Why do we like Minecraft’s creeper?
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The creeper is so well-known that we almost don't even realize how common it is. But why is that? Let's take a quick look at the history and impact of such an iconic mob.
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It also helps that the Creeper is a uniquely original entity and not a generic video game enemy like a zombie.
got a point
Boomer from L4D
@@gametvon98 The boomer acts as a horde summoner though. The creeper destroys things in its surrounding while the boomer is there to mess with survivors
Yeah I think this is one of the main reasons. Even though Minecraft has gotten a lot of other unique mobs over the years (like ghasts, blazes, guardians, phantoms, shulkers, striders, ravager etc.), creepers were the first unique one, and one that stayed pretty consistent over the years.
Minecraft just had a lot more room for creativity since there was no set story line, it's a fantasy, open world game, etc
Notch and his team knew they could make whatever they wanted as long as it fitted in with the surrounding environment and how it could interact with the player
Minecraft has tons of unique and original mobs, a great example would be the Ghast, name another enemy from any other game that flies around and shoots fire balls
and with the latest updates bringing in fresh new content and ideas leaves even more room for creativity
lets just appreciate that a person named Dudebro was present during the creation of one of the most iconic fictional creatures ever.
What about Soviet82
Ayo don't forget ZomBuster
Dude- BROOOOOOOO you GOT WAHter on Ma SANwiCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What about Moe Lester and Ben Dover?
The montage was hilarious, the priceless reactions Creepers invoke is a big reason they're so iconic
There’s nothing like that feeling when you hear the hiss.
When I first started playing (Alpha 1.1,) before I had taken the time to peruse Minepedia/watch a few tutorials, I was under the impression that it was the spiders blowing themselves up because, before I'd ever laid eyes on one, it happened _twice_ that I was killed by a creeper that (I assume) must have been behind me while I was locked in combat with a spider. They are _very_ sneaky.
that one clip with where the creeper drops from above is the way I die to creepers
like if I see them around me it's easy to avoid and kill them but when they drop from above it gets me everytime
I was on a server about to start strip mining and was in voice chat with a few friends. and I was always the more quite guy 8 replied and spoke with short responses but a creeper caught me so off guard I screamed like a idiot and all my friends in voice chat also got scared like " wtf " cuz they would never expect for me to be that loud lmao xD
Pls the BLue Danube Lmao
that montage was hilarious! my favorite part is a creeper barging into someone sleeping
The paet where the creeper climbed the ladder just to get to the player was the most funniest as you'd never expect them to come at all
@@charlestonianbuilder344 even the official guides acknowledge this. “Yes, creepers can climb ladders. No, this doesn’t make any sense. Please don’t think about it too much.”
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@3:27-@4:05
I remember this one time I was climbing up a ladder i made in a ravine, and two creepers were just waiting for me at the top, perfectly standing on two opposite sides of the block my latter was placed on, and then proceeded to scare the shit out of me and almost blew me up. Mfs didn’t even bother dropping down, they just waited for some god damn reason.
Like everyone else here, i'm glad you were able to expand from your ICEBERG content and it's really paying off. keep up the good work, Retro!
Yeah, that was a really good idea to turn a short trend into a long term project or set of projects.
Couldn’t agree more
Dude I love your mysterious type content and the debunking
seepdive of the warden????😭😭
my own theories about the warden:
the end portal theory:
The portal frames werent made with endrock. The yellow parst of the portal are actually the wardens bones.
That makes sense because as we know
circularily placed very strong material+fire=portal. The endrocks arent that strong and how the ancient builders manage to even get the thing from the end.
the name of the warden theory:
the definition of the warden = (a person responsible for the supervision of a particular place or activity or for enforcing the regulations associated with it.)
the warden is a creature defending the plants of the deep dark from the ancient builders who tried to steal the experience energy from the plants.
the deep dark city theory:
When the ancient builders realiced that people werent getting out of the portal. the human race splitted in two. Some of them decided to dig even deeper, where there was no deadly silverfishes. They lived there a while until their civilization got destroyed by the Warden.
Soul theory:
The warden is so poverful because its the lonly mob who can use soul energy. Hi lives in a symbiosis with the deepdark plants. the warden protects them and the plants give him soul energy. Thats why the deep dark plants expand when a mob dies near.
@@connorlancaster7541 WE DON'T CAREEEEE
It makes sense that the Creeper is the symbol of the game, since there is nothing else close to it. Steves face? You see it extremely rarely. Zombie or Skeleton? Too Generic. Enderman? Just two purple lines on a black background, unmarketable. It is also the one of the only original creation in the game, that is exclusive to Minecraft (other media have zombies, pigment etc. but no "Creeper")
Pigmen ? There actually aren't that many in fantasy settings apart from Minecraft, there's alot of depictions of these creatures shown through illustrations but that's about it. Their are pig men characters in media but no opposing faction, they only creatures that come close to this are orcs.
@@boundtobounce2983 Men-like pigs are indeed not a new nor original concept..pigmen aren't original, not that marketable, and came way later making them not really able to be made the brand; plus you don't really see them that much..they aren't that impactful (till recently and even still you can avoid them), creepers have always been a common sight and incredibly impactful on the gameplay as no one likes their bases being blow up.
@@testerwulf3357 still sucks they got rid of the thank you message in the zombie pigmen texture
@@boundtobounce2983 three words: Legend Of Zelda.
It's always quite the experience being lead through the path something in Minecraft has taken after all these years. I've been watching your channel for a while now, and it's nice you uploaded again :)
I think the only thing you missed is the cyan glazed terracotta texture having a creeper face during your list at 4:15 about the in-game appearances of the Creeper.
Actually, Retro needs to make a theory about the creeper. It's one of the biggest gaps in his Minecraft theory universe and I feel like it should be analyzed.
And adding to the list of in-game creeper appearances, there's a Creeper charge for banners
@@jacobwilks9204 Perhaps when the first builders (or whatever they were called) were still around, the Creepers also existed. Creepers would destroy things they found unpleasant, often including things the builders created. Because of this the Creepers were believed by the builders to be gods (or at least a result of something more powerful) and blocks like the glazed terracotta and the chisled sandstone had Creeper faces carved into them in hopes that they would please the Creepers.
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@@jacobwilks9204 The fact that creepers drop music discs when killed by skeleton arrows is also interesting from a lore/theory view because it means that every creeper has a music disc in it (I think the reason you don't get it normally is because it gets destroyed when you kill them, only a skeleton arrow can kill them without destroying the disc), which is why I think creepers were artificially created or manipulated by the ancient builders who used them as some kind of defense mechanism and also to protect their valueable music discs.
this is my theory: if the creeper had been added to minecraft in a more recent version like 1.15, it likely would have driven most of the fanbase away
100%! But as it's pretty much always existed we're used to it and know what we're getting into, it's not ruining the game as it's a key part of the game, but if added later it'd totally trip up players and ruin the game as it'd tear apart everything the game would of been whilst annoying players by their bases getting blown up (and other things).
100%, the Creeper would never have been added under Mojang/Microsoft's current design philosophy. It's emblematic of Minecraft's early experimental nature, and its original intention of a "survival", almost "base defense" game. The player builds, what if there was a monster that undid their work? Nowadays new content is usually more adventure/exploration oriented, something so disruptive and common like the Creeper added now would alienate a lot of Minecraft's current audience. Hell, I'll admit it, in my singleplayer worlds now I always play with mobGrefing set to off, lol
despite your videos all being of the video essay style, you always throw in some fun quirks such as the classical music montage and the r/place zoom at the end
I always thought the reason people like Creepers (myself included) was a sort of masochistic enjoyment, very much why a lot of memorable video game bosses are the ones that give the player a hard time. The Souls games are a great example of this and how every boss encounter sticks into your head for a long time.
I still remember a time when I had my Creeper plush out in my room, just chillin'. My aunt was in there talking with me, when suddenly she asked me what that green thing, saying it looked like a (d word)... I have never been able to see Creepers the same way ever since...
Surprise
@@SelfHatingWeeb aw man
Just think that creepers and that.. are different. It just unfortunately looks like it
Penis, aw man. So we back in the mine, got the condom swinging side to side, side to side
i was hoping for a video actually analyzing the anatomy of the creeper, like the thumbnail suggests. would be cool as a series trying to rationalize the the anatomy behind certain mobs and their biology, like the whole "creepers being part plant" or having a tnt "heart"
good video nonetheless
I thought that too, haha
It'd be cool, but the concept has been done to death. There are even officially licensed T-shirts with creeper anatomy designs on them
Creepers also all have a music disc inside them that gets dropped when they are killed by skeleton arrows. Which is why I think creepers were created or manipulated by the ancient builders as some kind of defense mechanism and also to protect their valueable music discs.
You want the Mobeastiary book
@@amethyst_cat9532 So many things have referenced them literally having a TNT block inside them like the merch you mentioned and even Minecraft Dungeons that it's safe to say that's the canon anatomy of a Creeper. Aside from that we basically have confirmation they're plant-based from Notch saying that they're "crunchy, like dried leaves".
can anyone appreciate that he made all the notes out of the screams of exploded players
the best musical ever: The Creeper Musical
3:27 LMAOOOO
I love the music in time with the screaming lmao
The Creeper face symbol is “almost” like that universal “cool S” you see on walls, textbooks, etc during the 20th century till the present. What I’m trying to say is even if people who completely don’t know what Minecraft is, they’d still recognize the creeper face or have a deja vu of seeing one before. (Although the cool S is much more mysterious in origin)
That was the most beautiful creeper montage I've ever seen.
when i was playing on a server, which was a little modded, i could fly and summon lightning bolts and I could even freeze mobs and players but I was constantly getting killed by creepers so many times that I made up a story that there was a creeper cult in my city, underneath my castle was a group of creepers in a circle around my ancient altar, like there was literally a pack of creepers in a huddle around my altar used to craft runes
ngl if you have the permissions to do all that and still get blown up by creepers, you kinda suck...
Yay more lore
The reason that creepers are so prominent in survival is because it can affect you negatively, even when you are invincible.
Loved the montage of creeper attacks lmao. The guy in the bed who’d left his door open, only for a creeper to creep inside was the best one! How many times has ANYONE pulled that move? I know I’ve had my fair share of moments like those 😂😂😂
imo creepers represent the essence of minecraft, where they destroy things you make just so you can build them back better, getting creative to make sure that does not happen again, with everyone taking different approaches to achieving that goal, whether you incessantly paint every tree in your vicinity with torches upon torches, create a moat, build back with stronger material, make elaborate traps, and so on, I just adds so much to the game, also being the only mob besides the endermen & wither (technically ender dragon too) who can permanently alter the terrain, making it the most common, and biggest threat to you and your builds.
Stfu no it doesn’t hahaha
3:55 Literally the funniest moment of the video!
Thank you for making us laugh from a rather serious topic about the dangerous Creeper video. 😂😂😂
That montage was the best I've seen
7:23 "But for the rest of us, why? Why do we love an enemy that's the bane of our existence in the game? An enemy who has jumpscared us countless times" For the exact same reasons the Five Nights at Freddy's community loves the game's animatronics as characters in and of themselves.
*coughs* chica fanart
The creeper face is like the og among us, you can see it, everywhere
A theory on Minecraft lore: when the zombie apocalypse struck, the ancient builders retreated to the ancient cities and tried to discover a new dimension (end city frames) but it was not a 2-way portal: the skulk grew out of it. The wardens natural grow out of the skulk, as a defense mechanisms of sorts. That would explain the name, the texture and their spawning location/animation. Plus, if they are made from skulk, it makes sense they cant see but rely on other senses. And before you start typing away telling me about the souls in the warden, what if the warden absorbs the souls of its victims, using soul energy to become more powerfull and then returning into the skulk? Skulk grows on death, so it absorbing souls is not unrealistic. Then the builders went in search of help at the endermen's strongholds and returned to the end. The endermen turned on them, noticing how they treated the piglins, so the builders forced them to find a fifth dimension to settle down in. But the dragon entered from the portal, killing all surviving builders and shattering the portal back to the overworld, making the endermen unable to rebuild society. If anyone tried to re-ignite the portal, the dragon killed them and destroyed it again. In time, the nether portals also broke, leaving any hope of civilization being restored a distant dream.
I think it is also important to note that the creeper is very uniquely Minecraft. Most mobs up till relatively recently have been video game staples like zombies, skeletons, spiders, pigs, etc. and for a long time in Minecraft the creeper was the only original to Minecraft creature in the game. This made it the perfect symbol for Minecraft because another mob like a zombie could be from anywhere but a creeper? That can only come from one place.
No matter how much you hate creeper.
If it's gone.
You'll gonna miss it.
aye
Not really
@@isaiahaudain5006 1 year later……
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I remember me and my friend were filling a mineshaft with tnt on a server and a creeper snuck up and detonated all of it, certainly one of my favorite memories of minecraft
Really well put together video and it’s crazy to think about how one mistake became such a big part of the game
The commentary and the overall quality of the video is amazing, even if it’s the smallest bit of things you’re still able to make it sound cool and interesting
i laughed so hard at the Blue Danube creeper explosion compilation 😂 brilliant editing
*That scream montage tho...* Absolutely beautiful! Greatest thing I've seen this year so far!
Creepers, the *legendary* icon of the amazing game Minecraft
If the pig fail never happened Minecraft would be so different
I think one big thing that makes the creeper so iconic is that is so different from other things we see. Spiders, Skeletons, and zombies are the other super common overworld hostile mobs. But these don't get the same amount of attention because they are based on real life things and pop culture ideas. The creeper is something completely unique, unlike anything in any other game, movie or book. If the skeleton was the mascot, it wouldn't really have the same impact because skeletons are prominent in other areas of pop-culture.
creepers are, indeed, very memeorable. i will never forget how my one and only hardcore world got deleted - a pack of creepers fall-ambushing me, exploding and sending me over the edge of a cliff. i can still remember one of them looking down at me through the red haze of the death screen lol
I have Asperger's, and for years I have been obsessed with creepers. I collect the merch, know everything about them, I dressed up as one for Halloween many times. But to be honest, it's really hard to say why I like them so much. I agree, the design is unique, but i think what people love about them is also the personality. They're destructive, yet the theory of them simply being extremely socially awkward, and blowing up because of that, is really heartwarming. There's something so adorable about a quiet, cactus shaped monster that is just too stressed to make friends.
Iconic, simple, plant like, actualy dangerous, the perfect enemy.
Suddenly I feel very honoured to be jump-scared by a Creeper in the Minecraft Celebrates the Community video!
The creeper musical was the best part of the video. Amazing editing there, Retro!
My first time playing Minecraft was back in 2015 in was playing with six of my friends (seven in total) we didn't know anything about the game only the memes and it was the trend back then we loaded in the world and immediately started doing random shit until one of us placed a block from there the journey started one time we was on a cave (all of us ) and a creeper came to us we didn't know what was it since it didn't hit we all gathered around him quickly and he exploded we Lost alot of things back then but we had so much fun
I wish I can go back for these days
I think you should make a video about the lore behind ancient cities, allays, and the warden. I think the allay might be related to the deep dark since they both are attracted to sound (noteblock)
3:32 Creeper goes up the same ladders the dude placed to escape the Creeper, lmao.
"There are no mistakes..."
-- the whole minecraft community now.
5:31 i actually had one of those plushies when i was like 6 years old or so. i remember the plushie making an explosion sound effect when pressed the middle body part and i also remember taking it around town with my mother, dragging it on the floor and bouncing it up and down pretending it was walking with us. it got dirty as hell after that lol
I do love the creeper it’s design was an accident but it appeals to me a lot.I know the creeper gets a lot of hate from people and I can understand it but deep down we all love the creeper
I'm personally playing a hardcore Minecraft playthrough, and I take notes of everything that occurs to me in a lore-ish way, and its really fun putting strings together
Like the Mobestiary, but not in mobs only but the whole adventure of a player
It's basically that the person (me), wakes up after something that I don't remember, i first construct a base, and while doing so meet wandering traders and pillagers which encourages me to go out exploring for more life, eventually I discover village, and things just get crazier until I find a fossil, which eventually gives me my memories back, that someone was experimenting was soul sand inside a fortress and created mega withers (credit to wifies i really liked his throey) which wiped out my race (the ancient builders) and I stayed back at the stronghold and fought the undead so my other ppl can escape to the end, and was a person of significance to the civilization we had, i guess a leader of a certain region, or a really good warrior, so the god like beings of the credits chose to bring me back to bring closure to my race by killing the wither and the enderdragon, and on my journey to do so exploring all the structures, defeating a raid, building settlements, and expanding my notebook further and further, until i venture into end cities, finding out how the ender dragons were hunted by my race (yes i know its mat's theory but i also came with this conclusion on my own)
Overall i think i have 5 books of maximized capacity, 100 (i play on java) pages, and i really suggest you guys to start a playthrough and do the same, but with ur own theories!
Me and my friends despise creepers so much we actually built a literal concentration camp just to kill creepers
LMAO
Creeper is the fine symbol of "it's not a bug, it's a feature", the basic of Minecraft gameplay.
I quite like the old creepers. The animation for them falling and then exploding when they die looks way more fun than them just blowing up.
Yeah but then you couldn't get rid of them without putting a hole in your house
0:51 creepers are friendly they just want to meet you and say hi but they get nervous - minecraft blog
Indeed, I have many fond memories of creepers. For example: the time I almost got blown up by fishing a Creeper up a cliff.
player: *casually vibing in their minecraft world*
creeper: Hey.
The satisfaction of seeing a new retro video :)
This went from an explanation video about the creeper to a perfectly cut screams video
7:59 it makes me laugh bro the swear is funny not gonna lie
I prefer "the anatomy of Minecrafts icon"
But this title indeed fits the video better
1:42 this music gives me a headache and reminds me of that one time I went on TH-cam kids out of curiosity. Click the timestamp to skip.
Theory: I was watching a minecraft theory recently and I realised that The ancient builders theorists conclude about the structures in minecraft must have built temples for a reason, the desert temples can't have been built for no reason and realising how civilisations in real life build temples an churches for gods and super beings I concluded that the ancient builders must have believed in someone or something. I first began to think about the creeper face on the cut sandstone but couldn't lead it to anything. I also began to think how a desert pyramid seems like a tomb (possibly from a prominent leader) but that could be a whole different theory. I was thinking back to super beings and remembered about the gods in the end credits. I propose the idea that the gods in the end credits were known about by the ancient builders and that they communed or even talked or that the gods may be ancient builders who survived the plague.
If anyone wants to use this theory you can
Good theory, I think that the desert temple is a cult to the creepers. The creepers were considered gods and thats why they have tnt as a security measure.
The creepers are in reality plants that make an explosion to spread their seeds.
They want to kill you because when you die you become a very good source of fertilicer.
Why they dont do the explosion thing on animals and zombis?
I think its mostly a game mecanic.
Bro your vid’s are amazing
Hi Retro! I trust this will be interesting, as always :)
RGN: One of the goals is construcion like building a starter house
Also RGN: has a f*cking mansion
If the creeper were added today, everyone would hate it way more than the phantom.
Change my mind.
Just today I had an experience where a creeper destroyed all my chests
…I had to put EVERYTHING back
I restored the Creeper's old pre-Alpha ability to blow up when killed via a data pack while keeping its method of attack.
Now they're more terrifying and threatening (and a bit nostalgic). :3
Nice content! From the icebergs content, to the nice stories and theories like Oldroot and the history of the creeper!
Your videos are always so informative and well-made, keep it up! I’d love to see your opinions/theories on the Allay one day, it’s pretty clear that they’re related to the Illagers and Vexes in one way or another and your lore videos are always so good :D
This guy deserves SO much more attention
Nice video. I like how it branches off from the lore/iceberg ones, but it's still very enjoyable.
If Minecraft makes a reappearance in Smash Bros as a base game series a Creeper has to be an assist trophy. I don’t think being a cameo in Steve’s Final Smash was enough.
Nice montage. Very funny and totally shows years of pain!😂
The creeper almost feels like an out of place relic in modern Minecraft. Its bright and noisy textures are opposite to the smoother and more faded colors used today, and the entire way it functions as a mob has been all but steered away from by modern Mojang, but what might be most alien is that the creeper was even included at all. Common practice today is that an update is heavily planed, showcased, and anticipated a year before actually being released officially, but the Creeper was and is none of those things are the Creeper. The Creeper was an accident, made on a whim and dropped into the game without much thought, yet despite that has grown to be the most popular face of Minecraft. It makes one wonder if the Mojang of today is even capable of ever creating something similar.
RGN: Zombies might kill us, or kick us out of a hardcore world
Me: Creepers kick us out of non-hardcore worlds (Superflat Survival flashbacks, where a creeper blew my trading hall up and I stopped playing on the world)
4:28
Wait till you see the actual cover of the Mobestiary.
Love your content
I had a creeper dive bomb me and kill me off in a hardcore world and my immediate reaction was to burst into laughter. The creeper was also my very first death and I will never forget that moment over a decade ago
Lol
wow it must be so hard to write good scripts for your content, keep up the great work and your community is such an amazing place you are my favourite youtuber Retro :) :) :)
I feel it's the 'Ok, you got me' all's fair type of thing. It's bad but it is also limited, usually quickly reparable, like a 'guy's' practical joke.
Love what you are creating, your videos make me want to binge watch all of them over and over again!
Retro can u please do more minecraft deep dives about minecraft mobs? Also loved this! U make me understand more about the game and stuff!
Adding person that came up with idea of Creeper NFTs to my hit list.
You should do a collaboration with matpat for a Minecraft lore video
I can’t imagine being robbed by a creeper irl. I’d give him anything bro.
I just can't... can't...
STOP SINGING IN THIS BLOODY *TUNE TUNE TUNE*
Ohh! Happy to see you continuing doing these videos. ^^ I clicked on the notification as soon as I saw it.
Wait is this a new series? I haven’t finished the video but I DEFINITELY want this to be a series!
4:40
Also on llama's and glazed terracotta.
the creeper is like that one person that everyone likes for some reason even tho theyre mean to everyone
these videos are my favorite thing of all time to watch on youtube i’ve watched them all over 5 times
I was looking for the song "revenge" for months. Thank you so much for helping me find my favorite song ᵕ̈
one thing i hate about creepers always been despite looking around during mining, they always show up the moment i turn around a sec, and never understood how that always happening, guess minecraft has its own tricks
I am addicted to these so a big project soon sounds great!
oh no not another one of these minecraft anatomy videos... they are so beautifully cursed
I've always been fascinated by the creeper, and like the lore and IRL background of the iconic face of Minecraft
imagine if mojang say they would remove the creeper as a prank and see how the community reacts
Love the video. Keep up the great work RGN
Bro that part had me dying 3:54 but that whole section of the video was hilarious
That montage was funny! Although my favorite was that VR guy gets jumpscared by falling creepers.
3:38 He saw his reflection
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can't wait for your theories and story about the warden and dark abyss :)