History YMMV / TheGuild

%%* EvilIsSexy: Fawkes, as of season 3 episode 7.

* AcceptableHobbyTargets: The entire cast portrays online gamers in ways ranging from grossly irresponsible to dangerously delusional. Note this is done [[RuleOfFunny for comedy]] and AffectionateParody, as Creator/FeliciaDay herself is an actual gamer. Also, it certainly does have a basis in real life, as the characters are exaggerated versions of people you're bound to meet online. (The neglectful mom, the obnoxious troll kid, the obsessive sensitive guy, etc.)

* FanPreferredCouple: 20 out of the 28 total fics for the show on Archive Of Our Own are for [[MindGameShip Codex/Fawkes]].

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Codex's speech against the mob outside the game maker's studio in Season 6 about not being asshats online to the people who create the game they claim to be fans of.

* MisaimedFandom: The rather frightening inquiries of [[StalkingIsLove "Why doesn't Codex like Zaboo? He's sweet!"]] Half the show is spent with Codex angsting over being stalked by Zaboo, but there are fans who don't get that his behavior is meant to be ''wrong''. Partially a [[JustifiedTrope Justified Trope]] in that Zaboo's [[RefugeinAudacity stalking]] is both so over the top and ultimately non-threatening that it ironically illustrates that, had he ANY emotional maturity in approaching her at all, they would have made a good couple. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Codex's nonplussed reactions and comments about his speedy acceptance of her real feelings at the conclusion of Season 2 and the beginning of Season 3.

** Vork's grandfather died and he's scraping by on his Social Security checks.

* {{Acceptable Targets}}: The entire cast portrays online gamers in ways ranging from grossly irresponsible to dangerously delusional. Note this is done [[RuleOfFunny for comedy]] and AffectionateParody, as Creator/FeliciaDay herself is an actual gamer. Also, it certainly does have a basis in real life, as the characters are exaggerated versions of people you're bound to meet online. (The neglectful mom, the obnoxious troll kid, the obsessive sensitive guy, etc.)

%%* MostAnnoyingSound: Zaboo's console game in season 3.

* {{The Woobie}}: Codex's entire character is {{Woobie}} incarnate, reaching its peak at the end of Season 2.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNyg1ftMIU OH MY GOD.]] I mean, uh - "Do You Wanna Date My [[DigitalAvatar Avatar]]."
** Succeeded by [[http://www.watchtheguild.com/the-guild/the-guild-season-4-music-video-game-on/ "Game On"]].
** Which was in turn succeeded by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFhgupR565Q I'm the one that's cool]]

* EvilIsSexy: Fawkes, as of season 3 episode 7.
* HollywoodHomely: Codex.
** She may not be intended as homely; the thumbnail description of her in the season 1 script is "cute but socially awkward," and Zaboo's mother was probably just being mean by calling her that.
* HoYay:
** Between Vork and Zaboo in the Season 4 outtakes
** Riley for Codex. Then, [[spoiler: Riley deliberately invoking this trope to make Zaboo jealous by making out with Venom.]]
* MagnificentBastard: Vork has at many times proven to be quite a prick.

* MostAnnoyingSound: Zaboo's console game in season 3.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Codex running around her apartment naked. All we see is her shoulders.

* {{Tearjerker}}: [[spoiler:The end of Season 2.]]

* EarWorm: Not only "Do You Wanna Date My Avatar" but also the theme song to a degree. If you do an ArchiveBinge, this tune will ''never leave your brain'', considering you have to hear it several dozen times over the course of about two hours. Which may be why pressing "play all" on the DVD sets skips past the credits sequences in all but the first and last episode.
** Also succeeded by "Game On."

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNyg1ftMIU OH MY GOD.]] I mean, uh - "Do You Wanna Date My [[DigitalAvatar Avatar]]."
** Succeeded by [[http://www.watchtheguild.com/the-guild/the-guild-season-4-music-video-game-on/ "Game On"]].
** Which was in turn succeeded by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFhgupR565Q I'm the one that's cool]]

* FetishFuel:
** "Do You Wanna Date My Avatar": The fact that it's a parody doesn't stop it from being... ''interesting''. The mid-syllable pitch switches ("so many places we can go-''oh'') that Codex does during the verse are really, ''really'' HOT. No idea why, they just ''are''. And in Season 3, Riley and Zaboo's relationship has taken an increasingly BDSM turn with Riley as the Dom. Plus Riley and Codex's LesYay. Then Riley and ''Venom's'' LesYay. The entire private chat between Codex and Fawkes counts for some, and later Fawkes going up to Codex in the S3 finale and saying [[spoiler: "I'm spanked. You got me." Rowr, a previously dominant man submitting himself and admitting defeat ... and then later on they end up in bed!]]
** And now we have "Game On" featuring among other things bhangra dancers (male and female), Felicia Day in a [[BareYourMidriff choli]], and Amy Okuda in gold body paint.

* {{Acceptable Targets}}: The entire cast portrays online gamers in ways ranging from grossly irresponsible to dangerously delusional. Note this is done [[RuleOfFunny for comedy]] and AffectionateParody, as FeliciaDay herself is an actual gamer. Also, it certainly does have a basis in real life, as the characters are exaggerated versions of people you're bound to meet online. (The neglectful mom, the obnoxious troll kid, the obsessive sensitive guy, etc.)

* BaseBreaker: Riley.

** Vork's grandfather died and he's scraping by on his Social Security checks.

* HoYay: Between Vork and Zaboo in the Season 4 outtakes
* LesYay: Riley for Codex. Then, [[spoiler: Riley deliberately invoking this trope to make Zaboo jealous by making out with Venom.]]

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Codex's speech against the mob outside the game maker's studio in Season 6 about not being [[GIFT asshats online]] to the people who create the game the claim to be fans of.

* EvilIsSexy: Fawkes, as of season 3 episode 7.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: Codex running around her apartment naked. All we see is her shoulders.

* CharacterAlignment
** ChaoticNeutral: Bladezz and Clara.
** LawfulNeutral: Vork. GOODFREAKIN' LORD, Vork! In-game only, however. Subverted in that he breaks the law constantly in order to live under his limited means. But he does have a rigid adherence to his own rules and the rules of the game.
*** Vork is more like an ExactWords freak. His obsession with Law and contracts shines through in Season 4 episode 11 where he [[spoiler: refuses to break off his engagement to Zaboo's mom because a proposal]] is a binding verbal contract.

* {{Acceptable Targets}}: The entire cast portrays online gamers in ways ranging from grossly irresponsible to dangerously delusional. Note this is done [[RuleOfFunny for comedy]] and AffectionateParody, as FeliciaDay herself is an actual gamer. Also, it certainly does have a basis in real life, as the characters are exaggerated versions of people you're bound to meet online. (The neglectful mom, the obnoxious troll kid, the obsessive sensitive guy, etc.)