Unrelated topic: I actually have two different ideas for future videos if you're interested: 1.) What would happen if the Iris from Gemini Home Entertainment invaded the Star Wars universe? 2.) What would happen if the Great Devourer from Ninjago Season 1 finale attacked modern day Earth?
Everyone gangsta until the Graboids start releasing hoards of Shriekers. Edit: The thought of Blasters achieving the ability to go into hyperspace is the funniest thing to me.
You could dump anything in Star Wars, and Sheev would inevitably weaponise it somehow and much to the detriment of everyone else. The hyper-Blaster one was absolutely brilliant, it was unexpected and genius.
This has to be the first time Ive seen something where im like "it just kinda fits right in there doesnt it?" they eat and breed enough to keep other numbers stable while being just big enough to be a stable food source for the really big things keeping their numbers from getting way too high. Thats actually crazy
remember, hyperspeed isn't moving faster than light, it's moving standard speeds through a dimension that is smaller. so it's less like fart rocketing off into FTL, and more like farting so hard the fabric of reality rips open in front of it.
It just now occurred to me that the hyper blaster is really similar to the Kroatalids from warhammer 40k. Literally just crocodiles that warp jump to planets when one is getting too bad
28:55 OR, the World Serpent's spawned Blasters also get into large enough stores of the hyper space juice to become World Serpent Hyper Blasters, thus creating an out of control problem of colossal and unstoppable super monsters that spread across the galaxy laying waste to everything.
Zhol Ssirath: *levels an imperial base while making a mountain shaking roar* Darth Vader: *sighs* FML... *ignites lightsaber as the world serpent shadow looms over him*
@@DavidStowers-o7k Darth Vader comes back from a mission to investigate a silent research base. He's beat to shit and covered in worm guts. "I was denied. Critical. NEED TO KNOW, information."
@@MachineMan-mj4gjas he slowly force chokes everyone in the room without even making the gesture. He's so pissed his choke gains AoE. Everyone starts frantically pointing at each other. His finger twitches instinctively. Everyone falls. Scene.
You don't even need to have the Graboids evolve over a few years. Tatooine was turned into a desert planet because of the Rakata thousands of years ago when the natives (who were relatively advanced) decided that their invaders had more than outlived their welcome, revolted, and the Rakata responded with a "well, double fuck you!", and glassed Tatooine. Everything had to evolve or die, including the native Tatooinians, who diverged into the Jawas and Tuskens Raiders. That would probably be enough time for the Graboids to diverge and evolve, with their modern forms taking place by The Old Republic era.
I feel like the Graboids seen on earth would be considered small/disformed, think about it they don't have a lot of food to work with so they would be considered malnourished like I don't think they are solitary but there's just not enough food to go around here for them to do well
Definitely a terrifying thought indeed! o.o As is the World Serpent. A single unassuming egg brought to an unsuspecting world, and by the time its presence is known it’s already too late Entire cities and ecosystems collapse, and then once it finally dies… all hell quite literally breaks loose, and the entire planet and everything on it is utterly and completely doomed
@@UnwantedGhost1-anz25 An interesting idea. Depends on if they'd be able to stop it Godzilla would certainly see it as a threat, and the Empire didn't really design it with him in mind
Not rteally, You need exact calculations to make it to another planet, all the Hyper Blasters are probably just going to come out in the vacume of space and immediately die.
What a wonderful episode! Graboids are some of my favorite fictional species of animal, yet a largely under-discussed one. So seeing it brought up here is largely appreciated! 2:49 oh thank goodness blastermorphs is a much prefered title, there canon name does make me cringe admittedly. 14:26 huh! I've heard of lylaks but not sand demons, interesting! I'd like to think Graboids could hunt the younger ones at least. 18:00 minion: almighty Jabba! The people of Tatooine are being massacred by eyeless monsters! Jabba: _Laughs while hurtburn plays in the background_ Minion: it's become too dangerous to trade, we're losing profit! Jabba: *Locks in* 23:38 Even in Crossovers it seems every horror monster somehow ends up in space eventually...
@@jonathonspears7736 I´ve seen a video of them on a Star Destroyer, but it never felt like the right enviroment to me, Xenos need a chance to get some poor folks before they are discovered!!!
God forbid a Facehugger manages to infect someone who's Force Sensitive by even a small margin, they already weaponize every piece of biological powers the host has as best they can, imagine what they'll do with Midichlorians.
Here before the premiere. I'd assume yes, with the bigger issues potentially being volume of food and water available. Infact, Tremors 4 implied that running water was what triggered the otherwise dormant eggs to hatch, so maybe reproduction might hit a snag there... unless of course that's not what that scene was implying...
@RipOffProductionsLLC I understood that scene as the eggs had been trapped in rock or packed earth and the water simply released them, then allowing them to hatch. But I could be wrong.
I always thought it was the heat from the water that did it, I haven’t watched that movie in forever but I swear the water came from a hotspring or something like that.
I feel it is notable that Graboids are cannibalistic, Graboids will prey on Shriekers and Blastomorphs and that may extend to larvae or other Graboids if there is a significant size difference.
To note on that note, cannibalism *might* be rare, given the prime example occurred when a Graboid specimen (el blanco) was sterile and unable to metamorpihize into its laster stages. Given Graboids are often in packs and tend to molt around the same time this likely isn't a common issue
@@GreaterGrievobeast55 to note on the note of the note; it might be because of the close approximation of the individuals in Perfection Valley causes most of them to be around the same age so would be similar in size and have similar success in reproducing. If Graboids were spread out and success rates of predation vary as well as having their breeding cycles not synced, it is possible that even fertile Graboids may feed on the Shriekers and Blastomorphs of Graboids that bred sooner.
@@thenerdbeast7375 don't forget, AB's are just egg delivery mechanisms. it is very possible that a graboid could eat an AB, then later poop out the dirt devil egg without harming the overall life cycle of the graboid as a whole. also, the only time we see a graboid eat an AB is when it's following a sonic watch, so it wasn't a hunting target, just a friendly fire incident.
A few ideas: Assessing the survival of dragons from Wings of Fire in Rainworld Conversely, assessing the survival of Slugcats from Rainworld in the world of Wings of Fire Assessing the survival of Mountain Banshees (Avatar; The Way of Water) in Jurassic/Cretaceous Europe Assessing the survival of Mosasaurs in Modern Oceans Assessing the survival of Calicotheres in any modern Grassland Ecosystem
Survival of WoF draagons in Rainworld would probably be the dragons enacting a second scorching on the world, killing off the larger residents of Rainworld and leaving the smaller ones alive. The slugcats would probably survive just fine in the WoF universe, though
Video Ideas: 1. Could Orcas, Sperm Whales survive the world of Subnautica(both the first game and Below Zero) ? 2. Could Wolverines, Polar Bears survive the Ice Age ? 3. Could Sperm Whales survive the Mesozoic ?
1: probably not. the whales wouldn't be big enough to compete against leviathans so they wouldn't have any chance in open water, their need to breath would just make them easy pickings for any leviathan. Orca would sit around 7 meters in length and sperm whales sit about 16 meters, both of which would put them drastically smaller than reapers, and ghosts which patrol the surface. If they were in locked locations such as the crater from the first game or section zero in below zero they would probably suffer from an ability to feed themselves. they would be to big to pass between the biome barriers to larger deep water biomes and the shallows just wouldn't offer them enough food. Orca might have a small advantage, being smaller and their ability to breach and hunt for surface prey could allow them to survive in section zero, but they would have a hard time fighting against things like squid sharks which would dwarf them in size. 2: the polar bears were a thing during the last glacial maximum.... so yes, polar bears could live through an ice age, we know this because they have already lived through an ice age. Wolverines are literally in the same boat, since fossil records tend to show them having evolved during the LGP which was part of the LGM an ice age. so again, yes, the thing that already lived through an ice age can live through an ice age. 3: probably, there would be bigger and more dominant predators so they wouldn't be an apex, but there would be enough food for them to be a secondary or lower consumer. ironically, the orca would probably do better since their pack hunting style would actually allow them to not only survivor but hunt larger predators and potentially make an apex niche.
Good video as always, Graboids don't get enough love. I'd like to see how raccoons would do in the swampy areas of early Pangea, when there were giant millipedes, scorpions, insects and amphibians. Raccoons are smart and adaptable, but that environment would definitely be a challenge for them.
Really enjoyed your speculative evolution. When you were going over the relative weakness of the shriekers I thought of the possibility of cooperation. With the relative strength of the graboid phase, it would make sense for shriekers to seek out and follow graboids, waiting for them to catch prey. While the graboid is dragging their prey under the sand, the shriekers would swarm it, eating as much as they can before the graboid pulled it under completely. While this wouldn't exactly be due to cooperation, it would at least be due to the graboids tolerating shriekers enough to not eat them. It could also potentially significantly shorten both the shrieker phase and the blaster phase. My hypothesis is that the shriekers progress into blasters when they get sufficient food, so one or two large kills by a graboid might be enough to get a small group of shriekers to the blaster phase. Once in the blaster phase, they might not even bother with eating, just flying somewhere remote to mate and lay eggs until they starve to death or get eaten. In this situation, there would be a strong evolutionary advantage to the graboid surviving the birthing process. Any graboid that can get even one kill for their shriekers would have a significant survival advantage over shriekers that have to hunt for themselves until they find another graboid to kleptoparasitise. The surviving graboids would be like parents supporting their children. Another path could be to continually shorten the shrieker and blaster phases, until graboids birth fully formed blasters with eggs ready to go. The graboid phase would get longer and longer, favoring the largest and longest lived that would be the most successful hunters, and when they die and birth a swarm of fully formed blasters, the blasters just immediately fly away and lay tons of eggs before dying. This would be similar to things like cicadas that spend many years in their juvenile phase, then mate a few times and die as soon as they become an adult. Speculative evolution is neat.
as far as in aware after a sarlacc burrow himself he becomes basically a plant, stuck in the same place for thousands of years, unable properly move anything but his mouth
Love this! One thing I disagree with is the World Serpent part. I do not think they would die out from starvation. Instead I think they would turn to cannibalism, especially since there would be so many Shriekers being born per serpent.
Project World Serpent Ssirath* "Caederus Zholsirrath" is the biggest Speculative Evolution animal created yet. One alone is probably a menace in the Monsterverse.
It would probably decimate the hollow earth, The only things that could stop it definantly would be Godzilla and Shimo. Not as in an actual fight, I mean as in the spread of the species- I have no doubts that Kong couldent kill one with the glove or the charged axe but it'll be tough. But yeah they would be a big problem. Maybe not completely wiping the verse, But to the point it'd make a multiple movie problem.
@@UnwantedGhost1-anz25 Probably not, Since they are not titans. Just huuuge animals, So they can't benifit from the radiation like the Titan's can. And I find it unlikely they can randomly mutate (Unless you wanna go down the root our boi did and make them randomly adapt to something they eat, Which is unlikely since it's.... Radiation.) Same thing with Ghidorah, Just animals. Not titans, They wouldent listen to Ghidorahs call, And they'd probably get one shot by his gravity beams if they hit in the mouth or the unprotected areas. So I'd imagine with if they met, It'd Just be Ghidorah trying to make it submit, Failing, The worm trying to eat Ghidorah, Failing. And getting camped from the sky with gravity beams until dead or chased off, Or the Graboid grabs Ghidorah and tries dragging him under the ground, Which won't work due to Ghidorah being leauges above the featless spec evo monster and would probably just get beamed in the side anyway from one of the two side heads even if we equalized stats.
Remember that there are city sized creatures in the MV just dead and that godzilla's atomic breath is capable if cutting though kilometers of hard materisl.
You slept on the Shrieker's jaw strength pretty hard. They rip through sheet metal like it's not there and even Assblasters can cut through a pretty thick metal cable with their beaks.
This episode was immensely entertaining and a fantastic scenario! Also the clip at 17:44 is hilarious. If you're looking for some good spec evo fiction to pull ideas from, or simply to enjoy, I highly recommend the novel 'Fragment' by Warren Fahy. Without giving away any spoilers, the central location, Hender's Island has a similar premise to Skull Island from the 2005 King Kong film, but it's FAR more nightmarish and alien, to the point of making the infamous bug pit scene look tame in comparison.
Hang on a minute now, if the Hyper Blasters came from regular blasters accidentally eating fuel, and the Zhol Ssirath variant eat absolutely everything it can find, what prevents a Hyper Zhol Ssirath from coming into existence and outbreaking into the galaxy?!
Nothing. And that would be the end of the star wars universe otherwise every planet would have a death star moon in hand to keep the population in check.
I can see many different subspecies of Graboids all the other graboid species from earth I can see the Arctic graboid on a ice planet or the aquatic graboid on Naboo and etc I hope you do more videos like this one
Maybe not even justify with the force because some fast evolution seems to happen like look at a jungle rancor on Felucia vs the average dathormirian rancor.
If I remember correctly one of the tremor movies actually did have a couple of blasters moving as a group they weren't all that well coordinated but they don't seem to have an issue with one another
This videos are so cool, the idea of species interacting with other places at the point of literally Earth tremors monster to STAR WARS is a great way and a awesome concet that open so many doors, i can also imagine tamed versions of the blaster monsters in the movie people could literally pacify it with cooked food, just imagine a bounty hunter or a protagonist riding one of them and put the graboid eggs in enemy territory just to add salt to the injury Also if we mention evolution time i can see tamed versions of this creature, like maybe a graboid that ride closer to surface letting people use him like a horse and they put a helmet that protect him for impacts for example
i think the point of the food coma is so they can be eaten by predators allowing the eggs to hatch. it wasn't until later that they started laying eggs, originally they were kind of more or less an egg delivery missile system. but in the TV series we see that blasters are able to survive for months with no food, and they didn't say anything about it dropping eggs, so the assumption has to be that the only delivery method is death, kind of like how fruits let you eat them so you will poop their seeds out somewhere else.
so id say they arent going to be an apex by any means they will at first be a surprise but inevitably they would just fit right in within tatooine i think their introduction would be pretty seamless infact the inhabitants of tatooine might even initially mistake it for a variant sarlack species due to its feeding methods
The things is the momment a smuggler has the bad idea of moving a shrieker to somewere like Coruscant or any normal world , they could overrun most planets by sheer force of numbers. They would be a logistical nigthmare to contain.Not that they are difficult to destroy but a single city worth of food could make way for legions of Millions of those things
Love that they're not bringing in number 5 Greyboid and the a** blasters The number 5 Greyboid Can jump out the ground And to make it better they're evil too detach its tongues and make them their own Problems And can read attach them with the a** blasters actually being able to fly and they only come out at night( Unlike the normal grandboys you're not safe on the rocks)
If anything, Grabiods and subsequent Shreakers might have the issue of over eating and wiping out potential food sources. Then again, their eggs can hibernate for centuries, so maybe tge ecosystem can recuperate?
@@Psub950 with this comment, this basically proves that graboids cannot survive on tattoone. Especially if they encounter the one from the first episode of Mandolorian season 2
Twas what I was thinking, Krayt Dragons are something I doubt the Grabboids would have enough time to survive against. Depending of course if here's enough of the former to wipe out the invasive latter.
@@thenameless2379 Krayt dragons would be their predators, but that does not mean Graboids would get wiped out. It only means they would be balanced out to not become a threat to the ecosystem and instead become part of it.
First Time Viewer, and I've got to say, this video was excellent, will definitely be checking out more of you're videos. My personal favourite part of the video has got to be the speculative evolution, the Sarlacc Parasite makes sense as an evolutionary path for the Graboid to take, & World Serpent sounds terrifying, definitely something Palpatine would do if The Empire got their hands on one of these.
I was waiting for this video with so much enthusiasm but in the end my patience was rewarded!!! congratulations Madly it was a very fascinating and interesting video one of the species that fascinated me the most was the parasitic graboid but also the hyper blaster was very beautiful and interesting
This was some of the coolest world building I've come across in a LONG time. Tou broughr rwo very awesome pieces of media together. Thanks for your video. Tremors and the OT Star Wars was a HUGE part of my childhood. My father, brother, and I would get some snacks and just veg out to Burt and Reba unloading their arsenal on that monster that bursts in on them in their basement.
Not only that but a lot of SW tech is mostly hover based so things like speeders wouldn’t actually be a problem especially with graboids, that being said when it comes to walking around town or in a bar or at home then that’s a totally different story and would be akin to ringing the dinner bell, as for shriekers they could pose a serious problem however due to the vast desolate nature of tatoine any form of systematic eradication would be close to impossible, that being said, the empire might use them as a source of food, considering how prolific shriekers can multiply makes them idealistic for mass production and farming, not to mention that they’re not particularly picky when it comes to their choices in foods, blasters if properly contained would make ideal subjects for harvesting the explosive materials inside their bodies
@@sytrosianoverlord3150same but I’m also very hesitant about it too as considering what other movie franchises have been through in recent years I would still be ok if tremors didn’t have any content
Genuinely an incredible video! Ive always loved tremors… even though the shriekers turned me into a paranoid schizophrenic until i was like 14. I couldnt have asked for a better video on the subject
Graboids have one advantage we all overlook. They can feed on shriekers and A**Blaster's, meaning with cannabilism graboids would be the most dangerous of its lifecycle forms, shrinkers could potentially feed on the a-blasters due to seeing their heat signature. Add in this would be happening on a planet perfect for its entire life cycle.
i would love to see you do something with an alien or xen from the half-life series in the assessing survival series of videos. i'm glad i found this awesome channel.
This was wonderfully entertaining, thank you for making it. I must say, though, I don't think the Blastermorphs would need to worry about hunting prey, since--despite their drive to hunt, kill and eat--eating puts them into a food coma which would leave them terribly vulnerable. This could lead to a kind of behavioral evolution wherein instead of continuing to hunt and eat (which I'm sure they only did to begin with because they're movie monsters and not really meant to be seen as animals), they simply fly off to find a suitable spot to lay their egg/s, maybe snagging a womp rat or something else small to keep fueled up in the meantime.
Could Big Cats survive the Mesozoic? I feel like Lions, Jaguars, and Tigers have a okay shot. But I would love to see what Cheetahs, Leopard, and other cats would do and evolve.
Honestly, i think leopards would thrive and wouldn't need to evolve much at all. They're small and agile enough to keep themselves out of trouble and still strong enough to hunt decent sized prey. As long as they as they stay in the more dense forests, they have little need to worry about the largest threats. The lions would probably have the worst time because they would have to compete directly with the much larger predators and can't really escape into the trees if they need to. Also, mainting social groups would be incredible difficult under such conditions.
As a tremors fan I’d have to completely agree with your assessment, graboids whilst the most dangerous out of all three of them, tend to suffer when dealing with hard or solid environments such as rocks, boulders and so on and whilst tatueen might be one massive dessert, the vast majority of it primarily consists of hard and solid terrain making them a relatively containable threat, especially with their ability to ambush their prey from beneath along with their incredible strength and baseline intelligence means that they can adapt to certain situations or certain prey items, again their ability to drag a car underground shouldn’t be undermined or underestimated, as for strikers, their ability to walk as well as to move above ground and their abilities to reproduce and replicate after eating enough food makes them a massive problem in containing them along with their social behaviors means that shriekers can take down much larger enemies than themselves such as the bantha and their pack instincts would make them a considerable threat to any small or outlying communities or habitats such as Luke’s aunt and uncles farm or that small town in the mandorlorian/ boba fett where a hoard of shriekers would run havoc against such a community, that being said the blasters ability to fly isn’t its real problem but its ability to travel much further and faster as well as to be able to lay eggs means that they can get just about anywhere and migrate much longer distances all the while posing an aerial challenge to any smaller creatures like Jawas
The fact the Sarlacc has no defense against belowground predation is a great notice, that makes them pretty easy prey for Graboids. However Sarlaccs are also the main prey for Krayt dragons, so Graboids would become not just prey but competition for Krayts. I can easily see a Krayt actively hunting out Graboids to the extent any Krayt dragon territory is just a total no-go for Graboids.
Please make “Would mustelids (skunks, badgers, wolverines, and otters) survive in the Mesozoic?”, “Would mustelids (skunks, badgers, wolverines, and otters) survive in the Cenozoic?”, “Would big cats (lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars) survive in the Mesozoic?”, “Would moose survive in the Mesozoic?”, “Would Tyrannosaurus survive in the Cenozoic?”, “Would Titanoboa survive in the Mesozoic?”, “Would Yautjas survive in the Mesozoic?”, “Would Yautjas survive in the Cenozoic?”, “Would Yautjas survive Pandora?”, “Would Yautjas survive in the Fallout universe?”, “Would Deathclaws survive in Westeros?”, “Would Deathclaws survive in Middle-Earth?”, and “Would Deathclaws survive in the How to Train Your Dragon universe?”.
1: not really. badgers and wolverines would be out predators by pack raptors, who would also out size them. the skunk might make it, small mammals did exists at the time, the same with otters but at that point they wouldn't be as set for survival as their ancestors that would be alive at the time. 2: no. they would be out done by the mustelids that were alive at the time, the ekorus for example. 3: probably not, they wouldn't have the size to compete with even medium sized mesozoic predators, and the pack tactics of smaller predators would put the group hunting tactics of lions to shame. 4: yes, but only as an aquatic animal i will not elaborate. 5: no, assuming it wasn't an instant no due to the cold, the evolution of mammals basically made large reptile predators obsolete. there is a reason why the only reptilians predators that really work in the modern world are ambush predators like snakes or eusuchia. (crocs and gators) 6: no. ambush tree constructors only really work if they are bigger than their prey. there were not enough large jungle animals small enough to be snake food to keep a viable population. 7: yes, they were 8: yes, they were 9: yes, if you mean avatar pandora, there is nothing on pandora that we haven't seen the predators take on before. if you mean borderlands pandora, stealth is literally easy mode against psycos. 10: yes, predators are capable of processing levels of radiation that would kill a human. that is literally the only risk in fallout that isn't just normal earth. sure getting shot in the head a couple of times will kill them, but that will kill anything. 11: no, assuming we're not talking about north of the wall where they would die because they are cold blooded. they are just bipedal crocodiles. they would be out niched by the lizard-lion or the walking lizard. 12: no, to many people who know how to kill monsters, deathclaws are stupid, most of the monsters in middle earth are not stupid, deathclaw just dies. 13: no, without the ability to fly they would have been killed off before the training happened. outside of that, they are not dragons, they are just monstrous reptiles, so dragons would likely be aggressive towards them, as they don't have "the dragon sense"
I think they only had those forms to take because of what they had to go against so they would evolve to deal with what they had to deal with and I think by them having more food and more competition could evolve and reproduce just as fast in the movies to deal with what they encounter and emagine a giant graboid worms that could borrow through larger areas or even rocks or a graboid worms that are mini parasites that prey on large creatures like ant colonies or Parana swarms but those grabiod evolutions were really cool ideas!
Great video! This is really really cool. As a suggestion, could you possibly do a speculative analysis on an Arachnid (Starship Troopers) on Pandora (Avatar)?
Agreed whilst not exactly top of the food chain they’d more or less be comfortable living on or in a planet like tatoine which is basically a planet sized version of the badlands and whilst some areas might be too hard for the graboids to burrow through or end up as lunch for something else, they’re more than able to well stand on their own two feet, not to mention that graboids are intelligent and whilst the other two are lesss intelligent then their parents their ability to cover ground makes them difficult to contain or control vs the ice worms who’s solely limited to subterranean movements and solid rock formations whilst the shriekers ability to rapidly multiply makes them a massive pain if they’re able to consume a fair amount of food, whilst blasters are able to travel much further than the other two as well as lay eggs
So, one thing to point out about blaster fire on Graboids is that it’s going to do a lot more damage than normal gunfire. A group of Tusken Raiders or other armed inhabitants will flat-out be able to repel them because it’s super-heated bolts of plasma hitting the graboid, not bullets.
ironically, they graboids would probably be able to deal with the heat from blaster fire better than they would they heavy slug throwers. their beaks are designed to deal with extreme pressure, which includes very high heat. remember on earth it gets hotter the deeper you go, and we've seen graboids in deep mines and deep caves, so their bodies are designed to handle high heat. sure you can argue that superheated plasma is much hotter than geothermals, but that's also when you have to account for length of exposure. we've seen humans in the SW universe shrug off blaster fire because the contact with the blaster bolt isn't long enough to impart even a fraction of a percentage of it's heat. on the other hand graboids spend millennia buried miles deep. remember the first movie only happens because an oil derrick comes in contact with them the second movie has a similar plot, when an oil field (multiple deep drilled derricks) hits them that length of time would cause them to have to endure significantly more heath at significantly higher temperatures then you're going to get from a fraction of a second of blaster.
@@NoESanity ... yes, the giant warm that dies when it hits normal concrete a bit too hard and can be killed with normal gunfire, is going to be resistant to plasma bolts from blasters.
@@rythianlonghammer5263 the fact that you're brain can't understand the difference between energy weapons and kinetic damage is a little frightening. "oh no, you died when you were hit by a semi going 60 mphs, that obviously means that putting your hand on a hot stove would also kill you." that logic is full on retarded homie.
Very fun! I do think I'd prefer a hypothetical evolution over the narrative adaptations and mutations though. I know we don't know much about the deep history, but I don't think that's too much of an obstacle... Or perhaps you could do a "reverse evolution" where you show how some of the native fauna adapt to the introduction of the new species. Either way, great stuff!
great video, my fav so far fictional animals especialy in sci fi settings have more freedom to tamper with and create weird interesting senerios, love it.
One thing the Empire wouldn't be abe to predict in the design of the "World Serpent"is that graboid eggs can lie dormant for millions of years and still be viable. In fact, in Tremors 2, the eggs that led to the Grabboid population in Perfection, Nevada were buried in solid rock until some miners dug them up, and then they hatched becoming "dirt dragons" but by the time the local maor, Burt Gummer's ancestor, could mount a proper investigation and defence, they became Grabboids. So any mining team sent to a "lifeless" world rendered as such by a World Snake could unwittingly bring back the eggs in a bundle of ore, only to have the eggs hatch in their refineries...
22:30 not sure how well that would work since a Sarlacc can decide to digest a creature pretty quickly if it decides not to preserve them for thousands of years
DUDE! YOU NEED TO MAKE MORE OF THESE VIDEOS! Mostly with more fictional creatures, like the Judas Breed, Arachnids (Starship Troopers), Gremlins, Megaprimatus Kong, Zilla (Godzilla 1998), and Shin Godzilla and/or Heisei Godzilla! I'll leave the subjects up to you, but I'd love to see which species could survive on a different setting or planet.
speculation Concept: Serpiente Blanca. While it unknown as to what this specific Graboid is, based on the Empires current understanding of this Invasive species, but SOME information on this specimen has been collected based on SURVIVING Storm trooper testimonies. which is cross referenced with other currently "collected" specimens. Species: Tatooine Graboid, (potential new species identification pending further investigation and acquisition of specific specimen ) Notes on Appearance: 1) While it shares an almost complete biology with other members of its kind, This particular specimen was reported to feature an almost all White coloration compared to our currently studied specimens, along with its overall body being considerably larger and longer then other members of its own kind. Potentially in-between 50 to 70 feet long or longer. 2) Its body was said to be more slender in appearance to other Graboids in certain areas of the body, which allowed this particular Graboid to move at speeds not enjoyed by other Graboids. 3) Its body still retains that large, black spike like protrusions across the entire length of the body, although it was said that Smaller protrusions were to be found near the Graboids body segments and the main protrusions. 4) Its head is almost identical to every other Worm-like specimen encountered so far, except for noticeable bone-like plates just behind the jaws, adorned with similar yet smaller more thinner protrusions found elsewhere on its body. incident: Reports from a particular region in southern magnetic pole of the planet, after many years of this species first appearance on Tatoonie and subsequent population explosion in many areas of Tatooine. The Population would later be controlled and kept out of "Civilized" Residences through the controlled and sanctioned use of High frequency emitters. However based on a reported Friendly Tuskin Tribes to the Empire living in that region had reported that the population of Graboids and its related spawn has seen a dramatic drop in population in that area, and had reportedly seen a white A Storm Trooper Regiment armed with frequency Emitters was sent to investigate. After arriving in a patch of dunes and setting up a camp, an Emitter was placed to keep any potential Graboids in the Area Away. During the night however, despite the Emitter, the Camp was attacked by a large, white Graboid. The Creature was said after it first emerged from the ground was to destroy the main pulse Emitter, and every speeder equipped with one. The general confusion caused by the sudden attack had caused a rapid movement on the surface by the regiment and Tuskin guides which alerted the creature to their presence. It had swiftly devoured anything that moved, it had reported taken several shots From Tuskin Raiders to which it retaliated by swinging its body around and using its head to impale anything it could reach with a Sharp, flexible black crown of protrusions near its neck. It was not until after the return of a nightly patrol did a group carrying heavier weapons arrive, peppering the beast with laser fire from above. One of which has hit the creature head as it collided with a speedy setting off an explosion that blew away one of the boney plates on the creatures left jaw. The Creature taking fire from all directions then retreated back underground, and a massive trail of sand began moving out of the area, of which was reported to be the creature retreating from the scene. 45 Storm troopers where killed in Action, and 12 Tuskin Raiders killed. While it is unknown if this creature is a different species of Graboid or if it was the result of a rouge mutation in the creatures genetics. but what is Known is that after more then a year, a Graboid bearing distinguishing features similar to the same one discovered before, further north, near a small settlement of which it has recently been confirmed to have been destroyed during the night, and the town itself was said to have been using emitters to defend against an existing Graboid population. A project is currently being developed to Capture and study this specimen, efforts are still ongoing. (Note: This took me over an hour to type up on the spot.)
Shriekers and Blasters I think would do rather well against Rancors. Rancor's aren't very fast or flexible as far as I've seen in either the movie or games so it only takes them getting onto the rancor's back or chewing their way through the Rancor's ankles (which I think they could do cause they had little issue chewing and ripping their way through metal) and there'd be very little the Rancor could do to stop the Shrieker or Blaster from slowly eating it. You also have to take into account for the fact that unless a potential prey animal completely takes out a shrieker swarm before dying/fleeing then that shrieker can repopulate with the copious meat left behind by both the dead prey and its own former kin. Sarlaccs would also be a source of nigh infinite food for Shriekers it eats, as Sarlaccs are very slow to actually kill and digest things. Any Shrieker a Sarlacc eats would consume it and multiply far faster than the Sarlacc could do the same back. And the sheer size of the Blaster swarms such would continually release could probably populate swarms across a planet even if it had been reduced to that single swallowed Shrieker beforehand.
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Unrelated topic: I actually have two different ideas for future videos if you're interested:
1.) What would happen if the Iris from Gemini Home Entertainment invaded the Star Wars universe?
2.) What would happen if the Great Devourer from Ninjago Season 1 finale attacked modern day Earth?
Can we get some more Orbis pogona
I love the series and can’t wait to see what happens next
It’s entertaining and wish the videos were longer but I don’t want to ask for to much love your videos ❤
Surprisingly the least controversial piece of star wars content i've seen in years.
It's not rocket science: Graboids sound exactly like something you'd see in star wars.
@@skeepodoop5197 It's funny and bizarre that they weren't already back then.
It's actually good, that's the thing
@@tommyfishhouse8050 probably because its decent content
I dunno man, that jab at the last jedi might have stricken some peeps
Everyone gangsta until the Graboids start releasing hoards of Shriekers.
Edit: The thought of Blasters achieving the ability to go into hyperspace is the funniest thing to me.
@@skeepodoop5197 uh oh
@skeepodoop5197 we DUN GOOF'D
Oh naw
Oh law
Oh hell nawww
It reminds me of the crocodiles that can achieve warp travel in 40k
*ASSblaster's*
Starwars has hyperspace traveling Orcasquids@@deaththekidjr9989
You could dump anything in Star Wars, and Sheev would inevitably weaponise it somehow and much to the detriment of everyone else. The hyper-Blaster one was absolutely brilliant, it was unexpected and genius.
What about the Iris from Gemini Home Entertainment?
Eh,he could probably just glass it(with a ssd) if he cant use it@@w1ndgeneral226
"Weyland Yutani you amatuers"
-Darth Sidious probably
The flood
This has its own potential as a joke video
This has to be the first time Ive seen something where im like "it just kinda fits right in there doesnt it?" they eat and breed enough to keep other numbers stable while being just big enough to be a stable food source for the really big things keeping their numbers from getting way too high.
Thats actually crazy
I now want to see this be a thing lol
"How are they gonna evolve in such a short amount of time?"
A good question, for another time.
He used the "modern Disney when covering up plotholes in Star Wars" method.
@@TalesofDrCreepYPastaTodd Howard: it just works.
@@Sphendrana, EXACTLY.
Hyper blasters are so funny, imagine seeing this lizard worm thing fart faster then The speed of light and disappear into The sky
What if one Hyperblaster takes one for the team and does a Holdo maneuver through a blockade so rest of them can get to the planet
remember, hyperspeed isn't moving faster than light, it's moving standard speeds through a dimension that is smaller.
so it's less like fart rocketing off into FTL, and more like farting so hard the fabric of reality rips open in front of it.
@@NoESanity that’s even funnier
@@NoESanity omg that killed me!
Picture the Hyperspace ramming from Last Jedi, now Imagine a farting lizard doing this.
It just now occurred to me that the hyper blaster is really similar to the Kroatalids from warhammer 40k.
Literally just crocodiles that warp jump to planets when one is getting too bad
Just looked that name up and it didn't show anything
Is it really Kroatalid or is that a typo
Crocodiles that can bite an Astartes in half
@@ShiniesoftheGanders It's spelled Crotalid
Fun fact Kroot often hunt those in order to gain psycher powers
28:55 OR, the World Serpent's spawned Blasters also get into large enough stores of the hyper space juice to become World Serpent Hyper Blasters, thus creating an out of control problem of colossal and unstoppable super monsters that spread across the galaxy laying waste to everything.
"THANKS ALOT, PALPATINE!" -everyone in the galaxy, including vader
Darth Vader: let’s grab the graboids palaptine said it would be fine he said ITS NOT FINE
Zhol Ssirath: *levels an imperial base while making a mountain shaking roar*
Darth Vader: *sighs* FML... *ignites lightsaber as the world serpent shadow looms over him*
@@GreaterGrievobeast55 what is that? I don’t get any results from google when I look it up
The mannerisms of Burt Gummer in the voice of Darth Vader. Oh I'd wish to hear that in a heartbeat.
@@DavidStowers-o7k Darth Vader comes back from a mission to investigate a silent research base. He's beat to shit and covered in worm guts.
"I was denied. Critical. NEED TO KNOW, information."
@@MachineMan-mj4gjas he slowly force chokes everyone in the room without even making the gesture. He's so pissed his choke gains AoE. Everyone starts frantically pointing at each other. His finger twitches instinctively. Everyone falls.
Scene.
You don't even need to have the Graboids evolve over a few years. Tatooine was turned into a desert planet because of the Rakata thousands of years ago when the natives (who were relatively advanced) decided that their invaders had more than outlived their welcome, revolted, and the Rakata responded with a "well, double fuck you!", and glassed Tatooine.
Everything had to evolve or die, including the native Tatooinians, who diverged into the Jawas and Tuskens Raiders. That would probably be enough time for the Graboids to diverge and evolve, with their modern forms taking place by The Old Republic era.
As if Graboids weren’t scary enough, the empire goes and creates a species that can reach the size of a large starship
Don't you mean Exogorths?
I feel like the Graboids seen on earth would be considered small/disformed, think about it they don't have a lot of food to work with so they would be considered malnourished like I don't think they are solitary but there's just not enough food to go around here for them to do well
The last tremors movie involved genetically engineered graboids, so it's not a big leap.
The Hyper Blasters "Caederus Cluzonicus" are truly terrifying to be able to travel throughout the universe to colonize habitable planets. 😳
Definitely a terrifying thought indeed! o.o
As is the World Serpent. A single unassuming egg brought to an unsuspecting world, and by the time its presence is known it’s already too late
Entire cities and ecosystems collapse, and then once it finally dies… all hell quite literally breaks loose, and the entire planet and everything on it is utterly and completely doomed
@@garg4531 Would they utterly destroy the Monsterverse?
@@UnwantedGhost1-anz25 An interesting idea. Depends on if they'd be able to stop it
Godzilla would certainly see it as a threat, and the Empire didn't really design it with him in mind
@@UnwantedGhost1-anz25 No. Godzilla would probably detect it by the four month mark and move to deal with the alien worm immediately
Not rteally, You need exact calculations to make it to another planet, all the Hyper Blasters are probably just going to come out in the vacume of space and immediately die.
What a wonderful episode! Graboids are some of my favorite fictional species of animal, yet a largely under-discussed one. So seeing it brought up here is largely appreciated!
2:49 oh thank goodness blastermorphs is a much prefered title, there canon name does make me cringe admittedly.
14:26 huh! I've heard of lylaks but not sand demons, interesting! I'd like to think Graboids could hunt the younger ones at least.
18:00
minion: almighty Jabba! The people of Tatooine are being massacred by eyeless monsters!
Jabba: _Laughs while hurtburn plays in the background_
Minion: it's become too dangerous to trade, we're losing profit!
Jabba: *Locks in*
23:38 Even in Crossovers it seems every horror monster somehow ends up in space eventually...
On a similar vein, Xenomorphs on Coruscant sounds like an interesting scenario!!
Xenomorphs gonna be thriving(atleast a couple of Queens would reach the lower levels,aka free xenomorph hive real estate)
pretty sure i saw a video about that somewhere
@@jonathonspears7736 I´ve seen a video of them on a Star Destroyer, but it never felt like the right enviroment to me, Xenos need a chance to get some poor folks before they are discovered!!!
God forbid a Facehugger manages to infect someone who's Force Sensitive by even a small margin, they already weaponize every piece of biological powers the host has as best they can, imagine what they'll do with Midichlorians.
God no
The art from Valsimot is simply fantastic. Looks like an official crossover.
Here before the premiere.
I'd assume yes, with the bigger issues potentially being volume of food and water available.
Infact, Tremors 4 implied that running water was what triggered the otherwise dormant eggs to hatch, so maybe reproduction might hit a snag there... unless of course that's not what that scene was implying...
@RipOffProductionsLLC I understood that scene as the eggs had been trapped in rock or packed earth and the water simply released them, then allowing them to hatch. But I could be wrong.
@@benjaminhollon7474That’s what I thought
I always thought it was the heat from the water that did it, I haven’t watched that movie in forever but I swear the water came from a hotspring or something like that.
@@snek6186 yeah, the eggs were hit with extremely hot water from mining runoffs, and the eggs ceased hibernation and hatched
Films 5, 6, and 7 all confirmed that graboid eggs require water to hatch.
27:38 so they made a indominus rex grabboid
pretty much yeah
I feel it is notable that Graboids are cannibalistic, Graboids will prey on Shriekers and Blastomorphs and that may extend to larvae or other Graboids if there is a significant size difference.
To note on that note, cannibalism *might* be rare, given the prime example occurred when a Graboid specimen (el blanco) was sterile and unable to metamorpihize into its laster stages. Given Graboids are often in packs and tend to molt around the same time this likely isn't a common issue
@@GreaterGrievobeast55 to note on the note of the note; it might be because of the close approximation of the individuals in Perfection Valley causes most of them to be around the same age so would be similar in size and have similar success in reproducing. If Graboids were spread out and success rates of predation vary as well as having their breeding cycles not synced, it is possible that even fertile Graboids may feed on the Shriekers and Blastomorphs of Graboids that bred sooner.
@@thenerdbeast7375 Hmmmm, fair point! Dully noted.
@@thenerdbeast7375 don't forget, AB's are just egg delivery mechanisms. it is very possible that a graboid could eat an AB, then later poop out the dirt devil egg without harming the overall life cycle of the graboid as a whole.
also, the only time we see a graboid eat an AB is when it's following a sonic watch, so it wasn't a hunting target, just a friendly fire incident.
A few ideas:
Assessing the survival of dragons from Wings of Fire in Rainworld
Conversely, assessing the survival of Slugcats from Rainworld in the world of Wings of Fire
Assessing the survival of Mountain Banshees (Avatar; The Way of Water) in Jurassic/Cretaceous Europe
Assessing the survival of Mosasaurs in Modern Oceans
Assessing the survival of Calicotheres in any modern Grassland Ecosystem
slugcats in cenozoic
Hope he sees this
Survival of WoF draagons in Rainworld would probably be the dragons enacting a second scorching on the world, killing off the larger residents of Rainworld and leaving the smaller ones alive. The slugcats would probably survive just fine in the WoF universe, though
@@xenomorphoverlordI mean the main thing about rainworld is that death isn't usually permanent for any life.
i choked when the blaster jumped into hyperspace, like legit choked.
@@An_Iron_God69420 you okay?
the space shriekers are deranged and i kinda love it
Agreed, and it fits the tone of the Tremors movies (that being "horror comedy") absolutely PERFECTLY.
Video Ideas:
1. Could Orcas, Sperm Whales survive the world of Subnautica(both the first game and Below Zero) ?
2. Could Wolverines, Polar Bears survive the Ice Age ?
3. Could Sperm Whales survive the Mesozoic ?
1: probably not. the whales wouldn't be big enough to compete against leviathans so they wouldn't have any chance in open water, their need to breath would just make them easy pickings for any leviathan. Orca would sit around 7 meters in length and sperm whales sit about 16 meters, both of which would put them drastically smaller than reapers, and ghosts which patrol the surface. If they were in locked locations such as the crater from the first game or section zero in below zero they would probably suffer from an ability to feed themselves. they would be to big to pass between the biome barriers to larger deep water biomes and the shallows just wouldn't offer them enough food. Orca might have a small advantage, being smaller and their ability to breach and hunt for surface prey could allow them to survive in section zero, but they would have a hard time fighting against things like squid sharks which would dwarf them in size.
2: the polar bears were a thing during the last glacial maximum.... so yes, polar bears could live through an ice age, we know this because they have already lived through an ice age. Wolverines are literally in the same boat, since fossil records tend to show them having evolved during the LGP which was part of the LGM an ice age. so again, yes, the thing that already lived through an ice age can live through an ice age.
3: probably, there would be bigger and more dominant predators so they wouldn't be an apex, but there would be enough food for them to be a secondary or lower consumer. ironically, the orca would probably do better since their pack hunting style would actually allow them to not only survivor but hunt larger predators and potentially make an apex niche.
Didn't polar bears and wolverines evolve DURING the Ice Age?
@@strategicgamingwithaacorns2874 yes, yes they did.
An awesome scenario, the graboids are such a natural fit for Star Wars
The Hyperblasters would probably send Burt Gummer to insanity 🤣
He would just GMOTA.
Go Mandalorian On Their Asses
Weapons are basically already his religion 😂
Good video as always, Graboids don't get enough love.
I'd like to see how raccoons would do in the swampy areas of early Pangea, when there were giant millipedes, scorpions, insects and amphibians.
Raccoons are smart and adaptable, but that environment would definitely be a challenge for them.
"Battle on the sands" Ani is sweating bullets right now
Ngl, felt like the Hyper-Blaster channeled a teensy bit of 40K Ork- "eat rocket be rocket'
@@Pezantri i can imagine them using it as pet
If they're red they go faster?
@@TheNightlessFalli had to nerf them and make them blue
@@MadlyMesozoic You simply made them lucky instead.
@@isaiahgay5295I wuz gunna say dat. Good fing 'e dint make em purple. Ain't nobody gonna see dat comin'.
Really enjoyed your speculative evolution. When you were going over the relative weakness of the shriekers I thought of the possibility of cooperation. With the relative strength of the graboid phase, it would make sense for shriekers to seek out and follow graboids, waiting for them to catch prey. While the graboid is dragging their prey under the sand, the shriekers would swarm it, eating as much as they can before the graboid pulled it under completely. While this wouldn't exactly be due to cooperation, it would at least be due to the graboids tolerating shriekers enough to not eat them. It could also potentially significantly shorten both the shrieker phase and the blaster phase. My hypothesis is that the shriekers progress into blasters when they get sufficient food, so one or two large kills by a graboid might be enough to get a small group of shriekers to the blaster phase. Once in the blaster phase, they might not even bother with eating, just flying somewhere remote to mate and lay eggs until they starve to death or get eaten. In this situation, there would be a strong evolutionary advantage to the graboid surviving the birthing process. Any graboid that can get even one kill for their shriekers would have a significant survival advantage over shriekers that have to hunt for themselves until they find another graboid to kleptoparasitise. The surviving graboids would be like parents supporting their children.
Another path could be to continually shorten the shrieker and blaster phases, until graboids birth fully formed blasters with eggs ready to go. The graboid phase would get longer and longer, favoring the largest and longest lived that would be the most successful hunters, and when they die and birth a swarm of fully formed blasters, the blasters just immediately fly away and lay tons of eggs before dying. This would be similar to things like cicadas that spend many years in their juvenile phase, then mate a few times and die as soon as they become an adult.
Speculative evolution is neat.
If the Saarlac's Tentacles can burrow through the sand, then they would be a very dangerous opponent, wrapping around the burrowing sand creatures
as far as in aware after a sarlacc burrow himself he becomes basically a plant, stuck in the same place for thousands of years, unable properly move anything but his mouth
@@butecodesentina1766 dude it's tentacles grab Lando Calrisian
Love this! One thing I disagree with is the World Serpent part. I do not think they would die out from starvation. Instead I think they would turn to cannibalism, especially since there would be so many Shriekers being born per serpent.
Project World Serpent Ssirath* "Caederus Zholsirrath" is the biggest Speculative Evolution animal created yet. One alone is probably a menace in the Monsterverse.
It would probably decimate the hollow earth, The only things that could stop it definantly would be Godzilla and Shimo.
Not as in an actual fight, I mean as in the spread of the species- I have no doubts that Kong couldent kill one with the glove or the charged axe but it'll be tough. But yeah they would be a big problem. Maybe not completely wiping the verse, But to the point it'd make a multiple movie problem.
@@JixxarEntropy I wonder if the radiation in the Hollow Earth or at the North Pole where Tiamat was would mutate these these worms?
@@JixxarEntropy Would King Ghidorah have any issues with them? Would they listen to the commands like most Titans on the surface?
@@UnwantedGhost1-anz25 Probably not, Since they are not titans. Just huuuge animals, So they can't benifit from the radiation like the Titan's can. And I find it unlikely they can randomly mutate (Unless you wanna go down the root our boi did and make them randomly adapt to something they eat, Which is unlikely since it's.... Radiation.)
Same thing with Ghidorah, Just animals. Not titans, They wouldent listen to Ghidorahs call, And they'd probably get one shot by his gravity beams if they hit in the mouth or the unprotected areas. So I'd imagine with if they met, It'd Just be Ghidorah trying to make it submit, Failing, The worm trying to eat Ghidorah, Failing. And getting camped from the sky with gravity beams until dead or chased off, Or the Graboid grabs Ghidorah and tries dragging him under the ground, Which won't work due to Ghidorah being leauges above the featless spec evo monster and would probably just get beamed in the side anyway from one of the two side heads even if we equalized stats.
Remember that there are city sized creatures in the MV just dead and that godzilla's atomic breath is capable if cutting though kilometers of hard materisl.
The hyper blast was goofy af yet you not only played it straight but perfectly described how the StarWars galaxy would respond to them
Good job👍
16:14 And since the Rancor’s can tank blaster fire the fire that the Blasters have probably won’t hurt it but it will probably scare it
You slept on the Shrieker's jaw strength pretty hard. They rip through sheet metal like it's not there and even Assblasters can cut through a pretty thick metal cable with their beaks.
This episode was immensely entertaining and a fantastic scenario! Also the clip at 17:44 is hilarious. If you're looking for some good spec evo fiction to pull ideas from, or simply to enjoy, I highly recommend the novel 'Fragment' by Warren Fahy. Without giving away any spoilers, the central location, Hender's Island has a similar premise to Skull Island from the 2005 King Kong film, but it's FAR more nightmarish and alien, to the point of making the infamous bug pit scene look tame in comparison.
Hang on a minute now, if the Hyper Blasters came from regular blasters accidentally eating fuel, and the Zhol Ssirath variant eat absolutely everything it can find, what prevents a Hyper Zhol Ssirath from coming into existence and outbreaking into the galaxy?!
Nothing. And that would be the end of the star wars universe otherwise every planet would have a death star moon in hand to keep the population in check.
I can see many different subspecies of Graboids all the other graboid species from earth I can see the Arctic graboid on a ice planet or the aquatic graboid on Naboo and etc I hope you do more videos like this one
What a glorious deep cut this is.
Maybe not even justify with the force because some fast evolution seems to happen like look at a jungle rancor on Felucia vs the average dathormirian rancor.
If I remember correctly one of the tremor movies actually did have a couple of blasters moving as a group they weren't all that well coordinated but they don't seem to have an issue with one another
This videos are so cool, the idea of species interacting with other places at the point of literally Earth tremors monster to STAR WARS is a great way and a awesome concet that open so many doors, i can also imagine tamed versions of the blaster monsters in the movie people could literally pacify it with cooked food, just imagine a bounty hunter or a protagonist riding one of them and put the graboid eggs in enemy territory just to add salt to the injury
Also if we mention evolution time i can see tamed versions of this creature, like maybe a graboid that ride closer to surface letting people use him like a horse and they put a helmet that protect him for impacts for example
I was like: "no way he is proposing Hyperspace blasters" wow 😂
You should do how well would Mûmakil (giant elephant from The Lord of the rings) do in Peter Jackson's King Kong
One thing you forgot to mention is that Blasters can eat too much and go into a food coma. I don't think it will affect them too much, though.
It's funny if anything 😊
i think the point of the food coma is so they can be eaten by predators allowing the eggs to hatch.
it wasn't until later that they started laying eggs, originally they were kind of more or less an egg delivery missile system. but in the TV series we see that blasters are able to survive for months with no food, and they didn't say anything about it dropping eggs, so the assumption has to be that the only delivery method is death, kind of like how fruits let you eat them so you will poop their seeds out somewhere else.
so id say they arent going to be an apex by any means
they will at first be a surprise but inevitably they would just fit right in within tatooine
i think their introduction would be pretty seamless
infact the inhabitants of tatooine might even initially mistake it for a variant sarlack species due to its feeding methods
The things is the momment a smuggler has the bad idea of moving a shrieker to somewere like Coruscant or any normal world , they could overrun most planets by sheer force of numbers. They would be a logistical nigthmare to contain.Not that they are difficult to destroy but a single city worth of food could make way for legions of Millions of those things
well the graboids need loose sediment to move through, they wouldn't be able to have a complete life cycle on urban planets
@@MadlyMesozoic Would the Hollow Earth sustain them extremely well?
@@MadlyMesozoic mybe but here also the African subspecies who would burrow trough ice and lived on mountains
This is the top tier content I’d expect from you, my dude.
Hoping for a sequel to the Gorgonopsids in Mongolia, I wanna see dragon cavalry.
Love that they're not bringing in number 5 Greyboid and the a** blasters The number 5 Greyboid Can jump out the ground And to make it better they're evil too detach its tongues and make them their own Problems And can read attach them with the a** blasters actually being able to fly and they only come out at night( Unlike the normal grandboys you're not safe on the rocks)
Krayt Dragons will be a problem but that's about it
If anything, Grabiods and subsequent Shreakers might have the issue of over eating and wiping out potential food sources.
Then again, their eggs can hibernate for centuries, so maybe tge ecosystem can recuperate?
@@Psub950 with this comment, this basically proves that graboids cannot survive on tattoone.
Especially if they encounter the one from the first episode of Mandolorian season 2
Twas what I was thinking, Krayt Dragons are something I doubt the Grabboids would have enough time to survive against. Depending of course if here's enough of the former to wipe out the invasive latter.
@@thenameless2379 Krayt dragons would be their predators, but that does not mean Graboids would get wiped out. It only means they would be balanced out to not become a threat to the ecosystem and instead become part of it.
First Time Viewer, and I've got to say, this video was excellent, will definitely be checking out more of you're videos.
My personal favourite part of the video has got to be the speculative evolution, the Sarlacc Parasite makes sense as an evolutionary path for the Graboid to take, & World Serpent sounds terrifying, definitely something Palpatine would do if The Empire got their hands on one of these.
23:58 Honestly the best bit I've seen in a good while, thanks for the laugh. 😂👍
I was waiting for this video with so much enthusiasm but in the end my patience was rewarded!!! congratulations Madly it was a very fascinating and interesting video one of the species that fascinated me the most was the parasitic graboid but also the hyper blaster was very beautiful and interesting
Those are the little freaks I keep seeing on both the piggy jumpscare origins,and the m,p eg rainbow rock alternate ending audio
Next try em on Arrakis, and now we’ve got two man eating annelids
@@baileybitofmischief7071 I don't think much could mess w the sand worms you would have to bring out the thing that tried to eat the millinum falcon.
@@jgbandbjb92709 Graboids could definitely mess up sandtrout though
@@jgbandbjb92709 yeah, I guess so.
DUDE THAT INTRO. Pure nostalgia holy shit. As a 20 year old you made me feel a level of nostalgia I didn’t know was possible at this age
4:19 part of Tatooine is chasms and such and not deserts but that wouldn't be a problem for the later cycles of the graboid
This was some of the coolest world building I've come across in a LONG time. Tou broughr rwo very awesome pieces of media together. Thanks for your video. Tremors and the OT Star Wars was a HUGE part of my childhood. My father, brother, and I would get some snacks and just veg out to Burt and Reba unloading their arsenal on that monster that bursts in on them in their basement.
Not only that but a lot of SW tech is mostly hover based so things like speeders wouldn’t actually be a problem especially with graboids, that being said when it comes to walking around town or in a bar or at home then that’s a totally different story and would be akin to ringing the dinner bell, as for shriekers they could pose a serious problem however due to the vast desolate nature of tatoine any form of systematic eradication would be close to impossible, that being said, the empire might use them as a source of food, considering how prolific shriekers can multiply makes them idealistic for mass production and farming, not to mention that they’re not particularly picky when it comes to their choices in foods, blasters if properly contained would make ideal subjects for harvesting the explosive materials inside their bodies
Tremors should return to Cinema again.
@@UnwantedGhost1-anz25 agreed
@@sytrosianoverlord3150same but I’m also very hesitant about it too as considering what other movie franchises have been through in recent years I would still be ok if tremors didn’t have any content
They would screw it up
@@Clown_the_Clown Like with Aliens Romulus?
@@dino-bk7vh hate to be the bearer of bad news there are like six tremors movies now and the last two are kinda crap
Genuinely an incredible video! Ive always loved tremors… even though the shriekers turned me into a paranoid schizophrenic until i was like 14. I couldnt have asked for a better video on the subject
The quality of your videos is amazing! Absolutely love this channel!
Graboids have one advantage we all overlook. They can feed on shriekers and A**Blaster's, meaning with cannabilism graboids would be the most dangerous of its lifecycle forms, shrinkers could potentially feed on the a-blasters due to seeing their heat signature. Add in this would be happening on a planet perfect for its entire life cycle.
I feel like they could definitely survive and they are also definitely gonna be taken off world just like the Acklay and Rancor
Your videos make me happy man. Thanks!
i would love to see you do something with an alien or xen from the half-life series in the assessing survival series of videos. i'm glad i found this awesome channel.
This was wonderfully entertaining, thank you for making it.
I must say, though, I don't think the Blastermorphs would need to worry about hunting prey, since--despite their drive to hunt, kill and eat--eating puts them into a food coma which would leave them terribly vulnerable. This could lead to a kind of behavioral evolution wherein instead of continuing to hunt and eat (which I'm sure they only did to begin with because they're movie monsters and not really meant to be seen as animals), they simply fly off to find a suitable spot to lay their egg/s, maybe snagging a womp rat or something else small to keep fueled up in the meantime.
Love you content, cant wait for your next colab.
Got one coming up very soon
The idea of a Blaster crashing into a planet from hyperspace, bearly alive and laying eggs with a slightly blue glow. Cool
I saw the thumbnail and immediately clicked. Thank you for going so in depth with the video. Amazing video!😊
Glad you liked it!
Pretty cool in-depth theories, imagining Stormtroopers shooting lasers at a giant Blaster was better than what the actual Tremors sequels did.
Could Big Cats survive the Mesozoic? I feel like Lions, Jaguars, and Tigers have a okay shot. But I would love to see what Cheetahs, Leopard, and other cats would do and evolve.
Honestly, i think leopards would thrive and wouldn't need to evolve much at all. They're small and agile enough to keep themselves out of trouble and still strong enough to hunt decent sized prey. As long as they as they stay in the more dense forests, they have little need to worry about the largest threats. The lions would probably have the worst time because they would have to compete directly with the much larger predators and can't really escape into the trees if they need to. Also, mainting social groups would be incredible difficult under such conditions.
As a tremors fan I’d have to completely agree with your assessment, graboids whilst the most dangerous out of all three of them, tend to suffer when dealing with hard or solid environments such as rocks, boulders and so on and whilst tatueen might be one massive dessert, the vast majority of it primarily consists of hard and solid terrain making them a relatively containable threat, especially with their ability to ambush their prey from beneath along with their incredible strength and baseline intelligence means that they can adapt to certain situations or certain prey items, again their ability to drag a car underground shouldn’t be undermined or underestimated, as for strikers, their ability to walk as well as to move above ground and their abilities to reproduce and replicate after eating enough food makes them a massive problem in containing them along with their social behaviors means that shriekers can take down much larger enemies than themselves such as the bantha and their pack instincts would make them a considerable threat to any small or outlying communities or habitats such as Luke’s aunt and uncles farm or that small town in the mandorlorian/ boba fett where a hoard of shriekers would run havoc against such a community, that being said the blasters ability to fly isn’t its real problem but its ability to travel much further and faster as well as to be able to lay eggs means that they can get just about anywhere and migrate much longer distances all the while posing an aerial challenge to any smaller creatures like Jawas
The fact the Sarlacc has no defense against belowground predation is a great notice, that makes them pretty easy prey for Graboids. However Sarlaccs are also the main prey for Krayt dragons, so Graboids would become not just prey but competition for Krayts. I can easily see a Krayt actively hunting out Graboids to the extent any Krayt dragon territory is just a total no-go for Graboids.
Good point!
Please make “Would mustelids (skunks, badgers, wolverines, and otters) survive in the Mesozoic?”, “Would mustelids (skunks, badgers, wolverines, and otters) survive in the Cenozoic?”, “Would big cats (lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars) survive in the Mesozoic?”, “Would moose survive in the Mesozoic?”, “Would Tyrannosaurus survive in the Cenozoic?”, “Would Titanoboa survive in the Mesozoic?”, “Would Yautjas survive in the Mesozoic?”, “Would Yautjas survive in the Cenozoic?”, “Would Yautjas survive Pandora?”, “Would Yautjas survive in the Fallout universe?”, “Would Deathclaws survive in Westeros?”, “Would Deathclaws survive in Middle-Earth?”, and “Would Deathclaws survive in the How to Train Your Dragon universe?”.
The old Predator comics implied it was them that hunted the Dinosaurs into Extinction, so....
1: not really. badgers and wolverines would be out predators by pack raptors, who would also out size them. the skunk might make it, small mammals did exists at the time, the same with otters but at that point they wouldn't be as set for survival as their ancestors that would be alive at the time.
2: no. they would be out done by the mustelids that were alive at the time, the ekorus for example.
3: probably not, they wouldn't have the size to compete with even medium sized mesozoic predators, and the pack tactics of smaller predators would put the group hunting tactics of lions to shame.
4: yes, but only as an aquatic animal i will not elaborate.
5: no, assuming it wasn't an instant no due to the cold, the evolution of mammals basically made large reptile predators obsolete. there is a reason why the only reptilians predators that really work in the modern world are ambush predators like snakes or eusuchia. (crocs and gators)
6: no. ambush tree constructors only really work if they are bigger than their prey. there were not enough large jungle animals small enough to be snake food to keep a viable population.
7: yes, they were
8: yes, they were
9: yes, if you mean avatar pandora, there is nothing on pandora that we haven't seen the predators take on before. if you mean borderlands pandora, stealth is literally easy mode against psycos.
10: yes, predators are capable of processing levels of radiation that would kill a human. that is literally the only risk in fallout that isn't just normal earth. sure getting shot in the head a couple of times will kill them, but that will kill anything.
11: no, assuming we're not talking about north of the wall where they would die because they are cold blooded. they are just bipedal crocodiles. they would be out niched by the lizard-lion or the walking lizard.
12: no, to many people who know how to kill monsters, deathclaws are stupid, most of the monsters in middle earth are not stupid, deathclaw just dies.
13: no, without the ability to fly they would have been killed off before the training happened. outside of that, they are not dragons, they are just monstrous reptiles, so dragons would likely be aggressive towards them, as they don't have "the dragon sense"
I was waiting to hear: Attention! Sargeant on deck!
it's all fun and games until Burt Gummer arrives with his elephant blaster (starwars version of elephant gun, you get the idea)
I think they only had those forms to take because of what they had to go against so they would evolve to deal with what they had to deal with and I think by them having more food and more competition could evolve and reproduce just as fast in the movies to deal with what they encounter and emagine a giant graboid worms that could borrow through larger areas or even rocks or a graboid worms that are mini parasites that prey on large creatures like ant colonies or Parana swarms but those grabiod evolutions were really cool ideas!
Awesome been waiting for this video to come out
Great video! This is really really cool. As a suggestion, could you possibly do a speculative analysis on an Arachnid (Starship Troopers) on Pandora (Avatar)?
This is the kind of niche crossover content I didn't know I needed
You should definitely look into the survival rating of Xenomorphs in the Star Wars universe! I would love to see how that turns out!
After growing up watching Tremors...I never thought about Graboids in different planets
This is by far one of the weirdest concepts I've ever heard of, and I'm here for it.
Agreed whilst not exactly top of the food chain they’d more or less be comfortable living on or in a planet like tatoine which is basically a planet sized version of the badlands and whilst some areas might be too hard for the graboids to burrow through or end up as lunch for something else, they’re more than able to well stand on their own two feet, not to mention that graboids are intelligent and whilst the other two are lesss intelligent then their parents their ability to cover ground makes them difficult to contain or control vs the ice worms who’s solely limited to subterranean movements and solid rock formations whilst the shriekers ability to rapidly multiply makes them a massive pain if they’re able to consume a fair amount of food, whilst blasters are able to travel much further than the other two as well as lay eggs
So, one thing to point out about blaster fire on Graboids is that it’s going to do a lot more damage than normal gunfire. A group of Tusken Raiders or other armed inhabitants will flat-out be able to repel them because it’s super-heated bolts of plasma hitting the graboid, not bullets.
Well tuskens actually do use projectile based weapons called slug throwers, which are pretty high caliber guns
ironically, they graboids would probably be able to deal with the heat from blaster fire better than they would they heavy slug throwers.
their beaks are designed to deal with extreme pressure, which includes very high heat. remember on earth it gets hotter the deeper you go, and we've seen graboids in deep mines and deep caves, so their bodies are designed to handle high heat. sure you can argue that superheated plasma is much hotter than geothermals, but that's also when you have to account for length of exposure. we've seen humans in the SW universe shrug off blaster fire because the contact with the blaster bolt isn't long enough to impart even a fraction of a percentage of it's heat. on the other hand graboids spend millennia buried miles deep. remember the first movie only happens because an oil derrick comes in contact with them the second movie has a similar plot, when an oil field (multiple deep drilled derricks) hits them that length of time would cause them to have to endure significantly more heath at significantly higher temperatures then you're going to get from a fraction of a second of blaster.
@@NoESanityWell said with this definite info how many earthly, but odd creatures have you've known?!
@@NoESanity ... yes, the giant warm that dies when it hits normal concrete a bit too hard and can be killed with normal gunfire, is going to be resistant to plasma bolts from blasters.
@@rythianlonghammer5263 the fact that you're brain can't understand the difference between energy weapons and kinetic damage is a little frightening.
"oh no, you died when you were hit by a semi going 60 mphs, that obviously means that putting your hand on a hot stove would also kill you."
that logic is full on retarded homie.
Could Subnautica Reaper Leviathan survive the Mesozoic
Over the top and crony GOOD JOB!
Very fun!
I do think I'd prefer a hypothetical evolution over the narrative adaptations and mutations though.
I know we don't know much about the deep history, but I don't think that's too much of an obstacle... Or perhaps you could do a "reverse evolution" where you show how some of the native fauna adapt to the introduction of the new species.
Either way, great stuff!
I love Star Wars. I love Speculative Evolution. This was a great video, man.
The fact that it’s only takes 2-4 years for a planet to be destroyed by a Zhol Ssirath is kinda crazy
great video, my fav so far fictional animals especialy in sci fi settings have more freedom to tamper with and create weird interesting senerios, love it.
Knowing theres so many graboid species makes this a really small part of the needed info
One thing the Empire wouldn't be abe to predict in the design of the "World Serpent"is that graboid eggs can lie dormant for millions of years and still be viable.
In fact, in Tremors 2, the eggs that led to the Grabboid population in Perfection, Nevada were buried in solid rock until some miners dug them up, and then they hatched becoming "dirt dragons" but by the time the local maor, Burt Gummer's ancestor, could mount a proper investigation and defence, they became Grabboids.
So any mining team sent to a "lifeless" world rendered as such by a World Snake could unwittingly bring back the eggs in a bundle of ore, only to have the eggs hatch in their refineries...
The image of a stormtrooper riding a graboid.. is awsome but strange it's in my head now..
22:30 not sure how well that would work since a Sarlacc can decide to digest a creature pretty quickly if it decides not to preserve them for thousands of years
DUDE! YOU NEED TO MAKE MORE OF THESE VIDEOS! Mostly with more fictional creatures, like the Judas Breed, Arachnids (Starship Troopers), Gremlins, Megaprimatus Kong, Zilla (Godzilla 1998), and Shin Godzilla and/or Heisei Godzilla! I'll leave the subjects up to you, but I'd love to see which species could survive on a different setting or planet.
😂😂😂😂 the graboid hitting the brick wall got me good stuff buddy 😂😂😂
speculation Concept: Serpiente Blanca.
While it unknown as to what this specific Graboid is, based on the Empires current understanding of this Invasive species, but SOME information on this specimen has been collected based on SURVIVING Storm trooper testimonies. which is cross referenced with other currently "collected" specimens.
Species: Tatooine Graboid, (potential new species identification pending further investigation and acquisition of specific specimen )
Notes on Appearance:
1) While it shares an almost complete biology with other members of its kind, This particular specimen was reported to feature an almost all White coloration compared to our currently studied specimens, along with its overall body being considerably larger and longer then other members of its own kind. Potentially in-between 50 to 70 feet long or longer.
2) Its body was said to be more slender in appearance to other Graboids in certain areas of the body, which allowed this particular Graboid to move at speeds not enjoyed by other Graboids.
3) Its body still retains that large, black spike like protrusions across the entire length of the body, although it was said that Smaller protrusions were to be found near the Graboids body segments and the main protrusions.
4) Its head is almost identical to every other Worm-like specimen encountered so far, except for noticeable bone-like plates just behind the jaws, adorned with similar yet smaller more thinner protrusions found elsewhere on its body.
incident: Reports from a particular region in southern magnetic pole of the planet, after many years of this species first appearance on Tatoonie and subsequent population explosion in many areas of Tatooine. The Population would later be controlled and kept out of "Civilized" Residences through the controlled and sanctioned use of High frequency emitters. However based on a reported Friendly Tuskin Tribes to the Empire living in that region had reported that the population of Graboids and its related spawn has seen a dramatic drop in population in that area, and had reportedly seen a white A Storm Trooper Regiment armed with frequency Emitters was sent to investigate.
After arriving in a patch of dunes and setting up a camp, an Emitter was placed to keep any potential Graboids in the Area Away. During the night however, despite the Emitter, the Camp was attacked by a large, white Graboid. The Creature was said after it first emerged from the ground was to destroy the main pulse Emitter, and every speeder equipped with one. The general confusion caused by the sudden attack had caused a rapid movement on the surface by the regiment and Tuskin guides which alerted the creature to their presence.
It had swiftly devoured anything that moved, it had reported taken several shots From Tuskin Raiders to which it retaliated by swinging its body around and using its head to impale anything it could reach with a Sharp, flexible black crown of protrusions near its neck. It was not until after the return of a nightly patrol did a group carrying heavier weapons arrive, peppering the beast with laser fire from above. One of which has hit the creature head as it collided with a speedy setting off an explosion that blew away one of the boney plates on the creatures left jaw. The Creature taking fire from all directions then retreated back underground, and a massive trail of sand began moving out of the area, of which was reported to be the creature retreating from the scene.
45 Storm troopers where killed in Action, and 12 Tuskin Raiders killed.
While it is unknown if this creature is a different species of Graboid or if it was the result of a rouge mutation in the creatures genetics.
but what is Known is that after more then a year, a Graboid bearing distinguishing features similar to the same one discovered before, further north, near a small settlement of which it has recently been confirmed to have been destroyed during the night, and the town itself was said to have been using emitters to defend against an existing Graboid population.
A project is currently being developed to Capture and study this specimen, efforts are still ongoing.
(Note: This took me over an hour to type up on the spot.)
Shriekers and Blasters I think would do rather well against Rancors. Rancor's aren't very fast or flexible as far as I've seen in either the movie or games so it only takes them getting onto the rancor's back or chewing their way through the Rancor's ankles (which I think they could do cause they had little issue chewing and ripping their way through metal) and there'd be very little the Rancor could do to stop the Shrieker or Blaster from slowly eating it. You also have to take into account for the fact that unless a potential prey animal completely takes out a shrieker swarm before dying/fleeing then that shrieker can repopulate with the copious meat left behind by both the dead prey and its own former kin. Sarlaccs would also be a source of nigh infinite food for Shriekers it eats, as Sarlaccs are very slow to actually kill and digest things. Any Shrieker a Sarlacc eats would consume it and multiply far faster than the Sarlacc could do the same back. And the sheer size of the Blaster swarms such would continually release could probably populate swarms across a planet even if it had been reduced to that single swallowed Shrieker beforehand.