Nigahiga



Nigahiga (real name Ryan Higa) is currently the second most subscribed person on YouTube (behind Ray William Johnson) with over 4 million subscriptions. He has six main video types:


 * His "How to be" guides, all of which were originally taken down because of copyright, but now some of them have been readded. These include "How to be Emo", "How to be Gangster", "How to be Ninja", and, among the still-removed ones, "How to be Nerd" and "How to be UFC Fighter";
 * The Parody Commercials, which take Commercial Tropes to the extreme;
 * His "Off the Pill rants", where he talks about anything that bugs him;
 * "Movies in Minutes", which are movie spoofs in, well, minutes;
 * The "Skitzo" productions, which involve him and three of his personas: R-Dizzle, Hanate, and Regina.
 * And "Dear Ryan", where Ryan humorously answer questions people ask in YouTube comments.

One of his most recent projects was an internet movie he created with Wong Fu Productions called "Agents of Secret Stuff". Tropes exclusively from A.S.S. (teehee) should be placed below examples from the regular videos.

"Hanate: Herro, everyone! My name is Hanate Wakuso Shiseo Tadashite Teriyaki Suzuki Honda Civic!
 * Acting for Two: Ryan acts for four in Skitzo.
 * Adorkable: Oh, so much.
 * Aerith and Bob: A Running Gag in his "How To Be" series.


 * Herro! My name is..."

""Forever AD... oh look, a butterfly.""
 * AI Is a Crapshoot: The iNavigator is not evil in any ways, but it tends to piss the user off by its inefficiencies.
 * All Girls Want Bad Boys: The "Nice Guys" music video by him, Kevjumba, and Chester See, deconstructs this, since the class that Ryan and Kevin take has this in mind, but their dates leave them.
 * And 99 Cents
 * Asian and Nerdy: The personal trainers in "How to Be Nerd", but only because they're played by Ryan and Sean.
 * Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny: Off the Pill rants.
 * Mocked in Forever Alone:

"Ryan: I can't sing so I Auto-Tune myself."
 * Auto-Tune: From "Off the Pill: Rebecca Black (Friday)"

"Yes, yes. That **** look like a two-pay I get what you get in ten years, in eleven years"
 * Bastard Boyfriend: Invoked in "Nice Guys".
 * Bishonen: Yup yuppers.
 * Boastful Rap: Discussed in "Off the Pill: Arrogant People", where Ryan notes that many songs on the market are very self-promoting. He then imagines what "Look at Me Now" would sound like if Chris Brown was modest.

""I know how to be ninja now!""
 * But Wait! There's More!: Often, but especially prominent in the Children's Bop commercial, which came with Puberty Bob, Speech Impediment Stuttering Bop, and a free order of Bi Bim Bap.
 * The Cameo: Ryan's brother made one in his "Off the Pill: Weird People" video, who appeared so quickly and said so little that some mistook him for Ryan himself. Also, New York Knicks Ensemble Darkhorse Jeremy Lin (back then a member of the Golden State Warriors) made a cameo in the "Daily Life of a Basketballer" video. Ryan himself cameoed in Lin's own "How to get into Harvard" video.
 * Catch Phrase: Teehee!
 * Comedic Sociopathy: He and Kevjumba get called out on it by their girlfriends in "Nice Guys".
 * Companion Cube: Ryan's lamps, iron, and, in the earlier videos, his big bouncing inflatable green ball.
 * Continuity Nod: The "How to Be Videos" have hints of this.

"Regina: Oh sure, make the girl character stupid. Ryan: What are you talking about? I have guy characters just as stupid as you Regina: Oh, so now you're calling me stupid?
 * Cluster F-Bomb: One of the steps to being gangster, along with Milking the Giant Cow.
 * Deconstruction: Of Peer Pressure Makes You Evil in "How to be Nerd".
 * Disorganized Outline Speech: According to "Off the Pill: Weird People", if people continue to conform to normality, everyone will gain the power to crawl all over the walls... and Ryan hates spiders.
 * The Ditz/Too Dumb to Live: Regina in the Skitzo videos is the dumbest of the four.
 * Lampshade Hanging on this is both Inverted and Subverted in Off The Pill-Feminists

Ryan: Yes."

"Ryan: And imma beat you... in every competition!"
 * Does This Make Me Look Fat?: Ryan's girlfriend in "Nice Guys" asks him this. She looks great. He answers "yes" anyway.
 * Domestic Abuse: Subverted in "Nice Guys".

"SLOW MOTION WALKING WITH EXPLOSIONS AND NINJAS !"
 * Double Standard: Discussed in "Off the Pill - Feminist", where he especially questions why females consider compliments to their breasts offensive while males don't do the same about compliments to their muscles.
 * Dream Team: As of late he's been doing collaborations with the other Los Angeles YouTube stars, such as KevJumba, Chester See, David Choi, and D-Trix. He is also a part of a group called YTF consisting of himself, Kevin, Chester, Victor Kim, Andrew Garcia, JRA and D-Trix.
 * Everythings Better With Ninjas: "How to be Ninja" and "Ninja Melk" are his most notable examples.
 * Flat What: The buyer in the Big Bouncing Inflatable Green Ball video.
 * Four Equal Payments Of: Get Hook on Foniks, a fourteen dollar value, for thirteen... easy payments of 14.99!
 * Gasshole: The "fatality" in "How to Be Ninja".
 * Gosh Darn It to Heck: In "Like a Good Boy".
 * Hand or Object Underwear: Parodied in the Carl's Jr. New Portobello Mushroom burger ad, where he quickly names all the things the burger can do; "censor-covering" has him with a box containing the burger over each nipple.
 * Ho Yay: Invoked in "Word of the Day: Bromance". Hilarity Ensues.
 * Hong Kong Dub: Parodied in "Daily Life of Ninjahinja".
 * Hypocritical Humor: The entirety of the "Subliminal Messages" video.
 * Also present in the "A Message to all Haters" video.
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja: "How to be Ninja", "Ninja Glare", and "Ninja Melk" stand out, but lots of his other videos have ninjas.
 * IProduct: The iPod Human and the iNavigator.
 * Japanese Ranguage: The personal trainers in "How to be Ninja" speak rather inconsistently this way. This carries into Hanate's appearance on Skitzo. Also counts as N-Word Privileges, since both Ryan and Sean are Japanese.
 * Kiai: The first step to being a Ninja is to make loud, unnecessary sounds when you hit things.
 * The Lancer: KevJumba is this to Ryan, as Kev is somewhat Comically Serious while Ryan is much less serious.
 * Le Parkour: Parodied in "Dear Ryan: Extreme".
 * Man Hug: In "Word of the Day: Bromance".
 * Manly Tears: "Shed a Tear".
 * Martial Arts Do Not Work That Way: Mostly averted in "How to Be Ninja", as Ryan was actually executing some legit judo moves.
 * Milking the Giant Cow: Hand motions are part of the first lesson of being Gangster, along with swearing in every sentence.
 * Master Ching Ching does this in "Ninja Melk" because he's played by Tarynn Nago in a mask.
 * Motor Mouth: Welllooknofurtherthankstothebigbouncinginflatablegreenballyou'llnotevernothaveaballagain!
 * What did he just say?
 * Mr. Fanservice: Click on one of his song parodies, "Like a Good Boy." Read the comments. Drink a glass of water every time you see a comment talking about how hot he is when he takes off his shirt in the video for just a few seconds. You will be spending a LONG time in the bathroom.
 * Nice Guy: Ryan and Kevin in "Nice Guys" start out as this, become jerks, and then go back after realizing girls don't like jerks.
 * Not So Different: Discussed in "Off the Pill: Rebecca Black (Friday)", where Ryan compares Friday to the music that he makes.
 * Now How Much Would You Pay?: Frequently parodied, with something like "That's a $20 value, but we'll give it to you for, no, not $19.99, no, not $14.99, but $42.99!"
 * Odd Name Out: A Running Gag in the early "how to" productions.
 * Oh, Hi There.: "Oh, hi. Didn't see you there."
 * Only Sane Man: Ryan is this in the Skitzo videos.
 * Overly Long Gag: "I like stick, plastic stick, metal stick, tape, stick shaped like tape..."
 * Overly Long Name: The Big Bouncing Inflatable Green Ball.
 * Also, all of Ryan's personas in the "How to Be X" videos, like Hanate Wakuso Shiseo Tadashite Teriyaki Suzuki Honda Civic.
 * Don't forget R-Dizzle-Fo-Shizzle-Ma-Nizzle-Off-Da-Hizzle-Drizzle the gangster and Elitedarklord_dragonslayer_3.14159 the nerd.
 * Perpetual Frowner: Played for Laughs in "How to be Emo".
 * Put on a Bus: Ryan's sidekick, Sean. In "3,000,000 Subscribers" he made a cameo and revealed the reason he hasn't been around a lot was because of his going to college far away.
 * A Running Gag is that Ryan somehow "replaced" him after intentionally putting him on the bus. (This was a joke, and for some reason many people took it seriously...)
 * The rest of Yabo Productions disappeared at some point, including Ryan's ex-girlfriend Tarynn.
 * Poke the Poodle: In "How to be Gangster," there's a sign in the car that says "Never Drink and Drive." Cut to Ryan driving and drinking...a juice pouch.
 * Pretty Fly for a White Guy: "I'm a Chingstah" was meant to be a parody of Asians who try to be Gangsta.
 * Rapid-Fire Comedy: More like More Dakka comedy.
 * Running Gag: The Big Bouncing Inflatable Green Ball shows up a lot.
 * Anything to do with lamps. It's even lampshaded in one of the Skitzo videos.
 * TEEHEE
 * Self-Deprecation: Engages in lots of this in "Skitzo: Reunited" where Ryan's other personas make a "How to be Ryan Higa" video.
 * Shaggy Dog Story: "Dear Ryan: Liar".
 * "Seven AM and I go back to sleep!"
 * Shirtless Scene: Ryan shows off his abs in "Like a Good Boy".
 * Played for Laughs in "Movies in Minutes: Facebook the Movie"
 * Small Name, Big Ego: Discussed in "Off the Pill - Arrogant People".
 * Sound Effect Bleep: Parodied in iNavigator.
 * Stealth Pun: One of Ryan's segments is called "Skitzo", wherein he interacts with other character personalities which are also played by himself. Schizophrenia is a mental illness in which people may experience hearing voices or multiple personalities, and it's sometimes shortened to "Schizo". "Skitzo" and "Schizo" are pronounced the same.
 * Straw Feminist: Regina is made this in "Off the Pill - Feminist".
 * Stylistic Suck: Ryan's done very professional looking videos with the likes of Wong Fu Productions... but he still uses the scraggly wigs from his early stuff for every female character he portrays.
 * Walking Shirtless Scene: "Nice Guys" promotes it.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: "Dear Ryan: Extreme" is this trope incarnate.


 * "Dear Ryan: Epic Meal Time" applies a lot of this too, but as an Affectionate Parody of the titular channel.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?: Emo people always overreact, according to him.
 * Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: The logic used in "How to Be Ninja".
 * A Worldwide Punomenon: "Dear Ryan: Extreme" uses every version and play on the word "kick" Ryan could find.
 * Hell, 70% of the humor is purely from puns.
 * You No Take Candle: Hanate.

Examples From Ryan's Movie "Agents of Secret Stuff"
""It's a man's name!""
 * Action Girl: Taylor, near the end of the Fight Scene.
 * Adorkable: Melvin.
 * All-Star Cast: All stars from YouTube, anyway, were recruited for acting, special effects, and background music.
 * Almost Kiss:  hear rustling in the bush before they meet lips, but quickly kiss before checking out the noise.
 * The Aloner: Taylor is Aden's first and only friend.
 * Apathetic Teacher: Mr. Anderson.
 * Art Shift: The flashbacks are drawn in rough, grayscale cartoon-style.
 * Big Damn Heroes: Agent Tracy.
 * Cassandra Truth: Aden, about his mission.
 * Chekhov's Gunman:  turns out to be
 * Conveniently-Timed Attack From Behind: Agent Tracy.
 * Cool Old Guy: Agent X.
 * Embarrassing First Name: Agent Tracy.


 * Damsel in Distress: Taylor, before.
 * Dance of Romance:
 * Darker and Edgier: The movie shows that Ryan can do some serious acting, too. It still manages to retain his stylistic silliness, though.
 * Dawson Casting: Aden is 17, but Ryan was 20 when the movie was filmed.
 * "Falling in Love" Montage: Aden and Taylor have a lighthearted one where Taylor tries to teach Aden about regular life.
 * Fish Out of Water: The entire premise is about a bred-to-kill spy having to function in a high school setting.
 * Friendless Background: Aden.
 * Fun with Acronyms: An A.S.S. must be given their H.O.L.E. (teehee), and the enemy of the A.S.S.es are the S.I.N.S.
 * Hero Stole My Bike: Aden, in pursuit of . Too bad it didn't have training wheels.
 * Insistent Terminology: It's not a birdie, it's a "shuttlecock"
 * Luke, I Am Your Father: As a rare moment of genre savviness, Aden suspects this to be the big reveal. Cue lampshading of the unlikeliness and Squick.
 * Man Child: Aden has to ride a bike with training wheels.
 * Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Taylor to Aden.
 * No Social Skills: Aden.
 * Oblivious to Love: Aden, when Taylor wants him to ask her to the homecoming dance.
 * Protectorate: Taylor's this to Aden.
 * Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Aden has all the prowess of a superspy, but he can't ride a bike or give high-fives.
 * Socially Awkward Hero: Aden.
 * Take That: The girls in the locker room describe Aden the same way Bella describes Edward, coming to the conclusion that Aden is indeed... a unicorn.
 * Teen Superspy: Aden's supposed to be one, but Ryan Higa is already a young adult.

"TEEHEE!"