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* NightmareFuel: A meta one: When he was a child, [=ERod=] was caught in the crossfire of a shootout between gangbangers and was [[BoomHeadshot shot in the head]].

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* TearJerker:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIL-zNU6Z1o His review of]] ''Film/ManOfSteel''. He refuses to go by [=ERod=] or give it a score, just addressing with a sad and down voice the major failures of the movie and how every time he watched it, he liked it even less. By the end, he even states that he fears that the next DC film he reviews, he may be busting it.
** On a meta level, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a2LDrbtwlA his video explaining his departure from Channel Awesome]]. In it, he mentioned how he spent nearly two years putting out content and trying out to get CA to add him with the hope of one day being in their anniversary specials. He was invited to participate in the 10th anniversary movie, only to have it later cancelled without admin explaining to him what happened. He had to find out about 20+ producers leaving the site and their reasons from Linkara. Between the site's lack of communication with him explaining the situation, the site's lack of apology for the trauma former producers experienced, the lack of income [=ERod=] was getting from his videos being posted to CA, and all of the information he recently received about the behind-the-scenes drama, he made a painful decision to leave a place that he spent so much time and work to get in. By the end of the video, he looks emotionally devastated, a far cry from his energetic persona. Months after the entire debacle, [=ERod=] has nothing but disdain for Doug and Rob Walker, their collaborators and still-loyal fanbase.
** And another meta example; in February 2022, he posted [[https://youtu.be/AFGJRI8I4-M a video]] giving the heartbreaking news of the sudden passing of his wife, Marsha Kent (aka She-Rod) from Covid.

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TearJerker: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIL-zNU6Z1o His review of]] ''Film/ManOfSteel''. He refuses to go by [=ERod=] or give it a score, just addressing with a sad and down voice the major failures of the movie and how every time he watched it, he liked it even less. By the end, he even states that he fears that the next DC film he reviews, he may be busting it.
** On a meta level, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a2LDrbtwlA his video explaining his departure from Channel Awesome]]. In it, he mentioned how he spent nearly two years putting out content and trying out to get CA to add him with the hope of one day being in their anniversary specials. He was invited to participate in the 10th anniversary movie, only to have it later cancelled without admin explaining to him what happened. He had to find out about 20+ producers leaving the site and their reasons from Linkara. Between the site's lack of communication with him explaining the situation, the site's lack of apology for the trauma former producers experienced, the lack of income [=ERod=] was getting from his videos being posted to CA, and all of the information he recently received about the behind-the-scenes drama, he made a painful decision to leave a place that he spent so much time and work to get in. By the end of the video, he looks emotionally devastated, a far cry from his energetic persona. Months after the entire debacle, [=ERod=] has nothing but disdain for Doug and Rob Walker, their collaborators and still-loyal fanbase.
** And another meta example; in February 2022, he posted [[https://youtu.be/AFGJRI8I4-M a video]] giving the heartbreaking news of the sudden passing of his wife, Marsha Kent (aka She-Rod) from Covid.
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* UnacceptableTargets: One likely reason for the particularly strong backlash against his ''Film/IntoTheWoods'' review was that you cannot complain about Music/StephenSondheim songs as lightly and uncritically as he did.
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** Mixing with his hatred of the DC films is his bashing of Creator/RobertPattinson, vowing to never watch ''The Batman'' after he was cast in the title role, simply because he previously starred in the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' movies. When others brought up other films Pattinson starred in such as ''Film/GoodTime'' or ''Film/TheLostCityOfZ'', where he gave some [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct critically lauded performances]], he responded by mocking the films and refusing to ever watch them either, which didn't net him any favors as people saw it as him coming off as closed-minded.

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** Mixing with his hatred of the DC films is his bashing of Creator/RobertPattinson, vowing to never watch ''The Batman'' after he was cast in the title role, simply because he previously starred in the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' movies. When others brought up other films Pattinson starred in such as ''Film/GoodTime'' or ''Film/TheLostCityOfZ'', where he gave some [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct critically lauded performances]], he responded by mocking the films and refusing to ever watch them either, which didn't net him any favors as people saw it as him coming off as closed-minded.


* AcceptableTargets:
** Creator/MichaelBay is his number one acceptable target.
** Creator/PaulWSAnderson is often voiced as a doofus.
** ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' and its obsessive fans.
** Creator/MeganFox, to the point he does not even consider her an actress at all, instead regarding her as nothing more than Window Dressing and EyeCandy.
*** Since the announcement of her playing April O'Neil, [=ERod=] took the opportunity to make jokes about her casting in the Michael Bay directed TMNT movie.
** Actors Creator/SethRogen, Creator/ShiaLaBeouf and Creator/AshtonKutcher have been used as punchlines for "It could have been a worse option for [insert role here]" (like having Ashton as VideoGame/MaxPayne or Rogen as [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]]). In Shia's case, [=ERod=] admitted he used him because Shia was an easy target thanks to the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movies and ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', while he snarks at Seth Rogen because he always plays the same character with a different shirt.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: After the ReTool didn't go over so well with the fans, he decided to go back to his old format.
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* CriticalResearchFailure:
** Sometimes when he says a movie bombed at the box office, a quick Google search would inform him that the movie actually made back its budget or made a profit. It seems he's confused "box office" with "critical reception".
** In his review ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'', he was surprised the criminology museum was opening an exhibit on the Scooby gang, and asked if they'd ever actually caught a criminal. He pointed out that dressing up in a mask to scare people was not illegal. Firstly, dressing up in a mask and scaring people could easily be considered harassment at minimum. Secondly, the Monsters frequently tried to kill the Scoobies, which is very much illegal. Thirdly, in the vast majority of cases the Scoobies solved the villain was a criminal trying to scare people away so they wouldn't find out about his/her actual criminal activities.
** In any movie that uses MotionCapture, he calls it capture motion.
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** In his Spiderman Villains Casting Couch, he suggested Creator/WoodyHarrelson as ComicBook/{{Venom}}. 7 years later, Harrelson appeared in ''Film/Venom2018''... as ComicBook/{{Carnage}}.

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** In his Spiderman Spider-Man Villains Casting Couch, he suggested Creator/WoodyHarrelson as ComicBook/{{Venom}}. 7 years later, Harrelson appeared in ''Film/Venom2018''... as ComicBook/{{Carnage}}.
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** Many of his videos in general are treated like this. While he's generally well informed about subject matter that he likes and knows how to explain his issues with movies clearly and articulately, when he has to talk about things he knows little of, he comes off as very ignorant and biased (his moronic comments about ''Film/IntoTheWoods'' "sucking" ''just'' because it's a musical, or that ''Beauty and the Beast'' should never be remade again...).

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** Many of his videos in general are treated like this. While he's generally well informed about subject matter that he likes and knows how to explain his issues with movies clearly and articulately, when he has to talk about things he knows little of, he comes off as very ignorant and biased (his moronic comments about ''Film/IntoTheWoods'' "sucking" ''just'' because it's a musical, or that ''Beauty and the Beast'' should never be remade again...).
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* NightmareFuel: A meta one: When he was a child, [=ERod=] was caught in the crossfire of a shootout between gangbangers and was [[AdultFear shot in the head]].

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* NightmareFuel: A meta one: When he was a child, [=ERod=] was caught in the crossfire of a shootout between gangbangers and was [[AdultFear [[BoomHeadshot shot in the head]].
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** And another meta example; in February 2022, he posted [[https://youtu.be/AFGJRI8I4-M a video]] giving the heartbreaking news of the sudden passing of his wife, Marsha Kent (aka She-Rod) from Covid.

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* BizarroEpisode: His Casting Couch of Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, though it was done as an AprilFoolsDay joke.

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* BizarroEpisode: His Casting Couch of Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, [[Website/ChannelAwesome That Guy With The Glasses]], though it was done as an AprilFoolsDay joke.



** Judging from the reactions to his first video on Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, some find him very entertaining while others find him unfunny and accuse him of ripping off other reviewers (mostly he's Linkara's WebVideo/TheIrateGamer).

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** Judging from Even when going back to the reactions to his first video on Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, Website/ChannelAwesome, some find him very entertaining while others find him unfunny and accuse him of ripping off other reviewers (mostly he's Linkara's WebVideo/TheIrateGamer).



** It's short, but in his ''Film/SupermanReturns'' review, he criticizes the fact Superman is hinted to have impregnated Lois Lane by pointing out the ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex trope. In truth, whether Superman is subject or not to this trope is a huge case of DependingOnTheWriter, and as pointed out by [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] in his ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain'' review, [[RequiredSecondaryPower Supes has complete control over his strength (otherwise he wouldn't be able to open a door without breaking it)]], so the trope would most likely not apply. Superman had also temporarily lost his powers in ''Film/SupermanII'' when he and Lois had sex.
** In his review of ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', he criticizes the film for, among other things, supposedly betraying the tone of the original film by having songs in it, noting that the only song in the first film (sung by Robin Hood and his gang) was a parody, and interrupted mid-way through by Fiona. Except that not counting pop song covers (which were ''also'' in the first film), there is only ''one'' actual musical-style song in ''Shrek 2'' (sung by the Fairy Godmother), and it's just as clearly a parody as the equivalent song in ''Shrek'', being a pretty obvious riff on "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''. And, in fact, the song is also protested against and ultimately interrupted by Fiona.
*** In the same video, he also refers to the Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming as "pretty much the closest thing" the film has to a villain, implying that they're not wholly villainous antagonists... which is odd given that they attempt to brainwash, frame and murder the main characters and attempt to commit a coup, identity theft and implicitly rape by deception by getting Charming fraudulently married to Fiona and making him the heir to Far Far Away. Not a lot of viewers paying attention would doubt that they are full villains.
** In his ''Film/DudleyDoRight'' review, he claims that Nell being in love with Horse was being off-character because she loved Dudley. Actually, this ''is'' in-character for Nell since that was one of the main running gags in the original ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'' cartoon.
** In his ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' review, he claims that the concept of a super-intelligent ape forming an army to conquer the Earth from ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' was a rip-off of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' [[TheMovie Movie]]. Except that they have little to nothing in common with each other. Caesar was born from a virus-infested chimpanzee while Mojo Jojo was a mischievous monkey who accidentally had a dose of Chemical X after pushing the professor. Also, Caesar was treated horribly at a primate shelter which resulted in him forming an army of apes to rebel and get out of the city. Mojo, on the other hand, created an army of super-intelligent apes just so he could take over Townsville. On the other hand, it's likely just a joke about how the two products came out close together.
*** And there's also ''Film/ConquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes''.
** In his Honest Review of ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', Erod stated the theory that ''WesternAnimation/HulkVs'' take place in the same universe and that the latter happened during "Panther's Quest" (explaining why Thor was absent) and "Gamma World, Part 1" (why Hulk was in Canada). Even barring the fact that WordOfGod confirmed ''EMH'' and the "Wolverine" short of ''Hulk Vs.'', as well as ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009'' ''are'' set in the same universe, there's two flaws with this -- one: "Masters of Evil" already explains why Thor was absent during "Panther's Quest" (namely, he didn't know how the ID cards worked) and two: the Loki subplot makes placing the "Thor" short of ''Vs'' during Season 1 completely incompatible (including the fact that both the ''EMH''!Loki subplot and the "Thor" short have [[spoiler: the Odinsleep as a major element[[note]]the former is dependent on Odin being trapped in it after Loki takes over, while the latter has him come out of it after the Hulk is stopped[[/note]]]]).



** In his review of ''Film/DarkShadows'' he refers to Victoria Winters as a F.R.I. (Forced Romantic Interest) despite the fact that she was his love interest in the original series, so of course she would still be his love interest in the film. Also, in his review of the ''Film/CirqueDuFreak'' movie, he makes several comments about how stupid the name Vampaneze is, Mr. Crepsely's red hair and pale skin colour, how the vampiric nature is passed on to a human (pressing your bleeding hand up to the vampire's bleeding hand to switch blood) as well as Steve becoming a villain despite the fact that these are all elements from the book series.
** In his review for the film version of ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank'' he voices displeasure when the characters uses outlandish guns such as a the sheep ray and the storm maker thinking they were add ons in the movie...despite the fact that the series is practically known for crazy weaponry and are both featured within the games he keeps comparing the movie to. He likewise seem to have forgotten the movie is set in its own continuity from the game series and thus doesn't follow the original game's story, hence the changes. As well as the fact the game of the movie filled in the plot holes he pointed out.
** In his review of ''Film/{{Unfriended}}'', he states that the main characters are idiots who could have avoided all the dangers of the vengeful internet ghost had they just turned off their computers. What he fails to understand is that it was established even in the trailers that any attempts to avoid the ghost, even by leaving their computers, would have resulted in their deaths anyway.
** His review of ''Film/Dune1984'' has a lot of examples of this trope (likely for not having read the books). His most glaring example is him stating that the Spice Melange has no real relevance to the film and isn't really important, when in fact it is the most important part of the film's universe for being vital to the Empire's economy, allowing interstellar travel, prolonging life, can give people physic and mental powers and what allows the protagonist, Paul Atreides, to become the Kwisatz Haderach.
*** More to the point, while he mentions how exposition heavy the film is (including the inner monologues), apparently he didn't pay it much attention to it as much of his review is criticizing things he didn't understand, but was actually in all that exposition.
** In his video describing his problem with the various upcoming (at the time) DC movies, he complained that ''Film/WonderWoman2017'' "just" fighting UsefulNotes/WorldWarI soldiers was "lame" because her main thing was supposed to be fighting and interacting with beings from Greek Mythology. While Wonder Woman ''is'' indeed primarily associated with Greek Mythology, and has plenty of characters coming from it in both her RoguesGallery and her Supporting cast, she has been fighting plenty of other opponents over the course of her adventures, and plenty of her villains, including two of her most iconic nemeses (ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} and [[DepravedDwarf Dr Psycho]]), have nothing to do with Greek Myths at all.
** His review of ''Film/WarCraft2016'' makes it clear that he has barely done any research on the franchise. Firstly, he thinks that the movie is based on ''World of Warcraft'', even though the film is based on the first game, which was an RTS and not an MMORPG. He is also under the belief that ''Warcraft'' has no definitive protagonist or storylines, which is untrue. He states that Durotan is the main leader of the Orc Horde and paints him as a villain who leads the humans into a trap under the pretense of peace between their species, neglecting the fact the Horde consists of different clans, and Durotan is just a chief of a single clan (the Frost Wolves) and that he genuinely wanted an alliance with the humans to stop Gul'Dan from corrupting Azeroth, and that the two parties were ambushed by Orcs under the command of Blackhand and Gul'Dan. In fact he leaves many of the films details out of the review (most notably he mainly focused on the human side of the movie, and thus leaving out the orc's story arch). The biggest offender is that he claims that the film is ripping off ''The Avengers'' due to ''Warcraft'' also having an evil sorcerer opening a portal from another world so that an army can enter and invade Azeroth, despite the fact that this is the main plot of the first game which the film is based on! Which came out in 1994.
** During his review of the first season of ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', he compares Jessica snapping the neck of Killgrave to the scene of Clark doing it to Zod in ''Film/ManOfSteel'' ending, praising the former with how it's done and ending with the statement heroes always have choices. But as most commentators pointed out, it was an unfair comparison because Jessica knew Killgrave years prior and knew how he worked and thought. So it gave her time to formulate the numerous plans she tried before ultimately killing him when she was out of options. Plus, Killgrave wasn't a fighter, it was his MindControl powers that made him dangerous and he only lasted so long because of his wit and various circumstances and Jessica only won because he let his guard down for a second. Clark, on the other hand, had just met Zod, who was a war general and thus a natural fighter, and was quickly adapting to the powers Earth's sun was giving him. Plus, it was his first fight against a superpowered being matching his strength that at best was stale-mating. Up to this point, all Clark was handling was disasters and held back against human opponents, so he ''wasn't'' prepared for this. So when Zod tried to laser beam some helpless civilians and made it clear he wasn't going to stop, Clark ultimately ''had'' to kill him as he didn't see any other way to stop Zod.
** In his ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' review, E-Rod makes several mistakes noticeable to anyone who has seen the film. First, he claims the scene with the reactionary terrorists takes place in Keystone when it is actually in London ([[EiffelTowerEffect the establishing shot of the Tower Bridge]] makes that fact hard to miss). He also says the Third Mother Box is located on the Kryptonian Ship where Doomsday was created when it was actually in STAR Labs (which is why the BigBad was kidnapping their scientist in an earlier scene he questioned). Cyborg got it earlier and they were only entering to revive Superman. He also makes it out that the LetsYouAndHimFight scene that happens after Superman is revived was due the League attacking him unprovoked, when one of the first things Superman does after coming BackFromTheDead is attack Batman. (Only Cyborg's attack was unprovoked and that was given a HandWave as well.) E-Rod also complained about Superman taking so long to show up at the final battle when we see he's still recovering from his ResurrectionSickness and does show up surprisingly fast when he gets over it. He also complains about Superman saving the day all by himself, ignoring the contributions of the other team-members including Batman killing most of the Parademons, Aquaman saving Batman (Bruce was expecting to die if his plan succeeded), and holding off The BigBad alongside Wonder Woman, and Cyborg separating the Mother Boxes (he does bring this up but words it in a way that made it seen Superman did most of the work when it was really the other way around), while also ignoring a big plot point that the BigBad was waiting for Superman to die before starting his AlienInvasion, so of course Superman's fight with Steppenwolf would be one-sided (and even then, Superman doesn't land the finishing blow - Wonder Woman does).



** The [[http://Mochita-chan.deviantart.com/art/Three-of-Wands-The-Blockbuster-Buster-272287662 card]] that ''the Guardian Lorelei, Patron Saint of Fandom'' holds up is a version of the [[TarotMotifs three of wands from the Waite-Rider deck]]. It symbolizes progress and dream being made real. It also symbolizes that the querent is feeling proud and/or powerful and is a [[ForeShadowing warning that they should wait until victory is certain before celebrating or boasting]].
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff / MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: According to the comments sections in both Youtube and TGWTG, El L0ver seems to be this among the viewers. There's a portion who don't like him, while most Hispanic-Latin viewers from the USA or from Latin America adore him. Having one of Wrestling/EddieGuerrero's themes might help.

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** The [[http://Mochita-chan.deviantart.com/art/Three-of-Wands-The-Blockbuster-Buster-272287662 card]] that ''the Guardian Lorelei, Patron Saint of Fandom'' holds up is a version of the [[TarotMotifs three of wands from the Waite-Rider deck]]. It symbolizes progress and dream being made real. It also symbolizes that the querent is feeling proud and/or powerful and is a [[ForeShadowing [[{{Foreshadowing}} warning that they should wait until victory is certain before celebrating or boasting]].
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff / MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: According to the comments sections in both Youtube and TGWTG, El L0ver seems to be this among the viewers. There's a portion who don't like him, while most Hispanic-Latin viewers from the USA or from Latin America adore him. Having one of Wrestling/EddieGuerrero's themes might help.
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* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: According to the comments sections in both Youtube and TGWTG, El L0ver seems to be this among the viewers. There's a portion who don't like him, while most Hispanic-Latin viewers from the USA or from Latin America adore him. Having one of Wrestling/EddieGuerrero's themes might help.



** In 2022, he lost his wife of 21 years to COVID. Understandably, he lost any enthusiasm to make anymore reviews and he ultimately quit Blockbuster Buster altogether.
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** In his ''Film/TurboAPowerRangersMovie'' review, he claims that the movie was non-canon and [[Series/PowerRangersTurbo the show]] did its own version of how they got their Turbo powers. Except, it ''is'' canon and the Turbo season starts with them already having their powers and the premiere even uses clips from the movie as a flashback, the first episode starts with the BigBad preparing revenge for what the Rangers did in the movie. He's most likely confusing it with the [[Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie first]] ''Power Rangers'' movie which was non-canon and the third season did its own story of how the Rangers got their ninja powers. Furthermore his complaints about using spandex and the Megazord being a guy in a suit becomes annoying knowing that the Turbo movie was meant to fit in with the series.



** A minor one, but in expressing his thoughts on the Marvel Studios-Creator/{{Sony}} deal with Spider-Man, he said the deal was like the what Creator/{{Disney}} has with Marvel in that they distribute the movies--except the Disney/Marvel deal is that Disney outright owns Marvel, including Marvel Studios.



** In his review of ''Film/LandOfTheLost'', he repeatedly says that Enik was the main villain of the show. But he wasn't a villain; he was a time traveler who wanted to go back to his own time to prevent the collapse of his civilization. Although Enik was a jerk whose goals sometimes conflicted with the Marshalls' goals, he always helped them when their lives depended on it.



** He often confuses comic book canon with animated canon. For example, in his review of ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', he made mention that in the film, Wolverine is sent back in time instead of Bishop as in the original comic. That happened in the 90's ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' animated series. In the [[ComicBook/XMen comic book]], Kitty Pryde was sent back. Bishop wouldn't even be created for another 10 years.



** In his ''Film/HighlanderEndgame'' review, he claims that the movie and the TV series took place before the first Highlander movie. This is ignoring that many event both in the movie and the tv series contradicts like the death of Rachel in the first scene or that the TV series retconned Connor's victory against the Kurgan as a big quickening and that Connor's death would have made the first movie impossible to do. There is also the fact that a movie with the subtitle "Endgame", usually used for a GrandFinale, would be a very bizarre word for a prequel.
** In his review for ''Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians'', he says it isn't tied to ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' -- except that all official parties connected to the series, including Creator/CartoonNetwork, Creator/WarnerBrothers when they did the [=DVDs=], and even Creator/DCComics (and by extension Creator/DCUniverse) themselves, ''do'' consider ''Super Powers Team'' to be ''Superfriends''[='=]s final season.
** In his ''Film/{{Pixels}}'' review, he complains that ''VideoGame/{{Paperboy}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' were among the arcade characters in the final battle, claiming that neither had arcade versions. ''Paperboy'' in fact started out as an arcade game in 1984, while ''Tetris'' got an arcade port from Creator/{{Atari}} in 1988.
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** Makes this claim against two scenes in ''Film/TerminatorSalvation''. In doing so, he ironically displays his own misunderstanding of the material in question.
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** In 2022, he lost his wife of 21 years to COVID. Understandably, he lost any enthusiasm to make anymore reviews and he ultimately quit Blockbuster Buster altogether.
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** In his ''Film/{{Pixels}}'' review, he complains that ''VideoGame/{{Paperboy}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' were among the arcade characters in the final battle, claiming that neither had arcade versions. ''Paperboy'' in fact started out as an arcade game in 1984, while ''Tetris'' got an arcade port from Creator/{{Atari}} in 1988.
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** Much more severely, with ''Webvideo/CinematicVenom''. [[Administrivia/RuleofCautiousEditingJudgment It's best not to talk about the why and how of it]].

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** Much more severely, with ''Webvideo/CinematicVenom''. [[Administrivia/RuleofCautiousEditingJudgment It's best not to talk about the why and how of it]].
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** In his Honest Review of ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', Erod stated the theory that ''WesternAnimation/HulkVs'' take place in the same universe and that the latter happened during "Panther's Quest" (explaining why Thor was absent) and "Gamma World, Part 1" (why Hulk was in Canada). Even barring the fact that WordOfGod confirmed ''EMH'' and the "Wolverine" short of ''Hulk Vs.'', as well as ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'' ''are'' set in the same universe, there's two flaws with this -- one: "Masters of Evil" already explains why Thor was absent during "Panther's Quest" (namely, he didn't know how the ID cards worked) and two: the Loki subplot makes placing the "Thor" short of ''Vs'' during Season 1 completely incompatible (including the fact that both the ''EMH''!Loki subplot and the "Thor" short have [[spoiler: the Odinsleep as a major element[[note]]the former is dependent on Odin being trapped in it after Loki takes over, while the latter has him come out of it after the Hulk is stopped[[/note]]]]).

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** In his Honest Review of ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', Erod stated the theory that ''WesternAnimation/HulkVs'' take place in the same universe and that the latter happened during "Panther's Quest" (explaining why Thor was absent) and "Gamma World, Part 1" (why Hulk was in Canada). Even barring the fact that WordOfGod confirmed ''EMH'' and the "Wolverine" short of ''Hulk Vs.'', as well as ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'' ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009'' ''are'' set in the same universe, there's two flaws with this -- one: "Masters of Evil" already explains why Thor was absent during "Panther's Quest" (namely, he didn't know how the ID cards worked) and two: the Loki subplot makes placing the "Thor" short of ''Vs'' during Season 1 completely incompatible (including the fact that both the ''EMH''!Loki subplot and the "Thor" short have [[spoiler: the Odinsleep as a major element[[note]]the former is dependent on Odin being trapped in it after Loki takes over, while the latter has him come out of it after the Hulk is stopped[[/note]]]]).
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** In his review of ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', he criticizes the film for, among other things, betraying the tone of the original film by having songs in it, noting that the only song in the first film (sung by Robin Hood and his gang) was a parody, and interrupted mid-way through by Fiona. Except that not counting pop song covers (which were also in the first film), there is only ''one'' actual musical-style song in ''Shrek 2'' (sung by the Fairy Godmother), and it's just as clearly a parody as the equivalent song in ''Shrek'', being a pretty obvious riff on "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''. And, in fact, the song is also protested against and ultimately interrupted by Fiona.

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** In his review of ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', he criticizes the film for, among other things, supposedly betraying the tone of the original film by having songs in it, noting that the only song in the first film (sung by Robin Hood and his gang) was a parody, and interrupted mid-way through by Fiona. Except that not counting pop song covers (which were also ''also'' in the first film), there is only ''one'' actual musical-style song in ''Shrek 2'' (sung by the Fairy Godmother), and it's just as clearly a parody as the equivalent song in ''Shrek'', being a pretty obvious riff on "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''. And, in fact, the song is also protested against and ultimately interrupted by Fiona.



** In his ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' review, he claims that the concept of a super-intelligent ape forming an army to conquer the Earth from ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' was a rip-off of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' [[TheMovie Movie]]. Except that they have little to nothing in common with each other. Caesar was born from a virus-infested monkey while Mojo Jojo was a mischievous monkey who accidentally had a dose of Chemical X after pushing the professor. Also, Caesar was treated horribly at a primate shelter which resulted in him forming an army of apes to rebel and get out of the city. Mojo, on the other hand, created an army of super-intelligent apes just so he could take over Townsville. On the other hand, it's likely just a joke about how the two products came out close together.

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** In his ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' review, he claims that the concept of a super-intelligent ape forming an army to conquer the Earth from ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' was a rip-off of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' [[TheMovie Movie]]. Except that they have little to nothing in common with each other. Caesar was born from a virus-infested monkey chimpanzee while Mojo Jojo was a mischievous monkey who accidentally had a dose of Chemical X after pushing the professor. Also, Caesar was treated horribly at a primate shelter which resulted in him forming an army of apes to rebel and get out of the city. Mojo, on the other hand, created an army of super-intelligent apes just so he could take over Townsville. On the other hand, it's likely just a joke about how the two products came out close together.



** In his review ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'', he was surprised the criminology museum was opening an exhibit on the Scooby gang, and asked if they'd ever actually caught a criminal. He pointed out that dressing up in a mask to scare people was not illegal. Firstly, dressing up in a mask and scaring people could easily be considered harassment at minimum. Secondly, the Monsters frequently tried to kill the Scoobies, which is very much illegal. Thirdly, in the vast majority of cases the Scoobies solved the villain was a criminal trying to scare people away so they wouldn't find out about his actual criminal activities.

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** In his review ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'', he was surprised the criminology museum was opening an exhibit on the Scooby gang, and asked if they'd ever actually caught a criminal. He pointed out that dressing up in a mask to scare people was not illegal. Firstly, dressing up in a mask and scaring people could easily be considered harassment at minimum. Secondly, the Monsters frequently tried to kill the Scoobies, which is very much illegal. Thirdly, in the vast majority of cases the Scoobies solved the villain was a criminal trying to scare people away so they wouldn't find out about his his/her actual criminal activities.



** During his review of the first season of ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', he compares Jessica snapping the neck of Killgrave to the scene of Clark doing it to Zod in ''Film/ManOfSteel'' ending, praising the former with how it's done and ending with the statement heroes always have choices. But as most commentators pointed out, it was an unfair comparison because Jessica knew Killgrave years prior and knew how he worked and thought. So it gave her time to formulate the numerous plans she tried before ultimately killing him when she was out of options. Plus, Killgrave wasn't a fighter, it was his MindControl powers that made him dangerous and he only lasted so long because of his wit and various circumstances and Jessica only won because he let his guard down for a second. Clark, on the other hand, had just met Zod, who was a war general and thus a natural fighter, and was quickly adapting to the powers Earth's sun as giving him. Plus, it was his first fight against a superpowered being matching his strength that at best was stale-mating. Up to this point, all Clark was handling was disasters and held back against human opponents, so he ''wasn't'' prepared for this. So when Zod tried to laser beam some helpless civilians and made it clear he wasn't going to stop, Clark ultimately ''had'' to kill him as he didn't see any other way to stop Zod.

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** During his review of the first season of ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', he compares Jessica snapping the neck of Killgrave to the scene of Clark doing it to Zod in ''Film/ManOfSteel'' ending, praising the former with how it's done and ending with the statement heroes always have choices. But as most commentators pointed out, it was an unfair comparison because Jessica knew Killgrave years prior and knew how he worked and thought. So it gave her time to formulate the numerous plans she tried before ultimately killing him when she was out of options. Plus, Killgrave wasn't a fighter, it was his MindControl powers that made him dangerous and he only lasted so long because of his wit and various circumstances and Jessica only won because he let his guard down for a second. Clark, on the other hand, had just met Zod, who was a war general and thus a natural fighter, and was quickly adapting to the powers Earth's sun as was giving him. Plus, it was his first fight against a superpowered being matching his strength that at best was stale-mating. Up to this point, all Clark was handling was disasters and held back against human opponents, so he ''wasn't'' prepared for this. So when Zod tried to laser beam some helpless civilians and made it clear he wasn't going to stop, Clark ultimately ''had'' to kill him as he didn't see any other way to stop Zod.



** In his DC Animated Movies Of 2014 Honest Review, one of his rules he gave out at the beginning was not doing the animated LEGO DC Films, which he called "bullshit" and "an overly long toy commercial". You can imagine how fans of LEGO reacted.
** While he technically didn't bust that many in this category, he has a bad habit to categorize ''all'' movies [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire depicting vampires in a more sympathetic light]] as ''Twilight''-like movies, with the implication he believes they should be AlwaysChaoticEvil in every media they appear in, [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Angel]] being apparently the sole exception to the rule (most notably, he accused ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'' of having turned them into "pussies", and his ''Literature/VampireAcademy'' referred to the good-aligned Moroi as "Lame-pires" while the evil Strigoi were called "Real vampires"). Those who actually enjoy stories about good (or at least morally grey) vampires weren't necessary pleased.
** His review of ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' was very positive in itself, but the fact he panned ComicBook/AntMan for being useless to the team didn't go well with Ant-Man's fans. His ''Film/AntMan1'' movie review both improved and made things worse, as while he admitted to love the movie despite his dislike of the comic book character, he also delivered the usual argument of [[NeverLiveItDown Hank Pym being a wife beater]], which is a FandomEnragingMisconception.

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** In his DC Animated Movies Of 2014 Honest Review, one of his rules he gave out at the beginning was not doing the animated LEGO DC Films, which he called "bullshit" and "an overly long toy commercial". You can imagine how fans of LEGO reacted.
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** While he technically didn't bust that many in this category, he has a bad habit to categorize ''all'' movies [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire depicting vampires in a more sympathetic light]] as ''Twilight''-like movies, with the implication he believes they should be AlwaysChaoticEvil in every media they appear in, [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Angel]] being apparently the sole exception to the rule (most notably, he accused ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'' of having turned them into "pussies", and his ''Literature/VampireAcademy'' referred to the good-aligned Moroi as "Lame-pires" while the evil Strigoi were called "Real vampires"). Those who actually enjoy stories about good (or at least morally grey) vampires weren't necessary necessarily pleased.
** His review of ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' was very positive in itself, but the fact he panned ComicBook/AntMan for being useless to the team didn't go well with Ant-Man's fans. His ''Film/AntMan1'' movie review both improved and made things worse, as while he admitted to love loving the movie despite his dislike of the comic book character, he also delivered the usual argument of [[NeverLiveItDown Hank Pym being a wife beater]], which is a FandomEnragingMisconception.
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** During his Honest Review for ''Film/IronMan,'' he praises JARVIS for snarking at Tony's expense and wishes that he could "bust his boss's balls like that." After the Change The Channel movement, he didn't hesitate to call his former boss, Doug Walker, out for supposed his ineptitude and jerkassery.

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** During his Honest Review for ''Film/IronMan,'' he praises JARVIS for snarking at Tony's expense and wishes that he could "bust his boss's balls like that." After the Change The Channel movement, he didn't hesitate to call his former boss, Doug Walker, out for supposed his ineptitude and jerkassery.
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** During his Honest Review for ''Film/IronMan,'' he praises JARVIS for snarking at Tony's expense and wishes that he could "bust his boss's balls like that." After the Change The Channel movement, he didn't hesitate to call his former boss, Doug Walker, out for his ineptitude and Jerkassery.

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** During his Honest Review for ''Film/IronMan,'' he praises JARVIS for snarking at Tony's expense and wishes that he could "bust his boss's balls like that." After the Change The Channel movement, he didn't hesitate to call his former boss, Doug Walker, out for supposed his ineptitude and Jerkassery.jerkassery.
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** Sometimes when he says a movie bombed at the box office, a quick Google search would inform him that the movie actually made back its budget or made a profit. It seems he's confused [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "box office" with "critical reception"]].

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** Sometimes when he says a movie bombed at the box office, a quick Google search would inform him that the movie actually made back its budget or made a profit. It seems he's confused [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "box office" with "critical reception"]].reception".

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[SmallAnnoyingCreature Nerdlinger]] is considered the best of all the side characters.

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[SmallAnnoyingCreature Nerdlinger]] Nerdlinger is considered the best of all the side characters.
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** In his Honest Review of ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', Erod stated the theory that ''WesternAnimation/HulkVs'' take place in the same universe and that the latter happened during "Panther's Quest" (explaining why Thor was absent) and "Gamma World, Part 1" (why Hulk was in Canada). Even barring the fact that WordOfGod confirmed ''EMH'' and the "Wolverine" short of ''Hulk Vs.'', as well as ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'' ''are'' set in the same universe, there's two flaws with this--one: "Masters of Evil" already explains why Thor was absent during "Panther's Quest" (namely, he didn't know how the ID cards worked) and two: the Loki subplot makes placing the "Thor" short of ''Vs'' during Season 1 completely incompatible (including the fact that both the ''EMH''!Loki subplot and the "Thor" short have [[spoiler: the Odinsleep as a major element[[note]]the former is dependent on Odin being trapped in it after Loki takes over, while the latter has him come out of it after the Hulk is stopped[[/note]]]]).

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** In his Honest Review of ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', Erod stated the theory that ''WesternAnimation/HulkVs'' take place in the same universe and that the latter happened during "Panther's Quest" (explaining why Thor was absent) and "Gamma World, Part 1" (why Hulk was in Canada). Even barring the fact that WordOfGod confirmed ''EMH'' and the "Wolverine" short of ''Hulk Vs.'', as well as ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'' ''are'' set in the same universe, there's two flaws with this--one: this -- one: "Masters of Evil" already explains why Thor was absent during "Panther's Quest" (namely, he didn't know how the ID cards worked) and two: the Loki subplot makes placing the "Thor" short of ''Vs'' during Season 1 completely incompatible (including the fact that both the ''EMH''!Loki subplot and the "Thor" short have [[spoiler: the Odinsleep as a major element[[note]]the former is dependent on Odin being trapped in it after Loki takes over, while the latter has him come out of it after the Hulk is stopped[[/note]]]]).



** In his review for ''Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians'', he says it isn't tied to ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' -- except that as far as all official parties connected to the series are concerned, including Creator/CartoonNetwork, Creator/WarnerBrothers when they did the [=DVDs=], and even Creator/DCComics (and by extension Creator/DCUniverse) themselves do consider ''Super Powers Team'' to be ''Superfriends''[='=]s final season.

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** In his review for ''Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians'', he says it isn't tied to ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' -- except that as far as all official parties connected to the series are concerned, series, including Creator/CartoonNetwork, Creator/WarnerBrothers when they did the [=DVDs=], and even Creator/DCComics (and by extension Creator/DCUniverse) themselves do themselves, ''do'' consider ''Super Powers Team'' to be ''Superfriends''[='=]s final season.
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** A minor one, but in expressing his thoughts on the Marvel Studios-Creator/{{Sony}} deal with Spider-Man, he said the deal was like the what Creator/{{Disney}} has with Marvel in that they distribute the movies--expect the Disney/Marvel deal is that Disney outright owns Marvel, including Marvel Studios.

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** A minor one, but in expressing his thoughts on the Marvel Studios-Creator/{{Sony}} deal with Spider-Man, he said the deal was like the what Creator/{{Disney}} has with Marvel in that they distribute the movies--expect movies--except the Disney/Marvel deal is that Disney outright owns Marvel, including Marvel Studios.
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** In his review for ''Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians'', he says it isn't tied to ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' -- except that as far as all official parties connected to the series are concerned, including Creator/CartoonNetwork, Creator/WarnerBrothers when they did the [=DVDs=], and even Creator/DCComics (and by extension Creator/DCUniverse) themselves do consider ''Super Powers Team'' to be ''Superfriends''[='=]s final season.

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