The Entire Guilty Gear Lore Explained by a Madman 

editing this was my sisyphus moment. every time i thought I was nearing the end, there was yet another hour of us talking about more lore. so many scenes lie forgotten on the cutting room floor, like tears in the rain. buy my merch: bit.ly/RimmyBeanie bit.ly/RimmyTshirt

Honestly the lore is so insane at 57 mins I legit thought by "turned himself into the government" the guy somehow transformed himself into the government lol

"A.B.A. will never matter. She'll never matter. Cope and seethe."

*Zangief:* "You see Sol, you are bad guy, but that does not mean you are _bad guy."_ *Sol:* "But...I am Badguy." *Zangief:* "Yes, but not _bad_ guy." *Sol:* "No, I'm Sol Badguy." *Zangief:* "Unhealthy mindset! You are bad guy, yes, but not _sole_ bad guy." *Sol:* "..but...I _am_ Sol Badguy. It's literally who I am." *Zangief:* "..I think this take more than one session to help."

Heres some FUN lore facts the video didn't go over! - Vampires in guilty gear are INSANELY OP, and are one of the few things capable of boxing with Full power Sol. - Gabriel, Potemkin's best friend and the President of Zepp, is an old RIVAL of Slayer, a vampire, and as FAR as we know, Gabriel is a normal ass human. Gabriel is so strong in fact, Slayer is SCARED OF POTEMKIN, because Potemkin uses the same techniques. - Happy Chaos is the Original, thus making him GOD. - Axel's whole deal being a time traveller who secretly is some kind of 'fragment of the backyard turn into a person'; leads to him gaining control over time at the end of Xrd- and his time manipulation is pretty fucking crazy as it's comparable to I-No's (Who is also that) - Axel and I-No were dating, in a weird multiversal way. Basically Axel wants to get back to his girlfriend known as Megumi, while I-No wants to get back to her boyfriend, Will (Though over time she had time travelled so much, she had forgotten who she was looking for). It wasn't until I-No met her end, did she realize that She is Axel's "Megumi" and that "Will" is Axel. - Robo Ky doesn't die during the fight with Bedman, and survives as just a head. Robo Ky and Venom end up starting a bakery together to earn money to get Robo Ky a new body. - Asuka, at the end of it all, goes to the fucking MOON and starts up a Radio Show.

At one point, I-No realizes she cannot beat Sol Badguy (or at the very least that doing so would be very difficult). So she drags him back through time to fight himself when he was in the Order, Order Sol. After Sol Badguy wins, I-No kills the weakened Order Sol so that Sol Badguy will die. But Sol Badguy doesn't die and when I-No is confused and asks him how that's possible, he says something along the lines of "That isn't me. I'm me."

Can’t blame Bridget for being late to the party when every scene in Guilty Gear is literally “now for something completely different”.

Learning guilty gear lore is only for the insane. I am insane for learning it.

I... did not expect a guilty gear presentation, but I find myself in a position where I could not have hoped for more.

"what are the affects of the gear STD?" it's in the name Sexually Transmitted Dragon install

What a fucking lad Warpugss is, dropped an entire lore google doc out of the blue ON SOMEONE ELSE'S CHANNEL.

Erm, actually, Sin isn't Sol's grandson because he's the progenitor of all Gears, he's Sol's grandson because Dizzy is the literal biological child of Frederick and Aria. Aria was already pregnant with Dizzy when she was turned into Justice.

"That's not really mischief. That's murder." Banger

I think one thing that is worth mentioning is that Happy Chaos, the international terrorist, is actually a sorta reincarnation of The Original and The Original is Irish. Take that as you will.

"ABA will never be important." ABA in strive: *Whatever may come, our love is eternal..*

Something about having people in a call reacting and asking questions as if it was a lecture makes this hit different compared to other lore videos

Oh boy our favorite Australian is posting I wonder what violent psychosis he will bless us with today

Now we just need this Madman to try and explain the entire Blazblue lore in under an hour without any migraine medication at all for double or nothing.

The most impressive part is how he managed to get all the complicated hard to explain lore right but got Strive almost entirely wrong despite it being the most straightforward and easy to explain entry in the series.

I thought this was about Metal Gear for the first 10mins and was so confused when Dragons were brought up but also tried rationalizing that there must be dragons in the Metal Gear universe that I just missed.

43:44 There are two things I like about Sin's explanation of how he was born. One, is that it sounds like a god creation myth. "Two gods got into shenanigans with exchanging their eyes and one of the eyes fell on the ground. From the spot where the eye fell, a new god, their son, sprung fully formed." Reminds me of Athena springing from Zeus's forehead. Two, is that Remlethal straight up believes him. Which make sense seeing as, based on what I got from this video, she's a young gear too.

My friend Rimmy did an absolutely amazing job cutting down 2 1/2+ hours of me talking into a concise, funny, and still comprehensible video. I’m also sure I just got some things wrong, during my note taking I had a tendency to hyper focus on specific characters and misread or misunderstand interactions with other characters. I did however do my best to fix all of those but I’m sure I missed one or two for the hardcore lore fan. Anyway simply due to the length of the recording some things got the axe. So here’s some fun facts other have pointed out. Asuka goes to the moon but he also starts a podcast up there. Guilty gear is technically in its second timeline due to the events called the “battle of Rome” where a bunch of characters die and time travel is used to save the world. (In the first timeline humans lose.) The lyrical music for every character tells that characters story for that game. This is the cause for the joke “Daisuke made a cool album and someone added a game to it.” Vampires and yokai are real and they are considered some of the strongest beings outside the literal gods that exist in GG.

Thanks for the video! There was one important thing you missed regarding Dizzy though; she is the REAL daughter of Sol and Aria, since Aria was pregnant before being turned into justice, and the fetus was transformed into an egg she laid in a forest. So she is their "first child", technically speaking.

I’m kind of sad you didn’t explain WHY Dr. baldhead killed people in the first place which is a tragic story to begin with that really makes you feel bad for Faust altogether and why you’re constantly rooting for him to succeed.

A.B.A got announced, she does matter 35:58

you may explain the entire lore to me but i will still go "haha ram ate burger"

I have never once heard of Guilty Gear before or have any intentional of playing the games but i'm learning the lore of it why

Someone get this back to Woolie, i think he'd enjoy knowing hes partially to blame

35:57 "ABA will never matter" Aged like wine 🤣

This is an hour long, and whats shocking is how structured the explenation is for how insane this plot is.

Pity that you skimmed over bedman since he's, in my mediocre opinion, by far the most tragic character in strive despite how loony tunes a character concept he is. He and his sister were psychics so powerful that they have to be permanently comatose to not fry their brains - bedman uses his mechanised bed as a ways of interacting with the world while asleep. Delilah was even more powerful than bedman and so couldn't be conscious enough to interact with the dream world like bedman. tl;dr bedman kills people and is on the side of the big bad (the universal will/ariels) because he hopes that ariels will assist him in merging his dreamworld with reality, where he will be powerful enough to wake up his sister and resurrect every person he has killed to achieve that (as he takes care to remember the names of _every single person_ he has killed to get closer to waking his sister). So imagine the impact it has on him in his dying moments when Ariels revealed that she was puppeteering him the whole time to achieve her own goals and made him a mass murderer for nothing. As a final sacrifice for his sins, he single handedly creates the absolute world *by himself* to seal off Delilah's power and let her awaken before he crumbles into dust. Except his devotion for his sister who was never able to live turned him into a mechanical revenant after death. The shattered remnants of his bedframe now act as Delilah's rabid yet caring protector, willing to destroy itself for the sake of making her worry less about the destruction it causes. How much of the bedframe's behaviour is from its programming bedman left as his last will and how much is from bedman's soul puppeteering its remains in a last act of penance is unknown, but it is clear that despite being fully mechanical it acts oddly compassionate towards Delilah.

This is just amazing. I am not sure what I expected, and I don't know if it was this or not... truly one of the lore videos of all time.

This is one of those videos that I didn't realize was over an hour long until I suddenly became aware of the uncomfortable pressure in my bladder because I was watching with rapt fascination and utter investment. So major props to War for making me care so deeply about the lore of a game franchise I didn't even know existed until like half an hour ago XD

The _Second_ I heard "there's people doing great work to make this story more accessible" I knew it's was going to be WoolieVS (and his one, oversized white leg). He is the best (and also a pie tief).

I spent like 4 minutes straight laughing at "put the sentience inside the ancient weapon so she can marry it" next to the image of the guy with hologram/plushie Hatsune Miku

Learning about Guilty Gear has convinced me that the Japanese Gaming Industry is collectively sitting on a giant stash of the best LSD on the planet because I cannot believe someone actually came up with any of this without taking hardcore psychedelic drugs and I *want* that shit.

Just one little correction: the one who saves the people from the apartment building was Axl, not Nago. Axl stops time and basically does a Quicksilver with the people from the building

Potemkin is objectively one of the simultaneously coolest and funniest characters in the series and that is not up for debate.

I lied, I don't have Netflix! Take off your shoes, we're watching the 1h Guilty Gear PowerPoint

The fighting game is actually just a cover for Daisuke's love of Music and Writing and that he wants to show people what he's made

I’m sorry but that cutscene where they describe how babies are made just killed me. Oh this was glorious and really interesting

35:55 love how this aged

I guess A.B.A is somewhat relevant now that's she's in GGS

and now A.B.A is in strive 👏 she does matter!

Mistakes - Delilah isn't stuck in a bed, she and Bedman are both in comas because they're so smart their minds will destroy their own bodies if they ever wake up (this intelligence is also why Bedman has psychic powers). Bedman has a bed so he can go around and enact his schemes, but Delilah is just in containment somewhere until Bedman uses his dying moments to wake her up. - Happy Chaos is the Original, not the Universal Will. He went insane from being trapped inside the Universal Will, and also stole the name Happy Chaos as it was meant for *yet another Valentine* that would contain I-No's power the same way Jack-O' contained Justice's. The Universal Will created the original Valentine, Ramlethal, and Elphelt, while Asuka created Jack-O' and the one who would have been Happy Chaos. He never got the chance to finish that last one, so the now-insane Original yoinked the name for himself. - I-No doesn't replace herself with a more evil version of herself from the past. Axl is from another timeline, and I-No is his girlfriend Megumi from the main timeline, as it just so happens that the couple are both living spacetime anomalies. Axl can't go back to his timeline without erasing the main one, and I-No just didn't bother searching for her Axl when he disappeared, instead jumping through spacetime to figure out why she had her powers until she went mad, became evil, and forgot his face. I-No only recognizes Axl as she's dying and uses her remaining power to bring the Megumi of Axl's timeline into the main timeline so that at least *a* version of her will get *a happy ending with her boyfriend.*

Only thing im gonna correct about the huge list of mistakes is that Happy Chaos is the Original, while Ariels is the Universal Will.

Rimmy, how does it feel to be the second most popular FGC youtuber by default now that you've made one fighting game video lol

As the Guilty Gear lore nerd who just HAS to be "that guy" (not to be confused with That Man), here are some corrections: You got the beginning of the timeline jumbled a bit; The Original discovered the Backyard created the Universal Will BEFORE 1999, and then it studied humans (who didn't have magic yet) and decided they need to be replaced. The Universal Will WAS the celestial being that tried to awaken in Y2K and caused the events of the entire series. The Prototype Gear IS a full-fledged Gear, and a powerful one at that. He's also not LITERALLY the father of all gears (they aren't made from his DNA or something) - he's just the first "model". Sol IS however the father of Dizzy, BIOLOGICALLY, through Aria/Justice. Gears aren't usually created through infection - they are mostly genetically modified living beings, who differ in shape and size depending on the class; the exception to this is The Japanese, who due to their enhanced Ki abilities or whatever (which have been present before Japan was destroyed) can be turned into Antimatter Gears through a sort of disease (which is what the Universal Will did in the Black Sunrise). While Gears that were originally humans/are part human keep a more humanoid appearance and usually a high level of sapience, not all of them are Command Class - that's reserved for Justice and later Dizzy. ALL Magic draws from the Backyard, it's not exclusive to Gear Cells; Gear Cells just happen to be cells modified by Magic. Venom wasn't "the pupil of Eddie" - he was Zato's pupil long before he got possessed by Eddie. The original doesn't die, he is forced to absorb half of I-no (which turns him into the blue guy known as Happy Chaos) by the Universal Will who THEN absorbs him alive, which makes her go a bit insane. Jack-O' does not have Justice's memories, but her memories from Aria are a bit jumbled because she was released ahead of completion. She has one half of Aria's soul while Justice has the other, so fusing the two brings back Aria (allegedly, but Aria's soul doesn't want to come back yet so the body stays as Jack-O' with her hair colors swapped). Happy Chaos blew up the apartment complex Nagoryuki was under, not I-no; and Nago just tried to kill Happy Chaos but instead was forced to fight I-no - the one who saved everyone from the explosion was resident British timelord Axl Low. Time travel isn't a "witch thing" (It's exclusive to I-no because she has the same code as Axl or something) and I-no isn't "the last witch" (she's actually something called a "Magical Foci" of which there are a lot, but most are either objects or Yokai). I-no was created when the hopes of all of humanity during the Crusades merged into the Backyard, and the result was a being so powerful The Original had to split her in half by taking away her desire (which eventually lead to him becoming Happy Chaos as noted earlier). Axl isn't from the Victorian Era, his vanished in 1998. I-no whoops the asses of almost everyone BUT Frederick, who kills her using a bunch of nuclear batteries supplied by President Vernon to create an infinite energy output beam aimed at her weak point which was revealed by Nagoryuki. Asuka took the Flames of Corruption from Sol (which still leaves him part Gear BTW) not during the fight, but after they thought they have already won. Vernon was already president. The version of herself I-no brought back while she disappeared into a time paradox wasn't some "eviler I-no sent to haunt Axl" - it was Megumi, Axl's girlfriend from his original time (I-no and Axl both dated alternate versions of each other in their original timelines, it's weird). In Xrd I-no tells Axl that if he goes back to Megumi he would destroy the current timeline, and if he brings Megumi to this timeline he would destroy himself; so in her last moments, I-no brought Megumi back herself (semi-destroying I-no) so that the two can finally be together again with no consequences.

Aba fans eating

We need more hour long videos of the gang just having the lore of a complicated series explained to them

Rimmy talking about Guilty Gear is all I could have I wanted.

Watching Ky's face as Sin loses his fucking mind over sugar water is genuinely heart rending lol

As someone who knows the lore already. I feel heard. Finally a slightly bigger group of people I can annoy when referencing obscure things in the GG lore

Man I love Guilty Gear lore. Great video and holy shit this must have been hell to edit. ... ... ...can we get the full unedited version?

Just got into Guilty Gear because of A.B.A “A.B.A will never matter”

Oh. I can just imagine the look on Warpug's eyes as he makes that presentation with the thought of you editing and posting this video. "My pain shall bring you more pain."

I want a version of this but it’s rimmy explaining 40k lore and it’s 4 hours long

35:53 Eat shit mr lore man, she matters now!!!

35:52 Oh this has aged beautifully 😂

18:26 WAR, NO!

The A.B.A. fans coped hard enough for her to be added to strive. Just for her to be overshadowed by the teaser of the next character.

Where's my 4-hour long debate with Bricky, Rimmy??? WHERE IS IT?

A.B.A will never matter. Meanwhile Strive, bringing her back

Damn I’m 3:58 minutes in and now extremely invested in finishing this

ok but why are you explaining this to the characters from Bobs Burgers

This call was a fever dream

Shout out to Woolie for helping to spread this madness

I hope WarPugs genuinely gets the help he needs 🙏

It's FINALLY TIME.

I fucking KNEW Woolie was going to be one of the sources when I saw this in my feed. Real quick - who else here is Best Friends Play diaspora?

44:18 faust doesn't react because he know sins spitting straight facts

Is anyone else watching this after ABA got released 😂

Im disappointed you didn't mention vastedge, the pachinko machine where a member of the conclave dies. Remember this the PACHINKO GAMBLING MACHINE has an important character death

I love me some guilty gear lore. I'm the lore guy for my group of friends plaything Guilty Gear, and I love diving into this insanity. Thanks WoolieVS for being my main source

Rimmy doing a guilty gear video!?!? Holy shit I never could have hoped for something so great in my dreams

35:55 A.B.A is back so this aged pretty poorly

54:50 Not only was this a thing that was made, it was sent the ATF for review to ensure it did not break any laws

> let’s make a AR15 with a flashlight bumpstock >they don’t know

Round of applause for the mad man warpuggs for the deep dive of lore.

Friend: so how did you learned about guilty gear lore? Me from the bottom of my heart: Thicc Plot, Thicc Story, Thicc Men, Beautiful story and Faust, why separate? Because Faust

and you don't have an idea of how much content is missing in all of this... i swear to god, every guilty gear lore reduces your sanity momentary

I've never even heard about guilty gear until now. Time to learn EVERYTHING of it

Anybody that actually tries to explain guilty gear lore I wholeheartedly respect. Because of how convoluted and crazy and severely complicated it is so much that it gives Kingdom hearts are run for their money. But also I can't help but feel like there were a lot of things that were skipped on which maybe they weren't explained because of editing in the video. Either way 8/10 and you made me do a bloody spit take on you saying GEAR STDs.

The voice val does makes me seethe with rage

This perfectly captures the absolute insanity that is GG lore, its exactly what I love about it.

As someone named Jam, i can confidently say that i have received the “id jam something in them” daily. Id name my son Sin before Jam ever.

I still love how one of Sin's taunts is straight up "Do you know your times tables? Because I do."

I got into Strive recently so this is actually perfect.

Another reason why I love Rimmy so much. Never heard anything of the franchise before, but now I am hooked. Warpugs really knows how to present

I've already watched a pie stealing murderer explain this lore, but I'm open to seeing another madman's take

potemkin

i honestly am loving this audio book. can we have more of these?

Never before in my life have I needed something so much and not known until I received in. Thank you warpug.

now im imagining japan bein gone and brazil sundelly having a high concentration of super sayajins livin on the neiborhood of Liberdade in the city of São Paulo

I’d like to thank Woolie for helping start the process that lead Tj this video.

Im going into this with the bulk of my guilty gear lore knowledge coming from a single "ride wife, life good" meme video Edit: hey, speaking of the ride wife video...

I wrote an 8 page paper of just Ramlethal's theme and what it means to her character. It is not a fucking joke, Guilty Gear is HEAVY with lore

The whole Nagoriyuki saving people thing was totally wrong, in story mode he got immediatly taken control of by HC and it was Axl with his time powers who saved the people. Also it was HC who blew up the building, not I-No

36:58 WE ARE SO BACK

58:00 ima correct some stuff about chaos and I-no, I-no was created in the backyard as a result of humanities emotions during the crusades, giving her God like power, with control over everything aspect of existence, but she was dormant. The Original found her in the backyard went "oh fuck this is bad" and took half of her, leaving her with no desire for the future and aspects of her personality were also lost, as well as half of her power, I-no dreams of a better life during this time When the original was absorbed he wasn't killed, he was trapped, and then left to fester in his own madness, and the original does not fuck around because he invented magic, hence the name, and to beat him the universal will forced that other half of I-no into him. This turned the original into Happy Chaos, who is the strongest GG character as well. His presence subconsciously forces ariels into doing the majority of her acts, including killing bedman, which is why Delilah is gunning for chaos in strive. When I-no grabs him he knows that the world would likely be destroyed in a paradox should I-no succeed, but there's drama here so he goes along with it. He can use mind control and this is how to enslaves Nagoriyuki. Also He blew up the tower with nago in it, and he can move when axl freezes time. The Original taught Asuka and the conclave magic as well. I-no's a time traveler, and she's bounced for a very, very long time to find a happy future, but it always ends in a grey, dry world, but if she were to become complete, she could fix it, so she needs to absorb chaos, hence absorbing her missing half, and they need the tome of origin, a powerful artifact wrote by chaos/original.