Kickassia: Difference between revisions

* [[Amusing Injuries]]

* [[Angrish]]: What [[Bad Movie Beatdown|Film Brain]] spouts as he {{spoiler|holds the Cinema Snob at gunpoint inside the hotel room.}} [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by the Snob himself.

* [[Apathetic Citizens]]: None of the people of Molossia cares that their nation is being invaded{{spoiler|, nor do they when Molossia IS taken over}}.

** {{spoiler|One of them finally notices in Part Six when Angry Joe announces their freedom}}.

* [[Apple of Discord]]: In Part 3, {{spoiler|Baron Fritz von Baugh started to plant seeds of dissent against [[The Nostalgia Critic]], saying that someone else could do better as a leader.}} Considering these guys, it gets lampshaded but still played straight.

* [[Artistic License Gun Safety]]: Justified in that half the cast are homicidal maniacs, but seriously... scratching your chin with an Uzi?

* [[Ax Crazy]]: A good chunk of the cast including:

** Angry Joe.

** Film Brain who seems way too excited at the prospect of senselessly torturing somebody.

** Spoony in the background, for his own reasons.

** The Nostalgia Critic. He {{spoiler|rigs the entire base to explode in case you're a "nasty-wasty"}}.

** While undeniably one of the more sane and collected members of the cast, Linkara certainly does get into it when he commands an assault on the Critic's regime.

** At some point, almost every cast member can be seen casually brandishing a submachine gun.

* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: What else would you expect from a nation called "Kickassia?"

** Whilst cut from filming, the original script called for the scene where everyone argued over who should be the new President of Kickassia to be longer. In the original scene, Spoony was going to grab the Nostalgia Critic's hat, and give a speech about why they shouldn't fight anymore, which everyone would buy into. At this point, Spoony was going to reveal he was still Dr. Insano, who ''had been pretending to be Spoony on the off-chance that he would get the opportunity to seize control of Kickassia for himself.''

* [[Battle Cry]]

'''Film Brain:''' [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|SYMBOLISM]]!!<br />

{{spoiler|'''Insano''': '''[[For Science!|SCIENCE!!]]'''}} }}

* [[The Caligula]]: The Nostalgia Critic. Some of his actions included {{spoiler|rigging dynamite to blow up Molossia if someone tries to overthrow him, and banishing The Cinema Snob for pointing out the fact that he's, you know, nuts.}}

* [[Call Back]]: To the Brawl.

'''Nostalgia Chick''': Oh, yeah! He's funny. }}

** Angry Joe is still bitter about Chik-fil-A being closed on Sundays...

** In Part 2, Linkara's reaction to thinking Marzgurl's been killed when she hasn't is to cradle her in his arms and tell her about [[Disneyland]], which is a [[Shout-Out]] to the [[The Spoony One]] and his review of ''Strike Commando''.

** {{spoiler|Dr. Insano pulls off a "[[Shoryuken]]", which Spoony did in the first anniversary brawl.}}

** {{spoiler|Dr. Insano was scared after he got defeated by N. Bison and so he pleaded for help, with the exact same quote the Nostalgia Critic used in his review of the Star Wars Holiday Special.}}

** "Remember your roots Critic! ''Remember your roots!!''"

** The [[Cluster F-Bomb]] battle between the Critic and the Snob seems to be a [[Call Back]] to the one between the Critic and the Nerd in the Brawl.

** {{spoiler|Dr. Insano: "... with SCIENCE!!!"}}

** And then there's N. Bison.

'''Chris Larios:''' Oh, Mr. Critic, do you some day plan on being [[A God Am I|bigger than God]]?<br />

'''Nostalgia Critic:''' OF... That question you can definitely say yes to.<br />

* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]: {{spoiler|[[Double Subverted]]. All of TGWTG comes together in a last ditch effort to resurrect Santa Christ. At first it seems to fail, but he needs three days to be resurrected.}}

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: [[Jew Wario]].

*** '''Jew Wario''': I like it!

*** '''Jew Wario''': [[Think of the Children|WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?]]

* [[Crisis Crossover]]

* [[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon]]

** Also, Angry Joe suggesting they should disembowel President Baugh and wear his organs as hair nets.

* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: Compared to the Brawl, which was basically everyone randomly spouting their catchphrases while beating each other senseless, here most of the contributors get a chance to be showcased and can play to their strengths.

*** And echoed by Benzaie later: "If not the team, then do it for us! The team!"

* [[Description Cut]]: Used in Part four:

'''Cinema Snob''': "Everybody thinks you're nuts." }}

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|The Second Coming of Santa Christ.}}

* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: What {{spoiler|Ma-Ti urges the Critic to do.}}

** Also Benzaie to Spoony.

* [[Glad I Thought of It]]: The Nostalgia Critic is the leader after all.

'''Phelous, [[Deadpan Snarker|delightfully snarky]]''': Gee, does it involve using weapo-?<br />

'''NC, [[Large Ham|hamming it up]]''': It involves using weapons! }}

* [[Glasses Pull]]: Cinema Snob during the [[Lock and Load Montage]]. He pulls off his glasses, spins dramatically and... puts them back on.

* [[Godwin's Law]]/[[Hitler Ate Sugar]]: In Part 1, The Nostalgia Critic gives a speech that compares the cast to the Nazis both as a positive and a negative.

* [[Godzilla Threshold]]: {{spoiler|Releasing Dr. Insano.}}

* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: {{spoiler|The Nostalgia Critic and Doctor Insano battle each other hand-to-hand in Part 5, but they end up breaking out the [[Beam-O-War]] to finish the fight.}}

** And this becomes ''literal'' combat later on with {{spoiler|Critic fighting Dr. Insano.}}

*** The ham becomes a Godzilla-sized monster of its own during the battle when the Critic goes on his rant about superconducting electromagnetism, complete with epic, bombastic music.

** And then the Critic and {{spoiler|Ma-Ti}}.

** Really, it's fair to say the entire movie is nothing but a plethora of Hams duking it out.

== I-P ==

* [[I Am the Trope]]: Used in Part 4.

'''Cinema Snob''': I know you're the system, that's my point! }}

* [[I Don't Like You and You Don't Like Me]]: Played with when {{spoiler|Angry Joe asks Linkara to plan the assault against the Nostalgia Critic}}:

'''Angry Joe:''' ''(sadly)'' Oh... }}

* [[Ignored Epiphany]]: Sorta, as N. Bison obviously longs for the good old days as the Nostalgia Critic in the Ma-Ti scene, but he refuses to give up his hold on Molossia or his paranoia towards the others.

* [[I Lied]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Insano}}, largely due to his [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]. Like most of his evil deeds, [[Laser-Guided Karma|it backfires on him]].

* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: Angry Joe for the most part and lampshaded by Linkara in Part 6 when {{spoiler|Angry Joe tries to shoot the Critic down. He ''never'' hits.}}

* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Nostalgia Critic uses this to win over the others. See the Nazi example above.

** Surgeon General Sage proves that holding an Uzi makes you unkillable with overwhelming evidence such that ''he's holding one and isn't dead''. Returns later after {{spoiler|Santa Christ is shot}}, lamenting that "He should've held an Uzi."

* [[Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence]]: Parodied in part 2, with footstools and stepladders ahoy.

** A deleted scene shows this being played straight, when Lordkat takes one look at the footstool, and instead opts to go through the gate. Which just happens to be a few steps away.

* [[Invisibility]]: As it turns out, [[Jew Wario]] is '''really''' good at stealth.

* [[I Resemble That Remark]]: Angry Joe whips out his gun when he's told he's gun crazy.

* [[It Has Been an Honor]]: Beary to Benzaie, {{spoiler|immediately before blowing up in Benzaie's face}}.

* [[It Has Only Just Begun]]: The title of part 4, ''The Beginning of the End of the Beginning''.

* [[Jekyll and Hyde]]: Spoony and Dr. Insano [[Negative Continuity|are portrayed this way]] in 'Kickassia'.

* [[Large Ham]]: The series is pretty much a [[World of Ham]]. Of special note are the Nostalgia Critic and Spoony.

** Angry Joe also repeatedly takes large bites out of the scenery.

'''Angry Joe''': *Demented smile* }}

* [[Laser Blade]]: Spoony can be seen holding one in the first or second episode.

** Well, Handsome Tom changed his shirt, Benzaie pulled down his sleeves, and the Snob took off his glasses....and then put them ''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|back on]]''.

* [[Magic Versus Science]]:

Insano: "Well, ''I'm'' science-ier!" }}

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Insano, duh.

* [[Negative Continuity]]: Pretty much ''everyone'' is out of character to some degree, in the name of the [[Rule of Funny]]. Obviously, the [[MST3K Mantra]] is in full effect.

** Evidently hearing a lot of wank about this before the saga had even finished, Lewis noted this in his Twitter:

** Film Brain responded to this as well, saying that everyone is just playing facets of their personalities, and that he can actually be quite bouncy and enthusiastic in reality.

** Cinema Snob, Phelous and Benzaie's commentary also says that during filming they were doing things like intentionally changing the order they were standing in between shots to mess with the people who were looking for continuity errors.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: While most of the commenters during ''The Kickassian War'' read their lines in the style of a Ken Burns documentary, Lord Kat sounds perfectly normal, and is rational enough to notice how insane everyone is getting.

* [[The Only One]]: The people of Channel Awesome (except [[Only Sane Man|Linkara]]) all agree that only Dr. Insano can defeat the Nostalgia Critic.

'''Linkara:''' [[Lampshading|That's a stupid plan!]]<br />

'''Angry Joe:''' Exactly! A stupid plan, for a stupid man!<br />

'''Linkara:''' [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Are you high?!]] }}

** Also the reason for the Critic to pick the Chick as Vice-President.

* [[Orcus on His Throne]]: Once Nostalgia Critic gains control of Molossia, instead of going through with his plan of eventually taking over the world, all he wants to do is sit on the couch and watch TV.

* [[Out of Character]]: Nearly all the reviewers, to an extent, acted at least a little out of character for the special. The most notable example, however, was Film Brain, who was portrayed as more childlike and innocent than his sarcastic self from Bad Movie Beatdown.

** Two carried over from ''The Nostalgia Critic'' and ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]''-- [[Street Fighter|"OF COURSE!"]] and [[Patton|"You magnificent bastard, I read your book!"]] become more awesome because, instead of the clips, we get Critic dressed as N. Bison saying the former and Linkara pretending to be Patton while saying the latter (and rattling off more ''Patton'' quotes). Even funnier is Critic repeatedly trying to avoid said [[Running Gag]].

* [[The Runt At the End]]: Said after the entire group runs out the door yelling and screaming:

* [[Sanity Ball]]: It gets passed around quite a lot. Phelous, Linkara and the Cinema Snob are the most common holders. Occasionally vanishes altogether.

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Never exactly a paragon of sanity to begin with, actually having power turns the Nostalgia Critic totally insane.

** [[The Nostalgia Critic]] and [[The Nostalgia Chick]] continue with their weird brand of [[The Masochism Tango|Masochism Tango]], with a bit of clueless respect/affection on his side and homicidal [[Stepford Smiler]]-dom on her side.

** Also Chick/Nella in the "Kickassian War" DVD extra - [[Lampshaded]], of course:

* [[Shock and Awe]]: {{spoiler|The Nostalgia Critic and Dr. Insano can both shoot lightning out of their hands}}.

* [[Shoryuken]]: Of the Insano variety. Used against a guy dressed as a ''[[Street Fighter]]'' character, no less.

** Also, Paw's reason for why he's a "shock jock" radio DJ.

** Jimmy Carter ("Nice people always do so well in politics. Just look at Carter!") and pretty much every president in general.

'''Benzaie''': [[Sarcasm Mode|Yeah, imagine that.]] }}

* [[Take Over the World]]: The Plan.

** Lampshaded after Chris Larios tries to get the Critic to say [[Running Gag|"OF COURSE!"]] when dressed as N. Bison, and proceeds to ask him if he intends over the world, before escalating to the galaxy and finally, being bigger than God.

* [[Taking You with Me]]: Nostalgia Critic has this sort of contingency plan for when he ever finds himself in danger of losing his position of power.

* [[The Unintelligible]]: Film Brain when {{spoiler|he's arresting the Cinema Snob}}. According to Film Brain's commentary, this was because Doug Walker's direction told him to act like a SWAT team - not just a ''member'' of the team, but ''everyone'' on it at once, so most of his speech for that scene was unintelligible yelling.

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Angry Joe is firing his guns in the air. President Baugh's family's response:

** When Spoony gives in to the madness and fully transforms into Dr. Insano, Critic goes, "Oh, hey, you gave in to the madness! That's awesome," and goes back to watching television.

* [[Victory Is Boring]]: The crew were much, much more fired up about invading a country than running it.

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Nostalgia Critic

'''Film Brain:''' Aaah. [Rubs his hands together eagerly.] }}

** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when Handsome Tom switches from his Hero shirt to a Villain shirt at the end of part 1.

*** Given how {{spoiler|Angry Joe missed every shot at him, they probably just thought they finished him off when they lost sight of him}}.

* [[Where's the Kaboom?]]: The Critic tries to {{spoiler|blow up Kickassia with the explosives he wired in Part 6,}} even though Cinema Snob informed him that {{spoiler|after he was banished, he defused the bombs.}} He pushes it anyway...

* [[Whole Costume Reference]]: The Critic in his [[Street Fighter (film)|M. Bison]] uniform (of COURSE!).

* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Nostalgia Critic punches {{spoiler|Nostalgia Chick when she kept purposely hitting him with a baseball bat}}.

* [[Your Head Asplode]]: What [[The Legend of Zelda (animation)|Link's]] head does before he [[Killed Mid-Sentence|finishes his catch phrase]] while Little Miss Gamer was explaining why she can't help with the invasion.

* [[Your Mom]]: This lovely little exchange:

'''Nostalgia Critic''': Shut up. }}

** [[Played for Laughs]] in one of the bloopers, when Doug forgot his line:

'''Doug:''' ...I'm doing your mother. }}

* [[You Fail Logic Forever]]: Sage's logic is that so long as he's holding an Uzi, he cannot die.

* [[Zerg Rush]]: Their one tactic is to charge forward screaming. The first time they're not even armed.

* [[Zig-Zagging Trope]]: Both [[Godwin's Law]] and [[Hitler Ate Sugar]] are played straight and inverted ''in the same sentence''.