History WebVideo / ImAMarvelAndImADC

''I'm a Marvel... and I'm a DC'' is a popular FanFilm series on YouTube, created by [[http://www.youtube.com/user/ItsJustSomeRandomGuy ItsJustSomeRandomGuy]] and his former collaborator, who goes by [=ItsJustSomeRandomGal=]. The videos feature popular MarvelComics and DCComics characters (well, action figure versions of them, anyway) dealing with the successes and failures of their respective movies and comics, sometimes humorously, sometimes dramatically.

** '''Comicbook/GreenLantern vs. [[{{Film/X-Men}} X-Men: First Class]]:''' Hal Jordan tries to debate with Magneto, only to be slammed by a locker repeatedly for twenty seconds before Hal strikes back. Then they argue about their franchises. Xavier tags in and uses a JediMindTrick to end the debate. Hal realizes this and demands another go, and he gets Mystique. This is interrupted when he notices the [[CallBack blue person is naked]].

** '''Season One''': Season One begins with various Marvel and DC heroes hanging out in a superhero bar, discussing previous, current, and upcoming film projects. Eventually, a plot starts to form as, at a nearby villains' bar, [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Lex Luthor]] tries to convince Marvel villains such as [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Doctor Doom]], [[{{ComicBook/X-Men}} Magneto]], and [[ComicBook/{{Spider-Man}} Venom]] to join him in altering the past so their movies would turn out better. Failing that, Luthor goes with a second plan - to wipe out all Marvel comics. Throughout all this, Superman tries to come to grips with people perceiving him as too powerful, and not being as flawed and relatable as other heroes.
** '''Season Two: Happy Hour''': "Happy Hour," the second season, centers around a plan by the Joker to control all superheroes and make them like his "straight man" - Batman. The Joker's plan has one flaw, though: [[spoiler:Spider-Man's immune to his mind control, due to his view of reality already being changed by Mephisto.]] Subplots include Spider-Man's eagerness to join Batman in crimefighting, the [[ComicBook/{{Spider-Man}} Green Goblin]] trying desperately to win [[{{Batman}} Harley Quinn]]'s heart, and both the Goblin and Lex Luthor tripping out on sedatives.

* CharacterExaggeration: Impressively, this version of Harley comes across as even ''more'' obsessed with the Joker than the original - no mean feat. It can be a little striking if you rewatch something like [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Harley's Holiday]].

* OnlySaneMan:

** Whenever he shows up in the Marvel/DC shorts Batman seems to be the only superhero who isn't obsessing over how his movies are doing.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The ''TrueBlood'/''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2ENznSexo8 episode.]]

-->I'm sure that his power ring's a lot of fun/ but can it ever really be as cool as my [[{{BFG}} M16 with laser sided scope]] oh my ''GOD'' I love this thing.
* SuicideAsComedy: The Green Goblin attempts to hang himself in the Spider-Man reboot video over dispair over Willam Dafoe. He survives due to a combination of his enhanced physiology and being the EnsembleDarkhorse.

** The 100th episode song also contains the line "If Marvel and Edward Norton simply can't agree, we'll see Bruce Banner being played by David Duchovny". Of course, the real TheOtherDarrin [[TimeMarchesOn turned out to be Mark Ruffalo]].

** Played straight at the end of Happy Hour #2 when the [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries BTAS]] Batman theme plays while Batman kicks superhero butt.

** Also the line "If Marvel and Edward Norton simply can't agree, we'll see Bruce Banner being played by David Duchovny" from the 100th episode musical. We wound up actually seeing Bruce Banner being played by Mark Ruffalo.

** The 100th episode song also contains the line "If Marvel and Edward Norton simply can't agree, we'll see Bruce Banner being played by David Duchovny". Of course, the real TheOtherDarin [[TimeMarchesOn turned out to be Mark Ruffalo]].

* '''After Hours''': Originally an excuse to depict pretty much all the Marvel and DC characters hanging out together and arguing over their movies ''without'' sticking to the Mac/PC format, this series eventually gained its own storyline, filled to the brim with suspense, humor, and the occasional CMOA.

** '''{{Batman}} v. ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk and ComicBook/IronMan''': In the summer of 2008, [=RandomGuy=] took a break from the more dramatic storylines of "After Hours" to take advantage of the number of comic book movies coming out that summer (namely, ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'', ''Film/IronMan'', and ''{{The Dark Knight|Saga}}''). This series focused on Batman facing off against either Iron Man or the Hulk. Since ''HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'' also came out that summer, ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} himself briefly joined in (he didn't quite fit in, though).

* DynamicEntry: Batman pulls one off, even saying the same quote as he did in ''TheDarkKnight''.

* ImagineSpot: One Batman vs. Iron Man video featured Iron Man mulling over the success of ''{{The Dark Knight|Saga}}''. He imagines it to be so popular that people not only pre-order tickets, but also cryonically freeze themselves and go back in time from the future (where it's ''still'' sold out) just to see it. Even aliens, SantaClaus and ''Jesus Christ'' get in line to see it.

* SeriousBusiness: At least as how Iron Man imagined it, ''[[TheDarkKnightTrilogy The Dark Knight]]'' was ''so'' good it made Jesus want to see it.

*** Some of the parody trailers include: ''Film/StarTrek'', ''{{Terminator}}: Salvation'', ''DragMeToHell'', ''{{Up}}'', ''TheHangover'', ''TheProposal'', ''Film/HarryPotter and the Half-Blood Prince'', ''InglouriousBasterds'', ''Film/{{District 9}}'', and ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} New Moon]]''. The heroes (and antiheroes) wanted a parody of ''Film/{{Transformers}}: Revenge of the Fallen'', but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siGtn_SxKbs that didn't exactly work out]].

* OnlySaneMan: Green Lantern comes off as this in his segments but considering who he's up against, not suprising.

* ArentYouForgettingSomeone: In the BatMan vs TheAvengers video everyone seems to forget that poor Spidey has a summer blockbuster comming out too and that he's even standing there.

--> '''Batman:''' It's personal.

** '''ComicBook/{{Superman}} v. ComicBook/{{Spider-Man}}''': Some time after the release of ''SupermanReturns'', and before the release of the then-highly anticipated ''Film/{{Spider-Man}} 3'', [=RandomGuy=] made these first short films, contrasting DC's movie adaptations with Marvel's. Mainly, the videos focused on the more disappointing aspects of ''Superman Returns'' in comparison with the more successful parts of the ''Spider-Man'' films. Once it was a video with the villains (LexLuthor and Green Goblin). Eventually, other Marvel and DC characters were brought in the put in their two cents, most notably ComicBook/{{Batman}} (who scoffed at the supposed "[[{{Wangst}} darkness]]" of ''Spider-Man 3''), ComicBook/{{The Incredible Hulk}} (who reminisced with Superman about "the good old days", namely the 70s/80s), [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Wolverine]] (who argued with Superman over whether or not the Man of Steel "stole our [[BryanSinger director]]") and the FantasticFour and the SilverSurfer who beat out DC that year due to lack of "[[{{Batman}} competition]]".

*** Some of the parody trailers include: ''Film/StarTrek'', ''{{Terminator}}: Salvation'', ''DragMeToHell'', ''{{Up}}'', ''TheHangover'', ''TheProposal'', ''Film/HarryPotter and the Half-Blood Prince'', ''InglouriousBasterds'', ''{{District 9}}'', and ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} New Moon]]''. The heroes (and antiheroes) wanted a parody of ''Film/{{Transformers}}: Revenge of the Fallen'', but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siGtn_SxKbs that didn't exactly work out]].

* BerserkButton: Never, ''ever'' insult Willem Dafoe in front of the Green Goblin. Not even if you're {{the Joker}}.

** In their parody trailer for ''{{Inglorious Basterds}}'', Deadpool gives us quite the gem when he's giving the "Fear Speech." "And the Skrull will grow to fear the pain they will feel at our hands, and at the edge of our knives *camera cut to Wolverine* and at the edge of our knives that come from our hands."

* MoodWhiplash: PlayedForLaughs in the ''Parodies'' series, when they start with an ''InglouriousBasterds'' parody with the Skrulls serving as the Nazi-analogue complete with the scalping speech, causing the bar patrons to cheer at the violence, then move to a ''{{District 9}}'' parody where the Skrulls are the Prawns-analogue (but they kept the scalping reference from the previous parody), and the bar patrons are all horrified at Man's Inhumanity to... Skrull.

** This was in fact a {{Night Court}} shout-out, wherein Dan Fielding uttered almost exactly the same line as the Goblin.

* {{Playing Drunk}}: Goblin pretends to appear high, long after his sedatives have actually worn off in order to avoid being brainwashed by the Joker.

--> '''Ironman''' "Trust me, no one sings {{Grateful Dead}} songs like him without being on something"

-->Professor X: All I got was a loop of 'My Humps' by the {{Black Eyed Peas}}

** The Thing figure in the "{{Film/Fantastic Four}} Quickie" differs from the one that made token appearances in later videos.

*** A new season of parodies has begun for 2011, including ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', and ''TheHangover 2''.

*** A new season of parodies has begun for 2011, including ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', ''KungFuPanda'', and ''TheHangover 2''.

*** '''Rorschach & Deadpool''': A tie-in series to Season 3. After being teased back in May 2009 and subsequently becoming a minor internet meme, the SitCom featuring everyone's favorite Sociopath and The Merc With The Mouth as an OddCouple is finally here! Rorschach is looking for a man "behind everything," but [[HisNameIs every lead he can find keeps getting shot by Deadpool before they talk]]. It originally appeared that the entire thing was, as Deadpool put it, an excuse to "give the people what they want," but now seems to have tied into the main plot with Rorschach's discovery of a Plan Q folder on the desk of [[spoiler:Dark Future Joker]].

-->'''Lex Luthor''' [[TheUsualSuspects "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."]]

* ArentYouForgettingSomeone: In the BatMan vs TheAvengers video everyone seems to forget that poor Spidey has a summer blockbuster comming out too and that he's even standing there.

** Also, with Iron Monger and the Joker: "Hi, I'm a Marvel." "And I'm the Joker."

* CharacterExaggeration: Impressively, this version of Harley comes across as even ''more'' obsessed with the Joker than the original - no mean feat. It can be a little striking if you rewatch something like [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Harley's Holiday]].

** [[spoiler: The Joker's back, well sort of, in Rorschach and Deadpool #2, possibly under the pseudonym Joe Polachi]]

* InnBetweenTheWorlds: Stan's Place is revealed to be this.

* JokerImmunity: Referenced in regards to the TropeNamer himself:

** Also, when the "take away the armor" scene from ''Film/TheAvengers'' is applied to Batman.

* MusicalEpisode: In celebration of 100 videos.

* NotSoDifferent: Iron Man and Batman discover they are both rich, orphaned millionaire playboys with high-tech toys, a butler, a sidekick and hot love interests, despite Batman's insistence that he is completely different from Iron Man.
* NotSoStoic: Batman when Joker was torturing Spiderman [[spoiler: though this may have been part of his plan]]. Also when the Joker shot Harley.

* OneOfUs: Random Guy and Random Gal, the creators of the series, are both big time comic book fans and overall geeks. Oh, and they know about TV Tropes, with Random Guy even commenting in one video blog "Our TV Tropes page got even bigger?"
** Also, one of the things that really makes Random Guy and Random Gal stand out as Internet celebrities is their video blog that has been going on every Tuesday night since the summer of 2009. The regular fans are even referenced by name, and two of them were able to visit them in person and chat live with the other fans. Does it get any better than that?
* OnlySaneMan: Green Lantern comes off as this in his segments but considering who he's up against, not suprising.

* PerspectiveMagic: Many of the action figures are scaled differently, so they are placed different distances from the camera to appear that they are in the same scale - sometimes backfires when one of the two figures is out of focus because of this.

* PrecisionFStrike: in Zero Hour #2. Still managed to be awesome even with the CurseCutShort.

* TakeThat: The whole thing started as a TakeThat against the business decisions the makers of the DC movies were making, what with the cancellations of ''TheFlash'' and ''WonderWoman'' movies.
** Deadpool beating on the head of the Wolverine: Origins movie. Then beating it some more. Then stomping on it. [[OverlyLongGag Then shooting it]].

* [[TheOtherDarrin The Other Action Figure]]: The Iron Man action figure used in the 2007 videos was replaced with the one licensed to the 2008 movie.

** And then there's the part in '''After Hours''' when Superman and Batman are arguing with each other, they then switch between that, and [[spoiler: their SuperFriends action figures, where they then proceed to be kind, and sweet and nice to each other.]] It's rather sickening, to be honest.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Batman and Superman.
-->'''Spiderman''': "Wow. Supes must mean a lot to you for you to go all this trouble to find him."

* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: Parodied in the first JonahHex video, where Iron Man is about to explain [[TheOtherDarrin what happened to Rhodey's first actor]], but the video cuts to a screen with the message "Whoops! Technical Difficulties." Turns out Iron Man didn't actually tell Jonah what happened, and instead just stood there for a few seconds while the Technical Difficulties screen popped up before saying "That's why!"

* ArentYouForgettingSomeone: In the BatMan vs TheAvengers video everyone seems to forget that poor Spidey has [[TheAmazingSpiderMan a summer blockbuster comming out too]] and that he's even standing there.

** '''Parodies''': During the second half of 2009, the comic book movies stopped coming out. For lack of anything else to do, Spidey started making pitches of the cast as part of parodies of the other movies. Some of these are because Hulk spikes his milkshake.

** '''IronMan vs. JonahHex''': In May of 2010, Jonah Hex was brought on to go against Iron Man, in the wake of the ''JonahHex'' movie and ''[[Film/IronMan Iron Man 2]]'' both coming out that month. Iron Man questioned Jonah about his movie's commercials making it seem like "Film/{{Constantine}} [[Comicbook/GhostRider The Ghost Rider]] [[InSpace In the Wild Wild West]]" instead of a gritty realistic Western like in the comic, while Jonah pointed out the insane amount of ProductPlacement present in the Iron Man 2 ads. It doesn't go much further than that though, as Jonah Hex doesn't think there's any honor in [[LampshadeHanging trashing the competition's movies before they even come out]].

** The whole scene in fact is a {{Homage}} to ''[[IndianaJones The Last Crusade.]]''

* FantasticRacism: {{Wolverine}} accuses Superman of being an 'anti-Mutite'.

** '''Season Three: Zero Hour''': The current season, picking up where "Happy Hour" left off. All seems fine in the Randomverse: The bad guys are dealing with another loss, the hero bar ("{{Stan|Lee}}'s Place") is expanding, and [[spoiler:Goblin and Harley are together following Joker's disappearance.]] All hell breaks loose, however, when [[spoiler:Lance's head appears.]] Meanwhile, Lex Luthor is trying to make a vision he had come true, which predicted the good guys on the ground beaten and humiliated--but no one seems interesting in helping him besides Lars, the European Douche.

* '''Rorschach & Deadpool''': After being teased back in May 2009 and subsequently becoming a minor internet meme, the SitCom featuring everyone's favorite Sociopath and The Merc With The Mouth as an OddCouple is finally here! Rorschach is looking for a man "behind everything," but [[HisNameIs every lead he can find keeps getting shot by Deadpool before they talk]]. It originally appeared that the entire thing was, as Deadpool put it, an excuse to "give the people what they want," but now seems to have tied into the main plot with Rorschach's discovery of a Plan Q folder on the desk of [[spoiler:Dark Future Joker]].

* '''Sh*t Superheroes Say''': Each of these videos runs a minute and ten seconds. The superhero in question spouts several quotes, which define his respective philosophies, pivotal events, and relationships with other characters.

** Season 3: As of yet unknown; however, see the WMG page for at least one possible theory.
*** As the 5th episode shows, it becomes a deconstruction of the series itself - of the nature and ramifications of the hero bar, and what it would mean to people within to learn they are part of the fictional universes.

* FirstNameBasis: Pretty much most of the superhero community call each other by their real names, even spanning across universes, such as Batman and Ironman calling each other Bruce and Tony respectively and Superman calling Wolverine Logan.

* HeroicBSOD: Superman suffers through one in ''After Hours'' when Luthor captured him, Batman and Spider-man and he feels that his powers are superficial and he can't do anything.

** Possibly subverted in ''Zero Hour 1 of 2''-[[spoiler: after the Joker tells Darkseid that StanLee has the power that Darkseid wants, Darkseid zaps the Joker]].
*** [[spoiler: Nope. Joker's back with a new action figure, possibly using the alias Joe Palachi.]]

* LittleNo: Superman utters this twice in ''After Hours'', first when [[spoiler: Spiderman disappears from existance]] and again when [[spoiler: Batman disappears too.]]

* MoneyDearBoy: Wade Sparrow's motivation for PiratesOfTheCaribbean

** One guy uses it to make a hilarious joke at Daredevil's expense. They then ask if they are going to Hell for making it (GhostRider: "Take it from me...")

* {{Playing Drunk}} Goblin pretends to appear high, long after his sedatives have actually worn off in order to avoid being brainwashed by the Joker.

* PowerEchoes: GhostRider, Venom, and [[spoiler:Darkseid]] all have echoey voices.