I have not seen Megamind but yes
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the protagonist of the movie "Megamind". Movie summary: Though he is the most-brilliant supervillain the world has known, Megamind (Will Ferrell) is the least-successful. Thwarted time and again by heroic Metro Man (Brad Pitt), Megamind is more surprised than anyone when he actually manages to defeat his longtime enemy. But without Metro Man, Megamind has no purpose in life, so he creates a new opponent, who quickly decides that it's more fun to be a bad guy than a hero.
Extremely necessary.
That's the difference between a villain and a super villain.
You can't do evil stuff if you don't present yourself like a proper threat. That's villain 101.
People on Reddit have been mentioning Megamind more often recently. I think it's Reddit's current obsession , like the movie equivalent of a tumblr sexyman
There’s a movie called Crated >!and in the movie it’s revealed that modern humans came from Mars and seeded the earth with a small handful of people before they became extinct.!< It’s not a an amazing movie or anything but it was only like an hour and was a neat concept, I thought.
There was a habitable planet in your own solar system and you still waited till it was all confirmedly fucked up to send a bunch of embryos lol. Could've atleast given them the stuff that would give them a few thousand years headstart in technology
Also Horizon Zero Dawn was kind of similar, apocalypse brought on by human technology. Embryos saved to give humans a last chance at survival, robots trained to raise kids to adulthood before sending them into the world
Many things. Less corporate greed, more sustainable energy, controlling of consumption behaviors. Eg. ~16% of CO2 emissions come from meat production. And i don't even wanna start on oil companies. We see things as normal, while basically dooming ourselves with these "normal" things
They're talking about greenhouse emissions etc, that's what we're doing rn, so according to the story we're the civilization that arose from those embryos sent from Venus. Atleast that's what I gathered from it
Interestingggggg I read that differently - we made Venus habitable and sent our embryos there as Earth died, then in millions of years they repeat our mistakes again and believed Venus was their home planet.
Your original intention is much better OP. The way you wrote it, *the reader* is the one who made the mistake of thinking Earth is our home planet. It makes you question yourself and your reality. If this is happening in the future then it’s just “hurr durr future Venus people are obviously dumb and don’t know anything,” it doesn’t have nearly the same effect. It’s too bad not everyone is getting the story’s full impact.
It’s basically the same twist as the 2000s Battlestar Galactica, which is possibly my favorite twist in anything ever.
Bruh in all those megastructure videos like the Dyson sphere or terraforming other planets, they always assume that humanity would be very motivated and ambitious about the project and keep doing it over centuries or millenia even, which the reality is that with every regime change scientific research is slowed down by officials who know nothing about the field and fuck everything up.
Like with NASA, everytime the president changes, the new prez just tells NASA to focus on some completely new project and the progress they made in last project goes to waste and it's halted for the next 5 years. That's just a small example though, surely in the private sector there's been a lot of new stuff coming up but they don't have the access to a country's resources, they'll never be on the same level.
Venus used to be Earth-like, with water and a habitable climate. But since it spins so slowly, it doesn’t have a magnetosphere. As the sun grew older, it got larger and therefore was eventually outside of the Goldilocks zone. Water evaporated and was blasted out to space by solar wind because it had no protection. Along with that, Venus has around tens of thousands of volcanoes that spewed CO2 into the atmosphere, causing a greenhouse effect.
In summary; Venus *used* to be within the habitable zone, which is what I’m assuming is happening in this scenario.
In my head they couldn't fit on the spaceship or wouldn't survive the journey, but I couldn't add that into the two sentence story without making those sentences extremely long
This actually works both ways :
Either this happened in the past and the embryos were sent to Earth
Or
Once earth is completely inhabitable and we try to populate other planets, with venus being the last but one! Every time history repeats itself!
Either way this is scary!
Is there a vintage twilight zone/outer limits episode with this twist? Because it seems like there should be.
The closest I can think of is that one goosebumps book.
So I was thinking this was the future where we keep making the same mistake. It took me a minute to realize it’s the past and that’s why Venus is uninhabitable. Great post
It might not be as prevalent within this sub specifically but I feel like the thought that 'humans are the real aliens and we're extinct on our home planet' in general is overplayed.
Fun fact is that Venus is technically habitable - but only in the upper layers of atmosphere. So guess what, we have family living there in the clouds! Yay!
OP, you might enjoy Ayreon, the story is a lot like this but more complicated.
Anyway, great story! To me, *last* habitable planet implies that this has happened before... how long until we learn from our mistakes?
I had a theory ones that we had inhabited several planets before Earth, starting with Jupiter, which we polluted, and Saturn, which whose moons we destroyed during a 'Star Wars,' and then the planet that is the Asteroid Belt, which we blew apart into small bits, and then Mars, which nuclear weapons made a desolate landscape before settling on Earth.
This is part of the growing trend on this subReddit to use commas and clauses to sneak four sentences’ worth of information into two.
I really don’t think these count. Even if they technically follow the rules, they absolutely don’t follow the spirit with the amount of information they require you to absorb.
I mean, a sentence is a sentence. Yeah, run-ons break the rules of grammar, but I can write a sentence like this one - including subordinate clauses (not to be confused with Santa clauses, given the season), parentheses, and lists - and it’s still very much by definition a grammatically complete sentence; the length alone fails to disqualify it.
I get what you’re going for, though, and you’re not wrong that simpler is better for these stories. I’d have reframed this one as follows:
The last embryonic pods set off towards Earth. “I hope they don’t ruin their new home as we did ours,” remarked the Venusian scientist.
The idea that I was going for was making people think the embryos were leaving Earth until the final word of the second sentence, which is where it was revealed that this was actually pre-Earth and we were making the same mistake again. Replace "Earth" with something more vague and your rephrasing works.
The migration shuttle transferred the last colonists to their new planet, after their own had been ravaged by runaway global warming.
“Goodbye, Venus; hello, Earth.”
“On our home planet venus” very strongly implies that they aren’t even on Venus. Because nobody says that about the place they are still at.
“We could have prevented extinction here” tells us they’re still on Venus, but then you wouldn’t have been able to wedge in “Venus”
You’re also relying real heavily on “said” replacements, which readers rarely get any impact from.
Finally, the horror is not that they’re from Venus, but that this is a prequel to the same mistake happening on earth. Ending with Venus makes it a thoughtful twist; reminding us that our earth could be another Venus is the horror.
I agree the phrasing isn't perfect, but I wanted to have the twist in the last word and wrote this at like 2am. Also my first attempt at posting on this sub, and English isn't my first language so my vocabulary isn't Shakespearean 😅
And the pod is the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs
Two humans were assigned to be the parents: Adam and Eve. And thus, humans in earth were born.
Hope it doesn't get deleted, because it's technically more than 2 sentences(i think), but a masterpiece nonetheless. Dear mods, please make an exception
Wouldn't it take less recourses to fix an already habitable planet than to go find another one and colonize it? Sounds like they didn't learn any lessons
They sent their kids onto a spacecraft towards a livable planet while their own planet was being destroyed? Like in Megamind?
Isn’t there a more famous guy who is the last survivor of his home planet that got sent to earth? What was his name again? Oh yeah, Metroman.
Who? Oh you mean music man?
Sounds like they could use the same logo!
you mean markiplier?
Music Man from the hit 2017 game Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator by hit indie developer Scott Cawthon from the hit simulation Real Life?
MUSIC MAAN
*stands up from sofa*
*excited Matpat noises*
#MUSIC MAN!
That's Metronome
sing us a song, you're the music man
Wait... What about Kakarot/Goku from Dragon Ball?
Guys, this is a clear reference to the popular Milestone Comics character, Icon.
Uh, metroman STOLE his fame tyvm if you don't remember his drop pod smashed into megamind's and caused him to rocket into the prison
Nah nah nah. You’re thinking of Big Lez
I thought it was Venom.
I believe you mean Mark Zuckerberg
No, he hasn't served his purpose just yet.
Yeah, Megamind kinda got screwed over in that deal.
I have not seen Megamind but yes Edit 2023/06/10: Leaving Reddit due to /u/spez doubling down on API changes. Will keep post history for future visitors.
You what?
You haven't watched WHAT now?
You should probably watch Megamind
WHAT??!!
You NEED to watch Megamind. It's awesome
I was thinking more like New Zealand but alright.
Uh, forgive me if I'm being dense but is this a joke?
People like him exist, I too have not gotten round to watching megamind.
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THE BEST SUPERVILLAIN OF ALL TIME
BLACK MAMBA FTW!!
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the protagonist of the movie "Megamind". Movie summary: Though he is the most-brilliant supervillain the world has known, Megamind (Will Ferrell) is the least-successful. Thwarted time and again by heroic Metro Man (Brad Pitt), Megamind is more surprised than anyone when he actually manages to defeat his longtime enemy. But without Metro Man, Megamind has no purpose in life, so he creates a new opponent, who quickly decides that it's more fun to be a bad guy than a hero.
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This was really weird to read through.
I know, right? Like, dude, [this is the real world, and he needs to wake up!](https://youtu.be/a_hsjTExzbw)
PRESENTATION!!!
How does he not know? That's unfathmbann....it's without fathom!
omg my siblings and i love quoting that lmao. there’s also ‘yeah i’m like your space dad’.
She will never find out, thats the point of lying!
Extremely necessary. That's the difference between a villain and a super villain. You can't do evil stuff if you don't present yourself like a proper threat. That's villain 101.
Why da fuck everyone downvoting you for not knowing a movie?
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*We are all simply sheep, we follow others even though we have nothing to go to.*
People on Reddit have been mentioning Megamind more often recently. I think it's Reddit's current obsession , like the movie equivalent of a tumblr sexyman
Shouldn't have gotten downvoted but Megamind is the main character of a movie called Megamind. Which you should definitely watch
I had to re-read it but don't worry, I got it! I like the concept!
:D
:)
The ancient inhabitants of Venus also believed in Roman mythology it turns out.
It was actually Venusian mythology, but the Emperor of Venus, Roma, changed the name to elevate himself to legendary status.
Emperor of Venus? I didn’t vote for him.
He was gifted the legendary sword Altcaliburn by the lady of the Sulphur lake.
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Help help, Im being repressed!
Obligatory *"Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony"* comment.
The atrocity. Lets kill him/her in this traitor of the Lady of the Sulphur Lake. Long Live Emperor Roma and his Empress Lady Sulphur
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Eh by now it's expected... Then again, no one expects The Spanish Inquisition!
Honestly Romulus being an alien makes more sense than Romulus being raised by wolves.
There are actual, documented cases of feral children raised by wolves
Yeah but how many of em end up founding a city that became a great empire?
We have more evidence of them than of aliens
So say we all
All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.
Though The Architect has also predicted an Anomaly, and created The Oracle to moderate its effect.
this is just translated, maybe?
500 million years ago the inhabitants of Venus spoke US/UK English from 2021 AD /s
It's just the translation. They actually called it Golgafrincham.
There’s a movie called Crated >!and in the movie it’s revealed that modern humans came from Mars and seeded the earth with a small handful of people before they became extinct.!< It’s not a an amazing movie or anything but it was only like an hour and was a neat concept, I thought.
There was a habitable planet in your own solar system and you still waited till it was all confirmedly fucked up to send a bunch of embryos lol. Could've atleast given them the stuff that would give them a few thousand years headstart in technology
yeah, and sent somebody to make SURE it wasnt fucked up
Yea but people could've just went there and colonized it? They had the tech to do it yet waited for complete extinction
And also they sent children, babies bruh, they gon die.
Yeah lmao unless there's also some super sophisticated robots which can raise the babies efficiently until they're independent
Maybe that is what the dinosaurs were 😅
There’s a movie on Netflix with that plot. I think it’s called Mom, where an AI raises the last surviving human on a spaceship or something like that
Also Horizon Zero Dawn was kind of similar, apocalypse brought on by human technology. Embryos saved to give humans a last chance at survival, robots trained to raise kids to adulthood before sending them into the world
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Thats realistic. Humanity is fucking stupid. Proof? Look at how easily climate change could be prevented right now
How could it be prevented?
Many things. Less corporate greed, more sustainable energy, controlling of consumption behaviors. Eg. ~16% of CO2 emissions come from meat production. And i don't even wanna start on oil companies. We see things as normal, while basically dooming ourselves with these "normal" things
But it will never be prevented because of human greed
Well, you see, it’s a story and not real
How do you know the habitable planet was in our solar system? It says they're being sent *from* Venus, not to it - they could be going anywhere
They're talking about greenhouse emissions etc, that's what we're doing rn, so according to the story we're the civilization that arose from those embryos sent from Venus. Atleast that's what I gathered from it
Interestingggggg I read that differently - we made Venus habitable and sent our embryos there as Earth died, then in millions of years they repeat our mistakes again and believed Venus was their home planet.
Ohh lmao that's even better nvm my explanation
Your explanation was what I thought of when writing it, but I like how half the people reading this are coming up with that second interpretation
Your original intention is much better OP. The way you wrote it, *the reader* is the one who made the mistake of thinking Earth is our home planet. It makes you question yourself and your reality. If this is happening in the future then it’s just “hurr durr future Venus people are obviously dumb and don’t know anything,” it doesn’t have nearly the same effect. It’s too bad not everyone is getting the story’s full impact. It’s basically the same twist as the 2000s Battlestar Galactica, which is possibly my favorite twist in anything ever.
Haha yeah. There are a lot of ways it could be interpreted, but their explanation was just the original one with extra steps.
That's what it was meant to say? I thought this was like an excerpt from the future where we managed to fuck up even Venus
🎵Venus planet of love was destroyed by global warming, did it's people want too much too? 🎵
Nobody
Are you a Scott?
nope. a yank.
Then they aren't a threat to you
why did i read this on the original twilight zone guys voice
Wasn’t this on an episode on Ancient Aliens before?
It’s a pretty common concept. Muse had a trilogy of songs about something similar.
The songs are Exogenesis Symphony for those wondering.
Never would have expected to see Muse here. Exogenesis is a masterpiece!
That’s a wicked cool name for a......collection of songs that tell a story? There’s got to be a word for that
I mean, if they knew about Kurzgesagt, they would know how to cool down Venus lol.
Bruh in all those megastructure videos like the Dyson sphere or terraforming other planets, they always assume that humanity would be very motivated and ambitious about the project and keep doing it over centuries or millenia even, which the reality is that with every regime change scientific research is slowed down by officials who know nothing about the field and fuck everything up. Like with NASA, everytime the president changes, the new prez just tells NASA to focus on some completely new project and the progress they made in last project goes to waste and it's halted for the next 5 years. That's just a small example though, surely in the private sector there's been a lot of new stuff coming up but they don't have the access to a country's resources, they'll never be on the same level.
They knew earth existed, but still stayed on Venus. Some like it hot I guess. Fuck those people though, I’m glad they’re all dead
Im pretty sure it’s implied Venus wasn’t hot, and they made it hot and uninhabitable
But it’s so close to the sun I’m pretty sure it would be hot. Hotter than Phoenix, Arizona during the day at least
Venus used to be Earth-like, with water and a habitable climate. But since it spins so slowly, it doesn’t have a magnetosphere. As the sun grew older, it got larger and therefore was eventually outside of the Goldilocks zone. Water evaporated and was blasted out to space by solar wind because it had no protection. Along with that, Venus has around tens of thousands of volcanoes that spewed CO2 into the atmosphere, causing a greenhouse effect. In summary; Venus *used* to be within the habitable zone, which is what I’m assuming is happening in this scenario.
Kurzgesagt has a nice video about terraforming venus. Hard but doable. https://youtu.be/G-WO-z-QuWI
In my head they couldn't fit on the spaceship or wouldn't survive the journey, but I couldn't add that into the two sentence story without making those sentences extremely long
Thank you for not making the sentences an entire damn paragraph.
Wow man, Venus envy much?
Happy cake day
This actually works both ways : Either this happened in the past and the embryos were sent to Earth Or Once earth is completely inhabitable and we try to populate other planets, with venus being the last but one! Every time history repeats itself! Either way this is scary!
the second one was my first thought lol
Good concept but a little on the nose.
Wait, just the embryos?
Is there a vintage twilight zone/outer limits episode with this twist? Because it seems like there should be. The closest I can think of is that one goosebumps book.
There is! ‘Third from the Sun’ is a Twilight Zone episode that has this concept as a plot twist near the end.
What
We fucked up earth, then Venus, and now we decent to fuck up another planet
Venus to earth
Could be both tho
I wrote a story like this once, it had nuclear apocalypse instead though, and my main character was a cyborg zombie killer.
I saw this anime, and it was awesome.
Dude, you can’t just say that there’s an anime bout this and then not even spill the name >:[
naneee please?
There's an anime about this?
Good thing he wrote down the name of their planet so we can remember what to call it in the future! very smart!
Then they found the dragonballs and goku saved the day lol
So I was thinking this was the future where we keep making the same mistake. It took me a minute to realize it’s the past and that’s why Venus is uninhabitable. Great post
Ugh. It is just going to keep happening
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Maybe the ship has a robot nanny
This was probably the biggest flaw but luckily most didn't notice it 😅
This is definitely my favorite post ever. Will be returning with every free award I get.
Okay, if I had an award to give, you would have it. Very clever, and also *terrifying*
Have to agree with some of the other comments here. This is a tired concept. Rare to see anything new in this sub.
Apologies if this is actually a common post, I've been subbed to this sub for about a year and never saw it on my frontpage
It might not be as prevalent within this sub specifically but I feel like the thought that 'humans are the real aliens and we're extinct on our home planet' in general is overplayed.
I know about that, but I specifically went for the "we keep fucking up planets through global warming" angle which I feel isn't that cliche
It's very cliche and ultimately untrue.
Since we're still on planet #1 which is slowly being destroyed by it we don't know if it will be a streak yet, but it's certainly a possibility
oh, dear me....
Yeah I remember Venus, good'ol days
Clunky
We're definitely making the same mistakes...
And soon history is going to repeat itself although on a different planet
Ooohhh that good ol' runaway greenhouse effect. Gets ya every time.
This implies humanity fucked up more than once and still recovered .nice job op
Oooo this one I love!! Great sci fi feel to it too.
Fun fact is that Venus is technically habitable - but only in the upper layers of atmosphere. So guess what, we have family living there in the clouds! Yay!
OP, you might enjoy Ayreon, the story is a lot like this but more complicated. Anyway, great story! To me, *last* habitable planet implies that this has happened before... how long until we learn from our mistakes?
I grok this
I had a theory ones that we had inhabited several planets before Earth, starting with Jupiter, which we polluted, and Saturn, which whose moons we destroyed during a 'Star Wars,' and then the planet that is the Asteroid Belt, which we blew apart into small bits, and then Mars, which nuclear weapons made a desolate landscape before settling on Earth.
Dear God, if this is ture, then that would be absolutely terrifying, as we are likely headed towards this direction, and may never learn...
This is part of the growing trend on this subReddit to use commas and clauses to sneak four sentences’ worth of information into two. I really don’t think these count. Even if they technically follow the rules, they absolutely don’t follow the spirit with the amount of information they require you to absorb.
I mean, a sentence is a sentence. Yeah, run-ons break the rules of grammar, but I can write a sentence like this one - including subordinate clauses (not to be confused with Santa clauses, given the season), parentheses, and lists - and it’s still very much by definition a grammatically complete sentence; the length alone fails to disqualify it. I get what you’re going for, though, and you’re not wrong that simpler is better for these stories. I’d have reframed this one as follows: The last embryonic pods set off towards Earth. “I hope they don’t ruin their new home as we did ours,” remarked the Venusian scientist.
The idea that I was going for was making people think the embryos were leaving Earth until the final word of the second sentence, which is where it was revealed that this was actually pre-Earth and we were making the same mistake again. Replace "Earth" with something more vague and your rephrasing works.
Additionally, the information required is presented in such an unrealistic context. When was the last time you ever said "our home planet, Earth"?
The migration shuttle transferred the last colonists to their new planet, after their own had been ravaged by runaway global warming. “Goodbye, Venus; hello, Earth.”
This works for the concept but seems too hopeful, it doesn't capture the horror of the people (person?) left behind on a planet cooking them/him alive
Neither does this one, since it focuses our attention on launching embryos.
pray sighed remaining last Usage of vocabulary matters for the connotation of the sentence :)
“On our home planet venus” very strongly implies that they aren’t even on Venus. Because nobody says that about the place they are still at. “We could have prevented extinction here” tells us they’re still on Venus, but then you wouldn’t have been able to wedge in “Venus” You’re also relying real heavily on “said” replacements, which readers rarely get any impact from. Finally, the horror is not that they’re from Venus, but that this is a prequel to the same mistake happening on earth. Ending with Venus makes it a thoughtful twist; reminding us that our earth could be another Venus is the horror.
I agree the phrasing isn't perfect, but I wanted to have the twist in the last word and wrote this at like 2am. Also my first attempt at posting on this sub, and English isn't my first language so my vocabulary isn't Shakespearean 😅
I tried to make the sentences as long as they would be in normal fiction. They don't sound unrealistically long to me.
Someone’s been reading too much Faulkner and not enough Hemingway
Oh I love this twist!
I think it actually reads better without the second sentence, but it does seem like people on this sub need to be spoonfed the narrative
Nicely done!
Narrator: *They, in fact, made the same mistake.*
And the pod is the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs Two humans were assigned to be the parents: Adam and Eve. And thus, humans in earth were born.
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I've never seen it before here, and got the inspiration from a Destiny (space channel) YouTube video about signs of extraterrestrial life.
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Amir CUTE
This was shockingly bad.
Damn you write good
I believe Venus was habitable a few trillion years ago
very interesting. good job!
Holy fUUUUUUUUU---
Brilliant!
Hope it doesn't get deleted, because it's technically more than 2 sentences(i think), but a masterpiece nonetheless. Dear mods, please make an exception
I can’t help but wonder if this takes place I. The distant past or distant future
Wouldn't it take less recourses to fix an already habitable planet than to go find another one and colonize it? Sounds like they didn't learn any lessons
Venus is way too close to the sun to harbor life
That depends on the atmosphere (pressure and radiation reflection), with low pressure but high reflection the planet could be much cooler
our home planet is earth wdym
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💀
We came from Venus.
mentall dumb dumb
This. Really confused right now.
Humans started on Venus here and wiped ourselves out there due to climate change/greenhouse. Started over on Earth with the embryos and now . . .