History Series / MythicQuest

** {{Subverted}} with Rachel after becoming [[spoiler:Head of Monetization]]: Brad taunts her about how much she likes her new paycheck given her former status as a socialist SoapboxSadie and she's momentarily disgusted with herself, but she doesn't actually change much except for a scene near the end of the season where she considers buying cashmere pants.

** One episode has the team trying to find the most offensive group possible through a tournament-style bracket so they can ban them under terms of service. Nazis top the tournament, but the final round came down to Nazis versus Patriots fans--meaning that Patriots fans beat out [[BestialityIsDepraved zoophiles]] ''and'' [[ImAHumanitarian cannibals]].

** When it's revealed through a Kotaku article that Neo-Nazis are using MQ as a gathering ground, David decides to put together a statement denouncing the Nazis, and have them banned from the servers. Brad, not wanting to lose the revenue stream that the Nazis generate, instead hamstrings David's announcement by insisting that David put together a committee to decide which racial and social groups are acceptable and which aren't, all for the sole purpose of distracting David from producing the statement. Given how many groups are out there, and the complications that come with potential First Amendment violations, this takes a ''very'' long time.

** Season 3's "Sarian" is split between Ian's childhood in the 80s and Poppy's childhood in the 90s, and the pivotal moments that set them on the path to making video games and working together.

** {{Subverted}} with Rachel after becoming [[spoiler:Head of Monetization]]: Though she does like her new paycheck and Brad taunts her with this, which Rachel herself seems to believe, she doesn't change much except for a scene near the end of the season where she's seen buying expensive cashmere pants.

** In season 3, plans for a ''Mythic Quest'' adaptation come up, and multiple characters are extremely sceptical about it, given the usual fan reception of movie adaptations.

* TookALevelInJerkAss: In Season 3, Dana goes from being a level-headed gamer to spending most of her time arrogantly ignoring or insulting the people who hired her. Twice, since she goes from working at MQ to working at [=GrimPop=].

* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: In "Buffalo Chicken Pizza," Brad invites all the employees in the studio to suggest ideas for a new Mythic Quest expansion, and gets a barrage of vague, cliched, inappropriate, self-indulgent, and half-baked concepts presented as one of these.

** Zach also lied to everyone that it was Brad's birthday with a big cake...which is all mocking Brad's ''eating disorder''.

** To a lesser extent, Rachel's tendency for speechifying and attempts to push social justice issues often result in disdain from most of the MQ staff.

* JiveTurkey: Some of Poppy's Australian slang is contemporary ("bogan", "sex pest"), but some of it is a century out of date ("drongo", "cobber").

** Jo talks over being bullied by a girl in school...who wanted her to play with dolls so Jo hit her with vicious memes to almost kill herself. Even ''Ian'' calls out "you were the bully in that scenario" but Jo insists it was the other way around.

** ''Dark Quiet Death'''s film version (turning a game meant as slow-paced horror with monsters you can't kill into a schlocky action film about an ActionGirl blowing through armies of monsters) is pretty clearly mocking the ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'' .

* ThreatBackfire: Quite a few times, someone tries to pull the "if you do this, I walk" line. Either A)Ian completely misses it and ignores them or B)they get called on it and forced to go.

* ShoutOut: The coat of arms on Ian's shield in "Everlight" is that of [[Series/WelcomeToWrexham Wrexham AFC]], the soccer team that Ian's actor Creator/RobMcElhenny co-owns with Creator/RyanReynolds.

* ShoutOut: The coat of arms on Ian's shield in "Everlight" is that of [[Series/WelcomeToWrexham Wrexham AFC]], the soccer team that Ian's actor Creator/RobMcIlhenny co-owns with Creator/RyanReynolds.

* AdamWesting: Season 3 features Creator/JoeManganiello, who makes no secret of his many nerdy interests, as the potential lead actor in a planned ''Mythic Quest'' adaptation.

* OutOfGenreExperience: The episode "Dark Quiet Death" is nothing like the rest of the WorkCom style of the show, it plays as a fairly realistically drama portraying the start of a relationship through to its end as the success of their combined work and the concession they have to make in their vision causes them to break up.

** Despite being an egomaniacal {{Jerkass}} most of the time, Ian has his moments. The biggest comes at the end of the season, when he [[spoiler:gets David his job back, secures overtime pay for the dev team, and makes Poppy his co-Creative Director]].

* SpannerInTheWorks: CW. His treasured Nebula Award is prominently displayed in his office. [[spoiler]] After someone spots its reflection in Dana's glasses, it leads to her being exposed as an in-house streamer, and earning her the hatred of those who consider her a fraud and losing almost all of the followers she's built up. [[/spoiler]]

Three seasons have been released, and the show is confirmed for a fourth. A spin-off series, ''Mere Mortals'' was [[https://deadline.com/2022/12/apple-tv-orders-mythic-quest-companion-series-mere-mortals-1235200235/ announced]] during the third season.

Three seasons have been released, and the show is confirmed for a fourth.

The show follows the behind-the-scenes exploits of the game studio behind ''Mythic Quest'', the world's most popular MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame. The creative and business sides of the studio are in constant conflict as Ian Grimm (Creator/RobMcElhenney), the creator and creative director, is distracted with whether or not their work is establishing a worthy legacy for himself. Lead programmer Poppy Li (Creator/CharlotteNicdao) prioritizes making the game an enjoyable work of art, lead writer C.W. Longbotton (Creator/FMurrayAbraham) pretends he's got a handle on the game's story, while head of monetization Brad Bakshi (Creator/DannyPudi) just wants to keep the money flowing. In the midst of it all, affable but exploitable EP David Brittlesbee (Creator/DavidHornsby) tries to assert his authority, including over his slightly psychotic new assistant Jo (Creator/JessieEnnis), while recently-recruited testers Dana (Creator/ImaniHakim) and Rachel (Creator/Rachel) try to keep their heads above water.

The show follows the behind-the-scenes exploits of the game studio behind ''Mythic Quest'', the world's most popular MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame. The creative and business sides of the studio are in constant conflict as Ian Grimm, the creative director, is distracted with whether or not their work is establishing a worthy legacy for himself.

As all this is going on, they struggle to remain in the good graces of their player base, terrified at the very real possibility that millions of people will turn away and result in the studio's closure.

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''Mythic Quest''[[note]]Subtitled ''Raven's Banquet'' during season 1, hence the page title.[[/note]] is a comedy web television series that premiered in 2020 on Creator/AppleTVPlus. It was created by the team behind ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', and is co-produced by video game studio Creator/{{Ubisoft}}, who also created the game content shown in the series.

* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Non-gamers might be surprised to learn that TTP, or Time To Penis - the amount of time it takes before players figure out how to use a tool given to them by a video game in order to make an in-game penis - is a very real metric used by game devs. Even the production crew were completely unaware of this until Ubisoft's Jason Altman mentioned it.