Line #81 LetsPlay/LordMinion777


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6	George Wade Barnes (born April 3, 1989), known by his Platform/YouTube alias ''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/LordMinion777 LordMinion777]]'', is an Ohio-based Let's Player who began his Platform/YouTube career alongside [[HeterosexualLifePartners best friends]] WebVideo/{{Markiplier}} and Bob "Muyskerm" Muyskens. Wade is a jokester who specializes primarily in survival, horror and indie games; however, he first got recognition as a main guest in Markiplier's ''Drunk Minecraft'' series of videos. Since then, he has slowly expanded his fanbase, and currently has 1.75 million subscribers. Wade is married to fellow [=YouTuber=] [=FoxTrot44=] and his most frequent collaborators aside from Mark and Bob are "Dem Salty Boys" ([=JPW03=], [=PatrckStatic=], Garuku Bluemoon and [=GumbyMMA=]); he's also collaborated with WebVideo/{{Jacksepticeye}}, WebVideo/PewDiePie, LetsPlay/{{Mangaminx}}, [=Dlive22891=], [=TheOnlyRyann=], [=EntoanThePack=], [=ZombieMold=] (the admin of the server where they filmed Drunk Minecraft), and [=BreadHeroDan=].
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8	In May 2021, Wade, Mark, and Bob started their own podcast, ''Podcast/{{Distractible}}'', which is currently ongoing.
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10	[[folder:Series Wade has worked on or been involved in]]
11	[[index]]
12	* ''WebVideo/AHeistWithMarkiplier'' (as himself/Wubba)
13	* ''Podcast/{{Distractible}}''
14	* ''WebVideo/InSpaceWithMarkiplier'' (as Wug)
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18	!!Wade and his videos and collaborators provide examples of:
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20	* TheAce: Depending on the game, Wade can fall into this role. For example, in his second game of Videogame/PlayerunknownsBattlegrounds, he managed to come in first place with a little coaching from his friends. The game has upwards of 100 players separated into 4 man teams. After he won, he flipped his top celebrating and declared that he would never play again lest he lose his winning streak.
21	** Garuku is noted as being very good at video games, thanks to his being adaptable and a quick learner. The rest of the Salty Boys will admit this...when they aren't accusing him of being a hacker.
22	** Gumby is considered to be an even bigger hacker than Gar, since when he joins Wade in Phasmophobia, he'd be playing in VR mode, which actually grants him several bonus benefits (for example, an extra item slot). He also uses a mod that lets him check on his Twitch chat while he's in VR…
23	** Absolutely nobody questions [=ZombieMold=]'s skill when it comes to Voxel-style survival games like ''Ark''. One rare exception is in Wade's ''VideoGame/SevenDaysToDie'' Alpha 7 series, where Zombie was seemingly "on vacation" and spent most of his time goofing around and beating on a car until it exploded.
24	** Wade has pretty much crowned himself ''King of VideoGame/{{Phasmophobia}}'', a game that he has become renowned for streaming at least once a week since the game's entry into Early Access. If he isn't being messed with by Gar, JP or Pat, he's actually really competent at it. In fact, he is capable of surviving many missions when playing solo while playing the same missions with the Salty Boys sees his competency in the game take a nosedive and thus he dies more frequently [[note]]Although this is also due to their playstyle. When playing with the Salty Boys, the entire team does not take the game seriously and sometimes even work against themselves by passing misinformation or even passively sabotaging each other (i.e., pleading to the ghost to take the other player's life or aggravating the ghost just so it will start hunting). On the other hand, when Wade plays solo, he tends to hyperfocus and give it his all. This can also be seen in a recent stream where Wade plays ''Phasmo'' with Molly, Bob and Bob's significant other, Mandy- Wade is noticeably more professional when playing with them compared to playing with the Salty Boys or with Mark and Bob alone. [[/note]]
25	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When playing ''Savage Lands'' (a game that could be described as ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' crossed with ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''), the guys were running away from a dragon while cracking "Fus Ro Dah" jokes. Wade quipped "You know what they say, Fus rush in..."; Bob busted out laughing and said that the joke was really clever.
26	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Garuku Bluemoon. According to Wade, he doesn't dislike Gar as a person but he resents how Gar seems to be good at everything.
27	** In general, he is this to JPW. Wade is more brave and tends to be sneaker and a better fighter in [=GMod=].
28	** In ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'', Wade often is the last to survive or gets second place in points. Many times he doesn't, but that's because he doesn't always play to win (and his friends like to troll him). He's also better than Mark, Bob, and Jack because he plays more than they do, but he's also a better player than Tesh and Dan which are the two main alts (the other less frequent players being Dlive, JPW, Pat, and Entoan) for his normal group of Gar, Nin, and Molly.
29	* {{Angrish}}: Often, though he's hardly the only one. In fact, rage-streaming is one of his gimmicks on his channel, where he'll act as if he snapped and blow up at one or more of his co-streamers as soon as he realizes that he’s the butt-monkey.
30	* AnimalMotifs: For Wade it's chickens, thanks to ''VideoGame/GangBeasts'' and ''VideoGame/UltimateChickenHorse''. It has reached the point where his Discord bot and mascot of sorts is named "Mike the Chicken".
31	** For Wade’s significant other, Molly, it’s foxes. If her channel name doesn’t already makes it clear, foxes appears in all forms of her stream notifications.
32	* ArchEnemy: In ''Uno,'' he has one in the form of Barbara and is convinced she is doing everything within her power to screw him over.
33	* AscendedExtra: Over the years, Wade has picked up friends who became important in whatever game he was currently playing. For example, in the Rust series he played with Dlive (although Dlive eventually joins Bob as part of his regular co-streamers alongside TheOnlyRyann), LetsPlay/{{Mangaminx}}, and Ohmwrecker, they picked up a guy named _Tesh that they eventually added to their Team Speak calls. _Tesh became adapt at keeping a list of trolls and dicks that logged onto the server and leading hunting parties to take them down a notch. Others from that series include Deafinition and Balrog (Andy).
34	* BadassBookworm: Very smart (philosophy major in college), but also athletic enough to play basketball and nimble enough to do well in things like the Arrow Dodge Challenge.
35	* BadImpressionists: Wade has his "impression" of Tiger Woods which he busts out during games like ''Golf with Your Friends''. It's just him talking normally, but with an echo filter applied to his voice. In one video Patrick even asks Dana to provide an audio clip of the real Woods so people can see exactly how bad Wade's "impression" is. Also inverted in that he can do a pretty accurate impression of [[Series/SesameStreet Elmo]].
36	* BerserkButton: Wade's far too nice to actually go berserk, but he's fairly tired of bald jokes. It also bugs him when people only seem to recognize him as "Markiplier's friend" or do "Mark impressions" (read: shouting "SHUT UP WADE!" in the in-game chat).
37	** In regards to ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'', he hates camping killers. One episode has he and his friends get two in a row and by the end he's [[TranquilFury very quiet and grumbling about how he hopes the guy has his computer crash.]]
38	* BewareTheNiceOnes: If he's getting tired of taking the group's abuse, what he does in reprisal is usually crueler than what they've been doing to him.
39	** This also extends to defending his viewers, even those that regularly abuse his stream notifications ForTheEvulz. When a newcomer tuned into his stream in late 2021 and saw resident channel troll [=doobiedoobiedoo=] spamming stream notifications, the newbie started ordering the user around and started ordering Wade to turn off notifications. Wade actually got so ticked off that he ''berated'' that user and told him to go watch someone else. [[note]]Ultimately, Doobie paid money for the notification like everyone else is entitled to, and a large cut of the money goes to Wade. So it is in the interest of both of them that the notification remains enabled.[[/note]]
40	** As told in the ''Podcast/{{Distractible}}'' episode ''F*ck You Energy'', when Wade's pushed hard enough, he can be really dangerously competent.
41	* BigEater: [[https://www.reddit.com/r/distractible/comments/q53bnp/king_of_meats/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf As documented by Bob]], Wade can eat multiple surprisingly large servings of beef and still want more, and yet still maintain his lean body build.
42	* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: His logo is a "W" with a little crown, similar to WebVideo/{{Markiplier}}'s "M".
43	* BuffySpeak: In one ''Prop Hunt'' video, his reluctance to say the word "ejaculation" turned into "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG0vvoCbaaM&t=9m38s come-y come-y, go-y go-y]]". Cue the RunningGag.
44	-->'''Wade''': I say one stupid thing and it becomes a thing.
45	* ButtMonkey: Wade is usually on the receiving end for jokes or criticism from anybody he collaborates with.
46	** Case in point, he usually gets blamed by Mark or Bob for something going wrong in a ''Drunk Minecraft'' episode
47	** Taken to extremes when he does videos with Jp, Gar, or Patrck, depending on the game. His relationship with the guys is rather like [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike Nelson's relationship with Crow and Tom Servo]]; while he's the oldest and nominally the leader of the group, he gets very little respect and the others love taking the wind out of his sails.
48	*** Any game where Gar is utterly destroying everybody, or gleefully trolling the others, Wade is usually the one getting killed or attacked first
49	*** Jp is usually the one that starts jokes involving Wade (calling him Lord Mimeion because his face would apparently look good on a Mr. Mime), or just generally trolling him. (Wade's nonexistent Gmod Murder Part 2 with Jp, Gar, and Pat, is missing due to constantly being killed, Jp being the final straw, and he asked his editor to destroy his footage so nobody can see constant death from his point of view).
50	*** Patrck is usually the one that actively trolls Wade in most games, most notably in Golf With Your Friends whenever collision or bouncing is turned on.
51	----> '''Patrck:''' "You know why you missed that? Cause you didn't ''bouncy bouncy bouncy''."\
52	''(Gar and Jp start laughing)''\
53	'''Wade:''' "Shut your dirty mouth, everyone"
54	** In his collaboration on ''Heave Ho'' with WebVideo/{{Mark\|iplier}}, Bob, and WebVideo/{{Jack\|SepticEye}}, he is the only one that hasn't played the game before. They try to get him to help, but he only ends up being TheLoad by actively hindering their progress to the point that they will avoid him -- or even kill him given the opportunity -- to keep him from dragging them down.
55	--->'''Bob:''' For the entire first 75 percent of that, you were trying to kill us, and it was so--\
56	'''Wade:''' I was never trying to kill you!\
57	'''Bob:''' [[HanlonsRazor Then you were so inept that you were killing us accidentally.]]
58	** There are aversions to this; Minx, Ohm, Tesh and a few of Wade's other frequent collaborators don't do this (or if they do, not nearly as much as Mark, Bob or the Salty Boys).
59	* CurseOfTheAncients: Related to Gosh Dang It to Heck! -- his attempts to avoid swearing on camera degrade to either [[{{Angrish}} gibberish]] or this. Over time he pretty well gave up on this.
60	* DidntThinkThisThrough: For his 31st birthday, he and Mark decided to play VideoGame/SevenDaysToDie, since Wade thought it would be nice and relaxing for most of it. Problem is, he said it would be relaxing for him, [[{{Troll}} to Mark]] ''and'' let Mark decide the difficulty of the game. Mark made it 20 minute days, with a horde night ''[[NintendoHard every night]]''.
61	-->'''Mark:''' Here's the thing about this game: The blood moon's every night.\
62	'''Wade:''' [[BigWhat What?]]
63	* TheDogBitesBack: Though Wade is usually on the receiving end of the abuse during his collaborations, there are a few times when he gets one over on the guys. A prime example is when the Salty Boys play ''Stop It Slender''[[note]]A ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' game based on Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos[[/note]], since Gar and JP [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl Scream Like Little Girls]] when they get {{Jump Scare}}d.
64	** When Mark proves to be...[[EpicFail less than adept]] at ''VideoGame/FarmingSimulator'', Wade gleefully tears into him over it.
65	* EpicFail: In ''Hand Simulator'', part 5 he somehow managed to pull the pin on one of his grenades when opening the grenade box, blowing himself up. The whole video, really, is a epic fail for Mark, Jack and Wade, since the only thing they managed to blow up is themselves. Jack won one round simply because he couldn't pull out a grenade pin.
66	* {{Fratbro}}: One of the "characters" Wade made up is Toby (pronounced "Toe-BEEEE!"), who's this archetype through and through. He mostly comes up during ''PUBG'' matches, but Wade has said he's not interested in doing any full videos as Toby.
67	* TheGadfly: When Wade plays ''VideoGame/AmongUs'', he has a tendency to deliberately ignore his tasks, doing all but the last one and then just wasting time by wandering the map, to the annoyance of his fellow crewmates. He's said that he finds victory via tasks to be boring and prefers the chaos that comes from a round full of wild accusations and voting people off.
68	* GoshDangItToHeck: Unlike Mark or anybody else he collaborates with, he usually tries to steer clear from profanity, however...
69	** ClusterFBomb: He'll cut loose if pushed past his limits; he tends to break into this whenever [[{{Troll}} Patrck or Bob]] is present. Over time he gave up on trying to self-censor and is willing to drop F-bombs all the time now.
70	* GroinAttack: Infamously, he accidentally does it to himself while playing VideoGame/{{Phasmophobia}} once. See, he was resting his hand with his fist clenched on a particular spot on his chair when someone set off the bits donation notification on his stream (which, when his streaming software is in screamer mode, is a loud blood-curdling scream accompanied with a video of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Foxy]]. However, the cherry on the cake is that he pipes the scream back into his headphones to use as a notification alarm). That in turn startled him and set off his reflexes...
71	* HeroWithBadPublicity: Occasionally this happens in multiplayer games like ''Rust'' where NiceGuy Wade and his team are made out to be the bad guys and cheaters. Wade makes a point to not edit those videos to show that he is playing fairly.
72	* {{Improv}}: Carrying over from Mark's live show tour, if you donate bits and it's your birthday or you dedicate a birthday boy or girl, Wade will sing an improvised birthday song live on his stream.
73	* InsultBackfire: In the conclusion of the ''Rust'' Wadetown series, a group of {{Troll}}s accused Wade of using an aimbot because he managed to kill a couple of them very quickly[[note]]mostly it happened because they kept respawning in a small room, making them easy targets[[/note]]. Rather than being insulted, Wade was amused that he played well enough to be accused of cheating, and even brought it up in the ''Rust'' Youtuber Special series. Adding to the irony, Slendy (a friend of Wade and Zombie's who was an admin on that server) confirmed that the guy who accused Wade was himself cheating by using a crosshair mod.
74	* MeetCute: He met Molly while playing ''Drunk Minecraft''. Mark was harassing Wade and saying he'd never get a girlfriend. Wade typed into the in-game chat "Who wants to marry me?" and Molly replied "Who ''doesn't'' want to marry you?" On May 26, 2018, they got married.
75	* MiddleNameBasis: Goes by his middle name of Wade. His first name is George.
76	* NiceGuy; He really is. He tends to become TheHeart of the group because he genuinely looks out for other people and puts them above himself Case in point, he once [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2mL4iTc4oY&t=20m2s ran back into the jaws of death]] to save WebVideo/{{JackSepticEye}} from a hook in ''Videogame/DeadByDaylight'', even though Jack had already given up and was telling Wade to save himself.
77	* OnlySaneMan: Ended up becoming this in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FfH-1dOFLc The Boner Cast Part 2.]]
78	* PrematurelyBald: Wade suffers from premature baldness and has lost most of his hair as of 2021.
79	* PungeonMaster: Pretty good at wordplay and improvised rhymes, though also not above laughing at his own jokes.
80	* RageQuit: Not even he could make it through ''VideoGame/GettingOverItWithBennettFoddy''.
81	* RuleOfFunny: He tries to play well, and he likes to win, but he'll lose if it would be funny. He's also (usually) willing to laugh at himself.
82	* RunningGag: Among the Salty Boys, Gar gets ribbed for being a "hacker" (or having his [[VirtualYouTuber VTuber]] avatar called a catbat[[note]]Gar [[InsistentTerminology insists]] it's a hellhound[[/note]]) and JP gets accused of not being as innocent as he lets on thanks to his incredible penchant for InnocentInnuendo (like the infamous "I'm putting the hoe in the trash can" from ''VideoGame/SevenDaysToDie'').
83	* ScheherezadeGambit: In ''Dead by Daylight'', he sometimes tries to plead, bribe, or bargain with the killer when cornered. His only real success was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxJJPthS7Bk&t=11m15s when he sang "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" at Molly]] and amused her into sparing him.
84	* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Especially when playing horror games like ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' or ''Dead by Daylight''.
85	* SeriousBusiness:
86	** [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV GTAV RP]]. When Wade slips into character as Norm, the webcam goes off and all notifications on his stream gets disabled. Even Molly has said that once Wade gets into character, it's not a good idea to bother him.
87	** Similarly, when Wade joins any role-playing game sessions, expect him to be serious to a T and to give it his all (he's a regular on the Twitch RPG channel ''[=LostInitiative=]''). Wade is not one to take role-playing lightly and takes his game sessions very seriously. He even bought a custom costume so he could cosplay while roleplaying in a Star Wars-themed campaign.
88	* ShoutOut: According to Wade himself, his nickname is a reference to Minion, his favorite vehicle from ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'', and he's been using variations on it as his online handle for ages. His YT channel is "[=LordMinion=]" because just plain "[=Minion777=]" was already taken and he didn't think anyone would notice or care.
89	* SitcomArchNemesis: The [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard AI player]] named Barbara is this to him whenever he plays [[Characters/RaymanOriginsLegends the Rayman deck]] in ''TabletopGame/{{Uno}}''. "Her" mere presence is enough to [[BerserkButton send him flying into a rage]]. Expect a full meltdown if Barbara somehow wins (or worse, the other players [[{{Troll}} help her win]]).
90	* TheSixthRanger: [=GumbyMMA=] is this to the Salty Boys pack. Usually Gumby is only called upon for a collab when Gar, JP or Pat can’t make it to a collab game Wade is hosting.
91	* StockYuck: Wade is not a big fan of Mexican food, especially tacos.
92	* VitriolicBestBuds: Even though he gets treated like dirt when he is doing a collaboration video, it's worth noting that he is still friends with all of them, even if he gets angry or irritated with them. And he'll quite gleefully {{Troll}} them back, especially when it'll get a laugh.
93	** His relationship with Markiplier ''exemplifies'' this trope, to the point where people have actually asked Wade if Mark was somehow forcing him to participate in collaborations by bullying him. They discuss this in one ''VideoGame/SevenDaysToDie'' series and have a good laugh before explaining that it's just an act, with Wade pointing out that if Mark really was that nasty to him, they never would have become friends in the first place.
94	* WorthIt: Claims that it would have been worth it to get [[GroinAttack punched in the dick]] if [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3QfwU3Nn6Y&t=773 he punted Mark off the map]] so that Mark would have flown to Cincinnati.

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