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* ActingForTwo:
** The game/dungeon master plays all [=NPCs=] and will naturally end up doing a lot of this.
** Duck in ''Amnesty'' wields a [[EmpathicWeapon talking sword]], so Justin voices the both of them.



* RealLifeRelative: Being run by three brothers and their father, all of the actors are related.
* TalkingToHimself:
** The game/dungeon master plays all [=NPCs=] and will naturally end up doing a lot of this.
** Duck in ''Amnesty'' wields a [[EmpathicWeapon talking sword]], so Justin voices the both of them.
** Taken up to eleven in ''Graduation'', where Travis spends more time talking to himself than the players do in Episode 1. It goes down after that episode, but it’s still more than in ''Balance'' or ''Amnesty''.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://theadventurezone.wikia.com/wiki/The_Adventure_Zone_Wiki Here.]]

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* RealLifeRelative: Being run by three brothers and their father, all of the actors are related.
* TalkingToHimself:
** The game/dungeon master plays all [=NPCs=] and will naturally end up doing a lot of this.
** Duck in ''Amnesty'' wields a [[EmpathicWeapon talking sword]], so Justin voices the both of them.
** Taken up to eleven in ''Graduation'', where Travis spends more time talking to himself than the players do in Episode 1. It goes down after that episode, but it’s still more than in ''Balance'' or ''Amnesty''.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://theadventurezone.wikia.com/wiki/The_Adventure_Zone_Wiki Here.]]
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** Taken UpToEleven in ''Graduation'', where Travis spends more time talking to himself than the players do in Episode 1. It goes down after that episode, but it’s still more than in ''Balance'' or ''Amnesty''.

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** Taken UpToEleven up to eleven in ''Graduation'', where Travis spends more time talking to himself than the players do in Episode 1. It goes down after that episode, but it’s still more than in ''Balance'' or ''Amnesty''.
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** Taken UpToEleven in ''Graduation'', where Travis spends more time talking to himself than the players do in Episode 1. It goes down after that episode, but it’s still more than in ''Balance'' or ''Amnesty''.
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* RealLifeRelative: Being run by three brothers and their father, [[CaptainObvious all of the actors are related.]]

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* RealLifeRelative: Being run by three brothers and their father, [[CaptainObvious all of the actors are related.]]

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* TalkingToHimself: The game/dungeon master will, obviously, end up doing a lot of this.

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** Duck in ''Amnesty'' wields a [[EmpathicWeapon talking sword]], so Justin voices the both of them.

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* ActorAllusion: In ''The Suffering Game'', Griffin drops the boys into a battle arena with randomly generated monsters and says, "Welcome to the WebVideo/MonsterFactory!"
* AscendedFanon: Some character design elements from fan art have wormed their way into canon:
** It was common for Lucretia to be depicted with dark skin and white hair even before she was described as such in canon.
** Wonderland!Jenkins was described as wearing a red suit, but Jenkins himself wasn't. in fan art on the other hand, he nearly always had a red suit or vest.
** Fan art of Angus wearing glasses was very common, despite him never being described as having such. Then in the ''Story and Song'' Finale, his glasses were finally canonized.
* BonusEpisode: Every year as part of Max Fun Drive they release a bonus episode only available to monthly donors. One of these is an OriginsEpisode of how the team first met.

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* ActorAllusion: In ''The Suffering Game'', Griffin drops ''Trivia/TheAdventureZoneBalance''

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the boys into a battle arena with randomly generated monsters and says, "Welcome to the WebVideo/MonsterFactory!"
* AscendedFanon: Some character design elements from fan art have wormed their way into canon:
** It was common for Lucretia to be depicted with dark skin and white hair even before she was described
podcast as such in canon.
** Wonderland!Jenkins was described as wearing
a red suit, but Jenkins himself wasn't. in fan art on the other hand, he nearly always had a red suit or vest.
** Fan art of Angus wearing glasses was very common, despite him never being described as having such. Then in the ''Story and Song'' Finale, his glasses were finally canonized.
* BonusEpisode: Every year as part of Max Fun Drive they release a bonus episode only available to monthly donors. One of these is an OriginsEpisode of how the team first met.
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* FandomNod: Occasionally the cast will reference aspects of their fanbase in the show; like Justin-as-Taako insisting on the group carrying a body together because "it'll make better fanart that way."
** When the team decides to [[spoiler: turn against the Bureau]], Travis remarks that this twist [[IKnewIt "surprises absolutely nobody on Reddit".]]
* IKnewIt: Lup being [[spoiler: Taako's twin sister]] was a popular theory before it was confirmed.
** Travis was shocked that one fan successfully predicted that Garfield was [[spoiler:growing a spare body]] of Magnus.
* IncestuousCasting: Most romances in the show are between [=NPCs=], but when one of the player characters does get a romantic scene, this is obviously the case. This is why Justin mentioned in the second ''The The Adventure Zone Zone'' that if Kravitz and Taako go on any more dates (or if they have already) it will be entirely off-camera; he likes their relationship but concedes that going on a fake date with Griffin was "really, really awkward."
* RealitySubtext: In the second and third ''The The Adventure Zone Zone''s, the [=McElroys=] discuss how much of the show was influenced by the boys' mother and her death when they were young adults. In particular, Travis says that he based Magnus' backstory on the way he was affected by her death, specifically pointing to [[spoiler: Magnus telling Julia in the Astral Plane that he just wanted her to be proud of him]] as something he feels in real life.

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* FandomNod: Occasionally the cast will reference aspects of their fanbase in the show; like Justin-as-Taako insisting on the group carrying a body together because "it'll make better fanart that way."
** When the team decides to [[spoiler: turn against the Bureau]], Travis remarks that this twist [[IKnewIt "surprises absolutely nobody on Reddit".]]
* IKnewIt: Lup being [[spoiler: Taako's twin sister]] was a popular theory before it was confirmed.
** Travis was shocked that one fan successfully predicted that Garfield was [[spoiler:growing a spare body]] of Magnus.
* IncestuousCasting: Most romances Guaranteed basically any time a PC and an NPC end up in the show are between [=NPCs=], but when one of the player characters does get a romantic scene, this is obviously relationship; after all, all the case. This is why Justin mentioned in the second ''The The Adventure Zone Zone'' that if Kravitz and Taako go on any more dates (or if they have already) it will be entirely off-camera; he likes their relationship but concedes that going on a fake date with Griffin was "really, really awkward."
* RealitySubtext: In the second and third ''The The Adventure Zone Zone''s, the [=McElroys=] discuss how much of the show was influenced by the boys' mother and her death when they were young adults. In particular, Travis says that he based Magnus' backstory on the way he was affected by her death, specifically pointing to [[spoiler: Magnus telling Julia in the Astral Plane that he just wanted her to be proud of him]] as something he feels in real life.
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* ShrugOfGod: In the second ''The The Adventure Zone Zone'', Griffin refuses to answer why Garfield created a new Magnus body, preferring to keep Garfield a creepy and enigmatic figure, and Justin refuses to answer if Taako and Kravitz had gone on other dates, wanting to let the fans make up their own answers.
* TalkingToHimself: Griffin frequently plays multiple [=NPCs=] who interact with each other.
* TeasingCreator: During the first ''The The Adventure Zone Zone'', Griffin points out "why is [[EnsembleDarkhorse Barry Bluejeans]] so popular? He's dead, guys. His soul has left his body." [[spoiler: This was actually ExactWords once Barry was revealed as a lich.]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Due to the players regularly going OffTheRails from Griffin's planned campaign, Griffin mentions he's had to scrap pages of combat and puzzle notes of areas they either solved unexpectedly or bypassed entirely.
*** Griffin had planned an epic battle in the ''Murder on the Rockport Limited'' arc, planned to happen on top of the moving train.
*** The unused song [[https://griffinmcelroy.bandcamp.com/track/bonus-a-wizards-duel-demo A Wizard's Duel]] implies that originally, the fight with Sheriff Isaak was to be more of an all out duel than the QuickDraw match that it was.
*** At the end of ''The Eleventh Hour'', Griffin apparently planned out a several-episode, multi-timeline redemption arc in anticipation of Magnus taking the Temporal Chalice's offer to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, involving Taako, Merle and Lucretia [[AppliedPhlebotinum somehow]] traveling to the alternate timeline to either convince Magnus to give up the Chalice or take it by force--an offer which Magnus ended up refusing.
*** Kravitz was supposed to have a much larger role in ''The Suffering Game'', [[spoiler: teaming up with Magnus to fight The Hunger in the Astral Plane]], all of which had to be thrown out when Taako and Merle successfully [[spoiler: stopped Magnus from falling into the Astral Plane]].
*** Originally, [[spoiler: when faced with what to do with the soul-crystal in the ''TAZ Nights'' world in ''The Stolen Century'', they destroyed it, [[FinalSolution along with every last inhabitant of the plane]]]]. No one was happy about it, considering it to be ''far'' too dark for the story they were telling, and went back and recorded the version of the scene used in the episode.
** When performing the [[AssistCharacter Bond Attacks]] in the final battle, some other familiar faces were intended to show up, but didn't make it for various reasons.
*** Clint was going to summon Scales, but it was ruled out, since Merle never met him.
*** Travis initially considered summoning Julia, but ruled her out in favor of a grander reunion later in the story. [[TearJerker/TheAdventureZone It paid off.]]
*** Travis also considered bringing back Hodge-Podge, but couldn't think of what he could do, so instead summoned the Royal Bear.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://theadventurezone.wikia.com/wiki/The_Adventure_Zone_Wiki Here.]]
* WordOfGay: Sloane and Hurley's subtext-heavy relationship was confirmed to be romantic in this way.
** Taako was originally this, as Justin had stated that while Taako was gay, he was hesitant to bring it up in canon because he didn't want to make the character seem like an offensive stereotype. However, as of episode 50, Taako is indeed canonically gay and has a male LoveInterest.

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* ShrugOfGod: In the second ''The TalkingToHimself: The Adventure Zone Zone'', Griffin refuses to answer why Garfield created a new Magnus body, preferring to keep Garfield a creepy and enigmatic figure, and Justin refuses to answer if Taako and Kravitz had gone on other dates, wanting to let the fans make game/dungeon master will, obviously, end up their own answers.doing a lot of this.
* TalkingToHimself: Griffin frequently plays multiple [=NPCs=] who interact with each other.
* TeasingCreator: During the first ''The The Adventure Zone Zone'', Griffin points out "why is [[EnsembleDarkhorse Barry Bluejeans]] so popular? He's dead, guys. His soul has left his body." [[spoiler: This was actually ExactWords once Barry was revealed as a lich.]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Due to the players regularly going OffTheRails from Griffin's planned campaign, Griffin mentions he's had to scrap pages of combat and puzzle notes of areas they either solved unexpectedly or bypassed entirely.
*** Griffin had planned an epic battle in the ''Murder on the Rockport Limited'' arc, planned to happen on top of the moving train.
*** The unused song [[https://griffinmcelroy.bandcamp.com/track/bonus-a-wizards-duel-demo A Wizard's Duel]] implies that originally, the fight with Sheriff Isaak was to be more of an all out duel than the QuickDraw match that it was.
*** At the end of ''The Eleventh Hour'', Griffin apparently planned out a several-episode, multi-timeline redemption arc in anticipation of Magnus taking the Temporal Chalice's offer to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, involving Taako, Merle and Lucretia [[AppliedPhlebotinum somehow]] traveling to the alternate timeline to either convince Magnus to give up the Chalice or take it by force--an offer which Magnus ended up refusing.
*** Kravitz was supposed to have a much larger role in ''The Suffering Game'', [[spoiler: teaming up with Magnus to fight The Hunger in the Astral Plane]], all of which had to be thrown out when Taako and Merle successfully [[spoiler: stopped Magnus from falling into the Astral Plane]].
*** Originally, [[spoiler: when faced with what to do with the soul-crystal in the ''TAZ Nights'' world in ''The Stolen Century'', they destroyed it, [[FinalSolution along with every last inhabitant of the plane]]]]. No one was happy about it, considering it to be ''far'' too dark for the story they were telling, and went back and recorded the version of the scene used in the episode.
** When performing the [[AssistCharacter Bond Attacks]] in the final battle, some other familiar faces were intended to show up, but didn't make it for various reasons.
*** Clint was going to summon Scales, but it was ruled out, since Merle never met him.
*** Travis initially considered summoning Julia, but ruled her out in favor of a grander reunion later in the story. [[TearJerker/TheAdventureZone It paid off.]]
*** Travis also considered bringing back Hodge-Podge, but couldn't think of what he could do, so instead summoned the Royal Bear.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://theadventurezone.wikia.com/wiki/The_Adventure_Zone_Wiki Here.]]
* WordOfGay: Sloane and Hurley's subtext-heavy relationship was confirmed to be romantic in this way.
** Taako was originally this, as Justin had stated that while Taako was gay, he was hesitant to bring it up in canon because he didn't want to make the character seem like an offensive stereotype. However, as of episode 50, Taako is indeed canonically gay and has a male LoveInterest.
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* RealitySubtext: In the second and third ''The The Adventure Zone Zone''s, the [=McElroys=] discuss how much of the show was influenced by the boys' mother and her death when they were young adults. In particular, Travis says that he based Magnus' backstory on the way he was affected by her death, specifically pointing to [[spoiler: Magnus telling Julia in the astral plane that he just wanted her to be proud of him]] as something he feels in real life.

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* RealitySubtext: In the second and third ''The The Adventure Zone Zone''s, the [=McElroys=] discuss how much of the show was influenced by the boys' mother and her death when they were young adults. In particular, Travis says that he based Magnus' backstory on the way he was affected by her death, specifically pointing to [[spoiler: Magnus telling Julia in the astral plane Astral Plane that he just wanted her to be proud of him]] as something he feels in real life.
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*** The unused song [[https://griffinmcelroy.bandcamp.com/track/bonus-a-wizards-duel-demo A Wizard's Duel]] implies that originally, a fight with Isaak was to be more of an all out duel than the QuickDraw match that it was.

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*** The unused song [[https://griffinmcelroy.bandcamp.com/track/bonus-a-wizards-duel-demo A Wizard's Duel]] implies that originally, a the fight with Sheriff Isaak was to be more of an all out duel than the QuickDraw match that it was.
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*** The unused song [[https://griffinmcelroy.bandcamp.com/track/bonus-a-wizards-duel-demo A Wizard's Duel]] implies that originally, a fight with Isaak was to be more of an all out duel than the QuickDraw match that it was.
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*** Travis initially considered summoning Julia, but ruled her out in favor of a grander reunion later in the story. [[TearJerker/TheAdventureZone It payed off.]]

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*** Travis initially considered summoning Julia, but ruled her out in favor of a grander reunion later in the story. [[TearJerker/TheAdventureZone It payed paid off.]]

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Due to the players regularly going OffTheRails from Griffin's planned campaign, Griffin mentions he's had to scrap pages of combat and puzzle notes of areas they either solved unexpectedly or bypassed entirely.
** Griffin had planned an epic battle in the ''Murder on the Rockport Limited'' arc, planned to happen on top of the moving train.
** At the end of ''The Eleventh Hour'', Griffin apparently planned out a several-episode, multi-timeline redemption arc in anticipation of Magnus taking the Temporal Chalice's offer to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, involving Taako, Merle and Lucretia [[AppliedPhlebotinum somehow]] traveling to the alternate timeline to either convince Magnus to give up the Chalice or take it by force--an offer which Magnus ended up refusing.
** Kravitz was supposed to have a much larger role in ''The Suffering Game'', [[spoiler: teaming up with Magnus to fight The Hunger in the Astral Plane]], all of which had to be thrown out when Taako and Merle successfully [[spoiler: stopped Magnus from falling into the Astral Plane]].
** Originally, [[spoiler: when faced with what to do with the soul-crystal in the ''TAZ Nights'' world in ''The Stolen Century'', they destroyed it, [[FinalSolution along with every last inhabitant of the plane]]]]. No one was happy about it, considering it to be ''far'' too dark for the story they were telling, and went back and recorded the version of the scene used in the episode.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Due WhatCouldHaveBeen:
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to the players regularly going OffTheRails from Griffin's planned campaign, Griffin mentions he's had to scrap pages of combat and puzzle notes of areas they either solved unexpectedly or bypassed entirely.
** *** Griffin had planned an epic battle in the ''Murder on the Rockport Limited'' arc, planned to happen on top of the moving train.
** *** At the end of ''The Eleventh Hour'', Griffin apparently planned out a several-episode, multi-timeline redemption arc in anticipation of Magnus taking the Temporal Chalice's offer to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, involving Taako, Merle and Lucretia [[AppliedPhlebotinum somehow]] traveling to the alternate timeline to either convince Magnus to give up the Chalice or take it by force--an offer which Magnus ended up refusing.
** *** Kravitz was supposed to have a much larger role in ''The Suffering Game'', [[spoiler: teaming up with Magnus to fight The Hunger in the Astral Plane]], all of which had to be thrown out when Taako and Merle successfully [[spoiler: stopped Magnus from falling into the Astral Plane]].
** *** Originally, [[spoiler: when faced with what to do with the soul-crystal in the ''TAZ Nights'' world in ''The Stolen Century'', they destroyed it, [[FinalSolution along with every last inhabitant of the plane]]]]. No one was happy about it, considering it to be ''far'' too dark for the story they were telling, and went back and recorded the version of the scene used in the episode.episode.
**When performing the [[AssistCharacter Bond Attacks]] in the final battle, some other familiar faces were intended to show up, but didn't make it for various reasons.
*** Clint was going to summon Scales, but it was ruled out, since Merle never met him.
*** Travis initially considered summoning Julia, but ruled her out in favor of a grander reunion later in the story. [[TearJerker/TheAdventureZone It payed off.]]
*** Travis also considered bringing back Hodge-Podge, but couldn't think of what he could do, so instead summoned the Royal Bear.
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* RealitySubtext: In the second and third ''The The Adventure Zone Zone''s, the [=McElroys=] discuss how much of the show was influenced by the boys' mother and her death when they were young adults.

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* RealitySubtext: In the second and third ''The The Adventure Zone Zone''s, the [=McElroys=] discuss how much of the show was influenced by the boys' mother and her death when they were young adults. In particular, Travis says that he based Magnus' backstory on the way he was affected by her death, specifically pointing to [[spoiler: Magnus telling Julia in the astral plane that he just wanted her to be proud of him]] as something he feels in real life.
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** Griffin apparently planned out a several-episode, multi-timeline redemption arc in anticipation of Magnus taking the Temporal Chalice's offer to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, involving Taako, Merle and Lucretia [[AppliedPhlebotinum somehow]] traveling to the alternate timeline to either convince Magnus to give up the Chalice or take it by force--an offer which Magnus ended up refusing.

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** At the end of ''The Eleventh Hour'', Griffin apparently planned out a several-episode, multi-timeline redemption arc in anticipation of Magnus taking the Temporal Chalice's offer to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, involving Taako, Merle and Lucretia [[AppliedPhlebotinum somehow]] traveling to the alternate timeline to either convince Magnus to give up the Chalice or take it by force--an offer which Magnus ended up refusing.
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** Originally, [[spoiler: when faced with what to do with the crystal in the ''TAZ Nights'' world in ''The Stolen Century'', they destroyed it]]. No one was happy about it, considering it to be too dark for the story they were telling, and went back and recorded the version of the scene used in the episode.

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** Originally, [[spoiler: when faced with what to do with the crystal soul-crystal in the ''TAZ Nights'' world in ''The Stolen Century'', they destroyed it]]. it, [[FinalSolution along with every last inhabitant of the plane]]]]. No one was happy about it, considering it to be ''far'' too dark for the story they were telling, and went back and recorded the version of the scene used in the episode.

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** Griffin apparently planned out a several-episode, multi-timeline redemption arc in anticipation of Magnus taking the Temporal Chalice's offer to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong--an offer which Magnus ended up refusing.
** Kravitz was supposed to have a much larger role in ''The Suffering Game'', all of which had to be thrown out when Taako and Merle successfully [[spoiler: stopped Magnus from falling into the astral plane]].

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** Griffin apparently planned out a several-episode, multi-timeline redemption arc in anticipation of Magnus taking the Temporal Chalice's offer to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong--an SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, involving Taako, Merle and Lucretia [[AppliedPhlebotinum somehow]] traveling to the alternate timeline to either convince Magnus to give up the Chalice or take it by force--an offer which Magnus ended up refusing.
** Kravitz was supposed to have a much larger role in ''The Suffering Game'', [[spoiler: teaming up with Magnus to fight The Hunger in the Astral Plane]], all of which had to be thrown out when Taako and Merle successfully [[spoiler: stopped Magnus from falling into the astral plane]].Astral Plane]].
** Originally, [[spoiler: when faced with what to do with the crystal in the ''TAZ Nights'' world in ''The Stolen Century'', they destroyed it]]. No one was happy about it, considering it to be too dark for the story they were telling, and went back and recorded the version of the scene used in the episode.
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* TheWikiRule: [[http://theadventurezone.wikia.com/wiki/The_Adventure_Zone_Wiki Here.]]
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** Fan art of Angus wearing glasses was very common, despite him never being described as having such. Then in the ''Story and Song'' Finale, his glasses were finally canonized.

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