Does this game even have a Lore to begin with? I have no Idea but that's not going to stop me from speculating!

The fact that James went from doing theories on a game about a dystopian world filled with cannibalism and body horrors to a game about a monster hunter gunning down a LITERAL SPIDER TRAIN, is pretty hilarious.

I like how all the NPC’s run away and hide whenever Charles is around. Really adds to the commitment.

I actually really dig Charles’ (implied ) backstory. Most indie horror games would pull the “this abomination from hell used to be human but then was experimented on and is now a demented monster” trope, except here. Charles was never human. Just something discovered by humans. It took over the body of an engine, probably for extra protection and now terrorizes the island. I love it

The idea of the Spider using the train as a shell is actually pretty cool, and sounds extremely logical. Well, logical for this universe. But wouldn’t the searing hot boiler inside the train hurt the spider when it crawled inside?

I have so much respect for the dev. Dude delivered a pretty decent game on a time crunch, AFTER literally forgetting to work on it😂

Something interesting is initially the developer wanted the game to be more simple where you goal was to sacrifice people to Charles by kidnapping them and tying them down to a track for them to get run over by Charles to appease him. Then over the course of development it became what it is now. But who knows maybe that game idea could work as a sequel or spin off story.

Theory: The eggs aren't from Choo Choo Charles. The eggs are from Gus the Bus, as there is a note talking about him, and in the church a note says "Snake VS. Spider (spiders have more legs usually)" as Gus might be a snake bus, and snakes lay eggs. Spiders also lay them, but they look different then the eggs in the game, Charles probably protects the eggs because he fears Gus and he believes Gus will come if the eggs are destroyed.

Fun fact in this game there is a letter about :"gus the bus" in this letter it states that Charles fears gus the bus meaning gus the bus is likely a predator to Charles and considering Charles is a spider gus the bus would most likely be a predator to spiders. There are 2 creatures that make sense for gus the bus, another spider as spiders eat spiders but in opinion its too boring but it's a possibility. The second creature is a centipede as irl centipedes eat spiders so gus the bus could be a centipede which I could see happening Edit A 3rd creature could be a snake as in the game there's a note saying spider vs snakes or something like that so gus the bus could be a snake which makes a lot of sense

My personal theory of why Warren warned that killing Charles would make things worse goes a little bit into the supernatural side. Essentially, Charles' eggs cannot hatch as long as it is alive. Think of it as a supernatural clause that says the offspring cannot spawn until the parent(s) are dead. However, there is no clause about how many eggs can be laid, or of how many will hatch once the parent(s) are no more. Warren figured this out and thus forbode the people from trying to kill Charles, bc as long as it is alive, there is only one monster in the world, and it's one that can be scared away and doesn't seem to be able to get into people's houses. Now that Charles is dead, the eggs will hatch, and now there are gonna be potentially thousands of similar predators on the island. And if they manage to find a way to choo-choo in a boat, well...

All I know is that Thomas the train used to be different back in the good old days.

I also like the fact of the lore of Charles’s is based on how he made the model. If you watched his behind the scenes, he explained how he made Charles was he got a free spider asset and put it inside a train he had already made, fun little nod to that

It's interesting how, if you think about it, Charles isn't really evil in a traditional sense. He has a disturbing face likely meant to scare off potential predators or rivals. He only attacks the miners when they trespass on his nest and start stealing his eggs. He comes to associate humans with the egg thieves and probably develops a hatred for them as a result, kinda like how animals abused by humans can become hostile towards or distrustful of them(especially since they shot at Charles and injured him). He's not a demon; just a very large spider-like creature protecting his young, and probably looking for the stolen eggs(hence why he's wandering the surface). He can gain power from the eggs, yes, but they were sought as a power source; I imagine that's just something that can happen to things affected by that energy. He probably commits to a fight to the death because he's fucking *furious* that the eggs were lost, and he's killing the people responsible. Tl;dr, he's so blinded by anger that he throws caution to the wind. He's certainly territorial, but at the end of the day... he's no more a monster than the people who tried to exploit him. He would have been no threat at all if he'd just... been left alone.

I really like your one-off videos where you play a random indie game like this. Always really fun to watch.

I personally believe Charles IS Theodore's old train. The one in the junk yard is far too rusty, in my opinion, to only have only at since Charles escaped. The note that mentions Theodore and Eddie delivered supplies, and Eugene says one operator was killed so you will use his train. Theodore is alive so you use Eddie's train, which looks to be in the same condition, as far as rust, as Charles. This makes me believe they had to be used around the same timeframe, which makes me think Charles is the train Theodore used while Eddie used the one you get.

I thought the drawings were official art or concept art. So much props to the artist he did an amazing job!!!

This would mean that it would be possible to kill all those giga spiders with basic modern weaponry, because they don't have the train shell that charles did. There could be a sequel if the creator decides to make one, or instead the ending could just be left for us to wonder.

I think they should make a movie with this theme. A giant spider taking control of a mining train and terrorizing the residents of the island, before being ultimately killed. The scene with the eggs shaking would be a perfect ending

Considering Charles is magical and the train he wears sorta works, in more inclined to believe he simply possessed instead of crawling inside.

Beautifully orchestrated video. I used to watch your park builder/world video all the time for years. Cheers for being such a massive part of my childhood beaver, and I’m glad to see you’re going strong! Interesting to see this take on a modern horror in the making.

One thing to note is, spiders don't have three segments, they only have two. The cephalothorax, that is a thorax merged with the head (Thorax is the middle segment of usual insects), and the Abdomen, the back segment of most bugs. Their legs are located under this cephalothorax. Based on the ancient tablet appearance of the monster, and appearance of Choo Choo Charles itself, they can't be classified as a spider. Since they appear to have 3 segments.

I think they were successful in killing the original spider in the mines. Because why would it take months for Charles to retaliate? And wouldn't Warren and the miners notice the giant spider crawling into a train? I think they successfully killed the parent spider in the cave in. However whole everybody was diatractes by their loss, one of the eggs the miners were transporting hatched. Since it still had a soft body, the baby spider (Charles) crawled into the first home it could find for safety; which happened to be a train. Spiders do like hiding in dark dry places where their predators cannot reach them, which does include vehicles. As months passed, Charles laid dormant and fed off the radiation from the other eggs the miners were transporting to the temple. Charles grew and grew until it was strong enough to hunt on its own. Then the opportunity arrived where Warren was destroying some of the last found eggs and Charles "hatched" from the train exoskeleton to absorb direct energy from the eggs amd reach full adulthood. My strongest piece of evidence would be the egg at the end of the game preparing to hatch. It was only started to hatch AFTER Charles had died. It could be an evolutionary way to avoid overpopulation. Because the island should have already been crawling with them long ago. And the ancient tablet depicts a group of people fighting just one giant spider.

Who knew that he was a great storyteller!. even if it’s not true and this is all something that’s kind of pieced together, this is like the best choo-choo Charles lore I’ve ever heard from someone.😮

6:14 What are ye doin in mah swamp

WOW. I didn't expect such a well-written and interesting lore video from the guy who thought the eggs were gold 😂😂. In all seriousness though, this video kept me hooked until the very end, AMAZING job on this one James!

Love how James included drawings in his theory, hope this becomes a trend

I love when James does these type of lore videos❤️

i got a small theory about the egg suddenly hatching. some spiders die before they get to see their children and then the newborn spiders come out and eat their dead mother, maybe the spiders in the eggs can sense when charles dies and start hatching to start eating their mother.

I was just so interested in the biology of Charles, like how his organs work with the train body, if the doors can open, how the babies will look like when they hatch and other stuff

Not just the fungus makes sense But the spider's analogy When choo choo Charles absorbed the energy of the eggs,he became stronger Because spiders when they're born they try to eat each other that explains why Charles protect the eggs As a last ditch resort, Charles uses the eggs energy to grow

You're almost right, basically the reason warren said "you don't kno what you're doing trespasser, i suggest you to kneel down(forgot what he said.)" it isnt from the notes from the people in the island, it's because he knows it's dangerous, the reason he went on the island is because there is something. that can cause human extinction, which shows why he tried to stop the player. And the notes were old, made from a dead man that lived in an island, the reason why his workers wore masks is because it protects them. charles originally wasnt in a train, he had a spider form. the reason he was able to enter the train and possese is because of himself. he's like a parasite that will control any insect but a spider that controls trains. how is he that powerful when charles absorbs the energy? It's because of his species. In the past, his real ancestor was like a dinosaur but a spider. For the reason why he becomes powerful is from the eggs, the eggs use life-energy. charles absorb them and gains powers.

Theory: there can be only one Charles So that one egg is the only one shaking at the end, and that one egg stands out from the rest, well what if Charles laid those eggs to basically gain infinite life, when Charles dies at the end, the egg starts to hatch, which means if you keep getting reborn, you can't die, so those eggs can only become Charles once the current Charles dies.

I like how Beaver is wondering if those people are worshipers or not and that the masks are all of the incarnations of how Charles design went through while on the creator of the games channel, Two Star, on one of his behind the scenes videos, shows the designs Charles was being considered to have and confirms that the people who are protecting the eggs are cultists

I love how this game’s less than a week old, and there’s already hundreds of people making videos about it. Whether that be a walkthroughs, videos explaining the EXTREMELY complicated plot and lore, or people literally making life-size replicas of Charles!

I personally think the cavern of eggs after the ending happened before the events of the main game, as this was likely the same cavern that held the eggs they spent months harvesting energy from.

It’s interesting to see how in the beginning of the game, Charles looks like he is smiling, but then if you pause at the end where you see his face while Charles is in the air, it almost looks like he is crying. The faces are very different.

I like the fact that James did a theory video . he explained the lore but he also but his own funny effects and spin on it, tbh this video is great and I would live to see more of it! :D

The lore behind Choo Choo Charles can probably extend so far beyond our imagination, like lore that could even tell us the backstory and how the chaos even begun or we could see what happens to the island after we defeat Charles and see the EGGS! I'm so excited to see how far this game can go. Also I'm very interested to see Beaver dig deeper and explore this game even more. EDIT NOTE: I found this video so funny, keep posting I love your videos.

Really like how the NPCs all run away and hide whenever Charles is around. Really adds to the story. You definitely did a really awesome job explaining everything in the game, Beaver.

With that theory about Charles using a train as armour; in the scene where you put the final egg into the prism, and Charles' legs become more jagged and larger, we see the boiler of the train begin to change shape and warp as though being dented from withing by Charles transforming. Just thought that was something cool that provided evidence for this theory.

The notes/timeline were placed around so randomly when you’re trying to read through everything/visit all the spots they’re at, so thank you so much for going in and actually piecing together a possible timeline/narrative of what happened in the mines that day! It was getting pretty confusing at times 😭

I had a slightly different thought too. Maybe Charles wasn't there when they found the cavern, but as they started using the eggs for power one of them hatched, and that was Charles. So then it would have been the eggs the player put into the triangle that caused the other egg in the ending to start hatching

I watched James when I was younger, now I've returned, finding this content more interesting. He still hilarious, love ya man!

"Aranearum" is probably not the fungus, considering that the word "Aranearum" is actually Latin for "Spider". Then again, it could be referencing both the fungus and the Latin word.

This lore of Choo Choo Charles is insane. I really believe the theory of Charles taking over a train cart. This thing.. Is horrifying. I love your lore and keep up the CCC lore please!

I literally thought the same thing the same moment that I saw Charles's design for the first time months ago that it's basically like a spider monster using a train carcas that it found on a scrapyard behind the Kratos looking dude's house as a protective shell

12:54 😂😂😂

i'd buy into a xenomorph style theory: Charles's species is hive linked by that mysterious energy, when the last of the species falls more rise to repopulate, so keeping the 3 eggs AND charles intact keeps the swarm at bay, like you noticed the scout and don't want to alert it, lest the horde shows up

Bro I love your theory and lore videos so much! I have rewatched your little nightmares videos so many times and remember the first time you uploaded one. Love you and your content man.

I didn't expect this game to be as fun to watch as it was. When I saw the title, I laughed cause I thought it would be something stupid, but I actually got invested in the story.

I have a theory of how Charles became a train. An egg rolled out into a train (just like how our train looks) the yellow train could become like Charles if another chapter is released.

So, I’ve realized something. Looking at Greg’s note, he said Warren told the workers to not destroy the last three. However, as shown in the end cutscene, there are hundreds if not thousands of eggs still left. This means one of two things. Either A), the workers only managed to collect a smaller amount of eggs due to Charles forcing them to flee and collapse the mine, or B), the miners haven’t even found the largest collection of eggs. They only found a small portion of the eggs, separated from the rest, which is why Greg says “the last three”. Assuming B) is correct, no one on the island even knows of the cave filled with thousands of eggs. No one knows there are still more of those demonic creatures still in existence, which most likely means the island’s residents are in for a very unfavorable and unforeseen future. I’m willing to bet that the sequel (if there is one) will take place after some of the other eggs hatch, leaving the protagonist on another hunt to kill off the source once and for all.

I feel like the eggs hatch when they come in contact with the open air or oxygen that's why there's only one giant spider . Charles' egg was discovered long ago and then Warren heard of it and that's when the 3 other eggs were discovered . The first people to discover the eggs probably closed off the cave after Charles hatched and decided to close off the cave . But Warren didn't think to do that and that lead to some air getting in , leading to that one egg at the end shaking . Edit : actually from what I saw in Greg's note , the cave they found was a completely different one from the one we see at the end. They were apparently able to destroy all the eggs there except the last 3. So the hole in the ceiling of that cave must have been caused by something else .

Let's say your theory about the "crazy" people and there masks that means that Charles acts like a pack of wolfs so if all of those eggs hatch that means they won't attack each other but work together.

i don't think charles's face was that distorted to begin with but rather started to form that way from only eating raw human flesh

This is a really great video, you’ve put all the hints of lore together to build a very interesting story.

James missed out one thing in this game. He didn’t predict the spider energy eggs being… kinder eggs!

For being a primarily dinosaur-based channel…I think I enjoy his horror based content the most

Honestly, I thought that the eggs contained a parasite and Charles' egg chose one of Warren's trains as some kind of host. But the theory of charles being a spider by defult sounds great aswell

Silent Hill music plus demonic train lore . . . Beaver is literally becoming an anime

Ngl it's quite refreshing to see Beaver do non dinosaur related content XD. Not that I'm sick of them (I'll always love them) but it's nice to see that Beaver is open to talking about other stuffs for his channel and people still enjoy it

The meticulosity in this video is just staggering, honestly James you presented such an analytical Theory and breakdown of the story it makes us feel as if we are inside the realm of Charles. Your content never seizes to disappoint keep up your work and dedication to us ❤️💪

The editing, music, and jokes were perfect, lol

Actually, in one of Two Star's vids, he mentioned that the crazies/cultists sacrifice people to Charles so they wont get attacked and surprisingly, it worked

Fun fact:Charles has a train body with 5 axels(10 wheels) and our train has 6 axels(12 wheels) and ours is a longer train.Meaning charles has a train body that is a older model.

omg finally someone covering the actual lore of Choo Choo Charles

Fun fact this theory of Charles is also related to reality since spiders molt so they can upgrade or neither grow to extend and they have this outer skeleton called an "Exo-skeleton" it certently protects the inner body of the spider to protect itself like Charles to what he did to trains changing each by each or its because he is out growing in them just like real life spider and if your don't know what molting means its a process of a spider growing or crawling out of its exoskeleton and it usually wait for a bit for the fangs and body to harden so it can go back and hunt preys just like Charles but in a different way Thank you so much for reading this! Hopefully this answers your questions why Charles looks like spiders!

Are we not gonna mention there being a note when you first get to the island? Ryan found a note mentioning "Gus the Bus", and how Charles is afraid of it. In the start of the game where Eugene is in a phonebooth, we didn't see a bus. but we did see one of those London-esque Trolley's.

Great video man. Now I'm wondering considering what we learned about Charles that maybe Gus the Bus (yes that's an actually thing mentioned in a note in the game) is the next version of Charles. Or some other horrible monster that is similar but not the same. After all, Even Charles is afraid of Gus.

Gonna throw a theory I have into the ring. It mostly connects with this theory though All three of the people who hold the keys to the egg mines have a part of the story. These eggs will (obviously) hatch into baby Charles Spiders if not destroyed. When they are being destroyed, Charles seems to take the energy from the destroyed eggs so he can more easily kill the egg thieves (similar to how some animals with good parental insights will hunt down anything that hurt/killed/ stole their babies until the thief or the mother dies...kind of like the Velociraptor and Protoceratops fossil that everyone knows about). And like what was suggested, Charles will commit to a mortal battle to attempt to enact revenge on you, the egg destroyer. Because this time, Charles actually has a reason to keep fighting Also, I had just realized that Charles is like the Dominion Giga. They were both just defending their territory and died by getting impaled

Best part about this game is that it is perfect for an anthology series of games where you play as the monster hunter going up against different weird monsters like Charles

Ok, so I got a small idea why we see the egg after Charles dies. And the idea I have is from another game bug fabels. In this we game, we find a mother chomper, which, after it dies in lore it makes a seed and it immediately hatches, and when it does, it is now the new mother chomper I think the egg is similar to this seed

For a channel I'm subbed to purely for my son to watch your Dino content, this was a genuinely well produced and cohesive lore theory video

I love your lore vids and this one was amazing, especially the hand drawn pictures.

I love it when you do theory videos for indie games, and I would love to see more.

Always enjoy a good ol beaver Theory video, can’t believe I late to watch it

seriously, your horror game lore videos are very good, it's a shame there isn't more of these

I think charles didn't attack the gaurds because they dressed like his kind maybe his/her babies?

This is such a great video man, +1 sub

The illustrations were awesome ! The video too ! ^^

More of these please, listening to you narrate things like this is amazing and I love it!

its nice to see you try something new, James. When I was younger, I was a huge fan of your isle videos, but eventually grew away from them. Always kept coming back to your old videos every now and again, but this is nice. Please pursue this is you enjoy it

I don't remember how long it has been since I last had a video of yours appear in my feed, but it's nice to see an old familiar face from my youth covering this game as well. Choo-Choo Charles is taking the internet by storm

My theory: The original giant spider from the train was actually killed, but before that, when no one had discovered her (it must have been female to lay eggs), when all the workers were at home, she found an old mining train, and decided to lay an egg inside the boiler. By the time they found her, they successfully managed to kill her, but baby Charles had been inside the train this whole time, feeding on the water and coal. After killing Charles’s mother, they noticed that that train in particular was breaking down, and they seemed unable to fix it (this, of course, was baby Charles eating the train from the inside), so they just abandoned it down on an old rail. After a long time, young Charles’s legs had gotten long enough to reach the ground, so he burst out in his armour that he had been born inside. After going on a killing spree, the entire mine was abandoned. As Charles grew older, his legs got longer, allowing more manoeuvrability, and he could easily het around the island. He met up with another Giga-spider (who I will call Charlotte), the two had se*, and Charlotte laid three eggs. Charlotte was later killed, and due to the se* not going right due to Charles’s unremovable armour, the eggs were unable to hatch. Due to a Giga-spider fact that I just made up for plot conveniences, the life force of relatives can give another spider extra strength. You can probably guess what happened to Charles’s kids.

Gus the Bus is the natural enemy of the Charles species if we compare the two Charles is considered slow compared to Gus and Gus is suggested to be bigger and smarter luring prey inside the bus body and then killing them the note suggests this and gives us a reason Charles doesnt just go to mainland its because Gus lurks there after all why go get killed by a bigger badder monster when you can just stay on an island in the middle of nowhere where your natural enemy cant find you

Haven't seen a video like this since Little Nightmares II, and I loved those theory vids, so glad to see something similar

Thanks a lot for the video! Really good explained and entertaining!

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Fun fact: the cultist’s masks are based on early designs of Charles face

The guards/crazies are actually scared of Charles when he’s near

A beeeeeeaver theory! Thanks for playing.

the last part where charles was about to get impaled he looked almost sad like he did not want to die like he has a life 12:45

I hope we get more content like this in the future I love hearing your lore videos and theories on what could be story plots behind games like this and ones you've done previously like little nightmares. makes for great content I can sit down and watch/listen to while eating popcorn or dinner.

I love your lore videos they always give me something to think about for the next days

the fact that he went from hungry shark evo to JW and then now hes doing this is just amazing

btw there's a secret note in the game 8-bit Ryan found about some "Gus The Bus" thing probably gonna be in the DLC or something, the note also says that Gus The Bus isn't on the same island as choo choo Charles, sounds interesting.

Yes! Another beaver lore video! Very well made, just the right mix of creepy serious lore and the classic beaver edits

i hope we get to see more of this world, it has so much potential

I love the imagination behind Choo choo Charles. Never would have imagined

I love Charles. He's such a silly choo choo train.