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Leo Vader is a [=YouTube=] dedicated to pop culture analysis, especially the worldbuilding implications of fictional media. The pop-culture artifacts that Leo Vader chooses to focus on are almost never tentpole blockbusters, though, nor are they high-brow arthouse films or SoBadItsGood stinkers. Instead, Leo investigates forgettable nothing-movies like Film/InTime or {{Film/Downsizing}}. These sillier videos are interspersed with more personal works about Leo's life.
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Leo Vader is a [=YouTube=] channel dedicated to pop culture analysis, especially the worldbuilding implications of fictional media. The pop-culture artifacts that Leo Vader chooses to focus on are almost never tentpole blockbusters, though, nor are they high-brow arthouse films or SoBadItsGood stinkers. Instead, Leo investigates forgettable nothing-movies like Film/InTime or {{Film/Downsizing}}. These sillier videos are interspersed with more personal works about Leo's life.
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->''"I travel around the universe and make comedic video essays about it, posted once every month or two."''
-->-- Leo Vader's Channel Description
Leo Vader is a [=YouTube=] dedicated to pop culture analysis, especially the worldbuilding implications of fictional media. The pop-culture artifacts that Leo Vader chooses to focus on are almost never tentpole blockbusters, though, nor are they high-brow arthouse films or SoBadItsGood stinkers. Instead, Leo investigates forgettable nothing-movies like Film/InTime or {{Film/Downsizing}}. These sillier videos are interspersed with more personal works about Leo's life.
Leo's style is much looser than most video essayists, with a shorter average runtime and a stronger emphasis on jokes than his contemporaries. His videos also tend to be very introspective, including dives into Leo's own fears and insecurities.
Unusually for a video essay channel, it has a framing device: Leo's house is constantly teleporting through space randomly, with Leo taken along for the ride. Having long since given up on finding a way home, Leo Vader passes the time by watching TV and making videos.
!!Tropes found in this work include:
* AnalysisChannel: Albeit a rather goofy one.
* BaldnessAngst: Explored in [[https://youtu.be/6cfliNqnjis?si=680t3XYoWj4DFFyM addressing the allegations (that I am bald)]], where Leo angsts over both his insecurity over his baldness ''and'' his insecurity ''about'' that insecurity, because he figures he shouldn't let other people control how he feels about himself.
* ChristmasEpisode: [[https://youtu.be/T3B5QPSileI?si=V0Sq4iBQecXAroyc Leo's Completely Optional Christmas Special]], where Leo exchanges gifts with his alien friends and gets into an obligatory holiday argument.
* CurbStompBattle: In "Could Downsized Matt Damon defeat Ant-Man?", Leo tries to make a case for Matt Damon defeating Ant-Man and descends into grief as he realizes how comically outmatched Matt Damon is.
* DrugsAreBad: Leo goes in detail about his experience with cannabis in [[https://youtu.be/_pcavwJitC4?si=pfF6tkZD4Q3E9MS3 "On Weed"]], exploring both the negative effects and positive sides of drug use.
* FishOutOfWater: The premise of [[https://youtu.be/zfjHAgsPDzA?si=-lA6tX31vrWMUEtl "Ranking movies where Brendan Frasier emerges from the past"]] is the fact Brendan Frasier starred in three movies with this same basic premise (Film/EncinoMan, Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle, and Film/BlastFromThePast).
* FiveStagesOfGrief: "Could Downsized Matt Damon defeat Ant-Man?" is structured into five parts, each one corresponding to a different stage of grief as Leo realizes how bad the video's premise is.
* HypotheticalFightDebate: In "Could Downsized Matt Damon defeat Ant-Man?" and "Cereal Mascot (power level) Tier List".
* KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: "Why are kids obsessed with horror?" is about, well, why kids are obsessed with horror and whether or not it's healthy for them to watch. Leo comes out on the side that it's generally fine.
* LittleGreenMen: Bart, Leo's alien puppet buddy.
* {{Muppet}}: Bart and PK Sullivan are both portrayed by stylized felt puppets. Unusually for puppetry, their lines are improvised by their actors and then the puppets are brought in later to be synced to the audio.
* NerdsAreVirgins: Parodied in Breaking Down My Most Iconic Characters:
-->"Dinkus is definitely a nerd, very into, like, books and video games, so... ''not'' sexually viable."
* NicheNetwork: Internet variant. In [[https://youtu.be/6cfliNqnjis?si=680t3XYoWj4DFFyM addressing the allegations (that I am bald)]], Leo fears that shaving his head completely bald will lead to him becoming a "niche creator". He then briefly has an ImagineSpot where he hosts a balding-focused media analysis channel called "[[WebVideo/FoldingIdeas Balding Ideas]]".
* PigMan: PK Sullivan, Leo's other puppet buddy.
* RageQuit: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wlgJQfV4bw "Gamer Rage"]], Leo investigates why gamer ragequit videos are so addictive to watch and why rage-quitting is such a common response to losing.
* TheStoner: Apparently a species-wide trait of the Gorbulonians.
-->-- Leo Vader's Channel Description
Leo Vader is a [=YouTube=] dedicated to pop culture analysis, especially the worldbuilding implications of fictional media. The pop-culture artifacts that Leo Vader chooses to focus on are almost never tentpole blockbusters, though, nor are they high-brow arthouse films or SoBadItsGood stinkers. Instead, Leo investigates forgettable nothing-movies like Film/InTime or {{Film/Downsizing}}. These sillier videos are interspersed with more personal works about Leo's life.
Leo's style is much looser than most video essayists, with a shorter average runtime and a stronger emphasis on jokes than his contemporaries. His videos also tend to be very introspective, including dives into Leo's own fears and insecurities.
Unusually for a video essay channel, it has a framing device: Leo's house is constantly teleporting through space randomly, with Leo taken along for the ride. Having long since given up on finding a way home, Leo Vader passes the time by watching TV and making videos.
!!Tropes found in this work include:
* AnalysisChannel: Albeit a rather goofy one.
* BaldnessAngst: Explored in [[https://youtu.be/6cfliNqnjis?si=680t3XYoWj4DFFyM addressing the allegations (that I am bald)]], where Leo angsts over both his insecurity over his baldness ''and'' his insecurity ''about'' that insecurity, because he figures he shouldn't let other people control how he feels about himself.
* ChristmasEpisode: [[https://youtu.be/T3B5QPSileI?si=V0Sq4iBQecXAroyc Leo's Completely Optional Christmas Special]], where Leo exchanges gifts with his alien friends and gets into an obligatory holiday argument.
* CurbStompBattle: In "Could Downsized Matt Damon defeat Ant-Man?", Leo tries to make a case for Matt Damon defeating Ant-Man and descends into grief as he realizes how comically outmatched Matt Damon is.
* DrugsAreBad: Leo goes in detail about his experience with cannabis in [[https://youtu.be/_pcavwJitC4?si=pfF6tkZD4Q3E9MS3 "On Weed"]], exploring both the negative effects and positive sides of drug use.
* FishOutOfWater: The premise of [[https://youtu.be/zfjHAgsPDzA?si=-lA6tX31vrWMUEtl "Ranking movies where Brendan Frasier emerges from the past"]] is the fact Brendan Frasier starred in three movies with this same basic premise (Film/EncinoMan, Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle, and Film/BlastFromThePast).
* FiveStagesOfGrief: "Could Downsized Matt Damon defeat Ant-Man?" is structured into five parts, each one corresponding to a different stage of grief as Leo realizes how bad the video's premise is.
* HypotheticalFightDebate: In "Could Downsized Matt Damon defeat Ant-Man?" and "Cereal Mascot (power level) Tier List".
* KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: "Why are kids obsessed with horror?" is about, well, why kids are obsessed with horror and whether or not it's healthy for them to watch. Leo comes out on the side that it's generally fine.
* LittleGreenMen: Bart, Leo's alien puppet buddy.
* {{Muppet}}: Bart and PK Sullivan are both portrayed by stylized felt puppets. Unusually for puppetry, their lines are improvised by their actors and then the puppets are brought in later to be synced to the audio.
* NerdsAreVirgins: Parodied in Breaking Down My Most Iconic Characters:
-->"Dinkus is definitely a nerd, very into, like, books and video games, so... ''not'' sexually viable."
* NicheNetwork: Internet variant. In [[https://youtu.be/6cfliNqnjis?si=680t3XYoWj4DFFyM addressing the allegations (that I am bald)]], Leo fears that shaving his head completely bald will lead to him becoming a "niche creator". He then briefly has an ImagineSpot where he hosts a balding-focused media analysis channel called "[[WebVideo/FoldingIdeas Balding Ideas]]".
* PigMan: PK Sullivan, Leo's other puppet buddy.
* RageQuit: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wlgJQfV4bw "Gamer Rage"]], Leo investigates why gamer ragequit videos are so addictive to watch and why rage-quitting is such a common response to losing.
* TheStoner: Apparently a species-wide trait of the Gorbulonians.
