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Ultimatum is technically one where the bad guy won. Ultimate Magneto sought to make the world suffer after the events of Ultimates 3, and he did just that, killing millions of innocent people and loved heroes alike. Sure he died at the end, but the damage was done, and his son took out Xavier's golden boy cyclops to add insult to injury as the X-men of the Ultimate universe were trying to pick up the pieces.
Memetic's ending of transforming people reminds me of Junji Ito's Uzumaki where everyone just turns into spirals and the protagonist eventually just joins them in the end
It's also basically the plot of DCeased where the Anti-Life Equation is shown on all digital media, turning everyone into "zombies" that can transmit their condition to others.
The worst part of _Ruins,_ aside from literally everything that happens in it, is that the writer, Warren Ellis, intended it to be a comedy. Yes, _Ruins_ is Warren Ellis' idea of "funny"
Rorschach absolutely understands at that moment; but Rorschach is also a character that will not compromise. He understood that he had to die, or he would do anything he could to expose the truth about the "peace".
I agree. I think he understood, he just couldn't live with the secret. Rorschach views the world in black and white so while everyone else saw the shades of gray, he couldn't. He knew he had to be put down because holding on to the secret made him a bad guy worthy of death.
And the tragedy is his murder was for nothing as the truth came anyway. At least Rorschach died for his beliefs instead of breaking them like the others.
How can you spoil Memetic but not the others like Fade Out? Just tell us the damn stories, we can skip ahead if we don't want to know 😂 I clicked this video expecting to know what the villains did to win, not just get the names of comics I should read! Lol
This has practically nothing to do with this video, but it's the greatest line from the cartoon series "Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes" and I felt like posting it: Spider-Man: I'm gonna go web J. Jonah's mouth shut Cap: I'm okay with that
@@tzvikrasner6073 i preffer the spech Captain américa give spiderman about being a hero no matter what people Say of You,of the same chapter . You know, a serious line that shows the awesome writting of the show, not just a Joke
@@tzvikrasner6073 i think Avengers earth mightiest heros is better than the MCU in some aspects, specially in the serious moments. This show it's more than Jokes
I remember in uncanny avengers 1 I believe it was where wolverine got up to speak at Xavier's funeral he said " i would like to tell you all a fairy tale about even though he's gone his dream lives on but the truth is we failed the man" that hit hard
@@easyJat99 look up Night Mind SCP Most wanted. it's listed in the video along with a few other SCP's all of them under the catagory of "hard to secure and contain, so we have to work on protection."
@@jamesdent9057 Unnecessary and against Alan Moore’s wishes completely, but still the best Watchmen media to come out of this sad situation. The Hangman’s new secret origin was a groundbreaking moment in genre television, and I wouldn’t trade it for even an Alan Moore written official sequel.
I got a suggestion,franchises you didn't know had comic books so the silent hill comics could show up I guess as someone who is a huge silent hill fan.
The issue with some of these is that they often devolve into Edgy Fan Fictions as opposed to good stories. Having evil win is difficult. If you don't do it right it ends up being really lame.
Evil won in this universe. Me and the legion of doom murdered every hero as children and created the dark illuminati where we run your pathetic world I'm the background with all of you convinced powers don't exist
I think you could include the 1989 - 1992 run of "Hellraiser" by Marvel Comics here, given pretty much every story in that anthology series ended with the Cenobites getting their victim.
@@TupocalypseShakur There was speculation that the dark god who oversees the Dark Multiverse was going to recruit Eradicator Lois Lane as a defending Superhero against the next Dark Knights Metal crossover event, like he claims he will at the beginning of the first Tales from the Dark Multiverse mini series, but nothing substantial regarding that Lois came of it.
I used to read horror comics in the 80s and many, if not most, of the those stories ended with a dark twist. I don't remember any happy endings, although that could be simply because the the happy endings weren't memorable!
Correction Marv got killed by the electric chair after being zapped by it TWICE and after the first time he said “is that the best you pansies got?” Fucking legend
Please do a 10 times The Avengers lost list I mean things like Vision Quest the infinity war movie Avengers disassembled excetera excetera just 10 stories from the comics the movies and the cartoons where they just flat-out lose in the end but no alternate realities please
I was wondering that myself. But I’d never heard of the comic so I was like “The guy making a TH-cam video so he prolly knows better then me.” But then I thought about all the times Infographics is wrong, and all the times Biographics is wrong. Makes me think Brits don’t ever proofread or fact-check their sht.
@@Summer-us5ql oh you know rape,murder,incest, in a walking dead style of if you get bit or if you “share bodily fluids” with the infected you become them
I don’t want to be that guy, but between Ozy from watchman and Thanos from Marvel, am I the only one who notices a really concerning trend with certain comic book fans defending or even glorifying villains who commit genocide/mass murder because they say it was justified somehow? Because uuuuuhhh...😬😬😬
Well...yes. It's called 'pragmatism'. Logically speaking, without the context of emotion or morality, Ozymandias and Thanos (at least, MCU Thanos, the comic version is but a petulant child in terms of motive) were completely correct in what they were trying to do. Ozy prevented the Cold War from exploding into World War 3 by forcing the warring powers to unite against a common foe, and MCU Thanos was taking on the unenviable task of the very real and present crisis of conflict over resources from overpopulation. Neither of them were wrong from a pragmatic standpoint; emotion and morality is a biological crutch that humanity uses to justify it's motives and goals.
@@Dantalisman not really. Morality isn't absolute, it's relative. Subjective, not objective. It shifts depending on circumstance. And much like religion, politics and all the other things that aren't categorically indisputable (and there isn't much which IS categorically indisputable really), it causes conflict. And worse, it's conflict which rarely leads to a worthwhile outcome, but rather the ability for the people on the 'winning' side to have an ego wank and go to bed believing they're right. Common morality states that all human life is precious, but that stems from a racial arrogance that we're somehow special. And we're not. What we ARE is out of balance with the natural order because morality says that everyone should be saved, rather than the brutally pragmatic, natural approach of 'survival of the fittest'. End result: Morality will doom us all.
@@jackrylebonclaw7270 being on the winning side is what helps a society survive. Back in the early days of humanity our society was the tribe we lived in. It was small and it was pitted against every other tribe fighting for the same resources. Killing members of your own tribe weakened it and made it less likely to survive, but killing members of a rival tribe was beneficial. This permeated through humanities history. Christianities moral doctrines are specifically beneficial to Christian society. It was immoral to kill an Isrealite, but it was fine to kill another tribes members. It was immoral to sell an Isrealite into slavery, but other tribes didn't have the same moral protection. You're right that morality is subjective, but it's based on the changing needs of our society as it becomes more unified and less tribal. Evolutionary imperatives are extremely hard to get past though so it's an imperfect process, and some cultures are quite happy to reject that process entirely.
I picked up "The Hard Goodbye" at a convention once, and I've gone back to it many times ever since. And I wouldn't say evil wins. The murderer was stopped from murdering ever again, and the man who enabled him can't ever enable anyone else. Even if Marv got the electric chair, he had gotten what he believed was justice for Goldie - and perhaps it was, considering how utterly corrupt the judicial system in Sin City was - and accepted the end that he saw coming from a mile away once he was arrested. He even said "Hurry up, I haven't got all night!" before the lever was pulled. What was better, he got laid by Goldie's sister, and then got a pretty damn good steak dinner as his last meal.
People are saying the first one is based off of SCP-2774-A but if its based off of anything SCP related then it would be "Memetic kill agents" which in the SCP universe are images used to, if I remember right, hide classified information and if your not allowed to view said information the image kills you(I may be slightly wrong on that) But I'm pretty sure the idea of a Meme causing pain to oneself isn't new either, as there's memes that are made to cause epilepsy So basically take the whole "Its based off SCP-2774-A" with a grain of salt, hell, even take mine with a grain of salt. I just tried to make an actual connection between SCP and the first comic
Could you do a video about Grant morrison's adaptations etc. He has some of the more special stories.. Like in Animal Man where Wiley Coyote is finally allowed to die after a life of torture
'Empire' from Mark Waid and Barry Kitson. The premise for the series being 'What if Doctor Doom or Lex Luthor won and ruled over Earth?' Fantastic writing and an excellent twist ending.
Memetic has strong Uzumaki vibes... Hypnotic ring shapes, lovecraftian madness, cosmic overlords and of course the body-horrific melting merging assimilating meat structures.
I remember this dark and gritty comic that is about the sidekicks who work with morally corrupt parodies of DC superheroes, like a Robin expy that was sexually assaulted by the Batman copy, or the Wonder Girl expy who worked for a femininazi Wonder Woman. If memory serves, it ends with everyone dying in an explosion or something. Not really the bad guy winning, more like everyone losing, even the abused and exploited sidekicks.
The Brat Pack. It's considered by alot of hard-core comic fans to be one of the great deconstruction of the superhero genre (along with watchmen and the dark knight returns). The other heroes include a steroid addicted racist facist who is supposed to be captain america, and a drug addicted hero who is supposed to be green arrow. It ends with all the sidekicks dying, and the superman character (who left many years ago) coming back and killing the other heroes after seeing how awful they have become.
Did anyone else cringe at how he pronounced Memetic? Maybe it’s all the years of playing Met Gear Solid, but I’m pretty sure that’s pronounced Memetic (meh-meh-tic).
Bomb Queen immediately came to my mind. She's a villain who doesn't mind killing anyone in her way, particularly any hero that tries invading her city.
She is a villain protagonist and the comic reminds everyone all time that she is a necessary evil for a greater good because the most wicked members of society end moving to her city making the rest of the US safe.
As much as I'd like the villain to win at times, with these comic book stories I'd prefer for the comics to not even exist, or at least for the heros to win.
I think Rorschach realized what he needed to do, but he couldn't stop himself. He was crazy after all. That's why he goaded Manhattan into killing him.
That's what I always thought. Why else would he practically beg Manhatten to stop him? And yes, I think that him screaming at Manhatten was his way to beg. After all, it was like 'kill me before I kill millions or even billions'.
It also served to distract the supers long enough to get his journal into the hands of the newpaper. It was made back in the day when Woodward and Bernstein telling the truth could actually influence the path the world took (The book was a product of the times). It was also a bit of the same kind of deconstruction of heroes being a deus ex that could save humanity from its own devices, instead any supernatural powers simply ticking the clock closer to doomsday faster than anyone could stop it. Oz' plan was one of those unity projects, like the Intl Space Station or the Olympics, but as per usual, reality ensues and neither side would back down on brinksmanship even for a godlike existential threat, even if Rorschach's journal hadn't made it to the journalists. It was probably also a critique of newspapers being opportunists and accelerationists in the guise of being lovers of truth at the time the series was written, bc let's be honest Moore hates everyone. /coolstorybro
Memetic is pronounced mu-MEH-tick, not MEME-tick. And I have a feeling it's based/related to SCP-2774, or the Slow Burn Sloth, either the former was based off the latter or vice versa.
@@jasonours6957 a scp is a something out of the ordinary/ an anomaly that is classified with a number by an organization known as the scp foundation or secure, contain, protect. These anomalies can being normal looking humans or creature that live here or different dimensions. As such they are given labels of how easy they are to contain and how dangerous they are to people. Some can even cause the end of the world if not contained correctly. There are anti meme ones and a scp called the flesh that hates which is a infectious skin disease that transform anything into flesh mounds that can attack people and animals that aren’t infected. If you’d like to learn more type in scp in TH-cam and you’ll find people talking about them.
I mean if you read it closely he admits Ozi admits he came up with the idea while getting high in Egypt. It's super easy to miss while reading his monologue but really does give him the crown of the world's dumbest super genius.
I haven't scrolled through all the comments but the first one that came to mind was the (guilty pleasure) Mark Millar miniseries Wanted. Though Wesley AKA The Killer takes out, er, drains the swamp, the end reveal that his motive and reform was just joking, the final line (which I ain't gonna say) sums it up.
Rorschach understood that revealing the truth would be worse for the planet but he was a moral absolutist and what Ozymandias did was evil so he felt he had to be punished anyways.
And when I say it was evil I mean Rorschach believed it was evil... it's more ambiguous to us simply because letting the world go into full on nuclear war is horrifying.
Pretty much. Rorschach was supposed to be a criticism of characters by Steve Ditko (especially the question and Mr.A). Mr.A saw things completely in black and white, so Moore put him in a moral dilemma.
Bill Foster's death. I won't let anyone forget what civil war II did to his death and nephew.
What happened to his nephew???😱😱😱😱
@@delfredmarshall8416 Prison. F---ING PRISON!!
@@amanzeihedioha what?? Why?? 😱😱😱
@@delfredmarshall8416 I don't know. ask Bendis
@@amanzeihedioha Did his nephew go to prison before or after a newly reorganized Damage Control hired him?
Ultimatum is technically one where the bad guy won.
Ultimate Magneto sought to make the world suffer after the events of Ultimates 3, and he did just that, killing millions of innocent people and loved heroes alike.
Sure he died at the end, but the damage was done, and his son took out Xavier's golden boy cyclops to add insult to injury as the X-men of the Ultimate universe were trying to pick up the pieces.
Anytime Spider-man wins. Evil wins!!
You only want him gone because he’s an embarrassment! Because he does what the police and military can’t! What kind of authority is that?
Double the money.
You are aware that J Jonah Jameson doesn't own the Bugle anymore and that he is currently on good terms with Spider-Man and even endorses him right?
@@deadpoolrockz6410 dude don't ruin the joke
I nead picture's of spider man
Memetic's ending of transforming people reminds me of Junji Ito's Uzumaki where everyone just turns into spirals and the protagonist eventually just joins them in the end
*flashbacks to the 3rd impact*
It's also basically the plot of DCeased where the Anti-Life Equation is shown on all digital media, turning everyone into "zombies" that can transmit their condition to others.
Either it's ripped from SCP-2774 - "Slow Burn Sloth" or vice versa.
Ninja Boy, the protagonist and all his friends are killed by bounty hunters
Ruins, the Quinjet didn't crash, it was shot down by the US Army
Memetic is perfect example of why we need the SCP foundation
Its so weird and creepy
And the meme itself is just random and nonthreatening so yes it fits perfect
it kinda is an scp already, slow burn sloth, though it's effects are kinda different it's still an info-hazard sloth.
They very quickly hit “SCP-2000 time” in that story.
XD i was loking for this comment.
Ultra hypno toad
The worst part of _Ruins,_ aside from literally everything that happens in it, is that the writer, Warren Ellis, intended it to be a comedy.
Yes, _Ruins_ is Warren Ellis' idea of "funny"
It wasn't supposed to be a comedy, it was a parody of Marvels. While parody is usually associated with comedy it doesn't always has to be.
I though it was supposed to be its opposite not a parody
Isn’t a comedy where it starts out as horrible but by the end things are far far happier?
There is no one more day in Ba Sing Se...
Or Sins Past
@@TupocalypseShakur or in ccp
The Tales of Ba Sing Se
Rorschach absolutely understands at that moment; but Rorschach is also a character that will not compromise. He understood that he had to die, or he would do anything he could to expose the truth about the "peace".
I agree. I think he understood, he just couldn't live with the secret. Rorschach views the world in black and white so while everyone else saw the shades of gray, he couldn't. He knew he had to be put down because holding on to the secret made him a bad guy worthy of death.
And the tragedy is his murder was for nothing as the truth came anyway. At least Rorschach died for his beliefs instead of breaking them like the others.
Meme tick? Isn't it pronounced meh-met-ick. Like Genetic?
Is this the same guy who mispronounced Darkseid?
I think its pronounced meme-metic.
I thought so too but I think it's a lame pun. Like a tic caused by seeing a meme?
@@timfarner41 It isn't a pun, it's an actual word.
that would be memetic not memetick
How can you spoil Memetic but not the others like Fade Out? Just tell us the damn stories, we can skip ahead if we don't want to know 😂 I clicked this video expecting to know what the villains did to win, not just get the names of comics I should read! Lol
This has practically nothing to do with this video, but it's the greatest line from the cartoon series "Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes" and I felt like posting it:
Spider-Man: I'm gonna go web J. Jonah's mouth shut
Cap: I'm okay with that
Cool line,not the greatest
@@mateoremedi4703 Fight me! 😄
@@mateoremedi4703 It's an MCU-era cartoon, so the writing's really fun
@@tzvikrasner6073 i preffer the spech Captain américa give spiderman about being a hero no matter what people Say of You,of the same chapter . You know, a serious line that shows the awesome writting of the show, not just a Joke
@@tzvikrasner6073 i think Avengers earth mightiest heros is better than the MCU in some aspects, specially in the serious moments. This show it's more than Jokes
I remember in uncanny avengers 1 I believe it was where wolverine got up to speak at Xavier's funeral he said " i would like to tell you all a fairy tale about even though he's gone his dream lives on but the truth is we failed the man" that hit hard
I'm disappointed you failed him as well.
Memetic is based off an an scp called the "slow burning sloth"
Yes!!! Just commented this. Good to see more people enjoy the SCP universe.
@@Coentjemons I don't know much about the SCP-Verse (sorry lol)
Can u explain what slow burn sloth is???
@@easyJat99 not very well but this link sure can!
villains.fandom.com/wiki/SCP-2774-A
@@easyJat99 look up Night Mind SCP Most wanted. it's listed in the video along with a few other SCP's all of them under the catagory of "hard to secure and contain, so we have to work on protection."
Do top 5 symbiotes who were merged to make one symbiote.
1. Exalted
2. Carnom
3. Hybrid
"HBO's watchmen as true sequels"... Now THAT sounds truly evil.
Can we at least agree that HBO’s Watchmen is much better sequel by leaps and bounds than Doomsday Clock?
@@Popcultureguy3000 it’s much better, but still kinda unnecessary
@@jamesdent9057 Unnecessary and against Alan Moore’s wishes completely, but still the best Watchmen media to come out of this sad situation. The Hangman’s new secret origin was a groundbreaking moment in genre television, and I wouldn’t trade it for even an Alan Moore written official sequel.
@@Popcultureguy3000 the Watchmen even existing goes against Alan Moore's wishes
@@TupocalypseShakur Yes, we’ve already established this. But what did you _think_ of the HBO original limited series?
10 Televison Series you didn't know had comic book adaptations like Simpsons Family Guy and 24
Yeah
I got a suggestion,franchises you didn't know had comic books so the silent hill comics could show up I guess as someone who is a huge silent hill fan.
The issue with some of these is that they often devolve into Edgy Fan Fictions as opposed to good stories. Having evil win is difficult. If you don't do it right it ends up being really lame.
Evil won in this universe. Me and the legion of doom murdered every hero as children and created the dark illuminati where we run your pathetic world I'm the background with all of you convinced powers don't exist
Well said
I want to see a sympathetic villain horrified by the unintended negative consequences of what they thought to be righteous
I think you could include the 1989 - 1992 run of "Hellraiser" by Marvel Comics here, given pretty much every story in that anthology series ended with the Cenobites getting their victim.
11.literally every dark multiverse story
At least Lois Lane, The Eradicator has a chance of redeeming herself in future multiverse crossover stories. But yeah, the rest of them are fucked.
@@Popcultureguy3000 redemptions won't make a difference, they're universes are doomed to destruction regardless of what they do
@@TupocalypseShakur There was speculation that the dark god who oversees the Dark Multiverse was going to recruit Eradicator Lois Lane as a defending Superhero against the next Dark Knights Metal crossover event, like he claims he will at the beginning of the first Tales from the Dark Multiverse mini series, but nothing substantial regarding that Lois came of it.
Memetic has some major Junji Ito vibes, I kinda love it.
Johnny 'Quick' Chambers was a speedster in the era of Flash 1 Jay Garrick. The CSA villian named for him.
Hearing how ewan pronounces memetic is so hard
Perhaps the "Hard Reset" arc from the Archie Sonic comics.
*DAAAAMN* *YOU* *KEN* *PENDEEERS!!*
The one where Sally gets straight up shot and killed?
Meme-tick... That is an interesting pronunciation of Meh-me-tick.
Memetic reminds me of a few junji ito stories smashed together.
Guess they shared the same when it comes to writing
"Batman: Knight Of Vengeance" is even worse, in the end EVERYONE loses.
I used to read horror comics in the 80s and many, if not most, of the those stories ended with a dark twist. I don't remember any happy endings, although that could be simply because the the happy endings weren't memorable!
Correction Marv got killed by the electric chair after being zapped by it TWICE
and after the first time he said “is that the best you pansies got?”
Fucking legend
That's almost as badass as walking away from an explosion.
Please do a 10 times The Avengers lost list I mean things like Vision Quest the infinity war movie Avengers disassembled excetera excetera just 10 stories from the comics the movies and the cartoons where they just flat-out lose in the end but no alternate realities please
Do a list of good comics but filled with extreme amounts of violence. Examples like Preacher, the boys, Crossed, etc.
lol "meme tick"
Is this a US / UK pronunciation difference??
I love these guys, but no. They have a regular habit of mispronouncing things that they could find the phonetic spelling for in a Google search.
*DEEP HEAVY SIGH* It is SO unprofessional.
I was wondering that myself. But I’d never heard of the comic so I was like “The guy making a TH-cam video so he prolly knows better then me.”
But then I thought about all the times Infographics is wrong, and all the times Biographics is wrong. Makes me think Brits don’t ever proofread or fact-check their sht.
Why is there no Crossed on this list. Seriously. It's the best 'evil won' comic ever and is absolutely awful, therefore it's brilliant.
I agree, I really wouldn’t want to spend time in the author’s mind... good lord, some of those images are... good lord
@@leavemealone6261 what happened?
@@Summer-us5ql oh you know rape,murder,incest, in a walking dead style of if you get bit or if you “share bodily fluids” with the infected you become them
@@SupernaturalDetective I've described it as "a zombie apocalypse, except the zombies are the Reavers from Firefly."
Can you make a video top 20 super celestial beings in the DC universe
Twilight Sparkle 😆
I don’t want to be that guy, but between Ozy from watchman and Thanos from Marvel, am I the only one who notices a really concerning trend with certain comic book fans defending or even glorifying villains who commit genocide/mass murder because they say it was justified somehow?
Because uuuuuhhh...😬😬😬
Well...yes. It's called 'pragmatism'. Logically speaking, without the context of emotion or morality, Ozymandias and Thanos (at least, MCU Thanos, the comic version is but a petulant child in terms of motive) were completely correct in what they were trying to do. Ozy prevented the Cold War from exploding into World War 3 by forcing the warring powers to unite against a common foe, and MCU Thanos was taking on the unenviable task of the very real and present crisis of conflict over resources from overpopulation. Neither of them were wrong from a pragmatic standpoint; emotion and morality is a biological crutch that humanity uses to justify it's motives and goals.
Comic Thanos is a madman killing to sate his desires. You're not supposed to like him or support him, not he agrees with himself
@@sacysily8968 morality isn't a crutch, it's a byproduct of social evolution and beneficial to the social creatures as a whole.
@@Dantalisman not really. Morality isn't absolute, it's relative. Subjective, not objective. It shifts depending on circumstance. And much like religion, politics and all the other things that aren't categorically indisputable (and there isn't much which IS categorically indisputable really), it causes conflict. And worse, it's conflict which rarely leads to a worthwhile outcome, but rather the ability for the people on the 'winning' side to have an ego wank and go to bed believing they're right. Common morality states that all human life is precious, but that stems from a racial arrogance that we're somehow special. And we're not. What we ARE is out of balance with the natural order because morality says that everyone should be saved, rather than the brutally pragmatic, natural approach of 'survival of the fittest'. End result: Morality will doom us all.
@@jackrylebonclaw7270 being on the winning side is what helps a society survive. Back in the early days of humanity our society was the tribe we lived in. It was small and it was pitted against every other tribe fighting for the same resources. Killing members of your own tribe weakened it and made it less likely to survive, but killing members of a rival tribe was beneficial. This permeated through humanities history. Christianities moral doctrines are specifically beneficial to Christian society. It was immoral to kill an Isrealite, but it was fine to kill another tribes members. It was immoral to sell an Isrealite into slavery, but other tribes didn't have the same moral protection.
You're right that morality is subjective, but it's based on the changing needs of our society as it becomes more unified and less tribal. Evolutionary imperatives are extremely hard to get past though so it's an imperfect process, and some cultures are quite happy to reject that process entirely.
Love that he put the in a society reference in this video
When he sure mountains of faces intact it sounds like some doom type stuff
Chronok Kills every Marvel A and B list super Heroes.
I picked up "The Hard Goodbye" at a convention once, and I've gone back to it many times ever since. And I wouldn't say evil wins. The murderer was stopped from murdering ever again, and the man who enabled him can't ever enable anyone else.
Even if Marv got the electric chair, he had gotten what he believed was justice for Goldie - and perhaps it was, considering how utterly corrupt the judicial system in Sin City was - and accepted the end that he saw coming from a mile away once he was arrested. He even said "Hurry up, I haven't got all night!" before the lever was pulled.
What was better, he got laid by Goldie's sister, and then got a pretty damn good steak dinner as his last meal.
I am inevitable lol
People are saying the first one is based off of SCP-2774-A but if its based off of anything SCP related then it would be "Memetic kill agents" which in the SCP universe are images used to, if I remember right, hide classified information and if your not allowed to view said information the image kills you(I may be slightly wrong on that)
But I'm pretty sure the idea of a Meme causing pain to oneself isn't new either, as there's memes that are made to cause epilepsy
So basically take the whole "Its based off SCP-2774-A" with a grain of salt, hell, even take mine with a grain of salt. I just tried to make an actual connection between SCP and the first comic
Could you do a video about Grant morrison's adaptations etc. He has some of the more special stories.. Like in Animal Man where Wiley Coyote is finally allowed to die after a life of torture
I really don’t want to see evil always win all the time because that’s just sad and depressing and if there’s no hope then what’s the point.
Eh, I think it's usually more interesting than seeing good win, although, you know, I wouldn't want that in real life.
@@pietrocatalano4285 true and honestly you're right about that
Yeah but its a fun wrinkle that good doesnt have to win. You play the card to say you can play the card.
@@punkhippe agreed
They know true dispair
If my parents had any idea of the plot of 'Joker' they wouldn't have bought it for me as a Christmas present.
" joker becomes the ambassador for Iran " WTF!!??😐
Back in 70s politics were big
@@safwanmustafiz3106 I knew they were big , but god damn
@@safwanmustafiz3106 That story is from the late 80 s.
@@TheVetoSkreeemer oh I thought it was the 70s
@@safwanmustafiz3106 Dont worry
'Empire' from Mark Waid and Barry Kitson. The premise for the series being 'What if Doctor Doom or Lex Luthor won and ruled over Earth?' Fantastic writing and an excellent twist ending.
one more day had gorgeous artwork
Memetic has strong Uzumaki vibes... Hypnotic ring shapes, lovecraftian madness, cosmic overlords and of course the body-horrific melting merging assimilating meat structures.
>"Memetic"
>Sloth
this is literally SCP's Slow-Burn Sloth LOL
I remember this dark and gritty comic that is about the sidekicks who work with morally corrupt parodies of DC superheroes, like a Robin expy that was sexually assaulted by the Batman copy, or the Wonder Girl expy who worked for a femininazi Wonder Woman.
If memory serves, it ends with everyone dying in an explosion or something. Not really the bad guy winning, more like everyone losing, even the abused and exploited sidekicks.
The Brat Pack. It's considered by alot of hard-core comic fans to be one of the great deconstruction of the superhero genre (along with watchmen and the dark knight returns). The other heroes include a steroid addicted racist facist who is supposed to be captain america, and a drug addicted hero who is supposed to be green arrow.
It ends with all the sidekicks dying, and the superman character (who left many years ago) coming back and killing the other heroes after seeing how awful they have become.
Did anyone else cringe at how he pronounced Memetic? Maybe it’s all the years of playing Met Gear Solid, but I’m pretty sure that’s pronounced Memetic (meh-meh-tic).
Bomb Queen immediately came to my mind. She's a villain who doesn't mind killing anyone in her way, particularly any hero that tries invading her city.
She is a villain protagonist and the comic reminds everyone all time that she is a necessary evil for a greater good because the most wicked members of society end moving to her city making the rest of the US safe.
You have a funny way of pronouncing memetic.
As much as I'd like the villain to win at times, with these comic book stories I'd prefer for the comics to not even exist, or at least for the heros to win.
I think Rorschach realized what he needed to do, but he couldn't stop himself. He was crazy after all. That's why he goaded Manhattan into killing him.
That's what I always thought. Why else would he practically beg Manhatten to stop him?
And yes, I think that him screaming at Manhatten was his way to beg. After all, it was like 'kill me before I kill millions or even billions'.
@@grayscribe1342 I always thought him taking off his mask symbolized that this choice was being made by Walter Kovacs instead of Rorschach
@@seanwilliams7655 yes and yes
It also served to distract the supers long enough to get his journal into the hands of the newpaper. It was made back in the day when Woodward and Bernstein telling the truth could actually influence the path the world took (The book was a product of the times). It was also a bit of the same kind of deconstruction of heroes being a deus ex that could save humanity from its own devices, instead any supernatural powers simply ticking the clock closer to doomsday faster than anyone could stop it. Oz' plan was one of those unity projects, like the Intl Space Station or the Olympics, but as per usual, reality ensues and neither side would back down on brinksmanship even for a godlike existential threat, even if Rorschach's journal hadn't made it to the journalists. It was probably also a critique of newspapers being opportunists and accelerationists in the guise of being lovers of truth at the time the series was written, bc let's be honest Moore hates everyone. /coolstorybro
Memes taking over the world is a w for evil?
I always considered myself as a bad person. Now i want to be evil xD
Nemesis by Mark Millar is a good example of Evil winning
So Memetic is like Bird Box and The Happening?
more like Bird Box and the Crazies
My brain jolted every time he said "meme-tick"
Sometimes the bad guy gets away and there's nothing you can do about it!
I knew One More Day was gonna be in this list
Memetic is pronounced mu-MEH-tick, not MEME-tick. And I have a feeling it's based/related to SCP-2774, or the Slow Burn Sloth, either the former was based off the latter or vice versa.
'Meme tic'? Do you mean 'MI-MET-IC', by any chance?
The first thing on list(#10) reminds me of a mix of two or more scps
What’s a scps
@@jasonours6957 a scp is a something out of the ordinary/ an anomaly that is classified with a number by an organization known as the scp foundation or secure, contain, protect. These anomalies can being normal looking humans or creature that live here or different dimensions. As such they are given labels of how easy they are to contain and how dangerous they are to people. Some can even cause the end of the world if not contained correctly. There are anti meme ones and a scp called the flesh that hates which is a infectious skin disease that transform anything into flesh mounds that can attack people and animals that aren’t infected. If you’d like to learn more type in scp in TH-cam and you’ll find people talking about them.
Secret Empire. Another case where evil (the House of Mouse) decidedly triumphs over good (the readers).
Death in the family leading to red hood is one of the greatest cases of lemons to lemonade I've ever seen.
Memetic reminds me of I AM A HERO in its ending with the aliens and meat towers
Not trying to be that person but its pronounced mem-etic. Just wanted to point it out, besides that awesome video great work!
00:45 You know a comic is going to suck when you hear the description of the "Protagonist"
I mean if you read it closely he admits Ozi admits he came up with the idea while getting high in Egypt. It's super easy to miss while reading his monologue but really does give him the crown of the world's dumbest super genius.
That first story is just like a story from the SCP universe. Like almost word for word.
1:16 I can see we’re scp got it’s inspiration
Love this video.... First vid I've seen that mentioned Torso
Number 10. So, Uzumaki basically... Just with a sloth instead of spirals.
I haven't scrolled through all the comments but the first one that came to mind was the (guilty pleasure) Mark Millar miniseries Wanted. Though Wesley AKA The Killer takes out, er, drains the swamp, the end reveal that his motive and reform was just joking, the final line (which I ain't gonna say) sums it up.
I think memetic had an scp called "slow burn sloth" based on it
The first one reminded me of a scp called the slow burn sloth
Evil will always triumph because good is dumb. -- Dark Helmet
That first one sounds like the Sloth SCP
Velvet was better than Fade Out.
Rorschach understood that revealing the truth would be worse for the planet but he was a moral absolutist and what Ozymandias did was evil so he felt he had to be punished anyways.
And when I say it was evil I mean Rorschach believed it was evil... it's more ambiguous to us simply because letting the world go into full on nuclear war is horrifying.
Pretty much. Rorschach was supposed to be a criticism of characters by Steve Ditko (especially the question and Mr.A). Mr.A saw things completely in black and white, so Moore put him in a moral dilemma.
Anytime good or evil wins those in between will eventually lose something.
Meh. I feel as if the "Memetic" one would only appeal to people who don't remember a reality WITHOUT interwebs.
Man Spiderman and Batman just cant take a break.
I'm a huge unsolved murder mystery buff. It's an interesting case and Torso is a brilliant book along the lines of From Hell
I think Johnny Frost should be an alternate version of Joe Chill in the multiverse of the DCEU...
Hearing him pronounce memetic like that makes me sad
We just need an alternate reality comic where Mayday Parker defeats Mephisto and One More Day retroactively becomes a classic
In the end the real evil was the friends we made along the way.
What is this "friends" you speak of?
I'm disappointed I didn't see no old man Logan, the real story how the villains won....
Agree, it is very depressing.
I'm surprised that the old man Logan comics aren't on here.
I love all these books
Meme-tic. I'm dying lol
AOT #Erengang
lol 😂 but that isn’t the ending the ending is actually not that evil but I don’t want to spoil for all the people here
@@GodfreyFirstEldenLord there is still a chapter left, we can hope
@@GodfreyFirstEldenLord I know lol don’t worry.
Garth Eniss' Crossed is also another comic book where evil wins.
yes, this 100%. And it is not necessarily the infected - the humans that remian clean act in reprehensible ways
Final Crisis was a great one.
0:27 they really made a comic based off of slow burn sloth huh
I think the "Old Man Logan" hq could be included here, and it has some things I find kind of disturbing idk
Superman vs Aliens!!!
11:10 did you hear that steve jobs got ligma?