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    SiIvaGunner 
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The big man himself.
"I only upload high quality video game rips."
Voiced by: Wiseguy (VoiceForge)

Based off the real GilvaSunner's avatar, SiIvaGunner (formerly GiIvaSunner) is a Living Statue who only uploads high quality video game rips.

  • Advertised Extra: Despite the channel bearing his name, he has minimal involvement in the lore. His only significant act so far is going to sleep at the end of Season 1.
    • He ran the channel during Season 1, but didn't play a significant role in the Season 1 storyline SiIvaGunner: Rebooted due to being rebooted.
    • He is asleep during Season 2, with other characters running the channel instead.
    • He "returned" at the start of Season 3, but didn't take part in anything lore-related... and was eventually revealed to be a fake.
  • Author Avatar: Has some elements of this, but it's mostly masked by the Kayfabe.
  • Backstory Horror: SiIvaGunner is a completely harmless Living Statue that just wants to create high quality rips, right? Nope. According to Haltmann's Archives, SiIvaGunner is a Humanoid Abomination from space that killed a completely innocent person just to steal his computer.
  • Big Good: He's the leader of his self-named channel.
  • The Bus Came Back: In the ending to CCC episode 11, He wakes up from his coma due to Grand Dad suffering from the Voice.
  • Catchphrase: "I only upload high quality video game rips."
    • During the reboot, it was "I upload high quality video game rips only."
  • Cloudcuckoolander: He's quite the eccentric person, dedicating his life to creating "high quality video game rips" that he insists are exactly that.
  • Convenient Coma: While not actually a coma, him going to sleep at the end of Season 1 has functioned as this trope with him being Put on a Bus.
  • Composite Character: In the announcement video for Volume 6.66, he and Grand Dad are the same character (though the two are separate otherwise).
  • Depending on the Writer: His relation to the rips posted on the channel. In this rip he acts as quality control for an incoming rip, with some regular person actually making it; in this rip he's shown working with the Power Trio to make rips; in this rip he says that making high quality rips is a job that he landed; and finally, in the Season 1 ending, when it shows him witnessing the rip he just created, he's all alone at a computer in his house.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: "The Evil King Bowser" from Super Mario World features him speaking, but his voice is provided by Microsoft Sam, rather than VoiceForge's Wiseguy. (This is not considered an Early-Bird Cameo for Mr. Rental, who would be voiced by Microsoft Sam several months later.)
  • Eyepatch After Time Skip: Although the time wasn't skipped in this case, he gained his eyepatch after the week-long break following the termination of the original GiIvaSunner channel. After the two-month hiatus caused by the second termination, he got another minor redesign, this time having scars on his body.
  • Heavy Sleeper: He's managed to sleep through everything happening on the channel since Season 1 ended.
  • Hidden Depths: "The Creation of GiIvaSunner [FILE-01] - Haltmann's Archives" provides us with GiIvaSunner's backstory, which is surprisingly elaborate.
  • Jerkass: In "Menu - Garfield", a Garfielf parody, SiIva plays the role of Garfield. He repeatedly demands things from Grand Dad and gets Nozomi to shoot herself.
  • Living Statue: Depicted as the statue of Antinous◊ with a bit of datamoshing applied to the hair and right eye, that is also wearing an eyepatch. Interestingly, the "living" part is connected to the channel; he's only alive when the channel is.
  • Lotus-Eater Machine: Is subjected to one. The Haltmann Archives entry on the SiIva AI reveals that a system has been made for SiIvaGunner while he was still sleeping to continue making rips in a dream enviroment for the AI's algorithm, named the "Illucidity". After the AI has shut down at the end of Season 6, the channel uploads rips that SiIva have made with Illucidity while still being asleep.
  • Pirate: Changed his name to "Long John SiIvaGunner" to celebrate Talk Like A Pirate Day. Notably, this is the only time in the channel's history that the actual YouTube username was changed.
  • The One That Got Away: Nikki from Swapnote is implied to be this. Though, this is probably an Aborted Arc since she hasn't been mentioned again and the rip seems to contradict the later Haltmann's Archives on SiIva's origins.
  • Original Character: Everything about him is either original or a product of the channel imitating GilvaSunner.
  • Put on a Bus: He was sleeping from the end of Season 1 to CCC Episode 11.
  • Read the Freaking Manual: "Please read the channel description."
    • During the reboot, it was "Read the channel description, please."
  • Rip Van Winkle: Grandiose City doesn't very much resemble how it was when he left it, so this is inevitable.
  • Taken for Granite: When the GiIvaSunner channel was terminated, he became a lifeless statue. However, this was rectified upon the creation of the SiIvaGunner channel.
  • Unobtainium: He is made of an unidentified alien mineral that came to Earth in the form of a meteor.
  • Welcome to Corneria: SiIvaGunner replies to comments almost exclusively by just repeating his Catchphrase. In some cases, he'll make a small variation. This is mostly exclusive to the pre-reboot era, as he stopped replying to comments by the time of the reboot (possibly due to the fanbase growing too large for the team to reasonably manage comment replies and/or Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things).

    Wood Man 
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"nice"
Leitmotif: mm2wood
Voiced by: Chris Niosi (2019), Chase Beck (2020-present)
A crudely drawn Robot Master from Mega Man 2. He likes to occasionally upload rips, update fans, or otherwise manage the channel without doing a full takeover, often identified through his style of writing. His original purpose on the channel was to represent the mm2wood.mid meme for the 2016 Halloween Episode, but since 2018 his usual role has been the protagonist of event Framing Devices and a general mascot for the channel.
  • Adaptational Heroism: The original Wood Man is from Mega Man's Rogues Gallery, but this Wood Man is pretty much never seen doing anything villanous and has no opposition to anything SiIva-related. He did revive The Voice, but at the same time he uploaded a bunch of rips just because he likes making people laugh; it's implied he only did this because The Voice created Wood Man in the first place. Similarly, he goes along with The Voice's order to try and kill Nozomi, but he's rather hesitant to do so and he gives up two punches in, ultimately deciding to quit working for The Voice altogether. Afterwards, he teams up with Robbie Rotten, a Harmless Villain, and tries to capture Nozomi again, but mostly just for fun. Then he decides to start living in an alternate universe where he doesn't have to worry about the CCC, and is pretty much a protagonist from that point on.
  • all lowercase letters: This is his usual way of speaking, although it's not strictly followed (i.e. sometimes the word "I" is capitalized).
  • Apocalyptic Log: The Framing Device for the December 2022 SiIvaGunner All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival event was basically him writing one.
  • Big Bad: He was technically the "antagonist" of Season 1, at least taken in the context of the channel's Kayfabe, since he was the one responsible for corrupting the track and artist names in the albums which SiIva always complained about in the description of each album announcement video.
  • Big Fun: He's pretty big and is a laid-back comedic relief.
  • But Now I Must Go:
    • After the 2016 Halloween special, he left the channel to fight Mega Man. He eventually came back and was revealed to be working for The Voice.
    • In the finale of All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival, Wood Man concludes that he, and the meteor he and Joke-Explainer™ 7000 had been searching throughout the event's storyline, do not belong there, and went on to touch the meteor himself to take care of some "unfinished business", ostensibly leaving Joke-Explainer™ behind, never going to see him again.
  • Catchphrase: "nice"
  • Catching Some Z's: He caused SiIvaGunner to do this during the 2016 Halloween special (replacing the "Please read the channel description" line of each rip) by uploading rips while SiIva was still asleep, but without fully taking over the channel himself.
  • Character Blog: Not really a blog, but he runs the website https://mm2woodman.neocities.org/.
  • Computer Virus: Heavily implied to be such. Not only was the Mighty No. 9 rip with his Leitmotif identified as one, but he's also behind the "corrupted" names in the albums.
  • Dimensional Traveler: Wood Man can travel between the figment realm and the human realm at will. According to The Voice, this is something only Wood Man and The Voice himself are capable of. Wood Man takes it to another level though by also traveling to an alternate timeline where Chad Warden takes the channel for himself after the reboot, and eventually Wood Man just ditches the Christmas Comeback Crisis universe entirely, leaving it in December 2016 while he screws around in another dimension (where the King for a Day and Halloween events take place).
  • Dragon Their Feet: The Voice set up Wood Man's eventual appearance, yet the Robot Master didn't actually show up until long after The Voice was defeated by Chad. Wood Man later plays a crucial role in The Voice's return, which would technically subvert this trope.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: His actual debut was during the Continuity Reboot, as seen here.
  • Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Originally, he looked exactly like the Stylistic Suck MS Paint drawing of him associated with mm2wood. Later appearances keep the same simplified face from the drawing, but give him a body that resembles his classic Mega Man counterpart.
  • Fourth-Wall Observer:
    • He knows who really made each high quality rip (out-of-universe), and he uses this knowledge to "corrupt" the artist and song names in SiIvaGunner's albums (in other words, he gives proper credit to the rippers).
    • After stopping the reboot's "Genocide" timeline, he makes a comment about how Genocide Chad Warden is more like his real-life counterpart than the version we originally saw in the reboot.
    • In "Wood Man & Robbie Rotten", Wood Man explains that he aware of the fact that it is not Christmas 2016 anymore, despite that being when the Christmas Comeback Crisis takes place. He also knows that it is the release date for Kirby Star Allies.
  • "Groundhog Day" Loop: How he describes knowing that it's not Christmas 2016 anymore. Interestingly, he says that he could leave at any time and he'd be free from the loop, but doesn't because he wants his friends to be free, too.
  • Green Thumb: His signature weapon is the Leaf Shield. Though as he found out when fighting Nozomi, throwing a bunch of leaves at your opponent isn't a very deadly attack.
  • Halloween Episode: Hosts both of the channel's Halloween specials, dubbed The SiIvaGunner Spooktacular Halloween Horror Special. His leitmotif is one of the main memes for the event along with "Haunted House" and "Kyun! Vampire Girl".
  • Heel–Face Turn: While he's not taking Nozomi's side per se, he decided to quit working with The Voice in Episode 4 of the Christmas Comeback Crisis. Subverted in Episode 5 when he teams up with Robbie Rotten to capture Nozomi.
  • Mundane Solution: When tasked with solving a riddle in "Act 2: The Prize", he just looks it up online.
  • Murder Is the Best Solution: Yohane inadvertently claims she's the one giving Takane nightmares. Wood Man immediately invites Takane to burn Yohane at the stake.
  • One-Winged Angel: As of Episode 9, he can now turn into a Smolitzer-like mech for Robbie to pilot.
  • Power Trio: For the Halloween specials, along with 8-Bit Beast and Takane Shijou.
  • Raiders of the Lost Parody: Briefly went on adventures as Woodyana Stones, Raider Made from Lost Bark during an audio drama made for the SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival.
  • Read the Freaking Manual:
    • When he uploads rips without doing a full channel takeover, it will usually say something like "please read the channel description. nice", if not just "nice"
    • During the 2017 Halloween special, "please read the nice and spooky channel description. oooooooo nice."
    • Averted during his other takeovers.
  • Reality Warper: He has several odd abilities, likely resulting from him effectively being born from a computer virus. He can enter the real world (something that that only human-Figment hybrids are supposed to be able to do), he can "corrupt" the artist/song names in the albums, and he can temporarily whisk the channel into an alternate timeline.
  • Stylistic Suck: His entire existence is basically this. From his character design, to his Leitmotif. Downplayed from Season 3 onwards.
  • Squishy Wizard: Has the power to transcend dimensions, corrupt files, take over the channel, and revive the Voice... but his Leaf Shield does absolutely nothing and his arm falls off when he tries to punch Nozomi.
  • Troll: Often messes with the channel for his own amusement.

    The Voice Inside Your Head 
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"You may call me... THE VOICE INSIDE YOUR HEAD."
"Greetings, my dear Chad."
Voiced by: UK Graham
Leitmotif: P-R-O-G-R-A-M

The Voice is a human-Figment hybrid and the channel's Big Bad. His ultimate goal is to destroy all anime (except for Jojos Bizarre Adventure, usually).

  • Affably Evil: The Voice always presents himself as being polite and reasonable, even if his goals are usually quite anathemic to the well-being of the channel.
  • Ascended Fanon: His appearance that debuted in the Christmas Comeback Crisis was based off this fanart made during the reboot.
  • Ambiguously Human: He appears as a silhouette of a man, with an inverted pyramid for a head and a purple eye in the middle... except he's not just a silhouette due to lighting, he actually is all black (besides his eye). Later appearances also indicate that he wears a suit.
  • Ambiguous Situation: It's not entirely clear what he's been doing since Haltmann took the channel from him.
  • Back from the Dead: Thanks to Wood Man's cooperation, he's able to return for the Christmas special.
  • Berserk Button: "Weeaboo anime bullshit".
  • Big Bad: His desire to purge all anime places him as the main antagonist. AMUNO Le Film, having killed the original Silvain and thus becoming AMUNO's main target.
  • Blatant Lies: According to the Voice, "Snow halation" was never popular until it rode on the coat-tails of Grand Dad. This, of course, ignores the fact that "Snow halation" was already the most popular and well-known Love Live! song years before Grand Dad was made infamous on Vinesauce, let alone the creation of SiIvaGunner.
  • Came Back Strong: Upon his return, the Voice recreates Haltmann, obliterates the beacon, seemingly terrorizes the city, crushes Grand Dad, Loud Nigra, and Meta Knight's attempt at retaliating, and captures CG, Sens, Haruka, Robbie, Tito, and Felix. All in less than two minutes.
  • Evil Brit: He has a rather noticeable British accent.
  • Hypocrite: Criticizes "Snow halation" for being "weeaboo anime bullshit", yet is perfectly good with "GO MY WAY!!" taking its place. Later on, his goal becomes "purge all weebs", yet he's also perfectly fine with the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series and only that.
  • In-Series Nickname: "The Gay Mexican-Ass in my Ass", courtesy of Chad.
  • Knight of Cerebus:
    • After he showed up, things became noticeably more serious. The humor didn't completely disappear from the channel, but his appearance brought more conflict than anyone anticipated from a channel that uploads Bait-and-Switch high quality video game rips.
    • Manages to become an even bigger one during the Christmas Comeback Crisis. Not only did he kidnap all of the memes, but he also kills off the entire Cinderella Girls crew, just to show that he isn't fucking around anymore. And that was just the first episode.
    • And then later subverted when Inspector Gadget took control of the channel, ruining The Voice's office in a comical manner while The Voice himself is, ironically, utterly powerless to stop him.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler: His return in the Christmas special spoils his demise in the reboot arc.
  • Malicious Misnaming: "The Gay Mexican Ass In My Ass", from Chad Warden.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
    • Him offering Chad to rule together over SiIvaGunner managed to give Chad an opening to revive "Snow halation"... which he destroyed before.
    • In "One Last Chance", he managed to severely injure Grand Dad... which made SiIvaGunner finally woke up after his six-year long slumber because he felt Grand Dad's pain more than any other Figments.
  • No Need for Names: Insists that he be called "The Voice Inside Your Head" because names are not important to him.
  • Original Character: The most original character in the entire SiIvaGunner canon, actually, since he is not based on anything at all, and he does not represent any pre-existing meme or Running Gag.
  • Out of Focus: Despite being the main antagonist, he has only had a few appearances on the channel since Inspector Gadget took it from him in Spring 2017.
  • Painting the Medium: His speech is always rendered in a pixel font. Though this may have originally been done to differentiate his dialogue from Chad Warden's, it carried over to the Visual Novel presentation of the Christmas Comeback Crisis, where the distinction a moot point because all the dialogue is labeled.
  • Purple Is Powerful: His single facial feature is a glowing purple eye.
  • Read the Freaking Manual: "I order you to read the channel description."
  • Sharp-Dressed Man: In the Garry's Mod rips.
  • Stock Scream: Does the Howie scream as he dies from the power of the MF LIKE BUTTON, and again when Chad shoots him in the alternate timeline.
  • Synthetic Voice Actor: He is voiced by UK voice Graham, which is available on the Acapela Box and the NaturalReaders voice demos.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Pizza. To an... unhealthy extent.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: He claims to have caused the reboot to prevent "Snow halation"-related discourse from destroying the SiIvaGunner fanbase. As for his actions in the Christmas Comeback Crisis... not so much.
    • His apparent real motive, revealed in Pokémon: Grand Dad (a Pokémon FireRed ROM hack which was part of the reboot ARG) does not change his position as well-intentioned, as he was trying to protect the channel from an (as of now unknown) bigger threat. However, this seems to be an Aborted Arc, since it hasn't been mentioned again despite The Voice returning in the Christmas Comeback Crisis.
  • The Worf Effect: Tends to happen a lot to the Voice in non-Christmas Comeback Crisis rips, but even in the series proper he's on the receiving end of one instance.
    • After being the main villain during the reboot and most of the Christmas Comeback Crisis, Inspector Gadget takes the channel from him with minimal effort.
    • The Mythbusters toss him around with impunity and otherwise humiliate him in one Garry's Mod rip.
    • The end of the 2023 April Fools' Day event has him get arrested by the Three Moons Initiative for Crimes Against Anime.
  • The Voice: He is never given a proper physical appearance during the SiIvaGunner: Rebooted story arc. Eventually subverted with him appearing in the Christmas Comeback Crisis, though it wasn't entirely clear at first (see Ambiguously Human).

    Inspector Gadget 
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I'm always on duty!
"I love building bricks with Minecrap!"
Voiced by: Mike Matei
Leitmotif: Inspector Gadget Theme Tune
The bumbling cyborg inspector from the classic 80's cartoon. The particular incarnation of Gadget used on the channel comes from the infamous, now-deleted "Minecraft with Gadget" video made by Cinemassacre's Mike Matei. As the video and the above quote imply, Gadget loves playing Minecraft (or "Minecrap", as he says it), and especially enjoys building with "brown bricks."

A clone of Inspector Gadget known as Gadgetini Clone 2.0 was created by President Haltmann to attack The Voice. Gadget succeeded in performing a Hostile Show Takeover of the channel, which lasted for two weeks. After that, Gadget broke down due to "DMCA violations", allowing Haltmann to take over the channel for himself.

On April Fools' Day 2018, the "SiIvaGunner" that had been running the channel since the beginning of Season 3 seemingly malfunctioned, revealing himself to be Inspector Gadget. The Nostalgia Critic immediately took a stand against this new Gadget, citing how repetitive the previous Gadget takeover was. On April 9th, Gadget gave up the channel after a battle with the Nostalgia Critic and several other YouTubers, thus leaving it open for The Nostalgia Critic's takeover.

  • Catchphrase: Anything regarding "brown bricks" or "Minecrap."
  • The Dragon: His ultimate role in Haltmann's scheme was to usurp the Voice's position as the one in control of the channel and eventually hand it over to Haltmann himself.
  • Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Very subtle, most notable when he says "Minecrap."
  • Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: While he was a major in-joke amongst the SiIvaGunner backroom members and frequently referenced in the channel's liked videos, he didn't make a notable appearance directly on the channel until this rip, which wasn't lore, but had high production value and predated Gadget Week by only three days.
  • Hostile Show Takeover: Destroys The Voice's office and takes control of the channel.
  • Final Battle: Your Best Nightmare (Alpha Mix) seems to chronicle one between Gadget and the several YouTubers vying to take control of the channel; this battle is won by the Nostalgia Critic.
  • Knight of Cerebus: Inverted; he takes over the channel from the much more serious and imposing Voice in a highly comedic manner, while The Voice himself is utterly powerless to stop him. He becomes more threatening during his second takeover in 2018, but not too much.
  • Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: To The Voice.
    Gadget: You can shut up now. I'm always on duty!
  • One-Winged Angel: The Final Battle in the alpha mix of "Your Best Nightmare" seems to imply he has such a form, given that his voice becomes very deep and distorted and that the rip itself is of the battle with Omega Flowey, likely one of the most infamous One Winged Angels in recent times.
  • Read the Freaking Manual: "Go-Go Gadget Channel Description!"
  • Screwed by the Lawyers: His in-universe fate. A DMCA from "Mark Timotei" makes him malfunction and shut down.
  • Toilet Humor: "Brown bricks" is an obvious poop joke, albeit not a very good one.
  • Uncertain Doom: What became of him after the Nostalgia Critic took over the channel during his second reign is currently unknown.
  • Unexplained Recovery: Despite breaking down almost a year beforehand, he returns to take over the channel again in April 2018, with no explanation for how he came back (though it's implied that Gadget was disguised as SiIvaGunner the whole time after Haltmann relinquished control).
  • Virgin-Shaming: In the "Minecraft with Gadget" video, Inspector Gadget is quick to assume that a person who built the starship Enterprise in Minecraft has never had sex.
  • Voice of the Legion: Gains one prior to his final battle with the YouTubers.

    President Haltmann 
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Leitmotif: The Noble Haltmann, Patched Plains, etc.

The CEO and President of the Haltmann Works Company. His modus operandi is to invade a world, deplete its natural resources, and repeat. He takes over the channel after Inspector Gadget, whom he created to overthrow the Voice, malfunctioned due to DMCA violations. His ownership of the channel has been the status quo for the channel ever since, but at the start of Season 3 he created a SiIvaGunner clone to host the channel for him.

  • Ascended Extra: The Haltmann Works Company leitmotif was mainly popular among Kirby fans, with most other people being indifferent. Then President Haltmann became the The Dragon of the Christmas Comeback Crisis and started showing up nearly every other rip, thanks to the sudden relevance. Considering that the other main leitmotif of the event, "Snow halation", was already one of the channel's major memes, Haltmann received a serious boost in presence.
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: He's the head of a gigantic company, and is a villain to boot. His stated reason for uploading "high quality rips" is because the higher the quality, the bigger the price he can fetch for selling the channel to an off-world buyer later.
    "I'm sure the Galactic Federation or the Gogol Empire will pay very good money for a channel like this one..."
  • The Dog Bites Back: Pissed off by the Voice for lying to bring his daughter back, Haltmann created Inspector Gadget to overthrow him. After Gadget broke down, he took the whole channel to himself.
  • The Dragon:
    • He is this to The Voice Inside Your Head during the Christmas Comeback Crisis. At first.
    • Plays this straight in AMUNO Le Film, taking up the role of the final obstacle between AMUNO and Silvain/the Voice.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Loved his daughter, Susanna, and her death caused him to go insane in Planet Robobot. The Voice Inside Your Head has apparently promised that he'll bring Haltmann's daughter back in exchange for his services in Episode 2. He eventually did, but the "Susie" in question is actually Haruka in Susie's outfit. This caused Haltmann to lose his trust in the Voice and overthrew him.
  • Greed: After overthrowing the voice, he has taken over the SiIvaGunner channel and has frozen time in Grandiose City, all for glorious profit. Ultimately subverted. In reality, money dosen’t matter to him at all. His true goal is to use SiIvaGunner's powers to bring his daughter back.
  • Hidden Villain: Before the Christmas Comeback Crisis, he hadn't made any appearances outside of his leitmotif.
  • Heel–Face Door-Slam: After the heroes manage to defeat him and the SiIva AI's in One Last Chance, he's given a Last-Second Chance by Santa Claus and seemingly accepts the offer, only for him to be executed by the Voice before he can redeem himself.
  • Mythology Gag: The way his theme song appears in various rips is identical to how it shows up in his game of origin, "invading" other songs while still maintaining the style of what it shows up in.
  • Puppet King: He is ostensibly the president of Grandiose City, but it's quite clear that The Voice Inside Your Head is the one pulling all the strings. Averted when he takes over the channel with Gadget's help.
  • Read the Freaking Manual: "Please read the channel description for glorious profit."
  • Redemption Equals Death: Narrowly subverted. After his defeat in "One Last Chance", Santa Claus offered Haltmann to redeem himself, but before he could get a chance of one, the Voice unceremoniusly executed him. And with Haltmann being a figment, his death meant that the heroes completely forgot about him.
  • Totally Radical: Exaggerated when he allowed rips featuring Crazy Frog - a meme which had come and gone a whole decade prior - to be uploaded to the channel.
  • The Unfettered: The Softendo arc (see the B-list folder), which had taken place during his tenure as channel host, implied that he wasn't above sponsoring products that could actually harm their users in order to turn out greater profits.
  • We Can Rule Together: In AMUNO Le Film, he offers ZVARRI a partnership in ruling the Internet and getting rich in exchange for his cooperation. He refuses and blows up Haltmann.

    "Genocide Route" Chad Warden 
"Fuck Snow halation. Fuck SiIvaGunner. And FUCK you, aight?"
Voiced by: Himself (through the use of Manipulative Editing)
Leitmotif: Abe's Dead (Chicken & Chips)

Chad Warden in an alternate timeline, who unlike the one from the canon timeline is closer to his actual real-life counterpart. We get a brief glimpse of what a channel run by him would look like to celebrate the anniversary of the Reboot arc.

  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Him wanting to bring back "Snow halation" here was all a front: once he made a deal with the Voice, he kills both it AND The Voice.
  • Evil All Along: Instead of bringing back "Snow halation" in this universe, he kills both "Snow halation" AND The Voice. And eventually, he kills SiIvaGunner himself.
  • Hero Killer: Kills SiIva himself in this universe.
  • Jerkass: Unlike the Reboot arc Chad, he has no redeeming qualities. All he does is for his own selfish gain.
  • Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "GUESS WHO'S WRONG?!"
  • Read the Freaking Manual: Averted.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: If the rips uploaded during his takeover are any indication, he really likes chicken & chips.
  • Troll: Like his real-life counterpart.

    The SiIva A.I. 
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I only upload high quailty video game rips
The end result of Wade L.D.'s work and Project AIRTH, this Artificial Intelligence has been the main host of the channel since the start of Season 3 in 2018 until it shut down at the end of Season 6 in 2022.
  • Ambiguously Related: Upon death, the A.I. drops its core, which have the same shape and color to the metor that caused the nuclear winter during The Nuclear Winter Festival. Adding the fact that said event marks the A.I.'s shutdown, it is all but stated that the two are connected.
  • Artificial Intelligence: It is one.
  • Doomed by Canon: By the time it was introduced in CCC Episode 11, the A.I. has already shut down in Christmas 2022, so it comes without surprise that the same episode would result in its death.
  • Not Quite Back to Normal: When it first appeared, it would often exhibit out-of-character robotic behavior, and glitches, hinting that it wasn't the real SiIva. For the most part, this was dropped after the Nostalgia Critic takeover.
  • Status Quo Is God: The reason it exists is to restore the status quo of SiIvaGunner running the channel after Season 2 saw the channel being run by other characters, limiting what the channel could do.
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial: During DJ Professor K's radio broadcast, it provides one of the bumpers, stating: "This is SiIvaGunner, the real one and totally not an AI."
  • Teleportation: One of its abilities during its fight in CCC Episode 11.

    The Nostalgia Critic 
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"I love whores."
Voiced by: Himself (through the use of Manipulative Editing)
Leitmotif: The Review Must Go On

The internet critic (played by Doug Walker) who remembers old (and often new) movies so you don't have to. When Inspector Gadget took over the channel again on April 1, 2018, he made a stand against the cyborg, stating that Gadget could really do some good for the channel, but wastes his power by only uploading rips referencing himself. On April 9th, Inspector Gadget left the channel for an unexplained reason, and The Nostalgia Critic promptly took over the channel. His takeover ended on April 15th with the channel being "rebooted" again, returning to the status quo of Season 3.

Notably, Nostalgia Critic's inclusion in the lore coincided with a major controversy surrounding his network, Channel Awesome, as several of its content creators came forward with their stories of abuse and apathy from the owners of the network.

  • Advertised Extra: Exactly 2 of the 158 rips uploaded during his takeover relate to him: The third-to-last rip, where he has a brief cameo at the end, and the second-to-last rip, which is a mashup of "Snow halation" and his theme song. Though this is all justified by the fact that Critic took issue with Gadget's use of the Inspector Gadget theme in almost all his rips.
  • Continuity Nod: Some rips during his takeover are references to older rips.
  • Finger-Tenting: The channel's profile picture during Critic's takeover has him mimicking Monika's use of this trope. It's not as innocent-looking on Critic though, as while Monika had a Held Gaze, Critic sports a knowing smirk.
  • Hidden Villain: He is implied to be the reason behind the fake SiIvaGunner glitching out during the first two months of Season 3, but he never made an appearance on the channel until Inspector Gadget's second takeover.
  • Hostile Show Takeover: In addition to usurping the spot of channel host, some rips have him blast through the video itself while his theme song plays.
  • La Résistance: He tried to form one when Inspector Gadget returned, but his first potential recruit wasn't too enthusiastic.
  • Missing Episode: Defied; his takeover included many reuploads of rips from the original GiIvaSunner channel.
  • Nostalgia Filter: The Central Theme of Critic's takeover.
    "We must all remember that while nostalgia is fun, we can't dwell on the past forever—and sometimes things aren't always as good as you remember them. But you should never forget your past - learn from it, appreciate the present, and move onto the future."
    — Triple-Q
  • Read the Freaking Manual: "Read the channel description so I don't have to."
  • Stealth Pun: His takeover harkens back to the old days of SiIvaGunner. In other words, it's about nostalgia.
    • The profile picture. As mentioned above, content creators from Channel Awesome came forth with stories of mistreatment by the network. A common thread between several of the stories is that Channel Awesome exclusively promoted the Nostalgia Critic, acting like the other creators didn't exist. This explains the reference to Monika; it's parodying the scene where she has deleted all the other characters, and thus is the only person left for the player to pay attention to. Though this connection may not have been intentional.
  • Stylistic Suck: As part of the "nostalgia", not every rip is up-to-par with the channel's usual standards and a lot of them have issues. IceCap Zone (Act 1) (JP Version) from Sonic 3 & Knuckles certainly takes the cake, though, being a "Snow halation" mashup... that is completely unsynced.
  • Stylistic Callback: Critic uses his takeover to take the channel back to its roots: A new rip every two hours (at least), with nearly every rip containing the Flintstones theme, and older, pre-reboot channel memes like Loud Nigra, Chip tha Ripper, and blue balls becoming common once again while newer ones are mostly absent.
  • Very False Advertising: In his channel trailer, he boasts about the channel having porn.note 

    Unregistered HyperCam 2 
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Click for Unrestrained Hypercam 2

"thank u 4 watching my king for a day speedrun, sucribe for more content :)"
Qualifier: Most Interesting Fan Suggestion
Placement: Champion
Leitmotifs: Dreamscape, Paralyzer

Winner of the King for a Day Tournament, where the SiIvaGunner audience voted from sixteen characters to determine what rips they would like to see for a day. Unregistered HyperCam 2 represents YouTube, more specifically, videos that were uploaded in the late 2000s, which were frequently recorded using unregistered versions of the HyperCam 2 recording software.

  • Acronym and Abbreviation Overload: Uses loads of them in its dialogue.
  • Artifact Domination: By the Crown before the final battle, turning him into "Unrestrained Hypercam 2".
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Sometimes slips into this in the KfAD2 interviews.
  • Cute Machines: Maybe not the cutest robot out there, but its expressionless face allows it to be cute despite King for a Day having a harsh and sketchy art style. It gets even cuter with the clean King for Another Day art style, along with the get-up it has as The Host.
  • Dark Reprise: A more dramatic, dark mix of Dreamscape plays when Unrestrained Hypercam 2 enters the scene, titled "DREADSCAPE", which also mixes in the main theme "BE THE KING". The phase two version of the track, "NIGHTMARESCAPE", adds some breakbeats and the melody of "Plastic Love", referencing the musical styles of the tournament's finalists.
  • Decomposite Character: Several contestants in the King For Another Day tournament have sources that overlap with the source list of Hypercam, if the rips made during its takeover are any indication. Such examples include Dr. Robotnik (representing most YouTube Poop), Nico Nico Douga (several NND memes have crossed over to YouTube, as Meowth points out), and Jack and Elmo (who specifically get YTP featuring Jack's "octagon" segment from Sesame Street).
  • Disco Dan: HyperCam never quite caught up to the modern day, both technologically and mentally. It relies on 2000s equipment, acts as if YouTube's five star rating system never went out of use, and references a lot of that decade's memes. Even the two-year wait for its KfaD compilation album uses this trope as an excuse, since HyperCam took that long uploading it to LimeWire using an AOL connection (when, as Meowth mentions, it could have just used SiIvaGunner Studios' wi-fi).
  • Distressed Dude: Got possessed by the champion's Crown for the final battle and was transformed into a Killer Robot called "Unrestrained Hypercam 2". It took the combined efforts of the finalists, DJ Professor K and Mariya Takeuchi, along with all the eliminated contestants to save him and defeat the evil crown, using the power of the MF Like Button.
  • Final Boss: Of the King for Another Day tournament, albeit unwillingly. The Crown, having been sentient all this time, possesses Unregistered Hypercam 2, serving as as a boss for DJ Professor K, Mariya Takeuchi, the power of the MF Like button, and everyone else to take down.
  • Funny Robot: Unsurprisingly, since it's an Affectionate Parody of late-2000s YouTube.
  • Hidden Depths: It knows of MissingNo.'s existence before it revealed its true form, who tries to leave the King for Another Day tournament, and gives them a pep talk. This and its later interactions with MissingNo. show a surprising amount of empathy and emotional intelligence on HyperCam's part.
  • The Host: Gets promoted to emcee status by John Notwoodman for King for Another Day. Notwoodman made a smart financial move, hiring a host who can both conduct and record interviews.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Refers to The Voice Inside Your Head as "a siiva character" instead of his actual role in the lore.
  • Letters 2 Numbers: Also in its dialogue.
  • Like Brother and Sister: By the end of KfAD2, HyperCam refers to Nico Nico Douga as its "[Japanese] sister." As representatives of YouTube and NND (and their audiences) respectively, they naturally have a few shared memes, and both exhibit some of the strange mannerisms of the services' users.
  • Nostalgia Filter: In-Universe, Unregistered HyperCam 2 longs for the old days of YouTube and wishes to use its status as King for a Day to go back to the late-2000s era of the site.
    • That said, a few quick moments in the KfAD2 interviews show HyperCam enjoying more recent YouTube videos and celebrities, including Bill Wurtzbill], in its downtime.
  • No Waterproofing in the Future: HyperCam states that it's not waterproof when it's trying to convince MissingNo. to come out of the river.
  • Original Character: Unlike every other competitor, Unregistered HyperCam 2 is a screen-capturing program, not a character. The SiIvaGunner team created a robot character, loosely based on the software's icon, to use in the King for a Day Tournament.
  • Please Subscribe to Our Channel: "don't forget to sub and rate 5 stars, thx for watching"
  • Read the Freaking Manual: Averted.
  • Retraux: Scheming Weasel and Awesome Plan are 8-bit covers.
  • Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence: Hovers in the gray area between levels 2 and 3. While HyperCam is sentient, sapient, and smarter than it appears, it's still somewhat childlike in mannerisms and a bit of a scatterbrain.
  • Strange-Syntax Speaker: Speaks like a typical YouTube user of the era. During the tournament, its quotes against the other competitors frequently reference tutorials and Let's Plays that it is apparently hosting, or in some cases it just makes up a relevant video title.
  • Surveillance Drone: Most likely, considering it's a camcorder. Several articles on the KfAD2 Mojo begin and/or end with HyperCam being prompted to start/stop recording, indicating that it is essentially the reader's point of view in these scenes.
    • During MissingNo.'s first "interview," an unconscious HyperCam is unknowingly used as a tape recorder by Big Chungus as he describes the glitch picking off the other two members of the Cool Meme Team, before it comes back for him. The other two recordings, of Wobbuffet and Meowth respectively freaking out, might have also been taken by/through HyperCam. Regardless, both hosts come to after the madness ends, with no memory of what just happened and the tapes next to another cassette player.
  • Thanking the Viewer: At the end of every rip description, and again in a comment on its last rip.
  • The Knights Who Say "Squee!": It's a fan of Neil Cicierega and rushes to him at the rooftop of the Gaylord the moment it sees him... only to knock him off the ledge.

    DJ Professor K 
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"I know you're gonna dig this..."
Voiced by: Chase Beck
Qualifier: Most Interesting Fan Suggestion
Placement (KFAD): 15th
Placement (KFAD2): Champion
Leitmotifs: Artificial Amateurs, The Sound, The Concept of Love
Round 1 competitor in the King for a Day tournament, having lost to Etika. The Large Ham head DJ of Jet Set Radio, Tokyo-to's premier pirate radio station. He represents the works and style of Japanese video game composer Hideki Naganuma, including the soundtracks of Sonic Rush and his home series Jet Set Radio.

He came back with a vengeance in the King for Another Day tournament, adding all other games that have been published by SEGA (except the Puyo Puyo series and Sonic titles other than Sonic Rush) to his source list and subsequently blowing through the winners' bracket with ease and defeating finalists Law & Disorder and Mariya Takeuchi to secure himself as the champion of the tournament.

During his takeover day (which actually lasted a week), he held a livestream on the channel mimicking a radio broadcast, with commentary, bumpers, and commercials as well as all his rips (which were uploaded to the channel afterward).

  • Action Dad: While he's busy sticking it to the man with his radio station, he's also a full time father. In this continuity, he's the father of the #JetSetSona mascot character DJ Doctor K, introduced during his channel takeover in 2020.
  • Brought to You by the Letter "S": "K", in his case. It's in his name, and it's printed right on his forehead.
  • Cool Old Guy: His appearance in King for Another Day has him use his design from Jet Set Radio Future, which has him looking much older than he did before. His interviews and character interactions nonetheless depict him as a cool, caring man who has nothing but respect for the other competitors in the tournament.
  • Cool Shades: Wears big sunglasses in both of his designs.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: According to his private conversation with Monokuma, he grew up in a gang and is more than familiar with murder, which is why he defies Monokuma's insistance that A Real Man Is a Killer.
  • The Gadfly: Like in his home game, he likes to playfully provoke his listeners. He's not above faking out people with memes or hyping up joke songs, and in-between the tracks he sometimes calls out specific people just because he can.
  • Intergenerational Friendship: In King for Another Day, with Mariya Takeuchi's younger self. The two have nothing but respect for each other, and it shows in their battle dialogue. In a strange twist on the trope, Mariya's an unwitting time traveler, meaning he was able to catch up with her current older self after her younger self left, as revealed at the end of his takeover.
  • Large Ham Radio: The hammy announcer and head DJ of Jet Set Radio's titular radio station. When it came time for his takeover "day", we got to hear him ham it up in full.
  • Older and Wiser: While it's generally assumed that both of his designs in Jet Set Radio are alternate continuities, here they're just him at different stages in life. By the time he's returned for the second tournament, he's learned a lot from his past mistakes and is a pretty wise guy for such a wisecracker.
  • Phrase Catcher: While he may say it himself constantly, other characters have heavily associated him with the phrase "funky fresh beats", taken from Lethal League Blaze's "AIN'T NOTHIN' LIKE A FUNKY BEAT" track.note 
  • Respected by the Respected: In the hypothetical matchups video, his music is complimented by Paruko/Glenna, Popoy, Weird Al, Unregistered HyperCam 2 (possibly) and even Thanos.
  • Sampling: A staple in Hideki Naganuma's style, and many original compositions have been made using this style.
  • Shut Up, Hannibal!: Is disgusted by Monokuma's insistence that "everyone is a killer" and the bear's attempts to get Professor K to kill the mastermind behind him.
  • That Came Out Wrong: Calls himself "King KKK" in a hypothetical victory against Dedede in the first tourney. Lampshaded when he said, "...Hey, what'chu lookin' at me like that for?"
    • Old Shame: In the credits of his takeover, he admits that it was a pretty unfortunate tag name and looks on it with embarrassment.
  • Took a Level in Badass: In the most dramatic way. Despite losing in the first round of the first King for a Day tournament, he came back with a vengeance and a rekindled fan following in the second tournament, winning all of his matches in the winner's bracket and becoming the champion.

    Lady 
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Y'ain't gotta tell me...
Leitmotif: Yankin (Warning: EXPLICIT), "Twerk", "River Twygz Bed".
The American rapper, real name Shameka Shanta Brown. Took over the channel in April 2021 for almost a week and half of hell, literally and figuratively, up until Knuckles trapped her in a Chaos Emerald. All songs released under her takeover were mashed up with the song "Yankin", as a reference to the Battlerock Galaxy theme from Vinesauce's playthrough of Super Mario Galaxy Repainted.
  • Affably Evil: She may be a megalomaniacal demon, but she also uses her signature song to tutor Boyfriend.
  • Boastful Rap: Boasts about sex in pretty much every rip featuring her.
  • Broken Record: The chorus of "Yankin", which features very prominently in most Lady rips, repeats the phrase, "this pussy be yankin" several times.
  • Capture and Replicate: In Curse of the Fallen Angel, she ties Yohane up in the b*throom and shapeshifts into her so she can follow Wood Man and Takane around as they find all the cursed for her.
  • Diabolus ex Nihilo: She takes over the channel out of nowhere, with her only motivating goal being to bring about the "Pussylypse" and take over the SiIvaGunner channel forever, and after a week she ultimately is seemingly defeated by Knuckles.
  • Dirty Rap: Lady's rips are known for their explicit lyrics, most of which involve her sexual prowess.
  • Dragged Off to Hell: If she loses against Masked Wolf in "Ugh (In-Game Version)", a pair of white hands will drag her out of the Tankmen's battlefield and presumably back down to Hell.
  • The Dreaded: Look at the comment section of any Yankin rip, and you'll know Lady is involved well before you hear her.
  • Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Lady's main songs, "Yankin" and "Twerk", mention her drinking while engaging in sexual activity.
  • The Hedonist: On top of really liking sex, she admits she's even better when she's drinking and suggests that the listener take "a pill or two" in order to keep up with her.
  • Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The four backup dancers from the original music video seem to serve as such to her, and have been slightly recolored so as to represent the traditional four horsemen.
  • Hot as Hell: The resident Satanic Archetype of SiIvaGunner is also a Ms. Fanservice known for rips featuring extremely explicit rap lyrics.
  • Leaking Can of Evil: Made a few appearances in rip descriptions after being captured in the Chaos Emerald (which was promptly stolen by Robotnik), indicating that she was making progress on breaking out. Which ended up happening in the Curse of the Fallen Angel mini-series.
  • Mythology Gag: Her takeover is a reference to the Super Mario Galaxy mod "Mario Galaxy Repainted" (played through by Vinesauce in 2016, as with the origin of a lot of other SiIva jokes), which has her song replacing that of Battlerock Galaxy's. The YANKIN FOREVER video shows the Battlerock as a weapon of sorts under her control, although Knuckles effortlessly destroys it.
  • Pungeon Master: Desires to bring about "The Pussylypse", and she gleefully referred to the spike of Lady rips during November 2021 as "Yanksgiving".
  • Satanic Archetype: The closet thing the SiIva Universe has to the Devil, given her frequent association with Satanic imagery and the fact that "YANKIN FOREVER" shows her and her backup dancers residing in Hell. Appropriately, when she shows up in the Smash Up!, she's positioned as a Heel.
  • Sdrawkcab Speech: When SiIva really wants to play up her hellish qualities, Lady's entrance is heralded by a rip of "River Twygz Bed" mashed up with backmasked "Yankin" lyrics.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: Her arc seemingly ends with Knuckles trapping her in a Chaos Emerald, finally (at least mostly) freeing the SiIva channel of her influence. Shortly after, Robotnik steals the Emerald, leaving its current whereabout unknown.
  • Shapeshifting: An apparent ability of hers, as seen in Curse of the Fallen Angel.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: Comes with the territory of singing Dirty Rap in nearly every rip that features her.
  • Summon to Hand: Materializes a microphone out of nowhere to rap against Boyfriend in "Philly Nice (In-Game Version)".
  • Vibrant Orange: She's always depicted wearing a orange minidress, fitting her fun-loving personality.
  • Voice of the Legion: Despite all the rips mashed with "Yankin" largely keeping her voice intact, the YANKIN FOREVER video has her voice as this.

    (Metal) Ajit Pai 
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"Do the Harlem Shake!"
Qualifier: Backroom Pick
Placement (KFAD): 11th
Placement (KFAD2): 21st
Leitmotifs: Harlem Shake
The then-Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission, infamous for his stance against net neutrality. His rip sources feature the Harlem Shake by Baueer and the Reese's Puffs rap by RV & Terrance, as well as fidget spinners and internet latency. Upon being snapped by Thanos in the King for a Day tournament, he returned in King for Another Day as a mecha-piloting cloud of dust known as "Metal Ajit Pai", adding mecha-related rips to his sources.

Despite his poor performance in both tournaments, he manages to reincarnate as a desktop helper on SiIva's computer and thus take over the channel for a week, though with rips featuring the Harlem Shake being the sole focus rather than either of his sourcelists from the tourneys.

  • A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Planned to extend the Shakeover indefinitely across the whole internet before getting caught by the antivirus.
  • Asshole Victim: No one on the internet likes him, thus, there are many comments saying he deserved to be snapped by Thanos.
  • Bad Santa: He wears a Santa outfit like he did in his infamous "7 Things You Can Do Without Net Neutrality" video, and he's a Hate Sink that frequently makes comments invoking Internet Incorporated.
  • BFG: Wields a large Nerf rifle, which gets upgraded into an even larger form as Metal Ajit Pai.
  • BFS: Also wields an upgradeable lightsabre in Kolo Terorita that can reflect enemy projectiles.
  • Hate Sink: It's downplayed (especially after KFAD1), but his Real Life counterpart is disliked among netizens for his stance against Net Neutrality, and he was only in KFAD1 to be a Joke Character with a weak sourclist. Even after the first tourney, both KFAD2 and The Harlem Shakeover continue with the Internet Incorporated personification given to him.
  • Hook Hand: Has one, except it's replaced with a fidget spinner.
  • Hostile Show Takeover: The Harlem Shakeover, orchestrated by him single handedly taking over the channel via his sentient dust flying into SiIvaGunner's computer on a breeze. He was subsequently taken care of by the computer's antivirus software, but he remains alive inside the Recycle Bin so long as nobody actualy empties it.
  • Humongous Mecha: His new design in King for Another Day.
  • Internet Incorporated: His primary trait on SiIvaGunner. Several of his VS. and Victory quotes allude to the idea, as he acts like he has total control over the web. During the actual Harlem Shakeover event, he notes that SiIvaGunner is just the beginning and he wants to spread it to the entire internet (though the antivirus stops him in the nick of time).
  • Joke Character: He was pretty much one in the first tournament. The proposed Running Gags for his takeover were two outdated memes ("Harlem Shake", fidget spinners) and slow internet, and for a promo he got a single half-hearted mashup rather than multiple full arrangements like the others. When he predictably lost his match against Thanos, he got snapped to dust by the Infinity Gauntlet, being the only contestant to die, and he was completely ommitted from the final character shots. Averted in the sequel: Metal Ajit Pai was a serious character. And he actually won a match (against Adam Levine in the Loser's Bracket).
  • Lame Pun Reaction: "(Pai wanted to call himself "The Harlem Shakeover" but this name was denied by tournament staff.)"
  • Meaningful Release Date: His takeover starts on the tenth anniversary of the release of The Harlem Shake.
  • Promoted to Playable: In Kolo Terorita.
  • Read the Freaking Manual: "You can still read the channel description."
  • Scare Quotes: His lone promotional rip in the first tournament has a pair in the description:
    """Arrangement""": SmokyThrill77
  • Serious Business: In his MOJO!! interview, he fought the the Gurren Lagann team over the last piece of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Is resurrected as a Humongous Mecha called Metal Ajit Pai in the second tournament and even scored a single victory against Adam Levine in the Loser's Bracket.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
  • Voice Grunting: In "PSA from Former Chairman of the FCC Ajit Pai," his words are voiced mostly by the first two syllables of the "con los terroristas" sample.
  • The Worf Effect: Despite his transition to Metal Ajit Pai, he was beaten by Nico Nico and Wario Partners, LLP in the King for Another Day Tournament.
  • Worthy Opponent: Initially resents Thanos for reducing him to dust, but eventually settle their differences afterwards because of their shared interest of old internet memes and thanking Thanos for giving him a new body.

    The Joke-Explainer™ 7000 
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Leitmotif: "Magalor Shop"
Voiced by: sprayjea
A robot that looks like Smol Nozomi. She likes to explain jokes. She first appeared in a (possibly non-canon) recap segment in the CCC. She also appeared in Haltmann's Archives as a one-off (here), the Halloween 2019 event as a side character and the Christmas 2022 event as a major character.

After Wood Man is Put on a Bus in The Disappearance Wood Man and SiIvagunner wakes up in the eleventh episode of the Christmas Comeback Crisis, she replaces them in their roles as the channel's mascot and main host respectively.
  • Advanced Tech 2000: Which is also 7 grand.
  • Ascended Extra: After making a few minor appearances in the channel's comment section and a CCC recap segment, she's given her first major role in the eleventh Haltmann's Archives file and gains larger roles in her following appearances, which eventually culminates in her becoming the channel's main host following the end of Season 7.
  • Cannot Tell a Joke: Implied by Wood Man, though he doesn't seem too bothered by it.
    Wood Man: J.E. always manages to come up with something amusing to lift my mood, even if she inevitably explains what makes it so funny afterward.
  • Contrived Coincidence: Haltmann's Archives notes that she has Wood Man's >:] face engraved on her despite existing before Wood Man, but they just chalk it up to coincidence.
  • Don't Explain the Joke: In general, she's a parody of the fans' tendency to explain every joke on the channel. The bio for her original YouTube account mentions that she likes to "explain, and thus ruin" jokes.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: The character was originally a YouTube account ran by a team membernote  that could be spotted in the comments section of a few 2016 rips, before being incorporated into the channel proper.
  • In-Series Nickname: Wood Man calls her "J.E." during the Christmas 2022 event.
  • Ms. Exposition: She lives to explain jokes, and she also explains things that aren't jokes.
  • The Needless: Haltmann's Archives notes that she appears to have infinite power from an unknown source.
  • Previously on…: Due to the Schedule Slip between the 6th and 7th Christmas Comeback Crisis episodes, she was added to the start of the latter to give a recap of the first half of the series.
  • Read the Freaking Manual: "For more information, please read the channel description!"
  • Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: She has jetpacks in her hair even though it doesn't factor into her purpose at all.

    Minor hosts 
Characters who hosted the channel for a brief period of time and didn't make any future appearances as a character or otherwise connect to major lore.

General tropes

  • Hostile Show Takeover: Their defining trait.
  • One-Scene Wonder: They show up, get their Day in the Limelight, and then disappear.
  • Retcon: As of "Channel Hosts and Takeovers [FILE-15] - Haltmann's Archives", these takeovers are just the SiIva A.I. malfunctioning. This was explicitly referred to as a retcon ("and not a good one at that") in a team member's comment on the video. This is changed again in "Garlic-Flavored Tacos [FILE-16] - Haltmann's Archives", where it was found out that the A.I. is actually mimicking events from a parallel universe where the takeovers did happen, re-confirming that said takeovers being real.

Todd Howard

"Alright. That's it. No more screwing around, no more disguises. It's me. Todd goddamn Howard. Yes, it was me the whole time."
The takeover host of the E3 2018 channel event.

The Grinch

The Grinch, at least the incarnation of him from the 2018 Illumination reboot, who takes over the channel shortly after Joker's inclusion in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in Christmas 2018 and tries to leak information about SiIvaGunner onto the channel early.

Phineas & Ferb

"Yes, yes we are."
The kings of using a summer to its fullest, Phineas and Ferb took over the channel on August 28, 2020 as the supposed final event of the SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival.

Doofenshmirtz

"Haha! Now that my Descript-Inator device has worked on you, you have now been sufficiently distracted, allowing me to take over this channel—and the Tri-State Area!"
The true final event of the SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival, Dr. Doofenshmirtz takes over the channel with the use of his Channel-Takeover-Inator, leaving Perry the Platypus to put a stop to it.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Dr. Doofenshmirtz made his takeover intentions known during the Professor K Takeover in July 2020. Although he was thwarted there by Perry, he did eventually make good on his promise a little over a month later.
  • Excrement Statement: He pisses on the second dimension just to stick it to Perry.
  • Read the Freaking Manual: "BEHOLD, the Video-descript-inator! This device will force anyone who reads this to look at the channel description!"

Vladimir Putin

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am Gay! Gay! GAY! I Like Long Big Cocks! I'M A SUPER SUPER GAY! I Like Long Big Cocks!"

The President and former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. Known for being a "SUPER SUPER GAY" and widening himself to walk through the Kremlin. He briefly took over the channel in December 2020, but retired one day later.

Gabe Newell

"After 7 years in development, hopefully it will have been worth the weight."
The takeover host for the event celebrating the 25th anniversary of Valve Corporation in August 2021, as part of the SiIvaGunner All-Star Summer Festival 2021: Legends of the Western Sunset super-event.
  • Bait-and-Switch: After the second day of his takeover, he announced it would be going for one more day...only to upload absolutely nothing on this third day (save for a finale rip at the very end).
  • Gag Censor: He did not allow the number 3 to be used in any rips uploaded during his takeover, and covered it up with either a pink-black grid pattern (the placeholder when a texture is missing in Valve's game engine) or a big red "ERROR" (the placeholder for a missing model), with video titles using the ▚ character (also represents the missing texture). (The only non-joke censor was Baldi's ruler which just had a question mark in place of the number.)
  • Read the Freaking Manual: "Please let me know what you think after you've had a chance to read the channel description."

Riamu Yumemi

"weh"

One of the many idols from THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls, Riamu took over the channel, and more importantly the channel's Twitter, on September 12th, 2022 (her birthday), to host what she called the RIAMU YUMEMI NUMBER ONE SUPER IDOL TAKEOVER. (Which only had three rips.)

  • Attention Whore: Wouldn't be Riamu if she wasn't. Several of her tweets were about her own popularity (or lack thereof).
  • The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Downplayed, she basically spent the whole day just using SiIvaGunner's Twitter instead of posting rips, even while begging to get more rips.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: At the end of her takeover, she suddenly delivers a profound speech about existence and her status as a figment - a fictional character.
    "As long as you remember who I am, I can never truly die. I am always taking over. I am an idea. An idea pervades the human mind and can spread through word of mouth, and can be implanted into more minds. How can you kill an idea? This icon… this display name… they may revert. But these words remain. These words, so different from what you usually hear. Even when they are scrubbed, they will be documented. The annals of history will always contain a trace of Riamu. Only when the Earth itself is destroyed, nay, the heat death of the universe occurs, and there is not a single iota of life left, will I truly disappear. Without me... there will be nothing but blackness. Weh."
  • Read the Freaking Manual: Subverted; the first two of her rips only has "weh" in place of the usual catchphrase, and "wehhwhehwehwrwewewewewrterertg" for the last.

David S. Pumkpins

"I'm David S. Pumpkins! And I'm gonna scare the HELL out of YOU!"

A character who first appeared in the Saturday Night Live sketch "Haunted Elevator", David S. Pumpkins takes over the channel for October 2022's Wood Man's Halloween House Party event, as Wood Man himself is busy playing Mario Party 7 with some partygoers.

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