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Bennett White, a.k.a. '''Bennett the Sage''', is an Internet video producer on ''[[That Guy With The Glasses]]'', whose matter-of-fact style contrasts with the more theatrical reviewers on the site. He can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20131021015247/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/the-sage here]. Bennett hosts or has hosted three series:
* ''Sage Reviews'', in which he covers recent video games in a traditional analytical review style (ie, to help viewers decide whether or not to purchase them) rather than purely for entertainment.
* ''Masterpiece Fanfic Theatre'' (now retired), in which he performed [[Dramatic Reading
* ''Anime Abandon'', where he looks at vintage anime from the '80s and '90s, some classics, some terrible. This series is closer to the entertainment-based sketch reviews done by other TGWTG contributors.
Bennett also makes regular cameos in other TGWTG personalities' videos, where he portrays himself with a sadistic persona, thanks to an early crossover with ''[[Ask That Guy With The Glasses]]''. He does an annual anime review crossover with [[The Spoony Experiment|the Spoony One]] (which led to the creation of ''Anime Abandon'') and makes frequent appearances on ''[[
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* [[The Abridged Series]]: Did ''[[Elfen Lied]] Abridged'', which is currently on hiatus.
* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: 90% of his game reviews are like this (it seems like the only triple-A FPS title he genuinely liked over the past few years were ''[[Killzone]] 3'' and ''[[Resistance]] 3'', two titles he really gushes over, while cross-platform and Xbox titles tend to get much more critical treatment). Unlike [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee]] or Bennett's own Anime Abandon reviews, the negativity is played completely straight instead of done in a bombastic, jokey manner, which has led detractors to complain it comes across as grouchy, nitpicky, and [[Feigning Intelligence]].
** Sometimes averted in his ''Anime Abandon'' reviews, where even if he doesn't like a certain thing he will acknowledge some of its good points, or in the case of ''Akira'', its influence on anime culture as a whole. This is especially evident in his review of ''[[Perfect Blue]]'', which he says he doesn't ''hate'' but doesn't really ''like'' either, and that he can tell it was Kon's first film since certain parts of it feel weak compared to his later work.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Brought up in Urotsukidoji, granted it ''is'' a hentai.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: When he hangs around [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses|Ask ThatGuy]]. [[Nightmare Fuel|GOODNESS.]]
* [[
* [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs]]: When reading ''[[My Immortal]]'', the caption states that he couldn't decide whether to voice a secondary character as gay or annoying, so he made the character sound annoyingly gay.
* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: He's particularly incensed by this subplot in ''Doomed Megalopolis'', though his objection has less to do with it being incest and more with it being ''rape''.
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* [[Cheshire Cat Grin]]: Sage is a master of the really pervy, unsettling grin. It helps that he has really prominent cuspids.
* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Subverted during his crossover with [[The Nostalgia Critic]]:
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''*cut back after commercial, he is rubbing his elbows*'' "What? I have crusty elbows!" }}
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Occasionally comes up, though in [[
* [[Fan Girl]]: He doesn't have any, as memorably said in his Q&A video.
* [[Feigning Intelligence]]: Bennett's detractors usually claim he does this.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by [[Brows Held High|OanCitizen]] in his Jin-Roh review, which Sage proceeds to quite adroitly refute.
* [[Fridge Horror]]: He realizes that for Jubei to have casually shown up while Kagero is being raped in ''[[Ninja Scroll]]'' means that Jubei must have been there for a while but didn't do anything to stop it, and concludes that Jubei is a dick.
** This is the reason he gives for [[Boy Band|B4-4's]] video, "Get Down," being part of his Top 10 [[Surreal Music Video]] list.
* [[Game of Nerds]]: Bennett outed himself as a baseball fan during the ''[[Mezzo Forte]]'' review.
* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: He laments that the girl-on-girl scene in ''Cloud Mows the Lawn'' comes after virtually nothing but scat scenes.
* [[Gratuitous Rape]]: He's brought up several times in Anime Abandon that he hates it when shows use this trope just for shock value, and takes special issue with the incestuous rape subplot in ''Doomed Megalopolis'', and seriously considers ending the review right then because he'll just continue to be pissed off about it for the rest of the review. Rather ironic considering how he acts [[The Sociopath|in character]]. He even lampshades it:
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* [[He Panned It, Now He Sucks]]: An [[Invoked Trope]], since Bennett's made a habit of anticipating this reaction whenever he reviews something that he knows is popular.
** At the start of the ''Akira'' review he spends a long time talking about how influential the film was before he starts laying out its flaws.
** Same with ''[[Perfect Blue]]'', complete with anticipatory covering of his ears from expecting boos, only for them to not come at first [[Delayed Reaction|and start up a second later once he removes his hands]].
** At the start of his ''[[Grave of the Fireflies]]'' review, he makes it clear he's fully expecting this when he says he doesn't like it.
* [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue]]: One episode of "Masterpiece Fanfic Theater", ''Bennett vs KFC''.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: He [[Invoked Trope|points out]] that the voice of Mikura in ''[[Mezzo Forte]]'' is the same as Rika from ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' and Edward from ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', and proceeds to refer to Mikura as "Edward" for the rest of the review.
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* [[Pass the Popcorn]]: Bennett sits back, drinks a soda, has some popcorn and just shows clips of ''[[The Ultimate Teacher]]'' until Rob Walker calls him out on it. {{spoiler|Then Rob joins in.}}
* [[Plot Hole]]: He points out the rather large one in ''Doomed Megalopolis'' concerning the fact that Yukiko claims to know that her father is really her mother's brother, even though he supposedly impregnated her ''after'' Kato tried to use her as a conduit to summon the spirit.<ref>the actual explanation seems to be that he raped her more than once, but it's still not clear in the show</ref>
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* [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil]]: Evidently Bennett's feelings on it, since whenever he sees rape being played less than seriously or in a juvenile manner, especially with ''Mad Bull 34'', he gets ''very'' mad.
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* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: He gives an extended one to the brother in ''Doomed Megalopolis'' after he launches into a [[
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* [[Running Gag]]: Outside of videos, his refusal to admit he has fangirls.
** During the ''Mad Bull 34'' review, the "Blondes in Peril" count.
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* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: His "Masterpiece Fanfic Theater" segments have him read rather dreadful stuff in as sophisticated a tone as he can muster.
* [[Squick]]: [[Invoked Trope|He shudders in pain]] in reaction to the voice acting of ''Garzey's Wing.''
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** One of the captions during ''Clowd Mows the Lawn'' is "No! No! Do not want!" once the scat scenes start.
* [[Surreal Music Video]]: He did a whole [[Top Ten List]] of them.
* [[Take That]]: He evidently does not like [[Vic Mignogna]], judging by the [[Overly Long Gag|long]] sequence in the ''Junk Boy'' review where he beats up Floating!Vic Mignogna's head with a baseball bat.
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: His feelings on the fact that ''Doomed Megalopolis'' only introduces Keiko, who, as he points out, ''is the one who beats the [[Big Bad]]'', in the third out of 4 episodes. He concludes that she would have been more interesting to focus on rather than her asshole, incestuous rapist husband.
* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: Well, considering that he was pretty cool with being [[Black Comedy Rape|spooned by Spoony]] and even asked "same time next year?" the second time it happened...
* [[Too Soon]]: The reason he decides not to even touch the reference to earthquakes in Japan during the ''Doomed Megalopolis'' review.
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