Marik Plays Bloodlines

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.

Little Kuriboh takes on the world of Let's Plays in this series of online videos. Marik from Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series attempts to play Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines, snarking in his typical fashion. Bakura is somewhere in the background, occasionally commenting on what Marik says.

The tenth episode was uploaded in November 2013. Episodes can be found on YouTube.


Tropes used in Marik Plays Bloodlines include:

"Geez, I can't believe on my first day as a vampire I sucked off a hobo!"
"That's not the first time I've shot off in a guys face."
"Ooo, I love a good manhole!"

    • The current channel name is "Marik Plays With Himself."
  • Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny: "I'VE GOT TO WARN THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ALIENS ARE ABOUT TO oh, hey, free newspaper!"
    • And Melvin in part eight: "FOOLISH FOOL! THE SHOPS CANNOT SAVE YOU FROM MY oh, hey, a video game!"
  • Australian Accent: "In the next episode of Home and Away a crazy vampire goes nuts and eats everybody!"
  • Awesome but Impractical: Porn magazines stapled together with gold that you can't even read without lessening the value. "It's kind of ineffectual as porn itself, but...it's a good collector's item."
  • Awesomeness Is Volatile: Sings when a lightbulb shatters, and assumes the "sheer awesomeness" of his voice did it.
  • Ax Crazy: Mel Gibson, apparently.
  • Bare Your Midriff: Marik treats his as something dangerously sexy. Do not look directly at it.
  • Batter Up: What Marik resorts to when the Wrong Crowd flips their collective shit on him. Because Marik pressed...
  • Berserk Button: For your own safety stay the F(EFF)K away from the Wrong Crowd's car stereo, apparently it's like holy ground to them.
    • For Marik himself, anything that threatens his midriff is as good as dead.

Marik: That. could. have . been. MY!! MIDRIFF!!!!

  • Big Fancy House: "That must be one of Mel Gibson's more modest properties."
  • Big No: "I'll just work on my tan. Wait. I'm a vampire. I no longer have a tan. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
  • Bouquet Toss: "If anybody else lays a finger on those flowers, I will murder them!"
  • Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Some of Marik's rambles take a sharp turn into TMI territory, without any change in his tone.
  • Brief Accent Imitation: "No mate, I'm here to make fun of yo accent!"
  • Brick Joke: At one point in Part 4, one of Marik's rants has him claiming he could play Gary Oldman in a movie about the latter. The Stinger shows Oldman's infamous Villainous Breakdown in Léon: The Professional...with Marik's voice dubbed over his.
  • Broken Record: KILL YOUR FAMILY! KILL YOUR FAMILY! KILL YOUR FAMILY! KILL YOUR FAMILY! KILL YOUR FAMILY! KILL YOUR FAMILY!
  • Call Back: If you look closely in the first episode, you can see his character name is Malik Blishtar.
    • Part 5 has a callback to Concrete Giraffes, Marik sees a statue that reminds him of "that guy that tried to star in our movie" but neither he nor Bakura have any memory of the incident
    • And then THAT guy comes visit them on the next episode because he heard that they "were playing a video game" and then goes on commenting on how he is "elite".
    • In part 7 he sees the statue again but this time he knows who it is.
  • Calling Your Attacks: "Vampire punching power!"
  • Comically Missing the Point: Marik not getting the innuendos he makes.
    • He hears a girl in another room having sobbing screams, but assumes those are sex sounds, and coming from the washing machines in the room he's in.
    • "Okay, orgasm ... didn't expect that ..." - about Heather.
  • Complete Monster: Marik calls the bartender at the Asylum this. How can someone that insensitive NOT be a Complete monster? *sob!* Artax!
  • Cool and Unusual Punishment:

Prince LaCroix: The punishment for this transgression...
Marik: ...is a wedgie!
Prince LaCroix: ...is death.
Marik: Whoa! That's way worse! That's like five wedgies!"

Marik: THIS IS FOR DARING TO HAVE NICER LIVING CONDITIONS THAN ME!

"Hey check it out: 'Vampire Bat'! Hah! It's funny because I broke his legs."

Marik: What do you think Bakura, should I take the [estrogen] pills?
Bakura: Well to be fair, I doubt they'd have any noticeable effects.

Marik: You've got a point--HEY!

  • Easily Forgiven: When first visiting the Asylum, Marik is utterly disgusted by the big, bald, insensitive jerk of a bartender who DARED to make light of Artax's death. Next time he visits the Asylum, Marik wants to team up with him as a fellow tattooed person.
  • Everything Trying to Kill You: When a chandelier falls.

"Ahh! Lumiere tried to kill me! I knew it! Furniture can't be trusted!"

  • Evil Laugh: Marik does one after he steals a car stereo.
  • Five-Bad Band:
    • Big Bad: The Door To Mercurio's Apartment
    • The Dragon: The Back Door To The Wrong Crowd Headquarters
    • Evil Genius: The Escher Stairs Leading To The Wrong Crowd Headquarters
    • The Brute: The Gumball Machines
    • Dark Chick: The Door To Marik's Appartment
  • Foreshadowing: Several times in the first five episodes Marik makes comments about how "It can't get any worse" or "I'm sure there's nothing that bad waiting on the other side of this manhole." Anyone who's played the game can guess this is leading up to the infamous Oceanside Hotel level.
    • Episode 5 has Marik spotting a statue and asks Bakura if it looks like "that guy who tried to star in [their] movie". Next episode Slendy drops by and offers to help play the game.
  • Freudian Slip

"And he was okay with that because he wasn't going to have children anyway because he's totally ga-, erm, I mean, he's not really into kids."

  • Funny Background Event: While Marik is talking about The Neverending Story to the bartender, one of the dialogue options is about "The card game of life". Marik of course picks that option.
    • If you look carefully, immediately after "Rock Me Amadeus" starts playing, you can see Therese looking around the room with an expression that is pretty much "Where the fuck is this music coming from?" avoiding eye-contact.
  • Glass-Shattering Sound: Marik believes he smashed a lamp in a videogame by "hitting the perfect octave."
  • Ghost Story: "You will let me glomp you or I will curse you because ghosts have that ability apparently ... !"
  • Humanoid Abomination: Mel Gibson
  • Implausible Deniability: Marik did not just admit he was gay!
  • Incredibly Lame Pun

"Hey Bakura!"
"WHAT."
"BAIL BONDS!"

"THAT DOES IT! No more Mr. Nice Marik... Not that there ever was a Mr. Nice Marik because I am an evil villain! But if there were a Nice Marik, then he wouldn't exist because I JUST KILLED HIM! Because I'm evil."

  • Jump Scare: Not quite in the game, just Marik was easily startled.

"Ahh! Don't do that!"

Marik: "You're not busy, you're pretending to read a book!"
Bakura: "What makes you think I'm pretending?"
Marik: "You've been on the same page for, like, two hours. You've just been staring at me."

Marik, Sucking the blood out of the neck of a prostitute: "Aww... You know it's true love when your partner decides to drink blood from your neck. Ahh... the sweet tastes of cigarettes and regret... Wait. What happened. She's not moving... Why isn't she moving..? Prostitute lady!?"
Bakura: "Marik, she's quite clearly dead."
Marik: "What! How did that happen?"
Bakura: "You killed her."
Marik, sobbing: "How? Why? For what reason? Roxanne, you don't have to put on that red dress tonight. Roxanne, you don't have to sell your body to the night."

Bakura: "Well, she doesn't have to do any of that stuff now, because she's dead! Gahahahahahahaha!"

Marik: "She was one week away from prostitute retirement!"

Marik: I'm gonna find the wrong crowd and not read things together! Yeah, That's right! Entire novels left unopened!

"Uh, I'll - I'm going to go to the shops for a bit. I-I'll be back in about ten minutes."

I wanna make you be a vampire!
I wanna make you be a vampire, vampire, vampire!

    • Well, Imma let you finish, but Dracula was one of the greatest vampires of all time! Of all time!"
    • "So what you're saying is, the first rule of Bite Club is that you don't talk about Bite Club."
    • "Don't be a homicidal maniac, okay?" "Try telling that to Johnny!
    • Marik meets "Christian Bale."

Marik: Christian Bale! I'm a huge fan! What the hell are you doing in vampire world?
Mercurio: Waiting for that blasted tow truck I called an hour ago.
Marik: No, no, no, the correct answer was "I'm Batman."

Marik: Oh, by the way, I've heard some rumors flying around that Bakura and I... well, you know, so I'd like to address those rumors right now, I'd like to "come out of the closet", you might say.

Bakura: Marik...

Marik: It's okay, Bakura, I know what I'm doing. It's true: Bakura and I...are evil! And we're not ashamed of it!

    • It happens again in 7.5. Marik apparently decides to address those rumors once and for all.

"Y'see, technically KILL YOUR FAMILY KILL YOUR FAMILY KILL YOUR FAMILY"

Marik: (beating a member of the Wrong Crowd to death with a baseball bat) For it's [[Take Me Out At the Ball Game|onetwo three strikes you're dead]] at the oldball game~!