Awesome, but Impractical: Porn magazines stapled together with gold that you can't even read without lessening the value. "It's kind of ineffectual as porn itself, but...it's a good collector's item."
Awesomeness Is Volatile: Sings when a lightbulb shatters, and assumes the "sheer awesomeness" of his voice did it.
And then THAT guy comes visit them on the next episode because he heard that they "were playing a video game" and then goes on commenting on how he is "elite".
In part 7 he sees the statue again but this time he knows who it is.
Easily Forgiven: When first visiting the Asylum, Marik is utterly disgusted by the big, bald, insensitive jerk of a bartender who DARED to make light of Artax's death. Next time he visits the Asylum, Marik wants to team up with him as a fellow tattooed person.
Foreshadowing: Several times in the first five episodes Marik makes comments about how "It can't get any worse" or "I'm sure there's nothing that bad waiting on the other side of this manhole." Anyone who's played the game can guess this is leading up to the infamous Oceanside Hotel level.
Episode 5 has Marik spotting a statue and asks Bakura if it looks like "that guy who tried to star in [their] movie". Next episode Slendy drops by and offers to help play the game.
"And he was okay with that because he wasn't going to have children anyway because he's totally ga-, erm, I mean, he's not really into kids."
Funny Background Event: While Marik is talking about The Neverending Story to the bartender, one of the dialogue options is about "The card game of life". Marik of course picks that option.
If you look carefully, immediately after "Rock Me Amadeus" starts playing, you can see Therese looking around the room with an expression that is pretty much "Where the fuck is this music coming from?" avoiding eye-contact.
Glass-Shattering Sound: Marik believes he smashed a lamp in a videogame by "hitting the perfect octave."
Ghost Story: "You will let me glomp you or I will curse you because ghosts have that ability apparently ... !"
"THAT DOES IT! No more Mr. Nice Marik... Not that there ever was a Mr. Nice Marik because I am an evil villain! But if there were a Nice Marik, then he wouldn't exist because I JUST KILLED HIM! Because I'm evil."
Jump Scare: Not quite in the game, just Marik was easily startled.
Murder Suicide: "Wait, how does that work? What do you do, you kill somebody who's trying to commit suicide? Do you try and hang yourself and when you drop, you land on somebody and it breaks their neck or something?"
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: "What am I, part of a friggin' vampire terrorist cell?" *beat* "Oh my God, I hope I'm part of a friggin' vampire terrorist cell!"
Only Six Faces: Making a bunch of jokes about that, especially seeing character models of people he killed.
Or so I Heard: Marik's anecdote about drinking recycled urine.
"Look at this room! Seriously, it's like something you build in The Sims when you have no idea what you're doing. I mean, not that I would know, because I only play manly games like...Call of Gears of Duty Madden 2012."
Paranoia Fuel: In-Universe Example: Furniture can't be trusted.
Marik, Sucking the blood out of the neck of a prostitute: "Aww... You know it's true love when your partner decides to drink blood from your neck. Ahh... the sweet tastes of cigarettes and regret... Wait. What happened. She's not moving... Why isn't she moving..? Prostitute lady!?"
"Ok, I'm choosing to believe that this whole house is like that house from Beauty and the Beast and all the furniture is going to start singing at me."
Smug Snake: Lampshaded when Marik states that he gets "Merovingian vibes" off of LaCroix.
Spin-Off: Marik plays a few minutes of the begining ofVideo Game/Portal2 in an ad for Momo Con, in which he complains about Wheatley being British, mistakes the testing facility for the shadow realm and then a tanning salon, argues with Glados, and generally has no idea what's going on.
And he definitely doesn't have any porn, especially of the man-on-man kind!
Take That: "Greetings, and welcome to my first ever Let's Play of Troika's Vampire The Masquerade: the only game that lets you feel like you're actually living inside a failed Joss Whedon project."
(looks at the Gangrel clan) "Disney's vampire Tarzan. Comes with his own soundtrack composed by Phil Collins."
"Then we have the 'haters gonna hate' vampire (Tremere). He specializes in magic. Only nerds choose that guy. I like to call him the 'Bakura clan.'"
"Say what you will about my dance moves, at least I'm a better dancer than Shepard. That's right everyone do the Mo Cap, it's the easiest dance in the world."
"Well, at least the audience is bigger than the one they had for Spider-Man the Musical."
"Because when you think vampires, you think California! Well, to be fair, the place will suck you dry.
"Ah, this sequence reminds me of part at the end of Bioshock 2 with the big twist where it turns out that the game sucked."
Tastes Like Purple: "Mmm, that's good homeless person! Wait, what am I doing? He probably tastes like shattered dreams and despair."
Comes up again with Marik sucking the blood of a prostitute. "Ah, the sweet taste of cigarettes and regret."
Tempting Fate: There's surely nothing bad waiting for him outside the sewer.
That Came Out Wrong: Shouldn't use the words "eat out" in front of a prostitute.
There Is Only One Bed: Marik mentions that this happened to him and Bakura once. Bakura still dreams about it - uh, has nightmares about it.
This is also a Mythology Gag to LittleKuriboh's Thiefshipping fanfiction Marik and Bakura go to Censored Town, where this does indeed happen.
Took a Level in Badass: After spending the past 5 episodes being constantly thwarted by the sinister doors, Marik acquires amazing door opening skills, that even allow him to open doors with his mind without him even knowing about it.
Marik: Oh, by the way, I've heard some rumors flying around that Bakura and I... well, you know, so I'd like to address those rumors right now, I'd like to "come out of the closet", you might say. Bakura: Marik... Marik: It's okay, Bakura, I know what I'm doing. It's true: Bakura and I...are evil! And we're not ashamed of it!
It happens again in 7.5. Marik apparently decides to address those rumors once and for all.
"Y'see, technically KILL YOUR FAMILY KILL YOUR FAMILY KILL YOUR FAMILY"
Vampire Bites Suck: "Even if you suck, you're doing a good job and it gives you experience for it."
Wham Episode: Episode 8, when Marik suddenly turns into Melvin at the very end.
What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?: "Never again shall you listen to the soothing sounds of FM radio in the comfort of your automobiles, for it is I who owns the car stereo now! Mwahahahaha!"
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