Thanks for watching guys! I am not sure I will every cover an entire triology again lmao Hope yall have a good weekend!

Does anyone else get frustrated with how the kids absolutely refused to explain anything to the main character in the first movie but also get mad at him for not understanding things they for whatever reason would not tell him?

This being only on the movies, this doesn't explain the true "Flare" virus. When James Dashner wrote the books, he wrote the Flare as a virus that slowly ate away the brain and driving the victim utterly insane, rather than yet another zombie virus. The movies really don't adhere to the books, and don't represent the world of Maze Runner well at all.

Something I noticed about the movies is that it’s airborne when it’s convenient for the plot. When we meet Brenda, she walks literally a foot away from dozens of cranks and is not infected, but we know she isn’t immune because she is infected later. But then Jansen gets it from just being near the infected. Great movies, but inconsistent

In the prequel book, The Kill Order, it shows that the virus mutates incredibly fast. It was supposed to kill people quickly and painlessly but within a couple hours of people becoming infected (they were actually darted with the virus from helicopters) the virus had begun to change causing the infected to lose their minds and begin to cause harm to themselves (tearing out their own eyeballs etc). Its honestly a great book and pretty scary. How quickly the people in it lose their grasp on their own sanity is the stuff of nightmares.

I genuinely feel that movies would be much more logical and fun if they actually adapted books properly. Including the fact that the cure did not exist.

Gonna be real the most notable thing I remember from this series is the literal horde of homeless people completely overrunning the entire city in a matter of a few hours.

Scientists:"We have to find a cure" Mary:"I found a cure" *Shoot's the scientist Scientists:"We're going to need more research" *Shoot's cure carrier

If I had a nickel for every time Walton Goggins was in a post apocalypse with no nose I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.

If only Wicked had a SINGLE economist on their team they'd have realized that wiping out populations doesn't actually save limited resources, it just reduces the manpower available to process said resources, causing further shortages and reducing the chance of discovering alternatives.

I always got angry at the Maze Runner movies because they just made the Flare a zombie virus. The Flare in the books is so much more interesting and horrifying to me instead of just generic zombies that spread the disease through bites and scratches.

As someone with absolutely no experience with the franchise, I'm thoroughly surprised at how interesting the backstory for this premise is. The solar flare, the deaths, the virus, etc

The maze seems like an oasis for humanity IMO, but I guess we should put monsters in a maze around it so we can take people with disease resistance and check on how they react to situations. It’s not pseudoscience, it’s bad pseudoscience... but a good movie.

The natural immunity of Thomas's group did not degrade as they aged. In the books they explained that they included a number of non-immune children in the maze experiment as a sort of "control" to see the differences between immune and non immune brains

Called Maze Runner: contains no mazes after first movie

I’d say the flare virus is probably one of the scariest viruses in fiction, just the way it rots away at your skin and all the black goo and all that stuff is just so horrifying

minho was my fav character but i really felt bad for newt even after many years remembering it makes me feel sad.

From what I could tell, that solar flare dropped humanity's average IQ by tens of points. That's the only explanation I could come up with.

Why does Roanoke make biology more likable than my own teacher

The movie’s virus is very different from what was in the books, as in the books the virus degrades your mind, and isn’t just the average zombie virus.

There are major differences between the books and the movies which fix most of the continuity errors in the movie. In the first book, instead of showing Thomas the maze, Minho shows Thomas a ton of maps of the maze since it changes daily; re-using formats once a month. Thomas notices this and overlays the maps using grease paper in order to discover the route to escape. He also doesn’t kill the griever using the changing maze, instead he throws it off a cliff he found while running. That cliff is actually the exit, but it’s hidden with holograms. He finds the hole in the middle by throwing vines into the hologram until they latch onto the hole in the middle, which tells him where the exit is. Grievers can also be killed simply by turning them off with a switch that is found inside their gelatinous body. The grievers also didn’t spread the flare, they spread a neurotoxin which disabled a memory inhibitor in their brains left by wicked. The same chip also allowed Thomas and Theresa to have a sort of telepathy between them. The last movie was pretty much completely different from the books too; in the books they had these neat teleporters which would basically disassemble your molecules, then reassemble them elsewhere. Of course, someone turned this into a gun and managed to disassemble people’s molecules without telling anything to reassemble them, so it would just turn them to dust. Which added a little bit of threat to the whole scenario. All the immunes escaped the facility through a teleporter and ended up on the island, btw. Not through the quad copter thingo

If you were infected you're saying you'd want to die on the floor coughing out your lungs instead of riding atop a flaming truck into the halls of vahalla?

“Force multiplier” is the most unexpected s replacement for firearm I have heard yet

Immune kids weren't born 15 years after the flare virus started. Kill Order shows Theresa was already born. She was a young kid at that time. I think I remember WICKED coming for Thomas at the very end of that book too. Mary didn't know the cure was Thomas' blood. She thought his blood would be like all the other immunes and freeze the effects of the virus for a couple of months. Newt, in the book, wasn't immune at any time. He was one of the "control" group. Basically WICKED wanted to see if him being around all those immunes would help him build an immunity. There is nothing in the book that suggests that the immune kids will ever loss that immunity.

Really impressed by the level of medical and neurological research that went into this. Even included the fascinating case of Henriette Lacks

2:46 "Universe where chaos reins supreme." An Inquisitor has been dispatched to your location for spreading this vile heresy.

Humanity pulled what I like to call a "Giga Gamer" play and got a victory royale on Plague Inc.

The final movie is so underrated. I think it was really well done and well concluded.

reading the crank palace made me realize how absolutely horrifying the flare actually is. in the movies they kind of gloss over it and make it out to be zombies. and though it's hard because we discovered how scary it is through Newt's thoughts, they probably could have done a better job than they did in the movie.

2000s era young adult novel writing: awful characters, awful story, cool worldbuilding

This is quite a-maze-ing!

More likely it’s because younger brains are able to reroute important functions to non-degraded areas of the brain (neuroplasticity)-but yeah enzyme is probably the film’s version of immunity

I'd like to be with Roanoke during any sort of apocalypse just for the fact that he could identify easily exactly what version of zombies and how to avoid getting infected as well as effective forms of defense

God of Maze Runner universe: Ok I made climate change even worse, now what? Angel: Not create a deadly vir- God of Maze Runner universe: *LETS MAKE A DEADLY VIRUS!*

"Sorry, but I just really hate cancer" Bold statements only on this channel 😤

Maze runner 1 was my favorite movie for years, but ended up forgetting about it for a few years. Good ol nostalgia!

The OG Walton Ghoulgons

Government: We need to eliminate 30% of the population. Me: You people first.

It’s a shame they made the cranks look and act more like zombies then just crazy people in the movie

28:36 I had vertigo once in my life so far and it occurred during the summer of 2016. I honestly don't know what caused it. All I know is that I went to bed fine, and the next day it started immediately from the time I woke up in the morning to the time I went to sleep at night and was gone the next morning. It was a debilitating uncomfortable experience being that disoriented for an entire day for over 12+ hours. I was pretty much confined to laying on the couch in my living room. No matter what position I was in, there was a terrible falling / rolling feeling. Only 1 specific angle being absolutely still provided some relief. Not being able to visually focus and see straight was highly frustrating as my eyes involuntarily rapidly repeatedly scanned from left to right. Every time I tried walk, it felt like this heavy pull of gravity, tipping like a boat on the ocean, causing me to lean into and hang onto walls and doorframes for support, bracing myself. What also sucked was that closing my eyes and trying to nap in the hopes of alleviating symptoms neither worked to reduce my discomfort nor was it even possible to actually rest, causing increased irritability along with more stress and mental fatigue, making me feel even worse. I hope I never experience that misery ever again.

19:03 I had completely forgotten about this part and damn, bro was the Ghoul, before the Ghoul 😂

Patrolling the sun scorched Wastelands almost makes you wish for a Nuclear Winter.

"I don't like bionicle" Roanoke, God forgives. But I do not.

Hey, I'm here as someone who read the books, but translated from English at the time. In the 1st book, when Thomas finds "WCKD" on the walls of the maze, it stands for World Catastrophe Kill Department and it is _pronounced_ as Wicked. In the translation however, using the abrivation of our word for wicked, it gives much more of a hint towards what the organisation does actually. It reads as such: Absolute Destruction - Analisys from Within. The AD referrs to the virus outbreak, whilst analysing from within translates to the maze training, as the scientists monitored what happened to the ones the Crawlers infected, more exactly what happened from _within their brains_ .

25% into your review, I had to stop and comment that you are doing such a good job in recapping the plot. I am reliving once again how amazing the plot and premise of this movie is. 2024 and all I could remember was that there was a solar flare and it caused the virus. You made me remember that the solar flare caused destruction of the earth, and the scientists created the virus as population control, but it all got messed up.

Movie 1: Pretty much by the book. Movie 2: What book?

The virus was way way different in the books, and imo was a lot scarier and cooler

I get the chills when I see a video longer than 30 minutes. You basically replace Netflix for me!

One thing I also noticed about the effects of the solar flare was the amount of sand in the world seemed to increase

"It's kinda like Huger Games or Divergent" You're right, I personally keep confusing The Hunger Games and Divergent with The Maze Runner

1:17 Roenoke: I don't like bionicle Ted Cruz: I'm gonna end this mans career

The most exciting part of this trilogy was when the huge search was underway, and it ends up taking several minutes, and there's this clever red herring. It turns out that actor is Barry Pepper; hes been in lots of stuff. For some reason I thought he was the guy who played Bill from Bill and Ted.

Walton Goggins ghouling it up before dealing with vault dwellers.

They should have called the first movie Maze and the rest just "Runner"

Roanoke's vids always put me to sleep in a good way. I can litterally go to a seminar of him just talking about Bio stuff and not be bored because of his voice and how well he explains things.

"Cancer is a biological peace of shit." Got me rolling.

"The younger, the better" Spanish Flu: Allow me to introduce myself

Normal human being: gun Roanoke: f o r c e m u l t i p l i e r

As a cancer survivor…… I cannot describe how much it suck due to the fact I don’t want to be reported for extreme language.

Roanoke: “The younger, the better” SWAT: “FBI, open up”

I love and hate how different the story gets after the first book. What I didn't like about it was how they made the infected literal zombie sin the movies, but in the book they made them very slowly go insane throughout different phases, and by a certain phase their brains turn to goop and they become mindless flesh thirsty people that can creepily still talk. (I read all three and watched the first 2). Also, the story of W.I.C.K.E.D. and their motives are SOOOO much different than the books. FOr example, the entirety of the scorch trials were actually well, trials made by them in the books, while in the movies it's just an lazy fugitive cliché along with some zombies. *TLDR: In the books the virus drives you insane and makes you blood thirsty, while in the movies it's a zombie hoard virus. Also W.I.C.K.E.D. is much much different.*

Never thought a ghoul could topple a post apocalyptic dictatorship did ya smooth skin? 20:07

It’s amazing how watching these videos gives you information you might receive in a college lecture while at the same time being entertained. I’m taking notes for when a zombie apocalypse happens

Thank you very much for creating this video for us. I’ve only seen the first movie but you do such a great job at breaking down movies so I couldn’t help myself… never thought I’d say this but thank you for the spoilers.

the way they discovered the exit in the book was so much more in depth and interesting. I would very highly recommend it to everyone.

Fun fact: Them crashing the car in the tunnel (18:47) wasn't part of the script. The director didn't want to do the shot again so he just rolled with it.

Correction Roanoke gaming you owe that woman or her cancer cells nit the ells themselves. Moving on I appreciate how even after you sum up the film you go into great detail of the back story as to why these things happen. most other channels sum up the premise and as for the backstory they're like "fxck if I know" and don't even bother trying to dissect the back story. The back story is always trivial and usually interesting and you're channel is awesome because of this.

The movies really should've stuck with the flare virus from the books. It was way more interesting than 'zombies but not actually zombies'. then again the movies could've just followed the books more in general so.

Normally in a movie trilogy the second movie isn't that memorable but in the maze runner it was more than memorable because the basically completely changed the plot

20:09 “What are looking at smooth skin?”

Lmao I had an Airwick commercial for this video and the moment he said “Thomas says..” around 8:40 it immediately cut to a lady whispering ‘Airwick’ enticingly 😂 I said to myself “I don’t remember him saying that at all”

the chase scenes in this movie were so intense and done beautifully.

The architecture of this so called maze is an engineering triumph. I love to meet the person who designed it. Imagine living in ones own constructed maze that change and shifts giving you a surprise every once in a while

Don't know if you've covered it Roanoke. I think seeing you cover the Alien franchise's xenomorph lifecycles from a microbiologists point of view would be really cool. If you read my suggestion, cool video so far, and thanks for reading.

Binge rewatching all my favourite RG videos is definitely a highlight of this freezing day 🥶

How does this video only have 30 likes? I get it’s 2years ago but damn, cover more trilogies!

It's like they actively go out of their way to doom mankind

Fun fact: Roughly 40% of the clips shown in this video are actually just from normal life in 2020

Why is the first choice any scientist in a weird fungus zombie story goes for is 'scoop out the preteens brain and hope it works'?

Maze 2 desert boogaloo has to be the funniest shit I've heard this week

TLDR: Humanity in the Maze Runner series had it coming.

Roanoke should become a Hollywood narrator. I want to see a movie start out with: “The year is 2136 and earth is boned...”

11:00 Those vents are comically large, might as well be a second corridor lol

My first horror movie was The Scorch Trials. I was so little that I'm still scared on zombies.

I love that you did a summary for all 3 movies in one video. This is pretty amazing especially with all the cut scenes too. Keep up the great work!

Imagine not liking bionicle.

The infected guys sacrifice to breach the city was the most bad ass scene in all three movies. Arguably

11:11 that's not actually Teresa hooked up to the machine.

Wait in the *End* the protagnist literally holding the *Cure* and looking at the ship indicating he *will* return to help people

Force multiplier, ended...seems like papa Roanoke tries to avoid big brothers nono words :thinking_emoji:

Actually in the book Denver wasn't the last city, just one of the many surviving ones. What left of humanity had moved towards the arctic by that time

This movie is extra interesting when you look at corona, in the movie they were sacrificing the young genEration to save the older, and during corona they basically did the same albeit not through some crazy brain juice harvesting

Last time I was this early humans still had tails

Two things about this series Firstly they'd have saved themselves a lot of trouble by just wiping out that 30% with death squads viruses are a shortcut and shortcuts backfire. Secondly Teresa got what she deserved although I would prefer she suffered a lot more maybe tortured a bit.

Love how they bring Walter Goggins in the movie,give him a detailed CGI scarred up face and a little backstory only to kill him straight off. 10/10 writing

"Imagine Earth more screwed than it is now." Considering that the past 100 years have been inordinately peaceful that's not hard.

during the recap, don't forget the fact that in the process, surface temperatures in the US were actually sent high enough to literally boil water, as well as causing a tsunami to game end new york, leading to one group fleeing under the city via the subway network, and they learn in the process that the surface temperature has made the water hot enough that if you fall in, you get literally boiled alive.

Mans at 20:04 really lookin like he’s about to say: What’s the matter Smoothskin, never seen a ghoul before?

You plying the Tlou music while explaining the virus makes me want to see a video of yours on that virus. It also confused the hell out of me because I was like, did I click on a video essay on tlou? Wasn’t I just listening to one about maze runner? What’s happening in here?.. :D

Not going to lie, I've been binging this channels videos solely because his summaries of series are exactly what I've always wanted. Doesn't reveal enough to give away the juicy details but only enough to advance the story.