The Biggest Retcon in Twisted Metal? | Twisted Meta 

Hello all, I hope you enjoyed my irreverent and slightly long winded take on the Twisted Metal comic. Thank you to Ryrule for lending his voice to this project. You can find him here. ru-vid.com And you can find me on Twitter here twitter.com/realTBP

I think Calypso in the 2012 game looks more like an Evil Weird Al than Morticia Addams.

Everyone talks about how Deus Ex predicted 9/11, but nobody talks about how Twisted Metal predicted 9/11

"I am Calypso,And thank you for reading Twisted Metal."- Calypso From Twisted Metal 2 World Tour

Considering TM4’s intro was narrated by Sweet Tooth’s Carnival barker, I was under the assumption that the backstory was just some tall tale used to drum up business. Like a Bard, spinning a yarn of half-truths and fanciful falsities.

The twisted metal story waffles between being so bad it's good to just straight up good so fast and with no in between.

Calypso has survived accidents so many times that if he were in a final destination movie he would survive accidents in them too

I think the timeline can work, if the fact that Calypso is now a demon means, like Satan, God, and other diety like figures he kinda exists outside of time? Otherwise, it was not thought through and they didn't care cause it's Twisted Metal

I don’t know what’s worse. The fact that I’ve now seen *two* comics that are meant to promote video games that involve either a hostile takeover or destruction of the World Trade Center… or the fact that the other comic in question was for *Super Mario Land.*

Let's just face it: this series is designed to drive you insane.

Your Twisted Metal lore analysis videos are so interesting and fantastic. You answer questions I've had for years but never took the time to research.

Did you see the dubbed version of this comic?someone did a motion comic of this and got the voice of calypso onboard!

I see TBP and Twisted Metal, I click. Simple. Keep up the great work my dude! c:

9:02 The concept of a character wanting to end their life but being unable to is also a thing in the Johnny the Homicidal Maniac comics. Dude tries to off himself a fair few times but either gets distracted or something goes wrong in the attempt. Definitely an interesting thing to have going for a character.

i was so intrigued by the lore i used to look this stuff up all the time when i was in middle school awesome vids

I would have described Twisted metal black Calypso as "Kane from wwe missing an eye"

That still of TM1 Calypso was nightmare fuel for me as a kid.

ANOTHER POSSIBLE INTERPRETATION: The intro to TM4 begins with "Stories tell of a carnival..." - therefore it's just rumours/stories/myths, not actually real. It's just how onlookers THINK the tournament began.

you're one of the few folks that do this kind of work on youtube, but you do it the best! Keep it up!

"Goodbye to Mr. Slam, say hi to Mr. Jam" is probably the darkest joke that never was in a Twisted Metal game. lol

Recently a fan made dub of this was made and Mel McMurrin reprised Calypso for it, and he's just as good as ever

His reboot looks like Maximilian Pegasus and Howard Stern

I am calypso, and I thank you for playing twisted metal

My comments keep getting deleted every time I try to make a new one

Twisted metal is interesting. I really like calypso, badass Anatgonist.

I am Twisted Metal and thank you for playing Calypso.

I'm surprised they never did an actual comic series for this beyond a 16-page promotional one.

nothing like a reference of vader getting his eye popped by stan hansen to start your day

Dude your videos are awesome the amount of research and content is brilliant

The story of Twisted Metal only gets darker the more you read into it.

"Twisted Meta" I stole his L.

Amazing, had no idea there was a prequel comic telling Calypsos story.

“Beautiful, absolutely amazing, I’ve watched this video over and over for five hours and still love it” lol, amazing video, keep up the good work.

man this series needs a reboot

Sweet memories from playing twisted metal 3, first game I ever played

11:30 wow this came out before the simpsons episode that people say predicted 911

Where was Calypso on 9/11?

“To big van Vader after a crash diet and a match with Stan Hansen” 😂😂😂

Twisted Metal Black Calypso looks like Kane after he took off the mask the first time.

Awesome Video! Never have I heard Calypso being compared to Morticia Adams? 😂

6:18 his dad is Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

an we still haven't got a twisted metal for PS4 PS5 yet. dang al jaffe what's the holdup?

I wish I had some motivation I'd be so cool to trace this all into an HD format. It'd be worth it. Such a cool comic

Unbelievable!!! I keep forgetting about this character

Life makes no sense and yet we try make sense out of it with our own interpretation and point of view so why not do the same for games and comics timelines and events. It is on us to do so if we want to. Anyhow I find Calypso's trauma and decent into madness is interesting. As kids we like the heroes as adults we understand the villains more and more

"Big Van Vader after a crash diet & a match with Stan Hansen" Now this is the cultured content I've been waiting for

I was wondering if you would ever cover the comics. Coincidentally, there’s a comic dub that’s recently come out on RU-vid and it has very solid voice acting, if you want to check it out. Great video as always.

Calypso is named after the Caribbean music? That’s insane.

Bro, *Twisted Metal* is like *Dragon Ball Super,* in that God or Satan want to witness some form of fighting competitions lmao.

I always figured the trick was that twisted metal existed for a while, but dropped from history for a while, before growing back. I mean, if hundreds to thousands of people die every tournament, it wouldn't take too long because they were out of people to kill back when the automobile was new if they were continuing to stay around the california area. Also the comic kinda doesn't work, if we hold certain endings in TM1 to have any value, since it's mentioned in those by one of the characters (i think minion, maybe) that he's wanted back in hell, and that calypso doesn't want to go back, which would imply it wasn't a deal with satan canonically speaking. This is somewhat confirmed with another ending in one of the later games as well (maybe tm2? or head on. maybe, it's been a while since i've played them), where i think the hearse driver takes his soul back to hell or something similar. It would seem a bit suspicious if satan sent him up for all this entertainment purposes, and yet people in the tournament (even if their wins aren't canon specifically) would be attempting to drag him back to hell for pissing off the boss. But tm4's story more fit to explain it somewhat, since the soul-powering ring and whatnot, would explain why he's wanted back in hell (maybe stole satan's powers), could somewhat explain why he's as influential and powerful as he is, to not be in any real threat to the police coming after him in any serious capacity throughout it all (even in tm2, there's more interest in killing him, than trying to arrest him. which seems like the police are doing it in secret, which would indicate superior have told them to leave him alone).

While the backstory of TM4 does make it difficult to gel with the comic book's story (though we know the characterizations in both TM3 and TM4 are just crap overall), I do kinda like the idea of the tournament being a thing possibly long before even Calypso himself. That he is simply just the latest host to come into power, which would add a certain layer of complexity to the lore of both the tournament itself, and what the duties of the organizer are like for Calypso and his possible predecessors. If anything, would definitely be a lot more interesting than that TV show they're making which is apparently just some stupid Mad Max knockoff set in an apocalyptic world.

I see the dark comedy was kept intact.

As a side note, the first terrorist attack on the WTC was in 1993 so it wasn't a complete random coincidence.

I assumed colypso in every twisted metal game was a different colypso from a different multi verse

I wish Twisted Metal would come back.....someone pick up and run with it

11:20 the twisted metal comic books predicted 911

9:10 *Zasalamel has entered the chat* "This is interesting..." 11:24 Yeah, they were the towers that held a lot of incriminating information on the US Government. Among many other things. This destruction as illustrated was by a *_direct mass impact_* (not unlike an axe to a tree "TIMBER!"). How the towers were brought down was a *_planned implosion._* I mean, otherwise they would of continued to burn for a significant amount of time. Most skyscrapers have demolition charges in them as a crisis panic last resort. It's not required by law or anything, but certainly is easier to utilize than to set up an elaborate demolition crew (an example of this and such going sour for a few people can be seen in the movie *_Volcano),_* and attempt to bring the building down, without toppling it. It's not even a conspiracy, but rather, a fairly simple to exploit *_convenience._* ... Kratos is someone who wished to die, but also wished to find a purpose. He had thought on many occasions that he had found his purpose, only to have it taken from him. In that regard, he is just like The Punisher. By contrast, Zasalamel is someone whose purpose was in death and death only, but immortality kept him from it.

Also calypso is one hundred years old according to mister grimm's 1995 ending

He’s omnipotent, so he could just time travel dude and he’s just fucked up. The timeline is my head canon.

This is a perfect tie in comic for a twisted metal character

Calypso's Twisted Metal 1 design was stated to be a Burned face His whole face was scarred

I'm actually wouldn't say that the ghost of Calypso's wife showing up is necessarily out-of-place from a "grounded" perspective for the story up to that point. From what I can gather from this video, the ghost is never actually pointed out or noticed by anyone besides Calypso, which leaves open the possibility that she's merely a hallucination Calypso was having at that moment. It's been far too long since I saw it, but there's a not too dissimilar psychological phenonium in real life that is thought by some to be what's behind ghost sightings. If Krista saw her or if Satan talked about her or something, that'd of course shoot a hole in this idea, but I don't see that. Not that any of this really matters as far as the analysis or appreciation of the story.

11:31 yeah x 3, 911 we get it passenger planes crashing down like rain at Pentagon what more do you need?

I am from Germany and we only got TM 1&2 released here for the PS1. I loved them as Kid. I only found out about 3&4 years later. But for what I have seen of them, and what they did with the story and aweful cut scenes, I am glad we did not get them here. They would have ruined a lot for me back then. I was hyped about TM black and devastated to find out that all cutscenes and the plane crash and other gameplay elements got removed. For the story arcs and the Charakters are twisted metal for me. That is what made it always special to me. Back then I was still in school but managed to get a TM black copy from the US and jail break PS2 wich could play it. This was only to play THIS game with the story in Europa. This is how obsessed I was about that Game.

I mean technically everything is Canon as Jaffe said so, but not everything is linearly connected to each other

Why does Calypso’s dad look like Carl from ATHF in that driveway clip 😅

The twin towers reference 😲

wait so satan got tired of the good drivers livin and the bad drivers dyin isnt that how it's supposed to go

5:30 this is totally off topic but the snake in the garden of eden is never stated to be, or even implied to be, satan. That notion is basically disproven because god cursed the snake to crawl on its belly for all eternity yet satan is able to stand and walk upright.

I've felt that Twisted Metal 4's intro is made up, like the idea that Black is all in Sweet Tooth's head. The tournament existing in an old timey setting is just how Sweet Tooth sees it in his messed up psychosis.

Even though tm4 isnt cannon. I still like its gameplay. That and since it haves mr.slam my main in the twisted metal that haves him. Auger is 50/50 for me. But aside from that. The comic is food explaining how calypso became how he is. I did heard he escaped minion in hell. I didnt know he took a devil deal after that. I always thought he stole something in hell and minion was trying g to capture him to get the item back and torture him.

YESS MORE TWISTED METAL!!!!

I dont think every story told should have to make sense. Theres magic at piecing it together, and theres the oposite frustration. But i still think its valid story telling.

But what happened to Calypso's daughter?

Sounds like Calypso suffered with precocious puberty since he looks like he grew up fast.

Could this Hell Minion have something to do with Sweet Tooth´s minion?

What if like most deities calypso has attained the ability to move anywhich way through time so he can host a twisted metal tournament when ever he chooses and we mortals are just perceiving them in order and twisted metal 4 is just referencing this as he hosts new ones in time causing history to be rewritten or even making these parallel universes?

I think 3 was my favorite gameplay wise

But if the game says Calypso stole his power from Minion, then why does the comic say he got them from Satan himself?

Don’t understand the whole mindset of “death of an author.” How can you deep dive and explore an authors work and not even take their lore or work into consideration or think it isn’t canon. Might as well create you’re own story at that point

funny to see twisted metal have a random trini influence lol

@6:05... that got dark very fast 😢

8:16 un-intentionally cool.

TBP these Twisted Metal videos are great, i loved these games, & i should collect them again. Go check out sparkigames video on this, he brings this comic to life, & got a very AWESOME some one to voice Calypso😉 I'll put a link in comments if that's ok??🤔 Not sure of proper RU-vid etacate here🤣

Hey yo, let's say I theoretically buy The Twisted Metal Calypso DC Comic...then what? How do I digitally preserve it most ideally? LOL serious question.

What about Carmageddon Comic too?

Can Calypso be a title that is given?

3 & 4 just simply aren't canon. 989 took over at that time & the story wasn't really considered important. They essentially did a soft reboot to put Sweet Tooth at the forefront considering he's the mascot of the series. Then again 3 & 4 have their own inconsistencies with Sweet Tooth's backstory so I idk. You would probably be better off trying to get an interview with Jaffe. He's essentially the mastermind behind the series so any questions you would have lore-wise would probably be best answered by him.

He always looked more like Iggy Pop than anyone else IMO

Dude it says Sin on calypsos bumper I'm the same free as the snake

Just wanted to point out that the snake in the garden of Eden wasn’t satan. It was just a talking snake.

IT'S TIME IT'S TIME IT'S CALYPSO TIME

Why does calypso look like john fetterman

Is there ant chance you'll upload the higher quality scans of the comic? If you can do it without getting DMCA'd to hell & back I mean

Stop thinking all the calypso are the same. This makes way more sense that way

Great Vídeo Man I Have A Question Will You Make A Vídeo On The Prototype Series

Super not related to the video, but I think it'd be cool if you updated your TBP intro to be fried in a big dark cast iron pan.

HOLY SHIT ONLY 100 COPIES OF TWISTED METAL WERE EVER FKING MADE!?!?!? I FKING HAVE ONE! DUDE! Oh... its for the comic... my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. I thought for a second I wasn't going to have money troubles for the next few months at least.

I enjoy your use of English

At the end of the day it kinda just has to be a multiverse even in the games that are canonically close there's alot of differences that's are hard to explain and no canonical winners of previous tournaments to set the stage some characters returning with completly different motives or character designs while others have slight connected storylines calypso himself going through so many changes you gotta ask yourself how much can you throw out to make your while more interesting kinda flawed story arch fit into it when you can just akhams razor say multiverse some are close to parallel universes while others are distopian world's where immortal beings till chariot death battles all the way up to modern high octane/ twisted metal tournaments ect ect