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** "Du alte Pottsau!". (Literally "You old pot-sow"; "Pottsau" is both a rarely-used, relatively mild generic insult and today a humorous slur towards the inhabitants of [[TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland North-Rhine Westphalia]]).

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** "Du alte Pottsau!". (Literally "You old pot-sow"; "Pottsau" is both a rarely-used, relatively mild generic insult and today a humorous slur towards the inhabitants of [[TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland North-Rhine Westphalia]]).
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* ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}''
** ''Outlast: Whistleblower''
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** He often is cruel to VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} animals for laughs.

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** He often is cruel to VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' animals for laughs.



* CompensatingForSomething: Discussed in his Let's Test ''AtlanticaOnline'', where he called the [[{{BFG}} cannnon]] "compensation cannon".

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* CompensatingForSomething: Discussed in his Let's Test ''AtlanticaOnline'', ''VideoGame/AtlanticaOnline'', where he called the [[{{BFG}} cannnon]] "compensation cannon".



* CutenessProximity: Frequently parodied in the interaction with his VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} dogs.

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* CutenessProximity: Frequently parodied in the interaction with his VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' dogs.
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* DrinkingGame: He suggested one himself on his Facebook page: Take a shot every time he quicksaves during his Let's Play of {{Prey}}. During some fights, this literally happens every ten seconds.

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* DrinkingGame: He suggested one himself on his Facebook page: Take a shot every time he quicksaves during his Let's Play of {{Prey}}.''VideoGame/Prey2006''. During some fights, this literally happens every ten seconds.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Prey}}''

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* ''VideoGame/{{Prey}}''''VideoGame/Prey2006''
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* WhatTheHellHero: Has this Reaction whenever the Protagonist in a Wimmelbuch Game trows away an Item after just one use or picks up an rather useless Item
** Gronkh: She wants to save the Child (from two wolves). Take the Gun! Take the Grenade! What does she take? The fucking safety pin!!!

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* WhatTheHellHero: Has this Reaction reaction whenever the Protagonist protagonist in a Wimmelbuch Game trows hidden object game throws away an Item item after just one use or picks up an rather useless Item
** Gronkh:
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--> '''Gronkh:'''
She wants to save the Child (from child [from two wolves). wolves]. Take the Gun! gun! Take the Grenade! grenade! What does she take? The ''The fucking safety pin!!!pin!''
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* SortingAlgorithmOfWeaponEffectiveness: A DarthWiki/WallBanger to him if done unsubtly. [[invoked]]
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* WhatTheHellHero: Has this Reaction whenever the Protagonist in a Wimmelbuch Game trows away an Item after just one use or picks up an rather useless Item
** Gronkh: She wants to save the Child (from two wolves). Take the Gun! Take the Grenade! What does she take? The fucking safety pin!!!
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''Certainly'' not to be confused with {{Gonk}} or {{Gronk}}.

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''Certainly'' not to be confused with {{Gonk}} or {{Gronk}}.
''Webcomic/{{Gronk}}''.

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* FailOSuckyname: He cracked jokes about the name similarity between [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1wehwDW9fU Ser Varnell]] and some detergent.


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* UnfortunateNames: He cracked jokes about the name similarity between [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1wehwDW9fU Ser Varnell]] and some detergent.
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He gained most of his fandom from his ongoing ''{{Minecraft}}'' LetsPlay, which greatly increased the popularity of both himself and ''{{Minecraft}}'' in Germany. Contrary to popular belief, though, he did not define the LetsPlay genre in Germany; he merely popularized it among more casual viewers.

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He gained most of his fandom from his ongoing ''{{Minecraft}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' LetsPlay, which greatly increased the popularity of both himself and ''{{Minecraft}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' in Germany. Contrary to popular belief, though, he did not define the LetsPlay genre in Germany; he merely popularized it among more casual viewers.



* AnimalNemesis: He is driven by a searing hatred and [[ProperlyParanoid justified suspicion]] towards chickens in ''{{Minecraft}}'', after (the? an?) Evil Chicken repeatedly caused his death by pushing him off a cliff.

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* AnimalNemesis: He is driven by a searing hatred and [[ProperlyParanoid justified suspicion]] towards chickens in ''{{Minecraft}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', after (the? an?) Evil Chicken repeatedly caused his death by pushing him off a cliff.



** He often is cruel to {{Minecraft}} animals for laughs.

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** He often is cruel to {{Minecraft}} VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} animals for laughs.



* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: In ''{{Minecraft}}'' he gets lost extremely often, even though he has a good sense of direction, because he just cannot leave any sidepath of a cave unexplored.

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* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: In ''{{Minecraft}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' he gets lost extremely often, even though he has a good sense of direction, because he just cannot leave any sidepath of a cave unexplored.



* CutenessProximity: Frequently parodied in the interaction with his {{Minecraft}} dogs.

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* CutenessProximity: Frequently parodied in the interaction with his {{Minecraft}} VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} dogs.



*** A certain mispronunciation of "gravel", originating from his uncertainity on which word to use for it in German early in his LetsPlay.

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*** A certain mispronunciation of "gravel", originating from his uncertainity uncertainty on which word to use for it in German early in his LetsPlay.



** Mischief with snow golems as a [[TheStinger stinger]] in ''{{Minecraft}}'' prerelease specials.

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** Mischief with snow golems as a [[TheStinger stinger]] in ''{{Minecraft}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' prerelease specials.



* SoundtrackDissonance: Primarily in ''{{Minecraft}}'', where he often forgets to switch playlists, resulting in cheerfully cutting wood being accompanied by gloomy Nether music or upbeat music playing while exploring a creepy cave.

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* SoundtrackDissonance: Primarily in ''{{Minecraft}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', where he often forgets to switch playlists, resulting in cheerfully cutting wood being accompanied by gloomy Nether music or upbeat music playing while exploring a creepy cave.



* TakeThat: He justified intending to set a ''{{Minecraft}}'' chicken on fire with the statement that "incinerating a chicken is relatively tame compared to what regularly happens to them at {{KFC}}".

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* TakeThat: He justified intending to set a ''{{Minecraft}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' chicken on fire with the statement that "incinerating a chicken is relatively tame compared to what regularly happens to them at {{KFC}}".
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He jokingly called Gamlen Amell a "jerk with a heart of moron" in his ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' LP [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qPL4deu2tM here]].

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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He jokingly called Gamlen Amell a "jerk with a heart of moron" in his ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' LP [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qPL4deu2tM [[https://youtu.be/7qPL4deu2tM?t=9m36s here]].
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* CreepyChild: He generated one in his ''TheSims3'' LP. Also the "mutant babies" to which he changed the spiders for a Minecraft anniversary episode by swapping out the textures and sounds.

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* CreepyChild: He generated one in his ''TheSims3'' ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' LP. Also the "mutant babies" to which he changed the spiders for a Minecraft anniversary episode by swapping out the textures and sounds.
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* ''{{Minecraft}}''
* ''TheSims3''

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* ''{{Minecraft}}''
''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''
* ''TheSims3''''VideoGame/TheSims3''



* ''AdventureAtTheRidingStables 7''
* ''GarbageSimulator''
* ''GardenSimulator 2010''
* ''PoliceSimulator''

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* ''AdventureAtTheRidingStables ''VideoGame/AdventureAtTheRidingStables 7''
* ''GarbageSimulator''
''VideoGame/GarbageSimulator''
* ''GardenSimulator ''VideoGame/GardenSimulator 2010''
* ''PoliceSimulator''''VideoGame/PoliceSimulator''



* ''AllodsOnline''
* ''AtlanticaOnline''

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* ''AllodsOnline''
''VideoGame/AllodsOnline''
* ''AtlanticaOnline''''VideoGame/AtlanticaOnline''



* ''BattleOfTheImmortals''

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* ''BattleOfTheImmortals''''VideoGame/BattleOfTheImmortals''



* ''DontShitYourPants''
* ''DutyCalls''

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* ''DontShitYourPants''
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* ''DutyCalls''''VideoGame/DutyCalls''



* ''{{Prey}}''

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* ''{{Prey}}''''VideoGame/{{Prey}}''



* ''{{Singularity}}''

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* ''{{Singularity}}''''VideoGame/{{Singularity}}''
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** Played straight after the infamous [[spoiler:lobotomy scene]] in his ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite/BurialAtSea'' lets play.
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* ''{{Risen}}''

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* ''{{Risen}}''''VideoGame/{{Risen}}''
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*** [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]].

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*** [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse [[Franhcise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]].
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* ''MonkeyIsland''
** ''MonkeyIsland2''

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* ''MonkeyIsland''
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* ''VideoGame/TheNightOfTheRabbit''



* UrbanLegendOfZelda: There's a persistent rumour going on that his real name would be "Gregor Onkh". He has given up on correcting the naive viewers who kept thinking so, and regularly jokes about the name or even supports the rumour himself. This culminates in a "Gregor Onkh Loves You" shirt worn by him during several interviews.

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* UrbanLegendOfZelda: There's a persistent rumour going on that his real name would be is "Gregor Onkh". He has given up on correcting the naive viewers who kept thinking so, and regularly jokes about the name or even supports the rumour himself. This culminates in a "Gregor Onkh Loves You" shirt worn by him during several interviews.
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* ''DragonAge'' (plus various [=DLCs=])
** ''DragonAgeII''

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* ''DragonAge'' ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' (plus various [=DLCs=])
** ''DragonAgeII''''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''



* BadPowersGoodPeople: In ''DragonAgeII'', he played a LawfulGood warrior... with the Reaver specialisation.
* BigBrotherInstinct: An aspect of how he played Hawke in ''DragonAgeII''.

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* BadPowersGoodPeople: In ''DragonAgeII'', ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', he played a LawfulGood warrior... with the Reaver specialisation.
* BigBrotherInstinct: An aspect of how he played Hawke in ''DragonAgeII''.''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''.



** His reaction to [[spoiler:the destruction of the Chantry]] in ''DragonAgeII''.

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** His reaction to [[spoiler:the destruction of the Chantry]] in ''DragonAgeII''.''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''.



* TheEeyore: Fenris from ''DragonAgeII'' is this to him. [[invoked]]

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* TheEeyore: Fenris from ''DragonAgeII'' ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' is this to him. [[invoked]]



** Discussed numerous times during the ''DragonAgeII'' LP.

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** Discussed numerous times during the ''DragonAgeII'' ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' LP.



* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He jokingly called Gamlen Amell a "jerk with a heart of moron" in his ''DragonAgeII'' LP [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qPL4deu2tM here]].

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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He jokingly called Gamlen Amell a "jerk with a heart of moron" in his ''DragonAgeII'' ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' LP [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qPL4deu2tM here]].



* MoneySpider: Lampshaded on many occasions, also with actual spiders, in ''DragonAge2'':

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* MoneySpider: Lampshaded on many occasions, also with actual spiders, in ''DragonAge2'':''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'':



* TheNicknamer: He for example called the Harvester in ''DragonAgeII'' "Gyros Man".
* NoHeroDiscount: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prHFt9nYdIU Discussed about Sandal]] in ''DragonAgeII''.
* NoJustNoReaction: PlayedForLaughs as his reaction to gay romance in ''DragonAgeII''.

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* TheNicknamer: He for example called the Harvester in ''DragonAgeII'' ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' "Gyros Man".
* NoHeroDiscount: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prHFt9nYdIU Discussed about Sandal]] in ''DragonAgeII''.
''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''.
* NoJustNoReaction: PlayedForLaughs as his reaction to gay romance in ''DragonAgeII''.''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''.



** All moonlit nights in ''DragonAgeII'' caused him to ask "Where is Batman?".
** [[DragonAgeII Fenris]] not cleaning up the corpses in his home in the course of several years.

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** All moonlit nights in ''DragonAgeII'' ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' caused him to ask "Where is Batman?".
** [[DragonAgeII [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Fenris]] not cleaning up the corpses in his home in the course of several years.



* ShootTheMedicFirst: Applies to other sorts of casters as well in ''DragonAgeII''.

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* ShootTheMedicFirst: Applies to other sorts of casters as well in ''DragonAgeII''.''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''.



** Every time Sandal from the ''DragonAge'' series says "Enchantment!".

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** Every time Sandal from the ''DragonAge'' ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series says "Enchantment!".
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* ''RunesOfMagic''

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* ''RunesOfMagic''''VideoGame/RunesOfMagic''
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* {{Dronejam}}: Happens to him occasionally, always snarkily commented.
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* ''[[{{FEAR}} F. E. A. R.]]''

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* ''[[{{FEAR}} ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F. E. A. R.]]''



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** Sometimes played for laughs. For example where he was lost in a cave and were trying to find the way out for hours by that point until he decided to play funny music and go insane.
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* CreepyChild: He generated one in his ''TheSims3'' LP. Also the "mutant babies" to which he changed the spiders for an anniversary episode by swapping out the textures and sounds.

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* CreepyChild: He generated one in his ''TheSims3'' LP. Also the "mutant babies" to which he changed the spiders for an a Minecraft anniversary episode by swapping out the textures and sounds.
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* Memetic Mutation: The Minecraft LP gave us coal and ''EVIL CHICKEN!''.
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[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/GregorOnkh_6618.jpg]]

An important participant of the German ''LetsPlay'' community, Gronkh started recording [=LPs=] in 2009.

He gained most of his fandom from his ongoing ''{{Minecraft}}'' LetsPlay, which greatly increased the popularity of both himself and ''{{Minecraft}}'' in Germany. Contrary to popular belief, though, he did not define the LetsPlay genre in Germany; he merely popularized it among more casual viewers.

His [=LPs=] are quite un-{{walkthrough}}-like compared to others, even though he hardly ever offscreens anything. His knowledge about the mechanics of the game he's playing are often limited or non-existant, but he usually makes up for it with general videogame savvy. His commentary about equally consists of review-like opinions on strength and weaknesses of the game, witty illustration of FridgeLogic, random talk, opinions and RealLife observations, and puns he [[IncrediblyLamePun apologizes for immediately afterwards]].

Gronkh is one of the administrators of the {{MMORPG}} site ''playmassive.de'' and the gaming site ''playnation.de''. Together with some other [=PlayNation=] administrators and affiliated {{Lets Play}}ers, he publishes his videos on his website [[http://www.gronkh.de/ gronkh.de]] along with Youtube.

''Certainly'' not to be confused with {{Gonk}} or {{Gronk}}.

[[folder:Games Gronkh has Let's Played:]]
!!WideOpenSandbox:
* ''{{Minecraft}}''
* ''TheSims3''
!!Trash/Let's Not Play:
* ''AdventureAtTheRidingStables 7''
* ''GarbageSimulator''
* ''GardenSimulator 2010''
* ''PoliceSimulator''
!!MMORPG tests:
* ''AllodsOnline''
* ''AtlanticaOnline''
* ''RunesOfMagic''
!!Others:
* ''BattleOfTheImmortals''
* ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}''
* ''DontShitYourPants''
* ''DutyCalls''
* ''DragonAge'' (plus various [=DLCs=])
** ''DragonAgeII''
* ''Deponia''
* ''Videogame/{{Drawn}}: The Painted Tower''
* ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever''
* ''VideoGame/EternallyUs''
* ''{{Fable}}: The Lost Chapters''
* ''[[{{FEAR}} F. E. A. R.]]''
** ''F. E. A. R. 2''
** ''F. E. A. R. 3''
* ''Harvey's New Eyes''
* ''LegendOfKyrandia''
** ''Legend of Kyrandia 2''
* ''VideoGame/{{LOOM}}''
* ''MaxPayne''
* ''MonkeyIsland''
** ''MonkeyIsland2''
** ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland''
* ''{{Prey}}''
* ''{{Risen}}''
* ''{{Singularity}}''
* ''VideoGame/{{Torchlight}}''
* ''Vollgas: FullThrottle''
[[/folder]]

!!Tropes found in Gronkh's Let's Plays:
* AnimalNemesis: He is driven by a searing hatred and [[ProperlyParanoid justified suspicion]] towards chickens in ''{{Minecraft}}'', after (the? an?) Evil Chicken repeatedly caused his death by pushing him off a cliff.
* AnnoyingLaugh: He tends to imitate one of these in OhCrap moments.
* ArchEnemy: Evil Chicken.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: After he announced to end his Let's Play Minecraft, the threats of the FanDumb were like this. As someone put it:
-->Okay, he'll be beaten black and blue, get killed and have to read many comments.
* ArtificialStupidity: "[[FanNickname Idiot dogs]]."
* AudienceParticipation: Even more often than other Let's Play authors, he lets his viewers decide what he'll do next in his [=LPs=].
* BadPowersGoodPeople: In ''DragonAgeII'', he played a LawfulGood warrior... with the Reaver specialisation.
* BigBrotherInstinct: An aspect of how he played Hawke in ''DragonAgeII''.
* BigNo:
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5FqRjUpa-g This]].
** His reaction to [[spoiler:the destruction of the Chantry]] in ''DragonAgeII''.
* BlackComedy
* CatchPhrase:
** Most of them vary and only stick for a few episodes or a single LetsPlay, but the persistent ones include:
** "Du alte Pottsau!". (Literally "You old pot-sow"; "Pottsau" is both a rarely-used, relatively mild generic insult and today a humorous slur towards the inhabitants of [[TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland North-Rhine Westphalia]]).
** <insert recurring or overused joke here> "That joke'll never get old."
** [[CriticalHit Crit damage! Crit damage!]]
* ChainmailBikini: Discussed.
-->Female characters in {{MMORPG}}s can be distinguished by the fact that the better their armour is, the more skin is [[{{Fanservice}} shown]] [[SexSells off]].
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In his early videos he tended to put things much more bluntly and was much less talkative than he is now; all in all, his in-show personality wasn't developed yet.
* ComedicSociopathy:
** He often is cruel to {{Minecraft}} animals for laughs.
** His entire mini-LP of the game "Die Polizei" was about being a racist, sadist, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking foul-mouthed]] [[DirtyCop asshole]].
* CompensatingForSomething: Discussed in his Let's Test ''AtlanticaOnline'', where he called the [[{{BFG}} cannnon]] "compensation cannon".
* CreepyChild: He generated one in his ''TheSims3'' LP. Also the "mutant babies" to which he changed the spiders for an anniversary episode by swapping out the textures and sounds.
* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: In ''{{Minecraft}}'' he gets lost extremely often, even though he has a good sense of direction, because he just cannot leave any sidepath of a cave unexplored.
* CurseCutShort
* CutenessProximity: Frequently parodied in the interaction with his {{Minecraft}} dogs.
* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Determinator}}: Many of his Let's Plays exceed 200 episodes.
* DirtyCop: PlayedForLaughs in his LetsPlay (fragment) of a police simulator game.
* DrinkingGame: He suggested one himself on his Facebook page: Take a shot every time he quicksaves during his Let's Play of {{Prey}}. During some fights, this literally happens every ten seconds.
* {{Dronejam}}: Happens to him occasionally, always snarkily commented.
* TheEeyore: Fenris from ''DragonAgeII'' is this to him. [[invoked]]
* EvilTowerOfOminousness: He considered constructing one of these [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBMnBWkPknQ here]].
* FakeLongevity:
** He often jokingly states that something he does would just happen to stretch the LetsPlay.
** Discussed numerous times during the ''DragonAgeII'' LP.
* FailedASpotCheck: He has a tendency to overlook important things.
* FailOSuckyname: He cracked jokes about the name similarity between [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1wehwDW9fU Ser Varnell]] and some detergent.
* FanNickname:
** ''Minecraft'':
*** Creepers are called insurance salesmen or Jehovah's Witnesses, originating from their habit of persistently lurking in front of a door. The former also is influenced by the custom texture pack by artist (and fellow [[LetsPlay Let's Player]]) WebOriginal/{{Honeyball}}, which he uses, where the creepers look like the sleazily primp suit-clad characters from ''Music/TheLonelyIsland'''s ''The Creep''. Alternately, there's "Creeper Man".
*** [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]].
*** Zombie Pigmen are known to him as "Schweinepriester" (literally "pig priests", a relatively generic and appropriately suidine insult).
*** He often calls Endermen "Ändermänner", both a pun on the name "Endermen" and a reference to their ability to make changes to the landscape (German: "ändern" ~ to change)
* GenreSavvy
* AGodAmI: Frequently parodied.
* HehHehYouSaidX: He often uses this on himself, foregoing such potential comments.
* HeroicBSOD: PlayedForLaughs in-character, caused by seeing Evil Chicken again in Minecraft.
* IncrediblyLamePun: He often apologizes for his own puns or complains about how often he already used them.
* InsistentTerminology: Inverted. He doesn't care whether it's silver or iron.
* InstantWebHit: Any video uploaded or promoted by him gets a few ten-thousand views per day for a while.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He jokingly called Gamlen Amell a "jerk with a heart of moron" in his ''DragonAgeII'' LP [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qPL4deu2tM here]].
* KleptomaniacHero: Lampshaded [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuYxFScJC1g here]].
* Memetic Mutation: The Minecraft LP gave us coal and ''EVIL CHICKEN!''.
* MilesGloriosus: On [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqp2MOb0bcU one occasion]] in his Minecraft LP he promised "fast-paced action scenes", only to... run away from any monsters.
* MoneySpider: Lampshaded on many occasions, also with actual spiders, in ''DragonAge2'':
--> Disgusting abominable spiders carrying money!
* MundaneMadeAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a70avBa9Po#t=520s Dramatic music plays while we construct the ceiling... THE CEILING!!]]
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Whom are we gonna take with us... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao9_z_QUwR8 These two pretties and Aveline]]. (One of those "pretties" was ''Varric the hairy dwarf''.)
* TheNicknamer: He for example called the Harvester in ''DragonAgeII'' "Gyros Man".
* NoHeroDiscount: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prHFt9nYdIU Discussed about Sandal]] in ''DragonAgeII''.
* NoJustNoReaction: PlayedForLaughs as his reaction to gay romance in ''DragonAgeII''.
* NonSequitur: Too often to count; often {{lampshaded}}. A glorious example:
--> It hisses and grills like a briquette in the evening. Even though I don't know whether a briquette in the evening actually makes any sounds.
* PlayerTic: Repeatedly choosing the same dialogue options in {{RPG}}s that allow this.
* PungeonMaster
* RealIsBrown: He criticized this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENaxKUAWi2w here]].
* RunningGag:
** Him being "Almost Twelve Years Old (TM)", along with his "Gregor Onkh" identity.
** ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'':
*** Using a shovel to "shear"/spank sheep. Once shears were introduced, their sprite in his custom texture pack by WebOriginal/{{Honeyball}} was changed to what he called a "groping glove" to reflect this.
*** Chickens being evil.
*** A certain mispronunciation of "gravel", originating from his uncertainity on which word to use for it in German early in his LetsPlay.
*** "Gronkh, you missed some coal!", originating from his viewers' annoying tendency of attempting to be helpful and telling him about ressources he purposedly ignored.
** Mischief with snow golems as a [[TheStinger stinger]] in ''{{Minecraft}}'' prerelease specials.
** "Let me through, I'm a medic!"
** All moonlit nights in ''DragonAgeII'' caused him to ask "Where is Batman?".
** [[DragonAgeII Fenris]] not cleaning up the corpses in his home in the course of several years.
** In his "Adventures at the Riding Stables" LP, "Or the horse will die."
** "[=CopyCopyCopyCopy=]", referring to the numerous backup saves he made in order to horribly screw around with the scenery in the course of experiments, in a manner similar to LetsPlay/{{Raocow}}'s "That was a demo."
* SarcasmMode: Shows up rather snidely [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWc41_Hh-Sk here]].
* SelfDeprecation: He often calls his own commentary "pointless rambling" or similar.
* ShootTheMedicFirst: Applies to other sorts of casters as well in ''DragonAgeII''.
* SinisterGeometry: Inverted; he loves symmetry and tries to apply it in everything he builds in Minecraft.
* SirSwearsALot: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRUzqlT8X7o Yes]]. Mostly mild swearing though, but he (occasionally) tries to avoid even "Crap!" since some fans complained about it, leading to some awkward examples of LastSecondWordSwap or {{Bowdlerization}}.
* SophisticatedAsHell:
--> [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc6LF9WVl1U "My tender disposition doesn't take well to this, you bummer!"]]
* SongParody: As a special, he recorded one of these (using the music of the song "Das Beste" by ''Music/{{Silbermond}}'') when he reached 200 subscribers. The first stanza is an over-the-top cheesy 'thank you' and declaration of love to his subscribers, the second one midway shifts into a TakeThat to Silbermond and LampshadeHanging of the song's cheesiness... and in the end, the refrain's lyrics are [[NonSequitur suddenly replaced]] by Gronkh discussing how much he likes schnitzel.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Primarily in ''{{Minecraft}}'', where he often forgets to switch playlists, resulting in cheerfully cutting wood being accompanied by gloomy Nether music or upbeat music playing while exploring a creepy cave.
* {{Squee}}:
** Every time Sandal from the ''DragonAge'' series says "Enchantment!".
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z62SDh91rD4 This entire video]]. ([[MoodWhiplash At least the first part.]])
* SoBadItsGood: [[invoked]]
** He stated this about singer Andreas Elsholz, whose music he had "recommended" before as a RickRolling-style prank.
** Also the premise of his simulator "Let's Trash"s.
* SortingAlgorithmOfWeaponEffectiveness: A DarthWiki/WallBanger to him if done unsubtly. [[invoked]]
* TheStinger: Parodied for example [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywyFkqTvmnk here]].
* TakeThat: He justified intending to set a ''{{Minecraft}}'' chicken on fire with the statement that "incinerating a chicken is relatively tame compared to what regularly happens to them at {{KFC}}".
* UncannyValley: {{Lampshaded}} regarding humans in ''AdventureAtTheRidingStables 7''. [[invoked]]
* UrbanLegendOfZelda: There's a persistent rumour going on that his real name would be "Gregor Onkh". He has given up on correcting the naive viewers who kept thinking so, and regularly jokes about the name or even supports the rumour himself. This culminates in a "Gregor Onkh Loves You" shirt worn by him during several interviews.
* VendorTrash: He often sarcastically praises such items for their value and usefulness.
* WeBuyAnything: Lampshaded [[http://gronkh.de/lets-play/dragon-age-2-gut/054-blutiges-ausrotten-der-nadelspitzen here]].
* ZergRush: As a side effect of how the absurd amount of wolves he tamed [[CutenessProximity just because they're adorable]], much to his annoyance, this unnecessarily happenes every time an enemy approaches his dog coop.
--> Idiot dogs!
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