History WebVideo / Civvie11

* DamnedByFaintPraise: In Civvie's ''VideoGame/RedneckRampage'' review, he calls ''Redneck Rampage Rides Again'' the best sequel to a Build engine shooter, with the competition being ''[[VideoGame/{{Blood}} Blood II: The Chosen]]'' and ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever''.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Civvie believes this firmly and indubitably, to the point that he claims in one video that a bad game can sometimes be saved by a good shotgun. When ''Doom 3'' makes the mistake of averting this, he reads it the riot act.

* LamePunReaction: [=AX3=] usually tolerates Civvie's humor, but has a strict limit on puns. If Civvie makes a particularly horrible pun, expect [=AX3=] to vocalize the following phrase before firing up the 'nodes. It's also worth noting how [=AX3=] often sounds irritated when saying said line.
-->'''[=AX3=]:''' Actionable pun detected.

** The Sewer Level counter, which increases for each one Civvie comes across. Though it isn't exactly linear, with exceptionally bad levels (and on rare occasions, levels that stand out as more sewer even if they aren't necessarily bad by sewer level standards, such as Hrot's sewage treatment plant) adding more to the counter. [[spoiler:The counter breaks after the abysmal sewer level in ''Redneck Rampage'' [[RunningGagged and hasn't been seen since]]... until "Realms Deep Roundup", when Civvie notices [[ShoutOut a "Does this sewer count?" graffiti tag]] during the sewer level from ''White Hell'', which causes it to [[RiseFromYourGrave rise from its grave]].]]

* InstantlyProvenWrong: From his first blind ''VideoGame/STALKER'' video:

* FunWithAcronyms: Website/{{TikTok}}'s "Clown" TTS narrator is apparently short for "Creative Learning Operations Warden Network".
-->'''Civvie:''' "[[LampshadeHanging That acronym is more tortured than I am!]]"

* OneSteveLimit: In his ''VideoGame/HuntDownTheFreeman'' review, he says that Gordon Ramsay (see RunningGag) is the only Gordon we'll see in that video since Gordon Freeman is nowhere to be found in that game. Subverted when Civvie later finds out that one of the alternate endings has not one, but ''seven'' Gordon Freemans.

* OverlyLongGag: As part of his intro to ''Hexen II'''s expansion pack, Civvie shows the pack's intro cutscene, but with a bunch of characters that weren't actually part of it added in.
-->'''[=AX3=]'s narration:''' "Eidolon, the last of the Serpent Riders, is defeated by four unlikely companions. The paladin. The assassin. The crusader. The necromancer. [[ArtifactMook The Ettin]]. [[VideoGame/QuakeII The Makron]]. [[Film/DollarsTrilogy The man with no name]]. Literature/TheInvisibleMan. [[RunningGag The grease man]]. The 1970 Plymouth Barracuda. Music/BruceSpringsteen and the E-Street Band. [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos The black goat of the woods with 1000 young]]."

--->'''Civvie''': "We all said Doom 2016 was unbalanced and too easy, and now we're paying for it".

--> '''Civvie''': This is the Painmaster. It's a master of pain.

--> '''Civvie''': "Medication Time! Medication Time... (25MG THORAZINE ADMINISTERED)"

-->'''Civvie''': "[[LampshadeHanging That acronym is more tortured than I am!]]"

--> '''Civvie''': [Raven Software was] maybe not the most financially successful, but responsible for some damn fine games. And VideoGame/{{Hexen}}.

---> '''[=H4MMER=]''': Where's the stolen hydrogen bomb?
---> '''Civvie''': I didn't steal a ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial hydrogen]]'' bomb.

* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: In his ''Daikatana'' video, he swears he isn't making up that Creator/JohnCarmack wrote a program that logged how much time Creator/JohnRomero spent playing deathmatch games instead of working.

-->'''[=AX3=]'s narration''': "Eidolon, the last of the Serpent Riders, is defeated by four unlikely companions. The paladin. The assassin. The crusader. The necromancer. [[ArtifactMook The Ettin]]. [[VideoGame/QuakeII The Makron]]. [[Film/DollarsTrilogy The man with no name]]. Literature/TheInvisibleMan. [[RunningGag The grease man]]. The 1970 Plymouth Barracuda. Music/BruceSpringsteen and the E-Street Band. [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos The black goat of the woods with 1000 young]]."

---> '''[=H4MM3R=]''': No [[Creator/MontyPython Python]]!

-->'''Cancer Mouse''': "What's that?"\\

'''Civvie''': "Oh, that? Well, Cancer Mouse, that's a ''[rapid fire SoundEffectBleep]''. Katie, bleep some of that out, people will get super butthurt if I start making fun of ''[bleep]''. [[invoked]] \\
'''Cancer Mouse''': "That sounds delightful!"\\
'''Civvie''': "I know, right? It's there. It's all yours."\\
'''Cancer Mouse''': "Oh! I think I'll... [[DelayedReaction that's a mousetrap]]."\\

--->'''Civvie''': '2 console games in a row? What happened to you Civvie, you used to be cool.' I was never cool.

--->'''Civvie''': ''(after clearing trenches and blowing up a tank in "Surface Tension")'' It's not as elegant as [[Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance "Modern Major General"]], but it'll have to do.

--->'''Civvie''': ''(watching a HECU grunt die to a Barnacle)'' Look, [[VideoGame/HalfLifeOpposingForce Adrian!]] Ropes! You can use those to get your brains eaten.

--->'''Civvie''': Hey, do you remember Joe Lieberman? ({{beat}}) That's OK, nobody else does either.

--->'''Civvie''': "...That's another Early Access game down. And pretty soon, Ion Mai- I mean, ''Ion Fury'' is coming out, despite the best efforts of greedy old lawyers who should advise their clients to start making albums again ''that don't contain at least one absolutely embarrassing song''"

--->'''Civvie''': "Finally I found a main character in a video game I can identify with- oh no wait she's a girl never mind."

---> '''Civvie''': "I dunno how many didgeri-doobies [=GMan=] is smoking, if you wanna buy this, understand that it fucking pains me to say this, wait until they patch it."

---> '''Civvie''': "I gotta give this game credit, those Terminators are beautifully modelled, spot on. Really, everything seems to be crafted with love, and care, and reverence for the Terminator franchise [...], right down to the plasma blasts and the sound effects. I'm kind of enjoying this, and ''not freaking out because the lasers are red instead of purple'' (Cue clip of Angry Joe screaming about the lasers).

--->'''Civvie''': The bit where you're plowing through Shotgunners and get assaulted by Revenants, it's intense, its uh... its really a butt clincher, as are all situations where you get ambushed by these boners. It's a real pain in the ass, leaves you sore and tired I'll tell you what. ''({{beat}})'' [[LeftItIn You know what, just cut all of that, that was garbage]].

--->'''Civvie''': "...This means this chick outside is totally consequence-free and I've been handing her hundreds this whole time, which is more than enough to pay for... you know what, I'm just gonna ''terminate'' this joke... ({{Beat}}) [[EveryoneHasStandards OH GOD!]]" - "Some viewers may not be totally in agreement on the abortion issue, which is fine, 'cos I'm gonna blow this place up... ({{Beat}}) (''panicking'') OH GOD, THIS DOESN'T WORK EITHER! PLEASE DON'T BLOW UP ABORTION CLINICS!"

-->'''Civvie''': ...knowing this now makes me so angry that I'm ''actually fucking numb'' from it.

-->'''[=AX3=]'s narration''': "Eidolon, the last of the Serpent Riders, is defeated by four unlikely companions. The paladin. The assassin. The crusader. The necromancer. [[ArtifactMook The Ettin]]. [[VideoGame/QuakeII The Makron]]. [[Film/TheDollarsTrilogy The man with no name]]. Literature/TheInvisibleMan. [[RunningGag The grease man]]. The 1970 Plymouth Barracuda. Music/BruceSpringsteen and the E-Street Band. [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos The black goat of the woods with 1000 young]]."

* ADateWithRosiePalms:
** At the beginning of his ''VideoGame/SuperSeducer'' review, he jokes that he's been stuck in the dungeon for a while.
** Also cracks a joke about this at the end of the Island Peril video, when he finds out Atlantean Interactive Games made a fighting game starring scantily-clad women called ''Catfight''.
--->'''[=H4MMER=]''': "Pro Catfight" when, Civvie?
--->'''Civvie''': Listen, I'm not any good at fighting games when I'm usin' ''TWO'' hands, okay?

---> '''[=AX3=]''': No [[Creator/MontyPython Python]]!

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: He invokes this trope in a rather colorful way when describing the Star of Torment in his ''VideoGame/AmidEvil'' video.
-->'''Civvie''': "...Imagine if a [[VideoGame/{{Unreal}} Flak Cannon]] and a [[VideoGame/{{Quake}} Nailgun]] hatefucked and had an equally hateful baby."

* AnimationBump: The ''VideoGame/BlakeStone'' episode

* BreakingTheFourthWall: During the ''VideoGame/Unreal1'' episode, Civvie demonstrates one use of the Unreal engine: "haphazardly throw meshes and lighting together and call it a virtual set", while showing off his virtual set of his DOSC prison room.

** PlayedForLaughs in the ''VideoGame/{{Hedon}}'' video. Early into it, Civvie brags that he knows how to pronounce it correctly -- "Hee-Don", as opposed to "Head-On". Cue Katie editing the Advertising/HeadOn into the video, under threat from [=H4MMER=].

* StupidStatementDanceMix:
** The ''VideoGame/{{Hatred}}'' video ends with one based on a video from Creator/UweBoll of him criticizing other filmmakers with harsh language.
** For his video on ''[[VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad Extreme Rise of the Triad]]'', he plays a skit where a room full of Enforcers have their voice clips (as well as General Darian) talk over a dance track while dancing, right before Civvie shows the [[ThisIsGonnaSuck entire platoon of Enforcers in game]] and explaining why this encounter is the most infamous of the fights in the game.

* CensoredForComedy: As part of a TakeThat to algorithms that suppress bad language, his ''TNT: Evilution'' shorts not only feature censorship of swears (and very inconsistently, at that) but also common words like "pain."

* FakeDifficulty: His main reason for disliking ''[[VideoGame/FinalDoom TNT: Evulution]]'': he believes that the expansion as a whole doesn't understand how to properly use the game's enemy roster, in favor of simply scattering low-tier enemies ''en masse'' throughout very large levels. Rather than making the game challenging, he argues that this makes the game a monotonous form of hard, as most of these enemies force the player to take damage but at the same time don't provoke any strategy beyond "shoot the hordes of hitscanners".

* FakeDifficulty: His main reason for disliking ''[[VideoGame/FinalDoom TNT: Evulution]]'': he believes that the expansion as a whole doesn't understand how to properly use the game's enemy roster, in favor of simply scattering low-tier enemies ''en masse'' throughout very large levels. Rather than making the game hard, he argues that this makes the game dull, as most of these enemies force the player to take damage but at the same time don't actually deal enough damage to be threatening.

* FunWithAcroynms: Website/{{TikTok}}'s "Clown" TTS narrator is apparently short for "Creative Learning Operations Warden Network".

'''Civvie''': "Oh, that? Well, Cancer Mouse, that's a ''[rapid fire SoundEffectBleep]''. Katie, bleep some of that out, [[UnacceptableTargets people will get super butthurt if I start making fun of]] ''[bleep]''. [[invoked]] \\

* AprilFoolsDay:
** In 2019, he did a BaitAndSwitch where for the thirty seconds of the video (as well as in the title and thumbnail), he pretends he's going to play ''Thy Flesh Consumed'' while reviewing the incredibly heavily-requested ''VideoGame/BrutalDoom'', despite his dislike for the mod... then switches over to ''VideoGame/VirtualBoyWarioLand''.
** In 2021, he did a "review" of a ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' game made by unlicensed NES developer Color Dreams--quote marks necessary, because the footage in the review and all description of the game itself was created by Civvie using editing software.
** In 2023, he finally did ''TNT: Evilution''... using Youtube's shorts program, with installments running throughout the month and thoroughly mocking both the expansion and every short-form video site out there.
* AsbestosFreeCereal: {{Inverted}}: the double-wide can of [=NutraFuel=] advertises itself as "containing dark meat", which you probably would never have expected a drink to contain, so including it makes it seem less appealing.

* JesusWasWayCool: Jesus in "Christmas Grabbag 2" is depicted as a fellow inmate, speaking like a TotallyRadical surfer-dude, hoverboarding on a crucifix, and giving Civvie a Christmas game (albeit a pretty bad one). (His dad says he can't do an exorcism until he gets his GED.)

* SelfDeprecation: In his ''Doom 64'' review
-->'''Civvie''': '2 console games in a row? What happened to you Civvie, you used to be cool.' I was never cool.

** Also, any time something happens in ''VideoGame/AliensColonialMarines'' that's so blatantly buggy or unfinished, he inserts the time Randy said that the game "[[BlatantLies is like a 7, 7 and a half]]"

** The FramingDevice of the videos - a man being held prisoner and forced to consume (frequently bad) media with two robots to keep him company - is a nod to ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.

** In the end of his ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' video, he wonders if in the brainstorming sessions for ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' the devs decided against naming it "Doom Forever" for [[VideoGame/DukeNukemForever obvious reasons]].

* ViewerPronunciationConfusion: [[invoked]] {{Lampshaded}} in the ''Quake II'' episode:
-->"Make sure to pronounce 'Strogg' (Str-ah-g) as 'Strogg' (Str-oe-g) because someone will bitch about it in the comments."