"In a world of uncertainty, when movie theaters are plagued with remakes and sequels. In a world where big budget movies can still suck. In this world, we have The Blockbuster Buster."
Also at the end of every review he has an alliterative description of the movie. Usually using some thing related to the theme of the movie.
Adult Child: Often rampages about nostalgic movies and series being ruined by Hollywood, but the biggest fact is that he still plays and voices with his dolls,I mean, action figures. Lampshaded in the Channel Awesome Holidays greetings.
Allergic To Girls: Poor Nerdlinger. He's so vulnerable to scantily clad ladies that he covers his eyes at best and downright faints at worse. He even faints at the only mention of Obscurus Lupa name and poster.
Ascended Fanboy: ERod admits to be a fanboy himself and started doing reviews with hopes of being part of That Guy With The Glasses and made some videos parodying the site didn't pick him yet. He eventually succeeds.
Berserk Button: On his review of Catwoman, at the end he starts a rampage through all the other movies he had reviewed at that time.
Continuity Nod: Most of his episodes are connected by a story line, as well as the saga episodes (the Resident Evil month, Halloween Havoc, Terrible Three and so on)
Another example of this is how the Top 10 Cossovers we want to see connects in the beginning with the Push review and the closing with Transformers 2, which starts the same way his first Transformers review started as well.
Full Name Ultimatum: "Nerdlinger?" "I really don't want to talk about this movie, 'cause it got all these scary monsters in it." "Eustace Xavier Aloisius Nerdlinger III, sit your ass down!"
Gender Bender: Used for the Elektra review, because ERod needed to explain female perspective, so he became SHERod. He even remarked "she" was gorgeous. Lampshaded when her producer reveals to the viewer she was playing him, so ERod still owed another female lead review.
Gratuitous Spanish: Sometimes he drops some words. More frequently by El L0ver.
His Top 10 Hispanic Heroes list gives us a full conversation between him and Nerdlinger in spanish.
Hammerspace: Averted, as ERod does not get his weapons out of nowhere, there always is a sequence where he gets his weapons ready. It is also presumed that the Blockbuster Buster never leaves the house without Lucille (his hammer).
Played Straight in the Astro Boy review where is revealed that he had a "Uni-beam thing" on the chest.
Heroic BSOD: Apparently Sucker Punch was too much for ERod to handle, so El L0ver had to take over while ERod mumbled all his references after being catatonic. The only way to wake him again was to press his Berserk Button to make him bust the movie.
Ironic Nickname: Every time a movie is so bad or the characters are forgettable.
The most remarkable example is for the Twilight Saga, Erod was so upset with the characters' names that he decided to nickname everyone: Bella Swan = Deadpan Mc-Gee, Edward = Captain Whiny-Pants, Jacob = Sharkboy, Vampires = Sparkling Pricks, etc.
Lovable Coward: Nerdlinger. It causes him no end of grief, since being the resident expository nerd makes him ERod's go-to guy for information on many franchises, including horror franchises, so he gets constantly exposed to scary stuff. Just as much as he knows about characters like the Terminator and the Predator, he can't see their movies without being on the verge of a horror-induced fainting spell.
Mister Exposition: Nerdlinger. When ERod needs to explain details about a movie's background or the plot of previous movies, he often calls on Nerdlinger to do the honors.
Nerd: Nerdlinger, obviously. However, he's an interesting subversion in that the other characters in the show do not put him down for being a nerd. ERod himself actually calls on him to explain nerdy or fan-specific information, so he's also the show's resident smart guy.
In the TMNT casting couch, ERod says he watched General Hospital soap opera and tries to justify it as the show with the most rating wedding scene in history.
He recognizes Tim Gunn from Project Runway in The Smurfs movie, only to lampshade this by presenting a random explosion.
Laughing hard everytime Dakota Fanning appears in a movie (New Moon, Eclipse and Push).
Lampshaded by ERod, when he knew people would expect him to laugh at her in The Cat in the Hat, explaining he only laughs when she tries grown-up characters. He also explains that when she plays vampire, he can only see Willow pretending to be a vampire
If a movie features a really bad actor, ERod will make a phone call in the middle of the review and apologize with the previous "worst actor this far" and giving the title to the current target.
The staff picked reviews by The Blockbuster Buster included his review of Eragon, where the reviewer decides that since he couldn't get a spot on TGWTG, and the movie he's reviewing is a knock-off, he's just going to make sketches of all the TGWTG persona and The Angry Video Game Nerd and parody the way they behave.
In the commentary, ERod explains that the sad mood at the beginning of the video was made not because of not getting into TGWTG, but because of deep financial problems. Eventually his situation got better, and meanwhile the video was his all or nothing moment.
El Lover cursed at him for having to watch Chucky and Tiffany's sex scene during Bride of Chucky's recount.
"Mira, hijo de tu madre..."
Also the opening sequence of Chucky's sperm traveling through Tiffany's uterus is so gross that ERod coudn't even reference Look Who's Talking.
ERod had to make 3 breakdown pauses in his balcony (muted by the glass door) when he had to watch Chucky masturbating, holding a cup of his own semen and Tiffany impregnating Jennifer Tilly.
Tempting Fate: At the end of his videos ERod often says that there's no movie worse than the one that he reviewed, only for such a movie to appear before him. Lampshaded at one point where he says "I have got to stop saying stuff like that."
Weapon of Choice: Lucille the hammer, but he also has a couple of stakes, a gun, a knife and even a truck was used on one occasion. Also featuring a sledgehammer, a chainsaw and a sword.
Wild Mass Guessing: In-universe example in the Herbie review, where ERod posits the theory that Herbie's mind is actually Adolf Hitler, doing good deeds to make up for his sins. That is going to takea long time.
You Are Not Alone: On the arc of Resident Evil reviews each of the characters helps him do the reviews while he was imprisoned, and at the end they help him fight Evil-E .
He also gets encouragement from Mario, Batman, the Trinity of Awesomeness and his producer.
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