Hello and welcome back to Life’s Biggest Questions, I’m Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey.
With the release of The Cloverfield Paradox last month, we received even more insight
into the Cloverfield situation.
While much of it remains in mystery, we now understand the circumstances around it somewhat
more.
That, however, does not make it any less terrifying; if we were suddenly attacked by giant monsters,
the world would be in trouble.
How much trouble?
Let’s explore.
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Now get ready, it’s time to ask the question: What if Cloverfield was Real?
To clarify, this video will take into account events and circumstances surrounding the original
Cloverfield movie as well as 10 Cloverfield Lane and the Cloverfield Paradox, as they
are all related.
However, it will focus largely on the monster from the original movie.
And in case it wasn’t blatantly obvious, this video will have spoilers.
First let’s very briefly get everyone up to date.
Cloverfield takes place in 2008, and tells the story of the attack of a giant monster
that surfaced from the bottom of the ocean.
This monster, nicknamed Clover, laid waste to New York City alongside the dog-sized parasites
whose bites caused their victim to explode.
Needless to say, this was a terrifying experience.
In Cloverfield Paradox, which took place in 2028, Tagruato, a Japanese mining company,
was developing a new technology that could result in essentially infinite energy.
This Shepard Particle Accelerator was 1000 times more powerful than previous ones, making
some nervous that it could have dangerous side effects.
As it happens, they were right to be nervous, since the machine ended up causing a split
in the fabric of spacetime.
This caused monsters from other dimensions to attack the Earth, with some attacking it
20 years previously, thus causing the events seen in Cloverfield in 2008, Cloverfield Lane
in 2016, and Paradox in 2028, simultaneously.
So, what would happen if this happened in real life?
How might humanity react?
Well, Clover was incredibly powerful, both strong and highly resistant to damage.
It took a great deal of military power, and the destruction of New York City, to take
it down.
If it did appear, humanity would likely react in a similar way.
There would be hysteria in the area it surfaced, military would be called in, and we would
try to take it out as quickly as possible.
Eventually, there’s a good chance that we would choose to nuke the area to keep Clover
and its parasites from spreading.
You may recall this tactic from our video “What if Cthulhu was Real”.
However, unlike with Cthulhu, this would likely be effective, at least in trying to destroy
the beast itself.
While some doubted that the beast was dead, it was confirmed by J.J.
Abrams that it had been killed.
However, the parasites would likely be even more successful at killing than Clover, with
roughly 2000 of them going out in search of food.
There’s a good chance that even if we were able to kill Clover, many of the parasites
would survive, and could potentially even breed and become more numerous.
If the parasites weren’t exterminated, there’s a chance that they could pose a significant
threat to humanity, particularly if they’re able to breed as quickly as other parasites
we know like mosquitos.
So, if we were up against Clover, humanity would take some damage, but we would likely
be able to defeat it with the weapons we have available, even if some parasites may have
survived.
But it gets worse.
How?
It turns out that this creature was barely an infant.
Considering an entire city was destroyed to defeat a baby, if we were up against a fully-grown
version, it’s difficult to imagine us surviving.
We might see beasts as large as the one seen at the end of Cloverfield Paradox, whose head
reached past the clouds.
And chances are, it would take more than a few bombs to take out that thing.
This brings up another point that should be stressed: each of these films takes place
in alternate dimensions.
While the Earth is largely the same in many versions of the multiverse, the effects of
the spacetime rupture affect each world differently.
This means that it could be that we could face completely different obstacles, possibly
ones not seen in the films.
Maybe we would see a zombie apocalypse, and have to fight off a zombie horde composed
of our own.
Maybe we ourselves would be the invaders.
Heck, it could be that we would meet a benevolent group of beings, and it could actually improve
life on Earth.
With so many options in a multiverse, the sky would be the limit.
And now we return to our question: What if Cloverfield was Real?
Well, if we faced a monster or monsters similar to those seen in the films, the Earth would
be in a good deal of trouble.
Even with a baby like Clover, it would take great sacrifice to take it down.
If it was larger or there were more of them, we might be doomed, particularly if the parasites
began to reproduce.
However, since we don’t know where we stand in the multiverse, it could even be that we
would face completely different things not seen in the movies.
However, I don’t know about you, but I’d much prefer it if this stuff stayed in the
cinema.
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the best of luck, on your quest for answers.
One particularly significant revelation this brings us is that we would never know when
it would happen, since it occurred before
However, let’s assume that we were up against a monster similar to Clover from the original
film.