Fun fact: In real life, cordyceps doesn't interact with the nervous system at all. It instead controls the muscles directly, without the nervous system acting as a middleman.
So then, if it WERE to make the jump from ant to human, it would look pretty damn similar to what was described in the video. A fungus that hijacks our muscles, but leaves our nervous system intact such that we're aware of all our senses (so they can feel you pumping rounds into them, see you look on at them in horror, smell their flesh being dissolved and digested from the fungus). That's terrifying.
You know what the truly messed up part of Paz having a bomb in her body is? The fact that her Spirit in Smash Ultimate makes REFERENCE TO THAT!! If you equip the spirit, you start the battle with a Bob-omb. Sakurai, what the heck m'dude?
Wait, SERIOUSLY?!? That's WHY if equip her Spirit, you just start with a Bob-Omb? That's insanely messed up, like failing to try and save her wasn't already bad enough? Or finding out that the Big Boss you're playing as in Ground Zeroes and Phantom Pain wasn't even the REAL Big Boss, but just a skilled medic who felt so guilt-ridden for not being able to save a patient, that he felt like he had to throw away his own life, and BECOME Big Boss; the legendary solider himself?!? What the hell? I know it's MGS; and insanity is usually how playing those games works, but how can you deal with not even playing as THE Big Boss? You're just a random guy pretending to be Snake/Big Boss(not Solid Snake, that's one of his sons). As much as I like the reference to MGS5,( in some weird and messed up way), being unable to save Paz, is a much worse burden to have, because Big Boss is just that great of a leader. He magically knows how and what to say to get everyone and anyone on his side; even when he's NOT actually there! Thats just because Big Boss is the best. At least, until Solid Snake got there. Then, he was the best. And since Big Boss dies at the very end of MGS4, it's up to Solid Snake to be the best; like his "father" Big Boss was. Even though Snake himself also dies too, offscreen, as Old Snake. But he's back to being Solid Snake in Smash Ultimate, though. Confusing; but it's nice to be able to be Solid Snake again, even if it's just a crossover game.
People say that, but that's not actually the case, her spirit in Smash is based on her appearance in Peace Walker, where there was no bomb placed inside her
@@ArceusDX Yeah; I know. You can tell, from the appearance, and the fact that it says what game she's from; and that it's NOT Phantom Pain(the sequel to Ground Zeroes), but it is a dark joke to put in Smash Bros. though, giving you a Bob-omb, with the Paz sticker...also, Paz is played by Tara Strong in Ground Zeroes/Phantom Pain, Tara Strong being the voice of Timmy Turner from the Fairly Oddparents, a kids show on Nickelodeon; and was one of my favorite shows growing up. To be fair, she did a good job as Paz, the double agent, who betrays you in Ground Zeroes, causing the events of Ground Zeroes to even happen, in the first place, exploding the entire base; and then, has the nerve to ask for your help afterwards; and then, JUMPS out of the plane, and blows herself up, taking the bomb with her, which rocks the plane; and causes the prologue of Phantom Pain, and you don't even play as Big Boss, just a solider who was given the assets of Big Boss, but was never REALLY Big Boss. So basically, Phantom Pain, was redoing the entire plot of the 90s Nicolas Cage/John Travolta film; "Face/Off" (And FYI, that's a great movie), and for the first time, we got to see Nicolas Cage's underacting, and a lot more of John Travolta's overacting. But I gave up on Phantom Pain, though...got boring for me, and also, I literally got stuck on one part, and had the story and plot ruined for me, so I gave up. Which was a shame; because I love Metal Gear Solid, as a franchise, but like the rest of the world, I absolutely LOATHE and DESPISE konami. And I'm glad Kojima got out when he did. And Solid Snake's one of my favorite characters in Smash Ultimate; along with Ike and Mario. Because I beat any level CPU with them; and because I grew up with Mario, and the n64, but I've never played Fire Emblem before, but playing as Ike in Brawl, was great, because of how powerful he is, despite his slowness, and Snake, I just love the MGS games, except for the original Metal Gear Solid; I've beaten almost every other MGS game, except for Phantom Pain and maybe Peace Walker? But Peace Walker is a decade after Snake Eater, or the events of Operation Snake Eater, to be more accurate. And Big Boss decides to accept his name of Big Boss during the events of Peace Walker; which is set during the 70's. Ground Zeroes/Phantom Pain are during the 80's. Which is why they both had 80s songs during the trailers, and had that one 80s song; to represent who Big Boss basically was; the man who sold the world, or something like that. But he was betrayed by the government, like his mentor, The Boss was, and also, The Boss was Revolver Ocelot's mother; and another thing, Revolver Ocelot was the American agent Naked Snake was supposed to meet with during the Virtuous Mission/Operation Snake Eater, not Eva, but she eventually does decide to join Big Boss's cause, anyways. She's basically the Ada Wong of MGS, a secret spy, who's working with the bad guys during the first game, but decides to help the good guys eventually. And another thing, EVA; is also Big Mama from MGS4: Guns of The Patriots, who dies protecting what she THOUGHT was Big Boss's corpse. It's confusing, but Major Zero and Big Boss had an interpersonal war, with each other, which is why the events of the original Metal Gear/Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake games even happened, because of their connections to The Boss. Because neither of them could decide how to interpret The Boss's will into the world, they fought against each other, with Big Boss finally realizing that both of them were wrong about it, and that neither of them found the right way about The Boss's will, and with Big Boss killing both himself and Major Zero at the end of MGS4, and them both dying in front of The Boss's gravestone, where Old Snake/Solid Snake, was going to kill himself. But when Big Boss appears, he explains the plot of every other MGS game; in depth, and how the whole series has just been Big Boss vs Major Zero, this whole time, and how there weren't any winners, just losers, this entire time. And then before dying, he tells Snake that he loves him, (like a real father loves his son, that's what he tells Snake), and that his "ticking time bomb", won't go off anymore, and that he's free to live out the rest of his life, before killing himself and Zero. With Snake leaving, and giving Big Boss a salute, he dies sometime later, offscreen, but then, comes back for Smash Ultimate; but Raiden, goes back to being a cyborg ninja man, to help out his family, and with this, Solid Snake's story is completed; and thus we got Metal Gear Rising: Revengance, which is canonically set AFTER MGS4. And Snake can finally retire from the world of conflict, and live out his life: as a human, not as a solider. (And probably why he went back to Smash Bros, I mean, I would).
Okay, the Amoongus thing is good, but either it's Scarlet or Violet pokedex (not sure which one, haven't played em yet) says that the spored that they give off can cause pokeball mushrooms to sprout on any, _ANY_ surface... Like even human skin, for example. So the joke about the Last of Us zombies may not be a million miles off.
The Cordyceps zombies of The Last Of Us are made all the more terrifying when you realize the enemies are essentially normal people who probably won't want to kill you but they're being forced to do so. That's diabolical!
Like headcrab zombies in Half-Life. One of the most disturbing hidden details in gaming, in my opinion, are their sounds reversed and you can actually hear them pleading for help. Love it for the horror.
He already talked about that one, though he did leave it ambiguous if it was the Gerudo or the Twilight connected to the Arbiter's Grounds. I believe it was the Gerudo, given that the Arbiter's Grounds shows up again in BOTW in the Gerudo desert.
Aww, I actually chose Nastuki to be my friend in DDLC. It was so nice to see her getting attention and being loved just as a person. I personally felt she deserved it (even needed it) more than Yuri or Sayori. Although... seeing Sayori and Yuri's deaths makes me glad that Natsuki got such a quick, clean death with no suffering. I'm glad I spent my time with her. I hope her cupcakes are good.
Splatoon has some absurdly dark lore if you read the Sunken Scrolls. Also I felt that Octo Expansion could be looked at as an allegory for Hell and following the words of a false prophet. Splatoon 3's story mode also follows a similar theme but you find out much more about what happened to humanity and honestly it's really bleak and depressing.
Something else disturbing about Portal's time lapse is that Glados was programmed to be forced to relive her dying moments so that whenever she was recovered, it could be analyzed. At least Chell was asleep that whole time.
I think the idea of the Foongus line looking like a Poke Ball isn't INTENDED to be camouflage, but instead to be what's referred to be the near-polar-opposite, aposematism: the evolutionary trait in animals to advertise themselves with bright colors to signify that they are dangerously inedible for predators. Amoongus' aggressive tendencies and their penchant for poison and the fact Poke Balls being red and white would make them eye-catching to humans would go some way to support this notion. Definitely scary when you start thinking about it: a Pokemon that evolved in such a way to actively discourage capture...goes some way to suggest that some Pokemon just want to be left alone...can't say I blame them, tbh. XD
This gets even better when you consider Brute Bonnet, the ancient paradox form of Amoongus. A when professor threw pokeballs through the time machine to capture ancient Pokemon, all the ancient Pokemon would see is a red and white ball seemingly devouring other creatures fast before disappearing, so Brute Bonnet and later Foongus adopted that coloration to ward off predators. Thought the professor is mainly seen using master balls and only shiny Brute Bonnet adopts the purple color
Personally feel Phantump and Trevenant would have have been better Pokemon since it is an endless cycle of 10 years Olds getting lost in the woods, dying, becoming Phantumps, evolving, and then causing wondering people to get lost in their endless, ever moving woods, thus creating more of the wood wondering souls. I know we give ghost Pokemon the most when it comes to the horror of Pokemon's universe, but we overlook this line for some odd reason, and it's both sad and terrifying.
I mean honestly all of the ghost Pokémon have some sort of horror-esque or downright evil backstories to them. You've got the ones you mentioned but there's also the infamous Drifloon and Drifblim dragging children to hell essentially, Mimikyu "cuddling" people who get too close forever which essentially tortures their souls, the Gastly line licking you steals a bit of your soul every time they do, and so on and so forth. Pokémon may be for kids, but the lore behind Pokémon sometimes doesn't always seem to be!
I'd say Sly 4 has a literal lore secret. In some levels, you can find an owl just... there. And if you're a Sly Cooper fan, you already know who I'm referring to. Clockwerk. It's been stated that he's been spying on the Cooper family for centuries. In Sly 4, you can see him just there. He doesn't actually do anything, but it is very unsettling to see the very villain Sly struggled to get rid of in the first 2 games doing exactly what he's been said to do from the beginning.
Out of anything I expected the last game to be, Celeste was the last thing I had on my mind, considering it’s one of my favourite games ever. Somehow what was mentioned never occurred to me, considering I’ve seen that screen quite a few times. The worst part is how realistic it is about the real world. Suddenly Maddie is more of a genius than I had realised.
The fact the first part of the map in 3 showing bits of Australia mashed into another continent was a dead give away something happened with the tectonic plates of earth.
The real scary thing in Portal 2 is that Wheatley probably planned everything. There are two levels in the game, after Wheatley gets crushed but before he reveals he's still alive (pun intended) where you can actually see him watching you.
A perfect video for tonight of all nights, can’t wait to see which Lore is then scariest 😄😄😄 Thanks for the new video RabbidLuigi and hug your furbabies all 💙🐱💙 (Hope you all have a Spoopy Halloween! But not too spoopy, just right!)
Tales of series has some incredible hidden lore that makes the game so much darker. Especially when you consider everything is a bad end world where we already Destroyed ourselves We hear how the replicas get treated with immediate hate in abyss but the deeper lore on the replicas eating monsters to survive and throwing away failure clones into the mountains to die is pretty dark. Fe games it's all dark. 3 houses how the ladies and even some men are treated to only continue the crest system. The history cover ups and even jow many actually died in brutal ways it's quite scary.
it's hard to believe it's over, isn't it? funny how we get attached to the struggle... sometimes I have to remind myself Celeste isn't just "that one game I love because I adore precision platformers", but "that one game I adore because it made me realise who I am, and I connected with on a deep personal level" I'm replaying Celeste for maybe the nineth time now, fifth time getting 100% collectables (except golden berries because I'm bad at the game), and some dialogue still hits as hard as it did on the first run through. and I somehow didn't put 2 and 2 together. What that memorial truly meant. And the fact that chapter 2 starts as a nightmare while sleeping next to it, it really does remind me of my own experience having vivid nightmares after thinking about that topic. On a lighter note, at least the game helped me trans my gender. Truly one of the least original jokes, but not any less real. We're all mountain climbers, even if *part of you* tells you otherwise! You can do it!
I always look that the "gyroids is grave robbing" thing and I always ask. Gyroids appear in the ground after it rains, so who the hell is going around burying bodies and giving them proper rituals each and every time it rains in otherwise unmarked graves in the middle of a village?
For some dark fridge horror moments from games I played. Halo: Combat Evolved: the tie-in novel Halo: The Flood reveals that Private Wallace Jenkins, who was infected by the Flood early on in the game is still conscious despite the same book implying the infection leave little of the host’s body left (the novel has a scene where Sniper Rifle does little damage to a Combat Form because internal organs were liquified) where the fridge comes in is that Carrier Forms are stated in the lore to be Combat Forms which are too old to be used in combat and are now portable incubators pods for infection forms. They might be sentient too despite the fact there is little of the host body that is recognizable anymore. Second is from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. The entirety of the Imperial Felucia level is fridge horror at its finest. The lore behind this level is kept in databank entires of defeated and enemies and it emphasizes that everything in this level is the player’s fault. The premise is that you are trying to rescue Bail Organa to form the Rebel Alliance. Why is he in Felucia? Because Jedi Master Shaak Ti who died after fighting the player on their first visit, was there and Bail doesn’t know she is dead and wanted to recruit her to rescue Leia from the Empire (unlike the idiotic Kenobi series, Leia’s capture is more Palpatine going “it would be a shame if our Imperial troops on Kashyyyk failed to save your daughter from a escaped Wookiee”) Bail got captured by Shaak Ti’s apprentice Mariss Brood who was corrupted by the dark side. But she isn’t the only one who was, the native Felucians are all force-sensitive and without Shaak Ti keeping them in check, they feel too and have been physically and mentally corrupted by the dark side. And worse still, The Empire, as the name of the level suggests is now on Felucia attempting a genocide campaign against the force-sensitive natives.
i completely forgot about kirby 64 since i played it on the 25th anniversary edition for the wii. and before you even talked about the funny dancing ff cactus things in animal crossing, i kinda made a guess that they had souls in them
The Pokémon one always reminds just how terrifying Malamar is. According to the Pokédex, it says it’s hypnosis is stronger than anything else in the world. That means it could make Hypnos follow it and it has those yellow and black eyes that just stare into your soul.
I can't imagine that's more terrifying than how Malamar was used in the anime, where there was a recurring group of them on a take-over-the-world kick.
Lore in video games can be interesting to uncover and learn. Unless when it comes to lore that gives you night terrors and a creepy feeling. Makes you wish you didn't uncover it at all.
A few I thought of for fridge horror were -Kingdom hearts 1 and the end of worlds and the realization that all worlds will end up there -monster hunter and the multiple ruins of ancient civilizations that litter the old world -legend of mana and the mage wars which caused to the near extinction of the Jumi people which was started just because mages thought there souls( represented by gems) were magically imbued
7:38 i keep wondering this to myself especially considering there are literal houses which have _survived_ destruction which means nuclear fallout, meteorites, and the ice age are completely out of the order. ...which means the only possible candidate left i can think of is that they left off planet... and died in outer space
in my opinion, Foongus and Amoongus aren't scary or nightmarish at all. Now if you want a mushroom-based pokemon thats ACTUALLY nightmare inducing and FULL of fridge horror, i know the perfect one. Parasect. Now, i know that the cute looking mushroom-crab may not look frightening, but there are plenty of clues in the lore of both Parasect and its prevo Paras that make it horrifying. Firstly, the mushroom on Paras' back? Its called a Tochukaso, a type of mushroom the lore of the pokemon world EXPLICIDLY states is of the Parasitic variety. On top of that, the huge ones present on Parasects are implied to have some degree of sentience. Not horrifying enough? Many of the dex entries state that the Tochukaso basically forces Paras to drain nutrients from trees, which it then drains from the Paras, on top of that, as the Paras grows, so too to the Tochukaso. So what is Parasect then? Parasect is basically the result of the Tochukaso taking over its host. To put it bluntly, the full grown Tochukaso KILLS Paras and then proceeds to use the corpse like a puppet, thus we get Parasect, a walking corpse.
I don't think the cicada-crab part of Paras was EVER in control. You're always commanding the mushroom. Maybe that's why I always named my Paras "Tochukaso"?
Honestly I’m surprised that when you brought up Kirby64 you talked about 02’s bandaid and not how Shiver Star is Earth but frozen over and everyone’s gone
Random fact, my job recently started selling cordyceps gummies for energy and stuff. When I saw it my first thought was “no thanks, I’ve seen people play last of us. I know about cordyceps and I’m not taking the chance” 😂😂 even though I know it wouldn’t do anything cause it’s so processed.
There's a good bit of Fridge Horror in MOTHER 3, most notably in New Pork City. Most of the denizens are brainwashed to live in and love the metropolis and the "pretty waitresses" that run the restaurants are robots designed to look like Porky's mother from EarthBound, so it's possible Porky may have an Oedipus complex. The White Ship lore also has some grim implications about the nature of the people that live in Tazmily Village, that their altruistic nature may have resulted from selfishness so terrible that it nearly destroyed the world, and so they fled the previous civilization to rebuild.
Whenever a videogame has some sort of modern or ancient civilization that has been lost either before you start or during your adventure it gives me an uneasy feeling. Sometimes, the reasons are simple and explained early, but other times it's just a thing that happened. Some characters may try to piece together what happened, but in the end it's just an entire group of people, culture and history that disappears. There are plenty of games that do this, and it's scary to think that it has happened in human history.
So incase you never realized RL, but Natsuki is also a bulimic. That's why her scene if you choose her does not have her self terminate but instead violently throw-up. It also explains some of the lines in the poem you noted such as "I like when Daddy has food in the house." She has serious issues with food and it's somewhat implied that her father drove her to her bulimia as well.
Sometimes, I want to give up on climbing. I don't have a goal or desire to reach the top. I'm just told I should strive to get there and all my hard work will pay off. I could even start a family along the way, and it'll all be with it in the end. But why? Everything on the climb up just seems like a pain. I just want to cut the rope and give up.
What if foonguss and amoonguss are like the poisonous frogs from the rain forest? They just have a noticable color that screams don't touch me. And then human looked at it and said to themselves: Yeah, this will be fun for kids to throw around.
Stardew Valley the war you know by Kent two hearts event that he has ptsd but later on in just normal talk he will mention that he was a prisoner of war in the enemy camp and if you give him items he hates he will say the enemy used to give me that.
I don't understand the concept of sleep deprivation as a form of torture. The body is a machine, and without sleep to recharge it cannot function. At some point it is gonna run out of gas if it doesn't get said sleep, so wouldn't you just reach a point where your body is so fatiqued that it just shuts down regardless how much they try to keep you awake?
It's partly because when you're forced to stay awake, your body becomes DESPERATE. It's like being severely dehydrated and you know you'll die if you don't get water. Now imagine being tied down and the water is just out of reach, in order to taunt you. It makes you even more desperate because it's right there and your mind says you need to get it to survive. That's sleep deprivation, except sleep is ALWAYS present, your torturers just won't let you. If you look into more of it, they use tactics like repeating notoriously annoying songs on loop and high volume (think Nyan Cat blasting at 100% in your ears 24/7). Your body can pass out but because of interruptions, you can't enter REM, therefore you do not actually sleep. It's scary to think about how your body will shut itself down but it's all in vain.
i feel like if using the last of us would of been in here then dying light should to because the virals in it still scream out for you to help them and stuff which turns out that they can see everything they do but cant control it either
Thinking on that ordeal with Foongus and Amoongus, what about Voltorb? You know, the Pokemon that literally LOOKS like a Pokeball, as well as how it tends to use Self-Destruct at some point? With evolution being the focal point of the whole series, it kinda makes me wonder why it turned into something that can easily be mistaken for a common item?
#9 spoilers The ending of portal 2 always... Never sat right with me. It was weird, This big field of tall grass. Considering the end of 1 seemed to be in a parking lot and might have been close to civilisation. I don't know. And with this bit of fridge horror. The idea that *50 fucking millennia* could of passed. That ending seems... Almost like you've stepped in to a world after the apocalypse. Not *during,* After. Like the world has fixed itself and the world that was just... disappeared. And all you have for your troubles is a charred box with hearts on it. It was probably better to of just stayed in the lab with the homicidal robot overseer.
Considering the wheat field seems to be thriving, it's possible there's someone who has been taking care of it. It's very well possible that the time gap wasn't 50,000 years if there's still people out there who are farming. Plus, this is also technically the Half-Life universe. If Aperture is in Michigan, which in Half-Life 2 is pretty much a biohazard zone alongside all of America, then the fact that this field has healthy wheat growing means that humanity was able to defeat the Combine and restore the majority of Earth to a habitable environment!
So first I was really excited you revisited this, since the og hidden lore video is my favorite of yours. Then I got to #1 and it hit way too personally, as a trans person who had a long fight against depression and ideations for a huge chunk of my life, especially at the time the first video came out. But boy was it a relief to finally reach the summit. 🏳️⚧️
There was a trans friend I had. She died from suicide. But it was driven into madness. But if your comparing a mountain too happiness. The mountain is bigger than the one in the game. And nobody has climb too the top. They would never find the true selves. R.I.P Sandy my good friend.
Being trans myself. I use the "the climb" as motivation to keep moving forward in my transition. Climbing a mountain is a perfect representation of it. Celeste is a masterpiece
It's nice to know that it hit like that. I love it when a piece of media can capture the attention of the right audience and they understand what the creator was trying to do. On a similar note, have you played JJ McHale? It's a really good example of that too (a much bleaker one, though).
Considering #1 is the game that I call "the one that saved my life" the presence and implication of that memorial really washes sorrow of those it may be meant for over me😢
As a trans woman, you talking about that last bit at number 1.... was a real gut punch.... thanks for being an ally, Rabbid. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
My heart must be made of ice because the inner struggle story of Celeste did nothing for me. I thought it was intentionally vague because the devs were scared of being too specific. But learning the character & creator share the same name ruined the character for me, because now all I see is an OC & picture in my head if Mario was named 'Shigeru' or Kirby was named 'Masahiro' instead.
@@jeremypool6888 It makes the game seem very 'self-insert' in hindsight. Whenever I've replayed it, I can't help but think "I'm not playing as a character, I'm playing as the creator" & it breaks the immersion. I sympathize with their struggle but just can't relate.
Somewhat long comment - TL;DR being a big ‘Thank you’ 🏳️⚧️ I was honestly touched by the respect and genuine horror you expressed towards the struggles of transgender people (like myself) and how much that monument speaks to the matter when you think about it for long enough. I’m facing my own climb on both the mental and identity matters, and it feels so hard to hold on sometimes, but knowing there are people out there who either know me genuinely care about me, or who don’t know me but care about people like me? It means a lot, especially those outside my own communities, because it’s a battle they’re CHOOSING to fight alongside us, not just because they’re on this side already by nature. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
I think that PNF404's humans ended by nuclear means because in the 1st game your Geiger counter can't stop reacting, and Geiger counters are used to measure radiation
Something about Celeste’s monument in particular is that unlike the rest of the entries on the list is that when you piece together the hidden meaning behind it, rather than just being an additional piece of world building in the game, it instead reveals an unfortunate and scary truth about real life. It’s a monument for the people in real life who were sadly unable to overcome the struggles they may have faced both internally and externally. Just another reason why the messaging and themes of that game resonates so well with so many people, myself included.
One that is somewhat like Pikmin is Bug Fables. The Paper Mario like Bug game... in later chapters.. does a pretty good job at saying something very very wrong happened to humanity overall.. and yeah, it's pretty creppy.
The "Dead Landers" especially, and ESPECIALLY Dead Lander Omega, who the devs have described as a being even the other Dead Landers fear. The other Dead Landers being monstrously powerful abominations that are as strong as chapter bosses, with bloated health and disgusting attack stats.
I appreciate you directly bringing up the trans allegory Celeste has. I relate to the game for the general themes of depression, but even as a cis person I recognize the extra layer the story has. And now that you've pointed it out, that monument at the beginning is utterly haunting.
I existed when Fridge Horror was a moderately more talked about trope. Of course, I'm pretty sure that was just b/c my friend group actually knew what tvtropes was and got lost down those various rabbit holes just like me, lol.
My fragile heart's headcanon is always that if it ain't explicitly stated or shown, then everyone just evacuated or went on holiday or whatever. Same with deaths, if you didn't see it or the death is confirmed in one way or another, then they are just knocked out. I just don't like death, is that so wrong?
