Eexecute
(Thomas Kennedy) is a (formerly very angry) Australian let's player on YouTube. He does mostly FPSs and has a small but devoted fan following. Known for rage. Lots of rage. Was on hiatus from Feb 19th, 2015 until September 3rd, 2023 after 8 years.
His Let's Plays so far include:
- Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
- Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
- Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion
- Quake II
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
- Doom: Man vs. Nightmare (cancelled)
- Man vs Black \m/etal (in progress)
- Max Payne
- Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy w/Charles
- Quake IV
- Unreal w/Charles and Edgar (in progress)
- Duke Nukem 3D (in progress)
- Shadow Warrior (1997) (in progress)
Charles' Let's Plays consist of the following:
Edgar's Let's Plays consist of the following:
- Tales of Phantasia
- Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus (in progress)
Eexecute's Let's Plays provide examples of the following:
- Almighty Janitor: Eex mentions that he is one in Real Life.
- Arch-Enemy: Barrels, grenades, elevators, doors, orks, barrels,
Leapers, yellow robots, click-clacks, Chaingunners, Revenants, barrels... - Atomic F-Bomb: Lampshaded during the Dark Forces II LP; when he lets one rip at Jan Ors, it cuts to a photo of a nuclear explosion with the text: "ALL OF MY RAGE".
- Awesome Aussie
- Awesome, but Impractical: Eexecute insists that he use the showiest methods to vanquish his enemies in games, even though they sometimes lead to his in-game demise.
- Background Music: Eexecute likes to splice custom music into the background of the games he plays. For important moments or particular bosses, he will choose dramatic or comical music depending on the context.
- Background Music Override: In the Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy playthroughs, Eexecute splices the background music with a Turok 2 Port of Adia metal remix whenever lightsaber wielding opponents are encountered. He had to stop this practice in the latter stages of the Jedi Academy playthrough as effectively all the fights in those levels were against lightsaber wielding enemies.
- Badass Boast:
- Charles: Thresh ain't got shit on me.
- Bad Boss: Eex used to work for one, whom he described in one of his videos as "a bitch".
- Battle Cry: "F*** ya!"
- Berserk Button: Calling Eex a coward.
- From the Max Payne series, impersonation painkillers.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: Subverted. During the opening of Episode 15 of the Jedi Academy Let’s Play, Eexecute somewhat reproaches Charles for getting drunk and fornicating with a “mini Cthulhu.” Soon enough, Eexecute is making jokes about it, and gets a punch from Charles in response.
- Blooper Reel: Part 4 of the Dark Forces II LP has one at the end showcasing his many, many deaths.
- And again at the end of Part 7 of Jedi Outcast.
- Brick Joke: In part 9 of Turok 3, Eex finds a man in a lab tank and dubs him "Bob". This scene is accompanied by the text: "This is Bob. Remember him, he's important." In the next part, we find Bob in another tank, this time in the dam control room. A clone, perhaps?
- In part 4 of HeXen, Charles is teleported into a room full of Wendigos. He uses a Banishment Device to warp one to a random location on the map, to make the room merely bullshit rather than straight-up Unwinnable. Later, while leaving the piston room after opening up the Secret Level, he runs into the Wendigo on the elevator. Cue death.
- In part 4 of HeXen, Charles is teleported into a room full of
- The Bus Came Back: After 8 years of absence on YouTube, he has returned to making vids again.
- Call-Back: Frequently, to previous LPs.
- Calling the Old Man Out: BloodReaperZ chews Charles out in part 10 of HeXen. This quickly degenerates into Snark-to-Snark Combat.
- Catchphrase: "Shutting up due to cutscene" when plot is about to take place.
- Cluster F-Bomb: All the damn time, though it gets really bad (and hilarious) in Jedi Outcast.
- Compensating for Something: According to Eexecute, the reason the Dinosoids want to exterminate humanity is "penis envy".
- During the opening cutscene of the Dark Forces II, Eexecute suggests the massive size of Jerec’s vessel is a case of this trope.
- The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: Eexecute drops this trope by name occasionally when he finds instances of it occurring.
- Cultural Posturing: Charles does a lot of this. He has a strange idea the the British Empire and its customs are still intact and is constantly devoting his time to trying to colonise places for the empire (though in fairness, it is implied he is extremely old and quite possibly was around when such attitudes were appropriate).
- Curiosity (Nearly) Killed The Cast: In part 9 of Turok 2, Eex decides to stay in the exploding armory and see how much damage he'd take. It wasn't pretty.
- Domestic Abuse: Although Eexecute and Charles are neither family nor living together, there are several instances of violence in the Jedi Academy playthrough that could constitute this trope. Charles slaps and punches Eexecute once each, and uses a switchblade to force control of the game from Eexecute when he gets bored from not having had a turn. He also attempts to slap Eexecute a second time during the first Korriban level, but the very much dark sided Eexecute punches Charles first. Eexecute also threatens to punch Charles again if he doesn’t stop complaining. The two constantly bicker and complain at each other throughout the entire playthrough, and in one episode (the same as Charles’s first slap, in fact), Charles calls Eexecute his slave. The offended Eexecute manages to force an apology from the British Overlord and invokes this trope. Slightly subverted in that episode, in that the two do eventually agree that violence is not the answer and they don’t condone it.
- Eldritch Abomination: Eexecute directly names this trope in Episode 15 of the Jedi Academy playthrough, as Charles apparently fornicated with a miniature one while drunk.
- Epic Fail: In Part 22 of Dinosaur Hunter, Eex enters an obnoxious Warp and fails to make the same jump four times. When he finally reaches the end, he celebrates by accidentally jumping off the ledge, sending him back to the start of the section.
- Evil Brit: Charles, who refers to himself as a "British Overlord".
- Evil Is Cool: Eexecute justifies most of his dark side decisions during his three Star Wars game Let’s Plays this way. He even justifies hacking the game in Jedi Academy and giving himself Dark Rage for the final two levels of the game with this trope.
- Evil Laugh: Tom has a pretty good one.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Invoked in the Dark Forces II let's play after Eex decides his Character Alignment with a coin toss and it comes up tails (Dark Side). From then on, his voice is edited to sound like this whenever he does something evil.
- Continued in the Jedi Outcast Let’s Play whenever he kills a civilian or droid.
- And continued again in the Korriban stages of the Jedi Academy Let’s Play where he plays both levels with a deep voice effect.
- Exploding Barrels: His #1 Arch-Enemy since the Turok 2 Let's Play.
- Failed a Spot Check: In part 4 of Turok 2, he misses a Level 2 Key. He doesn't realize his mistake until the end of part 5.
- Flat "What": Tom and Charles' reaction to Jaden saying Rosh is his friend.
- Grumpy Old Man: Charles exemplifies this trope. His exact age is not directly stated—he refuses to reveal it, in fact—but in an episode of the Jedi Academy Let’s Play, he says he was a teenager during World War II. If we assume he was a teenager for the entire war, we can conclude that he was born sometime in 1926 given that the war went for six years and teenage years total six in number. If so, Charles would have been around 87 years old during the time the episode was released (August 2013).
- Guest-Star Party Member: BloodReaperZ, a frequent commenter, has appeared in several of Eexecute's videos.
- The 'Three Convicts' videos.
- Head Desk: Tom does something that sounds like this while struggling on the Nar Shaddaa level in Jedi Outcast.
- The Hedonist: Charles seems to fit this trope quite well. He drinks, smokes, enjoys the services of strippers, and does not practice monogamy despite being in his fifteenth year of marriage to his second wife as of the time of the Jedi Academy Let’s Play.
- Hidden Depths: He states in the Max Payne LP that his favorite show is My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
- Honor Before Reason: Eexecute’s modus operandi involves always selecting the hardest difficulty in games and not using items or abilities that are imbalanced or overpowered. He is a rigid observer of showmanship, even when it gets him killed. Averted somewhat in certain circumstances, like the Jedi Academy playthrough, in which Eexecute decided to use an overpowered force pull and lunge combination that was capable of killing the strongest enemies in a single hit. He decided this was acceptable because the game was almost at the end and he had spent a long enough time not using the attack.
- I Call Her "Vera": In the Max Payne LP, Eex refers to the Pancor Jackhammer as the "Convict Cannon".
- Earlier in the same LP, he encounters a Mook who names his Colt Commando "Dick Justice". After Eex confiscates the weapon, he renames it "Jick Dustice".
- In Harm's Way
- Insistent Terminology: DARK F*** JEDI!!!
- 'Girlyfaces', 'legless wonders', '(big) (flamethrower-wielding) (f***ing) heffalumps (of sh**/lard)' or 'fattykin'... Doom inspires him, clearly.
- In the Jedi Academy Let’s Play, Charles insists that the way he says certain words like “green aides” for “grenades” and pronouncing the wam in wampas like one would pronounce the word ham, is the correct way of doing things. He justifies this in classic fashion by saying because he is British, the way he pronounces and speaks words is the correct method.
- Intentional Engrish for Funny: "A hip and a skop", just to give one example.
- Kinda Busy Here: His second video ends this way.
- Laser-Guided Karma: In Part 5 of Jedi Outcast, Eex kills a GNK Power Droid For the Evulz. Less than a minute later, he jumps down to a pipe, only for it to retract into the wall before he lands on it, causing him to fall to his doom.
- Happens again in part 11. He get's shot by a sniper while killing a helpless, if treacherous, bartender. Tom does live this time, and promptly lampshades the trope.
- Lava Adds Awesome: Eex is convinced that lava is the most delicious-looking substance ever.
- Leeroy Jenkins: "F*** common sense, I'm Eexecute!"
- Let's Play
- Long List: His ever-growing list of Arch-Enemies.
- Mall Santa: No, really.
- The Many Deaths of You: Man vs. Nightmare is made of this.
- Same goes for Man vs. Black \m/etal. Some deaths occur in the first second of the video, even.
- No OSHA Compliance: Called out by Eex whenever it shows up.
- Old Shame: As of late, he views some of his older LP's (particularly the playthroughs of Turok N64 Trilogy, Quake II and Dark Forces II) as "OLD AND S**T" however, he never plans to take them down since he knows it'll upset his fans that still enjoys them.
- Original Character: Charles Clayworth, who debuted in the Jedi Outcast LP. Maybe.
- Pun: Part 10 of Jedi Outcast is titled "Episode Tien".
- When Edgar runs into doomtoads in Tales of Phantasia, Tom edits in music and sound effects from...yeah.
- Route Boss: In his Dark Forces II playthrough, after defeating Yun in the second of their two fights (which is exclusively for a dark sided Katarn), Eexecute opted to include the light-side exclusive fight with Sariss, as well. In addition, after defeating final boss Jerec after an alleged 400+ attempts using dark side powers, Eexecute fought Jerec again using light side powers and won on the first attempt in order to prove that the light side powers were drastically overpowered.
- Running Gag:
- His repeated failures to properly use grenades.
- Taking damage from Exploding Barrels.
- Getting killed by elevators, doors, etc.
- "A SHORT AMMO FARMING SESSION LATER..."
- "Give me your blood!"
- Eex keeps running into a dead Tien throughout the second half of Turok 3.Tien: As a matter of fact, it isn't.
- Darth Eexecute
- After a vending machine angers him early in Max Payne, Eex proceeds to shoot every single vending machine he comes across for the rest of the game. This carries over into his Max Payne 2 LP.
- Throughout Episode 4 of Quake, Charles keeps a diary recording his progress towards getting a rocket launcher, which the episode refuses to give him until the second-to-last level.
- -BANNED IN THE UK FOR EXCESSIVE VULGARITY-
- *buckshot* "F*** ya!" *buckshot* "F*** ya!" *buckshot* "F*** ya!"
- Singing “Does your d*** hang low?” when waiting for something unskippable. Even Charles does it on one occasion.
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Schedule Slip: The finale of Max Payne 2 was put on hold for eight months because of technical issues. - Shout-Out: Eex will occasionally make one to someone who commented on a previous video. He also makes many pop culture references.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Charles, who uses "motherf&#@" like a punctuation mark.
- Eexecute also has quite the potty mouth. In one episode of the Dark Forces II playthrough, he voices the opinion that he might have an undiagnosed case of Tourette’s Syndrome.
- Spinoff: Charles Plays.
- Start My Own: Charles threatens to start his own LP series in Part 11 of Jedi Outcast. Tom claims that he doesn't have the balls. Cue "Charles Plays [QUAKE]".
- And now they're joined by Edgar, who will be tackling platformers and RPGs, beginning with Tales of Phantasia.
- Succession Game: Tom and Charles played Jedi Academy this way; each time one of them died, control would be handed to the other.
- Survival Mantra: "Ninja! Ninja! Ninja!"
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Tom definitely did not kill Jan in Dark Forces II.
- This Is Gonna Suck: His reaction to the warning Doom gives when selecting Nightmare difficulty:
- Eexecute: 'Are you sure? This skill level isn't even remotely fai-' you know it's gonna f*** suck ass when the game itself tries to talk you out of it!
- Unstoppable Rage: A staple of his videos.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Charles admits to being terrified of sand worms.
- Likewise, Tom admits his fear of facehuggers.
- Wild Mass Guessing: Charles. Is he an actual person? Tom with an edited voice? Tom without an edited voice? A robot? The world may never know...
