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Freddie Wong, often known as "freddiew", is an American filmmaker, musician, and web director best known for his action shorts. His combination of fast paced action, comedy, and great special effects have made him the sixth most subscribed channel on [[YouTube]]. Freddie first began gaining popularity as a ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' player, and after college with the help of his friend Brandon Laatsch moved on to making weekly webshorts. Expect action, lots of bullets, nods to video games, and some truly bizarre and imaginative concepts augmented by excellent FX.

 

He is also running his own full fledged web series called ''[[Video Game High School]]'', which will air on his channel beginning on May 17, 2012.

* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: ''Duct Hunt''.

* [[All Chinese People Know Kung Fu]]/[[Positive Discrimination]]: Discussed and invoked in ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN8E8L5c9WI Kung-Fooled]''.

* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Averted pretty well, actually. Unless it's for laughs, like in ''[[Minecraft]] Massacre''.

* [[Camera Abuse]]: [[Played for Laughs]] in ''Epic VFX Time''.

'''Freddie''': "This isn't ''[[The Bourne Series|Bourne Identity]]''!<ref>[[Paul Greengrass]] and his distinctive camera shake didn't appear in The Bourne Identity since he didn't direct until Supremacy</ref> You ain't [[Matt Damon]]!" }}

* [[Cloning Blues]]: {{spoiler|Implied to have happened in ''Halloween Massacre''.}}

* [[Cliché Storm]]: ''Beach Justice'' [[In-Universe|is meant to be this]].

* [[Cool Car]]: Jon Favreau's truck, which flies and can shrink into a suitcase.

* [[Defied Trope]]: In ''Skyrim Badass'', one of the [[Mooks]] during Freddie's rampage tries to put an arrow in his knee as per the famous meme. [[Arrow Catch|Ain't happenin', pal]].

* [[Did Not Get the Girl]]: ''Gun Size Matters''. Three words: {{spoiler|360 No Scope}}.

* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Everyone is trying to pass themselves off as an amazing fighter in ''Kung-Fooled''.

* [[General Failure]]: General Johnson in ''Executive Command''.

* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Swearing is pretty rare in any of Freddie Wong's videos. The few times it does occur, in ''Kung-Fooled'' and ''Epic VFX Time'', it's bleeped out.

** [[Sound Effects Bleep|*Caw!*]]

* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: [[Exaggerated Trope|Exaggerated]] in ''[[Splinter Cell|Splinter Cell: Lightbulb Assassin]]''. Justified if you've ever played ''Splinter Cell''.

* [[Guns Akimbo]]: Directly referenced and invoked in "Executive Command".

** The "boss" from ''Time Crisis'' uses two submachine guns.

* [[Me's a Crowd]]: ''Big Blue Ball Machine'', ''Guitar Army'', and ''Halloween Massacre''.

* [[Mind Screw]]: ''Big Blue Ball Machine''.

* [[Mooks]]

* [[More Dakka]]: ''Epic VFX Time''

* [[Mundane Made Awesome]]: ''The Golf War''

* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: The backstory of ''Beach Justice'', which is meant to be a 88 minute [[Made for TV]] movie.

* [[Ocular Gushers]]: Used hilariously in the end of ''Gun Size Matters''.

* [[One-Man Army]]: Freddie usually fulfills this on a daily basis, but ''Executive Command'' invokes this, {{spoiler|but here Freddie is an [[Idiot Hero]] who gleefully commits war crimes.}}

'''General Johnson''': Sir, he is the team. }}

* [[One Bullet Left]]: ''Beach Justice''.

* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: ''Inverted'' in ''Duct Hunt''. A mook gets shot twice in the foot and drops dead.

* [[Parody]]: Freddie's ''Power Hour'' to [[Kanye West]]'s famous "Power" video. In his words, "Kanye West's vision through the lens of party dudes."

** He does the same thing in ''Skyrim Badass'', stabbing any person who dares to ask him for help.

* [[Pink Mist]]: Commonly seen in the death of [[Mooks]]. [[Word of God|Freddie has written on his blog]] that the mist is made from taping red chalk being clapped into the air.

* [[Pluto Is Expendable]]: In ''Epic VFX Time''.

** He's also promoted several fanboys himself, such when two of the kids from ''[[Kids React To]]'' got a part in ''Jedi A-Holes''.

* [[Rocket Jump]]: ''[[Captain Obvious|The Rocket Jump]]''.

** As {{spoiler|Freddie dies}} in ''Flower Warfare'', he witnesses a double rainbow...

** ''[[Inception|Thanksception]]'', obviously.

** ''[[Skyrim]] Badass'' is one big one to the epic fifth Elder Scrolls game. Freddie even defies the old "arrow to the knee" meme by catching said arrow.

* [[Refuge in Cool]]: The entire point of ''Epic VFX Time''.

** ''Especially'' because of all the gunfire, blood, and explosions.

* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: General Johnson is fond of these. "Sir, with all due respect, shut your mouth." "That's because you're a noob, sir."

* [[Time Stop]]: Done in both ''Chrono Trigger: Short Action Scene'' and ''Time Freeze Shootout''.

* [[Trigger Happy]]: '''YES'''.

* [[Troll|Trolls]]: Freddie and Ray William Johnson go after a bunch of these with a hammer and a shotgun in ''Troll Massacre.''

* [[Up to Eleven]]: ''Epic VFX Time''

'''Harley''': No, get to the '''choppers!!''' }}

* [[Unnecessary Combat Roll]]: Freddie does one for laughs in ''Bodycount''.

** This is also Milkman's superpower.

* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: ''Time Crisis'' and ''Duct Hunt'' have jokes of the Asian variety.

'''Duct Hunt, Game Over Screen''': ''Freddie, what's '''Wong?''' Freddie? Freddie!'' }}

* [[William Telling]]: With [[BFG|a .50 caliber]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWvXam499yI sniping of a watermelon off Freddie's head!]

 

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