Web Video / Max0r

Do not read this article in the dark, it is very scary.

"I will make more videos. This is a threat."

— Caption in an end card

Max0r is a YouTube channel that focuses on video games, first created in June 2016. Originally focused on clip compilations for Max0r and his friends' game sessions (primarily ARMA 3), Max0r expanded into game reviews and his now iconic "Incorrect Summaries" in 2020.

Max0r's videos focus on Rapid-Fire Comedy, intentional research mistakes, and super-fast editing, all of it Played for Laughs. Even with all the chaos unfolding, he does manage to make a salient point every now and again. Just don't expect it to stick around too long.

His channel can be found here.

Games given the "Incorrect" treatment or a review

• Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
• Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
• Baldur's Gate III
• Bloodborne
• Control
• Cruelty Squad
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Devil May Cry 5 (2 parts)
• Doom Eternal
• Elden Ring (3 parts currently)
• Final Fantasy XV
• Genshin Impact (2 parts)
• Helldivers II
• Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (2 parts)
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
• Monster Hunter: World
• Neopets: The Darkest Faerie^note Technically not labelled as such due to predating the series, but it serves as something of a pilot for the series
• Project Wingman
• Resident Evil 4 (Remake) (1 part currently)
• ULTRAKILL (2 parts currently)
• Yakuza 0

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In this page, you play as John Trope, who discovers all of the tropes Max0r uses, except some of them.

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• Accentuate the Negative: Subverted. For all of the plot holes he points out and Lampshade Hanging that he does, Max0r generally stays on the positive side of things in the games he reviews.
  • Even when his review of Cyberpunk 2077 criticized the game's bugs and glitches, Max0r still said he'd probably recommend the game as a whole, if only because the sheer quality of the writing in some of the sidequests makes it worth the price of admission.
  • The review of Final Fantasy XV comes closer to playing this straight, though still ultimately subverts it. Max0r generally thinks that the game is not very good, but the plot is such an incoherent mess that it loops back around to being amusing.
  • Zigzagged in his Control review where he spends the first half gushing at how fun the powers, atmosphere, and destructive spectacle is; but then abruptly switches to criticizing the game's issues of dominant strategy, enemy variety, leveling, protagonist who "can suck the rainbow out of a pride parade", and how it hurt his desire to play the game again... then goes back to gush about Dr. Darling and the story... then blasting the nonsensical elements of the story, excessive fetch quests, and lackluster DLC; but then concluding with the exalting Ashtray Maze, arriving at the verdict that it single-handedly redeems the whole game.
  • The review of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is where it really skirts the line. Max0r finds the plot batshit and incoherent even by the series' standards, dislikes Skull Face, and especially skewers the second-half of the game for being unfinished. He states up-front that, like the developers, he didn't finish the game. But Max0r also admits that there were a few scenes that genuinely moved him, like the Diamond Dog massacre on Mother Base. Also, while he wishes ill will on the Konami executives responsible for the mess, he still respects Hideo Kojima for putting in the hard work.
• Actor Allusion:
  • The Sorrow has an American accent for the most part, right until his glasses break, at which point he lets out a very Australian "Crikey". He's voiced by Rimmy, an Australian YouTuber.
  • Gideon, voiced by SsethTzeentach, greets Elden John with part of Sseth's Catchphrase in both part 1 and 2 of the Elden Ring videos.
    Gideon: Hey hey, people.
  • Tanith, voiced by Ironmouse, introduces herself as a vTuber, and even has Ironmouse herself appear on screen a few times.
  • In the Ultrakill episode, Max0r describes Gabriel as not an Ultrakill boss, but Senator Armstrong. Gianni Matragrano voices both Gabriel and Armstrong in Max0r's reviews of said games.
  • In "An Incorrect Summary of Cruelty Squad", several characters are voiced by Pyrocynical, who had relatively recently released a four hour video essay dissecting every aspect of the game.
• Actually Pretty Funny: While there are instances of this here and there in Max0r's videos, one stand out example is in his third "Elden Ring" Incorrect Summary where after getting sick of dying over and over to the Death Rite Bird in Mountaintops of the Giants, he just simply baits the Bird into jumping off a cliff, the resulting laughter even gets a caption confirming it to be his genuine reaction to killing the Bird that way and he even admitted that he didn't know that would actually work.
  Max0r: [my actual laugh] I-I genuinely didn't know if that was possible. Bailiff, whack his balls.
• Adaptational Dumbass: In "Devil May Cry 5," Cavaliere Angelo is just The Brute who's tasked with finding the sword of Sparda, Dante and Vergil's father. In Max0r's version, he's a stereotypical Redditor who fills his speech with internet memes that nobody understands, and one that both V and Dante curbstomp easily.
  Cavaliere Angelo: (unable to get through Dante's Royal Guard) THIS... ISN'T... BIG... CHUNGUS!
• Adaptational Jerkass:
  • Jetstream Sam is one of the villains in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, serving as the closest Raiden gets to a personal rival, yet retains an affable personality to offset his brutality. None of this is present in Max0r's Incorrect Summary of the game, which instead presents Sam as a Smug Super who bullies Raiden for being "cringe".
  • Senator Armstrong lacks his game version's Well-Intentioned Extremist motivation to build a Social Darwinist world, and is instead a Card-Carrying Villain who wants to change America into a place where people can embrace their corrupt behavior and be allowed to get away with whatever they want.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the Elden Ring videos, Gideon Ofnir's Well-Intentioned Extremist crimes like the Village of Albinaurics massacre and casting out his adopted daughter Nepheli Loux are skipped over, turning him into an Insufferable Genius who considers himself to have the highest IQ in all Reddit. The most he does is tell Elden John that his next destination after beating Rennala is Caelid.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • Ace Combat 7:
    • Trigger. Several completely legal actions he performs in the game (shooting down military cargo planes, destroying armed enemy platforms used as seaforts) are reframed as war crimes targeting civilians, he is never proven innocent in the death of Harling, with it being implied he actually did kill him, unlike in the game where he was framed, and he is responsible for the death of Édouard Labarthe, whose death he had nothing to do with in the game.
      Mission briefer: Now unfortunately, new guy, we don't have the resources to court-martial you again, so we're just gonna forget that ever happened.
    • Mihaly, a.k.a. "womanslayer69", is also depicted as a thoroughly racist and sexist man. As well, while he eventually regrets his part in helping create the drones in both the video and the game, in the video he regrets it because Jeff Bezos and Jack Dorsey are going to restrict his ability to be racist on the internet, rather than because he felt guilty that his contributions to the program helped start the Lighthouse War like in the game
    • While Dr. Schroeder came to regret the collateral damage he caused in his pursuit of revenge and, upon being confronted about it by Ionela, willingly agreed to help bring down his army of drones and the last remaining Arsenal Bird, "Jeff Bezos" is completely unrepentant for any of his actions, rides into the final battle at the controls of his Amazon Drone Hub, and is ultimately shot down as he screams that he'll never pay his taxes.
    • Princess Cossette's dog, who in the original game has no personality to speak of, occasionally gets Glowing Eyes of Doom and tells people to "Burn Osea to the ground."
  • Monarch is also said to target a civilian airport, even though in the actual mission he takes down military transports while avoiding shooting down civilian airliners.
  • Solo Wing Pixy never goes through the Heel Realization he had in the original game; whereas there, he gives an interview in the epilogue about how his loss to Cipher changed his outlook on the world, in Max0r's version he kidnaps the interviewer at gunpoint, then bluntly admits he's learned nothing before shooting him dead.
  • Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance:
    • Sundowner was already a Blood Knight Psycho for Hire in the original game, but Jimothy Ross' dub turns him into an apparent pedophile who kidnaps and cyborgizes children so they can farm for Ganyu in Genshin Impact.
    • Senator Armstrong also has his Well-Intentioned Extremist values of people fighting for their own beliefs instead of fighting for money for people or causes they don't care about stripped from him, instead invisioning an America where everybody is welcome to be their worst self without any consequences.
  • Blaidd the Half-Wolf is turned from a Nice Guy whose worst crime is having the Face of a Thug into a fairly polite child-devouring cannibal.
  • Minos Prime in the original was a genuinely good man who only fights you because he's trying to stop a murderous robot who was part of why humanity is extinct. Here, he's a Blood Knight that absolutely revels in his craziness, considers having killed 12 trillion people to have been an utterly fun pasttime, and pettily refuses to repent for his various crimes as he becomes Deader than Dead.
  • The Handler was a man working for a company that thrives off of killing people but besides telling Empty Fuck who the target is and accidentally calling a hit on him, nothing implies him to be more than a jerkass. Here he's the boss of Cruelty Squad who the second-last mission is about assassinating. Just before Empty Fuck caps him in a single shot, he starts boasting that he owns him. He also makes an appearance in the Idiot Party as one of the wealthy elites, telling Empty Fuck to his face that his ten rules for life include telling some guy to kill people under a tone implying he doesn't really respect him.
• Added Alliterative Appeal:
  • In his video of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain he refers to Big Boss with various synonyms of his name, many of which are alliterative such as "Enormous Executive" and "Giant General".
  • In Part II of his Incorrect Summary of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, he describes Senator Armstrong as "Buff Buzzard" and "Athletic Aesthetic" during his boss fight segment.
• Affably Evil: The Pitbull of the Woods (Blaidd the Half-Wolf) is a pleasant, well-spoken guy who loves to kill and eat children.
• All for Nothing:
  • In Metal Gear Solid V, it's played for laughs that Skull Face spent 9 years rehearsing his speech for Venom Snake, only for the Tomato in the Mirror scene to reveal... Venom Snake was never the true Big Boss, but the Medic who shielded him from the bomb planted inside Paz in "Ground Zeroes."
  • In Devil May Cry 5, Nero is forced to travel through Sears on foot when V tells him he can't travel through the area in a car, only for Nico to drive her van through a wall after Nero calls her from a phone booth.
    Max0r: Now with our presence in the level completely invalidated...
  • As he enters the boss room of Clair De Lune in Ultrakill, he notes that you can actually do a Dungeon Bypass by shooting the church's window, meaning the 17 minutes he spent looking for skulls was utterly pointless.
• Alternate Character Interpretation: Invoked in his video on Final Fantasy XV, where he half-jokingly takes a dim view of the Kings of Lucis. Aside from jokes (i.e. describing them as if Noctis's friends are a k-pop group and claiming that the gods wanted to prevent "white people juche"), Max0r points out that they've had 113 kings at minimum in 2000 years, suggesting a rather high turnover rate. Max0r is rather skeptical that a monarchistic dynasty could maintain itself over that long of a period, comparing them more to the deformed and inbred rulers of the 1700s than the intended idealized image. He's also happy to note that Lucis was losing the war badly, despite literally having God on its side, suggesting the kings of Lucis were really bad at their jobs.
• Amazon Brigade: Invoked in Genshin Impact, where he makes it clear he's playing for the waifus and has no intentions of playing any male characters, regardless of viability. This goes to the point he intentionally sends his male characters out on resource collection while also choosing to play the female protagonist (who he still claims is named "John Impact"). By the second video however, he uses Bennett, Xingqiu, the Wanderer and Thoma, citing the first two's statuses as game-breakers while telling the audience to not even bother building Thoma.
• And That's Terrible: In Metal Gear Rising Revengeance Part 2, after Sundowner mentions that the world is about to get back to "the good days after 9/11," Raiden gives a shocked "wait a minute, 911 is bad!" Justified because the last time Max0r referenced 9/11 without condemning it, (read, uploaded an unlisted video that showed the destruction of the Twin Towers for about a second) YouTube demonetized his entire channel for three months.
• Art Shift: In Metal Gear Rising Revengeance Part 2. After the Sundowner fight, during the escape from Amazon (aka World Marshal), Raiden falls and lands so hard that the game turns into Roblox levels until Max0r gets the episode back on track.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In "Cruelty Squad is a Normal Game", the Handler lists off all of Max0r's crimes. The Handler can accept all the stock manipulation, untaxed money, and all the murder, but buying an onion future is where he draws the line.
• Ass Pull: Discussed. When Raiden asks Senator Armstrong for his sources, Armstrong replies that his source is "I made it the fuck up".invoked
• Author Appeal:
  • Makes very clear his...interest in 2D Anime women, often in Self Deprecatively Humorous fashion. But in particular he has an acute interest in Hololive's Tsunomaki Watame, and Genshin Impact's Ganyu; both of which are subjects of many Running Gags in his videos, and the former in particular is the subject of his longest Running Gag of wanting a collab video with her.
    Max0r: (In "An Incorrect Summary of Devil May Cry 5 PART 1") Just listen to that music, dude. It's even better than getting a Youtube collaboration with Virtual YouTuber Tsunomaki Watame PLEASE-
  • When Max0r thinks a piece of music from the game is good he will generally stop his usual onslaught of various other music, let the piece in question play, and point it out even if he may crack a joke with it. Examples include every boss theme of Metal Gear Rising and the Godskin Apostle theme from Elden Ring.
    Max0r: Also, holy shit, this music goes hard. This is an absolutely inappropriate boss theme for the inside of a Walmart.
• Author Avatar: He claims to be "a small blonde anime girl" and uses Elise Toudou from Student Council's Discretion as his avatar.
• Awesome, but Impractical: In "Devil May Cry 5 Part 2," Max0r" considers Dr. Faust as this. While it's funny to put a hat on any enemy and hit them for massive damage, it costs Red Orbs to use, which he considers a terrible idea and so doesn't use it. The only other time he uses it is to finish off Urizen for the last time.
• Bait-and-Switch: In his review of Doom Eternal, Max0r says that if you don't play on higher difficulties... then that's okay, "we're all busy". He even has a Freeze-Frame Bonus where Max0r admits through text that not everyone has time to play a game on the hardest difficulty, and you should do what makes you happy.
• Bathos: Discussed in the review of Yakuza 0. Max0r argues that the game is tonally all over the place, and it's outright bizarre in a lot of situations, such as weird karaoke and dance sequences, or missions where you have to deliver a pizza. However, Max0r finds it all oddly charming, saying the focus on gameplay is "refreshing", and that the sad moments hit harder because things are so light and comedic otherwise.
• Black Comedy:
  • You can blow up refugee tents in Ace Combat Zero. "It's funny. Now laugh." Cue an image of a birthday cake with The Price Is Right theme playing, accompanied by the caption "DEAD CHILDREN".
  • "This is the first enemy in the game." (Raiden activates Blade Mode and cuts the enemy to pieces.) "Now he's the first one hundred enemies in the game."
• Blatant Lies: Max0r says that he is a small blonde anime girl as a Running Gag. He says this while showcasing a deep male baritone voice, and having appeared in person during the Ace Combat 0 and Metal Gear Solid V videos.
  • The title Cruelty Squad is a Normal Game™ is absolutely wrong when you consider that the game is Cruelty Squad, AKA a rather... unique game overall.
• Bookends: His first and second videos on Genshin Impact begin and end respectively with Max0r giving this fun tip that most Genshin players don't know:
  Max0r: The age of consent is 18 years old.
• Brain Uploading: Jetstream Sam uploads his consciousness into his gaming setup (read: his Murasama), allowing him to cheat death. After his body dies, Sam uses the speaker to communicate with Raiden and lend him his setup so he'll know what it's like to be a real gamer.
• Brick Joke: In "An Incorrect Summary of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater", one of Ocelot's questions is whether or not in Capitalist America, there's such a thing as the "village toothbrush". By the Final Battle with Volgin, he reveals his survival from the first fight by driving Shagohod out of the burning base and ranting about how once he's done with Snake's toothbrush, he's gonna take all of Snake's teeth.
• Bring My Brown Pants: In Metal Gear Rising Part 1, President Obama (Prime Minister N'Mani) states he crapped himself during Desperado's attack.
  Obama: "Uh, my name is Obama. I have, uh, shit my doodoo ass."
• Broke the Rating Scale: According to Max0r, Doom Eternal is a "ten out of good".
• Bullying the Disabled: Max says his favorite Helldivers II strategy is to pick one of his squadmates to be the "designated disabled man" and only allow them to use PATRIOT Exosuits, while also forcing them to crawl between said exosuits for "immersion reasons".
• But Thou Must!: Enforced in his Bloodborne review, which says that every player must play "The Old Hunters."
  Max0r And if you play through Bloodborne, you have to play through the DLC. I'm not giving you a fucking choice.
• Cain and Abel: Defied in his Ultrakill review, where he acknowledges the memes depicting V2 as the "Cain" to V1's "Abel", but expresses weariness at how often this trope seems to come up in the games he plays so he refuses to let V2 let out too many sibling-centric taunts.
• Canis Major: Played with; Max0r refers to Blade Wolf and King Cerberus as a "small pitbull" and an "average-sized pitbull", respectively.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Armstrong in the Revengeance video is an unapologetic Corrupt Politician and bigot. In fact, his issue with the current structure of society is that he can't be more overt about it without facing consequences.
• Catchphrase: By his own admission, Max0r often describes many a boss fight as the best in the entire game; sometimes he says this about several bosses in the same game.
• Child Eater:
  • One Running Gag is that pitbulls have a compulsion to kill and eat children.
  • In Elden Ring, Max0r's version of Blaidd (renamed as "The Pitbull of the Woods") is treated like a child-eating cannibal who directs Elden John to a well (to Siofra River Depths) containing the tastiest children. During the Radahn Festival when they meet again, he asks if he ever went and killed those children before flashing back to the Rennala fight where he had to slaughter her children to get to her.
  • Also in Elden Ring, Tanith implies this, stating that you are what you eat, and that she is "a child at heart".
• A Child Shall Lead Them: Combined with Fridge Logic in his Final Fantasy XV review. For there to have been 113 kings in a 2000 year dynasty, each of them would had to have had children at the age of 17 years old maximum.invoked
• China Takes Over the World: A Running Gag through the videos is that China is all-powerful and unstoppable. The Genshin Impact review has some fun with this, since the game was developed in China; therefore, Genshin Impact is secretly a plot by the Chinese government to get us all playing the game so the world lets its guard down.
• Combat Sadomasochist: When up against Mistral in Metal Gear Rising, he repeatedly exclaims his lustful desire for her to beat him up and crush him, capped off before the full boss fight with this statement:
  Max0r: "I like it when women hit me."
• Complacent Gaming Syndrome: Invoked in the review of Control. While Max0r generally praises the game, he says that throwing rocks — that is, using your character's psychokinesis powers to throw objects at enemies — is so absurdly effective that you never need to do anything else. Not only is it very powerful, but Max0r argues that gun upgrades are generally not as effective, showing himself taking a full clip of ammo to kill a basic enemy at the end of the game with a fully-upgraded gun while killing other enemies with a single thrown object each.invoked
• Content Warning: The start of his video for Cruelty Squad, a game infamous for its Sensory Abuse inducing visuals, begins with a caption about the game's flashing lights, and this statement from Max0r.
  Max0r: I am genuinely serious about the epilepsy warning.
• Continuity Nod: After mentioning the Federation Fleet in Project Wingman Captain (Clown) Torres from Ace Combat 7 pops up with his pirate voice.
• Cool Chair: In "Devil May Cry Part 2," Vergil's demonic throne is changed to a plastic chair.
• Corrupt Politician: Senator Armstrong admits that he's this and that all politicians really are in some form at the end of the day, willing to lie and steal for their own gain discreetly. Armstrong's goal is simply to change things so they don't have to bother with hiding being corrupt anymore. Raiden is shocked to learn of such corruption.
• Curse Cut Short: In the start of his Doom Eternal Summary, just before the first Marauder fight, Samuel Hayden is on the receiving end of this before being thrown through the portal.
  Samuel Hayden: I swear to God, if you throw me into that portal, I will fu-! (John Doom throws him into the portal anyways)
• Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: In the review of Doom Eternal, Samuel Hayden wields the Crucible of the Doom Slayer while saying "I'm going to shit yourself".
• Dare to Be Badass: In Devil May Cry 5, Max0r explains that an expert player can fight Cavaliere Angelo easily by dodging his attacks and punishing him when he leaves himself open, but that a true warrior would take him on face to face. Cue Dante repeatedly parrying his attacks while Red Sun plays in the background.
• Death by Adaptation: In "Ace Combat 7," Mihaly lives to see the end of the Lighthouse War after his final duel with Trigger/Three Strikes. In Max0r's version, he has Trigger kill him since he realizes he can't live in a world without the internet.
• Death World: Max0r refers to the setting of Monster Hunter: World as this, and jokingly compares it to real-world Australia.
• Demoted to Extra: In his Incorrect Summary of Devil May Cry 5, Lady, one of Dante's demon slaying partners, only has four seconds of exposure total in the review.
  Max0r: The game doesn't care about her, so neither will I.
• Department of Redundancy Department: He says that the climax of the Devil May Cry 5 summary is "Vergil hiring Vergil's brother and Vergil's son to defeat Vergil so Vergil can become Vergil (featuring Vergil)".
• Description Cut: In Part II of an Incorrect Summary of Devil May Cry 5, V wonders if Dante is doing fine and hopes that "he gets to Nero soon instead of fucking with a bike". The very next cut showcases Dante still going to town with his newly acquired Caveliere weapon.
  Max0r: Now it's time to fuck with a bike!
• Didn't Think This Through: In Ace Combat 7, the reason why President Harling is dead is that Command shouldn't have sent a "potentially psychopathic mute" (Trigger) to defend him, but he takes no responsibility.
• Dies Differently In The Adaptation: In Metal Gear Solid V, Skull Face is left to die by Venom Snake and Miller, only for Huey to kill him. In Max's version, Snake shoots him until he runs out of ammo, with Huey still getting his shot in.
• Dirty Commies: The commander issuing the missions for the first third of the Ace Combat Zero summary is implied to be a Soviet infiltrator from his occasional slipups in the briefings, despite being from a world where the Soviet Union never even existed. He's eventually outed as a saboteur after deliberately leading a squadron of allied planes into the firing line of Excalibur.
• Distracted by the Sexy: In "Metal Gear Solid V," the reason why the fighter jet chasing down Venom Snake crashes? The pilot was blinded by Quiet's "massive titties." (In canon, it was from Quiet shooting the pilot in the cockpit.)
• The Dog Was the Mastermind: Played for laughs in Ace Combat 7 where Princess Cosette's dog is this, given a snippet of "The Only Thing They Fear Is You", Red Eyes, Take Warning and secretly telling the princess to burn Osea to the ground.
• Don't Try This at Home: When Max0r reaches the first Suspiciously Cracked Wall in Ultrakill, a.k.a "road construction", and notes the need for high-grade explosives to deal with it, he follows with a quick disclaimer that he in no way condones "the civilian possession of highly explosive material for the explicit purpose of assaulting public servants as they carry out their daily and necessary duties to society".
• The Dreaded: The base commander in Ace Combat 7 eventually becomes so terrified of you that he sends you out on missions just so you can't hurt him or his family on the base.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Dante refers to V as an "Astolfo-looking asshole". Later, after rescuing Trish, he tasks V with babysitting her since she's "another woman just like [him]".
• Dummied Outinvoked: In his Bloodborne review, he considers Micolash to be this since his fight is a "Get Back Here!" Boss as well as a Luck-Based Mission which he considers a Speedrun killer. For example, he should look like he's going one way but goes the other. When you do catch up to him, he can One-Hit Kill the player.
• Eagleland: Played with in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance with Senator Armstrong, who's clearly a parody of Type 2, but his ultimate goal and sincere belief in it essentially involves propping up his ideal America as a Type 1...via a parodic Type 2 taken to the extreme.
  Senator Armstrong: I know, it's hard to believe (that all politicians aren't trustworthy). But that's just what the USA is all about, Jack. Not hiding our theft and murder, but embracing it. Whether it's votes, whether it's money. Especially money. [...] I'm gonna build a new future, Jack, one where we won't have to hide our stealing from anyone. And for that, I want you by my side, to build a world truly free from the consequences of our actions, just like the Founding Fathers intended.
• Early-Bird Cameo: A musical version. Max0r has used songs from games he would end up doing episodes of later on.
  • Ace Combat Zero used music from both Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and Metal Gear Solid V
  • Devil May Cry 5 uses boss music from Metal Gear Rising and Bloodborne.
  • His first Genshin Impact video uses music from Project Wingman
  • Monster Hunter: World and Elden Ring use music from Ultrakill.
• Early-Installment Weirdness:
  • Neopets: The Darkest Faerie, a precursor to the series, and Ace Combat 7, the earliest "Incorrect Summary" video Max0r made, exhibit a few oddities compared to later videos: the Rapid-Fire Comedy was a bit slower, the visual editing wasn't as intense, and he utilized a near-consistent low Creepy Monotone. Starting from Ace Combat Zero is when his signature style solidified, with comedy so fast you can barely comprehend the jokes, editing so intense it can cause epileptic fits, and a louder voice with wider vocal range.
  • Even after settling on his personal style, however, Max0r was still not quite on the level of insanity he's currently known for, with the videos from Ace Combat Zero to Genshin Impact still having several moments where the content slows down or maintains coherency. It's starting from the Control review, which Max0r himself considers to be where his style solidified, that his Rapid-Fire Comedy truly reached Freeze-Frame Bonus levels of jokes going by around 1 per individual frame and 5 per second.
• Easy-Mode Mockery: Zigzagged in the Doom Eternal review. It sounds like he's setting up for this at first, then admits that not everyone can play on the harder difficulties. However, Max0r later says in the same video that if you think the Marauder enemy is too hard, then "I'm not saying you're wrong; I'm saying you're bad".
• Eats Babies: It's repeatedly brought up in the Bloodborne review that a notable part of the plot involves killing newborn baby Eldritch Abominations and eating both them and their mothers' umbilical cords.
• Emergency Cargo Dump: Weaponized and played for laughs in his "Metal Gear Solid V" episode when he has supplies dropped on Quiet during her boss fight, taking her out immediately.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Despite being a mostly remorseless killer and self-professed "Satan's biggest fan", Elden John is taken aback by how the only way to gain access to the Erdtree is to sacrifice another person by burning them alive at the Forge of the Giants.
• Failed a Spot Check: In 'Metal Gear Rising Part 1,'' Raiden wonders how he didn't see the Metal Gear RAY unit until it jumped in front of him.
  Raiden: "Why didn't I see that?"
• Fate Worse than Death: How Max0r describes Yakuza 0 attempting to play Thou Shalt Not Kill straight:
  Max0r: But don't worry, neither of our characters canonically kill anyone. We just give them lifelong disabilities that are worse than death.
• Faux Affably Evil: Father Mendez in the Incorrect Summary of Resident Evil 4 (Remake) is portrayed as a cheery, murderous Mormon missionary.
  Mendez: You are SUCH a kidder, Leon! [Sinister Mormon breath] STOP STRUGGLING.
• Filler: Max0r refers to the review on Monster Hunter: World as "basically a Max0r filler episode".
• Flashback-Montage Realization: Parodied in the Metal Gear Solid V summary. As Skull Face is giving a Motive Rant about how he plans to purge the world of anime and VTubers, it's accompanied by a montage of gags from earlier in the video painting the Diamond Dogs as a bunch of horny weebs to highlight why he hates them so much.
• Freudian Excuse: It's implied in Ultrakill that Gabriel suffers from Parental Abandonment and is trying to overcompensate.
  Gabriel: As the righteous hand of The Father, I will beat you back into silicon.
  V1: I think someone has daddy issues...
  Gabriel: I DO NOT HAVE DADDY ISSUES, I AM PAPA'S SPECIAL FUCKING BOY!!!
  [...]Gabriel: MY DAD GROUNDED ME, MACHINE, AND HE WON'T READ ME BIBLE STORIES TONIGHT!
• Fridge Logic:invoked
  • In his Monster Hunter World episode, Max0r points out Elder Dragons in the Rotten Vale have a natural instinct to die there. He asks why there are still predators if they can just wait.
  • One mission in Ace Combat 7 involves sneaking into an Erusean military base through a narrow ravine filled with searchlights, with the player having to dodge around them to avoid being seen. Max0r questions why the Eruseans don't seem to hear the planes passing by, even if they can't see them.
    Erusean 1: [over the roar of jet engines] HEY BRO, DO YOU SEE ANY JETS?
    Erusean 2: WHAT?
  • In "Elden Ring Part 1," while Max0r is going through Raya Lucaria Academy, he wonders why the entrance to the school goes through a graveyard. He figures it has to be an American school.
• Friend to All Children: Raiden is this per the source, but it's gotten him into trouble given Bladewolf claims he's a "known sex offender" and Sundowner drops a "Not So Different" Remark regarding their "interests" in children. However, he also purposefully runs over and kills a child near the end, and is a dead-beat father to Sunny (who is his daughter in the video).
• Gainax Ending: Max is completely dumbfounded at Cruelty Squad's first ending, only able to respond to the ominous messages and the singing voice reading them before laughing after he is booted back to the title screen. The second ending is much the same, but Max complains about the screen before him being genuinely painful to look at. The third ending is so incomprehensible that he just glosses over it talking about how he can't possibly analyze it.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: Since Max0r is playing Ace Combat 7 on a completed file, he has access to every plane from the very start of the game, whether or not it would make sense for him to have them at that point. This results in him showing up to his first missions with the Spare Squadron and LRSSG in an X-02S Strike Wyvern, an experimental aircraft under development by the country they're at war with, and remarking that it would probably turn a few heads.
  "Who the fuck is this new guy?"
• Gender-Blender Name: In Genshin Impact, Max0r claims the protagonist's name is John Impact...while using the female playable character (whose canonical name is Lumine).
• The Generic Guy: Max0r considers Jesse Faden in "Control" to be so boring, she could suck the rainbow out of a pride parade.
• Gilligan Cut: Used in Ace Combat Zero:
  Max0r: (Referring to the Excaliber laser system boss) It's going to be difficult to reach this new nemesis, as we embark on a long journey to eventually defeat this powerful-
  (Gilligan Cut)
  Base Commander: Alright guys, we are going to kill the giant laser today!
• Girlfriend in Canada: When Mihaly returns in the second half of Ace Combat 7, he declares that he's a changed man because he's finally had sex, but his "sex woman" goes to another school so nobody can confirm whether she's real or not.
• A God Am I: In Ace Combat Zero, Pixy during the Final Battle Motive Rant declares he has "the power of God" while unleashing his "square explosions" and ordering the launch of "The Big Fuck" (aka the V-2 rocket).
• The Gods Must Be Lazy: In his Final Fantasy XV review, he considers the random Astral summoning to be a Scrappy Mechanic. The party is surrounded by Niflheim soldiers and they're on their own. Fighting random wildlife they can handle on their own? Struck down by the divine fury of Ramuh!invoked
• Gratuitous Foreign Language:
  • Max0r slips in Gratuitous Romanian during "Bloodborne" in one of his memes.
    Fanúšici metalovej hudby (metalheadi-železné hlavy) po tom ako ich vyprankujem tým že do ich záhrady zakopem magnety (Fans of metal music (metalheads) after beating them by burying magnets in their gardens).
  • In "Elden Ring Part 1," he slips in Gratuitous Irish during the fight against the Ancestor Spirit.
    Tá mé ag deanamh seo ar a ceathair maidin. (I'm doing this at four in the morning.)
  • In "Genshin Impact is a Playable Anime," when he describes Liyue as China, he recites part of John Cena's "Bing Chiling" speech.
    Max0r: I really hope I didn't just tank my social credit.
• Gratuitous German:
  • In "Elden Ring Part 1", he describes three of the various horrors of Caelid as "made of German bedtime stories." Such tales include Der Vogel (giant crows), Der Backpfeifengesict (putrid corpses), and, most importantly, Das Kindershredder (Giant Mutated Dogs).
  • One of the random German terms thrown in in "Elden Ring Part 1" is "Die Unabhängigkeitserkläarungen" (The Declaration of Independence)."
• Gratuitous Japanese: In Metal Gear Rising Revengeance Part 2, Senator Armstrong slips in one line in Japanese, asking Raiden if he's ever harassed a minority.
• Gratuitous Latin:
  • Played for laughs in the video on Final Fantasy XV, with Max0r saying "if you know any Latin, this game is fucking insulting", and thus referring to the characters by what their Latin names translate to. The king of the country is King King Light Heaven (Regis Lucis Caelum), the protagonist is Night Light Heaven (Noctis Lucis Caelum), and his friends are Quick Silver (Prompto Argentum), Fire Knowledge (Ignis Scientia), and Sword Friendship (Gladiolus Amicitia).
  • One of the towns in Ace Combat Zero is named Solis Ortus, Latin for "sunrise", prompting Max0r to angrily recite a passage from the Vulgate Bible in response.
• Gratuitous Spanish: In "Metal Gear Rising Part 2," one of his quick cuts has one of the Mexican citizens talk about Raiden in Spanish.
  "¿Por qué parece una maquina de fax?" (Why does he look like a fax machine?)
• Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: Subverted in Metal Gear Solid 3. Volgin falls off of a bridge on the Shagohad, but then gets back up and keeps going because he forgot that he fell.
• Groin Attack: The Corpse of King Minos politely welcomes V1 to "weiner compression day". The thing is, he is so utterly massive, attempting to compress anyone's weiner will compress the rest of their bodies by default.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Malphas from his Devil May Cry 5 videos.
  Malphas: MY ENTIRE CHARACTER WAS JUST WRITTEN TO BE ANGRY SO I'LL KILL YOU, LMAO!
• Half the Man He Used to Be: In Metal Gear Rising Part 1, Jetstream Sam says the trope name after slicing President Obama's (Prime Minister N'mani) motorcade gunner in half.
  Sam: "I guess you could say he was half the man he once was."
• Harsh Word Impact: Every time someone makes fun of Elden John for being single or dressing like a weaboo, he dies of cringe. Repeatedly.
• Has a Type: Between Watame, Fauna, and Ganyu, Max0r seems to have a thing for Horned Humanoids.
• Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?:
  • Immediately after interrupting Malphas's attempt on V's life, Nero chimes in with "Haha don't kill V so sexy nooo!" before clarifying that he's not actually gay.
  • Leon is very sexually confused around Luis and aggressively denies wanting to have sex with him.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Parodied in his Metal Gear Rising duology where Raiden starts emulating the toxic internet behavior and politically incorrect barbs of Desperado Enforcement LLC such as doxxing and mass-murder jokes the longer he fights them.
• Hidden Disdain Reveal: Melatonin tells the Tarnished that she hopes that he dies horribly for good, and that the only reason she's sacrificing herself to set the Erdtree ablaze is because she wants to commit the biggest act of arson she can.
• Hurricane of Puns: Armstrong delivers a hurricane of heart puns when Raiden has ripped his chest open and is in the process of tearing out his heart.
• Idiot Hero: Raiden is depicted as such, Blade Wolf even compares Raiden's IQ with that of room temperature in Alaska. He has shown complete ignorance as to what dogs, guns, and even swords are.
• I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You!: In Metal Gear Rising, Mistral's Twitch moderator (Andrey Dolzaev) insists he'll never reveal their secret base at 29th Avenue, Mexico City. He then gives the exact coordinates of the lab.
• Immediate Self-Contradiction:
  • When getting to the story and lore of Doom Eternal, Max0r says that all of what he said is accurate. Except for some of it.
  • Leon affirms that he is straight. Right after saying that he has relationships with women and sex with men.
    Luis: You know, I don't make the rules, but, uh... I think that means you're fucking gay, Hombre.
• Impossible Task: Played for laughs in "Elden Ring Part 2" during his time in the Volcano Manor/Hell. He describes the circle of Heresy's punishment as having to get laid on Gmail.
  "This is where God puts all the papists after being dragged into the storm drain. Their Sisyphean punishment is they have to get laid on Gmail. Delete every other website. You have to fuck and suck on Gmail."
• I'm Your Biggest Fan: In Part 2 of his Elden Ring summary, when Rykard finally reveals himself in the second phase, Elden John gushes over how he's Satan's biggest fan even as Rykard is trying to kill him before he catches himself.
• Insane Troll Logic:
  • In the Devil May Cry 5 summary, Max0r says that if you find the fight with The Dragon too hard, then you should turn the game off and go for a walk. When you come back, the boss will have died. Somehow.
  • In part two of his Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance video, Senator Armstrong claims that American Imperialism is absolutely justified because we had a Black President once. Before Armstrong killed him, that is.
• Insistent Terminology: In the Elden Ring series, any time Malenia is mentioned, Max0r always clarifies that she is, indeed, the Blade of Miquella.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: In Devil May Cry 5, Max0r states that the Cavaliere Angelo is a pure test of skill "with no bullshit movement mechanics", only for Cavaliere Angelo to teleport right as he says it.
• Insufferable Genius: In the Devil May Cry 5 summary, V is presented this way. Besides being overly pretentious and quoting literature all the time, V says that he has the "disability" of having an IQ that is way too high. Nero scoffs at V when he says this.
• Just Two Men: In the Ace Combat Zero summary:
  Max0r: Your friends become horrified to find that Osean High Command has only sent in two planes as reinforcements, and so are the Belkans.
• Kill the Poor: In the second Genshin Impact video he states that the majority of enemies in Liyue (which he describes as an Oligarchy) are the Treasure Hunters, which are fittingly a bunch of poor bandits.
• Lame Comeback: In part 2 of the Metal Gear Rising summary:
  Sam: "Oh don't worry, Raiden, the clown college is closer than you think."
  Raiden: "Yeah, it's right in front of me."
  Sam: "*laughs* Kill yourself."
• Left the Background Music On:
  • In the Devil May Cry 5 summary, "Bury the Light" plays whenever Vergil shows up. He eventually has to turn it off because no one can hear him over the music.
  • In the "Incorrect Summary" videos for Ace Combat, the Ominous Latin Chanting that plays whenever an important enemy shows up can be heard by the protagonist... but apparently, no one else.
• Leitmotif: In "Elden Ring Part 1," any time the camera is on Ensha of the Royal Remains, he's always accompanied by the Pillar Men's theme.
• Likes Older Women: Said verbatim in Elden Ring Part 2 (with Lisa and Yae Miko depicted on screen for emphasis).
• Loot Boxes: Discussed as part of the Genshin Impact review. In particular, max0r says that spending money on the game is a waste, since the chances of getting something good, let alone something specific that you actually want, is very low. He even shows the mathematical formula for it, saying that the chances of getting a specific character are 0.3% (about 1 in 333).
• Lovable Sex Maniac: Max0r is a shameless pervert, and he uses that for all the comedy it's worth. Throughout the Lust layer of Ultrakill, he's trying very hard not to reference Genshin Impact because it's the joke everyone's expecting him to make.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Sundowner's shields are referred to as his "women deflectors".

M-Z

• Memetic Psychopath:
  • Max0r frequently invokes this on himself, often leaning into the craziness and violence of his videos by claiming to have killed various people in real life (a family through vehicular manslaughter in Metal Gear Rising, an innocent girl during 2004 in Cyberpunk 2077, two people years ago in Elden Ring Part 1), portraying himself as a Serial Killer that manages to be a Karma Houdini for decades while making videos.
  • If the game he's covering is incredibly detailed, Max0r will joke that the game directors like Hideo Kojima and Hidetaka Miyazaki are completely insane slave drivers who overwork the devs to death.
• Microwave Misuse: Schwarze 1 from Ace Combat Zero has a microwave installed in his aircraft, somehow, and uses it to cook kitchen utensils and set of sparks inside of the oven.
• Mood Dissonance: The first part of his RE4 Remake starts with the game's human sacrifice scene, but set to the upbeat tune of Zvyozdnoe Leto from Atomic Heart.
• Mood Whiplash: Max0r will often jump from a genuinely solemn or serious moment to a rapid series of memes before cutting to an entirely different topic.
• Morton's Fork: In Ultrakill Act 1, during 1-3, the two doors at the start have Max0r put up a meme saying what happens to YouTubers when they hit 10m subscribers: they become pedophiles or sell out to Dollarshave Club.
• Most Definitely Not a Villain: In his Final Fantasy XV Summary, he calls Ardyn Izunia a man "incapable of speaking normally".
  Ardyn: Aren't nursery rhymes curious things? (Unedited Footage)
• Named by the Adaptation: In Elden Ring, Lady Tanith's Crucible Knight has no name and never speaks. In Max0r's version, his name is Gug, and only talks in Pokémon Speak.
• Never Live It Down: Mihaly's first appearance in Ace Combat 7 has him easily outmaneuvering and gunning down Brownie to establish him as a major threat. Max0r, however, draws attention to the fact that he singled out the only woman in the squadron as his target and dubs him "the world's oldest incel", which goes on to colour his portrayal in all of his later appearances too.invoked
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: In Cyberpunk 2077, he designs his V to be a poor(er) man's Johnny Silverhand/Keanu Reeves.
• No Ending: The Neopets: The Darkest Faerie video stops part way through the game, on the basis that the game is a poorly made, repetitive, tedious mess.
• No Fair Cheating: In "Ultrakill Act 2," Max0r shows he tried to noclip through the Act 1 P Door, only for it to kick him out, forcing him to get P-Ranks on each level just to earn the privilege of fighting Minos Prime.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis:
  • In Metal Gear Solid 3, unlike his zanier comrades in the Cobra Unit, The Fury gets to the point.
    The Fury: "Hey there, Snake. I know you're expecting a gimmick or funny voice, but there is no gimmick. I'm just here to kill you. Bitch."
  • In "Metal Gear Rising Part 2," Max0r goes into detail that Jetstream Sam's lack of gimmicks compared to the rest of Desperado is what makes him dangerous.
    Max0r: This guy's out here making the rainforest look like a fucking joke, and the best part is there's no bullshit in this fight. No minions, no shields, no Monsoon telling me about Among Us. It's just you, the sunset, and the soil.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer:
  • In "Devil May Cry 5 Part 2," during the battle against King Cerberus, while going over the ice mode, Max0r describes it as being forced to travel to an Alaskan Walmart with pictures of Pitbull's tour and a caption of "(This really happened.)"
  • When talking about how fast-paced the combat is in Doom Eternal, Max0r puts a caption on the screen that says his footage is not being sped up.
  • When talking about how bad gaming journalists from Polygon were at Doom Eternal, Max0r shows footage of someone from Polygon playing Doom 2016, missing close-range shots and taking a lot of damage. A caption on the screen assures the viewer that what they're seeing is actual gameplay footage from Polygon.
  • The summary video for Ace Combat Zero notes that your wingmate was the youngest child on the first episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark?. Max0r adds "I'm serious, look it up" with the on-screen caption "Yes. That is actually him."
  • The video for Ace Combat Zero also shows the caption "Real In-Game Dialogue" when Max0r reads something from the game.
  • In the video on Final Fantasy XV, Max0r says that you need to watch an anime, play the DLC, and see a movie just to get all of the plot details about what's going on in the game. This includes reading a book to get the true ending of the game. An on-screen graphic lets the viewer know that he's not kidding.
  • His videos for Metal Gear Rising uses "Real In-Game Dialogue" quite frequently and it still meshes perfectly with his own Affectionate Parody. In particular, Monsoon's "Memes speech"invoked is as outrageous as it sounds, and even Raiden's post-fight dialogue for Monsoon is capped off with "What the fuck" when it reaches his famous line of "Your memes end here!". In the second part of the video, Max0r says that you talk about memes with a decapitated head, then adds that you actually do that.
  • More generally, Max0r will often emphasize that certain absurd elements (eg. the Alicorn loading up nukes in a few minutes in Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown or Ganyu from Genshin Impact choking a monster that tried to eat her due to her hips being too wide for it to swallow) aren't just him exaggerating or making things up by explicitly stating that the thing happened canonically.
  • In Elden Ring when Melotonin (Melina) lists off the motivations of the various demigods: glory, redemption and being really attracted to his younger brother.
  • Another example from Elden Ring Part 1: One clip from the start of the video shows Malenia decimating Max0r with a hurricane-like flurry of sword attacks. The accompanying caption assures the viewer that the footage has not been sped up.
• Nuke 'em: Lampshaded in the Ace Combat 7 video, where the mission briefing eventually notes that "it's always nukes" whenever the enemy comes out with a new weapon.
• N-Word Privileges: Discussed by Armstrong in the video for Revengeance, who states that he wants to transform America into a place where nobody suffers the consequences for doing racist shit like, well, saying the N-Word.
• Offing the Offspring: A very infrequent Running Gag is him claiming, during segments where he heavily exaggerates his Memetic Psychopathinvoked image, that he's planning to kill his son.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • In "Elden Ring Part 1", when Elden John enters the Starscourge Radahn fight, he notices something weird.
    Elden John: Why is he so far away? (Radahn immediately snipes at him with his greatbow, and the footage pauses right before the shot hits) Are those summon signs?
  • He gets this feeling upon first stepping into Caelid.
    (Elden John is greeted by the horrors of Caelid)
    Elden John: What the fuck is that!? Oh no! Oh god! (he fights off several zombies as a message flashes "Don't go to Caelid.")
  • In "Elden Ring Part 2," Elden John has a moment when he teleports into the wrong room after finishing up a job for the Volcano Manor.
    Elden John: I think we might be the bad guys. Just kidding, I don't think. (he snaps his fingers to teleport, only to find himself in Malenia's room) Oh shit, wrong door.
• Ominous Latin Chanting: Max0r is a fan of using the Ash Lake theme for this purpose.
  • In the "Incorrect Summary" videos for Ace Combat. Since an enemy character's theme features this, he'll wonder where all of that weird Latin chanting is coming from whenever the character shows up.
  • In his Elden Ring videos, whenever Caelid and The Two Fingers come up, he adds the above mentioned soundtrack to represent his dread at dealing with them.
• The Omniscient: In the Revengeance video, Bladewolf knew Raiden's name because he comes pre-programmed with knowledge of everyone.
• Only Sane Man:
  • In Devil May Cry 5, Nero is this to V throughout part 1, before V becomes this to Nero and Dante in part 2.
  • There's also Malphas, who quickly tires of Nero's and Cavaliere Angelo's shtick.
    Malphas: WHY AM I SURROUNDED BY FUCKING GOBLINS!?
• Orphaned Setup: Subverted in the ending for Doom Eternal. John Doom sets up the Final Boss for a joke, but the boss doesn't get it. John Doom goes through with the punchline anyway.
  John Doom: Wow, you know, it's so sad that Steve Jobs died with ligma.
  Final Boss: Who the hell is Steve Jobs?
  John Doom: Ligma balls!^note Lick my balls. Ha, got 'em!
• Overly Narrow Superlative: Gideon Ofnir boasts in his Elden Ring video that his IQ is the highest among all of Reddit. Elden John's response is, "That's not saying much."
• Pædo Hunt: In the Revengeance video, Sundowner quite frequently brings up how much he loves minors. In the Elden Ring video, Rennala of the Full Moon has become a Minecraft Lets-Player who would shamelessly message her underage viewers. He also broadly describes the average Genshin Impact player as being one step away from going to jail for crimes against minors, despite being a Genshin player himself.
• Painting the Medium:
  • In "An Incorrect Summary of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater", he says that if the boss fight with Volgin on the Shagohad is too hard, then you should skip ahead in the video to the part where he has low health and he dies.
  • For the final boss of Devil May Cry 5, Max0r defeats Vergil by "listing things [Nero] does to kill Vergil comedically, and Vergil dies, lmao".
• Parody Assistance: In the Ultrakill video, Gabriel is voiced by Gianni Matragrano, the actual voice actor of Gabriel in the game proper. While some of the lines he voices echo what Gabriel says in the game, he also says things like "You are cringe, Machine! You are not pogchamp!" as a way to say that this is still a joke.
• Person as Verb: In "Devil May Cry 5 Part 2," after Dante defeats Urizen, just as Nero and V catch up, he uses this to describe finishing Urizen off.
  Dante: Get back, V, I'm about to Al Capone this bitch.
• Perverse Sexual Lust:
  • He fully admits that he "hard cope[s] by simping for 2-D women", and a Running Gag throughout his videos is how anime women and hololive stars will eventually take over the world.
  • The Genshin Impact review features quite a bit of this, with him going back and forth between detailing the game mechanics and talking about how hot he finds the characters. Max0r even said he specifically picked Lisa because she sounds like she's "on the verge of sex" while the player is controlling her. He also laments that he wants Ganyu, but he can't get her because of the low chance of getting Ganyu in one of the game's Loot Boxes. Finally, Max0r says that he has definitely not sold his house for the chance of getting more 2-D ladies to lust over.
  • In the Metal Gear Solid V video, Skull Face wants to use the Language Virus to kill anyone who speaks Japanese because it will destroy the "animes" that are taking over the world, as well as blaming Big Boss for being so obsessed with anime.
  • In the Metal Gear Solid III video, the Philosopher's Legacy is actually the OnlyFans account of EVA, worth billions of dollars. Both Ocelot and the Boss try to stop Snake from engaging in "simpery" by attempting to kill him and steal back the OnlyFans money.
  • In Elden Ring part 2, both Gideon and Max0r display this towards Ranni the Witch, with a special focus on her having four arms... and four armpits.
• Pinball Protagonist: Lampshaded in his Elden Ring series, where Tanith outright calls his player character a "simp" for just doing what other characters (mostly women, at that) tell him to do.
  Ranni: I shall need thy help to run my errands.
• Politically Incorrect Villain:
  • Senator Armstrong's motivation is to create an America where he doesn't have to face the consequences of his own actions. Raiden admits he's "not cringe, [he's] just fucking racist".
    Armstrong: Imagine a world, Raiden, free of cancel culture! Where no one can call me out for my outlandish claims! A WORLD WHERE I CAN SAY THE N-WORD!
    (Beat)
    Raiden: What?
  • Margit the Fell Omen/Marge the Fell Refund's Establishing Character Moment before his boss fight has him telling Elden John that he hates women and he's homophobic. In the Omen King fight's intro, he also reveals that all his siblings stopped talking to him after finding out he was heavily racist too.
    Margit: And you are looking pretty gay right now.
  • Mihaly has become a sexist incel nicknamed "womanslayer69". When he later reveals that he actually had sex with a woman, he drops the sexist act and decides to just be racist instead.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Raiden doesn't know a lot of things. He tells George that he doesn't know what a McDonald's does, and he's never heard of Wal-Mart. At various points, he also says he doesn't know what a gun is, what a dog is, or what a sword is. The latter is despite Raiden holding a sword in his hand at the time.
• Previously on…: Played for laughs in the second part of the Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance video. Max0r sets up a recap, then plays the entire first video in the span of two seconds. The recap plays so fast that it's incomprehensible.
  • He does it again in Part 3 of Elden Ring with a full 30 second fast-paced recap of the first two videos.
• Product Placement: Staring with "Elden Ring Part 3", Max0r has been sponsored by GamerSupps, working their flavors into the videos while also offering sales codes.
• Rage Breaking Point: In the ULTRAKILL videos, Gabriel's temper is... volatile.
  • In part 1, he completely flips his lid when V1 deduces that he might have daddy issues.
  • In part 2, he snaps from Tranquil Fury to Unstoppable Rage when V1 says his "sick organ solo" is just "nice".
• Rainbow Pimp Gear: When talking about the average quest experience in Cyberpunk 2077, Max0r mentions how his character wound up wearing 14 different colors like a clown, implicitly due to how stat benefits outweigh color coordination in the game.
• Rapid-Fire Comedy: You're lucky if Max0r stays on topic for ten seconds. The videos as a whole are interspersed with rapid-fire images, many of which have nothing to do with the subject on-screen. He also jumps into tangents just as easily, before jumping right back out and getting back on-topic. Finally, most of his gameplay footage and GIF images are sped up a significant deal. As an example, the Doom Eternal review transitions from him talking about how the game allowed him to spec his stats to make himself "a flimsy, crack-addled spider-monkey", to him talking about how it would be a good idea to unleash hundreds of macaque monkeys into the streets of New York City because they can survive there, then laments that Thailand gets "all the good monkeys", and then immediately transitions to talking about the game's enemy types. All of that happens in the space of eight seconds.
• A Rare Sentence: In "Elden Ring Part 1," while he's in Hallowhorn Grounds, he calls the level "enduring the trials of free acupuncture meets Markiplier jumpscare."
  Max0r: That is not a sentence I thought possible, but then again we do have sentient lightning and, um, Mr. Krabs.
• Real Is Brown: In Metal Gear Rising Part 1, he states the game begins in the "2009 colour scheme" by showing a picture of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
• Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: The base commander of Ace Combat Zero stutters his briefing for the second mission to B7R to hilarious fustration.
  Base Commander: Alright so we are sending you guys to get air supessss-bu-bu- alright so we are sending you guys to get air superiori-bu-bu-bu— oh FUCK— (caption: "real outtakes") YOU ARE GOING BACK TO B7R!
• Real Men Wear Pink: In his "Devil May Cry 5" episodes, V's book of poetry is replaced with a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfiction.
• Related in the Adaptation: Sunny is Raiden's daughter in Metal Gear Rising Part 2, as opposed to the original where Raiden has a son (who didn't appear in the game) and Sunny was Otacon's adopted daughter.
• I Reject Your Reality: Invoked. In Doom Eternal, Max0r says that if he ever gets something wrong, just pretend that what he said was right.
• Running Gag: Max0r frequently uses recurring jokes in his videos, both video-specific and channel-wide, to the point that a separate page was needed to hold them.
• Scatterbrained Senior: In Metal Gear Rising Part 1, Prime Minister N'Mani is presented like a dementia-ridden version of Barack Obama.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In Part 3 of his Incorrect Summary of Elden Ring, after Elden John kills Maliketh and brings back Destined Death to the Lands Between, he's brought to the ruins of Leyndell as though the game is urging him to start the endgame. Elden John runs away instead.
  Elden John: Nope. Fuck that shit, I'm out. I've got, uh, really important errands to do now and saving the world I can do later. It's not going anywhere. You know I've just been so busy lately.
• Seen It All: In "Devil May Cry 5 Part 1," Dante's first meeting with V shows he's already heard the exact setup V's proposing before.
  Dante: Hey there, make yourself at home.
  V: My name is V, and there's a giant demon that's about to resurrect that I know about for reasons, and I need your help to stop it.
  Dante: I have heard that exact—
  V: Stop talking.
  Dante: I have heard that exact sentence four times for like 20 years. Were you, like, born yesterday?
• Self-Deprecation:
  • Frequently talks about his Perverse Sexual Lust for hololive characters and 2-D anime women in general, citing how much of a loser and an eternal virgin that this makes him. He also calls himself a "dingus" in the Genshin Impact review, and admits he's making the videos more for the sake of entertaining the viewer than informing them about a product.
  • The Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance video briefly implies that the only thing worse than an archetypal Politically Incorrect Villain is VTubers... implying Max0r himself is some kind of dreg for liking them.
  • Part Two of the Elden Ring video finally knocks out one of Max0r's wishes to work with a Virtual YouTuber, getting one to voice Tanith. Knowing who it is, though, he immediately regrets his decision.
  • Part Two of Ultrakill features MandaloreGaming as, well, himself (in the form of the Mysterious Druid Knight). His reaction to Max's fanboying reaction to his appearence is annoyedly asking who Max even is.
  • His "Baldur's Gate 3" video notes that you should never speak to a clown, then notes that since you're watching one of his videos, it's actually pretty close.
• Shellshocked Veteran: In his Helldivers II episode, Max shows he's not only a veteran of Malevelon Creek, but describes the Creek, and by extension the rest of the Automaton front, as "an exercise in how much PTSD one man can possibly get."
• Shmuck Bait:
  • Max0r falls victim to this in Ace Combat 7. When tasked with securing the last Stonehenge cannon in order to bring down one of the Arsenal Birds, he decides to use an A-10C since the mission briefing claimed it was only being protected by ground forces. He quickly realises his mistake once the Arsenal Bird actually appears and deploys its swarm of drones, all of which are too fast for him to deal with.
  • In "Elden Ring Part 1," D tells Elden John "Do not google Danger Force season 2 episode 1." And later on in "ULTRAKILL | Act 1", he himself warns the viewer not to do so. The episode is titled "An Imposter Among Us."
• Shoo Out the Clowns:
  • At the end of his Metal Gear Solid 3 episode, Max0r plays the climax seriously. The Boss will go down in history as a traitor, but Naked Snake, now promoted to Big Boss, knows she was the truest patriot of all.
  • During the Metal Gear Solid V video, the mission where Venom Snake has to kill all of his own troops in order to prevent the Language Virus from escaping into the world at large is presented totally seriously and somberly.
  • Discussed in the review of Yakuza 0, where Max0r notes that the game is normally extremely wacky and bizarre, from a pizza-delivering mini-game to weird dance sequences to Campy karaoke sequences. However, Max0r also says that this makes the somber or dramatic moments work that much more, as it feels like there's genuine weight and emotion behind such scenes.
  • In the summary for Ace Combat Zero, Max0r drops the jokes when it comes to the bombing and destruction of Hoffnung.
    Max0r: Enemy jets scramble hopelessly to try to defend their friends and family, and you take them out. You hear the sounds of screaming and air sirens, and just like every other target before them, you take them out. You take them all out, burning everything until there is only silence. Is this worth it? How many points did you get?
  • In Part 1 of Elden Ring, Max0r gives Rennala's second phase of her prime and both of Radahn's phases proper Boss Subtitles rather than the joking ones given to Margit/Marge and Godrick "the Garfield", as well as lessening the jokes as he comments how much he loves how the fights look and play.
  • In Part 2 of Elden Ring, Max0r continues the trend by giving Morgott, the Omen King his proper name and actual Boss Subtitles ^note (albeit in slightly altered form as "The Fell King" and "Last of All Kings," though the first is technically accurate as it combines the boss's first subtitle as Margit, the Fell Omen with his second as the "Omen King," and the latter is a title that Morgott actually uses for himself), discussing how much he adores the fight with fewer jokes than usual, and even including some lines from Morgott's own intro cutscene in the battle montage.
  • Part 1 of Ultrakill ends with the council of angels stripping Gabriel of his divine light, ordering him to prove his faith or die within 24 hours. Max0r's chilling performance and Gabriel's scream of agony makes the scene quite unnerving.
• Shout-Out:
  • In Ace Combat 7, once Count is introduced, he's called the Nickelback vocalist.
    Chad Kroeger: Look at this photo. (holding a photograph of Count)
  • In the opening of Doom Eternal, the Marauder says that John Doom is a "false crewmate" and "sus".
  • In "Bloodborne," while talking about using the Great Ones' blood, they figured "We can make a religion out of this."
  • In "Control", he claims that the objective of the game is to stop the Hiss from breaching the Hazbin Hotel dimension^note Presumably because the Hiss is Red and Black and Evil All Over and Pentagram City has a predominantly red color palette.
  • Metal Gear Rising has one to Jimothy Ross's video on the same game. In Jimothy's video, Blade Wolf recites Raiden's home address as proof of his intellect. In Part Two of Max0r's Incorrect Summary, Raiden takes a page from Wolf's and recites Jetstream Sam's address right before the fight with him. Not to be outdone, when Sam insists he lives with his mother, Wolf has a photo of her house ready immediately.
  • In Devil May Cry 5, Part 1 when Urizen gets up from his throne, he quotes Lamar's (in)famous rant from Grand Theft Auto V, only replacing the melodic N-word with "Neeero!"
  • Part Two of the Elden Ring video has the line "I do not care who the IRS sends, I'm not paying taxes."
  • Ultrakill has Gianni Matragrano bring with him a wide variety of memes that he did voice-overs for, and of course some of them are references.
    • The Cold Open for Act 1 has Gabriel tell V1 "You call shooting a coin a martial art?"
    • Of V2, Max0r says; "Anything you can do, he can do better. He can do anything better than you."
    • Both Gianni and Max0r state "Door's stuck! DOOR'S STUCK!" when it comes to a sealed door during the introduction to Mindflayers.
  • In Resident Evil 4, Leon aggressively asserts his heterosexuality by stating that he "has relationships with women and sex with men".
• Shown Their Work:
  • He praises Doom Eternal for its level design, citing how long it must have taken to both develop and to put into the game. Max0r also correctly cites that composer Mick Gordon used lawnmowers, Mongolian throat singing, and chainsaws in the game's soundtrack when talking about the game's music.
  • Max0r notes the mechanics of what Genshin Impact does to spy on your computer while you're playing it, including correctly citing that the spy functions turn off when you stop playing it. That same review also cites the chances of getting something specific from Loot Boxes in the game, including showing the mathematical formula to determine how they work.
  • He mentions in the Metal Gear Solid 3 video that Hideo Kojima wanted the battle with The End to take three weeks in real-world time, but was eventually talked out of it. Max0r also mentions the Easter Egg where you can beat The End by just not playing the game for a week.
• Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer: Discussed. Max0r's review of Yakuza 0 points out the various activities that will keep players utterly distracted, hunting for 100% Completion. Such examples involve the UFO Catcher, pool, dancing, and gambling, to scratch the surface.invoked
• So Bad, It's Good: Invoked when discussing the plots of certain games, which Max0r says he finds entertaining if only because of how much the plots amused him.
  • Max0r says that the plot of Doom Eternal is "psychotic", but adds that he doesn't care because whatever crazy thing he finds is so entertaining that it genuinely makes the game better. He also admits that the plot of the Ancient Gods DLC is "even worse in the best way" since the plot gets so over-the-top that the rest of the video isn't a spoiler because "it makes no fucking sense", all while praising how entertaining he finds it.invoked
  • Max0r found the plot of Final Fantasy XV immensely satisfying and entertaining, though not for the reasons that the developers intended. Max0r argues that the plot is so all over the place that the game becomes entertaining by virtue of how overly pretentious it becomes.
• Sophisticated as Hell: In Elden Ring: Blood & Fire, Maliketh's Pre Ass Kicking One Liner starts with eloquently telling Elden John that if he wants Destined Death then he can try to claim it before stating that he's going to fucking skin Elden John alive.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Downplayed. While Raiden does still kill Jetstream Sam, Sam turns out to have uploaded his consciousness into his Murasama, as opposed to the original where he simply left a final message.
• Spoofed with Their Own Words:
  • The game summaries will sometimes quote the game verbatim if it's funnier that way, captioned with "Real In-Game Dialogue").
  • Exaggerated with the fight between Raiden and Armstrong in Metal Gear Rising. The game is not just quoted word-for-word, but Armstrong's abridged speech is fundamentally the same as the original, even when he's referencing things that obviously didn't exist when the game was released.
  • For that matter, Max0r has to assure the audience that Armstrong's "don't fuck with THIS senator" line is taken verbatim from the moment where he says it, as is the random cheering heard when he punts Raiden.
• Straw Misogynist: Max0r randomly chooses to incorrectly portray certain characters as this (for comedic purposes of course).
  • Mihaly's from Ace Combat 7 is portrayed as "the world's oldest incel".
  • Marge, the Fell Refund (Margit, The Fell Omen) in Elden Ring declares to Elden John during his introduction speech that not only does he despise women, he is homophobic as well.
    Marge: And you are looking pretty gay right now.
  • Father Mendez in Resident Evil 4 calls Ashley a "salted harlot" during his breakdown in front of protagonist Leon Kennedy.
• Stock Scream:
  • He regularly uses Solid Snake's dying scream in his videos.
  • He also uses this scream in his videos.
• Strong as They Need to Be: In the Final Fantasy XV video, Max0r admits he's surprised to see the four protagonists at the start of the game struggling to push their Cool Car together when Noctis alone can deflect punches from a god the size of a mountain.
• Stylistic Suck:
  • While most of the research is accurate in the reviews, Max0r will occasionally get things wrong on purpose for the sake of a joke. For instance, the Running Gag of the Doom Slayer being named "John Doom".
  • When someone complains about a plot hole in the lore of Doom Eternal, the complainer is depicted as an MS Paint drawing of a cartoon face, bobbing up and down.
  • In Ace Combat Zero, PJ's dialogue is altered so it sounds like it comes from a cheap headset mic with the gain turned all the way up. Pixy even calls PJ's microphone "a war crime".
• Spoonerism: At one point in his Monster Hunter: World video, Max0r begins a sentence with "Forst and fistmost" instead of "First and foremost".
• Suddenly Voiced:
  • In Elden Ring, Tanith's Knight/Gug and the Fire Giant both get this despite never speaking in the original game, though Gug is limited to saying his own name though Tanith can still understand him just fine.
  Gug: Gug.
  Tanith: Gug is in pain.
  Elden John: Aren't we all?
  • Not that it's very obvious considering its memetic popularity, but ALL of Ultrakill's characters are voiced by a voiced actor. Yes, that includes the Hideous Mass and The Corpse of King Minos.
• Super-Persistent Predator: Max0r discusses this trope in Monster Hunter: World in regards to humans in general and how the player will act as this for the monsters they're hunting.
  "After a long and arduous battle, you (the monster) run away as far as you can. But, every time you turn around, he's still there. And even worse, it's wearing your skin."
• Surreal Humor: Going hand-in-hand with the Rapid-Fire Comedy. One example is being the one of the Codec Calls in Rising Revengence being replaced with Raiden watching a super idol version of Spongebob Squarepants.
• Surrounded by Idiots: In "Devil May Cry 5 Part 1," Malphas has to deal with Cavaliere Angelo hitting on her until she reminds him to do his job and teleports out.
  Angelo: So anyway I saw a cringe doomer poster and thought to my trad self that I would show him he was being a soy wojak, and to add the correct amount of irony—
  Malphas: What the fuck are you saying? Find the stupid Devil Sword, you internet poisoned dumbfuck before I grow a brain aneurysm!
• Take That!:
  • Despite often being the source of jokes that China will take over the world in the future, Max0r regularly takes the piss out of China's human rights track records in his videos, with several of his videos having freeze-frame gags dedicated to making fun of the more Egregious human rights abuses the country is known for, with lots of memes about "social credit deduction" just adding a cherry on the top. This also counts as partial Self-Deprecation, as Max0r himself is a huge fan of Genshin Impact, which was made in China.
  • He also often takes potshots at ultraconservative politicians often too. He states in the opening of his ULTRAKILL Act 1 video that V1's mission into Hell is to "kill Margaret Thatcher", and another Fire and Brimstone Hell level in Elden Ring has him joke that its the final destination of "his personal hero, Ronald Reagan".
  • In the Ace Combat summaries, any time WMDs are mentioned as reasons for a military attack (and always with the implicit understanding the claim is dubious), pictures of George W. Bush flash on screen.
  • In Devil May Cry 5, Max0r refers to the Nobodies as "average white girls" and "caucasoidal femoids".
    Max0r: And like white women, these enemies are hard to read.
  • Cavaliere Angelo in the Devil May Cry 5 summary is an incarnation of Reddit, who threatens to turn Dante into a "soy wojak". Dante takes great pleasure in killing the Reddit monster.
  • During the ending of the Metal Gear Solid V video, Huey Emmerich says that he can't be a traitor because he spends all of his time playing League of Legends. Huey is immediately sentenced to death. In the Metal Gear Rising video, Raiden tells the police officers who originally ran him down (only to stop once they realize he's white) that he was distracted playing League of Legends as well, at which point Da Chief immediately states he's heard enough and that "deadly force's authorized".
  • Also from the Metal Gear Solid V video, he states up-front that, like the developers, he didn't finish the game.
  • When one mission in Metal Gear Solid V tasks Venom Snake with rescuing captive child soldiers, Max0r cracks a few jokes about the QAnon conspiracy theory, claiming that Bill Clinton is trying to have them harvested for adrenochrome. These are promptly followed by a split-second caption reading:
    "i do not believe in this conspiracy theory because i do not have the mind of a fuckin gibbon"
  • The review of Doom Eternal has Max0r say that the design of the game is "focused harder than the average Persona fan on his local playground". He then shows an image which accuses fans of Persona 5 of not playing the game they so fiercely defend.invoked
  • Also from the review of Doom Eternal, Max0r complains that a journalist from Polygon could beat the first half, "and that's unacceptable".
  • In part 1 of the Metal Gear Rising video, the scene of Raiden cutting off Metal Gear RAY's arm changes to a Gmod recreation halfway through, stating that the funds for the scene went into the making of Metal Gear Survive.
  • In part 2 of the Metal Gear Rising video, Senator Armstrong's Motive Rant combines this with Self-Deprecation, as Max0r is both a YouTuber and a fan of Vtubers.
    Senator Armstrong: [beating the shit out of Raiden] Fuck all these limp dick YouTubers and chicken shit Redditors. Fuck this 24/7 Internet spew of Discord and Vtuber BULLSHIT!
  • In Devil May Cry 5 part 2, Max0r states that if his "illiterate viewers" haven't watched part 1, they will be confused enough to qualify as a congressman.
  • Likewise, in Metal Gear Rising part 2, he describes the Metal Gear EXCELSUS boss battle as a classic case of "waiting for him to do anything, just like Congress".
    Max0r: And like Congress, when he does do something, it usually hurts you.
  • Monster Hunter: World: He refers to the Rotten Vale as a place meant to simulate San Francisco and sustained only by the miracle of "rotting corpses" (with pictures of "American Politics" and "Blizzard Entertainment") and "feces" (while pictures depicting San Francisco's dirty streets).
  • Monster Hunter: World also labels the two ways of hunting monsters, capture and kill, as Democrat and Republican, respectively — both of which result in endless pain for the animal.
  • Elden Ring: He refers to Rennala's second phase as "like Dark Sus Gwyndolin if he/they were a good boss".
  • In "ULTRAKILL Act 1", when the Hideous Mass turns out to be a Let's Play streamer, Max0r laments that it's handicapped.
  • In "ULTRAKILL Act 2", when very briefly talking about the Flesh Prison's Trial-and-Error Gameplay, some footage of Hotline Miami pops up for a second.
  • In Elden Ring part 2, he compares the second phase of the fight with Rykard to getting brain damage "just like playing Valorant but in a good way unlike playing Valorant".
• Take That, Audience!: In Ultrakill, Max0r says that "Hell has gotta be a good time. After all, it's where my subscribers live." Of note is that he uses a picture of an enemy literally called "Filth" to describe said susbcribers.
• Talk Like a Pirate: Most of Captain Torres's dialogue in the Ace Combat 7 video is delivered in stereotypical pirate-speak to really drive home his nature as an Ax-Crazy sea captain.
  "Ahoy me maties, it be me, Cap'n Torres, and I'm here to tell ye that ye can prevent like 99% of all wars by nuking the capital of Osea. I learned about ye knowledge while stuck under the sea for 698 days while only being able to watch Virtual YouTuber content, and I'm as sane as any ol' scurvy dog on the ship! Yar har har, it's MY mental illness so I get to choose the coping mechanism!"
• Tempting Fate: Frequently invoked and parodied.
  • In the Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain video, The Man On Fire has to repeatedly fend off a tank to pursue Snake, and has just long enough to remark, "Now, not a single automobile can interrupt us-" before immediately getting run into a wall by Ahab in an Ambulance.
  • In Elden Ring, Max0r decides to go northeast from Caelid before actually beating Margit after hearing about the festival in that direction, thinking it can't be that bad...
    Max0r: You know, it seems like we're going a little off the beaten path for this one, but I'm pretty confident. After all, how bad could it possibly be? (Immediate smash cut to the absolute rot-blighted hellscape that is Caelid, soon focusing on one of the giant crows) What the fuck is that?! (Cue horde of blighted zombies) Oh no... Oh God! (Cue message with "don't go to Caelid" on the screen) (Beat) Let's go back to the castle. This time I think I'll walk.
  • In Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, as Raiden returns from Mexico he says that he has missed how peaceful America could be, especially the police. Cue the police shooting him.
• Terrible Pickup Lines: In ''Ultrakill Act 1," during the fight against Gabriel, Max0r asks if it hurt when he fell from Heaven. Gabriel takes it quite literally.
  Max0r: I wonder if it hurt when he fell from Heaven.
  Gabriel: YES! Yes it fucking did!
• Testosterone Poisoning:
  • According to Max0r, Doom Eternal is so manly that he had a son via mitosis from all of the manliness, and the game contains enough male hormones to transition someone.
  • Elden Ring: Radahn is considered "an absolute god among chads" who skateboards on a tiny horse and gets into fights with stars using the power to defy gravity, all while in the hospice.
• There Are No Therapists: Lampshaded in An Inaccurate Summary of Ace Combat 7, when Mission Control brings up the fact that the crew of the Alicorn, who were trapped in the vessel under the sea for 698 days, were never given any psychological help before being put back on the same sub. Predictably, all of them go crazy and decide to nuke the capital of Osea.
• The Gambling Addict: Admits descending to 'Gacha Hell' after playing Genshin and ever since his first Genshin Impact video, references to the game gets propped up in his other game reviews ever since to the point of becoming a Running Gag.
• This Is Gonna Suck: In "Elden Ring Part 1", he gets into this mindset when Ofnir tells Elden John to go to Caelid.
  Ofnir: Greetings again, Tarnished!
  John: Yeah, okay.
  Ofnir: What knowledge do you seek that brings you to my domain?
  John: So I've been to Red Lobster once already. Where do I go next?
  Ofnir: Caelid.
  John: ... What?
  Ofnir: You must continue your adventure in Caelid.
  John: Uh...
  Ofnir: Is that a problem?
  John: No! Not at all! There's nothing wrong with Caelid. (cue ominous music)
• Trapped by Gambling Debts: Metal Gear Rising has Doktor blowing his money on gacha games and asking Raiden to take care of his credit card debt. Part 1 has him burning his money on Genshin Impact. Part 2 has him now addicted to Princess Connect! Re:Dive. Boris is the only one who calls Doktor out on his addiction.
• Trolling Creator:invoked In his "Cruelty Squad" episode, Max0r has a hard time figuring out what parts are meant to be symbolic and what parts are the developer messing with the players.
• Troubled Production: Discussed in the video on Final Fantasy XV. Max0r remarks that game director Tetsuya Nomura wanted to make the game into a musical after seeing Les Misérables (2012) once. This lack of coherent direction, constant changing of ideas, and increased pressure to reach a deadline ultimately caused XV to be rough around the edges, in Max0r's opinion.invoked
• Uniformity Exception: When the GRUN squadron is introduced two minutes into Ace Combat Zero, the GRUN pilots report in descending number... Except the last one.
  Grun 4: <<Grun 4 reporting.>>
  Grun 3: <<Grun 3 reporting.>>
  Grun 2: <<Grun 2 reporting.>>
  Grun 1: (Muffled screaming) <<WHO FILLED MY FUCKING COCKPIT WITH WATER>>
• The Unintelligible: In his "Elden Ring" videos, scenes involving Brother Corhyn render his audio into a screeching mess to show how Elden John wants little to nothing to do with the Golden Order, even when he needs answers for why the Erdtree is closed off.
• Unperson: In "Metal Gear Rising Part 1," during Monsoon's memes speech, one of the memes that's part of the collage says "'Historians' removing all mentions of Big Boss and his achievements from school history books."
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Throughout Devil May Cry 5, Nero becomes increasingly unfazed by both Nico's teleporting van and her driving skills.
• Villain Has a Point: In the end of "Devil May Cry 5 Part 2," Nero realizes Vergil was right to hoard his money when the government comes for his child support.
  Government: Hello, this is the federal government speaking. We've found some unusual activity with your account so we'll be claiming your child support as taxes.
  Nero: What? That's my child support. Tell Obama there's no way I'm paying for that.
  Government: You won't be paying you say? That's okay. We have our ways.
  (Nero hangs up, then high-fives Nico before getting out of the van to fight more demons)
  Nero: You know what, I've been thinking for awhile. Vergil might've had a point.
• Villainous Breakdown: V2 in his first fight was jovial, very crass, and incredibly cocky. In the second, the increased insanity of the combat is reflected in his frothing, shrieking rage.
• Vocal Dissonance:
  • Lady Tanith is depicted as a bloodthirsty Satanist who demands Elden John kill to collect souls for her master, while sounding like a childishly high-pitched E-girl.
    Tanith:: We crave innocent blood, traveler, and I expect a sufficient donation. After all, you are what you eat. And I am a child at heart!
    Max0r: I think I chose the wrong voice actor.
    Tanith: HAIL SATAN!
  • The tall, imposing Bitores Méndez is voiced by Wes, who makes him sound like a high-pitched, overly-chipper children's show host.
• Was Just Leaving: In Max's "Incorrect Summaries" take on Resident Evil 4 (Remake), he adds a twist to when Ashley and a Ganado walk into a Shirtless Scene between Leon and Luis. Both of them mistake it as Luis and Leon being lovers, so Ashley quickly says that she was just leaving and not to pay attention to the boys' attempts to explain.
  Ashley: Leon! The hell are you doing?!
  Leon: Ummm...
  Luis: Uhhh...
  Ganado: Oh shit, am I interrupting something?
  Ashley: No, we were just leaving!
• Western Samurai: "Elden John", Max0r's player character in Elden Ring, is a Samurai class avatar who was designed to resemble Russian menswear model and bodybuilder Ernest Khalimov. Despite Elden John wearing a helmet, Varré somehow knows this and calls him a weeaboo for it.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Repeatedly Skull Face in Metal Gear Solid V, who instead of just shooting Snake repeatedly sics the Man on Fire on him despite his constant failures, figuring that he's got him so why not use him.
• With Catlike Tread: In his Metal Gear Solid 3 episode, Snake's method of "sneaking" into heavily fortified Russian bases is to just kill everyone. Even when he puts on the labcoat disguise, he ruins it by putting on Soviet facepaint.
• Worthy Opponent:
  • Besides playing into existing memes associating him with Garfield, Max0r treats Godrick the Grafted with surprising respect, cutting down the jokes during his second phase, calling Elden Ring “the best game ever made” after his fight concludes, not having any vicious complaints about his boss battle overall, and using him in the title card (rather than Radahn or Margit) for the video.
  • Played even more straight with Radahn. Max0r's summary of his boss battle is largely straight-forward, with very few jokes or incorrect information. Instead, he spends the entire time gushing about how badass Radahn is and how fun the boss fight is.
  • The fight with Gabriel in his Ultrakill review has Max0r mostly comment on how awesomely tough the boss is, with the majority of jokes in the fight being lines from Gabriel himself.
• Xanatos Gambit: In "Elden Ring Part 2," Ranni sends Elden John to kill her brother Rykard, aka Satan. Either the Tarnished kills her demigod brother and helps advance her plans to end the Golden Order, or the Tarnished dies a violent and undignified death, getting rid of a Hopeless Suitor.
  Ranni: Don't come back until one of you is dead.
• You Are Fat: Played for laughs in the Resident Evil 4 Remake when Ashley’s foot breaks through the wooden scaffolding.
  Leon: Ashley, you’re too heavy!
  Ashley: LEON, I’M GONNA SKIN YOU ALIVE
• Your Mom: Refers to the "Hideo's Mass" as such in his ULTRAKILL video, with a little "gottem" to lampshade it.

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