Behind the Bytes

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A web series partnered with ScrewAttack, Behind the Bytes is a video game parody in the form of a steamy behind-the-scenes tell-all. It features interviews with three recurring characters: industry insider Jeff Tozai, gaming journalist Chad Makepeace, and socialite Clarissa Ankle. Together, they dish out dirt on some of gaming's most beloved icons.

Pixels... polygons... prostitutes.

WARNING: Contains hard truths... and harder hitting lies.

Behind the Bytes can be viewed on ScrewAttack and YouTube. There's also a Twitter account that doles out juicy, scandalous tidbits in between episodes.

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Tropes used in Behind the Bytes include:

• Alternate Character Interpretation: In-universe. The idea the whole series is built around.
• Ambiguously Gay: Tails.
• Ancient Conspiracy: To make Bowser the king of the world and usher in a new era of reptilian mutants.
• Bad Boss: Shigeru Miyamoto, due to his insanity.
• Big Eater: Tails again.
• Black Comedy
• Dirty Communists: Luigi. He's close with the Beijing regime.
• Executive Meddling: Duke Nukem 3D was supposed to be Duke's middle-finger to the patriarchy and a victory for feminists everywhere, but Apogee Software's CEO Commander Keen recut it into a total mess of misogyny.
• Freudian Excuse: Commander Keen's overbearing mother turned him into an evil arch-misogynist.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Chris Redfield--from homeless hobo to steroid-abusing Nazi freak.
• Kill'Em All
• Kissing Cousins: Chris Redfield prefers to keep it "in the family" vis a vis his cousin Claire.
• Lady Drunk: Ms. Ankle is never seen without a glass of some alcoholic drink or another.
• Mad Scientist: Miyamoto, who meddled in God's domain by creating the Wind Fish. And may be harvesting organs from children to live forever.
• Money, Dear Boy: Duke Nukem, a devoted feminist, agreed to do the ultra-sexist Duke Nukem Forever so he could fund his women's crisis center.
• Obviously Evil: Luigi. He's in close with the Chinese Communist Party, killed Che Guevara and JFK, and shot Claire Redfield. He keeps getting more and more depraved with each episode.
• The Prima Donna: Both Link and Zelda before hooking up.
• Protection From Editors: In-universe. Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5 both get made as pet projects by Leon Kennedy and Chris Redfield, respectively, and suffer for it.
• Reality TV: Parody of the "documentary" style reality show, specifically steamy tabloid exposés.
• The Resenter: Luigi despised Mario ever since he was left out of Super Mario 64 while Yoshi got a cameo.
• Running Gag:
  • Odd similes involving cake.
  • "Of course, Luigi hated (person X)..." (except for Commander Keen, who is almost as vile as he is)
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections: Navi was cast in The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time because she was screwing Miyamoto.
• Tabloid Melodrama
• Who Shot JFK?: The gunman on the grassy knoll was... Luigi.
• Those Wacky Nazis: After going mad with steroid abuse, Chris Redfield becomes a Nazi fanatic.