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* [[Quip to Black]]: In the ''Pitt'' #1 review after rattling off a string of cop show and movie cliches:

* [[Rage Quit]]:

* [[Rapid-Fire "No"]]: His review of "Mr. T Comics #2" had two rather impressive examples when he finds that Mr. T gets knocked out by [[Meaningful Name|"Stare Roy,"]] a man pumped up on steroids.

* [[A Rare Sentence]]:

* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: According to Lewis, Linksano was introduced so he would not have to keep asking Spoony to do segments for him and adding to his own workload.

** Part of the reason for {{spoiler|Pollo's abduction by the Entity}} was because Lewis wished to retire the Pollo prop and build a new one.

* [[Rearrange the Song]]: Starting with ''Maximum Clonage'', his theme song was given a fuller orchestration and better production.

* [[Record Needle Scratch]]: In part two of Linkara's review of ''Countdown''.

''''90s Kid:''' *Nirvana plays* Duuuuuude, I- wait. *[[Record Needle Scratch]]* Did you just vaporize a pregnant chick? Dude, that- that's not cool, man. That's not cool. }}

** In the ending to his [[Silent Hill]] review, to hilarious ends.

* [[Relax-O-Vision]]: Linkara gives us a break from the terrible artwork of ''[[The Dark Knight Strikes Again]] Part 3'' with a clip of a cute little kitten.

* [[Repeating So the Audience Can Hear]]: Linkara [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] Commissioner Gordon's use of this trope in his review of ''Detective Comics No. 27''.

* [[Rhymes on a Dime]]: From the middle of his ''New Kids On The Block'' review until the end.

* [[Robot Buddy]]: Pollo.

* [[Rule of Cool]]: He really don't care about physics if something really awesome is happening, like two giant robots fighting each other.

* [[Rule of Funny]]: During "Secret Origins Month", he says repeatedly that he is judging these decades-old comics based on modern standards just because it is funny, and [[Fair for Its Day|they were good for their time.]] This is also why he does the entire last fourth of his New Kids on the Block review in rhyme.

* [[Running Gag]]: Eight.

** [[Hollywood Science|Of course! Don't you know anything about science?]]

** "[[Cry for Justice|And together, we could]] ''[[Cry for Justice|be]]'' [[Cry for Justice|justice]]!"

* [[Sanity Slippage Song]]:

** 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. 

* [[Screaming At Squick]]: At a guy dreaming he has his head on [[Lady Gaga]]'s body.

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Attempts this in ''The Dark Knight Strikes Again'' Part 3. He attempts this ''in text form'' in his text review [http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2008/10/web-of-spider-man-122-part-1-of-3.html\] of ''Web of Spider-Man'' #122.

''*Tries to run away but is forced back by his promise to recap the three comics.*'' }}

** He attempts to leave his review of ''Superman At Earth's End'', but he comes back, concluding...

* [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You]]: Harvey Finevoice points this out about the cover of ''Anita Blake: The Laughing Corpse'' <nowiki>#1</nowiki>.

* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: Still appears to be baffled as to Dr. Insano's true identity. {{spoiler|After stealing Neutro from Dr. Insano, he remarks offhandedly that Insano parked it behind Spoony's house, but seemed to be dismissing this as Dr. Insano just being careless.}}

** Parodies his own [[Schedule Slip]] in his ''Superman vs. The Terminator'' review, where his self-published comic ''Revolution of the Mask'' has still not come out with a third issue 30 years from now.

** The [http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s102/Linkara/New%20Guardians-2/NG-2-3.jpg caption] of his text review of ''New Guardians'' #2 [http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2008/05/new-guardians-2.html\]:

'''Linkara:''' Wait a second, how come it takes ''three months'' to do a review of a 24-page comic?! }}

** In ''Chain Gang War'' #1 Iron Liz reveals that the notes he left for her include a conspiracy theory that rambles for thirty pages about how ''[[One More Day]]'' is connected with ''[[Cry for Justice]]''.

* [[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.]]

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]:

** Linkara once flung a magnet at Cable to get him to stop his awful, ellipses-ridden self-narration.

* [[Sincerity Mode]]: His sudden [[Mood Whiplash]] on [[Cry for Justice]] #5 through #7 (in response to {{spoiler|Lian Harper getting offed for no good reason}}) drives the point home on just how serious he is.

* [[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?"

* [[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...

'''Harvey:''' Shut up! }}

* [[So Bad It's Good]]: [[In-Universe|As Linkara says]], Snowflame is either the worst villain ever created or the ''awesomest'' villain ever created. He seems to have a soft spot for this trope, treating these occasions as highlights of the comics he reviews. As far as Linkara is concerned, [[Brute Force]] is the "epitome" of [[So Bad It's Good]].

* [[Something Completely Different]]:

** "Ninja-style dancing".

** 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.

** In the Action Comics #593 review, the villain and the porn producer are talking about the possibility of making a Superman exploitation porn film - Linkara reacts by saying that [[The Cinema Snob]] should be reviewing this if that is where the comic is going. Cut to [[The Cinema Snob]] - "My Snob Senses are tingling!"

* [[Squick]]: Linkara's in-universe reaction in ''Ultimates 3 #1 and #2'' about how Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch are officially a couple... who are also still [[Twincest]] [[Brother-Sister Incest|brother and sister]].

* [[Stating the Simple Solution]]: Frequently finds himself doing this.

** In ''Amazons Attack'' when Artemis and Phillipus are constantly debating on what to do about an obviously insane Hippolyta: "Here's an idea: Stab your crazy queen in the head, assume command and act like Amazons!!!!!!"

* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: He was NOT happy about this happening to Lian Harper in ''[[Cry for Justice]]''.

* [[Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard]]: Some variant on this phrase has been uttered several times, especially when discussing ''X-Men'''s "Holy War" storyline:

** "Holy War" is then topped by the goal of the villain in ''Future Five'', whose goal is essentially to stop kids from going to college by planting agents to stay stuff about how college is not necessary, making himself the smartest man in the world.

*** Even ''that'' is eventually topped in ''Brain Drain'', in which Dr. Doom's plan is to enhance his intelligence with stolen knowledge... taken from ''high schoolers''.

*** And then Doom ''again'' tops it in ''Ultimates 3 / Ultimatum'': He had the Scarlet Witch murdered and started a robot war that would also kill Quicksilver but ''not'' Magneto so Magneto would declare a war on humans that Doom would somehow would come out on top of in the end. And then ''that'' was topped in ''Return of the Asthma Monster'' with the monster's plan to infect everyone in the world with asthma. 

* [[Stunned Silence]]: The world trade center damage in ''Cable #1'' left him horrified. He then decided to [[Change the Uncomfortable Subject]].

* [[Subverted Catchphrase]]: He's basically made it a running gag to subvert "Because poor literacy is kewl!" by swapping "kewl" for another word or phrase.

** In his Silent Hill: Dead/Alive review, he makes one towards L.A.

** In ''[[Spider-Man]]: The Greatest Responsibility'', a scientist mentions setting off "the world's first Virtual Reality Bomb" to which Linkara responds:

** "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.

** 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:

'''Linkara(as Robotnik)''': *shifts uncomfortably* ...so you have. }}

* [[Techno Babble]]: Willing to call comics out for it, but also willing to use it in his videos, especially when spoken by Dr. Insano or Linksano.

* [[There Was a Door]]:

** Linkara gets steadily more enraged by the Kool-Aid Man's apparent need to destroy a barrier every time he enters the scene in ''Adventures of the Kool-Aid Man''.

** In a crossover review of the ''Alone in the Dark'' movie with Spoony and Nostalgia Critic, Jesse Ventura's character kicks a door down and then crashes through a window.

* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: While many criticized the ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' [[Watchmen (film)|movie]] for being too close to the source material, Linkara initially panned it in-universe for the few things they changed, like {{spoiler|Ozymandias' plan changing from an "alien invasion" to blowing up energy reactors and framing Dr. Manhattan}} and his belief that the ending was more upbeat than ambiguous. However, he eventually did acknowledge that the movie was still very good despite the changes and mentions that he made the first review too soon after having seen the movie. Whenever Linkara ''does'' complain about something being changed he gives a good reason about ''why'' it sucks other than "it's different", or "they changed the status quo".

* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: Several in-universe invocations of comics he believes are better in theory than practice.

* [[Title Drop]] : "Help me set bad comics on fire from Atop the Fourth Wall!"

** Also occurs in his crossover with [[Bad Movie Beatdown|Film Brain]]:

'''Caption''': Channel Awesome would like to apologise for [[Incredibly Lame Pun|that pun]]. The writer has been flogged for his sins }}

* [[Title Sequence]]: ''Atop the Fourth Wall'' has an opening sequence composed of assorted clips from previous reviews combined with [[Lock and Load Montage|video of Linkara putting on his signature clothing and preparing for the review]]. There have been three montages created for the sequence, with the replacement using updated and newer clips that were created in the time since the first montage was produced. The sequence includes a theme-tune composed specifically for the series by Vincent E.L. and background graphics by NagyMarci. Throughout the sequence numerous comics are visible, primarily bad comics that are reviewed and featured on the show, but occasionally it will feature portions of Linkara's house that are not normally seen in the show, including his personal collection of comics (Presumably ''good'' comics). The three series displayed cover-to-camera and easily identifiable are ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'', ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'' and ''[[Booster Gold]]'' (Presumably the collection of Booster Gold's first series that Linkara mentioned in his ''Act of God'' review).

* [[Trekkie]]: Has a large collection of various Starfleet uniforms, which he wears whenever he reviews something ''[[Star Trek]]''-related (as well as in ''[[Kickassia]]'').

* [[Troll]]: He acts like one on occasion, but he's never mean-spirited about it. For example, he kicked off the Theme Song contest with a video that made him look like a [[Small Name, Big Ego]] with incredibly limited knowledge of the entire [[Caustic Critic]] community, up to confusing [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] with [[The Nostalgia Chick]].

* [[Tuxedo and Martini]]: Linkara does not like this type of secret agent. Said best at the end of the Sci Spy review:

** However, he does expect a character named [[Spin Offspring|James Bond Junior]] to have ''something'' to do with this trope.

* [[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"

** 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.

** Ensign Munrooooe!!!

* [[Video Review Show]]

* [[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.

* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Linkara's house prior to the 100th episode.

* [[Wham! Line]]: Linkara gives one to those who have not read ''[[Cry for Justice]]'': 

* [[What an Idiot!]]: Linkara points out in-universe that the best solution two scientists can think of to restrain an easily manipulable, [[Nigh Invulnerable]] super robot is to chain him up rather than disassembling him or fortifying him against enemy radio signals.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?]]: Points out that ''[[James Bond Jr.]]'' was one of numerous kids' animated shows based on movies that definitely were not made for kids. Others were ''[[Rambo the Force of Freedom]]'', ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'', and ''[[Highlander the Animated Series]]''.

** Also complained about in Superman: Distant Fires review. There's "Magic as a Wonderful Force", and "Narrative Magic." Linkara likes the former, hates the latter. As the latter is often just used for lazy writing. 

* [[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.

** Lampshaded when he cameos for [[The Bunny Perspective|Phil Bunni]].

'''Phil''': Nope. Now you can just promote this video on [[Twitter]], post it on your blog, talk about it on the forums...your coattails have been rode. }}

* [[Worlds Smallest Violin]]: Linkara once got out a violin in an ''Ultimates'' Vol 4.

 

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