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** Starting when one of his favorite maps, "The Mucus Flow" was immediately followed by a [[SitcomArchNemesis Gene Bird]] map in ''Community Chest 2,'' whenever a map the Dean likes is followed up by a mediocre-to-bad one, he will say some variation of "Well... It's no Mucus Flow..."
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** Starting when one of his favorite maps, "The Mucus Flow" was immediately followed by a [[SitcomArchNemesis Gene Bird]] map in ''Community Chest 2,'' whenever a map the Dean likes is followed up by a mediocre-to-bad one, he will say some variation of "Well... "[[MadLibsCatchphrase Well... It's no Mucus Flow..."[Name of previous map]..."]]
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* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: A failing grade for a map will typically cause its music track to cut off. The Dean will also stop [=MIDIs=] he finds particularly grating, such as "Bye, Bye, American Pie" by Bobby Prince from ''Doom II,'' and replace them with calming synth music.
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* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: A failing grade for a map will typically cause its music track to cut off. abruptly stop as the F is given. The Dean will also stop cut off [=MIDIs=] he finds particularly grating, such as "Bye, Bye, American Pie" by Bobby Prince from ''Doom II,'' and replace them with calming synth music.
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* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: A failing grade for a map will typically cause its music track to cut off. The Dean will also stop [=MIDIs=] he finds particularly grating, such as "Bye, Bye, American Pie" by Bobby Prince from ''Doom II,'' and replace them with calming synth music.
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* PrecisionFStrike: While he has yet to verbally drop an uncensored f-bomb, he will often show save games titled as expletives during particularly frustrating maps and megawads and showed the keys from a keyboard he broke attempting the notoriously difficult map "Swim With The Whales" spelling out "FUCK WHALES." He is also not above explicitly referring to overly frustrating maps like "Poison Ivy II" from ''Speed of Doom'' as "bullshit."
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** At the beginning of the ''Junk Food'' episode, after the map demonstrating the power-ups appropriately reskinned to resemble Mountain Dew, Doritos, and UsefulNotes/McDonalds, the Dean states, "[[VideoGame/Postal2 This can't be good for me, but I feel great.]]"
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** At the beginning of the ''Junk Food'' episode, after the map demonstrating the power-ups appropriately reskinned to resemble Mountain Dew, Doritos, and UsefulNotes/McDonalds, the Dean states, "[[VideoGame/Postal2 This can't be good for me, but I feel great.]]"]]"
* SoundEffectBleep: While standard bleep sound effects are typically used for cursing, the Delinquent's uses a dog bark... [[RuleOfFunny for some reason]]...
* SoundEffectBleep: While standard bleep sound effects are typically used for cursing, the Delinquent's uses a dog bark... [[RuleOfFunny for some reason]]...
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* ImStandingRightHere: The Delinquent pops in as the Dean and Doomkid are killing a group of Pain Elementals during a co-op session in ''Memento Mori'' and the Dean jokingly says "Kill the Delinquent's family!"
--> ''"Caught in 4K live! Gonna put this on [=YouTube!=] Gonna cancel the Dean of Doom!"''
--> ''"Caught in 4K live! Gonna put this on [=YouTube!=] Gonna cancel the Dean of Doom!"''
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: The Delinquent [[spoiler: is revealed to be a surprising competent ''Doom'' mapper, with a number of maps in his in-universe wad, ''Lunar Eclipse,'' legitimately impressing the Dean, who gave it a passing grade of D overall in spite of his multiple F-graded maps, many of which are deliberate trolling on the Delinquent's part.]]
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: HiddenDepths: The Delinquent [[spoiler: is revealed to be a surprising competent ''Doom'' mapper, with a number of maps in his in-universe wad, ''Lunar Eclipse,'' legitimately impressing the Dean, who gave it a passing grade of D overall in spite of his multiple F-graded maps, many of which are deliberate trolling on the Delinquent's part.]]
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->''"Hello there! I'm [=MtPain27=] and this is Dean of Doom - the show where we give grades to classic and contemporary Doom wads. Why? Because ranking things is fun."''
Today's page will be dedicated to ''Dean of Doom'', a Platform/YouTube web series that began in 2020 by [[https://www.youtube.com/@MtPain27 MtPain27]]. As his aforementioned OpeningMonologue states, the series reviews wads largely based on ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' and ''VideoGame/DoomII'', which, for the uninitiated, are sets of levels for the aforementioned games; ranging from the officially released campaigns from the 90s, to well-known fanmade level sets, to newly-released hidden gems still being released from the community.
Similarly to fellow classic shooter reviewer WebVideo/Civvie11, ''Dean of Doom'' is framed within its own in-universe setting, with [=MtPain27=] himself playing the eponymous Dean giving lectures on the featured ''Doom'' wads. Unfortunately for him, his only regular student is a talking, deadbeat Pain Elemental fittingly known as the Delinquent of Doom, who would rather be playing modern shooters like ''VideoGame/Titanfall2'' than cultivate an appreciation for the classics. However, lore usually takes a backseat to focus on the Dean's review of the wads.
So here's how the show works. Every map gets one grade for quality and one for difficulty. Quality grades go from A to F. Grade A levels are fun, memorable, visually distinctive, creative, and a fair challenge. We grade difficulty from X to E; X for Extreme, E for Easy, A through D in between. Keep in mind, his idea of a great map is not the same as ours, but that's okay; disagreeing is part of the fun after all.
At the end of the day, this show is about spreading the joy of ''Doom,'' so let's do so.
Before we start, the rules are: we play on Ultra Violence, or in this case, "[[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife Ruin My Life]]", and must [[BagOfSpilling pistol-start]] each level, he needs to play the wad twice before reviewing it, saves are allowed, and we go for 100% kills on all levels, making exceptions where it's just not worth it.
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!! And now, to the tropes:
* BrokeTheRatingScale:
** The Dean was about to hit "Citadel at the Edge of Eternity" from ''Community Chest'' with an F for its "incredibly mean and intentionally exasperating" difficulty before going on a Digression about how a level like it "breaks my grading system" and admits "the grades don't matter" ultimately, restating the show's mission to "spread the joy of ''Doom.''" At the Season 2 graduation episode, he doesn't list it among the failed maps, saying it "rejected my F, went off and started its own ''Doom'' school in hell itself."
** To a lesser extent, some of the most brutally difficult levels in ''Junk Food,'' several of which at the time of the episode did not have a non-tool-assisted DSDA demo, are simply graded DNF (Did Not Finish), largely because he needed to get through the wad quickly to release the episode on AprilFoolsDay.
** Most of the maps in joke wads like ''Mock 2 The Speed of Stupid'' and in the Deliquent's episode for ''Sunlust'' are given nonsensical grades outside of the established grading system.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: The Delinquent [[spoiler: is revealed to be a surprising competent ''Doom'' mapper, with a number of maps in his in-universe wad, ''Lunar Eclipse,'' legitimately impressing the Dean, who gave it a passing grade of D overall in spite of his multiple F-graded maps, many of which are deliberate trolling on the Delinquent's part.]]
* RunningGag:
** Any {{Pun}} by the wad or the Dean himself will elicit an Archvile death cry acting as a groaning LamePunReaction.
** Superflous enemies placed tediously on unreachable ledges (referred to by the Dean as "Monster Window Dressing") will elicit an imp pain state sound accompanied by the monster's death sprite, referencing to a commonly-placed offender.
** Starting when one of his favorite maps, "The Mucus Flow" was immediately followed by a [[SitcomArchNemesis Gene Bird]] map in ''Community Chest 2,'' whenever a map the Dean likes is followed up by a mediocre-to-bad one, he will say some variation of "Well... It's no Mucus Flow..."
* ShoutOut:
** Right before the level in ''Hell Revealed'' that uses the MIDI song "How'd I Do," from ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad,'' which WebVideo/Civvie11 uses as his outro music, [=H4MMER=] from the aforementioned channel pops in to tell the Dean to "Play the game, [=MtPain27=]."
** At the beginning of the ''Junk Food'' episode, after the map demonstrating the power-ups appropriately reskinned to resemble Mountain Dew, Doritos, and UsefulNotes/McDonalds, the Dean states, "[[VideoGame/Postal2 This can't be good for me, but I feel great.]]"
[[caption-width-right:1000:And you thought your school was hell...]]
->''"Hello there! I'm [=MtPain27=] and this is Dean of Doom - the show where we give grades to classic and contemporary Doom wads. Why? Because ranking things is fun."''
Today's page will be dedicated to ''Dean of Doom'', a Platform/YouTube web series that began in 2020 by [[https://www.youtube.com/@MtPain27 MtPain27]]. As his aforementioned OpeningMonologue states, the series reviews wads largely based on ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' and ''VideoGame/DoomII'', which, for the uninitiated, are sets of levels for the aforementioned games; ranging from the officially released campaigns from the 90s, to well-known fanmade level sets, to newly-released hidden gems still being released from the community.
Similarly to fellow classic shooter reviewer WebVideo/Civvie11, ''Dean of Doom'' is framed within its own in-universe setting, with [=MtPain27=] himself playing the eponymous Dean giving lectures on the featured ''Doom'' wads. Unfortunately for him, his only regular student is a talking, deadbeat Pain Elemental fittingly known as the Delinquent of Doom, who would rather be playing modern shooters like ''VideoGame/Titanfall2'' than cultivate an appreciation for the classics. However, lore usually takes a backseat to focus on the Dean's review of the wads.
So here's how the show works. Every map gets one grade for quality and one for difficulty. Quality grades go from A to F. Grade A levels are fun, memorable, visually distinctive, creative, and a fair challenge. We grade difficulty from X to E; X for Extreme, E for Easy, A through D in between. Keep in mind, his idea of a great map is not the same as ours, but that's okay; disagreeing is part of the fun after all.
At the end of the day, this show is about spreading the joy of ''Doom,'' so let's do so.
Before we start, the rules are: we play on Ultra Violence, or in this case, "[[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife Ruin My Life]]", and must [[BagOfSpilling pistol-start]] each level, he needs to play the wad twice before reviewing it, saves are allowed, and we go for 100% kills on all levels, making exceptions where it's just not worth it.
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!! And now, to the tropes:
* BrokeTheRatingScale:
** The Dean was about to hit "Citadel at the Edge of Eternity" from ''Community Chest'' with an F for its "incredibly mean and intentionally exasperating" difficulty before going on a Digression about how a level like it "breaks my grading system" and admits "the grades don't matter" ultimately, restating the show's mission to "spread the joy of ''Doom.''" At the Season 2 graduation episode, he doesn't list it among the failed maps, saying it "rejected my F, went off and started its own ''Doom'' school in hell itself."
** To a lesser extent, some of the most brutally difficult levels in ''Junk Food,'' several of which at the time of the episode did not have a non-tool-assisted DSDA demo, are simply graded DNF (Did Not Finish), largely because he needed to get through the wad quickly to release the episode on AprilFoolsDay.
** Most of the maps in joke wads like ''Mock 2 The Speed of Stupid'' and in the Deliquent's episode for ''Sunlust'' are given nonsensical grades outside of the established grading system.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: The Delinquent [[spoiler: is revealed to be a surprising competent ''Doom'' mapper, with a number of maps in his in-universe wad, ''Lunar Eclipse,'' legitimately impressing the Dean, who gave it a passing grade of D overall in spite of his multiple F-graded maps, many of which are deliberate trolling on the Delinquent's part.]]
* RunningGag:
** Any {{Pun}} by the wad or the Dean himself will elicit an Archvile death cry acting as a groaning LamePunReaction.
** Superflous enemies placed tediously on unreachable ledges (referred to by the Dean as "Monster Window Dressing") will elicit an imp pain state sound accompanied by the monster's death sprite, referencing to a commonly-placed offender.
** Starting when one of his favorite maps, "The Mucus Flow" was immediately followed by a [[SitcomArchNemesis Gene Bird]] map in ''Community Chest 2,'' whenever a map the Dean likes is followed up by a mediocre-to-bad one, he will say some variation of "Well... It's no Mucus Flow..."
* ShoutOut:
** Right before the level in ''Hell Revealed'' that uses the MIDI song "How'd I Do," from ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad,'' which WebVideo/Civvie11 uses as his outro music, [=H4MMER=] from the aforementioned channel pops in to tell the Dean to "Play the game, [=MtPain27=]."
** At the beginning of the ''Junk Food'' episode, after the map demonstrating the power-ups appropriately reskinned to resemble Mountain Dew, Doritos, and UsefulNotes/McDonalds, the Dean states, "[[VideoGame/Postal2 This can't be good for me, but I feel great.]]"
