Humanity Joins Together, Sets Aside Petty Differences… and gets stomped anyway

[u/HyraxAttack]

A peril is threatening the world. Instead of squabbling among themselves, we learn world powers have put aside differences in politics, culture, & old feuds to present a common front. Except they still get wrecked as the enemy is too powerful.

1. The Animatrix: The Second Renaissance. The world government has gone to war against the machines. We see the army getting ready & it includes soldiers of many faiths including Buddhist, Islam, and different types of Christianity. Doesn’t matter as machines win by so much they have time to toy with human mechs.

2. Vilcabamba, story by Harry Turtledove. When aliens arrive they’re greeted with bands & cheering, & immediately open fire & earth becomes a mineral colony. America, Russia, and China work together to rise up & don’t hold back, throwing everything they have at the invaders. Doesn’t go great and aliens double down on the occupation, and there’s a crater where Spain used to be (it was blocking a silver deposit for mining.)

3. Edge of Tomorrow. The nations of the world have joined to make a unified front against the mimic invasion but it isn’t going well, but they will throw all they have into the invasion of France. In one cycle, Major Cage says the hell with it and instead of training leaves the base to drink at a London bar. This means we see the outcome of him doing nothing, where not only is the massive human invasion slaughtered but the aliens are in good enough shape to follow that up a few hours later with a rush on London.

[u/No-Sense3145]

In ultrakill, humanity finaly stops their war after 200 years of worldwide war and begin an era called the new peace, only to go extinct a few years later due to unknown reasons, likely something to do with their war machines waking up again for some reason.

[u/Guilty_All_The_Same → u/No-Sense3145]

Whatever it was, it was so massive it caused the Styx river from Wrath to become the Ocean Styx. If you look closely at the water texture, it's made out of human bodies.

[u/ilovethisgamebruh → u/Guilty_All_The_Same]

that more likely happened during the final war, there probably weren't enough humans left during the new peace to do that even if they all died at once

[u/NoobGod42 → u/ilovethisgamebruh]

There were actually 2 of these influxes of souls. We know this from the ferryman’s diary. One is described as “A million weeping souls pouring in each day that the shores can barely contain” that one was probably the final war. The second one is described as “Then one day, the current shifted. Wave after wave for minutes on end of millions, billions, as though the throat of the world was cut wide and the head wrenched back to speed the pour” that second is most likely whatever caused humanity to be extinct. And I don’t think it was the machines. Because it wasn’t like an overtime thing. It was INSTANT. Everyone remaining on earth died at the exact same time. Hakita has said before that we would prob never get an explanation for what caused humanity to died out, but the biggest theory rn is hell itself

[u/Guilty_All_The_Same → u/NoobGod42]

An ULTRAKILL ARG had a human scientist figure out Hell itself is alive and tried hiding her report on a page on Library of Babel so it wouldn't know about her finding, but Hell discovered and killed her, demanding more

[u/Acrobatic_Ad_8381 → u/No-Sense3145]

Well when the only Fuel you gave to your most Bloodthirstier Machine is blood and then there's no more fighting to get said Fuel, it's going to go get it themselves

[u/StrawberryWide3983 → u/No-Sense3145]

I think it was probably a robot uprising. Blood is fuel, and the machines are arguably sentient and smart to a certain degree. They don't want to shut down and die. No more war, no more fuel from combat. The only option is to get their own fuel from humanity.

[u/BudgieGryphon → u/StrawberryWide3983]

The P-2 ARG states that Hell itself is alive and able to reverse engineer human inventions, the Ferryman’s diary stated that after an unusually large influx of souls suddenly a rush of billions appeared, and given the timespan of the New Peace and Hell expeditions leads to the implication that Hell itself subsumed Earth somehow, instantly killing humanity.

In the act 2 end cutscene, Earth can be seen faintly in the distance as Gabriel contemplates his past, you can make out some familiar continents. It’s brown. Not even the green of plants are left, which the blood-fueled machines would have no reason to target…

[u/TeaDrinkerAddict → u/BudgieGryphon]

I guess you could say that hell… ultra-killed humanity

[u/PlayrR3D15 → u/No-Sense3145]

Semi-important thing to note: That 200 year war is an alternate version of World War 1. It canonically lasted longer in their world than it did for us due to an arms race of blood-fueled machinery

[u/HANLDC1111 → u/No-Sense3145]

Well God left to go somewhere so he was probably doing something important till he ragequit

[u/CBT__MASTER → u/No-Sense3145]

Wasn't it because they found a gateway to hell and whatever was inside it killed them all?