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  • The Evil Overlord List is all about an aspiring Evil Overlord who, noting every villain they've seen or read about always lose by making the same mistakes, makes a handy guide to being a savvy villain.
  • In the Door Monster video "Predictable", Johnny America follows so many America action hero cliches that Jegor can predict his every move.
    Jegor: KGB trains us on handling loose cannon American action heroes. Whole course on cops who do not play by rules. I take notes.
  • The hosts of Eat Your Kimchi, Simon and Martina Stawski are savvy with both North American and Korean popular culture.
  • Several of the guests on Escape the Night can count:
    • After surviving the first season, when Oli and Eva receive invitations from Joey again (albeit Brainwashed and Crazy this time), they respectively tear up and burn the invitations and defy Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome as a result.
    • In Season 3 Episode 8, when the group finds the Wicker Man artifact, MatPat tells them not to touch it because of what happened in The Blair Witch Project.
      Matt: I've seen enough Blair Witch Project to know you don't go touching creepy stickman in the middle of nowhere, heck no!
    • In Season 4, Justine is the only one to try and escape her horrible fate, first she tries running, and later she grabs a knife and begins to stab the monster attacking her. Justified as this takes place in an All-Stars season, where she had partaken in a previous season.
  • Every single character in T.O.T., regardless of their age, is fully aware that they're in a horror novel and do the exact opposite of what a protagonist in a horror story shouldn't do. Unfortunately, Maximus Slade is also genre savvy and makes it hard for the protagonists to survive regardless.
  • Most of the protagonists in the Whateley Universe grew up reading Marvel Comics and DC Comics, and watching lots of anime, so they're pretty well suited to be growing up as mutants in a superhero universe.
  • During the Great Microwave Heist, Chad James reveals he's familiar with the Fakeout Escape trope when he and Barbara return from a snack run to find an empty equipment cage. Barbara simply thinks someone let Sam out of the cage.


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