History WebAnimation / AlphaBetas

* AwesomeButImpractical: Because most of Alpha Team, barring Eddie, [[SeriousBusiness take "don't touch the floor" that seriously]], they opt for some tricky methods to open the front door for Stephen: Tommy tries to use a remote controlled car to open the door, but the car gets jammed on the stairs and the moat shortly afterward; Buck tries to use hover shoes, but fails due to knocking himself out in a sneezing mishap; Mason calls [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill a [=SWAT=] team on their house]]. Unlike the others, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers this proved to be successful]], albeit causing Eddie to be trampled while the [=SWAT=] leader states that it's a felony to report a fake ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext grundle assault]]''.

On July 20th, a [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/3blackdot/alpha-betas-show-powering-the-world-with-video-games Kickstarter page was made to fund the series]] so the creators could have full creative freedom for the show.

Video games are powering the world thanks to a massive, top-secret CIA program. The show follows an elite virtual strike force of four top gamers as they drop into the virtual realms of video games to fix potentially world-ending issues. Known as the Alpha Team, these four willfully reckless and dangerously arrogant guys are the tip of a five-hundred billion dollar US Government spear sent to be heroes in high-octane pixelated worlds.

* DeathIsCheap: If you die in the game, you ''don't'' die in real life. That said, the program that lets Alpha Team enter games has a 30-minute reboot system, meaning that if they die they can't immediately re-enter the game. As a result, dying can potentially lock out someone for the remainder of one of the shorter missions (as seen with Mason and Tommy in the pilot).

* SeriousBusiness: Alpha Team (minus Eddie) consider the game ''Don't touch the floor'' to be this to the point that Tommy tries to use a remote controlled car to open the door for Stephen, unsuccessfully, Buck tries to use hover shoes, unsuccessfully, and Mason calls [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill a [=SWAT=] team on their house]], [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers this was actually successful]] albeit causing Eddie to be trampled while the [=SWAT=] leader states that it's a felony to report a fake ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext grundle assault]]''.

** After failing to ride a horse every time he tries in the pilot, Tommy is forced into a position where he ''has'' to ride one to stop Two-Buck Chuck. Swallowing his pride, Tommy makes a leap for the nearest horse... and promptly crashes into the ground, completely missing the horse. Even ignoring the fact that AnimalsHateHim, he's nowhere ''near'' a good enough angle to land on the horse's back--and even if he were, Tommy just doesn't have the physical strength to successfully pull off that kind of feat.
*** Moreover, what happens next is also fairly accurate to what would happen if you landed on the ground next to an untamed horse--you'd probably get trampled.

* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: Apparently a malfunction in the video game power grid ended up being the cause of the New York City Blackout of 1977, a blackout in India in 2012, and '''[[BreadEggsMilkSquick the Chernobyl Disaster of 1986]]'''.

* RageBreakingPoint: The moment an UnwinnableByMistake glitch occurs during a StealthEscortMission that Buck is quickly getting irritated by (The drug dealer ended up walking straight into a wall and kept walking into it), he quickly snaps and murders the drug dealer he was supposed to be shadowing.

* InsideAComputerSystem: The main aspect of the show, with Alpha Team going into video games in order to maintain the world's power. Due to the nature of the rigs that let them get into the game, this allows them to interact with the game in ways normal players can't, thus helping them a lot in their adventures.

* DeathIsCheap: If you die in the game, you ''don't'' die in real life. That said, the program that lets them enter games has a 30-minute reboot system, meaning that if they die they can't immediately re-enter the game. As a result, dying can potentially lock out someone for the remainder of one of the shorter missions (as seen with Mason and Tommy in the pilot).

** Tommy doesn't simply learn how to ride a horse after failing every previous time in the pilot. His last attempt gets him outright ''trampled''.
** Simply being annoying isn't enough of a reason to fire someone--''especially'' if they get good results. The Alpha Team is obnoxious and borderline sociopathic, but they're genuinely good at their job, and as a result [[spoiler: Allison has to resort to more underhanded methods to try and get them fired]].

* BlackComedy / ComedicSociopathy: A LOT of it, no thanks to the Alpha Team outright being [[AntiHero anti heroes]].

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* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: Apparently a malfunction in the video game power grid ended up being the cause of the New York City Blackout of 1977, a blackout in India in 2012, and '''[[BreadEggsMilkSquick Chernobyl]]'''.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Not that she's very nice to the Alpha Team in general, but the end of the first episode reveals that [[spoiler: Allison is covertly trying to sabotage them on their missions, meaning that she's willing to let the world suffer just so she can finally have an excuse to fire them]].

-->'''Eddie:''' What's up ya Nazi biiiiyatch?! ''*cue flamethrower*''

* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Dropped by Eddie before unleashing a flamethrower on a Nazi commander:
-->'''Eddie:''' What's up ya Nazi biiiiyatch?! ''*cue flamethrower*''

''Alpha Betas'' is an adult comedy web series created in a partnership between 3BackDot, Starburns Industries and Four Youtubers from LetsPlay/VanossGamingAndCompany: [=VanossGaming=], [=BasicallyIDoWrk=], Terroriser and [=I AM WILDCAT=]. With the latter four also voicing the main Characters, who are deliberate Expies of their Voice Actors. A pilot episode for the show was released on March 13, 2021 on Vanoss's Youtube channel.

* BatmanGambit: The pilot features [[spoiler:a failed attempt at this. One of the members of the Bravo Team was posing as an in-game stripper being held captive as part of a plot to get the Alpha Team fired by preying on Eddie's ChronicHeroSyndrome. They just didn't take into account that he's [[ItMakesSenseInContext the best "avoid the floor" player around.]]]]

* BatmanGambit: The pilot features [[spoiler:a failed attempt at this. One of the members of the Brave Team was posing as an in-game stripper being held captive as part of a plot to get the Alpha Team fired by preying on Eddie's ChronicHeroSyndrome. They just didn't take into account that he's [[ItMakesSenseInContext the best "avoid the floor" player around.]]]]

* SuprisinglyRealisticOutcome:

* ForeShadowing:

* RealityEnsues: Tommy doesn't simply learn how to ride a horse after failing every previous time in the pilot. His last attempt gets him outright ''trampled''.
** Simply being annoying isn't enough of a reason to fire someone--''especially'' if they get good results. The Alpha Team is obnoxious and borderline sociopathic, but they're genuinely good at their job, and as a result [[spoiler: Allison has to resort to more underhanded methods to try and get them fired]].

* NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel: When the group boards a train in ''Red Head Intervention'' (set in the late 1800's), one of the passengers calls out Mason for not sitting in a segregated car. Mason circumvents this by casually shooting said passenger.

* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler: Stephen, At the end of the pilot]].

** In Terroriser's preview for the series, Buck is seen doing a StealthEscortMission straight out of a parody of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' in Terroriser's preview, right down to the HUD being near identical.

* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler: At the end of the pilot, Alison calls for Stephen to come and clean up the corpse of Darryl and reveals himself as a robot to the shock of Bravo Team]].