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Alright, ladies and gentlemen.

CJ DaChamp is a YouTuber (Formerly a TikTok user) focused on anime. His videos generally take the form of listing "Disrespectful Moments in Anime History", which is where a character proves to be The Dreaded or shows off their power. Those who prove themselves capably menacing enough get added to the Round Table of Black Air Force Activity, reserved only for CJ's favorite characters.

In October 26, 2023, he also begun another series, The Asylum, which is focused on characters who... Aren't quite all there, either in terms of insanity, psychopathy, or just pure weirdness. Or in CJ's words, "cuckoo-kaka ass niggas, niggas that got some screws loose in their heads".

His main channel passed over one million subscribers in May 2022. It can be found here. Meanwhile, his old TikTok channel can be found here, and his second Youtube channel "CJ DaChamp 2" (where he posts gaming streams and behind-the-scenes videos) can be found here. Also, his Twitter can be found here.

Due to the nature of the channel reviewing various media, there will be many spoilers, both end-of-series and Late-Arrival Spoiler level spoilers that will be unmarked in the content CJ has gone over.

    The Round Table 

Characters in bold have their own videos in which they were judged worthy of being added to the Round Table. Exceptions and trivia added in notes.

    The Asylum 

It's time for Exhibit A: Listing All the Tropes.

  • Apathetic Citizens: Discussed in "Ryuga: The Undisputed GOAT" during Ryuga and Kyoya's match in Battle Bladers, with Spectator Casualty surprisingly being subverted throughout Beyblade: Metal Fusion, as CJ's surprised that there's still an entire audience to watch Ryuga's battles where "literal mortar strikes" are constantly going off and obliterating the whole stadium, not to mention Ryuga's soul-stealing brutality to his opponents.
    CJ: And look at Kyoya just getting blown the fuck up while they're just cheering in the background like "YEAAAAAAAAAH!" (Laughing) Like if you really think about it, these motherfuckers are sick. They're out watching twelve year-old kids have a death match!
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Courtesy of his introduction of the Vikings in Vinland Saga, he begins by listing off their deeds:
    CJ: War. Violence. Brutality. Pillaging. Killing. Taking booty. And eating this large piece of meat! With absolutely NO AMOUNT OF SEASONING!
  • Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The Round Table of Black Air Force Activity is reserved only for people who have displayed the traits of a No-Nonsense Nemesis or have proven themselves to be sufficiently badass or terrorizing to their enemies.
  • Author Appeal:
    • At least 90% of the reaction images, gifs, and scene transitions in CJ's videos come from Spongebob Squarepants.
    • What CJ calls "menaces", which is when someone acts like a No-Nonsense Nemesis or proves to be The Dreaded and decimates their enemies. It's usually enough to get someone added to the Round Table of Black Air Force Activity if they do it often enough.
    • Displays of Super-Strength, authority, or a lot of power appeal to CJ quite a bit. This can range from Takashi Komuro giving Rei Miyamoto a Bitch Slap to Majin Buu's Human Extinction Attack wiping out all of Earth's population.
    • Shows of Undying Loyalty are usually enough to earn CJ's praises. In Tokyo Revengers, people pulling up to help out Takemichi has CJ admire the "ride or die" attitude of the crew.
    • Good Old Fisticuffs being used to give someone a beatdown. While anything that gets someone declared a menace is a good move, CJ likes it more when it's ordinary people using their bare hands. It's why CJ declared Tokyo Revengers to be "Black Air Force Energy: The Anime", because the fights in that series are nothing but physical brawls between ordinary people.
    • Due to Afro being voiced by Samuel L. Jackson, CJ was already eager to put him on the Round Table before his trial even started.
  • Ax-Crazy: Plenty of the people in on the round table could qualify, however the Asylum was created specifically for people that are too insane.
  • Badass Boast: Ryuga delivers one chained with a Cluster F-Bomb in Exhibit B (covering Metal Masters) when he's about to shoot down Hades City.
    Ryuga: Fuck you, fuck your city, fuck your nuke, and fuck Skypeia, because I'm about to make this bitch Atlantis.
  • Berserk Button:
    • During his video on Anos Voldigoad, CJ is appalled by Emilia's actions to get back at Anos, being one of the few times he was genuinely disgusted by a character's actions (That didn't have to do with rape), and considering Anos' beatdown of her extremely satisfying.
      CJ: So she decided to commit one of the most despicable acts a human could ever commit. Something so immoral that it would have ME boxing: Going after another man's mother. SHAWTY DECIDED TO RUN UP ON THIS MAN'S MAMA!
      (Cue a clip of Emilia attacking Izabella)
      CJ: No, this is the lowest you could ever fall! If you ever do this to my mama, I'm Ja Morant-ing your ass!
    • Honor Before Reason if it results in death seems to be another. He calls out Katsumi for his stupidity letting himself die so that way Pickle would enjoy the fight, since he's bleeding out.
    • An incapability to hit your targets. As seen in his video on Mars of Destruction, almost half of it was dedicated to how one of the characters can't aim for shit as CJ just couldn't let go of it.
    • Willfully absent or Abusive Parents, while not a topic that often comes up in his videos, CJ makes it no secret how fed up he is with Toji Fushiguro's treatment of his son (or rather lack there of), taking several potshots at the man when not talking about his impressive feats. It gets to a point where when Toji forgets the name of his only son, CJ is flabbergasted.
    • Plot Armor being used as a crutch to keep villains away from victory, at least for villains he's grown really attached to. CJ becomes furious when Ryuga's legendary winning streak, one that got him hyping up the Dragon Emperor like crazy, is broken not by a genuinely strong and/or skilled opponent (Tsubasa and Kyoya put up good fights earlier, which CJ acknowledges and respects), but by the heroes supercharging Gingka's Bey with The Power of Friendship. He outright calls Ryuga's loss a robbery.
  • Beyond the Impossible: Colonel H. Stinkmeaner is the first (and so far, only) character CJ's covered that has an Exhibit D, which is described as "the territory where legends are made."
  • Big Bad: Majin Buu (in his Kid Buu form) leads the Round Table of Black Air Force Activity, being in possession of the first seat as the biggest menace in anime history. In a video on Buu, CJ explains that the reason he gives Buu the head seat of the table is because Buu wiped out all of humanity easily, and then broke into the afterlife just to keep beating people up. CJ comments that he doubts anyone is ever going to top that in terms of being a menace to society.
  • Bile Fascination: In-Universe, with the "So I Watched" series, where CJ checked out media such as EX-ARM, Redo of Healer, Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro, and the Mars of Destruction OVA after hearing about either awful reviews or controversy about a series, usually believing it can't be that bad, wanting to give a fair chance. Almost each episode so far, he's been proven wrong. With the exception of Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro, as his only critique was Senpai letting himself be pushed around to an absurd degree and being a Loser Protagonist.
  • Break the Haughty: While members of the Round Table of Black Air Force Energy are expected to kick ass and be disrespectful, Z-Broly gets a particular case on where his energy was so big, it made Vegeta, a fellow member of the Round Table, a bitch, which then gets CJ to threaten booting Vegeta off the council for his breakdown, only not doing so due to the film being non-canon.
  • Broke the Rating Scale: In the video discussing Sukuna, CJ's new ranking system ends up giving him an S++ rank, mostly due to the Domain Expansion mass murder.
    • While discussing Mahito's ranking for the Asylum, Mahito outright maxes out the ten-level Sanity Meter after kicking off the Shibuya Incident, causing any further diabolical actions he performs from there on out to grant him an extra bonus star. By the end of the video, he's left with 8 bonus stars on top of his level 10 meter.
  • Call-Forward: During his 6th Disrespectful Moments in Anime History video, CJ is dubbing over when Itachi beat the brakes off of Sasuke, as this mental line happens on the side:
    Jiraiya: Damn. Hmph, couldn't be me. You gonna have to get six niggas to jump me. (Cue an overlay of the Six Paths of Pain appearing, as their theme Girei briefly plays)
  • Calling Your Attacks: When making a video on Pickle the Caveman, all of Pickle's attacks feature some form of the phrase "Ooga Booga" in them, such as the Ooga Booga Uppercut and the Ooga Booga Slap.
  • Cardboard Box Home: CJ ends up in one of these in-universe because his new Round Table of Black Air Force Activity set wasn't finished for his video on Bradley from Fullmetal Alchemist. As a result, he ends up going through Bradley's exhibits while on the side of a road, asking for spare change.
  • Character Catchphrase: "Alright, ladies and gentlemen." CJ almost always says this right before getting to an exhibit for people looking to get into the Round Table of Black Air Force Activity. He also drops it through the reviews, too.
  • Comical Overreacting: Part of CJ's schtick is to be as unsubtle as possible about practically anything he reviews, going so far as to declare the tractor from KonoSuba one of the most savage entities in the multiverse in the Truck-kun video because it frightened the isekai protagonist to death. His review of EX-ARM eventually devolved into CJ stopping practically every scene mid-action in order to either break down laughing or rant at the show's stupidity. And back when he was on TikTok, he had a lot more of these moments to describe things.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Everywhere, given the focus of his channel. It is a literal requirement for any character to give these out like candy if they're to be counted worthy of being added to the roundtable. With Buu, Madara, and Isshiki being some of the worst offenders of this trope.
  • Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: In every mid-review overdubbing, every character is presented like they're the lead in a Gangsta Rap song. Alcohol, guns, and getting laid are presented as universal goals for everyone.
  • Darker and Edgier: In a more emotional note in his review of To Your Eternity, where he makes sure to note how much of a Tear Jerker the show has been so far while doing his typical synopsis.
  • The Dragon: Madara Uchiha has the title of Vice-President at the Table of Black Air Force Activity.
  • The Dreaded: Discussed. According to CJ, Black Air Force Energy is when someone shows no respect for their opponents or engages in a Curb-Stomp Battle against people who stand in their way. As such, CJ likes it when characters strike fear into the hearts of ordinary people.
  • Easily Forgiven: Hard subverted in the case of Hiro Shishigami, as his video ends off on CJ recapping his final thoughts and actions which ultimately lead to a Redemption Equals Death case as he dies to save the world from an asteroid... But CJ isn't so easily convinced:
    CJ: But uh... This nigga out here really trying to have redeeming qualities! Nah, fuck that, nigga, you killed a fucking BABY!
  • Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: CJ says that going after someone's mama to settle a feud is "one of the most despicable acts a human could ever commit" in his video on Anos Voldigoad. When Emilia goes after Anos' mom, CJ says that it's "the lowest you could ever fall", and argues that Emilia was an Asshole Victim when she got curbstomped by Anos. Meanwhile, during his video on Hiro Shishigami, CJ feels horrible for the reaction of Hiro's mother when she learns he's a horrifying serial killer.
    CJ: And look at his mama, bro, she is DEVASTATED! God, my nigga, WHY?! Making your mama cry like this is criminal!
  • Even Evil Has Standards:
    • Parodied. One of the reasons Zamasu hates mortals, later repeated when he becomes Goku Black, is that they'll pay $29.99 for one woman's OnlyFans when free porn already exists on the internet. Future Zamasu is also sickened at the way people try to cancel MrBeast every time he does something remotely good. Never mind that their Zero Mortals Plan would kill MrBeast as well.
    • The Round Table of Black Air Force Energy itself goes into this with how Pickle the Caveman is handled, as the sheer level of violation he committed throughout his arc, chief among them being constantly eating people's body parts, violating a reporter live on national television, and killing Truck-Kun. After just how savage Pickle's been throughout the arc, he's kept locked up 24/7 to avoid any further cannibalism.
  • Foreshadowing: Lampshaded in two instances:
    • During the video on Yujiro Hanma, he says to Baki's mother that he might "break [her] back so goddamn hard, it might kill [her] one day". The video pauses, and the word "FORESHADOWING" leaps towards the screen with a siren. Later on, Yujiro kills her by breaking her back.
    • In the video covering Vinland Saga, CJ claimed that Thorfinn was the "peaceful, innocent, unproblematic son" of Thors, "who will clearly NOT become a danger to society in his teenage years". A sound effect from Among Us plays as "FORESHADOWING" fades onto the screen after he says this. Sure enough, Thorfinn grows up to be a revenge-obsessed One-Man Army.
  • Formerly Fat: CJ himself. His motivation for getting quite the muscular build later on in life?
    "I wanted to look like this guy, this guy and this guy!"
  • Formula-Breaking Episode:
    • In relation to his usual videos for recruiting people into the Round Table, some of them only have two exhibits and not three, which can be due to multiple reasons:
      • Z Broly, due to CJ only working with two films and refusing to even touch Bio Broly.
      • Mikey and Draken, who became part of the Round Table simply for the show they're from being considered "Black Air Force Energy: The Anime", despite the Season 1 summary being a two-parter (Part 1 is considered Exhibit A and Part 2 is considered Exhibit B). He also vehemently refuses to make any followup videos because of how bad the series got afterwards.
      • Roberta, who only shows up in two arcs of the Black Lagoon story.
      • DIO, whose video only covers Part 1 and Part 3 (with bits of Parts 5 and 6), since Part 6 (and thus Dio's full influence) hadn't been fully adapted to the anime at the time.
      • Afro, whose Exhibit A encompasses the entire anime and also lands him in the Roundtable early on, with Exhibit B being considered more of a bonus exhibit after Afro got in early, which focuses on his actions in the sequel movie Afro Samurai: Resurrection (particularly the leadup to and his duel with Shichigoro).
    • "THE MOST DISRESPECTFUL MOMENTS IN ANIME HISTORY" is usually a series focusing on various moments throughout various anime. However, the second episode is entirely focused on Yujiro Hanma and almost all of his screen time up to the time the video was posted, taking up this format as CJ wasn't able to use the typical exhibit-based format he uses for his other Round Table recruitment videos, due to just how much insane shit Yujiro has done throughout the series.
    • In an inversion to the Yujiro example, Escanor's video is considered to be the fourth episode of "THE MOST DISRESPECTFUL MOMENTS IN ANIME HISTORY", despite it being titled and formatted as if it were a regular Round Table recruitment.
    • His video on Colonel H. Stinkmeaner serves as this, as compared to other character analysis videos getting three exhibits, Stinkmeaner not only gets four of them (with the rare Exhibit D, rather than a special case Exhibit S like with Battle Beast for Omni-Man's video), but oddly enough, we aren't shown CJ adding him to the Round Table at the end of the trial. (Turns out this was because CJ forgot to add him, and re-add Drakken, Truck-Kun, and Battle Beast to the table)
    • The Vinland Saga video not only forgoes the "Exhibits" format, acting somewhat more like a recap similar to the Tokyo Revengers videos where it's a pseudo-summary of the story so far, but also focuses not just on one character, but four (those being Thors, Thorfinn, Askeladd, and Thorkell).
    • The video on Pickle the Caveman, similar to Yujiro's entry, has Pickle doing so much insane shit that CJ cannot use a Disrespectful Moments or normal trial process. Instead, he has it all labeled under a special trial, "Exhibit P", and it's categorized by each of the victims that Pickle has decimated and/or violated in the anime at the time of the video rather than normal exhibits. Similarly, Hiro Shishigami's video acts like this but on a grander scale (Going from single-target incidents to full on multi-kill serial killer incidents), covering his whole story throughout Inuyashiki and being divided by all the murder incidents he was behind.
    • Ryuga's video... Or rather videos, is set up as a two-parter, with the first episode not only giving us an introduction for the insane world of Beyblade but also covering just how many violations Ryuga had performed in just Metal Fusion, the first season of his series, for Exhibit A, with the second episode covering Exhibits B and C for his roles in Metal Masters and Metal Fury respectively.
  • The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: The evilest thing Madara Uchiha ever did, according to CJ, was one that "actually affected us, in the outside world." The Infinite Tsukuyomi (Madara's ultimate goal) was so all-encompassing that its influence leaked into the show itself once he finally cast the jutsu. The manga kept it simple by dedicating a single chapter to showing the characters' idealized dream worlds, keeping it to one page per character. The anime, on the other hand, expanded those ideas into several episodes' worth of content each. The end result?
    "Look at all this shit! (shows an episode list spanning several months) Man put us in half a year worth of filler, 'cause he felt like it."
  • Gaia's Vengeance: How he describes Toppo in his God of Destruction form: "So THIS is the final form of The Lorax! Remember, y'all! You fuck with the forest, you fuck with this nigga!"
  • Genre Refugee: Despite not being from an anime, Omni-Man and Battle Beast became members of the Round Table thannks to their sheer brutality, thus becoming the first characters from Western Animation to make it in. Slade joined them a year later for being such an absolute menace, and later on, a teaser in Anos' video teased that 2003 Shredder may also be on his way to the table soon.note  Colonel H. Stinkmeaner subverts it, presumably because the fabled Exhibit D promotes him to legend status.
  • Guest-Star Party Member:
    • Battle Beast, who gets a special Exhibit S for himself in Omni-Man's video prior to the latter's Exhibit C, and also gets his own spot at the Round Table alongside the titular Omni-Man.
    • While they weren't shown getting seats at the Round Table, Thors and Thorfinn were given equal focus in the Vinland Saga video alongside founding member Askeladd and new member Thorkell. Altogether, the four are even referred by CJ as "absolute monstrosities".
  • Hanging Judge: Inverted. CJ presents himself this way in the "Disrespectful Moments in Anime History" series. The videos are CJ judging if a character is qualified enough to be a menace or join the Round Table of Black Air Force Activity in the form of exhibits of Black Air Force Energy. Characters who pass this judgment are added to the table. However, CJ only does this for characters he already likes, so anyone who gets put before CJ is all but guaranteed to get added to the table.
  • Hate Sink: In the second Asylum video, Mahito has proven to be one of CJ's most despised characters for just how batshit diabolical his actions are throughout Jujutsu Kaisen, and it's by Nobara's death that he's nearly too exhausted by his evil actions to continue analyzing him.
    CJ: And shit, Imma just be honest with you, the motherfucker's insufferable! And if you hate this nigga, I don't blame you.
  • Honor Before Reason: Discussed several times by CJ, mainly in relation to heroes fighting absolute menaces that would kick the shit out of them, in particular Madara, and Charon. CJ notes that if he were in a position of one fighting them, he'd take the reason route and Know When to Fold 'Em, cowardice or consequences be damned.
    CJ: (On the topic of Shinra fighting Charon) Oh my God, Shinra, bro, this is why we do not try to be CAPTAIN SAVE-A-HOE! LOOK AT THE SITUATION YOU'RE IN! You are fighting a nigga so strong, THE GROUND IS EXPLODING WHEN HE WALKS! And I know some of y'all are gonna be saying: "But CJ, he's supposed to be a hero, that's against his morals!" NIGGA- FUCK your morals!
  • Horrifying the Horror: Truck-kun is treated as a malevolent entity that actively tries to run people over in order to "isekai" them by sending his victims to another dimension. However, a few people have proven that Truck-kun is not unbeatable.
    • Revy is among the few people who can force Truck-kun to do her bidding, managing to make him stop dead in his tracks before truck-jacking him.
    • Pickle The Caveman made Truck-kun beg for mercy for his failed attempt at isekai'ing him. It fell on deaf ears as Pickle tore Truck-kun to bits and ate the meat he was delivering.
  • Implacable Man: What cemented Kid Buu as the President of the Round Table of Black Air Force Energy was taking this trope to a level that frightened CJ himself. As though destroying the Earth in a minute wasn't bad enough, Buu teleported himself into the afterlife while looking for Goku and Vegeta, only to stop for a while just to beat the hell out of all the fighters he already killed once before. Killing somebody is one thing, but interrupting their eternal rest just to kill them again? Absolutely demonic. At least Buu spared their souls upon finding his original targets, otherwise Krillin and Yamcha would have been rendered Deader than Dead.
  • Inferred Holocaust: Discussed In-Universe during Ryuga's first video, as after Ryuga's 1 V 40 training regimen leads to 40 elite Bladers laid out, CJ assumes all of them are dead due to believing no one could have survived the huge vortex L-Drago made, and also assuming one of the Bladers had their leg torn off from said vortex, with a note also assuming an arm was also lost too.
  • Instant-Win Condition: There have been a few times where CJ has added someone to the Round Table of Black Air Force Activity before their trial was even over because their actions were that impressive.
    • In Tokyo Revengers, Mikey, after having been bludgeoned in the head repeatedly with a steel pipe while being restrained, suddenly retaliates as he headbutts a guy holding him from behind, and then roundhouse kicks his opponent Kazutora in the face while another combatant was holding onto Mikey's leg. CJ declares "I've seen enough" and adds Mikey to the Round Table on the spot.
    • When Dio Brando zombifies a woman to make her eat her own baby, he instantly got a seat at the table, even though that was only halfway through Exhibit A.
    • During Exhibit B for Voldigoad, he impresses CJ and gets himself into the Round Table early after not only throwing Sasha's castle high up into the air, but catching it, spinning it on his finger like an NBA player, and flinging it extremely far away along with those in it, all with one hand. It leads into a Fake-Out Fade-Out where CJ pretends to end the video early before he calms down.
    • In his video on Vinland Saga, Thorkell the Tall had already impressed CJ a lot through numerous actions, but one act in particular that got him in before the video's end was casually sniping a guy through the head with a spear from a massive distance away when enemies were planning to ambush him. And just like that, CJ puts Thorkell at the Round Table with no hesitation.
    • An odd case with Afro Samurai as Afro gets himself into the Roundtable at the end of Exhibit A... Though said exhibit encompassed his entire anime, with Exhibit B which focused on Afro Samurai: Ressurection being seen as more of a bonus.
  • Iron Butt Monkey: Discussed in a couple of videos, with Sasuke Uchiha in his time in Boruto being a special mention in the Isshiki video just for how persistent Isshiki was on clobbering him whenever he could. CJ proceeds to note that he never expected Sasuke of all people to get the "Vegeta Treatment".
  • Mama Bear: Revy's main motivation for killing Shou Tucker (actually just Claude "Torch" Weaver), is because of the horrible fate he inflicted on Nina and her dog Alexander.
  • Mechanical Abomination: Truck-kun is seen less of a memetic truck and more of a malevolent force in the shape of a variety of vehicles, taking lives for the sheer joy of it. Hell, even if it has killed and/or isekaied someone, there is a good chanse it will keep on messing with people, as it keeps doing towards Tanya in the shape of Being X. Still doesn't stop him from getting carjacked by Revy or smashed apart by Pickle The Caveman, though.
  • Mid-Review Sketch Show: After going over a disrespectful moment, CJ will frequently play it back, but overdubbed with his own voice as if it's taking place in a Hood Film.
  • "No. Just… No" Reaction: CJ couldn't make it through Redo of Healer. Even though the series contains a Rape Discretion Shot instead of being explicit, CJ admits that it was too much even for him and called it quits. It gets brought up in later videos as an example when sexual assault is implied and there are time when he uses the term "Redo of Healer Treatment" to describe rape.
  • No-Respect Guy: If this short is any indication, Izuku Midoriya is this, with Alucard kicking him out when he attempted to apply to join the Round Table. Takemichi also seems to get this reception from CJ (With him even having him at Weenie Hut Jr's in said short), though his Tokyo Revengers videos show he does have a bit of respect for him whenever he steps up.
  • Not Hyperbole: While CJ tends to exaggerate what certain characters say and do from time to time, he puts more effort into conveying many feats that really are as badass, exasperating, and/or straight-up horrible as they sound.
  • N-Word Privileges: Everybody in the mid-review sketches that CJ does. The N-word is thrown around quite a bit, but all of it is done as a term of endearment.
  • Oh, Crap!: While CJ is pretty astonished by plenty of the action and ass-whoopings that happen in media, the one thing that gets him freaked out is whenever The Klan (Or anything resembling them as seen in the two examples) shows up, with him being mortified at the idea of them appearing in EX-ARM (Technically a cult), as well as Hellsing (Technically they were from the Vatican).
    (In response to seeing the cult in EX-ARM) "AYO! No! No, no no no no, stop stop stop stop stop, stop! IS THIS THE KLAN?!?! No, no, don't tell me these are the Triple K's."
  • Origins Episode: "HOW THE ROUND TABLE OF BLACK AIR FORCE ACTIVITY WAS CREATED", which was posted on his second channel, serves as this, going into detail about CJ's inspiration for creating the titular Round Table.
  • Our Lawyers Advised This Trope:
    • CJ has wanted to add Doflamingo onto the Round Table for a good while, but because of the risk of getting a copyright strike due to how Toei tends to strike One Piece videos on YouTube, he has to sneak him into the Round Table at the start of his video for Madara Uchiha.
    • During "Revy's Hood Safari" in the Black Lagoon video, Lagoon Company comes across Nazis who want to steal a painting that Lagoon Company is after. However, CJ doesn't want to get in trouble with YouTube for mentioning Nazis on his channel, so he takes the time to research an alternative...
    "Ah ha! Hydra agents! *crowd gasps* Thank you, Marvel!"
    • This becomes even more difficult during the Alucard episode due to how Nazis are the main antagonists and because swastikas are all over the places. Safe to say, there are plenty of Yellow-Dollar signs around.
  • Politically Incorrect Hero:
    • Shinra ends up getting portrayed as this by CJ in "THE MOST DISRESPECTFUL MOMENTS IN ANIME HISTORY 7", as a result of attacking the brown-skinned Charon, and also calling him a gorilla during the fight. Not helping Shinra's case is that the video was posted during February, AKA Black History Month, as CJ proceeds to state he'd make Frieza proud.
    • Before his Face–Heel Turn, Jinno from Afro Samurai was also portrayed this way by CJ. After Afro killed their master and father figure, the former quotes Obi-Wan's "You were my brother" line from Revenge of the Sith, though not without adding "I mean, even though you're already of the dark side".
  • The Power of Hate: Discussed in the Stinkmeaner episode, where his sheer hatred allowed him to escape Hell and possess Tom, and even clone himself just to harass Robert once again. He's not called "The Personification of Hatred" for nothing. The Hateocracy could also care less about avenging him; they only came after the Freemans to attack them.
  • Prison Episode: Arcs from jail in both Baki the Grappler and Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Stone Ocean are treated as if they're episodes of Beyond Scared Straight, complete with fake on-screen graphics and prisoner "interviews" with the characters.
  • Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: While rape will not disqualify a contender from entering the Round Table of Black Air Force Activity as long as they have other forms of disrespect, CJ notably gets disturbed by depictions or suggestions of rape, though some cases of Black Comedy Rape is fine as seen with Frieza having his way with a Namekian and with Alucard more or less turning into The Booty Warrior each time he releases one of his restraint levels. Also, he doesn't treat rape as a way to make a character a menace and therefore badass as he does with other methods of disrespect. Instead, CJ treats it more as "This character is a creep and is into some freaky shit".
    • His review of Redo of Healer ended when it was getting too much for CJ, and he refers to many moments of rape as "Giving the Redo of Healer Treatment", even admitting he felt dirty and needing holy water after watching the show.
    • During his video for the Unchained arc from Baki the Grappler, when discussing cuck moves, he briefly alludes to the infamous Eclipse rape scene from Berserk... And promptly pulls back, explicitly saying it's forbidden.
    • While discussing Pickle the Caveman, Pickle's second victim is a female newsreporter, whom Pickle rapes on live TV. During the buildup to the event, CJ sounds clearly uncomfortable with what he's about to show, and even has the newsreporters in-universe cut the feed early when it happens. CJ doesn't even bother to say or allude to the term vocally, instead just showing a brief picture of Flare being slapped by Keyaru's "glizzy" and a picture of Griffith during the Eclipse before just cutting to the incident.
  • Refuge in Audacity: Parodied with Frieza Black. CJ Dachamp decribes this form as Frieza, the character being the closest to a white supremacist in all of anime, becoming Black, beating the allegations of people calling him a racist in court, and making it so that way no one will call him out if he calls people monkeys. CJ Dacchamp even describes it as Frieza pulling an Uncle Ruckus on how absurd he managed to turn himself Black.
  • Remember the New Guy?: Alucard is stated to be one of the fouding members of the Round Table, even if he didn't appear untill the end of 2022. Wile CJ himself simply states he did a Retcon, one approved fan theory as to where Alucard was all this time claims that he was just "going for a walk".
  • Rooting for the Empire: In-Universe as in the finale of his first video on Ryuga, after getting to a point where he was glazing the Dragon Emperor for a violation-laden win streak, CJ wasn't too fond of Ryuga losing to Plot Armor and The Power of Friendship during the final battle with Gingka, flat-out calling it a writer-induced robbery once Gingka started to turn the tables.
    CJ: Gingka was damn near close to getting packed! But then, again, here comes the script writers saving the day. Because Hikaru, Tsubasa, and Kyoya come to save this nigga- Like, bruh where the FUCK is the ref, can we get a tech?! Like, Bey interference or something?!
    (After Ryuga loses to Gingka)
    CJ: (Sighing) Tough times, man. It sucks when you see your G.O.A.T. lose, bro...
  • Running Gag:
  • Sanity Slippage: The purpose of The Asylum is to document how the patient's sanity declines throughout their show, complete with a "Sanity Meter" that increases the crazier they get, equating it to a "GTA Wanted level". Fitting that the first episode features one of the more infamous cases of it in Western Animation history.
  • The Scrappy: In-Universe. As this series is focused on CJ analyzing various moments from media, there are going to be a couple of moments when he calls out a specific character he really dislikes from his opinions. For instance:
    • While discussing how he wasn't that much of a fan of Rex in Invincible for his video on Omni-Man, he proceeds to take a moment to bring up how much he dislikes Amber (Specifically noting "her ass belongs to the streets") before cutting back to stay focused on the video.
    • Black Zetsu killing Madara and Kaguya taking over as the final Big Bad of Naruto was met with a good bit of verbal disdain from him.
      CJ: Also so this dumbass hoe could get ressurected- Pffft... Man, FUCK Kaguya, nigga! On God, this man got snuck so many times, but he really died to this bullshit? Bruh, this man really got hoe'd.
    • He has no love for Envy either due to him killing Maes Hughes and murdering children in order to start wars.
      CJ: And also, fuck that nigga Envy! All my homies hate Envy! I will personally go to his funeral and take a fat stinking dookie on that man's casket!
  • Seers: Twitter is seemingly portrayed as such, giving Sukuna and Jogo insight on the former's memetic fraud allegations before the events that caused them even happened In-Universe.
  • Sequel Episode: "Black Frieza: From Rags to Riches" serves as this to "Frieza: From Riches to Rags", discussing Frieza's uprising from his Villain Decay from his first video, along with elaborating on plenty of moments prior to his villainous decline.
  • Serious Business: At the start of "RYUGA: The Undisputed G.O.A.T.", CJ has to devote a part of the opening prologue to elaborate just how damn serious Beyblade, L-Drago in particular, can be, just in case any viewers are wondering how a guy with a mere spinning top can be that dangerous.
    CJ: Now some of you are probably wondering "Well CJ, how significant can this spinning top be?" Well, what if I told you that THE ROMAN EMPIRE was built off the BACK of this bitch?! Oh- Oh, and I'm not done. This shit has destroyed civilizations. You see, the show doesn't tell you this, but if you really think about it, the prominent leaders that have probably used this Bey in the past probably include: Julius Caesar. Ghengis Kahn. Cleopatra. Nigga, Napoleon probably used this bitch! And then here some of y'all probably go: "Well CJ, no way these world leaders could have been in this universe!" Okay. Why is Moses here? Checkmate, nigga.
  • Shout-Out: One of the names Alucard has is "The Crimson Fucker".
  • Sinister Car: Truck-kun, enough that the truck was added to the Round Table of Black Air Force Activity. CJ determines that trucks have killed so many anime characters that it must be a result of active malice on the part of the truck itself instead of a string of accidents by human drivers. CJ lampshades that it's strange to add a truck to the Round Table, but he also admits that he doesn't care.
  • Spoofed with Their Own Words: The vast majority of the dialogue for the Stinkmeaner episode is lifted straight from the show due to how the regular CJ brand of humor is quite similar to it.
  • Suddenly Shouting: "So I watched Redo of Healer and, uhh...WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST WATCH, MY NIGGA?!"
  • Take That!:
    • An inversion comes from Zamasu; one of his reasons for wanting to commit genocide of mortals is because they want to cancel MrBeast even after all the charity work he's done.
    • Played straight in the Vikings video when describing Thorfinn's final duel with Askeladd.
      CJ: Thorfinn gets his ass whupped for the fifty millionth time. Bro is DaBaby; the nigga has not changed his flow!
    • CJ does another one describing the result of the Katsumi VS Pickle fight after Pickle refuses to eat Katsumi's arm.
      CJ: Bro just said, "Nah, nigga, you taste like Raising Cane's. Unseasoned!"
    • A twofer appears when Sukuna walks towards Mahoraga with a drink and some popcorn.
      CJ: But bro was disappointed. He must've went to go see The Marvels. And he just eating the popcorn like-
      CJ!Sukuna: Ho-ly, this is disgusting! No salt and no butter for $15? Ugh, must be from AMC.
  • This Is Gonna Suck: After watching the last episode of Attack on Titan, CJ had this reaction, knowing who was going to be the first person ever to be booted off the Round Table.
  • Tempting Fate:
    • After the rather dour ending of Afro's analysis with the ending of Afro Samurai: Resurrection where Afro kills Kotaro's second adoptive dad right in front of him and later gives him the Number Two headband mirroring what Justice did, CJ has this to say after Afro continued the Cycle of Revenge:
    CJ: Well, uh... That's a... rather dark way to end off a video. Well then, at least it can't possibly get worse than this.
    Narrator: A little longer than a few minutes later:
    (Cut to CJ reading the wiki for Afro Samurai, in particular the page for Kotaro)
    CJ: "In the manga, at the end Kotaro faces off with Afro, but he-"
    (Cue the rest of the message, "is killed by him through decapitation" with vine booms emphasizing each part)
    CJ: Oh I'mma fucking PUKE, I'M FUCKING SICK!
    • During Ryuga's first analysis video towards the start of his final Battle Bladers match against Gingka, CJ begins to hype up Ryuga... However:
    CJ: So now it was finally time for the finals. The Greatest Of All Time VS the main character. Surely the G.O.A.T. wouldn't get robbed by plot! ...Right?
    (Cut to an edited clip of the Spongebob Squarepants episode "Doing Time", labeled "THE PLOT TO RYUGA'S LEGACY")
    Spongebob: (To Ryuga) ALRIGHT! GIVE ME THE MONEY!
  • That Came Out Wrong: Many times, CJ or the characters will realize when something is said as a Double Entendre in the discussions. Just a few examples include:
    • DIO taking Joseph's blood.
    CJ: "He sucked that man dry, pause!"
    • Bradley taking on Buccaneer and the Fort Briggs soldiers.
    CJ: "...then gives a stiffie to Buccaneer! ...Wait, wait wait, hold on, pause..."
    CJ: "...And [Trunks] gives Zamasu the stiffie, and SHOVES it up thei— [Beat] ...Mega-pause!"
    • Two of Pickle's opponents, Katsumi Orochi and Jack Hanma, getting outright freaky with the former even while fighting.
      CJ!Katsumi: "Welp, I'm cooked, Pickle. So go ahead! Eat my ass!" [...] "Oh, how do I taste, Pickle? Do I taste good?"
      • The fight between Pickle and Jack deserves special mention, as even CJ thinks it made "the biggest "Ayo!? Pause!" moment of 2023", and muses that Jack is a "freaky frog" with a biting fetish.
      CJ!Jack: "Whaddaya shay, caveman? Come give Daddy a big ol' kish!"
      CJ: "And they start smoochin' and having a bite-off! Their faces are literally eating each others' mouths!"
  • This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: As put in the words of Yujiro Hanma: "Remember when I told you that one day I might break your back so goddamn hard it might even kill you? TODAY'S THE DAY, BITCH!"
  • Too Dumb to Live: Discussed. CJ's video on Pickle the Caveman characterizes pretty much everyone else who wants to fight Pickle this way. CJ says that everyone in the Baki-verse is such a Blood Knight that they can't resist fighting Pickle, even though he's clearly out of their league and known to eat parts of his victims.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Discussed in "Black Frieza: From Rags to Riches", on how Frieza manages to not only catch up to Goku and Vegeta, but completely overpower both of them with Black Frieza.
  • Villain Decay: Discussed in "Frieza: From Riches to Rags". CJ discusses how Frieza from Dragon Ball Z went from The Dreaded to a mild annoyance, and how every subsequent appearance that Frieza has makes him less and less scary because of how many times that Frieza ends up on the business end of a Curb-Stomp Battle.
    • Also discussed in "Ryuga: A Legacy of Greatness", as CJ offers up this possibility, noting how after Ryuga was demoted from main antagonist after losing in Metal Fusions final battle, he could have easily gone down the path of Vegeta and Frieza or Gaara and started getting his ass handed to him... Only to note that Ryuga hard subverted this and only became even more of a threat even if he was just an Anti-Hero rather than a primary antagonist.
  • What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Discussed In-Universe in Ryuga's first video, as CJ's constantly astonished the heavier violations (Gingka witnessing his dad's apparent death to Ryuga and L-Drago impaling Kyoya to steal his soul for instance) managed to make it into a Merchandise-Driven kids' anime.
  • World of Badass: Every anime that CJ reviews has the characters act as if it's a Hood Film. Every character is treated as a stone-cold badass, or someone who wants to be one, willing to show disrespect to anybody else if it means being the best.
  • You Need to Get Laid: In "Revy's Hood Safari", this is Revy's initial assessment of Rock. She says though she's only known him for six hours, "I know you get no hoes".
"Anyways, y'all take it easy, and I'm out this ho."

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