Trivia / Kickassia

• Ascended Fan Nickname: "N. Bison" was a common nickname among the fanbase for the Critic in his dictator getup, before it was made official.
• Billing Displacement: People are billed roughly according to their prominence on the site, rather than in the actual story. This results in things like fourth-billed Noah Antwiler having the second-largest role, and Mathew Buck, who is billed fifteenth, having a much bigger part than nearly two-thirds of the people who are billed ahead of him. By contrast, Lewis Lovhaug, who has third billing, also has the smallest role of any of the major characters. This is rectified on the DVD cover. Lindsay Ellis herself claimed to be surprised that she received second billing despite her (relatively) small role, although she gets a lot of scenes and dialogue as The Vice President, as well as a proper story arc.
• Colbert Bump: Most people still have no clue what Molossia is, or that it's actually a real place, but the few that do almost certainly know it because of this series.
• Creator Backlash: Mathew Buck once likened remembering it to Anna Kendrick remembering she was in Twilight.
• Enforced Method Acting: Film Brain tried to pull this prior to his Heel–Face Turn, so that it would look as if he had been really affected by the Nostalgia Critic killing Santa Christ, so he sat around trying to make himself cry. Only when they came to shoot the scene, his castmates began asking him if he was okay, since he never told them he was going to do this.
• Executive Meddling: Doug discussed in a few cons that he'd had no idea what to do for this anniversary, so Michaud had called him up, and after giving him a guilt trip for the above, told him and the crew to invade a micro-nation for a giggle.
• Hostility on the Set: The biggest fight that the Walkers had over the film was the scene when Film Brain captures The Cinema Snob for the trial. Rob had felt that music should have been played over the scene (he told Matthew Buck to make the weird sounds for this reason). Doug on the other hand, felt the music was playing in Film Brain's head and didn't feel that music was necessary. Doug and Rob didn't talk to each other for a week because of this.
• I Am Not Spock: A lot of people apparently thought that Linkara was switching into an Ensign Munro persona when he donned his Starfleet uniform; Lewis denied this on his Twitter, saying that it was just Linkara in a Starfleet uniform.
• No Budget: What little money they had mostly seems to have gone to travel expenses.
• On-Set Injury: Almost everyone involved was injured somehow, the worst being cameraman Rob Walker getting a nasty leg injury on the first day, but he still kept cramming himself into tight places and waiting until filming was over to seek any medical attention. Also, LordKaT twisted both her ankles, which forced her role to be severely reduced. Ironically, the only one who didn't get injured was Noah Antwiler, who was infamous for his fragile health.
• Production Nickname: During the hotel scenes, there was a maintenance worker outside the window was referred to as Mexican Spider-Man (A. K. A. Mexican Batman) during Linkara's commentary. During the commentary, Allison Pregler said that there was a side-quest where she and Mexican Spider-Man build the fence from Part 2.
• Throw It In!: There was much less Linkara/Insano Arch-Enemy-ness in the original script (as Kickassia was about the whole team, not just their fights) and Lewis improvised most of his lines about Linkara's annoyance with the bringing-Insano-out plan. According to Rob's commentary, he even put in the divisive line about telling Critic to kill Insano, despite the fact that his apparent best friend is still in there.
• Trolling Creator: Cinema Snob, Phelous and Benzaie's commentary reveals that during filming they were doing things like intentionally changing the order they were standing in between shots to mess with the people who were looking for continuity errors.
• Troubled Production:
  • The contributors were forced to cover their own costs traveling to the remote shooting location in the Nevada desert, and Doug Walker had to be told by both Lindsay Ellis and Noah Antwiler to provide food and water for his cast — because they were shooting in the Nevada desert — which is something even student projects would have known to take care of beforehand. Doug's failure to cover for hotels and catering, and Doug repeatedly ignoring any attempts to give him production advice, would become a consistent problem with the anniversary specials going forward.
  • The extremely tight four day filming schedule meant that the climax had to be significantly trimmed down, with scenes like Spoony revealing himself to still be Insano never being filmed.
• Viral Marketing: See Forced Meme. There was a push to get #kickassia attached to as many Twitter posts as possible, a dedicated Facebook group, and twibbons for profile pictures.
• What Could Have Been:
  • According to Spoony's commentary for Kickassia, he intended to play Spoony in this one as more haunted and scared of Dr. Insano, rather than the hysterical "rape victim" Doug wanted.
  • Also, in Part 6, the fight over the hat was not only going to include more people, but, Spoony originally gave a That Guy-style speech, Shaming the Mob — and then took the hat and ran, because he was still Dr. Insano. The ending in general had to be cut short due to time constraints.
  • LordKaT was going to have a greater role but she ended up getting a badly twisted ankle during filming.
  • According to Doug's DVD Commentary, during the revolt, he was thinking of having the Critic using superconductor electromagnetism again against the rebelling Channel Awesome gang only for it to run out of batteries. It's a real shame.
  • Film Brain's commentary states that Ma-Ti was going to be an invader as well, but couldn't because Bhargav spent most of his time ordering everyone's lunch, and didn't want to be typecast as Ma-Ti.
  • Michael "Skitch" Schiciano was supposed to score the entire movie, but his day job kept him from contributing much more than the title theme. The future Channel Awesome specials would be scored the same way.

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