Obscurus Lupa



Allison 'Obscurus Lupa' Pregler is a (often) red-headed female reviewer who takes on Z-grade movies, usually in the horror or martial arts genre. Basically, she does reviews like The Cinema Snob only in a sophomoric manner. She began reviewing in late 2009 and after gaining some notoriety on their forums, she became a member of the TGWTG family.


 * Obscurus Lupa Presents: Z-movies movies from the early 70's to late 90's. A "Z" movie for Lupa is something that doesn't have the capability or the budget to do something incredible. Not all the movies are bad. Some are terrible.
 * Commercial Dubs: Lupa riffs on stupid commercials from the 90's in her inimitable style.
 * Manic Episodes: Focuses on individual episodes from TV shows, usually of the Big Lipped Alligator variety. As with her movie reviews, Lupa points out inherent issues with the writing, acting and production.
 * Radu Reviews: Christian and Edutainment Show films for, kids reviewed by everybody's favorite vampire, Radu Vladislav. Radu seems to be under the impression that these films are macabre and edgy.

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"Lupa: And when I think of kicking ass and taking names, I think about communication and understanding."
 * Acting for Two /Talking To Herself:
 * During her review of 13 seconds, Lupa plays the demon from the movie who forces her to review Gerry 2: even loster.
 * The beginning of her review of Teenage Sorcery has her acting out how she thinks the conversation between the film-makers went.
 * In for her review of Blood Red Moon, Lupa also plays Jenny Perfect.
 * For Radu Reviews, she simultaneously plays Radu and Michelle, who does nothing but cry hysterically.
 * Actually Pretty Funny: While her review of Two Front Teeth starts off normally, she soon comes around to loving it.
 * Lou Ferrigno, lying in a jail cell with frog makeup on his face, going "ribbit."
 * Adult Child: When the Chick tries to do her analyzing thing, Lupa just farts in her direction.
 * Affectionate Parody: Her fake trailer for Pirahnasaur, a parody of Sci Fi Channel original movies.
 * And "Lupa Tries Windex", a parody of The Cinema Snob's "Brad Tries..."
 * To further the Brad Tries parody, we now have "Allison Eats... (While Phelous Watches)".
 * Her crossover short film Roller Samurai Vampire Slayers can also be seen as this towards Zen film making.
 * "The Top 10 Hottest Animated Dogs!" (Released shortly after The Nostalgia Chick's "Top Ten Hottest Animated Guys".)
 * Alternative Character Interpretation: Invoked.
 * She interprets the gangster from Razor Sharpe Watson and his assistant being gay lovers.
 * She reckons that Billy Drago isn't even an actor, he just wanders on set and people film him.
 * Ambition Is Evil: Parodied in her "Hard to Kill" review, with her acting like a Rich Bitch to her TGWTG forum friends.
 * Angrish: When the film Mindwarp is revealed to have all been a simulation Lupa resorts to sputtering Angrish for several seconds.
 * Her reaction to Return to Frogtown turning out to be a remake.
 * Anvilicious: Comments in-universe that X-treme Fighter plays like an afterschool special about family and understanding.

"Lupa: Thank goodness they stated the exposition to each other. It was seamlessly awkward."
 * She pokes fun of this further by having Batman appear to give a And Knowing Is Half The Battle segment on how Violence solves everything.
 * Anything But That: demanding that she review Phantasm's crappy sequels, or he'll make her....watch Gerry again! "You bastard!"
 * April Fools' Day: Used to review some awful movie called Star Wars: A New Hope, which "fell into rightful obscurity".
 * Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "Well, folks, it's been an amazing journey, this Rothrock-a-thon. We've taken on some poor wire work, some badly-edited imports, and whatever the hell China O'Brian was."
 * Artistic License Biology: She criticises Hard to Kill for having Storm frequently doing things that someone who has been in a coma for nearly a decade should not be able to do. "Medical research, Hard to Kill haz it!"
 * As You Know: Lupa comments on how two characters do this in Witchery.

"Lupa: So long Sonny, we'll always remember you for the asshole you were."
 * Asshole Victim: Her take on Sonny from Lady Dragon 2.

"Lupa: Uh oh here comes Alyssa- the big bad, the head honcho, the big kahuna, the leader of the pure bloods, the terrifying main villain, the ultimate- oh I guess she's dead."
 * Anticlimax Boss: The vampie queen Alyssa from Stakes

"Lupa: (imitating partner) So Joe, what happened to that lady you took in there and where did that duffel bag come from?"
 * Awesome McCoolname: She admits to having no other reason for the name other than she liked it.
 * Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop: In Zombie Nation the antagonist is a serial killer cop, his partner is too stupid to notice.

"Lupa: Country Matters.
 * Bare Your Midriff: Her clothes get reduced to this thanks to 's force lightning.
 * Her American Ninja outfit.
 * In the opening scene of Max Hell Frog warrior.
 * Beat Them At Their Own Game: Oancitizen's insistence that HOOILLIAM SHAXSPAHR is not supposed to have toilet humor in it. Two words for you:

Oan: [beat] Touché."

"Lupa: Send *him* to fight Ludwig!"
 * Beauty Equals Goodness: "Not McDreamy! But...he's so charming and British! Accents make everything sexy, he can't be the killer! Perhaps it was some ugly person!"
 * Berserk Button:
 * Gerry.
 * All Just a Dream endings, which have appeared in numerous films that she has reviewed and which get a different angry reaction each time. She has pointed out that what bothers her the most is how these endings often do not make sense, as they often contradict previous scenes which imply that the movie is taking place in reality. She found this to be a major source of annoyance in 13 seconds, especially since the film included scenes not featuring the character whose dream it supposedly was.
 * Beware the Nice Ones: She is pretty shocked during Lady Dragon when kills a bad guy with one kick.

"Lupa: You were the best of us! ]"
 * With Lupa herself, she's one of the nicer people on the site, but stalk her, not have fun or refuse to be a lady and she'll get scary. And like the apparent majority of people, she thinks making the Critic suffer is loads of fun.
 * Big No: Used in her review of "Razor Sharpe". It was totally Justified.
 * When the Little Miss Gamer lookalike gets wasted in Blood Red Moon.

""How long is this? [looks at running time] 25 minutes? Nooooooooo--""
 * While sitting through Mindwarp, something about the desert landscape reminds her something... [cue shot from Gerry] Lupa lets out a scream.
 * When Sleepy Hollow High is revealed to be just a dream.
 * When she realizes there's an eighth Howling movie.
 * Coupled with a Big OMG while watching We Wish You a Turtle Christmas.

"Lupa: (mock whisper) I'm going to spoil it for you- Cynthia Rothrock kicks people. A LOT!"
 * Shouted this when Toady, the chainsaw-wielding Frog Man, was defeated by Roddy Piper. Realizing he's supposed to be the villain, Lupa half-heartedly follows it up with, " yeeeeesss. "
 * Big Yes: YES! YES!! FROOOOOOOG BAAAAAAANNNNND! :D (Return to Frogtown)
 * Billing Displacement: Her review of "X-treme Fighter" observes that despite Cynthia Rothrock being one of the main stars on the cover, she is only in the film for five minutes.
 * BLAM Episode: The concept of Manic Episodes.
 * Blah Blah Blah: The Corey Haim Translator. "Blah blah blah 90s mannerisms blah blah duuude! Goofy face!"
 * Hell Comes to Frogtown in 4 words: BOOBS BOOBS AWKWARD BOOBS
 * Blooper: Featured during the end credits of the review.
 * Boring Invincible Hero: Cynthia Rothrock in several of her movies.

"Lupa: Rothrock and Norton together again? It must be Tuesday!"
 * Breakout Character: Her impression of Radu from the Subspecies movies has become this.
 * He's got his own series now!
 * Breathless Non-Sequitur: Lupa has a very fast paced editing style, so a lot of the jokes can play out like this.
 * But for Me It Was Tuesday: Semi-invoked in her Rage and Honor review:

"China: This causes dislocation in the shoulder, or the elbow!
 * Calling Your Attacks: Is amused that the title character in China O Brien does this and explains the effects for no reason.

Lupa: (Imitating thug) Who are you talking to?"

""A horse walks into a bar, and the bartender is like, "'Ey, horse, get out of my bar!" And the horse is like, "Neigh", 'cause it's a horse. (beat) And the bartender's like, "I throw you out." (falls silent)"
 * The Cameo:
 * The opening of "Hard to Kill" has cameos by several of her friends and colleagues from the TGWTG forums, including Diamanda Hagan, Audible Underwear of Music Video Theater 3000, Apollo Z. Hack, and Nash of What the Fuck Is Wrong With You?
 * Her (at the time) boyfriend Jeremiah made several cameos in her videos, either as himself or other characters.
 * The Cinema Snob has a cameo at the end of Shark Attack 3, confused why his theme song was used over the end credits. He also provides the narration for the trailer of Pirahnasaur
 * In her review of the third and fourth Phantasm films, Lupa is confronted by
 * At the end of the Birdemic review, The Cinema Snob fights off poorly-animated birds, whilst Todd in The Shadows tries to save her from them . She remarks that, as far as any viewers know, Todd might be black.
 * Todd, along with Paw Dugan and The Nostalgia Chick's friends Elisa (who along with Paw even pops up into frame to scream "CAMEO!") and Nella appear in her crossover with the Chick.
 * Linkara appears to give background on Nick Fury.
 * Phelous (as Shredder) sings "I'll Be Home For Christmas" in its entirety. He carries a tune better than the entire TMNT Chistmas special.
 * Canada, Eh?: While reviewing Teen Sorcery after hearing Michael's pronunciation of "sorry". Lupa, dressed in winter wear, says "I'm definitely not Canadian."
 * Canis Latinicus: In proper Latin, her name should be "Lupa Obscura".
 * Cannot Tell a Joke: Radu needs to work on his material.
 * Cannot Tell a Joke: Radu needs to work on his material.

"Lupa: You couldn't jam a few Christmas lights into a shoe box or something? You had to CGI the controls?"
 * Caption Humor
 * Cat Fight: Lupa vs. The Nostalgia Chick, over Todd in The Shadows (the former loathes him despite of his love, the latter loves him despite of his indifference).
 * Catch Phrase: Radu's "Aw, dahmeet", "Eeehhhh", and "What... a day."
 * Ash's "I'm a [blank] meerical!" and "Aw, you eeshole!"
 * Celebrity Resemblance: Is distracted by the fact the teacher from Blood Red Moon looks a lot like Little Miss Gamer.
 * Clingy MacGuffin: Of a sort. Lupa shirks off reviewing Gooby - only for a duplicate copy to appear, freaking her out.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Tommy Wiseau and Patrick Stewart (as played by Jeremiah) are depicted as such in her reviews of The Room and Masterminds.
 * Cluster F-Bomb: Drops a major one in her cameo in Oancitizen's review of Gerry.
 * Conspicuous CG: The "poor man's Stargate" from Stakes.

""Was she in this? Whoopsie!""
 * Covers Always Lie:
 * She mentions how the man on the cover of Vampire Assassin is not in the movie, nor is the scene depicted on the cover of 13 seconds.
 * She says that the cover of Teen Sorcery, instead of making you think the movie will be better than it is, makes it look terrible in a different way.
 * She also notes that the vampire-y looking fellow on the cover of Blood Red Moon is nowhere in the film.
 * Creator Thumbprint:
 * Oh, she looooooooves Cynthia Rothrock.
 * Werewolves. Which is fitting, considering the whole Lupa part of her name.
 * Kate Hodge of She Wolf of London "fame". And after Lupa gets through her filmography, poor Kate will wish she had stayed anonymous.

"Lupa: So yeah, much to my surprise the bumbling lumber workers lose!"
 * Radu from the Subspecies series was such an awesome character that he's now the star of his own review series (with her portraying him, of course.)
 * Creepy Long Fingers: When acting as Radu from Subspecies in her "Radu Reviews" segments.
 * Crossover:
 * Reviewed The Asylum's Sherlock Holmes with The Cinema Snob and Hercules in New York with Film Brain.
 * Reviewed the unintentionally horrifying children's movie Gooby with Iron Liz, with Iron Liz later roping her into reviewing She Creature with her as payback.
 * Appears as a tokusatsu version of herself in Apollo Z Hack 's Reviewaverse Saga, complete with power-enhancing wrist device.
 * Reviewed Honor and Glory with The Nostalgia Chick as she felt the need to share Cynthia Rothrock with other people.
 * Reviewed Simon Sez with The Nostalgia Critic, despite his attempts to fend her off.
 * Duped Oancitizen into reviewing Hamlet the Vampire Slayer.
 * A review of Bloody Mallory with Sad Panda Q and A, Phelous, Welshy, Chaos D 1, Film Brain, Andrew Dickman and Critical Marine.
 * Crosscast Role: Lupa as Radu, as well as "Adramelak" in 13 seconds.
 * Curb Stomp Battle: Remarks several fights in China O Brien are like this.

"Slovak: I decided to kill her. Decided to take her life.
 * Curse Cut Short: Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation leads to several cases of Lupa going "FUUUUUU --"
 * Dawson Casting: In China O'Brien when Dakota's mother says he is too young to be in the bar, Lupa responds, "So they don't allow anyone under the age of thirty?"
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Department of Redundancy Department: Points this out in Vampire Assassin.

Lupa:' Yeah, that'll be what killing her meant."

"Lupa: So you're jealous of another martial artist who is working on a movie with you and might be slightly better. So you frame him for murder and hire an army of guys to battle him? Don't you think you're over-reacting just a little bit?"
 * Lupa invoked this herself while pointing out a before-they-were-famous Hillary Swank in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She's won Academy Awards and Oscars!
 * In her review of Howling VII she refers to two characters as Inspector Detective and Father Priest.
 * Disproportionate Retribution: She lampshades the absurdity of this trope in Razor Sharpe.

"Lupa: WHAT? Tony gets a car explosion and Cynthia Rothrock gets thrown off a truck? Bullshit! [double take] He's still alive? Double bullshit!""
 * Dissimile: "[The Black Ninja] is like Daredevil, only he's not blind and doesn't have superpowers"
 * Dramatic Reading: The Sylvester Stallone Chaos Pen. Get yours now.
 * Dropped A Bridge On Her: Cynthia Rothrock plays the villain in Fast Getaway I & II. And a disappointingly inept one, all told.

"Welshy: Oh my god! She got another one. Film Brain now is in love with Obscurus Lupa."
 * Dude Magnet: At the very least, she has Todd in The Shadows and Nash's little animated stickman pining after her. Lampshaded in her cameos in the Linkara/Phelous crossover review of The AirZone Solution?, after one tries to get her to recreate a bedroom scene.
 * Also according to Suburban Knights and Welshy's Killjoy review, The Nostalgia Critic, Bennett the Sage, Angry Joe and Welshy also have a thing for her.
 * The opening for Linkara's Rise of Arsenal #3&4 review adds another notch.

"90's Kid: Hey can I do the crossover with you guys?
 * Her crossover review of Simon Sez with The Critic added 90's Kid

Nostalgia Critic: No!

90's Kid: But I wrote a script. Here i'll read it to you: 90's Kid and Lupa make out. No wait, that's my fanfiction. Oh here it is! 90's Kid and Lupa make out!"

"ERod: I wonder why only nerdy goobers are attracted to this girl."
 * The Blockbuster Buster's Nerdlinger faints everytime a poster of Lupa pops up. Even ERod uses this to make Nerdlinger stop interrupting.

"Lupa: Is that really a laughing moment?"
 * Dude, Not Funny: Her in-universe reaction to Johnny laughing at Mark's story in The Room about a woman ending up in a hospital.

"Lupa: RAPE IS NOT FUNNY!"
 * She's also angered about the Black Comedy Rape moments in The Black Ninja.

"Lupa: I don't know how he can go from hysterical screaming to naive forgiveness without changing his facial expression, but somehow, Tommy Wiseau manages to do it."
 * Dull Surprise: Jeremiah.
 * In her review of The Room, starring writer/director Tommy Wiseau:

"Character: I know that look.
 * She remarks that Ron Hall, the actor/director/writer of Vampire Assassin, has one facial expression.

Lupa: It's like every other look you've given, cold and emotionless."

"Ed: Hehe,"
 * Dyeing for Your Art: Lupa is a natural blonde, but has had red hair for the majority of her series. When she released her commentary for Undefeatable, her first video review, she explained that she has been changing her hair color regularly for most of her life, and that her first few videos (Including Undefeatable) caught her at a rare moment when she had returned to her natural color.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Invoked.
 * She says that the woman in Zombie Nation who inexplicably delivers a Cluster F-Bomb because Joe Singer refuses to sell her a sofa is her favorite character in the film.
 * She also remarks the father figure in Vampire Assassin is the best actor, and is annoyed he only has two scenes. (And with good reason: He's Dolemite!!)
 * In the same movie she says the random guy in the police line up who helps the hero out is a better protagonist and fighter than the lead and wishes he was the hero instead.
 * In The Howling VII she's far, far more enamored with one of the townsfolk named Pappy than she is with any of the main characters.
 * Everyone Is Related: Fresh off the revaluation that the Police Chief is the father of Undefeatable's male leads (at least according to Godfrey Ho's Chinese dub), Ed Glaser pops up to reveal that he's Lupa's long-lost brother.

"Lupa: Hey look, dramatically convenient rain."
 * Everything's Better With Dinosaurs: She admits that, for all the insanity of the episode "Cyberwoman" from Torchwood, a cyborg woman fighting a pterodactyl is pretty cool.
 * Every Car Is a Pinto: She notices during Lady Dragon 2 in the car chase scene Diego's car explodes twice and he still survives.
 * "Everybody Laughs" Ending: Lupa splices in clips of various Laughing Mad sequences (including Bruce Campbell!) to make light of how little sense Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3's ending makes.
 * Undefeatable has one. What bugs Lupa is that it happens when the group of characters are at the grave of the heroine's dead sister.
 * Shark Attack 3 had a standard laughing ending, prompting Lupa to start playing "Believe It Or Not" over the credits.
 * Eyepatch of Power: Worn while reviewing Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD. When in Rome...
 * Face Palm: Lou Ferrigno stumbling around sleepily, lying down, and then being held up by a gun-toting frog. Who goes RIBBIT. (cut to Lupa burying her face in her hands)
 * Fan Disservice: Her opinion on a mud wrestling scene in Lady Dragon "I'm glad you picked the most unattractive people for that."
 * Seems to have this reaction to most nudity and sex in the movies she reviews, actually.
 * Fan Service:
 * Lupa strips down to a sports bra for her battle with at the end of her series of Phantasm reviews.
 * Fate Worse Than Death: Lupa traps in Gerry.
 * Fauxshadow: Points out in The Howling reboot once lines have been revealed as fauxshadowing, there needs to be another reason why the characters would have said them.
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Fight Scene Failure: In-universe.
 * Another issue she has with Razor Sharpe, particularly as it was made to show off the star's fighting abilities. It gets to the point where Lupa declares she can choreograph a better fight scene, we then cut to her and her friends fighting with toy guns set to Ghost Love Score.
 * She also points out in Undefeatable that several kicks and punches obviously don't make contact.
 * During the poorly staged fights in Blood Red Moon she takes to singing "fail" to the tune of eine kleine nachtmusik.
 * Film Felons: She was thoroughly unimpressed by the application of this trope in Razor Sharpe, pointing out that Sharpe should really have been more suspicious of the fact that the "film" he was in lacked a script, rehearsals and really almost everything you need to make a film.
 * Flat What: Does one in the "Fatal Deviation" review, when confronted with a naked, cowboy-hat wearing man, taking a bath outside. She has no comprehension of who he is or why he is in the movie.
 * Follow the Leader:
 * Remarks that Teen Sorcery is an attempt to ride on the coat-tails of The Craft, but instead of tackling issues like corruption and abuse of power, they decided to make it kid friendly.
 * Points out that Vampire Assassin is so much of a Blade rip-off even the poster is a knock off of the one for Blade 2.
 * Foreshadowing: Is annoyed by it frequently happening in The Fly II.
 * Forgotten Fallen Friend: Billy, Jake's partner of eight years in Stakes, is forgotten about pretty quickly.
 * For the Evulz: The only reason she can think of why the Corrupt Hick in China O Brien keeps a woman tied to a bed.
 * Formally-Named Pet: The Heteronormative Crusader's pet cat in Ben & Arthur. "Did you here that, Mr. McFluffycross? He wants to go to college!"
 * Freudian Excuse: Notices this in both Undefeatable and Zombie Nation to which she remarks, "Not another antagonist with mommy issues."
 * Funny Background Event: The "cat salute" in the Blood Red Moon review
 * Gag Dub: Trailer Dubs and where she redubs the voices and sound effects of the trailers for obscure b-movies. Later followed by Commercial Dubs.
 * Genki Girl: Lupa seems to love dearly every bad movie she reviews.
 * Exaggerated in the Honor and Glory review, to contrast with The Nostalgia Chick.
 * The exception comes for the movies she really tears into, like 13 Seconds and Pocket Ninjas.
 * Gibberish of Love: Todd in The Shadows screws up yet another attempt to ask her out in her Honor and Glory review with The Nostalgia Chick.
 * Girly Run: "If your villain runs like a sissy, you probably need a casting change."
 * Good Times Montage: Lupa shares some girl bonding time with Cythia Rothrock -- sort of. Actually, she spends the montage chatting and prancing around with a bunch of Rothrock DVDs. (A Seagal film somehow slips into the pile, but Lupa throws it away.)
 * Gosh Darn It to Heck: "Oh, horse hooey!"
 * Gray Rain of Depression: Used in Lady Dragon.

""HAHAHAHA go fuck yourself.""
 * Ha Ha Ha No: Her reaction to Pocket Ninja's attempts at 'humor'. Before long, Lupa's chuckles have devolved into sobs.
 * The hip-shaking karate mooks in X-Treme Fighter wear out their welcome fast.
 * Return to Frogtown's "Everybody Laughs" Ending.

"Oan: Only I get to say "huzzah.""
 * Hard Work Montage: Upon hearing China O Brien will be running for sheriff Lupa declares "You know what that means. A hardcore campaigning montage!"
 * Heh, Heh, You Said "X": The American Ninja sequels, starting with #2! "Heh, number two."
 * Heroic BSOD: During the American Ninja reviews, Lupa makes a running gag of dubbing humerous music over the fight scenes. American Ninja 4 however is so bad that the last fight scene is accompanied by, rather than music, Lupa sobbing.
 * Hey That's My Line: Lupa mimicking Oan's "Huzzah!"

"Lupa: That's got to be the most humiliating thing. You spend your whole life training to be a ninja and what do they hire you for? To hold the flag."
 * Highly-Visible Ninja: She is amused that in Gymkata there are ninjas whose only purpose is to hold the flags during The Game.

"Sally: I'm studying for my second phD.
 * Hilarious Outtakes: Usually occur before The Stinger.
 * The Nostalgia Chick's musical review of Les Misérables features Lupa and Elisa singing Marius and Cosette's romantic duet in "One Day More", as deliberate baiting of TGWTG's Slash Fic-writing fans.
 * Her fangirling over Cynthia Rothrock probably deserves a mention, too.
 * When reviewing Fast Getaway, she interprets the relationship between Nelson and his dad a little differently than the filmmakers intended.
 * Hollywood Nerd / Hot Scientist: X-treme Fighter has Cynthia Rothrock playing a computer scientist.

Lupa: Hoo hoo, it's still funny."

"Lupa: Yeah, because if you tint everything blue makes it night time. Clearly."
 * Hollywood Darkness: She is pretty critical about Blood Red Moon's attempt at this.

"[Flashback Cut to Lupa sobbing with a mouthful of chips]
 * Hopeless With Tech: Radu. "Michelle! Show me how to Google!"
 * Hot Chick in A Badass Suit: She wears a suit during her review of Angel of Fury and has dressed as The Cinema Snob on two different occasions.
 * Also in the Nick Fury review, where she's dressed up as... Nick Fury. Plus an eyepatch.
 * Human Shield: Takes Nella hostage when the Nostalgia Chick tries to murder her with a butter knife. Nella's shocked at her "rudeness", and Lupa immediately apologizes.
 * Hypocrisy Nod: Why does Cynthia Rothrock warrant such attention? Well, she has five blackbelts, she's the inspiration for Sonya Blade, she kicks ass, and she didn't need to take her clothes off to--[buzzer noise] DAMN IT, GOOGLE, STOP PROVING ME WRONG!
 * Hypocritical Humour: She pokes fun of Zombie Nation for using the headshots of the actresses during a news segment. Immediately afterwards, her own headshot appears on screen.
 * It turns out her review of 13 seconds is
 * Laughing at Kate Hodge getting jilted over the phone and swigging wine. "What a loser!" Lupa then proceeds to swig wine and frown at her phone while "The Lonely Man" plays.
 * Oan snidely asks if she has Buffy memorized down to the last detail. Lupa nonchalantly replies that she saw "a bit of it."

Lupa: ANNNNNGELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!'''"

""Eww! You actually thought that? No, it's the fucking dog you weirdo. I can't even ... I'm scared to continue with this list now; I feel like a bunch of perverts are watching.""
 * She does a list of "The Top 10 Hottest Animated Dogs", but acts sickened at people who find the mice from The Great Mouse Detective to be attractive.

""The Bloodstone is mine!" (SPLORK!)
 * Radu scoffs at Super Christian for still living with his mother, only to be shouted at by his own "mommy" (also the show's producer).
 * He then complains about the sequel, which shows the first Super Christian playing on a film projector. "They're riffing they're own movie? Who the hell does that?" (cut to Radu watching Subspecies)

Radu: Hah! Stefan, what an idiot! Heh heh! That is classic Radu."

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"Slovak: Fate and destiny are but two sides of a worthless coin that should be given to a baker on skid row!
 * I Know Karate: The number of people in Undefeatable that turn out to know martial arts leads Lupa to declare she would not be surprised if it turned out a kid in a grocery store scene turned out to know karate too.
 * I Remember It Like It Was Yesterday: She begins her tenth episode saying it feels like only four months ago when she started. This is followed by a montage of her previous reviews. Subverted when Apollo Z Hack phones to point out ten episodes is not a big achievement, particularly when The Nostalgia Critic did a hundred episodes.
 * Ice Cream Koan: She was extremely confused by the bizarre ramblings about "fate and destiny" delivered by the villain of Vampire Assassin.

Lupa: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?"

"Lupa: Like, thirty automatic guns can't hit one person?"
 * Incredibly Lame Pun: Upon seeing a bowl of human fingers in Alien Apocalypse Lupa cheerfully says "Finger food!"
 * Inelegant Blubbering
 * Inherently Funny Words: "Squiddelydoo"
 * Invincible Hero: Notes the whole cast of China O'Brien is more than able to fight a few hicks.
 * Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy:
 * Crops up in Lady Dragon.

"Lupa: Her election party, however, is interrupted by a shooter who really hates party decorations and pickle jars. Maybe it would help if he aimed at the people."
 * During one gun fight in Angel of Fury she gets annoyed and snaps "Somebody get hit!"
 * Averted in Hard to Kill, "Unfortunately for Storm the dirty cops hired the only lackies who could aim."
 * Also used in China O'Brien, where a stream of bullets hits just one person offscreen.

"Lupa: Haha! I guess Liz has faded out of existence, then."
 * Infant Immortality:
 * Played straight in Witchery much to her annoyance.
 * Averted in Angel of Fury but done in such a narmtastic way she giggles nonstop.
 * Inferred Holocaust: Vampegeddon has its heroine, Liz, get possessed by the ghost of the (male) vampire hunter Longshank. At the end of the film, she's still being possessed, and it's implied it's a permanent effect.

"Lupa: I hope he doesn't betray her predictably later on and she repeats that line back to him thus making it ironic. he does."
 * Insult to Rocks: She says that The Room is this generation's Troll 2, but that would be a disservice to Troll 2.
 * On that note, Ben & Arthur is viewed by some as the gay counterpart to The Room. "But at least The Room was filmed decently."
 * Ironic Echo: She spots this trope a mile off in Lady Dragon.

"Lupa: (In case you missed the double entendre, the stick is his penis.)"
 * Ironic Hell: blows up Lupa's car, exiling her to Reviewer Limbo.
 * She later gets revenge by trapping him in Gerry.
 * It Got Worse: "Augh!! Splinter's worse! SPLINTER'S WOOOOORSE!"
 * It Will Never Catch On: "But whoever heard of a musical set in high school being a success? Am I right?"
 * Just a Stupid Accent: Shark Attack 3 is set Mexico "where everyone speaks English, but with a slight accent".
 * Jump Cut:
 * She mocks the number of times this is used in Lady Dragon.
 * She also does this herself in her review of Undefeatable.
 * Kaleidoscope Hair: The commentary for Undefeatable explained that she had been changing her hair color regularly for most of her life, and that her first few videos (including Undefeatable) caught her at a rare moment when she had returned to her natural color.
 * Lampshaded Double Entendre: Corey Haim teaching a girl how to drive stick. "It's kinda like this, it's in an' out, in and..."

"Lupa: It doesn't have to make sense! It's a Cynthia Rothrock movie."
 * Layman's Terms: Erotic Thriller, "which is just Fancypants talk for 'thin plot revolved around boobs but classier than porn."
 * Leave the Camera Running: A few scenes in Teen Sorcery go like this, which makes Lupa agitated and yell "This is awkward!"
 * Lip Lock: She lampshades this being an issue withAngel of Fury as it was recorded with no sound.
 * Limited Sound Effects:
 * During Gymkata she notes all the punches sound like gunshots.
 * Lupa wonders why Blood Red Moon uses the same slashing sound effect for every vampire attack, even though a blade is never used in any scene.
 * Limited Wardrobe: The characters in Blood Red Moon also appear to wear the same outfits for days on end.
 * Love Triangle: Kinda, as everyone is abhorred by the person in the receiving end... The Nostalgia Chick --> Todd in The Shadows --> Lupa. A bit of Reality Subtext, as the Chick and Todd are dating in Real Life.
 * Magical Native American: Refers to Dakota from China O Brien as Helpful Magical Native American Stereotype.
 * Made of Explodium: in Lady Dragon 2 blows up for no apparent reason.

""But before that, he had Desire!""
 * The Rule of Rothrock also applies to Fast Getaway 2. Do clothes washers explode in real life?
 * Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: While girlier than The Nostalgia Chick who also has this dynamic with the Critic, she's the masculine girl to Critic's feminine boy in both Suburban Knights and their crossover.
 * Massive Multiplayer Crossover: A Day In The Life of Tommy Wiseau has multiple contributors from TGWTG (Doug Walker, The Cinema Snob, Phelous, Linkara and Todd in The Shadows) appearing as multiple versions of Tommy Wiseau. (Todd just imitates him... while everyone else has a Wiseau wig!)
 * Meaningful Name:
 * Lupa's name is an aversion, as she explained that her name does not mean she only does obscure movies, it is Latin for "Dark She-Wolf" (Explanation here. Basically, her name should've been obscura lupa). It is rather unfortunate, though, that lupa was also Latin slang for "prostitute".
 * She sarcastically goes "subtle movie" during her Teen Sorcery review when we find out the love interest's surname is Charming.
 * Meganekko: Lupa sports glasses in her Hell Comes to Frogtown video. Muy bien.
 * Men Are Uncultured: Inverted in her crossover review of Hamlet the Vampire Slayer with Oancitizen. She's excited about the vampire drama and poop jokes while Kyle panics over what's been done to Shakespeare.
 * Metaphorgotten: Use when describing the plot of The Black Ninja: "The plot goes like so: it's Daredevil, but he isn't blind, and doesn't have superpowers. Yep. That's it."
 * Milking the Giant Cow: "Yes! Yes!! Robo Vampire LIIIIIIIIIIVES!"
 * Moment Killer: Qualifies even if it's not a romantic moment. Lupa and Film Brain decide to part ways when after the review is finished
 * In another non-romantic moment, Lupa the Nostalgia Chick are friendly after watching Hope And Glory together, until Todd appears and Lupa's stinging rejection of him causes the Chick to attack her.
 * Mook Chivalry:
 * Points out that in one fight scene in China O'Brien, the Mooks are kind enough to fight Richard Norton's character one at a time.
 * In the Fatal Deviation review she explains, naming the trope, that the bar parons need to remember their manners and attack one at a time.
 * My Friends and Zoidberg: The credits to her crossover review with the Nostalgia Chick include "Special thanks to Nella, Elisa and Paw. (Oh, and Todd in The Shadows, whatever)."
 * Name McAdjective: Refers to characters in Witchery as Whorey McArchitect and Captain McMustardstain.
 * She calls one of the astronauts from Alien Apocalypse Whiny McWhinypants
 * Fatal Deviation's hero, Jimmy Bennett (played by James Bennett), might have benefited from a more creative name. Like "Paddy McLightning", or 'Fisticuffs McHoulahan".
 * British McBrittyton, whom you might remember from Eastenders.

""I'm sorry, it was low-hanging fruit, I had to do it!! I'm nothing but a hack!!""
 * Kyle MacLachlan's replacement in The Hidden 2 doesn't endear himself to Lupa. MacFucklan. MacWeenie. MacGeeklan.
 * Narm Charm: Often invoked, as she'll conclude that a film had nonsensical writing, laughable effects and silly acting, which is exactly why it's so entertaining.
 * Nightmare Fuel: Lupa and Iron Liz's in-universe reaction to the "children's" movie Gooby.
 * Non Actor Vehicle: Gymkata is such a film which prompts Lupa to state, "Just because you're an athlete doesn't mean you're an actor."
 * She's reviewed a slew of these, including City Dragon, Razor Sharpe and Vampire Assassin. Cynthia Rothrock started out this way too, but has at least made a career out of it.
 * Not Even Bothering With the Accent: "Oh ho Richard Norton, we meet again. You're not going to try to pull off an American accent? Not even just a little? You're just the random Australian guy again?"
 * Not Making This Up Disclaimer: She stresses that yes, a setting that is clearly a warehouse is meant to be a police station in Zombie Nation.
 * Yes, the father from Bloody Mary Killer is infamous fim producer Godfrey Ho.
 * Obligatory Joke:
 * "Lets sink our teeth into Stakes!
 * No review of a Roddy Piper flick is complete without "And I'm all out of bubblegum."
 * Lou Ferrigno...in green makeup. This won't end well.

"Lupa: I'm squirrely and greasy, why don't you trust me?"
 * Off-the-Shelf FX: Much to Lupa's disbelief, a Game Cube is used as a prop in a science lab in X-treme Fighter. Even worse, the virtual reality helmet is a bicycle helmet with Christmas lights on it. This prompts her to apologize to Stakes for making fun of their CGI.
 * Also, in Hercules in New York Film Brain points out the crystal ball is "the clearest fish bowl the props crew could find".
 * Obviously Evil:The corporate execs in Shark Attack 3 "Buh, ha ha, it's great being evil money grabbing douchebags!"
 * Jokes about this with one character from Angel of Fury.

"Lupa: Come on, the mullet alone should have tipped you off lady."
 * Ode to Joy: Plays in The Howling 7 in celebration of finally -- finally! -- glimpsing some actual, non-recycled werewolf footage.
 * Lady Dragon 2's final fight montage. Partly used to commemorate Rothrock's and Norton's last hurrah, but mostly to rejoice in the Plucky Comic Relief getting beat up.
 * One of Us: Has used the term Mook Chivalry and explained that Lex Luthor once stole forty cakes. That is as many as four tens. And That's Terrible.
 * She uses several trope names in her reviews.
 * One-Woman Wail: The Stallone Chaos Montegrippa Pen™.
 * Plays again when Ed Glaser reveals he's Lupa's brother. What follows are over-the-top Reaction Shots of Lupa (including one which looks like a oh face).
 * Only One Name: Remarks that Dakota from China O Brien has only one name- like Cher or Madonna.
 * Our Vampires Are Different: Vampire Assassin presents vampires who shoot lightning when they are staked.
 * "Oh yeah, I forgot about the part of vampire mythology where they always keep clubs from the 1980s in the basement."
 * Our Zombies Are Different: The zombies in Zombie Nation look relatively normal, talk and can drive cars. What bugs Lupa is that the cover depicts a stereotypical decaying zombie.
 * Overly Narrow Superlative: "So anyone who wanted to see William Shatner's daughter naked: You're welcome."
 * Paper-Thin Disguise:
 * In Undefeatable she scoffs at Stingray disguising himself as "the beefest doctor of all time" and the psychologist falling for it.


 * Lupa is underwhelmed that in Lady Dragon 2 all Cynthia Rothrock has to do is put on an unconvincing wig for the people who assaulted her earlier in the film not to recognize her.
 * Pass the Popcorn
 * Pet Peeve Trope: She's reviewed three movies so far that ended as All Just a Dream. Every one prompted am in-universe rant about this.
 * Physics Goof: A Running Gag in the China O'Brien review is "pretty sure it doesn't work like that".
 * Pieta Plagiarism: Occurs in the aforementioned 'epic battle' her and her friends have during Razor Sharpe
 * Power Trio: Jokes about this in 13 seconds with their fake band- when a CD cover of them appear she captions it with "badboy, sensitive and misunderstood".
 * Pretty Fly for A White Guy: Radu's attempt at rapping. "Word to your mothers! Or fathers. ...Legal guardians. ...Eeyeehh."
 * "Previously On..."
 * Primal Scene: Describes Cynthia Rothrock's nude scenes in Sworn To Justice as like walking in on your parents doing it.
 * Promoted Fangirl: Lupa was one of the more prominent members of the TGWTG forums before being signed.
 * Punctuated for Emphasis: WEREWOLVES! DO NOT! WORK THAT WAY!

Q-Z
"(Lupa as) Mook: I only have one week till retirement! [Gets shot] Oh, the irony!"
 * Quip to Black: After a particularly bad one in Hard to Kill she even inserts the CSI: Miami intro.
 * Rape As Drama: Happens to in Lady Dragon, and almost afterwards it cuts to shots of swimwear and cleavage, which makes Lupa wonder if it was supposed to be appealing.
 * Reading Is Cool Aesop: In Magic Island.
 * Reaching Between the Lines: Throws the Gooby DVD at Iron Liz in an attempt to get rid of it.
 * Real Song Theme Tune: The Supernaturals' Smile is one for Manic Episodes.
 * Radu Reviews opens with "I'm Walking on Sunshine"
 * Redheaded Hero:
 * Retirony: Invoked in her Trailer Dub of Nemesis (Not the Star Trek movie).

""I got the results of the test back, I definitely just pooped myself.""
 * Romance On the Set: Currently dating Phelous.
 * Rooting for The Empire: Lupa finds herself siding with the mutant frogs in the Frogtown series.
 * Radu naturally does this with every film.
 * Rouge Angles of Satin: The DVD packaging of Blood Red Moon advertises "behind the sceens" extras.
 * Running Gag: ♪ Iiiiiiit's Pointless Padding Scene Time! ♪ *bing!*
 * A variation happens in The Black Ninja. "It's Pointless Rape Scene Time!"
 * "I must say!" / "Ooh heavens!" whenever an actor runs in a bizarre pattern.
 * In her review of The Room every time Claudette appears she gives a variation of the breast cancer line.

"Snob: What the fuck was that?!"
 * Almost every time slow-motion is used in a film, she begins to speak in slow motion as well.
 * She adds the montage song from Lady Dragon whenever there is, well, a montage. She does not seem very fond of it ("I got the courage to FAH-EEET!").
 * "...Da (villain)!" *ominous music sting* *extreme zoom-in* (Misaimed on the side of her mouth.)
 * "There won't be another ____ for months."
 * As noted, the *extreme zoom-in* with a blaring music sting is also used specifically for bad ie: obvious plot twists; two in succession in her latest review - a crossover with The Cinema Snob prompted him to Lampshade Hanging appropriately -

"Jack: Brad! Brad!
 * Whenever there's a particularly cringeworthy one-liner, she cuts to the intro of CSI: Miami.
 * For one-liners that make absolutely no sense, there's the Seinfeld Shrug Take.
 * Patriotic montage songs for each of the American Ninja movies. Except 4. "You don't get one."
 * Sarcasm Failure: After the hero of Gymkata accidentally kicks a random pedestrian in the face while swinging from a bar, she giggles and says "I have no words."
 * Sarcasm Mode: "And we all know bad quality makes reading subtitles a breeze!" in the Bloody Mary Killer review.
 * A whole episode in which she shows how Cool As Ice is better than Citizen Kane.
 * Sarcastic Clapping: "Werewolf actually killed someone in a werewolf movie?" [cue standing ovation]
 * Say My Name: SEAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!!
 * Pokes fun at Jack's tendency to say Brad's name all the time in X-treme Fighter

Lupa: Brad! Brad! Do you hear me Brad? Brad! Your name is Brad!"

"Lupa: The ironic thing about going to a gaming convention when you are not a gamer is going to a gaming convention when you are not a gamer."
 * Self-Deprecation:
 * She remarks Pterodactyl is as stupid as someone bitching about the continuity in a film then getting the facts wrong themselves. She then looks away sheepishly.
 * During the opening moments of Razor Sharpe Lupa apologizes, thinking she put in one of her old theatre tapes by accident.
 * In her intro to her review of one of the later Cynthia Rothrock movies she showed a clip of her review of Lady Dragon and then remarks that it needed work.
 * Sexophone: Pointed out in her Hard To Kill review: "CUE SEXY SAXOPHONE MUSIC". Later it is played again, and Lupa questions why it is being used there - when the main character is being told that a nurse has been killed.
 * Shaped Like Itself: While talking about her experience at MAGfest.

"Lupa: Wow, this movie has all the wit and charm of something without wit and charm."
 * During her Teen Sorcery review:

""This scene is erotically thrilling!""
 * A running gag in Desire, which bills itself as an 'erotic thriller'.

": [scribbles lyrics] This movie's gonna make me!"
 * Shout-Out: Now has its own page.
 * Slasher Smile: It can get just a tad creepy sometimes.
 * Slow No: Her reaction to Sleepy Hollow High's "Fuck You" ending. All Just a Dream? Lupa is disappoint.
 * Smash Cut: "Oh yeah, I almost forgot the one lyric of The Black Ninja's theme song. *scoffs* I'd like to meet the genius who came up with that."

""It's a perfect time for the squiddly-doos to attackiddly-doo!""
 * SMURFING: The squiddly-doos. (The Hidden 2)

"Lupa: I hope nothing bad happens like you getting gunned down, that would be the worst time for that to happen."
 * So Bad It's Good: Generally the films she reviews are Guilty Pleasures. She feels the same about Torchwood, where she says it's more bad than good, but that's why she likes it. She's also a fan of Twilight for similar reasons.
 * So Happy Together: The main character of Lady Dragon on her wedding day.

"Lupa: Yeah... James Benett apparently thought that pop songs are what gets the blood boiling for us action fans. Get used to this hilariously inappropriate soundtrack."
 * Something Completely Different: She did a series of three Manic Episode videos as a recap of the series She Wolf of London, with her going into details of what she liked and did not like about the series as a whole. After that she did a video detailing the Top 10 moments of Tales of the Gold Monkey.
 * Soundtrack Dissonance: She is really good at putting rather hilarious soundtracks to scenes in some of the movies she reviews.
 * For Vampire Assassin, she played the "Sad Walking Away Music" from the old Incredible Hulk show when "Vampire Hulk" gets staked.
 * For Razor Sharpe she dubs the Pina Colada song over the final fight sequence
 * Although she is puzzled during Zombie nation in scenes of the zombies mutilating people the soundtrack is upbeat, europop music.
 * She remarks the underwater fight scene in Lady Dragon appears to be set to elevator music, and in the sequel she states maybe they should not have used synthesizer trumpets during a fight scene.
 * She notes that Fatal Deviation has this throughout the film... and then proceeds to add hilariously inappropriate music anyway.

"Lupa: What is this, Flowers in the attic?"
 * In The Fly II, Martinfly breaking into a company and killing people in gross ways is accompanied by R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly".
 * Her Radu Reviews show uses I'm walking on sunshine as theme music, set to all the gory deaths (including by sunlight) the vampire Radu suffered in his movie series.
 * Special Effects Evolution: Lupa's death by car bomb. The 'explosion' varies in cheesiness between each video.
 * Special Effect Failure: In-universe.
 * In Shark Attack 3: Megalodon the footage of the shark attacking people is so bad it prompts her to laugh out loud, particularly as they keep recycling the same shot.
 * The puppet work in Pterodactyl, to the point she inserts the footage into the title sequence of Dinosaurs
 * In Vampire Assassin she quips, "You know things are great when you open on a photostill."
 * More like Prop Failure, but in Razor Sharpe, she points out that the hero's girlfriend's gravestone moves when he puts his hand on it. And also that it has someone else's name on it.
 * Birdemic. See that page for an explanation.
 * Spider Sense: "My Bad Movie Sense is tingling."
 * Split Screen: Lupa's reaction shots.
 * Spoof Aesop: "Personally, I'm of the mindset that anyone who claims to able to smell your lack of underwear should be avoided at all costs, serial killer or no."
 * Radu Reviews a movie about traffic safety. "These animations and musical numbers help me remember these easy steps! Now I, too, can murder people on the highway!"
 * Squick: Invoked.
 * Like many, she was horrified by the shot of Tommy Wiseau's naked ass in The Room
 * She's squicked by the awkward sex scene in Razor Sharpe
 * She's grossed out in X-treme Fighter that the computer programme designed by Jack's father begins hitting on him.

"Lupa: At least Edward Cullen stood more than six feet away when he was stalking someone."
 * She finds it a little creepy that Cynthia Rothrock's character in Angel of Fury befriending a girl named Sarah. She cut to a picture of Chris Hansen saying "Ok boys I'm going in." Complete with a caption saying Paedo Hunt.
 * Stalking Is Love: Blood Red Moon being a Twilight knock-off features this.

"Jonathan: Morning princess.
 * Standard Snippet: At least twice "Yakety Sax" was added to chase scenes.
 * The Stinger: As with other That Guy With the Glasses contributors, Lupa adds a stupid or otherwise memorable line from the film she was reviewing.
 * Strangled By the Red String: Her in-universe opinion of Gymkata:

Lupa: Ready for some forced sexual tension?"

"Lupa: OK, I guess we don't need any lead up for this. Or chemistry."
 * Something similar occurs between Justin Sharpe and Diana in Razor Sharpe.

"...I am five minutes closer to death now."
 * Stepford Snarker: Ed Glaser in Bloody Mary Killer. Apparently, E.T. Week has exhausted his patience for online critics.
 * Stunned Silence: Lupa does not bode well during Pocket Ninjas.
 * Though her face speaks volumes. Specifically, "wuh duh fuh?"

"Lupa: I'm shitting you not, folks, I've found a director worse than Uwe Boll."
 * The reaction she and Film Brain have to the ending of Hercules in New York (Zeus in a business suit coming down to Earth and scaring a passenger jet).
 * Stylistic Suck:
 * In Pterodactyl, Lupa replaces the previous episode's song with a "crappy montage" set to I'll Tumble 4 Ya.
 * Her Lady Dragon 2 review climaxes with a stylistically sucky montage of her goofing around with her Cynthia Rothrock movie collection set to Wake me up before you go go
 * She finishes her Teen Sorcery review with some bad dancing set to the song played at the big dance at the end of the film.
 * Suspiciously Specific Denial: "So, like, I'm totally not doing anything illegal, 'specially if I found a puppy one time, and maybe things got out of hand, and I had this whole lawsuit going on, but, I mean, nothing really happened, and I paid for the cab, so like, what's the problem?"
 * Take That: On Peterodactyl she says it stars Coolio "So you know the star power is abundant in this one."
 * She remarks Tommy Wiseau is "Like the French Borat if he didn't realise he was the French Borat."
 * On hearing that the wooden child character in Witchery's name is Tommy she observes that at last they knew Tommy Wiseau's origins.
 * You might remember Vincent Kartheiser as Sean from Alaska ("Aww!") and Connor from Angel ("Aww.")
 * During Witchery, which stars David Hasselhoff, Lupa uses footage from the infamous drunken burger eating video.
 * Regarding Ulli Lommel, the director of Zombie Nation Lupa quips he is like Uwe Boll except Uwe Boll has funding.

{{quote| Lupa: The Howling! (Beat}) Eight!*extreme zoom-in*}} "Lupa: WHY?!"
 * There have been several shots aimed at the movie Gerry, which Lupa claims to be the worst film she has ever seen.
 * When Lupa's saddened she has not done as many episodes as The Nostalgia Critic, Apollo Z Hack says at least Lupa did not come up with Melvin brother of the joker.
 * As Dawn begins her first day of school in Teen Sorcery Lupa gives a narration mocking Twilight. "It's not easy being pretty and liked by everyone."
 * Radu's critique of Jurassic Park. "It was a movie directed by Steven Springsteen, who has a band I think. It was adapted from the book Great Expectations, which was written a shit-load of a long time ago. Together with the help of Colonel Sanders, Merlin, The Fly, some children, and some boobs must fight the dinosaurs, but in the end the dinosaurs win out. It was pretty cool. ...This was followed by one sequel and one piece of horseshit. End report."
 * Tempting Fate: Lupa was so enthused about the frog band in Return to Frog Town that the universe snapped back at her with the frog lounge singers.
 * That Poor Cat: "Checkers! You're a zombie!!"
 * The Dog Was the Mastermind: The final reveal of the killer in Desire, which Lupa considers pretty far-fetched.
 * This Is for Emphasis, Bitch: "EAT PRODUCT PLACEMENT, BITCH!"
 * Title Drop: A Running Gag in the Fast Getaway reviews.
 * The Howling. *extreme zoom-in*
 * And for the last one:
 * Blood Red Moon starts, aptly-enough, on a blood-red moon. "More like Pepto-Bismol moon."
 * To Make a Long Story Short: Howling 8, tl:dr edition:

"NChick: What did we eat?"
 * Toilet Humour: During a death scene in Vampire Assassin, Lupa substitutes fart sounds for the hero's Inelegant Blubbering.
 * Slips in an impromptu fart joke after she finds herself lavishing too much praise on Cursed 2005. "We can't have that."
 * In Honor and Glory, Lupa and Nostaligia Chick fart out the theme to Beverly Hills Cop.

"Good plan, Morgan, just jumping in there when you're outnumbered and they have a gun. How are you alive?!"
 * In the Kickassia commentary she did with Linkara, Phelous, and Nash, she mentioned her desire to dub fart noises into Spoony's Insano transformation sequence.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to the Nostalgia Chick's Tomboy.
 * Although their reviewing choices are reversed. Especially Lupa's love for schlocky action movies is not what you'd call Girly.
 * Too Dumb to Live: The Designated Heroes from Magic Island, who she notes would realistically die quite quickly into their buccaneering career.

"Lupa: Did you see how that flip helped me to bludgeon you with the box more efficiently?"
 * Too Happy to Live: Has a meter running in Angel of Fury to measure the amount of badness that will happen to the main character in proportion to how happy they are at the moment.
 * Totally Radical: She jokes that X-treme Fighter was named this due to a mistaken belief it was 1994, not 2004.
 * "He's the hippest happenin' hotcat, yo! [beat] That's...uh...th-that's what they say nowadays, right? (Rage and Honor)
 * Training Montage: During a montage in Razor Sharpe the review cuts to Lupa doing one which ends with her passing out after one sit up.
 * Lupa does one in preparation for her Lady Dragon 2 review, set to the music from the first Lady Dragon. We see her exercise her thumb via a DVD remote, box a guy with a sign reading "RICHARD NORTON" taped to his chest, and bench-press her cat.
 * Troperiffic: Being a show about critical deconstruction of B-movies, this is pretty much unavoidable.
 * Unfortunate Implications: During Alien Apocalypse she says "there's nothing wrong with the only black character in the film being a slave."
 * Unfortunate Names: "Ah yes, the newest production from Rapi Films."
 * Unnecessary Combat Roll: Crops up in Gymkata.

"Lupa: (as Watson) I'm not sure where I'm from exactly, but I love to overact."
 * She later observes that Gymkata is like regular karate with more unnecessary flips and wooshing sounds.
 * The Untwist: Lupa really hates how Howling IV attempts to present the story as a mystery, despite the fact that this is the fourth movie in the series and the audience is well aware this is a werewolf movie.
 * Unwanted Harem: She is not remotely happy about being a Dude Magnet. Justified since Todd tends to get creepy or awkward fast, as do almost every other guy who goes after her, her dynamic with the Critic is the usual fem!dommy sexual tension he has with every woman, and she's in a committed relationship.
 * Vampire Vords: Her impression of Radu from Subspecies.
 * Visible Boom Mic: Has a counter on the screen every time the boom mic appears in shot in Razor Sharpe.
 * Waxing Lyrical: Look who's back. Back again. Marin's back. Tell a friend. (Subspecies IV)
 * Wearing a Flag On Your Head: In celebration of July 4th, Lupa wear a gigantic stars & stripes bow.
 * And blue eyeshadow to complement her red hair. Too much?
 * What the Hell Is That Accent?: Cynthia Rothrock, Master of Disguise! (Fast Getaway 2)
 * Her reaction to Watson's accent in Razor Sharpe.

"Tall Man: Small man, your end approaches but not yet.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: In keeping with the site-wide Running Gag, she tends to play "Ghost Love Score" whenever she deems it necessary, such as a fight scene in Vampire Assassin where a secondary character who never even gets a name punches out a vampire while dragging the unconscious protagonist with the other hand.
 * Lupa did a dramatic, 9-minute long reading of the description of a limited edition pen designed by Sylvester Stallone from the manufacturer's website ... just see for yourself here.
 * Wire Fu: After a lackluster example in Xtreme Fighter she comments "just because you have wirework available doesn't mean you should use it."
 * Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him:
 * When reviewing the Phantasm movies, Lupa wonders why the Tall Man does not just kill Reggie.

Lupa: Why? Why can't you kill him now? How do you know when his time is? Are you psychic now? You can't make up powers all willie nillie."

"Lupa: It's girl pow- what the hell is she wearing?"
 * Lupa is baffled during Hard to Kill when the villain's henchmen wait until Storm comes out of a seven year coma before trying to kill him again, instead of finishing him off when he was vulnerable.
 * Likewise in Magic Island, she questions why Blackbeard didn't just kill Jack and Lily after getting the treasure map from them.
 * WTH Costuming Department: In-universe, upon seeing one of Cynthia Rothrock's outfits in Lady Dragon 2 Lupa asks if she raided Madonna's wardrobe.

"Lupa: You realise that's not how virtual reality works, right?"
 * Worst Whatever Ever: Gotta Get a Gift For Splinter. The worst Christmas song -- nay, the worst song ever.
 * X Meets Y: Describes the masks worn by the villains of Lady Dragon 2 as a cross between Doctor Doom and Jason Voorhees. "You know, stupid."
 * You Keep Using That Word:
 * She remarks that despite the film being called Pterodactyl, the creatures featured are in fact pteranodons, which are not dinosaurs.
 * The word 'karma' gets used a lot in Lady Dragon in a way that does not mean what the film-makers seem to think.
 * The villain in Vampire Assassin keeps muttering about "fate or destiny" as if they were not synonyms.
 * Younger Than They Look: In her Undefeatable commentary, she says that she looks about 30 in it, but was actually 19 at the time of the video, and is 21 at the time of the commentary.
 * Your Mind Makes It Real: She is confused when this trope shows up in X-treme fighter.

"DA HOWLING. [zoom]"