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[[File:SpoilerWarning_8862.jpg|frame|The [[Spoiler Warning]] crew. From the left: Josh/Reginald Cuftbert, You, Shamus, Rutskarn and Mumbles.]]
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''Note: This entry has nothing to do with actual [[Spoiler|Spoilers]]. If you were looking for that kind of Spoiler, check out the [[Spoiler Policy]] page.''
'''[http://www.shamusyoung.com/spoilerwarning/ Spoiler Warning]''' is a [[DVD Commentary]]-style [[Let's Play]] group, whose main style consists of deconstructing, analyzing and (in some cases) ruthlessly mocking the plots and characters of the games they play, usually while using a play-style designed to showcase pieces of the game in ways that 'normal' players usually won't see (i.e. by playing the game like it was a tabletop role-playing session and they are [[The Loonie]]). They tend to favour [[Role Playing Games]].
The group (in order of appearance) consists of:
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* ''[[Shamus Young]]'': Better known as the author of ''[[DM of the Rings]]'' as well as a contributor for [[The Escapist]]. Tends to serve as [[Mister Exposition]], and also the most opinionated of the group.
* ''Josh Viel'': An anime reviewer for The Escapist. Plays the game, with the others as backseat drivers.
* ''Randy Johnson'' : The Player for the majority of the [[Mass Effect]] LP (taking over for Josh a handful of episodes in), Randy left after season one was finished. Started the group's now signature [[Chaotic Stupid]] play-style.
* ''[[Rutskarn]]'': Added to the group for the Fallout 3 LP. The group [[Troll]], [[Pungeon Master]], and hipster.
* ''Mumbles'': Added to the group for the [[Bioshock]] LP. Her job is to be almost, but not quite, too cool for the show.
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* ''Trainz 2'' ([[April Fools]] episode)
* ''[[Amnesia: The Dark Descent|Amnesia the Dark Descent]]'' (Anniversary episode)
* ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]''
* ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' (between-season specials)
* ''[[Hitman]]: Blood Money'' (One week "Hitmas" special)
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* [[Awesome but Impractical]]
* [[Berserk Button]]:
** [[Idiot Plot|Idiot Plots]] and Railroading pisses them the hell off, with [[Bethesda]] earning a special place for ''Fallout 3''.
** Yeoman Kelly Chamber of ''Mass Effect 2'' in particular is a sour point for Mumbles because [[Name's the Same|Kelly happens to be her name.]] She's also disgusted by [[Red Letter Media|Mr. Plinkett's voice.]]
** Mentions of Little Lamplight.
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* [[Brick Joke]]: Rutskarn's ''Face/Off'' pun in the ''Amnesia'' episode.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Most of the team has one.
** Mumbles' "God-''dammit'', you guys!"
** Mumbles correcting the pronunciation of Caesar:
{{quote|'''Mumbles''': Kaiiiiiiiiiiiii-sarrrrrrrrrrr...}}
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* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: Reginald Cuftbert of ''Fallout 3'', slayer of Three Dog, The Enclave, and The Capital Brotherhood (and a ''lot'' of other things in-between), {{spoiler|died for good (and unintentionally) in a [[Random Encounter]] with a non-named super mutant not two minutes after finishing the last quest of Broken Steel. The group decided this was too good an [[Anticlimax]] to waste, and stopped playing.}}
* [[The Eeyore]]: Shamus will find something to complain about in just about anything going on.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards|Even Chaotic Stupidity Has Standards]]:
** At the end of the main ''Fallout 3'' campaign, they refused to use the Modified FEV due to the fact that it is tantamount to a slow suicide, with the player not being immune to any of its effects despite what Eden (who is unaware that the Lone Wanderer is born a wastelander) says.
** A better example was their all-rescue streak in ''Bioshock'' (naturally, with Shamus lampshading that the 'gains' of going all-harvest were so minimal so as to render the 'moral choice' pretty much moot).
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: It is kind of wierd looking back on the first season with the lack of Mumbles and Rutskarn and the inclusion of Randy.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Once given permission to do ''Honest Hearts'' after being vetoed against doing so previously and [[Sanity Slippage|tormenting the rest of the cast]] [[Humiliation Conga|for an entire week's worth of episodes]], Josh indulges himself in deliciously vile bouts of laughter in jubilation in [[Karma Houdini|having gotten his way]].
* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: Shamus not spotting things happening on-screen happens semi-regularly. It's even happened to Josh a few times, and he's the one playing. Shamus also admitted to having failed to spot Liberty Prime during his first play-through of ''Fallout 3''. For those not in the know, Liberty Prime is a 50 feet tall [[Humongous Mecha]] and tends to dominate the room it's in, which you visit several times during the course of the game.
** Josh also points out during the [[Mass Effect 2]] series that a large group of Quarians failed a spot check on their ''wost enemy in the middle of their home''
* [[Fission Mailed]]: 'The Great Crash' in ''Fallout: New Vegas''.
** This was shortly followed by the episode 'Fission Mailed', in which Shamus inadvertently made Josh go do the ''Honest Hearts'' DLC.
* [[Flashback Cut]]: The opening of ''Human Revolutions'' involved Shamus saying the reason they weren't playing the original ''[[Deus Ex]]'' first was due to problems with the others' computers in viewing his stream properly. We then cut to a flashback of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7xH6PvJng&t=00m47s how said stream looked to the other players]. ('''WARNING:''' Not for the faint of heart or ear.)
* [[Fridge Logic]]: Pointing out the in-universe [[Fridge Logic]] in the games they play is their secondary hat, like the above Little Lamplight question and why, for whatever reason, ''C4'' is classified as a concealed weapon in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]''. In one case, Josh is impressed when Papa Khan lampshades the Fridge Logic of Cuftbert coming to his home and talking to him while having no idea who he is.
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* [[Iconic Item]]: The pre-war bonnet in the ''Fallout'' games
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: In ''Fallout: New Vegas'', Mumbles is often urging Josh to take up cannibalism, which he always refuses for the sake of not wanting to waste a perk. Of course, he does at one point absentmindedly eat a piece of human flesh he looted from the Fiends.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]:
** It's pronounced '''Kai'''-'''Sarr''', not Caesar. Mumbles loves pointing this out.
** Shamus was very insistent about referring to ''Mass Effect 2'' as a "[[Take Cover|cover-based shooter]]" instead of an RPG.
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* [[Promoted Fanboy]]: Inverted. The regular hosts were self-proclaimed fans of ''Errant Signal'', and thus got its creator to join their merry band.
* [[Obviously Evil]]: One of the things that the group like about Human Revolutions is that despite the fact that Frank Pritchard is consistently a jerk to Adam Jensen and David Sarif is a Cyberpunk CEO, {{spoiler|neither are actually evil nor do they backstab Jensen at any point in the game.}}
* [[Running Gag]]:
** Someone (commonly Shamus) [[Sarcasm Mode|getting upbraided by the others]] for spoiling the plot of the games they play.
** Rutskarn's (under legal drinking) age.
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* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: In ''Mass Effect 2'', the story of {{spoiler|Thane}} took this bent (which was lampshaded). He was recruited, never used once, never talked to once, {{spoiler|and then killed by debris in the opening rounds of the Suicide Mission}}. Basically, all that (plot-mandated) ado for absolutely nothing.
** In ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'', the team basically proclaimed the entire carnivale of Venice as this, considering you went through a lot of pointless minigames just to have the prize taken away due to a bribe.
* [[Shiny New Australia]]: This trope [[Conversed Trope|was mentioned off-hand]] during the climax of ''Mass Effect 2''.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The opening for ''ME2'', which features Shepard being blown out of the Normandy while a jaunty jazz tune plays.
* [[Stating the Simple Solution]]: Another trademark is to question overly complicated quest proceedings (which they're Railroaded into) with asking why they don't do the obvious, i.e. commonly kill someone.
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** Likewise, they accuse [[Fallout: New Vegas|Caesar's Legion]] and [[Assassin's Creed II|The Templars]] of being pointlessly evil for no real reason.
** And, of course, Josh himself. (Or at least his playstyle for the purposes of the LP.)
* [[Suckiness Is Painful]]:
** Josh's playstyle and Rutskarn's puns occasionally have this effect on the others.
{{quote|'''Shamus:''' Is this my blood? I think this is- I think I'm bleeding. Guys, I think that pun...}}
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