Line #155 WebVideo/WoolieVersus


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2	'''''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyOJzQzyDGihKpTO3-zyhYg Woolie Versus]]''''' is the Youtube channel of Woolie Madden of former ''WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay'' fame. The channel features a mix of normal Let's Plays, streams ([[https://www.twitch.tv/woolieversus Twitch]]), and pre-planned content. His most recurring show is the "Get Into Fighting Games" stream where Woolie and his guests [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin play a fighting game]], often with someone who is a veteran of its competitive scene, going through the ins and outs of the mechanics in the process. Woolie's most frequent guests and collaborators are Minh (aka [[https://www.twitch.tv/SoushinSen Soushin]], and known to TBFP fans as "Billy"), fellow fighting game commentator [[https://twitter.com/chesterr01 Reggie]], Website/YouTube musician [[https://www.youtube.com/user/LittleVMills Little V Mills]], and his fiancee (later wife) Steph (also known as Punchmom). The channel also uploads clips of the podcast ''Podcast/CastleSuperBeast'', co-hosted with fellow ''Super Best Friends'' veteran [[WebVideo/PatStaresAt Patrick Boivin]].
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4	[[folder:Let's Plays featured on the channel:]]
5	* ''VideoGame/NarutoShippudenUltimateNinjaStorm2''. Initially solo, but later joined by Reggie and Minh.
6	* ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'', with Liam
7	* ''[[VideoGame/KatamariDamacy Katamari Damacy Reroll]]'', with Reggie
8	* ''[[VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders Zone of The Enders: The 2nd Runner M∀RS]]'', with Minh
9	* ''VideoGame/JojosBizarreAdventureThe7thStandUser'', with [[https://www.youtube.com/user/VoltaBass Volta Bass]]
10	* ''Ahegao Academy'', with Punchmom.
11	* ''VideoGame/JetSetRadio'', with Reggie
12	* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'', with [[WebVideo/PatStaresAt Pat]]
13	* ''PSX Demo Discs'', with [[https://www.youtube.com/user/bokunoeruption Austin Eruption]]
14	* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'', with Pat
15	* ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101'', with Reggie
16	* ''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice''. Initially solo, but later joined by Minh.
17	* ''VideoGame/TwentyXX'', with Minh
18	* ''VideoGame/DragonMarkedForDeath'', with Minh
19	* ''VideoGame/The3rdBirthday'', with Minh
20	* ''[[VideoGame/GanbareGoemon The Legend of the Mystical Ninja]]'', with WebVideo/SuperEyepatchWolf
21	* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', with Reggie
22	* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker2'', with Reggie and Minh
23	* ''VideoGame/BlazingChrome'', with Minh
24	* ''VideoGame/{{Judgment}}'', with Minh
25	* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', with Reggie
26	* ''VideoGame/APlagueTaleInnocence'', with Reggie and Minh
27	* ''VideoGame/OuterWilds'', with Reggie
28	* ''198X'', with Reggie and Minh
29	* ''VideoGame/ChromaSquad'', with Reggie and Minh
30	* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', with Reggie and Minh
31	* ''VideoGame/KillLaKillIf'', with Reggie and Minh
32	* ''VideoGame/AttackOnTitan 2'', with Reggie and Minh
33	* ''VideoGame/AstralChain'', with Reggie
34	* ''[[VideoGame/BattleClash Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge]]'', with Reggie and Minh
35	* ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirls'', with Reggie and Minh
36	* ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'', with Reggie
37	* ''VideoGame/SayonaraWildHearts'', with Reggie and Minh
38	* ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni: Wrath of the White Witch'', with Reggie and Minh
39	* ''VideoGame/{{Blasphemous}}'', with Reggie and Minh
40	* ''VideoGame/UntitledGooseGame'', with Reggie and Minh
41	* ''VideoGame/CodeVein'', with Reggie and Minh
42	* ''VideoGame/{{Indivisible}}'', with Reggie
43	* ''Killer Queen Black'', with Reggie and Minh
44	* ''[[VideoGame/TheNinjaWarriorsAgain The Ninja Warriors: Once Again]]'', with Reggie and Minh
45	* ''VideoGame/NarutoShippudenUltimateNinjaStorm3'', with Reggie and Minh
46	* ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'', with Reggie
47	* ''VideoGame/RocketLeague'', with Reggie
48	* ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'', with Reggie and Minh
49	* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', with V
50	* ''VideoGame/Doom2016'', with Reggie
51	* ''VideoGame/{{Vanquish}}'', with Reggie and Minh
52	* ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'', with Reggie
53	* ''VideoGame/SonicRoboBlast2'', with Reggie
54	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfHorror'', with Punchmom
55	* ''VideoGame/BlackMesa'', with Reggie
56	* SALT PARTY: ''VideoGame/DokaponKingdom'', with Reggie and Minh
57	* ''VideoGame/Teppen2019''
58	* ''VideoGame/NarutoShippudenUltimateNinjaStorm4'', with Reggie and Minh
59	* ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage 4'', with Reggie and Minh
60	* ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', with Reggie
61	* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', with Reggie
62	* ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'', with V
63	* ''VideoGame/Halo2'', with V
64	* ''VideoGame/GhostOfTsushima'', with Reggie and Minh
65	* ''VideoGame/Halo3'', with V
66	* ''VideoGame/HaloReach'', with V
67	* ''VideoGame/FrogFractions'', with Reggie
68	* ''VideoGame/FallGuys'', with Reggie and Minh
69	* ''VideoGame/{{Rocksmith}}'', with V
70	* ''VideoGame/StarRenegades'', with Reggie
71	* ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'', with V
72	* ''VideoGame/BPMBulletsPerMinute'', with Reggie
73	* ''VideoGame/{{ULTRAKILL}}'', with Reggie
74	* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11: Aftermath'', with Reggie
75	* ''VideoGame/ThirteenSentinelsAegisRim'', with Reggie
76	* ''VideoGame/LaterAlligator'', with Reggie
77	* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyInfiniteWarfare'', with V
78	* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'', with Reggie
79	* ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'', initially with V, later with Reggie
80	* ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'', with Reggie
81	* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', with Reggie
82	* ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'', with V
83	* ''Adios'', with Reggie
84	* ''VideoGame/ItTakesTwo2021'', with Reggie
85	* ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', with Reggie
86	* ''VideoGame/OnimushaWarlords'', with Reggie
87	* ''VideoGame/{{Returnal}}'', with Reggie and Minh
88	* ''VideoGame/{{Superliminal}}''
89	* ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra''
90	* ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'', with Reggie
91	* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'', with Punchmom
92	* ''VideoGame/MetroidDread''
93	* SALT PARTY: ''Dokapon Journey'', with Reggie and Minh
94	* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'', with Reggie
95	* ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'', with Reggie
96	* ''VideoGame/MortalShell'', with Reggie
97	* ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales'', with Reggie
98	* ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', with Reggie
99	* ''VideoGame/{{Everhood}}'', with Reggie
100	* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}} [[VideoGameDemake PSX]]'', with Reggie
101	* ''VideoGame/{{Sifu}}'', with Reggie
102	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', with Reggie
103	* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'', with Reggie
104	* ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', with Reggie
105	* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace1'', with Reggie
106	* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', with Reggie
107	* ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'', with Reggie
108	* ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'', with Reggie
109	* ''VideoGame/NeonWhite''
110	* ''VideoGame/{{Signalis}}''
111	* ''VideoGame/Bayonetta3'', with Reggie
112	* ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers''
113	* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', with Reggie
114	* ''VideoGame/HiFiRush'', with Reggie
115	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', with Reggie
116	* ''VideoGame/KingOfTheCastle'', with Reggie
117	* ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighter6 Street Fighter 6: World Tour]]'', with Reggie
118	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXVI'', with Reggie
119	* ''VideoGame/BombRushCyberfunk'', with Reggie
120	* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate3'', with Reggie and Pat (first few parts)
121	* ''VideoGame/ArmoredCoreVIFiresOfRubicon'', with Reggie
122	* ''Slay the Princess'', with Reggie
123	* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder'', with Reggie
124	* ''VideoGame/ThirstySuitors'', with Reggie
125	* ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'', with Reggie
126	* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', with Reggie
127	* ''VideoGame/Tekken8'', with Reggie
128	* ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasyRelink'', with Reggie
129	* ''VideoGame/Helldivers2'', with Reggie and Pat
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132	!! This channel provides examples of:
133	* TheAce: Get Into Fighting Games will often feature members of the FGC on the couch, who are usually a tier above Reggie and Woolie's ability and in some cases are international champions. Woolie considers Reggie this in regards to Street Fighter games in general, often complementing his skills during the Drive Session videos they did for Street Fighter 6.
134	* AppleOfDiscord: The ''VideoGame/DokaponKingdom'' full campaign ''Salt Party'' was largely fun and games, until a viewer decided to start a winnings pool that the audience could donate towards. From that point forward the competition intensified sharply, with all three players becoming noticeably more aggressive, paranoid and underhanded in their efforts to win the campaign. Woolie quickly christened the rapidly-ballooning prize "the blood pool", and a sizable [[ConsolationPrize "peace pool"]] was soon established to ensure that feelings wouldn't be hurt too badly. [[spoiler:After winning, Minh went out of his way to [[DefiedTrope defy]] the trope, combining both pools and dividing the money equally among the entire group.]]
135	** The ''Dokapon Journey'' sequel series also attracted a blood pool, organized by the same fan as before, but with an ObviousRulePatch: [[spoiler:The winner can't share or split their earnings.]]
136	* AscendedExtra: Prior to his recurring on-screen collaborator role, Minh (as "Billy") worked as an editor for the Super Best Friends channel, and was referenced multiple times by the group (albeit he was TheGhost).
137	* BookEnds: [[{{Pun}} Back in]] 2017, Woolie started his VideoGame/NarutoUltimateNinjaStorm 2 LP, with every video title beginning with "Back In!" Then, in May 2020, the final video for the Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 playthrough came out, and Woolie made good on his stated promise of titling it "Back out!"
138	* ButtMonkey: Reggie during most fighting game streams, as he gets schooled really hard by the expert guest star. During the ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' stream, he agrees to rename his file if [[https://twitter.com/@SSBU_Z Z]] can beat him without losing a single stock, and proceeds to lose so badly that Woolie concludes that "his soul was taken". If that wasn't enough, Reggie then gets humiliated online [[AudienceParticipation against several of the viewers.]]
139	* ContinuityNod:
140	** When Reggie summons Black Iron Tarkus to trounce the Iron Golem in ''Reggie Vs Dark Souls'', Woolie echoes Pat's enthusiastic chant from the Best Friends' 2017 playthrough. When Tarkus fails to recreate the famous ledge kill from that LP, Woolie [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZYJAjATPzY pulls up a fan upload of the moment]] to share with Reggie.
141	* CripplingOverspecialization: As a fighting game player who's most accustomed to a joystick, Woolie finds keyboard controls cumbersome to use and tends to struggle when using mouse and keyboard for shooters.
142	* ADayInTheLimelight: Reggie takes the controller for the ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'' and ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' [=LPs=] -- the series even has a custom "Reggie VS." title card. Woolie fills the role of color commentator and SinkOrSwimMentor.
143	** Reggie is also the player in the playthrough of ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', though Woolie takes back the controller for ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' onwards before giving back for ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''.
144	* DidntThinkThisThrough:
145	** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Reggie playing Shepherd as an ExtremeOmnisexual comes back to bite him repeatedly. While initially [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 resuming the romance with Liara T'Soni]], Reggie tries to hold it off because he [[CommitmentIssues doesn't want to be locked out of any other potential romance paths]]. However, he then gets carried away with interactions and accidentally locks in a romance with [[GayOption Steven Cortez]]. This [[JustFriends prevents all other romances]] (to Reggie's immense frustration), results in scolding and guilt-tripping from Liara and [[VideoGame/MassEffEct2 Tali'Zorah]], and enables endless teasing from Woolie.
146	--->'''Reggie:''' [[OhCrap ...Did I cheat?]]\
147	'''Woolie:''' Oh, ''you sure did!'' You- Wait, hold on, hold on a second! Are you under the impression that, like, you popped into existence ''today'', and that there's no such thing as "the past"? I don't- What do you ''mean?''\
148	'''Reggie:''' Oh man, um... How much- Does the [[InformationBroker Shadow Broker]] know ''everything''-everything?
149	* DontExplainTheJoke: Minh tends to be really out of synch with Woolie when it comes to humor; if Woolie is trying to set up a joke, chances are Minh will sandbag the attempt by giving the obvious punchline way too early.
150	* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The very first video uploaded to Woolie's channel is the [[InvokedTrope aptly-titled]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIqUYbrfVKI "Let's Start This Thing Off Right."]]
151	* ExtremeOmnisexual: Reggie builds up this rep during the ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' series, thanks to his appreciation for the setting's {{Green Skinned Space Babe}}s and willingness to hook up with [[GirlOfTheWeek a different love interest in each game]] (one of which is the GayOption, by accident). By the third game, Red Shepherd's habits are [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] into an urge to bed anything even remotely female, including [[MirrorChemistry turians]], [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy krogan]] and [[ILoveTheDead banshees]].
152	* FlawExploitation:
153	** In episode 21 of the ''VideoGame/{{Indivisible}}'' playthrough, Reggie successfully goads Woolie in trying to go down an impossible-to-traverse path where he's obviously not supposed to go, and Woolie keeps trying for more than 10 minutes. Reggie points out that this works because he knows Woolie can't stand the uncertainty of leaving anything unexplored, no matter how unlikely.
154	** Woolie abuses Minh's [[ColorBlindConfusion color blindness]] in a few ''Salt Party'' games.
155	* GetOut: At the end of ''The Legend of the Mystical Ninja'', Woolie tells WebVideo/SuperEyepatchWolf to get out of his home and go back to Ireland.
156	* MeleeATrois: The ''Salt Party'' videos revolve around free-for-alls between Woolie, Minh and Reggie as they play a variety of multiplayer games. Since all three members of the group are fairly competitive, [[UnsportsmanlikeGloating things get heated pretty quickly.]]
157	* {{Mondegreen}}: Reggie admits he thought the song "Waterfalls", by {{Music/TLC}}, was about the kid in the music video named Jason Waterfalls [[note]]The lyric is ''"don't go chasin' waterfalls."''[[/note]].
158	* MoodSwinger: A highlight of the ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' playthrough's early chapters, with Reggie at the wheel as "Red Shepard". Thanks to Reggie's initial misunderstanding of the dialogue system, picking whichever option he feels like in the moment, his Shepard comes off as a horny, bipolar psychopath, just as likely to negotiate his way through a crisis as he is to threaten a civilian at gunpoint for looking at him funny.
159	* NoJustNoReaction: During the ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDeadOverkill'' final mission Minh says the incest is ok because the mom is in a different body. Woolie appropriately yells Minh fails the test.
160	* OhMyGods: When Woolie is explaining [[SuperSpit the way to]] [[WeaksauceWeakness defeat ghosts]] in VideoGame/DeathStranding to Reggie, he tells him "I swear to [[Creator/HideoKojima Kojima]]". Doubles as GeniusBonus, since Kojima had [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker one of his characters]] [[AGodAmI say "Kojima is god"]] at one point, and Woolie, an avid ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' fan, is no doubt aware of that.
161	* OutOfFocus: Minh doesn't appear as much in the series filmed in late 2020 and early 2021, with Little V [[AscendedExtra appearing correspondingly more frequently]].
162	* ParodyAssistance: After the ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' playthrough featured Woolie doing an impression of his mom, she got in on the joke and provided a similar speech for the ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' playthrough.
163	* PassiveAggressiveKombat: [[invoked]] Woolie and Eyepatch Wolf start their playthrough of ''Mystical Ninja'' already subtly sniping at each other, and it escalates as the game hits the DifficultySpike, culminating in Woolie just yelling [[spoiler:after Eyepatch Wolf admits he cheated through the last levels]].
164	-->'''Eyepatch Wolf:''' I'm all for like friendly competition, but when one person is acting like such a fucking asshole that it's ruining the entire Let's Play, it's time to steer back a bit. [[BlatantLies And I'm not saying you, I'm not even saying you]].\
165	'''Woolie:''' I mean quite frankly, when someone comes from another country and think they can play hockey in the land of hockey and somehow triumph... it's quite... the hubris is quite amazing. To play God in the home of church.\
166	''[Later after multiple game overs]''\
167	'''Woolie:''' [[CallBack TOP FIVE UH!]].
168	* PowerTrio: Woolie's primary co-stars are Reggie and Minh (the latter of which also handles the channel's editing), and the majority of videos feature the three of them commentating or playing together.
169	* SinkOrSwimMentor: When Reggie steps up to play the notoriously NintendoHard ''Souls'' franchise, Woolie's teaching style is... unsparing. However, he does dispense pearls of advice where he deems them necessary, and he's always willing to give Reggie [[SoProudOfYou appropriate congratulations]] when he does well.
170	* VideoGameCaringPotential: Woolie becomes progressively more frustrated with people around [[VideoGame/DeathStranding Sam]] not getting that he doesn't like to be touched, and especially with Amelie, who can't take the hint even though she's family and should know better. It's supposed to be [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic a metaphor about humans needing to connect]], but because it's presented as a legitimate phobia of his, Woolie (and by proxy, Reggie) are having none of it.

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