History WebVideo / TheUncannyValley

* BlandNameProduct: Skyguard is clearly meant to be ''[[TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' (they are even using modded footage from Skyrim), The Aura Scrolls is meant to be ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', and Mephesto is meant to represent ''Creator/{{Bethesda}}'', the creators of the game and the franchise. Heck, the title of the short, ''Dragonbored'' is clearly based off of the name of the PlayerCharacter of the real game, the Dragonborn.

* BlandNameProduct: Skyguard is clearly meant to be [[TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]] (they are even using modded footage from Skyrim), The Aura Scrolls is meant to be ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', and Mephesto is meant to represent ''Creator/{{Bethesda}}'', the creators of the game and the franchise.

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

** SpaceWhaleAesop: Some scenes qualify. For example, the scene where Carl brags about teaching Jimbroth to cook through gameplay (rather than spending the same amount of time ''actually'' learning how to do it) is actually a pretty good message about how to use time effectively. However, there's a similar scene later where Jimbroth presents Amanda with an amulet which he and Carl earned from grinding through a dungeon. Carl [[BraggingRightsReward found the amulet useless after grinding for so long for it]], but Jimbroth tells a heart-wrenching story about how he earned it after many of his friends died and vowed only to give it to the pure of heart. That pushes the scene into this trope because there is no way Carl could have gotten such an amulet, under the conditions he did, ''except'' through a videogame, and Jimbroth's own personal connection to the it are (at best) part of a personal story that would not exist without said game. Somewhat downplayed, in that ''Jimbroth'' didn't know that.

* {{Cuckold}}: The protagonist creates a barbarian character in a thinly-veiled ''Videogame/{{Skyrim}}'' spoof that gets brought into the real world and begins to live his life better than the videogame-obsessed protagonist. This includes being a better companion to his girlfriend, Amanda. Highlights include [[spoiler:flat out telling her to her face that he considers women to be property (to which she responds "ICanChangeHim"), sweet talking her into fetching beers for a party (while o she's naked from the waist down), and changing her from a staunch feminist into someone who likes being won over by a more dominant man.]] There's even the standard cuckold trope of the replaced boyfriend being effectively feminized to cement his utter defeat.

* 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 WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall DVD.

* ValuesDissonance: Jimbroth has an understandably medieval view on moral issues. [[spoiler:He grows out of them.]]

* DefeatMeansFriendship: The boss takes an instant liking to Jimbroth after the latter tackles him to defend Carl, and shows complete disdain for the rest of the office when they freak out about it. "We're men, this is ''what we do''. He gave me a challenge, and we fought."

** SpaceWhaleAesop: Some scenes qualify. For example, the scene where Carl brags about teaching Jimbroth to cook through gameplay (rather than spending the same amount of time ''actually'' learning how to do it) is actually a pretty good message about how to use time effectively. However, there's a similar scene later where Jimbroth presents Amanda with an amulet which he and Carl earned from grinding through a dungeon. Carl [[BraggingRightsReward found the amulet useless after grinding for so long for it]], but Jimbroth tells a heart-wrenching story about how he earned it after many of his friends died and vowed only to give it to the pure of heart. That pushes the scene into this trope because there is no way Carl could have gotten such an amulet, under the conditions he did, ''except'' through a videogame, and Jimbroth's own personal connection to the it are (at best) part of a personal story that would not exist without said game.

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Jimbroth believes women are bold, beautiful, angelic, and property to be sold as men see fit.

* [[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 Taylin's character.]]

** SpaceWhaleAesop: Some scenes qualify. For example, the scene where Carl brags about teaching Jimbroth to cook through gameplay (rather than spending the same amount of time ''actually'' learning how to do it) is actually a pretty good message about how to use time effectively. However, there's a similar scene later where Jimbroth presents Amanda with an amulet which he and Carl earned from grinding through a dungeon. Carl [[BraggingRightsReward found the amulet useless after grinding for so long for it]], but Carl tells a heart-wrenching story about how he earned it after many of his friends and vowed only to give it to the pure of heart. That pushes the scene into this trope because there is no way Carl could have gotten such an amulet, under the conditions he did, ''except'' through a videogame, and Jimbroth's own personal connection to the it are (at best) part of a personal story that would not exist without said game.

* PortingDisaster: [=InUniverse=] All this apparently happened as a result of an unexplained glitch in the [=PSZ=] version of ''Skyguard''.

** SpaceWhaleAesop: Some scenes qualify. For example, the scene where Carl brags about teaching Jimbroth to cook through gameplay (rather than spending the same amount of time ''actually'' learning how to do it) is actually a pretty good message about how to use time effectively. However, when Jimbroth presents Amanda with an amulet which he and Carl earned from grinding through a dungeon. Carl [[BraggingRightsReward found the amulet useless after grinding for so long for it]], but Carl tells a heart-wrenching story about how he earned it after many of his friends and vowed only to give it to the pure of heart. That pushes the scene into this trope because there is no way Carl could have gotten such an amulet, under the conditions he did, ''except'' through a videogame, and Jimbroth's own personal connection to the it are (at best) part of a personal story that would not exist without said game.

* PortingDisaster: All this apparently happened as a result of an unexplained glitch in the [=PSZ=] version of ''Skyguard''.

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

* TakeThat: Several to [[Creator/Bethesda Bethesda's]] method of testing games, as well as [[WorldOfWarcraft "World of WarCrack"]].

* StrawFeminist: Jessica calls one of the male friends a chauvinist for expecting her to go get him a drink, but gigglingly tries to comply with Jimbroth's request of the same.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor / DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:The aliens want all the cats because the cute videos have won them over, only to find out that those videos omit all of the more trying aspects of cat ownership. Which could have been avoided if they had checked Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} or at least a pet care site.]]
* TheCameo: WebVideo/{{Phelous}}, [[TheCinemaSnob Brad Jones]], ObscurusLupa, and Mike Dodd appear as VoxPops interviewees during a news broadcast.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor / DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:The aliens want all the cats because the cute videos have won them over, only to find out that those videos omit all of the more trying aspects of cat ownership. Which could have been avoided if they had checked Website/{{Wikipedia}} or at least a pet care site.]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor / DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:The aliens want all the cats because the cute videos have won them over, only to find out that those videos omit all of the more trying aspects of cat ownership. Which could have been avoided if they had checked Website/Wikipedia or at least a pet care site.]]