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** "[[Cry for Justice|And together, we could]] ''[[Cry for Justice|be]]'' [[Cry for Justice|justice]]!"
* [[Sanity Slippage Song]]:
** In some of the earlier episodes, Linkara used "Combine Harvester" by The Wurzels this way. The song itself is not about someone going insane, but it plays whenever ''Linkara's'' sanity starts to slip, such as at the end of the ''Doom's IV'' and ''Amazons Attack'' reviews. Up until ''Ultimatum #3-4'', however, it hadn't been used since ''Maximum Clonage''.
** As of the ''[[Marville]]'' #2 review, {{spoiler|"Forgetting You" from ''[[Manos: The Hands of Fate]]''}} seems to have become this.
* [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud]]: 90's Kid did this during his review of ''Freak Force''. He actually read the sound effects out loud and even summarized the battle using nothing but sound effects. 
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* [[Shoe Phone]]: Linkara parodies ''U.S. 1's'' silver dollar remote control by mentioning he will show us how to stick a TV remote inside of a quarter and a gun inside of a nickel. The ''[[James Bond Jr.|James Bond Jr]].'' review had some gadgets that stretched one's [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]], the most important of which was the gold detector, of which there are real-life variants, but nowhere near the fictional depiction.
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Atop the Fourth Wall/Shout Out|Has its own page.]]
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Quite evident when discussing comic history, or when he points out an egregious error made by the writers of a certain issue. In his [[Captain Planet and the Planeteers]] #3 Review he notes that just launching a Nuclear Bomb into space just does not work, citing that there are several problems with this, mainly that in doing it it would cause an [[Inferred Holocaust]]. He has, in response to internet responses to the errors in some of his works, given lectures on [[SchrodingersSchrödinger's Cat]] and the effects of a [[Space Is Cold|vacuum environment on a liquid]]; capped by the admission [[One of Us|that we are all nerds]].
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]:
{{quote|'''Linkara:''' When debating, solve your disagreements not with words, but by screaming ''''I AM A MAN!!!'''' and punching them in the guts. Allow me to demonstrate... '''''[[Memetic Mutation|I AM A MAN!!!!]]''''' [[Memetic Mutation|*punch*]]}}
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* [[Slow No]]:
** Uncanny X-Men #423. [[Sarcasm Mode|"OH MY GOD! ANGELO IS DEAD!]] NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! WHY, CRUEL WORLD, WHY DI- wait, who's Angelo?"
** And in his very first review — (Adjective-less) ''Spider-Man'' #56 — when he realizes that the Gwen Stacy clone is going to dissolve into goop. In his later commentary about his early work (where he jokes about his terrible lighting and slow line delivery back then), he says that a slow-mo [[Big No]] is ''always'' funny.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: The character of Linkara has a fairly inflated ego, with his bitching at his fans for their requests and having an annoyed cameo when [[Diamanda Hagan]] said he was not sexy. (Out of character, of course, Lewis is a [[Mean Character, Nice Actor|sweetie]].)
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Harvey Finevoice, although...
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* [[Something Completely Different]]:
** "Ninja-style dancing".
** "We now interrupt our regularly scheduled piece of crap comic to show a bit from ''[[Monty Python and Thethe Holy Grail]]''. You'll thank me later!" (From his Bimbos in Time review)
** Harvey Finevoice and 90s Kid are definitely not the easily-frustrated analytical comic book nerd type, as you could probably tell from their guest reviews of ''Anita Blake: The Laughing Corpse'' #1 and #2 and ''Freak Force'' #1. Liz, while a lot closer in reviewing style to Linkara, is still definitely not "Linkara with boobs".
* [[Space Is Cold]]: In his review for the Kool-Aid comic Linkara commented that the Kool-Aid Man, as a glass container filled with liquid, would freeze in space. [[Internet Backdraft|After the somewhat insistant comments from his fans]] he admitted in his "Top 15 Mistakes" video that this was an error, and then went on to give a scientific explanation for the sublimation of liquids to gas in a vacuum.
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** "New Genesis is idyllic, peaceful, and good. Apokolips is basically [[New Jersey]]." (He did add a "Just kidding, New Jersey" caption afterward, but at least one NJ resident commented that the zinger was perfectly acceptable.)
** The third part of his {{spoiler|April Fools'}} triple feature, where Linkara did a rather thorough parody of [[The Irate Gamer]] that basically summed up every single complaint that's been made about the IG.
** In ''Sonic: Live'', when Robotnik is gloating about how sick and twisted he is, Linkara suggests that he's going to force his hostages to play [[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 (video game)||Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]].
** From the ''Silent Hill: Dying Inside'' review: "What has two heads, one mouth and no brains?" "Ooh! [[Michael Moore]]!"
* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: Mocked in ''Sonic: Live''. When Robotnik has [[The Load|a couple kids held hostage]], Sonic responds that [[Super Speed|he's fast enough]] to rescue the kids before Robotnik's Swatbots can fire, and Robotnik counters by [[Card-Carrying Villain|gloating about how evil he is.]] Linkara shows us how the exchange ''should've'' gone after that:
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* [[All the Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary]]: He throws around a lot of Troper terms in his reviews.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: Quite literally at the start of "Law and Order #1"
* [[Unpleasable Fanbase]]: [[In-Universe|He stated]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20100420011207/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bt/aj/ajs/13236-youmacon02 in a Youmacon Q&A panel] that part of why he had not done any of the [[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Archie Sonic comics]] at that point was because he was afraid of what the fans would do if he screwed it up.
** However, by picking Sonic Live! as his target, he did the only thing that ''could'' please them: Tear apart one of the few things in the franchise that gets universal hatred.
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: [[Todd in the Shadows]] makes an appearance in the [["Previously On..."]] in the [[Action Comics]] #593 review. He wants to kill Linkara since he has seen his face, and just as he flips up his hoodie the scene cuts to That Jewish Guy.
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** Ensign Munrooooe!!!
* [[Video Review Show]]
* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]: The ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]'' review has a very subtle running gag that he decided to explain in the credits: he switches between various Trek uniforms throughout the video, all to point out how much better they all are than the ones in TMP.
* [[Villain Sue]]: Calls Prometheus this during ''[[Cry for Justice]]'', pointing that that he has a ridiculous amount of counters to every super hero he comes across, like a magic bullet for Supergirl, his bombs have the absurd ability to counter the powers of any superhero from the respective cities, even the Shade, despite Prometheus supposedly not knowing who he is because he didn't keep a database on villains/antiheroes (which Linkara points he would if he was [[Informed Ability|as much of a genius as the comic makes him out to be]]), and easily taking the Shade down after earlier comics had raised him to "Mega badass status." As he puts it, Prometheus was made too powerful for there to be any believable way for him to be defeated, and this turns out to be true as he's defeated by Green Arrow breaking into his hideout and shooting him the head. 
* [[Vocal Evolution]]: His voice was a lot calmer in earlier episodes. The difference is notable even when looking at his first two episodes; in his review of Adjectiveless ''Spider-Man'' #56, he almost sounds like he is whispering so as to not disturb the neighbours. Compare that to his reaction to the letters column of ''Doom's IV'' #2 just eight days later.
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* [[Wolverine Publicity]]: Outside of the Brawl and even his [["Previously On..."]] segments, Linkara has cameoed with the Nostalgia Critic, the Spoony One, Benzaie, Bennett the Sage, MarzGurl, Lee and so on. [[The Nostalgia Critic]] appears to be making a [[Running Gag]] out of reacting negatively to his appearances. Played with and lampshaded in the ''Sultry Teenage Super-Foxes'' #2 review with the appearance of {{spoiler|Mechakara}}, despite said character having been defeated more than a month ago.
{{quote|'''{{spoiler|Mechakara}}:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|I was a popular character and villain. Seeing me again should drive up the viewers]].}}
** Invoked with [https://web.archive.org/web/20130920174331/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/ir/lag/comic/29282-spider-man-omit his co-review with The Last Angry Geek], where he basically states that he's popular and [[The Last Angry Geek]] isn't.
** Lampshaded when he cameos for [[The Bunny Perspective|Phil Bunni]].
{{quote|'''Linkara''': Want me to do anything else?
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