Voldemort’s TRUE Origins | Harry Potter Film Theory 

The one perfect connection they missed. Zeus was the greatest enemy of Sisyphus. And Harry bears the mark of a Lightning Bolt.

I'm surprised you didn't talk about Koshchei the Deathless, a Slavic folkloric figure who put his "death" into an object and hid it, preventing him from dying and was an antagonist in several tales

There is another mythological figure who also is very similar to Voldemort, Koschei the Deathless. He was a wizard in Slavic folklore who had hidden his soul, with 7(!) layers of protection

Hi! Spanish fan here. Just wanted to say that 'Señor Tenebroso' is quite a literal translation from 'Dark Lord'. 'Lord' is literally translated 'señor' (we have only one word for mister, sir and lord), and 'dark' is usually translated as 'oscuro' but 'tenebroso' is close enough and have more of a sinister resonance, since 'oscuro' is too common of a word to sound imposing to us, as Voldemort name should. Love the shout out to other translations. Great video!

Video idea: What is the Blood Status of Squilb Children? Like, if a Pureblood and a squilb born to purebloods had a kid, would the child be considered a pure blood or half blood? Would the child of two squilbs be considered a muggleborn?

Koshchei the Deathless was also an inspiration for Voldemort. For those who don’t know who that is he’s a sorcerer in Slavic folklore who pulled his soul and put it into a needle that into an egg, the egg into a bird (I’ve heard it was a swan, duck, or a goose) the bird into a hare, the hare into a chest, he buried the chest under a tree on an island that appears only once a year. My guy was not taking chances. Assuming you managed to go through all that and got the egg you would have to smash the egg on Koshchei’s head thus freeing his soul and causing all the tears he’s lived to come crashing down onto him and even then that might not have killed him because Koshchei has shown up in Slavic folklore after he has died

I wanna add one more for the "I am Lord Voldemort" switcharound! In the Swedish version his full name is Tom Gus Mervolo Dolder, which swaps around to form "Ego sum Lord Voldemort" Which is latin for "I am Lord Voldemort", which I thought was an interesting touch, latin is as close to a magic language as you get. But having the extra middle name Gus?? Hilarious! But also matching Dumbledores quirky middle name of Brian.

4:38 Jedusor is a very clever name actually. From a phonetic perspective it can be either the same as "J'ai du sort" which translates to I have a spell or to "Jeu du sort" which translates to a game of fate.

I'm spanish and I wish his name was Mr Spooky😂😂😂😂 And there is another quite significant name in that Edinburgh cemetery. William McGonagall, considered one of the worst British poets of all time

When you said Greek Mythology I thought you were gonna mention Oedipus Rex, Oedipus kills his father and his mother is named Merope

4:14 Mr. Spooky lol Instead of "you know who" everyone in the wizarding world should have called him Mr. Spooky. All fear of Voldemort=gone

Hearing Ben talk about Greek mythology biefly in this video is likely the closest we'll ever get to them covering the Percy Jackson series 😢

Here are two possible ideas: 1: what if Ron was the one to die in the ministry during Order of the Phoenix like JK originally considered in the early drafts 2: what if one of Harry’s friends turned on him like Wormtail turned on lily and James?

Wasn't Sisyphus also given a choice in death? To continue to death, or just simply roll that boulder back up the hill to climb to his immortality? (The boulder chipping once it moved to no longer sit atop the hill, thus making this task impossible)

0:22 so glad to see you guys going into the mythological roots of the Harry Potter series. You know what else would make me glad to see you deep dive into the myths? That’s right this is day 35 of the quest asking for you to cover the Percy Jackson series. One question regarding origins and big bads, is how did the bolt get stollen in the first place? and how did Cronos learn of Luke and contact him? The Percy Jackson series is full of even more Greek mythology stuff like the story you covered at 6:35

You talking about Voldermorts soul never leaving limbo makes me think how awkward it would be if Voldy ended being a ghost in Hogwarts.

Theories: 1 What would happen if the trace was triggered in a fidelius charmed house would it work? 2 What would happen if you polyjuiced into a viela are they even the same species?

For the french translation, they kept Marvolo Gaunt's name, as his name became Elvis Marvolo Gaunt. Plus, Jedusor can refer to "jeux du sort" that you can translate as "game of fate", or in short, gamble. Translating best-sellers is a quite difficult job. 😅

I think the Voldemort and Sauron parallel is pretty significant too. The most obvious one is the Dark Lord title. Both extremely powerful beings trying to take over the world. Both also poured part of themselves indy physical objects, Voldemort with his horcruxes and Sauron with the One Ring. Both the horcruxes and the Ring also have to be destroyed in order to defeat them. Sauron and Voldemort were also both once defeated, having to abandon their bodies and reform later. Coincidentally, both fled to the east after abandoning their bodies as well. Voldemort to Albania and Sauron to Rhun. The mist/spirit thing they become is pretty similar too. Voldemort describes himself as being "less than the meanest ghost" and Sauron is described as "a mere spirit of malice that gnaws itself in the shadows." Voldemort's goal for the Wizarding World is pretty similar to Sauron's goal for Middle Earth, too. Sauron wants to take over, destroy/enslave all that aren't loyal to him, and rebuild the world in his vision with himself at the center. Voldemort wants to take over, destroy all who resist, enslave muggles and muggle borns, and rebuild the world in his vision with himself at the center. There's also the parallel between Dumbledore and Gandalf. They're both wizards and the appearance thing is obvious, but both were also initially reluctant to fight out of fear. Dumbledore delayed fighting Grindelwald for years, but eventually relented. When Gandalf (he was called Olorin at the time) was asked to sail east from Valinor to fight Sauron, he didn't want to go, saying he feared Sauron. Gandalf and Dumbledore both set the plan to destroy Sauron/Voldemort in place. Gandalf is the first to recognize the ring Bilbo found is the One Ring, and Dumbledore is the first to realizes Voldemort is using Horcruxes. You could go on for quite a while with this.

The fact that Tom chose the name “thief/flight from death” while simultaneously aspiring to be master of death goes to show how little he truly understood Death. Curiously, that understanding of his name makes the title of the Snatchers (thieves) seem surprisingly apt. If anything they seem more closely aligned with Tom’s values than the death eaters themselves.

Minor correction: Voldemort's middle name in German is Vorlost. Which isn't a real name. But then, neither is Marvolo.

Hey, that was a great video! 2 thoughts: 1. In Hebrew, Voldemort's middle name is vanderolo(ואנדרולו)instead of marvolo, to create the word "ani"(אני) which means "I am" 2. Percy Jackson is a great series you might enjoy:)

Im getting pretty spot on when moldevort laugh edit will appear. Love the scene.

Love the Dutch "Marten Asmodom Villijn" to "Mijn naam is Voldemort" Also love the video's!!!❤❤❤

Every like this gets I’ll do 2 push ups

Quiz idea: differences between translations of the books.

And not to mention they both have "dark" symbols that are associated with them, too . . . And, oh, my gosh, J looks SO different with his hair "flat"! 😅

A video from Ben always makes my day ❤

Now I'm imaging Elvis doing the weird Voldemort laugh.

This is WHAT WE WANT HBO. Make a series with Voldemort’s TRUE Origin story. Where we follow him and look from his perspectiv. With ofcource clips showing what muroders, hagrid and dumledoor :D 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Keep up this content. Favorite channel by far!

So in Sweden, his name is Tom Gus Marvolo Dolder, and it bothers me to no end. Like, I see what they were going for, Dolder sound similar to Dold, which means something hidden, like a Riddle, but instead of trying to change the names to where they could make a Swedish anagram of it, they added a second middle name, Gus, so they could make the LATIN version of it, Ego sum Lord Voldemort. And they have the audacity to add Tom saying "as I'm sure you know, Ego sum means I am". Literally no one I know, even as an adult, knows Ego sum means I am, unless it's because they read the Swedish translation of Chamber of Secrets, but literally every one in Sweden above the age of 7 (probably even younger), knows what the english words "I am" means, so why not stick with his original name and the english anagram if you couldn't make a Swedish one anyway?

You guys are great! Keep up the good work! 😃

Awesome as always thanks guys love this series please continue!❤

Good day today because of Ben uploading

I always figured Voldy raided a cemetery for his inferi army.

Unrelated but I really liked the editing between clips and you in this video! The smooth transitions were so nice!

It's a great piece of research! This is - unlike many entries on this channel - close to a real literary study. There should be more such content here.

Saw the notification and clicked right on it love your videos wish I could come see you on tour ❤😢

Instant click

Please, please, please do a series about Dudley being a wizard and going to Hogwarts. A mini series for Aang from ATLA dying and one of each of his crew being the avatar instead from Sokka and Katara to Toph and Zuko. And finally do a series of Prim from the Hunger Games becoming the Mockingjay, the only way I can see her going to the games is if Katniss gets caught hunting and either gets killed or sent to the capital to become an avox.

Love a new upload form you guys potter fans for life

Been loving this series, if you can call it that, of the IRL stuff in the story. Ty for the ideas and content.

Dang Adam! What a vibing song! Thanks for sharing this awesome tune (and video).

Ok, so I've always said how the clip of Voldie laughing still hasn't gotten old. I laughed again when it first came up on the video, but it turns out it's only funny when it appears once in a video.

This is my favorite theory so far!!! Absolutely LOVE this!!!!!

My favorite French translation is Hufflepuff becomes Poufsouffle. 😂

Thank you, Age of Mythology, for literally being spot-on in video game form for everything ----- including the Titans expansion which included the Tartarian gate.

You are my favourite RU-vidr!!!

Honestly, Ben did an excellent job with his greek pronunciations!!!!

Sauron villain who was about to take over... Cut down, but can return... Nazgûl vs Deatheaters????

In Danish Voldemort name is Romeo Gåde Detlev (Gåde means Riddle, so at least they kept that part), but funnily enough, his dad's name is still just Tom, which causes some issues down the line, where they say that Romeo was Meropes nickname for Tom Sr.. I heard that they fixed it in later translations through

0:12 best taylor's album so true, supercarlinbrothers!!

The laundry thing hits home for me. This is why I do my laundry at home and usually wearing nothing aside from shoes so I’m not making new laundry.

My favorite fact that I’ve learned about French music is that there’s a group of French rappers called le 667 or “les Mangemorts” (Death Eaters) which leads to an interesting abundance of Voldemort references in French rap music and also…Elvis references??? For the wordplay. It’s such a jarring pair of people to hear mentioned in the same sentence.

love seeing you talk about greek mythology! did you ever consider making videos about the percy jackson universe?

I remember my jaw dropping when I saw Tom write his name in the air and twisting it around to spell Voldemort. The TV shows Hercules and Xena are 2 reasons why I recognize some of the Greek mythology stuff. 😅

I giggle every time you all play the clip of Voldy laughing, I literally can't stop myself

In Dutch its even crazier, There it is "MARTEN ASMODOM VILIJN", which Anagrams to "MIJN NAAM IS VOLDEMORT"

0:13 Taylor is at the 13th second. wow.

I find the most interesting version of the Sisyphus myth the one where the gods actually tricked Sisyphus. They offered him a choice: go to Elysium (kind of like heaven) or push the rock to the top of the mountain and if he manages to do it he'll be made immortal. They knew he was obsessed with immortality so his hope would be his torture.

The thumbnail was phenomenally captivating 🔥

I loved this video! I challenged myself to read the first Harry Potter book in French a couple years ago, and it was actually really cool because I knew the story so well that I could piece together what was going on! So I love to see the linguistics analyzed (when I realized the whole “Flight/Theft of Death” thing I was so excited, and I also was amused by “baguette” meaning wand, “eclair” meaning lightning, and “Poufsouffle” being the name for Hufflepuff)! I’m also a Greek mythology nerd, so I loved hearing about all these connections! 😁

Love your videos

Immediately clicked on this when it showed up even though it's quite late in England, I love this channel's content, I fall asleep to it on the regular

I love the thumbnail. That picture of Voldemort is perfect and what he should’ve looked like in the films

Very curious about this one!

Fun fact, over here (In Sweden) it’s ”Tom Gus Mervolo Dolder” which becomes ”jag är Lord Voldemort” and as a kid I just thought it was really cool because I thought that all books are just written in that language. Like I knew JK wasn’t Swedish but in my kid brain I was like ’Nah she wrote this entire book on Swedish and only Swedish’ I genuinely don’t know why I thought that… so yeah 😅

This video makes me think you guys could do some very entertaining deep dives in Greek mythology

A Very Good & interesting Video 👌🏻👍🏻

This episode is the reason you should get into the PJO fandom

The cup plug at the end. I was expecting you to go "Super Sips" which sounds close enough to that Sisyphus guy. "Enough about Sisyphus. How about more about Super Sips from our Super cups!"

Man, the AI really went all in on the snake thing.

Heeeeey brother! I'm from Hungary and I simply love your and J's vids. When you talked about the abroad versions of the wordplay, I was curious if you would mention the Hungarian version. You see, in our version Tom Marvolo Riddle doesn't only have a unique translation, but the letters also get jumbled up in a unique way by a lettersplit happening. The name here is Tom Rowle Denem, whitch gets mixed up as Nevem Voldemort (My name is Voldemort), the W splitting up into 2 Vs to pull it off. I don't know if there's someting familiar in any of the other countries' own version, but I quite like this extra little trick in the wordplay.

Omg! Mr. Spooky got me laughing so hard I even spooked out my cat. So much for being spanish.. I had never thought about it that way.. whenever I re-listen to the audio books in whatever version (Stephen Fry being the best narrator-hands down) it's not gonna be the same. Ever 😂 Fun fact: in Goblet of Fire, the riddle the sphinx presents Harry in the maze is also different.

love you vids their awesome

I hope you’ll make more origins videos about other characters in the Harry Potter books.

*voldemort laugh* floored me every time

I would love to watch you guys tell the Norse mythology stories, it would be such an interesting series. I love mythology from Egyptian to Norse they’re such fun stories , the OG bed time stories

Another comment here got me considering questions about polyjuice potion. What would happen if you took a hair from the boggart that turned into Snape and used it in a polyjuice potion? Would you turn into Snape (does the boggart so perfectly duplicate him that the potion can't tell the difference) or would you turn into a weird boggart person (like Hermione turned into a cat person), which would be especially weird since no one knows what a boggart looks like? Also, what happens if you take a hair from a polyjuiced wizard to use in a polyjuice potion? Would you transform into the original wizard or into the one that they are transformed into? What about using a hair from a transformed animagus? Does that turn you into the wizard (and does it come with the ability to transform into their animagus form), or does it just treat it like an animal (and we're back to Hermione's cat person form)?

A 2-parter in a week? Pretty cool, and that was a nice dive into Sisyphus. Never heard him being connected to Voldemort before.

Fun fact. In denmark Tom Marvolo Riddle is "Romeo Gåde Ditlev jr" witch translates to. "Jeg er lord voldemort"

That mythology tangent was so great I forgot we were learning about Voldemort

Voldemort laughs (two in fact), Hercules inserts, and even a clip from the original Mean Girls. Where else than a SCB video would you get this gold?

So the mug pun at the end of this video was SUPER THIS? This whole episode was one big shaggy dog story? AAARRrrrrrgg!

Ben talking about greek mythology just makes me want them to do percy jackson content more and more

"Not only was it considered poor manners--" HAD ME DEAD

I checked my polish translation and game of letters from tom marvolo riddle in chamber of secrets. Translator of polish version decided to leave english version of letters changing their places. I'm grateful that in polish translation most of names of people, places, things kept their original version, because it gives english vibe like it should.

This scb video has the best comments I’ve seen! So interesting.

As always extremely impressive your commitment to “the death of the author” bit. Two thumbs 👍🏻 👍🏻 way way up for our leading gentlemen. What a dish, what a doll😉

As a French fan I loved hearing you speak French, your pronunciation is great ahahah

I was at Greyfriar's last year, they also had McGonagall and at least another I'm forgetting

There is a small misspelling in your German version of Tom Riddle: His middle name in the German edition is "Vorlost", not "Volorst".

Day three of asking PLEASE make a video on how spells are created in the first place, such as how Snape just made up spells in his potions textbook. How does it work? I've always wondered

"shoot dang"?? Choo-Choo Charles reference???

The french name Jedusor is read as jeu du sort that means play of fate and I think it's very nice the traductor didn't try to get a translation of Riddle

You both nail that french honestly

In Finnish Voldemort's name is Tom Lomen Valedro making the aha-moment "Ma oon Voldemort", and that's kind of funny because ma isn't any word in Finnish - it comes from "Minä" (I), shortens to "mä" and then they left out the dots from ä. The word "oon" is also modified version of "olen" (am) and we don't get any kind of lord in our version (that would be "Herra"). It's always funny to listen or read Finnish books when I'm so used to original names thanks to you guys :)

Everytime i head "The Boulder" i immediately picture Toph and the underground fights

also in french, "Jedusor" is pronounced 'jeu du sort' which translate to 'play of fate' or 'game of fate' 🙂 love you guys !