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Card Game

• The flavor text for Fortitude (which shows Legacy in the art shrugging off being hit by a hail of gunfire).
  Legacy took times like these to ponder what dinner might involve tonight.
• Setback's cards are a gold mine of these. For example:
  I really had no idea that was there, sir! I, ah, I should go...
  — "Whoops! Sorry" The card image is of Setback stepping on Tyler Vance's charging unit for the Bunker suit.
  Gosh! Sorry, Maia, er, I mean, The Wraith!
  — Fumbling Fool Setback has just knocked down a wall on top of Kismet and The Wraith.
  Oh, hello there! Have you considered, say, NOT hitting me?
  — High Risk Behavior no explanation needed here. There are villains. They want to hurt him.
  You keep standing right next to me. Why do you think this keeps happening?
  — Tempest on Friendly Fire where Setback keeps getting shocked due to standing next to Tempest.
• Guise is another deck which is full of goofy cards.
  • Gimmicky Character shows him literally Jumping the Shark.
    It doesn't count if it's a real shark, right?
  • A number of cards show him being annoying to other heroes, including trying badly to impersonate kung-fu around Mr. Fixer while dressed up in fake karate gear, or "borrowing" the lyra of a very irritated Argent Adept while dressed up as Gene Simmons.
    Argent Adept: That is a priceless artifact of great power. It's not for playing "Freebird".
  • Super-Ultra Kawaii!! has Baron Blade drawn black-and-white manga-style next to a super-deformed Guise with flavor text where he's catching himself uncontrollably praising how amazing Guise is.
  • Every hero has an incapacitated artwork for when reduced to zero hit points, showing that character's Darkest Hour: deaths, devastating failures, heel-face turns, that kind of thing. Guise's? Depending on variant, either a ridiculous thanksgiving pilgrim themed villain waving a sparkler, the local comic store refusing to buy his mint condition comic collection or the time his card flipped to its incapacitated side and crushed him.
• This line from the Tempersonation era.
  "The polarizing power of electricity can produce many interesting results."
  — Ball Lightning
  • It's just such a campy Silver Age thing to say.
• The card Temporal Event in the Silver Gulch environment has artwork showing Wraith in the background plopping slapstick-style out of a portal with a cartoony bug-eyed expression, while in the foreground the normally poised Argent Adept currently has the world's most dejected droopy-faced expression while having a staring contest with a salamander.
• Believe it or not Ra's deck has a funny card or two. Blazing Tornado's flavor text is hilarious just because of how deadpan it is.
  Naturally occurring fire tornadoes are dangerous and unpredictable. Those summoned by a sun god are much worse.
  — Blazing Tornado
• The serious Argent Adept also has a funny card. While most of the flavor texts for his cards are him being serious or making a Badass Boast, the card for Xu's Bell has Dr. Blake Washington Jr. a.k.a. Ra yelling at him for making off with the aforementioned bell as his power origin.
  Hey, you can't touch that! It's a priceless artifact!
  • Bonus points for this being 100% Hypocritical Humor on Blake's part considering he also got his powers by touching an ancient artifact that he shouldn't have.
• Like Argent Adept and Ra, Tempest's deck mostly consists of Badass Boasts. But then there's him talking to a very confused-looking fish.
  So... have you seen anything going on down here? Under the water?
• And of course we have the now classic (within the fandom at least) Unity line "Bee Bot is more fun to say!" as said to a questioning Tachyon on a card which shows a robot clearly styled after a wasp.
  • Platform Bot's art features a very offended looking Baron Blade looking at Platform Bot, which is a miniature replica of his own Mobile Defense Platform.
  Pew Pew Pew! Just like the real thing, right!?
  —Unity
• The flavor text for Bunker's Turret Mode, which more than fills the little speech bubble:
  BUDDABUDDABUDDABUDDABUDDABUDDABUDDABUDDABUDDABUDDABUDDABUDDA
  • In the Definitive Edition, this "quote" is even "attributed" to "BUDDABUDDABUDDA".
  • Also, Upgrade Mode:
  It's all about the right tools for the job. And by tools, I mean guns.
  — Bunker
• Several of Absolute Zero's cards due to him being the Freedom Five's resident Deadpan Snarker.
  • Fueled Freeze, if only because it's clear he's not being ironic while making that pun:
  Time for all of you to cool down!
  —Absolute Zero
  • Onboard Module Installation. He's pondering over his suits like he's just choosing an outfit for a day out on the town:
  What to wear, What to wear...
  —Absolute Zero
  • Yet another unironic and likely deadpan pun from Sub-Zero Atmosphere:
  What's the matter... cold feet?
  — AZ
  • Isothermic Transducer:
  Tachyon: But the laws of thermodynamics have more to do with-
  AZ: Look lady, all I know is fire gets all weird around me.
  • Which then gets a Brick Joke in the card's Definitive Edition version:
  Tachyon: It flies in the face of the laws of thermodynamics but I cannot argue — fire does get all weird around you.
  • Yet another campy silver age line comes from Thermal Shockwave. But this time it's clear it's not from some clone.
  By opening all of the apertures in his suit to let in the scorching air, Absolute Zero can produce quite a chilling effect.
• The Wraith's Impromptu Invention, which is a really strange hair dryer.
  Wait, when did I make this thing?
  —The Wraith
  • Made even better in OblivAeon, when one of the missions, Create Contraption, requires (H+1) Equipment discards for raw parts...and creates a piece of equipment called Chekhov's Hairdryer, which deals 6 irreducible damage to up to two targets as a power use (in other words, it's about three times as damaging as Expatriette's tactical shotgun).
    "Immortal cosmic being hell-bent on destruction? Good thing I've got my hair dryer."
  • Wraith's Expo Speak on Infared Eyepiece. It's not really funny until she mentions the weather report.
  Judging from the trajectory of the angle, and figuring the wind at 6 knots per hour, north by northeast as per this morning's weather report...
  —The Wraith
  • Utility Belt's flavor text reveals that Wraith keeps a raw fish in her utility belt.
• Upon Skyscraper asking Tachyon for upgrades Tachyon informs her that only a madman would make those upgrades. Cue Luminary walking through the door.
• Baron Blade as the hero Luminary during Obliv Aeon is a goldmine for funny quotes.
  I learned a valuable lesson from you. There will always be someone to punch my inventions.
  —Luminary on Backlash Generator
  I do feel the slightest tickle. Not entirely unpleasant.
  —Luminary on Repair Nanites
  I don't even want to know what it does. But I feel strongly that we should shut it down.
  —Tachyon on Explosive Reconstructor^note  She's probably right
  You all might want to step back. Further. Quite a bit further.
  —Luminary on Orbital Death Laser
  • Let's just take a step back and appreciate that he has an orbital death laser.
  • Baron Blade finally got to drop the moon onto the earth. Well, part of it anyways.
  That madman... he's actually done it. That's a piece of the moon!
  —Tachyon on Terralunar Translocator
  • And before that.
  I still do not see why we are not pulling the moon into it! It would have worked!
  —Luminary on Brilliant Inventor
  • On a different note the same card has both Tachyon and Luminary up and ready for science stuff... meanwhile Unity is sitting off to the side half-asleep because they're pulling an all nighter.
• Even on other character's cards he's brilliant. For example, the Hired Gun card from the Chairman's deck.
  Gunmen? Dangerous. Unpredictable. Not flashy enough.
  —Baron Blade on Hired Gun
• One of the OblivAeon missions has noted Sentai fan the Idealist assemble Tempest, Visionary, Argent Adept and Captain Cosmic into a Combining Mecha in "Form the Mecha-Knight". Overlooking the silliness of the concept to begin with, and the natural seriousness of most of the characters involved, particularly the Adept and Captain Cosmic, the reverse side's flavour text has Captain Cosmic asking why "both of you" are Saying Sound Effects Out Loud (presumably the Idealist is one of them, but it's not clear who the other one is). In The Letters Page, the game's writers revealed that "both of you" are Idealist — who is making laser noises with her mouth — and the Mecha-Knight itself, which is making laser noises with its mouth.
  • The Mecha-Knight gets even better when the Letters Page relates the full story: when the robot strides off, leaving its pilots behind, Tempest remarks that based on his experience of human media he had expected to still be inside it, and the Idealist says it would be ridiculously dangerous to be in the robot as it tried to beat up OblivAeon, but she appreciates his dedication to the bit and will keep him in mind for all future giant robot shenanigans.
  • Also from the missions, Kaargra Warfang suffers from a case of Skewed Priorities:
  "Another splendid battle! Are we recording this? We should be recording this. Great promo."
  —Kaargra on Bloodsworn Exhibition
  • Another mission has Unity build a robotic Tyrannosaurus rex.
  "A-ha-ha-ha-ha! She's alive! Mister Chomps has a big sister now!"
  —Unity on T. Rex Bot
  • OblivAeon's own deck has one card that deals a faintly excessive 9,999 Infernal damage when he sets it off. The video game doesn't even cap at 9,999!
• Champion Studios is pretty loopy. The Craft Services table is poisoned (naturally, Setback has been chowing down for a while). The Props Department issues Fanatic with a foam sword and Expatriette with Nerf guns. "Love Interest" ships Bunker and Wraith with flavour text straight out of a bad romance novel (although in game terms you can pair off any ridiculous match-up; Legacy and Luminary, for example). "Potential Pratfalls" is the Harpy encountering a giant room full of banana peels. And on "Bottom of the Ninth", Expatriette holds Guise at gunpoint during a baseball game to remind him that he's supposed to be cheering for Setback.
  • "Love Interest" becomes even funnier in the RPG, where Bunker/Wraith is canon.
• There's something amusing about the frankly absurd amount of HP Akash'Thriya's base form has, with 50 hp (a whole 15 more points than previous holder Prime Wardens Haka). This is, of course, meant to mimic how her villainous form, Akash'bhuta has the highest hp out of all the game's villains, not counting OblivAeon.
• Some of the villain incap art from Villains of the Multiverse is amusing:
  • Sargent Steel's incap art has him panicking due to the bomb specialist having set a bomb in the Block, while the bomb specialist just gives a "what are you gonna do" shrug.
  • Ambuscade's is the culmination of a very long joke, finally revealing Ambuscade's horrible... cheek scratch?
  • Ermine's foil incap has her tied to a post with a note attached to her reading "Another loser for lockup." while the Wraith walks away.
• Stuntman's deck is badass in execution, but in concept it's hilarious. The deck is entirely based around the fact that he's an Attention Whore (one card is even called Steal the Scene) with almost every card either allowing him to act outside his turn or has a power that has an extra effect when used outside Stuntman's turn. This is taken to an extreme with the card In Medias Res which allows you to skip the entire round and just go straight to Stuntman's turn. The card is so powerful that instead of being discarded upon use it is removed from the game entirely!
• Two of Expatriate's best cards are her signature pistols, Pride and Prejudice. The two cards line up to create one picture and also have two quotes that line up to form one quote ("One for wrath... ...and one for ruin!"). The problem is, to complete the quote you have to put the cards together in a way that doesn't complete the picture and vice versa, so if you want to complete the quote the picture looks like Expatriate is standing next to a mirror and if you want to complete the picture the quote reads as "...and one for ruin! One for wrath..."
• Benchmark's deck is surprisingly amusing.
  Meet the new standard! ...I am so sorry. I'm contractually obligated to say that.
  —Benchmark on Intervening Path Calculator
  Look, man. I'm not saying I'm the only one who can have cold hoses and a metal suit, but come on.
  —Absolute Zero on Onboard Cooling System, the art of which features Benchmark with a bunch of coolant hoses.
  Kapow? Blammo? Zap? Bleh, none of those are really working for me.
  —Benchmark on Secondary Cannon
  Huh. Well, I'd say I didn't sign up for this, but that's obviously not the case.
  —Benchmark on Subcutaneous Cybernetics
  Falling! Falling! Oh, OK, cool. Everything's good here. Right. Stay on target.
  —Benchmark on Deployment Actuation
  Come on, come on, come on... you're making me look bad in front of all the REAL heroes!
  —Benchmark on Load On Initialization, the art of which features Benchmark embodying anyone who's ever been annoyed by a progress bar.
• One of the Argent Adept's best cards is called Arcane Cadence. The card allows you to draw five cards and then put one on top of your deck, one on the bottom, one in your hand, one in the trash, and one in play. Given that there are four Arcane Cadences in AA's deck, it is entirely possible to string together all four Arcane Cadence's in one turn.
• On the card Bridge in the environment version of the Mobile Defense Platform, a goon in the bottom left of the art is playing Galaga. He thought we wouldn't notice, but we did.
  • The card also treats us to the image of Citizens Hammer and Anvil drinking coffee out of mugs with Citizens of the Sun logos.
• The flavor text for the card Undaunted is a Shout-Out to Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Fanatic proclaiming herself to be invincible while Ra proclaims her to be a lunatic. What's funny about this is the irony of Ra, known for his arrogant personality and penchant to burn first and ask questions later, calling somebody crazy for arrogantly claiming to be invincible, which isn't something all that out of character for him to say.

Digital Game

• Like the heroes, the Team (Vengeance-Style) Villains each have their own unique incapacitated artwork. Usually these echo the dramatic hero incapacitated art (La Capitan seems to be caught in some sort of time anomaly, for instance), but a few are downright hilarious. Sergeant Steel is dramatically lighting up One Last Smoke (despite appearing relatively uninjured), Ermine is folding her arms and pouting, Greazer's ship is getting the Hell outta dodge, and Proletariat just looks dejected.
• Guise gets voice acting. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
  When badly wounded AVENGE MEEEEE!
  Playing Gritty Reboot Everyone I know is dead!
  Playing Guise the Barbarian BLBLARGLGRARGL
  Playing Blatant Reference Mmm, this ''is'' a tasty burger!
• Completionist Guise is the last, and most difficult, variant to unlock, requiring among other things that you have legitimately completed all the other variants' unlock conditions. Or, you can hit the unlock button, and deal with Guise directly:
  Guise: CHEATER DETECTED: Woah woah woah. Woah!. What do you think you're doing? Cancel! Cancel!
  [Player hits button again]
  Guise: THINK OF THE CHILDREN! Do you realize how this makes me feel? Trying to get me without being a true completionist? You're breaking my heart! I need you to take a minute and think about what you're doing. Don't worry, I'll wait. [No button appears for exactly one minute, then it pops up]
  Guise: LAST CHANCE... You're still here? Alright, I get that you're serious. But you have to consider my feelings here. Just click away. Don't do it.
  [Player hits button again]
  Guise: I'M NOT MAD... JUST DISAPPOINTED. *Sight* Fine! But I need you to do one more thing. In your own words, write an essay explaining why you should get to have me without being a real completionist! [A text field appears]
  [Player starts writing]
  Guise: [Throwing up his hands in frustration] QQ You didn't think I was going to actually read that, right? I give up. You win. Go ahead. I'm not crying, you're crying!
  [Player hits the final button]
  Guise: ... Wait... is this all cheater-exclusive Easter Egg content? What have I done? What have I doooooooooooooooo
  THE END...?
• Some of the Weekly One-Shot scenarios are hilarious. For example, one Weekly One-Shot is called Battle of the Beards and consists of Horus of Two Horizons Ra, Mr. Fixer, Captain Cosmic, the Scholar, and Mainstay fighting Baron Blade. Even better, the description features the Baron spouting facial hair puns and proclaiming himself to be "Baron Beard."
  • One one-shot features the heroes attempting to stop Apostate's plans to block global g (likely referring to the massive container ship, the Ever Given, blocking the Suez Canal at the time). Apostate tries to convince the heroes not to try and stop him because if they did they'd deprive the world of the memes resulting from the blockage.
  Chrono-Ranger: I don't get the reference, but we're putting you away all the same.
  • One Father's Day one-shot (Young Legacy, Heroic Luminary, and Guise vs. Iron Legacy) starts as Slash Fic between Young Legacy and the female version of Luminary... until Guise gets interrupted.
  • An earlier one-shot features Expatriette, Setback, Young Legacy, and Heroic Luminary encountering Ambuscade after watching a movie. Not only does the description feature Ship Tease for the latter two (which Setback doesn't understand, much to Expat's exasperation) but it's straight up called Double Date. Guise doesn't even show up in this one implying that it's not his fan fiction.
  • The one-shot aptly titled "Scary Movie" features the Cult of Gloom preforming their most horrific deed yet: renting out a screening room at Champion Studios to watch horror movies.
  • Another One-Shot is called "A Connecticut Secretary in the Court of Countess Bathory," featuring a battle against Miss Information framed as a Scooby Doo parody with Nightmist as Daphne, Stuntman as Fred, Parse as Velma, and Absolute Zero and Setback as Shaggy and Scooby. Even better, each of them says the famous catchphrases on their counterparts. Imagining serious heroes like Nightmist and Parse saying "jeepers" and "jinkies" is just hilarious.
  • The above Scooby Doo one-shot has a sequel in which Guise, offended that he was left out, takes the role of Scrappy Doo. What is the One-Shot called, you may ask? "Lemme At 'Em!" of course.
• Proletariat and Absolute Zero's Video Game interactions. The backstory behind Proletariat's vendetta against Absolute Zero is because Baron Blade told him that Absolute Zero was an evil capitalist government lapdog. AZ doesn't know this so the dialogue between Proletariat and AZ's various variants consists of AZ becoming increasingly irritated as he tries to puzzle out why this Russian dude in red spandex wants him dead.
• Ermine gets very nervous when she finds herself facing Freedom Six Wraith.
• When face Team Baron Blade, who has undergone not one but two Villainous Breakdowns and performed back-alley genetic modifications on himself, Young Legacy gets half-way through her heroic speech before stopping to check he's doing OK.
• Kismet's defeat picture features her in extra strength hand cuffs with the most hilariously adorable pouty face.
• One Weekly-One Shot tells the story of an infiltration mission with a team consisting of The Wraith, K.N.Y.F.E, Skyscraper, and... Setback? Not even the person giving the mission knows how he got on the team.
• One in, of all things, the soundtrack: Miss Information's theme is a pleasant, upbeat ditty that wouldn't sound out of place in a 50s sitcom... that then abruptly changes to an intimidating heavy metal version of the same song, complete with background sounds of destruction, cats screaming and maniacal laughter. But what sells it is that it then abruptly switches back to the cheery version with a polite, embarrassed "ahem", giving the impression that Miss Information somehow accidentally switched to her Evil Leitmotif. The best part is, this cycle continues indefinitely. She's not very good at hiding it, apparently.

The Letters Page

• The tangent about how the Void is like jelly. It starts off as a metaphor and just leads to them pondering how Void Jelly tastes. It becomes a series-long running gag, and you can hear Christopher die a little more inside each time Adam brings it up.
• "And then they died." Which is so reoccurring that when someone eventually did die they acted like it was a joke, and then on other occasions they had to actually make it clear that yes, this time the character really did die.
• The alternate podcast jokes. They have a Child Psychology podcast, a Food podcast (which became an Extrasode that was perfectly in character as an actual snooty chef podcast), a Law podcast (which became another Extrasode in which they, as themselves, gave fake law advice. The end consisted of a bunch of people on the Gt G staff saying various disclaimers), etc, etc.
• Putting Sh or Shm in front of trademarked or otherwise real world things to jokingly avoid being sued. Such as Shmegan being president and the Shmeatles.
• All Cult of Gloom letters. All of them!
  Don't turn that frown upside down, turn it into Eldritch power to free our dark master and Spite a world that has wronged you.
  — Cult of Gloom Motto
  • Especially whenever they go down the route of Crosses the Line Twice Black Comedy such as this "gem" from the Iron Legacy episode.
  — "Remember, don't turn that frown upside down, smiling is overrated. He was smiling when he killed your daughter."
  • This particular instance of Black Comedy nearly caused Adam to renounce the cult. The discussion about it is either funny or horrifying depending on what kind of person you are.
  • And variations on the theme — such as the Cult of Gruum. Gruum is an extremely loud denizen of the Enclave of the Endlings whose body is mostly mouth, so the motto becomes...
  DO NOT TURN THAT FROWN UPSIDE DOWN! GRUUM HATES CARTWHEELS!
  • And then Gloomweaver himself wrote to the podcast. However, C&A think it's Guise in disGuise because he refers to his question as "The Best Question!"
  • Another letter from the Cult doesn't even have a real question — it's mostly an extended and hilarious burn on Zhu Long for making a zombie servant out of Mr. Fixer because he A. lost control of him, and B. picked someone that the heroes care about.
  Cult of Gloom: After all, nobody's going to put together a hero team to rescue Spite.
• The Guise episode. From Guise breaking in at the beginning of the episode and temporarily derailing the podcast to Christopher's hilarious Green Grosser voice.
• Speaking of funny voice impressions, Adam's Wager Master voice is hilarious. So is his pirate voice when reading the letters in the La Capitan episode.
  • In the Wager Master episode proper, Wager Master attempts to catch out Absolute Zero in an impossible game by challenging him to a contest of beat poetry, only for AZ to be perfectly willing to take the contest seriously and turn out to be incredibly good at it.
    "You weren't supposed to be good at poetry. Nobody's good at poetry!"
  • In the same episode, Wager Master challenges Argent Adept to a fiddle contest to win a golden fiddle. AA puts all his entire effort into playing masterfully as he usually does, but when it's WM's turn he plays dreadfully. When AA essentially pouts dejectedly that WM isn't even trying, WM says nope, he is trying, he just can't play the fiddle. ^note (Since he threw the match on purpose to trick AA into accepting a fiddle cursed to make him keep uncontrollably playing it.)
  • Also, the time WM was a Zero-Effort Boss in-universe, with Guise pulling junk out of his Bag of Holding to technically meet the requirements - such as a Megalopolis subway token for a "rune of transportation". Bonus points because this badly derailed a lesson the Scholar was trying to teach Guise about focusing and not being so random...which, admittedly, is kind of Hypocritical Humor coming from a man who has a card specifically about turning 100+ years of accumulated junk into card draw.
  • The Void Guard follow-up has them confront the question of whether or not WM would just sit there and get blown up in the art for "Bored Now". The answer is of course he wouldn't...he'd hold up a sign that says YIKES, then get blown up.
• The Disparation Dark Watch episode. When Adam, doing an impression of Shockwave, starts talking about the horrible cry if the monster he's hunting, you expect to hear something terrifying... and then you get Bloogo.
  • Also, the Shockwave impression is pretty funny.
  • And then there's the fact that Earth is considered by aliens to be a backwater Flyover Country nobody cares about going to.
• Whenever Christopher and Adam talk about Citizens Hammer and Anvil, who are styled after them. They're always referred to as "the best citizens." And C&A say they could probably take down OblivAeon by themselves.
• The Xtremeverse episode. First we have Christopher and Adam's Xtreme voices. Then we have them clearly improvising when asked about Xtreme Zhu-Long: Their answer to "what does he turn into since a human turning into a dragon is already pretty Xtreme" goes through several iterations and eventually becomes "he's a dragon all the time who sometimes also turns into a giant mecha dragon".
  • "There's chains coming from the ceiling down... chains everywhere..." "Like spiky chains. Chains that the individual links of the chains have small spikes on them for no good reason."
  • Also the bit where Christopher originally tries to claim Captain Cosmic goes "You'll never succeed you vile miscreant!", and Adam steps in with "It's more like 'SUCK THIS'. [Captain Cosmic] makes gun constructs, you're being way too nice here." "I am, I write in a Silver Age tone, this is..." "Like, 'NICE CHAIR, CUPCAKE'."
  • The running gag of characters going "Heck you, mother[bleep]er."
• Apostate in the card game comes off as a really creepy Long-Haired Pretty Boy demonic Satanic corrupter type busy murdering and twisting people in horrible ways. But then in his episode it's revealed he's actually deliberately cultivating all the demonic/Satanic trappings for the sole purpose of Trolling Fanatic by becoming her "idealized villain". Including at one point just tossing all attempts at deliberate deception to the winds and just throwing increasingly over the top ludicrous lies at her. Such as pretending they're both aliens and he's here to take her back to their homeworld, that she's in a coma and he's her concerned brother ("Your family misses you, Helena. Please wake up. We love you."), etc.
  • This eventually culminates in a fight at a mausoleum where he's lying yet again about how their parents were both heroes and he's hoping they could join forces and fight evil together. And she keeps killing him, but he keeps possessing new bodies and popping back to life. Which would be creepy if he didn't keep picking up his monologue full of BS wherever he got cut off mid-sentence, and occasionally complaining "would you stop doing that, it's incredibly annoying", all while Fanatic gets more and more infuriated. The episode in general basically takes a character which used to be scary and sends him right over the Crosses the Line Twice threshold into darkly hilarious.
• In the Young Legacy episode they encounter a letter writer who has Recycled Jokes in their name. They then proceed to says that's what they could call their podcast. And just to prove their point.
  Adam: You mean, shmodcast.
• One of the highlights of the podcast is the debate over Progeny's flying head. Cool or Funny? You decide. That doesn't change the fact that the book featuring KNYFE hunting it is called Headhunter.
• The very idea that C&A are going to be doing a Legacy Radio show.
• From the makers of Void Jelly we have Time Curly Fries, OblivAeon Peanut Butter, and Reality Bread.
• Our brief glimpse of the Telenovela Universe from the OblivAeon two-parter. This has C+A doing a sequence where this version of Dr Medico is being all smouldering, passionate Latin Lover and Caleb is just, like, an average guy. This goes on for quite a while. Then the Big O destroys it, which is sad, but it was funny prior to that.
  Christopher as Caleb: Hey Nick, how was work.
  Also Christopher as El Curador: Ah, Caleb, it was... most trying. How was your day, my love.
  Caleb: Oh, it was fine. We got a new toaster in the office.
  El Curador: Ah, a new Toaster, how dramatic!
  [beat]
  Adam as El Curador: What happened to the old one?
  Still Christopher as Caleb: Oh, well, it was broken so we threw it out.
  El Curador: ¿Por que?
  Caleb: Yeah it just wasn't worth fixing so...
  El Curador: ¿POR QUE?
• In Editors Nite Number 30, affectionately referred to as the "Well Actually" Episode and the "We're Wrong About Science" episode, there is, among many relatively serious letters correcting C&A, a very short, almost troll-esque letter reading as such:
  Dear C&A,
  Raptor bot should have feathers.
• On the subject of short letters: the shortest letter they ever received was far back during the Haka episode. Needless to say, Christopher and Adam didn't like it very much.
  Dear Christopher and Adam,
  Haka Smash?
• In the lore, once Aeon Master has been defeated, Lifeline absorbs the Scion's energy and, on the advice of Slamara (who they've mentioned has feelings for him), creates an entity that would become known as Aeon Girl. In the Incapacitation episode, Adam chooses the exact worst way to phrase this:
  Adam: [Slamara tells him] "You've got all this stuff and you should put it into a girl."
• The shipping episode, which features everything from a 15-question message that starts with an apology and takes a third of the episode, to the most absurd possible summary of the Ra/Fanatic Belligerent Sexual Tension:
  Christopher: 'Oh, we hate each other, let's, like...touch...butts...or something.'
  Adam: That's how you have sex, is, you touch butts.
  Christopher: Right. Right. You learned it here, kids.
• The follow-up Editor's Note has one of their regular letter-writers, in-character as Ambuscade, referring to his one-off sexual encounter with KNYFE as "doing his own stunts". Christopher nearly dies.
• The second shipping episode might've just outdone the first in terms of laughs. Highlights include Apostate x Harpy (because Apostate is like "a big, emo, bird"), the over-enthusiastic In-Universe fangirl letter about one of her big ships becoming canon in the metaverse, and Baron Blade-as-Kris Barron dating the Wraith's mother as part of a convoluted scheme.
  • The followup Editor's Note (#52) has a letter suggesting Omnitron x Celestial Tribunal, with Schema thrown into the mix as well. Crack Ship does not begin to describe it.
• The podcast reveals an interesting tidbit about Adam, namely that he's very particular about how to draw Chrono-Ranger's butt.
• In the Mr. Fixer episode, someone asks why he wears a baseball cap for Rook City's baseball team, given that a previous episode establishes that the team is a bunch of steroid-filled thugs for The Organization. Christopher starts talking about how Mr. Fixer was a fan of the team when he was young, in the good old days, when it was just a bunch of good old boys hitting the ball around. Adam, however, deadpans, "It's not like he can see what's on the hat."
• In the episode on mooks and minions, Christopher creates simultaneously hilarious and horrifying fanfiction.
  Gloomweaver: [Kills Cultist of Gloom]
  Other Cultist: [Whispering] Thank you, daddy.
• The Bloodsworn Colosseum seems like a pretty standard issue "gladiator battle arena travels around galaxy to get strong people to fight" and it is, but the Letters Page (and later a mission card in the OblivAeon expansion reveal that it also functions like a wrestling tournament with tickets, crazy fans, and souvenir merchandise.
• The fact that Mecha Stalin exists. He is exactly what he sounds like, a cyborg Stalin and essentially the Soviet counterpart to Mecha Hitler from Wolfenstein 3-D. The idea is so ridiculous that when his existence was revealed some people thought it was a joke. In the RPG, there's two of them.
• In the Citizen Dawn episode, Adam makes a joke about how "the cold never bothered [Dawn] anyway". Then there's a door slam sound effect.
  Adam: All right, well, it's just me now. So, um, then she starts killing bears and wearing their skins-
  Christopher: Okay, I'm back. Oh, man. Nope. None of that happens.
• During the Ra episode, they get a question about how much Egyptian myth is actually active in the Multiverse. Somehow, this leads to a lengthy digression on how cats come from space.
  Christopher: (laughing) ...What did Jet ask again?
• Christopher and Adam run into a bit of Fridge Logic when discussing a minor character matched up against Mr. Fixer and Nightmist aka two of the most powerful heroes in Sentinel Comics. Then they choose to ignore it because comics.
  Christopher: Red Eye is fighting Mr. Fixer and Nightmist and we ignore how screwed she is.
• Episode 131 is A Christmas Carol but with Fanatic fighting ghosts. It starts with Mark Benedetto being visited by the ghost of an old business partner, Jacob Molena who gives him a bunch of Christmas Carol exposition and then leads to this:
  Mark: What, am I going to be visited by three spirits next?
  Jacob: ...yes.
• The Blood Magic episode dissolves into chaos when a letter talks about a mondegreen they got from the "Christopher and Adam" song, which leads to Christopher declaring that "Let 'em read a magic" is the Miststorm Universe version of "Let 'em read 'em atcha."
  Christopher: Sentinel Comics universe Adam does his damn job and draws arts and doesn't join the Cult of Gloom.
  Adam: Yeah. You will never have another art drawn.
  Christopher: Aw man...(Fridge Logic kicks in) That's worse for you than it - hold up! You like drawing art!
  Adam: Apparently in this timeline I don't? I like IPAs more, and hanging out in the swamp.
• The Angry Taxpayer letter in the Greazer Clutch episode has a line about Greazer having enough oil in his hair that the US should invade his forehead. Neither Christopher nor Adam can say anything for several seconds.
• In the Prime Wardens episode, they get a letter from the Plantverse that talks about the Pine Wardens and assumes the heroes' brightly-coloured outfits are there to attract pollinators. Neither of them get out of it with straight faces, and Christopher comes within inches of declaring the Pine Wardens to be the best thing he's ever heard.
  Adam: (chuckling) Ah, this letter!
• Spite's death is darkly hilarious. There's a big fight between him and Wraith and it looks like they're going to have another "can the Wraith bring herself to kill someone" moment and then... Parse drops in and unceremoniously one-shots him. Spite, one of the worst, most sick and twisted villain's in Sentinel Comics, is killed off with no fanfare by a character that, at this point in the metaverse, isn't particularly well known.
• Baron Blade has banned anybody named Paul or Pauline from entering Mordengrad. If you ever needed proof that the Baron's grudge against Legacy is petty, here it is^note Granted, it does serve a practical purpose in that it keeps Legacy, who's really into following the law, from just barging into the country whenever he likes, thus allowing the Baron some breathing room.
• Mordengrad's odd obsessions with goats, or more specifically, the Goat. Even Baron Blade loves it, though he pretends he doesn't.
• In the D-List heroes episode C&A create a space rocker with the gag-inducing alias of Casa-Nova (because he's a hippie who sleeps around with any willing alien he meets) and the even more gag-inducing real name of Xander Groovitation. Even better: he's in the RPG's The Guise Book sourcebook.
• The Mangaverse episode is a goldmine.
  • In the Mangaverse episode we're introduced to Anthony Demura, the Mangaverse version of The Argent Adept, who is somehow even more pretty than his canon counterpart. What makes it funny is that C&A openly admit they didn't create him because he's actually that important to the story, but just precisely because they wanted to call out that he's so beautiful that everyone loves him just for existing and the sight of a single tear from him further convinces the heroes they absolutely must rescue the school.
  • Amanda Koizumi aka Gun-Sight (Mangaverse Expatriette)'s mom is not a crazed Super Supremacist but just a normal mom who like to bake cookies, all of which follow the same duality theme the Citizens of the Sun follow such as a Peanut Butter cookie and a Jelly Cookie.
  • Then later Adam talks about how in future stories they need to know more about Anthony. Christopher notes that he'd be perfect for the "slice of life" Shōjo/romance story. Adam starts laughing that it's hilarious that means they're making their asexual character the center of a romance story. Christopher says that's the thing, everyone is in love with Anthony but all he's in love with is music, and Adam starts laughing so hard he goes into a coughing fit.
  • Two of the letters are from Taffyman in character as spoofs of various anime. The One Piece one also contains a take that towards Hiro Mashima.
  • Another letter continues the podcast's running gag of joke censoring things, asking about the Wyvern Orb and Seafarer Luna series (which, admittedly, are pretty awesome names).
• In Argent Adept's supporting cast episode C&A create Soothsayer Carmichael, a sort of friendly rival magic user. For one, he real name is Cedric Carmichael which gives both broken alliteration in his name and he doesn't at least think to call himself Soothsayer Cedric but instead breaks the alliteration there as well. For two, it turns out because he's a "book smart" wizard whose entire schtick is careful plans and rituals, one of his primary roles as a character is to be constantly exasperated by the Argent Adept's "hold my beer" approach to magic (including Christopher regularly fake ranting in character).
• In the aforementioned Argent Adept Supporting Cast episode, the creators get a letter from someone calling himself the Rainbow Roadie. Due to Adam reading the letter in a similar manner to how he reads the Angry Tax Payer letters, the two of them deduce that the Rainbow Roadie must be the Angry Tax Payer's brother and that, since the Rainbow Roadie claims to be immortal, the Angry Tax Payer must also be immortal and literally "gave to Caesar what's Caesar's." Later, in the Legacy Supporting Cast episode, they get a letter from the Angry Tax Payer admonishing them for writing fanfiction about him, says that he hates Caesar, and "accidentally" drops a hint that the Rainbow Roadie might be his deadbeat dad.
• According to Christopher and Adam, the lines for the character of Ruby Roark in the Greatest Legacy Radio Play were first done by Adam before they were dubbed over by a different actor. Take a moment to imagine how that might have sounded.
• During the Black Fist Writer's Room the creators get a letter related to K.N.Y.F.E that refers to her... amorous exploits as "playing Yahtzee with everything on two legs that's willing."
• During the Publisher's Notes (episodes of the podcast in which Greater than Games CEO Paul Bender fills in for Adam while he's working in the "art mines") a trend developed of game show style letters being sent to test Paul's knowledge of Sentinels and later Christopher's knowledge of Tolkien and Star Trek (It Makes Sense in Context). This eventually got to the point where they had to make an entire section dedicated just to game show questions.
• An oft overlooked accidental running gag is when Christopher and/or Adam are using a hand gesture to accentuate or explain something and then one of them quips "This makes great radio."
• The episode detailing Setback and Ra's buddy cop exploits is hilarious. However, even better than the episode is the issue's cover which reveals that Setback's costume from the 90s looks absolutely ridiculous!
  • More cover fun: The Guise Book #37 featuring a parody movie poster proclaiming that "Joseph King is Guise" with Guise and Young La Capitan doing the "King of the World" pose from Titanic and complete with fake credits at the bottom. The best part has to be the delightful good natured ribbing towards certain modern movie trends at the end of the "credits:"
  really WHY ARE YOU STILL READING THIS? YOU KNOW YOU'LL SEE IT, the POST-CREDITS SCENE has ESSENTIAL TIE-INS to the OTHER FILMS.
  • The cover for Black Fist - Grandmaster of the Streets #1 proclaims that "Sometimes the Good Man you need is a Bad Brother."
  • Disparation Vol. 2 #150's cover is mostly badass except for the hilarious "WTF" face Chrono-Ranger is making.
• A tangent in the Cosmic Tales Writers Room featuring Fashion leads to Christopher pointing out that there are no Ra x Setback shippers. Adam points out that its because Ra x Fanatic is OTP, dubbing the ship "Ranatic." Christopher attempts to follow this up by dubbing Setback x Expatriette as "Sexpatriette" before immediately realizing what's wrong with that name and quickly backtracking. The ship name that is eventually settled on is Setpatriette.
• After much wondering, one letter finally nails down the, well, nail that causes the RPG-Vertex split: Whether or not Setback presses a button. Yes, really.
• While discussing Huul (the living eldritch dimension that Xxtz'Hulissh is a portal too), Adam describes viewing the landscape as similar to watching Cats.
• During the Nightmist Supporting Cast episode, a tangent involving science devolves into a hypothetical world where Scientific disciplines are traded and battled like Pokémon and a fight between Chemotherapy and Newtonian Physics.
• At the beginning of the Aeternus Connected Hero episode, Christopher and Adam are discussing the recently (at the time) ended Rook City Renegades Kickstarter and how, according to the internet, Adam draws very attractive furries which then proceeds to become a tangent about how most furries are apparently very rich.
• A letter in Editor's Note #57 asks Christopher and Adam to cast Muppets as Sentinels characters a la The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island. This leads to many humorous casting ideas including but not limited to Sam Eagle as Legacy, Miss Piggy as either the Wraith or Citizen Dawn, and Baron Blade as the token human played by Tim Curry.

Sentinels of Freedom Video Game

• At one point during a mission, you'll get some news about reinforcements coming, which leads Absolute Zero to start saying "Great. We need to destroy those lifts. Time to-" Your player character will then get a chance to guess how AZ is going to finish the sentence... and all of the guesses contain terrible ice-related puns. Which then leads AZ to give you an exasperated "*Sigh* ''No''."
• In another mission, Expatriette will let slip that she has come up with plans on how to take down all of the heroes as needed, and when Tachyon asks to hear how Expat would take her out, gives a detailed run down of the plan. Tachyon notes that she's put a lot of thought into this, and the conversation moves into Crossing the Line Twice territory when Expat explains that coming up with plans on how to take out targets keeps her calm when Setback makes things go wrong and it's why their relationship works.
• The Adhesivist's battle quips are a gold mine of hilarity in general. The voice actor gives him the most campy, flamboyant delivery of his lines possible, and said lines involve everything from continually completely screwing up trying to make witty glue-related puns, to actually crying when you hit him too hard.
• And in fact, some of the voice acting in general is a charm. A few highlights:
  • AZ has a lot of his usual ice puns, but the standouts are him quipping, "Don't get too close, I've got a cold," and snarking that he's "Not getting any colder here" if the battle's taking too long.
    • When you win a mission, he'll go "Hooray... I guess..." in the most completely unenthusiastic tone possible.
    • When his health gets especially low he'll sarcastically say either "Oh good." or "Love where this is going."
    • Upon changing stances he'll say "Weird weather we're having."
  • Bunker's lines are all fairly serious; instead it's the fact that he's saying them in a Southern drawl thicker than molasses that lends the comedic value.
  • Ermine sounds like a valley girl and will melodramatically shriek, "My face! My beauuuuuuuutiful face!" if you land a critical hit on her.
  • Expatriette is usually calm and stoic, but will suddenly go, "Well... that's... a lot of my own blood..." if she suffers a critical hit.
  • Fright Train is loaded with the usual train puns, but the best is probably him saying "My caboose!" in a melodramatic tone if you land a critical hit.
    • According to Word of God, this is Christopher's favorite line in the game.
  • Tachyon gets a surprising number of amusing quips:
    • "Behold, the power of science!"
    • "It's hard to keep track of all of them! ...just kidding, it's very easy."
    • "I'll help... but I'm also taking notes!"
    • "Let's see what's happening everywhere at once."
  • Unity gets her classic catchphrase "Bot-tastic!" And if a teammate downs an enemy, she'll sputter in a disappointed tone, "You got that one? I mean, I was going to... No, it's... it's fine..."
  • Finally if Wraith lands a critical hit, she'll say in an arrogant tone, "Huh, sometimes I even impress myself!" She also says, in a shocked voice, "You actually hit me." when hit.
• Missing a 90% attack for the first time.
  Achievement unlocked: XCOMmunnicated
• One mission involves criminals invading a store called Guns n' Stuff. No, seriously. Even better, one of the dialogue options for the player character is to claim that Guns n' Stuff is their favorite store and the robbers must pay.
• When Heritage (formerly Legacy, for those unaware) shows you the location where you can modify your character's powers and look, one dialogue option is to talk about action figures and merchandising. Heritage doesn't really understand.
• While facing off against Iron Curtain, one dialogue option is to accuse her of sounding like a college freshman who got into philosophy but skipped all the reading. All she can think to say is "Shut Up!"
• In one mission, depending on which dialogue option you choose, Unity will request a tank in the same way a kid might ask their parents for a dog.
  Unity: Can I get a tank? Please? I promise I'll feed it and take it for walks.
• While infiltrating Perestroika's base, an automated system announces that it's robot production line and planes are online. Each time your character has the option to say something in response. Then the computer announces it's arming nukes and biological weapons. All your character has to say to that is "..."
  • Luckily, the computer can't find the nukes or bio-weapons and requests that you contact IT support with an updated timeline.
• Setback's side mission. It starts with him going out to pick up pizza (with Expat serving as mission control as if this were a regular mission) before running into the Adhesivist and his Glue Crew trying to steal an important document from the Megalopolis archives, specifically one that will force the city to fund his glue related crimes. In the end, he fails because Setback once got stuck in a law library overnight and, for some reason, memorized the laws related to glue (all of which are absurd).
  The Adhesivist: Curses! Foiled by a legal genius!
  Setback: I got stuck in a law library.
  The Adhesivist: Curses! Foiled by a lucky idiot!
  • The mission also introduced Mend, a villainess who is 100% done with all these super hero shenanigans. She goes on to reappear in several other missions becoming more and more frustrated each time.
• Guise's mission, in which Guise has a cat and you can stop Perestroika by giving them expired fruit pies.
  • Introduced in the mission is Obsidian, an extremely polite and articulate Magmarian hero.
  • In a later mission, Obsidian engages in a scientific conversation with Tachyon... while being menaced by bad guys, much to Absolute Zero's chagrin. And the bad guys just stand there and let them talk.
• While discussing the current situation (it's snowing in summer), Setback brings up the fact that there's no good Taqueria within walking distance... which everyone treats as a legitimate problem.
  • Two dialogue options from the same scene. Option one:
  Player Character: I love the snow! I get to make a new arctic-themed outfit with superfluous accessories and improbable weaponry!
  Legacy: I understand about half of what you say at any given time.
  • Option Two:
  Player Character: I hate the snow. Bodies freezing, the death of hope from shorter days, and the nights where criminals prey on the weak. Frostbite, death, darkness in every soul beckoning us to do horrible things, but do easy...
  Legacy: I'm just going to back away slowly...
• While exploring the destroyed Perestroika base, the heroes accidentally reactivate a robot. If you try the classic "What is love" paradox on it, it turns out it has been programmed not only to handle the paradox but to lament its inability to feel love whenever it's asked this.
  Computer: You Monster!
  • If you threaten the computer, it will threaten you back... in a cockney accent.
• During a different mission you're raiding an underground lava base and once again have dialogue choices. If you go the humorous meta route, Guise will request the devs nerf you because your fourth wall references are too op. If you go the dark and gritty route, Absolute Zero will insist on you getting therapy after the mission is over and ban you from all subsequent missions until you're fully mentally stable.
• At one point, Obsidian manages to link you up with Highbrow's brain to stop her in the virtual world, allowing your hero to see your own ui. Guise then proceeds to use a bunch of nonsensical hacking terms which even your hero at their looniest finds absurd.
  Player Character: That can't be how hacking works. That can't be how anything works!
  • later:
  Player Character: Just... stop talking. I'm pretty sure you're just making them stronger.
  • Even later, towards the end of the mission, the player character can propose getting gelato after the mission to which Guise replies that they'll have to wait until after the credits.

Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game

• Some of the Archetype descriptions are humorous.
  • Speedster
  Sorrygottagobeintwelveplacesatonce…
  • Physical Powerhouse
  You are the Brute Squad.
  • Minion-Maker
  Who needs friends when you can just make them?
  • Reality Shaper
  God may not play dice with the cosmos, but you do.
• The Guise Book is, as you might expect, hilarious. It introduces brand new characters such as:
  • Guise-Cat who, despite literally being just a cat, has an entire character sheet to itself with its Power Source listed as Cursed despite it completely lacking powers and it having “Just a Cat” as one of its Qualities. It's alias is also listed as just Cat that lives with Guise.
  • Pool Shark, a guy in a shark hoodie who's main “power” is that he’s really good at pool.
  • Hedgelord aka Dirt Hightower, a denizen of the Extremiverse who was part of a GI Joe style organization called Shear Force dedicated entirely to fighting an evil plant based organization called K.U.D.Z.U. Of course, every member of both organizations had plant-based puns for names with Shear Force including Lumberjaques, Rangefinder, and The Rake and K.U.D.Z.U. including Nightshade, Herr Loosestrife, and Hemlock.
  • Casa-Nova aka Xander Groovitation, the gag-inducing D-List hero mentioned in the Letter’s Page section, who now has an expanded backstory. They now travel the cosmos as the ambassador of peace, love, and rock and roll (or maybe they’re the embodiment of those concepts, nobody's sure). At one point, they even get pulled outside the Multiverse and travel from universe to universe in order to spread love and grooviness. Additionally, their “Groovitational Pull” is now part of his power set and is how he navigates the stars. Their main contributions to fights they participated in is to just float around and play guitar.
  • Nega-Guise, who is just a really pissed off Argentium who has decided the only way for him to know peace is to kill Guise.
  • Finally, Guise has two character sheets, his normal one and his “real” one. While the normal one simply lays out his backstory and powers with minimal interference from the titular character, the “real” one plays him up as the king of a media empire, more specifically, Sentinel Comics itself. It features him arguing with the Editor in text and talking to a very annoyed looking Christopher and Adam in art. It even implies that Joe Zieja, who voices him in the Video Game (both of them), is actually him. Not an alternate version of him, but the actual Guise.

Cameos In Other Games

The Sentinels of the Ninth expansion for Bottom of the Ninth (a board game about playing baseball) has a number of hilarious gems:

• Argent Adept is the Stadium Organist, which not only involves playing an organ on a baseball field (and artwork that is the only official art so far of him smiling), but his special ability is explicitly named "Theme Music". Also he can "tap into the primal forces of the baseball world and control the tide of chaos and fun".
• Captain Cosmic is using a cricket bat and is "sure to slog any yorker a dibbly dobbly throws".
• Expatriette "has to allow time to let her arms reload".
• Haka is wielding the baseball bat in one hand, as it's comically small compared to the rest of him.
• Their team mascot is someone dressed up in a Mr. Chomps costume.
• Omnitron-X is shown wearing a baseball uniform over his very much non-humanly robotic body.
• Setback is shown having his arm getting caught in the ties of his Domino Mask.
• Tachyon gets her salary in stadium food, "a decision the league regrets".
• Tempest's fun fact: "Tempest can control the weather and throw lightning, how is that fair?!"

Sentinel Comics: The Untold Story

• Among the interviews in these fake documentaries is an interview with a comic creator named Guy Hampton who is definitely not an Expy of Alan Moore. He proves to be quite crazy, doing things like threatening to blow up the Editor-In-Chief's office and creating his own religion with the chief god being a badger puppet named Doxie. Eventually, this exchange happens.

Interviewer: Your Editor, Ken Norman, claims that you threatened to, quote, "blow him up." Is that true?

Guy Hampton: *laughs* That all got blown out of proportion. *to Doxie the Badger* We really wouldn't have blown him up would we. *brings puppet close to his ear* Hmm? Kill them all?

Interviewer: *sighs*

• And also this exchange earlier.

Guy Hampton: Have I introduced you to my god? *reveals Badger Puppet* This is Doxie.

[Beat]

Guy Hampton: *Shoves puppet into interviewers face* BAAAH!

Interviewer: Okay, what the-

• According to a comic historian, Sentinel Comics went through a phase where all their new characters were, quote, "chicks with guns."

Other

• Jean-Marc Giffen, composer for the Video Game, released a set of theme songs for several of the game's heroes. Most of them are badass... and then there's Guise's, which is partly bouncy Bragging Theme Tune, partly him explaining his (extremely embellished) origin story in song form, and partly a sad ballad about the time he bought bananas from the Green Grosser and they literally blew up in his face. The entire song is gold, but the best line has to be this when he describes the piano falling on his head.

"Blaaaarrrgghhhccchhhhhhh!" ...is what I said.

• For those of you who can't listen to the Podcast, forum user Walking Target has written absolutely hilarious summaries on the wiki. References and commentary abound to make an already funny podcast even funnier.