Logamuffin Posted September 12 (edited) What the heck are soulspheres, megaspheres and the like anyway? Are they magic incorporeal orbs? Are they solid? Are they filled with liquid like water balloons? What does doomguy actually do with them, eat them? Or does he just like, absorb them magically or something? How does he get health from them? The more I think about it the less sense it makes. My personal theory is that they are filled with health juice like water balloons and doomguy slurps the liquid from them like how I slurp hot chocolate in the morning. This post brought to you by the “I’m about to go to sleep but I’m also thinking about doom” part of my brain. 9 Share this post Link to post
hexagonopus Posted September 12 doomguy drinks the gatorade from the top, where theres a little circular hole 8 Share this post Link to post
AdministrationCenter21 Posted September 12 (edited) The mega spheres and soulspheres are orbs of the blood of an ancient elder demon, and it flows into your body as you walk over it. The health bonuses are LSD vials. Edited September 13 by AdministrationCenter21 2 Share this post Link to post
Pechudin Posted September 12 Well they float, so obviously it's some sort neutrally or slightly positively buoyant gas. Possibly whatever Pain Elementals and Cacodemons use to float about. 5 Share this post Link to post
prfunky Posted September 12 It's a throwback to them being in an earlier video game... 22 Share this post Link to post
ALilGrayBoi Posted September 12 I think he grabs them and eats them like m&ms 4 Share this post Link to post
RataUnderground Posted September 12 Health is stored in the balls spheres. 15 Share this post Link to post
PurplDanial Posted September 12 In my opinion: they DO Have like some liquid inside them but if you like put your hand through it, your hand is gonna phase through. i think doomguy like gets near the spheres and it gets sucked into his soul, as for the fluid inside of the spheres, i believe its like life fluid, its like made of healthy souls and doomguy absorbs the souls and gets big and strong eat your vitamins and drink your souls 3 Share this post Link to post
Monocled Posted September 12 They have the stuff in them and they go inside. 1 Share this post Link to post
Siglev Posted September 12 I think they are the antithesis of lost souls, souls that went to hell after dying but not evil enough to become lost souls and are tortured by demons, I suppose they manifest in techbase due to the demonic presence and death of your companions, so when Doomguy finds them they let him consume them (giving him powers or healing in the process) so they can rest in peace or be one with him? 3 Share this post Link to post
GreenAnime Posted September 12 my theory is doomguy swallows and chew it like it was an ed edd n eddy jawbreaker. 3 Share this post Link to post
Sonikkumania Posted September 12 I think he'd break them which then causes the sphere spirits to access Doomguy's body with each invidual effect. 1 Share this post Link to post
Daytime Waitress Posted September 12 (edited) 5 hours ago, Logamuffin said: How does he get health from them? He gets health from them the way you interpret he gets health from them. Spoiler Not even sorry. 0 Share this post Link to post
yakfak Posted September 12 doomguy is the type of person who, when walking past a tree, stops a while to place their palm on it and close their eyes very spiritual and welcoming of the metaphysical normal people would just bonk their head on a soulsphere but doomguy truly _gets_ it 7 Share this post Link to post
Adamantium Posted September 12 Maybe their just healthy snacks that the demons like to bring with them on trips. 2 Share this post Link to post
bsharp Posted September 12 dunno what the rest are but i do know that soulspheres are the things that lay health bonuses 2 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted September 12 My headcanon has always been that the soulspheres are the souls of the people that the demons have killed. Picking them up gives Doomguy energy because the souls are grateful to be rescued and give some sort of spiritual assistance. The other spheres are demon magic things. 4 Share this post Link to post
lubba127 Posted September 12 I think the spheres are like... thin, fragile orbs (maybe like the texture/stability of ice) that contain souls inside them, hence the name "soulsphere". the souls just give you powerups cause they like you. 1 Share this post Link to post
Novaseer Posted September 12 2 hours ago, Jayextee said: I think this was answered, kinda. Doom Eternal's DLC also kind of answers this by introducing the life spheres - orbs which contain the essence of godlike entities. Doomguy absorbing them to supercharge his health seems plausible. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sneezy McGlassFace Posted September 12 They're little snackies the demons brought along on the trip. And then this doomguy character comes around, robs them blind and gives them wedgies 1 Share this post Link to post
Logamuffin Posted September 12 (edited) Fascinating theories all, doomers. I've thought about this question a bit more and I think I have the answer. The Soulspheres are big water balloons filled with the same stuff that the health bonuses are filled with. Health juice or whatever. Except like, gallons of the stuff, enough for Doomguy to get 100 health from them. Like so, observe: The face could be decorative then. Companies are putting all sorts of weird stuff on their packaging these days... Also the other spheres could be filled with other flavor liquids. Mmm, invulnerability flavor.. My favorite! 9 hours ago, hexagonopus said: doomguy drinks the gatorade from the top, where theres a little circular hole This person gets it. 8 Share this post Link to post
DoomGappy Posted September 12 Real queation is: how big are they? Assuming they are the size they appear in game, they look super big, maybe almost the size of a bowling ball. I don't think he could eat them If they are that big. 1 Share this post Link to post
Logamuffin Posted September 12 Just now, DoomGappy said: Real queation is: how big are they? Assuming they are the size they appear in game, they look super big, maybe almost the size of a bowling ball. I don't think he could eat them If they are that big. He could definitely drink them though. Doomguy’s a big boy, has had some beers probably. He can no doubt chug with the best of ‘em. 1 Share this post Link to post
Solmyr Posted September 12 (edited) Always thought they were spirits manifested inside spheres. Soulsphere: A restless human soul. Megasphere: A mancubus soul. Invulnerability: An ancient demon soul. Blursphere: A spectre soul. Edited September 12 by Solmyr 7 Share this post Link to post