I Hope it Ends with a Monster

"Doomsday would probably be a big bummer."

Yes... Yes it would.

The fact that this man manages to post a video every time i think "hey, the archive hasn't posted a video in a while" is disturbing and impressive

hey you okay buddy?

"But if like a wolf eats the sun, I mean that's just bad luck" haha a great quote.

Congratulations, you "dog that ate your homework" evolved into "wolf that ate the sun"!

It will end with a monster, but it'll be human shaped, and he'll be very rich.

The reason everyone views themselves as that lone, intrepid survivor because the alternative is "I died when shit hit the fan", and when you're thinking about what you would do in an apocalypse your first thought shouldn't be "Die" unless you want that to happen.

Neon Genesis being described as "it's a whole thing, IT'S A WHOLE THING!" is pretty perfect.

"Maybe that's my punishment. No burning bush, no smiting. No anything. Nothing. Just that I have to look into the eyes of the people I've wronged. See their tortured souls."

Mickey’s Descent Into Madness

As a transformers fan, unicron is even more terrifying if you know more about him as a character.
In most continuities, he is the embodiment of entropy. And will not rest until there is literally nothing left in the entire universe to consume. Most who learn of his existence do not survive to warn others, and those who do are either brushed off as crazy, or it takes so long for unicron to actually arrive that the civilizations that do prepare end up doubting his existence and lower their guard.

I think another reason humanity is attracted to the concept of a monster bringing doomsday is that it is something humans could resist. Like you said, things like pandemics and natural disasters are so gradual and hard to grasp, and because of that, it's hard to take action against them. Our best hope would be to wait it out and, like in "when the wind blows", hope we survive. But if a monster came to devour the world, we like to think we'd recognize it and try to stop it. If it's alive, it can be killed. It allows humanity to grapple with the doomsday concept whilst still believing there doesn't have to be a doomsday at all.

"I Hope It Ends With a Monster" is actually metal af and goes hard

The kindest methods of exit are the ones that are so quick that your nervous system is basically evaporated before it can recognize what's even going on.

Another “End of the World” scenario I find interesting comes from Dark Souls 3.
After three games of surviving the world of Dark Souls, you are presented with a choice…
1. Link your soul to the First Flame, which holds together the world and all of its balances, and continue its existence for another thousand years.
2. Let the First Flame extinguish and allow the world to fall into darkness with only a faint hope that it will be reborn again.
In any other game, you would continue the world’s existence b/c a world can’t be rebuilt or reborn if it’s destroyed. But after spending three games slaying monsters, toppling warriors driven to madness, and continually resurrecting every time you die, all while losing a fraction of yourself every time… You genuinely start to see that this particular age of humanity is long-over—that everyone and everything wants nothing more than to lay down and die, but couldn’t for thousands of years.
In a sense, then, you become the monster who brings about the end of the world. If unimaginable monsters, mighty warriors, and even the gods of the realm cannot conquer you…are you not a monster yourself? Not as an act of malice, but as an act of mercy. The world and all of its people are already dead or dying. In a sense, it is like a loved one saying “I am ready to go” when they are at death’s door.
And so the world of Dark Souls ends, not in a fiery, planet-spanning cataclysm, but a slow and quiet descent into darkness.

If the world was ending with a monster I’d call my friend Kevin

Beasts of The Southern Wild

THANK YOU i saw this movie as a kid and since then could only ever remember the crab scene where they kept screaming "BEAST IT" i loved this movie gotta rewatch now that i have the name.

My personal favorite end of the world scenario comes from ff14. When the servers of the original MMO shutdown to start over. But in the world of ff14, it ends with bahamut. A moon sized dragon.

I should have expected this from you but the premise still hit me like a truck 😢 then “ let me prove this with a banana “ 😂

this is my favorite video of yours to date. just including The Transformers’ Unicron… genius. amazing work as always

In Cloverfield people are still going to work. People in Toronto, or Boston, or LA, aren't being attacked (sequel events notwithstanding). It IS business as usual, just any disaster. People are panicking at the site of the disaster, but nobody else is affected. Same with Monsters. They're not ignoring it. The military are still attacking. but one lone squid not actively trying to kill you isn't much of a threat.

For the zombie thing, personally I'm convinced that, yes, bosses would still be telling us to go to work (while many of them run) but you'd have people actively trying to get bit, and biting others, to prove its a hoax.