REPLICATORS | The all consuming mechanical horror of the stargate universe

[@leohalivan861]

The Replicators have to be one of the most accurate representations of an accidental Von Neumann machine I've seen.

[@DD8842]

Amen perfect example

[@ChrisChaosMK2]

I wouldn't call their creation an accident, more like they were created via neglectfully stupid ai.

[@Thefirefan15]

I had it described to me as a machine that makes staplers and only staplers but eventually became self aware so it basically converted the worlds resources into more machines to make more staplers

[@Ranakastrasz]

@@Thefirefan15 More or less, minus the self-aware part. It has no need to become self-aware like you would think, just strong enough to follow its singular goal of making staplers, because the people who created it gave it a goal that wasn't exactly what they intended. It wants more staplers, because that is what it was programmed to want. And so it makes staplers, and doesn't have any reason to stop just because "I was using that" and "That is our planet". Also humans or w.e. are made up of matter which could be converted into more staplers, and humans have these unacceptable non-staple-making goals which interferere, so humanity has to go.

[@David13ushey]

And the reality is they just don't work.

[@kyuken893]

One of my favorite callbacks in the series is the fact that in order to deal with the (basically) magic wielding Ori the plan was: "just teleport one spider onto the ship and turn it off after they win"

[@TheStevedie]

What episode was that in? Sounds glorious lol. Heck with it, I'll just watch every single Stargate episode again lol

[@darthhauler9947]

@@TheStevedie That was in the movie, Stargate: Ark of Truth when they took the Odyssey to the Ori's home galaxy. The plan was made by the IOA but I have this feeling the Adria would have magicked it out of existence as she was pretty unstoppable at the time.

[@JoshSweetvale]

Or it wouldn't have worked, at which point you have yet another galaxy of chittering robots.

[@nero756]

@@JoshSweetvale yeah.... with ori tech.... no thx xD

[@nickmitsialis]

@@TheStevedie For me, when I first saw the Wraith in SG:A the first thought that popped into my head was that the replicators would be a great weapon to use against those guys.

[@erictaylor5462]

I loved the season premiere after the Replicator cliff hanger. We know from the season finally that the ship crashes into the sea, and we see a single replicator climb out of the wreckage. Then we begin the next Season on a Russian submarine. The two crew members are talking (in Russian) and unless you know Russian, you can't know what they are saying aside from knowing they are talking about the strange tapping noise. What they are saying is, "Hey, that sounds like one of the Replicator things from the last episode." "Oh, I want to see one. Lets open the door." "I don't think that is a good idea." "Well if we don't then the story can't continue, and we will not be in the show." "Good point." and they open the door and the show can continue. I'm not sure it was in the script. These two are a comedy duo and I think the entire thing was adlibbed It was really funny actually.

[@cillianennis9921]

damn hiding jokes in other languages because you know 99% of the general audience will never know what they are saying. Reminds me of how the Norwegian guy in the Thing 1982 where they spoil the whole story of how the monster works. Which is just a perfect kinda hidden detail when you make the other language lines be actual words instead of pseudo-language where they sound like another language but mean nothing.

[@GamerNationTecno]

One of the big horror parts to me was during the time lock plan when SG1 set down on the planet only to find out the Replicators ATE THE WHOLE PLANET!! They were literally walking on deactivated Replicators block that was miles and miles thick all the way to the planets core.

[@JoshSweetvale]

And then they found out the Replicators reverse-engineered Asuran-style Nanobot bodies from Reese. They have smart generals now, that are as tough and flexible as the T-1000

[@Kalenz1234]

@@JoshSweetvaleAs tough as the T-1000? A human form replicator could snap a Terminator like a twig. Or just hack it in an instant. Or just eat it and pop out more replicators.

[@JoshSweetvale]

@@Kalenz1234 Layman's terms. As tough a T1000 with attractive fields binding its nanites so you can't just blow it up with a shotgun like in Terminator 2. The same attractive field McKay maxed out to clump all of 'em together during the Battle of Asuras.

[@shingshongshamalama]

I love that they're lego von neumann machines and the show kinda brings them in at first as an almost throwaway villain to make the universe feel bigger by giving the Asgard an excuse to be busy with other things and then just by their own merits they became such an enormously huge game-changer that they had to write the entire climax of the show around stopping them.

[@jandepaepe4262]

they wen't from "don't worry, it's just space vermin" to "oh god it's space vermin"

[@shingshongshamalama]

@@jandepaepe4262 Everyone who ever underestimates Von Neumann machines: "Oh it's just a von neumann machine." Them five minutes later: "oh. OH. oh shit"

[@patroclusilliad233]

Ah replicators, when you take the concept of grey goo and militarize it.

[@JoshSweetvale]

It's interesting because the nanobots are hiding between the lego blocks, which makes them _dramatically_ tougher. Actual 100% nanobot T-1000 style ones are apparently _really_ hard to make, almost entirely out of high transuranic hypertech metals. And those have enough processing power to not be mindless devourers. See also: the Asuran nanobot elves.

[@anarex0929]

I think Atlantis on the nanite planet was the true grey blob.

[@m.h.6470]

technically the replicators were created as toys by an android, that has control over nanites that "she" used for nano-fabricating the first replicators. When "she" got threatened, she taught them to replicate themselves (safety in numbers) and she eventually lost control over them.

[@DKforever24]

@@anarex0929 Are you referring to the episode where McKay built a replicator and they used it to turn all the replicators into a giant, ultra-dense blob that sank into and destroyed the planet?

[@dawall3732]

They're pretty much the only faction in any science fiction setting that can just curb stump the borg when the borg are at their peak.

[@dereckguerra6863]

like i tell me friends when we have these discussion, when a forced-order hive mind goes against a pure chaotic hive mind the forced-order is already at a disadvantage cuz they will be fighting two battles at once

[@florianschneider3982]

The founders could do that to if they fought by themselves.

[@mbos14]

Makes full sence since from what we have seen, the borg rely a lot on energy weapons. wich do nothing against the replicators. we have also seen them shoot pieces of themselfs at other ships as ammo and this can bypas shields.

[@florianschneider3982]

@@mbos14 I agree that the replicators would win. But the Borg have torpedoes, which are explosive weapons. Do replicator projectiles really have the ability to bypass shields? I don't remember that.

[@DeathBYDesign666]

I don't know about that because the Necrons also are made from entirely self healing metals and nanites. They bested almost omnipotent gods using this technology and have some pretty formidable weapons at their disposal.

[@erictaylor5462]

12:00 Lying is just something children do. Reece is a robot with the emotional maturity of a child. She knows she has done things the grown-ups might punish her for doing, and so she lies to try to stay out of trouble. I saw a video where this guy was filming his daughter. Thinking she was unseen she was standing on a chair, reaching into a cookie jar. Just as she touched the cookie he says "What do you think you are doing?" She jumps about three feet and turns with a look of terror on her face, but then the look of terror turns into a smile. She answers his question with, "I'm getting you a cookie daddy." He is a bit shocked and takes the cookie and says thank you. Then she says "Daddy, can I have a cookie too?" He says, "Of course." as text comes on screen that says, "In 10 years, I am so screwed." The child was clearly lying. I mean, she was getting a cookie even though she knew she shouldn't. But when she was caught she thought, "If I offer him a cookie, he will let me have one." Does this make the kid a villain?

[@HereBeDragyns-ql8se]

"Does this make the kid a villain?" Yes. Yes it does. Children are the future, unless we stop them now!!

[@erictaylor5462]

@@HereBeDragyns-ql8se Are you speaking of Reece or the cookie thief?

[@johnsmithfakename8422]

Ah Replicators ... The Grey GOO of Stargate, And it is the most terrifying version of Grey Goo yet.

[@warlynx5644]

What’s scarier than grey goo? Grey goo that is smart.

[@MrJay_White]

look up mantrid drones. maybe from a cheesy show, but, well, ate a universe.

[@hypotheticalaxolotl]

@@MrJay_White Ah man, Lexx is great. I'm all for sophisticated sci-fi, but sometimes you want your campy space babes and evil insect empire grade stuff.

[@The_Viscount]

I'm a simple man. I see Stargate SG-1 content and I click.

[@Progection]

The Borg that went: "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me." and gone full technohorror.

[@Metsudo82]

28:11 That's exactly what a queen would do though, be big and spit out offspring. That's what ant and bee queens do.

[@jasonkeith2832]

I feel like an important thing to mention about them not being stopped by the time dilation device is that the way they countered it was by inverting its effect, and over the several millenia they spent in the bubble they consumed and converted the entire planet into a replicator superstructure and gained sentience, and the only thing keeping them from consuming everything was that they couldn't leave the time dilation bubble. That is the reason they needed to collapse the solar system into a black hole in order to stop that particular swarm.

[@nexusdrop7863]

Pretty sure that sentience was from eating HER body and replicating the design.

[@jose-ec3co]

@@nexusdrop7863 yeah it was i think the replicator named one says they found it and incorporated her design

[@vincentstanley2291]

I do love how the humans are realistically ruthless towards aliens in this show. They had the opportunity to help the replicators defeat their eat programming but failed their charisma check and had to throw hands.

[@snideaugustine2143]

"Delightfully pragmatic" is the term I usually use to describe why I love the humans of the SG universe. We're alone, we're outmatched, but screw you: "Humans Are Space Orks". XD

[@CiaranMaxwell]

"We're alone, we're outmatched, and we're surrounded. Those poor bastards."

[@snideaugustine2143]

I think SG1, Mass Effect, and Titan AE are my favorite depictions of humans in space.@@CiaranMaxwell

[@JoshSweetvale]

​@@snideaugustine2143Also they steal and combine tech like X-COM

[@feldamar2]

There was a fanfiction combining xcom with sg1...and they really combined the worst/best of both worlds. It was hilarious. take a staff weapon. remove all STAFF bits about it, add a freaking stock and iron sight and you have a decent weapon! Even better, just attach 10 in a circle with a crank and you have a gatling! Even better if you use the God Ra grade staff weapons.

[@vnep5743]

To compare with other scifi entities which conquer through consumption... The Borg: You will be assimilated. Cybermen: You will be upgraded. Reapers: You will be liquidated. Replicators: I'ma eat you.

[@mbos14]

or as we saw in ark of the truth turn you into a terminator.

[@mrexists5400]

Flood: Ah, a fellow galactic threat of culture we see. Let us devour all, together.

[@masterzoroark6664]

@@mrexists5400 it would rather be no table maners and both Flood and Replicators would start to fight over the burger

[@cortster12]

​ @masterzoroark6664 Logic plague. Replicator would do whatever the Flood says.

[@masterzoroark6664]

@@cortster12 and now you put in the idea of Flood that can REPLICATE HARDER

[@arthurdotson9579]

You forgot to mention that each Replicator block is a supercomputer more advanced than anything the human race could even dream of making. And from there, THEN they link together and get smarter!

[@David13ushey]

Cool. How do they power it?

[@sulner9997]

@@David13ushey kirian particles maybe subspace

[@kai_plays_khomus]

That's an legitimately impressive approach to achieve some sort of "technological cosmic horror". I also like the infestation idea with the faux skeleton result because it makes sense within the rules of the setting, it's not just a skeleton because that's what we perceive as spooky. 👌

[@gustavoboscardin9351]

Poor replicators suffered from the Factorio fever

[@supsup335]

I think you could have discussed the himanoid ones as well, like the carter clone, but outside that, you got it all.

[@snideaugustine2143]

Literally just started my anual rewatch of SG1!

[@silentdeath7847]

Think i need to rewatch SG1 again aswell😂 propably watched SG1 series alone like 10 times. Found some other YT channel with music videos from the Stargate shows that i saw as a teenager. Found it again like a month ago, and now i just can't get enough of them 😍

[@makogenome7616]

Yessss❤❤❤!

[@redwoodbeard9795]

I beg to differ on 14:20 for funniest thing said in scify. Star trek Voyager forget which episode but the line "Get the cheese to sick bay" is a gur buster for me.

[@anotherbacklog]

For some reason the US named their drone program Replicator. Out of all the names they had to pick this one.

[@TheDanlovejoy]

one of my favorite race/factions for scifi crossover theories. imagine if the replicators, skynet, cybermen, cylons, and the borg joined forces

[@blackstargate4188]

The replicators would just eat the rest

[@Garwinium]

​@blackstargate4188 The borg have nano goobers instead of just spicy legos, so they could both assimilate/eat each other, so it would just be a race to see who can om nom nom the fastest

[@gmradio2436]

The Replicator second evolution is full nano bot grey goo. Given the Borg have recently evolved macro bots, not sure who wins.

[@thanqualthehighseer]

The Cybermen and Cylons are just food, The Daleks and Borg might be smart enough to disable the self Replication ability or shut them down .

[@JainZar1]

​@@thanqualthehighseer The Dalek would jump back in time and kill whatever fool created their current cybernetic enemies.

[@JoshSweetvale]

10:40 There may also have been a hard limit on Reese's bandwidth. 7:10 I always liked the idea that Reese is Pinocchio + Small Soldiers. Some old exile from Atlantis 9999 years ago wanted to have a child. So the Lantean built one. ...and he used *forbidden military tech* - Asuran nanites - to do it. Asurans were a nanobot superweapon that accidentally became sentient when the superweapon decided to copy its creators, down to clothes. The Ancients went 'oops' and tried to nuke them. Almost worked. Origin story of the Nanobot Elves in Stargate Atlantis. So my theory is some Lantean took that tech back home and did a Pinocchio with it, seeing as sentience is exactly what the Lantean wanted. This also explains how reverse-engineering Reese allowed the Replicators (and the rare earths in the Asgard capitol) to eventually create Asuran-style 100% nanobot models.

[@HiopX]

correction. the oops part wasn't them copy fashion and anatomy, but rather not copying morals and solving the wraith problem by genociding the wraith food source: humans

[@jodrakhanthewonderful1642]

SG had things that made the Borg look downright silly. Replicators are one of the best sci-fi baddies. They kinda implied that killer machines were common, SG:Universe had another multigalactic machine menace.

[@Nagihiko12]

Oh yeah, the Berserker Drones, I think they were called?

[@henshinagogobaby2249]

So I have a suspicion considering how well informed and familiar you are with the numerous occurrences of the replicators in the series that you intentionally avoided bringing up the human form replicators due to either not liking them as a premise or writing choice or because you're saving them for another video. I'd be thankful if you could shed some light on that decision as they are a relatively significant plot point to be examined in the arcs that they are involved with regardless of how the quality of their concept is judged.

[@Pretender6]

@7:40 in the crossover fanfic with XCom, this gets nicely retconned, with Reese being surviving, being shipped off to Altair, both being some deviation of tech/culture of Alteran/Lanteans, aka the Ancients coming back from Atlantis still within the Pegasus Galaxy, interbreeding with native population resulting and/or with a single individual (re)experimenting with a 'fresh slate'

[@erikstillman3553]

I'm kind of sappy also when it comes to AI being afraid. In 2010: The Year We Made Contact both in the book and movie when Jupiter is about to ignite and the Discovery/HAL 9000 will be caught in the blast wave but is asked by Dave to broadcast a message on repeat for as long as it can; HAL: "I'm afraid." Dave: "Don't be. We'll be together." For all of HAL's computing power it's a child always trying its best to please and it makes me feel kind of sad for it.

[@orutakawatenga8820]

Calling the Replicator defense reaction "kicking over a hornets' nest" is somehow a massive understatement, it's more like stepping on a swarm of brooding black mambas that just laid eggs.

[@rishoh]

Having seen this, I kind of want to see you guys cover "The Beast" from Homeworld Cataclysm.

[@weldonwin]

"CUT USSS LOOOOOOOOOOOSE!!!!" *(Nightmare distorted Screaming)*

[@Reddotzebra]

My personal favorite being the line from when you finally figure out how to board their ships about how the exploration crew should stop oogling the super advanced biomechanical circuitry that is now covering everything and remember that it used to be the crew.

[@Kiljaedenas]

Oh HELL yeah!!! Boy was that an awesome game...that very first time your command ship gets infested and you have to cut the lower bay away, hearing the screams from the crew over the radio...goddamn chills...

[@Ptaaruonn]

I actually feel sorry for Reese. I wonder if they were nice to her they could have prevented the replicators problem.

[@Darlf_Sevil]

why im not sure why they talk like that... abaut her but she was mad as daughter my mistake or mayby to replace real daughter who die. she many tiem say that her father do that or that he try protect her and they where scard of her like if they was able easy do ai thme im not see point it porbady like data, no one know how it damm work except his father.

[@GeraldOSteen]

This was actually very entertaining. This is the first time I've come across these videos, but it feels worthwhile to subscribe.

[@zeehero7280]

The Replicators eat for a reason though, and its not just to make more of themselves but to gain more technology. Replicators are actually quite intelligent, and become more and more so as they evolve.

[@Stinger420]

I love how passionate you are about sci-fi stuff, and at the same time there will be a moment in a video where you're all, "I know none of this matters, but...". Heh! I love it!

[@StarScapesOG]

You did miss the part where some idiot from star gate command recreated them to fight the ori.... great episode!

[@russko118]

it's one of the film, not an episode, and it's there that we get the humanoid skeleton he shows in the video

[@StarScapesOG]

@russko118 you're right! Gosh dang it....

[@Reddotzebra]

You would think that a race that is so amazingly smart as the Asgard should at least have an "are you SURE you want to do this?" warning popup on their Santa Claus tech.

[@jose-ec3co]

at least he put a kill switch in them, of course they borrowed into his skeleton to turn it off which sucked

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

22:03 To be fair, had they, the replicators would have had A LOT MORE than ONE ship.

[@Shinzon23]

You skipped a giant part of the replicator "ecosystem"; the Human Forms initially created by the replicator block forms to deal with the neutronium case of the time dilation device by turning to microscope blocks, Nanites, to do so, which then assumed the form of humans and gained the ability to control the block forms like Reese could.

[@josephholliday9302]

That was the moment SCI realized, he %!$#@% up. After that shoutout section the temptation to change the patreon name to Dance Slidemonkey Dance was pretty high. Fun video though.

[@robustdelirium9277]

“What if- and stay with me here, we had a grey goo scenario BUT! We make it spiders?! Eh? Eeeeeeeeh?” In all seriousness, I love the replicators. Probably my favorite iteration of the “Consuming swarm” concept for a scifi aggressor race.

[@millefune]

Whoa, no mention of the “people” Replicators that evolved on the time-speed planet? Where SG-1 betrayed the only Replicator that was capable of love and trust?

[@StarboyXL9]

"Screw you! I'm eating the floor and you can't stop me!" Based Replicators.

[@KillerOrca]

Advanced they may be: immune to bullets they are NOT

[@evanboll4651]

Until, that is, they start building the Human-Form version.

[@gilmadreth680]

Immune to bullets? No. Outnumber your bullets? Give them a minute.

[@johnsmithfakename8422]

When the replicators are smaller than the size of a cat they can be neutralized with small arms. The bigger they are the less effective bullets are.

[@KillerOrca]

@@johnsmithfakename8422 Nothing says "get the fuck back" like a Jafa with an AA-12

[@xyreniaofcthrayn1195]

Recalibrating: Immunity to bullets found. Laughs in replicator.

[@WorldWalker128]

Replicators are basically the technology version of The Flood.

[@Eleanor_Ch]

Replicators are very similar to the Flood. Flood is biological, but they both exist solely to consume, don't really have intelligence and are virtually unstoppable.

[@kentclark9908]

So flood vs tyranids vs replicators? Who wins?

[@Eleanor_Ch]

@@kentclark9908 Flood.

[@DJBRO2005]

No. Replicators would win.

[@me67galaxylife]

@@kentclark9908 lmao why bring the tyranids ? you hate them that much ?

[@StarNote96]

actually the Stargate was part of the "super weapon" if I remember correctly it automatically dialled once it was activated "it was once used by the Ancients to re-create the precursors of all current life in the galaxy, after the plague that wiped out the Ancients devastated the entire Milky Way Galaxy. Thus deeming it as a weapon is disputable."

[@gmradio2436]

The Dakara Superweapon?

[@StarNote96]

@@gmradio2436 it's only called a super weapon by people who didn't make it and didn't use it for what it was made for

[@gmradio2436]

@@StarNote96 It can be used to end life on a galactic level. It is a super weapon. Probably a good thing it can not reach out past the milky way without a zpm.

[@specialnewb9821]

​@gmradio2436 Nah. It's like calling a nuclear reactor a nuclear warhead.

[@gmradio2436]

@@specialnewb9821 We are talking about the wave of death machine meant to purge plague worlds and Anubis wanted to use to wipe the galactic slate clean? That non weapon?

[@dragonofdragons1720]

"We are not in your walls, we are eating your walls"

[@williamhenby952]

Correction: we ARE your walls

[@shaderunner7.0]

I guess the advanced version of the Replicators wasn't worth mentioning that was developed in the Time Lock world (that they reverse engineered to do the opposite of what it was supposed to do), that instead of being "big" blocks like that, were instead nano-sized, and made very human looking Replicator models with them. The size of a component was more like a size of a cell, so much higher resolution colonies were possible, and they essentially became the center brains of the hive, if I recall right. Oh, and they had a massive crush on Sam. For whatever reason.

[@Nagihiko12]

Not all of them. Just the one that was more emotional, who due to the betrayel became obsessed

[@shaderunner7.0]

@@Nagihiko12 Right, forgot about that part, but the point of the humanoid Replicators not featured stands :^)

[@MrAcerulez]

Another big reason the Asgard had a huge problem with them is b/c they can adapt defenses against their energy based weapons faster then they can develop them. They basically became immune to most energy weapons and the Asgard had only energy and techno weapons. They another reason why us humans were so effective against them b/c all in all most of the drones were pretty fragile, and a shotgun is great at doing enough damage to the Replicator blocks leave them inert until they can be reassembled.

[@skipper112358]

Thanks for the setup time invested. A great concise overview.

[@vi6ddarkking]

Funnily enough the UNSC hard counters the replicators due to their kinetic based weapons and MACs being able to brute force the shields down. On that note I find it funny how rare Spinal Mounted Weapons are, in Stargate.

[@callen1904]

Given the asthetics of the ship designs throughout the majority of the show, I don't think the majority of races could mount something like that.

[@vi6ddarkking]

@@callen1904 Not really with the exception of the Goa'uld and their obsession with pyramids. The Asgard, the Tau'ri, the Ancients. Even the Wraith ships wouldn't look out of place with one or two massive F-off Canons on the front of the ships.

[@addisonwelsh]

Problem is that the Replicators become more resistant to bullets the larger they get. By the time they reach human size they're basically immune to all small arms.

[@vi6ddarkking]

@@addisonwelsh The reason Human form Replicator are immune to bullets is because they are made of nanites not the regular block. And the Replicator ship that escaped the black hole was destroyed because the O'Neill-class Ships energy weapons have a kinetic component to their damage dealing.

[@addisonwelsh]

@@vi6ddarkking Did you not hear the part where kinetic weapons don't actually stop them, just slow them down?

[@julius-stark]

"We are the Replicators. Lower your shields and surrender your matter. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our menu. Resistance is futile."

[@gmradio2436]

Goa'uld fleet when? I want to nerd out about the Throne of Damnation. Anubis was cool, but he had hacks.

[@EmrysMerlin8807]

So, why no discussion about the human form replicators? You mentioned to Asurans, but those were Pegasus Replicators. I wouldn't necessarily mind them being omitted, but doing so also omits one of the key moments of the Stargate 'verse- the battle between Daniel and RepliCarter.

[@Ryvaken]

"You can't outsmart the Replicators." Yes. Yes you can. You cannot out-TECH them, not for long. Anti-replicator tech has always been finicky or worse. However, the replicator ability to think, project, forsee, plan, and so on, is pretty darn bad. They are fundamentally stimulus-response machines. Follow the program, execute the instructions. They are predictable. They can be tricked. They can be controlled within certain limits (none of which are really acceptable). And in the end, Daniel took the ultimate advantage of that.

[@veleriphon]

SG-1's Replicators are what Star Trek's Borg were supposed to be. A group intelligence focused on a single goal, and damn anything else.

[@cgstudiosthebaconbro]

I always loved the replicators but they barely get anybody noticing them so ty for talking about them bro :)

[@dakinademino977]

Replicators are basically a kid friendly version of the grey goo scenario brought about through human stupidity.

[@jakobrosenqvist4691]

The replicators are probably the scariest alien species i have seen in Sci-Fi.

[@Mr.Beauregarde]

Just watch the Ethan cutscenes superclip Also, that's geometric growth

[@barrybend7189]

Legos of DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

[@barrybend7189]

Sci why didn't you reference Regis 5 from Megas XLR?

[@TherealSBlair]

My personal nightmare fuel - Replicators get possession of a TARDIS.

[@liborohanka5010]

Mine is little bit more more impossible. Replicators who learned alchemy from fullmetal alchemist.... They would literally change every material they find into material for their replication. And that is simplest form of alchemy in show. I honestly can't imagine, what would they do with power system like that. I mean Father did absorb God by sacrificing one country. Replicators would sacrifice solar systems and if they thought its worth it, even whole galaxy.

[@merendell]

Ok "meat mech" is a discription of the replecator takeing over a human that i could have lived without. I remember that episode but danm that puts an even worse spin on it.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

That whole Reese Story beat is always really sad, everything about that is messed up, she was just trying to play with really advanced legos :(

[@ravinous]

Ah yes, Replicators, the answer to 40K Fanboys everytime they pull the "Nothing is better and more OP than my edgy dork fantasy world."

[@Kalenz1234]

Pretty much any major faction from Star Trek could smoke the Imperium.

[@LRK-GT]

Now I want to see The Warp vs. The Replicators. Thanks...

[@jandepaepe4262]

"screw you, i'm eating the floor and you can't stop me" is probably the most accurate description i've ever heard for replicators...

[@qvcybe]

i think that intro explaining the replicators is the best way i have heard them explained

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

Literally the only way to beat replicators I can think of is smaller, better replicators that understand ethics. Either that or total reality manipulation.

[@SenorGato237]

You should look into the silicates from Space: Above and Beyond.

[@Mewseeker]

20:18 It gets even better. One of the character basically say : "Umm, I don't know, she might actually be too smart for this." XD

[@Dan250]

And now imagine the despair into which the Ori drove a certain group of Tauri, that they decided to return this synthetic plague. I don't know how this battle would have ended, but the Milky Way would have lost anyway.

[@shmee123ful]

you did forget one final form, the 'human form' were the bugs deciced they really really liked terminator 2's t-1000

[@raw6668]

Since a queen in an insect hive is to produce offspring since they are controlled by pheromones rather than a single entity, a Queen Replicator is adept in the naming convention.

[@vennom14]

After my 4th watching of a video of yours, I am subscribing due to the actual thought involved

[@pierre-mariecaulliez6285]

I do believe that they spit acid as well... I mean, they're supposed to process the metals they then turn into more Replicator block ! And, in the episode where a lone Replicator takes over a russian submarine, we see it jump at a sailor and spray something in his face as a mean of attack. Bear in mind, the kind of acid that can melt ANY metal, even sci-fi BS metals, into a soup that can then be shaped into a programmable Replicator block, into your face !

[@TheLiamSelig]

Reese was created by an Ancient. That Ancient fled from the Pegasus Galaxy after the original replicator creation plan backfired and tried to do a better job making an artificial lifeform that wouldn't become uncontrollable, but one of the base desires of all life is to reproduce in order to not be killed off. Whoops

[@nullpoint3346]

32:55 My favorite quote in this video.

[@kerianhuertas1586]

Ah another episode of two bros being nerds in a basement 😂 Love your chanel ! Keep going on !

[@jenniferstewarts4851]

To me, one of the scariest parts is... they are computers... they are interconnected... they are... networked... the more of them there are, the smarter they get, the more they learn and processes, the more tricks they learn. a single bug on its own could never take over a ship and fly it.. its not smart enough, it just knows to eat and replicate... but you get 100's of them 1000's of them they, as a hive mind, learn.... share data, choose targets.... you get millions of them, they now use tactics, they have their goal... simply put, the more there are.. the more dangerous they are

[@nero756]

22:34 yeah that cracked me up a bit to good xD

[@alistairrae9807]

O’Neill even says to Daniel that Reese was already starting to lose control of Replicators on the base

[@tttpppbbbaaa]

I like the theory that the replicators we see in SG1 have ties to the ancients. Stargate Atlantis introduced humanoid replicators that were created by the Ancients. As the show shows the replicators were deemed failed experiment and were destroyed by the ancients. I believe when the Ancients returned to the milkyway galaxy a faction that still believes in the replicator research settle on a planet to do their work away from the eyes of other ancients. Eventually they created Reese everything everything went wrong and replicator bugs we see spread across the universe.

[@AdamTehranchiYT]

If you love the horror of replicators, may I interest you in the Mantrid Drones of Lexx? They don't stop because they find it hard to eat planets, stars, or galaxies. Great video 👍🏻👍🏻

[@swapertxking]

i watched the movie when they first introduced the humanoid class of replicator. Shit gave me NIGHTMARES for months

[@FigmentVFX]

My own head cannon was the reese was made by the ancients and connected to the same line of research they did to create the humanoid replicators that were used to fight the wraith. Im not certain on the exact timeline. It could have been a small research group that went to the milky way to avoid being attacked by the wraith. They probably set up on a planet that already had the civilization and resources required to conduct their research. Reese then created the spider version of the replicators which killed the small group of ancients. They then went on to decimate the pre-existing population of that planet which had no way to fight the replicators. Before this happened the ancients put reese into stasis (where she was discovered by sg1) as a last ditch effort to stop the spread of the spider replicators.

[@schnebot]

original blocky replicators were pretty much macro-scale nanomachines given their incredible versatility, before they actually went from blocks to the proper nanites with their human-forms in season 6 onwards. while their goal is as simple as it comes - "to increase their numbers" they are quite interesting faction.

[@Leofwine1]

The Asgard did not flee to the milky way, they found a new homeworld in their own galaxy.

[@slayer2450]

Love the replicators in Stargate

[@AngryDuck79]

Why no FTL tunes?

[@The-Autistic-Strategist]

5:29 I bought CoD infinite warfare just for Ethan! (So totally worth it) Never really got into the other Cod games though. (I’m a halo fan myself) Though I also dabble in Battlefield.

[@danielbeck2739]

That's understandable, and yes Ethan was the best character.

[@nathaniellong4281]

You forgot the part where the Replicators evolved so much that they looked just like humans, but made of tiny nanomachines.

[@ThatSlowTypingGuy]

"Most average Tim Hortons worker experience." Indeed.

[@yoboyrob201]

You forgot that during the time they got trapped by the Asgard that the replicators evolved into human form replicators. Different from the ancient replicators but basically the same thing. Basically impervious to every weapons except those that specifically target their blocks and separate the individual nanites. Strong and can reach their hand into your mind to read it. Most dangerous version of them as they have the ability to control the regular replicators

[@jumpinghunter9152]

The lack of music with topic of video like this is... uncanny.

[@theiathegondia7349]

What about the nanite based human form replicators?

[@Name-ot3xw]

The grey goo doomsday scenario is still my favorite. Replicators are the same thing, just macro-machines instead of nano.

[@HemisphereCinema]

I wonder if replicators unintentionally took form of the itharus bug based on wraiths it kinda makes sense since acension etc.

[@Maverick-7508]

24:00 I wonder if the result would be 1 of you on every world... should have made carter step through

[@me_a_person]

They're definitely all-consuming, especially the budget...

[@DougJackson-gp6yq]

You didn't mention the humaniform replicators, who look like people (remember the episode when 'fifth' kidnapped Mgr. Carter?).

[@Mayan_sorel]

wasn't there an episode with nano-replicators ?

[@Kalenz1234]

Atlantis