History Awesome / OverlySarcasticProductions

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* "Tokoyo and the Sea Serpent" has a considerable ammount from our titular young lass. First, there's her defiant pose when she declares to her father Oribashima "Hang in there, Dad!" Then she stops a priest from sacrificing a girl and, upon learning about the serpent, [[HoldOnToMyHat hands her robes]] so she can deal with the titular monster. And it doesn't hurt that she's good at swimming, thanks to [[ChekhovsSkill pearl-diving with the locals]] as practice. Then, while weighted down by a statue, she manages to [[EyeScream cutting out the sea monster's eye]] under water, before stabbing it in the heart. The last shot is of her [[ThinkNothingOfIt peacefully chilling at home]] as her father dusts his sword ''next to a trophy of the sea monster's skull''.

* "Tokoyo and the Sea Serpent" has a considerable ammount from our titular young lass. First, there's her defiant pose when she declares to her father Oribashima "Hang in there, Dad!" Then she stops a priest from sacrificing a girl and, upon learning about the serpent, [[HoldOnToMyHat hands her robes]] so she can deal with the titular monster. And it doesn't hurt that she's good at swimming, thanks to [[ChekhovsSkill pearl-diving with the locals]] as practice. Then, while weighted down by a statue, she manages to [[EyeScream cutting out the sea monster's eye]] under water, before stabbing it in the heart. The last shot is of her [[ThinkNothingOfIt peacefully chilling at home]] as her father dusts his sword ''next to a trophy of the sea monster's skull''.
** And the cherry on top? Red singing her cover of "I need a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler.

* "Tokoyo and the Sea Serpent" has a considerable ammount from our titular young lass. First, there's her defiant pose when she declares to her father Oribashima "Hang in there, Dad!" Then she stops a priest from sacrificing a girl and, upon learning about the serpent, [[HoldOnToMyHat hands her robes]] so she can deal with the titular monster. And it doesn't hurt that she's good at swimming, thanks to [[ChekovsSkill pearl-diving with the locals]] as practice. Then, while weighted down by a statue, she manages to [[EyeScream cutting out the sea monster's eye]] under water, before stabbing it in the heart. The last shot is of her [[ThinkNothingOfIt peacefully chilling at home]] as her father dusts his sword ''next to a trophy of the sea monster's skull''.

-->'''Red:''' '''[[UnstoppableRage Wrath.]]''' Sing, o goddess, of the wrath of Peleus's son Achilles, ''murderous,doomed'', who cost the Achaeans countless lives, hurling down to the house of Hades so many sturdy souls.

** Red recounts the less common origin that Helen was actually the daughter of Nemesis, the goddess of divine punishment for hubris. Which reframes the entire trojan war.

** In the later part of the video, Red referencing ''WesternAnimation/{{Wolfwalkers}}'' takes on ''levels'' of awesome when it's used to demonstrate three different [[MythologyGag lore]] coming together (The Werewolves of Ossory for werewhttp://share.pho.to/AdJgXolf lineage, the Benandanti wolves for astral projection, and Hollywood lore about lycanthrophy being transmitted by bite).

** In the later part of the video, Red referencing ''WesternAnimation/{{Wolfwalkers}}'' takes on ''levels'' of awesome when it's used to demonstrate three different [[MythologyGag lore]] coming together (The Werewolves of Ossory for werewolf lineage, the Benandanti wolves for astral projection, and Hollywood lore about lycanthrophy being transmitted by bite).

* Red summarized the entirety of the ''Literature/{{Mahabharata}}'', a notorious DoorStopper[[note]]At 200,000 individual lines, making it ten times as long as ''Literature/TheIliad'' and ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' '''combined,'''[[/note]] which makes up most of [[Myth/HinduMythology Hindu mythology]]... in sixty seconds. And ''succeeded''. The video turns Red's MotorMouth tendencies UpToEleven, at an estimated speech rate of 380 words per minute, all spoken clearly. For perspective, normal conversation is usually carried out in the 120-160 word/min range, and the fastest section of [[{{Music/Eminem}} Eminem's]] ''Rap God'' (the world record holder for fastest clear speech rate) clocks in at roughly 390 words/min. The fact that Red can speak clearly as fast as she can earns her a spot here, on top of the fact that she managed to pretty effectively summarize one of the longest written works in the world within a minute.

** Superman's metatextural role as the character for all heroes to aspire to be, in and out of the DC universe, is also partly why they believe the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse was floundering for a good while - there's not as much ''contrast'' between the heroic characters, and a miserable, darker and edgier Superman doesn't fill the role of TheParagon to compare and contrast with other darker and more cynical characters. Without that paragon to compare and contrast to and for other characters to bounce off of and interact with, everyone is much less interesting. Superman and Batman's OddFriendship works precisely because of this contrast. Red also highlights that she doesn't think Creator/ZackSnyder should be doing superhero movies and especially not Superman, because the man has has admitted ''he doesn't like comic books unless people are having sex and killing each other all the time'' and that he simply doesn't ''get'' what Superman is about because he's too cynical to understand.

** Superman's metatextural role as the character for all heroes to aspire to be, in and out of the DC universe, is also partly why they believe the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse was floundering for a good while - there's not as much ''contrast'' between the heroic characters, and a miserable, darker and edgier Superman doesn't fill the role of TheParagon to compare and contrast with other darker and more cynical characters. Without that paragon to compare and contrast to and for other characters to bounce off of and interact with, everyone is much less interesting. Superman and Batman's OddFriendship works precisely because of this contrast. Red also highlights that she doesn't think Creator/ZackSnyder should be doing superhero movies and especially not Superman, because the man has has admitted ''he doesn't like them unless people are having sex and killing each other all the time'' and that he simply doesn't ''get'' what Superman is about because he's too cynical to understand.

** Superman's metatextural role is also partly why they believe the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse was floundering for a good while - there's not as much ''contrast'' between the heroic characters, and a miserable, darker and edgier Superman doesn't fill the role of TheParagon to compare and contrast with other darker and more cynical characters. Without that paragon to compare and contrast to and for other characters to bounce off of and interact with, everyone is much less interesting. Superman and Batman's OddFriendship works precisely because of this contrast.

* Red crediting Hawthorne for adding that bit in "Midas" where he accidentally turns his daughter to gold. As unnecessary as it may be in the story, it makes the consequences of Midas's wish "[[AdultFear gnarly]]".

* In April 2022, Blue released [[https://youtu.be/tl070rPB58M a video about the history of Ukraine]] against the backdrop of the Russo-Ukranian War, which had started about two months prior. Though Blue had started planning to do the video over a year before the war started, Blue defies HarsherInHindsight by saying that learning the history of Ukraine was more important than ever. In the video, painted the Ukrainians currently fighting as brave patriots, and detailed the country's long struggle for independence. Blue ended the video with a rallying cry of Ukrainians during the war, in Ukrainian at that: "Russian warship, [[PrecisionFStrike go fuck yourself]]. Glory to Ukraine." On top of that, OSP promised to donate all the ad revenue money from that video to charities to help Ukraine. It raised over a thousand dollars less than twenty minutes after the video went live, and hit its goal of five thousand dollars raised in less than an hour. The goal was doubled to ten thousand dollars, and it was hit just a few hours later.

* In April 2022, Blue released [[https://youtu.be/tl070rPB58M a video about the history of Ukraine]] against the backdrop of the Russo-Ukranian War, which had started about two months prior. Though Blue had started planning to do the video over a year before the war started, Blue defies HarsherInHindsight by saying that learning the history of Ukraine was more important than ever. In the video, Blue called Russian president Vladimir Putin a war criminal, and painted the Ukrainians currently fighting as brave patriots. Blue ended the video with a rallying cry of Ukrainians during the war, in Ukrainian at that: "Russian warship, [[PrecisionFStrike go fuck yourself]]. Glory to Ukraine." On top of that, OSP promised to donate all the ad revenue money from that video to charities to help Ukraine. It raised over a thousand dollars less than twenty minutes after the video went live, and hit its goal of five thousand dollars raised in less than an hour.

* In April 2022, Blue released [[https://youtu.be/tl070rPB58M a video about the history of Ukraine]] against the backdrop of the Russo-Ukranian War, which had started about two months prior. Blue defies HarsherInHindsight by saying that the history of Ukraine was more important than ever, called Russian president Vladimir Putin a war criminal, and painted the Ukrainians currently fighting as brave patriots. Blue ended the video with a rallying cry of Ukrainians during the war, in Ukrainian at this: "Russian warship, [[PrecisionFStrike go fuck yourself]]. Glory to Ukraine." On top of that, OSP promised to donate all the ad revenue money from that video to charities to help Ukraine. It raised over a thousand dollars less than twenty minutes after the video went live.