The FULL Binding of Isaac (w/ Repentance) & The Legend of Bum-Bo Story Explained 

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Eden is what Issac' thinks his mother wants him to be. But Eden is always different because he doesn't know what his mother wants him to be.

I just realized that Mom's screams were her searching for Isaac while he was in the chest, first angry because she thinks he is hiding from her and then she starts to panic wondering where Isaac went

The screaming out of mom after defeating her heart being a metaphor for her broken heart upon finding him dead is bone chilling. I'll never hear it the same way again.

To think that “Isaac and his parents, lived in a small house in top of a hill” could be the hardest hitting sentence in a video game

since Isaac died, I think the true ending is THE FATHER and not his father, the only voice to guide him in his life has become the one in heaven.

My child is completely fine Your child’s favorite game is the binding of Isaac

I always imagined the "are you getting sleepy yet" at the end of the final dialogue as Isaac finally coming to terms with his demons, and dying peacefully, or his father / God re-assuring him that everything would be okay post-death, and he could finally write his own happy ending.

I really like that the angels all lack faces, even when you become one as isaac. On the other hand, all demons have faces. It creates a dissonance that shows how far isaac believes he is a demon/damned to hell.

The games main currency is cents, implying that isaac was mostly exposed to cents instead of dollars or quarters. This means that they lived in poverty

yo that run was on crack lmao

Based on the Beast Ending, Guppy was not just a reference to Edmund's cat but also actually Isaac's cat, who based on the reverse-telling of the events of his life as Isaac ascends dies just before the divorce. Considering how young Isaac is and the instability of his parents, Guppy probably died from neglect. So as if everything else wasn't enough Isaac also lost his pet, which probably contributed to the trauma that led him to fall so deep into his own mind. It could also potentially explain how he knows so much about what rotting corpses look like.

One thing I think needs mentioning is that the legend of bumbo might have started as a game of Dungeons and Dragons between Isaac and his Father. The presence of different dice sizes, the fact that Isaac's starting item is the D6, and the satanic panic that was caused by Dungeons and Dragons in the late 70s seem to lend credence to this idea. This may have been one of the many things that caused Isaac to believe that he had the devil inside of him.

I feel like Isaac finally came to peace with himself in the final ending and was able to finally go to heaven and to be truly at peace. Also, maybe in this heaven he was with his dad, but not literally just a heavenly projection of whatever you want to call it. He was able to overcome all the bad memories in his life and imagine a better story with a better livelihood.

I would just like to point out that the sobriety coin depicted as Dad's Lost Coin is a silver one. Typically, silver coins are given to those who remain sober for a mere 24 hours, and is by far the shortest span of time these coins are given out for (the following coin is for a full 1 month sober). It seems as though any attempts for Dad to have quit drinking were rather short lived, even more so that the item is described as a "lost" coin (Dad didn't hold onto it for long). I'd also hazard a guess that, since Repentance never elaborates on what it is, that Dad's Note is potentially, in part, the message included in Bum-bo's final ending. Obviously not word-for-word, since it shifts from Bum-bo talking in that same cutscene, but the message as a whole is well spoken and clearly has some sentimental value, and I could totally see that message being the final thing Dad leaves Isaac with before leaving his life entirely. Those words help truly cement why Dad would continue to be the narrator in Isaac's world, and better put into perspective Repentance's final ending.

I think the fact that there's so much poop, pea, spiders, and flies, is because isaac had no where else to relieve himself while trapped inside the chest. He not only suffocated, but spent his last moments in his own filth, and only had his imagination to deal with it.

I love Ed's mentality of "Ask and you shall receive." He answers question directly without any unimportant details or whatever and tells what people need to know when asked for it. We love Ed.

Something you may have missed is that the boss "Mom's Heart" has symbolic meaning. As Isaac continues to think of his mom as a monster, he believes that he caused his mom hate him. He *litterally* break's his mom's heart, and leaves himself to suffocate to death by jumping into the toy chest.

I always thought of Eden as being the literal personification of Isaac's lack of identity. Each time he's something, someone different, it's this aspect of not fitting in anywhere.

I might personally add, as someone, who came from a rather abusive childhood with BOTH parents being alcoholics, mother with solo-custody(now 2 n a half years sober!), that Isaacs dad to me reads much more like how my mother was towards me. Often emotionally absent however never abusive towards their child. I personally believe he was an alcoholic that drank to push sorrow and problems under the rug but TRIED to be there for Isaac as best as possible. So much he even took time out of his day to make entire cardboard figures just for his son because he truly loved him and wanted to offer him something cool, something like all of the other kids his age would play with. However his terrible gambling and alcohol addiction are the curse that tainted the person he could have been. Its such an unfortunate and sad story and the entire ascent gets me near tears every goddamn time because it hits so close to home minus the religion.

With the thought of the post the beast scene being Isaac's last moment really makes me cry because that would mean when Isaac's memory of his fathers voice asks "are you getting sleepy yet?" is Isaac feeling the on set of passing out due to asphyxiation and the way he gets comfort is that to him it is just him going to sleep listing to his father telling him a story and I can barely stop myself from crying.

wait bumbo grabs coins in game. And dad stole the moms money.

The true ending made me cry, poor little isaac.

I like how the progression of the stages helps tell the story too. The Basement is Isaac simply escaping into his imaginary world, running away into his toybox. It's possible that all the poops represent him actually defacating while trapped inside, and the torches are a little light that he gives to himself while inside. The Caves and Depths, then, are his imagination slowly progressing towards thoughts of death. The skulls littered around, the enemies no longer being just flies, poops and spiders and instead becoming bones, maggots and undead terrors, this all culminated in the fight with Mom, which represents Isaac hearing his own mom call out to him, yet never make a noise and simply avoid her. The moment you win the boss fight, Mom gives up the initial search/finds out he is dead in the box. The Womb/Utero, then, can have multiple different meanings. But I think, it is Isaac's thoughts lingering on his birth, and maybe even the thoughts of never wanting to be born. It may also be him desiring to crawl back into his mother's belly and escape the terrors of his life, the same as the box did for him. The Cathedral and Sheol, then, is his mind fighting the inner battle over his soul, whether it deserves to go to heaven or is condemned to hell. The Chest, then, is the reality of the situation. Isaac fights ???, the thoughts that he will simply die inside of the box. The Dark Room is his mind going to thoughts of the picture of himself and his family happy, as well as the void of nothingness standing before him, though Mcmillan said that it's meant to represent the closet Isaac was locked in by his mom.

the best part for me is how the game makes you think how BAD mom is, but at the end, both parents are equally bad in some way, but when you finally understand the root of isaac's problems isn't his parents, but their addictions and the dogma, you can understand the rest of this dark lore, impressive work

Dad was confirmed to be a handyman by Edmund himself.

If you think the father left by suicide (the handed man), it kinda change some perspectives in the story and why isaac talks with him when he reaches heaven

I also really like how thematically appropriate Dad's Lost Coin is. It's literally a second chance

Isaac's father might have been a doctor - strong connection with science, and the explanation for why Isaac knew so much about many severe illnesses and gore (perhaps he has found and read medical books in his house).

I can’t help but notice that the Beast is depicted as female, visualy similar to Mom, it’s called the “Mother of Harlets”. Following Isaac’s defeat of the Beast there’s a crack in the sky that Isaac ascends to. Maybe the crack is someone opening the toy chest before Isaac suffocates, and the near manslaughter by mom would certainly be enough for dad to win custody in court. Maybe the new beginning of a story at the very end is Isaac living with his father and a step-mother, in a loving home and all of the stories are helping Isaac to rationalize that what happened isn’t his fault.

Watching the end cutscene and hearing issac’s dad say “Isaac and his PARENTS lived on top of a hill” gave me shivers the first time I saw the cutscene

27:28 The "belt" may have been used by the father, but the wooden spoon was the Mom's tool of choice. My own mother used to take the wooden spoon to me and my siblings as well. both items giving a "speed up" bonus, because when a kid sees their parent coming at them with one of these, you know that kid is gonna run fast

I legit felt like crying when you explained her calling out to Isaac was her just being annoyed and then finding him 😢

when BOI fans explain to you that the lore behind the game isn't "Isaac and his Isaac lived alone in a small Isaac..."

During the ascent sequence at arround 24:06 you hear the dad apologize twice, however, the second apology is directed to isaac and lacks the echo-y filter that the rest of the flashback has. It really made me think that for a second, the father was apologizing to issac WHILE issac was making his story, like he needed to step up and apologize, he really felt sorry for what he caused.

I always thought of Maggie as Isaac dressing up as the daughter that his mother always wanted. You could see in his dreams that mother looks happy when Isaac is wearing the wig and so is Isaac, I don't necessarily think it's a sister but rather he dressing up as what his mother wants or wanted. I think brother Bobby and sister Maggie items are more linked to the church family if they even had one or were that close to the church

My interpretention on the items brother bobby/sister maggy is simple. They could represent isaac's desire to have a sibling, not a literal reprisentation of a dead sibling..

If it helps at all, the item that actually GIVES Isaac the wings, and actually helps battle the Beast/Mother of Harlots is in the game, named “Dogma”. Maybe Isaac, himself, is trying to combat the stigma of the dogma? Or maybe, a more darker side of the story... he is falling to the same thing his mother fell to.

I’m baffled that you can make these long, high quality videos in such a short amount of time.

I think Azazel is only mentioned once in the old testament. People were told to bring two goats, kill one for god and send the other off into the woods for Azazel. The one for Azazel was supposed to bear their sins, making it a scape goat. So Azazel might be a way for Issac to just blame everything on the "evil" inside him instead of accepting that his life is just shitty

With the beast ending I like to imagine that Isaacs dad cleaned up his act and gained full custody of Isaac. Isaac never died and His father reading his stories suggesting it should end happier is evidence to me that Isaac is with his father who has faced down his own demons and will raise Isaac in a proper manner.

I really appreciate the nuance in this and that there's more to the story than just "mom bad, dad good, religion bad".

I think Lazarus's focus on rebirth and gaining through pain are just more signs of Isaac's warped idea of how he could possibly fix himself.

I'm not going to lie the proposed story section made me nauseous due to not only how real it was but also the amount I can relate. Amazing video.

This may sound sound stupid but I feel that Lilith represents how Isaac is blindly blaming himself without knowing what truly is happening.

The death certificate being the final unlock of repentance suggests that isaac's death is the end of the story

Samson's sin wasn't violence, his strength and the fighting he did were god ordained. His sin was disobeying god's order to tell no-one about the source of his strength; his long hair.

I want to go into the game, open the chest, and give isaac the hug he so dearly needs

I believe that isaac is aware of his uncle Bob, who may even be deceased due to alcoholism (supported by the fact that Bob appears dead, rotten, and sick)

Fun fact: The "Hush" boss is a gaint ??? (Blue baby) beneath the floor pushing from the other side trying to get get to isaac. Hush also represents Isaac's slow imminent death approaching towards him as he suffocates in the chest.

Awesome video! thanks for the shoutout and using my gameplay!

the section where isaac's parents are fighting brought back my own flashbacks, even after 7 years. god damn. games and their storytelling are a powerful thing.

I love this video. Regarding Azazel. Azazel became associated with Satan as a fallen Angel in later Christianity, but the origin of Azazel goes back to ancient Judaism and beyond. There’s a place called Azazel and a ritual named after the place. In the ritual, a goat would be sacrificed to atone for the sins of humanity. It’s a pretty perfect name for a character in Isaac both in the terms that you described it and in that the name basically means “scapegoat”

When during the final ending cutscene it says that he felt pain in his stomach during the sleepless night that could either symbolize abuse or impoverishment. Either his stomach hurts because he was hurt or because he has not eaten in a while. Just wanted to add that.

I see the true ending as Isaac's father actually adopting his son (hence the adoption papers trinket being unlocked by beating mother as a tainted character, as mother's ending is the one that actually shows abuse happening), and the reason the runs get so bizarre and weirdly twisted for a naptime story is because Isaac finally opens up about his insecurities, tells his dad about all the bad things he's experienced/thought about, and his father helps him cope by turning it into a phantasy-esque story. And as to why McMillen keeps insisting that Isaac is dead, it looks to me like clever phrasing and that he means Isaac the naptime story character is dead (which, he absolutely is, the boy goes to heaven after all), not Isaac the actual, well, Isaac.

So something i haven't heard very much about is the inclusion of the astrology portion into the game. To me it's strange that isaac has a deep understanding of the subject (or well deep enough to draw conclusions on how they are interpreted in personality manifesting in "powers" from them). As well as the tarot cards. Usually catholisism and astrology are pitted against one another, at least in media. I wonder who would've taught Isaac about such things and why they would have been so well developed into the stories he tells with his dad. My only theory is that either he learned about them from the christian programs as they would've probably labeled them as all evil. But part of me thinks that maybe Isaacs father taught him about astrology out of spite. Maybe i missed something or im not intrrpreting it correctly, but its just not talked about really and they play a big part item wise.

my theory on bob/sloth is that it WAS isaac's uncle, perhaps with an alcoholic addiction so crippling that he succumbed to it. maybe it was described to isaac in such a way that this is how he viewed it, maybe they said "bob is sick right now, he can't see you" to put it lightly, which brings up imagery of vomit and connection to pestilence, a boss that looks basically just like sloth on a horse.

Fun fact, that thing around The Beast's "Neck" Looks eerily similar to MOM's dress. This leads into my personal headcanon that the Dogma ending is the "true" final ending, and as isaac confronts the truth and accepting that its not his fault for his parent's falling out (although that is achieved by him Actually Demonising MOM as The Beast) he is ascending into "Heaven" he is reunited with his father in "Heaven".

My idea is that somewhere along the abuse, his dad comes back and rescues him. As a way of coping with it with his father, he tells stories of what happened, always telling it as he dies in the end. In the final ending, we hear his dad telling him that his stories don't have to end that way.

The story makes me more emotional than any other game I've played in so long, probably from how real it feels, the arguing of the parents, the trauma with feeling like an outcast and not understanding and believing that you yourself are at fault for family troubles.

Issacs story is so well done, the way that you will originally find a character to be a villain, but later you find to be as much as a victim as everyone is such mastery of storytelling. The game would be really weird and unbelievable form looking at the game on first glance, but knowing everything it feels like something that could have happened. Edmund did a good job.

"The cans of dog food could represent abuse or poverty" Or, you know, the SEVERAL DEAD PETS, guppy, Tammy, cricket, max

I honestly interpreted the ending as Isaac’s father finally adopting him and helping Isaac recover from his abuse. Isaac probably assumed he was going to die and his dad is trying to help him realize that his story could have a better ending instead of dying in a chest.

"It doesn't mean these were the literal events he lived" Really? I was so sure Ed killed him mom, went into her womb and destroyed her heart, and then killed the dead version of himself

Well, Isaac and his Dad talking at the end, breaking the narrative might imply that both of them are dead and more or less are expiriancing the purgatory together, or at least the escape from purgatory.

There's another way to view the final ending. Isaac's father is overseeing Isaac's story, simply being that, a story. Him having sole custody of Isaac, after getting the adoption of his own biological son passed, after noticing the state of Isaac, the beatings his mother gives him, the torment and trauma she's laid out onto him after his father left, he fought against her for child abuse, wins, and her mother found guilty and arrested. The ties to jail being the challenge rooms, Samson's chains, and of course, Tainted Jacob's main active ability, Anima Sola. After Dad and Isaac make the story of Isaac dying, fighting his own mother, himself and the true form of Satan, the Mother of Harlots, he reminds him that his story doesn't need to be so depressing, trying to help his son on the road to mental recovery, once again being able to make a fun fictional world, he starts Isaac of with 'Isaac and his parents live together on a small house on a hill...'

If Maggie's brother (Bob) was an alcoholic then she would have an even stronger reaction to her husbands drinking. Makes sense to me.

I think that dad voice as the narrator, especially as Issac is going to heaven, is God trying to console Issac in heaven and help him work through the pain he suffered. God took on the form of Dad because Isaac felt safe with his dad and the stories he and Dad made

I was hoping you talked more about the Tainted versions of the characters. They all appear as hurt in some way when you unlock them, which you do by opening a secret in Home. I think Mom finds Isaac dressed up as one of the characters while he's playing with the cardboard toys. When she locks him in the room, Isaac desperately tries to remove the outfit, going so far as to either rip/shave the hair out of the wigs. Maybe as away to appease Mom? Saying he won't play dress up anymore? Maybe taking his frustrations out the only way he knows how. Many of the Tainted characters look hurt as well. Did Mom beat Isaac before locking him away. The cutscene doesn't show it but every character is an alternate telling of Isaac's story and the cutscenes never mention his other personas that come out as characters we play as. I find it interesting how normal Samson gets angrier and stronger when he's hurt, unlike the others. Could this be a side of Isaac who wants to lash back out at his abusive parents? Tainted Samson full on snaps and goes Berserk instead of just getting angrier. Is this the colmination of Samson's story? His parents push to the point of violence, not just brooding anger? Tainted Maggie also snaps but as Maggie's character is one trying to appease Mom by being more like her. Tainted Maggie uses overwhelming kindness instead of intense anger to resolve issues. It's not uncommon for abuse victims to think they can fix their abuser if they just love them hard enough.

Damn, Isaac's story is super sad, no wonder he cries so hard that it hurts others

Whenever I see the still frame of Isaac with guppy and the narrator says 'his one true companion' I tear up a little.

So at the end of the day the villain is actually televangelists. As they always are.

The thing I appreciate most about this story, is that it's both simple and not at the same time. On the simple side, it's about a kid with a big imagination who's family fell apart and now he blames himself for it. But on the complex side, we learn so much about his parents and his relationship with them and each other. That final ending with Isaac's dad narration is so sad since it can easily be seen as Isaac's final moments before death, using the voice of his father for comfort as it all ends

I personaly want to believe that the ending implies isaacs dad won the custody and the playthroughs are just his father helping him deal with all the trauma he has. Mostly because that sounds like a happier ending to me. Of course there is also the very real posibility that isaac really did die in that chest. The ending would still be happy in a sense but also very grim and bittersweet... Like TBOI's tone in general.

There's a bonus song on Rebirth's soundtrack called "He's the number one" where singing is heard along side demonic voices in the background. I think this fits as a song Isaac's dad might have sung to him back when he was a devout Christian, presumably before the drinking and everything. The singer is Matthias, who is also the voice actor for Isaac's dad, aka the narrator. The demonic voices represent Isaac's current feelings, and hearing the song in retrospect only gives him demonic thoughts, knowing the person who sang it to him no longer believes those things, with his aforementioned black-and-white viewpoint.

Im surprised that nobody mentioned that Dad's note could also be implying suicide. When someone ends their own life, it's pretty common for them to leave with a note, or some kind of message for the ppl that find them and stuff.

Thinking about it now, items that change Isaac's expression like Sauage are what makes him happy, more luxury items in their poor household, while eating stuff like dog food keeps him the same anguish. It's a reflection of their poverty and what Isaac interprets as rich, or poor. He was basically taught the value of a dollar at an extremely young age, which is why the money cap is 99 until they get deep pockets to reach 999.

FINALLY! I HAVENT SEEN A VIDEO ABOUT THE STORY OF TBOI SINCE MATPATS OLD VIDEO WHEN REBIRTH FIRST CAME OUT, AND NOW MATPATS VID HAS BEEN DEBUNKED!

this made me realize how depressing this game is again.

While listening to the beast ending one more time, I realised that "his shadow waiting for him in the closet" could be a referance to how we unlock the *tainted* characters by opening a *closet* and meeting our *shadows/alternate selves*

The meanings of some of the newer characters are not concrete, but I'll share my ideas Laz: "rebirth" seems pretty concrete, Isaac is scared of death and the eternal damnation that he thinks is his fate after life Eden: Eden may be Isaac trying to be someone- anyone, other than him(?) Lilith: I got no clue, but I think he may see himself as the cause of his sins and problems(?) Apollyon: being "the destroyer" in its unlock name, this may be Isaac feeling that he is the source and reason of destroying his parents' happy marriage Beth: Beth in character design seems much like an "angel" oriented character as opposed to judas, I think Beth may be Isaac trying to be a religious zealot like his mother J+E: maybe J+E is Isaac feeling like his life's terrible circumstances are his fault, much like Jacob in the duo

Man, this brings me back to when flash Isaac was the only game , and the only thoery (that I was personally aware of at the time) came from a steam guide that's still up to this day, its quite unreal how far we've come from then and now..

So, I'm guessing, Mom's laugh when she hits Issac during their fight is also something that Issac distorted in his mind?

This is 2 years old... I still remember when it came out

Here’s a thought: Maybe Isaac is alive at the end. Hear me out; my two reasons for thinking this: 1. With the exception of “joke” items from the devs having a laugh, all the items are something Isaac has seen/experiences to a degree. The fact that the adoption papers exist at all indicates that Isaac is either aware of such an item existing, or at least of the current custody situation, rather than it being obscured as the video suggests. 2. It follows that, with the precedent set by TLoB, isaac’s father helped Isaac work through his emotions and problems through creative storytelling and games. My thought is thus: TBoI is Isaac and his father working through the events after Father left. I reckon that Isaac did not die (at least not literally) in the chest (but came very close); even in such a skewed custodial legal system, I imagine that it would not be hard for a father to gain custody of his child if the mother allowed the near-death of the child. After such trauma, what better way for Isaac to work through it all than the same way he did with his Father before the Drama began? Maybe the near-death experience of their child was enough to bring a husband and wife back together (though this might be stretching this a bit too far). I might be biased towards happy endings where kids don’t die, but the explanation of the game being a story that Isaac and his Father are using to work through trauma makes sense to me

I would argue that whether or not it was intended, Isaac fearing that he'll fall most immediately to Greed is strongly supported by how the game plays out. Kids who have things taken away from them as punishment, particularly without even having those things be related to why they're being punished, tend to develop very close-knit attachments to their belongings growing up. It can be seen as why Isaac conceptualizes leaving a will with all his cool stuff, why so many of the mechanics revolve around that stuff, and most importantly, one of the reasons why he feels he's guilty. He seems to have an association in his head where wanting nearly ANYTHING is sinful, because of the religious indoctrination he underwent under Magdelene's wing as well as seeing his father, the man who encouraged him to want more from life, outright stealing from her to fulfil his own addictive personality. Greed and all his permutations represent his father's own greed. Selling your things off for money, getting angry if his desires aren't met, and stealing from you every chance he gets, but at the same time continuing later on to act as if nothing happened if encountered after a fight with him. The Keeper, meanwhile, feels like Isaac psychologically flogging himself for wanting more than the bare minimum to get by, but seeing on some level that people often CAN'T get by with the bare minimum, and fearing what he'll become as an adult because of his mom shouting "You're just like your father" or "He'll be just like you when he grows up". A sickly husk relying on a game of chance to scrape by via the Wooden Nickel. Ultra Greed seems to be a mix of both of them; Between his grandiose demeanor, unlocking doors as a major mechanic of his fight similar to Dad's Key, yet throwing a childish tantrum and implied motive of just want to keep everything here for himself, it could be the ultimate summation of one of Isaac's fears; That the desire to have something for himself, and the frustration of having things taken from him, will turn him into a monster. And in a similar, but different ending to the one achieved by defeating Mega Satan, he does become one; He becomes the next Keeper; an offshoot of Greed. And the ARG that surrounded The Keeper and Greed Mode may have a final piece that unifies them. The thing that Greed wanted most, and the thing that told Edmund that the ARG had been solved, is by giving Greed a voice by logging into his twitter account and posting something. Isaac and his Dad both show signs of just wanting a voice that would be heard by others, the dad because he's had a struggle with alcoholism that he's begun to lose, and Isaac because his mother just will not listen to him when he tries to explain himself and his imagined games. Neither of them WANT to hate Magdelene, but she refuses to believe otherwise because it honestly is kinda hard to come to grips with the idea of a husband who steals from you and a son who seemingly portrays you as hideous monsters while both claiming they love you. (That being said, I feel like Isaac has a far better reason for having that kind of dissonance.) As for Sloth, it could be that he has secondary prominence next to Greed and is portrayed as poisonous because he was a bad influence. Perhaps a major reason why Isaac's dad fell off the wagon. This is is purely hypothetical with no in-game context, but what might have happened was that the brother kept offering him drinks or drinking while he visited to cool off from an argument with his wife, completely ignorant to the dad's struggles to escape that, and potentially offered him one at a particularly weak moment like after a bad fight.

Sorry for being reeeaaaallly late with this, but thank you very much for the mention in the description of this awesome video!

The fact that Isaac is found decayed is sadder than anything truly

"These aren't the literal events that (Edmund) lived" **Thinks about Isaac dying in a toy chest** Hmmm, I think you might be right on that one...

I personally like the theory that Bob is Isaac's uncle more. Maybe one Isaac's only ever seen a few times, a brother that Maggy shelters Isaac from entirely, possibly due to a bad experience Isaac had with him. Perhaps he babysat for Isaac one night and ended up getting him sick, causing Maggy to never trust him again.

Azazel's name means scapegoat. It represents him coming to the conclusion that his mother is projecting her own sins onto him. Lilith is the mother of demons who's sin was refusing to lay beneath Adam. This could represent a number of things. 1. It's another case of Isaac believing that he's a bad person. 2. It represents how he feels about his own mother (there is actually an in game transformation where Isaac becomes his mother after collecting certain collectables) 3. It represents him standing up to his mother and finally seeing that he deserves better. Apollyon is an angel of destruction, but also a dark pit in Hell. He leads an army of locusts,(spoilers) hence his tainted version. Again, he probably represents how Isaac antagonizes himself.

52:07 something about this: i dont remember specifics, but something like a large chunk of fathers that are the ones that leave first are usually the ones that lose custody over kids, but ones that DONT leave or that take the kids with them if they do have a much greater chance at gaining/keeping custody

I feel the main reason Isaac considered his mom a monster was likely that he resented staying with her when he was apparently much closer to his father.

Bob sloth: sinful, probably uses vulgar language and probably a jerk... Bob ross: Gods gift to humanity, very calm in language and super nice.

My headcannon for what Apollyon represents is some kind of statue representing Isaac for when he'll be buried in a cemetery. Don't really have any proof, but I like it

No matter what you say, legend of bumbo Isaac’s voice is the most adorable thing in the world and makes you feel worse for him

This genuinely makes me cry, I grew up in a dysfunctional household and this just hits different

I just realized the scream when you kill mom or mom's heart sounds a lot more sad then angry. I always thought it was angry.

when he says "Isaac and his PARENTS..." i can't stop the tears (no tears UP jokes pls)

You know, my older brother having a strong love and connection for this game is starting to make a lot more sense now. We have a very similar story to Isaac's, it seems.