"They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them and in the furnace of war I shall forge them. They shall be of iron will and steely sinew. In great armour I shall clad them and with the mightiest weapons shall they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight them. They shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best them in battle. They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines...and they shall know no fear." - The Emperor of Mankind
@@darkcloud93 very cool saying mate, I had to google translate it and just for those like me that need a translation ave imperator, gloria in excelsis terra! "Hail Emperor glory in the highest!"
@Joseph Douek because it makes doom's version of hell look like a nice peaceful wander through a summer meadow. In Doomguys hell is there a planet were time repeats itself, just so a battle can go on for eternity, there is in the warp. Or places were randomly your innards are now on the outside, but your still perfectly alive. Or places were the air you breathe in suddenly is made of glass or sand, or the ears of mice because a demon thought it would be funny. Or properly immortal enemies, including several which if you kill them, you become them. Hell in the doom verse is just another reality, following a fixed set of rules & laws with no "gods" with unlimited and complete control over it. Hell itself can't corrupt you and twist you into a creature of evil/chaos, it requires active intervention to do anything like that. The warp has only 1 rule, anything can and will happen. It has atleast 4 very twisted and all powerful deities that can change and do anything they want, at any time, including but not limited to messing with time itself. However the warp itself however doesn't need these gods to mess with you, the warp itself can and will twist and corrupt those who enter it, or are linked to it, making some evil, making some mutate, and randomly making some stay the same or even become paragons of light. Simply put, to beat hell, you just need superior force. To beat the warp, you need to kill the entire universe so that it doesn't exist anymore, as its created and sustained by all living beings with a presence in it, and the 40k universe is hard to kill, they are if anything prepared for a fight.
@@r5509 Master Chief still pales in comparison to Astartes. Take Master Chief, give him the same steroids they gave him for the Spartan program, but times ten? Closer to an astartes. Plus give him literal armor under the skin, better eyes, the ability to spit acid, his body to fight most toxins and poisons like it's a common cold and if you're too wounded in battle, your body will feign death and put you in a coma where it regulates your body heat through a thin gel substance on your skin that also keeps the local wildlife from trying to snack on your " corpse ". ... Master Chief just drops dead if too wounded and a plasma burn can drop him if in the right spot. An Astartes needs to be struck with anti-vehicle weaponry and specially built rifles intended for Astartes vs. GIANT SPACE DAEMON COMBAT. Not sure Master Chief holds a candle to that. Doom Guy maybe, but as much as I love Master Chief, even I can look at things logically. Doom Guy beats Master Chief and an astartes with maybe three or four missions under his belt is a " Doom Guy " essentially after what they go through. Usually years of war and witnessing people melting from plagues, daemons that bring disease, their own brothers in arms being consumed by a special daemon made plague called warp rot that turns them into Plague Marines... I think Astartes take the blood soaked cake, personally.
Another intense super soldier program was Manticore from the Dark Angel TV series. These super soldiers were bred with advanced genetic engineering and gene splicing from the DNA of certain animals. For example, a soldier intended for desert warfare would have the DNA of desert reptiles. However, Manticore was brought down by a team of super soldiers that had escaped from the Manticore facility years earlier, including the main protagonist of the series, Max Guevera. This led to the escape of dozens of experimental super soldier prototypes into an unsuspecting world.
Scalizi's Old Mans War put them in complete synthetic bodies created from splicing hundreds of technologies stolen or plundered from the wider galaxy, they didn't even have blood because that was too inconvenient
If he would have gone full lore the video would be over an hour long at least, and people in the comments sections would be having a nervous breakdown by the end of it..... likely because they are in secret FILTHY HERETICS.
sad he didn't mention how the black carapace is put on the marine. hint it requires flaying the marine alive and putting it on then reattaching the skin
Carter: "I read your file, Lieutenant. Even the parts ONI didn't want me to. I'm glad to have your skillset, but you can leave that lone wolf stuff behind."
Super soldiers from various franchises, all leading up to 40K's Astartes, and as usual 40K just has to be... well... 40K about it all. In a setting where more is most definitely more - more ridiculous trials of strength and 'purity', more extreme augmentation, higher procedure failure rate, more excessively gruesome medical procedures, more powerful weapons (Bullets? Bullets are just so pre-Imperial. Now, rocket propelled, mass reactive, armour piercing explosive warheads? That is more like it...), more high tech powered armour that is also sort of like medieval full plate armour crossed with a main battle tank, more delusional fanaticism and merciless ruthlessness.... ... And then the Astartes gets eaten by a giant killer space bug - the 40K cycle of life.
@@brandonforrester9729 And then a crippled warship falls out of high orbit and wipes out all life within a 100 mile radius. The survivors have no means of contacting the Imperium, but that's ok because they don't need to be redeployed- there's now a daemonic incursion to keep them occupied. Loyalist settlements form around the few remaining salvaged Gellarfield generators and while waging war in the desolate and irradiated and warp tainted wasteland is important, it's just as dangerous and important to go scavenging for materials and gear. Generations pass because the Imperium is too busy to check on you. The Daemonic incursion has been mostly stopped, but now only folklore tells of the way things once were through the lens of religious zealotry. There's probably one surviving wandering Custodes still looking for a means to salvage a way off planet. He is regarded as a wandering demigod. Everyone believes that the ghosts, daemons and other strange things are kept out of their settlements because they are consecrated holy sites, not realizing that the aging and salvaged Gellar fields which provide their safety could falter and leave them vulnerable at any time. Then some filthy xenos show up and you need to contend with them...
"Rocket propelled, armor piercing, mass reactive explosive warhead". That's basically an RPG. One more proof that the Imperium is basically RUSSIA IN SPACE!!
Actually it had 300 to start, then axed to 150 due to budget and complication reasons. Then of those 150 75 were finally chosed (some were rejected for deformities, some were left out because of how hard it would be to get them out, others were quite literally never found, vanished seemingly into thin air). Of those 75, 33 survived the augmentation, with an unknown number of washouts being rehabilitated and deployed to the field.
@@KillerOrca Many of the trainees were killed during training exercises as well. Training for the Spartan II program was brutal, just as brutal if not more so than what ODSTs had to go through, and these are just children who were training, not grown men.
@@darkbooger id say the spartan II training was definitely the hardest, they forced 6 yo to do military training which let to mental impacts as well as physical which was a very important factor in the spartan II project and subsequently led to the greatest spartan project the unsc achieved also why is he talking about spartan II augmentation but showing carter A259s spartan III augmentation
Question for the group: Would you sacrifice 10 years of your live expectancy but you'll be in peak physical, mental and overall health condition. So basically a toned down Captain America till you croak at 60 or so. No back problems, arthritis, asthma, allergies, cancer, heart disease, obesity, mental deterioration etc. I would.
Space Marines are functionally immortal...save the fact you're always going to die a horrible death, BUT on the flipside you get cool toys and lots of stress relief moments.
Doesn't really do the Astartes recruitment process justice. After all, there are the other joys of the process. Starting with a lot of the surgical procedures being performed in conditions that would appall a medieval plague doctor (gotta make sure the candidate's newly boosted immune system is up to scratch) and the frequent lack of anaesthetic (pain is an illusion of the mind) before moving onto the Chapter's Librarians having a rummage through your psyche to make sure your soul isn't tainted in any way (no, they're not gentle about it), frequent brainwashing via hypnosis all the while coupled to a training regimen that can charitably be described as 'relentless'. This process takes about 6-8 years depending on the Chapter. The real clincher, however, goes to the Space Wolves with the Test of Morkai. Thanks to some Dark Age genetic shenanigans, Space Marine geneseed isn't quite compatible with the genetics of native Fenrisians. To get around this, the Wolves implant the first stage of the geneseed, then fly the candidate several hundred kilometres away from their base and drop them into the snow covered wastes surrounding said base. All the candidate has to do to pass is get back to the base. No, they don't get any equipment beyond a loincloth. Yes, the environment is mostly polar tundra. And the continent is crawling with predators that include 'wolves' measuring 6 feet at the shoulder. And that not-quite-compatible geneseed I mentioned? There's a small but significant chance of it turning the candidate into what is basically a werewolf - something that the candidate is expected to hold in check by sheer force of will. If the candidate gets back, they get the next stage of the implants which stabilises things somewhat. If they don't get back...well, it's no major loss and it makes things more interesting for the next batch. It should not be a surprise that the success rate of Astartes induction is normally quoted as being about 1%.
Ironically, the Space Wolves Canis Helix might not be quite compatible with the people of Fenris, but they are the only people in the whole galaxy that it is AT ALL compatible with
You forget, many Chapters put would be recruits through a gruelling process that "weeds-out" a lot of them before they're even considered for selection. And the actual process includes more trials, some of which are really weird. Like the feast that tests the Omophagea, the Gene-Seed Organ that allows the Astartes to absorb genetic material from whatever they eat and process it for Genetic Memory. Some Chapters like to sneak in meat from humans into the feast. As for the Rite Of Morkai, I thought Space Wolf Aspirants only got a dose of the Canis Helix before they went on it?
@@garygcrook It's possible - the lore on this has gone back and forth over the last 30 years. Maybe the "Canis Helix" is the first stage of implantation for Space Wolves and only works on Fenrisians precisely because it's needed to make the Fenrisian tinkering work with the rest of the Astartes mods?
@Ankit Kumar singh , it's 22 , the original 19 , plus Sinew Coils, Magnificat, and the Belisarian Furnace. These 3 are nominally implanted between the "normal" steps of 3 &4 ( Biscopia and Haemastamen, and also dependant on Chapter implantation schedules)
A little note: Space marines don't get bone implants, they have a special organ that makes the bones grow faster and larger (it also makes their ribs flatten, overlap and eventually connect into one whole piece) and it hardens their bones natyrally via the excessive amount of minerals, including silicon, that they consume from their food.
@@The_Desert_Tiger primarchs are dead, mostly. well, corrupted ones are not, and Guilliman lives back again, by current fluff. But most loyalist ones are dead and gone.
@@michajastrzebski4383 There is only confirmed 4 dead ones (not counting the 2 mission primarchs) being Ferrus, Sanguinius, Kurze and Horus all of the others are MIA or have returned and as the story goes on my guess is we will see more of them turn up.
I would honestly go with Grey Knights of Ordo Malleus as the best of the Imperium. They go through potential recruits.... Well they mostly go through them xD
Alan..... Really? REALLY?!!! Velociraptors didn't eat the little girl in "The Lost World"... The girl got mauled by a Compathangosauras attack.... And she Survives it, while the parents sue INGEN.. (Kinda surprised I was able to spell that right without screwing it up, when I had to use spell check for "surprised"
Some other super soldier transformations that I can note: Skulls Parasite Unit from MGSV. The Skulls were members of XOF who were given a new species of parasites that turned them into a perfect killing machine but with the side effect of losing their cognitive functions and basically becoming zombies. They have heightened senses, super strength, and teleportation to name a few. Cyber Newtypes from The Gundam Universal Century timeline and the After War timeline. CNs are an artificial form of a new sub race of humans called "newtypes" ,which are humans that have telepathic powers. The process of creating Cyber Newtypes is still unknown in the Gundam canon but it is known that they are given organ transplants and chemicals that heighten their reaction speed and other physical/mental capabilities. They are also subjected to hypnotic conditioning that alters their personality and memories but with the side effect of rendering them mentally unstable with even the possibility of personality disorders. All this turns them into the perfect mecha pilots despite being a bit screwed in the head. Imperial Assassins from W40k. A bunch of people who were shown to having promising mental and physical capabilities who are then all stuffed inside a ship and forced to fight in a battle royale for survival until their ship arrives at their designated training facility. All the survivors are then given mental conditioning that deletes their memories and personalities and turn them into viscious killers. They are each then sent to one of seven Assassin temples that best suits their abilities to train and become Imperial Assassins. Psycho System Pilots from the Gundam Universal Century timeline. Pilots of the Psycho system are forced to have their limbs cut off and replaced with a cybernetic adapter that connects their nervous system to Mobile Suits that were built for the Psycho system. This in turn makes more natural movement and better reaction speed from their mechs.
Witcher's also go through a pretty lethal process to become superhuman, but they are more of a utility rather than a fighting force. Despite that, plenty of political factions in the Witcher will abuse the skills of a Witcher to take care of a political rival/target, much like Letho of Gulet was bribed into helping the Nilfgaard empire assassinate the Northern kings.
The Weapon X program within the Marvel franchise was a super-soldier program. Wolverine, and others injected with the adamantium made them nigh-unstoppable. The latest one from them, making a Hulk-Wolverine hybrid could take on a lot of those other guys, instant healing, unbreakable claws, near-unlimited strength, near-instantaneous reaction times in combat and extremely fast running.
Not sure if this really counts as Super Soldiers but. The Tenno from the Warframe Universe were they were use by the orokin to pilot the Warframes to fight off the sentients are technically super soldiers in that universe seeing as the warframes have abilities depending on their design and style.
I would definitely go through the training, augmentation and equipping of Mjolnir armour that the Spartans use especially if there were aliens invading
Warframes- (spoilers) Adults and their Children are put in a space ship that flies through an area of space called the void, which has properties that are pretty much magic. Doing so gave the children to gain incredible powers but drove the adults insane. So the children killed their parents and were left trapped on a ship alone, until they were found by their civilization and put into pods that allowed them to control drones (made o people) that harness their magical void powers to use a variety of powers such as fireballs energy swords, laser shooting disco balls, etc. They also gought in a war against space terminators and were eventually put into cryostasis, and forgot that they were children
As someone who loves 40K, I always appreciate a Space Marine shout out. But I have to say that their are a lot of other beings, and xenos scum that get bio-enhancements, and knowledge of them should spread. Humanity First!
Orks: getting bigger and stronger the longer they live and fight to a point were they can 1v1 a Primarch (see Vulcan) Tyranids: eat and grow rapidly if they don´t get killed -> Chaptermaster Calgar getting his limbs ripped off Necrons: literal immortal Killerrobots with the technology to completly desintegrate an Astartes with one shot Tau: have the technology to headshot the pilot of a landraider across a continent Chaos: Astartes with additional powerups and human psykers able to turn you inside out with a thought. Also huge ass demons.
The Rock has been completely open about his workout regiment. He doesn't use steroids. Hes half black, half samoan. That's where the size comes from- good genetics. The physique comes from intense training and diet. Dude eats an average persons weeks worth of food each day, and works out very intensely and intelligently 5 times a day with only 2 days off. Plus, he has millions of dollars to put towards keeping his physique in tip top shape. The average person simply can't afford to be the Rock's size. It literally costs thousands of dollars a day to eat and train like him. Steroids is the first excuse people with no clue, no plan, and no motivation run to.But the truth is steroids WOULD NOT give you a body like the Rock. They do more harm than good. Need physical proof that he doesn't do steroids? His skin is absolutely clear and he doesn't have bitch tits. Steroids of any kind create skin problems like acne, and they increase estrogen levels in men, leading to pronounced breast tissue, among other physical signs like smaller genitals and a lower sperm count (which I can't actually confirm since I haven't checked under his hood, but the first two I listed are easy to identify and happen in ALL steroid users). He doesn't have either of those. Solid proof he doesn't use steroids at all. Source: Not only am I a bodybuilder myself, I also hold a degree in kinesiology. I actually KNOW what I'm talking about, rather than ignorantly assuming something based on flawed information and myths. Don't talk like you're an authority on this, when it's obviously you only put in minimal time at the gym, Mr. Sloping Shoulders.
Honestly I think halo is seriously underrated and the discourse in the universe around halseycand the Spartans is some of in my opinion the most interesting idk what you’re yo want to call it intellectual or philosophical commentary I guess but it’s amazingly interesting
Spartan IIs got number 3? Imagine being taken as a kid in your sleep to wake up and get sent through brutal training until 16 then get geneticall modified and have barely any chance to survive, and then get turned into a child soldier, fighting unbearable odds, they definitely beat the Urukai
They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be of iron will and steely muscle. In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest guns will they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them. They will have tactics, strategies and machines so that no foe can best them in battle. They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines and they shall know no fear.
They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be of iron will and steely muscle. In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest guns will they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them. They will have tactics, strategies and machines so that no foe can best them in battle. They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines and they shall know no fear.
my good sir you forgot one, the Tenno the void changed them from organic carbon based life form to an energy based life form and I havent started about the awful experiments by Ballas and transference into the Warframes
You missed the soldiers from the movie SOLDIER. The newest batch soldiers were made "invitro" (test tube babies) using recumbent DNA, while the previous generations were selected at birth using extreme genetic profiling. For someone who was tagged "obsolete," SGT Todd was pretty bad-assed. For a "B-roll sci-fi movie," SOLDIER was pretty good!
150 Rugrat super-soldier candidate-victims found 75 cloned-copied-kidnapped-tortured-augmented-upgraded and only REALLY worked And those weren’t velociraptors according to the script though they were closer to the real size and function of velociraptors… what Hollywood keeps call Velociraptors is really more Utahraptor or perhaps Dakotaraptor
The difference between steroids and super soldier serum is you still have to put the work in for steroids to be effective. To be clear, I am not advocating steroid use! Just pointing out the difference.
What about the trial of grasses creating the Witchers? Or Adam Jensens surgical "optimization" in Deus Ex: Human Revolution? That opening scene is one of the most epic ones ever created!
Nanosuit 2 from Crysis. A suit that fuses itself with the human body, making it stronger, faster, harder to kill, and with the wonderful question on if you are even human anymore.
You aren't, but that doesn't really matter -- you transcend the human condition & become an entirely post-human synthesis of the nanosuit and the operator, inseparable & indistinguishable, but greater than either can be alone -- a new form of life. The question of being 'human' or not has become effectively irrelevant.
the Spartan in the live action video is Carter from noble team...a Spartan III not II, Spartan III’s were pretty much the same level as Spartan IIs but didn’t have the armor and the bio enhancements were way less invasive and not fatal
How about the Witcher process? Don’t know all the details of that one but I believe the success rate was 1 in 3? Would like to see a follow up vid on that.
I was worried the space marines weren't on this list until it got to the end. I think one of the more gruesome augments they get is when they literally skin them alive to apply the black carapace that acts like a nervous system and connects to their armor.
Surprised you neglected to mention that for the last geneseed organ to be implanted, the recruits skin is literally flayed off, so the Black Carapace can be implemented.
My favourite running joke. Star Wars fans want to live in that universe Star Trek Fans want to live in that universe. Warhammer40K fans absolutely DO NOT want to live in the 40K universe.
Aren’t the adeptus custodes chosen as infants which are then thrown into a tube where they are completely broken down and reformed into 10 ft tall immortal men clad in gold who have no other desire then to serve the manperor, that is pretty intense or just drastic. From weak ass infant to chads who have no emotion and are never corrupted by chaos
Its kinda funny to me, that the 40k universe is famous for its grim darkness, but the space marine recruitment is overall far less grim dark than the Spartan recruitment imo.
@Generation Films, you forgot about the SOR from Deathworlders on r/HFY. It's a pretty intense process, where they take a drug called "CRUE-D," where they get intense healing capabilities, and they just push themselves in the gym harder than anyone else could go, including supergravity and massively higher weights. instead of traditional gym exercises, where going too hard will tear muscles to the point of not being able to use them, with CRUE-D, they heal stronger than before, causing them to grow increasingly larger, and massing much higher than any other humans in the universe.
There were more than 75 kidnapped kids in the Spartan-II's. I think there were over 300 candidates. By the end of the program, like half of them somehow washed out (either during training or the surgeries)
Supposedly they only kidnapped half of that or 150 candidates. Which would mean half didn't make it to augmentations. However that is stupid of ONI and I think like you do that they kidnapped as many as possible as in the full 300 candidates. Which means 25% survived training. 11% survived both training and augmentations. Dr. Halsey even said as much in the fall of reach animated film.
You've dealt here primarily with one of two basic ideas. Here the idea is that the beings involved are modified themselves. The other idea is that the beings involved are put inside of suits that have enhanced capabilities. Though in some cases you have both. The problem with modifying the beings involved - except for the Urak-hai (which would seem to be able to be mass produced) - the beings themselves tended to go through a process that would limit their numbers. Here - the length of the process would prevent the program from keeping up with losses. If the emphasis is placed on the suits (as in Heinlein's book Starship Troopers) you can mass produce the suits and give the people being put in them training that while extensive wouldn't take long enough to prevent you from being able to replace your losses - and in fact - wouldn't stop you from increasing their numbers. .
Scrolled for a bit and didn't see it, so sorry if someone else said it first. Also, perhaps not "super soldiers" in the sense most would think of, so I expect many will disagree, but if you dig into the various creation/augmentation methods, more than a few qualify. Without further suspense, I invoke the old "god", Yawgmoth, and his phyrexians from MTG. Definitely a rough process, from horrid artificial and biological grafts and implants, wonderful mental reconditioning, and in many cases an actual need to die so that you could be "reborn" and properly compleated. These were always some of me favorite nightmares :)
Imagine "The Rock" and Vin Diesel will be transformed into a space marine. Earth will have a better chance in defending itself againts those vile Xenos.
Those actors would die horribly. They would never pass the trials to become an Astartes. Only the absolute best and brightest warriors humanity has ever produced in all of history would have a chance at becoming Astartes. And even then, most would die in the process.
you miss one think actually, with the clones of the children of spartan 2 program, they were designe to get sick after a time and die so the entire record of the Spartan II were erased, making them soldiers without any past or history and having only the UNSC and the unit as all they have. is not that the tecnology for cloning wasnt perfect.
I found most of these organizations very interesting especially the Uruk Hai and the Spartans because I am a big fan of both LOTRs and Halo. But I would say I would be a Space Marine out of these organizations mainly because I do not want to be on the Imperium of Man's bad side.
Actually, Heinlein's Mobile Infantry can take the Astartes without surgery. It's a lot more like Halo: Prototype than 40K, except with a lot more nukes, and deeper magazines.
Bonus points for, of course, stating that Warhammer 40k Space Marines are THE ultimate, enhanced super soldiers. Obviously the (*cough* cash- grab) Primaris Space Marines are the ultimate version (Grey Knights nonwithstanding) but minus points for referring to their organisation as the "Empire", rather than the "Imperium (of Man)".
I like the realism of Spartans. They aren't immortal, and can't survive god level damage. They however are improved far beyond a humans biological limits. Basically biological machines crafted to kill
Lets not forget the transformation of the secutor and the secutarii in warhemmer 40k.The weakness of the flesh is replaced with the strength and purity of iron.
I have no fucking idea what a secutor or secutarii is. I can only goess you are talking about servitors (mind wiped slaves) and skitarii (barely congicient slaves)
@@19Crusader91 Every Techpriest replaces their biological bodyparts for augmentaions. Not just Skitarii and Servitors. In fact some Magi (high ranked Techpriests) aren´t considered human anymore because their whole body is mechanic and their only feature thats still (barely) human is their face.
Y'all Ive started watching these like "I know Astartes will be on the list, I wanna see the other 3" Edit: ah I see many people have had the same thought
So a couple of videos ago I criticized the channel for lack of Verity and research. I must say you recent videos have been 100% better. I doubt it's cause of my last post but must say much better and keep up the good work 💪👍.
He doesn't use steroids. Dude doesn't know what he's talking about at ALL. It's clearly evident in his own physique (sloping shoulders, terrible posture, barely hidden paunch) that he barely puts in work, if any at all, at the gym. The Rock has been completely open about his workout regiment and diet. I wrote a comment going into more detail about this already, but the TLDR is he eats enough food to feed a small country per week (exagerration but not by much), works out intensely and intelligently 5 times a day, 5 days a week, and has millions of dollars to support his physique (something the average person simply can't afford to do). Him being half black half samoan also contributes to his size since he has great genetics.
I vote for the soldiers from Old Man's War by John Scaizi . The story starts when, John Perry, a 75-year-old retired advertising writer, joins the Colonial Defense Forces who protect human interplanetary colonists. Volunteers sign letters of intent and provide DNA samples at age 65, which John and his now deceased wife Kathy had done ten years prior to the beginning of the story. After visiting his wife's grave to say goodbye (as volunteers can never return to Earth), Following a series of sometimes bizarre psychological and physical tests, Perry's mind is ultimately transferred to a new body based on his genetic material. His new body is a younger version of himself, but genetically engineered with enhanced musculature, green skin, and yellow cat-like eyes. He now possesses enormous strength and dexterity, nanobot-enhanced artificialblood, enhanced eyesight and other senses, and most critically, a BrainPal-a neural interface that, among other capabilities,stores and processes mission data,links to the soldiers weapons and allows Perry to communicate with other members of the CDF via thought. (From Wikipedia.) Not a direct transformation of the original body but of the new body.
If I was 10 yrs old again, I would sign up to be an Astartes in a heartbeat! I if I survived, the weapons and armor available to me, the abilities granted, the promise of waging war on the enemies of the Emperor, sweet joy!!!!
Wouldn’t Custodes be the more intense program over the Astartes, Custodes have a much higher chance of dying during the process of creation, it’s one of the reasons why their numbers have never exceeded 10,000
Not only bcs of training but bcs of their loadouts . They got weapons which are relics to the imperium and not once they have lost their stuff also bcs their training starts in early adolescence and later childhood and production in mass number can cause unevenly distributed resources
" Let us know which one of these you'd join- that's a joke. You wouldn't want to join any of these. " *My life for the Emperor.*
"They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them and in the furnace of war I shall forge them. They shall be of iron will and steely sinew. In great armour I shall clad them and with the mightiest weapons shall they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight them. They shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best them in battle. They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines...and they shall know no fear."
- The Emperor of Mankind
The Emperor protects!
AVE IMPERATOR
Jk, HYDRA DOMINATUS, we are legion.
@lonelee hmmmm....
You do mean the guard don't you?
ave imperator, gloria in excelsis terra!
@@darkcloud93 very cool saying mate, I had to google translate it
and just for those like me that need a translation
ave imperator, gloria in excelsis terra!
"Hail Emperor glory in the highest!"
Allen; "You wouldn't wanna join any of these..."
Me; "Such utter heresy... PURGE HIM IN FLAMES!" xD
Let's join the guard, bruva!
FOR THE EMPRAH!
My favorite super soldier has to be Doomguy, who turned into a living god
While I love him, I still think a single Astarties would squish him, finish his mission, then ask what's next, he's still getting started.
Forgot about chief? i know doom guy is awesome but chief come in a close second.
@@r5509 he did say His favorite
@Joseph Douek because it makes doom's version of hell look like a nice peaceful wander through a summer meadow.
In Doomguys hell is there a planet were time repeats itself, just so a battle can go on for eternity, there is in the warp. Or places were randomly your innards are now on the outside, but your still perfectly alive. Or places were the air you breathe in suddenly is made of glass or sand, or the ears of mice because a demon thought it would be funny.
Or properly immortal enemies, including several which if you kill them, you become them.
Hell in the doom verse is just another reality, following a fixed set of rules & laws with no "gods" with unlimited and complete control over it. Hell itself can't corrupt you and twist you into a creature of evil/chaos, it requires active intervention to do anything like that.
The warp has only 1 rule, anything can and will happen. It has atleast 4 very twisted and all powerful deities that can change and do anything they want, at any time, including but not limited to messing with time itself. However the warp itself however doesn't need these gods to mess with you, the warp itself can and will twist and corrupt those who enter it, or are linked to it, making some evil, making some mutate, and randomly making some stay the same or even become paragons of light.
Simply put, to beat hell, you just need superior force. To beat the warp, you need to kill the entire universe so that it doesn't exist anymore, as its created and sustained by all living beings with a presence in it, and the 40k universe is hard to kill, they are if anything prepared for a fight.
@@r5509 Master Chief still pales in comparison to Astartes. Take Master Chief, give him the same steroids they gave him for the Spartan program, but times ten? Closer to an astartes. Plus give him literal armor under the skin, better eyes, the ability to spit acid, his body to fight most toxins and poisons like it's a common cold and if you're too wounded in battle, your body will feign death and put you in a coma where it regulates your body heat through a thin gel substance on your skin that also keeps the local wildlife from trying to snack on your " corpse ". ... Master Chief just drops dead if too wounded and a plasma burn can drop him if in the right spot. An Astartes needs to be struck with anti-vehicle weaponry and specially built rifles intended for Astartes vs. GIANT SPACE DAEMON COMBAT. Not sure Master Chief holds a candle to that. Doom Guy maybe, but as much as I love Master Chief, even I can look at things logically. Doom Guy beats Master Chief and an astartes with maybe three or four missions under his belt is a " Doom Guy " essentially after what they go through. Usually years of war and witnessing people melting from plagues, daemons that bring disease, their own brothers in arms being consumed by a special daemon made plague called warp rot that turns them into Plague Marines... I think Astartes take the blood soaked cake, personally.
Did anyone else start watching this video thinking, “If Astartes aren’t at the top of the list then the list is bullshit!”???
Yeah, absolutely
Yep
This!
Astartes are what Halo Spartans want to be when they grow up.
I didn't My first thought was "oh he has an astartes on the screen" after that I was right with you.
Another intense super soldier program was Manticore from the Dark Angel TV series. These super soldiers were bred with advanced genetic engineering and gene splicing from the DNA of certain animals. For example, a soldier intended for desert warfare would have the DNA of desert reptiles. However, Manticore was brought down by a team of super soldiers that had escaped from the Manticore facility years earlier, including the main protagonist of the series, Max Guevera. This led to the escape of dozens of experimental super soldier prototypes into an unsuspecting world.
Oh man I remember that show. Lot of people say it inspired Maximum Ride.
Scalizi's Old Mans War put them in complete synthetic bodies created from splicing hundreds of technologies stolen or plundered from the wider galaxy, they didn't even have blood because that was too inconvenient
That was the most pg overview of the Astarte process i have heard in a while.
If he would have gone full lore the video would be over an hour long at least, and people in the comments sections would be having a nervous breakdown by the end of it..... likely because they are in secret FILTHY HERETICS.
Guess we shouldn’t mention the Primus space marines 👍
sad he didn't mention how the black carapace is put on the marine. hint it requires flaying the marine alive and putting it on then reattaching the skin
hybrid9mm I hear they are the greatest base guitarists of all time and their gene seed comes from primarch claypool.
Spartan Crown 👍😂😂🤣🤣
The most intense transformation is a _training montage sequence_ to rock music.
We've only been training for one minute thirty seconds!
Carter: "I read your file, Lieutenant. Even the parts ONI didn't want me to. I'm glad to have your skillset, but you can leave that lone wolf stuff behind."
Got it, sir
@@Falloutgamer347 Welcome to Reach.
Emile: *irritated moan sounds*
Kat: *Questionable trust glare, revealing robo arm*
we are a team
How did you not talk about how the space marines get flayed alive in the process?
Probably to avoid getting demonetized.
@midgetydeath Fear is a corruption of the soul.
@Roboute Guilliman laughs in primaris
Super soldiers from various franchises, all leading up to 40K's Astartes, and as usual 40K just has to be... well... 40K about it all.
In a setting where more is most definitely more - more ridiculous trials of strength and 'purity', more extreme augmentation, higher procedure failure rate, more excessively gruesome medical procedures, more powerful weapons (Bullets? Bullets are just so pre-Imperial. Now, rocket propelled, mass reactive, armour piercing explosive warheads? That is more like it...), more high tech powered armour that is also sort of like medieval full plate armour crossed with a main battle tank, more delusional fanaticism and merciless ruthlessness....
... And then the Astartes gets eaten by a giant killer space bug - the 40K cycle of life.
It’s a harsh reality
Called “grim-dark” for a reason.
Then custodes kill the big ass bug or deathwatch
@@brandonforrester9729 And then a crippled warship falls out of high orbit and wipes out all life within a 100 mile radius. The survivors have no means of contacting the Imperium, but that's ok because they don't need to be redeployed- there's now a daemonic incursion to keep them occupied. Loyalist settlements form around the few remaining salvaged Gellarfield generators and while waging war in the desolate and irradiated and warp tainted wasteland is important, it's just as dangerous and important to go scavenging for materials and gear. Generations pass because the Imperium is too busy to check on you. The Daemonic incursion has been mostly stopped, but now only folklore tells of the way things once were through the lens of religious zealotry. There's probably one surviving wandering Custodes still looking for a means to salvage a way off planet. He is regarded as a wandering demigod. Everyone believes that the ghosts, daemons and other strange things are kept out of their settlements because they are consecrated holy sites, not realizing that the aging and salvaged Gellar fields which provide their safety could falter and leave them vulnerable at any time. Then some filthy xenos show up and you need to contend with them...
"Rocket propelled, armor piercing, mass reactive explosive warhead".
That's basically an RPG. One more proof that the Imperium is basically RUSSIA IN SPACE!!
First 3, "man that sucks"
Space Marines, "Hey! The apothecaries!"
The spartan II program She had over 300 candidates but only 75 candidates got constricted into the program in the end in 2517
Actually it had 300 to start, then axed to 150 due to budget and complication reasons. Then of those 150 75 were finally chosed (some were rejected for deformities, some were left out because of how hard it would be to get them out, others were quite literally never found, vanished seemingly into thin air). Of those 75, 33 survived the augmentation, with an unknown number of washouts being rehabilitated and deployed to the field.
@@KillerOrca Many of the trainees were killed during training exercises as well. Training for the Spartan II program was brutal, just as brutal if not more so than what ODSTs had to go through, and these are just children who were training, not grown men.
@@darkbooger id say the spartan II training was definitely the hardest, they forced 6 yo to do military training which let to mental impacts as well as physical which was a very important factor in the spartan II project and subsequently led to the greatest spartan project the unsc achieved
also why is he talking about spartan II augmentation but showing carter A259s spartan III augmentation
If Marvel got their act together:
Okay, after the super serum, you eat these berries from Wakanda. Now bring out the radioactive spider…
I don’t think a person could handle it all at once
Cool idea tho
Yes! You also need some magic to top it all off, they should do it to Thor!
And now they are ready to train at Kamar Taj.
@@dominiqueminor8039 Imagine if they gave the x1000 super soldier serum to Franklin Richards.
Question for the group: Would you sacrifice 10 years of your live expectancy but you'll be in peak physical, mental and overall health condition. So basically a toned down Captain America till you croak at 60 or so. No back problems, arthritis, asthma, allergies, cancer, heart disease, obesity, mental deterioration etc. I would.
i'd rather live long enough so that i can live forever without any ailments due to medical advancements.
Space Marines are functionally immortal...save the fact you're always going to die a horrible death, BUT on the flipside you get cool toys and lots of stress relief moments.
@@jamoecw well yeah that would be nice too
Danny Gelbart hahaha stress relief, PURGE IT WITH FLAME!
sign me up!!
The only way the opening scene from Universal Soldier could get any more American was if they started watching Rugby and eating Haggis
I don't think Rugby's American lmao, I think you mean American Football which is pussy's rugby.
@@tigersympathiser2265 I think that's the joke
@@Sandycheeks6699 Oh if that's the case it went right over my head lmao
Rugby and haggis?
@@bruceweiner5306 and a bottle of irn bru
Doesn't really do the Astartes recruitment process justice. After all, there are the other joys of the process. Starting with a lot of the surgical procedures being performed in conditions that would appall a medieval plague doctor (gotta make sure the candidate's newly boosted immune system is up to scratch) and the frequent lack of anaesthetic (pain is an illusion of the mind) before moving onto the Chapter's Librarians having a rummage through your psyche to make sure your soul isn't tainted in any way (no, they're not gentle about it), frequent brainwashing via hypnosis all the while coupled to a training regimen that can charitably be described as 'relentless'.
This process takes about 6-8 years depending on the Chapter.
The real clincher, however, goes to the Space Wolves with the Test of Morkai. Thanks to some Dark Age genetic shenanigans, Space Marine geneseed isn't quite compatible with the genetics of native Fenrisians. To get around this, the Wolves implant the first stage of the geneseed, then fly the candidate several hundred kilometres away from their base and drop them into the snow covered wastes surrounding said base. All the candidate has to do to pass is get back to the base. No, they don't get any equipment beyond a loincloth. Yes, the environment is mostly polar tundra. And the continent is crawling with predators that include 'wolves' measuring 6 feet at the shoulder. And that not-quite-compatible geneseed I mentioned? There's a small but significant chance of it turning the candidate into what is basically a werewolf - something that the candidate is expected to hold in check by sheer force of will. If the candidate gets back, they get the next stage of the implants which stabilises things somewhat. If they don't get back...well, it's no major loss and it makes things more interesting for the next batch.
It should not be a surprise that the success rate of Astartes induction is normally quoted as being about 1%.
Ironically, the Space Wolves Canis Helix might not be quite compatible with the people of Fenris, but they are the only people in the whole galaxy that it is AT ALL compatible with
There are no wolves on Fenris...
You forget, many Chapters put would be recruits through a gruelling process that "weeds-out" a lot of them before they're even considered for selection.
And the actual process includes more trials, some of which are really weird.
Like the feast that tests the Omophagea, the Gene-Seed Organ that allows the Astartes to absorb genetic material from whatever they eat and process it for Genetic Memory.
Some Chapters like to sneak in meat from humans into the feast.
As for the Rite Of Morkai, I thought Space Wolf Aspirants only got a dose of the Canis Helix before they went on it?
@@garygcrook It's possible - the lore on this has gone back and forth over the last 30 years. Maybe the "Canis Helix" is the first stage of implantation for Space Wolves and only works on Fenrisians precisely because it's needed to make the Fenrisian tinkering work with the rest of the Astartes mods?
You think Space Wolf selection is bad... wait till you hear about the Grey Knights...
Primaris Astartes have 22 new organs added
One of them is Belisarius Cawl's cyberdong in their butt.
Derpimus Maximus you just made my day lol
@Ankit Kumar singh , it's 22 , the original 19 , plus Sinew Coils, Magnificat, and the Belisarian Furnace. These 3 are nominally implanted between the "normal" steps of 3 &4 ( Biscopia and Haemastamen, and also dependant on Chapter implantation schedules)
A little note: Space marines don't get bone implants, they have a special organ that makes the bones grow faster and larger (it also makes their ribs flatten, overlap and eventually connect into one whole piece) and it hardens their bones natyrally via the excessive amount of minerals, including silicon, that they consume from their food.
Celestial turtle? What is this heresy!?!?! Inquisitor!!! Inquisitor!!!!!! Here!!! Heretic!!!!
Chris Ram we have arrived
And the Space Marines aren't even the best supersoldiers in the Imperium ... that would be the Custodes
I mean a case could be made that the Primarchs are
@@The_Desert_Tiger primarchs are dead, mostly. well, corrupted ones are not, and Guilliman lives back again, by current fluff. But most loyalist ones are dead and gone.
@@michajastrzebski4383 There is only confirmed 4 dead ones (not counting the 2 mission primarchs) being Ferrus, Sanguinius, Kurze and Horus all of the others are MIA or have returned and as the story goes on my guess is we will see more of them turn up.
I would honestly go with Grey Knights of Ordo Malleus as the best of the Imperium. They go through potential recruits.... Well they mostly go through them xD
@@michajastrzebski4383 VULKAN LIVES
Me: *Reads title* "Huh? Wonder how long until 40k pops..."
Video: First image is of an Adeptus Astartes.
Me: "Damn that's got to be a record."
Alan..... Really? REALLY?!!!
Velociraptors didn't eat the little girl in "The Lost World"...
The girl got mauled by a Compathangosauras attack.... And she Survives it, while the parents sue INGEN..
(Kinda surprised I was able to spell that right without screwing it up, when I had to use spell check for "surprised"
*Compsognathus
Procompsognatus
Compys!
Thank you for this.
Don’t forget some of the Spartan IIs whose bodies rejected their augmentations were rehabilitated later, such as Jerome, Alice, and Douglas.
Hilarious commentary. The dryer the delivery the better. Keep it up!
Some other super soldier transformations that I can note:
Skulls Parasite Unit from MGSV. The Skulls were members of XOF who were given a new species of parasites that turned them into a perfect killing machine but with the side effect of losing their cognitive functions and basically becoming zombies. They have heightened senses, super strength, and teleportation to name a few.
Cyber Newtypes from The Gundam Universal Century timeline and the After War timeline. CNs are an artificial form of a new sub race of humans called "newtypes" ,which are humans that have telepathic powers. The process of creating Cyber Newtypes is still unknown in the Gundam canon but it is known that they are given organ transplants and chemicals that heighten their reaction speed and other physical/mental capabilities. They are also subjected to hypnotic conditioning that alters their personality and memories but with the side effect of rendering them mentally unstable with even the possibility of personality disorders. All this turns them into the perfect mecha pilots despite being a bit screwed in the head.
Imperial Assassins from W40k. A bunch of people who were shown to having promising mental and physical capabilities who are then all stuffed inside a ship and forced to fight in a battle royale for survival until their ship arrives at their designated training facility. All the survivors are then given mental conditioning that deletes their memories and personalities and turn them into viscious killers. They are each then sent to one of seven Assassin temples that best suits their abilities to train and become Imperial Assassins.
Psycho System Pilots from the Gundam Universal Century timeline. Pilots of the Psycho system are forced to have their limbs cut off and replaced with a cybernetic adapter that connects their nervous system to Mobile Suits that were built for the Psycho system. This in turn makes more natural movement and better reaction speed from their mechs.
Wow never was a big halo guy but their past story reminded me of an more extreme version of what they did in “ Soldier “ with Kurt Russell
Well these guys from Lord of the Rings are the only fantasy supersoldiers in the fantasy world.
@@KaiserPanzerM42 ok, didn't know u Stormcast Eternals exist, my bad. Lol!
@@KaiserPanzerM42 Stormcast are, much like Halo Spartans, Astartes knock-offs.
Grail knights are an army of french captain americas and chaos warriors are fantasy space marines because astartes are based off chaos warriors
Witcher's also go through a pretty lethal process to become superhuman, but they are more of a utility rather than a fighting force. Despite that, plenty of political factions in the Witcher will abuse the skills of a Witcher to take care of a political rival/target, much like Letho of Gulet was bribed into helping the Nilfgaard empire assassinate the Northern kings.
Look up "Age of Sigmar"
The Weapon X program within the Marvel franchise was a super-soldier program. Wolverine, and others injected with the adamantium made them nigh-unstoppable. The latest one from them, making a Hulk-Wolverine hybrid could take on a lot of those other guys, instant healing, unbreakable claws, near-unlimited strength, near-instantaneous reaction times in combat and extremely fast running.
Not sure if this really counts as Super Soldiers but.
The Tenno from the Warframe Universe were they were use by the orokin to pilot the Warframes to fight off the sentients are technically super soldiers in that universe seeing as the warframes have abilities depending on their design and style.
I would definitely go through the training, augmentation and equipping of Mjolnir armour that the Spartans use especially if there were aliens invading
They are the bulwark against the terror.
They are the defenders of humanity:
They are my Space Marines.
And they shall know no fear.
Warframes- (spoilers)
Adults and their Children are put in a space ship that flies through an area of space called the void, which has properties that are pretty much magic. Doing so gave the children to gain incredible powers but drove the adults insane. So the children killed their parents and were left trapped on a ship alone, until they were found by their civilization and put into pods that allowed them to control drones (made o people) that harness their magical void powers to use a variety of powers such as fireballs energy swords, laser shooting disco balls, etc. They also gought in a war against space terminators and were eventually put into cryostasis, and forgot that they were children
Those are not super soldiers they are more a kin to puppet masters
Calling the Guard a speed bump.... Shows what you know.
As someone who loves 40K, I always appreciate a Space Marine shout out. But I have to say that their are a lot of other beings, and xenos scum that get bio-enhancements, and knowledge of them should spread. Humanity First!
Orks: getting bigger and stronger the longer they live and fight to a point were they can 1v1 a Primarch (see Vulcan)
Tyranids: eat and grow rapidly if they don´t get killed -> Chaptermaster Calgar getting his limbs ripped off
Necrons: literal immortal Killerrobots with the technology to completly desintegrate an Astartes with one shot
Tau: have the technology to headshot the pilot of a landraider across a continent
Chaos: Astartes with additional powerups and human psykers able to turn you inside out with a thought. Also huge ass demons.
Bcs we are humans and we care for our survival rather than having those xenos scum who massacred our species
The Rock has been completely open about his workout regiment. He doesn't use steroids. Hes half black, half samoan. That's where the size comes from- good genetics. The physique comes from intense training and diet. Dude eats an average persons weeks worth of food each day, and works out very intensely and intelligently 5 times a day with only 2 days off. Plus, he has millions of dollars to put towards keeping his physique in tip top shape. The average person simply can't afford to be the Rock's size. It literally costs thousands of dollars a day to eat and train like him.
Steroids is the first excuse people with no clue, no plan, and no motivation run to.But the truth is steroids WOULD NOT give you a body like the Rock. They do more harm than good. Need physical proof that he doesn't do steroids? His skin is absolutely clear and he doesn't have bitch tits. Steroids of any kind create skin problems like acne, and they increase estrogen levels in men, leading to pronounced breast tissue, among other physical signs like smaller genitals and a lower sperm count (which I can't actually confirm since I haven't checked under his hood, but the first two I listed are easy to identify and happen in ALL steroid users). He doesn't have either of those. Solid proof he doesn't use steroids at all. Source: Not only am I a bodybuilder myself, I also hold a degree in kinesiology. I actually KNOW what I'm talking about, rather than ignorantly assuming something based on flawed information and myths.
Don't talk like you're an authority on this, when it's obviously you only put in minimal time at the gym, Mr. Sloping Shoulders.
Other franchises:
Warhammer 40k: that's cute
The balancing of 40k is basicly "if everything is overpowered, nothing is OP in comparison"
@@unnamed1613 Until they make Primaris Iron Hands. Then they're just OP as hell.
Spartan program has a 5% chance of death? Space marines are what 90% failure rates and Custodes are like 1 in a million success rate.
@@padrescout the spartan II death rate was 36 percent in augmentation and there were more wash outs
Honestly I think halo is seriously underrated and the discourse in the universe around halseycand the Spartans is some of in my opinion the most interesting idk what you’re yo want to call it intellectual or philosophical commentary I guess but it’s amazingly interesting
Spartan IIs got number 3? Imagine being taken as a kid in your sleep to wake up and get sent through brutal training until 16 then get geneticall modified and have barely any chance to survive, and then get turned into a child soldier, fighting unbearable odds, they definitely beat the Urukai
See the turtle ain't he keen? All things serve the fuckin beam
They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be of iron will and steely muscle. In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest guns will they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them. They will have tactics, strategies and machines so that no foe can best them in battle. They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines and they shall know no fear.
They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be of iron will and steely muscle. In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest guns will they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them. They will have tactics, strategies and machines so that no foe can best them in battle. They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines and they shall know no fear.
in the space wolves, the fresh recruits are placed in a blood claw pack, only the old and proven may be acceptable as scouts.
You forgot that during the bio-augmentation the space marines have to be completely awake otherwise the augmentation will fail
Same goes for Spartans.
my good sir you forgot one, the Tenno the void changed them from organic carbon based life form to an energy based life form and I havent started about the awful experiments by Ballas and transference into the Warframes
4:25 Those are Compsognathus.
Turtle holding discworld got me to tears laughing xD
You missed the soldiers from the movie SOLDIER. The newest batch soldiers were made "invitro" (test tube babies) using recumbent DNA, while the previous generations were selected at birth using extreme genetic profiling. For someone who was tagged "obsolete," SGT Todd was pretty bad-assed.
For a "B-roll sci-fi movie," SOLDIER was pretty good!
This guy woke up and had to debate how many beaclets he should wear.
150 Rugrat super-soldier candidate-victims found 75 cloned-copied-kidnapped-tortured-augmented-upgraded and only REALLY worked
And those weren’t velociraptors according to the script though they were closer to the real size and function of velociraptors… what Hollywood keeps call Velociraptors is really more Utahraptor or perhaps Dakotaraptor
I saw this in my recommended and immediately i KNEW what the winner was gonna be
YOU ARE WEAK
@@imperialplebian2547 i am the embodiment of strength
@@ferrusmanus184 nvm, I thought you were the skost
The fucked up thing with the Adeptus Astartes is when they become Scout Marines, the process still isn't finished.
I was hoping to see the new recruits from the movie Soldier, underrated movie and Todd kicks butt.
The difference between steroids and super soldier serum is you still have to put the work in for steroids to be effective.
To be clear, I am not advocating steroid use!
Just pointing out the difference.
Dolph Lundgren is a IRL superhuman, no artificial augmentation needed.
Love your work!
What about the trial of grasses creating the Witchers?
Or Adam Jensens surgical "optimization" in Deus Ex: Human Revolution? That opening scene is one of the most epic ones ever created!
Nanosuit 2 from Crysis. A suit that fuses itself with the human body, making it stronger, faster, harder to kill, and with the wonderful question on if you are even human anymore.
You aren't, but that doesn't really matter -- you transcend the human condition & become an entirely post-human synthesis of the nanosuit and the operator, inseparable & indistinguishable, but greater than either can be alone -- a new form of life. The question of being 'human' or not has become effectively irrelevant.
the Spartan in the live action video is Carter from noble team...a Spartan III not II, Spartan III’s were pretty much the same level as Spartan IIs but didn’t have the armor and the bio enhancements were way less invasive and not fatal
I never really saw the Uruk-Hai as super soldiers before, but it does check out
How about the Witcher process? Don’t know all the details of that one but I believe the success rate was 1 in 3? Would like to see a follow up vid on that.
Acid spit is metal as fuck
I was worried the space marines weren't on this list until it got to the end. I think one of the more gruesome augments they get is when they literally skin them alive to apply the black carapace that acts like a nervous system and connects to their armor.
Lets be real, in any list of intense transformations, Astartes take the fucking cake.
Surprised you neglected to mention that for the last geneseed organ to be implanted, the recruits skin is literally flayed off, so the Black Carapace can be implemented.
The Spec Ops from 'Soldier' is also incredible
My favourite running joke. Star Wars fans want to live in that universe
Star Trek Fans want to live in that universe.
Warhammer40K fans absolutely DO NOT want to live in the 40K universe.
The fact that Dolph is a chemical engineer is amazing
Aren’t the adeptus custodes chosen as infants which are then thrown into a tube where they are completely broken down and reformed into 10 ft tall immortal men clad in gold who have no other desire then to serve the manperor, that is pretty intense or just drastic.
From weak ass infant to chads who have no emotion and are never corrupted by chaos
Its kinda funny to me, that the 40k universe is famous for its grim darkness, but the space marine recruitment is overall far less grim dark than the Spartan recruitment imo.
Ohh my Child you haven't read any codex Have you? Ohh my sweet child you haven't Known all the Astartes Indoctrinations of all the chapters.
As a Jurassic park fan my feelings were greatly hurt just now 😂😂 he really called them velociraptors
@Generation Films, you forgot about the SOR from Deathworlders on r/HFY. It's a pretty intense process, where they take a drug called "CRUE-D," where they get intense healing capabilities, and they just push themselves in the gym harder than anyone else could go, including supergravity and massively higher weights. instead of traditional gym exercises, where going too hard will tear muscles to the point of not being able to use them, with CRUE-D, they heal stronger than before, causing them to grow increasingly larger, and massing much higher than any other humans in the universe.
Talks about Spartan II program, shows footage of Spartan III
ikr
There were more than 75 kidnapped kids in the Spartan-II's. I think there were over 300 candidates. By the end of the program, like half of them somehow washed out (either during training or the surgeries)
Supposedly they only kidnapped half of that or 150 candidates. Which would mean half didn't make it to augmentations.
However that is stupid of ONI and I think like you do that they kidnapped as many as possible as in the full 300 candidates. Which means 25% survived training. 11% survived both training and augmentations.
Dr. Halsey even said as much in the fall of reach animated film.
Where's American Ben gushing about Gunnery Sgt Roberta Draper and the MMC?
I love super soldier's form crysis.
You've dealt here primarily with one of two basic ideas. Here the idea is that the beings involved are modified themselves.
The other idea is that the beings involved are put inside of suits that have enhanced capabilities.
Though in some cases you have both.
The problem with modifying the beings involved - except for the Urak-hai (which would seem to be able to be mass produced) - the beings themselves tended to go through a process that would limit their numbers. Here - the length of the process would prevent the program from keeping up with losses.
If the emphasis is placed on the suits (as in Heinlein's book Starship Troopers) you can mass produce the suits and give the people being put in them training that while extensive wouldn't take long enough to prevent you from being able to replace your losses - and in fact - wouldn't stop you from increasing their numbers.
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Scrolled for a bit and didn't see it, so sorry if someone else said it first. Also, perhaps not "super soldiers" in the sense most would think of, so I expect many will disagree, but if you dig into the various creation/augmentation methods, more than a few qualify. Without further suspense, I invoke the old "god", Yawgmoth, and his phyrexians from MTG. Definitely a rough process, from horrid artificial and biological grafts and implants, wonderful mental reconditioning, and in many cases an actual need to die so that you could be "reborn" and properly compleated. These were always some of me favorite nightmares :)
Are you now, or have you ever been, a Suspicious Observer? Celestial Turtle indeed.
19 new organs..... except for the new ones that get 22.
while not soldiers per say... I have to say I am a little bummed that Witchers are not on this freaking list.
For Blood For Glory For The Emperor
Imagine "The Rock" and Vin Diesel will be transformed into a space marine. Earth will have a better chance in defending itself againts those vile Xenos.
Those actors would die horribly. They would never pass the trials to become an Astartes. Only the absolute best and brightest warriors humanity has ever produced in all of history would have a chance at becoming Astartes. And even then, most would die in the process.
...idk you gotta have brains to be a spacemarine.. So the rock maybe? But Vin Diesle is about as sharp as cottonballs mentally..
@@Gunnar001 and also the initiates are usually selected at a young age, like preteen
you miss one think actually, with the clones of the children of spartan 2 program, they were designe to get sick after a time and die so the entire record of the Spartan II were erased, making them soldiers without any past or history and having only the UNSC and the unit as all they have. is not that the tecnology for cloning wasnt perfect.
yeah but the father of Naomi 010 saw past it so the history of them was not complately erased but that was a special circumstance
I found most of these organizations very interesting especially the Uruk Hai and the Spartans because I am a big fan of both LOTRs and Halo. But I would say I would be a Space Marine out of these organizations mainly because I do not want to be on the Imperium of Man's bad side.
Actually, Heinlein's Mobile Infantry can take the Astartes without surgery. It's a lot more like Halo: Prototype than 40K, except with a lot more nukes, and deeper magazines.
Am I the only one who thinks the guy in the thumbnail looks like Xander Corvus?
Bonus points for, of course, stating that Warhammer 40k Space Marines are THE ultimate, enhanced super soldiers. Obviously the (*cough* cash- grab) Primaris Space Marines are the ultimate version (Grey Knights nonwithstanding) but minus points for referring to their organisation as the "Empire", rather than the "Imperium (of Man)".
The night lords and space sharks took rough criminals and turned them into space marines
I like the realism of Spartans. They aren't immortal, and can't survive god level damage. They however are improved far beyond a humans biological limits. Basically biological machines crafted to kill
Lets not forget the transformation of the secutor and the secutarii in warhemmer 40k.The weakness of the flesh is replaced with the strength and purity of iron.
I have no fucking idea what a secutor or secutarii is. I can only goess you are talking about servitors (mind wiped slaves) and skitarii (barely congicient slaves)
@@19Crusader91 Every Techpriest replaces their biological bodyparts for augmentaions. Not just Skitarii and Servitors. In fact some Magi (high ranked Techpriests) aren´t considered human anymore because their whole body is mechanic and their only feature thats still (barely) human is their face.
with the spartan-ii program, some of the washouts and killed would end up re-entering service as full SPARTAN-IIs, such as the halo wars red team
Some were used in other ways as well.
Y'all Ive started watching these like "I know Astartes will be on the list, I wanna see the other 3"
Edit: ah I see many people have had the same thought
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Ahh yes micro compyrators
Has anyone seen the movie "Soldier(1998)"? The super soldiers training scenes in that movie were pretty intense.
I'm not a big Rock fan, but the Rock probably doesn't need a lot of steroids. He's 1/2 Samoan.
He doesn't use steroids. Dude doesn't know what he's talking about at ALL. It's clearly evident in his own physique (sloping shoulders, terrible posture, barely hidden paunch) that he barely puts in work, if any at all, at the gym. The Rock has been completely open about his workout regiment and diet. I wrote a comment going into more detail about this already, but the TLDR is he eats enough food to feed a small country per week (exagerration but not by much), works out intensely and intelligently 5 times a day, 5 days a week, and has millions of dollars to support his physique (something the average person simply can't afford to do). Him being half black half samoan also contributes to his size since he has great genetics.
I vote for the soldiers from Old Man's War by John Scaizi .
The story starts when,
John Perry, a 75-year-old retired advertising writer, joins the Colonial Defense Forces who protect human interplanetary colonists. Volunteers sign letters of intent and provide DNA samples at age 65, which John and his now deceased wife Kathy had done ten years prior to the beginning of the story. After visiting his wife's grave to say goodbye (as volunteers can never return to Earth),
Following a series of sometimes bizarre psychological and physical tests, Perry's mind is ultimately transferred to a new body based on his genetic material. His new body is a younger version of himself, but genetically engineered with enhanced musculature, green skin, and yellow cat-like eyes. He now possesses enormous strength and dexterity, nanobot-enhanced artificialblood, enhanced eyesight and other senses, and most critically, a BrainPal-a neural interface that, among other capabilities,stores and processes mission data,links to the soldiers weapons and allows Perry to communicate with other members of the CDF via thought.
(From Wikipedia.)
Not a direct transformation of the original body but of the new body.
I asked Generation Films to do a list of super soldier that someone would want to join. This choice would make the list.
kindna like the rougue trooper from 2000ad but instead of green they ara blue
@@zarizinur1922 yes, no bio-chips though.
If I was 10 yrs old again, I would sign up to be an Astartes in a heartbeat!
I if I survived, the weapons and armor available to me, the abilities granted, the promise of waging war on the enemies of the Emperor, sweet joy!!!!
Sgt. TODD, Soldier. 1996.
Wouldn’t Custodes be the more intense program over the Astartes, Custodes have a much higher chance of dying during the process of creation, it’s one of the reasons why their numbers have never exceeded 10,000
Yes
Grey Knights.
Not only bcs of training but bcs of their loadouts . They got weapons which are relics to the imperium and not once they have lost their stuff also bcs their training starts in early adolescence and later childhood and production in mass number can cause unevenly distributed resources
@@boutinpowered8373 not as much as custodian
Yeah but there isn’t as much detail about the Custodian creation process beyond it’s much more intense than anything Space Marines go through.