History RunningGag / TheKillCount

* In the Kill Counts for ''Film/HappyDeathDay'' and ''Film/HappyDeathDayTwoYou'', James takes advantage of Tree's nickname and [[SelfDemonstratingArticle saps]] all the tree puns he can out of it. Lampshaded in the sequel's Kill Count.

* In the Kill Count for ''Film/HappyDeathDay'' and its sequel, James takes advantage of Tree's nickname and [[SelfDemonstratingArticle saps]] all the tree puns he can out of it.

* In the ''Film/HappyDeathDay'' Kill Count, James takes advantage of Tree's nickname and [[SelfDemonstratingArticle saps]] all the tree puns he can out of it.

* In the ''Film/HappyDeathDay'' Kill Count, James takes advantage of Tree's nickname and milks all the tree puns he can out of it.

* Whenever there's a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming moment]], usually a hug, he'll say "Aw, that's nice!".

* The ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' videos have James bemoaning the appearance of Super forms of characters with "Super X sucks!" Similarly, he insistently refers to the girls who jump rope and sing Freddy's song as Jump Rope Girls like they were music group.

* After the ''Film/DudeBroPartyMassacre3'' kill count broke the previous kill record by over 11 times, James very frequently shows his disdain about it in later videos in humorous ways, be it describing the situation as the worst thing that happened to him during the ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' kill count or [[DisproportionateRetribution outright killing Zoran over it]] in the ''Film/TheBlackPhone'' kill count. Zoran himself gets into this, with him bragging about it in the ''Film/DeepRising'' kill count and saying that James does not have to feel sad about ''[[Film/{{Critters}} Critters Attack!]] having the most amount of counted non-human deaths in the numbers segment for the latter film. This, much like ''Film/{{Thankskilling}} 3'', becomes RunningGagged when ''WebAnimation/EmesisBlue'' breaks the record with a record-''Shattering'' '''''800,054 KILLS!!!'''''.

* After the ''Film/DudeBroPartyMassacre3'' kill count broke the previous kill record by over 11 times, James very frequently shows his disdain about it in later videos in humorous ways, be it describing the situation as the worst thing that happened to him during the ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' kill count or [[DisproportionateRetribution outright killing Zoran over it]] in the ''Film/TheBlackPhone'' kill count. Zoran himself gets into this, with him bragging about it in the ''Film/DeepRising'' kill count and saying that James does not have to feel sad about ''[[Film/{{Critters}} Critters Attack!]] having the most amount of counted non-human deaths in the numbers segment for the latter film. This, much like ''Film/{{Thankskilling}} 3'', this become RunningGagged when ''WebAnimation/EmesisBlue'' breaks the record with a record-''Shattering'' '''''800,054 KILLS!!!'''''.

* After the ''Film/DudeBroPartyMassacre3'' kill count broke the previous kill record by over 11 times, James very frequently shows his disdain about it in later videos in humorous ways, be it describing the situation as the worst thing that happened to him during the ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' kill count or [[DisproportionateRetribution outright killing Zoran over it]] in the ''Film/TheBlackPhone'' kill count. Zoran himself gets into this, with him bragging about it in the ''Film/DeepRising'' kill count and saying that James does not have to feel sad about ''[[Film/{{Critters}} Critters Attack!]] having the most amount of counted non-human deaths in the numbers segment for the latter film.

* While covering the ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}'' franchise, [[spoiler: every single version of the original has Tommy Ross's death as the Dull Machete. James even notes that he doesn't want to break tradition when giving it the award while covering the [[Film/Carrie2013 2013 Remake]].]]
** Interestingly enough, the [[spoiler: death of Leatherface]] in the first "Social Mediasochist" video, which was a homage to [[spoiler: Tommy Ross' death, was ALSO awarded the Dull Machete. The tradition's been going on longer than James likely realized!]]

* Whenever a big fight scene is about to occur, James calls it an “ALL OUT [context] FIGHT!”, with the addition of air horns.

* As ''[[Film/{{Critters}} Critters 3]]'' was [[Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio Leonardo [=DiCaprio=]'s]] first movie, Zoran keeps [[ActorAllusion referencing the former's other roles in it's kill count.]]

* During various thanksgiving kill count episodes, James repeatably makes it clear how much he hates and refuses to cover ''[[Film/{{Thankskilling}} Thankskilling 3]]''. [[RunningGagged After he ended up covering it in 2021]] the gag then changes to James' horror at the possibility of a ''Thankskilling 4''.

* During his ''Film/FridayThe13th'' recounts, whenever the character Paul Holt is mentioned, James will immediately shout his name a second time.

* During various thankgiving kill count episodes, James repeatably makes it clear how much he hates and refuses to cover ''[[Film/{{Thankskilling}} Thankskilling 3]]''. [[RunningGagged After he ended up covering it in 2021]] the gag then changes to James' horror at the possibility of a ''Thankskilling 4''.

* During the ''Franchise/FinalDestination'' series, whenever there are signs that death is coming for one of the characters, James notes that things are getting “SHPOOKAY!” He also refers to the initial premonitions with both the overall disaster and an alliterative eye synonym since every premonition ends with a zoom-out of an extreme close-up of the protagonist's eye.
* James will always pronounce the word "dinosaur" with an exaggerated Southern accent as "DI-nuh-SAWW", like [[Film/JurassicPark Mr DNA]].

* In the kill count of ''[[Film/{{Critters}} Critters 4]]'', Zoran recalls scenes reminiscent of the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise and is shown stroking a facehugger plushie to lampshade the similarities.