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"I'm Gunarm Dyne, call me Dyne."
— Usual intro and often part of the outro.

Gunarm Dyne, who prefers to go by Dyne, is a lifelong gamer and hobbyist Let's Player/variety streamer whose primary focus is on "Classic Games that have been Remade or Re-Imagined," but will also record for old favorites. He does it all for fun, though he did start off doing it for therapy and speaking practice when in a deep depression over being out of full-time work for over a year. Most recording sessions involve him streaming live on twitch.tv and uploading the high-definition/edited versions of the video to Youtube but technical limitations or difficulties will lead to some videos being recorded entirely offline.

He started publishing videos in summer of 2012, but remained fairly inconsistent for the first three years, then went on a long hiatus in the summer of 2015 after.

In June of 2016 he introduced a project of mini-races called the Classic Gaming Grand Prix that quickly moved to its own channel.

He returned to focus on the channel in January of 2018 and has supplied unbroken content almost daily since by working on three separate projects at once: A main project that's usually a fairly long game and tries to cover as much content as possible, a secondary project that's a more-casual playthrough of a usually-shorter title, and a tertiary project that most often consists of races/party games with friends or trying out a new Randomizer. Primary and secondary projects are published on alternating weekdays while the tertiary projects are published on weekends.

He was heavily inspired by The Runaway Guys, particularly NintendoCapriSun.

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    Main and Secondary Let's Plays 

    Side Projects, Races, and Randomizers 

    Ys Appreciation Project 
A long-term project to play through at least one version of every Ys game released.

    Co-op Projects 

    Classic Gaming Grand Prix 

1st CGGP - Guests: TheSonicGeek, BloodyThunderX, Sinisterkun

See the CGGP page for more.

His Videos provide examples of:

  • Aborted Arc:
    • Mega Man X with Touhou Music was planned to cover the whole game but ended after the 8 mavericks as Sigma stages would require more songs and a lot more precision timing to let them play out in-game (due to not having any actual video editing software at the time).
    • Return of Touhou Mother ends at the start of Chapter 6 mainly because the full game hadn't been finished yet as of reaching that point in the LP. Dyne had not realized that the game itself was only a beta at the time. While the game has since been finished, the LP has not. Subverted with the announcement of starting the game over and playing through to completion after Return of the Dark Sorcerer.
    • Arc Rise Fantasia was due to start for over a year after originally announced, but was officially cancelled due to lack of time. Subverted in the end as he did manage to complete a full playthrough of the game for the channel years later.
  • Accidental Innuendo: Discussed In-Universe when the shopkeeper in Time and Eternity says, "Thank you for coming!" after every single transaction in the English dub.
  • Actually Pretty Funny: When streaming the weekly Soul Blazer Randomizer seed on July 30, 2022, a combination of bad luck, forgetting a few checks, and a harsh seed wore him down. Encountering the final boss, whose random message was, "How did you get here?! This was supposed to be a super trolly seed!" caused him to lose it due to how on-point the message was and declare the whole thing to be Worth It for that alone.
  • Added Alliterative Appeal:
    • Every video title for Touhou Mother is summarized by three words/phrases that all begin with the same letter and continued in the first attempt at Return of Touhou Mother.
    • Done so again with Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland, only this time the video titles are in headline format.
  • All Men Are Perverts: An early Running Gag in The Eternal Crystals has all the guys checking out Tina's butt.
  • Anachronic Order:
    • While Breath of Fire II is his 12th LP, he shelved it for a while to complete Mystic Quest Remastered v2.x (LP #13) first at the request of the developer after it became available for him to do so.
    • Mischief Makers was announced after finishing Illusion of Gaia but Power Blade was recorded first due to using it as a means of an audition video for a group channel.
    • His Let's Plays of the Gaia trilogy are out of order, doing them in the order of Illusion of Gaia, Soul Blazer, and Terranigma since that's also the order he first played them in.
    • The Arc Rise Fantasia Let's Play used a "time warp" to cover the post-game content before showcasing the final boss as it was a much more appropriate send-off to the project.
  • And This Is for...: After delivering the finishing blow to the final boss of Ar tonelico II, "That was for Reisha!"
  • April Fools:
    • A 2015 video wherein Kefka "speed runs" the original Final Fantasy in seven minutes, setting the world record in that particular category.
    • A 2016 video was planned to do the first half hour of Final Fantasy X entirely in Al Bhed, but it ended up sounding better in theory than execution.
  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Will sometimes interrupt himself in the middle of an explanation/statement in order to answer a question in the livestream chat or when something unexpected happens in the game, often forgetting to get back to what he was talking about before.
  • Badass Boast: "We're going to do it right this time!" started off as a joke in his Super Metroid Speed Run but became this at the end.
  • Bait-and-Switch:
    • Provides the intro for Mega Man 3 by reading off the back of its NES box and showing its title screen before powering on the game and revealing that it's the Tom Servo hack.
    • Also done with the preview for Touhou Mother, as he uses a remixed song from Mother 3 before revealing the title card.
    • The Mystic Quest Remastered v2.x project started off this way as it was introduced as Part 2 of Breath of Fire II.
  • Big "NO!": Due to the way Charmed status works in Final Fantasy IV, this is combined with Oh, Crap! and Rule of Three when he realizes- in Ultima- Rosa is casting Ultima, it's going to be against his team, and results in a Total Party Kill despite having cured her Charmed status.
    Dyne: No! NO! NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!
  • Book Ends:
    • Begins and ends Part 17 of Breath of Fire II with Star Trek references (though the latter was unintentional).
    • Super Metroid also basically began and ended with Spaceballs jokes.
    • Lilly's Hartman Hips in Illusion of Gaia are greeted and parted with appropriately-themed songs.
  • Born Lucky:
    • He tends to have pretty good luck when it comes to the RNG working in his favor, often with rare item drops showing up on camera, especially when getting a Pink Tail in his second playthrough of Final Fantasy IV Ultima and a (not quite as rare) Lilith Rod in the Pixel Remaster.
    • He's notorious for this in the randomizer community as, when he rolls seeds for himself, they tend to be pretty good. When he rolls seeds for other people, they tend be downright evil.
  • Borrowed Catchphrase:
    • He's prone to say, "Not a problem," when dealing with something he's confident he can overcome a'la Sagara Sousuke.
    • And of course quoting NintendoCapriSun's "In the bathroom!" when having to track down a character who was, in fact, in the bathroom in Breath of Fire II.
    • Regardless of the outcome, a Death or Glory Attack moment is preceded by a hearty, "Bangarang!"
  • Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Combined with Ninja Zombie Pirate Robot in Breath of Fire II
    Gigi: "Like how I can make flying machines or ninja robots-"
    Dyne: "Or killer ninja robots on flying machines!"
  • Brick Joke:
    • Having just gone to the dentist before recording he reiterates the quotation of the "The tank is clean?!" from Finding Nemo joke intro from Part 3 of Mystic Quest Remastered v1.7a with "My teeth are clean?!" in Part 9 of Return of Touhou Mother. Especially appropriate in that the movie scene takes place in a dentist's office.
    • The moments of "We're going to do it right this time!" in his 100% Completion run of Super Metroid are references/corrections to moments from either his Let's Play or race videos.
    • Pointing out that Will never actually took Vitamin C after contracting scurvy in Illusion of Gaia.
  • Broken Pedestal: Both The Eternal Crystals and Spekkio Lufia lost a lot of favor for him thanks to the insane difficulty spikes at the end that ultimately killed their fun factor.
  • By "No", I Mean "Yes": Mentions watching Rocky and Bullwinkle when growing up and quickly states he's not that old because he watched them on their official VHS releases, remembers that Technology Marches On, and declares he is that old!
  • Call-Back:
    • Having done Illusion of Gaia first, he declares only the Jackal can be a flaming humanoid enemy when encountering them in Soul Blazer.
    • The DLC Notification Menus return with a vengeance in the Neptunia Victory race!
    • Several "Next Project" announcement clips at the end of early projects used "EXEC_VIENA/." from Ar tonelico II as the background music. Come the actual Ar tonelico II project, that song was again used to announce it.
  • Character Catchphrase:
    • "Call me Dyne," when beginning and ending a video.
    • "So close..." when just falling short of a success.
    • "_____, you're fired!" when a particular party member delivers a poor performance in battle.
    • "Get out of my way!" when dealing with obstacles that he's not in the mood to put up with.
    • "When life is giving you a bad day, never be afraid to eat your pudding with a fork," is turning into his standard outro and that comes from a twitter post where he stated it was a bad day at work with systems being down, key people being gone and he had to eat his pudding with a fork since the break room was out of plastic spoons.
    • "Oh for the love of toast!" when getting appropriately frustrated.
    • "We're going to do it right this time!" See Let's Get Dangerous! below.
    • "Don't spawn on me!" - Originated from the tendency for exploding items to spawn on him while attacking (and thus blowing him up) in Super Smash Bros 64 and Melee during high school/college and adopted upon starting to make videos.
    • "If (insert reference to similar character event from a different series), you're playing the wrong game."
    • "I'm going to have to act again?" when a dramatic or sad scene is coming up and he's doing the voices.
    • "If your brain is full of dirty thoughts, use the Mindflusher!" courtesy of finding the Mindflusher enemy name hilarious in the Steam version of Final Fantasy V.
    • "Speaking of-!" has popped up courtesy of finding an item he was just talking about in a randomizer right after the conversation about it.
    • "Behold, the Master-!" to introduce whatever he's pulling from the Master Sword pedestal in A Link to the Past Randomizer runs.
    • "What are the odds?!" when something ridiculously lucky (or unlucky) happens.
    • "Time travel is not a toy!" When talking about how characters in games with time travel mechanics, especially Chrono Trigger or Time and Eternity, will often mess things up even further as a result of their time travel long before they manage to resolve all of their problems.
    • "Denied!" whenever he's ahead of someone in a Mario Kart race and manages to shake off a Red or Blue Shell headed for him.
    • "Oh, the lag!" for when massive slowdown cripples his game's performance, often in A Link to the Past and Soul Blazer Randomizers when enemy placement is heavy.
    • "Ya~wn!" for when he can just stand in place and let the enemies kill themselves on his sword in quick succession during Soul Blazer Randomizer seeds.
  • Character Development: Discussed. He's willing to forgive a game for the story not being well-carried by the plot so long as the characters manage to do so, citing Final Fantasy XIII as an example based on personal experience.
  • Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: In Breath of Fire II he gives Tapeta and the citizens of Fort Nageur cheesy French accents but only really plays into the stereotype of the trope when one guard is unceremoniously killed by a fly. A later video had a viewer of the stream ask him to say something super racist so he took a jab at the in-game race of frogs and later theorized that someone would interpret that as a personal attack against the French.
  • Cliffhanger: Part 4 of Illusion of Gaia ends with the plane crash.
  • Comically Missing the Point: Comments on the weather instead of the actual headline at the start of the Duck Tales: Remastered ending.
  • Corpsing: In-Universe:
    • Has a very hard time keeping a straight face and not laughing during the Bait-and-Switch above, but manages to hold off long enough to complete the intro.
    • Even before this, he didn't even try to hold back when achieving Unlimited Drill Works on Katawa Crash.
    • Also loses it when trying to remain calm during the character switch portion of Touhou Mother.
    • Stated on Twitter that he'd been practicing the character voices he had planned for Breath of Fire II and still had trouble not laughing while doing them. He did have a hard time getting through them the first time on camera but didn't have much trouble at all in the succeeding videos.
  • Crazy Enough to Work:
    • The In-Universe explanation on the channel for Randomizer "Chaos" races where everyone is playing different seeds of a Randomizer with the same settings to allow the players to have commentary and chat about crazy item placements without spoiling the other racers. As a result, there have still been some very close races.
    • Taken to another level with "Blind Commentary" races where a group of commenters will watch a straight or "chaos" race without knowing who is who until the very end.
  • Crazy-Prepared: Raiza51 set the rule of the Neptunia Victory race was that the party couldn't be any higher than level 65. Dyne used his preparation run to obtain all of the items necessary for every required Fetch Quest in the game well ahead of time to use in New Game Plus. It's the primary reason he ended up winning despite having to view extra cutscenes for the DLC characters and losing 10 minutes in Chapter 5.
  • Cross Player: When given the choice between using a male or female character, he'll almost always pick the female and any without a default name or appearance will be patterned/named after his channel mascot.
  • Curse Cut Short:
    • "Take that you fff-something I can't say because there are little kids in the house!"note 
    • Part 10 of FFVI has Kefka shout, "Oh, you a-idiots!"
  • Damn You, Muscle Memory!:
    • Playing off the keyboard he kept mixing up Breath of Fire II's controls with Mystic Quest Remastered's for a little while.
    • A memory-related version wherein he'll slip and use the names from the original translation instead of the Fan Translation. Ditto with The Eternal Crystals and its use of a few characters' original Japanese names.
    • He recorded Ar tonelico II and Chrono Trigger at the same time. The two games have their confirmation/cancel buttons swapped, so switching between the two constantly resulted in pressing the wrong button.
  • Deadpan Snarker: His favorite style of humor and he'll often snark at game mechanics that don't make sense or characters doing foolish things, especially in his video descriptions.
  • Developer's Foresight:
    • It is literally impossible to get hit by any of the enemies in the correct route through "Be a Burglar" while inside the castle because, technically, they don't even know Mario's there.
    • Lakitu appears near the end of his "The Curse of King Midas" level. Even if the player hijacks the cloud, invisible blocks prevent skipping the final leg. There are also several brick blocks that are secretly coin blocks to prevent an unwinnable situation by accidentally breaking one that needs to be used as a platform.
  • Didn't We Use This Joke Already?: Does this every so often with something along the lines of, "Wait, I already made that joke. Moving on."
  • Distracted by the Sexy: Forgot what he was saying during the Touhou Mother end credits when a nicely done pixel art picture of Sanae in Samus's power suit appeared during the photo montage.
  • Do Well, But Not Perfect: Illustrated in a meme video where he overlaid "World Revolution" from Chrono Trigger: The Musical onto the DLC track of the song in Theatrhythm Final Bar Line where, despite not getting a Perfect Chain, he kept the take because it beat his previous high score (which was a Perfect Chain), showed his team finishing off Chaos, and it was good enough to complete the Ultimate difficulty's Critical Chart.
  • Don't Explain the Joke: He uses this page or Twitter to better explain some jokes or references that didn't quite come out as well as he expected in the original videos.
  • Dude, Not Funny!:
    • In-universe, he pulls this on himself after making the joke that baby Mario in Yoshi's Island is the best pro-abortion argument he's ever seen and immediately apologizes.
    • He gives one to Erik in Part 9 of Illusion of Gaia when he cracks a joke regarding Hamlet's Heroic Sacrifice and Kara is in tears.
  • Ear Worm: "This [song]...Be prepared to never un-hear it again! Ahahahahahah!"
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: Recording the first few games on an unstable wireless connection was not a very good idea. Even after switching to streaming on a wired connection he feels like he doesn't find his full niche until Breath of Fire II.
  • EmPHAsis On The Wrong SylLAble: How he voiced Serin in Return of the Dark Sorcerer.
  • Epic Fail: As he says, it comes with the territory as no one is immune from the Let's Play Curse.
    • Had an easier time defeating the Dark King on Mystic Quest the hard way!
    • Mega Man 3:
      • Getting a game over within one minute in Part 3 (though the final death was intentional to reset his life counter).
      • Recording the entire original version of the second episode with the camera on his title card instead of the game footage.
    • Lost to Cirno(!) twice in Touhou Mother simply by getting the Item and Guard commands mixed up.
    • Took a Critical Hit One-Hit Kill in the first regular battle in Mystic Quest Remastered v2.x, leaving him speechless for several seconds.
    • Breath of Fire 2:
      • He rewrote the lyrics for the Oompa Loompa song from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory for the battle against the Uparupa. Only he sang the song when fighting one of the fake Uparupas instead of the real one.
      • Not realizing the Emergency Exit is a one-way warp in the Highland dungeon and having to re-do the entire thing up to that point.
      • Recording the entire finale before realizing that his mic was off.
    • Final Fantasy VI: The Eternal Crystals:
      • When explaining Celes's Runic ability, it immediately begins with her absorbing the magic item Locke attempted to use on the boss.
      • Part 9 nearly had to be re-done as the Hypercam recording captured the wrong portion of his screen and Audacity wasn't configured for the right mic to pick up the commentary. Thankfully the back-up recording off of XSplit Broadcaster came out fine.
      • Part 14 showcases an in-game example where Mash hits an enemy and his weapon summons an esper. In the first battle this happened, the summoned esper was Titan. The enemy: The Storm Dragon.note 
    • Explains during the Neptunia mk2 race how, in his first run of the game, he did quests as they became available and almost got locked out on being able to recruit Noire due to how the quests messed up Lastation's shares. He was able to repair the damage by fighting a DLC colosseum battle that required grinding to Level 80 in order to win.
    • In Part 2 of Soul Blazer he declared the boss of World 2 much easier than the boss of World 1, but ended up dying twice against it, having forgotten to get both the Ice Armor and Shield Bracelet, which are what make said boss much easier.
    • Forgetting to remove his stream's promo art image when recording portions of Arc Rise Fantasia at least twice. The first time, chat caught it within a couple of minutes. The second time, he'd been recording for almost an hour before noticing.
  • Evil Laugh:
    • Has several, depending on the situation. He prides himself on being able to do ones that sound just like Scooby-Doo and Ataru Moroboshi.
    • When voicing Kefka, he has one after nearly every line.
  • Failed a Spot Check:
    • Could not figure out how to get to the basement area of the Ice Pyramid in Part 4 of Mystic Quest Remastered 2.x even though he passed the stairway to get down there at least twice.
    • Missed the obvious path to some treasure chests in the Abyss Tower in Breath of Fire II (though he later found out that the contents weren't any better than his current gear).
    • Not realizing that the reason he couldn't pull off the Crystal Flash when trying to demonstrate it in the Super Metroid Speed Run was because he had reserve energy left.
    • Initially missing the final enemy in one area of Ankor Wat in Illusion of Gaia but it's also corrected in the same video.
    • Lampshaded during Part 4 of Mischief Makers upon discovering the hiding place of the final ghost when he'd passed it several times already.
  • Fake Difficulty:
    • Expresses his opinion that The Eternal Crystals begins to suffer from this at a couple of points, especially at end-game, and the overall fun factor of the game is significantly hurt as a result.
    • Has expressed frustration that the worst levels in Super Mario Maker are the ones that create unwinnable situations with no means of escape other than running out the clock. In general it's also something he tries to avoid adding into his own levels.
      Dyne: "A poorly-designed level has the player shouting, 'That was cheap,' while a well-designed one has him saying, 'Oh, you got me!'"
  • Fan Edit: The channel features numerous extended loops or mixes of various songs from game OSTs or other fan projects that he pieced together, often with alternate versions that try looping at different spots.
  • Filler:
    • In general, he'll post a week or two's worth of videos from a smaller project (a short game, multiplayer shenanigans with friends, etc.) to fill the gap between major projects and give enough time to start recording them without feeling rushed.
    • He got hit with a nasty bout of the flu shortly after starting Return of the Dark Sorcerer that affected his voice for weeks and recorded both Sam & Max Hit the Road and Day of the Tentacle (as they needed little commentary on his part) to help fill in the gap of missing daily videos until resuming RotDS.
  • First-Person Perspective: Will sometimes assume the role of the main character during pivotal scenes in order to portray what they're probably thinking.
  • Freudian Slip: Lampshaded after somehow accidentally calling Diddy Kong, "Titty" Kong during an SMZ3 seed while talking about the available Diddy sprite on the Super Metroid side.
  • Funny Background Event:
    • After recruiting the painter, the houses in Township in Breath of Fire II are changed to a different color with each video.
    • The characters in Arc Rise Fantasia are placed in different costumes for each recording session.
  • Gag Dub: When replaying a game on a different version, he'll often give characters mismatched voices for the sake of Rule of Funny.
  • Game-Breaker: He'll discuss these and point them out In-Universe- Storm Tornado in Mega Man X and PK Throw in Return of Touhou Mother- but only utilizes them heavily in secondary projects due to them being more casual playthroughs.
    • The Item Duplication trick is showcased in Wild Arms to mostly avoid taking time to grind money and rare items, but also used to give everyone a Sheriff Star at the end for fun.
    • His challenge run of Final Fantasy III Pixel Remaster only allows for two jobs per character and no usage of Ninja or Sage. He still breaks the game in half by using the quick job mastery trick to max out those two jobs for each character.
  • Girl Next Door: How he describes his channel mascot when asked about her background, "She's a simple gal who likes to cosplay with her friends."
  • Glorious Mother Russia: His joke voice for Nisa in the Neptunia mk2 race comes from giving her the same voice when doing a guest commentary on one of Raiza's Let's Play videos of the same game.
  • Got Me Doing It: In Ar tonelico, he insists on using the Japanese pronunciation of Elemia (Ele-mia) instead of how the actors in the English dub pronounce it (El-em-ia). During his commentary, he lapses into the English pronunciation a few times.
  • Graceful Loser: He refuses to accept restarting a part of the Neptunia Victory race courtesy of making a big mistake that cost 10 minutes and forced him to replay the first half of Chapter 5. Though he still won the race in the end.
  • Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Has been told he has potential to have a great singing voice but couldn't stay on key if his life depended on it, especially when doing acappela, but that doesn't stop him from belting out random tunes for the sake of Rule of Funny. Though he does spare everyone when Celes is doing a crash course on how to sing opera in Final Fantasy VI.
  • Hurricane of Puns:
    • His "Raid countermeasures" video for streams introduced during Return of the Dark Sorcerer has a Visual Pun for nearly every word of the Unlimited Blade Works incantation. Counting the double puns and others used, he declared there are 50 in a nearly 90-second video. It even contains a Musical Pun courtesy of using a song named "Raid"note 
    • The final showdown with Exdeath in Final Fantasy V begins with a series of tree-related puns, followed by several ones related to Exdeath casting several towns into the Void while all done in the hammiest voice possible.
  • I Am Very British: The man who gives out the Mega Grenades in Mystic Quest was portrayed as very jittery and unhinged in the original game and first remake, in the second remake he's calmed down significantly and even has a very refined British accent.
  • I Knew It!: In-Universe, he immediately predicted that Aerith would replace Rachel after seeing Cloud replace Locke in Return of the Dark Sorcerer.
  • Incredibly Lame Pun:
    • Announced on Twitter that he wants to do a Let's Play of Mega Man Rock Force just for the sake of making every lame joke possible with the name "Justice Man." He finally got to use them in the race with the SuperLPHeroes.
    • In the Neptunia mk2 race:
      • Compa defeats Pirachu by, "Sticking it to him!"note 
      • "The name Lowee is out of date. Shouldn't it be Lowee U by now?"
  • It's the Journey That Counts: Invoked in his Top 10 Ar tonelico Hymmnos list as his reason why the end credits themes of the games are in the bottom half of the list rather than the top.
  • Jump Scare: Even though his commentary for Part 4 of the Neptunia mk2 race was lost, you can still hear him shout, "What am I fighting for?!" at about 6:25 in that video and it gives the other racers this reaction.
  • The Knights Who Say "Squee!":
    • Goes into complete fanboy mode when the final party member, Mima, joins in Touhou Mother.
    • He also has a great love for Breath of Fire II's incarnation of Nina.
    • Schala is his favorite character in Chrono Trigger, so he goes into this mode after her rescue in the "Schala Edition" ROM Hack.
  • Lampshade Hanging: "The following opera has been subtitled for the hearing-impaired, although what's on the screen won't exactly match up with what's being sung," when overlaying a live concert version of the opera from Final Fantasy VI while the original English translation of the lyrics are what appear on screen.
  • Large Ham:
    • Really loves to ham it up when voicing certain villains. The Dark King (Mystic Quest) and Idura (Lufia II) are two examples.
    • He absolutely could not wait to do Final Fantasy VI for the express purpose of letting loose with voicing Kefka.
    • He completely cuts loose with the voice of Habalk in Breath of Fire II by, instead of giving him an old man voice, uses what he describes as a "Southern fried preacher."
    • There is also no holding back with Otis's very stereotypical Talk Like a Pirate accent in Return of the Dark Sorcerer.
    • Skullmageddon and Exdeath quickly joined the ranks after their respective games.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler: Come Soul Blazer, he doesn't hide the fact that Metal Mantis from it is the Superboss of Illusion of Gaia.
  • Let Me Tell You a Story: Invoked during Fire 'N Ice with the grandma telling the story of every moment of gameplay (and one accidental death) to the kids.
  • Let's Get Dangerous!:
    • "We're going to do it right this time!" is becoming the catchphrase associated with this, especially for succeeding on something after failing on it once or twice (Disclaimer: but no guarantee that it won't fail again).
    • Declared, "Round two, freak!" upon the rematch against the Superboss of Illusion of Gaia and wins very handily.
  • Line-of-Sight Name:
    • Played with on how he named the original character that became his channel mascot. As he got into the habit of using "Dyne" for game heroes without default names, he started using "Dyana" for unnamed heroines and created her from there.
    • The collab projects he does with NCS are done under the group name "Three Hours of Meat" courtesy of a conversation during a Link to the Past Randomizer race being taken to levels of extreme silliness due to Inherently Funny Words.
  • Literal-Minded: Used as a joke for the dialogue of a girl who "tweets" her dialogue in Dragon View as he chirps like a bird for her (but missing the joke of limiting her dialogue to 140 characters or less).
  • Logo Joke: Part 9 of Return of Touhou Mother is "Part ⑨" courtesy of fighting Cirno in it. Expanded to change it up for any episode number or title with a 9 in it for every Touhou game done since.
  • Lost Episode:
    • Scrapped the video of the Kickle Cubicle Special Game done blind, especially since the latter levels required looking up a guide while recording live!
    • Twitch lost the video file that comprised the original Part 5 of his first Let's Listen before he got it uploaded to Youtube (which pissed him off to no end due to that part containing a heartfelt tribute to his late brother).
    • Has also re-recorded other, older videos due to his wireless connection dropping in the middle of recording.
    • The first attempt at recording Cloche's Cosmosphere Levels 7-9 for Ar tonelico II during the replay failed as a result of his recording software failing both on the local recording and the stream, losing those episodes to the aether.
  • Low-Tier Letdown: Discussed In-Universe during Ranma ½: Chougi Ranbu Hen at how Ukyo is his favorite character but one of, if not the worst character in that game (with Kodachi being the other contender). But that doesn't stop the catharsis that comes from landing her super move and watching Ukyo just wail on the other character with her giant spatula.
  • Madness Mantra:
    • "You killed Ben... You killed Ben...! You... killed... Ben..." during an Epic Fail moment in Mystic Quest Remastered.
    • Repeatedly shouting, "You could have let yourself out at any time!" to Aspara in Breath of Fire II.
  • Man of a Thousand Voices:
    • Loves to try and give each character in most games a different voice. Unfortunately it is also a large strain on his vocal chords during major RPG projects and the primary cause of one of his major hiatuses.
    • Lufia II also toyed with regional accents for a lot of generic characters.
    • Taken to a literal extreme in Dragon View when Argos is described as "having the voice of a thousand demons," Dyne switches up voices for every syllable whenever he speaks!
  • Manly Tears: He's admitted that he's always cried easily, but even that got turned up to eleven after a nervous breakdown and the sudden death of his brother in his early 20s (two separate events), so expect this to happen during poignant moments, especially if it involves someone's family dying. In general, if he turns very quiet and soft-spoken, they won't be too far behind if the scene lasts long enough.
    • Breaks down during the Lufia II ending, and has stated at the time that he expected the same thing to happen with Touhou Mother.
    • It did. If you listen closely, he's only mostly able to hold them back during Mima's farewell message when discovering her sleeping form in Touhou Mother. Not to mention the final battle.
    • He's even admitted that he can't even sing several of his favorite songs because they make him break down and cry. Evident with the lyrics for the original Eight Melodies lyrics when they appear in Touhou Mother's Magicant.
    • Audibly chokes up when talking about his late brother and his parallel between River from To the Moon when he introduces a song from it during his first Audiosurf session.
    • Completely loses it during Daisy's Heroic Sacrifice in Breath Of Fire II.
    • Said this about Part 4 of The Eternal Crystals, "For the Edgar/Mash flashback, I was acting. For the Locke/Rachel one, I wasn't."
    • Barely manages to hold his composure when interacting with the residents of the Native Village and their plight in part 9 of Illusion of Gaia.
    • Has trouble keeping it together multiple times for various songs during the Project Diva F 2nd list.
    • A literal case of Cry for the Devil in Ar tonelico II when Croix learns that Jakuri is the Big Bad of the previous game in her Level 8 Cosmosphere and that his actions saved her.
    • If "Fond Memories" from Secret of Mana plays and catches him off guard, he tends to break down.note 
    • Once again when Mercedes goes down fighting in the true ending route of Odin Sphere Leifthrasir.
    • The finale of Time and Eternity is rife with them courtesy of the game's Player Punch normal ending along with its happier hidden ending on New Game Plus: "They get to live..."
  • Memetic Mutation: In-Universe, the whole "Three hours of meat" conversation from a Link to the Past Randomizer led to inspiring a lot of thematic elements for his Twitch channel after becoming an affiliate.
  • Mood Whiplash: Most often done for Rule of Funny in that he can switch moods at the drop of a hat, most often between spazzing out when something goes wrong and then returning to his regular self like nothing happened after the crisis has passed.
  • Motor Mouth:
    • Done unintentionally more often than not as he constantly reminds himself to slow down when speaking or reading dialogue, especially since one of the reasons he makes videos is to help overcome his stuttering.
    • Turns Gigi Kupp into one in Breath of Fire II and Shou Toramaru after getting a coffee buzz in Return of Touhou Mother.
  • MST3K Mantra: In-universe this is his attitude towards several titles that he feels are underrated because it requires looking beyond the surface elements people complain about but not looking at the big picture. The Ar tonelico trilogy and Time and Eternity are good examples of ones he will adamantly defend as being good games when looking beyond the innuendo and negative hype they're known for.
  • Musical Spoiler: Has a background song ready for the escape sequence at the end of Super Metroid, and accidentally plays the song prepared for the outro/next game announcement.
  • "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer:
    • Added one to the announcement slide for Return of Touhou Mother when the song used was "Reach Out To The Truth" from Persona4 as it is used in the former too.
    • Immediately stated that Serin telling his guard to hide his Porn Stash in Return of the Dark Sorcerer was an actual line in the game to his co-commentary crew in the live stream.
  • Not a Morning Person: Inverted. While he prefers to record in the early afternoon, he's most often up before sunrise and begins to slow down around 4:00 pm. This is why he hardly ever records on weekdays since starting his new job. A Breath of Fire II video illustrated this as he recorded it late at night (for him anyway) and ended up being a lot more sarcastic than usual. It didn't help that he was doing one of his least favorite stretches of the game. Appropriately enough, the video title is, "Late-Night Recording Sarcasm."
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In-universe when commenting that the Highlight Reels of Mario Kart 8 tend to leave out the truly most awesome moments.
  • Oh, Crap!:
    • The most appropriate reaction when his Rousing Speech during the start of the battle against the Dark King in Mystic Quest Remastered 2.x begins with the Dark King casting Ultima.
    • Spoken verbally when running into three of the worst type of enemy in an area in Return of Touhou Mother.
    • Making a big mistake in the Neptunia Victory race that costs him over 10 minutes.
    • His reaction to dealing so much damage to the final boss of Breath of Fire Improved that he completely bypassed a cutscene trigger and softlocked the game.
      Dyne: I killed her!
  • Once an Episode:
    • Every one of his Super Metroid runs has him quote Samus's line, "Mother, time to go!" from Metroid: Other M. Lampshaded during the Speed Run.
    • Randomizer runs of Super Metroid change it up to be, "Mother, time to [something that rhymes with go]!" instead, as part of the nature of randomizers.
    • When playing A Link to the Past in any form (vanilla, randomizer, etc.), he will give Sahasrahla a different name every run.
    • Finding the Phoenix magic in a Soul Blazer Randomizer seed inevitably results in a Sylvester Stallone-esque cry of "Nggggaaahhh, Phoenix!" especially if it was the last thing needed for Go Mode (which it usually is).
  • Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping:
    • Inverted as part of Edgar dropping his disguise as Gerad during The Eternal Crystals in that he initially forgets to drop the accent once the ruse is over and switches mid-line.
    • In Dragon Quest Builders characters from each chapter have different accents. When several characters from previous chapters converge in Chapter 4, he has a very hard time keeping them straight.
  • Otaku: Has stated that his video game collection is only rivaled by his anime and figure collections. He also lovingly refers to his favorite female characters in a game/series as his waifus but will also be the first to admit they aren't real.
  • Over Nine Thousand: Inverted, though he realizes that "Under 9000!" just doesn't have the same kick.
  • Padding: In-universe, he hates getting lost and wasting time as it basically amounts to this. When a game requires grinding, he'll do it off screen or have a save state ready where it's already done. He stated that this is why Breath of Fire II is a very hard game to LP as long dungeons with high encounter rates just completely kill the commentary.
  • Proud to Be a Geek: In one study that explains the differences between geeks and nerds, he found that he fits squarely in both categories.
  • The Quiet One: When recording with a group, he's usually this. Subverted when recording solo and he's stated it's one of the few times he feels he can really cut loose.
  • A Rare Sentence: In the finale video of Itadaki Street Special: Nalbina Fortress, he states, "I never in my life thought I'd ever say something like, 'You're running out of orifices'," to compare an ongoing situation in the game with.
  • Reference Overdosed: Part of a Running Gag in Soul Blazer is to make as many game references as possible while examining the various mechanics of it.
  • Rule of Funny: Most characters will be given voices in an attempt to match their personality traits while others are given the most inappropriate ones possible for the sake of this trope.
  • Running Gag: Is a big fan of them and tries to work them in a lot:
    • The woman in the Foresta Inn in Mystic Quest Remastered v2.x who keeps getting in the way of the bed and Dyne claiming she wants to sleep with the main character.
    • Breath of Fire 2:
      • Hints at cameos from different series/franchises and reminds the viewer that Lin does not wear pants in each video
      • Midway through, after recruiting the painter for Township, each video that begins there has the town sporting a different color scheme.
      • "Killer ninja robots on flying machines" becomes one whenever Gigi Kupp is present.
      • "Scare Chord!" got its origin here.
    • Also joked about referencing one of The Runaway Guys at least once per video simply because they're awesome enough to warrant that.
    • Noting, "But you're still hungry," whenever using the fridge that heals the party in Return of Touhou Mother.
    • Having Ness answer everything with "Okay!" during Return of Touhou Mother starting in Chapter 5.
    • Illusion of Gaia:
    • In general, if two characters are pitted up against each other it doesn't matter who they are because Batman always wins. Batman movies, however...
    • Kefka constantly seems to have sand on his boots in Final Fantasy VI.
    • Will equate odd transformations of humans into other creatures with them becoming mutants and joining the X-Men universe.
    • Quotes the infamous "What am I fighting for?!" when the situation is appropriate and tries to make it last as long as possible.note 
    • Return of the Dark Sorcerer:
      • Adding "Bitch!" after every instance of Mecha Juggernaut.
      • "If [X character] suddenly shows up, I quit," when dealing with the crazy crossover elements in the game.
    • A long-time one is the joke(?) in that he's convinced the Xbox One doesn't actually exist.
    • Final Fantasy V:
      • The episode titles for the playthrough all include a pun that doubles as viable name options for Bartz.
      • Due to the sprite animations in the Steam version of the game, every celebration after improving the party's piano skills ends with them calling for people to do the "Y-M-C-A!"
      • Inserting the "Goofy holler" into moments when characters fell into pits. Subverted one time when they were thrown halfway across the map.
    • Wanting to show off different Song Magics in Ar tonelico II only for the vanguard to finish off the enemy before the Song is ready.
    • Whenever he runs a Secret of Mana Randomizer seed, the character names are given anagrams of their canon names.
    • A common theme in his PK Scramble! runs is Jeff being named Greff after fellow streamer Greffery, the favorite food being Lantis, and the meme that fills in for the player's name prompt being one of Chuggaaconroy's infamous incorrect Wheel of Fortune answers on games played with The Runaway Guys.
    • If the effort to find Lisa and unlock what's behind her in the SoulBlazer Randomizer yields nothing, he'll quote one of Johnny's breakdown lines from The Room (2003).
    • "She's dancin'!" whenever Cecilia replaces her usual victory pose with a dance in Wild ARMs.
    • Arc Rise Fantasia:
      • "The game's reading my mind!" whenever he quips about a character saying/doing something and another character immediately Lampshades the same statement.
      • Every time the city of Antrax gets mentioned, he tends to talk about the mission to retrieve the Grail-shaped beacon.
    • If a video cuts off with an explosion, natural disaster, or some other "fade to black" scenario to indicate some type of destruction, often as the result of something done by the hero, it will end with him saying, "Oops?"
  • Say My Name:
    • "SANAAAAEEEEE!" in Touhou Mother. Twice.
    • Played straight in Return of Touhou Mother because it was an actual line of dialogue.
    • Also calling out to Samus during the Super Metroid final battle.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Another Running Gag in Return of the Dark Sorcerer is along the lines of, "If [character from a franchise that has nothing to do with Final Fantasy] appears in this, I quit!"
  • Sdrawkcab Name: Played with in the title for Part 13 of Final Fantasy VI - "Instant Disguise, Just Add Margana". "Margana" is "Anagram" backwards and a play on Edgar's Paper-Thin Disguise as Gerad.
  • Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: Invoked as "Samus Aran Is About To Shoot You!" when doing a stream of another full run of Super Metroid: Justin Bailey Version.
  • Self-Deprecating Humor:
    • When introducing Part 3 of the Neptunia mk2 race he uses the Russian Nisa voice to introduce the racers and finishes with, "And some loser named Gunarm Dyne!"
    • The one bonus video for Wild Arms is just the Ragu O'Ragula battle with the "Numa Numa" song overlaid on top due to the tablet in front of the boss fight describing the "Song of the Maya" and the first set of lyrics in the song are also pronounced "Maya." In the video description, he calls it an "[a]bsolutely stupid idea that came about due to a lack of sleep" when seeing the tablet message in the main part's video thumbnail when he went to publish it.
  • Self-Imposed Challenge:
    • Final Fantasy V is a Natural Element run, meaning only Bartz can use the Wind Crystal Jobs, Lenna the Water Crystal, Faris the Fire Crystal, and Galuf the Earth Crystal.
    • In the Final Fantasy III Pixel Remaster run, each character can only have two jobs and Ninja and Sage are not allowed.
  • Shout-Out:
    • Yes, his name is based on the Final Fantasy VII character of the same name.
    • Loves to reference Mystery Science Theater 3000, Spaceballs and early Pixar films.
    • Reuben in the first Mystic Quest was basically Torgo and Batman in the remake.
    • Amon in Lufia II was a tribute to Gollum.
    • Playing Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire when obtaining the Ring of Fire in Dragon View.
    • Porky's made to sound like The Fat Man.
    • Will often plug the channels for his inspirations too.
    • Reading the red and blue text with deep and high voices in the Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land intro a 'la Chuggaaconroy.
    • The final episode of Kirby begins like a Strong Bad email and contains the Trogdor the Burninator song upon collecting the Burning ability.
    • Mystic Quest Remastered 2.x
    • Any Cool Old Guy is made to sound like Sean Connery.
    • Breath of Fire 2:
    • Return of Touhou Mother: He's actually been rather surprised at the game for not giving several out at various points, so he does them instead.
      • He tries to not give Poo a stereotypical Asian voice, then says "Screw it!" and gives him the voice of George Takei.
      • Upon seeing a monster that resembles Kyubey, "Bunny-cat's a dick!"
    • A lot of jokes/references about The Goonies when running into enemies of the same name during his Yoshi's Island stream.
    • Several race streams with SuperLPHeroes begin with about a half hour of music from OverClocked ReMix before the race actually begins.
    • Half of Let's Listen on Audiosurf 2 #3 was a big fan letter to video game acapella artist Smooth McGroove.
    • Part 1 alone of Illusion of Gaia contains references to Bill Cosby, "Weird Al" Yankovic and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
    • The Eternal Crystals uses Sabin's original name of Mash, so he got humming the M*A*S*H theme out of the way quickly.
    • One of the first achievements in the Mega Man 4 race is a Lampshaded Shout-Out to one of the first achievements in ProtonJon's Battletoads race.
    • Said at the start of the Neptunia mk2 race: "Beginning of the End already? We just got started!" as per the prologue of the same name.
    • SoulBlazer:
      • He got the obligatory "Under the sea!" reference out of the way when first going underwater and immediately subverts that by singing the parody version of the song from "The Simpsons S6 E9 "Homer Badman"."
      • Immediately compares the giant homing snowballs in Laynole in Part 4 to the boulder that endlessly chases Al's character in UHF and remembers the key to defeating them is by employing Looney Tunes tactics.
    • Quite a few in his Super Mario Maker levels:
      • "Become ProtonJon" involves becoming Toad and bouncing across a series of bullet bills to obtain 1Ups references Jon's infamous "I am an asshole!" moment from The Runaway Guys's Let's Play of New Super Mario Bros..
      • What's the appropriate title for becoming an Inkling and having to swim through an underwater death maze of drybone fish and saw blades? "Grinding Nemo."
      • "Springfield PD Training Course" is taken straight out of Marge Simpson's police training from "The Springfield Connection"; including a "baby" and "blind man" in the firing range, and the classic means of circumventing the wall at the end of the obstacle course.
      • "The Curse of King Midas" is of course a direct reference to the Greek myth wherein the golden touch is replaced by fiendishly-placed P-switches that will turn all of the blocks into gold coins and cause Mario to fall to his death.
      • "Ever Play a CAVE Shooter?" is as close to bullet hell as possible within the game due to a limited number of enemies allowed on a map.
    • The "If [something similar found in a related title], you're playing the wrong game," Running Gag is fueled by these.
    • A Freeze-Frame Bonus one to Not Always Right in the Raid Countermeasures with The Thing wearing a "DE TING!" t-shirt.
    • Any significant cut to another point within the same video that doesn't have a natural switch point (such as a screen transition) is accompanied by the classic Transformers scene switch sound.
    • Odin Sphere:
      • The transition between the various endings in it and Time and Eternity utilizes the same cards and music used between the three multiple endings of Clue.
      • The video description for Part 75 of Odin Sphere homages the opening text in any given book from The Wheel of Time.
    • Wild ARMs:
  • The Show Must Go On:
    • Since starting to record with Hypercam/Elgato at the same time as streaming the recording sessions he's able to still record a full video even if the stream fails.
    • The opposite has held true as two parts of The Eternal Crystals have been the stream footage due to mistakes in the main Hypercam setup that he didn't catch before recording.
  • Shown Their Work: The stardate given at the start of Part 17 of Breath of Fire is, according to the system used in Star Trek Online the stardate for the day and time he began recording that video.
  • Speech Impediment: He tends to stutter when using his natural speaking voice courtesy of trying to put his thoughts into words. His Kefka persona inherits a lot of this since a ton of his lines are ad-libbed.
  • The Stinger: Each major project ends with one to recap a funny moment, showcase Hilarious Outtakes, or provide another means of delivering a joke. Started after Tom Servo as an homage to Mystery Science Theater 3000, but they didn't become a regular occurrence until The Eternal Crystals.
    • Tom Servo: A Skyward Scream after dying to one of the Doc Robots.
    • The Eternal Crystals: Ad-libbing Kefka shouting, "Now watch me take a shit!" when he hops onto a toilet.
    • Mischief Makers: Defeating the final boss with a sliver of health remaining.
    • Soul Blazer:
      • Asking why the singer has a singing animation when his song has no lyrics.
      • Calling out the game "cheating" when a homing snowball is able to grow larger on patches of ground that don't have actual snow.
      • Another That Came Out Wrong moment in Dark Genesis when talking about a suit of armor "just waiting to give itself away."
    • Return of the Dark Sorcerer:
      • Being completely dumbfounded upon finding out Raditz was a character in the game.
      • His Sanity Slippage when the RNG in the fishing mini-game decides to screw him over.
    • Return of Touhou Mother: Getting a game over after winning a boss fight due to the only member left in the party after the post-battle cutscene being KO'd.
    • Breath of Fire Improved: Somehow killing a boss with an attack that missed.
    • Final Fantasy V: Exdeath's Hurricane of Puns prior to the final battle.
    • Final Fantasy IV Ultima:
      • Turning Cecil and Rosa's second in-game kiss into a far more passionate moment with Rydia becoming a third wheel.
      • Winning the Magus Sisters battle thanks to a reflected Ice spell from Mindy killing Sandy.
    • Ar tonelico II: Laughing in insane glee upon unleashing a Song Magic at over 500,000% that one-shot a boss.
    • Chrono Trigger: Schala Edition: A That Came Out Wrong moment during a tense scene.
    • Super Adventure Island 2: Invoking Ho Yay from the king's promise to reward Higgins.
    • Mega Man 3 Revamped: An outtake courtesy of an eaten button input causing a death.
    • Terranigma: A moment where it looks like Ark's battle aura from gaining a level killed an enemy.
    • Final Fantasy: In-Universe Fridge Horror upon his onscreen party leader named after a friend getting kissed by Princess Sarah's younger sister.
    • Final Fantasy CII: Behind-the-scenes joke during an off-camera grinding session from an enemy getting petrified after getting hit for 69 damage.
    • Dragon Quest Builders: A Precision F-Strike after getting sniped by a Ghost and dying in an outtake.
    • Spekkio Lufia: A string of good luck during an off-camera grinding session.
    • Odin Sphere Leifthrasir: Another That Came Out Wrong moment upon stating the need to "grow a pair" (of Napples).
    • Roll-chan World 2: Fully expecting to fall into a pit only to be saved by a block obscured by clouds.
    • Trials of Mana: Re-editing the scene where Faerie is abducted to make it look like Link stuffed her into a bottle.
    • Time and Eternity: The Accidental Innuendo that comes from the shopkeeper always saying, "Thank you for coming!" after every purchase.
    • MegaMari: Barely surviving the spike shaft in Eirin's stage thanks to a platform he didn't see at first, only to die to spikes on the next screen and laugh at the game's Trolling him.
    • Wild Arms: Combining the footage of the boy in Adlehyde's red balloon with audio and video of the fictional The Red Balloon II: Revenge of the Balloon from an episode of The Critic.
    • Ys III Renewal: Simply playing a scene from the PC-Engine port of the game and giving the audience a sample of that version's voice acting.
    • Final Fantasy III Pixel Remaster: Invoking a long-standing Running Gag with a party member named after a friend hitting job level 73 during an off-camera grind session.
    • Arc Rise Fantasia: Re-editing the scene from Final Fantasy X where Tidus is sent to Spira to replace Tidus's yell with a particularly infamous one from the ARF English dub.
    • Ys I Chronicles+: Off-camera footage of him getting back to a point where the game crashed, saving over his main file, the game crashing again in the same spot, and every subsequent attept to re-load the save results in the game crashing yet again. He realizes he has to re-do all of Darm Tower from a backup save.
    • Ranma ½: Chougi Ranbu Hen: Another That Came Out Wrong moment when he realized the implications of "beating Hinako" while she's in her child form.
    • Tombs & Treasure: An outtake with an accidental softlock by using a series of items in the incorrect order, forcing a restart.
    • Ys II Chronicles+: An outtake with an accidental death while doing some offscreen grinding for a Steam achievement.
    • Sailor Moon: Another Story: Cracking up on camera when the game has a sudden Saying Sound Effects Out Loud moment in the dialogue.
    • Ys IV: Mask of the Sun: An Innocently Insensitive moment from a failed take wherein he asks the fortune teller in Minea if she was the same one who died in the first game, only for the next dialogue box to lament her death.
    • Ar tonelico: His reaction to stumbling onto a cutscene that will occur even when all of the party members present in the scene aren't in the actual party at the time and halfway across the world instead.
    • Adventures Of Mana: The Mood Whiplash when one of the saddest scenes in the game is marred by the message that the hero's inventory is full.
    • Ys V: Kefin, Lost Kingdom of Sand: An In-Universe Throw It In! moment where his voice cracks while reading off a character's speech and thus reads the remainder of the speech in a typical sqeaky-voiced teen manner.
  • Stock Scream:
    • Does the "Goofy holler" when dying in the intro level of Mega Man X by getting knocked into a pit.
    • Wanted to give the Wilhem Scream to a soldier of Doma who falls off the castle wall in Final Fantasy VI but couldn't imitate it.
    • He made a joke video of Laguna falling off the cliff near the end of Disc 1 of Final Fantasy VIII multiple times with a different one dubbed in each time.
  • Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard: Done to himself as a reaction to the ad-lib of, "Green energy saves the day!" in Final Fantasy V.
  • Suddenly Shouting: Does this often but a notable example is when he gets tongue-tied on how to describe Aspara's mushroom girl form in Breath of Fire II and breaks out of it by shouting, "English needs a genderless pronoun!"
  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Another running gag, often played for Black Comedy, is how characters would react in real life during Cutscene Power to the Max moments with the most common being a character falling from a great height, landing on their feet, and him shouting, "Oh God, I broke my legs!"
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial:
    • "I am not forgetting what day it is and have to look at my computer."
    • Done in the video description for the Touhou Mother finale.
  • Take That!: Will jab at hated characters and games every so often.
    • The creatures whose energy has been sucked dry and crumble with a touch near the end of Super Metroid have been called, "As fragile as Bubsy."
    • In Breath of Fire II:
      • When Highland's Magic Gate is throwing out errors as it's destroyed, he voices it asking, "Would you like to submit an error report?"
      • Also takes a snipe at The Scrappy season of The Biggest Loser with the utter ridiculousness of the kind of excuse Melodia's queen would give on how she gained, lost and re-gained all of her weight.note 
    • The Running Gag of Kefka constantly having sand on his boots is both one of these to Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and a Shout-Out to a similar running gag in the Rifftrax treatment of the Star Wars franchise.
    • The 2015 April Fools video pokes fun at some of the mannerisms of his fellow SuperLPHeroes racers along with some of his inspirations.
  • Tempting Fate:
    • "So long as this monster doesn't use this one attack-" Game Over.
    • Happens again in Part 11 of The Eternal Crystals where he mentions not practicing one portion of the Floating Continent dungeon after saying the events to get there are much harder. The boss fights preceding the dungeon are a Curb-Stomp Battle in his favor while the one he didn't practice resulted in the project's first game over.
    • "If this stream gets over 20 viewers at once, I'll sing along with the opera in the next FF6 video." Cue a raid from NCS bringing in over 200.
  • That Came Out Wrong:
    • When talking about Koishi's "needle" in Return of Touhou Mother.
    • Caught when talking about needing to "grow a pair" (of Napples) in Odin Sphere.
  • That One Level: In-universe.
    • "I hate the swamp! I hate the swamp! I hate the swamp!" (Applicable for Dragon View and Touhou Mother.)
    • Does not hide his disdain for the second act of Breath of Fire II, which is basically an extended Fetch Quest that contributes virtually nothing to the plot and has very little Character Development.
    • Mt. Kress in Illusion of Gaia is one in his opinion. Not because of the difficulty but because it is an area that contributes nothing to the overall plot and just acts as a vehicle for Neil to leave the party.
  • Theme Naming: The video titles for Mystic Quest Remastered v1.7a are a play on the powers used by the main characters in Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: In-universe, he feels this way about half the cast of Breath of Fire II who join the fight to save the world more to be along for the ride rather than the antagonists driving them to do so because It's Personal.
  • This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!:
    • Done to the enemy that gave him a Game Over in Pazuzu's Tower in Mystic Quest Remastered v1.7a.
    • Done again at the end of the Uparupa song in Breath of Fire II.
    • And once again after quoting "I'm a Little Teapot," during Illusion of Gaia.
  • This Is Unforgivable!: Considers the worst thing anyone could do in Return of Touhou Mother is loot the treasure of an area before he does.
  • Took a Level in Badass: In-universe he did this with Sabin/Mash's voice in The Eternal Crystals whereas he starts off with a meek and calm voice before his monk training. Upon meeting the party when he joins up, he's given the voice of Hulk Hogan!
  • Troll: Several of his Super Mario Maker levels are this:
    • Every version of "Don't Get Greedy" ensures the player only gets a single extra life from bouncing on the koopa troopas.
    • "Be a Burglar" appears straightforward, until entering the Death Trap that is Bowser's castle via the front door.note 
    • "Have a Freebie" is immediately suspect given it appears to be a mostly-empty level, but the goal is surrounded by invisible blocks.
  • Unfortunate Name: In Return Of The Dark Sorcerer, he immediately declared that he would never be able to take Otis seriously after seeing his name.
    Dyne: That's the kind of name you give to a Lex Luthor henchman!
  • Verbal Tic:
    • He has a habit of omitting "I" from sentences when that's the subject.
    • Other small ones that don't quite reach catchphrase status are slight twists on common phrases: "Hoyl cow," "Coo'," and "Okey-day."
  • Visual Pun: The bonus video of The Eternal Crystals is titled "Dennis Quaid and Sean Connery, No!" with the video (and thumbnail screen shot) showcasing his obtaining the "Dragon Heart" item.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: Bullets coming at him from below in Shoot-em-ups are the most likely to kill him.
  • Who Writes This Crap?!: Invoked with "Green energy saves the day!" in Final Fantasy V when saying that joke was incredibly dumb, but can't stop laughing anyway.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: While doing a Link to the Past Randomizer co-op seed with friends, he had to face off against Vitreous with five hearts, green mail, and the Fighter's Sword. Using those and a few other attack/defense items that the team had obtained, he managed to win... only for the prize to be a green rupee.
  • You Look Familiar: In-Universe.
    • Played with at the end of the first Mystic Quest Remake, as the Dark King being bored with having to deliver the same dialogue he did in the original game.
    • Has theorized that Lily's older sister in Katawa Crash is secretly Saber.
    • An In-Universe example more akin to You Sound Familiar is that his voices for Kermit the Frog and Simon Belmont are very similar, just given different pitches.
  • Your Mom: "Yo' momma's so white she's mistaken for the abominable snowman!" in Duck Tales: Remastered.

Dyne: "If life is giving you a hard day, never be afraid to eat your pudding with a fork. You guys take care."

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