Plan3
(formerly plan dan) is a Youtube channel created by Hosuh Lee on October 25, 2013. The channel served as Hosuh’s personal channel until September 21, 2021 when it was revamped into Plan3 with it’s first full-length animated video. Each video features Hosuh and his friends Hart and Stephen. Content varies from animated “storytime” videos to roleplaying (usually lead by Hart). Each video is directed by Hosuh and Hart, with help from other animators, and released on a when-ready schedule.
Not to be confused with the similarly named and formatted Dan Plan, which Hosuh and Stephen used to be members of.
Plan3 provides examples of:
- Aerith and Bob: Poor Hosuh. (Hart does not count, as that’s not his “real” name.)
- Author Avatar: The crew plays fictional versions of themselves in the stories/scenarios they create.
- Ax-Crazy: Played for Laughs with Stephen in the scenarios; if murder is (or in the loosest sense possibly) a solution to a problem, he’s more than happy to pull out a knife.
- Balloon Belly: Hosuh grows quite a gut while eating the tangerines provided by the Fate lord’s minions.
- Born Unlucky: The Chinese Food Curse causes those under its effects to have horrendous, potentially fatal bouts of bad luck unless the curse is lifted.
- Cuteness Proximity: The Police chasing Stephen while he is cursed with bad luck get distracted by the random squirrel that attacked him then cuddled with Hosuh, giving the two a chance to hide.
- Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: Hosuh, Stephen, and Hart’s immortality in Somewhat Squidgame means that dying during a challenge is more of a painful temporary inconvenience rather than a dramatic end of the line for their characters.
- Death Is Cheap: The trio having Resurrective Immortality in Somewhat Squidgame means that even when they fail a challenge and die (sometimes repeatedly), they technically come out of it alive at the end, and so can move onto the next trial.
- Dressed to Plunder: The cursed pirate looks like your average pirate captain, since the Chinese Food Curse only affects a person's luck and not their appearance.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Played for Laughs when the Fate Lord tells Stephen he has to take Hosuh’s head as his next trial to have his curse lifted; Stephen is appalled when the Fate Lord stops him and reveals he was joking, while the Fate Lord is appalled that Stephen was actually willing to go through with it.
- Eyepatch of Power: The cursed pirate has an eyepatch over his left eye. It’s not established if something happened to the eye before, or after he was cursed.
- Friendly Pirate: From what little is shown of the cursed pirate who comes to warn Stephen about his curse, he’s actually a pretty nice guy.
- Game Books: Hart, as GM, runs scenarios for Stephen and Hosuh in a "choose your own adventure"-style of storytelling.
- Game Master: In more story-driven videos/scenarios, Hart takes on the role.
- Guile Hero: When Stephen is told he must battle the Fate Lord in a battle to the death to finally lift his curse of bad luck, he realizes he can weaponize it and hugs the Fate Lord so that both of them get hit by the random lightning strikes that had been plaguing Stephen throughout the episode.
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Stephen enjoys roleplaying a version of himself that has no qualms about committing the occasional casual murder.Fate Lord: Your next trial: you must take the head of your best friend! Whahahaha!Stephen: What? That’s easy! Ok!Fate Lord: WOAH WOAH WOAH, dude calm down, that was a joke, that was a joke!Stephen: Huh? Tha-j- why would you joke about something like that?!Fate Lord: WHY WERE YOU READY TO DO THAT?!
- Hook Hand: The cursed pirate has a hook where his left hand would be. When he trips & dies, the instructions he wrote down for lifting the Chinese Food Curse get stuck on it.
- Improvised Lightning Rod: Stephen realizes he can weaponize the random lightning strikes that keep hitting him out of nowhere from his bad luck curse to win his battle to the death with the Fate Lord by simply hugging him so he is close enough to get hit by the next bolt to strike Stephen.
- Lightning Can Do Anything: When Stephen is cursed to have bad luck, he keeps getting struck by the occasional lightning strike, even if he is indoors. He uses it to his advantage when he is told he has to battle the Fate Lord to the death to lift the curse.
- Misfortune Cookie: In The Chinese Food Curse, Stephen is put under the eponymous curse after opening a fortune cookie that reads "Bad luck is in your purse, you are branded with a Chinese Food Curse", which causes the victim endless bouts of bad luck, that can only be lifted if they pass the Fate Lord’s three challenges.
- Off with His Head!: The Fate lord tells Stephen that his second trial to lift his curse is to take the head of his best friend, although when Stephen is more than happy to do such an easy task and is about to off Hosuh, the Fate lord panics and stops him, stating that his demand had been a joke. Stephen isn’t amused and the Fate lord clearly didn’t think Stephen would actually be ready to do it.
- Parrot Pet Position: The cursed pirate has a pet duckling that sits on his shoulder when he makes his entry and introduces himself, although it suddenly disappears right before he dies.
- Puff of Logic: When Hart appears in The Chinese Food Curse as the Chinese food delivery driver, his pop-up bio states he’s not in the episode. Once he notices the discrepancy and starts to question it, he gets phased out of existence.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Stephen (red oni) and Hosuh (blue oni) carry over the dynamic they had going from their time on Dan Plan.
- Resurrective Immortality: In Somewhat Squidgame, the backstory for Hart, Hosuh, and Stephen’s characters is that they were scientists that had been right near an immortality device they were experimenting with when it exploded, and as a result, their deaths in Squidgame don’t stick, and they get back up shortly after each death, physically no worse for wear.
- Rule of Three: Victims of the Chinese Food Curse have to pass the Fate Lord’s three challenges to lift the curse.
- Seadog Beard: The cursed pirate has a short but bushy beard & mustache.
- Seadog Peg Leg: The cursed pirate has a peg leg where his right foot would be. When he trips & dies, he actually trips over with his good foot.
- Spoiled Brat: Ty, a game NPC.
- Stockholm Syndrome: Played for Laughs when Stephen is spotted near a dead body with Hosuh while the former is under the effects of The Chinese Food Curse, as the police think that Stephen is Hosuh’s captor and that Hosuh has "The worst case of Stockholm syndrome [they’ve] ever seen".
- Surprisingly Sudden Death: The pirate cursed with the same bad luck curse as Stephen trips and dies before he can finish his warning about the curse. Stephen certainly wasn’t expecting it.Stephen: Wha- you can’t just introduce a character and then kill him off immediately, that’s literally illegal!
- Talk Like a Pirate: The cursed pirate talks like your average salty sea-farin’ sailor, right up to his Surprisingly Sudden Death.Cursed Pirate: Bad luck is around every corner my matey, so be careful, because your next step just might be your la-ARR!
- We Hardly Knew Ye: The cursed pirate that comes to warn Stephen about their shared curse of bad luck trips and dies before he’s even finished talking about it.
- Whole-Plot Reference: Somewhat Squidgame.
