History Headscratchers / SuburbanKnights

*** And he could identify Malecite as dressing like a Music/RunDMC member. What the hell?

* Malecite tracks the original map correct, not the photocopy. So, if it's a chainletter, shouldn't the Critic's original map have also been a photocopy?
** It was said that Malecite sent the map to the critic and placed a tracking spell on it. It's possible that he places tracking spells on every map he sends out. Team A's map however, was created by the Critic.

**** Malecite probably placed it on Team B's map before he gave it back to them, since he seemed surprised to find the copy where he did.

**** It's also possibly that only BlackMagic drains your lifeforce. Linkara uses the magic gun for (mostly) heroic purposes, whereas Malecite is using magic to ''slaughter'' people. Adding further credence to this, we've seen numerous other characters using magic without the drawback.
** Malecite and others use magic from their life force without use of other tools. Malecite looks for his gauntlet to bypass said limit. Why wouldn't same apply to Linkara's gun? He doesn't use magic without it, so gun just bypasses "CastFromHitPoints" rule, but instead of allowing all magic, it limits to shooting stuff.

** When Malecite pulled the elaborate posing with his staff, I was totally expecting a subversion of the WhyDontYaJustShootHim gag from Raiders. Missed Subversion of Awesome?
*** Not really, since it would come after Linkara, Jow & Lupa shooting Malecite to no avail. Whilst they could have rearranged the scene so that the Snob shot first, it would make Linkara trying the same thing redundant.

** Spoony really isn't interested in becoming Insano again, and putting such a man of SCIENCE! in front of Malecite would be suicidal. As for Beary, he didn't show up because Krom was busy.

* Malecite's iPhone. He's supposed to hate all tech, but he carries one of those. Yeah, the team calls him out on it, but that doesn't seem enough to cover that OutOfCharacterMoment. Did he think Apple makes little black devices with magic, or is technology really that addictive?
** Well, think about this. The only way that Malecite knows about Nostalgia Critic is that if he's been on the Internet and figured out Nostalgia Critic could find the gauntlet. In other words, he's been on the Internet and used technology.

** The whole "hypocrite" thing threw the Malecite character off. You're telling me someone that [[spoiler: blows people up for cell phones and kills people for GPS]] can overlook something on it's own? No. That goes from excellent villain to too unbelievable to comprehend.

** Every time Malecite uses magic, it drains his life energy. He probably started using modern tech because it was less dangerous than using his natural scrying abilities, and rationalized it by saying that he had to stay alive for long enough to find the gem. The final confrontation is probably the first time he realizes that he's become as dependent on it as the people he despises.

* In the final battle, why didn't Malecite just kill all the good guys with that badass lightning attack he used to kill the witch and Cat in one shot? He even had his gauntlet, so there was no downside to using magic anymore.
** Now that Malecite has the gauntlet, nothing can stop him (or so he thinks), so he decides to toy with them a little before he kills them so they know just how screwed they are.
** Malecite could have killed the Guardians since he knew that they pose the greatest threat to him. He may also have been so egotistical that he wanted witnesses to him destroying the World of Technology.

* When Ma-Ti first lands a successful blow on Malecite, how did Critic remember the conversion with the Voice of the Ancient World, when that was Group 2 that did that, and not his group?
** Part 5 ends with Suede beginning to explain Malecite to Group 1. They likely both heard the same story. Could've been addressed, though...
*** I had a similar question to ask that ends with a similar theory. Basically, why did Critic make a proud speech about defending technology? He had no idea that Malecite was going around murdering random people. The whole magic vs. science backstory speech was heard by Spoony's group. Not even Jaffers mentioned the whole anti-tech thing, as far as I recall; he spent more time discussing Malecite's connection to real magic. If the answer to this question is also Suede, it's worrisome that none of the other obstacles brought it up at any point, because I doubt he had more knowledge than the rest of them.

* Did the Voice of the Ancient World provide visuals to Spoony's group? They didn't learn from Jaffers that the "Run DMC" guy was Malecite, and as ominous as he seemed, their only interaction with him beforehand was when he returned the map to Jew Wario and disappeared on them. Hardly the kind of thing to warrant their "oh crap" reaction at the end of part 6, unless they learned that he was Malecite... which wasn't explicitly made clear by the Voice unless they actually saw the same drawn artwork we did and noticed a resemblance. (Also, I conclude that Spoony didn't really deserve to be smacked by Critic, since he never heard anything about the tracking spells. But that's in-character for Critic.)

* Tell me I'm not crazy here but... one of the drawings of Malecite from the backstory was actually just a traced and recolored version of the Sorcerer picture from the Dungeons and Dragons 3.0 Edition Player's Handbook, isn't it?

* When Ma-Ti showed up and yelled Heart the first time [[spoiler: before confronting Malecite, why didn't his ring shoot a beam of energy. It was his second time that it happened, neither time did he expect something to happen, so shouldn't it have worked sooner?]]
** Most of his introduction scenes have him holding his ring in the air. [[spoiler: Perhaps it only fires when it's aimed at Malecite?]]

* How exactly was Malecite ever confused by the riddles? From what little we hear they sound fairly straightforward[[note]]Yes, in real life it's probably because they didn't have much time to spend on riddles[[/note]]. For that matter, why did Jaffers see any need to leave clues behind?
** Maybe Malecite was just lazy and didn't want to do the actual work? Or maybe the map wasn't obviously in the Chicago area to anyone not antiquated with it, so he needed to find someone who knew where all those roads were?
** Once Jaffers hid the gauntlet and was banished into the book, the only people who knew where it was hidden were the obstacles. Since they weren't likely to tell Malecite where it was hidden and Malecite wasn't [[ArcWords pure of heart]] enough to be able to translate the riddles, he had to wait for someone to come along who could find it for him.
*** Or, alternatively, we get a shot of Malecite staring at the field early in the movie. Perhaps he knew where it was hidden, but Jaffers had put a spell on the Stormdrain of Secrets that prevented Malecite from withdrawing the gauntlet, leading him to search for a catspaw.

* How exactly was Malecite ever confused by the riddles? From what little we hear they sound fairly straightforward[[hottip:*: Yes, in real life it's probably because they didn't have much time to spend on riddles]]. For that matter, why did Jaffers see any need to leave clues behind?

* Why in the commentary does Bennett refer to the events of ''Kickassia'' as taking place "Elseworld"? There have been more than enough references in Linkara and Critic's videos[[hottip:*: (not to mention the possible call backs of Film Brain's asskissing behavior and Joe's BigNo reaction to seeing his fellow reviewers gathered)]] to establish that ''Kickassia'' takes place in "our" reality.

*** I just assumed that after he was stopped from taking the whip onto the airplane, he just stopped taking it incase he got dragged into something like this or {{Kickassia}}, and needed to fly somewhere quickly. The reviewers are generally depicted as being fairly GenreSavvy when it comes things like that.

*** And he could identify Malecite as dressing like a RunDMC member. What the hell?

** It's possible he simply doesn't have a gun - He used a pea-shooter in {{Kickassia}}, remember.

*** To be fair, she did camp out at his house in ''LesMiserables''...

** They were "looking to the East", hence towards Jew Wario, and may have been stunned along with the Cloaks by that vision.

*** she also calls her self the daughter of Gillian Anderson in the same sentence IIRC so it could just be seen as a joke.

** From his twitter:It's magic - it can shoot many things.

** I have the impression that Doug only played the 2D Zelda games in his childhood, and he hasn't played any of the newer ones. He probably have heard about them but doesn't know all the plot details or specifics. His comment about the chickens attacking him sounds more like something from Alttp, and he's just the right age for being a SNES kid(also notice he calls them ''chickens'' and not ''cuccos'', like in all the games after Ocarina of Time). And well, character developtment and everything, Zelda does still get kidnapped a lot (but she's no Peach, definately!)
** It'd hardly be the first time the Critic DidNotDoTheResearch.

**** Which adds another layer to it: Luke wasn't really as noticeable at the meeting and presumably snuck away and made a cup for The Critic while Film Brain went and made his cup during the critic's speech... giving Luke ample time to get the Critic the coffee first. This also adds another reason for Film Brain's rage: He made the Coffee but Luke gets all the credit. Another possible explanation is that Luke got the Critic a latte on the way there and then just heated it up while everyone was distracted.

***** Or perhaps he made some adjustment to the mask in between parts 3 and 4 when he realized they would ''actually'' be fighting things.

**** It's also possibly that only BlackMagic drains your lifeforce. Linkara uses the magic gun for (mostly) heroic purposes, whereas Malecite is using magic to ''slaughter'' people. Adding further credence to this, we've seen numerous other characters using magic without the drawback.

** In the commentary Linkara mentions that Doug still doesn't realize that his gun doesn't fire bullets. Also he says that his hat protects him from the negative effects of magic.

** Besides, it is really THAT wrong? I mean, San ''is'' the eponymous Princess Mononoke, no? It's just that (if I recall correctly) that's a RedBaron given to her by the villagers she and the animal gods were fighting, so maybe she wouldn't use it to refer to herself. Then again, the real San did never bite people in the groin either, did she?
*** If you want to be really anal, San never referred to herself as "Princess Mononoke", and this nickname given to her by the Irontown's inhabitants translates more accurately as "Princess of the Mononoke". Just chuck it up to RuleOfFunny; note how many others in the group also refer to themselves by the name of the actor rather than the character, or get the name wrong entirely.

** For Spoony or the Snob, being fired might not be such a big deal, but for many of the critics on the site being on TGWTG means a serious increase in public exposure that they probably wouldn't get if they just went back to their own sites or posting on YouTube. Not to mention that, as we've seen, being fired from the site carries something of a stigma--how many subscribers does "Riz's Rave Reviews" have, again?

* Why in the commentary does Bennett refer to the events of ''Kickassia'' as taking place "Elseworld"? There have been more than enough references in Linkara and Critic's videos[[hottip:*: (not to mention the possible call backs of Film Brain's asskissing behavior and Joe's BigNo reaction to seeing his fellow reviewers gathered)]] to establish that ''Kickassia'' takes place in "our" reality.

* Why did the Nostalgia Critic say Chick Fil A should stop serving Christians? (I'm not trying to start an edit war, I just want to know if it was a joke or a {{TakeThat}} or what?

*** Considering Angry Joe's irritation about not being able to eat there on Sundays it's probably both a {{TakeThat}} and a call back.

*** Yes, but they were there in the GNN news footage from the early 1980s.

* The book Jaffers was trapped in had a resurrection spell. Why didn't they use that instead of going out looking for the Necronomicon?

* How DOES the Critic intent to revive Ma-Ti anyway, Necronomicon or not? They ''cremated'' him. In 9 out of 10 Fantasy universes, Necromancy requires the original corpse.
** It's ''Necronomicon''! Read ''The Case of Charles Dexter Ward'', and learn a method of necromantic resurrection that ''requires'' reducing the body into "primal saltes" first, either from decayed dust or burned ashes.

** Once Jaffers hid the gauntlet and was banished into the book, the only people who knew where it was hidden were the obstacles. Since they weren't likely to tell Malecite where it was hidden and Malecite wasn't [[ArcWords pure of heart]] enough to be able to translate the riddles, he had to wait for someone to come along who could find it for him.

* Why is it that both Tom and Mickey remember Suede if they joined the site after he went into his mission?

** In ''AtopTheFourthWall'', Cloak #1 says that guardians of magical artifacts live for thousands of years so some of them probably cast anti-aging spells.

** In AT4W, Cloak #1 says that guardians of magical artifacts live for thousands of years so some of them probably cast anti-aging spells.

** POSSIBLY they need it pointed out first?

* So... is the Critic's costume decision to forego pants purely for RuleOfFunny? I know he's EstrogenBrigadeBait to some viewers, but to others he's not. Has anyone from the site ever hinted at a reason?

* Why in the commentary does Bennett refer to the events of ''Kickassia'' as taking place "Elseworld"? There have been more than enough references in Linkara and Critic's videosnot to mention the possible call backs of Film Brain's asskissing behavior and Joe's BigNo reaction to seeing the other reviewers gathered) to establish that ''Kickassia'' takes place in "our" reality.

* Why in the commentary does Lewis refer to the events of ''Kickassia'' as taking place "Elseworld"? There have been more than enough references in his own reviews to establish that Kickassia took place in "our" reality.
* Why did the Nostalgia Critic say Chick Fil A should stop serving Christians? (I'm not trying to start an edit war, I just want to know if it was a joke or a {{TakeThat}} or what)