History LetsPlay / Diabetus

* TrainingMontage: In the final stage of ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}} in Battlemaniacs'', Diabetus tries to train for it by playing various other {{UsefulNotes/SNES}} games, like ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', ''VideoGame/MegaManX1'', and ''VideoGame/CaptainNovolin''.

* TrainingMontage: In the final stage of ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}} in Battlemaniacs'', Diabetus tries to train for it by playing various other {{UsefulNotes/SNES}} games, like ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', ''VideoGame/MegaManX1'', [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and]] ''VideoGame/CaptainNovolin''.

* RelaxOVision: Used during Diabetus's run of ''Parallel Worlds'' during a particular vexing point where [[UnwinnableByMistake a door doesn't open and traps him inside a room]], forcing him to restart. But not before going on a seething tirade interspersed with this trope. Bonus points for using footage by the [[WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}} trope namer]].

'''Ben "Diabetus" Whitfield''' is a Let's Player -- one of the first, in fact, originating from Website/SomethingAwful. He's known for his ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'' Let's Plays, which turned into a kind of motif for him, as well as a [[MemeticMutation memetic]] run of ''VideoGame/CaptainNovolin''. He hails from [[DeepSouth Alabama]] (which he [[SelfDeprecation often makes jokes about it]]), is good friends with LetsPlay/{{slowbeef}}, and has a pretty laid-back personality.

* TrainingMontage: In the final stage of ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}} in Battlemaniacs'', Diabetus tries to train for it by playing various other {[UsefulNotes/SNES}} games, like ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', ''VideoGame/MegaManX1'', [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and]] ''VideoGame/CaptainNovolin''.

* TrainingMontage: In the final stage of ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}} in Battlemaniacs'', Diabetus tries to train for it by playing various other [[SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] games, like ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', ''VideoGame/MegaManX1'', [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and]] ''VideoGame/CaptainNovolin''.

* XMeetsY: At one point early in ''Metroid Fusion'', Slowbeef mentions there should be an actual {{Metroidvania}} game, as in a crossover between ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' and ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''.

* StopHelpingMe: [[invoked]] During the ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' LP, Diabetus and slowbeef quickly get irritated with Adam's [[WallOfText constant briefings.]]
--> '''Diabetus:''' (after one particularly bad example) You patronizing little ass! I know where to go! Shut up!

* CouchGag: Every video of his ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy 2'' LP begins with a "space/face" pun due to every video opening on said game's {{Faceship}}. [[LamePunReaction His guests are usually not very impressed.]]

* ShoutOut: His name refers to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFIsoq63lwo Wilford Brimley's odd pronunciation of "diabetes"]].
** Actually, he's recalled a story on Retsutalk where he and theatre friends joke about "if Dionysus had a diabetic brother," and stated that's where the name started.
** The playlist for his ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' let's play is called [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to Super Mario Galaxy 2]], and the LP itself is JustForFun/FortyTwo videos long.

* OldShame: His ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'' videos; he says that he doesn't think the videos have held up well at all over the years.

Diabetus is a Let's Player -- one of the first, in fact, originating from Website/SomethingAwful. He's known for his ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'' Let's Plays, which turned into a kind of motif for him, as well as a [[MemeticMutation memetic]] run of ''VideoGame/CaptainNovolin''. He hails from [[DeepSouth Alabama]] (which he [[SelfDeprecation often makes jokes about it]]), is good friends with LetsPlay/{{slowbeef}}, and has a pretty laid-back personality.

'''Note:''' This page is for tropes pertaining to Diabetus's Let's Plays. Tropes pertaining to Retsupurae and Webcam Ward should go [[WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} here]].

* AncientGrome: In the Metroid Fusion LP, Diabetus mistakenly calls the Greek letters Alpha, Gamma, Zeta, and Omega as being part of the Latin alphabet.
* {{Angrish}}: During one of the cutbacks to his rematch with [[ThatOneBoss Yakuza]] in MetroidFusion.

* ChirpingCrickets: Spliced in by Diabetus as reaction to a particularly bad joke told by Slowbeef in the ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' LP.
* ContinuityNod: [=MeccaPrime=] had previously done a 0% run of ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' alongside Diabetus' LP of the game. Later, when Mecca did a 100% run LP of the game, Diabetus guest-hosted... for the video which featured the Yakuza fight, complete with a black-and-white cutaway of Diabetus' [[{{Angrish}} gibberish-filled]] rematch from his own LP.

* ForcedMeme: Betus keeps trying to make "cazh" (short for "casual") a thing, much to [[LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}} Slowbeef's]] annoyance.
* HeroicBSOD: Done rather literally in the ''Metroid Fusion'' LP. After Diabetus forgets to save after defeating [[ThatOneBoss Yakuza]] and gets sent back before the boss fight, the video immedately cuts to a test pattern and ends.

* TheLancer: To Slowbeef in their Retsupraes.

* CouchGag: Every video of his ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy 2'' LP begins with a pun on the word "face" due to every video opening on said game's {{Faceship}}. [[LamePunReaction His guests are usually not very impressed.]]

* CouchGag: Every video of his ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy 2'' LP begins with a quip where the word "space" is changed to "face".

* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Slowbeef and Diabetus during the Fusion LP.

'''Note:''' This page is for tropes pertaining to Diabetus's Let's Plays. Tropes pertaining to Retsupurae and Webcam Ward should go here.

* RunningGag: Diabetus is often associated with Diabetus after he played the first game and ''Battlemaniacs''.

* DeadpanSnarker

* RunningGag: Battletoads.

* ContinuityNod: MeccaPrime had previously done a 0% run of ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' alongside Diabetus' LP of the game. Later, when Mecca did a 100% run LP of the game, Diabetus guest-hosted... for the video which featured the Yakuza fight, complete with a black-and-white cutaway of Diabetus' [[{{Angrish}} gibberish-filled]] rematch from his own LP.