History YMMV / ProtonJon

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In episode 2 of his LP of ''Notte Luminosa'', he finds a minigame corner with a hilarious disclaimer. The disclaimer states that the minigame corner can not be held responsible for side effects such as alcoholism, crossdressing, gender confusion, and... cancer. Why is Jon playing the game? To fulfill the dying wish of the game's creator, who has cancer.
** HilariousInHindsight: It turned out that the creator was faking his cancer, making this joke a little more lighthearted.

* BaseBreaker: Gex from the livestreams. Some find him rather funny, the rest find him painfully obnoxious. Especially after the n-word incident. It wouldn't be so bad if Jon didn't have him on co-commentary almost every single stream.

* FanNickname: Some like calling him [=PapaJon=] after adopting little Bagel. Likevise LetsPlay/{{Lucahjin}} is nicknamed [=MamaJin=].

** When he goes full HamAndCheese mode is it just wonderful and one can only listen laughing. Even his co-commentators, and [[LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys comrades]] break down laughing and he [[SpotlightStealingSquad steals the show]].

*** He actually commented on the Retsupurae video, seeming to take it all in good taste.

** When he goes full HamAndCheese mode is it just wonderful and one can only listen laughing. Even his co-commentators, and [[LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys comrade]] break down laughing and he [[SpotlightStealingSquad steals the show]].

** When he goes full HamAndCheese mode is it just wonderful and one can only listen laughing.

* StopHelpingMe: "Carmen Sandiego", aka Helper #3 in the ''Deal Or No Deal'' LP. Jon and Kelekin continually poke fun at 'her' dumb advice.
--> "You can't go ''lower'', Carmen, You ''CAN'T GO LOWER''!!"\\
"You are ''useless'', Carmen!"

** During Jon's livestream of ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolutionMarioMix'' one of his co-commentators sarcastically quipped, "You know, this is the worst episode of ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' I've ever seen." (It's at the [[http://youtu.be/QG46r3mANWE?t=38m3s 38-minute mark of the archived highlight]].) One week after the livestream, Mark Ballas and Sadie Robertson did a [[http://youtu.be/mPmEhQLq-vk freestyle dance]] based on ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''.

** And then double-subverted with Yanama's apology video.

* DudeNotFunny: This was Jon's reaction to the person who lied about leukemia in order to get him and other people to LP his ROM hack. Jon's reaction was more disappointment rather than angry, but he still expressed that what the person did was not cool at all.
** When one of Jon's cohosts on Skype, Gex, had a FreudianSlip that made him blurt out the N-word accidentally, Lucahjin's attempts to make him feel better involved racist jokes that in and of itself left several viewers feeling very uncomfortable and offended, and even lost him a few subscribers.

* TearJerker: Set up, but then subverted ''big time'' with ''Notte Luminosa''. See DudeNotFunny.

** Plus with SuperJeenius during ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5''.

** He uses the 'tada!' sound effect from Windows 95 in his ''Resident Evil 5'' collab for things such as his epic rescue of SuperJeenius ("FOOOOOOTBAAAAALLL!") and when the two of them don't forget or miss anything in a level that he would have to recap later.

* BaseBreaker: Gex from the livestreams. Some find him rather funny, the rest find him painfully obnoxious. Especially after the n-word incident.

** During Jon's livestream of ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolutionMarioMix'' one of his co-commentators sarcastically quipped, "You know, this is the worst episode of ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' I've ever seen." (It's at the [[http://youtu.be/QG46r3mANWE?t=38m3s 38-minute mark of the archived highlight]].) One week after the livestream, Mark Ballas and Sadie Robertson did a [[http://youtu.be/mPmEhQLq-vk freestyle dance]] based on Franchise/SuperMarioBros.

** Combined with HeartwarmingInHindsight, kind of: Jon's astonished joy in the first Bomberman Act Zero stream when after some minutes prodding his chat for volunteers, 'actually managed to get a full room' of 8 people to play the notoriously unpopular game. A few weeks later, he had popularised the game on Twitch to the point that any game room he starts fills up in a second or two.

** During ProtonJon's livestream of ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolutionMarioMix'' one of his co-commentators sarcastically quipped, "You know, this is the worst episode of ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' I've ever seen." (It's at the [[http://youtu.be/QG46r3mANWE?t=38m3s 38-minute mark of the archived highlight]].) One week after the livestream, Mark Ballas and Sadie Robertson did a [[http://youtu.be/mPmEhQLq-vk freestyle dance]] based on Franchise/SuperMarioBros.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: He has a gift for coming up with new lyrics to songs, like when he takes "Reptilia" by TheStrokes and turns it into [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBHNKodo7Qw this.]]

** ''VideoGame/NewSuperLuigiU'' gives players a scant 100 seconds for ''every'' level, making Jon's infamous quote a lot more applicable.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In episode 2 of his LP of Notte Luminosa, he finds a minigame corner with a hilarious disclaimer. The disclaimer states that the minigame corner can not be held responsible for side effects such as alcoholism, crossdressing, gender confusion, and... cancer. Why is Jon playing the game? To fulfill the dying wish of the game's creator, who has cancer.

* EarWorm: The muzak Jon uses to accompany his fortune cookie / straw poll and Intermission cards in his livestreams.
* EnsembleDarkHorse: Laura from the ''Mario Kart Wii'' videos is becoming very popular with viewers; a lot of people really like the sound of her voice.

** The Superman 64 let's play is based almost completely around breaking the game into itty bitty glitch pieces. Some are intentional, some are not, but it's all endlessly amusing.

* GrowingTheBeard: Jon has gone through the trope at least twice in his LP career. In the beginning, Jon did lets plays of NintendoHard games by adding his own snark and witty commentary. It wasn't until Jon started to do lets plays of various Super Mario World ROM hacks (including Kaizo Mario) that his popularity soared while many memes from Jon were born. After getting tired of doing nothing but ROM hacks, Jon quit them altogether and focused on playing games he likes while giving the viewers an educational background behind the games.

** During ProtonJon's livestream of VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolutionMarioMix one of his co-commentators sarcastically quipped, "You know, this is the worst episode of Series/DancingWithTheStars I've ever seen." (It's at the [[http://youtu.be/QG46r3mANWE?t=38m3s 38-minute mark of the archived highlight]].) One week after the livestream, Mark Ballas and Sadie Robertson did a [[http://youtu.be/mPmEhQLq-vk freestyle dance]] based on Franchise/SuperMarioBros.

* MemeticMutation: MOVE FASTER POKEY! Probably the most famous meme associated with him. There's also "DEATH WATER" and "[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros NOW I'LL]] [[MostAnnoyingSound SHOW YOU!]]".
* MostWonderfulSound: The "glitch count" from his ''{{Superman 64}}'' LP (borrowed from ''KatamariDamacy'').

** He's complained about "MOVE FASTER POKEY" many, many times. He only ever said it ''once'', not that you'd know, given its ubiquity (including here on TVTropes). He even wrote this in his guest bio for one Fan Convention:

** His Super Mario TKO LP, where he encouraged his viewers to play along, record, and upload their own videos. This resulted in a surge of terrible LP videos, and was probably the key factor in the decision to WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} him -- note that their primary criticism is his FollowTheLeader status.

** LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}} seems determined to make the Notte Luminosa incident one of these; though he was very sympathetic about it on the Retsupurae podcast, he's still cracking jokes every time he thinks of it in the videos Jon guests in.
** "... but it's ''still'' anyones game!" seems to be turning into one for him.

** This is his opinion of Superman 64, in the sense that the game is so poorly designed and programmed that it actually becomes fun to discover different ways to break it.
** He also considers VideoGame/BombermanActZero pretty fun if you can get people to play it with you online.
* StopHelpingMe: "Carmen Sandiego", aka Helper #3 in the ''Deal Or No Deal'' LP. Protonjon and Kelekin continually poke fun at 'her' dumb advice.

* TearJerker: Set up, but then subverted ''big time'' with Notte Luminosa. See DudeNotFunny.

* NightmareFuel: In Jon's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXj4m-wL_aM most recent video]], Jon reveals one of the reasons he's been so inactive was because when he needed to purchase a new Capture Card, the person who sold it to him ''died.''

* SoBadItsGood: This is his opinion of Superman 64, in the sense that the game is so poorly designed and programmed that it actually becomes fun to discover different ways to break it.
** He also considers BombermanActZero pretty fun if you can get people to play it with you online.

** His picture when he was 18 has attributed to this trope. For which Jon is forever haunted.

* DudeNotFunny: Jon's reaction to the person who lied about leukemia in order to get him and other people to LP his ROM hack. Jon's reaction was more disappointment rather than angry, but he still expressed that what the person did was not cool at all.