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  • Alternate Character Interpretation: In Designated Hero below, some of Ab3's less savoury traits are detailed while El Disgusto seems to personally dislike him and take jabs at him for reasons that are never explained. It's entirely possible that there are a lot of stories which aren't being told or behavioral quirks being left out. Meanwhile Weasley Crusher invites this with his own attitude; is he an Extreme Doormat, Only Sane Man or Jerkass who deserved to be ditched by Ab3 as the last episode implies?
  • Canon Defilement: In-game, any and every game based on an established setting. An example of this is Psycho Dave turning Yoda into a Drill Sergeant Nasty in "Trapped in Jedi Academy." While this was not a complete stretch in of itself, the way Psycho Dave characterized Yoda was far more strict than he would ever be in Star Wars proper.
    "Yoda force chokes you until you black out."
  • Designated Hero: Some of Ab3's grievances with Asenath come off this way. He has legitimate gripes with her role as a catalyst for and participant in some of Deviant Boy's shenanigans, but most of his complaints toward her concern her "flipper arm", a physical disfigurement, and her relationships with the other members of the party. Even after he has his epiphany regarding Annoying Girl's physical appearance during an acid-induced musical sequence, he accuses the others of being hypocrites for lusting after a girl with a flipper arm. Even Ab3 admits this is probably true of himself, admitting to having been a jackass at the time.
  • Ho Yay: Biff Bam's Call of Cthulhu house rules included "the less sanity points you have, the more gay you are." He then forced everyone to strip to the waist, and enforced his rulings by physically wrestling recalcitrant players into submission.
  • Love to Hate:
    • El Disgusto may be arguably the worst human being of the group as a person, but it's hard to argue against his dumbass ninja antics providing some of the funnier parts of the stories. It helps that he usually ends up facing the consequences of his actions both in the game and in real life.
    • Psycho Dave is an utterly despicable racist who's dangerously insane and the only member of the group who can be argued to be genuinely evil rather than "just" an irredeemably cruel asshole, but he can be surprisingly hilarious through his insanity, Killer Game Master tendencies, and his massive ego. And like Disgusto, he generally faces the consequences for his actions, and it's really satisfying when he's ultimately left to go off on a path of self-destruction when everyone gets fed up with his insanity.
  • Squick: Pretty much everything the appropriately-named El Disgusto and Deviant Boy do:
    • El Disgusto reached his peak when he caused the entire party to end up in Cthulhu's toilet.
    • In the first installment of the Second Edition, Deviant Boy lives up to his name by presenting fifty naked halflings chained to walls and twenty-five ribbed staves with permanent Grease spells cast upon them as the "treasure" of his "dungeon". Everyone except El Disgusto is appropriately horrified, and Ab3 calls Deviant Boy out for being puerile.

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