Sympathy for the Immortal

Do you want to live FOREVER? Your answer should be... No... Maybe? ...It depends... We're looking at immortals from Frieren, Logan, Slay the Princess, Dr. Who, vampires, Greek Mythology, and more to figure out what happens when immortality becomes a curse rather than a blessing. Across video games, tabletop games, film, and TV, what are some of the ways the IMMORTAL character deserves our sympathy?

This video was inspired ‪@CuriousArchive‬ 's wonderful videos, Sympathy for the Monster and Sympathy for the Machine. Curious Archive's video essays are a huge inspiration for me, go check them out!

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ATTENTION: Due to some Youtube restrictions, a portion of the video may appear unfortunately cut out! Apologies. The Doctor Who portion is a bit choppy due to this. Please read the pinned comment below if you'd like the complete script of the section to get a fuller picture!

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:05 The Dark Queen Dilemma
4:17 Eternal Punishments
6:05 Prison of the Body (Logan)
8:15 Memory Loss (Thousand Year Vampire)
10:23 The Burden of Memory (Doctor Who)
12:01 Frieren's Grief
15:13 Immortal Apathy
16:12 Happily Ever After (Slay the Princess)
19:38 When Immortality Rules...

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Media Shown: Frieren, Watchmen (Film), Adventure Time, Blood of Zeus, The Dragon Prince, Ben 10: Alien Force, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Lord of the Rings, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Slay the Princess, Logan, Dr. Who, Arcane, The Dark Queen of Mortholme, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Hercules (TV), I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream (Game), Deadpool adn Wolverine, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Thousand Year Vampire, Castlevania, Thor: Love and Thunder, Marvel's What-If, Rick and Morty

The Dark Queen of Mortholme - https://qwertyprophecy.itch.io/mortholme
Thousand Year Vampire - https://timhutchings.itch.io/tyov

YouTube Videos Shown:

The myth of Prometheus by TED-Ed
   • The myth of Prometheus - Iseult Gillespie  

The myth of Sisyphus
   • The myth of Sisyphus - Alex Gendler  

A Waltz Along the Razor’s Edge — Slay the Princess - The Pristine Cut animated release date trailer
   • A Waltz Along the Razor’s Edge — Slay the ...  

Art and Graphics Shown:

Paper background image by freepik and rawpixel.com - www.freepik.com

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♫Music Used:

Opus One, The Angels Weep, and Pendulum Waltz by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Walking into a Nighmare by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
   • 80s Horror Movie Synth  - Haddonfield Horr...  

Some Amount of Evil, At Rest - Romance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

Gothic Horror by Purple Planet Music - https://www.purple-planet.com

Remnants of a Distant World composed by One Man Symphony - onemansymphony.bandcamp.com

The Long Quiet and I Just Want to Make You Happy by Brandon Boone from Slay the Princess.

The 25th Hour composed by Philip Milman - https://pmmusic.pro/

Sound Effects by Pixabay - https://pixabay.com//?utm_source=link...

Snap Sound Effect by ShidenBeatsMusic - https://pixabay.com/users/shidenbeats...

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