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| “ | Hello, little guy! Welcome to space! | ” |
―Earth, to Astrodude | ||
| “ | Moons should know their place! | ” |
―Earth, to Mars | ||
Earth (ERR-th), initially known as Terra (TAIR-uh), is one of the main protagonists of SolarBalls, and is the third planet from the Sun. He is the only planet known to have life.
Design
New asset
Earth from The Solar System... But it's only the MOONS! has a new asset. The continents are more realistically delimited and now South America and Africa has deserts. Water surrounding continents are lighter blue. Also Earth has shadows in his eyes.
Old Asset
Earth is a blue sphere with green continents and white snow in the North and South Poles. The continents that appear with his face are North and South America, but a small portion of Europe and Africa are also visible. The distance between his eyes and his mouth is mostly the same.
In some episodes, an unknown island is shown off the coast of Iberian Peninsula, its unclear if its an animation error, or it was deliberately placed there. If it was deliberately placed there, it’s likely because of Earth’s ice melting in the The Solar System if it was Alive! arc. Another possibility that they are supposed to be the British Isles. However, in some episodes without the unknown island, the islands do not appear.
After Proto and Theia's crash
Earth after the collision of Proto-Earth and Theia is very similar to Proto's design, albeit being completely red instead. There’s small darker patches around his eyes and mouth and it’s clear the Earth is still cooling down.
Personality
Earth generally has a bright personality. He can be a very welcoming planet, he greeted Astrodude to outer space. However, he was shown to be very insecure, short-tempered and over-dramatic, such as when he tried different methods to replace the Sun and blamed his moon for drifting away despite it being more his fault. The Earth was also a self-centered, obnoxious, and curious planet at times, and didn't treat others with respect. For example, he was rude to Titan and got angry at the fact that a moon could potentially sustain life. As shown in "Venus ALMOST had life!?," Earth was shown to ridicule even other planets like Venus, who thought they almost had life or want to have life.
However, Earth appears to exhibit symptoms of PTSD as a result of the extinction of the dinosaurs. He has some basic knowledge about himself, such as the consequences of his moon getting out of orbit. He also works hard to keep himself habitable to his inhabitants and gets upset when he finds out that humans want to colonize other space objects, specifically Luna, Mars, and Titan. Keeping himself habitable has also put enormous stress and pain on Earth, and the humans do not always return the favor.
The further the episodes unfolded, he seemed to become more and more toxic until he started reflecting in "The Earth Alone - Part 1." Soon Earth started to jump to the most extreme conclusions to where he thinks suicide is the option in "The Earth is heading to the SUN!?," but he was stopped by Mercury and Luna. Both of which managed to convince him to try to be better and apologize.
In the episode "The Earth's Redemption," it was revealed that as much as the humans create messes for him, he does like having them. He just expects them to be a little grateful. Some of the things they do just makes him want to give up and start over but he still has hope for them, even if it's just a little bit. Under the guidance of Mercury, he rediscovered the distinctiveness of each planet and became aware that it's the balance of the whole Solar System that grants him the perfect condition to nourish life. After he apologized for looking down on his moon, Luna forgave him.
After a bitter experience, Earth became more caring and kind towards his friends and his moon after self-improvement, exhibiting great courage. This is shown in "The Moon Revolution - Part 3," where he made up his mind to go to the Asteroid Belt after seeing the severely injured Mars and Venus, and the missing Moon, despite knowing it could be a trap for him. He then apologized to Titan and told him that Titan made him feel less special and how, despite being very tiny in comparison and unable to survive in space, the thing his earthlings wanted most was to explore the moon. He also added that he was wrong about the moons being inferior and not being able to have life. Titan was delighted by Earth's speech and forgave him. In "Search for Planet X - Part 1," when talking with Venus, Earth implied that the feeling of losing a moon could be terrible.
In the episode "What if the planets were ordered by SIZE? - Part 1," Earth can be seen protesting very strongly to the Sun about the negative effects on life in his new orbit. When he settles, he requests and complains to his moon to reflect more sunlight to sustain and maximize the chances of survival for life. This also shows how much Earth cares about his earthlings, despite how they don't seem to care with all the pollution and such.
In "What If the Moon Approached The Earth!? - Part 1," Viewers could tell that Earth still had some ego left, but it was more the right dose for him. He treats Luna much nicer than before, however unintentionally ignores Luna's desire to join the game, telling him to play with other moons.
Earth is also shown to exhibit major symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) such as the fear of abandonment, unstable relationships, unstable self-image, suicidality, mood swings, stress-related psychosis, major symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and probably post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
In "What if the Earth left the Solar System?! - Part 1," he starts going in a trance, desperate to find out who Theia is. He starts hallucinating once again about Theia asking "why", and Proto Earth talking about life, and about how it was impossible to sustain. The hallucinations left Earth in tears, yelling out to them for more information concerning why he even wanted life in the first place. By this point, Earth’s mental state is deteriorating for the second time.
In "Jupiter IS BACK! - Part 2," Earth tried to ask Mars in an attempt to bring him to Jupiter. At this point, a SolarCards game had already begun. Earth, desperate to ask, continues trying to talk to Mars until Mars became irritated and tells him how "he didn't want to play cards anymore," throwing his SolarCards down in visible frustration and leaves. Mercury also starts throwing cards in frustration, along with Venus. Luna, now frustrated, exclaimed that the game was important to him. Earth tries to explain that he is unstable, but Luna started leaving. This leaves Earth alone for the second time, although it doesn’t affect him as much as The Earth Alone arc.
Near the end of "Jupiter IS BACK - Part 3," Earth once again hallucinates about Theia, of which tells him, "Look within yourself, that's where you'll find me." As the hallucination fades away, Earth seems to fall into a trance. Slowly, he drifts towards Jupiter's orbit, remarking how he'll "find Theia" and "the answer to life."
Entering the next episode, "What if the Earth left the Solar System?! - Part 1" Earth is still determined to find the answer to his questions through Jupiter, who is on his way on looking for Uranus who is about to leave. Despite his surface evidently freezing over, his shaking and his visible breath, he passes through the first Asteroid Belt. After his brief encounter with a worried Saturn, he continues on his quest.
Meanwhile, on his surface, it has started snowing, leaving Astrodude's Son and his friend to stop their game. After this brief interlude, Earth is shown, his surface blue with frost and his tremulous body shaking with frost. He once again remarks about his want to know about the mysterious Theia. He once again encounters his hallucination/ghost/memories of Theia and Proto-Earth, seemingly viewing some sort of memory. The memory or hallucination ends up talking about Theia's own desire for life, with Proto seemingly reprimanding her and attempting to give the female planet a wake-up call about how impossible life would be. At the end, the strange ghostly visage was cut off right when it came to Theia explaining her want for life. This leaves Earth crying, heading towards Neptune's orbit and The Kuiper Belt. His surface left in an Ice Age of his own making, coming 50,000 years early.
In "What if the Earth left the Solar System?! - Part 2" Mars and Luna seemingly notice Earth's strange disappearance, going to look for him with the help on Astrodude, his wife, and Saturn. Saturn ends up telling the four about Earth's strange trance, with Mars and Luna figuring out the cause, which was his questions about Life and Theia.
Meanwhile, while Earth moves closer and closer to the Kuiper Belt, his temperature steadily decreases. He ends up passing out, showing symptoms of hypothermia; of which include: slowed breathing, cold skin (blue), shivering, and loss of consciousness. The video ends with him drifting in his unconscious state into the Kuiper Belt, where Pluto's orbit is located.
Trivia
- He is the first planet to talk in the series (excluding The Big Bang Arc).
- By extension, he is also technically the first celestial body to appear in the series, as seen in "The Big Bang - Part 1." However, that was just his surface, not his full body.
- The episode "The Earth is heading to the SUN!?" confirms that Earth feels constant pain due to the activity of his earthlings.
- He is the third character to have his own arc.
- He is the first planet not named after a god nor a goddess. His name derives from the Anglo-Saxon word "erda" [air-DAH] or "eorþe" [eh-or-THEH], which meant ground, soil, or land.
- Planet X is the second, due to him being undiscovered in real life.
- However, at the same time, Earth is often associated with the ancient Greek goddess Gaia.
- Nevertheless, the English name "Earth" overlooks that the planet is also called Terra, named after the Roman goddess of fertility and the ground itself. Many languages use mythological names for our planet, following the same divine naming pattern as other planets.
- He most likely suffers from autophobia (a fear of being left behind), as seen in both "Earth Alone" episodes.
- Oddly enough, Triton has a similar fear.
- The hurricane between his eyes appeared around 66 million years ago when the non-avian dinosaurs died.
- He is one of the first and few characters to have their own plush, the others being Venus, The Moon, Titan, Astrodude, Saturn, Jupiter, Planet X, and The Sun.
- He is the 6th largest celestial object in the Solar System in terms of both radius and mass, making him the largest of the rocky planets.
- He is the densest planet in the Solar System, followed by Mercury, then Venus and then Mars.
- Earth is more massive than all the rocky planets (including their moons) and the asteroid belt combined. He is significantly more massive than Mars and Mercury, and he is 2,000 times more massive than the asteroid belt. (Mars: 0.107 + Venus: 0.815 + Mercury: 0.055 + Luna: 0.012) = ~0.98 Earth masses.
- In "The Solar System if it was Alive!" and in episodes after that, there is a landmass visible near Europe. It's never been explained as to who the landmass is, but given by its location, it appears to be positioned to where the Azores are located.
- Earth is the third fastest planet, orbiting at about 29.80 km/s, falling only behind Mercury and Venus who orbit at about 47.8 and 35.0 km/s respectively.
- Notably, this speed seems to greatly decrease when the Earth experiences cold, something none of the other characters appear to do and likely is because of the high amounts of liquid water on his surface and his residency in the Goldilock's zone.
- This makes him the fifth fastest celestial body in the Solar System, and the fourth fastest canonically shown body, since Jupiter's moons Metis and Adrastea move faster than him (both at about 31 km/s). However, Adrastea is yet to be added.
- This ranking excludes the Sun who orbits the Milky Way's center of mass at 230.5 km/s.
- In the episode How the Earth and Moon Formed it turns out that his first name is Terra.
- When Neptune loses his peculiarity and speaks more normally during the episode What if the planets were ordered By SIZE? - Part 1, he initially addresses the Earth using this name.
- He inherits his name from Proto-Earth, technically making him "Earth Jr."
- In the episode The Earth's Core - Part 2 it also turns out that he and Luna (and technically Dark Side of The Moon) are biological siblings, being children of Proto-Earth and Theia.
- This makes them the first celestial bodies to have biological parents.
- And also makes Earth the youngest planet in the Solar System and even younger than some moons including his moon.
- He can presumably speak other languages, as in the episode What if the MOONS become PLANETS?! - Part 3 he said the phrase "a bit complicated" in Spanish ("Un poquito complicado").
- On the Spanish channel of SolarBalls, Earth speaks in Argentine Spanish.
- In the episode The Solar System's True Scale - Part 3 it turns out that Earth can make so-called "puppy dog" eyes.
External links
- Earth on Wikipedia
