Web Video / Captainsauce

Bitten by a radioactive tomato, this mild mannered gamer was transformed into the gaming hero CaptainSauce!

Captainsauce is a Let's Play channel found on YouTube ran by a man from Newfoundland, Canada who prefers to have his real name remain anonymous. The channel can be found here.

He is best known for his series "The Life of Kevin", based in The Sims 4. He used to upload one video each day, ranging from one-of flash games, to Life Is Strange. However, due to events in his life (mostly health reasons, See Schedule Slip on the Trivia tab), his upload frequency is down to once every few months; and consists of mostly mobile games.

His channel banner portrays his superhero character sitting on a couch with characters from his most popular series. Including Barbara the Shark, Fluffles, a red peasant, JobBot, The Neighbor, Amy, Cuphead and Mugman, Walt, Ted, Aria The Sauce, Kevin and Emma Sauce, Bendy, a battle cat, a pink slime, Kyu, Six, The Artist, and a panicked and bloody Nigel Burke.

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Captainsauce provides examples of:

• All Men Are Perverts: Captainsause often ogles various female characters in games he plays. This is best shown in DEEEER Simulator, where instead of making a character who looks like him… he instead makes a bikini-clad woman, who he almost exclusively refers to as a thot.
• Anticlimax: In the first two episodes of fooling around with the Unit Creator in Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, he creates a unit he calls Wendy, which he refers to as the strongest unit he's created. Cue her losing every fight she's put in, with the exception of a group of 6 peasants, which she still struggled with despite heavily out-valuing them.
• Artistic License – Biology: Captainsauce refers to an expert on anything as a "thing biologist", usually in reference to himself not being an expert as such.
• Ass Shove: Captainsauce seems to have a fascination with doing this sideways.
• Bond One-Liner: Drops one after defeating the Harvester in 1V1 ARENA CHALLENGE - Totally Accurate Battle Simulator:
  Captainsauce: If you would like to file a complaint to the king, you can fill out this form, roll it up and neatly tuck it in your ass.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": His superhero avatar wears a red S in a yellow circle. It is also the channel's logo.
• Bowdlerise: While previously no stranger to cursing himself, Cap has had to censor some dialogue from dating sims when reading them to the audience. This is largely because of YouTube's demonetizing of creators deemed too controversial.
• Break the Cutie: When fighting Grim Matchstick in Cuphead, Cap had to completely shut down any commentary to focus on him. While he usually remains upbeat even when frustrated, he remained completely quiet and maintained a stoic face after trying for two hours to beat the boss.
• Catchphrase:
  • He doesn't promote it but he tends to say "Waaaoooooww" when reacting to the ridiculousness of the games.
  • Also, the phrase 'Okay, you know what?' is commonly said multiple times throughout every video.
  • Whenever something gets thrown a long distance, he tends to refer to it as "getting launched into a different area code".
  • In TheBattleCats he announces "Fire ze Kat Kannon!" nearly every time he fires the Cat Cannon.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Frequently happens to him when he plays Just Die Already, including getting smashed to pieces after getting stuck in between an overly bouncy mattress and the ceiling, getting rammed into a piranha tank by a sheep, or getting launched into shark infested waters while riding a steamroller.
• Cuteness Proximity: Seems very susceptible to cooing over cute animals, including hunter slimes, a stray puppy, and even the sound of a beam being deleted.
• Curse Cut Short: His outrage towards temp bot for interrupting his intro.
  Captainsauce: And for today's episode, we are gonna be returning for more gourmet chef because...
  Temp Bot: *Splashing his cup of coffee towards his face*
  Captainsauce: Listen, I've been trying really hard to do this intro for about five minutes now and I swear to god if you splash yourself in the face with that cup one more time, I'm gonna take it, I'm gonna shove it so far up your little floating a...Like I was saying, more gourmet chef.
• Escort Mission: Some of his videos of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator involve him giving himself a self-imposed challenge by placing a single Halfling/Hobbit among his forces and trying to win the battle while keeping said hobbit alive.
• Fan Nickname: Cap has spawned several of these for certain TABS units. Among them are Hobbits for the Halflings, Wobbly Horses for any Horse units, Snuffy for the Mammoth, the God Killer for the Ballista, Grim for the Reaper, Dynamite Maiden for the Dynamite Thrower, Kamikaze Kegs for the Barrel Rollers, Gandalf for the Wizard, Tutan Deez Nuts for the Pharaoh, Flanders for the Devout Gauntlet, and Battle Grandma for the Righteous Paladin.
• Has Two Thumbs and...: "Guess who has two thumbs and just figured out how to record flash games??" *cut to pointing thumbs at self and smiling*
• Ice-Cream Koan: this game on his '3 Random Games' features one thanks to the awkward wording of the game's end title. Captainsauce is as confused as his audience.
• Lame Pun Reaction:
  • Whenever a pun shows up, Cap has a tendency to give remark on it usually with exhaustion. Riddle School provided him with multiple examples, as it tends to start out with some huge stinkers.
    Phil Eggtree: That was a SHARP idea!
    Captainsauce: The puns, they just-they just never end!
  • Fishing Food takes this up a notch, considering the fact that nearly every single food that speaks has a pun related to their name, with special mention going to Captainsauce's reaction to the Fish's Hurricane of Puns:
    Fish: What's the difference between a tuna, piano, and glue?
    Captainsauce: Look, I was gonna say that "You can tune a piano, but you can't tune a fish", but you can't tune glue, so… uh… o-o-okay, sure, what?
    Fish: You can tuna piano but you can't piano a tuna!
    Captainsauce: But-what about the glue?
    Fish: I knew you'd get stuck on that!
    Captainsauce: NO! (bursts out laughing)
    Fish: Did you sea what I did there?!
    Captainsauce: Oh my god, it's just a never-ending barrage of puns! Make it stop!
    Fish: Did you seaaaaaaaa?
    Captainsauce: (Said while laughing) That was the worst one yet, oh my god! I can't believe he got me, like, six times! Y'know what? For a game entirely about fishing, I really shouldn't have expected anything less for Fish's first appearance.
• Naked People Are Funny: Fluffles, a nude character in Paint the Town Red who tends to appear in restrooms.
• No Name Given: Captainsauce himself. The only personal information he gives out is that he's a proud Newfie. He keeps his real name, city, and workplace anonymous, and will ban anyone who reveals his personal info on his channel. He does this so he can maintain his privacy.
• Sitcom Archnemesis: He occasionally forms this relationship with characters in his playthroughs, such as Job-Bot in Job Simulator and the Halflings AKA Hobbits in Totally Accurate Battle Simulator.

The Life of Kevin and spinoffs provides examples of:

• A Day in the Limelight: The Reapers' butler, Gurt Gurt, gets an episode in which she has various adventures on a day off. Truly it has to be seen to be believed.
• Alien Abduction: This is a part of the game itself; it's a given that it will happen in this series.
• Alliterative Name: Debbie Death, Grim's replacement as the soul reaper.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: At one point, the then-teenaged Sauce kids hold a house party while Kevin and Emma are out on a date. When Emma comes back early, she decides to join the twerking teenagers on the dance floor, quickly breaking up the party.
• Asshole Victim: Downplayed with Mortimer Goth in that he's not a victim of murder but of getting his wife stolen. All the same, Mortimer throws a drink in his daughter's face moments before Tommy seduces Bella, so...
• Back from the Dead: Faith Dennings is murdered by Chucky in one episode. She's back, no questions asked, the very next time Amy, Luc, Holly and April go over to check on her.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Both Kevin and Emma. Both of them are good, kindhearted people who will not hesitate to go full papa/mama bear on anyone who's threatening their children, even when they're grown up. Oh, and if the world needs saving, no one will jump into action faster.
• Black Comedy: Moments of this in in all of the series, but Grim Parenting takes this **much** further.
• Butt-Monkey: Gurt Gurt.
• Chick Magnet: Tommy. And how! He seduces a great many women throughout the series.
• Crossover: At one point in Grim Parenting, Debbie Death and kids visit the Sauces.
  • The Sauces in general sometimes show up in the background of other series.
• Cute Witch: Amy Willow.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Played for laughs and not touched on much with Kevin, but it's there. Apparently his family died in a llama-related accident, leaving him all their money, which is why he starts off the series fairly wealthy.
  • The above is retconned into a legitimately dark and troubled story later.
• Death Is Cheap: As with the original game, the fact that characters can cook up Ambrosia to resurrect the dead is very helpful. Several secondary characters and even a few protagonists bite the dust, but thankfully they're resurrected. Sometimes.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Nina and Katrina Caliente smash Tom Sauce's doll house. In ensuing episodes, Emma locks Nina on the second floor and starves her, then feeds Katrina to the cowplant.
  • Tommy seems to have inherited this from his mother. As vengeance for the Goths stealing his family's art, he seduces Bella and breaks up the family.
  • Over at A Bad Witch, this happens to a frightening degree. Amy and Company are disturbed by loud neighbors. They go over to complain, and while doing so, Chucky (who was indeed annoyed with the sound) starts a fire and murders the neighbors' daughter.
  • Rounding out the trifecta, this also happens in Grim Parenting. Sort of. Originally, Cap was thinking about sparing Lily Feng, just locking her in the basement or something. And then she picked her ear while making a garden salad for Grim and his quadruplets.
• Dude Magnet: Gurt Gurt. No, really.
• Enfant Terrible: Amy Willow and company in A Bad Witch end up babysitting a toddler named Chucky Doll. The results...aren't pretty.
  • The Reaper quadruplets are rather dangerous as toddlers/children as well.
• Ethical Slut: Tom Sauce, the eldest of Kevin's children. Mostly...barring the few married women he's seduced.
• Fountain of Youth: Kevin is accidentally aged back to a child due to a wishing well error in one episode.
  • All of the Sauces end up as toddlers in another episode. Evie has a very interesting day.
• Funny Background Event: A staple of the series. Hard not to be given it's the Sims, and many of the characters seem to have minds of their own.
• Gilligan Cut: Another staple of the series.
• Gold Digger: Grim in Grim Parenting ends up being this with Lily Feng as the Meal Ticket. It...doesn't end well.
• Happily Adopted: Barbie, by Emma, technically. They even spend Mother's Day together at one point.
• Happily Married: Kevin Sauce and Emma Jagr.
  • Apple Sauce and Evie Hunter.
  • Eventually, Grim Reaper and Debbie Death.
• Idiot Hero: Kevin. Most definitely.
• Idiot Savant: Kevin seems to have this going for him a bit. For example: while still unable to get the hang of washing dishes in the kitchen sink, he nonetheless is able to get to level 10 piano with no prior indication that he's had any experience.
• Insatiable Newlyweds: Apple and Evie go straight from getting married to the bushes to consummate their marriage.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Why does Will Smith work with the alien queen? He wants to take over the series!
• Love at First Sight: Apple and Evie, pretty much. Captainsauce didn't even intend them to get together, they just happened to start flirting.
• Male Frontal Nudity: We don't see anything, as the Sims censors everything, but Kevin randomly gets naked at one point in a club. In public. his children are present.
• Mama Bear: All three of the people Emma kills/causes to die early on in the series when Tommy was young were either bothering him or harming his possessions.
  • Later, when Barbie and Emma are out on Mother's Day and see Barbie's biological mother (who makes a point of making fun of them), Emma freeze-rays her. It's bizarrely heartwarming.
• Mister Seahorse: Kevin himself in the main series as a result of an alien abduction. This results in Barbie Q. Sauce
  • Grim in the main series as well, with quadruplets. The other parent is Barbie or so it seems; it's actually her mother.
  • Luc in A Bad Witch, resulting in Orion.
• Ms. Fanservice: Emma Jagr, the most attractive member of the Sauce family who dresses in the most appealing wardrobe of any of the women.
  • Debbie Death in Grim Parenting is quite attractive as well.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: Grim does this to Victor Feng. Well, really, he has Claire do it, but all the same, it's to get to Lily. Not really for the right reasons, as you can see above.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Hoo boy is this averted. While no celebrities are part of the main cast, quite a lot of musicians, movie stars, fictional characters, and even politicians appear.
• Odd Friendship: At one of the parties, Johnny Bravo and Dr. Evil show up cloudgazing together. Captainsauce even lampshades it!
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. Emma has a literal clone.
  • Also averted in that Princess Leia shows up as a character, and that one of Tommy's girlfriends is also named Leia.
  • The Sauce's cowplant is named Faith. So is Amy Willow's neighbors' daughter.
  • Technically played straight, as Grim's clone is really named "Sergio", but given he appears as "Grim Reaper" on the job, this is still in play.
• Our Hero Is Dead: Kevin gets killed twice during the series, once by a evil robot who had a Sim Ray, and by a evil doppleganger of Captainsauce's Author Avatar in a later episode. Thankfully he's brought back to life soon enough in both cases.
• Polyamory: Tommy and the rest of the Woohooers appear to have something like this going on, frequently woohoo-ing with one another with relatively little jealousy (mostly because Tommy hasn't quite maxed out on the "Serial Romantic" achievement yet).
  • Amy, Luc, and Holly from A Bad Witch appear to have something like this going on as well. April too to a lesser degree.
• Punny Name: Kevin and Emma's eldest daughter, Apple Sauce.
  • Kevin's alien daughter, Barbie Q. Sauce, as well.
    • It should be noted that he has stated Tom Sauce's name is short for Tomato.
• Really Gets Around: Claire Reaper once she's a teenager, based on the finale of their series.
• Revealing Continuity Lapse: When the time-line starts to get messed up, some oddities start to occur- characters de-age, the time-line keeps being reset, and a character who died one day came back with no explanation.
• Satellite Love Interest: Downplayed with Evie Hunter, who gets the least amount of characterization. It's not as if she has none, but significantly less than Kevin, Emma, Tommy, Barbie, or Apple.
• Serial Escalation: The first few episodes follow Kevin as he moves into a new neighborhood, courts a pretty neighbor, gets married, and starts a family. He and his girlfriend/bride Emma occasionally get up to silly shenanigans like covering Justin Bieber's house in rotting fish tacos or starting a human zoo. Later episodes feature the Sauces fighting off aliens and robots, using time travel, hunting vampires, facing shapeshifters, dealing with fairies and genies...some of this is justified by the additions of game packs. Some of this is...not.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: For Kevin, Justin Bieber.
  • For Grim, his coworker Andy.
• Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: Even more dramatically than usual sim occurrences. Apple Sauce is a child only a few *minutes* after she is born. Captainsauce doesn't really like Sim babies, which is why this happens.
• Spin-Off: The main series has two spinoffs, A Bad Witch and Grim Parenting.
• Surprisingly Sudden Death: Has happened quite a bit.
  • A random Alien attending Kevin's party in one episode dies offscreen of Embarassment, but Barbie Q is able to seduce the Grim Reaper into sparing him. This leads into a subplot about Barbie's attempts at getting a boyfriend.
  • Patrick Flaharty suddenly dies of starvation after a heated argument with Barbie Q while on a date. Barbie's plea to the Grim Reaper fails, and he gets stuck as a ghost for a while.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Grim and Debbie. The former is a faceless, chubby individual with odd-looking hands. The latter rivals Emma in looks.
• Villain Protagonist: Grim in Grim Parenting, which has a significantly higher body count than either of the other series. Captainsauce has even stated in one that Grim and his children "are not good people".

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