it's back baby it kinda goes without saying by now but cosmic horror monsters
are the bread and butter for us over here at top I was gave videos and as was
the case with the opening part of this series it seems that throughout the vast
and terrifying macrocosm of horror and fantasy fiction there are a whole host
of horrifying monolithic monstrosities for us to take a gander in part one of
this series we laid out the corrupted seeds of Azeroth
old gods the impossibly powerful Eldrazi from Magic the Gathering the daedric
princes of the Elder Scrolls series and of course the great ones of blood-borne
and yet thankfully for us there are far far more where that came from so then
let's take a look shall we hello art fans what's going on and once again
welcome back to the sketch show on YouTube top 5 scary videos as per usual
I'll be your host jack finches today we used to take a look at the top 5
scariest cosmic horror monsters part 2
for the Cure's amanju of course that scene was from 2018 annihilation written
and directed by Alex Garland and based upon the remarkable novel of the same
name by Jeff Vandermeer and for the astute amongst you you'll know that we
featured area x from annihilation in part 1 of this series and when it comes
to cosmic horror that movie did a stand-up job in portraying the
terrifying cosmic significance of a life form like the shimmer and yeah if you're
feeling some cosmic horror I'd highly recommend giving that story both a read
and a watch because it's pretty damn awesome anyway on with the show
kick it off at number 5 The Forgotten ones The Dresden Files now it's not a
closely guarded secret that over here at top 5 scary videos we're pre huge fans
of Jim butcher's incredible Dresden Files series and the many many twisting
and turning horror tales of Harry Dresden they've expertly managed to
reinvent and repurpose pretty much every horror trope ever created and presented
in one of the most refreshing and cinematic franchises of recent times
yeah Tony goes without saying and just as vampires werewolves and other such
monstrosity s have been fanservice bye butcher of course the many monsters of
cosmic horror have to get their fair representation as well the thing is
though and what this entry comes in at number 5 is that compared to some of his
other horror reinventions the old ones are pretty classic cosmic horror
actually in a similar fashion of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos the old ones
are an ancient race of demonic gods that once ruled the mortal world
but were later cast out and locked away from reality and again in a similar
fashion beam primal spiritual entities that harken back from the cosmic void of
existence they can never truly be destroyed or defeated always the case in
butcher series that exists in the outside the place that exists outside of
mortal reality beyond the outer gates where they attended to by the out
signers the servants and foot soldiers of the old forgotten ones because you
know when you're a great hulking space Lord incomprehensible to the human mind
you're certainly not willing to lift a tentacle unless you have to however not
all of these powerful monstrosities are alike and locked behind the confines of
reality and some of the old ones such as the sleeper where have we heard that
name before are instead imprisoned and entombed here on earth in a similar kind
of fashion the sleeper has his own version of fanatical coats that are
willing to offer that lifeforce for an old god that they've never even met hmm
again always the case the thing is though in the out of
content of the series the outside is probably the more terrifying of the two
particularly he who walks behind and he who walks before the hey even they have
to answer to someone swinging in and over for the illah Fateh Dungeons and
Dragons Dungeons and Dragons and truth be told any opportunity that we have to
feature some of the canonical horrors of Wizards of the coast and perhaps the
greatest tabletop role-playing game ever created actually scratch that it is the
greatest tabletop role-playing game ever created then we will I don't know
they're quite a few of you top 5 scary fans are also fans of D&D too so yeah
there's that now it's also probably person to note
that the reason that stranger things took the name of the mind flayer as
their gigantic upside-down endboss owes itself to this particular race of
psionic nasties and if you think that many limbed monstrosity was terrifying
think again because these little weirdos will crawl in your ear and make you do
things that you do not want to do double also we should highlight the fact that
like The Dresden Files D&D as a whole has had plenty of time to take pretty
much every horror and fantasy concept going and over it's five editions smelt
it into a far more terrifying version of itself the mind flayers also more
formally known as elephants which means mind rulers in under comment or an evil
sadistic race of aberrations feared by all sentient creatures of the natural
world and the rest of the multiverse that draw upon the psionic energies of
their victims the mind flayers seek to expand their dominion over all other
creatures controlling their minds in effort to use them as hopeless slaves in
turn devouring their brains to feed on for sustenance in the Underdark which
essentially is a network of terrifying caverns that even a Balrog would fear
the many dark and evil creatures that call that place home the deep owls and
behold is included having a great deal of respect for the mind flayers because
their capacity for evil pales in comparison to them you see the mind Flay
itself isn't exactly humanoid but instead is a tadpole like creature
they's hatched from a clutch of illa third eggs that during maturity is
implanted into a humanoid victim it then devours the humanoids brain taking its
place before merging with their humanoid body and transforming into a brand-new
Lilith it yeah these guys are gross and they'll wipe your whole pie if you're
not careful next up number three the oak trees your hat and you know what guys
this is actually a rare occurrence because really we should talk about how
avoid more often on this channel whatever you think about the movie
series aside Mike Mignola series of graphic novels is a must read for any
horror fan and despite featuring the literal son of Satan himself in a
starring role as the giant fisted red skinned here of the multiverse it is a
series that does a pretty stand-up service to the cosmic horror sub-genre
and when your hero is Hellboy econo guys are saying but you're antagonistic
villains have got to be pretty damn terrifying let me introduce you to the
octave jihad the Dragons of Revelation the Beast the serpent the seven gods of
chaos and the horrifying God race of serpentine tentacles that are destined
to bring about the end of the world as we know it you see as the hell boy
series explains in the beginning of time God created an order of spirits to watch
over all of existence and one of these spirits and NAM created the object out
of fire and mud and placed them here on earth in an effort to create life
himself despite trying to usher in their uncanny existence through magic the pile
of fire and mud remain lifeless as it does that is until night time came when
the old guru jihad sprang into life where they were then instilled with
purpose and function thus giving birth to the old rahem who became Earth's
first life forms the 369 monstrous demonic children that wilded and
unimaginable power which would later lay the foundation myths of we humans
essentially every demonic piece of folklore a legend that you could imagine
the thing is though that Watchers were repulsed by their new creations and so
they went to war with them eventually banishing them from existence and
forcing them into the dark places of the world the old juju had were then sealed
and imprisoned in golden cocoons and cast out into the abyss
for all of eternity weren't they now wait in suspended animation and of
course that's when we get to Hellboy who wields the right hand of doom
the last remaining limb of a gnome after he was torn to pieces by the rest of the
watches for creating evil in the universe
poor guy the thing is why so damn also about the object you had is that by
proxy we humans are creations of the same stuff that formed these cosmic
horrors that's food for thought hey coming in at number 2 that godhand
berserk alright this one is going to be a little difficult to explain but oh boy
are these guys the very definition of an overwhelming force of something it kind
of depends on how you feel about the true nature of the human soul but hey
that's reason enough to check the remarkable berserk series out now I know
that quite a few of you guys are huge fans of the berserk series and whilst
I'm not as well-versed as some of you believe me I'm trying to cheer my way
through it and so on that point forgive me if I get any of this specifics wrong
hey it's a pretty damned elaborate story that transcends all of time and space
I'm trying my best here the thing is the titular monsters of this list are
perhaps the wrong term in this regard entities is probably a better one
because as I said it depends on which side of the fate of humanity you fall
upon however in terms of cosmic horror yeah there's nothing quite like that God
hand in a much more similar vein as Hellboy and the implication that it
carries these guys do things in an incredibly different kind of way as the
series explains that God Han is a Quintin berry of demonic sovereigns who
act as physical executives of the idea of Evil's will by virtue of their
desires being intrinsic to the given entity it's complicated but essentially
the idea of evil is a primal entity that resides in the abyss which in some
senses is far outside the realms of what defines the classic cosmic horror and
one that is responsible for the fate of humanity acting on the species
collective desire is the reason for pain the reason for sadness the reason for
life and the reason for death and it embodies the collective will of the
universe experiencing itself yeah and these guys carry out that will each
member of the god Han at some point in time was once a human that held
possession of an arcane artifact the Crimson Barret which unbeknownst to them
distinguished them as individuals that were destined to be reborn as these
demonic Kings each of them possess specific reality altering abilities one
that can augment both the spatial the physical and the metaphysical planes and
bend them to their will you see because they draw these incredibly powerful
cosmic forces from humanity's primal essence
again it suggests that we won't have something to do with the horror behind
it all again that's food for thought right and finally coming in at the Horde
spot the chaos gods Warhammer 40k okay listen guys public service announcement
in part one of this series quite a few of you found umbrage with the fact that
the chaos gods of Warhammer 40k didn't find their place on our list let me
clear that up blood-borne took a number one spot granted because they are cosmic
horror monsters incarnate and when you have to pick between the two they both
deserve a number1 spot so much that putting them on the same list another
point just wouldn't do them justice so yes the chaos gods take number one
here and rightfully so because as many of you will now know the chaos gods are
cosmic horror incarnate again also known as the Dark Gods of the ruinous powers
they added de-facto and all-powerful entities who inhabit and control the
psychic dimensions that underlies all the physical reality known as the warp
they are created and sustained by the emotions and collective designs of every
sentient being in the material universe and when an emotional belief in real
space grows strong enough it then becomes embodied as one of the sentient
denizens of the warp and thus we have the four first amongst them called the
lord of battle the chaos god of blood war and murder whose domain covers the
most basic and brutal of sentient emotions and actions hate anger rage war
and killing blood for the blood god skulls for the score foe and all that
then we have the bizarre and ever-changing architect of fate the
changer of ways the chaos god of all-encompassing change evolution
intrigue and sorcery who puts his denizens against each other in a
galaxy-wide game of manipulation then there is Naugle the plague lord the
chaos god of disease decay death and destruction and most importantly despair
the lord of pestilence thrives on misery and when he awoke in the warp great
plagues swept across the galaxy heralding his birth talk about a
birthday pie and finally there is slash the Dark Prince the chaos god of
pleasure excess and decadence he thrives upon lust pride and self-indulgence and
seeks to overthrow all decent behavior through hedonism and pleasure for its
own sake in the grim darkness of the Warhammer 40k universe there is nothing
more powerful and cosmically horrifying than the chaos gods
that is exactly why it takes an animal on spot whether we have it that list for
the top 5 scary cosmic horror monsters part 2 what do you guys think do you
agree disagree have any more to antabuse list then let us know your thoughts down
in the comment section below before Department days video though
let's first take a quick look at some of your more creative comments over the
past few days first up xiangu lee says where were the gods of chaos from war
hammer and Warhammer 40k see what I mean well I hope you're happy now Shane okay
and the rest of you know where G says I can't see any of these I only have four
in sight I like it now good shit good shit
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