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My favorite of the friends is the black rider. To bring death through starvation of both the body through famine and the spirit through wine and oils. He denies your needs while.indulging your desires. The most insideous of the bunch.
Mama Harlot is my favorite of the Fiends, too! Really can’t wait to see you cover the goddesses of the series, especially Sati/Parvati and Hathor! Keep up the great work Tony!!
Trumpeteer is the one i like the best and i forgot where i read it but there some sequence about 4 horsemen here comes king of conquest bent on war on which will cause famine that will create pestilence on which Death will come in the end some thing like that i forgot where i read it tho
Even if it is a pretty late comment my favourite is white rider by far, I don't know exactly why but maybe it has something to do with the horse itself and those eyes, trumpeter is also amazing. It shows how this fiends could be view in a number of ways not exactly evil but not good either, is akin to them bringing the end as a task, something that has to happen. Also sorry for any instances of broken english
Another excellent video,Tony. If there’s one thing I’d like you to cover (if you haven’t already) is why there are demons in persona. I’ve only played halfway through persona 3, and have been indulging MT/SMT lore videos as of late. It seems like the world is always one step away from being invaded, so I’m very curious as to why this isn’t the case in persona.
It's funny how the Fiends go from a Matador, a monk, Ghost Rider, and then the horsemen of the apocalypse, the harlot of the bible, and the trumpeter of the end times. It went from "Eh, that's creepy", to "WOW, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!"
@@Sarah12471 Starts with fighting smiling snowmen and onion-headed chickens - ends with fighting GOD AND THE DEVIL. Actually, that's JRPG in a nutshell 🤣
Daisoujou does have skin. If you notice his bones are not stark white like the others, they are a graying brown, like mummified skin clinging to the bone.
Mother Harlot is such a good design, my girlfriend who doesn't even play SMT name-dropped it as her favorite demon when she was watching me play SMT V.
My favorite has to be Matador. Just because I'm Spanish? Yeah. It's quite hilarious seeing a bullfighter being a boss in a JRPG, but when you're laughing thinking you're fighting Morante or José Tomás (spanish bullfighters), he destroys you because you were too busy laughing at him. Also, it's my favorite Nocturne boss gameplay-wise.
This video made me realize that the 7th fiend trumpeter signals the end times, and defeating trumpeter gives you the ability to complete the true ending and end the reign of kagatsuchi. Atlus' attention to detail is incredible
Matador's my favorite. He's powerful, well designed, and has excellent mannerisms for a boss. Whether he's hamming it up in pre battle foreplay or annoying you with Red Capote and Dekunda, he's excellent. *"Charge me with all your strength! Your horns cannot pierce my soul!"*- Mattador
It always bothered me that people recognize the horseman of conquest as the horseman of pestilence despite pestilence being a duty given to the horseman of death
Absolutely agree. I suppose it was due to some later interpretations in books are art that attributed Pestilence to him as they aren't explicitly named. Oh well, I hope the video cleared some things up for people
Well, if pestilence can be attributed to pale rider, than conquest can be attributed to red rider. War and conquest go hand in hand, after all. Doesn't make any more sense than pestilence being it's own thing.
@@ragvald8835 conquest does not necessarily have to be through violent means, it can be through political means as well, and in revelations it could be a more spiritual military conquest rather than the kind war would propagate
@@rogercheetoofficial I guess, but them why call him conquest? In that case he`s diplomacy, or knowledge, or politics. Liberation, even - from the false gods and stuff.
I wasn't expecting Daisoujou lore to be tbat scary I always thought that he was from some kind of ancient Japanese tale And i thought that Hell Biker was just copyright free Ghostrider
Just a little note. Matar is the word the means "to kill" in Spanish. So yes it's technically derivative of the Latin word, but Matador is also the Spanish word for killer :)
A clarifying note: matador means "he who kills", but in a neutral sense, while someone who kills as in the crime is an "asesino" (from the same root as "assassin") or a "homicida" (he who commits homicide). You can be a "matador de toros" (bull killer) or a "matador de pollos" ( chicken killer), but for men it would be more appropiate to say "asesino de hombres" rather than "matador" (through it is correct)
My favorite Fiend was Daisoujou definitely, his backstory was very interesting, Mother Harlot and the Trumpeter were nice too tho 😅. Nice video, the sponsor may be useful for my search of Giten Megami Tensei.
Daisoujou may be the most useful, but his lore really was crazy. I'm glad the sponsor could be useful to some people, was happy that they were the first ones to help out the channel
Trumpeter has always been my favorite as he usually has luster candy/heat riser + deblitate. Also I've finally gotten smt strange journey and plan to play it once I finish smtv. Lahmu is such a bitch to fight on hard at lvl 31.
I always associated Hell Biker as a reference to Marvel's Ghost Rider, who takes inspiration from the wild west story of a rider who collects the souls of the damned. This story also draws inspiration from various stories of waves of ghosts (In particular the Wild Hunt)
Trumpeter is my favorite by far, I love when you fight the fiends in Strange Journey, because his encounter is random, they are insanely strong, they can wipe your entire party in one hit, and the most amazing fact, is that in Strange Journey, the first time you encounter a demon, you can only see it in the form of some blue floating thing, but with the fiends, you see them in his true form. I remember when I first encounter matador....I know I was doomed....
Book of revelation fiends be like: The 4 hourseman that will basically destroy the world Mother harlot,basically the incarnation of the worst place made by humanity that even god is glad that it was destroyed *Doot angel*
I think if there's any specific thing of demons I'd like to see you discuss the lore of it's the Ars Goetia demons. I just finished SMTV recently and I love the designs for each Goetia demon I ran into like Forneus, Flauros, and even Amon.
It's bizarre how to someone outside of Spain it's a cool name but for us Spaniards it's almost funny. Like imagine a skill being named "Finland strike" or "Kansas"
Mother of Harlots probably symbolized Rome for the Jews - which they considered the new oppressor - the new Babylon - 7 Heads for the 7 hills Rome was build on.
@@Tony4You Yeah. In the end the exegeses concerning that psychodelic part of the Bible are but educated guesses, we only have historic accounts that help us a bit interpreting the state of mind of the writers of the NT. Great video🤙👍!
I've always found it interesting how Trumpeter signified the end of times by way of sounding its horn the same way Heimdallr would blow Gjallarhorn to begin Ragnarok
Love this series! I've been wanting a website/channel that just explains of the SMT's lore and relevance to real-world religions and mythologies. This scratches that itch perfectly! Hope you do eventually do videos on other mythologies besides biblical stuff in the future
I appreciate the kind words and am glad I could entertain so many people with the videos! I will definitely branch out as time goes on and I hope to cover as many demons of note as I can
Babylon wasnt "evil" as much as it was a poIitical enemy of those writing at the time, to the point destruction of infants was treated as good as long as it was against the ethnic groups they considered outsiders, both the harlot and the famine rider are the most clear references to revelations being about his vision and criticism for his current time, just like the number of the beast being theorized to be about either Nero or Caligula as early christians were the target to read the text
I’ve been trying to have all the fiends in my SMT 3 and SMT V games, but it’s a bear to do! They’re all so cool though but imagine if we had Demi-Fiend with all the Amala Fiends (I call them this because Alice is also of the fiend race, and there might be others as well and also because it makes them seem special) VS all the Persona MCs. They would probably get OWNED (the Persona MCs not Demi-Fiend)!!
I dunno if you're interested, but there's more to Hell's Biker than just being a parody of Hell's Angels. Each Fiend reprents a herald of death, the way this is symbolized in Hell's Biker can be best seen in SMTIII. During the 1970/80s there was a huge Satanic scare, with one of the victims of this being bikers. With the popularity of bikes rising among counter cultures, gangs of bikers became feared as violent Satanists, and the sound of bikes in the distance became a symbol of coming doom. Exploitation film makers noticed this, and it managed to permeate through society due to movies involving gangs of mad, murderous bikers. Pretty soon the sound of bikes would lead to panicked calls to the police as people thought death was coming.
Very interesting, I may have glossed over Hell Biker mostly for a joke, but there really is a lot to talk about in regards to that figure. I just don't want to risk a visit to my house lol
@@Tony4You You'd more likely be visited by their lawyers, as Hell's Angels is copy right protected now they're a big business. The irony of that counter culture ending up a corporation is pretty funny, but that's likely why they had to change the name from Hell's Angel in future games. :p
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I thought I was tripping @7:05. I thought I heard the voice get distorted. Scared the shit outta me and I had to rewind to be sure. On other things that scare the shit outta me, christian mythology to this DAY still uneases me. I used to read Revelations constantly as a kid and it made me nervous/uneasy around any biblical depictions or satanic shit. I got over it to an extent and hell, I enjoy the SMT series (the few I've played). Still, my christian upbringing ever so slightly unnerves me yet on videos like this.
@@Tony4You For real, I just thought he was a cool monk or something. I always thought he stood out as being kind of a lame fiend but after knowing the lore holy shit lol.
I feel like the Bible did too much to make Babylon seem evil. Like I get it, but it feels like you just didn't like them and tried to make up way to many reasons to get us on your side 🤣
Completely irrelevant, but here are the fiends listed based on power levels since some people here seem to care : Demi fiend >Dante >Mother harlot>Alice >the trumpeter>the 4 horsemen >hell rider >Daisauju >Matador >David
Sorry for being late, my favorite of the fiends is the Trumpter. It was great to learn about the non Christian fiends, unfortunately considering their status as super bosses they don't really play that much of a role in the story besides gate locking progression sometimes.
Man, I wish I learned more about the book of Revelation when my family was religious. Way more interesting than most of the stuff that I was forced to learn about.
I have a pretty cool idea. Demi fiend after receiving the first menorah: DF: Wait a sec. The fact that I have this, and all the other fiends have the other menorahs, then who did this belong to. Video cuts to a shot of Snake mountain. Skeletor sneezes
One thing I read once spoke of how we ended up bastardizing War. We turned it from a thing to cause only sorrow to a thing that pushes our development to the next level. It goes into how practically every current invention we have had some connection to a wartime effort. I only say this as I found it interesting to think that war has caused any good. Though I fail to see how any recent ones have done so. Maybe we finally are at a point of no longer needing wars to push inovation
An interesting little thing that makes me think it’s also a nod to the first Horseman being interpreted as Jesus. He has a Light skill called God’s Arrow that has a 100% chance to kill whoever it targets if they don’t null or repel Light attacks. And he’s programmed to target whoever ISN’T immune.He also never uses the attack if everyone IS immune as well. He also has a unique fire attack that I believed is also possessed by Uriel called Prominence. Further signifying a connection to the angels.
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One of the most popular interpretation of the Whore of Babylon (both as a prophecy by Christians and a political metaphor disguised as prophecy by secular scholars) is that she represents the Roman Empire, which was not yet Christian when Revelation was written. She is adorned in scarlet (the color of Rome) and purple (the Roman color of Imperial authority and the prestige of nobility), she rides a seven-headed beast (the city of Rome was built around seven hills), and represents the debauchery and excess early Christians perceived in paganism and imperial government. She is drunk on the blood of saints (Rome martyred many saints) and has made the kings of the world drunk with her fornication (a reference to the many alliances, trade relations, and tributes Rome held with other powers). Babylon in the Bible is shorthand for sin and corruption, of course, but the actual people and land of Babylon were considered a pagan superpower that persecuted the Jews and defied God, making it a dead ringer for Rome and the Christians. In contrast, some Muslims interpret the Beast she rides as representative of the Umayyads, an Arab people who otiginally opposed Muhammad, as they held seven provinces (heads) and ten leaders (horns).
I like most of them, the only exceptions being Matador (controversial take, I know) and Hell Rider. I strongly dislike the entire bull fight background cause it’s honestly just animal torture and I can’t help but dislike Matador for that :x Hell Biker is just too goofy/silly for my liking ^^’ Kinda sad you didn’t include David, but he wasn’t in Nocturne, so that’s understandable :)
Wow not liking Matador is not something you hear everyday lol. I understand it though considering the rough context behind bullfighting. The other fiends are definitely something I've been requested to cover so maybe it's worth another video
Would be nice if you could do a follow-up with the non-Nocturne fiends. Chemtrail is pretty silly, but David appears as a fiend in several games, and isn't immediately obvious why he's just named "David."
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A small correction. The black horseman doesn't actually speak, that's one of the 4 living creatures (ie one of the seraphim) (When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!)
It always annoyed me that most people don’t do the kalpas to get the fiends until way later in the game. You can do them after you fight each respective fiend. You can get matador after fighting him and fiends are really strong and the dungeons aren’t that hard. People say how hard and unfair nocturne is but I never had a whole ton of difficulty
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How could forget about Dante, the only Fiend who could keep up with the Demi Fiend without activating his Devil Trigger
My favorite of the friends is the black rider. To bring death through starvation of both the body through famine and the spirit through wine and oils. He denies your needs while.indulging your desires. The most insideous of the bunch.
A poetic justice for mankind. Something to look out for
I love them all equally, except for Trumpeter in P4, where he becomes my favorite cause he inherently has Heat Riser and Debilitate.
I haven't even played through much of smt but I still love this channel. keep making awesome content like this!
Really means a lot! I'm glad it's entertaining to any audience
Mama Harlot is my favorite of the Fiends, too! Really can’t wait to see you cover the goddesses of the series, especially Sati/Parvati and Hathor! Keep up the great work Tony!!
Mother Harlot is the best! I hope I can get to the goddesses in this game for sure, I have a lot on the list to cover lol
Been waiting for this one
Was a doozy to make, but it's been a long time coming!
Trumpeteer is the one i like the best
and i forgot where i read it but there some sequence about 4 horsemen
here comes king of conquest bent on war on which will cause famine that will create pestilence on which Death will come in the end
some thing like that i forgot where i read it tho
Even if it is a pretty late comment my favourite is white rider by far, I don't know exactly why but maybe it has something to do with the horse itself and those eyes, trumpeter is also amazing. It shows how this fiends could be view in a number of ways not exactly evil but not good either, is akin to them bringing the end as a task, something that has to happen. Also sorry for any instances of broken english
You forgot David, that Skeleton Violinist
Sadly he is not in Nocturne, and I didn't wanna go over ALL the fiends in the games. Maybe some day I'll get to them too though
Another excellent video,Tony. If there’s one thing I’d like you to cover (if you haven’t already) is why there are demons in persona. I’ve only played halfway through persona 3, and have been indulging MT/SMT lore videos as of late. It seems like the world is always one step away from being invaded, so I’m very curious as to why this isn’t the case in persona.
Hey thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not Nyarly lol. I'll definitely think on the suggestion and I hope you enjoyed
@@Tony4You I am legitimately sorry about that XD. I think Nyarly was in the recommended and my brain jumped to him
What about everyone’s favorite Fiend:
Lemonchi.
The lemon monster.
It is literally a lemon.
Bought smt 3 hd recently. And facing against pale rider. I'm getting my ass kicked lol
He's a tough one, you got this though. Nocturne is a right of passage
Shalt he toot thy horn?
Does anyone know the name of the music playing in the Matador section?
It's funny how the Fiends go from a Matador, a monk, Ghost Rider, and then the horsemen of the apocalypse, the harlot of the bible, and the trumpeter of the end times. It went from "Eh, that's creepy", to "WOW, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!"
A little escalation lol. It's welcome though
Kinda like a lot of these games. At least from what I have heard
@@Sarah12471 Starts with fighting smiling snowmen and onion-headed chickens - ends with fighting GOD AND THE DEVIL. Actually, that's JRPG in a nutshell 🤣
Daisoujou does have skin. If you notice his bones are not stark white like the others, they are a graying brown, like mummified skin clinging to the bone.
Mother Harlot is such a good design, my girlfriend who doesn't even play SMT name-dropped it as her favorite demon when she was watching me play SMT V.
Mystery, Babylon the great! She's just so recognizable as an important figure
would love to see you talk about the lore of the kuzunoha clan
Could be interesting, I do love me some Devil Summoner
@@Tony4You You also said you were going to talk about SMT IV comics.
Please make a video about that!
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Agreed
Thanks king, I'm glad the videos are helping people learn and get a deeper understanding of lore and theology!
My favorite has to be Matador. Just because I'm Spanish? Yeah. It's quite hilarious seeing a bullfighter being a boss in a JRPG, but when you're laughing thinking you're fighting Morante or José Tomás (spanish bullfighters), he destroys you because you were too busy laughing at him. Also, it's my favorite Nocturne boss gameplay-wise.
As a Sevillana, I really laughed when I was him use 'Andalucia' (and when I hear english speakers pronounce it, anduhlusea)
As a granadian, I can only love Matador. He's so rad, I rush to get him in my party.
He definitely has the cool factor.
Plus in games where you fight a boss like a bull fight. You the player are usually the matador, it’s interesting to play the bull for once.
The Fiends are so interesting.
My favorite is definitely Mother Harlot. Great design for a great demon!
There's just so much going on for Mother Harlot in her design. One of the most fun scripts to write
I always include her in my line up because her design to so cool!
This video made me realize that the 7th fiend trumpeter signals the end times, and defeating trumpeter gives you the ability to complete the true ending and end the reign of kagatsuchi. Atlus' attention to detail is incredible
Matador's my favorite. He's powerful, well designed, and has excellent mannerisms for a boss. Whether he's hamming it up in pre battle foreplay or annoying you with Red Capote and Dekunda, he's excellent.
*"Charge me with all your strength! Your horns cannot pierce my soul!"*- Mattador
Surprisingly deep interpretation of an undead Matador lol, he's so cool
I remember him being pretty hard on the ps2. In the remaster I was ready and grinded quite a bit
It always bothered me that people recognize the horseman of conquest as the horseman of pestilence despite pestilence being a duty given to the horseman of death
Absolutely agree. I suppose it was due to some later interpretations in books are art that attributed Pestilence to him as they aren't explicitly named. Oh well, I hope the video cleared some things up for people
I would say that's because there is already horseman of war so conquest feels kind of redundant.
Well, if pestilence can be attributed to pale rider, than conquest can be attributed to red rider. War and conquest go hand in hand, after all. Doesn't make any more sense than pestilence being it's own thing.
@@ragvald8835 conquest does not necessarily have to be through violent means, it can be through political means as well, and in revelations it could be a more spiritual military conquest rather than the kind war would propagate
@@rogercheetoofficial I guess, but them why call him conquest? In that case he`s diplomacy, or knowledge, or politics. Liberation, even - from the false gods and stuff.
Mother Harlot is Babalon one of the main deities in Thelema, she is the culmination of feminine energy, love, sexual energy and mother of all.
I wasn't expecting Daisoujou lore to be tbat scary
I always thought that he was from some kind of ancient Japanese tale
And i thought that Hell Biker was just copyright free Ghostrider
Daisoujou really is a shock to people who aren't familiar with that practice. Hell Biker is just cool though lol
Just a little note. Matar is the word the means "to kill" in Spanish. So yes it's technically derivative of the Latin word, but Matador is also the Spanish word for killer :)
Matador is also portuguese
A clarifying note: matador means "he who kills", but in a neutral sense, while someone who kills as in the crime is an "asesino" (from the same root as "assassin") or a "homicida" (he who commits homicide). You can be a "matador de toros" (bull killer) or a "matador de pollos" ( chicken killer), but for men it would be more appropiate to say "asesino de hombres" rather than "matador" (through it is correct)
My favorite Fiend was Daisoujou definitely, his backstory was very interesting, Mother Harlot and the Trumpeter were nice too tho 😅.
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Daisoujou may be the most useful, but his lore really was crazy. I'm glad the sponsor could be useful to some people, was happy that they were the first ones to help out the channel
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Trumpeter has always been my favorite as he usually has luster candy/heat riser + deblitate. Also I've finally gotten smt strange journey and plan to play it once I finish smtv. Lahmu is such a bitch to fight on hard at lvl 31.
I always associated Hell Biker as a reference to Marvel's Ghost Rider, who takes inspiration from the wild west story of a rider who collects the souls of the damned. This story also draws inspiration from various stories of waves of ghosts (In particular the Wild Hunt)
After hearing Trumpeter lore it make sense when you fight him in SMT4 Apocalypse you have to fight a hordes of 7 Trumpeter instead of 1 like usual
"I am the heavenly father, who loves all of my children on earth... Except Babylon, fuck Babylon, should scrapt it when making the world"
All my homies hate Babylon
@@Tony4Youmany interpret the Babylon of revelations to be Rome
Trumpeter is my favorite by far, I love when you fight the fiends in Strange Journey, because his encounter is random, they are insanely strong, they can wipe your entire party in one hit, and the most amazing fact, is that in Strange Journey, the first time you encounter a demon, you can only see it in the form of some blue floating thing, but with the fiends, you see them in his true form.
I remember when I first encounter matador....I know I was doomed....
Oh yeah that is an interesting fact for the fiends of Strange Journey. The designers know how cool they are
I love these apocalypse bringing skeletons like you wouldn't believe
My skeleton family reunion! They're all just so great
Mother Harlot’s probably my favorite of the bunch too. She was also the figure in this video I knew the least about (save Hell Biker).
I was lowkey a dumbass for never noticing they were all skeletons until I played the remaster recently
How-😭😭
LOL it's all good, we're all just trying to survive them the first time around, second time is when we fully appreciate them
Book of revelation fiends be like:
The 4 hourseman that will basically destroy the world
Mother harlot,basically the incarnation of the worst place made by humanity that even god is glad that it was destroyed
*Doot angel*
I love me some Daisoujou! I also like the reference to the ritual in Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It's a fascinating subject!
Yeah in zelda I'm surprised they harkened back to such an unsettling subject in a nintendo game. Still really cool
There's definitely some Kamen Rider and Ghost Rider references with the Hell Biker design. He also talks like Hulk Hogan in the HD remaster.
I think if there's any specific thing of demons I'd like to see you discuss the lore of it's the Ars Goetia demons. I just finished SMTV recently and I love the designs for each Goetia demon I ran into like Forneus, Flauros, and even Amon.
To this day, Andalucia still remains my favourite skill name. It just sounds so cool and I'll always keep it on my Matador.
Absolutely agree. Matador is popular, and with a surprising amount of lore for someone I thought was a gag
as someone from Andalucia, it was extremely funny when he did that attack to me xd
@@manuelmorenobecerril4878 I wish Matador said ILLOOOOOOOOOOO when attacking
It's bizarre how to someone outside of Spain it's a cool name but for us Spaniards it's almost funny. Like imagine a skill being named "Finland strike" or "Kansas"
Mother of Harlots probably symbolized Rome for the Jews - which they considered the new oppressor - the new Babylon - 7 Heads for the 7 hills Rome was build on.
Many see it that way, they also interpret the horsemen War to be a personification of Rome as well.
@@Tony4You Yeah. In the end the exegeses concerning that psychodelic part of the Bible are but educated guesses, we only have historic accounts that help us a bit interpreting the state of mind of the writers of the NT. Great video🤙👍!
My favorite is the Trumpeter, but I didn't know that Mother Harlot was so faithfully designed. Maybe my new favorite.
I love Mother Harlot after making this video and I hope more people come to understand just how well they designed her. Knocked it out of the park
I've always found it interesting how Trumpeter signified the end of times by way of sounding its horn the same way Heimdallr would blow Gjallarhorn to begin Ragnarok
I was a bit uncertain about the fiends designs but grew to loving them overtime.
Yeah despite them all being skeletons they are surprisingly unique and well designed
Love this series! I've been wanting a website/channel that just explains of the SMT's lore and relevance to real-world religions and mythologies. This scratches that itch perfectly! Hope you do eventually do videos on other mythologies besides biblical stuff in the future
I appreciate the kind words and am glad I could entertain so many people with the videos! I will definitely branch out as time goes on and I hope to cover as many demons of note as I can
I really love that you named the third chapter in the video Heck Biker
Hey I gotta keep my title as UA-cam's #1 LAW fan lol
My family knew some of the bikers in the past, They had some beautiful motorcycles
Babylon wasnt "evil" as much as it was a poIitical enemy of those writing at the time, to the point destruction of infants was treated as good as long as it was against the ethnic groups they considered outsiders, both the harlot and the famine rider are the most clear references to revelations being about his vision and criticism for his current time, just like the number of the beast being theorized to be about either Nero or Caligula as early christians were the target to read the text
I’ve been trying to have all the fiends in my SMT 3 and SMT V games, but it’s a bear to do! They’re all so cool though but imagine if we had Demi-Fiend with all the Amala Fiends (I call them this because Alice is also of the fiend race, and there might be others as well and also because it makes them seem special) VS all the Persona MCs. They would probably get OWNED (the Persona MCs not Demi-Fiend)!!
More people expressed interest in the other fiends than I imagined so I hope I can find a way to talk about them at some point too
Yes, the Amala Fiends and their king have become the face of the SMT side of Atlus!
Great video, but ahh, no David? He's always so overlooked despite being an OG.
Yeah sorry I wanted to focus on the fiends of Nocturne, but I'm sure he'll come up in a later video someday
I dunno if you're interested, but there's more to Hell's Biker than just being a parody of Hell's Angels. Each Fiend reprents a herald of death, the way this is symbolized in Hell's Biker can be best seen in SMTIII. During the 1970/80s there was a huge Satanic scare, with one of the victims of this being bikers. With the popularity of bikes rising among counter cultures, gangs of bikers became feared as violent Satanists, and the sound of bikes in the distance became a symbol of coming doom. Exploitation film makers noticed this, and it managed to permeate through society due to movies involving gangs of mad, murderous bikers. Pretty soon the sound of bikes would lead to panicked calls to the police as people thought death was coming.
Very interesting, I may have glossed over Hell Biker mostly for a joke, but there really is a lot to talk about in regards to that figure. I just don't want to risk a visit to my house lol
@@Tony4You You'd more likely be visited by their lawyers, as Hell's Angels is copy right protected now they're a big business. The irony of that counter culture ending up a corporation is pretty funny, but that's likely why they had to change the name from Hell's Angel in future games. :p
ITS SO WEIRD THAT I TRIED TO GET A COPY OF STRANGE JOURNEY ON DS AND YOU NOW SAID TO USE BUYEE TO FIND IT LOL
I used your link, but I'm having some issue trying to find if my purchase is covered or not before I confirm my purchase
The coupons are being funky and hard to use ;-;
Edit: ok I figured it out but the problem is no matter what, any order I try to place still rings up 500 yen, and I was hoping to just get a free item ;-;
I thought I was tripping @7:05. I thought I heard the voice get distorted. Scared the shit outta me and I had to rewind to be sure. On other things that scare the shit outta me, christian mythology to this DAY still uneases me. I used to read Revelations constantly as a kid and it made me nervous/uneasy around any biblical depictions or satanic shit. I got over it to an extent and hell, I enjoy the SMT series (the few I've played). Still, my christian upbringing ever so slightly unnerves me yet on videos like this.
trumpeter is definitely my favorite design wise, but white rider is really close
I think matador and daisijou are my favorite. Matador just looks really cool and the lore behind daisijou is insane
Was surprised when not many people knew of the horrific lore behind Daisoujou. I gotta put some respect on his name
@@Tony4You For real, I just thought he was a cool monk or something. I always thought he stood out as being kind of a lame fiend but after knowing the lore holy shit lol.
ARE WE NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT THE caldisla Picture In The Background Of The Thumbnail!!!
I feel like the Bible did too much to make Babylon seem evil. Like I get it, but it feels like you just didn't like them and tried to make up way to many reasons to get us on your side 🤣
Some of it might be embellished a bit lol. I'm sure it wasn't the best place ever
Completely irrelevant, but here are the fiends listed based on power levels since some people here seem to care :
Demi fiend >Dante >Mother harlot>Alice >the trumpeter>the 4 horsemen >hell rider >Daisauju >Matador >David
I know I’m late but I’m pretty sure the skeleton biker was a reference to Ghost Rider. Not the Hell’s Angels.
> Disses Europol and US DON
>Respects Hell's Angels wishes
Based Tony
Disregard authority, stay based
Sorry for being late, my favorite of the fiends is the Trumpter. It was great to learn about the non Christian fiends, unfortunately considering their status as super bosses they don't really play that much of a role in the story besides gate locking progression sometimes.
Sup guys, tony for- THE MENORAHS BECKON ME
I mean... Tony 4 You
Man, I wish I learned more about the book of Revelation when my family was religious. Way more interesting than most of the stuff that I was forced to learn about.
They really don't teach the cool stuff. That's where UA-cam comes in I guess lol. Hope I can help teach others how cool this stuff can be
The legend say the trumpeters will blast coffin dance theme during the Apocalypse
I haven’t heard that many 7s since I used to watch 2pac conspiracy videos
God number 777 just like The mark of the beast is 666
Nice one. I hope we get a video on the fairies of smt.
Hm, an interesting suggestion. I think that should go on the list
From funny skeleton to the worlds apocalypse
What's the ost playing from the White Rider Segment? It sounds like SMT4, but I can't quiete pinpoint it...
Nvm found it. It's "Aboveground Urban Area A" from SMT4
I have a pretty cool idea.
Demi fiend after receiving the first menorah:
DF: Wait a sec. The fact that I have this, and all the other fiends have the other menorahs, then who did this belong to.
Video cuts to a shot of Snake mountain. Skeletor sneezes
Of course Matador won’t dodge after you spammed him with fog breath the whole fight
Hell yeah, new Tony4you video
These videos are fun to make, I'm happy people are willing to wait for them
that self mummification is messed up
There's a reason why it became outlawed. Though the fact so many people did it the government had to step in is troubling
I’ve been waiting for this one! I love Mother Harlot, as well as the Fiend battle music.
One of the most fun demons to research to date. She's quickly become one of my favorite demons of the series
Too sad skeletons can't play trumpets. They have no lips 😞
wait... true
The correct answer is "kicking my ass"
One thing I read once spoke of how we ended up bastardizing War. We turned it from a thing to cause only sorrow to a thing that pushes our development to the next level. It goes into how practically every current invention we have had some connection to a wartime effort. I only say this as I found it interesting to think that war has caused any good. Though I fail to see how any recent ones have done so. Maybe we finally are at a point of no longer needing wars to push inovation
Can't believe you forgot the most important fiend in smt
*Dante*
Dante is different lore
One of my best friend is a fiend 😂😂
Fate strange fake brought me here
An interesting little thing that makes me think it’s also a nod to the first Horseman being interpreted as Jesus.
He has a Light skill called God’s Arrow that has a 100% chance to kill whoever it targets if they don’t null or repel Light attacks. And he’s programmed to target whoever ISN’T immune.He also never uses the attack if everyone IS immune as well.
He also has a unique fire attack that I believed is also possessed by Uriel called Prominence. Further signifying a connection to the angels.
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This is so interresting wtf
One of the most popular interpretation of the Whore of Babylon (both as a prophecy by Christians and a political metaphor disguised as prophecy by secular scholars) is that she represents the Roman Empire, which was not yet Christian when Revelation was written.
She is adorned in scarlet (the color of Rome) and purple (the Roman color of Imperial authority and the prestige of nobility), she rides a seven-headed beast (the city of Rome was built around seven hills), and represents the debauchery and excess early Christians perceived in paganism and imperial government. She is drunk on the blood of saints (Rome martyred many saints) and has made the kings of the world drunk with her fornication (a reference to the many alliances, trade relations, and tributes Rome held with other powers). Babylon in the Bible is shorthand for sin and corruption, of course, but the actual people and land of Babylon were considered a pagan superpower that persecuted the Jews and defied God, making it a dead ringer for Rome and the Christians.
In contrast, some Muslims interpret the Beast she rides as representative of the Umayyads, an Arab people who otiginally opposed Muhammad, as they held seven provinces (heads) and ten leaders (horns).
I like most of them, the only exceptions being Matador (controversial take, I know) and Hell Rider.
I strongly dislike the entire bull fight background cause it’s honestly just animal torture and I can’t help but dislike Matador for that :x
Hell Biker is just too goofy/silly for my liking ^^’
Kinda sad you didn’t include David, but he wasn’t in Nocturne, so that’s understandable :)
Wow not liking Matador is not something you hear everyday lol. I understand it though considering the rough context behind bullfighting. The other fiends are definitely something I've been requested to cover so maybe it's worth another video
Would be nice if you could do a follow-up with the non-Nocturne fiends. Chemtrail is pretty silly, but David appears as a fiend in several games, and isn't immediately obvious why he's just named "David."
I've watched this video over 30 times now, very calming to listen to during a workout or while studying
Cant believe i got clickbaited into a bible study
Sorry lol. Hope you liked the video though
Conquest: Colonization
War: perpetual war between developed and poor countries
Black rider: capitalism/climate change
Death: oh boy here it comes
It makes me more sad than it should that you just outright ignore Africa in your ad read when saying that it ships worldwide so you’ve got your European and South American friends covered. This is such a common thing and I’m mostly numb to it at this point, but it seems so strange that you would just omit Africa.
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers,
100 million angels singing…
A small correction. The black horseman doesn't actually speak, that's one of the 4 living creatures (ie one of the seraphim)
(When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!)
Ah yes that is widely considered to be true. Regardless the significance of him remains the same. Thanks for clarifying though
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It always annoyed me that most people don’t do the kalpas to get the fiends until way later in the game. You can do them after you fight each respective fiend. You can get matador after fighting him and fiends are really strong and the dungeons aren’t that hard. People say how hard and unfair nocturne is but I never had a whole ton of difficulty
I really enjoy these videos. I'm newer to smt and your demon break downs are always a treat!
Thanks a lot! I'm happy they're helping people appreciate the series more
Are you ever planning on doing other fiends like Alice, chemtrail, and David?
i never knew how i needed this video, found a new appreciacion for these guys
That's what I aim to do, glad you took something away from it
Mother Harlot is also my favorite. Although the trumpeter always has a special place in my heart because he was one of my besties in Persona 4 Golden