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"ADVENTURE! YEAH!"

PeanutButterGamer (real name, Austin Hargrave, born July 25, 1990) is a YouTube personality who does game reviews, Top 10 lists, and hosts a number of other features, such as The G-Files (looking at weird things in video games) and To Kill An Avatar (exploring Video Game Cruelty Potential). He's the co-founder of the now resurrected NormalBoots.com and was a featured contributor on Blistered Thumbs.

He also has a gameplay channel, called PBGGameplay. There he posts a number of different videos: Firstly, the popular ''Hardcore!'' series, in which he and his friends try to complete an objective in a game... but if they die, they're dead for good. The videos star many of his friends, including JonTron and ProJared. Besides that, he has the Collection series where he tries to get every item in a set in various games. And lastly, he has another secondary channel, called Peebs, where he posts several highly-edited Let's Play series and reviews toys and food products.

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    Main Channel Tropes 

This show provides examples of:

  • Ridiculously Cute Critter: His ferrets, Pixel and 8-Bit.
  • Running Gag:
    • Small one, but he keeps bringing up a "Top 10 Sexiest Girls in Gaming", which he has yet to make. This often comes up in segments where he's working on his videos while waiting for something.
    • Likewise his hatred for MySims, which has been mentioned in several videos. That said, it seems to have more or less petered out since he actually went and reviewed it.
    • His jealousy of Andy (the kid who stars in the most widely circulated upload of the personalized Arthur video "Arthur's New Friend!").
  • Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: "But this is my list and I can cheat if I want to."
  • Ship Tease: With Pushing Up Roses.
    • Ship Sinking: Him and Jeff address this during their Donkey Kong Country 2 playthrough, with Austin stating they're just friends.
  • Shout-Out: He interprets Arthur's use of "the thing" in Arthur's Computer Adventure as being the creature in John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) saying he shouldn't be looking for it.
  • Shower of Angst: At the end of his Pikmin To Kill an Avatar video.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: The MySims series.
  • Stunned Silence: In Skyward Sword Hacking, he's rendered temporarily speechless by the sight of Link with long, crab-like legs, complete with Record Needle Scratch.
  • Stupidly Long Filler Sound: PBG had a small one when deciding what colour to make Putt-Putt in one of his videos.
    PBG: Wait... Which colour do I get? WHICH COLOUR DO I GET??? Red, Blue, Green... I DUNNO! Uhhhhhhhhh...PURPLE!
    [The already-purple putt-putt gets painted purple again]
    '''PBG:"' Yeahhhh... I'm purple again!
  • Stylistic Suck: An early series involved PBG joining forces with KyrakJellyman to host the PB&J reviews, which featured Peebs and Kyrak as two idiot gamers who had no idea what they were talking about, and would give negative reviews to good games, and positive reviews to bad games. Some viewers didn't get the joke, and the series was mostly deleted, with only their fake review of Hubert the Teddy Bear Winter Games remaining on the channel.
  • Take That!: In his Top Ten List of Video Game jerks, he says jerks in video games are less realistic than people in real life, stating that people are much kinder in real life, all while the screen is filled with screenshots of various people's YouTube comments with similarly varying insults aimed at him. And Goats.
    • In Super Mario 3D Land Hacking he stretches Mario's character model, and notes that YouTube is now going to brand his channel as non-advertiser friendly due to vaguely phallic shape of Mario. note 
  • The Cameo: Provides one for JonTron at the end of one episode, where PBG wonders how on Earth JonTron managed to run all the way to Texas.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: PBG's videos started off with him being incredibly unenthusiastic and occasionally an outright Jerkass. He's gotten a fair bit better since then.
  • Video Game Cruelty Potential: Explored in the To Kill An Avatar series, where he finds various ways to kill player characters and NPCs.
    Let's see how many ways we can make Link die. You know... For Science!.
    • PBG also explores this in MySims Agents, which leads to him calling EESDESESESR a monster when PBG makes him smash trucks, steal parts from random machines, and essentially organ harvest a friendly robot without his consent.
  • Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Poor, poor EESDESESESRDT, born of a poorly-coded naming screen in Hubert The Teddy Bear and made into a Running Gag.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Apparently, PBG has a deadly fear of sharks.
  • Yandere: PBG reveals this side of him for his beloved childhood videogame-girlfriend, the catgirl Mitzi. Her moving away causes PBG to kill Tom the cat and end up on the run.

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His Let's Play channel provides examples of:

  • Achievements in Ignorance: Crops up near constantly in his 'Sucking At' series. A notable example would be in Luigi's Mansion episode 15 when he lit the bonfire necessary to capture Sir Weston while flailing around randomly with his fire jet. And then didn't realize what he had actually done for some time.
    PBG: Oh, I just needed to walk into him. Okay, well, that was easier than I was making it out to be.
  • Angrish: Near-constant in Super Mario 64: Chaos Edition. Given that the game randomly changes Mario's physics, is prone to locking-up and crashing, will cause Mario's health to continuously drain, and even kills him instantly when he touches doors or poles at one point, among other mishaps, PBG's frustration is completely understandable.
  • Anti-Climax: In his second Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate video with ProJared, PBG pulls out his Dual Swords, activates the Demon mode, and runs in to attack...and then immediately turns off Demon mode again. Punctuated by the music cutting out and just leaving PBG's Battle Cry of "Hgsheswah!"
  • Art Evolution: Compare the first video in his Majora's Mask Lets Play to the last video of his Majora's Mask Lets Play. Initially, he was rather subdued and more focused on the game than anything else and the whole thing goes unedited. By the last video, he is much more boisterous, incorporates a ton of visual humor and focuses more on the jokes.
  • Artistic License – Space: In one episode of Cuphead, when PBG and Jeff are fighting off Hilda Berg's constellations, they refer to Taurus as a bull, but keep calling Sagittarius "Cupid", even though the man wielding the bow and arrows clearly represents the centaur archer. To be fair, they are kind of unable to interpret the constellations or the Western Zodiac right.
  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: While this rarely shows up in his main channel because of it's scripted nature, PBG's tendency to get easily distracted shows up more on these videos. On one livestream he mentions that both fans and friends speculate he could have ADHD, but he doesn't really care and thus has never bothered to get a doctor's opinion on it.
  • Blatant Lies: In Mario Galaxy 2, part 9:
    PBG: Man, I love the Internet, it's such a great place. Everybody's nice and friendly to each other.
  • Controllable Helplessness: Happens to Efanzo the Electabuzz during Episode 24 of the Pokémon Leafgreen Randomizer Nuzlocke, as Efanzo (who only has Electric-type attacks, aside from the non-damaging Flash) gets trapped in a battle with a wild Dugtrio with the Arena Trap ability (which prevents switching or fleeing) who is immune to every attack that Efanzo has. Despite attempting a Hail Mary by trying to catch the Dugtrio, PBG and Jeff ultimately have no choice but to watch Efanzo die.
  • Destined Bystander: Zigzam, Nimnat and Useless in the Pokémon Alpha Sapphire Nuzlocke. Nimnat, in particular, is a good example of this. He's caught very early on, and is a bit of a laughing stock at first because of how seemingly useless he is, with PBG not even really making an effort to level him up. However, he ends up being the crucial part of the Double Team/Baton Pass strategy that wins PBG the game.
  • Drugs Are Good: Makes heavy use of multiple drugs in his Fallout 3 Bobblehead collection series.
    (PBG is under heavy super mutant fire from several angles at once)
    PBG: More drugs! MORE DRUGS!!!
  • Epic Fail: In his final video of Super Mario 64, he says there is no way he can miss hitting Bowser with one of the spikey balls being practically next to him. He turns around a few times, let's go of Bowser - and misses.
  • Failed a Spot Check: When PBG and Jeff decide to teach one of their Pokémon the move Focus Punch in their Leaf Green Randomizer Nuzlocke, they start fantasizing about how they'll be to get around the downside that being hit on the turn that they use Focus Punch will cause the user to flinch, causing them to miss their turn, by the fact that the Pokémon that they're teaching the move to is incredibly fast, which means that they should rarely have to worry about the downside. However, they completely miss the fact that Focus Punch always causes the user to move last, despite it being spelled out in the move's description. For bonus points, Jeff notices the second part of the move description (that getting hit will cause the user to flinch), but not the first part (that the user will go last).
  • The Greatest Story Never Told: PBG and Jeff lament how, because they forgot to actually record the game footage of their first episode of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, they had to redo it. And they say that the first take was amazing, with both doing well on the platform levels and earning about 16 lives before finishing the first video.
  • Heel Realization: PBG has one of these at the end of the Oblivion Collection Series. After realizing how many evil things he's done to get the Daedric Artifacts, he accepts his death at the hands of an Anvil city guard.
  • Stupid Sacrifice: Lafawnda gets put down by a critical hit by the final Pokémon in the Alpha Sapphire Nuzlocke run. Ironically, had PBG not used Recover to try to save her life the turn before and attacked instead, Lafawnda would have have been able to land the game-winning blow, as Mega Metagross was stuck in cooldown from a Giga Impact attack, leaving it vulnerable. It'd be justified by PBG's inexperience... had he not noticed the cooldown from the Metagross's previous Giga Impacts. Instead, Lafawnda dies and PBG ends up winning the battle by the skin of his teeth, with two surviving Pokémon with less than 20 HP between them.
  • invokedStrawman Has a Point: In "POKEMON GO IS DEMONIC", PBG mocks Rick Wiles' review of the titular app (which claims it's demonic), until the latter makes the claim that "we're hypnotized... we would rather live in the virtual world than the real world." PBG states that this is the only valid argument in the whole video, but his tone of voice implies that it isn't as problematic as Wiles makes it out to be.
  • Yandere: Not PBG himself, but this seems to be the comment section's opinion on Nimnat the Nincada. Every single time she'd be switched out or PBG would say he was going to switch her out, someone on the team would inevitably die not long after, forcing him to put her back in or have an empty slot.
  • YouTuber Apology Parody: He makes a "Sincere Apology" for an error he made while playing Super Mario Galaxy.

    "Hardcore!" 
These tropes have now been moved to their own page at PBG Hardcore.

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