History Trivia / Raocow

* CreatorBacklash: Toward his ''VideoGame/{{Parodius}}'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' [=LPs=] (see OldShame below). And especially toward his ''New! Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' LP, because of how infuriating the game was and how unpleasant his playing is to watch, to the point of outright anger at its creator. It's the only game he'll never replay.

* OldShame: His "Let's Intermission With Mega Man X", posted in 2010, is made up of footage recorded in 2008. He thinks his bizarre commentary in it sounds cheesy and forced...but a lot of his fans really like the videos.
** He considers his ''VideoGame/{{Parodius}}'' let's play to be so bad it's not even in the archives.
** He's come out lately saying that he dislikes his old, intensely "[[WordSaladHumor monkey cheese]]" style of commentary and rampant SaveScumming in a lot of his pre and early-Website/YouTube [=LPs=], saying that it cheapens his enjoyment of the game and that he won't go back to it no matter how many people tell him to.
** He's profoundly ashamed of many of his old PlatformHell levels, and has publicly apologized for making the near-impossible hack ''What The Hell''. Additionally, he has regretted making ''Rupture in Reality''.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Many things raocow says end up getting misquoted by fans. "NEVER PUT A MESSAGE BOX ON LAYER 3" (a phrase that's complete nonsense when written like that) is one thing he never said, but are constantly repeated by the fandom. The actual quote is "Never put a message box ''in a level with'' layer 3". Admittedly, his angry clenched-teeth style of saying the latter made it easy to miss the frequently omitted words, and the quote was used that way in a {{sampling}} remix by Generic CAW.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: {{Subverted}}. He considered doing an LP of ''[[VideoGame/MeatBoy Super Meat Boy]]'', but never got around to it for a long time. The great proliferation of other [=LPs=] of the game may have been a factor. Eventually, though, he began a blind run once his Patreon contributors voted for the game to be played.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Many things raocow says end up getting misquoted by fans. "NEVER PUT A MESSAGE BOX ON LAYER 3" (a phrase that's complete nonsense when written like that) is one thing he never said, but are constantly repeated by the fandom. The actual quote is "Never put a message box ''in a level with'' layer 3". Admittedly, his angry clenched-teeth style of saying the latter made it easy to miss the frequently omitted words, and the quote was used that way in a StupidStatementDanceMix by Generic CAW.

* HeAlsoDid: The cover to ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Giggle-Worthy-No-Homo/dp/B003DULVLG Giggle Worthy]]'' by No Homo. As well as this, he's the voice of Mailbox on the web series ''Object Mayhem''.

* QuoteSource:
** {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
** DisappointingLastLevel
** HailfirePeaks
** NonMammalianHair
** WelcomeToCorneria

** All the Sanics follows a similar structure, only it's one ''Act'' per video, which 4 videos in already resulted in a video that's less than two minutes long. He also starts the series by ''not'' playing a Sonic game, but instead spending the first two videos playing ''VideoGame/{{Flicky}}'' (since the title character became one of the generic animals Sonic rescues from destroyed Eggman robots, and thus technically counts as a "Game starring Sonic or a Sonic-adjacent character") and ''VideoGame/RadMobile'' (due to Sonic's EarlyBirdCameo in the game.)

** He's come out lately saying that he dislikes his old, intensely "[[WordSaladHumor monkey cheese]]" style of commentary and rampant SaveScumming in a lot of his pre and early-YouTube [=LPs=], saying that it cheapens his enjoyment of the game and that he won't go back to it no matter how many people tell him to.

* ExecutiveMeddling: In late March, 2011, Machinima went and privatised every raocow videos, save for 225 of his ~1600 videos to check for copyright infringement. Then it turns out that they [[WellIntentionedExtremist did it to protect them from YouTube's copyright-infringement rampage.]]

* OneOfUs: He has participated in discussions on this site, and is aware of the rather unusual situations we have set him up in.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOKWYOPhuTg In response to the question posed in your tags, raocow: yes.]]
** And in his Super Mario Bros. X LP all the titles of his videos are named after tropes.
** In non-Wiki/TVTropes-related affairs, he's a fan of ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', as evidenced by the theme naming of one of his ''VideoGame/{{Worms}} Armageddon'' teams in Pink's videos.
** Believe it or not, he watches Minecraft videos. Mainly peteyboo's [=LPs=], but he also likes things such as the Beetlejuice rollercoaster video.

* AccidentallyAccurate:
** During one chipmunked segment, he complains about [[ReplacementScrappy Bowser Jr.]] and likens the change to [[VideoGame/PaperMario replacing Kamek with an old lady]].
** Upon reaching a new chapter in [[VideoGame/{{Startropics}} Zoda's Revenge]], raocow compares the overworld to that of [[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles the first TMNT game on NES]]. The HistoricalDomainCharacter for that chapter? Creator/LeonardoDaVinci.