Line #44 Creator/TheWinglet


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/winglet.png]]
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3	Mark "The Winglet" Palmer is an Australian [=YouTuber=] and animator popular for his animations created with ''Source Filmmaker'' featuring characters from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. Some of his most popular videos and series include ''WebAnimation/TheFedoraChronicles'', ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} vs. [=TF2=]'', and ''Burning Through Space''.
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5	His channel was created November 19, 2013 and has since amassed over a million subscribers. He's also won 3 awards creating videos for Creator/{{Valve}}'s annual ''Saxxy Awards'' and has contributed custom taunts to ''[=TF2=]'' proper. He's even collaborated with creators that have worked on ''[=TF2=]'', including Nathan Vetterlein, the voice of [[Characters/TeamFortress2TheScout the Scout]].
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7	!!Works by the Winglet
8	[[index]]
9	* ''WebAnimation/TheFedoraChronicles'':
10	** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN_TaU8Yqkw Operation [=2Fort=]]]''
11	** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHmQnKGwZYA The Bolted Behemoth]]''
12	** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSQJbA9ZuL0 Live and Let Spy]]''
13	** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t0yQHIz3WU The Red, the Blu, and the Ugly]]''
14	** ''Burning Through Space'' (spin-off)
15	*** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi_xJhUuUMQ Burning Through Space]]''
16	*** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVi00_zWaZE Burning Through Space 2]]''
17	* ''Meet the Items''
18	** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyLLr9qvTm0 Meet the Eyelander]]''
19	** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z08bUgiW0w Meet the Soda Popper]]''
20	** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1K43rsgqvM Meet the Holiday Punch]]''
21	** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acdXJmY39gY Meet the Gunslinger]]''
22	** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNm98Lm0n7Y Meet the Dead Ringer]]''
23	** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3OAx8EFtz8 Meet the Jarate]]''
24	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yd1YpPZ0XM Hit Detection]]''
25	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsMpFrkuQ9g An Australian Christmas Bloody Miracle]]''
26	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPvUvnTF0wE Micro-Mann]]'' (Saxxy Awards 2015: Best Action Winner)
27	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxS8soVHYO8 Taunt Fortress 2]]''
28	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfmZBEcWyi4 Timeless Thief]]'' (Saxxy Awards 2016: Best Overall Winner)
29	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9kmE82QYQg The Art of Spychecking]]''
30	* ''WebAnimation/OverwatchVsTF2''
31	** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr0sdu3uJFg Overwatch vs. [=TF2=] (1)]]''
32	** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQomlr61Bdc Overwatch vs. [=TF2=]: Episode 2]]''
33	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf5u36UQk30 Mind Games]]'' (ft. Nathan Vetterlein)
34	* ''[[https://youtu.be/Eie4cNvdJcQ Demoman's Dilemma]]''
35	* ''[[https://youtu.be/zIyq-4UHD_8 Spy Reacts - Episode 278]]''
36	[[/index]]
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38	!!Tropes common in the Winglet's work
39	* AffectionateParody: Many of his videos poke fun at contemporary works, as well as elements of ''[=TF2=]'s'' gameplay and community.
40	** ''Hit Detection'' is all about ''[=TF2=]'s'' server interpolation (basically what to do if you or other players have bad internet). The RED team in the video pulls off some completely inconceivable kills like shooting enemies from behind a corner, the bullets magically redirecting themselves to hit, and cutting off an enemy's head from several meters away with a ''sword''.
41	** ''Micro-Mann'' is basically ComicBook/AntMan but with the Spy. [[spoiler:It ends with him being crushed under the weight of a enlarged Soldier.]]
42	** ''Overwatch Vs. [=TF2=]'' is an absurd comedy that pits characters from both games against each other, and makes several gags around the memes and conventions from both communities. Examples include a battle between Widowmaker and the Sniper that goes nowhere because neither of them can ''aim for jack-squat'', or the absurd amount of CrowdControl in ''Overwatch'' that completely negates all of the ''[=TF2=]'' mercenaries' mobility.
43	** ''An Australian Christmas Bloody Miracle'' (if that title wasn't enough of a giveaway) is the Winglet making fun of his home country of Australia, basically reducing it to a Film/MadMax-esque landscape inhabited only by ''Snipers''. They also drive heavily weaponized trucks, drink beer that apparently tastes like ass, and even attack the Demoman with a ''crocodile'' at one point.
44	** ''Steamed Toast'' is a WholePlotReference of the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E2122ShortFilmsAboutSpringfield Steamed Hams]]" meme, with Skinner and Chalmers replaced by Heavy and Spy and Krusty Burger being replaced by a Scout-themed riff on Subway.
45	** ''Demoman's Dilemma'' has a parody of ''[[VideoGame/{{Civilization}} Civilization VI]]'''s iconic war declaration cutscenes, featuring Demoman posing dramatically with the [[{{BFS}} Eyelander]]...All while wearing a party hat and speaking [[TheUnintelligible drunken gibberish]].
46	* ArtEvolution: The quality of the videos' production and animation has increased significantly ever since its beginnings in 2013. The evolution is most apparent throughout WebAnimation/TheFedoraChronicles, as its installments all released years apart.
47	* AuthorAvatar: His videos often feature a BLU Demoman with a party hat, based on his in-game loadout from ''[=TF2=]''. In more action-oriented videos, this Demoman almost always ends up [[ButtMonkey biting it in humiliating fashion]]. This Demoman eventually [[ADayInTheLimelight got a short of his own]], ''Demoman's Dilemma''. Fittingly, he gets absolutely humiliated there too.
48	* BloodierAndGorier: His videos have ramped up the blood and gore factor over time. Special mention goes to ''The Art of Spychecking'' which has a very drawn out scene of the RED Soldier being shot to a bloody pulp and the RED Scout’s body being progressively and unintentionally desecrated, culminating in the RED Soldier back-kicking him into a wall.
49	* CreatorCameo: Winglet's AuthorAvatar frequently appears in his animations, usually as a background character or henchman.
50	* CreatorThumbprint: In nearly all of his videos, there's [[FunnyBackgroundEvent a RED Sniper waving in the background]] at some point. ''Meet The Jarate'' is the only time when it’s in the foreground.
51	* {{Montage}}:
52	** ''Taunt Fortress 2'' is a collection of short animated segments that illustrate literal versions of all the mercs' taunts to each other to some hilarious and gruesome results.
53	** ''Burning Through Space 2'' has the RED team constructing a spaceship to rescue their Pyro, who's lost in space.
54	* StockAudioClip: The "Overwatch vs. [=TF2=]" shorts are all voiced by clips from their respective games, as were many of his earlier videos. Later videos sometimes have regular voice acting, but other times the dialogue is created by mixing voice lines.
55	* SuddenlyVoiced: Most of his older works are all scripted using recycled dialogue from ''[=TF2=]''. Starting with ''Burning Through Space 2'' though, the characters are now voiced by proper voice actors. "Mind Games" features [[TheOriginalDarrin Scout's original VA]] Nathan Vetterlein in the titular role, allowing Scout to say more than what would be limited to in-game lines. Soldier and Engie also speak quite a bit, though they still have different voice actors.
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57	!Tropes found in specific works:
58	''WebAnimation/TheFedoraChronicles'' has its own page.
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60	* BigEater: In "Spy Reacts", Heavy serves as this, growing as he eats more and more things, from Sandviches and missiles to people like RED Pyro, BLU Spy and BLU Soldier. He's eventually stopped when RED Medic and RED Scout trick him into eating a bomb, though the real-life RED Heavy interrupts before Spy can react to what happens.
61	* {{Bowdlerize}}: An altered version of "Spy Reacts" was made for [[https://youtu.be/zIyq-4UHD_8 Spy's VA to dub over]], with Spy's insult to Pyro being swapped from "Pyro! Eat my ass, you mush-mouthed fuck!" to "Pyro! Go to hell, you mush-mouthed freak!".
62	* ClusterBleepBomb: The RED Soldier drops one on the Sniper in ''The Art of Spychecking'':
63	-->'''Soldier:''' Ha! You fight like a [BLEEEEEEP] son of a [BLEEEEEEP] [[BleepDammit fucking]] [BLEEEEEP] kangaroo-herding Canadian!
64	* CreatorsFavorite: In-universe, in "Spy Reacts", Spy '''really''' likes seeing Spies in action in videos he reacts to. So much so, that when Heavy effortlessly gobbles up the BLU Spy in the video RED Spy is reacting to, he punches his keyboard in anger and goes mostly silent until RED Heavy interrupts.
65	* FelonyMisdemeanor: When the BLU team get into an argument over various slights inflicted on each other in ''Demoman's Dilemma'', the thing that finally sets them off entirely is Engineer accusing Soldier of liking his steak well-done.
66	* GroinAttack: In ''Taunt Fortress 2'' one of the Spy's lines towards Demoman ("You did a fine job tossing your little balls around") ends up invoking this onto an unfortunate Demo.
67	* HypocriticalHumor: In "Spy Reacts," Spy gleefully tells his viewers to subscribe. When the maker of the video he's reacting to also tells the viewer to like and subscribe, he rudely says no.
68	* ImpairmentShot: Combined with ThroughTheEyesOfMadness at the beginning of ''Demoman's Dilemma'': Demo, having run out of alcohol, stumbles off to find more and comes across a giant bottle of beer. He eagerly starts chugging...and then we cut to the team's Scout, who's just walked into spawn to see Demo and the team's Soldier messily making out. Surprisingly, Soldier wants more. Unsurprisingly, this display leaves Scout a horrified, blubbering mess.
69	* LiteralMinded: ''Taunt Fortress 2'' takes the mercs' various taunts and applies them literally. For example:
70	-->'''Sniper''': "That helmet's gonna make a nice bowl for your brains!"\
71	''[Sniper eats the brains out of Soldier's helmet with a spoon like it's cereal.]''
72	* RandomEventsPlot: ''Demoman's Dilemma'' can be summed up as this, with a fairly nonsensical plot involving Demoman accidentally breaking Scout's heart in a fit of AlcoholInducedIdiocy, then getting decapitated by his team in revenge, then possessing the Medic... yeah.
73	* ATruceWhileWeGawk: In "Meet the Jarate", the RED and BLU teams stop fighting to stare at a Sniper [[ToiletHumor doing his business]] out in the open.

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