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{{quote|''Man... I'' do ''love a good [[Video Game]].''|Jon}}
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Jon Jafari is Jon Tron'''JonTron''', a [[Video Game]] and film critic on the now-defunct [https://web.archive.org/web/20160326055453/http://normalboots.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=35&Itemid=11author/jontronshow normalboots.com]. Using a cheerful, energetic style and plenty of [[Cutaway Gag|cutaway gags]] and [[Visual Pun|visual puns]], he talkstalked about certain elements of video games, good and bad, and occasionally reviews specific titles. His sidekick iswas a green parrot named Jacques, who talksspoke in a vaguely robotic voice, hashad glowing red eyes, and offersoffered stoic commentary to contrast Jon's boundless energy.▼
{{quote|''This guy makes [[Egoraptor]] look sane by comparison.''|[[Tropers/Zennistrad|Zennistrad]]}}
 
Although Jon sometimes critiquescritiqued bad video games and bashesbashed them a lot (at times rather harshly), he iswas ''not'' a [[Caustic Critic]]. He usesused a lot less profanity than most others in his profession, and reactsreacted to bad games with exaggerated confusion (and sometimes sadness or disappointment, or less often, outrage). His initial reaction to the nonsense and weirdness in the games he plays iswas [[Unfazed Everyman|chilled out and accepting]]... until he finally ''snapssnapped'', often with ''hilarious'' results. Jon's most famous video is ''Waterproofing My Life With Flex Tape'', which caught the attention of ''Flex Seal'' and their promoter Phil Swift, which resulted in a sequel called ''Flex Tape II: The Flexening''.▼
▲Jon Jafari is Jon Tron, a [[Video Game]] critic on [http://normalboots.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=35&Itemid=11 normalboots.com]. Using a cheerful, energetic style and plenty of [[Cutaway Gag|cutaway gags]] and [[Visual Pun|visual puns]], he talks about certain elements of video games, good and bad, and occasionally reviews specific titles. His sidekick is a green parrot named Jacques, who talks in a vaguely robotic voice, has glowing red eyes, and offers stoic commentary to contrast Jon's boundless energy.
 
[[He Also Did|He is also known]] for being Not-So-Grump on [[Game Grumps]], a [[Let's Play]] channel that became very popular on [[YouTube]], until June 2013.
▲Although Jon sometimes critiques bad video games and bashes them a lot (at times rather harshly), he is ''not'' a [[Caustic Critic]]. He uses a lot less profanity than most others in his profession, and reacts to bad games with exaggerated confusion (and sometimes sadness or disappointment, or less often, outrage). His initial reaction to the nonsense and weirdness in the games he plays is [[Unfazed Everyman|chilled out and accepting]]... until he finally ''snaps'', often with ''hilarious'' results.
 
He claims to have been inspired mainly by [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]] and [[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|Spoony]]. [[Ho Yay|Then he photoshopped them making out.]]
 
Jon haswas beena inductedmember intoof Blistered Thumbs, the video games section of [[That Guy With theThe Glasses]], specificallyuntil Blisteredit Thumbsshut (naturally)down.
 
Jon has been married to Charlotte Claw since 2019.
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=== Games Discussed: ===
 
{{examples|Works Discussed:}}
* ''The Adventures of [[Mighty Max]]''
* ''[[Aquaman (Comic Book)|Aquaman]]: The Battle For Atlantis''
* ''[[Banjo -Kazooie]]: Nuts & Bolts'' (Upcoming)
* ''[[Birdemic]]''
* Three ''[[Bubsy]]'' games
* ''[[Castlevania]]''
* ''Cool As Ice''
* ''[[Daikatana (Video Game)|Daikatana]]''
* ''Dino City''
* ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns (Video Game)|Donkey Kong Country Returns]]''
* ''[[Final Fantasy XIII|Final Hallway XIII]]''
* ''Flex Tape''
* ''[[Lego Harry Potter|HP7P2PLehgooo]]''▼
* ''Foodfight!''
* ''Goop''
▲* ''[[Lego Harry Potter|HP7P2PLehgooo]]''
* ''Joe and Mac''
* ''[[Mario Kart (Video Game)|Mario Kart]]''
* ''[[Mario Party (Video Game)|Mario Party]]''
* ''[[Minecraft]]''
* ''[[My Sims]]''
* ''[[Nimbus]]''
* ''[[Sonic Colors (Video Game)|Sonic Colors]]''
* ''[[Sonic R]]''
* ''[[Star Fox Adventures (Video Game)|Stairfax Temperatures]]''
* ''Monster Bash starring Johnny Dash''
* ''[[Monster Party]]''
* ''Aquaman: Battle For Atlantis''
* ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]''
 
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=== Tropes: ===
 
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* [[Achievements in Ignorance]]: Jon is somehow able to play Minecraft with a Gamecube controller by putting a Metal Gear Solid box in a Super Nintendo. Eventually lampshaded near the start of his video on the Bubsy series.
{{quote| '''Jon''' (Trying to appease Jacques): Jon, that doesn't go there, you ''silly'' '''''BITCH!'''''}}
* [[Angrish]]: Expect him to fall into this when something particularly stupid happens in a game/movie he's reviewing.
* [[Arc Words]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47YPs-qwNQU&feature=plcp&context=C3d9d5d9UDOEgsToPDskJ_lsVNXGRgKKWlS81r06lY God has come] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?src_vid=YC8m1gOCppc&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_374271&v=8LPQ6nT4UpA to reap the sinners]. The past handful of episodes have also [[Running Gag|gone out of their way to mention milk that has gone bad]].
* [[Bleep, Dammit!]]: In "Boating Made (TOO) Easy", Jon is wondering if he can swear on the NASBLA website which is a long bleep with "[[Country Matters|cunt]]" uncensored.
* [[The Cameo]]: Makes frequent appearances in Peanut Butter Gamer's show. In PBG's ''[[Cursed Mountain]]'' review, he appeared in a flashback as an old mountain guru.
** Also, [[Egoraptor]] as Natalia in Malkovich's Gaming Game Show.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Jacques
* [[Deep-Immersion Gaming]]: [[Parodied Trope|Parodied]]; Jon is seemingly sucked into his ''Joe & Mac'' cartridge, only to reappear in his house a moment later. Jacques asks how he managed to escape.
{{quote| '''Jon:''' ''I just left.''}}
** [[Brick Joke]]: Turns out the characters from the game can " just leave" too. The episode ends with a dinosaur boss walking into Jon's living room.
* [[Faux Horrific]]: When trying to play ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'', it turned out that "The game's playing itself, Jon. ''The game's playing itself, Jon!''"
* [[Four Point Scale]]: [[Invoked Trope]] and [[Played for Laughs]]. Jon devised a meaningless ratings system wherein it's actually impossible for a game to receive bad marks, no matter how much he bashed it in his review. ''[[Sonic Colors (Video Game)|Sonic Colors]]'' and ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' received an "A/5" and a "Six Golden Bananas+/Shigeru Miyamoto" respectively; even though Jon spent the whole video mocking them (though it's pretty clear he enjoyed both). ''[[Nimbus]]'', described as "A game you will maybe forget", got a B/5.
* [[Funny Foreigner]]: Malkovich
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Despite his frenetic and slightly spastic persona, Jon has a very good understanding of game theory and will sometimes take a moment to explain exactly why a particularly bad fault is so fatal. For instance, his comments on being able to ignore the complex combo system in''Aquaman'' and win reliably by mashing the A button leads to an explanation of "Dominant Strategy", and the blatant [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] in ''Bubsy 3D'' prompts him to elaborate on [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]] and how such forced self-reference damages it. Since he tends to slow down when explaining these concepts to allow the audience to comprehend what he's saying, he usually lampshades them by shierking [[Large Ham|GAME THEORY TIME!!]] and/or splicing in a [[The More You Know]] type clip.
* [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation]]: Reading 3 to 4 [[YouTube]] comments caused this to (briefly) happen to him.
** In the Stairfax Tempratures review, his reaction to the Bamfodad.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: When Hitalia {{spoiler|reveals herself as a Randor}} in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVm5L0_yCSs&feature=context&context=C3a21115UDOEgsToPDskI5obzhG1xyXwtxByLUrnJD Malkovich's Gaming Game Show], she begins speaking in [[Con Lang|a made-up language]] with the occasional made-up word (namely "Malkovich" and "Quarksia") left in English, despite Jon criticizing this exact thing a mere month earlier in his ''[[Star Fox Adventures]]'' review. [[Rule of Funny|Knowing Jon]], [[Mythology Gag|this was almost undoubtedly intended]].
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* [[Large Ham]]: '''Jon'''
* [[Malaproper]]: Jon does this constantly as part of his character. Sometimes he makes up for it by adding subtitles... which are ''also'' full of malapropisms.
* [[Metaphorgotten]]: Jon has given us such beautiful similes as claiming that [[Castlevania: theThe Adventure|Christopher Belmont]] "climbs like frickin' [[Beach Boys]] on a hot summer Sunday" and describing a certain enemy in ''[[Monster Party]]'' as starched white pants "walking around like J. Edgar Hoover on a Tuesday afternoon." To say nothing of his analogy for the resilience of the human spirit in his ''Stairfax Temperatures'' review:
{{quote| '''Jon''': Here I am, a whole year later, still trucking along like a sack of potatoes on a long open road, wishing I'd stopped for gas at the last rest stop, and then on the Interstate 12, he gets hijacked and murdered by a bunch of Quaker ghosts!}}
* [[The Most Dangerous Video Game]]: ''Hilariously'' invoked and parodied in his ''[http://normalboots.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=147&Itemid=11&lang=en Final Fantasy XIII]'' review.
* [[NameTron]]: Far from seriously, of course.
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]: Jacques
* [[Old Shame]]: In spite of it being among his best videos, Jon hates 'Top 10 Overrated Games', and has even taken it off his site.
** For some reason he doesn't seem to like his 'Gaming In Public' videos either, and took those off his [[YouTube]] Channel.
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Jacques is often seen nuzzling or nibbling Jon, especially when Jon is acting emotional.
* [[Robot Buddy]]: It isn't clear whether Jacques is a robot or just a ''very'' peculiar parrot. Out of universe though, he's just a parrot made to seem like a robot in editing.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: His opening.
* [[Schedule Slip]]: Initially he uploaded his videos weekly. However, the gap between new videos has gotten bigger and bigger to the point where the series updates monthly these days. However, he's been picking up the pace as of late; the ''[[Star Fox Adventures (Video Game)|Star Fox Adventures]]'' and Top 10 [[Video Game]] Commercials episodes were released within a week of each other.
* [[Shout -Out]]: His avatar (see above) shows him wearing the yellow shorts, blue backpack, and shark's-tooth necklace of [[Banjo-Kazooie|a certain anthropomorphic bear]].
* [[Show Within a Show]]: ''Malkovich's Gaming Guilty Pleasures''
* [[Something Completely Different]]: Jon did an episode reviewing The Lost World, this would be the first episode to have nothing to do with video games.
* [[Spinning Newspaper]]: In reaction to ''[[Bubsy]]'' having damage dealt by falling too far without gliding.
{{quote| JONTRON QUITS<br />
"Falling damage in a platformer? There are some things no man should have to see. Nice tits btw" says a melancholy [[Jon TronJonTron]] }}
* [[Take That]]:
* [[Take That]]:* In his review of ''[[Sonic Colors (Video Game)|Sonic Colors]]'' (even though he ultimately gave the game a score of "A/5"), he mentions that a crucial matter in determining whether or not the game will be good is that the [[Wii]] may not have enough Blast Processing to run it. For those without context, "Blast Processing" is an utterly meaningless term invented by [[Sega]] in the early nineties to promote the [[Sega Genesis]] and ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Videovideo Gamegame)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', claiming technical superiority over the [[Super Nintendo]]. Jon takes cracks at Sonic Team regularly, but seemingly all in good fun.
** The entire ''[[Final Fantasy XIII|Final Hallway XIII]]'' sketch. Jon expresses his dislike of the game by means of an ''epic'' parody of [[The Most Dangerous Video Game]] trope. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|It really is worth seeing for yourself.]]
** In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20111126051828/http://normalboots.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=474&Itemid=11&lang=en Jon Tron and George Lucas Visit Jupiter]'' he mercilessly (and hilariously) ridicules the idea of going back to previous, finished works and editing them digitally, the way [[George Lucas]] does to the ''[[Star Wars]]'' original trilogy.
** He has no qualms regarding ''Goop''.
* [[Top Ten List]]: Though he sometimes does six when he can't think of ten.
* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: In the ''[[Star Fox Adventures (Video Game)|Star Fox Adventures]]'' episode, Jacques dies in a fiery, bloody explosion. A few minutes later, he's back to normal, as if nothing had happened.
{{quote| '''Jon''' (casually): ''Oh hey, Jacques. I thought you died.''}}
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: Malkovich apparently enjoys throwing the baby penguins off the cliff in ''[[Super Mario 64 (Video Game)|Super Mario 64]]''.
* [[Visual Pun]]
 
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