"Don't be another giant mutant. Please be Gordon Freeman. Please be JC Denton. Please be Frank Zappa. Don't be another giant mutant... (It's the mutated G-Birkin) Ah shit! It's never Frank Zappa."
All-Powerful Bystander/Spirit Advisor: As a result of The Id playing Resident Evil with both Chris and Jill concurrently as if both characters are present in the mansion and exploring it at the same time (in order to follow the game's canon), a rather strange entity represented by static keeps following Chris and repairing gameplay-induced Plot Holes by warping reality around him while speaking in odd riddles and nursery tunes.
Steve Burnside is an Emo Teen and has hormones that are playing havoc on his mind, his dad is an abusive git, Alfred Ashford is Ambiguously Gay yet into his sister big time, Nosferatu/Alexander Ashford is a very upper class, polite, monocle-and-top-hat-clad gentlemen reminiscing about his ancestry and the T-078 Tyrant is Mike Tyson.
BillyFUCKINGCoen is a Jewish uber Jerkass who bullies, threatens and treats Rebecca like a pack mule, Marcus' love for his leeches reaches a disturbingly sexual level, the leeches are portrayed as Gang Bangers speaking Ebonics straight out of Boyz n the Hood, and after Rebecca kills Billy at the end of Zero for all his mistreatment of her, returns as a ghost to bully her senseless and eventually becomes the main antagonist, possessing the body of a Tyrant and all..
The Nemesis is a mutant who thinks he's a Blaxploitation character who thinks he's a Californiangovernor who thinks he's a Super Saiyan. And then he becomes a freakish amalgamation of all of them (and Bert) at the end. And Nicholai is nigh-on indestructible to the point when Jill blows up the chopper he's riding out on, Nicholai is instead sent blasting off again.
Chris starts out mildly grumpy, goes through a Yawn-poison-induced acid trip and later becomes a Man Child after a herbal binge with Rebecca, said medic keeps trying to convince Chris that her adventures with leech-men and trains really happened, Barry ends up with captains-at-attention at inoppurtune times and Billy FUCKING Coen is now a ghost, annoys Rebecca and Chris, sexually harrasses Jill, takes various shapes, learns how to possess monsters and takes control of the Tyrant.
Corroder is a door-to-door salesman who constantly espouses the virtues of acid-based cleaning systems, even in the middle of his boss fight.
Inuart is a loser that Caim only tolerates as a pack mule, Verdelet is an old racist obsessed with whining about doom and destruction (and by the sequel is the true villain of the game for his various fuckups), Caim and Angelus are Vitriolic Best Buds and Nowe is an utter moron who is clueless on just about everything, including things that as a Knight of the Seal he should already know (granted, this isn't that big of a change from his actual portrayal). Eris, Urick, Legna and even Seere however are the Only Sane Characters.
Alternate History: According to TDI, in a world where Caim's parents were not killed by The Empire and went on to inherit their kingdom, he would have become Vlad the Impaler.
Screencapped Music Video Lyrics Fic Thing.: A bizarre variant considering The Dark Id does screenshot L Ps but they usually start up when one character sees a rocket launcher and mistakes it for a boombox or a microphone. This pops up in...
Back to Front: The Resident Evil series, minus Resident Evil 5 (which wasn't released until after he finished them anyway) was played by him in reverse order release- and timeline-wise, with the exception of Dead Aim before Zero, and Zero before the first.
Drakengard! (Said in, quote unquote "The tone of a kooky sitcom catchphrase. Pretend someone looking at the camera with a goofy face and shrugging their shoulders while saying it. In other words, it is not to be mistaken with abject rage as "NOOOOOOOMMMMMMMUUUUURRRRAAAA!!!" was...")
"Cavia hates children" as well as "Trolled by Cavia!", which in Drakengard 2 is occasionally turned into "Trolled by General Gismor".
When characters die in Drakengard 2, they let out <Barf!> as a death cry.
To the posters he likes in the thread: "I like the cut of your jib."
When faced with an excessively cheesy moment, he would describe it as "So cheesy I just shat pepperjack."
He also tends to describe various Nintendo Hard segments in games and various parts of games he utterly detests as "like having (his) dick in a vise".
Darkly-dressed characters such as Vincent Valentine with equally as dark personalities also tend to get described by TDI as "So goth they shit bats."
Child Hater: Cavia, due to their propensity towards children dying violent deaths in their games, from Arioch being a Baby Eater, Caim chopping down Child Soldiers and Nier cutting down baby Shades and the game's equivalent of Hogarth and the Iron Giant. Add Leonard's pedophilia and...
Continuity Nod & Mythology Gag: Some of his L Ps make slight references to his previous L Ps. At one point in the first Drakengard LP, Caim mentions having fought alongside a guy with a bitchin' moustache who took an arrow to the throat. He's talking about Oda Nobunaga, mainly the Onimusha depiction, the first game of which The Dark Id had earlier L Ped. And yes, Nobunaga had a bitchin' moustache there and took an arrow to the throat. This is one of many references to that project.
When Angelus reads the mind of a dying ogre, amongst many repeats of "kill" and "eat" she notes the dead ogre as thinking "give magical gauntlet to those who scowl". Another Onimusha reference, this time to the hero Samanosuke, whose possession of a magical gauntlet given to him by a Clan of Ogres and constant scowl did not evade Id's notice.
The epilogue of Drakengard 2 mentions how Gismor rented out his old clock tower to one Lord Burroughs, the principal villain of Clock Tower 3, although Gismor can't quite read the name.
Every so often an update for a Nier let's play will begin with a conversation between the ghosts of Caim and Angelus as Caim searches the world for his lost collection of weapons.
Darker and Edgier: Althought Drakengard 2 is Lighter and Softer than its predecessor, the LP's humor is far more scathing and ranting than previous LPs, mainly due to Id's utter fury at the sheer Idiot Plot.
Fan Nickname: After the point when Alfred Ashford starts talking in his imitation of his sister Alexia's voice, Id begins referring to him as Alfrexia. And photoshops makeup onto his face.
And when Id decides to do Survivor as an MST gag, Claire and Steve decide to refer to Ark Thompson as "Hernando" until further notice. Once he is called Vincent they switch to that whilst putting in surnames like Mcmahon, Vega, Price and Valentine.
Fun with Acronyms: Pulls this off with Nicholai when he points out Jill being with S.T.A.R.S, the R.P.D's special forces:
Nicholai: I'm with U.I.'s U.B.C.S. on a mission to rescue civilians from R.C. with orders to move A.S.A.P.
If there's a survivor in this residence, then I hope they have dead aim. Personally, I would give them zero chance against any evil nemesis they might encounter. I couldn't fit Code Veronica into a silly sentence, I tried.
Speaking of Code Veronica he fires one off there, this time referencing a bunch of Valve titles.
Hypocritical Humor: He maintains that Bitores Mendez is the most competent of the villains in Resident Evil 4, even though he's the one constantly leaving notes detailing all of their plans in Leon's path.
In Leon's earliergame, TDI notes at one point that the autopsy room in the police department would be the last place any sane person would go to during a Zombie Apocalypse. He then immediately states that the only reason Leon isn't entering it at that moment is that he doesn't have the key, and then he takes both Claire and Leon into that room as soon as he grabs the key.
I Need a Freaking Drink: Id expresses this after particularly unpleasant stretches of gameplay or irrational plot points. States his intentions as such after his Dead Aim and Clock Tower 3 L Ps.
Idiot Plot: invoked The main reason that Drakengard 2 and the main characters are despised is because the story revolves around Nowe and Manah's idiocy dooming the world. While Manah is secretly guided by The Watchers in her actions, Nowe has no such excuse except for The Dulcinea Effect.
One of the most constant irritations in the Resident Evil series is the nonsensical plots, such as Los Illuminados trying to prevent Ashley from being rescued the fact despite the fact that goal of their plan being to insert her as an sleeper agent in the White House.
Imagine Spot: Frequent in a few, most notably Dirge of Cerberus.
The Resident Evil ones had entire sequences, including Chris Redfield's acid trip (he ended up in an old-style text adventure) and a truly bizarre showdown with Billy Coen's ghost in Resident Evil 1, culminating in a battle that goes through 2D sprite style, The Movies and Soul Calibur 3.
Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Dirge of Cerberus had an entire segment devoted to mocking Nomura's character designs, lovingy titled "Fuck Tetsuya Nomura". His only reaction to Vincent's Chaos form was derisive laughter and a "fuck you" to Nomura.
Karma Houdini: Nowe and Manah manage to get a happy ending in the Third Ending of the game despite being responsible for practically everything wrong.
Krelian gets to go off with the Wave Existence at the end of Xenogears despite 500 years of scientific atrocities and being responsible for helping to kill off nearly all humans on the planet.
Made of Iron: The moment Id finds out Nicholai Ginovaef survived being blown up in a gas station, he ends up joking about his almost ridiculous unexplained survival in this way after his second meeting with Jill in a shack (Which also helps explain how he would survive to write a file in Survivor.
The Dark Id regarding Nicholai: Thus, Nicholai abruptly departs. Along the way he falls into a sink hole, lands in a sewer passage full of poisonous gas. This gas also happens to be flammable and the place goes up like a match when Nikkie stumbles over a stick of TNT left by bank robbers who's heist ran afoul due to the viral outbreak. He is then blasted clear across the park and lands in a ravine filled with bees. Zombie bees. He will emerge without a scratch in the final act.
And during said final act, when Jill blows up his chopper after negotiations fall through, Id instead decides to conclude said skirmish with not with Nicholai getting fried with the chopper but with Nicholai blasting off again.
Nicholai: Aha, I am invincible! Unfortunately, my helicopter seems not to be... *Gets sent blasting off again*
Man Child: Chris Redfield becomes one midway through the RE 1 LP, thanks to brain damage from going on a herbal binge with Rebecca Chambers. I need an adult!
MST: His treatment of Resident Evil: Survivor midway through the Code Veronica LP. Whilst their cargo plane is being flown remotely by Alfred Ashford, a bored Claire and Steve discover it gets cable TV. Claire notices the title screen of Survivor as Steve flicks through channels. Cue the two hitting Survivor as a regular Mike and Crow as they rename Ark Thompson to "Hernando" and upon him being called Vincent, give him surnames from every other Vince they know of, take the Andy route (Since it fits the tone of the game best), mock the Cleaner enemies, reusage of character models and other such stupidity.
After the battle, Solt and Peppor come to investigate the unstoppable end game squad that could murder their entire army busting through the front gate. And Pierre.
Nice Hat: Senor X's sombrero which he spends the whole LP looking for thanks to Leon trying ti on, not liking how it looks and tossing it out a window.
And later on he gets a second sombrero within the underground lab and when Senor X becomes the Super Tyrant, he gains a sombrero ''made of fire''.
Nosferatu/Alexander Ashford dons a nice top hat upon freeing himself from the basement of the Antarctica base.
No Cutscene Inventory Inertia: The Dark Id makes his feelings on Resident Evil 4's TMP clear (he thinks it's a waste of money). Naturally, every cutscene featuring actual shooting arms everybody with said gun.
Nominal Importance: Elly during the Xenogears LP sadly notes over a dying soldier: "I'm afraid he lacks a character portrait. It's no use..."
And in the Resident Evil 2 LP, Senor X gives one to Leon in their final fight:
Senor X: Your discrimination over de country of my origin is most disrespectful, mah. At least I can hold a job. What are you doing, eh? Lost your job on your first day? Itz pathetic, ese. What kinda cop are you?
Citan Uzuki being a dick as well as explaining how he knows various things or how to perform/operate outlandish stuff as having learnt them in medical school.
Kid constantly accusing Leena of being a sex crazed country girl with low morals. It's a minor example since Kid disapears for a considerable portion of the game but it's almost heartwarming when it comes back.
Sarcasm Failure: The endings to Dirge of Cerberus and Limbo of the Lost were so bad that the commentary devolved into "I have no words for this", followed by Cluster F Bombs directed at the cast & crew.
Shout Out: It would be meaningless to list them all. From Chief Bitorez being a Packers fan (complete with the hat) and a Gigante quoting Mid-Boss to Serge making Caruso One Liners (complete with sunglasses and ZOAH providing the YEAAAAH!) to Caim referencing ThunderCats and people yelling BARF! as they die, to Fei using Buster Wolf, there are a lot.
Shown His Work: His LP of Nier shows incredibly detailed information on the backstory garnered from Grimoire Nier.
Show Within a Show: His treatment of Resident Evil: Survivor with a dash of MST in the middle of his Code Veronica LP. While their cargo plane is being controlled remotely by Alfred/Alfrexia, a bored Claire and Steve discover it gets cable and Claire spies the title screen to Survivor as Steve flicks through channels. Cue the short playthrough...
Solve the Soup Cans: A pet peeve of his; especially the more ridiculous (and unnecessary) ones.
Spexico: How Mr. X/Senor X is portrayed: Wearing a sombrero in his first and last appearences, sporting a bandito moustache and speaking Spanish right up to the final fight against Leon. Leon is stymied by Senor X's guttural babbling.
Sunglasses at Night: Wesker gets put through the wringer with this. Id usually notes his creepy habit of wearing them at 11PM, and in Code Veronica makes it a point to photoshop various bits of eyewear on Wesker's face up to and including Cyclops' visor (complete with the reveal of Wesker's cat eyes briefly being played with when he reveals a spare set of shades he had on...which Chris promptly punches off as well), and by Resident Evil 1's LP, Id makes a tiny running gag of Wesker bumping into things due to still wearing his sunglasses in the rather dark Spencer Mansion.
Wesker: Still securing the area. It's proving to be a bit more difficult than anticipated. Keep bumping into things for some reason. Wonder what's up with that.
Twinkle In The Sky: Nicholai suffers this courtesy of Jill blowing up his chopper with him in it at the end of the RE 3 LP, mainly thanks to Nicholai's newly found invincibility.
Verbal Tic: James Marcus ending most of his sentences with "Leeches!!" or some variant. Soon enough, it slips into some of Id's own sentences. LEECHES! Billy FUCKING Coen's "Bwahaha!" might also count.
Known for his wit, alternate character interpretations and low tolerance for annoying things.So far, The Dark Id has completed Let's Plays for the following games:
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