History WebVideo / TheUncannyValley

* CaptainErsatz: Skyguard is clearly meant to be [[TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]].

* RightBehindMe: Carl's boss speaks badly about him to another employee, who tries to point out that Carl's right behind him. Subverted in that he was aware of it.
-->'''[=LeBron=]:''' I know he's behind me.

-->'''Jimbroth''': If men taking off our shirts and singing songs from the Land of Fae is gay, then gay men are we!

* CloudCuckoolander: What Jimbroth comes off as in the real world. All things considered, in his real world he would have been completely normal.

* MeaningfulName: Mephesto Games made a product that threw all of Carl's negative qualities into sharp relief, and sent him through a test of moral fiber and character [[spoilers:which he ultimately fails]]. In most versions of {{Faust}}, Mephistopheles made a deal with the eponymous protagonist that does much the same.

* NewMediaAreEvil: Subverted. The guys who made ''Skyguard'' seem pretty amoral and sleazy, and are named [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Mephisto]]...and then we meet Carl, and it is made very, very clear that he was already a self-centered and vain individual before his video game addiction really hit him hard.

* [[spoiler:IronicHell: Carl wishes he could be a character in Skyguard's world. It's granted...as the caricature of his wife...without any of Jimbroth's skills....and as Jimbroth's character.]]

* [[spoiler:IronicHell: Carl wishes he could be part of Skyguard's world. It's granted...as the caricature of his wife...without any of Jimbroth's skills....and as Jimbroth's character.]]

** DoubleAesop: Value what you have, otherwise you will shove it away.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Carl wished for life to be more like Skyguard. Cue Yimbroth.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Yimbroth believes women are bold, beautiful, angelic, and property to be sold as men see fit.
* FishOutOfWater: Yimbroth.

-->'''Yimbroth''': If men taking off our shirts and singing songs from the Land of Fae is gay, then gay men are we!
* KleptomaniacHero: Yimbroth remembers a time when he put a bucket over someone's head and stole everything in sight.
* ListOfTransgressions: Carl rattles off all the crimes Yimbroth committed by stabbing a schoolbus' tires, threatening the driver with a sword, bringing a kid home, and giving her alcohol.
* QueerPeopleAreFunny: The HaveAGayOldTime scene, and Taylin having a mancrush on Yimbroth.
* TheUnfrozenCavemanLawyer: Yimbroth's medieval thinking surprisingly makes him a good businessman.

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Yimbroth talks like this.

'''''The Uncanny Valley''''' is the 5th Anniversary special of [[http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/ That Guy With The Glasses]], which, this time, is a collection of 5 shorts made by Creator/DougWalker, [[WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob Brad Jones]], [[WebVideo/ThatSciFiGuy Leo Thompson]], {{Mike J}}eavons and [[WebVideo/{{Welshy}} Mat Williams]].

* [[spoiler: AndIMustScream: Carl becomes trapped in the game as the character he was creating.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WordOfGod says [[http://atopfourthwall.tumblr.com/post/54457932017 that]] Lewis Lovhaug was offered to make a short, but he declined so that he could work on an AtopTheFourthWall DVD.