Villainpedia: Patches

patches the heyena, trusty patches, patches the spider, unbreakable, patches, lapp.. dont trust this dude... pardon the popping audio in spots, replacing an old mic cable this week.

00:00 - Intro
01:40 - Origins
03:19 - Patches the Hyena
09:40 - Trusty Patches

15:30 - Pate? Wait..
16:04 - Patches the Spider
21:33 - Unbreakable Patches
26:46 - Lapp
31:58 - Closing Thoughts and Outro

#patches#souls#lore#quest#demons#bloodborne

[Ghostcharm]

Pardon the muted audio at 23:13, it was once a JoJo reference using Roundabout by Yes, but the copyright heroes came to claim what was theirs.

[augustday]

The way I like to look at it, Patches is the embodiment of all those player messages saying "treasure ahead, try jumping" on the edge of a cliff. He's a trickster, a troll. And there's a little bit of Patches in all of us.

[Kushrada]

The one thing I love about him is in Darksouls 3 is that when you aid him in remembering who he was is that you can find his sign one last time and summon him to bring down the last vestiges of a church order. Even at the end of the world with nothing left he held that grudge to the last while also helping you. Its just icing on the cake.

[daddybadtouch]

Best patches moment is in elden ring, you can summon him for the rhadan boss fight and while everyone else is dying you can read that patches returned home, he just black crystals out and I think it’s hilarious

[taintsmacker]

Interesting that Spider Patches would say "plain as a pikestaff" when you consider that in his other appearances he would use a pike as his weapon.

[Phhase]

You forgot the most important part: If you fail to get the titanite slab too many times, in what I think is the most unbelievable and hilarious inversion of his character, Lapp will ACTUALLY MAKE GOOD on what he said, and get it for you himself, no problemo.

[MonsterOfFear]

i think it's so weird that patches willingfully makes enemies of undead. Like he knows they will come back, he knows he might make enemies for literal eternity yet he still does it

[popeneiad]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate that this man has outlived multiple gods and survived to the end of the fucking world

[GSWoof]

I love how Patches returns once again in Elden Ring. Still doing the same thing as always. I love it. As one fine meme said... Patches Detected. Betrayal Tolerated and Forgiven.

[cako]

Patches glutes must be fucking adamantium, given he's constantly on a deep squat while carrying a spear and shield.

[Shadow-sword]

Elden patches
“Yo, this iron maiden filled with snakes is actually a teleporter.”
Me
“Haha ya good one old buddy, I’m gona try it just to progress your dialogue cuz your my oldest friend in this series.”
Also me
Visible shock that the iron maiden is actually a teleportation device and patches didn’t lie to my face completely. “Patches ‘sniff’ I love you man”

[towelie]

It makes absolute sense that Patches would befriend Greirat.
Patches hates human greed. While Greirat is a thief, he steals things to support villagers from Undead Settlement, and (according to Patches himself) helped him out in Lothric dungeon. No wonder Patches has a soft spot for him - he even becomes hostile if you murder Greirat!

[sanguinius]

I love how he's called the Hyena both because he's a scavenger and for his laugh

[Billyisyourdad]

Patches is like your old drinking buddy. You're glad to see him, somebody's gonna fall down, maybe you'll fight, but then you're cool again later

[thedomoking]

If you die enough times after Lapp tells you about the treasure he'll actually get the slab for you.

[Avrah]

I love how they manage to give a sense of closure to a character that you should reasonably dislike and in the end when he boots you over the small ledge for the last time it's like his way of saying goodbye. Awesome video.

[Justin-Thyme]

What I love about Patches as a character is that he potentially exposes the weakness of everyone who interacts with him.
In Demon's Soul: he tricks you twice, but both situations are clearly screaming "this is a trap!", but the player will still fall for it because really, are you going to leave a shiny object alone? Hell, in the pit in the Shrine of Storms you find Sage Urban, a holy man on a pilgrimage... who just like you was tricked with the prospect of riches down a hole. What a holy man! Between this and the description of the Talisman of Beast, DeS loves picking on clerics.
In Dark Souls and Bloodborne he uses the same trick once again, and the fact that you keep falling for the same tactic implies a lot about your greed. And again a cleric is exposed as a greedy person tricked by the prospect of riches. In Dark Souls 3 he becomes a bit wittier, but at that point he was kind of a meme anyway.

And in every game, you have the choice of killing him once you get out of the hairy situation he put you in, but really: if you kill him, you're letting out your darkest side, lowering yourself to his level; and if you don't, it's probably because you didn't want to miss out on his wares... which makes you a greedy sort.
There really is no winning with him, and that's why you have to love him.

Ps: we need a spin off game where Patches is your primal quest giver, as he sends you in increasingly deadlier situations in order to kill you, but for you it's the usual RPG progression

[DamienB]

He's no thief... He's just, self employed.

[Yharam]

Aye, he's not a villain, he's just ahead of the curve.

[Codcomedian]

In all of the darksouls games Patches is the only one not to go hollow and lose his mind. Almost all of the NPC's who have a questline in the souls games goes hollow, even Gwyn hollowed but not Patches, never Patches. Patches is the one unstoppable thing in the Dark Souls series.