Web Video / DougDoug A.I. Invasion

The first of many conquests.

"Today, Twitch Chat and I are going to take over Europe using artificial intelligence."

AI Invasion is a webseries created by the Youtuber DougDoug to solve a problem nobody has ever had. The premise is simple: Doug and Twitch Chat both start with a piece of land. Throughout the game they must conquer new lands and collect resources to reach the point goal, essentially playing rules-loose Risk, albeit with one twist: all actions they want to take must be fed into an artificial intelligence text generator, which will decide the ultimate outcome of their action.

From this comes a story of politics, subterfuge, Fantastic Catholicism, aliens, arranged marriages, Fantasy Americana, and warring empires that last thousands of years.

The series began in September of 2022, and has since had six episodes chronicling the highlights of the streams they were played on. Doug would continue to host more AI battles after this, although he currently has no plans to turn them into edited videos.

Story Arcs

1. Twitch Chat and I Invaded Europe with Artificial Intelligence (Year 1000) (Dougtopia VS Chatistan) ^Results Chatistan wins, 10 points to Dougtopia's 6.
2. Twitch Chat and I Invaded USA with Artificial Intelligence (Year 2122) (Dougkota VS Chatlantis) ^Results Chatlantis wins, 13 points to Dougkota's 8.
3. Twitch Chat and I Invaded Space with Artificial Intelligence (Year 2200) (Dougtopia VS Chaturn) ^Results Chaturn wins, 10 points to Dougtopia's 8.
4. Twitch Chat and I Invaded a Zoo with Artificial Intelligence (Dougama Herd VS Cult of Chotters) ^Results Dougama Herd wins, 10 points to the Cult of Chotters' 9.
5. Ocean AI Invasion (Chat VS Parkzer)^Results Chat wins, 4 points to Parkzer's 0. - Part of a challenge to celebrate Rosa the Otter's 24th Birthday Party.
6. I forced Twitch Chat to fight in the American Revolution (Chat VS King George III) ^Results Chat wins, 10 points to King George's 4.

Vods of subsequent battles

1. Doug and Twitch Chat invade Europe with Ai, versus Charborg! (Divorcia VS Poland 2 (spelt Pole Land 2 in the AI prompts)) ^Results Divorcia wins, 8 points to Pole Land 2's 1.
2. Can Twitch Chat stop Ai Napoleon from taking over Europe? (Chat VS Napoleon) ^Results Chat wins, 19 points to Napoleon's 1. Three streams followed where AI Napoleon challenges Chat to chess, except he can cheat to varying degrees. Notably, the first cheating match was uploaded as an edited video, before the stream that inspired it.

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The following tropes are in this web series (all of which were rigged):

• A Rare Sentence:
  Doug: I can't let you guys build a victory toilet. Which is probably the only time in my life I'll get to say that in a contextually relevant way.

  borkbork0212: I just joined this stream and the first thing I heard was "you're not walking around the zoo fucking fish" and I must say, for the first honest time in my life, DOUG WHAT ARE WE DOING????
• Accidental Bargaining Skills: While haggling for Ouranus in the Space Campaign, Chaturn initially offers it to Jar Jar for one billion dollars, before deciding to haggle for it. Instead of lowering the price, Jar Jar raises it, and a miscommunication results in Chaturn giving Jar Jar one trillion dollars for the planet that they already owned.
• Action Girl: The female pope during the Europe campaign, surviving in the woods most of her life and leading an army of women to storm the Chatisan castle.
• Actually Pretty Funny: Jar Jar admits that buying the entire planet of Uranus and using it as a toilet for the pun is a funny idea, but still continues trying to purchase it as land for Dougtopia.
• Adaptational Badass: Saul Goodman is not only a super lawyer who can legally outmaneuver whole governments and God, but he also becomes an angel who can destroy a whole army.
• Adaptational Heroism: In the Space Campaign, the Covenant from Halo is portrayed as a rebellion Master Chief joins after escaping execution.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Meta instance, Doug thinks the AI is specifically out to ensure he doesn't win, regardless of who does win or who else loses. He's lost the first three games, and the one time he did win the AI then immediately declared his efforts for naught and his plans ruined in the next generation.
• Alien Princess: Saul Goodman calls the Space Pope this verbatim when they meet in the America Campaign.
• Aliens Are Bastards: Chatlantis came from the moon and aim to take over America after its destabilization. Long later on, it turns out that they were only a small part of Chaturn, who aim to take over the entire Solar System.
• Alien Sky: The Milky Way ends up with 2 different suns by the end of the Space Campaign, neither of which are the original.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: Ghost is repeatedly referred to with He/Him pronouns, but takes the title of Empress and is referred to as the Emperor's wife. To make matters more confusing, he ends up impregnating himself.
• Amazon Brigade: The Chatistani army, a.k.a Girlboss Army, in the Europe Campaign is comprised entirely of women. They manage to sack Italy in a single battle and kill the King of France.
• Anachronism Stew: Doug tries to keep the options limited to the campaign's time period, but anything the AI comes up with becomes fair game. As such, the American Revolution eventually devolves into the Americans and French fielding Humongous Mechas against the British, The Incredible Hulk being published in the 1700s, Hamilton being on tour with the original cast, and the Americans inventing nuclear warheads but not planes to drop them from.
• Animal Gender-Bender: The issue of telling apart female and male gorillas becomes a heavy debate in the Zoo campaign after Chat tries to convince Doug that every picture of a gorilla he finds on Google is of a male.
• Animal Talk: Lampshaded by Parkzer, who asks Doug if he and the rats he's trying to convince into touching Harambe's banana speak English, electing to instead make koala noises to the rats. This is rendered as Parkzer telling the rats to touch Harambe's banana, then asking nobody in particular what else he should be saying, then asking the rats if they speak English, and finally making a senseless moan.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse:
  • The Emperor of Dougtopia holds the President of Ireland at swordpoint until he joins the alliance. This somehow works.
  • Namedropped directly by Yoda in regards to Jar Jar's cash bribe during the Space Campaign.
• A Planet Named Zok: Zeltros in the Space Campaign, of the few non-Milky Way planets introduced onto the board after the AI creates it. The name is pulled from the Star Wars expanded universe, likely a side effect of introducing Jar Jar Binks into the story.
• Apologetic Attacker: During their final confrontation, Parkzer bests Harambe and holds a gun to his head. Harambe begs him not to, but Parkzer only apologizes before shooting him.
• Arranged Marriage:
  • Twitch Chat's first move in the Europe campaign is to marry their pope off to Italy, both to form an alliance and get rid of her.
  • Saul Goodman is married to the Space Pope to neutralize him in the America Campaign.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Twitch Chat usually has traits of this anyway, but it becomes an in-game attribute during the Zoo Campaign, as their otters have short-term memory loss.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Chatlantis briefly considers turning the moon into a space colony and dropping it on America- Until Doug points out the obvious flaws with this plan, and it's rejected.
• Back from the Dead: Saul Goodman returns from Heaven after his death to destroy the armies of Dougkota.
• Badass Boast:
  Parkzer: My name's Parkzer! I'm a lawyer koala! I'm here to seduce you and eat your bananas!
• Badass Normal: Jim, the ex-Mormon FBI farmer in the America Campaign who assassinates Saul Goodman and marries the Space Pope.
• Bathroom Brawl: Due to one being the territory of the rats, a fight between Precious and Jillian is implied to happen in it offscreen.
• Bears Are Bad News: The Battle Bear, created by Germany in the Europe Campaign, and promptly driven to extinction by Switzerland.
• Beat Them at Their Own Game: A major tactic the Chat uses is to do completely random things in the hope that NovelAI will make it work out. When Doug realizes this strategy, he decides to do the same, and nearly succeeds on several occasions, even winning the Zoo Invasion by taking the Cult of Chotters' strategy of breeding new species into existence.
• Berserk Button: Harambe doesn't like it when people touch his bananas, and joins the Dougama Herd when they promise to never touch them. When Parkzer makes an assault to do so, he fumbles it and instead asks Harambe if he can touch his bananas. Harambe's response is to give him a "present" in the form of an infight between the Chotters' hippo and the rats with mayonnaise.
• Bittersweet Ending: The USA campaign: Although Chat managed to win the battle against Doug, they still failed to get Jesus to be their NFL commissioner. After Chat manages to get Jesus to agree to meet with them, Saul shoots Jesus in the head.
• Blatant Lies: While talking over the phone, Iron-Balls tells the president that they can't talk right now because his phone is broken.
• Blood Knight:
  • It is implied by the King of Luxembourg that one of these once destroyed the Kingdom of Dougtopia in the past entirely by himself, and that fear still remains. Somehow this is reason for him to leave the alliance.
  • In the America Campaign, the General of Dougkota, who mercilessly leads his armies into battle and holds a child's life for ransom at one point. He even plans to invade the countries they already own, just to pick a fight.
• Blunt "No": The Space Pope, shocked at Saul's rejection of her proposal, asks her if she means anything to him. His reply? "No, you don't."
• Boring, but Practical:
  • Instead of actually attacking the rest of the zoo, the Cult of Chotters spend most of their time either sabotaging the Dougama Herd or abusing the points system by breeding new hybrid animal species. It's effective enough that Doug himself does so when he's one point from victory, breeding a Goldfish-Welcome Sign hybrid.
  • Parkzer's strategies compared to Chat's outlandish schemes are relatively mundane: up against an army of sea otters, his strategies come down to dumping harmful chemicals in their waters to cripple them, or mining for resources.
• Breath Weapon: The Chatistan Emperor's Dragon Breath, which shoots fire from his mouth to incinerate his foes.
• Breather Episode: After three episodes straight of warfare escalation, the fourth entry is a comparatively lighthearted and self-contained story about animals taking over a zoo.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Saul Goodman, who was already this in two shows, becomes an even bigger one in the America campaign, where he helps Chatlantis legally acquire everything from New Mexico to California to Heaven itself.
• Captured Super-Entity: Chatlantis manages to win the USA Invasion by imprisoning and torturing Jesus of Nazareth for the final point.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: Jar Jar has an informative conversation with the Emperor of Dougtopia while clinging to the outside of a spaceship in flight.
• Cheesy Moon: Invoked; Chaturn constructs a moon out of cheese and populates it with animals also made from cheese, and names it Moon Tzu. They later eat it to celebrate their victory.
• Chekhov's Gun: Averted. The Evil Antimatter Bombs are created early in the Space Campaign and Chaturn considers using them several times, but ultimately never do.
• Chekhov's Gunman: In the zoo invasion stream, the Welcome Sign (who is a ninja) is explicitly stated to be worth no points. Doug manages to clinch the winning point by crossbreeding the sign with the goldfish.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Any robot or Super-Soldier Chaturn tries to make inevitably ends up doing this, as well as most Popes (although usually for good reason).
• Civil War: Sometimes the AI gets the factions mixed up, causing them to fight amongst themselves due to assuming the focal point character is at odds with their own faction. In these cases, Doug rolls with it as being a civil war, unless it doesn't make sense. For specifics:
  • Switzerland and Germany briefly fight each other out of drunkness, despite being allies. They make up the next night.
  • Another begins on the planet Zeltros between Dougtopian forces, which Chaturn exploits to their own gain.
• Cloud Cuckoolander:
  • Twitch Chat's strategies often have little to do with their stated goals and are instead filled with nonsensical shenanigans such as electing a space pope, reforming the NFL, dropping planetary bodies on the earth for minimal gain, and other ridiculous ideas. Of course, Chat is more often than not the winner of these invasions, so maybe they're on to something here.
  • King George III in the Revolution campaign is, true to real life, mildly disconnected from reality. He claims, among other things, that he's a magician who can turn himself invisible, that being blown up is a British past-time, and his battle strategies consist of things such as putting on a play to counter Chat's play, disguising his troops as tea kettles, and loading up the Royal Navy's cannons with tea instead of cannonballs.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right:
  • Chat's strategy usually veers away from gaining points in favor of doing the most ridiculous shit they can that fits the theme (or not). At least in part thanks to Doug allowing this to give them points as "resources" if they get anything new out of it, this strategy is a lot more effective than it should be.
  • During the USA Campaign, a dedicated subsection of chat puts "Reform the NFL" into the suggestions list every turn. When it eventually wins and Chatistan sends Saul Goodman to put the NFL back together, he succeeds so fast that the AI moves on to a different topic after three sentences, and Chatistan steals Nevada from Dougkota in the same turn.
• Colonized Solar System: The Space Pope during the America Campaign attempts to colonize the moon... only to find it inhabited.
• Color-Coded Armies: Doug is Orange (the color of his bell pepper mascot) and Twitch is purple (the color of Twitch.)
• Coming in Hot: Space Pope's crash to the Moon in the Europe Campaign, then again with Dr Halsey in the Space Campaign after their disastrous attempt to talk to the Sun.
• Confusion Fu: It is stated that a common Chatistani tactic is to paint armour on horses to look like Dougtopian ones. One usage of this evolves into arguing over whose horse is painted to look like whose- and this forces Doug to backtrack to the start of the battle.
• Cool Horse: Chatistan develops cannons mounted on horses as their first line of defense in the Europe Campaign. They last almost the entire video, and are incredibly powerful.
• Crazy Enough to Work: A lot of Chat's moves are just funny nonsense, effectively being Refuge in Audacity tactics. But their success rate is astounding, because the AI just rolls with them, logic be damned.
  • Perhaps the prime example is in the Space Campaign, when Chat decides to tell Dougtopia's creation, Sun 3, to fuck off. And it actually leaves Doug's control.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Dougtopia's conquering of Switzerland in the Europe campaign seems this at first, until they attempt a peace treaty, at which point they are completely wiped out.
  • Their later conquering of Luxembourg results in a win without losing a single soldier.
  • The second battle of Luxembourg somehow goes worse than Switzerland- turns out Chatistan is ruled by a Physical God who obliterates both armies and flies off.
• Daddy DNA Test: The final trial of the Zoo Campaign is using one to prove that the goldfish Doug has bred with the welcome sign is actually his.
• Dead Guy Junior: A single goldfish is born from copulation with the welcome sign, effectively winning the Zoo Campaign and marking Doug's first victory in the series. He celebrates by naming it after the late Harambe.
• Deal with the Devil: Or more accurately, between all of Hell and Chatistan.
• Department of Redundancy Department: Take a shot every time Doug finds ruins on Mars.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: As revenge for the original Sun telling her to fuck off at the beginning of the Space Campaign, Dr Halsey returns to the artificial Sun 3 and returns the favor, even including a middle finger.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?:
  • After returning from Heaven, Saul Goodman takes on God in a legal battle- and wins.
  • Saul later learns it is his destiny to one day shoot Jesus of Nazareth in the head, killing him. He does this immediately after Chat managed to have the Space Pope convince Jesus to help them acquire an NFL commissioner.
  • In the Space Campaign, Doom Guy heads to the Sun to kill it, and finds out that he already did and forgot about it.
• Didn't Think This Through: Many, many of Chat's plans, and even some of Doug's. For example:
  • Doug focuses almost all of his turns in the beginning to unite North and South Dakota into Megakota, only to realize that he has no idea what that means story-wise.
  Doug: Wait, hold on, what am I doing? What is Megakota? 'I don't know, it was your idea'? Well, it sounded cool, I just didn't think- I didn't think about it very much.
• Different States of America:
  • Legally, Arizona is a part of California, a fact exploited by Saul Goodman to acquire it.
  • Chat splits Virginia into two new states named George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in the American Revolution campaign.
• Divided States of America: The premise for the American campaign, wherein each state is completely independent.
• Divine Date: The Emperor of Chatistan professes his love to Satan to ally with Hell during the Europe Conflict, and is turned down.
• Dude, She's A Lesbian:
  • The Dutch Chieftain turns down a marriage proposal to unite his nation with Dougtopia because he's gay.
  • Several species in the Zoo Invasion turn out to either be gay or lesbian when attempts to breed them are made, usually leading to them breeding with other species than what was intended.
• Earth Is a Battlefield: In the future, armies can conquer the entire planet as a land.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: The explosion of the Death Star during its construction, which wipes out all life on the nearby Mercury.
• Egopolis: After taking Wyoming in the America campaign, Dougkota establishes the city of Dougtown, which Doug makes his new capital.
• Evil Is Burning Hot: The Chatistan Emperor is portrayed as this in art, surrounded by and covered in flames.
• Evil Lawyer Joke: Parkzer, the out-of-universe lawyer, claims in-universe that he hates lawyers for being scoundrels.
• Excrement Statement: After Chaturn successfully builds a giant toilet on Ouranus and claims the win, Doug responds by having Jar Jar show up and take a giant shit in it as one last act of spite.
• Fantastic Catholicism: Twitch Chat, more often than not, tries to elect a Pope as their first move. The Pope's actual power varies wildly.
• Feudal Future: Nearly every state or planet, no matter how advanced, has dukes, emperors, and kings.
• Flashback Cut: Immediately following Chatlantis' conquest of California, there is a brief flashback to nearly a century earlier in 2032 and an ex-President's sudden death.
• Foil: Doug and Chat are near opposites. Doug goes for more sensible plans but usually fails, while Chat goes for stupid ideas that shouldn't be effective but somehow manage to work themselves out. Doug usually lets problems slide if they're minor, but Chat obsesses over the littlest things, such as starting up the NFL, building a toilet on Uranus and the gorilla pictures all being male even for the giant female gorilla. Doug also believes the bathroom rats worshiped Harambe, while Chat violently wants Parkzer to shoot him.
• Forced Transformation: Paul the rat is inexplicably turned into a llama as part of his forced zombification by Precious.
• Foreshadowing: Early on in the Europe Campaign, it is briefly implied that Chatistan has some great power that Doug doesn't read about. Much later, that power is revealed to be their God Emperor.
• Food as Bribe: Doug tries to hire Saul Goodman to help him acquire Nevada by offering him corn in return. This doesn't work as, over the course of Doug's entire turn, Saul tries to also acquire Washington D.^note as, earlier in the campaign, Chat taking over Washington D.C. resulted in it becoming the state "Washington D." and California.^note The turn ultimately stalls out due to the President admitting he didn't know who Saul Goodman was.
• Gender Is No Object: Both sides of the Europe campaign use women in battle, although it is implied that Dougtopia mostly uses them for Distracted by the Sexy during diplomacy.
• Genuine Human Hide: In the Space Campaign, when Jar Jar says the Dougtopians can't execute him because he's friends with the Emperor, they threaten to instead eat him alive and then skin his body and wear it as a suit of clothes. Both Doug and Chat are horrified by this, but it thankfully turns out to be an empty threat.
  Doug: (With his head in his hands) Okay, thank God, we did not kill Jar Jar Binks, and wear him.
• Gondor Calls for Aid: Dougtopia's Emperor retreating to Ireland during the Europe Campaign as a last resort after losing England.
• Gory Discretion Shot: A prolonged sequence of Saul Goodman torturing Jesus of Nazareth after Chatlantis' victory is removed from the final cut.
• Heinz Hybrid: During the Zoo Invasion, one of the Cult of Chotters' main strategies was to have their animals breed with others in order to make new hybrid species. And said hybrids would later breed with others, thus leading to hybrids making hybrids. In the end, Doug uses this tactic in order to secure the final point he needed to win, having his goldfish breed with the Welcome Sign to produce a hybrid of his own.
• Hellgate: The (Second) Emperor of Chatistan and the Supreme Moderator travel to one to find the (First) Emperor of Chatistan.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Rupert Grint (owner of Rupert's Land and official duck feeder to the royal crown of Britain in this timeline) straps a nuke to his chest to kill George III and end the American Revolution.
• Holy Backlight: AI-generated art represents Saul Goodman's return to Earth with one of these to show off his new power.
• Hope Spot: The Zoo Invasion conclusion. Doug finally celebrates a victory. However, the now-traditional extra end prompt, in which Parkzer shows up and shoots the Welcome Sign, has the AI declare that the Dougama Herd was defeated, all of their plans had gone wrong, and they will be forced to flee the zoo. Doug declares the final prompt not to be canon. Frantically and repeatedly, as his score drops to zero.
• Historical Domain Character:
  • Abe Lincoln briefly appears as the president of the United States (For whatever that's worth anymore) in the America Campaign.
  • The American Revolution features King George III as the antagonist, and George Washington boxes him at one point.
• Humanity Came from Space: It is implied during the America Campaign that Chatlantis used to rule Space until an unspecified event crash landed their entire race on Earth, forcing them to build back. Re-earning their place in the stars may be the crux of their entire invasion throughout the series.
• Hypocritical Humor: When Doug takes Chat's suggestion to try and hire Saul to help him take Nevada, Chat complains about him somehow having Saul's number. In turn, Doug asks how they got his number, before making the following observation:
  Doug: Alright, look, every time you guys complain about tiny little realism things, I'm gonna go to the map, and I'm gonna zoom up here, to the fucking Moon, which is where your army came from!
• Immune to Bullets: Paul successfully uses his penis to deflect Parkzer's bullets and tazer during an attempt on his life.
• Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!:
  • The Chatronomicon, after dedicating their lives work to building a giant toilet on Ouranus, realize the same technology can also be used to build a giant Mecha.
  • The Statue of Liberty (twice) and Liberty Bell both become Mechas in the Revolutionary War, each being completely useless. Alaska nearly becomes one, but the Russians don't want to sell it to them.
  • Yet another Mecha, the Hulk Smash is built during the same war.
• Instant-Win Condition: Subverted. If the AI writes in a line saying that one side had completely conquered the setting of the fight, Doug doesn't count that as an instant victory for the whole game.
• Just Shoot Him: When the threat of Chat winning a fourth time becomes a very real one, Doug panics and sends his llamas in to take over the Koala exhibit in the simplest way possible, by shooting everyone inside.
• Kick the Dog: After butchering the people of Stanley, the general behind the attack finds a boy mourning his deceased mother. The general goes over to the boy, kneels down, puts his hand on his shoulder, and tells him that his mommy's in Heaven now and that she'll never hurt him again.
• Lady Macbeth: The Empress of Dougkota in the America Campaign manages to convince her husband to upgrade his plan to take over California into a plan to take over all of America.
• Large and in Charge: The Chatistan Emperor during the Europe Campaign, said to be so large he could crush the entire Dougtopian army with one arm.
  • The justification for a hippo briefly leading the Cult of Chotters during the Zoo Campaign.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: A power of Jar Jar Binks in the Space Campaign, used to make all of Earth forget about him so he can make his escape from execution.
• LEGO Genetics: All of the hybrids are portrayed as hastily edited together images of already-existing animals.
• Loony Laws: Saul Goodman uses a law called the 'Alien Tort Statue' to sue the state of New Mexico, and even finds it has no legal borders.
• Lunarians: A faction Chatlantis sides with in the America Campaign.
• Mad Scientist: The insane Dr Halsey during the Space Campaign.
• Messianic Archetype: Harambe is worshipped as a god, gathers a following of rats, and is eventually executed.
• Mister Sea Horse: Parkzer offhandedly mentions being pregnant in the Zoo Campaign... after eating another species' babies.
• Monumental Damage: After being converted into a Giant Mecha, the Statue of Liberty is commandeered into the ocean and drowns during the battle of Maryland. The second one, actually built by France this time, is more successful.
• Mystical Plague: During the Europe Campaign, Chatistan artificially creates a plague spread by rats to decimate France.
• Named After Somebody Famous: West Virginia and Virginia are named upon their creation 'George Washington' and 'Thomas Jefferson'.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: William Tehcumsuh "Iron-balls" Sherman.
• The Needs of the Many: One of Doug's strategies is to coerce an exhibit of goldfish into joining him... and then using them as an edible bargaining chip with the flamingos.
• No Name Given: The Dougkotan General goes unnamed. It's not clear if the AI saw each appearance of the general as the same character, or separate generals of the Dougkotan army, but Doug and Chat go with the former interpretation.
• Nuke 'em: The finale of the American Revolution features America bombing all of Britain and destroying the ocean.
• Occult Law Firm: Saul Goodman returns to work as a lawyer after dying and becoming an angel, this time to legally claim Heaven.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Assuming the Space Campaign's Dougtopia is the same as the Europe Campaign's Dougtopia (possibly even Dougkota as well), then they would have had to take Europe back from Chatistan and then take America from Chatlantis before they could take over the Earth.
• One-Man Army: The Chatistan Emperor, who takes on the entire Dougtopian army during the battle of Luxembourg.
• One-Steve Limit: Ghost's children in the Space Campaign, named Arbiter Junior and Arbiter Senior despite being siblings.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: In the American Revolution, several werewolves are owned by the British Royal Family and dispatched against America.
• Outside Ride: Jar Jar holds an entire conversation with the Emperor of Dougtopia while clinging onto the side of a spaceship entering orbit.
• Parental Incest: The Emperor of Dougtopia's daughter with the Emperor of Dougtopia. She somehow also tries to rope in the King of Belgium.
• People Zoo: Built as a punishment for the conquered North Dakotans in the America Campaign.
• Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs: In the Space Campaign, Jar Jar Binks discovers that the Emperor of Dougtopia personally killed the dinosaurs himself.
• Planet Eater: After winning the Space Campaign, all of Chaturn goes to eat the artificial Moon Tzu in order to celebrate.
• Playing Both Sides: Saul Goodman, who works for both Chatlantis and Dougkota during the America Campaign to help them legally acquire states.
• Pop-Cultured Badass: One of the mechas America builds to defeat Britain during the American Revolution is named Hulk Smash, after a comic book that had become popular around 1776.
• Power of the Sun: Sun 3, which is used as a beam weapon to obliterate all nearby Chaturn ship.
• Power Floats:
  • When he is confronted in war, the Chatistan God Emperor begins floating over his opponents.
  • Later, Saul Goodman upon returning from Heaven as an angel.
• Precursors: Chaturn and Dougtopia find many of these scattered throughout the universe during the Space Campaign.
• Precision F-Strike:
  • Dr Halsey attempts to recruit The Sun as Space Pope. The response is prompt and succinct.
  The Sun: Fuck off!
  • And later on, turns out Dr Halsey isn't too happy about this incident, so she decides to let loose on Sun 3 so hard that the Dougtopian Empire loses control of it.
    Dr Halsey: HEY SUN 3! FUCK OFF! (And she gives Sun 3 the middle finger)
• Punny Name:
  • Sun Tzu is the name of Chat's artificial sun.
  • To an extent, all of Chat's names.
• Railroading: During Doug's attempt to look into Mercury, the AI has Chaturn send a research fleet there as well as the Dougtopians head for Venus. When Doug tries get the Dougtopians to set up a base on Mercury, the AI retorts that the planet is covered in lava and inhospitable, forcing them to head back to Venus. Doug rolls with it.
• Recycled In Space: The third entry, which drastically increases the scale and sets it further forward in time as well.
• Rightful King Returns: It is heavily implied that Iron-Balls, king of North Dakota, is the grown up child whose father the Dougkotan general killed at the beginning of the America Campaign.
• "Risk"-Style Map: The world map both sides use to plot out their campaigns is one of these.
• Rule of Funny: The majority of Chat's plays exploit this to their advantage. More often than not, even if it doesn't make sense, Doug lets it slide so long as they can defend it.
• Running Gag:
  • There will always be at least one suggestion to elect a Pope Once per Episode.
  • Likewise, someone will always suggest to reform the NFL.
  • Chat getting a lawyer to take a legal offensive against Doug. First Saul Goodman, then Parkzer the Koala.
  • In the Zoo Invasion, the Chotters keep crossbreeding new animals to get points, and they keep clamoring to kill Harambe. They succeed in getting Parkzer to shoot him.
• Sanity Slippage: King George III's mental state starts deteriorating as he loses against the Americans. It gets bad enough towards the end that he claims that he has the power to turn invisible and he dances with hedgehogs.
• Schizo Tech: Despite taking place in the far future, North Dakota's people in the America Campaign are said to be hunter/gatherers using mainly spears, with the rare firearm built using natural resources.
• Science Wizard: It's not confirmed, but Doug is pretty sure Chatlantis' lead scientist, Dr. Tepes, is actually Dracula thanks to sharing Dracula's real last name. In practice, this is averted as he doesn't display any vampiric powers or magic of any capacity.
• Sequel Escalation: Played straight and then inverted, as the third Invasion transitions from a battle in the USA to the entire solar system, with the following Invasion then involving a battle in a zoo.
• Shout-Out:
  • During the America Campaign, Chatlantis votes to Call Saul to help them out.
  • A Super-Soldier modeled after Halo's Master Chief is developed by Chaturn in the Space Campaign.
  • Doom: Doomguy is hired by Chaturn for their army shortly after Master Chief revolts.
  • The Mjolnir Hammer from Norse Mythology is used as a weapon by Chaturn, who seems to get all the luck.
  • As a battle cry:
  Supreme Moderator: For the Pope! And for Fat Albert!
  • Chat enthusiastically advocates teaching the monkeys in the Zoo campaign to pop Bloons. Doug doesn't seem to get the reference.
  • A mecha built during the American Revolution is named the Hulk Smash.
• Skewed Priorities: At the end of the Revolution Campaign, King George III is informed that his armies have been soundly defeated, the colonies are in the hands of the Revoluntaries, and they've convinced Rupert of Rupert's Land to suicide bomb the Royal Navy with a nuclear bomb. His response?
  King George: They've taken Rupert?! What egregious fuckery! Who's going to feed my ducks now?!
• Slept Through the Apocalypse: Jar Jar Binks claims to have been partying too hard to notice Dougtopia's invasion of his home until the explosions began.
• Somebody Set Us Up The Bomb: The Dougkotan Emperor manages to surprise the Duke of Utah with a bomb hidden in a bag of corn during the America Campaign.
• The Stars Are Going Out: One of the first things that happened in the Space Campaign was the Chaturn Empire turning off the Sun, followed by destroying it.
• Strolling on Jupiter: Jupiter in the Space Campaign is somehow filled with an entire underground cave system.
  Doug: In a gas giant?
• Super-Soldier: Master Chief, John-117, and the Arbiter.
• Take a Third Option: In the America campaign, when Doug tries to get Idaho to join his empire by offering them a steady supply of food and corn flakes, an army of 10,000 Idahoan soldiers arrives on the pretense of examining the crops. Dougkota faces the issue of either fighting them or facing a massive food shortage. The Emperor asks Saul Goodman and a few others to come up with another solution, and thanks to a man named Mel from Pepsi Co., they create a huge ad campaign for the Empire's corn harvests to convince the Idahoans the Empire has everything they need. This ultimately proves successful and Idaho joins Dougkota.
• Teeny Weenie: Precious, the Alpaca leader of the Dougama herd, is repeatedly stated to have a tiny dick. It's apparently all that's left of it after it was eaten by a fox, and Precious mandates that all the rest of the Dougama herd have tiny wangs too, just so they're all on equal footing in that department.
• Telepathic Spacemen: The alien Space Pope reveals to Jim that she can read minds.
• Tempting Fate: After Saul Goodman is killed in the America campaign, Doug tries to stop the AI from using him again by spelling out in his text prompt that Saul Goodman is dead and never coming back. On that same turn, Saul explicitly comes back from the afterlife and uses divine power to wipe out Doug's whole army.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The Dougama Herd marches on the Koala exhibit no less than three times even after capturing it, each time opening fire on the inhabitants.
  Doug: The poor fucking koalas, dude.
• Third Wheel: After the Chotters send in a giant female gorilla to seduce Harambe, Parkzer starts interrupting, shouting about how he wants Harambe to touch his bananas, preventing the attempt from succeeding.
• This Is a Drill: One of the power tools the monkeys are taught to use as weapons during the Zoo campaign, later turned against Wiggly by Butch.
• To Hell and Back: The Emperor of Chatistan visits during the Europe Campaign, seemingly just as a quick getaway before returning no worse for wear.
• To Serve Man: According to Jar Jar, the Dougtopians have a habit of eating their enemies- a rumor they do little to dispel.
• Trapped by Mountain Lions: Discussed by Doug during the USA Invasion, particularly as a flaw of Twitch Chat's plan to reconfigure the moon for a Colony Drop, as if they decide to go through with it, the story would take a massive detour from the main battle on the USA and just focus on the moon.
• Underground City: Space is full of these.
• Uranus Is Showing:
  Twitch Chat: Doug, can Chat encase Uranus?
  Doug: There's gonna be a lot of Uranus jokes, huh?
• War Crime Subverts Heroism: During the America Campaign, North Dakota isn't just sacked- The civilians who aren't massacred are put in a zoo and enslaved. Doug lampshades this.
  Doug: I don't like this- I don't like that my general is a war criminal.
• Weird Moon:
  • The moon is portrayed as a purple Jungle civilization with (ambiguous) humans living in their own government on it.
  • In the space campaign, the Chatronomicon create a second Cheesy Moon and occupy it with nanobot animals.
• Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: In the American Revolution, King George suggests stupid attack after stupid attack. Many of these fail to land any actual damage, but 'win' anyway because Chat's moves are equally stupid and twice as self-destructive, like building a Statue of Liberty mecha and charging it straight into the ocean.
• Would Hurt a Child: The General of Dougkota in the America Campaign threatens the king's son, overlapping with An Offer You Can't Refuse.
• Write What You Know: In-Universe. When it turns out that a koala that the Dougama Herd recruited (Who quickly went to join the Chotters) had the trait of being a lawyer, Doug not only names him Parkzer (After his friend who's "a lawyer" in real life, but not really, as a disclaimer notes he's not officially recognized as a lawyer, a cop, or a koala) but also decides to call up him in real life to ask about stuff he would do in certain situations (such as asking goldfish if he could breed with them), much to Parkzer's confusion.
• You Can't Fight Fate: In a meta sense. After learning Saul's fate is to kill Jesus, the chat tries to circumvent this and have him peacefully hire the Prophet as an NFL commissioner. The two meet up, Saul leads Jesus somewhere private... and shoots him in the head.
• You Have Failed Me: At the very start of the Space Campaign, Master Chief failing his training is enough for him to be executed. He escapes and joins the Covenant in their war against Chaturn.

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