History Characters / OverlySarcasticProductions

** Oathbreakers and those who turn their backs on the gods are another huge trigger for Hera. When Jason broke his oath to Medea (and by extension, Hera) by abandoning his wife to court Princess Glauce, Hera wastes absolutely no time in making Jason's life a living Hell.

* BornUnlucky: The poor guy just has the ''worst'' luck with romance, as most of his lovers either turn into plants or die tragically, if they don't outright reject him first. Although, as Red points out a few times, there were also plenty of lovers in his past who died tragically because they tried to get ''away'' from him and [[DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal he refused to let them]].

* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: One odd thing about Loki that Red speculates on is, what Loki's specific deific domain was and why the Norse would have worshipped him. Pop culture tend to portray him a the God of Lies and Trickery these are his personality. She speculates that Loki might have a mischevious but benevolent protector of the home.

* TranquilFury: When he catches wind of Theseus and Pirithous' plan to kidnap Persephone, his reaction is to calmly meet them in the Underworld and offer them seats at his dinner table... before binding them to their chairs with snakes to be tortured for eternity, all while barely changing expression. This is also his expression when Sisyphus dies for real and faces him, Persephone, and Thanatos, the latter two are more visibly [[JustForPun murderous]] at the guy who hoodwinked them.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] While she's simply referred to as Indigo in her appearances, her video-credits has her real name listed as Sophia.

--->'''Red''': Hope is the ultimate motivator; on some level, it's the only motivator. If it seems like I have a personal beef with Grimdark as a genre, it's only the same beef I have with everything that treats hope like a dumb childish concept rather than the fundamental core of human experience. Hope makes us believe things can be better, once we stop believing that we stop trying to make things better and guess what, then things don't get better. Pessimistic nihilism is the ultimate self-fulfilling prophecy and maybe it's the 2020 talking, but man, I have straight up run out of patience with people who give up on a better world and then have the audacity to tell other people they're naive or stupid for still trying. The Grimdark worldview preaches that everything sucks and nothing will make it better. If the ideal of the Grimdark genre is really struggling the face of hopelessness then act like it, dare to believe the world can be better and fight for it and if that's really the ideal of Grimdark, then why does every other genre do a better job of inspiring it?

--->'''Red''': Hope is the ultimate motivator; on some level, it's the only motivator. If it seems like I have a personal beef with Grimdark as a genre, it's only the same beef I have with everything that treats hope like a dumb childish concept rather than the fundamental core of human experience. Hope makes us believe things can be better, once we stop believing that we stop trying to make things better and guess what, then things don't get better. Pessimistic nihilism is the ultimate self-fulfilling prophecy and maybe it's the 2020 talking, but man I have straight up ran out of patience with people who give up on a better world and then have the audacity to tell other people if they're naive or stupid for still trying. The Grimdark worldview preaches that everything sucks and nothing will make it better. If the ideal of the Grimdark genre is really struggling the face of hopelessness then act like it, dare to believe the world can be better and fight for it and if that's really the ideal of Grimdark, then why does every other genre do a better job of inspiring it?

--> '''Red''': I'm a sleeve hater with very high standards, alright. If I'm going to be displaying these deadly weapons, I want to do it in a nice case, you know? [[OpenMouthInsertFoot That's on the internet forever...]]

* SingleTargetSexuality: Blue is uncomfortable around dirty jokes and being hit on by multiple people. His wife, Cyan, does tease him playfully during videos.

* TrophyWife: It's never outright said, it's a pretty easy read that Zeus only really married Hera for her looks considering that he has severe commitment issues, only has one legitimate child with her (the rest were products of one night stands or in Athena and Hephestus's case, produced asexually) and he has a legacy of being promiscuous. There is one myth, covered by the channel, that implies he ''does'' care for their marriage to some extent, but as Red is fond of pointing out mythologies have no canon and said story of Zeus salvaging his marriage with a convoluted scheme is one story among hundreds, if not thousands, of counter examples.

* CelibateHero: Red is asexual, stating that she rarely finds people or characters attractive. A RunningGag of hers is to depict sex scenes in the works she covers as the characters playing board games or card games instead.

** Episode X arguably reveals this to have been averted from the start: He is one of the four Spirtual Primates, making him a completely unique being even before becoming immortal several times over, and one of his powers is that he ''can alter the courses of planets''.

* HonorBeforeReason: Downplayed in Part X. When Sun goes way too far with his cruelty and violence against some bandits, Tripitaka has enough and permanently kicks him out of the group. His grievances are justified, but getting rid the one disciple who single-handedly saved him over and over again, and one that the Buddha himself chose to protect him, is not the best decision thanks to his kidnapping record. Kuan-yin has to intervene by pointing out that defying the Buddha's judgement is a very bad idea, to which Tripitaka immediately relents and let’s Sun back in.

* GoldColoredSuperiority: She's drawn in golden yellow.

* ActionGirl: She's a talent archer and warrior.

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* HonorBeforeReason: Downplayed in Part X. When Sun goes way too far with his cruelty and violence against some bandits, Tripitaka has enough and permanently kicks him out of the group. His grievances are justified, but getting rid the one disciple who single-handedly saved him over and over again, and one that the Buddha himself chose to protect him, is not the best decision thanks to his kidnapping record. Kuan-yin has to intervene by pointing out the defying the Buddha's judgement is a bad idea, and Tripitaka immediately relents

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Tripitaka has has his problems with Sun Wukong's BloodKnight nature, but the incident with the Six-Eared Macaque was one of the very rare times when he is ''furious''. Wukong killing and beheading two bandits wasn't the whole problem--it was the post-mortem mutilation, the LastDisrespects, the BlasphemousBoast Wukong shouted to their spirits, and in general embodying none of the Buddha's ideals when the situation didn't call for it. Tripitaka is completely unwilling to let him back into the group as a result, and won't even reconcile with "Wukong" when he makes a token of apology.

* OverprotectiveDad: Gender-inverted. When Demeter found out that Persephone was married to Hades, she caused a winter that created a famine that could have doomed humanity and the gods themselves. She only calmed down when Persephone returned to her just to calm her down and she spends several months of the year staying with Demeter. According to Red, Demeter causes a famine ''every time Persephone leaves her to stay with Hades''.

* TheLastStraw: Tripitaka has has his problems with Sun Wukong's BloodKnight nature, but the incident with the Six-Eared Macaque was one of the very rare times when he is ''furious''. Wukong killing and beheading two bandits wasn't the whole problem--it was the post-mortem mutilation, the LastDisrespects, the BlasphemousBoast Wukong shouted to their spirits, and in general embodying none of the Buddha's ideals when the situation didn't call for it.

* CelibateHero: Red is asexual, stating that she rarely finds people or characters attractive. A RunningGag of hers is to depict sex scenes in the works she covers as the characters playing board games or card games instead. Though she has admitted in a ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'' livestream that there are a few characters that will crack her celibate shell, with the relevant exception from that game being BigGood Purah, whom Red finds {{Adorkable}}.

* FamilyThemeNaming: Magenda is a shade of purplish red.

* AscendedExtra: She made a few appearances in earlier episodes before she married Blue. After thatm she became a co-host of the livestreams with Blue and Red, and also frequently appears on the OSP podcast.

** Played straight with thalassophobia (the fear of the deep ocean), which Blue legitamitely has. As Blue notes on this fear, "the further down you go, the more nightmares there are", and "there is always a bigger fish" in the ocean.

* ActionGirl: Cyan was on the fencing team for several years. She had been sparring for some time by the time she met Blue, and their first meeting resulted in her striking his blade so hard that his outright shattered.
* AscendedExtra: She did make a few appearances in earlier episodes and she's now a co-host of the live streams with Blue and Red.

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** Blue's would be his evil Spanish brother with a moustache, Azule Cerulean. Their rivalry is based on Azule believing in unsourced, ethnonationalist hot takes, and might be a neo-nazi, and they legitimately hate each other.

* CastFullOfGay: A majority of the OSP cast and crew are asexual. In the podcast series, Red jokingly blames it on LGBTQIA+ people's habit of somehow being adept at finding each other without even knowing.
* CensoredForComedy: The cast are usually not one to curse in their videos, but it's usually bleeped out when they are, and often for comedic effect. Blue typically uses a standard censor beep when he swears, whereas Red usually uses the sound of [[VideoGame/YoshisStory a Yoshi sticking its tongue out]]. During his video on Ukraine, Blue admitted that he had "procrasinated his way into an actual f*cking war" after the Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022 began before he had finished doing his research, with the beep presented as a way of Blue telling on himself.

** TheHeart: Cyan, Blue's wife.

* LegacyCharacter: Green is the name given to any of Blue's roommates.
* MistakenForRomance: Red and Blue often get questions online asking if they're either married or siblings. [[{{Squick}} They generally react the same way each time.]]

** Red managed a very difficult feat in summarizing the Mahabharata in just sixty seconds. And unlike Blue's video on the War of the Roses, Red's speech wasn't artificially sped up; she really was talking that fast.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Red and Blue are close friends and/or co-workers, but that's all they are. Red is UsefulNotes/{{asexual}} and Blue is married to Cyan, with multiple members of the channel expressing [[BerserkButton annoyance and anger at anyone who ships Red and Blue together]], which includes Red and Blue themselves.
* RedOniBlueOni: Downplayed; while they're both equally silly and sarcastic, Red tends to be the zanier one when they're both in a video together.

* GenderBlenderName: {{Justified|Trope}} in that she's named after her color.

* CulturalPosturing: downplayed, inverted and subverted all at once. blue is half Greek (through his mother) but in the Acropolis he says that the many, many visits on it made him quite resteful of the monument. later he though it was awesome and has a better view of it without ignoring the imperialistic past of Athens.

* EvilTwin: Played for laughs, he jokingly claims in a podcast that he has an evil twin named Azul who's just a carbon copy of him with a mustache and an over-the-top Spanish accent.

** He had been planning to talk about the history of Ukraine for a while, but managed to "procrastinate my way into an actual [bleep]ing war" in 2022 with the Russo-Ukrainian War, causing Blue to bump it up in his schedule. He spoke about the history of Ukraine while also calling the Ukrainians brave heroes for attempting to fend of the invading Russian forces.[[invoked]]

** Played for Laughs. He mentions on the podcast that he has a recurring dream where he visits Malta and a police officer tells him to stay in at night, since there has been an increase in Yakuza activity. He then jokes that his deepest, darkest fear is the Maltese Yakuza.
** He also has Thalassophobia, the fear of the deep ocean.
--->'''Blue:''' The further down you go, the more nightmares there are. There is always a bigger fish!

* ConsoredForComedy: The cast are usually not one to curse in their videos, but it's usually bleeped out when they are, and often for comedic effect. Blue typically uses a standard censor beep when he swears, whereas Red usually uses the sound of [[VideoGame/YoshisStory a Yoshi sticking its tongue out]].

* CelibateHero: Is rather notably asexual, and has stated that she rarely finds people or characters explicitly "attractive". A running gag of hers is to depict sex scenes as board or card games instead. Though she has admitted in a VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom livestream that there are a few characters that will crack her celibate shell, with the relevant exception being [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Purah]].

* ArchEnemy: Red, Blue and Indigo each describe what their nemesis would be like in [="OSPod Episode 25: Britain, Athens, and Enemies to Lovers Fanfic"=].

** Red doesn't care all that much about who her nemesis would be, only that they can swordfight. Them being rich is also suggested.

* BerserkButton: One that most of them share is the shipping between Red and Blue. Red is UsefulNotes/{{asexual}} and Blue is married to Cyan; Red and Blue are PlatonicLifePartners, but that's all they are. Red and Blue especially get annoyed with the implication that they're a couple or would make a good couple.
* CastFullOfGay: Downplayed and discussed as three-fourths of the OSP cast and crew are asexual. In the podcast series, Red jokingly blames it on LGBTQIA+ people's habit of finding each other without even knowing.

** Red's line delivery is consistently fast. Acknowledged and inverted for an April Fools video, in which she speaks at an excruciatingly slow pace to accommodate viewer complaints (before she loses her temper in the middle and has to cut the video short).
*** She amps it up when summarizing the Mahabharata in just sixty seconds. And unlike Blue's video on the War of the Roses, Red's speech wasn't artificially sped up; she really was talking that fast.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Red and Blue are close friends and/or co-workers, but that's all they are. Red is UsefulNotes/{{asexual}} and Blue is married to Cyan, with multiple members of the channel expressing [[BerserkButton annoyance and anger]] at anyone who ships Red and Blue together.