Allison 'Obscurus Lupa' Pregler is a (often) red-headed female reviewer on That Guy with the Glasses who takes on Z-grade movies, usually in the horror or martial arts genre; a roughly similar beat to The Cinema Snob, but tending towards dumb action flicks and a morbid enjoyment of them. She began reviewing in late 2009 and after gaining some notoriety on their forums, she became a member of the TGWTG family.
Obscurus Lupa Presents: Z-movies from the early 70's to the modern day. A "Z" movie for Lupa is something that doesn't have the capability or the budget to do something incredible. Not all the movies are bad. Some are terrible.
Commercial Dubs: Lupa riffs on TV spots and film trailers from the 90's in her inimitable style.
And "Lupa Tries Windex", a parody of The Cinema Snob's "Brad Tries..."
To further the Brad Tries parody, we now have "Allison Eats... (While Phelous Watches)".
Her crossover short film Roller Samurai Vampire Slayers can also be seen as a spoof of Zen Filmmaking.
"The Top 10 Hottest Animated Dogs" (Released shortly after The Nostalgia Chick's "Top Ten Hottest Animated Guys".)
Aluminum Christmas Trees: The movie poster wall from her title screen? That's not a photo collage, that thing's real. Lupa admitted that not all of the posters appeal to her personally; some were gifts.
Billy Owens is Jim Carrey in The Number 23, and is slowly descending into madness as he starts seeing 11 everywhere.
Mom: Get this mess cleaned up, it's almost 11:00! Lupa:GAAAAAAAAAAAASSSP
Alternatively, Billy's parents decided to theme his entire life around the number eleven just to mess with him.
She concludes by the end of her review of The Amazing Bulk that General Darwin is not actually a general, nor is there any military installation; he's just a crazy old man and the entire film is hallucinatory.
The denizens of Seseme Street are bent on converting Oscar, an agnostic humanist, to their Christmas Cult.
Without Leo around, the Charmed Ones woubldn't survive two episodes. He'd be there out saving even more lives, too, if the sisters didn't constantly need him to hold their shopping bags.
Also, he seems to be harboring a man-crush on Cole.invoked
Cole is a Chew Toy who is constantly driven to madness by his (soon-to-be ex) wife Phoebe, who keeps foiling his attempts to do good and seems intent on killing him . ...Unless that was his plan all along. Monster!
And once they do kill him, Phoebe periodically goes to Hell to torture him personally.
"Well, folks, it's been an amazing journey, this Rothrock-a-thon. We've taken on some poor wire work, some badly-edited imports, and whatever the hell China O'Brien was."
Anything But That!: Angry Joe demanding that she review Phantasm's crappy sequels, or he'll make her...watch Gerry again! "You bastard!"
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Phoebe Halliwell's clothing line: Fishnet workshirt, Renaissance fair outfit, flamenco shirt/hip-rap combo with detached sleeves, furry-sleeve nightmare shirt, a collection of ever-lowering pants, Cinderella outfit, and.... tyyyyyping gloooooves????
A filibuster of hate at Alyssa Milano. (Charmed S.5)
"What a selfish awful person! Seriously, who was watching this and didn't instantly see Emperor Palpatine through her thin, grimy veneer? She's the most heinous of people, the lowest of the low. I could murder her! And she's fictional!I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS WATCHING THIS SHOW—so anyway, don't like her much."
Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving: She riffs because she cares. The harshest videos often conclude with a favorable review.
She admits that, for all the insanity of the episode "Cyberwoman" from Torchwood, a cyborg woman fighting a pterodactyl is pretty cool.
The climax of Texas Chainsaw: The Next Generation has Renee Zellweger being pursued by two Illuminati agents in a black sedan, Leatherface in a woman suit, and a crop duster plane a la North By Northwest.
"That.....was AWESOME!!"
Author Appeal:invoked Oh, she looooooooves Cynthia Rothrock. (and Richard Norton.)
She isn't above (gently) taking the piss out the martial arts queen. ( X-treme Fighter)
Also, "actor" Billy Drago. While not as beloved as the others (Lupa never sought Billy out, he just sort of stumbles into her reviews), he's always a welcome sight nonetheless.
Radu from the Subspecies series was such an awesome character that he's now the star of his own review series (with her portraying him, of course.)
Awesome McCoolname: She admits to having no other reason for the name other than she liked it.
Awesomeness Is Volatile: When writing down the awesome Burt quotes in Tremors II, one of the lines caused her notebook to explode.
Be Careful What You Wish For: MikeJ sits though ten torturous minutes of Howling 5 under the promise of seeing boobs. Ask and ye shall receive! ....And the sex scenes are just as monotonous as the rest of the film.
Lupa: Are ya bored yet? MikeJ: You're an awful person.
Beauty Equals Goodness: "Not McDreamy! But...he's so charming and British! Accents make everything sexy, he can't be the killer! Perhaps it was some ugly person!"
All Just a Dream endings, which have appeared in numerous films that she has reviewed, and which get a different angry reaction each time.
She has pointed out that what bothers her the most is how these endings often do not make sense, as they often contradict previous scenes which imply that the movie is taking place in reality. She found this to be a major source of annoyance in 13 seconds, especially since the lead character dreamed of scenes he himself doesn't appear in.
Lupa: If this is ANOTHER DREAM SEQUENCE I SWEAR I'LL— *Catapult Nightmare* "Whoa!" Lupa:(Lifts trembling finger gun to head)
Beware the Nice Ones: She is pretty shocked during Lady Dragon when the little boy kills a bad guy with one kick.
With Lupa herself, she's one of the nicer people on the site, but stalk her, not have fun or refuseto bea lady and she'll get scary. And like the apparent majority of people, she enjoys making the Critic suffer.
Big "NO!": Used in her review of "Razor Sharpe". It was totally justified.
When the Little Miss Gamer lookalike gets wasted in Blood Red Moon.
"How long is this? [looks at running time] 25 minutes? Nooooooooo—"
Shouted this when Toady, the chainsaw-wielding Frog Man, was defeated by Roddy Piper. Realizing he's supposed to be the villain, Lupa half-heartedly follows it up with, "yeeeeesss?"
A Special Sesame Street Christmas ought to have been advertised truthfully as A Sesame Street Carol.
Slow No: Her reaction to Sleepy Hollow High's "Fuck You" ending.
Big "Shut Up!": Not-Hermione in The Mystical Adventures of Billy Owens. When you strip away the charm and personality, turns out.... a walking dictionary is begging to be strangled to death.
"Shut up... shutupshutup...shut up...shu— why are you alive?"
Lupa actually barks this at the screen when Phoebe quotes Nancy Sinatra. (Charmed S.5)
Flat "What.": The "All Just a Dream" ending to My Boyfriend's Back had this reaction.
Does one in the "Fatal Deviation" review, when confronted with a naked, cowboy-hat wearing man, taking a bath outside. She has no comprehension of who he is or why he is in the movie.
Big "YES!": Return to Frogtown. It was all worth it for the frog band.
The Amazing Bulk's increasingly-unwatchable stock animations, culminating in Lupa's breathless, "Yes... YES....YEEEEEES"*
(I'll have what she's having.)
Billing Displacement: Her review of "X-treme Fighter" observes that despite Cynthia Rothrock being one of the main stars on the cover, she is only in the film for five minutes.
Bizarro Episode: The concept of Manic Episodes. Invoked by Lupa herself while reviewing The Little Mermaid sequel.
Lupa:(mock whisper) I'm going to spoil it for you- Cynthia Rothrock kicks people. A LOT!
Break Out Character: Her impression of Radu from the Subspecies movies has become this.
He's got his own series now!note Radu Reviews
Breathless Non Sequitur: Lupa has a very fast paced editing style, so a lot of the jokes can play out like this.
Broke The Rating Scale: Throughout the OLP review of The Room she uses an "Oh hey" counter to count the number of times the characters say "Oh hey". When several characters greet each other with "Oh hey" in rapid-fire succession, the counter overloads and makes the movie spontaneously combusts.
My Boyfriend's Back manages to break the "Wackiness Meter", triggering a slow clap.
Calling Your Attacks: Is amused that the title character in China O Brien does this and explains the effects for no reason.
China: This causes dislocation in the shoulder, or the elbow! Lupa:(Imitating thug) Who are you talking to?
The opening of "Hard to Kill" has cameos by several of her friends and colleagues from the TGWTG forums, including Diamanda Hagan, Audible Underwear of Music Video Theater 3000, Apollo Z. Hack, and Nash of What The Fuck Is Wrong With You?
Her (at the time) boyfriend Jeremiah made several cameos in her videos, either as himself or other characters.
The Cinema Snob has a cameo at the end of Shark Attack 3, confused why his theme song was used over the end credits. He also provides the narration for the trailer of Pirahnasaur
In her review of the third and fourth Phantasm films, Lupa is confronted by Angry Joe.
Todd also appears as the composer of The Black Ninja's theme.
Todd, along with Paw Dugan and The Nostalgia Chick's friends Elisa (who along with Paw even pops up into frame to scream "CAMEO!") and Nella appear in her crossover with the Chick.
Phelous (as Shredder) sings "I'll Be Home For Christmas" in its entirety. He carries a tune better than the entire TMNT Chistmas special.
Canada, Eh?: While reviewing Teen Sorcery after hearing Michael's pronunciation of "sorry". Lupa, dressed in winter wear, says "I'm definitely not Canadian."
Canis Latinicus: In proper Latin, her name should be "Lupa Obscura".
"A horse walks into a bar, and the bartender is like, "'Ey, horse, get out of my bar!" And the horse is like, "Neigh", 'cause it's a horse. (beat) And the bartender's like, "I throw you out." (falls silent)
Signing Off Catch Phrase: Charmed's propensity for wrapping things up in a way which isn't so morally-grey.
"Makes it easyyyyyy~!"
Clingy MacGuffin: Of a sort. Lupa shirks off reviewing Gooby - only for a duplicate copy to appear, freaking her out.
Cloudcuckoolander: Tommy Wiseau and Patrick Stewart (as played by Jeremiah) are depicted as such in her reviews of The Room and Masterminds.
Lupa herself, making videos like "Top 10 Hottest Animated Dogs" (with the rug-dog from Beauty and the Beast being number one!) or "10 Reasons Why Cool as Ice is better than Citizen Kane", and often appearing rather ditzy and offbeat in crossovers.
Lupa: It's like watching an incredibly bloody car wreck. Horrible to witness, but also really funny! The Nostalgia Critic: [speechless, and too bewildered to be fully horrified]
Reviewed the unintentionally horrifying children's movie Gooby with Iron Liz, with Iron Liz later roping her into reviewing She Creature with her as payback.
Appears as a tokusatsu version of herself in Apollo Z. Hack 's Reviewaverse Saga, complete with power-enhancing wrist device.
Reviewed Honor and Glory with The Nostalgia Chick as she felt the need to share Cynthia Rothrock with other people.
In her review of Howling VII she refers to two characters as Inspector Detective and Father Priest.
"That's the official name by the way. 'Ass Blasters™.' They're called 'Ass Blasters™.' Officially."
In Charmed Season Five, Paige has taken over Phoebe's "old role" of collecting boyfriends like Pokemon cards. ("So, I guess she's taken on Phoebe's current role as well.")
Designated Hero: In-Universe In Magic Island, she notes that the "buccaneer" heroes basically have the same goal as the "pirate" villains; the only difference seems to be if they want the treasure to spend or just for the adventure of getting it.
Determinator: Crowfoot, the Kate Hodge TV pilot so awful, it was buried at the ends of the Earth. They didn't bury it deep enough. Lupa bought a German copy, traveled to the opposite end of the U.S., hand-delivered it to Film Brain for him to convert to NTSC (in his home country of England), then traveled across the country again for pickup.
Lupa: I am nothing if not sad, creepy, and determined.
Deus ex Machina: Stated as being the preferred method of fixing problems on Charmed, and directly calls Leo the show's favorite Deus Ex Machina. Even has a catchphrase for it: "Makes it easy!"
Dissimile: "[The Black Ninja] is like Daredevil, only he's not blind and doesn't have superpowers."
Dissonant Laughter: She did chuckle at the elderly, wheelchair-bound man getting electrocuted in Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.. So the film wasn't a total loss.
After the hero of Gymkata accidentally kicks a random pedestrian in the face while swinging from a bar, she giggles and says "I have no words."
"Grams" Halliwell being eaten alive by a wolf. (Charmed S.5)
"I feel like I've seen the meeting of two titans."
Dude Magnet: At the very least, she has Todd in the Shadows and Nash's little animated stickman pining after her. Lampshaded in her cameos in the Linkara/Phelous crossover review of The AirZone Solution?, after one tries to get her to recreate a bedroom scene.
The opening for Linkara's Rise of Arsenal #3&4 review adds another notch.
Welshy: Oh my god! She got another one. Film Brain now is in love with Obscurus Lupa.
Her crossover review of Simon Sez with The Critic added 90's Kid
90's Kid: Hey can I do the crossover with you guys? Nostalgia Critic: No! 90's Kid: But I wrote a script. Here i'll read it to you: 90's Kid and Lupa make out. No wait, that's my fanfiction. Oh here it is! 90's Kid and Lupa make out!
The Blockbuster Buster's Nerdlinger faints everytime a poster of Lupa pops up. Even ERod uses this to make Nerdlinger stop interrupting.
ERod: I wonder why only nerdy goobers are attracted to this girl.
Dude, Not Funny!: Her in-universe reaction to Johnny laughing at Mark's story in The Room about a woman ending up in a hospital.
Dyeing For Your Art: Lupa is a natural blonde, but has had red hair for the majority of her series. When she released her commentary for Undefeatable, her first video review, she explained that she has been changing her hair color regularly for most of her life, and that her first few videos (Including Undefeatable) caught her at a rare moment when she had returned to her natural color.
She also remarks the father figure in Vampire Assassin is the best actor, and is annoyed he only has two scenes. (And with good reason: He's Dolemite!!)
In the same movie, some random biker from the police lineup winds up kicking more ass than anyone, despite learning vampires exist two minutes ago. Lupa wishes he was the hero instead.
In The Howling VII she's far, far more enamored with one of the townsfolk named Pappy than she is with any of the main characters.
Everyone Is Related: Fresh off the revaluation that the Police Chief is the father of Undefeatable's male leads (at least according to Godfrey Ho's Chinese dub), Ed Glaser pops up to reveal that he's Lupa's long-lost brother.
Eyepatch of Power: Worn while reviewing Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD. When in Rome...
Facepalm: Lou Ferrigno stumbling around sleepily, lying down, and then being held up by a gun-toting frog. Who says, "RIBBIT." (cut to Lupa burying her face in her hands)
Howling 7: New Moon Rising
"This isn't blood on the man's shirt, it's red paint!" "Paint would cover blood on a man's shirt." Lupa:(Lupa slaps forehead)
Fanservice: Lupa strips down to a sports bra for her battle with Angry Joe at the end of her series of Phantasm reviews.
Fan Disservice: Describes Cynthia Rothrock's loves scenes as walking in on your parents doing it. (Lady Dragon 2, Fast Getaway)
Lupa: So she and Tony are... *gulp* "waiting" for Sam and Nelson to *retch* rob Webster so they can... Rothrock: C'mere, my stallion! Lupa:BLUAAAAGH
Like many, she was horrified by the shot of Tommy Wiseau's naked ass in The Room.
She's squicked by the awkward sex scene in Razor Sharpe.
She's grossed out in X-treme Fighter that the computer programme designed by Jack's father begins hitting on him.
She finds it a little creepy that Cynthia Rothrock's character in Angel of Fury befriending a girl named Sarah. She cut to a picture of Chris Hansen saying "OK boys, I'm going in."
Lupa reckons meeting The Charmed Ones is akin to this.
Fauxshadow: Points out in The Howling reboot once lines have been revealed as fauxshadowing, there needs to be another reason why the characters would have said them.
Fight Scene Failure:invoked Another issue she has with Razor Sharpe, particularly as it was made to show off the star's fighting abilities. It gets to the point where Lupa declares she can choreograph a better fight scene, we then cut to her and her friends fighting with toy guns set to Ghost Love Score.
During the poorly staged fights in Blood Red Moon she takes to singing "fail" to the tune of eine kleine nachtmusik.
Film Felons: She was thoroughly unimpressed by the application of this trope in Razor Sharpe, pointing out that Sharpe should really have been more suspicious of the fact that the "film" he was in lacked a script, rehearsals and really almost everything you need to make a film.
Remarks that Teen Sorcery is an attempt to ride on the coat-tails of The Craft, but instead of tackling issues like corruption and abuse of power, they decided to make it kid friendly.
Points out that Vampire Assassin is so much of a Blade rip-off even the poster is a knock off of the one for Blade 2.
Freudian Excuse: Notices this in both Undefeatable and Zombie Nation to which she remarks, "Not another antagonist with mommy issues."
Fun with Acronyms: Irrational Hick Townsfolk, or "eeht." (China O'Brien)
Funny Background Event: Ash and Checkers love to interrupt shooting. Lampshaded in the stinger for Rapid Fire.
"Oooh mah naym's Ash! I luv ruinin all teh takez! Imma be in moviez an have mah own trailer!"
When the Little Miss Gamer lookalike bites the dust, Lupa's cat appears to salute as well. (Blood Red Moon)
Gag Censor: Lupa obeys the letter of the law, if not the spirit. When Scott Shaw objected to her reviews of his films, she posted them again... only this time, with crude MSPaint renderings of Shaw's footage, vocal imitations of the sound effects, and an impromptu rap at the end.
In Mindwarp, Angus Scrimm starts talking like Scuttle as he inspects some junk.
Same goes for "Karate Dad", who, when tearing apart his son's exercise equipment, starts talking like King Trident when he dynamited Ariel's stuff. (No Retreat, No Surrender)
Good Times Montage: Lupa shares some girl bonding time with Cythia Rothrock — sort of. Actually, she spends the montage chatting and prancing around with a bunch of Rothrock DVDs. (A Seagal film somehow slips into the pile, but Lupa throws it aside.)
"A Man For All Seasons" plays out Witchcraft 4, as Charles Soloman Junior takes his final bow. In many ways, he was too good for the Witchcraft series... which is horrifying to contemplate.
Ha Ha Ha No: Her reaction to Pocket Ninja's attempts at 'humor'. Before long, Lupa's chuckles have devolved into sobs.
The hip-shaking karate mooks in X-Treme Fighter wear out their welcome fast.
And so Corey Haim learns his lesson and decides to lead a law-abiding life with his family. Oh wait, did I say 'lesson learned'? I meant that they don't learn a damn thing. (Fast Getaway)
"HAHAHA it's fun when your movie goes in circles!"
Hot Chick in a Badass Suit: She wears a suit during her reviews of Angel of Fury and Witchcraft 4, and has cosplayed as The Cinema Snob on two different occasions.
Also in the Nick Fury review, where she's dressed up as... Nick Fury. Plus an eyepatch.
"The natural place to go from there is a homoerotic scene where Bolt arm wrestles in the shower."
The Nostalgia Chick's musical review of Les Misérables features Lupa and Elisa singing Marius and Cosette's romantic duet in "One Day More", as deliberate baiting of TGWTG's Slash Fic-writing fans.
Her fangirling over Cynthia Rothrock probably deserves a mention, too.
When reviewing Fast Getaway, she interprets the relationship between Nelson and his dad a little differently than the filmmakers intended.
Hypocrisy Nod: Why does Cynthia Rothrock warrant such attention? Well, she has five blackbelts, she's the inspiration for Sonya Blade, she kicks ass, and she didn't need to take her clothes off to— *BUZZER NOISE*
"Look movie, if you wanna be a porn, just be a porn. There's no audience for this. (beat) Except me."
Similarly, after ribbing Billy Owens for sponging off J.K. Rowling:
(deadpan) "Now let's rip on this terrible kid's movie because I can't make my own."
Hypocritical Humour: She pokes fun of Zombie Nation for using headshots of its actresses during a news segment. Immediately afterwards, her own headshot appears on-screen.
It turns out her review of 13 seconds is.... All Just a Dream.
Radu's terrified description of "that long-haired goon", Tommy Wiseau. Can you say 'cognitive dissonance'?
"I wouldn't want to run into someone like that in a dark alley, let me tell you."
Laughing at Kate Hodge getting jilted over the phone and swigging wine. "What a loser!" Lupa then proceeds to swig wine and frown at her phone while "The Lonely Man" plays.
Oan snidely asks if she has Buffy memorized down to the last detail. Lupa nonchalantly replies that she saw "a bit of it." Flashback Cut to Lupa sobbing through a mouthful of chips.
She does a list of "The Top 10 Hottest Animated Dogs", but acts sickened at people who find the mice from The Great Mouse Detective to be attractive.
"Eww! You actually thought that? No, it's the fucking dog you weirdo. I can't even ... I'm scared to continue with this list now; I feel like a bunch of perverts are watching."
Radu scoffs at Super Christian for still living with his mother, only to be shouted at by his own "mommy" (also the show's producer).
Likely also intentional Self-Deprecation, as Lupa lives with her parents
He then complains about the sequel, which shows the first Super Christianplaying on a film projector. "They're riffing their own movie? Who the hell does that?" (cut to Radu watching Subspecies)
"The Bloodstone is mine!" (SPLORK!) Radu: Hah! Stefan, what an idiot! Heh heh! That is classic Radu.
I Know Karate: The number of people in Undefeatable that turn out to know martial arts leads Lupa to declare she would not be surprised if it turned out a kid in a grocery store scene turned out to know karate too.
I Remember It Like It Was Yesterday: She begins her tenth episode saying it feels like only four months ago when she started. This is followed by a montage of her previous reviews. Subverted when Apollo Z. Hack phones to point out ten episodes is not a big achievement, particularly when The Nostalgia Critic did a hundred episodes.
Lupa: Like, thirty automatic guns can't hit one person?
During one gun fight in Angel of Fury she gets annoyed and snaps "Somebody get hit!"
Averted in Hard to Kill, "Unfortunately for Storm the dirty cops hired the only lackies who could aim."
Also used in China O'Brien, where a stream of bullets hits just one person offscreen.
Lupa: Her election party, however, is interrupted by a shooter who really hates party decorations and pickle jars. Maybe it would help if he aimed at the people.
Played straight in Witchery much to her annoyance.
Averted in Angel of Fury but done in such a narmtastic way she giggles nonstop.
Inferred Holocaust: Vampegeddon has its heroine, Liz, get possessed by the ghost of the (male) vampire hunter Longshank. At the end of the film, she's still being possessed, and it's implied it's a permanent effect.
Charmed sets back the women's movement fifty years. The same could be said for guys, but "they rarely let the men have any personality, even for that."
Ironic Echo: "The PLOT! Was LOST! IN DA RIVAAAAH!!!
The kitty in Seseme Street Christmas has no home; he "belongs to the garbage cans and alleys of the world", which is where Lupa reckons this movie belongs.
She mocks the number of times this is used in Lady Dragon.
She also does this herself in her review of Undefeatable.
Kaleidoscope Hair: The commentary for Undefeatable explained that she had been changing her hair color regularly for most of her life, and that her first few videos (including Undefeatable) caught her at a rare moment when she had returned to her natural color.
Madness Makeover: Lupa desperately keeps trying to spice up American Ninja 4's montages, to little effect. Eventually, she starts grinning madly, repeating "I can fix it!" while her hair becomes unkempt.
Magical Native American: Refers to Dakota from China O Brien as Helpful Magical Native American Stereotype.
Shows up again in her review of Adventure of Bailey, Christmas Hero, where the main characters search for a "Magical Native American Chief". As she puts it:
This came out in 2012, people! Did we time travel back to The Nineties when every movie thought Native Americans were like ghosts or genies?
Mama Bear: In universe, if women or children are harmed, Lupa will drop her goofy act and scold the movie. Out of universe, she's very much this for her fellow reviewers, especially Oancitizen, who's publically defended on a few occasions.
Lupa's name is an aversion, as she explained that her name does not mean she only does obscure movies, it is Latin for "Dark She-Wolf" (Explanation here. Basically, her name should've been obscura lupa). It is rather unfortunate, though, that lupa was also Latin slang for "prostitute".
She sarcastically goes "subtle movie" during her Teen Sorcery review when we find out the love interest's surname is Charming.
Medal of Dishonor: The Obscurus Lupa Seal of Approval. (Eyes of the Werewolf)
Crowfoot deserves an award for Half-Baked Ideas and Personifying the Nineties.
Meganekko: Lupa sports glasses in her Hell Comes to Frogtown video. Muy bien.
Memetic Sex Goddess: There's an In-Universe running gag in TGWTG videos that everyone's in love with her. It started with Todd in the Shadows (who's developed into quite the Stalker with a Crush now) and gradually broadened to encompass other TGWTG guys.
Welshy: Oh my god! She got another one. Film Brain now is in love with Obscurus Lupa.
90s Kid even has both a fanfic and a script where he and Lupa make out.
Metaphorgotten: Use when describing the plot of The Black Ninja: "The plot goes like so: it's Daredevil, but he isn't blind, and doesn't have superpowers. Yep. That's it."
Mistaken for Profound: Almost, but not quite; The Amazing Bulk is so ineptly made, Lupa wonders if she's accidentally bumbled into an art film. "Should Oancitizen be reviewing this?"
Qualifies even if it's not a romantic moment. Lupa and Film Brain decide to part ways when after the review is finished Todd in the Shadows emerges from the bed behind them.
In another non-romantic moment, Lupa and The Nostalgia Chick are friendly after watching Hope And Glory together, until Todd appears and Lupa's stinging rejection of him causes the Chick to attack her.
In keeping with the site-wide Running Gag, she tends to play "Ghost Love Score" whenever she deems it necessary, such as a fight scene in Vampire Assassin where a secondary character who never even gets a name punches out a vampire while dragging the unconscious protagonist with the other hand.
Lupa did a dramatic, 9-minute long reading of the description of a limited edition pen designed by Sylvester Stallone from the manufacturer's website ... just see for yourself here.
She refers to characters in Witchery as Whorey McArchitect and Captain McMustardstain.
Fatal Deviation's hero, Jimmy Bennett (played by James Bennett), might have benefited from a more creative name. Like "Paddy McLightning", or 'Fisticuffs McHoulahan".
Nice Hat: Shows off her collection of them in her Tremors 5 review.
Nightmare Fuel: Lupa and Iron Liz's in-universe reaction to the "children's" movie Gooby.
Non-Actor Vehicle: Gymkata is such a film which prompts Lupa to state, "Just because you're an athlete doesn't mean you're an actor."
She's reviewed a slew of these, including City Dragon, Razor Sharpe and Vampire Assassin. Cynthia Rothrock started out this way too, but has at least made a career out of it.
Not Brainwashed: At the end of Evil Dead 2, the rest of Channel Awesome become Deadites to heckle Lupa's directorial style. Except for the Snob — he's not possessed, he's just an ass.
"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: She stresses that yes, a setting that is clearly a warehouse is meant to be a police station in Zombie Nation.
Yes, the father from Bloody Mary Killer is infamous film producer Godfrey Ho.
We shit you not:invokedAnti-Neighbor Dans are actually a thing. (Charmed S.2)
There's also her reaction to Phoebe's masked attacker.
"Turns out it's an even worse evil...(removes mask to reveal a Phoebe doppelganger)BOOM!"
Off-the-Shelf FX: Much to Lupa's disbelief, a GameCube is used as a prop in a science lab in X-treme Fighter. Even worse, the virtual reality helmet is a bicycle helmet with Christmas lights on it. This prompts her to apologize to Stakes for making fun of their CGI.
Also, in Hercules in New YorkFilm Brain points out the crystal ball is "the clearest fish bowl the props crew could find".
Lady Dragon 2's final fight montage. Partly used to commemorate Rothrock's and Norton's last hurrah, but mostly to rejoice in the Plucky Comic Relief getting beat up.
Plays again when Ed Glaser reveals he's Lupa's brother.
Only One Name: Remarks that Dakota from China O Brien has only one name- like Cher or Madonna.
OOC Is Serious Business: Lupa loves bad movies and she usually has something positive to say about them. If Lupa is angered or crying because of a movie's badness (e.g: Pocket Ninjas, Monster High), it's usually a good sign of how awful the film is.
Our Vampires Are Different: Vampire Assassin presents vampires who shoot lightning when they are staked.
"Oh yeah, I forgot about the part of vampire mythology where they always keep clubs from the 1980s in the basement."
In Undefeatable she scoffs at Stingray disguising himself as "the beefest doctor of all time" and the psychologist falling for it.
Lupa: Come on, the mullet alone should have tipped you off lady.
Lupa is underwhelmed that in Lady Dragon 2 all Cynthia Rothrock has to do is put on an unconvincing wig for the people who assaulted her earlier in the film not to recognize her.
Pet Peeve Trope: She's reviewed three movies so far that ended as All Just a Dream. Every one prompted am in-universe rant about this.
Pietà Plagiarism: Occurs in the aforementioned 'epic battle' her and her friends have during Razor Sharpe
Portmanteau: The monsters in 13 Seconds are "freakin' ridiculous. Freakdiculous, even."
Aliens vs. Avatars, a combination of sad and awesome. "Sawesome, if you will."
Power Trio: Jokes about this in 13 seconds with their fake band- when a CD cover of them appear she captions it with "badboy, sensitive and misunderstood".
The kids take a moment to find the bullet while Gary Busey fights the werewolf. Lupa: Take a moment to savor that sentence.
We have a tie:
"A Reverend, wearing an eyepatch, trying to mow down a boy on a rocket-powered wheelchair."
Sherlock Holmes:
"I'd never thought I'd ever say this, but the climax of the film involves Holmes in a hot air balloon fighting Iron Man in a giant robot dragon while Watson rides on horseback to stop an android from blowing up Buckingham Palace."
No Retreat, No Surrender 2: "He explodes the villain in his own alligator pit."
"A main character on this show is a magical handyman." "They put the disease into a ninja action figure that comes to life and stabs it into people." "This plot was solved by French Stewart as a genie."*
("I can't but feel this speaks volumes about the quality of the program.")
"Phoebe has a crush on a 1950s movie star, and one time, these monkeys get their powers." "Woe to the man whose destiny is to become a magical ice cream truck driver." "So, now Cole and Phoebe rule the underworld from their apartment."
Charles Solomon Junior's "Hulk Yell." The original clip showed him pimp-slapping his mom; later editions have William smacking whatever annoys him at the moment, including a nightclub sign.
As noted, the *extreme zoom-in* with a blaring music sting is used specifically for banal plot 'twists'; two in succession in her Sherlock Holmes crossover with The Snob prompted him to lampshade appropriately:
Snob: What the fuck was THAT?!
Reinterpreting The Mystical Adventures of Billy Owens as Harry Potter in Canada.
"Hogwarts has nothing on Random Canadian Elementary."
She takes great delight in reminding us that, by the film's calculations, the majority of the Witchcraft series is set in THE FUTURE (Even if the screenwriters would prefer we forget that lttle detail). This makes the wildly anachronistic clothes and cars even more hilarious.
"Ah well. At least the music's good. Can't wait for 2016!"
Sarcasm Mode: "And we all know bad quality makes reading subtitles a breeze!" in the Bloody Mary Killer review.
Richard Norton's tiny credit in Gymkata triggers a big "NOOOOOORTOOOOOOOON", along with a hammy gesture.
Goooooooooooooooobiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...
She takes to addressing "Melvin" from the Tremors series in the same tone as Jerry Seinfeld to Newman.
Self-Deprecation: She remarks Pterodactyl is as stupid as someone bitching about continuity in a film, then getting the facts wrong themselves. She then looks away sheepishly.
During the opening moments of Razor Sharpe Lupa apologizes, thinking she put in one of her old theatre tapes by accident.
Radu complaining about "the demon clown" (Ronald McDonald) and his off model appearance in the animated scenes. (Visitors From Outer Space)
"I hate it when people who don't know what they're doing try to imitate well-known characters."
Sexophone: Pointed out in her Hard To Kill review: "CUE SEXY SAXOPHONE MUSIC". Later it is played again, and Lupa questions why it is being used there - when the main character is being told that a nurse has been killed.
Something Completely Different: She did a series of three Manic Episode videos as a recap of the series She-Wolf of London, with her going into details of what she liked and did not like about the series as a whole. After that she did a video detailing the Top 10 moments of Tales of the Gold Monkey.
Soundtrack Dissonance: She is really good at putting rather hilarious soundtracks to scenes in some of the movies she reviews.
For Razor Sharpe, dubbed the Pina Colada song over the final fight sequence.
Special Edition Title: Hard to Kill opens with calligraphic titles and "Minuet" playing in the background. (Lupa's increased viewership has gone to her head.)
Special Effects Evolution: Lupa's death by car bomb. The effect varies in cheesiness between each video.
Spider-Sense: "Mmmm, yes, my Bad Movie Senses is tingling." (Fatal Deviation)
Spoof Aesop: "Personally, I'm of the mindset that anyone who claims to able to smell your lack of underwear should be avoided at all costs, murder suspect or no." (Desire)
"So remember, kids: Don't do drugs. And if you're an athlete, don't make movies." (Gymkata)
"When I think of kicking ass and taking names, I think of understanding and communication." (X-Treme Fighter)
Radu Reviews a movie about traffic safety. "These animations and musical numbers help me remember these easy steps! Now I, too, can murder people on the highway!"
Always judge men by their appearances. Because they're serial killers. (Crowfoot)
"I think we all learned a good lesson today: DON'T listen to Big Bird! And DON'T open presents with crappy Sesame Street DVDs in them!"
"In the end, t'was stupid that killed the beast." (Eyes of the Werewolf)
Folks, if you take away nothing from Tremors, remember this: There is nothing that cannot be solved with a barrage of bullets.
She further pokes fun at A Special Sesame Street Christmasby having Batman appear to give a "And Knowing Is Half the Battle" segment on how violence solves everything.
The supposed "Christmas" movie Bernard and the Genie terrifies her. ...And I think she likes it.
"Should we be rooting for our heroes at this point? Both of them have at least one body on their hands, now!" (baby carriage explodes) "...WHAT THE F--"
Crowfoot. RAAAAAAAAAACHAAAAAAAAAEL!
No Retreat, No Surrender's character R.J. (aka The Distilled Essence of The 80s).
Lupa: (dazed wonderment) How do you even follow that?
Halfway into A Special Sesame Street Christmas, Lupa is about ready to throw in the towel... and then Oscar breaks out his electric guitar.
The Amazing Bulk is filmed entirely in front of a bad green screen, in parody of the actual film.
Suckiness Is Painful: During the American Ninja reviews, Lupa makes a running gag of dubbing bad music over the fight scenes. American Ninja 4 however is so bad that the last fight scene is accompanied by, rather than music, Lupa sobbing.
Robot in the Family feels like death. Consider for a moment that Lupa loves bad movies, and that that this is one of the few that really hurt her to watch.
Stylistic Suck: In Pterodactyl, Lupa replaces the previous episode's song with a "crappy montage" set to I'll Tumble 4 Ya.
Her Lady Dragon 2 review climaxes with a stylistically sucky montage of her goofing around with her Cynthia Rothrock movie collection set to Wake me up before you go go
She finishes her Teen Sorcery review with some bad dancing set to the song played at the big dance at the end of the film.
Roller Samurai Vampire Slayers, a parody of the so-called "Zen filmmaking" style (essentially Throw It In: The Movie).
Suspiciously Specific Denial: "So, like, I'm totally not doing anything illegal, 'specially if I found a puppy one time, and maybe things got out of hand, and I had this whole lawsuit going on, but, I mean, nothing really happened, and I paid for the cab, so like, what's the problem?"
"It was a movie directed by Steven Springsteen, who has a band I think. It was adapted from the book Great Expectations, which was written a shit-load of a long time ago. Together with the help of Colonel Sanders, Merlin, The Fly, some children, and some boobs must fight the dinosaurs, but in the end the dinosaurs win out... This was followed by one sequel and one piece of horseshit. End report."
In Tremors 3, she assures the viewer that, although Jack's hick accent sounds broad and fake, it's actually real. "He's like the Film Brain of Texans."
In "Witches in Tights", Cole counts his lucky stars that he'll never act in a shitty superhero movie." (Charmed S.5)
Apparently, no one told the creators of Fast Getaway that their lead actress is a five-time karate champion in forms and weapons — not a slapstick comedienne.
Toilet Humour: During a death scene in Vampire Assassin, Lupa substitutes farting for the hero's sobs and whines.
Slips in an impromptu fart joke after she finds herself lavishing too much praise on Cursed. "We can't have that."
In Honor and Glory, Lupa and Nostaligia Chick fart out the theme to Beverly Hills Cop. They should start a Vaudevillian act.
NChick: What did we eat?
In the Kickassia commentary she did with Linkara, Phelous, and Nash, she mentioned her desire to dub fart noises into Spoony's Insano transformation sequence.
Although their reviewing choices are reversed. Especially Lupa's love for schlocky action movies is not what you'd call Girly.
Too Happy to Live: Has a meter running in Angel of Fury to measure the amount of badness that will happen to the main character in proportion to how happy they are at the moment.
Totally Radical: She jokes that X-treme Fighter was named this due to a mistaken belief it was 1994, not 2004.
He's the hippest happenin' hotcat, yo! ...That's, uh, that's what they say nowadays, right? (Rage and Honor)
Shows up again when in her review of Adventures of Bailey, Christmas Hero when a teenager girl says "OMG".
That's how the children speak these days, right? That's the dealio? Catch you hip cats on the flip side, yo!
Lupa does one in preparation for her Lady Dragon 2 review, set to the music from the first Lady Dragon. We see her exercise her thumb via a DVD remote, box a guy with a sign reading "RICHARD NORTON" taped to his chest, and bench-press her cat.
Troperiffic: Being a show about critical deconstruction of B-movies, this is pretty much unavoidable.
She later observes that "Gymkata" is like regular karate with more unnecessary flips and wooshing sounds.
The Untwist: Lupa really hates how Howling IV attempts to present the story as a mystery, despite the fact that this is the fourth movie in the series and the audience is well aware this is a werewolf movie.
Unwanted Harem: She is not remotely happy about being a Dude Magnet. Justified since Todd tends to get creepy or awkward fast, as do almost every other guy who goes after her, her dynamic with the Critic is the usual fem!dommy sexual tension he has with every woman, and she's in a committed relationship.
We Meet Again: Another Cynthia Rothrock and Richard Norton teamup? Must be Tuesday! (China O'Brien)
"Oh ho Richard Norton, we meet again. You're not going to try to pull off an American accent? Not even just a little? You're just the random Australian guy again?"
Wearing a Flag on Your Head: In celebration of July 4th, Lupa wear a gigantic stars & stripes bow. (And lovely blue eyeshadow to complement her red locks.)
When She Smiles: You occasionally get a moment where Lupa is down in the dumps, having written off the movie as totally bad... and then something magical happens, something you'll never find in a mainstream films, and she's reminded of why she loves Z-movies. And we're reminded of why we love her. QED.
Wire Fu: After a lackluster example in Xtreme Fighter she comments "just because you have wirework available doesn't mean you should use it."
When reviewing the Phantasm movies, Lupa wonders why the Tall Man does not just kill Reggie.
Tall Man: Small man, your end approaches but not yet. Lupa: Why? Why can't you kill him now? How do you know when his time is? Are you psychic now? You can't make up powers all willie nillie.
Lupa is baffled during Hard to Kill when the villain's henchmen wait until Storm comes out of a seven year coma before trying to kill him again, instead of finishing him off when he was vulnerable.
Likewise in Magic Island, she questions why Blackbeard didn't just kill Jack and Lily after getting the treasure map from them.
Worst Whatever Ever: Gotta Get a Gift For Splinter. The worst Christmas song — nay, the worst song ever.
"I'm not gonna say Golddigger is the most useless robot in the history of film, but... Yeah that's exactly what I'm saying."
See the page topper quote. For context, the entire scene revolves are two mages fighting over a 'levitating' magic staff, which the hero repeatedly picks up. To use as a blunt instrument.
"Worst. Fight. Everrr."
X Meets Y: The masks worn by the villains of Lady Dragon 2, a cross between Doctor Doom and Jason Voorhees.
(sweetly) "You know, stupid!"
She-Wolf in London, a.k.a. ''Moonlighting with Werewolves.
She remarks that despite the film being called Pterodactyl, the creatures featured are in fact pteranodons, which are not dinosaurs.
The word 'karma' gets used a lot in Lady Dragon in a way that does not mean what the film-makers seem to think.
The villain in Vampire Assassin keeps muttering about "fate or destiny" as if they were not synonyms.
Younger Than They Look: In her Undefeatable commentary, she says that she looks about 30 in it, but was actually 19 at the time of the video, and is 21 at the time of the commentary.
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