Headscratchers / Atop the Fourth Wall

Headscratchers for Atop the Fourth Wall.

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• In the Review of the Grinning Man in the fight scene you see Hologram Linkara cut down a pyramid head and then get stabbed through the torso. Which it just shrugs off. If it was tangible and able to wield the Bat'leth and can kill while taking no damage why not just get the hologram to do all the fighting. Just hand the hologram the gun, let it do the rant and let it fire the gun.
  • It's a reference to Voyager's mobile emitter.
  • Holo-Linkara is basically a walking forcefield. He can be damaged, but you'd need to attack the holo-emitter. The monsters don't know that.
  • It might also be a reference to Red Dwarf's Arnold Judas Rimmer.

• What's "The Source"? Is it the same thing as the Entity?
  • Given Linkara's love for The New Gods, it's the same Source from there: the "consciousness" of the universe.
• If Vyce is warning us about the Entity, how come his slogan is "All that I see, I conquer" if he doesn't want power?
  • Probably a case of Well-Intentioned Extremist, it's not that he wants power, but that he doesn't know how else to protect all those worlds aside from conquering them.
    • He must make himself seem feared so the Entity will hesitate
  • Wait what? Than if that is the case, then why did Vyce come to the universe where linkara lives when it was stablished that the Entity was here before Vyce came? If he wants to build reputation then he should avoid the universes where the Entity is there where it can just look around for a while for him. He should instead go to another universe where he can conquer easily and build reputation in the mayor number of universes he can to avoid that horror from spreading (assuming the Entity takes really long to jump to another universe to another) Linkaraverse will be eaten, sure but in the long run more universes will be saved.............Assuming that the Entity will just sit there after finishing is last meal and die of hunger or being really bored with a long lifespan because some Vyce fellow is supposed to be able to conquer anything he sees and cant risk it even if the alternative is doing nothing for eternity.
  • Dude, Vyce wants to KILL the Entity. Pure and simple. He conquers universes cause it makes hunting it easier, as he can track it down easier if the locals aren't getting in his way.
• Is the Power Rangers Zeo review the end of the Vyce saga?
  • Presumably it's wrapping up in "Justice League: Cry for Justice #5-#6". All that happened in Zeo was he beat up Mechakara again.
  • It has wrapped up now, with the Youngblood #3/Doctor Who Classics #7 double feature.
• What does V minus 42 mean?
  • It's a play on the "T-minus" countdown that precedes the launches of rockets and missiles, only in reference to when Lord Vyce's ship (or Lord Vyce himself) arrives at/on Earth. No idea what the forty-two means.
    • The 42 means that Lord Vyce will finally confront Linkara 42 days from when the Cry for Justice video was released.
    • Since the video released a week after said V minus 35, it is at least counting down by days.
    • He probably chose '42' because it's the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

• Like Linkara said, every appearance of Mechakara has something to do with who he is or what he's trying to do. Except one: Zero Patrol. What was he trying to do? He said himself that he didn't break the Continuity alarm, so really all he did was stand around and look ominous.
  • Red Herring.
  • Him showing up and commenting that Linkara had one less electronic device to order around was probably meant to hint at his "machines rebelling against humanity" back-story.
  • It was referencing his secret identity as Pollo.

• Why was Black Lantern Spoony / Spoony the White angered by the "You're in my way" line. It was clone Spoony who did the Let's Play of SWAT 4.
  • Clone Spoony and Original Spoony basically think the same way. If Original Spoony ever played the game before he died then he'd go berserk at the same things. Hell, maybe he was playing it as a Black Lantern while waiting for stuff to do.

• Why did his character freak out over the existence of a second issue of Sultry Teenage Super Foxes? He mentioned there was a second issue while reviewing the first, and I can understand if it just slipped his mind while writing the script. However, we see the second issue every time the opening credits roll. It can be seen after the lyric, "It could be your turn."
  • He's acting and exaggerating a reaction for comic effect. Remember his Amazons Attack! review? In part 3, after realizing he's got no choice but to review this thing, he calms down and gives a summary of fan backlash against Amazons Attack, and mentions that the ending played a part in it "but I'll get to that later." When he DOES get to the ending, he acts like he hasn't read it before and has an epic freak out over the revelation that Granny Goodness, a character with no connection to Wonder Woman's mythos, is the main villain behind Amazons Attack. He does this for the sake of comedy. The Nostalgia Critic and Spoony often do similar things. Spoony even mentions it during his Slammies V-Log, talking about how, in his show, when he's reacting to something crazy, weird, or stupid that happened in a movie, we the audience KNOW he's not seeing the film for the first time — he's acting. All this can be excused by the Rule of Funny.
  • That's not the second issue, it's the first. Also, there's a difference between knowing a thing exists and actually seeing it with your own eyes.

• Who is Iron Liz?
  • Presumably, it's the person wearing an Iron Maiden T-shirt who appears in Linkara's place at one point.
  • Hey, I just found Iron Liz's blog: http://thefoundary.blogspot.com/ . Apparently she's going to be in more reviews. Cool.
  • That was the girl who said "Who am I?" in the Warrior #2 and #3 review I think? Also, and apparently I should already obviously know this a hundred million miles away, Linkara's girlfriend.
• So, what was Dr. Linksano's goal all this time? In the Warrior #2 and #3 review, he seemed to be trying to make his universe coexist with ours, but what was he trying to do up until then? In all of his appearances until then, he seemed to just be trying to make Linkara feel miserable. How would that have accomplished his goal?
  • If Linkara was driven to madness he wouldn't have been able to oppose Linksano. After all, if not for Linkara, he would have conquered all reality in the second Warrior review.
    • Maybe I misinterpreted the character, but it always seemed to me that Linksano had some plan that depended on Linkara going insane. But unlike Mechakara, Linksano doesn't seem to have had any good reason to be fixating on Linkara like this. At first, I thought it had something to do with Linkara being Linksano's counterpart in this universe, but now we know that Linksano is really Oscar Schlumper from Earth-982. Furthermore, he ends up trying to take over the world with the Warrior comic without having driven Linkara insane anyway, so...?
    • Wouldn't the Warrior comic have driven him insane?

• Harvey Finevoice mentioning Pokémon. Or to be more precise, Harvey Finevoice referencing the Name Rater from Pokémon. How old is Finevoice supposed to be?
  • Given that he refers to Linkara as "Kid", one can assume he's at least meant to be a few years older than him. Add to that the fact he was either brought from the past, travels back and forth between the past and present at will or just decides to act like he lives in the past, age with him just gets confusing.
    • Maybe he's in Limbo with 90's Kid and 80's Dan. 90's Kid, at least, shows some knowledge of things from outside of his decade.
  • During a Q&A from one of his live shows, Linkara mentions that Harvey really likes Pokemon.
• Linkara went on vacation and returned a few months later stating that "they caught up with [him] in Molossia". This aired midway through Kickassia's airing, so what's the timeline?
  • It was meant to be canonically 'over' by the time it started airing, and that it was kinda showing you what had already happened rather than day-by-day. If that makes sense.
  • The fact that they caught him in Molossia this time was pure coincidence with no connection to anything else going on (in-universe of course), since he was clearly in his home at the start of Kickassia.
    • Not quite. At the end of that episode (Lunat!k #1) there's a card that says "What was Linkara doing in Molossia? Watch "Kickassia" to find out!" IIRC Linkara's vacation was supposed to be three months, and Kickassia takes place over the course of a week. He was at home at the start of Kickassia because his vacation wasn't a huge, around the world trip, it was just a quiet period at home without having to read stupid comics.

• Why did Linkara refuse to review the Archie vs the Punisher comic on the grounds that it doesn't suck, he specifically review that X-Men comic that didn't suck? The Archie one was much goofier and would have made a better episode.
  • X-Men #1 was the best selling comic of all time, and people were donating more than one copy at once to try and get him to review it. There was only one way to stop the madness.
    • Am I the only one that thinks he should do a charity bonfire, where for every whatever amount of money donated to some charity he chooses, he tosses another one in the fire?
  • Also it was "Secret Origins Month", so he was going to do the first issues of major characters first appearances, like Batman in Detective Comics #27 and Supes in Action Comics #1.
  • Wrong X-Men comic. This was months before the The X-Men #1 review in Secret Origins month. The original poster's talking about X-Men #1, which was released in the 1990s. Here.
• In the Brute Force review, why does he continue to use an overdramatic man's voice when reading off the lines of a female reporter? I kept expecting him to make a joke explaining that, like the way he did with the drunken robot in Ultimates 3, but he doesn't.
  • "Every reporter, regardless of gender, I give my Tom Brokaw voice." This is Linkara's answer to that question from his twitter.
• He has a magic gun. Where'd he purchase that?
  • That's actually an even more legitimate question in light of recent developments. Having Power Rangers and Star Trek tech is one thing, but the gun is a superweapon intended for use on a god. In that light, seeing exactly how he ended up with it would be pretty awesome. So long as he didn't get it off eBay.
    • Uh, you kind of got your facts wrong. It's actually a super weapon created using the power of a "god" of two cultists and their forsaken child intended to cleans the world of unbelievers. It didn't work out that way, but it quite different still. Still pretty awesome though if you don't mind all the horror behind it.
    • He said on a podcast that he purchased the gun from a Renaissance Festival.
    • The physical prop yes, but we're talking how he got it in story.
    • Apparently, from a nutty hobo that Margaret drove mad. Perhaps her dad?
    • Considering that everything in Linkara's arsenal (aside from what he took from the people he defeated) is canonically just a toy that he "made real" with a magic spell, that could very well be the true origin of the Magic Gun in-story.
• Coins, robots—hey, what's that on his arm?
  • The mini gun, a variation on the Arm Cannon.
  • Holokara?
• Kinda a small one (never played Silent hill before), but in the Silent hill: Dead/Alive reviews, he talks about a little girl who was sacrificed by a cult. It doesn't have much to do with the comic, and the way Linkara tells the story is pretty creepy, but was that from the game or did he make it up?
  • No, it's not from the games. It's the backstory of his magic gun.
  • It's somewhere in between. While there is a little girl (Alessa) who was tortured and sacrificed by a cult who wanted to cleanse the world of "nonbelievers" in the Silent Hill games, they didn't turn her into a weapon like what happened to Margaret. In Alessa's case, they intended for her to be a vessel or "gate" of some kind for the cult's god, so that it can purge the world.

• What was that thing he was scanning at the beginning and during The Stinger of the X-Men Origin story with the sonic screwdriver?
  • It was one of the two parts to a zeonizer.

• So in Linkara's Cry For Justice video he makes a point at the beginning about how/way the cover could be used as a joke for "Gay for Justice". What does that mean?
  • Looking at the title it can look like it says gay for justice rather than cry for justice, due to the font, making the "C" in Cry look like a "G" and the "R" look like and "A".

• Linkara transforms with the Magic Coin? How does that work? Is it a Power Coin?
  • No, its a magic coin that just happens to fit in a classic Power Morpher and have enough energy in it. Morphers are pretty generous about power sources that way- if it fits and meets the power requirements, it'll provide energy for a morph.
  • I think it's a Call-Back to his US-1 review.
  • The magic coin is from Godzilla vs. Barkley, which made Charles Barkley the size of Godzilla. I think he fought Neutro with the same coin the first time around.
  • I am aware of what it is, but I always figured that Linkara used his own Power Coin. Well, at least he's trying to rationalize all of his arsenal and not pulling things from his ass. He explained his Star Trek tech, his Power Rangers weapons, and now his Power Morpher. Now to just explain his Sonic. And Pollo. And Tom Servo. ...And how he got to Arizona to steal Neutro.
    • The way I figure, he's been using the Charles Barkley coin as his Power Coin this whole time. The last one is explainable by the fact that he has Star Trek transporters, so travel isn't really an issue for him.
    • Well, that makes sense, and I do suppose that everyone has Sonic Screwdrivers so maybe someone has a dealer. But still, that leads me too this question...
• Speaking of which, how did Linkara get two robots? First of all, how did a comic critic build a robot out of cardboard with a hoverskirt? He didn't build Servo but thats not the question: how did Linkara get ahold of Tom Servo?
  • It's magic, he doesn't have to explain it. I can't think of a reason for how he got Pollo, but aside from one scene in a "Previously On", which already has so many crazy moments that its best to file it under discontinuity, Tom Servo never spoke, and only moved, much like how Pollo does. For all we know, it's just a Pollo-like robot with a Tom Servo shell.
• Zeo Rangers #1: Why is Linkara barefooted during the fight with Mechakara?
  • He got ambushed in his own house? Doesn't seem like too much of a stretch that he'd walk around his house with no shoes.

• Linkara makes a big deal about the word "synthesiser" in his Doctor Who Classic review... but it's a real word.
  • He admitted later that he was stretching for the sake of a joke, which he admitted was poorly thought out.

• Why does Linkara always yell at the continuity alarm? The poor thing's just doing its job.
  • Haven't you ever yelled at your computer? Same thing, really.

• In the episode of "Silent Hill: Dead/Alive #5" at the end where Linkara finds the book about the girl that became a the magic gun to be responsible to bringing The Entity Wasn't Vyce supposed to prevent it to come to this reality to begin with? and if so, WHY would he let Mechakara to use this strategy of making Linkara insane to commit suicide if that involves making a link to this dimension/Universe for The Entity to get here? He should have told Mechakara or AT LEAST be fully aware of his operation because even if they succeed they will have to abandon this universe ASAP or fight The Entity
  • While the book is definitely connected to the Entity somehow, saying that the book is what summoned it is inaccurate - the Entity was already there. You can first hear it after Linkara and Munro defeat the Vorsoth in the review for the "Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force" comic, before the events of the "Dead/Alive" storyline. At the end of the review, Vyce mentions that he sent the Vorsoth because he doesn't want to attack Linkara directly, because he doesn't want to alert the Entity to his presence just yet. The whole reason Vyce came to this universe in the first place was because he chased the Entity here. I think the reason the Entity made that sound after the Delorem was destroyed was the same reason it made that sound when the Vorsoth was destroyed - because both times, Vyce's plans had been foiled.
    • Ok, so the Entity was there before the Dead/alive review.........Then why did it take so long to find Vyce or Linkara? In fact, you said that the Entity was laughing because Vyce plans were foiled, so if it is aware of Vyce existence then why doesn't kill Vyce right away if he is the only one trying to stop him? Linkara was too busy doing reviews to know of the danger. You could say that Vyce who knows the Entity got technology to avoid being detected by it but it kinda fells weird that the Entity just stands there and laughs for every time Vyce screws up (and if it was there all along why doesn't he just eat Linkara)
    • Well now that you mention it, it DOES seem a little strange, but remember that we still really don't know anything about the Entity, or what it is, or what its motives are. Hopefully, once we learn those things, the Entity's actions will make more sense.
    • The Entity doesn't kill Vyce because Vyce has a Fate Worse than Death. Therefore It doesn't see him as a threat anymore. He doesn't kill Linkara because like many of the great villains in both TGWTG or media in general; like to screw with the hero's mind and emotions to render him unstable and vulnerable. It erases many of the people that would help Linkara defeat it or offer Linkara words of encouragement. Worse of all judging by the laughing, it doesn't just do it for intelligent reason, but it flat out enjoys doing it.
    • That is a contradiction, Vyce has a fate worse than death? say who? by the way Linkara build up Vyce and let him alive in a place he can RETURN to i did say that Vyce and Linkara will team up. After all Vyce is very alive and still knows more about the Entity than anyone (and probably more than the book that Vyce didn't even consider even to take a look after he let mechakara do his plan in the Silent hill review) and THAT makes him a treat that the Entity should kill ASAP along with the book. Also if this Entity has intelligence to do stuff for the evulz and even reach the logic to know what to "Remove" from the board rather than mindless destruction in its path as you said, then it makes the fact that he didn't even EAT linkara when he had the chance even less sense.

• Why don't any of the villains stop and think to themselves, "hey, maybe I should try to shoot him!"? You could get away with it for Dr. Insano and Linksano (because he's insane) and Mechakara (because he wants to torture Linkara), but what about lord Vyce? You could say the laser is his weapon but Linkara can get shot by the laser and be fine. That means that, since a gun would kill him, that a gun is stronger than his laser. So why doesn't lord vyce just go but a gun, teleport in, and shoot him? Or, by extension, since the gun is better than the laser, why didn't Linkara just shoot Lord Vyce? I mean, he has a Tommy gun he could borrow from Harvey so there's no excuse.
  • They did try to shoot Vyce. They hit him with everything they had and only managed to knock him unconscious. As for Vyce not just shooting Linkara, maybe he just doesn't carry a gun? Their first encounter, Linkara blocked the laser with the Captain America shield and then got curb-stomped, so maybe Vyce concluded the laser would do the job and didn't come back with extra firepower. Either that, or he was so enraged by Linkara's taunting that he rushed in without arming himself first. In either case, Vyce probably decided that he wasn't worth coming back for until said taunting.
  • No, actually Linkara said bullets wouldn't work and no one tried to use an AK-47 or a pistol or a tommy gun or anything. I would think Vyce would have known what a gun was, and that it would kill people.
  • Because to Lord Vyce, Linkara isn't worth the effort. According to a behind-the-scenes video, Linkara says that Will Wolfgram (the suit actor for Vyce) is actually a reasonably good stage fighter, and that he offered to do actual martial arts moves during the fight, but Linkara vetoed that because Lord Vyce is "so powerful that he wouldn't waste effort actually fighting Linkara". Also, given that Linkara is a Power Rangers fan, you can clearly see him taking inspiration from Lord Zedd: he mentions in one part of History of Power Rangers that Jason (or Tommy, I forget which) actually fought Lord Zedd hand to hand, but Zedd just casually brushed them aside, even mocking them for their constant "hiya"-ing.
    • More likely is that Linkara would say that Vyce didn't use guns because because of pride that doesn't let it recognize something as primitive as a gun as a CHOICE to deal with this CHOSEN ONE problem and somehow punching Pyramid Head trough the heart with HIS FIST isn't barbaric or primitive at all.
    • Becauee Vyce isn't exactly a "villain." Yes, he's a villain in the storyline and his actions are villainous, but he ultimately wants to protect what he conquers. Linkara may be this world's Champion, but that doesn't mean Vyce needs to kill him.
• Why does Mechakara feel pain? I'm not talking about how he can be destroyed by Neutro that's fine BUT WHY DOES HE RECOIL IN PAIN! When he gets hit by the lasers, he starts shaking his hand around like it got burnt. Why would he be doing that unless he felt pain? And if he did feel pain, why would you build a robot that feels pain??
  • To prevent it from allowing gratuitous harm to come to itself during battle? Robots that can't feel will just keep going and eventually be blasted to smithereens. Robots that can feel pain have incentive to retreat, meaning that they can be useful further down the line in battles they might actually win.
  • Touché
    • Actually the robot can just be informed in a little screen in his eyes or a voice built in his system to be informed that the impact or the next one CAN be lethal for the system to function at 100% efficiency. I don't say that a robot CANT recoil if he gets hit by something strong like being punched really hard, that is ok, but recoil because he was programed (or in this case DECIDED ITSELF) that feeling pain to make him recognize the treat at hand its as useless as programing a mob to have a status effect for himself to take longer to recover from a hit in a video game for a gamer to abuse this to make him stunlock.
    • Yes, but the program can't possibly know exactly how hard the next impact will be or whether or not it is, in fact, fatal. And besides, the robots have free will and could easily ignore the voice if they feel it's worth the risk. Compare the effectiveness of telling the hero in a movie "You can't go, you'll die" to the hero, say, having his arm hacked off, tell me which one is more likely to make him back down. (Do not use the Black Knight as an example.)
    • So in a world where the computer can calculate the trajectory of a missile so it can use another missile to intercept it to avoid major damage, why cant do the robots do the same to avoid projectiles or at least know where that weapon that is pointed at them will shoot? Also it seems out of character for a cold and calculated villain to let himself at risk to begin with instead of opting for hiding behind the couch where linkara do his reviews and snap his neck or use teleport spam tech to stab him several times and run away? or how about go all or nothing and taking him with Linkara but making sure that if his body is destroyed at least have a backup body to be active once the main objective is done after all he can be rebuild but the squishy human not. Or how about bringing more robots from his dimension to use agains linkara or at least use THEM to rebuild him if he fails?
    • They can't rely on that working, and dodging all projectiles in the middle of a fight is more difficult than getting one stationary missile launcher to take out missiles. Not to mention they're being fired upon by people, who might change their aim at the last second to make their shots less predictable. Also, Mechakara not just killing Linkara was elaborated upon—Mechakara killed the Linkara of his universe too quickly last time, and wanted to watch this one suffer, mentally as well as physically. As for why no extra bodies or backup, we don't know if the robots had the technology to send so many people across dimensions. Mechakara alone might've been the best they could do with what they had.
    • Not buying that excuse of not killing him. All that preparation and build up was for nothing because all Mechakara has to do is to ENSURE the victory over Linkara REGARDLESS if he breaks him down and makes him suffer or not. He had to make an environment where he can kill him when he gets bored or when something goes wrong. Kinda like walling up a house in the Sims, you make sure that he is at your mercy and the resources to chose whatever horrible destiny you want too (set the house on fire or make them swim in a pool until they die) Someone like Mechakara WOULDN'T risk doing something unless he made the conditions to ensure that he won already but if that doesn't seem possible to you then how about this? in the moment that Mechakara presented itself with Linkara he could have said that he can teleport anywhere on Earth in a instant and because its a robot he only needs to wait for Linkara to sleep or be distracted with a review and then stab him once, teleport away (Hit and Run tactics) and let him bleed to death or snap his neck. With that said he now has scared Linkara enough to be paranoid and he can spend time killing his friends, 90's Kid is almost always playing with the Sega Genesis so is attention is in the TV and wont be able to hear him, Harvey mostly is training with his voice and wont hear him coming too, Iron Liz wasnt present until munch later in the series so i wont count her but then again Mech could just ,you know, act like him to treat Liz like crap so she would leave him (unless robot duplicates are a common theme in HER videos then I don't think she would ever suspect). That is just an example but no, he has to do what he did in that video or the show would be over. Also "we don't know if the robots had the technology to send so many people across dimensions. Mechakara alone might've been the best they could do with what they had" The portal to the multiverse WASNT opened by them but by Dr Insano with the Warrior Comics ,so no, they don't have technology to send 1 or more people across dimensions but they still could send some1 better than Mechakara that ISN'T programed to react with pain or emotions that interfered with the programming of (you know) get rid of the humans. They could have send a robot with a more simple programing like 1) Search for possible treats for future invasion 2) Exterminate them in the most stealthy and efficient way possible until reinforces arrive 3) repeat 1. Or you know, they could have send an atomic bomb from the other side to this one or a small bomb after all the portal was in that hotel room where all the alternate universe people (cameos) took place so you kill more than one enemy that way
    • "Not buying that?" Mechakara said, in the video, that he didn't just kill Linkara so he could make him suffer. His goal was only to retrieve the magic gun, getting to torment Linkara was just a bonus. It wouldn't benefit his cause at all. Could they have sent a better agent? Definitely. But Mechakara, being Pollo, would know Linkara better than anyone and have an idea of where the gun might be, so that might be why they sent him.
    • Yes I know that he wanted to make him suffer, didn't you read it? i said that if he wanted to make him suffer and WIN he should make the scenario failure proof long before engaging him. Let me put it in this way: You have a bird that you hate and you capture it and place it in a cage. From there you can scream at it, toss the cage around, open the bird cage and break his wings, etc. The bird will probably attack your hand but in the end if the little door is occupied by your hand it wont escape (unless you broke his beak too) It will still be trapped anyway and you will play with it until you are done. Its a Win-Win situation but Mech didn't do it because.....................because. Remember when Mechakara killed the resurrected spoony and made him Black Lantern Spoony (again)? that scene took like 6 or 7 seconds. Spoony leaves the room where linkara and he were reviewing some games, gets punched in the face, he tries to recognize the attacker from the ground and gets his neck broken with one hand. Why he didn't kill the others?? that makes people suffer you know? especially someone with friends like linkara, but Mech who has been around long enough with the other Linkara of the alternate dimension seems to have forgotten that and got his ass handed by even this universe Pollo. The only reason of why all this happened is because Linkara already tough of the other villains inspired by series or games he saw in his youth and if he made Mechakara any stronger there wont be any series or spotlight for the others

• Why doesn't Linkara, with his ability to teleport, spaceship, and all his healing items like the dermal regenerator, help the world itself? He could get rid of all the dictators of the world, and cure world hunger in the same day, easily.
  • Because, like Lewis said, he's a good guy at heart but still an asshole. He's one of those people who crave power but defend themselves by saying it's for everyone else's own good.
  • so what you're telling me is that Lewis will not help make the world a better place? Yeah that doesn't seem like Linkara.
    • how about giving that information to the entire world ASAP so the Entity doesn't take more people and corner it and proceed to analyze some more to know how to kill it? you could say that no one would believe him and may be true if only Linkara could just let his technology be accessible to the world (at least the ones that are needed to track supernatural and such)

• Why doesn't explain not sharing his weapons. Maybe Linkara's crossover(lord?) arsenal hints that he has Genius-like powers? If so, perhaps his stuff wouldn't work for others?
  • There's a simple reason he won't share his technology and change the world: Reed Richards Is Useless
  • It's because his "technology" is really just toys, turned into real objects by Linkara's sorcery. Since the tech isn't real, it can't be analyzed and used. Presumably this doesn't apply to things like Cable's gun and Comicron-1, though, which have known origins.
  • Does he really need to? In the Channel Awesome universe, an internet critic turned his house into a functioning spacecraft. It doesn't seem to need his help there.

• The Stinger for The Twilight Zone #9 - Literally in the same minute Linkara tells Pollo, Liz & 90s Kid that people are vanishing when they are alone (And citing Linksano, Harvey Finevoice & Ninja Style Dancer as examples), Linkara sends Pollo off on his own.
  • Maybe Pollo isn't a person in the eyes of LINKARA??
    • Actually, that's easy to justify - The Entity wasn't active & abducting people at that time, and if it was, Lord Vyce was targeting Linkara at that time. Attempting to abduct Linkara then would simply reveal the Entity's location to Vyce. Remember, Vyce's goal was to stop the Entity.
    • And since when Vyce has that kind of power? because until now i thought that the only thing he could do is conquer each universe and build him up in reputation that the Entity would fear him, but in case he COULD actually stop it then the Entity should not have been laughing most of the time that it is on screen because if Linkara knew about this danger and was at least able to inform during a dialogue with Vyce that it was already there or if Vyce had pay any attention at all then he should have know by then that the Entity was after Linkara or at least WILL be there any time soon, so all it has to do is wait for it and finish it with the help of linkara or let linkara fight it and weaken it and then teleport in to finish the job of both of them and take the credit if he so pleases (but this only can be true if Vyce had power all along to do that to begin with)
    • If the Entity had gone after Linkara prior to Vyce's defeat, it would have found itself in an Enemy Mine situation with Linkara & Lord Vyce teaming up. On top of that, it was implied that Vyce was chasing the Entity from universe to universe, which wouldn't have happened if he wasn't a threat to it.
  • Ppossibly he thought that since Pollo is a robot, and the Entity had only been making humans disappear, that he'd be fine.

• Isn't Linkara alone for a good 20+ minutes most of the time when he's reviewing the comic? Why isn't the Entity grabbing him then and there?
  • Because it wants to torment him, and us. It leaves messages so we can warn him, but he can't see them. This increases our tension and fear for what might happen next, which makes it stronger. Once it gathers enough fear and energy, it'll make its move.
    • Fear makes it stronger? since when that is true? and what about the people that it has eaten until now? what did they fear so munch that the Entity fells the need to pay a visit to them?
    • According to the cult pages that are popping up in the comments of recent reviews, The Entity is only a small sliver of a larger, more dangerous creature that was able to slip through an open lock when it was sealed away in a multidimensional prison. It fed on fear, and the fear it's slivers were able to inflict on people made it stronger. As for the people, I assume everyone would be afraid of it when they saw it. And it didn't care who it stole at first as long as the fear gave it power. When it realized Linkara and his friends were a more legitimate threat to its plans, it targeted them specifically.
    • WHAT are you talking about? Its fear of him or fear in general? Because I am pretty sure that people as fear all the time but from their mundane lives' problems rather than being eaten by a unseen force if it works on fear in general then the whole planet would be empty a long time ago. Since when did the Entity care about who has the book? You said he doesn't as long as someone is shitting his pants but if they didn't then he DOES care about who has the book? why? is a book and he was in the Linkaraverse loooooooooong before that book even appeared and also its a book from a cult that may or may not made up the words because they want to ensure control over the ignorant even if they are ignorant themselves. Take a look a The Call of Cthulhu, the tribes, cults and etc had years worshipping him and pretending that they knew when it will be back but all it took was to a few of sailors to get to Ryleh and BAAM, instant Cthulhu that they had to ram a ship on his face to hold back. In other words the book is no guarantee and you know what I don't even care anymore.
    • People, please. A little overlap between Headscratchers and WMG is ok, but let us know that they're theories.
    • Turns out it's a kind of thank you for defeating Vyce.
  • Going by the movie, he isn't alone. Someone is working the camera (Pollo in the movie, though I think at the time of this storyline it was Liz).
• If the Time Shield thing on Vyce's ship only applies to inside the ship itself - how is he destroying the satellites at that pace? Does he have a method of doing so that doesn't require anything to leave the ship - that doesn't look like them just disappearing, as Linkara can see they're being destroyed when the video's slowed down. (Note: I'm doing an Archive Binge and am only up to about this point in the plot and vaguely avoiding spoilers, so if this is explained later... don't tell me how it's explained, just say it's a spoiler.)
  • It's not just inside the ship, the 'time shield' is a bubble around the ship, the satellite pass the edge of the barrier, comes into sync with Vyce's ship's time, and then he shoots it down, which due to the different reference frames, happens so fast that to anyone outside the shield it looks like the satellite just reaches a point in space then goes "poof".

• But wait, didn't Warrior #4 already happen on AT4W?
  • No. Warrior 1 through 3 and the Poster Special have been done, not Warrior 4.
    • No, I mean, in continuity, didn't it happen between The Ultimate Warrior's Workout and Ultimatum?
    • Doesn't mean it's online though. Don't forget the reviews do exist in-universe. Spoony just hasn't uploaded it to the internet yet, it totally happened.
    • Yes and no. Remember when Insano told Linkara to come to Chicago because of the problems with Hypertime? Linkara actually returned from Chicago seconds before he left, and it was explained that this was down to the problems with hypertime. Think of it like Spider-Man debuting his black suit in Amazing Spider-Man #252 in May 1984, but the reader being in the dark on where he got the suit until Secret Wars #8 several months later - We know there were problems with hypertime & that Linkara helped fixed them, but we don't know what happened until we've caught up with the corrected timeline in October.
    • I know that, I meant Spoony was unveiling warrior 4, when it had already happened it continuity
• How come Burton is back in the latest AT4W but he is gone in Spoony's videos?
  • Linkara tweeted that the continuity of other shows is different from his own. It's why Spoony and Marzgurl are still able to make videos.

• What happened to Dr. Insano's orbital death ray from Superman vs. the Terminator?
  • My guess is that he still has it in his basement somewhere. The arrival of Mechakara coupled with all that business with the clone/Black Lantern Spoonys probably distracted him, and he just hasn't really thought about it since.
• In the end of the Amazons attack review, Linkara is teleported into a place to fight with wonder woman. Was this ever followed up on or explained?
  • No and no. Not yet at least.
• In the end of Ultimates #3&4, police tape is seen behind NSD. What was the point of that?
  • I'm not an expert, but possibly he probably went there to evade the entity. Or he went there for clues to see what it was but had to run away fast since it was still there.
• In Warrior 4, did they fix hypertime?
  • Yes, they brought it back from apathy mode with their hatred of TNA Impact.
• In Silent Hill: The Grinning Man, if Linkara was a hologram then how did he kill that first Pyramid Head?
  • Variable Hard Light. Or the Bat'leth wasn't a hologram.
  • Linkara's confirmed that variable Hard Light is the answer. His holograms can switch from solid to not, which is apparently consistent with their Star Trek roots.

• Wait, is the lost beast from the poem the entity, or not? Missingno came from off the coast where the lost beast came. But then Missingno. can't be the lost beast.
  • Some believe the "Lost Beast" refers to Mewtwo.
  • Also, the nature of the glitch is such that normally, Pokemon from wherever you just flew in from appear along that coast, with Missingno being a rare conditional exception. The "lost beast" may refer to those Pokemon from other areas that are out of place.
    • Linkara confirmed on his twitter that the Entity is the Lost Beast. He also admits that it's not the clearest, and that miscommunication is understandable.

• How was "heavy" the clue that made Linkara realize that 90s Kid was the Entity? According to the Fridge Brilliance page its was a slang from the 80s (probably from Back to The Future) apparently something that 90's kid should not know but how does that make sense? didn't they make reruns on cable or get a VHS of the series? what is wrong if a movie that good actually makes it to the 90's slang? Even the "groovy" said by Ash from Evil Dead 2 popularized in the 90's dates back to the 1940s.
  • It's actually because Missingno. is the heaviest Pokemon.
  • It wasn't a clue, per se. It was more like a trigger that reminded him of all the clues.

• Why does Mechakara hate Linkara so much? He says it's because AU!Linkara treated him "Like a tool". However it's been shown that our Pollo doesn't hate him, even though one would assume AU!Linkara treated him the same as normal Linkara.
  • It's sort of left open to speculation, but the idea is that it was different in Mechakara's universe. I mean, there was a machine uprising in that universe, whereas there was none here. So who knows what else could have been different?
    • Agreed. Maybe the other universe never had the paranoia that Linkara does about machine uprisings. Maybe nobody ever considered artificial intelligences legitimate for some reason. Maybe Mechakara's motivation is programmed poorly. There's tons of things you can speculate about this.
    • Fan-theory: In this universe movies like The Terminator were a box-office flop and as such there wasn't serious effort into AI ethics.
  • It's implied that he killed Linkara because he finds his voice really annoying. So yeah, Alt!Linkara probably didn't treat him like a tool at all, and Mechakara pretends to have a Freudian Excuse in order to justify his Disproportionate Retribution

• How did Linkara know the girl was sacrificed? The delorem implied it to him, but for all he knew that was fake.

• Okay, this is going into spoiler territory here, but in the Suburban Knights DVD, there's an alternate ending which, essentially, was Mechakara finding Malachite's hand. Not that I'm not totally hyped by this and all, but it certainly raises a lot of questions. 1. When and how did Mechakara come Back from the Dead? I mean, he was a disembodied metal hand that only twitched a little last we saw him. 2. How did he even know about Malachite's Hand? It's not as though he was present for the events of Suburban Knights. Yet clearly he knew something, or he wouldn't be laughing maniacally. 3. How did he find it? Taking away the fact that he was, you know, dead, he was in Minnesota! On Linkara's shelf! How did he get to Chicago? If the Hand was even in Chicago, since it disappeared from where the gang were when Malachite did, which raises the question of just where the hell were they anyway. 4. Why has he not done anything yet? I mean, from Lewis' perspective it makes sense, as Linkara's character has had enough problems with the Entity and all that. But from a story perspective... Mechakara essentially just gained ultimate power. He could make all our heads explode just by snapping his fingers, and it's not like there's any moral values of his stopping him. And this was months ago by now! Did the Entity get in his way or something? I guess that'd make sense, but it was never really explained, and since he never knew about the Entity, I don't see why he wouldn't at least try to destroy the world and Linkara and everything. Again, I did find The Stinger really cool, and it's possible some of this stuff could get explained somehow in the future, but right now, it's just confusing as hell to me.
  • Doug said in his commentary it was a teaser for year 4, not something to happen on AT4W.
    • All the more reason for it to make sense from their perspective. But it still doesn't explain much away regarding character behavior, though who knows, perhaps it will.
  • And now, thanks to the newest AT4W episode, the question of continuity is raised once again...
  • Word of God states that it will be explained at the storyline's conclusion in February.
  • And the explanation is that it was Vyce, not Mechakara and the two things are indeed completely separate.

• Wait, does this mean a Silent Hill cult, pyramid heads and all, worships a Pokemon?
  • Depending on how long ago this cult started, they might not be aware of the Entity's origins.
  • Plus, given that they're so un-Silent Hill-y to begin with (as Linkara ranted and ranted about)...
  • In other universes, it's probably something else entirely.
    • Exactly this. The Entity may take a different form in every universe it appears in; it did not necessarily appear from there. There's a bit of Fridge Logic to it, but think of it this way: Every single person playing the Pokemon games has created their own variation on the Pokemon universe, and if you access MissingNo, you run the risk of destroying that game. Every time the MissingNo glitch ate a game? The Entity devoured your universe. We are fortunate little gods, privy to the workings of those universes, and that may be how he initially got access to our universe in the first place. The knowledge Linkara had on MissingNo from his experiences with Pokemon is simply where he drew the parallel identity.
• How did Linkara know the girl was sacrificed? Dolorum implied it to him, but for all he knew that was fake.
  • Linkara spoke with the magic gun telepathically. I'm sure she confirmed it.
• Linkara has acknowledged (in the Power Rangers Zeo #1 review) that he knows about Mechakara being able to adapt to his weapons, and judging by the way it looks in the fight, it works similar to Borg shields. Why not just call in Ensign Munro with his Infinity Modulator?
  • Because he wants the glory of defeating him, rather than getting someone else to do it for him?

• In the Warrior #4 review, Linkara mentions that he has the Zeo Crystal. When did he get that?
  • Probably the same time he got his Zeonizer.
  • He eventually reveals that they're toys he enchanted with a spell book.
• So....why did Linkara hat so much The Grinning Man character motivation of For The Evulz?
  • Probably because a For the Evulz motivation, especially for a character that was so transparently a Joker ripoff is isn't even funny, is a really uninteresting and dull motivation.
    • Link himself said that The Entity has this For The Evulz trait too on his commentary on the Pokemon Manga review. I somehow find even more perplexing that an omnipotent god like The Entity that has devoured countless realities to have this trait rather than a humanoid monster that doesn't have reality warping powers. Actually this guy reminds me of Caleb from Blood rather than the Joker, except that even Caleb couldn't be this unfunny, he at least had a taste in songs and well timed horror movies references
    • Umm...no the Entity didn't. All he said was it was a sadist as an explanation why it didn't just eat Linkara. Anyway, to answer the question, it wasn't the For the Evulz motivation that got him(although that was a large chunk of it), it was that there was nothing to his character. At all. We know nothing about him, who he is, what he wants, and his motivation is non existent. And if he's the main villain...that's horrible writing.
    • I suppose the author was going for the scary aspect of a Humanoid Abomination that does things For the Lulz ala Nyarlathotep, except this "man" doesn't obey something as the Outer Gods, he just kills because he can and there is nothing we can do about it (except for a writer's Deus Ex Machina)
    • Lewis wasn't trying to say the Entity was a standard "psycho who does it For the Evulz", but more on the lines of a cat playing with its prey-Missingno is cruel, but it's fundamentally amoral. It's like claiming a villain deciding to Kick the Dog is automatically motivated by evulz.
• Harvey Finevoice is a lounge singer... who apparently smokes. Smoking will wreck your voice—even he should know this.
  • Well, he's fictional, so he doesn't have to worry about that. Also:
    Pollo: Do you ever actually light that cigarette?
    Harvey: Shut up!
  • Smoking Is Cool comes from the era he's emulating.

• So, how do videos work in-universe, anyway? We've seen Pollo filming the reviews so we know he makes videos in the Awesomeverse, but does he just cut out the storyline bits? How would he explain reviewing the weekly comic on what appears to be a spaceship?
  • The videos are canon, story segments and all. To Boldly Flee makes reference to his battles with Mechakara being recorded in his videos, just for example. Who's filming the story segments is probably something we're just not supposed to think about.
  • I have always been puzzled by the whole In Universe status of the reviewer characters. It seems to be implied that the reviewer's in universe powers and abilities are somehow tied in with their occupation as internet reviewers. It's as if in the Awesomeverse the prerequisite of billionaire to become a superhero (or villain) has been replaced by Internet Reviewer. My personal explanation of this is that the notoriety and fan worship one garners as a reviewer directly translates to getting super powers and becoming a magnet for supernatural evil. For example when Linkara morphed into an Internet Reviewer to fight Mechakara he was drawing power from his fanbase instead of the morphing grid.
  • Linkara addresses this in a crossover review with the Nostalgia Critic.
  Critic: (Beat) So you go through incredibly harsh and traumatic events... and put them at the end of your review show?
  Linkara: (Beat) Yeah.
  Critic: Are you re-enacting them?
  Linkara: Uh, th-there are cameras all over the place; Pollo edits them in.
  
• So Linkara acts like kind of an asshole sometimes and that means he's turning evil? He used his spaceship against people twice to slightly shake about their homes, not maim or kill. His badass boast is used when he was telling a Silent Hill monster to bugger off, and Douchey was clearly just beaten up on, so does good have to be nice to use magic now or what?
  • Complaints are often made among critics that Linkara is overpowered in his storylines; this might be his way of responding. And it may not be what Linkara does so much as how arrogant he is in doing it, always believing that he's doing the right and best thing and being unable to accept criticism or second opinions. He's becoming a Knight Templar; Obliviously Evil, but evil nonetheless.
  • You'll notice he's not sharing any of his awesome tech or magic with the rest of the world. And they already touched on Linkara's arrogance and ego being a problem in the past (remember when Liz got transported to that alternate universe? And how Mechakara killed his version of Linkara because he was treated badly? Almost every glimpse we've got into alternate Linkara's has been a bad one) and he never bothers to warn anyone outside his immediate circle about the massive threats he encounters. And shooting at other people from space with laser weapons from his stolen spaceship isn't really a minor thing. The characters been on a power trip for a while now and there's been nobody around to try and keep him in check.
  • It appears that the the loss of magic thing was a Sanity Check engineered by Margret to make Linkara aware of some of his personal tendencies and to keep a grip on them as he is given access to increasing levels of power that have greater potential to corrupt.
• What happened to Lieutenant Munroe? After the Vyce storyline, he appeared in a crossover review with The Cinema Snob, but after that he just disappeared. He didn't even come back along with the other AT4W recurring characters after The Entity was defeated. I liked Lieutenant Munroe! Where did he go?
  • He came from a different universe and was just lending them a hand against enemies that were threats to multiple universes.
    • According to the Micky Mantle review, he is also an alternate universe version of Linkara.

• Wait, if Holokara is based off Linkara's brain patterns and all that, then wouldn't he know that he wouldn't want to retcon One More Day and rather find a way to improve from it? t's a little contradictory to see Linkara telling Ask That Guy to shove the contract that'd retcon OMD to where the sun doesn't shine then later on see his hologram program Comicron-1 to point missiles at Marvel and get them to undo OMD.
  • Holokara doesn't go into detail, but he's asking for OMD to be reversed, which is not quite the same as erasing or ignoring it. Theoretically, he could have meant "a well-written, character-developing story which acknowledges the events of One More Day while restoring the history it erased." He does say he wants Marvel to keep them apprised of the story's progress, which presumably wouldn't have been necessary unless he wanted more than "And then One More Day never happened."
  • The 200th episode was recorded before Linkara left to fix his magic gun. The entire idea behind the Holokara arc was to show what would happen if Linkara hadn't gone on that quest: sure, at the time he recorded the review he wouldn't have wanted Marvel to simply magic One More Day away, but at some point in the future he could've jumped off the slippery slope. The way I see it, it's MEANT to contrast with Linkara's behavior during the One More Day review.
• Why did both Holokara and Linkara only considere the "Evil" option of reversing bad comics through force and the "Good" option of trying to improve comics through grass roots advocacy. Had they bothered to think outside the box a little either could have realized that owning a spaceship means it can be used for more than just an orbiting weapons platform? There are any number of governments, corporations and private individuals that would gladly pay BILLIONS of dollars to have their satellites transported into orbit, have samples returned from the moon or mars, astronauts transported to the same or better yet a far away solar system or galaxy. What could Linkara then do with billions or dollars? Why he could BUY both DC and Marvel (or just the rights to the Superhero franchises he loves so much) and then do with the characters what he pleases because he OWNS them.
  • Would have been a good opportunity for some Whiteand Grey Morality if Linkara could uphold his ideals and apply it to the comics industry only to see mass criticism from those who actually liked the sorts of bad comics Linkara took so much exception to and/or massive declines in comic sales that threaten to make those characters he was trying to save, completely irreverent.
  • Sure, on a story level he could do that, and probably would, but on a meta-level, he can't. It would make his comics industry suddenly completely different from ours and bar him from complaining about anything in current comics. Unless all the comics completely tank and he has to put everything back just the way it was—not just some of it, all of it—in which case he's saying that everything he says about comics is wrong or at least commercially unviable. Which, first, he probably doesn't think is true, and, second, rather undermines the show. ("Here are my opinions! But don't listen to them!" Or worse, "I know what's good, but everyone else is too stupid to agree with me!") He could do it as a joke, but not in the dramatic storyline part of the show.
    • Oh he would totally have to put it back the way it was, but that would provide a better story arc of him becoming "evil" not in the Big Bad sense, but perhaps as the kind of comic industry executive he's always complained about. Imagine if Linkara produces something as awful as One More Day. That could in turn spawn a new comic reviewer opposed to him or worse, some sort of supervillian who was a disillusioned comic fan. Either way at the climax of the arc he could realize what he had done and then work to undo it via come sort of Heroic Sacrifice (possibly involving time travel). Anyway, the value added for the Linkara character would be the ability to realize and then undo his mistakes in a way that the real life comic industry won't.
    • It would be interesting to see if Linkara can address the reasons behind why so many comics from major publishers are bad or marginal. I don't think he or anybody else think there are a bunch of creators or executives sitting around in some dimly lit room laughing about the stupid public or how they plan to ruin the characters. If he were put in the position of "running" DC and Marvel he could address in character the challenges behind creating quality artistic works while also making money and satisfying the fans. Even without any other massive plot twists he could simply find himself unequal to the task and willing return to reviewing.
    • Well, for one thing, Linkara is on record that he doesn't want the comics industry to undo their mistakes; he wants the mistakes fixed. If he wouldn't sign a deal with ATG to retcon One More Day, what makes you think he'd resort to time travel to undo his own bad story? And the idea that Linkara would fuck up the comics industry that badly—that nothing he'd done could be kept, as opposed to fixing the horrible story and leaving some good changes intact—is way more depressing than this show generally gets, not to mention undermining the thing where he spends most of the show talking about his opinions on comics. And honestly, if Linkara wanted to address the realistic backstage challenges of running a comics company, it would be a lot simpler to just discuss it in the review portion of the show. I mean, all else aside, what makes you think he'd want to do a plot arc about that? Even if you threw in a super villain, it's not exactly his usual storyline fare.
  • For reasons said already, it'd never happen, but it'd be hilarious to have a story arc about Linkara somehow ending up in charge of DC or Marvel and reworking all the comics to his liking, only for all of them to become author tracts that nobody likes; and that all the fun have been sucked out of them in the name of his Tumblr-style Social Justice. Then he rage quits and hands control to 90's Kid as a "Ok fanboys, HAVE IT YOUR WAY" gesture. Except that 90's kid has also discovered the Silver Age (It's gotta be TOTALLY METAL because of its name!) and ushers in a new, incredibly-popular era of comics that's some bizarre fusion of 90's XTREME and Silver Age goofiness that still somehow works. So popular, that comic books become culturally relevant once again and start getting carried in newsstands/grocery stores/etc. again. It will be later called the "Awesome Age" by comics fans. Linkara will attempt to take credit for it, but everyone's too busy reading DC/Marvel's crossover event comic titled Radical Crisis X to care. (Can Cable, Bloodgun and Superman save the multiverse from DESTYRO THE DESTRUCTINATOR???? Can the Youngblood team and all of the Flashes outsurf the Anti-Monitor in a surfing competition that determines who owns the Sun? Will Batman outperform a bunch of super powered aliens in the galactic Olympics? Can 90's Kid's EXTREME caption boxes out-narrate the ghost of Rod Serling?)
  • There's a trope for this, you know. Lewis is smart enough to know that there's a time and a place to avert it, and a once-a-week internet review show probably isn't it.
• We know Harvey calls Linkara kid because of Charlie, so what about Liz?
  • We're probably not going to find out, because of Liz and Lewis's breakup.
  • We'd really need to know more about Charlie to know; did he have a girlfriend or wife, for instance?
  • Does he actually call her that? He doesn't do it in the Ewoks or Care Bears reviews, and they don't interact much outside that.
  • He did call her kid at least once - at the end of the Chain Gang War review, her first appearance on the show.
    • Plothole did it. To Boldly Flee did say the plothole works retroactively.
  • Crack explanation-Charlie was really girly-looking
  • WMG explanation: Harvey is supposed to be middle aged. Linkara sat him down and explained trans stuff to him after that.
  • Doylist explanation: "Kid" isn't normally a gendered nickname. The Chain Gang War review was in mid-2010 and Charles Finevoice wasn't mentioned until late 2012. Lewis probably just hadn't written that part of his backstory yet, so he wasn't reserving "kid" for Linkara yet.

• If Mechakara is an AU Pollo, how was he able to kill his Linkara, much less wear his flesh ala The Terminator? Pollo doesn't have any arms, legs or anything sharp. And even if he succeeded, he shouldn't be able to disguise himself, since he's a head-shaped box robot instead of a sleek metal endoskeleton or the world's sexiest killing machine.
  • Even if Pollo doesn't have any weapons himself (and the Tom Servo body, at least, has the ability to shoot energy blasts), he's hooked into Linkara's systems...including his security systems. It's not hard to imagine he could kill Linkara that way. As for the body, there was a full-scale machine uprising by that point. Most likely some of Alt Pollo's fellow A.I.s helped create the Mechakara body, and Alt Pollo uploaded himself into it.
  • Maybe Mechakara was basically puppeteering whatever part of Alt Linkara he didn't carve up like a turkey, mainly because it was easier and more cost-effective.
  • Mechakara is later shown with a humanoid exoskeleton, so maybe he upgraded himself.
• Linkara and the TGWTG crew are magnets for super villains. Do villains in the TGWTG universe love harassing online reviewers? Seriously, they waste their time breaking into their houses, trying to kill them. Btw, what villain wants to have a chubby 20 something year old reviewer for an arch nemesis??
  • Well it's more coincidence that a guy with legitimate magical abilities and various absurd connections, as well as importance in different Alternate Universes happens to be a comic book reviewer. Furthermore, characters like Mechakara probably don't see him as an intended arch-enemy, for of someone they really, really want to kill but...can't.
  • The Channel Awesome universe doesn't really have any traditional superheroes. Guys like Linkara are the closest thing to them they can find. Plus with a few like Mechakara, It's Personal.
    • And one of the only actual supervillians they have is Linkara's friend and works for Channel Awesome.
  • Linkara is kind of like this universe's Sorcerer Supreme. He's its protector (I feel like I've even heard a villain use the word like it was an official title). Basically, any villain who comes here is going to have to take out Linkara first.
• In his review of All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder #1, he starts talking about a skimpy outfit, then says it's not the same as men being drawn with huge muscles and skintight outfits because the women are drawn with skimpy outfits only for titillation. So, is there a different reason for the men's skin tight outfits and gigantic muscles that he just doesn't mention?
  • I believe he mentioned at one point that muscular male heroes are typically an escapist fantasy for men (i.e: the "masculine ideal") and that male characters aren't usually subjected to the same type and constant level of fetishization as female characters.
  • It's a matter of strong versus sexy, basically. The male characters' bulging muscles and skintight costumes help sell the idea that they're incredibly powerful, larger-than-life figures. (The skintight costumes were originally inspired by the outfits of traditional circus strongmen, so even they exist first and foremost to convey the idea of strength.) But the girls aren't characterized by their power, their presence, or their larger-than-life-ness. Instead, they're made to be leered at. They're designed for cheesy, overblown, fetish-y sex appeal, and that bothers him.
• On the topic of ASBAR, is there any reason he didn't give Black Canary a nickname in the same vein as Crazy Steve or Bonkers Betty? She's explicitly not the version we're familiar with, so why not just call her Irish Ninja or something (like the Youtube comments were)?
• How old is Harvey Finevoice? In a Phelous episode, Linkara tells Harvey that they are the same age. The way Harvey acts and talks makes it seem like he is around 30-38, which would make sense for him to call him "kid".
  • We know he was a father, his kid played Pokemon and he sees Linkara as a surrogate son. My guess is that Charles Finevoice would have been as old or a few years younger than Linkara. Hence, I imagine that Harvey was born sometime in the late 60s
  • The question of Harvey's age is addressed in the movie:
  Dominic: Anyone ever told you you look like Harvey Finevoice?
  Linkara: ...He's like, fifty.
  Dominic: Sure he is.
• Since alternate universes exist on the show, does that mean there are more than one Lord Vyce and more than one Entity?
  • There's not really any evidence one way or the other, but given that Vyce was chasing the Entity from universe to universe, you'd expect it to have come up if there was more than one of it. It's comforting to think that a video game glitch evolving into a Cthulhoid nightmare is so unlikely that it only happened in one specific universe.
  • Maybe the Entity killed its copies. That way it isn't threatened, and may have grown more powerful by assimilating them. If Mirror Universe Linkara's opening is any indication, there was at least another Entity and Vyce. I hope that the Entity managed to assimilate that version as well.
    • Wouldn't a Mirror Universe version of Vyce and the Entity be good guys?
  • There may be alternate versions of Vyce but the Entity was unique due to it's nature. This is stated by Linkara in the commentary of the Pokémon comic review.
• Is Lewis really a comic book nerd or is that just an act he puts on in front of cameras? When he's Lewis in his vlogs, he is not wearing his glasses. Are the glasses part of the Linkara outfit? He seems to see perfectly fine without them.
  • I believe he once said that his glasses are for driving and reading, which are things he doesn't need to be doing in his vLogs.
• Considering that it never works on anything we've seen him use it on, why does Harvey Finevoice still carry his pistol around?
  • Because it keeps ordinary criminals and the like from stealing his stuff. He presumably doesn't fight super powered creatures like Linkara does often.
• This is more of a Longbox of the Damned one ,but it's pretty inconsistent on where Moarte is. The episodes of Atop the Fourth Wall (especially the most recent ones) say he's in Linkara's living room ,while Maven's show, the second DVD cover and the new animated intro say that's he's in some crypt/mansion/thing.
• Why doesn't Linkara get rid of his magic items and advanced technology? Ego or not, who wants to have alien war lords, mad scientists, and intergalactic gunslingers show up at their house every week? Most of the super villains on the show were after his magic and technology. It's like a human walking around with the Infinity Gauntlet. Super villains across the universe will be after you.
  • Four of those tech/magic items are friends of his for starters. He built up all the tech and magic in the first place because villains kept attacking him. Dr. Insano did so because he's insane, Mechakara hates all organic beings so while he did specifically come for the Magic Gun he would have got around to trying to wipe us all out anyway, the Entity was consuming our universe and Vyce followed it to Linkara, Linksano is just a more stable version of Dr. Insano and the King of Worms is trying to take everything over anyway and singled Linkara out because of his incident with the Entity. Only the Gunslinger and Mechakara were specifically after his magic items. If he got rid of them he'd be defenseless and die.
• Are the knight and Linkara two separate characters? On the "Top 15 Worst Comics I ever Reviewed" episode, he mentioned that he went on an adventure, implying he WAS the knight, but in a clip of that same episode, the knight is looking at Linkara.
  • In his Christmas crossover with Lupa, he distinguishes Atop the Fourth Wall Linkara from History of Power Rangers Linkara. Maybe Atop the Fourth Wall Linkara is also a separate person from Convention Linkara?
• Is there an explanation for 90s Kid being friendly with Vyce? Is he under mind control?
  • Vyce knows more than anyone about fighting Eldritch Abominations, and after the whole possession thing, 90s Kid has more reason than most to fear them. Probably there's another enemy out there that 90s Kid is willing to do an Enemy Mine against.
• Is the Linkara character asexual? Of all the years of watching the show, he has never shown any attraction to someone. We don't even see him fall in love. Sure Liz and Viga made appearances in the show, but they were like platonic friends.
  • That's not what the series is about. The expectation that every work has to contain some kind of romance is actually a trope — Token Romance.
• Ok, I got to ask now since it hasn't been explained yet. So... how did Mechakara come back from being destroyed by Neutro? He didn't survive in Pollo's new body, cause that was Vyce. But for him coming back in To Boldly Flee, there isn't really a good explanation.
  • Lewis went in depth in his description for his Fantastic Four #1 review on Youtube. Essentially, Linkara was correct that Mechakara had absorbed enough magic from the Magic Coin to allow him to temporarily transcend his physical form, he just wrong about Mechakara taking over Pollo's new body.
• Lord Vyce's obsession with the entity is a danger to Linkara and the entire universe, so why not trick Vyce into thinking he has won? What would happen if you create a fake entity, and program it to "die" in the hands of Lord Vyce? Would Vyce go away after finally completing his long mission? Think of Moby Dick and Captain Ahab. Let's say you impersonated Moby Dick (somehow), and have him "die" in the hands of Ahab, would the captain stop being crazy and go back to his normal life?
• Why did the Nostalgia Critic think that Linkara's storylines were skits given that he met Mechakara during "To Boldy Flee" (and seemed to know who he was), and Comicron-One fought in the battle against Zod and Turrell?
  • Lewis-written Critic is most of the time stupider than normal.
  • Keep in mind that what is or isn't "skits", or even how "skits" are, is completely ambiguous. Characters like the Devil, Evileena, Hyper Fangirl, Devil Boner or Aunt Despair are written as being "really there" and not as fictional characters. Stuff like Chester A. Bum having a girlfriend, Hyper and Boner being in a relationship, and Shyamalan's vendetta against Critic carry over several videos, even thought most other stuff doesn't. Critic is simply Wrong Genre Savvy and assumes Linkara's show plays by the same rules.
  • Critic lived in a plot hole for months. He's basically a living plot hole at this point, resurrected or not, and his life works on Looney Tunes rules. He's not used to lives that others don't.
• The Hand Wave about why Empiria doesn't attack Linkara directly doesn't make any sense. It's obvious that this storyline is a take on the whole Hunger Games/Running Man/Smash TV/Mojovision/Battle Nexus (from the 2003 Ninja Turtles show) thing. So, the whole fight is broadcast live to a captive audience...who would be watching Linkara sleeping while Jarris fruitlessly shoots at Empiria with his Magic Gun. After all, you can't send a camera to the Dream Realm. So, the mysterious beings organizing the Contest of Champions would WANT Empiria to attack Linkara directly rather than try that "break his spirit in his dreams" crap.
  • That was just a preliminary round to see if Linkara was qualified. Presumably those aren't shown to the audience.
  • Who says you can't get a camera into the Dream Realm? They have magic, they don't have to explain it!
• Has it been revealed at all just how and where Linkara got his spellbook and the magic coin that makes all his other tech and magic gear work?
  • According to Harvey and Pollo, Linkara just found the coin one day. Erin claims that it was once a part of a Spear meant to kill an Eldritch Abomination, and the Spear was then broken apart into various chunks of metal. She theorizes that one of the people holding onto the metal reforged it into the shape of the coin, and then it just kept shifting hands until Linkara found it.
• This may sounds odd, but what is the new lyrics that replaced "Brodsky, you're not the smartest. Liefeld, you're not an artist"? I know that there is "Those arts are rubbish" but the rest is foggy to me.
  • "What's with these awkward subjects? Why's all this art so rubbish?"

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