I love how Dead Space decided to take the idea of living planets to its logical extreme, to the point where it becomes an integral plot point for the series.
Completely agree, can't say I loved where the games went in some of the later entries, but the story always felt logical while still having a completely unique spin on the "alien invasion" trope
Probably not the “logical extreme” , but the “logical hypothetical” Meaning that there’s a good degree of logical behind stuff in the game, but the things we don’t understand can be hypothetical explained using science, or undiscovered tech or biology or so on.
I feel like earthquakes would be more akin to your stomach rumbling, meteors however would be absolutely painful, and as for stars exploding, I feel like if the planet can move it won't have a problem with that.
@@Zxr-r6q "15,000 to 40,000 kilometers a second" National geographic That's the speed of a supernova, earth for example, travels at 30 a second. I doubt any living planet could move that fast
Ironically enough, the story introducing Mogo is is set up like typical space horror. A bold alien warlord sets out to find his nemesis on the planet, slowly realizing to his horror that the green lantern Mogo is not on the planet- Mogo is the planet!
Another good example of this concept can be found in the soviet 1972 film "Solaris" by Andrei Tarkovsky. In the story, there was a sentient ocean planet named Solaris, that was reported by the scientists in the orbital station to have some stange and anomalies properties. All personal of the orbital station were expiriencing visiting of the "guests". Material visions of the most shameful and bitter memories. This were tearing down sciense crew to the point that one of them even commited suacide. The main character stars to see visions of his dead wife, who killed herself after quarrel. And the more time passes to more MC starts to look at guest of his wife like she is an actual person, and more this "wife" start to act more and more humanlike. She even started to act empathic, self-understading, even discuss for her nature as a "fake". What is creepy and interesing, that unlike other sentient planet, Solaris dosent act in openly hostile or malevelent. Maybe Planet genuantly studying humans itself, there interactions, nature of there psyke. Maybe Planet is just simple a silent predator, An cosmic angler-fish, that lures its preys and then suffucate them in there own misery, Or maybe even both. Unlike other examples, Planet IS sentient, but its actions feels unhuman, alien. And at the end Solaris started to understand what makes us humans.
I thought you were talking about a different movie but it was my mistake. There's one with Chris Evans where the sun may or may not be sentient and they never really say one way or the other but it's similar with the hallucinations etc.
@@THORODINSON289 more than that; a god of chaos born in the form of a machine that hungers. that's kind fucking terrifying and implies a LOT about that universe
Okay so immediately on the Majora's Mask, it's even WORSE than that. The Moon isn't grinning, it's grimacing in pain. It doesn't want to collide with the earth and destroy Termina. It cries a tear near the beginning of the game that you have to get to progress. It's suffering. The Skullkid is making an entire conscious planetary body SUFFER. That's horrific too, no? :3 Off to the rest of the video~
Btw on the markers in Dead Space, they aren't dropped onto planets. They were already there just waiting to be uncovered by organic life for the moons to use. It's specifically a trap to lure in spacefaring races with sufficient biomass.
Surprised you didn’t mention Phaaze from Metroid Prime 3, it perfectly fits the bill as a living planet. Hell, it even has a reproductive cycle that entails launching meteoric seeds to infest other planets and assimilate them into another Phaaze.
I'm a huge Metroid fan and Phaaze was always in the original script for the video, but I cut it last minute because there was some overlap with Dark Bramble and... most importantly... I couldn't find any good footage to show for it in the video :/
Totally valid, just glad it was remembered. It’s such an alien vibe when you’re exploring its innards, I wanted to make sure it was including somehow :)
We have a difficult time articulating what we percieve as macro-systems or meta-systems as organic or "alive" because we're human-biased. Would an ant understand the biology of a human beyond "meat"?
No. Because ant is relatively dumb. Humans are relatively smart (I know because my own brain told me so) and I know simple chemicals smooshed together through chance to form terrestrial planets of gas giants cannot be conscious. I'm not even going to say "conscious as we know it" because it's just so damn unbelievable
I'd say the scariest "living planet" is Unicron. Unicron devours entire worlds,in mere minutes and he has one only one known weakness,The Matrix of Leadership and even then,you cannot kill Unicron,merely destroy his body coupled with the fact what we see of him is merely a fraction of The REAL Unicron,a being beyond any and all mortal comprehension. He was my introduction to Lovecraftian horror as a kid too
"the earth has some magic systems to ensure we can keep living here" is presupposing the earth was made for us to live on, and not that we evolved to fit the state the earth is in it's like a puddle thinking a hole was made exactly for it to fit inside of
@@BlankEmporiumthere is no God of God. God was not created, He was not born, and he will not die. He simply is. There is a reason that attempting to fully understand God is a fool’s errand. We were made in his image, but we are not and never will be beings like him. He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. He does not have a beginning, for he created the concept *of* beginnings. He will not have an end, for he created ends and as such is not subject to them.
@Cosmosdestructor Said who? God? Of course he'd claim to be eternal. Who wouldn't in his position? It's also just easy to say God could never prove he wasn't created like how we humans can't prove God created us.
4:30, that's how equilibriums work. We just happen to be around while the system is stable. For millions of years it was not stable, plants themselves caused a rapid shift in the planet's atmosphere and caused at least one extinction period.
The Gaia Hypothesist while may seem interesting, it is what should I say, too human centric. The planet never care about sustaining life or creating orders whatsoever, the breatheable air you mentioned in the video once a long time ago was the cause of extinction of many other species. Life evolved and even modified their environment to suit their need not the enviroment creating some kind of order for life to ... well live. To quote from Death End, the sequel of Three Body Problem and The Dark Forest : "The universe is grand but life is grander"
Amazing comment. Amazing series. I’d like not to contraire but to expand. I believe life has the ability itself to form these near magical systems with its environment. The planet doesn’t care, but life in a genetic way does. It crafted this entire planet to its own needs, keeping those systems in place for future gens.
You could have named Unicron and Primus (Cybertron) from Transformers that are two living planets, Unicron is the god of chaos and destruction, while Primus is the god of creation. Unicron devours other planets to feed on their live forms force, desperation and fear. While Primus is who gives birth to the transformers.
I love cosmic horror. The feeling of something so unnatural to us, but yet still in our reality is jarring and really tingles some part of my brain. Also trying to grasp the concept of something so massive that is alive and sentient and potentially predatory would break so many minds.
I was drawn to this video not only for its thumbnail and title, but also as the video seemed to sporadically disappear from my recommendations, as if it was merely an illusion, only to reappear from scrolling up and down a few times. That might very well be a bug, but I’d reckon it added to the horror of this very video.
I love the Dark Forest Hypothesis, but, as I understand things, it's nearly zero chance to be the solution. If life, technology and astronomy as we know it means anything, we'd basically already be gone in a Dark Forest galaxy. For the last billion or two years (since the oxygen bloom), it has been very obvious that carbon based life exists on our planet, if anybody within a billion lightyears has bothered to look. If they're out there, they already can see us
It could also be that the local area of space is dangerous enough that invading earth isn’t a good idea. Idea: the milk way has a freakish amount of planetary scale predators compared to the rest of the universe.
I've always had the opinion that the reason we don't see aliens around is simply because intelligence, or maybe consciousness, is much more complicated and rare than just life. I'm pretty sure there are planets full of animals, but I don't think they have any "people" in them
@@PlsStandBy33 I tend to believe that they're out there, and they're pretty close to us in age. Just not very close in space, so we haven't seen them, yet (lightspeed being what it is). The reason I believe this is because the state of the universe is not static. It hasn't been all that long since life (as we know it) could exist. Not all that long ago, everything was just big clouds of lukewarm gases. I figure that other stars out there created the conditions for life nearly the same time-ish that ours did. Without doubt, most of those don't have life now because of neighbors going supernova etc, but I also bet there's another lucky one or two out there, just waiting for enough time to pass that we see eachother's light.
@@boakley8147 They wouldn't have to get all that close for us to see them. If aliens are out there, they're just far enough away, and small enough that we haven't seen them yet.
the coolest thing is a period of about 100 million years where "outside" pressures would've been like here on earth, with a comfy temperature, and gas clouds the size of current galaxies with breathable air mixtures... i wonder what happened, then.
I kinda like how you included LN theme playing in the background as you show us celestial and divine images but somewhat creepy and hard to comprehend like images of planets and I also love how you included LOZ in this
One thing i love about these videos is that there are always game(or should i say mostly games) titles that i know and wouldnt expect, yet fit so perfectly. Anyway, amazing video as always, keep up the good work!
@@CosmicHours for this time what i expected was dead space (cause of course) but just by reading the video title i would have never expect of seeing the moon of majoras mask, or ego.
What i like about dead space, and one thing i dont really see talked about, is how humanity embodies the concept of the invading alien empire, sucking up resources and destroying planets.
I've said it once and I'll say it again. Mother nature IS the ultimate elderitch horror. Because it represents everything outside of our control, which is everything.
Really interesting video, and something I've thought about a few times, its cool to see someone expand upon the idea more! Also: really appreciate you phrasing the gaia hypothesis stuff responsibly, a bunch of people don't and it leads people to conclusions that while mostly harmless on their own lead to other more dangerous ideas such as magic crystal healing instead of actual medicine.
Voyager-19 does the concept of living planets pretty interestingly, though it's a bit of a shame that most of the gameplay is just very tedious to the point where I get thrown off the plot almost immediately.
17:09 i dunno this story always felt like comedic mocking of people's stupidity in relation to Doctor-Discoverer, rather then a genuine horror. Poor old D-D and his daughter hold too much of my attention to have any worries about outer space. Poor sod never deserved such an end
When I hear Cosmic Abomination I first think of Unicron, his very concept on its own (depending on the media you know him in) is terrifying. Destruction incarnate, a hurricane that curses you as you perish in its wake, an entity so large that it devours planets just to give it the stimulation of feeding.
14:46 This gave me a little chortle. I didn’t write the first version of the article when it was first posted on the Dead Space Wiki, but I did expand on it many times over the years since my first playthrough of DS3. That little “Blood Mad Crusade” bit was one of my favorites.
For halloween 2024, the vr game Gorilla tag did something with their in game moon. A crack formed on the moon slowly for 3 weeks until it started glowing. Altars appeared around the map. If you raised your hands near these altars, the moon would be "summoned". Everything goes grayscale except for lights, the moon gets almost AS BIG AS THE MAP ITSELF, gravity because almost 0, and the crack opens to reveal the moon is a GIANT EYE STARING DOWN AT YOU (of course the eye has color in the grayscale) After the week long event where you could summon the moon, it just straight up vanished. The only thing left was eye meteors that made people big in a new game mode.
About eyeball planets, I read a news article recently of an Earth-like planet found orbiting a white dwarf that is totally frozen over save for the side tidally locked to the sun. They literally referred to it as resembling an eye.
I really like Acheron from Unreal 2 which is a living planet with a defense mechanism like a human _"Acheron is the strangest planet in the sector. It's a T-class world orbiting the star NC867. What's interesting is that the surface of the planet is covered by a single gigantic organism that has breathing tubes the size of subway tunnels and spores as big as starships. Its origin is unknown. However, most of the planet's ecosystem is bound up with it in some way. Just as our bodies contain millions of microscopic bacteria, the organism is host to countless parasitic and symbiotic creatures. It has seas of mucus-like fluid which act as digestive tar-pits and which also collect and distribute solar energy"_ -Aida
i have an example of a literal living planet. in the green lantern cartoon series that was shown on cartoon network in the 2010s there was a literal planet that had a mind of it’s own and became a green lantern
Junji Ito has always been amazing at portraying some of the most disturbing and terrifying things imaginable. Remina is definitely the most terrifying one for me cuz that's something that has been living for eons just gorging on planets and stars nonstop in an endless journey of hunger. Tbh tho there's absolutely no way and ZERO chance that this thing could consume a black hole, especially if it's a supermassive one like Ton 16. Now, if this thing does consume black holes of all sizes as well, then holy crap that's even more terrifying. At that point something like that isn't even a living planet anymore, it's a god of destruction and annihilation. There would be no way to describe the deep feeling of fear, terror, and dread you'd be feeling when seeing something like that up in the sky.
When I listened to you final passage about alien intelligence, it reminded me of Blindsight, and its followup Echopraxia, two bangers written by Peter Watts. Both are hard SF and somestimes a by dry/hard to follow, but I've never seen intelligence, superior, alien or both, as well treated. Between 5D chess vampires, mind hives, AIs and absurdly smart thought incredibly alien (I'll not spoil how), intelligence and communication are key themes of these two books. I even thought you'd speak about this here, though it's not about planets, so it's not the right place exactly. Anyways, I'll really recommend it, especially if you want to segue about what is an alien mind. Especially since I've never seen it developped in a YT vid, so it'll give a more interesting angle than another one on rainworld, I think Great video btw! Oh, and fleeing a terrible fate from your homeland is often a case for invasion(or migration, or both depending of the strength of the people coming and the refusal of people already here), with the violence of the invasion variyng a lot over the ages. When the grass on you plot is dying(or getting stolen), any other is better
Great video dude. I find it hard to watch videos about space because it gives me extreme anxiety just knowing how insignificant we are and how we're destroying the thing that allows us to even exist
I find the moon depressing because throughout majoras mask you can see it crying a bit, which could mean it doesn't want to crash to earth but is force to. Thats if i remember correctly havent play it in a while.
Hey, I really love the video ! Being a fan of horror and SF, I am amazed with the way that you tell your stories. I am French and I would love to be able to share the projects you make on this channel with my friends and relatives. Did you plan on adding translated subtitles on the channel ? If not, I have to say I would really love to participate in adding them ! Thanks again for the videos !
12:49 basically this is what arknights game seems to leads into, when someone finally break the sky shield that has been long exists since the beginning of their planet's civilization, they inevitably get noticed by unknown entity that destroyed the player character's ancient civilization who put the sky shield in the first place
When I first heard of neutron stars, I thought they were called "neuron stars" and was terrified of a living star in constant pain from its burning who seeked food for its trillions of cells
The most powerful Green Lantern in the Universe is a living planet...just to put out there not EVERYTHING is Ego, Hellstar, or Iris. Some of them ARE good beings trying to protect everyone...even if Mogo DOES sometimes suck at it. There was also the Rogue Planet in Star Wars, or the Stars themselves in the Star Child Trilogy.
What’s scary is that we have to take this as a theory because no country sees a profit in space exploration. Though I’m only a naive boy I see at least a potential step forward.
You totally missed living planets that propagate like infection. For example Phaze in the Metroid Prime trilogy. It is a living planet that sends "seeds" that travel through space in hyperdrive until they crash into a plant like an asteroid. And after that it slowly infects the planet, turning it into another Phaze.
I love how Dead Space decided to take the idea of living planets to its logical extreme, to the point where it becomes an integral plot point for the series.
Completely agree, can't say I loved where the games went in some of the later entries, but the story always felt logical while still having a completely unique spin on the "alien invasion" trope
Probably not the “logical extreme” , but the “logical hypothetical”
Meaning that there’s a good degree of logical behind stuff in the game, but the things we don’t understand can be hypothetical explained using science, or undiscovered tech or biology or so on.
Living planets made of dead flesh. So are they like zombie planets?
@@Shythaliapeople*. Not flesh. The flesh is alive.
"WE GOTTA KILL THE MOON"
- Isaac Clarke.
"F**k the moon."
- Admiral Zhao (featured in Moonfall)
living planets may be in pain because of earthquakes and meteors and in some cases it's star EXPLODING
I feel like earthquakes would be more akin to your stomach rumbling, meteors however would be absolutely painful, and as for stars exploding, I feel like if the planet can move it won't have a problem with that.
@@Zxr-r6q Stars exploding aren't really the kind of thing you can just run away from, any less than asteroids are, at the very least.
@@Thamior-os3vf Aren't really the kind of thing you can just run away from as a human*
@@Zxr-r6q Incorrect. A planet having an earthquake is receiving pleasure from vibrational climax.
@@Zxr-r6q "15,000 to 40,000 kilometers a second" National geographic
That's the speed of a supernova, earth for example, travels at 30 a second.
I doubt any living planet could move that fast
One of the living planets is a green lantern, you have nothing to worry about
True
Ironically enough, the story introducing Mogo is is set up like typical space horror.
A bold alien warlord sets out to find his nemesis on the planet, slowly realizing to his horror that the green lantern Mogo is not on the planet- Mogo is the planet!
No evil will escape his sight!
and then there’s ego
@@skynet3 he was also part of the Nova corps for a while
you forgot to mention how cybertron is basically just a giant transformed God, and Unicron is a transforming planet that eats other planets.
Another good example of this concept can be found in the soviet 1972 film "Solaris" by Andrei Tarkovsky.
In the story, there was a sentient ocean planet named Solaris, that was reported by the scientists in the orbital station to have some stange and anomalies properties. All personal of the orbital station were expiriencing visiting of the "guests". Material visions of the most shameful and bitter memories. This were tearing down sciense crew to the point that one of them even commited suacide.
The main character stars to see visions of his dead wife, who killed herself after quarrel. And the more time passes to more MC starts to look at guest of his wife like she is an actual person, and more this "wife" start to act more and more humanlike. She even started to act empathic, self-understading, even discuss for her nature as a "fake".
What is creepy and interesing, that unlike other sentient planet, Solaris dosent act in openly hostile or malevelent. Maybe Planet genuantly studying humans itself, there interactions, nature of there psyke. Maybe Planet is just simple a silent predator, An cosmic angler-fish, that lures its preys and then suffucate them in there own misery, Or maybe even both. Unlike other examples, Planet IS sentient, but its actions feels unhuman, alien. And at the end Solaris started to understand what makes us humans.
I thought you were talking about a different movie but it was my mistake.
There's one with Chris Evans where the sun may or may not be sentient and they never really say one way or the other but it's similar with the hallucinations etc.
it was originally a book by stanisław Lem
I can tell you're Russian, or eastern European because you wrote this in a Russian accent lol
@@maxfinazzo2443 or maybe because of the russian name
@@kfstg6535🎶"You didn't had to cut him off!" 🎶🗣️🗣️🔥🔥💯💯💯
The Iris is watching
Gemini Home Entertainment!
Yhwach victim
Neptune has been mutated
A storm is coming
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Gotta say from all fictional living planets Unicron has to be the most terryfing for me
The god of chaos. That’s fair.
Don't forget Primus who is Cybertron.
@@THORODINSON289 more than that; a god of chaos born in the form of a machine that hungers.
that's kind fucking terrifying and implies a LOT about that universe
What exactly does it imply?@@taxisalad
That thing from “gemnini home entertainment” (analogue horror) is the scariest imo
Okay so immediately on the Majora's Mask, it's even WORSE than that. The Moon isn't grinning, it's grimacing in pain. It doesn't want to collide with the earth and destroy Termina. It cries a tear near the beginning of the game that you have to get to progress.
It's suffering. The Skullkid is making an entire conscious planetary body SUFFER. That's horrific too, no? :3
Off to the rest of the video~
Btw on the markers in Dead Space, they aren't dropped onto planets. They were already there just waiting to be uncovered by organic life for the moons to use. It's specifically a trap to lure in spacefaring races with sufficient biomass.
Surprised you didn’t mention Phaaze from Metroid Prime 3, it perfectly fits the bill as a living planet. Hell, it even has a reproductive cycle that entails launching meteoric seeds to infest other planets and assimilate them into another Phaaze.
I'm a huge Metroid fan and Phaaze was always in the original script for the video, but I cut it last minute because there was some overlap with Dark Bramble and... most importantly... I couldn't find any good footage to show for it in the video :/
Totally valid, just glad it was remembered. It’s such an alien vibe when you’re exploring its innards, I wanted to make sure it was including somehow :)
We have a difficult time articulating what we percieve as macro-systems or meta-systems as organic or "alive" because we're human-biased. Would an ant understand the biology of a human beyond "meat"?
I love this thought
No. Because ant is relatively dumb. Humans are relatively smart (I know because my own brain told me so) and I know simple chemicals smooshed together through chance to form terrestrial planets of gas giants cannot be conscious. I'm not even going to say "conscious as we know it" because it's just so damn unbelievable
Shoutout to my favourite, most terrifying living planet, Hellstar Remina (ty Junji Ito)
When i was little,
I used to think Jupiter Great Red Spot was a eye , like a living eye!!!
I'd say the scariest "living planet" is Unicron. Unicron devours entire worlds,in mere minutes and he has one only one known weakness,The Matrix of Leadership and even then,you cannot kill Unicron,merely destroy his body coupled with the fact what we see of him is merely a fraction of The REAL Unicron,a being beyond any and all mortal comprehension. He was my introduction to Lovecraftian horror as a kid too
"the earth has some magic systems to ensure we can keep living here" is presupposing the earth was made for us to live on, and not that we evolved to fit the state the earth is in
it's like a puddle thinking a hole was made exactly for it to fit inside of
The Earth evolves for its own interests. Jk.
God created the earth for us. Even if you go back to the beginning something has to come out of nothing
@@BLZNGFR That same logic can be applied to God. Who is the God of God? And who is the God of God of God?
@@BlankEmporiumthere is no God of God. God was not created, He was not born, and he will not die. He simply is. There is a reason that attempting to fully understand God is a fool’s errand. We were made in his image, but we are not and never will be beings like him. He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. He does not have a beginning, for he created the concept *of* beginnings. He will not have an end, for he created ends and as such is not subject to them.
@Cosmosdestructor Said who? God? Of course he'd claim to be eternal. Who wouldn't in his position? It's also just easy to say God could never prove he wasn't created like how we humans can't prove God created us.
Unicron And Primus Agrees With The Video*
4:30, that's how equilibriums work. We just happen to be around while the system is stable. For millions of years it was not stable, plants themselves caused a rapid shift in the planet's atmosphere and caused at least one extinction period.
The Gaia Hypothesist while may seem interesting, it is what should I say, too human centric. The planet never care about sustaining life or creating orders whatsoever, the breatheable air you mentioned in the video once a long time ago was the cause of extinction of many other species. Life evolved and even modified their environment to suit their need not the enviroment creating some kind of order for life to ... well live. To quote from Death End, the sequel of Three Body Problem and The Dark Forest : "The universe is grand but life is grander"
Amazing comment. Amazing series. I’d like not to contraire but to expand.
I believe life has the ability itself to form these near magical systems with its environment. The planet doesn’t care, but life in a genetic way does. It crafted this entire planet to its own needs, keeping those systems in place for future gens.
0:43 cybertron dectected
Indeed
You could have named Unicron and Primus (Cybertron) from Transformers that are two living planets, Unicron is the god of chaos and destruction, while Primus is the god of creation.
Unicron devours other planets to feed on their live forms force, desperation and fear. While Primus is who gives birth to the transformers.
I love cosmic horror. The feeling of something so unnatural to us, but yet still in our reality is jarring and really tingles some part of my brain.
Also trying to grasp the concept of something so massive that is alive and sentient and potentially predatory would break so many minds.
I was drawn to this video not only for its thumbnail and title, but also as the video seemed to sporadically disappear from my recommendations, as if it was merely an illusion, only to reappear from scrolling up and down a few times. That might very well be a bug, but I’d reckon it added to the horror of this very video.
quantam locked TH-cam video???
Transformers Unicron: “am I joke to you?”
I mean he's just a robot that can transform into a planet
@@The_Blue_Otaku planet is planet.
Also, while in planet form, he EATS other planets.
You guys forgetting Ego
@@somerandomuser5155 no, the video mentioned Ego. It has a whole part dedicated to him
@@The_Blue_Otaku same with cybertron (Primus) yet he used a clip from Bumblebee
“The Core” from Amphibia plays with this concept a little bit. Crazy shit.
I love the Dark Forest Hypothesis, but, as I understand things, it's nearly zero chance to be the solution. If life, technology and astronomy as we know it means anything, we'd basically already be gone in a Dark Forest galaxy. For the last billion or two years (since the oxygen bloom), it has been very obvious that carbon based life exists on our planet, if anybody within a billion lightyears has bothered to look. If they're out there, they already can see us
It could also be that the local area of space is dangerous enough that invading earth isn’t a good idea. Idea: the milk way has a freakish amount of planetary scale predators compared to the rest of the universe.
I've always had the opinion that the reason we don't see aliens around is simply because intelligence, or maybe consciousness, is much more complicated and rare than just life. I'm pretty sure there are planets full of animals, but I don't think they have any "people" in them
@@PlsStandBy33 I tend to believe that they're out there, and they're pretty close to us in age. Just not very close in space, so we haven't seen them, yet (lightspeed being what it is). The reason I believe this is because the state of the universe is not static. It hasn't been all that long since life (as we know it) could exist. Not all that long ago, everything was just big clouds of lukewarm gases. I figure that other stars out there created the conditions for life nearly the same time-ish that ours did. Without doubt, most of those don't have life now because of neighbors going supernova etc, but I also bet there's another lucky one or two out there, just waiting for enough time to pass that we see eachother's light.
@@boakley8147 They wouldn't have to get all that close for us to see them. If aliens are out there, they're just far enough away, and small enough that we haven't seen them yet.
the coolest thing is a period of about 100 million years where "outside" pressures would've been like here on earth, with a comfy temperature, and gas clouds the size of current galaxies with breathable air mixtures... i wonder what happened, then.
Fear and hunger 2 is also an absolutely amazing concept for living planets being horrifying!
What we need are living planets like Mogo from the green lantern.
Such a beautiful video, even made sure to threaten viewers into subscribing at the end. Truly Magnificent.
🌚 No idea what you're talking about
We know you're in bed with the Moon from Majora's Mask. Don't play dumb.
There’s a decent cosmic horror story some TH-camrs have narrated, if I recall something like “Proxima Centauri is not a star”
I kinda like how you included LN theme playing in the background as you show us celestial and divine images but somewhat creepy and hard to comprehend like images of planets and I also love how you included LOZ in this
The only planet i can think of having that would be Copper 9..
Ay!
MD fan!
the drones are being murdered
Hellstar remina
Yes, indeed.
First thing that came to my mind. I really should finish reading it.
Borg Cubes, Galactus and Unicron.
One thing i love about these videos is that there are always game(or should i say mostly games) titles that i know and wouldnt expect, yet fit so perfectly.
Anyway, amazing video as always, keep up the good work!
Thank you! What game were you talking about specifically?
@@CosmicHours for this time what i expected was dead space (cause of course) but just by reading the video title i would have never expect of seeing the moon of majoras mask, or ego.
Hellstar Remina will continue to be nightmare fuel.
What i like about dead space, and one thing i dont really see talked about, is how humanity embodies the concept of the invading alien empire, sucking up resources and destroying planets.
Absolutely fantastic idea to explore, very excited to hear your takes on this
Putting in music from the signalis ost fits just perfect
I use it in almost all my videos, it's easily one of my favorite videogame OSTs and fits perfectly when talking about cosmic horror
Hellstar remina was my "my god, I get it" moment for cosmic horror and my introduction to junji ito :D
I’m surprised you didn’t talk about Gemini Home Entertainment
I've said it once and I'll say it again. Mother nature IS the ultimate elderitch horror. Because it represents everything outside of our control, which is everything.
''You feel an evil presence watching you'' sounds straight outta Earthbound
17:42 you feel an evil presence watching you
Terraria reference
*Eye of Cthulhu has awoken!*
And then Get obliterated by stars
Really interesting video, and something I've thought about a few times, its cool to see someone expand upon the idea more!
Also: really appreciate you phrasing the gaia hypothesis stuff responsibly, a bunch of people don't and it leads people to conclusions that while mostly harmless on their own lead to other more dangerous ideas such as magic crystal healing instead of actual medicine.
I like the idea of laylines being like the life force veins of a living planet
Voyager-19 does the concept of living planets pretty interestingly, though it's a bit of a shame that most of the gameplay is just very tedious to the point where I get thrown off the plot almost immediately.
“i’d kill you if i had arms but i don’t so you can live on me”
-some random planet somewhere out there
Awesome video. Commenting to help get seen by the YT algorithm.
17:09 i dunno this story always felt like comedic mocking of people's stupidity in relation to Doctor-Discoverer, rather then a genuine horror. Poor old D-D and his daughter hold too much of my attention to have any worries about outer space. Poor sod never deserved such an end
It wasnt a gas giant that dark bramble used to be, it was an icy planet with a subsurface ocean
How does someone miss that fact? It was mentioned like 3 or 4 times in various logs and with people you meet
Yessss, waited for a new video!
When I hear Cosmic Abomination I first think of Unicron, his very concept on its own (depending on the media you know him in) is terrifying. Destruction incarnate, a hurricane that curses you as you perish in its wake, an entity so large that it devours planets just to give it the stimulation of feeding.
I'd love another video on this topic, maybe including Mogo and Unicron
SUNNY MAN!!! Good video!
I WAS WATCHING THIS AND THINKING THIS GUY SOUNDS JUST LIKE SUNNY!!!! NO WAY
This video style reminds me of curious archive
now that you have said it, it really feels like it
found this next to a solarballs vid lmaooo 😭
14:46
This gave me a little chortle. I didn’t write the first version of the article when it was first posted on the Dead Space Wiki, but I did expand on it many times over the years since my first playthrough of DS3. That little “Blood Mad Crusade” bit was one of my favorites.
For halloween 2024, the vr game Gorilla tag did something with their in game moon.
A crack formed on the moon slowly for 3 weeks until it started glowing.
Altars appeared around the map.
If you raised your hands near these altars, the moon would be "summoned".
Everything goes grayscale except for lights, the moon gets almost AS BIG AS THE MAP ITSELF, gravity because almost 0, and the crack opens to reveal the moon is a GIANT EYE STARING DOWN AT YOU (of course the eye has color in the grayscale)
After the week long event where you could summon the moon, it just straight up vanished.
The only thing left was eye meteors that made people big in a new game mode.
Great video, man! Excellent storytelling and some great examples in this one.
About eyeball planets, I read a news article recently of an Earth-like planet found orbiting a white dwarf that is totally frozen over save for the side tidally locked to the sun. They literally referred to it as resembling an eye.
“For time, I considered sparing your wretched little planet Cybertron. But now, you shall witness, ITS DISMEMBERMENT!” - Unicron 1986
Planets with faces are always evil, and that is why I trust Mogo; he doesn't have a face, just a bigass Green Lantern symbol.
rick: *starts pounding the planet*
If you dont get it, rick phked a planet
Pretty much solar balls
13:54 heavy smokers be like " smoking ain't THAT bad"
also heavy smokers:
I really like Acheron from Unreal 2 which is a living planet with a defense mechanism like a human
_"Acheron is the strangest planet in the sector. It's a T-class world orbiting the star NC867. What's interesting is that the surface of the planet is covered by a single gigantic organism that has breathing tubes the size of subway tunnels and spores as big as starships. Its origin is unknown. However, most of the planet's ecosystem is bound up with it in some way. Just as our bodies contain millions of microscopic bacteria, the organism is host to countless parasitic and symbiotic creatures. It has seas of mucus-like fluid which act as digestive tar-pits and which also collect and distribute solar energy"_
-Aida
The fact that you didn’t mention the Iris from Gemini Home Entertainment is quite literally insane
i have an example of a literal living planet. in the green lantern cartoon series that was shown on cartoon network in the 2010s there was a literal planet that had a mind of it’s own and became a green lantern
I love that the music early in the video is the main theme of Metroid Dread. I love Dread.
Junji Ito has always been amazing at portraying some of the most disturbing and terrifying things imaginable. Remina is definitely the most terrifying one for me cuz that's something that has been living for eons just gorging on planets and stars nonstop in an endless journey of hunger. Tbh tho there's absolutely no way and ZERO chance that this thing could consume a black hole, especially if it's a supermassive one like Ton 16. Now, if this thing does consume black holes of all sizes as well, then holy crap that's even more terrifying. At that point something like that isn't even a living planet anymore, it's a god of destruction and annihilation. There would be no way to describe the deep feeling of fear, terror, and dread you'd be feeling when seeing something like that up in the sky.
Everybody gangsta till a planet with horns starts eating entire other planets 💀
do NOT show this guy Solarballs
very high quality video, deserves more views
When I listened to you final passage about alien intelligence, it reminded me of Blindsight, and its followup Echopraxia, two bangers written by Peter Watts. Both are hard SF and somestimes a by dry/hard to follow, but I've never seen intelligence, superior, alien or both, as well treated. Between 5D chess vampires, mind hives, AIs and absurdly smart thought incredibly alien (I'll not spoil how), intelligence and communication are key themes of these two books. I even thought you'd speak about this here, though it's not about planets, so it's not the right place exactly.
Anyways, I'll really recommend it, especially if you want to segue about what is an alien mind.
Especially since I've never seen it developped in a YT vid, so it'll give a more interesting angle than another one on rainworld, I think
Great video btw!
Oh, and fleeing a terrible fate from your homeland is often a case for invasion(or migration, or both depending of the strength of the people coming and the refusal of people already here), with the violence of the invasion variyng a lot over the ages. When the grass on you plot is dying(or getting stolen), any other is better
Great video dude. I find it hard to watch videos about space because it gives me extreme anxiety just knowing how insignificant we are and how we're destroying the thing that allows us to even exist
I hope this time the YT algurithm will do its job 😅
Hopefully it doesn't get stuck in that weird loop again where it only shows it to my grandma and that one guy who comments on everything
solarballs lore
I was gonna say that
I find the moon depressing because throughout majoras mask you can see it crying a bit, which could mean it doesn't want to crash to earth but is force to.
Thats if i remember correctly havent play it in a while.
another great video as expected
Hey, I really love the video ! Being a fan of horror and SF, I am amazed with the way that you tell your stories. I am French and I would love to be able to share the projects you make on this channel with my friends and relatives. Did you plan on adding translated subtitles on the channel ? If not, I have to say I would really love to participate in adding them ! Thanks again for the videos !
12:49 basically this is what arknights game seems to leads into, when someone finally break the sky shield that has been long exists since the beginning of their planet's civilization, they inevitably get noticed by unknown entity that destroyed the player character's ancient civilization who put the sky shield in the first place
Thankfully, such idea is impossible, though the idea that it exists despite that would indeed be terrifying
Death Star when? I am investing this...
One interesting one that I think some people sleep on is the Beast Planet from the War Planets toyline and it's cartoon Shadow Raiders
You know what’s scary is that this is most likely real but we haven’t found it
Good to know Cybertron is Primus and Primus is a good guy
Is this famous legends of runeterra youtuber snnuy? Yes or no.... wonderful videos.
Something very nice to think about today, Thanks for the video, man 👀
When I first heard of neutron stars, I thought they were called "neuron stars" and was terrified of a living star in constant pain from its burning who seeked food for its trillions of cells
well nice to hear this before trying to go to sleep. only to not be able to and keeping the blinds closed
Majora’s Mask mentioned
I’m kicking my feet back and forth rn
stopped at 20:10 and went to play outer wilds
The most powerful Green Lantern in the Universe is a living planet...just to put out there not EVERYTHING is Ego, Hellstar, or Iris. Some of them ARE good beings trying to protect everyone...even if Mogo DOES sometimes suck at it.
There was also the Rogue Planet in Star Wars, or the Stars themselves in the Star Child Trilogy.
Every game in this series is unique, but this game is the most unique
What’s scary is that we have to take this as a theory because no country sees a profit in space exploration. Though I’m only a naive boy I see at least a potential step forward.
You totally missed living planets that propagate like infection. For example Phaze in the Metroid Prime trilogy. It is a living planet that sends "seeds" that travel through space in hyperdrive until they crash into a plant like an asteroid. And after that it slowly infects the planet, turning it into another Phaze.
Good that meens we can consume them
For we hunger as well
So bascially, solarballs?
Everybody gnagsta until the planets have eyes.
You get a like and comment just because you warn people about outer wilds spoilers and to play it first
Always a good day when you accidentally find snnunys alt channel