Pope Fights - The Italian Wars: History Summarized

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  • @ianr.1225
    @ianr.1225 Před 4 lety +2107

    "Metric Hapsburg jawline".
    You know, if there's ONE unit I assume was imperial...

    • @soniakernel754
      @soniakernel754 Před 4 lety +67

      How could it not be imperial?

    • @starshipearth9178
      @starshipearth9178 Před 4 lety +109

      I always thought it would be incestual

    • @lollimeware3338
      @lollimeware3338 Před 3 lety +11

      @@starshipearth9178 nice

    • @AlexanderDraconis
      @AlexanderDraconis Před 3 lety +6

      @Ian R. : Daaamn.
      @Think Greater : DAAAAMN.

    • @eazy8579
      @eazy8579 Před 3 lety +11

      It’s a measure used by both systems, similar to tons, it’s just slightly different depending on the system in question.

  • @katmhcharis1236
    @katmhcharis1236 Před 4 lety +3207

    The Renaissance is full of Hot Nonsense and I’m here for it

    • @McJethroPovTee
      @McJethroPovTee Před 4 lety +43

      Cesare Borgia IS a HOT Nonsense

    • @merrittanimation7721
      @merrittanimation7721 Před 4 lety +45

      No wonder Michelangelo was so tired with everyone.

    • @davidegaruti2582
      @davidegaruti2582 Před 4 lety +31

      what do you expect from pepole that used oversized weapons ( greatswords, pikes, widlass crossbows ecc. ecc.) like anime protagonist...

    • @trishapellis
      @trishapellis Před 4 lety +26

      @@davidegaruti2582 Don't forget the Glaive. No weapon as extra as the glaive.

    • @roller332
      @roller332 Před 4 lety +3

      Yep

  • @Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache
    @Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache Před 4 lety +2287

    "Pope Leo X, in terms of the CRIPPLING DEBT we've inherited, we need to address the elephant in the room."
    *Pope Leo:* "I know! Isn't he precious? Worth every lira we don't have."

  • @a.h.s.3006
    @a.h.s.3006 Před 3 lety +489

    Pope Fights I: Barbarian Menace
    Pope Fights II: Attack of the Franks
    Pope Fights III: Revenge of the Germans
    Pope Fights IV: A new Pope
    Pope Fights V: Holy Roman Empire Strikes Back
    Pope Fights VI: Return of the French
    Pope Fights VII: Napoleon Awakens
    Pope Fights VIII: End of the Empire
    Pope Fights IX: Rise of Italy
    Pope Fights X: Fascists arisen
    Spinoffs:
    Pope One: A Pope Fights Story
    Borgia: A Pope Fights Story
    Pope Fights: Popes of the old Empire
    Pope Fights: The Italian wars
    The Francis (Mandolorian)
    Disclaimer: This is a rendition of another amazing thread somewhere in here I just wanted to make it a bit clearer and make it a bit more historically accurate

  • @jackperales1076
    @jackperales1076 Před 4 lety +2035

    modern sports rivalries WISH they had the amount of petty animosity that Genoa had towards Venice

    • @raisins6201
      @raisins6201 Před 4 lety +54

      All of Europe's knife friendly rivalries are nothing compared to modern sport rivalries

    • @merrittanimation7721
      @merrittanimation7721 Před 4 lety +108

      Or imagine the Blue/ Green rivalries of Constantinople working today.

    • @camiblack1
      @camiblack1 Před 4 lety +82

      Seriously the only thing that had that much petty animosity was the Byzantine Blues vs Greens.

    • @IONATVS
      @IONATVS Před 4 lety +64

      The rivalry between the Veneti/Venetoi (Latin and Greek, respectively for the Blues) and the Prasiniani/Prasinoi (literally "Leek-Greens" from the specific green dye used) actually began waaaaaay back in Western Rome, even if their most famous episode was the Nika revolts in Constantinople. Rome's original political parties/political machines in the early republic were the Russati/Rousioi (Reds) and the Albati/Leukoi (Whites), the other two chariot racing stables, but over time, specifically during the late republic and early empire when there was an actual *gasp* ideologically-based political divide between the Populares (Populists) and Optimates (literally the "Best Men", also known as the Elitists or Conservatives) the Red and White stables' rivalry became overshadowed by the rivalry between the younger (but still founded in the early republic) Blue and Green stables, and ofc once the Empire had been going long enough that ideological political factions largely stopped mattering (the emperor either agreed with them or didn't) the super-popular Blues and Greens were ready to once again fill the void of Romans wanting a reason to hate each other on feast days.

    • @SamAronow
      @SamAronow Před 4 lety +7

      Merritt Animation Israel actually has that. Most sports teams were founded by political parties and are politically affiliated. That’s why so many of the tea,s all have the same names over and over.

  • @nateds7326
    @nateds7326 Před 4 lety +2137

    Pope fights 3: this time, its personal.

  • @Azzabackam
    @Azzabackam Před 4 lety +857

    Me: :(
    Blue: Let's do some history.
    Me: :)

  • @jasonblalock4429
    @jasonblalock4429 Před 4 lety +166

    2:01 I love that Blue is physically unable to talk about this period without slipping in a reference to Assassin's Creed.

  • @scrub7927
    @scrub7927 Před 4 lety +1482

    Pope Fights IV: A New Pope
    Pope Fights V: Holy Roman Empire Strikes Back

    • @laete2536
      @laete2536 Před 4 lety +3

      😂

    • @a.h.s.3006
      @a.h.s.3006 Před 4 lety +126

      Pope Fights VI: Return of the French
      Pope Fights VII: Fascists Awaken
      Pope Fights VIII: End of The Fascists
      Pope Fights IX: Rise of Italy

    • @a.h.s.3006
      @a.h.s.3006 Před 4 lety +77

      Rogue Pope: A Pope Fights Story

    • @Jozenchill
      @Jozenchill Před 4 lety +49

      The Popes (Mandalorian): Actually Decent People Edition (20th-21st century)

    • @SamAronow
      @SamAronow Před 4 lety +27

      Pope Fights X: Now with Nazis
      Pope Fights XI: Lorne Michaels vs. Sinead O’Connor
      Pope Fights XII: Rod Dreher complains about Francis

  • @Nurat170
    @Nurat170 Před 4 lety +1405

    Blue talks about the Borgia.
    Ezio: where's my hidden blade?

    • @goroakechi6126
      @goroakechi6126 Před 4 lety +27

      Nurat
      Cesare has it.

    • @goroakechi6126
      @goroakechi6126 Před 4 lety +23

      Also,
      *WHERE IS LEE*

    • @ObligedUniform
      @ObligedUniform Před 4 lety +11

      Someone! GET HIM CHARLES LEE!

    • @Borderose
      @Borderose Před 4 lety +7

      I wish Blue'd be fairer regarding them, though. It's obvious he prefers people like the Medici. Or God forbid, the Sforza.

    • @Sketchman911
      @Sketchman911 Před 4 lety +7

      @@goroakechi6126 WHERE IS ÉLIESE?!?

  • @Suomismg
    @Suomismg Před 4 lety +136

    Reaches part about Julius II assaulting Venice:
    "But that makes no sense!"
    Genoa:
    "That makes wayyy too much sense!"

  • @CazTails
    @CazTails Před 4 lety +129

    Blue: **mentions Rodrigo Borgia**
    **EZIO AUDITORE WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION**

  • @gutsmasterson2488
    @gutsmasterson2488 Před 4 lety +769

    “Slow and steady gets the spaghetti.” That’s why it took so long for this video to come out.

  • @nox71377
    @nox71377 Před 4 lety +735

    People: hi pope. Wait. You’re not the pope. Is this gonna happen again? God damn it

    • @gutsmasterson2488
      @gutsmasterson2488 Před 4 lety +37

      God is up above watching with a tub of popcorn the size of Arkansas. Bits falling onto the floor is just another planet getting hit by an astroid.

    • @charlesborden8111
      @charlesborden8111 Před 4 lety +22

      No, I'm "A" Pope, haven't you heard? We now come in a six pack.

  • @SarahWolverine
    @SarahWolverine Před 4 lety +552

    "But they had just now remembered that the other side of the alps exist"
    I WROTE MY LAST TERM PAPER ON KARL IV. ITALY POLITICS AND I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS SLANDER.
    The emperors of the HRE *knew* the Italian part of the empire existed and they wanted it. The Staufer Kings wanted it but failed. The Luxembourger Kings wanted it, but Henry VII. Methods weren't ... quite adapted to the reality of politics (just claiming the Regnum Italicum doesn't fly so well with cities that been independent for so long) and Karl already had said goodbye to the illusion of traditional Regnum Italicum, but wanted to establish a more secure Imperial hold on Italy in 1354/55 nonetheless. That failed however when riots errupted in Pisa and made using that city as a stronghold quite impossible, so Karl called it a day. (Sadly, I know nearly nothing about his second time coming to Italy in the 1360s. I focused on his Romzug of 1354/55.)
    The reason why it was also hard for the emperors to establish factual reign in Italy was because they had a wholeass Empire north of the alps to take care of. And unlike France or England, there was no stable center of power, no administrative center. That basically switched places with every new imperial house, so the emperors, especially in late medieval times, had enough trouble securing their position in the empire north of the alps, so Italy had to wait. However, when the Habsburger at some point snatched the crown for what was the beginning of the rest of the Empire, they had decades, centuries to solidate their power, to build an administrative system - so they had actual ressources to take care of Italy! (Which in this case meant eating up Milan and then also every other Northern city state and territory they could get their greedy little Austrian hands on.)

    • @nikki607
      @nikki607 Před 4 lety +49

      As someone who grew up and still lives in one of those contested corners of Italy you know more than I do and I thought I knew quite a bit😂

    • @SarahWolverine
      @SarahWolverine Před 4 lety +37

      @@nikki607 Oh, ciao dalla Germania! I'm a history student in Germany and JUST this semester had my basic medieval lectures, so I know some basics, with a heavy focus on the HRE. Plus, I love Italy (the South especially) and the entire fact that both Northern Italy and what is now Germany was so splintered and divided is fascinating to me. So I'm also always open to learn more about it!

    • @nikki607
      @nikki607 Před 4 lety +15

      @@SarahWolverine Hiya back from South Tyrol! Yeah you definitely know more than me😂 all I can present with is HS knowledge (Matura in 2 week RIP me) and a penchant to remember the weirdest historical facts

    • @richardaubrecht2822
      @richardaubrecht2822 Před 4 lety +10

      Ahoj, I guess, from Bohemia. I'd like to remind you that the future Emperor Charles IV spend few years as the ruler of the Luxemburgish estates in the Northern Italy, and in 1350 after he was already a Czech and German King, he was badly injured there during a tournament. If I remember correctly, his jaw was broken into pieces by a jousting spear there....

    • @SarahWolverine
      @SarahWolverine Před 4 lety +8

      @@nikki607 Ah, a Tiroler_in! (Tyrolian? Tirolano/a?) I actually didn't make the connection that Tyrol used to be its own territory, its own duchy, at one point in time before I started to research. It was just always a part of Austria or Italy for me that had a specific name and I never questioned why. Looking back, I feel like a dumbass but that's fine, we learn through being challenged.
      And I was like you when I was about to graduate HS two years ago, full of HS history & political knowledge and a strong affection for history, especially local one. Viel Erfolg beim Matura! (South Tyrol is german speaking, right? Ah, buona fortuna as well for good measure :) )

  • @rosebythecreek
    @rosebythecreek Před 4 lety +109

    “Slow and steady gets the spaghetti” should be on a t-shirt

  • @izzy1221
    @izzy1221 Před 4 lety +734

    I must admit, an ELEPHANT PARADE is a dope way to party. I want an elephant parade.

    • @poopityscooper2116
      @poopityscooper2116 Před 4 lety +5

      But what about an elephant parade with elephant riders?

    • @tommarsdon5644
      @tommarsdon5644 Před 4 lety +13

      @@poopityscooper2116 ah, yes, but what would the elephants ride on?

    • @christelheadington1136
      @christelheadington1136 Před 4 lety +5

      Marry someone rich from India. I've heard that's how they "do" weddings.

    • @lonely1951
      @lonely1951 Před 4 lety +7

      Tom Marsdon turtles. And then it’s just turtles all the way down

    • @tyrant-den884
      @tyrant-den884 Před 4 lety +5

      It's what I consider to be happening anytime I am playing Civilization and have to decide between building some more modern musketeers, a much needed hospital, or- I just made a war elephant.

  • @tablememecenter5794
    @tablememecenter5794 Před 4 lety +474

    POPE FIGHTS ARE YOU READY TO HUMBLE??!!

    • @pedrosampaio7349
      @pedrosampaio7349 Před 4 lety +42

      PREPARE FOR THE POPE-FIGHT OF YOUR LIFE, TONIGHT IN THE THUNDER-ROME!!!!!

    • @soniakernel754
      @soniakernel754 Před 4 lety +21

      I don't think any of these popes even knew the meaning of the word humble.

    • @alisaurus4224
      @alisaurus4224 Před 4 lety +16

      Sonia Kernel sure they did! “Humble” is what YOU are in the glorious papal presence...if you know what’s good for ya, see?

    • @GalileoAV
      @GalileoAV Před 4 lety +1

      Lmfao

    • @SakuraMoonflower
      @SakuraMoonflower Před 4 lety

      That's so funny. XD I laughed so hard. XD I know it's an old joke, but OMG it's so relevant!

  • @orangegalen
    @orangegalen Před 4 lety +20

    4:17 "And he's all out of ceiling."
    For some reason that made me laugh waaaay too hard.

  • @amberswafford9305
    @amberswafford9305 Před 4 lety +41

    Hearing Martin Luther described as a German monk who got “hammer happy” pleases me greatly. 🤣

  • @izib5013
    @izib5013 Před 4 lety +315

    hello i nearly spat my tea out at "slow and steady gets the spaghetti"

  • @trolldrool
    @trolldrool Před 4 lety +156

    The sack of Rome might've been a dumpsterfire of a mess caused by a fustercluck of political turmoil, but at the least it gave us a kickass Sabaton song.

    • @Mr.LaughingDuck
      @Mr.LaughingDuck Před 4 lety +18

      Constantinople: *Finally laughs after 1204*

    • @tentathesane8032
      @tentathesane8032 Před 4 lety +24

      FOR THE GRACE FOR THE MIGHT OF OUR LORD

    • @agentwinter6474
      @agentwinter6474 Před 3 lety +21

      @@tentathesane8032 FOR THE HOME OF THE HOLY

    • @gufosufo337
      @gufosufo337 Před 3 lety +14

      @@agentwinter6474 FOR THE FAITH, FOR THE WAY OF SWORD

    • @agentwinter6474
      @agentwinter6474 Před 3 lety +10

      @@gufosufo337 FOR THE FAITH, FOR THE WAY OF THE SWORD!

  • @Giganotus
    @Giganotus Před 4 lety +69

    It would be fun to have a video about Italy's tiny friend, San Marino. It has a surprisingly interesting history for such a tiny country.
    Nonetheless, I enjoy any history video posted and this is no exception! Can't go wrong with the hilarity of Pope Fights

  • @SRosenberg203
    @SRosenberg203 Před 4 lety +79

    "These popes weren't just clergymen with bigger hats..."
    I literally fell off my chair just now, I was laughing so hard.

    • @florian8599
      @florian8599 Před 3 lety +6

      ... they also had heads (read egos) as big as the hats they wore...

  • @ashra8281
    @ashra8281 Před 4 lety +603

    Hey it's a jocrap. And heyyy you know he prefers fireball over smite.
    Also I love his crap guide to dnd series it's amazing

    • @snakeorbreak6258
      @snakeorbreak6258 Před 4 lety +48

      "prefers fireball over smite"
      catch this *paladin S M I T E*

    • @jennkelly3218
      @jennkelly3218 Před 4 lety +23

      It called a crap guide to dnd also his name is JoCat

    • @prophetisaiah08
      @prophetisaiah08 Před 4 lety +55

      @@jennkelly3218 His name is JoCat, but his wiggler-headed persona for the "Crap Guide" series and others is actually JoCrap. So, to the argument of "Is this A or B?" the answer is "Yes."

    • @andrewponder3855
      @andrewponder3855 Před 4 lety +6

      The vids where he plays Worms are fun too.

    • @michaellowe1407
      @michaellowe1407 Před 4 lety +9

      Ummm... sword and shield

  • @Zareena23
    @Zareena23 Před 4 lety +181

    Pope fights 4: more popes... at the same time

  • @williamtheconqueror7807
    @williamtheconqueror7807 Před 4 lety +36

    9:28. "Sacking of Rome."
    FOR THE GRACE, FOR THE MIGHT OF THE LORD! FOR THE HOME OF THE HOLY!

  • @IAmTechnoMaestro
    @IAmTechnoMaestro Před 4 lety +38

    "There's no whoopsies in bapping Rome and stealing the shinies." Didn't that happen in the crusades with multiple Byzantine holdings?

    • @Archon3960
      @Archon3960 Před 2 lety +1

      They're orthodox, so that don't count. X)

  • @raptorus7773
    @raptorus7773 Před 4 lety +458

    Pope Fights 3: Revenge of the Memes
    but i can't believe you forgot the most important part of Borgia's time as pope...... waging a secret war against unseen assassins lol

  • @samtemdo8
    @samtemdo8 Před 4 lety +177

    Another day another Pope Fight.

  • @julessamuels4588
    @julessamuels4588 Před 2 lety +10

    My favourite fact about Julius II is that when the Michaelangelo sculpted him carrying a bible, he got mad and shouted ‘what do I know of bibles, I am a warrior, sculpt me with my sword’.

  • @charlesdeleo4608
    @charlesdeleo4608 Před 4 lety +24

    6:48 I’ve actually seen that elephant statue. Last year, when my family and I were staying in Rome as part of our Italian vacation, that elephant was on the base of the obelisk near the pantheon and just outside Santa Maria sopra Minerva, just near the AirBnB we were staying at. The facade itself did not seem like a lot to look at, but the interior was an absolutely stunning piece of Gothic architecture, and I’m told the church was built atop a temple to Athena and Isis.

    • @Archon3960
      @Archon3960 Před 2 lety

      Wait, a temple to _Isis_ ? Athena/Minerva, I understand. But since when was the Egypitian Pantheon venerated in Rome?

    • @VictoriaStarratt
      @VictoriaStarratt Před rokem +1

      @@Archon3960 syncretism, and Cleopatra

  • @jo_ovin1482
    @jo_ovin1482 Před 4 lety +166

    Not really Pope Fights, but Fight Popes.

    • @skylordguy6861
      @skylordguy6861 Před 4 lety +24

      Jo_ovin First rule of Fight Popes is that you don’t talk about Fight Popes

    • @alisaurus4224
      @alisaurus4224 Před 4 lety +9

      That’s Warrior Pope to you, heretic

    • @Bloodlyshiva
      @Bloodlyshiva Před 4 lety +2

      Gotta love playing as the Papal States in Med2 Total War. Get some real Fight Popes going.

  • @TheColonelsThree
    @TheColonelsThree Před 4 lety +111

    Any one else hear Sabaton's "The Last Stand" in their head when we hit 1527?

  • @cdcdrr
    @cdcdrr Před 3 lety +10

    And then Charles got his mentor elected pope, who was such a modest person that when asked if he could perhaps have a house from which to work, all the cardinals just silently pointed him to the Vatican. Then that guy had the sheer gall to ask "could we maybe, maaaaybe dail it back a little on all the corruption?" and everyone began reaching for their daggers and poison vials.

  • @HellebrandCuriosity
    @HellebrandCuriosity Před 4 lety +10

    6:33 it took a few centuries, but elephants finally marched into Rome

  • @kammieceleek5113
    @kammieceleek5113 Před 4 lety +132

    POPE FIGHTS 3! LET'S GOOOOO!
    Side note: my sister is graduating as we speak and she'll love the meme factor when she gets home.
    Edit: Thanks for the likes and well-wishes for my sister!

  • @BootyjuiceJenkins
    @BootyjuiceJenkins Před 4 lety +134

    Pope Fights sounds like a sick fighting game.

    • @L_mattox
      @L_mattox Před 4 lety +9

      IMMORTAL KOMBAT!

    • @joaomartins9800
      @joaomartins9800 Před 4 lety +5

      Now I want one.
      Pope Julius II: attack: 5 (MAX), defence: 3, Wisdom: 2, holiness: 3, health level: 10 years (bars).

    • @emmanuelpena2228
      @emmanuelpena2228 Před 3 lety

      @@joaomartins9800 I'd play the shit out of that

    • @fredfry5100
      @fredfry5100 Před 3 lety

      Someone recently made one. I don't know what its called though.

  • @talscorner3696
    @talscorner3696 Před 4 lety +15

    What a quackkrieg!
    Folks, I'm Italian (florentine) and have risked dying twice of laughter-induced suffocation in the first 1 minute and 51 seconds of this video.
    I love your stuff

  • @Swedishminer40
    @Swedishminer40 Před 4 lety +16

    "Pontiffical memery" is the best thing ive heard all year

  • @nyan5785
    @nyan5785 Před 4 lety +73

    Damn this anime is gory as hell

  • @peterhaag5225
    @peterhaag5225 Před 4 lety +52

    it's perfectly normal to look at a notification and shout "Pope Fights yes!".... right?

    • @CarsonZXY
      @CarsonZXY Před 4 lety +1

      That moment when someone outs themself for ringing the bell and then tells everyone how i reacted to the notification.

  • @alejandromolina7270
    @alejandromolina7270 Před 4 lety +14

    This was my World History class in a nutt shell. A big heavy sigh every time our teacher mentions a new war.

  • @arutka2000
    @arutka2000 Před 4 lety +27

    "Slow and steady gets the spaghetti"
    -Warrior Pope, probably

  • @ladypossum1776
    @ladypossum1776 Před 4 lety +83

    4:11 welcome to a crap guide to...Popes?

    • @ojrmk1
      @ojrmk1 Před 4 lety +14

      If you've got a problem, if no one else can help, and if you don't really care about the spiritual and moral underpinnings of Catholicism, then maybe you can hire...The A-Men!

    • @Random3716
      @Random3716 Před 4 lety +8

      I love it when a synod comes together

  • @ILikePi31415926535
    @ILikePi31415926535 Před 4 lety +42

    IT WAS 1527
    GAVE THEIR LIVES ON THE STEPS TO HEAVEN
    THY WILL BE DONE!

    • @isaacverhelst3983
      @isaacverhelst3983 Před 4 lety +7

      FOR THE GRACE FOR THE MIGHT OF OUR LORD! FOR THE HOME FOR THE HOME OF THE HOLY! FOR THE FAITH FOR THE WAY OF THE SWORD

    • @EpiclyAverageGirl
      @EpiclyAverageGirl Před 4 lety

      Please, what song is this?

    • @isaacverhelst3983
      @isaacverhelst3983 Před 4 lety +2

      Abigail Perez The Last stand by Sabaton

    • @Crazael
      @Crazael Před 4 lety +7

      @@EpiclyAverageGirl The Last Stand by Sabaton. It tells the story of the Swiss mercenaries who served as the Pope's bodyguards during the sacking of Rome. Most of them died keeping him alive and for the last six hundred-ish years, Swiss mercenaries have guarded the Pope.

    • @Typhy7
      @Typhy7 Před 4 lety

      More like "Gave their lives for a depraved Pope and Papacy."

  • @ryanharrelson6935
    @ryanharrelson6935 Před 4 lety +31

    9:08 THEY'RE THE 189, IN THE SERVICE OF HEAVEN!

    • @CrazyHand7894
      @CrazyHand7894 Před 4 lety +3

      THEY'RE PROTECTING THE HOLY LINE,
      IT WAS 1527, GAVE THEIR LIVES ON STEPS TO HEAVEN

    • @williamrosen3179
      @williamrosen3179 Před 3 lety

      FOR THE FAITH, FOR THE WAY OF THE SWORD
      GAVE THEIR LIVES SO BOLDLY

  • @GhostBear3067
    @GhostBear3067 Před 4 lety +6

    08:22‐ "by a metric Habsburg jawline" has to be the greatest description I have ever heard! XD

  • @ignacejespers8201
    @ignacejespers8201 Před 4 lety +43

    Julius II's game plan: TOTAL WAR, FIGHT EVERYONE

  • @justanotherrandomcrit8115
    @justanotherrandomcrit8115 Před 4 lety +65

    I’ve been waiting for this my entire life.

  • @nunyobidniz
    @nunyobidniz Před 4 lety +19

    1511-1513 XD
    Pope: backstabs France
    England: Did someone say "war with France?🧐 Let me just grab my brolly"
    Scotland: *overhears England, collectively draws claymore * "Die ye English [incoherent string of expletives deleted]!!!"

    • @adridaplague-boi
      @adridaplague-boi Před 3 lety +3

      Ah, western european politics.
      Wait no not western european politics god no

  • @TheJboy88
    @TheJboy88 Před 4 lety +28

    Okay, was there EVER a time when Europe wasn't some kind of mess?! 😯

  • @akhenaten617
    @akhenaten617 Před 4 lety +92

    What are all these pope fights I just wanna grill

  • @best_of_ant
    @best_of_ant Před 4 lety +44

    "God just works in mysterious ways."
    -Blue

  • @lucidnonsense942
    @lucidnonsense942 Před 4 lety +10

    Please consider looking into Lucrezia Borgia, she was a fascinating character, who had a major smear campaign against her by her father's enemies. She was a patron of many renaissance artists and, despite being used as a pawn, managed to establish her own power base in the end. She deserves better than "did incest and poison" meme.

  • @nomad2639
    @nomad2639 Před 4 lety +13

    Ahhhh. I love the Jocat reference Blue.
    It’s never to late for a *SMITE* !

  • @nickmalachai2227
    @nickmalachai2227 Před 4 lety +39

    Pope Fights 3: a Good Day to Fight Popes

  • @Andreu0rtin
    @Andreu0rtin Před 4 lety +16

    A pope with an elephant is the greatest thing I heard all day.
    Thank you, I need something like this today.

  • @gingermenace8056
    @gingermenace8056 Před 4 lety +40

    *See’s Jocat*
    This does put a smile on my face.
    P.S: you should do a collab with him, maybe have him animate one of your videos. I think that would be cool

  • @wolfman-up7dh
    @wolfman-up7dh Před 4 lety +8

    "Pontifical Memery" is some seriously brilliant writing.

  • @eh9618
    @eh9618 Před 4 lety +88

    pope fights 3: vatican drift

    • @quincie-
      @quincie- Před 4 lety +8

      Pope fights 4: on stranger tides.

    • @arutka2000
      @arutka2000 Před 4 lety +5

      @@quincie- Pope fights 5: HRE Strikes Back

    • @BradyPostma
      @BradyPostma Před 4 lety +4

      Pope Fights VI: Pick Up Sticks

    • @Amy-gz2ko
      @Amy-gz2ko Před 4 lety +2

      Pope Fights VII: Steel Pope Run

    • @BradyPostma
      @BradyPostma Před 4 lety +2

      Pope Fights VIII: Alexander the Great

  • @tycholarsen9306
    @tycholarsen9306 Před 4 lety +14

    With the amount of effort that you put into these videos, I am surprised that more people do not know about you. Sometimes I just take a moment to think about the animation and work that is put into these videos and contemplate how hard it must be for you to run the channel along with your personal lives. Thank you so much for making content.

  • @ashleyautumn3014
    @ashleyautumn3014 Před 3 lety +4

    @3:41 I almost spit out my drink at that one XD

  • @REACH_khbk
    @REACH_khbk Před 4 lety +15

    You guys are fabulous, awesome, and amazing. I'm a history professor at a university in Canada and I've assigned your videos to my students, but I'm also a mother, and my six yr old has watched (vetted by me) videos by you guys also. He's FASCINATED by the gods, mythology and historical fun, and in a lot of ways I am profoundly grateful to your excellent explanations and fabulous, evocative but understandable graphics. And the text message at the front of this video is so important.
    You guys rock.

    • @FUnzzies1
      @FUnzzies1 Před rokem

      Too bad they support terrorists

  • @Elnadrius
    @Elnadrius Před 4 lety +25

    1527? Rome? Why am I hearing awesome soundtrack that no way can be confused with song about crusades?

  • @KuroeNezumi
    @KuroeNezumi Před 4 lety +20

    Oh, so that one comment about indigo breaking your saber during past livestreams was actually foreshadowing about a meme here huh?

    • @FlyingTeaRex
      @FlyingTeaRex Před 4 lety +4

      Alejandro Vinasco It was Cyan, his fiancé, who broke his sword.

  • @npgabriel
    @npgabriel Před 4 lety +47

    It's really nice to see how uncontroversial that beginning disclaimer is among this channel's commenters (as it should), especially when you compare it to how people behave in some of the other history channels' posts about the subject. Good shit 👌

    • @FUnzzies1
      @FUnzzies1 Před rokem

      You shouldn't support terrorists

  • @sineadinglis4602
    @sineadinglis4602 Před 4 lety +7

    As soon as I saw this video, I screamed "POPE FIIIIIGHT!!!" and scared the cat, my roomate, and my fiancee. Totally worth it.

  • @ConnorLockhartYGO
    @ConnorLockhartYGO Před 3 lety +4

    Fun fact: Charles' 1527 attack on Rome is the setting for the Sabaton song "The Last Stand."
    In other words, the crusading song isn't about crusading.

  • @oriane4811
    @oriane4811 Před rokem +3

    5:57 : My professor summarized that by "when one side takes the lead, all the others gang up against it"

  • @RocketErils
    @RocketErils Před 4 lety +12

    5:52
    I assume Scotland joined in just to fight England? That or my understanding of Scottish-Italian history is seriously lacking.

  • @ThraceVega
    @ThraceVega Před 4 lety +3

    Can we get uhhhh, a background music list or something? The song at 2:00-ish pops up in a bunch of your videos and I'd love to get hold of it for personal listening.

  • @teigenb829
    @teigenb829 Před 4 lety +15

    * video starts * cue game of thrones theme song
    Also, I wonder if there's an off version that's not copyrighted because that would be hilarious for this

  • @haakontherayquaza4046
    @haakontherayquaza4046 Před 4 lety +11

    i have a request: could Red do a video about Otohime? i just read the story (Urashima Taro) and it facinates me, also i love Dragons

  • @ameelliott4085
    @ameelliott4085 Před 4 lety +1

    Im loving the expansion of different angles of the profile drawings. As an artist and long time binge watcher of the channel. It looks great!

  • @ezminj
    @ezminj Před 4 lety +2

    Still one of the best, classiest, most entertainingly informative channels on this entire platform. Keep it up, we love you crazy kids!

  • @Krahazik
    @Krahazik Před 4 lety +3

    I just love the way you put things in your videos. My fav this time, "Bringing a claymore to a pool noodle fight".

  • @roelofsonneveld1049
    @roelofsonneveld1049 Před 4 lety +28

    V E N I C E
    Yes that’s blue for you...

    • @Lionstar16
      @Lionstar16 Před 4 lety +1

      Yep, it's not a Blue video without at least one mention of Venice :)

  • @mccoolguy1973
    @mccoolguy1973 Před 4 lety +11

    "Slow and steady gets the spaghetti." - Blue, 2020

  • @benmuhr2245
    @benmuhr2245 Před 4 lety +5

    At 4:36 you can clearly see that Pope Julius II died at age 69. You don't even have the audacity to say "nice". Come on, the warrior pope deserves better.

  • @dylanchouinard6141
    @dylanchouinard6141 Před 4 lety +18

    9:15 In the heart of the Holy See, in the home of Christianity. The seat of power is in danger!

    • @akkariel8228
      @akkariel8228 Před 4 lety +5

      There's a foe of a thousand swords
      They've been abandoned by their lords
      Their fall from grace will pave their path, to damnation

    • @dmua9551
      @dmua9551 Před 4 lety +3

      AND THE 189, IN THE SERVICE OF HEAVEN

    • @jackemmakem
      @jackemmakem Před 4 lety +2

      @@dmua9551
      They're protecting the holy line
      It was 1527

    • @isaacverhelst3983
      @isaacverhelst3983 Před 4 lety +2

      jackllynbup Gave their lives on the steps to Heaven/ Thy will be done

    • @christophermedlin5889
      @christophermedlin5889 Před 4 lety +2

      @@isaacverhelst3983
      For the grace, for the might of our lord
      For the home of the holy

  • @briannafigueroa4796
    @briannafigueroa4796 Před 4 lety +8

    doctor: “you have 10 minutes and 49 seconds left to live”
    me:

  • @bobbluered8984
    @bobbluered8984 Před 4 lety +5

    "Slow and Steady gets the spaghetti" needs to go on a T-Shirt or something, that is GENIUS.

  • @Fordo007
    @Fordo007 Před 4 lety +6

    "ruled like a roman emperor" (remembers all my baptist sunday school teachers teaching that the roman catholic church is a direct continuation of the roman empire) sounds about right...

  • @goonerbear8659
    @goonerbear8659 Před 4 lety +15

    Pope Fights 3: The Sequel We Once Again Asked For and Got

  • @jinxcat90
    @jinxcat90 Před 3 lety +4

    My sister introduced me to your channel not even a month ago and I've been putting my Netflix binges to shame watching you guys. Hey Blue, can you do a video on the Eastern Orthodox Church? I was raised Russian Orthodox and would absolutely adore you explaining its history

  • @ZephWraen
    @ZephWraen Před 3 lety +1

    4:11 I see you there, JoCrap, you lovable Wiggler, you. Also, the fact that you guys are aware of JoCat just makes me really happy.

  • @hamilkarscha6925
    @hamilkarscha6925 Před 4 lety +3

    At 9:56, is "preistliness" a typo or a deliberate pun that I don't get?

  • @ashleyhansen4479
    @ashleyhansen4479 Před 4 lety +4

    Italians during the Renaissance: ‘make NSFW art Blue can’t show on CZcams’
    Blue: “Bruh,” ‘censors it with PG-13 swim trunks to avoid getting demonetized’

  • @LexYeen
    @LexYeen Před 4 lety +9

    0:01 I came to learn about Pope Fights and was pleasantly surprised by this title card - and the description! Excellent way to Do Your Thing while showing respect.

    • @FUnzzies1
      @FUnzzies1 Před rokem

      Supporting terrorism should never be supported

  • @theNunnceler
    @theNunnceler Před 4 lety

    Fav series yes pls i need this rn. Also thanks for using this platform for good

  • @ericlandess5063
    @ericlandess5063 Před 4 lety

    Congrats on 1.25m subscribers, you two are the best

  • @evandavid2816
    @evandavid2816 Před 4 lety +13

    Great stuff as per usual - plus, of course, Pope Clement VII being under Charles V's Hapsburg thumb after 1527 was the main underlying reason why he ultimately couldn't have given England's King Henry VIII a divorce from Catherine of Aragon - Charles' own Auntie no less! - even if he'd wanted to, leading to the Break With Rome and all the various other Tudor shenanigans that followed, yes...?!

  • @TheOtherBrie
    @TheOtherBrie Před 4 lety +8

    I legit thought he was about to say “Case in point: The US Government.”

  • @childeater7327
    @childeater7327 Před 4 lety +7

    2:44 you just gonna gloss over that?

  • @NineNoRouge
    @NineNoRouge Před 4 lety

    Thank you for posting the resources in the discription

  • @thetrashlock
    @thetrashlock Před 4 lety +10

    Love your content! I think it's cool that you fence... Even if it's ahem, Saber. But seriously I'm a foilist and love your content!

  • @brookeharmon3687
    @brookeharmon3687 Před 4 lety +9

    I would love to see Blue react to the anime Hetalia.

  • @AnaxErik4ever
    @AnaxErik4ever Před 3 lety +1

    Ha ha, "pontifical meme-ery" is one of the things that keeps me coming back. Thanks for the shout out at the start to the issues that matter in current history/present day social, cultural, and political circles.

  • @dantesdiscoinfernolol
    @dantesdiscoinfernolol Před 4 lety +4

    0:20 so I can find these next couple lines anytime I want