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* BittersweetEnding: In the sweet and melancholic "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story", Vox Machina defeats the Chroma Conclave and saves Emon, but Scanlan decides to leave the party and spend time with his daughter Kaylie.
* BreakingTheFourthWall:
** The party interacts directly with DM Matt Mercer during the titular song, and mention their sponsor Loot Crate.
** Vax complains that Earthbreaker Groon casting Quivering Palm "feels like a homebrew stat so Matt can have deniability," during the Trial Forge Commandments.
* BreakingTheFourthWall:
** The party interacts directly with DM Matt Mercer during the titular song, and mention their sponsor Loot Crate.
** Vax complains that Earthbreaker Groon casting Quivering Palm "feels like a homebrew stat so Matt can have deniability," during the Trial Forge Commandments.
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* BittersweetEnding: In the sweet and melancholic "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story", Vox Machina defeats the Chroma Conclave and saves Emon, but Scanlan decides to leave the party and spend time with his daughter Kaylie.
* BreakingTheFourthWall:
** The party interacts directly with DM Matt Mercer during the titular song, and mention their sponsor Loot Crate.
** Vax complains that Earthbreaker Groon casting Quivering Palm "feels like a homebrew stat so Matt can have deniability," during the Trial Forge Commandments.
* BreakingTheFourthWall:
** The party interacts directly with DM Matt Mercer during the titular song, and mention their sponsor Loot Crate.
** Vax complains that Earthbreaker Groon casting Quivering Palm "feels like a homebrew stat so Matt can have deniability," during the Trial Forge Commandments.
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* BittersweetEnding: In the sweet and melancholic "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story", Vox Machina defeats the Chroma Conclave and saves Emon, but Scanlan decides to leave the party and spend time with his daughter Kaylie.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent:
** Vax protesting [[BigBrotherInstinct "Wait, what?"]] as Percy raps "Lock up your sisters and skyships," in "Matthew Mercer".
** Vax complaining "You're a shithead, Stubby!" as Vex razzes him for finding a lover in "The Story of Our Fight".
** Vax protesting [[BigBrotherInstinct "Wait, what?"]] as Percy raps "Lock up your sisters and skyships," in "Matthew Mercer".
** Vax complaining "You're a shithead, Stubby!" as Vex razzes him for finding a lover in "The Story of Our Fight".
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** The Chroma Conclave is referred to as "[FOUR FUCKING DRAGONS]" at one point.
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** The party interacts directly with DM Matt Mercer during the titular song, and mention their sponsor Loot Crate.
** Vax complains that Earthbreaker Groon casting Quivering Palm "feels like a homebrew stat so Matt can have deniability," during the Trial Forge Commandments.
** The party interacts directly with DM Matt Mercer during the titular song, and mention their sponsor Loot Crate.
** Vax complains that Earthbreaker Groon casting Quivering Palm "feels like a homebrew stat so Matt can have deniability," during the Trial Forge Commandments.
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** Grog struggling with letters, numbers, spelling, and complicated words.
** Vax's swearing keeps getting cut off.
** Grog struggling with letters, numbers, spelling, and complicated words.
** Vax's swearing keeps getting cut off.
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** An instrumental of AWOLNATION's "Sail" plays in the background of "Cliff Diving" because Creator/TravisWillingham and Creator/MarishaRay jokingly sang "Sail!" [[spoiler:as Keyleth dove off the cliff.]]
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** An instrumental of AWOLNATION's "Sail" plays in the background of "Cliff Diving" because Creator/TravisWillingham and Creator/MarishaRay jokingly sang "Sail!" [[spoiler:as as Keyleth dove off the cliff.]]
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* VillainProtagonist: Sylas and Delilah Briarwood and their bid to assist Vecna in ascension to godhood is the main focus of the plot, and they're listed as lead characters on the program.
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** The group's name itself is a reference to the Arcana Pansophical, a semi-secretive circle of powerful arcane practitioners, of which Allura Vysoren is a member.
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** "Matthew Mercer" [[BreakingTheFourthWall does away with the fourth wall]] as Sam gets a whisper from Matt and Scanlan interacts directly with the Dungeon Master. Vax brings up [=LootCrate=] in the lyrics, and the [=YouTube=] video flashes other sponsors' logos. The cast of ''Critical Role'' does the same thing as a RunningGag when someone gets a whisper.
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* MythologyGag: Percy and Cassandra's TryToPutThatOnABusinessCard middle names are written in tiny font on the cast list in the program.
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* MythologyGag: Percy and Cassandra's TryToPutThatOnABusinessCard [[OverlyLongName overly long]] middle names are written in tiny font on the cast list in the program.
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* MythologyGag: Percy and Cassandra's TryToPutThatOnABusinessCard middle names are written in tiny font on the cast list in the program.
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** Dylan McCollum as Taryon Darrington, human artificer.
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** Dylan McCollum [=McCollum=] as Taryon Darrington, human artificer.
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** John MacMillan as Vax’ildan, half-elf rogue.
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** John MacMillan [=MacMillan=] as Vax’ildan, half-elf rogue.
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* ''Demigod Vecna's Sing-Along Stream'': Adapts the Vecna arc, set to ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog''. Most of the cast of ''Doty'' reprised their roles in ''Demigod'', except Will Crosswait who returned as Scanlan (as Ian Capuyan voices Other Scanlan) and John MacMillan first appearing as Vax.
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* ''Demigod Vecna's Sing-Along Stream'': Adapts the Vecna arc, set to ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog''. Most of the cast of ''Doty'' reprised their roles in ''Demigod'', except Will Crosswait who returned returning as Scanlan (as Ian Capuyan voices Other Scanlan) and John MacMillan first appearing [=MacMillan=] returning as Vax.
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* ''Vox Machina: An Exandrian Musical'': Adapts the Chroma Conclave arc, set to ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}''.
* ''Doty, Take This Down'': Adapts the Taryon Darrington arc, set to ''Theatre/DearEvanHansen''.
* ''Demigod Vecna's Sing-Along Stream'': Adapts the Vecna arc, set to ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog''.
* ''Doty, Take This Down'': Adapts the Taryon Darrington arc, set to ''Theatre/DearEvanHansen''.
* ''Demigod Vecna's Sing-Along Stream'': Adapts the Vecna arc, set to ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog''.
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* ''Vox Machina: An Exandrian Musical'': Adapts the Chroma Conclave arc, set to ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}''.''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'', featuring lead cast members:
** Scott Maitland as Grog Strongjaw, goliath barbarian.
** Danita Gilbert as Keyleth of the Air Ashari, half-elf druid.
** Joe Collins as Percival de Rolo, human gunslinger.
** Jesse Theo as Pike Trickfoot, gnome cleric.
** Will Crosswait as Scanlan Shorthalt, gnome bard.
** John MacMillan as Vax’ildan, half-elf rogue.
** Shannon Randolph Baker as Vex'ahlia, half-elf ranger.
** James Coates as Creator/MatthewMercer, the DungeonMaster.
* ''Doty, Take This Down'': Adapts the Taryon Darrington arc, set to ''Theatre/DearEvanHansen'', featuring lead cast members:
** Anthony Sampedro as Vax'ildan
** Dylan McCollum as Taryon Darrington, human artificer.
* ''Doty, Take This Down'': Adapts the Taryon Darrington arc, set to ''Theatre/DearEvanHansen''.
** Ian Capuyan as Scanlan
** Julianna Belles as Keyleth
** Megan Scharlau as Pike
** Philip Koffman as Percy
** Scott Maitland as Grog
** Shannon Randolph Baker as Vex'ahlia
** Taylor Maimone as TheNarrator
* ''Demigod Vecna's Sing-Along Stream'': Adapts the Vecna arc, set to ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog''. Most of the cast of ''Doty'' reprised their roles in ''Demigod'', except Will Crosswait who returned as Scanlan (as Ian Capuyan voices Other Scanlan) and John MacMillan first appearing as Vax.
** Scott Maitland as Grog Strongjaw, goliath barbarian.
** Danita Gilbert as Keyleth of the Air Ashari, half-elf druid.
** Joe Collins as Percival de Rolo, human gunslinger.
** Jesse Theo as Pike Trickfoot, gnome cleric.
** Will Crosswait as Scanlan Shorthalt, gnome bard.
** John MacMillan as Vax’ildan, half-elf rogue.
** Shannon Randolph Baker as Vex'ahlia, half-elf ranger.
** James Coates as Creator/MatthewMercer, the DungeonMaster.
* ''Doty, Take This Down'': Adapts the Taryon Darrington arc, set to ''Theatre/DearEvanHansen'', featuring lead cast members:
** Anthony Sampedro as Vax'ildan
** Dylan McCollum as Taryon Darrington, human artificer.
** Julianna Belles as Keyleth
** Megan Scharlau as Pike
** Philip Koffman as Percy
** Scott Maitland as Grog
** Shannon Randolph Baker as Vex'ahlia
** Taylor Maimone as TheNarrator
* ''Demigod Vecna's Sing-Along Stream'': Adapts the Vecna arc, set to ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog''. Most of the cast of ''Doty'' reprised their roles in ''Demigod'', except Will Crosswait who returned as Scanlan (as Ian Capuyan voices Other Scanlan) and John MacMillan first appearing as Vax.
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* AdaptationalContextChange: Some ''Hamilton'' lines and song titles fitting the situation are kept in ''Vox Machina''.
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* AdaptationalContextChange: Some ''Hamilton'' lines and song titles fitting the situation are kept in ''Vox Machina''. "Non-Stop" has a name and final chorus nearly identical to the original.
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* AdaptationContextChange: Some ''Hamilton'' lines and song titles fitting the situation are kept in ''Vox Machina''.
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** Pike appears in a Skype call at the beginning of "What'd I Miss". The "E-e-episode" repetition, from the original's "S-s-seventeen", is inspired by Creator/AshleyJohnson's Skype signal often freezing her and dropping the call.
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* FunWithSubtitles:
** The Chroma Conclave is referred to as "[FOUR FUCKING DRAGONS]" at one point.
** "[Totally accurate gunshot noises]" during "Glintshore Stand".
** The Chroma Conclave is referred to as "[FOUR FUCKING DRAGONS]" at one point.
** "[Totally accurate gunshot noises]" during "Glintshore Stand".
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* CurseCutShort: Two in quick succession at the end of "Stay Alive".
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* CurseCutShort: Two in quick succession at the end of "Stay Alive"."Pray, Revive".
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The characters sing about game mechanics such as rolls, rounds, and hit points.
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* SoundtrackDissonance:
** "Helpless" sets the Chroma Conclave's brutal attack on Emon to a cheerful tune as the dragons gloat.
** "Helpless" sets the Chroma Conclave's brutal attack on Emon to a cheerful tune as the dragons gloat.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The musical plays fast and loose with ''Critical Role'' canon, adding alternative character interpretations and arcs that didn't exist in the original material but enriching the story.
--> '''Will Crosswait''': We were asked to make a musical. Here it is. It's not perfect. We didn't always get the golden take. Our microphones vary wildly in tone. We don't adhere to strict canon. Perhaps our meandering plot is simply an alternate universe: one where dragons sing along with their deadly breath weapons and inter‐party conflict is resolved with a flurry of fast‐paced phrases. Perhaps these inconsistencies can be attributed to {{Unreliable Narrator}}s or the declining sanity of one particular member of Vox Machina. I leave that to you, the listener.
--> '''Will Crosswait''': We were asked to make a musical. Here it is. It's not perfect. We didn't always get the golden take. Our microphones vary wildly in tone. We don't adhere to strict canon. Perhaps our meandering plot is simply an alternate universe: one where dragons sing along with their deadly breath weapons and inter‐party conflict is resolved with a flurry of fast‐paced phrases. Perhaps these inconsistencies can be attributed to {{Unreliable Narrator}}s or the declining sanity of one particular member of Vox Machina. I leave that to you, the listener.
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-->'''Vax: You’re alive. And I’m alive. Whaaat the fuuu‐ ''(song ends)''
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* VoiceOfTheLegion: The majority of antagonists speak and sing with a distorted, lower-pitched voice beneath a normal voice. "I Know Her" stands out for additionally having the ensemble serving as the Legion, symbolizing Thordak's descent into insanity and arrogance.
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* VoiceOfTheLegion: The majority CurseCutShort: Two in quick succession at the end of antagonists speak "Stay Alive".
-->'''Vax''': If you spare her life then you can take mine. Good. Now kill me, you Raven bi— ''(Vex gasps)''
-->'''Vax andsing with a distorted, lower-pitched voice beneath a normal voice. "I Know Her" stands out for additionally having Vex''': What?
-->'''Vex:''' What happened?
-->'''Vax: You’re alive. And I’m alive. Whaaat theensemble serving as the Legion, symbolizing Thordak's descent into insanity and arrogance. fuuu‐ ''(song ends)''
-->'''Vax''': If you spare her life then you can take mine. Good. Now kill me, you Raven bi— ''(Vex gasps)''
-->'''Vax and
-->'''Vex:''' What happened?
-->'''Vax: You’re alive. And I’m alive. Whaaat the
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* KilledMidsentence: Percy is shot dead by Ripley as he's saying "I'm in dire need of assist-"
* VoiceOfTheLegion: The majority of antagonists speak and sing with a distorted, lower-pitched voice beneath a normal voice. "I Know Her" stands out for additionally having the ensemble serving as the Legion, symbolizing Thordak's descent into insanity and arrogance.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: The majority of antagonists speak and sing with a distorted, lower-pitched voice beneath a normal voice. "I Know Her" stands out for additionally having the ensemble serving as the Legion, symbolizing Thordak's descent into insanity and arrogance.
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** An instrumental of AWOLNATION's "Sail" plays Scanlan's introduction verse in "The Party Called Vox Machina" is the background of "Cliff Diving" because Creator/TravisWillingham and Creator/MarishaRay jokingly sang "Sail!" [[spoiler:as Keyleth dove off same as Creator/SamRiegel's self-inspiration in ''Uninviting Waters'' set to the cliff.]]tune of Hamilton's introduction verse in "Alexander Hamilton".
-->Scanlan Shorthalt, I'm a gnome
-->My name is Scanlan Shorthalt, I'm a gnome
-->And there's a million chicks I haven't boned
-->But just you wait, just you wait!
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-->My name is Scanlan Shorthalt, I'm a gnome
-->And there's a million chicks I haven't boned
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** An instrumental of AWOLNATION's "Sail" plays in the background of "Cliff Diving" because Creator/TravisWillingham and Creator/MarishaRay jokingly sang "Sail!" [[spoiler:as Keyleth dove off the cliff.]]
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* MythologyGag:
** An instrumental of AWOLNATION's "Sail" plays in the background of "Cliff Diving" because Creator/TravisWillingham and Creator/MarishaRay jokingly sang "Sail!" [[spoiler:as Keyleth dove off the cliff.]]
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!Spoilers for ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' content that these works adapt will be left unmarked.
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!!Their musical adaptations uses these tropes:
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* ''Vox Machina: An Exandrian Musical'': Adapts the Chroma Conclave arc, set to ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}.
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!!Works by ''The Cantata Pansophical'':
* ''Vox Machina: An Exandrian Musical'': Adapts the Chroma Conclave arc, set to ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}.
* ''Doty, Take This Down'': Adapts the Taryon Darrington arc, set to ''Theatre/DearEvanHansen''.
* ''Demigod Vecna's Sing-Along Stream'': Adapts the Vecna arc, set to ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog''.
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* VoiceOfTheLegion: The majority of antagonists speak and sing with a distorted, lower-pitched voice beneath a normal voice. "I Know Her" stands out for additionally having the ensemble serving as the Legion, symbolizing Thordak's descent into insanity and arrogance.
* EvilLawyerJoke: In "Party Battle #2", Keyleth snarks that Percy would make a fine lawyer with how he argues. Percy volleys back in SelfDeprecation that only demons would solicit his services - which is technically correct, given that he made a pact with Orthax (a shadow demon) and attempted to make good on a pact with Ipkesh (a cambion).
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* MythologyGag:
** An instrumental of AWOLNATION's "Sail" plays in the background of "Cliff Diving" because Creator/TravisWillingham and Creator/MarishaRay jokingly sang "Sail!" [[spoiler:as Keyleth dove off the cliff.]]
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[[folder: Demigod Vecna's Sing-Along Stream]]
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!!Works by ''The Cantata Pansophical'':
* ''Vox Machina: An Exandrian Musical'': Adapts the Chroma Conclave arc, set to ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}.
* ''Doty, Take This Down'': Adapts the Taryon Darrington arc, set to ''Theatre/DearEvanHansen''.
* ''Demigod Vecna's Sing-Along Stream'': Adapts the Vecna arc, set to ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog''.
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[[folder: Vox Machina: An Exandrian Musical]]
* VoiceOfTheLegion: The majority of antagonists speak and sing with a distorted, lower-pitched voice beneath a normal voice. "I Know Her" stands out for additionally having the ensemble serving as the Legion, symbolizing Thordak's descent into insanity and arrogance.
* EvilLawyerJoke: In "Party Battle #2", Keyleth snarks that Percy would make a fine lawyer with how he argues. Percy volleys back in SelfDeprecation that only demons would solicit his services - which is technically correct, given that he made a pact with Orthax (a shadow demon) and attempted to make good on a pact with Ipkesh (a cambion).
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[[folder: Doty, Take This Down]]
* MythologyGag:
** An instrumental of AWOLNATION's "Sail" plays in the background of "Cliff Diving" because Creator/TravisWillingham and Creator/MarishaRay jokingly sang "Sail!" [[spoiler:as Keyleth dove off the cliff.]]
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[[folder: Demigod Vecna's Sing-Along Stream]]
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