The Cartoon Hero: Difference between revisions

Eli Stone is a reviewer who is a member of [[Space Monkey Mafia Studios]]. Although he is one of many reviewers who follow the tradition set by Doug Walker, he notably also has shades of ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'' and claims that one of his biggest inspirations is Chad "CR" Rocco of ''Familiar Faces''. Eli is aware of the fact that he is not the first to do this, and lately references this wiki a ''lot''. As his name suggests, his character is a bitter superhero with the power to command cartoon clichés--whichclichés—which sometimes feel more like tropes--whotropes—who specializes in animation criticism.

* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: Played straight in the first few episodes--Eliepisodes—Eli even regrets that he claimed ''[[Batfink]]'' was a bad show--butshow—but notably averted in the later ones. Even if the movies he reviews are bad by his admission, he always goes out of his way to highlight the best moment of said movie. He even said that he hated doing a negative review of [[Osmosis Jones]] because of [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|how much potential it had.]]

* [[Author Appeal]]: Superheroes. Enough said.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Ironically, The Hero has only done this once--inonce—in fellow reviewer The Hardcore Kid's review of ''[[Fritz the Cat (animation)|Fritz the Cat]]''. This also happened in his series, {{spoiler|but instead of him, it was the gods of [[Okami]] that saved him at the last second.}}

* [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene]]: He [[Defied Trope|defies]] calling one out when reviewing ''The Magic Voyage'', saying that it does not qualify due to the rest of the movie having no logic.

* [[The Cape (trope)]]: Arguably, the Hero is one of the few reviewers who seems genuinely heroic in personality, and according to [[Word of God]], that's why he was created.

{{quote| [[Inukami!|Nadeshiko]]: W-[[Panty Shot|white]]...<br />

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: The swearing has gotten less frequent in recent episodes, though.

* [[Comes Great Responsibility]]: Eli is a self-confessed Spider-Man fan, after all.

* [[Crossover]]: Has appeared in several other reviewers' videos, mostly those who are also members of Reviewers Unknown.

* [[Follow the Leader]]: As with most Internet reviewers, he was inspired by [[That Guy With The Glasses]]. However, he's said that his biggest inspirations were [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] and Chad "CR" Rocco of Familiar Faces.

** Ironically reversed in that he reviewed [[The Legend of the Titanic|one of the animated Titanic movies]] '''and''' ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'' before Doug did.

* [[Guilty Pleasures]]: ''[[Batfink]]'' and ''[[Girls Bravo]]'', according to him.

* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: Two arguable examples:

** When [[Diamanda Hagan]] made her first appearance, the Hero gained an archnemesis, and more of a backstory.

* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: Played with in a few different ways. With the nature of the Hero's one ability--controlability—control of all cartoon clichés (his words, not ours)--new PARTS of it are revealed as the plot demands. To wit, he has [[Stuff Blowing Up|his trusty TNT]], [[Anvil on Head|can make it]] [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|RAIN ANVILS]], has a [[Megaton Punch|Falcon Punch]], and in the [[All There in the Manual|origin comic,]] he has [[Super Speed]], can throw an ACME bomb that's actually a smoke bomb, and can [[Drop the Hammer|pull a giant mallet-style hammer out of nowhere]]. The fact that he can get new abilities this way is actually [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in his review of said comic [[Atop the Fourth Wall|as Linkara]].

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Happens a lot lately.

* [[The Rival]]: [[Diamanda Hagan]]. According to [[Word of God]], they first met when the TGWTG forum users [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover|collaborated]] on [[The Land Before Time]] sequels. Their reviews happened to be next to one another in the collab. The rest is history.

* [[Space Monkey Mafia Studios]]: Though as he is quick to point out, Eli was on a smaller site called Reviewers Unknown first, and he considers himself primarily one of them.

* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Considering the nature of the Hero's abilities, this is inevitable. Notably, a stick of TNT is one of his preferred weapons.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: For someone who's supposedly [[Genre Savvy]], the Hero does this far too often for his own good.

* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: [[Take That|The]] [[M. Night Shyamalan|Shyamalanicon]]. [[Evil Dead|It's VERY''very'' clear what it's supposed to be parodying.]]

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