Kirby | Unraveled
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- Опубликовано: 1 мар 2020
- Kirby is both incredibly simple and incredibly powerful. Brian David Gilbert doesn't believe that's possible. After months of research, he has unraveled the truth.
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Kibby is an anti-eldritch being, instead of being complex beyond mortal understanding he is the the opposite, so simple it could drive a mortal mad by trying to understand it.
Get on it, Lovecraft, Wahl here just gave you some gold
Nope, he’s not a god, a demon, a eldritch being or anti eldritch being, he’s not a complex, nor is he simple, he’s just a friend.
Call that anti-Lovecraft. Affectionform.
hilariously, that does make this video an exact parallel to a lovecraftian story; instead of going mad and eventually reaching a state of perverse enlightenment from exposure to cosmic horror, Brian goes mad and eventually reaches a state of serene understanding from exposure to this cosmic mundanity.
Weirdly enough this is lore-accurate
We should not have been asking, “What is Kirby?” Instead, we should have accepted, “Kirby is.”
Darkseid is.
hungus bungus but nobody asks “how is kirby?”
Maybe we should be asking "WHY is Kirby?"
Igor Machado why not
A reincarnation of a being that has the ability to destroy worlds
There are exactly two Kirby facts that matter
1) Kirby has enemies who are sad and need friends
2) Kirby is shaped like a friend
I'll allow you to do the math yourself, but Kirby already knows the answer
Oh god...
He's a predator
The only thing they love... Is you.
Eat them
@@frankiecedeno3724sometimes love and eating are similar. The overlap for Kirby is pretty close to 100%
@@Nebafyer_DandDvore?
Kirby is the living equivalent of anything divided by zero
Zero tried to divide him.
@@thomasd3104 And failed.
Twice.
This is interesting as the division of a number by the limit approaching 0 is infinity, and yet the division of a number by 0 is undefined. Not a bad metaphor for Kirby.
@@caolanochearnaigh9804 three, there was also dark zero (the biggest fail of all)
@@untrollquifaitdesblaguessa6922 Never heard of it...
He stared into the abyss, and the abyss said “Poyo”
"HAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"
I was actually taking a drink & missed my mouth laughing at this 😂.
Yessss
The Final Metaphor for Kirby; Calmness.
Kirby is a Metaphor for Calmness; He cares only to eat and sleep, and what he eats is destroyed. Think about the things eaten as intrusive thoughts; Simply vanishing. This is why the Enemies are the eaten things. With Kirby being unable to speak but being a skilled technician, this exemplifies the required immense focus on meditation to bring calmness to mind. Unable to speak, but most definitely getting things done. Kirby having no origin but being able to become anything via copy ability is a representative of how when there is nothing in the mind, everything is equally possible. Kirby’s enemies being cosmic horrors is a metaphor for Intrusive thoughts and Sinful Urges being the largest wall toward true peace of mind; Ever seen a cursed image and haven’t been able to get it out of your head? As for Kirby being shaped like a friend, that is representative of the simple, peaceful demeanor of the final achievement of calm. The subtle happiness setting in as you look into the sunset, like the light shining into the mind when hearing the phrase for the first time. Even Kirby’s infinite power points to calm; With infinite calm, you have infinite focus. Infinite focus gives the power to achieve anything in life. The Simplistic Power balance even points to calm when you think about it. Calm’s power draws from how when the mind is nothing, everything is equally possible. Simple… but unlimited.
@@officersoulknight6321 I think I need more weed to understand half of what you just said, but isn't that the point of Kirby, to not understand? XD
“Kirby only cares about eating and sleeping, and yet, he gains no energy nor pleasure from consuming these things.” Well if that’s not relatable I don’t know what is
kirby has clinical depression
@@memelord9416 maybe he should eat something and get a good night of sleep to get better?
@@memelord9416 like Dark Souls, Kirby is a metaphor for depression
how can you gain no pleasure from eating?
@@viewerawesome When you do it merely as a way to not feel the displeasure of hunger and/or not die. There's definitely days where I have no desire to prepare or eat food and gain no real pleasure from doing so, but I have to because hunger sucks more.
"Kirby doesn't _need_ a dark backstory or logical rationale."
(looks at star allies)
_who's going to break it to him_
Kirby is the abyss that stares back. The void the consumes men. Kirby is hunger, Kirby is content. Kirby is god
No, Sonic is a god, OR COULD KILL GOD
AND I DO NOT CARE IF THERE IS A DIFFERENCE-!
I think in the love Kirby Kirby is actually the god of chaos
Kirby is the abyss that goes Poyo and hugs you, because Kirby is friendshaped.
Comparing Kirby to a god is a massive insult to Kirby.
@@emmanuelvargas296 saying Kirby is something more defeats the essence of Kirby. Kirby is just a round pink and simple creature named Kirby, thats it really
Reminder that whilst creating this he was also in the process of reading every Halo book. He filmed Half of this video then went home and read a YA book about cyborg teenagers that was tangentially related to Halo to clear his mind
I assume you meant teenagers, but I really love the idea of cyborg tanagers, which are a kind of songbird.
@@LemonGrinder ohh my
hi 3rd reply
@ReallyBurntToast, Hornet is void.
@Merraine the books...
Kirby: *is infant form of a void god*
Brian: WHAT ARE YOU?!
Kirby: Poyo!
Dunno why but almost choked on this one
@@Lightforeverandever in case you didn't know, he really is (implied, at least, to be) an infant form of a void god by official kirby lore
@@Lightforeverandever yeah, Kirby is the positive reincarnation of the divine eldritch entity Void
@@Lightforeverandever My guy, that's basically the canon
I love your avatar my man! robSneakyMouse
For those wondering, Kirby was named taht after John Kirby, a lawyer who won a lawsuit where Warner Bros. sued Nintendo by saing that Donkey Kong was ripped of of King Kong. You might find this sweet, but in actuality, this is devastating, because we could have had Kirby just be named John.
Maybe that is the case
John Kirby II
Universal not WB
9:16 Brian says this in this video.
DougDoug reference at the end?
The reason those cosmic horrors fear Kirby is the same reason you fear him. They do not understand him. They can't. Kirby is an existence beyond comprehension who could erase the entirety of reality, and yet he chooses to live a simple life.
Ah, yes. The seven deadly sins: wrath, greed, lust, gluttony, sloth, envy, and capitalism.
you said greed twice
@@harperreese264 damn
While also saying wrath twice (of you need an explanation just ask).
Capitalism is 7 sins' Voltron.
@@harperreese264 that is very clever, I had to do a double-take ngl
So it's not "BDG Unravels Kirby", it's just "BDG Unravels"?
"Kirby Unravels BDG"
@@stephenkelly7263 everything causes BDG to unravel
BDG unravels; kirby
Its two seprate statements
@@Mothmaam 'Unraveled' isn't relative to BDG unraveling the deep lore. It's BDG unraveling himself in the process.
@@pullingguard1212 BDG Unravels; the way home
*"Kirby isn't meant to be understood, he just is."* --Winston Chruchill, Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The things kirby swallows are not technically "gone," they just go into a pocket universe inside of kirby.
It's implied he lets them back out like in Smash Bros, or they just re-materialize somewhere. He's swallowed Bandana Waddle Dee, before, and here he is many games later as the second playable character in Forgotten Land-not to mention King Dedede. I personally imagine it being like when Strange moved Loki into the falling dimension for half an hour to put him in cosmic timeout while he dealt with Thor.
Rimuru from "That Time I was Reincarnated as a Slime" & Kirby are basically the same entity.
@@ZijnShayatanica no
@@ZijnShayatanica except Kirby is actually a fun character
The novels support that argument- whenever Kirby is done with someone’s copy ability, he simply lets them out.
while kirby has low emotional intelligence, i wouldn’t say he has none at all. in kirby super star (and its remake) he fights dyna blade, a giant armored bird who has been destroying crops on dreamland. but after he defeats her, he finds a nest with chicks, and realizes she wasn’t destroying crops, and was in fact just trying to feed her babies. to make up for this, he takes care of the chicks while dyna blade recovers, bringing her babies apples to eat and teaching them to fly. by the time she’s well again, her babies are full fledged birds, and they fly away together into the sunset while kirby watches them go and waves goodbye.
kirby not only understands right from wrong, but he is also capable of empathy. he deviates from his normal life of fulfilling his basic needs, sleep and consumption, probably for quite a while, for the sake of others, specifically to help someone he wronged. and he went beyond the bare minimum. he didn’t just make sure the chicks survive until dyna blade was better, he became a surrogate mother to them, making sure their wellbeing and development didn’t suffer as a result of his actions.
kirby isn’t just shaped like a friend. somewhere in that bottomless pit of a gullet of his is a moral code that he lives his simplistic life by.
More than that, i believe kirby isa proponent or a way of life called Egotistical Altruism. in short, it's helping other because it will benefit YOU, YOU get to reap the spoils of their success, alongside them, of course. in Spring Breeze, Dedede stole all the food from a nearby town, and kirby goes and essentially returns everything. Why? well, because its food he can eat, but also because if the villagers are well fed, they produce more food, which means they can make luxury foods, like strawberry Shortcakes, which kirby canonicaly loves (see Squeak Squad).
in Dyna Blade, it's beneficial for kirby in the long run to PERSONALLY take care of the dynalings, because they get imprinted onto him, which means he gets to have a defence weapon against Meta Knight, which he ends up destroying the Halberd because of one of the Dina Chicks, (see Dynablade and The Revenge of Meta Knight). Milky Way Wishes is a doozy.
MWW basically boils down to "Kirby needs for the sun and moon to stop fighting so they stop interrupting the beautiful weather in which kirby sleeps, either day or night, but if the sun and moon are figthing, they are disturbing the day/night cycle, making it very hard to sleep for him." until Nova is revealed and Marx is the villian, and the situation got personal. kirby isnt going to stay there and get slapped in the face by marx, he needs to get his revenge against this douchebag.
The FACT that all this is also very beneficial to everybody is pure coincidence. Kirby is only looking out for No.1, however, he also needs to take care of who basicaly sustain his way of life, so in order to get a confortable life, kirby goes against any and all things that may posses any form of threat to the people of Dreamland
Aww. This is so good and nice and lovely. He's not unknowable; he's a person, and the study of people (psychology) is one of those fields wherein we can understand basically nothing of relevance (because it's both horribly old and brand spanking new).
@@Omegaweaponsguy2 I think youre over analizing. Kirby is extremely simplistic by nature, childlike if you will. Children are sometimes selfish, spoiled or sometimes mean but thats due to ignorance. Kirby lives his life to enjoy. Kirby also enjoy's his friends and doesnt like when people do bad things. He doesnt save people for gain, he does it because 'bad man doing bad things makes people sad and that makes me sad'.
@@tomasfong40 imagine telling an Unraveled commenter that they're overanalyzing something
Omegaweaponsguy2 By this logic, everyone is a selfish asshole.
Alternate title: watch a grown man get utterly destroyed by the mere idea of kirby
Dost thou meaneth: Brian Unraveled?
Man loses sanity while proliferating over the concept of vore baby
that is what cosmic horror is about yes
Unraveled Brian coming up with "the bookman's bluff" idea is even funnier when you remember that BDG is a creative writing major
Knowing that Jenna and Pat were behind the cameras makes me wonder even more how BDG ever could possibly manage to get a good take without laughing
Wait, was this whole episode Brian coming to terms with the fact that "it just be like that sometimes"
it really do be like that sometimes
Character development!
Kirby: you want it to be one way.
Brian: what?
Kirby: you want it to be one way.
Brian: stop saying that.
Kirby: you want it to be one way...
...but it’s the other way.
I swear this episode is a metaphor for the meaning of life...
"People don't think it be like it be, but it do" -T Pain
I love the implications of the "how do I get outside??" like they just sort of keep Brian in a room and let him get his video game screaming out, then they send Jenna in every once in a while to check on him like a zookeeper. BDG is just in a tank somewhere knowing a whole bunch of weird info like Abe Sapien.
Ellie Yee Time stamp please
@@werewolftapus7630 That's gonna be 8:06
Thanks
he's been stuck in that room since this show began, and polygon finally got a good series due to starving BDG
It reminds me of Kyle Hill when he was Because Science in his void
“I’m going to find Kirby.”
“Ok. Good luck, buddy.”
Supportive friendship/coworkership at its finest
he already found kirby.... he was within his workplace all along
I love how Brian never once actually mentions any of the important lore like Kirby being one of the many reincarnations of a god
The more I see this series, the more I realize "Unraveled" doesn't quite refer to the exploration of various video game topics as much as it refers to the unravelling of Brian David Gilbert's sanity as a person.
You sure he’s even a person?
Aydenbet he’s a cute little round guy
oqihouqiop HE’S KIRBY
Literally just had that same thought haha
I'm glad someone finally pointed out the wordplay
This whole Unraveled was just an excuse for BDG to demonstrate his ability to cry on cue so that Nintendo picks him up for that psychological drama Waluigi movie
Psychological drama WALUIGI MOVIE?
@@mentlegen3887 you missed a video
The waluigi video is one of my favorites
@@jester3272 Ooo nice pfp
Also it’s hard to decide for me between the sonic vid and the waluigi vid
The fact that Kirby, a 8-inch tall kickball, regularly tackles with cosmic horrors is probably the greatest running gag of all time.
Kirby is made out of the same thing of the cosmic horror villains, but encarnated into pure friendship and happiness.
He's literally the god of friendship
Kirby is a metaphor for both the innocence and infinite potential of children.
Not gonna lie that is actually a pretty reasonable metaphor,
Truth
mood
But do cosmic horrors consider children their ennemies ?
@@Questos93 Depends on the horror.
Unraveled season 3 is literally just Brian going through a mid life crisis where he realises games and real life aren't the same
is this really season 3 or just a bonus episode?
Understandable
Hollow 1 it’s season 3 from what we know
Mid-life? Excuse you???
And the season ends with BDG UNRAVELS BDG
I always assumed that Kirby was simply the primitive young version of a cosmic horror. I also assumed that there was another dimension that was holding all the things Kirby ate, and when it got to universe size he would ascend to his next form
kirby IS the next form:)
Kirby represents the guileless, yet utterly boundless imagination of children. It’s so simple, yet so complex. The genuine, bright, vivid and innocent things that go on in the heads of children, untampered by the darkness and iniquity of the world. Such simplicity and purity, yet it is quite conversely juxtaposed to infinite power to which the entire world bends. Those are, unequivocally and indisputably, qualities Kirby shares with the mind of a child. Quite fitting, given he’s from a game that was made for children.
@KingdomHearts
How to preserve the light? How to resist the darkness? Children. Xehanort was never going to succeed. His enemy was a cosmic horror he could never anticipate: Sora, an ever regressing child who forgets why he should be afraid. His friends protect him from the unknown so he can fulfill his role as "the one who connects". Everything connects to him because he sees no reason why it shouldn't.
“How do I get outside?” -Brian, August 2019
Proof that Brian has been trapped in that room for years, with only a printer and changing bottles of nail polish.
Jessica L
“how do I get outside?”- me April 2020 wondering when I’ll be able to casually walk around outside again
and a trimmer
and proof that his apartment is also part of this room
Don't forget the three cameras!
@@jessejackrabbit7021 and we still can’t... yay
Everyone asks “What is Kirby”
But no one asks “How is Kirby”...
There is no need, as Kirby always defaults to his original state of mind...
Which is nothing.
Why is Kirby?
Erin McGraw When is Kirby...
MORGANA I JUST WANT TO MAKE COFFEE GO THE FUCK AWAY
Hungry.
This video is my favorite thing that Polygon has ever done, hands down, no argument. I never get tired of it. The spiel about the cosmic horrors, ending with the phrase "a barely living kickball" kills me every time.
The part where he points out Marx as an enemy of capitalism sends me to tears every time.
Kirby is the positive incarnation of an elder god. The final boss of every kirby game is made of hatred and anger, and kirby is the opposite, made entirely of positive energy.
He's literally a god
Except for that one Kirby game where the final boss was just an onion from outer space who liked puzzle games
@@thomasd3104sometimes it be like that though
The thing about Kirby is, you know how every action has an equal and opposite reaction? Well, Kirby is the equalizer when it comes to all cosmic horrors. If there's a sliding bar for cosmic beings, you can take it all the way to the "evil" side and get something like Void Termina or Yog-Sothoth, but if you take that same slider the same distance in the "good" direction, you'll get Kirby. He's basically the thing that sets the limit for just how much destruction an eldritch abomination is allowed to cause before the universe says "that's enough." You can't make sense of him 'cause he's just as incomprehensible as the otherworldly beings that he fights, as he is of the same nature.
Whereas Cthulhu is maddeningly hideous to gaze upon because he's chaos and evil incarnate, Kirby is disarmingly adorable because he's happiness and innocence incarnate. Whereas Azathoth is so complex and bizarre that simply looking at him will shatter your mind, Kirby is as simple as he can be in appearance. Where as the myriad Elder Evils from beyond the void plot and scheme grand designs that play out over millenia, Kirby doesn't plan or want much, just to eat, sleep and enjoy life, not troubling himself with anything too complicated.
It's two sides of the same coin. Two polar opposites. We're just so used to one extreme that when we see the other we don't recognize it for what it is. Kirby represents hope in a universe that would otherwise be hopeless, and joy in a universe that would otherwise be miserable. Simplicity in a universe full of complexity and stress. He's a lesson that reminds us that if we take the time to appreciate the little things, then maybe even the scariest things we worry about might not seem so scary anymore.
Either that or he's.... You know, just a little pink placeholder sprite that got way too popular by mistake...
Kirby’s role in nature is as the perfect foil to anything. Any time anything gets too powerful, Kirby exists as the exact opposite.
Yes.
-I, yeah I get that.
Kirby as a lovecraft style god. Oh goodness I didn't expect to see that. Thank you.
My man just wrote an essay on cotton candy
Life hack: don’t have the same name as Kirby or it’ll sound like he’s talking about you the whole time
😂 how did it feel
@@vincentngo9186 Like he was insulting me every time
@Bring Back the Angry Birds Stella Series
If i'm as powerful as he claims he should be
@Bring Back the Angry Birds Stella Series
Why thank you
@@purple4149 Oooh I heard they chose a harsh sounding name to go against the cute appearance
Kirby is Nintendo's SCP-999. A blob of pure goodness with no ulterior intentions or motives, who stops evil with kindness and brings happiness to those around him.
it's implied in Kirby star allies that Kirby is the opposite of dark matter, where dark matter is a being born of negative emotions, kirby is one born of positive emotions. both are born from the entity known as void.
This was the weirdest Bernie Sanders ad campaign yet
I am once again asking you to inhale the rich
I am again asking for your understanding of Kirby
I don't get it.
Tom Hill part of the point lol
Adam Zahavi You’re right. He’s a communist
“Kirby is a metaphor for capitalism!”
I’m going to bed.
Jack Bacarra yeah it’s a good thing
He said that metaphor was shit 2 minutes later.
I think he was just making a joke. I try not to assume every time someone mentioned it they are making a political statement. Then again maybe I'm just naive.
But it’s noon?
(Also, he eventually discounts the idea that Kirby is capitalism.)
Maybe it's communism
16:11 The worst part is that according to the trailer for Kirby and the Forgotten Land, the beginning of the game is the literal foil for this scene.
The developers at Hal Laboratories are some sly rascals and I LOVE it.
"Did he go insane?"
"Yes, sir."
"Excellent. Release the trailer."
"This can only be accomplished by gifted tweens grappling with psycho-sexual ennui" Has to be the most under-rated line of all time XD
I really love Jenna's response to "I'm gonna find Kirby" is just "Goodluck buddy" like Brian does this every other tuesday
Honestly, having watched all of Unravelled, that would not surprise me.
Embodies captalism, shaped like a friend, circles, eternal. Kirby is Disney.
But Infinite power... wait that checks out
@@alancollins8294 Disney can LITTERALY take ANY character if they pay enough money
exactly. *shaped like* a friend, not exactly a friend _per se_
"Kirby is a metaphor for man's hubris"
Well Brian, hit the nail on the head quite hard there
I love how every single time skip comes with a new hairstyle and he fucking rocks all of them
"Communicates only using grunts and body movement. Even toddlers are more communicative."
I give you...the hero of Hyrule.
Hiyaa!
*distant HYAAA noises*
I now need a crossover with kirby and link where they bond over their communication ;P
Also.... Pokemon's first protagonjst
Gordon freeman and Chell: ...
Kirby both is a god and can kill god and bdg desperately cares that there is a difference.
Really? In the Sonic one he said "EITHER SONIC IS GOD OR COULD KILL GOD AND I DON'T CARE IF THERE IS A DIFFERENCE!"
@@kenwes5820 that's the joke, son
Frost Whisker tbh it’s less of a joke and more of a reference.
@@orbsorbs8465 little bit of both but yeah
@@FrostWhisker Oh! You were trying to make a joke... Good effort.
Brian: I fear no man but that.......thing.....
Kirby: poyo
Brian: *it scares me.*
You referring to Kirby as a "barely-living kickball" just gets me.
Unraveled is such an addictive series but I feel like we are being protected from the raw chaos it excudes by a limited upload.
Alena S. I require no protection, unfiltered madness is welcome, GIVE ME YOUR INSANITY YOU COWARDS!!!
Sanity is overrated.
Agreed
FEED ME YOUR INSANITY POLYGON!!! DO YOUR WORSTTTT I BEGGGG AGHHHHHHH
cc: not a masochist I swear
@@risky_busine55 How many times must our pride make us stumble. Oh the hubris. I. too. might once have ruled. but stupidly beguiled by power and pride. misused my strength-I acted wantonly
are none of us gonna talk about how when her friend legitimately said he wants to find kirby, jenna just goes “ok, good luck”...... *what a homie*
you can tell she was trying not to laugh.
@@KazLordOfLightWarriors Can you though?
Timestamp?
@@TheLazyGeniuses
13:45
@@Max-gy5rp thanks brother
I love this video because it can be explained because "It is a children's character and this applies to like all of them because children like power", but the "first you draw a circle" quote drives him to insanity
If you think about it. Sleeping and eating whenever he wants with no care of others and the danger around him is apex
Good for him that he didn't saw the "Kirby is a benevolent reincarnation of an elder god" implication in Star Allies.
I’m sorry what
@@manoumanou2859 basically, Theres this Thing called void, and its basically an non-concious creator god, and every time it Hits a positive or negative Emotion, it creates a mini-god. Kirby was created by a very strong positive Emotion, and void Termina, the Games Boss, was created by a strong negative one. Thats why His Heart(the Bubble Thing you Fight while inside His Body) kinda Looks like kirby
@@leobastian_ you wanna know where that overwhelming swell of negative energy? Genocide yes genocide maybe
@@manoumanou2859 what have you done
@@leobastian_ " an non-concious creator god" why is this the most realistic way to imagine "god" that I read until now? xd
Actually, there is information on Kirby's origin:
Kirby is implied to be made of the same thing as Void in Kirby Star Allies, the ultimate personification of evil in the Kirby universe (Zero, 02, all of the Dark/Dark Matter bosses except for one, and every form of Void (Void Termina, Void Soul, and Void) are incarnations of Void). However, while Void Termina is made up of evil emotions, Kirby is made up of kindness and love. That's how he is so strong. He is literally pure good.
Also, if Kirby was summoned by the same process as Void, that means that Kirby was summoned by a cult ritual involving collecting pure good hearts as a sacrifice.
I mean saying he is a cosmic horror( like void) keeps his species and origin just as vage as it could be a new species or litteraly just a cluster of sentient energy that isn't a species but is in reality a mere concept that wanders the cosmos and plagues or bless the space time
Imagine being in the edge of Destruction, the end of the world, and a lot of pure good hearth people standing for one last try at saving everything, then they perform the ritual sacrificing their lives in order to summon this being, not Knowing the future. Their souls creating Kirby.
THIS IS A COMEDY VIDEO. Jeez
Kirby isn’t pure good. It’s more that anybody who disrupts his routine is the enemy, and it’s just a coincidence that most of the beings who do that are pure evil.
OH SHI
One could never create this dialectic between Kirby’s power and what he is without succumbing to madness
i love how every single unraveled follows just 3 things and everything else is just pure madness:
1. general overanalyzing of an interesting topic
2. descent into madness, overexaggerating, and comedy
3. punchline
and its always hilarious
It's all in the song.
"First you draw a circle." A line wrapped around a Central point. Ending where it began. Alpha meets Omega. Infinite length constrained to two dimensions. Infinite potential housed within the finite construct of reality. Yet nothing can contain the infinite and so "nothing" it must be. And so the shape of it, a circle, rhymes with zero, null, nothing, another circle. o
"Then you dot the eyes." It sees. It knows. It observes. But what can observe other than a mind? So a mind it must contain. A soul. A subjective experience. A person. A life.
"Add a great big smile" Joy, beauty, happiness, love, excitement. Unconditional acceptance. Its point of view and its understanding of everything. The very nature that transforms an empty shape of infinity from circle to friend.
"And presto! It's Kirby!"
Presto, it's Kirby.
Your wonderful friend who loves you just the way you are.
but he has no feelings...how can he be a friend
why did this make me tear up a bit chhdhjddj
i'm cry
dRaW a CiRcLe ThAt"S tHe EaRtH
+
"This can only be accomplished by gifted teens with psycho-sexual ennui." This may be the best line on Unraveled history.
Lost my shit at that line.
Soren omedatou!
It’s also the best summary of Evangelion and FranXX of all time
Get in the yarn outline of a mech, Kirby.
@@mr.stuffdoer8483 Franxx is a highschool drama disguised as mecha fights though.
Or is Kirby just a metaphor for the friends we made along the way
Kirby is a kid! He's total potential personified, that's why he seems like everything and nothing at once.
“I am become Kirby” - A man who has lost his mind 2020
“i am become Kirby... The destroyer of worlds”
@Yassir I am become Kirby, eater of matter
What is kirby tho?
Game theory: He's a single cell organism
BDG: He's the meaning of life
Sakurai: brUh, I dunno
Meteorz: He actually has an origin story.
RPG Monger: The squid is right, ask the director.
Shinya Kumazaki: I wrote it, not the other guy who woke up in a crop circle one night.
100% an amoeba
@@Nicole-pt4bx 100% to kirby is still nothing
I think Kirby is a amoeba
Kirby represents the destructive force of human ignorance, YOUR WELCOME.
Simplicity and power are not at all mutually exclusive. The most powerful things are usually the simplest. And yes, eating when you're hungry and sleeping when you're tired sounds exactly like an apex predator.
"Let me give you Kirby's Origin story. *Shows an empty board.*" Well someone didn't read the lore
So there was this thing called void-
This came out before the void lore
Kirby is the number zero. He is everything and nothing at the same time, his mouth divides the world into his endless stomach and the endless outside universe. Also, the shape. Think about it Brian
You are zero
**coughs in void**
and 0 is the number of my friends, so it is also shaped like a friend!! This guy got it.
Qkey 01 woolieversus quote.
@@sectraaaaaa Do I sense a Hollow Knight refrence IN A THEORY VIDEO. Last time that didnt end well and this time it shan't
i love how after 3+ years of living in nature brian still has nail polish on.
_what a legend._
...I like your PFP. MCR is my favorite band. (I know that's just Gerard from the Hesitant Alien, but... I like MCR)
hehe 69 likes, n i c e
He fab
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869 nice
I like how quickly the topic of Kirby turned into quantum physics. Nothing and everything at the same time
I like idea of kirby being an all knowing being but since he has no need for more knowledge he just lives for pleasure. He doesnt need to speak because he know what everyone will say. He harbers no ill will towards his enemys as he knows they will never be able to beat him. He has advanced so far past everyone he reverts back to the most basic pleasures.
“This sounds like the lowest form of life, someone who is stuck on the base of Maslow hierarchy of needs. He wakes up, eats his caloric intake for the day, and falls asleep watching the Great British bake off” ....I am Kirby
that just sounds like depression. IS KIRBY DEPRESSION?! assimilates traits of others instead of forging his own identity, only knows to eat and sleep, fears nothing. WAKE UP AMERICA
Can you punch a planet in half?
Cristina Does that mean I live with Kirby?! Aw shit I should get an autograph.
Isn't that a song??
Same tho, I felt so called out at that point.
Kirby’s enemies are cosmic horrors because he himself is a cosmic horror, he has simply forgotten about it. The same way that mortals go mad when the true nature of cosmic horrors are revealed to them, Kirby’s mind has eroded from knowing all there ever was to know. He is now incapable of much language, or emotional intelligence, or higher thought. But his body still remembers. His friend shape used to draw people in for him to unleash his endless power, and now these things exist without reason, for he himself has forgotten why. The other cosmic horrors still see him as an enemy to keep him in check in case he one day awakens again. For he used to rule them all.
To add to this, the Second phase of Void Termina's battle has Kirby's face, and if Void Termina had not been stopped, it would have destroyed ( or eaten) the worlds. Do not anger him or he will feast on your soul, while smiling with joy.
@@Fragmentsinfractals488 Also there is the fact that the pause screen for Astral Birth Void confirms that Kirby is a form of Void.
Kirby is Tom Bombadil
Kirby is more like a cosmic friend if anything
Brasstail Except they’re also the same cosmic horror, a different incarnation of the same one, he’s just the only one that’s “friendly” and by extension opposed to the chaotic, malicious powers that seek to destroy him
Petition for Brian to make a continuation of this video now that we know a little more about him, yknow with void astral birth, and other stuff
Kirby is the physical manifestation of good feelings isn't he?
This man: Extremely in-depth, detailed analysis with evidence
Also this man: “If anime is to be believed- and *I believe anime-”*
He missed the part that say that Kirby IS A REINCARNATED GOD
He has the power of god and anime at his side
@@akiradkcn C E A S E
@@finn596 does that means sonic killed Kirby?
@@Ankzar13 No suprisingly, the god that Kirby came from never actually died (until Kirby killed it)
"Are we gonna ride on the train to coney island like this?"
"Yea maybe"
His yea maybe was so soft and baby I literally cannot stop thinking about it
you know, they used to sleep on the beach at coney island. they don't sleep on the beach anymore though.
s Godspeed You! Brian David Gilbert
@@noelle4600 BDG is best boi
The Diddy Kong captions:
"JETPACK??????"
"WHO BUILT IT?"
"I HATE HIS LITTLE DUMB HAT SO MUCH"
"GUN?"
"WHO LET MONKEY HAVE GUN?"
"PUT SOME SHOES ON YA PERVERT"
16:10 Predicted the new kirby games opening PERFECTLY
Alternative title: "Man tries to understand an eldritch cosmic god, almost loses his sanity in the process"
Isn't the lost of sanity what happens everytime someone tries to understand an eldrich horror?
@@ondry8780 it also happens when you try to understand how their buildings work.
@@JamesCPotter13 yes and no, most cosmic horrors has the ability to make you go insane by observing them, of course you have to witness them or at the very minimum have an incomplete understanding of them, since the incomplete understanding does not mesh well with once understandings of reality and without fully understanding the cosmic entity You go insane by trying to figure it out almost like attempting to solve a puzzle despite the fact you are missing pieces and continuing to do so knowing you are missing a piece
In hindsight it’s Kinda funny that Kirby is only 8 inches tall...
When You Gain Too Much Insight
kirby is the actual epitome of chaotic good. he has the power to destroy LITERALLY anything and everything in existence and he chooses friendship
That would be neutral good - power doesn't necessarily mean chaos
@@Cosmolovescheese maybe i shouldve mentioned his chaotic traits more, for example he went on a rampage and accidentally unleashed a god of evil because someone stole a slice of cake. he almost never considers the consequences of his actions and causes a ton of HUGE problems by accident as a result. this could be chaotic neutral i guess since he only ever does this stuff by accident, but when he is able to see and understand that something is evil, he will ALWAYS do whatever it takes to stop it, and always succeeds because of his immense power. hes definitely good by nature because when he isnt angry and acting based on emotions and impulses hes always able to see the good in people, as shown by the fact that hes friendly with king dedede despite the conflict between them which is usually caused by a misunderstanding or by some outside force
@@putriscool there's a level of debate that can be made if Kirby is chaotic good or neutral good and also really stupid
@@putriscool I just read that ALL out loud.
@@putriscool I still can’t consider Kirby chaotic good/neutral. I mean first off as a chaotic neutral person, sure we do things of our own desires but we are capable of both good and evil. I’m general we do not care about what’s good or what’s evil, we could do either or depending on how we are feeling. Kirby in the other hand does not do evil. He accidentally causes bad things to happen due to his desires but what about the times he didn’t? He still does good. He still springs straight into action no matter the circumstances and he never would ever purposely do anything bad. Naivety does not equate to chaotic. Freedom is the ideal we strive for. Kirby doesn’t want to be free, he’s just chill. Kirby would very well obey the law strictly if there were any. Something that goes against chaotic neutral beliefs
As for chaotic good, they have similar desires of freedom. They do good but typically goes the abstract way of it. Such as not following the law. In general chaotic is simply doing why they want and disregard anything else. Kirby sticks to the path of righteousness no matter the situation and even if he accidentally unleashed something evil because he wanted to eat, that by no means make someone chaotic. A lawful good person could pull out an an ancient sword said to be capable of destroying evil and accidentally releases said evil. That doesn’t make them any less lawful good. Accidents happen, and Kirby surely wouldn’t be interested in eating if he was aware that it would unleash evil
Yknow I feel that "completely absorbs everything eaten" doesn't mean "obliterates it" nor "gets no enjoyment from it". It simply means that kirby uses every single bit of the food with 100% efficiency, and no by-products
Kirby is canonically the culmination of pure positive energy
Is it just me or is Unraveled getting more and more existential these days
Can't wait for Unraveled | Unraveled
the last episode will be so existential that the world explodes
I can’t wait for the diddy Kong video
You must be new to bdg. Everything he makes becomes existential.
I guess Doug Bowser didn’t like his proposition enough to hire him so here he is... back at the wire
Is this a joke from another vid or for real?
The Waluigi Unraveled video
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The reason Kirby is so powerful is because he is literally the reincarnation of a god, Kirby lore is wild.
Kirby is a metaphor for loving sleds obviously
Unraveled is like an Avant-garde, mature version of Game Theory.
I think it's more a Post-modernist game theory, IMO.
One that at least doesn’t pretend to be right most of the time
@@jayharyu927 hate to say it, i think youre missing the point of game theory
Natelu-Sama I sure hope I am at this point
I have a theory that Kirby is a metaphor for a child's imagination, with no ill will and the ability to make anything it is both simple and powerful.
Edit: Also children are very impressionable in the sense they copy whatever they see or hear going on around them. Guys I think I'm onto something.
WHOA
that's a good one.
You may be onto something
The ability to both make anything and destroy anything
You solved what he couldnt do in several months in a couple minutes
After all these years I am still keeping Brian's papers and push pins safe. One day, he will return
Kirby is not a created being, he is the Elder God of Natural Destruction. That's why he just eats, sleeps, and destroys. He has no backstory because he's always existed. His godly powers allow him to steal the powers of whomever or whatever he consumes, after which he can choose whether to release or destroy his victims. He only releases in Smash Bros. because he's fighting in a sanctioned tournament with rules (albeit, loose ones.) This also explains why most of his enemies are Cosmic Horrors, they're newer gods of destruction challenging him.
I'm so glad they opened with a date for filming so that we aren't confused about the canon of BDG's mustache.
100%...I mean I was wondering if we were going to get a jump cut and then realised it was all about the 'tash
And we did get a jump cut! lol
You went through an entire character arc during this episode.
That’s every episode really
The true hero’s journey
And then undid it all at the end.
Człowiek toż to człowiek
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“How can this sentient garbage bag accomplish so much?”
Jeez, made me burst into laughter lol
0:07 kirby *video ends*
The various descriptions of Kirby in this video are all gold.
"Pink puffball"
"This vacuous pastel marshmallow"
"A barely living kickball"
"A circle"
"This sentient garbage bag"
"This dumb fucking orb"
"This dipshit sphere"
"The rosy nightmare"
"A wheel"
*"A METAPHOR FOR CAPITALISM"* wait no hold on...
"This horrifying bolus"
"This bulbous boy"
"An extremely strong circle"
I like how they get more and more terrifying and mean
“This dumb fucking orb” made me cry
Loved em all
My favorite is barely living kickball
Robin Baduce same 😂
Or, simpler:
Kirby has achieved ultimate power, and has nothing left to aspire to.
So, instead of working towards that which is beneath him, he lives happily in the moment only taking what he needs to survive and defend those he loves.
A hero we can aspire to.
I'm here before you find the theories that paint Kirby _as_ the cosmic horror
Living a shit life when having everything?
That's not something i aspire
@@gravitygas3891 he is a cosmic horror but rather than conquering, he lives happily in the moment, doing anything that gives him joy. he doesn't feel hungry or tired but he eats and sleep because that was the closest thing he's had left that resembles his once mortal life. he does things simply because he could
@@usagi2934 The cosmic horrors that are his enemies are terrified of him themselves. They know it is too much power for one to command, and they want it for themselves.
BDG pin this comment challenge
is nobody going to talk about how unironically amazing that monologue at the end was?
This series is magnificent and I'm sad to discover that it is already over