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| 5 | [[folder:482: My Top 15 Favorite Episodes of [=AT4W=]]] |
| 6 | * Linkara's rant about Website/YouTube, and his solution in case Platform/{{Vimeo}}, Platform/{{Dailymotion}}, or any other non-[=YouTube=] video hosting entity going under? Film his show naked and upload it to [[TheInternetIsForPorn Pornhub]]. What makes it funnier is that everyone in the comments is supporting the idea. |
| 7 | ** TheStinger at the end gives an [[DoubleEntendre alternate take]] on the Pornhub line. |
| 8 | -->'''Linkara''': At this point, I should probably just do this show in the nude, and upload every thing to Pornhub! At least THEY'RE probably going to be able to [[DoubleEntendre stay up]]! ''(smiles deviously)'' |
| 9 | [[/folder]] |
| 10 | |
| 11 | [[folder:483: PATREON: The Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga]] |
| 12 | * The title card, with Linkara and Cosmic Boy gazing at Film/{{Zardoz}} and Linkara wearing Sean Connery's {{Stripperific}} outfit. |
| 13 | * [[RunningGag The repeated jokes]] about a repeat of ''Avengers #200''-level {{squick}} looming. |
| 14 | * Linkara's comment on one of the covers: |
| 15 | -->'''Linkara:''' ...Where apparently the way to defeat Darkseid is to kneel on the ground and start doing the YMCA poses. |
| 16 | * While explaining the backstory of the Legion, Linkara gets to the Science-Police. |
| 17 | -->A very misleading title, considering that they are all [[TakeThat flat-earthers]]. |
| 18 | * "[[RunningGag SUPERBOY! IMPLYING HIS TEAMMATES WILL DIE SOON!]]" |
| 19 | * Mon-El meets the BigBad and is horrified, while the latter delivers a BadassBoast. |
| 20 | -->'''Linkara''': ''[as Mon-El]'' [[TakeThat ELON MUSK??!?!]] What are you doing here? |
| 21 | * "Most do not speak as they trample lives and destroy riches... and those that do simply mutter a single word over and over and over under their breath..." |
| 22 | -->'''Linkara''': "Flumflooflnorp." ''[{{beat}}]'' It doesn't really have an English translation. |
| 23 | * At Darkseid's monologue about how the Legion had "shattered the dream of a god": |
| 24 | -->'''Linkara:''' ''[as Darkseid; [[{{Wangst}} crying]]]'' I just wanted to take over the universe and consume it with darkness! Why'd you have to be so ''mean''?! |
| 25 | * When the master, later revealed to be Darkseid, notes that his mockeries of superheroes proving to be perfect servants is the greatest {{Irony}} of all. |
| 26 | -->'''Linkara:''' ''[as Darkseid]'' In fact, in celebration of this, we shall now listen to Music/AlanisMorissette's Ironic.\ |
| 27 | '''Darkseid:''' You do not comprehend, and that too is how I wish it be...\ |
| 28 | '''Linkara:''' ''[as Darkseid]'' You see, it ''is'' ironic. Because a wedding is supposed to be a happy occasion while rain is symbolic of melancholy and sadness, so having rain ''on'' your wedding day... |
| 29 | * Linkara makes a RunningGag out of comparing the Legion leader election to the US Election, such as saying Element Lad's attempts at showboating might have hurt his chances in the primaries. |
| 30 | [[/folder]] |
| 31 | |
| 32 | [[folder:484: Patreon Viewers' Choice: James Bond Jr. #1]] |
| 33 | * Linkara notes how the quote; "My name is Bond, James Bond... Junior" is able to make an awesome name sound lame with just one word. |
| 34 | -->'''Linkara''': "''I'm Captain James T. Kirk...'s Cousin.''" |
| 35 | * Linkara jokingly questions why we don't have cartoon series aimed at kids based on franchises aimed at adults anymore. He then proceeds to suggest some, including ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' (where Dom and his crew fight aliens in sci-fi hotrods), ''Film/{{Insidious}}'' (where a wisecracking Elise and her grandkids fight demons), and [[BlatantLies the greatest idea for a kids' show ever,]] ''[[Franchise/JohnWick John Wick Jr.]]'' Just imagining these is hilarious! |
| 36 | ** It's not just hilarious, but HilariousInHindsight, since an ''actual'' [[WesternAnimation/FastAndFuriousSpyRacers cartoon]] based on ''The Fast and the Furious'' has been announced, with a premise similar to ''James Bond Jr.'' in that it follows Dom's teenage cousin. Keep in mind, this was announced the same year that Linkara's joke was jokingly questioning why it wouldn't happen. |
| 37 | * When he points out that the suffix "Junior" is normally for one's son, rather than a nephew, Linkara has this take on why the title character isn't just Bond's son. |
| 38 | -->'''Linkara''': [[SarcasmMode Well, I mean, James Bond is known as such a chaste character. You could never believe he ever sired any offspring.]] |
| 39 | * Linkara's frustration at how [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight no one is interested]] in the fact that James Bond Jr. is driving a FlyingCar. |
| 40 | * A TakeThat against some of Creator/IanFleming's rather... ''odd'' thoughts about women is made (specifically, the implication that [[InsaneTrollLogic women having the right to vote caused lesbianism to exist.]]). Linkara does this as [[CelebrityParadox the character of James Bond Jr. himself.]] |
| 41 | [[/folder]] |
| 42 | |
| 43 | [[folder:485: PATREON: JLA/Avengers]] |
| 44 | * The title card, featuring Superman and Captain America punching Linkara in the face at the same time. |
| 45 | * Superman having some different thoughts about [[RunningGag problems over there.]] |
| 46 | -->'''Linkara (as Superman):''' Those problems are over there! And we need to do something about over there!\ |
| 47 | '''Linkara (as Batman):''' ...Anyone else think Superman is acting a little weird? |
| 48 | * Batman and Cap wondering if they've met each other, referring to ''DC vs. Marvel'' and ''ComicBook/BatmanAndCaptainAmerica'' and Cap expressing amusement at the Joker's famous outrage at the Red Skull turning out to be a real Nazi. |
| 49 | * "Superman — really hates the Marvel Universe!" And later: "We get it, Superman, you like [[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse your cinematic universe]] better!" |
| 50 | * The RunningGag of Linkara calling Krona out for being both a really crappy scientist and generally a dick. |
| 51 | * When the Atom is revealed to be spying on the Avengers: |
| 52 | -->'''Linkara!Atom''': Ha! I'll take on the Avengers myself! [[CallBack I'm Ray Palmer]]! ''[[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice Welcome to pain!]]'' |
| 53 | * Linkara's reaction to Hawkeye calling the JLA ComicBook/SquadronSupreme [[{{Expy}} wanna-bes]]: |
| 54 | -->'''Linkara:''' ''([[ActuallyPrettyFunny smirking heavily]])'' ...Creator/KurtBusiek had far too much fun writing this book. |
| 55 | * After ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} fails to use the Infinity Gauntlet, Linkara has him tiredly decide to [[CallBack take a nap and asks for someone to wake him up in a thousand years]]. |
| 56 | * This gem of a comment in the first video, regarding Superman's low opinion of the Marvel universe: |
| 57 | --> '''Daniel Kniffin:''' "[[ComicBook/SuperboyPrime Everything was better on MY Earth]]!" |
| 58 | * Linkara, as Doom, makes this comment after he gets stuck in the Source Wall. |
| 59 | -->'''Linkara (as Doctor Doom)''': Ha! Foolish Justice League, I am Doom, [[CallBack Master of the Stick Shift!]] Becoming trapped in here forever was just part of my flawless plan! |
| 60 | * As reality is being mixed up, at one point Captain America finds himself and the rest of the Avengers in the JLA satellite, throwing a luau themed party. Linkara says the rest of the comic should just be about the Avengers and JLA's interactions in that party. |
| 61 | * Then, when Vision and Aquaman encounter each other. |
| 62 | -->'''Aquaman:''' How did this happen? Why?\ |
| 63 | '''Linkara (as Aquaman)''' Geez, the luau must have really gotten out of hand. |
| 64 | ** And there's the comment added to make it complete |
| 65 | -->'''dakota doyle (as Aquaman):''' Last thing I remember was Batman wearing a leigh, Wolverine in a hula skirt, and the X-men and the Titans in the middle of a conga line. After that nothing |
| 66 | [[/folder]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | [[folder:486: PATREON: Homestuck, Act 2]] |
| 69 | * As the Harlequinsprite starts proclaiming "BOY", Linkara becomes worried that [[AtrociousAlias Zoosmell]] is being haunted by [[Film/{{Phantasm}} the Tall Man]]. |
| 70 | * Linkara's comment on a certain memetic Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff strip, noting that he can get having problems with stairs. Apparently, Pollo's had issues ever since they moved out of the apartment. |
| 71 | -->'''Pollo:''' ''[[ShoutOut It keeps]] [[MemeticMutation happening!]]'' |
| 72 | * Another cameo from [[WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob Bro #1]], who decided to [[CallBack give [=GameBro=] Magazine another chance]]. |
| 73 | [[/folder]] |
| 74 | |
| 75 | [[folder:487: Isaac Asimov's I-Bots #1]] |
| 76 | * Linkara notices a sign in the comic probably reading "No Robot Access", prompting a CutawayGag with [[CallBack Pollo still stuck on the stairs]]. |
| 77 | -->'''Pollo''': ''It just keeps happening!'' |
| 78 | [[/folder]] |
| 79 | |
| 80 | [[folder:488: Thunderstrike #1]] |
| 81 | * Linkara noticing the cover and how it makes it look like Eric is throwing a temper tantrum, complete with reenactment by him of a baby whining. |
| 82 | * The TakeThat to ''ComicBook/New52''!Superman's costume, saying that Eric would get a V-collar and get rid of the trunks, only to return to them in issue #1000. |
| 83 | * Linkara's outfit for Carjack's (or [[FanNickname Doctor Dumb]]'s) dialogue is a combination of his trenchcoat and a duct-tape mask, which is basically his Doctor Doom outfit. |
| 84 | -->'''Linkara (as Carjack):''' None can withstand me! I am DUMB -- wait... |
| 85 | [[/folder]] |
| 86 | |
| 87 | [[folder:489: Youngblood #10]] |
| 88 | * The title card, with Linkara cringing at a woman doing a BoobsAndButtPose by literally twisting her body 180 degrees. This is later followed by him taking the same woman (Psilence) in the comic's screaming to have been caused by her pain meds wearing off. |
| 89 | * His mimicking Chapel by asking Spawn to do the splits with him. |
| 90 | [[/folder]] |
| 91 | |
| 92 | [[folder:490: Badrock #1A]] |
| 93 | * Linkara referring to Creator/RobLiefeld comics as being about "Guns, gritted teeth and women cosplaying as the letter C". |
| 94 | * Linkara gets a lot of mileage out of [[ClicheStorm a Youngblood character]] [[{{Hypocrite}} criticizing the situation they're in for being stock and cliche]]. |
| 95 | -->'''Badrock:''' And even though I tend to pride myself on my originality...\ |
| 96 | '''Linkara (as Badrock):''' [[TakeThat Unlike my creator]]... |
| 97 | * Linkara's constant riffing on the close-up shots of the characters' faces. "[[Film/WaynesWorld Extreme close-up! WWWWWWWOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!]]" |
| 98 | * After pointing out that the strange, web-like formation of blood that appears in the comic seems to disappear and reappear in peoples' mouths all throughout the story, Linkara theorizes that it's actually some kind of parasite that jumps from person to person in between panels. |
| 99 | * "The name's Cutthroat." "I'm Hellrazor!" |
| 100 | -->'''Linkara:''' And I'm... unimpressed. |
| 101 | * The story segment involves talking about the various competitors of the Contest of Champions. |
| 102 | ** Linkara and the others are confused that one of the most popular competitors is... just a pile of rocks. And not just any pile of rocks, but one that was the runner-up in a previous Contest of Champions. |
| 103 | ** Then there's the reaction to the competitor who is a ''Kaiju''. |
| 104 | ** Ending things out is [[Franchise/AceAttorney Ace]] [[PreciousPuppy Corgi]], Attorney at Paw. |
| 105 | --->'''Harvey Finevoice''': Are we sure this ain't some big con? |
| 106 | [[/folder]] |
| 107 | |
| 108 | [[folder:491: Infinite Crisis (Event Comics Month II: Crisis of the Wars)]] |
| 109 | * During one scene where Superman says that Batman is right, Linkara concludes that Superman is agreeing that rock and roll is evil. |
| 110 | * When Batman gives Earth-2 Superman the ArmorPiercingQuestion of if his Earth's Dick Grayson turned out better and Earth-2 Supes replies no, we get this gem: |
| 111 | -->'''Linkara (as Batman):''' Aha! [[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder I bet your Batman never even fed him a single rat]]! |
| 112 | * The ''one'' villain nobody wanted in the Secret Society of Crime besides the Joker, according to Linkara? ''One-Face''. |
| 113 | * Earth-2 Superman and Superboy Prime list all the things wrong with Earth-1 that they saw happen, including [[ComicBook/BatmanADeathInTheFamily Jason Todd's death]], [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman Superman dying]], [[ComicBook/{{Knightfall}} Batman getting his back broken]], [[ComicBook/EmeraldTwilight Hal Jordan becoming Parallax]], [[ComicBook/TheContest Wonder Woman losing her Wonder Woman title for a while]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the artwork getting really bad]]. |
| 114 | * When the OMAC drones inexplicably attack Themyscira, Linkara suggests maybe Brother Eye saw the future and is trying to prevent ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack'' from happening. |
| 115 | * The fake Luthor mocks the real Luthor and calls him stupid: |
| 116 | -->'''Linkara (as Lex Luthor):''' Oh yeah? Well, [[LameComeback your face is]]- (realizes that [[InsultBackfire he's talking to someone with the same face as him]]) ... [[BigShutUp SHUT UP]]! |
| 117 | * Alexander declares "Everything starts with Superman". Linkara immediately answers that [[CreatorsPet according to some DC executives]], [[WolverinePublicity everything seems to start with Batman instead]]. |
| 118 | * When the Joker kills Alexander Luthor as payback for not recruiting him, Lex Luthor complains he killed him before [[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice he could spill Granny Peach's tea on him]]. |
| 119 | * Upon the heroes seeing the re-separated Earth-Two, Linkara says they're probably wondering [[ComicBook/JLAAvengers "What the hell do those Marvel guys want now?"]] |
| 120 | * Linkara's sketch with Batman accusing Booster Gold of making stuff up when he says that [[ComicBook/TheNew52FuturesEnd in 35 years, Brother Eye will turn everyone into "robotic spider zombies"]]. |
| 121 | * When Superboy Prime is being dragged into the Speed Force by the Flashes: |
| 122 | -->'''Superboy Prime:''' YOU CAN'T GET RID OF ME!\ |
| 123 | '''Linkara:''' [[TheScrappy No, but if only, kid. If only]]... |
| 124 | * The RunningGag about Donna Troy’s team and their [[SarcasmMode great significance to the plot.]] |
| 125 | [[/folder]] |
| 126 | |
| 127 | [[folder:492: The Infinity War (Event Comics Month II: Crisis of the Wars)]] |
| 128 | * The title card, featuring the return of the Infinity Oven Mitt and Linkara, Harvey, and '90s Dude about to fight their doppelgangers over it, complete with the doppelgangers sporting the [[FangsAreEvil sharp teeth]] of the Magus' doppelgangers. |
| 129 | * Linkara laughing over [[FashionVictimVillain how ridiculous the Magus looks]] and noticing that, since he is supposed to be a potential future evil Adam Warlock, and Adam Warlock usually dresses rather stylishly with a BadassCape and ImpossiblyCoolClothes, apparently turning evil caused him to lose his fashion sense. |
| 130 | * The return of Doomkara, who gives us this gem: |
| 131 | -->'''Linkara (as Doom):''' Spider-Man may have a spider-sense, but Doom has a COSMIC ENTITY SENSE! ... [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands Yes, that's totally part my powers now, shut up!]] |
| 132 | * Linkara notices Spider-Man defeated his Doppelganger (who later came back) by impaling him on a spike, much like how he defeated ComicBook/NormanOsborn. |
| 133 | -->"I'd say this should become your signature way of getting rid of bad guys, but [[JokerImmunity they keep coming back!]] |
| 134 | * Thanos expressing his ambition to create his own dating site. |
| 135 | * Considering that, much like last week's review, this event features a duplicate of Earth appearing, it's only natural that we get a similar CallBack: |
| 136 | -->'''Linkara (as Thor):''' [[ComicBook/JLAAvengers Verily! What do those cretins in the DC Earth want now?]] |
| 137 | [[/folder]] |
| 138 | |
| 139 | [[folder:493: World War Hulk (Event Comics Month II: Crisis of the Wars)]] |
| 140 | * The title card, featuring Linkara hiding behind the Hulk--who has [[Film/{{Gladiator}} Decimus Meridius]]'s head imposed on him. |
| 141 | * Linkara joking that the Illuminati [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 shot Hulk into space so they could then send him cheesy movies and watch him review them while they monitored his mind]]. |
| 142 | * During the comic's recap, Linkara does a HulkSpeak version of the opening of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' and when the caption's says that the Hulk never forgot "the real monsters", he says that they're [[WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters Ickis, Oblina, and Krumm]]. |
| 143 | ** Also during the recap: |
| 144 | --->'''Narration:''' They shot him into space. They thought they were saving their world. |
| 145 | --->'''Linkara:''' Mostly, though, it was a tax write-off. |
| 146 | * Linkara fully admits the opening image of the event, which has Hulk riding his own ship to punch asteroids, [[ArtisticLicensePhysics is questionable scientifically]]... but he doesn't care because of [[RuleOfCool how awesome it looks]]. |
| 147 | * After Hulk proclaims in his speech to the world "I've come to smash", Linkara jokes that maybe it's the start of a [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Smash Bros. tournament]]. |
| 148 | * When the Illuminati consider reacting to Hulk's return by shooting him even ''further'' in space, only to rightfully shoot down that idea, Linkara points out that, seeing [[NiceJobBreakingItHero how this turned out]] the first time they tried that, doing it again would probably result in [[FromBadToWorse Hulk coming back again with half the universe as his army and the Infinity Gauntlet]]. |
| 149 | * Apparently, even ''post-Demon in A Bottle Tony'' wants Linkara to give him the Drunk!Tony voice again and requests that everyone help him find a way to drink alcohol again to make it happen. |
| 150 | * Linkara stating that many Marvel writers would have Iron Man [[TakeThatScrappy get his ass handed to him]] or [[WhatTheHellHero get called out on his actions]] after ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'' while the Hulk whales on him--and his glee about [[CatharsisFactor how satisfying it was]] every time it happened. |
| 151 | * Linkara as Sentry. It's Linkara, with [[StylisticSuck flat yellow color effects over his eyes]] |
| 152 | -->'''Linkara (as Sentry):''' I need to pee out of my eyes but I don't know why. |
| 153 | * When Hulk [[{{Fingore}} crushes Strange's hands]]: |
| 154 | -->'''Linkara (as Hulk):''' Hulk much prefer ''his'' version of Rock-Paper-Scissors. |
| 155 | * Upon realizing there is no way to calm the Hulk down, Doctor Strange asks for "the Box", causing Linkara to believe he is trying to pull out a BetterToDieThanBeKilled by [[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} summoning the Cenobites]]. |
| 156 | * When Doctor Strange arrives to take on Hulk, merged with a Being Known as Zom? |
| 157 | -->'''Doctor Strange:''' [[BorrowedCatchphrase Strange Smash]]!\ |
| 158 | '''Linkara (as Hulk):''' Erm...[[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Strange]]...[[MemeticMutation Hulk come to bargain]]!? |
| 159 | * When Rick Jones tries to [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight get through to Hulk by telling him that he is Banner]], Hulk punches Doctor Strange and states that "Banner is me!": |
| 160 | -->'''Linkara (as Hulk):''' He punch Strange, I want to [[GroinAttack kick Strange in balls]]. |
| 161 | [[/folder]] |
| 162 | |
| 163 | [[folder:494: Final Crisis (Event Comics Month II: Crisis of the Wars)]] |
| 164 | * Linkara opens the review by [[CallBack recalling that time in 2009]] where he got sent 30 years into the future, where his future self had finally gotten around to reviewing "Final Crisis"... and admitting that he ''hoped'' that he wouldn't have to review it ''until'' then. |
| 165 | -->'''[[Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII Doc Brown]]''': Your future is whatever you make it! So make it a good one!\ |
| 166 | '''Linkara''': (annoyed) ''Well, I failed that already,'' because if I was trying to make it a good future, I wouldn't be talking about ''this'' thing! ...on the plus side, [[BasementDweller pretty sure I'm not gonna be living with my parents in the future...]] [[KickTheDog unless Youtube collapses, and I lose]] ''[[KickTheDog yet another]]'' [[KickTheDog platform...]] |
| 167 | * The story opens with a caveman (more specifically, the DC Comics caveman Anthro). |
| 168 | -->'''Linkara:''' Oh God, it's ''ComicBook/{{Marville}}''! This ''is'' a crisis! |
| 169 | * When the comic implies Metron was the one who gave fire to humanity: |
| 170 | -->'''Linkara:''' Ah! Take that, [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey monolith!]] |
| 171 | * When Nix Uotan, now in a human form after being exiled from the Monitors, talks to his fast food manager about gravatons. The manager snap at him for doing with since it's freaking out the customers. The thing is though... |
| 172 | -->'''Nix''': I was just wondering if anyone else felt the gravation impacts increasing.\ |
| 173 | '''Manager''': Gravitons? Even the @$?$%# word is disgusting!\ |
| 174 | '''Linkara''': Eww! Gravitons! Icky! ''(Gives a shrug as if to say "Seriously, Grant?")'' |
| 175 | * Linkara pointing out the New Gods are ''not'', in fact, literal gods, completed with a hilarious summary: |
| 176 | -->'''Linkara:''' No, they really are not! Metron is some dude flying around in a high tech chair, Orion is a guy who can punch really hard and has a shiny helmet, and Darkseid is some asshole who can shoot laser out of his eyes while [[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis trying to find the comfiest couch in the world to sit on!]] |
| 177 | * When a Monitor proclaims that they are "ancient and wise", Linkara just glares before snapping his fingers and repeating the "We should do something! Should we do something?" routine. |
| 178 | * Linkara's simplification of the above line: "We're old and smart, dagnabit!" |
| 179 | * Mister Miracle's motherbox is apparently spelled as ''Motherbo[[AccidentalInnuendo xxx]]'', which leads to: |
| 180 | -->'''Linkara:''' '''[[RunningGag BECAUSE POOR LITERACY]]...IMPLIES INCEST PORN, [[{{Squick}} what the hell?!]]''' |
| 181 | * Linkara's quip about a scene where Mister Miracle recaps [[BackFromtheDead how he died, but came back to life]] [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything three days later]]. |
| 182 | -->'''Linkara:''' I mean... I ''guess'' you could say "Mister Miracle" is another name for UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}. |
| 183 | * When it's shown the mere presence of the New Gods is compressing time around the earth and space: |
| 184 | -->'''Linkara:''' My god, time and space are becoming fluid! [[SelfDeprecation And that would mean that I didn't completely screw up]] [[ComicBook/WorldWarHulk last week,]] when I said that the Hulk destroyed Los Angeles instead of Las Vegas, despite a sign for Las Vegas clearly in the background! I mean, they're totally the same place now thanks to this! |
| 185 | * "Oh, hey, the movie theater is showing Your Life is Anti-Life again. Third act wasn't great, but overall okay." |
| 186 | * When the possessed Alpha Lantern Kraken gloats about how Darkseid will soon have all the power of the Green Lantern at his disposal: |
| 187 | -->'''Linkara (as Kraken):''' Think of all the chairs that Darkseid could sit on! [[LargeHam ALL CHAIRS BELONG TO DARKSEID]]! |
| 188 | * Linkara tries to pull his usual RunningGag of mocking TheReveal by saying [[ComicBook/AmazonsAttack Granny Goodness]] is the one possessing Kraken... only to find out [[IWasJustJoking it really]] ''[[IWasJustJoking is]]'' [[IWasJustJoking Granny Goodness this time]]. |
| 189 | * Upon the reveal [[EvilOldFolks Des]][[DirtyOldMan aad]] is the one possessing Mary Marvel, Linkara wonders if that means Desaad always wanted to have his hair pink with two pigtails. |
| 190 | * When Libra implies that he and the other villains are going to rape Supergirl: |
| 191 | -->'''Linkara:''' Hey, wait a second, [[CaptainObvious I think these guys might be evil!]] |
| 192 | * Linkara taking the piss out of Darkseid's BadassBoast after his successful AssimilationPlot: |
| 193 | -->'''Darkseid:''' When I '''command''' your surrender, I speak with '''three billion voices'''... When I make a '''fist''' to crush your resistance... It is with three billion hands!\ |
| 194 | '''Linkara (as Darkseid):''' When I poop, it is with three billion butts! |
| 195 | * Mr. Terrific declares "Countdown has begun", causing a horrified Linkara to think ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'' is starting all over again. |
| 196 | * When Brother Eye is expositing about TheMultiverse: |
| 197 | -->'''Linkara (as Brother Eye):''' Why, in one universe, I could try to take over the world with zombie spider cyborgs! \ |
| 198 | ({{beat}})\ |
| 199 | '''Linkara:''' Huh. Brother Eye, zombie spider cyborgs, and a bunch of refugees from one parallel universe to another. That sounds like the basis for a [[TakeThat really crappy]] [[ComicBook/TheNew52FuturesEnd weekly series!]] |
| 200 | * Superman holds what is supposedly Batman's dead body. Linkara's joke is extra good given the joke that what Superman sang to kill Darkseid was "Sacred Worlds" by Music/BlindGuardian, which has been the theme song of sorts to "Event Comics Month II". |
| 201 | -->'''Linkara (as Batman):''' Clark... with my last breath... I curse... [[RunningGag rock and roll!]] |
| 202 | * Discussing a tie-in comic with major ramifications on ''Final Crisis's'' story, Linkara brings up an essay he read about the nature of the book, about how it's a [[TakeThat retort]] from Creator/GrantMorrison to writers like Creator/AlanMoore who dismiss superheroes as nothing more than childish fantasies and favor the [[DarkerAndEdgier darker, more mature stories]] where [[TooBleakStoppedCaring everyone is miserable]] and [[AnyoneCanDie death runs rampant]]. The essay argues that ''Final Crisis'' is the SpiritualAntithesis to Moore's own ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'', a backlash against a call for the finish of such characters and celebrating the eternal struggle against evil they had always represented and always will. After a few minutes of discussing these rather thought-provoking observations... Linkara concludes that he doesn't care. |
| 203 | * Superman is utterly horrified to see what Darkseid did to New Earth... because he no longer can say these problems are over there when over there is everywhere. |
| 204 | * Linkara questions the many leaps in logic in the story, ending with [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking why Wonder Woman said "Hola" when she fought Mary Marvel.]][[note]]For those curious, it's an obscure Amazonian greeting that she's used since UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, albeit very rarely. Grant Morrison has tried reintegrating it in modern stories, including in the later-written ''ComicBook/WonderWomanEarthOne''.[[/note]] |
| 205 | * In TheStinger, there's an alternate song used to kill Darkseid... [[Music/TheSpiceGirls "Wannabe"]]! |
| 206 | [[/folder]] |
| 207 | |
| 208 | [[folder:495: Power Rangers Turbo vs. Beetleborgs Metallix #1]] |
| 209 | * The title card with Linkara being punched on either side of the face by the Red Turbo Ranger and the Chromium Gold Beetleborg. This is likely in homage to the JLA/Avengers title card. |
| 210 | * When explaining how the Beetleborgs had their new armors and powers designed by the artist who created their concept, while Nukus and his minions were designed by his evil brother, Linkara comments he'll let fans decide which one of the two is Marvel and which one is DC. |
| 211 | * The imposter Rangers accost the kids and demand to know where the Beetleborgs are: |
| 212 | -->'''Linkara (as fake Ranger):''' We heard something about their ratings being higher than ours! They better watch out, or else...well, there's a reason why you don't hear about ''[[Series/TheMysticKnightsOfTirNaNog Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog]]'' anymore. |
| 213 | * Both the Ranger and the Beetleborgs are incredibly angry at the others' imposters not fighting fair, claiming them to be worse than their respective nemesises. Linkara, amused by how being slightly rude is treated as heinously evil, plays a ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' clip. |
| 214 | -->'''Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank:''' What do you want from us? We're evil! EVIL! |
| 215 | * When the Rangers and Beetleborgs combine Zords and Battleborgs into "the most powerful force for good ever seen on Earth": |
| 216 | -->'''Narration:''' The Ultra-Mega-Turbo-Beetle-Battlezord, with Turbo R.A.M Metallix Mode!\ |
| 217 | '''Linkara:''' [[NarmCharm That name is the greatest toy commercial ever, and I am so angry right now that those Zords and vehicles aren't compatible.]] |
| 218 | * For a meta-case, Linkara comments on a comic mentioned in the book called "Too Much Coffee Man" and wonders who could have come up with a title that ridiculous. This has led to the comments section pointing out that Too Much Coffee Man [[AluminumChristmasTrees is an actual comic]]. |
| 219 | [[/folder]] |
| 220 | |
| 221 | [[folder:496: PATREON: Diesel #1]] |
| 222 | * When discussing how this episode is a follow-up to a previous episode, Linkara just decides to spill it in one sentence: |
| 223 | -->'''Linkara:''' [[MemeticMutation Holy crap, is that a motherfreakin' JoJo reference?]] |
| 224 | * One comment from the video decided to go for a different reference than Linkara's and referred to the comic as "[[Franchise/{{Persona}} Poorsona]]". |
| 225 | * A hulking blue figure punches a door in: |
| 226 | -->'''Linkara (as Thomas):''' I SAID I'M SELLING GIRL SCOUT COOKIES DOOR-TO-DOOR! HOW MANY CAN I PUT YOU DOWN FOR? |
| 227 | * The original description of the video: "You thought this was another comic, but it was me -- Diesel!" |
| 228 | [[/folder]] |
| 229 | |
| 230 | [[folder:497: PATREON: Teen Titans "Betrayal" and "Aftershocks, Parts 1-2"]] |
| 231 | * The title card, which features a lovestruck Beast Boy, a completely off-her-rocker Terra, and a confused Linkara. |
| 232 | * When Beast Boy displays WingdingEyes for Terra: |
| 233 | -->'''Darius Benson''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQs5fvmdxBo Heart eyes,]] [[Series/{{Dexter}} motherfucka]]. |
| 234 | * Terra wins a contest for the last pizza slice, which apparently was the final step in Slade's plan. |
| 235 | * Cyborg goes to get a really big sandwich out of the fridge when he suddenly notices hundreds of Slade-Bots surrounding him: |
| 236 | -->'''Linkara (as Cyborg):''' ''(pretending to hold a big sandwich, looking around)'' ...I'm not sharing this with any of you. |
| 237 | ** Later in the fight, Linkara considers that sandwich the linchpin that would've prevented the robots from entering had it remained where it was. |
| 238 | * Terra sees Slade's reflection in the mirror despite him not being here: |
| 239 | -->'''Linkara:''' OH MY GOD, SLADE IS A REVERSE VAMPIRE! |
| 240 | [[/folder]] |
| 241 | |
| 242 | [[folder:498: PATREON: The Punisher: Purgatory]] |
| 243 | * The title card, with Linkara turning white at the sight of [[BrainBleach the Punisher in a Cupid outfit]]. |
| 244 | * The comic's BigBad has a hobby of painting. Cue the [[Series/TheJoyOfPainting Bob Ross]] jokes! |
| 245 | -->'''Olivier:''' I've been trying to figure out what this painting needed for days.\ |
| 246 | '''Linkara (as Olivier):''' The answer, as with all things...is happy little clouds. |
| 247 | ** The simple idea of having a demonic being quote "[[MemeticMutation beat the devil out of it]]." |
| 248 | * "To be perfectly frank...''[[AccidentalPun heh]]''" |
| 249 | * Linkara complains that the story's ending hook is nonsensical--that the Punisher is supposed to be on a quest for redemption, yet keeps shooting and killing people, just with divinely crafted weapons...whereupon he riffs his own theme song. |
| 250 | -->"He's not doing anything differently, he's still shooting and killing people. Except now he's doing it with ''magic guns. Where'd he purchase those?!''" |
| 251 | [[/folder]] |
| 252 | |
| 253 | [[folder:499: Comic Book Quickies #8]] |
| 254 | * The title card, with an adult Batman recreating his pose from the opening to ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' while wearing the Bat-Baby outfit and a confused Linkara dressed as Robin. |
| 255 | * [[MakesAsMuchSenseInContext Because cheating on her is okay if it's incest!]] |
| 256 | * Linkara continuing to use the deep, raspy Batman voice for Bat-Baby, just for the VocalDissonance alone. |
| 257 | * As Batman introduces the Bat-Baby outfit, we get this gem: |
| 258 | -->'''Linkara (as Batman):''' Alfred, ready the Bat-Pacifier.\ |
| 259 | '''Linkara (as Alfred):''' [[{{Manchild}} The one you still use as an adult, sir?]]\ |
| 260 | '''Linkara (as Batman):''' Exactly! |
| 261 | * ''BY [[CallBack DIEHARD'S CROTCH]], HIS HEAD IS HUGE!'' |
| 262 | [[/folder]] |
| 263 | |
| 264 | [[folder:500th Episode: The New 52: Futures End]] |
| 265 | * The title card features Linkara in front of a cake commemorating 500 episodes while he's surrounded by the cyborg Superman and Wonder Woman, who are also wearing party hats. |
| 266 | ** Set to "The Future Soon" by Jonathan Coulton, a song about a mad scientist causing a robot apocalypse. |
| 267 | * WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows' appearances throughout the episode. |
| 268 | ** In Part 1, singing the theme song when he doesn't realize that other creators doing it has already been done in the 100th episode. |
| 269 | ** In Part 2, Todd attempts to tempt Linkara with a DealWithTheDevil a la ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'', and then sings "Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand", before being stopped by Linkara. Todd later adds that he has no material to work with if it involves Creator/FrankMiller. |
| 270 | ** Then, in Part 3, Todd returns by reciting the infamous monologue from ''Film/{{Caligula}}'' [[note]]Just like WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob usually does whenever he'd cameo in the milestone videos [[/note]]. |
| 271 | * Pointing out all the FridgeLogic in Frankenstein's transformation. Among other things; instead of just shaving Black Canary's head, he instead took the time to sew her hair to his chest and most of all, the face has fully functioning powers and muscle movement implying he ''sewed other internal parts into himself''. |
| 272 | ** To further illustrate the idiocy of Brother Eye's BodyHorror Cyborgs, Linkara then rants about the fact that on the very next page we see Batgirl's upper body attached to the Bat Signal for no possible reason. |
| 273 | ---> '''Linkara:''' It's a freaking ''flashlight!'' It needs two buttons: on and off! |
| 274 | * Terry points out that creating Brother Eye in the first place was a rather poor decision on Bruce's behalf. |
| 275 | -->'''Linkara (as Batman):''' Jeez, you accidentally cause ''one'' [[RobotWar Robot Apocalypse]], and suddenly everybody's a critic! |
| 276 | * Batman gets mortally wounded, [[AnArmAndALeg and loses his arm]]. |
| 277 | -->'''Terry:''' Hang on!\ |
| 278 | '''Bruce:''' With ''what'', Terry?\ |
| 279 | '''Linkara (as Batman):''' Just a little humor to ''disarm'' the tension! HA HA HA! Oh god, I'm dying... |
| 280 | * Terry goes back in time to assassinate the man who ruined the future...[[RunningGag One-Face.]] |
| 281 | * Batman's dying confession: [[Film/TheDarkKnight He really]] ''[[Film/TheDarkKnight was]]'' [[Film/TheDarkKnight wearing hockey pads.]] |
| 282 | * Linkara's bafflement over Hawkman's cyborg form (his wings and arm attached to a round ball), comparing it to a roomba and a "hockey puck of doom". |
| 283 | * The various appearances by other content creators in the [[BadFuture dark future]] brought by Brother Eye. |
| 284 | ** Towards the end of Part 1, [[Creator/AllisonPregler Obscurus Lupa]] (dressed up as [[Film/EscapeFromNewYork Snake Plisskin]]) warns Linkara about the future. Among other things, WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob has become an uber-militant Christian who prays that God [[KillItWithFire burns the unbelievers]] after Brother Eye forced him to watch religious scare films a la ''Film/AClockworkOrange''. He also married Fat Grandma, but that had nothing to do with Brother Eye. Apparently, their wedding was beautiful. |
| 285 | ** Later, Calluna and [[WebVideo/TheDomReviews the Dom]] are seen battling copyright bots just to get their videos uploaded, Website/SFDebris has become one with the Internet and talks like a MadOracle (though Lupa notices that he only tends to do the latter whenever he has been visiting Website/DeviantArt), [[WebVideo/LeeAndDena Dena]] is now wearing an box over her head and has joined up with Brother Eye[[note]]which didn't improve her situation and she just does mobile game let's plays.[[/note]], and [[WebVideo/BrandonsCultMovieReviews Brandon]] has inherited the title of WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob (which much to his frustration has changed absolutely ''nothing'' for him aside from people now calling him the Cinema Snob). |
| 286 | ** [[WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou Nash's]] cameo is comedy gold. Everything from his delivery to his calm indifference and incredulousness towards the world's insanity makes his appearance come across to anyone familiar with his work like a one-note segment of WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou. And it's glorious. |
| 287 | ** WebVideo/SomeJerkWithACamera is unable to afford a Disneyland pass, and has resigned himself to reviewing the ''air molecules'' outside the park. |
| 288 | ** At one point, Future Linkara comes on screen, and Linkara thinks it's another transmission from the BadFuture. It's not, it's just his future self ranting about how every joke about his future has been nullified by either real life circumstances or doing actual reviews of comics used in jokes. Future Linkara then bribes his past self with lottery numbers if he stops changing the future, and when present Linkara agrees, his future self laughs that he won't be needing the numbers anymore. |
| 289 | *** Future Linkara also complains about how his present changes each time Linkara talks to him. Every time the camera cuts between him and present Linkara, he is wearing a different hat and some of the props on the shelves are different. One time, he is Viga. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight No one mentions this.]] |
| 290 | ** Pretty much everything about the fact that Lupa had Phelous' face grafted to her torso: |
| 291 | *** Linkara's immediate response is [[StunnedSilence a long, horrified, disgusted silence]]. |
| 292 | *** Linkara then asks her why she would do that. It turns out it was a fad in the future. She also casually mentions that Beanie Babies have made a comeback which led to Linkara, with a horrified tone of voice, to say that on the plus side, Beanie Babies are back. |
| 293 | *** When confronting Welshy, Linkara accuses him of making that part up. He didn't. Cue Lupa making Phelous watch ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' with her, much to his annoyance. |
| 294 | * Firestorm aka Ronnie Raymond, holds the other half of Firestorm, Jason Rusch, locked up inside the Firestorm Matrix for weeks, because he fears Jason will reveal that Ronnie failed to save Green Arrow. Linkara considers this downright villainous and dismisses Ronnie's rather feeble attempt to justify this imprisonment (he felt trapped by his role as Firestorm and his guilt over his mother's death) as pure {{Wangst}}. |
| 295 | -->'''Linkara:''' ''(after Ronnie gives the above justification)'' Oh, well, that changes everything, Ronnie! Here, let me give you something I hope eases your pain. ''([[FlippingTheBird holds up his middle finger]])'' And don't worry about using it up! ''(starts moving said middle finger back and forth)'' I have ''sooooo'' much of it to give. |
| 296 | * Linkara having no issue spoiling the "twist" about ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} being the coming "storm" because [[CaptainObviousReveal you can see that twist coming a mile away]] due to ''the minions wearing his very recognizable logo''. |
| 297 | -->'''Linkara:''' Look, I get they were trying to go for a big reveal, but ''that's Brainiac’s symbol''! At this point in the DCU, New 52 or not, the three circles connected like that are Brainiac's symbol! It’s like sticking a bat-logo on everything and then being shocked that Batman is behind it! |
| 298 | * The Brainiac-possessed Engineer reveals the group of protagonists she is facing to have "potential" for Brainiac's project: |
| 299 | -->'''Linkara as the Brainiac-possessed Engineer''': You, Hawkman, have great potential [[BrickJoke to be a severed arm attached to a floating disk.]] |
| 300 | -->'''Linkara as Hawkman''': ... The weirdest is, that won't be the first time I lost an arm today... |
| 301 | * This little gem from the beginning of Part 3: |
| 302 | -->'''Linkara:''' Welcome back to Future's End. To recap, this is what I decided to do with my life. |
| 303 | * Green Arrow confronts Deathstroke about him working for Brother Eye: |
| 304 | -->'''Green Arrow:''' Working for a machine now, Slade? Pathetic.\ |
| 305 | '''Deathstroke:''' That machine has access to every bank account on Earth, Queen. Even yours.\ |
| 306 | '''Linkara (as Deathstroke):''' And money will surely be useful after I help it usher in ''the destruction of all mankind! (beat) God'', I miss when my character was well-written... |
| 307 | * Once Linkara reached the end of the story and realized [[YouCantFightFate Brother Eye is still in control of the dark future]] ("So after ''48'' comics, and however long this episode has been running... IT WAS [[AllForNothing ALL FOR NOTHING!!]]"), we get one of his signature [[SanitySlippageSong "Combine Harvester" freakouts]]. Highlights include talking to a Grover puppet (and at one point doing the LukeIAmYourFather spiel in which he wears a Darth Vader mask while Grover wears a [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 Star-Lord]] mask), lamenting that his Infinity Gauntlet is just a piggy bank, and deciding to root for Pilo in the Contest of Champions. At the end, he's hugging a pair of Bulbasaur plushies while crying, but then stops when he smells one of them. |
| 308 | -->'''Linkara:''' [[MoodWhiplash Ooh, lavender]]! |
| 309 | * The various [[TheStinger stingers]] at the end of the episode. Cinema Snob has to take his cat outside because it was distracting him, Diamanda saying that [[NotHyperbole Americans really do bleed red, white and blue]], Goth Viga taking control of the Longbox of the Damned against Moarte's wishes, and Future Linkara reviewing a thirty-five year old lamp. |
| 310 | * In the end, it turns out Brother Eye was WebVideo/{{Welshy}} all along, who turned evil because Linkara forgot to finish their crossover review of ''Film/DeadSilence''. Linkara then calls Present Welshy and apologises for this and it seems that this future was averted... Until Present Welshy reminds him that he didn't stop the call and comes to believe that Linkara isn't sorry about that unfinished project at all, [[StableTimeLoop which results in him swearing to become Brother Eye in revenge]]. |
| 311 | [[/folder]] |
| 312 | |
| 313 | [[folder:501: Dark Knight III: The Master Race #1-2]] |
| 314 | * The title card. Not for the actual art, but rather the fact that [[DeliberatelyMonochrome such a dark, negative space title card]] is accompanied by... [[SoundtrackDissonance a Weird Al polka]]. |
| 315 | * As Carrie dressed as Batman lets out a "Hurr Hurr Hurr Hurr" before being arrested, it is then followed by a clip of [[Podcast/RiffTrax Bill Corbett's]] [[Film/SantaAndTheIceCreamBunny Ice Cream Bunny]] [[EvilLaugh laugh.]] |
| 316 | * The return of this gem: |
| 317 | -->'''Ray Palmer''': Well, you're not like your father, are you?\ |
| 318 | '''Lara''': I'm not?\ |
| 319 | '''Ray Palmer''': No... Don't take this the wrong way... but he's more human than you.\ |
| 320 | '''Linkara''': And me? I'm Ray Palmer. ''[[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice Welcome to pain]]''. |
| 321 | [[/folder]] |
| 322 | |
| 323 | [[folder:502: Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating Green Lantern]] |
| 324 | * The title card, with Stan Lee Linkara in the presence of Green Lantern, who's wearing the Jolly Green Giant's robe. |
| 325 | * "[[RunningGag Man, this]] ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet'' [[RunningGag reboot is...]] [[SubvertedTrope actually pretty decent.]]" |
| 326 | * TheStinger has Linkara point out some AccidentalInnuendo in the comic makes it seem that Cathy, Professor Lewis's student, finds AncientAstronauts theories to be attractive: |
| 327 | -->'''Cathy:''' I'll level with you -- it's no coincidence. Your lecture turned me on.\ |
| 328 | '''Linkara (as Cathy):''' ''(flirtatiously)'' Mmmm, tell me more about how Literature/{{Aladdin}} had a magical lamp that was given to him by aliens. |
| 329 | [[/folder]] |
| 330 | |
| 331 | [[folder:503: The New Guardians #3]] |
| 332 | * Linkara's horror at one of the doctors at an AIDS clinic being referred to as "Dr. Garth". |
| 333 | -->'''Linkara:''' Run, New Guardians! [[CallBack His treatment for your HIV is to turn you into babies!]] |
| 334 | * Harbinger decides to run out on the HIV group therapy session, when one of the participants begins to relate the story of how his partner's care and support for him has helped him a lot in the difficult times he is facing: |
| 335 | -->'''Harbinger:''' I can't endure any more of this!\ |
| 336 | '''Linkara (as Harbinger):''' ''Care'' and ''support''?! I can't take it! |
| 337 | * As she flees, Harbinger internally wishes that she had stayed with the Monitor: |
| 338 | -->'''Linkara (as Harbinger):''' If only there were an entire race of Monitors! [[RunningGag They'd know if I should do something about all of this!]] |
| 339 | * Harbinger meets with Betty, the last member of the team. Linkara relates her backstory and how she only exists in the otherworldly realm called Dreamtime: |
| 340 | -->'''Linkara:''' So, yeah, [Betty] doesn't really have a physical form. She is just a disembodied force. So with her being in the Dreamtime, and not having a physical form, that means that over ''half'' the team can ''not'' actually ''procreate''! What were they supposed to do to pass on their "super evolution genes"? ''Lick'' people or something? |
| 341 | * Betty calms Harbinger down by reminding her of her inner strength. Linkara sums the conversation up thus: |
| 342 | -->'''Linkara (as Harbinger):''' I am ''deeply'' emotionally distraught about the possibly of having a disease that will almost certainly kill me!\ |
| 343 | '''Linkara (as Betty):''' Nah. You can handle it.\ |
| 344 | '''Linkara (as Harbinger):''' ''(shrugs)'' Oh. Okay then. |
| 345 | * The gang that has been hired to assassinate the New Guardians make their attack, by driving a bus straight up to their front door and firing wildly around them: |
| 346 | -->'''Gang member:''' That gives us the advantage of surprise!\ |
| 347 | '''Linkara (as gang member):''' ''(firing assault rifles wildly into the air)'' JUST LOOK AT THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE WE HAVE! NOBODY WILL HEAR US COMING! |
| 348 | * Gloss then proceeds to give said gang way too much credit: |
| 349 | -->'''Gloss:''' They attack like a commando squad!\ |
| 350 | '''Linkara (as gang member):''' ''(still firing assault rifles wildly into the air)'' WE'RE A HIGHLY TRAINED COMMANDO SQUAD!! AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!\ |
| 351 | '''Linkara:''' I mean, I ''suppose'' it's like a commando squad... Specifically the squad in ''Film/{{Predator}}'', that shoots wildly into the jungle and basically levels half of it in the process. |
| 352 | * The Floronic Man realizes that he is fighting children who also are on drugs: |
| 353 | -->'''The Floronic Man:''' ''(shocked)'' Their pores reek of Erythroxylum Coca!\ |
| 354 | '''Linkara (as The Floronic Man):''' When they ''could'' [[CallBack be reeking of marijuana]]! ''(scoffs)'' Kids today, I swear... |
| 355 | * The Stinger at the end where it's revealed that Snowflame got trapped in a picture and stole Linkara's phone. |
| 356 | [[/folder]] |
| 357 | |
| 358 | [[folder:504: US-1 #7]] |
| 359 | * The title card, featuring US-1 with a goofy cartoon face greeting a confused Linkara. |
| 360 | * Linkara has various reactions to the truck being alive and able to talk. One of the funniest was his StunnedSilence followed by ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' clips. |
| 361 | * There's also his CluelessAesop moment after Poppa Wheelie calls the truck a girl. |
| 362 | --->'''Linkara (sarcastically):''' It's okay if people misgender you. Just be secure in your own personal identity, even if it makes you feel uncomfortable! [{{Beat}}] '''''[[SuddenlyShouting Why am I talking about this in relation to a frikkin' TRUCK?!]]''''' |
| 363 | [[/folder]] |
| 364 | |
| 365 | [[folder:505: Nova Girls: Space 34-24-34]] |
| 366 | * Linkara's increasing anger at the comic, including several clips with characters yelling a BigShutUp. |
| 367 | ** Although, he does give the comic credit for ''one'' joke... only because [[SelfDeprecation he would've made it if the comic didn't]]. |
| 368 | * [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext After one of the Nova Girls shouts "Oopa oopa"]], Linkara just gives up. |
| 369 | -->'''Linkara:''' You know guys, it's not too late to cancel the review! We could just call this week a wash and skip to next week! |
| 370 | * The Nova Girls' holographic AI, Holo-Hank, [[TheGenieKnowsJackNicholson shape shifts into numerous celebrities]] throughout the story; because the comic was made during TheNineties, one of those celebrities just so happens to be [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump a certain billionaire celebrity who'd later become a highly controversial political figure]]. [[NoJustNoReaction Linkara takes this about as well as you'd expect]]. |
| 371 | -->'''Linkara:''' And Holo-Hank transforms into -- '''[[BigOMG Oh God]]''', '''''[[BigNo NO!]]''''' Can I not escape seeing him ''in my own freaking show?'' I DO THIS TO MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY, DAMMIT! |
| 372 | [[/folder]] |
| 373 | |
| 374 | [[folder:506: Batman Odyssey #2]] |
| 375 | * The title card, which is a big reference to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'', featuring a Mario-sized Batman throwing Cappy... as a Batarang. All of this while the title itself is rendered in Mario series-styled font. |
| 376 | * The narrator describes Batman's movements from being shot as "[[AccidentalInnuendo jacking]]". |
| 377 | -->'''Narrator:''' ''Not pretty... Numbed to vibrating oblivion, Batman is jacked around like a puppet. Soldiers, gangsters and the police know it. There are rare times... when bullet impacts pepper a numbed body... and their very continuous impacts gyroscopically keep the jacking body from falling to the floor.'' |
| 378 | -->'''Linkara:''' Can we please stop talking about Batman and his "jacking"? |
| 379 | -->'''Narrator:''' ''The body jerks about so uncontrollably, it more resembles a mad marionette than a human being. In fact it can't fall until all the jacking stops.'' |
| 380 | -->'''Linkara (as the narrator):''' Good god, Batman just won't stop jacking! He's jacking all over the place! Shield the children's eyes! All this jacking is not for them! |
| 381 | * "Unfortunately, even the sight of a guy in a bat costume screaming that they need to run because of a bomb, plus him pulling the emergency brake, is not enough to get them moving. As such, he has no other choice but to pull out the guns he had been carrying and threaten them all. [[ItMakesSenseInContext This panel is kind of infamous because it's often shown without context]], and it ''is'' kind of hilarious. But, this ''is'' an early Batman, and, well, the people just think he's a crazy guy screaming at them in a Halloween costume, so...I can see why this might seem like the only option left. Less defendable is when he actually starts opening fire." (cut to Linkara in the goofy Bat-mask firing wildly) "''[[InsaneTrollLogic I HAVE TO SHOOT THESE GUNS TO SAVE YOUR LIVES!]] NANANANANANANANA'' '''''BATMAN!'''''" |
| 382 | [[/folder]] |
| 383 | |
| 384 | [[folder:507: Star Wars 3-D #2]] |
| 385 | * When Han and Leia have an argument. |
| 386 | -->'''Han:''' That woman gives me one big pain!\ |
| 387 | '''Linkara (as Han):''' [[Film/TheForceAwakens I feel it right in my chest! Like a lightsaber through it, or some thing]]! |
| 388 | * The fact that Linkara is still wearing the 3D glasses, as well as his hat, while also in a Darth Vader helmet! |
| 389 | [[/folder]] |
| 390 | |
| 391 | [[folder:508: Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu #3]] |
| 392 | * The thumbnail this week is a reference to the artist of the manga also doing hentai: A flabbergasted and ''very'' uncomfortable Linkara looking at Misty in a ''very'' revealing bikini (with big black censor bars). |
| 393 | * Linkara trying to do a homeboy [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Team Skull]] accent. He stops five seconds into it. |
| 394 | * As he opens the review, he states that fans were wondering if he'll go with the official English translation (which uses the dub English names) or the fan translation (which uses the original Japanese name). Soon as he comes across the first Japanese name complete with the "-san" in the dialogue of the fan translation... |
| 395 | -->'''Linkara''': WELP! English it is!!! |
| 396 | * Linkara's [[WhyDidntIThinkOfThat reaction to the nickname]] [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration John Luke Pikachu]]. |
| 397 | * Whenever a rice ball shows up, Linkara calls it a [[CulturalTranslation jelly donut]]. |
| 398 | [[/folder]] |
| 399 | |
| 400 | [[folder:509: Captain America Meets the Asthma Monster]] |
| 401 | * At the start of the video, Linkara explains that the reason he's in a different part of his house doing the review is because currently, his office area is being used for a Contest of Champions fight between a zombie and a chef (with the zombie most likely winning the fight, if the Contest of Champions update at the end is any indication). [[note]]In real life, the carpeting in Linkara's office got drenched due to an overflowing sink tub while he and Viga were doing laundry, with him being unable to use that space during the clean-up process.[[/note]] |
| 402 | * When one of the kids doubt that Captain America will help with something that doesn't endanger national security, Linkara counters that Cap ''does'' often concern himself with school problems. Cue: |
| 403 | -->'''Captain America''' ''([[Film/SpiderManHomecoming sitting down in a chair]])'': [[MemeticMutation So. You got detention.]] |
| 404 | * The kids begin to suffer asthma attacks while they and Captain America ride the latter's motorcycle so they can find the Asthma Monster and thwart his plans, but Cap gives them a few words of advice. |
| 405 | -->'''Captain America''': Just close your eyes... and imagine that the wind blowing past you is blowing all your worries and excitement away...\ |
| 406 | '''Linkara (as Captain America)''': '''''JUST IMAGINE BEING AT PEACE AS WE PREPARE TO FIGHT A SUPERVILLAIN ALONGSIDE A FAMOUS SUPERHERO WHILE ON THE BACK OF A TOTALLY QUIET, SERENE MOTORCYCLE, KIDS!'''''\ |
| 407 | (''mind you, he's yelling all this while the sound of a motorcycle engine plays in the background...'' loudly) |
| 408 | [[/folder]] |
| 409 | |
| 410 | [[folder:510: Superman and Spider-Man]] |
| 411 | * From the beginning of the comic: |
| 412 | -->'''Caption''': Suspended on a single, slender strand of impossibly strong webbing, a bizarre figure arcs gracefully through the chill, damp air.\ |
| 413 | '''Linkara''': Wrestling/BraunStrowman, what are you doing up there? |
| 414 | * Linkara suggesting that Spider-Man getting the names of Star Wars Characters wrong is what prompted Bob Iger to have Disney acquire both Marvel & Star Wars, to correct this injustice! |
| 415 | * After Parasite explains to Dr. Doom his desires for Wonder Woman by stating that even with his hideous form, he is still a man, Linkara does his "I AM A MAN!!!" punch (while yelling ''I'm still a man!!!'')... and pulls out a suitcase that he's using for his trip to [=ConBravo=]. |
| 416 | [[/folder]] |
| 417 | |
| 418 | [[folder:511: Amazing Cow Heroes #4: Cold Cuts]] |
| 419 | * The title card which has the titular cow hero Cold Cuts dressed like Elsa from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}''. |
| 420 | [[/folder]] |
| 421 | |
| 422 | [[folder:512: Ravage 2099 No. 2]] |
| 423 | * Linkara recaps the first issue and mentions a fact that he overlooked when he reviewed it: the penciler was Paul Ryan, who Linkara quickly notes is not that one. |
| 424 | * 2099’s Kid returns, and with him his future slang. Linkara joins in, before shocking 2099’s Kid by saying “Robitussin”, which apparently has extremely offensive connotations in the 2090’s. The Kid leaves soon after. |
| 425 | * Tiana being handed an anti-radiation suit to put on before she's taken to Hellrock leads to a reversal of a certain RunningGag: |
| 426 | -->'''Linkara''': Now she won't be radioactive! That's probably really good! |
| 427 | [[/folder]] |
| 428 | |
| 429 | [[folder:513: Adventures of the Kool-Aid Man #2]] |
| 430 | * The video opens with him [[BreakingTheFourthWall looking up in horror]], belting out "THERE'S ANOTHER ONE OF THESE?" Going run into the theme song, but then he interrupts it noting that [[LampshadeHanging the title is below him on YouTube]], and he's looking up because of his own site. |
| 431 | ** After the theme ends, he comments that he realizes the surprise isn't as effective because he announced he was doing this at the end of the last review. |
| 432 | * "Look, the simple fact is that some characters were not meant to exist for more than 30 seconds at a time, and the Kool-Aid man is one of them." |
| 433 | * Whilst reviewing the cover, which prominently features the time travel story: |
| 434 | -->'''Linkara:''' ''Series/DoctorWho'' would be a very different series if the Doctor [[TheNthDoctor regenerated]] into the Kool-Aid Man. |
| 435 | ** In response to the blurb that declares the book a "60 cent value", Linkara retorts that his copy of the comic cost [[RidiculousFutureInflation $7.50 with shipping]]. |
| 436 | ** Naturally, he manages to get in a dig at ''ComicBook/{{Marville}}'' |
| 437 | -->'''Linkara:''' And then on the way, their time machine accidentally hits another one driven by [[TakeThat three idiots]] who claim that ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} [[HollywoodEvolution evolved from an otter]]. |
| 438 | * His take on the infamous panel featuring the Kool-Aid man meeting Creator/BenjaminFranklin... |
| 439 | -->'''[[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Kool-Aid Man]]:''' Excuse me sir, aren't you Benjamin Franklin?\ |
| 440 | '''Benjamin Franklin:''' Yes I am. I'm also hot and thirsty.\ |
| 441 | '''Linkara (as Benjamin Franklin):''' Also, '''WHAT IN GOD'S NAME ARE YOU?!?''' |
| 442 | * At the end of "Thirst in Time", the characters all speak in unison about the virtues of Kool-Aid. |
| 443 | -->'''Linkara:''' My god, he put some kind of [[DrinkingTheKoolAid mind-control drug in the Kool-Aid]]! |
| 444 | * The second story, based around a camping trip, starts with the thirsties misleading some kids into a cabin |
| 445 | --> '''Narrator''': Little do the hikers suspect that the cabin is a thisties' trap!\ |
| 446 | '''Linkara''': The thirsties leave behind the Necronomicon-Ex-Mortis in preparation for the kids to be attacked by the Franchise/EvilDead. Boy-howdy, [[{{Understatement}} that'll make the kids thirsty]]! |
| 447 | [[/folder]] |
| 448 | |
| 449 | [[folder:514: Tandy Computer Whiz Kids: Safeguarding the Environment]] |
| 450 | * The title card is, yet again, a CallBack to ''A Deadly Choice'', only this time Alec and Shanna are staring awkwardly at [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Captain Planet]] and Linkara [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere is turning around and throwing his hands up as he walks off]]. |
| 451 | * Linkara is ''overjoyed'' to find that for once, the first appearance of Alec and Shanna in a Tandy Computer Whiz Kids comic ''isn't'' them sitting in class and talking about their summer vacation. Cue "Hallelujah" while the screen brightens. |
| 452 | -->'''Linkara''': We did it, guys! We finally broke the time loop! (''[[{{Beat}} grins]]'') Now, if only this comic actually had ''interesting'' things in it! |
| 453 | [[/folder]] |
| 454 | |
| 455 | [[folder:515: Mr. T and the T-Force #4]] |
| 456 | * Mr. T as General Patton! |
| 457 | * When Mr. T heads under cover to investigate where the Porsche Posse's base of operations are. |
| 458 | -->'''Mr. T:''' I'm going to need a little help from the T-Force!\ |
| 459 | '''Linkara (as Mr. T):''' [[Film/TheForceAwakens The T-Force Awakens]], if you will! |
| 460 | * Meta: For the 10th anniversary of ''Atop the Fourth Wall'', Linkara's caught up in the middle of his own personal ''Clone Saga''. |
| 461 | [[/folder]] |
| 462 | |
| 463 | [[folder:516: Star Trek #2 (DC)]] |
| 464 | * The title card, which depicts Linkara doing the pose that Kirk makes on the cover of the comic a la ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'', complete with the "menacing" sound effect. |
| 465 | * Linkara questioning the logic of Koloth when, after the Klingon space station is dragged into normal space, he opts to blow it up as a means for the Klingons to declare war on the Federation instead of using its firepower to destroy the already damaged Enterprise. |
| 466 | [[/folder]] |
| 467 | |
| 468 | [[folder:517: Star Trek (2009): The Official Motion Picture Adaptation]] |
| 469 | * When [[Creator/ChrisHemsworth Kirk's father]] needs to battle with the Narada, it leads to [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar some]] ActorAllusion! |
| 470 | -->'''George Kirk:''' The Shuttles will never make it, if I don't fight them off!\ |
| 471 | '''Linkara (as Winona Kirk):''' But, this Nero, we're talking about, he's the toughest there is!\ |
| 472 | '''Linkara (as George Kirk):''' Well, he's never fought me!\ |
| 473 | '''Linkara (as Winona Kirk):''' Yeah, he has!\ |
| 474 | '''Linkara (as George Kirk):''' He's never fought me twice! |
| 475 | * Learning the reason as to WHY [[RunningGag Bones owes Spock ten bucks]]! |
| 476 | * When Spock declines a position in the Vulcan Science Academy, we get this back and forth. |
| 477 | -->'''Sarek:''' Spock, you've made a commitment to honor the Vulcan way-\ |
| 478 | '''Spock''': At the moment, Father, I can think of no greater way to honor our race than to attend Starfleet as the first Half-Vulcan.\ |
| 479 | '''Linkara (as Spock)''': [[Series/StarTrekDiscovery You can tell that adopted sister I have but never mention that she can be put into the Science Academy instead.]]\ |
| 480 | '''Linkara (as Sarek)''': Uh, right... I'm, uh... I'm sure that that... that will be quite logical... Yeah... |
| 481 | * Linkara's whiteboard outside of his office has a few chuckles: |
| 482 | ** Linkara's top priority on the board: FIX NEUTRO. |
| 483 | ** Numerous items on the whiteboard involving suggestions in case Linkara goes up against Pilo in the Contest of Champions: |
| 484 | *** Linkara himself wonders if there's a rock punching geology class, and if it's available online. |
| 485 | *** Snowflame suggests having Linkara go against Pilo in a staring contest. |
| 486 | *** The 90's Kid, as usual, suggests guns, which leads to a follow-up note from Erin asking him to take a class in gun safety. |
| 487 | [[/folder]] |
| 488 | |
| 489 | [[folder:518: Star Trek: The Next Generation #4]] |
| 490 | * This bit as Captain Picard is recording his log at the start of the comic. |
| 491 | -->'''Picard:''' ...I'm afraid I may have doomed everyone aboard her when I gave the order to initiate the maneuver, in this particular instance.\ |
| 492 | '''Linkara (as Picard):''' This is what we in Starfleet call an "oopsie-daisy". |
| 493 | * The comic art has the Enterprise crew always making some type of exaggerated pose. |
| 494 | -->'''Picard:''' You'll look at me, when I am addressing you on my vessel, Q!\ |
| 495 | '''Linkara (as Picard):''' (''constantly making poses'') Second, you'll stop posing every where!\ |
| 496 | '''Linkara (as Q):''' (''also making poses'') That is not me, Mon Capitaine! That's just happening!\ |
| 497 | '''Linkara (as Picard):''' My God, he's right! What are we doing with ourselves!? |
| 498 | * Linkara joking about the security's helmet design, with him wearing a colander on his head. |
| 499 | -->'''Ensign Milzoff:''' There is some concern among the lay people, but we're handling it, sir!\ |
| 500 | '''Linkara (as Milzoff):''' For some reason, as soon as they look at me, they start laughing! I must have a very trustworthy face! |
| 501 | * At one point, Captain Picard punches Q. |
| 502 | -->'''Picard:''' But then you always said we humans had that violence in us!\ |
| 503 | '''Linkara (as Picard):''' I've gotta say... I'm starting to like it! Worf! Get me a baseball bat! |
| 504 | * When Wesley comes on to the bridge. |
| 505 | -->'''Riker:''' Ensign Crusher, please take the OP station!\ |
| 506 | '''Linkara:''' Man, that station really needs to be nerfed! |
| 507 | * In order to figure out the situation with the clone, Linkara went so far as to contact Insano. |
| 508 | -->'''Linkara''': His exact words were "Clones are crap, what do you think I am, a hack?" and hung up on me. |
| 509 | * While it's in the middle of a tense scene, Harvey [[MoodWhiplash assumes]] Linkara ''genuinely'' being unaware of the finale of Spoony's VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII review and cloning is him doing a bit. |
| 510 | [[/folder]] |
| 511 | |
| 512 | [[folder:519: Star Trek #1 (Gold Key)]] |
| 513 | * The title card: Linkara trying to hold back a crazed Kirk from attacking [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 Groot]]. |
| 514 | * When a giant plant tree rescues the Enterprise crew from a carnivorous plant: |
| 515 | -->'''Linkara:''' Well, aren't you going to thank Groot for his help!? |
| 516 | * As Linksano explains, Linkara eventually came around to accepting his help with cloning Spoony after being assured he ''wasn't'' trying to take over the world. Linksano then wiped Linkara's memory of it and began trying to clone him [[InstantlyProvenWrong as to try and take over the world]]. |
| 517 | [[/folder]] |
| 518 | |
| 519 | [[folder:520: Silent Hill: Hunger]] |
| 520 | * Right as Linkara is about to start the review, [[HereWeGoAgain the Silent Hill fog rolls in]]... [[NoSell and after a mildly bemused non-reaction, Linkara just claps his hands twice,]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu and the fog immediately vanishes.]] |
| 521 | * At the beginning of the comic, it's stated that storefronts in Silent Hill ended up "shattered, vandalized". Linkara's reaction? |
| 522 | -->'''Linkara:''' (panicking) NOT THE SILENT HILL PIZZA HUT! They made the slices look like little Pyramid Heads! |
| 523 | * The above moment is immediately followed by the narration in the comic stating that a mist is consuming the entire town "like something desperate, alive, '''hungry'''." |
| 524 | -->'''Linkara:''' Well again, this wouldn't be a problem if we still had THE SILENT HILL PIZZA HUT! |
| 525 | * When Doug, the main character of this comic, is walking through a park, Linkara notices said park's "unusually green glow" and wonders if [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Mr. Burns]] is dumping his toxic waste there. Cue the clip of [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E12MargeVsTheMonorail Burns and Smithers doing just that in a park from Springfield]]. |
| 526 | * In the same scene as above, Doug spots a woman "necking" a man, in the sense of literally eating his neck. |
| 527 | -->'''Linkara (as the Woman):''' Mmm... You taste like [[RunningGag grape jelly and mustard]]. |
| 528 | * On the subject of the woman eating the man, the narration has this to say: |
| 529 | -->'''Narration:''' So now we reach the point in our tale where our intrepid reporter starts to lose it, because there are only two logical possibilities before him.\ |
| 530 | '''Linkara:''' One: elves. Two: vampire elves. |
| 531 | * A bit later in the story, after Doug has encountered an EvilDoll among other things, we get a BrickJoke. |
| 532 | -->'''Narration:''' There were only a couple of rational explanations that might cover what I was experiencing.\ |
| 533 | '''Linkara:''' [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Evil living doll vampire elves!]] |
| 534 | * After [[JustForFun/OneMarioLimit Mario]], Doug's boss, is killed off, Linkara puts his hand on his chest (as if like he was paying respect for the character) and hums the GameOver music from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''. |
| 535 | [[/folder]] |
| 536 | |
| 537 | [[folder:521: The Thing: The Northman Nightmare]] |
| 538 | [[/folder]] |
| 539 | |
| 540 | [[folder:522: Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors]] |
| 541 | * When [[Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare Maggie Burroughs]] meets Ash at his house, she says that she and Doctor Neil Gordon "believe that there is a special group of people--"focal magnets" for the supernatural--that will allow [them] to combat the unnatural evils in the world.": |
| 542 | -->'''Linkara (as Ash):''' Look, I already told that other guy, I'm not interested in [[Film/TheAvengers2012 the Avengers Initiative]]. |
| 543 | * When Russell gets his hands on the Necronomicon and calls it "the key to Project: Black Book": |
| 544 | -->'''Linkara (as Russell):''' [[Series/BlackBooks Your bookstore will be mine, Bernard]]! ''It will be mine''! |
| 545 | * At one point, Director Russell discusses with Agent Carter (no relation to the OTHER Series/AgentCarter) and brings up the possibilities with bringing Freddy into the program: |
| 546 | -->'''Linkara (as Carter):''' Buuut isn't he a psychopath and a mass murderer?\ |
| 547 | '''Linkara (as Russell):''' [[TakeThat Carter, you realize you work for the U.S. Government, right?]] |
| 548 | * After Freddy is transformed into his human form and appears naked in front of Russell, the latter says they have a lot of questions for the murderer: |
| 549 | -->'''Linkara (as Russell):''' Although I can see one question answered right away. The glove IS to [[CompensatingForSomething compensate for something]]. |
| 550 | * Maggie states at one point that bringing all the survivors together will help identify a common trait that can be used to stop monsters like Freddy and Jason: |
| 551 | -->'''Linkara:''' You say that, but [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Laurie Strode survived Michael Myers multiple times]], and all that ended up doing was shattering the space-time continuum, so that now there are like [[AlternateContinuity FOUR timelines]]! |
| 552 | * When Russell shows that he has Freddy's glove and states that's the source of the psychopath's power: |
| 553 | -->'''Linkara (annoyingly confused):''' Okay, 1. Were you just carrying that thing around with you under your arm for six months? 2. Where the hell did you get the idea that his GLOVE was the source of his power?\ |
| 554 | ''(cue the clip of Freddy from ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'' with the [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} Power Glove]], shouting to his victims "Hey! You forgot the Power Glove!")''\ |
| 555 | '''Linkara:''' ''({{Beat}}, as his eyes look to both sides before looking at the camera)'' [[IHaveNothingToSayToThat Fair enough.]] |
| 556 | [[/folder]] |
| 557 | |
| 558 | [[folder:523: 10th Anniversary Episode (Spider-Man: Smoke and Mirrors)]] |
| 559 | * Linkara finds the Jackal saying that only about five years has passed in-universe since the original Clone Saga to be a very egregious example of ComicBookTime: |
| 560 | -->'''Jackal:''' Quite an interesting half a decade you've had!\ |
| 561 | '''Linkara:''' Considering in real time about twenty years had passed, this "half a decade" included the original ''Franchise/StarWars'' Trilogy, several presidents, ''all'' of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', ''and'' the fall of the Soviet Union... I'd say, ''yeah'', it was! |
| 562 | * Linkara finally comes back to ''Spider-Man'' #56, the comic that started it all, and starts musing on how his horizon on comics and what constitutes truly awful storytelling in the medium has widened and changed a lot in the 10 years that has passed since his first review, noticing that he now looks back on certain comics he before considered the worst of the worst as more SoBadItsGood in hindsight. He then turns back to the comic in question: |
| 563 | -->'''Linkara:''' So, revisiting this after a decade, is this storyline ''really'' that bad? ''(beat)'' OH ''GOD'', YES! If anything, I think it's actually gotten ''worse'' for me! I don't think the bottom of the barrel is quite enough for it! Could we bury it a few more feet underground?! |
| 564 | * The Gwen Stacy clone does a rather bad job of hiding the fact that she is a fake: |
| 565 | -->'''Clone Gwen:''' Spider-Man? Peter? What's happened to me? Help me. Please?\ |
| 566 | '''Linkara (as Gwen):''' ''(CreepyMonotone)'' Somehow, I know you're Spider-Man, Peter, and this is not instantly a giveaway that I'm not the real deal. ''Help me.'' |
| 567 | ** Then again, when the Gwen Clone prevents Spidey from punching the tar out of the Jackal: |
| 568 | --->'''Clone Gwen:''' Peter... Don't. It's me, Peter.\ |
| 569 | '''Linkara (as Gwen):''' ''(even more monotone)'' I'm sorry I'm being so emotional right now, Peter. I just can't control myself. |
| 570 | * The emotional scene with Aunt May struggling to fight her illness in spite of feeling "so tired", and Linkara finds that it is actually still a pretty effective sequence. He then points out that it was completely undermined by a later retcon: |
| 571 | -->'''Linkara:''' Boy, it'd really ''suck'' if it turned out she was just an actress hired by Norman Osborn as part of some convoluted revenge scheme... I'm with you, Aunt May. I am very, ''very'' tired. |
| 572 | * Once the Jackal's body had completed its reformatting process, he lets Peter and Ben up to speed on what he's been up to |
| 573 | -->'''Jackal:''' Ya know boys. I was monitoring you the whole time I was tanked up!\ |
| 574 | '''Linkara:''' You were monitoring them while you were drunk?\ |
| 575 | '''Jackal:''' Well, with a lil time out for CNN and the Playboy Channel!\ |
| 576 | '''Linkara:''' (grossed out) Eeew! You were jerking off in there too?! Is that what the pod juices were?!\ |
| 577 | [[/folder]] |
| 578 | |
| 579 | [[folder:524: Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth]] |
| 580 | * The title card, which depicts Linkara, Mirrorkara, Pinhead, and Thing-Tucker as [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency the Pillar Men.]] |
| 581 | * Linkara constantly riffing the taunts that Mirrorkara makes to him. |
| 582 | * The fact Linkara does the review tied up. |
| 583 | * One of the things, which is written on the Board is how "[[IKnewIt Every one called it]]". |
| 584 | * Another thing written on the Board is Viga telling Linkara to pay his rent and not to use the basement for battles. |
| 585 | * Linkara getting his new attire on, while Jaeris and Erin wait, with a montage of what (whacky things) they do during that time. By the time that Linkara shows his new attire, they have fallen asleep! |
| 586 | [[/folder]] |
| 587 | |
| 588 | [[folder:525: Fantastic Four #52 (Black Panther)]] |
| 589 | * Linkara thinking the art work makes Black Panther look like a giant. |
| 590 | * When Wyatt Wingfoot (who spent the first half of the comic sleeping) helps the Fantastic Four: |
| 591 | -->'''Wyatt Wingfoot:''' You over looked one factor. Some times a man with no super powers can tip the scales for, or against you!\ |
| 592 | '''Linkara (As Wyatt):''' Your knock out darts had no effect on a man who sleeps twenty hours a day! |
| 593 | * "Can you play ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' on your Rock!?" |
| 594 | * "The Wakanda [[Literature/TheHungerGames Hunger Games]] are weird!" |
| 595 | * When T'Challa's Emissary contacts Wakanda: |
| 596 | -->'''Reed Richards:''' He took a metal device from inside his toga. But, it's so small! Can he actually transmit a message half way round the globe...with that!?\ |
| 597 | '''Linkara:''' [[SarcasmMode Totally unrealistic!]] [[TechnologyMarchesOn (Pulls out his Phone)]] Hang on, I'm going to tweet about this! |
| 598 | * The running gag of [[ValuesDissonance 1960s casual racism]]. At least until Wingfoot turns out to be a MagicalNativeAmerican, when Linkara starts the gag, but then realizes that's still a trope today. |
| 599 | [[/folder]] |
| 600 | |
| 601 | [[folder:526: Marvel Comics #1 (Human Torch)]] |
| 602 | * "[[AsYouKnow As you all know]], I've been working on a synthetic man--an exact replica of a human being!!" |
| 603 | -->'''Linkara (as Horton):''' [[TakeThat I call it]]...Creator/LoganPaul! |
| 604 | * "[[Literature/HortonHearsAWho Horton hears a]] 'Oh God, no'..." |
| 605 | * As Sardo explains his plot to his henchman: |
| 606 | -->'''Red''': But steel can't boin!\ |
| 607 | '''Sardo''': Look dope - that guy in the pool is the Human Torch - and he can ''melt steel!!''\ |
| 608 | '''Linkara''': 9/11 conspiracy-theorists ''love'' the Human Torch. |
| 609 | * When the Torch deals with the villains by killing them: |
| 610 | -->'''Linkara:''' Because this is the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] and [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness we don't care]]. |
| 611 | * When the Torch proclaims that "no one will ever use me for selfish gain - or crime!" |
| 612 | -->'''Linkara (as the Torch)''': Nope! No siree! [[ForegoneConclusion No one will EVER use me for evil intent, or destroying cities full of people, or attacking other heroes, or anything like that in the next eighty years!]] |
| 613 | * TheStinger: |
| 614 | -->'''Horton''': When I finished, I found I had surpassed anything that any scientist had ever done.\ |
| 615 | '''Linkara (as Horton)''': Suck it Einstein! ''I'' invented a robot that's always on fire! |
| 616 | [[/folder]] |
| 617 | |
| 618 | [[folder:527: The Incredible Hulk #181 (Wolverine)]] |
| 619 | * The title card, with Wolverine's costume now Canadian flag-themed, and with spoons for claws. Also, Linkara off to the side of Wolvie and Hulk's fight, looking distraught at an arrow pointing at him that reads "Winner fights Linkara!" |
| 620 | * When Linkara notices that the sky on the cover is red: |
| 621 | -->'''Linkara''': Oh God, you three, RUN! A DC Crisis event is about to start! |
| 622 | * "He's here! The world's first and greatest ''Canadian super-hero!''" |
| 623 | -->'''Linkara''': Um, ''excuse me'', I think ''Captain Canuck'' might have something to say about that! ''(beat)'' I've never read Captain Canuck, I don't know if it's any good. |
| 624 | * "Ol' Greenskin has been lured to Quebec, Canada as part of a fantastic plan to cure the [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal wild-eyed woods-beast called the Wendigo--]]" |
| 625 | -->'''Linkara''': [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Will the wily Wendigo get its will withered? Well, why not?]] ''(cheeky grin)'' |
| 626 | * Wolverine tells the Hulk that "'''moving''' is the thing I do '''best!'''" |
| 627 | -->'''Linkara''': So when he's always proclaiming [[CharacterCatchphrase "I'm the best there is at what I do,"]] he's talking about calisthenics? |
| 628 | * "Adamantium claws - a common feature of wolverines." |
| 629 | * "HULK HAVE PROBLEM WITH COMPLEX INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS!" |
| 630 | * [[ARareSentence "It's an odd day where I have to say, 'he was]] ''[[ARareSentence stabbed]]'' [[ARareSentence unconscious.'"]] |
| 631 | * Upon [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent voicing]] one of the Quebecois characters: |
| 632 | -->'''Linkara (as Georges)''': What's worse, [[LampshadeHanging Linkara is doing a terrible French accent]], all because of your mad scheme! |
| 633 | [[/folder]] |
| 634 | |
| 635 | [[folder:528: The New Mutants #88 (Deadpool)]] |
| 636 | * The many, many lampshades on how [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Deadpool isn't quite the funny fourth-wall breaker he'd become later at this point]]. At one point, Deadpool makes some ''very'' generic antagonist one liners, to which Linkara awkwardly holds up a button which plays studio laughter. |
| 637 | * The title card featuring Deadpool reading a book to a terrified Linkara in bed as an homage to ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' and the PG-13 holiday-themed cut of ''Film/Deadpool2'' of featuring Creator/FredSavage in the same setting. |
| 638 | ** Deadpool is also drawn with Liefeldian proportions. |
| 639 | [[/folder]] |
| 640 | |
| 641 | [[folder:529: Batman Returns: The Official Comic Adaptation]] |
| 642 | * After a poodle manages to catch a Batarang with its teeth, Linkara!Batman adds the poodle to his list of arch nemeses, alongside [[RunningGag One-Face and rock and roll]]. |
| 643 | * When the Penguin tries to murder Catwoman in reaction to her rejecting him: |
| 644 | -->'''Linkara''': You know the date is going badly when [[ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet Thanos was doing a better job at courting someone]]. |
| 645 | * Linkara is a bit stunned that the clowns know enough about engineering to tinker with the Batmobile. Boffo honks in offense. |
| 646 | ** When Boffo first reappears which Linkara mentions the [[CallBack Atop the Fourth Wall film]], in which [[NoodleIncident Linksano somehow turned him into a jukebox]], something which he calls out the good doctor for, since [[ItMakesSenseInContext he ended up having to do his own taxes that year.]] |
| 647 | * When Batman plays the Penguin’s taunting that insults Gotham City's populace, Linkara says that [[TakeThat nowadays that would guarantee the Penguin’s election]]. |
| 648 | [[/folder]] |
| 649 | |
| 650 | [[folder:530: The Punisher in Red X-Mas]] |
| 651 | * The title card shows the Punisher pulling a gun on Linkara dressed as Santa, who looks terrified. |
| 652 | * The story opens with gangsters refusing to give money to a man dressed as Santa (actually the Punisher in disguise) by telling him they don't believe in Santa Claus: |
| 653 | -->'''Linkara''': Punisher! These people don't believe in Santa Claus!\ |
| 654 | '''Punisher''': Oh Yeah? Well, that'll change right now! (''cocks gun'') |
| 655 | * After noticing the Punisher inexplicably has the skull symbol in his eyes, Linkara makes it a RunningGag of saying he is wearing skull-shaped contact lenses. |
| 656 | [[/folder]] |
| 657 | |
| 658 | [[folder:531: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Comic Adaptation]] |
| 659 | * Not even a minute in, and Linkara hits a RageBreakingPoint regarding ''Film/TheLastJedi'''s incredibly vocal decriers. He also points out that whether you love it or hate it, the new trilogy provided new material for ''Star Wars'' jokes. |
| 660 | * [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Linkara gushing about how gorgeous Poe Dameron is, even stroking Poe's image]]! |
| 661 | * When Kylo Ren is described as '' the dark First Order enforcer''. |
| 662 | -->'''Linkara:''' As opposed to the light-hearted First Order enforcer: Darth Snuggles! |
| 663 | * Linkara takes exception to Poe giving FN-2187 the name Finn. |
| 664 | -->'''Finn!Linkara:''' What, my name can't be Finn, it's not ridiculous enough for this universe! Why not, uh... Finndolar Gasnivasnorch! |
| 665 | * Rey has a rather sad life. |
| 666 | -->'''Rey:''' Well, don't give up hope. He might still show up -- whoever it is you're waiting for. I know all about waiting. For my family. They'll be back. One day.\ |
| 667 | '''Rey!Linkara:''' Yes, BB-8, just keep waiting like me. It's done wonders for my life! Look! I own my own stick! |
| 668 | * Linkara's take on the infamous scene of Kylo Ren destroying a console in a fit of rage: |
| 669 | -->'''Kylo Ren:''' Anything else?\ |
| 670 | '''Guard!Linkara:''' Well... I was going to say we could track them, but [[NiceJobFixingItVillain you just destroyed the console, sir]]... |
| 671 | * Linkara declaring ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' (and all the weird stuff that happens in it) to be canon after a collage of Han's past deeds includes an image of him celebrating Life Day with Chewbacca's family. |
| 672 | -->'''Linkara:''' Say it, Han!\ |
| 673 | '''Han Solo:''' It's true...all of it... |
| 674 | * The follow-up to the "That's not how the Force works!" line: |
| 675 | -->'''Han!Linkara:''' We don't have any [[ObliviousToHisOwnDescription old men]] to sacrifice to the vill-[[ExplainExplainOhCrap Oh, crap!]] |
| 676 | [[/folder]] |
| 677 | |
| 678 | [[folder:532: Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #7]] |
| 679 | * The title card shows an atomic bomb going off while Weird Al's "Christmas at Ground Zero" plays. |
| 680 | * Luke goes out to stop a kid from being beaten. |
| 681 | -->'''Luke Cage:''' Be some bruisin' comin' up!\ |
| 682 | '''Linkara as Luke:''' And the best health insurance in the world ain't gonna cover what I'm gonna do! |
| 683 | * Linkara says if he replaced Luke Cage with Mr. T in the comic's opening action sequence it'd still make sense. The video's comments took it even further, talking about a crossover between the two and asking why it hasn't happened yet. |
| 684 | * Linkara interprets a "no sparking zone" joke as people having sex with sparklers. |
| 685 | * As the comic's villain reveals the computer that he's planning to use to detonate an atomic bomb, Linkara comments that the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids would scoff at it and claim that a TRS-80 can not only detonate 10 atomic bombs, but would also do so in color. |
| 686 | [[/folder]] |
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