Voldemort’s TRUE Origins | Harry Potter Film Theory

[@savnana3605]

The one perfect connection they missed. Zeus was the greatest enemy of Sisyphus. And Harry bears the mark of a Lightning Bolt.

[@adolfodef]

Headcanon Accepted. -> Harry never said out loud: "Shazam!"

[@KaladinVegapunk]

That's.. a bit of a stretch haha. Also Rashek from Mistborn is a way cooler villain

[@Jones209]

I'm surprised you didn't talk about Koshchei the Deathless, a Slavic folkloric figure who put his "death" into an object and hid it, preventing him from dying and was an antagonist in several tales

[@StellyTheElephant]

Huh? That’s cool. 😮🙂

[@jacobpage410]

Yeah, I thought of him as well

[@jacobshore5115]

Me three!

[@Neuromant1991]

I was about to write about him. It is a shame they missed it. Koshei is a dark king/ancient supervillain and he achieved his version of immortality by hiding his death into the tip of a needle. The needle is hidden inside an egg. The egg is hidden inside a duck. The duck is hidden in the stomach of a large hare. The hare is hidden in a chest and the chest is at the top of mighty oak tree. Good luck finding the right tree in the right forest and chasing down the animals. It’s strange they didn’t get to this comparison, the similarities between Koshchei and Mr. Spooky regarding their immortality cannot be ignored .

[@jankatkaromka]

Totally agree. To every Slavic reader that analogy was always very obvious

[@kyellverdonschot9922]

There is another mythological figure who also is very similar to Voldemort, Koschei the Deathless. He was a wizard in Slavic folklore who had hidden his soul, with 7(!) layers of protection

[@Neuromant1991]

It’s a shame they missed it. Regarding the 7 layers, could you list the ones you know? Because i only remember around 6: 1) Needle (the death is hidden in its tip) 2) Egg 3) Duck 4) Hare 5) Chest 6) Tree What am I missing here?

[@ArthurLagace-wj7em]

I think the seventh is the unfindable island.

[@kyellverdonschot9922]

@@ArthurLagace-wj7emYeah it was something like an egg inside a duck inside a hare inside a chest underneath a trea on an island in an ocean or something

[@aceofspades9503]

@@Neuromant1991 I think I read a different version, since I don't remember the needle being a thing. but in the version I read, the tree was guarded by a dragon. So you had to get past the dragon, climb an unclimbable tree, open a chest (I think the lock was unbreakable? version i read the hero knocked it out of the tree and the chest shattered, bypassing the lock), shoot the hare when it fled the box, shoot the duck when it flies out of the hare's body, break the egg, and then I suppose take care of the needle. I'm going to have to re-read that story.

[@TheSpencermacdougall]

Video idea: What is the Blood Status of Squilb Children? Like, if a Pureblood and a squilb born to purebloods had a kid, would the child be considered a pure blood or half blood? Would the child of two squilbs be considered a muggleborn?

[@TheTrekkie42]

The purest of pure blood families don’t have squibs. They have tragic accidents.

[@SgtSupaman]

Yeah... "pure blood" is such a ridiculous thing in this world where magic can pop up (or die out) in literally any bloodline. I mean, Harry is considered half blood because, though both his parents are magic, his mother is muggle born. But, as we get to Harry and Ginny's kids, are they pure bloods now? Are they quarter bloods? Do they ever get back to being pure bloods after enough generations of only magical ancestors? Basically, it feels like an arbitrary title that the bad guys just give themselves to consider themselves better. I doubt truly pure blood exists in the wizarding world. At some point, some magic child was born to muggles (unless, I suppose, every muggle is actually descended from wizard squibs, but the vast number difference make muggles being the original people far more likely).

[@XxCJOxX]

Ummm, all ik is that family math sucks and magic family math is just annoying beyond annoying

[@XxCJOxX]

@@TheTrekkie42oop

[@Lordpooz09]

As frowned upon as squibs are to those who care about blood statuses I can only imagine a magical kid of a squib is still an abomination of some sort 🤷‍♂️

[@murderofcrows5089]

Koshchei the Deathless was also an inspiration for Voldemort. For those who don’t know who that is he’s a sorcerer in Slavic folklore who pulled his soul and put it into a needle that into an egg, the egg into a bird (I’ve heard it was a swan, duck, or a goose) the bird into a hare, the hare into a chest, he buried the chest under a tree on an island that appears only once a year. My guy was not taking chances. Assuming you managed to go through all that and got the egg you would have to smash the egg on Koshchei’s head thus freeing his soul and causing all the tears he’s lived to come crashing down onto him and even then that might not have killed him because Koshchei has shown up in Slavic folklore after he has died

[@Not-an-Alien]

sounds like Kemmler

[@The_Early_Gamer]

I wanna add one more for the "I am Lord Voldemort" switcharound! In the Swedish version his full name is Tom Gus Mervolo Dolder, which swaps around to form "Ego sum Lord Voldemort" Which is latin for "I am Lord Voldemort", which I thought was an interesting touch, latin is as close to a magic language as you get. But having the extra middle name Gus?? Hilarious! But also matching Dumbledores quirky middle name of Brian.

[@crazysasha1374]

Ah yes, two great and powerful wizards, arguably the most powerful of their times, Brian and Gus.

[@Brendie1997]

At least in most languages, the guy is named Tom. In dutch, the name is Marten Asmodom Vilijn, which in no way resembles the original name😂

[@MrBanankartong]

Dold in swedish is a word for hidden so Dolder is almost a version of Riddle, but yeah Gus is very sily and its not even a common name in Sweden

[@МаксимЯромич]

That takes it to totally new level and theory: Gus Fring is Voldemort.

[@The_Early_Gamer]

@@МаксимЯромич I love that! the only problem is that Voldemort is an infamously bad planner. Which Gus Fring is not.

[@joasegoans3709]

Hi! Spanish fan here. Just wanted to say that 'Señor Tenebroso' is quite a literal translation from 'Dark Lord'. 'Lord' is literally translated 'señor' (we have only one word for mister, sir and lord), and 'dark' is usually translated as 'oscuro' but 'tenebroso' is close enough and have more of a sinister resonance, since 'oscuro' is too common of a word to sound imposing to us, as Voldemort name should. Love the shout out to other translations. Great video!

[@laurelsilberman5705]

You’re saying it’s like the difference between “it’s dark out” versus “the darkness was impenetrable.” Like they’re basically the same thing but Tenebroso, for whatever reason, maybe even just because it has more syllables, sounded better. 👍🏽It’s funny how a mistranslation can because an intra-lingual meme without actually understand the veracity of the claim😂 language is funny, huh?

[@ultimateshadeofwar]

​@@laurelsilberman5705 It's Tenebroso can also refer to sinester stuff, the point of the translation using Tenebroso, it's not a mistranslation, but a translation that gives it more strength in this case, when we talk about Dark Magic, Magia oscura, we use the word Tenebroso in different ways to describe it in certain mythological translations, the idea of the word, it's to imply something darker, something horrible, something sinester. As such it gives it the same strength as calling him Dark Lord in english. If he was call Señor Oscuro, people would be laughting saying "Would you like dark pants too to go with your already edgy black clock my lord?".

[@kaiumeda6341]

When you said Greek Mythology I thought you were gonna mention Oedipus Rex, Oedipus kills his father and his mother is named Merope

[@jenniferdaniels701]

Adoptive mother. Jocasta was his bio mom. There were also several Meropes.

[@Over_It]

It was Jocasta. Merope is one of the Pleides sisters (i believe). She was a priestess of/dedicated to/promised to Apollo. Orion the Hunter (of Orion's Belt fame), got drunk, decided he wanted Merope instead, took her despite her opinion on the matter (the same way Merope Gaunt enchanted Voldemort's father). Apollo ended him later on out of revenge.

[@-ellieille-]

I just read Oedipus Rex for one of my classes, and the way I remembered her name was connecting her to Voldemort’s mom 😅

[@AntoineAbouRjeily]

4:38 Jedusor is a very clever name actually. From a phonetic perspective it can be either the same as "J'ai du sort" which translates to I have a spell or to "Jeu du sort" which translates to a game of fate.

[@thesephiam]

0:22 so glad to see you guys going into the mythological roots of the Harry Potter series. You know what else would make me glad to see you deep dive into the myths? That’s right this is day 35 of the quest asking for you to cover the Percy Jackson series. One question regarding origins and big bads, is how did the bolt get stollen in the first place? and how did Cronos learn of Luke and contact him? The Percy Jackson series is full of even more Greek mythology stuff like the story you covered at 6:35

[@Cheddar-the-Chaos-Editor]

Ohh yeah it did mention the story but it wasn’t exactly in the Percy Jackson series specifically it was in either HOO or TOA

[@NussbaumBros]

Theories: 1 What would happen if the trace was triggered in a fidelius charmed house would it work? 2 What would happen if you polyjuiced into a viela are they even the same species?

[@ked49]

1 that there was magic, and that some child was near. But not an exact location like the trace normally does(harry was a unique case as he was the only one in miles) 2 mistransformation.

[@kaitlyneyre8813]

Idk about 1 but 2, polyjuice is only supposed to be used for human transformations, but for anything else (like Hermione with a cat) it can have very bad consequences that mess up the transformation and you aren't really either one

[@discofuchs490]

2 is specially interesting because Fleur is part Veela, and I believe she uses Polyjuice Potion to transform into Harry with the others, doesn't she?

[@NussbaumBros]

@@discofuchs490 yeah I’ve always been confused about that cuz I thought you couldn’t polyjuice into a different species

[@discofuchs490]

@@NussbaumBrosRight? I mean, she's only 1/4th Veela, still it would have been safer to have someone else take the polyjuice potion instead of her

[@brianstryker4536]

Here are two possible ideas: 1: what if Ron was the one to die in the ministry during Order of the Phoenix like JK originally considered in the early drafts 2: what if one of Harry’s friends turned on him like Wormtail turned on lily and James?

[@samurexatlas7373]

Wasn't Sisyphus also given a choice in death? To continue to death, or just simply roll that boulder back up the hill to climb to his immortality? (The boulder chipping once it moved to no longer sit atop the hill, thus making this task impossible)

[@Zer0Fox_gibbon]

Yes. Hermes kinda dug his style what with him being God of travellers, theives and general mischievousness and vagabondery. So he offered him the choice (though knowing full well what he'd choose). Either accept death but spend eternity in Elysium or push the boulder up the hill to the point of completing the task and escaping the underworld, at which point he'd be granted immortality.

[@borjanavarrofernandez9747]

I'm spanish and I wish his name was Mr Spooky😂😂😂😂 And there is another quite significant name in that Edinburgh cemetery. William McGonagall, considered one of the worst British poets of all time

[@jakeferreira1211]

I think the Voldemort and Sauron parallel is pretty significant too. The most obvious one is the Dark Lord title. Both extremely powerful beings trying to take over the world. Both also poured part of themselves indy physical objects, Voldemort with his horcruxes and Sauron with the One Ring. Both the horcruxes and the Ring also have to be destroyed in order to defeat them. Sauron and Voldemort were also both once defeated, having to abandon their bodies and reform later. Coincidentally, both fled to the east after abandoning their bodies as well. Voldemort to Albania and Sauron to Rhun. The mist/spirit thing they become is pretty similar too. Voldemort describes himself as being "less than the meanest ghost" and Sauron is described as "a mere spirit of malice that gnaws itself in the shadows." Voldemort's goal for the Wizarding World is pretty similar to Sauron's goal for Middle Earth, too. Sauron wants to take over, destroy/enslave all that aren't loyal to him, and rebuild the world in his vision with himself at the center. Voldemort wants to take over, destroy all who resist, enslave muggles and muggle borns, and rebuild the world in his vision with himself at the center. There's also the parallel between Dumbledore and Gandalf. They're both wizards and the appearance thing is obvious, but both were also initially reluctant to fight out of fear. Dumbledore delayed fighting Grindelwald for years, but eventually relented. When Gandalf (he was called Olorin at the time) was asked to sail east from Valinor to fight Sauron, he didn't want to go, saying he feared Sauron. Gandalf and Dumbledore both set the plan to destroy Sauron/Voldemort in place. Gandalf is the first to recognize the ring Bilbo found is the One Ring, and Dumbledore is the first to realizes Voldemort is using Horcruxes. You could go on for quite a while with this.

[@naomi_falk]

4:14 Mr. Spooky lol Instead of "you know who" everyone in the wizarding world should have called him Mr. Spooky. All fear of Voldemort=gone

[@KuroashiMarimo]

Im getting pretty spot on when moldevort laugh edit will appear. Love the scene.

[@3MrArtist3]

Hearing Ben talk about Greek mythology biefly in this video is likely the closest we'll ever get to them covering the Percy Jackson series 😢

[@Phlucious]

The fact that Tom chose the name “thief/flight from death” while simultaneously aspiring to be master of death goes to show how little he truly understood Death. Curiously, that understanding of his name makes the title of the Snatchers (thieves) seem surprisingly apt. If anything they seem more closely aligned with Tom’s values than the death eaters themselves.

[@bLaazQ]

You talking about Voldermorts soul never leaving limbo makes me think how awkward it would be if Voldy ended being a ghost in Hogwarts.

[@greywolf417]

Love the Dutch "Marten Asmodom Villijn" to "Mijn naam is Voldemort" Also love the video's!!!❤❤❤

[@Moriya_Lifshits]

Hey, that was a great video! 2 thoughts: 1. In Hebrew, Voldemort's middle name is vanderolo(ואנדרולו)instead of marvolo, to create the word "ani"(אני) which means "I am" 2. Percy Jackson is a great series you might enjoy:)

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

A video from Ben always makes my day ❤

[@PumpiPie]

This is WHAT WE WANT HBO. Make a series with Voldemort’s TRUE Origin story. Where we follow him and look from his perspectiv. With ofcource clips showing what muroders, hagrid and dumledoor :D 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@countluke2334]

Minor correction: Voldemort's middle name in German is Vorlost. Which isn't a real name. But then, neither is Marvolo.

[@GubbiGap]

Unrelated but I really liked the editing between clips and you in this video! The smooth transitions were so nice!

[@aud2d2]

The editing was particularly exceptional in this video! Isybelle did a great job

[@itchybelle]

thx guys 🫶🏻

[@xarenanotmyrealname4134]

Please, please, please do a series about Dudley being a wizard and going to Hogwarts. A mini series for Aang from ATLA dying and one of each of his crew being the avatar instead from Sokka and Katara to Toph and Zuko. And finally do a series of Prim from the Hunger Games becoming the Mockingjay, the only way I can see her going to the games is if Katniss gets caught hunting and either gets killed or sent to the capital to become an avox.

[@katmaresparkles9578]

Quiz idea: differences between translations of the books.

[@Cosmikaze]

In Danish Voldemort name is Romeo Gåde Detlev (Gåde means Riddle, so at least they kept that part), but funnily enough, his dad's name is still just Tom, which causes some issues down the line, where they say that Romeo was Meropes nickname for Tom Sr.. I heard that they fixed it in later translations through

[@DarKnightKilla13]

Thank you, Age of Mythology, for literally being spot-on in video game form for everything ----- including the Titans expansion which included the Tartarian gate.

[@Foxy2D]

Good day today because of Ben uploading

[@lexismith9549]

My favorite fact that I’ve learned about French music is that there’s a group of French rappers called le 667 or “les Mangemorts” (Death Eaters) which leads to an interesting abundance of Voldemort references in French rap music and also…Elvis references??? For the wordplay. It’s such a jarring pair of people to hear mentioned in the same sentence.

[@AHufflepuffAndASwiftie]

And not to mention they both have "dark" symbols that are associated with them, too . . . And, oh, my gosh, J looks SO different with his hair "flat"! 😅

[@Blixthand]

So in Sweden, his name is Tom Gus Marvolo Dolder, and it bothers me to no end. Like, I see what they were going for, Dolder sound similar to Dold, which means something hidden, like a Riddle, but instead of trying to change the names to where they could make a Swedish anagram of it, they added a second middle name, Gus, so they could make the LATIN version of it, Ego sum Lord Voldemort. And they have the audacity to add Tom saying "as I'm sure you know, Ego sum means I am". Literally no one I know, even as an adult, knows Ego sum means I am, unless it's because they read the Swedish translation of Chamber of Secrets, but literally every one in Sweden above the age of 7 (probably even younger), knows what the english words "I am" means, so why not stick with his original name and the english anagram if you couldn't make a Swedish one anyway?

[@RyanHaney55]

I remember my jaw dropping when I saw Tom write his name in the air and twisting it around to spell Voldemort. The TV shows Hercules and Xena are 2 reasons why I recognize some of the Greek mythology stuff. 😅

[@Lightning_Lance]

Now I'm imaging Elvis doing the weird Voldemort laugh.

[@Hlaford29]

It's a great piece of research! This is - unlike many entries on this channel - close to a real literary study. There should be more such content here.

[@quackerzdb]

I always figured Voldy raided a cemetery for his inferi army.

[@rehanchowdhury368]

I love the thumbnail. That picture of Voldemort is perfect and what he should’ve looked like in the films

[@LuxyVT]

In Dutch its even crazier, There it is "MARTEN ASMODOM VILIJN", which Anagrams to "MIJN NAAM IS VOLDEMORT"

[@JackieSaul-dq7yr]

Honestly, Ben did an excellent job with his greek pronunciations!!!!

[@gaelcross]

For the french translation, they kept Marvolo Gaunt's name, as his name became Elvis Marvolo Gaunt. Plus, Jedusor can refer to "jeux du sort" that you can translate as "game of fate", or in short, gamble. Translating best-sellers is a quite difficult job. 😅

[@pedroe.p.decastro8522]

I find the most interesting version of the Sisyphus myth the one where the gods actually tricked Sisyphus. They offered him a choice: go to Elysium (kind of like heaven) or push the rock to the top of the mountain and if he manages to do it he'll be made immortal. They knew he was obsessed with immortality so his hope would be his torture.

[@hufflepom]

My favorite French translation is Hufflepuff becomes Poufsouffle. 😂

[@imaginepageant]

NO WAY 🤣🤣🤣

[@hufflepom]

@@imaginepageant yup. They also rename some of the characters. I’m pretty sure that Snape became Rogue and I know Oliver Wood becomes Bois. Bois is French for wood. The school becomes Poulard and wands become baguette magique. 😂

[@jayrome1884]

​@hufflepom as a French, yes Snape becomes Rogue (which means disdainful) The houses are Gryffondor, Poufsouffle, Serdaigle (for Ravenclaw, it's the contraction of serre d'aigle, literally eagle claw) and Serpentard (Slytherin, serpent means snake). Wood becomes Dubois, but you're right it's because Bois means Wood. And the school name is Poudlard, also Hogsmeade becomes Pré-au-lard, lard would translate to bacon I think. But the coolest is probably the sorting hat becoming the "Choixpeau", it's not an actual word but rather a play of words combining choix (which means choice) and chapeau (which means hat).

[@jnmsks6052]

Ok, so I've always said how the clip of Voldie laughing still hasn't gotten old. I laughed again when it first came up on the video, but it turns out it's only funny when it appears once in a video.

[@imaginepageant]

Agreed. Three or four times in the same video and it isn’t funny anymore.

[@donaldtoner2070]

The laundry thing hits home for me. This is why I do my laundry at home and usually wearing nothing aside from shoes so I’m not making new laundry.

[@Franzburg]

Sauron villain who was about to take over... Cut down, but can return... Nazgûl vs Deatheaters????

[@TotesNotMia]

0:13 Taylor is at the 13th second. wow.

[@tribute_eagle6176]

Saw the notification and clicked right on it love your videos wish I could come see you on tour ❤😢

[@AlanTheFallen]

You guys are great! Keep up the good work! 😃

[@that_brian_guy]

I giggle every time you all play the clip of Voldy laughing, I literally can't stop myself

[@pingvinbromma9451]

Fun fact, over here (In Sweden) it’s ”Tom Gus Mervolo Dolder” which becomes ”jag är Lord Voldemort” and as a kid I just thought it was really cool because I thought that all books are just written in that language. Like I knew JK wasn’t Swedish but in my kid brain I was like ’Nah she wrote this entire book on Swedish and only Swedish’ I genuinely don’t know why I thought that… so yeah 😅

[@GothicCosplay666]

Immediately clicked on this when it showed up even though it's quite late in England, I love this channel's content, I fall asleep to it on the regular

[@mecahhannah]

Awesome as always thanks guys love this series please continue!❤

[@jakegordz101]

This episode is the reason you should get into the PJO fandom

[@SgtSupaman]

Another comment here got me considering questions about polyjuice potion. What would happen if you took a hair from the boggart that turned into Snape and used it in a polyjuice potion? Would you turn into Snape (does the boggart so perfectly duplicate him that the potion can't tell the difference) or would you turn into a weird boggart person (like Hermione turned into a cat person), which would be especially weird since no one knows what a boggart looks like? Also, what happens if you take a hair from a polyjuiced wizard to use in a polyjuice potion? Would you transform into the original wizard or into the one that they are transformed into? What about using a hair from a transformed animagus? Does that turn you into the wizard (and does it come with the ability to transform into their animagus form), or does it just treat it like an animal (and we're back to Hermione's cat person form)?

[@adamrabe3105]

Voldemort laughs (two in fact), Hercules inserts, and even a clip from the original Mean Girls. Where else than a SCB video would you get this gold?

[@tegnertv751]

Fun fact. In denmark Tom Marvolo Riddle is "Romeo Gåde Ditlev jr" witch translates to. "Jeg er lord voldemort"

[@Acton16]

Love a new upload form you guys potter fans for life

[@Nobody-xb4zu]

That mythology tangent was so great I forgot we were learning about Voldemort

[@LegoAndrew08]

You are my favourite KZbinr!!!

[@michaelsilvas16]

Keep up this content. Favorite channel by far!

[@parttimesaint3165]

The cup plug at the end. I was expecting you to go "Super Sips" which sounds close enough to that Sisyphus guy. "Enough about Sisyphus. How about more about Super Sips from our Super cups!"

[@carlrood4457]

The thing with Umbridge is she's relateably evil. She's the sort of official everyone has had to deal with.

[@rittersportfan]

There is a small misspelling in your German version of Tom Riddle: His middle name in the German edition is "Vorlost", not "Volorst".

[@ithinkihadeight]

Speaking of alternative character origins, do the SCB crew watch Star Trek, and if so, what do you think about Umbridge being inspired by the character of Kai Winn Adami from Deep Space Nine?

[@dunjaj.7736]

So the Serbian version of his name was "Tom Mervolodomos Ridl" which then became "To smo mi, Lord Voldemor". It basically translates to "It is us, Lord Voldemort." 🪄 P. S. Us in terms of - Tom Riddle and Voldemort are both the same person.

[@richardtabor8686]

Been loving this series, if you can call it that, of the IRL stuff in the story. Ty for the ideas and content.

[@mauraaa2988]

love seeing you talk about greek mythology! did you ever consider making videos about the percy jackson universe?

[@elanorgamdschie8694]

For anyone who was wondering how sisyphos actually tricked death: He showed him that ouzo (schnapps) turns milky, when you put a little bit of water into it. Death thought that was increadibly interesting. Then Sisyphus basically outdrunk (is that a word?) him. Death was so drunk, he fell asleep.

[@BrancoVissers]

Dang Adam! What a vibing song! Thanks for sharing this awesome tune (and video).

[@stevenbutler6936]

Everytime i head "The Boulder" i immediately picture Toph and the underground fights

[@danielbognar7965]

Heeeeey brother! I'm from Hungary and I simply love your and J's vids. When you talked about the abroad versions of the wordplay, I was curious if you would mention the Hungarian version. You see, in our version Tom Marvolo Riddle doesn't only have a unique translation, but the letters also get jumbled up in a unique way by a lettersplit happening. The name here is Tom Rowle Denem, whitch gets mixed up as Nevem Voldemort (My name is Voldemort), the W splitting up into 2 Vs to pull it off. I don't know if there's someting familiar in any of the other countries' own version, but I quite like this extra little trick in the wordplay.

[@raz1791]

I love the random Mean Girls clips they put in 😂

[@Noorutska]

In Finnish Voldemort's name is Tom Lomen Valedro making the aha-moment "Ma oon Voldemort", and that's kind of funny because ma isn't any word in Finnish - it comes from "Minä" (I), shortens to "mä" and then they left out the dots from ä. The word "oon" is also modified version of "olen" (am) and we don't get any kind of lord in our version (that would be "Herra"). It's always funny to listen or read Finnish books when I'm so used to original names thanks to you guys :)

[@bugleboy541]

So the mug pun at the end of this video was SUPER THIS? This whole episode was one big shaggy dog story? AAARRrrrrrgg!

[@spiros7m]

As a Greek, I'd also like to mention that Voldemort's name becomes Άντων Μόρβολ Χέρτ/ Anton Morvol Hert, which was a huge surprise to me when I finally read Deathly Hallows in Greek. By the way, good job on using the right accent on Thanatos... eventually.

[@Captionjones]

The thumbnail was phenomenally captivating 🔥

[@teucer915]

Former Spanish interpreter: I would translate "Señor Tenebroso" as "Lord of Shadows". "Señor" is both famously the honorific equivalent to "Mr." but also the word for "lord": God is called "el Señor", and Tolkien's epic is titled "El Señor de los Anillos", for some familiar examples of this use. "Tenebra" is a Latin word for "shadow" and is not the origin of the normal Spanish word for it (that would be "sombra"), but it's used to sound highfalutin and is exactly the kind of word a Spanish-speaking Voldemort would choose for his name. -oso is a suffix exactly like -ous in English. So it's Shadowy Lord, except that doesn't feel like it has the gravity that using the Latin term does in Spanish. Hence I would go with a somewhat more formal rephrasing of that. "Tenebroso" can absolutely also carry the meaning we would use "spooky" for in English, but the English word intuitively feels informal while the Spanish word absolutely doesn't.

[@irishuisman1450]

what's funny about the name change in Dutch is that despite Dutch being very similar to German and therefore we could've just gotten a similar small name change, the Dutch translator(s) decided 'nope, we gonna do better' and completely changed his name to still make the anagram work in Dutch. So rather than 'Tom Marvolo Riddle', his name is actually 'Marten Asmodom Vilijn'. You can just immediately tell it's Dutch because literally no other language uses the 'ij' the same way we do xD And for those curious what the anagram then turns into, it becomes 'mijn naam is Voldemort', literally translated 'my name is Voldemort'. Marten is a variation on Martijn, which is a decently common Dutch name. Vilijn is very phonetically similar to 'villain', which, while not a Dutch word, still evokes a similar feeling due to it also being similar to the Dutch word 'venijn', which doesn't have a direct 1-1 translation but is kind of like verbal/metaphorical venom. Google Translate actually does give 'venom' as the translation, but if you're talking about the actual substance the Dutch word would be gif (no, I'm not kidding, that's actually the word). Asmodom isn't really an actual name and is likely just the leftover letters turned into a word, but it works!

[@m3tamorphosissystem250]

Man, the AI really went all in on the snake thing.

[@exilhannabal]

"Not only was it considered poor manners--" HAD ME DEAD

[@stephaniejenkins7822]

I'm pretty sure in the Greek mythos that that Sisyphus made a deal with Hades to get out of the Underworld, and *that* is how he ended up pushing the boulder up that hill. If my memory serves, then the deal was supposed to be that if he could manage to get the boulder to the top of the hill, he would be set free and allowed to return to the mortal world; in order to prevent that, when Sisyphus is forced to stop every day due to exhaustion, the boulder will roll back to the bottom of the hill no matter what the man tries to do to stop it, hence the eternal torment part of the story.

[@EduEspasa_]

I am sorry, but the best rebuild of Voldemort's muggle name is the Danish one: Romeo G. Detlev Jr

[@MrE2raHV]

Sisyphus could have pushed it almost all the way to the top, found a strong ledge, and leave it there.

[@gred_and_forge]

"shoot dang"?? Choo-Choo Charles reference???

[@johnprice4847]

just some feedback - glad you shortened the intros, and especially the added chapters. and the transitions imo we're better when they weren't fading

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Instant click

[@KelseyBurns3]

Same

[@orangetuxedoman]

100% Totally.

[@DaneInTheUS]

Yup

[@btk72491]

Honestly almost anything SCB is an automatic click lately, the whole gang is on fire 🔥

[@charlene9651]

This is my favorite theory so far!!! Absolutely LOVE this!!!!!

[@eviklm6827]

Fun fact: In the Greek version of the books, Tom Riddle's name is Anton Morvol Hert because the anagram is Arhon Volntemort (Arhon=Lord) which was pretty confusing for me cause I first watched the movies and then did the terrible mistake of reading the translated books 😅

[@richardblakely6854]

"Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of 'systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, cyst-susceptible sister,' which is easier done than said." (Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital. HarperCollins, 2001)

[@tay012]

A basilisk wearing sunglasses would still petrify everyone.

[@williamStonehill7382]

Sisufes, dude! The guy who is eternaly pushing a bolder up a cliff! The man who told hadies his wife had not given him a funeral, and ran away, tricking the gods... dude awesome

[@beagc2859]

Omg! Mr. Spooky got me laughing so hard I even spooked out my cat. So much for being spanish.. I had never thought about it that way.. whenever I re-listen to the audio books in whatever version (Stephen Fry being the best narrator-hands down) it's not gonna be the same. Ever 😂 Fun fact: in Goblet of Fire, the riddle the sphinx presents Harry in the maze is also different.

[@mariajesussilvazurita7243]

0:12 best taylor's album so true, supercarlinbrothers!!

[@GoMikeG]

*voldemort laugh* floored me every time

[@TheJambo51]

As a Scotsman, I can confirm you said Edinburgh pretty much correctly. We tend to pronounce it as "Edinbra", but more formally, it can be said as "Edinbura". Choose your poison I guess.

[@stratagama]

You talking about Greek mythology makes me think that you guys absolutely have to do the Percy Jackson books

[@nicolaschaigneau2001]

The french name Jedusor is read as jeu du sort that means play of fate and I think it's very nice the traductor didn't try to get a translation of Riddle

[@-ellieille-]

I loved this video! I challenged myself to read the first Harry Potter book in French a couple years ago, and it was actually really cool because I knew the story so well that I could piece together what was going on! So I love to see the linguistics analyzed (when I realized the whole “Flight/Theft of Death” thing I was so excited, and I also was amused by “baguette” meaning wand, “eclair” meaning lightning, and “Poufsouffle” being the name for Hufflepuff)! I’m also a Greek mythology nerd, so I loved hearing about all these connections! 😁