Previously known under the name Animalguy001, Fawful's Minion
, AKA Logan Atkins is a Youtuber who primarily makes countdown lists based around Video Games and also specializes in video editing. You may have seen him occasionally in Rabbid Luigi's collabs with him, though, you probably wouldn't have seen his face in them. Starting in 2010, he's perhaps one of the most popular countdown-focused creators from back in the day who's still going, and his signature writing style, video quality and subject range has continued to evolve over time.
The focus of many videos have leaned toward Nintendo games, but the gaming countdowns as a whole have never been limited by platform - some of the most visited series across the channel include Mario (of course, Mario & Luigi in particular), Pokémon, and Kirby, but also Team Fortress 2 and Sonic. The range of content covered in videos has even expanded to include media as a whole recent years, with non-game-specific countdowns often including examples from movies, shows, or any other medium that might be legible for the subject.
While countdowns have remained the staple of his content, Minion has experimented with different video types over the years and made quite a range of content, even including a creepypasta. Currently, the main attractions on the channel other than the signature countdowns are Blessed or Messed, a series where he takes any piece of media and sorts through the good and bad he finds to give his two cents on it and whether or not he agrees with the public consensusnote , and Unmasked!, a series delving into and covering the feats and information on various villains across the wide world of fiction. As-of Top Ten "OH GOD" Moments in Videogames, TheMasterShowman has become a co-editor for the channel.
Tropes featured in his videos:
- Ax-Crazy: Will occasionally delve into fits of insane laughter whenever he's allowed to beat up and maul as he chooses in a game.
- Author Avatar: Logan is typically represented with a slightly altered version of Fawful's Inside Story appearance, both in the actual avatar image and in the sprite-based sequences within videos, most notably the fully animated intro. The main distinction is in facial expression, as Minion is generally never shown wearing Fawful's iconic and constant toothy grin. During Blessed or Messed from its 12th episode onward, he uses a VS Block to split into Awful's Opinion and Lawful's Winion to represent his negative and positive sides respectively, who have a red and blue color scheme to their outfits (which for the latter, includes some Cool Shades on his head and uncovered eyes). His feline fursona, who is still appropriately dressed like Fawful, has also been used as an avatar and of course showed up in the thumbnail for Top Ten Furries in Video Games.
- Black Comedy: A staple of his videos."Hey, Reaver, can I have some ammo for that gun? *gets shot almost immediately*"
- Catchphrase: Every Blessed or Messed episode starts with: "Forces of good! Legions of bad! Which one is more to be had? Opinion or fact, I'm on the attack!". After the change in the series' format, Awful's and Lawful's take turns saying each part, and the final line spoken by both got updated with a "we're".
- Censored for Comedy: Starting with "Top Ten Wasted Video Game Designs", every instance of him saying "fuck" and "shit" are censored.
- Foreshadowing: During "Top Ten Paper Mario Characters", Vivian is almost always shown as Mario's partner when Logan is talking about other characters from Thousand Year Door. Sure enough, it turns out she's his favorite character from the game.
- Friend to All Living Things: Well, considering his username used to be Animalguy001, you'd have guessed he likes animals. This even shown during his rundown on the Animal ability from his ''Top 30 Copy Abilities list where after theorising that the ability takes cues from hamsters, cats and moles, he states that the hamster part is what makes the ability's costume so cute.
- Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films: The #2 segment of Top Ten Scariest Nostalgic Terrors. To clarify, he watched (and was subsequently traumatized by) the opening of Scream when he was in kindergarten.
- Also from that list comes the previous segment about Jaws, watched by Logan when he was 4.
- Large Ham: He slowly became this as he found this footing, matching and maybe even exceeding the very bean his channel is named for. Extremely notable in his more modern videos.
- Literal Split Personality: Beginning with the episode on Epic Mickey, Blessed or Messed is hosted by his good and bad sides, respectively known as Lawful's Winion and Awful's Opinion, who take turns covering each side of the given work.
- Mythology Gag: Near the beginning of Top Ten Furries in Video Games. Really, it's only coming full-circle that an Animalguy would reach the subject eventually."You know, I'm something of an animal guy myself."
- Odd Name Out: While you can still see plenty of countdown names you might expect to see someone else make on his channel, like ''Top Ten Mario Games'' or ''Top Ten Sonic Games'', you can also see some more odd choices such as Top Ten Spongebob Games or Top Ten Distractions in Video Games, with the range in topics generally getting more creative as he makes them.
- Pet-Peeve Trope: Logan rather loathes any Timed Mission.
- Punny Name: The good and bad sides his persona splits into for Blessed or Messed? Lawful's Winion and Awful's Opinion.
- Self-Deprecation: Will often mock how long it takes him to release a video.
- When showing the Conniver's Kunai's life stealing mechanic:
"I'd tell a joke, but there's already something that sucks. Sucks up souls!" - Sidetracked By The Golden Saucer: Top Ten Distractions In Video Games is centered around this whole concept.
- Signing Off Catchphrase: "This is being Fawful's Minion..."
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Subverted in that he doesn't go over the top with profanity, but he has engaged in it enough that he made an almost two minute long video consisting of each F Bomb he dropped up to the point of the video's release out of boredom and curiosity. With the minion's wordplay and generally articulate script-writing, you could probably consider many of his curse drops to be Sophisticated as Hell.
- Take That!: Is not the biggest fan of modern Spongebob, especially considering he went out of his way to name the Dead Ringer, one of his (and frankly
most of the community’s) most hated TF2 Weapons, after it.- His most recent intro has him fighting against the Youtube logo.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Logan feels like Buck Bumble's massive arsenal is a bit extreme, given what his targets are."Christ all fucking mighty, you're killing bugs! Not Thanos!"
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: "Top 10 Wasted Video Game Designs" discusses this In-Universe.
- Visual Pun: In his "Top 9 Team Fortress Two Weapons" before discussing the combo of Flying Guillotine + Sandman:"I can tell you right off the bat- (gets an actual bat thrown at his head, causing him to laugh sarcastically) "
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He has thalassophobia (fear of the sea). It's bad enough that he claims he can't play Subnautica anymore.
