History YMMV / MikeBurnFire

--> ''"Thank you for inviting me to speak here on this very somber occasion; I would just like to say [[WhamLine your friends are dead]]. They died [[AllForNothing for nothing]], every single one of them. [[WarIsHell But that's war]]. No one dies a hero. Nobody.''

--> ''"Thank you for inviting me to speak here on this very somber occasion; I would just like to say your friends are dead. They died for nothing, every single one of them. But that's war. No one dies a hero. Nobody.''

-->''I'm sure they all begged for their lives. I'm sure no mercy was given to them. But they were called for a cause they did not believe in, that ultimately only resulted in someone padding their bank accounts by several million more. And that's war. The young go and die for things that are absolutely pointless so that some senator can pretend he has a big dick."''

* ArchivePanic: The mainline ''New Vegas'' series has over 300 episodes. Counting all the Legion Mike episodes and series covering overhaul mods like ''VideoGame/TheFrontier'', ''VideoGame/FalloutDust'', and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewCalifornia'', we're getting upwards of 500 videos of varying length. And that's just New Vegas and mods, without getting into F4 and Skyrim.

* ArchivePanic: The mainline ''New Vegas'' series has over 300 episodes. Counting all the Legion Mike episodes and series covering overhaul mods like ''VideoGame/TheFrontier'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutDust'', we're getting upwards of 500 videos of varying length. And that's just New Vegas and mods, without getting into F4 and Skyrim.

* DiscreditedMeme: Zach has expressed irritation with the "Pancor Jackhammer is Zach's BerserkButton" meme in [[https://youtu.be/4kk48WADdB0?t=636 an episode of the Fallout 4 series]], and proclaims people approaching him and going "ooh, a Pancor Jackhammer, are you annoyed?" are more frustrating than the gun itself.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Not in any official capacity but for a lot of fans, Mike and Zach's adventures are the closest thing to a continuation of ''WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay'' content (even though they started 2 years before the Best Friends channel ended) due to their dynamic being fairly similar to Matt and Pat's.

--> ''"Thank you for inviting me to speak here on this very somber occasion; I would just like to say your friends are dead. They died for nothing, every single one of them. But that's war. No one dies a hero. Nobody.

-->I'm sure they all begged for their lives. I'm sure no mercy was given to them. But they were called for a cause they did not believe in, that ultimately only resulted in someone padding their bank accounts by several million more. And that's war. The young go and die for things that are absolutely pointless so that some senator can pretend he has a big dick."''

I'm sure they all begged for their lives. I'm sure no mercy was given to them. But they were called for a cause they did not believe in, that ultimately only resulted in someone padding their bank accounts by several million more. And that's war. The young go and die for things that are absolutely pointless so that some senator can pretend he has a big dick."''

--> ''"
Thank you for inviting me to speak here on this very somber occasion; I would just like to say your friends are dead. They died for nothing, every single one of them. But that's war. No one dies a hero. Nobody.

--> ''"The young go and die for things that are absolutely pointless so that some senator can pretend that he has a big dick."''

* SpiritualSuccessor: Not in any official capacity but for a lot of fans, Mike and Zach's adventures are the closest thing to a continuation TwoBestFriendsPlay content (even though they started 2 years before the Best Friends channel ended) due to their dynamic being fairly similar to Matt and Pat's.

* DiscreditedMeme: Zach has expressed irritation with the "Pancor Jackhammer is Zach's BerserkButton" meme in [[https://youtu.be/4kk48WADdB0?t=636 an episode of the Fallout 4 series]], and proclaims people approaching him and going "ooh, a Pancor Jackhammer are you annoyed?" are more frustrating than the gun itself.

* OldShame: Done ''astoundingly'' quickly with the Fallout 4 - Cannibal House episode. Zach and Mike weren't shy about expressing their dislike of it within a few days of posting it, and subsequently removed it from being an officially-numbered part of the series. This is due mainly to them being annoyed with how the mod is a blatant, over-the-top ripoff of the acts of Albert Fish.

--> ''"The young go and die for things that are absolutely pointless so that some senator can pretend that he has a big dick."''

* TearJerker: Zach's [[https://youtu.be/8loicpnCQEU?t=933 surprisingly sober speech]] at the funeral scene during their playthrough of ''The Frontier'' is another OOC moment, where Zach expands upon the selected dialogue choice to comment on the [[WarIsHell nature]] and wastefulness of a war waged only for political gain--given his own history as a veteran himself, it's ''very'' heavily implied that Zach is commenting upon his own time in the Middle East, and his views on that.

* TearJerker:
** Zach's Bradley story is probably one of his most tragic and quite frankly angering stories to date: During his time in Iraq, he was once asked to clear the Bushmaster chain gun on a Bradley, with no explanation for why the crew couldn't do it other than "they're gone". It turned out that what happened was the Bradley had been hit by three [=IEDs=] while part of a convoy. After the third, the gunner and commander decided to [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere ride in a different vehicle]], but left the young, rookie driver to operate the Bradley. It was then hit by a fourth IED, which knocked out the driver, his radio, and the vehicle's tracking system, and rather than bother to check on the poor guy, they assumed he was dead and left him alone in the middle of Iraq. When the driver finally woke up, he was badly concussed, disoriented, and without any sort of system to help him locate his convoy, but, assuming that they must have been nearby because surely [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind there was no way they would just abandon him]], he began driving back and forth along the road, still disoriented and in a semi-delirious state. Luckily, he ended up drawing the attention of the gate guards, who realized that something was wrong and managed to get him to stop and get him medical attention. Unlike most of Zach's stories, this one [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness has him genuinely enraged]] at the authority figures responsible, and [[https://youtu.be/b19M8RYYWgU other former military personnel]] have also expressed their outrage that such an incident was allowed to take place, especially when others have ''confirmed'' that this incident did happen. According to several comments, the convoy's assistant commander went as far as falsifying reports by claiming the Bradley was completely destroyed and no body could be recovered for the driver. Several members of the convoy, including both the commander and the assistant commander, received time in jail for what they did.
** Zach's [[https://youtu.be/8loicpnCQEU?t=933 surprisingly sober speech]] at the funeral scene during their playthrough of ''The Frontier'' is another OOC moment, where Zach expands upon the selected dialogue choice to comment on the [[WarIsHell nature]] and wastefulness of a war waged only for political gain--given his own history as a veteran himself, it's ''very'' heavily implied that Zach is commenting upon his own time in the Middle East, and his views on that.

* MemeticMutation: "Was X a pre-war thing or a pre-pre-war thing?" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Hope, one of the modded-in ''New Vegas'' companions [[WelcomeToCorneria comments]] on Dinky the Dinosaur thus: "Were dinosaurs a pre-war thing or a pre-pre-war thing? [...]", to Zach's annoyance. The comments section has latched onto this, with "dinosaurs" being replaced by whatever's relevant to the episode.[[/labelnote]]

** Zach's Bradley story is probably one of his most tragic and quite frankly angering stories to date: During his time in Iraq, he was once asked to clear the Bushmaster chain gun on a Bradley, with no explanation for why the crew couldn't do it other than "they're gone". It turned out that what happened was the Bradley had been hit by three [=IEDs=] while part of a convoy. After the third, the gunner and commander decided to [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere ride in a different vehicle]], but left the young, rookie driver to operate the Bradley. It was then hit by a fourth IED, which knocked out the driver, his radio, and the vehicle's tracking system, and rather than bother to check on the poor guy, they assumed he was dead and left him alone in the middle of Iraq. When the driver finally woke up, he was badly concussed, disoriented, and without any sort of system to help him locate his convoy, but, assuming that they must have been nearby because surely [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind there was no way they would just abandon him]], he began driving back and forth along the road, still disoriented and in a semi-delirious state. Luckily, he ended up drawing the attention of the gate guards, who realized that something was wrong and managed to get him to stop and get him medical attention. Unlike most of Zach's stories, this one [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness has him genuinely enraged]] at the authority figures responsible, and [[https://youtu.be/b19M8RYYWgU other former military personnel]] have also expressed their outrage that such an incident was allowed to take place, especially when others have ''confirmed'' that this incident did happen.

** Zach's [[https://youtu.be/8loicpnCQEU surprisingly sober speech]] at the funeral scene during their playthrough of ''The Frontier'' is another OOC moment, where Zach expands upon the selected dialogue choice to comment on the [[WarIsHell nature]] and wastefulness of a war waged only for political gain--given his own history as a veteran himself, it's ''very'' heavily implied that Zach is commenting upon his own time in the Middle East, and his views on that.

** Zach's Bradley story is probably one of his most tragic and quite frankly angering stories to date: During his time in Iraq, he was once asked to clear the Bushmaster chain gun on a Bradley, with no explanation for why the crew couldn't do it other than "they're gone". It turned out that what happened was the Bradley had been hit by three [=IEDs=] while part of a convoy. After the third, the gunner and commander decided to [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere ride in a different vehicle]], but left the young, rookie driver in the Bradley. It was then hit by a fourth IED, which knocked out the driver, his radio, and the vehicle's tracking system, and rather than bother to check on the poor guy, they assumed he was dead and left him alone in the middle of Iraq. When the driver finally woke up, he was badly concussed, disoriented, and without any sort of system to help him locate his convoy, but, assuming that they must have been nearby because surely [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind there was no way they would just abandon him]], he began driving back and forth along the road, still disoriented and in a semi-delirious state. Luckily, he ended up drawing the attention of the gate guards, who realized that something was wrong and managed to get him to stop and get him medical attention. Unlike most of Zach's stories, this one [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness has him genuinely enraged]] at the authority figures responsible, and [[https://youtu.be/b19M8RYYWgU other former military personnel]] have also expressed their outrage that such an incident was allowed to take place, especially when others have ''confirmed'' that this incident did happen.

* TearJerker: Zach's Bradley story is probably one of his most tragic and quite frankly angering stories to date: During his time in Iraq, he was once asked to clear the Bushmaster chain gun on a Bradley, with no explanation for why the crew couldn't do it other than "they're gone". It turned out that what happened was the Bradley had been hit by three [=IEDs=] while part of a convoy. After the third, the gunner and commander decided to [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere ride in a different vehicle]], but left the young, rookie driver in the Bradley. It was then hit by a fourth IED, which knocked out the driver, his radio, and the vehicle's tracking system, and rather than bother to check on the poor guy, they assumed he was dead and left him alone in the middle of Iraq. When the driver finally woke up, he was badly concussed, disoriented, and without any sort of system to help him locate his convoy, but, assuming that they must have been nearby because surely [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind there was no way they would just abandon him]], he began driving back and forth along the road, still disoriented and in a semi-delirious state. Luckily, he ended up drawing the attention of the gate guards, who realized that something was wrong and managed to get him to stop and get him medical attention. Unlike most of Zach's stories, this one [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness has him genuinely enraged]] at the authority figures responsible, and [[https://youtu.be/b19M8RYYWgU other former military personnel]] have also expressed their outrage that such an incident was allowed to take place, especially when others have ''confirmed'' that this incident did happen.

* TearJerker: Zach's Bradley is probably one of his most tragic and quite frankly angering stories to date: During his time in Iraq, he was once asked to clear the Bushmaster chain gun on a Bradley, with no explanation for why the crew couldn't do it other than "they're gone". It turned out that what happened was the Bradley had been hit by three [=IEDs=] while part of a convoy. After the third, the gunner and commander decided to [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere ride in a different vehicle]], but left the young, rookie driver in the Bradley. It was then hit by a fourth IED, which knocked out the driver, his radio, and the vehicle's tracking system, and rather than bother to check on the poor guy, they assumed he was dead and left him alone in the middle of Iraq. When the driver finally woke up, he was badly concussed, disoriented, and without any sort of system to help him locate his convoy, but, assuming that they must have been nearby because surely [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind there was no way they would just abandon him]], he began driving back and forth along the road, still disoriented and in a semi-delirious state. Luckily, he ended up drawing the attention of the gate guards, who realized that something was wrong and managed to get him to stop and get him medical attention. Unlike most of Zach's stories, this one [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness has him genuinely enraged]] at the authority figures responsible, and [[https://youtu.be/b19M8RYYWgU other former military personnel]] have also expressed their outrage that such an incident was allowed to take place, especially when others have ''confirmed'' that this incident did happen.

* TearJerker: Zach's Bradley is probably one of his most tragic and quite frankly angering stories to date: During his time in Iraq, he was once asked to clear the Bushmaster chain gun on a Bradley, with no explanation for why the crew couldn't do it other than "they're gone". It turned out that what happened was the Bradley had been hit by three [=IEDs=] while part of a convoy. After the third, the gunner and commander decided to [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere ride in a different vehicle]], but left the young, rookie driver in the Bradley. It was then hit by a fourth IED, which knocked out the driver, his radio, and the vehicle's tracking system, and rather than bother to check on the poor guy, they assumed he was dead and left him alone in the middle of Iraq. When the driver finally woke up, he was badly concussed, disoriented, and without any sort of system to help him locate his convoy, but, assuming that they must have been nearby because surely [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind there was no way they would just abandon him]], he began driving back and forth along the road, still disoriented and in a semi-delirious state. Luckily, he ended up drawing the attention of the gate guards, who realized that something was wrong and managed to get him to stop and get him medical attention. Unlike most of Zach's stories, this one [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness has him genuinely enraged]] at the authority figures responsible, and [[https://youtu.be/b19M8RYYWgU Other former military personnel]] have also expressed their outrage that such an incident was allowed to take place, especially when others have ''confirmed'' that this incident did happen.