YMMV / The Online Warrior

• Archive Panic: The YoVideogames channel has been going strong since October of 2012, and there are livestreams on Twitch almost every day of the week. Have fun catching up!
• Crosses the Line Twice: Some of Simmons' jokes can be absolutely disgusting and gross, but you will still find yourself laughing at them.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Max's dog Benny, who plays Amaterasu in the show, has segments and entire videos focusing on him thanks to his fanbase. Being the resident Ridiculously Cute Critter definitely helps. Max even created a limited edition plush of Benny so that as many of his fans as possible can have their own.
• Friendly Fandoms: With the Two Best Friends Play crew. Max even invoked comparisons between his team and the Best Friends (Max = Matt, Simmons = Pat, Kenny = Woolie, Steve = Liam, Benny = Zach). In turn, Woolie and Matt revealed in a Reddit AMA that Max is one of their favorite Youtubers, and the others often mention Max in the videos. Max later appeared on the Super Best Friendcast in Episode 63, and Woolie and Matt appeared on Max's livestream on December 2, 2015.
• Genius Bonus: In Assist Me featuring Jill, Wesker says over the phone that he has the launch codes and they are 11 15 20 11. As a date, November 15th 2011, this was the launch date for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
• Growing the Beard: Max's videos have noticeably become more lively following his switch to livestreaming on Twitch.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Max's reaction to the reveal of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite in December 2016 was one of sheer joy and excitement at the fact that the franchise was finally coming back. Fast forward to just over a year later, several moments where he has expressed his utter dejection over the state of the game, its wasted potential, seeming abandonment by its parent companies and the level of vitriol he'd had to deal with from both its most ardent haters and defenders when it came to speaking his mind on it can make going back to watch his original reaction video a bit disheartening.
  • Max's Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. Boss Rage is framed as a personal quest to save the Two Best Friends Play cast from said game's sadistic difficulty. It's a little hard to watch nowadays, considering Mat and Pat's eventual falling out of their friendship and subsequent disbanding of their program three years after the video's publishing.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: All of Max's interactions with Benny are this after watching this video, in which Max reveals that he used to be afraid of dogs due to getting bitten in the face as a child. He overcame this fear because his wife is a dog lover.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Week Of! Harley Quinn Part Six. The very last match involves Max going up against a child playing Bane with his father coaching him. Max lets him win.
  • The pure unbridled joy Max and his friends have during some of their trailer reaction videos. Some examples include: Max turning into a 12-year-old (by his own admission) due to the announcement of Killer Instinct in 2013, doing the same thing (with Simmons this time) during the Mega Man reveal for Super Smash Bros., the gang's cheering during the Final Fantasy 7 remake announcement, Max's reaction to Cloud in Smash Bros., Max and Simmons feeling vindicated by Bayonetta's Smash Bros. trailer (as they "called" her inclusion two years beforehand), and Max geeking out over Terry Bogard's Smash Bros. trailer and praising the series for the amount of love it shows for its characters regardless of who they are.
  • During E3 2018, the Yo!VG crew ran into Reuben Langdon (the actor who plays Devil May Cry's Dante), who told Max that he showed their reaction to DMC5's announcement to the game's director Hideaki Itsuno. According to Langdon, Itsuno cried Tears of Joy because he was touched by how passionate they are about the DMC franchise in general and how excited they were for the new game in specific.
  • During his playthrough of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, when Max finally arrives at the Sadistic Choice between curing Mia or Zoe, he ultimately chooses the former. The heartwarming part is that he dedicates that choice to his wife.
  Max: This one's for you JJ.
  • When his stream gets into a donation war
  • When he got to see Final Fantasy VII Remake, he winds up finding out that he had much more influence on the project than he even knew.
  • Maximilian and Jessica announcing the reason why they won't be at EVO 2020 is because that Jessica is pregnant, and their baby is going to be born around the time of EVO 2020.
  • As of August 7, 2020, Max is a dad! He was relieved their daughter, Ripley, was safely delivered and wasn't at all afraid to admit he cried Manly Tears of Joy.
  Max: (reading chat) Did I cry? Like a bitch!
  • As he's watching the Naraka Bladepoint trailer for the collaboration with his channel, he visibly chokes up about a perfectly rendered Benny appearing in the trailer, having to literally stop watching it to talk about Benny's impact on the channel.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Doom rapping the line that he has diplomatic immunity when going up against Wesker is later used to bail him out of being convicted of crimes against humanity in court in Ultimate Assist Me.
  • During their playthrough of Injustice: Gods Among Us's story mode, the guys notice that Shazam's face greatly resembles Robbie Rotten's, much to their amusement. Later that same year (2016), the cancer diagnosis of Stefan Karl (Robbie Rotten's actor) and the GoFundMe account created to cover his treatment costs resulted in the rising popularity of the "We Are Number One" meme.
  • Iron Man deals the finishing blow to Galactus in the Galactus Boss Rage, and Max says it was Tony's destiny to save the Earth. Five years later, it was Tony's destiny to save the Earth once more.
  • Max did a weeks worth of legacy videos on Dan Hibiki. Sure enough, The Street Fighter V summer update would announce Dan Hibiki's return. Max called out the fact that many will believe he knew in advance, and he made damn sure to tell everyone that it was all just a coincidence.
• Ho Yay: There is some serious amounts of this going on between Doom and Strider, though mostly on Doom's part, which could raise a few eyebrows for a Yaoi Fangirl.
  • The EVO special suggested some stuff between Doom and Wesker going on, at least according to the comments.
    • The hooker pretty much said it to them.
    • Don't you mean the call girl?
    • If she's dead she's a hooker.
  • The crew managed to find a Rule 34 picture of Max and Simmons on DeviantArt.
• Memetic Badass: Hugo, because of this clip from the Oni Boss Rage. It's to the point where he was treated as The Dreaded in the Boss Rage proper, and Max offhandedly mentions having developed a fear of Hugo because of it.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Say it with me now: THE FINGER LASEEEEEERS!
  • Max seems to be a fountain of these, and often says things during his lets plays of other games, such as "Take to the skies!" (used for jumping attacks), "I play fighting games!" (used when he plays non-fighting games and does some cool melee combos), and of course "Yo video games!"
  • R-R-R-R-R-RAGEQUITTER! Taken from the very first episode of The Online Warrior for Injustice: Gods Among Us when he plays Batman (in his Batman Beyond costume) and an Ares player, well, ragequits on him—just as the match is about to end in Max's favor! The fact that a bug in the netcode resulted in Max getting the loss and the Ares player getting the win instead of the other way around didn't help matters either.
  • Max's Catchphrase
  • Bananas and Sex!
  • BURD!
  • Glorious 60 FPS.
  • 21! SUCK MAH DICK!^note While playing in the casino of Dead or Alive Xtreme, Kenny manages to successfully win a lot of money on roulette after betting everything on 21, proceeding to crotch chop repeatedly afterwards. Donating exactly $21 on Max's stream will have the original audio clip play for such a special occasion.
  • ANIME!^note Any time the group plays something remotely anime, save for Dragon Ball Fighterz, expect one of friends to freak out any time something suggestive happens or is spoken
    • And obligatory chair-spinning when anything "anime" is shown on any game conferences he watches.
  • FUCKING HELL SWEEPS
  • BLOCKING DISABLED~
  • Look how hard I have to work for my damage!
• Moment of Awesome: Several. But his Motivational Gameplay is filled with awesome and funny.
• Once Original, Now Common: This is what Max ultimately felt about Ninja Gaiden Black. While he did enjoy the game's combat, once he began seeing the game's exploration and platforming elements (comparing it to Tomb Raider), his opinion on the game started to slowly dwindle. After a long slog of those two elements with the combat taking more of a backseat and the chat being unusually bossy, Max eventually gave up on the game two-thirds of the way through.
• Signature Scene:
  • This clip has become quite the Running Gag.
  • As far as Boss Rage videos go, Max's Asura's Wrath Boss Rage is considered by many to be his masterpiece. There's also the Bio Freaks Boss Rage, which brought us the Memetic Badass that is Lord Ssapo.