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** Also, Chip and Ironicus, after a year and a half, continued the Retsufrash of the Xin series.

* [[Broken Base]]: Viewers are pretty divided on the ''Apocalypse'' RP, as a portion consider it the funniest case of [[Reference Overdosed|reference overdosing]], and the rest consider the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Incredibly Lame Puns]] render the video intolerable.

* [[Crosses the Line Twice]]: Some of their videos.

** Despite only guesting in a handful of early RP videos, Shmorky has a surprisingly large number of fans.

** This was pretty much free advertising for [[Electrical Beast]].

* [[Fan Dumb]]

** In the tenth part of their Xin Commentary, Chip notices that somebody posted a review that Matched their commentary in the first 9 parts.

* [[Fan Hater|Fan Haters]]: Most of the comments on a riffed video can be summed up as: If you like this loser, you suck.

** As for the Let's Players that were riffed on, this could apply to some of them. While they might not mind the people of Retsupurae themselves, they may dislike the fans.

* [[Hate Dumb]]: SSoHPKC's fans, who continued blasting Retsupurae even after Seamus said he greatly enjoyed the video.

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]:

** Reading [http://www.bartleby.com/130/ "On Liberty"] becomes a bit difficult after watching "SNES9X".

** [[Rule of Three|Furthermore]] Meet 'N' Fuck Kingdom is this after being mentioned in a couple of Retsufrashes.

** In the ''Arise 2'' RP, when they encounter a keypad, Diabetus [[Genre Savvy|immediately asks]] if the code is [[Number of the Beast|666]]. It isn't. One year later, ''Arise 4'' comes out. There's another keypad in that game. Guess what the code is?

** On a more worldly aspect, the makers of Last Alert made one of the villains an [[Expy]] of Libya's Gaddafi. That said, Gaddafi was a very visible figure in the mid-to-late 80s; see Abdul Fakkadi from ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' for another example. Come Retsupurae:

'''Diabetus:''' A lot of foresight, there. }}

** In one video, they claim that Miss Hannah Minx is "a cross between Hello Kitty and Elvira!" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7rB6sxrQc0 Later...]

*** In the same video, Diabetus mocks the overly simplistic "Here's The Queen" card game by saying "In the DLC they have an Ace". A few days after the RP, cubex55 posted a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeV18bZGMqc&feature=related "Full Version"] of the original Longplay with a few things he missed (including the "real" ending of the game). One of those things was a different card game called... "Chase the Ace".

** slowbeef and Diabetus call Cobra the "anti-Han Solo", and the former even asks if Cobra's attempting to imitate [[Devil May Cry|Dante]] at one point. Earlier, Dante and Han Solo were considered derivatives of Cobra.

*** When the villain at the temple reveals his name to be Hammerbolt Joe, Diabetus offers his condolences. Later in the game, Cobra makes the same joke after {{spoiler|killing the fake Parrot Grass before it can finish revealing its name}}.

* [[I Am Not Shazam]]: The man behind the [[Gaming in The Clinton Years]] videos is called "navgtr" by Slowbeef and Diabetus. His name is actually George Wood, and navgtr (or NAViGaTR) stands for "National Association of Video Game Testers and Reviewers."<ref>The name is in all the videos because they're the ones who collected and archived the videos.</ref>

** In rants against them, the term "Retsupurae" is almost always confused for just one guy. This indicates that either the complainants have literally never seen an RP video, or that they're actually too stupid to realize that there's more than one voice talking in the vids.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt2uyDqbA-Q SNES9X],

** anything from the [[Gaming in The Clinton Years]] videos.

** Elemental Goddess gives us '''Islamic Fundamentalists!'''

** Parodying Newgrounds scores by posting incredibly vitriolic and hyperbolic one paragraph reviews followed by [[Four Point Scale|"10/10" or "9/10"]]

*** 'My grotty piss stained toilet'.

*** The ''Dark Seed 2'' RP in general is a [[Fountain of Memes]].

** The infamous 'titty-mmm-bop-bop-tittays' line from Xin #11 was this from the start.

* [[Most Annoying Sound]]: Any LPer who sings along with the music, does voice impressions, or uses too many sound effects. Playtennis14 and NostalgicRageHQ are two good examples.

** The oyster in ''King's Quest VI'' gets this reaction as soon as he starts talking.

** The town music in ''King's Quest V''. When Kuroinokaze goes back into the town a fourth time, they begin to wonder if the longplay video was actually designed to ''kill'' them.

** Various animals in ''King's Quest V'', too, which leads to an unusual insult based on the above:

* [[Nightmare Fuel]]:

** BigMastodon shoving pizza rolls into his greasy obese maw. Even the typically imperturbable Diabetus sounds excruciatingly grossed out.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLEUbXyCpHg Some of the later quoted comments in this video.] Kudos to Mr. Beardly for the voices.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3sDDem8dJ0&feature=related ZeldaAAAAaaaaAAAGH], where over half a video's footage turns into a glitchy, broken mess. If you're a fan of [[Marble Hornets]] or other similar works, this can be quite scary. Several people have commented that they expect to see Slenderman somewhere in the video.

* [[Nightmare Retardant]]:

** Their reaction to the "scary" flashes that they've watched.

** ''Lechuza'' too. When the scariest thing about your horror game is the haggard-looking face of your protoganist plastered across the title screen, something is very wrong. At the end of the game, an owl demon appears to kill the protoganist: the creators clearly want you to be scared out of your mind, but it falls flat because the "owl demon" is just a photograph of a great horned owl!

* [[The Scrappy]]: If a Retsupurae features a guest commentator that isn't Dave_O or Proteus, you can bet that some of the comments are gonna bash him:

** [[Freelance Astronauts|Ferr]] got a lot of hate for starring in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jKHamzykgc the infamous] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsoJon2iw8M drunken Retsupuraes], although at that time he was drunk with Diabetus and the commentary from him was questionable.

** Though you can say most LPers featured on Retsupurae are disliked, none seems to have attracted as much vitriol, both amongst the crew and the fanbase, than [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7iF0RRAZRc Queenie Z]. Lijik was another one, which eventually forced him to close his account.

** Fictional example: ''Dark Seed 2's'' Mike Dawson. You can practically feel the animosity slowbeef and Diabetus have for him as the longplay goes on.

** WhiskeyOnTheRoad's zoomed-in Pokemon Yellow LP [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1oVnDboM10 has to be seen to be believed].

** ActionBastard's [[Monster in My Pocket]] LP with his friend Tyler. "You're such a petty douchebag".

** Several of the games they riff on, such as ''[[Last Alert]]'', ''[[The Town With No Name]]'', and ''[[The Trapped Trilogy]]''.

** <nowiki>Jay7492XYZ::</nowiki> (who is actually Psychedelic Eyeball) did a Retsupurae of [[Slowbeef]]. It falls under this.

* [[Special Effect Failure]]: Several of the Flash games they've reviewed. The Arise games and Death Trap are particularly noteworthy offenders.

** To elaborate on ''Death Trap'': ''every single background picture'' looks directly ripped off a 3D art gallery website of the mid 90s. A lit fireplace is displayed in one room at a slight angle. Not only is the fire inside it ''not'' angled and not only is it tiled incorrectly (so it appears that a second fire is floating in midair above it), it is very obviously an animated GIF. In addition, the jump scares are just pictures with slight twitching animations applied to them. Even Arise managed to make better jump scares than that.

** This is one of the things that angered Chip and Ironicus with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2F6I3k1K7Q Fusion Media Hub.]

** At one point in ''Arise'', they find a drawer full of blood. ''Transparent'' blood.

* [[Tear Jerker]]: ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IuCoD-8MWA Mario, Party of One?]'' Funny commentary aside, this is by far their most upsetting RP, no thanks to [[The Woobie|Joshey164]].

** Same could be said by some fans on their series of Longplay RPs from early 2011 on.

** Inverted in the case of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtmSY3u9CUM SirRonLionheart]. Though he wasn't that popular at the time of the episode; Ron's subscriptions ''[[Critical Backlash|skyrocketed]]'' after this grilling. They've even said that they love him, now.

** The same has been said for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayeMqizulX0&feature=channel_page ElectricalBeast]. EB, for his part apparently quite enjoyed his Retsupurae videos.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8H6GrU4jYA SSoHPKC/Machinima.] Only 5 hours after the video was posted, it had 1,200 likes and ''1,600 dislikes''. To be fair, all of the dislikers [[Captain Obvious|were followers of Seamus and Machinima]], which was at least 300k strong for Seamus alone. To make matters even worse, SSoH is a follower of Retsu much like [[Proton Jon]], and has admitted he even likes the video, but [[Fan Dumb|people still don't catch on and accuse slowbeef and Diabetus of pointless trolling]].

** During the Wrongpurae of ''Apocalypse'', Slowbeef mocked the Playstation, wondering if there were any games that were memorable on the system. Whether or not he was serious, ''many'' people took it badly.

* [[Ugly Cute]]: ''Dark Seed 2'''s Behemoth in its larval form, who Slowbeef and Diabetus affectionately term "shrimp baby."

* [[Uncanny Valley]]: The various animations in Newgrounds flashes, such as the weird puppet-people in ''Arrival in Hell'', the incredibly stiff animation in ''The Mike Weiss Show'', or the [[Deranged Animation]] in ''[[Xin]]''.

* [[Unintentionally Sympathetic]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IuCoD-8MWA Meet Joshey164.] Despite his LP of [[Mario Party|Mario Party 2]]<ref>Which includes such gems such as him mainly rolling low numbers on the board, poor ability to win minigames, occasionally bumping into the camcorder with a bad autofocus, and above all, playing it ''alone''.</ref> being RP'd in order to highlight the very depressing nature of it, in the end, the two actually feel incredibly sorry for him and suggest their fans to go over to Josh's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmCok_hSY70 original video] and encourage him. Since then, Josh has undergone a massive [[Colbert Bump]] with his channel, chock-full of enthusiastically supportive comments (whether Josh's newfound fandom is actually being ''sincere'' about all this is anybody's guess).

* [[Values Dissonance]]: A somewhat common theme in the Wrongpuraes is how games that did so well in the past are just awful now. For example, slowbeef states how he liked the ''King's Quest'' games in the past, but now realizes they're terrible adventure games full of [[Moon Logic Puzzle|MoonLogicPuzzles]], [[Guide Dang It]] moments, and the use of [[Save Scumming]] to know about events the player would otherwise know nothing about.

** ''[[Rise of the Dragon]]'' won a Special Award for Artistic Achievement from Computer Gaming World magazine. Upon seeing the same art, slowbeef remarks that "It's like the art direction guy had a seizure."

* [[The Woobie]]: Their general treatment of [[Billy MC]].

** [[Slowbeef]] himself during ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4jwRuZzxEE Let's Play Wii Sports Resort Immediately]''. You can just hear how far the video pushed him toward the brink. Many of the comments show a bit of concern for the man as well.

** Tyler, [[Action Bastard]]'s guest in their LP of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9G-JAqOoyE Monster In My Pocket], almost never gets a word in edgewise while [[Action Bastard]] throws abuse at him for being a bad player. Even Slowbeef and Diabetus tell poor Tyler to stand up for himself.