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6->''I don't like this movie,\
7It doesn't look too friendly,\
8This bootleg is so fake,\
9That toy is gonna break.\
10Phelous, don't let me down,\
11You need to be around,\
12Grab that chocolate pizza and leave a like because I want one!''
13-->-- ''"Oh Phelous" (post-2018 version), Phelous' ending theme by Ze [[WebVideo/ForgetAboutIt SadPanda]]...''
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15Phelan Porteous (born September 4, 1983) is a Canadian guy who makes funny videos on the Internet. His claims to fame are his reviews of really bad horror movies and {{Disneyesque}} {{mockbuster}}s, both B-grade and big-budget, and ''WebVideo/MortalKomedy'', a parody of the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' series. He's also well-known for being a MetaGuy who [[LampshadeHanging mocks the hell out of poorly-used tropes]], as well as his unique delivery which involves lots of [[DeadpanSnarker deadpanning]] with occasional bits of [[LargeHam hamminess]]. He also used to [[TheyKilledKennyAgain die a lot in his reviews]], but that gag's ([[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee mostly]]) been retired.
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17His main review show used to have no official name (a fact that was lampshaded within the series itself), but it's since been dubbed "Phelous and the Movies" after [[AscendedFanon a seemingly-random title given to the show]] on Website/{{IMDB}}. The show was also referred to as "Phelous Who" for a short time and given an accompanying title sequence, likely because of all the shoutouts to said series present in his videos. The title sequence has since been retired, with the explanation given that he wanted to make better use of the title cards drawn for his episodes. He also has a couple of other video series: ''Bootleg Zones'', which focuses on [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct bootleg and knockoff toys and video games of varying quality]] (and its spinoff, ''Miraculous Merchandise Zone'', which looks at official products); ''WebVideo/{{Halloweenie}}'', a [[StylisticSuck low-budget public access show]] with an odd skeleton man who looks at Halloween-related items and topics; and episode-by-episode reviews of ''Series/MortalKombatConquest'', ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatDefendersOfTheRealm'', and ''Series/NinjaTurtlesTheNextMutation''.
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19On January 12, 2015 Phelan [[https://twitter.com/Phelous/status/554778182814269440 announced]] that he was leaving Website/ChannelAwesome. He had been with the site since December 2008.
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21On June 19, 2020, Phelous uploaded a video called "[[https://youtu.be/IHg05OSENFk Beauty and the Beast (Dingo Pictures)]]. Rather than a review, it is an original animated video, retelling the ''Beauty and the Beast'' story while making fun of Creator/DingoPictures. Since this video is a massive break from Phelous' other videos and has its own self-contained story, please put tropes for that video [[WebAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeastPhelous HERE]].
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23His videos can be viewed [[http://www.phelous.com here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/user/pherlous here]]. A frequent collaborator with wife Creator/AllisonPregler, and the two often appear in each other's videos.
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26!!Tropes found in this show:
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28* AbortedArc: The review of Creator/StephenKing's ''Boogey Man'', ends with Phelous regenerating into a cat, and one of his dead selves turning into Phelous D1, hinting at a new expansive storyline for the mid-Review sketches. The next review, ''Film/JeepersCreepers'', starts out with Cat-Phelous turning into a human again via a DeusExMachina, shorty after which he nonchalantly shoots Phelous D1, ending the storyline in less than 3 minutes.
29* ActuallyPrettyFunny:
30** He notes this in a scene from ''Day of the Dead 2'' where one of the zombified characters monolouges after getting shot, only to be told the others can hear him (ItMakesSenseInContext) though he also states that he believes the movie just gave up.
31** Also in ''House of the Dead'' with this exchange
32--->'''Some Guy:''' Shoot them!\
33'''Capitan Kirk:''' Whaddaya think I'm tryin' to do, ya fucking moron?
34** He admits the DVD commentary for ''Film/HouseOfTheDead'': [[BlatantLies Funny]] Version is funny, albeit unintentionally.
35** He thought the bratty kids getting blown up in ''Film/SantasSlay'' was pretty funny until they ruined it.
36** In his review of ''Film/TheBoogeyman1980'', a little boy, after sticking his head through a window and shouting "BOOGEYMAN!", is killed pathetically when the window half heartedly closes on his neck. Phelous says that death scene almost makes up for everything else. [[HaHaHaNo Almost.]]
37** Almost any goofy surprised death face seems to cheer him up.
38** In ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'', he points out that 1987 Raphael's second breaking the fourth wall gag ''was'' pretty funny, but by that point was too pissed about the lack of respect with which the 1987 turtles were handled to laugh at it.
39** Admits that in the ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers'' review that John Strode's death in the theatrical cut (With his head exploding) is stupid, but also funny and was the only change between the two cuts of the film he approved of.
40** He admits that [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014 Shredder's]] [[MythologyGag line of]] "[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Tonight I dine on turtle soup]]" was amusing to him.
41** He admits that Dave Coulier!Peter Venkman's "Well yeah, actually we did" line from the "Halloween II 1/2" episode was actually funny, and even give props to Dave for not screwing up the line's delivery. He then goes to throw up after saying that.
42** In his review of the [[WesternAnimation/AladdinGoldenFilms GoodTimes Aladdin movie]], he admits to being amused by some of the Genie's lines.
43** The Queen in Goodtimes' ''Snow White'' calls the stories about her stepdaughter's beauty ''"exaggerated."'' In his opinion, this shoutout to Creator/MarkTwain is actually pretty funny.
44** He admits that he does like Dingo Pictures movies in his Cat On Boots review, which is half heartwarming and half weird.
45** Admits that the "I have to pee" line from ''[[Film/JackFrost1997 Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman]]'' was kinda funny.
46* AdamWesting:
47** Lampshaded at the end of ''Incubus'' when he says all the performances were terrible. Except for Creator/TaraReid who did an excellent job playing Tara Reid.
48** [[MetaGuy Phelous himself]]. Frequently.
49** During the large crossover review of ''Film/SouthlandTales'' he seemed to be completely exaggerating his own speech patterns and accent for deliberate effect.
50* AffectionateParody: ''Mortal Komedy'', of ''Mortal Kombat''.
51* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In-universe; he's come up with enough theories about the characters in the films he's reviewed that they have [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation/{{Phelous}} their own page]].
52* AmbiguouslyGay: Selouph, Phelous' allegedly EvilCounterpart who reviews romantic comedies.
53* AnimalReactionShot: Phelous likes to point out the "stupid surprised animals" he occasionally spots in the films he reviews.
54* ArchEnemy: Phelous D1, allegedly. Phelous himself seems to [[UnknownRival keep forgetting he exists]].
55* ArcWords: "Real", and all variations there of (such as "really" "real" and "for reals").
56* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The ''Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' animated story shows the evil Hyde committing murder, implied rape and ''dropping discounted silverware into the river,'' that fiend.
57-->'''Phelous:''' Someone could have really enjoyed that silverware!
58* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Phelous erroneously refers to panthers as a species in Part 2 of his ''Lion and the King'' review. In reality, a panther is just a melanistic leopard (or jaguar, but since the movie is presumably set in Africa, the panther characters should be leopards).
59* AuthorAppeal:
60** ''Series/DoctorWho'', obviously, horror movies, another gimme, survival horror games like ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' and ''Franchise/SilentHill'', and strangely enough, like [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], ProfessionalWrestling, he's made jokes about Wrestling/{{Goldberg}}, Wrestling/TripleH, and [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson the Rock]].
61** ''Film/SantasSlay'', starring [=Goldberg=], has him repeatedly use Goldberg's wrestling theme whenever Santa shows up, along with other wrestling themes when appropriate, as well as wanting [[{{Jobber}} Gillberg]] to show up as Santa's evil elf.
62** In his more recent reviews, {{Shout Out}}s to ''Series/TwinPeaks'' have become more common.
63* AwesomeMcCoolName:
64** Pops up in his ''Bootleg Zones'' reviews of all places, with the Franchise/{{Robocop}} knockoff figure called ''Robert Cop 2''. Phelous gives it a perfect 10/10 overall score based on the name alone. [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Dinosaur Invincibility]] is also given a high score because of its ridiculous name and packaging.
65** In his ''Film/WrongTurn2DeadEnd'' review, he refuses to refer to a character named Jake as anything other than the actor's real name: [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1564024/?ref_=tt_cl_t3 Texas Battle]].
66** Another ''Bootleg Zone'' toy got a perfect 10 based on its name alone: ''[[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Motorcycle The Pooh]]''.
67** Invoked with Weedon Scott.
68* AxCrazy: Especially in crossovers.
69* TheBadGuyWins: And occasionally "The Bad Guy is foiled for now, but lives to kill another day;" common themes in the films he reviews, usually responded to with an annoyed groan from Phelan.
70* BerserkButton: He has a whole keyboard of 'em:
71** The plot twist in ''Film/IllAlwaysKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'':
72--->'''Phelous:''' A zombie fisherman. ''A zombie fisherman.'' '''''A ZOMBIE FISHERMAN!?'''''
73** Creator/EliRoth and his writing style, particularly his reliance on {{Jerkass}} characters and using "gay" as an insult.
74** With Sub-Zero, if you make a fatality joke, he will call you out on it. Make one too many and he will consider killing you, as Phelous proved in his Anacondas 4 review.
75** Michelle from ''Pulse 2'', since she plots to kill her daughter just so her ex-husband can't have custody.
76*** From ''Pulse 3'', there's also "THE INTERNET GHOST OF A RECORD PLAYER?!", which is insane enough to rival the zombie fisherman.
77*** Reviewing so many bad films named ''Pulse'' (whether they're in a series or not) eventually turned the mere word into a berserk button for him.
78** Anytime a bad movie references a better one. Taken to extreme levels in ''Dead & Deader''.
79** The man takes his gaming pretty seriously. He ranted at length about the ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'' and ''Film/SilentHill'' [[AdaptationDecay films]] (particularly Dahlia Gillespie's portrayal as a sympathetic character in the first ''Film/SilentHill'' film, and Jill Valentine's [[DemotedToExtra demotion to sidekick]] in the ''Resident Evil'' films), and he was mildly irked by the [[PacManFever inaccuracies]] [[HollywoodGameDesign about video games]] in ''Film/StayAlive2006''. He likewise was livid when Barry Burton, one of his favorite characters from ''Resident Evil'' got killed in ''[[Film/ResidentEvilRetribution Retribution]]''.
80-->'''Phelous:''' This movie's a farce! A fucking farce! Fuck this movie to fucking sandwich Hell!
81** His review of ''Film/ASerbianFilm'' is quite possibly his angriest review yet, taking particular umbrage at that film's {{Gorn}} and attempts at CrossingTheLineTwice.
82** It's not as bad as some of the other buttons, but Phelous dislikes horror movie [[DevelopingDoomedCharacters teenagers/college students/cops/killers]] who are obsessed with drinking and partying; oftentimes wishing that they'd get killed already.
83*** The partying cop from the ''Film/CabinFever'' series earns an especially large chunk of his disdain when he reviews those movies.
84** He hates reality shows, judging by his ''Film/WrongTurn2DeadEnd'' and ''Film/HalloweenResurrection" reviews.
85** Most horror movie remakes; mostly ones that remove subtle atmospheric horror.
86** The director of ''The Curse of Michael Myers'' claiming Creator/DonaldPleasence's Dr. Loomis boring and cutting large portions of his final performance.
87** Inconsistency between movies and their sequels tends to anger him as well (Ulli Lommel's ''Film/TheBoogeyman1980'' trilogy being a prime example of this).
88** "Lock-you-inside" locks may still exist in modern times, but they're rarer and they mostly only exist in horror movies to act as an inconvenience to anyone trying to get out of the house. He ''hates'' them. (Though they're actually still very common in places like the UK and Europe, causing confusion to viewers from those countries.)
89** Contrived reasons to disable cell phones in horror movies, such as the signal mysteriously vanishing in the vicinity of slashers or monsters.
90** He often gets annoyed by large amounts of [[JumpScare jump scares]] in movies. However, in his review of ''Film/JacobsLadder'', he did point out a JumpScare done right; a surprise shot that's been built up and has relevance to the movie's theme.
91** For very understandable reasons attempts to play [[BlackComedyRape rape for laughs]], especially in tasteless movies such as ''Jack Frost'' or ''Thankskilling'', is one of his biggest Berserk Buttons.
92** He seems to have a very low tolerance for singing; any attempt at a musical number is often met with an emphatic "No", before being skipped over or only reluctantly shown.
93** The version of Peter Venkman on ''The Real Ghostbusters'' voiced by Dave Coulier.
94** The very concept of HeelFaceBrainwashing deeply disgusts him. He was already critical of ''Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time'' and Golden Films' ''Rudolph'', but he absolutely ''explodes'' in rage when the "heroes" of those movies do this to the villains.
95** Adaptations that blatantly bastardize and/or disrespect the source material. His review of Golden Films' ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|GoldenFilms}}'' is one of his angriest reviews ever because of this.
96** Phelous is really annoyed by making fat characters {{Big Eater}}s as a joke, finding the joke tired and cliche.
97** When going over his collection of ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' releases, he shows great agitation when Winston and thus Creator/ErnieHudson is excluded from official adverting.
98** Additionally, he hates when the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 first]] [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze two]] ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' movies use the ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII'' designs of the turtles on their home video releases.
99** He hated the cloning aspect of the ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries''. So much so, he admits he got mad when the [[Series/ResidentEvil2022 Netflix show]] pulled its own clone twist.
100* BetterThanABareBulb: In his case, it's part and parcel of being a MetaGuy.
101* BigNo:
102** Parodied during the ending of the ''Skinned Deep'' episode, when it turns out that the end credits of the movie play while the FinalGirl screams "NOOOOOOOOO!" over and over again throughout the whole thing.
103-->'''Phelous''': NOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOO! [=NOOOOOOoooo=] way I'm doing that.
104** Played straight when he realizes Creator/EliRoth wrote and directed ''Film/HostelPartII'', unlike the second ''Cabin Fever''.
105** Does a slow motion one during his review of ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution'' when the film version of Barry Burton, one of his favorite characters in the [=RE=] games, ends up getting killed. Parodied later when Luther get killed later on.
106-->'''Phelous''': ''(In slow motion)'' Luther...''(Regular speed)'' Who [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] cares.
107* BiggerOnTheInside: Phelous lives in what looks like a tiny shed on the outside, [[Series/DoctorWho but on the inside, it's pretty big.]]
108* BlindIdiotTranslation: Since some of his reviews are of terrible foreign horror movies, he runs into this on occasion. He gets particularly confused for ''Nightmare City,'' an Italian zombie movie.
109* BloodyHilarious: How he treats most of the movies' death scenes, by [[{{Slapstick}} speeding them up and adding cartoony sound effects.]]
110* BreakoutCharacter: It's probably safe to say that Phelous never anticipated how much both he and his fans would come to love his interpretation of Beauty's father from the Creator/GoodTimesEntertainment version of ''Beauty and the Beast''. "Old Man" now has constant cameos in other reviews, fan art, gifs and memes, and even his own spinoff series in "Old Man Reads Creepypastas."
111** Phelous satirizes this trope once in a while. For example, in his review of ''WesternAnimation/{{Spider|Man1981}}-Man'' episode "The A-B-C's of D-O-O-M", Phelous dedicates his entire time discussing and propping up the character Goron, a one-off CanonForeigner villain. In-universe, Spider-Man and Dr. Doom are well acquainted with him and the threat he poses. In reality, there was very little backstory about Goron and he's quickly forgotten after his defeat.
112* BrickJoke:
113** During his review of ''Film/CryWolf'', Phelous makes a prank call to the police. [[spoiler: This leads to a cop shooting a fellow skit artist at the end of the review and then arresting Phelous.]]
114** Also, he shouldn't have [[BerserkButton crossed that line]] when he mentioned ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' to WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic.
115** In his ''Film/JeepersCreepers'' review, [[EvilCounterpart Phelous D1]] claims part of his plan involved turning the show into one that reviews Romantic Comedies. At the start of the ''Amityville Horror'' review, ''another'' evil counterpart Phelous, "Selouph", claims he reviews romantic comedies, before getting shot by Phelous.
116* BrokenRecord:
117** The scene in ''Case 39'' where Lily repeats "Why, Emily?" over and over again causes him to scream "[[BigShutUp Shut up! SHUT UP!]]" and then dub her as saying "[[ActorAllusion Silent Hill!]]" over and over again.
118** Enrico in the Resident Hazard machinima, who keeps saying "Yeah?" over and over again.
119* BrokeTheRatingScale:
120** ''A Serbian Film'' does this for Phelous much like it did for Creator/BradJones. He states he'd watch any of the other movies he's reviewed repeatedly, even ''Film/FiveAcrossTheEyes'', instead of ''A Serbian Film''.
121** The Midnight Meat Train received 7.2 out of a 3½.
122** ''Film/JeepersCreepers'' got a -3/10, solely due to [[FelonyMisdemeanor the sky having poor continuity]].
123** While he has given 0/10 scores in the sub-sections of the Bootleg Zone reviews, there have been only four toys that have gotten an overall rating of 0/10: Rock N Dancer (for failing to perform any movement), the Nickelodeon Ninja Turtles Bootlegs (for looking exactly the same as the official toyline at first glance, despite being vastly inferior products), the Super Ninja TMNT bootlegs (for reusing an already bad mold that's been shown several times on the show, as well as being unbelievably cheap and breakable), and the Funny Toilet Guy (for being an unfunny toy based around ToiletHumor that didn't even work properly).
124** The Rock N Dancer doll was creepy, unoriginal and did not work. Its only use was the box it came in [[DamnedByFaintPraise being loved by Lupa's cat Ash as a bed]], so it got a rating of ''cat bed out of 10.''
125** One set of Turtles knockoffs he reviewed was so bad that instead of getting a 0/10 in the overall, it ended up getting a "1"/10...with the "1" being [[FlippingTheBird the finger]].
126* BullyingADragon: Phelous mocks [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Micheal Myers]] in the ''Film/WrongTurn2DeadEnd'' review.
127* ButThouMust: Parodied in his ''Fear Dot Com'' video, even using the exact phrase.
128* ButtMonkey:
129** Bat Hero gets no respect, not from Phelous, his enemies or his girlfriend Steffi Love, who puts him in an [[DraggedIntoDrag embarrassing dress]].
130** The Rock N Dancer got even worse, ending with him being destroyed.
131** Baltard from ''Galaxy Warriors'' is constantly ridiculed, from his name to his PaperThinDisguise. Anubi especially makes fun of him.
132* CallBack:
133** Selouph in the ''Prom Night'' and ''Amityville Horror'' reviews is one to the WebVideo/{{Kickassia}} commentary he did with [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]], WebVideo/ObscurusLupa and [[WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou Nash]].
134** The ''Film/Birdemic2TheResurrection'' review is ''full'' of call-backs to the original ''Film/{{Birdemic}}''. "50% discount" and [[NonSequitur "Yes"]] become a RunningGag.
135* TheCameo:
136** Has a short one in the ''Apocalypse 4: Judgment'' review by WebVideo/DiamandaHagan.
137** Or whenever anyone on Channel Awesome references anything '[[MetaGuy meta]]' during a review.
138** Many reviewers appear in his show in return (specially in ''Croc'' and ''Film/HouseOfWax2005'').
139* CameraAbuse:
140** Finding out that ''Incubus'' was originally called ''Pulse'' drives him over the edge and he attacks the camera, flipping it over before composing himself.
141** Parodied again in his review of ''Film/Quarantine2008'' (specifically the part where a guy kills a zombie by smashing the lens into its face). Phelous' camera breaks and we get a title card with the words "One new camera later..."
142* CanadaEh: Well, in the sense that he ''is'' Canadian, but his review persona doesn't fit much in the way of Canadian stereotypes.
143** Mortal Komedy takes place in "Oatworld". That's Canadian enough.
144** To Canadians, the fact that he's a Maritimer (from Nova Scotia, to be exact) explains... some things, at least. Comparing his sense of humour to fellow Bluenoser Creator/KateBeaton's is an interesting exercise.
145** The ''Animal Soccer World'' review includes a reference to [[https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/trump-s-odds-for-re-election-house-hippos-are-back-empire-strikes-door-bahamas-tourism-after-dorian-more-1.5306553/the-north-american-house-hippo-is-back-and-ready-to-tackle-fake-news-1.5306562 'house hippos']], the stars of a beloved Canadian PSA about critical TV viewing.
146* CaptainObvious:
147** Captain Explainy Pants in his "Aladdin" (not that Aladdin) review.
148** ...And in the ''Film/ChildsPlay3'' review.
149* CerebusRetcon: The "Jacob's Ladder" review, [[CerebusSyndrome appropriately enough]] does this with [[spoiler:[[DeadAllAlong Phelous' heart attack]] near the end of the "Mac and Me" review]] ''and'' the RunningGag of [[spoiler:Phelous dying]].
150* CharacterBlog: The 3rd Phelous has a [[http://twitter.com/#!/CatPhelous Twitter]].
151* CharacterCatchphrase:
152** "Fair enough..."
153** "What the garbage is this/that shit?!"
154** "...aaaand he/she dies!" In response to a character being killed off with little fanfare.
155** An extremely forced "''X''?! What are ''you'' doing here?!" at the beginning of a crossover.
156*** Also for cameos by famous actors in the movies he reviews.
157** "They're/He/She is the best!" any time a group or individual [[InformedAbility claimed to be experts in their field]] faces trouble they're unprepared for.
158** "Ain't that real fuckin' cute?" whenever a sentimental and cutesy moment appears.
159*** "Cute" and "real fucking cute" also appear when a movie tries (and fails) to be clever.
160** With [[WebVideo/ObscurusLupa Allison]], said very quickly in the "stupid dog" voice (as opposed to the "mean cat" voice used for Ash), "It's not weird!" whenever a less-intelligent character's quirks are revealed.
161** X person/thing "is completely useless now. HEEEEEEEEEEEEE" as "Old Man" from Good Times's 1992 animated adaptation of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast''.
162* ClusterFBomb:
163** In the ''Satan Claus'' review, Phelous turns the captain's exclamation of "Fuck! Fuck shit fuck!" into his catchphrase.
164** In the opening to his review of ''Mortal Komedy'' he screams profanity, until he realises he has to turn into his old self.
165* ContinuitySnarl: Yeah, even Phelous doesn't know what's going on at this point. Then again, [[NegativeContinuity he doesn't really care]].
166* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: Mocked in his review of Good Times' ''Cinderella'':
167--> ''I think I'll move those three less-detailed bricks that obviously aren't part of the background...''
168* CrackIsCheaper:[[invoked]]
169** The Galaxy Warriors on ''Bootleg Zones'' due to how many sublines, spinoffs, variants and bootlegs the figures have. He often refers to them as the "Galaxy Black Hole" or "Galaxy-Hole" when discussing them.
170** It gets to the point where Phelous finds that Turtles Fighters, ''another bootleg line'', uses accessories from a line of Galaxy Warrior bootlegs, making them technically part of the Galaxy-Hole.
171** At one point, Phelous explains that even the ''bootlegs and spinoffs'' have bootlegs and spinoffs, and that this goes '''at least''' 5 levels deep. Crack is cheaper, indeed.
172* CreepyChild:
173** One of his major problems with ''Case 39'' is that Lily is ''supposed'' to fit this trope, but comes off more as just an annoying brat.
174** He also made fun of the "ghost babby" in the remake of ''Film/TheAmityvilleHorror2005''.
175* CryingWolf: Does this in the ''Film/CryWolf'' review
176* CuteKitten: After the seventh Boogeyman movie, Phelous regenerated into his cat Tiniqua. He followed up with a review of Meow Mix and a "cameo" from his other cat Kisa. [[spoiler:Phelous D1 later gets turned into the same cat.]]
177* DancingBear: In-universe, believes that ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'' is is, saying that anyone curious about the premise might as well just look at a screenshot of the completed Human Centipede.
178* DeadAllAlong: Phelous often dies at the end of his reviews. Sometimes he reveals that he's not going to die because "I'm already dead!" *Evil Laugh*
179** [[spoiler:His "Jacob's Ladder" review cements this even further with a CerebusRetcon: he died while reviewing "Mac and Me" and the last five years of reviews were his spirit holding on to the last few minutes of his life while refusing to move on.]]
180*** [[spoiler: Look again at the intro to his ''Film/SeventhMoon'' review. He's looking in the mirror, saying "The face in the mirror, it wasn't me!" with a terrorized expression on his face. He's foreshadowing how in the ''Jacob's Ladder'' review, he will see his true dead self in the mirror at the end, but is still unable to accept it yet.]]
181*** [[spoiler: Ultimately subverted in his ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheAdventureOfAllTime'' review which takes place right after his "Jacob's Ladder" review. At the beginning of the review, he is lying on the floor supposedly dead, but then gets up right afterwards to start talking about the film.]]
182* DeadpanSnarker: He started off extremely deadpan, almost lifeless really, but over time he's become much livelier and more extreme. He's still a huge snarker though.
183* DeathGlare: He sports a rather unsettling one in the beginning of the 'Five Across the Eyes' indie film, indicating his utter disgust for the film.
184* DeathIsCheap: No matter how messily he dies at the end of an episode, he'll be back next time as if nothing happened.
185* DefiedTrope: Starting with the "New Phelous", Phelous openly avoided the DeathIsCheap RunningGag, culminating in him getting shot with a rifle in the ''Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife'' review and having to go to the hospital.
186* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Pointed out by Phelous with the URL of ''Fear Dot Com'''s titular website, feardotcom.com.
187* DesignatedHero:
188** [[InvokedTrope In Phelan's view]], the main characters of ''Prom Night 3''. The guy covers up the villain's crimes due to being in lust with her and the girl insists on standing by him despite ample evidence he's been murdering people and cheating on her. This is one of the few episodes he shows himself to be okay with an ending where {{the bad guy wins}}, as it allows the villain to deliver just desserts to these two.
189** In the second story of the Rumpelstiltskin "Brittanicca's Tales Around the World" video, [[InvokedTrope Phelous describes King/Saint Olaf]] as a designated hero. He's the one who goes to the troll to build his church, offers him the sun, the moon, and his own immortal soul to do the job, and then spends the entire time the troll is building the church plotting to kill him so as to not pay what he freely offered to the troll for the work. He regularly brings up the fact that he's doing his actions to have a church built and that Olaf is a Saint.
190** His opinion of Paige and Aladdin in ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheAdventureOfAllTime'', due to them making UsefulNotes/HenryVIII into an overweight, murderous glutton, turning the kind pirate Blondebeard into the cruel Blackbeard, and killing the pharaoh, and none of these actions being portrayed as bad.
191** During his ''Next Mutation'' retrospective, he points out constantly how poorly written, both character-wise and [[IdiotBall intelligence]]-[[TookALevelInDumbass wise]], the Turtles and Splinter are. And sees them as one of, if not ''the'', worst incarnations of the franchise. Even beating out the 1987 Turtles' portrayal in ''Turtles Forever''.
192* DespairEventHorizon: Has a brief one watching Jack Frost 2 when a character calling himself "Captain Fun" shows up.
193* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: A major PetPeeveTrope of his; expect at least a minor rant about it during every movie it comes up in.
194** Special mentions: ''Film/CabinFever'', where he explains that by making the jerk such a jerk, you've got everyone just wondering when and how that character will die and not about the rest of the cast or what is going on. The Party Cop gets frequent call backs as well, as do "teenagers who just want to ''party''!"
195** In ''Crocodile'', his favorite character is Princess the dog. Even more so when he thinks she's purposefully inciting the crocodile to go after the kids. Also noting that the jerk of that movie continues being a jerk even when he needs the other two survivors to keep carrying him.
196--> "So, we ''are'' supposed to be rooting for the crocodile, right?"
197** In the ''Film/ChildsPlay2'' and ''Film/ChildsPlay3'' reviews, Phelous and the Nostalgia Critic continuously bring up the way that Chucky just [[StupidEvil messes around]] doing everything but his soul-transferring objective.
198* DistaffCounterpart: Sort of. In ''Hostel'' 1 & 2 Reviews in 5 Seconds, his sister does the ''Hostel 2'' portion. Making fun of how ''Hostel 2'' is the same thing as the first movie only with female characters.
199* DontExplainTheJoke:
200** Captain Explainy Pants in his "Aladdin" review. He explains the joke, [[WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic so you don't have to.]]
201** In a cameo for ''Croc'', the 100th episode special:
202-->'''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]:''' No wonder one of us got really popular and the other one died a whole lot and does stupid meta jokes.\
203'''Phelous:''' But -- Linkara -- I --\
204'''Linkara:''' The one who died a lot and does stupid meta jokes is ''you''.\
205'''Phelous:''' Yes. I got it.
206* DoubleEntendre: Unavoidable when a movie calls itself ''Film/TheMidnightMeatTrain''.
207-->'''Phelous:''' I might as well call myself phallus instead of Phelous. ''Phallus Aboard the Meat Train.''
208* DudeNotFunny:
209** There's a moment of this in ''Film/JackFrost1997'' with regards to the scene where the title character rapes a woman to death with his carrot nose, which is PlayedForLaughs.
210** In his ''Film/{{Thankskilling}}'' review, he's ''not'' happy when characters joke that a [[ReallyGetsAround promiscuous]] woman's legs are "harder to close than [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_JonBen%C3%A9t_Ramsey the JonBenét Ramsey case]]":
211-->'''Phelous:''' Oh yeah, comparing a slut to an unsolved child murder case. That's really funny ''and'' classy, you pile of shit!
212* DullSurprise: Phelous loves to point out actors incapable of emoting. He's usually pretty harsh on Creator/MichaelMadsen who delivers all the intensity of someone only there to cash in a paycheck.
213** Phelous himself takes "deadpan" so far that he frequently ends up in this territory. It's deliberate, and makes his [[LargeHam hammier moments]] stand out more.
214** ''Good Times'' Beauty's bland gasp of surprise has also become a running gag.
215* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first few seconds of the ''Film/MacAndMe'' review showed that Phelous would be more [[MetaGuy self-aware]] than other web critics:
216-->(''Title card has Phelous replacing Eric on the film's poster'')\
217'''Phelous:''' What am I looking at? (''turns around to look at Mac'') Eww, what is that!?
218* EvenEvilHasStandards:
219** [[spoiler:Creator/BradJones]] couldn't even pretend to be happy that he talked Phelous into watching [[spoiler:A Serbian Film]], giving up mid-evil laugh to apologize.
220** Phelous' Wabuu, a violent psychopath who gleefully commits cold-blooded murder, is disgusted by the child slave labor and regular beatings of said child slaves in Dingo Pictures Dalmatian 2 to the point of being uncomfortable with being Dingo Pictures' mascot. In the review of the book version of the story, he is also disgusted at his Book design being gleefully in support of said beatings.
221* EveryoneHasStandards
222** He expresses a great disdain towards incestuous relationships (i.e. [[BrotherSisterIncest siblings]], [[ParentalIncest parents and children]], [[KissingCousins cousins]], etc.), whether it's subtext or openly stated in the film.
223** He also gets quite indignant in his review of Dingo Picture's ''Hunchback of Notre Dame'' when a pair of nuns say that baby Quasimodo should immediately be burned alive because he's ugly. "And speaking of fire, ''you two are fucking fired and banned from ever looking at children again!''" He rips into them for being horrible people for the rest of the review.
224** In his review of Dingo’s ''Janis the Little Piglet'', he theorizes that Midas Interactive and Phoenix Games invoked this trope in regards to this movie, refusing to port it into the Playstation consoles for Dingo because of the slaughterhouse scene (which contained rather graphic imagery, relatively speaking for Dingo’s no-budget style). However, he (half-jokingly) laughs this off and then suggests that Dingo probably just forgot to sell this movie to them.
225* EvilCounterpart: Several; there's Phelous D1 from the ''Ghost Ship'' and ''Dawn of the Living Dead'' review, a Phelous version of the villain from ''Incubus'', a ''Franchise/SilentHill''-style [[FanDisservice Nurse Phelous]] from his review of ''Film/SilentHill Homecoming'' and ''Case 39'', and the romantic comedy reviewer "Selouph".
226* EvilLaugh: Phelous is rather entertained when the 'unlikable teen' in ''Film/CabinFever 2'' goes to cut his own arm off.
227* ExactWords: In the Play Through of the "''Clue II: Murder In Disguise''" V H S Game, when trying to figure out who Phelous' character is, Ed Glaser asks if Phelous' character was dressed in Women's Clothing during a Scene, which Phelous confirms. Ed then incorrectly guesses that Phelous is Professor Plum, with the reasoning being [[ItMakesSenseInContext that Plum was wearing Women's clothing in the Scene]], but Phelous points out that clue can also apply to the ''Women'' characters in the Scene, as well!
228* {{Expy}}: Phelous speculates that the BigBad from ''WesternAnimation/MagicGiftOfTheSnowman'' is [[Series/TalesFromTheCrypt the Cryptkeeper]]
229* EyeTake:
230** In his review of the ''Film/BlackChristmas2006'' remake, when the killer's mother rapes him (the killer, not Phelous), Phelous sits slack-jawed, eyes open wide in stupefied horror.
231** He has the same reaction when Michael Myers crossdresses in a blue dress and shows some leg. And it's still the best moment of that review.
232* FailureHero: Bat Hero from Bootleg Zone. He is even sentenced to hang for all the trouble his attempted heroics cause.
233* FanDisservice: At the end of his ''Silent Hill: Homecoming'' video:[[spoiler: Phelous in one of the nurse outfits. Complete with short skirt.]]
234* FollowTheLeader: [[invoked]] Spoofed at the end of his ''Thankskilling'' review with his [[SarcasmMode "extremely original"]] character, [[WebVideo/BumReviews Pester Z. Bum]]!
235* ForcedTransformation: WebVideo/ObscurusLupa uses a garlic sandwich to turn [[spoiler:Phelous D1 into a harmless CuteKitten]].
236* {{Foreshadowing}}:
237** In his review of ''Film/HouseOfTheDeadIIDeadAim'', when a character makes reference to wanting to have sex with a zombie, Phelous reacts by saying, "Contemplating Zombie rape?! I better never see anything that stupid again!" to which Sad Panda appears saying "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." Fast forward a couple months to the La Horde review done alongside Sad Panda...
238** The end of the "House of the Dead" review reveals that [[MindScrew Phelous was still dead from the previous episode, and the review was a near-death hallucination]]. [[spoiler:And then we have TheReveal from the "Jacob's Ladder" review.]]
239* FormerlyFat: Phelous used to be quite on the pudgy side, but has slimmed down since then.
240* FreezeFrameBonus: At the very last second of his ''Amityville Horror'' review, an image of his face pops up in his window. Which also serves as a {{Callback}} to other reviews during the Regen arc last year.
241* FromASingleCell: Parodied in his review of ''Anaconda 4''
242* FrothyMugsOfWater: He talks about the trope-naming incident in his "Dragon Ball Z: Top 15 Funniest Alterations & Censoring" video, pointing out both that it would've made more sense to color Roshi's drink darker brown to imply he was drinking soda, and that changing it blue but not removing the foam makes it look like he's drinking seawater.
243* GagDub: The ''Film/{{Killdozer}}'', ''Film/AmityvilleTheEvilEscapes'' and ''Film/MansBestFriend'' review all feature dubbed-in voices for the respective villains. The movies on their own had ridiculous premises, but the voices just make them impossible to take seriously.
244* GambitRoulette: One of his main complaints with ''Film/CryWolf'' was that [[spoiler:Dodger]] had no way of knowing how a number of things of key parts of her plan would work, and simply got ''very'' lucky.
245* GenreSavvy: In the ''Film/JeepersCreepers'' review, he brings an [[AntiClimax abrupt end]] to the Phelous D1 Saga by shooting his EvilCounterpart. Phelous D1 and [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Ralph]] [[AccidentalMisnaming Oancitizen]] both lampshade this.
246* GenreShift:
247** Since 2013 and especially since leaving Channel Awesome, Phelous' reviews have shifted away from horror films and more towards god-awful animated [[TheMockbuster Mockbusters]] like ''Lion and the King'', along with a rise in the Bootleg Zones toy reviews, as well as the highs and lows of various franchises, such as ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' and ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''.
248** While his first review was ''Film/MacAndMe'', over time cemented himself as a Horror Movie reviewer. But while he still reviews the occasional horror movie, nowadays he now mostly reviews bootlegs toys and cheap cash-in animated films.
249* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion:
250** He considers his first review of ''Film/MacAndMe'' to be his OldShame due to its poor editing and his poor acting. He has gone back throughout the years to edit it and try to improve the quality. This includes improving the lighting and getting rid of the long pauses after his jokes.
251** After the allegations that [[WebVideo/YouCanPlayThis Justin Carmichal]] was a sexual predator came to light, his ''Pulse 2006'' review was reedited to purge Carmichal from it and replace him with WebVideo/{{Benzaie}}.
252* GilliganCut: In ''Film/StayAlive2006'' he refuses to play the Stay Alive game. Cut to him playing it.
253* TheGodsMustBeLazy: Phelous hold this belief about Raiden and the Elder Gods from ''Mortal Kombat''.
254* GoMadFromTheRevelation:
255** Phelous breaks into a fit of insane laughter after it's revealed that the BigBad of ''Skinned Deep'' is [[spoiler: a headless bodybuilder wearing nothing but a pair of underwear that says "DYNOMITE!" on the front.]]
256** The line "You're not DEAD, are you?" from ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead3D'' also sends him into hysterics.
257*** [[spoiler: The end of the Jacob's Ladder review not only justifies his hysterics, but turns it into a very brilliant bit of foreshadowing.]]
258** His review of ''Cabin Fever 2'' is full of this. Take your pick, his reaction to Party Cop returning, his reaction to Party Cop still being obsessed with partying, or [[spoiler: his insane laughter over a scene where the girl cuts off the boy's infected hand with a buzzsaw and torches the wound.]]
259** From the ''Pulse 3'' review: "The internet ghost of a record player? The internet ghost of a record player! ''The internet ghost of a record player?! '''It made me do the overhead spinning scream thing again!!!"'''''
260** Taken to the extreme in ''Thankskilling'' when the killer turkey (which is more like a vulture) encounters a couple mid-coitus, kills the man and fucks the girl in the ass. Phelous falls to the ground, laughing or crying, ''for over a minute'', before just staring at the camera in the next few scenes.
261** Also in ''Film/MansBestFriend''. "DOG RAPE!"
262* {{Gorn}}:
263** Since he specializes in horror films, expect this to crop up from time to time in his reviews. Not all of them are for the squeamish. One prime example is Automaton Transfusion where a zombie [[TraumaticCSection rips out a fetus from a woman]] and eats it.
264** In his NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer, he warns the viewer to consider, in light of the scenes he's shown in previous episodes, the fact that this is the first time he's found it necessary to put up a content warning. The film he was reviewing? ''A Serbian Film''.
265* HaHaHaNo: A funky version when he reviewed ''House of the Dead: Funny Version.'' The tape rewound for some reason (an attempt at wacky humor?) Phelous starts laughing, then Phelous' laughing is itself reversed and when he starts speaking again he says, "Actually that's not funny at all."
266* HarmlessVillain: Phelous D1 sure ''tries'' to hurt Phelous, but mostly just ends up getting humiliated.
267* HehHehYouSaidX: Naturally starts cracking jokes while reviewing knockoffs of the [[Anime/TransformersVictory Breastforce]].
268* HenpeckedHusband: Bat Hero to Steffi Love.
269* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Mike J in the ''Anacondas'' review, when he drinks the same poisoned tea he gave to Phelous.]]
270* HorrifyingTheHorror: In his review of Creator/BevanfieldFilms' adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast", Beauty's alarm clock manages to creep out even [[BotanicalAbomination Old Bush]].
271* HostileShowTakeover: Phelous gets kicked out of his own 100th episode review by Obscurus Lupa, who finishes the review.
272** Selouph tried to take over Phelous's show twice, but Phelous violently takes it back each time.
273* HumiliationConga: During the 100th episode, Phelous is mocked by the various Channel Awesome critics providing cameos, culminating in WebVideo/ObscurusLupa [[HostileShowTakeover browbeating him into abandoning the review, which she finishes.]]
274* HumorDissonance: [[invoked]] One RunningGag is him playing a clip of [[WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters Peter Venkman]] saying "it wasn't ''that'' funny" after people laugh uproariously at a joke that really doesn't deserve such a response.
275* TheHyena:
276** Laughs a lot more in his reviews than the others on [=TGWTG=], especially if [[RunningGag someone looks stupid when they're surprised]].
277** Wabuu with his trademark laugh of "Heh-heh-heh-he" coupled with head-bobbing.
278* HypeBacklash[[invoked]]: Phelous reviews ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'' in his bathroom - not because he finds the movie disgusting, but because he finds it a piece of shit, largely due to people making it a big deal.
279* HypocriticalHumor:
280** Dena gets back at Phelous for showing the graphic amputation scene in his review of The Ruins by ripping his head off. Sub-Zero does a fatality on Phelous for making "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis TOO MANY MORTAL KOMBAT JOKES!]]"
281** HypocriticalHumor is generally a RunningGag with Phelous; often he'll either criticize a movie for doing something that he constantly does in his reviews, or criticize something and then do the same thing right after.
282** In his review of "Aladdin $1", he complains about the cartoon trying to [[TheMockbuster pass itself off as]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} the Disney movie]]… when he was trying to mislead his viewers into thinking he was going to ''review'' the Creator/{{Disney}} movie.
283** Near the beginning of the ''Animation/AliBabaAndTheGoldRaiders'' review, Snob asks why Creator/HarryPartridge looks so stupid. Lupa tells him he's being rude... and immediately asks Harry the same thing, with the exact same wording.
284** At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/CartoonAllStarsToTheRescue'' review, King Mah God tells Phelous that [[DrugsAreBad drugs are]] "[[CharacterCatchphrase not done]]", only to start smoking a blunt.
285** This bit from his review of "Acid Tongue" from ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatDefendersOfTheRealm'':
286--> '''Jax:''' I thought all of Reptile's race were extinct.
287--> '''Phelous!Komodai:''' And I thought all of ''Jax's'' race was extinct!
288--> '''Phelous!Jax:''' Man, that's racist!
289--> '''Phelous!Komodai:''' WHAT!? You ''just said...'' DAH!
290* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Most of the title cards have a portmanteau of his name and the movie title, such as "Phinculous" or "Resident Phelous".
291** Dropped with ''Film/TheTimeMachineIFoundAtAYardsale'' reviews after the name ''Phelous and the Movies'' was officially adopted on the thumbnail/title card instead.
292* IdiotBall: His reviews of ''Series/NinjaTurtlesTheNextMutation'''s episodes often point out whenever a character is acting like a moron, especially when it's characters who [[AdaptationalDumbass usually aren't]] like Leonardo, Donatello, and Splinter, and even features a "Biggest Idiot of the Episode" section at the end of each video which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin and explaining why they qualify for the spot. Leonardo ended up taking the series-wide award once the retrospective ended[[labelnote:*]]The total tally has Leonardo get the spot 5 times, Splinter 4 times, Michelangelo 3 times, Donatello, Raphael, Doctor Quease, Dragonlord and Bonesteel with 2 episodes, and Wick, Silver, Master Chung, the old man from "Windfall", and Astonema from the ''In Space'' crossover getting the spot once each. Venus, ironically despite having some stupid moments of her own, never made the shortlist due to her ultimately being the OnlySaneMan among the entire cast, while Vam-mi and her sidekicks and Andre did get shortlisted, but just barely lucked out of the spot itself.[[/labelnote]]
293* IgnoredEpiphany:
294** After making fun of a father who had just found his daughter's corpse in his review of the Creator/StephenKing ''Boogeyman'' Movie:
295-->Oh, wow. I've become a monster. Oh well.
296** [[spoiler:The very next video after his Jacob's Ladder review where the truth to his situation became impossible to ignore... he just gets right back up and keeps on doing everything he did up to that point.]]
297* IncrediblyLamePun: Overlaps with GoMadFromTheRevelation in the Fatal Pulse review, where one of the characters are killed by having their throat sliced open ''by a record.''
298-->'''Phelous:''' Looks like she just got a ''cut'' off that sharp new release! ''({{beat}})'' '''SLICING HER THROAT WITH A RECORD!!!'''
299* InNameOnly: He starts calling [[TheRemake Jackie Earle Haley's]] [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010 Freddy Krueger]] "[[Characters/ChannelAwesome Teddy, Brother of the Freddy]]".
300* InsistentTerminology: After finding out that the titular website in ''Fear Dot Com'' is actually "feardotcom.com" he always refers to the movie as ''Fear Dot Com Dot Com.''
301* JumpCut: In the ''Aladdin'' review, his dollar store DVD copy of the movie is full of these due to the poor transfer. It gets unintentionally amusing at some points. Phelous himself also parodies this.
302* JumpScare: Parodied; it wouldn't scare a five year-old. This also seems to be somewhat of a PetPeeveTrope for him, judging by his reviews for ''Film/DragMeToHell'' and ''Film/SilentHillRevelation'', the latter of which had one that [[MakesAsMuchSenseInContext involved a pop tart]].
303* LampshadeHanging: He hung a lampshade on himself in the Lockjaw review when [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] said "What sort of people watch crappy movies?"
304* LampshadedTheObscureReference: Parodied. In the ''{{WesternAnimation/Foodfight}}'' review, [[Creator/BradJones Brad]] sees a UsefulNotes/LaserDisc player and suggests they watch "some sweet ''Obscure Reference Movie,''" accompanied by a CD with the name ''Obscure Reference: The Movie'' on it.
305-->'''Phelous:''' (mimicking WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob) I probably haven't ''heard'' of it...
306* LargeHam: When he isn't snarking, he delves deeply into the ham.
307* LaughingMad: Has a fit of this every time a movie becomes especially ridiculous.
308* LeftItIn: He's fond of this.
309-->"Hey, why did I record that? Oh well, there's absolutely no chance that I'll edit it into the final video."
310* LetsPlay: Started one for ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil''.
311* LetsSeeYouDoBetter: At times, he demonstrates that he can do better special effects than the movies he reviews (case in point, his cheap editing was a ''damn close match'' to the [[SpecialEffectsFailure "effects"]] from ''Film/{{Birdemic}}'').
312** Linkara stated in a commentary of his Entity arc that Phelous has developed a good amount of skill in video editing, fixing in an hour a video montage effect that had left Linkara stumped for days.
313* {{Machinima}}: The "Resident Hazard" videos, which all consist of various lines from the first ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' game spliced together to make the dialogue even more bizarre.
314* MadeOfIndestructium: Dinosaur Invincibility, it's durable education fun!
315* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: Name drops the trope in his review of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheAdventureOfAllTime''. The main characters use their magic lamp to turn a skinny Henry VIII into an [[AdiposeRex overweight tyrant]], a nice sailor into the [[BrainwashedAndCrazy evil Blackbeard]] and after accidentally killing her father, they turn an overweight Cleopatra [[IJustWantToBeBeautiful thin and beautiful]], teaching the moral that beauty is only skin deep.
316* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: During the ''Film/JacobsLadder'' review the objects in the background of his usual set disappear [[spoiler: as the world breaks down going into the reveal, mimicking the film being reviewed, with the same ending.]]
317* MediumAwareness: He likes making fun of "conversational" narratives, such as someone saying "Oh, hello!" to the camera. "Oh, hello! I didn't realize I put the camera near my door and left the camera running and edited it into my video!"
318* MetaGuy:
319** To the point that Linkara punches him for it during their ''[[Creator/BBVProductions The AirZone Solution]]'' video... and then he complains that he wasn't really punched and it didn't hurt. So Linkara promptly hits him for real.
320** The Nostalgia Critic gets irritated by Phelous being overly meta, as shown in the ''Film/ChildsPlay'' reviews.
321* {{Mockbuster}}: He reviewed many of them from companies like Creator/GoldenFilms or Creator/DingoPictures.
322* MultipleChoicePast: Alien Spider can't decide if he's from outer space or was bitten by a radioactive extraterrestrial arachnid.
323* {{Narm}}: In-universe, one of his running gags involves placing subtitles over particularly narm-tastic lines.
324** He says that ''Case 39'' would be pretty unremarkable without all the unintentional comedy.
325* NauseaFuel: Subverted in-universe in his ''A Serbian Film'' review, where he states the film isn't WORTHY of his puke.
326* NegativeContinuity: While the show theoretically has continuity, almost every story arc will usually just abruptly end and never be brought up again. Particularly notable at the end of Jacob's Ladder and the start of Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time.
327* NeverSayDie: [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] in his review of ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeastGolden1999'' when the climax of the film has an angry mob exclaiming “get the Beast.”
328--> '''Phelous:''' (pretending to be from the perspective of the mob) Yeah, that’s right, we’ll ''get'' him. We wouldn’t want to kill him. Save that for [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast the hardcore Disney version.]]
329* NoNameGiven: His review show has no official name. This fact is Lampshaded occasionally, especially after IMDB listed it as "Phelous & The Movies" for no clear reason.
330* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: When he's interacting with the Critic in anniversaries, it's safe to say that at some point he'll get up in his face and stay there for a while, either out of [[WebVideo/{{Kickassia}} anger]] or [[WebVideo/SuburbanKnights just trying to freak him out]].
331* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer:
332** He points out that he did ''not'' edit a snake making sounds akin to those of a ''Franchise/{{Predator}}''.
333** Also assured the audience that the casting in the second ''[=Boogeyman=]'' movie was not him making a joke.
334** In his review of ''Film/MansBestFriend'', Phelous points out that he's not joking when he claims that the dog killed a thief and cut the boyfriend's brake lines. When the film reveals that Max's pee is acidic, Phelous says that scenes from the movie resemble the silly jokes he would be making during the review, not the actual content.
335** In the ''Cricket on the Hearth'' review, Phelous has to stress that the sea captain really did shoot and kill the crow and the hit-animals after they brought him the cricket; it wasn't him joking about the characters dying.
336* NotMeThisTime: In the review of ''Animation/AliBabaAndTheGoldRaiders'', the Cinema Snob assumes the movie's abrupt non-ending is just Phelous doing one of his fake-out ending jokes. But then Phelous explains that the movie really ''does'' end like that.
337* TheNthDoctor: Parodied in the "Funny Games Again" video, where Phelous gets shot and regenerates into a new form in the style of [[Series/DoctorWho the Tenth Doctor]]. [[spoiler:It was an AprilFools joke, reset in the next video.]] Additionally, it's a parody of ReplacementScrappy, since New Phelous says he hates everything Phelous regularly does and isn't going to do it any more.
338* OfferingAnotherInYourStead: Plays this for laughs as a RunningGag when it comes to Old Man from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeastGolden1992''. Due to how bad Old Man was at protecting Beauty from the Beast, Phelous's interpretation was that he was ''trying'' to get her to die for him so that he could get the treasure, driving home the point with Phelous's joke dialogue and the Old Man wearing a "Beauty Can Die In My Place" shirt. Old Man will also get into discussions with other "Beauty Fathers" from other ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'' adaptations, where he attempts to encourage many of them to also abandon ''their'' daughters to the Beast.
339* OnceAnEpisode: Him dying in some way reminiscent of the movie he's currently reviewing, to the point where he's [[GenreSavvy quite ambivalent]] towards his immanent demise.
340* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Mocked in his ''Film/WrongTurn5Bloodlines'' review; several of the American characters (including the BigBad) are clearly played by actors from the UK.
341* OurHeroIsDead: Happens so much it becomes a running gag.
342* OurZombiesAreDifferent: He's reviewed dozens of zombie movies, but the zombies in ''Nightmare City'' take the cake as far as being nebulously-defined. They run around like humans and kill other humans with guns, knives and whatever they've got available, yet despite being intelligent, they never speak. They do consume human flesh and blood, but seemingly as an afterthought. Some of them have more caked oatmeal on their faces than others; some seem almost normal. How new zombies are made is unexplained, and whether or not headshots are needed to kill them differs from scene to scene.
343* OverlyNarrowSuperlative:
344** In an episode of Bootleg Zones, he calls Motorcycle the Pooh "the best Music/GangnamStyle Franchise/WinnieThePooh battery-operated toy out there".
345** He calls ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' "the greatest Creator/NicolasCage vs. bee women movie ever".
346* OverreactingAirportSecurity: Phelous is particularly baffled by the complete lack of this in ''Film/Crocodile2DeathSwamp'', as the bad guys manage to sneak on a suitcase full of stolen money, handguns, and cigars. What makes it worse is that the movie is set in 2002 when airport security was at its peak and they hid the handguns ''in their socks''.
347* PapaWolf: In his review of the Creator/DingoPictures adaptation of ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', he flies into a rage when two nuns suggest that Quasimodo should be thrown into a fire, since [[InsaneTrollLogic they assume he's demonic just because he's ugly]].
348-->'''Phelous''': And speaking of fire, ''you two'' should be fired and barred from working with children ever again!
349* {{Portmanteau}}:
350** "Phelous" is a combination of his real name, Phelan Porteous.
351** The title for each review is similarly a portmanteau of "Phelous" and the title of the movie, such as "Phinculous" for "Incubus."
352* TheQuietOne: Creator/NoahAntwiler describes him as a man of few words in his commentary for ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}''.
353* RandomEventsPlot: His impression of ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation''.
354* RapidFireComedy: On occasion, he will jump from one riff parody skit to another with only one or two seconds in between.
355* ARareSentence: Given the kind of content he reviews, this is pretty much inevitable.
356** In his ''WesternAnimation/MagicGiftOfTheSnowman'' review:
357-->'''Snowden''': Princess Electra's magical kingdom is the only place left where Charlatan's yucky yuck hasn't taken over\
358'''Phelous''': I am watching something where they just used the term "yucky yuck"! Ha ha! *sigh* Where did my life go wrong?
359** In his review of ''The Adventures of Young Literature/MobyDick'':
360-->'''Phelous''': Well, now Moby-Dick has apparently swam into the ruins of {{Atlantis}} during his musical number. There's a sentence I never thought I'd say.
361* RedShirt: He often wears one. It came in handy for the ''Pulse'' reviews, since [[WeaksauceWeakness ghosts hate red in those.]]
362* ReplacementScrappy[[invoked]]: Hates "with a passion" the Dave Coulier voiced [[WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters Peter Venkman]], to the point that his younger self mentally ''edited Coulier out'' of episodes he liked.
363* ResurrectiveImmortality:
364** Phelous dies in all kinds of comical ways, but always comes back to life. In a crossover with ''WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow'', he gets killed and resurrected multiple times in a few minutes.
365** Phelous figures that ''[[Film/TheDeathsOfIanStone Ian Stone]]'' keeps coming back because he has "[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 crown]] [[GoodBadBugs piece of the cloud]]" lives.
366* RevealingContinuityLapse: In the review for ''Film/JacobsLadder'', Phelous experiences some oddities. His attempts to get into his review room first lead him to a creepy hand-print covered shed instead, only to fix itself on the third attempt. After the review, he suddenly realizes the room is empty and that he can't remember the names of any other reviewer. This is because his other reviews were all a DyingDream that's finally caught up to him.
367* ReviewIronicEcho: Quite a few of these in this look at the infamous "Big Green Dub"; more specifically, the dub's version of ''Anime/DragonBallZTheWorldsStrongest''. For example:
368-->'''Gohan''': If I tell mom about Big Green, she's not going to like it.\
369'''Phelous''': Who ''would'' like being told about Big Green?
370* RootingForTheEmpire:[[invoked]] In his reviews of ''Crocodile'' (2000) and ''Film/Crocodile2DeathSwamp'', he ended up cheering for the titular killer crocodiles.
371* RunningGag: [[RunningGag/{{Phelous}} Where do we begin?]]
372* SarcasmMode: When doesn't he sound completely sarcastic?
373** His "Top Ten Moments of the 8th Doctor" video, consisting entirely of random moments of ''The Enemy Within''.
374** How he reacts to one of the deaths in the ''Film/ChildsPlay3'' review.
375* SayMyName: [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil "ENRICOOOOOOOOOO!"]]
376-->'''Enrico:''' ...yeah?
377* TheScrappy: [[invoked]] Sometimes, Phelous will run into a character he especially dislikes, and when he does, he'll make his disdain known.
378** He strongly dislikes Vink from the Creator/GoldenFilms adaptation of ''The Little Mermaid'', since his dialogue consists largely of whining and complaining.
379** Phelous has nothing but disdain for [[WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld1991 Oogtar]] due to his [[TheLoad general uselessness]] and TotallyRadical speech, constantly wishing death upon the cave brat.
380* SelfDeprecatingHumor: A usual part of his style. Pushed up to eleven when he reviews his own Mortal Komedy.
381* SelfInflictedHell: [[spoiler:He died while filming his original ''Film/MacAndMe'' review which never made it on the internet. The following five years of weirdness is just Phelous refusing to accept his death so he can move on.]]
382* SeriesFauxnale: His review of ''Film/JacobsLadder'' caused a lot of fans to believe it was Phelan's last review. With TheReveal that [[spoiler: Phelous [[DeadAllAlong died before finishing his first review]] and the entire series was his DyingDream]], it seemed like a natural stopping point. After [[spoiler: Phelous was finally able to move on]], there wasn't a new review from him for several months until he reviewed ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheAdventureOfAllTime''. Said review opened with [[spoiler: Phelous's dead body simply getting back up]] and acting like nothing had happened.
383* SharedUniverse: As a former Channel Awesome reviewer, and because of his numerous cameos and crossovers, he's part of the Reviewaverse.
384* ShoddyKnockoffProduct:
385** Has started a show called ''Bootleg Zones'', where he reviews bootleg toys and products.
386** Downplayed by the second episode, where it is clear that the show extends to reviewing bootleg products that are of decent quality almost matching (or in some aspects ''succeeding'') the originals. Part of the rating system used for the reviews is how well they fare as a substitute for the originals and their overall quality.
387** [[EvenNerdsHaveStandards Even Bootleg Collectors Have Standards:]] When reviewing a set of Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles knockoffs based on the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 Nickelodeon series]], he prefaces the video by warning that they're an inferior product passing as the original, compares them unfavorably with the NECA bootlegs (which also passed themselves off as the original toys, but had quality comparable with those figures), and gives them the second 0/10 on the show.
388** The title card for the ''Bootleg Zone'' mentions "with the Phaylus!" Yes, the shoddy knockoff product segment has a ''shoddy knockoff host.''
389** Averted in one episode where Phelous reviews a 3rd Party Krang figure, which he feels is an excellent figure with only a few minor flaws. He also acknowledges that while the figure isn't a bootleg ''per se'', it is still an unlicensed figure and thus falls within his purview.
390* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/{{Phelous}} Here]].
391* ShowerOfAngst: He does this in his review of ''Film/ASerbianFilm'' after the infamous [[spoiler:newborn porn]] scene:
392-->"Yes, I know! This has been done before, but seriously--''why would you put that in your movie?!'' '''''WHY WOULD ANYONE WRITE THAT?!?!?!'''''"
393* ShownTheirWork:
394** The ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'' review he did with Allison and Brad is incredibly well researched, going into detail about the dropped sponsors and production troubles the film encountered, talking about everything from changed character models to the less commonly-known aspects of the film's development, such as the fact that the film was approximately 60% done when it was stolen.
395** To his shock, the ''Dingo Pictures'' version of ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' has this. Although it deviates wildly from the story at points, it's also the only version where Quasimodo is deaf, Frollo is the archdeacon of Notre Dame, and [[spoiler:Quasimodo kills Frollo at the climax]].
396** He also mentions some accurate facts about Greek mythology in his review on Goodtimes' version of ''Hercules'', namely Zeus cheating on Hera frequently, Hera driving Hercules insane that he kills Megara and their kids, and Hercules's true Greek name being Heracles as his more well-known name is actually Roman.
397** In his various reviews of WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}} [[MockBuster knock-offs]], he mentions a lot of historical facts about the Romanov family and the revolution, usually to point out where the movie took artistic liberties. Similar to the Dingo Pictures example above, the Creator/GoldenFilms version has the most actually-accurate details[[note]]inaccuracy of Rasputin becoming the new Czar of Russia notwithstanding[[/note]], such as the young Grand Duchesses volunteering in army hospitals, showing the revolution as something that gradually built up as opposed to a sudden attack, the Romanovs being under house arrest and moving locations instead of being executed immediately, and he also points out a possible reference to the fact that the women had sewn jewelry into their clothes that initially deflected the bullets.
398* SlowClap: During his ''Film/HouseOfWax2005'' review. When Creator/ParisHilton's character gets killed with a metal bar through the head, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick starts one of these. Every cameo reviewer who had so far popped in to let him know how unoriginal and dull his 100th episode had been so far start clapping as well, resulting in a [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing massive outpour of joy that Paris Hilton is dead.]]
399* SoundtrackDissonance: One of his often used gags is adding silly music to gory, (melo)dramatic and scary scenes.
400** In his review of ''Film/GhostShip'', he complains because the film itself plays inappropriate music, rendering this gag unnecessary.
401*** Also complains that ''Film/MansBestFriend'' has a soundtrack that at times sounds like a ''Film/{{Beethoven}}'' sequel instead of a killer dog movie.
402** In his review of ''Film/SantasSlay'' (wherein Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} played a [[BadSanta killer Santa Claus]]), he had a habit of inserting Goldberg's Wrestling/{{WCW}} theme into scenes of Killer Santa (even dubbing in chants of "San-Ta! San-Ta!"). Until the movie starts playing a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong "royalty-free" version of the song]]...
403--->"Oh, apparently I didn't even need to put his theme in there. The movie's gonna do it for me now!"
404** In the ''[[Film/HalloweenII2009 Halloween II]]'' review, Phelous points out he didn't need to play unfitting music over [[spoiler: Laurie's]] death to make it funny, the film already plays ''Love Hurts'' over it.
405** If he's reviewing a movie created by [=GoodTimes=] Entertainment, expect him to comment on how ill-fitting the Public Domain background music is during various scenes.
406* SpaceWhaleAesop: In his ''Film/FearDotCom'' review, he states: "If you smoke... a little girl with powers will kill you."
407* SpecialEffectsFailure: [[invoked]]
408** Phelous' own effects are actually pretty good for a lone guy doing them on his own. He'll often mock those of the movie, though:
409** An entirely ''needless'' special effects failure occurred throughout much of ''Pulse 2,'' where actors were green-screened into scenes that they didn't even need to be, such as in front of houses and such. Phelous mocks this by screening himself in front of his own normal background (it's actually good enough that you might not have noticed unless he pointed it out, complete with his image doing a 180).
410** Actually calls out ''Series/NinjaTurtlesTheNextMutation'''s use of YourCostumeNeedsWork in "Turtles' Night Out" by commenting how pointing out how bad the Turtles look is pointless when the costumes for them already look bad from a real-life perspective.
411* SpitTake: Lampshaded when he does one in the ''Jamie, the Little Pig'' review:
412-->That sure was lucky that I started drinking for absolutely no reason out of this out-of-season mug right before that happened.
413* {{Spoonerism}}: "Buckfuttality"
414* StableTimeLoop:
415** ''Film/{{Triangle}}'' is a movie about a woman trapped in a series of time loops who becomes her own worst enemy and is DrivenToMadness, so his review mirrors this by having a second Phelous popping around trying to stop himself from finishing the Triangle review.
416** After he reviewed Creator/DingoPictures' ''Aladdin'', Phelous wished, he'd never saw this film. But after he thought about it, he came to the conclusion that this wish would lead to a time loop and so he's asking Genie!Wabuu for something else: Wishes which are [[CharacterCatchphrase "sooooo stuuuuuupid."]]
417* StayingAlive: His returns to life lack a consistent explanation, and what reasons are given frequently make as much sense as the movies he reviews.
418* StylisticSuck:
419** Used to parody [[SpecialEffectsFailure genuine suck]] in the movies he reviews, such as the second part of ''Film/{{Birdemic}}'' where his poorly-integrated bird stock footage is a pretty close match to the movie itself.
420** For his ''Film/BloodrayneIIDeliverance'' review, he rides off into the sunset... hitting the wall and pulling down his own greenscreen.
421* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In the ''Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife'', Phelous' friend shoots him with a real shotgun. Instead of dying humorously like in his older reviews, he just goes to the hospital.
422* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "Anyway I suddenly think this was a great story. An Angel totally didn't bend my will or anything." (his ''WesternAnimation/AnAngelForChristmas'' review's credits, parodying the villain's rushed HeelFaceTurn'').
423* SympathyForTheDevil: Defied in ''Film/SilentHill'' and ''Pulse 2'', where he becomes increasingly infuriated with the film's insistence that Christabella and Michelle are meant to be sympathetic characters, pointing out that the former condemned Alessa to burn alive simply for being born out of wedlock, while the latter was a neglectful mother who planned to murder her own daughter, simply to spite her husband for gaining sole custody.
424* TakeThat: He makes a few subtle ones towards his fellow reviewers, lampooning ideas such as cameos and continuity in the reviews.
425** Probably more of an AffectionateParody, especially because his reviews seem to have some sort of continuity and do feature cameos often.
426** On the less affectionate side of things, he's made a few subtle and not-so-subtle digs at WebVideo/TheIrateGamer's cereal reviews, culminating in [[CharacterizationTags kitty!]]Phelous' Meow Mix video.
427** ''The Lion and the King'' review has him commenting that the poor animation quality probably is going to kill him before the end of the review. He then clarifies that he ''isn't'' going back to the worn-out TheyKilledKennyAgain gag, that one is for ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' to use.
428** In the ''Film/ChildsPlay'' reviews, when he crossed over with the Nostalgia Critic, he denies that the "soul transferring" gag carried over between the reviews of each of said films.
429** In the ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}} Foodfight!]]'' crossover review, Phelous calls Creator/BradJones "Snex Bradtective".
430--->'''Brad Jones:''' ''(sarcastic laugh)'' Call me that again, I'll make a bigger example of you than I did to [[Creator/DougWalker Doug]] when he wrote [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee that "Bradigan" line]].\
431'''Phelous:''' What did you do to ''him?''\
432'''Brad Jones:''' Ohhh, I made him re-watch the pilot to ''WebVideo/DemoReel''.
433** His review of ''Ginger Dead Man 3'' starts with him saying that the film is so bad, he can only think of one word vile enough to describe the film: [[Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Seltzerberg!]]
434** [[invoked]]His review of [[OldShame his first review]] (''Film/MacAndMe'') is not only a massive [[SelfDeprecation Take That to himself]], but also to the ''Nostalgia Critic Reloaded'' reviews; he sarcastically mentions at the beginning that he'll pretend not to remember himself reviewing the film, and refer to his older self as the "Phelous Cricket" (much like the WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic referred to his older self as the "Nostalgia Cricket" after not recognizing himself).
435** When reviewing the Golden Films version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, he shows a scene where the comic relief bats say things that aren't jokes and laugh. He asks, "What the fuck is this, ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''?"
436** In his review of "[[Creator/DingoPictures Nice Cats]]", he takes a shot at Website/{{Twitter}} for disciplining users over minor things.
437** When reviewing "Perseus" by Creator/DingoPictures, he insults Perseus by calling him an "[[UsefulNotes/RandomNumberGenerator RNG]]", a shot at the trend of using "[[NonPlayerCharacter NPC]]" as an insult.
438** In his review of ''The Christmas Light'', he mocks the "Baby, It's Cold Outside" controversy by jokingly banning the movie's version of SantaClaus.
439* [[SelfDeprecation Take That Me]]: His review of his own series ''Mortal Komedy''.
440-->'''Sub-Zero:''' You know this is ''your'' show, right?\
441'''Phelous:''' [[CurseCutShort FUUUUUUUUUUUU--]]
442* TheyKilledKennyAgain:
443** An old RunningGag centred around Phelous dying in the end segment of each episode in some manner related to the film he was reviewing, only be resurrected in the next episode or in some cases even in the very same one. As time went on, Phelous started using this gag less and less frequently, and nowadays he has completely stopped using it.
444** PlayedForDrama in his review for ''Film/JacobsLadder'', [[spoiler: It turns out that [[DeadAllAlong he's been dead since his review of]] ''Film/MacAndMe'' and he was holding on to the last few minutes of his life ever since. He then exits his house and into heaven.]] In his review for ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheAdventureOfAllTime'', we cut back to his dead body, only for him to jump up as if he was never dead.
445* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When he goes over the backstory of Hilary Swank's character from ''Film/TheReaping'' and realizes its FridgeLogic[[note]]Mainly he notes how her becoming a miracle debunker after her family was sacrificed during a missionary work they were participating in it seems like an awfully spiteful reaction, only as he points out the only person she could be seen as trying to spite would be God, only she's out to prove he doesn't exist[[/note]], he exasperatedly facepalms while sarcastically stating "I can see there's gonna be a lot of sense in this movie".
446* TriviallyObvious: At the end of his ''Film/{{Thankskilling}}'' review, he asks Pester Z. Bum what he thought of the movie. Pester responds by saying "it is a movie I've seen in my life".
447-->'''Phelous''': Well, can't argue with that.
448* TrueArtIsAngsty:[[invoked]] PlayedForLaughs - he expresses hope to see a more accurate adaptation of ''The Hunchback Of Notre Dame'' where "everybody's miserable and then they die."
449* ATwinkleInTheSky: Happens to Old Man in Phelous' review of the [[WesternAnimation/AladdinGoldenFilms GoodTimes Aladdin]] after the Genie blasts him into the distance before he can complete his catchphrase.
450* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: Phelous bemoans that the ''He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special'' features the She-Ra character Perfuma, but leaves out Stinkor, possibly the greatest matchup of that entire series.
451* UnInstallment: The ''Terror at Blood Fart Lake'' crossover with Lupa.
452* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: [[invoked]]
453** Pretty much sums up his thoughts on Goldilocks from the Bevanfield adaptation of ''Literature/GoldilocksAndTheThreeBears''.
454** How he feels about the Fenchelchen segment of the ''Tangled Up'' video, because the witch who had put her in the tower also freely taught her a wide array of powerful magics. Fenchelchen repays her by killing her via burning her alive while escaping. After it's revealed that Fenchelchen could have left at any time she wanted while the witch was gone by simply turning into a bird and flying away.
455* {{Unperson}}: Following allegations in 2018 regarding Creator/JewWario, Phelous edited out his cameo in his ''[[Film/{{Pulse}} Pulse 2006]]'' review.
456* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Phelous will sometimes completely ignore some flagrant weird moments in the movies he is reviewing, or treat them as barely inconsequential, possibly because making a joke about it would be too obvious or they have already been covered many times by other reviewers. For example, he completely disregards the infamous moment in Creator/DingoPictures's ''Pocahontas'' where the titular character screams a BigNo in undubbed German and a shooter gaining a third arm, and he barely comments on Wabuu's getting drunk on alcohol in a ''family-oriented cartoon'', even though he has become his EnsembleDarkhorse.
457* WeHardlyKnewYe: Pester Z. Bum.
458* WhamLine:
459** The definite moment things start going to shit in the ''Jacob's Ladder'' review? [[spoiler:When Phelous calls upon [[BreakingTheFourthWall Phelan]] for a cameo.]]
460-->'''[[spoiler:Phelan]]''': You're ''sure'' about this, right? You know what this means...\
461'''Phelous''': ''Yeah'', that I'll be [[spoiler:talking to myself with different letters at the end of my name]]--\
462'''[[spoiler:Phelan]]''': '''Don't!''' We've come too ''far'' for you to try and block it now! Besides, it's all been falling apart (pulls out [[spoiler:the tennis ball from "[[CallBack Deadly Friend]]" review]]) since this.
463** And while the proceeding conversation is one ''big'' WhamLine-laden monolouge, the ''last lines'' are the capper.
464--->'''[[spoiler:Phelan]]''': [[spoiler:The [Mac and Me] review]] was the last thing I did. Fresh in my mind. I held on to it, envisioned my life if it went along that path. Look at your shirt.\
465'''Phelous''': ''(does so)'' "Red Matter"... [[spoiler:It's black now...]]\
466'''[[spoiler:Phelan]]''': ...[[TheReveal it always was.]]\
467'''Phelous''': But [[spoiler:that heart attack]] was so ''[[BadBadActing fake]]''!\
468'''[[spoiler:Phelan]]''': [[UnreliableNarrator That was my memory of it.]] The video never got made, [[spoiler:Phelan]].
469* WhamShot: In the ending bit of the ''Jacob's Ladder'' review, when we cut back to Phelous, [[spoiler:the wall behind him has become bare]].
470* WhatHaveIBecome : Phelous in his ''Stephen King's The Boogeyman'' review after he realizes he's laughing at a jumpscare of a dead son to his father. [[StatusQuoIsGod For a whole second.]]
471* WhosOnFirst: Phelous's friend has to clarify that he didn't send Phelous an ''actual'' chain letter, he sent him a ''movie'' called Chain Letter. [[SuckinessIsPainful Phelous wishes he didn't.]]
472* WhoWritesThisCrap:
473** From the ''Film/{{Troll 2}}'' review: "This movie's camp value is...[[Anime/DragonBallZ over]] [[MemeticMutation 9000]]? Who writes this crap? Oh right, I do"
474** In his review of ''Film/SantasSlay'', he repeatedly comments on disliking a scene, only for it to cut to a similar scene from in ''Mortal Komedy''.
475** In his ''House of the Dead 2'' review, he starts the review by reviewing ''his own reviews'', pointing out the inconsistencies in his apparent resurrections and why he would even try to review, considering he's only likely to die at the end.
476* WithLyrics:
477** In ''I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer''. "Takin' pictures, takin' pictures, driving!"
478** "Triangle Triangle Triangle [[MadnessMantra Triangle Triangle Triangle Triangle Triangle Triangle Triangle...]]"
479** During the ''Seventh Moon'' review, where JitterCam and HollywoodDarkness result in a "slight" visibility problem, Phelous sings "I can't see a fucking thing, fucking thing, fucking thing" to the tune of "Hall of the Mountain King".
480* WorldOfWeirdness: Regardless of how much he mocks it, the Reviewaverse is weird and thus his show can get weird.
481* YouGetWhatYouPayFor: Phelous reviews an ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' discount ripoff that has a 1$ price tag as part of the cover art. He got it as part of a 3-for-a-dollar deal and choose ''this one'' to blame for costing 34 cents as opposed to 33 for the other two. He repeatedly enrages that he paid too much because of the horrible animation and multiple gratuitous jump cuts.
482* YouKeepUsingThatWord:
483** Linkara calls Phelous out on his continual use of the word 'meta' when [[LampshadeHanging he points out the conventions of his own reviews]], complete with him reading a dictionary definition of the word.
484** Ironically, Linkara himself is the one who reminds Phelous that his being in crossovers with everyone else on TGWTG means that [[spoiler:the entire Channel Awesome world should be in his imagination, making him [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Westphall Tommy Westphelous]]]].
485* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle:
486** "''Film/HostelPartII'' is the same thing as ''Film/{{Hostel}}'', but with women as the main characters. The End!" * Cut to credits* * Cut back to Phelous* "Yes, I don't know why I ever bother with that, it never works."
487** It has become a RunningGag of his.
488----
489-->[[WebVideo/SadPandaQandA "Phelous, Oh Phelous, bring on Mortal Komedy. Oh Phelous, Oh Phelous, and some more horror movies. Oh Phelous, Oh Phelous, I don't care 'bout how you sound. Oh Phelous, Oh Phelous, what's your opinion about...?"]]

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