| 1 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pjon13_6492.png]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[VideoGame/KaizoMarioWorld Moving faster than Pokey]] since 2007.]] |
| 3 | ->''"FOR THE LOVE OF BATMAN, JUMP! ''''' BILL COSBY!''''' IS ANGRY! STIMPY! I NEED SPACKLE!"'' |
| 4 | -->-- '''Proton Jon''', [[ComedicSociopathy suffering for his art]] |
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| 6 | [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ProtonJonSA Proton Jon]] (real name: Jonathan Carlton Wheeler) is a Canadian [[LetsPlay Let's Player]], game collector, and Website/{{Twitch}} streamer, part of the original group of Video Let's Players from Website/SomethingAwful. Like most of them, he created a Website/YouTube account to host the videos he made. One day, he posted a [[https://youtu.be/Ua6pbz3ROvQ two]] [[https://youtu.be/yiCm9FYZhBA part]] LP of a level from ''VideoGame/KaizoMarioWorld''. It became a huge hit, and one of the seminal LP videos on Website/YouTube, eventually leading to him becoming a [=YouTube=] Partner on October 18, 2010. |
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| 8 | Many [=LPers=], some of whom have become quite popular in their own right, [[PromotedFanboy list him as an inspiration]]. Depending on both when a video he's done was made and whatever's happening in the game he's playing, his commentary style can alternate between [[DeadpanSnarker wry, witty commentary]] and [[BigWhat hysterical]], [[ClusterFBomb profane]], and [[{{Angrish}} incomprehensible]] rambling, sometimes in the same sentence. [[FountainOfMemes Many]] of his unique turns of phrase have gone [[MemeticMutation viral]], sometimes to his chagrin. |
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| 10 | His most popular videos are his ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' [[GameMod romhack]] [=LPs=] and his posts of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' matches with his friends, both of which are on indefinite hiatus, especially the former, due to having become burned out on Mario World romhacks as a whole. He is perhaps more infamously known for his long-running Let's Play of ''VideoGame/Superman64'', a playthrough that, between [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames the quality of the game in question]], the significant amount of research and editing that goes into each episode, and real-life events surrounding the LP itself, such as a person Jon was trying to buy equipment from straight-up ''dying''...yeah, it's no wonder Jon himself considers this LP cursed. Although [[DevelopmentHell still incomplete after 10 years]], Jon does still plan to finish it... eventually. |
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| 12 | In addition to his Let's Plays, he also did an occasional brief review series called "You Should Play/Avoid This", starting with ''VideoGame/BrothersATaleOfTwoSons''. |
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| 14 | As of the mid-2010s, Jon has made streaming on [[https://www.twitch.tv/protonjon his Twitch page]] his main source of content, with Let's Plays and other [=YouTube=] videos on the side. Signature among the varying types of streams he does are "Game Clearing" streams, where he attempts to beat as many of the unfinished games in his '''MASSIVE''' collection as he can, and various types of "Fortune Cookie" streams, where Jon rolls a set number of randomly-selected games (usually 5, with additional options added by whomever is commentating with him), and then puts up a poll to see which one the stream audience wants to see him play. |
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| 16 | These streams have led to some...interesting in-jokes, such as a full-blown multiverse of "Alt-Jons" and other miscellaneous characters large enough to warrant a dedicated fanwiki, which can be found [[https://jonaverse.fandom.com/wiki/Jonaverse_Wiki here]]. Also affiliated with the stream is an ImageBooru for stream fan-art, which can be perused [[https://proton.booru.org/index.php here]]. You can also view a spreadsheet of most, if not all, of the games Jon has streamed [[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Mgek1RfPh_xRn3ZmlFKvN0fbCSK7gyarhDcFiRDLIac/edit#gid=1270383314 here]], and the many, ''many'' games in Jon's game collection [[https://backloggery.com/ProtonJon here.]] |
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| 18 | Since Website/{{Twitch}} automatically deletes archived streams after two months, Jon created [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXNC1mHmQISOIFMMRUJN4pA a second [=YouTube=] channel]], where all of his streams will ([[ScheduleSlip eventually]]) be uploaded. Currently, barring any issues on Jon's end, newer streams are generally uploaded to this channel roughly a day after they initially went live. |
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| 20 | Along with {{LetsPlay/Chuggaaconroy}} and LetsPlay/NintendoCapriSun, he is also part of a collaborative LP group known as LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys. Jon occasionally does dedicated streams with the Guys (and the occasional guest) on his Twitch whenever the trio meet up to record footage, and as of 2018, the group hosts an annual live charity marathon on Jon's Twitch called The Runaway Guys Colosseum. Tropes related to these streams generally belong on the Guys' page. |
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| 22 | As of May 2021, Jon is also a member of the re-refreshed [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGB4yHg_Pg_CigeTxm_rygg NormalBoots]] collective, joining longtime friends and collaborators WebVideo/TheCompletionist, WebVideo/PeanutButterGamer, and [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyS4xQE6DK4_p3qXQwJQAyA DidYouKnowGaming?]] creator Shane Gill, as well as fellow newcomers WebVideo/{{Chadtronic}} and [[https://www.youtube.com/user/LadyPelvicGaming Lady Pelvic]]. |
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| 24 | Finally, alongside his regular Twitch streams, Jon currently co-hosts two podcasts: a weekly gaming podcast called [[http://topdownperspective.podbean.com Top Down Perspective]] (work page [[Podcast/TopDownPerspective here.]]), and [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOcQAZ2-ilHJogEw0xTRptUv46mClTK3U The Disc Only Podcast]] (work page [[Podcast/DiscOnlyPodcast here.]]), an inside joke taken way too far that generally airs live via Jon's Twitch page the first Tuesday of each month, in which Jon, LetsPlay/TomFawkes, [[LetsPlay/StephenPlays Stephen]] [[WebVideo/StephenVlog Georg]], and WebVideo/The8BitDrummer discuss everything from things that have happened in their personal lives to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_of_the_Border_(attraction) South of the Border]] tourist trap. |
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| 26 | As of 2018, he's married to {{LetsPlay/Lucahjin}}; the two have also done a few Let's Plays together for her channel, stretching back to around when the two were dating- see Lucah's page for tropes related to those. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | As of March 2021, Proton Jon has SIX [=LPs=] completely recorded and are planned to be released on a regular schedule. More details [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJkabwJHeuw here.]] |
| 29 | ---- |
| 30 | !![[DevelopmentHell When it's done]]: |
| 31 | * ''VideoGame/Superman64'' |
| 32 | |
| 33 | !!Current Let's Plays: |
| 34 | * ''[[VideoGame/JetSetRadio Jet Set Radio Future]]''[[note]]known as "[[OperationBlank Project: Sweet Bike]]" back when Jon was teasing this game, this LP is unique in that the game's been modded such that images from outside the game can replace the pre-existing graffiti tags, which is much preferred over the game's generally lackluster graffiti editor. [[OfficialFanSubmittedContent Art submissions]] are currently being taken on Website/{{Twitter}} using the hashtag #[=JSRFGraffiti=]. Currently stuck on hiatus, as the Xbox Jon was using to make this possible broke mid-LP.[[/note]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | !!Previous Let's Plays: |
| 37 | * ''[[VideoGame/BatmanSunsoft Batman: Return of the Joker (GB)]]'' (One-shot LP) |
| 38 | * ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'' (a four-player race to the finish versus LetsPlay/NintendoCapriSun, LetsPlay/{{PCULL44444}} and LetsPlay/SuperJeenius) |
| 39 | * ''VideoGame/BlasterMasterZero'' |
| 40 | * ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow'' (initially done to help promote the ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'' Kickstarter, which featured Jon as the leader of one of the Backer "clans") |
| 41 | * ''VideoGame/CrashNTheBoys'' |
| 42 | * ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' (with LetsPlay/{{PCULL44444}}) |
| 43 | * ''[[VideoGame/DoubleDragonII Double Dragon II: The Revenge]]'' (with [[WebVideo/WeirdVideoGames Heisanevilgenius]])[[note]]Originally posted back in 2013, this Let's Play was finally concluded in 2021 after Jon was able to recover a backup of the remaining footage, which he had believed to have been lost due to his laptop breaking[[/note]] |
| 44 | * ''[[VideoGame/DonkeyKong94 Donkey Kong]]'' (the 1994 Platform/GameBoy remake) |
| 45 | * ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1'' ([[Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem All]] [[Platform/GameBoyColor three]] [[Platform/GameBoyAdvance versions]]) |
| 46 | ** ''[[UnlicensedGame Donkey Kong Country 4]]'' (played in its entirety as a BaitAndSwitch joke in the second episode) |
| 47 | ** The ''Donkey Kong Country'' Competition Cartridge (played in the fifth episode [[ItMakesSenseInContext to override the trial period of the main game]]). |
| 48 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DonkeyKong5TheJourneyOfOverTimeAndSpace'' (Well, in a ''[[WebVideo/SonicTheHedgehog2SpecialEdition Sonic 2: Special Edition]]'' sense, anyway. [[ItsALongStory It's]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext complicated.]])]] |
| 49 | * ''[[VideoGame/{{Ducktales}} Ducktales (NES)]]'' (One-shot LP; with {{LetsPlay/Lucahjin}}) |
| 50 | * ''VideoGame/GunstarHeroes'' (with WebVideo/TheCompletionist) |
| 51 | * ''VideoGame/KabukiQuantumFighter'' (One-shot LP) |
| 52 | * ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand'' (One-shot LP featuring both regular and Extra Game playthroughs) |
| 53 | * ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' |
| 54 | * ''VideoGame/KnyttStories'' |
| 55 | * ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario's]] [[{{Edutainment}} Early Years]]'' |
| 56 | * ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'' (the entire trilogy) |
| 57 | ** ''Ninja Gaiden Shadow'' (One-shot LP) |
| 58 | * ''{{VideoGame/Pikmin}}'' (mostly blind, via LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys) |
| 59 | * ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' (twice; once with LetsPlay/SuperJeenius, and again with Creator/DCDouglas) |
| 60 | * Numerous [[GameMod romhacks]] of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' |
| 61 | ** ''VideoGame/KaizoMarioWorld'' |
| 62 | * ''Superman'' for the Platform/GameBoy (played in its entirety [[TwoLinesNoWaiting during the fifth episode]] of his ''Superman 64'' LP) |
| 63 | * ''VideoGame/SuperAdventureIslandII'' |
| 64 | * ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' (both the main game and a romhack, ''Meta/Omega [[BossGame Boss Battles]]'') |
| 65 | * ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'' |
| 66 | * ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1989'' |
| 67 | ** ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan'' (One-shot LP) |
| 68 | * ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTriForceHeroes'' (with LetsPlay/TomFawkes and LetsPlay/JoshJepson) |
| 69 | * ''[[VideoGame/TheLionKing The Lion King (SNES)]]'' (One-shot LP) |
| 70 | * ''VideoGame/ViceProjectDoom'' |
| 71 | * ''VideoGame/WarioLandSuperMarioLand3'' |
| 72 | |
| 73 | !!Upcoming Let's Plays: |
| 74 | * ''VideoGame/StarFox2'' [[note]]Announced during the November 29, 2016 charity catchup stream.[[/note]] |
| 75 | |
| 76 | !!Status unknown: |
| 77 | * ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorldTheGame'' (with [=TheAwfulgamerHD=], [=MD7=], and Exfauxsure) First part is found [[https://youtu.be/gIezc6Xgbts&list=ELX2lQRmZixOc&index=1&feature=plpp_video here]]. |
| 78 | * ''VideoGame/CastleCrashers'' (with [=TheAwfulgamerHD=], [=MD7=], and Exfauxsure) |
| 79 | |
| 80 | !! Games played on stream: |
| 81 | %% |
| 82 | %% As Jon has played a truly staggering amount of games on stream, please limit this section to ones he has completed or played extensively on stream. |
| 83 | %% |
| 84 | * ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' |
| 85 | * ''VideoGame/BombermanActZero'' (online 8 player matches) |
| 86 | * ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' (blind, available on his second [=YouTube=] channel) |
| 87 | * ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' (blind) |
| 88 | * ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3'' (blind, with [=EightEK=]) |
| 89 | * ''VideoGame/DeadRising3'' (blind, with [[LetsPlay/Pcull44444 Patty]]) |
| 90 | * ''VideoGame/FarCry3BloodDragon'' (blind, incomplete) |
| 91 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' (blind, part of Four Job Fiesta) |
| 92 | * ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' (with [=NYVideoGameFreak=]) |
| 93 | * ''VideoGame/TheJackboxPartyPack'' |
| 94 | * ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3'' (mostly blind) |
| 95 | * ''VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar'' (Colosseum donation incentive, with {{LetsPlay/Chuggaaconroy}}) |
| 96 | * ''VideoGame/{{Pepsiman}}'' (a Stream Highlight on his main channel) |
| 97 | * ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' (blind, with Exfauxsure) |
| 98 | * ''Videogame/SaintsRowIV'' (with LetsPlay/{{PCULL44444}}, available on the second channel) |
| 99 | * ''VideoGame/TouhouLunaNights'' |
| 100 | * ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' (Definitive Edition, mostly blind, Colosseum donation incentive) |
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| 102 | ---- |
| 103 | !!His Let's Plays and other videos provide examples of: |
| 104 | |
| 105 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 107 | [[folder:A-D]] |
| 108 | * AccidentalMisnaming: A stream in August 2016 featured the first appearance of Jon's friend Brian on co-commentary. During the stream, it was revealed that his name is actually ''Ryan'' and Jon had been calling him the wrong name for months, and apparently Ryan never noticed until then. To make matters worse, Jon claims that when they first met, he actually got Ryan's name ''right'', but then ''someone else'' called him Brian and he responded to it, so Jon figured Ryan was the wrong name. |
| 109 | * ActuallyPrettyFunny: |
| 110 | ** LetsPlay/DeceasedCrab hooked him up with a ''VideoGame/KnyttStories'' game entitled [[https://youtu.be/iGvZa3tiYwY "Don't Eat the Mushroom"]]. Guess what you have to do to advance the game. After [[spoiler:being surprised by Advertising/TheBurgerKing in front of a background of fire while [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic "What Is Love?"]] plays on infinite loop]], he's legitimately delighted by DC's discovery. |
| 111 | --->'''Jon:''' ''Wha''--aw, cool! This is awesome! Why couldn't the real game have been like this? |
| 112 | ** While he normally ''[[BerserkButton HATES]]'' [[InvisibleBlock Invisible Coin Blocks]], in [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mtpiy_let-s-play-gamelun1-s-mario-romhack-stages-2-and-3_videogames this]] romhack he encounters an inventive use of them that's ActuallyPrettyFunny at 5:38. |
| 113 | --->'''Jon:''' '''''[[NoIndoorVoice YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!]]''''' *chuckles* Okay, that ''was'' kinda funny.[[labelnote: Unfortunately...]][=YouTube=] has since muted the video due to a copyright claim, so you'll have to imagine it.[[/labelnote]] |
| 114 | * AdaptationDistillation: Jon condenses the entire plot of ''Tri Force Heroes'' into a single paragraph. |
| 115 | -->'''Jon:''' The entire game takes place in the kingdom of Hytopia. Princess Styla is the princess there. [[IdiotBall She's not very smart.]] [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything She opened a gift that was vibrating.]] She got cursed. Now she's dressed like she's [[TakeThat at an anime convention or a hockey game.]] Her father spends the entire game [[OcularGushers going like this]]: ''(cue BigNo)''. Her father put out a call for heroes. For some reason, you're the Link from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds A Link Between Worlds]]'' [[WordOfGod because Nintendo said so.]] Madame Couture gives you [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman magical costumes that give you superpowers.]] Every other NPC is [[NominalImportance pretty much useless.]] ''(cue BigNo)'' |
| 116 | * AgeGapRomance: Married to {{LetsPlay/Lucahjin}}, who is nine years older than him. |
| 117 | * AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: |
| 118 | ** InUniverse, he and Jirard -- after discussing whether [[Franchise/StreetFighter M. Bison]] is an easy boss or not, decide to then use the other definition of "easy" and claim that M. Bison ReallyGetsAround. "After all, he wears a lot of red leather!" |
| 119 | ** [[invoked]]Courtesy of the livestreams, [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit the Frog]] is given sandwiches as a TrademarkFavoriteFood. |
| 120 | * AndThatsTerrible: The original quote, given a shoutout in ''Superman 64'' part 4. |
| 121 | * {{Angrish}}: When he gets ''really'' frustrated, he sometimes lapses into this. The entire second half of Kaizo Special Stage 2 is basically one long string of it. |
| 122 | * AppropriatedAppellation: According to an interview he gave, the name "[=ProtonJon=]" started out as a mildly insulting high school nickname based on the weak connection that Jon was a fan of Proto Man from ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' and they were studying protons in physics. |
| 123 | * AprilFoolsDay: |
| 124 | ** If the day a regular stream airs happens to fall on April Fools' Day, Jon usually does a Misfortune Cookie stream, a Fortune Cookie stream in which a bunch of crazy, chaotic rules replace the usual ones. |
| 125 | ** April Fools' Day in 2021 instead fell on a Thursday- the day Jon, following his return to making [=YouTube=] videos, set for uploads of whatever the main LP was at the time. So, when viewers went to check Jon's [=YouTube=] channel that afternoon, expecting Episode 4 of ''VideoGame/BlasterMasterZero''... they instead got the long-awaited tenth episode of ''VideoGame/Superman64''. Not a BaitAndSwitch, either- ''the actual thing''. |
| 126 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: From the end of [[https://youtu.be/Ua6pbz3ROvQ Super Kaizo World Part 1]]: |
| 127 | -->'''Jon''': ''Oh fu-hu-hu-hu-hu-huck, I didn't imagine that''! Oh, what the hell! I have to do all that over again... rewind! ({{beat}}) ...''I'M OUT OF REWINDS''! AAARRRGH, I gotta do all that over again! ...and the phone's ringing! |
| 128 | * TheArtifact: His "Door Gods" Twitch emote, which stems from a RunningGag specific to his ''Dead Space'' streams with Patty from years ago. He repeatedly talked about replacing it with something else, but his Twitch channel ended up becoming so popular that he was given more emote slots faster than he could think of emotes to put in them, so it's still around to this day and fans occasionally find ways to revive the joke at unexpected moments in other games. |
| 129 | ** His Bomb emote was also originally a reference to his ''VideoGame/BombermanActZero'' matches, but since those faded from being a regular event, fans have repurposed it to refer to sub bombs (when a viewer gifts a large number of Twitch subs to chat members). |
| 130 | * AscendedFanboy: |
| 131 | ** Several of Jon's recurring Co Comms on his livestreams started off as fans of his before becoming a major part of his streams. These inlude Jewker, who was originally just someone following Jon's cookie streams who sniped his way into a (semi-)private match between Jon and his friend John(gamertag: [=GermanFatass=]). He's since gone on to become a chat favorite and something of a {{Foil}}/[[TheRival Rival]] to Dan (who coincidentally enough ALSO falls under this trope), and eventually became one of his most well known co comms. There's also Myohelo, who gained Jon's attention with his video "One Wesker Angel", which Jon loved so much that he modded him. |
| 132 | ** Jon himself counts as one with his involvement with ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'' Kickstarter. He himself sarcastically describes his reaction to being asked to help as being [[BlatantLies "not at all fanboy"]]. |
| 133 | --->'''Gmail message:''' OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD\ |
| 134 | '''Caption:''' [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Actual response I sent]]. |
| 135 | * AscendedMeme: Jon's monthly podcast "Disc Only" started in July 2020 is based on a joke segment for an earlier LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys Colosseum stream where the cast loaded up the Game Boy Player's boot screen without a cartridge in the device and talked over it for an hour. |
| 136 | * AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption: "[[https://youtu.be/zrxgIRUHnBM&t=20m40s There's actually a]] '''[[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING HELL]]'''!" |
| 137 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: A rather ''literal'' example in ''Resident Evil 5''. Both Jon and ''especially'' Jake have a tendency to, if they think they see the telltale glint of a treasure, forget everything they're doing and focus on getting the treasure. Including when they're in the middle of a boss battle. Made even ''more'' literal when Jon revealed that he had been diagnosed with adult ADHD. |
| 138 | * AuthorAppeal: Jon has several favorite pop culture figures he will sometimes structure projects around, including Batman, Captain Falcon, Robocop and the Ninja Turtles. |
| 139 | * AuthorVocabularyCalendar: Jon really likes the word "sassy". More recently (2014/15) he has also started using "sweet" and "sick" a lot as all-purpose intensifiers, especially in a MundaneMadeAwesome way. |
| 140 | ** He also really likes the phrase 'a hot minute'. |
| 141 | * BackToBackBadasses: At the end of Episode 6 of ''Aria of Sorrow'', Jon moves Soma behind Genya so they stand like this, then has Soma strike a pose. Much to Jon's dismay, Genya doesn't return Soma's supposed fistbump. |
| 142 | * BattleCry: |
| 143 | ** Since ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' he has started using "FOOOTBAAAAALL!" for this. As he's Canadian, he's referring to gridiron football, not UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball. |
| 144 | ** Jon gets a kick out of using the [[LethalJokeItem Student Witch Soul]] in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow''. |
| 145 | --->'''Jon:''' GO MY ATTACK KITTENS! |
| 146 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In [[https://youtu.be/FzGy5EQXl7o this video]], Jon says he approves of the romhack level made by one "Xanaboy", and recommends that he make more. Xanaboy does indeed make more, as can be seen in [[https://youtu.be/3620RnJn4mI&feature=channel this video]]. |
| 147 | * BerserkButton: |
| 148 | ** [[InvisibleBlock Invisible Blocks]]. These things are the bane of his existence. He got so fed up with them, he made [[https://youtu.be/-3XnhPmVk6Y an entire level full of them]] in Lunar Magic and had two of his friends play through them. |
| 149 | --->'''Jon:''' Stop it with the invisible coin blocks. They're not fu-- shit. |
| 150 | ** Jon heavily dislikes people that send him ROM hacks with level designs that have a GameBreakingBug that prevents him from progressing, forcing him to edit the level himself to fix it. He also gets upset when people copy and paste the original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' level designs into their ROM hacks, citing this as lazy. |
| 151 | ** People demanding new uploads for the ''Superman 64'' LP also triggers this. While people have made cracks at Jon for his upload schedule for a while, ''Superman 64'' has run into several snags and some time ago Jon ran into technical issues that have prevented new videos from happening. He's made a Facebook post about it, has mentioned it in the description of every video he's put out since the problem came up and brings it up often in his livestreams, but people keep asking him. In [[https://youtu.be/Lf_speIJMaw&t=1h6m3s one of his streams,]] he talked at length at his frustration about the comments and the situation in general. |
| 152 | ** In ''Yoshi's Island'', the Red Coin Fly Guys anger him to no end, as they only appear for a few seconds before flying away and never coming back, forcing Jon to restart the stage (or commit suicide to return to a mid-stage checkpoint) for another chance at grabbing the Coin and getting OneHundredPercentCompletion. |
| 153 | *** From the same LP, Bandits. Especially the ones hidden in the background. |
| 154 | ** As of mid-2017, [[BackseatDriver backseat gaming]] has become a '''huge''' one on his livestreams, primarily due to the large amounts of hostility backseaters tend to display, to the point where it could easily qualify as cyberbullying. He's cut games short more than once because of excessive backseaters, and has even considered banning '''''multiple''''' legitimately good games simply because of the amount of backseating he's gotten while playing them. |
| 155 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Reading the page, it should be obvious which LP this came up in. |
| 156 | -->'''Jon:''' FUCK YOU, SHPECHSEAL STAGE! FUCK YOU! DERE I GOT FUKIN PISSED, CHA HAPPEH?! |
| 157 | * BigWhat: Often. Whenever he plays a game blind, you're guaranteed to hear lots of these. |
| 158 | ** "My calling card: saying the word 'what' in a very high pitch!" |
| 159 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Q1GS5CGmgKU#t=1h18m3s Jon reacts this way]] when he hears that ''VideoGame/BombermanActZero'' is the 15th most-played game on Twitch. |
| 160 | ** His reaction to getting stuck behind a Chomp Rock in 5-Extra of ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' where he's normally supposed to ski right over it. |
| 161 | --->'''Jon:''' WHAT. WHAT. [[RuleOfThree WHAT.]] ''That can happen!?'' |
| 162 | * BigYes: During a stream when to respond to a friend on a chat apparently. |
| 163 | * BoobBasedGag: A RunningGag on his streams is his fans drawing female versions of him with ridiculously oversized boobs, including some [[ExaggeratedTrope the size of the universe itself.]] |
| 164 | * BornUnlucky: Though not as prominent as it is in his Runaway Guys co-ops, it still shows up in his solo work enough that he has the "[=protonLuck=]" Twitch emote for such occasions, which depicts a four-leaf clover on fire. |
| 165 | ** In any ''Yoshi's Island'' minigame with an automatic fail condition, Jon ends up getting it almost every time. |
| 166 | ** Inverted in ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow Aria of Sorrow]]'', where within the span of the first episode, he picks up several different Souls from a variety of enemies right from the get-go, and even a couple duplicates.[[note]]Souls are notoriously hard to collect and often require an extended amount of grinding just to get a handful.[[/note]] Even Jon himself was surprised, although less so since he made a point of investing in his Luck stat from the start of the game. |
| 167 | ** The trope frequently shows up in his real life as well, especially when [[StuckAtTheAirportPlot airports]] are involved. There was also the time he attempted to buy a new capture device, only to get an email some weeks/months later notifying him that the seller ''died'' before they could ship it to him. After buying another one from another seller, he found that it didn't even fix the problem he thought buying a new capture device would solve, and his old one was actually working fine. |
| 168 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs: |
| 169 | -->'''Jon:''' Is it a secret? Is it pizza? Is it secret pizza? |
| 170 | * BriefAccentImitation: Jon always pronounces "VideoGame/BubbleBobble" in a Brooklyn-like accent. |
| 171 | * BrokeTheRatingScale: As mentioned on the page itself, Jon will occasionally give out Type 2s: |
| 172 | ** ''Mario's Wacky World'' - 4 "Captain Falcons driving Sonic like he was an ''VideoGame/FZero'' car" out of 5. [--"Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!"--] |
| 173 | ** ''Super Metroid Omega Boss Battles'' - 4 [[VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe Henshin-A-Go-Go Baby's]] out of 5. |
| 174 | ** ''Resident Evil 5'' - LetsPlay/SuperJeenius gives it "[[ShapedLikeItself Resident Evil out of 10]]", Jon gives it "[[RunningGag Football out of 10]]". |
| 175 | * BuffySpeak: In [[https://youtu.be/m3rTvdO8778?t=2378 episode 19 of ''Yoshi's Island'']]: |
| 176 | -->'''Jon:''' Please don't be anything in this thing. Don't be the thing in the thing with the thing... please don't. |
| 177 | * ButThouMust: In one ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' ROM hack, there's a level that is called "Don't go here". Jon decides to ignore it and go there anyway, only to fall into a bottomless pit as soon as the level, causing him to say "Fine, I won't go there!" When Jon played a custom ''VideoGame/KnyttStories'' level called "Don't Eat the Mushroom", he decided to listen to the title, only for the game to suddenly finish for doing so. The former had him go with logic and listen while the latter reverses the trend. |
| 178 | * ByNoIMeanYes: Getting damaged by a [[GoddamnBats flying Cheep-Cheep]] in ''Mario's Wacky World'': |
| 179 | -->'''Jon:'''''That'' did not help! ...Maybe it did. |
| 180 | * CallBack: |
| 181 | ** At the end of the first episode of ''Wario Land'', a [[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Red Coin Fly Guy]] appears, followed by Wario with his Jet hat gleefully chasing it. |
| 182 | ** The final episode of ''Super Adventure Island 2'' has a part where Jon comments on how he's had to deal with the consequences of not keeping his mouth shut. This is immediately followed by a gag called "Consequences of Jon opening his mouth:" that scrolls a list of various memes and {{Running Gag}}s from both his Let's Plays and streams that he inadvertently created (including a {{Foreshadowing}} line saying "You doing the gambling minigame for this LP" despite his insistence that he would not be doing it). |
| 183 | * TheCameo: In TheStinger for Part 18 of ''Yoshi's Island'', Mega Baby Bowser is seen zooming up to the camera with his mouth open... then the Attack Kitty from ''Aria of Sorrow'' appears in his mouth, which is then chased off by Yoshi while accompanied by a sound byte of Jon shouting "You're not even in this game!". |
| 184 | * CasualDangerDialogue: In part 26 of ''Resident Evil 5'', overlapping a bit with DullSurprise: |
| 185 | --> '''Jon''': ''(after [[spoiler: the giant Uroboros boss forms itself]])'' Jake? |
| 186 | --> '''Jake''': Yo. |
| 187 | --> '''Jon''': Run. |
| 188 | --> '''Jake''': Okay. [[{{Cutscene}} Right when it lets me.]] ''({{Beat}})'' Jon? |
| 189 | --> '''Jon''': What? |
| 190 | --> '''Jake''': [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Run.]] |
| 191 | --> '''Jon''': I can't, I'm on the ground. |
| 192 | * Catch22Dilemma: What Jon considers the infamous ''Superman 64'' let's play to be. He believes that even if he finished and released the rest of the series in one shot, [[NeverLiveItDown he will still never get people to stop giving him shit over it]] due to its [[MemeticMutation memetic status]]. |
| 193 | * CatsAreMean: Bagel clearly has no tolerance for those horrible "video game" things that cause Jon to [[AttentionWhore pay attention to something that's not him for any length of time]], and will chew through any cords he can get his teeth on, including the cord to a very expensive and difficult to replace ''VideoGame/SteelBattalion'' controller. Multiple streams have been cut short due to Bagel destroying something crucial, such as Jon's headset. He also likes to lie in front of the TV, blocking Jon's view while he's playing a game; and lie on top of Jon's laptop keyboard during streams, preventing him from accessing the stream controls and usually opening every recently closed tab in Jon's browser history at once. Of course, the fans [[ComedicSociopathy find Jon's frustration hilarious]], [[VideoGame/KaizoMarioWorld just like always]]. |
| 194 | * CelebrityResemblance: The first time Jon streamed ''Wheel of Fortune'', he and his co-commentators decided that his player avatar looked like LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}} in a red suit and [[InsistentTerminology and referred to him as such for the rest of the stream]]. |
| 195 | * ChaoticNeutral: [[invoked]]Jon has described his own morality alignment as this, with him being an enabler of chaos who always strives to do what's morally sound as opposed to lawfully sound, but also knows when to hold back lest things fall into complete, uncontrollable disarray. |
| 196 | * CharlieAndTheChocolateParody: [[https://youtu.be/bIK0G0wMhA8&t=1551 Batman and the Chocolate Factory]], courtesy of LetsPlay/{{Pcull44444}}. |
| 197 | * ChekhovsGun: At the beginning of 6-Bonus in the GBA version of ''Yoshi's Island'', Jon hops over a ground pound stump thirty seconds in due to the speed of the autoscrolling. [[spoiler:At the very end, Jon realizes that he's missing one Red Coin. When he replays the stage to check, he ground pounds that stump he missed, which does indeed dispense a Red Coin. Jon proceeds to flip out.]] |
| 198 | * ChewbaccaDefense: |
| 199 | ** Jon will often comment on something illogical in a game with "Because...video games" in a DullSurprise tone. |
| 200 | ** In ''Resident Evil 5'', Jon and [[LetsPlay/SuperJeenius Jake]] explain away any unrealistically badass feats of their characters with "because ''football''" and "I'm Little Red Riding Hood!" respectively. |
| 201 | * ChewingTheScenery: Whenever he feels like it. |
| 202 | * ClockKing: [=HyperCole64=] has gained this reputation, from Jon's astonished reactions to how he somehow perfectly times live donation alerts as punchlines to the egg videos he makes when Jon plays them on stream. |
| 203 | * ClusterFBomb: He will lapse into this whenever sufficiently pissed off, the {{Kaizo trap}}s in ''Kaizo Mario World'' and ''Mario's Wacky World'' being two shining examples. |
| 204 | ** Everyone (save for LetsPlay/NintendoCapriSun, but even he swears at times) in ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}''. [[SirSwearsALot Especially]] LetsPlay/SuperJeenius. |
| 205 | ** By the time he's done the [[ObstacleSkiCourse skiing portion of 5-Extra: Kamek's Revenge]] in ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' for about ten minutes or so, half of his commentary devolves into stuffing "fuck" into every other sentence. |
| 206 | ** The summary of his reaction to [[spoiler:missing OneHundredPercentCompletion in the very last stage of his ''Yoshi's Island'' Let's Play as the result of passing a stump that showed up for a handful of seconds at the very beginning of the stage.]] |
| 207 | --->'''Jon:''' '''Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!''' Are you '''fucking''' serious?! Should've fucking known! |
| 208 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: From his [[https://youtu.be/oGqjNmjQbXY 2010-2011 holiday special]]: |
| 209 | --> '''Jon:''' ♪We wish you a merry Christmashanukkahkwanzaafestivusholidayseason, we wish you a merry Christmashanukkahkwanzaafestivusholidayseason...♪ Uh, no. Hmm, maybe if I say Kwanzaa first... |
| 210 | * CompositeCharacter: Two major recurring ones. One is a combination of Robocop and Waluigi with [[IHaveManyNames an inconsistent name]], the other a combination of Jon himself and Rosalina, called Rosajon. |
| 211 | * ContrivedCoincidence: A minor RunningGag on his Fortune Cookie streams is that Jon will start the stream playing a game of his own choosing, then bring up the Fortune Cookie - only for one of the five games it offers (sometimes the first one!) to be another game in the same franchise (which has happened with the ''Metal Gear'' series and ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' among others). |
| 212 | * CoolBigBro: Has admitted feeling like an older brother for [[LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}} Emile]]. It can sometimes be heard in the TRG videos, but there he's more like a big brother who wants his younger brother to behave properly. It can however be heard very well in Emile's ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'' LP. Where even though they tease each other sometimes, one can hear that they wish each other well and they actually work very well as a [[SiblingTeam team]]. |
| 213 | * CosmeticAward: Given out like candy on Halloween in the ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'' LP. |
| 214 | * CosplayOtakuGirl: Used to cosplay until his mother found out and apparently yelled at him. He hasn't cosplayed since but misses it sometimes. |
| 215 | * CouchGag: His playthroughs of ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'', ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow'', and ''VideoGame/WarioLandSuperMarioLand3'' have these. Most of them depict what was featured in the video. |
| 216 | * CrackFic: |
| 217 | ** Wrote one in a stream on June 16, 2021, featuring fellow Let's Player LetsPlay/MasaeAnela, Wrestling/TheUndertaker, demons led by [[FeatheredFiend a vile goose]], Mr. Clean, and so on, with [[GenreShift the genre shifting midstory]]. The genres and characters are chosen via random number generator, and characters were [[AudienceParticipation voted on by the chat]]. |
| 218 | ** Another was written on July 20, 2023, featuring [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Isabelle]], two Alt Jons (Eevee Jon and Goose Jon), and [[CompanionCube a stack of pancakes]] on a double date to stop a conspiracy involving Tom Nook that melts down horses and Reploids into cars, while VideoGame/MegaManX was forced to create ads for these cars. Just like the last one, the [[GenreShift genre shifts midstory]], and [[AudienceParticipation the chat submits characters, locations, and genres to use]]. |
| 219 | * CrassCanuck: Jon has garnered a reputation for himself of not only being a Canadian content creator, as LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}} loves to point out over on TRG, but also for having a very noticeable HairTriggerTemper over how [[BornUnlucky unlucky]] he gets. |
| 220 | * CrazyEnoughToWork: Averted often; many of the plans he comes up with backfire quite a lot (such as the time he tried to [[VideoGame/{{Worms}} fire a homing pigeon in midair, only for it to blow him up]], or when he tried to [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld use a Chargin' Chuck as a springboard to help clear a gap, only to fail over and over again]]). |
| 221 | * CulturallyReligious: Mentions it in a [[LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys Runaway Guys]] video. Even though he's not Christian anymore, he appreciates the values it gave him. |
| 222 | * CursedWithAwesome: |
| 223 | ** Happens in [[https://youtu.be/tM_8mdFLuiI&t=51m23s one match]] of ''Bomberman: Act Zero'' when agumegaru123 runs into a GoodBadBug. [[invoked]] Thanks to a connection glitch, the player character becomes unable to drop bombs, pick up items...or get hurt by explosions, which allows agumegaru123 to win the match without even trying. |
| 224 | ** Jon himself. The continual glitches he experiences are clearly frustrating and are very much still a thing in his streaming career but he himself admits his WalkingTechbane habbits have become a halmark of his that brings fans no end of amusement. |
| 225 | * CutenessProximity: Seeing a cat in a game makes Jon squeal [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee "Kitty!"]] |
| 226 | * DeadpanSnarker: When he isn't raising his voice, he usually talks in this mode, along with the occasional helping of SelfDeprecation. |
| 227 | ** When discussing Xanaboy's romhack, he makes the following quote: |
| 228 | -->'''Jon:''' I'm sorry if this is news to you, but 111 is more than 84. I may have blown your mind. I'm sorry. |
| 229 | ** "Future Jon" mixes this trope with LemonyNarrator during the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' run. |
| 230 | ** It often seems like Jon just ''can't'' take ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow '' seriously. Half the time during cutscenes, if he isn't laughing his ass off, he's in full-on snarker mode. |
| 231 | ** It's been noted he has an uncharacteristic tendency to [[Corpsing lose his cool laughing]] when co-comming with LetsPlay/StephenPlays, perhaps because Stephen is one of the few people in the TRG community who can out-deadpan Jon himself. |
| 232 | * DecidedByOneVote: A literal example in one of Jon's streams, when he sets up a poll for whether to play more ''Bomberman Act Zero'' or do something else, and the incredibly narrow result is decided by one vote out of over 200 cast. |
| 233 | * DenserAndWackier: His ''Donkey Kong Country'' LP is by far the most ridiculous series he's ever done (intentionally), as very little of the LP consists of ''actually playing the original game'' and is for the most part an OverlyLongGag as an LP. |
| 234 | * DisappointedInYou: He expresses in the finale of the Notte Luminosa LP where it was revealed that creator behind the ROM hack lied about himself having leukemia. Later averted when the guy apologized and Jon being proud of him for owning up to his screw up. |
| 235 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: |
| 236 | -->'''Jon:''' Ridiculous? That's ridiculous! Nothing can be as ridiculous as ridiculousness! ...How ridiculous ''are'' you? |
| 237 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: Jon's reaction to a certain broken puzzle by [=Xanaboy1=]. |
| 238 | -->'''Jon:''' You didn't think this through at ''all!'' |
| 239 | * DivideByZero: A minor RunningGag of his streams is him accidentally creating an 'infinite void' on his Fortune Cookie screen due to the window recursively showing an image of itself. |
| 240 | * {{Documentary}}: His ''[[VideoGame/{{Superman64}} Superman 64]]'' LP is like this. |
| 241 | * DoesNotLikeSpam: Mentions a few times during his ''VideoGame/{{Pepsiman}}'' stream that he doesn't like "pop" anymore. |
| 242 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: His Let's Play of ''Mario's Early Years'' with Kelekin had the two of them rolling in a fit of laughter when the game's fill in the blank displays "The Princess has a big _____" |
| 243 | * DudeNotFunny: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]]. |
| 244 | ** One episode of his ''Superman 64'' LP introduced the "random asshole comment count". |
| 245 | ** His overall reaction to Yanama during the final part of his ''Notte Luminosa'' Let's Play. |
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| 248 | [[folder:E-P]] |
| 249 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Jon has a particularly bad case of this when he plays the GBA version of ''Yoshi's Island''. Particularly about the camera scrolling up or down. |
| 250 | ** His earlier streams have a few oddities compared to his more recent ones. |
| 251 | *** Fortune Cookie Streams were originally called "random game night" streams. |
| 252 | *** The intermission screen didn't have the wall of gifs. |
| 253 | *** He didn't use straw polls, which made it difficult to tell which game actually won. |
| 254 | *** The "now loading" screen featured regular Robocop instead of Robo Waluigi. |
| 255 | * EarWorm: Jon confessed in the Fortune Cookie stream on April 24, 2021 that the Power Pellet melody from ''[[VideoGame/PacMan Pac-In-Time]]'' got stuck in his head when he was young, and it still does to this day. |
| 256 | * {{Edutainment}}: He and his roommate Kelekin tackled a pair of Platform/SuperNES preschool games called ''Mario's Early Years.'' |
| 257 | * EmbarrassingMiddleName: Carlton, as revealed in a stream. ''[[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir Fresh Prince]]'' jokes instantly flooded the chat. Jon justified it as being his father's name. |
| 258 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 259 | ** One Fortune Cookie stream in 2018 has Jon remove a game after it was chosen and played. While he is willing to play games with varying levels of quality, the game in question, which revolves around a DrivenToSuicide FunnyAnimal and has gameplay where the object is to die in each level, didn't sit well with him or the co-comms. Justified, as he lost friends to suicide, as revealed in that stream. |
| 260 | ** Jon contemplated on putting ''VideoGame/SenranKagura: Peach Ball'' on the Fortune Cookie ban list after playing it as a Mystery Gift. While he doesn't mind fanservice (if the RuleSixtyThree art of him is any indication), he expresses great concern about the game's premise, and how it involves smacking a girl's assets to restore her from a {{Phlebotinum}}-induced transformation. |
| 261 | ** While he has notoriously bad games on Fortune Cookie, one game that Jon bars from it is ''Orb 3D'' after Jon's experience from clearing it for Game Clearing 2018, as its controls were too frustrating for him. |
| 262 | * FamilyThemeNaming: He revealed in a [[https://youtu.be/VpXeax8SPkY&t=46m livestream]] that his older sister's name is Jen ([[HumorMode "the 'Proton' and everything"]]). |
| 263 | * FeedItWithFire: |
| 264 | -->'''Jon:''' Now, [[{{Franchise/Metroid}} Mother Brain]] is blue, so we have to warm her up WITH MISSILES. |
| 265 | * FirstNameBasis: Jon will almost always refer to {{LetsPlay/Lucahjin}} by her real first name, Reese, when talking about her. |
| 266 | * FissionMailed: After LetsPlay/{{Lucahjin}}, LetsPlay/MasaeAnela and LetsPlay/{{Pcull44444}} all distracted Jon from gameplay in a stream with their teasing, he tried making them leave the stream by pretending to RageQuit and putting up the end-of-stream screen. Lucah sees through the ploy immediately. |
| 267 | ** He tries again during a Quiplash stream when Emile [[OpenMouthInsertFoot asks a stupid question]]. Tim immediately calls his bluff. |
| 268 | * ForegoneConclusion: There are some games which are practically guaranteed to win the popular vote during Fortune Cookie. |
| 269 | ** Any game based on a game show. This is probably due to a combination of LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys' meme-tastic LP of ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' for the Wii U (even though it's usually Chugga, not Jon, responsible for said memes), and Jon usually roping the co-comms into the game with him for multiplayer shenanigans. |
| 270 | ** Any game from ''VideoGame/TheJackboxPartyPack'' series, because it's a game ''everyone'', including everyone in chat, can play together. |
| 271 | ** Any game strongly associated with either Jon or Lucah. If the latter, the chat will usually encourage Jon to get Lucah downstairs to join in on the fun. |
| 272 | * FourIsDeath: During Misfortune Cookie[[note]]A variation on Jon's Fortune Cookie streams where the polls have different, often bizarre rules[[/note]] rounds where the chat does not know what games they are voting for, only voting on "Option 1", "Option 2", etc; almost everyone votes for Option 4 for this reason (because let's be honest here, [[ComedicSociopathy most of the people who watch Jon on a regular basis just want to see him torture himself playing terrible and/or extremely difficult games]]). In the first Misfortune Cookie stream they were usually ''right'', too. In subsequent ones, Jon expected this to happen and made sure every Option 4 of the night was a good game that he would enjoy playing. |
| 273 | * FreezeFrameBonus: In stage 8 of ''Superman 64'', he considers the fact that the stage has three floors is important, and will be on the test. He isn't going to write it though, so he encourages people to write the test and submit it to other people, e-mailing it to an address that flies quickly across the top of the screen and reads whydidyoupausethisvideotocheckthisthrowawayjoke@gmail.com |
| 274 | * FriendToAllChildren: His friends notes that he's good with kids. |
| 275 | * GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:His ''Donkey Kong Country'' Let's Play ends with all of the Jons finishing all three ports of the game while at the same time turning out to be an LP of a bootleg game that goes through time and space given to him by [=RosaJon=] with a vague warning about something happening. In TheStinger, we see a purple [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Lavos]] with Funky's head on it rising from DK Isle. Did we mention that this LP was inspired by ''WebVideo/SonicTheHedgehog2SpecialEdition?'']] |
| 276 | * GamblersFallacy: In his ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' LP, he does the coin betting minigame[[note]] (three rounds of double-or-nothing with the coins collected in the stage)[[/note]] pretty much every stage, resulting in truly convoluted theories about which patterns "repeat," eventually calling it "Gambler's Fallacy: The Game." |
| 277 | * GenderBender: His fans have a habit of drawing him as a female, often times with an overly exaggerated bossom. |
| 278 | * GenreSavvy: Becomes this in response to his repeated exposure to {{Kaizo Trap}}s. In [[https://youtu.be/l_A_SP8rh-c#t=3m45s this video]], he sniffs one out like a pro. |
| 279 | -->'''Jon:''' You guys aren't going to get me with that trap any more, you have to understand that. |
| 280 | ** Elsewhere, he says that if you ever want to play Mario professionally, just play a bunch of romhacks because you'll be forced to learn all the tricks. |
| 281 | ** A weird case when playing ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'' with Lucahjin, [[HelloInsertNameHere Smefanye]] gets allergic to some of the makeup. One of the [=NPCs=] "wakes her up" and says that she has allergies, which suprises Jon that she would know about such a thing. Later when they talk to the other [=NPCs=] does none of the other rivals know what it is, proving his point. |
| 282 | * GoodBadBugs: InUniverse, he encounters one in 5-Castle of ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'', where sprite limitations causes various sprites to freak and vanish. This includes the pinball doors that were between him and the Flower within the room he was in[[note]]He was ''supposed'' to drive Train Yoshi to a path that would drop him over the Flower[[/note]], which allowed him to toss an Egg at the Flower and snag it with zero issues. |
| 283 | * {{Griefer}}: [[LetsPlay/Pcull44444 Patty]] is this to Jon in their co-op streams of ''VideoGame/DeadRising3'': always testing out new weapons on Jon before anyone else (which doesn't do any damage to Jon but does stun him a bit), harassing Jon while he's occupied in the menus (usually by pushing him off his safe perch into the crowd of zombies below), and more, all purely for [[ItAmusedMe his own amusement]]. |
| 284 | * GrowingUpSucks: |
| 285 | ** Toyed with. Prior to the release of ''Superman 64'' part 2, Jon wrote a message saying he'd stop [=LPing=] due to how he will inevitably mature... until it was revealed to be a fake letter. |
| 286 | ** Discussed on a serious level while playing 5-Extra in ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'', where he notes that now that he's grown up, he doesn't have the time to marathon games like his younger self was able to. |
| 287 | * GuestStarPartyMember: Becomes this for "WebVideo/TheCompletionist" in the ''Gunstar Heroes'' review. |
| 288 | * GuideDangIt: A good chunk of the ''Sticker Star'' stream is Chugga and Jon discussing the unimaginably high amount of atrocious design choices used in the game, which include the number of times the game really does not want to tell you how to make progress when it really should. |
| 289 | * HaHaHaNo: A variation in part 4 of Resident Evil 5: |
| 290 | -->'''Jake:''' *points his gun at a rat, then walks past it* I thought that was a thing, but it was only a rat. |
| 291 | -->'''Jon:''' ''Only'' a rat? |
| 292 | -->'''Jake:''' *warily* Are rats something I need to be worried about too? |
| 293 | -->'''Jon:''' Dun dun du- no. |
| 294 | * HappilyMarried: To fellow Let's Player LetsPlay/{{Lucahjin}}. |
| 295 | * HeadsOrTails: According to his comment on Chugga and Masae's Mario Party 2 {{Filler}} Let's Play, do he decide who to side with when the two having an argument by doing this. Although it could have been a joke. |
| 296 | --> "Someday you'll realize who I'll side with by flipping a coin." |
| 297 | * HeadsTailsEdge: In his Furious Mario LP, he tried to decide what path to take by flipping a game cartridge: |
| 298 | -->'''Jon:''' It landed on its corner. |
| 299 | * HellIsThatNoise: InUniverse, "I'm not sleeping tonight, guys, this is my nightmare sound." |
| 300 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}}, in a [[VitriolicBestBuds weird sort of way]]. |
| 301 | * HollywoodTourettes: Mentioned in part 5 of the Battletoads race. |
| 302 | * HostileShowTakeover: Did this to Chuggaaconroy's channel for a video, [[spoiler: He even [[BoundandGagged bound and gagged]] Chugga before the video begins.]] |
| 303 | * TheHyena: Sometimes. Usually when some weird/[[OutOfCharacter OOC]] stuff happens. |
| 304 | * IBrokeANail: Jon paused his livestream of ''VideoGame/{{Pepsiman}}'' due to breaking the nail on his middle finger. |
| 305 | * IconicOutfit: His "classy hobo" hoodie and toque hat. |
| 306 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Beginning with his LP of ''VideoGame/BlasterMasterZero'', Jon has had a naming theme for each of his videos in an LP. |
| 307 | ** ''Blaster Master Zero'': Via FunWithAcronyms, the first letters of each episode title spell out "FROGFINDER"[[note]]The final video has not been released as of this edit.[[/note]]. |
| 308 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperAdventureIslandII'': The first letters of each episode title spell out "HIGGINS"[[note]]The final video has not been released as of this edit.[[/note]]. |
| 309 | ** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'': The episode titles go in alphabetical order (episode 1's title begins with "A", 2 with "B", etc.). |
| 310 | * IdiosyncraticWipes: |
| 311 | ** His ''Superman 64'' LP parodies the well-known Creator/AdamWest Batman version with the zoomed-in-and-out logo and spinning background, except with the Superman logo instead. This is used whenever he has to reset the game and start again due to showing off a GameBreakingBug (or coming across one accidentally). |
| 312 | ** A similar one is used in his ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong94'' LP, but with an 8-bit Mario sprite zooming in and out accompanied by the sound effect from collecting a coin in ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''. This is used whenever his Super Game Boy crashes and he has to restart. [[HilarityEnsues Which is often]]. |
| 313 | ** In an interesting take, his ''VideoGame/WarioLandSuperMarioLand3'' Let's Play has Wario throw the footage out of the screen, revealing the next scene. |
| 314 | ** As of mid-2019, these are used on the stream as well, for instance, a cascade of fortune cookies when transitioning to the fortune cookie and a large version of the "art" emote for transitioning in and out of art block. |
| 315 | * IHatePastMe: "Future Jon", a.k.a. the text that Jon adds when editing the videos, is prone to making snarky comments about his past self playing the game. |
| 316 | * IHaveManyNames: Is Jon's stream mascot (a combination of Waluigi, Robocop and later also Weird Al as Rambo from ''UHF'' in the raid video) called "[=RoboWaluigi=]", "[[ShoddyKnockoffProduct Robertcop]]", "Waluigi Cop", "[=ProtonCop=]", "[=ProtonRaid=]", etc. etc.? Nobody knows. Even Jon himself has been known to switch from one name to another ''in the same sentence'' when talking about him. |
| 317 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'' has the "Alcoholic in Training" achievement: "This game stops sobriety." Of course, they're all just drinking water/soda pop, but the trope is clearly invoked. |
| 318 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: You'd think his LargeHam would mean a [[SmallNameBigEgo Big Ego]], but being complimented makes him shy and embarrassed, and then he mutes their audio. |
| 319 | * InferredHolocaust: [[invoked]]Jon points out that should VideoGame/{{Pepsiman}} succeed at giving Pepsi to the people stranded in the middle of the desert in Level 3, it would only cause them to die of dehydration ''even faster'' than if he had just left them alone. |
| 320 | * InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: His early stream "[[https://youtu.be/cvkjq0ecWqU Random Game Night - The Fortune Cookie Strikes Back With A Vengeance]]", from August 2013, ended up introducing many things that would become regular staples of his streaming career for the next five years - his intermission gif wall, Bomberman Act Zero, and the Robocop Stream Over endslate. Particularly noticeable as the first two happened organically during the stream rather than being planned. |
| 321 | * InsaneTrollLogic: In ''Tri Force Heroes'', both he and Josh immediately break into laughter when Tom chooses the Goron Garb for an ice level on grounds of being too heavy to slide around. |
| 322 | * InSeriesNickname: In a glitched runthrough of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', he and the others refer to Rotodiscs as "disco waffles". |
| 323 | * InsistentTerminology: In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', Jon refers to the Majini as "not-zombies", "zambies", or occasionally [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs "not-zambies"]]. |
| 324 | * InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: In June 2022, Jon discovered that the activity that relaxes him the most is painting his nails, as it forces him to not do anything else. He even managed to get compliments from strangers who thought his nail designs looked beautiful, and a Target clerk near where Emile lives while he was visiting him pointed Jon towards an online nail polish shop that offers unique paint designs and tutorial sessions. |
| 325 | * {{Irony}}: During the ''VideoGame/Borderlands3 Gameplay Reveal Demo'' stream, Jon notes that the streamer next to him is experiencing technical difficulties with the demo while his own demo appears to be functioning correctly, contrary to his "habit" of finding arbitrary glitches despite playing normally while most others experience the game as intended. This fact doesn't go unnoticed by neither Jon nor the viewers. |
| 326 | * KaizoTrap: His reaction to the TropeNamer made them famous. |
| 327 | ** And in another project: |
| 328 | --->'''Jon:''' What's up here? Is it a secret? Is it pizza? Is it [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs secret pizza?]] It's... A KAIZO TRAP! You sadistic son of a bitch. I didn't fall for that. |
| 329 | * KindheartedCatLover: Loves cats and has one named Bagel with his [[LetsPlay/LucahJin wife]]. |
| 330 | * KubrickStare: His banner on Website/YouTube is of Ryu from ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'' doing a particularly epic one of these. |
| 331 | * LampshadeHanging: |
| 332 | ** [[https://youtu.be/Ct5As7OZ3rA#t=4963 This video]] has Jon talking about his ancient, somewhat malfunctioning NES, when he says this line: |
| 333 | --->'''Jon:''' My NES is somewhat like [[ScheduleSlip my update schedule]], it only works every six months. |
| 334 | ** During his ''Superman 64'' LP, after completing the 1st level of the Gameboy game: "Thanks for hanging around for the first stage. See you again in 2 months when we do stage two." |
| 335 | * LargeHam: From his rage from his earlier Mario Rom Hacks to him yelling "FOOTBALL!" |
| 336 | * LeapOfFaith: He's made his fair share of these. It even became one of his catchphrases. |
| 337 | * LemonyNarrator: In the 4-player Battletoads race, the ''achievements'' start doing this, especially in the later stages: |
| 338 | ** After Jake[[note]][=SuperJeenius=][[/note]] gets stuck on Karnath's Lair for an entire video, Jon remembers an easier way to beat the stage and tells Jake, who berates Jon for not telling him sooner. This earns Jon the achievement "'''My Bad...:''' ''Should've said that sooner''". |
| 339 | ** Late in the race, Jake turns out to have been ignorant of the fact that Battletoads has a 2-player mode. This earns him the achievement "'''That Other Health Bar?:''' ''Totally there for looks''". |
| 340 | ** In Level 12, Patrick[[note]]PCULL[[/note]] is killed over and over by a cloud enemy. Jon proceeds to kill it on his first try and brag about it, earning him the achievement "'''Wow:''' ''This guy sounds like a dick''". |
| 341 | ** Also, when [=SuperJeenius=] is ranting about how the sprint always kills him, he proceeds to say it's the one thing that always gets him. The achievement that follows is "'''I Thought It Was Snakes?:''' ''You were thinking it too''". |
| 342 | * LineOfSightName: In a 2019 Fortune Cookie stream, Jon was playing ''{{VideoGame/The Legend of Zelda Oracle|Games}} of Ages''. As he reaches the name screen, a special donation notification involving yodeling plays, so in order to find the stream file easier, he names the file "Yodel". |
| 343 | * LiteralMinded: A RunningGag in his ''Wheel of Fortune'' streams is when someone wins a foreign trip as a prize, Jon interprets the illustrative picture or video overly literally. ''(Video of the Pyramids)'' "You won the Pyramids!" ''(Picture of a deckchair on an idyllic beach in Cancun)'' "[[MundaneMadeAwesome You won A CHAIR!]]" |
| 344 | * LoadBearingBoss: [[DiscussedTrope Mentioned by name]] during his [=LP=] of [[https://youtu.be/JmjYqayIHls&NR=1 Super Mario TKO.]] |
| 345 | * LoggingOntoTheFourthWall: In ''Wario Land'' part 3, Jon makes a joke about "ducksforcash.com" and say "Don't go there. It's not a site. I hope it's not, anyway." [[http://www.ducksforcash.com It is now.]] [[spoiler:It links to that part in the Website/YouTube video]]. |
| 346 | * LOL69: Jon completes a stream for ''VideoGame/DustAnElysianTail'' for Game Clearing with a 69% clear rate and a time of 8:00:08. He lampshades this by copying the save file to slots 6 and 9. |
| 347 | * MachineMonotone: PlayedForLaughs in ''Tri Force Heroes'', when he dons the Robowear for the Cove of Transition. |
| 348 | * MadlibsCatchphrase: |
| 349 | ** "I know how to X", where X is a grammatically imprecise reference to what he's about to do in a game, e.g. (playing a racing game) "I know how to CAR!" |
| 350 | ** "Because...X" as an 'explanation' for ItRunsOnNonsensoleum events, most usually "Because...Videogames". |
| 351 | ** After using the vanilla version for a while, he now typically uses fan-made edited versions of the Wesker "YOU WILL GIVE ME AN EGG!" clip as his stream new subscriber sound, with 'egg' replaced by something related to whatever game he's streaming. |
| 352 | ** When asked by a game to choose which character to play as, there is pretty much always an exchange like this: |
| 353 | --> '''Jon''': CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER! Who are we playing as? (lists characters)\ |
| 354 | '''Co-comms''': Uh-\ |
| 355 | '''Jon''' (ignoring them): Let's be real, we're playing as (fan favourite character / Jon's memetic favourite character) |
| 356 | * ManChild: In [[https://youtu.be/Hl0x3aeccnk Part 2]] of Let's Play ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong94'', Jon calls himself this after saying that the crocodile creatures from Donkey Kong Jr. resembled the alligators from Gator Golf. |
| 357 | -->"[[SelfDeprecation Well, at least he realizes it...]]" |
| 358 | * ManOfAThousandVoices: If you need to laugh at Waluigi, Big the Cat, or even ''Batman'', he's your man. He makes other funny voices too. |
| 359 | * {{Mascot}}: He has Robo-Waluigi (a cross between {{Franchise/Robocop}} and [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Waluigi]]) for his streams. Occasionally [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Albert Wesker]] is used as a substitute as well. Later streams would add [=RosaJon=], a fusion of him and Rosalina, with ample breasts, and Beefuru, a cow version of Bub from VideoGame/BubbleBobble. |
| 360 | * MassOhCrap: Jon, Tom, and Josh all receive one at the end of Episode 11 of ''Tri Force Heroes'', when [[spoiler:the statue that the boss dropped before dying unbalances the platform, nearly sending them all plummeting to their doom when they don't have enough health to survive. Luckily, Jon ''barely'' survives, so they don't have to do the boss fight over again]]. |
| 361 | * MemeticMolester: InUniverse, he and his friends finds the child holding Robocop from the Gameboy ''Film/Robocop2'' game ''really creepy''. |
| 362 | * MindScrew: |
| 363 | ** While recording a Let's Play episode with small time Let's Player [[LetsPlay/AriZonia AriZonia]] there was an exchange between the two because Ari had used terminology from the N64 era without ever playing the system or it's games: |
| 364 | -->'''Ari:''' Well, I'm finally at Baby Bowser- er. Bowser Jr. actually. |
| 365 | -->'''Jon:''' You know what, I always call him Baby Bowser all the time even though I know he's Jr. It's just this weird thing, you're so used to from the older games. |
| 366 | -->'''Ari:''' That's the thing. I've never played them. |
| 367 | -->'''Jon:''' ''*{{Beat}}*'' wait what? |
| 368 | -->''*Ari laughs*'' |
| 369 | ** Happens again on 12-16-14 during a poker night stream with [=SuperJeenius=]. [=AriZonia=] was let into the call to play a round as one of the random chat participants. She had been extremely nervous and when Jon tried to reassure her by confirming she had played poker before, he was quite surprised when she admitted she never played before in her life. |
| 370 | ** And yet again during that same stream the two times [[TheFool Ari manages to win a hand]] when the odds were stacked against her and she had been running low on chips. Especially since both times the other person had been confident they were going to win. |
| 371 | ** The Donkey Kong Country LP starts off normal but slowly descends into increasingly bizarre and weird territory, to the point where [[spoiler:the final episode involves Jon having to deal with a ''multiverse'' of Donkey Kong Country [=LPs=] created by alternate versions of him playing different versions of the same game]]. |
| 372 | * MondegreenGag: Jon misheard one of Bub's lines in ''[[VideoGame/BubbleBobble Puzzle Bobble 4/Bust-a-Move 4]]'' as "Beefuru!", and decided it was Bub's way of saying he wanted beef. Eventually, Beefuru became the name of an alternate character: a cross between Bub and a cow. |
| 373 | * MoodWhiplash: |
| 374 | ** In the first six minutes of cutscenes in his blind LP of Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon, Jon sees a gritty, action-y game that revolves around murder. He gets ready to play, and then [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar stereotypical helicopter music]] [[https://youtu.be/CKRr5Q6F2iQ&t=6m49s starts playing.]] |
| 375 | --->'''Jon:''' [[DullSurprise Well, I guess I'm shooting things now.]] |
| 376 | --->''[[Franchise/{{Predator}} Long Tall Sally kicks in]]'' |
| 377 | --->'''Jon:''' ''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Oh my god, REALLY?]] laughs'' Not the song I expected. |
| 378 | ** Once he finally clears 5-Extra in ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'': |
| 379 | --->'''Jon''': [=FFFFFFFFFFuck=] you. |
| 380 | --->''Cue applause and big ol' "Hooray!" SFX with balloons'' |
| 381 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: |
| 382 | ** One level of a ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' romhack consisted of nothing but sliding down a few slopes... which Jon happened to play while the ''Super Smash Bros Brawl'' remix of "[[VideoGame/{{Kirby}} Gourmet Race]]" blared on in the background. "''[[https://youtu.be/rk0EiUTldrY SO FUCKING METAL!]]''" |
| 383 | ** [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Redfield eats another egg.]] *APPLAUSE* |
| 384 | ** Really he does it pretty frequently especially during streams. |
| 385 | * MushroomSamba: "[[https://youtu.be/iGvZa3tiYwY What Is Love?]]" |
| 386 | -->'''Jon:''' Do mushrooms actually do this to people? I gotta start taking drugs to check this. If I took a hit of acid, and suddenly saw the Burger King on fire, singing ''What Is Love?'', I'd be '''amazed'''. |
| 387 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A non-angst filled example, he does however regret inspiring people to go out and get their hands on ''Superman 64''. |
| 388 | * MysteryBox: His Fortune Cookie streams would sometimes include a mystery option, which entailed him picking a game of his choice from a specific pile of games he had set aside for this purpose, usually games that friends or fans had given him. The chat proved unable to resist the allure of such a mystery, and every single time it was an option on the cookie, it utterly ''destroyed'' the competition, causing Jon to eventually scrap the option completely because [[ForegoneConclusion it made the cookie too predictable]]. |
| 389 | * MythologyGag: [[spoiler:The Fortune Cookie gag in the final episode of the ''Donkey Kong Country'' LP has Jon [[ItMakesSenseInContext opening his virtual Fortune Cookie to determine what game he LPs next]]. The game that shows up is ''VideoGame/JetSetRadio Future'', alluding to the then-unreleased "Project: Sweet Bike" LP. Sure enough, the next main LP immediately following DKC was, in fact, JSRF.]] |
| 390 | * NewGamePlus: A self-imposed one in ''Tri Force Heroes''; since he's already beat the game and is replaying it, he has the advantage of being able to choose from outfits Josh and Tom don't have access to, as they haven't finished the game yet. |
| 391 | * NiceGuy: The real-life Jon is very kind and laid-back, and is closer to this persona in his own Let's Plays than in the Runaway Guy videos. |
| 392 | ** The stream he held 10th of December 2016 had a fan apologizing for unsubbing to save money. Jon almost started [[TenderTears crying]] (or actually [[ManlyTears did]]), telling the fan that they were there was way more important to him than any money and they had nothing to feel sorry about. |
| 393 | * NintendoHard: His NES [=LPs=]. |
| 394 | * NippleAndDimed: Parodied in his second stream onwards for ''VideoGame/{{Guacamelee}}'' for Game Clearing 2019. Jon is given a mod that adds [=RobertCop=] as a costume with [[CensorBox censor bars]] on his pecs. The mod's creator wanted to give off equal-opportunity {{censor|edForComedy}}ship for the fun of it. |
| 395 | * NoJustNoReaction: During ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' when [=SuperJeenius=] starts fantasizing over [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]]. |
| 396 | * NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: Lampshaded numerous times by Jon in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow'', especially in regards to Soma's... interesting outfit. |
| 397 | -->'''Jon:''' Everyone ''really'' likes wearing suits in this game![[note]]''Aria of Sorrow'' takes place in [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2035]].[[/note]] Except for... good old [[AccidentalMisnaming pimp coat]] [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Sora]]. |
| 398 | * NostalgiaFilter: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in his Let's Play of the original ''Yoshi's Island''; after Jon found ''Yoshi's New Island'' disappointing compared to the original game, he decided to go back to it to see if his fond childhood memories held up. |
| 399 | * NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: During a stream where he was discussing fanbases, a Twitch user pointed out how Jon was calling {{LetsPlay/Chuggaaconroy}}'s fanbase "kids" as an overgeneralization. Jon then proceeds to explain that he's not overgeneralizing; ''statistically'', Chugga's fanbase is primarily pre-adolescents according to [=YouTube=]. |
| 400 | * NotQuiteDead: When Jon played ''VideoGame/AliensInfestation'' for Game Clearing 2020, he loses Lucky in the low-gravity segment, but Lucky's profile did not register that death. Jokes implying this trope ensued. |
| 401 | * OhNoNotAgain: He encounters glitches so much without seeking them that he can only quote this trope. The ''[[VideoGame/PanelDePon PokemonPuzzleLeague]]'' one he got on the 10th of December 2016 completely [[BreakTheCutie broke]] him reducing him to a partially laughing, partially crying mess just wondering why things like that keeps on happening to him. |
| 402 | ** He even runs into a few during multiplayer races, such as his four player Mario 64 race with [[LetsPlay/{{Versus}} the Versus crew]] and Tim. |
| 403 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: His reaction to Yanama revealing that he faked having terminal Leukemia just to get Jon to play ''Notte Luminosa''. |
| 404 | * OlderThanTheyThink: [[InvokedTrope Invoked.]] In his LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong94'', he [[InUniverse demonstrates]] that many game mechanics thought to have been introduced elsewhere later on appeared here first. Including Donkey Kong's tie (introduced five months before ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1'')! |
| 405 | * OnceAnEpisode: Jon [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the use of "You lift me up~/Lift me high~" whenever he, Tom, and Josh go into a totem in ''Tri Force Heroes''. |
| 406 | --> '''Jon:''' I swear we've done that at least once every episode. |
| 407 | * OohMeAccentsSlipping: Happens in one livestream, due to the combined {{Troll}}ing efforts of LetsPlay/{{Lucahjin}} and LetsPlay/MasaeAnela making him frustrated enough. He doesn't lapse into a Newfoundland accent (or at least not a very thick one), but he does start using Newfoundland terminology, which just makes Lucah and Masae mock him further. |
| 408 | * OurDragonsAreDifferent: Discussed in a September 2018 livestream highlighting ''VideoGame/{{The Messenger|2018}}''. As the shopkeep tells a story involving two worst primal fears--fire and reptiles--combining into dragons, a co-commentator notes that he finds {{bears|AreBadNews}} more terrifying then reptiles. Cue talk about bear-like dragons. |
| 409 | * OverusedRunningGag: |
| 410 | ** ''VideoGame/BombermanActZero'' works "It's still anyone's game" to death and back. |
| 411 | ** This is Jon and the mods' opinion of the Muppets Party Cruise rap as of mid-2018, but they have yet to convince the fans to stop sending in edits of and references to it. |
| 412 | * ParodyCommercial: On stream, a donation is for a mock-up ad for the Glitchen Gun, based on [[https://youtu.be/6-7NDP8V-6A the Kitchen Gun]]. The possible games that could be displayed are games that have glitched on stream. Apparently, the device can cause glitches in games. |
| 413 | * PetPeeveTrope: |
| 414 | ** [[invoked]] CameraScrew. It is one of Jon's biggest turn-offs when it comes to him enjoying a video game, even if the game is otherwise great. When he played through ''{{VideoGame/Pikmin}}'' with LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys, he talked about how camera control can make or break a game for him, most notably ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' and ''Pikmin''. |
| 415 | ** He mentions in several videos that he ''really'' can't stand SlippySlideyIceWorld levels, becoming palpably dismayed every time he has to play through one. He explains that he regards the slippery controls as a form of FakeDifficulty that erodes the player's sense of control over their own gameplay. The "slippery shoes" mechanic being omnipresent in ''VideoGame/NewSuperLuigiU'' is stated ([[RunningGag frequently]]) as being part of the reason he spends most of the LP in a fit of rage. |
| 416 | * PercussiveTherapy: |
| 417 | ** Jon hammering the save state key in frustration whilst playing ''Kaizo Mario''. |
| 418 | -->'''Jon:''' [[MadnessMantra STATE SAVED!....STATE SAVED!....STATE SAVED!...]] |
| 419 | ** And again while repeatedly loading a save state in ''Kaizo Mario''. |
| 420 | -->'''Jon:''' [[ClusterFBomb FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!]] |
| 421 | * PetPeeveTrope: |
| 422 | ** Oh, how Jon ''hates'' invisible coin blocks. He considers them FakeDifficulty, as most of the time they're used for traps that can't be avoided unless Jon already falls into them. Yet, he keeps seeing this [[RunningGag on a regular basis]]. |
| 423 | ** He also revealed in his LP of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong94'' that he hates [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Ice Physics]] for forcing the player to relearn how to play the game. |
| 424 | * PlatformHell: Kaizo, of course. Many of the other romhacks he plays also try for this, with varying degrees of success. |
| 425 | * PlayerTic: During his play through of the ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'' series on the NES, he climbs a wall to the top and constantly jumps up from it after killing a boss as his way of doing a victory pose. |
| 426 | * ProudToBeAGeek: A classical example. He's still a huge fan of shows from the late '80s and the '90s, and bought [=DVDs=]. He is as we know a gamer, and an OccidentalOtaku. His intermission gifs feature several fandoms like ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Franchise/RoboCop'', and many more. He seems to enjoy reading as well but has a hard time finding time for it. |
| 427 | [[/folder]] |
| 428 | |
| 429 | [[folder:Q-Z]] |
| 430 | * ARareSentence: |
| 431 | ** In the first part of ''Superman 64'''s Stage 6: "Oh no, I pushed him through the wrong part of the floor! ...Never thought I'd say THAT." |
| 432 | ** In the second part of the above video: "Is that forklift humping that robot?!" Which cues a "Never Thought I'd Say That" counter. |
| 433 | ** During the ''Battletoads'' race: |
| 434 | -->'''Jon''': ''*gets killed by...*'' Rubber duck, nooo! |
| 435 | -->'''Pcull''': Not very often you hear that statement. |
| 436 | ** "Man, you really need Anubis," in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTriForceHeroes Tri Force Heroes]]'' Episode 11. |
| 437 | * RecurringCharacter: Thanks to them living in the same house, and now being engaged, {{LetsPlay/Lucahjin}} shows up every so often to Jon's streams. She has a habit of stealing his Fortune Cookie votes. |
| 438 | * RedOniBlueOni: In the 4-player ''Battletoads'' race, Jon and LetsPlay/NintendoCapriSun are the blue oni to LetsPlay/SuperJeenius and LetsPlay/Pcull44444's red oni. |
| 439 | * RelationshipUpgrade: LetsPlay/{{Lucahjin}} was formerly just a fellow Let's Player. She and Jon would eventually start dating, then she moved in with him. As of September 2, 2017, [[https://twitter.com/lucahjin/status/904060687722266624 the two are engaged.]] |
| 440 | * RenaissanceMan: Of gaming. His Fortune Cookie streams have revealed that there are very, very few game genres that Jon isn't at least fairly skilled at, and there are many (often unconnected) genres of games he is exceptional at. |
| 441 | * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Introduced in Jon's January 2021 streams is Beefuru (created by Rhyme, one of the viewers), a small adorable bovine modeled after Bub from ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble''. |
| 442 | * RunningGag: |
| 443 | ** Sort of. Any time LeetLingo happens, Jon reads it as if he doesn't understand it. |
| 444 | ** Invisible coin blocks. |
| 445 | ** An occasional one is Jon reacting with exaggerated shock when a character 'dies' in game, especially if it's in a very cartoonish fashion that you wouldn't expect to take seriously. Also shows up in LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys. |
| 446 | ** Chris Redfield in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' supposedly being an (American) football star. |
| 447 | ** Jon glitching a game during a stream to the point where he has a custom emote. |
| 448 | ** People say #Proton______ with the blank being something relevant to the current stream. |
| 449 | *** In the same vein, people will often subscribe to Jon's Twitch channel with joke usernames based on whatever stupid/hilarious thing just happened/is happening in the stream, because Jon has to thank them by name and [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 give them an egg]]. Also, the vast majority of these are done by the same guy. Since subscribing to Jon costs $5, he must have spent hundreds by now. |
| 450 | ** During the streams, whenever the fortune cookie results in some odd choices for games being played (such as a ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' game, or Jon himself picking the infamously terrible ''VideoGame/{{Bubsy}} [=3D=]''), someone in the chat will always point out how said game is in the Top 20 or so most viewed games on Twitch. |
| 451 | ** People Photoshopping 18-year-old Jon's face onto people/characters/things. For extra weirdness, sometimes present-day Jon's face is Photoshopped onto someone/something else in the same picture. |
| 452 | ** Attack kittens appearing in end slates for his ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow'' playthrough. |
| 453 | ** From the streams, the chat more or less "raiding" itself due to chat having a tendency to spam the same word whenever something happens. |
| 454 | ** Really for the streams, anything that appears on the [[http://tinyurl.com/o78bdk3 bingo card]] could be considered one of these. |
| 455 | ** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTriForceHeroes'', LetsPlay/JoshJepson constantly receiving rare items from end-of-stage chests. |
| 456 | ** In ''VideoGame/WarioLandSuperMarioLand3'', referring to treasures he glitches through the floor as "broken" or "used". |
| 457 | ** An occasional one from his streams is that whenever a Mario game shows up on Fortune Cookie, he and the co-comms refer to it as an 'obscure indie title' and act as though they have to explain the concepts of the game to the audience. |
| 458 | ** ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'''s "The Lonely Man" gets thrown in on occasion in livestreams, usually via fan submissions. This is typically coupled with fading to greyscale, a zoom-in, and a picture of a sad [[VideoGame/FZero Captain Falcon]] fading in. This gag got worked into a donation alert. |
| 459 | ** After ''Franchise/TheMuppets Party Cruise'' was played on stream, a lot of fan submissions play with the line "One door's red, the other's blue." from the game's theme, even months later. Fans even apply this to other things aside from doors. |
| 460 | ** On streams, whenever Jon is given access to a character creator (usually in wrestling games or Tony Hawk skateboarding ones) he will always manage to produce some sort of terrifying technicolour monstrosity. |
| 461 | * RunningGagged: Jon has noted that the year 2020 seemed to see a lot of longstanding jokes coming to a spectacular culmination: |
| 462 | ** Tom Fawkes' demands to see Jon play ''Halo Reach'' finally being satisfied in the TRG Colosseum Chaos Fortune Cookie stream. |
| 463 | ** The 'Game Boy Player, Disc Only' joke Jon unleashed on LetsPlay/StephenPlays at Extra Life 2018 returning and becoming ''a podcast'' starring both Stephen and Jon (as well as Tom Fawkes and Jerod 'the 8-bit Drummer' Collins). |
| 464 | ** After almost a decade of constant Albert Wesker and 'You will give me an egg' themed references, Jon got to collaborate with DC Douglas himself on streams! Of Resident Evil 5, a game where Douglas' character Wesker appears, no less. |
| 465 | * SaveScumming: Justified, as many of the romhacks in which he does this are designed to be nigh-impossible to beat without gratuitous use of savestates. |
| 466 | * SchmuckBait: |
| 467 | ** During the "Bad Place Mario" romhack, one of the levels is labeled "Don't Go Here." He immediately goes there. [[spoiler: It sends him instantly tumbling into the pit, making him lose a life.]] |
| 468 | --->'''Jon:''' Fine. I won't go there. |
| 469 | ** In the "Don't Eat the Mushroom" level for ''Knytt Stories'', Jon proceeds to listen to the level's title and avoids picking up the mushroom. This results in the game ending extremely quickly after only playing for 2 minutes. |
| 470 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: About a third of the way through Act 5 of ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden 2'', Jon quits [[TenMinuteRetirement for a few minutes]], and Ryu replaces him with Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger. |
| 471 | * SelfDeprecation: |
| 472 | ** "My NES is like my update schedule; [[ScheduleSlip it only works once every six months.]]" |
| 473 | *** A lot of Stage 7 of his ''Superman 64'' Let's Play was spent apologizing about his release schedule. |
| 474 | ** After singing something: |
| 475 | --->'''Jon:''' I'm pretty sure I'm about to be arrested by the SPCA for killing cats. |
| 476 | ** Before LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys' Thrown Controllers panel at PAX: "Welcome to the biggest trainwreck in history."[[note]]Jon has a way of TemptingFate when the Guys are involved, and true to form, the panel was plagued by technical issues (including Jon's computer almost giving up) that also sent it way over time.[[/note]] |
| 477 | ** At the end of episode 20 of ''Resident Evil 5'': |
| 478 | ---> '''Jon:''' We're going to use this week's "What We Missed" to cover... how you're ''actually'' supposed to play the game, because if I've learned anything from watching back this footage and editing it together... it's that we don't play this game right ''at all.'' |
| 479 | ** A RunningGag in race streams is Jon saying how he's not experienced with a game/hasn't practiced it and expects to be steamrollered by the other challengers, only to almost invariably then either win or at least place a close second. |
| 480 | * SelfImmolation: Since ''VideoGame/BombermanActZero'' lacks a spectator mode, each round of any multiplayer match Jon hosts but doesn't intend to compete in himself commences with the "ceremonial lighting of [=ProtonJon=] on fire," i.e. dropping bombs on his own location as rapidly as possible to eliminate himself from the round. |
| 481 | * SelfImposedChallenge: InUniverse |
| 482 | ** Defeating Wesker in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' only using [[LethalJokeItem rotten eggs]]. |
| 483 | ** In 2017, Jon set a goal to clear 52 games that he hasn't beaten before on stream, which he codenamed the "52 in 52". He manages to reach the goal[[note]]The 52nd game being, naturally, the notorious ''Action 52''[[/note]], even going one over for good measure. |
| 484 | *** The target's been raised to 64 games in 2018, with specific goals for different consoles. Time will tell how this turns out. |
| 485 | * ShoutOut: |
| 486 | ** Each ''Superman 64'' ring stage clip ends with a screen tallying up the rings Superman has flown through, with the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' theme playing as a TakeThat. |
| 487 | ** The insert of the ''Series/TwentyFour'' counter. |
| 488 | ** "This is hurting my throat like crap. ''Metal Gear?!''" |
| 489 | ** "[[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Screw the rules, I have money!]]" |
| 490 | *** "My voice gives me inner strength![[labelnote:*]]This ''should'' be "super strength" instead of "inner strength."[[/labelnote]] ...But why?" |
| 491 | ** "[[Franchise/StreetFighter Go for broke!]]" |
| 492 | ** "[[SamusIsAGirl SAMUS IS A GIRL]] WHAT" |
| 493 | ** [[https://youtu.be/iGvZa3tiYwY "Now we're thinking with]] VideoGame/{{portal}}s" He says it again at 5:12. |
| 494 | ** "[[Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy I'm Ron Burgundy.]]" |
| 495 | ** On seeing levels styled after roguelikes in Don't Eat The Mushroom, he asked, confused, "VideoGame/DwarfFortress?" |
| 496 | ** He plays with the Paint options in [[https://youtu.be/6R2ZEK9L5ZU Tekken Tag Tournament 2]], colouring Raven's entire body white except for his sunglasses, and declares "[[Series/TopGearUK It's the Stig!]]" |
| 497 | ** Upon getting the Cagnazzo soul in ''Aria of Sorrow'' and giving it a test run, he declares "it's the {{Manga/JoJo|sBizarreAdventure}} one!" |
| 498 | ** Whenever Jon has to do a raspy voice for a character, it rapidly deteriorates into [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad]], which he then lampshades by adding a reference to checking emails into the dialogue. |
| 499 | * ShownTheirWork: His ''Superman 64'' LP has much more sophisticated editing than usual, not to mention the detailed trivia and history sections throughout each video. Case-in-point: [[https://youtu.be/_ZOWibh__uQ episode 5]]. To top it off, his e-mail interview with Eric Caen (the game's producer) became cited as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_%281999_video_game%29#cite_note-Eric_Caen_Interview-7 a source for the game's Wikipedia article]]. |
| 500 | * SidetrackedByTheGoldenSaucer: [[invoked]] During Game Clearing 2021, a RunningGag occurs during a [[GameMod visually modded]] ''VideoGame/SonicMania'' playthrough in which Jon stops what he's doing ingame in favor of the orb[[note]]Blue Sphere, as it's officially called.[[/note]] challenges. |
| 501 | * {{Sizeshifter}}: Parodied with Rosajon, one of Jon's female depictions, who has this power applied to [[BreastExpansion her breasts]]. As she has been consistently depicted with [[YourSizeMayVary varying cup sizes]] in fanart, lore eventually dictates that they can change their size, as shown in a donation alert featuring her. |
| 502 | * SoProudOfYou: Fighting [[VideoGame/SuperMetroid Ridley]] with super bombs: |
| 503 | -->'''Jon:''' [[StuffBlowingUp MOAR EXPLOSIONS]]! Creator/MichaelBay would be proud of me! |
| 504 | * SoundDefect: Jon usually plays the "you will give me an egg" soundbite from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' for new subscribers, but several times has played the wrong sound clip by accident. |
| 505 | * SoundtrackDissonance: During ''Yoshi's Island'' [[https://youtu.be/zrxgIRUHnBM?t=16m37s part 9]], Jon enters Naval Piranha's Castle, which begins outdoors with the game's quirky/smiley art, but still plays the castle music. he comments on it |
| 506 | -->'''Jon:''' You're going to solve a mystery... while being ''smiled at by every piece of architecture in the world!'' |
| 507 | * SpaceWhaleAesop: From the end of Episode 6 of ''Aria of Sorrow'': |
| 508 | -->'''Jon:''' Folks, let this be a lesson: If you do a sweet pose after a friend of yours has been stabbed, respond to the fist bump. |
| 509 | * SpinningPaper: Done with the ''Daily Planet'' as the opening of the supervillain intros in ''Superman 64'', with "pictures" from ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''. |
| 510 | * SpringtimeForHitler: Jon starts his Runaway Guys stream by making Chugga play ''Wheel of Fortune'', both to troll Chugga and because the fans enjoy watching Chugga screw up in a funny way, as he invariably does. [[spoiler:Chugga proceeds to win the game]]. |
| 511 | * {{Squee}}: Jon could barely contain his excitement when he found out he could battle Waluigi in a dance off during his ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolutionMarioMix'' live stream. |
| 512 | * StealthHiBye: Superman 64 Stage 8 has Jon confused by Jimmy Olsen appearing, giving Superman advice, and vanishing completely. Usually by walking off camera and simply not being there when Jon turns around. |
| 513 | * StealthPun: Comes with these rather than Chugga's obvious and at times lame ones, and Tim's more clever ones. One good example is then both he and a friend jokes that he keeps on [[MaleGaze looking]] at the player A Girlbreast in one of the ''VideoGame/BombermanActZero'' streams. |
| 514 | * StereotypeReactionGag: In the second episode of Mission Mode in [[{{LetsPlay/Chuggaaconroy}} Chuggaaconroy's]] LP of ''[[{{VideoGame/Pikmin}} Pikmin 3]]'', Jon, Chugga's guest player for the episode, introduces himself as Chugga. Chugga, conversely, introduces himself as [=ProtonJon=], using the most over-the-top, stereotypical Canadian accent he can come up with. Jon is completely and hilariously offended. |
| 515 | * StraightMan: In both his streams, Let's Plays/Streams with others, and in LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys. This also means that he can sneak jokes people find uncharacteristic for him, like {{pun}}s, ToiletHumour, and even dirty jokes, without as many noticing when he does it, making him seem stern when he's just as silly as everyone else. |
| 516 | * StuckAtTheAirportPlot: Oh boy, does Jon have some stories; ranging from simple [[DisasterDominoes chain reactions]] [[FromBadToWorse of the hilariously awful kind]] to straight up almost being ''barred from the US at one point.'' Fans and Jon's friends love to joke that the only thing worse than [[BornUnlucky Jon's luck with video games]] is his luck with air travel. |
| 517 | * SturgeonsLaw: Ultimately the reason Jon stopped doing playthroughs of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' ROM Hacks. More than often the hacks he was sent had very little thought put into them and often were only designed to deliberately piss him off with pixel perfect jumps or [[FakeDifficulty other unseeable bullshit]]. While Jon ''has'' does some ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker'' levels on his Twitch on occasion, he has a much, ''much'' stricter threshold of what he's willing to play and put up with. |
| 518 | * SubvertedCatchphrase: Jon normally does a spiel to describe how Fortune Cookie works for new viewers, but this trope happens when something unexpected happens, such as parts of his tech breaking down ([[RunningGag which is often]]). |
| 519 | --> '''Jon:''' If you are new here, to Fortune Cookie streams, here's how this works...everything breaks and I get upset. That's...actually pretty standard around here. |
| 520 | * SuddenDownerEnding: Parodied at the ending of ''Tri Force Heroes''. |
| 521 | -->''(All three of them cheer with cries of "We did it!")'' |
| 522 | -->'''Jon:''' Unfortunately, I am [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask the Fierce Deity]], so unfortunately, [[EverybodyDiesEnding everyone died, like, a minute later.]] |
| 523 | * TacticalRockPaperScissors: In one of ''Superman 64'''s many, ''many'' glitches, he demonstrates that an innocent bystander seems to be completely impervious to Superman's attacks, including when he ''throws an exploding crate at her'', but immediately keels over if she's even grazed by a Dark Shadow attack. |
| 524 | * TakeAThirdOption: |
| 525 | ** In streams, Jon always has a "1% Rule" in place that states that if two leading choices for the Fortune Cookie are within 1% of each other, he just plays both games, one after the other. After this rule caused a few issues, he introduced the "''0%'' Rule" as a joke, which states that if the two leading choices are tied, he ignores both of them and plays the game in ''last'' place instead. The 1% Rule has since been modified afterwards to just include the second place game on the next Cookie (which carries over between streams if applicable). |
| 526 | *** During a fortune cookie round on Jon's March 31, 2018 stream, Crazy Taxi 2 and Digimon All-Star Rumble tied for first place and Jon decided to play them both at the same time. It was very dumb. |
| 527 | ** In his ''VideoGame/Superman64'' LP, Jon wanted to have the ring stages sped up or cut completely since they showed nothing new and he wouldn't have much to say during those stages. He asked his fans on what he should do and it was nearly split between "keep the ring stages" and "cut the stages out". Jon rolls both options into one by showing the ring stage in one corner of the screen while using the other corner to show off other stuff such as other Superman games or random trivia related to the franchise. |
| 528 | * TakeThat: In response to all the ROM hacks he received that heavily relied on invisible blocks, [[https://youtu.be/-3XnhPmVk6Y Jon created a level]] that was filled with over ''300'' invisible blocks, just to show people how bad levels would get if people didn't stop relying on the gimmick. Jon also had two of his friends play the level so that they could get extremely pissed off at the level design, which would drive the point home. In short, the level was a big middle finger to everyone that relied on invisible blocks, which at the time was a lot. |
| 529 | * TakingYouWithMe: In his ''Bomberman Act Zero'' livestream matches, [=ACFan120=] (the guy who does the cartoon head logos at the end of Runaway Guys videos) AND Tropers/DanTheEnigma (though not to the level of [=ACFan120=]) keep trying to do this to Jon. |
| 530 | * TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Lampshaded. |
| 531 | -->'''Jon:''' [[https://youtu.be/oGqjNmjQbXY Oh, hi! I didn't see you come in. Probably because this is pre-recorded.]] |
| 532 | ** Jon also attempts this on his second ''Yoshi's Island'' video by trying to guess what the comments on the first video would be like, but doesn't do particularly well. This is lampshaded by the "Future Jon" annotations. |
| 533 | * TemptingFate: Happens all the time in a FiveSecondForeshadowing way in his videos and streams, but perhaps the best example might be his original ''Superman 64'' test video from 2007, in which he comments that he actually enjoys playing the terrible game and intends to LP it even though [[OnceMoreWithClarity all his colleagues from SomethingAwful are warning him he'll regret it]]. |
| 534 | * ThatCameOutWrong: In episode 4 of his ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong94'' LP, he refers to a British ChallengeGamer website called "Cyberscore" and describes using it as "Cyberscoring". After a moment he realizes how much this sounds like an UnusualEuphemism... |
| 535 | * ThirdPersonPerson: Jon does this when he commentates a ''VideoGame/BombermanActZero'' multiplayer stream he's playing in. |
| 536 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: |
| 537 | ** During his stream of ''VideoGame/{{Pepsiman}}'', he says this word for word when he sees an extremely narrow level full of conveyor belts. |
| 538 | ** Says it at least twice during his encounter with 5-Extra in ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland''. |
| 539 | ** Never said outright, but Jon's non-stop complaining and hyping up of Balore in Episode 7 of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow'' carries a definite flavor of this trope. [[ThatOneBoss For good reason, though.]] |
| 540 | * ThousandYardStare: In world 3 his ''Yoshi's Island'' LP, Jon comments that a monkey he finds looks particularly traumatized in this way. |
| 541 | * TimeTravel: Sometimes referenced with respect to "Future Jon", especially in the finale of ''Yoshi's Island'' in which Jon plays the final boss level earlier but reorders it to the end of the video, and ''then'' halfway through it pauses to insert later-recorded footage of alternate paths. While trying to keep consistent commentary throughout when it's recorded at three different times. |
| 542 | * TournamentArc: On February 11th 2014, Jon held a 32-man VideoGame/BombermanActZero one on his twitch channel which was won by [[spoiler: Dan The Enigma]]. |
| 543 | * TwoLinesNoWaiting: During Stage 5 of ''Superman 64'', he essentially interrupted the game (though you could still see him playing it in the picture-in-picture) to do a full LP of the Platform/GameBoy version of ''Superman'', returning afterwards to show all the glitches he missed. |
| 544 | * UndesirablePrize: Jon and his roommate created a custom prize list for their ''Series/DealOrNoDeal'' PC game. Nearly ''everything'' on the list was an UndesirablePrize-- top contenders are "Hepatitis A-G", "Wet Cardboard Box", and "[[UrineTrouble A Golden Shower]] from [[CrossesTheLineTwice R. Kelly]]". Other gems include a year's supply of [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment calendar]], Creator/HowieMandel's haircut, and "[[LeetLingo 1337 5P34K 13550N5]]". |
| 545 | ** And the top prize is [[LogicBomb a copy of the Deal or No Deal PC game]], [[MindScrew which Jon covets because otherwise he'll never know what it's like to play]]. |
| 546 | * {{Unperson}}: In an "Un-game" example, there was a period when whenever his Fortune Cookie chose ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'' as an option ([[{{Troll}} which was surprisingly often]]), Jon acted as though nothing had happened and went to another option. |
| 547 | * UnwantedAssistance: During an on stream game of [[{{VideoGame/AmongUs}} Among Us]] , Jon needs to use sabotages to allow him to attack and kill someone, only for his imposter parter, MasterTimeTheif, to use other sabotages that don't help him much. |
| 548 | * VerbalTic: He calls these "word of the week", because they change over time. In the specific LP where he mentions this, the tics are "boogie" and "EXTREEEME!", as he himself points out. |
| 549 | ** Hubris |
| 550 | ** [[NotUsingTheZWord Zambies.]] |
| 551 | * VeryFalseAdvertising: |
| 552 | -->'''Jon:''' This means today is the [[PowerEchoes SAMUS ARAN BOMBING POWER HOUR]]. ...Even though it's only 10 minutes. |
| 553 | * VideoGameCrueltyPotential: He normally doesn't indulge in this sort of thing, but the absolutely hilarious results of crashing on a water slide caused him to dedicate [[https://youtu.be/7mjNjmgTjPY part of his]] ''[[VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Dead or Alive Xtreme 2]]'' playthrough to causing Tina to crash as much as possible. |
| 554 | * VisualInnuendo: In "Mario's Early Years," he and Kelekin notice that one stage puts a "Box" in a... very inopportune location on Princess Peach's body. They fall apart laughing. |
| 555 | * WaitWhat: Jon has this reaction in ''VideoGame/BombermanActZero'' Round 4 when he finds out he technically won despite A Girlbreast taking him out with a line bomb. |
| 556 | * WalkingTechbane: Considering how much he glitches games and has technical issues in general, he certainly counts as one. |
| 557 | * WasntThatFun: After the end of Kaizo World Special Stage 2: |
| 558 | -->'''Jon:''' THERE! I GOT PISSED! YA HAPPY?! ...Well, that was fun. I wonder what the next stage is like? |
| 559 | * WaxingLyrical: |
| 560 | ** "Let's do the [[SaveScumming time warp]] again. This time with feeling." |
| 561 | ** (''upon seeing "chocolate" lava'') "Uh... chocolate death. Chocolate ''rain''. [[Music/TayZonday Some stay dry, and others feel the pain.]]" |
| 562 | ** "[[Film/RockyIII It's the eye of the tiger, it's the cream of the fight. Rising up to the challenge of our rivals.]]" |
| 563 | ** And it isn't limited to his solo work either: |
| 564 | ---> '''Chuggaaconroy:''' "Just the two of us." |
| 565 | ---> '''[=ProtonJon=]:''' "We can make it if we try." |
| 566 | * WeaksauceWeakness: "Apparently he's found my one weakness: simple jumps." |
| 567 | * WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: In EpicFail propotions. When he tried to make a fake Swedish accent people mistook it for him trying to sound like a sexy girl, while he actually tried to ask if there was any sexy girls in the audience/chat. Given that he was dating Lucah who's of Swedish descent and can speak some of it was he probably trying a pick-up line and failing hilariously. |
| 568 | * WhatWouldXDo: While battling the Masked Devil in ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'' (NES): |
| 569 | -->'''Jon:''' There was a ''really'' good strategy someone showed me once. ..It was so good [[IdiotBall I forgot it]]. |
| 570 | * WholesomeCrossdresser: With LetsPlay/{{Lucahjin}}'s assistance, he got a [=RosaJon=] cosplay in time for The Runaway Guys Colosseum 2021, and he looks quite attractive in it. |
| 571 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Is afraid of dogs due to being attacked by one in his childhood. But he does not hate them and gave heartfelt condolences to a fan who had just lost their dog, and [[DudeNotFunny got upset]] when said fan tried joking about it to get over it. He later has overcome this fear and is willing to adopt a dog should Lucah want one too. |
| 572 | * WithLyrics: |
| 573 | ** Seen [[https://youtu.be/pbmx2-AtvEw#t=168s here]] in the Kaizo LP: "This is the castle... A [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING]] HARD ONE..." |
| 574 | ** In ''Resident Evil 5'' he briefly sings "Point-blank sniping, I am running now!" to the tune of the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' theme. |
| 575 | * WordSaladLyrics: His (surprisingly catchy) [[https://youtu.be/FzGy5EQXl7o&t=2m48s improvised lyrics]] to "Reptilia" by The Strokes: |
| 576 | --> ♪ Come on, come on, now / Let's keep moving now / Why is this so slow / Don't make me fast-forward / Because it really sucks / Can I jump over here / No I prob'ly can't / Goodbye Yoshi, I hate you / AH I GOTTA RUN / Didn't make it in time / Rewind space-time ♪\ |
| 577 | ♪ Wish these lyrics would be on the screen so I'd ''know'' them / I - hate - make-ing - up - stuff / because my voice goes outta tune ♪ |
| 578 | * WritingAroundTrademarks: When revealing a T-shirt design featuring Death Water, he uses the line from the LP, "featuring Music/LedZeppelin as Death Water's son", but replaced the band's name with "Steel Blimpin". |
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