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''For examples from [[History of Power Rangers]], see [[History of Power Rangers
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* Almost anytime that Linkara uses his [[Memetic Mutation|Patented]] "I AM A MAN!" punch, especially in a serious situation, it can be pretty damn awesome.
* Setting ''<s>Superman</s> Bearded Idiot: At Earth's End'' [[Kill It
* When fighting the evil, sentient ''[[
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'''Linkara:''' [[Joe Quesada|It's magic. I don't have to explain it.]] }}
* Cartoon!Linkara teams up with [[Wonder Woman]] to destroy ''[[Amazons Attack]]''.
* '''CHEAT CODES ARE STILL ACTIVATED''' {{spoiler|*punches out Dr. Insano*}}
* The end of the "Top 15 Worst Moments of Countdown", when he manages to make the incredibly [[Narm|Narmy]] line "I'll kill you to death!" sound ''awesome''.
* "Hey, Pyramid Head? ''I liked The Butcher better.''"
* Linkara morphing for the first time onscreen.
** Hell, the entire fight with Mechakara was a massive Crowning Moment of Awesome. Complete with assistance from 90's Kid, Harvey Finevoice, Ninja Style Dancer, and Pollo, a brief struggle with Black Lantern Spoony, and Linkara using a MORPHER from Power Rangers, then fighting Mechakara with the [[Crowning Music of Awesome|Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers' music]] in the background. That was the stuff NERDGASMS are made of.
*** What about {{spoiler|Pollo paralyzing Mechakara long enough to let Linkara vaporize him?}}
*** "I'm back, baby!"
**** The whole thing could be a real-world crowner for Lewis, utilizing <s>[[Double Vision|Double]]</s> ''[[Double Vision|Triple]]'' [[Double Vision|Vision]] as well as some other, truly [[Badass]] special effects, and managing to make convincing scenes where he technically ''beats up himself''. Quite an achievement by [[Web Original]] standards.
* Pollo pwning Dr. Linksano towards the end of ''[[
* Quoting a long passage from the third canto of ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'' (the "All hope abandon, ye who enter in" bit), then saying, "Read a book, people!"
* Yes it was pretty damn hilarious, but the 'Insano-War' was nothing but win. Like a condensed Team Brawl, except with Dr. Insano, which automatically makes it even more awesome!
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** Also, Liz's swords are [[Forgotten Realms|Twinkle and Icingdeath]].
** "Hello. [[We Need a Distraction|I'm distracting you]] so she can stab you!"
* Even the man's dreams are awesome; while reviewing ''Hardcore Station'' he mentions one where he was fighting alongside the [[Doctor Who|Seventh Doctor]] on the [[Star Trek
* ''Brute Force'', all on its own. How can a single comic issue contain so much [[Crazy Awesome]]?
** Linkara said it best: [[Cool vs. Awesome|ROBO BEAR VS. CYBER GORILLA!]]
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* The ending of ''Batman: Fortunate Son''.
* The completely-justified speech at the end of the second part of his [[Countdown to Final Crisis]] review.
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* How about the entire Mechakara saga? The way he's been able to thread an ongoing story through his reviews without distracting from the reviews themselves at all, and building up genuine momentum and suspense along the way, has really changed the possibilities of what Internet review series can do.
** Just seeing {{spoiler|Harvey Finevoice firing away with a Tommy Gun while grinning and [[Smoking Is Cool|smoking]] like a badass}} in the 2010 -trailer totally justifies that sentiment.
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** The entire second half of the 2010 trailer. As if the promise of the Mechakara storyline reaching its climax and Harvey Finevoice, Ensign Munro, Black Lantern Spoony, and a mysterious scientist joining the action wasn't enough, the trailer's tone-setting music is E.S. Posthumus' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GusLypfx7OQ Pompeii]. My head nearly exploded from the epicness.
* In response to the insulting portrayal of people who don't go to college in ''Future 5'', he assembled a list of people who did very well for themselves after never going to college or dropping out. Number one on the list: Bill Gates.
* [[The Spoony Experiment
* His opening to ''Athena'', as he [[All Star Batman and Robin|once]] [[Sultry Teenage Super Foxes|again]] bashes blatant sexism and ludicrous fanservice in comics, as well as giving a [[Take That]] to all those watchers that think he hates women, he's gay or he's a religious fanatic because of his anti-gratuitous-nude rants. The fact that during all of it [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|he seems much more serious and angry than usual]] is just the icing on the cake.
* Linkara quoting ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'' during his ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|TMNT]] Meet [[Archie]]'' review, ending with "READ A BOOK, PEOPLE!"
** He specifically recites a portion of the third canto ("All hope abandon, ye who enter in"). And quite well, too.
* Punching Film Brain in retaliation for making him watch [[The Spirit]], scored with the [[Doctor Who|Eleventh Doctor's]] [[Crowning Music of Awesome|action theme]].
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* Avoiding an [[Author Filibuster]] about the distastefulness of using rape as a plot device, instead directing viewers to someone he thinks is much better than him at discussing the issue.
* Linkara furiously giving his six cents on why [[One More Day]] is terrible, giving one of his most scathing (though entirely justified) rants to date, ending it with these choice words:
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* The end of the 100th episode: {{spoiler|All Linkara's characters, plus almost everyone else from [[That Guy With
** Plus the opening credits, with a hard rock remix of the theme song playing over the covers of every comic he's reviewed.
*** Also, not indulging in the recent storyline, despite how obvious it would've been, being such an important episode.
* Lord Vyce. He is highly regarded as being intensely awesome and terrifying by the fans, but when you think about it, he's barely done anything! Yes, he kidnapped Linkara, attacked him with Shades, and sent the Vohrsoth after him, but the man himself has had two appearances and did very little in both. Lewis has managed to turn him into a fan favorite through hype and storylines. Congratulations, you're awesome, and we didn't even know it.
** Moreover, the only time Linksano has ever come off as legitimately creepy or threatening is when he described Lord Vyce before being [[Put
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* From the first part of his October 2010 Halloween review, "Ash Williams vs. [[Silent Hill]]: Dead/Alive." Winner: Ash.
** Earlier-him managing to make ''[[Wham! Line|a single line]]'' more creepy than ''the comic itself''.
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*** We also have to give one to the girl from the opening story in each video, who was only born so her parents could torture her and create a weapon to kill anyone who didn't believe in their god. {{spoiler|She instead creates the Magic Gun that eventually would fall into Linkara's hands, which kills her parents using their own logic against them. And then she snaps Linkara out of the [[Gaslighting]] Mechakara was putting him through.}}
** It is a crime that the video has existed for more than six seconds and Linkara's [[Badass Boast]] hasn't been mentioned.
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*** What seals it for this troper is The Ecstasy of Gold plying in the background, building as he gets further, compleated with the erasing of the three projections, Pollo vanishing with a Dalek death sound.
** Of course, a mere appearance by Lord Vyce is an instant win, but now we get to see the whole costume! Well, from the chest up anyway.
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* Lewis wearing a fully equipped Green Ranger costume. Enough said.
** Followed by his ambushing Doug at a convention while wearing it, after Doug had been doing a mocking impression of him. The pop when he takes off the helmet is incredible.
*** All Lewis says is 'move' and Doug jumps seats immediately, looking scared. Now that's bad ass.
* The last third of the ''New Kids on the Block'' #4 review, done entirely in rhyme even when it stops being applicable.
* His [[What the Hell, Hero?]] to Uatu over the [[Esoteric Happy Ending]] of his teamup with Spider-Man.
* His wailing on [[The Nostalgia Critic
** Heck it was even awesomer at the beginning: Rather than get pissed at Douchey, Linkara turns his [[Insane Troll Logic]] back at him and actually manages to confuse Douchey enough to shut him up.
* At the end of his first Cry For Justice Review, he starts a count down: V-MINUS 42, counting down to the final battle with Lord Vyce. For each new review it goes down by seven- therefore, the final battle will be on February 14, 2011. The awesome comes at the end of his [[Care Bears]] #13 review: {{spoiler|Each time the graphic is shown before, it is usually accompanied by creepy, ominous music. However, at the end of this review Linkara figures out Vyce's weakness and proudly proclaims that he knows how to beat Vyce, and triumphant music plays through the credits, and over the V-MINUS 14 graphic, canceling out the creepy music}}.
* He's been nominated for Most Inspiring Geek on the Shorty Awards on Twitter!
* The ''Power Rangers Zeo'' #1 video has almost too many to count for both Linkara and {{spoiler|Mechakara}}.
** The fact that ''despite'' owning a complete Green Ranger costume at the time, he avoided what most people would have expected him to do & morph into ''that'', and instead morphed into {{spoiler|the [[Canon Foreigner|White Zeo]] [[Power Rangers
** Four Words: {{spoiler|Giant Mechakara vs Neutro}}
*** And even better: {{spoiler|Neutro is not an animation like last time, but an actual costume worn by Liz so that the two can fight for real.}}
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* [http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2011/01/atop-fourth-wall-storyline.html The blog post] near the end of the Vyce arc, compiling all the videos that have contributed to his story arcs. Even if not all of them were planned at the time, it's still an incredible display of the intricacy of Linkara's writing, and his determination to make his show more than just a regular review series.
* Lord Vyce's [[Implacable Man]] rampage at the end of ''[[Cry for Justice]]''; he even {{spoiler|kills Pyramid Head}} without breaking a sweat.
** And though it's easy to forget in the wake of the fight, Linkara's [[Serious Business|dead serious]] rant about [[Dethroning Moment of Suck
*** What really makes it so awesome is just the whole tonal change when he said it. There wasn't any music due to how joking the atmosphere was. It truly showed how much Linkara cared about this.
*** We've seen [[Alter Ego Acting|'Linkara']] rant, rave, and generally get riled up by all sorts of bad comics to no end, but this seems to be ''Lewis'', not Linkara, royally pissed.
*** When Linkara gets pissed, there's usually a bit of a whine to his voice in order to say "Hey, I may be pissed, but I'm just in-character and this is just for fun." In Lewis' rant toward the death of Arsenal's daughter, there's no whine or cracking of his voice, just pure, emotional, unmitigated FURY. And that's something considering that Lewis has NEVER been as angry as he was in that scene.
* At MAGFest 2011, Linkara attends [[
** Gets even funnier with the Deadliest Character video on [[
*** Not to mention Linkara making the Megazord sound unbelievably [[Badass]] by mentioning that it defeated almost every monster Rita and Zedd throw at it, while Mechagodzilla couldn't even beat [[Godzilla|one.]]
* The defeat of Lord Vyce - {{spoiler|Lieutenant Munro, Harvey Finevoice, 90's Kid, Iron Liz, and Linkara teaming up to strike the final blow.}}
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*** {{spoiler|It took a well-played [[Batman Gambit]] and planning with Linksano [[The Mole]] to get Vyce off his ship and take him down. The planning that went into it and showing that Linkara is, was and always will be [[Crazy Prepared]] makes it a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].}}
** Linkara verbally attacking Vyce {{spoiler|for insulting Liz in his house.}}
** Angry Joe and the Joe Army {{spoiler|defeating the Shades and seizing control of Vyce's ship. Complete with Joe using his force lightning powers.}}
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'''Vyce:''' Who is that?
'''Joe:''' The name's Angry Joe, Lord of ''LAME''. '''''Remember''''' it! }}
** Linkara's got his own spaceship!
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** And while talking about continuity, he calls out DC and Marvel for the fact that, in attempting to reboot everything to make continuity make sense to new readers, they have only succeeded in making the continuity even more confusing.
** Why does he not burn Ultimatum? Fire is too good for it. He then throws it in the trash.
* One night during an impromptu chat session on [[Lord Kat]]'s livestream, Lewis was asked whether he'd read his own [[Fetish Fuel]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130613150056/http://fetishfuel.wikia.com/wiki/Atop_The_Fourth_Wall page]. He replied, "Yes, I have. It's very flattering." That was it, plain and simple. He didn't ''*nudgegiggle*'' like [[Jew Wario]] and Angry Joe, or flip out and panic like Spoony; he just accepted it as "part of the experience", and left it at that. It might not have been the most entertaining personal response to the Fetish Fuel pages, or the most humorous, but it was without a doubt the most ''mature''. And for that alone, he gets a mark of awesome.
* His ''Godyssey #1'' review, which features a bizarre take on Christianity, a Mortal Kombat joke, and the character of Avengelyne, was released on Easter Monday, one week after ''[[
* SCI-Spy #1 and #2: Linkara's Sean Connery accent has to be heard to be believed.
* In the Gameboy #1 review, the theme song is done in video game style.
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** In the second video on the series, he does another dead serious rant on how offensive the premise is, and Arsenal is completely impossible to sympathize with despite all he went through.
* The opening of his Comic Book Ad's episode: Douchey Mcnitpick shows up and accuses him of ripping the idea off from the Nostalgia Critic's Commericals episodes... only for Linkara, who had been expecting Douchey, to blindside him by flat out stating he stole the idea and actually causing Douchey to shut up for a minute. Then when Douchey tries to rebound by saying Linkara is doing this without the Critic's permission, Linkara asks for it and Douchey does not accept it, Linkara calmly asked if Douchey has watched the show recently, which he hasn't and then gets Douchey with Comicron-1
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* The opening credits of the "Star Trek #2" review, with clips from the [[Mirror Universe]], including Mechakara and Lord Vyce being taken down much more violently.
** The entire scene with {{spoiler|Mirror Insano.}}
** How about all the clever references to the [[Star Trek:
* A troll hit Linkara's blog giving some really nasty and cruel insults towards him and Liz, Linkara takes it in stride and even [http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2011/07/discussion-of-dcu-reboot.html debates with the guy]. The second the troll insults Linkara's fans? That's when he gets mad!
* Two from "Mightily Murdered Power Ringers"...
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** Also from Grinning Man, "COME ON DOWN, KIDS!"
* Linkara finally deducing the Entity's true form, name and who it is, just by 90's Kid saying "Heavy".
** And on a meta note, just that fact that Lewis essentially made {{spoiler|the Entity out to be [[Pokémon
** The [[Big "Shut Up!"]] to '90s Kid.
*** Which leads to the audience thinking [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?]] when {{spoiler|it's revealed that "the '90s Kid'' is actually [[Pokémon
* After the epic battle climaxes of the three previous storylines, {{spoiler|Linkara actually manages to make [[Talking the Monster
** Made more awesome by the [[Chekhov's Gun]] from last week's review {{spoiler|the plan to make the giant symbiote monster self-destruct from a mental breakdown was good, but could've been better executed. Which he then demonstrates.}}
** The episode really deserves kudos for its editing alone, with all the split second distortions of the Entity being such a complex job that Lewis missed his usual update time for the first time in three years.
* [http://dw-cosplay.livejournal.com/1073185.html Cosplaying] as the [[Doctor Who|Seventh Doctor]] (the one he first saw as a kid) for his second live show.
* Linkara seems to have started a habit of destroying his villains' motivations, getting Linksano to do a [[Heel Face Turn]] by pointing out how much ''work'' ruling the world would be. And then he still threatens to send him to Lord Vyce if he goes back to his old ways, and is darn intimidating while doing it.
* Gushing over the first issue of [[Captain America (comics)]], especially the iconic cover of Cap punching Hitler (in fact, his only real issue with the comic is that this never actually happens in any of the stories). And finishing it off with the USO montage from ''[[Captain America:
* The revised version of the Electric Tale of Pikachu review has Linkara and {{spoiler|Missingno., who is currently in 90's Kid's form}} not just in the same shot, but Linkara actually walks ''around'' him seamlessly as he taunts him. It stands out as probably the most complex and striking visual effect in the entire history of the show.
** Bonus awesome moment for [[Phelous]] for completing the effect in ''one day'' when Linkara had been working on it for some time.
* After the news came in that he and Liz had broken up, Linkara swore on Twitter that he'd come down ''hard'' on any of his fans who insulted her, as they remain on good terms.
* After Mechakara starts taking over Comicron 1:
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* Pollo’s crowning moment of awesome has got to be his speech on how he will never end up like Mechakara and how he’ll always be Linkara’s friend. Seriously, that whole speech was just made of awesome.
* Linkara's delivery of Khan's big speech, followed immediately by his quite frightening rage at how badly the comic screws up the movie's most famous scene.
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* The way he handles his 15 things wrong with Identity Crisis, he admits that there people who like the story and to some it was their introduction to comics which is why he does this different from a review or a countdown, he goes about this whole thing mild-mannered, save for yelling about moments that are really stupid, and simply giving his opinion on what this story did wrong.
* Snowflame. That is all. CMOA and CMOF. That is all.
* Using Comicron 1 to hijack the Nostalgia Critic's TV so they can do a crossover review of ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection
* "That is not my name." And the [[Oh Crap]] goes through the roof.
* The following [[Big Damn Heroes]] Moment:
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''' {{spoiler|Lord Vyce:}}''' (turns around) ''What''?
''' {{spoiler|Pollo:}}''' ''Surprise.'' ({{spoiler|blasts Vyce}}) }}
* Playing an especially dramatic rendition of the ''A Team'' theme during Mr. T's [[He's Back]] moment in "Mr. T #1."
* The opening of "Mr. T #2," where we actually get to see {{spoiler|several of the TGWTG cover artists, plus the guy who wrote the show's theme song.}}
* Ninja Style Dancer catching a shuriken right in front of his face, and driving off the Plaid Ninja with Cybermats.
* Immediately bringing up the clip he knew everyone would point to after he said it isn't right for Autobots to kill a surrendering enemy, and explaining how the two situations aren't compatible
* His exceptionally well-researched argument for why the absurdly simplistic solution to high taxes put forth in ''Captatin Tax Time'' wouldn't work.
* "Superman #701" sees him give a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] to the Man of Steel even more furious than the last one, when he decides he's done enough by pushing a street gang into another neighborhood, and even sends a little kid to tell the extremely pissed off gang to go away.
* His response to a quite mean-spirited anti-cop joke in "Marville #2," a [[Tranquil Fury]] reminder of how many cops are killed in the line of duty, then telling the writer to go to hell.
* The Magic Gun responding to Linkara starting to go a bit [[Doctor Who
** [[Fridge Horror|Which also doubles as]] [[Nightmare Fuel]].
** Just prior, Linkara fighting back against the Gunslinger while declaring that after everything he's been through, he really can't be arsed to care about this random new villain.
* At the 2012 [[MA Gfest]], he topped just cosplaying as the Seventh Doctor by doing it ''while driving a Delorean''.
* The afterword to the crossover review of [[Southland Tales]]:
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* Reading Linkara's account of how the ''Southland Tales'' review was made, it's nothing short of a miracle that it turned out as good as it did: everyone had just a few notes to work off, there wasn't time to get the people he wanted to talk about certain things, and the whole filming was a rush to get as much as he could with everyone in what little spare time they had.
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