Isn't there one stage we are forgetting here? It is a short one but crucial; the Dirt Dragons from Tremors 4. Mainly just being the infant cycle of the species since a 20 foot Graboid doesn't just pop out of a 10 inch egg and those little buggers have their own unique traits separate from the first seen stage of the creature.
I actually had a video taken down because of that kids shit. Even after I selected the video isn't for kids. Upped and deleted my channel. Wasn't getting views anyhow.... Fuck youtube.
Kids these days are pretty much all corrupted degenerates anyhow. Anyone who loves their kid needs to keep them off the internet and cell phones for as long as possible.
@@RoanokeGaming just to give you some information the albino gravoid is actually protecting humans and not killing humans, you can find this information if you look deeper into the lure.
My theory, and possibly what could make the scenario scarier: *The Assblasters are the migratory stage of the Gravoid's lifecycle.* Also it's quite plausible that the Assblasters in the movie are from the group that Burt found in Argentina... Think about it, in order to move over larger distances to find food, the first stage is not exactly the best for that, so the flight ability is specifically made to fly over the rougher terrain and mountains that may be encountered when traveling. Also the fact that there had not been any Gravoid encounters in the area for such a long time, even if 'El Blanco' was dormant or quite possibly not even hatched until recently, a very late bloomer if you will. The lifecycle is more similar to that of the Monarch Butterflies, with the Shriekers being a sort of pupating stage.
No, he explained it. A new graboid had hatched from an egg that the biologist had brought with him. They weren’t able to get the graboid before it reached shrieker stage, who then attacked the government workers and thereby got enough food to reproduce and make more shriekers. These shriekers then molted into the assblasters
@@HinataElyonToph I know he explained, and I'm adding my own conjecture into it. Besides, the biologist did not bring the eggs, he only found it. It would not be out of character for the gravoids to migrate in such a way, and it is possible that the clutch the biologist found was indeed from some of the assblasters who managed to travel from the south. And that would explain why there were little to no gravoid sightings in the area for such a long time despite there being more movement. If gravoids do not migrate, then that makes the assblaster stage kind of redundant.
I don't think it's so much migration I see it more as the species just moved south over generations. In sequels they find a older breed in Canada... I would assume the blasters spread in a flower pattern rather than straight down, and lay the eggs in small clutches (seen in prequel) apart from others So the hatchlings wouldn't need to fight over a food source, and as they can lay dormant for prey to repopulate they wouldn't need to move back and forth. Think it was said the eggs can be dormant for 300 years, so laid around the 16-1700's. The Second Great American Extinction Event is said to be 1600s to 1900s So I would say it's possible they gorged themselves and spread across egg across the Americas. Not back and forth, just everywhere that's possible... If the Blasters go into the egg laying process ("the coma") after a small meal I can't see them migrating, as the attack anything they see so they wouldn't get far...
@@redonslaught3019 it makes sense if you look at it this way though- Graboids hatch after ~300 years, are smarter, mostly aim for larger animals, taking out a bunch of stuff big enough to be a threat to shriekers Shriekers take out literally everything with body heat for miles around, spreading out and reproducing exponentially, eliminating any warm food along the way before developing into ass blasters Ass blasters start flying out with eggs, food motivated but unable to find any warm food inside the range of their graboid and shrieker parents, so they have to spread even further out. In theory, the graboids could hatch and have (for example) something like a 30 mile radius, then the shriekers could push that range out another 100 or so miles simply by looking for more and more food over their short lifespans, then the ass blasters form along the edges of the range (which would be scattered in a circle 130 miles from where the graboid started), fly away from each other to find the closest food, eat, lay egg, and die. 300 years later, after prey animals have returned to the area, it starts all over again, but this time with hundreds of new graboids over hundreds more miles of land.
I always assumed that, since the Graboid had three "tongues," the Graboid itself was just a meaty, autonomous shell, and those three tongues were what developed into the Shriekers later on. Especially since there are always three Shriekers born from every Graboid.
Wait, he died? How?! Okay, I had to look it up. No, he isn't dead. Whew, scared me. Because if something could kill him... what chance do the rest of us have?
@@disbeafakename167 yes, he did die when he pushed the guy out the path of the graboid. If you saw the whole thing there is a montage of clips of bert from all the movies. Why do you think at the end he said you to celebrate "Bert Gummer day"
Well i mean Star Wars channels talk about the guns in that universe almost constantly and the only things i hear mostly from them is Disney being cucks so i guess Blasters aren't that much of a biggie ... that's an assumption, take it as it is Lol
@@jameswilliams2075 omg right that would have been such a Burt way to go out.....i would have preferred Jaime ke... i mean his son to die instead at hes in jail in Mexico or something
I would be happy with a breakdown of the baby stage in Tremors 4. It may just be a tiny version of the big ones but it looks and acts radically different.
@@Blasted2Oblivion I kinda came up with my own theory on the baby stage, basically it starts with graboids and they're pretty successful hunting in their era, I think initially they might have actually had multiple cycles to begin with as in the Graboid carrying several eggs in it's body that it then laid, which hatched into other graboids/dirt dragons. After the dinosaurs bit it, the eggs, instead of being laid to grow on their own, the graboids consolidated their resources and the eggs hatched inside their bodies, which allowed their young to gain a leg up on resources and potentially survive longer. This worked out great until the food got scarcer and scarcer and the dirt dragons that survived developed into Shriekers instead, these Shriekers eventually developed a sort of axolotl style of growth where they remained in their Shrieker form and basically survived in that form for a few million years and instead of growing into graboids which then made more dirt dragon/shriekers, they instead would upchuck the egg which turned into more Shriekers. This probably allowed them to both survive the extinction of the dinosaurs while also not needing extreme amounts of food, it also let them expand quickly when there was available food so they can survive long enough to find another food source, likely cannibalizing their fellows in the meanwhile. After a while this sort of constant food-starvation, food-starvation cycle would necessitate them finding a method to traverse areas quickly so eventually they ended up developing their assblaster method of reproduction which let them travel further and farther to get other sources of food in larger quantities which would have been recovering just about now into larger species of mammals. Due to their traveling further and farther as well as their rather linear genetic transfer due to asexual reproduction, their eggs were likely still capable of turning into graboids given the right resources. Once those resources were found, the ass blasters eventually developed more into a delivery mechanism as their slimline form likely couldn't easily expel the egg from either end it just developed into a resource gatherer with those that ate a lot going into a coma which would then allow the egg to hatch, eat it's way out as a baby dirt dragon and grow into it's graboid form to continue the cycle anew. The graboids native to perfection valley likely arrived their long ago by ass blaster and the graboids then just got stuck within the valley and eventually went dormant after it's shrieker cycle ate through most of the available food and died out, the remote flat area surrounded by extremely tall mountains making traversal even in ass blaster form difficult.
I have a personal theory: The graboid species behave somewhat like army ants. The eggs hatch into the little ground dragons who eat small to medium animals. Then they turn into graboids, who hunt down and devour large predators and megafauna. Then the Shriekers devour any small to medium size creatures and replicate like mad, preferring simple swarm tactics to intelligence, now that the previous stage has removed any true competition. Then once food in the area is mostly exhausted, the hoard transform into ass-blasters, taking to the skies. Some stay to hunt down anything that’s left in the area, while others disperse in search of new hunting grounds immediately, repeating this process until they’re all eventually killed by the apex predators of their new environments. Then the eggs lay dormant for a few hundred years while the area repopulates. My theory as to their near-extinction and isolation is that ovivores got better at eating their eggs, turning their long gestation period into a crippling weakness. Thus they went completely extinct, save for a scarce few extremely isolated pockets. This would not have been helped by the mass extinction of megafauna which proceeded humanity’s expansion across the globe.
I was obsessed with this movie series, as a kid! So I was floored when they made a series on scifi. The ass blaster that is caught is even seen again in the show! More content! Unfortunately like a lot of well thought out shows the series didn't last long
@@HinataElyonToph 3 actually. 7th movie was released back in October of 2020 (and is on Netflix from what I heard.) And for those interested the series is up on TH-cam for free. 13 episodes of a rather decent show... pretty sure it's in the correct order and not the convoluted mess Sci-Fy changed it to as well.
Specifically, we've found that dinosaurs may not have had cold blood, but weren't necessarily endithermic. To move within such large bodies, the blood would naturally be warm/hot.
So roanoke, idk if you can do it but I would love to see a breakdown of the ACTUAL first stage, the sand dragon. And yes, they do technically grow into graboids, but it is its own part of the life cycle as well
I'd argue they're the _real_ migratory stage, able to leap and crawl across the surface. It would be perfect for traversing sections of solid rock, from their nesting grounds to a new territory. After all, Blanco eating the (second from) last blaster establishes the potential for cannibalism in their food chain, potentially putting hatchlings on the menu for older generations and vice versa.
Actually a pretty good theory for a source of food for the beasts we talk about-- might've been Bison, since they were very plentiful within the Northern America and migrated frequently until the growing population of man.
Roanoke: says that something has been out for a while now Me who’s been in the procrastinating meta for way too long: how many times do I have to tell this old man, I’ll *insert swear word* do it later!
He’s trying to explain exactly what he means by “cannot” because modern English has homophonic “words” which mean “be unable” and “be able not to” in declarative sentences and has gotten confused about which he is using.
@@alsatusmd1A13 in english, "Possess the ability to not-" and "Do not possess the ability to-" have different meanings. I know what he means but I don't know why you thought I needed the explanation.
@@M_Alexander I assume “cannot” would have meant “unable” how you’d word it though and that’s what logically makes more sense in this context. “Possess the ability not to” is a perfectly fine definition of “cannot” (technically there is supposed to be a space when it means this but they sound essentially the same), but it is more often either a mistake or understatement for “unable”.
@@alsatusmd1A13 I possess the ability to not breathe for two minutes; this means I can hold my breath. I possess the ability to not react when tickled; this means I can remain stoic. If I possess the ability to not think strategically, that suggests that I can choose to act without thinking. That's different than saying I lack the ability to think strategically. I'm not even sure why you're arguing
I've always had the idea that due to being from the Precambrian Era, the time period before known life began appearing in the Cambrian Era, that the Graboids were not only their own life cycle but their own food cycle as well. The Shriekers are able to reproduce so quickly because they were the food source for all three of their growth stages. Graboids hunt the Shriekers from below ground, Shriekers hunt each other above ground and Azzblasters could either hunt from the air or possibly act more like scavengers where they'd pick off wounded Shriekers or eat the remains of torn apart Shriekers and Graboids. For the eggs we learn from "Back to Perfection" that they need high heat in order to hatch, as shown by the eggs being near that hot water run off from the mine. So the life cycle could be the Azzblaster not just carries the egg but also incubates it and when the Graboid hatches from the egg it begins eating the Azzblaster from the inside out. This would give the Graboid a good source of immediate nourishment so it'd be able to go on its first hunt on a full stomach. The Graboid burrows down and then begins hunting the baby Shriekers, growing in size until it's reached maturity. After reaching maturity either it begins growing Shriekers as some sort of growth, like a cyst, or they develop via eating large amounts of food, like Shriekers do. Due to how quickly the Shriekers reproduce and grow it does really make me think that the Shriekers themselves evolved as the primary food supply for the rest of their species.
@@KaiserStormTracking Yeah. But it puts a definitive end to you know what. A sad day for fans around the world, but i thought it was a good way to end.
I've been thinking about a small thing, but maybe graboid and every creature composing their life cycle could resort to canibalism in really harsh time. this isn't a lore changing theory, but could this be a possibility ?
When are you going to do the others? I want to see the first stage the "Dirt Dragons" or Baby Graboids that can dart from the soft dirt, you did hinted at the prequel Or what about the other forms in the sequels like the African you also mentioned or the "Ancient" breed in Canadian tundra or the Genetically Modified ones... I'm still holding hope for an 8th movie, Michael Gross did say it's possible. I know not likely, but hey a guy can dream. lol
This stage makes Graboids seem even more like bio-weapons. Short lifespan, very high metabolism, high lethality, unique physiology considered exceptionally unlikely to occur naturally. Some ETs dropped them off to wipe-out an area, maybe even manage the human population.
You should make your own species! I would like to see how you make it and the biology you make for it! You should also use rare resources to make it with so its unique!
This film series has for me been a joy. Michael Gross has always been totally lovable actor in both the films and the short lived TV series. All time favourite quote from Burt Gummer has to be from the third film. "Is your head up your ass for the warmth." Classic!
I love these videos man. It’s always fun to speculate the evolution of movie monsters. Personally, I would’ve gone w/ “Gas Blaster” as 1). It’s a cheeky way of gettin’ ‘round saying “ass”, 2). That’s essentially what they do, lighting a big one, and 3). Rolls off the tongue a little better than “Butt Blaster”. Then again, that’s just me.
Could have paid homage to the 3rd movie and called them "Butt Launchers" seeing as it was one of the names Jody suggested along with "Blast-Offers" before landing with "Ass-Blasters"
I have always absolutely loved the tremors series. And ive also been curious what chemicals could mix to create such an energetic reaction when exposed to oxygen so thank you very much for this
I’ve always loved this movie series and I was hoping you’d cover the Ass Blasters Thank you for doing this series. I really enjoy listening to you scientifically analyze monsters and other creatures and viral and cellular organisms from popular movies and games
Roa, you should definitely watch the Tremors TV show and make a few videos on the creatures within the show as quite a few other than graboids show up.
I never thought I'll be so happy to learn something about a fictional beast but man you didn't disappoint. 😂 Also the thumbnail bro way to go 10 out of 10. 🤣
Remember it was mentioned in Tremors 2:Aftershocks that a Paleontologist named Kate Reilly who was examining a fossil for months and realized what it was by looking at a picture of one of the Graboids and discovered it was a Graboid fossil from the Precambrian period that indicates these creatures are hundreds of millions of years old which shows these creatures are Earth borne though for a while Perfection resident Earl Bassett didn't believe they were locals but came from outer space till he heard Kate's analysis of the Graboid fossil that was one of the spikes that run down the worms flanks.
“Attack of sniders” should be one, spiders with snakes for legs. Level 1 grunt: normal tarantula sized jumping spider with rat snake legs Level 2 danger: dog sized orb weavers with spitting cobra legs and a cobra the can spit from its abdomen Level 3 sentry: human sized male tarantula with king cobra legs, very big ones Level 4 Primary threat: Mutated tarantula making it extra big, RV sized. Has a mix of of snake species for each leg and snakes that are housed in it’s mouth. Cheesy and a fairly basic monster with room for wacky antics
Roanoke has sparked my interest many times with microbiology and immunology, if film making doesnt become a successful career of mine, those two will be next one my list
Roanoke, I suggest looking up the Bombardier beetle. they are a species of beetle that actually do mix 2 chemicals in their body for an explosion from the rear, except as a weapon instead of transportation. I also love your videos, and have a wonderful day and a merry christmas!
I would disagree with your assessment regarding the assblaster's feet and talons. Talons used for gripping or slashing would definitely at least have an curved digit, a thumb or something, like that of an actual bird of prey. What we see are three digits which don't seem to be particularly articulate, only allowing enough motion to perch and walk, sort of like a vulture. This makes me think assblasters were probably hunting either small game or scavenging for the most part.
There is also the topic of the Mixmaster abominations from Tremors: The Series. As well as the possibility that there may be a connection between the designer DNA editing tool and the graboids. It is a little coincidental that the world's craziest DNA splicing tool was created decades ahead of CRISPR in the same dusty valley that graboids are known to spawn in. I postulate that Mixmaster was derived from a naturally occurring gene editing tool that is present within graboid physiology, and that the scientist at the secret subterranean biotech laboratory beneath Perfection Valley (The lab is cannon) discovered the gene editor while studying graboid specimens from the valley. They then extracted the editor, replicated it, amplified it's effects, added the human DNA safeguard, and named it Mixmaster. The presence of a gene editing tools in complex lifeforms has president. Octopods are able to edit their own genes to quicken adaptation. Perhaps the presence of such a tool could explain why graboids have taken such a divergent and eccentric evolutionary path from any other lifeform on the planet. Because they can instinctually edit their DNA, or possibly absorb genetic traits of various prey species, graboids maybe in a perpetual state of accelerated evolution. This could also provide them with protection from the pitfalls of asexual reproduction you mentioned in your video on the Shrieker. I would like to hear your thoughts on this matter.
Hey, Roanoke, i would like to point out something you may have missed. For the Blasters, i believe the Egg is also a preventative mechanism. They form with a full, fertile egg. This could be a form of preventing extinction, because in the event that the shriekers eat everything and turn into blasters, they may not be able to escape the area, and upon their natural death the egg would be able to hibernate until it detects a large amount of vibration. Also, the blasters could be compelled to eat in order to provide the larval Graboids with food upon hatching.
This type is the cutest grabber type no doubt 😍😍😍😍 I love how the animal shake sometimes. VERY CUTE; 🥰 One of them(the walking type) do the same in previous film Tremors 2
Just wanna say, been watching your channel on lunch at work and it's almost always the perfect length for my lunch. Just sit down, eat, watch and enjoy one of your vids, go back to work. It's become more or less a cycle now lol. Good content and explanations.
Jump to 11:45 to bypass the summary but who wants to do that anyhow?? Thanks for watching guys! Yall have a good weekend!
I dunno why anyone would want to skip the summary...
i hope you have a better weekend
I like the new timestamp, even though I'm not gonna use it.
@@kabob0077 true
Can u fo a talk about the new one tremors shreiker island
You know, I'm kinda surprised that the town Perfection, hasn't turned into a sinkhole from all the Graboid tunnels under it.
Goddamnit you said it now. Watch, the plot of the next one is El Blanco laughing in a burrow while the valley just implodes.
They technically they don't leave tunnels, they "swim" through the dirt so it the dirt moves back in to place.
@@akirandrake414 yeah, small vibration through the loose dirt causes liquefaction and thus tunnels don't form
@@CoolBnuuy Because the cliff face was rocky
@@CoolBnuuy That's right, the material it was traveling through was loose. But the cliff face very clearly was not loose sand or dirt
Isn't there one stage we are forgetting here? It is a short one but crucial; the Dirt Dragons from Tremors 4. Mainly just being the infant cycle of the species since a 20 foot Graboid doesn't just pop out of a 10 inch egg and those little buggers have their own unique traits separate from the first seen stage of the creature.
1:08 As always, TH-cam has to ruin the fun because they forgot that TH-cam kids exists and that this site ISN'T for kids.
Yahhhhhhhhhh but ahh well, what can ya do?
I'm heavily annoyed. Like some on Susan you should fall off your damn hol horse!
I actually had a video taken down because of that kids shit. Even after I selected the video isn't for kids.
Upped and deleted my channel. Wasn't getting views anyhow.... Fuck youtube.
Kids these days are pretty much all corrupted degenerates anyhow. Anyone who loves their kid needs to keep them off the internet and cell phones for as long as possible.
@@RoanokeGaming just to give you some information the albino gravoid is actually protecting humans and not killing humans, you can find this information if you look deeper into the lure.
My theory, and possibly what could make the scenario scarier: *The Assblasters are the migratory stage of the Gravoid's lifecycle.* Also it's quite plausible that the Assblasters in the movie are from the group that Burt found in Argentina...
Think about it, in order to move over larger distances to find food, the first stage is not exactly the best for that, so the flight ability is specifically made to fly over the rougher terrain and mountains that may be encountered when traveling. Also the fact that there had not been any Gravoid encounters in the area for such a long time, even if 'El Blanco' was dormant or quite possibly not even hatched until recently, a very late bloomer if you will. The lifecycle is more similar to that of the Monarch Butterflies, with the Shriekers being a sort of pupating stage.
No, he explained it. A new graboid had hatched from an egg that the biologist had brought with him. They weren’t able to get the graboid before it reached shrieker stage, who then attacked the government workers and thereby got enough food to reproduce and make more shriekers. These shriekers then molted into the assblasters
@@HinataElyonToph I know he explained, and I'm adding my own conjecture into it. Besides, the biologist did not bring the eggs, he only found it. It would not be out of character for the gravoids to migrate in such a way, and it is possible that the clutch the biologist found was indeed from some of the assblasters who managed to travel from the south. And that would explain why there were little to no gravoid sightings in the area for such a long time despite there being more movement. If gravoids do not migrate, then that makes the assblaster stage kind of redundant.
I don't think it's so much migration I see it more as the species just moved south over generations. In sequels they find a older breed in Canada...
I would assume the blasters spread in a flower pattern rather than straight down, and lay the eggs in small clutches (seen in prequel) apart from others
So the hatchlings wouldn't need to fight over a food source, and as they can lay dormant for prey to repopulate they wouldn't need to move back and forth.
Think it was said the eggs can be dormant for 300 years, so laid around the 16-1700's. The Second Great American Extinction Event is said to be 1600s to 1900s
So I would say it's possible they gorged themselves and spread across egg across the Americas. Not back and forth, just everywhere that's possible...
If the Blasters go into the egg laying process ("the coma") after a small meal I can't see them migrating, as the attack anything they see so they wouldn't get far...
I think the fuccin life cycle of the graboid is just like a fuck you from nature.
@@redonslaught3019 it makes sense if you look at it this way though-
Graboids hatch after ~300 years, are smarter, mostly aim for larger animals, taking out a bunch of stuff big enough to be a threat to shriekers
Shriekers take out literally everything with body heat for miles around, spreading out and reproducing exponentially, eliminating any warm food along the way before developing into ass blasters
Ass blasters start flying out with eggs, food motivated but unable to find any warm food inside the range of their graboid and shrieker parents, so they have to spread even further out.
In theory, the graboids could hatch and have (for example) something like a 30 mile radius, then the shriekers could push that range out another 100 or so miles simply by looking for more and more food over their short lifespans, then the ass blasters form along the edges of the range (which would be scattered in a circle 130 miles from where the graboid started), fly away from each other to find the closest food, eat, lay egg, and die. 300 years later, after prey animals have returned to the area, it starts all over again, but this time with hundreds of new graboids over hundreds more miles of land.
legit any movie with weird monsters in it:
roanoke: FEET
reminds me of mort from madagascar.
@@GreaterGrievobeast55 Roanoke is the mort of biology
When your foot fetish is useful in science
"Starting with the feet" - you read this in Roanoke's voice.
Unfunny
I always assumed that, since the Graboid had three "tongues," the Graboid itself was just a meaty, autonomous shell, and those three tongues were what developed into the Shriekers later on. Especially since there are always three Shriekers born from every Graboid.
The blasters in my opinion probably developed to help the spiecies spread out and find new homes to survive the many mass extinctions in earth history
Just sat down for lunch and I see this in my feed. Lunch just got a whole lot better
Me too!!
Enjoy your lunch!
@@thelockpot7836 dinner here 😆
Chicago Deep Dish
I literally got home from grabbing lunch and see this video 😂
RIP Bert Gummer, you will be missed. Remember to celebrate Bert Gummer day, April 15th!!!
Agreed
Ahab got his land whale
I will!!! Im making that a holiday!!!
Wait, he died? How?!
Okay, I had to look it up. No, he isn't dead. Whew, scared me. Because if something could kill him... what chance do the rest of us have?
@@disbeafakename167 yes, he did die when he pushed the guy out the path of the graboid. If you saw the whole thing there is a montage of clips of bert from all the movies. Why do you think at the end he said you to celebrate "Bert Gummer day"
Insert Gordon Ramsay meme “finally some good videos”
Hope you enjoyed it bro!
yeah. its hard to find good quality these days.
Roanoke: uploads
Me: drops everything I'm doing
thanks for watching bro!
Same
Wait if u drop everything what ur doing
What happen is ur cooking and nearly done with it
@@theulltrapug8743 then I'll starve
@@RoanokeGaming I did the same tho but I didn't hit the bell and I didn't get the notification
Last time I was this early the Emperor of mankind could still walk
long time ago!
And im just happy to find a fellow warhammer fan
Wait...warhammer on a tremors video? ..... OH NO WATCH OUR FOR THE TRIGONS!!!
Until he took an arrow to the knee.
Tbh don't really like warhammer. It's a bit too over the top.
*stomp* *stomp* ROANOKE LIVES
Hell ya man!
Instead of adventure time it's feet time!
DAMMIT
And with that, the cycle is complete
ya love to see it!
The cycle is not complete there are more types of shriekers so I ask you to please cover the sonic shrieker
@@RoanokeGaming umm I think you need to work on the captions, they are auto Vietnamese and they say strange stuff
@@TacticalPhoenixYT I dont see any captions nor are they auto generated anymore. As for as I'm aware.
@@FeedMeSalt @GnarlyGuy 120 i think he fixed it
cuz before it was Vietnamese auto gen
Why is this biology teacher better than the one I have
This one is catering to an audience that wants to learn, yours is teaching to a group in which only 25% care to hear what they are saying.
@@coriespringer9785 oof
Because he cares.
"blasters" smooth way to get around demonitization
But will it be??
@@RoanokeGaming perhaps
@@RoanokeGaming butt
Or just call them what Burt does, Alpha Bravo
Well i mean Star Wars channels talk about the guns in that universe almost constantly and the only things i hear mostly from them is Disney being cucks so i guess Blasters aren't that much of a biggie ... that's an assumption, take it as it is Lol
Anyone else really bummed that Burt is dead? he sacrificed himself taking out a genetically modified graboid on a hunting preserve
Wait... what?
I would have had him go out shooting g a mini gun at a blaster hord which dogpiles him them explode
@@jameswilliams2075 omg right that would have been such a Burt way to go out.....i would have preferred Jaime ke... i mean his son to die instead at hes in jail in Mexico or something
@@gregtin87 well I would like to see another film with the companions joining together to stop a graboid outbreak and try to make it without burt
wtf no way. i havnt seen 5 6 or 7 but he actually dies in 7?? for real? so thats the last one?
Anyone else waiting for a breakdown of the african species?? These videos are so good and I can't wait for more breakdowns
Yeah
I would be happy with a breakdown of the baby stage in Tremors 4. It may just be a tiny version of the big ones but it looks and acts radically different.
@@Blasted2Oblivion I kinda came up with my own theory on the baby stage, basically it starts with graboids and they're pretty successful hunting in their era, I think initially they might have actually had multiple cycles to begin with as in the Graboid carrying several eggs in it's body that it then laid, which hatched into other graboids/dirt dragons. After the dinosaurs bit it, the eggs, instead of being laid to grow on their own, the graboids consolidated their resources and the eggs hatched inside their bodies, which allowed their young to gain a leg up on resources and potentially survive longer.
This worked out great until the food got scarcer and scarcer and the dirt dragons that survived developed into Shriekers instead, these Shriekers eventually developed a sort of axolotl style of growth where they remained in their Shrieker form and basically survived in that form for a few million years and instead of growing into graboids which then made more dirt dragon/shriekers, they instead would upchuck the egg which turned into more Shriekers. This probably allowed them to both survive the extinction of the dinosaurs while also not needing extreme amounts of food, it also let them expand quickly when there was available food so they can survive long enough to find another food source, likely cannibalizing their fellows in the meanwhile.
After a while this sort of constant food-starvation, food-starvation cycle would necessitate them finding a method to traverse areas quickly so eventually they ended up developing their assblaster method of reproduction which let them travel further and farther to get other sources of food in larger quantities which would have been recovering just about now into larger species of mammals. Due to their traveling further and farther as well as their rather linear genetic transfer due to asexual reproduction, their eggs were likely still capable of turning into graboids given the right resources.
Once those resources were found, the ass blasters eventually developed more into a delivery mechanism as their slimline form likely couldn't easily expel the egg from either end it just developed into a resource gatherer with those that ate a lot going into a coma which would then allow the egg to hatch, eat it's way out as a baby dirt dragon and grow into it's graboid form to continue the cycle anew. The graboids native to perfection valley likely arrived their long ago by ass blaster and the graboids then just got stuck within the valley and eventually went dormant after it's shrieker cycle ate through most of the available food and died out, the remote flat area surrounded by extremely tall mountains making traversal even in ass blaster form difficult.
We need the African boiz
Same mate,
That is eating Taco Bell, two bags of Hot Cheetos then waking up at 2 Am to drop a hot one type of butt power.
I have a personal theory:
The graboid species behave somewhat like army ants. The eggs hatch into the little ground dragons who eat small to medium animals. Then they turn into graboids, who hunt down and devour large predators and megafauna. Then the Shriekers devour any small to medium size creatures and replicate like mad, preferring simple swarm tactics to intelligence, now that the previous stage has removed any true competition.
Then once food in the area is mostly exhausted, the hoard transform into ass-blasters, taking to the skies. Some stay to hunt down anything that’s left in the area, while others disperse in search of new hunting grounds immediately, repeating this process until they’re all eventually killed by the apex predators of their new environments. Then the eggs lay dormant for a few hundred years while the area repopulates.
My theory as to their near-extinction and isolation is that ovivores got better at eating their eggs, turning their long gestation period into a crippling weakness. Thus they went completely extinct, save for a scarce few extremely isolated pockets. This would not have been helped by the mass extinction of megafauna which proceeded humanity’s expansion across the globe.
9:41 and it was at that moment one of the best lines in the series was delivered. " What kind of supreme being would condone such irony?"
I was obsessed with this movie series, as a kid! So I was floored when they made a series on scifi. The ass blaster that is caught is even seen again in the show! More content! Unfortunately like a lot of well thought out shows the series didn't last long
There’s a series? TH-cam comments really are the best way to find out new stuff
@@mase8444 Lol that was actually my main reason for commenting that. I love the movies and the series was not well known. More Burt Gummer 😁
Yeah, and now we will never get closure on the Mix Master...
There’s also two more movies that have been made after the fourth one, which I believe is where the African species comes from
@@HinataElyonToph
3 actually. 7th movie was released back in October of 2020 (and is on Netflix from what I heard.)
And for those interested the series is up on TH-cam for free. 13 episodes of a rather decent show... pretty sure it's in the correct order and not the convoluted mess Sci-Fy changed it to as well.
10:04 “now, let’s assess the situation”
There are four flying flaming fart monsters trying to eat us... and we’re literally in deep shit
heres the situation IN CAPTIONS a friendly soporte the body and the dragon pearl for speed what is to file now this is one best work in pieces
He, "ass"es
Decker Shado.
Yep
Specifically, we've found that dinosaurs may not have had cold blood, but weren't necessarily endithermic.
To move within such large bodies, the blood would naturally be warm/hot.
So roanoke, idk if you can do it but I would love to see a breakdown of the ACTUAL first stage, the sand dragon. And yes, they do technically grow into graboids, but it is its own part of the life cycle as well
I'd argue they're the _real_ migratory stage, able to leap and crawl across the surface. It would be perfect for traversing sections of solid rock, from their nesting grounds to a new territory. After all, Blanco eating the (second from) last blaster establishes the potential for cannibalism in their food chain, potentially putting hatchlings on the menu for older generations and vice versa.
Actually a pretty good theory for a source of food for the beasts we talk about-- might've been Bison, since they were very plentiful within the Northern America and migrated frequently until the growing population of man.
Man the graboid anatomy lesson series are more entertaining than the movies themselves 😂😂
Roanoke: says that something has been out for a while now
Me who’s been in the procrastinating meta for way too long: how many times do I have to tell this old man, I’ll *insert swear word* do it later!
When this movie gets censored on tv "butt blasters" is now trademarked by Roanoke... Get your royalties player 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
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Thank you for saving us Burt
Please cover the cyborgs in 1999’s virus, I mean if your familiar with cybernetics
I second this, that movie is good imho
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Where can I watch?
@@Raccon_Detective. Amazon Prime and if you want a more wallet friendly option, it can be found online and in torent format
"It's not flying, it's falling with style."
i’ve been waiting for this video, as soon as it came up on my notifications i spammed it
NOICE, thanks for watching bro!
"Possess the ability to not think strategically"
Not the way I'd word it but I can think of some people this applies to
He’s trying to explain exactly what he means by “cannot” because modern English has homophonic “words” which mean “be unable” and “be able not to” in declarative sentences and has gotten confused about which he is using.
@@alsatusmd1A13 in english, "Possess the ability to not-" and "Do not possess the ability to-" have different meanings. I know what he means but I don't know why you thought I needed the explanation.
@@M_Alexander I assume “cannot” would have meant “unable” how you’d word it though and that’s what logically makes more sense in this context. “Possess the ability not to” is a perfectly fine definition of “cannot” (technically there is supposed to be a space when it means this but they sound essentially the same), but it is more often either a mistake or understatement for “unable”.
@@alsatusmd1A13 I possess the ability to not breathe for two minutes; this means I can hold my breath. I possess the ability to not react when tickled; this means I can remain stoic.
If I possess the ability to not think strategically, that suggests that I can choose to act without thinking. That's different than saying I lack the ability to think strategically. I'm not even sure why you're arguing
I've always had the idea that due to being from the Precambrian Era, the time period before known life began appearing in the Cambrian Era, that the Graboids were not only their own life cycle but their own food cycle as well. The Shriekers are able to reproduce so quickly because they were the food source for all three of their growth stages.
Graboids hunt the Shriekers from below ground, Shriekers hunt each other above ground and Azzblasters could either hunt from the air or possibly act more like scavengers where they'd pick off wounded Shriekers or eat the remains of torn apart Shriekers and Graboids.
For the eggs we learn from "Back to Perfection" that they need high heat in order to hatch, as shown by the eggs being near that hot water run off from the mine. So the life cycle could be the Azzblaster not just carries the egg but also incubates it and when the Graboid hatches from the egg it begins eating the Azzblaster from the inside out. This would give the Graboid a good source of immediate nourishment so it'd be able to go on its first hunt on a full stomach. The Graboid burrows down and then begins hunting the baby Shriekers, growing in size until it's reached maturity. After reaching maturity either it begins growing Shriekers as some sort of growth, like a cyst, or they develop via eating large amounts of food, like Shriekers do.
Due to how quickly the Shriekers reproduce and grow it does really make me think that the Shriekers themselves evolved as the primary food supply for the rest of their species.
Cant wait till he sees the last 2 movies. Its guna change his entire view.
You mean the film in south Africa, Northern Canada and the tropics
The sheriker island film is Netflix only I think
@@KaiserStormTracking Yeah. But it puts a definitive end to you know what. A sad day for fans around the world, but i thought it was a good way to end.
@@codysmith66 Yep. Poor Burt went down with the very thing he swore to hunt. He deserved better
What other 2 movies?
@@Joel3D1 the one that takes place in Alaska, and then the final one that takes place on some islands.
I've been thinking about a small thing, but maybe graboid and every creature composing their life cycle could resort to canibalism in really harsh time. this isn't a lore changing theory, but could this be a possibility ?
"One crossed wire, one wayward pinch of potassium chlorate, one errant twitch... and kablooie!"
-demoman, probably
Yeah, Demoman Says That In His Meet The Team Video.
Roanoke:Ass blasters
TH-cam:Excuse me
Roanoke:Butt blasters
TH-cam:Try again
Roanoke:Flyers
TH-cam:Fine
When are you going to do the others? I want to see the first stage the "Dirt Dragons" or Baby Graboids that can dart from the soft dirt, you did hinted at the prequel
Or what about the other forms in the sequels like the African you also mentioned or the "Ancient" breed in Canadian tundra or the Genetically Modified ones...
I'm still holding hope for an 8th movie, Michael Gross did say it's possible. I know not likely, but hey a guy can dream. lol
Yeah
Ya I came to the comments wondering if he did more of these movies... I can't find them if he did
Me:which one should I watch, wow such gaming or roanoke! Urghhhhhh!!!
Both going at the same time! lmao
@@RoanokeGaming I love how you reply to your viewers after your videos, most youtubers don't do that. Keep up the good work!
As an argentinian I endorse this Roanoke's species breakdown
lol
This stage makes Graboids seem even more like bio-weapons. Short lifespan, very high metabolism, high lethality, unique physiology considered exceptionally unlikely to occur naturally. Some ETs dropped them off to wipe-out an area, maybe even manage the human population.
You should make your own species! I would like to see how you make it and the biology you make for it! You should also use rare resources to make it with so its unique!
I really hope we get an episode related to the African graboids as I'm very interested in what's up with them.
This film series has for me been a joy.
Michael Gross has always been totally lovable actor in both the films and the short lived TV series. All time favourite quote from Burt Gummer has to be from the third film. "Is your head up your ass for the warmth." Classic!
I’ve never felt so smart until I watch your videos
I love these videos man. It’s always fun to speculate the evolution of movie monsters.
Personally, I would’ve gone w/ “Gas Blaster” as 1). It’s a cheeky way of gettin’ ‘round saying “ass”, 2). That’s essentially what they do, lighting a big one, and 3). Rolls off the tongue a little better than “Butt Blaster”. Then again, that’s just me.
Could have paid homage to the 3rd movie and called them "Butt Launchers" seeing as it was one of the names Jody suggested along with "Blast-Offers" before landing with "Ass-Blasters"
12:02
Well, that answers the age-old question...the egg came first.
I'll show myself out.
I have always absolutely loved the tremors series. And ive also been curious what chemicals could mix to create such an energetic reaction when exposed to oxygen so thank you very much for this
It's always a good day when Roanoke uploads.
Glad you enjoy it!
Not gonna lie I love they Gears Of War music in the background, respect my dude.
I’ve been going through the comments to see if anyone caught that! Lol I knew it was GOW! :)
It made me tear up since I haven't played G.O.W 1,2, and 3 since 2015
Okay, but what about the prequel movie (Tremors 4) with Dirt Dragons? I would love to hear your take on how they fit in to the life cycle.
I’ve always loved this movie series and I was hoping you’d cover the Ass Blasters
Thank you for doing this series. I really enjoy listening to you scientifically analyze monsters and other creatures and viral and cellular organisms from popular movies and games
Grabiods ability to adapt so quickly made them long term survivors.
Roa, you should definitely watch the Tremors TV show and make a few videos on the creatures within the show as quite a few other than graboids show up.
The worms in the first movie look massively better than the CGI in the later movies.
I never thought I'll be so happy to learn something about a fictional beast but man you didn't disappoint. 😂
Also the thumbnail bro way to go 10 out of 10. 🤣
I love that you're covering this series, are you going over the T.V. series as well?
youtube is getting to comfortable with these dam ads
Hey more ads more revenue
Remember it was mentioned in Tremors 2:Aftershocks that a Paleontologist named Kate Reilly who was examining a fossil for months and realized what it was by looking at a picture of one of the Graboids and discovered it was a Graboid fossil from the Precambrian period that indicates these creatures are hundreds of millions of years old which shows these creatures are Earth borne though for a while Perfection resident Earl Bassett didn't believe they were locals but came from outer space till he heard Kate's analysis of the Graboid fossil that was one of the spikes that run down the worms flanks.
Wish there were more movies like this, just some goofy "horror" movies with an interesting monster/alien
Shaun of the dead is kind of like that lol except zombies lol
“Attack of sniders” should be one, spiders with snakes for legs.
Level 1 grunt: normal tarantula sized jumping spider with rat snake legs
Level 2 danger: dog sized orb weavers with spitting cobra legs and a cobra the can spit from its abdomen
Level 3 sentry: human sized male tarantula with king cobra legs, very big ones
Level 4 Primary threat: Mutated tarantula making it extra big, RV sized. Has a mix of of snake species for each leg and snakes that are housed in it’s mouth.
Cheesy and a fairly basic monster with room for wacky antics
7.28 "...they round the corner to hear-"*COMMERCIAL* Hyundai motorsport 2020
Roanoke, u should make a video about the other movies, or should say: "Tremors 5-7".
Roanoke has sparked my interest many times with microbiology and immunology, if film making doesnt become a successful career of mine, those two will be next one my list
I honestly liked the original design. I don't understand why some people didn't like it.
Roanoke, I suggest looking up the Bombardier beetle. they are a species of beetle that actually do mix 2 chemicals in their body for an explosion from the rear, except as a weapon instead of transportation. I also love your videos, and have a wonderful day and a merry christmas!
I would disagree with your assessment regarding the assblaster's feet and talons. Talons used for gripping or slashing would definitely at least have an curved digit, a thumb or something, like that of an actual bird of prey. What we see are three digits which don't seem to be particularly articulate, only allowing enough motion to perch and walk, sort of like a vulture. This makes me think assblasters were probably hunting either small game or scavenging for the most part.
Jody Chang:'Oh Ass blasters how about that'
Jack Sawyer:'Sounds like a Porno Film'
Chemistry Theory at the end! I love it!
WHOOOO YEAH BABY THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR
Hell yeah I've been waiting for more Tremors
I’ve never watched these movies, but I’ve now watched all 3 of these videos. I love the legit evolution breakdowns. Amazing
Burt Gummer is an absolute legend.
There is also the topic of the Mixmaster abominations from Tremors: The Series. As well as the possibility that there may be a connection between the designer DNA editing tool and the graboids. It is a little coincidental that the world's craziest DNA splicing tool was created decades ahead of CRISPR in the same dusty valley that graboids are known to spawn in. I postulate that Mixmaster was derived from a naturally occurring gene editing tool that is present within graboid physiology, and that the scientist at the secret subterranean biotech laboratory beneath Perfection Valley (The lab is cannon) discovered the gene editor while studying graboid specimens from the valley. They then extracted the editor, replicated it, amplified it's effects, added the human DNA safeguard, and named it Mixmaster. The presence of a gene editing tools in complex lifeforms has president. Octopods are able to edit their own genes to quicken adaptation. Perhaps the presence of such a tool could explain why graboids have taken such a divergent and eccentric evolutionary path from any other lifeform on the planet. Because they can instinctually edit their DNA, or possibly absorb genetic traits of various prey species, graboids maybe in a perpetual state of accelerated evolution. This could also provide them with protection from the pitfalls of asexual reproduction you mentioned in your video on the Shrieker. I would like to hear your thoughts on this matter.
My favorite time of the day! Seeing a roanoke video posted! What movie is next that you might be thinking of doing??
I remember watching this for the first time and being so pissed when Bart got eaten and how happy I was to see him crawling out a giant worm lol
i love your use of certain music like halo flood and Gears of War.
You, Kiana Docherty, j aubrey, The Right Opinion and Dead Meat have been my class schedule for this semester
Can we get a video on April fools about how unrealistic and weirdly made humans are?
Hey, Roanoke, i would like to point out something you may have missed.
For the Blasters, i believe the Egg is also a preventative mechanism. They form with a full, fertile egg. This could be a form of preventing extinction, because in the event that the shriekers eat everything and turn into blasters, they may not be able to escape the area, and upon their natural death the egg would be able to hibernate until it detects a large amount of vibration.
Also, the blasters could be compelled to eat in order to provide the larval Graboids with food upon hatching.
This type is the cutest grabber type no doubt 😍😍😍😍
I love how the animal shake sometimes. VERY CUTE; 🥰
One of them(the walking type) do the same in previous film Tremors 2
Roanoke: "They round the corner to find"...
Commercial: Walmart
Me, a Tremors fan: (half listening to vid at work)
Roanoke: “Perfection Valley”
Me: (fully awake) Oh worm?
I love that in every single video there is either halo music in the background or gears of war music
i cant wait for this man to make something about Shrieker Island hopefuly
A classy choice on the GoW3 Main Menu music. A connoisseur.
God damn I didn’t think a movie serious would but so much effort into their animals/antagonists!
1:09 *dying by laughing*
I wonder if he watched the short lived TV series... 😂 I'd love to see his explanation about Mixmaster.
I saw the first one and have been anxiously awaiting the rest of them. I love your content.
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Ahh yes, good ol' biology lesson to go with my finals study sesh. life is good.
I'm always captivated by the fact that u use the GOW soundtrack in the background of ur video and it fits so well for the Tremor creatures
Roanoke: we'll be getting pretty deep into chemistry
Me: that's... That's why I'm here...
Roanoke: they round the corner to find-
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Just wanna say, been watching your channel on lunch at work and it's almost always the perfect length for my lunch. Just sit down, eat, watch and enjoy one of your vids, go back to work. It's become more or less a cycle now lol. Good content and explanations.
That's gear's of war theme at the start gave me nostalgia haha love the vids
So glad you've covered three of these movies so far. Thank you.