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1-> ''Helloween, sucking MOST of the tension out of the atmosphere for 4 years running, and that's why he's awesome.''
2-->-- A comment on Website/YouTube describing [=Helloween4545=] perfectly.
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4[=Helloween4545=] is a British {{L|etsPlay}}Per who mainly plays SurvivalHorror games, and often does so as a complete {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who plays with the corpses of zombified dogs, [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter names any shotgun-type weapon]] [[ICallItVera 'Mr. Shotty']] and is prone to an occasional psychotic episode once in a while. He also has named a few monsters (who hasn't?) and sometimes describes horrible things that happen to a man named 'Bob'. His main weaknesses are ladders and locked[[note]]STUCK, JAMMED[[/note]] doors.
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6His [=YouTube=] account can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Helloween4545 here]], and he also has a Website/{{Twitch}} account for the games he doesn't want to be on his main channel [[https://www.twitch.tv/helloween4545 too]].
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8Helloween no longer does episodic Let's Plays on [=YouTube=] but does stream games daily on his Twitch channel.
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10[[WMG:[=LPs=] done by Helloween include, in alphabetical order:]]
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12* ''VideoGame/AlanWake''
13* ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation''
14* ''Aliens vs. Predator'' (1999 Game, All Campaigns)
15** ''VideoGame/AliensVsPredator2'' (2001 Game, All Campaigns)
16** ''VideoGame/AliensVsPredator2010'' (All Campaigns)
17* ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice'' (Replayed)
18** ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns'' (Replayed)
19* ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent''
20** ''Amnesia: La Caza'' (Custom Story)
21** ''Justine''
22** ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs''
23* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}''
24** ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2''
25* ''Berserk ~Millennium Falcon Arc: Chapter of the Flowers of Oblivion'' (On Hiatus)
26* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac''
27* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' (Incomplete)
28* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', ''The Old Hunters''
29* ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth'' (Replayed)
30* ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuTheOfficialVideoGame''
31* ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania 64}}''
32** ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaTheAdventure Castlevania: The Adventure]]''
33** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow''
34** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaCircleOfTheMoon''
35** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow''
36** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaJudgment''
37** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia''
38** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin''
39** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight''
40** ''VideoGame/SuperCastlevaniaIV''
41* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''
42* ''VideoGame/{{Claire}}''
43* ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersUndying''
44* ''VideoGame/CondemnedCriminalOrigins''
45* ''VideoGame/CryOfFear''
46* ''VideoGame/{{Cryostasis}}''
47* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', ''Artorias of the Abyss''
48** ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'', ''The Lost Crowns Trilogy''
49** ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'', ''Ashes of Ariandel'' and ''The Ringed City''
50** ''Dark Souls: Remastered''
51* ''VideoGame/{{Darkwood}}''
52* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon''
53* ''VideoGame/TheDarkness II''
54* ''VideoGame/DarkwingDuckCapcom''
55* ''VideoGame/DayZ'' (Adventures with friends)
56* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace1'' (Replayed)
57** ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2''
58** ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3'', ''Awakened'' (Co-op with Rufert)
59* ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition''
60* ''VideoGame/DOOM2016''
61* ''VideoGame/Doom3: BFG Edition''
62* ''VideoGame/Drakengard3'', ''The Sister Prequels''
63* ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim 3D''
64* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness''
65* ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin''
66** ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin2''
67* ''VideoGame/FatalFrameI''
68** ''VideoGame/FatalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater''
69* ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'' (Replayed)
70** ''F.E.A.R.: Extraction Point''
71** ''F.E.A.R.: Perseus Mandate''
72** ''F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin''
73** ''F.E.A.R. 3'' (Co-op with Klyka)
74* ''VideoGame/HauntingGround''
75* ''VideoGame/IllusionOfGaia''
76* ''VideoGame/{{Kholat}}''
77* ''VideoGame/TheLastDoor''
78* ''VideoGame/LoneSurvivor''
79* ''Lust For Darkness''
80* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' (aka Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes)
81** ''VideoGame/MetalGearGhostBabel''
82* ''VideoGame/Metro2033''
83** ''VideoGame/MetroLastLight''
84* ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime''
85* ''VideoGame/NieR''
86** ''VideoGame/NierAutomata''
87* ''VideoGame/NightmareHouse 2''
88* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes''
89** ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2''
90* ''VideoGame/ObsCure''
91** ''VideoGame/ObsCure II''
92* ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}: Overture''
93** ''Penumbra: Black Plague''
94** ''Penumbra: Necrologue'' (Fanmade Sequel)
95* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''
96** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' (Co-op with Rufert)
97** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' (Co-op with Klyka)
98** ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil7 Resident Evil 7: Biohazard]]''
99** ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil Resident Evil REmake]]''
100* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake''
101** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2''
102* ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana''
103** ''Secret of Mana 2018 Remake''
104* ''VideoGame/SilentHill1''
105** ''VideoGame/SilentHill2''
106** ''VideoGame/SilentHill3''
107** ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming''
108** ''VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour''
109* ''{{VideoGame/Singularity}}''
110* ''VideoGame/{{SOMA}}''
111* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' (On Hiatus)
112* ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}} 2''
113** ''Splatterhouse 2010 Remake''
114* ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}: Shadow of Chernobyl'' (Oblivion Lost Mod)
115** ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}: Call of Pripyat'' (Vanilla)
116* ''VideoGame/TheSuffering''
117** ''The Suffering: Ties that Bind''
118* ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'' (Replayed)
119* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''
120* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles''
121* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' (Replayed as a Malkavian)
122* ''VideoGame/{{Vampyr}}''
123* ''VideoGame/XCOM2'', ''War of the Chosen''
124
125[[WMG:His ongoing LP's are:]]
126
127* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' (Replay)
128* ''VideoGame/MetroExodus''
129* ''VideoGame/NieR'' (Replay)
130* ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'' (On Twitch)
131* ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana''
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134!!Tropes that apply to [=Helloween4545=] and his videos:
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136* {{Angrish}}: When really frustrated, he'll start speaking gibberish for a short while.
137** Made hilarious(er) when it's sped up, where he sounds like an angry chipmunk.
138* ArbitraryGunPower: He's not a fan of this trope as he often bemoans his fate of firing pea-strength bullets at enemies who soak up tons of damage.
139* BerserkButton: "CRYPTIC BULLSHIT!"[[note]]Basically, anything that deliberately tries to be mysterious but ends up not making a lot of sense when thought over about. Alternatively, characters talking mysteriously instead of giving a straight answer for no good reason.[[/note]]
140** He also has this reaction when dealing with [[IAmVeryBritish "fake Brits"]], i.e. people impersonating British accents... poorly.
141** At the end of his [=LP=] of ''Clive Barker's Undying'', after hearing the stock phrases of [[LockedDoor 'IT'S LOCKED', 'STUCK', 'JAMMED' and 'WON'T BUDGE']] a million times, he developed a few issues about doors.
142** After scaring the bejesus out of him in the first ''F.E.A.R.'' game: "GODDAMN NINJAS!"
143** His hatred of monitors applies - in previous [=LPs=], they slowed his computer down.
144** Lazy console-to-PC ports and stupid company decisions cause him to go on mini-rants.
145** ''The Evil Within'', due to how disappointed he is about how bad of a game it turned out to be. To a similar extent, ''Cry of Fear'' also counts.
146%%* CargoShip: Let's just say that Helloween ''loves'' to use a shotgun whenever he can.
147* BritsLoveTea: Helloween does not like tea (he prefers ''not-diet'' colas), but he likes to poke fun at his own Britishness, spawning sentences like this:
148--> '''Helloween:''' ''"I'd like to have a comfy chair and a coffee. No, you know what? I'll take a tea, being British and all... REAL tea, mind! I've been to America, I know what your tea is like."''
149** There's also the tea-scapades in ''Alice: Madness Returns''...
150--->''(using a teapot-mortar to shoot a baby-faced abomination)'' '''Helloween:''' "TEA!!!"
151** He also points out in ''Claire'' (and in a few other of his [=LPs=]) that he doesn't like coffee that much either.
152* CatchPhrase:
153** "Hello and welcome back to..."
154** "Well, this [[ContractualGenreBlindness seems legit]]."
155** "Rude!"
156** "Jolly good."
157** "Good stuff."
158* TheChewToy: Is there a way to die horribly? If so, Bob has already experienced it.
159** In his playthrough of ''The Darkness II'', the [[IAmVeryBritish dark]][[BerserkButton ling]] is this to him.
160* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: I would guess someone is one if they talked to corpses and pretended they talked back, as it so happened in ''Dead Space 2'' at the end of his first set amongst other things. [[RuleOfFunny Not that it's a bad thing.]]
161** Halfway through his ''Alice: Madness Returns'' LP, he randomly split off a second persona called Helloween #2 (who sounded exactly like Helloween) to banter with since Alice wasn't cooperating; a few videos later he spawned Helloween #3 (who also sounded exactly like Helloween) – because #2 had gone on holiday – and they had a conversation about how Helloween #2 is crazy and no one should listen to a word he says.
162*** As a result, a lot of his fans think his survival horror focus has scared him well into insanity.
163** Pick any LP of his and watch through his videos of it. More than likely you will end up finding a moment wherein he acts silly for one reason or another.
164* ContinuityNod: He tends to make a lot of references to his older [=LPs=] and videos.
165** In ''Claire'', he says "''Jammed''" and "''Stuck''" in an Irish accent a few times when Claire finds jammed doors - referring to the main character Patrick Galloway of his ''Undying'' [=LP=].
166** In ''Resident Evil [=REmake=]'', after fleeing from the room with the hornet, he refers to his dislike of wasps complete with using the same tone of anguish and fear from his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab39CJu2204 wasp warning video]].
167--> '''Helloween:''' "Angry, angry women!"
168** In his ''Castlevania'' videos, he often refers to the actions or abilities of characters he has played as before such as when he compared Nathan to, say, Shanoa.
169* DeadpanSnarker: Thanks to all the things Helloween has experienced in his Let's Plays, he has become a good one.
170** During his [=LP=] of ''Alien vs. Predator (2010)'', there's this moment:
171--> '''PA:''' "Weyland-Yutani. Building better worlds."
172--> '''Helloween:''' "Yeah, but not better lights."
173** Then there's his treatment of Barry in his LP of ''Resident Evil Revelations 2'', poking fun at his previous betrayal and snarking at some of the man's lines.
174--> '''Helloween:''' "Barry the Betrayer!"
175* DeathByFallingOver: Occurred frequently in ''Cryostasis'' due to Alexander's feeble legs.
176** Happens to Helloween often in a few of his videos, courtesy of his archnemesis, [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes ladders]].
177** Happens literally one time in ''The Evil Within'':
178--> ''(gets hit for last sliver of health)'' '''Helloween:''' "... Oh no, I fell over. I think I just died of death."
179* DrinkingGame: He made one where you had to take a shot every time ''The Evil Within'' ripped off an element from a previous horror property. This culminates in him promising bitterly that he would [[BreakingTheFourthWall take an actual drink on camera]] if it turned out the last chapter was called "The Evil Within". [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Guess what the last shot of the LP was?]]
180** It returned with a vengeance in the sequel, too!
181* FanonDiscontinuity: Invoked. Helloween considers ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' a disgrace to ''Chrono Trigger'' and has stated that he won't play it.
182* GoodiesInTheToilets: The {{Trope Namer|s}} and the one who suggested its existence as a trope. Helloween's quite proud of it too, intentionally invoking it whenever he can.
183* HarpoonGun: He favoured the Javelin Gun in ''Dead Space 2'', to the point where it was used more frequently than the [[BoringButPractical Plasma Cutter]]. It's also the weapon he upgraded the most... which made it his murder gun, pretty much.
184** His Agony Crossbow in ''The Evil Within'', when he needed something with more kick than his [[SimpleYetAwesome Pistol]].
185* HellishCopter: He lampshades this when helicopter is brought down by an [=EMP=] in his LP of ''Singularity''.
186* HypocriticalHumor: He gets angry at "fake Brits", but he often puts on fake American accents during his Let's Plays. They're... not even close to legit. Case in point, his recap video in his ''Silent Hill 3'' LP.
187* IAmVeryBritish: Quite, except for one little detail (see "Spot of Tea" below).
188* [[ICallItVera I Call It "Mr. Shotty"]]: As mentioned above, he has a habit of naming just about almost any inanimate object he comes into contact with - such as his best friend Mr. Shotty, the shotgun.
189* JustAStupidAccent: Mocked in his [=LP=] of ''Clive Barker's Undying''. Patrick, the main character, has a horrible Irish accent. Helloween imitates it when he is speaking for him. Helloween apologises to any Irish in the audience, but his attempt is MORE tolerable than the one in the game!
190** Can be seen time and time again in his [=LPs=] of games that feature Russians. [[RedScare Which is quite a lot, actually.]]
191* MadeOfIndestructium: If there's ever something that cannot be broken that should normally easily shatter (such as a glass window after being shot at numerous times) it's usually made of "Decentanium".
192* NoodleIncident: The ever elusive "Spider Story" has become his over the years with Helloween teasing about telling it whenever a long load screen shows up.
193* OnlySaneMan:
194** Bob took this role in ''Dead Space 2'', where he points out the stupidity of having only ONE power cell separating the remnants of [=EarthGov=] on Titan Station from painful [[TheUndead Necromorph]] death and suggests another one be placed in a more secure location. He is ignored. Granted, it wasn't THAT easy to reach, but place a Unitologist up there...
195** It gets funnier when ''Helloween himself'' acts like this in almost all of his [=LPs=], pointing out major flaws in both the reasoning of game characters and the logic of particular places' or items' purposes, as well as the enemies' placements themselves.
196* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When [[TalkativeLoon Helloween]] starts talking quietly, outright whispering or sounds on edge, it's because he is ''REALLY'' scared.
197* PlaceWorseThanDeath: When entering levels of a game that are particularly badly buried in garbage and decay, infested by horribly mutated monsters, or looking like a place you would never want to set foot in, there will typically be a comparison to Swindon.
198* RunningGag: Every LP has at least one of or references to:
199** [[TemptingFate 'Sounds legit.]] [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong Let's do it.']]
200** [[FacialHorror 'WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR FACE?']]
201** [[RagdollPhysics 'Molest, molest!']]
202** {{Shot|gunsAreJustBetter}}[[ICallItVera guns.]]
203** [[TheyKilledKennyAgain The aforementioned unlucky bastard Bob.]]
204** [[CriticalExistenceFailure Death by ladders.]]
205** [[MoreDakka Ammo conservation, or lack of it.]]
206** [[VideoGame/MetalGear Snake impersonations.]]
207** [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 Skeletor impersonations.]]
208** From the ''Dead Space'' games:
209*** "Pimp stance! Glorious pimp stance!"
210*** "STOMPY STOMP! Aw yeah!"
211** "Party body!"[[note]]This happens whenever a dead body is left twitching, usually due to a game glitch or it clipping something.[[/note]]
212*** The replay of ''F.E.A.R.'' added "Partyhalla", which is where bodies are headed when they manage to glitch completely out of the level geometry.
213* SanitySlippage: As the {{running gag}}s from other videos increase, the less sane he seems, culminating in his 'talking to corpses' moments and his somewhat... [[ComedicSociopathy sociopathic]] [[RuleOfFunny behaviour]].
214** For example, in ''Dead Space 2'', he ended up imagining a conversation between him and some of the corpses about his [[ScheduleSlip infrequent uploads]] near the end.
215** He slips into this the more he rages, to the point that he can go into {{Angrish}} mode.
216* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Overlaps with ICallItVera. ''A lot.''
217* ShoutOut: Multiple. For example, several of the voices Ethan hears in ''Condemned: Criminal Origins'' are He-Man, Skeletor and [[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged Super Kami Guru]].
218* SkewedPriorities: Perhaps the best example comes from ''Penumbra: Overture'', in which he entered a room covered in blood, gasped, and immediately focused on a ''boot.''
219** In an ''Amnesia: The Dark Descent'' example, upon [[spoiler: opening a cupboard full of skulls, complete with a JumpScare]], he gasps 'Oh God'... then picks up a skull, bashes it up and down on top of the desk, and then places it daintily atop the neck stump of a decapitated mannequin and finally declares himself an ''artiste''.
220* TalkativeLoon: The 'voices' he seems to have picked for his [=LPs=][[note]][[OOCIsSeriousBusiness except when he's quiet.]] See {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.[[/note]]
221* [[TheyKilledKennyAgain They Killed Bob Again]]: A typical example of one of Bob's many demises:
222-->'''Russian Scientist:''' "How was zee reactor Bob?"
223-->'''Bob:''' "I'M MELTING!"
224-->'''Russian Scientist:''' "Ah, he is melting, it is working awesome."
225* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: In Helloween's case, ladders and stealth are his AchillesHeel. He also hates mazes with a passion and is as queasy and afraid of hornets as arachnophobes are of spiders[[note]]which he's actually cool with.[[/note]].
226* YouAreFat:
227** Towards Isaac when he's wearing the Vintage RIG in ''Dead Space 2''. He also tends to rag on other overweight characters a lot, like Norton Mapes from the ''F.E.A.R.'' franchise.
228** He calls Ethan from ''Condemned: Criminal Origins'' a "chunky meatball", due to how slow he runs.

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