The Splice Monster Explored | Drens Physiology and Origins Explained | Human Hybridization Genetics 

Clive: Dren. You have the most beautiful eyes. Her eyes: 👁__________👁

Moral of the story: Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

He took doing a lab experiment to a whole new level

The movie was very realistic. If anyone makes a Dren irl, someone will definitely try to bang it

I remember seeing this movie as a kid and thinking: "gee, whoever made this movie was a pervert..."

I think that the stinger resembles a stingray's stinger more than one of the scorpion. Having a stingray influence has much more sense to me, because all the other animals which are included (including humans) are vertebrates. The stinger on a tail seems fleshy and flexible, unlike the exoskeleton stinger of the scorpion, which moves along a mostly singular path.

I noticed something about the eyes you didn't quite grab. Yes, as you said, her eyes start off on the sides of her head, but I saw that not as amphibious but mammalian. Consider rabbits, mice, deer, cows, et cetera - all mammals, all prey, and thus all with outward facing eyes. Dren, at the beginning, had prey traits and personality. As they aged/matured, the eyes moved to the front and Dren became more aggressive - it moved from prey to predator.

This is actually the reason you have a team of scientists that do experiments, not two people who can't even figure out why they're together

Splice: A movie that ended up being how a woman got knocked up by her mutant child. Somewhere in Japan, there is porn about this.

Normal people seeing this movie: O__o Dren watching this review: O ___ o

Imagine getting cheated on by your boyfriend because a monster was more attractive than you. Oooooof

I think the reason dren killed the cat was because her "mother" took it away from her at first which to her meant it must have not been good. So she killed it and looked happy expecting her "mother" to be happy. Dren was normal and very innocent till the parents, a man who never wanted her to exist and a woman who wanted full control over a unknown life form decided to mess things up with their horrible parenting.

I saw that movie once; made me ask why they insisted on giving her carnivore traits that not only made her dangerous, but aggressive. If anything, your list of possible gene sources and traits only makes me think more that they weren't picky about what they were making, just that they were making something. It's like they took drew a bunch of random gene codes out of a hat, threw them into a blender, and sipped at the results without once asking if they were putting poison into their milkshake; they just wanted a recipe that tasted good.

Scorpions are arachnids, not insects. So the "insect-like wings" trait wouldn't have come from Scorpion dna. As a matter of fact, it's far more likely, due to the fact that the stinger is retractable, that the dna would've come from a bee or wasp. Why on earth you would want to combine that horror show with human dna is beyond me but yeah, there ya go.

Remember watching this movie years ago when it was on late night TV, it’s one of those movies you weren’t sure actually happened. Good to know it wasn’t a hallucination

I need a sequel. I really want to see this baby. Also what was funny to me about this was that they were surprised at Dren's behaviors as if humans aren't predators. We may have gotten fat and lazy but there's a reason our species has thrived.

I can't unsee that in its "child" stage, its face looks like Snoke from star wars.

Moral of the story, “ don’t add clown fish dna” if you want to keep your monster waifu. You are welcome scientist

Why didn't they just should have sticked to catgirls can't go wrong with that

Wait.. If she used her egg to make Dren and Clive slept with it.. And then she sleeps with Dren.. **Banjo music intensifies**

Dren: *can adapt to new environments within seconds * Charles Darwin: *intense sweating *

Everything about its design just creeps me out, this movie was dark and I actually really liked it.

When you explained how humans hate things are almost like us is interesting, because that’s what cause a phobia of clowns from what I’ve heard

Moral of the story: NEVER do a public presentation without running a quick test before hand, you never know what could go wrong (and that applies to game/software developers and tech developers -cybertruck .. ahm ahm- as much as it applies to biologists), things could have turned out quite differently for the couple if their presentation didn't go south.

"What's the worst that can happen?" They actually asked this question more than once in the film.

I feel like the people in these movies have never seen Jurassic Park when it comes to the female/male creature switching sexes

They made a “human” mewto

In addition to changing from female to male, Dren also grew a fifth finger, as shown DC during when Dren was in the water after letting Clive get out of the water towards the end of the movie.

Somehow I find the saddest part is when she attacked the cat. . .it was innocent and literally did nothing. . .

"Our worm experiment has a fang and our lab-baby has wings" WTF are you putting in that genetic soup??

Yeah if jurrasic park taught me ananything about science fiction, NEVER USE FROGS, or fish.

13:12 - Adding onto the pinkie discussion, I don't think people realize how important that finger is for a tight grip until it's taken away. I broke mine once as a kid and found it very difficult to pick up heavier objects. My Japanese teacher once mentioned that some forms of punishment in ancient Japan were to cut off the pinkie so that the user could no longer wield a sword against their master. It does a lot more than just help with a keyboard (and that's not even touching on 6 finger dominant genes)

I ended up having a love/hate relationship with this movie. Initially, I liked it but as the story went on (and afterward when I put more thought into it) I actually felt so bad for Dren that I couldn't help but see Clive and Elsa as the real villains here. Regardless of any actions Dren eventually took, she was innocent from the perspective that she never asked to be born a one-off apex predator. The part of her that was an innocent, sweet girl that wanted love from her "parents" and the animal side of her that clashed were solely the responsibility of the scientists that made her. I tried going back and watching it again a year or so ago but, about twenty minutes in, I was so irritated and distracted re-watching Clive and Elsa make those mistakes I just turned it off. It's definitely a movie that works from the angle of making you think about how humans repeatedly try to "play God" and the consequences. Cheers.

Scorpions are not insects. Every time a scientist makes a mistake, a lab assistant dies.

"OMG theres a human monster intercourse in the movie, thats horrible!" Welp, Del Toro did that and got a oscar

I've always seen the movie as less a story about creating a monster and more about the damage that abusive and controlling parents can do. Dren didn't lash out because she wasn't human, she lashed out because she was being abused. Furthermore, it also has things to say about people taking care of something while ignoring the needs of the life they're taking care of. So many people get a pet and then punish that pet for doing things that come naturally to it, like blaming a dog for barking or wanting to run and exert energy, or getting a hamster and putting it in a tiny cage not suited to it. Just because you love something doesn't mean you're actually taking care of it. The scientists are to blame. They tormented Dren basically her whole life, both in terms of caring for an exotic animal, and in terms of parents caring for a child. If they had been better at fulfilling the responsibility they'd signed up for, this wouldn't have happened.

Imagine making a hybrid creature and naming it _Nerd_ but backwards, that's just setting you up to be killed by it later on.

Aye, I’m loving that you’re expanding into different works of Fiction.

the monster looks like a person from a wiki-how article.

Imagine if, instead of treating Dren like a science experiment, they had treated her like THEIR child.

It felt like the movie was being written by someone who had a nice idea and then they stepped away to get a cup of tea and their edgy 13 year old finished the ending and submitted the script before they could come back.

Loosing your pinky would cause a 50% reduction in grip strength we aren’t losing that any time soon, the pinky toe however is on its way to vestigial

Dren reminds me of a harpy. Female, can fly, carnivorous, and violent.

My favorite part was the finding Nemo explanation. It’s always funny when a lot of people who don’t understand how the animal kingdom can potentially work finds out how the animal kingdom potentially works and then it ruins a lot of childhood movies and their perception of certain types of animals

Damn at the end of the movie kept wondering would she even survive the pregnancy... yikes

Ah yes the movie that cursed me with its ending.

I remember seeing this movie as a kid and was violently uncomfortable, thank you for refreshing all of my childhood trauma.

I've always liked Dren's creature design. Including canards instead of tail fins was a interesting choice for example. Surprised it wasn't mentioned that whoever wrote the script looked at everything that a scientist should do and said nope. Honestly just mass produced the artificial wombs to make money hand over fist. Cheers!

I watched this movie when I was a kid, got traumatized back then.

I remember thinking this movie was really fucked up especially the near the end. lol

This movie is kinda neat... until the weird r*pey stuff

And thats why marlin wanted to find Nemo so bad. Me: How to commit die

You know you're life has gone somewhere when you find your boyfriend cheating on you with a genetic experiment.

There is actually a fish ( I can't remember what it's called ) that changes from female to male. It becomes extremely aggressive as a result, especially towards other males. I think it's more likely to have been used than Clownfish DNA.

I actually think Dren had more sea life in her than most people are suggesting. The tail always read to me as the stinger of a stingray, or the spines of a lionfish, or any number of other venomous sea creatures. The stinger just looks so much like it came from something aquatic. Also, there’s lots of sea creatures that change their sex, not just clownfish. In the movie, there are multiple lines that can clue us in to what’s actually in Dren’s DNA, and while the scientists may be lacking in common sense, they did still make Dren. Elsa is initially surprised at the stinger, because she claims they “didn’t use any predatory or venomous animals”, and Clive mumbles that “well, there’s the human element...” Additionally, there are tons of moments that emphasize the scientists believing Dren “should not want to eat meat.” This feels intentional. What a lot of people don’t realize is that just about every herbivore has dined on meat opportunistically, at least a little. There are nutrients in meat that you will always be deficient in as a strict herbivore. Deer and cows have been observed chewing on old dry bones for phosphorus and calcium, which is pretty hard to come by in grass and flowers. Nature doesn’t care about morals, just survival, and herbivores are always down to snack on a baby bird that’s fallen from the nest or nibble on a little fresh carrion if it seems like there’s a chance no predators are nearby. Back to Dren though. Because they explicitly state that they didn’t use any explicitly predatory animals and they clearly have only a baseline understanding of animal behavior (they believe that Fred and Ginger fought because they were males, and didn’t think any further or consider that there could be other factors at play, they had the same response as someone who had two male hamsters in one cage despite the fact that Fred and Ginger were literally two new animals that had no prior records to suggest they behaved like known animals), I believe that she’s made up of mostly fish, amphibians and human DNA. I think Dren absolutely did have some amphibian DNA in her, although I think she actually has more salamander than frog in her, because many species of salamanders have incredible regenerative abilities. Also Dren exhibits a peculiar aging process, which while not necessarily the same as a salamander, still feels like a result of strange genes that might express themselves differently when combined with the other things floating around in Dren’s genome. There is also a species of newt that has been known to weaponize its own rib bones, which are covered in a toxic substance. The sharp ribbed Iberian newt, which also, coincidentally, has those powerful regenerative abilities and the process of how the stinger unsheathes looks pretty similar to the threat display of a sharp ribbed Iberian newt, who is effectively breaking easily-healed bones and pushing them through pores on its sides to make itself a threat, with toxic secretions coming from those pores in the process. And if you think breaking bones to weaponize them is unusual, there is also the horror frog, a frog that has been known to break the bones in its hands, push the splinters through its toe pads, and use them like claws, with a mechanism in place that both breaks them and pushes them through said toe pads more easily and they again have that crazy healing speed to help them deal with the broken bones following the injuries they are left with. Overall, if there is one thing that amphibians frequently seem to be capable of evolving, it’s toxic secretions, unconventional stingers or claws made from broken bones, and a ridiculously good healing factor. Regardless of whether it was a frog or a salamander, they definitely contributed to the legs. And Dren started aa a weird tadpole-shaped pod that later “hatched” into a thing with no arms, then developed arms later on. There’s an amphibian in there and it’s a hill I will die on. I also believe multiple fish were involved. I think they used at least one species of parrotfish. Parrotfish are herbivores, they scrape algae off rocks with the beaks that give them their name. Unlike clownfish, which only go from male-to-female, parrotfish often do the reverse. Depending on the species, some change partway through development while still sexually immature, which matches up way better with what we saw in the movie. There’s no way of telling if Dren was even sexually mature yet when Clive did what he did, Dren was aging on a completely different timeframe. As for the wings, I actually think they’re a modified set of fins. There’s so much Dren already has that’s geared towards living in the water, it makes more sense to me that she just used those fins to fly or glide instead. Flying fish did it. Why not Dren? And they don’t look stiff enough to be insectoid wings to me. They seem just a little too fleshy. A little too vascular, and they fold into the skin which further signals that they aren’t rigid like insect wings. They look way more like fins that have been repurposed as wings. And even amidst all that, genes are funny things. DNA is funky. Sometimes turning off one gene can end up effecting the expression of a completely different, seemingly unrelated gene. The gene in dogs that codes for a predisposition to being friendly with humans happens to also be linked to genes that cause the cartilage in their ears to deform, making them floppy. For all we know, Dren is half human and kangaroo and the genes are just mixing super weird. Hard to say, especially when the sample size is one single really fucked up specimen.

"because I'm about to ruin Finding Nemo for you." A little too late, boss. MatPat got there first.

Roanoke says he doesn't have one of these in his basement, that's because he has an entire family of khajit living down there.

When I watched the movie my thinking was that Dren wanted to reproduce due to instinct. She tried with the guy but I guess his sperm didn't work with her mutated organs. So Dren turned male and mates with the lady.

Not only it’s unethical for the child to be born, they also did incest which is not wincest.

i feel how this film should have gone was more along the lines of Bejamin button where it explores the tragedy of being the only one of your kind. it should have been a tale following the only animal human hybrid creature in existence not a hyper messed up creepy sexualized nightmare. i'm my opinion the direction of this movie was all wrong.

The only thing they should have created using gene splicing is the much desired Cat girls.

I'd argue there's at least some stingray in Dren

On the topic of the eyes, she was originally fed sucrose and her eyes were more sideways... a trait that is more common with prey species (which most likely means her stinger tail is a defense mechanism) and then we see her eyes facing forwards as she is eating a freshly caught animal. So her evolution starts as prey and then she develops into a predator

I forgot who, but someone said that Dren repurposed the sperm she received from Clive before injecting it into Elsa. The child could be human, but it might also have been spliced even more, being 2/3 human and the rest comprised of whatever they put into Dren.

“Let’s create a hybrid using several predatory animals!! What can possibly go wrong?”

My friends recently talked about this film and when it came to the guy "wetting his whistle" as it were I didnt believe him. Now i wish i didn't

There's an island, can't remember which, where there's a prevalent genetic mutation where baby boys don't respond to androgens in the womb. They appear to be girls at birth, but during second puberty, they are responsive and start display all the secondary male seggsual characteristics. They even prepare the kids for this because it happens so often. Its Las salinas in the DR

Creature: Exists Roanoke: "Your toes, hand em over"

"The fruit isn't worth the squeeze." Thank you for that quote. Boss Doc Roanoke

Probably the worst parents I have ever seen un a movie, and I watched The Life of Timothy Green.

Elsa's use of her own egg was because she was afraid she'd inherited her mother's insanity that caused her to abuse Elsa; she thought she could control Dren and if she turned out crazy just terminate her. This is why she refused to have a normal baby; she was afraid it would be crazy like her mom. She was afraid that her mother's insanity was genetic. Turns out she was right; she'd inherited her mother's abusive insanity as we see in how she treats Dren; and Dren also inherited it. I'll note that many scientists are on the fence about whether mental imbalances are or have a genetic factor. IMHO they do but environment can be key in bringing them out; or spontaneously cause them in otherwise normal people.

Thanks for watching guys! Jump to 11:33 if you want to bypass the summary of splice and get into the actual science!

Roanoke: explains things on a scientific level Me not an intellectual: Semen Demon and im disappointed in their lack of making cat girls not very classy

That’s what happens when you make something like this, once you get attached to it it doesn’t wanna let go! NOW PUT THAT THING BACK WHERE IT CAME OR SO HELP ME!!!...

Any positive thing about Dren is immediately nullified by the fact that she killed a cat.

8:40 "Things are about to get a little strange." Really? Everything that happened before that point was every day occurrence?

Immagine in the real world what would be like: Scientist: "Ehi i came up with an idea! Why we don't create an hybrid of a human and other species?" Boss: "R u sure? They tried with a sheep, and that being died soon." Scientist: "Don't worry this time it will go well, because we won't use a DNA sheep, in fact we'll use a scorpion, a clown fish and a frog!" Boss: "That sound stupid and really expensive, thus i won't give my consent on this project!"

It's one of those movies that makes me tell myself. "I could've watched Toy Story."

Ya know, I was like "Dren looks cool man." and like I was 100% on Dren's side. And then she murdered a cat. *loads shotgun with malicious intent*

Me: Why did they make this movie? *Watches dude having sex with the creature* Me: Ohhh that's why. What a poor excuse.

I love watching Roanokes videos even if I have no clue what the movie or the game he is talking about is

I remember watching this movie as a young teen and thinking it was damn interesting while slightly disturbing. I found myself thinking Dren was kinda disturbing but at the same time weirdly hot, then the ending happened. That put an end to the weirdly hot part pretty quick.

I think you are spot on about Dren's temperature spikes and near "deaths" being her just going through new growth changes. I actually enjoyed the movie when I saw it and came away feeling like the humans were much more the monsters than Dren who was just a living being following instinct and being inconsistently raised as both an experiment and a child which real life history has shown to never turn out well

Fun fact Adrian Brody plays a character named Calvin, in the movie 'LIFE', the alien is named Calvin, both Calvin and Dren grow rapidly starting as cute looking life forms and they go into full mode apex predators, and both of these movies were left off on a cliff hanger, and no sequels

*Mum:* the neighbours kids aren’t that bad *The neighbours kids:*

Oh Jesus when you said that finding Nemo thing about Marlin's reason for finding his son?Oh god...there's probably something on DeviantArt about that

I found this channel when looking for more info on the G Adult in the RE2 Remake. I'm 3 vids in, you got a new sub.

It was dale from step brothers that said “the young calf thing” not from taledega nights just caught that

I remember seeing this a long time ago and forgot it existed. It’s interesting seeing you go over it.

"we don't need men anymore we can make babies from bone marrow" the baby:

Splice is unironically one of my favorite movies. No other movie has made me feel so uncomfortable.

The second you said "im going to ruin finding nemo", I already knew where you were going

Antivax mom: "look at my perfect angel" *their my perfect angel* : 0:41

I tried watching this movie and had to stop because it was freaking me out. Thanks for showing me the end, glad I didn't watch it, it would have f**ked me up!

I love how as soon as the contract ended you removed the ad from the video, nice one!

Imagine watching this high af and dont know wtf you're looking at, had to watch it again sober and I still didn't know wtf I was looking at

This thing really triggers the uncanny valley for me, I just wanna kill it with fire

I can’t believe he had sexy time with it 😂

I like your longer videos and I like the whole video not just the little bits keep it up man

That cat needs vengeance. Kill the universe for cute kitty.