The Warp Zone is a comedy skit group that is all about the pop culture on the internet. It's run by five self-proclaimed manchildren, Michael Adams Davis, Michael Schroeder, Ryan Tellez, Brian Fisher, and David Odom.
First started in 2007, they have covered many topics related to pop culture such as Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Video Games like Super Mario Bros. and Pokémon.
Not to be confused with Warp Zone.
The Warp Zone provides examples of:
- Armor-Piercing Question: In "Is The Last Jedi Bad? (Fanboy Court)", after the Hater objects that "we can't discuss our opinions on a movie that hasn't come out yet," the Fanboy asks, "Is the plaintiff gonna delete his tweets about how bad Solo looks?" The Hater is silent for a moment and whispers "Withdrawn" into the mic.
- Atomic F-Bomb: In "Zack Snyder's Justice League Deleted Scenes", a man lets one out after Superman's dying cry knocks over his house of cards.
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: In "Is The Last Jedi Bad? (Fanboy Court)", the hater complains about the Canto Bight scenes' pacing. The Fanboy says, "I agree. The Canto Bight scenes may seem a little pointless... to a PHILISTINE!"
- Batman Grabs a Gun: Played for laughs in the "Zack Snyder's Justice League Deleted Scenes" when Batman is shooting down parademons and has a lot of fun with it, wondering why he hated them before... then he remembers his mother Martha.
- Blunt "Yes": In "Is The Last Jedi Bad? (Fanboy Court)", one exchange is brought up regarding Snoke's true nature.Fanboy: [sardonic] What, was Snoke gonna reveal at the end, in this biiig monologue, that he's — I'm assuming you thought — Darth Plagueis?
Hater: YES, EXACTLY! - Both Sides Have a Point:
- "Is The Last Jedi Bad? (Fanboy Court)" has both the fanboy and the hater making valid points about the strengths and shortcomings of The Last Jedi. The problem is that the Hater can't accept that the film did anything well, while the Fanboy refuses to admit that the film isn't perfect.
- "BATMAN V SUPERMAN: Super People's Court" has the judge rule that despite Batman and Superman's differences, they're both fighting for justice and need to find a way to work together. She rules in favor of Batman only because she wants to see Superman in a Robin costume.
- …But He Sounds Handsome: "BATMAN V SUPERMAN: Super People's Court" has Batman say that he's sure a WayneTech satellite could stop a meteor. He quickly backpedals to say he'd have to ask Bruce Wayne for permission, adding that he doesn't know Bruce well, but he's heard that he's handsome, nice and handsome.
- Clip Show: In "Is The Last Jedi Bad? (Fanboy Court)", the Fanboy and Hater show off clips of moments explaining the ups and downs of The Last Jedi, as well as a montage of moments where Luke was considered the most whiny character in the original trilogy.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Dick Richards, portrayed as working for a number of media companies such as Warner Bros, Paramount, and especially Disney, qualifies. In his more recent videos, he details how he pulls the strings behind movies such as Sonic the Hedgehog to make as much money as possible no matter how low-quality or cheap his plans are and how they effect the consumers, who he sees as dumb sheep that will watch whatever is put on a screen.
- Destructive Savior: Wonder Woman's rescue of the hostages in the "Zack Snyder's Justice League Deleted Scenes".
- Die Laughing: In "The Sims 4 in Real Life", Ryan dies laughing after Schroeder pees his pants.
- Distinction Without a Difference: In "Mandalorian Couples Therapy"
, when Boba Fett accuses the Mandalorian to be part of a cult.Boba Fett: At least I'm not a member of a freaky helmet-obsessed cult.
Din Djarin: What? I'm not in a cult! I'm just part of an isolated group of people who live by a stringent set of rules and morals that must be followed absolutely and unquestioningly and if you ever break the rules, you're ruthlessly cast out and shunned by the rest of the... okay, I might be in a cult. - Everything Talks: Discussed in "If Pixar Had Facebook 2", after Dug the Dog posts about his trip to the groomer:P.T. Flea: Hey old man! Want to explain what the hell happened to my beautiful condo?? I just remodeled the entire second floor, and that bath destroyed everything!
Carl Fredericksen: My apologies, I had no idea.
P.T. Flea: You know we live in a world where everything down to kid's toys are sentient! So try and be a little more thoughtful! - Failure Gambit: In "How Velma Was Made", Dick Richard orders the creation of the show, wanting it to be terrible, as part of a plan to piss off the existing Scooby-Doo fanbase in order to make the next, more conventional entry in the franchise look better when it comes out.
- Fake Static: In "Harry Potter: Hogwarts in 2020", Voldemort attempts this, badly, when Harry traces his IP and discovers that he is at Malfoy Manor. "He didn't even log off. He just turned off his camera," notes Harry. "He is really bad at this."
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Fan Dumb: Discussed in "The Toxic Fandom Game Show!" where Luke Skywalker from Star Wars, Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty, and Sonic from Sonic the Hedgehog are given information about one of their fandoms, and then have to guess which fandom the information refers to.- Rick and Morty fans claim that a "very high IQ" is required to understand the show.
- Sonic the Hedgehog fans are responsible for the overwhelming majority of Internet erotic fan art.
- Star Wars fans once raised US $100 million to remake a divisive entry in the franchise.
- Rick and Morty fans threw fits after McDonald's ran out of a limited-time promotional sauce.
- All three fandoms regularly harass and insult the creative teams behind their franchises.
- Franchise Original Sin: Discussed in "Is The Last Jedi Bad? (Fanboy Court)". The Fanboy defends Snoke's lack of backstory by comparing him to the Emperor, who also had no backstory when he debuted in the original trilogy, but the Hater counters that when the creators introduce a new Suspiciously Similar Substitute for the Emperor after six Star Wars movies, they should at least tell us about who Snoke is and why we should care about him.
- Hope Spot: In "Batgirl Reacts to Getting Cancelled!", she confronts Dick Richards about her movie being cancelled even after $90 million had been spent making it. When he starts to give reasons why, she thinks he wouldn't just let that much money go to waste and thinks he has some bigger plan. He tells her that the company plans to let the Internet stew over it, then leak some test footage ("the Deadpool gambit") and get it made. Then he rattles off some increasingly ridiculous further moves they will make, like bringing back Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon to make the next generation of DC movies as Metaverse exclusives, before admitting that he was just making all of this up and that Batgirl's movie really is cancelled for really boring cost-saving reasons standard for corporate mergers.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: In "Harry Potter: Hogwarts in 2020", Professor Snape's chosen means of coping with his lecture going online during the pandemic is to bring a Tequila Sunrise to its first session. Not only that, but his immediate response to Voldemort Zoom-bombing the class is to reach for his drink.Severus Snape: Welcome back to another magical year at Hogwarts. As you're all aware, the Muggle-born COVID pandemic has become so widespread that we in the Wizarding World can no longer ignore it. As such, we are taking a note from the Muggles and moving all our classes online this year. A terrible, terrible inconvenience, I'm aware but we all must find a way to cope.
[Snape brings a large glass to his lips and takes a sip]
Hermione Granger: Oh, what potion is that, Professor?
Severus Snape: A Tequila Sunrise, Miss Granger, a very... advanced concoction. - Left the Background Music On: In "Zack Snyder's Justice League Totally Real Deleted Scenes", one of the Amazons constantly sings the "Ancient Lamentation Music" in the background. Another gets annoyed and tells her to shut up.
- Lyrical Dissonance: "If the Star Wars Cantina Song had lyrics" initially looks like a light-hearted description of the Mos Eisley Cantina, but turns out to be a protest song about droid rights.
- Meet the New Boss: In "Batgirl Reacts to Getting Cancelled!", Dick Richards tells Batgirl that as a result of the same merger that got her movie cancelled, he too is being replaced with a new boss. Batgirl looks away for a moment as Dick walks out of the office, then turns back and sees another Dick Richards in a different suit taking his place.When one Dick falls, another Dick rises.
- Missing Mom: Lampshaded in "If Disney Had Facebook".Bambi: RIP Mom. Nothing is harder than the death of your mother.
Cinderella: Yup.
Mowgli: Yeah.
Tod: Uh-huh.
Dumbo: [crying face emoji]
Ariel: Get in line.
Jasmine: Ja.
Belle: Basically.
Pocahontas: Yep.
Quasimodo: Amen.
Linguini: Seriously.
Snow White: Yuppers.
Tarzan: Totes.
Max Goof: Uh-huh!
Lilo: ʻAe.
Kida: Yes.
Nemo: Yup.
Elsa: I'm sensing a pattern here... - Money Fetish:
- In "The X-Men Try Joining the MCU", Disney executive Dick Richards is shown counting the vast amounts of money from Endgame's box office. He later tells the X-Men that while he could easily have a robot count it, he prefers to do it himself because it's his kink. When he has more of Endgame's revenue fall of him, he lets out a cathartic sigh and even takes a deep breath through his nose to smell the bills of money that fall on him.
- In "Batman Reacts to the Snyder Cut", while working at Warner Bros in this video, he says to Batman that his nipples get hard just from the thought of charging $15 per month for a subscription to HBO Max.
- In "The X-Men Try Joining the MCU"
- Oh, Crap!:
- In "SUPERMAN RAP", Superman has this moment when he realized Batman actually managed to get him to swear on his curse-free rap.
- In "Zack Snyder's Justice League Deleted Scenes", the Flash points out that their current situation is a lot like the Saiyan Saga in Dragon Ball Z wherein the rest of the League are the plucky Z warriors having to hold the bad guys off long enough for Goku/Superman (who's just been brought back from the dead) to show up and turn the tide. He really does not want to be Yamcha (and neither does Batman for that matter).
- In "SUPERMAN RAP"
- Parent Never Came Back from the Store: In "THE SIMS 4 IN REAL LIFE", one of the sims invokes this trope because he accidentally knocked up his new neighbour.
- Politically Correct Villain: An odd case from Joker in JOKER REACTS TO SUICIDE SQUAD. A major part of the reason he hates the lovey-dovey romance between himself and Harley Quinn in the film is that, besides the fact he only really loves Batman, Joker claims it robs Harley Quinn of her empowering feminist moment where she realizes she's better off without him and leaves him to be an independent woman. Also falls under Even Evil Has Standards.
- Precision F-Strike: In "Captain America vs the TVA", Captain America tells the TVA judge that Dr. Strange and his fellow magicians draw power from the multiverse, meaning that the TVA has failed, and all their questionable actions to uphold the Sacred Timeline are in vain. The judge, stunned, says, "Oh... F***!" and throws out the case.
- Reading Stage Directions Out Loud: In "Is The Last Jedi Bad? (Fanboy Court)", the judge mutters "Pause for dramatic effect" twice before delivering his verdict.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
- "Is The Last Jedi Bad? (Fanboy Court)", the Judge gives these out when handing down his verdict.Judge: ORDER! ORDER! CHRIST! I'm rendering my verdict. [muttering] Pause for dramatic effect, pause for dramatic effect... [looks up and speaks aloud] I'm throwing the case out. Clearly, both of you are not Star Wars fans.
Fanboy and Hater: WHAT?!
Judge: Plaintiff, you're not a fan, you're a hater. You're weighing the choices the film made against your own headcanon, and there's no way it could possibly meet those expectations. You're living too much in your own nostalgia. To quote Kylo Ren, "Let the past die."
Fanboy: Nailed it, Your Honor.
Judge: And you. You're not a Star Wars fan either, you're a sycophant. A cult member. You clearly aren't thinking for yourself, and are choosing to willfully ignore its many flaws just because it's Star Wars. It's OK to admit when something isn't great.
Fanboy: LEIA FLYING THROUGH SPACE WAS SHOT PERFECTLY AND WASN'T WEIRD AT ALL!
Judge: A true fan can appreciate and celebrate the good while still acknowledging the bad. In short, y'all need to be more like Star Trek fans.
Hater: Uh, I also have opinions about the new Star Trek films.
Judge: The point is, no film is perfect. Even the original trilogy had flaws. And if the new films didn't affect you the same way the originals did, that has to be okay. Because maybe they did for somebody else. Someone new. And having more Star Wars fans isn't a bad thing. But right now, you are both poisoning the franchise and the fanbase, and I hereby ban you from seeing any of the upcoming movies or in-canon spinoffs.
[the Hater gapes as the Judge speaks, while the Fanboy throws his papers up in the air]
Fanboy: BUT I ALREADY BOUGHT TICKETS TO SOLO, MAN!
Judge: The Melvin has spoken. Case dismissed! - Hollywood executive Dick Richards often gives these out considering his Jerkass behavior. Arguably the best example comes in "The X-Men Try Joining the MCU", where Dick Richards, currently working for Disney, gets fed up with the X-Men claiming they should be integrated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe:Dick Richards: Alright, I was trying to do this the nice way, but I guess I'll have to spell it out for you dumb-dumbs. In the face of the unstoppable juggernaut that is the MCU, you are nothing. The only reason you have a movie franchise in the first place was because of the goodwill created by the '90s cartoon show. The last time you guys were relevant, MySpace was a thing. Out of 12 films, you have only managed to create 3-and-a-half good ones. That's a lower ratio than Scott's screentime in X-Men 3.
Wolverine: Ha!
Cyclops: Ow.
Rogue: Now listen here, Mister. The X-Men are a multi-billion dollar franchise.
Dick Richards: The MCU churns out multi-billion dollar movies!
Endgame alone has made a third of your entire box-office! [cue more money falling on Dick's head] Endgame has made half of your entire box-office! And you wanna talk about Household Names? You guys had some of the most popular characters of all time and you royally screwed the pooch with them! Meanwhile, all the MCU had was Marvel's leftovers, and we made them into gold-shitting machines! I mean, we made a talking fucking raccoon into a household name for Christ's sake! We don't need you!
- "Is The Last Jedi Bad? (Fanboy Court)", the Judge gives these out when handing down his verdict.
- Record Needle Scratch: Used in "Harry Potter: Hogwarts in 2020" when Harry realizes that Lord Voldemort hasn't even masked his IP address.
- Running Gag: "Captain America's Life After Endgame" has Steve Rogers, after an initial Spit Take, stuff his mouth with food every time Peggy Carter comes across an event which down into the future would not go well, in order to avoid spilling the beans.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: In "If Nintendo Had Facebook", Twintelle is portrayed as one.
- Straw Fan: "Is The Last Jedi Bad? (Fanboy Court)" features two opposing Straw Fans going head-to-head; one who doesn't think the film lives up to the original trilogy and another who refuses to accept that Star Wars has flaws.
- Superman Stays Out of Gotham: Discussed in "BATMAN V SUPERMAN: Super People's Court". Batman says that Gotham has a harder time than Metropolis because it doesn't have a hero like Superman, and Batman's morally gray methods are necessary because of that.
- Take That!: Both in "Is The Last Jedi Bad? (Fanboy Court)" video.
- It ends with the Fanboy desperately trying to find another franchise. He starts off by claiming that Fantastic Beasts is a great follow-up to Harry Potter and he likes Johnny Depp, and then moves on to claiming that the seventh season of Game of Thrones (which is notorious for characters traveling around Westeros very quickly) has a great timeline. Since he's so desperate for something to fanboy over that he's willing to ignore their flaws, his bringing up those parts of the stories is a way of subtly mocking those flaws.
- It not only doesn't hesitate to point out that The Last Jedi is flawed, but there are two parts that even the Fanboy can't defend. The Fanboy brings up various theories to justify the Holdo Maneuver working, each more farfetched than the last. When the judge points out that it's OK to admit that something you like has flaws, the Fanboy angrily yells that "LEIA FLYING THROUGH SPACE WAS SHOT PERFECTLY AND WASN'T WEIRD AT ALL!", implying that not even he likes it, and he's in denial about it.
- Terrible Pick-Up Lines: In "The Rise of Skywalker Deleted Scenes", Emperor Palpatine tries picking up various women at a bar, but all of his pick-up lines are terrible, and he is unsuccessful until he promises a woman 5,000 credits plus paying off her parking tickets.
- This Is Gonna Suck: At the start of "Is The Last Jedi Bad? (Fanboy Court)", the Judge, after hearing that The Last Jedi is going to be the subject of the case, asks the plaintiff and defendant, "You guys sure you want to touch this?"
- Trying Not to Cry: At the end of "Is The Last Jedi Bad? (Fanboy Court)", the Hater is so devastated by being stripped of his Star Wars fanboy status that he claims that even the original Star Wars was bad, all while fighting back tears.
- Video Call Fail: The parody video "Harry Potter: Hogwarts in 2020" has the Defence Against the Dark Arts lessons being held in video-conference because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The expected antics ensue: Harry is late because his wifi connection is bad under the stairs of the 4th Privet Drive; Draco goes into an anti-Muggle rant and Professor Snape mutes him (just before he drops a slur) thanks to his admin privileges; later Harry is caught sending a shirtless pic of himself to Ginny and it gets screen-shared with the whole class. Then, Voldemort crashes the conference to inflict an Ear Worm on Harry and Co., except he proves Hopeless with Tech and hasn't hidden his IP address, leading to Harry finding out he's hiding at Malfoy Manor, and Snape siccing the Aurors on him.
- Vindicated by History: In-Universe. The channel used to hate the Star Wars prequels, to the point where most of the Recap Rap for The Force Awakens was about how much the prequels sucked. However, the channel would drastically change its tune over the next four years: "The Rise of Skywalker Deleted Scenes" included multiple unironic references to the prequels, and the channel has not produced any videos with anti-prequel humor since then.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: In "Gaming in the 90s" E6, this happens after Davis gets carsick from playing on his GameBoy during a road trip.
