History Headscratchers / AtopTheFourthWall

* If Mechakara is an AU Pollo, how was he able to kill his Linkara, much less wear his flesh ala The Franchise/{{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 [[{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} or the world's sexiest killing machine.]]

** 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.

** That was just a preliminary round to see if Linkara was qualified. Presumably those aren’t shown to the audience.

** "What's with these awkward subjects? Why's all this art so rubbish?"

** 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).

** The question of Harvey's age is addressed in the movie:

* In the movie, why did Comicron-1 do so pathetically badly against the enemy ship? Mechakara only had control of that ship for a very short while, all the improvements and changes had to improvised from ''scrap'', and while he had a MacGuffin it was constantly running out of power. Yet he was able to almost effortlessly take out ''Lord Vyce's ship''. Linkara's crew might have been incompetent, but it's balanced because he's barely ever needed a crew before at all.
** Not a complete answer, but an incompetent crew is probably worse than none at all. With no crew, Linkara has to do everything himself, but he also knows everything that's going on. With a bad crew, he's delegating tasks and relying on others to do them correctly, which is not a good assumption to be making in the heat of battle. As noted in the next entry, Alan really should have stepped in here and grounded the guest stars as unqualified.
* Also in the movie, why on earth was Alan okay with taking a group of completely inexperienced and unqualified civilians on an important government mission? They were racing against time to save missing astronauts, not going out for pizza. Alan was there when the guest stars were begging to go, so he must have known they weren't the ship's normal crew.
** Alan also knows that they're all internet reviewers who all have experience dealing with crazy sci-fi and supernatural shit, not to mention that a few of them have been out to Jupiter before. While they may technically be civilians, they're incredibly experienced civilians who just so happen to have the skills necessary for that day's particular brand of crazy.
*** Except not really. Most of the reviewers on the mission barely have "character", let alone "crazy sci-fi and supernatural stuff". Outside of Nostalgia Critic, the only reviewers who have "seen shit" in their own shows are Angry Video Game Nerd, Spoony and Phelous. Most other reviewers have no "experience" barring the Anniversary Movies. And considering most of them see their "experience" as just "skits" (keep in mind that we have no Watsonian explanation for why Phelous isn't immortal anymore, only that "he retired the skit"), it's doubtful wether they could put their "experience" to good use.
*** Nash may have been driven insane by the news, but he also is friends with a living stick figure, an extremely powerful alien capable of rebooting the universe, a gunsmith so incredible (and insane) that he violates the laws of physics on a daily basis, and once was involved in the stopping of pants from killing all of humanity. On top of all that, he’s a spiteful, rage filled dick that’s canonically the evil version. Do you want to not include someone who intentionally makes himself explode with rage on a daily basis when he has friends like that? For all you know, he could send Florida after you. Also, according to the WTFIWWY live episode with Space Guy, reviewverse Tara is a fallen angel. Honestly it’s just a good idea to keep him around.

* We know Linkara is aware of Website/TvTropes, but does he ever edit his own page?
** He once said on his Tumblr page that he only browses the site.

** 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?

** "What's with these awkward subjects? Why's all this art so rubbish?"
** Original Poster. Thanks.

** 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?

* We know Linkara is aware of Wiki/TvTropes, but does he ever edit his own page?

* Harvey Finevoice mentioning ''Pokémon''. Or to be more precise, Harvey Finevoice referencing the Name Rater from ''Pokémon''. I dunno, it's just... odd. No more odd than the Missingno. gag a few episodes earlier, but how old is Finevoice supposed to be?

* 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." Whether it's an error in the show's continuity or RuleOfFunny, it still bugs me.
** He's acting and xxaggerating a reaction for comic effect. Remember his ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack'' 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 [[GoMadFromTheRevelation 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 [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment 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 RuleOfFunny.

** He admitted later that he was stretching for the sake of a joke, which he admitted was poorly though out.

** 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 don’t.

* 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. I can't get how the physical presence of the hologram works. It clearly isn't intangible or it wouldn't be able to throw the comic about (unless it was also a holographic representation. If it was tangible and able to wield the Bat'leth (however you spell that)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. I find it weird the hologram can do battle and stab things while apparently being undamageable. Maybe I need to watch star trek.
** You need to watch Star Trek. It's a reference to Voyager's mobile emitter (or whatever it was called, it's been a couple of years).

* On the main page it says Linkara contributed to "Dragon Ball Abridged," with a link to the Team Four Star page. I did some research, and can't find any evidence of his involvement in DBZ Abridged. Is there something I don't know?
** It's only a cameo but he was the Namekian Village Elder at the start of episode 16.

** Given Linkara's love for The New Gods, I'd say it's the same Source from there: the "consciousness" of the universe.

* I feel kind of stupid asking... but what does V minus 42 mean?
** I assume 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.
*** I'd assume the 42 means that Lord Vyce will finally confront Linkara 42 days from when the Cry for Justice video was released.

** Oh, so it's like the "He's counting down from X" for Mechakara? Thanks.
* People are seeing a demonic-looking eye when the Entity's static comes up, but I don't. Where is it?
* Was it just me, or did Linkara come off a little too harsh in his review of ''The Adventures of Kool-Aid Man'' #1? Granted, he was reading a rather dumb comic, but from the start, he seems to hate it simply because the main character is the mascot for a food product he apparently does not like, and he's convinced that no one was a big enough Kool-Aid connoisseur to want to buy and read the comic. He might as well have just said "I hate Kool-Aid and you folks should too because of this stupid comic!"
** It was more of confused rage than hatred. And by the look of the comic, I'd have to agree.
** The problem was that they didn't even sell the comic, it was just given out as a promotion for the drink, and he doubted anyone would actually get it anyway. See his rant about how Marvel agreed to it to get more of his view on how pointless the entire thing was.
** That was the point. With the other tie-in comics you could actually walk into a comic store and buy the thing; this comic was given away as strictly an advertisement; in this case entertainment was the secondary objective.
** There's also the point that - unlike toys like Air Raiders, wrestlers like the Ultimate Warrior, or singers like Nightcat - there's no gimmick or plot thread to the Kool-Aid Man that justifies making a comic out of him. You literally have to take huge amounts of creative liberties and build up the storyline, antagonists, and conflict from scratch to make a comic about him work. To wit, you could make a comic based on the Trix Rabbit or Lucky, because their commercials tells a story of them in conflict with the kids over their cereal. Even the Keebler Elves could have a comic made about them, considering the latest commercials have them dealing with disasters with their cookie-making machines that they need to fix. But the Kool-Aid man doesn't even have ''that''; all he does is burst through the wall to give thirsty kids his drink, and even now, he doesn't even do ''that,'' the kids having ''all the Kool-Aid they want at his endless pool parties''.

** In my opinion, 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.
** I decided that it was referencing his secret identity as Pollo.
* An Alchemy Machine that turns Dog poop into gold will not pay for itself. It would destabilize the economy by devaluing gold. Even worse than stealing ancient golden artifacts like Goldfinger wanted to do in James Bond Jr since in that case there would still be a limited amount of gold in the world whereas the machine could create a theoretically limitless supply of gold.
** When he said the alchemy machine could pay for itself, he didn't mean using it to make more gold, he meant using it make almost anything into anything else. (i.e., turning nuclear waste into rechargeable batteries, [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers that way, you wouldn't need to shoot the nuclear waste into space.]])
*** Except ''Alchemy'' despite what popular anime may tell you was about turning stuff into gold. So to be an Alchemy Machine all it should be able to do is turn stuff into gold. Either that or it is badly named.
*** Except that no, even Wikipedia can tell you that "alchemy" was also about turning stuff into silver, creating an "elixir of life" or a "panacea" (whatever it is), and plenty of other things which are not as well documented (probably because if you can make yourself immortal and rich, why would you care about anything else?).
*** -> What "Alchemy" means in terms of the machine doesn't matter. It can turn teenage idiots into superheroes, so it does more than turn stuff into gold.
*** And just to clarify this, turning stuff into gold was more like a "holy grail" of alchemy, not one of its main uses, as such, alchemy is not exclusive to turning things into gold, but simply the most obvious conclusion to its use.
** Additionally, even if it was just capable of turning things into gold, gold is a ''really useful metal'', since it doesn't corrode, is pliable, and is an excellent conductor of electricity. A machine that could create an unlimited amount of it would make gold into a fantastic material for ''industrial'' applications.
* But it's clone Spoony who's doing the Let's Play of ''SWAT 4'', not Black Lantern Spoony / Spoony the White.

* Also, am I the only one concerned that Black Lantern Spoony is still running around out there. I've read ComicBook/BlackestNight , I know how dangerous those things are.
** Worse than that ComicBook/BlackestNight is a DecompressedComic that really takes place over a single night. That thing has been running around for months after it's creator and power source for the Black Rings has been defeated.
*** Linkara is on Earth-Prime, though, not Earth-0. Maybe we have our own Nekron or an entity of a similar enough nature for the ring to tap into.
*** Nope, Adventure Comics had a few issues concerned with Superboy Prime dealing with Black Lanterns (as well as Dan Didio and Geoff Johns) and those Black Lanterns all had to travel from Earth-0 and well if we had our own Blackest Night we'd be screwed due to lack of Lantern Corps and we'd all have been killed by the Black Lanterns now. '
*** Ah. In that case, either Insano or Mechakara did ''something'' to it that changed it from being powered by an EldritchAbomination to being powered by [[MadScientist SCIENCE!]]
*** Or, our Nekron is a lot more passive, lazy, and laissez-faire than Earth-0's. He'll power a Black Ring that immigrates in like Black Lantern Spoony's (its probably easier to let it tap into him than forcibly block it off, after all), but won't actively ''make'' any. Our Nekron might not even be ''sentient''.
*** "No active malicious mind behind it, just basic reanimation" thing is later supported by WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment, where Black Lantern Spoony only wants the hearts of other Spoony-based characters out of a desire to be whole again, rather than a desire to destroy and devour all that lives like he would if he was in full-on Blackest Night mode. He was even able to feel Christmas cheer for a bit, something Nekron has never known in his life.
*** Clearly Black Lantern Spoony isn't the same as the other Black Lanterns, a normal one would go on a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech ''before'' trying to kill its target, and is seem as a zombie Spoony rather than just the ring uses a corpse puppet so its using different rules.
* Re: his ''Dark Knight Strikes Again'' review, he criticizes Franchise/WonderWoman saying "I'm pregnant again" directly after having sex with Franchise/{{Superman}}, saying "How does she know?" But it's possible that she was already pregnant from a previous, er, encounter with Supes and just chose an odd time to let him know. Course, it could've just been Creator/FrankMiller being himself...
** It's more about how the sentence comes off. Since they just had sex before she says that, it comes off as her saying she's pregnant from that encounter and not one previously.
* Why did his character freaked 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." Whether it's an error in the show's continuity or RuleOfFunny, it still bugs me.
** He's acting, people. Exaggerating a reaction for comic effect. Remember his ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack'' 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 [[GoMadFromTheRevelation 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 [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment 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 RuleOfFunny.

* Just watched his recent video and I have to ask: Who is Iron Liz?

* This is just a tiny thing, but what's Linkara referencing every time he goes "Oh horsehorsehorsehorsehorsehorsehorsehorsehorsehorsehorsehorse prostitutes!"
** Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}
*** [[http://www.shortpacked.com/blog/comic/book-2-pulls-the-drama-tag/06-the-drama-tag/whores/ More specifically...]]
*** Which was itself referencing Frank Miller's affinity for prostitutes in his comic books.
** Not horse, whores. Easy mistake to make (This Troper himself made it) until you hear prostitutes at the end.

*** Why do I have a feeling that, one day, the troper that posted this is going to come back and be struck with several different flavors of FridgeHorror all at once?

*** He's an ''alien'', isn't he? Human logic does not apply.
*** Wait, what? Alien?
*** 'Course he's an alien. Think million dollar pipes like those come from a human?
*** ...does that make the real Lewis Lovhaug an alien then? He's talented of course, but seriously?
*** Reference to http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2009/10/silent-hill-review-alternate-endings.html . Maybe I shoulda added "Besides, dames really dig a foreigner." or perhaps just open with a link, but whatcha goin ta do.
*** Okay...sorry. Don't think that's technically canon considering it's a jokey alternate endings thing and the credits uses the qualifier "alien" in front of Harvey's name, but what can you do?
** During a Q&A from one of his live shows (I don't recall which one, but I'll link to it when I find it again), Linkara mentions that Harvey really likes Pokemon.
* I can't remember the exact review, but it was the one where 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 which really wraps my head around the whole timeline thing.
** I'm not sure, but I think that 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.

*** 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 (I think). 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.
* The fact that he didn't use the full morphing sequence in the Ewoks #9 review. I love the "Internet Reviewer!" bit, why didn't he keep it?
** Time?
** If I remember correctly in ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' after the first morphing sequence it cuts to them saying what they are then showing them morphed. I assume Linkara did the same thing
** Uh, yeah, he did that in the Power Rangers review, but not in the Ewoks review for some reason. That's the JBM.
*** Power Rangers sometimes skipped the sequence and got straight into action. Linkara probably did it as a subtle homage.

** Initially I thought it was Christabella. What exactly was her fate again?
*** If my memory's correct, wasn't she molested and killed?

* I don't know if this is really a Headscratcher, but I can't find an answer to this anywhere. Does Linkara ever explain why he's ''called'' Linkara?
** I ''think'' it was from a character in a book he wrote. Don't count me on this.
** Apparently Linkara wrote books from the ages of 13 to 19. Linkara was his pen name.
*** Angel Armor. It's on Amazon! But, it's under his real name, so that's not it.
** Well, it's ''still'' used as [[AlterEgoActing a kind of]] pen name as of 2010. Does anyone know what the name means?
*** Absolutely nothing; according to his [[http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2010/06/q-vlog-1-origins.html Origins video]] he's a fan of the name Link and just slapped "-ara" on the end of it.
* What was that thing he was scanning at the beginning and during TheStinger of the X-Men Origin story?
** A sonic screwdriver, from ''Series/DoctorWho'', a (principally) magical door-unlocking and machine breaking/fixing device. The first one belongs to the Ninth, Tenth and (briefly) Eleventh Doctors (Creator/ChristopherEccleston, Creator/DavidTennant and Creator/MattSmith), while the one in the Stinger belongs to the Eleventh (Smith) for most of his run.
*** Yes, but the OP was asking what he was using the screwdriver on. The gold thingy.
*** It was one of the two parts to a [[Series/PowerRangersZeo zeonizer]].

* So in Linkara's [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/29265-justice-league-cry-for-justice-1-2 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". Whut. Sorry, but honestly... What's the joke. Was there a joke? Did I miss it? Help? Please...
** If you look at the title it can look like it says gay for justice rather than cry for justice, due to the font.
*** OH!!! I get it now! I was looking at the part where it actually said "Justice League". Fail.

* So what's the problem with suggesting Huntress, Lady Blackhawk, and Hal Jordan had a drunken threesome? Badass characters are allowed to have sexytimes, too. I don't know, this is probably just a case of YMMV on my part, but the fact that it seemed to bother him so much (and the fact that he singled out the Birds of Prey characters when he mentioned it) just...well, bugged me.
** When asked about this on Twitter Linkara said "Threesomes in themselves aren't bad. It reduces two ass-kicking heroines, though, into drunken conquests of Hal Jordan."
*** Aha. See, that makes much more sense. Complaint retracted.
*** Wait, why? Because women who enjoy threesomes and one night stands are instantly "conquests"?
*** It was the way it was being discussed, I think.
*** Plus, if a person's intoxicated enough, [[BlackComedyRape it's rape even if they say 'yes.']]
*** Well, Hal was also drunk, wasn't he raped as well? [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Yeah I know...]]
*** ...what?
*** I mean, when drunken consent of Lady Blackhawk and is invalid then how can be Green Arrow's consent valid when he was also drunk?
*** So drunken sex is now automatically rape? In what universe does that make any sense?
*** This universe, apparently, since laws state that sex when drunk is considered rape.
*** Depends on the degree of intoxication- generally, as long as the individual is capable of understanding what's going on around them, and is consenting to intercourse knowingly, then it's not rape, even if alcohol has impaired their judgement somewhat. If however, they are so intoxicated that they've no idea where they are or what's happening (and are thus unable to consent knowingly to intercourse for example, by being so drunk as to be unconscious) then it's rape. Granted, the cut-off point between drunken, but valid consent and the taking advantage of a person incapacitated by drink may be indistinct. Generally, if they are able to say yes (or give some other indication of consent, verbal or otherwise) then it's usually held not to be rape. Note though that I'm citing UK (specifically Scottish) law on the matter, so if anyone wants to correct me on the equivalent US law, feel free.
*** I think his problem with it wasn't that it was "rape" or anything - just that the way Oliver was asking about it, it basically made it sound like he was patting Hal on the back for his vagina scoreboard, which is what reduced the women to "conquests". It wasn't the scene in and of itself, it was the tone.
*** I'm not too familiar with ComicBook/GreenArrow, but from what I've seen of his characterization...isn't that just the way he would say it?
*** I'm not terribly familiar with him either, but from what I know yes. But in character or not, that seems like the kind of thing that would bug Lewis. Of course, if it is in character, then it's not entirely Robinson's fault, but Lewis was probably just [[AccentuateTheNegative nitpicking]] because he was still mad, justifiably so in my opinion, over [[StuffedInTheFridge the death of Lian Harper.]] For what it's worth, Gail Simone's thoughts on the subject can be found [[http://www.richlovatt.com/2009/08/green-lanterns-threesome here]].
*** Some more WordOfGod from his blog [[http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2011/07/discussion-of-dcu-reboot.html here]] (in the comments)
--> I got pissed off because two characters discussed something that had broader implications to other characters that had nothing to do with the story just so they can raise this image of Hal Jordan as sexually virile in the hero community for no reason whatsoever.
* Is it just me, or did [[EvilTwin Judas Liz]] come [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment completely out of nowhere]]? There's no reason why Liz has an evil twin, or any explanation for why she's showing up now, or why her face is constantly obscured--seriously, her name is Judas Liz and Linkara has access to one female actress. Even if the name didn't imply exactly what she should look like we'd know it in advance. The whole character seemed *ding!* completely pointless.
** She's not an evil twin, she's a Liz from an alternate dimension, and presumably she'll show up again later, Linkara's already said Liz has worked out Judas' backstory with Iron that will come into play on her reviews.
** There were also hints about Judas Liz coming in some of Iron Liz's vids. And as to the weird framing Linkara admitted they were a bit awkward and came from some confusion between him and Liz on how they were going to do the reveal of her.
** That bothered me too. Especially by the fact that his biggest pet peeve are tie-in comics that require you to read to fully understand them, [[{{Hypocrite}} yet you have to watch Iron Liz's videos to get the full story on this one]]. I think with all the time he spent working on his storyline, he shouldn't assume everyone is going to watch every review or the videos of guests who come to the show.
*** Keep in mind, with all the stuff Lewis is doing behind the scenes, it's most likely he would forget to fill in that little plot hole.
*** His problem with tie ins having plot points is when they have major plot points that are critical to the story, not when they have plot points, period. Judas Liz is a pretty minor plot point.
** I don't watch Liz's videos, so I saw none of the foreshadowing to the Judas Liz reveal. I'm not too fussed about that, ''however'', as I had no idea that Judas Liz was foreshadowed, when I saw the ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' review, I got the impression she was a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere [[DeusExMachina who only existed so that Liz wouldn't be involved in the Mechakara fight]]. It also doesn't help that it kinda shows inadvertently that Liz is rather superfluous to [=AT4W=], as they otherwise wouldn't need to introduce Judas Liz, seemingly ''just'' to keep Iron Liz out of the Mechakara.

* Speaking of which, how did Linkara (not Lewis, I know that) get two robots? First of all, how did a comic critic build a robot out of cardboard with a hoverskirt? I know he didn't build Servo but thats not the question: how did Linkara get ahold of Tom Servo?

** 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. (Alternately, Linkara responded to this [[http://twitter.com/Linkara19/status/27439428595089408 on Twitter]].)
*** I think the better question is: Was Liz barefoot?
* In Linkara's ''Superman: Distant Fires'' review, he says that launching every nuke in the world at a single spot would just move it an inch out of orbit. Just to clarify, wouldn't moving the Earth out of orbit, even by a inch, mean that it would eventually drift into space or fall into the sun, or is that just TV science?
** TV science. I think the Earth wobbled a couple of inches during the earthquake that caused the 2004 tsunami.
*** Well, what was the verdict of the scientists on that?
*** Even if the Earth did move that really shouldn't be enough to noticeably change anything. A planet's orbit is never perfect.
** To give you some idea of how insignificant an inch is, Mount Everest is about 348000 inches high yet if the earth was the size of a snooker ball it would be just as smooth.
** Actually, planets' orbits aren't perfectly round. They're an inwards spiral, just a very, very big spiral. Thus, it's gonna do that anyways.

** It is, but in terms of American English pronunciation it makes no sense. Two countries separated by a common language and all that.
** He stated it might be a British thing.
** It is. British English doesn't use the letter "z" as much when "s" is perfectly acceptable.
** It's the standard English spelling in an English comic, something which even the most cursory web search would have revealed, which makes his mocking of it both a CriticalResearchFailure and kind of insulting to British fans.
* Linkara's hard line belief in ThouShaltNotKill. I mean, granted, I can agree with him up to a point that when it gets taken to DarkAgeOfComicBooks levels without being a black comedy, it can get stupid, but the idea that taking a life is always wrong, and that superheroes should never kill is just ridiculous, and frankly it's insulting to real life heroes such as police officers and soldiers who are, as unfortunate facts of life, occasionally forced to kill someone in the line of duty.
** That's one is always going to be a YMMV. There are plenty of comic book fans and writers who believe that their heroes would never kill and there are plenty of fans and writers who believe that technical pacifism really isn't possible. Linkara just ranges on one side instead of the other.
** It should be noted that there's a ''major'' difference between a superhero and a police officer/soldier. Cops and soldiers are agents of the state and are accountable to the people. They're the ones we the people have specifically charged with keeping the peace and defending us from harm. And we place very specific restrictions on their ability to use lethal force. Superheroes are not bound by that same restriction. They aren't accountable to anyone, nor are they bound by any rules beyond their own personal conscience. If superheroes ran around killing people, society would be unable to tolerate them. Sticking to purely non-lethal methods allows the superhero community to maintain the trust of the people.
*** Cops are accountable to the people? Since when?
*** Until people start wondering why [insert comically over sympathetic family member here] had to die because someone refused to kill the Joker and he escaped to kill aforementioned comically over sympathetic family member. If people are going to tolerate poorly dressed people running around beating people up at their own discretion, I'd suspect they'd require a certain level of effectiveness and competence from said poorly dressed crime fighters. They're already taking the law into their own hands, they're already playing god.
*** Except they're ''not'' taking the law into their own hands. They're essentially performing citizen's arrests. Fully within the limits of the law. If civilians want to complain about murderous super villains never being killed I've got two words for them: capital punishment. If the judicial system applied the death penalty more often to super criminals there would be a lot less Joker victims out there.
*** Look at the Black Lives Matter controversies, the police brutality issues, etc. Now imagine how much WORSE that would be, if it was superheroes who weren't officially government agents. Superman Vs. The Elite handles it quite well. The issue with Superheroes killing is WHERE IS THE LINE.
* Why isn't the name "Darkseid" considered a case of Poor literacy is kewl?
** Because it wasn't written that way to be "''edgy''", like other names that have had this thrown at them.
*** Then, why was it written that way?
*** What I've seen elsewhere (and I can't find it again to save my life, so I may be paraphrasing incorrectly) is that it was written that way to show his inhumanity. The difference is that it wasn't written with the mindset of "kids will think this looks cool". It had an actual narrative purpose.
** It also probably qualifies for GrandfatherClause. Creator/JackKirby created the ComicBook/NewGods back in TheSeventies, when this sort of thing wasn't common. In TheNineties, it became a fad and seemingly every new "[[DorkAge hero]]" had a name like this. I'm surprised Nineties Kid doesn't spell Bloodgun as "Blüd-Gûnn", though I probably shouldn't give him any ideas.
*** Dunno if this helps, but I've heard it was originally meant to be pronounced "dark-SEED" rather than the now accepted "dark-SIDE."
*** There's a story floating around that it was always officially "Darkside", but once a fan met Jack Kirby and said "Darkseed" -- whilst talking to this fan, Jack Kirby used "Darkseed" as well. If this story is true, then Kirby probably didn't care too much how you said it.
** Here's Linkara's comment on the subject for the ''Youngblood#2'' review:
--->'''Linkara:''' And before anyone wants to call me on the "But Darkseid is spelled incorrectly too" thing with Creator/JackKirby, I would remind you that the ComicBook/NewGods are, well, ''gods'', and Kirby wanted a genuine good-versus-evil feel out of them. He didn't spell "Darkseid" like that simply to be "extreme" or "cool" or any other nineties cliché. I'd actually be more inclined to cut the new spellings some slack if they weren't done simply because spelling things normally "wouldn't have been hardcore enough."
** And here, after the quote above that I posted, are my thoughts: Short answer: It's because Kirby does it well. Long answer: First of all, Darkseid's a villain, so it's meant to make him sound evil, not badass (or, to put it more correctly, what a teenager boy would consider badass). In other words, it's not meant to make him a Dark And Edgy Anti-Hero. Secondly, it's his real name. (Yes, I know someone who wasn't Jack Kirby decided that his birth name was Uxas, but the original Jack Kirby stories never indicate that Darkseid isn't his real name.) The Cool and Edgy Antiheroes of the nineties, on the other hand, gave themselves names like Bloodstryke as superhero names, which is just a sign that they're immature. Thirdly, he's a god. It's meant to give a mythological quality to his name, not sound "kewl." How and why you do it matters a lot.
*** Ironically, Uxas is extremely 90s.
* As The same trope who talked about his hypocrisy in Cry for Justice before, I have noticed another complaint. This to me is most apparent in this review, but also a complaint elsewhere for him. In the review, he hates on Green Arrow for shooting Prometheus, who just killed his grand daughter, mutilated his son, and beat down his wife, and says it's petty. But when Donna Troy starts pummeling Prometheus into the ground, flat out trying to kill him for revenge, it's satisfying? To this troper, he spends too much time talking up female super heroes anyway, but this example pissed me off quite a bit. Also, he says it's wrong for Green Arrow to kill, but he loves the Huntress, who has a MASSIVE body count, and once crippled an innocent cop for trying to stop her. What the hell!?
** ? He said he liked the Birds Of Prey but hasn't talked about any individuals other than BC and Oracle. (Though he made a passing reference to Vixen.)
*** My problem is that he's very hypocritical when it comes to female Superheroes. He says that it's wrong for Green Arrow to shoot Prometheus in the head, but thought it was great to have Donna Troy try to literally beat his head in. He says it's wrong to kill, but calls the Huntress a bad ass. She has a massive body count, and crippled an innocent police man when he was inconvenient to her. I know he's a feminist, and I support him, but man, does he like to remind us.
*** The Huntress used to to do that, and an important part of Birds of Prey, a favorite of his, is that she has to earn Oracle and Black Canary's trust and stop killing people. She's still violent but she atoned for all that murder. And as for prometheus while the Donna thing is a bit of a double standard, it wasn't because Ollie's a man, it's because Prometheus, a guy with powered armor and the abilities of the worlds greatest minds and athletes, got killed by an arrow he could have easily avoided.
*** No, he called Green Arrow petty, and said that his revenge was a worthless motivation. But he thinks it's awesome to watch her try to kill Prometheus in a blind rage. I just notice he has a massive double standard.
*** You do realize the comment about revenge was a reference right? Its a movie quote.
*** Doesn't change how he seems to treat the two differently.
*** It does, in the same way murder and manslaughter are treated differently. Donna Troy was in the heat of the moment, trying to stop Prometheus, and yeah maybe get some revenge for what had literally just happened. Green Arrow, meanwhile, took the time to think about it, and actually chose to walk right into Prometheus' home and murder him.
*** Here's some more proof of the double standard. [[http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2013/04/your-moment-of-awesome-for-day.html Bam]]. I'm not denying that it's awesome, but if a male superhero did that, he'd probably scream bloody murder and probably work in his faux-feminism somehow.
*** That isn't really the same thing due to "I don't have to kill you but I don't have to save you either" (she set fire to the plane to stop them from bombing, not to kill them), and that technically we don't know if they're dead or bailed out.
* Maybe I'm missing something, but why does he have such a problem accepting that Image Comics has a SharedUniverse? Okay, granted referencing Youngblood in every Image book gets incredibly annoying, it only seems to further the whole Shared Universe thing. Seriously, what the hell?
** It's not the idea of a "shared universe" in itself, it's that he considers Youngblood to be so terrible he's flat out stunned that anyone would ''want'' to be in a shared universe with it.
* So is Linkara completely ignorant of the sizable portion of the population that considers latex clad women to be fetish fuel? In part one of his ultimatum review he ranted(briefly) about how part of his beef on sexualizing female characters has to do with him thinking "whats the point? they can't show anything anyway"(well, part of that is from ultimatum and part is from an earlier review that escapes me at the moment). Is he truly unaware that some people like things being left to the imagination?
** It's not just about the female characters looking sexy. It's about having them look sexy at the expense of logic and practicality. A skin-tight suit may be sexy, but it's still practical. Linkara's issue is with putting female superheroes in thong string-bikinis and high heels for their uniform, which is the least practical thing a person can wear for crime fighting. Artists and writers put the women in such outfits for the sole purpose of making them look sexy, and in doing so it makes it appear that having her look sexy is the number one priority for the character.
** I'll put this as delicately as possible. Linkara can be rather...irrational about "sexism" in comics. He makes good points from time to time, but he also makes some pretty silly ones. Like when he said in the second ASB&R review that it was "sexist" for Black Canary to be inspired by Batman to become a superhero. If BC had been inspired by a female superhero Linkara would never have called it sexism. Nor would he have called it sexism if a male character in a comic were inspired to become a superhero by Wonder Woman.
*** I think you're missing the point here. It is sexist because it's the Black Canary, a strong, female character in the main DC universe whose reasons for getting into superherodom were a lot more complex than "being inspired by a man." If it was a new character he wouldn't have called it sexist, but since it was a well-established character with Frank Miller's typical handling of female characters (*cough* whoreswhoreswhoreswhores) that pushed it into sexist territory. It'd be no different from Wonder Woman being inspired to become a superhero solely due to Superman's example; it'd be taken a strong female superhero and stripping them off their motivations and portraying them as following in a man's footsteps.
*** No, I think ''you're'' missing the point. It's an entirely different continuity. Frank Miller can make up any origin he wants for her. But because he dared (''dared'' I say!) to write her as being inspired by a ''man'' to become a crime fighter, by God that's sexist! Bullshit. If you want to complain that her origin was poorly written, insufficiently nuanced, or has no purpose in a Batman book, fine. But you can't get just throw around the word "sexist" whenever you want. I submit to you again that if Frank Miller had written it so Black Canary had been inspired by a ''female'' superhero, no one would have ever called it sexist. But because she was inspired by a man, suddenly it magically becomes sexist? Again, bullshit. There's nothing wrong with a woman being inspired by a man's example and I defy you to prove otherwise.
*** The problem is Frank goes well out of his way to tell us it's "a ''man''" and a man alone (not her personal experiences in Gotham, not any specific horror stories of the town, just "a man") that's motivated her to become a crazed vigilante. It's compounded by her lack of baring on any of the plot. All she does is beat a bar full of patrons senseless six months before any of the story takes place and then bangs Batman after he saves her from thugs. Essentially, her entire character is to show that Batman is a sex god that can make hot Irish ninja chicks all sweaty for him by just existing in the same universe as him. Add in the other females of this book like StrawFeminist Franchise/WonderWoman and MsFanService Vicki Vale and it's not really surprising Linkara is calling sexist on this book.
*** Her lack of relevance to the plot, StrawFeminist Franchise/WonderWoman, and MsFanService Vicki Vale are completely and entirely irrelevant (and StrawFeminist Wonder Woman isn't even an example of sexism anyway). In the Elseworlds story Frank Miller was hired to write, he decided to change Black Canary's backstory so that she was inspired by a particular male superhero to become a hero herself. ''This is not remotely sexist.'' [[DoubleStandard If the roles were reversed and a male character had been inspired by a female superhero, nobody would have called it sexist.]] You have to do some serious mental gymnastics to conclude that it's automatically sexist for a woman to be inspired to do something by a man's example. I'm not saying ASBAR was perfect, or even good. But if you want to complain about it, make sure your complaints are actually based on fact and logic, not an irrational hatred of Frank Miller and/or irrational attitude about sexism in comics.
*** Why are those things irrelevant? Because you say so? You are right, nobody would call it sexist if gender were reversed, because that wouldn't be an overused cliche. Of course it's not automatically sexist and nobody here is saying that. It is sexist in the context of the story which you are willfully ignoring.
*** In most continuities, isn't it the case that Superman and Batman are typically the first of the modern superheroes? Pretty much everyone who shows up after that (particularly heroes who operate mostly in America) are at least partially inspired by their example.
** Linkara self-identifies as a feminist and spells out the complexities of that position with welcome care. In spite of this, he also tends to come off as a bit of a prude averse to discussing anything sexual in comics in terms other than condemnation. His positive example of fictional characters having a sexuality is a page showing Nightwing and Starfire sleeping in bed nude together. Such a mild example: is sleeping together nude the limit to what he thinks characters can do sexually on the page without it passing over into exploitation? Nor does he praise the image on the level of aesthetics, the way he so frequently does praise so many other things about comics art: is depicting the beauty of the human form not an objective comic book artists are allowed to have?
*** Oh, please, we're not talking about the "Beauty of the human form" here, we're talking about BOOBIES! ASS! DID I MENTION THE BOOBIES AND ASS?!? ''That'' is why he's upset.
*** I don't think you read the comment to which you're replying very closely; it's about even Linkara's ''positive'' example being praised on the levels other than aesthetics. He has ever right to complain about sexuality in the service of juvenile titillation and exploitation and objectification, but seem unwilling to acknowledge that anything else exists.
** I have to agree. As much as I enjoy [=AT4W=], the rants about feminism are getting tiresome. I really don't want to come off as sexist or insensitive, or anything, but...Its actually making me not want to look at his reviews, because I don't want to hear yet another anger filled rant about showing a woman's ass in a comic (rants about other stuff is fine). I'm all for feminism, and I know that there is some horrible, objectifying stuff in comics, but it feels like he's going overboard on the stuff so far, like with the Terminator VS Robocop or with the Frank Miller thing about. Its almost like watching the OTHER animated Titanic movie, with the message just being pounded into your brain. I get it, don't objectify women!
*** In his latest review (Kamandi At Earth's End #2), he manages to shoehorn in a rant about "OF COUSE THEY HAVE AN _ASS SHOT_" over two panels, that's right, two panels in an entire comic book... and one of which didn't seem like it was drawn with the intention of being sexy. ("...and the highlighted it in orange so you can see her ass better!" Um, no, it was so the character would stand out in the scene. Her entire body was colored in orange.) And the whole "Sorry you don't match our standards of beauty!" (implying that the other two women weren't rescued because they weren't hot, no, they weren't rescued because it's a shitty comic book with bad writing and the writers forgot) Linkara can funny, but the 'feminism' is grating. Although in the Athena review, the cover with the blatant ass shot gets a partial pass. I have a theory as to why.
** It's possible he's so used to comics objectifying women (we all know it happens) that he just kinda reacts to it on reflex.
* This could just be me imagining things and if so I apologize, but does it seem to anyone else that Linkara has a habit of...erm..."borrowing" jokes from other contributors at TGWTG.com? And I don't mean the times when he borrows signature jokes that are used all the time, like "I was frozen today!" or "Of course!". Those are clearly homages to the other contributors on the main site. What I'm talking about is a few times when he makes one-shot jokes that seem to be borderline ripoffs of other one-shot jokes. Like in his Neutro #1 review where he "borrows" Spoony's "What follows is the awesomest thing you will ever see" joke. Or in his Amazons Attack review when he uses the same joke the Nostalgia Critic used in the Goodburger review where he pulls back and sobs "I need a minute". It doesn't happen often, but when it has happened it's really stuck in my mind and gave me the feeling that Linkara was trying to pass those jokes off as his own.
** It seems like the "OF COURSE!" joke transcends throughout the entire TGWTG site as many other reviewers use it as well, and I don't think saying "I need a minute" after seeing something personally disturbing constitutes a steal-able joke. The Nostalgia Critic didn't make that up, people have been saying that for ages. As for the rest of it, Linkara probably just thought the joke would fit and didn't think the others would mind, which they probably don't. And as Linkara doesn't seem to be doing it much anymore, it doesn't seem like much of a problem.
** It's not just the words, it's the tone and the context also. The Nostalgia Critic may not have come up with the phrase but he DID come up with the specific joke where he stops the review and sobs to himself for a minute after the thing he's reviewing does something particularly disturbing or distressing. The reason it bugs me is because in the past when Linkara has "borrowed" jokes from other TGWTG contributors he's lampshaded it in some way (adding "Apologies to the Nostalgia Critic" for example). In that case the fact that he took someone else's joke is, itself, part of the joke. But those other times I mentioned, he didn't do that. It was...I don't know...jarring I guess. I don't think he meant to steal it, I just meant that that's the impression it gave me.
** It's just him making a reference to their jokes, not stealing them. Most people who watch his reviews do watch the other reviewers, so when he makes that joke it serves as a ShoutOut to the other reviewer(s), just like the "OF COURSE" gag.

* Linkara's flip flopping on his stance of CharacterizationMarchesOn. It may just be because he (apparently) reads more DC than Marvel comics that he's more familiar with it, but it annoys me that he'll rant about people messing up evolving characterization for DC characters, but complains about it with Marvel characters. Specifically I'm talking about him complaining about the Thing's portrayal in the Brain Drain comic(which was admittedly, a very stupid comic), where he ranted briefly about Ben Grimm not angsting over being The Thing. Ben has been at peace with being the Thing for decades now; he's long since gotten over that angst.
** I think his complaint was more that he acted like being The Thing was universally positive to the change which he never was.
* I am the only one that finds weird that 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? I mean, at the very end where you can hear The Entity doing his noise like he was "summoned" or "escaped" or "lured to this world". 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

* I'm ok with Linkara not saying "fuck", but then why does he play ''America: Fuck Yeah!'' whenever Captain America does something awesome?
** 1) A bleep would probably sound awkward there. 2) He's not saying it himself. 3) Most of the cursing he does use seems to be [[PrecisionFStrike emphatic in nature]], as using that song in this case would be.
*** Exactly. Linkara has no problem letting others swear on his show, and has had them doing so plenty of times. He also regularly has WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob cameo in his show, and regularly cameos as Jessie Ventura on WebVideo/DiamandaHagan's, and they review porn.

* Why doesn't Linkara, with his ability to teleport, spaceship, and all his healing items like the dermal regenerator, help the world itself? I bet you if he tried, he could get rid of all the dictators of the world, and cure world hunger in the same day, easily.

* In the case of tech and magic taken from shows, etc. I amuse myself by assuming that copyright laws prevent it. Still doesn't explain not sharing the other stuff. Maybe Linkara's crossover(lord?) arsenal hints that he has [[TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression Genius]]-like powers? If so, perhaps his stuff wouldn't work for others?

** OP's theory confirmed, in a way. 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.

* TheStinger 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. Is it just me, or does it just seem incredibly stupid that Linkara wouldn't have someone go with Pollo, especially since ''it had just been established that the Entity wouldn't strike if there was more than person there''?
** You mean like the time that Linkara was alone in the Silent Hill review and the Entity DIDN'T eat him because...........because? or maybe Pollo isn't a person in the eyes of LINKARA??

*** You've missed the point - If the Entity had gone after Linkara prior to Vyce's defeat, it would have found itself in an EnemyMine 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.
** From his twitter:
---> Nooo, I said we CAN'T stay together all the time and he was within twenty feet of us, so I figured he'd be fine.
*** Except at that specific moment in time, someone could have gone with Pollo - Keep in mind, he'd ''just'' cited the abduction of Ninja Style Dancer, who the Entity had tried to abduct within several feet of Linkara, and Boffo the Clown was abducted earlier in the episode, despite being in the same room as Linkara.
*** ...I don't know either, that was just his (apparently IC) answer.
*** My guess is that (possibly subconsciously) he thought that since Pollo is a robot, and the Entity had only been making people disappear, that he'd be fine. I'm not saying that he [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman thinks of him as just a machine]], but thought he'd be fine because so far it had only taken human.

* A small one, and pretty meta, but I'm still curious: The storyline recap is being given by Linkara-Prime, the future Linkara, who is played by Lewis' father. Prime lisps as well, but is that just Lewis' dad putting it on to mimic his son's VerbalTic, or is Lewis' lisping hereditary?
** And the Silent Hill: The Grinning Man review answered that question. The lisping IS hereditary. Lewis has his under control more so than his father does.

* Let's get this out of the way. The "talking the monster to death" done to The Entity works because it is a glitch and wasn't supposed to be in the game and therefore it DOESN'T have a purpose. However, I do find weird that the Entity didn't think about it before at the very beginning of HIS existence, but we could argue that it didn't absorb enough of the world around it to develop intelligence beyond auto preservation. So, after absorbing an entire universe with all the intelligent life forms around it still didn't think about it for one second nor anyone even tried to talk to him about it. Some time later it will develop the capacity to make people suffer for fun (like when he could enter the room when Linkara was reviewing the Pokemon manga but he didn't anyway just to torment him) and somehow after being lectured by Linkara about its meaningless existence he didn't think about making his plans keep going anyway to absorb all existence and THEN dying to reset the whole thing and make things differently this time around, considering that he now knows the concept of having fun by making other beings suffer so may as well try again from nothing and see how munch he can manipulate thing this time to keep him entertained. After all, it kinda fits that a video game creature wants to play with the very universe that created him a beyond and all their living beings in the same way that a person plays a video game over and over. So I guess what really bugs me is that the Entity just went down too easily even if it could just disregard the accusations of Linkara or just keep going on with its plan
** Perhaps the conditions under which the Entity would listen to such an argument were never right?
*** Never right after all the bast and unlimited universes he has devoured? Not a single soul nor technological advanced alien race questioned his existence? And even with all the intelligent lifeforms he has absorbed and all the time of the world to think about it, it never crossed its mind? That it's pushing it a bit too far, especially the fact that a god is listening to a nerdy human that is talking out of his ass to save his life (a patron that he may recognize after all the realities he has devoured already). But of course, Link may probably read this and start thinking a solution.
*** Ok, one, what lunatic would try to talk to an all consuming Entity that devours reality? Why the hell would you even try that? Linkara only did it because he had no other options and the Entity was enjoying playing around with him. Second, Vyce said no one believed in the Entity until there it was to late, so it's probable the Entity just devoured them to fast for them to even try resisting. Heck, Vyce as a massive conquerer of multiple universes couldn't even hurt it, that should tell you plenty. And three...simple fear. The Entity is going to devour you, and nothing you can do will harm it. I'm guessing most people were begging for mercy rather than thinking logically. Linkara didn't do that, so it pushed him to the top of the Entity's listen pile.
*** What lunatic you ask? Well, everyone that isn't scared. I remind you that, he didn't devour a planet and nothing else but MULTIVERSES with billions of billions of billions of life forms beyond any number calculable. Are you SUGGESTING the idea that not a single one of them tried to defy him? Why not? Is iybecause only humans are special or something? Can't the other species think logically, just the humans does? Are the other species were cowards? How convenient, isn't it? Is because they aren't Linkara? And I remind you that The Entity is a sadist, and by that logic he took pleasure on eating one by one, possibly doing the same that he did to Linkara of just corner him and watching him go mad or beg for mercy and NOT.A.SINGLE.ONE.OF.THEM tried to harm him emotionally/psychologically? Again, that is pushing it too far. The best way to handle this is for The Entity (if he ever appears again) to just flat out said that he brainwashed Vyce into thinking that The Entity devoured multiple universes and only HE can stop him (that is why he cant believe that it is actually dead, the idea is too ingrained in its head). T.E probably thought that being chased by someone who will make thousands of world suffer to protect them from HIM was more fun than its previous Modus Operandy. In addition, Linkara will discover that T.E lied to him about the multiverses being destroyed and he was just fucking with him because, again, if he actually was in other multiverses he would have been killed like Linkara did to him. At the very least, it will make more sense that T.E had no mind at all from the beginning and devoured anything in the same way a glitch corrupts or fire burns anything in its path without questioning it because obviously doesn't have a mind at this point. THEN when he absorbed enough intelligent lifeforms, he develop a mind on its own and keeps going on the kill anything because "why the fuck not and who is going to stop me?" and JUST IN TIME for Vyce to appear in sight, this time because he is being chased, he doesn't take the time to torture people and just eats them all the way for the rest of his life until he meets Linkara and the others and the rest is history.
** There's a simple reason why no-one tried to question the Entity-they had ''no idea'' it was a video game glitch. Given how completely serious Vyce was, its unlikely anyone who the Entity didn't toy with knew it was Missingno: Linkara only knew because a)his universe has Missingno and Lord Vyce's entire universe as just some video game made by [[InsignificantBluePlanet a little blue marble orbiting one of billions of stars in billions of galaxies]] and b) the FridgeBrilliance of its similarities. Vyce and the Entity likely fought in universes where Pokemon did not exist, hence even if given the opportunity they'd just think it was an EldritchAbomination from who knows where. As for why the Entity never wondered-it's a ''glitch in a video game.'' Even with the ambitions of absorbing existence and the power to do so, its still a fundamentally simple(effectively stupid) being.

* Linkara frequently skimps on research and strangely even seems proud of it, prone to flaunting his ignorance... in his review of Wonder Woman's debut, he notes that Diana's mother is named "Hippolyte" instead of "Hippolyta" and he insists that he doesn't care how accurate it is to the myth: "don't know, don't care." The very first line on the wikipedia entry for the mythological character refers to her as "Hippolyta or Hippolyte," so it's not like this would have taken a trip to the library, and it wouldn't have taken much more to learn that the pronunciation is not "hip-po-LITE," any more than Aphrodite would be "af-ro-DITE." Later that same review, he goes into an exegesis about western democracies in 1940, which conspicuously lacks any reference to Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc., strangely both calling out the comic for its America-centrism and wearing his own like a badge, including even stating "being an ignorant American, I don't know much about other countries across the world." Nobody's expecting you to intricately recreate the immediate historical context that surrounds this 1940 comic, but why bring it up to begin with?
** He brought it up because the COMIC brought it up. He can't let that pass without comment, even if he doesn't have time to do full research on what really is a very complicated issue. And he does say that other democracies and freedom fighters existed. Why should he have to give a full list? And his comment about Hippolyte was explained. That in this case which is right doesn't matter, as the comic is already playing fast with names and mythology as it is, so who cares if they got this detail right?
** [[MST3KMantra It's just a show, you really should just relax.]]

* I still watch his shows, but what troubles and infuriates me that he considers one of his earlier reviews to be the best due it being short and to the point... While his recent episodes go on for forty to fifty minutes. I wouldn't mind the time so much if it weren't for "plot" taking over the true portion of the show that teaches the viewer of comic history and explain why the comic is bad. So, why can't he make shorter episodes anymore?
** He, and many others, believe that if people will watch a 30+ minute show, they'll watch a 30+ minute review. And hey, if you don't like the story lines, you could just skip them and get to the reviews.

* So....why did Linkara hated so much The Grinning Man character motivation of For The Evulz?

** This is a recurring complaint I have with the way the character is portrayed. Out of universe, Lewis has always maintained that the Linkara character is at least ''kind'' of an asshole, but in-universe, he's really depicted as more of a Big Damn Hero. I think the incongruity is what makes the the "turning evil" point ring hollow. To Lewis, it makes sense, because Linkara's always been loud, arrogant, opinionated, and pretty intolerant of anyone who doesn't agree with him. Combine that with the kind of power he has at his disposal, and it's bound to corrupt him at least a little. But viewers are shown everything from a different angle. We've seen him save the world and defeat foes who certainly pure evil too many times to consider him anything but good. And unlike, say, the Nostalgia Critic or the Cinema Snob, who are portrayed in-universe as obviously wrong jackasses most of the time, it seems like we're always meant to ''agree'' with Linkara's opinionated arrogance.

*** Do you realize how that sounds? Linkara, by the scope that his narrative has shown us, has only worked in the point of good. I admit that he went a little Tenth Doctor at the end of his run, but having one speech of arrogance does not make one evil. He has fought for good, and loves heroes and emulates them by using their powers. To show others the strength of his convictions and preventing threats beyond our understanding. You wanna know why this doesn't hold up? Because he happens to use his brain alongside his brawn. He's a hero who thinks about what he does and acts accordingly. That is very rare in heroism-and part of why basic pride comes back in him-but there's no reason he can be that way. He's human and a hero. Personal is the same as important. Just because what he ''does'' is suspect doesn't mean his actions are.

* 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 ComicBook/OneMoreDay and rather find a way to improve from it? I mean, it'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.

* I was confused by why both Holokara and Linkara only considered 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 [[TakeAThirdOption 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 [[CutLexLuthoraCheck 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.

* In his second ''15 Screw Ups'' video, he had a semi-hate filled AuthorTract that basically boiled down to Marvel would be better off if they cancelled all X-Men books, citing that there's too many characters, they make no sense in the Marvel Universe (namely, why are the Fantastic Four and Captain America loved when the Mutant Population isn't) and how 'all of Marvel's terrible crossovers come down to the X-Men in some way'. OK, this annoyed me quite a bit, which surprised me considering I usually agree with almost everything Linkara says and usually his arguments are so good that, when he makes an author tract, I find myself unable to not agree with it. This was different, for a few reasons. Firstly, LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters is an issue one could find in many different superhero teams, including Avengers and Justice League. How is that an issue that makes X-Men notably worse than other similar comic teams? Secondly, bigotry and discrimination in real life ''doesn't make sense at all anyway''; there's people in real life who have no problem with gay people but think Women should stay in kitchens and black people should use different sinks, or feminists who hate gay people and other minorities, etc. Bigotry is born from InsaneTrollLogic and DoubleStandard beliefs. Arguing that a fictional population's bigotry makes no sense is simply FridgeBrilliance. Thirdly, while the F4 and Captain America are beloved, the same universe does also hate Spider-Man, they hate quite a few of the Avengers, and they turned their back on Cap at large at one point. Fourthly, that last thing is bogus. While Onslught originated from an X-Men book, Civil War and AVX, both which he cited, originated from Avengers just as much if not more than the X-Men. Civil War outright avoided using the X-Men ''because'' it was too similar to a MRA story, while AVX is indeed a terrible story and originating from several X-Men plot threads, it pretty much exists to promote the Avengers and results in destroying the reputation of many longtime X-Men characters, most notably Cyclops and Emma Frost. I don't expect him to enjoy every series or book and character, in fact I can understand his disdain towards the X-Men, being that there's many issues I have with the series at the moment, but the reasons he gives for not liking them just bugs me in their flawed logic.
** In a later episode, Linkara did say he was half-joking, so I wouldn't take what he said to heart. I think it just boils down to how damn confusing the stories are to Linkara and that his fans shouldn't just assume that he knows ''everything'' about the X-Men just because he's a comic fan.
* Why is everyone reacting so negatively to Linkara respectfully asking that people turn off adblocker for his videos? It's a whole minute of ads per video. Oh my gosh, that's so painful and horrible! How dare he ask you to go through such torment so he can keep producing otherwise free videos for you to watch? Seriously. Are people really that selfish and impatient? (Never mind, I know the answer to that question.)
** It's definitely not "everyone" behaving in that way. Lewis has said himself that the supporters outweigh the opponents, and his monetizable views (ie the number of viewers watching the ads) has gone up since the video. Also, as he said in the video, some people have genuine reasons for using adblocker (for example, technical problems on older computers). But, I agree, this video has bought out some selfish and impatient people in the comments sections - fortunately they seem to be a vocal minority though.
** Some of the haters have said that Lewis should "Get a job" (See the [=AT4W=] CMOA section to see how well that turned out), and he should limit conventions and other such events if he wants to make the most out of what he earns. Ironically, they spend more time slamming Linkara then it takes to watch the add.
** Mostly because some people are worried about ads or background programs pumping viruses into their computer or accidentally clicking adds, or popups that get in the way. Some are worried that turning off adblocker for the videos may leave them vulnerable.
** It's also pure hypocrisy on the detractor's part that they slam Linkara and tell him to "get a REAL job" (because [[SarcasmMode the job market is SO good at the minute]]) when they say nothing about video creators they like who also make videos for a living.

** I have a distressing feeling that Mechakara was basically [[PeoplePuppets puppeteering]] whatever part of Alt Linkara he didn't carve up like a turkey, mainly because it was easier and more cost-effective. Enjoy the NightmareFuel!

** "What's with these awkward subjects? Why's all this art so rubbish?"

* 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.

** 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 EldritchAbomination, 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.

* In the Review of the Grinning Man in the fight scene you see Hologram [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] cut down a pyramid head and then get stabbed through the torso. Which it just shrugs off. I can't get how the physical presence of the hologram works. It clearly isn't intangible or it wouldn't be able to throw the comic about (unless it was also a holographic representation. If it was tangible and able to wield the Bat'leth (however you spell that)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. I find it weird the hologram can do battle and stab things while apparently being undamageable. Maybe I need to watch star trek.

* 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. I can't get how the physical presence of the hologram works. It clearly isn't intangible or it wouldn't be able to throw the comic about (unless it was also a holographic representation. If it was tangible and able to wield the Bat'leth (however you spell that)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. I find it weird the hologram can do battle and stab things while apparently being undamageable. Maybe I need to watch star trek.

* what happened to Dr. Insano's orbital death ray from Superman vs. the terminator?

* If Mechakara is an AU!Pollo, how was he able to kill his Linkara, much less wear his flesh ala The Franchise/{{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 [[{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} 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 AIs helped create the Mechakara body, and Alt!Pollo uploaded himself into it.
** I have a distressing feeling that Mechakara was basically [[PeoplePuppets puppeteering]] whatever part of Alt!Linkara he didn't carve up like a turkey, mainly because it was easier and more cost-effective. Enjoy the NightmareFuel!

*** 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 FridgeLogic 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.

* Using a glitch Pokemon as a villain. All the rest of his references and characters are heavily built into pop culture; even if you never saw the shows or played the games PopCultureOsmosis will guide you. Missingno is obscure even among fans of the games, and has no place in the Pokemon show at all.
** Modern fans: Yes, but they are too young to be watching. Older fans: very much yes. Missingno. was EVERYWHERE back then.
** Older [=AT4W=] fans who were already above the Pokemon demographic when it became popular, say mid-twenties or older: not a goddamned clue.
** That's probably why he devised the Entity as its own thing in his show. People unfamiliar with Missingno from the games would at least have heard of it from the joke he made about it earlier. No, you wouldn't be able to guess in advance and you wouldn't get the "Heavy" clue, but you would still be able to enjoy the storyline for what it is.
** Well, since the very next episode explained just what Missingno. was towards the beginning of the review, it shouldn't be too much of a problem, anymore.
** He made Missingno a villain because [[NightmareFuel it scared him as a kid.]]

* Something about Linkara always threw me a bit off. I get that his shtick is reviewing comics, which involve heroes more regularly than almost any other form of media, but he seems to want to be the "hero" of TGWTG way too much. His stories always involve the near annihilation of the human race if it weren't for a lisping comic book geek with a model gun. I mean, I dig that he has narratives to his reviews, but... he takes it all way too seriously for my tastes. And for someone who hates these tropes being used in comics, he not only has a lot of shock-deaths (fake deaths too, at that), but he has waaaay too many last minute asspull deus ex machinas. Also, dude's flat-out bloodthirsty and cruel in some of his battles. But eh, just me bitching about an internet comedian who's gotten too big for his britches.
** He's supposed to be a pathetic egotistical prick who wants desperately to be a hero. That's the character, Lewis is the nice guy. That's how it always is with this site.
*** See, it never came across like that to me. Whereas Doug and Lindsay and Noah and most other reviewers write their characters to be obvious exaggerations of an aspect of their personalities, Lewis's always came across as just an idealized version of himself. If he wrote in more jokes that made his character seem flawed in a significant way, or made it obvious that his ego was intentional, it would make me like his character more. But it really just seems like Lewis, while a decent guy in real life from what I know, is living out his fanboyish Gary Stu fantasies now that he has an audience. While this isn't annoying per se, it's just sort of... uninteresting.
*** This Troper noticed that Linkara (the character, mind you), while several of his actions are indeed heroic, has actually been sliding towards the more egotistical, overconfident side of things. You see it in his first fight with Lord Vyce, in his conversations with supporting cast members, in the fact that it took him over a year to figure out the Entity was even around, and the fact that the Entity storyline was entirely Linkara's fault.
** I just think Linkara's characterization might be a little more subtle than you want it to be. After all, the narratives ''are'' second to the reviews, and it's harder to develop a character when one has a really limited amount of time. And there's also the weird recursive thing of the character Linkara writing his own reviews...but it's all being written by Lewis, so that might explain why there's fewer jokes on Linkara's egotism.
** Leaving behind the fact that HE may be reading Tv Tropes right now and this section may suddenly disappear, what do YOU think that he should do to make sure the audience knows that he is just a prick with an ego too high for his own good, without going into ViewersAreMorons territory?
*** How about having the Magic Gun sap his magic away to keep him from turning evil?
** ...Wait, am I the only one who assumed it was all ''[[PoesLaw parodying]]'' all those elements? I thought the point of his various story arcs was to make fun of the many clichés involved.
*** That's entirely possible too.

*** 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

* But it's clone!Spoony who's doing the Let's Play of ''SWAT 4'', not Black Lantern Spoony / Spoony the White.

* When did anyone ever doubt that Linkara is a man?
** When you compare his voice to Iron Liz.
*** Her voice is not THAT mannish, is it?
*** Hello people of the future. This is what we call IRONY! And, before anything thinks I'm being rude, I'm actually male-to-female trans myself, and that's why I find this funny.
*** I meant when did anyone doubt that he's a man, thus his creation of the phrase "I am a man! *punch* ".
*** You obviously haven't watched the show. He just thought it sounded funny and ridiculous. To quote:
---->''When debating, solve your disagreements not with words, but by screaming '''I AM A MAN!!!''', and punching them in the gut.''
*** Where in the hell does that say anything about doubting him being a man? He ''does'' go on to say that you still have to say that even as a woman, but that's neither here or there.
*** Nobody ever doubted he was a man, he doesn't say I AM A MAN because someone didn't think he was he said it because of the above line.
** Jesus christ guys, it's a joke.
*** Linkara's catchphrase or the entry? Because the person at point 4 got the origins of the catchphrase utterly wrong.
** "I am a man!" comes from [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/3252-superman-at-earths-end his review of Superman At Earth's End]] (which also started the more minor "Of course, don't you know anything about science?" RunningGag). The comic features [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Qu15clDr-iM/SwRVYCGbEOI/AAAAAAAAD1o/FwgTjoMcSfU/s1600/superman+I+am+a+man.jpg this unintentionally hilarious panel]], which Linkara has repeatedly mocked ever since.

* Why isn't Bloodgun a real comic yet?
** Because the 90s ended.
* Why does he keep pronouncing "room" as "ruum". Granted I don't know my regional dialects expertly, but I don't think that's a natural Minnesotan way to pronounce it.
** Again, it's his thing.
** It's a Midwestern thing; notice that he also says "roof" as "ruff."
** Agreed. As a Michigander, it took this troper a good 30 seconds to figure out what was weird about Linkara's pronunciation.

** Would have been a good opportunity for some WhiteandGrayMorality 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 [[AcclaimedFlop massive declines in comic sales]] that threaten to make those characters he was trying to save, completely irreverent.

* 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?