YMMV / Soviet Womble

• Broken Base: Some viewers are uncomfortable with amount of sex and Fanservice-related jokes towards Nep whenever she's around, and since there's a bit of uncertainty as to how comfortable she is with them, whether or not it's okay is a bit of a touchy subject. For what it's worth, Soviet acknowledged and apologized for any potential misbehavior, stating that Nep is good friends with the clan and it's all in good fun, but also agreeing to tone it down.
• Crosses the Line Twice: For ZF, there is no line.
  • Several jokes that get thrown around in Womble's videos reference things like the Nazis and the Holocaust. Edges towards Refuge in Audacity when it's the German clan members like Gambit or Poro who get in on the jokes. Soviet is usually the one to lampshade this.
    Gambit: Alpha one-one, this is Gas Chamber...
    Soviet: You can't have the callsign "Gas Chamber"!
    (Later)
    Gambit: Alpha one-one, this is Auschwitz, we are getting ready for air support as soon as you are there, over.
    ZF Member: (Incredulously) He's named himself "Auschwitz".
    Soviet: I don't even know anymore.
  • The entirety of "Random Arma Bullshittery (part 9)", which could be alternatively titled "The ZF Clan Becomes a Terrorist Cell," making a slow descent into villainy that in other contexts would be crossing multiple Moral Event Horizons utterly hysterical. Their increasingly violent logo and theme song really solidify it.
    Badgers! They were the badgers!
    For henceforth they have announced a partnership with ISIS! (plays "Saleel al-Sawarim")
  • "The Dancing Lich" features Soviet managing to pull this trope off in a different way, playing an uncomfortably polite and creepily-voiced lich in Blade and Sorcery, forcibly dancing with visibly and audibly terrified women set to pleasant classical music, along with the occasional casual dismemberment. It's as borderline disturbing and hilarious as it sounds.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Zeb was just a random guy and only appeared for a brief moment in "Random Space Engineers Bullshittery (part 2)", but he's frequently mentioned as one of the most hilarious parts of the episode, with many hoping he reappears or even becomes part of the clan in the future.
  • "Random The Culling Bullshittery (part 2)" introduced two: The inanimate rock Soviet named "Clive" (who was so popular he got a fanmade Twitter account only 20 minutes from his introduction on stream), and Soviet's little brother Lamram/"Jack", whose brutal takedown of Soviet and Cyanide is hilariously satisfying.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The censored Vietnamese racism montage in "Rising Storm 2: Vietnam Bullshittery (part 1)" was firmly a bit of Crosses the Line Twice humor, but it's become more awkward after Nevil (ironically Vietnamese himself) was kicked out of the ZF Clan for racist remarks that his peers, Womble included, found to be decidedly less humorous in tone.
• He Really Can Act:
  • Many commentators were surprised to learn that the titular character of "The Dancing Lich" wasn't a voiceover from something else for a gag, but was in fact Womble himself pulling off his best British Joker voice. He even manages to hit a genuinely monstrous roar for a perfect Last Note Nightmare.
  • Several passages in "What's so strange about The Forest? (2014)" showcase Womble's strength as a storyteller, taking the viewer along in his experience in playing through the game and getting increasingly engrossed in the plot (while also being distracted by its inconsistent quality and unintentional goofiness). When he gets to describing the endgame of the main story, Womble succinctly conveys all the horrifying revelations and devastating twists with the exact emotional weight they deserve, with bar none his most chilling writing and performances in his history of making videos.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Womble's often mocked lack of skill in CSGO is considerably funnier since he found out in CSGO Bullshittery #9 that Cyanide deliberately gave him a shitty custom crosshair, not expecting him to actually use it. So of course, Womble used it for years.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Womble is a faggot."^Explanation Started by Edberg in the first Rust Bullshittery, since catching on with other ZF members and the audience, no thanks to Womble initially telling people to cut it out.
  • "Fix your upload schedule!"^Explanation The rate at which Soviet uploads his Bullshittery videos dropped off for a while, primarily because Soviet emphasizes high quality over quantity in his videos, and he does everything himself rather than hiring an editor. As a result his videos often take upwards of a month to put together due to complex keyframing and his insistence on making sure everything meets his standards of quality.
  • "Oh no, he's hot!"^Explanation At the very end of "What's So Strange About The Forest", when Womble delivers his final thoughts, he does a completely unexpected face reveal, leading to an enthusiastically positive response by the fans when they found he was unexpectedly handsome.
• Never Live It Down:
  • Invoked after the Curb-Stomp Battle and Cyanide revealing he had gotten Team EnVyUs NBK and Enkay as ringers, they stayed around to play some additional games before Cyanide lets out a scream of amazement - he had knifed NBK. Soviet laments the fact that he's never going to let that go and is going to end most Counter-Strike: Global Offensive conversations with "Well, I knifed NBK!".
  • Womble himself won't live it down at the fact he had a "prostate exam" at a relatively young age (PSA screenings are usually done around 40 years old or so). His clan will not let him forget about it.
    TeamSpeak Announcer: Your channel was edited. User joined your channel.
    Cyanide: Soviet got fingered by a dude!
    TeamSpeak Announcer: User disconnected.
    Womble: Ugh... It was a legitimate medical procedure, it is normal for a man my age—- nearly normal for a man my age to have a prostate exam. Did he seriously wake up at 3 A.M. just to come online and say that?
  • It'll probably be quite some time before Womble getting stuck in his bathroom for 3 hours will stop being funny to some of his clanmates.
  • Gambit will never be able to live down the fact that he called the bow of the Titanic the "boog." Even if it actually is German for "bow", the ZF Clan clearly still get a kick out of that.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • "The Fairfax Residence", a video of Womble and Cyanide in a SWAT 4 mission not included in a proper Bullshittery, and for good reason. While there is occasional levity, the two approach the mission (breaking into the house of a Mad Artist Serial Killer and rescuing his captive) with utmost seriousness, making it as chilling and tense as that implies.
  • The Dancing Lich, while hilarious, is terrifying once you stop to think about it. In-character, the lich is forcing women to dance with him and they're all screaming their heads off. It's like watching The Joker in action once again, only this time he's a total creep. One woman manages to run away and try to hide and Womble simply teleports twice to get in her way, only for her to run away. We then get to see a pile of severed heads Womble has collected from his previous dance partners. "Oh well, one born every minute." Then he roars, catches up with the last on, slams her head into a door three times before slicing her head off with one stroke. Yikes.
• Tear Jerker:
  • While it is primarily Played for Laughs, it is rather heartbreaking to watch Womble being the idealistic Token Good Teammate of the Resistance in Random Arma Bullshittery Part 9, being horrified by his comrades various crimes and slowly becoming more and more disillusioned, with the once triumphant theme song for the Badgers, which started out declaring that they fight for freedom and democracy, becoming darker each time it plays, ending with it calling them terrorists (which Soviet agrees is true) and announcing that they've made an agreement to become part of ISIS, followed by Soviet joining in on using civilians as human shields. Even more so, his enthusiasm for being part of the Resistance becomes tragic when he ends up accidentally causing the its destruction, because no one bothered to tell him that the Russians could zero in on the sound of a mortar firing, despite at least one of them knowing about this and all of them knowing that he was fooling around with the AI mortar team just outside of the Resistance HQ.
  • Additionally, one could feel their heartstrings being pulled whenever he plays horror games; Womble himself admits that he doesn't do well with them, and it shows, considering that he gets absolutely terrified whenever they start getting down to the actual horror aspects. His Alien: Isolation playthrough is especially memorable for the fact that the poor guy was hyperventilating at several points, and there were even a few times where he had to step away from the keyboard to re-compose himself before pushing on.
  • The ending for the Arma 3 Antistasi Bullshittery series ends with the entire game having been reset due to a fatal script error, causing everyone in the resistance to be reset back to square one... And then they conclude that the whole resistance thing was All Just a Dream caused by heat stroke... With the exception of Cyanide, who didn't get teleported to the middle of the ocean when trying to find the Commander through the Debug options, and suddenly became both invisible and in-audible to the rest of ZF. With this in combination of the rest of ZF deciding to go back to normal civilian lives, Cyanide doesn't take it well with the last words he says being in a panicked tone.
  • During "What's so strange about The Forest? (2014)", Womble goes through an extended summary of the climax of the main game, pointing out how just about everything about it — discovering the remains of the Sahara Corp's base, finding that your player character's son (who you've been looking for all game after he was kidnapped following your plane crash) has already been sacrificed as part of a failed attempt at resurrecting another innocent child, followed by the game presenting a terrifying choice on whether or not to commit another atrocity to try bringing him back — was excellent and got him in a very personal way, claiming it was genuinely exceeding the likes of BioShock in how morally invested it made him. On top of his script being excellently-written, Womble's sobering delivery makes it clear just how devastating of an experience it was.
    Womble: After climbing over more corpses, you find the research site, and the other artifact. This one is far up in the northern mountain. Its purpose is unknown; the paper before you warns that improper use of this device might bring down an aircraft, some sort of pulse. Cross fired it on purpose, didn't he?
    
    The control pad beeps at you, and now the game gives you the exact same horrible choice. [...] But can you do it? Now that you're standing in Cross' shoes, could you kill for your child? Would you kill for your child? Would you damn so many dozens of innocent people to the horror show that awaits them below, knowing that they'll be strung upside-down and sliced open by the cannibals, all whilst begging for help? Could you wander into the wreckage of that plane, covered in red, and grab a frightened child? Could you carry them down into hell and impale them inside a machine from a nightmare whilst they beg you for mercy?
    
    Could you do that? Could you do that?
    
    Personally... I couldn't.

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