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** Agamemnon sacrifices ''his'' daughter, refuses to ransom his SexSlave, and brings another SexSlave home to his wife.
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** Agamemnon sacrifices ''his'' daughter, refuses to ransom his SexSlave, and brings another SexSlave home to his wife. Then he gets murdered by his wife and her lover.
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** Particularly on Irish myths, the phrase "Metal!" is often used to describe general CrazyAwesome moments.
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** She uses the "sex with Poseidon in a temple" version of Medusa's origin story but leaves out the part where it was rape, presumably to avoid having Perseus and Athena murder a rape victim.
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* IWillShowYouX: From the video on the Poetic Edda, when Thor threatens Loki to stop insulting the other gods.
-->'''Loki:''' Couldn't stay away from my sparkling wit?
-->'''Thor:''' I'm about sparkle ''your'' wits halfway across the ocean.
-->'''Loki:''' Couldn't stay away from my sparkling wit?
-->'''Thor:''' I'm about sparkle ''your'' wits halfway across the ocean.
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* FamilyEyeResemblance: In the illustrations for "The Shadow over Innsmouth." [[spoiler:Nearly all of the Innsmouth natives have green eyes, but Obed Marsh's most human-looking daughter has blue eyes -- like her great-grandson Robert.]]
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* FamilyEyeResemblance: In the illustrations for FamilyEyeResemblance:
** "Perseus": Perseus, his mother, and his maternal grandfather are drawn with green eyes.
** "The Shadow overInnsmouth." Innsmouth": [[spoiler:Nearly all of the Innsmouth natives have green eyes, but Obed Marsh's most human-looking daughter has is drawn with blue eyes -- like her great-grandson Robert.]]
** "Perseus": Perseus, his mother, and his maternal grandfather are drawn with green eyes.
** "The Shadow over
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** Acrisius locks up his daughter to prevent her from conceiving any children. When Zeus still manages to impregnate her, he tosses her and his infant grandson into the ocean.
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** Acrisius locks up his daughter to prevent her from conceiving any children. When Zeus still manages to impregnate her, he tosses her and his infant grandson into the ocean. Needless to say, nobody mourns when Perseus accidentally kills him with a discus.
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* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Downplayed in the ending of "Perseus." Perseus accidentally kills his [[AssholeVictim filicidal grandfather]] with a discus. The video then cuts right back to the HappilyEverAfter shot that was just interrupted, with everyone completely unaffected.
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* AssholeVictim: Agamemnon.
** In the ''Oresteia'':
-->'''Cassandra:''' She'll kill us all and only he ''deserves'' it!
** In the ''Aeneid'':
-->'''Agamemnon:''' ''[being stabbed by Clytemnestra]'' Damn you negative consequences!
** And even in Achilles's ImagineSpot in the ''Iliad'':
-->'''Agamemnon:''' ''[impaled by a spear]'' Oh I am slain! If only I hadn't been a giant prick!
** In the ''Oresteia'':
-->'''Cassandra:''' She'll kill us all and only he ''deserves'' it!
** In the ''Aeneid'':
-->'''Agamemnon:''' ''[being stabbed by Clytemnestra]'' Damn you negative consequences!
** And even in Achilles's ImagineSpot in the ''Iliad'':
-->'''Agamemnon:''' ''[impaled by a spear]'' Oh I am slain! If only I hadn't been a giant prick!
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* AssholeVictim: Agamemnon.AssholeVictim:
** Acrisius locks up his daughter to prevent her from conceiving any children. When Zeus still manages to impregnate her, he tosses her and his infant grandson into the ocean.
** Agamemnon sacrifices ''his'' daughter, refuses to ransom his SexSlave, and brings another SexSlave home to his wife.
*** In the ''Oresteia'':
-->'''Cassandra:''' --->'''Cassandra:''' She'll kill us all and only he ''deserves'' it!
** *** In the ''Aeneid'':
-->'''Agamemnon:''' --->'''Agamemnon:''' ''[being stabbed by Clytemnestra]'' Damn you negative consequences!
** *** And even in Achilles's ImagineSpot in the ''Iliad'':
-->'''Agamemnon:''' --->'''Agamemnon:''' ''[impaled by a spear]'' Oh I am slain! If only I hadn't been a giant prick!
** Acrisius locks up his daughter to prevent her from conceiving any children. When Zeus still manages to impregnate her, he tosses her and his infant grandson into the ocean.
** Agamemnon sacrifices ''his'' daughter, refuses to ransom his SexSlave, and brings another SexSlave home to his wife.
*** In the ''Oresteia'':
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* PuppyDogEyes: In the flashback in the ''Aeneid'' covering the Trojan Horse, Sinon flashes these while pretending to be a hapless HumanSacrifice.
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-->'''Red:''' (Amazon) dogpile on him and in the chaos, Heracles kills Hippolyta, for some reason, and bail with the girdle.\\
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-->'''Red:''' (Amazon) They(Amazon) dogpile on him and in the chaos, Heracles kills Hippolyta, for some reason, and bail with the girdle.\\
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'''Heracles:''' "Sorry, Hippolyta."\\
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* ContinuitySnarl: Red often points out that stories are also different from telling to telling and that one myth may contradict with another myth, especially with Greek mythology.
-->'''Heracles:''' "Sorry, Hippolyta."\\
'''Hippolyta:''' "It's cool. Pretty sure I have to be alive to marry Theseus later anyways."
-->'''Heracles:''' "Sorry, Hippolyta."\\
'''Hippolyta:''' "It's cool. Pretty sure I have to be alive to marry Theseus later anyways."
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** Blue discusses some pretty awful popes (including the aforementioned Boniface VIII) in his "Pope Fights" video.
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** Blue discusses some pretty awful popes (including the aforementioned Boniface VIII) in his "Pope Fights" video."[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5majAET5KA Pope Fights]]" video, even dubbing Benedict IX the "meme Pope" before highlighting it as ARareSentence.
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* JustFriends: The whole friend zone concept is vivisected in Don Quixote. Marcella insults Chrysostom by calling him a selfish manchild who felt entitled to her affections.
-->'''Red''': Her argument is basically that her beauty makes them feel entitled to her, but the fact that someone finds her attractive doesn't mean she owes it to them to find them attractive. They're acting like she's choosing to not be interested when she certainly can't and won't force herself to pretend to be attracted to someone she isn't, just because they'll be upset she doesn't reciprocate their feelings. She didn't lead Chrysostom on, he just refused to processes emotions like an adult and treated like it was an act of malice for her not to be interested in him.
-->'''Red''': Her argument is basically that her beauty makes them feel entitled to her, but the fact that someone finds her attractive doesn't mean she owes it to them to find them attractive. They're acting like she's choosing to not be interested when she certainly can't and won't force herself to pretend to be attracted to someone she isn't, just because they'll be upset she doesn't reciprocate their feelings. She didn't lead Chrysostom on, he just refused to processes emotions like an adult and treated like it was an act of malice for her not to be interested in him.
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** In the ''Oresteia'':
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** In the ''Aeneid'':
-->'''Agamemnon:''' ''[being stabbed by Clytemnestra]'' Damn you negative consequences!
** And even in Achilles's ImagineSpot in the ''Iliad'':
-->'''Agamemnon:''' ''[impaled by a spear]'' Oh I am slain! If only I hadn't been a giant prick!
-->'''Agamemnon:''' ''[being stabbed by Clytemnestra]'' Damn you negative consequences!
** And even in Achilles's ImagineSpot in the ''Iliad'':
-->'''Agamemnon:''' ''[impaled by a spear]'' Oh I am slain! If only I hadn't been a giant prick!
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* ButHeSoundsHandsome:
-->'''Sun Wukong:''' ''[disguised as the Bull Demon King]'' Whoa, Tripitaka? But I hear he's under the protection of the terrifying and devastatingly handsome Sun Wukong! You best be careful -- that tricky monkey could be anywhere. Looking like ''anyone!''
-->'''Sun Wukong:''' ''[disguised as the Bull Demon King]'' Whoa, Tripitaka? But I hear he's under the protection of the terrifying and devastatingly handsome Sun Wukong! You best be careful -- that tricky monkey could be anywhere. Looking like ''anyone!''
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* TakeThat: The ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' video has a quick one to [[WesternAnimation/Beowulf2007 the film]], where the infamous "naked golden Angelina Jolie" interpretation of Grendel's Mother appears for [[FreezeFrameBonus about half a second]], before being stomped into a gold puddle by the actual Grendel's Mother.
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* TakeThat: TakeThat:
** The ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' video has a quick one to [[WesternAnimation/Beowulf2007 the film]], where the infamous "naked golden Angelina Jolie" interpretation of Grendel's Mother appears for [[FreezeFrameBonus about half a second]], before being stomped into a gold puddle by the actual Grendel'sMother.Mother.
** The Jorogumo video takes some time to criticize ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'''s depiction of Shelob.
--->'''Red''': [[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien]]'s [[AuthorPhobia crippling arachnophobia]] didn't die for this.
** The ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' video has a quick one to [[WesternAnimation/Beowulf2007 the film]], where the infamous "naked golden Angelina Jolie" interpretation of Grendel's Mother appears for [[FreezeFrameBonus about half a second]], before being stomped into a gold puddle by the actual Grendel's
** The Jorogumo video takes some time to criticize ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'''s depiction of Shelob.
--->'''Red''': [[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien]]'s [[AuthorPhobia crippling arachnophobia]] didn't die for this.
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* AmbiguousEnding: The Jorogumo story ends this way. Did the spider demon eat the lumberjack, or did they become a couple?
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** Yes, Arachne. Using your tapestry to graphically depict many of Zeus and Poseidon's sexual conquests and showing said tapestry to Athena is ''such'' a good idea.
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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Athena does this while repeatedly wacking Arachne over the head with a weaving shovel after she got the [[SarcasmMode brilliant idea]] to detail Zeus and Poseidon's numerous affairs in her tapestry.
-->'''Athena:''' ''What. Were. You.'' '''''Thinking?!'''''
-->'''Athena:''' ''What. Were. You.'' '''''Thinking?!'''''
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* PregnantBadass: Psyche faces several trials set by Aphrodite to win back Eros while pregnant with his child.
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** Psyche faces several trials set by Aphrodite to win back Eros while pregnant with his child.
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** Bonny Janet rescues her lover Tam Lin from the Queen of the Fairies while pregnant. Even when the Queen of the Fairies transforms Tam Lin into various
dangerous creatures and harmful objects, she never lets go.
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* PregnantBadass: Psyche faces several trials set by Aphrodite to win back Eros while pregnant with his child.
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dangerous creatures and harmful objects, she never lets go.
** Bonny Janet rescues her lover Tam Lin from the Queen of the Fairies while pregnant. Even when the Queen of the Fairies transforms Tam Lin into various
dangerous creatures and harmful objects, she never lets go.
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* IntercompanyCrossover: December 3, 2018 saw one between ''Overly Sarcastic'' and ''WebAnimation/ExtraCredits''.
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* CallBack: When Ra is sick and dying, one of the gods called to help him is Wadjet, who tells him she can't help. Ra is offended, and threatens to sic his ''other'' eye at her.
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* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: When introduced, Diomedes waves to the audience with one hand while spearing an offscreen Trojan with the other.
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* NotMeThisTime: [[Myth/NorseMythology Loki]] has a moment of this in the video on the Poetic Edda:
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* NotMeThisTime: [[Myth/NorseMythology Loki]] has a moment of this in the video on the Poetic Edda:Literature/PoeticEdda, when Thor mistakenly believes he took Mjolnir. The trope is pretty much summed up by this exchange:
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* NotMeThisTime: [[Myth/NorseMythology Loki]] has a moment of this in the video on the Poetic Edda:
-->'''Thor''': (from offscreen) '''LOKIIIII!'''\\
'''Loki''': I don't ''think'' I did anything to warrant that... today.
-->'''Thor''': (from offscreen) '''LOKIIIII!'''\\
'''Loki''': I don't ''think'' I did anything to warrant that... today.
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* AssholeVictim: Agamemnon.
-->'''Cassandra:''' She'll kill us all and only he ''deserves'' it!
-->'''Cassandra:''' She'll kill us all and only he ''deserves'' it!
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* FamilyEyeResemblance: In the illustrations for "The Shadow over Innsmouth." [[spoiler:Nearly all of the Innsmouth natives have green eyes, but Obed Marsh's most human-looking daughter has blue eyes -- like her great-grandson Robert.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters This isn't even half of the people they've talked about.]]]]
-> '''Red:''' Hi, I'm Red.\\
'''Blue:''' And I'm -- wait, did we ever give me a name? Are we going with colors, or...?\\
''[cut to several seconds later]''\\
'''Red:''' Hi, I'm Red.\\
'''Blue:''' And I'm Blue.\\
'''Red:''' And we make videos about boring nerd books.\\
'''Blue:''' And history.\\
'''Red:''' Don't worry, we make it fun.\\
'''Blue:''' That way you actually remember it.
-->-- An apt summarisation of the channel and its owners.
Red likes books and tropes. Blue likes history and philosophy.
Started in late 2012 with a summary of William Shakespeare's ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' , this Website/YouTube channel wants you to learn one thing and one thing only: learning isn't scary.
There are two people currently involved with the channel: Red, a passionate lover of books, and Blue, a lover of history. Together, they aim to not only educate viewers on the plots of classic novels and the summary of important points in history, but also inform you why you should care about such seemingly trivial matters in your everyday life.
[[https://www.youtube.com/user/RedEyesTakeWarning Check it out here.]]
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!!''Overly Sarcastic Productions'' provides examples of:
* AchillesInHisTent: Featuring the TropeNamer in a sulky ''blanket burrito'' in his tent.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Despite her overall [[SoOkayItsAverage "eh" opinion]] on the ''Literature/PercyJackson'' series, Red is willing to admit that Percy himself is a very well-written protagonist.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: When Blue describes the individuals in "Bolgia 4":
-->'''Blue:''' There are no depths to which these depraved deadbeats won't dive!\\
'''Red:''' ''[in the background]'' [[LampshadeHanging Woo! Alliteration!]]
* {{Adorkable}}: Red and Blue, when they get really passionate about the work or point in history they're talking about.
* AffablyEvil: Several creatures in Hell. The Minotaur, the Centaurs, and the Biblical Giant particularly stand out.
* AlmostDeadGuy: Lampshaded when Red talks about ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror'', as Old Whateley provides a full-blown ExpositionDump while on his death-bed.
* AndIMustScream: How Lancelot feels about becoming a monk.
* {{Angrish}}: Menelaus is like this all the time.
* {{Animesque}}: The channel's art style is heavily influenced by chibi, featuring cute, {{Moe}}-esque characters. The Journey To The West series [[AffectionateParody affectionately parodies]] all manner of trope-laden shonen anime.
* {{Answer Cut}}: During the Aeneid, King Latinus is informed in a dream that he should marry his daughter Lavinia to a "very specific foreigner". [[https://youtu.be/QRruBVFXjnY?t=567 Cut to Aeneas eating pizza on the beach]].
* {{Asexuality}}: Red is ace, thought it's rarely brought up. It's often speculated that some mythological figures are asexual.
* BareYourMidriff: In Frankenstein, the wife that the monster asks Victor to make for him is dressed in this.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Discontent with real women, who do things like talk and have sex, Pygmalion creates Galatea and then, unhappy with her inability to return his affections, begs Aphrodite to bring her to life.
-->'''Red:''' So now she can do things like talk! And have sex!\\
''[Pygmalion stares at the fourth wall, then sidelong at Galatea, looking queasy]''\\
'''Red:''' You kids have fun!
* BerserkButton:
** Don't talk to Red about ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' or the ''Literature/PercyJackson'' movies.
** Don't be mean to your teachers.
** Red's (probably) deliberate mispronunciations of "Bolgia" are this for Blue.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBuxCOqCs8s Don't tell Red that you burned the Library of Alexandria.]]
* BigFriendlyDog:
** Saint Bernard in ''The Paradiso'' [[LiteralMinded is portrayed by a dog of that breed.]]
** Odysseus's faithful hunting dog in ''The Odyssey''. [[TearJerker Too bad it dies right as he returns home.]]
* BigWhy: Red does one of these when she finds out Odysseus's faithful hunting dog dies the moment he returns to his house in ''Literature/TheOdyssey''.
* {{Bishonen}}:
** Hyacinthus is described as being "really pretty".
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRLkjBUgB2o Alcibiades]] is described as being "indisputably the most attractive man in the ancient world". He's even portrayed as Henry Cavill with Anime Eyes.
* TheBlank: Whenever Red refers to the person watching the video (EG by saying "You might be thinking..." or something to that effect), a stock character, representing the viewer, is shown. It's a standard character model in the show's art style with the word "YOU" written across its chest. Its face only has eyebrows and a mouth, since Red has no idea what the viewer looks like.
* BrattyHalfPint: Victor Frankenstein's little brother William.
-->'''William Frankenstein:''' ''[to the monster]'' You, sir, are ugly and therefore morally reprehensible.
* BrokenAce: Edgar Allen Poe had everything; ParentalAbandonment, [[PerpetualPoverty financial ruin]], [[TheAlcoholic alcoholism]], [[TheLostLenore a dead wife]], and an appropriately mysterious death at age 40. He also did most of the work of creating the gothic literary genre.
* BuryYourGays: In "Dante's Inferno", Dante sees his teacher in Hell for being gay.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** "TRULY A VICTORY FOR THE FORCES OF JUSTICE!"
** "So... yeah."
** [[SarcasmMode "Feel-good novel of the century!"]]
* CharacterShilling: Invoked by Red on Oskar Sommer's Galahad becoming a Christian ideal hero.
* ClingyJealousGirl: The queen of faeries quips that if she had known that Tam Lin would fall in love with a mortal girl named Bonnie Janet, she'd have ''petrified his eyes''.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Red has red eyes and Blue has blue eyes.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The souls in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-5rulaywR0&t=510s "College Hell"]] are subjected to a range of bizarre punishments:
** The punishment for [[TheDitherer the souls trapped in the First Circle]] (Limbo) is to simply not to go to college.
** [[TheHedonist Those in the Second Circle]] (Lust) are punished by being hit on by a creepy person in a frat party for all eternity.
** [[ExtremeOmnivore Souls in the Third Circle]] (Gluttony) are forced to eat nothing but dining hall food for the rest of time.
** [[OnlyInItForTheMoney People in the Fourth Circle]] (Greed) are doomed to an eternity of working as a fry cook at Burger King.
** [[SchoolIsForLosers Souls in the Fifth Circle]] (Wrath) are forced to stress and study forever. And if they ever take their eyes off their work, they instantly forget ''everything''.
** [[TheHeretic Those in the Sixth Circle]] (Heresy) hold office hours in burning cubicles forever.
** Each of the three rings in the Seventh Circle (Violence) has a different punishment:
*** In the first ring (Violence Against Neighbors), these souls are forced to remain in their rooms with the sprinklers going off for the rest of time.
*** In the second ring (Violence Against Self), people are transformed into expensive textbooks.
*** In the third ring (Violence Against God, Art, and Nature), souls are forced to wear sweaters from rival universities and deal with the social consequences forever.
** The Eighth Circle (Fraud) a.k.a the Malabolge has a number of punishments:
*** Bolgia 1 ([[TheLoad Pandering]]): Those who refuse to contribute in group projects are forced to drag huge boulders around in a twisted infinite relay race.
*** Bolgia 2 ([[TeachersPet Flattery]]): Teacher's pets who endlessly kiss up to their professors are turned into actual pets.
*** Bolgia 3 (Simony): Those who sign up for prime-time class slots and sell them back for ridiculous prices are sentenced to eternal 8:00 am classes, and are also upside down and on fire.
*** Bolgia 4 (Sorcery): Those who try to cheat their own futures by procuring previous years' study material are doomed to always using the wrong study guides.
*** Bolgia 5 (Graft): Those who try and line up "business opportunities" with other students are sentenced to the worst job interview ever. They are unprepared, their suit is uncomfortable, one of their pockets is falling off, one of their shoes is brown and the other is black, and they spend the entire time hoping that the interviewer doesn't notice (but he does).
*** Bolgia 6 (Hypocrisy): Students who start off squeaky-clean and starry-eyed but wind up completely trashing their work ethic after a single semester are forced to explain their deteriorating grades to their parents over an eternally awkward dinner. Plus, they smell of weed the entire time, which tips off the parents right away.
*** Bolgia 7 ([[TheCaper Theft]]): Criminals who callously steal unattended laptops in the library are doomed to an eternity of being hunted by Creator/LiamNeeson.
*** Bolgia 8 ([[FalseFriend Deception]]): The jerks who lie to their friends during housing by saying that they'll all stick together but leave to get a single all by themselves find themselves in the absolute worst room on campus: no outlets work, there's a sprinkler directly over their bed, the windows don't open, and the room permanently smells of pee. It's also right next to the RA's room and walls are paper-thin, and the neighbors on the other side are [[RightThroughTheWall constantly having sex]]. Their roommate also has a significant other who never leaves and has [[AnnoyingLaugh the worst laugh]].
*** Bolgia 9 ([[GossipyHens Schism]]): Gossipers who never stop spreading lies suddenly find themselves being gossiped about.
*** Bolgia 10 ([[PlagiarismInFiction Forgery]]): Those who plagiarize their work have the words they stole permanently and repeatedly branded on their skin.
** And finally, the souls in the Ninth Circle (Treachery) are each subjected to a different punishment:
*** Round 1 (Traitors to their Kindred): People who spend all their parents' money are frozen in the nearest body of water.
*** Round 2 (Traitors to their Country): Those who leave their clothes in the washing machine for hours on end are subjected to a fitting punishment: being trapped in a washing machine with many other souls, as well as someone's laundry.
*** Round 3 (Traitors to their Guests): Those who make out with their significant other excessively while the roommate is still in the room (it doesn't matter if the roommate is asleep or not) are sentenced to be naked forever.
*** Round 4 (Traitors to their Lords): The people who are mean to their teachers are doomed to drown in the school's tuition vault while the university president watches and laughs.
* CorruptChurch:
** In "[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]", Dante places Pope Nicholas III in Hell. Nicholas III proceeds to complain about Pope Boniface VIII and Pope Clement V.
** Blue discusses some pretty awful popes (including the aforementioned Boniface VIII) in his "Pope Fights" video.
* CrackFic: Red calls the Divine Comedy this at a few points.
* CurseCutShort: Happens a few times, especially in earlier videos:
** Book 11 of the Iliad gives us [[https://youtu.be/faSrRHw6eZ8?t=470 this glorious example]].
** [[https://youtu.be/A-3rHQ70Pag?t=337 Odysseus' reaction]] to his crewmates getting turned into pigs by Circe.
** The punishment for souls in the fourth circle of Hell is... confusing, to say the least, but Virgil cuts off [[https://youtu.be/gp8JGQk0CFQ?t=222 Dante's protest]] before he can say anything too sacrilegious.
* CuteMonsterGirl: In "Frankenstein's Monster", Victor thinks this much.
-->'''The Monster:''' She [the wife he asked Victor to create] didn't need to be reproduction-capable!\\
'''Victor:''' Only a fool makes a monster you can't [[CurseCutShort fu]]--
* DeathTrap: The protagonist of "The Pit in the Pendulum" is placed in two of these by the Inquisition. Rats save him in the first one, the French Army saves him in the second one.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Red states that the characters of Lancelot, Guinevere, and Arthur depend on whether Lancelot or Arthur are the hero of the story. If Lancelot is the hero then he and Guinevere are [[SympatheticAdulterer justified in their affair]] and Arthur is painted as deserving to be cheated on. If Arthur is the hero then Lancelot becomes a [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] UngratefulBastard.
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** In "Frankenstein's Monster", Victor refuses to create a wife for the unnamed monster he created because he fears they'll produce an entire brood of monsters. Red mentions that Victor could have just made the monster's bride barren, but Victor doesn't consider this option.
** In Pygmalion's story, Red points out the downfall of Galatea's existence and becoming human. Pygmalion has extremely high standards with women and the only "woman" who met his standards was handcrafted by him. Galatea coming to life contradicts the very purpose of her existence.
** In "Hou Yi and Chang'e", the archer god Hou Yi and his wife are banished for killing 9/10 of the Jade Emperor's sons-turned-suns.
--->'''Red:''' The Jade Emperor is shocked -- shocked, I tell you! -- that [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer the arrow guy he commissioned to shoot arrows shot arrows at the people he pointed them at]].\\
'''Hou Yi:''' Look, I don't know what you were expecting.
* DisproportionateRetribution: At the end of the Edgar Allen Poe episode, Blue makes some puns. Red finds this annoying... and so walls Blue up in catacombs to suffocate. Don't worry, though -- the ninjas broke him out.
* DoubleStandard: Majorly brought up in the Trope Talk of MarySue, where Red points out that female characters tend to get the accusation a lot more than male characters. Specifically, while it's true that male characters are often referred to as this, the threshold for a female character getting the label seems to be "plays an important role and has any kind of unusual ability or skill."
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Red does ''not'' approve of Selene using a permanently slumbering Endymion to have 50 kids.
-->'''Red:''' Whoa! Not cool lady! He's asleep!
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Discussed in the ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'' video, where Red explains that some people have a hard time believing that this play was actually written by Creator/WilliamShakespeare.
-->'''Red:''' Shakespeare, the man who made [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet a three-day fling between underage teenagers]] the most iconic love story in history. The man who explored the tortured psyche of [[Theatre/{{Macbeth}} kings]] and [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} princes]] driven to murder. The poet who [[TropeCodifier practically defined half of our modern character archetypes]] over the course of his career -- ''that's'' the guy who supposedly wrote this two-hour pointless gore fest.
* EitherWorldDominationOrSomethingAboutBananas: The possible meanings of "Pryderi" -- "worry," "concern," and "I'm going to strangle those handmaidens for telling everyone I ate you."
-->'''Red:''' It's a language of many beautiful complexities.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Blue considers "the Great" to be a terrible nickname because of its blandness. His rationale is that the heroes in Greek Mythology always have unique and descriptive epithets to describe people (Homer giving his Heroes five each), so "the Great" is underwhelming for someone who conquered more land in one lifetime than any Greek person before him. Blue suggests "Alexander who fights in the Front Line", "Alexander the Excellent", "Alexander the Horseman", and "Alexander the Conqueror" as more appropriate nicknames.
* EverybodyHatesHades: They discuss the trope and note how undeserved it is. They point out that the two questionable things he did was kidnap his wife (common for Gods, and by all accounts he treated her well) and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ije2WDJttrc imprison two Greek Heroes]] (who [[WifeHusbandry deserved]] [[IHaveYourWife it]]).
* EverybodyWantsTheHermaphrodite: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4dAMMkqPoY Asu-shu-namir]], an intersex person created by Ea, is able to rescue Ishtar by seducing Ereshkigal. Subverted in that Ereshkigal cursed gender non-binary people to be outcasts in retaliation, and double subverted in that Ishtar gave them the gifts of [[MagicalQueer healing and prophecy]] to counterbalance this.
* EvilCounterpart: Inverted with Galahad. He's a GOOD counterpart to his biological father Lancelot. This is most obvious during the quest for the Holy Grail; while Lancelot is forced out of the room by a ball of fire because he is [[YourCheatingHeart unworthy of seeing the grail]], Galahad is [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence carried up to Heaven alive]] once he touches the grail.
-->'''Red:''' Galahad is basically Lancelot but better. Like "not sleeping with another man's wife" better.
* {{Fainting}}: Dante does this a lot in ''The Divine Comedy''.
* FalseStart:
** The ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' episode begins with a history of Hrothgar's family tree, which features several guys named Beowulf. Red discusses each, building all of them up to be the real deal, only to stop each one with a [[RecordNeedleScratch record scratch]] and say it's not the titular Beowulf. It's only after [[FromBeyondTheFourthWall the person watching the video shows up and complains that Red is taking too long to talk about the real one]] that she finally gets to him.
** Turned UpToEleven in the first April Fool's Day special. Red addresses the criticism that she talks too fast and leaves out important details, so she intends to correct those -- while summarizing ''Literature/LesMiserables''. She doesn't make it past the first few pages describing Madame Baptistine.
* FiveManBand: Red discusses the trope, with the non-gender-specific [[TheHeart Heart]] substituted in for TheChick.
* FlatWhat:
** Red has one of these when she discovers how Dante describes [[MindScrew God's true form]] in ''The Paradiso''. [[spoiler:It's three rings surrounding a book surrounded itself by rainbows. Rings surrounding a ''Series/ReadingRainbow'' as it were.]]
** Red has [[https://youtu.be/ZLVwEjr_n8o?t=120 another one]] when she discovers the Internet's reaction to Rey from ''Film/TheForceAwakens''.
* FluffyTheTerrible: Red mentions in one video how there's evidence that Cerberus means "spotted"[[note]]One theory for his name's origin is the root Indo-European word ḱerberos, "spotted."[[/note]], which means that Hades, the Lord of the Underworld, named his enormous three-headed hellhound Spot.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: In a somewhat silly case, Thor seemingly leaves his "magic, goat-drawn chariot at home," and then proceeds to get stuck on the edge of a turbulent river. This is somehow challenging to the Norse god, which forces him to argue with a ferryman to get across. Doubles as DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu for the ferryman, who is seemingly very comfortable insulting the god of thunder.
* FreezeFrameBonus: The animated episodes are ''full'' of these.
* FreudianExcuse: Red describes Creator/HPLovecraft thusly [[https://youtu.be/PmdzptbykzI at the start of the 2018 Halloween video]].
-->'''Red''': It would be inaccurate to describe Howard Phillips Lovecraft as "[[{{Understatement}} a man with issues]]". It's more like he was a ''bundle'' of issues shambling around in a roughly-bipedal approximation of a man. [[TheEeyore Chronically depressed]], [[CantTakeCriticism hyper-sensitive to criticism]], almost-''certainly'' [[TheShutIn agoraphobic]], prone to horrible nightmares and [[FreakOut nervous breakdowns]], and ''thoroughly'' racist even by the standards of the time, it'd be easy to come to the conclusion that H.P. Lovecraft was simply afraid of ''everything''. But this isn't true either - [[DistinctionWithoutADifference he was just afraid of anything that wasn't]] [[AbsoluteXenophobe his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island]].
* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: In the ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' episode, the viewer appears as a character, chewing Red out for taking so long to talk about the real Beowulf.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Blue going [[Anime/DragonBallZ Super Saiyan]] in the background after Red finally says "bolgia" correctly[[note]]She'd been saying it wrong for pretty much the entire video, likely intentionally[[/note]].
* GodModeSue:
** Invoked in Trope Talk, where Red points out that Literature/{{Beowulf}} is one by pretty much any definition, as part of a thesis of why the Mary Sue is an overstated or overhated trope.
** Both Mwindo and the Monkey King from ''Journey to the West'' are this, but both being way O.P. are a part of the [[AnAesop lesson]] being told by their respective myths.
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery:
** In "Dante's Inferno", one woman is in Hell because she cheated on her abusive husband with his brother and both were executed. Yet despite her being in Hell, Dante feels sorry for her.
** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_jgF-S746o Legends Summarized: King Arthur]]", this is discussed with Guinevere and Lancelot's relationship. Chrétien de Troyes, who created Lancelot, painted his affair with Guinevere as morally rightous and something that makes them both more sympathetic (as the ideas of Courtly Love and Love For Love's Sake were popular in his time). Later on Oskar Sommer, who created Galahad and the quest for the Holy Grail, paints Lancelot and Guinevere's relationship as a vile sin and a betrayel of Arthur's trust (as a religious revival made Love For Love's Sake no longer acceptable). Modern renditions can go either way, though Red herself seems to be on the "adultery is bad" side.
* GoodIsNotNice: This is Red's take on Hades. He's a loving husband to Persephone, and altogether commits less cruelty than his contemporaries, but as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ije2WDJttrc Pirithous]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsaFUEq5UEo Sisyphus]] can tell you upsetting him is still a very bad idea.
* GoodNameForARockBand: The Odyssey gives us "Penelope and the Suitors".
** The Kali video gives us "Durga and the Matrikas".
** Quetzalcoatl gave us a possible name for a tabletop RPG set in feudal Japan - "Katanas and Kimonos".
* HalloweenEpisode: There have been four annual Halloween videos so far. In each one, Red talks about a well-known piece of gothic literature, such as Literature/{{Dracula}}, Literature/{{Frankenstein}}, several poems by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, and several stories by Creator/HPLovecraft.
* AHellOfATime: In "Dante's Inferno", Paris's punishment for being lustful in life... is to be trapped with all the most beautiful and lustful women in history.
* HereWeGoAgain: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Chrp-H-Jk4 The Journey Of Ra]]" has Ra travel across the sky every day, die, and travel through the underworld as a corpse before being reborn every morning and repeating the cycle over again.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Both Blue and Red, who are only ever represented by their avatars outside of their two Q&A videos. Red has a [[TheCameo quick appearance]] in her Trope Talk [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouv5CJ7Ig7c “Writing What You Know”]], and later on, both of them did entire video without their animated equivalents in the [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DBuxCOqCs8s 2018 April Fools Day special]].
* HideYourGays:
** Parodied. While Patroclus appeals to Achilles to help out the Greeks, Achilles is overcome by [[https://youtu.be/faSrRHw6eZ8?t=561 "brotherly affection"]]. This is, of course, immediately followed by THREE close-ups of their faces to the tune of "Careless Whisper".
** Further parodied in the Aeneid, where the men engage in [[https://youtu.be/QRruBVFXjnY?t=459 "healthy, sporting, and 100% heterosexual activities"]].
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Persephone falls for Sisyphus's ruse and allows him to return to the world of the living, even though he has a reputation for murdering guests.
* HotTeacher: Red admits in the Eros and Psyche video that she saw her Greek studies teacher as "absolutely gorgeous" with a "beautiful accent" and having the most "piercing of eyes".
* HoYay: {{Invoked}} Red notes that Lancelot and Galehaut have a really close relationship, with the latter surrendering to King Arthur just to be friends with Lancelot.
-->'''Arthur:''' If you surrender, I'll introduce you.\\
'''Galehaut: DEAL.'''
* HurricaneOfPuns: Izanagi lets loose a stream of fire-related puns after Kagu-tsuchi is born, completely oblivious to the fact that Izanami is dying right in front of him.
* HypeBacklash: InUniverse, Red claimed to have been surprised to find that ''Literature/{{Momotaro}}'' was a popular story, pointing out that "[[RandomEventsPlot not a whole lot happens]], [[InvincibleHero there's hardly any drama]], and [[AntiClimax Momotaro just kind of... wins.]]" She ultimately concludes that the story owes a lot of its fame to the fact that its narrative of a newcomer underdog of blessed origin resolving the bickering of his underlings to take on a distant enemy and return with fortune and fame was a narrative that UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan found quite appealing.
* IfICantHaveYou: Both Apollo and Zephyr fall in love with Spartan prince, Hyacinthus. Zephyr then kills Hyacinthus by blowing a discus into his head for choosing Apollo over him.
* ILetYouWin: {{Invoked|Trope}} with their telling of the story of Atalanta, where she figured out early on what Hippomenes was doing with the golden apples, but liked him well enough that she deliberately threw the [[EngagementChallenge race]].
-->'''Red:''' Of course you could say that Atalanta was [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny totally captivated by the allure of the golden apples]], unintentionally kneecapped herself as a result, and got married out of a bout of [[IdiotBall shockingly out-of-character stupidity]] and ended up without a say in who her husband was. But like, why would you WANT to? [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation It's up to interpretation]] and that interpretation is gross.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Achilles and Paris are in the Second Circle of Hell, which means he's in a windy place with all the beautiful and lustful women in History. While Paris is staring at them eagerly, Achilles just awkwardly points out that this isn't his kind of party.
* InteractiveNarrator: Appears in Red's videos on ''The Divine Comedy'' occasionally, when the characters have a LamePunReaction.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Red accuses Victor from "Frankenstein's Monster" of being extremely selfish, and she has a good point. Victor almost never considers how his actions might adversely affect others. Red goes so far as to say that Victor crosses the MoralEventHorizon when he lets Justine get [[MiscarriageOfJustice executed for a crime she didn't commit]], simply because he doesn't want to face consequences for creating the monster that's actually responsible.
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Downplayed in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhonpfb98Kk Trope Talk: Magic]]". While she doesn't actually mention this, she does mention how the Masquerade being upheld would have the implication that magic-users were [[MurderByInaction allowing atrocities they could have prevented]].
-->'''Wizard:''' ''[speaking to a grieving woman]'' Yes, yes, very sorry to hear about your mundane family, but you know the rules. They'll just have to sort out this [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler "kitler"]] fellow themselves.
* KubrickStare: Monkey delivers a pretty epic one to Pigsy in "[[https://youtu.be/W7N-IRcUfB4?t=168 Journey to the West: Part 3]]".
* LesYay:
** Red notes that when researching her video on Fionn Mac Cumhaill, she couldn't find anything specific about the exact nature of the relationship between the title character's [[HasTwoMommies female guardians]]. So she goes on to refer to them as "fighter mom" and "druid mom".
** Later discussed in her video on the myth of the Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu, which she reads as an almost literal ComingOutStory. See the entry for NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer for details.
** Averted with Artemis. Red points out that, while Artemis did swear off men, she didn't really show any preference for women either, and argues that she may have been asexual. If you manage to look past the AuthorAppeal, it's a valid point.
* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: This happens in too many myths to count and is often how heroes are conceived.
* {{Masquerade}}: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhonpfb98Kk Trope Talk: Magic]]", Red deconstructs this trope by pointing out how poorly it reflects on the magic-users and how implausible it is that this secret would be kept.
-->'''Red:''' Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead and the third can only speak in spoonerisms.
* MetaphoricallyTrue: Agamemnon argues that "from a certain point of view" he ''did'' arrange Iphigenia's marriage... to the war effort. Clytemnestra doesn't buy it.
* MythologyGag: Where does the founder of Rome order pizza from? [[https://youtu.be/QRruBVFXjnY?t=567 Little Caesar's, of course!]]
* {{Ninja}}: Blue getting attacked by them is a RunningGag.
* NoFourthWall: To be expected, as Red and Blue are talking to their viewers.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Queen Dido's suicide, burning herself alive and stabbing herself with Aeneus's own sword.
* NominalHero: Red interprets [[Literature/TheAeneid Aeneas]] as one, noting that he [[InformedAbility doesn't actually accomplish much]], comes across as "[[IdiotBall a bit of a knobhead]]", and [[MoralMyopia does many of the same things the story condemns the Greeks for doing]]. She suggests this may have been a WriterRevolt on the part of Virgil, since Aeneas is [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed pretty similar to Augustus,]] and plenty of scholars believe Virgil wasn't a fan of the guy.
* NonIndicativeName: Red comments that "Inferno" is an odd name for a story about Hell, considering that only a few of the circles are on fire and the worst ones are frozen.
* NonSequiturThud:
-->'''Hyacinthus:''' ''[dying from a head injury]'' No more peanuts for me, stewardess.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever reason Blue became an atheist...[[BringMyBrownPants he really doesn’t want to talk about it]].
* TheNothingAfterDeath: Limbo, the first circle of Hell and the only one without suffering.
* NothingIsScarier: Red concludes that it was [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraft]]'s fear of the unknown (read: [[https://youtu.be/PmdzptbykzI virulent xenophobia and distrust of modern science]]) that's led his work to endure for so long, even as [[SocietyMarchesOn Society]] and [[ScienceMarchesOn Science]] marching on preclude his ''specific'' fears.
* NotInTheFace: Blue shouts this when Red kicks him for interrupting her video on ''Literature/TheAeneid''.
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer:
** Red assures us that she is neither joking nor exaggerating upon revealing that the plan that ends up successfully [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFyJGXicgPY luring Amaterasu out of the cave she's been sulking in]] is to get Ame-no-Uzume, the goddess of fun, partying, and the dawn, [[spoiler:to do a striptease.]]
** During the [[https://youtu.be/MnVHLAH7MYI video on Cu Chulainn]], the disclaimer applies to Scathatch's [[spoiler:evil twin sister]] Aife.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: In their Trope Talk about TheHerosJourney, Blue walks in after apparently fighting off a horde of ninjas. Then in the final moments of the video, Red returns from her own quest, boon and all.
* OhCrap: Four of Mauna Kea's kupua have this reaction when they realize the woman they just pissed off was actually Pele.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Red has never revealed her actual given name, Blue on the other hand has been called Gregory on several occasions, and if you go looking for his book "Philisophical Phridays" his last name is listed as Kerr.
* ParentalIncest: Heavily implied in ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', as the ones guarding the gates of Hell are Satan's daughter Sin and his son/'''grandson''' Death, to which Red says "Really, don't ask, it's gross."
* PowerEchoes: Powerful deities have a noticeable echo effect to their voices.
* PunishedForSympathy: In "Dante's Inferno", Virgil chews out Dante for feeling sympathy for the the magicians whose heads are backwards.
* RapunzelHair: Red's hair can basically double as a full-body blanket for her avatar. Live-action videos reveal that her hair really ''is'' that long.
* RecordNeedleScratch: One of these occurs when Blue is caught singing along to the ''VideoGame/{{Skyrim}}'' theme in his [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jjCcSQV1Epc video on vikings.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Red, who walled Blue up in a catacomb to suffocate... twice.
* RonTheDeathEater: Invoked. Dante used his story to put all the people he hated in Hell. Of special mention are the heroes from Greek Mythology, because Dante was an Italian (who are descended from the Romans, who are descended from the Trojans, whom the Greeks wiped out during the Trojan War).
* RunningGag:
** Red constantly pronouncing "bolgia" wrong in the "College Hell" video, much to the frustration of Blue.
** "Hey kid, you like proving yourself?" "Do I!" pops up whenever someone sends a young hero off on a dangerous task in the hopes of getting them killed (which almost always backfires.)
** In early episodes, Blue decided that any video pertaining to an empire will include the Star Wars crawl.
** The "Comment Kaiju" from Trope Talk.
** In the episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Chrp-H-Jk4 The Journey Of Ra]]", the running gag is snakes.
** "[[Music/BonnieTyler Total Eclipse of the Heart]]" and [[Music/{{Seal}} "Kiss From a Rose"]] tend to play lot in the background during romantic moments.
** [[Music/GeorgeMichael "Careless Whisper"]] and [[Series/{{Scrubs}} "Guy Love"]] for moments of HoYay.
** "Paradise Lost" has Red explaining Satan's rebellion as [[ParentalIssues Daddy Issues]].
** "ENORMOUS F**K-YOU DRAGON!" is said whenever such a creature appears in a story that Red is summarizing.
** Blue occasionally explains actions surrounding Sparta's prestige simply by saying "I mean, come on, they're ''Sparta,'' you know?"
** Red is pretty annoyed by how utterly useless and OutOfFocus the horse is in ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' is, at one point grinding the video to a halt to rant at him about how, being a river dragon, he could've easily overcome the pilgrims' obstacle of getting across a troublesome river that Sha Wujing was hiding under.
** Parties are depicted as raves with flashing colored lights and deep bass techno music thumping.
** Throughout the Creator/HPLovecraft video, Red offers various suggestions for what the "H.P." stands for, including "Horrible Phobias" and "Hippo Potamus". Later in the segment covering "Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace", the ''mysterious color unlike any seen on Earth!'' complete with ScareChord. [[OverlyLongGag So many times]] that Red starts cutting herself off.
** Frequent use of the ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P5qbcRAXVk Alert!]]" sound when a character is startled.
* SadlyMythcharacterized: A few times, usually to provide a LighterAndSofter alternative interpretation of a myth:
** Amaterasu and the Cave: Other interpretations of the myth portray Ama No Uzume's striptease with different motives and results: to pique Amaterasu's curiosity as to what all the hubbub is about and seeing herself reflected in the mirror, thus thinking they are cheering her on, or having Amaterasu hear all the uproar over Uzume's dance making her wonder why all the gods could make so merry without her divine light, and stepping out to see what could be replacing her so easily. Red offers an alternate interpretation: that Amaterasu comes out of the cave due to all the ruckus, and once she does so, she finds Uzume's striptease attractive.
** Atalanta: Ignoring a common interpretation, that Atalanta was [[DistractedByTheShiny distracted by the golden apples]], in favor of Atalanta playing along with Hippomenes's plot and letting him win.
** She points out that, as a personal preference, she prefers the interpretation that Hades and Persephone actually were in love, and the whole myth was more a case of Demeter throwing a tantrum.
* SadlyMythtaken: Red takes certain artistic liberties in concerning how mythological creatures are depicted, likely to make them easier to draw or less gruesome. A notable example of this is the Chimera, which is somewhat different from its depiction on ancient greek art.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Alcibiades's reaction to his fleet losing horribly, [[https://youtu.be/kRLkjBUgB2o?t=962 verbatim.]]
* SelfInsertFic: How Red basically describes ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' due to it being about Dante teaming up with his idol Virgil.
* SerialNumbersFiledOff: Frequently invoked in the summary of ''Literature/TheAeneid'', with Red practically making a RunningGag out of the number of times Virgil rips off a scene or setpiece from one of Homer's works.
* ShipperOnDeck:
** Aphrodite, who started the Trojan War because she refused to let a little thing like Helen already being married get in the way of shipping her with Paris. She also had a hand in making sure Hippomenes x Atalanta, Pygmalion x Galatea, and Aeneas x Dido all set sail. [[DatingWhatDaddyHates She emphatically does NOT ship Eros x Psyche, however.]]
** Victor Frankenstein's mother ships him with his foster sister Elizabeth, and pushes them together on her deathbed.
* ShowWithinAShow:
** "Frankenstein" takes this UpToEleven.
--->'''Red:''' So if you're keeping track, that's an exhaustive life story [[note]]the monster's life story[[/note]] inside another exhaustive life story [[note]]Victor's life story[[/note]] that poor Captain Walton is transcribing in its entirety [[FramingDevice to mail to his sister]].
** The monster listens to and recounts the life story of a family he was following, adding yet another layer to this.
* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/OverlySarcasticProductions Now has its own page.]]
* ShutUpHannibal: When Captain Walton finally meets the monster in Frankenstein, he isn't sympathetic in the slightest after learning about how said monster murdered three innocent people.
* SilentSnarker: Helen of Troy is this when she gets kidnapped by Theseus as a [[WifeHusbandry twelve-year-old]], flipping Theseus off and glaring at Pirithous [[WhatAnIdiot for being]] [[TooDumbToLive stupid enough]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ije2WDJttrc to try and kidnap Persephone]].
* SnakesAreSinister: Apophis is an exaggerated example of this trope in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Chrp-H-Jk4 The Journey of Ra]]", as every single night he attempts to eat Ra and end the world. Subverted with every other snake in this myth (of which there are [[RunningGag many]]), who are shown to be neutral at worst and benevolent at best.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: If you're gender non-binary then you have the gift of prophecy, [[PalsWithJesus Ishtar loves you]], and the queen of Hell thinks you're hot.
* SpeechBubblesInterruption: May double as a CurseCutShort, depending on your definition of 'curse'. In the Poetic Edda, Odin tells Agnar stories about the Aesir, telling him about [[https://norse-mythology.org/tales/the-marriage-of-njord-and-skadi/ the time Loki tied a goat to his testicles]]. Of course, [[https://youtu.be/73y4oUG_YgA?t=307 the fire pillars next to him cut off the final word]].
* SquishyWizard: Circe says she has "like two hit points" when Odysseus pulls a sword on her in ''The Odyssey''.
* SuddenlyShouting: When Dante and Virgil encounter [[EyeScream a man with his eyes sewn shut]] in ''The Purgatorio'', Red gives a sudden loud scream. Doubles as a pretty effective JumpScare as well.
* SuicideIsShameful:
** In "Dante's Inferno", those who commit suicide go to Hell and are turned into trees. A demon rips their leaves off just to make them suffer further.
** Subverted with Ajax. When the titular hero commits suicide over being tricked by Odysseus and Athena, two of his former friends demand he be dishonored and denied a proper burial. Odysseus insists Ajax be buried. While narrating this story, Blue openly shows contempt for the two people who oppose burying Ajax.
* TakeThat: The ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' video has a quick one to [[WesternAnimation/Beowulf2007 the film]], where the infamous "naked golden Angelina Jolie" interpretation of Grendel's Mother appears for [[FreezeFrameBonus about half a second]], before being stomped into a gold puddle by the actual Grendel's Mother.
* TooDumbToLive: Osiris.
* TooManyHalves: In her examination of the works of Creator/HPLovecraft, Red describes Cthulhu as a "half-human, half-octopus, half-dragon thing".
* UnreliableNarrator:
** The protagonist of "The Tell-Tale Heart".
** Red in the "Legends Summarised: Underworld" video establishes the structure of these myths, then it turns out only one in the video follows it.
--->'''Red''' I am such a reliable narrator.
* ValuesDissonance: [[invoked]]
** The source of Red's discomfort with ''Literature/TheTamingOfTheShrew'', the Greek myth of Pandora, and the final act of ''Theatre/TheOresteia''. Thoroughly discussed in their video on the works of Creator/HPLovecraft, who Red remarks was racist even by the standards of his ''own'' time.
** ''Literature/DonQuixote'' both averts ''and'' plays the trope straight. While she's pleasantly surprised at the modern feminism shown in the story, she's ''wide-eyed mortified'' at Sancho Panza thinking he could get rich selling African slaves.
--->'''Red:''' '''''OKAY!!!!!'''''
* VillainousIncest: Blue talks about the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZROmiEyH6k Borgia Family]] (and how Lucretia Borgia had sex with her father and brother), and about the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3vAKRa0f5I Ptolemy Family]] (which involves numerous generations of brother-sister inbreeding). Blue finds these incestuous relationships weird and wrong.
* VisualPun: In ''The Paradiso'' video Red decides to represent one of the Saints as a BigFriendlyDog, namely Bernard.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Red has pointed out before that Acrisius, Aphrodite, and Hera could've easily just killed the person that was troubling them. Those people being Danae (and by extension, [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bzFCbUC4c7s&index=2&t=0s&list=PLDb22nlVXGgeoPb-HBWwzEeoAwDvckSrC Perseus]]), [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HLo1jZA1iVw&list=PLDb22nlVXGgeoPb-HBWwzEeoAwDvckSrC&index=14 Psyche]], and [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M16jOVC5kpA&list=PLDb22nlVXGgeoPb-HBWwzEeoAwDvckSrC&index=19 Heracles]], respectively.
* WifeHusbandry: Theseus kidnapped Helen of Troy when she was a child with the intention of doing this. [[VomitDiscretionShot Red does not approve]].
!!Overly Sarcastic Productions discusses the following tropes:
* TheChosenOne: Red talks about this trope in one of her videos, along with ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne and ThePoorlyChosenOne.
* DamselInDistress: Red discusses this trope and even admits that she is a huge fan of this trope, despite being very tomboyish. While she is not a fan of the classical damsel who are non-characters, she is a fan of when an established characters are the damsels. She does note that the big issue of the trope is the "damsel mindset" where the character in distress is helpless like the classical damsel and the result of the writer forgetting about who the distressed character is. She is a fan of it because of the dynamic of how the trope is handled and seeing the distressed needing help. It also overlaps with DamselOutOfDistress, BadassInDistress, DistressBall, etc.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Red does take issue with people who use "Realism" as shorthand for "Grimdark" since it runs on the misconception that making things realistic means trying to make things as dark and depressing as possible even when it causes the story to be (well) unrealistic.
* TheEmpire: This shows a foil to the Heroes as well as a large obstacle to overcome, but most of the time [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCBIXgYCds4 The Empire]] is not well thought-out and the aftermath of overthrowing it gets ignored.
* FiveManBand: As stated earlier, one of Red's Trope Talk videos discusses this trope.
* HeelFaceTurn: Red discusses how [[https://youtu.be/vs2TkXBYT9A a villain turning good]] is full of potential. However, she also acknowledges the biggest issue with this trope is convincing the audience that the villain has genuinely turned good, and that depending on the scale of their crimes, can look like a KarmaHoudini if handled poorly.
* TheHerosJourney: Blue discusses the steps this story type follows and how it's nowhere near as common as Joseph Campbell would have you believe but also how it can be used to great effect.
* MarySue: [[invoked]] Red talks about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2-GIY9RTqU the evolution of this trope]] and how disproportionate it is that the traits that could be used to describe a male character get a female character branded as a Mary Sue. She also briefly discusses some of the offshoots of this trope: the JerkSue, the VillainSue, and the PossessionSue.
* MindControl: Red discusses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_7BHQdyrzg the different ways this can play out and offshoots]] such as the IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight, FightingFromTheInside, and NotBrainwashed.
* NotSoDifferent: Red finds invoking this trope to be cringe worthy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hruNDDvilCA&t=6s because the majority of works that use it do so very poorly]]; either the villain convinces the hero of this when they have nothing alike (making the hero [[StupidGood look like an idiot]]), or when there are similarities [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot they are not looked at]]. Red states that a better use of this trope is when there are actual similarities to explore, or when the hero does comes to this conclusion on his own.
* TheParagon: Red actually loves seeing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm_Pi6OpNKU The Paragon]] in stories because they facilitate character growth on those around them. She also states that this trope can be deconstructed by having him be misguided or by having his opponents refuse to negotiate him on the basis that he's sure he's doing the right thing.
* PlanetOfHats: Red examines the various types of common Hats (historically-based or otherwise) and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isdaYjET9cg explains its origins]]. She also explains how, while many fantasy races are based on either Tolkien's Legendarium or real-life cultures, the trope is actually subverted by both of those instances: a PlanetOfHats is what you get when you take a cursory glance at most cultures and then apply that stereotype to the whole.
* RuleOfThree: Red explains that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSpRPlhRvjA everything comes in threes]] in stories because three is a large enough number to be interesting without being too large to keep track of.
* [[invoked]]ShippingBedDeath: In the Trope Talk about romantic subplots, Red points out the commonly cited idea that the audience cares more about the journey to the relationship rather than the relationship itself. But when that's resolved, a lot of stories don't actually explore the couple as a couple, as the rest of their time together is spent either being non-characters outside of the coupling or having drama infect the plot so that they can remain "interesting" to the audience.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters This isn't even half of the people they've talked about.]]]]
-> '''Red:''' Hi, I'm Red.\\
'''Blue:''' And I'm -- wait, did we ever give me a name? Are we going with colors, or...?\\
''[cut to several seconds later]''\\
'''Red:''' Hi, I'm Red.\\
'''Blue:''' And I'm Blue.\\
'''Red:''' And we make videos about boring nerd books.\\
'''Blue:''' And history.\\
'''Red:''' Don't worry, we make it fun.\\
'''Blue:''' That way you actually remember it.
-->-- An apt summarisation of the channel and its owners.
Red likes books and tropes. Blue likes history and philosophy.
Started in late 2012 with a summary of William Shakespeare's ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' , this Website/YouTube channel wants you to learn one thing and one thing only: learning isn't scary.
There are two people currently involved with the channel: Red, a passionate lover of books, and Blue, a lover of history. Together, they aim to not only educate viewers on the plots of classic novels and the summary of important points in history, but also inform you why you should care about such seemingly trivial matters in your everyday life.
[[https://www.youtube.com/user/RedEyesTakeWarning Check it out here.]]
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!!''Overly Sarcastic Productions'' provides examples of:
* AchillesInHisTent: Featuring the TropeNamer in a sulky ''blanket burrito'' in his tent.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Despite her overall [[SoOkayItsAverage "eh" opinion]] on the ''Literature/PercyJackson'' series, Red is willing to admit that Percy himself is a very well-written protagonist.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: When Blue describes the individuals in "Bolgia 4":
-->'''Blue:''' There are no depths to which these depraved deadbeats won't dive!\\
'''Red:''' ''[in the background]'' [[LampshadeHanging Woo! Alliteration!]]
* {{Adorkable}}: Red and Blue, when they get really passionate about the work or point in history they're talking about.
* AffablyEvil: Several creatures in Hell. The Minotaur, the Centaurs, and the Biblical Giant particularly stand out.
* AlmostDeadGuy: Lampshaded when Red talks about ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror'', as Old Whateley provides a full-blown ExpositionDump while on his death-bed.
* AndIMustScream: How Lancelot feels about becoming a monk.
* {{Angrish}}: Menelaus is like this all the time.
* {{Animesque}}: The channel's art style is heavily influenced by chibi, featuring cute, {{Moe}}-esque characters. The Journey To The West series [[AffectionateParody affectionately parodies]] all manner of trope-laden shonen anime.
* {{Answer Cut}}: During the Aeneid, King Latinus is informed in a dream that he should marry his daughter Lavinia to a "very specific foreigner". [[https://youtu.be/QRruBVFXjnY?t=567 Cut to Aeneas eating pizza on the beach]].
* {{Asexuality}}: Red is ace, thought it's rarely brought up. It's often speculated that some mythological figures are asexual.
* BareYourMidriff: In Frankenstein, the wife that the monster asks Victor to make for him is dressed in this.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Discontent with real women, who do things like talk and have sex, Pygmalion creates Galatea and then, unhappy with her inability to return his affections, begs Aphrodite to bring her to life.
-->'''Red:''' So now she can do things like talk! And have sex!\\
''[Pygmalion stares at the fourth wall, then sidelong at Galatea, looking queasy]''\\
'''Red:''' You kids have fun!
* BerserkButton:
** Don't talk to Red about ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' or the ''Literature/PercyJackson'' movies.
** Don't be mean to your teachers.
** Red's (probably) deliberate mispronunciations of "Bolgia" are this for Blue.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBuxCOqCs8s Don't tell Red that you burned the Library of Alexandria.]]
* BigFriendlyDog:
** Saint Bernard in ''The Paradiso'' [[LiteralMinded is portrayed by a dog of that breed.]]
** Odysseus's faithful hunting dog in ''The Odyssey''. [[TearJerker Too bad it dies right as he returns home.]]
* BigWhy: Red does one of these when she finds out Odysseus's faithful hunting dog dies the moment he returns to his house in ''Literature/TheOdyssey''.
* {{Bishonen}}:
** Hyacinthus is described as being "really pretty".
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRLkjBUgB2o Alcibiades]] is described as being "indisputably the most attractive man in the ancient world". He's even portrayed as Henry Cavill with Anime Eyes.
* TheBlank: Whenever Red refers to the person watching the video (EG by saying "You might be thinking..." or something to that effect), a stock character, representing the viewer, is shown. It's a standard character model in the show's art style with the word "YOU" written across its chest. Its face only has eyebrows and a mouth, since Red has no idea what the viewer looks like.
* BrattyHalfPint: Victor Frankenstein's little brother William.
-->'''William Frankenstein:''' ''[to the monster]'' You, sir, are ugly and therefore morally reprehensible.
* BrokenAce: Edgar Allen Poe had everything; ParentalAbandonment, [[PerpetualPoverty financial ruin]], [[TheAlcoholic alcoholism]], [[TheLostLenore a dead wife]], and an appropriately mysterious death at age 40. He also did most of the work of creating the gothic literary genre.
* BuryYourGays: In "Dante's Inferno", Dante sees his teacher in Hell for being gay.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** "TRULY A VICTORY FOR THE FORCES OF JUSTICE!"
** "So... yeah."
** [[SarcasmMode "Feel-good novel of the century!"]]
* CharacterShilling: Invoked by Red on Oskar Sommer's Galahad becoming a Christian ideal hero.
* ClingyJealousGirl: The queen of faeries quips that if she had known that Tam Lin would fall in love with a mortal girl named Bonnie Janet, she'd have ''petrified his eyes''.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Red has red eyes and Blue has blue eyes.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The souls in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-5rulaywR0&t=510s "College Hell"]] are subjected to a range of bizarre punishments:
** The punishment for [[TheDitherer the souls trapped in the First Circle]] (Limbo) is to simply not to go to college.
** [[TheHedonist Those in the Second Circle]] (Lust) are punished by being hit on by a creepy person in a frat party for all eternity.
** [[ExtremeOmnivore Souls in the Third Circle]] (Gluttony) are forced to eat nothing but dining hall food for the rest of time.
** [[OnlyInItForTheMoney People in the Fourth Circle]] (Greed) are doomed to an eternity of working as a fry cook at Burger King.
** [[SchoolIsForLosers Souls in the Fifth Circle]] (Wrath) are forced to stress and study forever. And if they ever take their eyes off their work, they instantly forget ''everything''.
** [[TheHeretic Those in the Sixth Circle]] (Heresy) hold office hours in burning cubicles forever.
** Each of the three rings in the Seventh Circle (Violence) has a different punishment:
*** In the first ring (Violence Against Neighbors), these souls are forced to remain in their rooms with the sprinklers going off for the rest of time.
*** In the second ring (Violence Against Self), people are transformed into expensive textbooks.
*** In the third ring (Violence Against God, Art, and Nature), souls are forced to wear sweaters from rival universities and deal with the social consequences forever.
** The Eighth Circle (Fraud) a.k.a the Malabolge has a number of punishments:
*** Bolgia 1 ([[TheLoad Pandering]]): Those who refuse to contribute in group projects are forced to drag huge boulders around in a twisted infinite relay race.
*** Bolgia 2 ([[TeachersPet Flattery]]): Teacher's pets who endlessly kiss up to their professors are turned into actual pets.
*** Bolgia 3 (Simony): Those who sign up for prime-time class slots and sell them back for ridiculous prices are sentenced to eternal 8:00 am classes, and are also upside down and on fire.
*** Bolgia 4 (Sorcery): Those who try to cheat their own futures by procuring previous years' study material are doomed to always using the wrong study guides.
*** Bolgia 5 (Graft): Those who try and line up "business opportunities" with other students are sentenced to the worst job interview ever. They are unprepared, their suit is uncomfortable, one of their pockets is falling off, one of their shoes is brown and the other is black, and they spend the entire time hoping that the interviewer doesn't notice (but he does).
*** Bolgia 6 (Hypocrisy): Students who start off squeaky-clean and starry-eyed but wind up completely trashing their work ethic after a single semester are forced to explain their deteriorating grades to their parents over an eternally awkward dinner. Plus, they smell of weed the entire time, which tips off the parents right away.
*** Bolgia 7 ([[TheCaper Theft]]): Criminals who callously steal unattended laptops in the library are doomed to an eternity of being hunted by Creator/LiamNeeson.
*** Bolgia 8 ([[FalseFriend Deception]]): The jerks who lie to their friends during housing by saying that they'll all stick together but leave to get a single all by themselves find themselves in the absolute worst room on campus: no outlets work, there's a sprinkler directly over their bed, the windows don't open, and the room permanently smells of pee. It's also right next to the RA's room and walls are paper-thin, and the neighbors on the other side are [[RightThroughTheWall constantly having sex]]. Their roommate also has a significant other who never leaves and has [[AnnoyingLaugh the worst laugh]].
*** Bolgia 9 ([[GossipyHens Schism]]): Gossipers who never stop spreading lies suddenly find themselves being gossiped about.
*** Bolgia 10 ([[PlagiarismInFiction Forgery]]): Those who plagiarize their work have the words they stole permanently and repeatedly branded on their skin.
** And finally, the souls in the Ninth Circle (Treachery) are each subjected to a different punishment:
*** Round 1 (Traitors to their Kindred): People who spend all their parents' money are frozen in the nearest body of water.
*** Round 2 (Traitors to their Country): Those who leave their clothes in the washing machine for hours on end are subjected to a fitting punishment: being trapped in a washing machine with many other souls, as well as someone's laundry.
*** Round 3 (Traitors to their Guests): Those who make out with their significant other excessively while the roommate is still in the room (it doesn't matter if the roommate is asleep or not) are sentenced to be naked forever.
*** Round 4 (Traitors to their Lords): The people who are mean to their teachers are doomed to drown in the school's tuition vault while the university president watches and laughs.
* CorruptChurch:
** In "[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]", Dante places Pope Nicholas III in Hell. Nicholas III proceeds to complain about Pope Boniface VIII and Pope Clement V.
** Blue discusses some pretty awful popes (including the aforementioned Boniface VIII) in his "Pope Fights" video.
* CrackFic: Red calls the Divine Comedy this at a few points.
* CurseCutShort: Happens a few times, especially in earlier videos:
** Book 11 of the Iliad gives us [[https://youtu.be/faSrRHw6eZ8?t=470 this glorious example]].
** [[https://youtu.be/A-3rHQ70Pag?t=337 Odysseus' reaction]] to his crewmates getting turned into pigs by Circe.
** The punishment for souls in the fourth circle of Hell is... confusing, to say the least, but Virgil cuts off [[https://youtu.be/gp8JGQk0CFQ?t=222 Dante's protest]] before he can say anything too sacrilegious.
* CuteMonsterGirl: In "Frankenstein's Monster", Victor thinks this much.
-->'''The Monster:''' She [the wife he asked Victor to create] didn't need to be reproduction-capable!\\
'''Victor:''' Only a fool makes a monster you can't [[CurseCutShort fu]]--
* DeathTrap: The protagonist of "The Pit in the Pendulum" is placed in two of these by the Inquisition. Rats save him in the first one, the French Army saves him in the second one.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Red states that the characters of Lancelot, Guinevere, and Arthur depend on whether Lancelot or Arthur are the hero of the story. If Lancelot is the hero then he and Guinevere are [[SympatheticAdulterer justified in their affair]] and Arthur is painted as deserving to be cheated on. If Arthur is the hero then Lancelot becomes a [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] UngratefulBastard.
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** In "Frankenstein's Monster", Victor refuses to create a wife for the unnamed monster he created because he fears they'll produce an entire brood of monsters. Red mentions that Victor could have just made the monster's bride barren, but Victor doesn't consider this option.
** In Pygmalion's story, Red points out the downfall of Galatea's existence and becoming human. Pygmalion has extremely high standards with women and the only "woman" who met his standards was handcrafted by him. Galatea coming to life contradicts the very purpose of her existence.
** In "Hou Yi and Chang'e", the archer god Hou Yi and his wife are banished for killing 9/10 of the Jade Emperor's sons-turned-suns.
--->'''Red:''' The Jade Emperor is shocked -- shocked, I tell you! -- that [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer the arrow guy he commissioned to shoot arrows shot arrows at the people he pointed them at]].\\
'''Hou Yi:''' Look, I don't know what you were expecting.
* DisproportionateRetribution: At the end of the Edgar Allen Poe episode, Blue makes some puns. Red finds this annoying... and so walls Blue up in catacombs to suffocate. Don't worry, though -- the ninjas broke him out.
* DoubleStandard: Majorly brought up in the Trope Talk of MarySue, where Red points out that female characters tend to get the accusation a lot more than male characters. Specifically, while it's true that male characters are often referred to as this, the threshold for a female character getting the label seems to be "plays an important role and has any kind of unusual ability or skill."
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Red does ''not'' approve of Selene using a permanently slumbering Endymion to have 50 kids.
-->'''Red:''' Whoa! Not cool lady! He's asleep!
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Discussed in the ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'' video, where Red explains that some people have a hard time believing that this play was actually written by Creator/WilliamShakespeare.
-->'''Red:''' Shakespeare, the man who made [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet a three-day fling between underage teenagers]] the most iconic love story in history. The man who explored the tortured psyche of [[Theatre/{{Macbeth}} kings]] and [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} princes]] driven to murder. The poet who [[TropeCodifier practically defined half of our modern character archetypes]] over the course of his career -- ''that's'' the guy who supposedly wrote this two-hour pointless gore fest.
* EitherWorldDominationOrSomethingAboutBananas: The possible meanings of "Pryderi" -- "worry," "concern," and "I'm going to strangle those handmaidens for telling everyone I ate you."
-->'''Red:''' It's a language of many beautiful complexities.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Blue considers "the Great" to be a terrible nickname because of its blandness. His rationale is that the heroes in Greek Mythology always have unique and descriptive epithets to describe people (Homer giving his Heroes five each), so "the Great" is underwhelming for someone who conquered more land in one lifetime than any Greek person before him. Blue suggests "Alexander who fights in the Front Line", "Alexander the Excellent", "Alexander the Horseman", and "Alexander the Conqueror" as more appropriate nicknames.
* EverybodyHatesHades: They discuss the trope and note how undeserved it is. They point out that the two questionable things he did was kidnap his wife (common for Gods, and by all accounts he treated her well) and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ije2WDJttrc imprison two Greek Heroes]] (who [[WifeHusbandry deserved]] [[IHaveYourWife it]]).
* EverybodyWantsTheHermaphrodite: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4dAMMkqPoY Asu-shu-namir]], an intersex person created by Ea, is able to rescue Ishtar by seducing Ereshkigal. Subverted in that Ereshkigal cursed gender non-binary people to be outcasts in retaliation, and double subverted in that Ishtar gave them the gifts of [[MagicalQueer healing and prophecy]] to counterbalance this.
* EvilCounterpart: Inverted with Galahad. He's a GOOD counterpart to his biological father Lancelot. This is most obvious during the quest for the Holy Grail; while Lancelot is forced out of the room by a ball of fire because he is [[YourCheatingHeart unworthy of seeing the grail]], Galahad is [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence carried up to Heaven alive]] once he touches the grail.
-->'''Red:''' Galahad is basically Lancelot but better. Like "not sleeping with another man's wife" better.
* {{Fainting}}: Dante does this a lot in ''The Divine Comedy''.
* FalseStart:
** The ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' episode begins with a history of Hrothgar's family tree, which features several guys named Beowulf. Red discusses each, building all of them up to be the real deal, only to stop each one with a [[RecordNeedleScratch record scratch]] and say it's not the titular Beowulf. It's only after [[FromBeyondTheFourthWall the person watching the video shows up and complains that Red is taking too long to talk about the real one]] that she finally gets to him.
** Turned UpToEleven in the first April Fool's Day special. Red addresses the criticism that she talks too fast and leaves out important details, so she intends to correct those -- while summarizing ''Literature/LesMiserables''. She doesn't make it past the first few pages describing Madame Baptistine.
* FiveManBand: Red discusses the trope, with the non-gender-specific [[TheHeart Heart]] substituted in for TheChick.
* FlatWhat:
** Red has one of these when she discovers how Dante describes [[MindScrew God's true form]] in ''The Paradiso''. [[spoiler:It's three rings surrounding a book surrounded itself by rainbows. Rings surrounding a ''Series/ReadingRainbow'' as it were.]]
** Red has [[https://youtu.be/ZLVwEjr_n8o?t=120 another one]] when she discovers the Internet's reaction to Rey from ''Film/TheForceAwakens''.
* FluffyTheTerrible: Red mentions in one video how there's evidence that Cerberus means "spotted"[[note]]One theory for his name's origin is the root Indo-European word ḱerberos, "spotted."[[/note]], which means that Hades, the Lord of the Underworld, named his enormous three-headed hellhound Spot.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: In a somewhat silly case, Thor seemingly leaves his "magic, goat-drawn chariot at home," and then proceeds to get stuck on the edge of a turbulent river. This is somehow challenging to the Norse god, which forces him to argue with a ferryman to get across. Doubles as DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu for the ferryman, who is seemingly very comfortable insulting the god of thunder.
* FreezeFrameBonus: The animated episodes are ''full'' of these.
* FreudianExcuse: Red describes Creator/HPLovecraft thusly [[https://youtu.be/PmdzptbykzI at the start of the 2018 Halloween video]].
-->'''Red''': It would be inaccurate to describe Howard Phillips Lovecraft as "[[{{Understatement}} a man with issues]]". It's more like he was a ''bundle'' of issues shambling around in a roughly-bipedal approximation of a man. [[TheEeyore Chronically depressed]], [[CantTakeCriticism hyper-sensitive to criticism]], almost-''certainly'' [[TheShutIn agoraphobic]], prone to horrible nightmares and [[FreakOut nervous breakdowns]], and ''thoroughly'' racist even by the standards of the time, it'd be easy to come to the conclusion that H.P. Lovecraft was simply afraid of ''everything''. But this isn't true either - [[DistinctionWithoutADifference he was just afraid of anything that wasn't]] [[AbsoluteXenophobe his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island]].
* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: In the ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' episode, the viewer appears as a character, chewing Red out for taking so long to talk about the real Beowulf.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Blue going [[Anime/DragonBallZ Super Saiyan]] in the background after Red finally says "bolgia" correctly[[note]]She'd been saying it wrong for pretty much the entire video, likely intentionally[[/note]].
* GodModeSue:
** Invoked in Trope Talk, where Red points out that Literature/{{Beowulf}} is one by pretty much any definition, as part of a thesis of why the Mary Sue is an overstated or overhated trope.
** Both Mwindo and the Monkey King from ''Journey to the West'' are this, but both being way O.P. are a part of the [[AnAesop lesson]] being told by their respective myths.
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery:
** In "Dante's Inferno", one woman is in Hell because she cheated on her abusive husband with his brother and both were executed. Yet despite her being in Hell, Dante feels sorry for her.
** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_jgF-S746o Legends Summarized: King Arthur]]", this is discussed with Guinevere and Lancelot's relationship. Chrétien de Troyes, who created Lancelot, painted his affair with Guinevere as morally rightous and something that makes them both more sympathetic (as the ideas of Courtly Love and Love For Love's Sake were popular in his time). Later on Oskar Sommer, who created Galahad and the quest for the Holy Grail, paints Lancelot and Guinevere's relationship as a vile sin and a betrayel of Arthur's trust (as a religious revival made Love For Love's Sake no longer acceptable). Modern renditions can go either way, though Red herself seems to be on the "adultery is bad" side.
* GoodIsNotNice: This is Red's take on Hades. He's a loving husband to Persephone, and altogether commits less cruelty than his contemporaries, but as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ije2WDJttrc Pirithous]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsaFUEq5UEo Sisyphus]] can tell you upsetting him is still a very bad idea.
* GoodNameForARockBand: The Odyssey gives us "Penelope and the Suitors".
** The Kali video gives us "Durga and the Matrikas".
** Quetzalcoatl gave us a possible name for a tabletop RPG set in feudal Japan - "Katanas and Kimonos".
* HalloweenEpisode: There have been four annual Halloween videos so far. In each one, Red talks about a well-known piece of gothic literature, such as Literature/{{Dracula}}, Literature/{{Frankenstein}}, several poems by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, and several stories by Creator/HPLovecraft.
* AHellOfATime: In "Dante's Inferno", Paris's punishment for being lustful in life... is to be trapped with all the most beautiful and lustful women in history.
* HereWeGoAgain: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Chrp-H-Jk4 The Journey Of Ra]]" has Ra travel across the sky every day, die, and travel through the underworld as a corpse before being reborn every morning and repeating the cycle over again.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Both Blue and Red, who are only ever represented by their avatars outside of their two Q&A videos. Red has a [[TheCameo quick appearance]] in her Trope Talk [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouv5CJ7Ig7c “Writing What You Know”]], and later on, both of them did entire video without their animated equivalents in the [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DBuxCOqCs8s 2018 April Fools Day special]].
* HideYourGays:
** Parodied. While Patroclus appeals to Achilles to help out the Greeks, Achilles is overcome by [[https://youtu.be/faSrRHw6eZ8?t=561 "brotherly affection"]]. This is, of course, immediately followed by THREE close-ups of their faces to the tune of "Careless Whisper".
** Further parodied in the Aeneid, where the men engage in [[https://youtu.be/QRruBVFXjnY?t=459 "healthy, sporting, and 100% heterosexual activities"]].
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Persephone falls for Sisyphus's ruse and allows him to return to the world of the living, even though he has a reputation for murdering guests.
* HotTeacher: Red admits in the Eros and Psyche video that she saw her Greek studies teacher as "absolutely gorgeous" with a "beautiful accent" and having the most "piercing of eyes".
* HoYay: {{Invoked}} Red notes that Lancelot and Galehaut have a really close relationship, with the latter surrendering to King Arthur just to be friends with Lancelot.
-->'''Arthur:''' If you surrender, I'll introduce you.\\
'''Galehaut: DEAL.'''
* HurricaneOfPuns: Izanagi lets loose a stream of fire-related puns after Kagu-tsuchi is born, completely oblivious to the fact that Izanami is dying right in front of him.
* HypeBacklash: InUniverse, Red claimed to have been surprised to find that ''Literature/{{Momotaro}}'' was a popular story, pointing out that "[[RandomEventsPlot not a whole lot happens]], [[InvincibleHero there's hardly any drama]], and [[AntiClimax Momotaro just kind of... wins.]]" She ultimately concludes that the story owes a lot of its fame to the fact that its narrative of a newcomer underdog of blessed origin resolving the bickering of his underlings to take on a distant enemy and return with fortune and fame was a narrative that UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan found quite appealing.
* IfICantHaveYou: Both Apollo and Zephyr fall in love with Spartan prince, Hyacinthus. Zephyr then kills Hyacinthus by blowing a discus into his head for choosing Apollo over him.
* ILetYouWin: {{Invoked|Trope}} with their telling of the story of Atalanta, where she figured out early on what Hippomenes was doing with the golden apples, but liked him well enough that she deliberately threw the [[EngagementChallenge race]].
-->'''Red:''' Of course you could say that Atalanta was [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny totally captivated by the allure of the golden apples]], unintentionally kneecapped herself as a result, and got married out of a bout of [[IdiotBall shockingly out-of-character stupidity]] and ended up without a say in who her husband was. But like, why would you WANT to? [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation It's up to interpretation]] and that interpretation is gross.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Achilles and Paris are in the Second Circle of Hell, which means he's in a windy place with all the beautiful and lustful women in History. While Paris is staring at them eagerly, Achilles just awkwardly points out that this isn't his kind of party.
* InteractiveNarrator: Appears in Red's videos on ''The Divine Comedy'' occasionally, when the characters have a LamePunReaction.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Red accuses Victor from "Frankenstein's Monster" of being extremely selfish, and she has a good point. Victor almost never considers how his actions might adversely affect others. Red goes so far as to say that Victor crosses the MoralEventHorizon when he lets Justine get [[MiscarriageOfJustice executed for a crime she didn't commit]], simply because he doesn't want to face consequences for creating the monster that's actually responsible.
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Downplayed in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhonpfb98Kk Trope Talk: Magic]]". While she doesn't actually mention this, she does mention how the Masquerade being upheld would have the implication that magic-users were [[MurderByInaction allowing atrocities they could have prevented]].
-->'''Wizard:''' ''[speaking to a grieving woman]'' Yes, yes, very sorry to hear about your mundane family, but you know the rules. They'll just have to sort out this [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler "kitler"]] fellow themselves.
* KubrickStare: Monkey delivers a pretty epic one to Pigsy in "[[https://youtu.be/W7N-IRcUfB4?t=168 Journey to the West: Part 3]]".
* LesYay:
** Red notes that when researching her video on Fionn Mac Cumhaill, she couldn't find anything specific about the exact nature of the relationship between the title character's [[HasTwoMommies female guardians]]. So she goes on to refer to them as "fighter mom" and "druid mom".
** Later discussed in her video on the myth of the Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu, which she reads as an almost literal ComingOutStory. See the entry for NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer for details.
** Averted with Artemis. Red points out that, while Artemis did swear off men, she didn't really show any preference for women either, and argues that she may have been asexual. If you manage to look past the AuthorAppeal, it's a valid point.
* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: This happens in too many myths to count and is often how heroes are conceived.
* {{Masquerade}}: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhonpfb98Kk Trope Talk: Magic]]", Red deconstructs this trope by pointing out how poorly it reflects on the magic-users and how implausible it is that this secret would be kept.
-->'''Red:''' Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead and the third can only speak in spoonerisms.
* MetaphoricallyTrue: Agamemnon argues that "from a certain point of view" he ''did'' arrange Iphigenia's marriage... to the war effort. Clytemnestra doesn't buy it.
* MythologyGag: Where does the founder of Rome order pizza from? [[https://youtu.be/QRruBVFXjnY?t=567 Little Caesar's, of course!]]
* {{Ninja}}: Blue getting attacked by them is a RunningGag.
* NoFourthWall: To be expected, as Red and Blue are talking to their viewers.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Queen Dido's suicide, burning herself alive and stabbing herself with Aeneus's own sword.
* NominalHero: Red interprets [[Literature/TheAeneid Aeneas]] as one, noting that he [[InformedAbility doesn't actually accomplish much]], comes across as "[[IdiotBall a bit of a knobhead]]", and [[MoralMyopia does many of the same things the story condemns the Greeks for doing]]. She suggests this may have been a WriterRevolt on the part of Virgil, since Aeneas is [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed pretty similar to Augustus,]] and plenty of scholars believe Virgil wasn't a fan of the guy.
* NonIndicativeName: Red comments that "Inferno" is an odd name for a story about Hell, considering that only a few of the circles are on fire and the worst ones are frozen.
* NonSequiturThud:
-->'''Hyacinthus:''' ''[dying from a head injury]'' No more peanuts for me, stewardess.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever reason Blue became an atheist...[[BringMyBrownPants he really doesn’t want to talk about it]].
* TheNothingAfterDeath: Limbo, the first circle of Hell and the only one without suffering.
* NothingIsScarier: Red concludes that it was [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraft]]'s fear of the unknown (read: [[https://youtu.be/PmdzptbykzI virulent xenophobia and distrust of modern science]]) that's led his work to endure for so long, even as [[SocietyMarchesOn Society]] and [[ScienceMarchesOn Science]] marching on preclude his ''specific'' fears.
* NotInTheFace: Blue shouts this when Red kicks him for interrupting her video on ''Literature/TheAeneid''.
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer:
** Red assures us that she is neither joking nor exaggerating upon revealing that the plan that ends up successfully [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFyJGXicgPY luring Amaterasu out of the cave she's been sulking in]] is to get Ame-no-Uzume, the goddess of fun, partying, and the dawn, [[spoiler:to do a striptease.]]
** During the [[https://youtu.be/MnVHLAH7MYI video on Cu Chulainn]], the disclaimer applies to Scathatch's [[spoiler:evil twin sister]] Aife.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: In their Trope Talk about TheHerosJourney, Blue walks in after apparently fighting off a horde of ninjas. Then in the final moments of the video, Red returns from her own quest, boon and all.
* OhCrap: Four of Mauna Kea's kupua have this reaction when they realize the woman they just pissed off was actually Pele.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Red has never revealed her actual given name, Blue on the other hand has been called Gregory on several occasions, and if you go looking for his book "Philisophical Phridays" his last name is listed as Kerr.
* ParentalIncest: Heavily implied in ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', as the ones guarding the gates of Hell are Satan's daughter Sin and his son/'''grandson''' Death, to which Red says "Really, don't ask, it's gross."
* PowerEchoes: Powerful deities have a noticeable echo effect to their voices.
* PunishedForSympathy: In "Dante's Inferno", Virgil chews out Dante for feeling sympathy for the the magicians whose heads are backwards.
* RapunzelHair: Red's hair can basically double as a full-body blanket for her avatar. Live-action videos reveal that her hair really ''is'' that long.
* RecordNeedleScratch: One of these occurs when Blue is caught singing along to the ''VideoGame/{{Skyrim}}'' theme in his [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jjCcSQV1Epc video on vikings.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Red, who walled Blue up in a catacomb to suffocate... twice.
* RonTheDeathEater: Invoked. Dante used his story to put all the people he hated in Hell. Of special mention are the heroes from Greek Mythology, because Dante was an Italian (who are descended from the Romans, who are descended from the Trojans, whom the Greeks wiped out during the Trojan War).
* RunningGag:
** Red constantly pronouncing "bolgia" wrong in the "College Hell" video, much to the frustration of Blue.
** "Hey kid, you like proving yourself?" "Do I!" pops up whenever someone sends a young hero off on a dangerous task in the hopes of getting them killed (which almost always backfires.)
** In early episodes, Blue decided that any video pertaining to an empire will include the Star Wars crawl.
** The "Comment Kaiju" from Trope Talk.
** In the episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Chrp-H-Jk4 The Journey Of Ra]]", the running gag is snakes.
** "[[Music/BonnieTyler Total Eclipse of the Heart]]" and [[Music/{{Seal}} "Kiss From a Rose"]] tend to play lot in the background during romantic moments.
** [[Music/GeorgeMichael "Careless Whisper"]] and [[Series/{{Scrubs}} "Guy Love"]] for moments of HoYay.
** "Paradise Lost" has Red explaining Satan's rebellion as [[ParentalIssues Daddy Issues]].
** "ENORMOUS F**K-YOU DRAGON!" is said whenever such a creature appears in a story that Red is summarizing.
** Blue occasionally explains actions surrounding Sparta's prestige simply by saying "I mean, come on, they're ''Sparta,'' you know?"
** Red is pretty annoyed by how utterly useless and OutOfFocus the horse is in ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' is, at one point grinding the video to a halt to rant at him about how, being a river dragon, he could've easily overcome the pilgrims' obstacle of getting across a troublesome river that Sha Wujing was hiding under.
** Parties are depicted as raves with flashing colored lights and deep bass techno music thumping.
** Throughout the Creator/HPLovecraft video, Red offers various suggestions for what the "H.P." stands for, including "Horrible Phobias" and "Hippo Potamus". Later in the segment covering "Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace", the ''mysterious color unlike any seen on Earth!'' complete with ScareChord. [[OverlyLongGag So many times]] that Red starts cutting herself off.
** Frequent use of the ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P5qbcRAXVk Alert!]]" sound when a character is startled.
* SadlyMythcharacterized: A few times, usually to provide a LighterAndSofter alternative interpretation of a myth:
** Amaterasu and the Cave: Other interpretations of the myth portray Ama No Uzume's striptease with different motives and results: to pique Amaterasu's curiosity as to what all the hubbub is about and seeing herself reflected in the mirror, thus thinking they are cheering her on, or having Amaterasu hear all the uproar over Uzume's dance making her wonder why all the gods could make so merry without her divine light, and stepping out to see what could be replacing her so easily. Red offers an alternate interpretation: that Amaterasu comes out of the cave due to all the ruckus, and once she does so, she finds Uzume's striptease attractive.
** Atalanta: Ignoring a common interpretation, that Atalanta was [[DistractedByTheShiny distracted by the golden apples]], in favor of Atalanta playing along with Hippomenes's plot and letting him win.
** She points out that, as a personal preference, she prefers the interpretation that Hades and Persephone actually were in love, and the whole myth was more a case of Demeter throwing a tantrum.
* SadlyMythtaken: Red takes certain artistic liberties in concerning how mythological creatures are depicted, likely to make them easier to draw or less gruesome. A notable example of this is the Chimera, which is somewhat different from its depiction on ancient greek art.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Alcibiades's reaction to his fleet losing horribly, [[https://youtu.be/kRLkjBUgB2o?t=962 verbatim.]]
* SelfInsertFic: How Red basically describes ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' due to it being about Dante teaming up with his idol Virgil.
* SerialNumbersFiledOff: Frequently invoked in the summary of ''Literature/TheAeneid'', with Red practically making a RunningGag out of the number of times Virgil rips off a scene or setpiece from one of Homer's works.
* ShipperOnDeck:
** Aphrodite, who started the Trojan War because she refused to let a little thing like Helen already being married get in the way of shipping her with Paris. She also had a hand in making sure Hippomenes x Atalanta, Pygmalion x Galatea, and Aeneas x Dido all set sail. [[DatingWhatDaddyHates She emphatically does NOT ship Eros x Psyche, however.]]
** Victor Frankenstein's mother ships him with his foster sister Elizabeth, and pushes them together on her deathbed.
* ShowWithinAShow:
** "Frankenstein" takes this UpToEleven.
--->'''Red:''' So if you're keeping track, that's an exhaustive life story [[note]]the monster's life story[[/note]] inside another exhaustive life story [[note]]Victor's life story[[/note]] that poor Captain Walton is transcribing in its entirety [[FramingDevice to mail to his sister]].
** The monster listens to and recounts the life story of a family he was following, adding yet another layer to this.
* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/OverlySarcasticProductions Now has its own page.]]
* ShutUpHannibal: When Captain Walton finally meets the monster in Frankenstein, he isn't sympathetic in the slightest after learning about how said monster murdered three innocent people.
* SilentSnarker: Helen of Troy is this when she gets kidnapped by Theseus as a [[WifeHusbandry twelve-year-old]], flipping Theseus off and glaring at Pirithous [[WhatAnIdiot for being]] [[TooDumbToLive stupid enough]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ije2WDJttrc to try and kidnap Persephone]].
* SnakesAreSinister: Apophis is an exaggerated example of this trope in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Chrp-H-Jk4 The Journey of Ra]]", as every single night he attempts to eat Ra and end the world. Subverted with every other snake in this myth (of which there are [[RunningGag many]]), who are shown to be neutral at worst and benevolent at best.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: If you're gender non-binary then you have the gift of prophecy, [[PalsWithJesus Ishtar loves you]], and the queen of Hell thinks you're hot.
* SpeechBubblesInterruption: May double as a CurseCutShort, depending on your definition of 'curse'. In the Poetic Edda, Odin tells Agnar stories about the Aesir, telling him about [[https://norse-mythology.org/tales/the-marriage-of-njord-and-skadi/ the time Loki tied a goat to his testicles]]. Of course, [[https://youtu.be/73y4oUG_YgA?t=307 the fire pillars next to him cut off the final word]].
* SquishyWizard: Circe says she has "like two hit points" when Odysseus pulls a sword on her in ''The Odyssey''.
* SuddenlyShouting: When Dante and Virgil encounter [[EyeScream a man with his eyes sewn shut]] in ''The Purgatorio'', Red gives a sudden loud scream. Doubles as a pretty effective JumpScare as well.
* SuicideIsShameful:
** In "Dante's Inferno", those who commit suicide go to Hell and are turned into trees. A demon rips their leaves off just to make them suffer further.
** Subverted with Ajax. When the titular hero commits suicide over being tricked by Odysseus and Athena, two of his former friends demand he be dishonored and denied a proper burial. Odysseus insists Ajax be buried. While narrating this story, Blue openly shows contempt for the two people who oppose burying Ajax.
* TakeThat: The ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' video has a quick one to [[WesternAnimation/Beowulf2007 the film]], where the infamous "naked golden Angelina Jolie" interpretation of Grendel's Mother appears for [[FreezeFrameBonus about half a second]], before being stomped into a gold puddle by the actual Grendel's Mother.
* TooDumbToLive: Osiris.
* TooManyHalves: In her examination of the works of Creator/HPLovecraft, Red describes Cthulhu as a "half-human, half-octopus, half-dragon thing".
* UnreliableNarrator:
** The protagonist of "The Tell-Tale Heart".
** Red in the "Legends Summarised: Underworld" video establishes the structure of these myths, then it turns out only one in the video follows it.
--->'''Red''' I am such a reliable narrator.
* ValuesDissonance: [[invoked]]
** The source of Red's discomfort with ''Literature/TheTamingOfTheShrew'', the Greek myth of Pandora, and the final act of ''Theatre/TheOresteia''. Thoroughly discussed in their video on the works of Creator/HPLovecraft, who Red remarks was racist even by the standards of his ''own'' time.
** ''Literature/DonQuixote'' both averts ''and'' plays the trope straight. While she's pleasantly surprised at the modern feminism shown in the story, she's ''wide-eyed mortified'' at Sancho Panza thinking he could get rich selling African slaves.
--->'''Red:''' '''''OKAY!!!!!'''''
* VillainousIncest: Blue talks about the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZROmiEyH6k Borgia Family]] (and how Lucretia Borgia had sex with her father and brother), and about the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3vAKRa0f5I Ptolemy Family]] (which involves numerous generations of brother-sister inbreeding). Blue finds these incestuous relationships weird and wrong.
* VisualPun: In ''The Paradiso'' video Red decides to represent one of the Saints as a BigFriendlyDog, namely Bernard.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Red has pointed out before that Acrisius, Aphrodite, and Hera could've easily just killed the person that was troubling them. Those people being Danae (and by extension, [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bzFCbUC4c7s&index=2&t=0s&list=PLDb22nlVXGgeoPb-HBWwzEeoAwDvckSrC Perseus]]), [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HLo1jZA1iVw&list=PLDb22nlVXGgeoPb-HBWwzEeoAwDvckSrC&index=14 Psyche]], and [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M16jOVC5kpA&list=PLDb22nlVXGgeoPb-HBWwzEeoAwDvckSrC&index=19 Heracles]], respectively.
* WifeHusbandry: Theseus kidnapped Helen of Troy when she was a child with the intention of doing this. [[VomitDiscretionShot Red does not approve]].
!!Overly Sarcastic Productions discusses the following tropes:
* TheChosenOne: Red talks about this trope in one of her videos, along with ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne and ThePoorlyChosenOne.
* DamselInDistress: Red discusses this trope and even admits that she is a huge fan of this trope, despite being very tomboyish. While she is not a fan of the classical damsel who are non-characters, she is a fan of when an established characters are the damsels. She does note that the big issue of the trope is the "damsel mindset" where the character in distress is helpless like the classical damsel and the result of the writer forgetting about who the distressed character is. She is a fan of it because of the dynamic of how the trope is handled and seeing the distressed needing help. It also overlaps with DamselOutOfDistress, BadassInDistress, DistressBall, etc.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Red does take issue with people who use "Realism" as shorthand for "Grimdark" since it runs on the misconception that making things realistic means trying to make things as dark and depressing as possible even when it causes the story to be (well) unrealistic.
* TheEmpire: This shows a foil to the Heroes as well as a large obstacle to overcome, but most of the time [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCBIXgYCds4 The Empire]] is not well thought-out and the aftermath of overthrowing it gets ignored.
* FiveManBand: As stated earlier, one of Red's Trope Talk videos discusses this trope.
* HeelFaceTurn: Red discusses how [[https://youtu.be/vs2TkXBYT9A a villain turning good]] is full of potential. However, she also acknowledges the biggest issue with this trope is convincing the audience that the villain has genuinely turned good, and that depending on the scale of their crimes, can look like a KarmaHoudini if handled poorly.
* TheHerosJourney: Blue discusses the steps this story type follows and how it's nowhere near as common as Joseph Campbell would have you believe but also how it can be used to great effect.
* MarySue: [[invoked]] Red talks about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2-GIY9RTqU the evolution of this trope]] and how disproportionate it is that the traits that could be used to describe a male character get a female character branded as a Mary Sue. She also briefly discusses some of the offshoots of this trope: the JerkSue, the VillainSue, and the PossessionSue.
* MindControl: Red discusses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_7BHQdyrzg the different ways this can play out and offshoots]] such as the IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight, FightingFromTheInside, and NotBrainwashed.
* NotSoDifferent: Red finds invoking this trope to be cringe worthy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hruNDDvilCA&t=6s because the majority of works that use it do so very poorly]]; either the villain convinces the hero of this when they have nothing alike (making the hero [[StupidGood look like an idiot]]), or when there are similarities [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot they are not looked at]]. Red states that a better use of this trope is when there are actual similarities to explore, or when the hero does comes to this conclusion on his own.
* TheParagon: Red actually loves seeing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm_Pi6OpNKU The Paragon]] in stories because they facilitate character growth on those around them. She also states that this trope can be deconstructed by having him be misguided or by having his opponents refuse to negotiate him on the basis that he's sure he's doing the right thing.
* PlanetOfHats: Red examines the various types of common Hats (historically-based or otherwise) and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isdaYjET9cg explains its origins]]. She also explains how, while many fantasy races are based on either Tolkien's Legendarium or real-life cultures, the trope is actually subverted by both of those instances: a PlanetOfHats is what you get when you take a cursory glance at most cultures and then apply that stereotype to the whole.
* RuleOfThree: Red explains that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSpRPlhRvjA everything comes in threes]] in stories because three is a large enough number to be interesting without being too large to keep track of.
* [[invoked]]ShippingBedDeath: In the Trope Talk about romantic subplots, Red points out the commonly cited idea that the audience cares more about the journey to the relationship rather than the relationship itself. But when that's resolved, a lot of stories don't actually explore the couple as a couple, as the rest of their time together is spent either being non-characters outside of the coupling or having drama infect the plot so that they can remain "interesting" to the audience.
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