YMMV / Solid jj

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Some commenters believe that Spider-Man in "You Choose Spider-Man" only pretends to agree to team up with Green Goblin in order to talk to him and figure out his motive, because it's a more in-character thing for Spider-Man to do. The video itself doesn't have anything to disprove it, but also doesn't give any indication that there's anything more besides Spider-Man agreeing to join forces with Goblin until he is disappointed by Goblin's For the Evulz motive.
  • Solid JJ said that Evil Batman in "The Injustice League" is just messing with everyone's heads by making it sounds like Batman has terrible opinions, something that Batman also argues in the video. The punchline however is that there's one thing Evil Batman implies about Batman that is actually true (Batman believes that Earth is flat), leading the viewers to interpret that all the things that Evil Batman implies are or could be true as well.
  • Similarly, some commenters believe that in "Batman's Contingency Plans", Batman is making the titular plans up on the spot to avoid revealing his actual plans, hence why they all end up being Looney Tunes sketches.
  • Many commenters believe that Captain America didn't beat up Max Schneider out of hatred for the Germans in "Culturally Insensitive Captain America", but rather because he's still suffering from PTSD and the German last name brought back bad memories of him fighting in WWII. Assuming there's any continuity involved, then the revelation in "Avengers Anti-Drug PSA" that Cap's strength came from cocaine might have also contributed to his Berserk Button.
  • It's theorized that the bomber in "Spider Sensitivity" wasn't actually mute, but rather taking advantage of Spider-Man's predicament (being accused of bigotry due to his spider-senses leading him to accuse a black man and a gay couple of being up to no good) to get him to leave.
  • In '"Bakugan Was Impossible", there is an interpretation that Masquerade supporting Dan how to play Bakugan is because of Alice's influence, as Masquerade and Alice are one and the same in canon and Alice is Dan's friend.
  • Some believe that the suicidal man in "Superman Mental Health Awareness" was never planning to reveal Superman's Secret Identity and was just threatening him with the idea because it was the only way Superman would let him jump.
  • Were Statler and Waldorf truly enjoying Fozzie's show in "The Muppets Get Controversial", or just pretended they did to mess with Kermit and then catch Fozzie off guard when they asked him for more controversial topics?
  • Some have suggested that the Old Man in "Scooby Doo and the Dude with the Axe" was actually out to get the Mystery Gang based off his failure to describe the "ghost" in any detail. While he could just be old and have a poor memory, this comment describes it best.
    HoV: Judging from the old guy's explanation, I'm convinced he's been trying to get the gang killed, and this axe man is just his bottom-of-the-barrel last resort.
  • "It's Just a Burning Pokemon": Was Professor Oak actually going senile, or was he merely acting like he was, just to mess with Gary?
  • Fozzie's Innocently Insensitive comments to Gonzo in "Gonzo's Grand Finale''. Was he being his usual jerkass self without realizing he was gonna try to kill himself or did he realize Gonzo was gonna go on stage no matter what and was trying to de-escalate the situation? After all, he did convince him to change his act from shooting himself with a gun to making it his usual cannon show, even if the result ended up being the same.
  • Several comments from "Joker’s New Sidekick" assume that Joker is making up Zarbar as having always been there and being able to fire concentrated cancer from his hands in an attempt to mess with Batman.
  • "Hulk's Questionable Rage": Lampshading Depending on the Writer makes it more possible that only the Hulk has a problem with immigrants, and that Bruce Banner really might not share his opinion.
  • Given ''Meowth Solves the JFK Conspiracy" possibly portrays Meowth as a pathological liar, it raises the question if he was being honest when he was translating what Pikachu was saying in "Pikachu is Sick and Twisted".
• Alternative Joke Interpretation:
  • At the end of ''Meowth Solves the JFK Conspiracy" Officer Jenny calls Meowth the guy who killed John F. Kennedy and immediately opens fire on him. Is this meant to imply that Meowth was actually telling the truth about killing JFK? Or, given that Meowth's only visual evidence was a crudely done photoshop, was the joke that Jenny just blindly believed his claims despite evidence to the contrary?
  • At the end of "Aquaman is Actually a Bad Guy," Batman is seen with a Burger King bag after accusing Aquaman for being irresponsible over the implication that he was late because he stopped at Burger King. The intended joke is of course that Batman, who also showed up late for the meeting, is guilty of the very same thing he accused Aquaman of doing, but the still-image format of the video leads to the alternative interpretation that he bullied Aquaman out of the meeting to steal his food.
  • In "Public Domain Mickey", Mickey and Pete repeatedly state that they have no affiliation with Disney. This was most likely included by Solid JJ to satirize legal disclaimers (while at the same time avoiding potentially getting in trouble for trademark infringement), but some viewers interpreted it as the two distancing themselves from the Walt Disney Company now that they were able to.
• Awesome Moments: "The Avengers Interview Hulk": Hulk roasting Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man one-by-one, then when they reject him using a blatant excuse, coolly tells them that he will sue them instead of throwing a tantrum.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • Normally, the idea of someone discussing plans for genocide would be incredibly screwed up. But then there's the idea of Papa Smurf discussing genocide in "Papa Smurf's Final Solution", which just steps into hilarious. And then there's the fact Papa Smurf got this idea from reading "Smurf-anon forums" that just sends the whole thing over the side in comedy.
  • Batman's status as a Politically Incorrect Hero surprisingly nets more laughs than offense due to just how sudden it is in the videos it's brought up, usually thanks to him immediately being called out for it or punished for it. "The Injustice League" especially has this in spades with how fast Evil Batman and Robin expose the original Batman's controversial opinions, much to both sides' disgust.
  • Gonzo's Grande Finale manages to take a subject matter that shouldn't normally be touched with a thirty-foot pole in comedy and makes it absolutely hilarious. Gonzo killing himself from his wife's implied fatal accident? Horrifying. Him doing it by shooting himself out of a cannon to splatter him against the wall? Fucked up, but not very funny. The horrified screams of the audience in the background, Fozzie inadvertently giving Gonzo a Suicide Dare and his immediate horror that "it actually happened this time", the sheer determined resignation in Gonzo's voice, the sound of Gonzo dripping off the wall, and the laugh track in the background drowning out the screams and general horror? Pushes it so far past being horrifying it goes straight into gut-bustingly funny.
  • John Lennon writes songs about abusing women. When the other Beatles try to talk some sense into him, he gets the wrong idea and assumes their criticism of his latest song was due to the lack of rhymes. One of his lyrics even states in no uncertain terms that his views and actions represent the whole band.
  • Just when it seems like Marty and George McFly can redeem Biff, he states that he's still going to bang Lorraine. Marty blinks out of existence as soon as he hears this.
  • "Professor X's Last Resort" has Charles Xavier using someone's memories of The Holocaust to Mind Rape Magneto, a Holocaust survivor, much to Magneto's horror. Normally, trauma associated with events like this shouldn't be funny, but it manages to become absurdly hilarious somewhere between Xavier using it on Wolverine (Who grumbles "Argh, fuckin' Holocaust" like it's just sand in his eyes) and Rogue to prove that it's not specifically targeted at Magneto, and Cyclops no-selling it by being an implied Holocaust denier.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: After The Lantern Spectrum was released, fans quickly got attached to Cleoptris of the Light-Blue Lantern Corps, due to her cute Egyptian themed design and her actress's funny voice delivery.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • "Happy Holidays from Solid Snake" is a touching video where Solid assures the audience that they can get through the COVID-19 pandemic and ends with a text telling them to check on their family and friends who loved them.
  • "Gangster SpongeBob 2: A New Day":
    • Unlike his canon self, Squidward is refreshingly nice in this video. In spite of reminding Patrick that he and SpongeBob had lost sight of their noble goal during their gangster days, Squidward doesn't hold it against Patrick and assures him that he can start over.
    • When Patrick says he plans to move against the corrupt Mr. Krabs, Squidward is concerned for Patrick's safety and later is delighted at the sight of Patrick giving away his money to the citizens.
    • What motivates Patrick to go through with his plan? His and SpongeBob's BFF ring.
  • "Doctor Doom's Intervention", which seems to start out as a usual encounter between Reed Richards and Doctor Doom, ends up turning into this as Reed talks things out with Doom, helping him realize most of his villainy was spawned from having a rough life, telling him it's never too late to change, and even inviting him out for a drink to chat things over, which Doom happily agrees to. Of course, things become funny again as they both forgot about the bomb that Doom planted, killing dozens of people.
  • "Batman Joins the Justice League" Superman immediately starts complimenting Batman and cheering him up when the Dark Knight is feeling suicidal over Gleek joining the League before he did.
    • Each member of the League is also thrilled to have Batman join.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • One of Jj's short videos involves Homer and Bart Simpson getting involved with NFTs. A couple years later, they would.
  • One JJ video has Drake & Josh entering a nuclear reactor, and Josh abolishing Drake pulling a lever, accidentally causing a nuclear meltdown in the process. In Oppenheimer, Josh's actor would play Kenneth Bainbridge, the director of the Trinity Nuclear Test. For added hilarity, the film has Bainbridge's hand hovering over the abort button during the entire countdown.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Sandman in "Sandman's Eternal Soul", while he's still a supervillain, it's very hard not to feel sorry for him considering all he wanted was to fight Spider-Man only for him to get bullied instead.
  • When Marty McFly insults Biff's intelligence to his face, the bully breaks down and states that due to having nobody but his grandmother looking after him, he has to sacrifice study time doing menial work for money and that caused him to fall behind his classmates.
  • Blue/Gary in "Basically Pokémon Red and Blue" gets his ass kicked by Red just a short while after becoming Champion. To make it worse, Professor Oak, his grandfather tells him that the reason he lost was because he didn't love his Pokémon enough to keep the title, and by the end he gets beat up by Team Rocket grunts.
• Older Than They Think: While Fozzie Bear's Innocently Insensitive behavior and tendency to make Black Comedy jokes is ramped up here, one may be surprised that this does have precedent in canon, as The Muppet Show occasionally did have him be insensitive and delve into occasional black comedy (which was toned down after The Muppet Show due to the franchise becoming more family friendly), such as his joke about the Titanic disaster in episode 420, which ended up getting him a serious Dude, Not Funny! response from Statler, who was actually a survivor on the Titanic (though Waldolf found it to be pretty good).
• Squick: Taskmaster in "Taskmaster's Task" truly shows his dedication to his Power Copying ability by snapping his arm and spinning it just to copy what Reed Richards can do. Pretty much everyone else in the video is rightfully disgusted by this horrible form of self-injury, but we also get to hear Taskmaster's snapped, spinning arm for an uncomfortably long while too!
• Strawman Has a Point: In "Doctor Doom Takes Charge", after Doctor Doom tells Spider-Man that his first act as ruler of the world would be the freedom of all slaves, the latter tells him the world stopped doing that a while ago. While the video portrays this as Doom and Latveria not being caught up with other countries, considering how many places there are in the world where slavery is still practiced, many viewers instead felt like Spider-Man stopped Doom from doing a genuinely great thing.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Gary's realization that his grandpa actually forgot his name in "Just a Burning Pokémon" can be heartwrenching for anyone that has seen a loved one suffer from dementia, not helped by "It's just a burning memory" playing in the background. While it is immediately followed by Ash calling him "Dickfuck", Gary is still left distraught as he realizes that Ash took advantage of his grandfather’s senility to insult him.
  Gary: We were supposed to have so many years left!
  • Batman going around and realizing all the villains have taken the day off in "Gotham's Day Off" is pretty hilarious, especially as he gets fed up at the end when he comes across Mr. Freeze getting some ice cream. However, the last shots of the video are of Mr. Freeze, eating his bowl of ice cream alone, with the other bowl in front of Nora's cryogen pod, with a framed picture of Victor and Nora enjoying ice cream together on a date during happier times. A solemn reminder of Mr. Freeze's situation, even in a fun parody video.
  • "Breaking Down" is also a surprisingly somber video, where it's indicated that Walter White is undergoing a Dying Dream of sorts. He meets up with the likes of Jesse, Mike, and Gustavo, who all tell him that everything's okay and that he needs to rest. Hank then appears out of nowhere much to Walt's shock, and he jovially offers him a drink, making sure to clarify that he likes it on the rocks. As Walt accepts, the scene shifts to him appearing in the bar in New Hampshire, all as "It's just a burning memory" plays in the background.
  Walter: (sounding exhausted) Yes. Yes, I would like that very much. I'd like that very...very...much.

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