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** Don't forget Sp00n. Sp00n has done a lot of cool/funny videos with Nova too. Sp00n was so awesome in Nova's opinion that he not only [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chnjiK_kbvY made him a cake (which he refused to eat when he hilariously jumped off the roof of the Treehouse) Treehouse)]] but dedicated an entire statue to him in Minecraft. You can feel the love.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Nova showcases the popularity of the Irresponsible Dad by playing as that character for the majority of his Happy Wheels videos. Interestingly he also treats the bike that the Dad rides as its own character, Random Bike as he calls it is the source of much amusement as it randomly kills or incapacitates Nova on multiple occasions. Seems oddly amusing that one would ascribe so much character to an inanimate object.
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* CompanionCube: In a way the Random Bike is this for Nova in his Happy Wheels videos. He attributes actual personality to the bike when it randomly kills him or other characters on the screen, he thinks that the bike is a chaotic trickster that strikes people down at random. This trend started during the very first episode and has persisted since then. Amusingly Nova seems to like the bike as he shows more distress at it being damaged then he does the Little Boy!
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* TrashTheSet: Usually when he finishes a Minecraft adventure map with SSoHPKC, they will celebrate the completion by spawning stacks of TNT and blowing the map up.
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* TrashTheSet: Usually when he finishes a Minecraft adventure map with SSoHPKC, they will celebrate the completion by spawning stacks of TNT and blowing the map up.
* {{Tsundere}}: Nova is a full on Tsundere when it comes to the LITTLE BOY(!) in Happy Wheels. There are many times where he will go out of his way to kill the Little Boy, will insult him, or generally not care that he just died, and other times he will be devastated that the Little Boy got killed or hurt or even just so much as fell off the bike.
* UncannyValley: Deliberately invoked in Saints Row the Third with his character named Ginger Powder.
* {{Tsundere}}: Nova is a full on Tsundere when it comes to the LITTLE BOY(!) in Happy Wheels. There are many times where he will go out of his way to kill the Little Boy, will insult him, or generally not care that he just died, and other times he will be devastated that the Little Boy got killed or hurt or even just so much as fell off the bike.
* UncannyValley: Deliberately invoked in Saints Row the Third with his character named Ginger Powder.
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* UncannyValley: Deliberately invoked in Saints Row the Third with his character named Ginger Powder.
* UncannyValley: Deliberately invoked in Saints Row the Third with his character named Ginger Powder.
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->''Sp00n: What do you wanna do?''
-->''Nova: Uh, we dick around.''
--->'''Nova and Sp00n''', Nonsensical Just Cause 2 Multiplayer
-->''Nova: Uh, we dick around.''
--->'''Nova and Sp00n''', Nonsensical Just Cause 2 Multiplayer
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** Minecraft's serene soundtrack has a tendency to play in the heat of Nova's rage in the videos in his "Yup" playlist. As seen in "MINECRAFT FINISHED 1.0.0" and "SLABS".
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* MacroZone: The map in Minecraft "TomAndJerry: Jerry's Adventure" with SSoHPKC.
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[[http://www.youtube.com/user/UberHaxorNova UberHaxorNova]] or James, is a Youtube game player who tends to get the most angry when playing with other people. On his own, he is a fun-loving WWE fan that dabbles in {{Minecraft}} from time to time. He has numerous videos of wrestling up on his account, the most of them going towards Smackdown vs Raw 2011 with full playthroughs of the Road to Wrestlemania mode and even some custom stories. He interacts with his fans on occasion and is a member of a group called TheCreatures, who frequently collaborate with each other. Currently, he is part of the MinecraftExCommunicatedSeries and has an ongoing HappyWheels playthrough, where he runs through user-created levels while laughing his ass off.
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[[http://www.youtube.com/user/UberHaxorNova UberHaxorNova]] or James, is a Youtube game player who tends to get the most angry when playing with other people. On his own, he is a fun-loving WWE fan that dabbles in {{Minecraft}} from time to time. He has numerous videos of wrestling up on his account, the most of them going towards Smackdown vs Raw 2011 with full playthroughs of the Road to Wrestlemania mode and even some custom stories. He interacts with his fans on occasion and is a member of a group called TheCreatures, who frequently collaborate with each other. Currently, he is part of the MinecraftExCommunicatedSeries and has an ongoing HappyWheels VideoGame/HappyWheels playthrough, where he runs through user-created levels while laughing his ass off.
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* AscendedFanboy: Nova can be considered this; his videos of HappyWheels have become so popular that the creator, Jim Bonacci, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3xN9ddBzKs added a character specifically for Nova, complete with voice clips Nova made for the character]].
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* AscendedFanboy: Nova can be considered this; his videos of HappyWheels VideoGame/HappyWheels have become so popular that the creator, Jim Bonacci, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3xN9ddBzKs added a character specifically for Nova, complete with voice clips Nova made for the character]].
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** In HappyWheels: "Fuck the world! *throws [[MadeofPlasticine character's dismembered leg]]*"
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* MemeticSexGod: Nova's {{Terraria}} avatar Dick Chappy in a Christmas livestream he did with fellow Creatures and the {{Yogscast}}.
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* MemeticSexGod: Nova's {{Terraria}} avatar Dick Chappy in a Christmas livestream NumberTwo: To Kootra, when Kootra is gone Nova tends to take over Kootra's role as leader. To hear Nova tell it though he did with fellow Creatures usually doesn't need Kootra's help and the {{Yogscast}}.considers himself an independent entity.
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** In his [[MaxPayne Max Payne 3]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDqavNe0VQ4&feature=relmfu playthrough]], he will randomly say/shout "Por que!"
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** In his [[MaxPayne Max Payne 3]] ´''MaxPayne3'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDqavNe0VQ4&feature=relmfu playthrough]], he will randomly say/shout "Por que!"
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* GoodBadBugs / GameBreakingBug: Frequently occurs in Happy Wheels, when Nova plays levels that can be started with any character, but that aren't designed for certain characters, such as Santa.
** Specific example of the former: As a rule, the reoccuring level "IT KEEPS HAPPENING" will defeat Nova several times over before he finally gives up on it. Using the pogo stick character, [[CurbStompBattle ''he reaches the exit in less than five seconds.'']]
** Specific example of the former: As a rule, the reoccuring level "IT KEEPS HAPPENING" will defeat Nova several times over before he finally gives up on it. Using the pogo stick character, [[CurbStompBattle ''he reaches the exit in less than five seconds.'']]
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* GoodBadBugs / GameBreakingBug: Frequently occurs in Happy Wheels, when Nova plays levels that can be started with any character, but that aren't designed for certain characters, such as Santa.
** Specific example of the former: As a rule, the reoccuring level "IT KEEPS HAPPENING" will defeat Nova several times over before he finally gives up on it. Using the pogo stick character, [[CurbStompBattle ''he reaches the exit in less than five seconds.'']]
** Specific example of the former: As a rule, the reoccuring level "IT KEEPS HAPPENING" will defeat Nova several times over before he finally gives up on it. Using the pogo stick character, [[CurbStompBattle ''he reaches the exit in less than five seconds.'']]
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* ButtMonkey: During the Quad Mountain series, his second turtle T-Money, becomes this. Nova goes as far as to fence him out from all the other turtles he finds later on.
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* ButtMonkey: During the Quad Mountain series, his second turtle T-Money, becomes this. Nova goes as far as to fence him out from all the other turtles he finds later on.
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* AscendedFanboy: Nova can be considered this; his videos of HappyWheels have become so popular that the creator, Jim Bonacci, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3xN9ddBzKs added a character specifically for Nova, complete with voice clips Nova made for the character]].
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[[http://www.youtube.com/user/UberHaxorNova UberHaxorNova]] or James, is a Youtube game player who tends to get the most angry when playing with other people. On his own, he is a fun-loving WWE fan that dabbles in {{Minecraft}} from time to time. He has numerous videos of wrestling up on his account, the most of them going towards Smackdown vs Raw 2011 with full playthroughs of the Road to Wrestlemania mode and even some custom stories. He interacts with his fans on occasion and is a member of a group called TheCreatures, who frequently collaborate with each other. Currently, he is part of the MinecraftExCommunicatedSeries and has an ongoing HappyWheels playthrough, where he runs through user-created levels while laughing his ass off.
Also, has a second account called [[http://www.youtube.com/user/NovaPipebomb NovaPipebomb]] with an ongoing playthrough of WWE Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain and the WWE '12 story mode.
Nova is one of the main members of TheCreatures.
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* BerserkButton: He hates it when people [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NylmdC_uEM cheat.]]
** Just recently, he developed one to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6eHmLT6GLo comments being marked as spam.]]
* BigNameFan: Notch watches his Happy Wheels playthrough and acted surprised when he was told that Nova was doing Minecraft videos.
** The developers of Payday: The Heist, E.Y.E, and [=Techno Kitten Adventure=] have all told Nova they watch his videos, as well.
* {{Catchphrase}}: MLG, whenever he does something that is awesome.
** And when he fails at something, "I knew that was going to happen!"
* {{Determinator}}: Even when he knows he can't win, he still keeps going. Sometimes devoting an entire video (or even a few whole episodes) to just one level.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With SSoHPKC, especially on Minecraft. Either that or full on HoYay.
** Don't forget Sp00n. Sp00n has done a lot of cool/funny videos with Nova too. Sp00n was so awesome in Nova's opinion that he not only made him a cake (which he refused to eat when he hilariously jumped off the roof of the Treehouse) but dedicated an entire statue to him in Minecraft. You can feel the love.
*** Small shades of this with Kootra. Nova teases Kootra most of the time but they always pull through together in the various projects they have done, especially their Minecraft series with the Tree Houses they made together.
* {{Jerkass}}: His general attitude when playing multiplayer on games.
* LargeHam: He tends to throw his mike levels into the red, sometimes, when things aren't going his way.
** Just his general persona is over the top even when he doesn't get angry. Underneath all of that is just a normal guy who likes to have fun as he has said himself during a few videos.
* LetsPlay: Fits all the criteria.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Kootra and Nova can best be described as this. They nag each other quite a bit, which Gassy Mexican puts a LampShadeHanging on.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: He is pretty mean when people tick him off, but when he's playing single-player, he's usually nice to listen to.
** He is pretty kind to his fans if you take a look at some of the video descriptions.
* RunningGag: The "Gay Tony" jump in Minecraft.
** Several in his HappyWheels videos including: "Wiggle your niblets.", "Random bike.", and "Fuck the world!".
** It seems that one among the comments in the Repeaters / Wool series is how many keyboards Nova has broken from smashing the desk in his rage.
** One in the Game of Life, was "Nova's sister" appearing in game form.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: In the first video on his second account, he picked Kurt Angle to face JBL. JBL hit Angle with 4 finishers and was about to hit a fifth, but his finisher meter ran out.
** Also, with some of the user-created levels in Happy Wheels, sometimes he and the kid end up with about 20 harpoons inside them.
* SoundtrackDissonance: During Nonsensical Saints Row The Third episode 7, Nova and Sp00n were getting chased by the cops. What was playing? ''Satisfaction''
* StealthParody: His "REPEATERS / WOOL" series, where at face value, he rages at things that happen or goes ballistic about things he's told. However, in most of them he's actually [[spoiler: making fun of the fact that people [[StopHelpingMe keep telling him the most obvious things]] no matter how much time has passed inbetween recording and uploading.]]
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: HappyWheels. Full stop.
** Especially... THE LITTLE BOY!
* {{Tsundere}}: Nova is a full on Tsundere when it comes to the LITTLE BOY(!) in Happy Wheels. There are many times where he will go out of his way to kill the Little Boy, will insult him, or generally not care that he just died, and other times he will be devastated that the Little Boy got killed or hurt or even just so much as fell off the bike.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: About 3-4 times in the Happy Wheels playthrough, whenever he would launch the Little Boy into a harpoon trap or another kind of trap that would've spelled death for Nova, the traps would just ignore the Little Boy and activate on Nova.
* VitriolicBestBuds: James can have a somewhat silly and crude sense of humor against just about everyone but especially against Kootra who he makes fun of the most (insults like Kootra smells, etc.). However you can tell that the teasing is all in good spirits and that they are really friends.
** With Sly as well where Sly and Nova constantly insult each other, screw up their work on projects, and they will sometimes go out of their way to do something mean to the other.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: A small one occurred in his Portal 2 co-op with {{SlyFoxHound}}. He was going through a puzzle and at the end, it required Nova to drop a Companion Cube horizontally via wave tunnel into a small little opening. He drops it in then complains to Sly that's he's stuck
* YankTheDogsChain: During Happy Wheels episode 82, Nova took on an incredibly hard map and kept dying on one part for five minutes. He finally makes it past that part only to trip mines in a later part. Many fans commented that they felt Nova's pain when he died on that part.
** Also, episodes 95-98, when he played the Ocarina of Time map. That ONE booster section immediately after Gohma screws him over so often it's unfunny.
** According to the comments, though, it might have made it worse for Nova because the original creator of the map fixed the booster after Nova was done with the level.
Also, has a second account called [[http://www.youtube.com/user/NovaPipebomb NovaPipebomb]] with an ongoing playthrough of WWE Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain and the WWE '12 story mode.
Nova is one of the main members of TheCreatures.
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* BerserkButton: He hates it when people [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NylmdC_uEM cheat.]]
** Just recently, he developed one to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6eHmLT6GLo comments being marked as spam.]]
* BigNameFan: Notch watches his Happy Wheels playthrough and acted surprised when he was told that Nova was doing Minecraft videos.
** The developers of Payday: The Heist, E.Y.E, and [=Techno Kitten Adventure=] have all told Nova they watch his videos, as well.
* {{Catchphrase}}: MLG, whenever he does something that is awesome.
** And when he fails at something, "I knew that was going to happen!"
* {{Determinator}}: Even when he knows he can't win, he still keeps going. Sometimes devoting an entire video (or even a few whole episodes) to just one level.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With SSoHPKC, especially on Minecraft. Either that or full on HoYay.
** Don't forget Sp00n. Sp00n has done a lot of cool/funny videos with Nova too. Sp00n was so awesome in Nova's opinion that he not only made him a cake (which he refused to eat when he hilariously jumped off the roof of the Treehouse) but dedicated an entire statue to him in Minecraft. You can feel the love.
*** Small shades of this with Kootra. Nova teases Kootra most of the time but they always pull through together in the various projects they have done, especially their Minecraft series with the Tree Houses they made together.
* {{Jerkass}}: His general attitude when playing multiplayer on games.
* LargeHam: He tends to throw his mike levels into the red, sometimes, when things aren't going his way.
** Just his general persona is over the top even when he doesn't get angry. Underneath all of that is just a normal guy who likes to have fun as he has said himself during a few videos.
* LetsPlay: Fits all the criteria.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Kootra and Nova can best be described as this. They nag each other quite a bit, which Gassy Mexican puts a LampShadeHanging on.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: He is pretty mean when people tick him off, but when he's playing single-player, he's usually nice to listen to.
** He is pretty kind to his fans if you take a look at some of the video descriptions.
* RunningGag: The "Gay Tony" jump in Minecraft.
** Several in his HappyWheels videos including: "Wiggle your niblets.", "Random bike.", and "Fuck the world!".
** It seems that one among the comments in the Repeaters / Wool series is how many keyboards Nova has broken from smashing the desk in his rage.
** One in the Game of Life, was "Nova's sister" appearing in game form.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: In the first video on his second account, he picked Kurt Angle to face JBL. JBL hit Angle with 4 finishers and was about to hit a fifth, but his finisher meter ran out.
** Also, with some of the user-created levels in Happy Wheels, sometimes he and the kid end up with about 20 harpoons inside them.
* SoundtrackDissonance: During Nonsensical Saints Row The Third episode 7, Nova and Sp00n were getting chased by the cops. What was playing? ''Satisfaction''
* StealthParody: His "REPEATERS / WOOL" series, where at face value, he rages at things that happen or goes ballistic about things he's told. However, in most of them he's actually [[spoiler: making fun of the fact that people [[StopHelpingMe keep telling him the most obvious things]] no matter how much time has passed inbetween recording and uploading.]]
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: HappyWheels. Full stop.
** Especially... THE LITTLE BOY!
* {{Tsundere}}: Nova is a full on Tsundere when it comes to the LITTLE BOY(!) in Happy Wheels. There are many times where he will go out of his way to kill the Little Boy, will insult him, or generally not care that he just died, and other times he will be devastated that the Little Boy got killed or hurt or even just so much as fell off the bike.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: About 3-4 times in the Happy Wheels playthrough, whenever he would launch the Little Boy into a harpoon trap or another kind of trap that would've spelled death for Nova, the traps would just ignore the Little Boy and activate on Nova.
* VitriolicBestBuds: James can have a somewhat silly and crude sense of humor against just about everyone but especially against Kootra who he makes fun of the most (insults like Kootra smells, etc.). However you can tell that the teasing is all in good spirits and that they are really friends.
** With Sly as well where Sly and Nova constantly insult each other, screw up their work on projects, and they will sometimes go out of their way to do something mean to the other.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: A small one occurred in his Portal 2 co-op with {{SlyFoxHound}}. He was going through a puzzle and at the end, it required Nova to drop a Companion Cube horizontally via wave tunnel into a small little opening. He drops it in then complains to Sly that's he's stuck
* YankTheDogsChain: During Happy Wheels episode 82, Nova took on an incredibly hard map and kept dying on one part for five minutes. He finally makes it past that part only to trip mines in a later part. Many fans commented that they felt Nova's pain when he died on that part.
** Also, episodes 95-98, when he played the Ocarina of Time map. That ONE booster section immediately after Gohma screws him over so often it's unfunny.
** According to the comments, though, it might have made it worse for Nova because the original creator of the map fixed the booster after Nova was done with the level.
