The Outside (song)

The music video for "The Outside" was released on March 18, 2022. It is a continuation of the video for "Saturday", and draws much of its plot from the lore established in Twenty One Pilots' preceding album, Trench (2018).[2]

The video begins with a scene of a water dragon, which fades into a room housing the nine bishops in the fictional city of Dema who proceed to kill one of their own. The scene then cuts to Joseph washing up on the shore of an island, which goes by the name of "Voldsøy", located on the conceptual continent known as "Trench". Dun finds Joseph and the two set off for a cave where antlered creatures reside; this creature has notably previously appeared in the video for "Chlorine". Joseph sits down with the creatures and drinks an unknown substance they gave him, and follows one out of the cave. The creatures give him their antlers and disappear. Joseph then places the antlers above his head, which allows him to revive and control the dead bishop in Dema. He breaks one of the neon gravestones in the bishops' room, then releases the bishop from control by immolating him through a fire caused by the damaged neon light. The video cuts to a shot of Joseph and Dun standing side by side in the night, looking off into the distance as they spot the torches of the "Banditos", a rebellion against the city of Dema, and the rebels look back at them. The video then focuses on a certain duo of the Banditos, and as they look back at the now-flaming Dema, it is revealed that they are the same duo who found the other Banditos' jumpsuits at the end of the video for "Nico and the Niners".[3]

On December 16, 2021, the Twenty One Pilots YouTube channel released a video of the band performing the song at the Corona Capital Festival in Mexico City, Mexico.[4]