History YMMV / PBGHardcore

* AuthorsSavingThrow: After the long hiatus between ''Minecraft #4'' and ''Minecraft #5'', it was announced that three new Hardcore seasons would feature in 2017. ''Terraria #3'' was confirmed to be released a few months after the end of ''Minecraft #5'', ''[=MineZ=] #2'' was posted a mere month after that one finished, and ''Minecraft #6'' was slated for Autumn 2017 at the end of ''[=MineZ=] #2''.

* SignatureScene: Pretty much any time someone dies, the scene tends to be one of the more memorable ones of the season. It's often the first death of the season that stands out, marking when the lighthearted mood starts to shift into darker aspects.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The cast struggles to remember how to do things in several seasons -- especially in Minecraft, after [=McJones=] retired. This is justified in cases like Yungtown and Dodger, and Dean in the beginning of the series, because they were newcomers and had little experience with the game. And overall justified as most of the group only plays the game a couple of times a year, specifically for Hardcore.
** They attempt to use arrows on Endermen, which Todd even annotates in Episode 18 of ''#7'' to be ineffective.
** Jeff tries to tame a horse in Episode 18 of ''#7'', but it doesn't work. He was supposed to use a saddle ''before'' attempting to tame the horse.
** PBG and Jeff end up wasting two Ender Pearls, which are used for teleporting, when they are trying to find the Ender Portal. Although Jeff remembered soon enough that they needed to make the Ender Pearls into Eye of Enders first.
** ''Minecraft NB #1'' may have it the worst of all, as basically none of the players knew anything about the Nether after its major update, leading to Shane getting killed by a Piglin Brute after the party stumbles into a Bastion without knowing they had no reason to.

* BadassDecay

* BrokenBase

* EnsembleDarkhorse

* HarsherInHindsight

* HilariousInHindsight

* HoYay

* MemeticBadass

* ParanoiaFuel

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap

* TheScrappy

* SpoiledByTheFormat

* WhatAnIdiot: ''Terraria #3'' has earned its reputation of being the season of deaths caused by stupidity.
** [=ProtonJon=] ended up being the least outrageous because he died to a boulder trap. These traps are the most lethal in early game because they are bound to be fatal, unlike dart traps, and nearly inconspicuous, unlike explosive traps. But viewers still considered his [[NeverSplitTheParty decision to go off on his own underground adventure]] to be somewhat dumb, and see it as a mediocre way to go out, especially since he ended up making it to the final three survivors in the previous season.
** Jeff was trying out his new grappling hook and was jumping, grappling, and bouncing around, and ended up falling just far enough to die. All while [[EpicFail on the home base with no monsters around]], which many viewers and even the cast considered to be the most embarassing death in Hardcore. It even managed to out-do his similar death-by-fall-damage death from the previous Terraria season.
** PBG and Dean ended up dying from prolonged contact with blocks that caused damage over time. PBG was mining the meteor, and not noticing that he was slowly burning himself. Dean was standing on a spike trap, but his circumstances were a bit more forgiveable because he was being distracted by fighting enemies, and he was standing more next to the spikes than having jumped into them.
** The others had painfully close calls, such as Lucahjin almost suffocating under slush while mining in the snow biome, though her inexperience with the game meant she likely wasn't aware this was possible. [=McJones=] almost met the same fate as Dean from the spikes in the dungeon, and Luke almost drowning by standing in nose-high water, though his explanation is similar to that of Lucahjin.
** ''Minecraft #7'' has Jeff use ladders to ascend the barred towers in the battle with the Ender Dragon, even though he could easily be knocked off while climbing and being sent flying, which is a risk he acknowledged earlier in the episode. And that's exactly what happens, with the Ender Dragon knocking into Jeff and sending him falling to his death, before he can even finish climbing one tower.

** The group having to choose to resurrect Dodger or [=McJones=] in ''Minecraft #6''. The comments were filled with controversy over there being a choice to begin with, but also pointing out that each player had reasonable defenses towards their revival. [=McJones=] is the SmartGuy of the group and a veteran, with his death in this season occuring incredibly early on, and only because of a minor misstep of his. But Dodger is the season's guest star, meaning she gets less screentime by default, and she was the one that ''found'' the revival totem in the first place.

** Minecraft NB #1 may have it the worst of all, as basically none of the players knew anything about the Nether after its major update, leading to Shane getting killed by a Piglin Brute after the party stumbles into a Bastion without knowing they had no reason to.

** Minecraft NB #1 may have it the worst of all, as basically none of the players knew anything about the Nether after its major update, leading to Shane getting killed by a Piglin Brute after they stumble into a Bastion without realizing they had no reason to.

** When the guys splits up during ''Minecraft #5'', silhouettes were used for the group whose POV was currently not being observed. While this worked in [=MineZ=] -- the parties were so far apart that, even if one party was in trouble, the other couldn't do anything to assist them, and [=MineZ=] having the feature of a player's death message not appearing if the player in question was far enough away -- some fans complained that this fixed perspective was redundant, and was a cheap way to create false tension and suspense. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks Especially considering none of the other Minecraft seasons did this]]. And when they split up in the Nether and Dean ends up dying to lava, PBG and [=McJones=] were still relatively close to the other group, and they saw Dean's death message appearing, so there wasn't even a way to replicate a HeDidntMakeIt scenario.

** Barry. Early seasons had him gain a memetic God-like status as the master of Minecraft, and developed a reputation as the player with the best survival rate -- something that was even openly acknowledged in the ''Diablo II'' season -- because he became the SoleSurvivor for ''Minecraft #1'' and ''#2''. But he ended up becoming the first to die in ''Minecraft #4'', ''#5'', and ''#7''. And similar to Jeff, he tends to fare less well in the 2D Survival games, being the first casualty in ''Terraria #1'' and ''#2''.

** [=Lucahjin=] attempts to befriend a wild wolf over the course of several episodes in ''Minecraft NB #1'' by feeding them several slabs of raw meat[[note]]Meat causes wolves to enter 'love mode' and start breeding[[/note]]. It's not until three episodes later that PBG off camera mentions to her that ''bones'' are needed to tame wolves, not meat.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The cast struggles to remember how to do things in several seasons -- especially in Minecraft, after [=McJones=] retired. This is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in cases like Yungtown and Dodger, and Dean in the beginning of the series, because they were newcomers and had little experience with the game. And overall justified as most of the group only plays the game a couple of times a year, specifically for Hardcore.

** Similar to [=JonTron=] and his Twitter messages, [=McJones=] became this to some when his [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment political views came to light or, at least, because he's rather vocal about his political opinions on Twitter]].

** [=Jared=] temporarily became this after his scandal which made previous seasons involving him hard to watch. He would later debunk the accusations on his channel, but it still left a sour taste in many people's mouths.

** [=Jared=] became this after his scandal and has made previous seasons involving him hard to watch.