* AccidentalInnuendo: Inverted; rarely is an innuendo either innocent or accidental.
-->'''Tom:''' I will fucking shank you.
-->'''FTA:''' You'll shag me?
-->'''Tom:''' ''Shank''.
-->'''FTA:''' Tom, this is hardly the time or place!
-->'''Tom:''' S-H-A-N-K, OK!?
** However, this is played straight some times:
-->'''Helldragon:''' Did Jiminy sleep with him?
-->'''Tom:''' Please rephrase that.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Several. Some examples:
** The bird in ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' is a ClassicallyTrainedExtra.
** The students of [[Film/HighSchoolMusical East High School]] are secretly ninjas, while Coach Bolton and Sharpay are nigh-demonic.
** Parasite Cage is a great old one.
** Done with an entire ''movie''. ''Anime/PokemonJirachiWishmaker'' is about a butler who is trying to blow up the sun with a cute little fairy thing while May is secretly plotting to destroy the world with her wishing star. Also, Mai Valentine drives the Magic School Bus.
** ''SOS: The Final Escape'' (''VideoGame/DisasterReport'' in the US) is about escaping a collapsing city (while "Open Your Heart" plays in the background) and trying to get ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'' from Sakurai.
** [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII DiZ]] is sometimes portrayed as being obsessed with playing [[VideoGame/WorldofWarcraft World of Warcraft]] which is one of the main reasons they think it took so long to restore Sora.
** A RunningGag during the Sonic-a-thon is people who donate leaving in their message, styled as a short breaking new article, a story about what's currently happening in the game the runners are playing, usually portraying Eggman as trying to do something benevolent and Sonic and Co. ruining it.
*** Tails is some local fox who ruins everything, from charity marathons to random islands to history itself, just to fuel his mint candy addiction.
*** [[VideoGame/KnucklesChaotix Heavy and Bomb]] are political heroes known as "the people's champions", expressing their opinions on whatever news subject happens.
*** Cream is a rabbi who specializes in "Chao-tossing".
* BrokenBase: With three mass breakups in 2013, 2014 and 2015, the fandom is split over whether HFC has suffered as a whole and that the many people who left were what made the channel interesting, that the smaller group simply led to a change in direction, or that HFC now is much more focused and organized than it was before and is overall better off.
* CargoShip: "[[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Stop humping the]] CompanionCube!"
* CrossesTheLineTwice: FTA enjoys burning down villages full of innocent children.
** "Dock your dick with the HFC Dick Dock!"
* DrinkingGame: ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'' -- see a reference, [[RunningGag take a drink!]]
-->''Jetsons''! Take a drink.\\
''Space Jam''? Take a drink? Actually, let's pass on that.\\
Also ''Jurassic Park'', 'cause... fuck you, take a drink.
** "When did the ''King of Thieves'' commentary [[LampshadeHanging become a drinking game?]]"
* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[VideoGame/KnucklesChaotix Bomb]] became this to the viewers in charity marathons thanks to bid wars and memes, much to Johnny's chagrin.
* {{Flanderization}}: Many of the commentators have gone toward making the most out of a particular schtick they have, such as THD's cynical anger and MBM constantly talking about speedruns.
** Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad: This has served to deviate each member from straightforward commentary and bring more entertaining moments to the playthroughs.
* HarsherInHindsight: While recording the final episode for the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' Playthrough Tom jokes that he'll make Sparanda playthrough a no hit run of ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'' ... ...come Spar's first playthough of ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'' and he states multiple times he hates the game, to the point he likes '''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006''' more than Heroes.
** During the Xenoblade Chronicles Let's Play Tom says 'I hope Fiora's not dead right now' just minutes before [[spoiler:Fiora looks to die.]]
* HilariousInHindsight: In their commentary of ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', they note how Mewtwo's personality resembles that of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Shadow]], but then becomes more like [[HeelFaceTurn Knuckles]] later on. [[Creator/DanGreen Guess who voices Mewtwo]] in the ''Anime/PokemonMewtwoReturns'' OVA? Also, one of the endings in [[VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog Shadow's self-titled game]] has him take on a role similar to Knuckles, with Space Colony ARK taking the place of the Master Emerald as an artifact he's destined to guard alone and forever.
** In one part of the ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' playthrough, THD learns about the word "[[AnimeHair quiff]]" from Tom and mentions that he should use it more often. Cue the commentary for ''Raikou: Legend of Thunder'', where he uses it in almost every sentence.
** In the Pikachu and Pichu commentary, Tom and THD hope for a fourth [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy Spider-Man]] movie featuring Lizard. This was a couple years before [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries The Amazing Spider-Man]] came out with the Lizard being the antagonist.
** Now there's the whole "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TtsqxtdQ-g Resident Evil!]]''" bit from the ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'' playthrough, seeing as the two series [[Creator/RogerCraigSmith now share a voice actor]].
** In one part of the ''Sonic 06'' playthrough, FTA quipped that it'd take Tom [[ScheduleSlip three years]] to get to the [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII 1000 Heartless Battle.]] That was in May of 2008 -- over two years before Tom eventually reached said battle.
** Later on in the same playthrough, FTA mentioned that he'd love a ''Sonic the Hedgehog 4''. Almost two years afterward, [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog4 guess what?]]
** In the ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' playthrough, upon mention of the possibility of a [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Notre Dame world]], [=HellDragon=] taunts [=NTom=] by telling him that "it will never happen". Cue ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'''s Mid-January 2011 trailer...
*** In their Birth By Sleep playthrough, they make several parallels between several cutscenes and scenes from Franchise/StarWars. Cue Disney buying the rights to the movies.
** In their [[Anime/PokemonDestinyDeoxys Destiny Deoxys]] commentary, one of them asks if they will, one day, make "Picnic Ant" Pokemon. This was before [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Black and White]] came out anywhere. Now, we're not seeing them getting any picnic baskets, but do we really want to see [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Durant_%28Pok%C3%A9mon%29 Durants]] crashing any picnics?
** In Ben 10 Race Against Time, Tom makes a joke saying "The Ben With Hoodie, didn't sell to well." [[WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse Little did he know that Ben would wear one later on...]]
* HoYay: FTA and [=SonicMovies=].
* IAmNotShazam: Some people insist on calling Tom Hellfire Comms.
* InnocentInnuendo: Inverted; rarely is an innuendo either innocent or accidental.
-->'''Tom:''' I will fucking shank you.
-->'''FTA:''' You'll shag me?
-->'''Tom:''' ''Shank''.
-->'''FTA:''' Tom, this is hardly the time or place!
-->'''Tom:''' S-H-A-N-K, OK!?
** However, this is played straight some times:
-->'''Helldragon:''' Did Jiminy sleep with him?
-->'''Tom:''' Please rephrase that.
* MemeticMutation: ''THE CITY'S BEEN FUCKING DESTROYED!''
** "SHE'S NINE!"
** Tom's David Cage.
** #Sparandamaybethecause is one for the Hellfirecomms stream chat.
** The Sonic-a-thon also started some possible memes, such as Cream the Rabbi.
* NightmareFuel: Ron's threat to pull off Tom's face and go to his funeral wearing it. (Also [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]].)
** A straighter example for the two occurred a few times in the ''Film/DisasterMovie'' commentary.
* NightmareRetardant: Quite a bit of the more diturbing things in ''[[VideoGame/{{Oddworld}} Abe's Oddysee]]'' are nullified by greatzombieron, such as giving the scarabs an effeminate voice.
* TheScrappy:
** At the start of the ''[[VideoGame/PokemonXandY Pokémon X]]'' commentary, Shauna was the Scrappy of choice as [=NTom=] and THD would criticize her whenever she got screentime. Later on, they gradually warm up to her and start redirecting their ire towards Serena instead for her failures.
** Richy is not fond of Helen from ''VideoGame/NiGHTSJourneyOfDreams'' due to her coming off as quite selfish and having the more tedious missions in the game.
* TheWoobie: MBM, during a stream of VideoGame/PokemonVietnameseCrystal had made his way to Pryce and fought him. ...and again.. ...and again... and again... because the game was screwing up each time. It eventually reached a point to where the save file got corrupted and he RageQuit from it, completely speechless from what he just saw happen. All because of a random GameBreakingBug that couldn't be figured out. ...However, it can be seen as CrossingTheLineTwice because while this was going on, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments the Stream chat was in hysterics blaming Sparanda on the whole mess.]]
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