What Happens After a God Goes Mad?

I mean it wouldn’t be good obviously --- There are many stories in which divine beings fall to madness. Likewise, the notion that humans are insects to the divine appears across mythology. So what happens after a god decides to squash us? After mercy turns to cruelty? Sanity to inane destruction? What happens after the gods turn mad? 0:00 Mad Gods 0:55 Cruelty of Berserk 2:38 Zelda and Divine Sickness 4:31 Hail to Insanity 6:30 Fear & Hunger 8:06 Rain World 10:01 Cruel Fathers 12:02 Cruel Gods Create Cruel Gods 15:10 Mark Twain (No, Really) 17:52 Creators and Creations 18:56 MAD GOD 21:29 All We Can Do Media Shown: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Berserk, Berserk: The Golden Age, Princess Mononoke, Blasphemous, The Seventh Seal, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Hellblade II, Hellblade, Indika, Fear and Hunger, Rain World, The Spine of Night, Poor Things, Adam, Wallace and Gromit, The Adventures of Mark Twain, Mad God, God of War 2, God of War 3, God of War (2018), God of War: Ragnarok, Hades II, Undertale, Metal Gear Solid, Shin Megami Tensei 4, Godus, The Sims, Black and White II, Gravity Falls Additional Footage: Fear & Hunger: nocommentaryarchive Wind Waker: thebitblock Claymation: Alexsnowskate Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music Used – Vah Ruta Battle (Breath of the Wild), Vah Medoh Battle (Breath of the Wild), Resurrection (Shadow of the Colossus), Burning Man (World of Goo), Little Nightmares II Main Theme (Little Nightmares II), The Timefall (Death Stranding), Die Toteninsel Emptiness (Signalis), The Path to the Door (Dredge), Your Body Betrays Your Degeneracy (Disco Elysium), All Gone (The Last of Us), The Restless Town (Dredge), The Red Gate (Signalis), Demon Dragon (Tears of the Kingdom), Ariane’s Theme (Signalis), Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven) ♫ Additional music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio: Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Sources: “The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology” by Arthur Cotterell & Rachel Storm “It Didn’t Start with You” by Mark Wolynn “The Treacherous Start to Mary and Percy Shelley’s Marriage” by Fiona Sampson “Phil Tippett Emerges from an Inferno to Create Mad God” by Trevor Hogg “Mark Twain Manuscript Reveals Author’s Pain at Losing his Daughter” by Ed Pilkington