History ZeroPunctuation / TropesUToZ

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Zig-Zagged. On one hand, He's a really big fan of this trope. However, as mentioned in HeroAntagonist, if he's playing a game in which the violence is shown committed by the player's avatar done taken too far or without a degree of restraint or subtlety (to use his Mortal Kombat IX review's words, like someone filming a cumshot), he can be put off by it.

--> '''Yahtzee''': You can use traditional guns if you're boring and unlikeable and peoples' eyes glaze over when you're talking to them and you're my dad.

** Or in one case as shown in his ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' review, kicking some ass.

* YaoiFangirl: One of these makes a brief cameo in the ''MetalGearSolid4'' review when Yahtzee points out that [[HeterosexualLifePartners Snake and Otacon's]] relationship is a goldmine of HoYay.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: He's a really big fan of this trope.

* UnbuiltTrope: Yahtzee is more or less the first guy people think of for internet video reviews without sketches, but he also takes apart the kind of person would do this sort of thing for a living. He anger and causticness are always amped up to an extremely high degree, often on goofy little things and deliberately ignoring the good points for the sake of humor. And to maintain his fast-talking speech, he often rambles on about anything that comes to mind, allowing his personal biases to come front and center, discussing the show's audience or himself and just talking about random crap. In a sense, he's less "fast talker who presents cold hard truths" and more "babbling goofball who slams things for a cheap laugh".

** All right, fine, for fuck's sake; I'll review ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' if it will make you shut up! (Except it won't, will it? We both know nothing could do that, short of surgically removing your fucking jaw, and even then you could still drool down my ear.)

* UnpleasableFanbase: [[invoked]] "Fans are clingy, complaining dipshits who will never ever be grateful for any concession you make. Incidentally, [[HypocriticalHumor why not buy a Zero Punctuation t-shirt?"]]

* {{Whoring}}: Yahtzee both hates the very existence of and abuses the hell out of moves that can be used for extreme versions of this, including but not limited to [[RedSteel2 a parry that automatically stuns the opponent]], [[VideoGame/{{Prototype}} a tentacle attack with way too long a reach]], [[VideoGame/SoulSeries tossing his helpless AI opponent around like a ragdoll]], [[VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw a flipping attack that carves up anything in the same room with you]], and [[VideoGame/GodOfWar the "fuck you" button]].

* VorpalPillow: Yahtzee suggests doing this to the ''Paper Mario'' series after ''SuperPaperMario'' (which he actually thought was OK, if inferior to the previous titles).

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* {{Whoring}}: Yahtzee both hates the very existence of and abuses the hell out of moves that can be used for extreme versions of this, including but not limited to [[RedSteel2 a parry that automatically stuns the opponent]], [[VideoGame/{{Prototype}} a tentacle attack with way too long a reach]], [[SoulCalibur tossing his helpless AI opponent around like a ragdoll]], [[LollipopChainsaw a flipping attack that carves up anything in the same room with you]], and [[VideoGame/GodOfWar the "fuck you" button]].

** This same irrational fear is taken UpToEleven in his review of ''[[{{VideoGame/Hitman}} Hitman: Absolution]]''.

[[invoked]]** Has alluded to the concept several times, usually in reference to particular poor animation and/or mocap.
[[invoked]]** He also used the concept to illustrate the problems inherent in creating and criticizing art, arguing that, in much the same way that the closer something comes to realism the more obvious its deficiencies become, the closer a work of art comes to "perfection" the more glaringly obvious its flaws become.

* UncannyValley:
** Has alluded to the concept several times, usually in reference to particular poor animation and/or mocap.
** He also used the concept to illustrate the problems inherent in creating and criticizing art, arguing that, in much the same way that the closer something comes to realism the more obvious its deficiencies become, the closer a work of art comes to "perfection" the more glaringly obvious its flaws become.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: At some point, Yahtzee was offered a job as one of the head script-writers for ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'', but was rejected by the game's head developer, because his interpretation of Duke didn't fit with the game's tone.

** Mentioned again in his FiveNightsAtFreddys review.

** From his review of ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'':

* UnusualEuphemism: From his review of ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'':