So you can blast this from the rooftops for Barcus ✊: ▶ Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/5riks8HIZYtEJb5OHlcNbX ▶ Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/album/f-k-wulbren-bongle-single/1729672385 ▶ Bandcamp: spacebards.bandcamp.com/track/f-k-wulbren-bongle FWB shirts now up on our little shop: merch.spacebards.com We'd also like to say a giant THANK YOU to the writers and talented voice actor, Nick Aaron, who brought Wulbren Bongle to life. He and the writers truly made this fun fandom possible. Thank you for inspiring us to love to hate this character! ❤
got approval from both Astarion AND Wyll for calling him a prick. i don't think that's ever happened before lmao. they are united in one thing and it's hating Wulbren Bongle.
they both approved when i made crusher kiss my foot and drinking with thisobald thorm + telling stories lol. and everyone likes it when you feed the owlbear.
Update: I found out it's possible. I think I'll give it a go at some point. There's a Reddit post where someone did replace a bard song with their own music. They were kind enough to link the Nexus mods tutorial. They used the "Custom Battle Music Audio Replacement (Comprehensive Guide On .wem Files)" tutorial by Tendirty. I'd post the link but I doubt RUclips will let me.
Barcus goes to rescue Wulbren and gets himself tied to a windmill, rescued, keeps going, gets enslaved, gets rescued, keeps going, goes through the shadow monster wasteland, finally has to be told to stand down, that someone else will do it for him, and then when he is rescued he gets told to piss off. Barcus deserves better and Wulbren doesn’t deserve a friend like barcus. Justice for my man barcus
I do wonder why they stopped being friends, as if you read Wulbrens journal in the Underdark he does say they were good friends and he wondered if he would ever see Barcus again 🤔
My first playthrough: Act 1&2 - "Barcus must really care for for this Wulbren. I'm sure he's going to be a 10/10 guy." Act 3 - "Larian masterfully crafted the most unlikable character I've ever seen"
IKR, as soon as I spoke to him at Last Light after rescuing them all, I was like 🤦♀️ “I should have just rescued the Tieflings and not you guys, because you’re an asshole” Though I did read Wulbrens journal that was in the Underdark (in the abandoned beach village), and he and Barcus did actually used to be good friends. But then he was treating Barcus like crap after being rescued, even though Barcus is the only reason why I saved his stupid ass.
@@andrewhannaford2995 Cazador is so diabolically evil that it's a given for the character, same with Raphael or Orin. Evil is just par for the course with vampire lords, devils and Bhaal's chosen. Wulbren on the other hand is a complete douchebag to the only person that went out of their way to save him and wouldn't grant his beaten and downtrodden rivals the opportunity of peaceful surrender. Lorroakan is smug, arrogant and so blinded by his ambitions he would torture another being for eternity for power. At least Ketheric did it for his daughter, while still evil, his motivations are at least understandable. I don't think it needs to be said why the former owner of Scratch is unlikable.
I love how despite Wulbren having very little screen time in the grand scheme of things, it was still plenty enough for all of us to universally hate him.
That awful way he yells at Barcus at Last Light, and how sad and hurt Barcus clearly is while trying so hard to hide it, is all anybody with a soul needs to want to see Wulbren yeeted into a lava pit. Or at the very least trapped for the rest of his life in the all the gore and viscera underneath the prison he was locked up in.
One of the easiest ways to get people to hate a character is to make that character needlessly rude/disrespectful to a generally well-liked chill character (in this case our homie Barcus). I write as a hobby and seeing the way the fandom has rallied against Wulbren has taught me a lot lmao
@@mostsanemorrowindenjoyer And his relatability. Unlike the other main atagonists it's easier to hate him because he isn't an abstract concept or far away from our reality. Understanding a magical mass murderer is more difficult than understand a normal random guy who is a dick to someone who is kind to him. That's a person we probably all know or can imagine in real life. It’s like the Umbrige vs Voldemort thing. Voldemort is evil in such a simple and yet exaggerated way that we tend to find him interesting and not just plainly evil, meanwhile we just really hate Umbridge.
Thing is they actually did used to be good friends. You can read Wulbrens journal that’s left in the Underdark (in the abandoned beach village). IDK why they stopped being friends though, but maybe it’s because Barcus is nice and Wulbren is a twat 🤷♀️
Srs fuck Wulbren. All the other gnomes went "He's in Moonrise? Nah he's screwed lol" and ditched his ass, Barcus was the only one who not only went looking for him but was ready to brave Moonrise to save him. Who gets yelled at and verbally abused tho? Barcus, because Wulbren is a twat.
My first playthrough I was going to let Wulbren live in exile instead of killing him, because I wanted to respect Barcus' decision as the new leader. Wulbren would've gotten to live if that stupid mf hadn't gone and threatened Barcus' life after Barcus showed him MERCY. Went into turn based mode and managed to kill him stealthily as he was leaving, and it was the final kill that got me to level 12 👑 Literally the most useful thing he ever did was die LMAO
I had the same thought. Then the threat was made, and suddenly an arrow of Darkness later Wulbren got to learn how to both fly and swim. Unfortunately he sank, and nothing of value was lost.
@@aegisScale You can fly over and use the scaffolding to avoid the steel watch and his goons never save you. I don't want to be in his debt. The ONLY reason I saved him from Moonrise is because of the other gnomes in his cell. I actually tried to only free the tieflings at first, but the Warden goes hostile and starts killing the gnomes even if they are still in their cells.
tbh Barcus is a lil bitch too. "GET! ME! LOOSE!" MF if you want me to get you down from the windmill, how about you ask nicely? First playthrough I helped him, second I let him fly, third I just stopped the windmill but let him hang there to be eaten by the crows. Fuck all of the gnomes, really.
@@michaelsc78If there's ever a mod like that, I will mod my game for this one vicious mockery alone ❤ The other one I'd die for is more hugs. Barcus would be one of the first hugs I'd give.
Play a Durge-resist playthrough and still make the diss track but everyone hates Wulbren so much it doesn't affect your alignment and Bhaal gives you this one as a 'freebie' cuz he hates him too.
Better yet: they played it for Milil at the epilogue party. Soon, all bards everywhere will pray to learn how to roast people like Tav roasted Wulbren Bongle. It will be the start of an entirely new era of Vicious Mockery.
"But you didn't save me, I saved myself. With some help from this helper" Oh, oh its like that? Then how come in my 1st run when I didn't help you escape, you weren't in Act 3?
Justice for Barcus, obviously, but no one's out here talkin 'bout my boy Zanner? Can we just take a second to appreciate the _balls_ it takes to prepare Misty Step as a blind person? 😂
In my current playthrough when I helped the Gondians to revolt, Zanner pushed Astarion out of the range of an imminently imploding bomb/Steel Watcher (cant remember which). Might be reading too much into combat mechanics, but it was so sweet and brave in the context.
normal gamers: i hate orin / mystra / cazador / gortash / ketheric / any significant antagonist that small section of us who know where our priorities are: *FUCK WULBREN BONGLE*
@@xySuperManxy at least there was an easy option to kill her. She was talking shit and I was thinking “that’s a lot of crap you’re talking for someone with only 12HP” 😂
F*** that guy, after Barcus exiled him from the city I followed him, put down a fog cloud so no one could see us and karlach threw him into the harbour. Wulbren sleeps with the fishes
Yeah after I broke him out and went to talk to him and he treated me the way he did 🤬🤬🤬 if there was an option to yeet him into the shadow cursed lands.....his storyline would've ended right there.
@@eclecticcode Karlach ould grab him and yeeet him there, this little ungrateful MF...(Now I know why there are two levers in wind mill) doesn't deserve anything 🤣 I need to try this in my next run, someone grabbed and yeeted Gortash from shore with this
Never has there been a character I so viscerally hated like Wulbren. Even characters made to be disliked like Araj and Kagha have a small place in my heart and I didn't mind seeing them on screen, but I was ACHING to get Wulbren out of my story. He had the fucking NERVE to tell Barcus he saved HIMSELF when he would've been Balthazar's plaything if it weren't for me and him.
@@aldmerian I don't love Araj but I find her fairly inoffensive. People seem to only hate her cause she views Astarion as a slave. Normally I'd find that opinion repugnant but Astarion is and always has been(even before becoming a spawn) a repugnant piece of shit. In my playthrough I'd let him drink some of my blood after he'd tried to sneak it from me for which I would normally have killed him for, but I needed allies. So that little brat in my mind OWES me a potion by drinking the hot Drow mommy's gross sewer blood for both his prior actions toward others and the multitude he had already committed against me.
Wulbren, Aradin or Mar'hyah (the kennel woman) are the Umbridge category all over again. Villains like Cazador, Gortash, Orin, Kethric, (or Voldemort in HP) are so abstract and over the top we actually find them interesting and entertaining despite all the horrific acts they commit on a daily basis. We can't fully grasp their villainy as few of us interact daily with tyrants, war criminals, and serial killers. However, each and every one of us knows that someone who constantly blames others for his own failures (Aradin), justifies being a general douche because he has far-reaching ambitions (Wulbren), or is cruel to animals for no reason (Mar'hyah). Just as Umbridge was universally hated because we all know that someone who's a stickler for rules no matter how dumb or unfair... as long as said rules don't stand in their own way, at which point they become optional. All those characters are relatable on a personal level, hence why they get all the justifiedly deserved hate.
Orin, Gortash and Kethric are also tragic in their own way. Orin was raised by a cult and brainwashed from childhood into a nutcase, Gortash was sold as a slave to a devil as a kid, and Ketheric lost his family. Even Cazador gets the bit where he was also tortured by his master when he was a Spawn. This guy has nothing like that.
for every good (Barcus Wroot) there is its opposite evil (Wulbren Bongle) Barcus seems stiff at first but once you get to know him you can tell he's just a bit socially awkward, and he's really an incredibly sincere person. Meanwhile Wulbren seems like a cool revolutionary at first but once you get to know him you realize how much of a self-righteous asshole he is. Also, their names match lol (BW vs WB)
tbh Barcus is a lil bitch too. "GET! ME! LOOSE!" MF if you want me to get you down from the windmill, how about you ask nicely? First playthrough I helped him, second I let him fly, third I just stopped the windmill but let him hang there to be eaten by the crows. Fuck all of the gnomes, really.
I killed Wulbren in my second play through, but it's almost worst because Barcus literally faints from shock, cries, then falls into a deep depression...
Me: Gale don't worry we'll find a different way to blow up the elder brain. Wulbren Bongle: here's a bomb so big that god himself fears it. me: interesting.
SAME! I'm currently working on a run with a friend of mine, but he hasn't ever made it out of Act 1 yet. It will be a while before we can get there in our co-op game since we have to work around very different schedules. I need to remember to show him this as soon as it won't spoil things for him.
Not only does this go hard but YES, this is how I felt through the whole game!!! I loved that you added the fireworks behind Barcus! Barcus running up to him being all like “my friend is back!” And Wulbren shits on him. I would have smacked him right then and there but it would have made Barcus too sad (and his happiness is my priority!)
I like to think after Wulbren declares revenge after you side with Barcus and the Gondians, after getting out of the city he trips and falls off a cliff, his last thoughts are him realizing how axtually inept he was at doing anything on his own
On my first playthrough I did Barcus’ entire quest line. I had honestly forgotten about him up until I found him in the Under Dark and saved the names. I made him stay at my camp and promised to help his friend when I got to Moonrise. When I finally met and helped Wulbren I thought he was alright but when we got back to Last Light his entire personality changed and he was being a huge d-ck towards Barcus who honestly is the only reason he got saved tbh. That really didn’t sit right with me. Then the way he was acting towards the Gondians didn’t sit right with me either so seeing this Diss Track warms my heart. Knowing that others ride for my boy Barcus shows humanity still exists 😭😂
I think its the hypocrisy of Wulbren that makes people angry, wanting everyone to forgive the iron gnomes for their past actions while giving no forgiveness to the gondians, who had their loved ones kidnapped and held hostage.
I know people don't really tour the anime/gaming convention circuit in the same way that they use to but I am just imagining a Space Bards concert at one with the whole crowd singing along. God I miss the late 2000s to 20-preeteens ere of cons
After blowing up the steel watch foundry Barcus became the new leader of the Ironhands. Wulbren was exiled and made death threats against Barcus. Wulbren proceeded to stomp off. Karlach legged after him and yeeted that li'l fucker into the Chionthar river. 😜 No one gets away threatening MY Barcus! In the epilogue there was even a copy of Baldur's Mouth reporting that Wulbren had been killed! 🤭
The only reason he lived in my honour playthrough was was because the rune powder bomb clears the top of the brain at the end after blowing up the foundry tho he was fair game
I hate that a part of me actually respects Wulbren a lot. He can hold up pretty well in the most dire of situations, he's decisive, intelligent and doesn't let anyone walk all over him, which is important for gnomes, but dark gnomes especially. But then I witnessed his reunion with Barcus and that was the most satisfying use of the word "Prick" ever.
i keep listening to all your baldurs gate songs on repeat. i love Want a Treato so much lmao actual bars. i hope yall make more bg3 related songs cause these are not only funny but really catchy
@@SpaceBards Larian put a lot, and I mean A LOT, of detail into their models. Wonder if some characters have subtle scars that healed over time now... Oh gods what about the freckles!? So much I gotta look out for now to see it all.
The thing is, from a purely logical standpoint, he is right. The Gondians could at any point be enslaved again and then build weapons for the next big bad. The steelwatcher are an absolute terror and are a legit threat. But all of that doesn't excuse him. Sure he is traumatized, sure he wants revenge and sure, he definitly deserves justice. But there is a certain line, that he simply constantly crosses. He is way too evil amd rude. He cant even properly say thank you. When you finish the entire questline, he attempts a power grab! Basicly, while you can absolutely project noble intentions or a greater goal onto his actions, its rather clear in the end, that all he wants is to be on top. If he got the chance, he would have built these steelwatchers. If he got the chance, he would have assisted the bad guys. He is only against them, because they are against him. Like, as much as I agree with the defense, that he has suffered severe trauma and lives through a pretty rough time when we meet him, that still wont excuse him fully.
@@Baalslegion07 You have some good points (better than those that I've seen his actual defenders make). But Wulbren is just using the Steel Watch as an excuse - there is a book that lays out the whole Ironhands' deal. Wulbren basically hates the Gondians because he thinks they took credit for some Ironhand inventions ages ago. So really, he just happens to be right on this one occasion regarding the Watchers but has been gunning for Gondian destruction for years.
So you can blast this from the rooftops for Barcus ✊: ▶ Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/5riks8HIZYtEJb5OHlcNbX
▶ Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/album/f-k-wulbren-bongle-single/1729672385
▶ Bandcamp: spacebards.bandcamp.com/track/f-k-wulbren-bongle
FWB shirts now up on our little shop: merch.spacebards.com
We'd also like to say a giant THANK YOU to the writers and talented voice actor, Nick Aaron, who brought Wulbren Bongle to life. He and the writers truly made this fun fandom possible. Thank you for inspiring us to love to hate this character!
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Why don't we like this guy?
BLESS thank you for putting this on Apple Music!
I want a F*@k Wulbren Bongle totebag.
Just bought it for my Amazon music Playlist. F**k that piece of sh*t
got approval from both Astarion AND Wyll for calling him a prick. i don't think that's ever happened before lmao. they are united in one thing and it's hating Wulbren Bongle.
the only other time i had those two approve of the same thing was letting that woman kill the goblin the the cage (sazza?)
Hahaha that is sooo funnyyy 💀💀
they both approved when i made crusher kiss my foot and drinking with thisobald thorm + telling stories lol. and everyone likes it when you feed the owlbear.
@@Emma-se5wm also if you pet scratch
When Wyll and Astarion agree on something, it just HAS to be the right thing to do.
On my way to petition Larian to add this as a bard song.
Keep it up Swen just reposted it today, there is hope!
Yes please lmao.
If I knew how to make mods, I'd make it happen.
Update: I found out it's possible. I think I'll give it a go at some point. There's a Reddit post where someone did replace a bard song with their own music. They were kind enough to link the Nexus mods tutorial. They used the "Custom Battle Music Audio Replacement (Comprehensive Guide On .wem Files)" tutorial by Tendirty. I'd post the link but I doubt RUclips will let me.
yes
Barcus goes to rescue Wulbren and gets himself tied to a windmill, rescued, keeps going, gets enslaved, gets rescued, keeps going, goes through the shadow monster wasteland, finally has to be told to stand down, that someone else will do it for him, and then when he is rescued he gets told to piss off.
Barcus deserves better and Wulbren doesn’t deserve a friend like barcus. Justice for my man barcus
Justice for Barcus!
Naw man got one hell of a view in his last moments.
I do wonder why they stopped being friends, as if you read Wulbrens journal in the Underdark he does say they were good friends and he wondered if he would ever see Barcus again 🤔
The lil dude went through so much to get to his friend 😭
And this is exactly what Larian wanted...great writing!
My first playthrough:
Act 1&2 - "Barcus must really care for for this Wulbren. I'm sure he's going to be a 10/10 guy."
Act 3 - "Larian masterfully crafted the most unlikable character I've ever seen"
IKR, as soon as I spoke to him at Last Light after rescuing them all, I was like 🤦♀️ “I should have just rescued the Tieflings and not you guys, because you’re an asshole”
Though I did read Wulbrens journal that was in the Underdark (in the abandoned beach village), and he and Barcus did actually used to be good friends. But then he was treating Barcus like crap after being rescued, even though Barcus is the only reason why I saved his stupid ass.
@@elenalizabeth you didn't recuse Wulbren, he recused himself... what a joke lmao, fuck wulbren
I actually can't decide who's the most unlikable character: Wulbren, Lorroakan, or that former owner of Scratch.
@@dvdv7777I’m surprised Cazador hasn’t also made that list
@@andrewhannaford2995 Cazador is so diabolically evil that it's a given for the character, same with Raphael or Orin. Evil is just par for the course with vampire lords, devils and Bhaal's chosen.
Wulbren on the other hand is a complete douchebag to the only person that went out of their way to save him and wouldn't grant his beaten and downtrodden rivals the opportunity of peaceful surrender.
Lorroakan is smug, arrogant and so blinded by his ambitions he would torture another being for eternity for power. At least Ketheric did it for his daughter, while still evil, his motivations are at least understandable.
I don't think it needs to be said why the former owner of Scratch is unlikable.
I love how despite Wulbren having very little screen time in the grand scheme of things, it was still plenty enough for all of us to universally hate him.
Too much screen time imo
That awful way he yells at Barcus at Last Light, and how sad and hurt Barcus clearly is while trying so hard to hide it, is all anybody with a soul needs to want to see Wulbren yeeted into a lava pit. Or at the very least trapped for the rest of his life in the all the gore and viscera underneath the prison he was locked up in.
One of the easiest ways to get people to hate a character is to make that character needlessly rude/disrespectful to a generally well-liked chill character (in this case our homie Barcus). I write as a hobby and seeing the way the fandom has rallied against Wulbren has taught me a lot lmao
@@mostsanemorrowindenjoyer And his relatability. Unlike the other main atagonists it's easier to hate him because he isn't an abstract concept or far away from our reality. Understanding a magical mass murderer is more difficult than understand a normal random guy who is a dick to someone who is kind to him. That's a person we probably all know or can imagine in real life. It’s like the Umbrige vs Voldemort thing. Voldemort is evil in such a simple and yet exaggerated way that we tend to find him interesting and not just plainly evil, meanwhile we just really hate Umbridge.
just had the heartbreaking scene with Barcus in last light inn. Wulbren is the worst.
Poor baby Barcus deserves so much better! 💔
Thing is they actually did used to be good friends. You can read Wulbrens journal that’s left in the Underdark (in the abandoned beach village). IDK why they stopped being friends though, but maybe it’s because Barcus is nice and Wulbren is a twat 🤷♀️
Srs fuck Wulbren. All the other gnomes went "He's in Moonrise? Nah he's screwed lol" and ditched his ass, Barcus was the only one who not only went looking for him but was ready to brave Moonrise to save him. Who gets yelled at and verbally abused tho? Barcus, because Wulbren is a twat.
It gets worse (better?) but yeah wulbren absolutely sucks
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WE GETTING OFF THE WINDMILL WITH THIS ONE
That’s right 😌
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My first playthrough I was going to let Wulbren live in exile instead of killing him, because I wanted to respect Barcus' decision as the new leader. Wulbren would've gotten to live if that stupid mf hadn't gone and threatened Barcus' life after Barcus showed him MERCY. Went into turn based mode and managed to kill him stealthily as he was leaving, and it was the final kill that got me to level 12 👑 Literally the most useful thing he ever did was die LMAO
That's insane, I love that timing with the level up lol.
That. Is. PERFECT!!!!!!!!
I had the same thought. Then the threat was made, and suddenly an arrow of Darkness later Wulbren got to learn how to both fly and swim. Unfortunately he sank, and nothing of value was lost.
Had an option to block an attack on him in the moonrise dungeon, and was like nahh, he can handle it. Aaaand he died 😂
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Look man, I ain't here to save you, Im here to help out Barcus. It ain't about you.
Exactly 💅
He's so lucky your first encounter with the Steel Watch is likely one where they try to arrest you and his buddies save your ass.
@@aegisScale You can fly over and use the scaffolding to avoid the steel watch and his goons never save you. I don't want to be in his debt. The ONLY reason I saved him from Moonrise is because of the other gnomes in his cell. I actually tried to only free the tieflings at first, but the Warden goes hostile and starts killing the gnomes even if they are still in their cells.
tbh Barcus is a lil bitch too.
"GET! ME! LOOSE!"
MF if you want me to get you down from the windmill, how about you ask nicely?
First playthrough I helped him, second I let him fly, third I just stopped the windmill but let him hang there to be eaten by the crows. Fuck all of the gnomes, really.
Always do it for Barcus 😤
Need a Lorroakan diss next
YES
Dew it!
PLEASE.
Oooo hate that guy too 🤔🤔
Balthazar as well for what he did to the pixies 😢
This whole thing should play if you cast vicious mockery on Wulbren.
Yesss cmon larian next patch 😤
A least MOD if nothing else.
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@@michaelsc78If there's ever a mod like that, I will mod my game for this one vicious mockery alone ❤ The other one I'd die for is more hugs. Barcus would be one of the first hugs I'd give.
"This one for Barcus!!" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Was gonna type this but decided to look for it😂
New epilogue:
After saving Baldur's Gate, Tav/Durge produced the most disrespectful meanest diss track in the sword coast.
Next patch? 🤞
Play a Durge-resist playthrough and still make the diss track but everyone hates Wulbren so much it doesn't affect your alignment and Bhaal gives you this one as a 'freebie' cuz he hates him too.
Better yet: they played it for Milil at the epilogue party. Soon, all bards everywhere will pray to learn how to roast people like Tav roasted Wulbren Bongle. It will be the start of an entirely new era of Vicious Mockery.
On Tav; probably yes. But Durge probably hunted Wulbren down, and, well... You know the rest. And on a resist Durge: que a 'momentary relapse'.
"But you didn't save me, I saved myself. With some help from this helper" Oh, oh its like that? Then how come in my 1st run when I didn't help you escape, you weren't in Act 3?
He be gaslighting
you can find his dead body after killing Ketheric! lmao
Only save him for my boy Barcus, which becomes worth it in Act 3 after you destroy the Steel Foundry.
You resisted the urge to rhyme "Bongle" with "Dongle", and I salute you for it.
THANK YOU 😂
Justice for Barcus, obviously, but no one's out here talkin 'bout my boy Zanner?
Can we just take a second to appreciate the _balls_ it takes to prepare Misty Step as a blind person? 😂
OMG so funny
In my current playthrough when I helped the Gondians to revolt, Zanner pushed Astarion out of the range of an imminently imploding bomb/Steel Watcher (cant remember which). Might be reading too much into combat mechanics, but it was so sweet and brave in the context.
All the real ones hate Wulbren
He brings shame to all artificers across the realm
Well, there is still Gortash
@sunnyhill7919 Hes a sorcerer who enslaved a bunch of artificers to build him his childhood dream mech army
@@nateexists6292 though the twist to Gondians' original plans was of his authorship
Forgotten Realms Elon Musk
Rolled nat 20 for vicious mockery
Exactly
ME AND MY BOYS GONNA MESS YOU UP- (had to, not sorry)
normal gamers: i hate orin / mystra / cazador / gortash / ketheric / any significant antagonist
that small section of us who know where our priorities are: *FUCK WULBREN BONGLE*
Also the dog woman
@@xySuperManxy yeah eff her
@xySuperManxy Dogs give us unconditional love. That bitch got my unconditional hate.
@@xySuperManxy at least there was an easy option to kill her. She was talking shit and I was thinking “that’s a lot of crap you’re talking for someone with only 12HP” 😂
Wait why hate Mystra? She didn't really do anything wrong given how Gale messed up.
F*** that guy, after Barcus exiled him from the city I followed him, put down a fog cloud so no one could see us and karlach threw him into the harbour. Wulbren sleeps with the fishes
🤘🤘
Only problem I have with that is the fish deserve a better meal
I went to the effort of saving every Gondian just to spite him
True heroics
You know if wulbren was tied to that windmill we’d see a lot more flying gnomes
It would be raining out here
Conscripted into the sword coast space program
My friend was deciding which lever to pull, well i'm a lolth sworn drow psychopath so poor guy went flying before she could decide
Wullbren been real quiet since this came out
Cuz he’s rotting in a CELL
If the gods are willing
The longer Wulbren stays quiet the better.
He been deep sea diving. Sent him down after the Iron Throne.... Gortash already blew it up but that's besides the point.
He's also been pretty quiet since I punched him two feet into the ground.
Wulbren Bongle:
Demands a hammer
Keeps the hammer
Later *sells* you your hammer back
Telling ya
Not me, I gave him a salami and let him keep it.
Haha for real? So far I either broke them out by destroying the wall myself or I stole his hammer back and gave it back to him.
The Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunning community endorses this track.
Haha love it!!
Simultaneously the funniest and more fire diss track I’ve seen.
i really thought the hate was exaggerated and then i met him again after the prison break-
Yeah no exaggeration here lol
Yeah after I broke him out and went to talk to him and he treated me the way he did 🤬🤬🤬 if there was an option to yeet him into the shadow cursed lands.....his storyline would've ended right there.
That's genius, I wonder if you could dimension door or even shove him into the shadow lands, with the pixie blessing you'd be safe and he'd be acrewed
@@eclecticcode Karlach ould grab him and yeeet him there, this little ungrateful MF...(Now I know why there are two levers in wind mill) doesn't deserve anything 🤣 I need to try this in my next run, someone grabbed and yeeted Gortash from shore with this
Been looping this for a minute, never felt so heard by a song.
When he started being an a-hole to Barcus after I rescued him because Barcus asked me to, that's when I knew... F*** Wulbren Bongle.
YUP
i immediately chose the option to call him a prick, my party disapproved but i approved so it doesn't matter
They’ll get over it
@@AmonTheWitch Astarion and Wyll approve at least lol
Never has there been a character I so viscerally hated like Wulbren. Even characters made to be disliked like Araj and Kagha have a small place in my heart and I didn't mind seeing them on screen, but I was ACHING to get Wulbren out of my story. He had the fucking NERVE to tell Barcus he saved HIMSELF when he would've been Balthazar's plaything if it weren't for me and him.
I'm an Astarion simp, and I have more love in my heart for Cazador than I do for this whiny shit.
Hate him more than any actual antagonist
Wait, Araj is meant to be hated? I love that gray beauty
@@aldmerian I don't love Araj but I find her fairly inoffensive. People seem to only hate her cause she views Astarion as a slave. Normally I'd find that opinion repugnant but Astarion is and always has been(even before becoming a spawn) a repugnant piece of shit. In my playthrough I'd let him drink some of my blood after he'd tried to sneak it from me for which I would normally have killed him for, but I needed allies. So that little brat in my mind OWES me a potion by drinking the hot Drow mommy's gross sewer blood for both his prior actions toward others and the multitude he had already committed against me.
What about Loroakan though?
THEY PUT THIS IN AN OFFICIAL LARIAN STUDIOS VIDEO, EVEN LARIAN HATES HIM
Which one??? I need to see that!
Wulbren, Aradin or Mar'hyah (the kennel woman) are the Umbridge category all over again.
Villains like Cazador, Gortash, Orin, Kethric, (or Voldemort in HP) are so abstract and over the top we actually find them interesting and entertaining despite all the horrific acts they commit on a daily basis. We can't fully grasp their villainy as few of us interact daily with tyrants, war criminals, and serial killers.
However, each and every one of us knows that someone who constantly blames others for his own failures (Aradin), justifies being a general douche because he has far-reaching ambitions (Wulbren), or is cruel to animals for no reason (Mar'hyah). Just as Umbridge was universally hated because we all know that someone who's a stickler for rules no matter how dumb or unfair... as long as said rules don't stand in their own way, at which point they become optional.
All those characters are relatable on a personal level, hence why they get all the justifiedly deserved hate.
Well said
Also with Wulbren, someone you care for who's cruel to you
Orin, Gortash and Kethric are also tragic in their own way. Orin was raised by a cult and brainwashed from childhood into a nutcase, Gortash was sold as a slave to a devil as a kid, and Ketheric lost his family. Even Cazador gets the bit where he was also tortured by his master when he was a Spawn. This guy has nothing like that.
for every good (Barcus Wroot) there is its opposite evil (Wulbren Bongle)
Barcus seems stiff at first but once you get to know him you can tell he's just a bit socially awkward, and he's really an incredibly sincere person. Meanwhile Wulbren seems like a cool revolutionary at first but once you get to know him you realize how much of a self-righteous asshole he is.
Also, their names match lol (BW vs WB)
BW and WB stand for "Big Wholesome" and "Whiny Bitch"
Protect Barcus at all costs.
tbh Barcus is a lil bitch too.
"GET! ME! LOOSE!"
MF if you want me to get you down from the windmill, how about you ask nicely?
First playthrough I helped him, second I let him fly, third I just stopped the windmill but let him hang there to be eaten by the crows. Fuck all of the gnomes, really.
BW vs his evil opposite WB...
Larian has acknowledged this, we making it outta Faerun with this one
They did?! Where? I need to see it lmao
@@midnight4685same here, like where?! 😂
I killed Wulbren in my second play through, but it's almost worst because Barcus literally faints from shock, cries, then falls into a deep depression...
Noooo 😭😭
“Ima leave you rotting as a carcus, pissing on your corpse saying this one for Barcus” is cold🔥🔥🔥🥶🥶🥶🥶
😈😈
I'd love to know who at Larian was the mastermind who crafted a character that is more hated than Kethrek, Gortash, AND Orin...COMBINED.
Yessss
Fighting him right after destroying the Steel Watch foundry is like that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indy shoots the swordsman.
Haha love that scene
Me: Gale don't worry we'll find a different way to blow up the elder brain.
Wulbren Bongle: here's a bomb so big that god himself fears it.
me: interesting.
Can we strap him to it first?
@@SpaceBardsI think so
@@SpaceBards just knock him out a throw it together :D
No because it's really that serious 😂 If Wulbren Bongle has no haters, I'm dead
It’s on sight really
I wish my friends were further along in their playthroughs so I could send this gem to them.
Haha well once they get there!
same dude
SAME! I'm currently working on a run with a friend of mine, but he hasn't ever made it out of Act 1 yet. It will be a while before we can get there in our co-op game since we have to work around very different schedules. I need to remember to show him this as soon as it won't spoil things for him.
@@mewmew34 same here! My friend won't play without me so it's going to take her forever to see this and that's just sad
The beat stop at "This one for Barcus" goes hard.
Hahaha yesss
Haven't even finished act two yet, but after I rescued him and the tieflings, I was so mad at how he treated my boy Barcus. This was so needed.
Just wait 😭😭
Congrats, fuck Wulbren Bongle has been considered a masterpiece by Larian studios!
Not only does this go hard but YES, this is how I felt through the whole game!!! I loved that you added the fireworks behind Barcus!
Barcus running up to him being all like “my friend is back!” And Wulbren shits on him. I would have smacked him right then and there but it would have made Barcus too sad (and his happiness is my priority!)
Barcus is an absolute saint 👏
The iron hand isn’t gonna like this. Look out for some rune powder
Already stole their stockpile
The "This ones for Barcus" like had me cheer irl. Dude was such a loyal friend and just got shit on. Wish we could of made him a companion.
I knoww the things he went through 😭
I like to think after Wulbren declares revenge after you side with Barcus and the Gondians, after getting out of the city he trips and falls off a cliff, his last thoughts are him realizing how axtually inept he was at doing anything on his own
Also, declaring revenge on someone who managed to kill someone like Ketheric Torm is a very, very stupid idea from the start.
That’d be nice if he realized the error of his ways at any point
Statistically, there's at least one person who likes Wulbren. And if you're reading this, Barcus, you deserve better.
Keep coming back for this. Gods I hate him
On my first playthrough I did Barcus’ entire quest line. I had honestly forgotten about him up until I found him in the Under Dark and saved the names. I made him stay at my camp and promised to help his friend when I got to Moonrise.
When I finally met and helped Wulbren I thought he was alright but when we got back to Last Light his entire personality changed and he was being a huge d-ck towards Barcus who honestly is the only reason he got saved tbh.
That really didn’t sit right with me. Then the way he was acting towards the Gondians didn’t sit right with me either so seeing this Diss Track warms my heart. Knowing that others ride for my boy Barcus shows humanity still exists 😭😂
We always gonna ride for Barcus!!!
I think its the hypocrisy of Wulbren that makes people angry, wanting everyone to forgive the iron gnomes for their past actions while giving no forgiveness to the gondians, who had their loved ones kidnapped and held hostage.
He also pretty much takes credit for anything and everything everyone else does for him. Including his own rescue.
Calling him a prick was the beat part of the game
So satisfying
I know people don't really tour the anime/gaming convention circuit in the same way that they use to but I am just imagining a Space Bards concert at one with the whole crowd singing along. God I miss the late 2000s to 20-preeteens ere of cons
The Wulbren Bongle experience:
"He seems pretty good."
"He does it all for his people, that's all."
"Oh, he's a TERRORIST."
Just wait for part 4: he’s racist
I have had it with Wulbren ever since I found that document of his deal with the duergar, HE DESERVES NOTHING
Where is it?
@@Red-S-267 unfortunately I don't remember, I even kept it going to act 3 but I can't recall
Wait. He had a deal with the duergar? I never found that. >_< I hated him before knowing that, now I hate him more.
He sucks so bad
After blowing up the steel watch foundry Barcus became the new leader of the Ironhands. Wulbren was exiled and made death threats against Barcus. Wulbren proceeded to stomp off. Karlach legged after him and yeeted that li'l fucker into the Chionthar river. 😜 No one gets away threatening MY Barcus!
In the epilogue there was even a copy of Baldur's Mouth reporting that Wulbren had been killed! 🤭
The best news baldurs gate has gotten in a while
I need to make sure I do this when I get that far. I don't have Karlach throw people nearly enough. XD
Kudos for finding any kind of rhyming scheme for “Bongle” lol
Hahaha it was NOT easy, I cheated a lil
of all the reactions the larian team thought they would get from this game, i don't think they expected this /pos
Lmao probably not
I have never related a song more. Barcus deserves better!
Hes the best 😭
Amen to this brother gonna listen to this all day every day I love you
I'm on my first playthrough and I think I inadvertently left Wulbren Bongle to his fate at Moonrise Towers
You did the right thing ❤
My bard when we come back from the Iron Throne.
Exactly 💪
We need a bardic heroic tale of Barcus Wroot.
I should be able to play this on my instruments
SAYING THIS ONE FOR BARCUS
🙌
I booted up bg3 for the first time in like 6 months and deadass forgot that I straight up had this guy IN MY INVENTORY
This was in the official "thank you" video from Larian- hell yeah
When Orin talks with Durge at the Bhaal's temple the cutscene looks like a rap battle. You guys should make Orin's diss track about Durge.
Hmmmmmmmmm
Bro Barcus taking over was so satisfying
YES
I'm so glad the algorithm led me here, this is magical 😭👌
Haha thank you!!
0:43 the flow here hits so hard
Had to get real rowdy 😈
As soon as I found the side path to Wyrms Crossing I just stopped messing with Ironhands in Act 3. And I choose the Prick option every time.
THIS ONE FOR BARCUS
Your car is gonna have a keg of runepowder under it tomorrow xD
The iron hands have entered the chat
The only reason he lived in my honour playthrough was was because the rune powder bomb clears the top of the brain at the end after blowing up the foundry tho he was fair game
I have played all the Mass Effect and Dragon Age games, and I have not met another NPC I would like to punt more than Wulbrun Bongle.
When I see him it’s on sight
I've been singing this banger for a straight week, HOW DO I MAKE IT STOP
We’ve got a couple other songs that might interest you haha 👀
This is what a Nat 20 on Vicious Mockery looks like
I now have this on loop everytime I talk to ironhand gnomes
It’s their anthem haha
all I know is that when I see him during this playthrough as a monk, Wulbren Bongel is catching these hands. Its on site.
YOOOO This is Epic Rap Battles of History hilarious, the flow is Immaculate! Thank you, this singlehandedly cured my seasonal depression!🤣🤣💕💕👑👑
Haha awesome!! Thank you!!
This one is a must-click every time it comes up on Recommended.
I'm gonna need a mod to play this in the background every time I'm within a certain radius of him.
How dare you make this so good
Haha oops
'You don't deserve the sun and stars' hits so hard.
Mr. Bongle will never recover from this
Gonna have to go into hiding
And yet he wants me solve them 0:18
I hate that a part of me actually respects Wulbren a lot. He can hold up pretty well in the most dire of situations, he's decisive, intelligent and doesn't let anyone walk all over him, which is important for gnomes, but dark gnomes especially.
But then I witnessed his reunion with Barcus and that was the most satisfying use of the word "Prick" ever.
i keep listening to all your baldurs gate songs on repeat. i love Want a Treato so much lmao actual bars. i hope yall make more bg3 related songs cause these are not only funny but really catchy
Thank you so much for that 😭 and yes got A LOT more coming
I've listened to this song at least 5x today
lol awesome, it’s out on Spotify now if you wanna keep listening 😅
@@SpaceBards I've been singing for the last three days exactly what Wulbren Bongle can go do with himself, and nobody else in my life understands 😭
Oh damn I just now noticed the sweat lines on these character models. Nice touch, Larian. Credit where it's due.
Seriously! first time noticing those in grymforge was 🤯
@@SpaceBards Larian put a lot, and I mean A LOT, of detail into their models. Wonder if some characters have subtle scars that healed over time now... Oh gods what about the freckles!? So much I gotta look out for now to see it all.
I can't believe I've run into people who defend Wulbren's actions both against Barcus and against the Gondians.
Hopefully not too many 😳
The thing is, from a purely logical standpoint, he is right. The Gondians could at any point be enslaved again and then build weapons for the next big bad.
The steelwatcher are an absolute terror and are a legit threat. But all of that doesn't excuse him. Sure he is traumatized, sure he wants revenge and sure, he definitly deserves justice. But there is a certain line, that he simply constantly crosses. He is way too evil amd rude.
He cant even properly say thank you. When you finish the entire questline, he attempts a power grab! Basicly, while you can absolutely project noble intentions or a greater goal onto his actions, its rather clear in the end, that all he wants is to be on top. If he got the chance, he would have built these steelwatchers. If he got the chance, he would have assisted the bad guys. He is only against them, because they are against him.
Like, as much as I agree with the defense, that he has suffered severe trauma and lives through a pretty rough time when we meet him, that still wont excuse him fully.
@@Baalslegion07 You have some good points (better than those that I've seen his actual defenders make). But Wulbren is just using the Steel Watch as an excuse - there is a book that lays out the whole Ironhands' deal. Wulbren basically hates the Gondians because he thinks they took credit for some Ironhand inventions ages ago. So really, he just happens to be right on this one occasion regarding the Watchers but has been gunning for Gondian destruction for years.
Thank you for making this, you nailed my feelings on Wulbren perfectly.
Didn’t rescue him. Found him dead behind his cell later. 🤷
Only reason that guy stays alive in my save is so Barcus can stick around and become the new gnome leader. Fucking love Barcus.
In my current playthrough I forgot about him and I am just now realising it was for the best
Yup
been listening to this and coming back to it for quite some time now.. only now noticed that its 8k subscribers and not 8mil.. criminal