Doom May We Never Need You Again
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"The earth of Argent D'Nur has fallen. Divided, the demonic free energy flows at present to the southward, and the gild you lot once knew has been replaced by a corrupted world under Maykr rule. It did not need to end this manner..."
— Samuel Hayden on the state of Argent D'Nur during the events of the game
Oddly plenty for this game, in that location's a multitude of surprisingly somber moments.
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Doom Eternal
- The Doom Slayer just killed Deag Grav, the final Hell Priest, in breach of the Night Scout code, thus sacrificing his respect from the surviving knights, and then causing the rest of the Night Sentinels to turn on him. His reaction is to leave. He was in one case their brother in artillery, and he can't fault them for sticking to their discussion, only he simply leaves without a single shot fired or word said. It's a very somber reminder that when you decide to Spiral The Rules, at that place is a toll to exist paid.
- The Night Sentinels start learned about the true nature of Argent Energy, the monsters they were fighting, and the Maykrs' involvement in what the Hell was going on at Nekravol. Earlier this, the Night Sentinels had revered the Khan Maykr equally null less than the Female parent God of their faith. To say that this pedestal was smashed into a million pieces is only mildly putting it.
- The betrayal of the Dark Sentinels by the Deags and their concluding fate, specially when you recollect what happens to Hell's victims as a result of the Maykrs' deal with Hell. In that location'south a reason the Doom Slayer wants these bastards dead even without what they're doing to Globe.
- The two flashback sequences that reveal the Doom Slayer's origins: He's the Doomguy. The hero of the original games, 1, 2 and 64, our Doomguy. And we get to see exactly what became of him subsequently he stayed on the other side of that portal in Doom 64. Many probably would think he went out fighting, and no— he didn't die. Merely it might've been amend if he had. The Night Sentinels find him outside their base of operations, a broken, beaten and battered mess, febrile with rage and hurting; still live throughout it all, but all he can do is to gibber most the demons and ripping them apart, sounding like a wounded animate being who'due south lashing out in fright and desperation just to survive. The fate of our beloved original badass, our hero, later his finest hour.
- Worse still, although checking his vast hobby collection in the Fortress of Doom shows that he's managed to bounce back and scrape together some semblance of sanity again, he still carries the scars. If you check among his keepsakes, yous'll discover Daisy the Rabbit'southward cage, and information technology won't be empty: within is her pes, the only thing left of her later on her death in the intro of Doom 2, and the only concrete memento of a beloved and cherished companion our hero will never meet again.
- Adding to this is a portrait of happier times with Daisy in the same room. Endeavor gazing at that portrait in Doomguy'southward part, and try to fight back the Manly Tears.
- Information technology gets worse. You can detect what is very likely a hallucination of Daisy in almost every level. He misses her so much that he sees her nearly everywhere. Man really loved that rabbit.
- Worse still, although checking his vast hobby collection in the Fortress of Doom shows that he's managed to bounce back and scrape together some semblance of sanity again, he still carries the scars. If you check among his keepsakes, yous'll discover Daisy the Rabbit'southward cage, and information technology won't be empty: within is her pes, the only thing left of her later on her death in the intro of Doom 2, and the only concrete memento of a beloved and cherished companion our hero will never meet again.
- Familiar to Daisy'south fate, if you look closely at the floor beneath the Doom Slayer's computer desk-bound, y'all'll notice this family photo
, with the part showing the male parent being torn of. Most likely it's a photo of Doom Slayer's family unit back when he was the Doomguy from the original games whom he left behind at his own Globe when he was reassigned to Mars subsequently when he attacked his superior officer correct after refusing the officeholder's orders to burn down upon unarmed civilians. Knowing that the Doom Slayer/Doomguy's own Earth was invaded past Hell's forces dorsum in Doom II, the implication of what might happened to them is quite clear and how corking the Doom Slayer's guilt in failing to relieve them must be if he simply torn the photo in two and threw it away every bit if he deliberately tries to forget about them in gild to not let his grief and guilt eat him more than than information technology already does. Obviously, their death hurt the Doom Slayer more than Daisy'southward, which he can at least deal well enough with to make memorials of in his quarters while he can barely bargain with theirs... - When you first observe Samuel Hayden again, 1 expects him to be a scrap hesitant to work with the Doom Slayer. Thus, when he immediately jumps to the signal with no questions asked, one begins to wonder just what happened to him not just physically, only psychologically in the fourth dimension since we last saw him. Every bit The Slayer fights through Nekravol, Samuel starts reciting the process of refining damned souls into Silverish Free energy AND the creation process of demons. He's very meticulous in describing every particular, and equally he ends the explanation, he practically hisses out one or two phrases out of sheer antipathy for its architects. While 1 can read this as pure righteous indignation at the horrors going on, information technology's also implied he's resenting every unmarried ounce of what he did to try and maintain Silverish Free energy every bit a ability source, and seeing it all happen firsthand stands every bit a monument in his heed to how fifty-fifty if he had succeeded, he still would've failed as a leader for encouraging such atrocities in the proper name of progress. He mused in the last game that the Slayer was probably right to tear it all down even at Earth'southward expense, and now he knows it.
- VEGA's final fate can be a pretty big downer, especially considering that he'd taken up the role of Mission Control for the first half of the game.
- Even the Icon of Sin tin be a tragic figure - the one lone reason beingness that he Was Once a Man. And not just whatever man, only in fact the son of a Nighttime Sentinel: Valen the Betrayer. In 2016 it was explained that the entire reason why the Icon exists is because of Valen's desperation to bring back his felled son. How desperate? He had betrayed Argent D'Nur to exercise this, and in the end got his wish. Thanks to Deag Grav, his son returned...as the unmarried worst existence of all demonkind 2nd only to the Dark Lord himself. This as well with a uncomplicated explanation: "the wages of treachery are suffering", sending Valen into a miserable Despair Event Horizon that, in the events of this game, he still hasn't recovered from. Thus, in this game where y'all can finally face the Icon of Sin in boxing, information technology can be seen as a Mercy Kill (no matter how temporary it may be): the Doom Slayer, in the final step to save Earth, is more or less putting the Betrayer'southward son to rest in a time where Valen himself had lost all resolve to do annihilation about it on his own. Plus on the Slayer'south part, he is nonetheless besides putting a erstwhile fellow soldier, a brother in arms, out of his misery.
The Ancient Gods
- The final boss of the showtime office of The Aboriginal Gods turns out to be Samuel Hayden himself, in his original Maykr identity - although he is transformed, he's still consciously going out of his style to impale you if it means saving Urdak. Even when he's defeated, the Slayer seems to hesitate to kill him - only waiting for the Begetter to answer if he should or non. Fortunately, Samur is spared, just it'southward articulate that he and the Slayer will be enemies from this point forward...and that Samur is at present forced to descend into madness in his transfigured class, provided he survives for long.
- What makes this even sadder is that Both Sides Have a Point. The Slayer is trying to summon the Night Lord, but his just ways of doing it is and then that he tin can destroy him - and therefore, any and all demons outside of Hell. However, this would come with great risk, since if the Slayer fails, the Nighttime Lord volition destroy everything in reality. On the other hand, Samur had just returned to his original class and domicile realm. He yearns for the Slayer to revive the Male parent instead, to relieve Urdak and cure his transfiguration to a Khan Maykr. This is then that Samur, being him, plans something else for the good of Urdak. Unfortunately, the Slayer knew amend, finally betraying Samur correct then and there and burdensome the Father'southward sphere directly in forepart of him. Now as the Seraphim, Samur is doomed to slowly lose his mind; and before long, the abode that he worked then hard to go back to, past the very homo he had empowered to become doom incarnate.
- While the fight itself is awesome, take into consideration: this isn't like any other fight where the Slayer kills some vile Jerkass God or a raving beast; he's fighting one of his only allies, Samuel Hayden. Not because he is Brainwashed and Crazy, nor (entirely) insane - but simply just considering they've finally reached the impasse they can't work around - the imminent fate of the universe. The loose, volatile bridge between them has finally fallen downward.
- After Part Two, this becomes even more tragic when you realize that Maykrs, when all is said and done, are demons themselves; and will certainly die when the Night Lord does. Samur'due south not just trying to continue him sealed due to the threat he'd present to the universe - he's fighting to survive.
- When you lot read into the codex entries in The Aboriginal Gods describing the Creation Myth, y'all acquire the true tragedy that motivated the entire franchise to begin with was simply beloved, in that the Nighttime Lord and the demons were originally just loyal creations of The Father whom sought to make a perfect paradise considering it was what they were literally programmed to do, but every bit Davoth slipped into further despair and desperation to prevent the deaths of his children, he overstepped into reaching for more depraved ways to accomplish immortality to salvage them; but also due to his symbiosis, his depravity in turn motivated his people to too fall into further corruption until ultimately both Davoth and the inhabitants of Jekkad fell and became the Dark Lord and the demons respectively. All because The Begetter did not know how to temper their ambition and did not requite them the empathy they needed to give others rather serve themselves, he created the greatest monsters that would threaten all of his creations.
- Too, it also shows the greater tragedy in The Father/VEGA in that, despite God Is Good, he is also horribly flawed because he's way too compassionate and trusting of his creations. Ultimately, sparing the Dark Lord by sealing him away rather than annihilating him led to all of the anguish and misery that unfolds throughout the story, which includes the destruction of Urdak, his very home in the path he took to try and protect ALL of his creations, even if they didn't deserved to exist protected past him; and while Hayden/the Seraphim probably had ulterior motives in resurrecting the Father beyond his sworn duty, it does make it tragic that in the end, the Slayer destroys his very soul, banishing him physically from reality forever, just to spite The Seraphim.
- This is also quite a sobering moment after fighting so many horrible, sadistic creatures like the Khan Maykr and Olivia across the reboot. In the end, in a bounding main of vile, repugnantly selfish creatures; Davoth the Nighttime Lord, the biggest bad out of all of them, turns out to be one of the most tragic characters in the franchise. Come Part Two, yous won't be fighting some mindless beast or a vile Smug Snake - but someone who'south lost their style trying to help their people. Someone y'all could get.
- Even worse - in the heart of the last battle, the Dark Lord drops the bombshell: the whole "Father sealing Davoth away" thing? All bullshit. The truth is that the Dark Lord IS The Father, and the one who however claims that proper name was created by him. While still devoted to giving his people eternal life and slipping into madness in the process, he didn't turn evil out of desperation; but contemptuousness after being betrayed by his own creations. Gods ascended in his autumn, stealing everything from him; his glory, his power, and even his very name. This doesn't remove the Nighttime Lord's tragedy; rather, it gives him even more incentive to lash out and fuck everything over. He wishes to destroy reality because it had betrayed him. In short, the whole franchise began because No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.
- Worse yet, for all of his talk of wanting vengeance against all of creation, when browbeaten by the Slayer, he chooses to relent and accepts the death bearing down on him different any other villain in either the original or rebooted timelines. The Night Lord but asks if the Slayer has anything to say to his creator before hit him down in a tone that screams him telling him to just Get Information technology Over With, implying that deep down, rather than just existence resentful over the circumstances of his betrayal, him being a Time Completeness feeling betrayed by everything he cared well-nigh only broke him the same mode that the demons had too broken the Slayer himself and can't forgive it no thing how much he would deep down would dearest to return to a peaceful life. In a style, it can be inferred that his actions in his final moments imply that his whole Omnicidal Maniac was simply a Suicide by Cop orchestrated by himself to finish his pained existence, something fabricated all the more poetic by himself in how he created the very destiny of the Slayer to achieve arguably his true vengeance confronting not just the Maykrs for betraying him, but arguably himself for failing in his letting himself be so poisoned by hate.
- Taken up to another level when you realize that Davoth never protested against Doomguy killing his demonic hordes in the first place. They, as horrifically twisted husks of what were in one case a peaceful race, were equally of a victim as Davoth was; and that isn't counting the ones forged through World's denizens. Coupled by his complaining over Immora's imperfection, it tin can be portrayed as Davoth actively approving of the Slayer to destroy non just him, merely everything and everyone he had, just because he, his people and his realm, all turned out and then horribly evil and corrupted beyond repair, had all caused then much horrible torture and slaughter, and therefore all needed to go.
- Also a big one on Doomguy's end. Davoth is the but demon, in the whole franchise, that he unmasks himself in front of, implying that after the near-bottomless Fourth dimension Abyss of ripping and vehement the impenetrable forces of Hell, he'southward so utterly consumed by rage that he not but wants to show Davoth that he will die by the very human he willed the birth of, simply also just wants to watch Davoth die with his very eyes, and non miss a second. And all for good reason, considering the stakes at hand; it is this deity that is the core of his hurting. This fallen god had led the entirety of Hell'southward forces, and is responsible for killing so many innocent lives, his wife, child and pet bunny included, and all just to manipulate him into a twisted and unending eons-long nightmare between heaven and hell. Doomguy doesn't even relent in disbelief and realize that he's finally ending his journey; he's just and so utterly embittered and broken that, to him, all that matters is that Davoth is expressionless, and whatsoever repercussions be damned. And unlike Davoth, whom finds peace in death, Doomguy lives on, albeit unconscious and most likely unable to allow get of his unfathomable hatred fifty-fifty with his mission finally completed. Demonkind is extinct all things considered - then what can he do at present?
- To summit information technology all off, when the Slayer speaks and kills the Night Lord, the subtitles don't refer him equally "Doom Slayer" or fifty-fifty but "Slayer". It's "Doomguy", as he was referred to in the Sentinel Prime number flashbacks. This higher up all else drives it all home; later on so, and then many years of torment and suffering, Doomguy finally concludes his journey and singlehandedly avenges the millions of lives Hell had taken.
- The Slayer's story ends the fashion it began; being sealed away in a sarcophagus. Afterward so long of fighting then much ravenous hatred, the Maykrs finally put him back to rest, equally he sleeps with the knowledge that demonkind is doomed to wallow in Hell...until he is needed again.
- Note the last part; when he is needed again. The Slayer is and then ungodly powerful that he's basically merely seen every bit a living weapon; by the UAC, Urdak, annihilation that is opposed to Hell. In truth though, he's still vaguely human; a deeply troubled, scarred, hurting homo who'south had everything taken away from him by the legions of Hell; his squad of marines, so many lives on Globe, his pet Daisy, the Night Sentinels, and worst of all his own wife and son. He can never live a normal life e'er again, considering with such boiling, white hot rage deep within him...perhaps this is the only way he can rest.
- And even when he reawakens, the Slayer is at present without his Divinity powers, now back as the Badass Normal he was before. Since this is Doomguy, he never needed such power, so this isn't a tearjerker...but this in turn becomes a tragic sendoff for Samur Maykr. His ego led to his physical breakup, he's certain to die painfully without assist from higher powers due to the Male parent's powerless state and the Night Lord'southward demise, and whatever lasting legacy he had left; the Argent Free energy within the Slayer; is now gone. Rest easy, Dr. Hayden...
- The final line of text is a terminal Bookends case, finally closing out the new era of Doom with the very beginning loading screen text from DOOM (2016):
...may the blood on your sword never dry out, and may we never demand you again.
Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TearJerker/DoomEternal
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