History WebVideo / CalebCity

[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI1XS_GkLGDOgf8YLaaXNRA CalebCity]] is a [=YouTuber=] and former Website/{{Vine}} star known for his popular skits parodying various story tropes. His skits only had one actor: Himself, while parodying various character archetypes relevant to the story tropes. Thus his show is basically [[InvokedTrope invoking]] the tropes TalkingToHimself and ActingForTwo (or three or more).

'''Guy 2''': Yeah she tripping bro, you know what I do? I-I hit my girl ({{ScareChord}}} I just hit her.\\

-->'''[[SmugSmiler System]]:''' [[ShaggyDogStory Password was incorrect and you have been locked out of your account for 60 days for suspiciouos activity.]]\\

** "How fearless minions are in ANY video game." The MC/protagonist/player character begins to get exhausted with the enemies when they [[SuicidalOverConfidence keep trying]] [[TooDumbToLive to fight him]].

* SaveScumming: In [[https://youtu.be/FutTIrFJyo0 "If you learned how to quick save in real life."]] Caleb quicksaves while his house is getting robbed, sends his friend to die then reloads to learn what he has equipped before rushing him with a Katana. [[spoiler:He turns out to be extremely powerful and both of them have to take the thief on. ''[[TheStinger Then]]'' they have to take him on again when teaming up results in [[NoKillLikeOverkill overkill]] (''[[SkewedPriorities after]]'' [[SkewedPriorities Caleb teaches his friend how to quicksave, of course]])]].

* AgonyOfTheFeet: In "[[https://youtu.be/oUcc4xnd5SA This is how it feels sometimes]]", Caleb runs out of his room in order to deliver his roommate's laptop charger before his battery runs out. Before the roommate can warn him, Caleb stubs his toes on a chair and collapses on the floor from the pain, [[BloodFromTheMouth blood leaking from his mouth]]. The whole situation is PlayedForDrama until Caleb notices his foot doesn't actually hurt. After removing his sock to check the damage, however, [[spoiler:[[SpecialEffectFailure pieces of hotdog smeared with ketchup]] [[BaitAndSwitch fall off the sock.]]]]
-->'''Roommate:''' Wait... What are those?\\

** In "[[https://youtu.be/FShsaUcDw44 I didn't even push you that hard]]", when Caleb pushes his brother to the floor, [[spoiler:his ankle breaks (somehow)]]. Exaggerated when [[spoiler:the broken foot somehow gains sentience and seeks revenge against Caleb by dragging both itself ''and'' Caleb's brother on the floor, much to their collective horror]]. ''[[FromBadToWorse Then]]'' it's taken [[SerialEscalation up to TWELVE]] when [[spoiler:Caleb accidentally ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane or not]]) breaks his own foot while trying to escape, only for his own foot to ''also'' gain sentience and menacingly [[BodyHorror twist itself]] as it turns towards Caleb, with both brothers left unable to stop screaming in abject horror]].

* BigNO: Done at the end of "[[https://youtu.be/Fe7oJwRAHdA Overpowered Villains (again)]]", when Jermaine sees the villain running right at him with a sword. [[spoiler:[[SmashToBlack He gets cut off by the outro.]]]]

* {{Kneecapping}}: In "[[https://youtu.be/Q9OAjMf2hZE When your knees weak]]", Caleb's knees are ridiculously, hilariously prone to snapping by just ''existing'': from simply walking down some steps, to being pushed, ''to being hit by a fly'', it doesn't take much to have Caleb on the ground whimpering in pain.

* ParryingBullets: In "[[https://youtu.be/8c5NAh94MnA If you learned how to deflect in real life]]", Caleb's roommate deflects a plastic bottle thrown at him. When he denies having done this, Caleb throws a folding chair at him, which, much to Caleb's misfortune, he also deflects [[{{Kneecapping}} right onto his knee]].

** In "[[https://youtu.be/FShsaUcDw44 I didn't even push you that hard]]", when Caleb pushes his brother to the floor, [[spoiler:his ankle breaks (somehow)]]. Taken UpToEleven when [[spoiler:the broken foot somehow gains sentience and seeks revenge against Caleb by dragging both itself ''and'' Caleb's brother on the floor, much to their collective horror]]. ''[[FromBadToWorse Then]]'' it's taken [[SerialEscalation up to TWELVE]] when [[spoiler:Caleb accidentally ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane or not]]) breaks his own foot while trying to escape, only for his own foot to ''also'' gain sentience and menacingly [[BodyHorror twist itself]] as it turns towards Caleb, with both brothers left unable to stop screaming in abject horror]].

* BottomlessMagazines: In "[[https://youtu.be/uTYm5joWS5s Guns in movie scenes]]", two bank robbers are pinned by a cop, who starts shooting at them while they take cover. The robbers decide to wait until the cop runs out of bullets before jumping him while he's reloading. [[UpToEleven Four hours later]], not only has the cop not stopped shooting or attempted to reload, the robbers have given up and ''beg'' him to stop shooting.

* {{Kneecapping}}: In "[[https://youtu.be/Q9OAjMf2hZE When your knees weak]]", Caleb's knees are ridiculously, hilariously prone to snapping by just ''existing'': from simply walking down some steps, to being pushed, ''[[UpToEleven to being hit by a fly]]'', it doesn't take much to have Caleb on the ground whimpering in pain.

* SuddenlyShouting: Usually to indicate UpToEleven, often accompanied by a ScareChord, and always starting with a WhamLine.

* {{Corpsing}}: While good at staying in character, sometimes you can see Caleb trying not to smile or laugh, such as at the end of "When you decide to turn your life around for the better".

* SaveScumming: In [[https://youtu.be/FutTIrFJyo0 "If you learned how to quick save in real life."]] Caleb quicksaves while his house is getting robbed, sends his friend to die then reloads to learn what he has equipped before rushing him with a Katana. [[spoiler:He turns out to be extremely powerful and both of them have to take the thief on. ''[[TheStinger Then]]'' they have to take him on again when teaming up results in [[NoKillLikeOverkill overkill]] (''after'' Caleb teaches his friend how to quicksave, of course)]].

[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI1XS_GkLGDOgf8YLaaXNRA CalebCity]] is a [=YouTuber=] and former WebOriginal/{{Vine}} star known for his popular skits parodying various story tropes. His skits only had one actor: Himself, while parodying various character archetypes relevant to the story tropes. Thus his show is basically [[InvokedTrope invoking]] the tropes TalkingToHimself and ActingForTwo (or three or more).

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: In "If the [[BuffySpeak 'Forgot your password' thing]] was a person", Caleb runs into one, who is [[AnthropomorphicPersonification standing in as a website's login system]]. After Caleb repeatedly inputs the wrong password, the system suggests that he request a password change; when Caleb attempts to change his password to one of his previous attempts, however, the system breaks into [[EvilLaugh hysterical laughter]] and informs him that the new password can't be the same as the last. A stumped Caleb tries to put the same password in order to log in, but is once more told that the password is incorrect. Caleb then changes the password to [[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish a simpler, different password]], and attempts to use it after it is successfully changed, but...

* ClusterFBomb: Azul mentally devolves into one during "[[https://youtu.be/YJUJFwafEFI The first person to make cheese]]" when the milk he was supposed to deliver turns into cheese; the king he was supposed to deliver it to had [[YouHaveFailedMe threatened to have him killed]] moments ago if the milk was anything less than excellent.

* CharacterDeath: A blatantly [[EnforcedTrope enforced one]] occurs in-universe during "[[https://youtu.be/XqtjKu3GHIw When the writers REALLY want to write off a character]]": in the middle of a ZombieApocalypse, two survivors hide in a room and lock the door to keep the zombies at bay. One of them decides to HoldTheLine while the other escapes, but his friend points out they can both escape through the backdoor, where Jasper is waiting with a car with more than enough space for the two of them to fit. The first survivor insists that there's no time and tells his friend to leave without him. In the time it takes them to argue, the zombies finally reach the door, but give up after several seconds of trying to open it to no avail and [[SuddenlySpeaking verbally]] admit they can't get in before deciding to just leave. [[TooDumbToLive The first survivor then decides to go outside]] and [[LastStand fight the zombies]] while his extremely confused friend escapes.

* HeavySleeper: In "[[https://youtu.be/1BRPRKvO9sM People that have a million alarms set]]", Caleb's roommate constantly goes back to sleep after turning off several different alarms. Fed up with this, Caleb hires a professional to kick him every time an alarm doesn't wake him up in the first 8 seconds, he goes back to sleep after turning off an alarm or sets more than two alarms for the exact same purpose.
-->'''Professional:''' And if you ''dare'' ever hit Snooze on an alarm, I'm not going to kick you: I'll do ''far, far worse'' than kick you.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: In "If the [[BuffySpeak 'Forgot your password' thing]] was a person", Caleb runs into one, who is [[AnthropomorphicPersonification standing in as a website's login system]]. After Caleb repeatedly inputs the wrong password, the system suggests that he request a password change; when Caleb attempts to change his password to one of his previous attempts, however, the system breaks into [[EvilLaugh hysterical laughter]] and informs him that the new password can't be the same as the last. A stumped Caleb tries to put the same password in order to log in, but is once more told that the password is incorrect. Caleb then changes the password to [[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish a simpler, different password]], and attempts to use it after it is successfully changed. The system [[SmugSmiler smugly]] tells him that the password was incorrect and that Caleb [[ShaggyDogStory has been locked out of his account for 60 days due to suspiciouos activity]]. Caleb promptly [[RageBreakingPoint loses it]] and goes on an [[{{Angrish}} unintelligible rant]] while he starts trashing the scenery.

--->'''Roommmate:''' Apartipridact.\\

'''Roommmate:''' Apartipridact scavern?\\

'''Roommmate:''' Ravern did scavern! Kishmirga!

* WhatAnIdiot: InUniverse. In "When you gotta question your own intelligence.", at the end, Caleb says to his neighbor that he got the latest Smash game, VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate. When his friend points out that the game hasn't been released yet[[note]]The video was made on March 31. Smash Ultimate came out on December 7.[[/note]], Caleb internally says, "[[ThisIsGonnaSuck Dammit...]]" If watched on Youtube, the opening scene of the "game" is shown, and that's when Caleb's friend realizes he's been scammed. He's not happy.
* WithLyrics: In “If they let a drug dealer into a musical,” the titular character’s song is to the tune of [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Kokiri Forest.]]
--> “Come along, run along, hurry all, [[LyricalDissonance because the cops are coming.]]”

-> '''Guy 1''': She's always calling to check if every. single, little bill is paid. Like bro, I haven' missed not one she has no reason to keep checking.
-> '''Guy 2''': Yeah she tripping bro, you know what I do? I-I hit my girl ({{ScareChord}}} I just hit her.
-> '''Guy 1''': [Shaken] You mean like int-intimately
-> '''Guy 2''': Nah I be STRIKIN- I be hitting her like she a STRANGER bro.

* LivingIsMoreThanSurviving: In "[[https://youtu.be/oqLCDHjQxEQ In a Zombie apocalypse...]]", Caleb tries to recruit a friend to help survive the zombie apocalypse. Unfortunately, faced with the prospect of trading a life of modern comforts for a life of day-to-day survival, his friend decides he would rather just lie down and wait for death. [[spoiler:He quickly changes his mood when Caleb sheepishly admits that he just thought [[GuiltFreeExterminationWar it would be cool to fight zombies]], telling Caleb he should've just led with that in the first place.]]

** Done again at the end of "[[https://youtu.be/rrMhIQGhDNw Whenever theres ACTUALLY a good dad in ANY show/movie]]", when the titular dad [[spoiler:[[BoltOfDivineRetribution gets struck by lightning]] ''[[RuleOfFunny indoors]]'']] right in front of his son.

** In "[[https://youtu.be/X8TfzFTM5Ys Why do Sekiro's enemies even fight him?]]", when a guard shoots him with a rifle, [[VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice Sekiro]] easily parries the bullet. Convinced he must've missed, the guard shoots him again, to no avail. The guard then calmly puts his gun against the wall and [[KnowWhenToFoldEm walks away]], wishing Sekiro a good day before he leaves. Notably, he's the only guard Sekiro doesn't kill.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: In "This is how it feels sometimes", Caleb runs out of his room in order to deliver his roommate's laptop charger before his battery runs out. Before the roommate can warn him, Caleb stubs his toes on a chair and collapses on the floor from the pain, [[BloodFromTheMouth blood leaking from his mouth]]. The whole situation is PlayedForDrama until Caleb notices his foot doesn't actually hurt. After removing his sock to check the damage, however, [[spoiler:[[SpecialEffectFailure pieces of hotdog smeared with ketchup]] [[BaitAndSwitch fall off the sock.]]]]

** In "I didn't even push you that hard", when Caleb pushes his brother to the floor, [[spoiler:his ankle breaks (somehow)]]. Taken UpToEleven when [[spoiler:the broken foot somehow gains sentience and seeks revenge against Caleb by dragging both itself ''and'' Caleb's brother on the floor, much to their collective horror]]. ''[[FromBadToWorse Then]]'' it's taken [[SerialEscalation up to TWELVE]] when [[spoiler:Caleb accidentally ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane or not]]) breaks his own foot while trying to escape, only for his own foot to ''also'' gain sentience and menacingly [[BodyHorror twist itself]] as it turns towards Caleb, with both brothers left unable to stop screaming in abject horror]].

* BigNO: Done at the end of "Overpowered Villains (again)", when Jermaine sees the villain running right at him with a sword. [[spoiler:[[SmashToBlack He gets cut off by the outro.]]]]
** Done again at the end of "Whenever theres ACTUALLY a good dad in ANY show/movie", when the titular dad [[spoiler:[[BoltOfDivineRetribution gets struck by lightning]] ''[[RuleOfFunny indoors]]'']] right in front of his son.

* BottomlessMagazines: In "Guns in movie scenes", two bank robbers are pinned by a cop, who starts shooting at them while they take cover. The robbers decide to wait until the cop runs out of bullets before jumping him while he's reloading. [[UpToEleven Four hours later]], not only has the cop not stopped shooting or attempted to reload, the robbers have given up and ''beg'' him to stop shooting.

** In "How I fix snoring", Caleb puts a stop to his roommate's obnoxiously loud snoring by [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating the living daylights out of him.]]

* LivingIsMoreThanSurviving: In "In a Zombie apocalypse...", Caleb tries to recruit a friend to help survive the zombie apocalypse. Unfortunately, faced with the prospect of trading a life of modern comforts for a life of day-to-day survival, his friend decides he would rather just lie down and wait for death. [[spoiler:He quickly changes his mood when Caleb sheepishly admits that he just thought [[GuiltFreeExterminationWar it would be cool to fight zombies]], telling Caleb he should've just led with that in the first place.]]

* ParryingBullets: In "If you learned how to deflect in real life", Caleb's roommate deflects a plastic bottle thrown at him. When he denies having done this, Caleb throws a folding chair at him, which, much to Caleb's misfortune, he also deflects [[{{Kneecapping}} right onto his knee]].
** In "[[VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice Why do Sekiro's enemies even fight him?]]", when a guard shoots him with a rifle, Sekiro easily parries the bullet. Convinced he must've missed, the guard shoots him again, to no avail. The guard then calmly puts his gun against the wall and [[KnowWhenToFoldEm walks away]], wishing Sekiro a good day before he leaves. Notably, he's the only guard Sekiro doesn't kill.

* LivingIsMoreThanSurviving: In "In a Zombie apocalypse...", Caleb tries to recruit a friend to help survive the zombie apocalypse. Unfortunately, faced with the prospect of trading a life of modern comforts for a life of day-to-day survival, his friend decides he would rather just lie down and wait for death.