Line #18 WebVideo/CellSpex


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3	->''"Stay incredibly shiny, Animaniacs!"''
4	-->-- '''[=CellSpex=]''''s Catchphrase
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6	[=CellSpex=] is an online film critic who focuses primarily on animation. She's often represented by her avatar: a purple-haired shadow with an aqua bandanna. She's also a member of the ''WebVideo/MLPAnalysis'' community and is the one who puts together the ''WebVideo/AnalystBroniesReact'' videos.
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8	Her [=YouTube=] channel can be found [[https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCGAJOYHlh_tV8Xct5gWZpyw here,]] and her Twitter can be found [[https://mobile.twitter.com/CellSpex here]].
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12	!![=CellSpex=] shows examples of the following tropes
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14	* AbandonedCatchphrase: Her phrase "Stay incredibly shiny, Animaniacs!" was originally "Stay awesome, Animaniacs!", but she changed it following the release of ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014''.
15	* ArtEvolution: Her avatar gets an upgrade in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' second season finale {{review}}, and another one starting in the ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania3SummerVacation'' review. Following the release of her ''WesternAnimation/Elemental2023'' review, her avatar received ''another'' update, with slightly more detailed hair and bandana.
16	* ArtShift: Her recap of the plot of ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'' is done with sock puppets.
17	* AuthorAppeal: Her favorite type of characters tend to be [[DeadpanSnarker snarky, intelligent badasses.]]
18	* BaitAndSwitch: At the start of "My Weird Beef with ''Soul'' Criticism," she praises an inspirational film that arrived near the end of 2020 that brought to light new possibilities for animation... not [[WesternAnimation/{{Soul}} the subject of the video]], as you might expect, but the more obscure ''WesternAnimation/{{Wolfwalkers}}''.
19	* BerserkButton: Touch her bandana and she will bite you.
20	%% ** ''WesternAnimation/NormOfTheNorth.'' That merits no explanation.
21	* {{Catchphrase}}: "Stay incredibly shiny, Animaniacs!"
22	** "Holy/Thank deities!" or some other variant.
23	* BreakingOldTrends: Subverted -- she did a Worst to Best for animated adaptations of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' at the end of 2020, but did a regular animated film one a month later even though that year had seen a forced decrease in theatrical films.
24	* CountryMatters: She uses the word to describe [[AlphaBitch Lavinia]] from ''Anime/PrincessSarah'' in her review of Goodtimes Entertainment's ''A Little Princess'', although the word itself is bleeped out.
25	* ClusterFBomb: Flies into this in her {{review}} of ''WesternAnimation/NormOfTheNorth''.
26	* CurseCutShort: In her review of ''WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage'':
27	-->'''[=CellSpex=]:''' But I do have something personally invested in this movie, and '''''[[SuddenlyShouting THAT IS SHOWING UP THESE]] [[Film/TheSmurfs ROTTEN]] [[Film/TheSmurfs2 PIECES]] OF SH-'''''(abrupt cut)
28	* DeadpanSnarker: She can be pretty sarcastic sometimes.
29	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The list of things she thinks is bad about ''WesternAnimation/NormOfTheNorth'': animation, music, animation, voices, animation, script. "Did I mention that the animation is kind of shit? I'm sure no one else has!"
30	* FaceFramedInShadow: Her Avatar is a shadowy figure with only [[GlowingEyes the eyes]], hair, and clothing visible. And the mouth, [[SuddenAnatomy when she needs to emote beyond just the eyes]].
31	* GuiltyPleasures: Discussed with ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic''. She thinks it's bad, but she understands why it has a cult following -- in her words, "it's a surreal, awkward romance-fantasy-musical. That combination of words practically screams 'guilty pleasure'".
32	* HellIsThatNoise: She considers Series/TheXFiles's theme to be this.
33	* LaughingMad: Breaks into maddened laughter upon revealing that ''WesternAnimation/NormOfTheNorth'' got a wide release, despite [[WesternAnimation/{{Anomalisa}} much]] [[Anime/WhenMarnieWasThere better]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLittlePrince2015 movies]] getting limited releases.
34	* MusicalEpisode: Her 2015 Worst to Best List is done to the tune of Christmas songs.
35	* {{Narm}}: [[invoked]] In her ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'' review, she calls out Branch's backstory and the "True Colors" sequence as both being so melodramatic that they come back to being hilarious.
36	* ObligatoryJoke: In her 2015 musical review of animated movies themed around Christmas carols, she sets ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' to "Joy to the World" and immediately points out how obvious the joke was.
37	* PetPeeveTrope:
38	** [[invoked]] She's not a fan of the [[RomanticPlotTumor abundance of romance]] in media. She later clarified that she's more annoyed about romance in media [[LastMinuteHookUp done]] [[SlapSlapKiss wrong]] than romance in and of itself.
39	** She absolutely ''despises'' the BoyfriendBlockingDad trope. The BumblingDad trope also tends to earn her ire.
40	** Being a former kindergarten teacher, any situation where children are put in danger by [[AdultsAreUseless irresponsible or lazy adults]] is a major source of fury for her.
41	* SarcasmMode: The entirety of the "Why [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Bronies]] Are The Worst Thing Ever" which is actually satirizing the show's HateDumb and counter-arguing against certain criticisms such as the AnimationAgeGhetto, GirlShowGhetto, and PerverseSexualLust. Sadly, however, [[SarcasmBlind many viewers]] [[StealthParody missed the point]] and thought that it was a serious rant video if the comments are any indication
42	* ShipperOnDeck:
43	** She was rooting for [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Korrasami]] to be a thing long before it actually happened, and despite being rather anti-romance, she was positively ''giddy'' about Varrick and Zhu Li getting married.
44	** Going off her saying that ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' was awesome shortly before showing the clip of Luz asking Amity out, she's a Lumity shipper as well.
45	* ShoutOut:
46	** In her review of ''Film/DeathNote2017'', when voicing the characters, Ryuk shouts [[WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged "HEY KID WANNA SEE A DEAD BODY?!"]]
47	** Her 2016 Worst to Best opening montage was originally set to "[[Anime/YuriOnIce History Maker]]", and in the list itself mentions [[WackyMarriageProposal one of the show's signature scenes]] in a very silly way when reviewing ''Anime/DoukyuseiClassmates'' (which has [=YoI=]'s ending theme as the BGM).
48	--->'''[=CellSpex=]:''' Oh yeah, this is just a thank you for being my coach! [[BlatantLies It's nothing more than that!]] Why would you think that?
49	** "You'd think "There's no way [[Manga/InThisCornerOfTheWorld a movie this cute]] is [[MoodWhiplash suddenly gonna get super-dark and depressing and gruesome]]," right [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Madoka]]?"
50	** During her 2019 Worst to Best, she says that what Creator/StudioTrigger does best is make colorful explosive battles while people scream [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall "I AM A MAN!"]].
51	** During her review of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'', she comments on Creator/LilyTomlin playing the voice of Aunt May:
52	--->"And Aunt May is a boss! That's my [[WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus Miss Frizzle!]]"
53	* SoBadItsGood[[invoked]]: In the ''WesternAnimation/NormOfTheNorth'' review, she says that ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'' is entertainingly bad, while ''North'' is bad in a boring way.
54	* SophisticatedAsHell / YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Played with at the start of her ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' review:
55	-->"Hear ye, hear ye! And let it be known, my fellow ani-psychotics, that on this day I did proclaim...that [[{{Squee}} THE HYPE IS REAL!]]"
56	* SyntheticVoiceActor: Due to losing her voice because of the flu, her review of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTeenTitans'' is done using a voice synthesizer.
57	* TakeThat: Several against ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo''.
58	** She also seems to dislike ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', since she calls the movie out using tropes like ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve and AdultsAreUseless without any hint of irony. She also calls Jack "[[NoYay Not]] [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa's]] [[CrossoverShip Boyfriend]]" in her ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' review.
59	** She's also not a huge fan of Creator/IlluminationEntertainment.
60	** Points out that more time was very likely put into ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'''s script than [[WesternAnimation/NormOfTheNorth all]] [[WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank of]] [[WesternAnimation/AngryBirds the]] [[WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets preceeding]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}} movies]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Storks}} of]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Sing}} the]] 2016 Worst to Best list. She does not take it back.
61	** The other reason her Worst to Best lists from 2009 to 2012 were taken down was because...
62	--->'''[=CellSpex=]:''' Believe it or not, [=YouTube=]'s copyright system used to be even worse than what it currently is now.
63	** Her opinion of Disney's live action/photorealistic remakes of their classic animated movies is growing hatred, reaching a boiling point when ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'' came out and earned a dishonorable mention on the 2019 Worst to Best. ''Film/Mulan2020'' was an excuse to just let it out, given how bad the year had been in general at that point.
64	* ThatCameOutWrong: From her recap of Book 3, episode 5 of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' when we're introduced to Bolin's LoveInterest Opal:
65	-->'''[=CellSpex=]:''' Heck, even Bolin has something to do this season. Oh wow, that was a bad choice of words!
66	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: She switches to her pony OC when reviewing ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Although in her "Rainbow Falls" review, it was {{involuntary\|Shapeshifting}}.
67	-->'''[=CellSpex=]:''' Really? So this is mandatory for anyone who wants to analyse an episode? (sighs) Whatever.
68	* WhamShot: During her review of ''WesternAnimation/WonderPark'', the DeusExMachina ending causes a cut to her real life self for the first time to deliver a FlatWhat.
69	* WhatTheHellHero: As much as ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'' got a surprisingly high placing on her 2016 Worst to Best, she made a strict point to call out how badly the film's animators were treated.
70	-->'''[=CellSpex=]:''' You were better than most this year ''Sausage Party'', but practice what you preach and ''treat others with respect''.

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