Fighting Leaf (portrayed and created by Connan Bell) is a Youtuber most commonly known for his movie reviewing series, "You're Gonna Regret It".
Fighting Leaf is a ninja who reviews children's movies, which are divided in three series: "You're Gonna Regret It", which focuses on terrible children's movies; "Kid Movie Ninja", which focuses on relatively good children's movies; and "Gotta Review 'em All", which focuses on the Pokémon movies.
Fighting Leaf uses examples of:
- Author Appeal:
- When he plays PokéPark Wii, he comments about the cute concept offered in the game. He actually stated that he enjoyed the loading screens, which had Pikachu do all sorts of cute things (i.e. sleeping, running, playing, etc.)
- Leaf and Husky both agree that David Hasselhoff is the best thing in Hop.
- Berserk Button: Don't be fooled by his stoic nature; there are things that set Leaf off.
- Leaf doesn't like it when movies treat kids like idiots.
- He also doesn't like it when animals are dressed up in ridiculous outfits.
- His Hop review proves that he doesn't like a movie trying to make a joke about a child's death.
- Brain Bleach: The poor guy needs it after he and his friend (Video Viewing Buddy) watch anime series that seem to sexualize young characters like Mai Otome and Puni Puni Poemy.
- Butt-Monkey: Prof. Cabbage is beaten up quite frequently during the reviews.
- Catchphrase: Husky likes to say "Burn!" when a character says a scathing line to another character.
- Crossover: Some of his reviews features other Youtubers such as MD from star2behold.
- Cuteness Overload: During his Jerry Jay playthrough of PokéPark Wii, he gushes over how cute the characters and the game is.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Some of his reviews have alluded to some kind of troubled childhood. As a result, he gets a little upset when movies try to use daddy issues to add character depth, especially if the character has done nothing to deserve sympathy.
- Deadpan Snarker: Leaf is able to pull this off well with his stoic attitude.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- Apparently, Leaf’s master isn’t a fan of “High School Musical” and allows Leaf to use as many fast forwards as he wants.
- Even though Leaf and Husky don’t like the Chipmunks in the live-action movies, they don’t like Miles for his unprovoked abuse of the Chipmunks. They also don’t like how the movie tries to make him sympathetic after seeing him be mean to the Chipmunks.
- Leaf and Husky really don’t Like Victor in The Smurfs 2 due to him being a constant screwup in Patrick’s life. Victor mocking a boy’s parents for him giving the kid a peanut oil-fried corn dog doesn’t help make him endearing to them.
- Extreme Omnivore: Husky apparently once ate one of his neighbor's house as well as the neighbors.
- Gosh Dang It to Heck!: He's one of the few people you'll find online who doesn't swear. Since he reviews children's movies, he tries to keep his language PG.
- Lack of Empathy:
- Leaf and Husky brush off Shaynerd crying after they refuse to make their show "more feminine" for her.
- During their review of Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3, Leaf changes into his shining form even when he hears Shaynerd crying out in pain due his shining form creating radiation towards those around him.
- Not So Stoic: Only a few movies, namely Hop, have broken through his stoic exterior and made him emote.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Husky is the loud, energetic red to Leaf's quiet, stoic blue.
- Running Gag:
- Whenever a character discovers that another life form can talk, the clip of Vanessa from Bee Movie stabbing her hand with a fork is shown.
- If Leaf asks if the audience thinks that something won't happen, he cuts to the scene Lex Luthor yelling
"WRONG!".
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: During The Smurfs review, Husky tries to leave only for Leaf to keep him back.
- Shout-Out:
- Leaf is possibly one for Sasuke with his headband and attire.
- Rugburn looks a lot like Sonic The Hedgehog. During the review for The Squeakuel, he asks why Leaf isn't doing a "Sonic Says" moment with Ian's questionable behavior towards the Chipettes.
- Signature Style: He uses different methods that other reviewers don't use.
- Within the last few minutes of the movie, he and Husky quickly wrap up the movie in a few sentences.
- Whenever there's a scene that Leaf and Husky don't want to watch, they will fast-forward through them. They're usually limited to one per review, but they're able to use multiple ones for the High School Musical review.
- The Stoic: Leaf is very deadpan and emotionless for most of his reviews.
- Talking Animal: Husky is a talking wolf puppet thing on Leaf's left hand.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Leaf and Husky. Husky ends up on the receiving end of Leaf’s punches with Husky deliberately annoying Leaf at times. However, they enjoy making reviews with one another and get along well. Leaf often comforts Husky if a movie is bad. While reviewing Hop, Leaf snaps Husky out of his Freak Out and says he needs Husky to help him finish the review.
- Why Won't You Die?: After seeing the first “Alvin and the Chipmunks” movie, Husky and Leaf have made several attempts on Ian’s life and they’re annoyed that he keeps coming back somehow.
- You Don't Look Like You: Starting from the review of Norm of the North, Husky's design is changed to a furry hand puppet in place of the latex ones due to latex getting old and crusty with age, thus making them unusable.
