History LetsPlay / ManyATrueNerd

-->'''Jon:''' "And every time he settles down, every time he makes any planet his home, the fleet emerges. We burn down his home and his family over, and over, and over again for the rest of his life. Anywhere he ever tries to settle, we burn it to the ground. That's gonna be his punishment for... I can't remember what he did wrong, I think he just annoys me slightly."

* OmnicidalManiac: Evil Jon from the "Kill Everything" Runs of ''Fallout 3'' and ''Fallout: New Vegas'' is bent on killing pretty much everything and anything possible, including herself at the finales. There are [[InfantImmortality some characters]] that can't be killed; in those cases, if Evil Jon can't get rid of them by other means (usually enslavement), he will do everything possible to make their lives miserable, such as lay out mines or steal all their food.

** His Evil Jon character doesn't hurt any children because [[InfantImmortality you can't kill them]] in the later ''Fallout'' games unless you use specific mods. It sure doesn't stop him from trying, though; he still fires weapons at them, enslaves any children he can, mines the entrances to their homes, and steals all their food only to replace them with drugs.

* AccentuateTheNegative: Refreshingly inverted; With the exception of ''exceptionally'' bad games (read: ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution''), Jon tries to emphasize the positives of whatever game he's talking about and what he feels are great qualities that he's enjoying about it.

** ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}''

** ''Democracy 3''

* HiddenDepths: As mentioned in the very first episode of his ''VideoGame/RyseSonOfRome'' Let's Play, Jon is a trained classicist, with him having even done an entire module on early-to-mid Imperial Roman history. It helps explain (at least part of) his annoyance with ''Ryse'' for its many egregious {{Anachronism Stew}}s.

* OmnicidalManiac: Evil Jon from the "Kill Everything" Runs of ''Fallout 3'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' is bent on killing pretty much everything and anything possible, including herself at the finales. There are [[InfantImmortality some characters]] that can't be killed; in those cases, if Evil Jon can't get rid of them by other means (usually enslavement), he will do everything possible to make their lives miserable, such as lay out mines or steal all their food.

*** A Permadeath Run for ''Fallout: New Vegas'' appropriately titled "You Only Live Once" where he's not allowed to use any healing items at all; if he made it through the main game, he would move on to the DLC. He also did a similar run for ''Fallout 3''. [[note]] [[UpToEleven And, in both cases he made it harder for himself]], by negating the fact that game "auto-heals" approximately 2/3rds of a hitpoint once every in-game hour, and kept a "true health" counter to compensate[[/note]]

*** A run called "The Worse Courier", where Jon starts a character, Useless Steve, that has every single SPECIAL stat set to one and no Skills tagged. He then takes goes through ''Old World Blues'' the same way after Useless Steve suffers a [[NoodleIncident series of unfortunate events]].

*** A "No Guns" run, where his character is restricted to melee weapons and explosives only. Also, he must always pick the sarcastic option if available.

** [[invoked]] Jon finds it hilarious that Lord Harkon's evil plan in ''Skyrim - Dawnguard'' is [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons to block out the sun just like Mr. Burns]]. ''"Skyrim'' is literally having a [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark 'Simpsons did it' moment."]] Then when a later quest has him go up against a NPC named "the Skinner," he decides to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E2122ShortFilmsAboutSpringfield pretend to be named Chalmers to begin an elaborate deception over]] [[MemeticMutation steamed clams.]]

** In his "Long Livestream The King" play though of ''VideoGame/CrusaderKingsIII'', Jon gives the example of Mormon Boatpeople as a possible religion that you can create as in the Boat Mormons RunningGag from ''WebVideo/DoorMonster''
* SpaceRomans: Literally, in his second ''Stellaris'' playthrough, he tried to recreate the Roman Empire [[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE!]].

* AuthorAvatar: On the channel anniversary videos, Jon will always appear as a talking carton of eggs.

** In his "Long Livestream The King" play though of ''VideoGame/CrusaderKingsIII'' Jon gives The example of Mormon Boatpeople as a possible religion that you can create as in the Boat Mormons RunningGag from ''WebVideo/DoorMonster''

* ActionGirl: Jon tends to play as a female character in pretty much any game that allows it, Many of which are action games. One notable non-PlayerCharacter example is Empress Artemisia from one of his ''Crusader Kings II'' playthroughs, a woman with such absurdly high martial stats that Jon enforced gender equality on his empire solely to get her on the throne.

* InformedAbility: Jon will try to lecture on science and engineering during certain games, even though he has no higher educational background in either; he actually has a degree in Classics.

** ''Beseige:'' When attempting to create a catapult, he attempts to use other parts to act as a basket for a bomb...not realizing there already ''is'' such a part.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Jon starts his second ''Crusader Kings II'' campaign as Count Leon of Zeta, and "absolute nobody" who basically decided he was part of a minor, ''minor'' noble house one morning. 15 episodes later House Choirosphaktes is in control of the Byzantine Empire, four episodes after that they manage to repel the combined might of Catholic Christendom, and four episodes after ''that'' they've managed to re-introduce Hellenism and are moving to reform the pagan Roman Empire and restore it to its old borders.

* ChaoticStupid: How Jon characterizes Portugal's campaign AI in ''Medieval II Total War'', since it all but abandons any Iberian aspirations in favor of landing invasion forces in Normandy or Ireland.

* TechnicalPacifist: Jon in his ''Stellaris'' run. He made the Mighty Ducks, a race of Pacifist, Materialist ducks. He spend most of the game "liberating" his neighbors, American Style.

* BadassGrandpa: Despot Perun from the Restoration of Rome playthrough of ''Crusader Kings II''. He essentially goes on a tour of the Islam world challenging all the best duelists he can find, on a drunken whim. Many injuries but also many victories later, he returns home and is hailed as a Legend by the Champions of Perun, while also founding a bloodline that ensures his badassery will be remembered for generations to come. He is in his ''sixties'' when doing all this.

* TheAce: Julianus Vatinius quickly becomes this after his promotion to General in ''VideoGame/RomeTotalWar''.

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Jon describes Thorkel of Kalundborg's death as this, since his death animation played at the same time as a Timurid elephant's - "He literally punched an elephant to death!"

* TookALevelInBadass: High Chief Perun, was at first a skinny nerd who's only advantage in personal combat was the fact that he was basically wielding the hammer of Thor. After a few months on campaign, he's picked up the brave trait, and went from weak all the way up to brawny, turning him into both a killing machine... and the despot of Serbia.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Jon regularly puts out polls asking his viewers to decide what the next game he's going to livestream should be. At one point, he had the poll be between two games he ''really'' didn't want to play (''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice'', because it's incredibly NintendoHard and ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'', one of the most infamous and reviled video games in history that he included as a joke option). Cue most people picking the latter game and poor Jon and Claire being driven to the brink of insanity by the game's baffling level of awfulness.

** ''Then'', during the same run, he decides to try to slow down the endgame crisis with a midgame crisis by opening up the L-Gates, which not only puts the entire galaxy under attack from what was in the L-Cluster (namely, [[spoiler:the [[GreyGoo Nanite Swarm]]]]), but also allows the endgame crisis to attack ''through'' the L-Gates instead of being contained to one quarter of the galaxy. As one [=YouTube=] commenter memorably put it, Jon's attempt to fix the situation was essentially analogous to "unleashing bears on the fire fighters during a forest fire."

* BodyguardCrush: Played out in Jon's ''Skyrim'' playthrough with companion of choice Benor. After several episodes adventuring as a SwordAndSorcerer duo, Jon plays out some occasional hints of a crush and an eventual marriage. From there on, [[spoiler:[[DestructiveRomance things get a bit more twisted]] when Benor gets MistakenForCheating with a newly-hired housecarl. Jon immediately murders him, spends multiple questlines in mourning, and after realizing the mistake reanimates his body as a much-abused Dead Thrall.]]

** "Caution, Not Danger" began as something of a MadnessMantra for Jon during his YOLO runs of ''Fallout 3'' and ''New Vegas'', and has continued to act as such in every of one his playthroughs of ''4'', as well as ''Frost'', ''Dust'' and ''76''.

** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim:'' Jon wonders why someone built a lighthouse so far from the sea while panning his gaze across the coastline.

** ''Stellaris: The Impossible Run:'' Somehow forgetting that the Prethoryn Scourge controls several systems directly on his border, with forces with over a million combined fleet power, which have been occasionally attacking one of his fortress worlds.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Jon's idea of disguising some of his unnecessary killings in ''Skyrim'' is to drag the corpses into a firepit to make it look like a "tragic cooking accident." Which is better than his attempt to leave a corpse draped over a trunk in a "tragic chest accident."

** In ''Stellaris: The Impossible Run'', Jon fending off the [[KillerRobot 0 Index]] comes back to bite him when [[spoiler:[[HordeOfAlienLocusts the Prethoryn Scourge]] arrives right by their general location. The 0 Index, previously extremely powerful, is no longer strong enough to take on the Scourge after Jon helped subdue them.]]

** ''Then'' he decides to try to slow down the endgame crisis with a midgame crisis by opening up the L-Gates, which not only puts the entire galaxy under attack from what was in the L-Cluster, but also allows the endgame crisis to attack ''through'' the L-Gates instead of being contained to one quarter of the galaxy.

* TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou: Despite his overall dislike for ''Ryse: Son Of Rome,'' Jon does admit the game is actually [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome quite gorgeous,]] with him being especially impressed with the animated flashback sequence concerning the Black Centurion's knife.

* SerialKiller: A disturbingly common theme, particularly in the Kill Everything runs.

** Jon finds it hilarious the Haarkon's evil plan in ''Skyrim: Dawnguard'' is [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons to block out the sun just like Mr. Burns]]. ''"Skyrim'' is literally having a [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark 'Simpsons did it' moment."]] Then when a later quest has him go up against a NPC named the Skinner, he decides to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E2122ShortFilmsAboutSpringfield pretend to be named Chalmers to begin an elaborate deception over steamed clams.]]

* SpaceRomans: Literally, in his second ''Stellaris'' playthrough, he tried to recreate the Roman Empire [[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE!]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: Basileus Symeon is this to... well the entire Byzantine Empire, really, due to him outlawing vassal wars, effectively neutering despot Perun's ability to expand or fight the(many)enemies of the Byzantine's
* StalkerWithACrush: His empire of [[CatFolk Tabbies]] in ''Stellaris'' became this towards the Raxar. They never wanted to form a Federation with him (or as Jon phrased it 'take them to the prom'), and so when things became irreparable between them, Jon did the only [[AxCrazy rational]] thing one can do in such a situation: Build a [[StarWars Death Star]], move it into orbit around their homeworld, and declare that [[EarthShatteringKaboom Prom Night]] was here...
* TautologicalTemplar: After insisting that he's performed a HeelFaceTurn late into his ''Skyrim'' playthrough, Jon explains that going against foes like necromancers automatically makes him the good guy, even though he's harvesting their souls and fighting alongside his own Undead Thrall.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Jon's relationship with Serana devolves into this over the ''Dawnguard'' questline, despite him being initially happy to meet another necromancer lugging around an Elder Scroll. Jon keeps attacking her reanimated minions, Serana keeps strolling in front of him while he's having conversations with other [=NPCs=]. Jon repeatedly blasts Serana over cliffs with Unrelenting Force to get her down them, then Serana "accidentally" knocks him off an overlook. The real tipping point may be when [[FelonyMisdemeanor Serana sits in a fancy chair before Jon can park his rear in it.]]