0:00 Intro 1:18 COG Characters 26:01 Stranded Characters 29:36 Locust Leadership 35:46 Thank you for watching Have a go at ranking the characters below yourself, hope you enjoyed the video! tiermaker.com/list/video-games/ranking-gears-of-war-characters-by-king-abz-15216354/3284564
I've always like to think that coles personality is to keep the morale of his squad mates up. Like he knows how horrible the war is and the effect it has so he tries to offset it.
Anthony Carmine is my all-time favorite. Looks and voice, all I need to like a character in MP. But extremely good points you made; setting aside the “Carmine Family”, can’t reload, died early, minimal voice lines. I agree with his placement.
Jace was technically introduced in Gears of War 2, but it was pretty vague, he was one of the Alpha Squad members to touchdown into the locust tunnels. Marcus radios him telling him good luck.
Michael Barrick fan here! Love him as a character and his backstory. Former Stranded turned Hardened COG Gear during Operation Lifeboat. The cigar smoking, locust hating tough guy is the epitome of badass. His hardened exterior hides a soft inside who truly cares for people and will do anything to save the people he cares about (including laying down his own life.) Which is precisely what he did for Marcus and Delta in Montevado. Gotta love the tough guys! So glad he was included in your S+ tier. He definitely deserves it.
Personally, I disagree. 5 didn't do anything bad with him, he just shows up and doesn't do much other than call on the radio to tell you about the evil stuff he did during the Pendulum War and be part of the "badass grandpas" in the finale. Though I did enjoy him showing up and his dialogue, his VA is always a pleasure to listen to.
as a Clayton fanboy i can understand why you placed him a little lower. and im agree with you Clayton need more writing there. that's why i wish TC making the spinoff/DLC about Carmines and Clayton as a main playable character. and if it happen i really hope i getting to see his 2nd brother that not yet revealed.
I think it's just because how each are portrayed in the story as Ben has much more character development but Clayton is still extremely bad ass and my personal favorite looking character of all time.
It's funny how in the games, Bernie gets C tier, but in the books she'd be at least an S. Her backstory and character in the books makes her such a badass. Shame we only got to see her for 1 act in gears 3 and the start of gears 4 for a few minutes
One of my favorite moments in Gears of War's campaign and the reason why I use A. Carmine in the multiplayer is the scene where Kim asks him, "is that the resonator?" And he just says "naaaah". The way he answer his superior lol that guy has a special place on my Grub Killer soul
Anthony Carmine and Benjamin Carmine are so iconic. It's genuinely nice to have someone who's of very low rank who doesn't have plot armor. Because it makes you feel like you're in an actual squad. You feel like you don't know what's going to happen next. Cole and Baird are good characters. But they make you feel too safe and comfy; there's no sense of danger. That's what's missing with each consecutive Gears installment. We need to get back to that squad-like feeling where there's a sense anything can happen to your crew.
Always been a Tai fan since his introduction into Gears 2. Love his unique armour design and his personality too a blend mix of a violent outlook at times and a peaceful side as well. I’ve always rocked with Tai as my go to character for multiplayer and horde
@@XXAnthonyCarmineXx hollow storm Tai is my favourite cause of his armour with that shield shoulder plate and aye he’s much older but I’ve read the books and in aspho fields his armour is exactly like hollow storm with the shield shoulder plate and he has these small knives too, I know we’ll see Tai in E-Day somewhere I’m just wondering what armour he’ll be wearing a mix of zeta and hollow storm
Great video as always! May have to argue Baird though. Throughout the books and three, Baird has been slowly breaking his uncaring nature. From the original to three you see him slowly open up more and genuinely care about people. At the end of three he is worried for the whole squad not as just soldiers with him, but as his friends too. From the books even one of the only things he ever worried about was Cole not dying. He finally came to terms that he was in fact his best friend.
Obviously all characters cant be S+ But I like how theres not a single character that you can call "Bad", (before Gears 4), all of them go from accetable or "well done" to the best
The rose part of bens death is that you can find a note next to his body that’s as suppose to go to his family and in the note he says “I miss Anthony.” Breaks my heart everytime I see him die.
Tai was a good man and great soldier who fit in perfectly with Marcus and delta squad, with his death scene hitting hard with, not only how brutal the locust could be, but also showcasing the horrors of war. When Marcus, Dom, Cole and Baird found Tai, he was already dead though only became reality once Marcus handed him the shotgun. Anya’s words on Tai were very heartfelt over the loss of another soldier in the fight against the locust.
My oldest brother always had dibs on Dizzy. That was his guy. I can't even recall who he played as in the first game because Dizzy was always who I recall him playing as
I love the Carmine family. I love how the younger brothers follow in the footsteps of the eldest brother only for the eldest brother to use their deaths as fuel for his vengeance against the Locust But Jack will forever be S+++ Double Legendary Ascendant God Tier in my opinion
Jace was in gears 2 he dropped into the hollow but it was before micheal b jordan voice acted n he had a generic cog gear model then but he could of had standard armor at first
Respect the objectivity with the Carmines, I think Anthony is a solid B purely because he fulfills a good role in the story of the carmines and also helps establish how the war with the locust was so brutal that every gear was nothing more than fodder at the end of the day.
I replayed Gears 4 and 5 recently, and I actually really like the new cast. Moreso how they are in 5 than 4, and the addition of Fahz. I always liked the original delta but none of them were ever my *favourite* characters. My favourites are like, Anya, Kait, and Benjamin Carmine.
I’m doing my own list based off these characters in the books and Bernie definitely deserves S+ tier she even knocked Baird on his ass after constant yapping 😂
I know I'm gonna sound a bit down bad here, but I just have to say that Alicia and Sam were damn fine, Anya, Sofia and Maria were also quite something.
At first i hated gears 4-5 but after replaying them i kinda grew to like them, theyre still not as good as the originals but the stories did seem interesting even though theres holes like where did the snatchers come from, how exactly did the new swarm drones come to be id the scions are the original locust etc
For Jace, He Was Only There In Gears 2 For One Part As A Voice As The Grindlifts Were Coming Down After Linking Up With Ben And As You Said They Introduce Him In Gears 3
Idk about that point excluding the Gears 4 and 5 characters. Yeah they aren’t Delta squad, but in my eyes are still decent characters. Having replayed 4 and 5 at times they still have that comedic charm just like in the original trilogy. I mean Paduk is the only memorable new character from Judgment, nobody really remembers Sofia, so it’s not like Gears 4 and 5 are the only ones introducing mixed characters
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Like I said I don’t like them, I think Fahz is decent though and so was Lizzie. I genuinely don’t think they’re good characters at all so I’d rather wait till gears 6 to see if they’re reworked in any ways since their story isn’t finished, instead of just throwing them in low tiers
I honestly think that Del was a great character. The voice of reason, the soldier who was In over his head but stuck by his friends. His death hurt me because he had a lot more potential.
All together, there is no better franchise or storyline in a game than GOW 1-3. What a roller coaster ride it was, the depth they gave us for characters. The love that you still feel for them. They'll never be another game like these ones.
Gears has some amazingly written and designed characters. As you pointed out yourself, given enough time to get to know them they are very unique from each other. Although there's more of them out there now, it's only recently that I've got into Tier Lists and Icebergs. Even with the well-crafted characters, I think you were a little too generous with the S+ tier.
I’m hoping so badly Gears of War E-Day opens up with Dom’s brother, Carlos Santiago, during his last stand at Aspho Fields. It would be an unbelievable prologue to open the game with the pendulum wars and a gigantic character sacrifice, they could show the month or so of peace humanity got, and then E-Day
I wonder if maybe part of the reason Sophia dying had such an impact on Paduk was because he had to shoot her. Like, think about it. Why would a locust rip off her tags? Why would he be pissed at Baird because of her dying to Locust? It'd make it an extra painful memory because he had to kill a friend to save her from whatever torture the locust had in store for her.
9:15 No no I understand😢 That's why I'm hoping the movie. Coming out We'll give him more stuff to do and more development. I'm fine if they still kill him off, just give him more
I mean I love almost every character in gears of war. But to put every single character in s+really takes away from other characters. Like for example with most tier lists the estir is supposed to be very small because it is a small percentage whereas B is more on that average. So instead of a s+ section I would have put a b+& b -section in. That way you can break up characters a little bit easier without absolutely hating putting them super low. But that's my opinion your tier list your opinion respect to it
I hear you! Maybe I was a little generous with the S+, but I do think that the characters are one of the best aspects of the whole Gears of War universe. WIthout the strength of those characters, it would've never really been the same
Yeah Gears 4-5 reminds me of the new star wars movies where Del is Finn and Rey is kate. In gear 6 its probably for the best if they made the Hivebusters the new main characters and have the veteran/greenhorn members of Delta squad be secondary guys and gals you say sup to.
I don’t understand why u put Tai in S+ tier, he’s literally just the generic tough guy in the squad who’s that “tough as a ____” guy and “if anyone can survive ____, it’s him” trope, he doesn’t get any character development other than him being a tough guy, aside from the torture barge where he kills himself cuz “oh man even he wasn’t tough enough to deal with the locust torture” type stuff
0:00 Intro
1:18 COG Characters
26:01 Stranded Characters
29:36 Locust Leadership
35:46 Thank you for watching
Have a go at ranking the characters below yourself, hope you enjoyed the video!
tiermaker.com/list/video-games/ranking-gears-of-war-characters-by-king-abz-15216354/3284564
Can you do with a video that Benjamin Carmine and Anthony Carmine never died video
Do you still want to do the Chimera weapons video
Hold up
@@Echo_officail what
Ah yes, Dizzy gets S tier, this already a 10/10 video :)
I've always like to think that coles personality is to keep the morale of his squad mates up. Like he knows how horrible the war is and the effect it has so he tries to offset it.
Anthony Carmine is my all-time favorite. Looks and voice, all I need to like a character in MP. But extremely good points you made; setting aside the “Carmine Family”, can’t reload, died early, minimal voice lines. I agree with his placement.
Its sad but his black steel skin was worth it
Same, no clue why but he was always many favorite
Jace was technically introduced in Gears of War 2, but it was pretty vague, he was one of the Alpha Squad members to touchdown into the locust tunnels. Marcus radios him telling him good luck.
Yep! He didn’t have a character model then
Michael Barrick fan here! Love him as a character and his backstory. Former Stranded turned Hardened COG Gear during Operation Lifeboat. The cigar smoking, locust hating tough guy is the epitome of badass. His hardened exterior hides a soft inside who truly cares for people and will do anything to save the people he cares about (including laying down his own life.) Which is precisely what he did for Marcus and Delta in Montevado. Gotta love the tough guys! So glad he was included in your S+ tier. He definitely deserves it.
Definitely one of my favorites too. That GOW3 DLC was one of my favorite pieces of Gears content
Padduk was such a great character, gears 5 really fleshed his story out and turned him into an amazing character.
Personally, I disagree.
5 didn't do anything bad with him, he just shows up and doesn't do much other than call on the radio to tell you about the evil stuff he did during the Pendulum War and be part of the "badass grandpas" in the finale.
Though I did enjoy him showing up and his dialogue, his VA is always a pleasure to listen to.
I don't even have to watch his videos. Abz always gets a thumbs up. I watch cause they're entertaining and I love hearing about GOW
as a Clayton fanboy i can understand why you placed him a little lower. and im agree with you Clayton need more writing there. that's why i wish TC making the spinoff/DLC about Carmines and Clayton as a main playable character. and if it happen i really hope i getting to see his 2nd brother that not yet revealed.
Kick ass quality from my favorite Gears man
nope nope nope nope nope clayton is s+
I agree 100%. There is No way Ben is over Clay. I believe Abz favoritism towards Ben Carmine allowed him to be in S+ tier.
I think it's just because how each are portrayed in the story as Ben has much more character development but Clayton is still extremely bad ass and my personal favorite looking character of all time.
Clayton is definitely not S+
@@colemonturner Benjamin is iconic, more than Clayton.
@@GrubKiller436 never is Benjamin more iconic mfer couldnt even fight off some small ass bugs
It's funny how in the games, Bernie gets C tier, but in the books she'd be at least an S. Her backstory and character in the books makes her such a badass. Shame we only got to see her for 1 act in gears 3 and the start of gears 4 for a few minutes
The early Gears books were fantastic in my opinion. Karen Travis was one of, if not the best, at doing military game-to-book adaptations
One of my favorite moments in Gears of War's campaign and the reason why I use A. Carmine in the multiplayer is the scene where Kim asks him, "is that the resonator?" And he just says "naaaah". The way he answer his superior lol that guy has a special place on my Grub Killer soul
cole is the one who tries to hype everyone up, so seeing him PISSED makes that one scene hit harder than it needs to
I'll never forgive The Coalition for killing Anya off screen.
Anthony Carmine and Benjamin Carmine are so iconic.
It's genuinely nice to have someone who's of very low rank who doesn't have plot armor. Because it makes you feel like you're in an actual squad. You feel like you don't know what's going to happen next.
Cole and Baird are good characters. But they make you feel too safe and comfy; there's no sense of danger.
That's what's missing with each consecutive Gears installment. We need to get back to that squad-like feeling where there's a sense anything can happen to your crew.
Always been a Tai fan since his introduction into Gears 2. Love his unique armour design and his personality too a blend mix of a violent outlook at times and a peaceful side as well. I’ve always rocked with Tai as my go to character for multiplayer and horde
Do you like zeta squad tai or hollow storm tai better ? I like hollow storm cause his armor is cooler and he’s older there
@@XXAnthonyCarmineXx hollow storm Tai is my favourite cause of his armour with that shield shoulder plate and aye he’s much older but I’ve read the books and in aspho fields his armour is exactly like hollow storm with the shield shoulder plate and he has these small knives too, I know we’ll see Tai in E-Day somewhere I’m just wondering what armour he’ll be wearing a mix of zeta and hollow storm
Great video as always! May have to argue Baird though. Throughout the books and three, Baird has been slowly breaking his uncaring nature. From the original to three you see him slowly open up more and genuinely care about people. At the end of three he is worried for the whole squad not as just soldiers with him, but as his friends too. From the books even one of the only things he ever worried about was Cole not dying. He finally came to terms that he was in fact his best friend.
I did not expect your opinions would be so similar to mine. Love your videos man
Thank you 😁
Obviously all characters cant be S+
But I like how theres not a single character that you can call "Bad", (before Gears 4), all of them go from accetable or "well done" to the best
The rose part of bens death is that you can find a note next to his body that’s as suppose to go to his family and in the note he says “I miss Anthony.” Breaks my heart everytime I see him die.
Been a clayton boy since forever, hands down just a badass, and he has the best insult towards myrrah “eat dirt and die mf” 😂
So happy to see my boy in S tier. Love the Grub Killer
Tai was a good man and great soldier who fit in perfectly with Marcus and delta squad, with his death scene hitting hard with, not only how brutal the locust could be, but also showcasing the horrors of war. When Marcus, Dom, Cole and Baird found Tai, he was already dead though only became reality once Marcus handed him the shotgun. Anya’s words on Tai were very heartfelt over the loss of another soldier in the fight against the locust.
Loved this video, I used to always play as Ben and Dizzy in gears 3 online. They really made some great characters in this series.
My oldest brother always had dibs on Dizzy. That was his guy. I can't even recall who he played as in the first game because Dizzy was always who I recall him playing as
@@Captain_Insano_nomercy That's funny, my older brother used to always pick him too. That's why I used Ben as an alternative, lol.
@@keonakel9678 I always played Cole Train because my second oldest brother had dibs as well on Tai 😂
Not that Cole was bad but I got last pick
@@keonakel9678 that's funny, i'm an older brother myself and Dizzy is my guy
I love the Carmine family. I love how the younger brothers follow in the footsteps of the eldest brother only for the eldest brother to use their deaths as fuel for his vengeance against the Locust
But Jack will forever be S+++ Double Legendary Ascendant God Tier in my opinion
Jace was in gears 2 he dropped into the hollow but it was before micheal b jordan voice acted n he had a generic cog gear model then but he could of had standard armor at first
Abz really not gonna rank Kate? She has so much character like....uh....well.....yeah you right bin em all
😂😂😂
Wdym, she’s like a woman or something. Surely that’s important!?!?
She's the hottest and coolest
and she has the best voice (used to be Alicia Valera's voice)
delta squad and nobel team are so goated
Hope to see some Dead Space lore breakdowns in the future. Love your character ranking list.
Respect the objectivity with the Carmines, I think Anthony is a solid B purely because he fulfills a good role in the story of the carmines and also helps establish how the war with the locust was so brutal that every gear was nothing more than fodder at the end of the day.
Thanks for giving Paduk some much deserved love! He’s super underrated!
Brothers to the END Delta Squad ❤
Anthony Carmine is my favorite character yes but I agree with the placement he just dies nothing else to add.
i really think gears 4 and 5 arent as bad as people say its just not as good as the first 3
The playerbase is very short-sighted unfortunately.
Gears 5 is much better than 4, but the first 4 games (judgement) are better than 5, and 4.
@@Glorfindelfan1234 Judgement deserves all the hate though.
@@GrubKiller436the story was decent- it failed when they tried to make it a COD game
I replayed Gears 4 and 5 recently, and I actually really like the new cast. Moreso how they are in 5 than 4, and the addition of Fahz. I always liked the original delta but none of them were ever my *favourite* characters. My favourites are like, Anya, Kait, and Benjamin Carmine.
I still prefer 4 over 5
@@kevinprzy4539that’s a wildly hot take
@@Glorfindelfan1234 not really, almost everybody I've talked to both irl and on the internet says the only good thing about Gears 5 was the mechanics.
Even though I know what would happen if you did include Gears 4 & 5 characters, I still wanna see you trash em XD. Great video mate.
😂 and glad you enjoyed the video!
btw king abz, jace also made a tiny cameo in gow 2 when you first drop into the hollows
Indeed! I cover that in my cog gear squads lore video!
I’m doing my own list based off these characters in the books and Bernie definitely deserves S+ tier she even knocked Baird on his ass after constant yapping 😂
I know I'm gonna sound a bit down bad here, but I just have to say that Alicia and Sam were damn fine, Anya, Sofia and Maria were also quite something.
At first i hated gears 4-5 but after replaying them i kinda grew to like them, theyre still not as good as the originals but the stories did seem interesting even though theres holes like where did the snatchers come from, how exactly did the new swarm drones come to be id the scions are the original locust etc
There needs to be a dlc about the battle at the damn in gears 4 i think it was marcus talks about. How they couldnt save the gears inside….
Benjamin Carmine and gears 2 my all time favourites of the GoW series
For Jace, He Was Only There In Gears 2 For One Part As A Voice As The Grindlifts Were Coming Down After Linking Up With Ben And As You Said They Introduce Him In Gears 3
Damn, an entire franchise of S tier characters is such a feat.
hey what about JACK
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Idk about that point excluding the Gears 4 and 5 characters. Yeah they aren’t Delta squad, but in my eyes are still decent characters. Having replayed 4 and 5 at times they still have that comedic charm just like in the original trilogy. I mean Paduk is the only memorable new character from Judgment, nobody really remembers Sofia, so it’s not like Gears 4 and 5 are the only ones introducing mixed characters
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Like I said I don’t like them, I think Fahz is decent though and so was Lizzie.
I genuinely don’t think they’re good characters at all so I’d rather wait till gears 6 to see if they’re reworked in any ways since their story isn’t finished, instead of just throwing them in low tiers
Awesome video man thank you for your time n content always
I honestly think that Del was a great character. The voice of reason, the soldier who was In over his head but stuck by his friends. His death hurt me because he had a lot more potential.
All together, there is no better franchise or storyline in a game than GOW 1-3. What a roller coaster ride it was, the depth they gave us for characters. The love that you still feel for them. They'll never be another game like these ones.
I'm a Tai guy and I was really glad to see my spiritual warrior avatar get the S+ tier rank he deserves
You should have made an exception for the Gears 5 Hivebusters crew. They were well-written.
Gears has some amazingly written and designed characters. As you pointed out yourself, given enough time to get to know them they are very unique from each other. Although there's more of them out there now, it's only recently that I've got into Tier Lists and Icebergs. Even with the well-crafted characters, I think you were a little too generous with the S+ tier.
Thanks for the feedback brother, yeah maybe I should’ve dropped some of the S+ characters in S
I’m hoping so badly Gears of War E-Day opens up with Dom’s brother, Carlos Santiago, during his last stand at Aspho Fields. It would be an unbelievable prologue to open the game with the pendulum wars and a gigantic character sacrifice, they could show the month or so of peace humanity got, and then E-Day
The only place Dom belongs is s+ tier
Brilliant video as always❤
I wonder if maybe part of the reason Sophia dying had such an impact on Paduk was because he had to shoot her. Like, think about it. Why would a locust rip off her tags? Why would he be pissed at Baird because of her dying to Locust? It'd make it an extra painful memory because he had to kill a friend to save her from whatever torture the locust had in store for her.
9:15 No no I understand😢 That's why I'm hoping the movie. Coming out We'll give him more stuff to do and more development. I'm fine if they still kill him off, just give him more
Love tier lists 🎉
I think JD actually had some great character development in Gears 5. He should be the protagonist for 6
How the hell you gonna put Aaron Griffin and Franklin above Anthony and Sam?
THE COLE TRAIN BABY IT NEVER STOPS
WOOOOOOAAAAA CANT STOP THIS
And actually anya wanted to become a front line gear like her mother who served with marcus and carlos in the battle of aspho field
Clayton deserves S+ for a simple ohrase he shouts at 11:08
Just put kait to the end
i did not mind faz tbh
Clayton will always be #1. Loved him since the moment he showed up.
JEEZ LOUISE, WHAT THE FUCK! 😂😂😂
Can you rank the sweatiest multiplayer characters on gears?
This just goes to show how good GOW writing is. Er… was.
Great Video 👍.
Would love to see a Yautja crossover into GoW. Hunting both sides during the War.
That native guy who an heroes himself S tier
Just about to start the Video Hoffman better be top tier 👌🏻👌🏻
Forgetting about Jack is heresy
If you’ve been in Delta you are always at the top of the list
Good video
Does anybody else know that Jace was introduced in Gears 2
I was gonna make a comment about it, if no one else did lol. Jace participated in Hollow storm, even tho he was voiced by a different person in two.
Commenting at the very beginning: Dom better be S tier
Bump everything down one tier except delta squad
Nice 👍
you forgot that chaps was in gears 1 as well as the operator of the gas station
Do you want to try the Killzone game and or Resistance 3 Do you still want to do the Chimera weapons video or no
Every new character in gears 4 & 5 would all be D tier. Especially Kate
0:51 Hold up hold up….
We cannot disrespect Del like that. Del is the only well written character in the new games…..
jace was in hollow storm so he was in gears 2 as well abz
Indeed!
I think Benjamin Carmine deserves more love, for me hes a A+ character
If you didn't cry when Dom died, we can't be friends
eyre scrapping them in gears6 because they have to make two campaigns for del and jd which include new voicelines and interractions
Love that u didnt add the crappy characters
I do have to ask, even though Gears 4-5 were out of this list, who would be the most interesting character from the Gears 4-5 games?
Probably Fahz
I feel like anya deserves to be in S just because he doesn't play such a essential role
Man can gears E-day come out already 😭 i always go on a huge gears of war fling every couple of months, right now is that time lmfao
In my opinion all the carmines should’ve been S+ they are much of a staple in the series just like Marcus and dom and em
I mean I love almost every character in gears of war. But to put every single character in s+really takes away from other characters. Like for example with most tier lists the estir is supposed to be very small because it is a small percentage whereas B is more on that average. So instead of a s+ section I would have put a b+& b -section in. That way you can break up characters a little bit easier without absolutely hating putting them super low. But that's my opinion your tier list your opinion respect to it
I hear you! Maybe I was a little generous with the S+, but I do think that the characters are one of the best aspects of the whole Gears of War universe. WIthout the strength of those characters, it would've never really been the same
Yeah Gears 4-5 reminds me of the new star wars movies where Del is Finn and Rey is kate.
In gear 6 its probably for the best if they made the Hivebusters the new main characters and have the veteran/greenhorn members of Delta squad be secondary guys and gals you say sup to.
It would have been hella funny if they all went to S+ tier
Why do I feel like cole is next in line to doe in gears 6
I don’t understand why u put Tai in S+ tier, he’s literally just the generic tough guy in the squad who’s that “tough as a ____” guy and “if anyone can survive ____, it’s him” trope, he doesn’t get any character development other than him being a tough guy, aside from the torture barge where he kills himself cuz “oh man even he wasn’t tough enough to deal with the locust torture” type stuff
would be funny you add the beta Version of Marcus, baird and cole train in the tier list
Paduk my fav character glad to see him S tier
The man the meth the legend i love it when you say all of that things about our brother mark
and i hate it when they chang his personalty in 4 and 5
Meth? lol lol you mean myth man 🤦♂️
Ahem. Jack would like a word.