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* BlockingStopsAllDamage: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where [[OneHitPointWonder doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.]].

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* BlockingStopsAllDamage: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where [[OneHitPointWonder doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.]].]]



* HarderThanHard: Parodied in the "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode" videos; the titular "Asian" difficulty makes the player character instantly die from practically anything that isn't blocked and requires absurd inputs in order to win.

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* HarderThanHard: Parodied in the "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode" videos; the titular "Asian" difficulty makes the player character [[TheManyDeathsOfYou instantly die from practically anything that isn't blocked blocked]] and requires absurd inputs in order to win.
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Steven He is a Chinese-Irish actor most famously known on [[https://www.youtube.com/c/StevenHe/featured YouTube]] and [[https://www.tiktok.com/@steven_he?lang=en TikTok]] for his comedy sketches, most of which parody Asian stereotypes through a number of characters [[TalkingToHimself (all of whom are played by himself)]]. The most common and well-known of these is Steven's father, the human embodiment of AccentUponTheWrongSyllable who also fits the majority of these stereotypes.

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Steven He is a Chinese-Irish actor most famously known on [[https://www.youtube.com/c/StevenHe/featured YouTube]] and [[https://www.tiktok.com/@steven_he?lang=en TikTok]] for his comedy sketches, most of which parody Asian stereotypes through a number of characters [[TalkingToHimself [[ActingforTwo (all of whom are played by himself)]]. The most common and well-known of these is Steven's father, the human embodiment of AccentUponTheWrongSyllable who also fits the majority of these stereotypes.

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* BlockingStopsAllDamage: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where [[OneHitPointWonder doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.]]
* ButNotTooForeign: His full name is Steven He O'Byrne, meaning he's part-Chinese, part-Irish.

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* BlockingStopsAllDamage: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where [[OneHitPointWonder doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.]]
* ButNotTooForeign: His full name is Steven He O'Byrne, meaning he's part-Chinese, part-Irish.
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*ButNotTooForeign: His full name is Steven He O'Byrne, meaning he's part-Chinese, part-Irish.
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->''[[Justforfun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife Life Ruined]]''

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->''[[Justforfun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife ->''[[DarthWiki/TVTropesRuinedYourLife Life Ruined]]''
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** "How They write Villains in 2021" mocks how common villains with {{Freudian Excuse}}s tend to be and points out that [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse they still don't justify the crimes the villain has committed.]]

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** "How They write Write Villains in 2021" mocks how common villains with {{Freudian Excuse}}s tend to be and points out that [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse they still don't justify the crimes the villain has committed.]]
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* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: The "When everything is Off Brand" videos and "Sprint. It's Sprite but Faster." have Steven's dad react to a number of these.

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* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: The "When everything Everything is Off Brand" videos and "Sprint. It's Sprite but Faster." have Steven's dad react to a number of these.
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** Timmy's dad considers his son a failure, despite him supposedly having become a neurosurgeon at 9 years old and being able to play every single musical instrument...because he doesn't know how to cook rice.

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** Timmy's dad considers his son a failure, despite him supposedly having become a neurosurgeon at 9 years old and being able to play every single musical instrument... because he doesn't ''doesn't know how to cook rice.''
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** Steven's dad often grills into him whenever he [[DoWellButNotPerfect performs well, but not absolutely perfect]], in school. For example, in "Asian Parent Punishments", he demands Steven grab a stick to be beaten with for getting a 99% in math.

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** Steven's dad often grills into him whenever he [[DoWellButNotPerfect performs well, but not absolutely perfect]], in school. For example, in "Asian Parent Punishments", he demands Steven grab a stick to be beaten with for getting a 99% ''99%'' in math.
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** Steven's dad often grills into him whenever he performs well, but not absolutely perfect, in school. For example, in "Asian Parent Punishments", he demands Steven grab a stick to be beaten with for getting a 99% in math.

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** Steven's dad often grills into him whenever he [[DoWellButNotPerfect performs well, but not absolutely perfect, perfect]], in school. For example, in "Asian Parent Punishments", he demands Steven grab a stick to be beaten with for getting a 99% in math.
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** In "When everything is Off Brand" videos, when Steven's dad is offered with 'Failure Man', he corrects it with "That's called a Steven He channel."

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** In "When everything Everything is Off Brand" videos, Brand 2", when Steven's dad is offered with 'Failure Man', he corrects it with "That's "It's called a Steven He channel."
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** In "When everything is Off Brand" videos, when Steven's dad is offered with 'Failure Man's Channel', he corrects it with "That's Steven He's channel."

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** In "When everything is Off Brand" videos, when Steven's dad is offered with 'Failure Man's Channel', Man', he corrects it with "That's called a Steven He's He channel."
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* NintendoHard: The unnamed video game in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode" on the titular difficulty is this taken UpToEleven, to the point that even taking a single step can instantly kill you.

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* NintendoHard: The unnamed video game in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode" on the titular difficulty is this taken UpToEleven, up to eleven, to the point that even taking a single step can instantly kill you.
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->''[[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife Life Ruined]]''

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->''[[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife ->''[[Justforfun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife Life Ruined]]''
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* {{Corpsing}}: Steven occasionally leaves in [[{{Blooper}} clips]] of himself laughing after particularly ridiculous scenes.

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* {{Corpsing}}: [[invoked]] Steven occasionally leaves in [[{{Blooper}} clips]] of himself laughing after particularly ridiculous scenes.
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* {{Corpsing}}: Steven occasionally leaves in [[Blooper clips]] of himself laughing after particularly ridiculous scenes.

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* {{Corpsing}}: Steven occasionally leaves in [[Blooper [[{{Blooper}} clips]] of himself laughing after particularly ridiculous scenes.
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* {{Corpsing}}: Steven occasionally leaves in clips of himself laughing after particularly ridiculous scenes.

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* {{Corpsing}}: Steven occasionally leaves in clips [[Blooper clips]] of himself laughing after particularly ridiculous scenes.
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* BlockingStopsAllDamage: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where [[OneHitKill doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.]]

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* BlockingStopsAllDamage: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where [[OneHitKill [[OneHitPointWonder doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.]]
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* BlockingStopsAllDamage: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where [[OneHitPointWonder doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.]]

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* BlockingStopsAllDamage: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where [[OneHitPointWonder [[OneHitKill doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.]]
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* BlockingStopsAllDamage: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.

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* BlockingStopsAllDamage: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where [[OneHitPointWonder doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.]]
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* {{Blocking Stops All Damage}}/{{One Hit Point Wonder}}: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.

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* {{Blocking Stops All Damage}}/{{One Hit Point Wonder}}: BlockingStopsAllDamage: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.
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* {{BlockingStopsAllDamage}}/{{OneHitPointWonder}}: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.

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* {{BlockingStopsAllDamage}}/{{OneHitPointWonder}}: {{Blocking Stops All Damage}}/{{One Hit Point Wonder}}: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.
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* BlockingStopsAllDamage/OneHitPointWonder: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.

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* BlockingStopsAllDamage/OneHitPointWonder: {{BlockingStopsAllDamage}}/{{OneHitPointWonder}}: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.
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* BlockingStopsAllDamage: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.

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* BlockingStopsAllDamage: BlockingStopsAllDamage/OneHitPointWonder: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.

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* SelfDeprecation: A number of Steven's videos have him poke fun at how he got an acting degree to begin a [=YouTube=] career.

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* SelfDeprecation: SelfDeprecation:
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A number of Steven's videos have him poke fun at how he got an acting degree to begin a [=YouTube=] career.career.
** In "When everything is Off Brand" videos, when Steven's dad is offered with 'Failure Man's Channel', he corrects it with "That's Steven He's channel."
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-->'''"EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!!"'''

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-->'''"EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!!"'''-->'''"E''MO''TIONAL ''DAM''AGE!!"'''
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Steven's dad is completely unfazed when he encounters a ghost and Santa Claus in "Why Ghosts Don't Haunt Asians" and "When Santa Goes to An Asian House" respectively, simply ripping into the illogicalities of their tropes and demanding the former does his dishes.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Steven's dad is completely unfazed when he encounters a ghost and Santa Claus in "Why Ghosts Don't Haunt Asians" and "When Santa Goes to An Asian House" respectively, simply ripping into the illogicalities of their tropes and demanding the former does his dishes.dishes.
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->''[[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife Life Ruined]]''
-->'''"EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!!"'''
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* ImpliedDeathThreat: Downplayed and PlayedForLaughs. "I will send you to Jesus" is usually accompanied with Steven holding a sandal that he threatens to toss to his target (which won't kill the target, but will do 'harm'). The only time he ever went through the threat is against a ghost that refused to go clean the room.

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* ImpliedDeathThreat: Downplayed and PlayedForLaughs. "I will send you to Jesus" is usually accompanied with Steven Steven's dad holding a sandal that he threatens to toss to his target (which won't kill the target, but will do 'harm'). The only time he ever went through the threat is against a ghost that refused to go clean the room.
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* ImpliedDeathThreat: Downplayed and PlayedForLaughs. "I will send you to Jesus" is usually accompanied with Steven holding a sandal that he threatens to toss to his target (which won't kill the target, but will do 'harm'). The only time he ever went through the threat is against a ghost that refused to go clean the room.
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[[caption-width-right:350:I will send you to Jesus.]]

->''"EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!"''
-->-- '''One of Steven He's numerous {{Catchphrase}}s'''

Steven He is a Chinese-Irish actor most famously known on [[https://www.youtube.com/c/StevenHe/featured YouTube]] and [[https://www.tiktok.com/@steven_he?lang=en TikTok]] for his comedy sketches, most of which parody Asian stereotypes through a number of characters [[TalkingToHimself (all of whom are played by himself)]]. The most common and well-known of these is Steven's father, the human embodiment of AccentUponTheWrongSyllable who also fits the majority of these stereotypes.
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!!Tropes that will send you to Jesus
* AbusiveParents: PlayedForLaughs; due to exaggerating various stereotypes of Asian parents, Steven's dad constantly calls him a failure and disciplines him for incredibly minor imperfections with punishments intentionally meant to inflict emotional damage, to the point of saying he specializes in "failure management".
* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: Steven's dad speaks this way all of the time, which adds to his quotable humor.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: At the end of "How Asian Parents Flex 2", the two parents start telling their kids to do increasingly impossible things, from flying to performing [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Shadow Clone Jutsu]] to rewinding time...and then Steven's dad tell him to [[LiteralMetaphor cook minute rice in 58 seconds]]. This is the one that wins the argument, too.
* BlandNameProduct: Steven's dad runs a corn company called "Beijing Corn", which gets mentioned in a few sketches. His rival, Timmy's dad, owns a competing company called "Shanghai Corn".
* BlockingStopsAllDamage: This ends up being incredibly helpful in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode", where doing just about anything deals fatal damage otherwise.
* {{Catchphrase}}: Steven's dad has several, with the most notable ones being "EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!" and "I will send you to Jesus."
* {{Corpsing}}: Steven occasionally leaves in clips of himself laughing after particularly ridiculous scenes.
* DisproportionateRetribution:
** Steven's dad often grills into him whenever he performs well, but not absolutely perfect, in school. For example, in "Asian Parent Punishments", he demands Steven grab a stick to be beaten with for getting a 99% in math.
** Speaking of which, the "Asian Parent Punishments" series always has Steven's dad give flimsy reasons to give corporal punishments to his son meant to inflict emotional damage, such as kicking a slipper into the future at him ''through time-space'' for forgetting to cook rice.
** Timmy's dad considers his son a failure, despite him supposedly having become a neurosurgeon at 9 years old and being able to play every single musical instrument...because he doesn't know how to cook rice.
* HarderThanHard: Parodied in the "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode" videos; the titular "Asian" difficulty makes the player character instantly die from practically anything that isn't blocked and requires absurd inputs in order to win.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Steven's dad exaggerates the stereotype of Asian parents having absurd expectations, calling his son a failure unless he does the humanly impossible, and it's always PlayedForLaughs.
* TheNameless: Steven's dad and Timmy's dad are never named in any of the skits due to their lacking plot.
* NintendoHard: The unnamed video game in "When 'Asian' is a difficulty mode" on the titular difficulty is this taken UpToEleven, to the point that even taking a single step can instantly kill you.
* SelfDeprecation: A number of Steven's videos have him poke fun at how he got an acting degree to begin a [=YouTube=] career.
* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: The "When everything is Off Brand" videos and "Sprint. It's Sprite but Faster." have Steven's dad react to a number of these.
* SitcomArchnemesis: Steven's dad has this dynamic with the father of a kid named Timmy, as the two constantly compare each others' sons' accomplishments in the "How Asian Parents Flex" series and own rivaling corn companies. According to "How Asian Parents Flex 3", the kids do not share this animosity.
* TakeThat:
** "How Shopping Bundles NEVER Have What You Want" makes fun of store bundles that always seem to require getting something you don't want, eventually transitioning to bundles that offer completely unrelated items for no particular reason.
** "How They write Villains in 2021" mocks how common villains with {{Freudian Excuse}}s tend to be and points out that [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse they still don't justify the crimes the villain has committed.]]
** "How MTA Hire Train Announcers" portrays the corporation hiring an announcer who mumbles into the microphone, constantly causes disruptive noises right into it, and gives out unhelpful information.
** "When you don't get paid but it's 'Good Exposure'" is this towards people who offer to pay artists in "exposure" instead of actual money, depicting Steven's dad cooking a non-existent meal with all of his "exposure".
** The "When everything is Off Brand" series shows off various real-life {{Shoddy Knockoff Product}}s and Steven's dad's incredulous reactions to them.
** "When Super Bowl has WAY TOO MANY ads" makes fun of Super Bowl sponsors, specifically how many there are and how they tend to disrupt the game.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Steven's dad is completely unfazed when he encounters a ghost and Santa Claus in "Why Ghosts Don't Haunt Asians" and "When Santa Goes to An Asian House" respectively, simply ripping into the illogicalities of their tropes and demanding the former does his dishes.

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