History LetsPlay / RLYoshi

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Even Wiki/ThisVeryWiki is guilty of spelling the username as "R.L. Yoshi", when Max has stated it is meant to be written as all one word with no punctuation or spaces.

* FanNickname: In-universe; Max and Peter love nicknaming various characters in Skyward Sword. Examples include Fi being called Gibros [[note]]a combination of "gibberish" and "[=GLaDOS=]", since Max thinks she sounds like [=GLaDOS=] speaking gibberish[[/note]], the salesman in the Bazaar being called the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Happy Shield Salesman]], Ghirahim being called Giratina or Herobrine (since they can't pronounce his real name), and a random blue-clothed knight being called [[SdrawkcabName Ihsoylr]].

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Max and Peter both have trouble pronouncing Ghirahim's name in Skyward Sword, so they decide to just call him [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Giratina]].
** Rhino calls Max by a shortened version of [=RLYoshi=]: Yosh. Sounds the same as "Josh", when if he's going for a shortened version of "Yoshi" it should be a long O rather than a short one. He's the only one to do this.

* [[BubblyClouds Strife Clouds]] with Enigma, Rhino, Tim, and Dan; Enigma and Tim on the red team, Rhino and Dan on the blue team [[labelnote:description]]A two-against-two board that takes place on a series of clouds with many connecting paths; falling off the clouds to the ground below causes you to be sent back to the start and lose any remaining spaces you have in your roll. Players have individual money and items, but they share Packed Ice. They can also exchange items and money if one of them is at a red-and-blue corner "exchange point". The Packed Ice goes back to appearing on random spaces on the board again. The "boss battle" is the winning team members fighting one another, while the losing team breaks out the ground from underneath them to try and drop them to their death, with the winner being whoever survives.[[/labelnote]] [[labelnote:results]]Rhino and Dan win, Enigma and Tim lose; Rhino defeats the boss challenge[[/labelnote]]

* FamousLastWords:
** "Uh-oh." -Dan was shot by Skeleton
** "Fuck you! (laughter) Oh god." -Tim was slain by Enderman
*** "Okay, see ya." (post-death)
** "There's a couple of Creepers still around here." -Peter was blown up by Creeper
*** "Fuck." (post-death)
** "Yeah, let's clear it out first." -Max was blown up by Creeper
** "Oh god, no!" -Silver fell from a high place
*** "I wasn't off on my own!" (post-death)
** "Oh crap...oh god...nope!" -Jerry fell from a high place

* FamousLastWords:
** "So I'll focus on killing the ones that..." -Endorb was fireballed by Blaze
** "Aw shit, Zombie Pigman-!" -Rhino was slain by Zombie Pigman
** "Oh, I found a skeleton! Oh fuck! I'm dead..." -Tim withered away
** "Spawner down." -Peter was blown up by Creeper
** "Jero, you shot me! You shot me, Jero!" -Max was blown up by Jero[[labelnote:explanation]]Max was blown up by the Wither, but immediately beforehand, Jero accidentally shot him with his bow, dealing immense damage and so causing the game to credit Jero with the kill[[/labelnote]]

* FamousLastWords:
** "Oh!" -[[spoiler:Tim was blown up by Creeper]]
** "It was worth it! IRegretNothing!" -[[spoiler:Max was burnt to a crisp whilst fighting Blaze]]
** "I can't eat, I can't eat!" -[[spoiler:Dan burned to death]]

** Him recording the vlog at the end of the day (often around 10 at night), just summing up the day before going to bed. This happens on a lot of days. "The After Midnight Days" takes this UpToEleven, where every single day was recorded after 2 AM the next day.

* CharacterDeath: Naturally. See under the individual season headers for a list of their deaths.

** If someone is known for playing as one character in one playthrough, they may be referred to as that character in other games. This includes Max being a Slime (from ''Fortune Street''), Dan being a skeleton, Tim being SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} (their ''Minecraft'' skins), Rhino being Reyn (from ''Xenoblade Chronicles''), and Jero being Kreig (from ''Borderlands 2'').

* ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle: Subverted. The video titles, thumbnails, and in-game commentary always refer to the game as ''Aperture Tag'', rather than its full name, ''Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative''.

** TheBusCameBack: Dan, after being absent in season 2, returns in season 3 and for everything afterwards.
** Similarly, Jero, after being absent after season 3, returns in season 4.

** TheBusCameBack: Dan, after being absent in season 2, returns in season 3.

* SirSwearsALot: Max, Spark, Jero, and Rhino, always. Depending on their mood, Dan and Tim might slip into it too.

* SpringtimeForHitler: In Globe Trot in ''Wii Party'', [[spoiler: Max deliberately passes up a Hot Spot to give Peter the chance to get it, which would have made Peter the winner. Instead, one of the computer players gets it, causing Max to win anyway because he had more coins.]]

* SwitchingPOV: The 2014 Christmas Special switched between people's perspectives frequently.
* TemptingFate: Plenty. In Ocarina of Time, for instance, Peter brings up Max's low health while fighting an Iron Knuckle. Max replies by saying he'll be fine because he has a fairy. Later, while fighting Twinrova, the same problem comes up...and he doesn't have a fairy.

* TookALevelInDumbass: Peter was kind of weird in Ocarina of Time. After that, he became a full CloudCuckooLander. [[TookALevelInBadass Though in turn, we also got to see him play games rather than just listen to him talk, and he's pretty good.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: Someone's been spitting in Max's food almost every day ever since mid-to-late 2014.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Even ThisVeryWiki is guilty of spelling the username as "R.L. Yoshi", when Max has stated it is meant to be written as all one word with no punctuation or spaces.

!! Super Vexation Saga:
!!! Original

!!!2018 Reboot
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Since the games are now selected by Max or Peter individually to challenge the other, this is the goal for one of them each time.
** Max starts the series off by facing Peter, who is well-versed in Sonic games (while Max is average at best), in ''Sonic 06''. [[spoiler:Peter wins.]]

** Spark as black

*** SixthRanger: Anyone else who shows up, particularly Zero, Enigma, and Spark.

** Averted for the (presumably short-lived) second season, as the series is now apparently tailored to deliberately annoy the two players, with the games being chosen explicitly for the sake of frustration instead of just being the "Mario VS Sonic" theme from before.

[[folder:Let's Race]]
!!Races thus far:
* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'': Max VS Dan; cancelled, [[spoiler: Dan unofficially wins]]
* ''[[VideoGame/PokemonZetaOmicron Pokémon Zeta & Omicron]]'': Max VS Rhino; cancelled, [[spoiler: Rhino unofficially wins]]
* ''[[VideoGame/{{Portal2}} Portal 2]]'': Max VS Rhino; [[spoiler: Max wins]]
* ''[[VideoGame/ApertureTagThePaintGunTestingInitiative Aperture Tag]]'': Max VS Rhino; [[spoiler: Max wins]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'': Max, Dan, Rhino, and Jero four-player race; [[spoiler: Dan takes first, Max takes second, Rhino takes third, Jero takes fourth]]
* ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' OneHundredPercentCompletion: Max VS Rhino; cancelled, [[spoiler:Rhino wins[[labelnote:*]]according to WordOfGod, he did win the race, it's just not being uploaded[[/labelnote]]]]
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'': Participants unknown; upcoming

!!''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'':
* AbortedArc: Confirmed to be cancelled after an extremely long hiatus since Dan's capture card stopped working.
* AudienceParticipation: Well, sort of; in every episode, Max and Dan ask a trivia question about a video game, and the audience must submit their answer to Max within a time limit. The first person to submit it correctly gets three points, while everyone else to submit correctly gets one; the amount of points people have at the end of the race determines special prizes they will get.
* CurbStompBattle: In the end of Sonic's Story, Dan beats the final level just as Max finishes the second-to-last level.
* {{MST}}: Max more or less does this when reading dialogue aloud by inserting his own comments into it, often pretending to be the character speaking.
--> '''Max''': ''(as Alberto Robert)'' Put on the shoes and go through the rings! If I've made the shoes correctly, you'll make it on time! If not, you're going to die.
* RedOniBlueOni: Like always, Max is red to Dan's blue.
* RedShirt: Dan remarks how pretty much every character in the opening cutscene is this.
--> '''Dan''': And there's the old man. Who will ''also'' serve no purpose, other than to die within this cutscene!
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Max pulls a TenMinuteRetirement when Dan beats Radical Train with only one death, that death being ''before'' the Super Speed section.
* TemptingFate: Come on, with all that talk about Max catching up at Radical Train, did you really expect it to slow down Dan at all?
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Given the game they're playing, Max and Dan both have this reaction at the start of the race.
* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: Due to Dan's Roxio screwing up, throughout Shadow's Story, his footage appears glitchy and even is completely cut out for the first couple episodes and a lot of the final one.

!!''[[VideoGame/PokemonZetaOmicron Pokémon Zeta & Omicron]]'':
* AbortedArc: Got cancelled due to the majority of the footage being lost.
* CurbStompBattle: Basically the whole series is Rhino giving one to Max.
* HereWeGoAgain: The first episode we see is the start of their ''third'' attempt to record this race. They are appropriately annoyed and exhausted, skipping through plot points they have already seen twice and more or less ignoring the game at first.
* {{Irony}}: Despite green being Rhino's color, Rhino plays Zeta, which is purple. Max plays Omicron, which is green.
* RedOniBlueOni: Max is red, Rhino is blue.
* SerialEscalation: A quick, downplayed example in episode 2 when Max is trying to catch a Riolu. The Riolu's health is low, so he throws a Pokeball, which fails. He then throws a Premier Ball[[labelnote:*]]although their catch rate is the same as a regular Pokeball[[/labelnote]], a Great Ball, and finally a Dusk Ball[[labelnote:*]]since they're in a cave, the catch rate is 3.5, as opposed to the Great Ball's 1.5[[/labelnote]]. The last one finally catches it.
* ShoutOut: To Creator/AchievementHunter. Max names his Magby starter "Gavin" due to the real life equivalent's PyroManiac tendencies.
** And he names his Abra "ITS NO USE" [sic] after ''Sonic the Hedgehog 2006''.

!! ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Max says at the very end of the race that, next time, there will be "less portals, but not less ''Portal''". This foreshadows their next race: [[VideoGame/ApertureTagThePaintGunTestingInitiative Aperture Tag]].
* IdiotBall: Max picks this up whenever he's in the lead by actually ''helping Rhino through the puzzles''. No wonder he kept falling behind, though he did win in the end.
* {{Irony}}: Third let's race started, but the first one completed.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Right before defeating Wheatley:
--> '''Max''', ''aiming his portal gun at the moon'': Hey Wheatley, do you like bananas? Well you're going to go bananas '''''ON THE MOOOOOOOOOOON!''''' ''(shoots the moon and wins)''
* YankTheDogsChain: After being behind for the first two parts, Rhino has finally managed to catch up to Max, and due to some confusion with a couple puzzles on the latter's behalf, surpasses him... then Max begins his slow comeback, before ''rocketing'' into first place by easily noticing a couple puzzle solutions that Rhino completely misses. He takes the lead back in the very same episode he had lost it in.
** And then Max falls behind without either of them realizing it, because Rhino sped through a part that confused Max.
** [[RuleOfThree And then]] despite having a substantial lead, Rhino pisses it away when he keeps dying in a puzzle that Max completes no problem.

!! ''VideoGame/{{Aperture Tag|ThePaintGunTestingInitiative}}''
* TheAce: Max blazes through the tests no problem while Rhino struggles along, in a sort of role reversal from the usual formula.
* EndingFatigue: In-universe example. After the end of chapter three, Max constantly gripes about how that should have been the ending due to the climactic-feeling challenge, and it's clear that the ending being pushed further away is taking its toll on him. Rhino seems somewhat less affected.
* DamnYouMuscleMemory: Rhino especially seems to have difficulty remembering he has gel, not portals, and keeps missing solutions.
* DungeonBypass: One puzzle requires setting up blue gel in the right spots, then bouncing off of a high platform into a portal, shooting gel at the right time to remove a storage cube from a button so the portal switches locations, and bounce through the new portal to the exit. Max does this properly, while Rhino (eventually) just takes the cube to the ledge the exit door is on, stands on it, and uses the blue gel to bounce himself up to the exit normally.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: This race was hinted at in the end of ''Portal 2''; see {{Foreshadowing}} under that entry above.
* ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle: Subverted. The video titles, thumbnails, and in-game commentary always refer to the game as ''Aperture Tag'', rather than its full name, ''Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative''.
* TookALevelInBadass: Max, compared to ''Portal 2'', is doing much better; he easily identifies puzzle solutions, and the only time he falls behind is when they're far into the game and he's suffering from EndingFatigue. And even then, he stays mostly neck-and-neck with Rhino and pulls ahead at the end.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Rhino is having a much worse go of it this time around, needing to rely on Max's help and the occasional DungeonBypass to just complete the tests in the first place. Possibly justified; see DamnYouMuscleMemory.

!! ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}''
* OneHundredPercentCompletion: They disallow warps, which basically leads to this trope, as the warps can let you skip levels.
* TheAce: Dan. He gives himself a nearly twenty-minute penalty, has to restart the game halfway through, and goes to ''beat the entire arcade version of the game'' before fighting the final boss. He still beats the game before anyone else even beats the tenth level (of twelve; or thirteen if the final boss is its own level).
** Rhino also takes this role back for the first half after losing his previous two races, holding a firm lead until Dan blazes past him. Max takes it for the second half of the race when he catches up to Rhino and passes him during Terra Tubes, nigh-effortlessly completing the "underwater wheels" section that Rhino (and many, many players) constantly struggles with and rages at.
* AntiClimax: Downplayed and subjective. They originally planned to go until two people beat the game or six hours were up, whichever came first. They decided to call it a couple hours early, after Max beat the second-to-last level. Would have been even worse if they just gave up before he beat the level, considering he was stuck on it for so long and nobody made any progress otherwise in the last episode and a half.
* BigNo: Max, Rhino, and Jero all go for this as reactions to deaths near the end of an area. A big one is Max's reaction to a shark killing him right at the end of a difficult part of Terra Tubes, or his reaction to reaching the bomb in Rat Race only for the rat to hit it before he can.
* BrokeTheRatingScale: At the end of the sixth part, in the credits, Dan is listed as being on level "17/12" because he stopped playing the regular game and started playing the arcade version.
* ButtMonkey: Jero is constantly in last after falling behind on Turbo Tunnel, with many jokes made at his expense. They even end up breaking the "no warps" rule just to give him a chance.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Dan starts playing ''the wrong game'' (''Battletoads Arcade'' rather than ''Battletoads''), albeit deliberately, and yet is still almost caught up to the others by the end of the first part, later blazing past everyone else for an easy win. He even says at the start that he is "very good" at the game.
* CurbStompBattle: By the time Dan beats the game, nobody else is even past the third-to-last level. This is bearing in mind he gave himself a ton of handicaps, accidentally or just for fun.
* DeathSeeker: PlayedForLaughs when Jero remarks late in the race how the game is "making [him] beg for the sweet release of death".
* TheDragAlong: Jero is the least enthusiastic about being in the race.
* DrivenToSuicide: In Karnath's Lair, Jero will often deliberately jump into spikes to kill himself if he misses or falls off a snake and lands safely, rather than waiting for the snake to come back.
* EpicFail: Dan accidentally runs into a warp, and due to the no warps rule, he has to reset to his last save. Except he never made a save, so he has to start the whole game over again. [[TheAce Of course, this isn't a big problem for him,]] but still.
* ForegoneConclusion: Dan's win. The fact that his handicap barely impeded him and he still almost caught up to everyone at the end of the first part made it pretty clear he was going to obliterate.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble:
** Dan is phlegmatic, remaining constantly happy and upbeat (mostly due to winning so easily) and never really being fazed.
** Max is sanguine, his frustration with the game only coming in bursts and he mostly stays in a good mood, albeit a hammy one.
** Jero is choleric, his mood swinging back and forth as the game goes on between cheerful joking and anger so thick you could cut it with a knife.
** Rhino is melancholic, staying silent and moody for the latter half of the race aside from the occasional outburst.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Depending on if you're looking at their screen or not, some things might show up in your peripheral vision:
** In general, one person being stuck on one part for a while may lead to their crashes and deaths counting as this.
** In one part of fireball dodging in Volkmire's Inferno, Max just puts his plane at the bottom of the screen and casually moves up a bit if a fireball is coming at him. He at no point mentions he is doing this and easily beats that portion.
** Dan playing the wrong game at the start. Later on, while he announces he's doing it, him actually playing through Battletoads Arcade.
* HandicappedBadass: Dan starts with a twenty-minute penalty, has to restart the game halfway through, and beats the entire arcade version before beating the final boss, and still wins with nobody else close to him.
* {{Irony}}: Jero is the first one to beat the first level, and Dan is in last place at the end of the first episode. Now check how the race ends for the two of them.
* MadLibsCatchPhrase: Max likes declaring himself or something else to be "The X-est of X-es". Such as "the turboest of turbos" after beating Turbo Tunnel.
* MindScrew: Max mostly takes the game's insanity in stride, but "the ice cube jump" [[https://youtu.be/m0vYTotucj0?t=808 as seen here]] reduces him to sputtering and obscenities.
* NintendoHard: ''Battletoads'' is infamous for this, and everyone faces one aspect or another of this throughout their playing. Their reactions vary.
* NotMeThisTime: When Jero yells at Max for coming up with the race, Max - with increasing levels of frustration - has to keep pointing out that it was ''Dan's'' idea.
* NotSoStoic: Ever wanted to see Rhino actually rage and scream rather than remaining calm and jovial like he normally is? This is the race for you.
* RunningGag: A few:
** During the first episode, Dan dropping unnoticed clues that he's playing the wrong game.
** While on Turbo Tunnel, Max or Jero somehow hitting the wall behind a warp, but not the warp.
** People [[YankTheDogsChain dying when a checkpoint or the end of the level is within sight,]] and [[BigWhat reacting]] [[HeroicBSOD accordingly.]]
** Max's "toad dance".
** Dan getting increasingly handicapped, accidentally or willingly.
** Rhino never remembering to duck underneath the robots that shoot electricity, making them a pain in the ass for him as one hit practically guarantees death.
** Jero yelling at Max for coming up with the race, and Max retorting that it was Dan's idea.
** Max reaching the bottom of a Rat Race section, only for the rat to still hit the bomb before him due to him missing the bomb or not hitting it hard enough.
* SuddenlyShouting: Jero will sometimes be conversing normally, before suddenly screaming as something bad happens. Perfect example:
--> '''Jero''': ''(singing calmly)'' Lonely... I am so- ''(hits a wall and dies; top-of-lungs shrieking)'' '''''DAMMIT!'''''
* TemptingFate: Max does a "toad dance" (flicking the control stick back and forth so Rash looks like he's spazzing out) and it makes him fall off a moving platform to his death.
* WhamLine: Not for the viewers, but for everyone in the race (sans Dan), this bit as they begin to suspect something's up with him:
--> '''Max''': Dan, what are you doing?
--> '''Dan''': I'm playing the game!
--> '''Max''': Are you playing the wrong game?!
--> '''Dan''': ''([[{{Corpsing}} trying not to laugh]])'' What are you talking about? [[ExactWords This is Battletoads!]]
--> '''Rhino''': He's playing the other version![[labelnote:*]]Battletoads Arcade, rather than just Battletoads[[/labelnote]]
--> ''({{Beat}})''
--> '''Dan''': [[WhamLine And I'm having a good time!]]
** Earlier on, he tried with a couple others: "I must be playing the wrong game, because I'm fighting a bull"[[labelnote:*]]Jero asked if the bull was gray, Dan answered in the affirmative, thus causing them to confuse the miniboss Dan was fighting with a mook in the first level of Battletoads[[/labelnote]] and "This doesn't look like a crater at all, it looks like a winter wonderland"[[labelnote:*]]Rhino was trying to hear Jero speak, and thus just told Dan to shut up, ignoring him[[/labelnote]], both of which went unfulfilled due to the reasons stated within the notes.
* YankTheDogsChain: You could make a drinking game out of how often Jero (or Max or Rhino, to some extent) dies when the checkpoint is in sight.

!! ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'':
* OneHundredPercentCompletion: Their goal is to collect all 120 Stars before defeating the final Bowser.
* AbortedArc: Despite being fully recorded, confirmed to be canceled after a long hiatus due to Max hating how the commentary turned out. ([[TakeOurWordForIt It was apparently far worse than that explanation makes it sound.]])
* BerserkButton: Rhino gets annoyed when Max uses Hypno Ray on him just as he was about to finish a tedious hundred-coin mission. He gets ''very'' pissed when Max attempts to repeat this later with Banned (though Max takes it back).
** Later, when Max fails the Lethal Lava Land hundred-coin mission with one coin left to get, he isn't openly angry, but does need to request a pause so he can just let it sink in what happened.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Max uses Hypno Ray on Rhino early on, causing him to have to redo the hundred coin mission of Bob-Omb Battlefield (one of the more tedious ones). Many episodes later, Max dies repeatedly while attempting Lethal Lava Land's hundred coin mission, including an instance where he had ninety-nine coins and was jumping for the last one.
* ShownTheirWork: The icon for the ''Deja Vu'' lifeline, of a circular arrow being broken and shifted, is actually one of many symbols for real life deja vu. It's one of the more common ones, too, at least for people who are even aware deja vu ''has'' representative symbols.
* {{Troll}}: The four lifelines they have access to essentially serve this role, as they force the other player to waste time:
** ''Deja Vu'' forces the other player to go complete a level they've already completed (the person using the lifeline chooses the world, the person being affected chooses the Star they collect).
** ''Banned'' prevents the other player from entering a world of the lifeline user's choice for twenty minutes.
** ''Hypno Ray'' forces the other player to kill themselves immediately, undoing all their progress in the current level.
** ''Down Payment'' means the other player has to collect fifty coins before they can collect a Star in whatever world they're in.

!!''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64''
* OneHundredPercentCompletion: Possibly; not yet confirmed, but considering how getting this is what the game's infamous for, it's very likely.
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* AFriendInNeed: Tim wanders off on his own and ends up chased by zombies far from home and gets lost, while it's dark and raining out. Max promptly drops everything and runs out to find him, putting himself in equal danger, [[spoiler:managing to keep the two of them safe and come up with the idea to dig into the side of the mountain and seal themselves in to stay safe]].
* ArcSymbol: Swords. Besides their obvious important combat use, [[spoiler:Max enchants a diamond sword with Looting III, making it their best bet at getting wither skulls and fulfilling their goal, and the first three deaths involved a sword (Endorb is depicted dropping his sword as he burns alive, and Rhino and Tim are killed by a zombie pigman and wither skeleton respectively, both of which wield swords)]]. Diamond swords are also the group's very first use of the important diamonds.

** Rather than simply a sound effect, when someone dies, we're suddenly treated to a representation of their death, such as [[spoiler:Endorb being set on fire or Rhino stabbed through the stomach by a Zombie Pigman]], making it that much more dramatic and sudden.

* TheAtoner: Seems to be the reason for [[spoiler:Max going to the Nether alone. After all three-man ventures had resulted in a death, including all three members of the original Nether squad dying, his SurvivorGuilt mentioned below, and Jero in the previous episode coldly calling him "[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech the worthless leader who couldn't keep his friend alive]]", he reasons that just one person going in would be able to watch over themselves easier than trying to keep track of three people, and gears himself up before heading inside, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath clearly not having high expectations of his survival]].]]

* BaitAndSwitch: PlayedForDrama. After [[spoiler:Tim's death,]] we are led to believe someone will die by falling into lava in the Nether, [[spoiler:and with Max venturing into the Nether on his own, this makes him a likely candidate- not to mention entering the Nether alone is extremely dangerous in and of itself]]. The next death ends up being [[spoiler:Peter, to a Creeper in the overworld]].
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:Tim spends most of the third Nether trip complaining about how he can't find any wither skeletons (though Max and Peter do). He finally finds one, while on his own, and it kills him.]]
* BigNo: Jero lets one out when [[spoiler:Peter dies]]. It's even given an echo effect in editing. He lets out another one when [[spoiler:Max dies]].
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Wither is killed, but only Jero and Jerry are alive. They've lost both their leaders, with Max having been killed almost singlehandedly by Jero accidentally.]]

** In the end of episode 5, [[spoiler:Peter]] is off exploring at nighttime to find spiders, commenting how [[TemptingFate he feels fairly confident with his sword and armor...]] suddenly cut to [[spoiler:him staring up at a skeleton, with low health, quietly declaring [[OhCrap "Oh fuck."]]]] Cue end of video (with the iconic booming sound that typically accompanies a player's death). [[spoiler:While Peter does certainly get himself in trouble over the next couple episodes, he doesn't die in them.]]
** Episode 13 ends with a voice clip of Jero screaming "''What the fuck happened?!''" before we're suddenly treated to a split-second image of a death message: [[spoiler:"was slain by Zombie Pigman"]]. The name is obscured, but this confirmed that someone in the next episode was about to die...[[spoiler:and it ended up being Rhino]].
** Episode 21's cliffhanger is within the episode itself rather than a sudden foreshadowing; it ends with [[spoiler:Max, Tim, and Peter all on the run from zombie pigmen, the latter in particular danger]]. Next episode shows [[spoiler:that, after some time, the pigmen no longer become a problem - but then the group gets separated and Tim is killed by a wither skeleton]].
** Episode 23: After the group reconvenes after another failed Nether trip [[spoiler:where Tim died]], we see someone[[labelnote:*]]likely Max based on the footage quality, but it's not specifically shown, and voice clips from all people still alive are played to make it ambiguous[[/labelnote]] venturing through the Nether [[spoiler:and getting knocked into a pool of lava]]. And this is accompanied by a WhamLine of Peter's: [[spoiler:"He's going to hell [the Nether] on his own."]]

** [[spoiler:Endorb was killed by a swarm of Blazes in the Nether Fortress.]]
** [[spoiler:Rhino was killed by a Zombie Pigman he accidentally aggro'd in the same fortress.]]
** [[spoiler:Tim withered away after being attacked by a wither skeleton in - once again - the same fortress.]]
** [[spoiler:Peter was blown up by a Creeper while exploring a mineshaft in the overworld.]]
** [[spoiler:Max was killed by the Wither during the final boss fight, after being weakened by a stray arrow from Jero's bow.]]

*** And on a related note, just like last season, [[spoiler:the group's current leader (Max in season one, Rhino this time) dies and someone else (Rhino in season one, Max this time) takes up the mantle while delivering their eulogy]].

** An unintentional one: once again, we don't get to see the footage of the third person who dies. [[spoiler:Poor Tim...]]
** Another unintentional one: [[spoiler:Peter dies to a Creeper, just like in the first season.]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Max is a risk-taking goofball who at one point walked outside the house and immediately forgot why he went outside. He also [[spoiler:survived several hours farming Wither skulls in the Nether entirely on his own, when previously they had lost three people doing the same task with two others there as backup]].
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the group splitting up for various tasks, which was prevalent and had no negative consequences in the first season; because of it happening here, [[spoiler:the home team never knows the exact circumstances behind the deaths of those in the Nether,]] leading to hostility between Jero (who blames Max for [[spoiler:Tim's death]]) and Max (who knows there was nothing he could have done).

** Made more epic because of the dramatic nature of what happened right before it: [[spoiler:Max goes into the Nether by himself, complete with everyone coming by to wish him good luck. Max proceeds to get lost in the Nether (despite having been to the fortress twice so he should know the way), and when he finally gets there and starts setting up his emergency exit portal, he doesn't have enough obsidian and has to awkwardly come back to the overworld, grab some more, and then leave again.]]
** Jero has one too: [[spoiler:while fighting the Wither, he keeps using his bow, even when the boss is below half health - at which point ''it's immune to arrows.'']]

** "So I'll focus on killing the ones that..." -[[spoiler:Endorb was fireballed by Blaze]]
** "Aw shit, Zombie Pigman-!" -[[spoiler:Rhino was slain by Zombie Pigman]]
** "Oh, I found a skeleton! Oh fuck! I'm dead..." -[[spoiler:Tim withered away]]
** "Spawner down." -[[spoiler:Peter was blown up by Creeper]]
** "[[spoiler:Jero,]] you shot me! You shot me, [[spoiler:Jero]]!" -[[spoiler:Max was blown up by Jero[[labelnote:explanation]]Max was blown up by the Wither, but immediately beforehand, Jero accidentally shot him with his bow, dealing immense damage and so causing the game to credit Jero with the kill[[/labelnote]]]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Peter dies breaking a cave spider spawner, preventing the creatures from swarming them and possibly killing Jero or Jerry, especially since Jerry had been reduced to half a heart by a Creeper moments before.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Rhino dies to the Zombie Pigman he got a skeleton to shoot at so it'd kill the skeleton, not knowing this would make the pigman aggressive to players as well.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Jero can be seen as this in one recurring instance. He keeps getting mad at the Nether exploration team[[spoiler:, specifically Max,]] for [[spoiler:people dying in the Nether]], but refuses to go in himself to try and prevent such a thing from happening.
* LaserGuidedKarma: With a bit of RevengeByProxy thrown in by chance. [[spoiler:After Jero harshly criticizes Max over Tim's death, which Max was present for but had no chance of preventing, Jero later on watches Peter die - in a situation that Jero was present for but had no chance of preventing.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: After [[spoiler:Rhino's death]], Max goes from a goofy and snarky follower to a thoughtful strategist. After [[spoiler:Tim's death]], he moves from that even further to [[spoiler:farming all the Wither skulls solo and planning their strategies for taking down the Wither]].

** A variation; the ambient music fades out to silence for a good few seconds right after Peter [[spoiler:shoots a zombie pigman]]. It is quickly replaced by [[spoiler:tense music more befitting the dangerous situation]].
** A more straight version happens when, after the remaining survivors give a dramatic speech at the grave site as they prepare to [[spoiler:go fight the Wither]], the fitting music continues playing as they walk away. [[MoodWhiplash Then cue this trope when]] [[spoiler:[[MomentKiller Max jumps off the cliff, losing a small amount of health, with a deadpan "Ow"]]]].
* NeverSplitTheParty: Max tries to cement this with himself, Peter, and Tim while in the Nether, but they frequently get separated anyway, because Max and Peter think the others are following them and Tim just tends to wander. [[spoiler:This directly results in Tim's death.]]

** More than any other death, the group is incredibly shocked at [[spoiler:Rhino]] dying, due to [[spoiler:him being one of two [[SoleSurvivor Sole Survivors]] the previous season, as well as their leader this time around]].
** Max, Tim, and Peter when [[spoiler:the latter accidentally shoots a zombie pigman]]. Notably they express this reaction in different ways; [[spoiler:Max gets angry at Peter, Tim panics, and Peter just calmly says to run]].
** This is Tim's reaction when [[spoiler:he finds a wither skeleton, while on his own]].
** Peter, Jero, and Jerry react this way when [[spoiler:a Creeper blows up on the latter, putting him at ''half a heart'' and very nearly killing him in one fell swoop]].
* SequelHook: After the final scene fades out, we hear the sound of [[spoiler:an Elder Guardian]].

** Peter takes some time away from the action to instead wire up a secret room with a shower, and uses gold and diamond blocks as part of the decoration. This serves no purpose beyond amusement (though in his defense, by the time he reveals it [[spoiler:right after Rhino's death]], said amusement is greatly appreciated by the group).
* SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler:Max gets this badly. He blames himself for Endorb's death since he let Endorb go to the Nether instead of going himself like he planned, then both Rhino and Tim died while Max was there - and in Tim's case, under Max's leadership. Jero's reaction doesn't help.]]
* TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler:In a direct reflection of the previous season's incident, Max declares his intent to lead the group in Rhino's place after the latter dies.]]

** First, when Peter is taking shots at a Blaze, Max tells him [[spoiler:not to shoot a nearby zombie pigman. Peter remarks how he won't. He then hits said pigman almost instantly.]]
** Second, after the above, Peter tries to calm Max and Tim by saying [[spoiler:zombie pigman don't have too big an aggro range and they shouldn't be aggressive anymore, pointing out how one particular pigman is cool with him... except said pigman then proceeds to start attacking him, with a friend, and nearly kills Peter.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jero manages to give one to Max in just one line: [[spoiler:"There's the worthless leader who couldn't keep his friend alive."]]

** The whole crew! In the first season, their progress was very slow, and they didn't even enter the Nether until the eighteenth episode and half the team was dead. This time, [[spoiler:it took until the tenth episode for their first casualty, after they had already made a successful trip into the Nether, found the fortress, and were farming Blazes]].
** In an odd example of a location doing so (and in a villainous way), the Nether. In the first season, while Silver died shortly after entering, the trek throughout the place was mostly safe; nobody else died in there, and rarely did any of them ever get put into actual danger of dying. This time, [[spoiler:Endorb died while Blaze farming, and Rhino and Tim died while exploring the fortress, both of which were practically treated as mundane tasks in the first season. And Peter at one point startled a horde of zombie pigmen, nearly resulting in his own death, whereas last season they were never attacked once]].
** The biggest example is Jerry. [[spoiler:During the final boss fight against the Wither, he's the one who does ''all'' the damage in the boss's second form and kills it, because Max died and Jero kept using his bow without realizing the Wither was now immune to arrows.]]
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Compared to the first season, this season's trailer shows a fair bit of progress: [[spoiler:Rhino, Tim, and Jerry are seen with full sets of iron armor (and whoever we see through the perspective of seems to have it too); they have a large and elaborate bedroom presumably built by Jerry; an extensive farm and enchanting/brewing area are visible; and diamond tools are frequently seen in hotbars.]]

* InsistentTerminology: Throughout ''Welcome to Ponyville'', Max consistently refers to Derpy Hooves as her other fanon name, "Ditzy". As of later videos, though, he seems to alternate, leaning more towards Derpy.
** He insists that ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' takes place in Canada through use of InsaneTrollLogic.

* RedOniBlueOni: Too many common pairings to list. Out of all the frequent guests, from most red to most blue, the list goes: [[LargeHam Spark]], [[CloudCuckooLander Max]], [[{{Keet}} Jero]], [[MaskOfSanity Dan]], [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Peter]], [[NotSoAboveItAll Zero]], [[DeadpanSnarker Enigma]], [[OnlySaneMan Tim]], and [[TheStoic Rhino]].

* AnyoneCanDie: PlotArmor doesn't exist here. No matter how crucial to the channel, any of the eight people can die at any time. Even [[FaceOfTheBand Max]].

* EpicFail: Made more epic because of the dramatic nature of what happened right before it: [[spoiler:Max goes into the Nether by himself, complete with everyone coming by to wish him good luck. Max proceeds to get lost in the Nether (despite having been to the fortress twice so he should know the way), and when he finally gets there and starts setting up his emergency exit portal, he doesn't have enough obsidian and has to awkwardly come back to the overworld, grab some more, and then leave again.]]

* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: A variation; the ambient music fades out to silence for a good few seconds right after Peter [[spoiler:shoots a zombie pigman]]. It is quickly replaced by [[spoiler:tense music more befitting the dangerous situation]].

* BigNo: Jero lets one out when [[spoiler:Peter dies]]. It's even given an echo effect in editing.

* ArcSymbol: Swords. Besides their obvious important combat use, [[spoiler:Max enchants a diamond sword with Looting III, making it their best bet at getting wither skulls and fulfilling their goal, and all deaths so far involved a sword (Endorb is depicted dropping his sword as he burns alive, and Rhino and Tim are killed by a zombie pigman and wither skeleton respectively, both of which wield swords)]]. Diamond swords are also the group's very first use of the important diamonds.

* DwindlingParty: Since dying takes you out of the series entirely, the group of eight...doesn't stay as eight.
* LeeroyJenkins: Jero frequently fails to understand the meaning of the word "retreat".
* LetsSplitUpGang: When heading off to different tasks, they switch into calls for their groups: exploration, mining, and farming.

* ArcSymbol: Swords. Besides their obvious important combat use, [[spoiler:Max enchants a diamond sword with Looting III, making it their best bet at getting wither skulls and fulfilling their goal, and both deaths so far involved a sword (Endorb is depicted dropping his sword as he burns alive, and Rhino is killed by a sword-wielding zombie pigman]]. Diamond swords are also the group's very first use of the important diamonds.

** Episode 21's cliffhanger is within the episode itself rather than a sudden foreshadowing; it ends with [[spoiler:Max, Tim, and Peter all on the run from zombie pigmen, the latter in particular danger]].

** In an odd example of a location doing so (and in a villainous way), the Nether. In the first season, while Silver died shortly after entering, the trek throughout the place was mostly safe; nobody else died in there, and rarely did any of them ever get put into actual danger of dying. This time, [[spoiler:Endorb died while Blaze farming and Rhino died while exploring the fortress, both of which were practically treated as mundane tasks in the first season. And now Peter's startled a horde of zombie pigmen, whereas last season they were never attacked once]].

* "So I'll focus on killing the ones that..." -[[spoiler:Endorb was fireballed by Blaze]]
* "Aw shit, Zombie Pigman-!" -[[spoiler:Rhino was slain by Zombie Pigman]]

* OhCrap: More than any other death, the group is incredibly shocked at [[spoiler:Rhino]] dying, due to [[spoiler:him being one of two [[SoleSurvivor Sole Survivors]] the previous season, as well as their leader this time around]].

* TookALevelInBadass: The whole crew! In the first season, their progress was very slow, and they didn't even enter the Nether until the eighteenth episode and half the team was dead. This time, [[spoiler:it took until the tenth episode for their first casualty, after they had already made a successful trip into the Nether, found the fortress, and were farming Blazes]].