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* AdultFear: There are many of ZMDE's adventures where he got struck into a fear that gets into this level. For instance, when his sister Tabitha got kidnapped by HumanTraffickers outside his supervision. Or even trapped in Italy when it was during a lockdown of COVID-19 Pandemic and the police tried to kill him and his family because he was pretty suspicious of getting infected.
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* BeneathSuspicion: ZMDE has a VERY GOOD PokerFace or NervesOfSteel that no players ever tried to pin him into a suspicion unless he accidentally outed himself (and even then, he could weasel his way out to successfully pin the blame on someone else). He once used this as an advantage where he made up an excuse for AFK, only to kill off the crewmates when they least suspected it... and ''no one ever accused him''.
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* BeneathSuspicion: ZMDE has a VERY GOOD PokerFace [=PokerFace=] or NervesOfSteel that no players ever tried to pin him into a suspicion unless he accidentally outed himself (and even then, he could weasel his way out to successfully pin the blame on someone else). He once used this as an advantage where he made up an excuse for AFK, only to kill off the crewmates when they least suspected it... and ''no one ever accused him''.
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Steven Song is ZMDE (spelled as 'Zen-Mode'), an animator that creates stories about a fictional narrator whose name was literally 'ZMDE' and got into increasingly disturbing stories that might not sound too farfetched in real life. With recurring supporting cast including his parents and sister, ZMDE's rather bizarre life is narrated by Steven.
Then he stumbled into ''VideoGame/AmongUs''. And Steven found out that he's ''really good'' at playing the game, so he turned his channel into a LetsPlay channel crossed with editing, where he put up his game sessions, peppered with monologues in style with his animations as well as voice acting, with several of his friends becoming supporting cast. Steven has also developed his own signature style in playing the game, though he's also open with some unorthodox strategies.
[[https://www.youtube.com/c/ZMDEAnimations Watch his videos here.]]
!Trope examples. Let's GOOOOOO!!!
* AdultFear: There are many of ZMDE's adventures where he got struck into a fear that gets into this level. For instance, when his sister Tabitha got kidnapped by HumanTraffickers outside his supervision. Or even trapped in Italy when it was during a lockdown of COVID-19 Pandemic and the police tried to kill him and his family because he was pretty suspicious of getting infected.
* BeneathSuspicion: ZMDE has a VERY GOOD PokerFace or NervesOfSteel that no players ever tried to pin him into a suspicion unless he accidentally outed himself (and even then, he could weasel his way out to successfully pin the blame on someone else). He once used this as an advantage where he made up an excuse for AFK, only to kill off the crewmates when they least suspected it... and ''no one ever accused him''.
* ConsistentClothingStyle: ZMDE is always a spiky haired guy with black T-Shirt. When translated to playing ''VideoGame/AmongUs'', this means he's always going to be a Black-colored crewmate/imposter with Mysterious Vagabond Mask.
* EpicFail: Steven Song is still human after all, he couldn't keep up a perfect record of being really good at ''VideoGame/AmongUs'', as seen in his "Imposter Can't Kill Me FAILS" and "Worst Imposter FAIL Ever" videos.
* HumanTraffickers: Once featured in his stories, where his sister almost got kidnapped by one.
* LetsPlay: It dominates his latter videos, ZMDE manages to upload one video per week, but the last of his adventure animations were 2 months ago, the rest afterwards were ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' (and one ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'') videos. However, at the very least, ZMDE modifies his playthroughs into several parts and makes it look less of literal uploads.
* RecurringElement:
** His family members within his adventure animation.
** The player Big Babi in his ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' animations, usually recognizable with being a Blue crewmate/imposter.
* RunningGag:
** ZMDE often inserts the voice clip [[Radio/TheHowardSternShow "BABABOEY"]] (which became quite the meme in ''Among Us'' fandom) on whenever something that looks dumb or 'didn't go as intended' happens.
** Inserting a cartoon character EvilLaugh whenever he, as the Imposter, got away with his murder and pinning the blame on someone. Commonly either [[Franchise/{{Batman}} The Joker]], [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Shredder]] or [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor.]]
* SerialKiller: Featured not just once, but up to four times in his stories.
* SignatureMove: ZMDE has several skills when it comes to playing ''VideoGame/AmongUs'', and it is used often in his games where it brought him victory a lot of times, usually as a crewmate:
** His most known one is "I'm following (player). If I die, he sus." This enables him to gain the trust of his teammates and also spies on people he thought to be the imposter, until they get exposed.
** Later on, he developed a tendency to yell out [[IShallTauntYou "COME AND GET ME, IMPOSTER! YOU CAN'T KILL ME!"]] to rile up the imposter and hoping that they'll kill him and in process, exposing themselves.
* TheUnpronouncable: He's spelled 'Zen-Mode', instead of trying to say 'Zmde' directly out loud.
Steven Song is ZMDE (spelled as 'Zen-Mode'), an animator that creates stories about a fictional narrator whose name was literally 'ZMDE' and got into increasingly disturbing stories that might not sound too farfetched in real life. With recurring supporting cast including his parents and sister, ZMDE's rather bizarre life is narrated by Steven.
Then he stumbled into ''VideoGame/AmongUs''. And Steven found out that he's ''really good'' at playing the game, so he turned his channel into a LetsPlay channel crossed with editing, where he put up his game sessions, peppered with monologues in style with his animations as well as voice acting, with several of his friends becoming supporting cast. Steven has also developed his own signature style in playing the game, though he's also open with some unorthodox strategies.
[[https://www.youtube.com/c/ZMDEAnimations Watch his videos here.]]
!Trope examples. Let's GOOOOOO!!!
* AdultFear: There are many of ZMDE's adventures where he got struck into a fear that gets into this level. For instance, when his sister Tabitha got kidnapped by HumanTraffickers outside his supervision. Or even trapped in Italy when it was during a lockdown of COVID-19 Pandemic and the police tried to kill him and his family because he was pretty suspicious of getting infected.
* BeneathSuspicion: ZMDE has a VERY GOOD PokerFace or NervesOfSteel that no players ever tried to pin him into a suspicion unless he accidentally outed himself (and even then, he could weasel his way out to successfully pin the blame on someone else). He once used this as an advantage where he made up an excuse for AFK, only to kill off the crewmates when they least suspected it... and ''no one ever accused him''.
* ConsistentClothingStyle: ZMDE is always a spiky haired guy with black T-Shirt. When translated to playing ''VideoGame/AmongUs'', this means he's always going to be a Black-colored crewmate/imposter with Mysterious Vagabond Mask.
* EpicFail: Steven Song is still human after all, he couldn't keep up a perfect record of being really good at ''VideoGame/AmongUs'', as seen in his "Imposter Can't Kill Me FAILS" and "Worst Imposter FAIL Ever" videos.
* HumanTraffickers: Once featured in his stories, where his sister almost got kidnapped by one.
* LetsPlay: It dominates his latter videos, ZMDE manages to upload one video per week, but the last of his adventure animations were 2 months ago, the rest afterwards were ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' (and one ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'') videos. However, at the very least, ZMDE modifies his playthroughs into several parts and makes it look less of literal uploads.
* RecurringElement:
** His family members within his adventure animation.
** The player Big Babi in his ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' animations, usually recognizable with being a Blue crewmate/imposter.
* RunningGag:
** ZMDE often inserts the voice clip [[Radio/TheHowardSternShow "BABABOEY"]] (which became quite the meme in ''Among Us'' fandom) on whenever something that looks dumb or 'didn't go as intended' happens.
** Inserting a cartoon character EvilLaugh whenever he, as the Imposter, got away with his murder and pinning the blame on someone. Commonly either [[Franchise/{{Batman}} The Joker]], [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Shredder]] or [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor.]]
* SerialKiller: Featured not just once, but up to four times in his stories.
* SignatureMove: ZMDE has several skills when it comes to playing ''VideoGame/AmongUs'', and it is used often in his games where it brought him victory a lot of times, usually as a crewmate:
** His most known one is "I'm following (player). If I die, he sus." This enables him to gain the trust of his teammates and also spies on people he thought to be the imposter, until they get exposed.
** Later on, he developed a tendency to yell out [[IShallTauntYou "COME AND GET ME, IMPOSTER! YOU CAN'T KILL ME!"]] to rile up the imposter and hoping that they'll kill him and in process, exposing themselves.
* TheUnpronouncable: He's spelled 'Zen-Mode', instead of trying to say 'Zmde' directly out loud.
