Villainpedia: Patches 

Pardon the muted audio at 23:13, it was once a JoJo reference using Roundabout by Yes, but the copyright heroes came to claim what was theirs.

Patches is the embodiment of "maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way"

Best patches moment is in elden ring , you can summon him for the rhadan boss fight and while everyone else is dying you can read that patches returned home , he just black crystals out and I think it’s hilarious

The way I like to look at it, Patches is the embodiment of all those player messages saying "treasure ahead, try jumping" on the edge of a cliff. He's a trickster, a troll. And there's a little bit of Patches in all of us.

If you die enough times after Lapp tells you about the treasure he'll actually get the slab for you.

The one thing I love about him is in Darksouls 3 is that when you aid him in remembering who he was is that you can find his sign one last time and summon him to bring down the last vestiges of a church order. Even at the end of the world with nothing left he held that grudge to the last while also helping you. Its just icing on the cake.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate that this man has outlived multiple gods and survived to the end of the fucking world

Interesting that Spider Patches would say "plain as a pikestaff" when you consider that in his other appearances he would use a pike as his weapon.

Patches is in Sekiro, too, under the name Anayama (which is japanese for Patches), featuring a vest full of patches and an eye patch too, just to drive home the point. He's still voiced by the same voice actor, too, and will send you to almost certain doom if you follow his letter. Lapp is Swedish for Patch, too.

Patches glutes must be fucking adamantium, given he's constantly on a deep squat while carrying a spear and shield.

Aye, he's not a villain, he's just ahead of the curve.

Cool fact: Lapp in swedish and multiple northern languages translates to Patch

Patches is also now a boss in Elden Ring, when he gets to half health he'll surrender and become a merchant, he offers you a chest that is a trap that leads you to a ruinbear den in mistywoods, he can also be summoned in General Radahn's fight but he leaves imminently after seeing Radahn himself.

You forgot the most important part: If you fail to get the titanite slab too many times, in what I think is the most unbelievable and hilarious inversion of his character, Lapp will ACTUALLY MAKE GOOD on what he said, and get it for you himself, no problemo.

Patches is like your old drinking buddy. You're glad to see him, somebody's gonna fall down, maybe you'll fight, but then you're cool again later

Patches has a great interaction in Elden Ring. You can summon him for General Rahdan's boss fight, but he very quickly peaces out.

I love how he's called the Hyena both because he's a scavenger and for his laugh

I love how they manage to give a sense of closure to a character that you should reasonably dislike and in the end when he boots you over the small ledge for the last time it's like his way of saying goodbye. Awesome video.

It makes absolute sense that Patches would befriend Greirat. Patches hates human greed. While Greirat is a thief, he steals things to support villagers from Undead Settlement, and (according to Patches himself) helped him out in Lothric dungeon. No wonder Patches has a soft spot for him - he even becomes hostile if you murder Greirat!

Notice how every time he shoves you off a cliff, it would usually kill you, but due to him doing it you don't die. He's a good buddy for exploration.

"thought you could outwit an onion" *killed Giant before cutscene* _"damn damn damn damn damn damn"_ *favourite part of Dark Souls 3*

At this point I let Patches "trick" me because I know it makes my homie happy 🙂

ANY CLERICS HERE? asking for a friend

He's no thief... He's just, self employed.

I love how Patches returns once again in Elden Ring. Still doing the same thing as always. I love it. As one fine meme said... Patches Detected. Betrayal Tolerated and Forgiven.

Sometimes he is Patches the Villain Other times he becomes Patches the Trickster Truly he lives as Patches the Unbreakable But in my heart he will remain Patches my Friend.

I like to think that Patches used to be a pretty stand up guy, like he is as Lapp, but at some point got screwed over by a greedy cleric (or multiple clerics/or the church). Which led to his hatred for all clerics and his tricking and punishing of greedy people. Edit: At least in Dark Souls.

i think it's so weird that patches willingfully makes enemies of undead. Like he knows they will come back, he knows he might make enemies for literal eternity yet he still does it

Elden patches “Yo, this iron maiden filled with snakes is actually a teleporter.” Me “Haha ya good one old buddy, I’m gona try it just to progress your dialogue cuz your my oldest friend in this series.” Also me Visible shock that the iron maiden is actually a teleportation device and patches didn’t lie to my face completely. “Patches ‘sniff’ I love you man”

In all of the darksouls games Patches is the only one not to go hollow and lose his mind. Almost all of the NPC's who have a questline in the souls games goes hollow, even Gwyn hollowed but not Patches, never Patches. Patches is the one unstoppable thing in the Dark Souls series.

He keep himself until the very end of the world, in Souls universe. He might be petty, but he has absolutely no doubt about what kind of person himself is. What a great guy.

i was so happy to see Patches in Elden Ring. When his voice and health bar came up, i just smiled so damn hard.

What I love about Patches as a character is that he potentially exposes the weakness of everyone who interacts with him. In Demon's Soul: he tricks you twice, but both situations are clearly screaming "this is a trap!", but the player will still fall for it because really, are you going to leave a shiny object alone? Hell, in the pit in the Shrine of Storms you find Sage Urban, a holy man on a pilgrimage... who just like you was tricked with the prospect of riches down a hole. What a holy man! Between this and the description of the Talisman of Beast, DeS loves picking on clerics. In Dark Souls and Bloodborne he uses the same trick once again, and the fact that you keep falling for the same tactic implies a lot about your greed. And again a cleric is exposed as a greedy person tricked by the prospect of riches. In Dark Souls 3 he becomes a bit wittier, but at that point he was kind of a meme anyway. And in every game, you have the choice of killing him once you get out of the hairy situation he put you in, but really: if you kill him, you're letting out your darkest side, lowering yourself to his level; and if you don't, it's probably because you didn't want to miss out on his wares... which makes you a greedy sort. There really is no winning with him, and that's why you have to love him. Ps: we need a spin off game where Patches is your primal quest giver, as he sends you in increasingly deadlier situations in order to kill you, but for you it's the usual RPG progression

i still SCREAM laugh every time at the fact that he literally says "a fine dark soul to you." top tier writing

for me the name “unbreakable patches” is the most fitting of all his pseudonyms. for one, regardless of whether or not all these patches are the same man, the ideology of patches has sustained through all the different games, by the time we get to ds3 his resolve to trick and mislead is truly unbreakable. secondly, and the real big reason i love his name, is how its an oxymoron. anything “patched” or requiring patches is certainly not unbreakable, the name entirely contradicts itself, not unlike how patches constantly insists to be a good friend to the player, but still kicks the player down a hole. however he still aids the player via selling items and interacting with other npcs, being both a friend and nemesis. i really love how his moniker in the third game kind of encapsulates his entire character, in regards to his relationship with the player and his history in the series as a whole

3:03 "These are key traits that would endure into the future." And endure they did.

Every time I encountered him for the first time in a new Fromsoft game after playing Demons Souls it always went like: "Is...is that..is that fucking Patches?" *I hear Patches speak* "IT'S FUCKING PATCHES!!!!" "Please show me to your ledge my old friend."

I really don't know how to express in words how much I love this. You're hitting all the nails on the head when it comes to not only the characters but in your analysis of them as well. A stream of videos like this and you'll hit it big, I swear.

I can confirm that Patches makes an apperance in Elden Ring! I was so stoked when i found him!!

In my headcannon i always love to think that the Patches from DS1 is the same one as in DS3. In all the cycles of fire and rebirth the world undergoes, with the lands being near unrecognisable and not a single person having continuity through the ages he remains and survives reaching the dreg heap at the end of the world and the ringed city beyond that, he truly is Unbreakable Patches.

The funniest thing is that Patches leaves halfway if you summon him to fight Radahn

The only reason why Patches went hollow at the end of time, is because there's no greedy human to trick. That's how you keep hollowing at bay, a clear goal. Patches don't want any trinkets he wants to punish greed, or most likely That's his sole purpose.

I don't know if it's Stockholm Syndrome setting in or not, but I genuinely really like Patches, in any of his forms. He's like a comforting presence in the games, reminding the player that there'll always be that special someone waiting for them somewhere in the game. He's bad, but in a mischievous puppy kind of way, you can't stay mad at him for long (and if you do stay mad at him and take him out, you'll likely lose a valuable merchant). I can't wait to find him in Elden Ring. EDIT: I found him in Elden Ring. He's just as beautiful as the day I lost him, and I even called him potentially becoming a merchant!

FYI "Lapp" which is his name in the ds3 dlc is a swedish word and can be directly translated to "Patch"

Maybe Patches kicking us down holes is symbolic in a way. Showing us wealth, power, and greed makes us think we are on top until something strips us of all of that; and only when we look back that we realize just how far we've fallen.

You should have shown the item description on his ashes if you kill him as Lapp. That little tidbit sums him up better than anything else I have seen. "Patches never lost heart, and never looked back. He marched in one direction, and that direction was dead ahead. Did you see him passing by?"

I love the way you pointed out that even though we know he is shady, even on our first encounter with him, our curiosity gets the best of us and we go for the item anyway. Patches doesn’t necessarily prey on the oblivious player, but the super curious one. :)

This man is a legend. In elden ring you summon him against one of the literally hardest boss of souls games, and what does this man do..... He runs away. HE FKING RUNS AWAY. This man is the literall definition of lovable asshole.

Makes sense that patches, after "weaving his webs of deception" is eventually portrayed as a spider lol. I still feel like most of the souls games can be connected in the same universe, but across various worlds, hence their specific and differing lore. But there has to one day be some kind of connection to explain the franchise as a whole.

For his last encounter I have to add this. The ledge where he kicks you down to, is the easiest shortcut out of that place. So, maybe he did repay you, in his own "masqueraded" way.

There's enough lore to interpret Patches as the furtive pygmy from the intro to ds1, not only has he hated clerics (those who bound the fire to humanity, foregoing the age of man) but in dark souls 3 the ringed city, we see that after he regained his memory, that he was the only character to explicitly mention the dark soul (when he kicks you down the short drop) and to use it as a friendly send off. other things such as selling coins that increase luck (a thing that is said to be a distinctly human characteristic, as noted by anri's straight sword description)

In elden ring you can summon him to join you in a fight against one of the biggest threats in the game, Radahn. As soon as he arrives though, he turns around and peaces the hell out 😂

I love when you meet Lapp he sounds very optimistic and wholesome. Kind of like a mix of siegward and greirat. But as soon as he gets his memory back that old familiar and sneering voice comes back.

One thing that I love about Patches the Spider is Patches is known for kicking you into holes and Patches the Spider is nothing but legs. Also maybe a bit of a stretch but some spiders live in holes and crevices adding more to the connection/parallel of the essence of Patches.

Patches isn't a villain, he's the best of boys. Patches exists in all the games in my opinion because of the old saying, the good die young, or the worst ones will outlive us all.

I love his laugh so much, it's so. Forced, fake, a "I understand the point of laughing, but I prefer to chuckle to myself. Though in the presence of others, I shall try my best to laugh. Even if I shall sound slightly crazy"

Oh sure, when patches kicks you into a pit, he's a lovable scamp. But when I do it, it's "attempted murder", and "going to jail for ten years"

I killed the giants before I even met him in dark souls 3 and his reaction to it was just hilarious to me

Patches being last surviving character along side with Champion Of Ash at the end of the world He lived up to his name being Unbreakable, no matter what happens he would stay the same and as himself But that last moment with Patches was melancholy He actually helped you forward but his way Moment he was squading like in the old days i knew what he was going to do, i said to my self- Ok buddy, one last kick to the back, for the good old days. I had tear on my eye when it was last time i saw Patches

Realizing fromsoftware made armored core was a like getting struck by lighting and finally understanding why I immediately love dark souls. Obviously very different games but damn all the memories just came flooding back

Dont also forget that you can actually summon him to help you fight of the adjudicator of the church and i think if i recall from memory his name changes to unbreakable patches instead of lapp

What I like about patches is that, even if he tricks you, he'll always be there at fire link, selling you items, and chatting with, you even discover he is actually good guy in the dlc, giving you items and even helping you in the pvp boss fight

I first met Patches in Dark Souls 1, when he spartan kicks you into that pit.

Patches is now also in Elden Ring.

Yes. Patches is not evil. Let us recap: In Demon's Souls, he is refferred to as Patches the Hyena. You will probably know beforehand, through the loading Screen, that this Guy shouldn't be trusted. When you encounter him in the Stonefang Tunnel he doesn't tell you to get the Treasure. He simply says that you can take it. You can clearly see the huge Bearbug and choose not to get the Item. This is a Test. If you do not try, the Quests ends without any more encounters of Patches, trying to lure you into Traps. In Dark Souls we get to know that he is cooperating with Petrus of Thorolund, despite him being a "Rotten Cleric" as Patches refers to them there. He also does not urge you to look down the hole, before kicking you into it. It is again your choice to "fall" for your own curiosity and Greed, In Bloodborne it is also your own Choice to seek for the "Divine Power", instead of believing in yourself and your abilities. You also get punished for your Greed here. Dark Souls 3 makes clear that Patches is indeed a good Person, who only punishes the Greedy and does value other people's lifes, if they have certain qualities. - He does not Kill Siegward and knows that he will get out of the Well eventually. He could have murdered him easily when he was unconcious, but chose not to. - He is concerned about Greirat's wellbeing. He also mentions that Greirat is a good Person, who always puts others before himself and is even willing to face serious Danger to rescue him. He does this in Disguise. Why? Let us assume he is the same Patches from Demon's Souls and Dark Souls. This man must have lived for ages already and you can be sure that he was not always as he is right now and had some Comrades by his side. The reason he became a lone Wolf is simply because he is very afraid of "Loss". It is an aspect of Greed many people forget. Patches whole Theme is designed around Greed and to be afraid of losing something that is important to you. So it would make sense that he does not want to loose anything important to him anymore. He does not care about Riches and he even mentions this. If you would live as long as him and see the World as he sees it, you would probably end up just like him. - When he remembers about his Past, he also remembers about everything you have done and who you are. He stays true to his Words and helps you by "kicking" you into the right direction and helps you in a Bossfight. Another Fact is that he never lied about the Treasures, as they are really there and he lets you keep it. Not because you would be a dangerous and strong foe he would have to face in Combat, but also as some kind of "Reward". You have earned it after all. He also appears in Elden Ring and even there you can see that he does indeed possess humanity and is able to care for others instead of only himself. He also has the same Voice Actor^^ Patches is a fantastic Character that I love to meet in the Fromsoftware Games. I am sorry for grammatical Issues or Typos. Truth is I am from Germany, saw the Video and liked it so much that I had to write this very long Comment. It was important to me. Maybe someone who does not know much about these Games might read it and trys for themselves to find out about the Characters and Lore we all love. Have a nice day, Umbasa, may the Flames guide thee and may your Journey be full of Joy.

I like that patches is in almost every fs game it feels like an alternative universe thing

Patches is most beloved of Tarnished, of Undead and all else. He's just too fun not to trust every time.

Thank you for the video. My first thought when I clicked on this video was, "Joke's on you Patches, I wanted to go to random places I haven't been yet, and you just pushed me down a hole I probably wouldn't have jumped down otherwise!" and after watching the video to the end, my thoughts are, "Thank you patches, for sending me to these new places I wanted to investigate, but you're still an a**hole."

He's survived the birth and death of eras completely unscathed, you've got to admire that physical and mental fortitude!

And this man is once again reincarnated in Elden Ring, to protect his stuff from you "stealing" it. Quite a good continuation of his character i say.

I like to think in some far off land, long ago or yet to come, a man named Patches wielding a Moonlight greatsword would be shattered on an astral level, flinging their fragments across time and space.

Its a 'Commedia dell'arte' style character. A "masked" character that has the same name and archetype in different stories and events. Its actually VERY fitting for the "Souls" environment. Its not so much "the same person" but an element that when you see it/hear the name, you know that character's motivations, attitude, and personality on sight - a character for the audience to already know and expect their actions, but the fun comes from seeing how this same 'character' acts and reacts in wildly different scenarios. Its kind of like how you always know how the character in a shonen or isakai is going to act and think, but its interesting to watch the different worlds and scenarios they get placed in.

I'm simply impressed anyone could make a video that lasts half an hour about Patches.

All your videos are so good. Found this yesterday and just binged a lot of ur videos. Good luck with your channel, and a fine dark soul to you.

Hear patches's va in AC sends me into a spiral on contradiction cause hearing that and Ragna the Bloodedge throws me for quite the loop

Clearly Patches eventually ascended to godhood in Bloodborne, and that's why he's now an omnipresent entity spread across the Fromsoft multiverse.

Love this guy, Patches is one of my favorite characters.

Loved this shit. The voice actor shout out I’m sure made that dudes ears turn red. Cozy ass videos

I just realized, Patches DOES still hate clerics in Bloodborne. The hunters, after all, were organized by the church. He's automatically hostile to you because you are so clearly, undeniably, Bloodborne's version of a cleric. He had to ask you in previous titles, but not here.

I've never discovered the Lapp questline. I never even knew it was in the game. I'm quite upset that I missed out on something so huge from one of my favourite characters in the series, but it's kind of reassuring to know that I'll never stop learning things about these games.

As an Armorer Core fan I completely forgot about that encounter, amazing. Also I hope you have a follow up video for Elden Ring

legendary, love this character and I love that you covered him. You deserve a million subs man, cheers 👍

This is one of those comfy videos that you can just keep coming back to

Patches inspired me to find the most viable way to make an overpowered fist build, just so I can punch his face to kingdom come So I guess as any good villain he brings out the best of the hero

Patches is a really fucking powerful soul, fact alone that he shows up at the end of the universe and only then starts losing his mind proves that. If It isn't the exact same person/being, I assume he's more like a 'constant' of the universe, like how in DS there is always a kingdom, there is always 4 great souls, there's a knight of Catharina...and there's always patches. One of, if not the strongest undead we meet in those games.

He isn’t a villain he is a friend 🙏🏽

Patches has been a favorite character of mine since Demon’s Souls on PS3, loved his performance in Ringed City, first time doing the Lapp/Patches quest line made appreciate him even more! I’m glad he’s in Elden Ring too nyah haha hah hah haa!

Call it silly but I like to imagine patches as some kind of dimension hopping deity punishing greed for shits and giggles. But I think, at least for me anyway, he’s just that character where you go “oh you” after he kicks you off a ledge

After the first game we know exactly what’s going to happen, yet we seek it anyway. What better metaphor for playing Soulsborne? In several ways, the series has turned us into gluttons for punishment 😝

Seeing Patches without the Adidas mod throws me off

the most fun part about patches is I find is that his traps do somewhat help you: in ds1 if you traverse the darkness after pinwheel not only do his prism stones light the way the pit he kicks you down into has the lantern as 1 of the shiny drops making him one of the reasons you can continue exploring the place. and in ds3 not only does he actually get you the titanite slab if you reload the area but also at the end of his questline kicks you down the path of progress but is summonable at the halflight fight, a fight against clerics. Hell at the cathedral he doesnt even lie about the treasure since the path through the rafters to get to rosarias chambers leads you past one of the spellslot rings of the game, as well as away from rosarias fingers the PVP covenant.

Want to point out a bit of a mistake. Patches, when he is Amnesiac Lapp, is your friend. He tells you about the treasure, but he will also retrieve it for you after enough time in, I think, what is a genuine display of greatfulness for taking the time to listen to him. Amnesiac Lapp represents, to me, what Patches was before he became embittered by the world. He displayed greed, sure, but only after tricking the greedy, making them victims of their own folly. It's the same reason he hates clerics, because they are hypocrites.

Man, I can’t wait to meet the Patches variation in Elden Ring. It’ll be quite the kick in the back if I do say so myself.

What I find interesting about the Lapp quest line is that deep down patches is a good person it just seems that he got taken advantage of so many times that he became hardened and Cynical about it and decided to use that to take advantage of others instead

Something I headcanon is: the protagonists and npcs that are in the same situation as the protagonist, like how the player and Patches in Elden ring are both Tarnished. I hedcanon them as something I call "world hoppers" when they die, they travel to a different world, usually about the same as the previous one, but for people like patches, every time they die, they travel to a completely different world

"I'm in a bit of a pickle"-Pickled Onion 31:53 "This is MY Dark Souls 3: Ashes of Ariandel"

Patches is my favorite character in the franchise due to who he is and what he represents. Patches is Dark Souls incarnate, punishing reckless greed that results in a loss of resources or death, and that nothing can truely be trusted. Patches' greed is a facade to punish those who are actually greedy, his last lines are him saying that he is devoid of all worldly wants.

And now, Patches appears again in Elden Ring, up to his old 'hey touch that treasure' tricks.

"not a large scale villain" Well now that elden ring is out, go find patches :D you'll be supprised

In my country(Romania)there is a fairy tale that features a character very similar to Patches from a physical standpoint as well as in his behaviour.He is called "Spînul" and tricks the main character to go down a well only to trick him and enslave him for the rest of the story,until he gets kicked to death by the main character's horse. What i'm trying to say is Miazaki is an immortal vampire who writes Patches into every story.