well as any map after it.
-If this is hell, then the aether is the cutscene at the end, again this makes sense, richtofen is there influencing sam, samantha talks as if she's american or soulless, and then maxis comes in, JUST HIS VOICE MIND YOU, with instructions and an accent. This can happen as a result of the events of origins sending maxis into the light.
This theory works for me, and until I get some solid evidence, it's the one I'm going to go by.