What is Choo-Choo Charles? The Story Explained

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  • Choo Choo Charles is a horror game about a demonic train out for blood. But is there more to the story then just that? Let's take a closer look at what is really going on here.
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    Navigate an open-world island in an old train, upgrade it over time, and use it to fight an evil spider train named Charles.
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  • @AGamingBeaver
    @AGamingBeaver  Год назад +2079

    Does this game even have a Lore to begin with? I have no Idea but that's not going to stop me from speculating!

    • @aedanwilson1043
      @aedanwilson1043 Год назад +15

      Didn't it just get released

    • @muhammadkundi3872
      @muhammadkundi3872 Год назад +17

      If there's any other game like this, I would love to see you play it as it was really fun watching you play Choo Choo Charles

    • @Oord76
      @Oord76 Год назад +8

      Can you please play red dead redemption 2?

    • @your.local..weirdo3203
      @your.local..weirdo3203 Год назад +4

      Actually I had the excuse same theory well sorta I’m not sure if it has a lore but I still have theory’s that’s kinda just what my brain does it makes me think and find clues for things

    • @mistymae10
      @mistymae10 Год назад +6

      What if the blue egg is Thomas
      And that means Charles is the father of
      The trains in the series

  • @Krypto1201
    @Krypto1201 Год назад +2489

    I have so much respect for the dev. Dude delivered a pretty decent game on a time crunch, AFTER literally forgetting to work on it😂

    • @AlwaysChasingStorms
      @AlwaysChasingStorms Год назад +82

      Wait what. Did he actually forget?

    • @debonreepdas2265
      @debonreepdas2265 Год назад +126

      @@AlwaysChasingStorms yep

    • @BigAl2-u7e
      @BigAl2-u7e Год назад +184

      That just sounds like every big video game company ever. Except the pretty decent game part.

    • @AlwaysChasingStorms
      @AlwaysChasingStorms Год назад +46

      @@BigAl2-u7e *cough cough* EA definitely not looking at you.

    • @kyzersoze8408
      @kyzersoze8408 Год назад +82

      @@AlwaysChasingStorms EA makes decent games when they don't meddle with devs (which they haven't done as of late.) It's their monetization practices which are trash (again to be fair part of the blame also lies on us for that).

  • @therjschannel904
    @therjschannel904 Год назад +1298

    I actually really dig Charles’ (implied ) backstory. Most indie horror games would pull the “this abomination from hell used to be human but then was experimented on and is now a demented monster” trope, except here.
    Charles was never human. Just something discovered by humans. It took over the body of an engine, probably for extra protection and now terrorizes the island. I love it

  • @cade_sfm5117
    @cade_sfm5117 Год назад +4109

    The fact that James went from doing theories on a game about a dystopian world filled with cannibalism and body horrors to a game about a monster hunter gunning down a LITERAL SPIDER TRAIN, is pretty hilarious.

  • @harveyanimations8974
    @harveyanimations8974 Год назад +352

    The idea of the Spider using the train as a shell is actually pretty cool, and sounds extremely logical. Well, logical for this universe. But wouldn’t the searing hot boiler inside the train hurt the spider when it crawled inside?

    • @Silvertardis
      @Silvertardis Год назад +46

      Perhaps it wasn't in use at the time.

    • @noisyphilosopherkrk522
      @noisyphilosopherkrk522 Год назад +68

      It's possible that there is no boiler
      That smoke is from the spider itself
      Its internal body could be filled with heat and smoke organ of sorts......
      Or it's from real deep in the earth as in touching the stone is like touching a heated stovetop hot
      If it's from that deep it wouldn't be too surprising if it was clever enough to try blending in by making itself look like a train but not clever enough to realize that trains lived on tracks nor did they have legs
      Also assuming the island was named for one of its native fungal species
      It would lend credence to the idea of it either living near superheated locations or being such
      What better way of making sure no fungus takes root than frigging boiling it alive

    • @IHaveBeenDoingTaxFraud
      @IHaveBeenDoingTaxFraud Год назад +22

      @@noisyphilosopherkrk522 its not smoke organs from what i could tell as that is extremely illogical, but i think its because the spider is instead making another gas that produces heat to warm itself up as metal is a good conductor and cools down rapidly

    • @sarafontanini7051
      @sarafontanini7051 Год назад +37

      i mean its pretty clear charles is supernatural aside from being a giant spider. Like what happens when you sacrifice the eggs in the temple? he TRANSFORMS and gains the power to TELEPORT. These are not qualities of a mere overly large spider.

    • @elijahrock9319
      @elijahrock9319 Год назад +11

      I think that sense Charles came to become basically a train what if one of the eggs had like a fracture in them and the owner of the train left it behind inside the train so Charles had to live off small species's while running back to the train until be became gigantic and couldn't fit in the train than stopped eating broke the train sides with his gigantic thiccccccc legs no homo and he started eating humans so he gotten bigger and couldn't get out of the train so now he takes the form of a train and the smoke is probably coming from those tiny lol hairs on his back inside the train because if he's a giga spider from hell he has to at least have fire abilitys so he probably used them on his back burn the tiny hairs on his back to cause smoke and hears the thing what if the eggs hatched all at once what if the baby Charles had web and fire abilitys basically like ghost rider mix with spiderman which fire that could form around the webs and they pull you off and rebirth Charles when they all get together

  • @TheSandwhichman108
    @TheSandwhichman108 Год назад +808

    Something interesting is initially the developer wanted the game to be more simple where you goal was to sacrifice people to Charles by kidnapping them and tying them down to a track for them to get run over by Charles to appease him. Then over the course of development it became what it is now. But who knows maybe that game idea could work as a sequel or spin off story.

    • @tatasinho0507
      @tatasinho0507 Год назад +84

      there could be a spinoff where you played as a charles member guy doing that

    • @khiiron4002
      @khiiron4002 Год назад +45

      @@tatasinho0507 no more like a prequel,with that idea and more lore since he's a worker there'd be more stuff to learn

    • @lindahamilton2996
      @lindahamilton2996 Год назад +18

      I can confirm that the “ crazies “ are a train cult

    • @Michael-eg3rs
      @Michael-eg3rs Год назад +17

      imagine that was still happening in the game. There'd be a random encounter where you can stop your train and release someone. Or don't and just run em over.

    • @AnimeFan4Life2022x
      @AnimeFan4Life2022x Год назад +2

      How about Charles origin/birth in the minds with this story ? But things go even more wrong this is where all the other characters come in

  • @thepatrolmangaming5649
    @thepatrolmangaming5649 Год назад +27

    I also like the fact of the lore of Charles’s is based on how he made the model. If you watched his behind the scenes, he explained how he made Charles was he got a free spider asset and put it inside a train he had already made, fun little nod to that

  • @sheriffbutterball7824
    @sheriffbutterball7824 Год назад +615

    I like how all the NPC’s run away and hide whenever Charles is around. Really adds to the commitment.

    • @MaskedButcher7
      @MaskedButcher7 Год назад +35

      Yeah, I'm glad they not like Skyrim NPC where Dragon is around and they just like don't care

  • @meh9122
    @meh9122 Год назад +121

    Fun fact in this game there is a letter about :"gus the bus" in this letter it states that Charles fears gus the bus meaning gus the bus is likely a predator to Charles and considering Charles is a spider gus the bus would most likely be a predator to spiders. There are 2 creatures that make sense for gus the bus, another spider as spiders eat spiders but in opinion its too boring but it's a possibility.
    The second creature is a centipede as irl centipedes eat spiders so gus the bus could be a centipede which I could see happening
    Edit
    A 3rd creature could be a snake as in the game there's a note saying spider vs snakes or something like that so gus the bus could be a snake which makes a lot of sense

    • @Limbambo
      @Limbambo Год назад +7

      But who is the mysterious character called “chat”

    • @meh9122
      @meh9122 Год назад +3

      @@Limbambo what do you mean?

    • @Limbambo
      @Limbambo Год назад +13

      @@meh9122 the mysterious character named chat was the one who left the letter talking about the danger of gus the bus

    • @meh9122
      @meh9122 Год назад +4

      @@Limbambo oh well there's not much but we could have another cult or perhaps someone else maybe someone like uegene but for gus the bus

    • @Urb4nN0rd
      @Urb4nN0rd Год назад +10

      The Snake mention was from the church sermon note, naming Charles as a spawn of hell, but a spider not a snake/the Serpent.

  • @sufyansayyad1045
    @sufyansayyad1045 Год назад +653

    I really like your one-off videos where you play a random indie game like this. Always really fun to watch.

  • @Meowertog
    @Meowertog Год назад +31

    Theory: The eggs aren't from Choo Choo Charles. The eggs are from Gus the Bus, as there is a note talking about him, and in the church a note says "Snake VS. Spider (spiders have more legs usually)" as Gus might be a snake bus, and snakes lay eggs. Spiders also lay them, but they look different then the eggs in the game, Charles probably protects the eggs because he fears Gus and he believes Gus will come if the eggs are destroyed.

    • @plantainsame2049
      @plantainsame2049 Год назад +4

      I'm certain that gus the bus is a reference probably to the actual talking school bus thing google it

  • @theastonvillaseal585
    @theastonvillaseal585 Год назад +15

    Beautifully orchestrated video. I used to watch your park builder/world video all the time for years. Cheers for being such a massive part of my childhood beaver, and I’m glad to see you’re going strong! Interesting to see this take on a modern horror in the making.

  • @Dictator_Monke_Alt
    @Dictator_Monke_Alt Год назад +734

    This would mean that it would be possible to kill all those giga spiders with basic modern weaponry, because they don't have the train shell that charles did. There could be a sequel if the creator decides to make one, or instead the ending could just be left for us to wonder.

    • @csmrookie9600
      @csmrookie9600 Год назад +125

      Wait, does this mean they work kinda like hermit crabs then? What if they get their hands on hollowed out boulders to fit themselves inside then?

    • @sian8322
      @sian8322 Год назад +18

      Didn't the creator barely make this game

    • @Christopher15096
      @Christopher15096 Год назад +130

      Remember, they don’t just need trains, if they can find the right opening, they could be in tanks or cars, and remember there are a lot of trains left on the map after the chaos, I’m sure most of them will pick up the trains.

    • @gojigiante
      @gojigiante Год назад +64

      He got impaled by sharp wooden spears, even if there were millions of them, they wouldn’t stand a chance against a military such as the US or China.

    • @Christopher15096
      @Christopher15096 Год назад +87

      @@gojigiante well it’s a bit more complex, steel spike, thrown into the air and fell right through the middle, hit in weak spot, and don’t forget that this thing was taking rocket launchers to the face like it was nothing, millions of them probably take out most of us.

  • @Orionuki
    @Orionuki Год назад +17

    I thought the drawings were official art or concept art. So much props to the artist he did an amazing job!!!

  • @cesarperez1835
    @cesarperez1835 Год назад +206

    My personal theory of why Warren warned that killing Charles would make things worse goes a little bit into the supernatural side. Essentially, Charles' eggs cannot hatch as long as it is alive. Think of it as a supernatural clause that says the offspring cannot spawn until the parent(s) are dead. However, there is no clause about how many eggs can be laid, or of how many will hatch once the parent(s) are no more. Warren figured this out and thus forbode the people from trying to kill Charles, bc as long as it is alive, there is only one monster in the world, and it's one that can be scared away and doesn't seem to be able to get into people's houses. Now that Charles is dead, the eggs will hatch, and now there are gonna be potentially thousands of similar predators on the island. And if they manage to find a way to choo-choo in a boat, well...

    • @ARCHIVED9610
      @ARCHIVED9610 Год назад +25

      😭im giggling so hard at imagining little baby spider trains riding on a boat im so sorry some would be looking over the edge while others scurried about waiting

    • @tomnovy3476
      @tomnovy3476 Год назад +10

      "choo choo in a boat" got me-

    • @Pablo16188
      @Pablo16188 Год назад

      Imagine a goddamn tug boat with the most retarded grin

    • @beartheconfused6798
      @beartheconfused6798 Год назад +11

      Probably would sound more like…
      *HONK-HONK* Charles

    • @_aWiseMan
      @_aWiseMan Год назад +1

      That may be what the gus the bus thing is.... maybe the spiders grow to the size of the shell they are in. So the bigger the vehicle or maybe even a house is. The bigger the spider.

  • @RegalRoyalWasTaken
    @RegalRoyalWasTaken Год назад +21

    It's interesting how, if you think about it, Charles isn't really evil in a traditional sense.
    He has a disturbing face likely meant to scare off potential predators or rivals. He only attacks the miners when they trespass on his nest and start stealing his eggs. He comes to associate humans with the egg thieves and probably develops a hatred for them as a result, kinda like how animals abused by humans can become hostile towards or distrustful of them(especially since they shot at Charles and injured him). He's not a demon; just a very large spider-like creature protecting his young, and probably looking for the stolen eggs(hence why he's wandering the surface). He can gain power from the eggs, yes, but they were sought as a power source; I imagine that's just something that can happen to things affected by that energy. He probably commits to a fight to the death because he's fucking *furious* that the eggs were lost, and he's killing the people responsible. Tl;dr, he's so blinded by anger that he throws caution to the wind.
    He's certainly territorial, but at the end of the day... he's no more a monster than the people who tried to exploit him. He would have been no threat at all if he'd just... been left alone.

    • @TragicJade
      @TragicJade Год назад +1

      Exactly

    • @errortrossity
      @errortrossity Год назад +8

      I entirely agree, he's not evil, I doubt he even has morals close to what humans experience, he's not a good guy turned evil from a "tragic backstory" he's just an animal, and I love how the devs made it that way.

  • @retronimus
    @retronimus Год назад +193

    One thing to note is, spiders don't have three segments, they only have two.
    The cephalothorax, that is a thorax merged with the head (Thorax is the middle segment of usual insects), and the Abdomen, the back segment of most bugs. Their legs are located under this cephalothorax.
    Based on the ancient tablet appearance of the monster, and appearance of Choo Choo Charles itself, they can't be classified as a spider. Since they appear to have 3 segments.

    • @Lukas-or3jv
      @Lukas-or3jv Год назад

      Sounds like a pissed off ant

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Год назад +75

      I doubt ancient tribes had time to get an accurate look at him, they were too busy trying not to die

    • @Rentennial3123
      @Rentennial3123 Год назад +32

      Another thing I want to point out is that the spider in the tablet has really well defined chelicerae, unlike what we see on Charles so I'm kinda skeptical if that spider is actually Charles.

    • @Lukas-or3jv
      @Lukas-or3jv Год назад +23

      @@Rentennial3123 or just a really pissed off ant

    • @retronimus
      @retronimus Год назад +19

      @@Lukas-or3jv An 8 -legged one at that.

  • @lone1316
    @lone1316 Год назад +7

    I personally believe Charles IS Theodore's old train. The one in the junk yard is far too rusty, in my opinion, to only have only at since Charles escaped. The note that mentions Theodore and Eddie delivered supplies, and Eugene says one operator was killed so you will use his train. Theodore is alive so you use Eddie's train, which looks to be in the same condition, as far as rust, as Charles. This makes me believe they had to be used around the same timeframe, which makes me think Charles is the train Theodore used while Eddie used the one you get.

  • @randomizer701
    @randomizer701 Год назад +277

    WOW. I didn't expect such a well-written and interesting lore video from the guy who thought the eggs were gold 😂😂. In all seriousness though, this video kept me hooked until the very end, AMAZING job on this one James!

    • @Darin_Tomlinson
      @Darin_Tomlinson Год назад +7

      Watch his Little Nightmares videos if you liked this.

  • @Snakeinatophat
    @Snakeinatophat Год назад +3

    "Aranearum" is probably not the fungus, considering that the word "Aranearum" is actually Latin for "Spider". Then again, it could be referencing both the fungus and the Latin word.

  • @Nagisa_Kobayashi
    @Nagisa_Kobayashi Год назад +125

    I was just so interested in the biology of Charles, like how his organs work with the train body, if the doors can open, how the babies will look like when they hatch and other stuff

    • @I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad
      @I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad Год назад +24

      To be honest, the Ancient Tablet is telling us it's just a giant ass Spider that evolve over the years to have train exoskeleton.

    • @PeachJaguar7597
      @PeachJaguar7597 Год назад +5

      Totally! It would be crazy cool if it was a real animal. It would be kind of like a crab, where it used all sort of things as a shell or exoskeleton. What if it used an actual larger dead animal as an exoskeleton? It sound gross, but that would be so amazing

    • @olivarnogueira6231
      @olivarnogueira6231 Год назад +3

      @@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad well it clearly isn't just a giant spider because of the ending, it can teleport, grow and more

    • @I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad
      @I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad Год назад +4

      @@olivarnogueira6231 Clearly you don't know how these creatures works, at all.
      The Eggs is what give it power, it literally said it in the game.
      a Mortal Fight as they calls it.

    • @olivarnogueira6231
      @olivarnogueira6231 Год назад +2

      @@I_Dont_Believe_In_SaladYeah good point. But still there is stuff that doesn't make sense like how the whistle can still work, even tho the engine is aparently not working. There is some kind of some coming out of the whistles as well.

  • @dma1176
    @dma1176 Год назад +3

    I love when James does these type of lore videos❤️

  • @middlechildmadnessanimations
    @middlechildmadnessanimations Год назад +181

    I like the fact that James did a theory video . he explained the lore but he also but his own funny effects and spin on it, tbh this video is great and I would live to see more of it! :D

  • @ameyjohnson8342
    @ameyjohnson8342 Год назад +4

    Who knew that he was a great storyteller!. even if it’s not true and this is all something that’s kind of pieced together, this is like the best choo-choo Charles lore I’ve ever heard from someone.😮

  • @Spinex33
    @Spinex33 Год назад +211

    All I know is that Thomas the train used to be different back in the good old days.

  • @coulsonintahiti
    @coulsonintahiti Год назад +1

    Silent Hill music plus demonic train lore . . . Beaver is literally becoming an anime

  • @mystic.aep0
    @mystic.aep0 Год назад +89

    The lore behind Choo Choo Charles can probably extend so far beyond our imagination, like lore that could even tell us the backstory and how the chaos even begun or we could see what happens to the island after we defeat Charles and see the EGGS! I'm so excited to see how far this game can go. Also I'm very interested to see Beaver dig deeper and explore this game even more.
    EDIT NOTE: I found this video so funny, keep posting I love your videos.

  • @formerfofcastudent7470
    @formerfofcastudent7470 Год назад +7

    I personally think the cavern of eggs after the ending happened before the events of the main game, as this was likely the same cavern that held the eggs they spent months harvesting energy from.

    • @TragicJade
      @TragicJade Год назад

      Yeah, and that egg hatching is infact Charles. Since its red and all that...

  • @pyreneesgal5823
    @pyreneesgal5823 Год назад +61

    The notes/timeline were placed around so randomly when you’re trying to read through everything/visit all the spots they’re at, so thank you so much for going in and actually piecing together a possible timeline/narrative of what happened in the mines that day! It was getting pretty confusing at times 😭

  • @KrishnaSingh-fw9nf
    @KrishnaSingh-fw9nf Год назад +1

    I watched James when I was younger, now I've returned, finding this content more interesting. He still hilarious, love ya man!

  • @stripeythefilmmaker3255
    @stripeythefilmmaker3255 Год назад +125

    I like how Beaver is wondering if those people are worshipers or not and that the masks are all of the incarnations of how Charles design went through while on the creator of the games channel, Two Star, on one of his behind the scenes videos, shows the designs Charles was being considered to have and confirms that the people who are protecting the eggs are cultists

  • @ScrimblzX3
    @ScrimblzX3 Год назад +3

    6:14
    What are ye doin in mah swamp

  • @godzillaminusonehype
    @godzillaminusonehype Год назад +94

    Love how James included drawings in his theory, hope this becomes a trend

    • @Allosaurids
      @Allosaurids Год назад +8

      I’m fully confident it become a trend as it adds the aesthetic

    • @kylesimone6140
      @kylesimone6140 Год назад +6

      oh i thought that was official art XD

    • @linkdancer3890
      @linkdancer3890 Год назад +1

      @@kylesimone6140 same

  • @AllExistence
    @AllExistence Год назад +2

    Considering Charles is magical and the train he wears sorta works, in more inclined to believe he simply possessed instead of crawling inside.

  • @DieselD7101
    @DieselD7101 Год назад +101

    I love how this game’s less than a week old, and there’s already hundreds of people making videos about it. Whether that be a walkthroughs, videos explaining the EXTREMELY complicated plot and lore, or people literally making life-size replicas of Charles!

  • @JaggedBird
    @JaggedBird Год назад

    "GEIT SUM HEADSHOTS!"
    classic line and great advice

  • @Frydee123
    @Frydee123 Год назад +8

    I think they should make a movie with this theme. A giant spider taking control of a mining train and terrorizing the residents of the island, before being ultimately killed. The scene with the eggs shaking would be a perfect ending

  • @PhazonOmega
    @PhazonOmega Год назад +1

    The editing, music, and jokes were perfect, lol

  • @skorpioartz9267
    @skorpioartz9267 Год назад +34

    I think they were successful in killing the original spider in the mines. Because why would it take months for Charles to retaliate? And wouldn't Warren and the miners notice the giant spider crawling into a train? I think they successfully killed the parent spider in the cave in. However whole everybody was diatractes by their loss, one of the eggs the miners were transporting hatched. Since it still had a soft body, the baby spider (Charles) crawled into the first home it could find for safety; which happened to be a train. Spiders do like hiding in dark dry places where their predators cannot reach them, which does include vehicles. As months passed, Charles laid dormant and fed off the radiation from the other eggs the miners were transporting to the temple. Charles grew and grew until it was strong enough to hunt on its own. Then the opportunity arrived where Warren was destroying some of the last found eggs and Charles "hatched" from the train exoskeleton to absorb direct energy from the eggs amd reach full adulthood.
    My strongest piece of evidence would be the egg at the end of the game preparing to hatch. It was only started to hatch AFTER Charles had died. It could be an evolutionary way to avoid overpopulation. Because the island should have already been crawling with them long ago. And the ancient tablet depicts a group of people fighting just one giant spider.

    • @ernestcheung3696
      @ernestcheung3696 Год назад +4

      Like Mothra for u people

    • @skorpioartz9267
      @skorpioartz9267 Год назад +1

      @@ernestcheung3696 I was actually thinking of Pennywise 🎈🎈🎈

  • @GeorgeTheDinoGuy
    @GeorgeTheDinoGuy Год назад +4

    This is a really great video, you’ve put all the hints of lore together to build a very interesting story.

  • @panckakepanda3999
    @panckakepanda3999 Год назад +36

    Bro I love your theory and lore videos so much! I have rewatched your little nightmares videos so many times and remember the first time you uploaded one. Love you and your content man.

  • @mystery5083
    @mystery5083 Год назад +2

    Fun fact this theory of Charles is also related to reality since spiders molt so they can upgrade or neither grow to extend and they have this outer skeleton called an "Exo-skeleton" it certently protects the inner body of the spider to protect itself like Charles to what he did to trains changing each by each or its because he is out growing in them just like real life spider and if your don't know what molting means its a process of a spider growing or crawling out of its exoskeleton and it usually wait for a bit for the fangs and body to harden so it can go back and hunt preys just like Charles but in a different way
    Thank you so much for reading this!
    Hopefully this answers your questions why Charles looks like spiders!

  • @israsolas474
    @israsolas474 Год назад +18

    Not just the fungus makes sense
    But the spider's analogy
    When choo choo Charles absorbed the energy of the eggs,he became stronger
    Because spiders when they're born they try to eat each other that explains why Charles protect the eggs
    As a last ditch resort, Charles uses the eggs energy to grow

    • @ruffruggednraw
      @ruffruggednraw Год назад

      That’s why Charles is so ironic, unlike most mascot horror games, he’s the monster who actually like a monster not a victim, he wasn’t experimented on or created to life by humans souls, just some evil power hungry creature that loves to terrorize his own victims

  • @TheMasterDan10
    @TheMasterDan10 Год назад +1

    It’s interesting to see how in the beginning of the game, Charles looks like he is smiling, but then if you pause at the end where you see his face while Charles is in the air, it almost looks like he is crying. The faces are very different.

  • @kaibamps5328
    @kaibamps5328 Год назад +31

    This lore of Choo Choo Charles is insane. I really believe the theory of Charles taking over a train cart. This thing.. Is horrifying. I love your lore and keep up the CCC lore please!

  • @arlfiftyfourtd8132
    @arlfiftyfourtd8132 Год назад +1

    Honestly, I thought that the eggs contained a parasite and Charles' egg chose one of Warren's trains as some kind of host. But the theory of charles being a spider by defult sounds great aswell

  • @aeyelashbug6311
    @aeyelashbug6311 Год назад +37

    I had a slightly different thought too. Maybe Charles wasn't there when they found the cavern, but as they started using the eggs for power one of them hatched, and that was Charles. So then it would have been the eggs the player put into the triangle that caused the other egg in the ending to start hatching

  • @_Umbral
    @_Umbral Год назад +1

    10:50 i like that you can see the train getting puffed out as the spider seems to grow bigger

  • @webbydestiny6544
    @webbydestiny6544 Год назад +22

    I love your lore vids and this one was amazing, especially the hand drawn pictures.

  • @supertigress9124
    @supertigress9124 8 месяцев назад

    Really like how the NPCs all run away and hide whenever Charles is around. Really adds to the story. You definitely did a really awesome job explaining everything in the game, Beaver.

  • @SutoRaikuTheRealOne
    @SutoRaikuTheRealOne Год назад +15

    Ngl it's quite refreshing to see Beaver do non dinosaur related content XD. Not that I'm sick of them (I'll always love them) but it's nice to see that Beaver is open to talking about other stuffs for his channel and people still enjoy it

  • @lightcontainmentzone
    @lightcontainmentzone Год назад +2

    With that theory about Charles using a train as armour; in the scene where you put the final egg into the prism, and Charles' legs become more jagged and larger, we see the boiler of the train begin to change shape and warp as though being dented from withing by Charles transforming. Just thought that was something cool that provided evidence for this theory.

  • @TsukiNaito1
    @TsukiNaito1 Год назад +14

    I didn't expect this game to be as fun to watch as it was. When I saw the title, I laughed cause I thought it would be something stupid, but I actually got invested in the story.

  • @DroGhost1
    @DroGhost1 5 месяцев назад +1

    Pickle lady is the best thing in the game lmao😂😂

  • @CorruptedPixels1954
    @CorruptedPixels1954 Год назад +13

    More of these please, listening to you narrate things like this is amazing and I love it!

  • @NAH96371
    @NAH96371 Год назад +4

    You're almost right, basically the reason warren said "you don't kno what you're doing trespasser, i suggest you to kneel down(forgot what he said.)" it isnt from the notes from the people in the island, it's because he knows it's dangerous, the reason he went on the island is because there is something. that can cause human extinction, which shows why he tried to stop the player. And the notes were old, made from a dead man that lived in an island, the reason why his workers wore masks is because it protects them. charles originally wasnt in a train, he had a spider form. the reason he was able to enter the train and possese is because of himself. he's like a parasite that will control any insect but a spider that controls trains. how is he that powerful when charles absorbs the energy? It's because of his species. In the past, his real ancestor was like a dinosaur but a spider. For the reason why he becomes powerful is from the eggs, the eggs use life-energy. charles absorb them and gains powers.

  • @pringlewings537
    @pringlewings537 Год назад +8

    its nice to see you try something new, James. When I was younger, I was a huge fan of your isle videos, but eventually grew away from them. Always kept coming back to your old videos every now and again, but this is nice. Please pursue this is you enjoy it

  • @leonielson7138
    @leonielson7138 Год назад +1

    "What is the purpose ... of a rubber duck?"
    - Arthur Weasley

  • @croc_moat2327
    @croc_moat2327 Год назад +8

    I literally thought the same thing the same moment that I saw Charles's design for the first time months ago that it's basically like a spider monster using a train carcas that it found on a scrapyard behind the Kratos looking dude's house as a protective shell

  • @Hgfpgltndpcok
    @Hgfpgltndpcok Год назад +2

    i got a small theory about the egg suddenly hatching.
    some spiders die before they get to see their children and then the newborn spiders come out and eat their dead mother, maybe the spiders in the eggs can sense when charles dies and start hatching to start eating their mother.

  • @hypsi8787
    @hypsi8787 Год назад +15

    I love your lore videos they always give me something to think about for the next days

  • @bonanaiscool3387
    @bonanaiscool3387 Год назад +1

    btw there's a secret note in the game 8-bit Ryan found about some "Gus The Bus" thing probably gonna be in the DLC or something, the note also says that Gus The Bus isn't on the same island as choo choo Charles, sounds interesting.

  • @relmofvoid8646
    @relmofvoid8646 Год назад +12

    I hope we get more content like this in the future I love hearing your lore videos and theories on what could be story plots behind games like this and ones you've done previously like little nightmares. makes for great content I can sit down and watch/listen to while eating popcorn or dinner.

  • @someidiotIiguess
    @someidiotIiguess Год назад +3

    I have a theory of how Charles became a train. An egg rolled out into a train (just like how our train looks) the yellow train could become like Charles if another chapter is released.

  • @Bambi_Sapphic
    @Bambi_Sapphic Год назад +18

    For a channel I'm subbed to purely for my son to watch your Dino content, this was a genuinely well produced and cohesive lore theory video

  • @georgeprice3797
    @georgeprice3797 Год назад +2

    My theory about the duck is that the duck was hatched from the yellow eggs and will be the next villan. But that's just a theory, A GAME THEORY!

  • @zarius7089
    @zarius7089 Год назад +18

    The meticulosity in this video is just staggering, honestly James you presented such an analytical Theory and breakdown of the story it makes us feel as if we are inside the realm of Charles. Your content never seizes to disappoint keep up your work and dedication to us ❤️💪

  • @Out-Pizza-The-Hut
    @Out-Pizza-The-Hut Год назад +1

    The Charles hiding in a train thing might be a reference to the sues canal crab creepy-pasta

  • @vishalraj8071
    @vishalraj8071 Год назад +33

    I feel like the eggs hatch when they come in contact with the open air or oxygen that's why there's only one giant spider . Charles' egg was discovered long ago and then Warren heard of it and that's when the 3 other eggs were discovered . The first people to discover the eggs probably closed off the cave after Charles hatched and decided to close off the cave . But Warren didn't think to do that and that lead to some air getting in , leading to that one egg at the end shaking .
    Edit : actually from what I saw in Greg's note , the cave they found was a completely different one from the one we see at the end. They were apparently able to destroy all the eggs there except the last 3. So the hole in the ceiling of that cave must have been caused by something else .

    • @testerwulf3357
      @testerwulf3357 Год назад +4

      Problem with this...the 3 we destroy have been exposed to air for months yet showed no signs of hatching? If they hatch when exposed to air you'd think the other 3 would of. There's also air in caves, they aren't just devoid of air (they're not a vacuum).

    • @vishalraj8071
      @vishalraj8071 Год назад +4

      @@testerwulf3357 I meant oxygen . If the eggs absorb all the oxygen in the cave it will eventually run out . And we don't know how long it takes for the eggs to hatch . We also don't know when the post credit scene takes place . In case you didn't notice ,the one egg that was hatching was seemingly underneath a giant whole in the ceiling which probably connected to the surface and probably let more oxygen come to that one egg which is why it was the only one hatching at the time (of course the others would probably hatch eventually as well )

  • @StormS4bre
    @StormS4bre Год назад +1

    This video is spooky and funny at 11:57 it was the funniest

  • @evodolka
    @evodolka Год назад +15

    seriously, your horror game lore videos are very good, it's a shame there isn't more of these

  •  Год назад

    This is such a great video man, +1 sub

  • @WorldWeave
    @WorldWeave Год назад +13

    For being a primarily dinosaur-based channel…I think I enjoy his horror based content the most

  • @robertwilliams570
    @robertwilliams570 Год назад +2

    I love the imagination behind Choo choo Charles. Never would have imagined

  • @SpecklesTeeV
    @SpecklesTeeV Год назад +9

    James missed out one thing in this game. He didn’t predict the spider energy eggs being… kinder eggs!

  • @siennacontiello1540
    @siennacontiello1540 Год назад +2

    Are we not gonna mention there being a note when you first get to the island?
    Ryan found a note mentioning "Gus the Bus", and how Charles is afraid of it.
    In the start of the game where Eugene is in a phonebooth, we didn't see a bus.
    but we did see one of those London-esque Trolley's.

  • @devinitalkyon
    @devinitalkyon Год назад +22

    Great video man. Now I'm wondering considering what we learned about Charles that maybe Gus the Bus (yes that's an actually thing mentioned in a note in the game) is the next version of Charles. Or some other horrible monster that is similar but not the same. After all, Even Charles is afraid of Gus.

    • @greasycheese8095
      @greasycheese8095 Год назад +1

      Can you tell me where the note is at?

    • @testerwulf3357
      @testerwulf3357 Год назад +2

      I'm sure it's likely just a joke reference. Gus the bus is a real thing, and it actually has really sad origins that I feel would be a bit immoral to corrupt

    • @cringeworthy6512
      @cringeworthy6512 Год назад +2

      I wonder if Gus the Bus is also some type of creature that crawled inside a vehicle, perhaps a centipede or scorpion? Something that hunts spiders presumably.

  • @fihusoundbooth
    @fihusoundbooth Год назад +3

    i don't think charles's face was that distorted to begin with but rather started to form that way from only eating raw human flesh

  • @Coco_saur
    @Coco_saur Год назад +5

    it has been a really long time since you did videos like this. is great to see another one after so long :D

  • @heleneschlee248
    @heleneschlee248 Год назад +1

    Theory: The "Crazes" (dk if spelled right.) and the other 2 monsters are humans, but since Warren uses these eggs to take life essence out of them, he probably uses that energy to actually making his old workers to half-monsters (and full monsters), so He can take over the world. And Charles is the hero, who describes us as intruders and everyone else on the Island. He is trying to protect the eggs and stop Warren from using them to make more people out of it. And when He died, the eggs will "get mad" and hatch.

  • @devilbowser253
    @devilbowser253 Год назад +7

    i hope we get to see more of this world, it has so much potential

  • @yinethcohen9004
    @yinethcohen9004 Год назад +1

    In the end of the story, choo-choo Charles was killed, but I think choo-choo Charles crawled out of his shell😮

  • @zainreborn2
    @zainreborn2 Год назад +5

    Haven't seen a video like this since Little Nightmares II, and I loved those theory vids, so glad to see something similar

  • @moodifrooti1999
    @moodifrooti1999 Год назад +2

    My guess Charles the train was chasing a human and got stuck in a train, in an effort to get out it stretched its legs and now wear the train as a shell because its stuck, Charles the train spider isnt a guy, its a a grandma spider, and all those eggs are its children ready to hatch, since the spider is pretty old cause its seen in an ancient textbook, those eggs must have been there for a long time and now are ready to hatch to get stuck in more trains.

  • @rumuelnathanael8043
    @rumuelnathanael8043 Год назад +6

    Those illustrations could be used as the official in-game cutscenes it's too good!

  • @DeeZeeX
    @DeeZeeX Год назад

    The illustrations were awesome !
    The video too ! ^^

  • @austinsorenson253
    @austinsorenson253 Год назад +15

    I wonder if Matpat will find this video if so he might confirm this and hopefully the dev can also send some more light on the lore of Charles.

  • @swampboyblack5628
    @swampboyblack5628 Год назад +1

    This man is better than game theory😊

  • @theanomalyfactory2649
    @theanomalyfactory2649 Год назад +4

    omg finally someone covering the actual lore of Choo Choo Charles

  • @dalainawillis507
    @dalainawillis507 Год назад +1

    0:08 that song brings back memories

  • @supergladiat0r789
    @supergladiat0r789 Год назад +21

    Gonna throw a theory I have into the ring. It mostly connects with this theory though
    All three of the people who hold the keys to the egg mines have a part of the story.
    These eggs will (obviously) hatch into baby Charles Spiders if not destroyed. When they are being destroyed, Charles seems to take the energy from the destroyed eggs so he can more easily kill the egg thieves (similar to how some animals with good parental insights will hunt down anything that hurt/killed/ stole their babies until the thief or the mother dies...kind of like the Velociraptor and Protoceratops fossil that everyone knows about). And like what was suggested, Charles will commit to a mortal battle to attempt to enact revenge on you, the egg destroyer. Because this time, Charles actually has a reason to keep fighting
    Also, I had just realized that Charles is like the Dominion Giga. They were both just defending their territory and died by getting impaled

  • @meribarecentes6255
    @meribarecentes6255 Год назад +2

    Actually, in one of Two Star's vids, he mentioned that the crazies/cultists sacrifice people to Charles so they wont get attacked and surprisingly, it worked

  • @baxterwilson9757
    @baxterwilson9757 Год назад +6

    Let's say your theory about the "crazy" people and there masks that means that Charles acts like a pack of wolfs so if all of those eggs hatch that means they won't attack each other but work together.

  • @Choomba78
    @Choomba78 Год назад +1

    I love Charles. He's such a silly choo choo train.

  • @filippohl9097
    @filippohl9097 Год назад +26

    Gus the Bus is the natural enemy of the Charles species if we compare the two Charles is considered slow compared to Gus and Gus is suggested to be bigger and smarter luring prey inside the bus body and then killing them the note suggests this and gives us a reason Charles doesnt just go to mainland its because Gus lurks there after all why go get killed by a bigger badder monster when you can just stay on an island in the middle of nowhere where your natural enemy cant find you

  • @thelethalcreator2077
    @thelethalcreator2077 Год назад +1

    Personally, I think you're spot on, why else would he be part of a train? I think it's like you said, he's using it as a shell, as protection.
    Which makes me wonder, what if Thomas the Tank Engine and the others are all like Charles? Some kind of creatures inside trains who have been captured, had their legs cut off, and were forced to work as trains and other things? Or what if they're some kind of government experiment, similar to Shed 17 and Project G-1?
    What if Choo Choo Charles tells us something about Thomas the Tan Engine we didn't know up until now?

  • @a_dreamer8612
    @a_dreamer8612 Год назад +6

    Now I kinda want to see Beaver cover the metro games and the mystery surrounding the dark ones

  • @justakiwi6844
    @justakiwi6844 Год назад

    Always enjoy a good ol beaver Theory video, can’t believe I late to watch it

  • @reaper2604
    @reaper2604 Год назад +6

    Yes! Another beaver lore video! Very well made, just the right mix of creepy serious lore and the classic beaver edits

  • @red_red_moon
    @red_red_moon Год назад +2

    Theory: there can be only one Charles
    So that one egg is the only one shaking at the end, and that one egg stands out from the rest, well what if Charles laid those eggs to basically gain infinite life, when Charles dies at the end, the egg starts to hatch, which means if you keep getting reborn, you can't die, so those eggs can only become Charles once the current Charles dies.