History WebAnimation / DarkMatter2525

* NotSoDifferentRemark: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GjCRWeG_AQ More Communist than the Communists]]" points out that the features fundamentalist Christians (rightly) denounce regarding Communist states (as a way to attack atheism by association) would be ''worse'' in the Heaven and Hell they posit, where an all-powerful being demands to be revered ''eternally'' rather than simply for the lenght of his subjects' lives, while anyone who disobeys suffers being tortured forever (much worse than any real dictator could do).

* NotSoDifferentRemark: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GjCRWeG_AQ More Communist than the Communists]]" points out that the features fundamentalist Christians (rightly) denounce regarding Communist states (as a way to attack atheism by association) would be ''worse'' in the Heaven and Hell they posit.

* ReversePsychology: Jeffery attempts this on Yahweh in ''Fatal Flaw''. [[spoiler:He promises Yahweh to write a positive report for him after the simulation ends in exchange for not being sent to hell. Yahweh calls him out on this, claiming to be proficient in this trope and concludes that Jeffery actually wants to be sent to hell. Instead, he sends Jeffery back to his cell, after the latter admits that sitting there was worse for him than being in hell. Only, in actuality, Jeffery had been using double-reverse psychology and expected being put into a cell, so that he could set his new plan into motion.]]

* {{Satire}}: Many if not most of the videos involve this, running with common apologetics claims to show what they entail in RealLife. For instance "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyAx5RUDIKk How To Be Like God]]", which displays how defenses like respect for free will, being simply "[[InMysteriousWays mysterious]]" etc. would seem if a person did them (i.e. a huge sadistic jerk who lets you die rather than give help he could easily provide).

* ShoutOut: In "The Meaning of Life", one of God's worshipers looks a lot like [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward Cullen]].

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Done intentionally to the point of satire in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSTFYPmhGW0 “Why We Are DOOMED”]], which takes the voice of a hypothetical right-wing pundit so determined to equate Christianity with everything good about Western civilization and its absence with everything bad that he inverts real history wherever possible and even contradicts himself multiple times within the same speech, depending on what distortion of history is more profitable for his argument at the time. Though the commenters assumed it was a satire of [=PragerU=], it’s more primarily making fun of right-wing theists like Douglas Murray, whose conservatism causes them to hold inconsistent values.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Done intentionally to the point of satire in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSTFYPmhGW0 “Why We Are DOOMED”]], which takes the voice of a hypothetical right-wing pundit so determined to equate Christianity with everything good about Western civilization and its absence with everything bad that he inverts real history wherever possible and even contradicts himself multiple times within the same speech, depending on what distortion of history is more profitable for his argument at the time. Though the commenters assumed it was a satire of [=PragerU=], it’s more primarily making fun of right-wing theists like the late Roger Scruton whose conservatism caused them to hold inconsistent values.

** Also, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GxODmgjCNw Reverse Christianity]], a man named "Jerry dies and finds himself in a futuristic room where he's greeted by a worker for said room who tells him that all humans are actually ArtificialIntelligence, and that Christianity is actually a "morality trap" to see which AIs are good, and which are bad. Jerry is shocked to discover that his beliefs were all a lie.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Done intentionally to the point of satire in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSTFYPmhGW0 “Why We Are DOOMED”]], which takes the voice of a hypothetical right-wing pundit so determined to equate Christianity with everything good about Western civilization and its absence with everything bad that he inverts real history wherever possible and even contradicts himself multiple times within the same speech, depending on what distortion of history is more profitable for his argument at the time. Though the commenters assumed it was a satire of [=PragerU=], it’s more primarily making fun of right-wing atheists like the late Roger Scruton whose conservatism caused them to hold inconsistent values.

** Firstly, the Defense Lawyer always defaults to his client's religious beliefs as a defense for their crimes. While things like matters of religious persuasion for matters like necessary medical treatment tend to differ from state to state, ''none'' of them condone murder (premeditated or not) or any form of manslaughter, which are usually the crimes his clients are guilty of. Taken to even more absurd levels with the clients that are actively committing the murder in front of everyone.

** Firstly, the Defense Lawyer always defaults to his client's religious beliefs as a defense for their crimes. While things like matters of religious persuasion for matters like necessary medical treatment tend to differ from state to state, ''none'' of them condone murder (premeditated or not) or any form of manslaughter, which are usually the crimes his clients are guilty of. Taken to even more absurd levels when the clients are actively committing the murder in front of everyone.

** Firstly, the Defense Lawyer always defaults to his client's religious beliefs as a defense for their crimes. While things like matters of religious persuasion for matters like necessary medical treatment tend to differ from state to state, ''none'' of them condone murder (premeditated or not) or any form of manslaughter, which are usually the crimes his clients are guilty of. Taken to even more absurd levels with the clients are actively committing the murder in front of everyone.

** Firstly, the Defense Lawyer always defaults to his client's religious beliefs as a defense for their crimes, something . While things like matters of religious persuasion for matters like necessary medical treatment tend to differ from state to state, ''none'' of them condone murder (premeditated or not) or any form of manslaughter, which are usually the crimes his clients are guilty of. Taken to even more absurd levels with the clients are actively committing the murder in front of everyone.

* FireAndBrimstoneHell: The standard depiction of {{Hell}} in Dark's videos.

* OurAliensAreDifferent: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVsVgAqV9WI Always Cry Wolf]]", an alien ship arrives near Earth's atmosphere, but, rather than take over the world or plunder it's resources, the unseen aliens send pods all over the world containing apex predators from their own world to create a planetwide trophic cascade.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Not-Muhammad is often a very irritable person who annoys his peers, but deep down he often means while and can be amicable.

* Jeffery: a cherubic angel with a skill for snarky criticism of God, pointing out how His actions rarely make logical sense.

* EvilVersusEvil: The CruelTwistEnding of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbLQBqlQ8rI “Never Count the Stars”]] has the [[{{Ultraterrestrials}} Star-Travelers]], who previously showed the facade of being a democratic, rationalistic, and atheistic people who pity the exiled priestess in the grip of a regressive religion, commit genocide against her people (or rather, try to, since their descendants exist 10,000 years later, with culture evidently unchanged) without a second thought, and [[spoiler:do it again when the machines are turned back on in the present]]. FridgeLogic points out that if they had really wanted to free the earthbound people from tyranny and ignorance, they could have easily taken out TheTheocracy and then come down to the planet to educate the peasants, but they did not, as shown by the religion still existing, and despite remaining in orbit for 10,000 years. Therefore, they don’t actually care about the people at all, only the planet’s resources, and are no better than the corrupt PathOfInspiration which controls the planet.

* Jeffrey: a cherubic angel with a skill for snarky criticism of God, pointing out how His actions rarely make logical sense.

* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: A recurring gag has the video start with Jeffrey needing to talk to God about a problem. While God is off playing with his toys or something, Jeffrey walks up to the door to God's room, the door, guarded by security (wooden boards nailed to the doorway, surface-to-air missiles, a moat with sharks, or even a spaceship tractor beam to send Jeffrey to another galaxy) only for Jeffrey to get past the security due to a simple error. Such examples include [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-zi25GgVE flying over]] the door or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDwr8Ptq3gc under the cloud floor]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zjjg7mmDN4 taking advantage of the cartoon being two-dimensional to phase through the door frame]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdKzpV7sa10 walking around the door since there are no walls]], or ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsbzAox5myg straight-up killing the aliens and taking their starship to dogfight his way back]]''. One time he even straight up ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyFM0_AhIYA destroys the missile launcher with a kick]]''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGecYM8S1r0 In one episode]], '''''God''''' comes to a barrier and knocks it down as Jeffrey is researching a cure for diseases.
* AerithAndBob: The huntsman in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocgZaDmvYPw Where No God Treads]]'' tells his wife that he is about to go on a hunt with Koomba Koomba, The Mammoth Rider, Ragnar the Bear Killer, and Bob.

** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODetOE6cbbc God's God]]", Yahweh is mocking a freshly-dead atheist for not believing in him, only for Jeffrey to accuse him of being an atheist because he does not believe that someone might have intelligently designed him. Unable to come up with a response, he quickly kills Jeffrey, only for Jeffrey to kill him with a gun at the same time. They end up ascending to a different Heaven where they encounter a being claiming to be the god who created Yahweh. [[MoralMyopia Yahweh complains about the various unfair scrutinies he himself has held to his own creations]]. They all eventually kill each other, ascending to a higher-leveled Heaven to meet another god and so on and so on. Eventually, the various Gods and their helpers end up on Earth where they encounter a normal human man who claims to have made all the gods.

** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DniP1veK_Qw God's Political Compass]]", Jeffrey puts Yahweh through an online political compass in order to settle the dispute in what political group he affiliates the most with. When he is eventually given the statement "All authority should be questioned", Yahweh starts to shutter violently. A white celestial body appears in the Milky Way, the gravitational pull so strong that it sucks in the entire solar system (along with Jeffrey and Yahweh) before a black dot appears within it with "Strongly Disagree" appearing next to it. They wake up in a realm similar to Heaven, Yahweh claiming that they had died and gone to the Afterafterlife before they continue with the quiz.

** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-zi25GgVE The Thing God Doesn't Know]]", he fails to get an erection when surrounding himself with beautiful women, citing that he was not impotent but rather uses this as proof that he does not experience the sin of lust, but Jeffry notices that his penis reacts when he makes Creator/JohnnyDepp appear.

* ArtEvolution: Dark Matter's animation has undergone this. At first, his characters were drawn with black dots for eyes and squiggly black lines for mouths that moved when the characters spoke. Nowadays, they have regular, white, and colored eyes and proper mouths with teeth and everything except for God and Jeffrey. The artwork in general is much more polished and refined, with much more details and better shading compared to how it was in the early videos. The voice work and -quality also improved heavily over the years.

* AscendedFridgeHorror: The entire premise of the "God & Jeffrey" videos revolves around God's actions in Literature/TheBible and how they would not hold up to scrutiny to modern ethics, and those that try to justify it coming across as crazy, petty, or grossly misinformed.
* AuthorAvatar: Jeffrey, an angel who criticizes God's action (or inaction) in many ways, is pretty obviously one of Dark Matter himself.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Zigzagged in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLhkPTQvMzQ God is Punishing Us!]]" Pat Robertson on ''The 700 Club'' equates several natural disasters - like earthquakes, floods, tsunamis - to God's displeasure towards unrelated secular incidents - gay marriage, not forcing children to pray in public schools, saying "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas", etc. Justified since this is the actual reason in-universe. When Jeffrey fills in for God and uses natural disasters to only target the transgressors, causing legitimate belief in God to sky-rocket, Pat wonders aloud if this was caused by climate change.

* EatingOptional: In the ''God and Jeffrey'' clip "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cclEFQC8eE4 If Man Obeyed God]]", Adam and Eve refuse to eat from the Tree of Knowledge and remain immortal. Thousands of years later, God (who'd actually ''expected'' them to eat it) tries to talk Adam into eating the apple, after all, only to be told that Adam gave up eating centuries ago: he can't die, and not eating means he doesn't have to deal with the icky business of ''doing'' his business, so why bother?

* EldritchAbomination: God turns into one while asking Jeffrey a question in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsbzAox5myg How God Invented Prayer]].

* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVgZqnsytJI DarkMatter2525's interpretation of the Book of Job]] from the Bible. In it he argues that both God and Satan are [[{{Deconstruction}} being jerks for forcing Job to undergo such suffering for what is essentially a bet between them for their own amusement.]] The whole time StraightMan angel Jeffrey constantly pleads with them to stop because he rightly thinks that what's happening to Job is wrong.
* GodsHandsAreTied: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1BzP1wr234 God cites free will]] (among other things) as a reason why he can't stop evil to Jeffrey, who points out the inconsistency regarding this.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODetOE6cbbc This]] video in which Jeffrey, God's assistant, asks Him to stop teasing the atheists before he sentences them to Hell, just because they didn't believe in Him. God mocks this by saying "they should have known" that intelligent beings such as themselves had to have a creator. Jeffrey asks God who created Him. He denies He has a creator. Jeffrey asks God if He is intelligent, and when He admits it, Jeffrey points out God is making the logical fallacy of "[[UsefulNotes/LogicalFallacies special pleading]]" and being a {{Hypocrite}}, condemning those who did not believe the very thing He doesn't, either. This starts an argument so upsetting, that they both kill each other. HilarityEnsues when they appear before God's God to have God answer for His sins, including not believing in His creator! This then ends in SerialEscalation where they and each God's newly discovered God kill each other until [[spoiler:they end up in the presence of a human under a tree, who then explains all of them as a fiction. They all eventually disappear.]]

* HollywoodAtheist: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbfFAYn8bgc The Secret Lives of Atheists]] lampoons every negative stereotype about atheists under the sun. Subverted, averted, and defied in most discussions by Jeffrey.

** The commandment "Thou Shall Not Kill" comes up often in videos when Jeffrey mentions Yahweh killing people. In "What Would Neocon Jesus Do?", Neocon Jesus also uses "killing is wrong" to justify the murder of two abortion doctors. That alone is pretty hypocritical, but made even better by the fact that he spends the rest of the video killing people for [[DisproportionateRetribution petty reasons]] (killing sheiks for "fucking with [his] profits", killing Mexicans for trying to cross the border illegally, and killing a gay couple for having the audacity to get married).

** When Jeffrey takes a Christian to see Jesus in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35_JHx_OzA4 Is Christianity Moral?]], he at first doesn't wanna go and kill people, but once Jeffrey pays the Romans to let Jesus go, the Christian unloads on Jesus.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Jeffry calls Yahweh out on his narcissism ''constantly'', Yahweh having created humans with the express purpose of showering him with praise, as well as for him to have people to "fuck with".

** Jeffrey is shown to have quite the thing for ladies despite his logical approaches to Yahweh's plans.

* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: Whenever God asks something or has to be told something, Jeffrey is the first to ask why either had to happen considering he is supposed to be omniscient. This leads to God either immediately changing the subject or pretending that he already knew that.

* OmniscientMoralityLicense: Whenever Jeffrey questions the ethical implications of Yahweh's atrocities, as well as the hypocrisies of not allowing others to do the same, Yahweh usually whips this trope out in one form or another, claiming things like ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem and the fact that he is defined as the ultimate good and thus [[MoralMyopia whenever he does something, it is not considered bad]].
* OnlySaneMan: Jeffrey is portrayed this way, in contrast to God.

** In the AdaptationalAlternateEnding to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVgZqnsytJI The Book of Job]]", Jeffrey goes to Job and preemptively brings Job to a modern elementary school to explain basic Earth science and astrology before he could give his AGodAmI TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyFM0_AhIYA Perfect Double Standard]]" dictates the events that occurred when Yahweh told Moses to free the Israelites from slavery and the Plagues of Egypt that he unleashes later on. Not only is Jesus there in Heaven with them (Moses predating his time on Earth) but when Jeffrey complains about how Yahweh's punishment of Ramses II afflicts the slaves as well, Yahweh tries justifying himself by trying to make Abraham Lincoln use the same Old Testament behavior towards the Confederate States' first-born sons.

* ReversePsychology: Jeffrey attempts this on Yahweh in ''Fatal Flaw''. [[spoiler:He promises Yahweh to write a positive report for him after the simulation ends in exchange for not being sent to hell. Yahweh calls him out on this, claiming to be proficient in this trope and concludes that Jeffrey actually wants to be sent to hell. Instead, he sends Jeffrey back to his cell, after the latter admits that sitting there was worse for him than being in hell. Only, in actuality, Jeffrey had been using double-reverse psychology and expected being put into a cell, so that he could set his new plan into motion.]]

** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLhkPTQvMzQ God is Punishing Us!]]", When Jeffrey is put in charge of punishing sinners on Earth while God goes on vacation, he uses natural disasters to target only the sinners for actual wrong-doing (bank-robbers, child molesters, ISIS (which is ironic, considering ISIS believes they're doing God's work), etc). Not only does this make crime go down, but conversions to legitimate theism skyrocket because the events could only be possible by God's existence. When God finds out, he is pissed at Jeffrey for not enacting random disasters onto people for petty, unrelated reasons because he is being "obvious" about it and not "hella mysterious."

* StraightMan: Jeffrey's role in most videos.

** In the ''PowerCorrupts'' PrisonEpisode, Jeffery [[CharacterFilibuster argues]] that all penal systems based on [[TheVillainMustBePunished retribution]] are necessarily this, because rehabilitation has been empirically demonstrated to reduce crime and recidivism whereas retribution is mere revenge, and though he names no makes it is pretty obvious that, in addition to rebuking Yahweh’s in-universe system, the speech is an indictment of the U.S. prison system and a call to treat criminals like they are treated in the Nordic countries.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Every murder committed by Neocon Jesus has a flimsy justification. He kills sheiks for "fucking with [his] profits". He kills abortion doctors because "[[HypocriticalHumor killing is wrong]]". He kills Mexicans for trying to cross the border illegally. He kills a gay couple because his reaction to dudes kissing is "ew". The same applies to most of the other kills in Dark Matter's videos.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The time traveler gives a devastating one to the pastor in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X05Wn1ZAlfE “The Future of Morality”]] after the pastor begs and pleads for them to [[ItMakesSenseInContext stop the marauding army from massacring an entire village]] while pointing out that the pastor had already justified the massacre when he knew it only as a Bible story:
--> Look at them, pastor. Is this objectively moral? I was with you amongst the people in your congregation. Long ago, you were asked about this. You told us that this was justified, because the Midianites convinced some of the Israelites to believe in other gods. But is that not what all religions do? Do those who proselytize deserve to have their children butchered? You come from a time and place that values freedom of religion, so what is it? You told us that God commanded them to slaughter these people, because they led God’s people astray. But isn’t that exactly how terrorists justify their violence? Look at them! You told us that the slaughter of these children was a gift to them because it sent them straight to Heaven, but is that not a justification to kill every child? You told us it wasn’t rape, because the Israelites married their captive women, but do you think women so freely desire to have sex with the men who killed their families? You want me to stop it now that it’s before your very eyes, pastor, now that it’s your family, but when it was just in your holy book, you said it was O.K., and you were so quick to make excuses for it. Watch as they kill children, blameless children, your child, and then remember that you yourself already justified it, all while claiming to have the moral high ground, an objective moral standard rooted in God’s nature. Watch! If you can justify this as moral, what can’t you justify pastor? Your disgust and shame and horror right now is born of a moral direction that emerged not because of your religion, but despite it.