"That is the only time I have seen Miyamoto not smile. What have you done, Microsoft?"
— Josh Scorcher, "Top Ten Microsoft Fails", on one of Microsoft's cringey Electronic Entertainment Expo presentations
- Achievement Hunter's Gavin Free is a certified troll, doing things to screw over his fellow AH players for shits and giggles, but trying his damnedest not to out and out cheat. When Caleb was caught cheating and it's Gavin calling him out, you know that you dun goofed.
- AniMat:
- And then there's AniMat, a guy who's been known to not only be a respectful critic who tries to find something good in almost every movie he sees, but also frequency employs Gosh Dang It to Heck! with his "What the fridge?!" catchphrase. Then in came his review of Where the Dead Go to Die, which he not only refers to as "the worst animated film ever" (and even calls it that in the title!), but also calls anyone who likes the film "sick, messed-up freaks" and tells them to get an intervention. The latter, however, led him to have a My God, What Have I Done? moment later on, as he explains here.
- His review of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 also counts, as not only was it his first vlog-style review, but at the very end, he drops an (albeit censored) Precision F-Strike upon seeing a bunch of characters doing the Harlem Shake. Fans in the comments section broke out in hives, noting it was the first time they had ever heard AniMat curse.
- And then there's AniMat, a guy who's been known to not only be a respectful critic who tries to find something good in almost every movie he sees, but also frequency employs Gosh Dang It to Heck! with his "What the fridge?!" catchphrase. Then in came his review of Where the Dead Go to Die, which he not only refers to as "the worst animated film ever" (and even calls it that in the title!), but also calls anyone who likes the film "sick, messed-up freaks" and tells them to get an intervention. The latter, however, led him to have a My God, What Have I Done? moment later on, as he explains here.
- Atop the Fourth Wall: The 300th episode, featuring Frank Miller's Holy Terror, has a moment where after about an hour of enraged screaming, Linkara drops his reviewer persona and speaks as his real self (Lewis Lovhaug) in order to calmly explain why the book is one of the worst he's ever read because it blatantly goes against everything he believes comic books should be. This is generally how the viewer can tell that something is seriously wrong; whenever he takes off his hat and addresses the audience as Lewis, not Linkara.
- Ben Drowned has BEN, of all people, entering a state of panic when Jadusable starts digging deep inside the haunted cartridge, not aware that he's going to wake The Father from his slumber in "The Father.wmv". He tries to stop him by resetting the game and begging him to stop playing, but after pissing him off for the majority of TheTruth.rtf/TheRealTruth.rtf, Jadusable ignores his pleas for the remainder of the video.
- Normally, Bennett the Sage's Suave character is an unabashed pervert who'll take any opportunity to talk about sex or make sexual innuendos. However, in the midst of the I Dream of Mimi review, he gets so fed up with one of the lead characters leading on his love interests that Suave gives him a serious dressing-down speech about treating people with respect.
- BuzzFeed Unsolved:
- The show is full of Black Comedy, Crosses the Line Twice, and funny banter between Ryan and Shane. So if the guys aren't laughing and cracking jokes, you can bet that the case is really getting to them.
- In the episode where they discussed the murder of JonBenét Ramsey, Shane — Deadpan Snarker and Nightmare Fetishist extraordinaire — didn't make any of his usual wisecracks at all, and seemed like he was about to be sick when Ryan got into the details of what happened to Ramsey.
- Ryan is one of the sweetest guys you could ever hope to meet. So when he straight-up says he's glad Ken Rex McElroy is dead, you know McElroy must've been a nasty piece of work.
- In a behind-the-scenes video, a member of the camera crew revealed that if Shane is genuinely scared by a supposedly-haunted location, that's when they know something is definitely wrong. If he gets so scared he just wants to leave, that's when they know that it is time to leave.
- The Call of Warr: Durkin acts very strangely after his kidnapping, including being confused when Glintz-Terry uses his "Durkin me around" line- which immediately strikes Glintz-Terry as strange.
- Chris Stuckmann:
- He rarely blows his top during his movie reviews, but when a movie sorely pisses him off, he will make it known, such as in his opening for The Emoji Movie, where his monotone intro goes into Suddenly Shouting.
- He also starts screaming about how much he hates Nine Lives in his review of the film, primarily due to its idiotic portrayal of caring for a cat (such as putting the litter box right next to the food). Notably, he screams "WHAT THE FUCK?!" when talking about the latter (not even his most hated movie ever, Dragonball Evolution, got that reaction out of him.
- Brad Jones has done this on several occasions when playing The Cinema Snob.
- He starts his review of Caligula out of character claiming that it's his favorite movie and that it's going to be hard to "Snob" it.
- During the film Elves, the main character's stepmother kills her cat. Brad (a well-known Kindhearted Cat Lover) snarls, "I'd kill her. I'd fucking kill her!" — without any of the Snob's usual tone.
- At the end of his review of Goldengirl, Brad Jones went so far as to take off his glasses and unslick his hair before telling his viewers to seek out the film, just to make it clear he was serious.
- The review of Gross Out starts with Brad almost begging his viewers not to watch the review. To put it in perspective, he didn't do this before the review of Pink Flamingos.
- On a similar note: the moment when the protagonist of Rock: It's Your Decision reveals decidedly homophobic tendencies. Brad's previous cheery mockery vanishes instantly, as he coldly, calmly states: "Kid...go fuck yourself."
- Lee of Cinema Wins will often looked at the positives of a movie and generally defend even controversial movies like several of the early installments of the DC Extended Universe, but there are moments where even Lee can't help but hate stuff.
- The most notable being Glass (2019), where he starts his summary by flat-out admitting he didn't like the movie, with a major sticking point being the death of David Dunn.
- Another moment was the death of Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, feeling it was unearned and isn't enthused about tying it into the film's themes of time and foreshadowing.
- Not about the actual quality of the movie, but the video for Get Out (2017) sees Lee, who usually never swears, drop a(n albeit censored) Precision F-Strike in response to the systemic racism the movie addresses.
- Joker (2019) sees two. A recurring one is despite having been a Nightmare Fetishist in past films, he's disturbed by the violence in Joker. Another is he goes on a rant about the backlash to the movie's mere existence and the fear that it'll inspire violence that the film got before it was even released, which he argues is statistically unlikely and that it's more likely the articles generated by said backlash would do that.
- Critical Role:
- Caduceus Clay is a cleric of the Wildmother, and deeply connected to all things natural, even if others would find them disgusting. It turns out that he does have his limits, which he discovers after the second time he ends up waist-deep in a tar pit while a giant antlion tries to eat his legs.Caduceus: I'm not built for this. I was not built for this. This is the first time I've been in nature and gone "This is gross." This is just- It's in my boots. It's just in my boots and I can smell it. Nope.
- A much less humorous example: Fresh Cut Grass is a robot whose whole purpose is to help people, and who remains cheerfully optimistic throughout whatever hardship the party faces. However, after learning that Dancer, their creator, is terrified of them and wants nothing to do with them anymore, F.C.G.'s stress levels reach maximum and they snap. Not only do they try to gore Chetney with a buzzsaw, but they start furiously screaming at the rest of their friends, throwing their deepest insecurities right back into their faces.
- Caduceus Clay is a cleric of the Wildmother, and deeply connected to all things natural, even if others would find them disgusting. It turns out that he does have his limits, which he discovers after the second time he ends up waist-deep in a tar pit while a giant antlion tries to eat his legs.
- The Cynical Brit lampshaded this in his mid-2017 attack on the US government's attacks on net neutrality.Totalbiscuit: Ladies and gentlemen, my name is John Bain. You know this is serious when I'm using my real name.
- Dr Glaucomflecken: Occurs among both doctors and patients:
- For the Rural Medicine doctor, it’s already shocking when a farmer seeks medical attention of his initiative; if the farmer interrupted his chores to get care, it means it’s a dire emergency.
- If the Anesthesiologist stands up during surgery, every other member of the medical team immediately assumes that the patient is dying.
- For the Rural Medicine doctor, it’s already shocking when a farmer seeks medical attention of his initiative; if the farmer interrupted his chores
- Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
- Cui is baffled when his nemesis, the incredibly arrogant Saiyan Prince Vegeta, begins describing how he lost a fight. This quickly turns into fear, which turns out to be well-justified.
Vegeta: And while I was down on Earth, oh man... I got destroyed!
Cui: HA HA HA, you... What?
Vegeta: Yep. All by a low level warrior, his half-breed son, a midget, and an obese man with a sword. I lost outright.
Cui: Why are you telling me this?! You'd never tell anyone this!
Vegeta: Easy. Because I know you'll never tell anybody, Cui.
Cui: But...but I ''hate you!'' Why would I— (gets blown up)
Vegeta: God, I love therapy!- A moment from the original canon gets extra emphasis during the final confrontation with Super Perfect Cell. Where in the original Vegeta curses his weakness before apologizing to Gohan, here Gohan berates him for having "picked now to be a parent", forgetting that Trunks could be revived by the Dragon Balls (he also berates himself for not being any better, by saving Vegeta and getting injured in the process).
- Not to mention Android 19, who barely qualifies as an AI, suddenly switching to "No, please. Get away. Leave me alone!" while running in stark terror (an emotion he was not programmed to be capable of feeling, obviously) from Vegeta. Sure, he mostly maintains his monotone, but it's still quite a change from before.
- Played for Laughs in the Broly special, where despite Goku thinking he'd have to coax Vegeta into letting him borrow his energy (which is what happened in the official movie), Vegeta quickly and willingly gives it up. Because Broly is that annoying.
- The Funniest Minecraft Videos Ever:
- If Tommy is ever joining Phil as an Only Sane Man, it means that the hijinks of the others are just that bizarre.
- The RLCraft video was clearly an exercise in perseverance for everyone involved. Tommy's intro makes no mention of the video being hilarious in any way, and expresses that he, Jschlatt, and Slimesicle did not enjoy the mod. The tone of the "what the fuck" frequently uttered in reaction to the nature of the mod quickly goes from amused to exasperated, and the humor they take from Schlatt naming his dog "fuckworld" dies off when fuckworld falls to a lava trap; Schlatt gets to respawn, but his dog does not. When they finally achieve the objective of the video, namely defeating the golem atop the tower in the middle of the map, Tommy makes it clear that We Are NOT Going Through That Again unless he gets a LOT more subscribers.
- Game Grumps: Arin usually exaggerates his rage at difficult games for comedic purposes, while Dan usually mocks him in a friendly manner. However, when the two played Heart of Darkness, an infamously very difficult and unfair game, Arin became genuinely upset. What tipped Dan and the viewers off to this was a You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious moment in which Arin responded to Dan's usual mocking with a plaintive "Danny, please!" Since Arin never calls him "Danny", only ever "Dan" (or "Daniel" when pretending to be mad at him), Dan realises Arin is actually suffering and stops mocking him, becoming more gentle and supportive.
- Jimquisition has Jim Sterling taking their ideals and personality and cranking them up to eleven for their shows. Jim normally snarks and goes on ranting fits if something in the gaming industry bothers them. There were a few times where they have dropped the act when talking about something much more serious or sad such as the passing of Nintendo's president Satoru Iwata and fellow game critic Totalbiscuit. Jim also becomes much more serious at the end of one episode where they bring up how the writer of We Happy Few downplays people suffering from depression by saying that people can just pop a pill to make it all go away and thus sadness is no longer valued (basically saying anyone who is depressed should just cheer up). Jim, who suffers from anxiety and depression themselves and takes medication to keep them in check, goes off on the guy and explains why they need the medicine to be able to function properly.
- During LilyPichu and Michael Reeves' playthrough of It Takes Two, the latter largely employed his usual brand of humor throughout the game...except during Cutie the Elephant's death scene, during which he's notably stunned silent.
- As the endgame approached in Marble Hornets, many would notice that Totheark's videos became disturbingly coherent.
- The horror game Lets Player Markiplier usually tries to make a conscious effort to keep his language PG so when he starts swearing up a storm, you can bet he is either scared or frustrated.
- Mark Kermode is a avid hater of films in 3D and is more than willing to rip apart the technology, finding extremely gimmicky and is nothing more than a ploy for studios to make more money. Then Gravity came along and on his blog, he posted a video announcing that "Gravity is worth seeing in 3D". He then face-palmed for saying those words.
- Sag from Movie Rehab took off his sunglasses in order to give Dr. Lester a huge reason you suck speech, which from his tone alone, seems to be quite genuine.
- The Music Video Show:
- The show has a host named Kiara who can be Ax-Crazy, weird, and shows a variety of different emotions, with absolutely no swearing. However, at the last episode of season six, during a memorial for Jake Paul, she gives a speech to both Paul and his fans, telling them to "suck their Daddy's cock with their slutty mouths". Add to the fact that all the Paul Brother episodes were made during a year long Creator Breakdown, she makes it clear that she wishes them harm...then it was revealed that it was not about them.
- There is also when she went an entire episode, about rapper Drake, putting her middle finger up. Without saying a word. For seven minutes. Keep in mind, she has done several episodes featuring Simple Plan, Creed and Nickelback with several things to say.
- The show has a host named Kiara who can be Ax-Crazy, weird, and shows a variety of different emotions, with absolutely no swearing. However, at the last episode of season six, during a memorial for Jake Paul, she gives a speech to both Paul and his fans, telling them to "suck their Daddy's cock with their slutty mouths". Add to the fact that all the Paul
- Noob has the well-established fact that Arthéon is afraid of Game Masters. He does quite a few uncharacteristic things after reaching his Rage Breaking Point, but the act that ended up having most of his soon to be former guildmates as an audience was him asking for a Game Master so he could officially disband the guild.
- When The Nostalgia Critic doesn't express joy, anger or depression through swearing and instead goes for Gosh Dang It to Heck! ("holy smokes" is the usual), you know it's even more Serious Business than usual.
- His Cuteness Proximity-overload review of Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird is probably the only episode with no swearing whatsoever.
- After selling his soul in The Cat in the Hat, his Papa Wolf trait disappears and he spends the review being an abusive babysitter to Evilina.
- In the Bum Review of The Avengers, Doug breaks character twice (pulling off Chester's trademark wool cap and wig) to give a "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer and assure the viewers that yes, the movie is that awesome, and they really should go out and see it.
- In-Universe example: When Bum reviewed The Dark Knight, Bum was completely serious. And in the end, instead of using his catchpharse "Change! You got change?!", he tells to viewer to keep the change.
- How deranged is Bennett the Sage? When he had a crossover with Ask That Guy with the Glasses, his answers sent That Guy, who almost never shows visible signs of emotion, ended up curled in fetal position on the floor.
- The Nostalgia Chick:
- She never apologizes. So when she tells Nella that she's sorry for not including her in a review, you can see the manipulation coming a mile off.
- More seriously, The Christmas Shoes was so awful about having the kid (whose mother was dying) being taught the values of earning money that she — a self-admitted Child Hater — ended up screaming at the adults for how monstrous they were acting.
- NurdRage is one of the oldest amateur chemistry channels on YouTube, known for pioneering the genre and introducing most of the standard practices that come with it. Many episodes start with important safety instructions, but stop short of advising against trying the experiment out yourself. Not so in the episode on sodium cyanide, which has since been taken down due to safety concerns.Dr. Lithium: [narrates the standard operating procedures and safety precautions]
[beat]
Dr. Lithium: No, seriously, this is some crazy-ass lethal shit. If you screw this up, you. Will. Die. I'm not even joking around here. The only reason why I'm even doing this is because it's necessary to make the drug pyrimethaminenote . If you do not possess at least a bachelor's degree in chemistry, do not try this. Doing it is straightforward but staying safe requires a safety mentality that you can only get with actual lab experience. Seriously. Don't try this. - Party Crashers:
- Discussed in "I Tried to make Mario Party as RANDOM as Possible", where the others notice how Sophist is seemingly not acting as random as usual, stealing from certain people clean off the bat with the Boo rather than with the in-game Random option, not knowing that he's secretly using a random number generator:Brent: I wonder why he didn't choose Random though, like...
Vernias: It's very out of character, yeah.
Sophist: Nick had the most coins. Why would I choose somebody who could give me less coins?
Vernias: Since when do you use logic in your decision making?! - At one point in "Mario Party but SECOND Wins", Brent roasts Sophist so hard for being in last place that even Nick is taken aback from it, to the point of calling him out as toxic:Brent: I've become the very thing I swore to destroy, bro!
Nick: Yeah, toxic Brent. Literally "King of Toxicity". - In both of their UNO videos, Brent is so annoyed at having to spend so much time setting up the game that he doesn't even want to make monkey noises during the intro:Brent: I'm so mad, I don't even wanna make monkey noises right now.
Nick: (laughs) Wow, that's actually a testament, Brent.
- Discussed in "I Tried to make Mario Party as RANDOM as Possible
- TheRealJims: Usually, the "60 Second Simpsons" reviews have him offering humorous thoughts about the The Simpsons episode being reviewed. However, with "Co-Dependent's Day", he was so disgusted with the episode that he simply said "There are no words to describe how terrible this episode is", and then sat in silence for 30 seconds before going to the closing credits. He would later post an "Extra Seconds" about the episode, which would elaborate why he hated it.
- SiIvaGunner is a collaborative YouTube channel that presents "high quality rips" of video game music that are actually Bait-and-Switch remixes (or other jokes), ostensibly ran by a single person who refutes any claims that his music is anything but ordinary. However, after an incident where a video that abruptly delved into genuinely terrifying subject matter was uploaded without consent from the rest of the group, one person dropped kayfabe entirely to apologize.
- The Spoony Experiment: Spoony gives off one in the middle of his Ultima IX review. His normal vitriol and hot-bloodedness fades away during the scene as he simply reminisces quietly to the audience on his history with the Ultima series and the value it had to him growing up... before throwing the cases of those individual games against a wall. The entire scene serves to illustrate not only how far the game itself had broken him, but arguably also the state of mind of Noah himself at the time.
- In To Boldly Flee, amoral Nightmare Fetishist Dr. Tease is actually scared of what's going on.
- VG Myths: After completing theirs, Gamechamp had the following advice to give for anyone attempting a damageless Pokémon run.Gamechamp: ...Don't. Please, this is a very bad idea! Seriously, if a challenge run is giving you literal nightmares, it has passed thoroughly into unhealthy territory. Do a challenge run, I always encourage doing challenge runs, just... just don't do this one please, you deserve better!
