How to tell apart all 596 Fire Emblem characters | Unraveled
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- Ever have trouble differentiating Fire Emblem characters? With a little help from Brian David Gilbert and an old form of Italian theatre, you'll never have that problem again.
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There are four genders: young female mages, young female healers, young male mages, and thieves
Aster TK and the thieves and thembos make a pact
And bandits.
Can I submit spicy swords as a new gender
Spicy sword is the best gender. Gonna use it on official documents from now on. F'ck the system!
*furiously taking notes about spicy swords for future use
It should’ve just been:
“Will reset for” and “Won’t reset for”.
So true lmao
also "will get a game over if they die"
Also "Has to reset for but really wish I didn't"
That could also the be the category, will sacrifice if needed, will keep alive at all cost.
That's too subjective, I'm afraid.
In Fire Emblem there are 16 different characters called Anna.
They should have their own category.
They're like the Nurse Joys or Officer Jennys of Fire Emblem
I'm pretty sure that they're all the same person, much like the 3 universes that Jake was in.
Even if each different universe and time period had their own Anna, surely the ones in games that are close to each other would be the same?
@@hoodedman6579 nope, they're all identical sisters who basically manage the multiverse and appear as constants throughout all of space and time
14*
They weren’t in Gaiden or SoV.
@@platy4700
I know.
I believe I was counting other Anna's, like the ones in Heroes and Warriors.
Not to mention that there is also the "Salesclerk" in Mirage, that despite not being named, looks exactly like an Anna.
"Seteth and Byleth have the-- they rhyme"
That line gets me every time
Dorothea wears a hat, until she grows out of the hat
Think about that
@@anone.mousse674 i mean in new game plus you can make sure she never looses the hat
@@nerosoul2506 Think about that.
This whole reply section rhymes with rat.
Think about that!
@@tomepsilon holy fucking bats!
Brian is really accepting the “unhinged professor” aesthetic
Such raw energy
Just uncensored raw teacher energy
Love Brian and love bucky god bless
I feel like he saw the Always Sunny Pepe Silvia scene, and decided to make a youtube show based on it.
Accepting? More like embracing.
I’m beginning to think polygon has just trapped Brian in a basement with dim lights and a printer and told him to go nuts. He did.
Nah, nothing so tragic. They just locked him in his apartment like he did to his own Sims character.
And thumbtacks. Lots of thumbtacks.
1k likes 😎
They didn’t tell him to go nuts, he just did. It took one hour- thirty minutes- okay, like, ten minutes - of delving into sonic lore and backstory.
@@vonriel1822 revenge
Ah, that’s an unreasonably attractive dude wearing a great suit, that must be Brian David Gilbert, Security Fan and Bureaucratic Wunderkind!
And has amazing hair, don’t forget the hair
Please address him as such.
I love him but he always looks like he's wearing a disguise.
@@mudkip4615 no u
@@thatowenperson7745 Trust me, if I could wear a disguise all the time, I would.
I love that BDG’s definition of “Fun to hang out with” is basically just “Are you cool? Do you have drugs? Are you extremely dumb and hot in equal measure? Come on in, the party’s just starting!”
I have unironically used "Vice President" several times since this video came out.
I read this in the voice of the "gone far? Decided to use? Go want to look more like" infomercial lady, and that just *sent* me
"actually pretty interesting" category is just brian's husbandos
Ngl hes got taste, Rhys is an underappreciated cutie
So the BDG is a preistf*cker, huh.
Shums yes
yes finally. another episode of brian going full unhinged english major
More unhinged than the Sonic bible, but less yelling
Imagine being in this dudes class growing up and him doing literally any speaking assessment in front of the class.
@FalconPunch827 That's no multiclass, he's just the Lore Bard subclass.
You could say his sanity just... unraveled
So just an English major?
I love that all three lords of Three Houses all eventually end up under the category of
Ugh
Claude just wants two things, to find the ceo of racism, and to shoot him
That's probably what Byleth thinks of them lmao
The fact that Claude didn’t end up somewhere in the “fun to hang out with” category feels like an oversight tbh
@@marinemanaphy101 that’s probably because, if you should ever go against him in the future, he would probably spread pictures among your allies of you lying on a couch dead drunk from that one night you hung out with him.
@@Buphido fun to hang out with doesn’t mean they’re saints, a hangover doesn’t mean you didn’t have fun getting drunk the night before
Here's the full breakdown (excluding individual character names):
Anime Character with a Singular Personality Trait and a Penchant for Violence
Trendsetters
Look at Me, Baby
Surprise, I'm Important!
Jeorge
Tiki
Flirts
Furry
Dramatic
Fashionable
Making Waves
Actually Pretty Interesting
Diamonds in the Rough
Est
Julian
Kliff
Gender Norm Destroyer
Comrade
Ugh
Necessary but Boring
Honorable Knight
Loyal Knight
Blank Slate
Protagonist
Buzzkills
Mentors
Jagen
Oifey
Wendell
Malledus
Gotoh
Cornelius
Asshole Crew
Bad Folks Gone Good
Camus
Rudolf
Gharnef
Michalis
Hardin
Arrogant
Hothead
Teacher's Pet
Narc
Straightforward
Perfectionists
Calm It Down
Edgelord
Mischief Makers
What the Fuck?
A Bad Choice for a War
Too Nice for All This
Cheerful Despite Circumstances
Sweetie
Painter
Lied on Their Resume
Lazy
Naive
Clumsy
Holy Shit, Why Are You a Soldier?
Child Soldier
Meek Murderer
Magic Babies
Lena
Linde
Maria
Merric
Awkward Family Reunion
Hard to Break the Ice
Cold
Playing Hard to Get
Arran and Samson
Beowolf
Ogma
Lorenz
Minerva
Spicy Swords
Navarre
Family Matters
Inferiority Complex
Overprotective
Cain Siblings, Inc.
Cain and Abel
Bord and Cord
Pegasus Sisters
Quiet
Collected
Reserved
Serious
Fun to Hang Out With
Chill
Vice President
Thembo
This comment needs more appreciation
At this point we need a chart
This comment really should be pinned.
Also according to this layout, Edelgard is more of a "Making Waves" than a "Rudolf" to me. Interesting Comerade Gender Norm Destroyer. And Dimitri may be an edgelord, but he's also a good bit of Awkward Family Reunion.
This comment should be used to update the Fire Emblem Wiki
I'm mad at you for putting this much dedication into a comment.
PLEASE calculate the tax payer cost of a single match of Call of Duty
clearly you remember the scientific goty ep, we all know math and Brian don't mix
This is brilliant
This is a fantastic idea
Swear thats been done before i remember seeing it somewhere
Elizabeth Powell YES!!
The two real categories in any game:
“Why am I allowed to marry you?”
And
“Why am I NOT allowed to marry you?”
Claude in the second one
If you're playing male Byleth
Is this stardew valley?
Me playing stardew valley
MAKE CLAUDE GAY
Tharja and Tharja
"Congratulations, You Did a War Crime!" is honestly a pretty good description of Fire Emblem (at least Three Houses) to be honest.
Looking at you, Claude "Hey Guys Check it out I Invented Napalm!" von Reagan, and Edelgard "Hey Guys Check It Out We Invented Nuclear Weaponry!" von Hresvelg.
And Dimitri Alexandre “Hey guys I’m just a murderhobo” Blaiddyd.
Robin in Awakening is a Tactician. It's almost surprising they don't comit more War Crimes.
Yay Rolf the twelve year old assassinated a defenseless priest!
Well Byleth and Edel have a Japanese end screen that confirms unusual sex positions and that absolves all guilt. Even the English end screen is pretty straightforward
Also of note, Femby and Sylvain
2:41 "Does that remind you of anything?"
Me, an Italian: "Oh, it's Commedia dell'Arte"
Brian: "Commedia dell'Arte!"
Me: "...nailed it."
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Me, a former Genshin player: Amateur
@@endergeek236 Me a drama student: Amateur
@@yabazyabacoffee Me, a Visual Arts Bachelor: Amateur
“And Sylvain is motivated to be a fuckboy”
I literally started crying and had to pause the video the accuracy is killing me
Same, that killed me lol
And the glee with which he says it. Wonderful.
I want to like this, but it has 776 likes exactly.
I can't.
I'm sorry :(
Same
Nice ps2 abbachio
Unraveled refers to Brian’s sanity and not the answer to the question.
This is not a new revelation.
Project Overturn aka RareBeeph 0:55
@@ryann1951 we're both joking though
Project Overturn aka RareBeeph 🥴
Don’t worry guys, he’s unraveling us
hearing brian say "thembo" out loud absolutely bodied me
“Dorothea wears a hat until she grows out of the hat...think about that.”
Oh, we have. A lot. Similar to why Mercedes cut her hair.
But I like her short hair 😔
@@Robin-234 Heretic
@@Robin-234 heretic
@@Robin-234 Same she looked a lot better
Dorothea is hot after the timeskip but she also looks jaded and depressed. Before the time skip she was flirty and cheerful
"human beings aren't meant to remember 600 people perfectly" says the man who memorized a rap of all 600ish pokemon
Pokemon fill a higher priority than people. Hence why i can remember all sorts of wild evolution requirements but not my dad's birthday
There are words I couldn’t remember until they became part of Pokémon names, Pokémon has its own area of the brain
Yea I stopped after Diamond and Pearl...even after playing Black/White.
When he says "human beings" he's talking about a category he does not fall into - as a higher being, he is taking pity on his audience.
that’s cause your brain developed a cluster of nerves for storing pokemon names
Throwback to E3 2019
Brian: “Yeah I’m a real fire emblem... head”
Jenna: “yeah what are fans of fire emblem called?”
Brian: “Weebs mostly”
Link?
@@M12GProductions No that's Legend of Zelda
M12GProductions i can’t remember which one but it was one of the 2019 E3 press conference streams. they’re all unlisted in their E3 2019 playlist. it’s basically g&g with guests
I mean... he ain't wrong
I was really hoping it was just going to end with one category named “Marth”
I like how putting Anna in the Mischief Makers category implies that there isn’t actually a bunch of different identical sisters named Anna from different games, that may or may not be playable, all running around
Nope
It’s just the one Anna
And she’s a lil Mischief Maker
Shake Shake!
I mean the fact they're all Identical, all named Anna, with a little greed in them, that's enough mischief for anyone involved.
Also the finger thing.
As far as I'm concerned it's always the same Anna that just hops through time and dimensions
One of these Fire Emblems is gonna reveal Anna as Secretly A Dragon, I can just feel it
The new Gremlin Anna (Lady Anna) in Engage is amazing
"you can't have waluigi without Luigi"
Foreshadowing
Sunny Lapis I would like this comment, but it currently is at 420
@@dangererodingcliffedge9106 come back and like it
656. We need 10 more likes.
Hylia Stone 676 we overshot
dang i was just about to make this comment
"Commedia dell'anime"
Why must you use your powers for evil
anime is italian for souls
You and I have very different views of evil
666 likes
@@Ed-cj6lg anime are the souls of italian people
sick homestuck pfp nerd
“Manuela is just constantly drinking and flirting and being a hot mess, and I love her for it.”
Never played a Fire Emblem game, but she’s my favorite character.
"you cant have a waluigi without a luigi" is immaculate foreshadowing
Objective: Distinguish between Fire Emblem characters.
Result: Grand Unifying Theory of Fire Emblem characters.
And yet it actually "succeeds" more than his average video lol
Loalrikowki Well, to disprove something using the scientific method, you need to try your hardest to find evidence that the hypothesis is true, and fail hilariously.
how many video game plots can be summed up as "oops you did a war crime"
All of Nintendo's major IP?
@@TonkarzOfSolSystem Animal Crossing is probably the only time where that description fails, otherwise, I completely agree.
@@thatguywholikesanime6903 I mean technically you can commit a war crime in Animal Crossing. It's just the "oops" would be said ironically as you'd have to try very hard and it would not be an accident.
@@TonkarzOfSolSystem That's what I mean, it's an intentional war-crime, not an accident
Mario. Sonic. Halo, all of Halo. Zelda. God Of War. Conker (urination on civilians). So almost all “violent” games or games about war or violence.
Thank you for making D&D NPC creation 1000x easier from here on out
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The best way to tell apart FE characters is by how big of a crush you have on them
“What was this Unraveled about?”
Your sanity.
Sit down Brian, we are all here to support you.
It's always about Brian's sanity!
What sanity?
I can't believe Brian is carrying all of Polygon on his mustache
That’s wrong, don’t forget monster factory
Oooh so THAT'S what a mustache ride is! I was thinking of something wayyy different.
Someday Brian and Tim Rogers will make a video together and the internet will expode
Oh
I can’t believe his mustache is one polygon
I watched this in an attempt to understand fire emblem because i have never played it, but my buddy has. I am more lost but more entertained.
just tell him "there are only 2 interesting characters in Fire Emblem", remember their names, and say nothing else. Remain resolute, refuse to elaborate, be combative and ignore any other names he mentions. Be a problem.
1 game Marth fights garnef and his empire to free his bride's kingdom, and his kingdom and princess Nina's kingdom and defeats camu along the way
2 game alm and celica lead a army to war and make a pilgrimage respectively camu meets alm has amnesia and falls in love alm and celica meet at zolphia castle and they meet up in Riegel and defeat a mad god
3rd game sequel to Marth story prince harding gets possessed tries to kill Marth camu joins up with Marth disguised they save the 4 princess from being killed by garnef in the sacrificial resurrection to bring back the earth dragon Marth killed in the first game
4th game Sigurd is protecting his country (granveil) that is at war with Isaach he fights other kingdoms not isaach to protect innocent serfs of those kingdoms in the process gets betrayed one generation later his son seliph and friends including leif take vengeance free the children that were being sacrificed to loptr and prevent loptr from resurrecting
Brian: "Fire Eblem does not actually know how to make interesting characters without making them suffer traumatic parental death."
Me:"So what you're saying is that Fire Eblem is Disney?"
That’s not true! I mean what about...
uh....
@@cartoonishidealism582 Wall-E
I think the only exception with the Protags is Roy, but his father, Eliwood is also ill and probably going to die soon after the events of FE6 lmao. Eliwood is also the protag FE7 and he loses his father, and kills his lover (but she gets revived by someone later). I think that seriously one of the only characters, every child in Awakening and Fates experiences tragic parental death.
Jesus Christ Fire Emblem, how many traumatic characters will you make?
@@FLITTLEFANATIC Claude from FE3H doesn't have any traumatic parental/family death! Granted his grandfather dies of old age over the timeskip and his uncle dies... but neither would really be considered "tragic" (his grandfather's health was in decline so it was expected, and he didn't know him well, also he didn't know his uncle at all and it seems never even met him).
Actually Claude's family trauma is only all hinted, implied, or glossed over. When compared to all the other main protagonist/path leaders (Dimitri, Edelgarde, Rhea, Yuri, and Byleth) his backstory seems practical tame! ... and considering the amount of racism and implied abuse, that says a lot about fire emblem protagonists.
Shoot, they have a point there. Also to support the theory is that the series have their own princesses.
This is the most feral we’ve seen Brian since he unraveled the zelda timeline...
DId you forget the Sonic episode already??
@@Sybil413 EITHER SONIC IS A GOD OR HE COULD KILL GOD AND I DO NOT CARE IF THERE IS A DIFFERENCE
GameBreaker that’s not feral, that’s religious zeal
I guess you could call him a "feral one". Shoutout to my tellius fans out there! That pun was for you.
@@khicks8799 There's a difference?
I was sure the final archtype was gonna be "Marth"
Marth. Girl Marth. Fire Marth. Marth but magic. Teacher Girl Timelord Marth. Ike.
@@linkmariokirby7373 Fire marth but without that much fire, Marth with a axe, Girl Marth but green... Ah there's so many Marths
marth but not marth
Marth but he’s a dad.
@@sineadthomas2024 Marth but a villain
Say what you will about Seteth, but you have to give him brownie points for being the best dad in Fire Emblem, even to people who aren't his kids.
Missed opportunity to show masked Lucina when showing characters who aren't Marth
Dear Polygon:
Never get rid of this man.
Just give him the whole Polygon, he's earned it
the number of ppl who like this agree
lamb_sauce.exe Of course they wouldn’t. Brian is a key component in our national security.
He's very likely going to go on to do bigger and better things sooner than later like the McElroys. He's too good for that site.
@@alexia3552 Same
“Comedia del arte”
*rises from the dead in theater major
My college put on The Servant of Two Masters last semester and it was lit and lemme tell you I was HYPE this episode
Unraveled videos are just End Of Semester Theater Major Projects But Make It Video Games
nice
*rises from the dead as an Italian student
I literally yelled “YES!!!!!”
My favorite hobby is rewatching this video every time I play a new fire emblem game to see what I agree and disagree with now that I know about another forty or so characters.
Can't believe it's over.
All for hubris, all because of edible Pokemon.
It had to be done. Humans will always open a pandora's box. We must, because that's what it is to be human. Put another way
"We do what we must, because we can"
@@MagusSartori
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead.
All for monke
There should have been a separate category called "Anna" which just would have listed:
- Anna
- Anna
- Anna
- Anna
- Anna
- Anna
- Anna
- Anna
- Anna
- Anna
But this video's only about the playable characters.
So you've got 6 entries too many there.
Jake fits though.
As someone named Anna that's never played Fire emblem.... I feel vaguely threatened
@@saltmomtmissad8384 I'd only feel that way if your entire life and thought process revolved around ways to make money and minimize spending.
And you had innumerable sisters named Anna.
@Anna Lialine My name being Gary always makes me feel proud when Pokémon refers to Gary Oak.
I feel scared
2 categories. Anime character with a singular personality trait and a penchant for violence.
And Raphael.
Good
Raphael is god
Raphael and Ashe are best boys in Three Houses.
Raphael,Gonzales and most importantly,Batta the beast
I disagree, most Three Houses characters are very complex.
Coming back to this, 3 years later a week after Engage has released, and 5:41 is even funnier with Engage’s storyline
I think the Fates "Heirs of Fate" DLC takes the cake - it has you fight against something like 2 dozen resurrected/possessed versions of different characters parents.
Roy’s literally the only one that is exempt from that lmao
Never played a FE game. Surely there must be one instance where the parent/s is alive? I can think of several motivations for the child at this moment (one of them being the obvious "I can't keep living inside my parent's shadow and I will show them I can and will be better"). Even from this motivation I can think of 4 other paths sir dude can go in
@@HazeEmryThere are indeed a couple of instances where the parent/s live, but they're few and far between, such as Eliwood (the father of Roy) getting to live for once.
But for most of the other games? Parents either die early or are just absent.
@@AnimaLeptonyeah that was so lazy lol
I love that actual character of Tiki is an adult by the time of her appearance in Awakening. Shows that the whole "Manaketes age slowly" thing isn't bullshit.
I'd be asleep for many centuries too if I had to go through that long of a puberty
brian saying “thembo” caused enby rights
Marissa Olin that was the best part of the whole thing😂
as an enby, can confirm
yeah that was a nice surprise :D
hell yeahhhh
I am overwhelmed by all of the rights I just acquired, fuck yeah
Polygon: a team of frustrated art majors use the imaginary childhood dreamscape of videogames to enact their lifelong desires of producing culturally transcendent commentaries under the guise of journalism
Tom Mc and we love them for it
And it works!
Whoa whoa whoa, BDG was a creative writing major. Everything else about your statement seems accurate though
@@susanhenderson8203 Not when he thinks Fire Emblem games actually have deep plots.
BlackKnightJack But they do? That’s kind of a big point of Fire Emblem
2:30 I was completely convinced he was setting up a joke where instead of the obvious commedia dell'arte refrence, he named some obscure anime or something, then I realized the joke was on me for knowing right off the bat what the commedia dell'arte was.
nice how did you know, are you italian?
@@juice3287 Nah, former (recovering?) theater kid
@@barbasolembryos9427I knew it from Genshin
"Fire Emblem is a game with permadeath, and sometimes you just need more meat for the grind."
*Shows Fjorm in that list, which comes from Heroes, which is a game that doesn't have permadeath.*
Noticed that too xD poor Fjorm
Yeah but - I mean she IS just there to be a F2P meatbag.
This isn’t my idea for an unraveled
“Sort every animal crossing villager based on helping you hide a body”
Edit: Ok jeez! I didn't expect this to blow up, but as a reminder this was not my idea.
the original poster of the idea went by the name of "Julianne Bartlett".
I was just trying to raise awareness of this great idea, so don't credit me.
It is a good idea.
I'll tell you how it ends, "all of them, some of them outright, some of them secretly but in the end, it's all of them"
Great idea
Isabelle would not only help you hide a body, shed help you kill them.
yes
me when i see a guy wearing a tight fitting suit with a bunch of weird patches: ah, that must be arlecchino the servant clown- sometimes to two masters!
This is way funnier to me than it should've been
Or it could be Freddie Mercury.
hah! thats totally me when i see a guy wearing a tight fitting suit with a bunch of weird patches!
not gonna lie thats kinda me when i see a guy wearing a tight fitting suit with a bunch of weird patches.
the thing about Rhys is that his backstory is “I want to be a swordsman, but I’m too frail” but then he got into the horny gambling mobile game with muscles and wielding a literal palm tree as a staff,, so like,, so much for that?
Still not a swordsman lmao. He will heal his opponents... TO DEATH!
He is also very tanky for a healer in feh even still in the meda currently
Me survives through a drama course's final: Oh boy! I sure don't want to hear about Italian drama and commedia dell'arte for a while! Let's watch some Unraveled to unwind! :)
Brian: :D
most importantly
“dorothea wears a hat”
until she grows OUT of the hat
A hat is a pretty key part of someone
Yare yare daze...
It's a cool hat
I swear I find fellow army everywhere 😂
So it’s like when a vine teen put a towel on their head and you were like “ah, thats mom.”
Worldbuilder 10 nice
Yes.
Fuck. Time is a flat circle.
Why is this true
LOL that’s from African parents
Flayn was so good at being a Tiki that she dodged the Tiki list 😂
Someone finally gives my boy Libra the recognition he deserves 😭😭
I was delighted to see my son Rhys where he belongs
Essentially the quote “you’re unique, just like everyone else “
paradoxical autocontradictory traits are the best traits.
@@Yal_Rathol *Except when they're not
"when everyone is super, nobody will be"
That actually is possible, if no two people are the same.
@@pforgottonsoul I hate that I know what this is specifically referring to AND that it applies so well in context
Hearing "Comedia dell'anime" is like being struck by lightning.
I originally had a long response I was writing about how commedia dell'anime is already real, but upon writing it, I realized that the 'dere' archetypes can be seen as their own archetypes different from commedia tropes but still fitting functions that could be read as its own sort of commedia, meaning that commedia dell'anime is more real than I could've possibly fathomed.
What I'm really saying is that dere archetypes in a harem anime and their interactions in trying to win the affection of the boring MC is just anime's version of lazzi
.
A lot of the comedy you see in anime comes from Japanese theater traditions that have a lot in common with commedia dell'arte. Such a pithy phrase was inevitable.
Engine1213 this is amazing
BDG: “After trimming all the non-playable characters and the ones from the Tokyo Mirage Sessions-“
me: put the TMS characters back in, *coward*
ned flanders gets increasingly more flustered as he describes how all of the fire emblem characters are the exact same
“Dorothea wears a hat until she grows out of the hat “
“Think about that”
My second favorite dr seuss book.
My brain hurts its 1 am I cant understand please explain
@@potatoaddict8192 wearing a hat is a way to refer to your purpose or identity/labels. she wears a hat until she grows out of it. think about that.
@@solwhitehurst770 so I can see that you can do that for me to be the one who will not have a feeling that you have a problem in a 1v1 and you have a good time and you have to beat it was housed on the right and the right thing to be done is a great deal and it can be a good job to be able and you have to get the best you can get in the way to get your hands 3AM honest and I will be able for you everyone to have the same worth
Rip Zain when he inevitably learns that that guy he played Bocce Ball with once has a TH-cam series and doesn’t remember him at all
I came to the comments for this. Poor Zain.
F
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This man has combined two of my favorite things, learning about pop culture I don’t intend to consume and classical art and it’s many forms, in a soup of chaos.
This is a niche I didn’t know I needed filled.
"And the creepy versions of the Jeorges... the Tikis. Usually they take the form of a small girl or adolescent. Except they're really 400 years old or a god or a dragon. And I honestly do not have the time to unpack this bullshit."
😂😂😂
Gets me every time I watch this
Brian: Does that remind you of anything?
Me, a literature major who studied plays a lot: Commedia dell'arte.
Brian: Of course it does! It reminds you of the Commedia dell'arte.
I feel very seen.
Please tell me what that one Shakespeare play is where cannibalism lays a role in several character deaths. I keep forgetting it, all I know is it is very very brutal. So... Its kinda hard to look up.
@@lordtullus9942 Sounds like you're thinking of Titus Andronicus.
@@jesstalks7755 thank you!
Unlike Kellam.
There is an American equivalent to commedia dell'arte he coulda ran with, but we don't talk about that any more, because it's the minstrel show and super-racist.
This looks like how one would create the zoidiac sign traits.
15:10 "which proves the [zodiac sign traits] are all essentially the same and you cannot differentiate them"
oh hey Barnum Effect glad you could make it
If I had known about Gemini sooner, I would have never syncopated myself to Aquarius. Not that I even am Aquarius, so screw Ophiuchus; That chaos god can go to space.
I was born under a moon anyway, not some dead star's sunlight.
(Comment to be place later)
march 23rd 2024. I still dunno
Aries - Quiet
Taurus - Too nice for all this
Gemini - Fun to hang out with
Cancer - Family Matters
Leo - Why are you fighting holy shit
Virgo - Teacher's pets
Libra - Necessary but boring
Scorpio - Hard to break the ice
Sagittarius - Asshole Crew
Capricorn - Look at me Baby
Aquarius - Calm it down
Pisces - Making Waves
and yes I did base all of that on Homestuck and Hiveswap
MEEEPMEEEPMEEEPMEEEP i was gonna say something about homestuck godammit
Arlecchino is the basis for Harlequin-Variety clowns. Arlecchino usually wore a diamond-patterned outfit, which can be see in harlequins, and all varieties derived from them. In fact, the names are directly related! Clownfacts!™
“I don’t think we can use it but we need to record it” is very chaotic Pat, and also has terrifying implications for the contents of the hard drives at Polygon HQ
there are 597 attractive people in this video
aww
@@tychowozniaki9269 awwww
Including the actual children?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
@@xRockLobster75x I haven't played any fire emblem games and didn't expect them to have child soldiers so just subtract the children from this comment
@@johnreese5739 And the narcs. And the thembos and comrades count as double attractive
This video is like the kid who undoes his shoelaces and then makes a more impossible, more complex knot
True. lol
I actually do this
nick giles same
He really tried to unravel this huh?
"Oh god am I a buzzkill?" Just fucking killed me
if were being technical, there are only 5 archetypes.
Fire Emblem Lord
distressed damsel (sometimes a child or a royal npc instead)
villain
villain but hot
playable character with a funky personality but no effect on the story
That's five
how dare you question me.
well to be fair, you can’t really have a lot of characters essential to the plot when there’s permadeath... it would derail the whole game
@@Acidima non-main characters who appear in the story usually still do so if theyve died, though.
which is silly, but it still means thats not a concern.
lewyn wants to know your location
15 minutes of the Fire Emblem fandom going “DON’T CALL ME OUT LIKE THIS”
We already know what we are. We still enjoy the games though, so it's ok.
😂😂😂bruh he really did, he got to the end and i was just like 😀🙃
tbh I love the games DESPITE a lot of this so we good
I love the games and I liked the video but most of the category feels pretty innacurate for some characters and accuret for other ones
He fell into the classic pitfall of using the fire emblem wiki
As a non fire emblem player, what's wrong with the wiki?
@@vornamenachname2727 the information can often be incorrect people often use their personal experience when writing about unit's
The fool! He fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most well known is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia," but only slightly less well known is this: -Never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line- Never rely on the Fire Emblem wiki.
@@latrin.6413 The fire emblem wiki is really good (minus the general lack of info), the wikiA is really bad.
Ok Mekkkah
Listing Sothe as an oifey is a bold move considering how most sothes actually end up
*This is a Raphael appreciation space* made me happy
Such a missed opportunity to call them Pegasisters
I love the meta joke there was in heroes where even they realise there are probably too many pegasisters trio
i would pay to see him explain jojo’s bizarre adventure
jojo is easy to explain. i would pay him to categorize all the jojo characters, stands included and or seperatly
seeing that BDG knew about jojo (he mentioned it from his pokerap video but there's a potential that the dude didn't watch it) there could be a chance for it in the future tho
Which JoJo stand could help out most in bed?
@@enzoqueijao Obviously it's going to be Ratt's. It molds your flesh in a non-painful way. It could guarantee a fullfilling experience.
I should not be writing this.
@@NoJokesInc00777 Why the fuck would you write that
12:12-12:16, Dimitri; "Is this some kind of twisted joke!?"
10:31 for the legendary quote.
Me, knowing that I live in a country where they sent minors to fight a war for a fucking rock: That's a war crime?
@@andresmohamed2023 it is a war crime under rights of children and the international criminal court.
@@zahedchowdhury0 oh nice, we were on a dictatorship so they didn't follow rules but a war crime? Damn
"Seteth and Byleth have the... they rhyme"
I just noticed something reading ur comment, “they” is a weirdly spelt word.
@@Hyake if you look at any word long enough it looks spelt weird, we speak a weird language
@@thegay I think the amt of "y"'s in your comment gave me the impression that words with "y" in them are weird lol
@@Hyake it's a weird letter yeah
Swords
"How to tell apart all 596 Fire Emblem characters"
*Instantly start grouping all of the characters under archetypes and stripping them of their individuality*
Brian you shining star I hope you never, ever change
Also a lot of the archetypes within themselves are debatable. Of course with who counts as one.
@@korinoriz He did put cherche in edgelord after all
They never had individuality to begin with
@@OrchidAlloy They do, at least later on, but even then only in certain semanitc ways
@@OrchidAlloy Do real humans then?
Welcome Perne to Fire Emblem Heroes
4:22 The foreshadowing.
"Sylvain is motivated to be a fuckboy"
That’s it. He summarised Sylvain's entire character in a single sentence.
And killed me in the process.
Rip
That and Crest babies
Yes, through his whole damn play through even till his final battle, he’s like “whatchu doing after his war, girl?”
And you've just proven you've never gotten Sylvain passed a B support before.
Sylvain and Femby is shipped
In my college Shakespeare class, I did my final presentation on how characters from Twelfth Night are stock Commedia dell’arte characters and how Shakespeare adapted the form into something more English with some characters. After I was done, I noted to my professor that no one in the class reacted to it at all and he was like “You did really well, but it’s a niche topic inside another niche topic.” This video is that on steroids.
I guess the fact that I'm curious about your presentation means I'm a true nerd
"In my college Shakespeare class"
...and breaking down potential influences on Shakespeare's work (in a Shakespeare studies class) was considered a "niche topic"?
Honestly I'm curious what they'd have considered to be "normal" topic by that measure. "Yo, here's how Macbeth was a kinda bad dude who got in over his head"? "Why Romeo probably should've stopped to have a think before doing something rash"?
@@EditEdward Honestly, that's basically what my college class discussed about Shakespeare. I'm guessing this was a seminar or freshman level class and not a 4000 level class
@@EditEdward honestly i just assumed its the type of class u take bc its easy as hell to just bullshit or use sparknotes lmao
That's all academia is baby, niche topics all the way down.
3:52
“The Commedia Del’Anime, the newer, more perfect form of theatre.”
Perfect and actually true.
I love that this is essentially a deconstruction of trope theory's deconstructionism.
BDG: Stock characters. Does that remind you of anything?
Me: The Commedia Del Arte?
BDG: That's right, the Commedia Del Arte!
Me: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good for you nerd! Now everyone knows you are smart! Speak unto us your wisdom!
It also reminded me of the Commedia Del Arte, but I didn't know it by that name, so I just thought "The Italian players with masks and shit"
Drama & film major here. I was LIVING
I thought "The hero's journey" and was somewhat disappointed this isn't the time I get to be smart e.e
whenever i know someyhing i get Very Surprised
"Super Smash should've included more magic babies"
Quote of the year
Is Lucas not good enough for you!?
@@thomasstewart9752 Lucas isn't a fire emblem character ;/
@@0y1on he is however a magic baby.
Thomas Stewart MORE
Adam Rajnovic Ness
Coming back to this after actually playing the fire emblem games is surreal
as an avid fire emblem: awakening liker id like to argue that lon’qu could fit into the base navarre category, ricken could go in the young male mages category, and gaius could fit into the base thieves category as hes literally a thief you recruit while protecting emmeryn. also im glad libra was one of the two “actually interesting” characters because hes my favourite :]
your contacts list can have storylines if you kill their parents
But if he kills all of their parents then they will all have the same storyline, and the problem just come back again!
@@skiimask5357 kill in different ways
r/cursedcomments
I'm pretty sure you need to kill Zain's parents in a game of bocce ball to reveal his backstory
I love watching BDG swing a bat at a hornets’ nest for almost 16 minutes
I'm very surprised I haven't seen any salt yet. Maybe I'm just not deep enough in the comments
@@glutenmom we've given up. we just don't care anymore
@@GastricProblemsHaver I mean fair. I personally dont mind that though. The fire emblem fandom was so bad for so long.
@@glutenmom I disagree with a lot of the video but I also recognise that it's a comedy video soooooo I'm really not gonna lose my mind over it.
i absolutely live for the fact that you included feh ocs, because i love some of them so much and feel like nobody ever remembers they exist in fire emblem videos like this
You have a Teacher’s Pet category, but no Teacher category right next to it for Byleth? Missed opportunity.