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1->''All the films presented here will have as a common denominator, a link to video games. Be it a mere adaptation, or a film which reflects on the video game media. Men, women, children: welcome to'' Crossed.
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3''Crossed'' is a French WebVideo series hosted by Karim Debbache, that ran from February 2013 to April 2014. The topic is simple: films that are either adapted from video games, or are about video games. They can be old or not so old, bad, good or okay, but Karim has a lot of things to say on every one of them, [[MotorMouth and only 10-15 minutes to say them.]] While the tone is humoristic and often sarcastic, it is usually peppered with detailed analyses of what did and did not work in said film, as well as comments on its (or its director's) history, or on cinematic techniques in general.
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5Little sketches often intervene, featuring his two sidekicks Gilles Stella (the show's image and sound manager) and Jérémy Morvan, or Kamel Debbiche, a double of him who is implied to be [[TalkingToThemself his second personality]][[note]]However, ''WebVideo/{{Chroma}}'' reveals that he's actually an AlternateSelf.[[/note]]. The show is pretty fast-paced, and often draws its humour from it. Crossed's run wasn't very long, as Karim hadn't planned on making more than 25-30 episodes, to avoid a situation [[EndingFatigue where he would have always been repeating the same things after a while]].
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7However, in January of 2016, Karim and his friends started a new show, ''WebVideo/{{Chroma}}'', that can be considered a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Crossed'' minus the video game topic, with longer episodes and the analytical aspect pushed further.
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9If you're curious but don't speak French, here's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KToRMJyJSfk first episode]] subtitled in English.
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11Not to be confused with the Creator/GarthEnnis [[ComicBook/{{Crossed}} comic series]].
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13!!Movies reviewed in ''Crossed'':
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15* ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993''
16* ''G@mer'' (a French film featuring Creator/SaidTaghmaoui)
17* ''Film/SilentHill''
18* ''Film/TheKingOfKong''
19* ''Film/HouseOfTheDead''
20* ''Film/TheLastStarfighter''
21* ''Film/MaxPayne''
22* ''Film/StayAlive2006''
23* ''Film/FutureCops''
24* ''[[Film/AloneInTheDark2005 Alone in the Dark]]''
25* ''Film/WarGames''
26* ''Film/DoubleDragon1994''
27* ''Film/{{Doom}}''
28* ''Film/StreetFighter''
29* ''Film/{{eXistenZ}}''
30* ''Film/Postal2007''
31* ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'' -- known as ''Le Cobaye'' ("the Guinea Pig") in France
32* ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin''
33* ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation''
34* ''Film/{{Brainscan}}''
35* ''Film/ResidentEvil2002''
36* ''Film/DOADeadOrAlive''
37* The other ''Film/{{Gamer}}'' movie ("Ultimate Game" in France)
38* ''Film/{{Hitman}}''
39* ''Film/RaOne'' ("Voltage" in France)
40* ''Film/TheWizard''
41* ''Film/{{Tron}}''
42* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''
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46!Tropes found in ''Crossed''
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48* ActorAllusion: Many, for instance Karim calls Creator/IanHolm's character in ''eXistenZ'' "[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Bilbo]] the Hungarian".
49* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Karim mentions it very-briefly during his hyper-fast enumeration of the graveyard fight scene's flaws in ''House Of The Dead'' (where the Asian girl uses her martial art skills), noting this trope is actually awfully racist. Similarly, in his review of ''Ra.One'', he awkwardly points out that the movie's sole Chinese character is the one who knows martial arts the best.
50* AllJustADream: At the end of the ''Postal'' review, Karim wakes up, realizes that it was just a nightmare, and immediately [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how predictable this is. Then he realizes the sphinx he drew in his dream [[OrWasItADream is real]], and points out this is very hackneyed too.
51* AntagonistTitle: In the ''Ra.One'' episode, Karim mentions that the original title is the name of the movie's villain. But it has been changed in the French version, which is known as "Voltage" in France (which is the altered name of the ''hero'').
52* ArchEnemy: Karim regards Creator/UweBoll as his, as he reviewed three of his movies and condemns his despicable behavior in his review of ''Postal''.
53* AudienceSurrogate: Kamel often plays this role.
54* BadBadActing: Kamel very unconvincingly pretends to care when Karim explains why he likes Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme.
55* BaldHeadOfToughness: Jérémy, who is bald, certainly thinks so and in a skit at the end of the ''Hitman'' review, he encourages more people to become bald.
56* BerserkButton: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], Gilles harmlessly slaps anyone who dares speak ill of Creator/StevenSpielberg.
57* BlandNameProduct: Karim calls ''Annihilation'''s takes on Outworld and Shinnok [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct knockoffs]] of [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Mordor]] and [[Franchise/StarWars Palpatine]] respectively and promptly nicknames them "Mordux" and "Palpatox".
58* BrickJoke:
59** At the beginning of the review of ''G@mer'', Karim notes that the director Patrick Lévy changed his name to "Zak Fishman" for this film, and wonders if he should take a cool sounding English name himself. The end credits of the episode feature him as [[AwesomeMcCoolName "Superman Rockfeller"]].
60** At the start of his ''The Lawnmower Man'' review, Kamel mentions that he always thought control over wood would be a better superpower than MagnetismManipulation. At the end of the review Karim throws a tree at Kamel, admitting that it ''is'' useful.
61* CaliforniaDoubling: [[invoked]] Karim knows Paris very well and immediately notices that the scene in ''Hitman'' which is supposed to happen in a train station in Saint Petersburg was actually filmed in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare_Montparnasse Gare Montparnasse]].
62* TheCameo:
63** The episode focused on the ''Doom'' movie contains 2 scenes with [[WebVideo/WhatTheCut Antoine Daniel]].
64** Other French YouTubers make short cameos in a couple episodes, for instance Usul and Dorian from ''3615 Usul'' (another show Karim worked on) can be spotted at the end of the review of ''The Last Starfighter''.
65* ChristmasEpisode: The ''Dead or Alive'' episode. Karim says he couldn't find a Christmas movie about video games, so he decided to give some {{Fanservice}} to his audience for Christmas instead.
66* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Jérémy. For instance, when the team finds an apparently dead man in the ''House of the Dead'' episode, Jérémy decides to check whether he's really dead by throwing him out of the window, arguing that "if he falls, it means he's dead, if he flies... he's a witch!".
67* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Karim once warns Kamel that if he insults him once more, he will turn him into Jérémy Morvan eating a sandwich. It's not an empty threat either.
68* {{Corpsing}}: [[invoked]]
69** Karim is visibly trying very hard not to laugh when Jérémy does his impression of a machine gun in the review of ''Gamer''. In an [[HilariousOuttakes outtake]] [[TheStinger after the end credits]], he can't take it anymore and cracks up.
70** InUniverse, Karim mentions he has to bite the inside of his cheek to avoid laughing when he sees Dumont's design in ''Tron''.
71* CurseCutShort: Twice in the ''Brainscan'' review:
72** First, when Gilles describes the Club Dial (a French company that infamously sold [=CDs=] for cheap at first then forced subscribers to buy more for outrageous prices), he concludes that "life is a bit-".
73** Second, when Karim mentions he hates the protagonist:
74--->'''Karim:''' So the whole time, I was [[RootingForTheEmpire rooting for the cops!]][[invoked]]\
75'''Kamel:''' That's funny!\
76'''Karim:''' Why is that?\
77'''Kamel:''' Well because you're an ara-
78* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In the ''Silent Hill'' review, every sequence taking place in the real world starts with "Meanwhile, in the true real world of actual reality..."
79* DesignatedHero: InUniverse, Karim explains in the ''Brainscan'' review that he views the main protagonist as a teen {{Jerkass}} deprived of any redeemed quality, partially explaining why he despises this movie.
80* {{Detournement}}: Karim often parodies scenes from the reviewed films by replacing the dialogue with his own jokes.
81* DrivenToSuicide:
82** ''House of the Dead'' is so bad that the previous owner of the copy Karim watches strangled himself to death in despair. Then PlayedForLaughs when Karim also tries after watching the film but stops after Gilles tells him he's [[TakeThat acting like]] Creator/MarionCotillard.
83** Played for laughs again when Kamel hangs himself when Karim tells him he's about to review ''Double Dragon''. He's fine [[NegativeContinuity immediately afterwards]].
84* EvilIsHammy: In the ''eXistenZ'' episode, Karim mentions that whenever Creator/WillemDafoe overacts, his character is definitely a villain.
85* ExcusePlot: While a few of the movies reviewed have this, Karim notes that ''Annihilation'' goes beyond that point by ''not having a plot at all'' and being basically just a succession of random fights.
86* {{Fanservice}}: While Karim criticizes its use in the ''Dead or Alive'' movie, he admits that the games are also guilty of this, and since the review is a ChristmasEpisode, he decides to gift his audience with some himself by putting pictures of attractive models in the end credits.
87* ForgetfulJones: {{Exaggerated}}: Kamel forgets what a ''first name'' is in the ''Brainscan'' episode, and in the ''Hitman'' episode, he forgets the existence of ''Crossed'', then also forgets what a ''show'' even is.
88* FormerChildStar: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in the review of ''Brainscan'', where Karim tells the story of how Creator/EdwardFurlong's career collapsed, he also mentions Creator/CoreyFeldman's.
89* FreezeFrameBonus: Some episodes have a long subliminal message that appears for a split-second and is always hilarious to read if you pause at the right moment.
90* GagCensor:
91** The face of Charles, a friend of Karim, is used as a CensorBox in the ''eXistenZ'' review.
92** Pictures of the French politician Alain Madelin are used for the same purpose in the ''Postal'' review... but the pictures themselves are censored with pictures of hamsters.
93* HappyEnding: Fittingly discussed in the final episode.
94* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: In the ''G@mer'' review, when Kamel calls Karim out for lying when it seems like the film has nothing to do with video games.
95-->'''Kamel:''' Do you mean you're an asshole who doesn't keep his promises?\
96'''Karim:''' Of course not, young viewer, I'm an asshole who does keep his promises!
97* InNameOnly: A few of the adaptations he reviews, obviously (beginning with ''Super Mario Bros''), but this is usually not his main complaint − but rather the fact that these films still try to throw winks and references to the original game despite having little connection to them. He actually liked ''The Spirits Within'' for ''not'' trying to do that.
98* InsaneTrollLogic: In the ''Max Payne'' episode, Kamel confuses the film's director John Moore with Creator/RogerMoore, then Creator/DemiMoore, then [[Theatre/CrazyHorse Lova Moor]], then the French-Spanish magician Garcimore... then the French comedian Popeck, even though his name sounds nothing like the others'.
99* IntentionalEngrishForFunny: In the ''Street Fighter'' review, Karim is so upset when a scene involves Jean-Claude Van Damme of all people ''stop'' a fight that he addresses the film's director about it, but then realizes he might not speak French, so he writes the following message in [[TranslationTrainwreck awful English]]:
100--> Good, mister realisator of film, if you not talk français, contacting me, I send copy to you of "C'est bien, yes mister", one booking of learn of French thong specialitely concepted for the "anglophones" tail I wrote there is some years.
101* JumpScare: In the ''Resident Evil'' episode, Karim complains that the horrific part of the movie is so bad that the moviemaker added this trope everywhere to compensate. The episode features a couple of parodic jump scares with a smiling Jérémy appearing while quietly saying "Booh".
102* KilledMidSentence: Played for laughs in a CutawayGag in the ''Alone in the Dark'' review, where Karim and Gilles mock the scene where Burke [[TooDumbToLive stupidly dies]] by only setting a 5-second timer on a bomb:
103-->'''Karim:''' Okay, Gilles, I have set set up the explosives and we have got not less than five seconds to ru—'''''[[StuffBlowingUp BOOM!]]'''''
104* MaliciousMisnaming: When Karim fears he's mispronouncing Anubhav Sinha's name in the review of ''Ra.One'', Kamel decides to misname Karim for the rest of the review to compensate.
105* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: In the ''Street Fighter'' episode, Karim says that about half of the characters are useless and only there for PanderingToTheBase[[invoked]]. He then adds that he could make movies himself with this recipe, then shows a short (barely) animated sequence featuring [[Franchise/DragonBall Son Goku]], [[Music/GunsNRoses Slash]], [[Anime/MyNeighborTotoro Totoro]], Franchise/{{Batman}}, [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], and [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial ET]], hanging out in the street before being arrested by [[Film/DirtyHarry Harry Callahan]].
106* MexicanStandoff: Defined and discussed in the ''Hitman'' review.
107* MusicalisInterruptus: The music often stops in the middle of an explanation of the movie's plot, just the time for Karim to insert a sarcastic remark, before starting again.
108* NWordPrivileges: In the ''Brainscan'' review, Kamel calls Karim a "bougnoule", which is a derogatory term for people of Arabic descent in France.
109* NoodleIncident:
110** In the review of ''Alone in the Dark'', Karim claims to be a [[TheVietnamVet Vietnam veteran]]. When Gilles accuses him of lying, he answers "there are many [[MysteriousPast things you don't know]] about me, Gilles".
111** In the review of ''Hitman'', Jérémy claims without elaborating that he's bald because of the "radiation".
112* NotScreenedForCritics: [[invoked]] Discussed in the review of ''Dead or Alive'', an instance of this trope.
113* ObligatoryJoke: Karim has to angrily order Kamel to stop singing ''[[Music/TheBeeGees Stayin' Alive]]'' during the review of ''Stay Alive''. After Karim leaves at the end of the episode, Gilles starts dancing to the song.
114* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Played for laughs when Karim mentions that before he finally got to see the monster in ''Doom'', he had enough time to ''save UsefulNotes/NorthKorea twice''.
115* OldShame: [[invoked]] After Karim reviews ''The Lawnmower Man'', Kamel confronts him with his shameful secret: he bought a Platform/VirtualBoy.
116* OnceOriginalNowCommon: {{Invoked}}, while Karim admits that the faces in ''The Spirits Within'' often go in the UnintentionalUncannyValley, he still wants to remind us that the movie was technically way ahead of its time.
117* PoliceAreUseless: The [[TheStoic emotionless]] cop who appears in many episodes is usually only there to ask people for their papers for no reason rather than doing anything helpful.
118* ThePrimaDonna: The fake behind-the-scenes segments of the ''King of Kong'' episode depict Karim as one.
119* ProductPlacement: Discussed in the review of ''The Wizard'', and even [[ParodyProductPlacement parodied]] when Karim becomes so fed up with all the product placement in the latter movie that he starts adding ads for his show and his nonexistent coffee brand to the episode.
120* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The late part of the ''Doom'' episode has Camille Saint-Saëns' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM Danse Macabre]]'' as a musical background.
121* QuestionableCasting:
122** InUniverse, during the ''Alone In The Dark'' review, it is how Karim reacts to Creator/TaraReid being the archaeologist Aline Cedrac.
123** He has the same reaction to Arielle Dombasle's casting as a game designer in ''G@mer''.
124** This is also how he reacted to Creator/ChristopherLambert not reprising his role as Raiden in ''Annihilation''. Because Lambert was working on ''Film/Beowulf1999'', [[EpicFail probably the worst film of his career]].
125* JustForFun/RecycledInSpace: The review of ''Postal'' is literally in space, Uwe Boll sends Karim and Gilles there for no reason at all to review the film.
126* RunningGag
127** In the ''Annihilation'' review:
128-->'''Karim:''' When suddenly…\
129'''Kamel:''' Brawl!\
130'''Karim:''' Brawl, yes, but [laconic description of the fight]
131** In the ''Silent Hill'' review, Karim keeps calling the scenes with Creator/SeanBean "The Adventures of [[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing Boromir]]".
132** Whenever Music/{{Ludacris}} appears in ''Gamer'', Karim sings "yeek yeek woop woop!" from ''Get Back''.
133** Gilles is a big fan of ''Film/JurassicPark1993'', and will bring it up at every opportunity. Karim is also a fan and often brings up how many years before or after it a movie with bad [[ComputerGeneratedImages CGI]] was released. Some episodes contain a SubvertedPunchline where Karim sounds like he's going to compare the reviewed film to ''Jurassic Park'' again then picks another instead, for instance he mentions ''The Lawnmower Man'' came out in 1992, one year... after ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.
134** Karim calls special forces in movies "lones" since the review of ''Alone in the Dark'' and him [[SarcasmMode sarcastically]] explaining to his French audience that the film is true to his title since [[NeverTrustATitle "alone in the dark"]] [[BlatantLies translates as "lots of cops fighting monsters" in French]].
135** Kamel often gets the names of the film directors [[AccidentalMisnaming wrong]], for instance he confuses Creator/OrsonWelles with Creator/HGWells. In one case, Karim is the one who gets the name wrong when he confuses ''Resident Evil'''s director Creator/PaulWSAnderson with Creator/PaulThomasAnderson, but he blatantly does it on purpose to introduce the audience to the latter, whom he admires much more than the former. At the end of the review, he [[BrickJoke also]] confuses him with Creator/WesAnderson.
136* SecretDiary: Before Karim starts reviewing ''The Spirits Within'', Kamel reveals he has been reading his diary and teases him about it.
137* ShaggyFrogStory: Kamel tells Karim a nonsensical story about how thylacines became extinct to aggressively remind him to review ''Hitman''.
138* ShootTheMoney: [[invoked]] Discussed in the review of ''Doom'', where Karim explains what a "money shot" is.
139* ShoutOut:
140** In the first episode, Karim greets his audience with "[[Film/GroundhogDay okay, campers, rise and shine]]".
141** In the review of ''Starfighter'', during a scene involving a FlyingCar, he quips that where they're going, [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 they don't need roads]].
142** The opening of the review of ''Ra.One'' references the song ''Voyage, voyage'' by the French singer Desireless. Similarly, the opening of the review of ''Doom'' references the song ''Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!'' by Music/{{Vengaboys}}, and the opening of the review of ''eXistenZ'' references the song ''Résiste'' by the French singer France Gall. In the latter review, he also references the song ''Et Vice Versa'' by Creator/LesInconnus.
143** In the review of ''The Lawnmower Man'', when he explains why he chose to review it, he says "[[Film/Ghostbusters1984 I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never, ever possibly destroy us... and it just popped in there]]".
144** The opening of the review of ''G@mer'' is a homage to ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''.
145** The fake behind-the-scenes segments of the review of ''King of Kong'' are a homage to ''Series/TheOfficeUS''.
146** He mocks a fight scene in ''Future Cops'' by playing ''[[Series/TheBennyHillShow Yakety Sax]]'' during it.
147** To mock the constant ProductPlacement in ''The Wizard'', he puts sunglasses on and announces the episode will switch to "[[Film/TheyLive Roddy Piper-vision]]", a shot where the Power Glove is replaced with the word "BUY" follows.
148** He starts a metronome before he starts watching ''House of the Dead'' in his bed, a reference to ''Film/Se7en''.
149** When the first glimpse of the strange creatures in ''Max Payne'' appears, he "[[EnhanceButton enhances]]" the picture to take a better look at it just like Deckard does in ''Film/BladeRunner''.
150** To explain 47's plan in ''Hitman'', Gilles uses projected pictures tracking his hands' moves, like in ''Film/MinorityReport''.
151* ShowDontTell: Karim has to remind this after seeing the ridiculous WallOfText at the beginning of ''Alone in the Dark''.
152* ShowWithinAShow:
153** In the ''Future Cops'' review, Karim turns Kamel into Jérémy, but at the end, Kamel reappears and Karim asks him what happened to Jérémy, Kamel answers he's in "a better world". [[BaitAndSwitch It turns out]] that he left to star in a fictional film titled ''A Better World'' and the episode ends with a fake trailer of it.
154** The film is [[BrickJoke mentioned again]] in the newspapers in the review of ''Doom'', which mention that it received critical acclaim.
155* SoBadItsGood: [[invoked]] What Karim thinks of ''Future Cops'', ''Annihilation'' and ''House of the Dead''. At the end of the latter's review, he even throws a long monologue about what this kind of film can bring to us.
156* Darthwiki/SoBadItsHorrible: [[invoked]] On the other hand, he finds Uwe Boll's other films ''Alone in the Dark'' and ''Postal'' irredeemable, the former because of its boring and unintelligible story even though it barely has one, the latter because of its gratuitous vulgarity in an unconvincing attempt to look subversive, and he mercilessly pans both.
157* SongParody: The review of ''Max Payne'' ends with a list of films better than the latter sung to the tune of "Turkey in the Straw".
158* SophisticatedAsHell: While Karim usually keeps a polished speech, he's not above dropping a PrecisionFStrike here and there.
159* {{Spoiler}}: The reviews usually have a summary of the whole plot, including the ending. When this is a film about videogame which has a twist ending, Karim precedes said spoiler by a warning screen advising the viewer to stop the video here if they want to watch the movie and discover the ending by themselves.
160** Averted in the ''Ra.One'' episode. He stops the plot's summary in the middle of the review after stating that the movie is basically a ''Terminator 2'' rip-off, and that describing it any longer would just spoil the latter movie.
161* StylisticSuck:
162** The first scene of ''Gamer'' is told with hilarious sound effects Jérémy makes with his mouth.
163** The "[[ExcusePlot plans]]" of the villains in ''The Spirits Within'' and ''Annihilation'' are told with crude drawings and childish narration.
164** Similarly, the "plans" of the heroes in ''Double Dragon'' and ''Hitman'' are awkwardly explained by Jérémy using slides.
165* TalkingToThemself: The show treats the gags where Karim talks to Kamel as this, although this is [[{{Retcon}} contradicted]] in ''WebVideo/{{Chroma}}'', which establishes that Kamel is actually Karim's AlternateSelf from an AlternateUniverse.
166* TakeThat: Played for laughs in the quick summary of ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie''.
167-->'''Karim:''' So Liu Kang kicks Shang Tsung's ass because it's not very nice to kill people's brothers, [[Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest is it, Mr.]] Creator/HenryFonda?
168* ToiletHumor: Mocked in the review of ''House Of The Dead'', where Karim cheers with his friends at each element of the sacred trinity - a puke joke, a pee joke, and a crap joke.
169* TropaholicsAnonymous: The review of ''Gamer'' starts with Karim solemnly declaring that he has a problem he wants to talk about... he likes ''Film/{{Crank}}''. Then Jérémy starts talking about his drinking problem but Karim stops him with "it was a joke, dude, it's not an actual meeting."
170* VideoGameMoviesSuck: [[invoked]] The show's whole point is to study why.
171* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: In the ''King of Kong'' review, nobody knows why Jérémy is in the team, not even him.
172* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Lampshaded, Gilles's bad Uwe Boll impression in the ''Postal'' episode introduces himself as "Uwe Boll with a racist accent".
173* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: Discussed at length in the review of ''Brainscan'', a film where this doesn't work since the game's rules are very inconsistent.
174* YouKeepUsingThatWord: In the ''Dead Or Alive'' review, Karim points out that the characters constantly use "shinobi" with the meaning of "traitor", while it is in fact just a synonym of "Ninja".
175* YouMightRememberMeFrom: [[invoked]] When Jérémy introduces himself at the end of the ''Hitman'' review, he mentions the audience might have seen him in ''La Demeure'', which is an actual short film he was in.

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