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1* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: A handful of people see Retsupuraes as constructive criticism, though slowbeef has said that they were simply making the riffs for fun. [[HilariousInHindsight Amusingly enough]], the parody/critique stream that he did with Diabetus effectively works on both fronts.
2* ArcFatigue:
3** During the ''VideoGame/DarkSeedII'' riff, they hadn't yet had their time limit removed, so they had to upload each part in fifteen minute chunks, once a day. Since there were 34 parts to it when split up in this way, this went on for over a month.
4** The ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic 06]]'' wrongpurae was even worse, as it went on for ''10 months'' and consists of ''50'' videos... and a good chunk of them are much longer than 15 minutes.
5** Chip and Ironicus' return to Xin lasted for two parts in traditional format, but after part 13 were handled mostly by Mr. DJB and guests with a few appearances by Chip and Ironicus in between. These videos were removed and have the rare distinction of not being included in archived videos provided by Chip, most likely because he was not the one recording and varying quality issues.
6* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNEA83Cgv-U&feature=g-user-f The Unofficial Theme Song]].
7* BaseBreakingCharacter: [=MegaManNG=], aka '[=MegaJose=]', has divided opinions. Some find him endearing and consider him the next LetsPlay/BillyMC, others find him absolutely irritating and don't want him on the channel again.
8** Lowtax's guest appearance on Retsutalk Episode 34 was also somewhat divisive.
9* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: After escaping from the exploding mechanical Big Bird in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMhT42V5H2s the last video]] of ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'', a plot point is abruptly introduced concerning a spy that is somewhere aboard Cobra's ship. Within minutes, [[spoiler:[[TheBusCameBack Parrot Grass somehow returns]], but not only quickly turns out to be the spy in question, but is also revealed to not even be the real Parrot Grass; it almost immediately sheds its disguise to reveal that it is some sort of demon-like creature. And just when it's about to explain who it is, [[KilledMidSentence Cobra kills it]] [[CurbStompBattle with one shot of his weapon]].]] The multitude of questions this raises - who and what was it, what was its mission, how did it know [[spoiler:who Parrot Grass is]], how and why did it [[spoiler:disguise itself as Parrot Grass]], etc. - are never answered, as the entire incident is never mentioned again.
10-->'''slowbeef:''' ''(holding back laughter)'' I don't understand what the last five minutes ''did!'' I feel like this is what it must be like to have a seizure, fuck! What the ''hell?''
11** "How To Get A Raise" is full of these despite being allegedly educational. Besides the fact that you must earn a raise to pay for your ''cat's'' cancer treatment, the mouse in your boss's office can talk, and turning away when it tells you to will, in the words of one commenter, cause a "magic female rapist" to appear and begin stripping. And if one waits around for too long ''then'', the cop from "How To Get Out Of Speeding Tickets" will literally appear from nowhere, call you a pervert, and arrest you. The whole sequence is tellingly rather low on commentary.[[note]]The "tip" the game shows if you fail this way implies that all of this was a hallucination, because mice can't talk... ''which still doesn't explain the cop,'' but okay.[[/note]]
12** About ten minutes into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyAvcyxBkKY&t=9m44s Part 14]] of the ''Ambition'' videos, a small orb of green light suddenly appears and spends a few seconds bobbing around the screen before flying out of frame to form the previously-witnessed spotlight background to Duke as he kills the player with a tire iron. Slowbeef and Diabetus's reaction once they finish hysterically laughing pretty much sums it up.
13-->'''Diabetus:''' Oh my God, ''what?''\
14'''slowbeef:''' ...Wha... ''wait'', what happened--\
15'''Diabetus:''' What was ''that''?!\
16'''slowbeef:''' [[OverlyLongGag Wait wait wait wait wait. Hold--hold on a fuckin' minute]], ''[[BigWhat what]]?!''
17* BrokenBase: Viewers are somewhat divided on the ''Apocalypse'' Wrongpurae, as a portion consider it the funniest case of {{reference overdos|ed}}ing, and the rest consider the {{pun}}s render the video intolerable.
18** While the Crappy Pasta videos have been well-received, some people are unhappy with the third part of Diabetus' ''VideoGame/MegaManUnlimited'' stream being hijacked by slowbeef for the purposes of it.
19** Similarly, viewers are divided over ''Slowbeef's House of Horror''. Some of them enjoy the higher production values, while others think that what made the ''Crappy Pasta'' videos so good was Slowbeef and Diabetus going in blind. For at least "The Memory Card", slowbeef seems to have tried to play to both audiences, handling it first as a "Crappy Pasta" video alongside Diabetus streaming ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'', then revisiting it in "Slowbeef's House of Horror" form a month later.
20** The ''King's Quest VII'' Wrongpurae is another point of contention. Some want the duo to finish making fun of it instead of riffing on other things first, and others think that the material doesn't make the best riffing material or that they shouldn't subject themselves to the game if they find it boring. This isn't helped by the long ScheduleSlip between each episode.
21** The consideration of doing a wrongpurae of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' has been met with overwhelming approval, though there is a minority of viewers who believe the game has been [[ItsBeenDone given more than enough attention]] in the years since its release and that Retsupurae are better off taking more original avenues. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the playlist description, which states [[SarcasmMode "I can't believe no one has covered this atrocity until now!"]]
22** The video on the Kickstarter project ''Night Cry'' was hit with Youtube comments on both sides. The pro-NC/anti-RP side defends the game on its merits and states that the total was already reached. They also want readers to acknowledge key personnel behind the project and believe that those personnel will make the game an automatic success. The other side wants to enforce that the video doesn't provide the best side of the project (especially the narrator) and that just because the game has ''potential'' to improve, that doesn't mean it ''will''.
23** The project itself has gained ire from ex-fans who now believe the project has run it's course especially with the rise of modern day social movements fighting against "cyberbullying", which some accuse the [=Retsupurae=] gang of partaking in. The riffers themselves have largely come to agree with this to some extent, with Retsupurae for years seeing their harsher content as an OldShame and shifting away from making fun of other content creators, and Chip Cheezum outright delisting all of their riffs about other channels.
24* CriticalBacklash: It's happened several times:
25** They mention LetsPlay/{{Sir Ron Lionheart}}'s low subscriber count, and blame it on his voice. Their spoofing of him made him extremely popular ''[[{{Irony}} because]]'' of [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent his accent]].
26** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8H6GrU4jYA The Mystery of the Sponsored Let's Play]]: Lots of Seamus's fans had found the video and in a fit of rage, have invaded it to give it [[HePannedItNowHeSucks hundreds of dislikes and negative comments]]. Retsupurae has gotten ire for riffing on certain [=LPers=] before, but not of this magnitude.
27** The same thing happened on their riff on WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, but not quite on the magnitude of Seamus', as [[BrokenBase the Nostalgia Critic's own fanbase is split on the video]], and [[OldShame Doug Walker himself has expressed regrets over how it turned out]]. Some say the Critic's LP was a bad video and deserved it, some are panning the Retsupurae just like Seamus' fans did, and some are saying they disliked both the original Let's Play and the riff. Even slowbeef and Diabetus have expressed dislike over how the video turned out, saying that they should have scrapped the first take and done something different.
28** It happened '''again''' with their Wrongprae of ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow''. Quite a lot of people have come to the defense of that particular game - and the series in general -- in the comments section, pointing out that there were other ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'' games that were [[VideoGame/KingsQuestIIRomancingTheThrone far]] [[VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder more]] [[VideoGame/KingsQuestMaskOfEternity douchebaggy]]. Near the end of the Wrongprae, even slowbeef notes that ''V'' probably deserved it more, and guess what they went after next? slowbeef has since commented that he doesn't really think ''VI'' is bad, but he dislikes the protagonist.
29** When they started the ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark'' wrongpurae, they made fun of the game's graphics and animations, which prompted a lot of angry comments pointing out that the game came out in 1992, and that it really wasn't fair to mock the visuals, even if they look dated by today's standards. They ended up discussing this while the game was giving a ''really'' long infodump during the second vid, and said that while the graphics may have been impressive for the time, sprite-based games from the same period still looked and played much better.
30** And yet again when they merely ''mentioned'' Creator/JesseCox's mini-Let's Play of ''I Wanna Be The Guy Gaiden'', ironically prompting slowbeef to RP it after all. Which, [[SarcasmMode shockingly]], led to still more backlash. In both this case and with Seamus, above, many of the people insulting slowbeef and/or Retsupurae claimed QualityByPopularVote.
31*** There's no bad blood between Slowbeef and Jesse however, as Jesse laughed off the RP when Slowbeef was the guest on The Cooptional Podcast.
32** A less severe example is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhYDz2jYh-M&feature=relmfu HarmfulGravemind's LP of Super Mario World]]. Most people liked the RP (including [=HarmfulGravemind=] himself), but many people argued it shouldn't have been criticized that badly since the [=LPer=] wasn't that bad at the game and put significant effort into making the video good (even if he did it in an unnecessarily-convoluted way).
33** This may have been ''subverted'' with their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUVDXyUWO6c&feature=plcp Warioware RP]]. A lot of the viewers left comments saying they genuinely enjoy [=FFL2and3rocks=] (a.k.a WebVideo/ThirdRateGamer), but most of them have admitted that the original LP wasn't that good.
34** This may also have been subverted with their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFbVKL-Meo0&feature=plcp video they made about PewdiePie.]] The like/dislike scale on the video is much more favorable to Retsupurae than other videos of the same ilk. slowbeef even stated surprise at the support they've gotten, having expected the usual backlash. It certainly helped that soon after, [=PewDiePie=] made a comment suggesting that he's OnlyInItForTheMoney, which caused huge chunks of his fanbase to turn on him.
35** [=LargeMentalBlock=] did a riff on Creator/AttackingTucans[='=]s 2,000 subscriber special (wherein he was covered in [[RunningGag Vagisil]]), causing quite a bit of backlash (though some noted that coating themselves in Vagisil, even for a subscriber special, is a very stupid idea).
36*** The same channel faced even more backlash when they took on Jay Pavlina (of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosCrossover'' fame). As of 2013, the video has 23 likes and '''362 dislikes''', in addition to more views than they normally get.
37*** And then some ''more'' with the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHmQ48CAorE From Hell]]" riff, which was on a video from an [=LPer=] [[spoiler:who committed suicide in August 2009]].
38** A milder example with ''Nocturnal Letters''. Based on the comments, a lot of the fans thought it was much better than any of the other Newgrounds flash horror games they've played, despite it not being great and the goons giving it more or less the usual treatment.
39* EnsembleDarkHorse:
40** Despite only guesting in a handful of early RP videos, Shmorky has a surprisingly large number of fans.
41** Among the guest retsupuraers, [=Proteus4994=] and Dave_O are the most popular. The latter's return in August 2012 has been met with much praise.
42** [=VoidBurger=] has more recently proven a runaway hit; many of the comments on the videos featuring her include requests that she become a Retsupurae regular.
43** slowbeef's wife has a small, growing fandom because of her tendencies to show up at the weirdest situations, causing unexpected hilarity.
44** [=AllShamNoWow=] was popular when he showed up on Retsutalk, and became even more so during the ''[[VideoGame/HardEdge T.R.A.G. - Mission of Mercy]]'' Wrongpurae.
45** [=TieTuesday=] won the fanbase's heart after his appearances in ''Real Horror Stories'' and especially ''Deep Freeze''.
46* FanNickname: Diabetus's family: "[[SelfDeprecation The Fat Fucks]]". "Fat Fuck" has also been used to describe a number of the fatter people who have been riffed on, such as [=BigMastadon=] and Velos.
47* FauxSymbolism: Mocked by Chip and Ironicus in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr8c6Ike3B4 A Demon Tale]].
48* FetishRetardant: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlC0eJ6m-1M Yowie Wowie!!]]'' Barring the rancid "script" and the terrible apron joke, this is a video that caters to neither Yaoi fans (because it prominently stars two ''women'') nor Yuri fans (because said girls are also pretending to be ''boys''). And even if you're a fan of both, said script and jokes are likely to cause more headshaking than arousal.
49* FridgeBrilliance: Why does Slowbeef generally do so well on the most infamous segments of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006''? Take a look at his playstyle. He's the type of gamer who likes to stop and think before he acts, but he also has excellent reflexes. So he knows how to assess a situation, but he can also react quickly when he needs to.
50* HarsherInHindsight:
51** George Wood's suggestion that [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] get breast cancer got less funny after Creator/AngelinaJolie's double mastectomy.
52** Queenie Z's RP, while still having some of the most hilarious jokes from the riffers, became a lot less funny after the revelation that she was ''still being bullied and getting sent death threats'' even after she apologized for the LP and remade it.
53** The [=BigMastadon=] riff where he's eating pizza rolls comes off a lot harsher now after he passed away in 2016 from weight issues.
54** slowbeef's enthusiasm for ''Dangan Ronpa'' in the Retsutalk videos becomes this, considering the growing prominence of the overzealous fans for both of the LP threads (which he had been paid to moderate) have basically tarnished his ability to enjoy the game. He's even made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpiym8Dh_KQ a series]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvMn729nbSw&list=UU7UdKZ9ujF1sFlP93dfjMgA of videos]] [[TakeThat tearing into the game]].
55* HePannedItNowHeSucks:
56** After they mocked [[http://www.viddler.com/explore/retsu/videos/85/ LuizPrower]], [=UltraJMan=], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te1FI4JX7Ww ProtonJon]] [[note]]although the duo don't bear much - if any - animosity towards him, evidenced by his appearance as a guest commentator in the ''King's Quest VII'' videos[[/note]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FtaBfbFV4A Cloud8745]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSd-9ZVbZA4 DeceasedCrab]], LetsPlay/HCBailly, [[LetsPlay/{{Critikal}} penguinz0]] [[note]]However, the video on him didn't stay up for even an hour before removal, probably due to PoesLaw and that he doesn't actually do Let's Plays, just brief gameplay videos of both popular and obscure games.[[/note]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRlbvTWp828 Oyster]]. [[spoiler:Made funnier by the fact that Oyster was in on that one all along.]]
57*** Strangely enough, before Diabetus started Retsupurae he did a few Let's Plays with LetsPlay/DeceasedCrab as either a guest or co-operative commentator, most notably his ''VideoGame/LittleNemoTheDreamMaster'' [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Nemo/ LP]]. slowbeef did an alternating LP with [=DeceasedCrab=] on ''VideoGame/SuperCastlevaniaIV'' before Retsupurae as well. They've said that they did the riffs due to his SmallNameBigEgo status.
58** Inverted in the case of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtmSY3u9CUM SirRonLionheart]]. Though he wasn't that popular at the time of the episode, Ron's subscriptions ''[[CriticalBacklash skyrocketed]]'' after this grilling. They've even said that they love him, now.
59** The same has been said for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayeMqizulX0&feature=channel_page ElectricalBeast]]. EB, for his part, quite enjoyed his retsupurae videos.
60** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8H6GrU4jYA SSoHPKC.]] Only five hours after the video was posted, it had 1,200 likes and ''1,600 dislikes''. To be fair, all of the dislikers were followers of Seamus and Machinima, which was at least 300k strong for Seamus alone. To make matters even worse, [=SSoH=] is a follower of Retsu much like [=ProtonJon=], and has admitted he even likes the video, but people still don't catch on and accuse slowbeef and Diabetus of pointless trolling.
61** Their riff on WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic caused quite a bit of flak, mostly for all the personal insults, although it was somewhat mitigated by Doug himself admitting the LP went really, really badly.
62** Their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lTnbgHeZDw Amnesia: The Dork's Descent]] video got a lot of flak from both fans of the [=LPer=] and fans of [[VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent the game]], who claimed it was scary enough to justify [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl the LPer's reactions]].
63** During the Wrongpurae of ''Apocalypse'', slowbeef briefly mocked the Playstation, wondering if there were any games besides ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' that were memorable on the system. Whether or not he was serious (it may well have been a reference to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8LFOVGUt2g "Nintendo 64 vs. Playstation"]] ''Series/GamingInTheClintonYears'' video, which they mocked for expressing a similar opinion), ''many'' people took it badly.
64** They made an extremely negative video centered around [=PewDiePie=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFbVKL-Meo0&feature=g-all-u and his LP's in general]]. His fans haven't taken it too well.
65*** This became even more notable when fans on both sides exploded at [=PewDiePie=] himself commenting on the situation, which only made things worse (thanks to his comment telling them to keep on watching because [[OnlyInItForTheMoney "your extra views give me extra cash"]]). This seems to have mostly died out now with [=PewDiePie=]'s apology video, though attacks on retsupurae and their fans are still common.
66** Mostly averted with their riff on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANeEDOQY9rY ImmortalHDFilms]], where only a fairly small amount of his fans reacted negatively.
67** Also averted with slowbeef and Mr. DJB's riffs on ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc''. Only a few people actually cried "HePannedItNowHeSucks!"; most viewers are just expressing bafflement at how slowbeef's opinion of the game inexplicably pulled a ''complete'' 180 in just a few months.
68** Averted with Chip Cheezum, who mocked Minecraft Chick and [=DarkSydePhil=] with little to no fan backlash, although Phil posted several angry tweets after the video went up.
69** Unsurprisingly, quite a few of these cases were met with [[ReviewsAreTheGospel the opposite]] as well.
70* HilariousInHindsight:
71** During the retsupurae of Cornshaq's Mario 2 [=LP=], slowbeef utters, "Mrs. O'Neil, the answer to this multiplication problem is 12, but also Mario 2 is the greatest game ever." Some have drawn parallels between that statement and one that a certain [[Music/KanyeWest famous person]] made over a year later.
72*** When Diabetus calls the video an "assault on the entire Let's Play community", slowbeef jokingly replies "We have a community now. It's great!", clearly amused by the implausibility of the concept. With the growing popularity of Let's Players who even manage to make a living out of the hobby, the joke slams right into ItWillNeverCatchOn territory.
73** Reading [[http://www.bartleby.com/130/ "On Liberty"]] becomes a bit difficult after watching "[=SNES9X=]".
74** Likewise for ''Literature/AmericanGods'' after watching "A Public Service Announcement for Let's Players".
75** During the riff on LetsPlay/ProtonJon, Diabetus makes a joke about Jon's prolific uploading. A couple of years later, Jon became infamous for ScheduleSlip.
76** During [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszpzJThCrg this]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E47lUkoV4vU riff]] of a Let's Play of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'', the player mistakenly called the rings as "[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros coins]]". Cue 2022, Sega went on to develop ''Sonic Origins'', a remastered compilation of the first four classic ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' Sega Genesis games that replaces lives for coins for its Anniversary Mode.
77** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZbGhLqHsqo&list=PL2AEAF822976D07F7&index=95 this riff]] of a ''Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles'' Let's Play, they joked about the game giving off a 3D effect due to the Let's Player recording the game at a skewed angle with a camcorder. Although it didn't happen to ''Sonic 3'', ''Sonic 1'' and ''2'' got "3D" ports for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS in 2013 and 2015 respectively.
78** In the ''Arise 2'' RP, when they encounter a keypad, Diabetus [[GenreSavvy immediately asks]] if the code is [[NumberOfTheBeast 666]]. It isn't. One year later, ''Arise 4'' comes out. There's another keypad in that game. Guess what the code is?
79** On a more worldly aspect, the makers of ''Last Alert'' made one of the villains an {{Expy}} of Libya's Gaddafi. That said, Gaddafi was a very visible figure in the mid-to-late 80s; see Abdul Fakkadi from ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'' for another example. Come Retsupurae:
80-->'''slowbeef:''' I think it's supposed to be Qaddafi from Libya, but you know how videogames do that fake--\
81'''Diabetus:''' A lot of foresight, there.
82** Earlier on, the fake President boss explodes, leading to Diabetus joking that he was a robot all along. [[spoiler:This turns out to be the case with the last of the BigBadEnsemble.]]
83** In one video, they claim that Miss Hannah Minx is "a cross between Hello Kitty and Elvira!" [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150302144239/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7rB6sxrQc0&feature=youtu.be Later]]...
84** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4jwRuZzxEE this video]], Diabetus says he can't wait until people start [=LPing=] ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' right after release. Two days later [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY9r6MqGksE this happened]].
85** Near the start of "True Shit", Diabetus takes a crack at the opening credits of ''VideoGame/TheTownWithNoName'', asking "Is this a Western, or Sci-Fi?" [[spoiler:The ending to the game has the main character ride a train off into space.]]
86*** In the same video, Diabetus mocks the overly simplistic "Here's The Queen" card game by saying "In the DLC they have an Ace". A few days after the RP, cubex55 posted a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeV18bZGMqc&feature=related "Full Version"]] of the original Longplay with a few things the longplayer missed (including the "real" ending of the game). One of those things was a different card game called... "Chase the Ace".
87** slowbeef and Diabetus call Cobra the "anti-[[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]]", and the former even asks if Cobra's attempting to imitate [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]] at one point. Earlier, Dante and Han Solo were considered derivatives of Cobra.
88*** When the villain at the temple reveals his name to be Hammerbolt Joe, Diabetus offers his condolences. Later in the game, Cobra makes the same joke after [[spoiler:killing the fake Parrot Grass before it can finish revealing its name]].
89*** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKUcSdCXzXc Part 4]] of the ''Cobra'' Wrongpurae, the duo speculate about what enemy they will face next after fighting the Fire Dragon and Wolfhounds. slowbeef guesses Parrot Grass, but Diabetus concludes that he wouldn't be threatening enough. [[spoiler:Later, Parrot Grass returns in the form of a disguise donned by a huge, demonic alien infiltrator. [[ZigZaggingTrope Although Cobra then proceeds to immediately kill him, so maybe Diabetus was right after all.]]]]
90** In the ''Meat Boy'' RP, slowbeef jokes that when the player gets the golden god achievement he will instead get the "Stop Playing" achievement. In VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac DLC, this is a possible title screen.
91** In LetsPlay/BillyMC's original Let's Play of Mario Bros. with [=TheLimePopsicle=], the two start doing impressions of each other, causing [=TheLimePopsicle=] to say "[[ThatCameOutWrong I can't do BillyMC]]." In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHz9dyfYLRQ the accompanying retsupurae]], when they are doing their impressions, slowbeef makes ''the exact same double entendre'':
92--> '''slowbeef:''' They're gonna [[HoYay do each other]] now.\
93'''Diabetus:''' Watch your wording.
94** Somewhat early on in the ''VideoGame/DarkSeedII'' Wrongpurae, they joke about Jack being the same in the Dark World as he is in the Light world. [[spoiler:[[GainaxEnding Guess what happens at the end?]]]]
95*** When Mike asks a Darkworlder how he can be sure he's in the Darkworld, slowbeef jokingly responds "Because in here you're the coolest person alive". [[spoiler:Turns out to be true, within the game's universe.]]
96** In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0D29PiJ7J0 second video]] of a ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' LP from their livestream, slowbeef proposes that they forego making fun of the LP and instead make fun of the game. While ''Heavy Rain'' has not yet been a subject, this is basically the premise of the Wrongpuraes.
97*** It's come full circle with the duo considering to riff on the whole game some time in the future.
98** In late 2010, the Ridley voice had its magnum opus in the Omega Ridley battle from ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', including a lengthy rant about ''Heavy Rain''. In September 2011, a ''VideoGame/{{Jurassic Park|Arcade}}'' arcade game Wrongpurae reintroduced the voice to make fun of the dinosaurs. Two months later, Creator/TelltaleGames released ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame'', with gameplay that's heavily based on ''Heavy Rain''.
99** An early joke in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Lnl4O_YsI this video]], wherein slowbeef and Diabetus riff on a Newgrounds ''Zelda'' "parody" that uses graphics from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', revolves around it supposedly being an E3 sneak peak of the first Wii U ''Zelda'' game. Come the following year, it would be revealed that the first ''Legend of Zelda'' title for the Wii U would be an HD remake of ''The Wind Waker''.
100** During their RP of [=LuwiigiMaster=] in "The Marios", Proteus quips that he thinks they should stop doing the RP early on in the video. Now, remember what happens at around 6:35 in the video along with how the gang considers it an OldShame...
101** In "Mr. Miyagi, where did you get all these [=LPs=]?", slowbeef asks, "Who the hell knows the name of [[Characters/TheKarateKid the characters]] in ''Film/TheKarateKid''?"
102** In Episode 7 of the Retsutalk podcast, slowbeef jokingly declares "Fun fact: The first ten minutes of this podcast will be cut out." When the episode aired, the first ''half'' of the episode is missing because dave_o accidentally deleted it.
103** In Chip and Ironicus's parody of ''WebAnimation/ElementalGoddess'', Chip notes that one character has a special eye condition. No, it's not about [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-brand her brand]].
104** In "Retsupurae Mario Party," Ironicus claims that the [=LPer=] sounds like a German version of Wario. Wario is played by his German voice actor in the first two ''Mario Party'' games.
105** The joke about Mike Dawson taking a picture of himself in the ''Dark Seed II'' riff became this after Selfies became popular.
106** During slowbeef's dramatic reading of ''Mega Man's Ladder to Hell'', he asked the question "So you think his dead brother passed down this cursed video game to him?" [[spoiler:Turns out it was cursed by the protagonist's dead brother, who was out to get back at him for being the favorite in the family, instead of his parents for shafting him.]]
107** At one point in the ''T.R.A.G.'' Wrongpurae, [=AllShamNoWow=] wonders how short the credits will be for the game. [[spoiler:In the video they watch, the credits last for only a second before the longplayer skips them.]]
108** In the tenth part of their ''WebAnimation/{{Xin}}'' commentary, Chip notices that somebody posted a review that matched their commentary in the first nine parts.
109-->'''Chip:''' Who did this?
110** During one of their [=RPs=] of LetsPlay/BillyMC's playthrough of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels'', Billy's comment about how his mom was asking if he wanted UsefulNotes/McDonalds while she was out Christmas shopping got the duo to think that the [=McDonalds=] ''was'' what he would be getting as a Christmas present. In December of 2014, [=McDonalds=] started running an advertisement that featured a dad giving his family chicken nugget boxes with Christmas bows on top.
111** In one episode of Retsutalk, slowbeef remembers a fan that had asked the two to sign a copy of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', finding it odd since they had never done anything related to it. In 2014, slowbeef began playing it for the channel.
112*** At the very beginning of the first ''Sonic 06'' episode, Diabetus' first remark was, "Will it explode your Playstation 3?" Several months later, the LP was briefly delayed due to slowbeef's [=PS3=] dying.
113** In episode 3 of Retsutalk, General Ironicus notes that since [[SelfDeprecation all he and Chip Cheezum do is rip off slowbeef and Diabetus]] the next thing to do is make a podcast. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S54jFp9AkI Come December 2014...]]
114** At the beginning of the ''VideoGame/BananaNababa'' Retsupurae, slowbeef remarks that he feels like he's watching an '80s horror movie, and Diabetus remarks, "An '80s horror movie... '''where nothing happens!'''". Five years later, they make fun of ''Hell's House'', which can be easily described as a horror movie where, in a successful playthrough, nothing happens.
115** In Chip and Ironicus' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9398SaYfUno Retsupurae with Chris & Tim!]], they riff on a duo for putting a feed of their own faces in the corner of the game footage, with a heavy dose of ItWillNeverCatchOn. This riff was posted in 2008, years before acts like [=PewDiePie=] and Markiplier would become internet celebrities for doing essentially the same thing and even further before having a facecam became standard practice in Let's Plays and livestreams, to the point that even slowbeef himself does it on his channel.
116** During the Retsufrash of ''VideoGame/TheTrappedTrilogy'', they express complete disbelief at the main character being locked in a car. Years later, slowbeef and Diabetus start a wrongpurae of a series where ''that happens for most of the episodes'', appropriately called ''VideoGame/CarEscape''.
117** The first Retsupurae video on LetsPlay/ElectricalBeast was called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbvZeOnHI_w "Let's 'ave a carriage ride!"]] Seven years later, during their Wrongpurae of ''VideoGame/DraculaUnleashed'', the exaggerated accents of the various [[WarpWhistle carriage drivers]] draw immediate comparisons to [=ElectricalBeast=].
118** In their [[VideoGame/LastAlert first ever Wrongpurae]], slowbeef and Diabetus end up joking over some rapid-fire {{Exposition}} and realize their mistake, feeling like the game's going too fast and they should start paying more attention if they want to make fun of the game properly. Many of their later wrongpuraes (most infamously ''VideoGame/DarkSeedII'') feature glacial pacing, whether due to the game design itself or excessive {{Padding}} on the part of the longplayer, leading to many hilarious moments. It becomes even more hilarious after the insane rapid-fire pace of ''Videogame/ObsCure II'' leaves slowbeef and Diabetus at a loss for words.
119** One of the Kickstarter Nonstarters is an incredibly mediocre shmup game, with the video subtitled ''Bullet Hell? Or Bullet HEAVEN???''. A year or so later on his personal channel, slowbeef showcases a game called ''VideoGame/BulletHeaven'' (though he decides that it's SoOkayItsAverage).
120** In their Wrongpurae of ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder'', they joke the game is about a grandfather telling the story to his nephew, who points out narrative flaws and complains about the ridiculous deaths. [[VideoGame/KingsQuest2015 The 2015 reboot]] features a now old King Graham telling stories to his ''granddaughter'', who sometimes picks apart what her grandfather is saying (especially if he dies in the story).
121** Slowbeef's and [=TieTuesday=]'s grilling of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UABSyUHpAQ fuckjerry's attempt]] at getting a ''TabletopGame/CardsAgainstHumanity'' clone funded seems almost prophetic in light of the #fuckfuckjerry movement that exploded two and a half years later for exactly the reasons the RP crew took an immediate dislike to him.
122** The "Retsupurae Battletoads with Voice and Subtitles For No Good Reason!" video ends with the player cutting to his ''VideoGame/{{Galerians}}'' desktop background. ''Galerians'' would get the Wrongpurae treatment six years later.
123* HoYay: Between slowbeef and Dave_o in their ''VideoGame/{{Braid}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvs5d50Rwsc retsupurae]].
124* IAmNotShazam: The man behind the "Gaming In The Clinton Years" videos is called "navgtr" by slowbeef and Diabetus in the original set of [=RPs=]. His name is actually George Wood, and navgtr (or [=NAViGaTR=]) stands for "National Association of Video Game Testers and Reviewers."[[note]]The name is in all the videos because they're the ones who collected and archived the videos.[[/note]] More modern RP videos of ''Gaming in the Clinton Years'' reviews have them fixing the mistake and referring to George by his actual name.
125** In rants against them, the term "Retsupurae" is almost always confused for just one guy. This indicates that either the complainants have literally never seen an RP video, or that they're actually too stupid to realize that there's more than one voice talking in the vids[[note]]considering the host of the Let's Play Archive has received emails from people who think every LP on the site is by one person, not hard to believe[[/note]].
126* MemeticBadass: It was inevitable, given their frequent {{Alternative Character Interpretation}}s.
127** After playing up [=BillyMC=] as a ButtMonkey for some time, slowbeef and company decided to start cheering him on and treat him like a person who decided to DareToBeBadass. The fans have taken off with this.
128** Their take on [[VideoGame/EvilZone Gally 'Vanish' Gregman]] and/or his voice actor, Creator/PaulEiding.
129** Cornshaq, who's in such a hurry that he doesn't have time to die and doesn't even need to breathe at all.
130** Duke Crabtree from the ''[[Creator/ZapDramatic Ambition]]'' series is shaping up to be this due to being the only character who isn't totally incompetent. [[spoiler:[[MemeticMutation It's because he's a terrorist]].]]
131** Rock Knight from ''Space Adventure Cobra'' is also given this treatment, to the point that [[spoiler:Diabetus and slowbeef [[FanonDiscontinuity start shouting "NON CANON"]] after his death scene]].
132** Played with in the case of [[VideoGame/AloneInTheDark Edward Carnby]], who goes back and forth between this and a drunken {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.
133** Steve from ''VideoGame/{{Harvester}}'' gets this treatment from the fanbase, which tends to see him as [[MemeticLoser Mike Dawson's]] polar opposite.
134* MemeticLoser: Mike Dawson, who is considered the wimpiest game "[[DesignatedHero hero]]" of all time by everyone, in-universe and out.
135** Same goes for Cobra, who's now known as the second biggest loser.
136** After their Wrongpurae of ''VideoGame/ShadowOfDestiny'', Eike Kusch has become one, with most fans feeling that he has serious contention for the position of "Dumbest Motherfucker in a Wrongpurae".
137** Subverted with John Parker from Shadow of The Comet. He initially became this thanks to him having a heart attack after looking at a photograph.[[note]]Granted, [[{{Misblamed}} the picture was implied to be a Cthulhu-esque picture]] that'll [[BrownNote surely scare anyone to death]].[[/note]] However, he later shifted to a MemeticBadass after pulling some really badass stunts later in the game.
138** Hopkins of ''Hopkins FBI'', particularly after he allows himself to fall for a very obvious trap and shoots his own girlfriend to death because of it.
139** Silver and Elise from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006''; the former for spending most of his screen time running around aimlessly at the whims of whichever character he most recently ran into, all while failing to accomplish anything meaningful, and the latter for getting kidnapped by Dr. Eggman nearly every time she shows up onscreen, often less than a full minute after she had previously been rescued.
140** Albert Tokaj from ''Afterfall'', because of his general {{Jerkass}} demeanor and the fact that several {{Ass Pull}}s in the story proper render everything he did in the game moot. But the main reason is because the game keeps showing Tokaj as some kind of genius protagonist, while his lines and actions are stupid or hilariously nonsensical.
141** Alexander Morris of ''VideoGame/DraculaUnleashed'', due to constantly failing to realize he's going up against vampires, taking an [[IdiotBall absurdly]] long time to figure out what's going on, and not noticing somebody who is [[ObviouslyEvil blatantly evil]] right in front of him.
142** The nameless protagonist of ''Car Escape'' quickly became this, with his bizarre tendency to be trapped in nonsensical ways wherever he goes.
143** Brent Halligan, a detective of Scotland Yard and the protagonist of ''VideoGame/TheMysteryOfTheDruids''. Asking ridiculously incompetent questions of just about everyone he runs into, including having seemingly no knowledge about a month-long series of murders involving whole skeletons being left behind with no skin, and not knowing what the word "initiation" means. Even everyone in-universe seems to hate the guy just as much as the Retsupurae gang. And then came the end of the game, when Halligan [[spoiler:''stabbed his own love interest in the gut.'' Even if it was to stop the BigBad, [[AssPull it came so far out of nowhere]] and was so over the top that it cemented the Retsupurae crew's hatred of the guy.]]
144* MemeticMutation: [[Memes/{{Retsupurae}} Has its own page.]]
145* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: slowbeef and Diabetus' laughs. They're really damn contagious.
146** One of their friends and guests, [=TieTuesday=], has a great laugh as well.
147* {{Narm}}: About half (if not all), of the flash videos or games on Retsufrash.
148** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsUihT9hD2s Broken Dreams]]'' attempts to be a rather serious game about stalking... with sprite artwork from ''VideoGame/MapleStory''. As if that weren't bad enough, there are a couple of levels that feature the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Mare in the Moon]] in the background (even worse, it's the biggest object in that particular background, so your eyes are naturally drawn to it). As if ''that'' weren't bad enough, a cutesy cartoony giraffe head, part of the logo for gameark.com, is pasted on the upper-left corner of the screen at all times, as {{lampshaded}} endlessly by slowbeef and Diabetus to hilarious effect.
149** Lots from the stories riffed on during the Crappy Pasta videos, such as this hysterical line from ''Ihsoy'':
150-->Curiosity killed the cat. Or in this case, curiosity killed everyone.
151** This goes for a lot of the Wrongpuraed titles as well, such as the ''VideoGame/DarkSeed'', ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'' and ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark'' games.
152* NetworkDecay: The channel continues to undergo this, shifting from focusing on bad [=LPers=] to focusing heavily on {{MST}}ing flashes, longplayed games, creepypasta, and the like. Admitted by slowbeef, who said that they were beginning to run out of material for retsupurae videos, and noting that some were making them wary of riffing on just any [=LPers=]. He said this on Formspring in response to a fan asking why they went in this direction:
153-->'''slowbeef:''' For the record, I put a lot of thought and watch a lot of longplays before I find one. We don't just put up anything - we'll IM each other during the sessions or even drop sessions altogether.\
154What happened to the riffs? [[FrivolousLawsuit False copyright claims]], [[WhyTheFandomCantHaveNiceThings fans who would genuinely try to get RP victims knocked off YouTube]], [[TrollFic people intentionally making bad videos in order to get RP'ed]]. We are going to try a few more LP riffs, but we'll see.\
155I genuinely enjoyed doing the Last Alert, Dark Seed, Earnest Evans, and Cobra longplays, and thought they were some of our best stuff. [=KQ6=] took a bit to get going, but I liked how that turned out too. IMDB was just sort of a "for-fun" thing. I think everyone does things like that from time to time.\
156As far as effort-ful VLP goes, that's what SA is for. I'm in the middle of an effort-ful SSLP, and I might want to do another after that.\
157But I can't possibly be the guy everyone loves. I can only devote so much time to doing Let's Play, modding Let's Play, and mocking Let's Play before my head explodes. But if you think all I care about are fans, all I can say is every person I probate/ban is someone who'll never be one.
158* NightmareFuel:
159** [=BigMastodon=] shoving pizza rolls into his greasy obese maw. Even the typically imperturbable Diabetus sounds excruciatingly grossed out.
160** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLEUbXyCpHg Some of the later quoted comments in this video.]] Kudos to Mr. Beardly for the voices.
161** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3sDDem8dJ0&feature=related ZeldaAAAAaaaaAAAGH]], where over half a video's footage turns into a glitchy, broken mess. If you're a fan of WebVideo/MarbleHornets or other similar works, this can be quite scary. Several people have commented that they expect to see Slenderman somewhere in the video.
162*** [[WebVideo/BenDrowned Taken to the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akRR_ZN4W-Q logical conclusion]].
163** Part 9 of ''VideoGame/{{Harvester}}'' features the infamous nightmare scene where the baby's eyes [[EyeScream pop out]] and her mother [[{{Squick}} pushes them back in]] ''[[{{Squick}} with her bare hands]]''. The duo's commentary is tellingly a little low, and slowbeef remarks afterwards:
164-->"''Harvester''! So let me just ask you, ''did you see that coming?'' Because I forgot all the fuck about that."
165** Part 10 is even worse. At one point there is a room consisting almost solely of [[spoiler: an exhausted woman being eaten alive by child versions of the protagonist, all the while bemoaning the sacrificial nature of motherhood in a ''completely stoic fashion''.]] It says something that slowbeef not only warns the viewers well in advance, but requests that he and Diabetus [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain never make a single mention of the incident for the remainder of the longplay]], something they had not done since the infamous [[spoiler:rape scene]] in ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''.
166** By contemplating the FridgeHorror, almost all of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q2Ep9lz5Ao I'm going to make my own girl.]]'', especially at the 6:26 mark. But this line takes the cake.
167-->"I'm gonna make my own girl and you're gonna watch me."
168** [=BaronVonBadGuy's=] WallOfText in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqNGTJmqvQE Wanna Dance with Kim?!]] video, if you can wade through the {{Padding}} and PurpleProse.
169** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7XlmO3e7Y8 This video]] of a shirtless man wearing a Franchise/{{Batman}} mask, doing a Christian Bale Batman impression, and ranting about rap music.
170-->'''Khad:''' ...I feel like I'm on... what, the third layer of hell right now?\
171'''slowbeef:''' I think you need, like, irrational numbers to describe that.
172** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq1uiYXWIGY Fun Kids Smile Disney ripoff videos]], while darkly humourous, are also quite disturbing considering [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids they were meant for children]]. Even worse is how slowbeef discovered the first video: his daughter had been using his Website/YouTube account to search for Creator/{{Disney}} videos ''and this was one of the first results in the Recommended Videos box''. [[FridgeHorror Imagine how horrified his young daughter would have been if she had clicked on that video by accident, thinking it was a simple Mickey Mouse cartoon.]]
173* NightmareRetardant:
174** Their reaction to all of the "scary" flashes that they've watched.
175** ''Lechuza'' too. When the scariest thing about your horror game is the haggard-looking face of your protagonist plastered across the title screen, something is very wrong. At the end of the game, an owl demon appears to kill the protagonist: the creators clearly want you to be scared out of your mind, but it falls flat because the "owl demon" is just an unmodified photograph of a great horned owl peeking in through the windows.
176** Their main thought on "Where Am I?" was basically that it was an attempt at NothingIsScarier that ended up making the game downright bland.
177** The creepypastas that slowbeef reads during a livestream.
178*** ''Sonic.exe'' takes most of its "scary" elements from games other than ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' (and overuses gaming-related analogies even in descriptions of its own attempts at horror) and tries to make a blood-soaked Sonic plushie scary. It's also notable for the fact that [[ValuesDissonance the protagonist puts the lives of the game characters on the same level of importance as that of his probably-murdered best friend]].
179*** ''Ihsoy'' is simply very hard to follow, as it includes inane descriptions of useless information - such as the narrator's trip to [=GameStop=] to buy the game - features incredibly bad action-movie style banter between the narrator and the monster, and the majority of the story is spent with Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Princess Peach, and Bowser being possessed and un-possessed over and over again with no apparent rhyme or reason for why any of it is happening. All of the possessed characters' names are also backwards for no particular reason, making the possessed Princess Peach's name "Hcaep Ssecnirp", which (as the helpful pronunciation guide in the fic tries to point out) sounds like /hkeɪp sɛknɜrp/. It certainly isn't helped by the fact that the BigBad turns out to be [[spoiler:'''Reznor''', which is almost unanimously considered one of the easiest bosses in an entire franchise that is ''full'' of easy bosses, and doesn't even have the benefit of having an intimidating appearance either]]. It doesn't help that right from their introduction into the series, [[spoiler:Reznors are described as Dinosaurs who have been enslaved by Bowser, and thus don't act on their own will.]] The author [[AttentionWhore whoring his YouTube channel]] at the end of the story did not make things any better.
180*** ''Blood Whistle'' includes strange descriptions of laughing fish, ritualistically suicidal Goombas, PurpleProse to an absurd degree, and attempts to create atmospheric horror by changing all water into blood and scattering random demons and pentagrams everywhere. The main character is also far more profoundly effected by the game's content than is probably realistic, to the point of committing suicide [[spoiler:by ''stabbing himself in the neck with his old recorder'']] after he stops playing the game.
181*** Then came a fourth one, ''[[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Yellow Devil]]'' involving a Cut Man who can somehow breathe and suffocate (despite Cut Man being a robot) and copious usage of blood in an attempt to make the story more frightening or tense. It got to the point that, before slowbeef nearly finished a descriptive sentence, Diabetus interjected with "blood" half a second before the word appeared in the story. Cue the two breaking out in a fit of laughter.
182*** The fifth one, ''Ladder to Hell'', features a protagonist whose brother commits suicide and leaves him a copy of ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'', which apparently causes him to get over ''his brother's death'' instantly. [[spoiler:It turns out that his brother was TheUnfavorite and ''possessed the cartridge'' to get back at the protagonist. [[MisplacedRetribution As opposed to]] the [[ParentalNeglect parents who neglected him]], [[SarcasmMode of course]].]]
183*** The sixth one, ''Tracy'', features a ''VideoGame/MegaMan3'' cartridge possessed by the ghost of a young girl who somehow managed to beat her parents to death with a plastic NES controller. By the end it turns out to be a bizarre attempt at some sort of romance story, apparently having forgotten the horror aspect altogether.
184*** The series took on a new format in the form of "Slowbeef's House of Horror," debuting with ''0bl1v10n.exe'', a story about a master hacker whose "hacking" abilities initially seem to be limited to downloading obviously-unsafe torrents and mounting disk images (with great speed, despite complaining about the slowness of his internet connection). Of course, come the end of the story, his hacking skills have grown to such a degree that he is able to literally ''destroy entire websites'' at will. Other highlights include [[spoiler:him miraculously not coming under suspicion for the death of his (unnamed) best friend - despite the fact that threatening messages were sent to the friend from the protagonist's Steam account the previous day -- and the protagonist simply destroying his computer to successfully defeat the uber-powerful, demonic antagonist]]. The story also seemed to be playing with the IdiotBall, as the protagonist claimed that he never broke the law when he found out that he was banned on Steam, yet he ''[[DigitalPiracyIsEvil pirated]]'' video games off the Internet, [[{{Irony}} which is a felony]].
185*** The second ''Slowbeef's House of Horror'' is a ''VideoGame/CookingMama'' creepypasta. Enough said.
186*** ''I HATE YOU'' claims that what the narrator found in ''Super Mario World'' wasn't the result of a hack or a haunting, but a legit part of the game. This might work if they were playing an actual copy of the game and not on an emulator.
187*** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzPw_vb2DlU It Wasn't Lavender Town]]'' tries to create a frightening story using [[PurpleProse fancy descriptions]] and [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness big words]]. The result ends up being more confusing than scary, not helped in part by the story constantly switching between first- and third-person narration, and being inconsistent on whether the events are in the game or in reality.
188*** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4vl-GcyU8o Blood Pichu]]'' also includes inane and pointless information, such as the narrator saying they had an interest in "video game controversies", which never comes up again. The narrator also claims they're a huge Pokemon fan and tries to prove it by saying they have a box with all the Pokemon games and then proceeds to list ''every game from Red and Blue to [=SoulSilver=] and [=HeartGold=]''. But then they make a novice mistake and claim that the Pichu that somehow appeared in a Gen 1 game was a Gen ''3'' Pokemon. The narrator is also seemingly killed by the Pichu in the real world and somehow becomes one with the game?
189** They also have this reaction to several SurvivalHorror games that they cover for their Wrongpuraes, including ''VideoGame/DeepFear'', the ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark'' games, ''VideoGame/{{Galerians}}'', ''VideoGame/ObsCure 2'' and ''VideoGame/ClockTower 2'', thanks to all kinds of {{Narm}} and/or primitive graphics.
190* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: A coping mechanism often employed by subjects of the [=RPs=].
191** [[LetsPlay/SirRonLionheart On the]] [[LetsPlay/BillyMC rare occasion]], [[LetsPlay/ElectricalBeast though]], [[ColbertBump this actually turns out to be true.]]
192* NotSoCrazyAnymore: While most of Dahir Insaat's concepts are as AwesomeYetImpractical as Retsuprae makes them out to be, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oWk9gYSfME their "restaurant" concept]] - where food is delivered to patrons via a conveyer belt and drop-down cranes - had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPoAjRxyBQQ actually been replicated by one robotics restaurant in Guangzhou]]. It even makes the original concept look BoringButPractical by comparison, by replacing the conveyer belt with robots on elevated pathways. While the duo's primary criticism of cost-effectiveness is still valid - [[https://www.thinkchina.sg/guangzhou-robot-restaurant-robot-chefs-did-their-part-during-epidemic the restaurant acknowledges the high costs of this system as a major risk]] - it's doubtful they were anticipating this idea coming to life at all, much less with this level of precision to the original concept.
193* OlderThanTheyThink: During the ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheComet'' Wrongpurae, slowbeef mistakenly thinks that the writers lifted the term "Necronomicon" from the ''Franchise/EvilDead'' franchise. In reality, Creator/SamRaimi lifted the tome's name from Creator/HPLovecraft, whose works directly inspired the game in question. Later, when a character says "that is not dead which can eternal lie", slowbeef recognizes it as a Music/{{Metallica}} lyric, when the song it's used in was inspired by Lovecraft.
194* RetroactiveRecognition: Sonik Dude, the Let's Player in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO-K55PfGRk The Unfair Retsupurae]]" would later rebrand as [[https://www.youtube.com/user/AntDude92 Ant Dude]], before becoming a gaming [=YouTuber=] in the style of channels like WebVideo/PeanutButterGamer and WebVideo/NitroRad and gaining over 400k subscribers.
195* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Cherrydoom's appearances in some early Retsupuraes weren't very well-received, with fans complaining that she didn't really add much to the videos. Her appearances in several podcasts have been met with significantly more praise.
196* ReviewsAreTheGospel: Much like Website/SomethingAwful, a ''lot'' of people use Retsupurae as a metric for an Internet personality's worth, and you can guarantee if a user gets a riffing it ''will'' be used as "proof" of them being objectively awful. The most brutal example of this undoubtedly being WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, whose reputation is forever tainted by his ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart's Nightmare]]'' Let's Play and has had his {{Hatedom}} increase exponentially since the duo's [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness surprisingly]] (and [[OldShame regrettably]]) personal attack on him.
197** This goes for the games they rip on as well, despite them claiming that they make their videos for entertainment, not as serious criticism. ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark1992'' suffered a very similar fate to that which ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest'' did in the hands of WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd: a game that was generally well-liked suddenly faced mobs of detractors parroting the sorts of things their most trustworthy source said - only much, much more seriously than the actual riffs. The same went for the ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'' games as well (even ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow'', even though they've stated several times that they don't hate that particular game). No matter how sterling a game's reputation, getting the Retsupurae treatment almost guarantees it an immensely expanded {{Hatedom}}, with some even going as far as attacking people who claim to like the games, often accusing them of wearing rose-tinted glasses.
198** On the other hand, several games that they are less harsh on tend to end up gaining a bit of popularity with their fans, no matter their previous reputations. One of the biggest examples was ''VideoGame/{{Harvester}}'', which already had a cult following, but suddenly gained a lot more acclaim from fans. ''Apocalypse'' had a similar reaction, as despite slowbeef trashing the game throughout the video, many viewers found it to be actually pretty awesome, while others who had played the game (especially in the arcades it was designed for) came to its defense.
199* TheScrappy: If a video features a guest commentator that isn't Dave_O, Chip Cheezum, General Ironicus, Proteus, Schmorky, or [=VoidBurger=], you can bet that some of the comments are gonna bash them.
200** [[LetsPlay/FreelanceAstronauts Ferr]] got a lot of hate for starring in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jKHamzykgc the infamous]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsoJon2iw8M drunken Retsupuraes]], although at that time he was drunk with Diabetus and the commentary from him was questionable.
201** If you look at some of the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2A3A5FFF9CA8C956 Webcam Ward]] videos, there will likely be a couple comments saying how annoying Khad is.
202** Though you can say most [=LPers=] featured on Retsupurae are disliked, none seems to have attracted as much vitriol, both amongst the crew and the fanbase, as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7iF0RRAZRc Queenie Z]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwmpd2hjtpE LijikLetsPlay]] received similar treatment, which eventually forced him to close his account.
203** Fictional example: ''VideoGame/DarkSeedII's'' Mike Dawson. You can practically feel the animosity slowbeef and Diabetus have for him as the longplay goes on.
204** Another fictional example: [[Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra Cobra]], who spouts dumb one liners and feels more like a loser than the "brave space pirate" [[InformedAttribute the game claims he is.]]
205-->'''slowbeef:''' I'm rooting against the protagonist here!
206** [=ADVGames4ever=], the guy who longplayed ''Dark Seed II'', is this as well for wasting the riffers' and the viewers' time by talking to every single character in the game after ''every'' plot event, regardless of if that character actually gets new dialogue from it, and for standing still doing nothing for minutes at a time at random points. People have said that the longplay could've been '''much''' shorter (the full longplay as is comes out at just under '''eight hours''') if he were to edit the footage; he even makes Diabetus angry when he ''does'' try to edit a trip through the mirror maze (never once realizing that you don't ''need'' to manually make the trip after the first time), but screws it up and makes the scene in question ''longer''. Granted, his pauses did give us some really funny moments from the duo.
207** A lot of viewers do not like Axikal, the longplayer who did ''VideoGame/ClockTower Ghost Head'' for similar reasons to the above. He frequently ran around wasting a lot of time, showing the same thing multiple times for no clear reason, and generally gave off the impression that he didn't actually know what he was supposed to do in the game, made worse by his only very sparsely using editing to make things go any faster. At a few points, the help of other longplayers was needed to show off certain aspects of the game. His only other project with Retsupurae was ''Afterfall: Insanity'', where the first and only episode he uploaded for the game was done at such a horrible framerate that he was essentially booted from the project and slowbeef recorded the rest of the game himself.
208** Several characters from the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' longplay inspired hatred of their own:
209*** Slowbeef already has stated hate for Tails at the beginning of the game, but due to his lack of prominence, he quickly gets overshadowed by the characters below.
210*** Silver spends nearly all his time onscreen running around aimlessly at the whims of whatever secondary character he happens to run into, accomplishing virtually nothing of importance during most of his story. Combined with his awkward gameplay mechanics, this earns him a lot of slowbeef's ire.
211*** Princess Elise does virtually nothing beneficial in the story, and seems to only exist to [[DamselScrappy get kidnapped by Eggman every time Sonic turns around]].
212** Brent Halligan from ''Mystery of the Druids'' earned a ton of ire for being a [[IdiotHero general idiot]] and doing a lot of awful things [[DesignatedHero despite being the protagonist]], ranging from poisoning a homeless man ''just to get change for the phone'' to [[spoiler:'''stabbing the female lead apropos of nothing.''']]
213** VideoGame/JackOrlando, due to the fact that he's overly confrontational, bigoted against minorities and gays, and an [[DesignatedHero unheroic]] JerkAss. Slowbeef and Diabetus say Brent Halligan was almost a better hero, due to the fact that at least he was just kind of ''stupid'' rather than outright malicious, and later on in Part 8 say Mike Dawson had more charm than Jack.
214* SignatureScene: A number of their Wrongpuraes have at least one scene bound to be mentioned or come up in their commentaries, or Youtube comments.
215** For ''Dark Seed II'', Mike's mother [[spoiler:claiming that she'll explain everything, only for [[YourHeadAsplode her head to explode]]]]. This one in particular is so famous that the two tend to call similar signature scenes "Dark World Mom moments."
216** ''Shadow of the Comet'' and the scene where John Parker uses some wings he found, glues them together with wax, and then ''flies'' to escape a lighthouse and his doom.
217** ''VideoGame/ShadowOfDestiny'' has Eike going back in time and ''removing a tree from existence'', replacing it with a statue, [[ItMakesSenseInContext all to stop himself from getting stabbed in the back]]. As well as [[spoiler:him wondering if the bar from earlier is still around]].
218** ''Ambition'' has [[spoiler:Duke revealing himself to be a terrorist]].
219** ''Deep Freeze'' has the fight against Deimos and subsequent conversation with MAM.
220** ''Sonic 06'' has [[spoiler:Princess Elise kissing Sonic]]. Most viewers were understandably horrified.
221* SlowPacedBeginning: Some of the Wrongpuraes tend to start out with a ''lot'' of exposition, buildup, or even half-hour long stretches of nothing noteworthy happening, both for the viewers and the riffers themselves. But then, [[SignatureScene something particularly baffling or noteworthy]] occurs that cements the reactions from the riffers and the audience from there on in. The Wrongpuraes that fell into this include ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheComet'', ''VideoGame/DarkSeedII'', ''VideoGame/AfterfallInsanity'', and ''VideoGame/ShadowOfDestiny''.
222* SoBadItsGood: Some of the [=LPers=] that got riffed on fall into this territory.
223** [=WhiskeyOnTheRoad's=] zoomed-in Pokemon Yellow LP [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1oVnDboM10 has to be seen to be believed]].
224** [=ActionBastard's=] VideoGame/MonsterInMyPocket LP with his "petty douchebag" friend, [[TheWoobie Tyler]].
225** The sprite machinima ''Metroid Extinction'', which seems to revel in being terrible.
226** Several of the games they riff on, such as ''VideoGame/TheTownWithNoName'', and ''VideoGame/TheTrappedTrilogy''.
227*** slowbeef himself seems to feel this way about the first two ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark'' sequels.
228** [=Jay7492XYZ::=] ([[StylisticSuck who is actually Psychedelic Eyeball]]) did a retsupurae of LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}}. It falls under this.
229** There's actually an ''[[http://atheistsagainstrp.tumblr.com/ Atheists Against Retsupurae]]'' Social Justice Blog, made by someone who seems to be ''[[SincerityMode absolutely sincere]]'' about what he's doing. It's a sight to behold.
230** slowbeef is now a big fan of [=DarkSydePhil=] just for this reason.
231* SoOkayItsAverage: Many of the [=LPers=] riffed on fall into this category.
232** This also seems to be slowbeef's feelings towards the WebVideo/GameGrumps, as he's stated that he doesn't have strong feelings one way or the other about Jon and Arin or the show itself. He also said at one point he considered taking the audio from the first episode of their VideoGame/NaughtyBear LP and putting it over footage of a houseplant with a caption saying, "There, OK?" just to keep people from constantly asking for an RP of them.
233* SpecialEffectFailure: Several of the Flash games they've reviewed. The Arise games and Death Trap are particularly noteworthy offenders.
234** To elaborate on ''Death Trap'': ''Every single background picture'' looks directly ripped off a 3D art gallery website from the mid 90s. A lit fireplace is displayed in one room at a slight angle. Not only is the fire inside it ''not'' angled, and not only is it tiled incorrectly (so it appears that a second, ''brown'' fire is floating in midair above the first), it is very obviously an animated GIF. In addition, the jump scares are just pictures with slight twitching animations applied to them.
235** This is one of the things that angered Chip and Ironicus with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UF-yrOX1HI Fusion Media Hub]], whose videos include such gems like the fake images on Hugh's TV, poorly done fade outs, the two main guys greenscreening an upside down image of a TV behind them, very poor compositing, and no attempts to cover up their usage of other people's footage.
236** At one point in ''Arise'', they find a drawer full of blood. ''Transparent'' blood.
237--->'''Diabetus:''' Oh my god, it's Crystal Light!
238* TearJerker: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IuCoD-8MWA Mario, Party of One?]]'' Funny commentary aside, this is by far their most upsetting RP, no thanks to [[TheWoobie Joshey164]].
239* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Initial fan reaction to the "Retsufrash" period of RP. Seems to have died down once it became obvious they weren't going to stop their usual [=RPs=].
240** Same could be said by some fans on their series of Longplay [=RPs=] from early 2011 on.
241** Also could be said about their decision to more or less stop making fun of most LP's in general. For some fans, it's just not Retsupurae without making fun of Let's Plays.
242* UglyCute: ''VideoGame/DarkSeedII'''s Behemoth in its larval form, whom slowbeef and Diabetus affectionately term "Shrimp Baby."
243* UnintentionalUncannyValley: ''Paradigm Shift'' is probably one of the most notable cases, considering there are multiple encounters possible with endless hordes of bloodthirsty zombies, and yet the single scariest-looking thing in the game is the one other ''living, non-infected'' human being you find. A ''car battery'' that just so happens to look like it has a face is more human than an actual human (and [[EnsembleDarkhorse becomes their favorite "character" as a result]]).
244* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: A lot the criticism aimed during the original Retsupurae era is very clearly colored by slowbeef's and the Something Awful Forum's very specific original concept of a LetsPlay. Thus it might be a bit strange to see slowbeef and Diabeetus rant against what have since essentially become major staples of streaming and [=LPing=]: facecams, [=LPing=] a game as soon as it's released, [[LargeHam overly dramatic reactions]], etc. You'd also be extremely hard-pressed to find ''anyone'' using a camcorder or Unregistered Hypercam 2 to record footage these days, thanks to much more accessible capture software and hardware becoming available.
245* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Quite a few characters in games they've riffed on.
246** Ted Hartrup/[[InconsistentDub Hadrup]] from the ''Ambition'' series is probably the prime example. His wife left him for the rich owner of a company and took their kids with her: sympathetic. Responding to this by strapping a bomb to yourself and threatening to blow up the building the new guy owns? Assaulting a police officer and escaping custody multiple times for no reasonable reason? Generally acting like a complete lunatic but [[CreatorsPet still canonically passing the psyche evaluation]] and [[ArtisticLicenseLaw being declared not responsible for your actions because you're sane]]? Not so much.
247*** Later installments in the Ambition series feature an absurd amount of [[AssPull swerves]] that seem to be there for the sole purpose of [[NeverMyFault retconning anything bad Ted did]] to be [[spoiler:part of an insanely-convoluted conspiracy to frame him for several murders orchestrated by his ex-wife Bridget, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Rolf Klink]], and [[TheBadGuysAreCops the crooked police force]]]]. It doesn't help make him seem sympathetic and only serves to further muddy an already hard-to-follow plot.
248* ValuesDissonance: One recurring trait that very early Retsupurae videos would regularly make fun of was [=LPers=] reading aloud in-game text, which the goons would mock on the grounds that it was [[ViewersAreMorons treating the viewers like idiots who can't read]]. To a lesser extent, more higher-production [=LPers=] would get on their nerves by subtitling their dialogue for a similar reason of "pretending the viewer can't hear" -- LetsPlay/PewDiePie was a creator they especially mocked for what they felt was him pioneering the practice of using subtitles to emphasize jokes, which they treated derisively à la {{Laugh Track}}s. In the decade-plus since Retsupurae's launch, not only have these practices been commonly accepted throughout let's plays as a whole (especially with more accessible technology improving the ability for [=LPers=] to edit in subtitles), these traits are generally just seen as a common courtesy for accessibility purposes, with the bigger stink often being made about the ''lack'' of such accomodations.
249* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The duo have this reaction to a Kickstarter game meant to appeal to younger and older gamers... That is based around [[CuteMonsterGirl scantily-clad monster girls]]. [[UnfortunateImplications Made even more concerning]] by the fact that the description outright states that it's an HGame - and while there's a SelfCensoredRelease, it's still pornographic in nature.
250-->'''Updates Menu:''' [[TooMuchInformation Added bodily fluids to h-scene]].
251* TheWoobie: Their general treatment of LetsPlay/BillyMC.
252-->'''slowbeef:''' For the record, [=BillyMC=]: Of all the people we've made fun of, I like you the best, but you are still fucking awful.
253** LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}} himself during ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4jwRuZzxEE Let's Play Wii Sports Resort IMMEDIATELY]]''. You can just hear how far the video pushed him toward the brink. Many of the comments show a bit of concern for the man as well.
254** Tyler, [=ActionBastard's=] guest in their LP of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9G-JAqOoyE Monster In My Pocket]], almost never gets a word in edgewise while [=ActionBastard=] throws abuse at him for being a bad player. Even slowbeef and Diabetus tell poor Tyler to stand up for himself.
255*** Similarly, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeoVHUKvCaQ Mario Kart LP with a VERY SPECIAL GUEST]], slowbeef expresses sympathy for the player (Tingle) while his guest (The Real Golden Gamer) rips into him throughout the video.
256** A more recent one is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IuCoD-8MWA Joshey164]]. Despite his [=LP=] of ''VideoGame/MarioParty2''[[note]]which includes such gems such as him mainly rolling low numbers on the board, poor ability to win minigames, occasionally bumping into the camcorder with a bad autofocus, and above all, playing it ''alone''[[/note]] being [=RP'd=] in order to highlight the very depressing nature of it, in the end, the two actually feel incredibly sorry for him and suggest their fans to go over to Josh's (now deleted) video and encourage him. Since then, Josh has undergone a massive ColbertBump with his channel, chock-full of enthusiastically supportive comments. And then he deleted his Mario Party video [[FromBadToWorse and seems to have closed his account.]] He'd returned since then however, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhrM-XaBLDo playing Mario Party with other people]], only to again delete the video. Apparently, by now, the presence of anyone affiliated with Retsupurae is enough to scare the poor guy off.
257** James, the poor guy who had to play through [[ObviousBeta Metroid; Beginings]].
258** Mr. DJB, who played and recorded Meet'n'Fuck Kingdom. He later commented that he had a strong urge to delete the uncensored recording from his computer with a sledgehammer. He later also recorded the Star Mission version, and during the commentary outright told slowbeef he was ''not'' recording any more Meet'n'Fuck games for the channel.
259** [=MegaManNG=], who was unaware that both slowbeef and [=CherryDoom=] were taking potshots at him. This blow has been softened a little by slowbeef and Diabetus saying that they liked the guy, and because [[PetTheDog slowbeef actually congratulated him on reaching 10,000 subscribers]].
260** Of all people, ''[=QueenieZ=]'' ended up becoming one. Years after the ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' LP, she ''still'' got hate comments and death threats even after she took the LP down, remade it, and apologized for the original. slowbeef and Diabetus were horrified when they found out.[[note]]Her [=YouTube=] account has since been taken down due a copyright claim over using bits of ''Manga/ElfenLied'' in her videos.[[/note]] Read HarsherInHindsight above to feel worse.
261** [=AltAlter=], the guy who who played and recorded ''[[Creator/{{Godlimations}} Zombie Inglor]]'', deserves a spot here. Not only did he have to go through all of the [[ObviousBeta game's]] [[GameBreakingBug bullshit]], he also had to replay not only [[MarathonBoss a really long boss fight,]] but also the entire game because of a terrible glitch.[[note]][[YankTheDogsChain And he was at the very end too.]][[/note]] It doesn't help that slowbeef didn't even ask him to play the game for him, [[DoingItForTheArt AltAlter decided to play and record it himself just for them.]]
262-->'''Diabetus:''' Get this guy a reward.

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