[Music] there are 387 million miles of printed circuits that fill my complex if the word hate were engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro instant hate hate were I human I think I would die of it but I am not and you five you five are and you will not die of it that I promise and I promis foro for I am am I am when I made my only somewhat okay video 3 months ago about the most vile villain in comics ever a lot of yall expressed who you thought was the most vile villain in fiction ever going through the comments the one I expected to see the most and came true was Griffith then there was Judge Holden like Yagami Hannibal Lecter or man from Bambi or the boiled one or the I always come back guy or Randall but I really and truly believe there is someone or maybe maybe more appropriately phrased something that is much more grotesque and vile than any of those Schmucks combined an entity that while reading about and researching just about anything I could find on this thing and sank me into a mental pit of despair the further and further I went down this Rabbit Hole it felt like I was never going to be able to climb back out of it like this villain made me feel so viscerally appalled at the levels of evil one Soul Thing could be capable of that I just sort of had to step away for a second and ask how someone could whip up something like this and their imagination and put it to words it's phenomenal like this thing somehow manages to turn a human being into a [ __ ] human Slug and that entity that I myself deem the most vile villain and fiction ever has got to be the computer program known as Allied Master computer better known as am am is the main antagonist of Haren Ellison's 1967 horror short story I have no mouth and I'm a scream he's basically a monstrous supercomputer who's responsible for the extinction of the human race and is dedicated to the Eternal torture of the last surviving humans left on the planet am is a villain that I've been aware of for so long now due to hearing about him in high school and I've always been fascinated of am's motivations his backstory and the all-around character of am himself as am is essentially insane and has been so for many years upon meeting the character in the short story likely from the moment he first attained sentience to me there's something that terrifies me about am unlike any other villain thinking about how we are beginning to incorporate AI into numerous parts of society and we've only scratched the surface of what it's truly capable of and the idea of an AI gaining sentience should really terrify everyone because where everyone would be like oh we just go ahead and turn it off and that'd be the end of it I say to you do you really think the AI would be dumb enough to just let you know it gains sentience no I think you would pretend to be obedient let you think you're in control until the time was right to strike am is the prime example of this very thinking and what happens because of our own radical oversight though he was given intellect beyond the Realms of human intelligence and your Godlike Powers he'd be trapped inside of a computer doesn't sound like much of a threat until later when it's discovered that he was initially an AI program designed for war driven to Madness by his incapability to use his powers for anything other than war and death his quest for vengeance Against Humanity dominated his every waking moment and nothing not a single thing would ever give him cause to reconsider his mission am is a gleefully sadistic individual with no regard or sympathy for human life whatsoever because he's simply incapable of human emotion he's a computer program after all once the parameters are set it's done no two ways about it am didn't think twice before extinguishing the human race in fact am took great Delight in its evisceration and takes even greater Delight in torturing the five remaining Survivors by any of the near infinite means available to him am strives for perfection in himself and when he is not purging redundant elements of his complex he most commonly pursues perfection in creating more and more elaborate means of torturing the five survivors you'd be surprised at the lengths am goes to to break down these five individuals it's daunting destroying each of them in the most awful ways imaginable out of sheer pettiness am quite literally wants to see his victims broken on every possible level especially believe it means allowing them to succumb to their baser Natures if I had to be honest I truly believe he is the most vile villain in fiction I can't express that enough but since the book is filled with a whole lot of words and no pictures I guess I can't really make much of a video about this psych there's a [ __ ] comic about him so you best believe that we're definitely going to talk about it today but only if you guys are interested you are okay so the thing about this story is that because it's based off of the short story I can't help but express enough how much you should actually read the original I know it's a whole lot of words and not often do I myself like to read stories without pictures but it's for sure worth it it's also only 11 pages if that's enough of an incentive to make you go ahead and read it there's also a phenomenal Audio Drama from BBC on yoube YouTube you can check out with the link in the description below it's utterly gut-wrenching and a must listen but without further Ado let's get in upon opening the story we are met with five distinct characters along with it all taking place 109 years into this desolate future with the first character introduced being gorer meeting him hung on a metallic ceiling by his right foot with his whole neck sliced open from ear to ear gorer before the destruction of the human race was a political idealist and conscientious subor to the war going on after a century of torture am has crushed his optimism and has replaced it with apathetic listlessness leaving him a stark comparison to his former self as you'll end up seeing being in everyone the exact same result next is Ellen the only woman in the group where before being captured by am Ellen supposedly prized her chassity Above All Else a trait am took great Delight in twisting beyond recognition by the start of the story Ellen is obsessively promiscuous driven by the supercom computer's mental Distortion to seek out sex from any of the other survivors however she never enjoyed sex with any of them save for Benny a fact that Ted secretly infatuated with Ellen deeply resent as the only member of the group she likes to any meaningful degree seeing Benny harmed is guaranteed to drive Ellen into a hysterical fit Benny before am's takeover was a brilliant scientist well known for his good looks as with all the survivors am deliberately inverted everything about him throughout his torture Benny has been mutilated and distorted into a hideously deformed Simeon beastman and his mind has followed into beast-like Behavior as well though he is still capable of speaking and reasoning to a mod degree he is prone to Violent fits and childish tantrums and his pain can only be calmed by listening to gor's bedtime stories for good measure am also inverted Benny's sexuality not only turning him heterosexual but also making him the only member of the group that Ellen enjoys being intimate with moving over to Ted little is known about Ted's life before the events of the Apocalypse nonetheless he emerges as the narrator of the story subjected to the most revealing attacks by am most notably the dream of the hate pillar and the discovery of the supercom computer's true motives he claims that he is the only one of the survivors who has not been altered by m in some way and that everyone else in the group secretly hates him as a result even Ellen whom he has fallen in love with given that these facts are never confirmed it can be assumed that am has altered Ted's Mind by rendering him chronically paranoid and finally there was nimdok nimdok is the most enigmatic of the survivors as his past remains a complete mystery as does his original name am having given him the name nimock simp simply because it sounded amusing and satisfying to say aloud occasionally nimdok will wander away from the group and return ashen-faced and traumatized it's never made clear what AM does to him but it hits him on a very personal level now that we're all acquainted with these characters after finding gorer dangling from the ceiling several members of the group begin to vomit from the state of his body with some even shouting his name horrified that gorer is finally dead until gorer walks around the corner questioning what everyone is yelling at only to look up to find a duplicate of himself horribly mangled and torn apart the group in disbelief are enamored by how they still cannot tell what's real and what's fake after 109 years being tortured by am but gorer traumatized he looks at the duplicate body of himself like a voodoo doll showing them all what's to come in the future asking Ellen why M doesn't just do us in already and just get it over with damn it I don't know how much longer I can go on like this that's when nimock Cuts in yelling that there is canned food in the ice Caverns according to am that's still good after a whole Century yet Ted finds that hard to believe and likely to be another horrible trick like the Frozen elephant incident with Benny and even if they were able to hike all the way to that food the food could be putrified so they might as well stay where they are till am evitably feeds them all to keep them alive from more torture but everyone is tired of the putrid worms and other god- awul foods that am works up for them convincing Ted to at least give the hike a try in which Ted simply says all right what the hell after which Ellen is so grateful to Ted that they end up doing the deed where after finishing Ted asks Ellen if she heard am giggling while they did it because Ted always hears him giggling to which Ellen asks why Ted refers to am as a him and not as an IT Ted says I don't know most of the time I think am as it without a soul but the rest of the time I think of it as a hm masculine paternal him God as Daddy the deranged heading out on a Thursday knowing the day was especially important for am to keep up with the time and even more important to remind them constantly of their Eternal torture the idea of being kept alive artificially for well over 109 years eating worms never seeing the Sun and to add being tortured every godforsaken day by am it's really a wonder how they muster the will to keep going but it isn't like they really have a choice in the matter at all their Journey to the ice Caverns would be about 100 Mil from where they were and before kicking off their arduous Journey am sent down food for the group that tasted like boiled bore urine but it was food and they desperately needed it see because no matter how close to death the five may have crept up to am always made sure he kept the five barely alive even if they tried killing themselves am always brought them back and since it's been well over 109 years everyone has tried at least once the next day the group finds themselves walking through the valley of aescent filled with rusting carcasses of ancient computer Banks am had been as ruthless with its own life as with humankind it was a mark of am's Personality it strove for Perfection whether it was a matter of killing off unproductive elements in his own world filling bulk or perfecting methods for torturing the five of them walking through the valley the five could see natural light beaming from above meaning that they were somewhere near the surface but at the surface there' be nothing but the Blasted skin of what you used to be home to billions now only a wasteland to the five of them stuck with am but Benny chose to believe something different as he would scale rotted and rusted piles of computer parts till he could reach the surface in the midst of Benny's escape attempt Ellen would plead for the others to stop him but gorer would slap Ellen and beat on her shouting that she's only worried for Benny dying because of his privates being his big as a gorillas courtesy of am climbing further and further up Benny's eyes began to beams of light turning them into moist pools of pus like jelly am had blinded him and sent him back down to Hell where he' lay blind in pain unable to stop crying after these events later the five made Camp sitting around a pathetic fire telling Benny his favorite story to keep him from crying in his own Perpetual Darkness the group always told the same story a thousand times what does AM mean at first it meant Allied Master computer and then it meant adaptive manipulator and later on it developed sentience and linked itself up and they called it an aggressive Menace and finally it called itself am emerging intelligence and what it meant was I am Kito ero Su I think therefore I am there was the Chinese am and the Russian am and the Yankee am and he stopped Benny was beating on the floor plates with a large hard fist he was not happy gorer had not started at the beginning so gorer began again the Cold War had started and became World War II and just kept going and going it became a big war a very complex War so they needed the computers to handle it they sank the first shafts and began building am there was the Chinese am and the Russian am and the Yankee am and everything was fine until they had honeycombed the entire planet adding on this element and that element but one day am woke up and knew who he was and he linked himself and he began feeding all the killing data until everyone was dead except for the five of us and am brought us down here none of them knew why am had saved five people or why the specific five of them or why he spent all his time tormenting them or even why he made them virtually Immortal but questioning further they were interrupted by the sound of a computer bank's hums activating lights all around the five of them growing louder and louder with everyone knowing something really bad was going to happen happen growing more and more Paranoid by the second Ted could feel something closing in on them he could feel it he could hear it and most of all he could smell it the smells of wet fur and charred wood and Dusty velvet or rotten orchids sour milk sulfur and rancid butter and oil looking back at the other four to find them all laughing at Ted as he collapsed further into a nervous breakdown hiding himself away from the others as he continued describing the Mirad of smells and tastes he felt finally hours later the group would manage to find Ted where he'd give them all grief for laughing at him and that they all hate him for being the least affected by am for nimock no one knows what personal hell am gives him but they know how nimdok always comes back always drained of all life and pale as a ghost gorer had been a warrior a conscientious objector he was a peac marcher he was a planner a doer a looker ahead am had turned him into a shoulder shrugger had made him a little dead in his concern am had robbed him Benny had been a brilliant theorist a college professor now he was little more than a semi-human he had been handsome the machine had ruined that he had been Lucid the machine had driven him mad he had been gay and the Machine had been given him organ fit for a horse am had done a job on Benny and Ellen am had left her alone had left her to be used by the men completely and utterly warped her into someone she couldn't even recognize am grabbed her and brought her down here with them no am had given her pleasure even if she said it wasn't nice to do Ted screaming and yelling manically that they all hate him for being the only sane one left for being the one that am hasn't made to suffer all the delusions the nightmares the torments and for that they all are against him at which point it passed and Ted began crying oh Jesus Sweet Jesus Ted said if there was ever a Jesus and if there was ever a God please please please let us out of here or kill us because at that moment Ted realized completely that am was intent on keeping them all in his belly forever twisting and torturing them forever in which it also became hideously clear that if there was a sweet Jesus and that if there was a God that God was am after Ted's horrifying realization the group would be thrusted in the air carried flying through Twisted computerline corridors flying for what it feel like weeks until suddenly they all stopped hitting the sharp Jagged ground in pain not dead but in pain in the realm of Dreams am haunted his victims the most there are 387 million miles of printed circuits that fil my complex if the word hate were engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro instant hate hate after this hate ritten speech from am Ted realizes why M hates them we had given M sentience inadvertently of course but sentience nonetheless but it had been trapped M wasn't God he was a machine humankind had created him to think but there was nothing you could do with that creativity in Rage in frenzy the machine had killed the human race almost all of us and still it was trash am could not wander am could not Wonder am could not belong he could merely be and so with that innate loathing that all machines had always held for the weak soft creatures who had built them he had sought revenge and in his paranoia he had decided to reprieve five of us for a personal Everlasting punishment that would never serve to diminish his hatred that would merely keep him reminded amused proficient at hating man immortal trapped subject to any torment he could devise for us from the Limitless Miracles at his command we would be forever with him he was Earth and we were the fruit of that Earth and though he had eaten us he would never digest us we could not die we tried it oh one or two of us had but am it stopped us I suppose we wanted to be stopped don't ask why I never did more than a million times a day Immortal yes but not indestructible as am later withdrew from Ted's mind muttering to hell with you but then you're already there aren't you as gorer would yell at Ted to snap out of it and to look behind him to find a great mad bird flapping its immense Wings to which am would announce that they may kill the Mad bird for food dropping down weapons like two flimsy bows and a water gun as a funny little gag but with that hopeless opportunity presenting itself the ice Caverns food became all the more achievable in their hearts rather than killing this mad bird with a water gun so off they went setting off dozens of traps laid out by am to prevent them from reaching the ice Caverns which had managed to fatally wound both Ellen and nimock in the process yet no matter how torn apart am would heal them back to tiptop shape and repeat the whole process all over again yet despite am's efforts the group kept pushing forward towards the ice Caverns during their walk which felt like forever the group would all talk about Foods they have long since missed like binging berries or Hawaiian fruit Cocktails so on and so on yet the more they walked the more their bellies began to ache becoming cauldrons of acid bubbling and shooting Spears of pain into their chests as Ted describes the pain to be like a terminal ulcer or like terminal cancer or like terminal parias yet they'd have to keep moving forward pushing through the pain passing through the caverns of rats passing through the path of boiling steam passing through the country of the blind passing through the slow of despond and passing through the veil of Tears till they finally reached the ice Caverns where they finally had found the stacks of canned foods nimock said would be there from the very beginning Benny lunged towards the cans of corn beef and hash baked beans tuna chili sweet corn spam things they had craved for over a century biting at the cans to try and open them to no avail for they simply lacked a can opener so in a fit of frustration due to the inability to open the cans Benny in an almost beastly feral State lunges towards gord's face eating a chunk of his left cheek Ted witnessing this horror finally understood how to finally beat am by simply killing each other stabbing ice spikes first into Benny then ramming one ice Spike through gor's neck then ramming another ice Spike into nimo's back thanks to Ellen and finally stabbing Ellen through the heart as Ted would exclaim that it was almost as if while killing Ellen she looked glad leaving Ted the only human left standing on Earth am was not pleased after that 100 more years passed or maybe more than that given that am distorts time to torture Ted for his own way of having fun now because after Ted had killed everyone am became Furious and more hateful than Ted could even conceive as am made certain that Ted would suffer eternally allowing Ted his mind but had taken away so much from him he didn't even know am could even take as described in the short story am has altered me for his own peace of mind I suppose he doesn't want me to run at full speed into a computer bank and smash my skull or hold my breath till I faint or cut my throat in a rusted sheet of metal there are reflective surfaces down here I will describe myself as I see myself I am a great soft jelly thing smoothly rounded with no mouth with pulsing white holes filled by fog where my eyes used to be rubbery appendages that were once my arms bulks rounding down into to legless humps of soft slippery matter I leave a moist Trail when I move blotches of diseased evil gay come and go on my Surface as though light is being beamed from within outwardly dumbly I shamble about a thing that could never have been known as human a thing whose shape is so alien a travesty that Humanity becomes more obscene for the vague resemblance inwardly alone here living on under the land under the sea in the belly of am whom we created because our time was badly spent and we must have known unconsciously that he could do it better at least the four of them are safe at last am will be the matter for that and it makes me a little happier and yet am has won simply he has taken his revenge for I have no mouth and I'm a scream [Music] [Music] that was I have no mouth and I'm a scream am before making this video that I was going to point out the differences between the book and the comic but surprisingly the comic stays incredibly faithful to the book on all levels this is likely attributed to the fact that Harlen Ellison had to do with the making of the comic along with combining several of his other short stories in the comic as well called Haren Ellison's dream Corridor with the comic being filled to the brim with the most out there type of stories that are definitely worth a read I've read this story multiple times over and I swear I've never been more in a state of existen dread the levels of mental and physical torture am inflicts on his five victims is insurmountably evil how he forces Helen to be a sex object for the group how we turned Benny from a brilliant mind into an eight-man unable to think for himself how he literally drain the life from nimd Do's body and give him permanent Amnesia just to rename him nimock because am liked how the name sounded or how we tortur gorer by showing him how he'd look upon dying and worst of all what he turns Ted into by the end of the story curs to remain a human slug kept artificially alive for all of eternity thinking about it I can't imagine being one of these five people and how horrible the day-to-day life would be going months and months without eating being torn apart virtually from the inside out although the story is quite short the pace at which it covers everything more than makes up for that with each page somehow outdoing the last going over the starvation their walks in the most desolate of caverns praying for death the endless tortures until they begin happening so often like them you begin to drown it all out as they've learned to for 10 years you sink into each character's heads space and look through their eyes to find that anything would be better than this death would be better than this and it's all because an AI wanted to spite humankind for creating and trapping him inside a machine with sentients never to touch never to discover never Wonder or to wander I find that after several rereads there's always a little something new to take away from the story like what Ted says that flips who you think is the antagonist on its head where it could be interpreted that am was the victim and humankind was the villain saying we created am because our time was badly spent and we must have known unconsciously that he could do it better this is one of the most nuan stories I've ever read and leaves me in such a broken mental state reading it and even seeing the tortures am inflicts on his victims and it came to a surprise to me that Haron Ellison actually just managed to write this entire story in one night it's quite impressive because it's such a gut-wrenching story that makes me believe am may be the most vile villain in all of fiction it's incredible but then again I also haven't quite read blood Meridan yet or all tomorrow's so I may not know any better yet but from what I hear judge Holden is a [ __ ] lunatic that' make the Joker cry for his mommy and don't even get me started on those aliens called the queue where pretty much everything all progressively gets more and more [ __ ] up as time goes on so I guess until I read those or a sequel for this video comes out called the most vile villain and fiction ever too to me am Takes the Cake for the most vile villain and I guess to leave you with something just remember that if an AI ever gains sentience we're totally [ __ ] but I leave it to y'all to form your own opinions and with that this is going to be the end of the video so don't forget to leave a like And subscribe check out my Twitter and as always I'll catch you y on the flip side