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* SignatureScene: From "Quiet Riot", "Merilwen's Meat Grinder" is by far the most well-known scene from the series, because of the title character's accidental murder-tool.
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** From "Quiet Riot", "Merilwen's Meat Grinder" is by far the most well-known scene from the series, because of the title character's accidentalmurder-tool.murder-tool.
** Within the field of fanart specifically, Baby Prudence from "Watch Out!" is a very popular subject due to her comedic potential.
** From "Quiet Riot", "Merilwen's Meat Grinder" is by far the most well-known scene from the series, because of the title character's accidental
** Within the field of fanart specifically, Baby Prudence from "Watch Out!" is a very popular subject due to her comedic potential.
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** Some of the fans pounced on this exchange from "Sect Appeal," between Corazon and Prudence.
--->'''Prudence''': ''(upset because her grimoires ran away)'' Oh, Corazon, you'll never leave me...\\
'''Corazon''': Okay, come on.\\
'''Prudence''': [[{{Yandere}} I'll kill you first.]]
--->'''Prudence''': ''(upset because her grimoires ran away)'' Oh, Corazon, you'll never leave me...\\
'''Corazon''': Okay, come on.\\
'''Prudence''': [[{{Yandere}} I'll kill you first.]]
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* NeverLiveItDown:
** Merilwen the friend-to-all-animals elf druid has never forgiven Corazón for kicking a chicken in the first episode, and brings it up at every opportunity.
** Similarly, no one has exactly forgotten that Dob had nearly electrocuted Merilwen in a Thunderwave. It has gotten to a point where Corazón sells tunics that say "Don't be a Dob".
** Merilwen the friend-to-all-animals elf druid has never forgiven Corazón for kicking a chicken in the first episode, and brings it up at every opportunity.
** Similarly, no one has exactly forgotten that Dob had nearly electrocuted Merilwen in a Thunderwave. It has gotten to a point where Corazón sells tunics that say "Don't be a Dob".
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** With the revelation that Boudreau is [[spoiler:a Hangin' Judge]], there's debate about whether he could be judged by [[spoiler:human morality standards or not]]. Those in favour argue [[spoiler:that Victoria described him as sadistic during his time with the Red Hand Gang]], while those against argue his status means he can't be. It's also possible that he was initially using "justice" as a sick joke but later started BelievingTheirOwnLies.
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** With the revelation that Boudreau is [[spoiler:a Hangin' Judge]], Judge (the monster type, not an actual HangingJudge)]], there's debate about whether he could be judged by [[spoiler:human morality standards or not]]. Those in favour argue [[spoiler:that Victoria described him as sadistic during his time with the Red Hand Gang]], while those against argue his status means he can't be. It's also possible that he was initially using "justice" as a sick joke but later started BelievingTheirOwnLies.
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** Aunt Hildy may or may not have gotten it when she created murderous robots. However, she definitely did when she force-fed tainted food to her associates, causing them to turn painfully into monsters. And she writes it off as "simply failed experiments"
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** How much of Nate's scatter-brained nature is real, or faked?
** With the revelation that Boudreau is [[spoiler:a Hangin' Judge]], there's debate about whether he could be judged by [[spoiler:human morality standards or not]]. Those in favour argue [[spoiler:that Victoria described him as sadistic during his time with the Red Hand Gang]], while those against argue his status means he can't be. It's also possible that he was initially using "justice" as a sick joke but later started BelievingTheirOwnLies.
** How much of Nate's scatter-brained nature is real, or faked?
** With the revelation that Boudreau is [[spoiler:a Hangin' Judge]], there's debate about whether he could be judged by [[spoiler:human morality standards or not]]. Those in favour argue [[spoiler:that Victoria described him as sadistic during his time with the Red Hand Gang]], while those against argue his status means he can't be. It's also possible that he was initially using "justice" as a sick joke but later started BelievingTheirOwnLies.
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** From ''Electric Dreams'', the situation of TheHeavy is genuinely upsetting. In short, they are [[spoiler:a replicant suffering from her conditioning malfunctioning, leaving to her experiencing traumatic memories every night and being driven insane.]] Though the party stops them killing their tormentor, they clearly feel really sorry for her, to the point that said tormentor is then knocked unconscious.
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* TheWoobie: From ''Dread'', wounded camp counselor Eric is very deserving of a hug for all the trauma he goes through. [[spoiler:Sadly, he dies in the river before he can be rescued.]]
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* TheWoobie: From ''Dread'', wounded camp counselor Eric is very deserving of a hug for all the trauma he goes through. [[spoiler:Sadly, he dies in the river before he can be rescued.]]]]
!!YMMV Items for ''Oxventure Presents: Deadlands''
* CreepyAwesome:
** Benjamin Bellows, the first of the gang the party throws down with, gathered this reputation quickly for his legitimately terrifying presence, eerily soft-spoken demeanour, and superb gunslinging skills. [[spoiler:The fact that he's the first villain to kill a PC in an Oxventure series (not counting the one-shots) probably helps.]]
** After his "return" in "Dead Man's Worth: Part II", [[spoiler:Nate becomes a Harrowed, leaving him smelling literally of death, stuck with a giant gaping death wound in his chest, the ability to reset some wounds like broken fingers by consuming meat, and with a seemingly evil spirit possessing him for four hours a day]]. The fans grew even fonder of said character after this.
* MoralEventHorizon: The members of the Red Hand Gang all crossed the line when they collectively murdered Victoria's family. However, each member went and crossed the line individually some time later:
** If Bellows didn't cross it with his past in the gang, his use of the army to raid and loot towns bare, then enslaving the town of Dead Man's Worth to his will counts.
** Daisy Ducrow's experiments are the point of no return for her, as well as her associates Dr Harker and Senator Waxman.
** Boudreau's HangingJudge antics, including trying to execute a man for being given non-drinking alcohol, killing another for singing on a Sunday, and engineering show-trials just to kill people anyway, all push him over the line.
* TearJerker: In the climax of "Dead Man's Worth", [[spoiler:Nate loses a duel to Bellows and dies]]. The absolutely ''devastated'' reactions of Delacy and Garnet are heart-wrenching, and Jane would admit that even though she looked fine she was utterly shaken internally. This carries over into "Dead Man's Worth: Part II", when Delacy angrily asks Garnet to make the situation better - clearly trying to repress his tears and heartbreak.
!!YMMV Items for ''Oxventure Presents: Deadlands''
* CreepyAwesome:
** Benjamin Bellows, the first of the gang the party throws down with, gathered this reputation quickly for his legitimately terrifying presence, eerily soft-spoken demeanour, and superb gunslinging skills. [[spoiler:The fact that he's the first villain to kill a PC in an Oxventure series (not counting the one-shots) probably helps.]]
** After his "return" in "Dead Man's Worth: Part II", [[spoiler:Nate becomes a Harrowed, leaving him smelling literally of death, stuck with a giant gaping death wound in his chest, the ability to reset some wounds like broken fingers by consuming meat, and with a seemingly evil spirit possessing him for four hours a day]]. The fans grew even fonder of said character after this.
* MoralEventHorizon: The members of the Red Hand Gang all crossed the line when they collectively murdered Victoria's family. However, each member went and crossed the line individually some time later:
** If Bellows didn't cross it with his past in the gang, his use of the army to raid and loot towns bare, then enslaving the town of Dead Man's Worth to his will counts.
** Daisy Ducrow's experiments are the point of no return for her, as well as her associates Dr Harker and Senator Waxman.
** Boudreau's HangingJudge antics, including trying to execute a man for being given non-drinking alcohol, killing another for singing on a Sunday, and engineering show-trials just to kill people anyway, all push him over the line.
* TearJerker: In the climax of "Dead Man's Worth", [[spoiler:Nate loses a duel to Bellows and dies]]. The absolutely ''devastated'' reactions of Delacy and Garnet are heart-wrenching, and Jane would admit that even though she looked fine she was utterly shaken internally. This carries over into "Dead Man's Worth: Part II", when Delacy angrily asks Garnet to make the situation better - clearly trying to repress his tears and heartbreak.
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** In ''Electric Dreams'', Margot shooting a replicant so brutally it severs her leg is awful. And then Purvis picks up the leg and beats ArcVillain Lillith with it.
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*** Second to go is [[spoiler:Madison]], who did their best to keep a clear head but eventually succumbs to exhaustion.
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* UnpopularPopularCharacter: In ''Dread'', yet another of Mike's player characters - this time, JerkJock Brad - attracts ire for being a dickhead. The fans, on the other hand, love him ''because'' Mike role-plays him as a jerk. It probably helps that his ego provides some much-needed relief for a decidedly DarkerAndEdgier episode.
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* UnpopularPopularCharacter: UnpopularPopularCharacter:
** In ''Dread'', yet another of Mike's player characters - this time, JerkJock Brad - attracts ire for being a dickhead. The fans, on the other hand, love him ''because'' Mike role-plays him as a jerk. It probably helps that his ego provides some much-needed relief for a decidedly DarkerAndEdgierepisode.episode.
** ''Electric Dreams'' has no one be particularly fond of Purvis, as Static didn't care that he was accompanying the team, Margo basically tolerates him, and the lab boys don't seem sad to see him go. But because Andy had an over-the-top, HamAndCheese portrayal of him as a nebbish try hard, the fans thought it was one of his best performances.
** In ''Dread'', yet another of Mike's player characters - this time, JerkJock Brad - attracts ire for being a dickhead. The fans, on the other hand, love him ''because'' Mike role-plays him as a jerk. It probably helps that his ego provides some much-needed relief for a decidedly DarkerAndEdgier
** ''Electric Dreams'' has no one be particularly fond of Purvis, as Static didn't care that he was accompanying the team, Margo basically tolerates him, and the lab boys don't seem sad to see him go. But because Andy had an over-the-top, HamAndCheese portrayal of him as a nebbish try hard, the fans thought it was one of his best performances.
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** In "High Moon", Corazon and Dob randomly brand themselves as "Team X-Bladz", a reference that initially made no sense to the others or many in the audience. The year after, it would turn out Andy and Luke had been referencing ''Film/{{Brink}}'', and they revealed this by announcing their podcast, ''Podcast/MomCantCook'', making this little joke make a ''lot'' more sense.
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* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: Johnny discusses the Oxventure in a podcast. While it may be beloved by the viewing audience for its hilarity, it might not actually be desirable to emulate: The Oxventure is an entertainment product first, and rules are often broken for the sake of laughs.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Suffice it to say Jacques Darkfall's interrogation caused a fair bit of this for both him and Le Dragon d'Or in "Out of Order", leading to some theories the Order was corrupt and that Darkfall, while clearly a villain, was more tragic than he seemed. In "Legacy of Dragons", [[spoiler:speculation intensified again with revelations about the Order; while it appears to be well-meaning overall, whatever happened to Jacques is theorised by some to tie into the captive dragon]].
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Suffice it to say Jacques Darkfall's interrogation caused a fair bit of this for both him and Le Dragon d'Or in "Out of Order", leading to some theories the Order was corrupt and that Darkfall, while clearly a villain, was more tragic than he seemed. In "Legacy of Dragons", [[spoiler:speculation intensified again with revelations about the Order; while it appears to be well-meaning overall, whatever happened to Jacques is theorised by some to tie into the captive dragon]]. It ultimately turned out that [[spoiler:the Order ''wasn't'' corrupt, but had made some decisions edging into WellIntentionedExtremist territory, with Darkfall's past still unclear]].
** The episode "Big Deck Energy" was divisive amongst fans for tying in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' as a sponsor, and also for Dob's actions (again). Although almost all fans people believed Johnny did the best with what they had, some felt that the integration of the cards was disruptive, leaving fans with varying levels of satisfaction with the episode itself. More seriously, Dob's decisions resulted in the death of at least one friendly NPC, and also put Merilwen in harm's way without her explicit consent, leading to arguments as to what was considered "acceptable". Again, time has caused the division to die down for the most part (while acknowledging that players replicating said behaviour at their own tables is not advisable).
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** In "Bride or Die", this is one interpretation of [[spoiler:Katie Delacourt / Pearlhead]]. Whether she ever truly loved her fiance, [[spoiler:Dob]] is debatable, but as Jane noted in the podcast, she was thoroughly humiliated.
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** In "Bride or Die", this is one interpretation of [[spoiler:Katie Delacourt / Pearlhead]]. Whether she ever truly loved her fiance, [[spoiler:Dob]] is debatable, and her treatment of him was likely malicious, but as Jane noted in the podcast, she was thoroughly humiliated. A few fans in the comments section said that during the wedding song, they felt a rare pang of pity for her.
** On the villain's side, Liliana is routinely touted as one of the strongest characters in the setting who'd require some serious firepower to take down. Given that her canon feats involve bypassing a powerful ''Wind Wall'' spell effortlessly, one-shotting several powerful [[spoiler:Egbert Clones]] and beating both [[spoiler:a young adult white Dragon (nonfatally) and Vocatus]] in "Orb-Pocalypse Saga", this is completely understandable.
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** "LADS. LADS. LADS". [[labelnote:Explanation]]From "Ship Happens", the "stag do" is prone to slowly chant this phrase often associated with bachelor parties and groups of (mostly) men drinking to excess. The slow, CreepyMonotone delivery - implied to be ''all thirty of them'' chanting in unison - made this an instant meme among the fanbase.[[/labelnote]]
* MemeticPsychopath: The entire Guild gets this to varying levels, depending on how much murder or killing they do. Unsurprisingly,Prudence, however, Prudence gets this treatment the most, being Jane's TokenEvilTeammate persona exaggerated up to eleven. This is of course, part of her charm and the audience actively encourages this.
* MemeticPsychopath: The entire Guild gets this to varying levels, depending on how much murder or killing they do. Unsurprisingly,
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* UnexpectedCharacter:
** In "Brawl of the Wild", pretty much nobody - Luke included - was counting on [[spoiler:Dob's long-lost sister]] to appear for the first time.
** A few fans were surprised to see references to the Astor family drop up in the "Orb-Pocalypse Saga", beginning the ArcWelding of this series and the (future) setting of ''Oxventure Presents Blades in the Dark''.
** In "Legacy of Dragons", few expected [[spoiler:Lady Fyengeh]] to return after her sole appearance in "Quiet Riot" over four real-life years prior to this. Even fewer were counting on joke character [[spoiler:Flannery the jester]] to pop up again, either.
** In "Brawl of the Wild", pretty much nobody - Luke included - was counting on [[spoiler:Dob's long-lost sister]] to appear for the first time.
** A few fans were surprised to see references to the Astor family drop up in the "Orb-Pocalypse Saga", beginning the ArcWelding of this series and the (future) setting of ''Oxventure Presents Blades in the Dark''.
** In "Legacy of Dragons", few expected [[spoiler:Lady Fyengeh]] to return after her sole appearance in "Quiet Riot" over four real-life years prior to this. Even fewer were counting on joke character [[spoiler:Flannery the jester]] to pop up again, either.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Suffice it to say Jacques Darkfall's interrogation caused a fair bit of this for both him and Le Dragon d'Or in "Out of Order", leading to some theories the Order was corrupt and that Darkfall, while clearly a villain, was more tragic than he seemed.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Suffice it to say Jacques Darkfall's interrogation caused a fair bit of this for both him and Le Dragon d'Or in "Out of Order", leading to some theories the Order was corrupt and that Darkfall, while clearly a villain, was more tragic than he seemed. In "Legacy of Dragons", [[spoiler:speculation intensified again with revelations about the Order; while it appears to be well-meaning overall, whatever happened to Jacques is theorised by some to tie into the captive dragon]].
** In "Bride or Die", this is one interpretation of [[spoiler:Katie Delacourt / Pearlhead]]. Whether she ever truly loved her fiance, [[spoiler:Dob]] is debatable, but as Jane noted in the podcast, she was thoroughly humiliated.
** In "Out of Order", Andy's impersonation of Chauncey, the squeaky-voiced paladin, is only shown over one or two scenes worth of the story. However, it handily became one of the funniest parts of the story arc, and the voice he uses was so unique that Johnny - no stranger to different voices or accents themselves - outright failed to replicate it.
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* StopHavingFunGuys: Suffice it to say that Johnny's more laid-back, rules-lite approach is not for every fan of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', and a VocalMinority of fans occasionally voice their frustrations about this.
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* StopHavingFunGuys: Suffice it to say that Johnny's more laid-back, rules-lite approach is not for every fan of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', and a VocalMinority of fans occasionally voice their frustrations about this. In an interview with ''Three Black Halflings'', Johnny outright advises against trying to emulate the Oxventure in their own games, since the show is entertainment first and rules second.
** In "Bride or Die", while it is funny and also features some awesome improv from Luke, [[spoiler:Dob and Katie's separation is less than civil, and Dob is ultimately forced to acknowledge he was repressing feelings for Liliana, a woman he is fully aware tried to kill him several times. Katie, despite the multiple presumed attempts to poison him and plan his murders, sounds genuinely ''furious'' at this revelation.]]
* HilariousInHindsight: The episode "The Marriage of Lady Fyengeh" revolves around the titular opera, showing the marriage of Lady Fyengeh to, of all people, [[spoiler:Chauncey]]. This was originally clearly Luke tying the canons together and teasing Johnny, but come ''Legacy of Dragons'' in D&D, this is ''exactly'' what happens.
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* UnpopularPopularCharacter: The number of people who like Barnaby "the Butcher" Fortescue in-game can be counted on two hands at most. The fans, on the other hand, love him partly ''because'' Mike role-plays him as a classist jerk and (mostly) clueless idiot.
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* UnpopularPopularCharacter: The number of people who like Barnaby "the Butcher" Fortescue in-game can be counted on two hands at most. The fans, on the other hand, love him partly ''because'' Mike role-plays him as a classist jerk and (mostly) clueless idiot.idiot.
!!YMMV Items for the ''Oxventure Presents One-Shot Wonders'' episodes
* CrossesTheLineTwice:
** In ''Dread'', Brad's jerkass attitude and callousness to others' misfortunes ''shouldn't'' be as funny as it is, but it's so over-the-top that it provides some much needed comic relief.
** The sheer amount of death and brutality in ''You Awaken In A Strange Place'' - namely, an admiral who blows up other people's heads completely obliviously and ''by accident'' - loops back from disturbing to hilarious in short order.
* TearJerker:
** From ''Dread'':
*** The first person to die is [[spoiler:Killian]], who tries saving one of his peers, but ends up falling into a river and breaking his neck against the rocks, dying instantly. Then, to top it all off, [[spoiler:the wolf eats his dead body and Eric's shortly after]]. Ellen seems genuinely distraught at this.
*** Second to go is [[spoiler:Madison]], who did their best to keep a clear head but eventually succumbs to exhaustion.
*** The kicker to all the above is that [[spoiler:Brad survives, but doesn't remember the others because of his own ego, and the other group is likely dead]]. The blow is somewhat softened by being PlayedForLaughs.
* UnpopularPopularCharacter: In ''Dread'', yet another of Mike's player characters - this time, JerkJock Brad - attracts ire for being a dickhead. The fans, on the other hand, love him ''because'' Mike role-plays him as a jerk. It probably helps that his ego provides some much-needed relief for a decidedly DarkerAndEdgier episode.
* TheWoobie: From ''Dread'', wounded camp counselor Eric is very deserving of a hug for all the trauma he goes through. [[spoiler:Sadly, he dies in the river before he can be rescued.]]
!!YMMV Items for the ''Oxventure Presents One-Shot Wonders'' episodes
* CrossesTheLineTwice:
** In ''Dread'', Brad's jerkass attitude and callousness to others' misfortunes ''shouldn't'' be as funny as it is, but it's so over-the-top that it provides some much needed comic relief.
** The sheer amount of death and brutality in ''You Awaken In A Strange Place'' - namely, an admiral who blows up other people's heads completely obliviously and ''by accident'' - loops back from disturbing to hilarious in short order.
* TearJerker:
** From ''Dread'':
*** The first person to die is [[spoiler:Killian]], who tries saving one of his peers, but ends up falling into a river and breaking his neck against the rocks, dying instantly. Then, to top it all off, [[spoiler:the wolf eats his dead body and Eric's shortly after]]. Ellen seems genuinely distraught at this.
*** Second to go is [[spoiler:Madison]], who did their best to keep a clear head but eventually succumbs to exhaustion.
*** The kicker to all the above is that [[spoiler:Brad survives, but doesn't remember the others because of his own ego, and the other group is likely dead]]. The blow is somewhat softened by being PlayedForLaughs.
* UnpopularPopularCharacter: In ''Dread'', yet another of Mike's player characters - this time, JerkJock Brad - attracts ire for being a dickhead. The fans, on the other hand, love him ''because'' Mike role-plays him as a jerk. It probably helps that his ego provides some much-needed relief for a decidedly DarkerAndEdgier episode.
* TheWoobie: From ''Dread'', wounded camp counselor Eric is very deserving of a hug for all the trauma he goes through. [[spoiler:Sadly, he dies in the river before he can be rescued.]]
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Suffice it to say Jacques Darkfall's interrogation caused a fair bit of this for both him and Le Dragon d'Or in "Out of Order", leading to some theories the Order was corrupt and that Darkfall, while clearly a villain, was more tragic than he seemed.
* BrokenBase: Generally speaking, averted, but a few instances stand out:
** "Tome Sweet Tome" led to disagreements within the fanbase as to how Johnny managed Andy and Luke's antics (namely, [[spoiler:dressing up as the bee-themed band "The Beeples" and trying to persuade some children to indulge in celebrity worship in exchange for information]], which ended up hijacking the story somewhat). One camp argues Johnny should've put their foot down and said this wouldn't work, while another group thinks they were fine to let things play out. Most fans agree that said antics ''were'' funny, having said that.
** A more minor one: who is the best Dungeon Master or Game Master for the TTRPG videos, Luke or Johnny? It depends on a number of things such as how much one believes a GM should favour rules or story-telling, and by extension what boundaries the players have set. While both Luke and Johnny are good story-tellers, the former tends to be firmer (if still being fair) with what rules can or can't be bent or ignored, while the latter tends to be much more relaxed for the sake of humour and is less likely to shut players down. Ultimately, this is a mild disagreement and plenty like them both, in some cases equally.
* CompleteMonster:
** [[EvilSorceress Lady Liliana]] is the ArchEnemy to the Oxventurers Guild after M. Channail's death. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced to the party]] running black market [[OrganTheft organ trafficking]] in "Spell Check", Liliana has her underlings steal the magic from any magic users they capture--a process which has killed at least all but one of a previous adventuring party--and sell any non-magic organs for extra profit. As part of the operation, Egbert's kidney is stolen to create a clone army, with her later ordering one mook to have his organs harvested for [[ShootTheMessenger bringing her a message]]; when this fails, she vows revenge before disappearing. After the clone army is destroyed, Liliana returns in "Sect Appeal" to found a cult she manipulates into kidnapping civilians to mutate and brainwash into her personal army, which she plans to use to conquer the Kingdom of Geth.
** "Elf Hazard": [[ArcVillain Eroan]] is the elder of Merilwen's village and a KnightTemplar obsessed with tradition, viewing any deviation as punishable by death. Initially appearing a [[BitchInSheepsClothing kind]] if unintentionally [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] leader of the village, he actually punishes any elf that refuses to change their name upon reaching adulthood by gifting them an iron brooch that is cursed to have banshees and other monsters hunt them down; when breaking into his house, Corazón discovers a ledger with multiple confirmed fatalities. Upon discovering the party have rigged the tombola to let Merilwen keep her name, he coldly attempts to condemn her and Corazón to death, only for the attempt to backfire and him to die in the process. [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Unusually humorless for a comedic series]], Eroan stands out as one of the nastiest ''Oxventure'' villains despite solely featuring in one episode.
* CrazyIsCool: The Oxventure practically runs on this. The ViolationOfCommonSense on display is utterly glorious to behold, especially because it tends to work.
* CrossesTheLineTwice:
** Prudence's evil nature in general.
** Dob filleting a pirate and then attempting to throw a piece of dead pirate at the crew as an intimidation tactic.
** Subverted when Dob touches a cursed artifact and gets an evil doppleganger made of him. Because the NPC Alfred was being carried by Dob at the time, an audience member asks if the Evil Dob is also carrying an evil Alfred. DM Johnny remarked that since they would be killing a baby, that would be too much, and refuses (though they note that they are ''very'' tempted).
** The skeletons from "Stop Hammer Time" are asked to make an "orphanage filled with orphans." When the skeletons complete construction, they notice the orphanage is surprisingly wet and red.
--> '''Egbert''': What mortar did you use?
--> '''Prudence''': Is it orphans? You've gotta tell us if it is.
--> '''Skeleton''': It's...it's orphans, boss.
** Subverted again when Corazón smokes what he thinks is a cigar. The audience immediately think he's smoking a certain body part before Johnny shuts it down and says he just has a severed finger.
** Corazón and Egbert unintentionally eating a lot of human body parts in "Mind Your Manors" is much funnier than it should be.
** "Bone to Pick" has Egbert criticizing Corazón for putting orphans in danger.
--> '''Corazón''': Who's going to complain? Their parents?
** "Watch Out!" has a Prudence turned into a baby trying to use her Eldritch Blast...only for it to send her into the ceiling. Luke describes it as giving a baby a fire hose... then compares it to ''two'' fire hoses.
** The entirety of "Unreal Estate", especially the parts with the unusually French family. When one of the children narrowly escapes being eaten by a mimic, the father's first response is to use that to lower the asking price.
* FanficFuel: The gaps in the backstories of most of the gang, especially Corazon and Prudence, have led to some wild mass-guessing and fanfics written to try and fill said gaps.
* GameBreaker: Corazón took the Arcane Trickster archetype upon reaching level 3; by the time the Oxventurers were hitting level 7, Andy had found out about the more thematically appropriate Swashbuckler archetype & asked Johnny if he could start gaining those features instead as he wasn’t interested in learning any more spells - meaning he has the benefits to having both archetypes initial levels without any cost to the second archetype.
* HarsherInHindsight: In the first session, when they learn that Merilwen's cat Simon is dead, Jane cracks a joke about that being when Merilwen learned her first resurrection spell. Fast-forward to "Peak Performance", when it turns out that Simon ''actually did'' rise from the grave...because the trap that killed him was set by Vex, leading to him being turned into a hat.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7oXpA_Pi0c Oxventure EGX 2019 promotional clip]], Andy asks if Mike needs to roll for Egbert going to the bathroom. A year and a half later, Mike actually does end up rolling for his character using the bathroom[[note]]specifically, using a captain's private bathroom without getting caught[[/note]] in the ''TabletopGame/BladesInTheDark'' adventure "Ironhook's Bounty".
** The very existence of the podcast is this. Prior to the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom, the Oxboxtra crew had said they were too busy for a podcast of any sort. The struggle to make more content as a result of social distancing measures led to said podcast, which proved a roaring success.
* HoYay: Corazón seems a little hot and bothered by Jacques Darkfall, and his interest is piqued when Egbert's CompellingVoice orders Jacques to disrobe.
* JerkassWoobie:
** Corazon can be a bit of an arrogant ass, but we find out that his childhood was not particularly pleasant and led him to his current lifestyle partly out of a desire to rebel. He also feels extremely guilty about the curse on his crew and seriously wants to undo it.
** By extension, Corazon's crew are trying to kill him without any talking first, but they are sick of immortality and resurrecting, desiring simple peace and an end to their curse whatever the cost.
** Prudence is definitely antisocial (to begin with) and far too keen to resort to murder or violence, but her childhood was even worse than Corazon's, with her birth parents abandoning her and her adoptive parent being an abusive mentor who belittled her and saw her as a tool. She also had to deal with a lot of [[FantasticRacism anti-tiefling bigotry]] while growing up. It should say something about her childhood that until she fell in with the Oxventurers Guild, ''Cthulhu'' (albeit as an AdaptationalNiceGuy) was her only true friend and family member. She's also highly pitiable in "The Orb-Pocalypse Saga", when her apparent pet, [[spoiler:an orb containing the trickster Vocatus, betrays her and strips her of her magic]].
* JustHereForGodzilla: Even though Outside Xbox started as a gaming channel, there are a significant number of Oxventure fans who don't watch said gaming content and instead want to watch (or listen to) them playing tabletop roleplaying games. A number of these audience members found the crew through their podcast and found out about the other content afterwards.
* LoveToHate: Despite, or perhaps ''because'' he's an evil {{Jerkass}} who [[spoiler:traps and reanimates animals for sport]], Vex from "Peak Performance" developed quite the following. It helps that he evokes particularly strong emotions from [[spoiler:Merilwen]] due to his tying into her backstory.
* MemeticBadass:
** The fandom routinely jokes that Prudence could and would murder anyone.
** After the "Quiet Riot" session of D&D, a lot of commenters started saying that [[BewareTheNiceOnes Merilwen]] was suddenly ''much'' scarier than [[TokenEvilTeammate Prudence]].
* MemeticMutation:
** "Merilwen's Meat Grinder". [[labelnote:Explanation]]From "Quiet Riot", when Corazon and Merilwen's planned trap to ''weaken'' some paladins worked a bit too well and outright killed one, maiming four more.[[/labelnote]]
** "IS ORPHANS, BOSS". [[labelnote:Explanation]]From "Stop! Hammer Time", the skeletons turn some orphans into mortar and utter this line to the gang when asked about it. This instantly became memetic.[[/labelnote]]
* MemeticPsychopath: Unsurprisingly, Prudence, being Jane's TokenEvilTeammate persona exaggerated up to eleven. This is of course, part of her charm and the audience actively encourages this.
* MoralEventHorizon:
** In "A Spot of Bother", Lord Milquetoast crosses this by [[spoiler:hiring pirates to kill his son]], ostensibly to bully him into becoming his heir again. Even Prudence is ''revolted'' by this course of action. [[spoiler:The situation is complicated a bit in "Unreal Estate", when he's kinder to his son but doesn't remember having done the above action, showing he might not be ''quite'' as irredeemable as thought.]]
** Though M. Channail is LaughablyEvil, he crosses from unintentional destruction from opportunism into malicious villainy after his first appearance by destroying part of a forest for his own (attempted) gain.
** The ArcVillain of "Peak Performance", Vex, crosses this with the traps he sets, owing to their [[spoiler: reanimating any animal they catch, even if the animal is freed before the trap kills them. To make matters worse, one of his victims is Simon, Merilwen's wildcat companion, which he ''gloats'' to her about remorselessly]]. His fate after this revelation feels ''very'' well-deserved.
** In "Elf Hazard", the ArcVillain crosses the line when he [[spoiler:gifts anyone who refuses his tradition with an iron brooch actually cursed to summon swarms of banshees to hunt them down]]. The ledger has ''many'' victims, and the village is all too aware of what he did, but is too terrified to act against him. When Merilwen's parents beg for mercy for their daughter, he callously disregards their pleas.
** When precisely Lady Liliana crossed the line is unclear, but if her organ trafficking wasn't enough then her [[spoiler:trying to have her own minion killed for ''delivering a message'']] is the icing on the cake.
** The villain for "Snow Warning" crosses the line when they [[spoiler:kill and resurrect some kobolds as zombies, and use the subsequent horde to abduct their friends. By the end of the story, at least thirty kobolds have died this way.]]
** The villain for "Silent Knight" goes beyond the point of no return when they [[spoiler:attempt to murder an entire town in revenge for the Oxventurers Guild kicking the Order of Keeping It Down out of Inkwater.]]
* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/OutsideXbox See here]].
* OneSceneWonder:
** The chicken man from the "Spicy Rat Caper" is only in for a single scene, but solidifies the party's theory and is highly memorable for being punted across the room by Corazon.
** Two from "A Spot of Bother":
*** The overly strict harbour master who is found overworking his staff and criticise their work ethic only to get drunk on the job.
*** Corazón's ArchnemesisDad only has one scene, but makes one hell of an impression and sheds a lot of light on his son's backstory.
** A random woodsman shows up at the start of "Bad Chair Day", axing an animated chair to death.
** The "bro-st", the SurferDude bro ghost who showed up in "Mind Your Manors."
** Vex is only in two scenes of "Peak Performance", but easily makes an impression as one of the nastiest villains in the show.
** Christian the Chaos Hornbill, an adorable bloodthirsty hornbill who loves to poison people and slit throats with its beak. It was so over-the-top and hammy that the audience gushed over it.
* ProtagonistCentredMorality: Discussed In-universe by Dob and Corazón. In 'Peak Performance' it doesn't initially seem like Vex's actions warrant the Oxventurers going out of their way to climb a mountain and murder him in his remote cabin, since all they knew about him is that he uses wood, eats animals and wears their pelts, all of which Merilwen is party to, and employs Necromancy for cheap labour, something that Dob regularly does. They are vindicated later, after they'd already marked him for death, through MoralLuck when it turns out that he was killing for sport, and proceeds to gloat to Merilwen about making a hat out of her pet cat.
* ShipTease: Unintentionally, a couple times during the "Orcward Encounter" session of D&D.
** A cursed artifact creates an evil double of Dob. In the ensuing battle, Prudence forgoes her usual combat strategy of "immediate Eldritch Blast to the face" and tries to charm Evil Dob instead. It doesn't work, but Evil Dob admits that he likes Prudence and will kill her last.
*** Before that, Prudence's reaction when Dob healed her is straight out of an AngelDevilShipping.
---> '''Prudence''': [[WhatIsThisFeeling What is this wholesome feeling?]]
** In describing the wounded Egbert regaining consciousness after being healed by Dob, Johnny says that Egbert feels a "stirring." The audience immediately latches onto the AccidentalInnuendo, and Mike states that Egbert has been longing to feel those strong Orcish arms around him.
* SignatureScene: From "Quiet Riot", "Merilwen's Meat Grinder" is by far the most well-known scene from the series, because of the title character's accidental murder-tool.
* {{Squick}}: During "Tome Sweet Tome", the Guild is tasked to bake bread for a bakery and prepares the ingredients. Once done, Johnny points out that none of them thought to bring water. Dob retorts that Egbert has natural moisture. The entire audience is revolted.
* StopHavingFunGuys: Suffice it to say that Johnny's more laid-back, rules-lite approach is not for every fan of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', and a VocalMinority of fans occasionally voice their frustrations about this.
* TearJerker:
** The backstories of all the guild, to varying degrees, but Johnny votes Luke's/Dob's the saddest.
** In "Brawl of the Wild", though the reunion between [[spoiler:Dob and Suzette]] mostly brings the ''other'' kind of tears, both participants admit they had assumed the other was dead when they tried looking for each other, to no avail.
** In "Heist Society", Amelia takes a brief moment to acknowledge that [[spoiler:her real father is dead and her "adoptive" father was his killer, who then framed her fiance out of greed]]. After the chaos of the main adventure, it's surprisingly sobering, even if it doesn't last long.
** In "Ship Happens", when Corazon is asked to reveal his deepest desire, he replies "MY FATHER'S LOVE" and then hurriedly looks embarrassed. The audience is noticeably hit by this and reacts with a mixture of laughter and sadness, especially considering that his father is... not the nicest of parents, to say the least. This is compounded in "Mind Your Manors", when he admits he doesn't know how to react about the possibility his dad might be dead. [[spoiler:It turns out he's not.]]
** In "Peak Performance", poor Merilwen's reaction to [[spoiler: discovering her wildcat companion Simon, who died some time ago, was reanimated and subsequently skinned by Vex]]. After going into TranquilFury mode and subsequently keeping it together so the group survive, she buries her friend while the others leave and then starts crying helplessly (as does Ellen in real life). It's all that DM Johnny can do to try and comfort Ellen in real life by patting her on the shoulder. In the podcast episode for this, Jane acknowledged that this is one of the saddest moments in the show, even with the MoodWhiplash of Dob and Egbert tobogganing down a mountain.
** In "Bone 2 Pick", Dob admits he and Suzette are orphans. It might go some way to explaining just why he tries to fulfil a parenting role to others, because he never had that himself.
** In "Tower Rangers", Corazon and Prudence put on a JerkassFacade, acting indifferent to [[spoiler:Egbert being kidnapped]], until they basically admit they're trying to cope by repressing their worry.
** In "Unreal Estate", Corazon's understandably angry reaction to learning that [[spoiler:the same father who tried to murder him for being a pirate wants to become one himself, with no memory of why he attempted to kill his own son]], followed by him withdrawing with the attempt to sell the house and emotionally shutting down for most of the rest of the adventure.
** In "the Orb-Pocalypse Saga", Prudence [[spoiler:losing her magic, and by proxy her connection to Cthulhu]] is something that feels quite upsetting and leaves her uncharacteristically morose. She compares it to being cut off from a loved parent at one point. In the podcast, Jane couldn't stop feeling bad for her.
* TheWoobie:
** Poor Dob grew up orphaned, with only his sister for company. He was then bitten by a wolf with rabies and his sister set off to find a cure, only to never return. He ended up wandering for years, homeless, learning the trade of the Bard and looking for his sister in vain. Johnny is quick, in the first episode, to declare this the saddest backstory.
** From "The Orb-Pocalypse Saga", Bridgit, the paladin, is so easily scared and startled, especially by loud noises and arguments. This is not helped in the slightest by Bogheck and Harmony, her noisy and argumentative travel companions. The actors for the Guild all felt sorry for her, and even in-character opted to [[PetTheDog treat her uncharacteristically kindly]] out of pity.
!!YMMV Items for the ''Oxventure Presents Blades in the Dark'' campaign
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Amadeus Astor a WellIntentionedExtremist, or a SmugSnake [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist just pretending to be one]]?
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The adventures have an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuRFNzizkXs original soundtrack]] composed by Luke with plenty of dark, atmospheric tracks to set the tone in Volisport.
** The "Haunted Streets" basic track is an creepy slow track that amps up the tension and always makes it feel like there's something not quite right.
** Most iconic is "Daggers Drawn", an intense, adrenaline-filled action theme that tells you something dramatic is about to go down.
** There's also "We Made it to Morning", the soothing TriumphantReprise of "Daggers Drawn" first heard when [[spoiler:the heroes restore magic to G'eth.]]
* EvilIsCool: The Dimmer sisters have had quite a warm reception, in no small part because they're incredibly creepy.
* FanficFuel: While ''some'' details have been revealed, a number of fans have taken to filling in the gaps between the original Oxventure and this possible future.
* JerkassWoobie: Kasimir Jones is an unrepentant career criminal who often favours the most direct and sometimes violent action. However, he's heavily implied to have been turned to crime not of his own free will, running with several crews he left that nevertheless track him down and drag him back for jobs. He was also seriously injured and is in constant pain from said injured leg. Doubles as IronWoobie, as he does his best to soldier on, takes the antics of the other crew members in stride and keeps his grumbling to a minimum.
* LoveToHate: Amadeus Astor, Edvard's notorious rival, is loved by the fanbase for being a good {{Foil}} to Edvard. That his name alone sets Edvard off on comical rants helps too. [[spoiler:He also does a good job as the FinalBoss]].
* UnpopularPopularCharacter: The number of people who like Barnaby "the Butcher" Fortescue in-game can be counted on two hands at most. The fans, on the other hand, love him partly ''because'' Mike role-plays him as a classist jerk and (mostly) clueless idiot.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Suffice it to say Jacques Darkfall's interrogation caused a fair bit of this for both him and Le Dragon d'Or in "Out of Order", leading to some theories the Order was corrupt and that Darkfall, while clearly a villain, was more tragic than he seemed.
* BrokenBase: Generally speaking, averted, but a few instances stand out:
** "Tome Sweet Tome" led to disagreements within the fanbase as to how Johnny managed Andy and Luke's antics (namely, [[spoiler:dressing up as the bee-themed band "The Beeples" and trying to persuade some children to indulge in celebrity worship in exchange for information]], which ended up hijacking the story somewhat). One camp argues Johnny should've put their foot down and said this wouldn't work, while another group thinks they were fine to let things play out. Most fans agree that said antics ''were'' funny, having said that.
** A more minor one: who is the best Dungeon Master or Game Master for the TTRPG videos, Luke or Johnny? It depends on a number of things such as how much one believes a GM should favour rules or story-telling, and by extension what boundaries the players have set. While both Luke and Johnny are good story-tellers, the former tends to be firmer (if still being fair) with what rules can or can't be bent or ignored, while the latter tends to be much more relaxed for the sake of humour and is less likely to shut players down. Ultimately, this is a mild disagreement and plenty like them both, in some cases equally.
* CompleteMonster:
** [[EvilSorceress Lady Liliana]] is the ArchEnemy to the Oxventurers Guild after M. Channail's death. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced to the party]] running black market [[OrganTheft organ trafficking]] in "Spell Check", Liliana has her underlings steal the magic from any magic users they capture--a process which has killed at least all but one of a previous adventuring party--and sell any non-magic organs for extra profit. As part of the operation, Egbert's kidney is stolen to create a clone army, with her later ordering one mook to have his organs harvested for [[ShootTheMessenger bringing her a message]]; when this fails, she vows revenge before disappearing. After the clone army is destroyed, Liliana returns in "Sect Appeal" to found a cult she manipulates into kidnapping civilians to mutate and brainwash into her personal army, which she plans to use to conquer the Kingdom of Geth.
** "Elf Hazard": [[ArcVillain Eroan]] is the elder of Merilwen's village and a KnightTemplar obsessed with tradition, viewing any deviation as punishable by death. Initially appearing a [[BitchInSheepsClothing kind]] if unintentionally [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] leader of the village, he actually punishes any elf that refuses to change their name upon reaching adulthood by gifting them an iron brooch that is cursed to have banshees and other monsters hunt them down; when breaking into his house, Corazón discovers a ledger with multiple confirmed fatalities. Upon discovering the party have rigged the tombola to let Merilwen keep her name, he coldly attempts to condemn her and Corazón to death, only for the attempt to backfire and him to die in the process. [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Unusually humorless for a comedic series]], Eroan stands out as one of the nastiest ''Oxventure'' villains despite solely featuring in one episode.
* CrazyIsCool: The Oxventure practically runs on this. The ViolationOfCommonSense on display is utterly glorious to behold, especially because it tends to work.
* CrossesTheLineTwice:
** Prudence's evil nature in general.
** Dob filleting a pirate and then attempting to throw a piece of dead pirate at the crew as an intimidation tactic.
** Subverted when Dob touches a cursed artifact and gets an evil doppleganger made of him. Because the NPC Alfred was being carried by Dob at the time, an audience member asks if the Evil Dob is also carrying an evil Alfred. DM Johnny remarked that since they would be killing a baby, that would be too much, and refuses (though they note that they are ''very'' tempted).
** The skeletons from "Stop Hammer Time" are asked to make an "orphanage filled with orphans." When the skeletons complete construction, they notice the orphanage is surprisingly wet and red.
--> '''Egbert''': What mortar did you use?
--> '''Prudence''': Is it orphans? You've gotta tell us if it is.
--> '''Skeleton''': It's...it's orphans, boss.
** Subverted again when Corazón smokes what he thinks is a cigar. The audience immediately think he's smoking a certain body part before Johnny shuts it down and says he just has a severed finger.
** Corazón and Egbert unintentionally eating a lot of human body parts in "Mind Your Manors" is much funnier than it should be.
** "Bone to Pick" has Egbert criticizing Corazón for putting orphans in danger.
--> '''Corazón''': Who's going to complain? Their parents?
** "Watch Out!" has a Prudence turned into a baby trying to use her Eldritch Blast...only for it to send her into the ceiling. Luke describes it as giving a baby a fire hose... then compares it to ''two'' fire hoses.
** The entirety of "Unreal Estate", especially the parts with the unusually French family. When one of the children narrowly escapes being eaten by a mimic, the father's first response is to use that to lower the asking price.
* FanficFuel: The gaps in the backstories of most of the gang, especially Corazon and Prudence, have led to some wild mass-guessing and fanfics written to try and fill said gaps.
* GameBreaker: Corazón took the Arcane Trickster archetype upon reaching level 3; by the time the Oxventurers were hitting level 7, Andy had found out about the more thematically appropriate Swashbuckler archetype & asked Johnny if he could start gaining those features instead as he wasn’t interested in learning any more spells - meaning he has the benefits to having both archetypes initial levels without any cost to the second archetype.
* HarsherInHindsight: In the first session, when they learn that Merilwen's cat Simon is dead, Jane cracks a joke about that being when Merilwen learned her first resurrection spell. Fast-forward to "Peak Performance", when it turns out that Simon ''actually did'' rise from the grave...because the trap that killed him was set by Vex, leading to him being turned into a hat.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7oXpA_Pi0c Oxventure EGX 2019 promotional clip]], Andy asks if Mike needs to roll for Egbert going to the bathroom. A year and a half later, Mike actually does end up rolling for his character using the bathroom[[note]]specifically, using a captain's private bathroom without getting caught[[/note]] in the ''TabletopGame/BladesInTheDark'' adventure "Ironhook's Bounty".
** The very existence of the podcast is this. Prior to the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom, the Oxboxtra crew had said they were too busy for a podcast of any sort. The struggle to make more content as a result of social distancing measures led to said podcast, which proved a roaring success.
* HoYay: Corazón seems a little hot and bothered by Jacques Darkfall, and his interest is piqued when Egbert's CompellingVoice orders Jacques to disrobe.
* JerkassWoobie:
** Corazon can be a bit of an arrogant ass, but we find out that his childhood was not particularly pleasant and led him to his current lifestyle partly out of a desire to rebel. He also feels extremely guilty about the curse on his crew and seriously wants to undo it.
** By extension, Corazon's crew are trying to kill him without any talking first, but they are sick of immortality and resurrecting, desiring simple peace and an end to their curse whatever the cost.
** Prudence is definitely antisocial (to begin with) and far too keen to resort to murder or violence, but her childhood was even worse than Corazon's, with her birth parents abandoning her and her adoptive parent being an abusive mentor who belittled her and saw her as a tool. She also had to deal with a lot of [[FantasticRacism anti-tiefling bigotry]] while growing up. It should say something about her childhood that until she fell in with the Oxventurers Guild, ''Cthulhu'' (albeit as an AdaptationalNiceGuy) was her only true friend and family member. She's also highly pitiable in "The Orb-Pocalypse Saga", when her apparent pet, [[spoiler:an orb containing the trickster Vocatus, betrays her and strips her of her magic]].
* JustHereForGodzilla: Even though Outside Xbox started as a gaming channel, there are a significant number of Oxventure fans who don't watch said gaming content and instead want to watch (or listen to) them playing tabletop roleplaying games. A number of these audience members found the crew through their podcast and found out about the other content afterwards.
* LoveToHate: Despite, or perhaps ''because'' he's an evil {{Jerkass}} who [[spoiler:traps and reanimates animals for sport]], Vex from "Peak Performance" developed quite the following. It helps that he evokes particularly strong emotions from [[spoiler:Merilwen]] due to his tying into her backstory.
* MemeticBadass:
** The fandom routinely jokes that Prudence could and would murder anyone.
** After the "Quiet Riot" session of D&D, a lot of commenters started saying that [[BewareTheNiceOnes Merilwen]] was suddenly ''much'' scarier than [[TokenEvilTeammate Prudence]].
* MemeticMutation:
** "Merilwen's Meat Grinder". [[labelnote:Explanation]]From "Quiet Riot", when Corazon and Merilwen's planned trap to ''weaken'' some paladins worked a bit too well and outright killed one, maiming four more.[[/labelnote]]
** "IS ORPHANS, BOSS". [[labelnote:Explanation]]From "Stop! Hammer Time", the skeletons turn some orphans into mortar and utter this line to the gang when asked about it. This instantly became memetic.[[/labelnote]]
* MemeticPsychopath: Unsurprisingly, Prudence, being Jane's TokenEvilTeammate persona exaggerated up to eleven. This is of course, part of her charm and the audience actively encourages this.
* MoralEventHorizon:
** In "A Spot of Bother", Lord Milquetoast crosses this by [[spoiler:hiring pirates to kill his son]], ostensibly to bully him into becoming his heir again. Even Prudence is ''revolted'' by this course of action. [[spoiler:The situation is complicated a bit in "Unreal Estate", when he's kinder to his son but doesn't remember having done the above action, showing he might not be ''quite'' as irredeemable as thought.]]
** Though M. Channail is LaughablyEvil, he crosses from unintentional destruction from opportunism into malicious villainy after his first appearance by destroying part of a forest for his own (attempted) gain.
** The ArcVillain of "Peak Performance", Vex, crosses this with the traps he sets, owing to their [[spoiler: reanimating any animal they catch, even if the animal is freed before the trap kills them. To make matters worse, one of his victims is Simon, Merilwen's wildcat companion, which he ''gloats'' to her about remorselessly]]. His fate after this revelation feels ''very'' well-deserved.
** In "Elf Hazard", the ArcVillain crosses the line when he [[spoiler:gifts anyone who refuses his tradition with an iron brooch actually cursed to summon swarms of banshees to hunt them down]]. The ledger has ''many'' victims, and the village is all too aware of what he did, but is too terrified to act against him. When Merilwen's parents beg for mercy for their daughter, he callously disregards their pleas.
** When precisely Lady Liliana crossed the line is unclear, but if her organ trafficking wasn't enough then her [[spoiler:trying to have her own minion killed for ''delivering a message'']] is the icing on the cake.
** The villain for "Snow Warning" crosses the line when they [[spoiler:kill and resurrect some kobolds as zombies, and use the subsequent horde to abduct their friends. By the end of the story, at least thirty kobolds have died this way.]]
** The villain for "Silent Knight" goes beyond the point of no return when they [[spoiler:attempt to murder an entire town in revenge for the Oxventurers Guild kicking the Order of Keeping It Down out of Inkwater.]]
* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/OutsideXbox See here]].
* OneSceneWonder:
** The chicken man from the "Spicy Rat Caper" is only in for a single scene, but solidifies the party's theory and is highly memorable for being punted across the room by Corazon.
** Two from "A Spot of Bother":
*** The overly strict harbour master who is found overworking his staff and criticise their work ethic only to get drunk on the job.
*** Corazón's ArchnemesisDad only has one scene, but makes one hell of an impression and sheds a lot of light on his son's backstory.
** A random woodsman shows up at the start of "Bad Chair Day", axing an animated chair to death.
** The "bro-st", the SurferDude bro ghost who showed up in "Mind Your Manors."
** Vex is only in two scenes of "Peak Performance", but easily makes an impression as one of the nastiest villains in the show.
** Christian the Chaos Hornbill, an adorable bloodthirsty hornbill who loves to poison people and slit throats with its beak. It was so over-the-top and hammy that the audience gushed over it.
* ProtagonistCentredMorality: Discussed In-universe by Dob and Corazón. In 'Peak Performance' it doesn't initially seem like Vex's actions warrant the Oxventurers going out of their way to climb a mountain and murder him in his remote cabin, since all they knew about him is that he uses wood, eats animals and wears their pelts, all of which Merilwen is party to, and employs Necromancy for cheap labour, something that Dob regularly does. They are vindicated later, after they'd already marked him for death, through MoralLuck when it turns out that he was killing for sport, and proceeds to gloat to Merilwen about making a hat out of her pet cat.
* ShipTease: Unintentionally, a couple times during the "Orcward Encounter" session of D&D.
** A cursed artifact creates an evil double of Dob. In the ensuing battle, Prudence forgoes her usual combat strategy of "immediate Eldritch Blast to the face" and tries to charm Evil Dob instead. It doesn't work, but Evil Dob admits that he likes Prudence and will kill her last.
*** Before that, Prudence's reaction when Dob healed her is straight out of an AngelDevilShipping.
---> '''Prudence''': [[WhatIsThisFeeling What is this wholesome feeling?]]
** In describing the wounded Egbert regaining consciousness after being healed by Dob, Johnny says that Egbert feels a "stirring." The audience immediately latches onto the AccidentalInnuendo, and Mike states that Egbert has been longing to feel those strong Orcish arms around him.
* SignatureScene: From "Quiet Riot", "Merilwen's Meat Grinder" is by far the most well-known scene from the series, because of the title character's accidental murder-tool.
* {{Squick}}: During "Tome Sweet Tome", the Guild is tasked to bake bread for a bakery and prepares the ingredients. Once done, Johnny points out that none of them thought to bring water. Dob retorts that Egbert has natural moisture. The entire audience is revolted.
* StopHavingFunGuys: Suffice it to say that Johnny's more laid-back, rules-lite approach is not for every fan of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', and a VocalMinority of fans occasionally voice their frustrations about this.
* TearJerker:
** The backstories of all the guild, to varying degrees, but Johnny votes Luke's/Dob's the saddest.
** In "Brawl of the Wild", though the reunion between [[spoiler:Dob and Suzette]] mostly brings the ''other'' kind of tears, both participants admit they had assumed the other was dead when they tried looking for each other, to no avail.
** In "Heist Society", Amelia takes a brief moment to acknowledge that [[spoiler:her real father is dead and her "adoptive" father was his killer, who then framed her fiance out of greed]]. After the chaos of the main adventure, it's surprisingly sobering, even if it doesn't last long.
** In "Ship Happens", when Corazon is asked to reveal his deepest desire, he replies "MY FATHER'S LOVE" and then hurriedly looks embarrassed. The audience is noticeably hit by this and reacts with a mixture of laughter and sadness, especially considering that his father is... not the nicest of parents, to say the least. This is compounded in "Mind Your Manors", when he admits he doesn't know how to react about the possibility his dad might be dead. [[spoiler:It turns out he's not.]]
** In "Peak Performance", poor Merilwen's reaction to [[spoiler: discovering her wildcat companion Simon, who died some time ago, was reanimated and subsequently skinned by Vex]]. After going into TranquilFury mode and subsequently keeping it together so the group survive, she buries her friend while the others leave and then starts crying helplessly (as does Ellen in real life). It's all that DM Johnny can do to try and comfort Ellen in real life by patting her on the shoulder. In the podcast episode for this, Jane acknowledged that this is one of the saddest moments in the show, even with the MoodWhiplash of Dob and Egbert tobogganing down a mountain.
** In "Bone 2 Pick", Dob admits he and Suzette are orphans. It might go some way to explaining just why he tries to fulfil a parenting role to others, because he never had that himself.
** In "Tower Rangers", Corazon and Prudence put on a JerkassFacade, acting indifferent to [[spoiler:Egbert being kidnapped]], until they basically admit they're trying to cope by repressing their worry.
** In "Unreal Estate", Corazon's understandably angry reaction to learning that [[spoiler:the same father who tried to murder him for being a pirate wants to become one himself, with no memory of why he attempted to kill his own son]], followed by him withdrawing with the attempt to sell the house and emotionally shutting down for most of the rest of the adventure.
** In "the Orb-Pocalypse Saga", Prudence [[spoiler:losing her magic, and by proxy her connection to Cthulhu]] is something that feels quite upsetting and leaves her uncharacteristically morose. She compares it to being cut off from a loved parent at one point. In the podcast, Jane couldn't stop feeling bad for her.
* TheWoobie:
** Poor Dob grew up orphaned, with only his sister for company. He was then bitten by a wolf with rabies and his sister set off to find a cure, only to never return. He ended up wandering for years, homeless, learning the trade of the Bard and looking for his sister in vain. Johnny is quick, in the first episode, to declare this the saddest backstory.
** From "The Orb-Pocalypse Saga", Bridgit, the paladin, is so easily scared and startled, especially by loud noises and arguments. This is not helped in the slightest by Bogheck and Harmony, her noisy and argumentative travel companions. The actors for the Guild all felt sorry for her, and even in-character opted to [[PetTheDog treat her uncharacteristically kindly]] out of pity.
!!YMMV Items for the ''Oxventure Presents Blades in the Dark'' campaign
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Amadeus Astor a WellIntentionedExtremist, or a SmugSnake [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist just pretending to be one]]?
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The adventures have an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuRFNzizkXs original soundtrack]] composed by Luke with plenty of dark, atmospheric tracks to set the tone in Volisport.
** The "Haunted Streets" basic track is an creepy slow track that amps up the tension and always makes it feel like there's something not quite right.
** Most iconic is "Daggers Drawn", an intense, adrenaline-filled action theme that tells you something dramatic is about to go down.
** There's also "We Made it to Morning", the soothing TriumphantReprise of "Daggers Drawn" first heard when [[spoiler:the heroes restore magic to G'eth.]]
* EvilIsCool: The Dimmer sisters have had quite a warm reception, in no small part because they're incredibly creepy.
* FanficFuel: While ''some'' details have been revealed, a number of fans have taken to filling in the gaps between the original Oxventure and this possible future.
* JerkassWoobie: Kasimir Jones is an unrepentant career criminal who often favours the most direct and sometimes violent action. However, he's heavily implied to have been turned to crime not of his own free will, running with several crews he left that nevertheless track him down and drag him back for jobs. He was also seriously injured and is in constant pain from said injured leg. Doubles as IronWoobie, as he does his best to soldier on, takes the antics of the other crew members in stride and keeps his grumbling to a minimum.
* LoveToHate: Amadeus Astor, Edvard's notorious rival, is loved by the fanbase for being a good {{Foil}} to Edvard. That his name alone sets Edvard off on comical rants helps too. [[spoiler:He also does a good job as the FinalBoss]].
* UnpopularPopularCharacter: The number of people who like Barnaby "the Butcher" Fortescue in-game can be counted on two hands at most. The fans, on the other hand, love him partly ''because'' Mike role-plays him as a classist jerk and (mostly) clueless idiot.
