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2 is also a Nazi, and quite proud and vocal about it.
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* FurryFandom: He's very open about it, to the point that several of his rants are centered around it. He's ranted before about furry conventions, furry roleplays, and the perception of furries in general.
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* FurryFandom: UsefulNotes/FurryFandom: He's very open about it, to the point that several of his rants are centered around it. He's ranted before about furry conventions, furry roleplays, and the perception of furries in general.
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* RantInducingSlight: He admits that there's no point to his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEe_WuTkmfY Olives]] rant, but the incident that inspired it was so stupid he just had to talk about it.
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Bald Of Awesome is being renamed and redefined per TRS decision
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* BaldOfAwesome: And he looks a lot like Spider Jerusalem, to boot.
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* TheGrinch: He's done two separate rants on Christmas, one calling it over-commercialized and another asking "is twenty-four hours a year [of kindness] really all we can manage to squeeze out?"
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* TheScrooge: He's done two separate rants on Christmas, one calling it over-commercialized and another asking "is twenty-four hours a year [of kindness] really all we can manage to squeeze out?"
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* AnimationAgeGhetto: [[invoked]]His rant on ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' was about an experience where he saw the titular movie, only for a woman to treat him with [[PaedoHunt suspicion of being a child molester]] because he was there by himself. 2 spends the rest of the rant arguing against the mentality that animation is only for children.
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* AnimationAgeGhetto: [[invoked]]His rant on ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' was about an experience where he saw the titular movie, movie by himself, only for a woman to treat him with [[PaedoHunt suspicion of being a child molester]] because he was there by himself.alone. 2 spends the rest of the rant arguing against the mentality that animation is only for children.
* FurryFandom: He's very open about it, to the point that several of his rants are centered around it. He's ranted before about furry conventions, furry roleplays, and the perception of furries in general.
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* {{Naytheist}}: He was once studying to be a preacher. Not anymore; he's swung all the way to gnostic atheism.
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* {{Naytheist}}: He was once studying to be a preacher. Not anymore; he's swung all the way to gnostic atheism.atheism, where he thinks there is no God but admits that he's not sure.
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* StopBeingStereotypical: His rant on gay pride. As a gay man himself, 2 agrees with the stated goal of acceptance and less discrimination for LBGT people. However, 2 also believes that gay pride parades are just making things worse, since members of the pride parades are "making it look like the rainbow limp-wristed S&M apocalypse is coming".
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* StopBeingStereotypical: His rant on gay pride. As a gay man himself, 2 agrees with the stated goal of acceptance and less discrimination for LBGT people. However, 2 also believes that gay pride parades are just making things worse, since members of the pride parades are "making it look like the rainbow limp-wristed S&M apocalypse is coming".coming" and interfering with people's daily lives.
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* IKnowYourTrueName: Defied. 2 has ranted before about how people think that knowing his real name is "Matthew Davis" somehow has a power over him. While pretty much everyone calls him "2" (including his own mother), he doesn't really mind being referred to as "Matthew"; he'd just prefer you call him "2" instead.
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-->"You know, I get a lot of people asking me about stuff I hate now. You know, they'll write to me and say, 'Hey, what do you think about deforestation?' . . . Just about anything you can think of. And that's cool, because now it's like my ''job'' to hate shit, and I'm good at it, so it's all cool."
-->--2 the Ranting Gryphon, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npOkOyVXLPI "Abortions"]]
-->--2 the Ranting Gryphon, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npOkOyVXLPI "Abortions"]]
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** The excuse of "[[BileFascination it's so horrible I can't look away]]" when justifying looking at something gross or disturbing. 2 says "the rest of us got over that psychology ages ago."
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** The excuse of "[[BileFascination it's so horrible I can't look away]]" when justifying looking at something gross or disturbing. 2 says "the rest of us got over that psychology ages ago.""[[invoked]]
* LighterAndSofter: Several of his rants and rant videos are about personal annoyances that he's encountered as opposed to cultural problems. One rant was about how a woman annoyed him when he was trying to buy olives at a grocery store.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: He kind of loses the plot towards the end of his rant about yiffing (specifically, that he wishes people would put more effort into it). 2 then just ends the rant, saying he wants everyone to pretend he was going somewhere with it.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: He kind of loses the plot towards the end of his rant about yiffing (specifically, that he wishes people would put more effort into it). 2 then just ends the rant, saying he wants everyone to pretend he was going somewhere with it.
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* RantComedy: Well, he ''is'' 2, the Ranting Gryphon (emphasis on "ranting").
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* RantComedy: Well, he ''is'' 2, the Ranting Gryphon (emphasis on "ranting"). Much of his more popular work comes from ranting about topics he doesn't like.
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* StopBeingStereotypical: His rant on gay pride. As a gay man himself, 2 agrees with the stated goal of acceptance and less discrimination for LBGT people. However, 2 also believes that gay pride parades are just making things worse, since members of the pride parades are "making it look like the rainbow limp-wristed S&M apocalypse is coming".
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* AnimationAgeGhetto: [[invoked]]His rant on ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' was about an experience where he saw the titular movie, only for a woman to treat him with [[PaedoHunt suspicion of being a child molester]] because he was there by himself. 2 spends the rest of the rant arguing against the mentality that animation is only for children.
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* AnimationAgeGhetto: [[invoked]]His rant on ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' was about an experience where he saw the titular movie, only for a woman to treat him with [[PaedoHunt suspicion of being a child molester]] because he was there by himself. 2 spends the rest of the rant arguing against the mentality that animation is only for children.
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** The opinion that "cartoons are for kids." He devoted an entire rant to this based on an experience from a movie theater after watching ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'', and usually ends his stand-up comedy specials arguing against this mindset.
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** The opinion that "cartoons are for kids." He devoted an entire rant to this based on an experience from a movie theater after watching ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', and usually ends his stand-up comedy specials arguing against this mindset.
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* RantInducingSlight: He admits that there's no point to his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEe_WuTkmfY Olives]] rant, but the incident that inspired it was so stupid he just had to talk about it.
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* AnimationAgeGhetto: [[invoked]]His rant on ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' was about an experience where he saw the titular movie, only for a woman to treat him with [[PaedoHunt suspicion of being a child molester]] because he was there by himself. 2 spends the rest of the rant arguing against the mentality that animation is only for children.
-->"You can eat all of my personal dick, because I like cartoons!"
-->"You can eat all of my personal dick, because I like cartoons!"
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[[http://ranting-gryphon.com/index.htm 2, the Ranting Gryphon]] is a [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] comedian whose specialty is [[RantComedy amusing, often profanity-laced commentary]] on various subjects that annoy, infuriate, and otherwise perturb him - as demonstrated by the page quote, it's pretty much his job to hate various things, and he's good at it.
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Matthew Davis, better known as [[http://ranting-gryphon.com/index.htm 2, the Ranting Gryphon]] Gryphon]], is a [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] comedian whose specialty is [[RantComedy amusing, often profanity-laced commentary]] on various subjects that annoy, infuriate, and otherwise perturb him - as him. As demonstrated by the page quote, it's pretty much his job to hate various things, and he's good at it.
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* BerserkButton: Whatever the subject of his rant happens to be.
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* BerserkButton: Whatever the subject of his rant happens to be.be, but a few have stuck out over the years.
** The excuse of "[[BileFascination it's so horrible I can't look away]]" when justifying looking at something gross or disturbing. 2 says "the rest of us got over that psychology ages ago."
** [[invoked]]People who use beliefs to mock or belittle everyone else. He once performed a rant on a furry who thought he was actually a dragon, and everyone else was too "close-minded" to see his true form, causing 2 to [[FridgeLogic poke massive holes in that argument]].
** The opinion that "cartoons are for kids." He devoted an entire rant to this based on an experience from a movie theater after watching ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'', and usually ends his stand-up comedy specials arguing against this mindset.
** The excuse of "[[BileFascination it's so horrible I can't look away]]" when justifying looking at something gross or disturbing. 2 says "the rest of us got over that psychology ages ago."
** [[invoked]]People who use beliefs to mock or belittle everyone else. He once performed a rant on a furry who thought he was actually a dragon, and everyone else was too "close-minded" to see his true form, causing 2 to [[FridgeLogic poke massive holes in that argument]].
** The opinion that "cartoons are for kids." He devoted an entire rant to this based on an experience from a movie theater after watching ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'', and usually ends his stand-up comedy specials arguing against this mindset.
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-->''[[BigNo "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"]]''
* CardCarryingVillain - Played with; in his "Portal of Evil" rant, he says that he must officially be evil because the Portal of Evil had an article on him.
* ClusterFBomb - Most of his rants and routines can be considered this, though there are a few that fall more into the PrecisionFStrike territory.
* EveryoneHasStandards - 2 once made it very clear that when he rants, one line he will never cross with the concept is doing it purely for personal profit.
* PrecisionFStrike - The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q71cMRGXx9o "Global Warming"]] rant - as opposed to most of his rants, it has precisely three pieces of profanity: two "craps" and one "dumbasses".
* RantComedy - Well, he ''is'' 2, the Ranting Gryphon (emphasis on "ranting").
* CardCarryingVillain - Played with; in his "Portal of Evil" rant, he says that he must officially be evil because the Portal of Evil had an article on him.
* ClusterFBomb - Most of his rants and routines can be considered this, though there are a few that fall more into the PrecisionFStrike territory.
* EveryoneHasStandards - 2 once made it very clear that when he rants, one line he will never cross with the concept is doing it purely for personal profit.
* PrecisionFStrike - The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q71cMRGXx9o "Global Warming"]] rant - as opposed to most of his rants, it has precisely three pieces of profanity: two "craps" and one "dumbasses".
* RantComedy - Well, he ''is'' 2, the Ranting Gryphon (emphasis on "ranting").
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-->''[[BigNo "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"]]''
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!"]]''
*CardCarryingVillain - CardCarryingVillain: Played with; in his "Portal of Evil" rant, he says that he must officially be evil because the Portal of Evil had an article on him.
*ClusterFBomb - ClusterFBomb: Most of his rants and routines can be considered this, though there are a few that fall more into the PrecisionFStrike territory.
*EveryoneHasStandards - EveryoneHasStandards: 2 once made it very clear that when he rants, one line he will never cross with the concept is doing it purely for personal profit.
*PrecisionFStrike - {{Naytheist}}: He was once studying to be a preacher. Not anymore; he's swung all the way to gnostic atheism.
* PrecisionFStrike: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q71cMRGXx9o "Global Warming"]] rant - as opposed to most of his rants, it has precisely three pieces of profanity: two "craps" and one "dumbasses".
*RantComedy - RantComedy: Well, he ''is'' 2, the Ranting Gryphon (emphasis on "ranting"). "ranting").
* TheScrooge: He's done two separate rants on Christmas, one calling it over-commercialized and another asking "is twenty-four hours a year [of kindness] really all we can manage to squeeze out?"
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* PrecisionFStrike: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q71cMRGXx9o "Global Warming"]] rant - as opposed to most of his rants, it has precisely three pieces of profanity: two "craps" and one "dumbasses".
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* TheScrooge: He's done two separate rants on Christmas, one calling it over-commercialized and another asking "is twenty-four hours a year [of kindness] really all we can manage to squeeze out?"
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[[http://ranting-gryphon.com/index.htm 2, the Ranting Gryphon]] is a [[{{FurryFandom}} furry]] comedian whose specialty is [[RantComedy amusing, often profanity-laced commentary]] on various subjects that annoy, infuriate, and otherwise perturb him - as demonstrated by the page quote, it's pretty much his job to hate various things, and he's good at it.
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[[http://ranting-gryphon.com/index.htm 2, the Ranting Gryphon]] is a [[{{FurryFandom}} [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] comedian whose specialty is [[RantComedy amusing, often profanity-laced commentary]] on various subjects that annoy, infuriate, and otherwise perturb him - as demonstrated by the page quote, it's pretty much his job to hate various things, and he's good at it.
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* BaldOfAwesome: And he looks a lot like Spider Jerusalem, to boot.
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* EveryoneHasStandards - 2 once made it very clear that when he rants, one line he will never cross with the concept is doing it purely for personal profit.
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-->"You know, I get a lot of people asking me about stuff I hate now. You know, they'll write to me and say, 'Hey, what do you think about deforestation?' . . . Just about anything you can think of. And that's cool, because now it's like my ''job'' to hate shit, and I'm good at it, so it's all cool."
-->--2 the Ranting Gryphon, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npOkOyVXLPI "Abortions"]]
[[http://ranting-gryphon.com/index.htm 2, the Ranting Gryphon]] is a [[{{FurryFandom}} furry]] comedian whose specialty is [[RantComedy amusing, often profanity-laced commentary]] on various subjects that annoy, infuriate, and otherwise perturb him - as demonstrated by the page quote, it's pretty much his job to hate various things, and he's good at it.
!!Tropes observed in 2's rants include:
* BerserkButton: Whatever the subject of his rant happens to be.
* BigNo: In one version of his [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeTy6uewZZo "Accidental Toast"]] rant:
-->"Hey, stop that toast!"
-->"We can't! There ''will'' be toast!"
-->''[[BigNo "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"]]''
* CardCarryingVillain - Played with; in his "Portal of Evil" rant, he says that he must officially be evil because the Portal of Evil had an article on him.
* ClusterFBomb - Most of his rants and routines can be considered this, though there are a few that fall more into the PrecisionFStrike territory.
* PrecisionFStrike - The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q71cMRGXx9o "Global Warming"]] rant - as opposed to most of his rants, it has precisely three pieces of profanity: two "craps" and one "dumbasses".
* RantComedy - Well, he ''is'' 2, the Ranting Gryphon (emphasis on "ranting").
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-->--2 the Ranting Gryphon, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npOkOyVXLPI "Abortions"]]
[[http://ranting-gryphon.com/index.htm 2, the Ranting Gryphon]] is a [[{{FurryFandom}} furry]] comedian whose specialty is [[RantComedy amusing, often profanity-laced commentary]] on various subjects that annoy, infuriate, and otherwise perturb him - as demonstrated by the page quote, it's pretty much his job to hate various things, and he's good at it.
!!Tropes observed in 2's rants include:
* BerserkButton: Whatever the subject of his rant happens to be.
* BigNo: In one version of his [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeTy6uewZZo "Accidental Toast"]] rant:
-->"Hey, stop that toast!"
-->"We can't! There ''will'' be toast!"
-->''[[BigNo "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"]]''
* CardCarryingVillain - Played with; in his "Portal of Evil" rant, he says that he must officially be evil because the Portal of Evil had an article on him.
* ClusterFBomb - Most of his rants and routines can be considered this, though there are a few that fall more into the PrecisionFStrike territory.
* PrecisionFStrike - The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q71cMRGXx9o "Global Warming"]] rant - as opposed to most of his rants, it has precisely three pieces of profanity: two "craps" and one "dumbasses".
* RantComedy - Well, he ''is'' 2, the Ranting Gryphon (emphasis on "ranting").
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