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* RuleOfFunny: During "Secret Origins Month", he says repeatedly that he is judging these decades-old comics based on modern standards just because it is funny, and [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny they were good for their time]]. This is also why he does the entire last fourth of his New Kids on the Block review in rhyme.

** In his review of ''Trouble'' #2, his reaction to the idea of [[spoiler:Franchise/SpiderMan's dad masturbating.]]

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Linkara takes offence at the use of rape as a cheap narrative device, as explained in his critique of ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis''.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs:[[invoked]] Pretty much Linkara's entire reaction to Snowflame and the New Guardians... and he thinks Snowflame is either the worst or the ''[[NarmCharm greatest]]'' thing ever because of it.
** Some of the other stuff he looks at would likely leave the viewer thinking this. Exhibit A:[[ItMakesAsMuchSenseInContext The Giant Flea Market-Eating Flea]], a literal GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere from a Hostess Pie ad.
** ''2001 A Space Odyssey #2'' when Vera is taken away by the monolith:
-->'''Linkara:''' ''HOLY CRAP, I'M TRIPPING BALLS!''

* WorldBuilding: Linkara will praise art works that are able to organically implement this without resorting to {{Info Dump}}s. Relatedly, he appreciates it when superhero comics and their adaptations actually bother to show [[AlternateHistory how their heroes have changed their worlds in comparison to reality]], using the examples of Nixon winning another term in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', the Day of Remembrance from ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', and Captain America and the Howling Commandos' Smithsonian exhibit in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse as to make the universes feel "real." However, this cuts both ways, with him then pointing out how in several cases, the attempts at WorldBuilding will actually just open up plot holes and make the world feel even ''less'' original (i.e., Linkara's very confused how it took until the events of ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' for the Marvel Universe to have bothered designing sufficiently advanced prisons for supervillains).

** In his retrospective on ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', he says that "Three Septembers and a January" is "also known as [[ScheduleSlip 'how long it'll take me to get back on schedule.']]"

** In his retrospective on ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', he says that "Three Septembers and a January" is "also known as [[ScheduleSlip 'how long it'll take me to get back on schedule.']]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When Lewis and Viga moved into a new house, Lewis used this to explain the new place InUniverse: as it turns out, when super villains and creatures are constantly attacking you at home, people aren't going to want you to live their building, so the landlord hiked up the price of Linkara's rent, forcing him to move out.
** Same thing happens the second time they move (this time due to a botched test of the security systems that resulted in a self-destruct sequence): since that house was a rental, word spread about the shenanigans Linkara gets into, so now no one will let him rent, so he and Viga had to buy a house, under the former's name, since it's gotten to the point that no one trusts him with a loan.
** In the 2020 year-end recap Allen releases a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to President Trump after putting up with him for four years. Of course, he's fired for ranting at his boss, pointing out his various character flaws and his failures during the COVID pandemic. But Allen's pretty blasé about it, treating it like he's on holiday for the next month until Joe Biden is sworn in.

* ThisIsReality: during Linkara's crossover with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic. In the middle of the review, Critic wants to do a sketch involving [[Series/BreakingBad Walter White]] in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' (and no, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext context doesn't help explain why]]), only for Linkara to explain that there are no sketches in his videos. Everything depicted in his story segments actually happens to him, and he lives in constant fear that the next encounter with some villain or eldritch horror would be his last.

** Played straight in the ''2001 A Space Odyssey #1'' review; Linkara designed the auxiliary control to look like the original Star Trek command deck, and Jaeris' reaction is "Let me know when you get a girlfriend; I'll throw you a parade."

* TemptingFate:
** His "Top 15 Comics I'll Never Review" is helmed by "Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog comics". Then he's warned that for his 100th episode, he'll have to review... a Sonic comic!
** The conclusion to the Guns and Sorcery storyline has one towards the SOPA[=/=]DigitalPiracyIsEvil attitude, [[spoiler: passing legislation to stop any form of using media turned Jaeris' world into a CrapsackWorld.]]

* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: Harvey Finevoice was visited by the ghost of [[spoiler:WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic who took up the Ghost of Christmas Past title as a temp job. [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee (Being the universe doesn't really pay the bills.)]]]]

* YourMom: [[spoiler:While Linkara battles Jaeris, Pollo engages Jaeris' computer in this kind of talk.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Pollo:]]''' [[spoiler:Your mother was a UsefulNotes/ColecoVision!]]\\
'''[[spoiler:Jaeris' computer:]]''' [[spoiler:And yours was an Amstrad [=PenPad=]!]]

* SpecialEditionTitle: The review for ''Star Trek'' #2 has a MirrorUniverse version of the title sequence, with the mirror universe theme music from ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' in place of the usual song.
** His review of the ''UsefulNotes/GameBoy'' comics has an 8-bit version of the theme.

* YouAreFat: [[spoiler: This makes up roughly half of the (cursed) ''Mightily Murdered Power Ringers'' comic's insults toward Linkara. Linkara doesn't deny it, but he's not fazed by it, either. Lately, he acknowledged that his diet of chicken fingers are catching up with him.]]
** In the opening for his "Dragnet #4", while parodying the opening of the ''Series/{{Dragnet}}'' series, he points out a [=McDonald's=]: "I eat there a lot, which explains my weight."

* SelectiveObliviousness: Still appears to be baffled as to Dr. Insano's true identity. [[spoiler:After stealing Neutro from Dr. Insano, he remarks offhandedly that Insano parked it behind Spoony's house, but seemed to be dismissing this as Dr. Insano just being careless.]]
** Though he can be forgiven considering that Dr. Insano and Spoony really ''are'' two separate people. The only time the two were one and the same was in ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'', and ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' explains this as an inconsistency brought on by a NegativeSpaceWedgie.
*** Made more confusing when Spoony has openly stated that "There is no continuity, there is only Insano", and given that there are ''many'' different origins of Insano...

* TemptingFate: From ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice #5-7:
--> '''Linkara:''' How can my day get any worse?
--->Answer, by Lord Vyce showing up and kicking his ass.
** Also, his "Top 15 Comics I'll Never Review" is helmed by "Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog comics". Then he's warned that for his 100th episode, he'll have to review... a Sonic comic!

** In his retrospective of the ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'' legacy, he said that Dan Garrett's [[ButNotTooBlack very white-looking]] love interest from Egypt resembled the kind of Egyptian you'd only see in an Creator/AlexProyas [[Film/GodsOfEgypt movie]].

* RageQuit:
-->"Well I'm back from being imprisoned on board Lord Vyce's ship, and I'm ready to review again! That's why today we're digging into ''ComicBook/{{Cable}} #2''! [[{{Beat}} *realizes what he just said*]] ...I quit!"

** Parodies his own ScheduleSlip in his ''Superman vs. The Terminator'' review, where his self-published comic ''Revolution of the Mask'' has still not come out with a third issue 30 years from now.

** In the ending to his Franchise/SilentHill review, to hilarious ends.

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Linkara arrives 30 years into his own future and is horrified to discover that his future self ''still'' reviews bad comics, ''still'' lives in his parents' basement, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking has lost his hat]]. Linkara proclaims that he will go back and change everything, and when he leaves the timeline does indeed change... [[spoiler:but the only real change is that he has his hat back.]]
** Replayed in the 200th Episode review of ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'', where he once again peers into the future to see his older self still reviewing comics and complaining about losing his old hat. When shown the alternate future where he ''stops'' reviewing comics, everything is the same except his future self is espousing his need to get a new hat.

** Linkara once flung a magnet at Cable to get him to stop his awful, ellipses-ridden self-narration.

* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: DefiedTrope; Linkara refuses to do this, but he does a great parody of Dickens' classic for his Christmas special review. Complete with [[spoiler:what looks like Mechakara as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come and Pollo saying that the "Day of reckoning is at hand."]]
** Later played straight when Harvey Finevoice was visited by the ghost of [[spoiler:WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic who took up the Ghost of Christmas Past title as a temp job. [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee (Being the universe doesn't really pay the bills.)]]]]

* YouAreNotAlone: Used in the showdown with Mechakara when 90s Kid, the Ninja Style Dancer and Harvey Finevoice show up to help. [[spoiler: Subverted when they are not much help and they run away.]]
* YouBastard: The last ''Ultimates 3'' review has a rant about how the audience is to blame for the comic being created[[spoiler:...delivered by Mechakara.]]

** The movie shows that the US government did not just overlook the fact that a private citizen just so happens to have an alien warship armed with advanced weaponry in orbit, and initially wanted to have him taken out and try to claim the ship for themselves. The only reason that didn't happen is that Allen realized that Linkara frequently takes care of problems they have no understanding of themselves and it was more pragmatic to leave him to deal with them than try to interfere.

* SyntheticVoiceActor: Pollo.
** It's then replaced by an actual voice actor since the ROM Spaceknight retrospective and the Movie.

* WhamLine: Linkara gives one to those who have not read ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice'':
--> '''Linkara:''' Say hello to Lian Harper... Or rather... [[spoiler: Lian Harper's ''corpse.'']]
** When Linkara wonders what to do for his 200th episode:
---> '''Linkara:'''...Okay, what the hell. Let's review [[spoiler:''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'']].
** A minor one springs up in "15 Things That Are Wrong With Identity Crisis", when discussing ComicBook/{{Firestorm|DCComics}}[[spoiler:'s death]] after he got stabbed through the chest with a sword:
---> '''Linkara:''' Now, the stabbing itself won't actually [[spoiler:kill]] him... [[FromBadToWorse But, here's the thing for those who don't know about Firestorm]]... [[spoiler:He's also called "''The Nuclear Man''"]].

** Later, his review of ''ComicBook/JLAActOfGod'' calls out the story's author Doug Moench for [[IdiotPlot having every DC hero act like an idiot]] and [[{{Anvilicious}} muse on how their powers made them arrogant]] (which they most certainly are NOT) just so he can fanboy over how awesome Franchise/{{Batman}} is for being a BadassNormal. (This comes up again when Linkara realizes Moench was using Starchild as a Batman {{Expy}} in ''[=SciSpy=]''.

* WeaponOfChoice: His CoolGun, an 18th-century flintlock (or a replica of such. One episode mentions parts of it are made of aluminum) pistol ([[ICallItVera dubbed "Suicide Gun" and later "Magic Gun"]]) that shoots magic [[FamilyFriendlyFirearms lasers]].
** DualWielding[=/=]SwordAndGun: He occasionally mixes things up by having the pistol in one hand and the [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Green Ranger's]] Dragon Dagger in the other; when using the dagger on its own, he can play it like a flute, making it shoot green lightning. He later starts using Saba instead of the Dragon Dagger on occasion when fighting Silent Hill a second time.

** In his review of "Law and Order'' #1, he mentioned that, upon hearing the title, he thought it should have been about "Zombie Lenny Briscoe and Detective Goren. TheyFightCrime!"

---> '''Linkara:''' Now, the stabbing itself won't actually [[spoiler:kill]] him... [[FromBadToWorse But, here's the thing for those who don't know about Firestorm]]... [[spoiler:He's also called "''[[ILoveNuclearPower The Nuclear Man]]''"]].

* RunningGagged: In his review of ''ComicBook/TheLegionOfSuperHeroes'' and ''Legionaries'' #0, R.J. Brande being the only holder of the secret Stargate technology leads to a plethora of ''Franchise/StargateUniverse'' jokes before ultimately stopping a little over halfway through.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Most of the stuff Linkara reviews are based around franchises he loves and has stated at times that knowledge on certain franchises, such as ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' or ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', only extend so far, thus these are usually done as Patreon reviews.