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4	* UnfortunateImplications: Brought up in ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'' with the whole romance subplot. Short version: The love interest and her two sisters are essentially part of a HiveMind with each of them forming one third of a whole person. So, after Cobra's love interest dies, he meets her sister, who declares that because her sister loved him, she will now love him too and that he will love her, and promptly abandons her role in LaResistance now that he's shown up apparently BecauseDestinySaysSo. ''And neither of them get a say in the matter''. Even though Sage takes a shot at Website/{{Tumblr}} feminists in the process, he describes this plot as deeply uncomfortable for multiple reasons. [[invoked]]
5	* UngratefulBastard: He practically accuses Masaru of being this in ''Anime/AndroidKikaiderTheAnimation'' when the latter yells at Jiro for destroying two of Professor Gill's henchbots who had "befriended " him earlier to use him as Kikaider bait, something they admitted to ''in front of him'' and would have harmed him and his sister had Jiro done nothing.
6	-->You little idiot! Your "friends" just flat out told you that they were using you to get to Kikaider! And yet, you still think that Jiro is the bad guy! [...] Kid, you got played! And Kikaider defended not only himself, but your sister and your dumb little ass.
7	* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Sage receives one in his ''Manga/AngelSanctuary'' review when [[LadyLooksLikeADude the boyish demon]] Kurai, who is even voiced in the dub by Creator/VeronicaTaylor with her [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash Ketchum voice]], is suddenly revealed to be female when Setsuna admonishes her for her recklessness after he saves her from getting hit by a car. Sage nonverbally refuses to touch that subject with a ten-foot-pole.
8	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: His biggest complaint about the random CatGirl in ''Manga/PilotCandidate'' isn't that she exists, or her ears are never explained, it's that ''no one'' reacts to them at all or even seems to notice. He also points out that it could be addressed in only a few lines of dialog that they never bothered to add by creating his own.
9	-->'''Sage!Zero''': What's up with your cat ears?\
10	'''Sage!Cat Girl''': I don't want to talk about it.\
11	'''Sage!Zero''': Okay.
12	* VaguenessIsComing: The ''Manga/ViolenceJack'' review was ominously announced with "Violence is coming...".
13	* ValleyGirl: The titular character of ''Anime/DevilHunterYohko'' is dubbed with this style of speech. Sage's annoyance with this finally results in ''himself'' adopting a ValleyGirl persona for an extended gag... for which he slaps himself.
14	-->''Never again.''
15	* ValuesDissonance: [[invoked]]
16	** He points out in his ''Gundress'' review that it's not seen as polite in Japanese culture to be so upfront and forthright when answering direct questions, especially when one has nothing nice to say, so people subtly get their point across in their answers with a technique called "reading air." That makes it all the more jarring to see two of the film's animators directly criticize Creator/ShirowMasamune's designs in the making of documentary.
17	** In his ''Fight! Spirit of the Sword'' review, he plays an excerpt from the behind-the-scenes featurette with an actor reading a line with the word okama, which he points out has since been labeled a slur. "It was the 90's" he says in his caption.
18	** He points out in his ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' review that Christianity isn't as prevalent a religion in Japan but is instead seen as an aesthetic alternative. As such, the production staff used Christian iconography to help it stand out amongst other SuperRobot anime, and they would have not done so had they known ''Evangelion'' would get internationally distributed.
19	* VerbalBackspace: The ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz'' review has a skit where Sage, as the grandfather of a little girl questioning why the events of the movie are happening, says Bandai needs money for HookersAndBlow then quickly corrects himself to say it's for milk and cookies.
20	* ViewersAreMorons: Sage can come off this way with a lot of his references, especially in his ''[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei Tokyo Revelation]]'' review, wherein he claims that the notion of a virus running the background of your computer was 'over the head' of his audience.
21	* WaxingLyrical: Sage calls out Dee in ''Manga/{{FAKE}}'' for asking if Ryo is "oriental" by quoting ''Theatre/AvenueQ'':
22	-->Seme, buddy, where you been? The term is Asian-American. I know you are no intending to be. But calling him [[{{Engrish}} orienter]], offensive to he.
23	* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Censor Kaiser and Suave during the review of ''Angel Blade.'' Censor Kaiser's disdain for Suave is only matched by Suave's frustration at Censor Kaiser's censoring all the nudity.
24	* WhatIsEvil: During the ''Oldtaku, New Tricks'' episode for ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', Sage calls out Tomura Shigaraki for invoking the trope to All Might.
25	-->I'm sorry, but if you're gonna use the old chestnut of ''squeaky voice'' "from my point of view, your actions are evil!", maybe you ''don't'' call yourselves ''''[[CardCarryingVillain "the League of Villains"]]''''?
26	* WholePlotReference: The framing device for ''Anime/TwilightOfTheCockroaches'' is based on ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'', with Sage dressed up as Jay Sherman. The commentary for the episode points out that several commenters on the original video [[SmallReferencePools missed the reference completely]].
27	* WordPureeTitle: In the ''VideoGame/{{Devadasy}}'' review, Sage calls out ''VideoGame/ArTonelicoQogaKnellOfArCiel'' on this.
28	-->There's only ''two real words'' in that verbal diarrhea!
29	* YouGetWhatYouPayFor: Sage's summation of his less-than-shining opinion of ''Junk Boy'' comes in this form.
30	-->True story here, by the way. I got this tape in mint condition, plastic over the tape and everything, for two cents at my local comic shop. I may as well have paid the guy two cents to punch me in the face.
31	* {{Yarling}}: During the ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz'' review, to sum up the character trope of attractive but {{angst}}y males that was so dominant in UsefulNotes/TheNineties and early 00's, Sage yarls out "Pretty boys with probleeems! (yeah!)"
32	* YouJustHadToSayIt: This is Sage's reaction in ''Virgin Fleet,'' when the headmaster of the Virgin Academy says that she's responsible for choosing the characters that will be competing for a spot in the fleet (including [[{{Manchild}} one character]] Sage finds incredibly irritating):
33	-->So ''you're'' the reason we have to deal with this character's loli-schtick? Oh, ''bitch'', you should have kept that to yourself! ''cracks his knuckles''
34	* YouNeedToGetLaid: He speculates that this is the reason Creator/ShoAikawa's early work is so nihilistic and hateful, and he thanks the anonymous person who finally did give him the blowjob that led him to tone down his later work.
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