Trivia / The Blockbuster Buster

• Acting For Several:
  • ERod plays some Drop In Characters like Nerdlinger, El Lover, Fedora Freddy and Evil-E.
  • Also Marsha is SHE-Rod and Jeannie.
• Approval of God: In his commentary for the Eragon review, ERod revealed that Angry Joe loved his impersonation of him, even giving him tips for future reference.
• Author's Saving Throw: After the Retool didn't go over so well with the fans, he decided to go back to his old format.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer:
  • In his Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie review, he claims that the movie was non-canon and the show did its own version of how they got their Turbo powers. Except, it is canon and the Turbo season starts with them already having their powers and the premiere even uses clips from the movie as a flashback, the first episode starts with the Big Bad preparing revenge for what the Rangers did in the movie. He's most likely confusing it with the first Power Rangers movie which was non-canon and the third season did its own story of how the Rangers got their ninja powers. Furthermore his complaints about using spandex and the Megazord being a guy in a suit becomes annoying knowing that the Turbo movie was meant to fit in with the series.
  • A minor one, but in expressing his thoughts on the Marvel Studios-Sony deal with Spider-Man, he said the deal was like the what Disney has with Marvel in that they distribute the movies—except the Disney/Marvel deal is that Disney outright owns Marvel, including Marvel Studios.
  • In his review of Land of the Lost, he repeatedly says that Enik was the main villain of the show. But he wasn't a villain; he was a time traveler who wanted to go back to his own time to prevent the collapse of his civilization. Although Enik was a jerk whose goals sometimes conflicted with the Marshalls' goals, he always helped them when their lives depended on it.
  • He often confuses comic book canon with animated canon. For example, in his review of X-Men: Days of Future Past, he made mention that in the film, Wolverine is sent back in time instead of Bishop as in the original comic. That happened in X-Men: The Animated Series. In the comic book, Kitty Pryde was sent back. Bishop wouldn't even be created for another 10 years.
  • In his Highlander: Endgame review, he claims that the movie and the TV series took place before the first Highlander movie. This is ignoring that many event both in the movie and the tv series contradicts like the death of Rachel in the first scene or that the TV series retconned Connor's victory against the Kurgan as a big quickening and that Connor's death would have made the first movie impossible to do. There is also the fact that a movie with the subtitle "Endgame", usually used for a Grand Finale, would be a very bizarre word for a prequel.
  • In his review for Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, he says it isn't tied to Superfriends — except that all official parties connected to the series, including Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. when they did the DVDs, and even DC Comics (and by extension DC Universe) themselves, do consider Super Powers Team to be Superfriends's final season.
  • In his Pixels review, he complains that Paperboy and Tetris were among the arcade characters in the final battle, claiming that neither had arcade versions. Paperboy in fact started out as an arcade game in 1984, while Tetris got an arcade port from Atari in 1988.
  • It's short, but in his Superman Returns review, he criticizes the fact Superman is hinted to have impregnated Lois Lane by pointing out the Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex trope. In truth, whether Superman is subject or not to this trope is a huge case of Depending on the Writer, and as pointed out by Linkara in his The Dark Knight Strikes Again review, Supes has complete control over his strength (otherwise he wouldn't be able to open a door without breaking it), so the trope would most likely not apply. Superman had also temporarily lost his powers in Superman II when he and Lois had sex.
  • In his review of Shrek 2, he criticizes the film for, among other things, supposedly betraying the tone of the original film by having songs in it, noting that the only song in the first film (sung by Robin Hood and his gang) was a parody, and interrupted mid-way through by Fiona. Except that not counting pop song covers (which were also in the first film), there is only one actual musical-style song in Shrek 2 (sung by the Fairy Godmother), and it's just as clearly a parody as the equivalent song in Shrek, being a pretty obvious riff on "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from Cinderella. And, in fact, the song is also protested against and ultimately interrupted by Fiona.
    • In the same video, he also refers to the Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming as "pretty much the closest thing" the film has to a villain, implying that they're not wholly villainous antagonists... which is odd given that they attempt to brainwash, frame and murder the main characters and attempt to commit a coup, identity theft and implicitly rape by deception by getting Charming fraudulently married to Fiona and making him the heir to Far Far Away. Not a lot of viewers paying attention would doubt that they are full villains.
  • In his Dudley Do-Right review, he claims that Nell being in love with Horse was being off-character because she loved Dudley. Actually, this is in-character for Nell since that was one of the main running gags in the original Dudley Do-Right cartoon.
  • In his Planet of the Apes (2001) review, he claims that the concept of a super-intelligent ape forming an army to conquer the Earth from Rise of the Planet of the Apes was a rip-off of The Powerpuff Girls Movie. Except that they have little to nothing in common with each other. Caesar was born from a virus-infested chimpanzee while Mojo Jojo was a mischievous monkey who accidentally had a dose of Chemical X after pushing the professor. Also, Caesar was treated horribly at a primate shelter which resulted in him forming an army of apes to rebel and get out of the city. Mojo, on the other hand, created an army of super-intelligent apes just so he could take over Townsville. On the other hand, it's likely just a joke about how the two products came out close together.
  • In his Honest Review of The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Erod stated the theory that Hulk Vs. take place in the same universe and that the latter happened during "Panther's Quest" (explaining why Thor was absent) and "Gamma World, Part 1" (why Hulk was in Canada). Even barring the fact that Word of God confirmed EMH and the "Wolverine" short of Hulk Vs., as well as Wolverine and the X-Men (2009) are set in the same universe, there's two flaws with this — one: "Masters of Evil" already explains why Thor was absent during "Panther's Quest" (namely, he didn't know how the ID cards worked) and two: the Loki subplot makes placing the "Thor" short of Vs during Season 1 completely incompatible (including the fact that both the EMH!Loki subplot and the "Thor" short have the Odinsleep as a major element^note the former is dependent on Odin being trapped in it after Loki takes over, while the latter has him come out of it after the Hulk is stopped).
  • In his review of Dark Shadows he refers to Victoria Winters as a F.R.I. (Forced Romantic Interest) despite the fact that she was his love interest in the original series, so of course she would still be his love interest in the film. Also, in his review of the Cirque du Freak movie, he makes several comments about how stupid the name Vampaneze is, Mr. Crepsely's red hair and pale skin colour, how the vampiric nature is passed on to a human (pressing your bleeding hand up to the vampire's bleeding hand to switch blood) as well as Steve becoming a villain despite the fact that these are all elements from the book series.
  • In his review for the film version of Ratchet & Clank he voices displeasure when the characters uses outlandish guns such as a the sheep ray and the storm maker thinking they were add ons in the movie...despite the fact that the series is practically known for crazy weaponry and are both featured within the games he keeps comparing the movie to. He likewise seem to have forgotten the movie is set in its own continuity from the game series and thus doesn't follow the original game's story, hence the changes. As well as the fact the game of the movie filled in the plot holes he pointed out.
  • In his review of Unfriended, he states that the main characters are idiots who could have avoided all the dangers of the vengeful internet ghost had they just turned off their computers. What he fails to understand is that it was established even in the trailers that any attempts to avoid the ghost, even by leaving their computers, would have resulted in their deaths anyway.
  • His review of Dune (1984) has a lot of examples of this trope (likely for not having read the books). His most glaring example is him stating that the Spice Melange has no real relevance to the film and isn't really important, when in fact it is the most important part of the film's universe for being vital to the Empire's economy, allowing interstellar travel, prolonging life, can give people physic and mental powers and what allows the protagonist, Paul Atreides, to become the Kwisatz Haderach.
    • More to the point, while he mentions how exposition heavy the film is (including the inner monologues), apparently he didn't pay it much attention to it as much of his review is criticizing things he didn't understand, but was actually in all that exposition.
  • In his video describing his problem with the various upcoming (at the time) DC movies, he complained that Wonder Woman (2017) "just" fighting World War I soldiers was "lame" because her main thing was supposed to be fighting and interacting with beings from Greek Mythology. While Wonder Woman is indeed primarily associated with Greek Mythology, and has plenty of characters coming from it in both her Rogues Gallery and her Supporting cast, she has been fighting plenty of other opponents over the course of her adventures, and plenty of her villains, including two of her most iconic nemeses (Cheetah and Dr Psycho), have nothing to do with Greek Myths at all.
  • His review of Warcraft (2016) makes it clear that he has barely done any research on the franchise. Firstly, he thinks that the movie is based on World of Warcraft, even though the film is based on the first game, which was an RTS and not an MMORPG. He is also under the belief that Warcraft has no definitive protagonist or storylines, which is untrue. He states that Durotan is the main leader of the Orc Horde and paints him as a villain who leads the humans into a trap under the pretense of peace between their species, neglecting the fact the Horde consists of different clans, and Durotan is just a chief of a single clan (the Frost Wolves) and that he genuinely wanted an alliance with the humans to stop Gul'Dan from corrupting Azeroth, and that the two parties were ambushed by Orcs under the command of Blackhand and Gul'Dan. In fact he leaves many of the films details out of the review (most notably he mainly focused on the human side of the movie, and thus leaving out the orc's story arch). The biggest offender is that he claims that the film is ripping off The Avengers due to Warcraft also having an evil sorcerer opening a portal from another world so that an army can enter and invade Azeroth, despite the fact that this is the main plot of the first game which the film is based on! Which came out in 1994.
  • During his review of the first season of Jessica Jones (2015), he compares Jessica snapping the neck of Killgrave to the scene of Clark doing it to Zod in Man of Steel ending, praising the former with how it's done and ending with the statement heroes always have choices. But as most commentators pointed out, it was an unfair comparison because Jessica knew Killgrave years prior and knew how he worked and thought. So it gave her time to formulate the numerous plans she tried before ultimately killing him when she was out of options. Plus, Killgrave wasn't a fighter, it was his Mind Control powers that made him dangerous and he only lasted so long because of his wit and various circumstances and Jessica only won because he let his guard down for a second. Clark, on the other hand, had just met Zod, who was a war general and thus a natural fighter, and was quickly adapting to the powers Earth's sun was giving him. Plus, it was his first fight against a superpowered being matching his strength that at best was stale-mating. Up to this point, all Clark was handling was disasters and held back against human opponents, so he wasn't prepared for this. So when Zod tried to laser beam some helpless civilians and made it clear he wasn't going to stop, Clark ultimately had to kill him as he didn't see any other way to stop Zod.
  • In his Justice League (2017) review, E-Rod makes several mistakes noticeable to anyone who has seen the film. First, he claims the scene with the reactionary terrorists takes place in Keystone when it is actually in London (the establishing shot of the Tower Bridge makes that fact hard to miss). He also says the Third Mother Box is located on the Kryptonian Ship where Doomsday was created when it was actually in STAR Labs (which is why the Big Bad was kidnapping their scientist in an earlier scene he questioned). Cyborg got it earlier and they were only entering to revive Superman. He also makes it out that the Let's You and Him Fight scene that happens after Superman is revived was due the League attacking him unprovoked, when one of the first things Superman does after coming Back from the Dead is attack Batman. (Only Cyborg's attack was unprovoked and that was given a Hand Wave as well.) E-Rod also complained about Superman taking so long to show up at the final battle when we see he's still recovering from his Resurrection Sickness and does show up surprisingly fast when he gets over it. He also complains about Superman saving the day all by himself, ignoring the contributions of the other team-members including Batman killing most of the Parademons, Aquaman saving Batman (Bruce was expecting to die if his plan succeeded), and holding off The Big Bad alongside Wonder Woman, and Cyborg separating the Mother Boxes (he does bring this up but words it in a way that made it seen Superman did most of the work when it was really the other way around), while also ignoring a big plot point that the Big Bad was waiting for Superman to die before starting his Alien Invasion, so of course Superman's fight with Steppenwolf would be one-sided (and even then, Superman doesn't land the finishing blow - Wonder Woman does).
  • In his review of Hotel Transylvania E-Rod correctly points out that Dracula was not vulnerable to sunlight in the original novel. However, he suggests that this is because rules that apply to other vampires don't apply to Dracula. However, the truth is that vampires being vulnerable to sunlight is a relatively recent addition to vampire lore, having first been introduced in Nosferatu, which was released twenty-five years after Dracula.
• Creator Backlash: ERod is not proud of once being a fan of Doug Walker's Nostalgia Critic and a former member of Channel Awesome after the #ChangeTheChannel controversy and has decried anybody who still watches or collaborates with the Nostalgia Critic.
• Creator Breakdown: In 2022, ERod lost his wife of 21 years to COVID. Understandably, he lost any enthusiasm to make any more reviews and he ultimately quit being the Blockbuster Buster.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Most of his episodes from 2012 to 2015 became this after Blip's shutdown (he didn't have the space on his computer to make copies for all of them you see). Some fans managed to mail him the hardrives with the episodes and are being uploaded to the Dailymotion page.
• Promoted Fanboy: He started making videos inspired by The Nostalgia Critic in hopes to be selected by Channel Awesome.
• What Could Have Been: Originally Panda Bear was supposed to be ERod's right hand (as The Lancer and The Smart Guy), but had to step out. If this had happened instead, it's very unlikely there would be Nerdlinger, El Lover, Fedora Fredy or Mario and Batman there.

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