History LetsPlay / NerdCubed

* ShoutOut: In "Nerd³ Vlogs... Questions and Insults", he uses the MagicFranchiseWord from [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]] "Objection!", when asked which defense lawyer he would call in the event that he was put on trial for murder.
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mm8Vw4S_3M this video]] he uses [[WebVideo/SovietWomble Nobody Enjoys Soviet Womble]] as a compass.

* CatsAreMean: Demon Kitty from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas.''

* CatchPhrase: "Hello, procrastinators!", at least until the 2015 channel reboot. (This hasn't stopped the phrase coming up in the comments.)
** *Dan makes obviously false statement* "True story."
** "Lovely jubbly!"
** "Are you ready for this jelly?" and variants.
** "Don't you hate it when [an unusual and extremely game-specific situation]."
** "Nailed it!"
** "He was a [questionable description of game character he just killed] [[ComedicSociopathy and now he's dead]]."
** "Murderize!"
** "Let's get rid of [valuable item]. [Valuable item] is rubbish!"
** [Improvises something bizarre or says a word wrong] "Well done, brain/Thank you for that, brain."
** "Goodbye, procrastinators." and/or "Ta-ra."
** Dan's high-pitched "EEEEEEEEEEEEP!" when passing very close to in-game hazards.
** [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy "You saw nothing!"]] in his stealth games.
** For [=DadCubed=]: "[[IncomingHam YEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAA!]] Hello everybody, and welcome to [=DadCubed=]! Yeah, the old man from Essex is back again!"
** "This costs real money."[[note]]Used since Air Control for games that aren't worth buying at any price.[[/note]]

* BritishHumour

* RevisitingTheRoots: In Dan's 2024 reboot, he returns the "Hello, procrastinators!" intro sequence and replays games that he played during 2011 to 2013.

* {{Manchild}}: With his immature jokes, constant ComedicSociopathy, his excitement over ''everything'', and his general incompetence, Dan is more like an excitable child in the body of a grown man.

* JerkassGods: Parodied whenever Dan plays a game where he can control the universe, though the most obvious example is VideoGame/UniverseSandbox.

Nerd³ is a British LetsPlay channel on Website/YouTube created by Daniel Hardcastle and run by himself and Wot Fanar, devoted to gaming and reviewing games. It can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialNerdCubed here]]. Largely inspired as a cross between Hannah Hart's ''My Drunk Kitchen'' and [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit's]] ''WTF Is...'', it combines quick editing with strange, unexpected humour and real-time gameplay.

!!''Nerd Cubed'' provides examples of:

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-->"[[LongRunners Thirteen years in]]. [[RefugeInAudacity No sign of stopping]]. New videos every weekend."

* {{Determinator}}: Dan must be if he plays Desert Bus for eight hours straight for his 1,000,000 subscriber special.

* TakeThatAudience: His former introduction before the 2015 reboot is essentially him calling out his viewers for being procrastinators.

-> '''Hello, procrastinators!'''

--> '''Dan:''' ''It was, it was...if someone slaps your ass cheek, they can also slap your other ass cheek, wasn't it? It was something like that, I got the weird Bible.''

*** The entire point of his famous "Henderson Challenge" video, where he and a friend compete to see how much progress they can make in GTA V in an hour. [[spoiler: One of them uses microtransactions, the other doesn't. In the end, Dan considers both options failure, because if you give in to microtransactions you've resorted to spending real-world money on temporary fictional items, and if you refuse to touch microtransactions then you're essentially working for less than minimum wage.]]

* BigNo: Dan does this in his ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' video when [[spoiler: the train he was riding on kills his horse, which, [[TemptingFate as he pointed out only a few minutes prior, he had kept alive through the entire game until that point]]]].
** He also does this in his Worms video when [[spoiler: his worm "Kennith Kennithso" gets shot off of a shovel and killed with a SlowMotionFall, followed by that same enemy worm shooting Sasha off a ledge in the same manner to her death]]. He does, however, win the match.
*** See also: Numerous occasions in his Let's Play of Sonic 06, with[[spoiler: the point he discovers he has to go through the trials section with Silver]] earning a particularly throaty one before cutting to his outro

--> You see from this ending, you don't know who won. Sort of.

--> '''Dan:''' (very close to mic) '''I HATE THIS GAME.'''

--> '''Cleverbot:''' Chinese is Asian.
--> '''Dan:''' I'm not even debating that.

--> '''Dan:''' [[{{Understatement}} People who like guns are crying right now!]]

-->'''Dan:''' Oh. My. Shitting pants shit. What the shit pants is this shitting pants pantsy shit pantsiness?

-->'''Dan:''' If you ever get on a plane and the pilot's voice comes over the intercom and it's mine, run. Just jump out of the plane. You have a better chance of survival.

-->'''Dan (After failing at the triple jump):''' The problem with this jump, my friend, is that this game was made by a GIBBON!!!

-->'''Silver:''' Everything is so great here, isn't it? [[MundaneObjectAmazement The sky is gorgeous, and everyone's happy]]!\\

* JustForPun: Dan will do this occasionally.
** From his VideoGame/{{ARMA}} 2 video " Guess who? NUN OTHER THAN ME!".

--> '''[=DadCubed=]:''' Okay. Back towards us. Down. Grab! *Dan grabs the drill* Lift up, lift up, perfect!
--> '''Dan:''' What've I got?
--> '''[=DadCubed=]:''' [[BlatantLies Umm...you've got the hammer.]] Now right. Forward. Forward. There! Yes, yes! Now left! *The drill stabs the patient in the side of the head, killing him* Perfect! Right in the ear hole!
--> '''Dan:''' What've I done?
--> '''[=DadCubed=]:''' You've killed him. [[HesDeadJim He's gone now.]]

* MoodWhiplash: The opening of “Nerd³ is in Hospital”: it starts with the sound of medical equipment and a black screen before fading in the hospital room of [[spoiler: a young bald man. Then Dan pops up from behind the hospital bed and yells [[DissonantSerenity “I’m fine!” complete with confetti.]] ]]

--> '''Dan:''' NOPE! No, I won't have that on my channel.

--> '''Daniel''': FEEL FREE TO RATE FIVE AND SAVE ALL YOUR CRE-AY-TIVE REPLAYS, said this person.

--> '''Daniel:''' Hello procrastinators, and welcome to ''[=SimCity=]''! This is the ultimate city building...sand...box...balls! I put the wrong footage up! ''Why do modern games all have the same name as old games!?'' I don't understand, I do apologize, hang on... (switches to ''[[FanRemake Micropolis]]'')
* RememberTheNewGuy: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in the ''Tertiary Heist'' when Dan brings up [[LetsPlay/ManyATrueNerd Jon]] to his dad, who has no clue who Jon is. Dan then proceeds to treat Jon as a regular collaborator of the channel. At this moment, we get a brief flashback cut to [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten Dan tearing the wings off of the glider in Aerofly FS]], where Jon has been overdubbed talking to the crashing Dan.

--->'''Dan''': "STAND UP, YOU BASTARDS!!!"

--> "How many are there? Tell me, Google, tell me... Err... How man-- how many? How many? There we go, right... [[spoiler: '''[[OhCrap TWENTY?!]]''']] *drops controller* No."

--> '''Daniel:''' Ok, you may feel a small prick...hitting you with a very large hammer.

-->'''Dan''': "We have to put up with ''morons spouting shit''. Speaking of, hello!"

--> '''Dan:''' In the immortal words of Creator/WilliamShakespeare... ''[[PrecisionFStrike Bollocks.]]''

--> '''Dan:''' Whoops, I killed the [[UsefulNotes/BritishPoliticalSystem Tories]]!\\

--> '''Dan:''' Before we begin, I do have some serious news to discuss. I received a record number of complaints about a video. Nearly a hundred people complained about the last episode of ''Bully'', as it featured THIS GAY KISS! *shows footage of the kiss* Now, a lot of people wanted me to edit out THIS GAY KISS! *shows footage of the kiss* from that episode, but unfortunately, I don't keep raw video files, so THIS GAY KISS! *shows footage of kiss* is going to be there forever. They've also asked me if I would kindly (I say they asked me kindly. They didn't. [[InternetJerk They shouted.]]), they asked me kindly if I would not show things like THIS GAY KISS! *shows footage of the kiss* in any future or current videos. Well, I've decided...Jimmy is now bi. Deal with it! *shows footage of kiss* Right, that's people dragged into the 21st century [[FlameWar and the comments section annihilated...]]

-->NPC "Are you one of them? A spirit of darkness?"
-->Dan: "No, I'm not a Republican."

* WhamLine: In ”Nerd³ is in Hospital” near the beginning, for those who hadn’t put the pieces together.
-->'''Daniel:''' [[spoiler: I’m fine!]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Jay:''' I’m not.]]

-->'''Question''': What's your favourite element?
-->'''Dan''': Your-mum-ium.

-->'''Sonic:''' [[MemeticMutation That tornado's carrying a car!]]\\

-> ''For now, I just want to say... You are welcome here.''

* CallBack: In "Nerd³ Plays... F1 2020", at the beginning of the episode, he calls the Jeff communicating with him as his team manager "a flying shark". While this seems random at first, it's a reference to his ''RollerCoaster Tycoon 3'' series where he encountered a bugged shark floating in the air, calling him "Jeff".