History Franchise / TheGamers

* DarkerAndEdgier: The player characters become increasingly this with each movie. In the first film, the players are mostly lovable dorks; In the second film, we have a nice novice female player, two [[JerkAss raging jerks]] (although one is only mostly this to his employees), and a player who's relatively nice but becoming increasingly psychotic. In the third film, the JerkAss is the main protagonist, and the player who was developing psychosis ends up kidnapping and assaulting a random stranger due to his disassociation with reality.

** When torturing the minion of the necromancer in the inn, Luster uses a [[StreetFighter Shoryuken]] on him, although s/he screams "Hadouken!"

** Brother Silence attempting to perform a [[StarWars Jedi mind trick]]: "There is ''plenty'' of room for us."

** The OminousLatinChanting in one of Cass' Matrix flashbacks is [[StarWars "Dooooo or dooo not, there iiiiiis no tryyyyyyy!"]] The full list is played over the credits with a different tune, it's basically just quotes of random geek-friendly movies and TV shows.

* ''[[Film/TheGamersTheSeries The Gamers: The Series]]'' (2015)

!!Core movies

* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLYr8WAAV5TCWzw1D-faBJzfkU017Gk1-4&v=axkifkK--lc new series]] that continues on from the ''Hands of Fate'' cliffhanger.

!!Web mini-series

* ''WebVideo/TheGamersLive'' (2012)

* YouLookFamiliar: Oh, so much between all three movies:
** Nathan Rice as Newmoon and Lodge/Osric.
** Phil M. Price as Nimble and [[strike:Nameless Peasant]] Willem.
** Emily Olson as Princess and Therin.
** Matt Vancil as Hunk and Mitch (and also Chibi-Chan in the third movie, though you never see his face).
** Jen Page as Female Luster and Penelope.
** Matt Shimkus as Rogar and the Shadow (in ''Hands of Fate;'' Evan Shimono played the Shadow in the original).

** Sir Osric's name is likely a reference to the OSRIC (Old School Reference and Index Compilation) game system, which came out in 2006.

''The Gamers'' is a film series produced by The Dead Gentlemen and Creator/ZombieOrpheusEntertainment. The series revolves around {{Tabletop Gam|e}}ing (mainly {{Tabletop RPG}}s) and currently consists of following installments:

* DarkerAndEdgier: The player characters become increasingly this with each movie. In the first film, the players are mostly lovable dorks; In the second film, we have a nice novice female player, two [Jerkass raging jerks] (although one is only mostly this to his employees), and a player who's relatively nice but becoming increasingly psychotic. In the third film, the Jerkass is the main protagonist, and the player who was developing psychosis ends up kidnapping and assaulting a random stranger due to his disassociation with reality.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The player characters become increasingly this with each movie. In the first film, the players are mostly lovable dorks; In the second film, we have a nice novice female player, two [[Jerkass raging jerks]] (although one is only mostly this to his employees), and a player who's relatively nice but becoming increasingly psychotic. In the third film, the Jerkass is the main protagonist, and the player who was developing psychosis ends up kidnapping and assaulting a random stranger due to his disassociation with reality.

* AnotherDimension: Besides ours, Fartherall and Countermay. Countermay is actually a nexus of several of these, with many of it's factions not native to it. [[spoiler: Roleplaying games played in one actually happen in the one they're set in (including Fatherall characters playing a game set on Earth), which is presented as if it were DeepImmersionGaming until TheReveal in the third movie. A few characters have discovered ways to travel between them, including physically swapping player characters with their players.]]

-->'''Lodge''': That... was unprecedented, Leo.

** Near the end of the second movie, Cass is shown wearing a shirt that features Grimtooth, of the infamous [[DeathTrap Grimtooth's Traps]] series.

** In the first movie, they talk about "[[ForgottenRealms the elf with the scimitars]]". In the second movie, Lodge's cat is named [[ForgottenRealms Guenhwyvar]].

''The Gamers'' is a film series produced by The Dead Gentlemen and Zombie Orpheus Entertainment. The series revolves around {{Tabletop Gam|e}}ing (mainly {{Tabletop RPG}}s) and currently consists of following installments:

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: InUniverse The Legacy are trying to do this ''on purpose'', trying to kill everything about the game that makes it unique in hopes his will drive out the storyline fans and open it to pro tournaments instead of ones that control the plot.

* SharedUniverse: Connected to JourneyQuest via the Hopjockey meta setting (all created by Matt Vancil).

* SharedUniverse: Connected to JourneyQuest via the Hopjockey meta setting (all by the same writer).

** Cass' full name is Sean Cassidy, like [[ComicBook/XMen]] member Banshee.

* CriticalFailure and...

* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLYr8WAAV5TCWzw1D-faBJzfkU017Gk1-4&v=axkifkK--lc]] that continues on from the ''Hands of Fate'' cliffhanger.

* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC-mqKc8fik new webseries]] that continues on from the ''Hands of Fate'' cliffhanger.

* AnotherDimension: Besides ours, Fatherall and Countermay. Countermay is actually a nexus of several of these, with many of it's factions not native to it. [[spoiler: Roleplaying games played in one actually happen in the one they're set in (including Fatherall characters playing a game set on Earth), which is presented as if it were DeepImmersionGaming until TheReveal in the third movie. A few characters have discovered ways to travel between them, including physically swapping player characters with their players.]]

* ConstructedWorld: WordOfGod [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1464770493/pwned-a-gamers-novel is]] that all fantasy RPG segments of the movies (as well as the FramingDevice of ''Humans & Households'' and the ''Pwned'' novel) take place in the same world, Fartherall. This is presumably the setting originally developed by Lodge for his module.

** The OminousLatinChanting in one of Cass' Matrix flashbacks is [[StarWars "Dooooo or dooo not, there iiiiiis no tryyyyyyy!"]]
** One of the songs played over the credits of the third movie is basically quotes of random geek-friendly movies and TV shows