History WebVideo / CaptainSouthbird

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers:
** The names of Bird's tools in "Bella Aqueous" are mostly in English that's either badly translated ("catapult gold" for golden slingshot, "stick" for rod) or misspelled ("Goldene Axt" for golden axe), but the last tool shown, which Southbird calls "his favorite" before showing it, is the "Zlata LOPATKA" (golden shovel), whose name is in misspelled ''Czech'' (the diacritic in "zlatá" is missing) instead of English.
** Bird's letters to other villagers in "Hail to the Chief" are a letter hitting on Lolly, a letter to Scoot referencing Vinny's tendency to [[SayMyName shout his name]] in the Mayor Vine streams, and a letter to Ankha asking why she's mad at him, in that order. The first two letters are PlayedForLaughs, as is Lolly's response to the one she received (which earns laughter from Southbird), but the letter to Ankha isn't PlayedForLaughs, and after Ankha yells at Bird for sending it, Southbird's response is more serious in tone than his response to Lolly's reaction.

* HalloweenEpisode: Episode 3 of ''Troubled Waters'', uploaded on Halloween, features Itzam and Phédria fully exploring the Halloween biome planet they began on and had immediately left, discovering things like ghosts, bats, giant arachnids, chest mimics, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a refinery run by partially-dressed Avians]].

* ADateWithRosiePalms: In "Paging Doctor Percy" Ankha says "The only sport Percy is good at is jerking off to hentai" followed by blushing.

* ADateWithRosiePalms:
** In the original series, Torkoal, or "Slo" as it's called in the games' modified scripts, is the Touching Pokémon and its Pokédex entry says "Thanks for the tissues after I just played with myself."
** After Bede is defeated in Galar Mine No. 2 in ''Damascus Blade'' Part 2, he says "I began my ritual of my afternoon wank" at the end of the battle. Southbird claims that's how Bede gets over losses.

* DoubleTake: In the original series, Southbird first reads the "Touching Pokémon" species name of Torkoal (now known as "Slo") as though "touching" means "emotional" in this case. He disgustedly realizes he was thinking of the wrong definition of "touching" after seeing that the main Pokédex entry talks about [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbation]].

* ADateWithRosiePalms: In ''Cling On's Band of Mi(i)sfits'', "And now we must fop" is the first thing Dubious Mayor Vineschnoz says.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMFv2HcEaYn1AVtEHOIOmTcj0p9HFX0H5 The Millennium Age Gate]]:'' ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' with text composed of the script to the infamous ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' film and a young Creator/MaxLandis' ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' film script, ''Fanfic/SuperMarioWorldMaxLandis'', which has since been disowned by Landis himself, but was found amusing by Southbird. This creates a rather odd journey through Rogueport for Mario and pals. Concluded with four episodes.

** In Part 1, Goombella says [[Film/SuperMarioBros Scapelli]] is in the Rogueport Sewers, making threats. He's never seen.

* ProductionThrowback: Episode 6 of ''Calamity'' has Mal and Venus find small planetoids in the sky, and for a brief moment, you can see Burd from the ''Starbound'' series standing on one.

* SeriesMascot: "A.V.I.A.N." is depicted on all the video thumbnails for the ''Frackin' Universe'' series. She's replaced by Burd and Phocks themselves for the later seasons, but is still present in the episodes.

* ProductionThrowback: When the initial tour of their ship reaches the Armory, there's a mannequin dressed just like Venus from the ''Terraria: Calamity'' series, as well as one that looks like Southbird's usual robotic bird persona. [[SelfDeprecation They state the latter looks "pretty hideous"]].

* SnarkyNonHumanSideKick: One of the mods installed for ''Frackin' Universe'' replaces the default ship A.I. "S.A.I.L." with the snarky "A.V.I.A.N."

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[[caption-width-right:350:Southbird's avatar, posing next to [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Bella]].]]

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMFv2HcEaYn1AVtEHOIOmTcj0p9HFX0H5 The Millennium Age Gate]]:'' ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' with text composed of the script to the infamous ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' film and a young Creator/MaxLandis's ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' film script, ''Fanfic/SuperMarioWorldMaxLandis'', which has since been disowned by Landis himself, but was found amusing by Southbird. This creates a rather odd journey through Rogueport for Mario and pals. Concluded with four episodes.

Southbird's [=YouTube=] channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYK59UJEBXQlxaAL8Waa4DA here]], and his Twitter account [[https://twitter.com/cptsouthbird here]]. He also has a Twitch account [[https://www.twitch.tv/captainsouthbird here]], which he occasionally uses to stream obfuscated games before cutting them into highlights. Teckworks (the thumbnail artist for most of Southbird’s series, and occasional co-op gaming partner) has a [=YouTube=] channel [[https://www.youtube.com/user/teckwerks/featured here]], though his other pages cannot be linked to due to being NotSafeForWork.

** Mabel thinks Bird's name is Terry when he visits the Able Sisters' shop in "For Whom the Bella Tolls".
** Whitney calls Bird "Nook" twice in "Hello Whitney". Southbird comments that she never learned his name.
** TheStinger for "TMI Day" shows Southbird initially misreading Kapp'n's text from that episode, reading Percy as "Perkin".
** In "Percy's Bedside Manner", Bob comments on his vision, followed by mistaking Bird for his mom. Southbird comments that Bob's vision isn't quite perfect.

* AbsoluteCleavage: The thumbnail for "What's up, Doc?" shows Bella wearing her doctor's coat open with nothing under it, referencing how in-game graphics make it look more revealing than it actually is, which Southbird points out in a caption.

* TraumaCongaLine: Bunny A details an event in which she lost her job, her sister died, her best friend died, her mom died (''UpToEleven twice!'') and her mom's best friend died.

* TraumaCongaLine: Bunny A details an event in which she lost her job, her sister died, her best friend died, her mom died ([[UpToEleven twice!]]) and her mom's best friend died.

* {{Corpsing}}:
** In "Squirrelly Jealousy", Chief rants about car alarms' uselessness and shares an anecdote about nobody caring when his dad's car alarm went off in front of a hardware store when he was younger. Southbird, who's otherwise reading Chief's text normally with "the gravelly Chief voice", can't help but chuckle when Chief, a wolf, uses the otherwise metaphorical phrase "cry wolf" when claiming nobody takes car alarms seriously in modern times.
** In "Chief and Shorty", an episode that's almost fully in-character, Southbird can be heard stifling back laughter when Fang says "Click here to get a reminder to check back later" after a melodramatic speech.

** Lolly gives an incomplete summary of the series in "Ankha's Birthday" and Southbird assumes she's writing the Wiki/TVTropes page.

* IllBoy: Magikarp appears to have several genetic illnesses- it's bad enough that he requires a nurse to care for him.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: "The Varmints" has the most characters of any gaming series on Southbird's channel such far. The list of just the players consists of Esta Rho (Southbird), Sharpie (Teckworks), Hotspot, Shade Hatmann, Alec Renard, Grey, Kujo, Custos-CXI, Mint and Jello (Jello Fox). There are also the unnamed bartender, who is an NPC.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Once Shampoodle opens up in [=KaosTown=], Bird gets his hair dyed light grey.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMFv2HcEaYn2--fRvfsItOk7rUxDrE4Vt Birdette's Satchel Creatures]]:'' ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games put through the works, following young Trainer Birdette as she ventures through the Alola, Kanto, and Galar regions and meets Pokémon with bizarre names, often stealing them from other Trainers. The original run uses ''[[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Pokémon Moon]]'' as a base and concluded with three episodes, the second run, ''Birdette's Satchel Creatures ULTRA'', uses ''[[VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon Pokémon Ultra Moon]]'' as a base and also concluded with three episodes, the third run, ''Birdette's Satchel Creatures: Get Lost, Eevee!'', uses ''[[VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!]]'' as a base and concluded with four episodes, and the fourth run, ''Birdette's Satchel Creatures: Damascus Blade'', uses ''[[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Pokémon Sword]]'' as a base and concluded with five episodes.

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* {{Mondegreen}}: When Bella starts singing in front of Resident Services in "Investigation", Southbird adds a caption joking that one "lyric" is "Fuck the police."

* {{Mondegreen}}:
** In onscreen text in Part 3 of ''Get Lost, Eevee!'', Southbird jokes that Eevee is saying "FUCK BOI" at the beginning of the battle with a Bird Keeper on Route 13. He makes the same joke again in Part 4, this time with Eevee having an angry expression on its face.
--->'''Southbird:''' "Yeah. 'Fuck boi' indeed."
** In Part 4 of ''Get Lost, Eevee!'', after Eevee hands Birdette a bouquet after the latter becomes Champion, Southbird uses onscreen text to joke that Eevee is saying "YEAH, BOI!" after handing Birdette the bouqet.
** In ''Damascus Blade'' Part 1, Southbird shows a caption interpreting Eevee's cry as "YA BOI" when it's sent out.
** In ''Damascus Blade'' Part 2, Southbird displays a caption interpreting Gigantamax Eevee's cry as "HAAY FUUUCC".
** When Birdette is camping in ''Damascus Blade'' Part 4, Southbird uses captions to jokingly say that "Aurromortis" (Eevee) is saying "Ya, boi!", then says the misinterpretation out loud when making curry.

** In ''Get Lost, Eevee!'' and ''Damascus Blade'', Southbird tends to display intentional [[{{Mondegreen}} misinterpretations]] of what Eevee's cry sounds like, such as "HAAY FUUUCC" for Gigantamax Eevee's cry in ''Damascus Blade'' Part 2.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMFv2HcEaYn1AVtEHOIOmTcj0p9HFX0H5 The Millennium Age Gate]]:'' ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' with text composed of the script to the infamous ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' film and a young Creator/MaxLandis's ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' film script, ''Fanfic/MaxLandisSuperMarioWorld'', which has since been disowned by Landis himself, but was found amusing by Southbird. This creates a rather odd journey through Rogueport for Mario and pals. Concluded with four episodes.

** A Bob-Omb in Part 4 says "It's the Kline family" before Mario and his allies are shot out of the cannon. The Klines are characters from ''Fanfic/MaxLandisSuperMarioWorld'', but they don't appear in this series.

** When Flavio meets Mario after Chapter 4, the two are revealed to be old friends who haven't seen each other in a year and Flavio says it's "just shmeckin' wonderful" that the two were able to meet again. "Shmeckin'" is shown to be fictional profanity in ''Fanfic/MaxLandisSuperMarioWorld'', but the line appears out of context in this series.

* UnusualEuphemism: TEC-XX says "Flomp my dorn!" to Peach after Chapter 4. While the phrase is shown to be fictional profanity in ''Fanfic/MaxLandisSuperMarioWorld'', it appears randomly in this series, followed by Peach saying nothing in response and leaving the room.

** In all incarnations of the series, Southbird obfuscated Pokémon's names by taking the official names, scrambling bits and pieces of them, and distributing the resulting text fragments across all Pokémon's names. In the Alola-based seasons, results range from normal-sounding names like "Ross" for Rowlet, to names like "Magcunt" for Grimer.

** In all incarnations of the series, Southbird obfuscated Pokémon's names by taking the official names, scrambling bits and pieces of them, and distributing the resulting text fragments across all Pokémon's names. In the Alola-based seasons, results range from normal-sounding names like "Ross" for Rowlet, to UnfortunateNames like "Magcunt" for Grimer.

Captain Southbird is a content creator on Website/YouTube, better known as a former video editor for Vinny of WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} fame. On his own channel, Southbird’s specialty is [[GameMod hacking and editing games]], using a self-programmed tool called Tomodachi Munger, which was named after and originally designed for ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife''. He focuses on applying scripts to coding to distort and swap out in-game text; sometimes it’s obfuscated with [[TranslationTrainwreck repeated translations]], and other times it’s randomly replaced with bits of [=YouTube=] comments, Website/{{Reddit}} posts, movie scripts, and snippets from various websites. Comedic moments abound, and so do some coherent stories.

Southbird’s [=YouTube=] channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYK59UJEBXQlxaAL8Waa4DA here]], and his Twitter account [[https://twitter.com/cptsouthbird here]]. He also has a Twitch account [[https://www.twitch.tv/captainsouthbird here]], which he occasionally uses to stream obfuscated games before cutting them into highlights. Teckworks (the thumbnail artist for most of Southbird’s series, and occasional co-op gaming partner) has a [=YouTube=] channel [[https://www.youtube.com/user/teckwerks/featured here]], though his other pages cannot be linked to due to being NotSafeForWork.

* TeamPet: In ''Troubled Waters'', the white cat pet that comes with the new spaceship is seen and made note of semi-frequently, if mainly due to the vessel being more cramped than the first season's galleon. [[spoiler:It, and the ship, have been reclaimed by Itzam when appearing in ''Shellbound''.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: Episode 8 of ''Frackin' Universe'', titled "Sacred Poptop Plushie", has the Hylotl shooting at Phocks for stealing a Poptop Plushie (and other decor) from their underwater city, and Burd responding to that by attempting to flood the whole place.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Episode 10 of ''Frackin' Universe'', titled "A Pretty Big Nope" because of it, has the arachnophobic Teck react this way upon uncovering a bunch of giant underground spiders.

* ChekhovsGun: The "Bad Family" gang, first encountered in Episode One. After another of their ranks is quickly dealt with in Episode 2 as a joke, "Bad Dad" calls the Tetanus Shot in Episode 4 to announce plans for vengeance against The Varmints...and then the New Protectorate, when he's informed of what Karkinos did.

->''"The creator of the hack Super Mario Bros. [=3Mix=], now making cartoon video game animals say things they shouldn't."''

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