History WebVideo / Failboat

* BigBad: Eyea, in the "Animal Crossing but Strangers" series, who appears to be a [[VengefulGhost Vengeful Spirit]] taking revenge on Fail for burying her in the first episode of his playthrough. Many of the residents of the viewer islands appear to be part of her {{Cult}}, to the point that Dan starts expecting it.

* TemptingFate: While playing ''Pokémon Legends Arceus'', Fail expresses disappointment that the battle mechanics haven't changed much. As soon as he says that, the Shinx he was in the middle of catching breaks out of it's Pokéball and raises all of it's stats, shocking Fail.

** Fail being called a Cat [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Furry]], much to his dismay. It's gotten to the point where if a Cat Suit is equipable, Fail has to put it on his in-game avatar.

* GrandfatherParadox: While playing ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', [[https://youtu.be/LEpFnWsOLTE?t=503 upon meeting Kamado]], Fail realizes that he is Professor Rowan's ancestor, meaning without him there's no [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Gen 4]]. Fail then proceeds to [[ScreamDiscretionShot stab Kamado]], with the video then showing Rowan, a copy of ''Pokémon Diamond'', all of Nintendo's videos on ''Pokémon Legends'', , and even ''[[BreakingTheFourthWall the very video itself]]'' [[RetGone all fade from existence]].

* GrandfatherParadox: While playing ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', upon meeting Professor Laventon, Fail realizes that he is Professor Rowan's ancestor, meaning without him there's no [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Gen 4]]. Fail then proceeds to [[ScreamDiscretionShot stab the professor]], with the video showing Rowan, all of Nintendo's videos on ''Pokemon Legends'', Fail's copy of [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokemon Diamond]], and even ''[[BreakingTheFourthWall the very video itself]]'' [[RetGone fading from existence]].

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: [[https://youtu.be/lYfkl4iJ1PY During what was]] ''supposed'' to be a chill ''Animal Crossing'' stream, Fail accidently runs into a [[GoodBadBugs glitch]] where all the villagers wearing his custom clothing appear '''butt naked'''. Obviously, HilarityEnsues. Things ramp up even more when he has to take pictures of them both in and outside of the building, and when he invites them to the end of the game dance party(yep, they're dancing on the beach fully nude). At one point, Fail muses that if he put a naked character with a censor bar in the thumbnail, it would get ten times the average views. He then decides to do just that with Shino.

** While Fail was first playing ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'', he called the Power Moons "Mooms".

* SelfDeprecation: Daniel's no stranger to throwing a couple of jab at himself from time to time.

* BystanderSyndrome: PlayedForLaughs. While playing '''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'', Fail comes across a Pianta that on fire. Instead of spraying him off with the F.L.U.D.D., he stands there watching the poor guy run out aflame while he drinks a glass of water before splashing on himself.

** Fail has also done a couple of live performances where he bring audience members to compete in a contest of Mii making (using VideoGame/{{Miitopia}} to create popular characters from Miis).

* BigBad: Eyea, in the "Animal Crossing but Strangers" series, who appears to be a [[VengefulGhost Vengeful Spirit]] taking revenge on Fail for burying her in the first episode of his playthrough. Many of the residents of the viewer islands appear to be part of her {{Cult}}, to the point that Fail starts expecting it.
* BitingTheHandHumor: [[https://youtu.be/n1zjRmlhvjk?t=713 During a Photoshopping segment]], Gab calls Google Images a place of villainy and filth. Fail lampshades this by thanking Creator/{{Google}} for a recent paycheck, causing Gab to double back.

* ClusterFBomb: Purposely done when [[https://youtu.be/5KOVSsSOoKk Chat played Mario 64]]. In order to encourage chat to press the poop emoji which makes Mario go forward, he has to break his family-friendly rules and say "shit" multiple times. When chat dies to King Bob-Omb, Fail even lets out a enraged PrecisionFStrike.

* SelfImposedChallenge: Fail [[https://youtu.be/qyANDCXuqK8 plays]] [[https://youtu.be/q2Vmtj3zNVE through]] ''Kirby and the Forgotten Land'' with a mod that [[CriticalExistenceFailure instantly kills]] Kirby if he collects a coin. It sounds easy at first, except lots of things give Kirby coins, including killing an enemy, touching a flower, kicking a rock or a piece of garbage, or even just walking through a gathering of butterflies and birds.

* SelfImposedChallenge: Fail [[https://youtu.be/qyANDCXuqK8 plays]] [[https://youtu.be/q2Vmtj3zNVE through]] ''Kirby and the Forgotten Land'' with a mod that [[CriticalExistanceFailure instantly kills]] Kirby if he collects a coin. It sounds easy at first, except lots of things give Kirby coins, including killing an enemy, touching a flower, kicking a rock or a piece of garbage, or even just walking through a gathering of butterflies and birds.

* CirleOfShame: Invoked in "[[https://youtu.be/uPFIwVpAHHA Splatoon 3 but my Live Chat can talk]]", where every time Fail dies during a VideoGame/Splatoon3 level, a bunch of gifs appear on his stream and laugh at him, and he has to add another one each time. It gets to the point where he ask ''his parents'' for a photo of them laughing and they get in on the action.

* PlotTriggeringDeath: Invoked and Enforced by Fail while designing Static's home in the Happy Home Paradise DLC for ''Animal Crossing''. Fail creates the narrative where Static's mother is killed by [[BigBad the Villain]], who then [[FieryCoverUp burns down their home]] before disappearing, which Fail describes as prompting the larger call-to-action for Static's dreamed adventure. Static's not too happy that this is the start of his adventure.

* NightmarishFactory: During his playthrough of the ''Animal Crossing'' DLC, Fail designs a very creepy factory for Stitches that creates living Teddy Bears by fusing human bones with teddies. Fail jokingly assumes this is how ''Build-A-Bear'' does it.

* NightmarishFactory: Fail designs a very creepy factory for Stitches that creates living Teddy Bears by fusing bones with teddies in the ''Animal Crossing'' DLC.

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: While designing Static's home:

* TooGoodToBeTrue: While designing Villager's paradises in the ''Animal Crossing'' DLC, [[[HopeSpot he often starts the build normally]], without a cursed thing in sight. The chat, knowing Fail, doesn't "trust it for a second", and they're almost always justified in saying that.

* BigBad: Eyea, in the "Animal Crossing but Strangers" series, who appears to be a [[VengefulGhost Vengeful Spirit]] taking revenge on Fail for burying her in the first episode of his lets play. Many of the residents of the viewer islands appear to be part of her {{Cult}}, to the point that Fail starts expecting it.

* HypocriticalHumor: While playing ''Kirby and the Forgotten Land'''s arena, Chat (as Bandana Waddle) drops this little gold nugget:
-->'''Waddle Dee:''' Alright Kirby, I've been respectful of your choices for a while. But for the love of Dee, please put on some pants.

* BadAssBoast: Chat playing Bandana Waddle Dee gives a pretty epic one that turns hilarious while fighting Chaos Elfilis:

* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: PlayedForLaughs. While fighting Chaos Elfilis, Chat (playing as Bandana Waddle Dee) attempt to this and starts hitting on it, much to Fail's amused shock and confusion. [[RunningGag Chat continues to do this to more Kirby bosses in future streams]].

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: [[https://youtu.be/lYfkl4iJ1PY During what was]] ''supposed'' to be a chill ''Animal Crossing'' stream, Fail accidently runs into a [[GoodBadBugs glitch]] where all the villagers wearing his custom clothing appear '''butt naked'''. Obviously, HilarityEnsues. Things ramp up even more when he has to take pictures of them both in and outside of the building, and when he invites them to the end of the game dance party(yep, they're dancing on the beach fully nude). At one point, Fail muses that if he put a naked character with a censor bar in the thumbnail, it would get ten times the average views. He then decides to do just that with Shino, much to Chat's dismay.
-->'''Fail:''' I'm thinking about the views, Chat!

* {{NOT}}: While racing to beat [[WebVideo/RubberRoss RubberRoss’s]] VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker world, Failboat and [=JayMoji=] play an one-word improv game to pass the time while Dan struggles to beat a level. [[https://youtu.be/G6psVSA6_VY?t=872 This was the first result]]: