“Do not be afraid” quote, from the great Gravemind. Would be a reference from what the “accurate biblical angels” would say when they approach to any mere mortal. Truly haunting.
I like how emotional and petty the gravemind is you’d expect someone like him to be cold calculating and psychopathic but he genuinely feels rage, humor and pain and takes pride in his accomplishments.
The gravemind is after all, essentially a precursor who while unimaginably powerful and godlike, were still mortal and individuals with their own experiences and personality. Now combine that with the conscious experiences with quadrillions of sentient beings who all died very painful and terrifying deaths and you've got a recipe for a very pissed off trans-dimensional being with experiences and feelings going back an unimaginable period of time
@@Resi1ience trillions is definitely not much, considering forerunners themselves had over 3 million planets inside their empire with each planet having population of at least few millions
"Do I take life or give it? Who is victim, who is foe? Listen hypocrite whom holds the key, Think on your past, with me dies the potential of a thousand million souls, can you appreciate the tragedy?" Fav quote.
"Resignation is my virtue; like water I ebb, and flow. Defeat is simply the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved... but you imposed." my fav quote from the gravemind
Arime Plays the quote you mentioned is a possibility that he may return, really hope though. Also my favorite quote is when the gravemind mentions the monument of sins, like in halo 2
"Do not be afraid, i am not your enemy, i am peace, i am salvation" "Child of my enemy, why have you come? i offer no forgiveness of father's sins passed to his son" These sounded a lot like bible verses
Wouldn’t be surprised since the precursors were basically the gods of the universe. Sure some might be alive out there but the angels of the setting did kill their god and so the wrath of their fallen god comes to strike them down (albeit some of the precursors probably just let themselves die cause they are basically gods death is nothing but another stage to life for them) while those that became the flood were corrupted due to being dormant in this form for so so long. So yeah bible is kinda accurate cause it is like the war in heaven but Satan won
And plus the Flood probably is a sort of reference to the Great Flood imposed upon by God to cleanse the world of Sin. Where the only hope of salvation is the Ark. (Like The Ark in Halo.)
1:16 - 1:39 always gives me goosebumps, it just shows how terrifying the flood is, they are so intelligent they decided to ally with the only creature that could stop the rings just to save themselves.
@@ThatLazyOtakuVT not normal for the way they usually act The scary implication is that the Gravemind could have all the forms be nice or even evolve into something nonparasitic.. it just chooses not to
@@SutekhChroma the Gravemind knows how to be nice and peaceful, but it chooses to be a devourer of all life, a mass of unfathomable hunger and thirst for ravaging life. Hyper intelligent, yet filled with evil
@@zahylon5993 not true. escaping genocidal control of forerunners. forerunners deleted a galaxy from its path towards diversity. to end forerunner, they had to be forced to killing themselves. the game continues, the board still moves to this day. and the ultimate deceit of forerunner has yet to reveal itself. if you think halo, the ark, their entire civilization isn’t gross enough, soon you’ll see the endless slavery and torture which is living under the rule of space nazis.
i mean when chief first encountered the flood he was genuinely scared, so I can only imagine what he felt when coming face to face with the gravemind in halo 2
Delta0mega This kinda reminds me of Doctor Who. ”He never raises his voice, that was the worst part.“ The Gravemind is the brain of trillions of beings all screaming in lust for blood, and yet it is the calmest being in the world.
Creatures of every conceivable type. From man, to beast, to even demons. From old ducks to young platypuses, from armies of men to armies of locust. From Bison to Lemur, Dog to Polar Bear. From the smallest fish, to the bravest of lions. We may never know how many sing within the everlasting choir. We only know that whatever it is, it is magnificent. But enough about Dee Bradley Baker, The Gravemind’s pretty cool, too.
I never noticed the second, much quieter, zombie-like voice that speaks at the same time as the main voice. Its also really creepy how it screams and gurgles when gravemind laughs
It’s meant to represent, as the Gravemind says itself, that it’s a million voices on one, a twisted chorus. It’s echo is like the flood itself. Doomed to return, always in the shadows until it breaks free and bending the galaxy until the Mantle finally shatters…
Yeah, it was to improve the pace of the game. In the level "Cortana," the gameplay would slow down considerably whenever the Gravemind spoke. I think that is the primary reason for his dialogue being truncated. It's unfortunate though because Gravemind's lines are so epic.
@@themightytrainthurnax6613 "There IS much talk, and I have listened...through rock, and metal, and time. Now, I shall talk, and YOU shall listen......."
What is the first thing an angel says when they appear to a human? What's the first thing the gravemind says to Master Chief in Halo 3? "Do not be afraid." Halo has a lot of biblical references.
8:38-9:02 it’s terrifying knowing that the gravemind can retain the knowledge of everything it infected in the past. Even if the gravemind was destroyed, it can still come back like nothing ever happened to him long after Chief stopped the flood for a bit. The flood are pretty much immortal
Thecnicly, a lot was lost with the fire of the ring cause it affected the world precursors (and so the flood) use for stocking informations And so the flood we fight have a lot less power than it haved back in the day.
@@mileshostetler2469 Yes but like you said, he don't understand how to use it, we Can give you a shootgun but if you don't understand gun you will just use it as a mad stick
@@magicchowder yeah. It’s like monkeys killing Humans, so we come back and kill all life on Earth. Yes, we’d be somewhat justified in attacking the Monkeys, but not the rest. We’d be a victim, lashing and festering in a pit that we end up making.
He does see himself as a victim unjustly given an eternal sentence and does not understand why other sentients fear, hate, and revile the Flood. Once everything is assimilated, there will be..peace.
"Have you learned nothing as you wandered through my tomb! I have no heart you stubborn fool! And so cannot be broken!" The flood will never truly die. The haloverse can only survive it.
“Resignation is my virtue. Like water, I ebb and flow. Defeat is but the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved... but you imposed.” -gravemind after activating the halo ring in halo 3. The flood could never be defeated. Simply delayed
That final quote he says in halo 3, on how”a sentence I never deserved, but you impose” those final words almost feel like he tries to act like a victim, after first stating on how defeat will only delay the inevitability of return.in a sense, he is kinda right, his kind were murdered by their own creations, the remaining got grounded to dust and then over time, became like this, and went like everything-must become a flood for peace.
@@yapyapthedestroyer2562 there's actually a theory that says the flood aren't the degraded remains of the precursors but in fact are exactly what the precursors were. The precursors believed in concepts far beyond our pale understanding of the universe such as neural physics. They could be physical representations of the universe itself experiencing life along all paths of life/evolution. The consciousnesses of those consumed are theorised to lie in slip space, or perhaps in the domain itself which in itself is alive and I believe it is in itself a precursor(s) consciousness that in itself extends far beyond human or forerunner understanding. Or it could just be a matter of: You thought the flood were the degraded remains of the precursors but in reality it was I DIO
@@Nova-vk5qb Maybe, but I feel like slander would happen because 343 struggles to make decent games, and the Gravemind's character would suffer from another Halo 5 shit show. The expanded universe has great characters.
@@Nova-vk5qb I know it’s been a year but don’t think 343 would slander the grave mind 343 has shown to really understand the lore (let’s ignore that halo 5 fight scene) I truly think they would do it justice
Despite the fact that Gravemind is essentially a nearly omniscient, omnipresent god like being that managed to lay waste to the entire galaxy and the Forunners at the height of their power. Him being unable to faulter, break, persuade, intimidate, or stop Master Chief or Arbiter is amazing. We've seen how the Flood can break the minds of people who've fought against them first hand, yet none of Graveminds tactics were successful in stopping what is essentially a pair of insects compared to himself, makes sense why he gets so pissed with how much they seem unaffected by his plans. It'd be great to see Chief confront the Gravemind again and have exchange dialogue between each other.
Same. When I was young, I always felt like the Gravemind was talking to me, the player. I received Halo 3 on my birthday and I almost completed the campaign on the first day but the level Cortana scared the shit out of me and I couldn't finish H3 on the first day
@@Max-zg6ld In doing so, forcing the Precursor's into their dusted state, leaving them prey to becoming the vengeful galactic horror that feasts upon the stars. It's honestly understandable why the Precursors/The Flood have this resentment for all life. If you gave life to everything in the galaxy/universe only for it all to deem itself superior to you and drive your entire species to the point that they had to disintegrate for survival, becoming forever corrupted in doing so, you'd probably come to the conclusion that you made one big universal mistake. I don't do it justice, but god, just dipping my toes back into halo lore, especially the flood, dear god learning about the Floods origins both explains it all, yet triples the horror to me. The Flood wants to consume it ALL. They just wanna wipe the whole slate and start anew. I dunno about the whole, "giving humanity a test for the Mantle", I genuinely get the feeling from the Grave mind that they are maddened by their denial of their reclamation of the galaxy by their creations for Eons and are concluded that all life given sentience was a grand mistake, one which must be corrected by the repurposing of all life, be it organic or not.
• UnholyMalformationofFisto • i think the truth behind the Precursor Forerunner war is still left up to interpretation. On one hand we’ve heard it was the Forerunners rising up unprovoked but on another we heard that the Precursors decided to wipe out the Forerunners themselves. I like that it’s up to interpretation. Forerunners were assholes but so were the Precursors. So it’s not a one sided affair
@@Max-zg6ld yes, but the precursors just watched and did nothing. While they were almost driven to extinction. Because to them all bad and good things is sweetness all the same. I think they saw it the same as the Gravemind. Just the end of a cycle.
4:05 when that happened in the game with surround sound it felt like an angry god was yelling at me. From the perspective of that universe that’s basically what was happening
@Robert Arnold the flood didn't make all life, though it all is technically a precursor, it is but one precursor and no precursors didn't make all life there was a greater being that at it's last moments made life
The fact master chief simply treated the gravemind like it was a superior officer surprised me, he didn't seem one bit scared of it or even intimidated, despite the gravemind being pretty much immortal and easily able to eat and devour entire planets
Because the battle is on the most epic of scales in this universe. It all comes down to will. With putting humanity at stake, the gravemind sealed its fate. Failing his people was simply not an option for John. Chiefs will is so strong, after setting off the ring and jumping into a fractured frigate, marooned in space to be alone for years, he goes into hyper sleep after just doing all this and says to Cortana “wake me… when you need me…” So dope.
@@smellme6313 in his position I would still be absolutely terrified to see a nearly 100 mile long tenticle creature, I know there's some weird creatures in outer space but something like that is nightmare fuel
Dam!! The cut dialogue really makes the gravemind seem enraged and desperate to just stay alive He really hates cortana, and if they were canon then id say it puts a dent in the logic plague cortana theory
I think that's why it was cut, even if it was only cut for time and not for story I say the Gravemind is playing the long haul. Defeat is just the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved, but you imposed.
I'm pretty sure it's the exact same line they used in Halo 2 on the mission High Charity. If you notice, that quote in particular sounds quite a bit different with the echo and reverb and even the pitch is a bit lower.
Looking back the floods actions were actually kinda justified considering the fact that they were the ones who created all life in the Galaxy but were then betrayed and wiped out by there own creations. It saw its mistake of giving sentient beings free will and decided to correct it and recreate all creatures with under one mind " a chorus everlasting"
@@InkyGhoul It wasn't about revenge. It never was. The Flood are the Precursors' will to *correct their mistake* of giving free will to *sentient life.* Life isn't exclusive to just one of their children. They don't treat it as an act of spite, they genuinely see it as a mistake the way an engineer would see a bug in their design as an error. The Forunners, the San'shyuum, Ancient and Modern Humanity, all of their children (anything that lives and began from their foundation) proved themselves to be equally as prideful and childish. The Forerunners rebelling against their creators and targeting their sibling species; the San'shyuum and their consistent, cultural corruption and manipulation; Humanity as it is now, with ONI being the greatest symbol of their fall from grace. If any of the Precursors were still around, they would tell the whole of sapient life this: "You have justified the Flood as a concept."
If one kid punches you, the parent, and you punish both kids, who mishandled the situation? Are you punishing the second kid for not helping you? The one you just gave responsibility in your place? Would you wipe the entire system just because of one bug? I won't argue with the San'shyuum's manipulatory history, that speaks for itself. But pointing at ONI and all they do is _not_ justification for consuming all of Humanity, nor was ancient humanity's flaws when, as we all recall, they were given the Mantle of Responsibility instead of the Forerunners because of aforementioned disobedient child's pride. Pride that wound up getting _everyone_ in hot water, so the decision was vindicated in that moment. If any Precursor were around, they would say we got what was coming to us, but that's only because they were angry and shortsighted after almost being exterminated. We all make mistakes when we're angry, but beings with such power and technology as they should have either taken precautions to not let this go out of control or thought of a more direct strategy for punishment. They were certainly intelligent enough to do so.
Dr. Ariel Finch Pretty sure a Tier 0 Civilization would have no shortcomings or mistakes. Although their reasons are questionable, the precursors were factually correct in knowing that giving any free will to their creations will inevitably make problems. Sure, having free will means everyone is different, but to the precursors, they see that as an end to all life when the wrong choices are consistently made.
@@normaaliihminen722 It's actually trochaic heptameter, but here's something interesting: it can, like, not. The gravemind just does because Chief doesn't say it's cringe (which Cortana did)
@@AxisChurchDevoteePretty much yeah. She tried to one up him in poetry so he gave her a lecture about how he’s consumed billions of poets that would put mankind’s own to shame.
I think it's fair to say if any living being saw or felt a nano second of the Gravemind's mind. Insanity would be the least of our worries on what it would turn us into. Unimaginable
Wonder if the gravemind due of it's insanely powerful abilities and intelligence would corrupt ai not by only the logic plague but also by transmuting it's thoughts into code scraping to not even the artificial intelligence realising starting to think like the gravemind being a small piece of mind
Doctor: "You have 2 minutes to live" Patient: "I want to hear all the gravemind quotes" Doctor: "That's ten minutes!" Gravemind: "He's dead either way, I'll allow it"
The way his voice sounds bubbly, and you can hear in the background creaky screams and wheezes. Like millions of voices are screaming the words along with him. And the fact this is ALL the VA's own voice.
Every single line is fucking scary because you can actually hear human like lamentations and “stretches” they sound painful, every single thing the Gravemind does or say is nothing but pain and suffer
Dee Bradley Baker is a fucking legend. Man played the Flood as well as the entire grand army of the republic and so much more. His vocal range is unmatched and he will be one of the greatest voice actors to have ever been.
7:46 And there is a lot of resignation in that. The Flood have been defeated so many times that it must seem inevitable sometimes. His final words are both mocking, but there is some wisdom in them. You're only thinking about one future, but what about the Flood's victory? It seems painful, but maybe that's a small price to play for unity and mercy? You don't die when you join the Flood, you are not destroyed by the tide, but you join it. A thousand million souls joined together, forever. He is a monument to all the sins of those that survived the Flood, but what is that sin? Rejection I think. You turned away paradise in favor of damnation, and that is what you see. An ugly, towering demon of flesh and suffering. That's what you wanted, right? 9:02
@@AdventurerOfOblivion not always. Captain Keys from First Halo game was alive and before you reach the command center he tries to warn Chief not to come through radio.
It's a monument of the sins of the forerunners rebelling against the precursors who later turned into the flood. Forerunners also meaning humans. Alas, this made sense before 343 changed it to a bunch of nonsense
The background, screechy voice in unison with his obvious, deep voice is what really sells it. The primary voice sounds normal, intelligent. But in the background, there's the screeching, the sound of agony and despair, being forced to copy what the primary voice is saying. It's a really, really damn good voice. It's twisted, evil and sickening.
I find it sinister how the gravemind becomes more impatient, then irritable and then enraged as the level Cortana continues, despite being a tedious level, the voice over is amazing by Mr Baker!
"Resignation is my virtue; like water I ebb, and flow. Defeat is simply the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved... but you imposed." - Gravemind
kevin byrne especially the meaning behind it. He cannot be defeated. He will always find a way to come back. And it’s seems the flood will make a return in infinite.
The last thing you will ever think as the crowbar dee is holding in his hand is “Wait a minute isn’t that the guy who voiced the cinnamon bun from adventure time?”
2:06 Does this means that the Gravemind knew about the plans of the Librarian for Chief all along? I mean, makes sense; the Gravemind has eons of knowledge.
@@InvadeleYogurt She was a thing, the terminals talked about the Didact and about her. But the Gravemind wasn't talking about her in this dialogue, it was about Cortana and her plans to defeat the Gravemind. I made this comentary without knowing that.
The fact he’s a literally a zombie god that’s was once a op civilisation of deity’s should tell you something cause he knows everything about humanity to the forerunners so... yeah...
I like the quote where he said child of my enemy and then mentioned a father's sin passed to his son. I think the enemy is referring to the forerunners, given what they did to the Precursors.
Not necessarily, the flood evolved to “dust” of the precursors, the humans found the dust and experimented with it, it grew out of their control, humans then had a war with the Forerunners at the same time they were running away from the Flood, the humans lost against the Forerunners, the war with the Flood shifted to the Forerunners. He could be referring to the Humans, but it’s hard to tell
@@tsipher With regards to the expanded universe lore, humanity has never originally been the enemy of the Flood, this is why they willingly chose to stop infecting them during the Forerunner Era as to manipulate the Forerunners into thinking that there was a cure. The only reason they would do this was because they knew Humanity was not the enemy that they were trying to destroy. The end goal was always the annihilation of the Forerunners. Keep in mind that Humanity has yet to be "tested" to uphold the Mantle. So reasonably from the Gravemind's quote, it only makes sense that his "enemy" are the Forerunners. "Child" refers to Humanity as a whole considering the Forerunners deemed Humanity as the successors to the Mantle.
He is indeed referring to forerunners as father. And humans as father’s sons. Because humans are according to Bungie era forerunners (ancient humans) but it seems to be retconned and forerunners are now different race of humanoids.
The Gravemind and The Brethren Moons are two of the most nightmarish cosmic horror entities ever conceived in videogames and truly do assume the role of cosmic threats just through their existence alone.
@@galenjones9529 it always has access to neural physics. What changes is the degree of ability it has to use it, which increases as it gains more biomass.
I'll explain what I mean more. The gravemind as an entity is not the mass of bodies we see. There is some metaphysical aspect to it, which is why each gravemind is the same gravemind, and why the logic plague can infect non-organic life too, even without any observable vector for spreading. The bridge between his metaphysical reality and our reality *is* neural physics. The gravemind exists as a continuous entity throughout time because killing the physical entity we can see and touch and join is just an extension of itself in our universe. It uses neural physics to bridge that metaphysical form and the physical form that we see. So it always has neural physics. It needs it to exist in our world. This is also hinted in the very first cutscene of him in Halo 2. Cortana asks "what the hell is that?" in Master Chief's head via their neural link (i.e. inaudible to anyone but cortana and chief), yet the gravemind hears and responds to her ("I? I am a monument to all your sins"). From a physical, our-universe explanation of that interaction, there should be no way that the gravemind, as an organic and material mass, could have heard Cortana. The fact that he did can only be explained by him already having access to neural physics, at least in a more limited capacity. Incidentally, the logic plague's metaphysical aspects are also rather well explained by being an application of neural physics. And the logic plague can spread well before a keymind forms, which is the "normal" cutoff people think of for "can use neural physics"
@@noheroespublishing1907 maybe extradimensional, but "the fourth dimension" is just a direction that a thing can move. It could just as well occupy some parallel universe that the precursors transcended to or whatever. without being 4D. the takeaway mainly is that the gravemind we see is really more like an appendage to the real entity that we deal with. It uses neural physics to connect to that appendage
Bungie dd such a great job with his dialogue. Of course, Baker brings it to life, however his dialogue is so wonderful. The wordplay, the vocabulary, i could listen to it for ages
What voice do you think he will have if he returns, really hope he has the same. Now also hearing his cut voices, now makes more sense of his anger in the level cortana, he wants to infect chief, break cortana, and finally rid himself of the one thing blocking his full consuming of the galaxy. First he tries and persuade chief to join the flood, let him be infected and join him, when he fails time and time again, the patience has finally worn down and shows how enraged he can get. When we get to the halo, Gravemind finally understands the true reason why cortana got chief to go in high charity, and even starts to toy with him on how chief is but only a puppet, and gravemind is composed of millions or billions of minds, and consumed fleets, and a “galaxy of flesh, minds and bones”thinking it will effect chief. It doesn’t, and chief activates the ring, and when your going thru one of the tunnels he makes one final quote,and it means even though he dies he will return, and as he states something he didn’t deserve, but he brought. But then again this is what I think, and how it’s only in the cut dialogue, and even though he is now confirmed dead, in halo wars 2 gravemind log, states that his recent avatar was destroyed when the ring was fired, but it also states it’s only a matter of time before a new gravemind rises, fingers crossed
I always imagined that once the primordial was absorbed into the flood that it took the headpiece so to speak. That the gravemind in all iterations of its existence will have the primordial helming the Gravemind, I would imagine/dearly hope he'll have the same voice. Ive heard multiple times from others who've delved into the books that once the flood reach the Gravemind stage its somewhat single sentience returns (aka his voice and own autonomy), along with the consumed life, knowledge and minds of the countless that were absorbed into them. Once the flood returns and regains a foothold in the galaxy, if 343i can do one thing freaking ace for the story, the original Gravemind and Bradley Baker voicing it will return. If that happens, man that'll be chilling to hear his voice crawl into John's head again, maybe even have John shoot back some words to him. Infinite could easily do a whole helluva lot right.
• UnholyMalformationofFisto • nice. And yes it’s true, in the books as they say, every gravemind has the mind of other gravemind and experiences, which is why halo 2/3 gravemind knew of the past, and the rings true purpose. Voice I’m not sure, but possibly, we never hear the forerunner gravemind talk in the retelling of the story, but hey possibly. Also if he were to return, and how you did say of him talking to John and John talking back, that would be amazing, with the gravemind doing it’s persuasive and patient to him, and chief also commenting on him, with the gravemind later dropping another betrayal of trick like in halo 2 or 3. Would it be funny if they gave the gravemind a name
I read before that they had planned a Gravemind bossfight at some point during the development of Cortana. A good chunk of these quotes from 5:43 to about 6:30 sounds like it could have been dialogue while fighting him, either when starting the fight or when he kills you. As for the screams perhaps it was for when you defeat him. I know one of them plays in the actual game when you destroy the reactors.
2:47 Child of my enemy, why have you come? I offer no forgiveness; a father's sins passed (on) to his son. Of course you came for her, but there is nothing left.
The juxtaposition between the gravemind preaching itself as a beacon of sweet unity and purpose luring of joining it to chant victory everlasting as a blessing whilst it's voice distortion says more as what sounds like countless victims it assimilated in a perpetual sea of agony and endless pain is exquisite
At 0:24 when I first played halo 3 (I was like 9) and when it said “everlasting” I thought chief was being possessed and saying what the Gravemind said.... especially when it said “join your voice with mine” terrified me
Anyone else come here frequently and listen because it just sounds so fucking awesome? Baker is an outstanding actor, with a character to match. I low key wanna make all my PC system sounds Flood screams XD
Gravemind reminds me so much of Sauron. We see his true form only one time in the series and then he becomes a haunting and evil voice that follows you wherever you go.
I really wish they would have kept in that last speech. It would have really helped add more depth to GM and the Flood as a whole, as well as drive home the fact that the Flood can never be truly destroyed. Any "defeat" it's suffered in the series has been nothing more than a minor hinderance to it and as long as there's a single flood spore left in the universe, it will always have the potential to return.
love how he just does not seem capable of understanding organic life not wanting to be part of the flood he genuinely seems frustrated and so confused by organic lifes instinct to survive and be diverse and simply put its because the flood does not understand death to the flood the death of a flood form is nothing its all part of the same mind and that mind is almost impossible to destroy even the firing of the halo rings only slowed it down
"defeat is simply the addition of time to a sentence..I never deserved that YOU imposed" he didn't deserve this fate and yet he was forced into it through the ancient humans
The ancient humans weren't the flood's enemy. The forerunners were. In fact, humans weren't even given the chance to bear the mantle as the Precursors intended.
I like how one of the cut lines confirms that cortana’s solution was just a lie. I remember being confused in my first playthrough because her solution never gets brought up once they get to the ark.
Her solution was the rebuilt halo. Gravemind would be baited to the ark where they would ignite the rebuilt halo outside the known galaxy, killing it without killing all life.
Roses are red violets are blue When Gravemind speaks, your pants become ruined Sunflowers are yellow, leaves are brown he is the cure to cramps, pain and blocked bowels
@@hewhobattles8869 Yeah, he does a lot of creatures. He's been Appa and Momo in Avatar: the Last Airbender, Perry the Platypus in Phineas and Ferb, and almost every Locust in Gears of War (the Kantus are Robin Atkin Downes aka the Medic from TF2). His more famous vocal performances would be Klaus from American Dad, Rā's al Ghūl from the Batman: Arkham Series, Tarrlok from Legend of Korra, a lot of Ben 10 aliens, and the Clones from Star Wars: the Clone Wars. The guy gets around.
*"Do NoT bE aFrAiD."*
"Sir, this is the scariest moment of my life."
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“Do not be afraid” quote, from the great Gravemind. Would be a reference from what the “accurate biblical angels” would say when they approach to any mere mortal. Truly haunting.
Might be the last moment of your life
Halo is a pretty cool guy though, he doesn't afraid of anything
I read that last part in Chief's voice and it was 100x better XD
*“I have beaten fleets of thousands! consumed a galaxy of flesh and mind and bone!”*
That line gave me hell of a creep
He’s not wrong either that’s the scary part.
No timestamp? Fine, I'll do it myself.
6:49
Is it sopposed to intimidate chief, cause probably wouldn’t work
Fun Fact:
The Gravemind's voice actor got himself infected with the Flood to deliver his lines without sound editing.
Damn. That is dedication to a whole new level.
And the pic used in this video is how he looks today
Unfortunately that time there wasn't yet a cameraman available to witness this fact. 😔
Turns out the Gravemind was a huge fan, so he spared Dee’s consciousness to work with Bungie as a proxy.
Way to steal someone else's comment, you utter trout
Fun fact:
The flood sounds in his voice are not effects, the actor can actually do those sounds while talking
Dee bradley bakers voice can do that raspy effect which is so cool
Well yeah, it's Dee Bradley fucking Backer
The flood sounds themselves are added in, but the polyphonics (where multiple voices are saying the same thing simultaneously) are natural
That’s badass
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I like how emotional and petty the gravemind is you’d expect someone like him to be cold calculating and psychopathic but he genuinely feels rage, humor and pain and takes pride in his accomplishments.
The gravemind is after all, essentially a precursor who while unimaginably powerful and godlike, were still mortal and individuals with their own experiences and personality. Now combine that with the conscious experiences with quadrillions of sentient beings who all died very painful and terrifying deaths and you've got a recipe for a very pissed off trans-dimensional being with experiences and feelings going back an unimaginable period of time
Not feels, he just uses the emotions of the victims
Psychopaths and sociopaths feel emotions. They’re not emotionless. They just keep them bottled until rage sets in
@@flavourruling2162 Exactly, I hate seeing people parrot this trope.
The Gravemind, the Flood are the final will of dying murdered gods, they are a sentient cancer that knows pain hate and betrayal
That laugh brings out trillions of life forms’ suffering and lamentation.
Trillions is a bit much. Hundreds, thousands maybe.
@@Resi1ience Including the pre forerunner flood war population count.
@@Resi1ience trillions is definitely not much, considering forerunners themselves had over 3 million planets inside their empire with each planet having population of at least few millions
@@infamouspotato2028 potential quadrillion at least
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Think of how much effort the voice actor put in, what a legend
Yeah, Dee Bradley Baker is a god among men.
fun fact: he also did Momo and Appa
@@kyehasegawa7262 And every Clone in Clone Wars
@@kazukokirigaya8043 klaus from a merican dad??
He also voices the warden from destiny
"Do I take life or give it? Who is victim, who is foe? Listen hypocrite whom holds the key, Think on your past, with me dies the potential of a thousand million souls, can you appreciate the tragedy?"
Fav quote.
Big plus in favor of the Flood being apart of the life cycle of the Precursors.
Timestamp?
@@LocalGhostOfTH-cam a little late but 8:06
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"and your... victory? Another stone upon the monument to the sins of shortsighted fools."
This quote does not get enough love.
Just shows Gravemind knew what Cortana would become…
He's likely referring to what the forerunners did and how humanity winning now is just another stone of what the primordial sees as foolish traitor's.
@@AxisChurchDevotee Gravemind usually says things in multiple meanings.
"Resignation is my virtue; like water I ebb, and flow. Defeat is simply the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved... but you imposed." my fav quote from the gravemind
Arime Plays mine is “Lies for the weak, beacons for the deluded”
@@noahsawyer7155 that's also really good quote
Arime Plays the quote you mentioned is a possibility that he may return, really hope though. Also my favorite quote is when the gravemind mentions the monument of sins, like in halo 2
Yap yap the destroyer Halo wars 2 he will the flood will always find a way to return
Noah Sawyer hopefully they return in infinite
"Do not be afraid, i am not your enemy, i am peace, i am salvation"
"Child of my enemy, why have you come? i offer no forgiveness of father's sins passed to his son"
These sounded a lot like bible verses
The beauty of trochaic heptameter
A lot of biblical references in Halo.
Ark, Covenant, Flood, "Be not afraid", Halos, demons, etc.
Wouldn’t be surprised since the precursors were basically the gods of the universe. Sure some might be alive out there but the angels of the setting did kill their god and so the wrath of their fallen god comes to strike them down (albeit some of the precursors probably just let themselves die cause they are basically gods death is nothing but another stage to life for them) while those that became the flood were corrupted due to being dormant in this form for so so long. So yeah bible is kinda accurate cause it is like the war in heaven but Satan won
Well the Flood is just the Wraith of a Thousand God’s
And plus the Flood probably is a sort of reference to the Great Flood imposed upon by God to cleanse the world of Sin. Where the only hope of salvation is the Ark. (Like The Ark in Halo.)
1:16 - 1:39 always gives me goosebumps, it just shows how terrifying the flood is, they are so intelligent they decided to ally with the only creature that could stop the rings just to save themselves.
@@ThatLazyOtakuVT not normal for the way they usually act
The scary implication is that the Gravemind could have all the forms be nice or even evolve into something nonparasitic.. it just chooses not to
The gravemind didn't realize he would end up getting trapped on the ark because of the replacement being detonated for incineration of life on ark.
@@SutekhChroma the Gravemind knows how to be nice and peaceful, but it chooses to be a devourer of all life, a mass of unfathomable hunger and thirst for ravaging life.
Hyper intelligent, yet filled with evil
it cares for life, as that was its past. to create, sustain.
some creation is sustained through domination, control.
aka everything on earth but 😴
@@zahylon5993 not true. escaping genocidal control of forerunners. forerunners deleted a galaxy from its path towards diversity.
to end forerunner, they had to be forced to killing themselves.
the game continues, the board still moves to this day.
and the ultimate deceit of forerunner has yet to reveal itself. if you think halo, the ark, their entire civilization isn’t gross enough, soon you’ll see the endless slavery and torture which is living under the rule of space nazis.
"relax, id rather not piss this thing off"
Title card: "Chief pisses off the Gravemind"
First time I was bit scared to even comprehend what I was looking at but after growing up with Halo 2 it came out as quite funny quote.
Through actions not words. Remember, he’s a man of action.
i mean when chief first encountered the flood he was genuinely scared, so I can only imagine what he felt when coming face to face with the gravemind in halo 2
If we see a Gravemind in Halo Infinite,the first thing he should say is “I am a monument to all your sins”
Every Gravemind has the memories of the past ones so it would see Chief and no doubt say something like that
Jim Carrey's Livid Legume Contraption “I... Remember you...”
I wonder if it would tell chief something like that.
Did you think me defeated!?
5:20 this is what he shall say
No it should be " time has taught me patience !!!!!!"
Hard to believe the guy who did the clones and Perry the platypus voiced this absolute terror of a monstrosity.
Appa and Momo, too.
“For when you hear him you hear the voice of a million men and a trillion of the Condemned.
Gravemind is an interesting one to say the least
Why thank you.
@@IAMSONICTH3H3DG3H0G oh god it's the gravemind *get the flamethrower before it ends us all*
@@IAMSONICTH3H3DG3H0G ;)
“Odd looking bloke that one”
It is a philosophical and highly intelligent being despite its appearance.
He is the voice of trillions of organisms throughout the galaxy
It’s unsettling and I love it
Eons of death and suffering.
All screaming in rage
Delta0mega
This kinda reminds me of Doctor Who.
”He never raises his voice, that was the worst part.“
The Gravemind is the brain of trillions of beings all screaming in lust for blood, and yet it is the calmest being in the world.
Creatures of every conceivable type. From man, to beast, to even demons. From old ducks to young platypuses, from armies of men to armies of locust. From Bison to Lemur, Dog to Polar Bear. From the smallest fish, to the bravest of lions. We may never know how many sing within the everlasting choir. We only know that whatever it is, it is magnificent.
But enough about Dee Bradley Baker, The Gravemind’s pretty cool, too.
I never noticed the second, much quieter, zombie-like voice that speaks at the same time as the main voice.
Its also really creepy how it screams and gurgles when gravemind laughs
It’s meant to represent, as the Gravemind says itself, that it’s a million voices on one, a twisted chorus.
It’s echo is like the flood itself. Doomed to return, always in the shadows until it breaks free and bending the galaxy until the Mantle finally shatters…
I think that might be the Prophet of Regret.
@@DefaultGray ooo you might be right there
Wow I can’t believe how much of his dialogue was cut.
Yeah, it was to improve the pace of the game. In the level "Cortana," the gameplay would slow down considerably whenever the Gravemind spoke. I think that is the primary reason for his dialogue being truncated. It's unfortunate though because Gravemind's lines are so epic.
Sunil Sahota to be honest, Bungie could’ve found a different way to do it, but oh well
@@seal9454 it is epic, but god is he chatty
@@AutumnOnFire true
Agreed I wish we got to hear my personal favorite "RREAAAAAAAAHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGG!
*Relax I rather not piss this thing off*
DEMON
@@just_cade This one is machine and nerve, and has it's mind concluded. This one is but flesh and faith and is the more deluded.
Kill me or release me parasite, but do not waste my time with talk!
-Id rather not piss this thing off-
Proceeds to make him so enraged he literally screams and roars at him.
@@themightytrainthurnax6613 "There IS much talk, and I have listened...through rock, and metal, and time. Now, I shall talk, and YOU shall listen......."
“Child of my enemy, why have you come? It sounds a bit biblical?
It's the purpose, give it a religious atmosphere , to rise it's mystery.
The enemy are the forerunners, and the children are humanity
The whole conflict of halo was around the covenants fanatic religion in the first place
THE EQUALIZER in the beginning, yes. Now halo is so much more.
What is the first thing an angel says when they appear to a human? What's the first thing the gravemind says to Master Chief in Halo 3? "Do not be afraid." Halo has a lot of biblical references.
“We traded one enemy for another”
"We trade one villain for another"
It’s trade but whatecer
@@theequalizer694 that better?
Yeah that’s better
Fr :"Nous tombons de Charybde en Scylla"
Translate : "We fall from Charybdis to Scylla"
8:38-9:02 it’s terrifying knowing that the gravemind can retain the knowledge of everything it infected in the past. Even if the gravemind was destroyed, it can still come back like nothing ever happened to him long after Chief stopped the flood for a bit. The flood are pretty much immortal
Thecnicly, a lot was lost with the fire of the ring cause it affected the world precursors (and so the flood) use for stocking informations
And so the flood we fight have a lot less power than it haved back in the day.
@@orctrihar yes but it still retains the knowledge if it forms a Gravemind it simply lacks the means to act on that knowledge
@@mileshostetler2469
Yes but like you said, he don't understand how to use it, we Can give you a shootgun but if you don't understand gun you will just use it as a mad stick
soon to be eternal, the metamorphosis is almost complete.
the only good thing forerunners ever did. cause us to reunite as one.
Neural physics baby
on a side note, its kinda scary how convincing some of his words are, I'm almost compelled to listen to him after he so expertly plays the victim card
Lol just like Mendicant Bias
Logic plague
He is a victim but that doesn’t mean he’s right
@@magicchowder yeah.
It’s like monkeys killing Humans, so we come back and kill all life on Earth. Yes, we’d be somewhat justified in attacking the Monkeys, but not the rest. We’d be a victim, lashing and festering in a pit that we end up making.
He does see himself as a victim unjustly given an eternal sentence and does not understand why other sentients fear, hate, and revile the Flood. Once everything is assimilated, there will be..peace.
"Have you learned nothing as you wandered through my tomb! I have no heart you stubborn fool! And so cannot be broken!"
The flood will never truly die. The haloverse can only survive it.
“Resignation is my virtue. Like water, I ebb and flow. Defeat is but the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved... but you imposed.”
-gravemind after activating the halo ring in halo 3.
The flood could never be defeated. Simply delayed
@@killerkitten7534 which is just horrifying to think about
That final quote he says in halo 3, on how”a sentence I never deserved, but you impose” those final words almost feel like he tries to act like a victim, after first stating on how defeat will only delay the inevitability of return.in a sense, he is kinda right, his kind were murdered by their own creations, the remaining got grounded to dust and then over time, became like this, and went like everything-must become a flood for peace.
@@yapyapthedestroyer2562 there's actually a theory that says the flood aren't the degraded remains of the precursors but in fact are exactly what the precursors were. The precursors believed in concepts far beyond our pale understanding of the universe such as neural physics. They could be physical representations of the universe itself experiencing life along all paths of life/evolution. The consciousnesses of those consumed are theorised to lie in slip space, or perhaps in the domain itself which in itself is alive and I believe it is in itself a precursor(s) consciousness that in itself extends far beyond human or forerunner understanding.
Or it could just be a matter of:
You thought the flood were the degraded remains of the precursors but in reality it was I DIO
@@alucardian101 oh, that actually makes it more deep
I hope the Gravemind returns. It was a great character.
I feel like 343 would slander his character
@@Nova-vk5qb Maybe, but I feel like slander would happen because 343 struggles to make decent games, and the Gravemind's character would suffer from another Halo 5 shit show. The expanded universe has great characters.
If they brought back the gravemind they would need a good writer to write him
He can't die, he's the last remnant of the primordial
@@Nova-vk5qb I know it’s been a year but don’t think 343 would slander the grave mind 343 has shown to really understand the lore (let’s ignore that halo 5 fight scene) I truly think they would do it justice
9:33 That noise will haunt my nightmares.
Just imagine finding a HUGE hole in the ground and all the sudden you hear that coming from the bottom of the hole
He is the nightmare
@@gerrit8480 I'd be running far far away if ever I heard that.
Search necromorph moon sounds its even more terrifying
Or search
Saturn planet noise
@@abhinavrajesh2975 I feel like I will regret this
Despite the fact that Gravemind is essentially a nearly omniscient, omnipresent god like being that managed to lay waste to the entire galaxy and the Forunners at the height of their power. Him being unable to faulter, break, persuade, intimidate, or stop Master Chief or Arbiter is amazing. We've seen how the Flood can break the minds of people who've fought against them first hand, yet none of Graveminds tactics were successful in stopping what is essentially a pair of insects compared to himself, makes sense why he gets so pissed with how much they seem unaffected by his plans. It'd be great to see Chief confront the Gravemind again and have exchange dialogue between each other.
This guy and the level “Cortana” scared me when I was a kid
Same. When I was young, I always felt like the Gravemind was talking to me, the player.
I received Halo 3 on my birthday and I almost completed the campaign on the first day but the level Cortana scared the shit out of me and I couldn't finish H3 on the first day
Y'know, that's pretty fair...
Resignation is my virtue. Like water I ab and flow. Defeat is simply the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved, but you imposed.
That truly imparts a feeling of otherwordliness that genuinely sells this character, brilliant.
Defeat is simply the addition of time to a [sentence I never deserved but you imposed](Forerunners rising up to eradicate the Precursors)
@@Max-zg6ld In doing so, forcing the Precursor's into their dusted state, leaving them prey to becoming the vengeful galactic horror that feasts upon the stars. It's honestly understandable why the Precursors/The Flood have this resentment for all life. If you gave life to everything in the galaxy/universe only for it all to deem itself superior to you and drive your entire species to the point that they had to disintegrate for survival, becoming forever corrupted in doing so, you'd probably come to the conclusion that you made one big universal mistake. I don't do it justice, but god, just dipping my toes back into halo lore, especially the flood, dear god learning about the Floods origins both explains it all, yet triples the horror to me. The Flood wants to consume it ALL. They just wanna wipe the whole slate and start anew. I dunno about the whole, "giving humanity a test for the Mantle", I genuinely get the feeling from the Grave mind that they are maddened by their denial of their reclamation of the galaxy by their creations for Eons and are concluded that all life given sentience was a grand mistake, one which must be corrected by the repurposing of all life, be it organic or not.
• UnholyMalformationofFisto • i think the truth behind the Precursor Forerunner war is still left up to interpretation. On one hand we’ve heard it was the Forerunners rising up unprovoked but on another we heard that the Precursors decided to wipe out the Forerunners themselves. I like that it’s up to interpretation. Forerunners were assholes but so were the Precursors. So it’s not a one sided affair
@@Max-zg6ld yes, but the precursors just watched and did nothing. While they were almost driven to extinction. Because to them all bad and good things is sweetness all the same. I think they saw it the same as the Gravemind. Just the end of a cycle.
Insane to think that the Gravemind is the supposedly the conscious of a race that created all intelligent life in the galaxy.
The last precursor is a chick?
Revolver Ocelot Lmao now I’m just picture a Gravemind with lipstick and eye lashes like the little shop of horrors plant.
Its screams still haunt my dreams.
4:05 when that happened in the game with surround sound it felt like an angry god was yelling at me. From the perspective of that universe that’s basically what was happening
Also favorite
00:40 0:53 0:58 2:47 3:50 4:24 5:00 5:40 6:14 6:43 7:46 8:06 8:15
_"Lies for the weak, beacons for the deluded...you will be food, nothing more"_
I guess the gravemind doesnt like religion or something
Well the religion is literally about the people who murdered him are super awesome.
@@pastorTracy911 And said religion is based on lies.
@@elitegamer9310 except christ, he existed and did all that the Father teached
It really showcases how deluded the covenant were and how little the gravemind thought of them
@@Cherub-vl9bc nobody asked
At 6:43 you can hear a person’s strained screaming in the background of his voice, he really is just made of torment and death
That's actually Gravemind's voice actor making the sound with his voice.
Splitjaw Janitor I know, he’s an insanely good voice actor, this is definitely done deliberately though
naw thats just cystic fibrosis
@Robert Arnold the flood didn't make all life, though it all is technically a precursor, it is but one precursor and no precursors didn't make all life there was a greater being that at it's last moments made life
It is the rage of a died race so vile and concentrated that it refuses to die along with its history.
I never noticed how you can hear the flood growls and moans when he’s talking, such an awesome character.
0:59 Now the gate has been unlatched… headstones pushed aside… corpes shift and offer room… a fate you must ABIDE!
6:44
"We trade one villain for another..."
The fact master chief simply treated the gravemind like it was a superior officer surprised me, he didn't seem one bit scared of it or even intimidated, despite the gravemind being pretty much immortal and easily able to eat and devour entire planets
Because the battle is on the most epic of scales in this universe. It all comes down to will. With putting humanity at stake, the gravemind sealed its fate. Failing his people was simply not an option for John.
Chiefs will is so strong, after setting off the ring and jumping into a fractured frigate, marooned in space to be alone for years, he goes into hyper sleep after just doing all this and says to Cortana “wake me… when you need me…”
So dope.
@@smellme6313 in his position I would still be absolutely terrified to see a nearly 100 mile long tenticle creature, I know there's some weird creatures in outer space but something like that is nightmare fuel
"Did you think me defeated?"
thanks for the highlighted comment
@@TDW_0333 highlighted comments are for when you click on your notification lol nothing special haha
Dam!! The cut dialogue really makes the gravemind seem enraged and desperate to just stay alive
He really hates cortana, and if they were canon then id say it puts a dent in the logic plague cortana theory
I think that's why it was cut, even if it was only cut for time and not for story I say the Gravemind is playing the long haul. Defeat is just the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved, but you imposed.
His final halo 3 line is referencing that he will return, and halo wars 2 may confirm it
@@yapyapthedestroyer2562 He (almost) retuned in HW, but they contained the Flood before it could have. But...im sure he will be back soon enough.
I know for a fact alot of those lines aren't cut. Just used by the combat forms and makes them easier to miss.
Nooreldin Ismail wait really, didn’t know
"We exist together now, two corpses in one grave". 3:07
This line always gives me goosebumps
I'm pretty sure it's the exact same line they used in Halo 2 on the mission High Charity. If you notice, that quote in particular sounds quite a bit different with the echo and reverb and even the pitch is a bit lower.
@@GhostARMYY7 i like the Halo 2 Gravemind lines way, way more
@@GhostARMYY7 they sound more menacing
It's a halo 2 line with that "echo" from halo 3. It sounded way better in 2 even though it's the same voice actor.
The voice is literally the Halo 2 one.
Looking back the floods actions were actually kinda justified considering the fact that they were the ones who created all life in the Galaxy but were then betrayed and wiped out by there own creations. It saw its mistake of giving sentient beings free will and decided to correct it and recreate all creatures with under one mind " a chorus everlasting"
Justified? Maybe on the Forerunners? Keeping the act on even after their revenge? No.
@@InkyGhoul It wasn't about revenge. It never was. The Flood are the Precursors' will to *correct their mistake* of giving free will to *sentient life.* Life isn't exclusive to just one of their children. They don't treat it as an act of spite, they genuinely see it as a mistake the way an engineer would see a bug in their design as an error.
The Forunners, the San'shyuum, Ancient and Modern Humanity, all of their children (anything that lives and began from their foundation) proved themselves to be equally as prideful and childish. The Forerunners rebelling against their creators and targeting their sibling species; the San'shyuum and their consistent, cultural corruption and manipulation; Humanity as it is now, with ONI being the greatest symbol of their fall from grace.
If any of the Precursors were still around, they would tell the whole of sapient life this: "You have justified the Flood as a concept."
If one kid punches you, the parent, and you punish both kids, who mishandled the situation?
Are you punishing the second kid for not helping you? The one you just gave responsibility in your place?
Would you wipe the entire system just because of one bug?
I won't argue with the San'shyuum's manipulatory history, that speaks for itself. But pointing at ONI and all they do is _not_ justification for consuming all of Humanity, nor was ancient humanity's flaws when, as we all recall, they were given the Mantle of Responsibility instead of the Forerunners because of aforementioned disobedient child's pride. Pride that wound up getting _everyone_ in hot water, so the decision was vindicated in that moment.
If any Precursor were around, they would say we got what was coming to us, but that's only because they were angry and shortsighted after almost being exterminated. We all make mistakes when we're angry, but beings with such power and technology as they should have either taken precautions to not let this go out of control or thought of a more direct strategy for punishment. They were certainly intelligent enough to do so.
Hmmm interesting enough I believe the flood right now is giving a test to humanity.
Dr. Ariel Finch Pretty sure a Tier 0 Civilization would have no shortcomings or mistakes. Although their reasons are questionable, the precursors were factually correct in knowing that giving any free will to their creations will inevitably make problems.
Sure, having free will means everyone is different, but to the precursors, they see that as an end to all life when the wrong choices are consistently made.
YOU WILL BE FOOD... NOTHING MORE!
The Gravemind
I am Truth! The voice of the Covenant!~
Thus you must be silenced
@@jamiehughes5573 AAAGHHHH...
The fucking disrespect the flood will spit out is as deadly as the flood itself 😂
@@KIPalex Now the Gate has been unlatched: Headstones pushed aside, corpses shift, and offer room a fate you MUST abide
"Time has taught me patience."
I've recently added this to my life mantras.
Halo has serious philosophy behind it. Feel like you could write a thesis on the flood if you were so inclined.
Actually it is just Iambic pentameter How Gravemind is talking
@@normaaliihminen722 It's actually trochaic heptameter, but here's something interesting: it can, like, not. The gravemind just does because Chief doesn't say it's cringe (which Cortana did)
@@edgarcardiff7874Lmao so the Gravemind stopped talking in poetry because Cortana thought it was cringy?
@@AxisChurchDevoteePretty much yeah. She tried to one up him in poetry so he gave her a lecture about how he’s consumed billions of poets that would put mankind’s own to shame.
@@nihilistpenguin7511 Gravemind: HOW DARE YOU!
I think it's fair to say if any living being saw or felt a nano second of the Gravemind's mind. Insanity would be the least of our worries on what it would turn us into. Unimaginable
The Logic Plague. Why drive you insane when truth can turn you to it's side
@windrose5988Didnt it use it on the Didact hence why he went insane?
Wonder if the gravemind due of it's insanely powerful abilities and intelligence would corrupt ai not by only the logic plague but also by transmuting it's thoughts into code scraping to not even the artificial intelligence realising starting to think like the gravemind being a small piece of mind
Doctor: "You have 2 minutes to live"
Patient: "I want to hear all the gravemind quotes"
Doctor: "That's ten minutes!"
Gravemind: "He's dead either way, I'll allow it"
The way his voice sounds bubbly, and you can hear in the background creaky screams and wheezes. Like millions of voices are screaming the words along with him.
And the fact this is ALL the VA's own voice.
Every single line is fucking scary because you can actually hear human like lamentations and “stretches” they sound painful, every single thing the Gravemind does or say is nothing but pain and suffer
Dee Bradley Baker is a fucking legend. Man played the Flood as well as the entire grand army of the republic and so much more. His vocal range is unmatched and he will be one of the greatest voice actors to have ever been.
7:46 And there is a lot of resignation in that. The Flood have been defeated so many times that it must seem inevitable sometimes. His final words are both mocking, but there is some wisdom in them. You're only thinking about one future, but what about the Flood's victory? It seems painful, but maybe that's a small price to play for unity and mercy? You don't die when you join the Flood, you are not destroyed by the tide, but you join it. A thousand million souls joined together, forever.
He is a monument to all the sins of those that survived the Flood, but what is that sin? Rejection I think. You turned away paradise in favor of damnation, and that is what you see. An ugly, towering demon of flesh and suffering. That's what you wanted, right? 9:02
You actually do die when consumed by the flood, though.
@@AdventurerOfOblivion not always. Captain Keys from First Halo game was alive and before you reach the command center he tries to warn Chief not to come through radio.
It's a monument of the sins of the forerunners rebelling against the precursors who later turned into the flood. Forerunners also meaning humans. Alas, this made sense before 343 changed it to a bunch of nonsense
@@degayify bungie was the one to change it
@@admiralshadowofasunderedst3068specifically Frank O'Connor. Thank God he left. Hoping they would retcon 4-Infinite
The gravemind has a voice of many and I find it disturbing. I love it
Is the voice of only one actor. It's effects of his voice
The fact that very little of this is actually augmented by editing just shows how much effort Dee puts into his work
The background, screechy voice in unison with his obvious, deep voice is what really sells it. The primary voice sounds normal, intelligent. But in the background, there's the screeching, the sound of agony and despair, being forced to copy what the primary voice is saying. It's a really, really damn good voice. It's twisted, evil and sickening.
I find it sinister how the gravemind becomes more impatient, then irritable and then enraged as the level Cortana continues, despite being a tedious level, the voice over is amazing by Mr Baker!
"Resignation is my virtue; like water I ebb, and flow. Defeat is simply the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved... but you imposed." - Gravemind
That’s what my lungs sound like after I smoke a blunt
My guy 😂😂
me too thanks
7:46 My favorite quote
kevin byrne especially the meaning behind it. He cannot be defeated. He will always find a way to come back. And it’s seems the flood will make a return in infinite.
I like that despite being a literal god, the gravemind still has a lot of emotion and well, humanity in him with how angry he gets
Well... you are what you eat.
I swear, the Gravemind is biblical nightmare fuel
"There is no Light here. You are alone. You shall drift. You shall drown in the Deep."
-Xol, Will of the Thousands
Different franchise but equally awesome quote never the less.
Xol certainly seems to be a nod to the Gravemind
6:09 imagine you're an intruder in Dee's house and you hear this.
*"Nope, that was not part of the plan"*
The last thing you will ever think as the crowbar dee is holding in his hand is “Wait a minute isn’t that the guy who voiced the cinnamon bun from adventure time?”
@@theequalizer694 wait, really?
6:08
2:06
Does this means that the Gravemind knew about the plans of the Librarian for Chief all along? I mean, makes sense; the Gravemind has eons of knowledge.
I don't even think she was a think by then
@@InvadeleYogurt She was a thing, the terminals talked about the Didact and about her. But the Gravemind wasn't talking about her in this dialogue, it was about Cortana and her plans to defeat the Gravemind.
I made this comentary without knowing that.
Imagine telling a joke to Dee Bradley Baker and he laughs like this 0:53
And then he apologizes in his clone voice for getting carried away
Then he just makes the Perry noises
dang the gravemind really is a cultured fellow, he made a time bandits reference
The fact he’s a literally a zombie god that’s was once a op civilisation of deity’s should tell you something cause he knows everything about humanity to the forerunners so... yeah...
I like the quote where he said child of my enemy and then mentioned a father's sin passed to his son. I think the enemy is referring to the forerunners, given what they did to the Precursors.
Not necessarily, the flood evolved to “dust” of the precursors, the humans found the dust and experimented with it, it grew out of their control, humans then had a war with the Forerunners at the same time they were running away from the Flood, the humans lost against the Forerunners, the war with the Flood shifted to the Forerunners. He could be referring to the Humans, but it’s hard to tell
@@tsipher I know, but when I put that I meant when the Forerunners decided to destroy the Precursors because they not chosen to hold the Mantle.
@@tsipher With regards to the expanded universe lore, humanity has never originally been the enemy of the Flood, this is why they willingly chose to stop infecting them during the Forerunner Era as to manipulate the Forerunners into thinking that there was a cure. The only reason they would do this was because they knew Humanity was not the enemy that they were trying to destroy. The end goal was always the annihilation of the Forerunners. Keep in mind that Humanity has yet to be "tested" to uphold the Mantle. So reasonably from the Gravemind's quote, it only makes sense that his "enemy" are the Forerunners. "Child" refers to Humanity as a whole considering the Forerunners deemed Humanity as the successors to the Mantle.
Yeah, when Halo 3 was first released Humans were supposed to be Forerunners, but 343 changed the lore and made the two groups separate.
He is indeed referring to forerunners as father. And humans as father’s sons. Because humans are according to Bungie era forerunners (ancient humans) but it seems to be retconned and forerunners are now different race of humanoids.
The Gravemind and The Brethren Moons are two of the most nightmarish cosmic horror entities ever conceived in videogames and truly do assume the role of cosmic threats just through their existence alone.
The gravemind isn't even finished evolving. It doesn't have access to neural physics yet.
@@galenjones9529 it always has access to neural physics. What changes is the degree of ability it has to use it, which increases as it gains more biomass.
I'll explain what I mean more. The gravemind as an entity is not the mass of bodies we see. There is some metaphysical aspect to it, which is why each gravemind is the same gravemind, and why the logic plague can infect non-organic life too, even without any observable vector for spreading. The bridge between his metaphysical reality and our reality *is* neural physics. The gravemind exists as a continuous entity throughout time because killing the physical entity we can see and touch and join is just an extension of itself in our universe. It uses neural physics to bridge that metaphysical form and the physical form that we see. So it always has neural physics. It needs it to exist in our world.
This is also hinted in the very first cutscene of him in Halo 2. Cortana asks "what the hell is that?" in Master Chief's head via their neural link (i.e. inaudible to anyone but cortana and chief), yet the gravemind hears and responds to her ("I? I am a monument to all your sins"). From a physical, our-universe explanation of that interaction, there should be no way that the gravemind, as an organic and material mass, could have heard Cortana. The fact that he did can only be explained by him already having access to neural physics, at least in a more limited capacity.
Incidentally, the logic plague's metaphysical aspects are also rather well explained by being an application of neural physics. And the logic plague can spread well before a keymind forms, which is the "normal" cutoff people think of for "can use neural physics"
@@ObnoxiousNinja99 So it's essentially a fourth dimensional being made three dimensional?
@@noheroespublishing1907 maybe extradimensional, but "the fourth dimension" is just a direction that a thing can move. It could just as well occupy some parallel universe that the precursors transcended to or whatever. without being 4D. the takeaway mainly is that the gravemind we see is really more like an appendage to the real entity that we deal with. It uses neural physics to connect to that appendage
0:51 IS ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING
Me: **laughs in **9:33****
And 9:22
And what about 2:38
The poetic, nigh biblical speech being spoken by this twisted chorus of voices is great.
6:35 you know, for a being whose consumed thousands of poetic minds, he don't half scream
This guy sounds like Hermaeus Mora's scary big brother.
yoooooo! im so glad someone was gonna say something about Hermaeus Mora if i didn't 😅
*aggressive poetry*
*speaks in malicious poetic intent*
Bungie dd such a great job with his dialogue. Of course, Baker brings it to life, however his dialogue is so wonderful. The wordplay, the vocabulary, i could listen to it for ages
What voice do you think he will have if he returns, really hope he has the same. Now also hearing his cut voices, now makes more sense of his anger in the level cortana, he wants to infect chief, break cortana, and finally rid himself of the one thing blocking his full consuming of the galaxy. First he tries and persuade chief to join the flood, let him be infected and join him, when he fails time and time again, the patience has finally worn down and shows how enraged he can get. When we get to the halo, Gravemind finally understands the true reason why cortana got chief to go in high charity, and even starts to toy with him on how chief is but only a puppet, and gravemind is composed of millions or billions of minds, and consumed fleets, and a “galaxy of flesh, minds and bones”thinking it will effect chief. It doesn’t, and chief activates the ring, and when your going thru one of the tunnels he makes one final quote,and it means even though he dies he will return, and as he states something he didn’t deserve, but he brought. But then again this is what I think, and how it’s only in the cut dialogue, and even though he is now confirmed dead, in halo wars 2 gravemind log, states that his recent avatar was destroyed when the ring was fired, but it also states it’s only a matter of time before a new gravemind rises, fingers crossed
I always imagined that once the primordial was absorbed into the flood that it took the headpiece so to speak. That the gravemind in all iterations of its existence will have the primordial helming the Gravemind, I would imagine/dearly hope he'll have the same voice. Ive heard multiple times from others who've delved into the books that once the flood reach the Gravemind stage its somewhat single sentience returns (aka his voice and own autonomy), along with the consumed life, knowledge and minds of the countless that were absorbed into them. Once the flood returns and regains a foothold in the galaxy, if 343i can do one thing freaking ace for the story, the original Gravemind and Bradley Baker voicing it will return. If that happens, man that'll be chilling to hear his voice crawl into John's head again, maybe even have John shoot back some words to him. Infinite could easily do a whole helluva lot right.
• UnholyMalformationofFisto • nice. And yes it’s true, in the books as they say, every gravemind has the mind of other gravemind and experiences, which is why halo 2/3 gravemind knew of the past, and the rings true purpose. Voice I’m not sure, but possibly, we never hear the forerunner gravemind talk in the retelling of the story, but hey possibly. Also if he were to return, and how you did say of him talking to John and John talking back, that would be amazing, with the gravemind doing it’s persuasive and patient to him, and chief also commenting on him, with the gravemind later dropping another betrayal of trick like in halo 2 or 3. Would it be funny if they gave the gravemind a name
I read before that they had planned a Gravemind bossfight at some point during the development of Cortana. A good chunk of these quotes from 5:43 to about 6:30 sounds like it could have been dialogue while fighting him, either when starting the fight or when he kills you. As for the screams perhaps it was for when you defeat him. I know one of them plays in the actual game when you destroy the reactors.
Recently it has been confirmed that there were 3 cut levels from Halo 3 and I believe you were able to fight the gravemind himself in one so yeah.
6:35 plays before the dispersal pods start raining down in the last level. (Also that's the line I was looking for so thanks!)
4:30 *"You WILL show me what she hides!"* *gurgling snarl* *"Or I shall feast upon your BONES!"*
2:47 Child of my enemy, why have you come? I offer no forgiveness; a father's sins passed (on) to his son.
Of course you came for her, but there is nothing left.
Nice work! It was really hard to understand him sometimes. Thanks again.
No problem. =3
Gravey seems to love bone's, I'm convinced.
Now the gates has been unlatched
Headstones pushed aside
Corpses shift an offer room
The fate that you must abide
Such an awesome character would've loved to see more from Gravemind.
"This ASMR is very... odd..."
"This is not your grave..."
“But you are welcome in it”
The juxtaposition between the gravemind preaching itself as a beacon of sweet unity and purpose luring of joining it to chant victory everlasting as a blessing whilst it's voice distortion says more as what sounds like countless victims it assimilated in a perpetual sea of agony and endless pain is exquisite
Listening to his voice without all the carnage, music, and chaos, he kind of sounds like a very eloquent Garrosh Hellscream.
He could be. It is the most talented voice actor. Playing heroes of the storm? We can play together
Don't compare my voy gravemind with that orc versión of sylvanas the destroyer of franchises
@@nathanudaysantiagogarcia8931 Garrosh =Gravemind > Basic Campfire > Kodo Dung> Sylvanas
@@madcat789 Garrosh = to Gravemind?
You are a lier beyond the prophet of truth
@@nathanudaysantiagogarcia8931 I speak nothing but the trut. See! It is true.
At 0:24 when I first played halo 3 (I was like 9) and when it said “everlasting” I thought chief was being possessed and saying what the Gravemind said.... especially when it said “join your voice with mine” terrified me
If you watched hiddenxperias videos on gravemind, he explains that the gravemind can actually speak telepathic. And also tap into chiefs armour
Anyone else come here frequently and listen because it just sounds so fucking awesome?
Baker is an outstanding actor, with a character to match.
I low key wanna make all my PC system sounds Flood screams XD
Same
Gravemind reminds me so much of Sauron. We see his true form only one time in the series and then he becomes a haunting and evil voice that follows you wherever you go.
The Gravemind, and to that extent the Flood are easily one of the most bone chilling antagonists EVER.
I really wish they would have kept in that last speech. It would have really helped add more depth to GM and the Flood as a whole, as well as drive home the fact that the Flood can never be truly destroyed. Any "defeat" it's suffered in the series has been nothing more than a minor hinderance to it and as long as there's a single flood spore left in the universe, it will always have the potential to return.
Severely underrated villain with some of the coolest quotes in videogame history.
you can hear the moans of the dead making up the graveminds voice, holy crap
"Come, Join the chorus, let me sing your bitter words"
love how he just does not seem capable of understanding organic life not wanting to be part of the flood
he genuinely seems frustrated and so confused by organic lifes instinct to survive and be diverse
and simply put its because the flood does not understand death
to the flood the death of a flood form is nothing its all part of the same mind and that mind is almost impossible to destroy
even the firing of the halo rings only slowed it down
Maybe were just ignorant and he's right :P
I HAVE NO HEART, YOU STUBBORN FOOL! AND SO, I CANNOT BE BROKEN!
"defeat is simply the addition of time to a sentence..I never deserved that YOU imposed" he didn't deserve this fate and yet he was forced into it through the ancient humans
The ancient humans weren't the flood's enemy. The forerunners were. In fact, humans weren't even given the chance to bear the mantle as the Precursors intended.
I like how one of the cut lines confirms that cortana’s solution was just a lie. I remember being confused in my first playthrough because her solution never gets brought up once they get to the ark.
Her solution was the rebuilt halo. Gravemind would be baited to the ark where they would ignite the rebuilt halo outside the known galaxy, killing it without killing all life.
It was a lie or more accurately...a deception. But not strictly to us more-so to the Gravemind she baited him into ignoring Earth and going to the Ark
Roses are red violets are blue
When Gravemind speaks, your pants become ruined
Sunflowers are yellow, leaves are brown
he is the cure to cramps, pain and blocked bowels
"Child of my enemy why have you come? I offer no forgiveness, a father's sins pass to his son"
2:38 reminds me of the Locust from Gears of War. Anyone else?
Same guy. That being Dee Bradley Baker. He voiced the Drones and General Raam.
@@austinkersey2445 Holy shit, thanks man! I didn't know that.
@@hewhobattles8869 Yeah, he does a lot of creatures. He's been Appa and Momo in Avatar: the Last Airbender, Perry the Platypus in Phineas and Ferb, and almost every Locust in Gears of War (the Kantus are Robin Atkin Downes aka the Medic from TF2). His more famous vocal performances would be Klaus from American Dad, Rā's al Ghūl from the Batman: Arkham Series, Tarrlok from Legend of Korra, a lot of Ben 10 aliens, and the Clones from Star Wars: the Clone Wars. The guy gets around.
He also voiced skorge