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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:“I am a Man!”]] |
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| 4 | ->"Fascism is a loser's ideology." |
| 5 | -->--''Linkara telling his views on fascism'' |
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| 7 | Awesome moments in ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall''. For examples from ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWallTheMovie'', see [[Awesome/AtopTheFourthWallTheMovie here]]. For examples from ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'', see [[Awesome/HistoryOfPowerRangers here]]. |
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| 12 | * Linkara's outraged reaction upon realising that Sinnamon, the protagonist of a blatantly {{fanservice}}-heavy comic that had been running for eleven issues over three years by that point, is ''a minor''. |
| 13 | * Setting ''ComicBook/SupermanAtEarthsEnd'' [[KillItWithFire on fire]]. {{Subverted|Trope}} as that was merely a fake copy of the book. DoubleSubverted a while later, when he ''actually'' burnt it. |
| 14 | ** Even better is the speech he gives on why Superman is great and timeless, and how the comic fails to live up to his name. |
| 15 | --->'''Linkara''': I don't have to tell you this comic sucks; this is ''not Superman''! Superman is kind and decent. Superman saved the world from the [[ComicBook/JLA1997 Anti-God Mageddon]]. Superman beat [[ComicBook/DCOneMillion Solaris the Tyrant Sun]] and [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]] and, yes, even Hitler in the [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]]. Superman ''always'' followed his principles, even when the world told him not to! Superman even gave his life to save others in his [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman regular continuity]] and in his awesome [[ComicBook/AllStarSuperman ''All-Star'' series]]! But this? I-I don't even know how to describe this... this...\ |
| 16 | '''[[Film/SupermanTheMovie Jor-El]]''': This ''mindless'' aberration, whose only means of expression are wanton violence and destruction. |
| 17 | * When reviewing the "Holy War" story arc in ''ComicBook/XMen #423-424'', [[DontShootTheMessage while he admits that the warning against religious extremism is fine]], he loses all respect for the story with how ludicrously {{Anvilicious}} it is, and how writer Chuck Austen [[ArtisticLicenseTraditionalChristianity shows an absolute lack of understanding Catholicism and Christianity]] ([[ArtisticLicenseReligion and religion in general]]), and how the EvilPlan is so unspeakably stupid that the story cannot possibly be taken seriously. |
| 18 | -->"[[LetMeGetThisStraight So let me run down the entire plan of]] [[ChurchMilitant the Church of Humanity]] [[MindScrew for those who didn't quite catch it:]] Nightcrawler decides to become a priest, so the Church of Humanity is there waiting for him and creates a false illusion for months of him becoming a priest so they can install him as Pope, despite having no actual influence on the papal election, so they can use Communion wafers that disintegrate people to initiate a false Rapture, despite Catholics not believing in it, so they can reveal the Pope is really a mutant that will be mistaken for the Antichrist, but people will still know it's a mutant, so Western civilization will not only kill all the mutants but also the civilization itself will collapse in on itself before everyone swoops in to join the Church of Humanity, which will apparently be the only spiritual option despite the dozens, if not hundreds, of other religions that are available for people to join! [[GambitRoulette This is quite possibly the dumbest plan I've ever heard in my life]]--and I've seen someone deciding to [[ComicBook/SupermanAtEarthsEnd make twin clones of Hitler!]] Chuck Austen, you could not fail any more if your name was Faily [=McFailing=] Fail!" |
| 19 | ** To a lesser extent, calling out the "Holy War" version of the X-Men team, who have almost universally TookALevelInJerkass, TookALevelInDumbass, or both, and have members engage with as much paranoid FantasticRacism against humans as the humans did to them, in spite of [[BigGood Professor Xavier]] ''explicitly'' founding the X-Men to bridge the worlds between mutant and human. |
| 20 | * The completely-justified speech at the end of the second part of his ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis review. |
| 21 | -->'''Linkara:''' So after all this, after [[ArchiveBinge fifty-one issues]] of ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis, what is there left to say? Only this: ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis blows. It reeks. It fails. It is heinous. It is mean-spirited, wretched, [[KudzuPlot nonsensical]], [[FeigningIntelligence idiotic]], irritating, slow, crappy, and altogether stupid. It is everything wrong with the comic book industry, and [[OldShame an embarrassment on the records of everyone who worked on it.]] Bottom line, as we say around these parts: [[{{Catchphrase}} THIS COMIC SUCKS.]] |
| 22 | * When he finally runs across a comic that pisses him off as much as Superman At Earth's End did (ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain, Part 3), he sets it on fire by "I AM A MAN"-punching it with a battlizer from Series/PowerRangersInSpace. With "Finale" from ''Film/Batman1989'' playing in the background. And then it goes to credits...with "Sweet Dreams" by the Eurythmics over them. If not the most awesome ending to an [=AT4W=] episode ever, it's definitely in the top 10.[[note]]The Website/YouTube edit of the episode replaces "Sweet Dreams" with an instrumental version of Linkara's ThemeTune, but it's still no less awesome.[[/note]] |
| 23 | ** Also from that review, his reaction to some lines with rather UnfortunateImplications |
| 24 | --->'''Wonder Woman:''' ''(to Superman)'' Where is the man who stole my Amazon heart? Where is the hero who threw me to the ground and took me as his rightful prize?\ |
| 25 | '''Linkara:''' ''(DeathGlare at the comic)''\ |
| 26 | '''SNL:''' I'm gonna go ahead and assume you know why that's stupid and move on... |
| 27 | * ''Brute Force'', all on its own. |
| 28 | ** Linkara said it best: [[CoolVsAwesome ROBO BEAR VS. CYBER GORILLA!]] *[[EpicRocking cue]] "[[Music/{{Nightwish|Band}} Ghost Love Score]]"* |
| 29 | * His WhatTheHellHero to Superman for insulting Big Barda's makeup, after she was held captive and quite possibly sexually assaulted for two days. |
| 30 | * In response to the insulting portrayal of people who don't go to college in ''Future 5'', he assembled a list of people who did very well for themselves after never going to college or dropping out. Number one on the list: Bill Gates. |
| 31 | * His opening to ''Athena'', as he [[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder once again]] bashes blatant sexism and ludicrous fanservice in comics, as well as giving a TakeThat to all those watchers that think he hates women, he's gay or he's a religious fanatic because of his anti-gratuitous-nude rants. The fact that during all of it he seems much more serious and angry than usual is just the icing on the cake. |
| 32 | * Linkara quoting ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' during his ''[[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures TMNT]] Meet ComicBook/{{Archie|Comics}}'' review, ending with "READ A BOOK, PEOPLE!" |
| 33 | ** He specifically recites a portion of the third canto ("All hope abandon, ye who enter in"). And quite well, too. |
| 34 | * Avoiding an AuthorFilibuster about the distastefulness of using rape as a plot device, instead directing viewers to someone he thinks is much better than him at discussing the issue. |
| 35 | * Linkara furiously giving his six cents on why ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' is terrible, giving one of his most scathing (though entirely justified) rants to date, ending it with these choice words: |
| 36 | -->''"Creator/JoeQuesada; [[PunctuatedForEmphasis YOU! ARE! A! HACK!!!]]"'' |
| 37 | ** Then, in 2012, he did an ''hour-long'' review of the 4 books, just to show how much it fails as a ''Spider-Man'' story, as a story in general and how it killed the character in his eyes. |
| 38 | * From the first part of his October 2010 Halloween review, "Ash Williams vs. ComicBook/SilentHill: Dead/Alive." Winner: Ash. |
| 39 | ** Earlier, him managing to make ''[[WhamLine a single line]]'' more creepy than ''the comic itself''. |
| 40 | ** This burn is pure gold. |
| 41 | --->'''Lenora:''' There is such delicious pain in the questions. Such agony in the answers. In the waiting ''for'' those answers.\ |
| 42 | '''Linkara:''' ''Yes.'' I am in ''immense'' pain. I have never cared ''less'' about what is going on in a comic. If I stood on a tall building, stared at the ground, and didn't care about this comic, that not-caring would form an ocean of apathy across the world that I could swim in. |
| 43 | * The last third of the ''New Kids on the Block'' #4 review, done entirely in rhyme even when it stops being applicable. |
| 44 | * His WhatTheHellHero to Uatu over the EsotericHappyEnding of his teamup with Spider-Man. |
| 45 | * During his "Top 15 Screw Ups" video, in response to criticism that during his ''Batman: Fortunate Son'' review that he was bashing Europe when pointing out the flaws in Issac Krow's comment about "In Europe, the relics of saints are available to all worshipers, FREE," he points out that while he's a capitalist and opposing higher taxes, he was bashing the idiocy of the comic character, and goes further by pointing out ''[[CaptainObvious Europe is not a country]],'' and cites a comment that goes into it further and points out that if Krow is talking about the US government subsidizing sites of cultural importance due to music, that it already does that, and the practice displaying "relics of saints," something that is stupid to compare to the preserved body of a rock star, is not government run, it's run by the Catholic Church, who ''does'' charge money for seeing them. |
| 46 | * Though it's easy to forget in the wake of the Vyce fight in "Cry for Justice", Linkara's [[SeriousBusiness dead serious]] rant about the death of Lian Harper and how it represents a horrible failure of the writer rather than being properly shocking. |
| 47 | ** What really makes it so awesome is just the whole tonal change when he said it. There wasn't any music due to how joking the atmosphere was. We've seen [[AlterEgoActing 'Linkara']] rant, rave, and generally get riled up by all sorts of bad comics to no end, but this seems to be ''Lewis'', not Linkara, royally pissed. |
| 48 | ** When Linkara gets pissed, there's usually a bit of a whine to his voice in order to say, "Hey, I may be pissed, but I'm just in-character and this is just for fun." In Lewis's rant toward the death of Arsenal's daughter, there's no whine or cracking in his voice, just pure, emotional, unmitigated ''rage''. And that's something considering that Lewis has ''never'' been as angry as he was in that scene. |
| 49 | ** Speaking of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice'', Linkara also brutally calls out the [[ColdBloodedTorture cruelty]] and [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]] of [[DesignatedHero the DC heroes]] seeking "justice", with it summarized with his reaction to the ending of Green Arrow shooting Prometheus in the head, and [[BondOneLiner simply saying "Justice."]] |
| 50 | --->'''Linkara:''' NO! [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Like every other repetition of that word]], you mean [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge revenge]]! ''(scoffs)'' [[Theatre/{{Camelot}} Revenge. The most worthless of causes...]] |
| 51 | * The introduction of ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'' #5. He talks about continuity for nearly five minutes, and before he starts, [[PreemptiveShutUp tells the Continuity Alarm that it can't interrupt him]], because it's during the ''introduction'' and not the review. And sure enough, ''it doesn't'' (apart from when it tries to before he starts). |
| 52 | ** And while talking about continuity, he calls out DC and Marvel for the fact that, in attempting to reboot everything to make continuity make sense to new readers, they have only succeeded in making the continuity even more confusing. |
| 53 | ** Why does he not burn ''Ultimatum''? Fire is too good for it. He then throws it in the trash. |
| 54 | ** An inadvertent one: this introduction uncannily predicted DC's "new 52" reboot mere days before it happened. |
| 55 | * The SCI-Spy reviews: Linkara's Sean Connery accent has to be heard to be believed. |
| 56 | * Reiterating his feminist position in the ''Barbi Twins'' #1 review, saying there's no one philosophy to feminism, and specifically stating that he's not against any sexuality in comics as he knows full well [[TheWarOnStraw some people will try to put those words in his mouth]]. |
| 57 | * Turning off the continuity alarm during ''Rise of Arsenal'' so he can properly explain just how horrible and hurtful some of Arsenal's lines are. And actually managing to make jokes about the comic while being perfectly clear that he's not mocking the pain of losing a child. |
| 58 | ** His delivery of Roy's lines straight, even when he's, as he put it "An insane jackass we have no sympathy for" especially the line: "You left her! You left my baby alone in the house while the entire city was coming down on top of her!" |
| 59 | ** In the second video on the series, he does another dead serious rant on how offensive the premise is. |
| 60 | * In the interests of honesty, Linkara admits that he didn't have an actual copy of Superman At Earth's End at the time of filming the original episode, though he did destroy the copy once he got it. And then he gets another copy and burns it on screen, just so it's official that the comic has been burned on the show. |
| 61 | * Linkara's killer impression of Rod Serling. |
| 62 | * Gushing over the first issue of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, especially the iconic cover of Cap punching Hitler (in fact, his only real issue with the comic is that [[CoversAlwaysLie this never actually happens in any of the stories]]). And finishing it off with the USO montage from ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', which he calls one of the greatest sequences in movie history (unfortunately, however, this was later cut due to copyrights). |
| 63 | * In his review of the comic adaptation of ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', Linkara's delivery of Khan's big speech, followed immediately by [[BerserkButton his quite frightening rage]] at how badly the comic screws up the movie's most famous scene, that of [[SayMyName Kirk screaming Khan's name in anguish]]. |
| 64 | -->"The most ''MEMORABLE'' scene in the movie! The thing that ''EVERYBODY'' thinks of when it comes to this movie! The ''EPIC'' yell of ''rage and frustration'', so ''powerful'' and so ''forceful'' and so ''loud'' that we see and hear it ''ECHO'' across Regula I! '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis AND IT'S ONE! TINY! PANEL?!?!?!]]''''' '''[[EpicFail FAIL! YOU...]]''' '''''[[EpicFail FAIL!!]] HOW DO YOU SCREW THIS UP?!?!?!'''''" |
| 65 | * He starts the list of his own favorite jokes on the show by saying he's not including any {{Running Gag}}s, then makes up for it by using them all in a few sentences, all while [[SanitySlippageSong The Wurzels' "Combine Harvester"]] plays in the background: |
| 66 | -->"[[ComicBook/SupermanAtEarthsEnd I AM]] [[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder THE GODDAMN BATMAN]], [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} which is nothing but death, and crime, and the]] [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} ADAMANTIUM RAGE]] [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} of a]] [[ComicBook/AmazonsAttack Bees. My God.]] [[Film/BatmanForever It just raises too much]] [[Series/DoctorWho logic in what he says.]] [[ComicBook/SupermanAtEarthsEnd Of course! Don't you know anything about]] [[XtremeKoolLetterz poor literacy]], [[Film/{{Patton}} you]] MagnificentBastard, [[Film/{{Patton}} I read your BOOK!]]" |
| 67 | * The way he handles his "15 Things Wrong with Identity Crisis" video, he admits that there are people who like the story and, to some, it was their introduction to comics, which is why he does this differently from a review or a countdown. He goes about this whole thing mild-mannered, save for yelling about moments that are really stupid, and simply giving his opinion on what this story did wrong. |
| 68 | * [[ThemeSongPowerup Playing an especially dramatic rendition of]] ''Series/TheATeam'' [[ThemeSongPowerup theme]] during Mr. T's HesBack moment in "Mr. T #1." |
| 69 | ** The opening of "Mr. T #2," where we actually get to see several of the TGWTG cover artists, plus the guy who wrote the show's theme song. |
| 70 | * This quote from "Top 15 Worst Comics I've Ever Reviewed": |
| 71 | -->I don't burn out. ''I set more things on fire.'' |
| 72 | * Immediately bringing up the clip he knew everyone would point to after he said it isn't right for Autobots to kill a surrendering enemy, and explaining how the two situations aren't compatible[[note]]For the record, it's a moment in ''ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2 #1'' where an Autobot kills a surrendering Decepticon mook in cold blood, being compared to the classic scene from the 1986 Transformers movie where Optimus Prime sees right through Megatron's attempt to [[ISurrenderSuckers supposedly surrender.]][[/note]]. |
| 73 | * His exceptionally well-researched argument for why the absurdly simplistic solution to high taxes put forth in ''Captain Tax Time'' wouldn't work. |
| 74 | * "Superman #701" sees him give a WhatTheHellHero to the Man of Steel even more furious than the last one, when he decides he's done enough by pushing a street gang into another neighborhood, and even sends a little kid to tell the extremely pissed off gang to go away. |
| 75 | * His response to a quite mean-spirited anti-cop joke in "Marville #2," a TranquilFury reminder of how many cops are killed in the line of duty, then telling the writer to go to hell. |
| 76 | ** Considering that [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment a good friend of his]] has a brother who's a cop, this was likely personal. |
| 77 | *** Not to mention that [[WebVideo/IronLiz his former girlfriend]], whom Linkara was still on very good terms with, was training to be a cop. |
| 78 | * The afterword to the crossover review of ''Film/SouthlandTales'': |
| 79 | -->''The future is going to be far more futuristic than we ever anticipated. Hopefully it'll be more practical.\ |
| 80 | In the introduction to the graphic novel, Richard Kelly explains the reversal of the T.S. Eliot quote as "satirical." Satirizing WHAT, exactly? Better writers?\ |
| 81 | ''Pimps suck.'' |
| 82 | * His tirade against the ludicrous anti-government WriterOnBoard in "Battle for Bludhaven." |
| 83 | ** And then his statement to DC on the off chance that an exec is watching, cattily telling them that ''no one'' has ever cared about Monarch, and they should just let the storyline die. |
| 84 | --->'''Linkara:''' ''Nobody cares'' about Monarch! '''Nobody'''. You had a good story idea in 1991... but ya blew it! Nobody cares about ''ComicBook/Armageddon2001''! Nobody cares about ''fixing'' ''ComicBook/Armageddon2001''. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Nobody. Cares. About. Monarch.]] Let it die! |
| 85 | * As for the personal awesome moments in the 200th episode, ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' (like mentioned above): |
| 86 | ** His speech on how Marvel refuses to make Peter Parker behave like an adult, and how, despite being the TropeNamer for ComesGreatResponsibility, Peter is constantly dodging responsibility and making excuses. |
| 87 | ** His speech on how he doesn't want the creative parties to take the easy way out and just erase ''One More Day'', but actually address the problems with the story and try to move forward, rather than just pretend that it never happened. |
| 88 | ** His promise to buy ''every'' issue of ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' since ''One More Day'' if the DealWithTheDevil is reversed or undone in any way. Keep in mind, this is over a hundred comics we are talking about. |
| 89 | ** His epic chew-out of the writer for suggesting through Peter's alternate video-game designer self that people who design and play video games and enjoy escapist fiction are losers, [[{{Hypocrite}} when superhero comics are escapist fiction]]. [[note]]He blamed Creator/JoeQuesada in that video, but, in his ''The Next 15 Screw-Ups of Atop the Fourth Wall'', he states that it might very well have been JMS who did this. That said, he said in the original video that if it was JMS who said that, then he's not taking it back.[[/note]] The speech speaks for a good majority of people who live with this stigma. It also marks another rare time that he sounds genuinely angry and disgusted at how hypocritical and mean-spirited the whole scene is, and not at all in-character as Linkara. Good grief, he made his 200th episode count. |
| 90 | *** Even better: when Lewis screened the 200th episode at [=ConBravo=], this bit got a round of applause from the audience. |
| 91 | ** The description of how much better the story would have worked if it was ''Mary Jane'' who was shot, especially since that kind of story worked very well in the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "I Will Remember You." That way, the DealWithTheDevil could be portrayed as something Peter hated to do but had to, '''not''' for himself and his own selfish wants, but to save Mary Jane's life, even if it means he can't be together with her anymore and, above all, be tortured by ''actually remembering'' that they used to be together. |
| 92 | *** A good part of the awesome is that he himself can fix most of the stupidity of "One More Day" (and still leave in the bargain with Mephisto) in ''a single sentence'': "Have the sniper hit Mary Jane instead." Granted, it takes more for him to explain ''why'' such a simple change would remove a lot of complaints leveled against the comic, but it also drives home his above point about not "taking the easy way out"; it took him a little under five minutes to lay out how to make the Mephisto story plausible, if not a bit redeemable, whereas the writers had months to work out how to do the same, yet gave up and derailed any idea about [[ComesGreatResponsibility "With great power comes great responsibility"]] completely in the process. |
| 93 | *** Plus, he included another sentence that gets rid of the other plot contrivance of having literally every super-intelligent scientist/healer be unable to help him: have Dr. Strange not be available in time. And given that Strange was supposed to be ''in hiding'' during this point in time anyway, it wouldn't be hard to have him be unavailable to Peter ''at all''. |
| 94 | *** And another one when Spider-Man brieftly asks '''Dr. Doom''' for help, yet gets rejected. He points out how [[OutOfCharacterMoment it makes no sense for Doom to refuse such an opportunity to use Peter for his own gain.]] |
| 95 | * In his ''Transformer # 4-5'' review, Linkara appropriately playing [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic "The Touch"]] when Optimus attacks Devestator. |
| 96 | -->'''Linkara (as Optimus)''': I am Optimus Prime. I'm a '''soldier'''. I fight. That's what I do. I shoot down giant robots, single-handed straight through the face, because I am Optimus Prime. ({{Beat}}) ''[[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch Bitch]]''. |
| 97 | * In his ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}: Guardian of Gotham #2'' review: his TakeThat at DC Editorial's refusal to let [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]] appear but will allow blatant MaleGaze shots from the comic to go out. |
| 98 | * In the review of Brave and the Bold #54, Linkara gives a TakeThat against ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'s [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman perceived lameness]]: |
| 99 | -->'''Linkara''': What's that? You want me to start making jokes about how useless Aquaman is? [[SarcasmMode Hahahahaha...]] Aquaman is the king of Atlantis, whose domain pretty much encompasses the entirety of the ocean. He ''owns 70% of the planet''! He's super strong, super fast, [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower and he can summon Cthulhu to eat your soul if he felt like it]]. The perception of Aquaman as 'useless' is based on the ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' cartoon series, [[AdaptationalWimp where Aquaman's superpower is that he owns a jet ski]]. ...'''[[BullyingADragon I don't make fun of Aquaman]]'''. |
| 100 | * Linkara calling himself out for using ableist language in his earlier videos (most notably "Spastic Boy Prime" and "Heroic spaz attack,") as such language is actually a derogatory term in the U.K. used toward people with cerebral palsy. Linkara also explains that he doesn't use those words anymore (along with the word "retarded") because he wants to be inclusive to everyone who watches his videos, and prefers to let loose only on people who truly deserve it, like Frank Miller, Joe Quesada, etc. It's a good sign of maturity to avoid such language willingly. |
| 101 | ** And to close out his Next Top 15 [=AT4W=] Screw-ups, he burns ComicBook/OneMoreDay, [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic to the tune of]] [[Theatre/LesMiserables One Day More]]. |
| 102 | ** His completely sincere, thorough, and well-thought-out apology for being too callous on the subject of depression, admitting that he is entirely at fault. He points out the many things still wrong with the scene, but again says his words were still inappropriate and apologizes anyway for much of what he said. |
| 103 | ** Also from his Next Top 15 [=AT4W=] Screw-ups: his well-thought out rationale on how the ComicBook/XMen don't make any sense in the grand scheme of the Marvel Universe. |
| 104 | *** And even when people were calling him out for possibly having a AuthorFilibuster moment with the part mentioned above, a few videos later, he explained himself in a mature manner and actually excused himself for having been too harsh on ''X-Men''. |
| 105 | ** Also, his telling Douchey (and to an extent, all internet trolls) to back off when he complains about Nostalgia Critic being not quite retired. |
| 106 | * Linkara explains in just a few sentences exactly what the movies always get wrong about Dr. Doom's character. For all his bravado and arrogance, ''he's right''. He ''is'' that strong, he ''is'' that smart. He doesn't come with empty boasts, he backs them up. |
| 107 | * On ''Raver'' #1, he really went above and beyond in his research. Rather than take the easy way out by just playing the comic's sheer incomprehensibility for laughs, he actually looked up more information on the series to get at least some idea of what the story is supposed to be about. |
| 108 | * During his review of Marville #4, his complete trashing of Bill Jemas for, among other things: |
| 109 | ** [[ApeShallNeverKillApe Saying that humans are the only ones to kill their own species]]. |
| 110 | ** [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology All the reasons that his depiction of the Jurassic period fail]]. |
| 111 | ** [[HollywoodEvolution The depiction of evolution happening without change occurring]] [[GoalOrientedEvolution as well as the idea that evolution is leading towards some goal]]. |
| 112 | ** [[NinetyPercentOfYourBrain Claiming that humans only use 10% of their brains]]. |
| 113 | ** [[ArtisticLicenseBiology Saying that dinosaurs can't be warm blooded because of their spine movements]]. |
| 114 | ** [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Referring to the Jurassic period as "Jurassic Park"]]. |
| 115 | * His overview of the ComicBook/TeenTitans, covering decades of history with tons of characters in a clear, concise manner while still getting quite a few jokes in. |
| 116 | * Rocking a snazzy suit in the ''Dragnet'' #4 review. |
| 117 | ** The montage of Joe Friday {{The Reason You Suck Speech}}es. |
| 118 | * The opening of the ''SCI-Spy #3'' review, making a passionate case about how technological leaps and bounds have brought the quality of life to the greatest heights anyone has ever seen. |
| 119 | * From the first DVD: |
| 120 | ** Doing the "I am a man" bit and pulling back a VideoGame/{{Portal}} gun. |
| 121 | ** Playing the "I read your book" clip, followed by saying it while actually holding Rommel's book on infantry tactics. |
| 122 | * Educating Frank Miller in how to properly exploit a meme in ''[[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder All Star Batman and Robin]]'' #6. |
| 123 | * ''Marville'' #5 naturally gives him plenty more opportunities to point out the numerous mistakes, including how the writer apparently CannotTellFictionFromReality given the prominent role given to Wolverine in what is meant to be a completely serious depiction of how he thinks evolution and God work. |
| 124 | * During his ''Film/ManOfSteel'' vlog, he takes time to debunk many of the common misconceptions of Superman. He really understands the character. |
| 125 | * Linkara making clear how he feels about DC's statement that "comics are only published for 45-year-olds" with a well-placed DeathGlare. |
| 126 | * The massive TakeThat on why the ComicBook/New52 sucks at the end of the Culling series of reviews. |
| 127 | ** However, he also admits that there are good stories after the reboot, and admits that there will be good ones in the future. However, he feels that they didn't need a continuity reboot to be told. |
| 128 | * The ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'' comic actually getting ''praise'' from him for the exploitative posing of its female characters (since it actually serves a purpose in emulating cheesy B-movies). |
| 129 | * His outrage over ''Sci-Spy'' taking a ''Marville''-esque hard turn into a ludicrous science filibuster, this time about how nature wins out over nurture in every conceivable way. |
| 130 | ** After refusing to look over the previous issues to remind himself of the story so far, he comes up with his own where Timothy Dalton, Captain Kirk, and Red from Pokemon defeat a bunch of Daleks. |
| 131 | * The title card for ''Climate of Fear'' #3-4, a reference to ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' with the first theme song ("Guren no Yumiya") playing. |
| 132 | * His ''Star Trek: The Next Generation #2'' review, performed entirely in rhyme. |
| 133 | * Riffing on a 79 minute movie with the actor for Jaeris and Nimue's voice actress, in a brilliant homage to Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000. The link can be found [[http://blip.tv/at4w/linkara-riffs-scrooge-1935-6713540 here.]] To make matters better, this is his special Christmas treat for us! |
| 134 | * For the final ''Marville'' video, he went to the trouble of looking up Bill Jemas' credentials, giving him more to gripe about as it turns out that Jemas actually has college degrees in the subjects he makes such an unbelievable mess of in the comic, and also gives him a biting TheReasonYouSuckSpeech when the comic ends with Jemas BreakingTheFourthWall and insulting the comic readers of the world for preferring superhero fights to his grand and lofty work...about how Wolverine is the source of all intelligent life on Earth. |
| 135 | ** What's also great is that the whole saga finally ends not with a furious climactic rant about why the comic sucks, but with a calm and sober conclusion that explains precisely what's wrong with the comic and gets straight to the point about its writing, art, characters and message. |
| 136 | * His TranquilFury reaction to a nonsensical gay joke in ''ComicBook/{{All Star Batman and Robin|TheBoyWonder}}'' #7. |
| 137 | ** Also his counter-argument to people who claim ''All Star Batman and Robin'' is actually good because it's secretly a deconstruction stating that the ''All Star'' series wasn't ''supposed'' to be about deconstructions, it was supposed to be about the true essences of the characters (see all the good comments he has made in the past about ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'' for example) and that there's a ''reason'' superhero deconstructions don't usually use the character they are deconstructing but instead use an expy. He finally rounds it off by pointing out that it's okay for comics to be escapist fiction where good triumphs over evil in an admittedly non-realistic way. |
| 138 | * Praising the Zombie Pandemic comic for its characters being (mostly) intelligent and not making mistakes commonly seen in zombie media. |
| 139 | ** His Zombie Plan: get to the nearest Wal-Mart not already ransacked, get some survivors together and ''start hunting zombies''. Guy's got balls. |
| 140 | * During the ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'' comic, he declares that the true answer to "Kirk vs. Picard" is [[TakeAThirdOption Sisko.]] |
| 141 | ** To expand on this for non-trekkies, ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' is generally a controversial series in the fandom, so admitting a liking or even preference for it takes guts. |
| 142 | ** Also, he continues a joke from a noted inspiration for him, Website/SFDebris, who is known for his "Sisko is a Badass" jokes. |
| 143 | * On March 31, 2014, Linkara tackled one of the most controversial issues of ''The Avengers'' ever: Issue 200, which involves the rape of Mrs. Marvel: |
| 144 | ** [[invoked]] His entire TheReasonYouSuckSpeech regarding it, its IdiotPlot that relies on every single member of the Avengers acting [[OutOfCharacterMoment horribly out of character]], and its poor excuse of [[MilestoneCelebration an anniversary issue story]], along with him praising how Creator/ChrisClaremont later handled things in response to the issue of the 10th ''Avengers'' annual, where instead of just taking the easy way out and lazily pretending the whole thing didn't happen, [[AuthorsSavingThrow not only addressed the matter]] but also why it was such a wrong move to begin with. |
| 145 | * He reveals that the current writer of ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' sexually harassing a co-panelist is what ''finally'' got him to quit the series he once loved so much (at least, the New 52 version of it). |
| 146 | * He rips into ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'' for its abysmal treatment of Starfire, turning her into a sex addict with no personality. |
| 147 | ** More importantly, he manages to focus on her as a character instead of just rehashing any of his countless "angry feminist rants", and being able to get his point across without any open condemnation of people who like fan service. |
| 148 | ** He also takes a moment to address a counter-argument that has popped up for this version of Starfire; that rather than behaving OutOfCharacter, she previously always had been very sexually promiscuous. He reminds viewers that beforehand the previous year, [[ShownTheirWork he had read over 250 comics, which covered virtually the entirety of Starfire's character history]], and so could firmly state that: "'''No'''... She really wasn't". |
| 149 | ** Looking at the review structure proper, one can notice that he doesn't pull ''any'' punches regarding how bad this comic is in relation to DC's mindset at the time, and their awful business practices on top of the character assassination. Every comment from Linkara in-between page segments is a potshot, both at the comic and DC proper, to better emphasize how idiotic the approach was for this story, and how their attitude regarding the "New 52" was one of indifference, better explained later in his "Post-Mortem" video for April Fools. |
| 150 | * His horrified disgust with Ballser from ''Superman for the Animals'', an all-too-realistic psychopath villain who tortures and kills animals. Keep in mind that he did this comic in response to accusations that he hates animals himself. |
| 151 | * Atop The Fourth Wall's #300 episode is about Creator/FrankMiller's ''ComicBook/HolyTerror''. It's '''three videos long''', and every second is a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the author: |
| 152 | ** From Part 2, when the Fixer begins torturing a terrorist, Linkara puts the book aside, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness takes off his glasses]], and talks about his personal philosophy and why ''Film/{{Camelot}}'' is his favorite film of all, because it encouraged his philosophy of [[GoodFeelsGood goodness]], decency, compassion and [[CycleOfRevenge not always resorting to violence]]. And then he explains why he brings this up, because he hates ''Holy Terror'' more than ''any'' other comic book he's reviewed on the show, because it encourages the exact opposite philosophy. It teaches that you should be paranoid, violent, brutal and intolerant of those who are different. This is perhaps the greatest TheReasonYouSuckSpeech he has ever given, and it is truly awesome to watch. Bonus points for pointing out that Miller's little [[BrokenAesop "aesop"]] in the book, to give into your own fear and paranoia when confronted by terrorism, is pretty much ''the exact definition'' of what terrorism is. More bonus points for transitioning seamlessly from giving a serious speech to his usual tone with the "This scene is really friggin' stupid" part. |
| 153 | ** At the end of the review, he gives his copy of ''Holy Terror'' what it deserves and burns it, and prior to that, he breaks the absurdly large book in half over his knee, possibly in reference [[ComicBook/{{Knightfall}} to Bane breaking Batman's back]]. Not to mention that as an advocate of free speech, Linkara explains that he does not deny Miller the right to publish ''Holy Terror'' and for people to buy the book if they so choose. However, as the book in Linkara's possession is his property, he points out that he can do whatever with it he wants and it gives him [[LoopholeAbuse every right to burn it if he so chooses as well]]. |
| 154 | ** A minor example, but the theme song opening shows every single thumbnail picture used up to that point (with new ones for older episodes, ''just for that occasion'', which could also counts as a [=CMoA=] for WebAnimation/DrCrafty[[note]]at the time still known as MTC[[/note]], his thumbnail artist), with his [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic kick-ass theme song]] playing as they're all shown. |
| 155 | ** The end of "Holy Terror" has ContinuityPorn by having Linkara use his new Megaforce morpher to change between all his outfits and props to battle Mirror Linkara from a Star Trek review ''years'' prior, complete with the Magic Gun giving Mirrorkara's Magic Gun a noogie. |
| 156 | *** To be specific, we have his Yu-Gi-Oh Obelisk Blue set from ''GX'', his Patton gear from ''Kickassia'', his cosplay of Calem from Pokemon X/Y (and using Pyramid Head,) his Zeokara outfit, his travel gear from when he travelled the US around the time of the 200th episode, his Ensign Monroe suit (complete with "Combine Harvester", though it should be made clear that he's using just the suits, not the 'characters'), his old outfit and finally his new outfit. |
| 157 | ** Even without the blatant racism in the comic, he still finds that it's horrible. Most of it consists of [[{{Padding}} splash pages]], or pages that have '''FAR''' too many panels on them, leading to the comic taking over half of its length just to get past the initial terrorist attacks because it wastes so much time with an unneeded scene of its lead characters chasing each other, and it doesn't even have any real plot until the last few pages. On top of the bad artwork, [[FlatCharacter bland]] characters, and a [[DesignatedHero protagonist]] with no personality beyond what a violent [[TheSociopath sociopath]] who [[AxCrazy delights inflicting pain on others]] he is. Even without the overt racism and terrible message, the comic still has nothing redeemable about it. |
| 158 | * In ''[[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder All-Star Batman and Robin]] #8'', after Crazy Steve says that he'd use the Green Lantern ring to force everyone to obey him simply because he had the power to do so, Linkara delivers a nice jab at Frank Miller's ideas about fascism. |
| 159 | -->'''Linkara:''' Frank's characters are ones who believe that "{{might makes right}}", they're proverbially "stronger" than others in some way, and thus they are right, they are correct, they are the ''paragon'' of everything we should look up to. Whereas I firmly believe in "might ''for'' right", those who have power should use that power to do good things ''because'' they're good things. Because using your power to force others to do what you say is not heroic. It's being a bully. |
| 160 | * For the ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' comic, he suggests using a ''flamethrower'' against the Borg, and gives a quite thorough explanation of how effective it would be. And says that if he was the Borg Queen, he'd have a giant spider body with multiple weapons attached. |
| 161 | ** His defense of the movie itself. Responding to people who criticize the film for an AdaptationalAngstUpgrade regarding Picard, he points to a TNG episode where he had the option of wiping out the Borg Collective but couldn't bring himself to commit genocide, meaning he has all the destruction the Borg caused on his head. Responding to criticism of the film focusing on action and being less "cerebral", he points out that nobody seems to throw those criticisms at ''Star Trek IV'' despite its focus on comedy. |
| 162 | * In his review of ''Star Trek V: The Final Frontier'' he calls out the common critique that Uhura dancing naked to distract some guards is disgusting as ageist, since he doesn't see anything inherently wrong with an elderly woman acting sexy and seductive. He does, however, have a better complaint: Plan ''A'' was apparently to have their communications officer dress naked. |
| 163 | * The absolute reaming he gives to ''ComicBook/TheThingFromAnotherWorld: Eternal Vows'' for how badly it mangles continuity with [[Film/TheThing1982 the film]] and even both of the previous comics, which he admits in retrospect had a lot of things to like about them, unlike ''Eternal Vows''. It even gets to the point where he says ''Film/TheThing2011'', a film he's been massively critical in the past, is an absolute masterpiece by comparison. All told, it's one of the angriest, most vitriolic reviews he's ever given to any comic which isn't ''One More Day'', ''Marville'', or written by Frank Miller. |
| 164 | ** His FreakOut when he realizes an important point the comic missed. |
| 165 | --->'''Linkara:''' Well, I can stop now, story's over! ''The Thing is in a modern city!'' END OF THE WORLD, MA! |
| 166 | ** The fact that Linkara evidently knows more about New Zealand law and geography than the comic's writer, David [=DeVries=]... ''an actual New Zealander''. |
| 167 | * Praising ''The Thing From Another World: Questionable Research'' for the writer clearly having seen the movie and thought hard about how to make a sequel work. Even when it goes in directions that contradict Lewis's own views on how the Thing works, he acknowledges it's still a valid reading that doesn't go against anything stated in the film. |
| 168 | ** He also did like most of the ideas that were present there, and saw that the writer tried to explore them, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot as opposed to previous ones where he saw good ideas that got no exploration]]. In addition to the apocalyptic suggestion of the ending (even if it wasn't conveyed perfectly). The only thing holding back those explorations were [[ItsShortSoItSucks the short length]] and moronic characters. |
| 169 | * Taking "The Trial of Peter Parker" to task for its nonsensical misunderstanding of how trials work, to the point where even watching a few ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episodes lets you see how bad it is. |
| 170 | * His defense of splitting up the ''Hobbit'' adaption into three movies. He points that a lot happens in the book, including things that a movie would sometimes leave out, but the films tried to keep in everything. Also a big criticism he had of the book; aside from Thorin, [[TheLoad none of the dwarves had any purpose in the story]]. They didn't even [[FlatCharacter have any personality]], so even if the movie adds in things that weren't in the book, it's making the dwarves into actual characters. |
| 171 | ** The rant against the legions of people who say "Why didn't the Eagles just take them straight to Mount Doom?", bringing up how this supposed plot hole is explained perfectly well in the books, and even in the movies; it would be tantamount to suicide for the Eagles to try, given the Eye of Sauron watching the skies over Mordor and the Ringwraiths' access to flying mounts. |
| 172 | ** His defense of expanding Bard's character in the movie. In the book, he only shows up during Smaug's rampage with anything establishing his character happening before, and everything about him is told to the reader through narrations. |
| 173 | * Defending his position on feminism using the art and writing of several comics [[IkeaErotica as poor examples of sex]]. |
| 174 | * His rant during the [[ComicBook/RomSpaceknight Rom Space Knight]] reviews about the [[CListFodder killing off of supporting characters]] as utterly pointless, since the stakes were already established as high. What's even better is that this argument works for virtually ''all'' instances of this trope in modern Marvel and DC storylines. |
| 175 | * Doing a pretty excellent Freddy Krueger impression. Bonus points for the truth that doing it can NOT be easy on the throat. |
| 176 | * He rightfully calls out the ''Deadpool Bi-Annual'' comic when it makes a joke about autism in incredibly poor taste. |
| 177 | * His final speech on why ''[[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder All-Star Batman and Robin]]'' failed, especially when he said that it made no sense that Batman would have been so cruel to a 12 year-old boy who lost his parents. Additionally, Batman's core trait is human intellect and determination, but he is neither as perfect nor ruthless as depicted here. |
| 178 | * Chewing out the New 52 version of Blue Beetle for having Jaime slap Brenda, even if it was done as a ruse. |
| 179 | -->'''Linkara:''' No, no, no, no, No, ''No, '''NO!''''' In an infinite expanse of ''NO''s, from the dimension of ''NO'', with a statue dedicated to their creator, the God of ''NO'', who wept tears of ''NO'' that filled the oceans with ''NO'' and brought about billions of creatures who were ''NO''! This is ''Brenda'', the one Jaime fears losing above all others. The one who is pretty much part of his family already! The one Nadia and Hector were jealous with over her relationship with him! The one who had ''an abusive father who once put her in the hospital''! I don't ''care'' if it was a ruse! I don't care if it was to "protect her"! He would never, '''never''' hit her. '''Ever'''. The instant he did that, he would turn his weapons on himself to make sure he could never hurt anyone else ever again! He even points his cannon at her head, despite the last time he pointed a weapon at someone, ''he ended up stabbing him in the stomach''! Go. To. HELL, comic! |
| 180 | * Celebrating the resurrection of Lian Harper in ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}''. |
| 181 | * Calling out ''[[ComicBook/TeenTitans Graduation]] [[ComicBook/YoungJustice Day]]'' and Creator/JuddWinick for not only [[CListFodder pointlessly killing off]] Omen, but for allowing her death to be overshadowed by the DisneyDeath of Donna Troy one issue later, which didn't even last until the story's epilogue. |
| 182 | * His ''utter slam'' of the ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}'' miniseries without going into immense political depth and even stating his reasoning as to ''why'' he will never review the series. Keep in mind, Lewis knows how politically charged ''Civil War'' is and going into immense depth as to why he thinks it's badly done ''without'' even touching upon '''the political aspects''' is impressive to say the least, similar to his own criticisms to ''Identity Crisis'' without attacking those who enjoyed the story. |
| 183 | ** He gives his own reason how the story ''[[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot could have worked]]'': Have both sides be right and make the focus be towards ''villains'' instead of the super heroes. |
| 184 | ** When he confronts the issue on which side he was on ''Civil War'', what does Lewis say? [[TakeAThirdOption He's in between, agreeing on having something being done, but not to the ridiculous extent ''Civil War'' went to. He goes as far as to say that while he does believe superheroes need something like the Act due to the collateral damage that occurs within their battles, he himself believes the act should have focused more on]] ''[[TakeAThirdOption supervillains]]'' [[TakeAThirdOption instead.]] Imagine how ''Civil War'' would have been handled if ''that'' was the case. |
| 185 | ** His utter tearing of ''both'' Iron Man and Captain America's behavior within the series, which especially makes it even sweeter considering how Tony acted immensely villainous during that arc. Same could be said with Mr. Fantastic. |
| 186 | ** A small one, but his comment about how '''''[[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar the movie]]''''' handled the issues of the miniseries a lot better with being [[BittersweetEnding ambiguous]] on ''who'' [[BothSidesHaveAPoint was truly right in the end]], compared to the comic's downright DownerEnding. |
| 187 | * From the review of ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''[='=]s comic adaptation, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic appears to do the obligatory "Bat credit card" joke. What follows is Linkara defying his demand and [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructing the meme]] [[FridgeBrilliance by explaining that Batman is filthy rich, uses secret methods to spend that money on crimefighting in ways that cannot be traced back to Bruce Wayne, is known to purchase items while fighting crime if he needs them, and is obsessed with putting his bat brand on everything he uses. With all those traits to him, a Bat credit card is actually rather logical and practical for him to have,]] [[ArmorPiercingQuestion so what's so anger-inducing about it?]] [[StunnedSilence The Critic is left speechless.]] Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}. |
| 188 | ** As a bonus: Doug had come to ''despise'' the “Bat Credit Card” meme for becoming an OverusedRunningGag that he never heard the end of. With this episode, they’ve ''finally'' managed to kill it! |
| 189 | * Him managing to justify ''Film/GhostbustersII'''s whole [[FlatEarthAtheist "everyone stopped believing ghosts exist between movies"]] plot point by pointing out that similar people exist in real life. |
| 190 | -->'''Linkara:''' To that, I say: chem trails, 9/11 truthers, the grassy knoll, "We never landed on the moon," "The Beatles put backwards talking satanic messages in their music," and flat Earthers. [[TakeThat People are morons and will believe anything is fake, even when confronted with evidence to the contrary.]] |
| 191 | ** He even goes two steps farther by pointing out that the Ghostbusters might have lost access to a large portion of their resources as a result of the lawsuit from the city (mentioned in the movie, not in the comic), and that the large amount of ghost activity in the first movie was probably the result of Gozer's presence (hence why the ghost activity ''resumed'' when ''Vigo'' appeared). |
| 192 | * When reviewing the first two issues of ''ComicBook/UltimateIronMan'', Linkara brings up that the writer, Creator/OrsonScottCard, is both incredibly homophobic and considers ''Franchise/StarTrek'' bad science fiction. He doesn't go into any lengthy diatribes or rants about either, but instead lets his criticism of the book speak for itself. Namely that Tony Stark, instead of a rich genius who outwits his enemies, is a mutant baby born with brain nerves throughout his entire body and the ability to regrow limbs who needs to wear bioarmor that turns his skin blue, is caught up in a war between two feuding corporations, and isn't even a central character until the second half of Issue 2. He also brings up the fact that the entire miniseries was considered so goofy that it was actually ''{{retcon}}ned into an in-universe TV show's interpretation of his origins'' as an AuthorsSavingThrow. |
| 193 | * In his review of ''Youngblood #10'', Linkara ''slams'' Creator/RobLiefeld for depicting Chapel's suicide in full gory detail and treating that subject, along with HIV, with no respect or thought whatsoever, all while Linkara is absolutely '''''seeping''''' with TranquilFury more than any other episode. |
| 194 | * During his ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' review, he gives an alternate take on what it could have been, with the first three issues and buildup feeding into the idea of the true BigBad of the whole event being the Anti-Monitor. It draws together all these disparate events and makes them seem like it's the Anti-Monitor preparing for a new war with a weaker field against him. |
| 195 | * During his ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'' review, he points out that Hulk is right in his views against ComicBook/TheIlluminati -- they have done nothing but harm during the era of ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}''. |
| 196 | ** He also rephrases Strange's explanation a bit. It's not that the Hulk is too angry to be reasoned with. Rather, ''Banner is just as pissed as the Hulk. There is no appealing to his human nature this time.'' |
| 197 | * Linkara ''ripping'' into [[AIIsACrapshoot Brother EYE]]'s BigBad role in ''ComicBook/TheNew52FuturesEnd'', furiously calling out DC for ''[[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave not letting the fucking thing just die already]]'' and constantly coming back to the point of CreatorsPet, pointing out how one-dimensional and bland it is as an antagonist and how it's ''useless'' in the grand scheme of things, since Brother EYE worked better in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''. He even goes so far as to call it a bad version of [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL 9000]]. |
| 198 | -->"Brother EYE works in exactly one story: ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis. It works as a failure of Batman, a shame that he has to confront and defeat. [...] And even in Infinite Crisis, Brother EYE wasn’t the main villain. The simple fact is that Brother EYE is ''boring!'' It’s a super duper nigh-unstoppable AI who replaces the letter ‘I’ with the word ‘eye’ and it’s just dull. It was dull in Countdown and it’s dull here." |
| 199 | ** Furthermore, Linkara pointing out how the designs for the roboticized supers in the comic are needlessly horrific-looking and filled with BodyHorror just to draw the viewer's shock and horror, and wouldn't be at all functional towards Brother EYE's goals to begin with, drawing particular attention towards Black Canary's face being sewn into Frankenstein's torso and yet somehow still able to use her scream powers (which would require a whole lot more body parts to be implemented ''inside of him'' which makes little sense, just as ''one'' example) and Batgirl's upper body being merged with the EYE-recolored Bat-Signal (which serves no applicable function combat-wise, since it's just a spotlight). He correctly calls it "edgelord nonsense". |
| 200 | ** On top of that, his reminder that DC thought it would be a good idea to promote this comic, of all things, ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids towards children]]'' during "free comic book day" and rightfully calling them out on it. |
| 201 | * Linkara ''pre-emptively'' addressing hatred for ''Film/TheLastJedi'' at the start of his review of ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' (or rather, its comic adaptation), pointing out that a) he's ''only'' covering ''The Force Awakens'', and b) he's ''eventually'' going to cover ''The Last Jedi'', so people might as well save their comments for when he gets around to reviewing that movie. |
| 202 | ** On a related note, him discrediting the complaint of "''The Force Awakens'' is just a retread of ''Film/ANewHope''" by pointing out how there are enough thematic differences between the two to make them their own stories. |
| 203 | -->"Cinematic Language & Narrative mean more to the originality of the Film. Sure, there are things here and there you can compare, but it does not follow the story beat for beat, the character dynamics and motivations are radically different, what the movie is telling us is important and what we should care about is what makes it distinct". |
| 204 | * An image so insanely awesome, it's been used by Linkara as a standard by which all other awesome images are compared: '''Neutro, the giant robot, riding a whale'''. |
| 205 | * At the start of his review of ''Ultimate Power'', Linkara admits he has been too harsh with his criticism Creator/JoeQuesada in the past, calling him "hack." While he stands by his harsh words for people like Creator/FrankMiller, he admits that insulting a creator on the personal level a decision he doesn't agree with is wrong. He doesn't hide his contempt for Greg Land's lazy artwork, but emphasizes that insulting him on a personal level would be going too far when he knows next to nothing about him. |
| 206 | * Linkara calling out the core message of ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'' in his review of the comic, putting aside the issue of nuclear weaponry and the dilemma surrounding them and focusing on the matter of Superman essentially taking over the world by violating the principle of sovereignty of all the countries that have nuclear weapons. He points out that in declaring his actions to the world without leaving a way for the other countries to negotiate, explain or coordinate with him, Superman is basically embracing the idea that he's a god that can tower over humanity, tossing aside the "man" part of his identity and becoming only a "super" being able to dictate the world what is right and what is wrong. |
| 207 | * During Linkara's retrospective on Cassandra Cain, when he gets to her infamous turn as leader of the League of Assassins, he rips into that. However, Linkara also criticizes the toxic levels of fan backlash the storyline got. He goes into a massive amount of time criticizing fandom entitlement towards an industry that does not provide its employees a lot of money to do what they do and refuses to excuse when that entitlement turns into death threats (even noting how those grudges can go on for ''years'' after the issues were resolved). He's even big enough to admit that he leaned into that entitlement when he was younger (though not to that extreme) and is personally ashamed by having ever done so. Thus, while he eviscerates the story, he does temper that, keeping it from spilling over to attacks on real people who don't deserve the bile they've gotten. |
| 208 | ** He also gives the writer of that storyline, Adam Beechen, an extremely fair shake, pointing out that he got next to no direction from editorial on how to write Cassandra properly and was thus doomed to fail. He even gives Beechen massive kudos for coming back to try and make amends for his earlier mistakes, something not a lot of writers would do, and doing a decent job of it. |
| 209 | * At the start his ''Little Victory: Chimera'' review, he adresses the controversy surrounding the comic's creator, namely that he has drawn porn before. Linkara then proceeds to calmly and rationally inform his audience why he doesn't consider that a controversial subject at all, considering that even Linkara's thumbnailartist has done porn in the past. |
| 210 | * While it's PlayedForLaughs, it's still awesome that he calls out the Wasp in ''Secret War'' for calling Magneto "worse than Hitler." As Linkara points out, Magneto ''is a holocaust survivor''. |
| 211 | * His review of ''Film/TheLastJedi'', going over and acknowledging the criticisms while making his own defenses. He also tears into how haters seem to want to turn discussions of anything even related to the crew or ''Star Wars'' into discussions of how they hate the movie. He even tears into a comment on his review of ''Avengers #200'' claiming the comic was still better than this movie; he states that comic would always be worse even if he did hate the movie. |
| 212 | ** His defense of Luke going into hiding. Linkara points out that in the original trilogy, past the first movie, Luke's solution has in fact been to not fight. When outclassed by Darth Vader in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', Luke ran to avoid capture. After defeating Darth Vader in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', Luke again found the correct solution was not to fight. |
| 213 | * Linkara calling out Wakanda for refusing to share a cure for cancer in his review of issues #1-6 of the 2005 run of ''ComicBook/BlackPanther''. |
| 214 | -->'''''You have the cure for [[PrecisionFStrike fricking]] cancer..... and you're [[WithholdingTheCure refusing to share it with the world..... and you have the AUDACITY to claim]] [[MoralMyopia "moral superiority"]]?!?!''''' "Sorry about your leukemia, [[LittlestCancerPatient little Suzie]], but Wakanda doesn't like that our crappy government has ''tobacco lobbyists in it!''" I know, I know, the more important point is the whole "they don't want to say how complicit they were in an assassination," but [[ItsPersonal I've lost family and friends to cancer, everyone,]] and the idea that Wakanda would be withholding information like that over such a thing is not only arrogance, but morally repugnant! And makes it very, ''very'' difficult for me to see them as the [[DesignatedHero good guys!]] I kinda get why [[Creator/ReginaldHudlin Hudlin]] needed to make all the villains [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]]; it's the only way to make the guys who are withholding cures for diseases from the dying look ''GOOD!'' |
| 215 | * In his review of "ComicBook/WhatsSoFunnyAboutTruthJusticeAndTheAmericanWay", Linkara makes a nice addition to Superman's speech when he seemingly subscribes to the Elite's ideologies and effortlessly takes them down: |
| 216 | -->'''Superman:''' How does it ''feel'', knowing that everything you ''thought'' you had has been ''taken away'' from you? How does it feel to have your ''flaws exploited''? To be ''deconstructed''?\ |
| 217 | '''Linkara:''' ''[as Superman]'' There are like seventy billion "WhatIf [[BewareTheSuperman Superman was a Bad Guy]]" stories, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown so let's act them out, shall we]]!? |
| 218 | ** When Manchester Black starts getting condescending to Superman, Linkara has this to say: |
| 219 | --->'''Black:''' Now, be a good little dream and say, "I understand, Mr. Black."\ |
| 220 | '''Linkara:''' Of course, of course. Ahem. Up yours, Dick Nose! Oh no, I'm sorry, I said that wrong. Ahem. Cram it, Puss Lips! Yeah, I think I got it that time. |
| 221 | ** When going over how ComicBook/TheAuthority inspired the storyline, he noted that after their {{Flanderization}} under Creator/MarkMillar the book included jabs at mainstream comic books, mocking the comic book superhero genre. Linkara points out that The Authority was still a comic book, so its jabs at other superhero comics were a childish pretention to maturity. |
| 222 | * Granted, it's more so PlayedForLaughs, but at the start of the 600th episode, Linkara decides to review ComicBook/{{Caligula}} comic, just like [[Creator/BradJones another online critic]] suggested... but one phone call later, upon being informed about the types of stuff the critic had said as of late, Linkara swiftly decides to review something else instead: ''[[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManJMichaelStraczynski Sins Past]]''. |
| 223 | ** Linkara calls out one part of the plot in particular; That Gwen and Peter supposedly never slept together, because the editors were uncomfortable with the idea that a hero and his love-interest would have "unprotected sex out of wedlock." Not only does Linkara find it asinine that two adult college students in a relationship, neither of whom are asexual or strongly religious, would ''not'' have slept together at some point, but he specifically calls out the weird obsession with chastity; That Gwen and Peter apparently couldn't be heroic if they engaged in adult funtime. He finds the whole thing creepy and outdated. |
| 224 | ** When Gwen explains her reasoning for sleeping with Norman Osborn, that he was so "powerful, yet so mysterious", Linkara plays a clip from ''Series/StargateSG1'' before going off to vomit. |
| 225 | --->'''Sam''': Uh-uh.\ |
| 226 | '''Daniel''': No.\ |
| 227 | '''Cameron''': Nnnope.\ |
| 228 | '''Teal'c''': ''[meaningful silence]'' |
| 229 | ** At the end of the review, Linkara [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaaIfgMIf8M&t=19m31s decides to ask himself]] if the story could be salvagable in ''any'' sense, even though the story is just ''flat out'' not good, and actually comes up with three avenues that could potentially work: |
| 230 | *** The kids aren't aged up to adults, and aren't ''biologically'' related to Normon Osborn, but rather ''assisted'' by him (or some other villain). By the end, they could be put up for adoption and [[PutOnABus shuffled away]]. In fact, it's also proposed that ''Peter'' adopts them, only to come to realize he isn't the kind of father they deserve, and has someone else adopt them. |
| 231 | *** The kids are clones the Jackal made, either recently or back during the Clone Saga, artifically aged up due to the Jackal wanting his own family (and, as such, are more stable than his other clones). [[note]]Funnily enough, this ends up being the case as of ComicBook/SinisterWar[[/note]] |
| 232 | *** Gwen ''did'' cheat on Peter and get pregnant... but the father is ''Harry''. Due to Harry originally having a crush on Gwen, and being closer in age, it removes a ''lot'' of the {{Squick}} factor, and could potentially have taken place during Gwen's trip to Europe due to her father's death, when Harry was suffering from his drug problems. The two were emotionally vulnerable, and promptly agreed to never speak of the affair again... only for Gwen to become pregnant, and Norman to ''take'' the kids (taking advantage of the premature birth to make Gwen think they died) and age them up via the Goblin Formula. |
| 233 | * In his review of the comic adaptation of ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', he points out how the reviews of the ''Star Wars'' prequels on WebVideo/RedLetterMedia haven't aged well despite their legimate points, noting some pointless remarks like, "Black people don't like Star Wars," saying in response, [[TakeThat "Eat a dick."]] [[note]] It should be noted that he removed the rant on Red Letter Media in the compilation video both because it was not relevant and due to how people felt like he was atempting to start a beef with them when that wasn't the case.[[/note]] |
| 234 | ** Instead of simply ranting about the movie, he notes areas where it could actually be improved: |
| 235 | *** He points out a way to improve the OpeningScroll by having it open with mentioning the Trade Federation blockading Naboo, something that would have gotten fans more interested. |
| 236 | *** When going over how to show Anakin as being strong with the Force, Linkara states instead of the midi-chlorians, the movie could have had Qui-Gon notice Anakin use the Force to push away a pile of junk that was about to hit him before he could have possibly seen it. This would ''also'' fix the plot hole of why Qui-Gon didn't just sell the ship for a smaller oner - he would have wanted to make sure to take Anakin with him. |
| 237 | *** With Anakin being stuck in the battle against the droid control ship, Linkara states what the movie could have done, instead of giving cheesy lines that he notes no kid would ever say, would be to focus on the sheer panic that is going through Anakin's mind at the moment since he is a kid in a war zone. After he does destroy the ship, he states someone could have told Anakin he truly was the ChosenOne, which would feed into Anakin's ego and lead him to think he could do no wrong. |
| 238 | ** On the introduction to Jar Jar, Linkara notes in advance that while he doesn't like the character or the movie, it was still absolutely wrong for fans to attack Ahmed Best and Creator/JakeLloyd; he sounds genuinely angry about their treatment. |
| 239 | ** He actually comes up with a defense for the infamous senate scene. He points that its reputation has been blown out of proportion, with critics of the movies and the prequels acting like it took up most of the movie and most scenes of the prequels were just characters talking. Linkara states the scene isn't good, but it only lasts two and a half minutes. |
| 240 | ** During the fight with Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon and against Darth Maul, while Linkara doesn't care for the fight the way other fans do, he does feel there is a good moment when the DeflectorShields seperate the combatants that the comic sadly doesn't include. Each of them waits in a way the reflects their differing personalities. Qui-Gon is calmly meditating with his lightsaber decactivated, showing the way of an experienced Jedi. Obi-Wan, the apprentice, is anxioustly waiting to rush to the aid of his master. Darth Maul is likewise impatient and puts on a show of force to intimidate his enemies, reflecting the violent ways of the Sith. It is a surprisingly good scene [[ShowDontTell that shows striking personality differences with no dialogue]]. |
| 241 | ** Qui-Gon Jinn's BadassBoast: |
| 242 | ---> '''Qui-Gon''': [[MechaMooks These things are basically toothpicks held together with duct tape and prayer.]] [[OneManArmy I could probably win back the whole planet on my own.]] [[BackToBackBadasses Faster with Obi-Wan watching my back.]] |
| 243 | * While reviewing ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' Linkara goes on a massive rant about the twisted reliance of the ''Star Wars'' films on AllThereInTheManual and the EU, particularly when it comes to the Jedi Code discouraging emotional attachment; he furiously points out that he shouldn't have to read numerous supplementary bits of content in order to understand the film's story. |
| 244 | --> This is ''why,'' when I'm reviewing these movies, I'm going 99% by only what's in the movie, because ''that's'' what I'm reviewing! Telling me that some discrepancy or goof is explained away in a comic or a book or a video game or something doesn't help! ''Because how the hell am I supposed to know that?!'' It's not in the movie! ''' '' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis It's! Not! In! The! Movie!]] '' ''' I'm willing to try to rationalize stuff like the assassination method, or Palpatine's plans, but the ''movie'' has to meet me halfway here! |
| 245 | * When got to Anakin's [[FaceHeelTurn turn to the dark side]] in his review of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' he summed why it felt forced; Anakin was horrified by what he had done after he cut off Mace Windu's arm and Palpatine tossed him out the window. This was a problem Anakin had been suffering from, every time he committed some morally questionable act, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he immediately regretted doing it]]. He points out that Anakin is believably sliding towards the dark side, but he never felt like he was all the way there because he kept expressing ''horror'' at what he was doing rather than starting to rationalize it. He notes that ironically the prequels' attempts to maintain audience sympathy for Anakin actually made his turn ''feel'' forced because he instantly regretted betraying the Jedi Order and saving Palpatine. |
| 246 | ** Looking back on the prequels, Linkara points out the issue with the intent of framing the Jedi Order as flawed. Any time we see the Jedi doing some morally questionable thing, Qui-Gon cheating at gambling, Anakin killing the Tusken Raiders, it either isn't played up as a terrible thing or in the specific case of Anakin's slaughter of the Tusken Raiders, it is played as a moment where the audience is meant to sympathize with Anakin as he's horrified with what he's done. He even notes that the point where the Jedi talk about a staging a coup, he points out that it's against the man who orchestrated the Clone War, and Yoda isn't supportive of the idea. The intent for depicting the Jedi as being flawed is there, but the movies following through with it was lacking. |
| 247 | ** He actually praises the fight between Anakin and Obi-Wan, feeling it does have the kind of emotional investment he felt was missing from the lightsaber duels in the previous two movies. |
| 248 | * In the review of ''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime'', he expresses his annoyance at TheWorfEffect given to the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica. While he completely understands that their existence at this point stretches the SuspensionOfDisbelief to where ComicBookTime doesn't make sense anymore, he feels that Extant's massacre of a bunch of {{badass normal}}s, Jay Garrick and Alan Scott's forced retirement and the ageism leading up to their massacre is just one big middle finger to the team just so they could embrace MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks. |
| 249 | ** He also expresses sympathy with Hal Jordan's plan after spotting Batgirl's comment about how, despite everyone telling her she shouldn't exist, she feels real. He feels that Hal's plan, despite being bonkers, makes sense as he's trying to make sure everyone can live and continue life as they should, not as some temporal anomaly that shouldn't exist in the first place. It's a plan that, as he honestly feels, should make other heroes ask themselves if they were the real villains and not him. |
| 250 | * Linkara ripping apart the ThereAreNoTherapists -- or hell, ''any kind of specialist'' -- trope in his review of ''ComicBook/HouseOfM''. He comes off of his discussion of the ThouShaltNotKill trope into this, discussing that it was a massive mistake to only have Professor X and Magneto caring for the Scarlet Witch, that it doesn't make sense that there are apparently ''no one'' who can deal with various such as psychiatric needs before quickly cutting viewers off by mentioning Hulk supporting character Doc Samson before he quickly asks why ''he'' wasn't used in the story at all. |
| 251 | * Linkara uses ''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime'' to discuss Rene Descartes' famous postulate, and he does an amazing job at it, which may be the first time a lot of viewers have actually had the postulate properly explained to them. The context is a time-displaced version of Batgirl, who will cease to exist if the heroes manage to restore the timeline. As Linkara explains, this batgirl is a perfect example of "I think, therefore I am". She ''is'' just a timeline aberration, something that shouldn't exist in an ideal world, but she nevertheless is a thinking being with thoughts and emotions, meaning that she ''does'' exist, and deserves to exist. |
| 252 | * In his review for ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'', Linkara discusses the controversy over [[ComicBook/CaptainAmericaSteveRogers the infamous event]] where Steve Rogers was supposedly retconned as [[EvilAllAlong a HYDRA sleeper agent]], and points out that Nick Spencer's attempt to avoid spoiling the aforementioned ''Secret Empire'' (where it was eventually revealed that this was not the real Captain America) made him come across as a LyingCreator at best, and that neither Spencer nor Marvel understood the implications of the event, nor did they indicate that this was all part of an evil scheme, and that the promotion of HYDRA paraphernalia while marketing the comic was in bad taste, especially considering the real-life rise of nationalism and white supremacy groups at the time. |
| 253 | ** The UnfortunateImplications of the HYDRA version of Steve Rogers being worthy to lift Mjolnir are also addressed, that the explanation as to how a Nazi was worthy of the power of Thor came ''five months'' after the event, by which time that audiences were stewing in the AssPull, and that it's further not helped by the fact that Norse mythology was and is frequently co-opted by Nazis and neo-Nazis. |
| 254 | ** He also calls out anyone who dare say that [[InsistentTerminology HYDRA are not Nazis]], pointing out that HYDRA was nevertheless founded by [[ComicBook/RedSkull a Nazi]] and that they continue to employ and associate with Nazis, to the point where [[ANaziByAnyOtherName all HYDRA needed to really do was do a find-replace on a Nazi pamphlet replacing "Nazi" with "HYDRA"]]. |
| 255 | --->''"If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and Sieg Heils like a frickin' Nazi, it's a frickin' Nazi! Don't try to split hairs when it comes to the freakin' Nazis!"'' |
| 256 | ** Also, Linkara calling out the heroes for constantly blaming themselves for the way things are going when they should be going after the bad guys who are causing the trouble at the moment! |
| 257 | ** His brilliant deconstruction of both fascism, calling it a "loser ideology", as well as how the story showing how efficient Hydra's rule and well-meaning Stevil's intentions were completely misrepresents it, inadvertently glorifying the evil it's attempting to preach against. He also goes into how fascism is not strong in the slightest but is in actuality cowardly, selfish, self-serving, corrupt, and greedy; the methods that fascists use are actually inefficient and ultimately self-defeating; fascism is not kind, it is not decent, it does not care about the common good and is ultimately incompatible with who Steve Rogers is. |
| 258 | * Linkara calling out how mental health problems get portrayed in comics, in his ''ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis'' review. |
| 259 | ** Linkara once again calls out a comic for a case of it seeming like ThereAreNoTherapists. Sanctuary is supposed to be a mental health facility for heroes... only, rather than having ''actual'' counselors, psychiatrists or therapists, it is entirely automated by an artificial intelligence that just has the personality traits of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman programmed into it, none of whom are ''actual'' doctors. |
| 260 | ** Linkara also calling out Lois Lane for publishing the private testimonies from Sanctuary, since any actual journalist would tell you that publishing personal medical information without any consent would lead to massive lawsuits, condemnation from journalistic ethic groups and potential criminal charges. Linkara also states how such an act is greatly out of character for Lois, who is supposed to be a paragon for journalistic ethics in the DC Universe, and one of the main reasons why Superman is in love with her! |
| 261 | ** [[invoked]]Linkara calls out the story for the fact that it was written without any idea of which characters would be used in it! Tom King did not pick the characters. He just had a story and asked his editor who he could use. This explains why there is so much {{character derailment}} in the story; it was not a case of a writer ''wanting'' to advance the story of certain characters, but of a writer who had a plot and shoved characters, who had no business being involved in it, into the plot! Of course, everybody feels they're not acting like themselves, because they're not! To ''Heroes In Crisis'', they're just placeholders that got shoved in there! |
| 262 | --->''"Here's a thought; Maybe, your big crossover event comic, dealing with very serious, real themes, should not be written via Mad Libs!"'' |
| 263 | ** While he goes into great length how the story angers him, he also reminds his audience that is never okay to send the creators actual death threats over a bad story! |
| 264 | * His sum up for Event Comics Month III, which covered stories about heroes who are either killed or turned into antagonists. He explains how people ask him why he gets so upset when some thing like this happens in comics, [[StatusQuoIsGod since they'll likely become heroic again]] or [[DeathIsCheap be brought back to life after a short period of time]]. Linkara then lists off a bunch of heroes who have yet to be revived, such as Danny Chase (his favorite superhero) who, even after 28 years, has yet to be fully revived after his death in ''ComicBook/TitansHunt''. He also brings up how Cassandra Cain was turned evil and then turned back because of the MASSIVE backlash. The main reason a lot of these heroes come back is because people ''demand'' they come back, but lesser known B or C-list heroes may not even have the safety net of a fanbase. So, when a comic uses these B or C-list heroes as CannonFodder, it may be years, even decades, before they are revived, if at all! Ultimately, as Linkara explains, that is why he cares when DC or Marvel kill their characters, because otherwise, who will? |
| 265 | * In his introduction to ''Emergency!'' #1, he points out and calls out how horribly dated shows like ''Series/{{Dragnet}}'' and the aforementioned ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' is and how, especially in the post-George Floyd's death timeframe, it is okay to rethink how you look at shows like this. In particular, he calls out episodes of ''Dragnet'' for its stereotypical attacks on other groups, including an episode on the "evils" of homosexuality, and calls out a particular episode of ''Emergency!'' where the firefighters have to deal with (''gasp'') a WOMAN on their team. |
| 266 | * In the introduction to ''[[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Pinhead]] vs. ComicBook/MarshalLaw'', Linkara reaffirms his hatred of the kind of {{deconstruction}} works like ''Marshal Law'', where heroes are either naively stupid or, as he so eloquently puts it, "pedophiles who bathe in the blood of puppies that they had sex with earlier that day and are ready to graphically torture people for page after page before sleeping on a bed made of dead kittens and laughing maniacally at how they can get away with anything because who would be stupid enough to actually think that someone is interested in ''helping'' people". He makes it clear that there are perfectly good deconstructions like ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme'', ''ComicBook/TheMighty'' and ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'', but he detests those like ''Marshal Law'' and ''ComicBook/TheBoys'', who are written [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids by those who hate superheroes]]. |
| 267 | * Linkara claiming that [[PapaWolf he would tear apart a government organization if they kidnapped his kid]] after seeing Mamorou's treatment in ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' |
| 268 | * In Linkara's review of ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns'', he reaches the point where Gordon kills a teenage gangmember who tried to assassinate him, and briefly stops to discuss this, in light of the American issue with police brutality. He agrees that there is a big difference between killing in fiction and the horror of killing in real life, but also critiques the view that "art should be enjoyed without politics", since all art inherently reflects the politics of the artist, especially in something as blatantly political as ''The Dark Knight Returns''. |
| 269 | * In Linkara's review of ''Batman: The Dark Knight'' #23.4/''The Joker's Daughter'' #1, he points out that, had Duella put her cat in a bag to deliberately drown it, [[PapaWolf he would have stopped the review to burn every copy of the issue]]. |
| 270 | ** Linkara takes big issue with the comic's portrayal of the titular villain being a self-harming and anorexic girl. It doesn't say anything about why a young girl would be driven to self-harm and starvation, but instead just uses it for edgy shockvalue and is more obsessed with the ''result'' of her self-harm, rather than why she would do it in the first place. He also points out how nonsensical her backstory is; That her father had some kind of OCD and was bothered by her having a scar on her cheek (at least that's what Linkara can fathom. The comic's art is very unclear), which [[InsaneTrollLogic resulted in her torturing animals and making corsets out of barbed wire.]]. |
| 271 | * Linkara, in his ''Batman: Hush'' review, gives a quick and concise explanation for why Batman doesn't kill. Because he is entrusted as a guardian of the innocent, someone whom his fans, both in and out of universe, put a lot of trust in him to be a paragon, to be someone who always does the right thing. Linkara admits that he might not be able to stand up for his own ideals if he ended up in a situation where he had to kill in his own or others' defense, but Batman can't do that. Because the moment Batman kills, his character is tainted forever. No one will be able to trust that he would "never do it again". Not to mention he also calls out those who blame the countless murdered people on Batman for letting the Joker live, pointing out that there are more morally unscrupulous people who meet the Joker on a more regular basis and have never killed him, and stating they are more to blame than Batman. |
| 272 | * In his review of ''Mr. T and the T-Force'' #6, he praises how the comic produces tension by pointing out how, in a scene where a bunch of thugs try to steal a lady's welfare check at gunpoint even with Mr. T as her bodyguard, the real danger isn't towards Mr. T, but towards the woman as Mr. T realizes that the woman could be hurt in the crossfire and he can't risk that. He makes a quick comparison to how Superman would be in similar situations as well. |
| 273 | * In his review of ''Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters'' #6, he praises Toho on stepping in and stopping the bleak DarkerAndEdgier take on Godzilla, especially after Linkara read a blog post by the original writer of the story. Throughout the review, he points out that movies like ''Film/ShinGodzilla'' and ''Film/PacificRim'' did the story points this story did much better and that the story just feels like it's bleak for bleak's sake while those two still offered hope no matter what. |
| 274 | * In the ''Spider-Man Holiday Special 1995'' review, Linkara takes a moment to call the Salvation Army out for their poor treatment of LGBTQ people. |
| 275 | * His decision not to review ''Sleigher'' due to the fact that the story opens on a very controversal topic[[note]]For those wondering, as the reason is not stated in the review, the comic opens with Sleigher confronting a PedophilePriest[[/note]], opting to instead to milk the hell out of a book of Christmas comics. |
| 276 | * In his review of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheKillingJoke'', Linkara rips apart the quintessential StuffedInTheFridge moment: Barbara Gordon's crippling. He points out both the original comic and the animated adaptation both treat Barbara's crippling as an afterthought, as a means to push the ''men'' of the story forward and leave her in the dust. He rightfully points out that Babs becoming Oracle wasn't even part of the story -- Editor Kim Yale was so disgusted by this that she asked John Ostrander, her husband and writer of ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' to help redefine Barbara. He also tears into Creator/BrianAzzarello's "prologue" doing absolutely ''nothing'' to rectify this at all; if anything, it gave off the implication that Barbara ''deserved'' what was coming to her, as she was depicted as being way-in over her head. He goes on to point out that they could have used the flashback scenes from the storyline "Hush Returns" to make the prologue and, at the end of the review, suggests that Barbara instead makes it through her shooting intact without the need of turning her into Oracle. |
| 277 | ** Linkara is brave enough to admit that Creator/KevinConroy and Creator/MarkHamill were miscast as Batman and the Joker in this movie -- while the two are widely regarded as arguably the best voices for the characters, it works best when it fits [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries the material and tone.]] |
| 278 | --->'''Linkara:''' Yes, I think that [Conroy and Hamill] are the best Batman and Joker, respectively. Their iterations from the ''Batman Animated Series'' are, hands down, the best versions of Batman and the Joker. The problem is that these lines weren't ''written'' for the best Batman and Joker, they were written for a comic version of these characters from the 80s. ''Batman: The Animated Series'' and the [[Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse Timmverse]] in general were not successful ''just'' on the backs of the voice actors. The writing, the directing, the artistic style, etc. etc. -- they delivered a good product by ''all'' working together to create something phenomenal. Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill in this are ''reciting'' lines written for an 80s comic with an ''entirely different aesthetic,'' with different versions of the characters than they would normally play, and it just feels so ''lifeless'' because their performances do not sound like they're doing these lines proper justice in their inflection and tone! |
| 279 | ** To further drive the miscasting point across, Linkara brings up the "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE19LegendsOfTheDarkKnight Legends of the Dark Knight]]" episode of said series and how, for the section of the episode that pays homage to ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', that part had Creator/MichaelIronside voicing that version of Batman instead of Kevin Conroy. |
| 280 | ** Him calling out the hypocrisy of the film having Batman warn Barbara that a villain wants to objectify her while also having a scene of her running that focuses [[MaleGaze on her ass and her mouth.]] |
| 281 | * You remember how Linkara was mad over how flippant Rob Liefeld was with Chapel's revelation that he had been infected with the AIDS virus and casually blowing his brains out way back in ''Youngblood'' #10? He's just as angry when Liefeld says in ''Youngblood Strikefiles'' #3 that the AIDS virus was created by the US Government as a means of ''population control''; unlike using the mysterious Tunguska Event to create a story, Liefeld decided to use a real pandemic that killed real people. As Linkara puts it, the ''Chew'' Poyo Character Focus review was in better taste than this. He also takes a potshot at a blog (apparently ''the only one on the entire Internet talking about this issue'') for casually dismissing that plot point. Conversely, he ''does'' praise Diehard's CharacterDevelopment moment where he looks at the deactivated Superpatriot and worries he might be like him, too, but Linkara makes it ''quite clear'' that compared to the rest of the issue, it's bupkis. |
| 282 | * Linkara points out the sheer idiocy of the writers trying to preserve ''ComicBook/Armageddon2001''[='s=] TwistEnding through the [[SarcasmMode amazing]] character assassination of Hank Hall/Hawk. He points out that, of all the futures viewed by Waverider, ''none'' of them showed how Monarch was created and the one future he was in, it was in Hawk and Dove's and ''neither of them were Monarch as they were fighting him''. He's also clearly upset that the stunt lead them to fridging Dawn Granger/Dove (and with it being so close to ''The Killing Joke'' and what they did to Barbara, he's quite upset at that) and cancelling ''ComicBook/HawkAndDove'' just to pull this stunt. Linkara points out that they could have kept the twist by turning ''Waverider'' evil, changed by his desire to stop Monarch and save the heroes he only saw in videos. |
| 283 | * In his review of ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'', Linkara takes to task, not Carol Danvers and her decision to use Ulysses' powers to stop crimes before they happen, but Tony Stark's whole holier-than-thou attitude the entire time. While he acknowledges everyone suggesting that Carol's character was ruined with this story, Linkara points out that Tony was butchered even worse in his short-sighted drive to prevent everyone from using Ulysses' powers. |
| 284 | ** Once more, he's upset that a lesser-known and liked character, in this case Bill Foster/Black Goliath, was never resurrected since ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}'' while James "Rhodey" Rhodes/War Machine was brought back two years later following his death here. |
| 285 | * In his review of ''Film/ManOfSteel'', Linkara calls out the portrayal of Jonathan Kent in the film, turning him from the man who would help guide Clark's journey to become a hero into a panicked, angry man who is more concerned about how people would treat him and even allows himself to die rather than let Clark use his powers to save him. He points out that the movie desperately wants Clark to become Superman, but the narrative beats him over the head with the backwards thinking. |
| 286 | ** Speaking of Jonathan's death, while Linkara prefers a living, healthy Jonathan whom Clark can consult for advice, he realizes that Jonathan's death, preferably of a heart attack, is sometimes needed to show that Superman just can't save everyone. Linkara points out that Clark could have saved Jonathan ''without his powers'' from the tornado and that his death here just made Jonathan even more of a paranoid man scared of people learning of Clark's powers. |
| 287 | * In his review of ''X-Men Green'', Linkara points out the flaming hypocrisy of Nature Girl's actions, wanting to take humanity to task for the action of a few and murdering people along the way for it. He knows there's fans of Nature Girl out there who are cheesed off at her character assassination and DesignatedHero status done in the series. |
| 288 | ** Also his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Nature Girl at the trial. |
| 289 | ---> '''Nature Girl:''' You taught me to stand up and fight for what I know is right and my cause is right. My anger is just.\ |
| 290 | '''Linkara:''' You murdered a bunch of people and caused ''more'' harm to the environment and relations with the rest of the world. With your affinity with all those animals, you could have done all of this safely without a single spilled drop of blood. Especially since you were able to summon a freaking army of birds from a distance. Your cause is nonsense and you're full of crap! |
| 291 | ** He introduces his next review, ''ComicBook/MaximumCarnage'', by using the iconic theme song from ''VideoGame/SpiderManAndVenomMaximumCarnage''. |
| 292 | * In the review of ''ComicBook/MaximumCarnage'', while Linkara admits that while the Alpha Magni-Illuminizer ''was'' hokey, poorly foreshadowed, and something of an AssPull, he also says that it was probably the most logical way to conclude the fight: with the power of hope, kindness, and decency as a [[ShutUpHannibal direct counter]] to the cold nihilism Carnage and his followers had been professing throughout the arc.[[invoked]] |
| 293 | * In his review of ''ComicBook/SupermanYearOne'', he has to give the book props for two good lines -- the narration in the first issue proclaiming, "His ''journey'' has ended. His ''adventure'' begins," and in the third issue, Superman's response to a, "What the hell?" being, "Me the hell." |
| 294 | * When Rose from ''The Sandman'' is harassed by some neo-nazis outside of a drag show she was attending, Linkara remarks that he would have loved to see the drag queens come out and beat up the nazis. Especially poignant since the review came out at a time where Republicans supported by neo-nazis were trying to brand drag shows as child abuse. |
| 295 | * When discussing the ''Sandman'' story "Three Septembers and a January", Linkara takes a moment to describe the life of Emperor Joshua Norton I and how he is a reminder that the power of emperors and kings only exists because their people allow it. Emperor Norton had no royal blood, no legitimate claim to any throne, and no political power, but he was beloved and respected by the people, and never abused it in any way. |
| 296 | * Despite him praising him every other time, Linkara doesn't let Mr. T's DesignatedHero antics in ''Mr. T and the T-Force'' #8 fly, basically calling him a hypocrite when he does any. |
| 297 | * In his review of the ''Overwatch'' digital comics, he calls out the abusive and toxic business practices adopted by Creator/BlizzardEntertainment since being acquired by Creator/{{Activision}}. Plus going over what was done with ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} 2''. |
| 298 | * In his review of ''Spider-Boy'' #1, Linkara has to praise both the tagline used ("With Great Power Comes Great Possibilities!") and the idea of fusing Doctor Doom and Doomsday just to get the name "Doctor Doomsday" |
| 299 | * In his review of ''ComicBook/MarvelVersusDC'', while Linkara understands that the comic doesn't really portray the idea well, he likes the idea of the sky ''literally'' bleeding rather than invoking the RedSkiesCrossover idea. |
| 300 | [[/folder]] |
| 301 | |
| 302 | [[folder:Story Segments and Sketches]] |
| 303 | * Before we begin, let's get it out of the way...it's really impressive that 1 geek with some volunteers, ingenuity, dedication and learning can create an ongoing series with engaging characters, cool designs and even some epic storylines along the way....all without any major studio funding. |
| 304 | * Almost anytime that Linkara uses his [[MemeticMutation Patented]] "I AM A MAN!" punch, especially in a serious situation, it can be pretty damn awesome. |
| 305 | ** And doubly awesome when he ''refuses'' to use the joke after Superboy (er, Superman) Prime says it, not wanting to even justify it with ''him''. |
| 306 | * When fighting the evil, sentient ''Franchise/StarTrek #1'' comic (don't ask), he reveals that his gun is magic and shoots lasers. |
| 307 | -->'''Comic:''' But how?! You have to explain it!\ |
| 308 | '''Linkara:''' [[AWizardDidIt It's magic. I don't have to explain it.]] |
| 309 | * Cartoon Linkara teams up with ComicBook/WonderWoman to destroy ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack''. |
| 310 | -->'''Wonder Woman:''' Let us vanquish our foe to the depths of Hades!\ |
| 311 | (The comic arises from the depths, and Linkara pulls out his gun.)\ |
| 312 | '''Linkara:''' What she said! |
| 313 | * '''CHEAT CODES ARE STILL ACTIVATED''' (''punches out Dr. Insano'') |
| 314 | * The end of the "Top 15 Worst Moments of Countdown", when he manages to make the incredibly {{Narm}}y line "I'll kill you to death!" sound ''awesome''. |
| 315 | * "Hey, Pyramid Head? ''I liked The Butcher better.''" |
| 316 | * Linkara morphing for the first time onscreen. |
| 317 | ** The entire fight with Mechakara. Complete with assistance from 90's Kid, Harvey Finevoice, Ninja Style Dancer, and Pollo, a brief struggle with Black Lantern Spoony, and Linkara using a morpher from Franchise/PowerRangers, then fighting Mechakara with the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers' music]] in the background. |
| 318 | *** Pollo paralyzing Mechakara long enough to let Linkara vaporize him. |
| 319 | *** "I'm back, baby!" |
| 320 | * Pollo pwning Dr. Linksano towards the end of ''[[ComicBook/JLAActOfGod JLA: Act of God]]''. |
| 321 | ** Not to mention Linkara's UnstoppableRage at ''[[ComicBook/JLAActOfGod Act of God]]'' during the third part of the review, and giving one hell of a verbal beatdown to writer Doug Moench (for his blatant and over-the-top HeroWorship of Batman, his mistakes regarding the other heroes outside of Batman, and his overall lackluster ability as a writer altogether). It can't really be summarized here, so [[http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2010/05/jla-act-of-god-part-3.html here's the link to the full video]]. |
| 322 | * Yes, it was pretty damn hilarious, but the 'Insano-War' was nothing but win. Like a condensed Team Brawl, except with Dr. Insano, which automatically makes it even more awesome! |
| 323 | * Pollo revealing he'll have Linkara back in "about two weeks" at the end of "Anita Blake #1". |
| 324 | * The entire battle with the Shades from the Ewoks #9 review. Iron Liz shows her [[ActionGirl proficiency with a sword,]] Pollo takes out one with a single lazer beam, and Linkara even takes one out ''before'' he powers up again. Once powered up, he uses a [[Series/DoctorWho sonic screwdriver.]] |
| 325 | ** Also, Liz's swords are [[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms Twinkle and Icingdeath]]. |
| 326 | ** "Hello. [[WeNeedADistraction I'm distracting you]] so she can stab you!" |
| 327 | * Even the man's dreams are awesome; while reviewing ''Hardcore Station'', he mentions one where he was fighting alongside the [[Series/DoctorWho Seventh Doctor]] on the [[Franchise/StarTrek Enterprise]]. |
| 328 | * ''[[VideoGame/StarTrekEliteForce Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force]]'' sees Linkara team up with Ensign Munro to fight the Vorsoth from the game. |
| 329 | ** We see even more of Lord Vyce, but we now have him plotting Linkara's downfall alongside none other than Mechakara himself! |
| 330 | * How about the entire Mechakara saga? The way he's been able to thread an ongoing story through his reviews without distracting from the reviews themselves at all, and building up genuine momentum and suspense along the way, has really changed the possibilities of what Internet review series can do. |
| 331 | ** Just seeing Harvey Finevoice firing away with a Tommy Gun while grinning and [[SmokingIsCool smoking]] like a badass in the 2010 trailer totally justifies that sentiment. |
| 332 | *** The scene where we see him actually doing that is even more awesome. |
| 333 | ** The (aborted) rant that Mechakara gave to the viewers at the end of his ''[[ComicBook/TheUltimates Ultimates 3]]'' three-part review: he tears apart the concept of ReviewsAreTheGospel, blaming it and the fans' adherence to it for the staying power of all the horrible comics out there. Very chilling, almost horrific, and true, especially in the wake of the recent backlash he's come under. |
| 334 | *** And then [he properly introduces himself to Linkara at last in a TomatoSurprise EvilLaugh accompanied by [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic the Battlestar Galactica instrumental track "Kara Remembers".]] |
| 335 | ** The entire second half of the 2010 trailer. As if the promise of the Mechakara storyline reaching its climax and Harvey Finevoice, Ensign Munro, Black Lantern Spoony, and a mysterious scientist joining the action wasn't enough, the trailer's tone-setting music is E.S. Posthumus' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GusLypfx7OQ Pompeii]]. |
| 336 | * [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment "You're in my way, sir!"]] |
| 337 | * Punching Film Brain in retaliation for making him watch ''Film/TheSpirit'', scored with the [[Series/DoctorWho Eleventh Doctor's]] [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic action theme]]. |
| 338 | -->''"Yes, well, just a little message to whoever is behind this little flim flam operation of yours. If you value your continued existence, if you have any hope of seeing tomorrow, let me tell you. There's one thing you never, EVER put in a trap. ME!"'' |
| 339 | * The end of the 100th episode: All Linkara's characters, plus almost everyone else from Website/ChannelAwesome (at the time), singing his theme song! |
| 340 | ** Plus the opening credits, with a hard rock remix of the theme song playing over the covers of every comic he's reviewed. |
| 341 | ** Also, not indulging in the recent storyline, despite how obvious it would've been, being such an important episode. |
| 342 | * Lord Vyce. He's highly regarded as being intensely awesome and terrifying by the fans, but when you think about it, he's barely done anything! Yes, he kidnapped Linkara, attacked him with Shades, and sent the Vohrsoth after him, but the man himself has had two appearances and did very little in both. Lewis has managed to turn him into a fan favorite through hype and storylines. |
| 343 | ** Moreover, the only time Linksano has ever come off as legitimately creepy or threatening is when he described Lord Vyce before being PutOnABus back to his home dimension. |
| 344 | --->''There are forces in TheMultiverse far beyond anything you've ever dealt with. Ancient, mindless evils that fill in the cracks and eat dimensions just for a ''snack''. Monstrous deities and empires spanning Universe after Universe have risen and fallen in the span of forever! But there is still one individual, one being that they are all horrified of! When I saw him coming near my universe, I fled. [[EvilLaugh Muhahahhahahha]]. Weep for your Universe, Linkara! Weep for all Universes! For Lord Vyce is coming! Hihihi. And ''all that he sees, he conquers!'' HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!'' |
| 345 | * The very ending of the ''Dead/Alive'' videos: Linkara's BadassBoast scored with [[Music/EnnioMorricone The Ecstasy of Gold]], taking down the ghosts with his [[ChekhovsGun Pyramid Head]], the full reveal of Lord Vyce's appearance, and Dr. Linksano returning to give Mechakara some upgrades for the final battle. Holy crap. |
| 346 | ** We also have to give one to the girl from the opening story in each video, who was only born so her parents could torture her and create a weapon to kill anyone who didn't believe in their god. She instead creates the Magic Gun that eventually would fall into Linkara's hands, which kills her parents using their own logic against them. And then she snaps Linkara out of the {{Gaslighting}} Mechakara was putting him through. |
| 347 | ** Even more so because the BigBad of this review's mini-arc was literally the personification of ThePowerOfHate that let the girl deliver a [[KarmicDeath Karmic]] FateWorseThanDeath to her AbusiveParents, whose UnstoppableRage couldn't be sated by that LaserGuidedKarma alone, and jumped the MoralEventHorizon by {{Mind Rap|e}}ing Linkara [[{{Gaslighting}} into thinking he was the girl's father]], and nearly [[DrivenToSuicide Driving Him To Suicide]] - only for [[ShutUpHannibal Linkara to tell the hatred that]] [[FireForgedFriends he and the Magic Gun were "partners" now]], and that the girl had moved on from her RevengeBeforeReason. Seriously, it's pretty awesome when Linkara gives a FREAKING GUN a better DarkAndTroubledPast, and more CharacterDevelopment, in the span of ''a single mini-series review'', than Scott Ciencin did with [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk almost all of his characters]] [[ComicBook/SilentHill over the entirety of his run writing the Silent Hill comics!]] |
| 348 | ** Linkara's BadassBoast. |
| 349 | --->'''Linkara:''' I'm not some pretty boy with marital problems. I don't have some confused psyche or unresolved parental issues. You're not dealing with a Franchise/SilentHill protagonist here! Time and again, someone got it into their head that they could defeat me. Time and again they beat me down, they knocked me out, and they tried to make me give up. You come at me with insecurity, self-doubt, and angst? You try to make me doubt who I am? I am the man who defeated Pyramid Head. I am the man who conquered ComicBook/{{Countdown|ToFinalCrisis}}. I am the man who fought off the [[VideoGame/StarTrekEliteForce Vohrsoth]] and destroyed Mechakara! I am the liberator of WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}! I am a [[Franchise/StarTrek Starfleet captain]]! I am a Franchise/{{Power Ranger|s}}! I'm That Guy With The Hat! I am Linkara! |
| 350 | ** Of course, a mere appearance by Lord Vyce is an instant win, but now we get to see the whole costume! Well, from the chest up anyway. |
| 351 | ** Linksano is hired by Lord Vyce to upgrade Mechakara. He isn't put down, he isn't laughed at, in fact Vyce describes him in a very serious manner. That must be one hell of a self-esteem boost considering his [[ButtMonkey track record]]. |
| 352 | ** The taking down the demon nurse with the [[ChekhovsGun Pyramid Head in a Pokéball]]. |
| 353 | ** The alternate ending where the demon is defeated with ThePowerOfRock, followed by stating in the credits that anyone who makes fun of Music/MichaelJackson should try doing some of his moves. |
| 354 | * Lewis wearing a fully equipped Green Ranger costume. Enough said. |
| 355 | ** Followed by him ambushing Doug at a convention while wearing it, after Doug had been doing a mocking impression of him. The pop when he takes off the helmet is incredible. |
| 356 | *** All Lewis says is 'move' and Doug jumps seats immediately, looking scared. |
| 357 | *** Behold, the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUO7bGWgIt8 |
| 358 | * His whaling on [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Douchey McNitpick]] for his commentary during his Top 15 Screw Ups of Atop the Fourth Wall. |
| 359 | ** The beginning counts as well: Rather than get pissed at Douchey, Linkara turns his InsaneTrollLogic back at him and actually manages to confuse Douchey enough to shut him up. |
| 360 | * At the end of his first "Cry For Justice" review, he starts a count down: V-MINUS 42, counting down to the final battle with Lord Vyce. For each new review it goes down by seven- therefore, the final battle will be on February 14, 2011. The awesome comes at the end of his Franchise/CareBears #13 review: Each time the graphic is shown before, it is usually accompanied by creepy, ominous music. However, at the end of this review Linkara figures out Vyce's weakness and proudly proclaims that he knows how to beat Vyce, and triumphant music plays through the credits, and over the V-MINUS 14 graphic, canceling out the creepy music. |
| 361 | * The ''Power Rangers Zeo'' #1 video has almost too many to count for both Linkara and Mechakara. |
| 362 | ** The fact that ''despite'' owning a complete Green Ranger costume at the time, he avoided what most people would have expected him to do & morph into ''that'', and instead morphed into the [[CanonForeigner White Zeo]] [[Series/PowerRangersZeo Ranger]]. |
| 363 | ** Four Words: Giant Mechakara vs. ComicBook/{{Neutro}}. And even better: Neutro isn't an animation like last time, but an actual costume worn by Liz so that the two can fight for real. |
| 364 | ** Linkara ''finally'' getting to use the "I am a man!" punch effectively against Mechakara, after failing the last two times. |
| 365 | ** [[PunctuatedPounding YOU! TALK! TOO! MUCH! DURING! A! FIGHT SCENE!]] |
| 366 | * Lord Vyce's ImplacableMan rampage at the end of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice''; he even [kills Pyramid Head without breaking a sweat. |
| 367 | * The defeat of Lord Vyce - Lieutenant Munro, Harvey Finevoice, 90's Kid, Iron Liz, and Linkara teaming up to strike the final blow. |
| 368 | ** Linkara verbally attacking Vyce for insulting Liz in his house. |
| 369 | ** Angry Joe and the Joe Army defeating the Shades and seizing control of Vyce's ship. Complete with Joe using his force lightning powers. |
| 370 | --->'''Joe:''' ''(via communicator)'' Is that Lord Vyce? ''(fires gun)'' Tell him he's an ASSHOLE for me!\ |
| 371 | '''Vyce:''' Who is that?\ |
| 372 | '''Joe:''' The name's Angry Joe, Lord of ''LAME''. ([[SlasherSmile psychotic grin)]] '''''Remember it!''''' |
| 373 | ** Linkara's got his own spaceship! |
| 374 | * Shutting up Spoony mocking his musical tastes with his spaceship, then promising to name it next week. |
| 375 | * The opening of his Comic Book Ads episode: Douchey Mc Nitpick shows up and accuses him of ripping the idea off from the Nostalgia Critic's Commercials episodes... only for Linkara, who had been expecting Douchey, to blindside him by flat out stating he stole the idea and actually causing Douchey to shut up for a minute. Then when Douchey tries to rebound by saying Linkara is doing this without the Critic's permission, Linkara asks for it and Douchey does not accept it, Linkara calmly asked if Douchey has watched the show recently, which he hasn't, then gets Douchey with Comicron 1. |
| 376 | -->'''Linkara:''' I love having a spaceship. |
| 377 | * The opening credits of the "Star Trek #2" review, with clips from the MirrorUniverse, including Mechakara and Lord Vyce being taken down much more violently. |
| 378 | ** The entire scene with Mirror Insano. |
| 379 | ** How about all the clever references to the ''Series/{{Star Trek|TheOriginalSeries}}'' episode that inspired ''this'' episode (which continue through the end credits)? |
| 380 | * Two from "Mightily Murdered Power Ringers"... |
| 381 | ** 1. The writer of the comic appearing at the end, answering some of Linkara's questions and condoning the thrashing of the comic. |
| 382 | ** 2. Defeating the now sentient (and rude) comic by morphing into the [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Green Ranger]]. |
| 383 | *** '''''"Go, Go, Power Rangers!"''''' |
| 384 | * What's Linkara's response to a direct message from the Entity, the most terrifying villain he's faced so far? "Oh, it is ''on'' now!" |
| 385 | * At the end of "Paint It Black," the ''Franchise/SilentHill'' fog rolls in just like before...except this time Linkara makes a call to say "It's begun," showing that, this time, he's not going to be caught off guard. |
| 386 | ** And we find out just how prepared he was in "The Grinning Man": He created a hologram of himself to do all three ''Silent Hill'' reviews (with the clue clearly visible the whole time, yet many viewers had probably forgotten about it by the time of TheReveal) and has the spirit of the girl inside the Magic Gun ready as the only one who can properly judge Whateley. |
| 387 | ** Also from "The Grinning Man": "COME ON DOWN, KIDS!" |
| 388 | *** And finally, special props goes to how he left one of the [[EliteMook Pyramid Heads]] alive just so he can [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} use a Pokeball to capture]], and delivers a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Whateley, that not only blasts him for being a lame BigBad in both [[ComicBook/SilentHill the Silent Hill comics]] and his appearance in this review, but also for [[[NotSoHarmlessVillain leading the cult sect that had the little girl sacrificed to create the Magic Gun]] - right before getting him HoistByHisOwnPetard by letting her complete her RoaringRampageOfRevenge by destroying Whateley, and thus what was left of his cult. |
| 389 | ---->'''Linkara:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Tell me... do you remember]] [[TheDeadHaveNames the name of the girl]] [[PoweredByAForsakenChild your cult MURDERED in order to create this?]]\ |
| 390 | '''Whateley:''' [[ButForMeItWasTuesday No...]]\ |
| 391 | '''Linkara:''' Oh. Pity... ''Haven't been able to figure that out...'' ([[MoodWhiplash Suddenly Cheerful]]) AND YOU ''KNOOOWWW'' [[CallBack part of the reason that all the crap last year happened was because]] [[SoWhatDoWeDoNow she thought all the people responsible for her current...]] ''[[InsistentTerminology circumstances...]]'' were all DEAD. ''(aims at Whately) [[PreMortemOneLiner Let's have HER judge you, shall we]]? (fires)''\ |
| 392 | '''Whateley:''' ''[[BigNo NOOOOOOoooooo...!!!]]'' ''(is vaporized)'' |
| 393 | * Linkara deducing The Entity has [[DemonicPossession taken control of 90's Kid]], just by 90's Kid saying "Heavy". |
| 394 | ** The BigShutUp to '90s Kid. |
| 395 | *** Which leads to the audience thinking DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu when it's revealed that The Entity is actually [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} MissingNo]]. |
| 396 | * After the epic battle climaxes of the three previous storylines, Linkara actually manages to make TalkingTheMonsterToDeath seem just as awesome for the Entity finale. |
| 397 | ** Linkara doesn't just talk the monster to death either; he first asks it [[AndThenWhat what it plans to do after it achieves its goal]], and continues to point out the pointlessness of its own existence, its quest, and the rather unimpressive ending to its goal which just keeps reiterating the question. This gets so bad, it sends The Entity into an existential crisis where it begins babbling to itself incoherently, unable to comprehend its own worthlessness despite being a god. This eventually gives Linkara the chance to ask The Entity what happens when a god like itself dies. Truly intrigued by the question, [=MissingNo=] explodes itself, releasing everything and everyone it had absorbed. |
| 398 | * Linkara seems to have started a habit of destroying his villains' motivations, getting Linksano to do a HeelFaceTurn by pointing out how much ''work'' ruling the world would be. And then he still threatens to send him to Lord Vyce if he goes back to his old ways, and is darn intimidating while doing it. |
| 399 | * After Mechakara starts taking over Comicron 1: |
| 400 | -->"Comicron 1 has enough destructive capability to level the Earth. Its sensors were designed to track every variety of lifeforms it could find. If Mechakara gains control of it, he will kill every living thing he can find. I will ''not'' allow that to happen. This is ''my'' ship, and I will destroy it before I let anything like Mechakara possess it!" |
| 401 | * Pollo's speech on how he'll never end up like Mechakara and how he'll always be Linkara's friend. |
| 402 | * Pollo replicating Spock's HeroicSacrifice after downloading himself into a new body. |
| 403 | ** Which doubles as a {{SugarWiki/Heartwarming|Moments}} TearJerker: the reason why Pollo did what he did was to fully prove to Linkara that he isn't like Mechakara. |
| 404 | *** It veers back into awesome territory when we learn that Pollo downloaded his mind onto a device, meaning that there's a strong chance that Linkara's RobotBuddy will return for sure. |
| 405 | *** [[BackFromTheDead He does.]] |
| 406 | * The Cybermat attacking Mechakara was pretty badass. |
| 407 | * Snowflame. That is all. Doubles as [[Funny/AtopTheFourthWall hilarious]]. |
| 408 | * Using Comicron 1 to hijack the Nostalgia Critic's TV so they can do a crossover review of ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection''. |
| 409 | * [[WhamLine "That is not my name."]] And the OhCrap goes through the roof. |
| 410 | * The following BigDamnHeroes Moment: |
| 411 | -->'''Pollo (in Tom Servo's body):''' Excuse me?\ |
| 412 | '''Lord Vyce:''' ''(turns around) What''?\ |
| 413 | '''Pollo:''' ''Surprise. (blasts Vyce)'' |
| 414 | * Ninja Style Dancer catching a shuriken right in front of his face, and driving off the Plaid Ninja with Cybermats. |
| 415 | * The Magic Gun responding to Linkara starting to go a bit [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars Time Lord Victorious]] by ''turning herself off''. |
| 416 | ** Just prior, Linkara fighting back against the Gunslinger while declaring that after everything he's been through, he really can't be arsed to care about this random new villain. |
| 417 | * Episode #200: ComicBook/OneMoreDay. |
| 418 | ** Giving Ask That Guy (who looked for a second like he might have come back from his VillainDecay) a HumiliationConga by first manipulating him into thinking he'd signed the contract to make the comic disappear, and then That Guy With The Hat shooting ATG in the back. |
| 419 | * The ''epic'' WhatTheHellHero that the wizard Aplos lays down on Linkara in "Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham #2". When Linkara initially refuses to listen and challenges Aplos's credibility, the previously laidback and collected Aplos responds with a brief yet terrifying display of power that makes the guy who backtalks Lord Vyce flinch and recoil in fright: |
| 420 | -->'''Aplos:''' This isn't the first time I've seen this. You're arrogant, power-hungry, and so deluded you can't even see it. You don't value the opinions of others, and your selfishness and egomania are getting to a point where you won't see anyone but yourself. |
| 421 | -->'''Linkara:''' This is nonsense; you're probably not even the real wizard! I bet this is all an elaborate trap to— |
| 422 | -->'''Aplos:''' [[SuddenlyShouting SILENCE!]] [[PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep It is not wise to argue with a wizard, for we have little patience and a lot of power!]] |
| 423 | ** Really, the fact that the arc plays out as it does is in itself is a [=CMoA=]. Initially, Margaret did not work for Linkara because she was upset at his liberal use of other weaponry...which came off as a jealous girlfriend plot, which is why it was scrapped. Instead, Lewis considered Linkara's unusually unpleasant behavior in WebVideo/SuburbanKnights, a by-product of Doug Walker writing the character as a generic copy of the Nostalgia Critic...but instead of ignoring or handwaving it, he used it in the story and ''turned it into an entire character development arc''. Not a whole lot of people whose main characters are [[AuthorAvatar Author Avatars]] would shed much light on their flaws at all, much less in the brutal way that the Gun and Sorcery story does. |
| 424 | ** It's also a perfect example of something else Linkara brings up in his reviews—that comics should not ignore or handwave or retcon bad stories, but actively work with them and make the characters face their flaws and work through them. The man practices what he preaches. |
| 425 | * The stinger to the ''Tandy Computer Whiz Kids: The Answer to a Riddle'' review. Harvey Finevoice, 90's Kid, Linksano, and Pollo all join to attack Holokara, which is awesome in and of itself. However, Holokara manages to shrug off their attacks without much trouble. Then this happens: |
| 426 | -->'''Holokara:''' Honest to God, look at you dumbasses. Did you really think you had a shot here? There is not a single person here who can stop me. [[TemptingFate Hell, there is not a single person]] ''[[TemptingFate on Earth]]'' [[TemptingFate who can stop what I've begun]]!\ |
| 427 | ''(from offscreen, a shot is fired at Holokara, making him stop and turn around)''\ |
| 428 | '''Linkara:''' ''(holding the magic gun)'' Oh, I don't know. ''[[DramaticGunCock (cocks gun)]]'' [[BigDamnHeroes I think I might know a guy.]] |
| 429 | * The exchange of speeches between Holokara and Linkara is simply epic, culminating Linkara's character arc as he confronts what he would've eventually become if Margaret hadn't turned herself off. |
| 430 | * After being dismissed by Maven of the Eventide to do a crossover for "30 Days of Night", Linkara got back at her by turning her bragging against her and have her do a review on Twilight. And make it a positive review. |
| 431 | * In the climax of the ''Thing'' storyline, '90s Kid spots the thing causing the trouble, and ultimately kills it. Bonus points for his initial reaction: he can't get his gun to fire, so he walks right up to the thing and ''stabs'' it. |
| 432 | * For a while, the Gunslinger seemed like kind of a lame villain after the likes of Mechakara, Vyce, the Entity, and even the simultaneous villain Holokara. Then he finally shows his stuff when he simply walks in the room and shoots Linkara in the back before stealing Margaret. |
| 433 | * Dr. Insano gets several in "Star Wars 3D" -- reclaiming ComicBook/{{Neutro}}, rejecting Linkara's offer of a nice holodeck on which to enact his world-conquering fantasies on the basis that the pain of fake people is worth nothing, and upgrading WebVideo/JesuOtaku's super-strength gloves from ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' so that it can also create force fields and disable automatic targeting. And with those gloves, he manages to hold his own against Linkara ''and'' the Gunslinger for far longer than he's ever put up a fight before. |
| 434 | ** He's Linkara's true arch enemy for a reason! |
| 435 | ** Margaret gets him in the end which makes it more awesome. |
| 436 | * From The Star Trek The Next Generation/X Men crossover. |
| 437 | -->'''Linkara:''' I'm an Admiral now. [[RefugeInAudacity I promoted myself]]. |
| 438 | * Pollo's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Jaeris, and all the other villains except Dr. Insano by proxy. The latter is the one he respects the most, for not bothering to dress up his evil actions with any attempt at justification. |
| 439 | * In Nostalgia Critic's "Film/ItsAWonderfulLife" parody, Linkara if Nostalgia Critic was never born, owns both DC and Marvel, and was in the process of making an Iron Man/Batman Team-up movie. That alone is just awesome. Not to mention at the end when Nostalgia Critic returns to his world and is wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, his "friends" are royally pissed off, and Linkara says nothing except giving him the extended middle finger. Probably the only time Linkara ever used explicit swearing, and is awesome just because you never saw it coming, and will probably never see him do it again. |
| 440 | * ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' #1: NIMUE vs Vyce. |
| 441 | -->''[[IronicEcho Are you afraid?]]'' |
| 442 | ** The auxiliary bridge of Comicron 1 [is a duplicate of the bridge of the [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries USS Enterprise, NCC 1701, no bloody A, B, C, or D.]] |
| 443 | ** The Costume Change. It's basically what Linkara would look like if he was the Doctor. |
| 444 | * Dr. Linksano ''creating life'' from a toy lizard. |
| 445 | * Linkara's moment of savvy in ''Athena #2''; The King of Worms has started causing trouble again and tried to possess Pollo...except Linkara patched his technology in advance so the only mental effect is Pollo becoming overly cautious and aware there's an influence on his psyche. Smart thinking, dude. |
| 446 | * TheStinger of ''Marvel Super Special #17: Xanadu'', in which [Allen manages to break one of Lord Vyce's encryptions in minutes when Pollo had been working on it for years. |
| 447 | * TheReveal of just how well-crafted the King of Worms' plan was, completely bamboozling Linkara into its agenda and knowing exactly how to rid itself of him once he did his part. |
| 448 | * Pollo splitting his consciousness across all his bodies to attack the King of Worms. |
| 449 | * Linkara being able to immediately turn things in his favor when Dr. Linksano tells him he's hallucinating Freddy. |
| 450 | * His 400th review of a comic adaptation of Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand, complete with musical numbers. |
| 451 | * At one point during the Halloween 2016 shenanigans, Linkara gets pulled into a dark in-between space. Ghastly arms reach out of the mist, grab him, and pull him down under with them. All we hear is the very faint sound of the Magic Gun firing, accompanied by brief flashes of its red light from below, before he crawls back out, battered but victorious, while triumphant music plays. [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu Linkara may have just shot his way out of Hell!]] |
| 452 | * Linkara and Viga taking down the poltergeist Dark Nella followers. Also, Pollo pulling Linkara out of the enforced misery by reminding him of all the things he's been celebrating all year. |
| 453 | * TheReveal of what the coded message from the future was saying: '''[[OhCrap A PIECE OF THE WORLD IS STILL MISSING]]''' |
| 454 | * While it's also a TearJerker, [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome the crash of Comicron 1]] in the ''Star Trek/Green Lantern'' review. |
| 455 | * TheReveal at the end of the ''Ultimate Power #4'' review, going into the beginning of the ''Delicious in Dungeon #1'' review: The Entity is indeed still alive, but it's ''possessing Linkara'' and has been misleading him and everyone else! What's more, 90's Kid has known the truth all along and has teamed up with Lord Vyce out of sheer desperation/pragmatism, not because he's made a FaceHeelTurn! |
| 456 | * A more villainous example: Vyce is completely calm when confronted with the Entity face-to-face, [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu reminding it that he has hurt it before]], [[BadassBoast and declaring that he will do so again]]. |
| 457 | * [[HesBack The return of Comicron 1]], which also counts as heartwarming after the heartbreak of it crashing on the Moon. |
| 458 | -->'''Lord Vyce:''' I have fallen before, but I have always risen again, reforged and renewed. The Entity mocked me, likened me to a would-be slayer of dragons. Well, then -- I am Lord Vyce, and ''this'' is my sword! |
| 459 | * Linkara seeing Comicron 1 helped some, but Erin decides to do things a bit more directly, even taking things full circle in the story arc. She uses the magic coin that started this arc to agitate the Entity and give Linkara room to push it out of his body. |
| 460 | * The battle between Comicron 1 and Comicron 2. Both Vyce and the Entity really get to show off the power of their respective ships (and in the case of the Entity, its ability to enhance the ship with its own powers), [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome with pretty good combat effects.]] |
| 461 | * Linkara's final defeat of the Entity compounds upon the last time they fought: After trying to hurt or at least distract it with various weapons, he realizes that it ''wants'' him to keep fighting it as part of its sick game, and he refuses to do so any longer. When it threatens to consume him and his world, he calls its bluff, delivers a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how pointless this whole thing is, and drives it into a VillainousBreakdown. Furthermore, it becomes clear that this ''isn't'' the original Entity, just a piece of itself left behind in Linkara -- and when it realizes that its original self has not returned from death, which blows apart all its talk of being fathomless and eternal, it winds up fading from existence, too broken to fight any longer. |
| 462 | ** Following up on that, after Vyce flies into his own VillainousBreakdown and tries to destroy the Earth and even the entire ''universe'' because he can't accept that the Entity is truly dead, Linkara figures out how to stop him -- by using Holokara to impersonate the Entity and trick Vyce into coming aboard Comicron 2, flying it toward the singularity, and even overloading the engines so they explode and prevent him from escaping, while Linkara teleports safely back to Comicron 1. Vyce can do nothing but plead impotently, then let out a BigNo as he meets his demise, shutting down the singularity in the process. |
| 463 | * When Linkara accepts an invitation to participate in the 1049th Interdimensional [[TournamentArc Contest of Champions]], the preliminary round has him facing off against [[LadyOfBlackMagic Empira]]. She proceeds to use the [[MindRape "mental crap"]] on him so that he has to fight his own doubts and fears -- in the form of Freddy Krueger (or possibly the Entity wearing a Freddy mask). After a pep talk from 90's Kid/Dude (implied to actually be Margaret making the best of a scrambled signal), he dons his BadassLongcoat and proceeds to defeat the Freddy manifestation with his wits and imagination -- and the help of [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]]. |
| 464 | * Linkara's first of five rounds in the Contest has him facing a fallen tyrant named [[TheCaligula Lavidian]] [[SmugSnake Scarn]]. In the initial face off, Linkara's clearly outclassed as Scarn's sword can block the Magic Gun, letting him score two hits right away in a best of three fight. So Linkara switches tactics, [[IShallTauntYou using mockery]] and logic while hiding behind his couch to force Scarn into a VillainousBreakdown and bring him down cleanly. What's more, when Scarn tries to threaten Linkara's life and force the Temlin overseeing the match to declare him the winner instead, he easily freezes Scarn in place and sends him back to his own universe, permanently barring him from ever entering the Contest again. Next round! |
| 465 | * The 2018 Clone Saga storyline has two: First, ''Mechakara's back'', and the manner he came back from his demise in the movie is chillingly awesome. Second, we get Moarte's first and (so far) only appearance on Atop the Fourth Wall proper, when Mirrorkara makes the mistake of going into the supply room to buy enough time to escape. Needless to say... |
| 466 | --> '''Moarte:''' [[PreMortemOneLiner Your funeral's]] [[Film/{{Phantasm}} about to begin... Sir.]] |
| 467 | * Linkara defeats the ghost of Terence Baxter with the help of other ghosts and evildoers that are working to redeem themselves. And Pyramid Head. |
| 468 | * In the 2020 end of year recap, Linkara calls his government liaison, Allen to check up on him… only to find him on the phone with Trump, telling him that no, the Secret Service can't just arrest Biden and declare Trump president again with an executive order. Figuring the guy's only going to be POTUS for about a month longer, Allen ''really'' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tears one into him]] after one too many ridiculous and egotistic requests. Many commenters mentioned how it was beautifully [[CatharsisFactor cathartic]] and pure WishFulfillment at its best. |
| 469 | -->'''Allen''': You know what? Yeah. Yes, I called you "sniveling prick", because, you know what? You're going be out of the job soon. And I have put up with you for ''[[SuddenlyShouting FOUR GODDAMN YEARS]]''! So, when I tell you that you're a spineless, disgusting, slovenly, racist, sexist, homophobic, bigoted, drooling, pus-expelling abscess on the face of humanity, I say it because I've spent time with you for more than five minutes. Oh, your reading skills are ''less'' than developed than a first-grader. And I am fairly certain the noises I've heard when you go to the bathroom are actually you masturbating to your own picture. ''(mirthless chuckle)'' Yeah… Yeah. I am ''sick'' of looking at your kid's [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING FOREHEADS]]! There are ''hundreds'' of thousands of people dead and ''hundreds'' of thousands of more starving in the streets which they were ''thrown out'' to '' DURING A '''PANDEMIC''' BECAUSE OF '''YOU''' AND THIS GOVERNMENT FAILING THEM WITH '''YOU''' AT ITS HEAD''!! Oh yes, I know. I know I'm fired, but you know what, I think I'll be back at this job in, I don't know, a month. Because I'm ''good'' at what I do. And, by the way...I'VE SEEN THE PEE TAPES! |
| 470 | * During the long awaited return of The Contest of Champions, Linkara invokes an article that would allow him to have someone else sub in for him for one fight. He brings in Bone Button and the wrestler demolishes the opponent like it was nothing. |
| 471 | * Sphinx Yonder somehow is able to take out Destrogalga in just the second round by taking advantage of a weakness no one had thought of using. This freaks out Linkara to change up plans. |
| 472 | * Linksano proves vital to Linkara’s victory over the [[OurSlashersAreDifferent slasher killer]] Billy Tor thanks to taking advantage of the YearInsideHourOutside nature of the multiverse. After traveling to Billy’s home universe, Linksano is able to discover Billy’s origin story — he’s an undead man possessed by the souls of five hundred prisoners who were massacred by a corrupt governor, and now seek justice for what was done to them — and come up with a plan to beat him. How? '' '''He gets himself elected President of the United States''' '' in Billy’s universe, and the first thing he does upon taking office is offer a formal apology on behalf of the government, as well as establish a memorial in their memory and pay restitution funds to their descendants, all of which is enough for the spirits to lay themselves to rest, which the Temlins count as a forfeit. |
| 473 | --> '''Linkara:''' [[BigWhat ...WHAT?]] |
| 474 | * Linkara tricking Mirror Margaret into attacking [[ArtifactOfDoom The Longbox of The Damned,]] resulting in [[VillainousRescue Moarte showing up and utterly dismantling her]] before she is teleported away. |
| 475 | ** Moarte finally shows off his powers, including teleportation and something that would have killed Margaret. It's revealed that Linkara found him and the Longbox while trying to restore his magic [[DealWithTheDevil and was forced to let the ghoul use his home and sets for Longbox of the Damned.]] Even worse, Linkara has no way of stopping him and Moarte can break the deal at any time. [[NotSoHarmlessVillain He strangles Linkara while calmly warning him not to involve Moarte in his "petty squabbles" again.]] |
| 476 | * [[ScheduleSlip After five years]], the Contest of Champions is finally over! And it ends in probably the oddest way possible: a ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' card game between Linkara and Bandit Chief. However, Bandit Chief seems to have Linkara on the ropes before Linksano [[BigDamnHeroes comes to his rescue]], revealing that the incident from Halloween 2021 was actually part of the Bandit Chief's scheme to gain intelligence on Linkara, thus breaking the rules! |
| 477 | ** The Bandit Chief isn't done, though; when his deceit is revealed, he has his men (who are all clones) invade the stadium. However, he ''greatly'' underestimates the Temlins and they easily get rid of the invasion. |
| 478 | ** Despite this victory, Linkara isn't satisfied and tells them in no uncertain terms that he wants to beat Bandit Chief in an amazing SelfDeprecation moment over the storyline's infamous TroubledProduction: |
| 479 | --->'''Temlin:''' Linkara, by his expulsion, you have become the winner by default. This is not necessary.\ |
| 480 | '''Linkara:''' I know, but the people out there wanted a show. They wanted their contest. And frankly, from my universe's perspective, this goddamn tournament has taken ''years'' out of my life! I've gone through [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic a pandemic]], fought [[AudioPlay/AVoiceFromTheDark a Lovecraftian sound monster]], moved to a new house, left the site I associated with, refought villains, dealt with ghosts, been tortured, poked and prodded and in general had to sit and ''wait'' for this thing to continue! Ion storms and contest disputes and time differentials a-and this has dragged ''and dragged '''[[ArcFatigue and dragged]]'''''! The people have been ''saintly'' in their patience and I think they want something to watch! ''We are gonna finish this!'' |
| 481 | ** Also, Linkara's response to Bandit Chief asking why he should bother completing the duel if the tournament prize is no longer on the table for him, which successfully goads him into sitting back down: |
| 482 | --->'''Linkara:''' Because it's gonna ''eat away at you''. ''Could'' you have really taken me? ''Can'' you really beat me without cheating? Or are you just afraid of taking on some guy who reviews comic books on the internet? The Temlins said it themselves when this all started: defeat brings only as much dishonor as you allow. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion So the question becomes]]... how much dishonor ''are'' you going to allow? |
| 483 | ** And when Bandit Chief taunts Linkara over thinking he can actually win, Linkara [[ShutUpHannibal cuts off his gloating]] and reveals why he can in a stage whisper: [[YouAreAlreadyDead "Because I already won this duel five turns ago!"]] Sure enough, he proceeds to utterly destroy his opponent with the cards he's laid out, leaving Bandit Chief to scream a BigNo as he's teleported away forever. |
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