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Tropes A-D [[Atop the Fourth Wall/Tropes A To D|HERE!]]<br />

Tropes Q-Z [[Atop the Fourth Wall/Tropes Q To Z|HERE!]]<br />

** Even 90's Kid was disgusted by Superboy Prime vaporizing a pregnant woman in ''[[Countdown to Final Crisis]]''.

*** From ''Planet of the Symbiotes'': 

** Linksano may have no problems with driving Linkara insane, but it is revealed in the ''The Spirit'' review that melting kittens is "a line we dare not cross".

** Linkara also says that not even [[Frank Miller]], an infamous [[Dirty Old Man]], would stoop so low as to sexualize underage girls.

** Points out in his [[Rob Liefeld|Doom's IV #2]] review that "Grimm" wasn't a great choice, as it's kind of depressing and that there must have been other things they could have called him.

* [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]: [[In-Universe|Linkara on]] the Top 11 Worst Heroes to Villains:

** Also notes this with ''Batman: Fortunate Son'', which seems to have the message that rock and roll music causes violence.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: [[In-Universe|Linkara has a slew of these]] for Super-Boy Prime in ''Countdown''; including "Superboy-Primadonna", "Superbitch-Prime", and "Spasticboy-Prime". He also takes to calling Robin "Dick Grayson, Age 12" during his ''All-Star Batman and Robin'' review in reference to the detail being repeated more than is strictly necessary; by the end of the review, he is also calling the ASBAR version of Batman 'Crazy Steve.'

** He gives Hippolyta multiple nicknames during the ''Amazons Attack'' review: Hippopotamus Brain, Hibonkersla, Smokingalottapolyta, etc. In his Maximum Clonage review he calls her ''[[Too Dumb to Live|Queen Hippolobotomy]]''

** He refers to the bodyguard character from ''Zero Patrol'' as "Blandy the Bodyguard"

* [[Flat What]]:

** His reaction to the use of the McCarran Act in "Amazons Attack #3".

'''Liz''': [[Hoist by His Own Petard|That you made me get rid of.]]<br />

'''Lewis''': ''What.'' }}

** Used again in the second round.

'''Linkara''': ''What''. }}

** Even {{spoiler|The Entity}} gets one in the Electric Tale of Pikachu review:

''' {{spoiler|Entity}}''': What. }}

* [[Floating Head Syndrome]]: He has commented on/lampooned this many times.

* [[Foe Yay]]: Discussed with regards to the Linkara/Dr. Insano relationship, which the actors are very well aware is extrapolated by the fandom.

** Linkara points out the Super Ninja in ''Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos'' #1 is unleashing his hatred of Chuck Norris... by punching a huge portrait of him.

* [[Follow the Leader]]: Reviewed adverts in comic books in an attempt to copy [[The Nostalgia Critic]] reviewing nostalgic commercials.

* [[Form-Fitting Wardrobe]]: Notes how even ''towels'' do this in ''22 Brides'' issue #1.

* [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]: The blinking "Extreme" logo in the ''Newmen'' review flashes "Buy Revolution of the Mask" and, even more briefly, "If you can read this, you paused the video."

* [[Fridge Logic]]:

** After Linkara finishes his ''New Guardians'' review, he pops out and says: "Wait a second - if their mission is to proliferate their DNA through procreation, why is there a gay guy in the group?"

** A recurring criticism of stories where heroes lose their powers is that it also applies to ones like [[Martian Manhunter]] who doesn't actually have any beyond natural abilities of his species.

* [[Fridge Horror]]: To quote a comment from the third part of his [[JLA: Act of God]] review:

'''Linkara''' (In Response): "Good God, I didn't even think of that." }}

* [[Furry Fandom]]: Mentions it in-universe in his Prologue to ''Countdown''. 

** [[Defied Trope|He wisely skips]] [[Internet Backdraft|the subject]]: 

* [[Gambit Roulette]]: Prometheus from ''[[Cry for Justice]]'' seems to depend on nothing but these and [[Ass Pull|Ass Pulls]].

** Dr Doom's plan from Ultimates 3, as revealed in Ultimatum. Linkara goes on a long rant with it.

* [[Good Is Old-Fashioned]]: Linkara chews out ''Superman at Earth's End'' for apparently taking this viewpoint.

* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Linkara is not afraid to use lighter swears like ass, Hell, damn, etc., but generally refrains from using stronger ones. He has even said "Funk and Wagnall" in the place of the F-bomb at least three times; ironically (or intentionally), it makes that sentence funnier. In his ''Top 15 Screw-Ups'' he admits he uses such words in real life all the time, even pointing out some examples listed below where they do bleed into his reviews, but he chooses to not use them in his reviews because he feels they are better off without them.

** He doesn't, however, have a problem with playing "America, Fuck Yeah" uncensored whenever Captain America shows how much of a badass he is.

** He also has no issues with writing gratuitous profanity for other people, as evidenced by the number of F-bombs Spoony drops in Linkara-written crossovers.

*** Or in the ''[[RoboCop]] vs. the [[Terminator]]'' review, where the [[Stinger]] uses a clip of the T-800 saying "Fuck you, asshole."

*** Not quite true, since in an "odds and ends" post, he remarks that he didn't know Nash was going to include it uncensored and would have asked him to bleep it.

* [[Guest Host]]: Pollo organizes Harvey Finevoice and 90s Kid to keep the scheduled reviews, despite Linkara being kidnapped to another dimension.

* [[Guilty Pleasures]]: Several in-universe examples for Linkara.

** He still collects ''[[Power Rangers]]'' toys and after stating all the flaws in Marvel's ''MMPR #1'' he still can't say it sucks because ''it's Power Rangers.''

** He sees ''[[Transformers]]'' as goofy, but also awesome.

** He admits that ''[[Brute Force]]'' is this because it is [[So Bad It's Good|gloriously bad]].

* [[Hammerspace]]: Every time Linkara does his '''"I AM A MAN! *PUNCH*''' routine he pulls something different back on screen each time, including his stuffed bear and Iron Liz, among others. When he asked Liz how she got there, she had no idea.

** There is also the time he couldn't pull his hand back.

*** Then there was time he pulled ''the camera'' out of... wherever.

* [[Hand Wave]]: Linkara took a very long time to explain why his gun shoots lasers and in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' review he simply says "It's magic! I don't have to explain it!" which is a blatant [[Shout-Out]] to his much-hated ''[[One More Day]]''. He later [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|gave the full story]].

* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: He calls ''Cable'' #1 (which was created in 1992) out on this [[In-Universe]]. It starts off the comic with the World Trade Center being blown up for no particular reason. Linkara's response was [[Stunned Silence]], and then saying "[[Too Soon|...OKAY! MOVING ON THEN]]."

** And later on, in ''Game Boy'' #1....

*** And the second comic in the line doesn't do much better...

** Show-related: the joke about {{spoiler|Missingno}} from The Dark Knight Strikes Again Part 2 review is much less funny when you find out {{spoiler|who the Entity is...}}

* [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: In his "Top 15 Comics he will ''NEVER'' review", he mentions that ''"Batman #66"'' is not heavily requested, but is still denied because he figures that the only reason why people want him to review it is because they want him to say the word "Boner", which meant something much different back during the [[Silver Age]]. Just to humor them, he gives them what they want.

** And in his review of All-American Comics #16:

'''Linkara:''' ''(beat)'' What, it was the 1940s! }}

* [[Head-Tiltingly Kinky]]: Lewis's profile picture for Blogspot and Twitter.

** In his Brain Drain Review, Linkara sees [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|The Thing]] actually considering his grotesque transformation to be a good thing, but he nearly lets this slide, despite his fury that the author had obviously never read a Fantastic Four comic, because the comic is pretty much an advertisement for office max. Then the (literal) BSOD comes on when he sees the writer was Tom Defalco, Former EDITOR-IN-CHIEF at Marvel.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: Aside from his being a good singer, who'd have guessed Linkara's a fan of ''[[Camelot (theatre)|Camelot]]''?

 

* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]]: His ninja-style dancing, particularly when it is done to Caramelldansen.

* [[Hiss Before Fleeing]]: Or rather, Skronk before fleeing. The Ultimate [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony]] does this when Linkara finally shoos him away.

* [[Ho Yay]]: Lampshaded. "You are giving the [[Slash Fic]]-ers material!"

** Also in the Batman/Spawn crossover "for god's sake just kiss him already!"

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Played for laughs in ''Linking Up with Linkara'' when [[The Nostalgia Chick]] and [[Marz Gurl]] declare they are going lesbian and he asks if he can watch. NChick tells him "No that's exploitation, you're a feminist that's bad."

* [[Hypocrisy Nod]]:

** Linkara often decries the [[All There in the Manual]] nature of some series, since required information cannot be found within the series itself.

** After blasting ''[[Silent Hill]]: Dying Inside'' for missing the point of the ''[[Silent Hill]]'' series, he has a [[Badass]] finale where he takes out [[Implacable Man|Pyramid Head]] with a [[More Dakka|Gatling gun]] and a [[Stuff Blowing Up|big explosion]]. The credits have him copping to the hypocrisy.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]:

** In response to the narration at the end of ''Amazons Attack'' #1, Linkara expresses his distaste.

** At the beginning of Linkara's "Wolverine: Adamantium Rage" review, Spoony's casual dismissals of Linkara prompts him to declare that he will make his own video game review show that will "be ten times as original!" The following intro segment is a complete shot-for-shot copy of the intro to Spoony's show with the same theme song.

** 90s Kid mocking the stupid, [[Totally Radical]] attempt at slang in ''Nightcat #1'' with his own stupid, [[Totally Radical]] slang.

** Upon seeing that Dave Willis of ''[[Shortpacked]]'' donated some Dreamwave ''[[Transformers]]'', he quips "[[Transformers: The Movie|I thought you were made of sterner stuff. Why throw away these comics so recklessly?]]" [[Gilligan Cut|Cut to ten minutes later]], when he does just that.

** In his review of the [[Lady Gaga]] comic ''Fame'', he complains about the protagonist.

** How about Mighty & Morphing Power Rangers?

* [[I'm Not Doing That Again]]: Linkara after attempting to sing ''Holding Out For A Hero''.

* [[I Have Many Names]]: Lewis Lovhaug has at least three known internet handles:

** Reuisu. The nickname he used before Linkara. His [http://www.youtube.com/user/reuisu YouTube account] is under this name, and so is his membership on the forum for [[The Agony Booth]], where he once submitted a guest article.

*** [[Bilingual Bonus|Reuisu is "Lewis" in Japanese.]]

* [[I Meant to Do That]]: Linkara operates a panel in ''[[Star Trek Elite Force|Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force]]'' and blows up one of the crewmen. Linkara responds thus.

* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]:

** By the end of ''[[JLA: Act of God]]''.

** By the end of ''[[The Dark Knight Strikes Again]]'':

** Used again, though a bit more subdued, in his review of a Spawn/Batman team up comic.

* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: On the video review for Ultimates 3, Issue 1, an irate commenter told Lewis something along the lines of, "I'm sick of these videos. You're obnoxious, pretentious, and your editing is atrocious." Linkara's response?

* [[I Want You to Meet An Old Friend of Mine]]:

** Lewis' father plays his older self in the review of ''Superman vs. The Terminator''. Later his whole family shows up as the ghosts from [[A Christmas Carol]].

* [[Ice Cream Koan]]: Linkara has FUUUN making these up in the second live review. 

* [[Idiot Ball]]: Pointed out and named by Linkara in his crossover with Film Brain:

'''Linkara''': "Shh! The Octopus is holding his idiot ball!" }}

* [[Imagine Spot]]: He fails to recognise the [[Neutro]] destruction sequences in ''Neutro'' #1 as one - of course, this was probably deliberate for the sake of humor.

** Also in his [[Silent Hill]] Dead/Alive review. {{spoiler|Linkara is too young to have had a daughter, raised her to thirteen (with her mother), tortured her to death AND forgotten about it so well, there's no lingering signs in his life. The story line would have worked better with someone in their mid-thirties at the youngest. Linkara acknowledges this in the commentary.}} 

* [[In Name Only]]: Several in-universe namings of the trope (though this applies to single characters more than franchises).

** In an early text review he dubs the title character of ''All-Star Batman and Robin'' "BINO" (Batman [[In Name Only]]). In the video version he decides that "Batman" must actually be an insane hobo who found a Batman costume and dubs him "Crazy Steve."

** The plot of ''[[Godyssey]]'' is so in contrast to Jesus' actual life and teachings that Linkara suggests the Greek gods found the wrong crucifixion victim, naming him Jesús <ref> pronounced closer to 'Hay-sus'</ref>, the Christian martial artist. {{spoiler|He was [[All Just a Dream]] anyway}}. 

* [[In the Name of the Moon]]: Makes a reference to the [[Trope Namers]] while talking about [[The Question]] in his ''[[The Dark Knight Strikes Again]]'' review.

* [[Incendiary Exponent]]: He manages to light ''The Dark Knight Strikes Again'' on fire by ''punching it while wearing the [[Power Rangers in Space|Battilizer]]''.

* [[Infant Immortality]]: Concerning {{spoiler|Lian Harper's death in ''[[Cry for Justice]]''}}, Linkara comments that the trope is "ludicrous," but he is still enraged that the particular example was used purely to shock the reader (and set Roy Harper on a [[Darker and Edgier]] turn) instead of actually benefiting the story.

* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: Points out that Nightcat blowing up a garbage barge would pollute Hudson River even more.

** "My God, it's the Vorsoth! And it's very poorly animated!"

* [[Lampshaded the Obscure Reference]]: Has done this a few times.

* [[Large Ham]]:

** LINKARA'S <s>RENDITION</s> BELLOWING OF THE [[Doom (Comic Book)|DOOM COMIC'S]] DIALOGUE IS ESSENTIALLY THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR [[Up to Eleven|TURNED UP TO 11]], '''[[Verbal Tic|HOAK HOGAN]]'''!!!

* [[Leitmotif]]:

** '90s Kid's rants are always backed up by [[Nirvana]]'s ''Smells Like Teen Spirit'', though he sometimes uses "Smells Like Nirvana" by [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al Yankovic]] in its place. "Finger of Fear" for Dr. Insano (and Dr. Linksano). "Graveyard" for Mechakara.

* [[Let's See You Do Better]]: Linkara got some criticism of this nature from [[Frank Miller]] fans after he criticised some of Miller's most recent works, with numerous comments of this nature about his own comic efforts. Linkara pointed out that he has only been doing it for a few years while Miller has been continuously working for three decades, and it is not unreasonable to suggest that his work could be better than it is.

* [[Lethal Joke Character]]/[[Not So Harmless]]:

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: He usually wears the same combination of jacket, plaid/black shirt and hat. (although he's shown off his [[Star Trek]] uniform collection... and the [[Power Rangers Zeo]] version of his reviewer wardrobe!)

* [[Lipstick and Load Montage]]: During the "Linkara Lost" arc, [[Real Life Relative|Linkara's real-life girlfriend]] Iron Liz replaces him for an episode. We see her suiting up in a near shot-for-shot remake of Linkara's own [[Lock and Load Montage]]... save for one shot of her applying lipstick.

* [[Lock and Load Montage]]: We got one first during the ''[[Amazons Attack]]'' introduction (after a failed [[Training Montage]]). His opening notably features one as well.

* [[Logic Bomb]]: Frequently pointed out, with something along the lines of, "Yeah, ''[insert logical inconsistency here]''! ...wait, what?"

* [[Madness Mantra]]: "ANTI-LIFE JUSTIFIES MY HATE!"

* [[Malevolent Architecture]]: Noted numerous times throughout his [[Let's Play]] of ''[[Star Trek Elite Force|Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force]]

* [[Man of a Thousand Voices]]: Has a surprisingly broad vocal range when voicing all the different characters in the comics he reads out, especially the falsetto ones for the women. Also has a few distinctive ones pulled out for humor value (for example, a [[Sean Connery]] impression for [[Actor Allusion|anyone]] [[James Bond|connected with espionage]], and his Superboy-Prime voice for any similarly whiny character).

** In his ''[[Doctor Who Magazine|Doctor Who Classics]]'' #7 review, you can hear his broad vocal range between Linkara, the lounge singer, the [[Totally Radical]] surfer, the gruff [[Star Trek Elite Force|Starfleet Lieutenant]] and the mad scientist. 

* [[Meanwhile Back At The]]: "Meanwhile, at an undisclosed location just down the hall..."

* [[Medium Awareness]]: In the ''Ewoks'' #9 review,

'''Linkara:''' Ahh, touché. }}

* [[Memetic Badass]]: In-universe, Captain America

** In the ''Mr. T'' #2 (AP Comics) review's [["Previously On..."]], none of the title card artists seem to be aware of who Dr. Insano is and refer to him as various other famous fictional scientists, to his irritation. Eventually he gives up on correcting them and lets them believe he is [[Doktor Sleepless]].

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: There is a lovely little [[Lampshade Hanging]] of this practice in his Daredevil #306 review regarding the Surgeon General, whose last name is actually Cutter:

* [[Narm Charm]]: [[In-Universe|His opinion on the]] ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]'' comics. He admits they're pretty silly and cheesy and he ''loves'' them.

** Linkara seems to enjoy [[The Silver Age of Comic Books]], or at least elements of its style, for exactly this reason. Very obvious when [[Crazy Awesome]] content or (on the flip side) pointless gore pop up.

* [[Nice Hat]]: His trilby. At [[Comi Con]], when asked if he was wearing "the" hat, his response was "Yes, and you may touch it for a dollar, good sir!" In his [[Christmas Episode]] it becomes extra nice. How? He wears a [[Santa Claus|Santa hat]] on top of the trilby!

** According to the ''[[Suburban Knights]]'' commentary, it protects him from the life draining effects of Magic.

** The Blob eating the Wasp in ''[[Ultimatum]]'', which promptly halts his review and causes him to quickly call out the comic for putting in something like that with no warning for mature readers, as well as killing the Wasp for no good reason.

* [[Nineties Anti-Hero]]: '90s Kid suggests a heavily armed hero named Bloodgun. Who is entirely made ''out'' of guns, including one for a head.

* [["No. Just... No" Reaction]]: Among the 15 comics he would not review was the infamous [[Sonichu]]. He stated that he wished he had never heard of it and refused to give it any publicity.

* [[No Peripheral Vision]]: As pointed out in his [[Let's Play]] of ''[[Star Trek Elite Force|Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force]]'' when Ensign Munro effectively runs straight past a guard,

* [[No Such Thing as Bad Publicity]]: In-Universe: [http://twitter.com/Linkara19/status/13149039277121536 Lewis believes] that this it the reason ''Sci-Spy'' has gotten a reprint and US-1 has made [[Self-Deprecation|Self Deprecating]] cameos.

* [[Noodle Implements]]: When [[Superman]] was forced to do porn under mind control the story brushes it off with Superman saying his memory was fuzzy. Linkara jokes about him remembering a goat, salad dressing, and a traffic cone.

** The review of ''All-Star Batman and Robin'' includes parts of the script and the disclaimer is used just to assure us that what the viewer is seeing actually is what [[Frank Miller]] wrote - particularly that Miller admits ''in writing'' to being shameless in wanting a close-up panel of Vicki Vale's panty-clad ass.

** ''The Ultimates'' #3 review notes that his voicing the Tony Stark ''robot'' as a drunk is not just his own joke, but the robot actually asks for vodka at one point.

** Also you can insult him and Liz all you want but you do NOT insult his fans.

** Liz is now off limits too. When she announced their breakup, he followed by preemptively threatening anyone who would dare lash out at her.

* [[Pass the Popcorn]]: During ''[[Silent Hill]]: Dead/Alive'', it looks like Christabella is finally going to get her comeuppance. Linkara's reaction? "Ooh, hang on a second! Let me get some popcorn!" The comic does not give him a proper chance.

* [[Perfectly Cromulent Word]]: Idiostuperiffic.

** [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: Frequently becomes [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]] in the universe of the show (if not the comic he's reviewing).

** [[Gorn]]

** [[Monster Clown]] (at least when overused)

** [[Sex Sells]]

** [[Would Hit a Girl]]

* [[Phrase Catcher]]: Linkara, whenever Liz [[Pungeon Master|cracks a pun]].

* [[Plot Hole]]: Will of course jump on them.

** Linkara sees that the villains in the ''[[James Bond Jr.|James Bond Jr]].'' #3 comic are [[Goldfinger]] and Oddjob, despite the fact that they are both dead.

* [[Power of Love]] - Points out in [[Care Bears]] #13 that they are literally attacking people with the power of love...

* [[Power-Up Letdown]]: His ''Maximum Clonage'' review is upgraded to ''wide screen''! Now you can see... more of the futon and the shadow on one side...

** This tendency is subverted in the review for ''Secret Defenders'' #10. Linkara cannot do one as he could only get Phelous as a guest star; everyone else was too busy making crossover videos following the brawl.

* [[Product Placement]]:

** He subtly inserts references to his independent comic, Revolution of the Mask, into his reviews fairly consistently. Later, [[It Makes Sense in Context|after cloning Spoony back to life]], he brainwashes the clone to keep inserting subliminal references into his reviews as well - resulting in a [[Brick Joke]] in Spoony's ''Clones of [[Bruce Lee]]'' review where nudity is censored with a ''Revolution of the Mask'' ad banner.

** In his [[Power Rangers]] comic review he starts talking about [http://www.myspace.com/henshin-vault the prop maker] he bought his Dragon Dagger from, ending with the web address onscreen and Mechakara calling him out on it.

'''Linkara:''' "Screw you, hippie--he gave me a discount!" }}

** "This comic sucks!" becomes this at the end of ''Amazons Attack''.

** In response to the Kool-Aid Man bursting through a funhouse wall.

** "[[Watchmen (comics)|It's supposed! To be! AMBIGUOUS!]]"

* [[Punctuated Pounding]]: Delivered to Pyramid Head during the finale of ''Silent Hill: Dying Inside'' #5.

* [[Purely Aesthetic Glasses]]: In times that you need to look like a {{smallcaps| real reviewer}}, put two pairs of glasses in your face.

 

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