The way Boba suffered inside the Sarlacc and later escaped was much more unsettling and disturbing in the Legends short story called "A Barve like that: The Tale of Boba Fett" in comparation to the Book of Boba Fett's version. First, he lost a leg due to digestive acid from Sarlacc, forcing him later to wear a prosthesis that led to painful tumors. Then, Boba spent days trapped in the wall of the Sarlacc and listening the voices of beings (including an ancient Jedi woman) that many centuries ago had fallen into and become part of the Sarlacc. Boba's fervent desire not to become another victim caused him to finally reach the switch that activated the jetpack and allowed him to escape from that hell.
@Avery McLaughlin but the fact the Gravemind is so intelligent means it knows how to torment you in far worse ways, hell even the Didact cracked under the Gravemind and the Didact was one of the most powerful Forerunners alive.
*Fun fact:* One of the reasons Boba betrayed the Yuuzhan Vong was because the way Vong's ships terraformed planets reminded him how the Sarlacc tried to digest him
One of but not the main reason. He didnt betray them because he was never on their side. He knew that they'd turn on them the moment they won the war. They just "played nice" until the time was right.
Yes and no. Part of the mystique of seeing the films as a kid in the 80s was not having any explanations. All the weird and wonderful stuff was just shown to you and your imagination did the rest. The more facts you get the less mysterious it is.
To think that some Sarlacc are older than the Galactic Republic, and that some Sarlacc would be alive until the year 30,000 ABY, that would be over 1,000 generations of Jedi in the future.
So a Sarlac is a mixture of an angler fish, a plant, and a mushroom with a little bit of parasitoid wasp thrown in for good measure. Truly a horrific creature.
@@TheRealAquaz 1 Nuke got us Anime, 2 nukes got us hentai. Imagine what terrifying wonders we’d now have if there had been a 3rd death egg ready to go.
@@TheRealAquaz I can ignore hentai, I'm not sure I can ignore something eating my insides then bursting out of my corpse to eat someone else. Perhaps if we do discover planets with life on them, we should only let robots explore them. The diseases we could bring them or that they could infect us with are too dangerous to imagine. Remember what smallpox did to the Native Americans?
the sarlacc has to be one of the most truely alien creatures ive seen in any media. most of its traits are recognizable but combined in such a strange way it creates something seeming genuinely unique
@@myrojyn This one is machine and nerve and is the more concluded This one is but flesh and faith and is the more deluded - The monument to all their sins
I always wanted to imagine that Shak-ti didn't die there, on Felucia, but instead hid. She knew nothing would follow her in, and the Sarlaac did sort of preserve its victims, so if she could use the Force to trance, decreasing her requirements for living, and allow the Sarlaac to sustain her body, while also slightly using the Force to sort of persuade it to target other prey first, she could have survived for a long time, and then later escaped when her meditation told her the time was right. Back when I was running Star Wars RPG stuff, this was my plan to have her return into whatever era we were in, if I wanted, as she basically used the creature as an incubator/life support system, and used the Force to stave off the worst effects. Granted, this video shows I would have been wrong in a few things, but I didn't know, and it was a safe bet no one else I was running for dud, either.
Every time I replay the Force Unleashed I find it amusing how little "sense" Shaak Ti's death makes. Starkiller assumes she's dead after throwing herself into the monster and even force energy emanates from it, in a similar way that happened when Palpatine was thrown into the DS 2 reactor; but the truth is that she wouldn't die instantly in it, but instead be consumed for roughly a thousand years. She could have easily escaped.
I dont actually think she would of done that, taking such a huge risk for failure for so little reward that she could of just done by using the force alone in some isolated terrain feature to live way longer than normal, like many force users before her did in the past. Especially since she was the most unlikely type of person as a jedi to actually be that bold. The type of force ability required to survive this would be too much a of leap required even for the most powerful and knowledgable force user, not by being undoable but rather in not knowning everything (or anything) about this hellish pandora box.
I am thoroughly convinced that being digested by a sarlacc is the number one worst way to die in Star Wars. Just imagine being kept alive for 1000+ years while being digested from the outside in and hearing the tormented voices of other victims of this ancient monster. It’d be the equivalent of living the worst hell for eternity, and you’ll be begging for the sweet release of death before a day goes past.
It strikes me that the Tattooine Sarlac used something of its sentience to know not to eat a Hutt because the Hutts were a steady source of food. Sarlacs live long enough to figure this stuff out pretty easily.
Honestly, almost every aspect can be found in nature on earth. Anglerfish and parasitic barnacles do the parasite male/female merge thing, there a quite a few hermaphroditic lifeforms, and some fungi explode themselves to release spores.
Sarlaccs are terrifying, like some Elder Dragon threat that simply lives there to feed and torture. Its no wonder Boba gets so many dreams in the new series.
I never knew anything about their infancy stage or that the spores could shoot into space. I'm shook. I thought they were just something that lived in the sand on tatooine.
I wonder if that is why Boba is in the bacta tank in The Book of Boba Fett. To keep the prey alive but digest them with enzymes over thousands of years would mean it is long lasting, and those tendrils could get inside the body. Maybe Boba has Sarlaac enzymes still eating away at him that the Bacta is fighting off.
It burned him bad, I was going off the damage from the now non-canon The Mandelorean Armor. His stuff was either melted from the acid and/or damaged when his jetpack ruptured and exploded.
@@DarkKnight52365 I mean they do some crazy shit but that is so fucked up it doesn’t seem Illogical you’ll just be paralyzed and die after like 1,000-5,000 years.
@@PotatoWithALaptop yes but if they can overcome the paralysis or find something that neutralize that section it would still be worth it in the eyes of the sith.
You speak of the deep sea anglerfish I think. The male bites itself into the back of the female and eventually fuses with it. Thats the only thing male anglerfishes can do really. Also they are more Like a tumor and purely parasitical for the female and dont serve any othe reason than mating.
Or how as a baby it will eat prey animals from the inside out just like some types of wasp larvae will eat spiders or caterpillars from the inside out.
Not much of a Star Wars guy myself, but I do love the sarlacc, and with that like 10 second bit with like “maybe only the sarlacc on tattooine tortures people” I have constructed the idea of a sarlacc that just speaks to its victims like “sorry dude but I need to eat too” “Nah it’s fine my dude I get it”
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Imagine if the sarlacc could produce water to cover up its beak? That way the sarlacc would look like a waterhole which would attract Banthas and eopies which it could eat?
I wonder if someone ever stored their consciousness within a sarlacc? Maybe people would willingly enter the sarlacc to talk to the long dead people or the sarlacc would be possessed by someone
Kudos to the editor for adding the exploded whale footage. I'm from Florence, Oregon, where it happened. It's a local legend that's still talked about 50 years later.
Definitely one of the most fascinating creatures in star wars lore.I could see the sarlacc returning in the book of boba fett eventually.Hopefully boba will put a little extra armor on his jetpack so he doesn't fall in again, however he is smart enough to stay away from there. I hope their is more to learn about sarlaccs in future star wars content.Including the location of their original homeworld if they have one. Also i wonder how many other worlds they live on.
It looked to me that what Boba did to escape actually killed the Sarlacc in the first episode. One of the tentacles was resting on the ground laying still. Not sure tho 🤔
@fire actually that thing from jedi: fallen order is an Ibdis Maw a superorganism that lived on the planet Bracca. While resembling a sarlacc from outside, the Ibdis Maw consisted of a number of mouths connected by a vast digestive system located hundreds of meters below the surface of the planet. Bracca's Scrapper Guild fed the Ibdis Maw metal from the wreckage of scrapped starships, causing its mouths to grow to immense sizes. I thought it was a sarlacc at first.
This started off as a schtick for Jabba the Hut to do the ultimate killing of Luke and with Boba Fett slapstick-comedy dying turned into an epic story arc over the decades with Boba Fett surviving it in an epic struggle and going deeply nerdy in how this beastie can even exist in the Star Wars universe. I'm not hating it. I'm loving it. I'm just curious how long it will take Disney to take this and go Disney on it (abandon canon, one way or another in one degree to another, Disney-twist it) to tick off lifelong Star Wars canon fans and get old and new fans to red-face scream at each other over it. This creature was fleshed out for the most part before Disney acquired Lucas's work and became the highjackers of the Star Wars canon. Disney will Disney this. If they don't, be gratefully and pleasantly surprised.
Awesome video ! Sarlaccs are scary creatures, same with Dianoga's and how the one in the Death Star Trash Compactor named Omi, was a Force-Sensitive Dianoga.
I'm pretty sure Boba said: aye, I can fly out of here with my jetpack. And the starlacc pit was convinced that if it crushed Boba's jetpack, he cannot escape but clearly it was the opposite
I never liked the tongue because it kind of seemed redundant. It makes more sense just falling into it and not having anyway of climbing out and then there's the tentacles to aid in capturing also
Boba forgot the jawas took his armor, but we only knew they took it from him because of his flashback in the bacta tank. In the Mandalorian, we only knew the jawas had his armor, but we didn't know where they got it.
Bravo! And thank you for speaking out on mental well-being. We all have "issues" that we are fully aware of but whether it's fear of embarrassment or ridicule or the thought that we can handle it on our own, we never get the help we need. In this world there are millions of distractions that allow us to escape reality and keep us from being the best "us" we can be. I appreciate your candor and I for one will be checking these guys out and making an honest effort to get myself right this year. Love the info on the Sarlacc too! There aren't words to describe how terrifying it must have been to start that slow slide down the sands into that mouth! ☠️
Kind of reminds me of a motivational poster I made like over ten years ago; Sarlacc: Getting digested for over a thousand years and kept alive for the *ENTIRE DIGESTIVE PROCESS* . . . Better get started . . . :3
You hit the nail on the head with the 'fictional world to distract from reality' thing. I've never heard another content creator address that before. Thank you :)
Love the lore of the sarlacc mixing things that should never happen with biology which strangely does, dispersal reproduction, biological immortality, colonal organisms. Imagine if the great barrier reef was predatory or the honey mushroom parasitised animals. 👍🏻👍🏻
Hands down the Sarlacc is the coolest--albeit most terrifying too--being in starwars. Everything from its metaphysical side to its long life-cycle to its wacky feeding tactics make it one hell of a creature
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I dont think they are native to Tatooine, but a dry planet in a sparsely populated area would be the best place to thrive as no one would dare go near it. Odds are, Saclacc die quickly because they land in the wrong spot and something more intelligent comes along and puts the wrong thing in its mouth (an explosive), killing the Sarlacc. Only a few Sarlacc probably survive the beginning of adulthood, but when they do, they live a long life. Jabba may be interfering with the Sarlacc biology. By using Sarlacc as an execution chamber, theres probably much more in that stomach than a typical Sarlacc will have, as the Sarlacc is in a sparsely populated area, food rarely comes by but when it does, it could take another 100 years before anything else comes along, but Jabba was likely feeding the Sarlacc quite a bit.
@@scottythegreat1 The databooks say that it can emmesh victims into the walls in a way to use them to expand the stomachs if needed. Maybe it's got room for the additions to go in.
So would the souls/ minds of people that fell in to the sarlacc ever be realeased back? like what if it died would they just become one with the force? i really dont understand how it is able to keep peoples minds in there.
There have been a number of horror/sci-fi films where the beast or alien absorbs the mind and being of it's victims. Two that come to mind are "Horror Express" and "The Thing".
@@dominikreinhart3457 or just use mind tricks to make them become drooling idiots and just make them walk into you. …Massive disgusting meat carrots but you get the point.
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Wow great video how you compiled all that info about it -never knew so much was out there. I only remember reading about it in Tales of the Bounty Hunters and was disappointed we didn’t see too much of it in Book of Boba . Hope we get more flashbacks to that
I saw somebody comment here that the zarlaccs remind them of the flood from the Halo series and I had the exact same idea, if you think about it the Gravemind from Halo 2 does resemble a sarlacc..I wouldn't be surprised if the devs took inspiration from it, because graveminds also dissolve and slowly kill their victims for long periods of time and also feeds off their knowledge..hence the name "Gravemind" look at Captain Keys in Halo CE for example, the proto-gravemind was digging through his thoughts trying to find the location of Earth
The Sarlacc species me of the Flood in Halo: ancient, reproduces through spores, infects things, becomes more dangerous as it reproduces, unclear origin and homeworld[, hive mind component]
Amazing. Had no idea so much depth behind this alien beast. What a gem too how part of its sound is film crew stomach digestion sounds after a pizza-fest. That's one for the trivia record books. I will admit to that the similarity of the Sarlacc and Shai'halud is beyond incredibly similar. As a huge Dune fan, to the point where I own every paperback book written by Herbert and even his son, I do appreciate Lucas admiting he was 'inspired' by The Old Man of the desert.
The latter part of the promo spoke to me as I used the SW universe to escape reality at times during the past few years. Thank you Meta for partnering with such aids. I have not used it but I am glad that you are partnering with them.
The force-sensitivity of a sarlacc could be a hunting strategy for them. I could see a mature sarlacc tapping into the force by instinct to draw in nearby animals and force them into its maw.
Looking forward to the day we eventually get to see the Star Wars equivalent of the Gravemind from Halo 2 as a Sarlac. "This is not your grave, but you are welcome in it"
Honestly, I think that’s an overstatement. If the acid in Sarlacc’s stomach is so powerful it can tear one’s leg apart in less than a week, it doesn’t make sense that you take 1000 years to die.
I just want to take a moment and appreciate you for the visual approximation. I was just thinking about that whale explosion earlier today. Thank you for that
3:22, is footage from Florence Oregon when a whale washed up on shore in 1970, and the department of transportation decided that blowing it up with half a ton of TNT, was the best course of action. It was not....
Hey metanerdz as always awesome video, did you notice in the book of boba fett the massif that suddenly dies? I think it dug up a sarlacc and it attacked it!
Meta nerds could you make a story around Darth Bane and how he created the rule of two thank you so much for the videos especially those revolving around Sith history I really like those
If the guy who owned the skyhook in Shadows Of The Empire were a mixed martial artist, you think he'd have a signature move called the Xizor Kick? (takes a bow)
Question what would be in a fully equipped medical station besides a bacta tank and a few droids is there any special sergical equipped besides those scanners seen in the clone wars and bad batch ?
The fact that the krait dragon feeds on sarlec made me appriciate the dragon alot more
What I understand is, there needs to be krait dragon breeders for this tumor of an abomination
@@jacksnexus2616 it needs to go
@@jacksnexus2616
But then what would the dragons eat?
@@beastmaster0934 after its done eating every sarlak, kill it to extinction so we don't have to worry about those anymore
@@beastmaster0934 Krayt dragons normally prefer to eat Banthas & Drawbacks but some are known to eat Sarlacc
The way Boba suffered inside the Sarlacc and later escaped was much more unsettling and disturbing in the Legends short story called "A Barve like that: The Tale of Boba Fett" in comparation to the Book of Boba Fett's version. First, he lost a leg due to digestive acid from Sarlacc, forcing him later to wear a prosthesis that led to painful tumors. Then, Boba spent days trapped in the wall of the Sarlacc and listening the voices of beings (including an ancient Jedi woman) that many centuries ago had fallen into and become part of the Sarlacc. Boba's fervent desire not to become another victim caused him to finally reach the switch that activated the jetpack and allowed him to escape from that hell.
Correction, he tricked the sarlacc into making his jetpack explode
Makes me think of the Gravemind.
@@minicle426 Gravemind would be worse
@Avery McLaughlin but the fact the Gravemind is so intelligent means it knows how to torment you in far worse ways, hell even the Didact cracked under the Gravemind and the Didact was one of the most powerful Forerunners alive.
@@acrazysheepdog1555 damn when you think about it like that! The didact really did get cracked buy that thing 😨🤯
*Fun fact:* One of the reasons Boba betrayed the Yuuzhan Vong was because the way Vong's ships terraformed planets reminded him how the Sarlacc tried to digest him
That's very true
One of but not the main reason. He didnt betray them because he was never on their side. He knew that they'd turn on them the moment they won the war. They just "played nice" until the time was right.
Even more fun fact, the Yuuzhan Vong don’t exist anymore so nothing you said matters lol 😂
@@anthonycleveland118 still factual nonetheless lol.
Burn them all
Does anyone else think it's amazing that something so small in Star Wars is explained in such depth and has all this lore?
Sarlacc lore is better than the entire sequel story
@@sebastianalvaradocolon5983 facts
I was looking for a comment like this, lol.
and KK said they have no source material
Yes and no. Part of the mystique of seeing the films as a kid in the 80s was not having any explanations. All the weird and wonderful stuff was just shown to you and your imagination did the rest. The more facts you get the less mysterious it is.
To think that some Sarlacc are older than the Galactic Republic, and that some Sarlacc would be alive until the year 30,000 ABY, that would be over 1,000 generations of Jedi in the future.
You are a bold one
GENERAL KENOBI, YOU ARE A BOLD ONE
So a Sarlac is a mixture of an angler fish, a plant, and a mushroom with a little bit of parasitoid wasp thrown in for good measure.
Truly a horrific creature.
You forgot the hentai part which makes anything worse. Curse after war Japan xD
@@TheRealAquaz 1 Nuke got us Anime, 2 nukes got us hentai. Imagine what terrifying wonders we’d now have if there had been a 3rd death egg ready to go.
@@TheRealAquaz I can ignore hentai, I'm not sure I can ignore something eating my insides then bursting out of my corpse to eat someone else.
Perhaps if we do discover planets with life on them, we should only let robots explore them. The diseases we could bring them or that they could infect us with are too dangerous to imagine. Remember what smallpox did to the Native Americans?
@@twistedyogert I can't ignore Hentai cause TH-cam Community posts throws this shit at my face. The other thing yeah, i'm on your side there
It's a glorified pitcher plant
the sarlacc has to be one of the most truely alien creatures ive seen in any media. most of its traits are recognizable but combined in such a strange way it creates something seeming genuinely unique
When you mentioned the possibility of the Sarlacc could create a hive-mind, my first thought went to the Flood from Halo.
But this one can’t really move.
Or the Zerg overmind from StarCraft.
I am a monument to all your sins
@@myrojyn This one is machine and nerve and is the more concluded
This one is but flesh and faith and is the more deluded - The monument to all their sins
Sarlacc in ROTJ: “I did not expect you in this grave. But you are still welcome in it.”
I always wanted to imagine that Shak-ti didn't die there, on Felucia, but instead hid. She knew nothing would follow her in, and the Sarlaac did sort of preserve its victims, so if she could use the Force to trance, decreasing her requirements for living, and allow the Sarlaac to sustain her body, while also slightly using the Force to sort of persuade it to target other prey first, she could have survived for a long time, and then later escaped when her meditation told her the time was right. Back when I was running Star Wars RPG stuff, this was my plan to have her return into whatever era we were in, if I wanted, as she basically used the creature as an incubator/life support system, and used the Force to stave off the worst effects. Granted, this video shows I would have been wrong in a few things, but I didn't know, and it was a safe bet no one else I was running for dud, either.
If it's stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid
Every time I replay the Force Unleashed I find it amusing how little "sense" Shaak Ti's death makes. Starkiller assumes she's dead after throwing herself into the monster and even force energy emanates from it, in a similar way that happened when Palpatine was thrown into the DS 2 reactor; but the truth is that she wouldn't die instantly in it, but instead be consumed for roughly a thousand years. She could have easily escaped.
I dont actually think she would of done that, taking such a huge risk for failure for so little reward that she could of just done by using the force alone in some isolated terrain feature to live way longer than normal, like many force users before her did in the past. Especially since she was the most unlikely type of person as a jedi to actually be that bold. The type of force ability required to survive this would be too much a of leap required even for the most powerful and knowledgable force user, not by being undoable but rather in not knowning everything (or anything) about this hellish pandora box.
I am thoroughly convinced that being digested by a sarlacc is the number one worst way to die in Star Wars. Just imagine being kept alive for 1000+ years while being digested from the outside in and hearing the tormented voices of other victims of this ancient monster. It’d be the equivalent of living the worst hell for eternity, and you’ll be begging for the sweet release of death before a day goes past.
I though getting incinerated by disruptor is the worst.
@@Benz2533 But getting disrupted lasts between 0-10 seconds. Getting eaten by a sarlacc lasts 1000+ years.
technically you'd die within a few minutes or so, but that is just as bad
You are digested over 1000 years. Not kept alive. You die shortly after being eaten.
@@FastTquick Except that during extremely traumatic events our perception of time slows down. Ten seconds could feel like ten minutes.
It strikes me that the Tattooine Sarlac used something of its sentience to know not to eat a Hutt because the Hutts were a steady source of food. Sarlacs live long enough to figure this stuff out pretty easily.
Or Hutts are just too.. undigestable. Like a bezoar that talks.
@DemonicAdj I'd imagine a Hutt being like eating a really big slug.
That has got to be the most bizarre life cycle for any fictional creature.
Honestly, almost every aspect can be found in nature on earth.
Anglerfish and parasitic barnacles do the parasite male/female merge thing, there a quite a few hermaphroditic lifeforms, and some fungi explode themselves to release spores.
Nah the Dune Sandworm life-cycle is more bizarre.
@@SportyMabamba not even close
@@BB-44 dune sandworms don't even have a biological equivalent
@@silvussol8966 you ever here of the tree that if a fire doesn't start it sets itself on fire so it's seeds can grow else were
Sarlaccs are terrifying, like some Elder Dragon threat that simply lives there to feed and torture.
Its no wonder Boba gets so many dreams in the new series.
Aql
Km
It’s fucked
I never knew anything about their infancy stage or that the spores could shoot into space. I'm shook. I thought they were just something that lived in the sand on tatooine.
Or spores that could easily be carried offworld by space travellers. As space travel has existed at least 30k years in the lore
I wonder if that is why Boba is in the bacta tank in The Book of Boba Fett. To keep the prey alive but digest them with enzymes over thousands of years would mean it is long lasting, and those tendrils could get inside the body. Maybe Boba has Sarlaac enzymes still eating away at him that the Bacta is fighting off.
Makes a lot of sense
Maybe he never actually escaped...
That would actually explain why it seems that he lost a lot of his fighting skill except for brief moments
It burned him bad, I was going off the damage from the now non-canon The Mandelorean Armor. His stuff was either melted from the acid and/or damaged when his jetpack ruptured and exploded.
I imagine parents telling their children to chew their food or they'll swallow a little Saarlaci, just to scare them into having good manners.
I'm not even a massive star wars fan but the sarlacc is just incredibly interesting and intriguing
I'm surprised no sith uprooted a sarlacc to get the longevity to live even longer, and they could possibly use the pain to increase their power
I don’t think any sith is that crazy.
@@PotatoWithALaptop then you seriously underestimate the sith
@@DarkKnight52365 I mean they do some crazy shit but that is so fucked up it doesn’t seem Illogical you’ll just be paralyzed and die after like 1,000-5,000 years.
@@PotatoWithALaptop yes but if they can overcome the paralysis or find something that neutralize that section it would still be worth it in the eyes of the sith.
@@PotatoWithALaptop go look at Darth Bane
The sarlacc reproduction reminds me of some real life fish, that tend to fuse with the female. Always love when art imitates life.
You speak of the deep sea anglerfish I think. The male bites itself into the back of the female and eventually fuses with it.
Thats the only thing male anglerfishes can do really. Also they are more Like a tumor and purely parasitical for the female and dont serve any othe reason than mating.
Or how as a baby it will eat prey animals from the inside out just like some types of wasp larvae will eat spiders or caterpillars from the inside out.
@@bene_eins1308 - Parasitic barnacles do it too, the female latches on to a crab, then a smaller male latches onto the female and merges eventually.
@@bene_eins1308 I once saw a photo of a female anglerfish that had three males attached to it.
it is based on the angler fish
Not much of a Star Wars guy myself, but I do love the sarlacc, and with that like 10 second bit with like “maybe only the sarlacc on tattooine tortures people” I have constructed the idea of a sarlacc that just speaks to its victims like “sorry dude but I need to eat too”
“Nah it’s fine my dude I get it”
Yeah I’d think that too
Kinda funny
Imagine if the sarlaac wanted to be vegetarian but Jabba only ever fed him people
This gives the phrase "a fate worse than death" a whole new meaning.
I must say I'm very glad to see that someone who produces this type of content has a concern with mental health. Because I can tell you, I've used many a type of lore from many a fictional universe as a means to cope with various situations I've been in. And sure it helped me cope, but it didn't solve the issue, still I'm a firm believer that if I hadn't consumed this type of content I'd very much not be writing this comment now.
So from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for all that you do and keep it up!🙏 And may the Force be with you, always😊
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Imagine if the sarlacc could produce water to cover up its beak? That way the sarlacc would look like a waterhole which would attract Banthas and eopies which it could eat?
Oh that's just terrifying
well im never approaching a desert oasis again
@@Mast3rKK I feel like if a sarlacc actually arrived here and tried to grow someone somewhere would kill it via explosion
Wait until you play Star Wars battlefront 2
There’s a Sarlacc on Felucia (can’t remember if that’s the exact name) that’s underwater and it likely does this- as well as feeding on aquatic life
I wonder if someone ever stored their consciousness within a sarlacc? Maybe people would willingly enter the sarlacc to talk to the long dead people or the sarlacc would be possessed by someone
Damn creepy fan fiction
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Kudos to the editor for adding the exploded whale footage. I'm from Florence, Oregon, where it happened. It's a local legend that's still talked about 50 years later.
F l o r e n c e you say⁉️
Definitely one of the most fascinating creatures in star wars lore.I could see the sarlacc returning in the book of boba fett eventually.Hopefully boba will put a little extra armor on his jetpack so he doesn't fall in again, however he is smart enough to stay away from there.
I hope their is more to learn about sarlaccs in future star wars content.Including the location of their original homeworld if they have one.
Also i wonder how many other worlds they live on.
It looked to me that what Boba did to escape actually killed the Sarlacc in the first episode. One of the tentacles was resting on the ground laying still. Not sure tho 🤔
@@hudscp possibly
There is one confirmed on dathomir
@@judahgjudahg2095 really in canon?
@fire actually that thing from jedi: fallen order is an Ibdis Maw a superorganism that lived on the planet Bracca. While resembling a sarlacc from outside, the Ibdis Maw consisted of a number of mouths connected by a vast digestive system located hundreds of meters below the surface of the planet. Bracca's Scrapper Guild fed the Ibdis Maw metal from the wreckage of scrapped starships, causing its mouths to grow to immense sizes.
I thought it was a sarlacc at first.
This just makes that krayt dragon that Mando killed so much cooler it ate a sarlacc that was way bigger than the one boba escaped
Good. Something needs to kill the sadistic bastards.
@@threemooseqateers9689 agreed
@@celter.45acp98 wat
This started off as a schtick for Jabba the Hut to do the ultimate killing of Luke and with Boba Fett slapstick-comedy dying turned into an epic story arc over the decades with Boba Fett surviving it in an epic struggle and going deeply nerdy in how this beastie can even exist in the Star Wars universe.
I'm not hating it. I'm loving it. I'm just curious how long it will take Disney to take this and go Disney on it (abandon canon, one way or another in one degree to another, Disney-twist it) to tick off lifelong Star Wars canon fans and get old and new fans to red-face scream at each other over it. This creature was fleshed out for the most part before Disney acquired Lucas's work and became the highjackers of the Star Wars canon. Disney will Disney this. If they don't, be gratefully and pleasantly surprised.
LOVE that you used the exploding whale visual!
3:04 Sarlac Conception sounds a lot like how it works for an angler fish
Thanks so much for the content meta nerdz. We all appreciate it. Keep up the amazing work brother
In-universe, how did Star Wars biologists figure out what happens to the victims if the process takes so long?
Species that live hundreds of years keeping watch on one for generations maybe? I don't know.
They look at fossils sarlaccs with lots of victims ranging from new to many years
I always thought the slow digestion part was made up by Jabba to scare his victims
Awesome video ! Sarlaccs are scary creatures, same with Dianoga's and how the one in the Death Star Trash Compactor named Omi, was a Force-Sensitive Dianoga.
I'm pretty sure Boba said: aye, I can fly out of here with my jetpack.
And the starlacc pit was convinced that if it crushed Boba's jetpack, he cannot escape but clearly it was the opposite
thanks for that end quote. was very wholesome.
I never liked the tongue because it kind of seemed redundant. It makes more sense just falling into it and not having anyway of climbing out and then there's the tentacles to aid in capturing also
nice background photo did you draw it?
it conveys the idea that the sarlacc is an animal that eats people rather than just a lifeless hole
Boba forgot the jawas took his armor, but we only knew they took it from him because of his flashback in the bacta tank.
In the Mandalorian, we only knew the jawas had his armor, but we didn't know where they got it.
The Sarlacc caused Boba a memory loss while he was unconscious in there for a while after the Khetanna's destruction.
Bravo! And thank you for speaking out on mental well-being. We all have "issues" that we are fully aware of but whether it's fear of embarrassment or ridicule or the thought that we can handle it on our own, we never get the help we need. In this world there are millions of distractions that allow us to escape reality and keep us from being the best "us" we can be. I appreciate your candor and I for one will be checking these guys out and making an honest effort to get myself right this year.
Love the info on the Sarlacc too! There aren't words to describe how terrifying it must have been to start that slow slide down the sands into that mouth! ☠️
Better help is a scam.
Very well done video. Subscribed
The sarlaac is to me one of the most unsettling creatures in all of Star wars.
Cool stuff, would like to hear about the 6 appendage monster in ep 1 of book of boba!
Kind of reminds me of a motivational poster I made like over ten years ago;
Sarlacc: Getting digested for over a thousand years and kept alive for the *ENTIRE DIGESTIVE PROCESS* . . . Better get started . . . :3
You hit the nail on the head with the 'fictional world to distract from reality' thing. I've never heard another content creator address that before. Thank you :)
Love the lore of the sarlacc mixing things that should never happen with biology which strangely does, dispersal reproduction, biological immortality, colonal organisms.
Imagine if the great barrier reef was predatory or the honey mushroom parasitised animals.
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Christ, imagine a world with multiple sarlaacs, except its actually just one big one with multiple mouths
06:20 The Tuskans said "The oceans dried up". Could that be because of the Sarlaac's arrival?
Nah the rakata of the infinite empire glassed the planet.
@@BaneRain because they thought the Kumumgah engineered the plague that made them unable to use the force.
Glad to finally see a new video. TY.
My first time watching a video from you. Good stuff homie
the Sarlacc have to be the creepiest and most fascinating creatures in all of sci-fi fantasy
Hands down the Sarlacc is the coolest--albeit most terrifying too--being in starwars. Everything from its metaphysical side to its long life-cycle to its wacky feeding tactics make it one hell of a creature
Thank you for covering the most interesting (in my opinion) beast in Star Wars.
I know it's a ad for mental health... But seeing that kind of ad instead of RAID SHADOW LEGENDS, well, it just earned my sub. I respect that sir. Keep on helping people. ☺
Respect my friend I love you your Video definitely doing a great thing. Keep up the good work bro
I like to think The Sarlac is native to Tatooine, there's so many of them in Shadows of the Empire game
You had to ride/hover over them I remember... good times
I dont think they are native to Tatooine, but a dry planet in a sparsely populated area would be the best place to thrive as no one would dare go near it. Odds are, Saclacc die quickly because they land in the wrong spot and something more intelligent comes along and puts the wrong thing in its mouth (an explosive), killing the Sarlacc. Only a few Sarlacc probably survive the beginning of adulthood, but when they do, they live a long life.
Jabba may be interfering with the Sarlacc biology. By using Sarlacc as an execution chamber, theres probably much more in that stomach than a typical Sarlacc will have, as the Sarlacc is in a sparsely populated area, food rarely comes by but when it does, it could take another 100 years before anything else comes along, but Jabba was likely feeding the Sarlacc quite a bit.
@@scottythegreat1 The databooks say that it can emmesh victims into the walls in a way to use them to expand the stomachs if needed. Maybe it's got room for the additions to go in.
So would the souls/ minds of people that fell in to the sarlacc ever be realeased back? like what if it died would they just become one with the force? i really dont understand how it is able to keep peoples minds in there.
Think of it like a hive mind... several voices with no control
It probably copies their mind. I don't think it actually traps the mind..,.. hopefully
Yall are thinking in terms of "minds" when really this thing is trapping their SOULS or in Star wars terms their "Force"
There have been a number of horror/sci-fi films where the beast or alien absorbs the mind and being of it's victims.
Two that come to mind are "Horror Express" and "The Thing".
They become one with the sarlaccs so more IQs for sarlac
Imagine puumping a load of coke in and droping a load of mentos.
"I need all the Pop Rocks you've got!"
How horrifying would it be if a sarlac was force sensitive?
Why wait for food to come to you when you just force grab them😂?
@@dominikreinhart3457 or just use mind tricks to make them become drooling idiots and just make them walk into you.
…Massive disgusting meat carrots but you get the point.
it sort of is when it's doing it's 10000 years digestive process
that would be the pheromones @@TheSandwhichman108
The only thing scarier is the sand dragon since it can just pluck those things from the ground like carrots.
This was an amazing presentation!
In my honest opinion all your videos really do help me to escape to a new Galaxy and in a reality in my honest opinion your videos among Sith Lord are the most interesting ones in my opinion because I'm fascinated to learn about the Sith and dockside and you are TH-cam channel and TH-cam videos make that possible which I thank you so much for also happy New Year
Wow great video how you compiled all that info about it -never knew so much was out there. I only remember reading about it in Tales of the Bounty Hunters and was disappointed we didn’t see too much of it in Book of Boba . Hope we get more flashbacks to that
The Star wars Galaxy can be a dangerous place to be
I saw somebody comment here that the zarlaccs remind them of the flood from the Halo series and I had the exact same idea, if you think about it the Gravemind from Halo 2 does resemble a sarlacc..I wouldn't be surprised if the devs took inspiration from it, because graveminds also dissolve and slowly kill their victims for long periods of time and also feeds off their knowledge..hence the name "Gravemind" look at Captain Keys in Halo CE for example, the proto-gravemind was digging through his thoughts trying to find the location of Earth
The Sarlacc species me of the Flood in Halo: ancient, reproduces through spores, infects things, becomes more dangerous as it reproduces, unclear origin and homeworld[, hive mind component]
the Oregon Whale Explosion as an 'approximation' of sarlacc birth made me lol
Amazing.
Had no idea so much depth behind this alien beast.
What a gem too how part of its sound is film crew stomach digestion sounds after a pizza-fest. That's one for the trivia record books.
I will admit to that the similarity of the Sarlacc and Shai'halud is beyond incredibly similar. As a huge Dune fan, to the point where I own every paperback book written by Herbert and even his son, I do appreciate Lucas admiting he was 'inspired' by The Old Man of the desert.
"Never mistake yourself for the hell you find yourself in" stuck with me for a while. fantastic video 😁
Watched jedi at the cinema at about 11 yrs of age, the scarlac always freaked me out.
I've been waiting for you Metanerdz. You post the vid at last. The circle is now complete.
The latter part of the promo spoke to me as I used the SW universe to escape reality at times during the past few years. Thank you Meta for partnering with such aids. I have not used it but I am glad that you are partnering with them.
So the Sarlacc is definitely one of the scariest things in star wars then
You know it’s gonna be good when you see the inside of a creature’s stomach less than 10 seconds in
The force-sensitivity of a sarlacc could be a hunting strategy for them. I could see a mature sarlacc tapping into the force by instinct to draw in nearby animals and force them into its maw.
This is cool. Thanks for the enthralling video.
Looking forward to the day we eventually get to see the Star Wars equivalent of the Gravemind from Halo 2 as a Sarlac.
"This is not your grave, but you are welcome in it"
Ok but if boba was the first person to actually escape the sarlac pit, then how did people find out that it kept you alive for generations? 🤔🤔🤔
Honestly, I think that’s an overstatement. If the acid in Sarlacc’s stomach is so powerful it can tear one’s leg apart in less than a week, it doesn’t make sense that you take 1000 years to die.
look i get the whole sponsorship thing but i’m not gonna write my paper dude i’d rather watch this
Damn Bobba must have some amazing willpower to survive that.
It reminds me a lot of the gravemind from halo 2.
I just want to take a moment and appreciate you for the visual approximation. I was just thinking about that whale explosion earlier today. Thank you for that
“Technology in the suit”
That suit doesn’t even have a fricken *respirator* !
Another amazing video
16:03 I'm pretty sure the symbolism is that its the last thing you yell out before you fall in
Take care of yourself and I hope you have an awesome 2022. When life looks bad, hold on just a little longer.
This man spared no expense in this video
3:22, is footage from Florence Oregon when a whale washed up on shore in 1970, and the department of transportation decided that blowing it up with half a ton of TNT, was the best course of action. It was not....
Giant animal: there you ate my flesh happy?
Young sarlac: I want the bone marrow
Hey metanerdz as always awesome video, did you notice in the book of boba fett the massif that suddenly dies? I think it dug up a sarlacc and it attacked it!
Yeah idk what that was
I love these small documentaries! Have you ever thought about doing any videos on dune?
Yeah definitely but I don't know it as well and idk how I could plan that out
So basically the Sarlacc is a painful version of the fountain of youth
Headcrab level of disgustingly horror! I love it!
That being said that particular sarlacc was killed therefore bobba saved couple of jedi and thousands of souls being tormented.
Thank you for opening with such an important message about mental health.
I love how you used the footage of them blowing up the dead whale to visually approximate it ejecting spores into space
Meta nerds could you make a story around Darth Bane and how he created the rule of two thank you so much for the videos especially those revolving around Sith history I really like those
If the guy who owned the skyhook in Shadows Of The Empire were a mixed martial artist, you think he'd have a signature move called the Xizor Kick?
(takes a bow)
Question what would be in a fully equipped medical station besides a bacta tank and a few droids is there any special sergical equipped besides those scanners seen in the clone wars and bad batch ?
Thank you kindly for the heads up about better health. 😎 I wonder if a sarlacc could survive on a planet like Hoth. Interesting to think about.
You also might want to do some thing on the sarlcc with the stupendous wave and the lore master.
Loved this video as always cant wait for the next one
Starts 2:30
if somehow a person could merge with a Sarlaac they would surely become some kind of god emperor of the desert planet of ... Tatooine