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[http://manicexpression.webs.com/ '''Manic Expression]''' was founded by James Walsh as a place for bloggers and video-makers to come and show off their work. Anyone can submit their work, with the chance of it being featured in the [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20191030061626/https://manicexpression.wikiafandom.com/wiki/Outstanding_Blog_of_the_WeekOutstanding_Content_of_the_Week_(2012) "Outstanding Blog/Video of the Week"]. It has a small but Orwellian monitored community, meaning [[Small Name, Big Ego|the usual riff-raff]] tend to get thrown out rather rapidly.
 
Reviewers featured on the site include Toongrin, Movie Curiosities, Decker Shado, and Rowdy C. Moore of [[TV Trash]].
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You can find the site's current incarnation [https://www.manic-expression.com/ here].
* [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]]: So far, the Japanese and Prussian Sky Fortresses.
* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: Sturginium (otherwise known as Element 270), the Ore used to make the Land ships and other huge weapons of the game.
* [[Attack Drone]]: The Covenant of Antarctica use these instead of regular fighter planes.
* [[Attack of the 50 ft Whatever]]: The small tank bases are about the size of a regular modern day tank. Medium Tanks of the setting are roughly [[Warhammer 40000|Baneblade]] sized. And it only gets bigger from there.
* [[Base On Wheels]]: The American Washington Class and British Sovereign Class land ships.
* [[Giant Enemy Crab]]: Or rather, [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Giant Victorian Steampunk Enemy Crab]]. It's the Covenant Landship.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: The Prussian Metzger robot.
** Also, the John Henry Robot is a FLYING Humongous Mecha
* [[If It Swims It Flies]]: The French Magenta Mk 1 Pocket Battleship.
* [[Giant Squid]]: The Japanese have Giant Robotic Squids that crush ships. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Does this remind you]] [[Command and Conquer|of anything?]]
* [[Military Mashup Machine]]: Several of the more exotic weapons in the game, most notably the Landships the various factions use.
* [[Spider Tank]]: The Japanese Taka Ashi Heavy Walker.
** As well as the Covenant's medium and small scale Walkers. Their Land Ship is more like a Crab.
*** The Covenant's Mobile Airfield plays this more straight however.
* [[Tank Goodness]]: The smallest units available are light tanks. Infantry is either non-existent or abstracted away.
* [[Up to Eleven]]: Where to begin? How about the Saint Paul's Cathedral/White House on Tank Treads? Or the Giant Robotic Squids? Or even the Giant Steampunk Enemy Crab?
 
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*[[Accentuate the Negative]]: Averted for the most part. James Daniel Walsh, the site's founder, is known for his STOP THE HATE columns defending various movies, TV shows, and people both real and fictional from disproportionate amounts of hate.
*[[April Fool's Day]]: Manic Expression has had many ways of observing it. Sometimes there are collaborative efforts where one blogger will do a blog emulating the style of another. On another occasion, one Expressionist did a blog about a rarely seen deleted scene from a movie as if it were actually in the finished product (until owning up to it at the end of the post).
*[[Caustic Critic]]: Rowdy C. Moore of [[TV Trash]] is definitely this. Some of the other reviewers (such as Decker Shado, Whyboy, Curiosity Inc, and The Last of the Americans) will have their moments where they are VERY hard on the material they're reviewing. Others (such as Moviefan12 and site founder James Daniel Walsh) will only be harsh on the material they truly feel deserves it.
*[[Lampshade Hanging]]: Since many of the tropes reviewers use have been used and over-used to death by many Internet reviewers, most Expressionists will lampshade their use of said tropes in their reviews.
*[[The Movie]]: 'Manic Expression: Creative Chaos'. There's also the animated movie, though that has been in [[Development Hell]] almost since the start of the site.
*[[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: James and Fusionater.
*[[Running Gag]]: 'Too Drunk to Dream', to the point where several Expressionists danced to it in a video. Various Expressionists have their own running gags in their respective blogs, videos, or shows.
*[[Talking to Himself]]: In some of the Podcast Plays, a few Expressionists will play multiple roles, such as in 'High Class Academy', where Patricia Miranda plays two very different characters (one a girl who works with auto mechanics, the other a pretentious high class snob) in the same scene.
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