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Bob "Moviebob" Chipman / The Game Overthinker

A self-proclaimed "Z-list internet celebrity", Bob Chipman is a video game and movie critic, known as the Game Overthinker, making videos that offer constructive commentary on the video game industry and community at large. His series takes a turn midway through into Affectionate Parody sketches where he is recruited by Commissioner Bunnyface to help fight video game characters that begin spawning in the real world, as well as fighting against other superpowered"Thinkers".
  • Advertising Campaigns: The Overthinker flips out when he watches an Activision advert featuring Oliver North, an American soldier he considers to be a war criminal.
    • Also happened when he watched Nintendo's "I am Not A Gamer" campaign, but it caused him to realise you don't have to be a "gamer" to enjoy video games.
    • Bob actually launched his own, advertising his book "Super Mario Bros. 3: Brick By Brick" which is essentially a Let's Play in written format of Super Mario Bros. 3.
  • Angst Nuke: Nearly has one after watching the "I am Not A Gamer" and nearly falls into Despair Event Horizon until Retrothinker lampshades that he shouldn't copy The Nostalgia Critic.
  • Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Becomes a being of consciousness in the big finale.
  • Author Appeal: Likes all things Asian.
  • Berserk Button: He hates what he views as hardcore gamers, the "douchebag" generation introduced with the Playstation (although he likes the console), Xbox Live trolls, Michael Bay (but has since come to view him in a more favourable light), and any movies that do terrible jobs of adapting comic books to the big screen or make painfully immoral choices in their casting or stories.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: Video game characters and elements begin to do this after the debut of the Anti-Thinker, Bob interacting with familiar faces like the bald guy from Rygar.
  • Cerebus Syndrome: Some fans feel this way about the change in tone of the Overthinker when the Anti-Thinker plot was introduced, with the satirical story arcs apparently spoiling the seriousness of the Overthinker's topics.
    • Lampshaded by Bob himself in the form of Strawman.
  • Cool Sword: Forges one from Anti-Metal to combat Pyrothinker and Cryothinker.
  • Creator Thumbprint: His love for Nintendo, Mario, and retro gaming, habit of calling people he dislikes "douchebags", and his nostalgia for the 1980s.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Gets his ass handed to him by Robothinker.
  • Darker and Edgier: In some of his Overthinker episodes when it came to more serious topics.
  • Disney Death: Killed by the Anti-Thinker via a Torso with a View and fake blood, but is resurrected by Princess Rosalina. In the Robothinker arc, he was meant to have died by the Anti-Thinker's hands which would have led to the end of the world, but it was averted by the Omega Thinker.
  • Dull Surprise: After encountering his evil twin, elemental ninjas, and video game zombies, the appearance of a time traveller from the future and a renegade, apocalyptic robot has little effect on his sense of disbelief. The Omega Thinker lampshades this, and Bob responds with "It's been an interesting couple of months."
  • Elemental Powers: The Overthinker uses the Fire and Ice Flowers to use fire and ice attacks. He tries using the elemental gems he collects against Robothinker but they fail. These powers come with an Instant Costume Change.
  • The Exile: Unwillingly depowered and exiled to Wario's Woods by the Anti-Thinker. He trains himself in the wild and battles his nemesis to take back his show.
  • Fan Boy: Tries to ascend beyond this trope and looks down on the "hardcore gamers" who he perceives as gamers who want games to belong only to them and no change at all. Bob is unabashedly a fanboy of Nintendo and Mario, though he does point out the flaws of both.
  • Fast-Forward Gag: When it comes to large amounts of exposition that needs to be explained, Bob often resorts to playing a sped-up narration to cram it all in.
  • Guile Hero: Willing to cheat, compromise, and fight dirty to stop his enemies.
  • Harmless Freezing: Frozen by Cryothinker on two separate occasions.
  • The Hero's Journey: Goes through this in the Anti-Thinker arc.
  • Heroic BSoD: When he learns his favourite fictional video game arcade, the Sharkcade, was destroyed by Pyrothinker.
  • Hollywood New England: Occasionally, his Boston accent will pop up.
  • Implicit Prison: The Overthinker and Ivan are placed under house arrest by Commissioner Bunnyface and Senator Lieberson.
  • Killed Off for Real: Briefly murdered by the Anti-Thinker only to be resurrected by divine intervention. He was supposed to die in the original timeline of the Omegathinker's history, only to be saved by his pink-haired descendant. Killed again in Episode 98 by the Ultrathinker and sent to hell, but returns yet again.
  • Laser Blade: Uses a lightsaber Wii weapon to fight the Anti-Thinker. Turns out to be a dud thanks to Wario.
  • Nostalgia Filter: Has a huge love for the 1980s and early 1990s, particularly when it comes to video games, comics and movies. He is a fan of Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Kirby, Metroid, Mega Man, and old school arcade games.
  • Occidental Otaku: A fan of Japanese culture, including Kaiju, Humongous Mecha, and anime.
  • Pac-Man Fever: A huge fan of video games released in the 80s like Mario, Zelda, and Megaman.
  • Proud to Be a Geek: As it says on his blog's banner.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Has a habit of doing this to anyone who he hates or disagrees with, usually hardcore gamers, and the "douchebag" generation of gamers introduced with the Playstation and Xbox Live, though most of the time he tries to justify his reasonings. Called out for his scathing of entire parts of society.
  • Rhymes on a Dime: Averted in an attempt to write a song whilst being housebound.
  • Running Gag: Sees Shigeru Miyamoto and Princess Rosalina as gods.
  • Straw Critic: He has a habit of making insulting generalizations against people he disagrees with or those who criticize his output.
  • Super Mode: His Fire Thinker and Ice Thinker forms.
  • Sword of Plot Advancement: His Anti-Metal sword.
  • Take That!: Does this a lot.
  • This Is Unforgivable!: Upon discovering Oliver North was promoting Call of Duty games.
  • Vigilante Man: Hired by Commissioner Bunnyface to kill the video game monsters that appear in town.
  • Wild Mass Guessing: Believes Princess Rosalina is god of the Mario universe.

    Ivan the Intern 

Ivan the Intern

The Overthinker's intern, his accountant's son, and Fairy Companion. He helps out the Overthinker and may backup his boss' points. He can be witty and bothered by the Overthinker's attitude, but remains dedicated to helping his employer. He finds Navi attractive, despite being an obvious parody of her.
  • A Day in the Limelight: Episode 76 was a Q&A dedicated to Ivan. Happens again when he becomes the host for Episode 83, teaming up with Dr. Beardo, whilst the Overthinker is fighting his enemies.
  • Ascended Extra: Appeared initially only in one episode but now serves as secondary protagonist in the Overthinker's story arcs.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: "Are there any civilizations that eat faeries as a delicacy?" *Smash Cut to a land wreathed in flames* Ivan: Not anymore.
  • Deadpan Snarker: A master of it, usually to point out plotholes in the show's story arcs.
  • Exposition Fairy: Provides details on the more fantasy-based elements of the mythos.
  • Expy: Of Navi.
    • Lampshaded by Ivan.
    Ivan: If you read my name backwards, it's a reference to something!
  • Fairy Companion: Bob's intern and sidekick.
  • Hidden Depths: Reveals he finds Navi attractive, apparently dated Tinkerbell, and is a Brony.
  • Non-Human Sidekick
  • Sdrawkcab Name: Navi spelled backwards if the quote above doesn't explain it.
  • Third-Person Person: Occasionally refers to himself in third person when excited, emotional, or drunk ("Ivan wants more Stafy!")

    Commissioner Bunnyface 

Commissioner John Bunnyface

The Commissioner Gordon. Commissioner Bunnyface (it's "Bonifacio") is the chief of police in Boston and the Overthinker's Friend on the Force. Oh, and he's a rabbit. Played by Dylan, the pet rabbit of Chris' girlfriend.

Superpowered Thinkers

    Anti-Thinker 

The Anti-Thinker / Broseph

The Overthinker's Evil Twin, the Anti-Thinker comes from the Antiverse. He banishes the Overthinker to Wario's Woods and temporarily takes over his show. He is sent by his Mysterious Employer to kill the Overthinker, leading to a climatic battle between the two. An idiotic douchebag, the Anti-Thinker loves all the things about gaming and culture that Bob hates. He appears as an identical twin of Bob, but his true form is a skull-faced humanoid with sickles for hands.
  • Anti-Hero: Becomes this as of Episode 87, no pun intended.
  • Abusive Parents: His father beat him after losing his job to a robot.
  • Back from the Dead: Revived by the Ultrathinker to get revenge on the Overthinker, but he is killed quickly by the Omega Thinker. He returned again as of Episode 87, busts Retrothinker out of confinement to aid Bob, becoming his reluctant ally.
  • Chekhov's Gun: His dollar medal is salvaged by the Overthinker and later forged into the hero's sword.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: His fight with the Omega Thinker.
  • Death Is Cheap: Comes back twice.
  • The Dragon: To the Ultrathinker prior to his second defeat.
  • Eldritch Abomination: Revealed to be part monster, possessing another form of a skull-faced creature with sickles for hands. Turns out this is the normal form for everyone in the Antiverse.
  • Evil Twin: Initially introduced as the Evil Overlord of the Antiverse but the 2013 Year's End special revealed this wasn't true. He actually reviews Gilmore Girls fanfiction to his own shame.
  • Fat Bastard: Fat and an asshole.
  • Genre Blindness: His lack of knowledge regarding pop culture and tropes make him vulnerable to several of the Overthinker's attacks and references.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Takes one in Episode 87, freeing Retrothinker from prison and going with him to the Overthinker's house after the Ultrathinker destroyed the Antiverse.
  • Hero Killer: Was meant to have been had the Omega Thinker not intervened.
  • Hidden Depths: He knows a surprising amount about the French Revolution.
    Anti-Thinker: Yeah. I know stuff.
    • As early as his second appearance, he was already presenting his analysis of fantasy escapism as a coping mechanism for nerds who feel marginalized by mainstream society, albeit couched in his simplistic and derogatory language. His anti-intellectualism is mostly an affectation; as the Overthinker's counterpart he could hardly be genuinely stupid. He's the Antithinker not because he's anti-thinking, but because he's the Thinker from the Antiverse.
  • Jerkass: Portrayed initially as a sexist, homophobic douchebag to serve as an evil counterpart to Bob, who hates everything he loves, preferring first person shooters (i.e. Call of Duty) to the likes of Bob's favourite Nintendo games. He mellows out in later appearances, becoming more of a misinformed dufus.
  • Killed Off for Real: Twice.
  • Last of His Kind: Becomes this after the Ultrathinker destroys the Antiverse.
  • Lazy Bum: Spent most of his time sitting on Bob's couching watching low budget violent films.
  • Mirror Universe: Comes from the Antiverse, where he is the counterpart of the Overthinker.
  • Take That!:
    • A direct take that to the "douchebag audience" of pop culture that Bob openly despises.
    • Episdoe 95 "The Antithinker Blabs" is a take-that against The Rageaholic.

    Pyrothinker and Cryothinker / Plasma Thinker 

Pyrothinker and Cryothinker / Plasma Thinker

A pair of colour-coded ninjas who attack and destroy game stores and arcades using their fire and ice-based powers. They use a fire gem and an ice gem. Not very bright.

    Retrothinker / Necrothinker 

Retrothinker / Necrothinker

A 1980s counterpart to the Overthinker who hosted a TV show about video games. Excited to see how the video game industry would evolve in the 21st Century, he became a Human Popsicle until the time was right. However, he was awakened early after Pyrothinker destroyed the Sharkcade and found the future to be terrifying. He is corrupted by the Ultrathinker and becomes Necrothinker, who summons an army of undead video game characters to destroy all of modern gaming. He is healed by the Overthinker and becomes his flatmate.
  • Anti-Villain: As Necrothinker, who is a corrupt Retrothinker refusing to deal with reality and instead resorts to resurrecting zombified forgotten game characters to comfort himself.
  • Became Their Own Antithesis: As Necrothinker, Retrothinker becomes a cynical, hateful being who loses all optimism and hope for gaming and vows to destroy it entirely by bringing back dead franchises from his happier days.
  • The Chosen One: Revealed to be worthy to wield the Golden Axe.
  • Cool Mask: As Necrothinker.
  • Deal with the Devil: Becomes the Ultrathinker's servant to destroy modern gaming.
  • Dishing Out Dirt: Gains the ability to summon the undead using an earth elemental gem.
  • Driven to Suicide: Averted by Bob and Ivan.
  • Dysfunction Junction: Turned evil by his despair over what the future has done to gaming.
  • Face–Heel Turn: Turns into Necrothinker upon losing hope in the progress of gaming.
  • Fish out of Water: The Overthinker and Ivan help him gradually get through the culture shock and embrace the games of the 1990s and 2000s.
  • The Future Is Shocking: Retrothinker is horrified by what has happened to video games and considers suicide until the Overthinker arrives. Then he finds out what became of Sonic.
  • He Who Fights Monsters: As Necrothinker, he wants to destroy modern gaming by resurrecting forgotten retro characters, believing the medium has lost its way in the present day.
  • Heroic BSoD: Upon discovering what happened to Sonic, parodying the ending of Planet of the Apes.
  • Human Popsicle: Deliberately froze himself to awaken in 2025.
  • Laugh Track: Occurs whenever Retrothinker appears after his Necrothinker arc.
  • Legacy Character: He is the Overthinker's predecessor from the 1980s.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: After he realises what he did as Necrothinker.
  • Necromancer: As Necrothinker.
  • Nostalgia Filter: The basis for Necrothinker's mindset.
  • Our Zombies Are Different: Summons an army of undead video game characters to exact his revenge.
  • Protagonist Journey to Villain: A short-term version. Retrothinker froze himself with the intent to waken in 2025 hoping to experience a golden age of gaming but woke early with the destruction of the Sharkcade. Bob and Ivan talked him down from committing suicide and Retrothinker left to find his place in the world, only to discover Sonic 06 and had a mental breakdown. The Ultrathinker than preyed on his nostalgia and hatred, transforming him into Necrothinker.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: As Necrothinker, Retrothinker wishes to destroy modern gaming (i.e. first person shooters, mobile games, apps, etc.)
  • Sealed Good in a Can: Retrothinker is arrested and placed in a Cobalt Corp bunker until the authorities can figure out whether or not he truly destroyed Necrothinker. He is busted out by the Anti-Thinker.
  • Superpowered Evil Side: At first he is completely consumed by his darkness, but after being saved by the Overthinker, he can transform into the Necrothinker at will using the earth stone.
  • Shadow Archetype: As Necrothinker, he serves as a dark mirror to Bob's love for nostalgia childhood video games and semi-disdain for modern gaming, wanting to destroy the industry using undead, forgotten video game characters.
  • Supervillain Lair: The Necro Tower, created from the remains of the Sharkcade. Tragically ironic, since Retrothinker recorded his TV show in the building's basement.
  • Totally Radical: Speaks using some 80s and 90s slang.
  • Tragic Villain: Froze himself to awaken in a world of wonder, only to find it is a Crapsack World, all of his hopes and dreams of an innovated video game golden age have been dashed, and discovering what became of Sonic leads to his corruption into Necrothinker. Made worse considering he uses long forgotten video game characters as zombies and the Sharkcade ruins as his supervillain base.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Retrothinker erases Necrothinker from his being, regarding him as a shadow for his hatred and grief.

    Omega Thinker 

Clogs Shoes / The Omega Thinker

A pink-haired man from the future, the Omega Thinker is the Overthinker's descendant and the last in a long line of Omega Thinkers. He was sent to destroy the Anti-Thinker and Robothinker to prevent the annihilation of mankind.

    Robothinker 

Robothinker

Robothinker is a robot who wiped out mankind in the future. He wields the last of the elemental gems, wielding the power of air. He is actually an advanced predator drone developed by Dr. Beardo, but when connected to Xbox Live for simulation training, he gained the mind of an Xbox Live troll and turned evil, plotting to destroy mankind for "mad pwnage".
  • Affectionate Parody: Of The Terminator.
  • A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Robothinker was created by Dr. Beardo and other US military scientists as a predator drone powered by the air elemental gem. The military then get the idea to hook Robothinker up to Xbox Live to practice millions of simulations based on first person shooter games. Robothinker becomes obsessed with getting high scores, and begins to attack military bases. Stealth bombers destroy his drone body, but he rebuilds himself a new body, reconnects himself to Xbox Live and goes Skynet on the world, bringing about the end of mankind.
  • Artificial Human: Subverted. He is actually a super-intelligent US military predator drone powered by the air elemental gem. He rebuilt his body to a humanoid shape.
  • Back for the Finale: Rebuilt to fight the good guys.
  • Blow You Away: Empowered by the air gem.
  • Chekhov's Gun: After the air gem is removed, Robothinker returns without a magical core. Ivan uses this to his advantage to take control of his body. His technology was also used to create the J.I.S.M. drones.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Against the Overthinker, and initially with the Anti-Thinker, Retrothinker and Ivan in the original timeline.
  • Heel–Face Turn: A forced one when Ivan hijacks his chassis.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: By the Omega Thinker.
  • Implacable Man: Extremely powerful and can take on Bob, Retrothinker, and the Omega Thinker.
  • Kill All Humans: Since his mind his based on that of playing on Xbox games, he thinks wiping out humanity will earn him the highest achievement.
  • Leet Lingo: Speaks entirely in Xbox Live-esque jargon and slang.
  • Mighty Glacier: He kicks the Overthinker's ass in about ten seconds, even when he is empowered with the other elemental gems.
  • Overly Long Name: "Robotic Overhead Battle Operative Tactical Heavy Impulse Neutralization Killing Elimination Really, Really Bad Guys" (or "Robothinker" for short).

     Mr. Phibb 

Mr. Phibb

The Devil himself, Mr. Phibb debuts in Episode 78 and was implied to be the Big Bad until Episode 80. He resembles the Overthinker but is dressed in red.
  • Affably Evil: Very suave and polite, but also manipulative and sly.
  • Badass in a Nice Suit: Wears a snappy red suit.
  • Deal with the Devil: Turns out he is in fact in a deal with someone who more evil than he is.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Mr. Phibb doesn't want the Ultrathinker to destroy the world, as it would leave him without a job or purpose.
  • I Have Many Names
  • Satan: The devil himself but resembling Bob for some reason.
  • Welcome to Hell: Welcomes Bob when he ends up in hell after being slain by the Ultrathinker, and punishes him by giving him more fanmail to answer. When the Omegathinker rescues Bob, Phibb is pretty upset.

    Ultrathinker 

The Ultrathinker

The Big Bad of the show and The Chessmaster of the story arcs. Appears as a mysterious cloaked entity who dwells in another dimension, manipulating the characters in an attempt to destroy video games. He is referred to as "The Beast" til his identity is revealed.
  • Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: He was sent into space by NASA, then exposed to cosmic radiation that allowed him to become a being of great power.
  • Affably Evil: He is very charismatic and even polite to Mr. Phibb.
  • Big Bad: Though he remains behind the scenes until the last story arc.
  • The Chessmaster: Manipulates the show's characters to further his own agenda, which is to materialise on Earth and destroy humanity and video games. Turns out he was responsible for the 1983 market crash, the failure of the Dreamcast, and the birth of the "douchebag" gamers on Xbox Live.
  • Cosmic Entity: Became one after being flung into deep space and exposed to cosmic radiation.
  • Deal with the Devil: Turns out even the Devil himself is this guy's associate. He made a deal with Retrothinker to resurrect undead video game characters.
  • Evil Sounds Deep
  • Expy: Of Caesar and Simion.
  • I Want My Jetpack: As a scientificaly-enhanced ape, he helped improve electro-video technology and hoped it would lead humanity into a new era of development. After becoming a cosmic entity he discovered humanity had created video games from his creations, vowed to destroy gaming in retribution, and punish humanity for their lack of vision.
  • In the Hood: Appears as a deep voiced, hooded person.
  • Killer Space Monkey: As revealed in Episode 96. Bob didn't see that coming.
  • Psychic Powers: Develops them to be able to see across the universe without leaving deep space. Also used them to try and destroy gaming across the years.

    The Captain 

The Captain

A character introduced in Episode 99. A semi-corporeal being of "video energy", he summons Bob to heaven to speak with him. Wears a familiar letterman jock jacket and appears to be made from space itself.

Other Characters

    Senator Lieberson 

Senator Jack Lieberson

A Ninja who is the US Senator of Boston and Massachusetts. He is of the Retsudoki ninja clan and is apparently a master of ninjutsu. Another ally to the Overthinker, who supported Lieberson in his campaign.

    Doctor Beardo 

Dr. Beardo

The scientist who built the Robothinker, Dr. Beardo seeks to atone for his role in mankind's destruction and is sent by Senator Lieberson to aid the Overthinker. He has a beard as you might have guessed.

    Strawman 

Strawman

A talking haystack who appears to the Overthinker during his banishment in Wario's Woods. He constantly points out the Overthinker's hypocrisy and complains about the changes to the show.

    Chris Chipman 

Chris Chipman

Bob's brother who acts as his cameraman. He has a minor onscreen role in the Anti-Thinker arc when he is sent to explore Wario's Woods but is attacked by the Anti-Thinker.
  • Butt-Monkey: Sent to Wario's Woods by his brother and then spends the next three months recording him with Bob not even noticing his presence. Chris calls Bob out on this and Bob immediately apologises.
  • In-Universe Camera
  • Sibling Team: Bob and Chris develop the show together, with Chris acting as cameraman and playing Bob's opponents in fight scenes.

    Door Guy 

Door Guy

A member of Senator Lieberson's Cobalt Core, who is assigned to guard the Overthinker whilst he is housebound. Speaks with a German accent and is not too fond of the Wii.
  • Affably Evil: Pretty sociable and chummy with Bob even though they consider him an idiot. He personally drops his duty to rant about Bob putting Wii Sports on his top ten list of seventh generation games. Gains an Alas, Poor Villain moment from Bob when he is killed by the Anti-Thinker, pitting him when his comrades are unceremoniously replaced by J.I.S.M.
  • Badass Normal: Willing to fight Retrothinker to keep his job.
  • Berserk Button: Door Guy gets mad at the Overthinker when he puts Wii Sports as his number three choice in his top ten best seventh generation games list.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Just "Door Guy".
  • Mauve Shirt: Part of a Redshirt Army. He is Killed Off for Real when electrocuted by the Anti-Thinker when he and Retrothinker return to Bob's house.
  • NPC Roadblock: Acts as the guard during Bob and Ivan's house arrest.

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