Villains Too Stupid To Win Ep.11 - The Church of Unitology (Dead Space) 

Fun fact, the deep lore of the origin of the church suggests that Altman (or however you spell his name) found out how bad the marker was when he discovered the black marker on earth at the bottom of the ocean, and he died to make sure the government couldn’t use it for their own nefarious purposes. Of course, a coverup came and the church sprung up around it all

I always liked how the Unitologist named Irons from Dead Space Downfall, despite being a true believer in Unitology, still did what he could to help other Ishimura survivors against the Necromorphs.

The good thing about death cults is that they all eventually end. Sucks that they are pretty much species wide in Dead Space.

"If only I could've denied Mercer the pleasure of becoming a Necromorph." Fun fact you can, if you're fast enough you can immediately run over to him while the hologram is goin and kill him and the Infector before it even has a chance to finish jabbing his head and turn him. It was hysterical seeing him just be another pathetic Unitologist corpse that didn't even turn. XD

I love how both the natives of Tau volantis and the sovereign colonies sacrificed themselves for the entire universe on that planet Bunch of chads

Guy 1: "Hey, maybe we were the real monsters all along." Guy 2: "That thing *literally* ate a man's face off and turned him into the undead equivalent of an orgy with legs." Guy 1: "Yes, but... humanity bad, though."

Is the Church essentially created by the effects of the Markers anyway? I mean, that's the feeling I got from the games. They aren't really an independent faction, but are just another form of the Markers' manipulation.

I always interpreted Unitology as a direct result of the influence the markers put out, not as a baseless human religion that just happened to be somewhat right. In my view the events in Dead space were set in motion the moment the first marker was activated and humanity was steered towards this eventual goal. So the Unitologists aren't remarkably stupid, some people are just remarkably resistant to the marker's power.

I would have been too scared to mention "Scientology", truly you are indeed a Zealot! Thanks for the bravery, man.

Honestly the only smart faction in Dead Space was SCAF they made sure anything marker related was so far removed from civilized space that when what would become Earth Gov won the Succession war they tried to destroy all assets so they had little to no information on markers, their test locations, and other top secret stuff with Dead Space 3 showing how far they went to cover this up as well as the book Catalyst.

The humans in the Matrix series would be a good candidate for these videos. 1. First they create robots with advanced AI and then enslave and oppress their creations. 2. When the robots rebel they try to wipe them all out. 3. The robot survivors flee and create their own city which grows in technological capability and economic power. 4. Humans try to blow up the city and kick off the human/machine war. 5. In the course of the war humans block out the sun because they thought the machines were solar powered and didn't even consider they could use alternative power sources. This action also shuts down photosynthesis worldwide killing all plant life and destroying their own food supply.

*When a human is being transformed into a mutant, Alien Zombie hydrid because of an ancient alien Cthulhu machine * Every Church of Unitology Person : ...I wanna be that so bad!!!

I love how he incorporates Star Trek quotes to counter or emphasize his points.

Funny that Unitology began because their founder tried to stop it. Also the true villain of Dead Space isnt the church of unitology, it's the brethren moons

Honestly, "The glowy red rock made me do it" sounds like a good excuse for anything

I live for this series. I don't care how long each episode takes to come out. Each one is the highest quality of diamond. And this God of a man starts naming off all the villains lol love it

Said it before and will say it again but LOVE the *not-so-subtle* references to Scientology with Dead Space's moronic religious zealots.

Altman, a man that tried stopping the marker only to become a symbol for it.

Say what you like about Danik, but you can't deny that Simon Templeman did an amazing job voicing him

Man, there's being a Zealot and then there's Unitoligy. You can only delude yourself so much when aliens are ripping your face off.

Keep in mind that in Dead Space, if you go all the way to 3 you discover that EVERYTHING has been mechanized by the hyper powerful, psyonic, Brotheren Moons who are the result of the markers obtaining the combined "life" and "knowledge" of everything wiped out and drawn together into the original marker. They mentally control EVERYTHING transformed or intelligent one way or another. Even the protagonist trying to destroy them is part of the plan of the Brotheren Moons. Dead Space is pretty sick and pretty much identifies the birth and destruction of humanity and other life for the furthering of the Brotheren Moons' existence and domination of the universe.

1:09 honestly that’d be a cool lense to explore dead space through. I never considered the ramifications of planet harvesting given how I don’t recall any of those planets having life. But in retrospect it does seem absurdly overkill for a civilization that doesn’t even control the entire galaxy, markers being a defence mechanism over the greed of sentient life kinda reminds me of hoe xenomorphs were interpreted in a few comics!

I thought you went out for smokes like my dad 17 years ago. Im happier to see you back tho

How I summarize this series: humans prefer using obelisks of unknown alien origin that turns them into monsters to power their society over nuclear power.

Finding this series in about October of last year played a huge role in helping me get through a really difficult time in my life so to see it still going with just as high quality as ever fills me with joy. I'm not normally a huge fan of these sort of satirical breakdowns of stories (I've never been a big fan of 'Cinema Sins' and the like) but something about your narration and writing has me loving every episode. Well, that and Tuvok. There really is no limit to relevant Tuvok clips is there? I guess I never realized how many roasts he had in Voyager. Keep up the good work!

In defense of Unitology, the marker is successful in sabotaging humanity through it to an extent. Making you into suicidal food is specifically the intent of the Marker. (I haven't watched the vid, I just feel like the church's actions in Deadspace 3 are consistent with the premis of the Markers purpose and that the hero's plot armor doesn't devalue said purpose.)

Mix space with zealots and you always get some horror stuff going

I can think of a few interesting civilizations to do videos on… But I would say that the Combine Empire from Half Life is an example of an oppressive civilization that actually does what they do right (not that they are good, but they are just really effective at being bad).

Techincally, the church isn't wrong, if their belief is that all humanity has to die to form a single consciousness, that's kind of what happens. Even if the single consciousness isn't human. But there are always parts of the sacred scriptures that are lost in translation. Oops.

If you want another cult like villain on the list, may I suggest the Brotherhood of Nod from the Command and Conquer Tiberium games.

"Perhaps the destruction of the notion that humanity was ever an intelligent species" You earned that like my friend, laughed out loud, love you.

Never stop with the Tuvok clips, it’s the heart of the series

To stupid to win? Brother, the Unitologists effectively DID win by DS3 against Earthgov. They managed to successfully overthrow the government and start up necromorph outbreaks all across human controlled space. They completely achieved all their goals. By the time the game starts, they’ve already won.

7:30 the freaking "I can prove it" killed me so bad

If you think about it their entire religion was created by the black markers in the first place so going by the third games DLC they did win but not in the way they were hoping Also every marker We see in all of Dead space where all man-made and the original black marker technically created us so it’s more of a cosmic horror then a we were the bad guys all along story

The Brother Moons should also be on the list. Step 1: Make a pillar that can alter the evolutionary track of life forms to be super intelligent Step 2: Chunk that shit as hard as possible to random planets and pray they land somewhere with life Step 3: Marker lands on planets and sometimes kill everything from the impact alone (lol oops) Step 4: Make whatever living species into smart space travelers Step 5: Once species is smart enough for space travel, make them crazy enough to kill each other around Marker to create vessels for Convergence Step 6: While making signals that can create illusions that can drive people insane but can also give people illusions that want to destroy the Marker (Oh wait, that's counterproductive isn't it?) Step 7: Make the Marker able to scan how much life around it to ensure it has what it needs to begin Convergence. But still send out a signal 24/7 regardless of how much organic life is around so it will attempt to make a Brother Moon with the combined mass of a few thousand ship mates instead of billions, and wound up creating a giant murder noodle instead of an intelligent moon. Step 8: Make sure that the new Moon will make up the combined intelligence of the dominant race while also being made up of multiple animal based lifeforms that could also corrupt the new Moon's GPA. Step 9: Manage to create another giant floating meatball so you don't feel like the only floating meatball in the universe that ultimately isn't as smart as you because its makeup is much more corrupt than yours and the alien species didn't have enough time to get as smart as yours. Step 10: Forget Convergence all together and just eat lifeforms on whatever planet you come across because creating giant sentient meatballs is just too much work.

“The truth is harder to hear then the lies that are being told.”-David Hacking-Bonilla My personal quote hits the nail on the head when it comes to cults of all type or any form and Unitology is one of those cults that should’ve been outed a long time ago for their rhetoric falsehoods. Just goes to show that humanity can reached new levels of low even to the point of madness.

I know you are not super big on Danik, but I found him to be the best villain in the series mainly because well, he did actual villain things instead of just sitting behind somewhere spewing cult stuff or screaming at you through a monitor. He was proactive at least. Simon Templeman also helped too. He was one of the more memorable things about Dead Space 3. Him and when you crashed landed on the planet for the first time.

"...kooky alien cult, sorry, religion that also ends in 'tology'" Best line.

It seems that they made Unitology stupid on purpose rather than a villain that's meant to be intelligent but acts stupid. A sign of a well-written villain in my eyes.

There is no Dead Space reboot on the horizon. Just a HD remake.

I'll never forgive EA for dissolving Visceral Games and messing with the series. Then again, we can't ever expect anything good from EA.

“Hey ya know the giant stone thing that turns people into bladed monsters?” “Yea” “Bring that shit back to earth” “But it’ll turn peopl-” “Don’t worry about that we will figure that out when we get to earth!!” “Uhhhhhh…”

Earthgov leader 1: So we got these ancient alien artifacts that cause people to go insane, and/or turning into grotesque monsters where. Should we put the labs? Earthgov leader 2: Right in the middle of our population center's where those nutjob's from the church could easily get at them! Eathgov Leader 1: Great idea, I'll sign off on the funding for it right away!

I'm going on just the title here but the Church of Unitology won in pretty much every way you can imagine. They became the most populous human religion in the Dead Space universe and their goal of bringing about Convergence was how Dead Space 3 ended.

I feel like all this lore just makes it more horrific. It makes Isaac more isolated and in danger - where even his human brethren are wanting to spread the grotesque creatures.

I haven't watched the video yet, but here's the thing about the Dead Space universe. Everything that humanity is in it, and everything that exists because of humanity, ships, colonies, organizations, are the results of the Black Marker's influence. Had it not been the Church of Unitology, it would have been some other organization that would bring about humanity's end, even if they would have been more efficient at it than Unitologists were. Everything went according to plan on the Black Marker's end, no matter how stupid everything that happened could have seemed.

Event Horizon is also clearly an inspiration for Dead Space as a whole. Like a major inspiration; watch it if you love the games, it's a pretty good flick!

That's fitting considering a secret group of members in EartGov created Unitology to use as an unknowing puppet-army of fanatics for anything EarthGov needs done pertaining to the marker.

Do the Templars from the Assassin's Creed franchise. They are so easy to make fun of. And the Covenant from Halo too since you mentioned that series.

Ah the Dead Space franchise. It’s what happens when you cross resident evil with the Fermi Paradox

Mendicant Bias from the Halo background lore would be a good one. Supposedly incredibly intelligent AI that was convinced that an all consuming life form that’s whole goal was to keep infecting and eating until nothing left was the next step in galactic evolution. They even admitted they fucked up later on, admittedly after getting it’s ass kicked by an “inferior” AI.

This guy seems to know alot about how to run a civilisation, we should elect him as our new leader.

“They’re inherently stupid and I can prove it” 😂

The most ridiculous thing in Dead space is that any interstellar species would have to resort to the marker for resources/energy.

If I remember correctly, you can denie that crazy doctor from becoming a Necromorph.

The greatest villain in this saga is EA, who cannibalizes studios like Visceral. They’re even doing a remake now that they need a hype project to boost their stock price. Oh, uhh I mean they love games and they love gamers too guys!

The brethren moons "warping" to Earth seems really dumb when Earth has its own moon and the game hinted at the Black Marker being responsible for killing the dinosaurs already. The Earth could have easily just been threatened by revealing our own moon was a Brethren Moon made out of dinosaurs. Could even have given us a new necromorph design or three for the final encounters.

I've proposed it before and I'll do it again The Fire Nation/Fire Lord Ozai -Giant useless engineering projects: --a drill against *earthbenders*, all they have to do is dig trenches around it and itll get stuck, or wall up after it tunnels past --balloons that go pop --giant zeppelins that move 1 mile a year -Instead of waiting to launch a coordinated strike on the Water Tribes, Ba Sing Se, and Omashu on Sozin's Comet (which is a massive bonus to firebending), they attack in piecemeal -Ozai starts his torching campaign in the far northwest, which is in the Colonies. He could've had a staging ground near Ba Sing Se. Or anywhere else. -The Fire Nation's possession of cannons. They could field hand-cannons in all their armies and absolutely negate any bending maluses (nighttime, winter conditions, eclipses), in addition to one-shotting enemy master benders. No longer would bending mastery be needed. -They seem to have the technology for an air force (Korra's weird mashup of techs don't count). This would give them absolute superiority in all engagements. -Then there's the whole "can't kill the Avatar" even though, if they do, at best the Avatar is a threat in ten years' time (the Comet meanwhile comes in a few months) I haven't even gotten to Ozai's character or his plan. Needless to say the man would give any Villains on this list a run for his money.

There was a hilarious episode of the very grim serial killer profiler series and X Files spin off *Millennium,* with a crazed killer from a religious cult called *Selfosophy,* based around self help books from a failed Detective Novel author who was briefly institutionalized. [Jose Chung's Doomsday Defence] It includes this brilliant quote. *Peter Watts [when he's informed the suspected killer is a Selfosophist]:* Selfosophy? No, Frank. No, no, no, no. *Frank Black:* What is going on, Peter? We've never backed away from anything. Why, we've even looked at evil incarnate. *Peter Watts:* Evil incarnate _can't sue._

I hope the Church of unitology is happy with themselves They just created the end of humanity

Media zealot is kind of channel you don’t follow all that much but when he uploads you instantly C L I C K. Fucking love your content.

don't underestimate stupidity because a crowd of them they are unstoppable

The thing looks twisted and evil AF, and standing near it you can hear whispers that translate to "In Death we wait, our one true God.", and some dudes just went "This Marker our salvation!"

There's one problem with this video... The unitologists did win. Their goal was convergence, and ultimately the moons found earth and death was absolute. The overall theme of Dead Space is the end of humanity

Dead Space in a nutshell: "We can make a religion out of this" "No don't." "How bout I do, anyway?"

Everyone: "Unitologists are too stupid to win" *Series ends with the Unitologists getting everything they wanted* Surprised Pikachu

The lore for dead space was so damn good. I'll never forgive EA for taking this series away from us before it could be properly concluded.

I'm not exactly sure how necromorphs could be considered a galactic immune response when they have existed for a millenia before humanity was a glint in the universes trousers but ok............

Unitology is the study of unicycles...........and by "study" I of course mean worship.

It may be stupid, I agree on that, but I wouldn't call it unrealistic. We have a lot of examples of people believing crazy things, rationalising belief that are clearly false and dangerous for them, falling for death cults, etc. If a thing like the markers could exist, I wouldn't be surprised to see that kind of cult appear.

9:07 I love when the physics engine decides the necromorph claw is gonna boop your bellybutton

Still waiting for the BT (BattleTech) universe to be covered in one of your videos, where a chunk of the galaxy nuked each other so hard they were reduced to a feudalistic society that values old hard to repair mechs used as knights more than human life. And that was just the techbase level 1 storyline when the franchise was originally created!

"Satanic Buddists" 🤣

Can't wait for the "Advance civilization too stupid to exist: Dead Space's EarthGov". From not looking for other forms to create easily accessible power, that doesn't involve turning the workers into zombies, to loosing to Unintologist so easily

I am still quite sure the ending of the awakening DLC is an hallucination. Because there is NO WAY IN HELL that the moons got to Earth before isaac and Clarke did. NOPE, 100% NOPE.

I haven't started the video yet but the unitologist in Dead Space 3 always made me laugh. That shit was hilarious.

First a good TurboTax ad? Now this? I can go to sleep happy

This is precisely how we feel about Scientology. 🤣

Gotta give you mad props for a Sealab 2021 reference. If I were to interpret what these "Markers" are, I'd say they seem to look like a Von Neuman machine crossed with the "gray goo scenario." Both are usually related to nanotechnology, the VN machine simply is a machine that makes copies of itself using local resources to spread itself around, and in the gray goo scenario those machines consume all available resources until they cover the entire surface of a planet, eventually they can even consume the entire mass of a planet. I never played these games or watched a series based on them, but I'm curious, did anyone think to try and reprogram the Marker? I mean, if the Marker is able to alter an organism's behavior and biology, if you could figure out how its operating system works you could in theory use it to make yourself immortal, gain superhuman abilities, even alter your body almost any way you want right? Instead of becoming a zombie with knives for hands what if you became an immortal supermodel with wings or something?

Every perfectly timed Star Trek clip is just gold

The Unitologists did way worse that cause the extinction of humanity - they cause the extinction of life as a whole. Like, the title of the series hints at the fact that any life that might have existed is already dead; destroyed by the Brethren Moons already but if any species had managed to survive until now or was outside of the reach of the network the Unitologists deactivating the machine and reconnecting the network would've doomed them all as well. The capabilities of the moons are unknown to us, it's entirely possible they're capable of spreading out beyond just our galaxy, perhaps even beyond our local network.

Necromorph dinosaurs sounds freaking SICK!!

Altman was actually trying to destroy the marker after he found out how bad it was but the church had him killed and covered it up all as some sort of sacrifice to further push and validate their religious beliefs.

13:40 A very slick transition, man.

In the early part of the vid a main reason for humanity to want them is they also seemed to provide an unlimited amount of energy

Dead Space involves the Fermi paradox, which could be seen to mean humans are ultimately too stupid to win.

In all fairness planet cracking would be a very efficient way to gather resources however it would be equally incredibly dangerous. One miscalculation and you have planet scraps flying towards a home world or something similarly important.

OH THANK GOD I’m in the middle of a move and my computer has been taking forever to arrive in the mail so I have nothing to do. I’ve been DYING for new videos to watch to pass the time 😂 Love this channel, the religious nuts and corrupt government powers of Dead Space always pissed me off lol

Unitology is the marketing department approved name for CoupAnon.

BRO for real, dont disapear for another 3 months again, you leave me dying for more, literally have your videos on repeat thats how starved for your content we are

The scariest thing is...the Unitologists ACTUALLY FUCKING WIN! Their ultimate goal is complete at the end of 3.

They win tho, just not in the way they expected.

Something that I've been wondering about Captain Matthius is if his paranoia was completely because of The Marker's influence. With him being a strict unitologist, and all the pressure from the church to bring The Marker back to earth, and the colony members being slaughtered ever since the discovery of The Marker, I wonder if all the stress just got to him in the end, and he snapped on his own, without any marker stimulation...

I think when discussing Unitology, the Dead Space: Martyr novel is important to consider. the founding of Unitology was basically a giant government psyop so that the wealthy, powerful few could further research (and exploit) the markers. Its just that The Marker made this psyop into a faction far, far too powerful for the government to control

I know practically nothing about Dead Space, I look forward to this. 😎👍

So good to see you back man keep up the great work

one of my favorite content creators covering one of my favorite series! thank you zealot, you are far too kind

I’m actually willing to believe the markers were a weapon built by ancient aliens mainly because of how vital the markers are to the necromorph development.

The fact they don't have a tiny Tom Cruise doing a pumpy arm run around the ship is the biggest disappointment in this series