TheUltimateDoomer666 Posted June 27, 2012 What exactly are the Lost Souls? What is their origin? We first encounter a Lost Soul when DoomGuy finds a person crying "help me", whose head then explodes and a Lost Soul flies out of it. Was the person possessed by a Demon, or was it simply the person's "soul" escaping or becoming evil? Soon after, there are Lost Souls everywhere, and very few (if any) more people with exploded heads. Their cybernetics also are a little mysterious; if they come from humans, why do they have cybernetics? Of course, it's also possible the first Lost Soul encounter was simply a one-time case in which a Lost Soul "entered" a person. 0 Share this post Link to post
Alfonzo Posted June 27, 2012 I wager that Hell is on a tight budget. Because they cannot afford to zombify all of the personnel on Mars, they elect only to make use of males as they have greater muscle mass and perform basic physical functions to the greatest degree. This seems at first a very poor way to alleviate financial difficulty what with 98% of the available humans being men, but as you have no doubt observed: all Lost Souls are female and there are many of them, a fact which comfortably disregards this statistic. The amount of energy required to animate a skull is far less than is required for an entire body. The process is rather instantaneous, therefore, but because it does not require the brain in order to maintain functioning the victim is entirely aware of her skull trying to wrench itself free of the spine right up to the moment where the nerval chords are severed. Imps that are skilled in dentistry and osteology are then relegated to the task of catching Lost Souls and fixing them with biomechanical implants -- partly because it empowers their military functioning but also because it gives them a cute whistling noise when idling down a hallway. Keeps the moral up. Pain Elementals east corpses and digest all but the skull, which they spit out at the opportune moment. 'nuff said. 0 Share this post Link to post
Avoozl Posted June 27, 2012 Marnetmar said:It's like a soul, but it's lost. Doesn't explain why they are horned and have flames though. 0 Share this post Link to post
PRIMEVAL Posted June 27, 2012 Avoozl said:Doesn't explain why they are horned and have flames though. That's The Forgotten, the better looking variation. Lost Souls are just human heads with little jet engines to keep them airborn. It bugs me that they're not really "souls" or demonic. 0 Share this post Link to post
Coopersville Posted June 27, 2012 I think it's simply a case of Hell using psychological warfare to try and defeat its enemies mentally. It could have just sent a thousand zombies and Imps after everyone, but maybe not all humans are afraid of the undead and large insectoids. 0 Share this post Link to post
printz Posted June 27, 2012 It's a skull on fire. 'Nuff said. EDIT: oh, wrong forum. 0 Share this post Link to post
DoomUK Posted June 28, 2012 PRIMEVAL said:That's The Forgotten, the better looking variation. I sort of disagree. I was always fond of the design of Lost Soul à la Doom 3. 0 Share this post Link to post
scalliano Posted July 4, 2012 @st.alfonzo: If you look closely though, you'll see that Dr. Chasar's head is still firmly attached to her body after the Soul escapes. Okay, half of it is missing, but it's still on her shoulders. That and she's the only woman in the entire facility. 0 Share this post Link to post
schwerpunk Posted July 4, 2012 The entire theme of Doom 3 (and most of the entire sci-fi horror genre) is basically: "Dear God, what has science unleashed!" You get these pandoric, malevolent forces co-opting and making twisted forms of our most prideful attempts at technology. Metaphorically turning our tower of Babel into a giant cannon then firing it at us. I'll let this insightful comic about sci-fi tropes by Dresden Codak play me out. Slightly unrelated: I always thought that the Lost Souls in Doom 3 looked like John Carmack. 0 Share this post Link to post
Tetzlaff Posted July 6, 2012 DoomUK said:I sort of disagree. I was always fond of the design of Lost Soul à la Doom 3. Me too, I always liked the creepy floating girl head and I think it fits the concept of a lost soul better than a horned devil skull. schwerpunk said:Slightly unrelated: I always thought that the Lost Souls in Doom 3 looked like John Carmack. So you are saying John Carmack looks like a girl? Pepole tend to see John Carmack in everything. There is an easteregg severed head in Quake 3 Arena that is not John Carmack's head, but most people think it's him. 0 Share this post Link to post
schwerpunk Posted July 6, 2012 Tetzlaff said:Pepole tend to see John Carmack in everything. There is an easteregg severed head in Quake 3 Arena that is not John Carmack's head, but most people think it's him. It's not? Huh... Next you're going to tell me that Dopefish isn't the spitting image of Tom Hall! /sarcasm Tetzlaff said:So you are saying John Carmack looks like a girl?I don't know if I'd go that far, but he does have very gentle features. Like, with a little makeup, I'm sure he would make a convincing cross-dresser. I'm not comfortable with this topic anymore... >_>;; 0 Share this post Link to post
Tetzlaff Posted July 8, 2012 Well you are probably right, but let's stop talking about this... 0 Share this post Link to post
geo Posted July 17, 2012 I always thought of Lost Souls as lanterns burped out by Pain Elementals. Maybe the pain elemental eats zombies and makes their skulls into lost souls. 0 Share this post Link to post
yellowmadness54 Posted July 18, 2012 geo said:I always thought of Lost Souls as lanterns burped out by Pain Elementals. Maybe the pain elemental eats zombies and makes their skulls into lost souls. Thats a pretty neat idea. 0 Share this post Link to post