SovietWomble

Browsing through the Wiki I came to realise nobody has made a page on SovietWomble. Some of his videos are truly hilarious and, in my opinion, a page on him (and his clan) would be worth the hassle.

edited 13th Dec '16 8:05:31 PM by PeachySqueezy

Agreed. I think we need to start a page on his stuff.

• Crosses the Line Twice: A good three quarters of their jokes tend to fall into some really horrible punchlines but they crop up so often they're actually hilarious.
• Exact Words: Cyanide promised Womble he would subscribe to his Twitch stream if he got a kill with the R8 Revolver in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. He didn't specify if it had to be an enemy kill or a team mate.
• Oh, Crap!: Womble's reaction in ARMA 3 after Cyanide pointed out "Why have we called for fire support at 225199?" (their current location).
• That's What She Said: It's a rule in ZF that if you make a TWSS joke and no one laughs within ten seconds, you're kicked from the Teamspeak server.

edited 2nd Jan '17 4:57:28 AM by Dallenson

• Curb-Stomp Battle: Womble + 4 ZF members vs. Cyanide + 2 ZF members + 2 random friends named Dicky and Frosty in a CS:GO faceoff. Womble's team wins the first 5 rounds (of 30) quite easily and Soviet goes to send a message to the other team to "get gud." Dicky responds with "Getting good now," and Cyanide's team suddenly wins the next 16 of 17. Turns out "Dicky" and "Frosty" are actually NBK and Enkay of professional CS:GO squad Team EnVyUs.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Womble at the end of "CS:GO Bullshittery Part 7" after his teammates go storming off making random noises.
  ...Beset on all sides by idiots.
• Troll: A good portion of the videos are clan members intentionally screwing with one another off for the laughs (example: throwing AWPs onto the roof in CS:GO when another clan member is asking for it). (That much of the remainder of the videos is them screwing with one another with their incompetence should say something.)

Some more stuff. Hope it's good.

• Berserk Button: Never call Womble a faggot.
  *Smooth Void strums the guitar*
  Smooth Void: Womble is a faggot.
  Soviet Womble: Oh fuck you!
  *Soviet guns him down*
• Blatant Lies: In "Random CS:GO Bullshittery (part 6)", the team decides to do an eco-round (only buy pistols.) Cyanide buys a belt-fed machine gun and claims it's "just an automatic pistol".
• Overly Long Gag: At one point in CS:GO Bullshittery part 6, Cyanide gets hold of a whole bunch of did-you-know facts and starts reading them all out loud, to everyone's dismay.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: In "Random CS:GO Bullshittery (part 4)", Nep turns out to be both a good FPS player and reveals she was a former professional singer. Womble jokes that she could replace Edberg, and cyanide remarks that she is "literally the woman Edberg"

Let's get something started, then. I think the Web Video namespace would be best, so the big question is whether the page should be called along the lines of "Soviet Womble" or "ZF"/"Zed-F" (I'm used to American English, sue me). On one hand, the videos in questions are from his POV and it is his channel that's getting 1 million+ subscribers on YT; on the other hand, the vids themselves are arguably just as much the antics of the clan.

• The Cutie: Cake!
  Nep: How can be someone so cute?
• Fun with Subtitles: Probably the videos' most defining feature - subtitles are usually positioned on screen (from the viewer's point of view) so that they are right above or on top of the player speaking. The subtitles are also prone to being rather dynamic: for example, the clip of Cyanide's (attempt at) singing in "Arma3 Bullshittery Part 3" has his words being thrown in and dropping to the ground one by one.
• Laser-Guided Karma: CS:GO Bullshittery Part 7, Soviet challenges Nep to a knife fight, who doesn't want to at first because she doesn't trust Soviet not to just shoot her. Soviet throws down his Scout to entice her out (while keeping his pistol on him) - when she does approach, he switches to his pistol and gets a few shots off before she pulls out her shotgun and kills him in one headshot.

edited 9th Jan '17 8:07:31 PM by megarockman

In regards to the above: even the American members refer to themselves as "zed-F" so that's pretty much the closest thing to an official pronunciation that we're going to get.

• Chekhov's Gag: In Day Z Bullshittery Part 7, one of the ZF rather spectacularly flies a cargo aircraft through a small gap and launches flares as it pulls up, much to everyone's amazement. Later in the episode, someone steals a helicopter from Womble's friend, and after luring them to the same location, this trick is used once again to distract the thief as Womble kills him and retakes the helicopter.

edited 11th Jan '17 3:27:05 PM by Baconator96

• The Unintelligible: Nevil.

In my opinion, it'd be better to call the page Soviet Womble. I mean, I know it's all about ZF's antics, but in actuality Womble's channel belongs to Womble, not the entire clan, which is the main reason why I believe naming it after him would be more appropriate. Perhaps if there were something such as a "ZF Official Channel" making a page on ZF as a whole would be better. I don't know, that's my personal logic, you guys might think otherwise.

Maybe we could have a "Characters" page to dump all the info and tropes that apply to other clan members such as Cyanide, Edberg, etc...? I don't know if you agree, but in my view it would be neat.

Womble's videos don't fall into the "Let's Play" category, so I agree with having it in the "Web Video" namespace. In the meantime, I'll do some research on other potential tropes that might apply to this.

edited 16th Jan '17 5:53:25 PM by PeachySqueezy

Wow! I just saw Womble's vids recently to so I'd love to help!

Hmm, been thinking - maybe the page should be titled "Random Bullshittery"? The videos that make up the bread and butter of Womble's fame are by that pattern (well, "Random insert-name-here Bullshittery"), though I guess that would implicitly exclude his earlier videos like for Monstrum...

EDIT: Ah, whatever. Poof.

EDIT 2: Re Cake - I'm pretty certain it's not Cyanide who first greeted Cake in her introduction in CS:GO Part 5, but I don't know who it is. Can anyone tell?

edited 3rd Feb '17 8:32:31 AM by megarockman