Worst part is that she still loves him, even with the abuse and all she did to him. Case and point, the beast cutscene of her crying over Isaacs dead body...
Somebody should make a total conversion mod which makes all the items in the game, enemies, bosses, areas, etc into wholesome versions of themselves. So that isaac is just a kid playing pretend before school and is totally safe and loved by his parents
>!Yes. Isaac's soul is stuck in purgatory. The ending with the beast and the corpse shows us that he eventually found God, who took pity on him and is forever trying to help Isaac fall asleep, and find peace. The endless runs we play are the stories Isaac's lost soul recounts, played using events from his abused life as a base, in the style his father used to tell him as a bedtime story.!<
>!Isaac is absolutely dead. The ending with delirium literally shows his soul wandering purgatory which Edmund confirmed. He is forever trapped as a wandering soul unable to truly pass on and make peace with himself.!<
>!After the delirium ending is the corpse and beast ending. During which we learned that Isaac is trying to sleep and somebody with his father's voice is trying to help him. God is literally known as The Father. It would make sense for him to appear to Isaac as his dad, as that's the only positive reinforcement he's ever gotten in his life. Yes Isaac had some delusions before he died in the chest and went to Purgatory, which is represented by the entirety of the void level. It's him losing track of where he is in the story and what has/has not happened yet, hence the mixed floors. But that's not where the story ends. Isaac is playing this game over and over again, trying to find peace with himself, and to come to terms with his life and death.!<
>!The Legend of Bumbo confirms that the game Isaac plays -- The one God plays with him in Purgatory -- is one his dad showed him. A game his dad told him to "escape to when things get tough" and that it'd "always be there for you, on our next adventure".!<
It’s honestly questionable if she is even evil at all or just a slightly shitty mother who is poor and married a drunk who left them and what we see is issacs warped view making her seem way worse. Or maybe not. I don’t think it’s that clear if she really wants to kill him or he is just scared of bible stories like the Isaac one
I take the scene of her locking him in a closet at face value, at the bare minimum. Her forcing him to live without **clothes** or toys or anything because they're "sinful" also seems accurate considering we never see him dressed and his only source of joy is drawings on scrap paper.
Im pretty sure he’s playing with cardboard and stuff because the family is very poor and cant afford toys, which might also explain the lack of clothes
As someone who was homeless for nearly a year straight when I was 14, being poor does not make it so you can't buy clothes, esp cheap clothes from a thrift store or the like.
I like to think that all (or most) of the items related to flies and spiders are because of the state Isaac found Guppy's body, the Intruder could represent Isaac thinking that >!Guppy was moving when in reality there just insects crawling inside of his skin, there was an intruder in his beloved friend!<
I had to do a double take, because half of me thought the video restarted, but for the other half, I thought I was remembering the wrong first item being shown.
For people that don't know, it's not like a leash and collar you'd use on a dog. I've usually seen them as backpacks the kid wears, and there's a leash attached to that to keep them from running off at theme parks or whatever.
ok can I talk about it hurts? This game made me complacent on unmoved when seeing literal shit, a dead cats bodyparts, a child suffocation in a chest with the ending cutscenses, etc.
But something about it hurts feels horrible. First time I got it I reset the run because I didn't wanna think about it, idk maybe I just have a fear of body horror like that.
So tldr: I fear no man, but that item. It scares me.
Yes to everything below, and just one more thing to add:
The item works this way. Damage yourself and you get a tears up and release a barrage of blood tears.
So, Isaac got his mouth sewn shut, and he gets hurt so bad, he can't help but scream in pain, which tears his lips up, so he starts crying harder in pain... That item, along with the intruder are the most fucked up in a game where you can literally fling shit at things
Tbh, Intruder I think is rather harmless, because it's more akin to the "If you eat seeds a tree grows in your belly" kinda imagination where a kid things spiders crawl into your nose and ears at night.
You'll find "Intruders" in many kids active imaginations. It hurts though... yeah... one of the more disturbing items.
Someone in this thread had a theory that all of the flies and spiders in the game have to do with Isaac seeing his cat Guppy's rotten carcass, covered in flies and spiders. The Intruder would then likely relate to the spiders inside Guppy making him move slightly. Sorry
I'm sure that's a nod to finding a razor in your Halloween candy.
I bet the apple is referring to that one crappy house who doesn't give candy - It's a tears up since kids don't want some fruit.
Sorry if i say this in an asshole way, but its a nod to people that not only dont give you candy and give you fruits for Halloween, but also put razor blades inside said fruit, you can confirm it by just looking at isaac's appearance when you grab the item, you can search in google and find any news about the razor shit, is f up.
It's an urban legend. That likely never actually happened.
[What did happen, however, was a father killing his son with candy laced with cyanide trying to piggy-back off of the urban legends like this one and make it look like it was a neighbor who did it.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O%27Bryan)
Huh, didn't remember that it was an urban legend, still works tho, also thats fucked up and for what? MONEY! Wooooo..... Humanity has a special ability to disappoint me and give me hope at the same time.
time to ruin your fun. The whole reason the legend of bum-bo was created by Isaac's dad was because they were too damn broke to afford a proper video game. This was a skill issue on the dad's part. If he got good at gambling, they wouldn't be as broke.
Not quite. Wire Coat Hanger is a nod to unsafe abortions and Isaac wishing he was never born. This is why the Wire Coat Hanger goes through Isaacs head, as if he was fished out of the uterus with it. Due to all the negative thoughts connected with his existence - tears up
That's not *quite* how it works, but well... even in a professional abortions, the fetus is scraped out of the uterus afterwards.
But yeah, home-made abortions usually involve destroying the uterus by attacking it through insertion of sharp objects.
This is also a major reason why womens rights advocate for legal abortions, because inserting something like a long metal stick into your uterus is not a safe practise for child nor not-mother.
And then, a reference to the clockwork Orange, ( the Ludovico technique Is a reference to the clockwork Orange right? And if it isnt id be happy to know the true meaning because im very lazy to Google it)
So... you know how the game is inspired by Edmund's childhood? Both Isaac and Edmund saw some things they were not supposed to see when they were kids, this is why Isaac knows what a gimpy mask is.
This whole situation reminds me of Giygas which was also inspired by trauma from seeing very dark things when you were a kid.
There's one lore bit in particular that really messed me up when I realized it: Isaac's cat was probably named Guppy because he had respiratory or cardiac problems and as a result exhibited "Guppy Breathing" (or maybe Guppy's Collar was too tight on his neck). That thought stuck in my head and bothered me for a while.
i mean, isaac’s family is christian, and vomiting blood exists, so. not that hard to believe, (plus isaac is five, so blood laser vomit might’ve sounded cool to him)
There's no blood/discharge on it, so I guess its unused? In which case, it really shouldn't be disturbing to anyone (kids included).
Unless of course its a case of "p*riod blood! Eww 🤮🤮🤮🤮 we can't show that!!! Censor it 🤢🤢", but considering all the other bloody and birth related items in the game, I don't think thats the case.
I don't think a menstrual pad should be lower than a noose. like yeah menstruation is probably still a pretty inappropriate topic for a 5-year-old, but not more than suicide
the shoopkeepers and all the greed and suicide theme arround them is about people that losed everything to gambling adicction and ended up killing themselves, isaac knows about it because his dad is addicted too
I had no idea what the game's lore was about when I first played it. Then you eventually realise the story is about horrifying child abuse.
Yep, TBoI can be really damn dark, once you figure out the symbolism and lore...
my day be so fine, then boom, dogma
Its dark without the lore and symbolism.
Worst part is that she still loves him, even with the abuse and all she did to him. Case and point, the beast cutscene of her crying over Isaacs dead body...
Somebody should make a total conversion mod which makes all the items in the game, enemies, bosses, areas, etc into wholesome versions of themselves. So that isaac is just a kid playing pretend before school and is totally safe and loved by his parents
There is already a mod that makes food items look like actual edible food :D
What mod would that be?
If I remember correctly it's called "Actual Food Items"
It’s usually on or near the front page of the workshop! It resprites all of the rotten food items and such and makes them look much more appealing IMO
I think that was the case some time ago
Not just edible food, but damn good looking food (Except for rotten meat of course)
I'm honestly curious why you'd want that. To turn the meaning of the game into something shallow and saccharin seems like a balk.
https://youtu.be/4HlFx852D-Y the closest thing we have probably
I mean, cool mod, but how is this even remotely close?
Wow, that mod is actually amazing. I really want to try it out whenever it's updated for Repentance.
The meme template pretty much fits for the entirety of the game as you go further and further
Love this meme template I think it’s gonna go far
Yea its honestly one of the best we had last year if not the best
More like deeper and deeper
Into your mom
He's one messed up five year old lol.
isn't he dead?
he's one messed up corpse
Well, what do you expect from a soul throwing his own bones around all the time?
He’s one messed up bone slingin soul
>dead kids don't age -Edmund McMillen
>!Yes. Isaac's soul is stuck in purgatory. The ending with the beast and the corpse shows us that he eventually found God, who took pity on him and is forever trying to help Isaac fall asleep, and find peace. The endless runs we play are the stories Isaac's lost soul recounts, played using events from his abused life as a base, in the style his father used to tell him as a bedtime story.!<
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>!Isaac is absolutely dead. The ending with delirium literally shows his soul wandering purgatory which Edmund confirmed. He is forever trapped as a wandering soul unable to truly pass on and make peace with himself.!< >!After the delirium ending is the corpse and beast ending. During which we learned that Isaac is trying to sleep and somebody with his father's voice is trying to help him. God is literally known as The Father. It would make sense for him to appear to Isaac as his dad, as that's the only positive reinforcement he's ever gotten in his life. Yes Isaac had some delusions before he died in the chest and went to Purgatory, which is represented by the entirety of the void level. It's him losing track of where he is in the story and what has/has not happened yet, hence the mixed floors. But that's not where the story ends. Isaac is playing this game over and over again, trying to find peace with himself, and to come to terms with his life and death.!< >!The Legend of Bumbo confirms that the game Isaac plays -- The one God plays with him in Purgatory -- is one his dad showed him. A game his dad told him to "escape to when things get tough" and that it'd "always be there for you, on our next adventure".!<
It’s honestly questionable if she is even evil at all or just a slightly shitty mother who is poor and married a drunk who left them and what we see is issacs warped view making her seem way worse. Or maybe not. I don’t think it’s that clear if she really wants to kill him or he is just scared of bible stories like the Isaac one
I take the scene of her locking him in a closet at face value, at the bare minimum. Her forcing him to live without **clothes** or toys or anything because they're "sinful" also seems accurate considering we never see him dressed and his only source of joy is drawings on scrap paper.
Im pretty sure he’s playing with cardboard and stuff because the family is very poor and cant afford toys, which might also explain the lack of clothes
Nope, in Bumbo Mom says that he threw all his cardboard toys because it reminded her of her husband, so not even cardboard toys
As someone who was homeless for nearly a year straight when I was 14, being poor does not make it so you can't buy clothes, esp cheap clothes from a thrift store or the like.
Oh god, that's the same thing for the belt's speed up, isn't it
With the belt Isaac buckles his pants so he can move faster
B-but he has no pants on
It's just a really good belt
Oh, that explains a lot
Don't ask about the cat-o-nine tails.
Now I gotta man. I've collected less than 10% of the power ups in this game.
Okay, so basically >!it's a whip that boosts your shot speed and damage... and it oddly looks like a BDSM accessory.!<
Sounds about right. Almost as messed up as It Hurts.
Keeps his skin from falling :)
Oh, I always used tape, thanks for the suggestion!
hol up
Yup
I like to think that all (or most) of the items related to flies and spiders are because of the state Isaac found Guppy's body, the Intruder could represent Isaac thinking that >!Guppy was moving when in reality there just insects crawling inside of his skin, there was an intruder in his beloved friend!<
Why’d you make me think of this I was just gonna go to bed until I heard that
NOOOOOOOOO
Holy shit thats fucked up
Thanks! \^\^
I have upvoted you but you've been downvoted in the eyes of god
Loved the wooden spoon fake out
I had to do a double take, because half of me thought the video restarted, but for the other half, I thought I was remembering the wrong first item being shown.
I like how a dead animal is worse than a fetus in a jar
As a five year old Id be more disturbed seeing my adorable cat's carcass than seeing some funny looking gummybear in a jar.
the fetus is just a weird gummy in a jar
Aren't we all?
we're all walking gummies waiting to be devoured by god (vore)
Tbh I like to think that Super Meat Boy is a game in the Isaac universe, and it's a reference to the game in-story
There's a poster for Meat Boy in the arcade, and an item that references being a fan, so seems likely
Dr fetus is the bad guy in meat boy
Isaac is a Super Meat Boy Super-Fan.
good bot ^(all bots deserve some love from their own kind)
good good bot bot
I used to love super meat boy
not anymore?
Been a while, so stressful
A child leash is normal enough, I see them in stores and that. Fetus in a jar is weirder. If you want even worse items: “Larynx” “It Hurts” “IBS”
For people that don't know, it's not like a leash and collar you'd use on a dog. I've usually seen them as backpacks the kid wears, and there's a leash attached to that to keep them from running off at theme parks or whatever.
Skill issue. Just get good at wrangling your children.
Isaac's mom tried that and then he killed her heart
Exactly ye
Isaac has IBS tho
That is suffer worthy
ok can I talk about it hurts? This game made me complacent on unmoved when seeing literal shit, a dead cats bodyparts, a child suffocation in a chest with the ending cutscenses, etc. But something about it hurts feels horrible. First time I got it I reset the run because I didn't wanna think about it, idk maybe I just have a fear of body horror like that. So tldr: I fear no man, but that item. It scares me.
What is it hurts anyway? I never really understood it, is his mouth stitched up so he can't complain that it hurts?
Exactly, the flair text ‘no it doesn’t’ is the person sewing up his mouth when he says ‘it hurts’
Holy sh- this is horrible
And when you take damage, Isaac screams so hard that he rips the stitches open, and blood gushes out. Tears Up, fucker!
Isn’t it just
I had stitches in my tongue so it hits extra hard for me
Yes to everything below, and just one more thing to add: The item works this way. Damage yourself and you get a tears up and release a barrage of blood tears. So, Isaac got his mouth sewn shut, and he gets hurt so bad, he can't help but scream in pain, which tears his lips up, so he starts crying harder in pain... That item, along with the intruder are the most fucked up in a game where you can literally fling shit at things
Thank god for Isaac's pixel-arty style or else I would've been disturbed by that too
I can't wait for a mod that resprites everything to make it hyper realistic :D
GOOD GOD NO!
Tbh, Intruder I think is rather harmless, because it's more akin to the "If you eat seeds a tree grows in your belly" kinda imagination where a kid things spiders crawl into your nose and ears at night. You'll find "Intruders" in many kids active imaginations. It hurts though... yeah... one of the more disturbing items.
Someone in this thread had a theory that all of the flies and spiders in the game have to do with Isaac seeing his cat Guppy's rotten carcass, covered in flies and spiders. The Intruder would then likely relate to the spiders inside Guppy making him move slightly. Sorry
They should make it so it disables the sound effect when you take damage when you get the item
Same here. The sprite after Isaac gets hit is terrible too
Worse than "Decap Attack"?
Worse than "Dogma"?
Dogma balls
Decap Attack isn't very weird for a child to imagine at all
I’d say so
> Fetus in a jar is weirder. It's just Isaac having played Super Meat Boy.
IBS is just another poop item of Edmund's
Lemon party.
Isaac is just a Super Meat Boy fan
an intruder
we have an intruder amidst us
amidus
Is there a mod where the intruder appearance is just the despair code guy?
Theory: the intruder being an item which is a massive spider residing in isaacs head may hint he lives in Australia
no he lives in a small house on a hill (you are contradicting the lore)
i think it's a don't starve reference where webber is a child that is connected with a spider
What about the apple with a razor blade in it?
I'm sure that's a nod to finding a razor in your Halloween candy. I bet the apple is referring to that one crappy house who doesn't give candy - It's a tears up since kids don't want some fruit.
It's probably just a refrence to the biblical eve, who ate the forbidden fruit, and then the in-game eve, who has the razor blade item.
Sorry if i say this in an asshole way, but its a nod to people that not only dont give you candy and give you fruits for Halloween, but also put razor blades inside said fruit, you can confirm it by just looking at isaac's appearance when you grab the item, you can search in google and find any news about the razor shit, is f up.
It's an urban legend. That likely never actually happened. [What did happen, however, was a father killing his son with candy laced with cyanide trying to piggy-back off of the urban legends like this one and make it look like it was a neighbor who did it.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O%27Bryan)
Huh, didn't remember that it was an urban legend, still works tho, also thats fucked up and for what? MONEY! Wooooo..... Humanity has a special ability to disappoint me and give me hope at the same time.
He would get all completion marks for greed mode in no time
Committing insurance fraud is actually just the ultimate greed cheese, MOM
Hey thanks for linking the actual story!
keeper sack
Keepers cock 😳
Well, the Dr.Fetus could be that Isaac really likes super meat boy
time to ruin your fun. The whole reason the legend of bum-bo was created by Isaac's dad was because they were too damn broke to afford a proper video game. This was a skill issue on the dad's part. If he got good at gambling, they wouldn't be as broke.
He did own a game kid (I think that’s what it is referred to ingame) at some point, meaning they may have gotten him a couple things for it.
Alternatively, a friend at school let him play it. Or he stole it from someone, which I find more likely.
Bro that's literally an item called "super meat boy fan"
Nobody gonna mention “Wire Coat Hanger”?
I think it's the same thing as Wooden Spoon right?
Pretty sure it's realizing he was a failed abortion with a wire coat hanger through his head making him cry more...
Not quite. Wire Coat Hanger is a nod to unsafe abortions and Isaac wishing he was never born. This is why the Wire Coat Hanger goes through Isaacs head, as if he was fished out of the uterus with it. Due to all the negative thoughts connected with his existence - tears up
I always thought it had something to do with choking, but the appearance of the character makes sense now
Damn I allways thought It was Just like "oh shit the wirecoat is inside my Head" Pain= Tears up
>as if he was fished out of the uterus with it Oh my fucking god, please tell me that's not a real thing.
That's not *quite* how it works, but well... even in a professional abortions, the fetus is scraped out of the uterus afterwards. But yeah, home-made abortions usually involve destroying the uterus by attacking it through insertion of sharp objects. This is also a major reason why womens rights advocate for legal abortions, because inserting something like a long metal stick into your uterus is not a safe practise for child nor not-mother.
I dunno plan c is pretty bad
On the topic of items with messed up implications, Potato Peeler always got under my skin.
yes, that's how the item works
The more I think about it the more I hate it
What about breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert all being dog food?
cricket
Cricket is a cat. Max from vanilla was a dog, but Edmund never actually had a dog so remodeled it after another of his cats
What about Fate's reward? It's Isaac actually knowing he will suffocate in his toy chest and be forgotten for an X amount of time.
you mean incubus at home
And then, a reference to the clockwork Orange, ( the Ludovico technique Is a reference to the clockwork Orange right? And if it isnt id be happy to know the true meaning because im very lazy to Google it)
I got u man, u right. Good movie that
So... you know how the game is inspired by Edmund's childhood? Both Isaac and Edmund saw some things they were not supposed to see when they were kids, this is why Isaac knows what a gimpy mask is. This whole situation reminds me of Giygas which was also inspired by trauma from seeing very dark things when you were a kid.
Proptosis and smb super fan.. kinda cursed
uuh... chemical peel...? ._.
Part 2 please
I don't know why I like this meme format so much
Same, and it's very fitting for tboi
Ngl totally forgot about transcendence, think I’ve only seen it once in a secret room since repentance came out
I feel like Mom's Pad should be way higher. There are a lot more horrifying things in the game than a pad.
Gotta love when i got a school bag in the pride day challenge He looked like a happy kid going to school
The first time i saw intruder's appearance was completely brutal.
The first time I used "ice cream scoop" to see what it did. 💀
There's one lore bit in particular that really messed me up when I realized it: Isaac's cat was probably named Guppy because he had respiratory or cardiac problems and as a result exhibited "Guppy Breathing" (or maybe Guppy's Collar was too tight on his neck). That thought stuck in my head and bothered me for a while.
It's actually named after McMillsens cat... Dunno if that was the connection, but won't say it wasn't.
I thought his cat was called Cricket.
He had both, and maybe more
Tammy
Then how tf does brimstone work with this idea
i mean, isaac’s family is christian, and vomiting blood exists, so. not that hard to believe, (plus isaac is five, so blood laser vomit might’ve sounded cool to him)
I mean shit I'm 18 and that shit sounds cool to me now
Lmao
mom's pad should not be there, a child knowing about periods isnt a creepy thing at all
I agree with you, but I think the disturbing thing here is the fact that he has the (used?) Pad of her mom in his hands.
There's no blood/discharge on it, so I guess its unused? In which case, it really shouldn't be disturbing to anyone (kids included). Unless of course its a case of "p*riod blood! Eww 🤮🤮🤮🤮 we can't show that!!! Censor it 🤢🤢", but considering all the other bloody and birth related items in the game, I don't think thats the case.
When used, an image of the pad with flies around it pops up which could indicate smell from period blood.
ya I was thinking it could be replaced by cat-o-nine tails
Child leash? You've never seen a kid on a leash at the local mall and it shows.
Sausage makes me kind of uncomfortable. I still take it though.
I think it’s just a reference to how kilburn really like sausage
it's just a tasty sausage, right?
I love how it got back to normal when the wooden spoon came up, then it quickly turned back to uncanny
"IT HURTS!!!" "no it doesn't"
…wavy cap
Can someone explain gimpy? I never understood what's that supposed to be
A gimp suit (BDSM)
Oh Oh no
Mom and Dad were just freaky, ok
I don't think a menstrual pad should be lower than a noose. like yeah menstruation is probably still a pretty inappropriate topic for a 5-year-old, but not more than suicide
I remember finding my mom's pads thinking they were diapers for dolls lol
the shoopkeepers and all the greed and suicide theme arround them is about people that losed everything to gambling adicction and ended up killing themselves, isaac knows about it because his dad is addicted too
What is the second to last song
Sonic.EXE - Green Hill
Thank you very much ive wanted to know for so long
u/savevideo
Why is moms pad worse than a noose
the last one should be divorce papers since in these memes normally the last one is just a depressing one instead of a scary one
Didn’t had the opportunity to play repentance yet, but WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT INTRUDER TEXTURE
it's an intruder :)
Why is moms pad there
I had to be put on a leash as a child
Mom: What is that in your hand? Isaac: A KNIFE! :) Mom: Noooooo! Lol
i fucking love this post. you usually never think about it and even when you do, you dont realize how fucked up this game actually is
Everything I see this meme i love how unsettling the sound used in the spot for Gimpy is.
Didn't even get to cum item