Line #17 Creator/CountJackula


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2	->''"Greetings fright-knights and monster-girls! It's your old pal Count Jackula from the planet Dracula, where bad movies stalk the night!"''
3	-->-- '''Count Jackula'''
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5	[[https://www.youtube.com/user/planetdrakula/featured Count Jackula]] (a.k.a. Jack Shen) is a former reviewer on Website/ChannelAwesome and formerly Website/{{Reviewtopia}} and Reviewers Unknown. He claims to be a HorrorHost space-vampire from the planet Drakula and reviews little known horror movies. His videos can be also be found on Website/TheAgonyBooth and Website/{{Geekvision}}.
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8	!!Count Jackula provides examples of:
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10	* AllMenArePerverts: He sure loves his ass and tits.
11	* AllThereInTheManual: He has given information about Drakulons outside of his reviews, mainly in live streams.
12	* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Creator/WernerHerzog goes mad from watching ''WesternAnimation/RudolphsShinyNewYear'', kills himself, resurrects, flies into space, turns into a giant floating head, destroys the Earth and reboots it with himself as its new God.
13	* BerserkButton:
14	** Bad-mouthing horror movies as being unintelligent or low-brow.
15	** Mixing characteristics of monsters with one another (or has he calls it, "the retarded MonsterMash") arbitrarily.
16	* BigBoosHaunt: From Jackula's description of the place, Planet Dracula has shades of this, ranging from harmless HalloweenTown fun (like celebrating Halloween by dressing in costumes and giving out candy) to full-blown horror-show DeathWorld (a popular sport being where they "[[InterplayOfSexAndViolence murder-fuck]]" each other in gladiatorial arenas). Considering it is populated by alien vampires and horror fiction is almost considered sacred there, this is all a given.
17	* BreakoutCharacter: Count [[Film/TheRoom2003 Wiseau-ula]]
18	** Then [[SlasherMovie Masked Slasher]] once Wiseau-ula eventually [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome disappeared]].
19	** There is also Satanic Jackula who's done one review so far but mostly appears in rant videos and unboxing videos where Jack opens a Horror Block Box.
20	* BrotherSisterIncest: Has admitted at one point that he wanted to fuck his older sister.
21	* {{Catchphrase}}: "... was that racist?" whenever he says something [[MistakenForRacist that could be interpreted]] as UnfortunateImplications. He also refers to his viewers as "Fright Knights/Nights, Monster Girls, and Whores Of Satan."
22	* CreepyGood:
23	** While Jackula himself ranges from ChivalrousPervert[=/=]EthicalSlut to grouchy [[HollywoodSatanism Hollywood Satanist]], the nature of Drakulons in general seem to fit this description, the general aesthetic and weird (and often graphic) traditions and hobbies being the sort of thing that would make Franchise/TheAddamsFamily feel right at home.
24	** Whenever [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Jackula veers away]] from his LargeHam performance and gets real with us, it is usually him breaking character to condemn truly terrible things (like RealLife mass shooters and rapists). Please note though that Jack himself is still a massive horror wiz and Satanist, so Jack Shen the actor also qualifies as this.
25	* {{Crossover}}: Regularly does them with the Creator/HorrorGuru. {{Justified\|Trope}} since they're roommates.
26	* DeadPersonConversation: Jackula's Uncle Varney, a skull with two large fangs, makes appearances in many of his reviews with often sexual commentary. Uncle Varney is named after the vampire in the penny dreadful Varney The Vampire Or The Feast Of Blood by James Malcolm Rymer.
27	* DocumentaryEpisode: The ''The Forgotten New Year'' review is framed as being like a documentary directed and narrated by arthouse director Creator/WernerHerzog on Satanic Jackula's War on Christmas in 2016.
28	* EnfantTerrible: In RealLife. Jack Shen was raised by Fundamentalist Christians and spent a good chunk of his childhood almost blindly following his congregation's terrifyingly bigoted views.
29	* EvenEvilHasStandards:
30	** He's disturbed by the accuracy of the Fred Phelps {{Expy}}'s sermon in ''Film/RedState'' due to his own personal experiences with such topics.
31	** [[TheEighties 80s]]!Jackula is [[BadFuture frightened]] by the future's increasing amounts of [[PoliticalOvercorrectness political correctness]] but is even more horrified to discover that 9/11 will happen soon.
32	** He is visibly uncomfortable when trying to discuss the rape scenes in ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave'' He also comes down hard on misogyny in all forms during his review of the movie.
33	* {{Gorn}}: He literally ejaculates blood when he has a "goregasm".
34	* HiddenDepths: Within the fifteen to twenty minutes of maniacally gushing about the violence and promiscuity of something he reviews, he'll often drop insightful interpretations about the RealitySubtext behind the mayhem and the time period the films were released in.
35	* HollywoodSatanism: While Jack Shen himself is a member of the Church of Satan, his character Satanic Jackula deliberately falls under many of the more typical stereotypes associated there-in, his hobbies usually being equal-parts blasphemous and ridiculous.
36	* HumanAliens: Though Jack has mentioned [[AllThereInTheManual in a live stream]] that Drakulons' [[TheyLookLikeUsNow human forms are not their true ones]].
37	* InLoveWithYourCarnage: He's really into it when movies go all out with its violence.
38	* InNameOnly: His problem with ''Film/HalloweenII2009''. He thinks Music/RobZombie has created a well-done psychological slasher with well-developed characters and an impressive amount of thought put into its symbolism and plot. The problem is that it's supposed to be a ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' film.
39	* {{Irony}}: Jack Shen was raised under a Fundamentalist Christian household. Despite this (or maybe because of it), Jack is now an out and proud Satanist.
40	* LargeHam
41	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
42	** He takes his hat off and is much more serious when examining a scene in ''Red State'' where a Fred Phelps {{Expy}} gives a sermon, saying that certain things the pastor says (encouraging small children to have homophobic attitudes, saying that tolerance of others is evil, and that disasters are God punishing the wicked) resemble certain things Shen himself was taught or experienced when he was growing up as a Fundamentalist Christian.
43	** Often when fighting between parents occur, Jack will suddenly break down in tears begging for his own parents to stop fighting, a big contrast to his usual AxCrazy personality.
44	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Drakulons and earth vampires are not one and the same. Drakulons are much stronger than earth vampires, can fly through space, and don't have as many weaknesses as earth vampires. For instance, they don't turn to dust in the sun (though he claims that he has a "skin condition") or "need" to sleep on home soil. Because of this, earth vampires are considered the "retarded cousins" of Drakulons. Both can poof into bats though, as seen in Count Jackula's most recent videos.
45	* PhlebotinumOverload: According to Jackula in his "Top 10 Sexy Monster Girls" video, the Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky movie adaptation of ''Dune'' actually did get made, but it contained so much [[Creator/HRGiger Giger]] that it [[RealityBreakingParadox created a quantum-singularity that would have destroyed the universe]]. The Drakulons moved in and [[CosmicRetcon stopped this from happening by erasing the film from existence]], resulting in the creation of ''Film/TheFlamingoKid'' to keep the paradox stable.
46	* PoliticalOvercorrectness: Besides the usual mockery of this, Jack Shen is known to argue against applying political correctness to horror movies since they're ''intentionally'' offensive.
47	* PoliticallyIncorrectHero[=/=][[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Villain]]: Many of the jokes that Jackula makes definitely fall under the umbrella of "offensive", to the point of having an "offense attorney" to call whenever he makes an offensive joke. With Jackula's LargeHam personality and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} moments, this is done more out of a sense of self-awareness and [[TakeThat open mockery of the concept]], given that he believes that Horror (the genre his show is about) has the most to lose under PoliticalOvercorrectness.
48	* SharedUniverse: Due to his inclusion on Channel Awesome, his many cameos, and the occasional crossover, Count Jackula is part of the Reviewaverse.
49	* ShoutOut: Satanic Jackula wears skull make-up similar to Papa Emeritus, the lead singer of the satanic-themed HardRock band [[Music/GhostBand Ghost]].
50	* SteamPunk: His outfit certainly fits the style, especially the top hat and goggles combo.
51	* WorldOfWeirdness: The Reviewaverse. Jackula is a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Satanic space-alien vampire horror-host]] for crying out loud!
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