The Monster Hunter Iceberg Explained

[@guardian3636]

Kinda surprised that you didn't mention that one time snake fought a rathalos and tygrex in the metal gear series

[@Joxxerfoxy]

That Peacewalker game is actually what made me want to play Monster Hunter in the first place. I loved those levels and I wish Gear Rex was in the MH series

[@seanurban3606]

The battle I never expected, but couldn't be happier they added

[@NightSentinel8432]

​@@seanurban3606 yes

[@Attaxalotl]

Also there's Gear Rex, a monster made specifically for MGS Peace Walker that I'd love to see in an actual Monster Hunter game.

[@spinalspiral9901]

Wtf is a tygrex

[@julielandherr4686]

Dead Gypceros In The Hollow actually refers to the Sunken Hollow, where you can see a dead Gypceros being suspended in one of the zones that is comprised of Nerscylla webbing, as they are its main prey it. Gypceros can play dead anywhere, not specifically limited to the Sunken Hollow.

[@Caribbean-Man]

Yep. Bad iceberg.

[@Cassapphic]

13:00 It’s also possible the dalamadur we fight in mh4 isn’t fully grown, and the skeleton in the rotten vale is what a fully grown dalamadur looks like.

[@mahranramadhan]

i think it has been said in the artbook somewhere that the giant rotten vale skeleton is an extinct ancestor to dalamadur species

[@dianslabbert504]

20:05 It is not something that is explored in depth in MH but religions do exist in their world and there likely different religions each with their own pantheons. In far remote areas where the Guild still has little influence due to their remoteness the local people, with a lack of scientific understanding of the natural world, do superstitiously believe that many of the monsters, especially Elder Dragons, are gods or divine beings. Some notable examples of in game religions are: 1. There is a place called "Fire Country" that is a reoccurring place in quest descriptions where the people believe a volcano is their god and whenever there is an increase in magma activity they believe it is their god becoming angry. However, their princess knows it is some kind monster causing the increase in activity with its digging and personally contacts the Guild for help. 2. Akantor and Ukanlos are named after gods in their world. When Akantor was first discovered and the Guild were evacuating the nearby settlements the locals told them it was the "Black God" from their legends. And so the Guild named the monster after that god: Akantor. It is the same story with Ukanlos 3. The Rajang Long Sword explains that it used by warrior monks and in Freedom Unite a monk monastery in the mountains near a volcano do ask the Guild for help to deal with a Rathalos and a Rajang on separate quests. 4. The Black Blood material from a Savage Deviljho and a certain Gigginox material in 3U are said to be used in dark ceremonial practices

[@fluffdafire157]

Should warn that some material here not being entirely canon

[@Cherry_Waves_]

Yea Equal dragon weapon is not canon

[@statesminds]

A lot not accurate either lol

[@brecoldyls]

Number 112: “dual blades upgraded from sword and shield” doesn’t refer to world. It’s a reference to how in MH Freedom (and I think MH1), the dual blades weapon type was hidden from the player at the start of the game, and they could only discover it by upgrading certain sword and shield weapons into dual blades

[@aquelgamermexicano]

The "White Fatalis kills the player" comes from two possible outcomes: Lore-wise: As you said, Fatalis takes the hunter's body Gamepla-wise: In Frontier, there's a certain ability that white fatalis has, in which it visually vaporizes the player. In game, it only counts as a faint, but the fact that the game flat out disapears the body when gettin attacked, suggest that white fatalis kills the player.

[@OrgBrent]

Frontier also has mechanics that cause insta kills, some even being full on kills that take all carts away. I don't think using frontier for lore implications is valid.

[@Hraezlyrrrr]

@@OrgBrent Frontier is canon, weirdly to many people's distaste. However as you say, using anything directly or roughly said by frontier descriptions is always iffy. But I think trying to say that full cart kills are too extreme, or white fatalis's vaporization (which already sin't really canon because Hunter's road is just a endgame) makes it not canon doesn't add up. Basically any monsters biting hard enough would kill a hunter, or according to armor descriptions, some armor would make them invincible. Monster Hunter canon is fun!

[@OrgBrent]

@@Hraezlyrrrr Hey Hraezlyr, we're both in Dani's server. It's me, Brent. Anyways, I know it's canon, it's just that you cannot take ingame movesets and portray them as canon as this goes against other things that are stated as canon.

[@Hraezlyrrrr]

@@OrgBrent Oh hey Brent! Sorry lmao, didn’t know it was you. Also I thought you were implying the exact opposite, saying that you could take gameplay and say it’s canon. Nice to see you here since I can’t peek my head into servers as often as i’d like to compared to passersby comments like these.

[@OrgBrent]

@@Hraezlyrrrr Error on my part, should've worded my initial statement better. But yes, Frontier is definitely canon, though using gameplay for lore implications makes a statement invalid.

[@rajangvoljang9241]

Hi, this is list of what you didn't mention: 1-The rocks that fall on Lao Shan lung are from a hunter in the kokoto Village. 2-There's a drunk Guy who has a crush on A girl behind your house in the Kokoto Village. 3-the girl behind your house in Kokoto Village has a brother who keeps exchange sending texts and messages to each other, the more you progress in the quests the more she talks about him but one day she becomes sar because he stops sending her messages, her brother is a hunter. 4-In Pokke village there's a felyn in the left upper side of your house, he said once that tigrex was almost to become an Elder Dragon for his strength, or something similar. 5-Crimson Fatalis is an Angrier Fatalis because he's fully red with his own lava anger mode it is showcased very well in Monster Hunter World Iceborne. 6-Wyverians are probably the first hunters to exist. 7-the botanist in Monster Hunter World, loves taking care of herbs and veggies because they the Wyverians live longer just as Herbs and trees and he said he saw alot of friends growing and dying of age, that's indeed sad. 8-There was a hunter talked about in Pokke village in Monster Hunter Freedom 2 and Freedom Unite, that attempted Akantor but never returned, later in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, Nekoht the quest initiator of High Rank Village Quests of Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, initiated another Akantor Quest in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, during the quest she started talking about that Hunter and it felt a little bit sad and depressed and I personally felt sad, was That Hunter the same guy from Monster Hunter Freedom 2 and Unite? Was it us the Protagonist? Or was it the brother of that woman from Kokoto Village in Monster Hunter, and Freedom? 9-In Monster Hunter 2 Dos theres a board in that village that tells you to pet your Poogie before Quests for something.. 10-In Monster Hunter Frontier, Zenith White Fatalis and Berzerk Ravienth are the only Attack that actually Kills the Hunter, 1 vaporizes the Hunter and 2 Swallows the Hunter. 11-Some people said that the copy of Monster Hunter either helps you get rarer items or makes it hard.

[@TheFluffyTheropod]

27:48 okay first, you said “triple meaning” and only talked about one of said meanings, except that one you talked about was kind of just all three merged into one. The apex monsters you talked about are mostly related to the frenzied ones- you did mention something about apexes chasing groups of monsters “into battle”, but the ones that do that are entirely seperate from the ones that overcame the frenzy virus. They have the same name of “apex”, but are entirely unrelated. These apexes are the ones influenced by Narwa and Ibushi. That’s what the one in the image is. Frenzy apexes are simply regular, powerful monsters that were inflicted with the frenzy virus, but overcame it. Also, unrelated, but keep in mind Frontier isn’t canon to the main series. Then there’s the whole thing about the dragon war- the equal dragon weapon in particular. Long story short, it never canonically existed. And Fatalis never literally “commanded” monsters to do its bidding- other monsters are simply scared of it, not straight up following orders from it. Anjanath and Barioth most definitely never shared territory- Anjanath lives mainly in forests and occasionally deserts, while Barioth lives exclusively in snowy areas. There is nothing at all that states Monster Hunter Stories and Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings Of Ruin are canon to the main series. Collaborations are *definitely* not canon, and neither is the movie. There are absolutely no “portals”. And possibly biggest of all as far as I’ve watched, what the actual hell, monsters are not evolved dinosaurs. This is an entirely unrelated world to ours. I know there’s a ton more misinformation in this vid than just that, but I honestly can’t be bothered writing about it all. All I’m really saying is, if you’re going to have someone who hasn’t played a monster hunter game before make a video about it, at least have someone who knows more about it watch through it and correct it first.

[@statesminds]

Yeah its terrible lol

[@practicingstoicism2048]

Thought i was the only one who was thinking wtf consistently

[@YouMystMe]

Isn't an iceberg about a series as a whole, its lore but also the community? So even though most of these things are absolute rubbish its still part of the games history as a video game. Like in the Bionicle Iceberg "The Dream" is a fan thing and yet its part of the iceberg, its not cannon or part of the lore. So even though a lot of of this is complete nonsense its still part of the community and their theories and the series as a whole. The iceberg is just meant to categorise everything including the communities doings. So the iceberg is correct. (It would be nice for this to be noted in the video though so people know which ones are actual game lore.)

[@capitanpastabase6342]

@@YouMystMe you said it, it would nice if the video said when an entry is fanmade, like most good iceberg videos on KZbin

[@DarkMoonRaven100]

Six months later capcom bought out some secret dragon weapon stuff and is making it trade marked in order to use it haha the tables have turned on that one.

[@Sottoth]

For a moment I believed that the monsters I capture were dissected and all that, kinda saddened by the fact that I never kill any Yian Garuga, only capture them (fav monster and all that) but i remember that a field reseacher tell you that alive are more valuable to the studies because after they finish they release them to the wilds again

[@thecanadiandane7262]

That’s almost worse. Hundreds of monsters roaming the lands with grievous, often crippling wounds. A barroth with a broken crest surely dies within days, if not hours, due to it’s destroyed nostrils, tears on wings get deeper and wider as they don’t have the opportunity to heal, and surely severed tails exposed to the air become infected and deadly. It’s the reason I hate abandoning or failing hunts.

[@trick5832]

@@thecanadiandane7262 we can say the researchers try to heal the monsters in their studies. I mean we have healing potions and all that, and that makes me feel less sad haha

[@NargiKyrad]

@@thecanadiandane7262 I don't think we release them back onto the wild immediately with lethal damage, since it's we capture them for research and that's not something done in two minutes. so it's better to assume they actually help the wyvern recover from said damage. I mean, after all Monster Hunter is *not* known for it's cruel treatment of in universe fauna

[@laxelford3533]

​@@thecanadiandane7262and they become deviants

[@aidenmclaughlin1076]

And now I can say I’ve seen it all! Yian Garuga? A favorite monster?! Ok then 😂😂😂 (I hate Yian Garuga he pisses me off so much 💀)

[@gamervagabundo5075]

I dont know about the fatalis fights not being canon... But it would actually make much more sense that canonically they were failed attempts, thus no one ever surviving the fight, until Iceborne.

[@shadowcharizard4592]

All the fatalis fights are canon, the guild scrubs the records as to prevent the world from learning of fatalis's existence. Fatalis can regenerate so he constantly comes back

[@somethingwitty3300]

Why would Iceborne be the canon one?

[@Hraezlyrrrr]

@@shadowcharizard4592 none of what you have stated has ever been proven true other then the guild being hush-hush about Fatalis. The armor does indeed imply that whoever wears it disappears and may or may not become fatalis, but again, never been shown or proven. It's just a million times more likely that all Fatalis fights, apart from the first one mentioned in world being canon, it's just always never canonized. Essentially meaning that the fight in world where you yourself as a player hunt Fatalis hasn't happened, or hasn't been seen past as to what happens when Fatalis is dead.

[@acozygoji]

That was great! I'm happy someone was able to tackle this, now, rough draft of the "Ultimate" MH Iceberg. There was some shaky points and/or false info, overall still a great video. Thanks for making my day and good luck with whatever other projects you have in store!

[@cleancasual8546]

Thank you for the feedback and constructive criticism!

[@nate7687]

3:49 I am almost certain this meant the hanging gypceros killed by nerscylla in the webbed areas, not the fact gypceros plays dead.

[@lordbadoc1137]

Yeah because it specifically mentioned the sunken hollow

[@jokig]

The "dual blades upgrade from sword and shield" is from the first two generations, when upgrade paths were linked together

[@spookyfrogs1874]

This video was amazing, thank you for this!!

[@biocta]

21:53 I just want to point out that Shara looking at the camera is not just an illusion, there are many videos that clearly show the eyes moving to follow the camera. It makes a lot of sense with its buddhist design that Shara is enlightened and somehow understands the reality it’s in is a game.

[@bipsahoy8064]

Its fully an illusion, shara has 2 models, the fight one and the cinematic one, the one you see in the fight doesnt have any righs to move the eyes while the one in the cutscene does but always looks at the hunter never the camera

[@MrSleepyDerp]

Never thought there would be enoung topics for Monster Hunter to cover such a lenghty video! But i watched most of it in one sitting because your voice is soothing

[@deezclops4484]

Wow really great job on this video. I was looking for a MH iceberg for a longtime so I can listen to it while I work, this really did it for me. Found myself pausing my work just to listen a couple of times because of how interesting it is 😅

[@felixangelpazovila1350]

The frenzy virus has nothing to do with the apex rise monsters, it was a mistake in translation. In Japanese they have diferent names

[@Daylen151]

really?? god i hate this. do they know how much confusion and how many heated discussions they have caused with this mistranslation? man and the hype around gore was insane in my squad. you should have seen the pure frustration pulsating through our sessions after gore wasn't released. man they sure did an oopsie

[@mydrillasanjay5397]

@@Daylen151 well gore and shigaru are in now so you and your mates can now rejoice

[@guardian3636]

the scarlet man also appears in genu and maybe 4u, I think the scarlet man is a ghost that is trying to find a hunter strong enough to kill fatalis because it was a citizen of the ancient civilization and is trying to prevent history from repeating itself

[@kingofflames738]

The Scarlet Mystery Man doesn't have any normal Fatalis quests to my knowledge. He only hands out Fatalis variants and Alatreon quests and some other difficult quests (double arena Rajang in FU for example). He also seem to be pretty happy to send hunters to their deaths. An old fan theory is that he's an Alatreon in disguise another theory with much more evidence like a cut achievement in MH 1 is that he's a Wyverian and one of the founding fathers of the guild.

[@Juvenwastaken]

Kushala daoras shed their skin when it becomes rusty. Hunters only need to locate where the shed skin is to gather scales without killing it

[@Daylen151]

god damn it man. some of these theories are nice and fun to think about and then there is "yea this dude is old, still buff and a bit taller than the rest... HE MUST BE A SHAPE SHIFTED RAJANG!! it's obvious because he has hair and rajang has hair also" like??? what the hell is this man. jesus christ some people on here man.

[@JuanGarcia-of3ug]

How is monster hunter a dark souls like game if monster hunter came 7 years earlier, that's like saying ancient Greece was like Rome

[@AnAverageGoblin]

technically there were dark souls esque games made before dark souls, some are even still referenced. but this is mostly because the term Souls-Like was invented fairly recently.

[@statesminds]

@@AnAverageGoblin its not a souls like regardless

[@K0DA._.]

@@statesminds Agreed. Tangentially, some of its gameplay aspects may be similar, such as i-frame rolls and differing weapon types, but beyond stuff like that and generic RPG aspects, the unique aspects of each series are much too different to be considered to be within the same small niche genre.

[@Cassapphic]

1:32:30 I dont think thats what it's referring to I think it's talking about monster hunter 1 where dual blaades could be forged from sword and shield upgrade paths

[@Paotato69]

Equal dragon weapon is NOT Canon, its just an old concept art from before they really decided on the themes of monster hunter

[@statesminds]

Thank you

[@ctchulk]

nah he canon

[@elsienova4269]

It is not canon, but it is not concept art. The Monster Hunter lore overall got reset starting with MH4U. The equal dragon weapon was canon to the lore before that game, together with all the lore about the ancient civilization and fatalis. 4U restarted the lore and because of the missing references to the civilization and dragon weapon, that is why people believe they aren't canon anymore, but its never been flat out stated.

[@aweitzel1]

So like… none of this is fact checked. Almost every other “fact” is basically rumor or even speculation at best, which is wild considering one of the “facts” on this list was KZbinrs spreading misinformation about monster hunter

[@jackhageman9983]

The longest video by far, I’m excited to see you talk about this game series

[@Xankar1]

53:30 the deviljo thing is actually a myth, strangely one continued on by videos from capcom themselves, but, is proven to not actually happen in game

[@guardian3636]

1:55:39 well seeing how early in mh1 production it took plenty inspiration of berserk and how some armor sets and weapons have berserk inspiration i wouldn't put it past this to with ebony obagaron

[@RedrumCrazy]

Thank you for this, As a long time fan this brings me joy. Your voice is so soothing for back ground noise too.

[@brecoldyls]

Wow thanks for going through the entire iceberg, this is exactly what I was looking for!

[@not_fatalis]

40:00 That was in fact confirmed to be the skeleton of a thunder serpent Narwa, the ancient serpent you talked about supposedly is a piscine wyvern, and looks way more fishy , with fins not arms

[@AnAverageGoblin]

I refuse to believe anything from the awful movie is canon, as well as the crossover events in World.

[@statesminds]

The equal dragon weapon isnt canon either

[@mallow2902]

I tend to not believe the more fantastical and supernatural theories about Monster Hunter. Like you said yourself, they should be taken with a healthy helping of salt.

[@geneticjen9312]

The Pukei-Pukei is obviously based on a Tokay gecko. I didn’t think there was any possibility that wasn’t the case. It’s nothing like a chameleon or frog.

[@SerynaSeryna]

i think its based on multiple animals, the chameleon aspects being its colour change when enraged a thing chamleons do irl and also its long tongue which it shares with certain frog species, its crest is also more chameleon like. But i do think in personality and body outside its head it does feel way more like a tokay

[@yikes6969]

​@@SerynaSeryna and the way he swells up his throat like a frog and his wings look like the feet of a tree frog. And it doesnt look anything like that gecko

[@SerynaSeryna]

@@yikes6969 its tail is a gecko tail and so are its eyes and feet

[@yikes6969]

@@SerynaSeryna the eyes of a snake. Its vertical slit pupils, only some geckos even have that and they arent as beady as his. His entire face is based off of horned snakes. The feet.....there is no similarities at all to a gecko's foot. Pukei feet are pretty much a pad with 4 toes/talons spaced 90° apart with the same kind of skin a bird has. The tail is the only thing and that's just due to it being ribbed.

[@SerynaSeryna]

@@yikes6969 its face is clearly a mox between chameleon and bird and actually quite a bunch of geckos have slit pupils i dont even see any snake in its design at all its clearly a Chameleon, Frog Bird with some elements of Gecko

[@jerdasaurusrex557]

Shara's attributes are more Buddhist than Hindu. The Buddha's palm is a common motif in Buddhist legends.

[@dionaeamuscipula6649]

25:58 It could be that it's just saying that Copper Blangonga has evolved to live in solidarity in comparison to regular blangonga

[@birddadup5136]

I'm of the belief that black dragons such as Safi'jiva, Fatalis, and Altreon are reincarnations of the five god dragons. It sounds crackpot probably because it is.

[@Space-f4y]

Safi isn’t a black dragon, he may be on a similar tier gameplay wise but lore wise alatreon, fatalis, and dire miralis would wipe the floor with him

[@seancelestino7699]

@@Space-f4y and the fight wouldn't even be close tbh

[@LordShonji]

The theory of the 5 Dragons that we have seen are Zorah (became the land), Shara (raised the mountains), and Safi (makes the Sapphire Star). Only two missing are the one who made the forest and rain.

[@disu317]

@@Space-f4y he’s a black dragon tho in the official iceborne book he’s the natural counterpart to fatalis

[@RukaGoldheart]

​@@Space-f4y spotted the Fatalis Fanboy

[@conanholmes8620]

Im really enjoying this video, i almost fell asleep while listening to it. Liked and subbed!

[@Loverboychad]

I subbed immediately, good content

[@luxaeterna365]

My friend asked me to help him get a Gaismagorm mantle, in 1 session we killed at least 8 Gaismagorms, he didn't get a mantle, I got 4.

[@jokig]

The white Fatalis killing the player point is from Frontier, where one of its attacks completely erases all players hit by it

[@EdDevil]

Shara Ishvalda's eyes track the camera is what they mean by it looks at the player. It's not some mona lisa illusion

[@joshuasgameplays9850]

Gaismagorm's weapons have the same kind of structure as Shah Dalamadur's, they describe "Fourteen terrors of the black abyss" which seem to represent natural disasters: Abyssal Eruption (GS): The first was a great rising column of fire. Abyssal Flicker (LS): The second was a fork of deadly lighting. Abyssal Sunburst (S&S): The third was a sun to dry even the sea. Abyssal Celestials (DB): The fourth was a dark sun and pitted moon. Abyssal Icicle (Lance): The fifth was a ice shaft scraping the sky. Abyssal Rockslide (GL): The sixth was the rage of mountains alive. Abyssal Windstorm (Hammer): The seventh was a wind to wipe all away. Abyssal Hollow (HH): The eighth was a pit to swallow all things. Abyssal Torrent (SA): The ninth was a torrent to wash all away. Abyssal Splitter (CB): The tenth was a crevice to split the earth. Abyssal Insectoid (IG): The eleventh was a horde to devour all. Abyssal Hailstorm (LBG): The twelfth was hail raining from above. Abyssal Nova (HBG):The Thirteenth was like spreading stardust. Abyssal Void (Bow): The last turned the world to nothingness. It's also been theorized that they represent various Elder Dragons: The great rising column of fire is Fatalis. The fork of deadly lighting is Kirin. The sun to dry even the sea is Dire Miralis. The dark sun and pitted moon are the Magalas. The ice shaft scraping the sky is Velkhana. The rage of mountains alive is Zorah Magdaros. The wind to wipe all away is Amatsu. The pit to swallow all things is Nakarkos. The torrent to wash all away is Ceadeus. The crevice to split the earth is Dalamadur. The horde to devour all is Malzeno (I suppose it's more accurate to say it's the Qurio, but they're not real monsters so whatever) The hail raining from above is uuuhhhhh... also Velkhana? Oroshi Kirin maybe? The one that was like spreading stardust is Safi'jiiva. The one that turned the world to nothingness is White Fatalis.

[@mohammedalssamraey9581]

Thank you for your effort on this incredible project! I watched the video thoroughly and enjoyed it. It truly makes the world of Monster Hunter a wonderful adventure!

[@jewjewsbizarreadventure]

Omg I was in the middle of working on my own monster hunter icberg 😳

[@cleancasual8546]

Keep at it! I'd love to see what you create. :)

[@DagothUr.]

This is a solid iceberg explanation however there’s a lot of holes that you didn’t fill or just didn’t know enough about the ecology of the creatures to understand the lore. For instance when you ask the question “how many kushala were killed to construct the tower” the answer to that is more than likely 0 as not only did the ancients basically worship the elder dragons as gods so they weren’t out there hunting them like the hunters of modern age but also and more importantly, kushala sheds his skin so it can be firmly believed that the tower was made out of the sheddings left behind by kushala rather than potentially hundreds of thousands of them being killed to construct a tower.

[@Masterplanfoiler]

The “monsters are dinosaurs” part was so ridiculous. All wyverns, even the more Dinosaurian ones, all stem from the ancestral wyvern rex. All wyverns from flying wyverns to brute wyverns all hail from this ancient beast. Surprisingly, the wyvern that resembles this extinct wyvern the most is tigrex. (Edit: my bad, I thought you wouldn't touch on wyvern rex) Further edit: i now know that the brute wyverns actually use real world dinosaur classifications. Such as “theropods” I honestly shouldn't have been so blind and naive.

[@BuzzYear10]

I like it when the handler says it's huntin' time

[@TheRealWalt]

1:49:23 So what you're telling me is that TerminalMontage's rendition of Shara could actually be semi-canon? Hell yeah Rapper Shara!

[@NovaeNFC]

i LOVE how you were side eyeing people who make up facts and the nsay deviljo eats its own tail

[@felixangelpazovila1350]

How many times do we have to say that the equal dragon weapon is not cannon. It appeared in a concept lore for the first draft of the series

[@Daylen151]

here he is again just spewing with knowledge

[@ctchulk]

nah he canon

[@Hraezlyrrrr]

@@Fioriole A piece of concept art by itself is still not canon. Regardless of what kind of books it was included in, It doesn't change that it's still a concept. Nothing past that.

[@Hraezlyrrrr]

@@Fioriole The lengthy explanation isn’t needed. I wouldn’t of replied if I didn’t know who the creator of the whole franchise is (literally, duh.) and how the lore books are implemented into the games. What I am literally saying that you have over complicated is that it is a concept. The equal dragon weapon isn’t canon, but they can always use elements to make it canon. It’s that simple. It having appeared in a lore book makes it as much canon as the saliva-ice armor Tigrex. There is literally no debate on this. The contradiction is the fact that it doesn’t exist outside of the book, nor has it been used past that. Much like everything else you’ve stated, which is canon. End of story.

[@Fioriole]

@@Hraezlyrrrr Hey, I just need to make sure nobody misunderstands what I'm saying. That's what you (involuntarily) sign up for whenever you interact with me. I know my comments tend to be long-winded, but it's all in the pursuit of the TRUTH So... I guess we'll just ignore the director's word? You haven't addressed it yet. But from what I can tell, his word has priority over your speculation. ... That actually solves this whole debate, now that I think about it. It'll take a lot to convince me that Fujioka is somehow wrong about the canonicity of his own lore. Official statements tend to be the strongest forms of evidence since they're... direct confirmations. But hey, feel free to continue reading if you aren't tired of my mindless rambling yet. Are you the type to consider all non-game media non-canon? Because we have things like books for various games, Japanese exhibits and show floors, a Netflix film, and Twitter posts that include information that don't appear in-game but are considered canon. That's ignoring a TON of lore bits. Things like adult Gobul, Zinogre's muscle structure, Nerscylla with other pelts, Anjanath's skeleton, the Ace Cadet's origin story. Even stuff that hasn't appeared in an art book. Contrary to popular belief, Illustrations 1 isn't explicitly a "Concept Art" book. I've made the mistake of calling it that before, but it's simply an art book. It's just that, due to including gen 1, it inevitably included actual unused concepts. Because behind-the-scenes stuff are cool. But the point is, not everything was just a concept. If it was, it would've rotted in that book, never to appear again. But it didn't. A bunch of stuff reappeared. It first appeared in Illustrations not because it was concept art, but because it was simply... art. I assume that, since you made the typical comment about the length of my reply, you don't have much patience. So I'll help you spare your time with a warning: Don't bother reading the rest of this if you don't want to see me go on about specific contents of the Encyclopedia again. You're scope of interest seems to be outside of that. Originally unused concepts can still be reused, and they have been previously. You seem to have acknowledged this. Namielle's design is a popular example. The Encyclopedia is written from the perspective of in-universe researchers. Many things such as the wacky looking zepellin whale are sketches based on local testimonies. The frozen-saliva-armor Tigrex is also a sketch based on a Hunter's sighting of it while on a rescue mission. The sketches aren't confirmed to be 100% accurate, though a Tigrex with a bunch of frozen liquid on its face can be pretty easily explained. It's very presumptuous to assume that it was an intentional method of defense, or that it even covered anywhere EXCEPT the face. The furthest we see it go is to the back of its neck. However, the researchers got the info of the EDW from a hunter who found it in an ancient storehouse. That illustration isn't theoretical, they went there and saw it for themselves. You seem to be getting a bit heated if the sass at the beginning of your reply is to be believed, so I just wanna tell you that there's no hard feelings, I just think MH lore is incredibly intriguing. Mainly because of how disorganized it is.

[@aliceangl3563]

Khezu is cute, just look at it's happy grin and excitement to see you, so excited, it's extending its neck for pets

[@JakeValorOfArms]

It's known now in world the captured monsters goto a arena as well. Cause When you capture them you unlock arena fights with them. Those arena fights can't be done till you capture one and, on top when you finish the arena capture or not. They will not add a new repeat of it. So if you capture 1 of each monster in a region on a "rank" type you will unlock a single arena fight with that monster. And if you already did that arena fight, You just unlock it again. While that means elder dragons...cannot be captured by "you" but prob a specialist team that contains them for a period for you to slay. Hope that helps clarify the info better. Yes "Arena monsters are captured" Yes "Others are put down" And if counter argument on "their body parts are back on" You might be fighting a different one while one you over damaged on horns/cut tail are put down. And yes they experiment monsters even in "arena" fights. My guess is, monster culling is difficult in some regions. Like New World. Also guessing, Nergigante is a unique case Elder Dragon, While Magma mountain boy is just a monster they wanted to advert away cause of the new settlement. Learning it's death = A "bomb" for them. Which is pretty true. Unlike Dalamadur it's a "Molten Rock Shell" monster...it dyeing would been a catastrophe on land.

[@shiningjay9383]

I cried when this ended… I wanted to hear more… Also I Never knew monster hunter had this much lore, makes me love it extra now.

[@Gabrielito_.]

is amazing to see an iceberg where plesioth's hitbox is mentioned whilst im hunting a green plesioth in mhfu lmao

[@MikeVonwolkenstein]

Awesome video! 🐉🐉

[@limericky8548]

How is Behemoth below the iceberg??

[@Drambrarcer]

You got the Sakura method backwards - the main objective is to hunt the Brachydios, and the sub-objective to deliver 12 coal pieces is what gives a bunch of charms. Also, Deviljho never actually eats its own tail in game. Flyann made a whole video debunking the Mandela effect about that.

[@ripleyandweeds1288]

Canynes are classified as Fanged Beasts and bear a striking resemblence to the Wulgs from Iceborne, so it could be theorized that the ancient Kamurians domesticated Wulgs which became Canynes while the 'Kamurian' Wulgs, similarly to wolves in Japan, went extinct sometime after. Speaking of Fanged Beasts, honestly I don't consider them laying eggs to be canon to the mainline games and think its just Capcom trying to include Fanged Beasts as rideable monsters in the Stories spinoffs, and in my opinion Stories and Stories 2 shouldn't have made Fanged Beasts obtainable as Monsties and let monsters like Tetsucabra, Agnaktor, and other monsters that actually _do_ lay eggs be rideable instead. Its pretty immersion breaking to have monsters that are clearly placental mammals lay eggs. Edit: That "Iceborne is about colonialism" is so fucking stupid, its literally just the same kind of edgy "Hunters are the bad guys and the Guild is evil" shit theories that wildly misinterpret the Monster Hunter universe and how it works.

[@joshuasgameplays9850]

Despite their mammalian appearance, Wulgs are not Fanged Beasts, they're actually Fanged Wyverns, and are closely related to Tobi-Kadachi and the garons. The closet living relatives of Canynes are actually Bombadgy, Goss Harag, Volvidon, Lagombi, and Arzuros. They all belong to the suborder 堅爪亜目, or Hard Claw in English.

[@elsienova4269]

This video is very flawed, as it talks about these topics purely from a lore and not gameplay perspective. Almost half of the list is explained wrongly due to theorizing on lore rather than actually researching the topic. The "popodrome" is just a joke that people memed in Freedom Unite. The Dual Blades thing is just mentioning how in MHG and MHF, the dual blades are part of the sword and shield tree. Deviljho does not in fact eat its own tail. Etc. The Yian Garuga/Rathian mix is canon and has been info since Freedom Unite, not a thing started in Generations.

[@juliengosselin4277]

20:25 what game is it, the picture with the Seltas Queen, and why is there the icon for Glacial Agnaktor? Don't give me hope just to crush it.

[@juicyjuustar121]

53:40 this is actually a myth! It's been debunked, Deviljho does not eat its tail

[@sarbnitrof4663]

I feel like i just finished a really long game of just the tip after watching this

[@NerscyllaMH]

Love monster hunter like love love it, this was a good video especially for a iceberg. I jus wish there was more dark lore and theories that would fill the spots and not things like "fanmade name's for monsters" or literally just a genre of games that's include dark souls ect.

[@aiellamori]

You know you're in for it when the very first topic is new to you

[@itshawx4697]

Seeing how often Stories is mentioned makes me kinda annoyed For as long as we don't get a map update from capcom themselves I will always refuse to see the Stories games as canon games. Also how come there are so many genetic experimentation theories? Like....we know the evolutionary tree... Also damn man this video makes me believe ppl actually think that horrible MH movie is canon...even the devs distanced themselves

[@HeraclesGamed]

133. I had a situation like this a few days ago. Hunting paulumu for wings but wasn't getting them, go expedition, catch 2, get 8 wings😅

[@bahamutfateburn6091]

Something I do want to note for you, who made the video: When you mentioned that Safi'jiiva was distinctly a Red Dragon and not a Black Dragon, you're only half right on that part: "Black Dragon" isn't entirely a term for literal black dragons like Fatalis and Alatreon. Rather, the term "Black Dragon" is widely considered a title shared by a classification of monsters known as "Dangerous First-Class Monsters," a classification of which Safi'jiiva _is_ a part of. To put it in layman's terms, "Red Dragon" is Safi'jiiva's epithet or title, while "Black Dragon" is its classification or threat level. Typically, Black Dragon-class Monsters are capable of destruction on the level of mass extinctions like Fatalis, and whenever they crop up, they become the Guild's number one priority due to the borderline-wonton destruction they have the potential to cause just by their mere existence. Most normal Elder Dragons are on the level of forces of nature just by existing, with Teostra causing droughts, Kushala Daora causing thunderstorms and blizzards, and so on, however the "Black Dragon" class of Elder Dragons are akin to living, breathing extinction events. Just some food for thought. I'm not being particularly critical of the ideas presented here!

[@joshuasgameplays9850]

Black Dragon is a fan term, literally all it means is that it's a monster who's title contains "Black Dragon". So Fatalis, Alatreon, and Dire Miralis are indeed the only three black dragons, as their English titles are "Black Dragon", "Blazing Black Dragon" and "Smelting Black Dragon" respectively. The rest of the DFCMs are not Black Dragons because that term in not in their English titles, Safi'jiiva's title is "Red Dragon", Disufiroa's title is "Frozen Seraphim Dragon", Merphistophelin's title is "Barren Disaster Dragon", and Elemental Merphistophelin's title is "Supreme Five-Phases Barren Disaster Dragon" because we have officially gone full anime.

[@bahamutfateburn6091]

You're right that it's a fan term, and the wiki states verbatim, "Dangerous First-Class Monsters are said to be monsters with an unnatural presence about them. They are known to share the title of Black Dragon or have some relation to a Black Dragon." The wording here is a bit muddy at best and confusing at worst, and I assume it leads broadly to the conclusion in the community that DFCMs are _generally_ synonymous with the term "Black Dragon." You aren't wrong in that Miralis, Alatreon, and Fatalis are the only ones to actually have the term "Black Dragon" in their names, but most people I know of who use the term, use it as a threat category rather than an epithet for any of the _actual_ black dragons. I hazzard a guess that this is because the people who use the term as such find it less of a mouthful and more ominous and/or cool to refer to them with vague an inaccurate terminology.

[@Golden_Hydra]

Y'know with the portals being canon... the Admiral made a reference to Safi'jiiva possibly having three heads and shooting lightning. Pair that with the fact that Safi does resemble Ghidorah, the reference previously mentioned, and you gotta wonder if and when the golden monster will appear in the MH world.

[@ViNncentSmith]

been a year since you uploaded ,you doing alright ?

[@HerEvilTwin]

Jho does not eat his own tail, unfortunately :(

[@lefuhc1652]

hey do you have a link to that map of monster hunter world? am really interested in it

[@cleancasual8546]

Howdy! Is this the one that you meant? www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunter/comments/moz4c9/i_created_the_world_of_monster_hunter_in/

[@HitHardHerbs]

If this iceberg is trying to stay with the continuity of the lore the equal dragon weapon is only concept and has never actually been implemented in any game in any shape or form. So as of the moment the great dragon weapon isn’t real.

[@yhachpham7291]

Alright, I already got no idea about no.1 and I have almost a thousand hours in World. And holy shit is this addicting. More pls.

[@lordbadoc1137]

Monster hunter pvp was probably refereing to pvp in monster hunter dose not MHS2

[@lordbadoc1137]

You also could never cut a velosopy it half though that would be cool

[@joaosantiago4909]

@@lordbadoc1137 You could in MHFU

[@lordbadoc1137]

@@joaosantiago4909 oh cool i did not know that I only recently starterd in MHFU

[@midnight_purple5461]

There's actually a video of Shara ishvalda eyes following the camera and not player

[@Caribbean-Man]

They did NOT research this at all

[@andreworders7305]

Specifically a lore iceberg, which should probably be in the title?

[@thmistrapillay1811]

Love monster hunter. Only started with world yet I knew basically almost everything in this vid. That's just how captivating this world can be

[@zafirkes7328]

I had to hunt xeno so many times beacouse i kept getting gems and no common materials

[@Ulta_Nagenki]

Heho! Let's see!

[@Ulta_Nagenki]

MAN! I MISS DYNAMIC! That was one of my first memories with Monster Hunter. I wished it was still around.

[@Afrominican1]

Wow, this video is full of inaccuracies. Lame.

[@arran4285]

For some the audio for all the videos you uploaded on the channel seem to be low and set mostly to the right audio channel?

[@cleancasual8546]

Thank you for the feedback!

[@unrdnungmk6902]

Deviljho never ate it‘s own tail

[@DerekCooper_]

Deviljho can and will eat its own tail, I’ve seen it, I know it’s real 😭

[@TheDreadlagg]

Sometimes I wonder what the hell MHW fans are smoking to create so many crack theories.

[@Lumbambino]

Deviljho can't eat its own tail, tho. It's been debunked.

[@bert7651]

Who says shaka and gaja are apelike?? they're goblins in the finished games. Gen 2 shakalaka designs still appear as recently as monster hunter stories 2. They are not related to fanged beasts at all.

[@statesminds]

Lots of wrong info in this. Rip if you’re gonna do an iceberg and try to cash in on the monster hunter community you should get your stuff straight

[@lions2286]

Nice

[@Viscid149]

Man I’m sad that they shut down Monster Hunter Riders

[@vengeflyking2722]

It’s quite embarrassing that this video talks about Equal Dragon Weapon like it’s canon. It isn’t, and if it ever was in the game, it was reskinned into something else. Perhaps into Lao, looking at its size. Either way, MH was supposed to have a very different tone, and it’s actually pretty well known that it was.

[@flagro770]

A significant proportion of all of these are non-canon and ultimately pointless to even discuss. At this point you're just inventing stuff and making up bullshit around it. Apart from that the video was good and the narration was fine. It would be better if you put effort into creating videos about meaningful content.

[@statesminds]

Lots of other stuff was just wrong too

[@gallixypegasuss1546]

The Monster Hunter movie is the bastard child nobody wants. 👍

[@shrek3747]

In 1972 a crack commando unit was

[@rathosalpha]

40:16 looks alot like xeno,jiiva to me

[@leonidasvonsparta]

i see monster hunter i like

[@milkdetrop5506]

i cant hear you

[@archshade7891]

Mh4: The world serpent Mh stories: angelic dragon turn into a devil Mh stories 2: six winged angel dragon Mh world: The buddhism/hinduism dragon Mh rise: Japanese deity dragons Mh???: aztec/egyptian dragon

[@IndianaJones84476352]

MHGU's final boss, Ahtal Ka, has a lot of Egyptian themes in its design.

[@joshuasgameplays9850]

Iceborne was the Buddhist Dragon, base World had the Xenomorph dragon. Also you forgot to mention Sunbreak, who's final boss is literally the devil.

[@ctchulk]

why am I watching this