Villains Too Stupid To Win Ep.11 - The Church of Unitology (Dead Space)

Fun fact, the deep lore of the origin of the church suggests that Altman (or however you spell his name) found out how bad the marker was when he discovered the black marker on earth at the bottom of the ocean, and he died to make sure the government couldn’t use it for their own nefarious purposes. Of course, a coverup came and the church sprung up around it all

Guy 1: "Hey, maybe we were the real monsters all along." Guy 2: "That thing literally ate a man's face off and turned him into the undead equivalent of an orgy with legs." Guy 1: "Yes, but... humanity bad, though."

I love how both the natives of Tau volantis and the sovereign colonies sacrificed themselves for the entire universe on that planet Bunch of chads

I always liked how the Unitologist named Irons from Dead Space Downfall, despite being a true believer in Unitology, still did what he could to help other Ishimura survivors against the Necromorphs.

The good thing about death cults is that they all eventually end. Sucks that they are pretty much species wide in Dead Space.

"If only I could've denied Mercer the pleasure of becoming a Necromorph." Fun fact you can, if you're fast enough you can immediately run over to him while the hologram is goin and kill him and the Infector before it even has a chance to finish jabbing his head and turn him. It was hysterical seeing him just be another pathetic Unitologist corpse that didn't even turn. XD

I always interpreted Unitology as a direct result of the influence the markers put out, not as a baseless human religion that just happened to be somewhat right. In my view the events in Dead space were set in motion the moment the first marker was activated and humanity was steered towards this eventual goal. So the Unitologists aren't remarkably stupid, some people are just remarkably resistant to the marker's power.

Honestly the only smart faction in Dead Space was SCAF they made sure anything marker related was so far removed from civilized space that when what would become Earth Gov won the Succession war they tried to destroy all assets so they had little to no information on markers, their test locations, and other top secret stuff with Dead Space 3 showing how far they went to cover this up as well as the book Catalyst.

Is the Church essentially created by the effects of the Markers anyway? I mean, that's the feeling I got from the games. They aren't really an independent faction, but are just another form of the Markers' manipulation.

The humans in the Matrix series would be a good candidate for these videos. 1. First they create robots with advanced AI and then enslave and oppress their creations. 2. When the robots rebel they try to wipe them all out. 3. The robot survivors flee and create their own city which grows in technological capability and economic power. 4. Humans try to blow up the city and kick off the human/machine war. 5. In the course of the war humans block out the sun because they thought the machines were solar powered and didn't even consider they could use alternative power sources. This action also shuts down photosynthesis worldwide killing all plant life and destroying their own food supply.

*When a human is being transformed into a mutant, Alien Zombie hydrid because of an ancient alien Cthulhu machine * Every Church of Unitology Person : ...I wanna be that so bad!!!

I would have been too scared to mention "Scientology", truly you are indeed a Zealot! Thanks for the bravery, man.

I love how he incorporates Star Trek quotes to counter or emphasize his points.

Funny that Unitology began because their founder tried to stop it. Also the true villain of Dead Space isnt the church of unitology, it's the brethren moons

Honestly, "The glowy red rock made me do it" sounds like a good excuse for anything

Said it before and will say it again but LOVE the not-so-subtle references to Scientology with Dead Space's moronic religious zealots.

Techincally, the church isn't wrong, if their belief is that all humanity has to die to form a single consciousness, that's kind of what happens. Even if the single consciousness isn't human. But there are always parts of the sacred scriptures that are lost in translation. Oops.

I live for this series. I don't care how long each episode takes to come out. Each one is the highest quality of diamond. And this God of a man starts naming off all the villains lol love it

Altman, a man that tried stopping the marker only to become a symbol for it.

Man, there's being a Zealot and then there's Unitoligy. You can only delude yourself so much when aliens are ripping your face off.