‎Villain Deep Dive: The Crimson King

So speaketh Gan along the path of the beam.

I am flattered that you used my art from like... 10+ years ago for the thumbnail and in the video itself, but I'm mortified at how bad my art is. LOL. Great vid. Keep it up. Completely agree about the wasted potential of the character.

I appreciate the Sabaton in the background. Manz has a good taste

Sabaton playing in the background, nice choice 👍

Ayo? Crimson king lore ???

He is King's version of Morgoth or Ungoliant and Randal Flagg from The Stand (the man in Black and the wizard from Eye of the Dragon) is Sauron.

"Oh, Discorda .All Hail the CrimsonKing!" -Bango Shank

Bango Skank was here

I'd like to point out the inconsistency of how long the crimson king has been as King himself writes "tower pent" could very well be attributed to how whacky time is in the Dark tower universe. Roland's been wandering for at least 1000 years, but this could also be due to the fact that the tower itself keeps sending him back to the beginning of the gunslinger. After all, people he meets say that a gunslinger passed by long ago and there's a statue of him in Lud. This is either Kah being a dick, King foreshadowing rolands cyclical existence, or the tower just resurrecting walter/flagg and dropping the 2 of them back in the desert without any actual time travel, just dumping them back to the most convenient place. Regardless, cool video.

4:35 so the crimson kings power level could be a knock on effect and basically with each time he is beaten/stopped it chips away at his power level making him a weaker version of himself and because of how kings setting works when he becomes weaker it means he has always been this weaker version (but at the same time the old events are still true) it’s chaotic but that’s kinda a part of the setting too. Like (head canon) the reason IT ended up on earth, the book says he IT (also IT is most probably a female and more terrifying pregnant 😱 imagine thousands of little IT’s running around on earth☠️) fell to Earth, later IT says I am the eater of worlds (and of children) well romping around a small American backwater eating kids dosnt really sound like an eater of Worlds unless it was an eater of worlds and it didn’t fall it was cast down (or it fell to Earth or should I say fled to earth to hide) basically my head canon is that IT was MUCH stronger in the past then it lost a fight with something much bigger and scarier aka the crimson king and IT was cast down into our reality and onto earth (though this was most likely an accident it could have been any planet in our solar system and if it hit the sun would have been killed in its current weakened state) the CK took a bite out of it too stripping IT of most of its powers so the monster that was the eater of worlds was now just an eater of children and it hated remembering what it was before the fall. This would mean the turtle showing the fall of IT in a flashback was the earliest times we see the crimson king or its handiwork (unless I’m forgetting stuff, the timeline is a ball of yarn it’s hard to keep track of

21st century… wait wrong guy

Yeah but he spoke in ALL CAPS so at least he had that going for him

Carolus Rex in the backround.

His real name is Los

Who would win the crimson king or Palpatine?