Line #14 Creator/TheAutarch


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus My, my! It appears a new troper has entered this realm!]]]]
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4	Alex Rochon (born July 30, 1993, aka "peanut3423" and "The Autarch (of Flame)") is a Canadian Website/YouTube producer and voice actor. Much like his friend Creator/JoshScorcher, Alex's channel largely comprises of Top Ten lists, although his newest work includes [[VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising Hades]] Riffs, where the titular god (marvelously voiced by Alex himself) {{MST}}'s bad videos.
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6	He was also set to voice the character of Ghoulloyd and The Boogieman in the indie game ''VideoGame/FionaFrighteningAndTheWickedWardrobe'', but that game was ultimately cancelled.
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8	After seven years of making countdowns on Website/YouTube, Alex finally announced his retirement of The Autarch in September 2015. His final countdown ''Top Ten Personal Experiences with Video Games'' was uploaded a few days after the announcement and marked his final work as The Autarch. Despite retiring his countdown videos, he still helps {{Creator/JoshScorcher}} with making his countdown videos, remains active with his fanbase, and currently does voice work, notably for fandubs of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'' (most notably Spamton G. Spamton) and as the voice of Caine in ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus''. He has also announced plans to work on a web-series in the future, though no other details have been revealed.
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10	!!The Autarch's voice roles:
11	* ''New Summon'': Fluffy
12	* ''WebAnimation/{{Fazbear and Friends\|Zamination}}'': [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation Funtime Foxy]]
13	* ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'': Caine
14	* Music/Or3o's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx88K3GZEhA "Digital Hallucination"]] (''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'' fan song): Caine
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16	!!Tropes appearing in the Autarch's videos:
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18	* ArtifactTitle: The channel's original name, "peanut3423" was this; it came from when the channel was owned by a group of people (including Alex) who created claymation videos, and the channel name alludes to the first video, which involved two peanut characters (Alex himself had nothing to do with this video.) Eventually, the claymation project ended, and Alex was left as the sole uploader for the channel, which he soon took in his own direction.
19	* AnimalisticAbomination: The Demon [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Burmy]][[spoiler:/Mothim]], and its patron the Goat of Chaos.
20	* AxCrazy: Murders a Burmy for no reason, and in his collab review with Creator/JoshScorcher [[spoiler:kills Josh with his [[LaserBlade Aerial Blades]]. [[DeathIsCheap He comes back to life.]] ]]
21	* BerserkButton: [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle Jasper Batt Jr.]]
22	** Also, anything related to math, especially [[VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou Sho Minamimoto]].
23	--->"'''[[VideoGame/{{Madworld}} NOBODY SAID THERE'D BE MATH!]]'''"
24	** Do not bring up his [[OldShame older works,]] especially his Double Top Five.
25	* TheCastShowoff: Just listen to his "Sloprano" parody in Top Ten Funniest Video Game Characters.
26	* CausticCritic: Obviously, of the things he dislikes. Not so much for the things that he does like.
27	* {{Corpsing}}: Happens very frequently in bloopers.
28	* DeadpanSnarker: Hades, of course.
29	** Alex himself has a snarky comment ready for just about anything.
30	* EndOfAnAge / GrandFinale: Top Ten Personal Experiences with video games was his last countdown before retiring from the countdown community and going full time into his voice acting career.
31	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Hades riffing sometimes falls into this, especially in the Double Top Five.
32	* HoYay: In-universe, during a crossover with Creator/JoshScorcher, Josh asks the Autarch why he hasn't released any actual content for months. Hades replies that it's his fault, and Alex proceeds to... comfort the god of the Underworld. [[ScreamingAtSquick Josh's face afterward really sells this scene]].
33	* INeedAFreakingDrink: Said word for word at the end of Top Ten Saddest Moments.
34	** Resurfaces in Top Ten Scariest Twin Peaks Moments, where it becomes a MadnessMantra.
35	* LargeHam: Revels in this with some of his deliveries and line reads in various videos.
36	* LaserBlade: He gained this in-show power in the fight against the Demon Burmy.
37	* ManOfAThousandVoices: Oh my, yes. Performing the voice of [[VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising Hades]] is only the tip of the iceberg.
38	** His comments during the reaction videos to E3 2015 show off his talents quite well.
39	* OhCrap: The obnoxious Nintendo fanboy says this exact line before [[spoiler: The Autarch murders him]] towards the end of Top Ten Nostalgic Animated Shows.
40	* OldShame: Sees a lot of his older works like this, especially the infamous double top five he later riffed mercilessly on, and the Top Ten Saddest Moments.
41	* PromotedFanboy: He loves old Rare-style 3D platformers like ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' and ''Donkey Kong 64''. He had a role in a game made in honor of them, ''VideoGame/FionaFrighteningAndTheWickedWardrobe'', but the game was ultimately cancelled before it was released.
42	* ScreamingAtSquick: Enjoys making people do this as he likes to come up with dirty {{Double Entendre}}s in his free time and is hinted at to be [[HoYay romantically involved]] with Hades.
43	* SelfDeprecation: The first Hades Riffs was on one of his own videos, Top Five Games I Hate that Everyone Likes/Top Five Games I Like that Everyone Hates.
44	** Seems to be a recurring thing, as he uses clips of this very video when explaining how stupid it is to sell your own opinion as fact.
45	* ShoutOut: He loves Series/TwinPeaks, and it ''shows''. See also, any story-related video after Top 15 Worst Pokémon.
46	* SlasherSmile: Gives one when he sees something he's enthusiastic about or when he's about to kill something/someone.
47	* SirSwearsALot: He curses more frequently than his friends do, and in later videos he stops censoring them.
48	* StoryArc: Season 2 of The Autarch's countdowns [[note]]Top 15 Worst Pokémon to Top 25 Boss Battles in Video Games[[/note]] mostly contains a storyline about The Autarch and Chewie being haunted by demonic pokémon, with some ''Series/TwinPeaks'' style moments thrown in for good measure.
49	* TopTenList: His most notable videos.
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51	!! [[DiscussedTrope Discussed Tropes]] in the Autarch's videos are..
52	* AntiClimaxBoss: [[invoked]] Has expressed his dislike for the final boss fight against Jasper Batt Jr. on numerous occasions. In particular he hates how the fight tried way too hard to be an anti-revenge message while sacrificing good gameplay and having many programming issues.
53	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[invoked]] His old videos were lists of video game music that he likes but in particular he is a huge fan of Philistine from ''No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle''.
54	* DownerEnding: How he feels about the endings for ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' and ''VideoGame/Mother3''.
55	* FakeDifficulty: Discussed in his ''Top 15 Worst Video Game Cliches'' list with [=JoshScorcher=] and Chewie. Particularly mentions how the hard difficulties of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' and ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' do this by giving enemies more hit points on harder difficulties but with no differences in attack pattern.
56	* GameBreakingBug: [[invoked]]
57	** In the Jasper Batt Jr. fight in ''No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle'', there are windows that he can punch Travis out of for an instant-KO. However he notes that the distance between Travis and the window that registers a KO wasn't programmed properly making the fight needlessly frustrating.
58	** Pretty much everything about the Silver the Hedgehog boss fight in ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' falls into this trope for him.
59	* JunkRare: [[invoked]] In ''Top 15 Worst Pokemon'' he addresses this while talking about Chimeco and Delibird.
60	* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: [[invoked]] [[spoiler: Finding out that in ''VideoGame/{{Journey\|2012}}'' the people on his adventure were actual players all along.]]
61	* SeasonalRot: Felt that ''Series/TwinPeaks'' went through this in its final seasons.[[invoked]]
62	* TalkingToThemself: He holds a conversation with [[VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising Hades]] in his Top 10 Funniest Video Game Characters list ([[ActingForTwo whom he also voices]] in this video) with him lampshading near the end that it looks more like this trope.
63	-->'''Hades''': ''[[RecordNeedleScratch (interrupting the credits music)]]'' Yoo-hoo, Autarch!\
64	'''Alex''': Goddammit, Hades, what is it with you and your fascination for interrupting credits?\
65	'''Hades''': Oh, but credits sequences are my favorite places to hang out in. They're like bars, you see. If you stick around long enough in them you get to learn new things about all the people who contributed to the fine dirty mess of the evening.\
66	'''Alex''': [[SidetrackedByTheAnalogy ...Hades, you're an insult to bars.]]\
67	'''Hades''': Oooh, ''some''one's prickly tonight. Though, this can't ''possibly'' get on my nerves. [[{{Troll}} All I have to do is think about how we're voiced by the same person, and how you wrote this dialogue, and how]] [[SelfDeprecation you're basically making fun of yourself,]] [[{{Troll}} and then laugh.]]\
68	'''Alex''': [[{{Angrish}} Eh - wh - ]] shut up! You're not supposed to [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall like that!]] I am ''not'' insulting myself!\
69	'''Hades''': Face it, [[VideoGame/Persona4 you're me, and I am you. I might as well be your persona]]. ''chuckles evilly'' How I look forward to the {{fan art}}.\
70	'''Alex''': ''[[LampshadeHanging Why am I talking to myself?!]]''
71	* ThatOneBoss: [[invoked]] Has an entire list of video game bosses he dislikes but Silver the Hedgehog from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' is the prime example of this trope to him.
72	* VillainSue: [[invoked]] Not discussed in his videos (other than a brief joke) but he feels this way about Hazama from ''{{Franchise/BlazBlue}}'' due to how the story goes to extreme lengths to make him overpowered and how he finds his only characteristic is being evil.
73	* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: [[invoked]] Part of the reason he loves ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' and ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' so much is how for children's shows they were able to tackle darker themes.

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