History YMMV / Civvie11

** Civvie finishes his video on ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersUndying'' with "Oh Creator/JonStJohn, where will you turn up next?" The video was uploaded ''one day'' after ''[[VideoGame/{{Postal}} Postal 4: No Regerts]]'' entered early access, which features St. John voicing the Postal Dude.

* UnpopularPopularCharacter: Civvie absolutely '''detests''' Cancer Mouse. Often lamenting the adorable radioactive rodent is unkillable, while simultaneously taking years off his life just by his [[NuclearNasty lethal presence alone]], and that's ''before'' he starts his alt-right rantings. The fandom [[BreakoutCharacter surprisingly love]] the pestilent mouse.

** As referenced in the entry above: "Slavjank", a term Civvie uses for [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin janky]] games from Eastern Europe, in which said janky games often tend to have their own [[WidgetSeries unique brand]] of oddness that usually stems from the developer's clear inexperience with game design, a lack of resources, [[TranslationTrainwreck poorly translated]] [[AccentOnTheWrongSyllable and poorly spoken English]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking references to Eastern European culture]].

** ''[[Series/HellsKitchen Fucking RAW!]]''

* SpiritualSuccessor: Civvie is often compared to Noah Antwiller of WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment by fans who grew bored of Noah's apatheic slump in the mid-2010s, with his channel usually being compared to Noah's content from his prime for people looking for similar material.

--->'''Civvie:''' I call this [[Literature/{{Goldilocks}} Goldilocksing]].

--> '''Civvie:''' ''There is a much darker timeline where he kills us all.''

* HarsherInHindsight: In some older episodes (dating back to 2017, 2018 and 2019) sometimes Civvie makes mention of a plague going on outside and him being under quarantine while being incarcerated. With the COVID-19 crisis going on and people having to stay in their homes for quarantine due to virus, some of the things Civvie says are rather prophetic.
** Civvie's mistaken assumption in his review of ''VideoGame/ShadowWarrior1997'' that John Galt, the voice of Lo Wang, had died (which he corrected in the video description) becomes this now that Galt actually has died in January of 2022.

** This one also crosses over with HarsherInHindsight. During Pro Blood Civvie once made a joke about how he was pissed that Noah Antwiler was making more money on Patreon then he was. Cut to the present and Civvie's patreon earnings have surpassed Noah's.

** At one point in his ''VideoGame/DarkForces'' review, he wonders if ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' will involve time travel since its how ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' went. While Episode 9 itself didn't, ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' sure did.

* FandomRivalry: A minor one between fans of Civvie and Gmanlives, due to both being prominent reviewers of “boomer shooter” games with contrasting styles (with Gmanlives having more straightforward reviews versus Civvie’s comedic tone) and tastes (for instance, Gmanlives has frequently praised ''VideoGame/BrutalDoom'' and other mods by Sgt. Mark IV while Civvie has expressed disdain for the mod), as well as Civvie making a light jab at Gmanlives for praising ''[[VideoGame/{{Blood}} Blood: Fresh Supply]]'' in its ObviousBeta state. That said, there is also a significant overlap between the two fanbases. The two also seem to be on opposite ends of the political spectrum (although both are still relatively centrist and an apples-to-apples comparison is pointless given that Gmanlives is Australian and not American), but to their credit neither makes their politics a core aspect of their videos.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: "Hellraiser - The Infernal Cartridge" begins with a lengthy preamble where Civvie explains that Color Dreams (the original form of Creator/WisdomTree, creators of ''VideoGame/BibleAdventures'') somehow got their hands on both the license to ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' and an "improved" version of the ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' engine, and then somehow created a supercharged custom cartridge that would allow them to run said engine on the ''NES''. Given that the entire pretext of the video is that the game Civvie is playing isn't real (being created for an April Fools joke), it's easy to think that he made the whole thing up as part of the joke. However, nearly everything he claims about the game's history is, in fact, true.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Civvie launches off his review of ''[[VideoGame/FinalDoom TNT: Evilution]]'''s Ballistyx by immediately dropping "you guys ever pump-and-dump at a family reunion?", right off the bat. Cue the BigWhat from the entire audience simultaneously. Granted, he then qualifies that it isn't "[his] own family reunion, obviously, but somebody else's", but that doesn't really erase the initial shock. Every word afterwards only digs the hole further.

* AcceptableTargets:
** Civvie simply has no love for Modern Military Shooters (''Call of Duty'', ''Battlefield'', etc), cursing them as a plague on the gaming scene and taking every opportunity he can to compare how much better older retro shooters were in terms of level design and overall fun. This includes ''Halo'', though he does admit the first game had an awesome shotgun.
*** ''Call of Duty'' has been doubled down on in recent years for a number of reasons. Mainly due to Activision turning Raven Software into an assistant developer for all modern COD titles, something Civvie considers a crime.
** While he's happy to clown on developers like Creator/JohnRomero or American [=McGee=] for their screwups, it's usually in good fun. Randy Pitchford, on the other hand, tends to be treated with genuine loathing.
** [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]], for obvious reasons. He is always willing to give them shit whenever he encounters them.
---> '''Civvie, in the Doom 2 video''': Nazis aren't getting their own folder. Fuck them. They're Nazis. I will not leave this level until I see 100 dead Nahtzees!
** Cancer Mouse serves as a stand-in for alt-right opinions, and Civvie does not treat him with any respect.
---> '''Cancer Mouse:''' ''[Cheerfully, despite getting beaten up]'' This is politically-motivated violence!
---> '''Civvie:''' ''YOU'RE A FUCKING '''MOUSE!'''''

* MemeticBadass: Civvie sees "the benevolent hyper-intelligent architect of the post-singularity simulation we all live in", ''Creator/JohnCarmack'', as a one of the super genius variety, even considering some of his exploits (like creating a thermite mixture to steal computers when he was 14) as a foretaste of what he's really capable of.
--> '''Civvie:''' ''There was a much darker timeline where he kills us all.''

* MemeticMutation: Commenters reminding Civvie of his promise to review ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' at 100k subscribers, a milestone eventually reached - as a result, a video on the game was thus made.

* MemeticBadass: Civvie sees "the benevolent hyper-intelligent architect of the post-singularity simulation we all live in", ''Creator/JohnCarmack'', as a one of the super genius variety.

* MemeticBadass: Civvie sees ''Creator/JohnCarmack'' as a one of the super genius variety.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Civvie is often compared to Noah Antwiller of WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment by fans who grew bored of Noah's apatheic slump in the mid-2010s, with his channel usually being compared to Noah's content from his prime for people looking for similar material.
* WereStillRelevantDammit: He reads ''Duke Nukem Forever'' the riot act for relying on outdated (by the time of release) jokes and memes and very badly thought out [[TakeThat jabs]] at its competition.

* FriendlyFandoms: With [[Machinima/FreemansMind Ross]] [[WebVideo/RosssGameDungeon Scott]], due to their similar review style and focus on old PC games and first-person shooters. Ross even makes a cameo in Civvie's ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' video.

* TearJerker:
** While most of the ''Duke Nukem Forever'' video is comedic gold, the Alien Hive level is not. Especially once Civvie reaches the Holsom twins who are captured, tortured and trussed up in grossly sexualised ways, about to die from alien embryos and begging Duke for help, and Duke, normally the savior of babes the universe over, replies with a needlessly cruel "Looks like you're...fucked." Civvie just...loses it, repeatedly looping footage of that with earlier footage of a raging Duke [[{{Hypocrite}} vowing to make the aliens pay for kidnapping his babes.]] The footage loops and mixes again and again and again. After all's said and done, Civvie just...sounds both angry and heartbroken, ranting and lambasting everyone involved in said scene, including "totally woke" Randy Pitchford, who had to have seen the segment and signed off on it just fine. It's pretty terrible hearing Civvie just sound so disgusted with a game, not the usual "comedy reviewer angry" type but legitimately "both angry and disappointed."
** After Civvie has Katie use the "Raw" clip in his Redneck Rampage (not that it's entirely undeserved), Katie protests, and then it cuts to her viewpoint, with her watching Hell's Kitchen and audibly sobbing. Poor girl deserves a break.
** While it is kinda funny how he chooses the bad ending option at first, Civvie just...sounds so beaten and broken when trying to defeat the final boss of ''Rise of the Triad (2013)''. Its jank as hell, the boss is absurdly overpowered and the arena itself can kill Civvie. If it weren't for that cheese, that episode would have had a straight up DownerEnding.
--->'''Civvie:''' You wanna see where I gave up? I'd been fighting him for half an hour, and he rips me out from behind a wall and one-hits me. Now I know what some of you are saying: "Get good, Civvie." It's not really an issue of "good", it's an issue of "This is cheap bullshit and I'm not gonna waste my time on it." I'm fine taking the L, I don't care....god help me I DO care and it hurts y'know? Letting some jank-ass game get the better of you, just because they designed it to be intentionally frustrating and cheap, and I know some of you really like that shit, but that's not why I personally play video games despite all evidence on this channel to the contrary. I like video games, I like when they're fun, and there's a special kind of connection you can have between the audience and the designer, a kind of communication, between art and artist in an interactive way. And this right here, is the artist telling me to go fuck myself. What're you gonna do? I tried...

* FandomRivalry: A minor one between fans of Civvie and Gmanlives, due to both being prominent reviewers of “boomer shooter” games with contrasting styles (with Gmanlives having more straightforward reviews versus Civvie’s comedic tone) and tastes (for instance, Gmanlives has frequently praised ''VideoGame/BrutalDoom'' and other mods by Sgt. Mark IV while Civvie has expressed disdain for the mod), as well as Civvie making a light jab at Gmanlives for praising ''[[VideoGame/{{Blood}} Blood: Fresh Supply]]'' in its ObviousBeta state. That said, there is also a significant overlap between the two fanbases.

** Civvie's mistaken assumption in his review of ''VideoGame/ShadowWarrior1997'' that John Galt, the voice of Lo Wang, had died (which he corrected in the video description) becomes this now that Galt 'has' died in January of 2022.

* CriticalResearchFailure: In his review of ''Videogame/HalfLifeOpposingForce'', just before the chapter ''Friendly Fire'' he has [[ArtificialStupidity trouble]] getting the beret shotgun soldier onto the elevator. What he doesn't realize is that said soldier goes to a position in a scripted event and the player must lead him straight through the door to the elevator, as the AI has trouble getting through that particular door if he isn't lined up (blame the game's problematic nav meshes). Not only does Civvie continue to struggle getting him through the door after moving him just an inch off-course, but when he simply gives up, "declares a mutiny", and kills the shotgun soldier, he does so in plain sight of the Engineer who's already programmed to rush into the elevator, killing him too. This bites him in the ass later when he misses out on another engineer door that leads to more supplies, as well as allies to help him in the office area. You'd think an expert like Civvie would know better.

* TearJerker: After Civvie has Katie use the "Raw" clip in his Redneck Rampage(not that it's entirely undeserved), Katie protests, and then it cuts to her viewpoint, with her watching Hell's Kitchen and audibly sobbing. Poor girl deserves a break.