 So I was having a bit of trouble trying to figure out what video I was going to make today. I know I was going to do two you're wrong about every, well, one you're wrong about every week, so two in my normal cycle, but I couldn't for the life of me for some reason just out of the blue think of anything to do. And then I was reading the news and it came to me. So today we're going to talk about how you're wrong about death in the SCP universe. Let's get started. I'd say there's three major storylines in the SCP universe or SCPs based around the idea of death. So there's probably, I'm not sure which one would be more famous at this point, but there's O death, what happens after, and the end of death canon. The end of death canon is a very, very well developed canon about what happens in the SCP universe if something happens to death, which is not a exactly original idea, but they develop it very well and they do a lot of fun things with it. I say it's not original because the cancer verse has existed in the marvel marvels back once the best way to put it. It's an alternate universe for marvel for a very long time, where that's another universe where death died, I guess. Death was removed and no longer functioned so the entire universe kind of becomes cancer. Then there's also O death and what happens after. O death is interesting because it's interesting for a couple reasons. I originally remember pitching cactus an idea many, many moons ago. He probably doesn't even remember it, but I pitched him, what if you read an airplane when you took off in it, you were instantly transported to a world where everything had just died, but you could only see it from the sky, like you could just see the effects of it, and everything had literally just died the moment you walked or walked, the moment you flew away, and that was before O death ever existed. And then I saw O death one day and I was like, huh, well, he did a way better job with my idea than I ever did, but I'm gonna bet in the end it probably was just something that stuck in his head and he didn't even remember that I pitched it at him a long time ago. Anyway, that's that's not, that's just a fun little wiki story. Yeah, I have a bad habit of coming up with really good ideas and then not writing them and then watching somebody else do spectacularly with them. I also did that with an Ikea-like idea. I showed it to the guy who wrote Ikea and he was like, wow, that is very similar, but he had written his before you ever saw that. I wrote an endless Walmart. It was exactly the same thing. It was an Eldritch, an endless Walmart. But I wrote a draft for it and then I didn't use it. Regardless, death. I get off topic. I'm on a tangent. I'm having one of those days. So we have O death, which is an interesting examination of a world where literally death is a thing that you can carry around with you and literally kills everybody, everything all at once. Which as an example of like when you deal with, you see death is one of those things that's like primal. It's a serious primal fear for most people and what you can do when you're writing fiction of any kind is you can take your primal fear, especially horror fiction, and you can turn them into some sort of story point that's useful for you. What we do with stuff like death especially is try to make it interesting and you're like, well, isn't death interesting all on its own? Not really. Death is usually the end of the story. It doesn't have to be, especially in supernatural fiction. But by and large, a death ends someone or something's story. Either it ends the story completely or it ends a character arc because obviously you can't have further character development after you're dead unless you're a vampire. Like I said, supernatural fiction gives you an opportunity to fiddle with that a little bit. But in the SCP universe, death is often used, it's weird that they do this because you live in a supernatural universe where death is not necessarily a final. But in a lot of cases, when you see like D-class, D-class are used a lot to demonstrate death, but in a way to make it seem like it's super scary, right? So your SCP is dangerous, it kills people. Look, we send a D-class in and now that D-class is dead. Unfortunately, I think a lot of people miss that it's not super interesting on its own for something to just kill people. That's a tip for you writers out there. Just killing folk doesn't make it scary. But we can examine the role of death in fiction and the idea of death in a supernatural sense has existed in comic books and television and movies for a very long time. So there's a lot of ground that's already been covered, which is why things like Odeath is a completely fresh idea, just a world where everything has just died. It's kind of a post-apocalyptic story, except there are no survivors, right? Or we haven't talked about it yet, but what happens after is another interesting story of what happens after you die. And it basically just says that all existence is suffering even after you die, which is a bit of an edgy way to look at it. All existence is suffering, but at least there's a sweet embrace of death and then I suffer some more. That's the underlying message of, not Odeath, but what happens after. See, my issue with what happens after has always been that it seems like it very hamfistedly tries to demonstrate to the reader what's going on. It's like, in case you didn't notice, in case you didn't see, this is a serious problem. You can describe what happens to this guy after he dies. Well, he experiences literally every moment in exquisite agonizing pain. And you're like, okay, well, that's something. And you draw your own conclusions from it. And then the article tells you before the end. And by the way, that's horrifying, which is my least favorite way to tell any audience anything is to just straight out tell them how they should feel. You should feel scared of this. This Keter, death should be declared a Keter anomaly. Continuity costs. Talks like that. No one talks like that. Anyway, I have problems with that article. But you can look at these varieties of articles and how they address death in a supernatural sense in the SCP universe specifically. Bright is another good example of that. You see this a lot. Let's take a character and see what happens to them if they can't die. And Bright is the example for that in the SCP universe. Although there might be others. I don't know if there are any others that are like major characters. Dr. Bright is definitely a good example. He's the vampire of the SCP universe. The version of it like, hey, let's take this horrible world we live in and put a person in it who can't die. Because you look at this horrible world, the SCP 173. If I don't look at it, it's going to snap my neck. That's scary. Or a 106 is going to pull me into his pocket dimension and eat me alive. Then you take that universe and you throw in a guy who can't die or essentially can't die. There's a way. But it's still immortality. And I've played around with immortality a lot. In fact, immortal white guys are kind of my niche on the SCP wiki, which may have something to do with the fact that I fear not death, but oblivion, the idea of being forgotten after I'm gone, more than anything else in the entire world. And also I'm a white guy. And I try to write you write what you know. But I've written, let's see, I've written multiple immortal guys who and shown how they how they go through the world after becoming immortal. So I've got no fury, which is about a guy who became immortal back in the 1800s or late 1800s and did some terrible shit and has to pay for it eventually. And I've done the anti Pope who is a regenerative Pope from I want to say the 1300s roughly. So he's an immortal fella as well. I did a God. I feel like there's more. I'm trying to think. I don't know. I've definitely done at least three. I feel like I've done more than three. Of course, there's Dr. Sumerian. I mean, I don't have to explain to you how he's immortal, right? Anyway, that's a little tidbit for you, lowerhounds out there. I get everyone's want to get people bugging me about like, stuff for Dr. Smith, like what's going on with Dr. Sumerian? I'm like, well, this is what's going on with Dr. Sumerian. Okay, I think the SCP universe is a good it's does a very good job generally of examining death as a point in fiction, right? Because it's always been an issue in fiction. How do you deal with a character death in a way that doesn't destroy your story? Death is the highest possible. So it's not the highest possible stakes, but in most stories, it's the highest possible stakes. There are apocalyptic stakes, especially in the SCP wiki. And the thing with the sv wiki is always tries to raise the stakes and technically apocalyptic stakes are still talking about death. It's just death on a wide scale. But the the issue with fiction and death has always been death ends a story or it ends a character. So once you do it, you know, that the Superman kind of thing, if you do it, and you go back on it, then it no longer ever has any weight at all. When a character dies in comic books now, you don't think, oh man, so and so is dead. Some people do, but you don't think you shouldn't think oh, oh, so and so is dead. Spider-Man dies. I'm not going to think that Spider-Man is not going to be back in a year. He makes too much money for Marvel. Same thing goes for most of the people in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, even like when you see a character, you're like, oh, they died. I don't know if they did depends on who they are and if they if they've got their own franchise or not. So then you lose that impact of that death, right? Like the same thing goes for Dr. Bright. Like Dr. Bright's stories aren't about his death. He's not afraid of dying because dying is wrote. It's like breathing for him. It's just what he does. It's the kind of thing like that that lets you unlock kind of a that deep seated fear that everyone has of oblivion of death of, you know, the unknown, what happens after. I think the SCP Wikis take on death when it's not being used as a cheap plot point to try and scare readers. It's probably one of the better ones in fiction because it's about consequences and those consequences have to matter. It can't be like I said. It can't be like Superman. The death of Superman, the death and return of Superman is what it should be called. The death and return of Superman, cheapened death in comic books forever, even though before that characters had come back. But at that point it was just like nobody dies. You know, you've got TV shows where some character gets killed and they show up in the afterlife and then they come back for to the real world and then they just live a normal life again. And then what am I supposed to do? This person just died, went to hell, come back. And then I'm supposed to be like, well, yep, he's having love issues today. The scale of those two problems is like, you know, what are we dealing with here? I think on the SCP Wikia does a better job of that because there's a lot of finality to a lot of the characters' deaths and a lot of a lot of impact. But again, no canon makes that easier, right? Because you never know if the story you're reading is the final chapter for that character. There could be another version of that character, same character who didn't die. If you're not bringing them back, that character died. That storyline is ended. So you get the impact while still getting to use the characters again because you have an infinity of cannons to build them with. Anyway, that's just some thoughts I've had after reading way too much news this week. Thank you very much for watching. If you have suggestions for the next You're Wrong About video, let me know in the comments down below because next Thursday I'm going to be doing another one. Tuesday, I'm still not sure what I'm going to be doing. I know I'm going to be getting rid of this. 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