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4	->''"I love ''WebVideo/CinemaSins''. I am only poking fun at some of their mistakes."''
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7	''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr9dAaPfxCBJS1oaeJWDtaQ Th3Birdman]]'' (real name [[https://twitter.com/th3birdman15/status/1233474786694746112 Anthony Edward West]]) is a [=YouTube=] personality from Los Angeles, California. He's a voice actor, self-proclaimed nerd, comic enthusiast and gamer who rose to prominence as a critic of ''WebVideo/CinemaSins''. Whilst his channel began as primarily a gaming-centric channel, in early 2018 he began making his own ''Everything Wrong With [=CinemaSins=]'' videos in which he humorously critiques Jeremy Scott's often insignificant or incorrect nitpicking, while using [=CinemaSins=]' own style against them. He has also produced four parody videos in the vein of [=CinemaSins=] which cover ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' and ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague''. [=Th3Birdman=]'s work on ''Everything Wrong With'' series is mostly satirical.
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10	!! You padding the tropes count, bro? ding!
11	* AccentuateTheNegative: The "negative" part is usually Jeremy's constant nitpicking of often insignificant things, lack of exposition, and other factors.
12	* ActuallyPrettyFunny:
13	** Birdman will occasionally take a sin off whenever he finds Jeremy's sin hilarious.
14	** After rival channel WebVideo/JayExci included a TakeThat towards Birdman's "Jeremy says boner" Running Gag in their video on ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}'', Birdman found it so funny that he copied the entire audio for Jay's sin into his own video on the same film.
15	** Also {{subverted\|Trope}} in the ''Minions'' video. When Jeremy points out that Scarlet and Herb's {{Sinister Schnoz}}es would prove lethal if they do the 69, Birdman removes a sin because he genuinely laughed at the joke. He then explains that Jeremy did have a point, [[ExplainExplainOhCrap only to realize that he'd be explaining exactly what a "69" is]], so he adds back a sin.
16	* AprilFoolsDay: Did this in 2020 for a supposed parody sins video for ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' (an actual sins video for that film would later be done).
17	** For 2021, he did a parody of ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' "because Jeremy chose ''Film/TheMightyDucks'' today". An actual sins video for that film would also later be done.
18	** For 2022, he did a parody of ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' "because [=CinemaSins=] ain't gonna do it today."
19	* ArbitrarySkepticism: Birdman often calls Jeremy out for questioning characters of fantasy movies doing mundane things in "unrealistic" ways when the rules of magic have already been explained.
20	* AssholeVictim: Discussed regarding the Manson family in ''Film/OnceUponATimeInHollywood'' and Jeremy's aversion of this in his video. Birdman sins Jeremy's revulsion towards the Manson family's fates because it's the ''Manson Family'', so it's completely deserved.
21	* AuthorAvatar:
22	** [=Th3Birdman=] uses Blanka's versus screen image from ''Super Street Fighter II Turbo''.
23	** As for Future Birdman, his avatar is also Blanka - but from ''Street Fighter V''.
24	* BaritoneOfStrength: [=Th3Birdman=] has a sweet, deep voice.
25	* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: The entire premise of Birdman's take on ''Everything Wrong With [=CinemaSins=]'' videos.
26	* BerserkButton:
27	** Whenever Future Birdman forgets to get pretzels.
28	** Jeremy's constant lack of comic book knowledge frequently pisses him off.
29	** His biggest grips are Jeremy’s White knight tendencies[[note]]Birdman's problem with this is not so much the tendencies themselves, but rather the fact that he views Jeremy doing so as just virtue signaling, not a genuine belief in what he says[[/note]] and misuse of DeusExMachina[[note]]DeusExMachina applies to a story's resolution that comes out of nowhere, but Jeremy seems to apply it more to any BigDamnHeroes moment in general[[/note]].
30	** Anytime Jeremy makes a sin video for a SacredCow. Often times, he'll add an obscene amount of sins at the start ''just because the video exists''.
31	*** Jeremy sinning [[SignatureScene iconic movie scenes]] also sets him off (such as the Portals scene in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' or the reveal of Vader's parentage in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'').
32	*** For ''Film/IronMan1'', Jeremy sinning the film's [[TheStinger Stinger]] nets him 199,965 sins (enough to make the total sin count reach 199,999, a reference to the MCU's Earth-199999 multiverse designation).
33	** In the sins video for ''Film/SchoolOfRock'', he gives Jeremy 50 sins for saying that Music/TheDoors suck. Before that, in the sins video for ''{{Film/Bumblebee}}'', he has Future Birdman hold him back after Jeremy says that ''{{Series/Alf}}'' sucks. Furthermore, in the sins video for ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', when Jeremy says that Creator/KeithDavid has the worst voice, [=Th3Birdman=] responds by using the "WHAT DID YOU SAY, NIGGA?!" clip from ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' and gives Jeremy a whopping 100 sins. This feat would later be repeated in the ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' video for Jeremy saying [[spoiler:Dizzy deserved to die]].
34	** [[AnnoyingLaugh Jeremy's laugh]], which gets so bad in ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum'' that Birdman asks his future counterpart if it's the event that actually triggered his existence.
35	** For that matter, insulting the ''Franchise/JohnWick'' series itself, given he gave Jeremy {{infinite}} sins during the ''Film/{{Spawn\|1997}}'' video for making a jab at it.
36	** The video for ''Film/MortalKombat2021'' get 150 sins for Jeremy calling Scorpion's kunai a "stabby yo-yo".
37	* BlackAndNerdy: Birdman sometimes comes across this way. He's an avid comic book fan (to the point that he named his electric guitar "Gwen Stacy") and former band geek who was bullied in school, is equipped with a seemingly endless mountain of trivia, and has bad luck with women. (However, he's not nearly as nerdy as [[ChewToy Stan]], for whom he shows a great deal of contempt.)
38	* BrokenPedestal: Something that he invokes for his ''Everything Wrong With [=CinemaSins=]'' series. He plays Birdman as someone who once enjoyed ''[=CinemaSins=]'', but became disgruntled over the years and now is openly vitriolic towards them.
39	* CharacterCatchphrase: Just like ''[=CinemaSins=]'' themselves. Many of them go into RunningGag territory - and even double as such.
40	** "Jeremy says ''boner''." Whenever [[ShapedLikeItself Jeremy says boner]] or any other variation of penis. As of the ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' video, this particular usage of the word grants Jeremy 10 sins.
41	** "Jeremy makes a pop-culture reference that isn't a sin of this movie' cliché." And of course, Jeremy makes these references ''a lot of times'' - so much so that Birdman cuts himself off during that phrase.
42	** "Jeremy doesn't know shit about X." Jeremy's lack of observation about particular subjects - whether be it women, comic books, movies, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs comic book movies]], etc. - proves it constantly.
43	** Whenever Jeremy fake-laughs hysterically: "This fucking laugh" - which also gets 10 sins.
44	** "[[CaptainObvious Pointing out things that are happening on the screen]]' cliché."
45	** "You padding the sin count, bro?" Complete with munching on some snacks.
46	** "Jeremy sins something he likes cliché." When Jeremy says that he liked something or gave the indication he enjoyed something a film did yet he gives the scene a sin for it anyway.
47	** The '''[=ACKCHYUALLY=]''' guy named Stan who sometimes interjects and explains the point of the sin to Birdman. He often gets cut off - as well as killed - constantly.
48	** Whenever Franchise/{{Batman}} fanboys are brought up, Creator/ChrisEvans laughs his ass up at the sad Creator/BenAffleck.
49	** Every time Jeremy trips over his words, [=Th3Birdman=] goes: "Wait, what was that?", then replays Jeremy's trip, says "One more time", [[RuleOfThree replays the tripped-over word once more]] and mocks it on occasion while playing a clip of a related speech impediment (or making [[VoiceClipSong a remix]] out of it).
50	** Whenever Jeremy talks to characters in the films he's watching: "Jeremy yells at the screen cliché."
51	** "Jeremy feigns ignorance cliché" to whenever Jeremy conveniently "forgets" a crucial plot point he should have known about in order to justify a sin. Or whenever Jeremy sins something in a way that implies he didn't know something when another sin in the same video proves he definitely did.
52	** "SKIP!" Whenever Jeremy goes on a rant about something that has nothing to do with the movie but he seems to just go on and on and on without a point to it, Birdman will use this to interrupt the rant, sin, and move on.
53	* ClusterFBomb: He has a foul mouth, just like Jeremy.
54	-->'''[[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Iron Man]]:''' [[CensoredForComedy S**t!]]
55	-->'''Captain America:''' Language!
56	-->'''[=CinemaSins=]:''' Swear police.
57	-->'''[=Th3Birdman=]:''' This coming from a motherf*r who fking censors his swear words on *damn [=YouTube=]. Fk! I mean, who the fk does this stupid st?! ding!
58	* CreepyMonotone: Future Birdman speaks in this tone.
59	* TheDarkSide: In ''The Empire Strikes Back'' video, Emperor Birdpatine (Blanka in a Palpatine cloak) rechristens Birdman as ''Darth Penguin'' right after another mis-usage of Deus Ex Machina by Jeremy.
60	* DeadlyEuphemism: Birdman "spraying" Stan whenever he pops up.
61	* EasterEgg: Any time the sin counter reaches 69 (without skipping the number) Birdman [[{{LOL69}} throws in a miscellaneous term instead of the number 69.]] Sometimes it's related to the movie he's reviewing, other times it's just random.
62	* EpilepticFlashingLights:
63	** He warns of this before the ''Hercules'' video, which seems to be the only time he had to do it.
64	** He criticizes Jeremy for calling the second Marvel Studios logo that debuted in ''Captain America The Winter Soldier'' "seizure inducing", saying "this isn't Pokemon, y'all" before cutting to the few moments in the Pokemon episode Electric Soldier Porygon (where the rockets are fired) before the now infamous flashing lights (which are not actually shown) began.
65	* FanBoy: For as much as his channel makes fun of ''[=CinemaSins=]'', he makes it clear at the beginning of every video in his series that he is, indeed, a fan of their content, even though it won't stop him from critiquing them.
66	* FanonDiscontinuity:[[invoked]] In his video for ''Film/Halloween1978'', [=Th3Birdman=] shows a disdain for the retcon in ''Film/Halloween2018'' that Laurie and Michael aren't siblings, outright stating that to him, Laurie will always be Cynthia Myers.
67	* FunWithSubtitles:
68	** The subtitles on his videos are often a bit cruder than what he actually says out loud. To pick just one example, in the ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'' video, he calls Jeremy a "goddamn dork", which the subtitles translate as "goddamn whale penis".
69	** In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' video, Birdman calls Jeremy out for sinning the donkey scene, like this:
70	---> '''The Subtitles''': In the scene, they explain that the donkeys got out of the fence, you ass.\
71	'''Birdman''': In the scene, they explain that [[{{Spoonerism}} the asses got out of the fence, you donkey.]]
72	** {{Subverted\|Trope}} in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}'' video when Birdman [[ExplainExplainOhCrap realizes too late that he's explaining what a "69" is]], so [[EveryoneHasStandards he refuses to put captions for that sin.]]
73	* FourthWallObserver: Future Birdman is the only character who's aware that he doesn't exist outside of the videos.
74	* FutureMeScaresMe: An aversion - Birdman and his future self get along nicely... most of the time.
75	* HypocriticalHumor:
76	** [=Th3Birdman=] ''revels'' in it. Particularly, he'll poke fun at ''[=CinemaSins=]'' for nitpicking aspects of the film while simultaneously nitpicking even minor parts of their videos. The "You padding the sin count, bro?" catch-phrase he's known for both calls them out on padding the sin count while doing the same thing for his own sin count, and to drive it home, he'll munch on those snacks for as long as he can.
77	** The final sin in his ''Film/ANewHope'' video, which is him riffing on Kevin Smith for naming his kid after [[ComicBook/HarleyQuinn a comic book character]], retroactively becomes this with the reveal that Birdman himself shares his first and middle name with ComicBook/IronMan.
78	** In the ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallowsPart2'' video, Future Birdman chides Jeremy for not updating the sin counter when he "dings the ding", but FB doesn't update his own sin counter for the rest of the video after "dinging the ding" for that sin.
79	* InterchangeableAsianCultures: In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' video, Birdman calls out Jeremy for questioning if Fiona got her kung-fu skills from "spare senseis". Kung-fu is from Chinese martial arts, while a sensei is a Japanese martial arts teacher.
80	* JackOfAllTrades: Birdman himself. Aside from being a voice actor, he can rock the guitar, speak fluent Japanese, play basketball, and even work at Tesla Motors.
81	* JokerImmunity:.Stan the "[=ACKCHYUALLY=]" Guy.
82	* {{Infinite}}: The [=CinemaSins=] video for ''Film/{{Spawn\|1997}}'' ends up getting infinite sins after Jeremy takes a jab at the ''Franchise/JohnWick'' franchise.
83	* LiteralMinded: In his video on [=CinemaSins=]'s ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie'' video, he pokes a lot of fun at Jeremy taking everything in the film at face value despite the movie being a satire/parody of the past 70+ years of Batman's history across comics, movies, and tv.
84	* ManOfAThousandVoices: Birdman is talented enough to make impressions of several characters, including [[VideoGame/MetalGear Solid Snake]], [[Franchise/DragonBall Vegeta]], ComicBook/TheJoker, [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]]... the list goes on. He was even considered for audition of the ''Anime/BladeRunnerBlackLotus'' anime.
85	* ManipulativeEditing: Birdman often calls out Jeremy for manipulating scenes just to justify his sin. For example, in the ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' video, Jeremy sins the scene where Boo's laughter was discovered to be a stronger energy source when her crying caused the blackout at Mike and Sully's apartment earlier. In reality, Jeremy cut the part where Mike suffered AmusingInjuries in the apartment, which made Boo laugh and cause the power surge.
86	* MemeticBadass: Discussed InUniverse regarding Creator/BruceLee. Something that Birdman dislikes regarding how Jeremy sins the Cliff Booth vs. Bruce Lee fights is that he's sinning the idea that Cliff could last more than a minute with Bruce. Birdman states that Bruce Lee was an actor, not a fighter, and even points out that Lee himself stated that Muhammad Ali would kill him in a fight. He points this out as both a sin on the video and because he's tired of people treating the myths surrounding Bruce Lee as factual.
87	* TheNicknamer: When Jeremy finally gets a crack at "criticizing" ''Avengers: Endgame'' (a comic-book movie Birdman did a parody video focusing on earlier), Birdman off-handedly refers to his [=CinemaSins=]-parody self as ''Beremy'' while ranting at Jeremy.
88	-->'''Future Birdman:''' Wait... who the fuck is ''Beremy''?
89	-->'''[=Th3Birdman=]:''' Don't interrupt me, Future Birdman! Anyway...
90	* RedOniBlueOni: Present Birdman and Future Birdman, respectively. Present Birdman tends to get more frustrated with Jeremy's mistakes and is more aggressive in pointing them out, while Future Birdman, due to having long since been disillusioned, is far more calm and level-headed. This was once lampshaded in Present Birdman’s reply to a comment.
91	--> Present Birdman: [[Future Birdman]] is more apathetic. I’m the angry one, believe it or not.
92	* {{Retcon}}: Future Birdman was initially introduced as a future version of Birdman, but he was later revealed to be from an AlternateUniverse, with the "I'm from the future" thing just being a bit that he does.
93	* TheReveal: In January 2020, Birdman revealed his real name on Twitter.
94	* RunningGag: Any time Jeremy sins the people of New York City for having a huge WeirdnessCensor, [=Th3Birdman=] always responds by just pointing out that's just how New York really is, often in a Brooklyn accent.
95	** Whenever Jeremy makes a corny joke, Birdman cuts to a clip from the "Real People, Fake Arms" skit from ''Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon'' in which shows Justin Timberlake looks at the camera before throwing up the mannequin arms in disgust...all while ''The Price Is Right'' theme plays in the background. (He had recently been experimenting with different themes, such as the ''{{Series/Seinfeld}}'' theme and the ''{{Series/Jeopardy}}'' theme.)
96	* SayingTooMuch: His response to a ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' sin about the film using the word "anus" more times than in "most anal porn or proctology lectures":
97	-->'''[=Th3Birdman=]:''' I've never once heard the word "anus" while... watching... anal... porn...
98	* SelfDeprecation: Birdman is not above poking fun at himself on occasion.
99	-->'''[=Th3Birdman=] (talking over his own face):''' What even is this?! [=2/10=] WOULD NOT BANG ding!
100	* SuperSpeed: Discussed. When Jeremy questions how fast Sonic is in the ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'' film, Birdman runs through the calculations and concludes that in order for him to travel from Montana to the Pacific and back in roughly five seconds, his speed at the bare minimum would have to be over ''Mach 891''.
101	* TakeThat:
102	** The EWW [=CinemaSins=] video about ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'' has him take a jab at [[WebVideo/GameTheory MatPat]] for his theory about the entirety of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' being Ash's DyingDream as he succumbs to his injuries from the first episode:
103	--->'''[=Th3Birdman=]:''' But hey, that's just a theory... A BAD theory.
104	** In his ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' Video, when he criticizes [=CinemaSins=] for their constant use of "Cliche" Sins. [=Th3Birdman=] brings up that it's practically impossible to make a work of fiction without them, and that there is a difference between a stylistic choice and a contrived one, one which [=CinemaSins=] really needs to learn.
105	* TalkingToThemself: Both Birdmen count because they're technically the same person... from parallel universes.
106	* {{Troll}}: More often than not, Birdman acts like this towards Jeremy.
107	-->'''[=CinemaSins=]:''' Why is my hand so angry?!\
108	'''[=Th3Birdman=]:''' Probably because Creator/BrieLarson isn't your girlfriend in this scene? ding!
109	* ThatCameOutWrong: In the ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' video, Birdman calls out Jeremy for nitpicking the inconsistent clocks in the factory and claiming that his sins are about the quality of the movies he reviews. Birdman then tells him to "stick that in [his] [[UnusualEuphemism toddler-sized thing]] and smoke it," but adds that that "didn't come out right."
110	* ThrowTheDogABone: Despite his antagonistic attitude towards ''[=CinemaSins=]'' in his series about them, there are times where Birdman completely agrees with an assessment or statement they made.
111	** One such instance was in his video sinning their ''Film/Shazam2019'' video, where he fully agreed with Jeremy on the film's positive depiction of foster care and how refreshing it was to see a movie not go the DepartmentOfChildDisservices route.
112	** In the ''Once Upon a Time In Hollywood'' video, he removes a sin for when Jeremy makes a legitimate observation and points out an actual flaw of the film, albeit with snarky condescension that it took seven minutes for him to actually point a legitimate flaw out.
113	** Birdman usually gets annoyed when Jeremy inserts his political views into his videos, but in the ''Film/RushHour'' video, he takes a sin off for Jeremy finding a way to include a shot at Donald Trump without making it seem obnoxious for once.
114	* WaxingLyrical: One particular example comes from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' video.
115	-->'''[=CinemaSins=]:''' Good thing they spent 60 seconds befriending this Ex Machina carpet before they came here, huh?\
116	'''[=Th3Birdman=]:''' ''And I might just go mad / Every time this fucking lad / Misuses Ex Machina...'' ding!
117	* WhamEpisode: The video about ''Film/HouseParty'', where [[spoiler:Birdman finally becomes Future Birdman as a result of seeing Jeremy try to recreate some of the dances of the film and goes back in time to deal with another Birdman.]]
118	* WhiteDudeBlackDude: It comes up occasionally.
119	-->'''[=CinemaSins=]:''' Priest-cursing! ding!\
120	'''[=Th3Birdman=]:''' Jeremy has never been to a Black church. ding!
121	* YouAnsweredYourOwnQuestion: It is shocking how many sins are for Jeremy both asking and answering a question within the same breath.

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