History BennettTheSage / TropesPToT

** This comes up again in the ''De:vadasy'' review when Not-Shinji is raped by his female superior under the pretense of obtaining a semen sample. Sage starts his dissection with "This...isn't the most egregiously terrible thing I was allowed to show you, but it probably is the most morally repugnant." and adds another layer to it being a bad rip-off of ''Evangelion'' by comparing the scene to the "Misato kissing Shinji" scene in ''The End of Evangelion'', noting that while there are surface similarities, the latter has plot- and character-relevant context to offset and even justify its squicky nature whereas the former simply tries to gloss over its grossness.

* ReusedCharacterDesign: He will point this out for creators whose work features more than once on the show, for instance Levih Rah from ''Literature/DemonCityShinjuku'' sharing his design with Zack from Kawajiri's earlier work ''The Running Man''.

* SkinshipGrope: {{Discussed|Trope}} in the ''Strange Love'' review. After the lead character does this to her love interest, Sage asks the audience to tell him in the comments the level of bullshit the trope itself actually is.

* TinyGuyHugeGirl: In the ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory'' review, Sage finds the relationship between Chuck Keith and Moira Bascht, a {{Tomboy}}ish mechanic who is almost head and shoulders taller than him, to be utterly adorable.

** He's similarly enraged by TheReveal in ''[[Anime/EighthMan 8 Man After]]'' that the original 8 Man was simply deleted -- ''offscreen'' -- so the new 8 Man could replace him. He goes on to explain that not all cases of a LegacyCharacter replacing a character who dies are bad by nature (with a cameo by [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] specifically comparing it to [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle Ted Kord]], who Sage points out at least got to die ''on screen'' and [[DefiantToTheEnd tell his killer off one last time]]), but the way his show did it was downright disrespectful for the original.

** He finds Creator/AnnaPaquin completely miscast as [[CrossdressingVoices Ray Steam]] in ''Anime/{{Steamboy}}'', noting that she sounds stilted and wooden, and her fake English accent stands out amongst her [[Creator/PatrickStewart two actual]] [[Creator/AlfredMolina English co-stars]]. He empathizes with her, though, as the dub was most likely ChristmasRushed.* RageQuit: {{Invoked|Trope}} in the ''Kikaider'' review. Sage leads off the discussion of the "Mitsuko tries to talk to her mother again" scene by noting that it's the only time an anime has ever made him "throw down [his] notes and just rage quit", and he later says that it infuriated him so badly that he actually had a tantrum over it.

* RageQuit: {{Invoked|Trope}} in the ''Kikaider'' review. Sage leads off the discussion of the "Mitsuko tries to talk to her mother again" scene by noting that it's the only time an anime has ever made him "throw down [his] notes and just rage quit", and he later says that it infuriated him so badly that he actually had a tantrum over it.

** In the ''X'' review, he calls out a blatant scene where the main character drops down in front of a Coke billboard.

** In the ''Nuts and Bolts'' video for the ''Manga/VideoGirlAi'' review, Bennett and Marc discuss how the first draft of Sage's talk at the end of the review was much harsher in tone, took a very critical stance toward "loneliness aids" and the emotionally predatory nature of their industry, and had an attitude of mixed pity and cringe toward the people who would gravitate toward them. However, Marc confronted Bennett about this during the script polishing process, which led to a long conversation about where that segment and the feelings behind it were coming from. It made Bennett realize how assholish the whole thing sounded, and while his feelings about "loneliness aids" haven't changed, he was able to look at the people they're geared toward in a much more sympathetic light, which led to the final segment being completely redone in the manner that showed up in the review.

** Sage whips out some popcorn as he begins to discuss ''Gundress''[='s=] disastrous production, slowly chewing some throughout the review until, finally, he giddily chows down when he gets to the movie's [[ObviousBeta unfinished theatrical release]].

* TroubledProduction: [[invoked]] He spends most of his ''Gundress'' review talking about its complicated production history, including its theatrical release in [[ObviousBeta a pitifully unfinished state]], rather than focusing on the film itself, which he finds to be a lackluster retread of ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis''.

* SharedUniverse: ''Anime Abandon'' was officially part of [[Website/ChannelAwesome The Reviewaverse]], but after Bennett left Channel Awesome in the wake of the #ChangeTheChannel and [[WebVideo/YouCanPlayThis JewWario]] controversies, all ties to it appear to have been erased.