[Timstamps, Sources, Phylogeny & Canonicity breakdown in this comment] IMPORTANT: MHE will only cover main series monsters! So no Frontier, Explore or MHOnline exclusive content! TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Intro 01:15 - The Faceless Wyvern 04:04 - Khezu Physiology 06:45 - Khezu Behavior 12:28 - Khezu Reproduction 15:38 - Red vs White Khezu 20:04 - Outro 21:01 - NEXT TIME ON MHE 21:32 - Patreon Check out the Phylogenetic Tree used in this video series: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vr0ThfPbrzj87DinYiB-r6P2QFog8oyRDPGy7OlF9wk/edit?usp=sharing SOURCES: Hunters Encyclopedia G pgs. 63 & 86 MHRise Official Settings Materials pgs. 166 & 167 tinyurl.com/KhezuThread tinyurl.com/KhezuRise tinyurl.com/KhezuRed Canonicity: Everything stated in this video is directly taken or paraphrased from the canon sources listed above, EXCEPT - The Incubation time for Khezu Whelps. It is never mentioned in any texts I found. - The Red Khezu Hypothesis. All we get in the lore is "we call Red Khezu a subspecies, but who knows maybe the whites are just albinos? hohohoho how mysterious :3" - White Khezu being sensitive to sunlight. I needed to somehow justify as to HOW the Guild ever even conceived the idea of albinism in the White Khezu, and photosensitivity is the easiest symptom to observe.
@danielsantiagourtado343011 ай бұрын
You're awesome man!😊😊😊❤❤❤❤
@theseeker348911 ай бұрын
Thanks for these videos
@SwaxGuy11 ай бұрын
Why did you change your profile pic and keep up the amazing lore
@skistorm73911 ай бұрын
This monster create by the every steam
@fabrizioart192811 ай бұрын
Great episode! Only thing I missed would have been a mention of Shrouded Nerscylla but hey... one day in Temnocerans maybe?
@Carnax696911 ай бұрын
If Capcom and the MH Dev team were to ever do bonus content again like in the older MH games where they did Ecology vids and what not, I would hope that they hire you to do it. Imagine like the good ol' days where you unlock bonus content just by playing the game and completing milestones.
@thed-man222311 ай бұрын
That would be amazing! But seeing as they did nothing of the sort with World and RIse, my hopes are not that high.
@LeoTheYuty11 ай бұрын
@@thed-man2223 Rise didn't try anything to make its animals more realistic tbh, so it may be that the next mainline game could have something like it.
@thed-man222311 ай бұрын
@@LeoTheYuty Let's hope for the best. MH popularity shot up a lot because of World and Rise, more lore/worldbuildung would make sense in that regard.
@alderwield963611 ай бұрын
@@LeoTheYuty its by different mh team, should've see its coming if you played gen/genU
@LeoTheYuty11 ай бұрын
@@alderwield9636 I know. So?
@Officewaffle11 ай бұрын
I love the history section where you imply that nobody in the monster hunter universe likes fighting this thing either
@satyreblack11 ай бұрын
just to add onto this, whenever khezu uses its electricity, you can notice that it's tail widens and attaches to the ground. this is to protect itself from electrocution via grounding itself with it's tail.
@rexex34511 ай бұрын
That would mean if you could cut the tail off, you could make a khezu become self destructive with its thunder
@satyreblack11 ай бұрын
@@rexex345 i think in monster hunter frontiers that was actually a mechanic...you couldn't cut off the tail but you could disconnect the tail from the ground stunning the khezu if I remember rightly. Mind you when you hit the tail your weapon would bounce off very easily as it had very high hardness.
@spacemegalodon504911 ай бұрын
Who wouldn’t be terrified of a monster that humiliated a bloodborne speedrunner?
@darthnius80911 ай бұрын
This is by far my favourite episode of your new series, for now at least. Something you didn't mention in the albino hypothesis is the fact that due to khezu predominantly reproducing asexually (technically quasi-asexually) through whelps, their gene pool is quite narrow. This could help explain how a lone random mutation led to the high number of white khezu. KhezuNation/10
@wrasse115511 ай бұрын
Awesome and interesting video. Of all colors, red has the largest wavelength. When light travels deeper through water, red is the first color to be absorbed and therefore invisible. I think it wouldn't be a stretch by MH standards to apply that concept to a humid cave environment. If that were the case, red khezu's color might actually help it camouflage in deeper caves that red light cannot penetrate. It would also make sense for white khezu to lose the red as to not stand out in an open environment.
@P0rk_Sinigang11 ай бұрын
This monster has always made my skin crawl on sight. I love it.
@unicorntomboy973611 ай бұрын
Khezu was a monster i could never take seriously. Come on, its a chubby, fat, ugly thing that looks literally like male genitalias. Compared to the mighty Rathalos, Togrex or even Nargacuga, it felt more like a joke monster
@randomnpc44511 ай бұрын
I love the creative explanation for how the term "subspecies" came to be used to describe monsters that are distinctly _not_ subspecies by any scientific classification, mostly because that's basically what happens in reality. Palette swaps are created by the devs and then they're just called subspecies because that's what we all know them as (even if that wasn't technically their intention way back in the day.) Your work does such a good job of immersing me that I legitimately almost looked up "What the Farcaster" with the intention of reading it.
@saltking213311 ай бұрын
I just watched a National Geographic documentary and Oceaniz's videos have the SAME QUALITY. So much effort i love all of his Monster Hunter vids they are kinda relaxing 😂
@vincentleonard379711 ай бұрын
It is now my headcanon that there is a version of this dude in universe doing basically this: compiling all the information about monsters that he can get his hands on into an easily digestible medium for the curious. Might be a bridge between the guild and the common people, as apparently the Hunters Guild is seen as madmen by most people who are not in it.
@whiteninji35211 ай бұрын
Yeah I was expecting a interesting a grim video seeing as it’s one of the more notorious monsters. Very nice, and very interesting to see both the klutz Kut-Ku and the “I will bully a deviljho into leaving me alone” Garuga
@TheUltimateShade66711 ай бұрын
I don't care if it came first, but to me the Khezu will always be outclassed by the Gigginox. Loved the idea that I could drink a cold drink in the cold environment to become invisible because it only sees in heat.
@DaviHorner11 ай бұрын
I just realized that were two different monsters now.
@theunknowman1211 ай бұрын
@@DaviHorner one use poison and the other one use lightning
@emblemblade924511 ай бұрын
Unless it’s baleful Gigginox which is literally just Khezu again
@veadricikari10 ай бұрын
They are technically in the same family by the wiki, as it'll say related monsters. It includes subspecies/variants and other monsters (in this case, Gigginox) Same with Fatalis with the subspecies/variants and including Dire Muralis.
@TheUltimateShade66710 ай бұрын
@@veadricikari Okay. But I still like Gigginox more.
@iselreads290811 ай бұрын
I should NOT be as fascinated by these eldritch horror beasts as I am, but damn, you make it easy to listen to this pale horror's lifestyle
@AngelPerez-tu1nk11 ай бұрын
This mothersmucker and his cousin (Gigginox) haunt my nightmares CONSTANTLY. I usually feel SOME guilt when slaying most monsters... Not with them though.
@purpleenthusiast581411 ай бұрын
Genuinely one of the most disgusting things I know. The reproductive shenaniganry just strengthened by already burning hatred for these things.
@AngelPerez-tu1nk11 ай бұрын
@@purpleenthusiast5814 Right?!
@fiendish947411 ай бұрын
This thing reminds me of the mass production eva units, its face consisting of only a mouth disturbs me to no end
@AngelPerez-tu1nk11 ай бұрын
@@fiendish9474 Oh GOD you're right...
@alderwield963611 ай бұрын
hmmm I found a lot of comments saying that those 2 creeps them out, meaning the monster design and theme did it job properly
@captaint.tearex927911 ай бұрын
LET'S GOOOOOO.
@Big_Berd11 ай бұрын
Thanks! I hate Khezu even more now! (I actually like Khezu design-wise, but it's just soooo freaky. Also, loving the videos!)
@OtakuUnitedStudio10 ай бұрын
And it also looks like a pe-
@RioniXIV9 ай бұрын
@@OtakuUnitedStudio foreskin wyvern.
@aluminumfox723011 ай бұрын
ah, the weenie wyvern also LET'S GOOOO THE BIRDS ARE NEXT
@joshuatgfgamer18 ай бұрын
I honestly thought he was gonna say that the Red Khezu is just a sunburnt Khezu, and it increased aggression is becomes us Hunters are effectively "slapping its sunburn"
@cr-volcanic11 ай бұрын
Not a Khezu fan but you did a pretty damn job making them seem very cool. The whole ordeal with Red Khezu is especially fascinating
@KitsuNerezza11 ай бұрын
Ah yes, Khezu; the monster with the best theme song. x)
@johnhenry372611 ай бұрын
Good job sneaking in the Odibatorasu theme as the intro music lol
@takem445411 ай бұрын
I love your work so much! Thank you got putting in so much effort, and your passion really comes through. Keep up the good work
@GatekeepertoSorrow7 ай бұрын
I never noticed until your frozen gameplay that the Rise model has pumping blood travelling through the veins. Euugh.
@tigaDeviljho11 ай бұрын
With the intro and all this episode, it really looks like TV documentary series
@siragon75611 ай бұрын
Friday afternoon at work What better time for an Ecology documentary ?
@lilairsoft736311 ай бұрын
PALE EXTRACT EPISODE LETS GO
@danielsantiagourtado343011 ай бұрын
Love your work man! Thanks for putting so much effort! Your passion really is inspiring! Keep up the amazing work! 🔥🔥🔥🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
@CitrusVirus643811 ай бұрын
I love these videos so much
@dylanbck11 ай бұрын
Oh man i was waiting for this so much‼
@Dragonbait11210 ай бұрын
Whoever designed the khezu is a monster
@carbodude54146 ай бұрын
Khezu is proof that nature is capable of producing mistakes
@yasn_fdl11 ай бұрын
this channel always makes me want to play MH again. feel like in watching net geo wild but with monster hunter monster
@TheXBladeist11 ай бұрын
Hell ya the episode for my favorite monster!
@williansnobre11 ай бұрын
One thing that I find interesting is how when spiking the electricity on their skin up, the Khezu grounds itself using the tail, so the eletricity runs through the moist skin but doesn't harm the internal organs. Also, since the Khezu appears to be related to the Gigginox, that suction cup at the end of its tail is probably the cloaca, which moved towards the tip of the tail and became versatile to the point of being able to hold the creature's weight and even bite.
@adamorth533511 ай бұрын
What a great episode
@CakeofPokke11 ай бұрын
Wooah! This episode goes hard 😲! The production value! The presentation! The information! This is my favorite episode so far 👌💯! Never thought I'd be watching a 23 min video of Khezu and yet here I am 😅Great job, Oceaniz
@somepvpguy6911 ай бұрын
Me after killing 5 absolutely horrifying and terryfying pale mfers to get some cool lookin assasin gear
@alexgreene541911 ай бұрын
Great timing with this episode for me personally! I'm working on a story that ties the mainline games in with the Stories spin off and the characters get ambushed by a Khezu, so I've been looking for more info on them. Love this new ecology series! You and Unnatural History Channel are my go to for monster hunter ecology info 💖
@natalie_brooks10 ай бұрын
hey, I've got interested in your story, can I read it somewhere? Played only Stories and Stories 2 but the idea of mixing hunters and riders sounds awesome
@StashTheStache11 ай бұрын
you know what could be cool. doing this kind of video for stalker, preferably anomaly for the graphics or maybe even gamma because of the new 3d models for some of the creatures. i mean i cant seem to find such a video, and i enjoy the monster hunter ones on your channel, but i mean stalker would be far from what monster hunter is. but could be so cool. so a definit video recommendation that would be liked by alot of people :D
@OtakuUnitedStudio10 ай бұрын
Khezu have a secondary method of detecting prey, a highly refined sense of smell. This is why dung bombs will stun them rather than driving them off - the overwhelming stench overloads their senses and leaves them reeling.
@MitchJanssen110 ай бұрын
These deserve more views
@samchrysler244011 ай бұрын
I am so glad i found this channel through the MHW ecology videos.
@astropunch1016 ай бұрын
am I the only one who thinks that the Khezu looks like... well something downstairs?
@danielsantiagourtado343011 ай бұрын
Love your videos and work Man 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
@erubin10011 ай бұрын
Jesus, this sounds like something out of Warhammer 40k!
@mattersofdarkness26745 ай бұрын
Fucking incredible video. Truly an inspirational piece of fan work. Special shoutouts to the Erectile Dysfunction joke about how Khezu lose the ability to stretch their necks when they get older. I haven't seen anyone mention it in the comments yet, but that shit got me laughing for real. Amazing stuff!!!
@alexisrodriguez652610 ай бұрын
1:33 *"overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.."*
@Shatter_bone9 ай бұрын
8:20 aint no way bro khezu head is wild💀
@Landoing.11 ай бұрын
awesome video! always love these documentaries. You should maybe consider making a channel membership as well!
@LutherWilken3210 ай бұрын
that guy with a hammer crushing 10 khezu at a time with a relative eeezzzz be like: bro this is bullsh**
@cyrylo145211 ай бұрын
As a fan of Giganox, I am sad that there was no mention of it in this video.
@Oceaniz11 ай бұрын
he will have his time in the spotlight ;D
@dr.archaeopteryx551211 ай бұрын
I feel like with a lot of monster hunter subspecies their rarity and strength can be used to explain each other. Being stronger requires more energy for upkeep, thus limiting animals compared to their slightly weaker relatives. After all, Red Khezu may be stronger and better at hunting than reg Khezu, but I imagine the need to hunt more is still enough of a drawback that the cavers have an easier time surviving. After all, there is no such thing as a "more evolved" animal, and seemingly useless and weak animals tend to be more successful (as evidenced by Popo being found all over the Monster Hunter world, while the presumably related Gammoth is ludicrously rare)
@lyonscultivars8 ай бұрын
Greatly aprishiated the rime it took to force this video. Very engrosing and i personaly love your kezu lure. I wish it was included in mhw. Was rsther gutted it was not in the new world in one form or both. Found your cincepts rsther interesting too. The way you explained/ proposed the albino premis ot felt well right. From a long term mh fan who played the fredome gra on psp i realy found this video connecting with my past battles with kezu. Kezu, we will meet again sometime. I promise.
@6gredlite90710 ай бұрын
Only thing I like about Khezu is the great sword I make off of it. Very unique design.
@LordOgr13127 ай бұрын
khezu scared me shitless as a kid , mow i know why
@zacharylancon112610 ай бұрын
How he did this without any dick jokes is a mystery 😂
@ultimate_pleb11 ай бұрын
The forbidden flashlight
@WelshGiraffa7 ай бұрын
Wonder when we’ll get a vid on the ecooogy pseudo Wyverns
@joedoe70412 ай бұрын
so yer while not one of my favorite monster to hunt. I've always had a fun time fighting Khezu and Gigginox, so I hope they make a return in monster hunter wilds.
@stijnwesselingh99235 ай бұрын
maybe the red kehzu is what happens when a cave gets overpopulated and the pheromones all kehzu release cause it to have a different phenotype that is more suited for it to find a new cave that can claim as it's home.
@egg466610 ай бұрын
Ik people don’t like khezu but I always thought it was neat, just a freaky lil guy
@jonathannjembe778811 ай бұрын
Ah yes the PTSD monster
@over-the-hilltop69209 ай бұрын
I really don't know what it is but I've always been fond of Khezu. I'm glad they got their chance in the spotlight.
@HabarudoD2 күн бұрын
its so angry because it can never be a Gigginox
@CheeseIsTheOlnyWay11 ай бұрын
Yippee
@maironannatar733510 ай бұрын
Giginox couldn't compete with the khezu vibe. Don't get me wrong, the gigi still has its vibe but not as much impact IMO.
@matthalasz11 ай бұрын
Another straight banger
@FenrrixV111 ай бұрын
I donkt knwo why but i love that creepy blind bastards so much :D , they deserve more variants and love
@kitsunerose95452 ай бұрын
Khezu is my favorite monster! Well second to Odogaron, my partner is baffled by this
@adar92369 ай бұрын
I forgot why Khezu was so horrifying untill you got to the whole chestburster part
@Zypherfox111 ай бұрын
omg i forgot about the babys and how they latch on you like giant leeches. this mon was definitely my most disliked target to come up when i played freedom unit on my psp
@klaxocuchulainn255411 ай бұрын
I feel so immature for not being able to keep a straight face watching this video
@rohanchintarlapalli4158 ай бұрын
“The single most common terminators of life are assumption and prejudice”🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@Kane_22511 ай бұрын
How could this be?? Of course this one would be the only time in the whole series the word ‘penetrate’ isn’t used even once. 🧐
@MegaKing100019 ай бұрын
I remember this bastard roar stun locking me in monster hunter 2
@Hilversumborn11 ай бұрын
‘Ugly mofo’ Honestly I like Khezu of how disturbing it is.
@alderwield963611 ай бұрын
I mean he get in the top 10 favorite monster in capcom survey for nothing
@misterOrca411 ай бұрын
I day this video would've fot better as a October release.
@eeveewonder62779 ай бұрын
I don't even play these games, but these videos are amazing to watch, it's so cool to learn about creatures outside of serires I am familiar with. That being said, this thing is one my filthy mind could not take seriously, my mind is isn't in the gutter, it's in the sewer system with Pennywise.
@durianknight11 ай бұрын
Deviants when??
@Zindakku9 ай бұрын
I have to ask: would the Rotten Vale be a ideal place for Khezu to thrieve?
@sebygamingyt26218 ай бұрын
probably?? but they woukd probably get a more grey color as that place is full of rotten moist corpses hence oxidizing khezu's skin...
@slimfastsubaru204310 ай бұрын
Thunder is a sound.
@Rexorazor10 ай бұрын
Lewd monster.
@uwemachinia1728 ай бұрын
oh no, the scl*ng wyvern
@isurika111611 ай бұрын
ok im trying to craft & make a sick set armors and those video ar just so good ( distracting ) pausing the video for a quest is hard . so insted i just stand ther in front of the smithi ...
@eaglehood2242 ай бұрын
I dunno about that. I think they won't be so terrible once you get to know them.
@TheManWithNoHands10 ай бұрын
As a wise model once said about Khezu: " Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness... is the essence of beauty."
@blankblank621411 ай бұрын
so why can kezu welps be found on kushala skins on the ice maps
@chiefbawor_thegr896611 ай бұрын
Probably attached themselves to Kushala before they Shed their rusted scales/skin or just used the shedded scales/skin itself as both shelter and food
@sebygamingyt26218 ай бұрын
wondering when will they make a different variant of khezu (maybe as a joke make a pink one😂😂)
@ritamexploresindia705211 ай бұрын
What about zenith khezu
@ladiesman213810 ай бұрын
Could it be that the red khezu is just an older khezu that has adapted to outside since it's been moving around it's whole life?
@kaymon515611 ай бұрын
Pls mate do zinogre next
@roguecloud567411 ай бұрын
Are the Khezu the same as the giganox or are they entirely different species?
@Oceaniz11 ай бұрын
Different Species, same Infraorder. You can find the Species Family Tree used for these videos here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vr0ThfPbrzj87DinYiB-r6P2QFog8oyRDPGy7OlF9wk/edit?usp=sharing
@roguecloud567411 ай бұрын
@@Oceaniz Hm, thank you, I'll take a look at that, the Khezu reminded me so much of the giganox, and thank you for the great content!
@ivanwrsong47929 ай бұрын
Wait, if khezu whelps needs a living host to survive how do you explain finding them on the snowy mountain latched on to the ehed skin of a kushala daora?
@IndominusRex-wc1ey3 ай бұрын
Probably elder dragons being elder dragons tbh
@Deinoch11 ай бұрын
Khezu the silly
@FlymanMS11 ай бұрын
I have zero interest in MHW lore but this video is amazingly captivating and well done
@RioniXIV9 ай бұрын
foreskin wyvern.
@nekomancer46419 ай бұрын
as soon as you started talking about hermaphrodite I knew we are getting into some hentai shit. Do we actually have official source on this ?
@IndominusRex-wc1ey3 ай бұрын
Oceaniz prides himself on his ecology videos being as close to lore as humanly possible, so probably?
@Capt.Twatbeard11 ай бұрын
It's open season on these things. Hunter rules don't apply, I want them extinct