History WebVideo / TheCartoonHero

** [[spoiler:When The Cartoon Villain first showed up in our universe, TheTerminator theme played.]]
** [[spoiler:Followed shortly by a shout-out to Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet.]]
** Continuing with Film/TheTerminator shout-outs, Number Six is pretty much a walking shout-out to the series. He appeared in our time in much the same position Arnold was in when he first arrived (thankfully with clothes on) the music played when he arrived, AND [[spoiler:he was sent to kill the Hero to prevent a BadFuture from happening.]]

* TheCameo: [[WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou Nash]] appeared at the end of his "Home on the Range" review.

* AcCENTUpontheWrongSylLABle: He tends to pronouce genuinely like the german word Ein. So it sounds more like genu-EIn-ly.

** And even before that, he works with fellow Unknown Reviewer Ozzie Arcane, a(n admittedly retired) villain, which he even collaborated with to review the ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' anime. This is even after Ozzie [[spoiler: sent [[SoulEater Asura]] after him!]]

*** This was later justified in the ''Videogame/EarthBound'' review, though it also arguably counts as an example: [[spoiler:Apparently, being turned into a human-toon hybrid gives one access to [[Manga/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Spiral Energy]].]]

* BashBrothers: The Hero and Six become this [[spoiler:for a while, at least.]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Six.]]

* NiceHat: Six's fedora.

Notably, the show's quality gets increasingly better as time passes. The storyline becomes deeper, the camera quality gets better, and (perhaps not coincidentally) he references TVTropes more and more. Either way, you can find him on [=ZippCast=] [[http://www.zippcast.com/user/TheHeroOfTomorrow here]] or on his blog [[http://theherooftomorrow.blogspot.com here.]] He also has a Dailymotion account [[http://www.dailymotion.com/theherooftomorrow here,]] though it has only a tiny fraction of his videos. He had a BlipTV account, but it got deleted during one of Blip's purges. He was also on Reviewers Unknown, but that site closed down October 18, 2014.

* TheCameo: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou Nash]] appeared at the end of his "Home on the Range" review.

-> ''[[CatchPhrase "Greetings! I am The Cartoon Hero, because with great nostalgia comes great responsibility."]]''

* SpaceMonkeyMafiaStudios: Though as he is quick to point out, Eli was on a smaller site called Reviewers Unknown first, and he considers himself primarily one of them.

Eli Stone is a reviewer who was a member of now-defunct site Website/ReviewersUnknown, and is a member of SpaceMonkeyMafiaStudios and TheRosenHacker's website. Although he is one of many reviewers who follows the tradition set by Creator/DougWalker, he notably also has shades of ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' and claims that one of his biggest inspirations is Chad "CR" Rocco of ''WebVideo/FamiliarFaces''. Eli is aware of the fact that he is not the first to do this, and lately references this wiki a ''lot''. As his name suggests, his character is a bitter superhero with the power to command cartoon clichés – which sometimes feel more like tropes--who specializes in animation criticism.

** Season 7: "Sora-Iro Days" by NateWantsToBattle

** Season 6: "Unstoppable" by Fozzy.

* YouAreNotAlone: The Hero got a [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming rather memorable]] PatrickStewartSpeech on this subject in the TokyoGodfathers review.

* HannibalLecture: Delivered out-of-character to the creators of {{Barnyard}} when he found out that the male cows having udders was intentional because the creators thought the idea was inherently funny. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome He slammed them for being insensitive to transgender people, intersex people, and transvestites.]]

Eli Stone is a reviewer who was a member of now-defunct site Reviewers Unknown, and is a member of SpaceMonkeyMafiaStudios and TheRosenHacker's website. Although he is one of many reviewers who follows the tradition set by Creator/DougWalker, he notably also has shades of ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' and claims that one of his biggest inspirations is Chad "CR" Rocco of ''WebVideo/FamiliarFaces''. Eli is aware of the fact that he is not the first to do this, and lately references this wiki a ''lot''. As his name suggests, his character is a bitter superhero with the power to command cartoon clichés – which sometimes feel more like tropes--who specializes in animation criticism.

-> [[CatchPhrase "Greetings! I am The Cartoon Hero, because with great nostalgia comes great responsibility."]]

* ChekhovsArmy: In the finale to the Videogame/EarthBound review, the Hero figures out that he can [[spoiler: move between his HammerSpace and those of his clones. So naturally, he brings the clones with him to fight Chaos.]]

*** This was later justified in the Videogame/EarthBound review, though it also arguably counts as an example: [[spoiler:Apparently, being turned into a human-toon hybrid gives one access to [[Manga/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Spiral Energy]].]]

* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: It's revealed in the Videogame/EarthBound sketch that one of these is watching over the Hero's growth in power.

** The Hero did a rather memorable shout-out to LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}} and the rest of LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys in the Videogame/EarthBound review, mostly because it was they who helped him discover the Mother series in the first place.

** Another one comes from his Videogame/EarthboundZero review. He says there's "no beating around the bush" while showing Flint not attacking a Walking Bushie enemy from MotherThree--and for an added bonus, it's actually beneficial to not beat up said bush in the game, as it heals you.

Notably, the show's quality gets increasingly better as time passes. The storyline becomes deeper, the camera quality gets better, and (perhaps not coincidentally) he references TVTropes more and more. Either way, you can find him on [=ZippCast=] [[http://www.zippcast.com/user/TheHeroOfTomorrow here]] or on his blog [[http://theherooftomorrow.blogspot.com here]]. He had a BlipTV account, but it got deleted. He was also on Reviewers Unknown, but it closed down October 18, 2014.

Eli Stone is a reviewer who was a member of now-defunct site Reviewers Unknown, and is a member of SpaceMonkeyMafiaStudios and TheRosenHacker's website. Although he is one of many reviewers who follows the tradition set by Creator/DougWalker, he notably also has shades of ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' and claims that one of his biggest inspirations is Chad "CR" Rocco of ''Familiar Faces''. Eli is aware of the fact that he is not the first to do this, and lately references this wiki a ''lot''. As his name suggests, his character is a bitter superhero with the power to command cartoon clichés--which sometimes feel more like tropes--who specializes in animation criticism.

Eli has also started his own retrospective project on the [[Franchise/AceAttorney Ace Attorney series.]] Much like Linkara's ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'' videos, he has stated that each game will have three videos to cover it--two to go over what happens in all four-five cases in said game, and one to go over characters and general thoughts on the game in question. However, also like that series, there will be no set schedule.

* AccentuateTheNegative: Played straight in the first few episodes -- Eli even regrets that he claimed ''WesternAnimation/{{Batfink}}'' was a bad show -- but notably averted in the later ones. Even if the movies he reviews are bad by his admission, he always goes out of his way to highlight the best moment of said movie. He even said that he hated doing a negative review of ''OsmosisJones'' because of [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot how much potential it had.]]
* ActingForTwo: Eli has played the Hero, the Villain, and the new character known only as Number Six. This is actually [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in-universe as the Villain is an EvilCounterpart of the Hero from an alternate universe, and Number Six [[spoiler: is a time-traveling clone.]] He also plays the Hands of Chaos, but those are FacelessMooks anyway. However, he isn't the ONLY actor in the series--Hans Norberg, his roommate at the time, played Agent Smith [[spoiler: all of them]] and [[spoiler: Asura.]]

* AlwaysWantedToSayThat: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in the ''PokemonHeroes'' review, doubling as a ShoutOut to LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}}.

* AndShowItToYou: [[spoiler: [[SuperpoweredEvilSide The Cartoon Villain]] does this to [[SoulEater Asura.]] ]]
* AprilFools: In 2013, he started off his review by saying that he didn't get why people loved ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' and that he was going to bash on it...which he did, but [[spoiler: the footage was taken from ''VideoGame/HotelMario'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames''.]]

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: He REALLY was annoyed with the fact that the male cows have udders in ''{{Barnyard}}''.

* AsTheGoodBookSays: "And by whose authority do you stand against me?" [[spoiler: Quoth The Cartoon Villain.]]

** Also the ''{{Okami}}'' games. Not only does he have the powers of the Brush Gods now, but he also accused ''CosPrayers'' of slandering the name of Amaterasu.

* BadFuture: New character Number Six apparently comes from one where [[spoiler: the Hero caused Armageddon.]]
* BashBrothers: The Hero and Six become this [[spoiler: for a while, at least.]]
* BeyondTheImpossible: The Hero was able to use [[spoiler: [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann spiral energy]] to break out of the [[MotherThree Absolutely Safe Capsule.]] ]] You know--the one designed to be unbreakable.
* BigDamnHeroes: Ironically, The Hero has only done this once--in fellow reviewer WebVideo/TheHardcoreKid's review of ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat''. This also happened in his series, [[spoiler: but instead of him, it was the gods of {{Okami}} that saved him at the last second.]]
* BigDamnVillains: The Villain [[spoiler: in SuperpoweredEvilSide mode]] does this and rips out [[spoiler: [[SoulEater Asura's]] ]] heart.

** When calling '[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]]' the worst episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' in his "Top 10 Worst Episodes of Good Cartoons" video, he points out how Pinkie Pie's "Pinkie Sense" is never brought up again, thus becoming a Big Lipped Toothless Alligator Moment (in reference to Pinkie's pet alligator, Gummy).
*** This complaint no longer applies, as Pinkie Sense has played a part in "The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well" and "It's About Time"...
*** This is actually addressed in his review of [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E8TheMysteriousMareDoWell Mare-Do-Well]], in which he acknowledges that the Pinkie Sense WAS used in later episodes--but due to going against how the Pinkie Sense worked in previous episodes, Mare-Do-Well was not one of them.
* BigNo / NoJustNoReaction: Happened in the ''CosPrayers'' [[http://www.reviewersunknown.com/2724/cartoon-hero-cosprayers-episodes-5-8/ Episodes 5-8 review]], [[spoiler: when he found out that the heroes were working to fulfill the evil goddess's goals all along.]]

* BookEnds: Season 2 started with a review of the ''{{Inukami}}'' anime and ended with a review of ''{{Inukami}} [[ShortAnimeMovie The Movie]]''.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: A heartwarming example in the TokyoGodfathers review, with all of the characters wishing the audience a happy holiday.
* CallBack: In the aforementioned Mare-Do-Well review, Don East of Anime Abomination pops in and mentions how the Hero left a script for an ''Inukami!'' review on his computer. Believe it or not, this is a reference to an episode from OVER TWO YEARS EARLIER.

* CerebusSyndrome: He started out with very little story, if any, and by now the story between reviews has gone full-on superhero story--well, on a budget, but still...

--> [[{{Inukami}} Nadeshiko]]: W-[[PantyShot white]]...

* CloningBlues: Clones factor into the new storyline extensively--the end of Season 3 established that [[spoiler: The Hero has been cloned several times by the government agency he's worked for. A large group of them has been destroyed, but the Hero suspects they have reserves.]] And in Season 4, we have Number Six, [[spoiler: a clone of the Hero from a BadFuture that was sent to assassinate him.]] [[AvertedTrope Averted]] later on--see ChekhovsArmy above.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: [[spoiler: Hero--classic red and blue color scheme. Villain--red and black.]]
* CombatPragmatist: The Hero couldn't win in a sword duel against the General Hand [[spoiler: so he stabbed him with his underling's dagger.]]

* ContinuitySnarl: His reviews of the animated Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the Elseworlds Month specials that followed them prominently featured one of his colleagues, Arthur Knowledge of The Quest for Geekdom--the former even featured a storyline involving a prophesy, two rings harnessing the power of nerd rage and the joys of geekdom, and implying that Arthur's "Apprentice" title meant that he was apprentice to the Hero at one point. This is never brought up again after the Elseworlds Month specials, but in this case, there actually is a reason. [[spoiler: In The Quest for Geekdom, aliens invaded and would have destroyed the Earth, but to save it, a universal reboot occurred, causing the Hero and Arthur to have never met, and revamping Arthur's character into less of a Green Lantern and more of a paladin.]] It is unknown what became of the new villain, Razor, or the rings, or if they will ever be brought up again. Even the Hero acknowledged that this probably confused a lot of people.

* DudeNotFunny:[[invoked]] When addressing the fact that the creators DID know that bulls don't have udders in {{Barnyard}}, he demonstrated that just giving a character the traits of the opposite gender doesn't qualify as a joke unless they do something with it--and in fact, that that way of thinking is a bit outdated due to the real problems transgender people face.

** Most of the top half of his Top 10 Animated Sequels list consists of these, including [[spoiler: Shrek 2, Kung Fu Panda 2, The Rescuers Down Under, and Toy Story 3. He also mentions that Toy Story 2 came close.]]
* {{Expy}}: The Hero's reviewing style feels like some bizarre combination of WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, and ''FamiliarFaces''. And his origin story has shades of CaptainAtom and Franchise/{{Batman}}.

* FateWorseThanDeath: The Villain tried to do this to the Hero by taking away his ability to use his powers--possibly to [[SamaritanSyndrome prevent him from saving anyone.]] [[spoiler: This backfired, and the Hero recovered.]]
* FollowTheLeader: As with most Internet reviewers, he was inspired by Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses. However, he's said that his biggest inspirations were [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and Chad "CR" Rocco of Familiar Faces.
** Ironically reversed in that he reviewed [[TheLegendOfTheTitanic one of the animated Titanic movies]] '''and''' ''QuestForCamelot'' before Doug did.

* GuiltyPleasures: ''{{Batfink}}'' (which he says is SoBadItsGood) and ''Manga/GirlsBravo'', according to him.

* HeroicBSOD: Has one in his ''{{Inukami}}'' review, set to [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic "Everything You Know Is Wrong."]]
** He suffered a [[TearJerker less humorous example]] in his ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' review. [[spoiler: Six was killed off in the previous episode,]] so he starts off the review on the verge of tears. And his acting is actually pretty believable.

* IfIWantedYouDead: Inverted. Because [[spoiler: Six didn't immediately break out and kill him, the Hero realized that he can't use his superpowers, only block off the Hero's abilities.]]

* InAndOutOfCharacter: On his [[http://www.youtube.com/user/theherooftomorrow YouTube channel]], he posts trailers for new Cartoon Hero episodes, and miscellaneous videos where he's out of character. Among them are sound-only commentaries on other video reviewers, done with [[SoulEater Death the Kid]] as an avatar, later replaced by [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia Lloyd Irving]]. Note: He has since announced that he's stopped doing the commentaries, but he's going to keep doing out-of-character reviews.

** In his review of ''Manga/RosarioToVampire Capu2'', curiosity drives him to check which characters Creator/KiraVincentDavis voices besides AnnoyingYoungerSibling Kokoa Shuzen. Cut to a sudden close-up of [[spoiler:[[Manga/ElfenLied Lucy]]]] glaring at you, accompanied by the music from ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. Have fun sleeping tonight!
* JustShootHim: [[spoiler: Hagan did--but it didn't stick.]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Six.]]

** When DiamandaHagan made her first appearance, the Hero gained an archnemesis, and more of a backstory.

* LetsSeeYouDoBetter: After his review of Video Brinquedo's The Little Panda Fighter, Eli proceeded to demonstrate a basic knowledge of karate, aka more than the film knew about fighting.

* {{Mondegreen}}: Three words: [[TheMagicVoyage "Look out, fucker!"]] from ''TheMagicVoyage''.

* MoneyDearBoy:[[invoked]] Whenever he thinks that a filmmaker/character is doing something just for the money, he plays that infamous [[MemeticMutation "We've got to have MONEEEEYYYY..."]] clip from the infamous ''[[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie Tom and Jerry: The Movie]]''.

*** This was later justified in the Videogame/EarthBound review, though it also arguably counts as an example: [[spoiler: Apparently, being turned into a human-toon hybrid gives one access to [[Manga/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Spiral Energy.]] ]]

* NoOntologicalInertia: [[spoiler: When the General was killed, all of the other Hands just warped away.]] [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that they were ordered to keep the Hero alive.
* NotSoDifferent: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged.]] [[EvilCounterpart The Villain]] attempts to convince the Hero that the government agency intends to use him as a superweapon. The Hero doesn't buy it, and even delivers a ShutUpHannibal the second time he tries to convince him. [[spoiler: Turns out, the Villain may have been onto something...]]

* PowerCreepPowerSeep: The Hero [[spoiler: albeit in SuperpoweredEvilSide mode]] was able to kill [[spoiler: [[SoulEater Asura. ASURA.]] This is explained later on as the villain who brought him into our world wasn't able to bring him here at full power, but still...]]
* PowerLimiter: That MegatonPunch we mentioned earlier? Apparently he can't use it very often, due to [[spoiler: the scars from the poisoned knife DiamandaHagan cut his arm with in their first encounter.]]

* PuritySue: {{Invoked}} during his Elseworlds Month comparison of the ''BridgeToTerabithia'' movies, Hero derides the 2007 version of Leslie as one of these.

* ARareSentence: In his review of ''DaBoomCrew'', he says "The French alien army commander" is this.

* ReferenceOverdosed: Seems to be one of his pet peeves--especially if the movie references something that has nothing to do with the movie or what the characters are talking about. See his ''SharkTale'' and ''Disney/ChickenLittle'' reviews for an example.

* TheRival: DiamandaHagan. According to WordOfGod, they first met when the TGWTG forum users [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover collaborated]] on TheLandBeforeTime sequels. Their reviews happened to be next to one another in the collab. The rest is history.
* RunningGag: He has a few that NC made famous like [[Film/StreetFighter OF COURSE!]] (which he later replaced with one from [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fluttershy]]), but there are a few of his own, like the aforementioned entry under MoneyDearBoy, playing the music from ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' whenever he cuts to anything so bad it's scary, as well as playing "Gold Digger" whenever...well, a gold-digging female character shows up. Occasionally, however, this is [[DefiedTrope defied]] when the movie actually makes the jokes for him. (See his ''SharkTale'' review for an example.)
* SamaritanSyndrome: This is implied to be the reason the Hero [[spoiler: can't leave the government organization he works for, even though he knows they may be secretly trying to weaponize him.]]

* SecretTestOfCharacter: The Hardcore Kid thought the Hero was giving him one when he told him not to review TheMagicVoyage. [[spoiler: He was wrong.]]

** [[spoiler: When The Cartoon Villain first showed up in our universe, TheTerminator theme played.]]
** [[spoiler: Followed shortly by a shout-out to Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet.]]
** Continuing with TheTerminator shout-outs, Number Six is pretty much a walking shout-out to the series. He appeared in our time in much the same position Arnold was in when he first arrived (thankfully with clothes on) the music played when he arrived, AND [[spoiler: he was sent to kill the Hero to prevent a BadFuture from happening.]]

* SoBadItsGood: [[invoked]] In-universe, his opinion of ''TheBraveLittleToaster Goes to Mars'' and later, ''WesternAnimation/{{Batfink}}'' (which he criticized when he first reviewed it but says later that he sees ''WesternAnimation/{{Batfink}}'' as a GuiltyPleasure) and later calls ''DaBoomCrew'' entertainingly bad.

* SpellMyNameWithAThe: It's THE Cartoon Hero. Though he mostly goes by "Hero."
* SpiritAdvisor: The thirteen Celestial Brush gods from {{Okami}} seem to have taken on this role, as he communicates with them through his brush.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: The Cartoon Villain pulls this in order to defeat and kill [[spoiler: [[SoulEater Asura]] ]]

* SunglassesAtNight: In his first few appearances, Six wore his sunglasses constantly, even at night. [[spoiler: However, this actually makes sense as he had night-vision capabilities built into them.]]
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler: In Season 3, The Cartoon Villain became this.]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:[[invoked]] His opinion on ''OsmosisJones''.

** An exception happened when [[spoiler: Six was killed. The Hero even says that his honor code went out the window when the General Hand killed his brother.]]

* UnstoppableRage: ''{{Inukami}}'' reduced him to this. [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry Supposedly]].
* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler: Chaos]] offered this to the Hero at the end of Season 4. [[spoiler: He refused.]]
* WeHaveReserves: Appears to be the reason [[spoiler: Anderson cloned the Hero.]]
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: [[invoked]] One of his ''other '' main concerns with ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'' was the fact that it couldn't seem to decide whether or not it was for kids, as it constantly vacillated between juvenile humor and pop-culture references that only adults would get. [[spoiler: Not to mention an ending that tries to have a very adult Aesop about tolerance, but got bogged down by the constant juvenile humor, not treating the issue with any measure of dignity.]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The Hero broke his ThouShallNotKill code when [[spoiler: the General Hand killed Six, stabbing him with his own man's knife.]]
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Used literally (according to WordOfGod) in the [[Anime/PokemonTheRiseofDarkrai Rise of Darkrai]] review. [[spoiler: During a blackout, Six gets out of his improvised prison cell and is about to pull the trigger on the Hero, completing his mission. However, he walks in on the Hero giving a speech about what being a hero means, based on Darkrai's actions in the movie, and decides not to pull the trigger because he sees the Hero isn't as evil as he was led to believe.]]
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The Villain. [[spoiler: It's implied that he is [[KnightTemplar the way he is]] due to the government trying to use him as a superweapon, killing his definition of justice and forcing him to rewrite it--as anyone who stands against him.]]
* WorstWhateverEver: In his review of ''[[VideoBrinquedo The Little Cars in the Great Race]]'', he calls Wrangler: "Worst. Villain. Ever." Watch the review [[http://www.reviewersunknown.com/1872/cartoon-hero-little-cars-in-the-great-race/ here!]]

* YouAreNumberSix: Literally, in the case of the new character. So called because he was the sixth [[spoiler: clone of the Hero]] to attempt time travel.

** In his review of ''Manga/RosarioToVampire Capu2'', curiosity drives him to check which characters Creator/KiraVincentDavis voices besides AnnoyingYoungerSibling Kokoa Shuzen. Cut to a sudden close-up of [[spoiler:[[ElfenLied Lucy]]]] glaring at you, accompanied by the music from ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. Have fun sleeping tonight!

* DefiedTrope: In ''HomeOnTheRange'', after pointing out a scene with lesbian overtones, he starts to cue up "[[Film/ThreeHundred This! IS! SPARTA!]]" but cuts it off because "this movie's dumb enough."

Eli Stone is a reviewer who is a member of Reviewers Unknown, SpaceMonkeyMafiaStudios, and TheRosenHacker's website.. Although he is one of many reviewers who follows the tradition set by Creator/DougWalker, he notably also has shades of ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' and claims that one of his biggest inspirations is Chad "CR" Rocco of ''Familiar Faces''. Eli is aware of the fact that he is not the first to do this, and lately references this wiki a ''lot''. As his name suggests, his character is a bitter superhero with the power to command cartoon clichés--which sometimes feel more like tropes--who specializes in animation criticism.

Notably, the show's quality gets increasingly better as time passes. The storyline becomes deeper, the camera quality gets better, and (perhaps not coincidentally) he references TVTropes more and more. Either way, you can find him on his blog [[http://theherooftomorrow.blogspot.com here]]. He had a BlipTV account, but it got deleted. He was also on Reviewers Unknown, but it closed down October 18, 2014.

Eli has also started his own retrospective project on the [[VisualNovel/AceAttorney Ace Attorney series.]] Much like Linkara's ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'' videos, he has stated that each game will have three videos to cover it--two to go over what happens in all four-five cases in said game, and one to go over characters and general thoughts on the game in question. However, also like that series, there will be no set schedule.

* ThemeTuneCameo: It's now become a RunningGag that the Hero actually has his own theme tune as his ringtone during each season--sometimes using the previous season's theme before the new theme is revealed in the opening sequence. This is a reference to ''AceAttorney'', where Godot has his own theme as his ringtone.

* BookEnd: Season 2 started with a review of the ''{{Inukami}}'' anime and ended with a review of ''{{Inukami}} [[ShortAnimeMovie The Movie]]''.