History WebVideo / TheCosmonautVarietyHour

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: A minor gripe that Marcus had with ''Pokemon Detective Pikachu'' is that a lot of what Creator/RyanReynolds says as Pikachu sounds more in-line with what he'd say as [[Film/Deadpool2016 Deadpool]], and isn't very appropriate for a kids movie.[[invoked]]

** In his ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' review, Marcus states one of the reasons why he personally hates the movie so much is because it isn’t even entertainingly bad like ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' and ''Film/{{Catwoman}}''. While he acknowledges that it is not as bad as those two films, it is also very boring to sit through.

* WTHCastingAgency: Two-fold with both the Raimi Spider-Man and the Amazing Spider-Man for Marcus InUniverse.
** He dislikes Creator/TobeyMaguire as Spider-Man for being too much of a meek doofus even after becoming Spider-Man. He also considers his acting in the films to be pretty bad.
** He also dislikes Creator/AndrewGarfield as Spider-Man due to not fitting the mold of what Peter Parker should be due to coming off as a skater punk and not a bullied geek, lacking the shy wallflower qualities that Marcus considers to be essential to the character.

* CameraAbuse: Something that Marcus hates in general, especially in ''Film/ManOfSteel'' when Zach Synder keeps using the quick zoom for a variety of shots much to his anger.

** In his ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' review, Marcus states one of the reasons why he personally hates the movie so much is because it isn’t even entertainingly bad like ''[[Film/{{Daredevil}} Daredevil]]'' and ''[[Film/{{Catwoman}} Catwoman]]''. While he acknowledges that it is not as bad as those two films, it is also very boring to sit through.

** Films like ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' are shown as a positive example of change with the changes working with the overall narrative and allowing the story to flow in spite of its unfaithfulness to the comics.

* AnimationAgeGhetto: Discussed and called out InUniverse during his ''Series/CowboyBebop2021'' rant. Marcus blames this mentality for Hollywood making live-action adaptations of animated works (whether it be anime or the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon) in an attempt to cater to people who would not watch said works out of an inherent prejudice towards animation.

* SoOkayItsAverage: InUniverse, this is how Marcus considers the "Bad Batch" arc of ''The Clone Wars'''s seventh season. It's not bad by any stretch of the margin, but it's very much a standard TCW arc and only serves as filler, though made better by the [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome greatly improved animation of the show]].

* WereStillRelevantDammit: One of the things Marcus liked about the writing for ''Spider-Man: Homecoming'' was that it managed to avert this, as many teen comedies or shows centered on teenagers that he's watched tend to incorporate what he calls "[=#YOLO=]" writing.[[invoked]]

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Something that he believed happened to Boba Fett when he referred to the ''Series/BookOfBobaFett'' in his "Cosmonaut Catch Up" video. He says that because the Mandalorian has become so critically acclaimed and beloved for being a Mandalorian super soldier that looks cool, he has basically become Boba Fett himself, or at least the Boba Fett that existed in legends. This means that the modern canonical Boba Fett has to differentiate itself to avoid being the exact same character even though this only results in the Mandalorian being seen as cooler and more interesting than Boba Fett as a result.

** In his ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' review, Marcus states one of the reasons why he personally hates the movie so much is because it isn’t even entertainingly bad like ''[[Film/{{Daredevil}}]]'' and ''[[Film/{{Catwoman}}]]''.

* RedShirtArmy: Something that Marcus dislikes about stormtroopers is that they never come across as threatening due to how easy they get taken out, despite being the iconic soldiers of the ''Star Wars'' universe. He questions why media feels the need to only portray them as incompetent disposable units rather than the intimidating imperial army that has control over the galaxy. One of the things he gives praise to for ''Rogue One'' was actually making the Empire seem legitimately scary, showing why they're the supreme power in the galaxy.

* {{Fanservice}}:
** Marcus describes ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' as "a love letter to all the other Marvel movies" and loves how it has moments that show that the writers care about the universe they're telling stories in.
** Another thing Marcus derides the last few seasons of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' for was bringing back characters when there was no reason to do so outside of this trope, which is opposite to how the show typically handles characters when their role in the story ends.

** Something that Marcus has grown to hate Arya Stark for was how this is averted with her character. While other characters who seek revenge suffer terrible fates, Ayra completely gets away with whatever she sets her mind to no matter how bad it is. He also doesn't consider her learning her lesson about this to be valid since by the time she learns it everyone she wanted to kill is either 1.) already dead by her hand, or 2.) already dead before she got to them.

** In regards to ''Film/Aquaman2018'', Marcus initially despised the film, to the point where one of his channel's jokes was when he disliked a movie, he'd end by saying that it was "still better than ''Aquaman''". When he reviewed it a couple years later in mid-2020, he was shocked to find that despite still finding a number of things in it to be pretty dumb, he actually grew to really enjoy the film.

* {{Sequelitis}}: InUniverse. Marcus loves ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' to death and none of the subsequent sequels or spin-offs come anywhere near the first game for him, to the point where he often hates them. The [[{{Pun}} key]] exception is ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', but he finds that game to be SoOkayItsAverage at best and still nowhere close to how good the first game was.

* VideoGameMoviesSuck: InUniverse. This was the subject of Marcus's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2V_DxYTi94 Video Game Movies - Why They Always Suck]] video. He notes the problems come from many places: sometimes it's the game's story-line not being all that good, sometimes it's the people adapting not understanding why the story worked, sometimes its that a film has less run-time than a game to tell the story and sometimes it's just that stories formed for an interactive medium like gaming don't work in a non-interactive one like film. Though Marcus also discusses ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'' (Castlevania's second season having premiered before the video was released) and all of the reasons why it works and so many others fail. In particular, he credits the creators having a love for the series and an understanding of how to properly tell a story with the lore given, as well as having far more time given to tell the story rather than a 2-3 hour run time.

** In regards to ''Film/Aquaman2018'', Marcus initially despised the film, to the point where one of his channel's jokes was when he disliked a movie, he'd end by saying that it was "still better than ''Aquaman''". When he reviewed it a couple years later in mid-2020, he was shocked to find that he actually grew to enjoy the film despite him still finding it pretty dumb.

** Peter having no knowledge of [=OsCorp=] in the first ''TASM'' film, yet knowing and being best friends with Harry Osborn is a ''massive'' one for Marcus. So much so that it got a BigWhat from him.