YMMV / A Granary Adventure: The Underdog Story

• Complete Monster: RED Soldier is the sadistic leader of the Clan Stackers. The machinima opens with him leading his minions on the wholesale slaughter of BLU Pyro's old team. Following the escaping Pyro Granary to finish the job, he starts slaughtering a bunch of friendly BLU members as they go through the map. When a surviving Scout retreats after a counterattack by the BLU team. RED Soldier shoots him when he turns around for his failure. Throughout the course of the series, RED Soldier sends his minions to slaughter the BLU team. After it seems like the heroes had won, RED Soldier appears and casually murders the BLU team's reinforcements. When the BLU Soldier demand to know why they won't just leave them alone, RED Soldier simply replies that he and his team are worthless scum and then attempts to murder the BLU team, with BLU Soldier giving his life to save them. RED Soldier then mocks them about his death as continues his assault.
• Fridge Brilliance: Meatloaf (or rather the BLU Spy disguised as Meatloaf) makes a comment when he apparently rejoins RED. What he says is "Better RED than DEAD!". This may just first seem to be an allusion that he'd rather stay with RED Team than die on BLU Team. But then you remember: the Heavy is Russian, and therefore communist. Communism was often associated with the color red, and Meatloaf's quote is a reversed version of a previous saying; "Better dead than red".
• Harsher in Hindsight: The Heroic Sacrifice performed by the BLU Soldier and his spirit's touching conversation with Pyro is even more sad after the tragic death of The Soldier's voice actor, Rick May, in April of 2020, almost a decade after this machinima was made.
• Tear Jerker: The BLU Soldier's sacrifice.
  • The ending combines this with Heartwarming Moments.
• That One Level: That One Story Branch: "Metal Gear Spy" is rather difficult for first time players. It may be one of the shorter story branches, but it is difficult to figure out when you should click the annotation at the first Pyro patrol area. Wait too long and the movie will automatically progress and fail you. Click to early or too late, and you'll fail too. If not for spoilers in the comments on that one particular story branch, people might end up getting stuck far more often.
  • Same goes for "The Last Airblaster". Figuring out the timing of when to fire the next rocket isn't an easy feat.