I Hope it Ends with a Monster
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
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Doomsday would probably be a huge bummer... you and everyone you know annihilated - every human achievement, every memory, every cone of gelato erased. But if we’re choosing apocalypses out of a lineup, if the world is going to end, I think a monster might be our kindest method of exit.
Nearly every mythology has a creature whose job it is to wipe things clean come Armageddon - it’s strangely universal. And I’d argue that’s because, ironically, it’s the gentlest ending we can imagine.
0:00 I Hope it Ends with a Monster
0:54 Size of Doom
3:49 Beasts of Humanity
6:36 Carol is Afraid
8:49 Waiting for the End
10:51 A Worse Sort of Monster…
12:46 When the Wind Blows
15:34 Chernobyl
17:51 Forgotten Terrors
20:09 The Doomsday Instinct
23:46 Creatures of the End Times
26:40 End(s) of Evangelion
30:26 I Hope it Doesn’t End at All
Media Shown: Pacific Rim, Banana Simulation, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Carol and the End of the World, Melancholia, The Atomic Café, Chernobyl, When the Wind Blows, Monsters, Cloverfield, Godzilla (2014), Godzilla vs. Hedora, Shin Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Mothra, Final Fantasy XV, God of War, God of War Ragnarök, Asura’s Wrath, War of the Worlds, Fantastic Four (Various), Galactus First Appearance, Deep Impact, 2012, Transformers: The Movie, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, The Avengers, Thor Ragnarok, Eternals, Doom, Hellboy, Wrath of the Titans, Gods of Egypt, Jormungandr Smite, This is the End Beasts of the End Time, Beasts of the Fog, Independence Day Resurgence, Chasing the Unseen, Neon Genesis Evangelion, End of Evangelion
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The fact that this man manages to post a video every time i think "hey, the archive hasn't posted a video in a while" is disturbing and impressive
Real
The archive knows when we need cool shit
He's in your mind
I was thinking that and 5 seconds after, I got a notification on my phone that he uploaded. I guess he knows when the world needs him
For me it's more like I forget I'm waiting on another video lol
"Doomsday would probably be a big bummer."
*Yes... Yes it would.*
will miss my student loans
It’s coming soon
Ehhh... At least I won't have to go see a dentist again.
minor inconvenience
It would greatly effect fishing season
The reason everyone views themselves as that lone, intrepid survivor because the alternative is "I died when shit hit the fan", and when you're thinking about what you would do in an apocalypse your first thought shouldn't be "Die" unless you want that to happen.
"Everyone thinks they're the hero of their own story."
*Handsome **_Fucking_** Jack of all goddamned people.*
If wolf eat the moon fuck do i do?
I don't necessarily disagree.......but i gotta lot of weapons.
It's egotism, pure and simple. Everyone thinks they're the main character, but in reality they're the cannon fodder.
@@WobblesandBean "Nuh uh ur wrong"
Thank you for your input.
For some reason when you were talking about the slow planet approach scenario it struck a chord in me.
When I was 16 My father died in 2020 of stage 4 pancreatic cancer but he had been diagnosed in the summer of 2018 (about 18 months before).
That time was probably one of the worst in my life, every day I would wake up not knowing if it was his last and it was horrible. Through the ages of 14-16 I had this overwhelming sense of dread, I knew he was going to die and that there was nothing I could do about it but I couldn’t move on until he did. It may sound horrible but I started to look forward to when it was finally over, simply so that it would actually be over, so I could finally move on and try to pick up the pieces of my life.
I’m better now and although I grieve, i try to live each day to the fullest. This video just reminded me of that
Hello there. I too share a similar experience and can relate to the things you wrote down. It just wasn't my dad but my gran. Diagnosed with cancer around the summer of 2018 and died in early march 2020. My age was around the same and I can confirm these feelings of dread every day. It was a terrible time for the whole family and at a certain point I just wanted it to end to stop both her suffering from a terminal illnes, as well as our suffering, so we could move on.
While it may seem weird to randomly share this under your comment it is strangely comforting for me to not be that alone in my experiences.
If that message has the same effect for you then I'd consider myself to be glad to have shared it. I hope that you can heal and keep on living.
As someone who lost my adoptive father to cancer I understand this feeling completely. The looming dread of knowing that this...thing for lack of a better term will take him, that I am absolutely powerless to do anything about it. Lying to myself that things will work out, they always do, he always gets back up. Then he falls, I helped him up, put him to bed. I was tired, frustrated, and ashamed that I was. That was the last time he was here. I still catch myself replaying that morning, not remembering, but feeling it. The screaming when my grandmother found him, I ran out my room, my breathing stopped, my mind praying to anything and everything that this wasn’t IT. And walking into that room, it felt like the world had ended. He looked at peace so there was comfort there. A small flicker in the sea of horror that was my mind. The worst things in life don't happen quickly, they draw out, agonize, and torment. Maybe that's why the idea of an apocalypse where it's something that WILL destroy us but not instantly is so terrifying. Being powerless is true horror.
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Congratulations, you "dog that ate your homework" evolved into "wolf that ate the sun"!
🤣
This evolved into a huge f*cking problem!
well, I could say that it could be said that: there will be "a dog hungry for culture" and a wolf that will have a "light-hearted" personality
oooh nice eclipse mythology reference, if you guys know what I'm talking about.
whats the scene name at 0:14
The kindest methods of exit are the ones that are so quick that your nervous system is basically evaporated before it can recognize what's even going on.
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*Me, looking at the Titanic wreckage from the inside of a motorized MUG Root Beer can*
a black hole coliding with earth
I disagree.
I think the kindest method of exit allows you to hold your loved ones, tell them you love them, and say goodbye.
Or just incapable of being registered as painful to the body like falling asleep
@@snapeinvader6208 Both is possible
hey you okay buddy?
Absolutly fucking not!
No… no I’m not.
Just resigned waiting for month pay, boss was shimty af
Well I hope things improve for y'all. Good job resigning dude, that's what you gotta do when they ain't paying you
Thanks for asking!
In Cloverfield people are still going to work. People in Toronto, or Boston, or LA, aren't being attacked (sequel events notwithstanding). It IS business as usual, just any disaster. People are panicking at the site of the disaster, but nobody else is affected. Same with Monsters. They're not ignoring it. The military are still attacking. but one lone squid not actively trying to kill you isn't much of a threat.
For the zombie thing, personally I'm convinced that, yes, bosses would still be telling us to go to work (while many of them run) but you'd have people actively trying to get bit, and biting others, to prove its a hoax.
When 911 happened bosses and employers forced workers to stay and actually locked some of the doors
@@MASTEROFEVIL I don't doubt it. Also locking people in is technically kidnapping and a fire hazard. I hope many sued the fuck out of them.
There is this anime called Zom 100 where people die because of zombies. Yet the tone of this anime is weirdly cheerful, because the protagonist can finally break free from working for his cruel boss and can do many things he wishes for.
@@kurooaisu Seen it. Was good.
Very realistic, reminds me of when the WoW blood plague happened and a lot of human behavior you'd see in a pandemic were also present. It was so great scientists wished to use the data but out of concern for the players and the fun they didn't allow another thing like this to happen.
It will end with a monster, but it'll be human shaped, and he'll be very rich.
Chuck Norris…
@@peterstoric6560Better call up Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White and Monty Python and the Holy Grail's Black Night and Benito Mussolini and the Blue Meanie and Cowboy Curtis and Jambie the Genie, Robocop, the Terminator, Captain Kirk and Darth Vader, Lopan, Superman, every single Power Ranger, Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan, Spock, the Rock, Doc Ock and Hulk Hogan
@@uncreativename2190Mussolini caught me so off guard
@uncreativename2190 That would be the bloodiest battle that the world ever saw, with civilians looking on in total awe. The fires would rage on for a century. Many lives would be claimed, but eventually, a champion would stand, and the rest would see the better... Mr. Rogers in a bloodstained sweater.
@@arteckjay6537 This is the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny. Good guys, bad guys, and explosions, as far as the eye can see. And only one will survive, I wonder who it will be. This is the ultimate showdown..
As a transformers fan, unicron is even more terrifying if you know more about him as a character.
In most continuities, he is the embodiment of entropy. And will not rest until there is literally nothing left in the entire universe to consume. Most who learn of his existence do not survive to warn others, and those who do are either brushed off as crazy, or it takes so long for unicron to actually arrive that the civilizations that do prepare end up doubting his existence and lower their guard.
Tacking on, when Unicron's avatar is destroyed or his spirit clings to existence, he'll focus his power to make a brand new body [i.e Armada].
Did they use his original voice from the 80s cartoon character?
@@White_Night_Demon I'm pretty sure its a 'no'
@@tartatovsky awww why not? He sounded awesome in the cartoon!
Isn’t Unicron also an omnipresent being across all transformers universes
i think the fact that some people find the whole world ending as some sort of mercy, speaks so much volume about human society in general.
some people is so caught up in their own grandeur of wealth, fame, or power to realize that they hurt those who are around them or just straight up doesn't give a crap about about other people at all. which, in turn, created people who just straight up wants the world to burn, because that's the only thing they saw as worth doing.
"why would i help these people who doesn't give a shit about me?"
"what do i gain by helping these people who seems like they just want to use me?"
*"the world is not worth saving if the people in it are terrible."*
And thus they become that which they hate, and the cycle continues.
"WHEN THE POWER OF LOVE OVERCOMES THE LOVE OF POWER, THE WORLD WILL KNOW PEACE."
-JIMI HENDRIX.
i watched this video and envied Carole. pitched the thought to my stepmum and we're in agreeance. having it all end suddenly would suck, but gimme 7 months, i can comprehend and process the situation with plenty of time to spare without despair.
i think some people are terminally online and need to go outside, in a metaphorical sense. nihilist echo chambers are gonna make mfs think that everything sucks, go figure.
@@ASlickNamedPimpback this comment might actually be the most truthful thing on the whole internet
Two of my favorite apocalyptic monsters are Golb, and The Lich from Adventure Time. Definitely worth looking into. The Lich, also known as the last scholar of Golb, is an entity who's only goal is to end all life. He is like a machine, or a computer program. If ending all life isn't possible he will shut down/crash, and be virtually harmless until he sees another way to do so. And Golb is way too complicated to talk about in a CZcams comment but alas, way more powerful than The Lich
_"Maybe that's my punishment. No burning bush, no smiting. No anything. Nothing. Just that I have to look into the eyes of the people I've wronged. See their tortured souls."_
*Mickey’s Descent Into Madness*
Strange, how something so meme-esque is poetic and deep. I mean... it's supposed to be a joke, right? But... it's only a joke if you want to laugh about it. It's only a joke... until it isn't. Until you let your perspective shift and realize "many a true word is spoken in jest."
@@jazermano "the sights of hell bring its viewers back in" after all
dang, never knew Mickey mouse went crazy
i just saw that video today! talk about timing
Not an end of the world but the villain of Aragorn series ended up dying after mc force him to experience everything he caused to other , no talks or mind tricks or play on word just making him fully deal with horror he inflicted on their world and the truth was too much for him so he turned himself into a nuke
Another “End of the World” scenario I find interesting comes from Dark Souls 3.
After three games of surviving the world of Dark Souls, you are presented with a choice…
1. Link your soul to the First Flame, which holds together the world and all of its balances, and continue its existence for another thousand years.
2. Let the First Flame extinguish and allow the world to fall into darkness with only a faint hope that it will be reborn again.
In any other game, you would continue the world’s existence b/c a world can’t be rebuilt or reborn if it’s destroyed. But after spending three games slaying monsters, toppling warriors driven to madness, and continually resurrecting every time you die, all while losing a fraction of yourself every time… You genuinely start to see that this particular age of humanity is long-over-that everyone and everything wants nothing more than to lay down and die, but couldn’t for thousands of years.
In a sense, then, you become the monster who brings about the end of the world. If unimaginable monsters, mighty warriors, and even the gods of the realm cannot conquer you…are you not a monster yourself? Not as an act of malice, but as an act of mercy. The world and all of its people are already dead or dying. In a sense, it is like a loved one saying “I am ready to go” when they are at death’s door.
And so the world of Dark Souls ends, not in a fiery, planet-spanning cataclysm, but a slow and quiet descent into darkness.
I don't think Dark Souls 3 tries to make you feel like a monster. More like a doctor that will administer euthanasia.
It's more like everyone has given up, but try to stop you one final time. Either in their delirious insanity or genuine last wishes to feel something. Everyone has accept all must end, even if they deny it.
The thing about all of the Soulsborne games is that the world is already over, insofar that the status quo is one of chaos, despair and cruelty. The Chosen Undead's quest almost seems more symbolic than anything, the smallest cursed victim of the world venturing forth in the hopes to restore balance. As Elden Ring demonstrates through its multiple endings, that new world order can take many different forms, and none are distinctly more "correct." Dark Souls 3 similarly presents the choice almost as a nod to the player who has pushed through the other two games, as if to say, "they keep saying things will get better, but you've seen they won't."
Or you can usurp the flame and become a God, ruling over a age of darkness.
But what does that mean entering an age of darkness. The planet still rotates the sun still exists. What exactly happens.
@@cyrusthe0ther795Umm mo the world of dark souls doesn't work like that
I actually paused this video and watched Carol last night instead of sleeping. I’m back to finish this video and say thank you for letting me be part of that incredible experience.
"I'd like to prove this with a banana"
-Curious Archive
"But if like a wolf eats the sun, I mean that's just bad luck" haha a great quote.
It also means nobody has to take any responsibility in preventing the end of the world. Can just shrug and be like "It is what it is."
@@Vaeldarg since the pressure of dealing with the difficult human response to unseen threats too high in scale to care enough about being our fault Fucking hurts, It's neccerary to do something but man this weight can be Hard to carry, wish to leave some to wolf so it doesn't seem I did as bad to continute trying to fix it.
@@Vaeldarg This was the part of the video I was like, "I wonder if CA has seen 'Paranoia Agent'. Because letting go of responsibility is definitely a core thing with that anime.
"Man, can't believe a spider drank the ocean again. It is what it is"
I should have expected this from you but the premise still hit me like a truck 😢 then “ let me prove this with a banana “ 😂
AND YET HE MAKES IT WORK
Still definitely don't think it's the "most gentle" end we can imagine.
@@kaical8273it'll quick and not our fault. Every other end of the world takes time and is defientely are fault.
Ultimate potassium
@Kris-wo4pj yeah meteors, pathogens, and super volcanoes are all definitely our fault.
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I think it's interesting to note that the ancient peoples making these apocalypse myths would have been perfectly aware of things like famine and drought, even massive disasters like earthquakes and tsunami - but much like their gods, personifications of physical phenomena beyond human ken, the monsters of doomsdays past were meant as a way to better visualise the end of things; if the dramatic, awful events have a _familiar cause,_ it becomes significantly easier to personally relate to the intended drama.
That's why we have snakes, wolves, giants and all eating the sun - or, dragons summoning up rainclouds that never break. These things are familiar to the everyday person, and already fit into their cosmology, so whatever effects could be more easily rationalised.
What I mean here is that, were you to take an ancient egyptian or nord or mesoamerican and show them the climate crisis, they would describe these things through monsters - sea level rise and flooding is the rabid thrashing of Jormungand, the baking famine-bringer sun is some work of Seth, and the increase in geological activity is Tlaltecuhtli finally waking up again to devour humanity. Fun thing is, equipped with an understanding of the ecological crisis as a set of monsters hell-bent on killing _you, specifically,_ these ancient people would probably be better psychologically equipped to handle the crisis, because it is a damn sight easier, mentally, to oppose a set of uppity monsters, than the massive interconnected system of the entire world from dust to mountain.
My favorite painters, Zdzisław Beksiński, often brings ideas of apocalypse, but in a different sense, his paintings often feel like the end of not just the world, but something beyond. And maybe end is the wrong word, because it always feels like there is more and yet nothing ahead in them, you see portals that seem to connect to other paintings and yet feel frozen in time, vast oceans where no ship or bird could fly across yet look inviting, creatures who still clutch to some humanity, from looking for justice, curiosity or affection and yet, have no face or discernable future, symbols incarnate, either of hope or despair that loom over desolate lands.
All in all, they are what I imagine hell or heaven to look like, a completely alien, infinite world and paradoxically, what I imagine the end would look like, maybe as a cope mechanism, because I'd want nothing more but the end to be just another avenue to take, one to explore and to learn from, if not keep living, to keep discovering.
They are also cool and metal AF.
My personal favorite end of the world scenario comes from ff14. When the servers of the original MMO shutdown to start over. But in the world of ff14, it ends with bahamut. A moon sized dragon.
More specifically, the ‘moon’ was actually an ancient artificial cage for a dragon, and after after the villains made the moon ‘fall’, it was freed
@@jtcav6484 yes that's the one. If some entity told me the world was ending and I had to choose how it would end, that's how. And everyone would still hear the song from that moment.
There truly is nothing like The End of an Era in gaming.
A game shutting down and having it tie into the story, a city-sized moon being dragged down by the antagonists, the skies above turning apocalyptic, safe cities becoming infested with monsters and the players reacting to this and trying to defend Ul' Dah by forming the Great Goobue Wall, Dalamud's prisoner breaking free and wiping the slate clean as everyone can only watch in horror as a dragon with an 11 mile wingspan blankets the continent in hellfire.
Absolute godsdamn perfection.
Agreed! Not gonna lie, I was kinda hoping it would be in the video somewhere.
@@douggaudiosi14 Hater😒
I’m personally friends with Christian Szczerba (the person who made Creatures of the End Times).
I want it to be known that he’s not only a good filmmaker, but a great human being. (:
Moon do be great!
@@axo677What about ":)"?
@@cjsantiago4035 It's the same thing so same respect!
That actually sounds really cool! I actually really like some of Christian’s works. Creatures of Madness is my favorite.
To be both things at once is so rare.
"If like a wolf eats the sun, well, that's just bad luck" perfectly encapsulates the "issue".
I'm obviously only speaking for myself, but the concept of me /humanity being responsible for the ongoing "only know life in existence place" we call Earth is CRUSHING.
Like, there are countless stories and at least as much real life happenings where e.g. an older sibling suddenly has to care for the family as the prio caretakers are no longer in the picture. Those stories and experiences make i extremly clear how angsty the now new caretaker got aswell as how hard it actually was to keep on trying or succeed aswell as how hard it was to not give up.
Now, that might just be me, but scaling that example up from "care for you sister anon, you're her only reaming family" to "Well human 0000000001, you know have to care for this whole planet for the next 5 billion years, good luck" is so far out.
Thank you, you always post videos when i need them the most, your content always gets my mind thinking in a more positive light. Thank you genuinely
This video has caused me to reflect on myself and I realised: I am the exact kind of guy who would say 'It's fine' when the apocalypse happens. I do have a habit of trying to ignore any impending 'disasters' that may strike me, and just try to go on with my life as normal. I recall some times where I fucked up something in my life and there was an inevitable huge consequence waiting for me in the future and my response was just to ignore it, to go on with my life and hope that everything will go back to normal without much of a fuss. There would be some times where I do realise the weight of what's going to happen and my chest would constrict in horror and dread but then I'll just distract myself with something else, because it was much easier than dealing with the dread. Those events weren't anything close to being described as apocalyptic but they do indeed ring true to what you said.
Honestly your reaction would probably be the best one to have, unless you are in a position who’s job it is to react to disasters
Yup same. There's a limit to the ability to hold onto active stress without just trying to shut it out for mental peace even if you can't have physical peace.
My honest mindset right now is "It iiiiis what it iiiiis"
Cringe.
I was about to post pretty much the same thing
"And yet when i gaze upon the great banana" is HILARIOUS out of context
One of the best video essays I’ve ever watched. Thought-provoking and entertaining, loved it!!
Ive been really loving your content. Now its time to binge all your old stuff.
I think you'll be really interested in Project Zomboid's rendition of the zombie apocolaypse. A zombie virus spread through air transmission, with only a select few who are lucky (or unluck) enough to be immune to the airborne strain (but still will turn if bitten or scratched). The truly morbid thing is, the virus takes a few days to kill you, so it can sweep through a settlement, infecting everyone, then they all turn at once.
ohh, i didn't know there's a story to the game
Is there ever any explanation as to what the hell it actually _is_ aside from “just a virus?” Anything with that level of planning ability can’t have evolved naturally
@@qrzt2000 the story is inside the TV's around the map, when the news channels play, the worst part is when the symptoms of the plague have started to appear in mogadishu and london, way outside of kentucky
@@Random_IcebergAnd Paris
I think I prefer Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (CDDA) take on the zombie apocalypse. You're not playing a survivor who was immune to a virus or a lucky one that didnt get infected, instead the truth is, the Blob has won. The blob has infected all of the protein based lifeforms in the planet, silently, without anyone knowing. The cataclysmic doomsday was just a guffaw of triumph. The world has changed, the mutating undead are just the new nature.
"Unlike you people i am of no illusion about my actual use in the end of the world, my only purpose now is to die in a way that confuses future archiologists."
Yhatzee croshaw, Jam.
Becoming enviromental storytelling skeleton is my goal.
"Hey weirdos of the future, have you elected a patron saint yet?" ZP
I haven't felt this way in a long time. Unimaginably profound. You've done excellent work, CA.
I absolutely love your videos; they're so thoughtful and interesting and weave in a lot of non-mainstream media that are very poignant. Your narrative threads are thoughtful, and interesting, and they really draw you in. Not only that, but with every video you make, you get better at making them! It's been a really fun thing to watch your channel grow and evolve, and I applaud the myriad of work hours that must go into every single video you make. Thanks for making things!!
It's curious how much this channels content has changed, it simply must be archived
It's quite... curious
@@jacobkeary6740 we must call it the… the… curious archive!!
So true bestie
Wait.... say that again...
If the world was ending with a monster I’d call my friend Kevin
He could make us all a pot of his world famous Malone's chili
Who would win Kevin or Pedro.exe?
My cousin throckmorton would handle it.
thats your mom right
What Kevin? Kevin ghidorah?
Once again you provide us with the best wibes on this platform, great job and thank you. Inclusion of that song from Signalis was especially fitting choice
What a great video! I just found my new background noise for work! Can't wait to see what comes next.
Something I appreciated about Monsters (2010) was that it wasn't really an apocalypse. The Monsters moved in without asking and took their spot, but didn't go out of their way to attack and destroy, and there are multiple almost documentary-like scenes showing their life cycle as beautiful and profound; especially the mating dance at the climax of the film.
22 minutes and I'm reminded about how we personify death as a person to make it less scary. Something similar happens with these end of the world scenarios, the monsters are just easier to understand than the universe killing us.
Same with a lot of mythology (Japanese especially). "The reason all those ships were never seen again? Monsters. That whirlpool over there? A monster. The reason the neighbor tore apart their family? Possessed/cursed by a monster." Heaven forbid we actually learn how to deal with the reality of any of it.
This was my first time here, and I’ve been binge streaming your content all day at work and when I got home 😂👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I just added this to my list of favorite CZcams videos of all time. Thank you.
“I hope it doesn’t end at all” When the world is so cynical and you hear so much wishes of the end. It’s just nice for someone to actually say,”I hope humanity gets better. I really hope humanity makes it.” And actually displaying gratitude towards life
Well sadly the "i hope it all ends" is the realistic one, it will most likely never get any better, it wasnt even good to begin with, now its just rapidly declining, why wish for it to be better when its gonna be worse anyway.
@@Cryodrakon2 I’d like to mention how much it has gotten better, of course nothing is perfect but medicine and social acceptance is way better than it used to be. Things are not very good right now but you need to realize how much was done to make today not worse than it already is. And in a lor of ways better than the past
If we just say,”it’s never gonna get better” and don’t do anything it won’t. So we should hope and work for a better future. Because no matter how bad the odds are if we hope, if we don’t it’s 100% going to get worse.
@@placeholderdoe And that's exactly why people hope for the worst. Because its one that's predictable. You've already seen the effort to unite people with differing political opinions, so it'll be worse if its the whole world.
If optimists really wants people to do things, they'll need to offer something more than just hope that people can't see and plans that go against others. Learn what other humans feel, cause you're only feeling yourself.
@@Cryodrakon2 Almost every single aspect of life has gotten better over the centuries. There are sometimes setbacks, but they have always been temporary.
"I Hope It Ends With a Monster" is actually metal af and goes hard
That's what I thought before clicking on this, hella cool
All the titles are metal
I think this is my favorite video you've made, chilling, frightening and beautiful
This is so gripping! Excellent work man!
Hellboy 2 has a really good apocalypse kinda monster where they introduced the forest god as the last of its kind only to get killed by another last one of its kind
Every time I watch that movie that scene cause me to stop and think bout life I know that time flows and everything must come to an end but does that make the loss any less tragic I for one think it shouldn't
I also loved it.
And I immensely felt pussy for it, because it was a good, benevolent God controlled, defiled and destroyed. Makes it one of the most tragic kaijus in my mind, a tie with Shin Godzilla and another select few.
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@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x very unfortunate typo in there
@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-xyou felt what for it? Very noble of you
I think another reason humanity is attracted to the concept of a monster bringing doomsday is that it is something humans could resist. Like you said, things like pandemics and natural disasters are so gradual and hard to grasp, and because of that, it's hard to take action against them. Our best hope would be to wait it out and, like in "when the wind blows", hope we survive. But if a monster came to devour the world, we like to think we'd recognize it and try to stop it. If it's alive, it can be killed. It allows humanity to grapple with the doomsday concept whilst still believing there doesn't have to be a doomsday at all.
love this! really really well thought out
your videos are always such great works of art, please never stop making them
Neon Genesis being described as "it's a whole thing, IT'S A WHOLE THING!" is pretty perfect.
a whole thing of "i understood less every fucking second"
There's a guy on youtube that's doing like a whole deconstruction of the entirety of Evangelion. He's done like dozens of videos, all of them more than half an hour long, and I think that he's STILL not entirely done with it.
There's countless of video essays on Evangelion, some of them even over 2 hours long, and each of them somehow manage to touch upon different aspects of the series.
Evangelion really is sort biblical in that way, it is such an unfathomably dense piece of media and there are so many angles and perspectives you can take to deconstruct it.
There is so much to say about the lore itself, and how it connects to judeo-christain mythology, and how that in turns connects to the themes of the story. There's so much to say about EACH INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER you can make an entire hour long video just analyzing any single one of them. There is so much about all the psychology and philosophy references. The series has so much to say about the nature of relationships and the nature of humanity as a whole. All the while still being an effective sci-fi thriller with a genuinely cool and fascinating world.
Evangelion isn't a series, it's a whole-ass manifesto on humanity, that also manages to be engaging and somewhat fun to sit through. It's really just a "whole thing".
@@qwertydavid8070 and the creator's message in the rebuild is "get over this show already and get a life" i mean....bruh your show MADE us this way
@@qwertydavid8070 HOO BOY does it.
And then, _it isn't about God at all._
No bearded man in the sky with a divine plan, no mechanizations from above with a goal of the greatest good, but: some other assholes, _the true humans,_ despite having physics-defying powers of the Angels; but with _our_ intelligence-- and separation anxiety and loneliness and corruptibility-- split and amalgamated their souls into basically genetic lifeboats, one (some?) with their powers, and one (others?) with their wisdom, and fleeing whatever it was that _still_ killed their civilization; spread life across the galaxy, with each angel being a different evolutionary expression of "Human."
And the ONE thing they wanted was: to keep both boats from landing at the same fucking port, lest-- I dunno, a rival species emerge, or for "basically just us again" to make the same mistakes all over again. GUESS WHICH PLANET THE PLAN GOT FUCKED UP ON.
No, seriously, _that's_ the true backstory.
evangelion.fandom.com/wiki/First_Ancestral_Race
@@dc-101 Not Understanding EVA is understanding EVA
Me after the big worm eats my house
Me after random sand people steal the water from my body just after this happens.
Me after Godzilla does the toothless dance.
@@jesustyronechrist2330Me when the giant mountain sized dragon burns my city down ( still gotta go to work )
Me when shai hulud awakes
me after your mom when your mom when your mom your mom ur mom
Thank you for this. Hit me right where it needed too. Great work as always.
This was a great and poignant video --thank you for making it!
This whole thing is reminding me of a quote from a different video on games like Metro and STALKER: "I'm not hoping for the apocalypse, I just want the simplicity of it."
Monsters destroying everything is a simple end, something where we all understand it: this is the end. Some could try and fight it, but for no reason other than to have the feel of a last stand, others will watch the show of the destruction. So it makes sense there's almost a hope that'd be how humanity ends.
Also kind of reminds me of a different quote of why someone liked zombie apocalypses that I think also applies: "You don't have to worry about going to work today, there's zombies outside! You don't need to worry about your errands this week, there's zombies outside! You don't have to worry about paying your rent this month, there's zombies outside!"
Just replace "zombies" with "Giant monster ending the world" and you can see the appeal
I think Ross Scott said that.
@@Brite-um2tq for the second quote, correct.
Ross has some great quotes
I don't see the appeal. At all. The difference with an apocalypse-by-monster is the high chance of being eaten alive. Which is just a very unpleasant way to die. Curious Archive was just WAY off the mark on this one: a monster, especially every Japanese one, is just a way to have a scapegoat. People don't want to believe that other humans are capable of horrible, violent behavior. It's easier to tell themselves it was the work of some monster that was either invincible, or able to be taken care of in some prescribed manner by some monster slayer (vampire hunters, monks, etc.) that understands their role on a professional level. An invincible, world-ending monster or rogue planet means humanity doesn't have to take any responsibility for not doing anything about it.
@@Vaeldarg you didn’t finish the video or pay attention then.
First it’s a case of “if the world had to end with no alternative, it needs to end, what choice would you want?” as a hypothetical, second he directly says at the end says “the world ending will be the fault of humans by causing and ignoring the doom that’s happening slowly and that’s the more terrifying part.”
There’s so scape goatinng. Just a “wish humanity wouldn’t be the ones to create its own downfall, if we had to fall it wouldn’t be on us.”
I was working in our city Library when 'When the Wind Blows' came out in book form... and it was one of a handful of books that was not put out on the shelves, but kept under the information desk in the adult section of the library. It was only available on order request, and one day, whilst processing this list, I leafed through it, and soon learned why.
Both animation and book were illustrated by the chap who did 'The Snowman'...and at first glance, it looks just as innocuous to begin with. Its as you get further in that the real horror starts, as you realise the characters, despite all their efforts, are woefully under-prepared for what is happening. It looks so much like a children's book (and certainly is not) that it had to be kept under the information desk to stop kids from accidently picking it up and taking it out.
Addendum: About six or so years ago, the BBC showed a series that they touted was 'a mixture of cop drama and science fiction'. It was called 'Hard Sun', and was about a couple of cops who stumble across what appears to be some kind of conspiracy over an astronomical report that an issue with the Sun will destroy Earth within four years. As they carry on with their lives, a government agent is sent after them to first discredit, and then eliminate, them. I wasn't interested in the cop stuff, so skip watched , wondering when the bona fide science fiction would kick in. It finally did at the end of the final episode, when, after cornering the government agent, the two cops, along with the agent see the Sun rising over the London skyline with a strangely shaped solar flare hanging a short distance from the Sun. The Agent says she'd been lied to and that 'it is already here'. The show ended with an image of the sun and the countdown to the end of the world still ticking down.
This show was supposed to have three or four series, and on the face of it, did reasonably well, and would have got at least another season. Instead, all has fallen quiet, and, as far as I know, The idea has been dropped. It won't be the first time the BBC has ditched a vaunted SF show, but then the previous one flopped so badly it was no surprise to anyone that it wasn't renewed. 'Hard Sun' did reasonably well, however, so the fact its been abandoned makes no sense... unless you did what I did.
The moment I saw the Sun and its' circular flare, I had my suspicions. I took a screenshot of the image, focused on the 'flare' and zoomed in. The 'flare' wasn't a flare at all , but an accretion disk with a small event horizon of a black hole in the middle.
Why they chose this catastrophe over anything else, I'm not sure. I do know one thing, and that was that the following series would have dealt with the breakdown of society as doomsday approached... but I think the BBC found the choice of disaster wasn't going to go down well with the audience. With most other disasters, the viewer is able to tell themselves that, no matter how bad it is, someone will survive, even if it means a few will be shipped to somewhere like the moon and rebuild there. However, most of the audience, once they found out about the black hole, would realise there'd be no escape for anyone, not even on the moon. With such relentless pessimism and hopelessness, I think the BBC realised they wouldn't even get half way through season two before viewing figures plummeted... and quietly dropped the whole thing.
@@axo677 Yes, flaunting your illiteracy is such a good way to manage your digital footprint.
@@axo677and yet you commented regardless...
Typical BBC cowardice, that show sounds pretty damn cool
Kinda feels like the better ending too. A silent end, despite all the chaos prior.
That was a fantastically melancholic yet weirdly hopeful video. Thank you so much for making it :D
What a beautifully delivered, considerate video. Very thought provoking and engaging. Thank you for the time and effort put into this analysis. Great job 🤘🏾❤️❤️❤️
the banana hurtling towards the Earth is something Douglas Addams would come up with
sadly the interstate got finished already and that time traveler who insults everyone is busy so we can't destroy earth a second time.
@@Rowlesisgay oh, what I would give to be a simple mattress in the swamp
I was just thinking about that. The vogons destroyed the earth in five minutes, which is pretty merciful compared to a lot of other ways to go. Especially radioactive fallout.
i love all the different ways Archive tries to bring up another movie/show.
it's like when i try not to use "and" too much in a school essay
Great video. I have always been fascinated with beasts of the apocalypse without ever really being able to express why.
I was about to comment the quote from "I Think You Should Leave" when you literally showed it onscreen. This video is awesome.
I actually really like the inclusion of this shot at 29:53 when you discuss how dark Eva is, because, in my opinion, that moment is one of the most unequivocally, unabashedly, uncomplicatedly joyous in the entire continuity. This is the moment when Asuka finally manages to escape from her depressive spiral and Eva Unit 02 goes berserk. Asuka is a character who is, as most of the Eva cast is, incredibly lonely, isolated, and furthermore, phony. Her demeanor is chipper and competitive, but we learn she developed this personality so she could get attention from others, the kind she was never able to get as a young child. During episode 22, this shield is forcibly stripped away from her, and the only thing left is for her to curl into herself and accept herself as worthless. Observing what Asuka is reduced to after her metaphysical rape is haunting. After wading through life listless for days on end, the only thing that is able to bring Asuka back, and the only thing she had really wanted all this time, was the soul of her mother urging her onward. When Asuka takes her mother's hand and emerges from the lake, it really is one of the most amazing moments I've ever seen on film. Suddenly, she's vibrant, happy, determined, and lethal-- Asuka goes on a murderous tear against the military spawned not by rage, but by pure, unfiltered joy. Asuka has never been able to connect so deeply with another person like she is doing with her mother's soul right now, and the results are blissfully catastrophic. She is invulnerable, and the army machines around her are nothing compared to her Eva's sheer destructive capability. Every explosion is its own kind of cheer. The desolation Asuka ends up causing is nothing less than nirvana. There's this moment where Asuka looks up at the sky from within the pilot's seat, beaming like the happiest little girl in the entire world, and the camera comes back to reveal the hulking monstrosity she is piloting, emerging from the wreckage of the destruction it's wrought. And it's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
...which is then promptly responded with her taking a skyscraper-size spear to the Eva's eye. Which is psychically linked with her own.
Followed by the scene we saw in 27:12.
@@RavenAdventwings Yeeeep! Probably shoulda mentioned that, but I got waaaay too into writing that, lol. I do think it's pretty cool how the joy boils into rage when she switches from fighting the military to fighting the Eva series, and she ends up being so bloodthirsty she manages to survive literally being gutted, if only to threaten to kill her murderers.
I love this comment
Unless you're any of the sorry saps trying to stop her, then this day is just as apocalyptic as it initially seems. One woman's rebirth is another man's oblivion. So really, it depends on who you most resonate with, the gleeful destroyer, or the harrowed defender.
NOT THE GELATO!!!!😭😭
its joever bros 😭
thought he meant a cone of za 🤦🏾
Keep it up with this content, I wish more people would find your channel
Today, we are canceling the Apocalypse!
-Stacker Pentecost
Giant Monsters would be a mercy is a wild thesis. Love it.
I have endless respect for youtubers that put the names of media and music used in the description. Thanks to you I've finally found the song I've been searching for. Knowing the names of movies shown in the video also helps a lot.
Oooooohhhhh screw you, I knew this would be a heavy episode but I hear that Signalis soundtrack and it destroys me every time. Damn you for that, CA. But also amazing video. Jacob Gellar also has an amazing video discussing the existentialism about Art in the Pre-Apocalypse which touches on a lot of these concepts in an equally great breakdown. Something I posted a while back on twitter, ironically in a discourse on Signalis, regarding the end of the world and how people act went thus;
What we choose to do in the face of total annihilation is the best expression of humanity.
Everyone reacts differently and you understand every reaction, as painful or heartwarming as they may be. And I agree. Something we can comprehend, something big that makes the horror palpable, even if it is incomprehensible, would be the kindest thing we could face. We can make peace with such a fate. Anything else leaves too much ambiguity and, sadly, hope. Hope is what breaks you in the face of total annihilation.
A small blessing I live with, as horrible as it might be to consider, is that I have a life dependency on thyroid hormone replacement. In the event of an apocalypse I have at best a few months to a year depending on how I ration my medication and what more I could find before I slip into a coma and die. I do not have hope in the face of such an apocalypse. I know I'm on a countdown and in a way that gives me peace.
@10:50 Trying to live a life while waiting for the apocalypse really resonated with me. Another great discussion, thank you for creating.
Curious Archives videos are the type of videos where you get so lost in your mind and thoughts that the video feels like it's been going on for hours but in reality it's only been like 30 minutes.
Ragnarok is one of the more fassinating types of ends of the world. Its a self fullfilling profesy, a complex order of events like a tragedy, but it also has a twist to how it ends.
Its not just big monsters coming to wage war on humanity and the gods for specticle and valient battles but shear unbriteled chayos as Odins plans to prevent it back fire.
Yes
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I think the fact that you know you're destined to lose and all of your plans will fail but you can still try if you really want to is kind of comforting too.
Like, we're all gonna die eventually due to a million different reasons but most of us don't have the means to even attempt to stop it. Being given a chance to try to fight it, even if everyone including you knows it's futile, would be kind of nice.
WOW what an absolute tear jerker of a video!! Beautiful encapsulation of humanity's attitudes & reactions... your videos keep getting more and more profound it is transcendent... what would you do in this situation.... we're hopeless
Out there making "my kind" of videos once again, thanks so much
Great. Now I have a phobia towards bananas.
Me too, but only the supermassive ones
bananaphobia
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A slight correction for the Elephant foot at Chernobyl.
In the TV series they talked a bout how it would cause a disaster, but it was completely unfounded.
Many expert have criticized this for making the story more dramatic than it really was.
In reality, not much would have happened (if anything at all)
yes, hopefully none takes the series as a documentary of a sort
It's the same problem with Svetlana Alexievich's book, which was one of the source materials in the series. Lets just say she took a lot of artistic liberties. For example, she made up the bridge of death scene. She still has interesting theories about radiation, for example that 5th generation telecommunication is responsible for one of recent global health problems.
Oh, and chemical poisoning was also very real problem, in fact excluding firemen and some plant workers, it was more serious short term problem than ARS(acute radiation syndrome).
Brother you are the peak of youtube essay writing, I am so god damn impressed!!!
This is genuinely the greatest video I have ever seen.
imagine if the extinction off all life will be just a 1000 km long banana hurling towards earth. Just that. Would look really silly but still would be poetic, dreadign and not that bad
@@axo677 lethal dose of potasium world wide
The difference between our personal end of the world and the apocalypses, is that even though personally we are on limited time, we know others will exist beyond us. And so, we can do what we do not only for ourselves, but for those we leave behind as well. I want to live a good life, but I don't want to burn it all down on my way out because I know I have loved ones who will inherit that world I am leaving behind. In an apocalypse there is nothing to leave behind for anyone, and so none of that matters anymore.
I mean when the dinosaurs went extinct and other flora and fauna, the world was still there and it recovered and then other lifeforms took over in which the mammals replaced the reptiles, so your statement is too pessimistic and depressing and kind of wrong things still matter whether from humanitys perspective or in general
This video is incredibly well-written. Almost made me shed a tear. Thank you for making this.
An incrediblely written video yet again, well done Archive :)
Holy shit I remember seeing Beasts of the Southern Wild as a kid real late at night and spent most of my life thinking it was something I made up or confused with something else cause I’ve never seen or heard anything about it until now, so thanks for digging up that memory from the depths of my mind
This is solid motivation for my prepper brain. Nature is struggle. Life is beautiful. Therefore, struggle is beautiful and natural. It never ends. Even if we all, collectively get knocked down a few rungs of comfort and technology, the struggle will never end. We will always try!
Some of us will succeed. Then, they will struggle to do *even* better! That's just what we *DO*!
Thanks, man!
I hope you get to 1 million soon. You deserve it so much.
Man, i love these videos.
"And yet, when I gaze upon the great banana...."
Godzilla giving this video a peek, wondering when it's time for it to give humanity their last sight of its atomic breath
This is one of the greatest videos ever made, I love anything about the end of everything.
I loved this, subscribed
I think the ability of humans to keep doing routine even in disasters is an ability that can be channeled into . . . The ability to keep going. The ability to change and adapt will always conflict with the desire to maintain the status quo, but we need both. 'Cause rooted in that desire for things to stay the same, is the desire for things to just . . . Keep happening. It's when we can combine the ability to adapt and change with the desire to keep going that we truly will progress to something greater
"It's the End of the World as we know it...And I feel Fiiiiine..."
Holy crap this is art you’ve earned a sub
One of the best videos ive seen on youtube and ever in my life
Great video.
This is the best probably perfect video.
The monster is real and its name is unfettered corporate greed
The real monsters were the friends we made along the way.....
The monster is real and it’s name is totalitarian government
aka capitalism
Capitalism bad, very original
@@cinnibarbrenneka doesn't make it less real
wth this was amazing, i'm subbing
This video is actually fucking incredible. I sometimes find myself lying on my bed staring at my dimly lit ceiling thinking "I wish it would just happen already, I wish somehow the world would end" and, to an extent, I still do believe it. This video taught me that while it *_is_* healthy to think those thoughts, to imagine a massive, terrifying yet graceful beast destroying earth, it's also equally if not MORE important to just keep on living, to keep on loving the beauty of nature and life and humanity. I love your channel SO much, man. Curious Archive is astounding. On ALL fronts.
Beasts of The Southern Wild
THANK YOU i saw this movie as a kid and since then could only ever remember the crab scene where they kept screaming "BEAST IT" i loved this movie gotta rewatch now that i have the name.
The thing that scares me isnt the end of the world. It ends anyways. It doesnt care. Its the absence of everything i know, every object, every word and every animal or plant. That idea gives me a strange feeling, uncomftortable yet comforting
This guy truly makes one of the best content on youtube
Beautiful work