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YungJunko
is a YouTube personality who started out in 2018. He's a talking trash can with a stock photo as one of his eyes and, as he himself put it, "junk is [his] specialty." That is to say, he focuses on reviewing games and movies which for the most part have gone overlooked or forgotten by many others. He also has quite the affinity for the PlayStation Portable and the Star Wars franchise.
YungJunko provides examples of the following tropes:
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Junko's Xbox 360 doesn't take kindly to being left alone for years on end.
- All Just a Dream: Upon seeing the Dobby death scene while playing LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7, Junko reassures LEGO Harry that the events of the books are all in his head and that he's still living under the stairs in the Dursleys' house. Cut to the scene of live-action Harry riding Buckbeak, which fades to a scene of LEGO Harry riding a playground ride and shouting, "Fly, Buckbeak! Fly, Buckbeak, fly!"
- Alternative Character Interpretation:
- In Weird PSP Licensed Games, Junko claims that Hammy and Wolverine are brothers. Also, Verne is Franklin Clinton.
- While reviewing the video game version of Dragon Ball: Evolution in PSP Movie Games and looking at the way the portrait cutscenes play out, Junko imagines a romantic moment between Goku and Agundes.
- Also in PSP Movie Games, Junko assumes a random crowd member is Spider Rico's spouse and his equivalent of Adrian. Once Spider gets knocked out, said crowd member thinks about getting a divorce.
- And I Must Scream: Weird PSP Licensed Games starts with Junko being stranded in the realm of licensed movie/TV tie-in PSP games, reminiscing on the games he talked about that led to the pickle he's currently in, returning to the present at the end of the episode. WILL YUNGJUNKO EVER ESCAPE??? NO.
- Animate Inanimate Object: As stated above, he's a talking trash can.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence / Heroic Sacrifice: At the end of The HyperScan Horror of Christmas '06, a knocked-over Junko gives up his life to banish his HyperScan, his soul flying off to parts unknown. It doesn't last long, as said HyperScan forcibly brings him Back from the Dead and sets him upright once more.
- Bait-and-Switch Comparison: In Weird PSP Licensed Games, regarding the PSP version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine:Junko: The game follows Wolverine back in the days when he was going on Black Eyed Peas black-op missions with will.i.am. Basically, the whole premise is Wolverine is being forced to experience the agony of the entire duration of 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, in theaters May 1st, 2009.
- Berserk Button:
- Junko is baffled and frustrated by the fact that LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga never made it to PSP, despite half the work for it already being done.
- Apparently Yoda hates LEGO due to being too old for it.note
- Bloody Hilarious: Junko occasionally portrays certain acts of cartoony violence in games as more gruesome than they actually are.
- Brutal Honesty: When talking about Halo: Combat Evolved in Original Xbox: Launch Titles vs Last Titles, Junko paints the image of Halo, Master Chief, Multiplayer, LAN Parties, Little Caesar's Pizza, Mountain Dew, 3 AM...before bluntly admitting,Junko: You've heard all this shit before; it's like every MySpace Tom lookin'-ass gamer dude today came pre-installed with the same Halo 1 nostalgia file!
- Call-Back: In PSP Movie Games, Junko calls Megamind: The Blue Defender "that other PSP game about a bruised testicle", just like he did when talking about Jackass: The Game in Weird PSP Licensed Games.
- Casanova Wannabe: In Handheld Threequel Games: Shrek 3/Spider-Man 3/POTC3, Junko as Jack Sparrow acts as this while talking to various female NPCs.Junko!Jack: Hey, baby, you wanna go somewhere more quiet and split a whole-ass rotisserie chicken? (gets slapped)
Junko!Jack: Hey, baby, is it me or do I got a five dollar Costco whole chicken in my po- (gets slapped)
Junko!Jack: Hey, baby, how about we go split a- (gets slapped)
Junko!Jack: Can I interest you in a whole- (gets slapped)
Junko!Jack: CHICKEN! (gets slapped) - Christmas Special: The HyperScan Horror of Christmas '06 has Junko look back on the titular machine that soured the titular year's Christmas season for him.
- The Complainer Is Always Wrong: Deconstructed in The Problem with Halo 3's Campaign, where he's the complainer in the situation.Junko: This game has entered the realm of almost untouchable, where if you say anything bad about Halo 3, you will be cursed to a hellish eternity of having to watch your own body be teabagged to oblivion. You attack Halo 3, you're attacking all those great memories! Stuff like the custom games, Duck Hunt, the community maps, the unbelievable hype! But you know what, it's time somebody finally stood up and said something, mainly about Halo 3's campaign.
- Continuity Nod: In The HyperScan Horror of Christmas '06, Junko's wall has a poster asking for the whereabouts of Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga on PSP, calling back to Remembering the PSP: 16 Years Later and Every Star Wars Game on PSP Reviewed, as well as still having the framed photo of Obi-Wan Kenobi from The Forgotten Xbox Exclusive Obi-Wan Game // Star Wars: Obi-Wan . The Spider-Man Game that NOBODY Played- HyperScan Spider-Man + Marvel Heroes places Junko's baseball card of Ty Wigginton mentioned in said previous episode where the photo of Obi-Wan used to be.
- Digital Piracy Is Evil: In Handheld Threequel Games: Shrek 3/Spider-Man 3/POTC3, the moment Junko brings up emulators while covering the DS versions of Shrek the Third and Spider-Man 3, the review gets interrupted with an offscreen voice singing, "WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND WE'RE GONNA FIND YOU!" This gag is flipped around for the DS version of At Worlds End in a thematically appropriate manner when the offscreen voice instead sings, "OHHHHHHH, WE DON'T REALLY CARE BECAUSE WE'RE PIRATES!"
- Distracted by the Sexy: While playing Ridge Racer on PSP, Junko stops driving to look at a sexy ad, which is seemingly lampshaded by the in-game voiceover trying to get Junko's head back in the game by telling him to "stop fooling around!"
- Double Subversion: In Nintendo 64: Launch Titles vs Last Titles, the opening cutscene to Super Mario 64 starts playing, only for Junko to talk about Saikyō Habu Shōgi instead. He eventually buckles under pressure and talks about Super Mario 64 for real.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: His older reviews lacks the talking trashcan avatar and he speaks with his natural speaking voice rather than the deeper tone he has in his newer videos.
- Forgotten Framing Device: Buzz Lightyear PS1 Games opens with Junko opening his Dumporium where he introduces, among other things, the YungJunko Mini, who interrupts Junko's segue into talking about the PS Vita with his own nostalgia spewing about the titular games. The video ends once the Mini's nostalgia spewing is over, without returning to the Dumporium.
- Freudian Slippery Slope: Early into Star Wars: The Clone Wars...10 Years Later, when explaining how he felt about the original movie around the time of its release, he says, "I'd be entering the sixth grade. I had no time for this schlock for seven-year-olds! I had episodes of iCarly to jerk off to- I mean masturbate to- I mean...uh, enjoy with my penis."
- Furry Reminder: Being a talking trash can, Junko is understandably unnerved by violence against trash cans such as in Jackass: The Game and The Godfather.Voiceover!Junko: You got surfing through the neighborhood on a trash can lid...
On-Screen!Junko: I think I'm gonna be sick...! - Gilligan Cut:
- In Weird PSP Licensed Games, Junko sees Donkey riding Dragon in Shrek Smash n' Crash Racing and admits to loving any PSP dragon content...until he plays Eragon, at which point he says, "I change my mind, go back!"
- In The Forgotten Xbox Exclusive Obi-Wan Game // Star Wars: Obi-Wan, Junko assumes that the titular game is the debut of Mace Windu's purple lightsaber outside of a comic. However, not being completely certain about it, he pleads for the die-hard Star Wars fans to be understanding if he turns out to be wrong. Cut to Junko surrounded by fire, simply admitting, "They were not."note
- Go Mad from the Revelation: At the end of PSP Movie Games, upon finding out that two Geronimo Stilton PSP games were digital-exclusive in North America, Junko goes mad trying to figure out who would've bought them back in 2013 when they released on said storefront.Junko: (chuckles in shock) This last one, it's- it's not a movie, but it keeps me up. It's, uh, something called Geronimo Stilton.
Frank Costello: I got this rat, this gnawing, cheese-eating fucking rat...
Junko: Stilton, right, he's part of this popular series of children's books in Europe, and I never heard of him here before in the States, and, uh, guess what? He got not one, but two PSP games, guess when? 2013! Guess where? DIGITALLY! On the PSP store! Now, I need to know who...who bought this game? What kind of kid would steal their parent's credit card information to buy a Geronimo Stilton game on PSP in 2013?! What...what, what responsible, well-informed parent would be conscious of the fact that a Geronimo Stilton game was released on a digital storefront on their kid's little video game gizmo ya just keep calling a Game Boy?! Tell me, who?! WHO?! What sick FUCK bought a children's game released on PSP in 2013?! (another mirthless chuckle) Why are you doing this? Faithful viewer... Help me! Help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me... - Hope Spot: After finally obtaining every Star Wars VHS, Junko's convinced he'll be rich...until he finds out that people are selling them for as little as a dollar.
- It Has Been an Honor: A non-lethal example. In his closing thoughts of My XBOX 360 Memories // [Xbox 360 15 Years Later], he tells his Xbox 360, "It's been one hell of a Ride to Hell: Retribution serving with you, Mister 360."
- Knew It All Along: Early on in The Three Threequels of May 2007, Junko swears that Shrek the Third, Spider-Man 3, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End were marketed together at certain points despite being competition to one another. Guess what he finds out in the follow-up video covering the films' respective handheld game adaptations?Junko: (showing footage of an Xbox 360 commercial) Thankfully, all three of the movies had huge marketing campaigns-
(the video game adaptations of the aforementioned movies appear together on-screen in the commercial)
Junko: DID YOU SEE THAT?! SEE?! SEE?! THEY WERE MARKETED TOGETHER! I ALWAYS KNEW! - Master of None:
- Junko figures the PSP was becoming this during the later years of its life; with how much more expensive making home console games was becoming, the PSP was struggling to keep up the promise of offering home console games on the go, and developers for the handheld games figured it'd be easier to simply make a DS game with a lower production value for a larger install base. This in turn left PSP versions of games to either be ported up from the DS versions like with the later LEGO games on PSP, get canned early into development like with The Force Unleashed II and Sonic Generations, or not be considered at all.
- He currently considers the Xbox 360 to be this nowadays, as the majority of big titles released on the platform have since been made available for play elsewhere and what's left on the 360 are a bunch of random games and generic shooters that might completely fade into obscurity within the next few years.
- May the Farce Be with You: Subverted and defied in Every Star Wars Game on PSP Reviewed. Initially it seems like the video is going this route, complete with the opening note of the Star Wars theme, but Junko immediately interrupts the opening crawl before it can start, asking whoever was playing the song to keep it down before starting the reviews as usual.
- Metaphorgotten:
- At the end of The Problem with Halo 3's Campaign, Junko tries to compare the campaign of Halo 3 to X-Men: The Last Stand:Junko: And you know, for the longest time, I tried to find a movie trilogy that perfectly feels analogous and encapsulates how I feel the Halo trilogy progressed in terms of storytelling...and I think I finally got it! Halo 3 is not Return of the Jedi, Halo 3 is not Rise of Skywalker, it's not Back to the Future III, and it's not Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild. Halo 3's story is X-Men: The Last Stand. Don't kill me, but look - you got a movie that basically just kills many major characters for the sake of it, you got the implication of a beloved character losing control, previous characters kind of get shafted in terms of presence in this one or don't show up at all, and it ends with a main character believed to be dead by most but shown to be alive- wait, that's The Dark Knight Rises, god damn it, I give up.
- Subverted in The Three Threequels of May 2007 when Junko explains how he felt about Spider-Man 3 after he first watched it at the time.Junko: As a kid, when you watch movies, you generally gauge its quality by how well it captures you; that's usually your metric. My critical eye wasn't quite there yet. But Spider-Man 3 started to change things in me - I started feeling different... I started lashing out at the things I loved, started eating pie, did a few dance numbers, and I started realizing movies I loved or were excited for could be disappointing and suck.
- In Handheld Threequel Games: Shrek 3/Spider-Man 3/POTC3, Junko tries to explain the gameplay of Shrek the Third on DS by comparing the three playable characters to characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe:Junko: Here, you control Shrek, Puss in Boots, and ARTY (sic), all in the same level. Shrek is the Hulk of the group; he can barge through objects, while Artie - this little shit - is the Steve Rogers; he can throw his shield as a projectile. And...Puss in Boots is the...uh...is the cat from Captain Marvel! He can leap and perform wall jumps.
- At the end of The Problem with Halo 3's Campaign, Junko tries to compare the campaign of Halo 3 to X-Men: The Last Stand:
- A Molten Date with Death: Junko attempts to invoke this upon himself whilst reviewing Revenge of the Sith: The Game through a miniature volcano filled with genuine lava so that he may "become Hayden Christensen" (presumably Darth Vader). At the end, it seems to just be baking soda like any other miniature volcano...until Junko really does catch on fire.
- Mood Whiplash: A sizable chunk of his humor. For example, in Nintendo 64: Launch Titles vs Last Titles he likens defeating a fleeing Servbot in Mega Man 64 to a prison guard shooting down a prisoner running for dear life.
- No Inner Fourth Wall: Whenever Junko looks at a forgotten video game, a character or two may acknowledge the fact that they're not only in a video game, but one that many people had forgotten even existed.GBA!Private: Uh-oh, Skipper. I seem to be marooned on some sort of forgotten Game Boy Advance hellscape! This is likely my final transmission. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
- The Nothing After Death: The Spider-Man Game that NOBODY Played- HyperScan Spider-Man + Marvel Heroes sees the Ghost of Stan Lee, totally not voiced by a text-to-speech robot, complaining that the afterlife is nothing but an empty dark space and pleading not to be sent back before Junko interrupts him by starting the review.
- Oddball in the Series: Junko considers Halo 3 to be this to the original Halo trilogy, as in his eyes the campaign fails to live up to either predecessor.
- Overly Narrow Superlative: He concludes that Black is "the second best Xbox game that's five letters and starts with the letter B, number one being Blinx."
- Polished Port: He considers Bulletstorm: Duke of Switch Edition to be this to the original Bulletstorm, stating that Duke Nukem's presence as a fish out of water goes with the game's story awesomely and makes it easier for the player to care during the game's more serious moments.
- The Problem with Licensed Games / No Problem with Licensed Games: Weird PSP Licensed Games and PSP Movie Games have Junko cover - you guessed it - weird and obscure licensed games on PSP. Most of them are predictably mediocre, with some like Xiaolin Showdown, Eragon, and Transformers: The Game even failing to live up to their potential, but he does find a few gems in the form of Shrek Smash n' Crash Racing, Snoopy vs. the Red Baron, Jackass: The Game, and 300: March to Glory.
- This is further discussed in Original Xbox: Launch Titles vs Last Titles, wherein Junko goes further into his disappointment with the Xiaolin Showdown video game, admits to liking "Shrekbox" despite - or even because of - how off-brand and janky it is, and finds the Ratatouille video game genuinely fun.
- Remember the New Guy?: Parodied in My XBOX 360 Memories // [Xbox 360 15 Years Later], albeit with the new "guy" being a show segment:Junko: Oh my god, it's CRT Time! It's a staple of the show! I didn't just make that up on the spot now! Don't- don't be silly!
- Running Gag:
- Every Star Wars Game on PSP Reviewed has its own running gag in the form of a character proclaiming, "I saved Star Wars."
- Rodrigo, a (presumably) hypothetical kid whose parent(s) kept buying games for his handheld systems even as said handhelds were approaching the ends of their respective lives (such as Shrek the Third on Game Boy Advance in 2007 or LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 on PSP in 2011) because they were the only gaming options he had.
- "HE/THEY SAID THE THING," in regards to a Star Wars character saying an iconic line.
- Sequelitis: Junko discussed this regarding the threequels in a series. In Revenge of the Sith: 15 Years Later, he brings up how in the third films of the Original and Sequel Trilogies the respective casts sounded like they're ready for it to be over. The issue with threequels is brought up again in The Problem with Halo 3's Campaign and The Three Threequels of May 2007, wherein Junko points out that in a lot of cases where a big franchise has two hits on its hands, the third installment is bound to disappoint a lot of people in some fashion.
- Shoddy Knockoff Product: My BOOTLEG NINTENDO Memories // Power Player Super Joy III sees the introduction of Old Trasho, a plastic garbage bin with a googly eye who spends the episode reminiscing to the avid observer about his nostalgic memories with the Super Joy III and trying to scam the observer as he does so.
- Shout-Out: While reviewing the Spider-Man HyperScan game, Junko references the memorable quote from Gamespot's review of Spider-Man: Miles Morales.Junko: HyperScan Spider-Man: The Game really makes you feel like you're webslinging with the exaggerated swagger of a-
HyperScan: <SCANNED HYPERSCAN CARD>
Junko: -with groundbreaking brand new-
HyperScan: <RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY> - Staging an Intervention: The Forgotten Xbox Exclusive Obi-Wan Game // Star Wars: Obi-Wan opens with Junko questioning whether the viewer is high and bringing up how the wise Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi would never do drugs, before segueing into the review proper.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Junko and Jack Sparrow both carry bombs, throwing knives, and a whole rotisserie chicken in their pockets.
- Straw Fan: Not of himself, but comically obsessive fans of whatever he brings up are occasionally mocked or lampshaded, from comparing certain games to Dark Souls - on-screen Junko even forces voiceover Junko to shift gears once he senses that he's about to compare Star Wars: Obi-Wan to Dark Souls - to bringing up the name of the giant dinosaur chicken from Revenge of the Sith.note
- Synchro-Vox: His avatar's mouth animates like this.
- Take That!:
- Weird PSP Licensed Games has a fair few, especially toward X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
- The HyperScan Horror of Christmas '06 and The Spider-Man Game that NOBODY Played- HyperScan Spider-Man + Marvel Heroes sees Junko say many things about the titular console, almost none of them good.
- PSP Movie Games has Junko deliver some blows toward Dragon Ball: Evolution as well as the idea of a family film like Arthur and the Invisibles being written and directed by Luc Bessonnote of all people.
Junko: Interior. High school. Day. Goku looks like the lead singer of a Christian Rock band.- In 50 Cent Games, when Junko compliments the controls of 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand, he throws some shade at games like Uncharted in the process.
Junko: The shooting mechanics here are actually really satisfying, and I'mma tell you - the controls are even tighter than some other games that came out around that time with a much bigger budget. - That Reminds Me of a Song: Ranting about the lack of naval battles in the PSP version of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End leads Junko to sing a parody of "Zombie" by The Cranberries.Junko: They did manage to capture certain aspects of the spirit of the films, but the big disappointment, though, is there's not much else to this game beyond [the on-foot combat and exploration]. Like, there's no naval battles or anything like that; it's straight-up just this combat. Even when I got to a level called "Sea Battle" - Sea Battle! - it was still just sword-fighting and killing enemies with their knives, and their bombs, and their guns, zombie, zombie, rotisserie, chickens!
- To Be Continued: At the end of The HyperScan Horror of Christmas '06, Junko's HyperScan reveals a Spider-Man game for the system that he hadn't yet talked about in the video.
- [Trope Name]: Downplayed by the narration from Junko as Toni Cipriani in Remembering the PSP: 16 Years Later:Junko!Toni: Establishing shot of city. Pedestrians walking around moderate traffic. Why'd I move here? Why don't you look at this cinematic 360 shot while I tell you? Maybe it was the weather, I say as I walk slowly towards the camera. Or maybe, just maybe, it's because I wanted to be surrounded by so many of my good friends! My good fellas! Hey, it's me, Toni! How you guys doing?
(Toni's "good fellas" proceed to beat him up)
Junko!Toni: (lying on the ground) Actually, maybe it was just the weather.
(cue a few more gameplay scenes)
Junko!Toni: Hey, what can I say? I'm a guy in a motorcycle! And I can walk away from explosions all cool-
(the car's explosion knocks Toni down)
Junko!Toni: (gets back up shortly afterward) I'm okay!
