Line #14 WebVideo/Zerolenny


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6	[[https://www.youtube.com/@ZeroLenny ZeroLenny]] is a ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' challenge runner and [[Website/YouTube YouTuber]] from the Northwest of the UK. His videos primarily consist of him trying to beat games in the “[[SoulsLikeRPG Soulslike]]” genre [[SelfImposedChallenge with the worst weapon in the game]], usually a broken sword, and/or various other similar [[SelfImposedChallenge handicaps]]. They are jam-packed full of wacky hijinks, swearing, and more [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Spice]] than the tank of a [[Literature/DuneMessiah Guild Steersman]].
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8	Joining Website/{{Youtube}} in 2009 as a late teenager, Lenny amassed moderate amounts of fame with his ''VideoGame/ClubPenguin: Meme Police'' and ''Goose News'' videos, but his first BreakthroughHit was in 2016 with ''THE [[Videogame/DarkSouls2 DARK SOULS 2]] EXPERIENCE'', the first of the ''Experience'' videos which Lenny would later become well known for in the Souls community. At first, Lenny hid his voice behind the “Daniel” TTS program, but around 2018, sometime around ''THE [[VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld MONSTER HUNTER]] EXPERIENCE'', the TTS voice evolved into his own character, [[SyntheticVoiceActor Robolenny]].[[note]]Due to ContinuitySnarl, it is still a little unclear on whether Robolenny or IRL Lenny is supposed to be the blue-skinned, mustached “Pretty Princess” avatar, but it's probably Robolenny.[[/note]] This would bring about Lenny’s most popular era yet, with IRL Lenny and Robolenny working together to complete the challenge of the week while exchanging witty banter.
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10	However, in mid-2021, Lenny's Youtube viewership and growth began plateauing once again, leading him to the decision to more or less retire Robolenny from the channel, while simultaneously starting a new series consisting of highlights of Lenny's attempts to complete various Creator/FromSoftware titles with the day-one IGN strategy guide, starting with ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''. The gambit worked, and Lenny's views and exposure began growing again, and the IGN guide videos regularly crack 500K views. Presently, Lenny's channel is a hybrid of [[SelfImposedChallenge goofy challenge runs with outlandish controllers]], the aforementioned IGN Guide series, [[CommutingOnABus occasional throwback videos with Robolenny]] and [[VideoReviewShow semi-serious game reviews]].
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12	In 2019, he released [[https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/824?tab=images The ZeroLenny Spicy Mod]], a GagDub of the entirety of ''VideoGame/DarkSouls2'' where every voiced character's dialogue is replaced with utter silliness.
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14	He currently holds the unofficial[[note]]As in currently not recognized by Guinness World Records, the application was rejected[[/note]] world record for ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' beaten with the most alternative controllers[[labelnote:list]]Normal (Platform/{{Xbox}}) controller, Mouse and Keyboard, [[VideoGame/DonkeyKonga DK bongos]], Wiimote, [[VideoGame/GuitarHero ''Guitar Hero'' guitar]], [[VideoGame/RockBand ''Rock Band'' drum set]], [[VideoGame/DJHero ''DJ Hero'' controller]], [[VideoGame/RockBand ''Rock Band'' keytar]], Steering wheel, and [[VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution dance pad]][[/labelnote]].
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16	!![[GottaKillThemAll Tropes dat need 2 die]]:
17	* FourOneNineScam: In "THE [[VideoGame/DarkSouls2 DARK SOULS 2]] EXPERIENCE", Lenny kills a Nigerian prince and steals his robes. Later, he suspects the piles of gold the twin Dragonriders are guarding must have been collected through such a scam.
18	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Lenny has to admit IGN is right that fighting [[GetBackHereBoss Micolash, Host of the Nightmare]] while playing [[Series/TheBennyHillShow The Benny Hill Theme]] makes the fight a lot funnier.
19	* AffectionateParody: Lenny likes to rib speedrunners like WebVideo/GamesDoneQuick by putting on an [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent atrocious overenthusiastic American accent]] and claiming that everything he does in his speedrun is "RNG manipulation."
20	-->'''Lenny[with god-awful accent]:''' Ok gamers, so in order to get the best RNG manipulation we need to go in this corner and go ABABABABA
21	* AntiClimax: Whenever Lenny says “Welcome back to '''WRESTLE WITH THE LENNY''' in the tag-team thunderdome ring”, you can bet that he’s about to kill the boss he’s fighting in an unexpectedly quick way.
22	* AllForNothing: Zig-zagged in "Can You Beat Dark Souls 3 IN UNDER 1 HOUR?". After three days of streaming, Lenny finally manages to get a top 100 glitchless speedrun record, but it gets disqualified on the technicality that he quit out for more than 20 seconds at once at one point in the stream. However, feeling it would then be disrespectful to the speedrunning community to make an entire video dramatizing his quest to get a top 100 time without it being official, Lenny went and got a legitimate run he later did off-stream accepted.
23	* AprilFoolsDay: "Can you beat VideoGame/DarkSouls without pressing A?" is a video released on April 1st, and it's [[spoiler: a three-second clip of Lenny standing in front of a closed door with the prompt "press A to open". He loudly says "[[BluntNo NO]]" into the microphone.]]
24	* AudienceParticipation: ‘’THE [[VideoGame/DeadCells DEAD CELLS]] EXPERIENCE’’ ran this way, with Lenny using the game’s Twitch integration features to let viewers take control of Robolenny. Highlights include a viewer mistaking him for WebVideo/IronPineapple and a {{Troll}} blackmailing him into admitting VideoGame/DragonsDogma is a good game by withholding healing.
25	* AuthorAppeal: Lenny is obviously a big fan of British sketch comedy, and sneaks a lot of references to it into the videos he makes.
26	* AuthorTract: "THE [[VideoGame/DragonsDogma DRAGON'S DOGMA]] EXPERIENCE" is basically just a 5-minute rant from Lenny about why the game is boring. Later, he would release [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO2uNf2FSf4 an actual critique]] of the game, and acknowledges those who like it.
27	* ArcWords: For some reason, the IGN guide in "Dark Souls 3 BUT With The IGN Guide" insists on saying "The true Dark Soul starts here" at the start of every area, except upon entering the Kiln of the First Flame, where it says "The true Dark Soul ''ends'' here".
28	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: IRL Lenny and Robolenny fight and insult each other constantly, but when the chips are down, they're there for each other. Robolenny has been comforted by IRL Lenny in several rare moments of tenderness.
29	-->'''Robolenny:''' you know, for being such a cunt most of the time, you're not so bad.
30	* BaitAndSwitchComment:
31	** Robolenny will often comment on [[SceneryPorn how pretty a game is]], before falling off a cliff and declaring it "pretty shit".
32	** Lenny's Mum gets in on the action by declaring that VideoGame/DarkSouls2 isn't such a bad game, really. [[DoubleSubverted In fact, it's shit]].
33	* BareFistedMonk: Lenny chooses to fight like this in "Can You Beat [[VideoGame/ArmoredCoreVIFiresOfRubicon Armored Core 6]] with NO WEAPONS", foregoing the wealth of guns at his disposal to instead use the default Armored Core punch and kick. He [[LethalJokeCharacter accidentally ends up creating a build that is capable of demolishing most of the bosses by stunlocking them into oblivion through repeated posture breaks]], and the only bosses that give him trouble are ones that either employ TeleportSpam or are too big to stagger.
34	* BlatantLies:
35	** In "How to Broken Sword VideoGame/DarkSouls2", Lenny keeps talking about how much he loves Dark Souls 2 and how it's the best souls game, and how he has five save files on standby so he can get up first thing in the morning and start experiencing it.
36	** In "How Many Times Can I Beat [[VideoGame/DarkSouls2 DARK SOULS 2]] in 24 HOURS?", he claims that his game crashed right as he was about to fight a human player invader at 8 AM, when he very obviously just quit out of the game so he didn't have to fight the guy.
37	* BriefAccentImitation: Robolenny mocks IRL Lenny frequently by modulating his voice.
38	-->'''Robolenny[voice oscillating]:''' Oh look everyone my name is Lenny the bitchass I piss my pants on the regular
39	* CatchPhrase: Quite a few, though most prominently “DO YOU WANT A FUCKING [[BitchSlap SLAP]]?” and “I’m a Pretty Princess.”
40	* TheCameo:
41	** "THE CHALICE DUNGEON EXPERIENCE" features a number of cameos from influential ''Dark Souls'' content creators, including [[https://www.youtube.com/@JellyElite JellyElite]], [[https://www.youtube.com/@InfernoPlus Infernoplus]], [[https://www.youtube.com/@WildPie101 WildPie101]], [[https://www.youtube.com/@Otzdarva Otzdarva]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/@ymfah ymfah]].
42	** "THE [[VideoGame/DemonsSouls DEMON'S SOULS REMAKE]] EXPERIENCE" features a cameo from [[https://www.youtube.com/@VaatiVidya VaatiVidya]], where Lenny ask him for help farming the broken sword. He offers no advice and reveals that [[IBangedYourMom he's sleeping with Robolenny's Mum]].
43	* CantHoldHisLiquor: Lenny has done a few drunk Twitch streams, and when he gets drunk, he gets ''drunk''. Once it took him a half an hour to end the stream because he kept going on about how much he loved his fans.
44	* CheeseStrategy: [[invoked]] IGN's self-proclaimed "Cheeseburger Mage" build in "Dark Souls 3 BUT With The IGN Guide" is all about cheesing every single cheesable part of ''VideoGame/DarkSouls3'', and it actually gets results.
45	* CherryTapping: In "Can You Beat [[VideoGame/ArmoredCoreVIFiresOfRubicon Armored Core 6]] with NO WEAPONS", Lenny is horrified when it dawns on him that the first level starts him out with weapons equipped, meaning he can't use the punch or kick moves required for the challenge. He then discovers that he can still do a little bit of damage by [[RammingAlwaysWorks flying headfirst into enemies]], but it still makes the game's WarmUpBoss ten times more difficult than it would be for him normally.
46	* ChristmasEpisode: [[invoked]] "Can MY MUM beat DARK SOULS AGAIN" [[MeaningfulReleaseDate was released on Christmas Day 2023]] and has a "Christmas party" theme to it, including some truly groan-worthy ''Dark Souls''-themed [[LamePunReaction Christmas Cracker jokes]].
47	* ClusterFBomb: Robolenny, frequently.
48	-->'''Robolenny:''' SHITTY FUCKING NEW GAME FUCKING PLUS WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT THIS SHIT WAS A GREAT IDEA OH HAHAHAHAHA NOW I HAVE TO GO LOOK FOR SOULS OUT IN THE FUCKING WORLD BECAUSE EVERYTHING’S BROKEN FUCK THIS STUPID FUCKING MOD I SWEAR TO CHRIST
49	* CommutingOnABus: Robolenny only makes ''very'' sporadic appearances these days, compared to when he used to be in every video and be the sole character before that. "THE [[VideoGame/WildHearts WILD HEARTS]] EXPERIENCE" reveals that he's actually just hanging out at [[VideoGame/DarkSouls1 Gwyn's Pub]] whenever he's not in a video, much to IRL Lenny's chagrin. The video ends with them leaving to go hang out, like they used to at the ends of videos in the 2019 era.
50	* ContinuityCavalcade: ‘’WRESTLE WITH THE LENNY’’ features Robolenny beating up most of the running gags and inside jokes of the channel, going all the way back to the [[spoiler: ''meme police''!]]
51	* CoolPlane: Lenny becomes one of these in "Can you beat ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' as a FIGHTER JET!?" When he installs a mod that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin turns his character into a fighter jet]]. It's basically an in-universe GameBreaker, since none of the enemies or bosses in the game are able to hit it from so far away while the jet barrages them with magic...[[spoiler:except for the Tree Sentinel's [[AttackReflector shield which reflects magic attacks]]]].
52	* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The guides are surprisingly good at creating builds that work decently well in Creator/FromSoftware games, even if they have an extremely unorthodox method of acquiring it or it sounds like it wouldn't work. Lenny is genuinely dumbfounded when after a certain point, a [[WithThisHerring bow build]] in both ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'' and ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' actually start putting out reasonable amounts of damage. The guides also correctly demonstrate several in-universe [[CheeseStrategy Cheese Strategies]], such as killing False King Allant by slowly walking up behind him and [[DamageOverTime poisoning him to death]].
53	* DeadpanSnarker: Robolenny is always making some sort of wisecrack, usually at IRL Lenny's expense. Justified, since his voice is a monotone TTS voice.
54	* DecompositeCharacter:
55	** Originally, there was no distinction to be made between [=ZeroLenny=] and Robolenny; the implication was just that IRL Lenny[[note]]Whom according to WordOfGod says that he was very shy and insecure about putting his voice out on the internet back then[[/note]] was just using a TTS voice to hide his actual voice, which wasn't exactly uncommon among small [=YouTubers=] at the time. However, around 2019, it became increasingly clear that Robolenny was a separate character who ran the channel and IRL Lenny started working with him to complete various challenge runs. Then, after Robolenny no longer became a regular character, basically all pretense was dropped and it was just Lenny's channel, [[RetCon and had always been]].
56	** Even before that, Robolenny was the Meme Police in the channel's old ''VideoGame/ClubPenguin'' videos, until "WRESTLE WITH THE LENNY", which [[spoiler: has Robolenny ''fight'' the Meme Police, who is now a separate entity]]. IRL Lenny explains that Robolenny can be distinguished from the Meme Police because he talks 30% slower than the default speed the "Daniel" TTS program uses(which is the speed the Meme Police speaks at) as a way to differentiate him from other creators who used the TTS voice at the time.
57	* {{Dissimile}}: At one point in "VideoGame/DarkSouls2 BUT with the IGN guide", the guide tells Lenny to adopt the "[[MightyGlacier Battle Turtle]]" strategy and to "think like a turtle." Lenny lampshades this.
58	-->'''Lenny:''' If I was thinking like a turtle, I'd close my eyes and be like "What the FUCK am I doing playing Dark Souls 2???"
59	* DudeLooksLikeALady: Apparently, Robolenny thought Big Keith from Anor Londo was not only a girl, but [[NoodleIncident flirting with him all night]].
60	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
61	** The earliest “experience” videos don’t resemble Lenny’s modern content at all; Robolenny is the only character, none of the running gags have really taken off yet and overall the editing is far more passive. This would start to change around 2018, with the IRL Lenny/Robolenny dynamic taking off completely in ‘’THE CHALICE DUNGEON EXPERIENCE”.
62	** His very first video, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ZybPDizaI&t=19s Dark Souls 2: Shrek's Day At the Bell Tower]]", is a Dark Souls PVP video, something he would make fun of other youtubers for making in later years!
63	* ExcusePlot: When an episode has a “plot”, chances are it’ll be something along the lines of “IRL Lenny and Robolenny got lost and need to kill everything around them.”
64	-->'''IRL Lenny:''' Lenny, I’m so confused, what is your Nan doing on Weeaboo Island?
65	-->'''Robolenny:''' Oh fuck I forgot we had a plot this episode
66	* ExtraLongEpisode:
67	** The "Experience" videos and the [=IGN=] guide videos usually dwarf Lenny's other content in sheer length, running around 45 minutes to an hour while the rest of his content never usually gets above 30 very often.
68	** "How Many Times Can I Beat [[VideoGame/DarkSouls2 DARK SOULS 2]] in 24 HOURS?" is a whopping 50 minutes long despite being a non-IGN video, since it covers a 24-hour marathon stream and there were so many good bits that Lenny didn't want to have to edit out, so he decided to make an overall less-edited video with a longer runtime and more funny moments to capture the spirit of the stream better after posting a community poll about it.
69	* FailedASpotCheck: The chatter who [[CaptainObvious tells Lenny that you can press Y, then X]] to immediately return to [[VideoGame/EldenRing Roundtable Hold]] somehow failed to notice that he's [[SelfImposedChallenge playing with a set of]] [[VideoGame/DonkeyKonga Donkey Kong bongos]].
70	-->'''Lenny:''' Who is this absolute CREATURE in my chat!? PRESS Y THEN X? Ok, lad, I'll get right on that! (slaps bongos in appropriate locations twice, obviously nothing happens)
71	* FauxHorrific: Anytime anime shows up.
72	** When Lenny played through ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'', after beating the first darkest dungeon level, normally the game starts [[OminousVisualGlitch showing fleeting glimpses of]] an EldritchAbomination on various character portraits, but for Lenny they turn into Anime reskin mods.
73	** The first few seconds of his playthrough of ''VideoGame/CodeVein'' devolved into him and Robolenny incoherently screaming in terror when the game's first set of huge boobs show up.
74	** "OH FUCK THE WEEABOO VIRUS DON'T FUCKING TOUCH ME"
75	* FreezeFrameBonus: Lenny is fond of putting blink-and-you'll-miss-them messages at key moments in his videos. Some of them say "[[StopPokingMe stop pausing the video]]."
76	* FunWithAcronyms: In one of his ''VideoGame/DarkSouls3'' PVP tutorials, he comes up with D.I.C.K, which stands for “Dex Is Cancer King.”
77	* GagDub: "The [=ZeroLenny=] Spicy Mod" for ''VideoGame/DarkSouls2'' changes all voiced dialogue in the game to be [[ManOfAThousandVoices Lenny putting on voices]] and [[TakeThat doing a meta-roast of the game itself]].
78	* GiantEnemyCrab: Subverted. ''El Crabbo'' is a regular sized crab... [[PintSizedPowerhouse who can do 700 damage a hit]].
79	* GoodBadBugs: Lampshaded in-universe. Lenny will often push a game to it's limit, and sometimes it will break. Bugging the game out was the only way he was able to kill [[VideoGame/EldenRing Rykard]] with the torch.
80	-->'''IRL Lenny''': You know, Lenny, we shit on ''VideoGame/DarkSouls2'' a lot on this channel but it's just cause [[BlatantLies 1's a flawless game, really]].[[note]] A mimic somehow failed to grab him despite him standing directly in front of it[[/note]]
81	* GratuitousFrench:
82	** Lenny will sometimes pepper his speech with [[StylisticSuck deliberately extremely bad French]] or by saying "OH HON HON HON, C'EST BONNE" in a MauriceChevalierAccent.
83	** In "How Many Times Can I Beat [[VideoGame/DarkSouls2 DARK SOULS 2]] in 24 HOURS?", he claims that the French for "a bit cringe" is "''le petit crauwnnge''"[[note]]lit:"The small" [[StylisticSuck incorrectly conjugated and the English word "cringe" pronounced with a hideous pretend French accent]][[/note]].
84	* GroinAttack: Lenny defeats the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Hinox of Eventide Island]] by slamming a crate into its' balls over and over again until it dies.
85	* HeManWomanHater: The author of the 2009 Demon’s Souls Gamefaqs Strategy Guide is portrayed as this, especially when he mentions that he felt no guilt from killing Maiden Astraea, a defenseless ZeroEffortBoss, because his ex dumped him recently.
86	* HeroicSacrifice: Invoked and lampshaded. In ‘’THE [[VideoGame/CodeVein CODE VEIN]] EXPERIENCE’’, IRL Lenny is one away from winning his bingo card, and all he needs is an unnecessary heroic sacrifice to win. Naturally, [[spoiler: Robolenny takes him at his word and sacrifices himself to forever destroy anime]].
87	* HeterosexualLifePartners: IRL Lenny and Robolenny. They live together in a house in the [[VideoGame/DarkSouls1 Undead Burg]] and get into all sorts of wacky adventures.
88	* HollywoodHacking: Lenny actually futzes about with the game's code to get himself out of a pillar while doing the [[VideoGame/DarkSouls1 Duke's Archives skip]], but he plays it up like this for the camera.
89	-->'''Lenny''': We're in, boys. We've just hacked the FACKIN' GOVERNMENT!
90	* {{Homage}}: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x18FHbmgPl0 the entire story of Dark Souls, i guess]]" is done deliberately referencing the style, tempo and title of WebVideo/BillWurtz's "History of the entire world, i guess".
91	* IBangedYourMom: In many of the early "Experience" videos, Robolenny is shown to have a sexual relationship with ''Dark Souls'' FandomVIP and loremaster [=VaatiVidya=]'s Mum. At various different points, Vaati's Mum was characterized as a StacysMom, a MrsRobinson, and a ClingyJealousGirl, but her only onscreen appearance was in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUFaWh7h9eI THE SALT AND SANCTUARY EXPERIENCE]]" where she was represented by The Witch of The Lake. However, after Lenny began to realize that [[DudeNotFunny he was cracking jokes about sleeping with a real person's presumably-still-alive mother]], he decided that they were crossing a line and [[OldShame killed the joke]]. %%[[Invoked}}
92	* ILied: After spending the whole first half of "How to TORCH ONLY ''VideoGame/EldenRing''" telling the viewer that it's "not a cock-measuring contest" and they can use other, better torches or even the [[ExactWords Torchpole weapon]] for their torch-only run if they want, but that he's going to use the base torch, he suddenly says that he lied and that it IS a cock-measuring contest and that [[SelfDeprecation he has a small cock]]. He then proceeds to go get and use the Ghostflame Torch.
93	* IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime: Lampshaded very frequently. Almost all the ‘’Experience’’ videos reuse at least one joke.
94	-->'''Lenny:''' Now the thing is, this is like the 5th time I’ve used this joke, but the thing is, [[MST3KMantra I like it a lot, so shut the fuck up]].[[note]]Ironically, even this joke was reused several times.[[/note]]
95	* ImprobableWeaponUser: He has a series where instead of beating each ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' game with the in-game [[WreckedWeapon Broken Sword]] weapon, he beats them with an ''actual'' broken sword as his controller[[note]]actually a Wiimote and nunchuck duct-taped to a prop recreation of the ''Dark Souls'' broken sword a fan made for him[[/note]].
96	* IndyEscape: Subverted when Lenny tries to brute force his way fast the boulder in [[DeathCourse Sen's Fortress]]. [[spoiler:Double subverted when it kills him almost instantly]].
97	-->'''IRL Lenny:''' Lenny, aren't you worried about the boulder?
98	-->'''Robolenny:''' Don't worry Lenny, [[TemptingFate it doesn't do that much damage]]. [[spoiler:'''Unless it hits you six fucking times-''']]
99	* InsomniaEpisode: "How Many Times Can I Beat [[VideoGame/DarkSouls2 DARK SOULS 2]] in 24 HOURS?" has him stay awake playing ''Dark Souls 2'' for 24 hours. By 2 AM, the SleepDeprivation is beginning to get to him and he starts acting weirder than usual.
100	* InstantlyProvenWrong: Lenny claims the ''VideoGame/DJHero'' controller is safe and stable... as it breaks apart in his hands.
101	** In "How to TORCH ONLY ''VideoGame/EldenRing''", Lenny tells a rat that it can't kill him because he has the beast-repellent torch. It kills him anyway.
102	* LiteralMinded: Lenny approaches the IGN guides this way, doing ''exactly'' what it tells him to do. This includes calling his dad to ask if he's proud of him, rewarding himself with a cookie and doing the dishes to calm down after he gets too mad facing [[VideoGame/DarkSouls2 The Rotten]].
103	* LoopholeAbuse: At one point in "Dark Souls 2 BUT with the IGN GUIDE", the guide tells Lenny to destroy every single statue he sees in the Black Gulch to avoid getting hit by the poison darts. Lenny simply positions his camera so that [[ExactWords he can only see the ground and what's immediately ahead of him]], and proceeds normally to the BossRoom.
104	* LovableCoward: Robolenny is pretty easily spooked, especially by skeletons and spiders, but it's always PlayedForLaughs.
105	-->'''Robolenny:''' Oh god spiders [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere nope nope nope nope nope nope nope]]
106	* LovableSexManiac: Robolenny is always trying to acquire a new "Waifu" and frequently tries to get with the ladies. He goes nuts upon discovering [[VideoGame/EldenRing Lunar Princess Ranni]], probably due to her [[LikeGoesWithLike blue skin]].[[note]]Unsurprisingly, at the video's end it's revealed that Robolenny got the Age of Stars ending, which [[spoiler: has the player become Ranni's consort for all eternity]].[[/note]]
107	* {{Malaproper}}: Lenny, by his own admission, pronounces a lot of the names in various Creator/FromSoftware games wrong. He does defend his misuse of ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' terminology for other Fromsoft games' items, saying that nobody actually calls them a "[[VideoGame/EldenRing Flask of Cerulean Tears]]" or "[[VideoGame/BloodBorne Blood Vials]]" when they could just say "Estus", for example.
108	* MarathonBoss: Given that Lenny usually fights his opponents with weapons which deal ScratchDamage, ''every'' boss in a game becomes this, especially those which have resistances to his weapon in question, such as the Watchdog of the Old Lords in ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'''s Chalice Dungeons.
109	-->'''Robolenny:''' hahahahahaha "Lenny do [[VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}} chalice dungeons]] please I want to see funny XD moments where you spend literally half an hour slapping a dog with a stick" why can't you fuckers leave me alone please I beg you
110	* [[MistakenForGay Mistaken For Trans]]: In "THE IRL EXPERIENCE", Lenny is dressed up like his blue-skinned, dress wearing persona. At one point he receives a hug of solidarity from an old man on the street, who then says "I love trans, I love trans people." [[CringeComedy Lenny increases the death counter by 1]].
111	* MoodWhiplash: Lenny kills the [[VideoGame/DarkSouls1 Darkmoon Knight in Anor Londo]], which is a sad moment in-game... and then the [[TranslationTrainWreck mod he has installed]] turns the Fire Keeper Soul she drops into "[[WordSaladHumor look at the dog]]".
112	-->'''Lenny:''' I just feel bad...[[SuddenlyShouting LOOK AT THE DOG]]! I feel better now. LOOK AT THE DOG GUYS!
113	* MotorMouth: Lenny explains "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trStrgBbfxY How to Broken Sword Dark Souls]]" very, very quickly, only pausing when something kills him-[[FunetikAksent FACK]]!
114	* NarmCharm: In-universe. Lenny actually likes and appreciates the cringeworthy little comedy bits and weird tangents in the old [=IGN=] and Gamefaqs guides, because they add a distinctly human element to them which is absent from modern guides, which are typically [[NoSenseOfHumor very bland and to the point]]. Lenny suspects that the reason this practice died out is because of the advent of Website/{{YouTube}} walkthroughs, which offered a much wider variety of personalities to choose from and had being funny and entertaining covered after a certain point.
115	* NoodleIncident:
116	** Apparently, [[WebVideo/{{Otzdarva}} Otz]] did not take Lenny to the prom.
117	** In "Dark Souls 3 BUT With The IGN Guide", the Guide notes that the reason they know what happens when all the Firelink Shrine [=NPCs=] die is due to "[[UnstoppableRage one bad afternoon of gamer rage]]". It's anyone's guess what that means.
118	* NotBigEnoughForTheTwoOfUs: Robolenny kills [[VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}} Yharnam, Pthumerian Queen]] because she's copying his style.
119	-->'''Robolenny:''' There's only room for one Pretty Princess in this rooting tooting town.
120	* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: His video on the demo for ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsArchthrones'' is called "They Made Dark Souls 4 (no, seriously)".
121	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Robolenny was able to [[spoiler:come back from the dead after beating VideoGame/CodeVein]] by beating the entirety of VideoGame/DragonsDogma by himself.
122	* OldShame: Subverted. Lenny thinks that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Tf9bn3-Bo a YouTube Poop he made back when he was 13 on an old channel]] is going to be massively cringe when he pulls it up in "Can You Beat Dark Souls 3 In UNDER 1 HOUR?", but is pleasantly surprised to find that it's held up rather well.
123	* OopNorth:
124	** Lenny is from the Northwest in real life, and as such sports a thick accent. He’s not afraid to lean into it at times and start shouting “LET’S GO FOOKING MENTAL” like a [[FootballHooligans Football Hooligan]].
125	** He makes a point of pointing out that the voice given to Yellowfinger Heysel in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsArchthrones'' has an accent very evocative of the specific region he's from and sounds almost ''exactly'' like his friend, which he then demonstrates with some side-by-side comparisons of the two's voices, which ''do'' sound nearly alike.
126	* OrphanedSetup: In one of [=IGN=] Guy's videos, he says that the [[VideoGame/DarkSouls1 Moonlight Butterfly]] will "float down", before claiming that "everyone around the office loves that one".[[note]][[WordOfGod The IGN guy later said in a tweet]] that everyone in the office around him laughed when he said that for some reason, prompting his response, and [[ThrowItIn he simply didn't want to do another take]].[[/note]] This leaves both Lenny and his chat perplexed at what the joke was supposed to be, with Lenny constructing an AntiHumor bit where he just says "WHEN IT FLOATS DOWN" out of the situation.
127	* PapaWolf: Lenny becomes this to the writer of the IGN VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}} strategy guide after they keep dropping hints that their love life sucks.
128	-->'''Lenny[enraged]:''' IGN! IGN! WHO HURT YOU!? ''WHO HURT YOU, LAD!?'' I'LL SORT HER OUT! I'LL ''SORT HER OUT''! YOU HELPED ME GET THROUGH BLOODBORNE, [[RomanticWingman I'LL HELP YOU WITH YOUR ROMANCE]]!
129	* ProWrestlingEpisode: After "WRESTLE WITH THE LENNY" had become a RunningGag in his videos, Lenny released a full-length "WRESTLE WITH THE LENNY" video made using the official [=WWF=] game. In it, Robolenny takes on numerous recurring characters from the "Experience" series in an all-out brawl, and also [[MirrorMatch faces off against his old incarnation]], the Meme Police.
130	* PutOnABus: As of ‘’THE [[VideoGame/DoomEternal DOOM ETERNAL]] NIGHTMARE EXPERIENCE’’, Robolenny no longer appears in most of the videos.(Don’t worry, he's just on holiday, and [[TheBusCameBack the bus comes back]] for certain big mainline videos.)
131	* RealWorldEpisode: "The IRL experience". IRL Lenny dresses up like Robolenny[[note]]This was back when Lenny used to put little stories in his videos' descriptions, where IRL Lenny was referred to as "Impostor Lenny" and Robolenny as "Zerolenny[[TradeSnark ™]]"[[/note]] and wanders around town [[HilarityEnsues getting into wacky hijinks]]. He goes to the pub, harasses a games store for having VideoGame/DarkSouls2, and demonstrates how to make Lenny Pizzi Pie, [[LethalChef setting off his actual smoke alarm in the process]].
132	* RunningGag: Whenever Lenny is booting up a GameMod for a SoulsLikeRPG, there's a 75 percent chance he'll load up ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII: Scholar of the First Sin'' by accident.
133	* RedOniBlueOni: Robolenny is much more aggressive and prone to violence(red), and IRL Lenny is usually the more reserved "nerd" [[MrExposition explaining everything]](blue). However, in the videos that just feature Lenny all by himself, [[NotSoAboveItAll he's just as, if not more rambunctious than Robolenny]].
134	* ScratchDamage: Even after finding the broken sword, Lenny still only deals about 10-15 damage a swing to bosses with 10,000 hp.
135	-->'''Robolenny:''' I still fucking hit like a wet noodle.
136	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In "THE [[VideoGame/BloodBorne CHALICE DUNGEON]] EXPERIENCE", when Robolenny is confronted with the arduous task of refighting the Watchdog of the Old Lords, which has fire resistance, with the Hunter's torch, an already incredibly weak weapon whose primary damage type is fire, while only having half his HP and getting one-shot by all of the Watchdog's attacks, he leaves to go [[CoOpMultiplayer summon]] [[NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught off-camera]]. Luckily, IRL Lenny talks him out of it.
137	* SelfImposedChallenge: Played for laughs in-universe. Robolenny is apparently good enough to beat every Creator/FromSoftware game with the worst weapon, but he only did it that way because everyone told him Dark Souls was hard, ''so he didn’t realize there were other weapons''.
138	* SeriousBusiness: Lenny's ''Connect Four'' rivalry with his friend Patoika is taken with all the severity of a high-level TabletopGame/{{Chess}} match between grandmasters each time it comes up.
139	* SequenceBreaking: The IGN guide in "Dark Souls 3 BUT With The IGN Guide" throws ''VideoGame/DarkSouls3'''s normal progression to the wind in favor of having Lenny kill the Dancer of the Boreal Valley so that he can go to the Consumed King's Garden and fight Oceiros and Champion Gundyr before he kills a single Lord of Cinder, [[AllForNothing all so that]] he can get [[WithThisHerring a +10 bow]].
140	* SignatureMove: The Forbidden Lenny Slap. It’s so powerful that Robolenny only uses it as a finisher in extremely spicy circumstances, unless IRL Lenny is annoying him. In that case, he hits Lenny so hard that [[NothingIsFunnier all we hear is an amplified, reverberated slapping sound effect]].
141	* SirSwearsALot: Both IRL Lenny and Robolenny, quite a bit.
142	-->'''IRL Lenny:''' Woah [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 Luis]], pal, easy on the swearing there, we don't wanna get demonetized.
143	-->'''Robolenny:''' Because we would never [[HypocriticalHumor fucking]] swear, would we?
144	-->'''IRL Lenny:''' Absolutely [[FunetikAksent fookin’]] not.
145	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Parodied when Robolenny [[spoiler: dies sacrificing himself to destroy anime]] and the next video has a character with a different TTS voice sycophantically praising IRL Lenny. [[spoiler: Robolenny shows up and kills him]].
146	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Both Lennys enjoy pepperoni “pizzi”, as they call it. When Robolenny loses a bet to IRL Lenny and has to hand over all his pizzi for a month, [[FauxHorrific he threatens to commit Seppuku]].
147	* {{Troll}}: Lenny's chat in "''VideoGame/EldenRing'' BUT WITH A PIANO". The whole way through the video they keep submitting requests for him to play on the piano when he says he's not taking them, and then when he actually ''does'' start taking requests, they all start saying "Nah, just play the game :)".
148	* TakeThat:
149	** Whenever a game has poor level design, wonky hitboxes or bugs out in a weird way, Lenny claims that he put the ''VideoGame/DarkSouls2'' disc in by accident. Honestly, he'll take ''any'' opportunity to [[AuthorTract bash]] ''VideoGame/DarkSouls2''. He also likes to make fun of the IGN review calling it a "[[BlatantLies smart, massive, and incredibly rewarding sequel]]".
150	** Lenny has a go at {{Microtransactions}} whenever he talks about the idea of hypothetical ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' [=DLC=], suggesting that it solely consist of a ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}''esque RewardsPass and LootBoxes.
151	-->'''Lenny''': And all of a sudden, BAM: Melina comes back, and she starts telling you all this massive lore excerpt about the Erdtree, about the Two Fingers and the Greater Will, but then, just before her dialogue ends, she goes "Tarnished, I don't understand one thing...Tarnished, why have you not bought the battlepass yet? BOOM! it appears onscreen at the bottom- BUY ELDEN RING BATTLE PASS, 500 [[VideoGame/{{Fortnite}} ELDENBUX]]!
152	* TemptingFate: “Somebody call Otzdarva, because I just did this bitch hitless.”
153	* ThatCameOutWrong: Lenny likes to run out to the ice cream truck when it comes round so he can [[AbuseMistake beat the kids]]...
154	-->'''Lenny''': I mean BEAT THE KIDS TO THE FRONT OF THE ICE CREAM!
155	* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: [[invoked]] Defied by Lenny during his playthrough of the demo of ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsArchthrones''. He says that he understands that lot of people are going to be put off that most of the levels and bosses are just {{Moveset Clone}}s or otherwise remixed from other Creator/FromSoftware Souls-likes, but that the stuff that they were actually able to substantively change (enemy design, visual presentation, music, story, etc.) is all excellent and doesn't deserve to be dismissed just because it reuses a lot of assets. He then immediately goes on to parody the sentiment by [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks jokingly complaining]] that [[VideoGame/DarkSouls2 the area based off of Heide's Tower of Flame doesn't have the Dragonrider as the boss]].
156	* ThisIsGonnaSuck:
157	** Both Lennys have a moment like this in "THE SCORCHED CONTRACT EXPERIENCE" upon realizing how much damage the NewGamePlus Four Kings do.
158	-->'''IRL Lenny''': ...Was that a [[OneHitKill one-shot]]?
159	-->'''Robolenny''': ...Yes.
160	-->'''IRL Lenny''': OH, LENNY, WE ARE SO [[CurseCutShort FU]]-
161	** Lenny expresses this sentiment whenever the IGN guide tells him to farm souls or items for 3 hours, because it is never worth it. A prominent moment like this happens in "VideoGame/DemonsSouls BUT with the 2009 GAMEFAQS STRATEGY GUIDE" where he throws in the towel [[WithThisHerring trying to kill Black Phantom Scirvir with a longbow]] like the guide told him to to go farm spiderstone all day and upgrade his weapon. [[spoiler:It winds up [[AllForNothing dealing a TINY amount more damage than before]], and Lenny is [[TranquilFury visibly silently fuming]]]].
162	** When the guide tells him to keep [[BeefGate suicide running into]] [[VideoGame/DarkSouls1 New Londo Ruins]] to get the composite longbow so he can make ANOTHER ranged build like in the ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'' video, he can do nothing but exasperatedly sigh. [[spoiler: Subverted in that like the ''Demon's Souls'' video, it actually starts being a decent build when he gets to the Bell Gargoyles]].
163	** In "Dark Souls 3 BUT With The IGN Guide", Lenny is peeved when the guide tells him to kill the [[PuzzleBoss Ancient Wyvern]] by repeatedly shooting it in the head with arrows at reduced damage [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim instead of]] just {{One Hit Kill}}ing it with a plunging attack, so he gets his mum to do it for him. Subverted later on when the guide tells him to use Pestilent Mist to kill Yhorm the Giant instead of the Storm Ruler, which Lenny thinks will be awful but winds up being honestly all right in his opinion.
164	* TheUnpronounceable: Discussed in "THE CHALICE DUNGEON EXPERIENCE" when the duo encounter fellow souls youtuber Ymfah, who has famously given a ShrugOfGod on how his name is pronounced:
165	-->'''Robolenny:''' holy shit it's Imfah
166	-->'''IRL Lenny:''' No, I thought it was pronounced Yamfah? Yemfah? Yumfrih?
167	-->'''Robolenny:'''[at the same time] No it's definitely Yeemfah. [[{{Malaproper}} Yeetfap]].
168	-->'''Ymfah:''' Yeah, the Hunter's Torch is pretty shit. There's no way you can make it OP.
169	-->'''Both Lennys:''' FUCK YOU YUMFAH%%[[Invoked]]
170	* VisualPun: At one point, IRL Lenny says he needs to address the elephant in the room. He then tells a [[VideoGame/DarkSouls2 Mammoth Knight]] to get out of his house.
171	* VitriolicBestBuds: There is not a moment that goes by where Robolenny and IRL Lenny are not slinging insults at each other, making fun of each other, or even slapping each other, but they could not be greater friends.
172	* WackySoundEffect: Whenever Lenny gets knocked off a cliff, it's accompanied by the sound of a guy shouting "[[PrecisionFStrike PUSSY!]]"
173	* WhatsAHenway: Robolenny pulls one of these on IRL Lenny in "The Greatest Dark Souls Mod Ever Made", though he botches the punchline.
174	-->'''Robolenny:''' I wonder if the mod added the Blade of Hava.
175	-->'''IRL Lenny:''' The Blade of Hava? What's that?
176	-->'''Robolenny:''' Wait, you don't remember? It's from VideoGame/DarkSouls2.
177	-->'''IRL Lenny:''' Uh, yeah, [[TakeThat that's why I don't remember it]]. What's the Blade of Hava?
178	-->'''Robolenny:''' Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. '''Hava nice day bitch'''.
179	-->'''IRL Lenny:''' ...Huh?
180	-->'''Robolenny:''' Wait shit I messed up I meant '''HAVA THESE NUTS IN YOUR MOUTH'''
181	** IRL Lenny gets him back later on in "Elden Ring BUT TORCH ONLY" by telling him all about how Demi-humans (which he calls "[[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Goblins]]") have variations which correspond to the various in-game stats[[note]]which they actually don't; it's purely to set up the joke[[/note]], such as Strength Goblins, Intelligence Goblins, Faith Goblins, and his favorite, the [[{{Feghoot}} Mind Goblins]].
182	* WindmillCrusader: The Meme Police believes that he and his deputy [=Sally28990=] are arresting people for not keeping their memes spicy. In reality, he's just harassing people on ''VideoGame/ClubPenguin''.
183	* WholesomeCrossdresser: If there’s a dress in the game he’s playing, Lenny ''will'' put it on, and then proceed to beat the whole thing with a broken sword.
184	* WhosOnFirst: In "Dark Souls 3 BUT With The IGN Guide", Lenny describes [[CringeComedy an embarrasing story]] how when going out to London to test the demo for ''VideoGame/ArmoredCoreVIFiresOfRubicon'', he met a PR head named Chantay. When she introduced herself as "I'm Chantay", Lenny misinterpreted it as her saying "[[GratuitousFrench enchanté]]", and responded by saying "Enchanté". It apparently went from bad to worse when she ''repeated herself'' and said "No, I'm Chantay", and Lenny replied "Enchanté" once more.
185	* WithThisHerring: Zig-zagged. The [=IGN=] guide videos have Lenny following its instructions to the letter, so if the guide tells him to use an in-universe ScrappyWeapon as his main weapon for the rest of the run, he'll do it. A big example of this occurs in the ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' video when the guide tells him that it's very important that he use the ''Wooden Shield, an item [[JokeItem deliberately put in the game to troll people who think the game is going to play similarly to]] VideoGame/DarkSouls'', because of [[spoiler:a single specific spot where it could prevent a deadly status effect in the 1.0 version of the game]]. Other times it gives him a genuinely uniquely fun or good build by the end of the guide, such as in the ''VideoGame/DarkSouls2'' video where by the end it has him using Santier's Spear and the Moon Butterfly armor set.
186	* WildlifeCommentarySpoof: Lenny consistently tries to document the lives of the mushroom people in the [[VideoGame/DarkSouls1 Darkroot Garden]], but always gets interrupted.
187	-->'''Lenny:''' As you can see, the mushroom fuckles migrate southwards for- hey, I'm TRYNA DO MY NATURE SHOW![[note]]A Bell Gargoyle teleported in and killed him[[/note]]
188	* WrongNameOutburst: [[ItMakesSenseInContext While trying to get his dad to congratulate him for beating the]] [[EliteMook Heide Knight]], Lenny's dad accidentally calls him by his real name. [[FromBadToWorse On stream]]. Luckily Lenny takes it in stride and actually put it in "''VideoGame/DarkSouls2'' BUT with the [=IGN=] guide", revealing that his first name is [[spoiler:Steve]].
189	* YetAnotherStupidDeath: Lenny keeps a death counter in the bottom-right corner of the screen that goes up by 1 each time he dies. Some of them are [[RuleOfFunny scripted for comedy]], whereas suddenly it will shoot up to 200 when he encounters a particularly hard boss.
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