This man really did a "let's start at the beginning: The creation of the universe" joke and then ACTUALLY started at the creation of the universe. Legendary.
I feel like there will eventually be a video where the lore summary takes up 95% of the runtime, and it just ends with "Oh yeah, the game is good, too." And I'd still watch every second.
it took *way too long* for me to realize this is a faux lore video. but then i realized, it never was a faux lore video, nor it was a real lore video. this was a documentary.
3:00 CHAPTER 1: The Creation Of The Universe 6:40 CHAPTER 2: The Band of The Hawk 9:56 CHAPTER 3: Pretending I'm a Superman 14:58 CHAPTER 4: Bam Bam You're Dead 18:59 CHAPTER 5: Don't Be a Jackass Bam 22:55 CHAPTER 6: Tony Hawk's Underground 29:31 CHAPTER 7: Viva La Bam 36:42 CHAPTER 8: Sirens Of an American Wasteland 42:05 CHAPTER 9: The Unthinkable 46:11 THE FINAL CHAPTER: Holding on to What I am
This is pretty much an extended version of that Nuclear Ghandi joke in the previous video, but Anthony The Hawk The First and extended to 50 minutes, and getting gradually crazier. this is pure art
In all fairness, we all knew the American Wasteland you was always gonna be the best one of the bunch, for he was the one to tame the ways of evil into something good. He channelled the aura of destruction that Knoxville brought into the equation by conducting his own acts of wanton destruction, albeit for the greater good of society via the Skate Ranch. Balance has always been the true path.
Got very excited when I saw the title and Lil' Woolz early on, never would've expected a literary deep dive and analysis of a skateboarding game's story mode. Always pleasantly surprising
Great video all around! I’m saddened by the decision not to mention Demoness from THPS3 considering she was the inventor of the Anti-Christ Air. With such a dangerous trick having the power of splitting timelines I was sure there’d be mention of the origin of it. I do understand needing to trim the edges when piecing together this Iliad of skateboarding
The year is 3021. Humanity has been all but forgotten. All the remains is a single USB drive that an alien race had managed to salvage. Back on their home planet, they load up this video, hoping to find some sort of evidence of human life. The first recording is broadcasted throughout the planet. Holographs of the video start to pop up everywhere; from street corners to the dark skies of the planet. Watching this video, they are in awe at the footage. The concept of points, the god-like group of the Band Of Hawk, and Jackass. By god, Jackass. Tears fill their faces as they discover not only life but the history of the universe itself. What took humanity eons to figure out, they now possess in the palm of their hand. What started as them just watching the flash drive out of an innate curiosity, soon turned to them kneeling in respect to the gods that led humanity into the age of points. The cult of the board would soon rise up, as skateboards become common household objects used for worship and prayer tradition. A new age of skateboarding has been ushered in, and with it, the rise of points as a currency. Video games soon take the form of history books, with Tony Hawk Pro Skater being equal to that of the Bible. Chrono Trigger is discarded and trashed, used only as a paperweight at best. Eric Sparrow becomes that to the devil, with evil skaters being warned that if they misbehave, they will descend into hell where Eric Sparrow watches over them. In bed, a young alien prays to Tony Hawk, begging for the new day to let him pass the trials of playing through these historic monuments of games, to prove himself worthy of wielding a skateboard.
Thanks so much for including that lore summary. As someone who hasn’t played the games, I was worried I’d be totally lost. Btw which timeline leads to the Tony Hawk selling NFTs? I heard some people say it was a misguided hubris in an attempt to find more points, while others claim it proves Tony was always like Bam, able to be influenced by darkness.
The most likely timeline would be the THUG2 timeline, as that would've been when Tony realized all was in futility, and if you can't beat 'em, join 'em
2 years later, I still think this is my favorite Bumbles McFumbles video. Puts your writing on full display and it carries the entire video. I’m not sure if I’d call any part here your best material, but the overall quality is consistently high across the entire runtime.
By far the most compelling documentary I've ever seen. Ken Burns is left in awe of your dedication to combing through the annals of history to give us mere bystanders the chance to vicariously experience the turning point in human history. Bravo, I say. Bravo.
Holy crap bumbles, that rant and theoretical explanation of the universal point system and Tony Hawk's point accomplishments is by far the greatest rant in the history of TH-cam. I laughed until I cried no joke. I have never been so thoroughly entertained. This is the greatest video on TH-cam.
You forgot one fact in the story: Before you can get a chance to try and cross the timeline you had to prove yourself hence “Proving Grounds”. In order to get back you have to gain the skills to prove you can be trusted with the legacy of Skateboarding. You have to rig your own skatetopia not for paradise but to push yourself beyond your limits. This self challenge takes a hardcore level of training. But once you have reclaimed your pro skills, you challenged Eric once more and won. But when you finally have mastered the three paths of skateboarding, you realize you are not the one who can truly bring skateboarding to the future. Only Tony Hawk can do that. but you need to take care of one problem: Eric. So when you return and punched Eric you returned the mantle back to Tony and you went back to your proving grounds to keep what remains of Eric in check.
May 12,1968 Tony Hawk is born. “After graduating from Torrey Pines High School in 1968....” Either Tony Hawk is a magnificently genius infant....or that’s 1986.
Ya know, I was gonna praise you for stringing together a fun BS narrative that rivals the "What’s in an OP" for Shrek out of the only sports game I really enjoyed from my childhood. And then you started showing Underground 2 footage and I remembered.... Oh yeah, this crazy stuff really happened. Like... How could I have forgotten? Congrats, sir! You are making me question my childhood! and not in a bad way~
I watched this video when it first came while on the brink of a panic attack and I convinced myself it was some fever dream I had until rewatching it now.
An epic tale of good vs evil. A story regaling the very nature of those two concepts, of many timelines for victory and defeat, of the very fate of all reality in the hands of one soul! And it centers on skateboarding. This is the content we all desire people.
I often comment things like “majestic” and “sublime” in videos of animals doing goofs or fat people dancing, but this time I mean it. This was amazing.
glad you covered the timeline where custom skater delivers the punch to eric that skips the end duel, vanquishing all evil. i do have to wonder though, where does THUGPro fit in this timeline?
Why is the John Maddon jumpscare more effective than most horror games? Five Nights at Freddy's, get out of here. Amensia, really living up to your name by being forgetful. The REAL king of horror is here.
On the note of Spider-man you need to check the tomes of the Webslinger. For Doom Guy....That one aludes me because I can not find any of the slayers tomes, journals, or legends due to him being sealed away forever....the only who would know is Isabelle his bestie but she won't tell out of respect for her friend
41:58 I think there’s a bit more to it than just “Downhill Jam is about a dead Tony of the Hawk”. I mean, it IS, but still. Stepping out of the lore for a second, if I remember correctly, the downhill jam sections were always the real life Tony Hawk’s favorite part of the pro skater games. It makes sense, then, why a realm comprised of these challenges would await Tony of the Hawk on the other side. This _is_ his “personal Skatetopia”, after all, a place where all skaters can be free to live out their best lives, created just for Tony. A place where not only can skating thrive and all, let alone those who partake are happy, but where Tony of the Hawk can enjoy a more simple pleasure of just doing what he loves.
i like how 90% of the footage can be random bullshit from some netflix documentary completely unrelated to skateboarding during the bam segment and id be none the wiser
9:16 Tony Hawk would then unlock the power of Tusk Act 4 and, using his infinitely rotating fingernails, was able to defeat President George W. Bush in an epic skateboarding duel, cursing him with the Infinite Rotation
Jackass is the opposite of all good, and that’s the best part of it You also forget knoxville soon realised what he had done and got rid of bam to try redeem himself
The only thing I took aways from this video is that certain types of snakes can jump, and I now believe that planet earth was a mistake and needs to be burned
"To the esteemed Professor McBumbles, I write to you with great gratitude regarding your teachings on the history of skateboarding, points, and the war between Tony of the Hawk and Bam Margera. It was a truly fascinating period of my life to see you present your research and teachings in front of us all. Though, there have been two things that caught my eye as I sat through it all. In your seminar regarding the history of creation you mentioned that 'bailing' would lose humanity points and that resulted due to negative actions. Would it be reasonable to assume that JACKASS's method of accruing points would fall under the same umbrella? After all, based on the footage you've provided, many of the stunts they've pulled off were cruel, unusual, and at times literally bailing to hurt oneself to earn/lose those points. The same could apply to this offshoot subculture of skateboarding I've been studying as of recent, the Hall of Meat ceremonies in the SKATE sub-timeline. Though, that would beg the question as to whether or not that subculture is like JACKASS or if it's an honorary sort of thing, as if to pay respect to the pain. But one other thing that's interested me the most is the outlook of the past both Tony and Bam share post-THUG. They share this...theme, this common trait of wanting to go back to the way things were. In the THUG2 timeline, Bam keeps resetting it over and over to relive the high of the destruction of Skatopia. In the THPS HD and GB/GBA timelines, he tries to go back to when things were better and as you've stated, let the evils of the world and his murder of Bam ruin his precious memories, resulting in the THPS5 timeline. And when Tony entrusted the American Wasteland version of us the power to fix skateboarding for good, we create the world of THPS 1+2, yet allow Tony to retain his memories and knowledge. You have said so yourself, an important facet of humanity is that we can never go back and can only move forward. In doing so, we risk destroying everything that makes us who we are. It's true that THPS-1+2 could count as a brand new future, much like how Super Mario Galaxy created a whole new universe with its own Big Bang. However, I've been thinking about this comparison between all timelines, and... While I can't speak for Tony, Bam, and every single one of us, I think I can understand the connecting tissue here. All of us are subject to the whims of nostalgia, of the good ol' days, of the times when we didn't have to worry about our deeper-rooted issues. It is one of the first things we resort to when fleeing from ourselves and our problems. We, Tony, and Bam all have a love for skating, some more than others. As proven in the THPS 1+2 timeline, all we want to just skate. To quote the legendary bards that make Goldfinger, we're all trying to keep the ground on our feet because it seems that the world is falling around us. The nights are all long as we try to sing this song to try and make all the answers more than just 'Maybe.' But we're all so confused about what to do, that sometimes we just want to throw it all away. As we're growing older all the time and looking older all the time, we tend to feel younger in our minds as we march on forward. It's scary, but we must. We can only move forward by taking the lessons learned from our mistakes in the past and cherishing the memories that made them so...memorable. Like Tony of the Hawk, I, like many others, have to keep holding on to what I am, pretending I'm a Superman. Sincerely, Some Skater"
Took me halfway into the video to figure out you used raidraptors as the transition because of tony "hawk", even though they are falcons. mist valley would be appropriate too, and while i haven't finihsed watching the video yet, i hope genex birdman shows up somewhere
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This man really did a "let's start at the beginning: The creation of the universe" joke and then ACTUALLY started at the creation of the universe. Legendary.
It’s Jack
He’s an absolute insane man
"Let me take you back to the beginning of Tony's story."
Chapter 1: The Creation of the Universe
"Haha, what a funny gag."
... It wasn't a gag.
Sprinkled with a bit of Steel Ball Run to enhance its flavor.
I feel like there will eventually be a video where the lore summary takes up 95% of the runtime, and it just ends with "Oh yeah, the game is good, too."
And I'd still watch every second.
Balan: A Critical 3rd Look
it took *way too long* for me to realize this is a faux lore video.
but then i realized, it never was a faux lore video, nor it was a real lore video.
this was a documentary.
I've never heard such a tale of incomprehensible bullshit but it's incredibly entertaining and I love it
Imagine getting jumpscared by the late John Madden not once. But *twice*
...I wasn't expecting the second time to be fair
time stamp? its a long video an the john madden makes me laugh as jell.
@@wormwood5897 11:57 i think
oh wait, also the 2nd time is 19:20
@@Dark9Volt
thanks.
also nice profile picture
We’re you expecting the first one?
This man really put up a fanfic in the guise of a video game video.
3:00 CHAPTER 1: The Creation Of The Universe
6:40 CHAPTER 2: The Band of The Hawk
9:56 CHAPTER 3: Pretending I'm a Superman
14:58 CHAPTER 4: Bam Bam You're Dead
18:59 CHAPTER 5: Don't Be a Jackass Bam
22:55 CHAPTER 6: Tony Hawk's Underground
29:31 CHAPTER 7: Viva La Bam
36:42 CHAPTER 8: Sirens Of an American Wasteland
42:05 CHAPTER 9: The Unthinkable
46:11 THE FINAL CHAPTER: Holding on to What I am
This is pretty much an extended version of that Nuclear Ghandi joke in the previous video, but Anthony The Hawk The First and extended to 50 minutes, and getting gradually crazier.
this is pure art
Finally, the lore analysis that we truly needed. A void has been filled, an injustice righted.
God damn it this is just a giant zaibatsu joke
Hearing a man who loves Yu-Gi-Oh talk about Tony Halk by making it into Berserk lore is why I get up in the morning.
50 minutes of Bumbles McFumbles. Exactly what I need when I wake up for a day!
*49:42
In all fairness, we all knew the American Wasteland you was always gonna be the best one of the bunch, for he was the one to tame the ways of evil into something good. He channelled the aura of destruction that Knoxville brought into the equation by conducting his own acts of wanton destruction, albeit for the greater good of society via the Skate Ranch.
Balance has always been the true path.
i've been reading berserk, so it's so funny hearing bumbles talk about the band of the hawk
When he mentioned how they ushered in "a Golden Age" I was like "NO WAY. IF HE SOMEHOW MENTIONS THE ECLIPSE I WILL LOSE IT!"
Got very excited when I saw the title and Lil' Woolz early on, never would've expected a literary deep dive and analysis of a skateboarding game's story mode. Always pleasantly surprising
Great video all around! I’m saddened by the decision not to mention Demoness from THPS3 considering she was the inventor of the Anti-Christ Air. With such a dangerous trick having the power of splitting timelines I was sure there’d be mention of the origin of it. I do understand needing to trim the edges when piecing together this Iliad of skateboarding
This is incredible, long live the band of the hawk
Listening to this is like listening to the Guilty gear lore from the original to strive. I love it.
The year is 3021. Humanity has been all but forgotten. All the remains is a single USB drive that an alien race had managed to salvage. Back on their home planet, they load up this video, hoping to find some sort of evidence of human life. The first recording is broadcasted throughout the planet. Holographs of the video start to pop up everywhere; from street corners to the dark skies of the planet. Watching this video, they are in awe at the footage. The concept of points, the god-like group of the Band Of Hawk, and Jackass. By god, Jackass.
Tears fill their faces as they discover not only life but the history of the universe itself. What took humanity eons to figure out, they now possess in the palm of their hand. What started as them just watching the flash drive out of an innate curiosity, soon turned to them kneeling in respect to the gods that led humanity into the age of points. The cult of the board would soon rise up, as skateboards become common household objects used for worship and prayer tradition. A new age of skateboarding has been ushered in, and with it, the rise of points as a currency.
Video games soon take the form of history books, with Tony Hawk Pro Skater being equal to that of the Bible. Chrono Trigger is discarded and trashed, used only as a paperweight at best. Eric Sparrow becomes that to the devil, with evil skaters being warned that if they misbehave, they will descend into hell where Eric Sparrow watches over them. In bed, a young alien prays to Tony Hawk, begging for the new day to let him pass the trials of playing through these historic monuments of games, to prove himself worthy of wielding a skateboard.
Wha-WHAT IS THIS?!
No no Tony hawk is greater then the bible. And everyone sees the bible as fiction
Hey hey…Chrono Trigger is just a folk story that people read just for fun
Thanks so much for including that lore summary. As someone who hasn’t played the games, I was worried I’d be totally lost.
Btw which timeline leads to the Tony Hawk selling NFTs? I heard some people say it was a misguided hubris in an attempt to find more points, while others claim it proves Tony was always like Bam, able to be influenced by darkness.
Listen the NFT thing happened in like the month gap between writing this and releasing it and it was a massive wrench in my plan
@@bumblesmcfumbles Damn, that’s unlucky as hell. Still glad you went through with it, I adore faux lore videos.
I wouldn't say he's as bad as Bam, but I would say that he's a dipshit businessman
The most likely timeline would be the THUG2 timeline, as that would've been when Tony realized all was in futility, and if you can't beat 'em, join 'em
@@ThePlagueWarden it's the timeline where the world destruction tour sells the footage to the weasel
The band of the Hawk? The best friends would be proud...
I'm not sweating from my eyes. These are tears. Manly tears.
"Trans people can double ollie" is now a canon fact in the Fumblesverse
Where is this I need to hear it!!☺️
Underground is now the Ocarina of Time equivalent for the Pro Skater universe
This feels like a mix of Scott the woz and Brian David Gilbert's unraveled, and I love it
I legitimately can't tell if this is a fanfiction or not
This was a very wierd experience while high on morphine in the hospital
I don't think I've ever been more confused but impressed.
2 years later, I still think this is my favorite Bumbles McFumbles video. Puts your writing on full display and it carries the entire video. I’m not sure if I’d call any part here your best material, but the overall quality is consistently high across the entire runtime.
Wait, the trans people can double Ollie image was the hint to the next video? WHAT
This is a great documentary upon the history of the known universe, thank you for giving us this compressed and truest version for history.
The story of how Tony Hawk studied under Gyro Zeppeli and learned the power of the spin.
This is literature. This is art. I want this in the louvre! The smithsonian! Your greatest work yet. I hope this was worth at least 5 points.
By far the most compelling documentary I've ever seen. Ken Burns is left in awe of your dedication to combing through the annals of history to give us mere bystanders the chance to vicariously experience the turning point in human history. Bravo, I say. Bravo.
Holy crap bumbles, that rant and theoretical explanation of the universal point system and Tony Hawk's point accomplishments is by far the greatest rant in the history of TH-cam. I laughed until I cried no joke. I have never been so thoroughly entertained. This is the greatest video on TH-cam.
You forgot one fact in the story: Before you can get a chance to try and cross the timeline you had to prove yourself hence “Proving Grounds”. In order to get back you have to gain the skills to prove you can be trusted with the legacy of Skateboarding. You have to rig your own skatetopia not for paradise but to push yourself beyond your limits. This self challenge takes a hardcore level of training. But once you have reclaimed your pro skills, you challenged Eric once more and won. But when you finally have mastered the three paths of skateboarding, you realize you are not the one who can truly bring skateboarding to the future. Only Tony Hawk can do that. but you need to take care of one problem: Eric. So when you return and punched Eric you returned the mantle back to Tony and you went back to your proving grounds to keep what remains of Eric in check.
Finally, the most cohesive and beautiful retelling if the Legend of the Hawk. Thank you, The Bumbling Lord
I can't wait to watch one of my favorite TH-camrs talk about the mechanics of Tony hawk games!
May 12,1968 Tony Hawk is born.
“After graduating from Torrey Pines High School in 1968....”
Either Tony Hawk is a magnificently genius infant....or that’s 1986.
My man even had an explanation for Tony Hawk ride. A true legend, truly.
Ya know, I was gonna praise you for stringing together a fun BS narrative that rivals the "What’s in an OP" for Shrek out of the only sports game I really enjoyed from my childhood. And then you started showing Underground 2 footage and I remembered.... Oh yeah, this crazy stuff really happened. Like... How could I have forgotten?
Congrats, sir! You are making me question my childhood! and not in a bad way~
I watched this video when it first came while on the brink of a panic attack and I convinced myself it was some fever dream I had until rewatching it now.
An epic tale of good vs evil. A story regaling the very nature of those two concepts, of many timelines for victory and defeat, of the very fate of all reality in the hands of one soul!
And it centers on skateboarding.
This is the content we all desire people.
I often comment things like “majestic” and “sublime” in videos of animals doing goofs or fat people dancing, but this time I mean it. This was amazing.
Jonny Knoxville future intercontinental champion despite insane brain injuries being what killed Bryan's career
This may truly be your greatest video yet
glad you covered the timeline where custom skater delivers the punch to eric that skips the end duel, vanquishing all evil.
i do have to wonder though, where does THUGPro fit in this timeline?
yes! 50 minutes of bumbles content is just what I needed
This story consistently makes me tear up near the end.
This is the most preposterous, ridiculous, overblown and most delusional epic multi timeline story about Tony Hawk games that I didn't know I needed.
I was not ready for John Madden football but then again are we really supposed to be?
The story of the Tony Hawk games reimagined as a mythic saga is not something I ever thought of. But I'm really glad to have experienced it.
Metal gear solid wishes it's lore was this complex and deep
You make the most high effort shitposts ive ever seen
How could you forget office from Tony Hawk one unforgivable
I do enjoy that a 360 nosebone is worth more points than the first successful spaceship launch
Using my favorite deck for the transitions? AWESOME! GO RAIDRAPTORS GOOOO
Why is the John Maddon jumpscare more effective than most horror games? Five Nights at Freddy's, get out of here. Amensia, really living up to your name by being forgetful. The REAL king of horror is here.
I zoned out for the first quarter of the video and MAN I have no idea what's happening
On the note of Spider-man you need to check the tomes of the Webslinger. For Doom Guy....That one aludes me because I can not find any of the slayers tomes, journals, or legends due to him being sealed away forever....the only who would know is Isabelle his bestie but she won't tell out of respect for her friend
41:58 I think there’s a bit more to it than just “Downhill Jam is about a dead Tony of the Hawk”.
I mean, it IS, but still.
Stepping out of the lore for a second, if I remember correctly, the downhill jam sections were always the real life Tony Hawk’s favorite part of the pro skater games. It makes sense, then, why a realm comprised of these challenges would await Tony of the Hawk on the other side. This _is_ his “personal Skatetopia”, after all, a place where all skaters can be free to live out their best lives, created just for Tony. A place where not only can skating thrive and all, let alone those who partake are happy, but where Tony of the Hawk can enjoy a more simple pleasure of just doing what he loves.
This is the most dragged out and convoluted way of saying: everything about this games has already been said AND I LOVE IT
i love that in this timeline Pro Skater 5 is basically Tony Hawk's own personal version of hell/purgatory.
So essentially, Tony is Jonathan Joestar and Bam is Dio
I don’t know what I just watched but I am happy I did.
This was an… insane ride. You should
make more videos like this.
This is probably my favorite video on the internet now
This was one of the most surreal videos I've ever watched and it was released on my birthday lol 🎉
work of art
im only 9 minutes in and this is already the best and most insane tony hawk video ive ever seen
I was probably dissociating through about half of this video, so good job.
Nice reference including lil woolz in the story mode footage.I knew this whole thing felt familiar.
What is this video about I've watched it 15 times
Thank you Mr. McFumbles, with love
Eventually I understood why parents in USA feared their kids stateboarding, it’s the medical bills.
i like how 90% of the footage can be random bullshit from some netflix documentary completely unrelated to skateboarding during the bam segment and id be none the wiser
50 MINUTES?! You spoil us!!
All I can type for this vid is...
"I'm sorry, can you repeat that?"
You know when I clicked on this video I wasnt expecting the Tony of the Hawk Bible to be read to me
Wow, this is awesome, baby!
9:16 Tony Hawk would then unlock the power of Tusk Act 4 and, using his infinitely rotating fingernails, was able to defeat President George W. Bush in an epic skateboarding duel, cursing him with the Infinite Rotation
okay before I even watch the video the description made me spit water on my pasta. A+
Jackass is the opposite of all good, and that’s the best part of it
You also forget knoxville soon realised what he had done and got rid of bam to try redeem himself
Masterpiece
How do we get together the rights to have this man turn this into a goddamn Netflix original or at least an anime?
I love it.
i love how at the end you seem to get more and more confused of your script
Tony Hawk is my favorite anime.
This man just wrote a lorebook for a THPS tabletop RPG.
The only thing I took aways from this video is that certain types of snakes can jump, and I now believe that planet earth was a mistake and needs to be burned
It’s not the jumping ones you have to worry about, the flying snakes are even worse
I really liked THUG2! It was the first Tony Hawk game I ever played, and it had Shrek, which was a bonus.
"To the esteemed Professor McBumbles,
I write to you with great gratitude regarding your teachings on the history of skateboarding, points, and the war between Tony of the Hawk and Bam Margera. It was a truly fascinating period of my life to see you present your research and teachings in front of us all. Though, there have been two things that caught my eye as I sat through it all.
In your seminar regarding the history of creation you mentioned that 'bailing' would lose humanity points and that resulted due to negative actions. Would it be reasonable to assume that JACKASS's method of accruing points would fall under the same umbrella? After all, based on the footage you've provided, many of the stunts they've pulled off were cruel, unusual, and at times literally bailing to hurt oneself to earn/lose those points. The same could apply to this offshoot subculture of skateboarding I've been studying as of recent, the Hall of Meat ceremonies in the SKATE sub-timeline. Though, that would beg the question as to whether or not that subculture is like JACKASS or if it's an honorary sort of thing, as if to pay respect to the pain.
But one other thing that's interested me the most is the outlook of the past both Tony and Bam share post-THUG. They share this...theme, this common trait of wanting to go back to the way things were. In the THUG2 timeline, Bam keeps resetting it over and over to relive the high of the destruction of Skatopia. In the THPS HD and GB/GBA timelines, he tries to go back to when things were better and as you've stated, let the evils of the world and his murder of Bam ruin his precious memories, resulting in the THPS5 timeline. And when Tony entrusted the American Wasteland version of us the power to fix skateboarding for good, we create the world of THPS 1+2, yet allow Tony to retain his memories and knowledge.
You have said so yourself, an important facet of humanity is that we can never go back and can only move forward. In doing so, we risk destroying everything that makes us who we are. It's true that THPS-1+2 could count as a brand new future, much like how Super Mario Galaxy created a whole new universe with its own Big Bang. However, I've been thinking about this comparison between all timelines, and... While I can't speak for Tony, Bam, and every single one of us, I think I can understand the connecting tissue here.
All of us are subject to the whims of nostalgia, of the good ol' days, of the times when we didn't have to worry about our deeper-rooted issues. It is one of the first things we resort to when fleeing from ourselves and our problems. We, Tony, and Bam all have a love for skating, some more than others. As proven in the THPS 1+2 timeline, all we want to just skate. To quote the legendary bards that make Goldfinger, we're all trying to keep the ground on our feet because it seems that the world is falling around us. The nights are all long as we try to sing this song to try and make all the answers more than just 'Maybe.' But we're all so confused about what to do, that sometimes we just want to throw it all away.
As we're growing older all the time and looking older all the time, we tend to feel younger in our minds as we march on forward. It's scary, but we must. We can only move forward by taking the lessons learned from our mistakes in the past and cherishing the memories that made them so...memorable.
Like Tony of the Hawk, I, like many others, have to keep holding on to what I am, pretending I'm a Superman.
Sincerely,
Some Skater"
Literally kingdom hearts
Glad to see BMF is a two best friends fan
This game was legendary
Took me halfway into the video to figure out you used raidraptors as the transition because of tony "hawk", even though they are falcons. mist valley would be appropriate too, and while i haven't finihsed watching the video yet, i hope genex birdman shows up somewhere
Where can I find that Superman remix? I need it for…research
beautiful shit man
Bravo
This is the weirdest berserk essay I’ve ever seen
........................I was not ready to watch this video.