History Awesome / AtoptheFourthWall

* When reviewing the "Holy War" story arc in ''Franchise/XMen #423-424'', [[DontShootTheMessage while he admits that the warning against religious extremism is fine]], he loses all respect for the story with how ludicrously {{Anvilicious}} it is, and how the CriticalResearchFailure of writer Chuck Austen [[ArtisticLicenseTraditionalChristianity shows an absolute lack of understanding Catholicism and Christianity]] ([[ArtisticLicenseReligion and religion in general]]), and how the EvilPlan is so unspeakably stupid that the story cannot possibly be taken seriously.

* ''Marville'' #5 naturally gives him plenty more opportunities to point out the CriticalResearchFailure, including how the writer apparently CannotTellFictionFromReality given the prominent role given to Wolverine in what is meant to be a completely serious depiction of how he thinks evolution and God work.

** Not to mention Linkara's UnstoppableRage at ''[[ComicBook/JLAActOfGod Act of God]]'' during the third part of the review, and giving one hell of a verbal beatdown to writer Doug Moench (for his blatant and over-the-top HeroWorship of Batman, his CriticalResearchFailure regarding the other heroes outside of Batman, and his overall lackluster ability as a writer altogether). It can't really be summarized here, so [[http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2010/05/jla-act-of-god-part-3.html here's the link to the full video]].

** His entire TheReasonYouSuckSpeech regarding it, its IdiotPlot that relies on every single member of the Avengers acting [[OutOfCharacterMoment horribly out of character]], and its poor excuse of [[MilestoneCelebration an anniversary issue story]], along with him praising how Creator/ChrisClaremont later handled things in response to the issue of the 10th ''Avengers'' annual, where instead of just taking the easy way out and lazily pretending the whole thing didn't happen, [[AuthorsSavingThrow not only addressed the matter]] but also why it was such a wrong move to begin with.

-->'''Linkara:''' So after all this, after [[ArchiveBinge fifty-one issues]] of ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis, [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike what is there left to say?]] Only this: ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis blows. It reeks. It fails. It is heinous. It is mean-spirited, wretched, [[KudzuPlot nonsensical]], [[FeigningIntelligence idiotic]], irritating, [[InactionSequence slow,]] crappy, and altogether stupid. It is everything wrong with the comic book industry, and [[OldShame an embarrassment on the records of everyone who worked on it.]] Bottom line, as we say around these parts: [[{{Catchphrase}} THIS COMIC SUCKS.]]
%%* The ending of the ''Batman: Fortunate Son'' review.

-->'''Linkara:''' So after all this, after [[ArchiveBinge fifty-one issues]] of ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis, [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike what is there left to say?]] Only this: ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis blows. It reeks. It fails. It is heinous. It is [[KillEmAll mean-spirited]], wretched, [[KudzuPlot nonsensical]], [[FeigningIntelligence idiotic]], irritating, [[InactionSequence slow,]] crappy, and altogether stupid. It is everything wrong with the comic book industry, and [[OldShame an embarrassment on the records of everyone who worked on it.]] Bottom line, as we say around these parts: [[{{Catchphrase}} THIS COMIC SUCKS.]]

'''Linkara:''' Oh. Pity... ''Haven't been able to figure that out...'' ([[MoodWhiplash Suddenly Cheerful]]) AND YOU ''KNOOOWWW'' [[CallBack part of the reason that all the crap last year happened was because]] [[SoWhatDoWeDoNow she thought all the people responsible for her current...]] ''[[InsistentTerminology circumstances...]]'' [[KillEmAll were all DEAD]]. ''(aims at Whately) [[PreMortemOneLiner Let's have HER judge you, shall we]]? (fires)''\\

* Linkara calling out [[MarySueTopia Wakanda]] for [[MoralEventHorizon refusing to share a cure for cancer]] in his review of issues #1-6 of the 2005 run of ''ComicBook/BlackPanther''.

* In the review of ''ComicBook/MaximumCarnage'', while Linkara admits that while the Alpha Magni-Illuminizer ''was'' hokey, poorly foreshadowed and something of an asspull, he also admits that it was probably the most logical way to conclude the fight: with the power of hope, kindness and decency.

'''Linkara:''' You murdered a bunch of people and cause ''more'' harm to the environment and relations with the rest of the world. With your affinity with all those animals, you could have done all of this safely without a single spill drop of blood. Especially since you were able to summon a freaking army of birds from a distance. Your cause is nonsense and you're full of crap!

--> '''Nature Girl:''' You taught me to stand up and fight for what I know is right and my cause is right. My anger is just.\\

** Linkara said it best: [[CoolVsAwesome ROBO BEAR VS. CYBER GORILLA!]] *[[EpicRocking cue]] "[[Music/{{Nightwish}} Ghost Love Score]]"*

* Linkara's making an [[AudioPlay/AVoiceFromTheDark audio drama]]! With thirty actors! Including [[WebVideo/TheBlockbusterBuster Erod]], WebVideo/DiamandaHagan, [[WebVideo/TheDomReviews Dominic Noble]], WebVideo/{{Rocked|Reviews}}, and lots of other people! It's a horror-comedy story in a haunted house, and it's being heralded as the new huge crossover event in lieu of the tenth anniversary movie.

* In response to the insulting portrayal of people who don't go to college in ''Future 5'', he assembled a list of people who did very well for themselves after never going to college or dropping out. Number one on the list: Bill Gates. When the villain's henchmen talk about taking jobs at a burger joint and it's portrayed as them corrupting young students into a deadbeat way of life, Linkara, seriously annoyed, says he knows some ''very'' nice people who work at a McDonalds, and is incensed at the implication that they're ''beneath'' college graduates.

* His WhatTheHellHero to Superman for insulting Big Barda's makeup, after she was held captive for two days.
* In response to the insulting portrayal of people who don't go to college in ''Future 5'', he assembled a list of people who did very well for themselves after never going to college or dropping out. Number one on the list: Bill Gates.

* Setting ''Superman: At Earth's End'' [[KillItWithFire on fire]]. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] as that was merely a fake copy of the book. DoubleSubverted a while later, when he ''actually'' burnt it.

-->'''Linkara''': I don't have to tell you this comic sucks; this is ''not Superman''! Superman is kind and decent. Superman saved the world from the Anti-God Mageddon. Superman beat Solaris the Tyrant Sun and Brainiac and, yes, even Hitler in the Golden Age. Superman ''always'' followed his principles, even when the world told him not to! Superman even gave his life to save others in his regular continuity and in his awesome ''All-Star'' series! But this? I-I don't even know how to describe this... this...\\

* Linkara quoting ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' during his ''[[Comicbook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures TMNT]] Meet ComicBook/{{Archie|Comics}}'' review, ending with "READ A BOOK, PEOPLE!"

-->"[[ComicBook/SupermanAtEarthsEnd I AM]] [[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder THE GODDAMN BATMAN]], [[Franchise/{{Batman}} which is nothing but death, and crime, and the]] [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} ADAMANTIUM RAGE]] [[Franchise/{{Batman}} of a]] [[ComicBook/AmazonsAttack Bees. My God.]] [[Film/BatmanForever It just raises too much]] [[Series/DoctorWho logic in what he says.]] [[Comicbook/SupermanAtEarthsEnd Of course! Don't you know anything about]] [[XtremeKoolLetterz poor literacy]], [[Film/{{Patton}} you]] MagnificentBastard, [[Film/{{Patton}} I read your BOOK!]]"

-->'''Linkara:''' ''Nobody cares'' about Monarch! '''Nobody'''. You had a good story idea in 1991... but ya blew it! Nobody cares about ''ComicBook/{{Armageddon 2001}}''! Nobody cares about ''fixing'' ''ComicBook/{{Armageddon 2001}}''. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Nobody. Cares. About. Monarch.]] Let it die!

* In his ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}: Guardian of Gotham #2'' review: his TakeThat at DC Editorial's refusal to let [[Comicbook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]] appear but will allow blatant MaleGaze shots from the comic to go out.

-->'''Linkara:''' [[CaptainObvious So I'm assuming the name]] "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Infama]]" [[ShapedLikeItself comes from the word "Infamous"]]. ''({{beat}})'' Yeah, I'd believe it, since I'm sure you're a '''registered sex offender, ''lady'''''.\\

* When reviewing the first two issues of ''ComicBook/UltimateIronMan'', Linkara brings up that the writer, Creator/OrsonScottCard, is both incredibly homophobic and considers ''Franchise/StarTrek'' bad science fiction. He doesn't go into any lengthy diatribes or rants about either, but instead lets his criticism of the book speak for itself. Namely that Tony Stark, instead of a rich genius who outwits his enemies, is a mutant baby born with brain nerves throughout his entire body and the ability to regrow limbs who needs to wear bioarmor that turns his skin blue, is caught up in a war between two feuding corporations, and isn't even a central character until the second half of Issue 2. He also brings up the fact that the entire miniseries was considered so goofy that it was actually ''[[{{Retcon}} retconned]] into an in-universe TV show's interpretation of his origins'' as an AuthorsSavingThrow.
* In his review of ''Youngblood #10'', Linkara ''slams'' {{Creator/Rob Liefeld}} for depicting Chapel's suicide in full gory detail and treating that subject, along with HIV, with no respect or thought whatsoever, all while Linkara is absolutely '''''seeping''''' with TranquilFury more than any other episode.

* Granted, it's more so PlayedForLaughs, but at the start of the 600th episode, Linkara decides to review [[ComicBook/{{Caligula}} Caligula]] comic, just like [[Creator/BradJones another online critic]] suggested... but one phone call later, upon being informed about the types of stuff the critic had said as of late, Linkara swiftly decides to review something else instead: ''[[ComicBook/JMSSpiderMan Sins Past]]''.

-->'''Sam''': Uh-uh.\\

-->'''Linkara:''' Yes, I think that [Conroy and Hamill] are the best Batman and Joker, respectively. Their iterations from the ''Batman Animated Series'' are, hands down, the best versions of Batman and the Joker. The problem is that these lines weren't ''written'' for the best Batman and Joker, they were written for a comic version of these characters from the 80s. ''Batman: The Animated Series'' and the [[Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse Timmverse]] in general were not successful ''just'' on the backs of the voice actors. The writing, the directing, the artistic style, etc. etc. -- they delivered a good product by ''all'' working together to create something phenomenal. Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill in this are ''reciting'' lines written for an 80s comic with an ''entirely different aesthetic,'' with different versions of the characters than they would normally play, and it just feels so ''lifeless'' because their performances do not sound like they're doing these lines proper justice in their inflection and tone!

* Linkara points out the sheer idiocy of the writers trying to preserve ''ComicBook/{{Armageddon 2001}}''[='s=] TwistEnding through the [[SarcasmMode amazing]] character assassination of Hank Hall/Hawk. He points out that, of all the futures viewed by Waverider, ''none'' of them showed how Monarch was created and the one future he was in, it was in Hawk and Dove's and ''neither of them were Monarch as they were fighting him''. He's also clearly upset that the stunt lead them to fridging Dawn Granger/Dove (and with it being so close to ''The Killing Joke'' and what they did to Barbara, he's quite upset at that) and cancelling ''ComicBook/HawkAndDove'' just to pull this stunt. Linkara points out that they could have kept the twist by turning ''Waverider'' evil, changed by his desire to stop Monarch and save the heroes he only saw in videos.

*** Also, not indulging in the recent storyline, despite how obvious it would've been, being such an important episode.

** Even more so because the BigBad of this review's mini-arc was literally the personification of ThePowerOfHate that let the girl deliver a [[KarmicDeath Karmic]] FateWorseThanDeath to her AbusiveParents, whose UnstoppableRage couldn't be sated by that LaserGuidedKarma alone, and jumped the MoralEventHorizon by [[MindRape Mind Raping]] Linkara [[{{Gaslighting}} into thinking he was the girl's father]], and nearly [[DrivenToSuicide Driving Him To Suicide]] - only for [[ShutUpHannibal Linkara to tell the hatred that]] [[FireForgedFriends he and the Magic Gun were "partners" now]], and that the girl had moved on from her RevengeBeforeReason. Seriously, it's pretty awesome when Linkara gives a FREAKING GUN a better DarkAndTroubledPast, and more CharacterDevelopment, in the span of ''a single mini-series review'', than Scott Ciencin did with [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk almost all of his characters]] [[ComicBook/SilentHill over the entirety of his run writing the Silent Hill comics!]]

--->'''Linkara:''' I'm not some pretty boy with marital problems. I don't have some confused psyche or unresolved parental issues. You're not dealing with a Franchise/SilentHill protagonist here! Time and again, someone got it into their head that they could defeat me. Time and again they beat me down, they knocked me out, and they tried to make me give up. You come at me with insecurity, self-doubt, and angst? You try to make me doubt who I am? I am the man who defeated Pyramid Head. I am the man who conquered [[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis Countdown]]. I am the man who fought off the [[VideoGame/StarTrekEliteForce Vohrsoth]] and destroyed Mechakara! I am the liberator of WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}! I am a [[Franchise/StarTrek Starfleet captain]]! I am a [[Franchise/PowerRangers Power Ranger]]! I'm That Guy With The Hat! I am Linkara!

** How about all the clever references to the [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]] episode that inspired ''this'' episode (which continue through the end credits)?

* Using Comicron 1 to hijack the Nostalgia Critic's TV so they can do a crossover review of ''Film/{{Star Trek Insurrection}}''.

* The Mechakara fight at the end of "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers #1" could be a real-world crowner for Lewis, utilizing [[strike:[[DoubleVision Double]]]] ''[[DoubleVision Triple]]'' [[DoubleVision Vision]] as well as some other, truly epic special effects, and managing to make convincing scenes where he technically ''beats up himself''. Quite an achievement by WebOriginal standards.

* At a con, Linkara drunkenly rants about Booster Gold's {{Character Derailment}} in ''JLA: Act of God'', before realizing the person he's talking to may not have any idea what he's talking about. The camera pulls back to reveal Dan Jurgens, the creator of Booster Gold.

** How about the fact he did this ''twice''? He did once with ''[[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis Countdown]]'' and again with ''[[Comicbook/TeenTitans The Titans]]''. Those videos must have taken a lot of work and Linkara definitely deserves kudos for that.

-->Not fat enough 7/10.

-->'''[=ERod=]:''' "And anytime I would go on Skype and ask, any trouble that I had, any issues that I was having with Channel Awesome, the first and for the most part, the only person who would answer would always be Linkara. Now, Linkara is not part of the administration of Channel Awesome. It's very important that you understand that. So a guy that doesn't know me, who gains nothing from taking time out of his busy schedule to help me out continuously was the guy who worked as the ambassador to Channel Awesome to me. Constantly helping me out, answering my questions, steering me in the right direction, that sort of thing. And that was a constant throughout my time in Channel Awesome. The only reason I was a part of the That Guy With The Glasses or Channel Awesome holiday video was because Linkara was in charge of it, and he made sure that I was informed and if I wanted to participate. It is no accident that Linkara was the first person that I crossed over with. Like I said, he was very dependable, always answering my emails, my messages immediately. He was the first person I gained the phone number of, so that was a constant."

* Linkara's making an [[AudioPlay/AVoiceFromTheDark audio drama]]! With thirty actors! Including [[WebVideo/TheBlockbusterBuster Erod]], [[WebVideo/DiamandaHagan Diamanda Hagan]], [[WebVideo/TheDomReviews Dominic Noble]], [[WebVideo/RockedReviews Rocked]], and lots of other people! It's a horror-comedy story in a haunted house, and it's being heralded as the new huge crossover event in lieu of the tenth anniversary movie.

** Him calling out the hypocrisy of the film having Batman warn Barbara that a villain wants to objectify her while also having a scene of her running that focuses [[{{Fanservice}} on her ass and her mouth.]]

* [[[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxCy3y2-ZD2Em9C-8pG3IDvpliemt_FmU The entirety]] of the ''WebVideo/WinterOf83'' AnalogHorror mini-series is this, demonstrating a masterful use of public domain footage, editing, and voicework by Lewis and his friends to convert footage of a real life winter into a [[{{Pun}} bone-chilling]] storyline. It's even more awesome given that it was an [[AprilFoolsDay April Fools' joke]], yet Lewis and his team were dedicated enough to create a legitimate story to be enjoyed.

* Linkara's making an audio drama! With thirty actors! Including [[WebVideo/TheBlockbusterBuster Erod]], [[WebVideo/DiamandaHagan Diamanda Hagan]], [[WebVideo/TheDomReviews Dominic Noble]], [[WebVideo/RockedReviews Rocked]], and lots of other people! It's a horror-comedy story in a haunted house, and it's being heralded as the new huge crossover event in lieu of the tenth anniversary movie.
* The entirety of the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxCy3y2-ZD2Em9C-8pG3IDvpliemt_FmU Winter of '83 Analog Horror mini-series]] is this, demonstrating a masterful use of public domain footage, editing, and voicework by Lewis and his friends to convert footage of a real life winter into a [[{{Pun}} bone-chilling]] storyline. It's even more awesome given that it was an [[AprilFoolsDay April Fools joke]], yet Lewis and his team were dedicated enough to create a legitimate story to be enjoyed.

* The entirety of the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxCy3y2-ZD2Em9C-8pG3IDvpliemt_FmU Winter of '83 April Fools Analog Horror mini-series]] is this, demonstrating a masterful use of public domain footage, editing, and voicework by Lewis and his friends to convert footage of a real life winter into a [[{{Pun}} bone-chilling]] storyline.

* The entirety of the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxCy3y2-ZD2Em9C-8pG3IDvpliemt_FmU Winter of '83 April Fools Analog Horror mini-series]] is this, demonstrating a masterful use of public domain footage, editing, and voicework by Lewis and his friends to create a surprisingly [[{{Pun}} chilling]] storyline.

* In his review of ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'', Linkara takes to task, not Carol Danvers and her decision to use Ulysses' powers to stop crimes before they happen, but Tony Stark's whole holier-than-thou attitude the entire time. While he acknowledges everyone suggesting that Carol's character was ruined with this story, Linkara points out that was butchered even worse in his short-sighted drive to prevent everyone from using Ulysses' powers.

* In his review of ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'', Linkara takes to task not Carol Danvers and her decision to use Ulysses' powers to stop crimes before it happens but Tony Stark's entire holier-than-thou attitude the entire time. While he acknowledges everyone suggesting that Carol's character was ruined with this story, Linkara points out that was butchered even worse in his short-sighted drive to prevent everyone from using Ulysses' powers.