Characters / The Blockbuster Buster

Main Cast

Eric "ERod" Rodriguez, The Blockbuster Buster

"Greetings, fanboys and fangirls. I'm E Rod, and I'm the Blockbuster"

• Added Alliterative Appeal: He uses a lot of jokes with alliterations, and uses them to summarize the movies he is about to bust. When he skips the alliteration, it means the movie is beyond bad.
• Ascended Fanboy: ERod admits to be a fanboy himself and started doing reviews with hopes of being part of Channel Awesome and made some videos parodying the site didn't pick him yet. He eventually succeeds.
  • Also his reviews are more in the fanboy approach before as a media critic. He stated more than once that he's a proud fanboy/geek.
• Badass in Distress: When captured by Evil-E.
  • Beard of Sorrow
• Catchphrase: Has many.
  • "Greetings, Fanboys and Fangirls. I'm ERod and I'm The Blockbuster Buster"
  • "One Busted and Thousands more to go"
  • "Busted!"
  • "It's not easy being a DC fan"
• Caustic Critic
• The Cutie: Lil' ERod in a Smurfs costume and outfit.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Given his black clothes and skulls everywhere.
• Dance Battler: And ERod also knows how to bust some moves.
  • Many reviews feature the Dance Break section, either if there's no explanation or needs a break from tiresome parts of the movie.
  • To celebrate his 1000 followers in youtube, ERod makes a video featuring all his characters dancing.
  • ERod mentions in a commentary that his views rise every time he features a dance break in his videos.
  • Also used to defeat Evil-E after the Resident Evil: Afterlife review.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Determinator
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": “My name is ERod!”
• Driven to Madness: The CGI baby from Son of The Mask drives him insane for a whole episode. It happens again with Breaking Dawn Part 2 CGI baby.
• Fan Boy: Self-admitted and proud of it (but not in the negative context, he just happens to be a very passionate fan).
• The Hero
• Hot-Blooded
• Iconic Item: His hammer Lucile and his skull ring.
• Large Ham
• Limited Wardrobe: While he usually wears the same jacket, the t-shirt is different every time (but it is always black).
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": You can expect it if Sarah Michelle Gellar, female badass characters and Bruce Campbell are involved.
• Manchild: Often rampages about nostalgic movies and series being ruined by Hollywood, but the biggest fact is that he still plays and voices with his dolls, I mean, action figures. Lampshaded in the Channel Awesome Holidays greetings.
  • In his Cars 2 review, ERod says Bruce Campbell playing a character named "Rod" is greater than the greatest day of his life: meeting Donald Duck at Disneyland.

• Only the Chosen May Wield: His hammer and powers work under Thor style rules.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Invoked and lampshaded in few occasions
  • In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) casting couch, ERod says that he watched the General Hospital soap opera.
  • Recognizes Genie Francis in Thunderbirds and tries to reference General Hospital as the show with the most rated wedding scene in TV history.
  • He recognizes Tim Gunn from Project Runway in The Smurfs movie, only to lampshade this by presenting a random explosion.
• Slept Through the Apocalypse: After refusing to bust The Amazing Spider-man 2 he falls into a coma and wakes up three months later, during which Lazarus Dark has taken over the world.
• Small Name, Big Ego: In his TGWTG Producers Casting Couch, he casted Denzel Washington as himself, presenting him as "the best actor to play the most important person on the site".
• Squee: Enters in fanboy hysteria if Sarah Michelle Gellar is on screen. Also points this again with Catherine Tate, only dropping to the floor when mentioning Sarah Michelle Gellar again.
  ERod: *After hitting himself after a WTF moment* Was Sarah Michelle Gellar here?
  • Also for Cars 2, he gets over excited when finding out Bruce Campbell had a role in a Pixar movie playing a character named "ROD", almost part of his own name.
    • That immediately crashes when the character is killed off after a brief appearance.
• Unknown Rival: ERod has been claiming Linkara copied him in many occasions even before he got into That Guy With The Glasses and has been declaring Linkara as his rival. Linkara, of course, wasn't aware of this at all and, only after ERod finally told him this in the crossover, Linkara set this as an extreme coincidence due to both of them being very similar.

Nerdlinger (played by Eric Rodriguez)

• Allergic To Girls: Poor Nerdlinger. He's so vulnerable to scantily clad ladies that he covers his eyes at best and downright faints at worse. He even faints at the only mention of Obscurus Lupa name and poster.
• All Love Is Unrequited: Nerdlinger has a big crush on Obscurus Lupa and is devastated when learning she's not available.
  • ERod has also to contain himself from pointing out that she's obviously out of his league.
• Berserk Button: Everything related to the Dungeons & Dragons movie and Courtney Solomon.
  "SCUM!!!"
  • Leonard Nimoy's Actor Allusion in the Transformers 3 review provoked a similar response.
  "Michael Bay, you are scum! SCUUUUUM!"
• Characterization Marches On: Compairing him with his first appearance in the second episode, Nerlinger gradually became more energetic and showed a wider range of emotions compared to the other characters in the show.
• Last-Name Basis: You don't find out his full name until nearly 100 episodes in.
  • Overly Long Name: (Borderline example) Eustace Xavier Aloysius Nerdlinger the third.
• Limited Wardrobe: Beige backwards cap, taped glasses, turquoise button-up polo over a white long sleeved top, and black tie.
• Lovable Coward: It causes him no end of grief, since being the resident expository nerd makes him ERod's go-to guy for information on many franchises, including horror franchises, so he gets constantly exposed to scary stuff. Just as much as he knows about characters like the Terminator and the Predator, he can't see their movies without being on the verge of a horror-induced fainting spell.
  • Cowardly Lion: Completing the Resident Evil: Extinction review (even if he didn't manage to bust it) because ERod was depending on him (with some encouragement from Batman) and busting the Dungeons & Dragons movie in a fit of Nerd-Rage.
• Manchild: For Gulliver's Travels, he's shown playing with his action figures and Lupa (BtVS's Willow doll) is the ultimate hero.
• Mister Exposition: When ERod needs to explain details about a movie's background or the plot of previous movies, he often calls on Nerdlinger to do the honors.
• Put on a Bus: E-Rod has announced that he will no longer play the character in the rebooted Blockbuster Buster series.

Oscar Gutierrez/El Lover (played by Eric Rodriguez)

• Bilingual Bonus: In the Mummy 3 and Terminator 3, an annoyed El Lover turns out to be quite the potty mouth.
• Catchphrase:
  • "'Sup Pendejos! I'm El Lover. You want to know about (the movie), I tell YOU about (the movie)"
  • Mira papi...
  • Mira, hijo de tu madre...
  • Mira, coño de tu madre...
• Chivalrous Pervert: From the Resident Evil: Apocalypse Review:
  El Lover: Milla, Milla Yoyovitch, *pointing to lap* I got a big gun for you right here that you can borrow, baby. No, seriously, *lifts a large firearm into frame* I mean you can borrow this; I don't want to see you get hurt.
• Dashing Hispanic:
  El Lover: Sorry papi, El Lover’s a lover not a fighter. And how I love to kick ass!
• Distracted by the Sexy: He often gives compliments for the female characters during his prequel recaps, and his occassional review.
  • He fails to bust Resident Evil: Apocalypse because he got a call that Sarah Michelle Gellar was at a coffee shop.
  • Partially subverted with Sucker Punch, where it had plenty of Fanservice, but was still so confused by the film that he tried to wake up ERod and make him bust the movie already.
• Gratuitous Spanish: Obviously.
  • Also mixed with Verbal Tic, since the words he uses the most are "Mira, papi" ("Look, daddy"), "Mamacitas" ("chicks" or "babes"), "Pendejos", "... and shit" after some sentences.
• Latin Lover: Exactly What It Says on the Tin
• Limited Wardrobe: All black: tuque, goggles, sunglasses, hoodie over a turquoise shirt, fingerless gloves and jeans.
• Only Sane Man: From all the other characters, El Lover is the one who has handled Insane!ERod three times.
• Put on a Bus: E-Rod has announced that he will no longer play the character in the rebooted Blockbuster Buster series.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He is mostly seen with a Coca Cola bottle.
  "Now cue me while I sip on some soda. Daaaamn, that's some good soda, bitch."

Frederic Lombardo/Fedora Freddy (played by Eric Rodriguez)

• The Ace: In a twisted sort of way. Fedora Freddy is an idea guy for movie executives looking to create crap movies that still make buttloads of money. Fedora Freddy basically fast-talks horrible plots into existence... and the movies make buttloads of money.
• Alliterative Name: Though, as revealed in his Secret Origins video, it isn't his real name.
• All There in the Manual: His real name (Frederic Lombardo) was revealed by ERod in the Secret Origins videos. It has yet to be used in his actual appearances.
• Everyone Has Standards: Despite his . . . interesting decisions for other movies^note ie. Shoehorning the end of the romantic subplot into the end of the movie for Josie and the Pussycats, etc. even he thinks that giving Jonah Hex superpowers is a bad idea.
• Limited Wardrobe: Fedora, brown vest, white button-up shirt, and red tie.
• Motor Mouth: Lampshaded:
  El Lover: But, just in case you missed what happened at the end of the last movie, because Fedora Freddy talks too fast, El Lover is going to tell you what went down.
• The Nicknamer: Refers to ERod as "Mr E".
• Odd Friendship: Considering he is specialized in doing all those crappy decisions that piss off ERod, his friendship with him definitely fits this trope.
• Put on a Bus: E-Rod has announced that he will no longer play the character in the rebooted Blockbuster Buster series.

SHE-Rod (played by Marsha Kent)

• Action Girl
  • Action Girlfriend
  • Lady of War
• All Women Are Lustful: Even when ERod talks about an apple strudel, she's thinking about... the beef kind.
  • Another one comes from "Dudley Do-Right"
    SHE-Rod: You're just jealous because Dudley does me right.
  • She is clearly a fan of Kevin Bacon.
• Battle Couple: With ERod
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Covert Pervert
• Deadpan Snarker
• Distaff Counterpart: Lampshaded.
• Improvised Weapon: SHE-Rod uses a friendship bracelet on Danapholi and it works.
• Narrator All Along: “Previously, on The Blockbuster Buster…”
• Sixth Ranger

J.A.R.V.I.S.

• Benevolent A.I.: He is more logical and patient than his boss.
• Cassandra Truth: JARVIS has warned ERod not to review a highly awful movie that was already reviewed by other producers, which ERod still does. It ended up as expected...
• The Comically Serious: Whenever ERod wants to do something impulsive, he retorts with honest advice.
  "Seems like an unworthy cause, sir."
• Expy: He verbally acknowleges that he is this, since ERod's powers can recreate elements from other movies.
• Mr. Exposition: He is the one in charge of guiding ERod after he looses his memory.

Nemeses

Evil-E / Lazarus Dark (played by Eric Rodriguez)

• Breakout Character: He was initially introduced as a mere reference to Symbiot Spider-Man in the Spider-Man 3 review, but he became so popular ERod brought him back several times, and eventually made him a character of his own.
• Create Your Own Villain: ERod's attempt to permanently get rid of Evil-E accidentally transformed him into a much bigger threat.
• The Dragon: To the Hooded Man
• Evil Costume Switch: What gave birth to him until Evil-E becomes his own entity.
• Evil Counterpart: He even loves everything ERod despises from Hollywood.
• Evil Laugh: All villains tend to do it, but he is especially prone for that.
• Evil Makeover: Evil-E to Lazarus Dark.
• Evil Makes You Ugly: Implied. "What happened to my face?
• Evil Sounds Deep.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: He's EVIL.
• Expy: Obviously to Evil-Spidey from Spiderman 3.
  • Lazarus Dark looks like Dr. Doom
• Glowing Eyes of Doom
• Grand Theft Me: Dark Lazarus inflicts this to Dr Affect.
• Knight of Cerebus: Lazarus Dark is treated much more seriously than any of the previous villains ERod faced.
• Large Ham
• Not-So-Harmless Villain/Took a Level in Badass: While Evil-E had moments where he would become dangerous, ERod mentioned he always felt like his character wasn’t that much of a threat. His transformation into Lazarus Dark was done as a mean to fix this.
• Psycho Electro: As Lazarus Dark.
• That Man Is Dead: "Evil-E is dead; he has been reborn as a shadow. From this day forward, I shall be known as Lazarus Dark.

The Hooded Man / Darth Lucas (played by Joshua Bradt)

• Beard of Evil
• Big Bad
• Broken Pedestal: ERod is a big fan of the original Star Wars trilogy, and a such used to be a fan of Lucas until he ruined his own franchise with Episode 1.
• Creepy Monotone
• Composite Character: He's obviously George Lucas going through the Darth Vader corrupted path.
• Fallen Hero: Parodied.
• Money, Dear Boy: Invoked; This is the reason why he did the new Trilogy: Selling toys. This was also was his next step after getting rid of all the critics.
• Put on a Bus: He is defeated by ERod and vanishes, meaning there's a possibility for him to come back.
  • The Bus Came Back: The next time to take on Linkara and ERod.
• The Reveal: His identity.
• Shout-Out: Aside from the obvious Darth Vader spoof, he refers to ERod as "Mr Rodriguez".
• The Stoic
• You Have Failed Me: To Evil-E who apparently survived it and is still serving him.

The Demon Danapholi (played by Lexa Loren Payne)

• A Form You Are Uncomfortable With: Took the form of a girl he had a crush on but who wouldn’t give him the time of day.
• Dark Action Girl
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
• Giggling Villain
• Large Ham
• The Nicknamer
• Our Demons Are Different: Hate and violence make them stronger.
• Power Of Forgiveness: How she is defeated in her first arc.
  • The Power of Friendship: How she is defeated in the second arc.
• Really 700 Years Old: Looks like she’s in her 20’s, remembers when pain was invented.

Dr. Nemesis / Panda Bear (played by Paul Seetachitt)

• Evil Former Friend: With ERod.
• Evil Genius
• Eyepatch of Power
• Face–Heel Turn
  • Heel–Face Turn
• Me's a Crowd: He has identical clones that he can summon at will.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Toward ERod. This leads him to betray Darth Lucas, and eventually make a Heel–Face Turn.
• Redemption Equals Banishment: To the null void.
• That Man Is Dead: Panda Bear

Stephenie Meyer (Played by Katie Harbin)

• Devil in Disguise
• Fang Thpeak
• Final Boss: Turns out The Crypt Keeper was a preparation for ERod to the final fight.
• Last Words: "Edward..."
• Our Vampires Are Different

Una St.James / The original Blockbuster Buster

• Hero's Evil Predecessor
• Older Than They Look: Doesn't appear to have aged a day since the late eighties.

Allies

Jeannie the Genie (played by Marsha Kent)

• Benevolent Genie
• Expy: Of Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie
• Genie in a Bottle
• Hyper-Competent Sidekick
• Magical Girlfriend
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Admits to El Lover that ERod does't know she can get out of her bottle whenever she wants.

The Guardian Lorelei, Patron Saint of Fandom (played by Denise Mendez-Smith)

• Herald
• Big Good

E-Joy

The show's title card artist. You should remind she likes kittens and puppies. You can see the title cards in her deviantart account

• Berserk Button: Gets upset by ERod saying "Anything cute can't be badass", and also warns Dr. Affect about using animals as ammunition.
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Cuteness Proximity: You should remind she likes kittens and puppies.
• The Cutie: Which prevents her several times from being fired.
  ERod: If you weren't that cute, I'd fire you.
  E-Joy: I love you boss *smiles*
  ERod: I- I love you too...

• Genius Ditz: Managed to solve the mystery in the Nancy Drew movie before Nancy Drew did.

• Eloquent in My Native Tongue
• Hero-Worshipper: Wants to be SHE-Rod's assistant.
• What, Exactly, Is Her Job?: ERod hired her and he doesn't even know what her job is.

Dr. Julian Affect

The show's special effects guy, who is a gadget inventor.

• Cloud Cuckoolander: Makes a dog-gun in 4 different breeds

• Punny Name: Cause and Affect

• Steampunk: Dr. Effect's entire persona.
• We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: Dr. Affect's is a long running clip of Nurse Cause padding it with saxophone music.

Nurse Justine Cause

Dr. Affect's sassy, albeit silent, assistant.

• The Faceless: Most commonly seen with her head cut off by the top of the image, though she sometimes uses masks and such.

• Perky Goth: Nurse Cause dresses in Goth fashion and has a pink bedroom with Hello Kitty furniture.
• Punny Name: Cause and Affect
• Sassy Secretary: Even thought she never talks, Nurse Cause has this interaction with Dr. Affect: Gets annoyed by him giving her orders, beat him up with a plutonium piece because her Eye Candy was cut off, and flirts with ERod every time she's near the video-call.
• The Voiceless: Limited to physical gestures.
  • Suddenly Voiced: She speaks for the first time in the Justice League top ten list.
  • Silent Bob / The Quiet One: She can speak, but only does so when necessary. She has found other ways of communication.

Cartoon-E

• Kick the Dog: Often happens to him when illustrating how a filmmaker lets the fans down with something.
  • One example is for the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, where George Lucas gives Cartoon-E a cookie to then kick him in the nuts.

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