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[[File:SuburbanKnights_6323.jpg|frame|"Okay, you all look epically ridiculous. Now this is the kind of team that's gonna get us riches!" <ref>The smudges are [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110707021038/thatguywiththeglasses/images/thumb/2/26/3year.jpg/607px-3year.jpg autographs]. Left to right, top row: [[Dark Maze Studios|Ed Glaser]], [[Todd in the Shadows]], [[Paw Dugan]], [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]], [[Phelous]], [[That Dude in the Suede]], [[The Game Heroes|Handsome Tom]], [[Jew Wario]], [[Marz Gurl]], [[Bennett the Sage]]. Bottom row: Holly Brown (TGWTG showrunner), [[Obscurus Lupa]], [[The Angry Joe Show|Angry Joe]], [[Benzaie]], [[The Spoony Experiment|The Spoony One]], [[The Nostalgia Chick]], [[The Nostalgia Critic]], [[The Cinema Snob]], [[Captain Planet|Ma-Ti]] (Bhargo), [[Luke Mochrie and The Inners|Luke Mochrie]], [[Bad Movie Beatdown|Film Brain]], [[The Game Heroes|8-Bit Mickey]], That Other Guy (Rob Walker).</ref>]]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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== A-H ==

* [[Abandoned Playground]]: "A worthy place to call our battlefield!" Though it turns out to be not quite abandoned, as a mother comes with her daughter.

* [[Accidental Innuendo]]: In-universe, [[Played for Laughs]], and then lampshaded afterwards.

 

'''Luke:''' I'm going to turn around now. That better be what I think it is. }}

* [[Acting for Two]]/[[Talking to Himself]]:

** "And on a lighter note, the President has been shot."

* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]: After Linkara tells Critic about the Necronomicon {{spoiler|and how it could possibly bring back Ma-Ti}}, he says how no one from the site would be able to help him since they're all "adventured out". [[Gilligan Cut]] to...

* [[And Then What?]]: {{spoiler|After Malachite talks on his smartphone. The critics point out the hypocrisy of it all. When the Critic asks Malachite what he's going to do after he rids the world of technology, Malachite just stands there and replies, "Think of something."}}

* [[And You Thought It Was a Game]]: The reviewers begin their quest under the assumption that it's all a game that Jaffers made up. By Part 5, even the Critic realizes that "This ain't no game anymore."

** Spoony ''assumes'' that the Cloaks are a group of LARPers and nothing more. He's wrong.

** Linkara points out to the Critic that magic is the only explanation for a witch suddenly spouting blinding lights, then vanishing.

'''Critic:''' ...keep walkin'. }}

* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: {{spoiler|Suede}}, but [[Justified Trope|then again]], everyone was happy to see {{spoiler|him}}, and vice-versa, so {{spoiler|he}} just basically let them win so they could {{spoiler|catch up on old times.}}

* [[Big No]]: Angry Joe and Spoony both do this upon learning the "free car" was a ruse, Joe with a Cluster Big No and Spoony with a single extended one. It's implied that the rest of the reviewers each made one as well when they happened upon the truth about the "free car."

* [[Big "Shut Up!"]]:

'''Everyone else''': '''''SHUT UP!!!''''' }}

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]:

*** Averted, one line she speaks is English and is [[Waxing Lyrical|a lyric from]] "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies.

*** She misquotes the BNL line (Chikiti China, not Chikiti Chinese), though. And at another point, she utters "who's your daddy" over and over real fast.

* [[Brick Joke]]:

** "Hypnotize them with its cheap novelty?", about the supposed uselessness of [[Jew Wario]]'s juggling-trick with the Fushigi Ball in part 2. In part 3, it actually works like that in battle.

** In Part 1, The Nostalgia Critic tells Ma-Ti that he can't join the quest because Nostalgia Chick has lost her contact lens, and he needs to stay behind and find it for her. He returns in Part 3, contact lens in hand. Happens again with the excuse that Mickey needs goat porn. {{spoiler|Occurs again in a not-so-funny fashion when the Critic offhandly tells Ma-Ti to get him a coffee, and he later finds it sitting on the counter. After Ma-Ti's death}}.

** There is one lovely brick joke in Part 5. {{spoiler|Several years ago, [[That Dude in the Suede]] left the site to go on a two-year Mormon missionary work. Turns out that in-universe he went to protect the Hand of Malachite as one of its guardians.}}

*** And no one besides Film Brain and Luke are happy when The Critic tricks them into going to Chicago.

*** [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] has a cameo in both to provide exposition and does not take part in the actual filming, although {{spoiler|he does get to voice the ball of light during the fight at the end}}.

** The Nostalgia Critic again brings up Chick-fil-A's policy of being closed on Sundays.

** Spoony brings two characters of his ''[[Ultima]]'' reviews (Gandalf and the Gate Cleaner).

** Nella as the Chick's stunt-woman.

** ..''Somewhat'' {{spoiler|[[The Last Angry Geek]] is one of the cloaks, but only takes his cloak off in the last video.}} before running away.

* [[Care Bear Stare]] /ThePowerOfFriendship: {{spoiler|As Malachite and Ma-Ti get stuck in their [[Beam-O-War]], the whole team starts cheering and chanting "HEART!". It really pushes Ma-Ti forward.}}

* [[The Cavalry]]: Team 2 arrives in the middle of Team 1's battle and they back them up.

* [[Cerebus Callback]]: A miserable Critic wanders home and sees that Ma-Ti still got him his coffee.

* [[Collective Groan]]:

** At the "EPICNESS!!!!!!!" tape:

'''[[The Nostalgia Critic]]''': Don't review it! }}

** Also when they are told that they will be fired if they don't participate in the quest and when Linkara/King Arthur suggests a sing-along.

** [["Hey You!" Haymaker]]: Film Brain and Luke on a Cloak ("Expecto my fist!").

* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: The Critic just doesn't understand that the Chick and Lupa want him to {{spoiler|keep his legs close together}}.

'''Nostalgia Critic:''' I know, and I for one respect Chick-fil-A for not serving people on Sunday. I wonder if we can get it so they don't serve Christians. }}

* [[Cosplay]]: Goes hand-in-hand with [[LARP]]-esque adventure quests, though the term itself is never mentioned.

* [[Designated Girl Fight]]: Played straight, then subverted. At first Chick and Lupa just fight the witch, but then Chick fights Jaffers and Lupa becomes an [[Action Girl]].

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: "Names will be remembered. Quests will become legends. And legends will become... legendary."

'''Witness:''' He was emotionally troubled. }}

* [[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]: {{spoiler|Ma-Ti}} dies in Critic's arms. Critic doesn't take this well.

* [[Do Not Taunt Cthulhu|Do Not Taunt the Good Witch of the Woods]]

* [[Don't Go in The Woods]]: Who knew the woods and bike trails of Chicago suburbia were so dangerous?

'''Others:''' SHUT UP! }}

* [[Dope Slap]]:

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: The Cloaks.

* [[Expy]]: GNN newscaster Larry Prince in the "EPICNESS!!!!" video is one of Lori Prince, one of Doug Walker's past sketch characters, who himself is an [[Expy]] of Larry King.

* [[Eye Poke]]: During the first fight against the Cloaks, Brad pokes a Cloak in the eyes and runs away.

* [[Fan Service]]:

** Linkara reveals that in one of his reviews {{spoiler|he sings [[Grief Song|Ma-Ti's song.]]}}

* [[Foe Yay]]: Film Brain and Luke Mochrie. Despite having spent the previous three parts fighting over the Critic's affections, they spend a significant portion of Part 4 holding hands. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Doing so to speak to a mystical stone phantom, perhaps, but holding hands nonetheless.]] After Part 5, they start getting along.

* [[The Fun in Funeral]]: Leave it to the good folks at [[Channel Awesome]] to inject a little bit of humor into something as depressing as {{spoiler|Ma-Ti}}'s death. {{spoiler|Ma-Ti is cremated by Todd and his ashes are poured into an Quaker Oats oatmeal canister (8-Bit Mickey comments that they should've used a Pop-Tarts box instead), and Tom chucks the thing god-knows-where while Paw plays "Amazing Grace" on the kazoo.}}

* [[Funny Background Event]]: When Crom is talking to Benzaie in Part 6, both Critic and Jaffers chase each other with the latter's sword, while Phelous fights a Cloak's sword barehanded.

** Linkara gets worried when {{spoiler|the Critic is interested in looking for the Necronomicon, a book that can raise the dead. Maybe. If it exists}}.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Invoked when the third Cloak takes off his hood.

* [["Hey You!" Haymaker]]: In addition to the [[Combination Attack]] of Luke/FB, {{spoiler|Suede}} on the Witch.

* [[Ho Yay]]: [[In-Universe]].

== I-P ==

* [[Ice Cream Koan]]:

'''Critic:''' Yes, and the way to pain is to [[Groin Attack|nail you in the nads]]. }}

* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: Todd when he finds out that {{spoiler|Malachite's Hand is hidden in the field where they started.}}

* [[Klaatu Barada Nikto|Klaatu Barada Necktie]]

* [[Large Ham]]:

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: {{spoiler|When they are being chased by the Cloaks, [[Bad Movie Beatdown|Film Brain]] knocks Luke down in hope that he'll be captured. At the end of Part 4, [[Bad Movie Beatdown|Film Brain]] is left behind and captured by the Cloaks.}}

** {{spoiler|When Malachite sends Spoony flying around the world. Spoony eventually comes back and crash lands right on top of him}}.

* [[Magikarp Power]]: {{spoiler|Ma-Ti, even though it's really just his ring that saves the day.}}

* [[Mama Bear]]: {{spoiler|In Part 3, when Team 2 is battling on a playground, preventing anyone from using it, a mom and her kid show up, and the mom ain't pleased.}}

* [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]

* [[Metaphorgotten]]: Film Brain's "pea" analogy in Part 2.

** The end of Part 6. They're victorious and have found the gauntlet, but then everything goes silent and they all get an [[Oh Crap]] look on their faces: {{spoiler|Malachite is right across the road}}.

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Critic and Benzaie due to the [[Stripperific]] nature of their costumes and [[Jew Wario]] for playing a [[Memetic Sex God]]. With the weather being the way it was, the former two regretted wearing so little.

* [[Musicalis Interruptus]]: Linkara keeps trying to sing in Part 2, but everybody tells him to knock it off. His efforts in Part 3 go just as well. He's interrupted yet again in Part 7, {{spoiler|but is finally allowed a whole song when he argues that he didn't even get a story arc, though his acting ability may have made up for it}}.

* [[Nakama]]: Out of verse, as always. But even in verse, they become this. They're still assy and snarky, but they stand together and comfort each other when one gets upset or hurt.

* [[Ninja Prop]]: In a production like this, it's understandable that villains and minor characters would be played by the site's supporting cast and less visible reviewers. So it's a surprise when Cloak #1, portrayed by [[The Last Angry Geek]], {{spoiler|actually ''is'' the Last Angry Geek}}.

* [[No Except Yes]]:

'''Critic:''' Exactly! }}

* [[No Fourth Wall]]:

** The reviewers know [[The Oner]] is for the trailer and can read the on-screen subtitles to understand Arwen!Nostalgia Chick. [[Channel Awesome|But then this is pretty much status quo for them]]. Oddly enough they can't seem to read San!MarzGurl's subtitles, but then again, they did have to be ''told'' to read the subtitles by the Nostalgia Chick.

** Arwen!Chick distracts Cat with a... montage? How does that work?

*** And in Part 7, it's pretty much lampshaded by the reviewers that it really does [[Confusion Fu|nothing but confuse people.]]

** At the end of Part 7, Linkara complains that he didn't get a song ''or'' a character arc.

** {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|Actually]], it was revealed in the DVD that someone ''did'' in fact find the gauntlet. Not someone we really want having it, though.}}

* [[Non Sequitur Thud]]: 8-Bit Mickey, after being [[Fastball Special|thrown by Handsome Tom.]]

** Spoony {{spoiler|after being launched into the air & sent flying around the world ''several times' by Malachite}}.

* [[Noodle Incident]]:

** Luke's previous quest for treasure.

** Todd {{spoiler|cremating Ma-Ti.}} Both acknowledged as such by the Critic and Todd remarking that the others would probably be better off not knowing the details.

* [[Not So Different]]: {{spoiler|Jaffers and his friends turn out to be another group of costumed geeks like the Critic and his reviewers. This is further lampshaded by real-life brothers Doug and Rob Walker playing the Critic and Jaffers respectively, and [[That Dude in the Suede]] and the [[The Last Angry Geek]] being members of Jaffers' crew.}}

* [[Oh Crap]]:

** Spoony's fellowship has an epic one when they realize the Cloaks [[Real After All|really are supernatural beings]].

** The Critic realizing he's spilled the beans on {{spoiler|getting the map from a chain letter.}}

** After realizing {{spoiler|Malachite set the whole thing up and put a tracking spell on the map, the Critic remembers Team 2 has the original map, and there's no way to contact them.}}

** Note that Linkara walks a bit out of frame, forcing the camera to jerk to the left. This is because he got confused about when they were splitting up.

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: The girl using a cellphone {{spoiler|who Malachite kills}} (played by one of Doug's ex-girlfriends) got quite some attention from the fandom, ever since her ''one second'' appearance in the trailer.

* [[Only the Worthy May Pass]]: And none of the gauntlet's guardians think any of the reviewers are worthy.

* [[Opt Out]]: Whomever it was that took a desk job and was replaced by {{spoiler|[[That Dude in the Suede]]}}.

** Played straight with the second rousing speech given by the Critic before the final showdown with Jaffers' group.

* [[Rule 34]]: Referenced by the Nostalgia Critic.

* [[Running Gag]]: Several

** Angry Joe constantly screwing up the "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya." line by forgetting that the line was referring to Montoya's father, and not his [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|brother/mother/lawyer/hamster]]; only to be corrected by someone else. {{spoiler|Taken to the logical extreme in Part 7, when Joe refers to himself as "Amigo Toyota" (but does get the "father" part right), and everyone else just faceplams in the background}}.

*** This winds up generating a fan (And cast) favorite line out of The Cinema Snob in episode 6

'''Cinema Snob:''' "[[Berserk Button|That's not even a PERSON!]]" }}

** Spoony losing and promptly running back to retrieve his hat. Seemingly ended as of Part 3, abandoning it after being blasted off during his [[You Shall Not Pass]] attempt.

*** The running gag wasn't even intentional. Spoony just, genuinely, and unscriptedly, kept losing his hat, realising it was gone and going back to get it. They just decided to keep it in the final product. That doesn't stop it from being hilarious, though.

** Linkara trying to get everyone else to sing with him.

** The Critic saying how there's no such thing as magic and Linkara getting pissed off.

* [[Snipe Hunt]]: How the Critic keeps stopping Ma-Ti from joining them, ranging from protecting non-existent children and elderly to finding goat porn.

** Lampshaded in Part 5, along with [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]].

* [[Special Effects Failure]]: "Cat" is obviously a puppet. {{spoiler|Justified when Cat turns out to be a ''in-universe'' puppet.}}

** Jaffers and the Cloaks had some awfully wobbly swords for their supposed lethality. Just sayin'.

** [[Bad Movie Beatdown|Film Brain]] gets {{spoiler|brainwashed}}.

** What's [[The Cinema Snob]] holding in the intro video? {{spoiler|A ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull|Crystal]]'' Pepsi}}.

** [[Jew Wario]]'s introduction while [[Freud Was Right|a picture of a tower]] is behind him.

* [[The Stinger]]: The Gatecleaner's wife saying "Shut up, mommy's in the rock!"

* [[Take That]]:

** In regards to [[Liv Tyler]]'s portrayal of Arwen via Nostalgia Chick.

** As silly as Cat is, you have to give him one thing. He's funnier than [[Jeff Dunham]].

** When Team 2 trying to get inside the last location on their map:

** When Malachite rants about TV shows in part five, his tone gets even more hateful when he gets to ''[[Glee]]''.

** The theme song to Suburban Knights was reedited for people who found it offensive. {{spoiler|The only change was "D&D is lame" for "D&D is {{smallcaps|Okay.}} It's {{smallcaps|Okay.}}" The song is stopped by Spoony soon after that.}}

* [[Tempting Fate]]: Luke reacts to Paw with "I don't wanna go with him!" They end up in the same group (but without much interaction).

* [[That Came Out Wrong]]: Luke tricks Film Brain into delivering an [[Insult Backfire|unfortunate follow-up to his insult]].

'''Angry Joe:''' Yeah, whatever. You go to the back. }}

* [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]: Quoth {{spoiler|Suede.}} "I find that quite vexing."

* [[The Unfavorite]]: Not that Film Brain was the Critic's favorite from the ''Kickassia'' special. But Luke starting to muscle in for Critic's favor is obviously apparent.

* [[The Un-Reveal]]: Jew Wario tries to take Todd's mask off, only to get a gun pointed at him.

* [[Vehicle Vanish]]: Inverted; {{spoiler|Jaffers's backup}} shows up from a passing car.

* [[Villain Opening Scene]]: {{spoiler|Malachite}} gets one where he enters Bill's car and then after getting frustrated by Bill's reliance on technology kills him and blows up the car.

* [[We Have Forgotten the Phlebotinum]]: Spoony loses his map to the gauntlet at the end of Part 3. {{spoiler|Malachite finds it and returns it to them in the next part}}.

* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: {{spoiler|Aeon and Malachite}}.

'''Everyone Else:''' ''Promise.'' }}

* [[Wham! Episode]]:

* [[Where It All Began]]: {{spoiler|Malachite's Hand is actually buried in the exact field where the team started their quest, inside the [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Storm Drain of Secrets]]}}.

* [[Wimp Fight]]: Everyone {{spoiler|with the exception of Malachite.}}

* [[Worst News Judgment Ever]]: On the GNN broadcast, the disappearance of a game store clerk receives higher billing than an assassination attempt against the president.

* [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]]: {{spoiler|Malachite regains the gauntlet, despite the efforts of over twenty adult nerds}}.

* [[You Don't Want to Know]]: {{spoiler|At Ma-Ti's funeral, Critic thanks Todd for cremating Ma-Ti following it would be best if he didn't tell them how or why. Todd agrees with this.}}

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