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

** Apparently, [[Rob Liefeld]] looks like a better artist when compared to Pat Lee's work.

* [[Executive Meddling]]: Linkara points out editors should stick to editing and leave the writing to writers.

* [[Expository Theme Tune]]

** In his review of Uncanny X-Men #424 he said that Chuck Austen "could not fail any more if [his] name was Faily McFailing Fail!"

** 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.

{{quote| "What these comics are trying to tell us is that [[Love Makes You Evil|love ultimately leads to death, destruction]], and [[One More Day|the devil]]. In other words, '''love no-one. Ever.'''"}}

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

** 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 (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] reviewing nostalgic commercials.

* [[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."

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* [[Gatling Good]]: He uses it to take out Pyramid Head.

* [[A God Am I]]: Linkara parodies the trope in his ''New Guardians'' review, which depicts [[Crazy Awesome]] Snowflame as a god and includes the statement "He will rise in three days amongst the marijuana leaves!"

* [[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.

{{quote| [[Sincerity Mode|"Does cursing really make the review better? Really?"]]}}

{{quote| "It's cheesy, it's over the top, [[Narm Charm|and I love every second of it!]]"}}

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

* [[Gundamjack]]: {{spoiler|Neutro}}

* [[Halloween Episode]]: The ''Silent Hill'' comic reviews in 2009, 2010, and 2011.

{{quote| '''[[Green Lantern (Comic Book)|Alan Scott]]:''' What a queer light!<br />

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

* [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: Linkara points out in a review of a ''[[Captain Planet]]'' comic book that because the power of "Heart" gives you [[Mind Control]] (in a sense), it should technically be the most powerful ring/power within the series, while Wheeler's fire powers are the weakest. All Wheeler can do, basically, is shoot a stream a fire from his ring.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]:

** Episode 13 of his ''Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force'' Let's Play starts with him still reeling from {{spoiler|Biessman's death}} in the previous episode.

** 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]]''?

{{quote| '''Linkara:''' [[Waxing Lyrical|Into the woods and down the dell; the path is straight, I know it well.]] [''[[Beat]]''] [[Into the Woods|Second-favorite musical.]]}}

 

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: As he points out in-universe, [[The Clone Saga]] was originally set to be revealed as the handiwork of Mephisto, but the editors decided that Mephisto getting involved with Spider-Man was ridiculous. [[One More Day|*ahem*]]

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

* [[Multiple Endings]]: Parodied in the "Alternate Endings" follow-up to his ''[[Silent Hill]]: Dying Inside'' review - the alternate endings include being trapped in a room a la ''Silent Hill: The Room'', being trapped in ''Phantasmagoria 2'' in a [[Shout Out]] to Spoony, and Harvey Finevoice turning out to be an alien who takes him to a planet which has ''good'' comics. Parodied again in a similar followup to his ''[[Silent Hill]]: Dead / Alive'' vid.

* [[My Future Self and Me]]: Linkara and his father.

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: He often gets other Internet celebrities' names wrong, like ''[[The Spoony Experiment|The Forky Experiment]]'' and ''Film Brian''. In one video he mistakes {{spoiler|Dr. Insano}} for both Bennett the Sage and That Chick With The Goggles.

** 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]].

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* [[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 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,

{{quote| ''Peripheral vision? What's that?''}}

* [[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.

{{quote| "And after that it just gets ''weeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiird''."}}

* [[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.

* [[Pet Peeve Trope]]: [[In-Universe|Linkara]] has several that tick him off.

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

* [[Pluto Is Expendable]]: In the second part of the ''Countdown'' review, Chester A Bum makes good on his threat to destroy it. The Nostalgia Critic was unimpressed. After all, it had stopped all the [[Classic Disney Shorts]] jokes. He had more of a reaction from seeing Hollywood, Rome, and France destroyed instead.

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

* [[Previously On]]: A [[Running Gag]] is his frequent recaps that include '''no''' content from the prior episode, including [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/3721-uncanny-x-men-424 Uncanny X-Men #424] and [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/6209-dd306 Daredevil #306] (Which included a reference to this very site)

{{quote| "Oh my God! TV Tropes used one of my quotes!"}}

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