7 Dumb Reasons You Received Amazing Powers

Some videogames don’t put a great deal of thought into why the character you’re playing as has fantastic powers - then we’re left with explanations for our basically supernatural abilities that are weird, implausible, or downright baffling. Here are seven of our favourite dumb reasons for amazing videogame powers. Enjoy, and subscribe for a video like this every Thursday!
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[@kelvynmagalhaes3837]

As a brazillian, I can confirm that everyday electric eels offer their electric powers in exchange for goods and services. Renewable energy, everyone.

[@jonnystaffs]

That's really nice. In fact, that's a moray.

[@BrotherMag]

@@jonnystaffs yass puns!

[@Wastelander121]

The power of the sun in the palm of my hand.

[@mariano3716]

Deus salve as moreias!

[@marhawkman303]

yes, feed the eel and it will happily electrocute you as often as you like.

[@iout]

To be honest, "A comic book was struck by lightning" doesn't even break the top 50 weirdest origin stories that comic books have come up with. Clearly the game devs didn't make it absurd enough.

[@sgtraytango]

Even Freakazoid became Freakazoid by mistyping and being sucked into the internet.

[@happypasta6]

@@sgtraytango His cat stepped onto the keyboard and just so happened to type the one series of letters that if follow by backspace would open the portal to the Internet due to a buggy motherboard. Thank you very much

[@irrespondible]

@@happypasta6 That makes perfect sense.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Still, Freakazoid is a great cartoon alongside Pinky and the Brain and Animaniacs. Those were the times.

[@happypasta6]

@@michaelandreipalon359 Hey and guess what?! Animaniacs is coming back on Hulu Nov. 20th. You will probably need a VPN to access Hulu if you’re outside the US, however

[@Cheetahgirl_Studios]

Moral of the story: If you want kickass superpowers, stand outside in the middle of a lightning storm whilst holding a metal pole.

[@jonhenri5625]

@ShutmonMayhem Neo and then along came Zeus!

[@roguishpaladin]

"If you want kickass superpowers, stand outside in the middle of a lightning storm whilst holding a metal pole." ...while taking photos of balls and rat tails.

[@nickdejager8873]

Not just a metal pole. A radioactive metal pole. Because radiation can also do anything. Also, some non-dairy creamer, since no-one understands how that works.

[@Cheetahgirl_Studios]

roguishpaladin This comment sent me OMG. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@victormontes7007]

Oh and be really emotionally upset if you come from a traumatic event it increases odds of getting powers

[@garycurnowii1540]

Everybody knows that “balls” in Scarface is just a euphemism for “cocaine, lots and lots of cocaine.”

[@proxy90909]

Soooo... Consuming cocaine allows you to absorb the life force of fallen enemies?

[@EatWave]

Speedballs, perhaps.

[@veridiansixx8681]

@@proxy90909 just sniffed my weight in coke,can confirm that the death of my enemies is the only sustenance i need.

[@mirandastewart3544]

Spleens approves this method.

[@mirandastewart3544]

@@proxy90909 It is also how Spleens the cat, became immortal, before being found, by Gray.

[@diquandaniel7953]

The Scarface game FINALLY gettting the respect it deserves: being included on a KZbin list

[@antoniosessa6521]

Very true Quan, the Scarface game doesn't get as much love as it should. I played it in between GTA San Andreas and GTA 4. My buddy noticed a marked improvement in my in-game driving skills. I explained to him that it was from doing the distribution runs in the Scarface game.

[@northcliffe4lyfe]

Anyone else also play The Getaway? Another PS2 driving shooter which doesn't hold up now, but was great at the time

[@victormontes7007]

@Somewhat Normal licensing? there was a lot of licensed music and likeness in that game so it may be red tape

[@Jarpington]

@Somewhat Normal universal had the rights and probably wont make a game

[@HOTD108_]

It's listed in the Guinness World Records for being the video game with the most f-bombs.

[@wanderlustwarrior]

The weirdest thing about Johnny (and Cassie) is that the games explain that canonically he *isn't* able to use his energy at will, and it only comes out during extreme moments like fighting Shinnok. So normally, he really is just that good, and most fights we control him in, he actually can't do that stuff freely.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Not bad for a somewhat boastful actor. Not bad indeed.

[@smv4usa]

I always thought that Mortal Kombat characters, like those in Street Fighter, used "Ki" powers and techniques, like they talk about in actual Martial Arts. It's a multiverse with gods and other superhumans after all.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@smv4usa It's implied, but not confirmed much.

[@jjgarcia156]

@@michaelandreipalon359 somewhat boastful? He is practically the definition of self-confidence

[@NeedSomething2845]

Billy Batson: I am a child Almighty powerful wizard: hey kiddo do you want the power of gods Billy: sure! Wizard: ok just come down into this abandoned subway... It's really sketchy when you look at it like that...

[@flcl_fx443]

Yes it kinda is but not at the same time

[@NeedSomething2845]

@@flcl_fx443 breaking news: old man gives small boy godhood after luring him into abandoned empty subway

[@farakhhanif]

Technically, the wizard didn't tell Billy to go to the abandoned subway. Billy was already in the subway, and the wizard just kidnapped Billy and took him to his lair... Ok, that sounds just as bad....

[@BrotherMag]

@@farakhhanif 😂

[@NeedSomething2845]

@@farakhhanif breaking news: kidnapping wizard set free of charges due to young boy already being in subway- mass riots follow

[@Fennec333]

Caption box: “Give a dragon a rat tail” Me: Like.... like the hairstyle or-

[@DirgeTV]

Unless its one of those furred dragons not mentioned quite often, I'm gonna lean towards an actual one just to be on the safe side. If it is a furred dragon though, now comes the next question: Braided, Permed or straightened?

[@MunchKING]

Better than smacking him with a wet towel. Although if you WERE to do that to an immoral Dragon God-King, it WOULD show you bravery, I guess.

[@xsanguine8]

I'm really starting to lean towards believing that someone cut off their rat tail, and just stored it away in that chest, as a memento. The real question though, is why does Bahamut want it, is it his long lost rat tail, from his misspent youth, or is he going to use it to blackmail the previous wearer...?

[@marhawkman303]

@@xsanguine8 In FF1 it's a very specific rat tail. Bahamut has a challenge dungeon for you to beat and acquiring the Rat Tail item is solely to prove you beat it. I'm thinking this means Bahamut chose it because literally no one who didn't know what was in the box at the end of the trial would guess that it was a severed tail of a presumably dead rodent.

[@Chip-Chapley]

@@marhawkman303 still weird... it reminds me of the knights who say ni and there quest for king Arthur to find a Shrubbery.

[@ryanschmidt3319]

"The 90's were wild folks." Truer words have never been spoken.

[@laurigardner6227]

Dude, like totally Radical!

[@Gav_80085]

Samurai Pizza Cats.

[@BrotherMag]

Duuudeeee!

[@Justin-ou5yo]

Truly a lawless time.

[@RayzeCruxis]

Dont forget Reboot

[@andymcp4752]

At least Bioshock infinite had a more sensible explanation for the secondary genetic upgrades able to change the way your body functions.. A dandy new hat you found of course

[@ladylunaginaofgames40]

I thought Elizabeth's dimensional powers were weird as I'm pretty sure losing a pinky in another world wouldn't lead to that

[@SupersuMC]

There must have been some magic in that new silk hat you found! 😉😂

[@RazorO2Productions]

@@SupersuMC HAHAHAHAHHA!

[@FastForwardPlans]

@@ladylunaginaofgames40 The pinky thing actually makes more sense then most of the stuff in that game. Not the super powers it gives her, but the idea that the multiverse might not like someone existing in multiple dimensions at the same time. We don't really know what would happen if we went to other dimensions, but the idea that if you push at a wall it might push back in crazy ways is not a weird one. (though now that i write this, humans loose, like, a pound of skin cells and hair over a few months. Yet, the protagonist does not show any signs of weirdness after entering this alt reality, and the brother of the two scientist seems to have had no special powers until the assassination attempt, or at least as far as notes imply. So either the assumed reason for her powers is a wrong assumption on our part, or the game has a logic error.)

[@sultanofsick]

There was absolutely nothing sensible about bioshock infinite.

[@seand7042]

7 powers you got from being killed(or specifically shot in the head) could easily be a list all on its own couldn't it?

[@HOTD108_]

Murdered: Soul Suspect anyone?

[@StupidNSimplesns]

Fallout New Vegas would definitely be on the list. You're a regular courier, get shot in the head and like a month later you're basically a demigod who can rip people apart with your mind and everyone in the Mojave fears you because you're the ultra powerful leader of Vegas

[@charteon9092]

@@StupidNSimplesns I mean for all we know the courier has done this many times. One of the dlc follow that line of thought.

[@ElodieHiras]

@@StupidNSimplesns Actually, that's pretty normal Fallout fare. You can get similar powers by being tasked with retrieving a control chip for a water purification system, being the son/daughter of that person and being sent to grab a McGuffin, or being kicked out of a vault. No, the real power of the Courier is to have his/her brain extracted and replaced with cybernetics and still not be a dumb lobotomite who's either in a permanent rage trip or trying to hump everything in sight. And yes, that's because s/he was shot in the head.

[@kabob0077]

@@ElodieHiras The Courier is more than their brain, both the body and the brain work in tandem to make the Courier great. Although being ultra-pissed at the guy who shot you helps too.

[@anomalousentity]

Given Mike's trigger-happiness with the camera yesterday, by Bioshock's logic, he'd be a ghostly menace locking doors, posing sexily, and tearing your eyes out.

[@Kartoffelkamm]

The way you phrased this comment makes it sound like he'd be doing it all at once.

[@erubianwarlord8208]

@@Kartoffelkamm wouldn't he?

[@deathbykonami5487]

@@Kartoffelkamm watch their Phantasmophobia stream to get what medchemist is talking about. Jane got killed by an oni and Mike snapped a picture of it posing sexily in the doorway to the basement

[@Cinnaschticks]

@@deathbykonami5487 LMFAOOO

[@georgesears934]

Nanomachines, son! (Also, why can Quiet move at superhuman speeds, turn invisible, and breath through her skin? Mold. Because to Hideo Kojima, anything and everything is possible with artificial microorganisms.)

[@jojotheswede8444]

we mortals can't comprehend the greatness that is Hideo Kojima..... or he's just crazy, both works

[@digishade7583]

@@jojotheswede8444 insanity and creativity work off of the same parts of the brain so it is quite likely to be both

[@jojotheswede8444]

@@digishade7583 who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?

[@digishade7583]

@@jojotheswede8444 I just paid attention in psychology class and asked questions thats about it and yes I said psychology that is the class that focuses on the brain and it does it so much that it can blur the line into biology

[@jojotheswede8444]

@@digishade7583so... brain science? makes sense

[@elementalgaming5928]

The No More Heroes series also fits this bill, whether it’s that Travis Touchdown won a lightsaber katana from an internet auction in the mid- 2000’s or that he gets special abilities to cut people in half instantly from winning a slot machine game. Honestly, take your pick.

[@zoeyvalkyrie]

You're going to just leave out the part where the slot machine game can also let him shoot beams from his sword or turn into a tiger?

[@DirgeTV]

I just wanna know who was the eccentric personality that just happen to have a Lightsaber Katana to auction off.

[@codybrace7438]

I expected Saints Row IV, in which the player character learned the move "Death from above" by watching a character in a video game do it once

[@RustFox]

9:41 Are we sure Andy is completely venom-free considering how he sometimes reacts to losing? :'D

[@5t3phan]

That's just salt. Guess he must have been exposed to a lot of bacon.

[@Ceece20]

I got my incredible powers because I kept pressing the middle option for my autocorrect. Now it speaks for me.

[@GradyDP]

Honestly that sounds more like a horrible curse.

[@jordanleighton6893]

“If the nice dragon asks for a rat tail, you give him a rat’s tail” Lmaooooo. True, and hilarious. Bahamut is scary af

[@Kpimpmaster]

Truth be told that tail was just proof that you did as he asked

[@notoriousbmc1]

I absolutely loved Scarface The World Is Yours. Impressive graphics, gunplay, soundtrack, water graphics AND a designated swear button! Classic.

[@Ag3nt0fCha0s]

A designated swear button, you say? Sold.

[@joeblow5214]

Not to mention the option to visit a sperm bank to offload some of those "balls" for cash.

[@Blastermaster1942]

@@Ag3nt0fCha0s it wasn’t even exclusively for swearing. You could just press it to make Tony talk like he was an action figure. It’s just that Tony Montana happened to swear *a lot*

[@michaelandreipalon359]

They really need to rerelease this game as a competitive measure against GTA IV and V, Mafia: Definitive Edition and II, Sleeping Dogs, and Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 2.

[@cly7894]

Play payday 2

[@jerbar1280]

In "The world ends with you" you get strange powers from tin pins... but they only work for people who are dead?

[@michaeledmunds7266]

Also, Joshua fights by making phone calls.

[@nathanielgarza9198]

Just like real life

[@MrAuthor3DS]

@@michaeledmunds7266 Joshua can pretty much do whatever he wants, since he's pretty much the god of Shibuya.

[@dailydoseofvitaminc6565]

Shin Megami Tensei III should be on this list. My man walked into a hospital and got turned half demon

[@fyreman666]

By being forced to swallow a parasite given to him by a child Lucifer. I think the only one that's slightly weirder than that is seeing everyone's Death Clocks in Devil Survivor, at least in SMT games.

[@dailydoseofvitaminc6565]

@@fyreman666 seeing everyone’s death clocks WITH THE POWER OF THE NINTENDO DS

[@NEETKitten]

I mean, it's not that weird once you factor in Lucifer.

[@NEETKitten]

@@fyreman666 The biggest question I have about Devil Survivor is this: Naoya made the summoning program and modded the party's COMPs. Ok, fine. Where are the rest coming from? Unless I'm remembering wrong, Naoya is the ONLY one who understands how the su.moning program works and how to mod a COMP in order to use it. The Shomonkai shouldn't have any demons at all because even copying Naoya's work seems like way too much for anyone that isn't him or Atsuro.

[@TheBlackSeraph]

Persona 2: IS would be considered weirder -- the main cast get their powers of Persona from a game they played back when they were kids. Admittedly all Persona users got their powers from the Persona Game in P1 and P2 but P2IS's story gets way out of hand because of it.

[@cmm07r]

"I guess he ate too many blueberries" Randy Feltface in the background: "Blueberries are f*cking purple!"

[@necroarcanistxiii]

Ah, a man of culture.

[@DragonKnightJin]

Welp, I know what I'm gonna be watching later today. Possibly over dinner.

[@JanitoRiceMeister]

Hey, bee powers would be a god-send for a beekeeper. "Damn, I gotta find some bees to put in this beehive to make honey, but where do I get some? Oh WAIT, I can just shoot a swarm out of my hands, like a bee wizard!"

[@Scott...]

“D4” sounds like an E3 parody.

[@virus69420]

Hmmm.... D4... Dirty Deeds Done Dirt-

[@matthewhamilton2913]

@@virus69420 ...no...don't...you...dare...

[@michellewilt4479]

E3 sounds like an E3 parody... Especially whenever EA is involved

[@skylern.spenillo9710]

@@virus69420 you mean, Filthy Acts at a Reasonable Price?

[@virus69420]

@@skylern.spenillo9710 Oh yes, silly me

[@NEETKitten]

In defense of FF1, the rat tail is at the end of a dungeon Bahamut uses to test adventurers and see if they're worthy of his power. The tail is basically just there to prove to him that you cleared that dungeon.

[@Hlessirah]

Kinda reminds me of the TF2 "Meet the Medic" video that explains the "ubercharge" ability. Apparently the Medic is able to make people temporarily glowy and bulletproof by removing their heart and replacing it with a supercharged "mega baboon" heart that he just happens to keep in his fridge alongside his lunch. Then all that's left is to shoot that patient with a weird healing beam, and bam, bulletproof. This also heavily implies that Medic got every single one of his teammates to agree to have sketchy heart replacement surgery in an unsanitary doctors office filled with birds... which is the most unbelievable part of this whole scheme IMHO.

[@julia9714]

How about The Outer World's Time Dilation power - caused by... dodgy defrosting from cryo-sleep? Usually bad defrosting just ends up with a puddle (which the game even acknowledges).

[@marhawkman303]

IIRC they explained it as brain damage, which causes you to sometimes in short bursts start thinking too fast? So it's not the time is slower, but that you're experiencing life faster?

[@proxy90909]

@@marhawkman303 How does that even Vork bruh

[@Cuuniyevo]

@@proxy90909 It's just one of the many wonders of Scientism.

[@marhawkman303]

@@proxy90909 It's your brain getting sped up to process information faster. To outside observers it's short flashes of a second or two, but to you it's more. They kinda hint that using this ability too much will probably cause your brain to turn to mush eventually. Using it apparently makes the brain damage worse and will eventually cause your brain to lose function.

[@proxy90909]

@@marhawkman303 while it makes sense as long as you read from the second sentence onward the part of "your brain acts/process info faster" is the one that needs answering, how does that Vork bruh?

[@lagiacrusz]

I used to watch you guys, then for a good while stopped. I found you again yesterday and it was as good (if not better!) than the day I left! You guys are hilarious!

[@polkarrty]

Welcome back fren! We are now apparently the hivemind Welcome to the hivemind

[@matthewhamilton2913]

Same

[@catlover7466]

Relatable

[@kimballbelliston5925]

"The thief's best power is running away" So like Corazon?

[@michaelandreipalon359]

No, the Thief's best ability is the ability to somehow carry a buttload of valuable stuff without being overburdened, like Garrett.

[@paullatham8486]

I IMMEDIATELY HIDE!

[@AGGSab]

I’m glad to see this channel still up after years I haven’t watched lol. I see you guys still going strong

[@nathanh5448]

Ive been binge watching their older videos again myself this week actually, what a great channel

[@jamescrawford1534]

I love oxb, great to hear british humour when it comes to great YT channels. The team are awesome but still I reckon all of them would kick my arse with any challenge.

[@spacejesus6581]

You have a lot of catching up to do

[@narcspector]

Dude, YEARS not watching? I can't go one day! What channels do you watch that are so good you can just come and go from OutsideXbox as you please? Serious question lol, bc "You Would Like This" algorithms in apps are still terrible, so I still rely on word of mouth recommendations for most forms of content/media. Also welcome back, they're literally better than they've ever been. I honestly feel like the virus forced them to evolve and adapt into something they wouldn't probably have done otherwise, and it ended up being a huge positive for them! They went from basically never streaming, to pretty much always streaming, and their subscribers and views have gone up exponentially. It's great shit too, funnier chemistry than ever!

[@gonernotloner]

I agree it has been along for so long but it is still great

[@azuredragoon2054]

Chrono Trigger: A shape shifting creature at the literal end of time blesses you and you get magical powers based on your personality. Oddly enough, this does not work on prehistoric entities (because, and I quote, "magic wasn't discovered yet") nor mechanicals. However, he will allow lasers to be treated as Dark magic, for whatever reason. For at least 4 of your characters, your special skills are locked to 2 physical abilities until you visit this creature.

[@enlongjones2394]

The Ayla thing was sort of a weird translation at the time. The real reason is that magic was at least partially the result of Lavos’s influence on the world. So Ayla was born before humans had any magical potential to begin with. Everyone else is descended from magic users in some way.

[@azuredragoon2054]

@@enlongjones2394 That makes sense, due to the timeline of the game. Although you'd think that would have been better established as well. I remember talking to a lot of people in that game and there wasn't a mention of that. Additionally, I'm pretty sure the lizards had some magic capacity, which would've been before Lavos.

[@enlongjones2394]

Azure Dragoon Azala specifically has psychic powers (telekinesis and teleportation) in her boss fight. Which you would THINK is basically the same as magic, but I’ve seen a few fantasy stories that explicitly separate them.

[@azuredragoon2054]

@@enlongjones2394 Azala's Psychokinesis tech is the only one that explicitly implies psychic power. Sleep could be either psychic or magic. Teleportation leans more heavily on magic than psychic power (even though teleportation is often related to psychic ability). Additionally, Azala's presence is a boost to Black Tyranno's defense. This is where it's less about psychic power and likely comes from raw magic capacity. She may not be healing BT like magic definitely would, it's just that the increase to defense isn't mere psychology at that point.

[@rikusschulze6249]

@@azuredragoon2054 since when are Lizardpeople humans? Lavos awoke magic potential in humans. Nobody said "in the world".

[@Emery101]

Comix Sone fan here: Main villain can only fully exist by killing his creator in the comic. He fails which brings Sketch back into the real world with Alyssa. Plot twist, the comics story is implied to actually happen in the real world on a cliffhanger.

[@spacejesus6581]

Mass Effect series Technically, any Biotic power is an “amazing ability” in the lore, however not everyone is a Biotic There are 3 classes with Biotic power in each game, Adept, Sentinel, and Vanguard. The other three classes, Soldier, Engineer, Infiltrator, do not have Biotic power However, once you’ve unlocked a biotic power in any way (in ME1 you have to use the power 75 times as any class, ME2 the squad mate with that power is loyal) you can select it as a bonus talent for any character In game it’s never explained how someone who simply isn’t Biotic can now use a Biotic power, it’d be like a bounty hunter in Star Wars suddenly knowing a force power

[@ulfjohnsen6203]

Making friends is a perfectly good reason to get superpowers.

[@spacejesus6581]

@@ulfjohnsen6203 but a new character hasn’t even met them yet

[@HovektheArtist]

It's because the true biotic is the friends we made along the way

[@thecommonman9524]

@@spacejesus6581 I suppose it could be through implants that allow them to harness element zero energy with a somewhat reduced effect? I'm just spitballing here because I have no idea I was an infiltrator Shepard and I never used the biotics because my tech powers were usually enough.

[@spacejesus6581]

@@thecommonman9524 no, amps simply amplify the Eezo in their system and allow them to harness it, this is not what makes them Biotic, the Eezo in their system is whats makes them a biotic, you cant amplify what isn’t there to begin with

[@ZoobKillbiscuit]

Prototype: Alex Mercer becomes insanely powerful goo by... being eaten by the insanely powerful goo?

[@gotsghostrider666]

If you think about it there is no Alex Mercer. It's just the virus assuming his form

[@dogishappy0]

I think the game rationalized it by saying he had a very specific genetic strain that allowed him to control it.

[@kavioblitus-anima9308]

@@dogishappy0 Yea, so in the end the character you play is just the virus with Alex Mercer's personality

[@buttonsfan]

@@gotsghostrider666 same thing happened to the villain in Wreck-It Ralph

[@ruthejbooth8661]

Ashes to ashes, goo to goo.

[@VonBlade]

Mike with the eyes of a new father there. Sleep comes eventually Mr Channell.

[@rikusschulze6249]

I had to go on deployment with the army to get sleep again after my daughter was born. So yeah, it comes "eventually"

[@cass6082]

Aww I didn’t know he had a baby?

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

@@cass6082 Well, he said on Twitter that he went on leave for a month because of something that "drinks milk constantly and cries a lot". Everyone's assumed that means human child, but I'm putting my money on it being a laundry basket full of kittens.

[@narcspector]

I saw D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die, and was immediately reminded how sad I am that series never got finished, because it's legit my favorite Xbox One Exclusive (w/o Kinect). Also psyched that you guys put it in the list, ofc!! EDIT: OMFG & COMIX ZONE, MY FAV GENESIS GAME

[@johnoneil9188]

In Yakuza you learn great moves and special abilities just by somehow investing money in yourself. Do you eat it? Do you pay a martial arts instructor while noone is looking? Who knows?

[@HovektheArtist]

You pop thousand yen coins in your bellybutton like a coin slot and go from there

[@kirbster3678]

In Yakuza 0 specifically if I recall, I mean I get it was probably supposed to be symbolic about it being an era where money is everything, but that's still pretty weird lol

[@HovektheArtist]

@@kirbster3678 yea the other ones you use exp, but in 0 they changed exp to cash because, like you said, it was the Japanese land bubble so money was everywhere so yea

[@thebiglo25]

Scarface was a fun game taking over turf was the fun part and trying to weasel out getting arrested by cops and trying to get the most money with the least of amount taxes happening.

[@primaljoker3040]

That game was fucking brilliant loved going to the islands to the big supplier

[@DicemanClub]

I got the game and I would never sell it and I just wish the game get a remake cause it really deserve it

[@etangbose4755]

It needs a remaster not a remake i want the same game but with 4k 60fps

[@achillerea5577]

I thought it’d be trash, but it was actually pretty cool to play. Gave me all those Vice City vibes back.

[@chrisrawr6177]

@rwsthedemonking Sadly no legit ways anymore outside of buying a used copy off ebay/amazon/etc.

[@Alsebra]

I always viewed the Final Fantasy Rat Tail in one of two ways: 1. It could've been any unassuming and fairly specific item that Bahamut stored in the chest; it was simply the act of succeeding in that task that showed the party was ready to "grow up". 2. It was a lock of hair (that generally signified a trainee in some disciplines)...the act of removing the rat tail hairstyle tended to mark the passage of the student into a higher rank.

[@HovektheArtist]

Persona, like any of them: oh you got arrested, or you moved to a new town, well this butterfly is gonna allow you to summon demons from your soul now

[@MazTheOriginalGod]

Donut county: Buying a donut lets you create holes that consume everything.

[@SupersuMC]

Almost forgot about that one! XD

[@owenjames8575]

Wasn't the plot of that game that the raccoon had that power, and when people order a donut, that's what they're ordering?

[@aceventurasspear22]

What about the older Fire Emblem games? This might not seem too out of the ordinary, but most characters once they reach level 10 just need to use a Knight’s Crest or similar item and they are, without explanation, instantly transformed into an upgraded form of their class. ie. Knights get transformed into Generals, becoming approximately 3 feet taller than they were before they used it, or regular two-bit Thieves becoming full-fledged Assassin’s upon looking at a scroll.

[@murasakinokami9882]

If you'd like an equally silly explanation, you can use 3 Houses. The crests give them the right to take an exam on becoming their desired class. Because we all know, you can't become a thief, barbarian, or assassin without the proper GPA!

[@MoostachedSaiyanPrince]

I was gonna make a joke that Tony's Blind Rage mode sounded like he was just abusing his drug supply, but then I heard the explanation of what Blind Rage mode is, and I'm pretty sure drugs can't do that.

[@yoholup19]

It's called drinking your enemies blood and robbing their ammo

[@RepKyle95]

Can I just say that Jane saying the word "balls" over and over again made me laugh more than anything in this video? Just the increasing exasperation with each utterance... Such a mood.

[@TheZoenGaming]

Comix Zone on the Genesis had absolutely awesome music for a chiptune system. The soundtrack actually drove me to play the game and reignited my addiction to Beat'em'up games. D4 is an excellent example of why companies shouldn't make, and I don't buy, episodic games until they are complete. The game looked interesting in that "relive your fever days of LSD" sort of way while also having a storyline I would have enjoyed. I put it on my wish list and then waited for it to be completed. *sigh*

[@zigazav1]

Also, btw, the main character of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky, has the ability to see the past or future of things he touches. The game never explains exactly how they got this power, known as The Dimensional Scream. Infact, none of the characters in the game seems to know how they got that power.

[@randomchineseguy]

Saint’s Flow, the irradiated energy drink, to deal with clones. Saints Row

[@HovektheArtist]

Saints row is the epitome of wtf is this how am I doing it and why is it so fun

[@Mini_Squatch]

@@HovektheArtist yeah saint's row doesn't try to make sense it tries to be absurd, but at least, consistently absurd.

[@HovektheArtist]

@@Mini_Squatch right, it's a series that is great for just turning off your brain and having a good time

[@seanmcfadden3712]

And here I was going to point out that SR IV points out how stupid it is that the villain doesn't do anything to prevent you obtaining data clusters to power yourself up, in spite of the fact he's in control of the simulation, only to immediately tell you "don't think about it".

[@HovektheArtist]

@@seanmcfadden3712 I mean that's the same one where the aliens took the time to recreate about 80% of they live and starts with a Dr strangelove reference, I don't think even the aliens thought it through

[@DucklynStark]

My favorite explanation is "power of friendship"

[@CrystalTikal]

Same.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Of course, that is nothing compared to the Power of Love. Not that I'm complaining, of course. Said powerful magic has already worked wonders on the Tri-State Area, Equestria, Ooo, Beach City, Gravity Falls, and other places, up to the point that we defeated villains WITHOUT needing to kill them; I even blame the debacle on Mewni with the unfortunate absence of such compassion. I wouldn't be surprised if those human girls do the same on Amphibia and the Boiling Isles.

[@Rodrigo-ei4ht]

I completely forgot that taking pictures in Bioshock gave you bonus perks

[@geraintthomas4343]

Same, but when i saw bioshock i was like "these power things are pretty explained". Then i saw the word "camera" 😅

[@nibbles135]

How about any Persona game A random phone app (Persona 5) A handshake with a random person (Persona 4) Just because? (Persona 3)

[@NEETKitten]

Handshake from a god*

[@nibbles135]

@@NEETKitten that's supposed to be a secret until the end of the game

[@NEETKitten]

@@nibbles135 So is the fact that you got your powers from them.

[@ElodieHiras]

I mean, it's not like we've got pretty much a god (Philemon) who keeps fighting Nyarlatothep (yes, one of the Great Old Ones from the Cthulhu Mythos), through the use of proxies who just happen to be human teenagers from Japan, and has recently delegated the whole operation to his right hand man, Igor...

[@nibbles135]

@@ElodieHiras Doesn't mean that getting superpowers form a handshake isn't stupid

[@lucasrichter6642]

0: Prototype: Alex Mercer is canonicaly just the virus given a body. When the virus took him over it got his personality. I don't have to tell you, how stupid that sounds, do I?

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

Dude, do you have any idea how hard building a working and stable mind is??? But you gotta have one in order to process and react to information, so it makes total sense to just steal someone else's personality when you're already infecting their body anyway.

[@gamedifficulty_4230]

Not Driver San Fransisco? I guess that one gets explained in the end but it’s still a really random way to gain the ability to possess people

[@isntmypfpbeautiful5350]

Yeah lol, great game tho

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Shame it got delisted for mostly stupid reasons.

[@q.h.s5051]

The Scarface rage isn’t dumb. It’s a perfect way to show his blind coked up rage from the end of the film when he wouldn’t lay down and die!

[@michaeltrainum5471]

I always assumed Tonies rage mood was him just snorting a bunch of coke and going crazy for a short time!!

[@alexconn7473]

Basically like what he did at the end of the movie and it definitely worked took a shotgun blast to the back to take him down and even then it might not have been enough if he hadn't fallen in that pool fountain

[@michaeltrainum5471]

@@alexconn7473 EXACTLY!! 😊

[@mantis638]

Can we talk about how Kratos got his rage from hope? Because that makes sense right?

[@HovektheArtist]

I like to think it's because he is getting angrier and angrier at himself for being so weak he needs hope

[@nickdejager8873]

IKR. Everyone knows Hope doesn't do anything without Will, but when it does it cancels Rage.

[@BogeyTheBear]

Hope is what you get when you mix Fear with Anger in the proper amounts.

[@michellewilt4479]

@@BogeyTheBear ... damn, all I'm getting is thermonuclear explosions. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?

[@BogeyTheBear]

@@michellewilt4479 Well, let's take a look at that... Hope is borne from Fear because Fear manifests when something is wrong within the world. Hope is what you get when you deal with that wrong, that source of Fear, through a desire to challenge and change it. That's where Anger helps. Remember, folks: Thermonuclear neutron flux and oralloy blast tampers are tools, not toys.

[@El_Hodiga]

Explination for bioshock camera: whenever you take a picture the camera is designed to study the enemy behaviour up close and personal, which means that it can detect factors of cause for example becoming invisible, after a full conclusion of research the camera will be fully informed on how they do the action and make a releatabile power for you the player (○w○)

[@Cyb3rM1nd]

And the camera apparently having unlimited amount of various chemical substances along with infinite storage of containers and the ability to mix those chemicals specifically as needed, fill the container, produce the container and place it on your pocket - all in under a second. Yes, the game fully informs you of that - a totes relateable power.

[@El_Hodiga]

@@Cyb3rM1nd yes

[@ApesWithEgos]

No spoiler warning for GTA Vice City? Oh, wait, that's actually Scarface this time?

[@ElMarcoHoJ]

Aw man I remember Comix Zone. It was hard as balls.

[@alpfratozturk2196]

I was expecting Scarface's power source to be cocaine. Lots and lots of cocaine

[@Forestxavier20]

The bestowing of keyblades from Kingdom Hearts. The keyblades are bequeathed upon LITERAL CHILDREN by Aqua and Terra, with Ventus accidentally giving power to Sora. I think at least, Kingdom Hearts is weird.

[@vanillanoxfleuret]

The Bahamut Rat Tail thing is referenced in the later games too, a mere 13 years later in Final Fantasy IX. 13 years! Really stretching what the word final means

[@spectrevampire]

My personal favorite is Sly Cooper. Their explanation for that blue mist surrounding traversable landmarks? "All raccoons can see it." That raises more questions than it answers.

[@crotchwolf1929]

DUDE! You have to mention the Sims 4, You go on a short collect-a-thon for the magic sages and in exchange are given game breaking magic powers.

[@reaperofthings]

Why can Byleth Fire Emblem cut through time and space or travel back in time? Because their grandmother implanted her millennia dead mother’s heart inside their stillborn chest. Sure, said Great Grandmother was literally a God, but she was still a dead one.

[@camhedmr_5593]

Johnny Cage's power And ancestry was mentioned in a rather old 3d era MK Game that was long forgotten. Tabmok99 mentioned it in a video that analyzed How many times Johnny had died.

[@SpydersByte]

I can't disclose how I have this knowledge but the whole Scar Face "balls" thing is probably referencing "8-balls"... an 8-ball is a certain amount of cocaine so it fits the theme.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

That explains it. Hopefully, she sees this comment.

[@yoholup19]

I have questions on why you know this and I doubt I want answer

[@ermacmacro7136]

If I recall, the full context to Jimmy Blanka is that as a boy. He was in a plane crash that stranded him in the Amazon. In which he had to survive off of a diet of plants and electric eels.

[@mattball8622]

Can we all just take a second to admire the incredible high-fantasy names of Dave, Barry, Rosie and Tim? I've also just noticed the Rosie and Jim reference. Well played.

[@someguy1ification]

Those first two combine to make some hilarious collumns btw. Something about boogers.

[@louckykoneko]

the Kingdom Hearts series is great at giving silly explanations for things, but my absolute favorite has to be the reason Sora has his powers in kh1. he got the Keyblade because Riku chose the darkness and someone needed to wield the Keyblade so fate just... gave it to Sora. there's no explanation for this anywhere in the series, unless we count the fact that Sora is hosting Ventus' heart and Ventus is a Keyblade wielder... but I don't think that's it, else it probably would've been confirmed, either by Nomura in an interview or in the games themselves.

[@HovektheArtist]

It's literally because he was reaching for riku when he chose darkness, and I love it, because if ventus wasn't inside him, he wouldn't have been able to keep it and he would forever wonder why a giant key popped into his hand then popped back out

[@jeannepucelle]

It's also because Sora has a upbeat and caring attitude. If a person has the right qualities like wanting to protect everyone or your friends from darkness while having a pure or loving heart, they will have the power to wield a keyblade and use magic. Sora promised Aqua to protect Riku as a kid and Sora loved his friends. Being a carefree person is a part of purity so even if Sora didn't have Ven's heart in him to give him the extra boost of power to wield a keyblade, Sora's innocent and loving heart would have made him qualified to wield one because Kingdom Hearts found him worthy. ...Until Kingdom Hearts noticed he was breaking universal laws and blinked him out of existence, he still has his powers do defend himself though against Yozora... oh wait.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@jeannepucelle ...I really need to ONLY play I, ReCoM, and II, and by then, I'M DONE!!!

[@jeannepucelle]

@@michaelandreipalon359 You didn't play KH1 first?

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@jeannepucelle No, I said I'm better off starting at I, watching a game movie of ReCoM, and then ending at II.

[@Sparrow_Bloodhunter]

I think I would have preferred that all Johnny's powers were special effects. it'd be hilarious if there was a whole teams of prop artists just off screen throwing fireballs for him.

[@AngelsArePurple]

Perfect timing, thank you for creating this!

[@peachstars219]

Another devastating reminder that I will never know what was actually going on in D4's plot

[@user-cy7ki7ms1q]

If you make another video consider adding the rifle from mgs3 which has infinite ammo due to the loader being shaped like an infinity

[@isaacluna308]

This was a really good list! Always fun to see the things people just throw in stories for the hell of it!

[@YalelingOz]

I dunno, I think getting magical power ups from an actual dragon god makes more sense than most things in videogames.

[@silasandfrida9920]

"But isn't the spoiler warning a spoiler itself" I think to myself as I look away from the screen while the list rolls the 1000th time.

[@Txupport]

18:15 Seems like The Rock did start shooting lightning from his hands recently and nobody cared.

[@annana6098]

Chrono trigger have your team magic after you ran around a room three times, and then the old sage just looked at them and said "you're light, you're water, you're fire." Bam, go cast magic spells. Random observation: my cat does not like the noise Bahamut makes.

[@RobEustace]

Oh I remember comix zone It came with a cd of music created for the game that was actually pretty good

[@Dreadnought_XIII]

persona 5: being a teen with a smartphone

[@williemasterofdestruction5339]

I appreciate the coverage of older games like comix zone. New stuff is fine too... Just takes me back to my childhood.

[@TheJacpot1]

Loved scarface, yeah the balls thing was wierd lol. Music was awesome. I'd buy that remake for sure

[@DavidJoh]

Hey, as proof of bravery giving a dragon a gift that crappy ain't bad.

[@eclipsehorse8693]

the dragon just omitted the part about how it had to be from '....a rodent of unusual size' :)

[@patrickphelan279]

Ah, so your argument isn't that the rat tail itself was important, so much as the equivalent of answering the essay question "what is courage?" with the essay answer "this"? I can buy it. (Similarly courageous: replying to a comment from a year ago with no in between. Not just anyone can dare that kind of accusation of thread necromancy.)

[@emilygoodman6853]

15:10 I wonder if thats a stab at rpg tropes, like you said in another video, first thing you have to do is kill a bunch of rats. A rat’s tail, then, WOULD symbolize a real hero

[@TheDiplomancer]

Talking about the "Scarface" game always makes me think of Polygon's Pat Gil talking about it. "When you get maximum balls, you can go Super Saiyan!"

[@TheRealCeeJai]

I feel that the plot of D4 was just in the protagonist's head. Like, the shot to the head actually left him with a mental illness that just makes him *think* he's traveled through time, meanwhile everyone around him is like 'wtf?' Kinda similar to Memento, which I would be surprised to find out WASN'T an inspiration for that game.

[@Mzoyagon]

"Being shot in the head" **slowly looks at my character Mezmera, who, while she didn’t get her original powers from being shot, DID get her ultimate form from being shot** **remembers that it wasn’t the shot itself but her resulting near-death that caused her ultimate form**

[@barrybumblecrumpets8977]

Balls are, famously, a source of weakness rather than strength. I've compromised mine far too many times and, can confirm, I am no stronger for it. :|

[@300IQPrower]

*Spoilers for InFamous over close to a decade and a half later but* "You were the mailman in question when a magic mail bomb sent by your future self was being delivered" sounds like a pretty crazy reason

[@CreativeUsernameEh]

Your content is making the lockdown so much more manageable, thank you!

[@arellajardin8188]

Sunset Overdrive: The source of your superpowers? It’s a video game.

[@EatWave]

The power source is soda but that works because it is a video game.

[@lapislazoli]

"dwayne the rock johnson shooting lightning magic out of his hands" well he is becoming black adam

[@Cyb3rM1nd]

They never mentioned him shooting lightning. They said if he started throwing green energy balls like Johnny Cage. Pay attention, jeez. XD

[@lapislazoli]

@@Cyb3rM1nd are you laughing at me because they did say that Johnny Cage shooting green balls would be like The Rock suddenly shooting lightning out of his fingers

[@Cyb3rM1nd]

@@lapislazoli I don't laugh at people. I laugh with them. Even if their laughter is silent. >.>

[@Cyb3rM1nd]

@@lapislazoli Swiftly moving on from my failed attempt at humour, yes you're right. I had misheard. My only defence is that it was 3 am for me. Which isn't much of a defence given that I'm a nite owl who works nights and my 3 am is most people's 6 pm, but nevertheless it's all the defence I have. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@lapislazoli]

@@Cyb3rM1nd okay fair enough I was mainly trying to make sure you weren't laughing at me and we could have a good laugh together

[@rileytimes]

I was like "Huh why did they change how they do videos anyway" and it's like... oh right. Covid. Glad to see you are still producing! Love the content.

[@valupackgaming7814]

Lmao! The comment about Dwayne Johnson shooting lightning out of his fingers 2 years before the Black Adam movie comes out is hilarious!

[@philiphunn194]

Two years after this video was uploaded, Dwayne Johnson is on the big screen shooting lightning out of his hands.

[@SapphireDragon357]

Why does the notification bell "really really help" over just checking my subscription feed every day?

[@MrRedstoner]

I also check myself, but I'd guess it makes YT rate them higher and suggest videos from the channel to new people more often.

[@kcollier2192]

Ah yes, lightening- that fantastic force of nature that did so much for Frankenstein's Monster, Barry Allen and that small pool of amniotic cells that gave birth to what eventually became humanity- allegedly...

[@slayer0235]

If 8-Bit Theater taught me anything it's to never ask Bahamut (or his girlfriend) what he wants the rat tail for. Some things just can't be unlearned.

[@MrFutago87]

To expand on the rat tail thing in Final Fantasy, the idea is that the item itself is not important, it's about what it represents (you retrieving it from a difficult dungeon). An NPC in the game even says that the proof can be anything.

[@barrybend7189]

Bravely Default and Bravely second and the encounter slider system.

[@pablotomasllodra4423]

The Asterisks?

[@barrybend7189]

@@pablotomasllodra4423 no its a major plot point i wont spoil here.

[@pablotomasllodra4423]

Ah, now I know what you’re talking about.

[@pablotomasllodra4423]

The reason for Tiz ‘Jedi mind trick’

[@barrybend7189]

@@pablotomasllodra4423 yes.