Web Animation / Dorkly Originals

Dorkly is a former sister site of Dropout (formerly CollegeHumor) which hosts a series of sprite animations poking fun at clichés and Fridge Logic in classic video games, with emphasis on dark humor and occasional line-crossing.

Dorkly's YouTube channel can be found here.

On January 8th, 2020, IAC, CollegeHumor's parent company, pulled their funding. This resulted in the layoff of a majority of the CollegeHumor staff, including the entirety of the Dorkly crew. The future of Dorkly was uncertain for a time, but they were eventually picked up by Lowbrow Studios and able to resume content creation.

On May 18th, 2023, it was revealed that Lowbrow Studios had officially acquired Dorkly and allowed them to start posting weekly videos on YouTube again and became independent from CollegeHumor.

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Dorkly Originals series with their own pages:

• Old Man Sonic
• Pokémon Rusty
• Pokémon Ralphie
• Bodybuilders Go
• If Pokedex Entries Were Literal

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Dorkly Originals contain examples of:

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• Accidental Suicide: In Even More Pokemon Disappointed In Their Evolutions, Shuckle tries to evolve by drinking a potion made of every evolution stone, which kills him. He's happy because he thinks he's evolved into a Ghost-type.
• Actor Allusion: If Pokémon Met Their Alola Forms (Part 2) has the actors for Tails and Sonic voice Vulpix (a multi-tailed fox) and Alolan Sandslash (a spiky blue hedgehog) respectively.
  Alolan Sandslash: I'm gonna go hang out with this multi-tailed fox, maybe kiss a human. [[Lampshade Hanging Just feels right.]
• Adaptational Jerkass: Done quite frequently to many of the video game characters, with Mario and Link receiving this treatment the most often.
• Adaptational Karma: In SkiFree, the yeti is impossible to defeat and the only way to avoid getting eaten by it is to outmaneuver it on the course. In Ski Free Yeti Gets Desperate, the yeti gets increasingly obsessive over chasing the skier and resorts to taking a ramp to try to catch him, which backfires and leaves it horribly injured at the bottom of the slope.
• Adaptational Sexuality: In some shorts, Luigi is either a gay furry or a Slash Fic writer who's a fan of male pregnancy.
• Added Alliterative Appeal: In 5 Incredible Mario Odyssey Ideas That Were Cut From the Game, the Broodals are described as a "fearsome foursome of familial festivities".
• The Afterafterlife: This Among Us video showcases a ghost getting ghost-killed and becomes a double-ghost.
• And I Must Scream: Three examples appear so far.
  • Mario playing the Warp Whistle off-key in Mario Can't Play the Warp Whistle sends him to a world where everything is on fire and no-one can ever die. Trying to leave only makes it worse, as the tornado that comes is made of fire, and the second time he creates a monsoon which doesn't put the fire out, because the rain is freaking gasoline.
  Mario: Ohh, mother-a-fu— (the entire world becomes engulfed in flames)
  • Sonic strikes Robotnik in If Videogames Were 35% More Realistic only for the egg carrier to burst into flames with Eggman inside. As Eggman is screaming in agony, Sonic watches in horror.
  • The most recent one features one of Bowser's minions, a Bullet Bill who, after getting shot out of a Bill Blaster and missing Mario, finds himself stuck on an endless path unable to hit anything or get someone to respond to his cries for help, theorizing that the reason being is that he's stuck in a different plane of existence. He eventually somehow cycles back through to a new game and is excited to finally hit Mario, but then Mario stomps on him and now he's fated to endlessly fall downwards. Titled Why Bullet Bill's Life Is a Living Hell or The Tragic Life of Bullet Bill depending on the channel.
  Bullet Bill: "This is my hell. Forever cursed on a journey alone through nothingness. Swallowed by the inky blackness of the abyss."
• And Then John Was a Zombie: In Plants vs Zombies Wall-nut Gets Bitten, the Wall-nut who's bitten by a zombie turns into one himself, so then the other plants kill him.
• And Then What?: In Robotnik Finally Wins, when Dr. Robotnik wins and transforms every animal on the planet into a robot, he comes to this predicament realizing that he's been distracted by Sonic for so long he forgot why he wanted to do so in the first place. He eventually remembers at the end of the video: It was to start an orchestra.
• Angrish: It is very common for someone (usually a villain) to lapse into this when exposed to a bout of their game's Fridge Logic (or stupidity on the part of the hero.)
• Annoying Video Game Helper: In-universe; Link gets so fed up with Fi's Captain Obviousing that he trades his sword for Deku Seeds to be rid of her.
• Anti-Hero: The main protagonists from SEGA and Nintendo are this to some degree in some videos, veering on the Good is Not Nice segment. For example, in Sonic vs. The Pokémon World, Sonic uses his freedom fighter speech to liberate all Pokémon, which is admirable, but it leads to chaos among trainers and other people.
• Anti-Villain: Sim City Monster in Sim City Monster Hates Your City. At worst, he acts like a Punch-Clock Villain; and he even becomes the new Mayor, due to Even Evil Has Standards against the player's dangerous decisionmaking.
• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: More like "Aren't You Going To Kill Me, Too?!" but same principle. At the end of Sonic Goes Berserk, a power-mad Super Sonic has come across and is carrying Tails' tails, Knuckles' fists, Amy's hammer, Robotnik's mustache, Vector's headphones, Big's belt, and Rouge's boots. Shadow muses that Sonic is going to take something from him in an edgy voice and then mentions that it won't be that easy. Sonic just floats away while Shadow protests and begs him to get back here and kill him. You could say Sonic took his coolness.
• Armor Is Useless: Ghosts 'n Goblins Blacksmith has Sir Arthur complaining to a blacksmith regarding the armor he made for him, which immediately fell apart after being touched by a zombie.
• Art Evolution: Later Dorkly videos add newer frames of animation to the character sprites as well as the animation overall becoming more fluid. Impressive considering the limitations of animating 8-bit and 16-bit game sprites.
• Author Appeal: Zig-zagged. Shuckle makes a disproportionately large number of appearances relative to its middling popularity, mostly because it's the favorite Pokémon of Dorkly editor-in-chief Andrew Bridgman. However, in said appearances he invariably ends up making nonsensical decisions that lead to grievous injury or outright death. See Butt-Monkey below for more details.
• Ax-Crazy: Mario Vs. Pizza Tower has Mario attempting to train Peppino Spaghetti as a sidekick only to find that aside from being incapable of normal communication Peppino is prone to far greater violence than necessary. He deals with a basic Koopa by beating it into a bloody smear and when Bowser tries to take it easy on him Peppino instead eviscerates him with a shotgun.
• Bait-and-Switch: In Why Pokemon SHOULDN'T Be Disappointed By Their Evolutions, Arceus grants Shuckle's wish, which is to come back as a Pokémon with lots of evolutions. At first the viewer thinks he'll be turned into an Eevee, but he actually becomes a Ditto, because while it can't evolve into anything, it can turn into any Pokémon. He uses his new power to turn into a Shuckle.
• Behind the Black: "If Videogame Characters Could Break All the Rules" features Mario in the original Super Mario Bros. forcing himself to go back left (as opposed to the original game's one-way scroll) and finding the villains and people he's supposedly there to save all dancing at a rave.
• Berserk Button:
  • Arceus really hates getting sand in his eyes.
  • NEVER tell Mario that something is "In another castle" if you want to live.
• Big Bad: How Link is presented in If The Legend Of Zelda Were Actually About Zelda.
  Zelda: So, who's the crazy evil person trying to destroy Hyrule?
  Ganon: Oh, gee, let's see, do we know any mute psychopaths who spend most of their time torturing chickens and collecting organs? Oh wait! Yes we do!
• Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...: The janitor in this Rollercoaster Tycoon video while cleaning up an amusement park:
  Janitor: (whistles) Vomit... vomit... vomit... (whistles) Wreckage... corpses... vomit... vomit...
• Bondage Is Bad: In Castlevania S&M, Dracula is portrayed as a masochist (someone who receives sexual pleasure from pain).
• Boring, but Practical: Regular Giuseppe is this trope personified. He doesn't rescue princesses or go on adventures like his brothers Mario or Luigi. He keeps house, runs the plumbing business, and is the only one who visits their mother in the nursing home.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall:
  • The End of Dorkly?, part of the If Trainers Were Smart series has Red and Scyther informing the viewers that the Dorkly channel is about to come to an end due to it being no longer profitable from just the advertisement money. Scyther even brings up Patreon and extending the length of the videos to include other content but Red shoots them down, saying that it would be not geared towards a wide range of audience and too unprofitable respectively.
• Bullying a Dragon: Spy Hunter Prankster has the drivers of the upgrade truck repeatedly deny entry to the driver of the Cool Car of the game, for no particular reason other than because they think it is funny to mess with him, then rhetorically ask him what he is going to do about it. They get a reminder that the main character is driving a car equipped with machine guns as he destroys the truck.
• Butt-Monkey:
  • Mario is usually mocked, beaten up, or humiliated in almost every video. It'd be easier to list aversions. He usually had it coming, though.
  • Sonic suffers often, dying in several of his appearances.
  • Tails, often from being ditched to being bitch slapped. Being unable to die doesn't help... at all.
  • All of Bomberman's appearances end with him either dying or suffering severe injuries. The first Power-Up mix-up video has him suffering a mental breakdown and collapsing on the floor vomiting because of how wrong an invincibility power-up feels to him.
  • Shuckle in the Pokémon shorts, especially the "Pokémon Disappointed With Their Evolutions" series. While trying to discover his evolution (not knowing that his species can't evolve), he gets his organs harvested by a Dugtrio, gets bitten on his butt by Slowbro's Shellder, accidentally kills himself drinking a potion made of evolution stones, then gets dragged to hell and tortured by Satan. Finally, Arceus gives him a reprieve by reincarnating him as a Pokémon that can become anything—a Ditto, then uses this ability to become any Pokémon to become.....a Shuckle.
• Calling the Old Man Out: In Luke Won't Forgive Anakin, Luke and Leia called out Anakin for the atrocities that he committed.
• Captain Obvious: Fi in Fi Annoys Link notifies Link on literally everything he does or whatever is going in the situation he's in.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Pac-Man Plays Skyrim has Ms. Pac-Man, completely fed up with her husband ignoring his responsibilities due to a crippling addiction for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, admit that she has slept with Blinky and should have married him instead. In Pac-Man's Pac-Wedding, released after but taking place before the first video, Blinky attempts to object the marriage, having a crush on Ms. Pac-Man, but Inky snaps him out of it by reminding him that he already blew his chance with her.
  • Robotnik's New Nickname has Robotnik giving himself the nickname of "The Big Dog", which the other characters don't agree with. In The Best Part Of Sonic Games Is The Music, Robotnik is labeled as "DJ Big Dog" when handling the turntables in Club SEGA.
• Crippling Overspecialization: After a lot of training, a Dry Bones finally manages to get the boos to no longer freeze in fear when Mario faces them. Unfortunately, Luigi still terrifies them.
• Crippling the Competition: "Who's Faster: Superman or The Flash?" has Superman and The Flash getting ready for a foot race, until Supes shoots Flash in his leg, worried that his "faster than a speeding bullet" powers would get outpaced by Flash's light-speed.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Why Stealing Pokémon Doesn't Make Any Sense has a pair of Team Rocket Grunts called out how stupid it is to steal Pokémon when there's an infinite amount of wild Pokémon they can capture without fuss.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Once a wild Butterfree sees that Giratina has become a Harmless Villain due to his new trainer, he stops taking him seriously and uses Sleep Powder on him.
• Curse Cut Short: Present at the end of "Bubble Trouble".
  Tails: [after seeing Sonic swallow an air bubble meant for him] "You blue-haired mother fu—" [drowns]
• Dark Parody: Most parodies are dark. Notable examples include Bowser shooting the guy who makes his guns to rant about the guns being big and slow, the Wall-Nut turning into a zombie, and Princess Peach being kidnapped by realistic kidnappers.
• Dead Artists Are Better: Mocked in Moonwalker Henchmen Love Michael Jackson, where a pair of thugs start mourning the death of Michael Jackson, even though they previously hated the guy and were the ones who killed him in the first place.
• Death by De-aging: The Most Horrifying Finish Move In Mortal Kombat shows what happens if you mess up the Babality.
• Deconstructive Parody: Lampshades just about everything wrong and ridiculous in fiction, with video games parodied more often.
  • This Among Us video has the imposter lampshade how poorly run the ship is. He exposes himself to force the crew to fix the ship properly because he doesn't want to be stuck in the void on a failing ship.
  • The point of Anime Things That Would Get You In Trouble In Real Life is to show what would happen in real life if you attempted tropes common in anime. One example is a bank robber shouting that he's going to arrest the bank, only to get arrested on the spot.
  • When the Warrior opens a portal from Hell to the middle of Tristram in How Diablo Destroyed Tristram so he can get some potions, skeletons immediately start pouring out and killing everyone while opening more portals with scrolls that the Warrior dropped. In his defense, his inventory was full.
  • It's also not a good idea to give your one-of-a-kind Master Ball, which your company spent years making, to an 11-year-old kid. He'll probably just use on the first Pokémon he sees. Which is exactly what Red does in Red Wastes a Masterball.
  • As noted above, Anakin is NOT Easily Forgiven by Luke or Leia for the atrocities he committed when he was Darth Vader.
  • If Pokémon Evolutions Were Realistic pretty much shows what Pokémon evolution would be like in real life.
  • In A New Hope, the architect of the Death Star defends the size and design of the Death Star's exhaust port, claiming that the enormous size of the Death Star, along with the fact that it managed to blow up an entire planet with a giant laser, means that there needs to a lot of ventilation. He also pointed out that the exhaust point's purpose is to expel gas, not suck it in, and the fact he was able to engineer this moon-sized battle station to need only a single exhaust port the size of a rodent should have earned him some respect.
  • If Videogame Weapons Actually Worked has Link's sword instantly slicing off Ganon's right arm, Mario setting two koopas on fire with fireballs, Sonic jumping on top of Silver Sonic only for nothing to happen and then gets sliced in half when Silver Sonic runs right into Sonic like a saw, the Bomberman getting seriously injured as a result of one of his bombs going off near him, and Mega Man's leaf shield having absolutely no effect on Dr. Wily since Mega Man's weapon consists of... well, plain old leaves (technicly thin bits of metal which resemble leaves, but still just as effective against the heavily armored robots).
  • Why Mortal Kombat Rounds Don't Make Sense starts off with the typical "best two-out-of-three" fight between Kano and Jax. However, the match is unable to move on to the next round since Jax kills Kano. He gets better after 18 months of physical therapy.
  • More or less the whole point of If Videogames Were 10% More Realistic. Yoshi gets into trouble with the police when they catch him with the unattended Baby Mario, Samus gains the ability to morph into a ball but breaks all of her bones in the process, Little Mac gets called out for wearing a pink sweatsuit before reminding the audience that it's New York City in the 1980s, Sonic gets attacked by a blue bird who actually liked being inside the badnik armor because it made him super strong, and Blanka is unable to book a flight due to being on the no-fly list.
    • The sequels also qualify. You have moments such as Sonic dying of lead poisoning because he was eating the gold painted lead rings he collected, A basketball player getting set aflame trying to pick up a burning ball, Mario getting his face melted off trying to jump over the angry sun, Link being too young to be capable of going on a giant adventure, a horde of wild Raticate completely mauling a kid, and Sub-Zero breaking his hand on a frozen Stryker.
  • Donkey Kong Doesn't Back Down has Donkey Kong refusing to back down, stating that, because he's a gorilla who's twice Mario's size, he doesn't have to take orders from anyone and promptly beats Mario to death.
  • Less Tragic Superhero Origns has Bruce's parents survive their mugging, because as Thomas Wayne points out there's no way the richest family in the city is going to just walk down a place notoriously called 'crime alley' without a full security team guarding them.
  • As it turns out that rotisserie chicken you found in the trash is not safe to eat Max. Even if it had been fully cooked it had been sitting in the trash for who knows how long and was full of maggots. He starts vomiting soon after.
  • If Videogame Characters Could Break All the Rules features characters going around the game's traditional limitations... including Pokémon wrapping back around to riding a bicycle indoors not being a good idea. It also features a scene based on Final Fantasy VI, which has the party members ditch the turn based combat system and rush toward the enemy all at once.
  • In the second part of the "If Videogames had an Impossible Mode" video series, the Ghosts in Pac-Man can go through walls, because ghosts aren't physical beings and can pass through solid objects without a problem.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • In How Diablo Destroyed Tristram, the Warrior is about to fight Diablo in Hell when he uses a portal scroll to go back to town for some potions. Let's just say reality takes place in the worst way possible.
  • In What Happens To Abandoned Kickstarter Games, the developers of a fictional game called "Pixel Pete" are called out by the main character when it turns out they have no idea how to actually make a game, the need to pay taxes or the costs of budget and paying programmers.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: More like "Did You Just Catch the Devil", but similar principle. In Pokémon Are More Dangerous Than Guns, a young trainer catches a Giratina, which Professor Oak refers to as the "Pokémon equivalent of Satan". Professor Eastwood (an ersatz of actor Clint Eastwood) is the only one who finds something wrong with that.
  Professor Eastwood: This kid just caught the devil and you're expecting that to be fine because the devil will listen to a kid's orders?!
• Dirty Coward: "What Really Happens When Mario Destroys Castles" subverts this with Daniel. At first he is so concerned with his own survival that he's willing to let his friend Lawrence and the Goomba children on the third floor die. Then he sees a third coworker, Carolyn, pinned under a fallen steel beam. It seems like he's going to abandon her too ... but instead he lifts the beam and carries her to safety.
• Distant Finale: The last comic of The RPG parody series has a time skip of several decades.
• Don't Explain the Joke: Samus really wishes Father Brain didn't in The Only Metroid Boss Worse Than Mother Brain. After many a Lampshaded Double Entendre, Samus isn't amused.
• Don't Shoot the Message: In-Universe. The Ninja in Social Justice RPG does generally agree with the Social Justice Warrior about misogyny, and equality, and how that these topics are important to deal with. The only problem is that she referred to the Ninja as a bigot for calling the Chaos Expy 'evil', and the monster's trying to destroy all life on Earth.
  Chaos: Yeah. I get that you're trying to help me, but I am explicitly trying to end all life on the planet.
• Double Standard: Rampage Apology mocks this; George gets condemned as a murderer and threatened to be executed via the electric chair despite being unaware of his actions and apologized for it. Lizzie, on the other hand, gets off scot-free even though she blatantly admits that she was aware of her actions and didn't apologize.
• Driven to Suicide:
  • Sonic impales himself on spikes in the fourth Power-Up Mix-Up video, when he goes through a Time Portal from Chrono Trigger and finds out that his future contains a purple cat, him kissing humans, and Sonic Boom.
  • Haunter shoots himself in the mouth after eating Pikachu's horrific dreams. It doesn't work since he's already a ghost.
  • When the Thwomp trio in The Sad Life of a Thwomp are fired for failing to crush Mario, they prepare to hang themselves due to being unable to get another job along with being unable to leave the castle due to only being able to move up and down. However, Mario returns underneath them looking for his watch, which the Thwomps see as an opportunity to redeem themselves as they attempt to crush Mario, forgetting about the ropes they tied to themselves which also don't kill them.
  Mario: I don't think you have necks.
  Thwomp 3: Oh yeah? Well we'll get you NECKS time... Necks... Necks time... It makes sense! My jokes are good!
• Dragon-in-Chief - This is pretty much the concept behind the video game villain assistant series. Kevin is much more competent at battling the heroes than Bowser, Robotnik, etc because he refuses to carry the Villain Ball.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Alfred feels that Batman takes him for granted in The Problem With Being Batman's Butler.
• Easily Forgiven:
  • Parodied in Luke Won't Forgive Anakin. Luke (and Leia) won't forgive Anakin for the atrocities he committed just because he killed the Emperor. This is confusing not only to him, but Obi-Wan and Yoda as well.
  • Also parodied in Why Dragon Ball Z Characters Shouldn't Drink. Here Goku and the others did forgive Vegeta, but are still uncomfortable about him drunkenly reminding them of his atrocities.
  Vegeta: "You know how nobody likes Hitler? Well, I did the math the other day and technically I'm like five million Hitlers!"
• Embarrassing Nickname: "Eggman" for Robotnik in Robotnik's New Nickname.
• Erotic Asphyxiation:
  • Darth Vader Is Too Good At Force-Choking features an imperial officer getting off when Vader force chokes him. Vader is incredibly squicked out by this, especially when he jizzes on him.
  • How Blinky Died, has Pac-Man asking Blinky how he became a ghost, a flashback reveals he attempted autoerotic asphyxiation but died as a result. Blinky then claims he died rescuing orphans from a burning church.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • The monster from Sim City Monster Hates Your City is disgusted by the way the city has been arranged (such as a prison being built next to a hospital and a nuclear power plant being built next to a school).
  • Scorpion and Shang Tsung in The Most Horrifying Finishing Move in Mortal Kombat are horrified with Sonya when her attempt at a Babality turned Sub-Zero into a fetus (so much in fact that Shang Tsung even commits seppuku).
  • In Sonic Goes Berserk, Metal Sonic puts a bullet through his head after calculating his chances of winning against OD'ing Sonic.
  • In Mario vs Pizza Tower, after Peppino proves his instability via murdering Bowser with a shotgun, Pizzaface flies by and tells Mario and Luigi that he's their problem now.
• Everyone Has Standards: In Why Magneto Can Never Be In The MCU, Hulk is unwilling to beat up Magneto when he finds out that his opponent is a Holocaust survivor.
• Evil Is Cool: An In-Universe example: this was literally the reason why Kylo Ren joined the dark side, as stated in Why Kylo Ren ACTUALLY Turned to the Dark Side.
• Exposition Fairy: Fi from Fi Annoys Link serves as one, to very annoying degrees (as noted by the very title of the video).
• The Extremist Was Right: In Plants vs Zombies Wall-nut Gets Bitten, Twin Sunflower immediately tells Peashooter to kill Wall-nut under the pretense that he's turning into a zombie, to which Peashooter and Wall-nut both object to on the grounds that plants have to stick together. As Wall-nut begins to drop hints that he is a zombie, Peashooter begrudgingly obliges, apologizing before shooting Wall-nut dead, to which Twin Sunflower commends him on for doing the right thing.
• Faux Affably Evil:
  • Mario has his moments, a standout example being in Mario Responds to PETA where Mario casually addresses PETA about his Tanooki Suit being obtained from a magical leaf, all while simultaneously beating up and murdering dozens of animals.
  • In The Problem With Among Us Impostors, the Impostor reveals himself to the Crewmates after realizing that due to their stupidity he would be stuck on a barely-functional ship in endless space if he killed all of them. After 2 weeks of intensive training, he gets the crew to fix the ship and then tricks them with a "party in the airlock", causing them to be thrown out into space.
• Fish out of Water: The video Mario vs. Green Hill Zone features Mario getting stuck in the Green Hill Zone and has a bit of trouble trying to adapt to the surroundings (such as Mario failing to kill a badnik when jumping on top of it has absolutely no effect and Mario attempting to run through one of the loops, only to end up breaking his legs when he falls after running halfway through the loop).
  • The video Mario vs. The Pokémon World, however, averts this. While Mario was a little reluctant at first, he quickly manages to get used to the Pokémon environment. The only problem is that he still doesn't know the rules of the Pokémon world, resulting in him killing a Squirtle (thinking it was some sort of Koopa) and ripping the ears and tail off a Sentret and wearing them like Raccoon Mario.
• Flock of Wolves: In "Team Rocket Has a Rat!", it's revealed that not only is the newest recruit an undercover Officer Jenny, but the other two goons and Giovanni himself have been passing along information to the authorities. Naturally, it ends with a parody of the famous "literal rat" ending of The Departed.
• From Bad to Worse:
  • In Mario Can't Play the Warp Whistle, every attempt Mario made when he plays on the warp whistle only made the never-ending fire worse, accumulating in him summoning a rain of gasoline which engulfs the whole world.
• Gift for an Outgrown Interest: "The Last Nintendo Power Subscriber" by Andy Kluthe depicts a grandmother who tries to get her grandson Timmy a subscription to Nintendo Power magazine for his birthday; when she learns they've gone out of print, she makes a homemade issue herself and gives it to him. Timmy is revealed to be a grown adult who gladly accepts the gift, even though he doesn't have the heart to tell her he hasn't played Nintendo games in a long time.
• Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Played with. Kirby and an unnamed man discuss this in a coffee shop; Kirby thinks abortion only destroys a clump of cells, while the man thinks abortion destroys a human life. Kirby decides to inhale the man so he doesn't have to argue about it… and immediately afterwards changes his stance.
  "Sometimes you need to walk a mile with someone else in your stomach."
• Good is Not Nice: Frank Rizzoli from If Super Mario Bros Had a Hostage Negotiator may be equipped to deal with princess kidnappings, but is quite rude and unpleasant, as evidenced by his interaction with Mario.
• Gotta Catch 'Em All: In Red Goes Berserk, this trope is mixed with Gone Horribly Right where Red (or in this case Redrum) supercharges a masterball using a Zapdos and ended up catching the entire known universe. Even the UI is mortified over what Red had done.
  Game UI: You caught THE KNOWN UNIVERSE! Oh GOD. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!
• Groin Attack:
  Thor: You villain...prepare to...Ouch, my freakin' 'nads!
• Harder Than Hard: Parodied in If Video Games had Impossible Mode and its sequel video.
  • Impossible Mode features Mega Man going up against an OC Robot Master called Spike Man in a room full of spikes and obstacles; it is implied that Mega Man doesn't even get a hit off. The man guarding the sword mistakes Link for an intruder and kills him at the start of the game. Red is offered nothing but Magikarps — the weakest mon in the game — as a possible starter. You're given an old man riding a slow scooter in Excitebike; it can't get over the first bump and crashes. The Oregon Trail has a Cacodemon come out of nowhere and and kill you with fire balls. Mario finds a baby Yoshi only to attract the ire of its giant mother. Finally, Michael Bay shows up in a TMNT game and zaps Leonardo into a different form.
  • Impossible Mode 2 has the ghosts pass through the walls to get to and corner Pac-Man. Cops pin Sonic when they catch him going well over the speed limit. Harvest Moon shows the Player Character being chastised for not using viable fertilizers when his entire field is wasted away. RollerCoaster Tycoon has its player get sued for criminal negligence and murder for wrecking a roller coaster. Ryu uses a Hadouken in a minigame with a nuke as the target instead. A game of solitaire is prematurely ended when a Charizard card is found in the stack. Dr. Mario quits when he sees that the patient has cancer instead of a virus.
• Heroic Mime: Silent protagonists are mocked in several videos. Everybody Hates Crono and Crashing the Silent Protagonist Party being standout examples.
  • In fact, one video revealed the reason why Gordon Freeman never talks: he speaks with a very shrill voice or, as his agent puts it, "sounds like Mickey Mouse raping a eunuch".
• Heroic Sacrifice: How Daniel and Lawrence both die in "What Really Happens When Mario Destroys Castles". The former lifts a fallen steel beam off his coworker Carolyn and carries her to safety, dying of exhaustion immediately afterwards. The latter runs to the daycare center to rescue Goomba children, and when collapsing rubble blocks the stairwell he jumps out the window to his death so his body can cushion the children's fall.
• Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: The True Horror of Pokémon Daycare references this, where a trainer is shocked and upset that the daycare lady let her Wailord and Fennekin breed.
• Hypocritical Humor:
  • The entirety of Moonwalker Henchmen Love Michael Jackson focuses on a group of three thugs who kill Michael Jackson before two of them quickly begin to mourn his death. The only thug that wasn't upset by Jackson's death repeatedly calls the other two out for the fact that they're grieving him when they had just killed the guy.
  Thug #1: You twos are such hypocrites. Yous didn't like him until after we killed him.
  • In Why a Smash Bros. / Street Fighter Crossover Would Never Work, Blanka calls out Ryu for bringing "monsters and freaks" to their tournament.
  • In If Video Game Henchmen Swapped Games Mega Man tells a Ditto that transformed into him how stealing abilities is wrong before realizing the irony in what he says and starts questioning if he's the real villain.
• I Am Not Shazam: The whole point of Mistaken Hero Identities. And later reversed with the player character's mother from Pokémon Red and Blue calling the Pokémon "Pikachus" and her son (Red), "Ash".invoked
• Iconic Attribute Adoption Moment: The Sonic the Hedgehog example is parodied in "If Sega Made Detective Pikachu", in which Pikachu meets a human villain resembling Mewtwo (who, for some reason, already has the tail).
  Human!Mewtwo: And I am your nemesis, Batholemew Twosis. But you can call me "Mewtwo".
  Pikachu: No! You're just a guy with a Mewtwo tail, wearing Mewtwo purple!
  Human!Mewtwo: But you can bet that some incident will occur by the end of the movie that will turn me into something more in line with what you would typically think of when you think of Mewtwo.
  Pikachu: But why would it take 'till the end of the movie for you to turn into the version of you that we've all known for decades?!
  Human!Mewtwo: [shrugs]
• It's a Wonderful Plot: In the video It's A Wonderful Extra Life, Luigi is given a view of what would happen if he never was born. What happens is that Mario goes missing, giving Bowser the chance to take over the Mushroom Kingdom, Daisy settles for Waluigi, and the ghosts of that haunted mansion were free to torment everyone else.
• It's the Same, So It Sucks: An In-Universe example; the video Why Mario and Call of Duty Are Basically the Same features Mario criticizing the Call of Duty games for essentially being the same thing with merely a few minor tweaks here and there. Also doubles as Hypocritical Humor because... well, the title of the video should give you a hint.
• Jerkass: Mario is portrayed as an absolute asshole. He plays cruel pranks on his brother and verbally and sometimes physically abuses him; he arranges for Bowser to kidnap the Princess so he can get laid when he "saves" her; and he makes a Public Service video speaking out against cruelty to animals while burning, stomping and maiming several dozen animals.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Social Justice Warrior turns out to be right about one thing: The Black Mage would rather be called by his name, Derren, than "Black Mage".
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
  • Despite being abusive and cruel at times, Mario does have some compassionate moments. He still rescues Princess Peach when she's kidnapped by someone who's actually dangerous, he takes pity on a Chain-Chomp and brings it into his home despite it being dangerous and gross, and when he meets the Undertale Monsters he tries to warn them about the Angry Sun.
  • Red from the If Pokémon Trainers Were Smart series is a psychopath who cuts a Snorlax in half as if it were a small tree, makes Professor Oak undergo a Heroic BSoD after he tells him his research was for naught, throws a Pikachu into the ocean in order to get more Water-type Pokémon, and murders two children. However, he treats his Scyther as an equal, uses the fossil laboratory to revive his father, and insists at the end of the final video that Scyther not call him his boss, but his friend.
• Kangaroo Court: In "Mario is a MONSTER", Mario is arrested for killing a goomba who was apparently an innocent bystander and a child. The judge and jury are all goombas ("How is that a jury of-a my peers?!"), and the only witness we see giving testimony is the victim's mother who didn't actually see his death. He's found guilty and sentenced to death, though he ends up surviving the electric chair thanks to a mushroom he picked up at the start.
• Kill the Poor: In Streets of Age, when Axel and Blaze don't have any gang members to fight, they start beating up a nearby hobo, with hipsters cheering them on.
• Knee-capping: In "Bowser Wants a Gun" Bowser shoots a Koopa gunsmith named Jerry in the knee, both to prove a point to him and to punish him for his failure.

L-Z

• Laugh Track: Prevalent in "Disney Channel's Kingdom Hearts," where Sora visits a world based upon the Disney Channel sitcoms.
  Sora: That wasn't funny. Who's laughing? WHY IS THERE LAUGHTER?!
• Lampshade Hanging: A large number of Dorkly videos tend to do this, regarding the lack of certain logic or the overall ridiculousness that people tend to see in video games, movies, and TV shows (see Deconstructive Parody above).
• Learned from the News: The "Vision Wants to Be in the Avengers Movie" sketch has Vision showing up on the set asking when he'll be needed. When Iron Man sheepishly tells him that he's not in the movie at all, Vision says the following:
  Vision: How about that? At least you told me personally. It would have sucked to - oh, I don't know - have seen it on Ain't It Cool News this morning. By myself.
• The Legend of X: Parodied in "The Legend of The Legend of Zelda", where Link argues that it should be called the Legend of Link, whereas Zelda says people will remember it as the Legend of Zelda.
• Major Injury Underreaction: In The Secret Horror of Mario Anatomy, Yoshi takes off his shoes. He then calmly asks Mario if he too feels excruciating pain when he takes his shoes off. It is then revealed that Yoshi's shoes were his actual feet, which have now been degloved.
• Mr. Vice Guy: If The Legend of Zelda Was Actually About Zelda ends up being about Zelda running into a Ganon who's riding his status as the only male Gerudo on booze, sex and partying, who's not threatening Hyrule — Link is — so he offers himself up as a partner in stopping Link, goes through the Zelda "pick up the item" routine and ends up being too heavy to carry and hits the floor.
  Oh, geez. Guess I have the 'Triforce of Milkshakes', huh? Seriously, though, this is a-a wake-up call; I, I am, I am, I am literally a giant pig...
• Never My Fault: The Mario Bros. Go Halfsies, Luigi takes both fire flowers at the end because he's tired of sharing, as he keeps getting the short end of the transformations. He ignores that going halfsies was his idea both times. Admittedly, Mario picked the half that Luigi took, but neither one knew what the other would get.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A frequent occurrence, Mario Can't Play the Warp Whistle and Sonic, Lord of the Rats being standout examples.
  • There's also at least one case of "Nice Job Breaking It Villain" in Peach's Revenge Part 1.
• Non-Standard Character Design: In Mario vs Pizza Tower Peppino is animated via sprites from his own game rather than being flash-animated like other characters and communicates solely through his stock screams. Given the Deranged Animation of his game, this makes him look even more unusual when put next to the cleaner-animated characters.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Why Kylo Ren ACTUALLY Turned To The Dark Side feels the need to point out that "animal friendship" is an actual Light Side power.
• Not What It Looks Like: In In If Piranha Plants Got Smart, a Piranha Plant uses his new yoga technique to tear his pipe out of the earth and crush Mario to death, causing his blood to spread all over the floor. Luigi comes to start the next yoga class and steps in the blood, and Piranha Plant claims it's beet smoothie. Despite not being fooled, Luigi doesn't care that his brother was smushed due to the latter being a jerkass to the former all the time and that Mario probably has some extra lives anyway.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis:
  • If Videogame Bosses were Actually Smart is all about this. Bowser takes out the bridge and kills Princess Toadstool to keep Mario from fighting and defeating him. Ganon doesn't leave boss keys for Link to find and therefore prevents him from even entering his lair. Dr. Wily leaves Mets in each boss room and orders them never to peek out since they're invulnerable while crouching down. Mike Tyson gets the player character disqualified since they're not in the same weight class. The Space Invader commander orders a new strategy of going straight down instead of going from side to side. Dr. Robotnik has his minions steal every ring in the levels, encounters him early in his Death Egg Robot, and makes it out of materials that aren't vulnerable to hedgehog quills; Sonic's response may as well have spoken for every protagonist seen in this short.
  • If Videogame Characters Could Break All the Rules is a heroic version, depicting what might happen if protagonists were allowed to "cheat" via Mundane Solution.
  • Why Magneto Can Never Be In the MCU overlaps this with Story-Breaker Power: He's not just a Man of Kryptonite toward the main cast; he's one who doesn't waste any time exploiting the crap out of it. And since Hulk has no metal to exploit, Magneto simply invokes Manipulative Bastard to discourage him from attacking.
• No-Sell: Any video with a Met will crack jokes at its impenetrable helmet, ranging from one taunting X in Mega Man X Charged Too Much, being forced to serve as a stage boss and not come out of their helmet in If Videogame Bosses Were Actually Smart, and even taking no damage from Bahamut in If Videogame Henchmen Swapped Games.
• "Not So Different" Remark:
  • In Mario Is Too Mainstream, Tim of Braid calls his own game very original while Mario points out that his and Tim's game are very much alike. And even when Tim mentions other gameplay mechanics that Mario doesn't have (time manipulation and collecting puzzle pieces), Mario was quick to mention that it's been done before in other series. Note than Mario isn't even really trying to argue with him, having greeted him with nothing but professional courtesy as a fellow platformer.
  • Batman v. Superman v. Iron Man v. Captain America: Dawn of Civil War also does this. Iron Man and Captain America point out that the concept of Batman, a powerless billionaire genius, and Superman, a super-strong American space alien, fighting each other isn't any different from what they do, much to Batman's annoyance.
• Not the Fall That Kills You…: In Double Dragon Dad, Billy and Jimmy jump off the roof of a building similar to the games. While Jimmy was unscathed, one of Billy's legs was broken from the fall and the bone was sticking out.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten:
  • Invoked frequently with Sonic videos is the fact that he kisses a human in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).
  • Sonic's entire period which fans considered his Audience-Alienating Era is brought up multiple times, with the existence of his popular modern games just being ignored. The videos If Sega Own Mario mocking the Werehog gimmick from Sonic Unleashed and If Nintendo Owned Sonic mocking the tons of characters appearing in the Sonic franchise, ignoring Sonic had at the time of the video been the only playable character for years and his supporting cast had barely gotten any focus, with the much maligned Sonic Boom being the only exception.
• Operation: Jealousy: In "If Bowser Dated Daisy", Daisy admits she only dated Bowser to make her ex Luigi jealous, making a fake Tinder profile and inviting him to the same restaurant to make him think he's being stood up and letting him see her with Bowser. She does this for revenge for Luigi treating her like a "second string princess" for never rescuing her like Mario does with Peach (since she never gets kidnapped).
• Original Character: Parodied in Sonic Meets Original Fan Characters, where Sonic has a conversation with Dylan, an purple Sonic clone who is pregnant, Sonia, an Opposite-Sex Clone who got Dylan pregnant when they were making out on a pile of Chaos Emeralds, and Tailz, a version of Tails who has three tails and can inflate his body at will. At this point, Robotnik interferes to introduce his own original character, a badly drawn Knuckles knockoff named Kevin. The whole thing turns out to be a fanfic Luigi is writing, where everyone kisses Kevin and gets "Super pregnant".
• Pacifist Run: What Mario Goes Berserk (With Kindness) can essentially be seen as. It follows a similar sequence as Mario Goes Berserk. The difference being that instead of slaughtering everybody, Mario helping everybody and giving them stuff. Bowser even has a different reason for taking Peach to his car and leaving. Instead of running from Mario, he now wants to get Mario a "Thank You Card".
• Papa Wolf: Police officers are shown as being this to all children.
  Police officer to Yoshi: "You were gonna eat that baby, weren't you, you goddamn molestosaurus rex!"
  Police officer to The Cameraman: "Freeze you God-Damned pervert! Leave the child alone!"
• Police Brutality: The Camera Man from Earthbound gets gunned down by two police officers, despite being unarmed. As horrific as the implied nature of his crimes are, this is still a violation of due process. Worse yet they killed him in front of Ness.
• Political Overcorrectness: Social Justice RPG is a stereotypical Final Fantasy-esque plot filtered through an even more stereotypical lens of a Warrior taking cues from the excesses of Tumblr.
• The Pollyanna: In the "Pokémon Disappointed With Their Evolutions" series, Shuckle remains endlessly optimistic no matter what terrible things happen to him, even when he gets his organs stolen, dies from drinking a potion made of every evolution stone, and gets Dragged Off to Hell.
• Precision F-Strike: Done in Disney Channel's Kingdom Hearts", where Goofy shouts, "Holy shit!" after Sora stabs Zach.
• President Evil: Resident Evil Political Ad features a zombie by the name of Adam Benford running for president (it's less "evil", however, and more of a case of just zombies being zombies).
• Previously on…: Parodied in Peach's Revenge following a lengthy Sequel Gap, the intro states there were dozens of installments despite being only three videos.
• Resurrective Immortality: Tails has this in Tails Can't Die, which he takes full advantage of to help Sonic and save the day. Unfortunately, It goes to the point where everybody else he knows dies while he can't.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Bit-Map Badger suffers this fate in Why Videogame Heroes Should NEVER Save The Princess. After Duchess Dot is freed by Pixel Pete, she accuses Badger of siding with her captors by intentionally giving Pete vague instructions on how to rescue her and proceeds to slit the badger's throat while he begs for his life. Given that the badger sounded disappointed to see Duchess Dot saved, and that he was wearing a Toad on his head, her accusation is probably true.
• Rhetorical Question Blunder: In "Mario is Too Mainstream" Tim rejects any comparison between Mario's platforming and his own, showing one of his enemies and asking "Does this◊ look like a Goomba to you?" Mario, confused, answers, "Yes!"
• Roaring Rampage of Rescue: Mario goes to extreme measures to rescue the princess in Mario Goes Berserk.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Peach does this after Bowser kills Mario in Peach's Revenge, which overlaps with Disproportionate Retribution.
• Robosexual: Inverted. Robo was caught using Chrono's Doppel Doll for "other" purposes.
• Running Gag:
  • Most crossovers involving Sonic have him appear in The Stinger, in situations where the Nintendo levels and powerups leave him better than where he started. Followed by a bemused "Huh, neat."
    • Then he gets a Golden Gun and tries to kill Robotnik with it. The bullet ricochets off of his flying machine and hits Sonic, killing him with Robotnik saying, "Huh, neat."
    • Another scenario has Silver Sonic easily killing Sonic by slicing him in half, and responds by saying, "Huh, neat."
    • After Sonic commits suicide after he witnesses his future in Power Up Mix Up 4. Tails response is "Huh, so... not neat."
    • Appears to have run its course in "If Videogames Were 22% More Realistic" a couple of badniks waiting for Sonic soon find out he isn't coming because not only is he tired of the segments taking place in Green Hill Zone, he considers "Huh, neat" to have been said so many times that it isn't special anymore.
  • EVERY time anyone pulls out a gun in a Sonic video, it will ricochet off the metallic intended target and end up killing Sonic instead.
  • A common target is the fact that Sonic kisses a human in the 2006 video game.
  • Almost every Pokémon video that focuses on new evolutions, Mega Forms or Regional Forms will end with a Shuckle eagerly waiting to see what Game Freak decided to add for him to turn into (as of now, still nothing). Other characters will either pity him or take advantage of him while he remains blissfully unaware.
  • In Power-Up Mix-Up 6 - "GET OVER HERE":
    • Firstly, the two workers who got fired in part 5 are back and they lampshade about who re-hired them despite their poor track record in power-up shipment the last 5 times.
    • And then almost every instance, as suggested by the title, involves Scorpion's dart rope and his catchphrase of "GET OVER HERE!". Ken is mortified because it replaced his Hadouken, killing E. Honda (and later on, Guile, where it's revealed that Ken also took Scorpion's fire breath, incinerating Guile with it), Red's attempt to throw a Poké Ball at a Pikachu accidentally brings its HP down to near 0 due to him using the dart rope, and then with Sonic who accidentally kills Tails with Scorpion's dart rope (though granted he was pleased with Tails' death, due to him being annoyed by Tails' Tanooki Suit, causing him to say his "Huh, neat." catchphrase). As for Scorpion himself? His power-up was Mario's Fire Flower. He throws a fireball at himself wondering what it would do and accidentally kills himself in a non-violent way.
• Satchel Switcheroo: In Banjo's Big Mix Up, Banjo is on his way to Gruntilda's lair to rescue Tooty, but is surprised to hear that Kazooie isn't responding to him. He then looks inside his backpack, only to find that Kazooie isn't there, but rather an art project by a fourth-grade boy named Timmy. He suddenly realizes that he doesn't have his real backpack. Timmy is then revealed to have Banjo's backpack with Kazooie inside it, and Kazooie frightens the children on the school bus, eventually causing the bus to crash. Meanwhile, without Kazooie to fly him over the waterfall, Banjo falls off it and dies landing on a rock below. How Banjo and Timmy switched backpacks is never shown.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: A common occurrence where the character(s) tend to get annoyed in some way by the other character(s) around them and just simply leave.
• Self-Applied Nickname: In Robotnik's New Nickname, Robotnik starts referring to himself as "The Big Dog". However, everybody else (including his own robots) decides that Eggman is a much better nickname for him. They later end up calling him "The Egg Dog" which he decides is close enough.
• Shield Bash: Link Didn't Get Sword. In it, Link uses nothing but the shield to defeat enemies and bosses, up to and including Ganon.
• Smooth-Talking Talent Agent: There is a whole series about a smooth-talking agent for video game characters who does outrageous things, like separating Sonic and Tails, kicking out video game characters who are no longer popular, or even trying to convince Mario not to propose to his girlfriend, just because he can make more money with a Princess as a love interest! It can be found here.
• Smug Snake: Mark, the Koopa from "KOOPA GETS A STAR", after getting the star, taunts Mario by daring him to jump on his shell, saying that he "just waxed this shit". Then the power-up runs out of time, only for Mario to kick him away. The end.
• Solve the Soup Cans: Resident Evil Roommate mocks Resident Evil's tendency to feature rather tedious puzzles that requires a lot of exploration (at least prior to Resident Evil 4).
• Speech Impediment: Bowser has a stutter and needed a therapist to help treat him.
• Stealth Sequel: If Pokémon Trainers Were Even Smarter has the same Ditto (who in turn is actually Shuckle reincarnated by Arceus) from Why Pokémon SHOULDN'T Be Disappointed By Their Evolutions.
• The Stinger: Most of the videos have one. The length usually ranges between 10 to 20 seconds.
• Stock Audio Clip: Sonic's "Huh. Neat" has been used a few times in some "Power-Up Mix-Up" videos and a few other videos.
• Story-Breaker Power: Parodied in Why Magneto Can Never Be In the MCU. Magneto exploits the obvious Logical Weakness in each Avenger's Iconic Item and even steals the Infinity Gauntlet from Thanos. Subverted with Hulk, though; since he has no metal for Magneto to exploit, Magneto just invokes Sympathy for the Devil to get Hulk to spare him.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: Deconstructed in The Tragic Life of Every Bug Catcher Pokémon.
• Surprise Incest: In the video If Video Games Were 69% More Realistic, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Candy Kong, and Dixie Kong are all getting ready to go out on a date before realizing that all their last names are Kong. This prompts Diddy to question if they are related, prompting them to all say the name of their grandfather, which is "Cranky Kong".
  Donkey Kong: Okay. So... Honestly, our history of incest explains a lot.
• Surprisingly Happy Ending: "What Would Happen If Peach Got Regular-Kidnapped" is one of the few shorts to have a genuinely happy ending. Peach is rescued with no harm, Mario isn't humiliated, beaten up, or killed (which could count as a big Throw the Dog a Bone moment for him) and there isn't some horrible twist at the end that would turn this into a Downer Ending.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: In "If Videogame Bosses Were Actually Smart", Mike Tyson points out that he and Little Mac are not in the same weight class, and therefore he should be disqualified for entering a boxing match that he shouldn't have been able to enter in the first place.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial:
  • In Meet Metal Sonic, when Robotnik says Metal Sonic may be slightly buggy because he was distracted while building him due to "girlfriend issues":
    Robotnik: Before you ask, yes, I have a real girlfriend, and nooo, she is not a robot I built that has now gone haywire.
  • In Why Ditto is the most dangerous Pokémon combines this with Ignored Vital News Reports.
    Anchorman: And in local news, humanity is fine. Dittos have not secretly invaded society, ha ha ha ha. But if they did, you'd never know!
• Take a Third Option: In Telltale Games' Super Mario Bros.:
  [Mario used the "jump with Yoshi then get off" trick to boost him and Luigi up to a higher cliff, leaving Yoshi to fall down the side and die]
  Mario: [walking away from the cliff while whistling the Super Mario Bros. theme] Hey Luigi, are you doing okay?
  Luigi: W...Why did you let Yoshi die?
  [Mario is presented with two options: "He gave his life for us" and "I did what I had to do". Mario chooses neither]
  Mario: You see...[walks over to Luigi and slaps him] DON'T YOU EVER QUESTION ME AGAIN-A!
• Talking Is a Free Action: Averted in Koopa Gets A Star. When the Starman that Mario unlocks accidentally goes to one of the Koopa Troopas, leaving Mario at his mercy, he ends up blowing it by bragging about how he's going to get Mario, and by the time he's ready to go after him, it's worn off.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Deconstructed in Why Batman Really Isn't Tragic At All. The petty crook he proceeds to injure is crippled to the point where he wants to die, because he can't provide for his family and they'll at least get life insurance. Batman not killing him is depicted as the easy solution since he can just leave him there for the police to find, rather than solving any problems. He also points out that using the money for your own benefit as opposed to giving to charity isn't doing anything to help Gotham's poverty, which in turn leads to more criminals doing desperate work for money.
• Toilet Humor:
  • Mario Goes Down The Wrong Pipe has Mario go down a new warp pipe, only for it to take him underground into a sewer.
  • In "If Bowser Was a Disney Fan", Bowser tells Peach that he kidnapped her so she'd eventually fall in love with him despite him being a hideous monster, like Belle did with Beast. When Peach tells Bowser she doubts that'll happen, Bowser reveals that he has some living furniture of sorts, namely a toilet possessed by a Boo (the Boo itself quits after people use him).
• Too Awesome to Use: Mario's Rare Item involves Mario finding a Tanooki Suit, but not wanting to use it, insisting they should save it for "the perfect moment". In the end, Mario never uses it, no matter how dire things get in his adventure with Luigi, and his son Mario Jr. ends up losing it to the first Goomba as soon as he uses it 50 years later.
• Too Dumb to Live: Ecco's Friends Are Stupid Dolphins. Ecco's dolphin friends are too stupid to even listen to Ecco's warning that aliens are coming to eat them. Ecco just lets the Vortex eat them.
• Unexpected Character: In-Universe; Chrono Trigger Time Travel Mix-Up features an appearance by The Doctor, who reveals that Lavos is actually a friendly alien, that the puzzles are easy to crack and that the protagonists are basically losers.
• Ungrateful Bastard: In "If A Christmas Carol Starred Mario and Luigi", Luigi saves Mario from the Boo of Christmas Past. In response Mario offers Luigi anything he wants... and then fired Luigi for asking for Christmas off.
• Unishment: In Darth Vader Is Too Good At Force-Choking, the Sith Lord tries to punish Admiral Motti for questioning the Force, only to find out, to his horror, that the man has a choking fetish.
• Villainous Valour: In "What Really Happens When Mario Destroys Castles", two Koopas named Lawrence and Daniel prove to be downright heroic.
• Vocal Dissonance:
  • Bowser usually speaks with a sophisticated British accent.
  • Though his voice tends to change with each video he appears in, Obi-Wan Kenobi typically sounds like someone in their mid-30s, when even non-fans of Star Wars should know that he's an old man.
• Wasteful Wishing: In "Link's Wish", Link wishes for a Pizza Dinosaur from the Triforce, and Princess Zelda scolds him for not wishing to undo the damage Ganon caused to Hyrule as he does in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
• War Is Hell: Parodied in Band of Brothers (Super Mario-Style), with Koopas in Easy Difficulty Company.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Frank Rizzoli from If Super Mario Bros Had a Hostage Negotiator is a little overzealous in trying to "rescue" Princess Peach from Bowser. He seems to be under the impression that Bowser has more than one hostage and ultimately lets Bowser keep Peach in exchange for a plane and four million dollars.
• What You Are in the Dark: In "What Really Happens When Mario Destroys Castles", two Koopas named Lawrence and Daniel both die helping others escape from the castle.
• What the Hell, Hero?: When Michelangelo takes the pizza in "TMNT Argue Over Pizza".

  Donatello: Mikey, what the hell?

  Michelangelo: You were taking forever.

  Leonardo: YOU'RE AT FULL HEALTH, DUDE!!

  Raphael: Aw, now we'll never get to Shredder.

• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Tails Can't Die. At the end of the short, Tails is grieving since all of his friends and family have passed away. He tries to kill himself, but he just keeps coming back to life with no end in sight.
• Wildlife Commentary Spoof: "If Mario Games Had Nature Documentaries", in which the narrator is repeatedly interrupted by Mario killing whatever she was filming.
  "Here we see the Koopa Troopa in its natural habitat. The floating bricks are ideal for avoiding predators. This is a red variety, which explains why it is walking back and forth with no- Oh. A predator has gotten it after all. Moving on."
  "Here we see a Goomba. It is mating season for the Goombas, as you can tell from the- Oh dear. They shan't be mating this season I suppose now, will they?"
  "Under the sea we find a school of Cheep-cheep, who- Oh come on! He is underwater! How is he throwing fireballs?!"
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Sonic Goes Berserk. In it, Sonic encounters Robotnik and knocks all seven Chaos Emeralds from Robotnik's hovercraft. Sonic then takes and eats them, which Robotnik doesn't believe was such a good idea. Sonic turns into a much burlier version of his Super Mode, prompting Robotnik to cheese it in a panic. Sonic goes on a rampage, attacking friend and foe alike and taking things from them: Tails' twin tails, Knuckles' fists, and Amy's hammer before finally catching up to Robotnik. By the time he reaches Shadow, Sonic has added Robotnik's mustache, Vector's headphones, Big's belt, and Rouge's boots to his collection.
• Worst News Judgment Ever: Lampshaded in Paperboy Newsroom, where the reporter keeps writing articles about the paperboy simply doing his job, rather than reporting on other stories, such as the Grim Reaper living in a local suburban neighborhood, or a sentient tire roaming around. His editor fires him, which ends up becoming front page news.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Mario kills two monsters because of this in Super Mario Undertale. First he eats Flowey (he mistakes Flowey for a Fire Flower), then he accidentally kills Papyrus by jumping on him (he mistakes Papyrus for a Dry Bones, which "always put themselves back together"). The rest of the monsters die from this on their part (after Mario somehow broke through the barrier they head to the surface to "finally see the Sun", only for it to be the Angry Sun).
• Yet Another Christmas Carol: Subverted in Mario’s Christmas Carol, since the ghost is a Boo and Luigi deals with it before it can show Mario anything, resulting in him being the same miser he was prior, firing Luigi for requesting a day off.
  Tiny Luigi: God blesses everyone.
  Luigi: No he does not, Tiny Luigi.
• You Have Failed Me: A more sympathetic example than usual in Bowser Wants A Gun. The Koopa King kneecaps one of his minions for making mediocre guns that shoot gigantic, slow-moving bullets, but it's hard to say he doesn't have a good reason...
  Bowser: There..were hundreds of your worthless guns on my kids' airships. Hundreds! And Mario got past all of them! Literally, all of my children are DEAD, Jerry! Because of your shoddy work!

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