History AtopTheFourthWall / TropesEToP

** Upon seeing that Dave Willis of ''{{Webcomic/Shortpacked}}'' donated some Dreamwave ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', he quips "[[WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie I thought you were made of sterner stuff. Why throw away these comics so recklessly?]]" [[GilliganCut Cut to ten minutes later]], when he does just that.

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "Creator/JoeQuesada, YOU! ARE! A! HAAAAACK!"

** In response to the Kool-Aid Man bursting through a funhouse wall.
---> "THAT! MAKES! NO! SENSE!"

* PutOnABus: Justified. As Linkara explained in ''Another 15 Missed Opportunities'', Neutro didn't appear on the show for eight years because he and mr. T had gone out for drinks. [[MemeticBadass They weren't done yet]].

** Lewis has refused to shown certain panels because of their content, including [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice the death of Lian Harper]] or [[ComicBook/{{Youngblood}} Chapel's suicide]] due to finding them tasteless.

* TheInternetIsForCats: In the episode on ''Franchise/{{Spiderman}}: Virtual Mortality'' this gets referenced. After the comic (which is from the 1990s) comments about how 'cyberspace' has no boundries and has infinite potential and possibility, Linkara says "The capacity for pornography, cat videos, and harassment is infinite!"

** Lewis takes hamminess up a notch as Moarte, host of [[http://atopthefourthwall.com/category/longbox-of-the-damned/ Longbox of the Damned]].

** Moarte's name is Romanian for death, enforcing his connection to the macabre

** Moarte is technically an in-universe example since his name is the Romanian word for "death"!

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** At the end of his ''Star Trek (2009) #1'' review, [[spoiler: Clonekara]] is watching the review of ''Power Rangers Zeo #1''. [[spoiler: The review where Mechakara made his reappearance and was originally destroyed. Guess who it turns out Clonekara really is.]]
** The [[MilestoneCelebration 600th episode]] has a blink-and-you'll miss it correction that functions as this (Linkara having taken great pains to ensure viewers unfamiliar with the original story don't have the twist moments ruined for them): Linkara gets to the moment where Peter sees the results of [[DaddyDNATest a dna test]] and comments that the DNA test revealed Gabriel and Sarah are his kids. As he says this, the word "HER" pops up to correct the line for a fraction of a second, [[ExactWords since the test was only with Gwen's DNA]]. [[spoiler: And indeed, though we're led to believe otherwise during this part of the story, they are ONLY Gwen's kids, not his.]]

** In his ''Zombie Christmas Carol'' review, Linkara's comment on the Future Ghost is; "Reminding you of a doom you'd forgotten". Linkara confirmed that was foreshadowing to his current storyline (as of 2016).

** [[spoiler: At the end of the end of the Sleepwalker arc Linkara still feels really guilty over his actions while under the Entity's influence and wonders if he can even call himself a hero anymore.]]

* LineInTheSand: In the ''Robocop vs. the Terminator #2'' review Linkara is confronted by all his friends that his current plan (hijacking the world's satellites to target a superweapon on short notice) is highly immoral. After explaining his reasons (but not even attempting to defend the morality of it) he tells them to either stand by him or leave. The usually inspirational trope is inverted when not even Pollo is willing to stay.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Before the climax of the Sleepwalker Arc, Linkara is released from the Entity's influence. However he remembers everything he did while possessed and is mortified by his actions.]]

* FanficFuel:[[invoked]] Referenced in the Warrior #2 review during a trip to the [[Film/TheRoom2003 Tommy Wiseauniverse]]. ''"You are trying to steal my hat! You are giving the slash-ficcers material! YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, INSANO!!!"''

** At the end of the Santa the Barbarian #1 review, Jaeris hugs Linkara after discovering the latter has built him a device to re-acclimate him to his home universe. Linkara comments that people are going to write fanfics about this moment while awkwardly reciprocating.

* MindRape: The King of Worms attempts one on Linkara in their confrontation. [[spoiler:It backfires on him ''badly''.]]

** Because Holo-kara is based on Linkara's personality, [[spoiler:its FaceHeelTurn makes more sense when it is revealed that Linkara is also becoming evil]].
** Following [[spoiler:Jaeris' introduction]], the Cybermats on the shelves behind Linkara [[spoiler: start acting funny indicating they are under The King of Worm's control]] [[note]]Extremely noticeable in SciSpy #6. [[/note]]

** [[spoiler:When questioning Dr.Insano on whether or not he sold a Magic-Field to anyone, he lets Insano know that ''not only'' was his magic gun not working, but also that his magic ''wasn't working at all.'' Considering just how smart Linkara usually is, this probably wasn't one of his brightest moves. While the reveal doesn't come back to bite him directly, a later review indicates that Insano took advantage of his evident distraction to steal Neutro.]]
** He does however admit that he ''did'' make a mistake in the 'Battle for Bludhaven #1-2 Review'.
** Entrusting his reviews to a near-indestructible AI copy of himself in a holo-emitter with no safeguards or emergency shutdown procedures in case it went rogue. (Okay, there ''is'' a shutdown procedure, he just, er, didn't tell anyone about it.) Given how GenreSavvy he usually is, you'd think that he'd have realized that AIIsACrapshoot. Points also go to Dr Linksano for not realizing that MoreDakka almost [[ImmuneToBullets never works]] with major villains.
*** On the other hand, Linkara had thought everyone else already knew that they could shut off Holo-kara with a single sentence. Also, Linkara had given Holo-kara all manner of safeguards to keep AIIsACrapshoot from going into effect, and ''they worked''. As revealed later, [[spoiler: there was nothing wrong with Holo-kara at all; he was acting exactly like Linkara himself would have had he not gotten a WhatTheHellHero moment to snap him out of his FaceHeelTurn.]]
** The Gunslinger Arc finale reveals that the Gunslinger[[spoiler:/Jaeris's plan is to take magic guns from their owners and unlock the guns' powers by making their owners very, very angry at him. Did it never occur to him that essentially trolling people with access to magic weaponry might be a bad idea?]]

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: During the "His Blue Soul" storyline (specifically the Top 15 Personal Favorite Jokes and all the cameos filmed during that timeframe), [[spoiler:Tom Servo can be seen looking at Linkara because Pollo is trying to get his attention but still hasn't gotten his speech systems working yet.]] This one was subtle enough that Lewis had to point it out in the comments for the ''Youngblood'' #4[=/=]''Search for Spock'' double feature.

*** From ''Planet of the Symbiotes'':
--->[[spoiler:'''Linkara:''' Even 90's Kid isn't creepy enough to want to prop up Kurt Cobain's body onstage!]]

** Even [[spoiler:The Entity]] gets one in the Electric Tale of Pikachu review:
--->'''[[spoiler:Entity]]''': …Existence will be solely defined by me, because I ''am'' existence!\\
'''Linkara''': Oh, and ''then'' what're you going to do?\\
'''[[spoiler:Entity]]''': What.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Because Holo-kara is based on Linkara's personality, [[spoiler:its FaceHeelTurn makes more sense when it is revealed that Linkara is also becoming evil]].
** [[spoiler:One of two major hints that 90's Kid was under possession of the Entity[=/=][=MissingNo=].]]
--->'''90's Kid:''' I'm 90's Kid, and what you see is what you get! [[spoiler: …Or is it?]]

** [[spoiler:[[HypocriticalHumor Which ends up being used]] for [[EldritchAbomination The Entity]], albeit [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools better than in Catwoman-Guardian of Gotham]].]]

* GoKartingWithBowser: At the end of the Entity arc, he asks everyone he rescued if they want to play Pokemon… including Linksano (who was still a villain at the time).

** At the end of ''Silent Hill: The Grinning Man'' [[spoiler: Whately is killed by the same Magic Gun his cult created in the first place]].

* InopportuneImpersonationFailure: In the ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' arc "A Piece Of The World Is Missing," Linkara belatedly realizes that the Entity has stolen the image of [[spoiler: the 90's Kid]] and has been posing as him for the last few months. In the ensuing rant, he reveals that the Entity has unwittingly given itself away by virtue of surviving while everyone else in the world has been assimilated by the Entity - and also drawing attention to a morbid remark about using Kurt Cobain as a human puppet that the ''real'' [[spoiler: 90's Kid]] would never have made. As Linkara lays out the evidence, [[spoiler: 90's Kid]] begins to smirk ever so subtly, before finally unveiling himself in an increasingly synthesized voice:
-->This game has been most amusing... '''but I think it's time for it to end. HUUUUUUUUUUUU-MAAAAAAAN.'''

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The Entity]] [[http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2012/03/commentary-and-behind-scenes.html according to]] [[WordOfGod Linkara]] (although he has a possible sequel in mind, if it ever happens).

* MirrorUniverse: Introduced in ''Star Trek'' #2 (Gold Key), complete with EvilTwin Linkara who thinks ''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder'' is "Genius" and thinks Creator/RobLiefeld's artwork is "beautiful". As is the unwritten law of Mirror Universe counterparts, Evil Linkara has a mustache and beard.

* OminousVisualGlitch: When the Entity was nearing, it was causing glitches in the show.

* OverlyLongGag: ADAMANTIUM RAGE! ADAMANTIUM RAGE! ADAMANTIUM RAGE!

* ParanoiaFuel: The Franchise/CareBears could be watching you... [[invoked]]

* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Idiostuperiffic.
* PerverseSexualLust: "[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Harley]] [[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis Quiiinn...]]"

** DroppedABridgeOnHim: Frequently becomes killed in the universe of the show (if not the comic he's reviewing).
** ETGaveUsWiFi: Used when writers just don't care about researching the real inventors.
** {{Gorn}}

** IdiotPlot [[invoked]]
** LetsYouAndHimFight
** MonsterClown (at least, when overused)
** SexSells
** StayInTheKitchen
** {{Stripperiffic}}
** SufficientlyAdvancedAliens with an holier-then-thou attitude.
** TheWarOnStraw: The StrawFeminist archetype [[BerserkButton moreso than others.]]

-->'''On the Marvel Ultimate Universe in Ultimates #1-2:''' ''Furthermore, I dislike the Ultimate Universe as a whole. This idea that, somehow, superheroes in the real world are going to be assholes, or that the governments of Earth will try to have the perfect superbeings as weapons, or etc. etc. just doesn't appeal to me.''
-->'''On ComicBook/EarthTwo in The Culling: Teen Titans Annual #1:''' ''Enjoying it, but I'm very sick of "government doesn't trust superheroes" crap.''
** DesignatedHero [[invoked]]
** {{Wangst}}[[invoked]]
* PhraseCatcher: Linkara, whenever Liz [[PungeonMaster cracks a pun]].
--> *{{head desk}}* I live with her, people...

* LampshadeHanging: At the start of his ''Doctor Who Classics #7'', Linkara asks Liz if she's ever thought about how weird their lives are, considering they review comic books & table top games respectively, yet they have access to tech from ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' and ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and are about to go into battle against a being who has conquered universes; Liz doesn't see it.
** During his review of ''Battle for Bludhaven #5-6'', he asks in frustration why most of the bad comics he reads have some connection to ''ComicBook/{{Kamandi}}''.

** Towards the end of the fifth part of the ''Silent Hill: Dead/Alive'' review [[spoiler:Linkara is led to believe that he sacrificed a little girl to an evil cult. His reaction is to have a stunned MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment, before he attempts to ''shoot himself''.]]

* ImprobableAge:
** Breaks Linkara's WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief in ''Superman Meets the Quik Bunny''.
** Also in his ComicBook/SilentHill Dead/Alive review. [[spoiler: Linkara is too young to have had a daughter, raised her to thirteen (with her mother), tortured her to death AND forgotten about it so well, there's no lingering signs in his life. The story line would have worked better with someone in their mid-thirties at the youngest. Linkara acknowledges this in the commentary.]]

** "My God, it's the Vorsoth! And it's very poorly animated!"

* MindScrew: The conclusion of the ''ComicBook/SilentHill Dead/Alive'' review, somewhat appropriately. In his review of [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Detective Comics #27]], Linkara notes that he does not have to do his Origins Month introduction every time because he could simply edit in a previous instance and we would ''never'' know. He then grins and remarks "how's that for a mind screw?".

* MoodWhiplash: Occasionally, the introductory segment of the show that plays before the theme song clashes wildly with the theme song itself. [[spoiler:This is particularly true of the Silent Hill Dead/Alive episodes, where the creepy monologue about the Little Girl is instantly followed by the cheerful, upbeat theme song.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** [[spoiler: Linkara has one of these when Silent Hill convinces him that he was one of the people responsible for torturing a little boy to create the Magic Gun. This [[DrivenToSuicide caused him to nearly kill himself]] before he was stopped by said Magic Gun.]]
** [[spoiler: Before the climax of the Sleepwalker Arc, Linkara is released from the Entity's influence. However he remembers everything he did while possessed and is mortified by his actions.]]

* FanficFuel:[[invoked]] Referenced in the Warrior #2 review during a trip to the [[Film/TheRoom Tommy Wiseauniverse]]. ''"You are trying to steal my hat! You are giving the slash-ficcers material! YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, INSANO!!!"''

* GuestHost: Pollo organizes Harvey Finevoice and 90's Kid to keep the scheduled reviews, despite Linkara being kidnapped to another dimension.
** And upon his return, he thanks Pollo, and [[BlatantLies is thoroughly impressed with 90's Kid's review]].

* LipstickAndLoadMontage: During the "Linkara Lost" arc, [[RealLifeRelative Linkara's real-life (now ex) girlfriend]] Iron Liz replaces him for an episode. We see her suiting up in a near shot-for-shot remake of Linkara's own LockAndLoadMontage... save for one shot of her applying lipstick.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Lewis' (now ex-) girlfriend Iron Liz briefly appears out of nowhere during the [[http://atopthefourthwall.com/warrior-2-and-3/ ''Warrior'' 2–3 review]], lampshading that no one will have any idea who the hell she is (Lewis himself did not help much, responding to any questions about who she was with a simple "She's Iron Liz" before Liz got a blog and revealed that they were dating). She made her first official appearance in the review of [[http://atopthefourthwall.com/chain-gang-war-1/ Chain Gang War #1]]
** Bone Button makes his first appearance in ''Warrior #2'' as an alternate universe Linkara, several years before he appeared on the main show. More likely just a case of reusing a character's appearance, especially since Lewis reveals in the episode commentary that he just had the jacket and thought it would be fun to wear it.

** At the end of his first story line, Linkara's friends bail on him after their attack only manages to piss Mechakara off. Nowadays, you would at the very least expect [[PapaWolf Harvey]] to stick by him. This finally gets a callback in [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWallTheMovie the movie]], where Harvey admits he's always regretted running out on him like that.

* FailedASpotCheck: In the ''Adamantium Rage'' review, Linkara ''somehow'' fails to realize that [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] is Dr. Insano.

** At the beginning of Linkara's "Wolverine: Adamantium Rage" review, Spoony's casual dismissals of Linkara prompts him to declare that he will make his own video game review show that will "be ten times as original!" The following intro segment is a complete shot-for-shot copy of the intro to Spoony's show with the same theme song.

* IllKillYou: Linkara borrows the "I'll kill you to death!" line from ComicBook/{{Countdown|ToFinalCrisis}} [[ItMakesSenseInContext before stabbing the Countdown monster with the Dragonzord Flute]]. Unlike Superboy-Prime, however, he makes it sound ''awesome''.

* InsultedAwake: Backfires when he snaps out a possessed Spoony with the line "You're standing in my spot, sir." from ''VideoGame/SWAT4''. Spoony woke up, but punched Linkara, shouting "I'm not ''in your fucking way''!".

* MoreDakka: He goes from laser-shooting Flintlock to a BFG he got off Cable to an arm mounted minigun.

* MultipleEndings: Parodied in the "Alternate Endings" follow-up to his ''ComicBook/SilentHill: Dying Inside'' review - the alternate endings include being trapped in a room a la ''Silent Hill: The Room'', being trapped in ''Phantasmagoria 2'' in a ShoutOut to Spoony, and Harvey Finevoice turning out to be an alien who takes him to a planet which has ''good'' comics.
** Parodied again in a similar followup to his ''ComicBook/SilentHill: Dead/Alive'' vids.

* PunctuatedPounding: Delivered to Pyramid Head during the finale of ''Silent Hill: Dying Inside'' #5.
-->'''Linkara:''' WORD! TO! THE! WISE! WEARING! A! HUGE! FREAKING! METAL! CHAMBER! ON! YOUR! HEAD! IS! NOT! VERY! SMART!

** At the end of his first story line, Linkara's friends bail on him after their attack only manages to piss Mechakara off. Nowadays, you would at the very least expect [[PapaWolf Harvey]] to stick by him.
*** This finally gets a callback in the movie, where Harvey admits he's always regretted running out on him like that.

** 90's Kid, of all people, reveals that [[spoiler: he isn't as stupid as he seems in TheMovie, when he gives a very heartfelt speech to [[WebVideo/ObscurusLupa Lupa]].]]

** Recently, his videos start with him excitedly and quickly promoting funding for his movie, only to immediately cut to the actual review starting with him slumping and groaning about how bad the comic he is reviewing will be. "Santa The Barbarian" is a prime example of this.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: According to his speech in the movie, [[spoiler: 90's Kid acts as a LargeHam so that people will underestimate him. BewareTheSillyOnes indeed.]]

* OffTheShelfFX: TheMovie featured multiple repainted Nerf guns.

** Another example from TheMovie; after hearing the villain's latest rant he simply replies "[[Film/TheThing1982 Yeah, well, fuck you too]]" and opens fire.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles:
** Linkara also plays a number of {{Drop In Character}}s, including obnoxious X-TREEM teenager '90s Kid (and counterparts '60s Kid and '80s Chick), lounge singer Harvey Finevoice, evil robot doppelganger Mechakara, the mysterious Phantasm, the unfraggable [[VideoGame/StarTrekEliteForce Ensign Munro]], {{antihero}} ComicBook/{{Cable}}, Ninja-Style Dancer, Dr. Linksano, and Holo!Linkara.
** Iron Liz has also played herself, and two alt. versions of herself.
** Will Wolfgram has played Vyce, [[LargeHam SNOWFLAME!]], [[spoiler: Jaeris, a Gunslinger from another world]] and now [[spoiler: Skarn,a deposed tyrant from another dimension]].

* LOL69: The video about the second half of the original ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'' run plays with this issues 69 saw the debut of the infamous BodyHorror-laden fusion of Megatron and Ratchet -- with one of Linkara's comments being "this is not nice!"
* LongList: In Linkara’s review of ''Marville'' #5, when the question, “What could be more impressive?” is asked, he gives this response:
--> '''Linkara''': Ooooh… Watchmen, pizza deliveries in 30 minutes or less, disposable cameras, fast food drive-thrus, cellular telephones, Godzilla movies, Beanie Babies, digital watches, my DVD, on sale now, Mr. T, parkour enthusiasts, cancer researchers, Stephen Sondheim, the miracle that is everyday existence, and the second, third, forth, sixth, and eighth Star Trek movies. (Beat) There’s more, but I think that covers a WIDE range of things in particular that are more impressive.

* {{Hypocrisy}}: Linkara briefly called this trope out in ''Psychoman #1'', as the author states that superhero origins aren't grounded in reality and they don't do anything important to help the world... When the story implies ''God'' gave the protagonist those powers and the protagonist hardly even doing anything heroic at ''all'' in the story.

* NotHyperbole: The tagling is "the place where bad comics burn" right in the introduction. After reviewing ''ComicBook/HolyTerror'', Lewis proceeded to take his copy outside and set it on fire after calling it one of the worst comic books in history.

* EverythingsBetterWithPlushies: ''Bear!!''

* PrecisionFStrike: Linkara goes out of way his to avoid using stronger profanity in his videos, especially the F-Word. Sometimes he plays around with this "rule", by including a CurseCutShort, but at a rare, selected times he has been known to drop a full-on F-bomb or two.

** ETGaveUsWiFi: Used when writers just don't care about [[CriticalResearchFailure researching the real inventors.]]

* NoPronunciationGuide: Linkara sometimes has trouble pronouncing unfamiliar words, such as in his review of a ''Series/DoctorWho'' comic in which he pronounced Gloucestershire[[note]]"glostersher"[[/note]] as "Glaukestershyer", which made it onto the Next 15 Screw-Ups video.