YMMV / Atop the Fourth Wall

YMMV examples for Atop the Fourth Wall. For History of Power Rangers examples, see here.

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• Accidental Innuendo: "This comic sucks... Linkaraaaa!"
• Adorkable:
  • Linkara's a card-carrying geek and intentionally gets almost all of his weapons, strategies and costumes from various speculative fiction universes.
  • '90s Dude is frequently endearing with his obsession with The '90s. Although he of course doesn't think of himself as a dork, he thinks he's AWESOME!
• Alternative Joke Interpretation: While reviewing the Silver Ranger arc in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger Don uses the Dragon Ranger form to defeat a monster, after seeing this, Linkara starts to complain about Tommy Oliver worship before cutting himself off. Did Linkara forget he was reviewing Super Sentai and not Power Rangers? Or did Linkara realize it would be hypocritical to complain when he owns a Green Ranger costume?
• Aluminum Christmas Trees:
  • Some people actually think Linkara made up that "It's magic. I don't have to explain it" phrase and meant it in all seriousness, not realizing that this is actually a shot at Joe Quesada's justification for One More Day.
  • Linkara himself displayed this, being unaware of Naked News when commenting on the News in the Nude part of The Dark Knight Strikes Again.
  • He's weirded out by the rather overwrought condemnation of carjacking as "terrorism" and "a national disgrace" in Thunderstrike #1 and makes several digs about it throughout the review. However, carjacking had spiked significantly shortly before the comic came out, to the point where Congress started passing legislation addressing it. What seems like a bizarre case of Felony Misdemeanor to a modern viewer would have been quite topical for a contemporary reader. He acknowledges this fact in his Mr. T and the T Force #4 review, however, but still thinks the narrator was overselling the problem.
• Arc Fatigue:
  • The Lord Vyce arc, which took around nine months from beginning to end, and went on continuously (the Mechakara and Entity arcs, while eight months long, both had extended "breather" periods, whereas the Vyce arc didn't). Still, it could be divided into three sub-arcs — Linkara's abduction and return, the story of the Magic Gun's origin, and the actual confrontation with Vyce — for easier consumption. This was repeated with the Gunslinger arc, which also has three sub-arc divisions (Linkara losing his magic and Holokara taking over, the team trapped in the apartment by the Gunslinger, and the final confrontation with the Gunslinger and Dr. Insano).
  • The Sleepwalker arc took just under two years to fully play out, which admittedly is similar to the Gunslinger arc, but even Lewis admitted that part of this was due to filming difficulties; he did manage to have it wrapped up in time to get another story arc — the Contest of Champions — in before his 10th anniversary.
  • Ironically for what was supposed to be a Breather Episode, The Contest of Champions itself has also fallen under this. Due to real life scheduling issues, the fallout from the #ChangeTheChannel controversy, and the COVID-19 pandemic, Lewis was left unable to film the intended scenes for the arc for months at a time and had to scrap plans altogether. The arc went on for six years ending in late 2023. Lewis has indicated that he's also unhappy the storyline has gone on much longer than he intended and he's also tired of it. As mentioned on the Trivia page, there was a point he very seriously considered scrapping the arc entirely and providing a summary of the ending instead.
• Archive Panic: 700 episodes and counting over fifteen years.
• Awesome Music:
  • The Atop the Fourth Wall theme song.
  • "The Ballad of Linkara" song that is first played at the end of his 200th episode, and reappears in a 10th Anniversary Thank You video.
  • The melancholy piano music that plays during the climax of Harvey's Christmas 2012 arc. It's given a more triumphant reprise when Harvey returns home and joins the gang for Christmas dinner.
  • The orchestral sci-fi theme that opens the episode instead of the regular Theme Tune whenever Linkara does a Star Trek comic.
  • The score that plays during the restoration of Comicron One in "Comic Book Quickies #7".
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Fat Grandma. Some find her so random it's hilarious, others think she's kinda racist (a white man, playing a white woman, acting like a Sassy Black Woman) and just obnoxious.
  • The King of Worms. Some found him to be a suitably good villain and that the Court of Worms storyline had some great tension and didn't overstay its welcome like some other storylines. Others found him to be stupid looking, and ultimately feel that he's proof that the show couldn't escalate past the Entity, a sentiment reinforced when the Entity returns and is revealed to have been responsible for the King's demise.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The conclusion of Amazons Attack! involves Linkara becoming sucked into a portal, becoming animated, then teaming up with Wonder Woman to fight a giant version of the comic itself. It has a 'To Be Continued' on the end, so it was either intended to go somewhere but was left hanging, or was intended to be a Take That! at how Amazons Attack essentially went nowhere.
• Broken Base:
  • Some fans find the storyline segments to be fun and enjoyable, while others feel they're amateurish sci-fi pastiches that distract from the main point of the show, reviewing bad comics. This has softened over the years, since Lewis has moved the storyline segments towards the ending of his reviews, thus greatly reducing the need to figure out the sections with review from the storyline.
  • The big "The Reason You Suck" Speech towards Spider-Man in his 200th episode reviewing One More Day, about the character still acting like a teenager, not taking responsibility despite constantly going on about it and never actually learning from his mistakes has caused some divisions with his viewers. Some viewers completely agreed with Linkara and the speech as a testament to how Marvel has ruined their once proud mascot. Others disagreed completely, believing Linkara was being too harsh towards a character that has been gone through years of terrible writers. Lewis does admit that part of the rant was just his own jaded perspective, and also goes on to declare that what he really took issue with was that the writers seem to downright refuse to let Peter grow up and behave like an adult already.
  • The rhyming review of a Star Trek issue caused a minor controversy, with some liking it and others finding it annoying.
  • Drunk Tony Stark. Some find him slurring Iron Man's speech to be funny. Some find it offensive. And some just find it plain annoying. It doesn't help that every time Linkara uses it, he needs to take time out of the review to address the controversy and explain why he's decided to keep doing it. Still, he does go on record claiming that if the comic is in the main continuity and set after the story "Demon In A Bottle" (in which Tony confronts his alcoholism), he will not do the Drunk Voice — which he makes good on with his overview of the problems with Civil War, as he doesn't use it for Tony there.
  • His take thats towards Brad Jones and RedLetterMedia in 2020 episodes. Well-deserved digs at the right targets, or petty, unprofessional and immature? Notably, when Lewis put together a compilation video of his reviews of the Prequel Trilogy, he removed his jab against the latter and admitted it really wasn't necessary.
• Can't Un-Hear It: Linkara's mockingly Wangsty voice for Superboy-Prime works very well. However, due to its nature as a parody, Lovhaug himself stated he wasn't sure how he felt about this status when informed about it during a livestream of him playing Hitman (2016).
• Captain Obvious Reveal: Parodied and defied in his "15 Worst Comics I've Ever Reviewed" video.
  Linkara: Spoilers: Holy Terror is the worst comic I've ever reviewed. Sorry, but I think it's pretty obvious in that regard. And as such, because it is so obvious, I'm taking it off the table. I want to have some surprise in this list.
• Complete Monster:
  • Mechakara is a robot from an Alternate Universe where Linkara's Robot Buddy Pollo turned evil, killed him, and robots overthrew humanity. Arriving in this universe, Mechakara intends to steal Linkara's Magic Gun so he can harness the power of magic and crush the remaining resistance on his world. His plans revolved around sending Linkara into a mental breakdown; and, when that fails, he captures him and plans to kill him slowly, simply because his death went too fast the first time around. During the Silent Hill Dead/Alive videos, Mechakara slowly Mind Rapes Linkara into thinking he's the long dead man who tortured his son to create the Magic Gun and almost convinces him to kill himself. In To Boldly Flee, Mechakara passes himself off as Linkara and infiltrates the USS Exit Strategy, intending to kill the entire crew with the help of the forcibly assimilated Todd and Nostalgia Chick. Mechakara would later assimilate the crew of the Caelestis space station and drained the life force of one astronaut in an attempt to recharge the ship. Only working with others when his goals coincide with theirs and perfectly willing to kill them otherwise, Mechakara is fueled only by his hatred for Linkara and all organic life forms.
  • "A Story of Magic": Mark's parents were members of a cult that worshipped the Entity and sought to rid the world of any non-believers. Working with their sect to forge a weapon capable of smiting their enemies, the two had Mark in the first place so his very life essence could be used to power the Magic Gun. When Mark turned 13, his parents assisted in a ritual that saw their son tortured and tormented, laughing at his sobs of pain. When Mark's blood and soul were drained into the Magic Gun, his parents immediately wielded it in the hopes of using it to kill in their god's name. The two showed no remorse when confronted by Mark's vengeful spirit, believing their actions were fully justified even as they succumbed to madness and death.
  • "The Machinations of Worms": The King of Worms is the youngest of the Entity's family of Eldritch Abominations, but makes up for its comparative lack of power in sheer sadism. The only one of its kind capable of understanding fear, the King had its visage scarred by the alien emotion and set out to master fear, initially so it could heal its face. However, the King soon began to covet its power so it could subjugate its fellow Outer Gods, sending its clockwork servants throughout the multiverse to learn more about fear. Coming across a world that had never felt strife or pain, the King introduced nightmares that drove the populace insane and caused them to violently butcher each other; the sole survivor was granted restored sanity by the King, who built its first throne upon their despairing soul. Upon learning of the Entity committing suicide, the King abducts Linkara so it can shred his very soul to learn what fear drove its elder cousin to kill itself, intent on spreading this fear "to every being, everywhere, forever."
• Continuity Lockout: Having run for over ten years, newcomers to the show might be at a loss regarding certain elements of the story-line segments. Characters and past events are constantly called-back too, even if they haven't been mentioned in the show for several years. Certain story-arcs even contain plot points from other review shows and the Channel Awesome anniversary movies. This can easily cause confusion for viewers who weren't around while Lewis was still a part of the site.
• Engaging Chevrons: When Iron Liz reviewed Chain Gang War, she got her own version of the theme tune, only for Linkara's regular theme tune to play immediately after it.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • As of the New Guardians #1 review, the spotlight has been taken from Linkara by the crazy antics of Snowflame. Read the comments to see why.
  • In the DVD episodes, Linkara finds his own Darkhorse, Tomboy, in the pages of Captain Flash. She's a powerless preteen girl whose badassery completely outshines the titular hero.
  • Mechakara is also a pretty popular character. Mostly for being a Knight of Cerebus, how he was nearly able to kill Linkara in their battle, and that he's an evil Pollo from an alternate universe. He's so popular that he was resurrected during the Vyce Arc and makes a cameo in a couple other reviews. He even lampshades his own popularity in the Sultry Teenage Super-Foxes #2 review. He's one of the major villains in the Channel Awesome 4th year anniversary crossover To Boldly Flee and is also the Big Bad of the movie.
  • Jaeris, the Gunslinger, is very popular over at the Treehouse, the fan community/Kink Meme at Livejournal.
  • The Contest of Champions arc introduces Pilo, a literal pile of rocks who somehow made into the semi-finals in a previous contest and, as of the Infinite Crisis review, has already won its first match. Needless to say, Pilo has already become beloved by the fans.
• Evil Is Cool: Lord Vyce qualifies for doing Darth Vader expy right, being a Knight Templar with a truly menacing voice, an absolute refusal to give up, and a surprisingly sympathetic backstory that flavors his legacy of conquest. Mechakara counts, too, being the show's first villain to be taken seriously and an absolutely terrifying Killer Robot and Omnicidal Maniac who makes Vyce look like the picture of rationality.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Each of the Mirror Universe characters have one.
    • Captain Linkara: "Mirrorkara"
    • Doctor Insano: "Mirrorsano"
    • Liz: "Mirror Liz"
    • Pollo: "Tom Pollo"
  • Fans have appropriately dubbed Linkara using the Zeonizer as "Pimpkara" due to his flashy white suit and hat.
  • The fans have dubbed the spirit inside the magic gun Meg (based on the initials MG for "Magic Gun"). This later became Ascended Fanon for a while, as in the Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham #1 review, the wizard Steven reveals the spirit's name is "Margaret". However, starting with the review of The Ring, vol. 4: Birthday, the spirit adopted the name "Mark" after coming out as a trans man.
• Fandom Rivalry: An odd rivalry popped up between AT4W fans and fans of OneyPlays, mostly related to a joke made about Linkara's old webcomic Lightbringer (something he considers an Old Shame), which Linkara wasn't really amused by. Oney's fans see Linkara as someone who can't take a joke made about him very well on top of using Doug Walker's reaction to the same jokes as a defense ^note This being despite Doug himself dedicating an entire episode of Nostalgia Critic on how humor is subjective, while Linkara's fans say the problem is the fact the joke has either been run into the ground or is just getting used to try and harass him by bringing up something he regrets.
• Gateway Series: Although Linkara did not expect non-comic book fans to find the show funny, one of the most frequently asked questions is "how do I get into comics?" from people who became interested in comic books after watching the show. This also influenced his decision to phase out the Continuity Alarm. Originally he had it so that he wouldn't ramble about continuity to seasoned comic readers, but found that more people actually wanted him to get into the history of the things he was talking about.
  • His frequent cameos with other Channel Awesome reviewers are likely to get you to pick up their shows on your regular viewing schedule.
• Growing the Beard:
  • For the general reviews, a general consensus is that Linkara improved as a reviewer when he became less of a Caustic Critic, became more nuanced in his reviewing style, and as he started to branch out and reviewing not only good comics but other media as well. Exactly when this shift happened is debated, but around the time as his first costume change is a commonly cited one.
  • For his storyline, while the first couple of arcs are fondly remembered by fans, they really aren't anything more special than the typical "bad guy attacks the reviewer" storylines that were common in the early era of youtube critics. That started to change with A Piece Of The World Is Missing, a storyline that focused on more horror elements and a creeping sense of dread, but also had Linkara saving the day not by fighting like in the previous arcs, but by having him Talking the Monster to Death. After this, the storylines became more varied, the characters would be more fleshed out, and Lewis would gradually start developing his own lore that didn't need to heavily rely on preexisting media like the early arcs.
• Ham and Cheese:
  • His Snowflame impression.
  • Only to be outdone by Will Wolfgram's Snowflame in the "New Guardians #1" review and subsequent appearances.
    Snowflame (Will): Snowflame is stealing your shoooooooes!
• Harsher in Hindsight: The show has its own page.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • Harvey calling Linkara kid, signifying that he thinks of him as a surrogate son.
  • His demands to bring back Lian Harper in DC's rebooted universe are this now that Convergence did just that.
  • While the Cassandra Cainstropective was already one long tribute to the unappreciated character, it becomes even more heartwarming following the release of Birds of Prey (2020); while that film altered Cassandra to the point of accusations of her being the character In Name Only, the Cainstropective is now an even better product that Cassandra's fans can use to show others what the character is really like compared to the film version.
  • His rant about the events of Heroes in Crisis and expressing the fear of it not being undone unless fans demand it. Thanks to fan and even creator backlash, that's exactly what happened: The original DC Infinite Frontier one-shot revealed Roy came back and had Barry ask Wally to be the Flash again, and the first and penultimate arcs of The Flash (Infinite Frontier) revealed that Wally didn't kill anyone — the first arc revealed the Speed Force explosion wasn't due to Wally breaking down, but was really was the result of Savitar being trapped in it, his attempts to take control of it, and the Speed Force trying to kick him out and "One Minute War" revealing that Gold Beetle pulled the same "save everyone and swap them out with dead clones" that was done with Wally himself on everyone outside of him, Roy, and Poison Ivy. Hell, even unrelated to Heroes in Crisis the penultimate issue of the Flash's IF run revealed that Troia's and Tempest's respective sons, as well as the long-thought unborn son of the second Mr. Terrific, were still alive.
• He Panned It, Now He Sucks!:
  • After his reviews of All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder and The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Linkara suffered a bit of backlash from Frank Miller fans who said that Miller's contributions to the comic industry (namely, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One, and revolutionizing Daredevil) gave him a free pass to do wackier stuff. Linkara heartily disagreed. He got the last laugh after Holy Terror came out and Frank Miller supporters stopped really being a thing.
    • Linkara also noted that no one cared when he mocked Stan Lee, despite Lee having a larger impact on the comic book industry than Miller.
  • He seems to have taken steps to avoid this with his Spawn review, noting at the beginning that he didn't want to bash Spawn as a character, and that Spawn was better than most early Image comic characters by far.
  • He managed to avoid this in his Man of Steel v-log, albeit accidentally (seeing the movie over a month after it was released due to being busy).
  • In panels, he's mentioned this is the reason he doesn't do reviews of work by Garth Ennis and Mark Millar, despite not liking their work. He eventually reviewed Millar's For The Animals (noting it's a very good comic that really gets Superman as an inspiring icon) and Trouble (Marvel Comics) (which, although he did pan, no one complained, likely because Millar himself considers said book to be an Old Shame) and Dangerous Habits.
  • He drew some criticisms when he admitted during his review of the comic adaptation of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story of hating the iconic hallway scene where Darth Vader slaughters the rebel soldiers. Though for some, not so much the criticism than the lead up (Basically his mocking Bait-and-Switch), his tone sounding more like he was experiencing Hype Backlash, and his rather confusing reasons why he didn't (Essentially he likes the more methodical and taciturn Vader from the OG series and felt the scene was too bombastic for his character despite Vader barely being in the movie). Some commenters against him saying he came off as a curmudgeon old man doing the "Back in my day..." rant when trying to illustrate how Vader should be scary.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The show has its own page.
• Ho Yay: Jaeris proposed to Linkara in at least one alternate universe.
  • In the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure review, Linkara criticizes Jonathan's frankly ridiculous outfit choices, and is quite happy when it's destroyed. Without context, it sounds quite a bit like Eating the Eye Candy.
  Jojo: His hair is tearing through my clothes!
  Linkara: Oh no, so terrible...
  • This line, from his top 15 favorite jokes:
  Linkara: And really, don't we all just love boners?
• Iconic Character, Forgotten Title: Does this in his opening credits. Atop the Fourth Wall gets name-dropped once (twice in the full version), but the song ends on repetition of his name. The opening also used to end on a separate 'Linkara' logo but more recent episodes end on the Atop the Fourth Wall logo.
• I Knew It!:
  • The Entity turning out to be Missingno. While there were hints dropped, Lewis states in the Electric Tale of Pikachu commentary that he was shocked by how many fans figured it before he revealed it.
  • Several fans called that the truth of 90s Kid's message from the future in the Sleepwaker arc was that the Entity was back and possessing Linkara.
  • Many fans figured out that Linkara's double in the Clone Saga arc was Mechakara.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: The reason he discontinued his "That's All I'm Saying" videos, where he looked at new comics on a weekly basis and gave short honest opinions on them. He felt they became repetitive and had him saying the same thing over and over.
• Jerkass Woobie: The Entity, post-resurrection. It is still a highly elitist Eldritch Abomination... having an existential crisis. It departs somberly, musing on whereas the parts of it that committed suicide beforehand found peace.
• Memetic Badass:
  • From his Let's Play of Pokémon Omicron, Li'l Petti!
  • Also, Captain America [*cue America, Fuck Yeah*]
• Memetic Mutation:
  • I AM A MAN! *punch* and variants.
  • "Of course! Don't you know anything about science?"
  • Also helped popularize "Bees. My god."
  • Linkara (and by extension Lewis) having an obsession with Cybermats.
  • After his appearance in a Sad Panda countdown in which it was claimed that Linkara reviews lamps and a joke in To Boldly Flee, the whole idea of him being a lamp reviewer has been mentioned many times by other reviewers.
    • He later made a similar joke in his review of All-Star Batman and Robin #8 where he joked that maybe some people live in their own little worlds where he's a badger who reviews late-night talk shows. Badgerkara quickly took off.
  • Riling against the evils of ANCIENT EGYPT!!! *cue Imperial March*
  • Basically, any joke or clip he uses repeatedly tends to catch on.
  • Linkara Running^* From a crossover with the Nostalgia Critic and Spoony, a shot of Linkara running against a green screen took on a life of its own.
• Moe: Sadako Yamamura appears in the title card of "The Ring, vol. 2"... but with Thing Tucker's face, it looks just plain adorable.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Mechakara firmly crossed it when he tried to drive Linkara to suicide (and it was not Played for Laughs) by making him think he was the father of the child who was turned into his magic gun.
  • Holokara pulls an extreme Face–Heel Turn and dives over the horizon in a single move, when he threatens to kill '90s Kid if he ever interrupts the show again. Definitely not Played for Laughs. To top it off, he later threatens to maim Harvey Finevoice when Harvey calls him out for threatening to kill '90s Kid. Specifically, he casually threatens to crush the singer's vocal chords.
  • Lord Vyce crosses it either when he Mind Rapes NIMUE, forcing Linkara to shut her down (at which point we can pretty much drop the "Anti" part of Anti-Villain) or when he tries to destroy the Earth and even the universe with a singularity generator because he can't accept that the Entity is truly gone, despite having just watched Linkara defeat it for good.
    NIMUE: You are evil, Lord Vyce, despite your proclamations to the contrary.
  • The Bandit Chief shows how far he's willing to go to win the Contest of Champions when he sends Confession to torture Linkara during a lull in the contest. This is all so he could gain some vital information to use against Linkara on the possibility they might be pitted against each other later on in the contest.
• Never Live It Down:
  • One time, in his PO Unboxing Videos, Linkara and Viga went three hours of unboxing, before Linkara realized that he forgot to turn on the sound recording. He had to check if the sound was on, several times, in the next PO Unboxing.
  • Linkara himself will never let Superman forget his speech about letting "over there" take care of itself. Or let Darkseid forget how he once sat on a couch. Or let the Monitors forget their stupid bureaucracy, or Batman his hatred of rock and roll, or Spider-Man his deal with Mephisto, etc.
  • Less mean-spirited than the above, but Ray Palmer is always "Our Great Disaster-stopping pal, Ray Palmer".
• Nightmare Retardant:
  • Okay, once the Entity was finally out in the open, it had a lot of really creepy lines with a neat voice filter effect, and the way it kept glitching out and teleporting around the room was genuinely creative and freaky. But it's in the form of '90s Kid. Linkara already has such an adorable baby face and '90s Kid has such dumb fashion sense it dulled the edge of the horror a bit. But for others, all that made it even worse...
  • After all the buildup over the face of the King of Worms, it's a platinum mask with eye and mouth holes. He's also played by Suede doing a bad impression of Bane. Moral: never build anything up as "more frightening than anything" or the like.
    • And then he touches Linkara's head and dies. Ironically, for a villain built up as fear incarnate, the King of Worms is probably the least scary thing in the series once he actually shows up.
• Paranoia Fuel:
  • The Entity. A creature that can make people disappear from the world with ease and absorbs them into itself, watches Linkara just to laugh at him as his friends disappear and turns out to have been hiding in plain sight by his side the entire time.
  • The Stinger for the The Thing from Another World #1 review has Linkara, Harvey Finevoice, 90's Kid, and Linksano trapped in Linkara's home, with no access to NIMUE or Comicron-1, and - oh yes - there's an unknown intruder in the house.
  • The arc involving the King of Worms shows it using the cybermats to attack and replace almost all of Linkara's friends with robotic doubles.
• Shocking Moments:
  • Holokara threatening to kill '90s Kid. It starts off with just him telling '90s Kid to stop interrupting the show, but then suddenly turns to Holokara phasing his hand into '90s Kid's chest and threatening to stop his heart.
  • During the Star Trek/Green Lantern: Spectrum war story segment there's a brief moment of relief from Nimue and Pollo trying to assure Linkara that the Entity is dead. Then the engines start going haywire, Comicron-1 crashes on the moon, and Linkara and the gang have to escape in the Vigilant. The episode concludes with Linkara being sure that the Entity is still alive, and the all too familiar musical cue ends things with a final shot of the wrecked Comicron-1.
• So Bad, It's Good: Some people enjoy the Vyce arc solely because of what a hilarious Sue it makes Linkara, and also to see how epic he can make it. Given some of the reviewed material, this may be deliberate.
• Special Effect Failure:
  • The poorly-animated Vohrsoth. Lampshaded in-universe.
  • The above, as well as many other special effects blunders, is lampshaded by Linkara's future self in the show's April 2011 recap, with him often noting that "they should fix that".
  • The Gunslinger notices that his gunshots produce sparks and explosions, yet do no damage to anything in Linkara's apartment. This becomes a plot point in the next episode.
  • The CGI shortcoming involving Pollo and the Cybermat during the Star Trek II comic review was sort of an inevitability.
  • While inside the Court of Worms, one can clearly see Lewis' apartment reflected in the mask of the King of Worms. It also looked like Lewis was wearing the Harvey costume and filming with a tablet computer.
• Strawman Has a Point:
  • Linkara's getting angry with 90's Kid over draining the BFG is treated as unwarranted, but it is understandable considering 90's Kid ruined one of the few weapons they had that was still capable of functioning for an idiotic reason.
  • Holokara threatening to kill 90's Kid was a severe overreaction, but he did raise the point that 90's Kid is always interrupting reviews, and what's more, Holokara did ask him to stop before resorting to threats.
  • During the Sleepwalker arc, Linkara's friends choose to walk out on him for starting to cross lines that they don't agree with, such as putting them under surveillance without telling them and trying to hack into government satellites instead of waiting for help from Alan. While they have valid concerns about him Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, they ignore that Linkara has very good reason for acting like this as 90s Kid is working with Vyce and the very real possibility of the Entity's return is looming over their heads. Linkara's friends come off as very unsympathetic toward his efforts to prepare for future threats, especially in light of how often they get caught off guard. Granted, this is undermined by the fact that he was watching them without their knowledge or consent due to 90's Kid's apparent betrayal and that the last time something like this happened, Linkara was becoming evil. It's further undermined once it's revealed that the Entity is possessing Linkara.
• The Un Twist: Let's face it, nearly everyone called that the "clone" was Mechakara Back from the Dead again. Which is precisely why that's not the real twist of the arc, it's that Mirrorkara is the Arc Villain! As Lewis lampshaded in the Tenth Anniversary Livestream that premired the episode:
  No one called THAT one!
• Unexpected Character: Who the hell expected Mirrorkara, of all people, to be the Arc Villain of The Clone Saga?
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Iron Liz, in her debut appearance, was wearing Linkara's jacket and hat and very little makeup, and was holding a comic book in front of her chest. Those fashion and blocking choices — coupled with an unusually deep voice due to being a trans woman — had a lot of people confused. The name "Iron Liz" helped settle things, as did the introduction of her blog, where there is a much more flattering photo◊ of her on display.
• Visual Effects of Awesome:
  • Linkara walking around 90s Kid/The Entity is seamless.
  • The Game Show Reviewer now does CGI for the show, and his work is amazing for web animation. Of particular note is Comicron 1 crashing on the moon.
    • By the same token, Comicron 1 being rebuilt is mesmerizing.
  • The Contest of Champions segments, with various layered green screens, CGI animated introductions and backgrounds, and the Temlin Stadium in its full glory, are probably some of the most stylish and impressive visual effects for the story of Atop the Fourth Wall so far.
• The Woobie:
  • Mark, the spirit inhabiting Linkara's Magic Gun, as shown during "A Story of Magic" story arc. The parents who he loved and adored never cared about him other than using him as a sacrifice to forge a weapon to use in mass genocide for their God. When he turned 13, he was tortured and killed to create the weapon, but when they touched the weapon they were driven insane and killed. The fact that his name was forgotten for years, even by the cultists who killed him makes it just a bit more painful.
  • After Holokara threatened them, '90s Kid and Harvey became Woobies as well.
    • And then Harvey becomes perhaps the biggest one on the show when we learn about his Dark and Troubled Past.
    • The Gunslinger is also a massive example of Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds; despite being the main villain of his arc (initially), when his backstory is revealed, it's hard not to feel bad for him.
    • Somehow, the Entity becomes this at the end of its life, overcome by the painful realization that even its existence is meaningless, and the revelation that the entire Sleepwalker arc was it trying to justify its existence. When the Entity fizzles out, it's depicted as a sad moment.
  • Todd in the Shadows in the 500th episode. All he wants to do is celebrate Linkara's achievement, but his methods are outdated, having been done in previous milestone reviews.

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