Also known as RavenAlegria13 or LadySpaz, Lady Jess is the creator of the series "Fool's Gold," a show about movies from the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood. They have also starred with The Rap Critic in some of his videos, and played Jayne the human druid in the first season of a Dungeons & Dragons podcast called Dice Funk with the cohosts of Word Funk.Their YouTube channel is available here
, and their Twitter is available here. The Facebook page for both them and their show Fool's Gold is available here.
They also have a blog on Tumblr and a Patreon. page.
Lady Jess utilizes the following tropes in their work
- Accentuate the Negative: They like to focus on the bad parts of Golden Age films.
- Art Evolution: At the beginning of their review of Hard Guy, the World's Sexiest Geek fixes Lady Jess's computer as an attempt to slow down the Hacker and thus their reviews are in HD from now on.
- Bait-and-Switch: Just when Lady Jess thinks they're going to review a film from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they end up stuck watching a bad Golden Age film with a similar concept.
- Birthday Episode:
- For their birthday in 2012, Lady Jess reviewed Casablanca.
- On their birthday in 2015, Lady Jess talked about the wrestling team known as the Vaudevillains.
- By "No", I Mean "Yes": Geek insists "she" hasn't been here all along. Then admits maybe "she" has been.Lady Jess: Has she been here all along?Geek: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.*beat* Yes. A bit.
- The Cameo:
- In their MAGFest video, there was That SciFi Guy, Chris the Nerd, Komrade Kitty, Count Jackula, The Rap Critic, Doggans, Mr Mendo, Lac the Watcher, Professor Otaku, Critical Marine, Linkara, and Diamanda Hagan.
- In the ending song of their My Fair Lady review, there were cameos from Cin Wicked, ZenithWillRule, and Mikey Insanity.
- In the beginning of their Hard Guy review, there's the Plot Hole Plumber Police, Gomer The Ranting Thespian, and Oancitizen.
- Miss Nightmare has a brief cameo in Lady Jess's review of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians at the mention of Babes in Toyland.
- Their review of Ready to Rumble had Chris the Nerd, R.L. King, and Oancitizen.
- Their The Sound of Music review has Demoversi, Derek the Bard, Magic Steve, Gomer the Ranting Thespian, Leon Thomas, Doggans, the Whedon Fan, Dodger of Zion, Some Jerk with a Camera, Il Neige, Spazzmaster, the Rosen Hacker, Arthur Knowledge, the Wire, and Trickster-Belle pointing out how much their singing sucks.
- Their review of the 1944 Captain America serial has Linkara, Sunny Jim, and Oancitizen.
- Their review of Who Framed Roger Rabbit had a brief cameo from Diamanda Hagan, interacting with Magic Steve.
Lady Jess: So, what did you learn?Magic Steve: I learned I'd rather spend a week in Diamanda Hagan's sock drawer than with you.Hagan: I can arrange that.Magic Steve: No! No, no, no, no. I'll be good. I'll be good.Hagan: I don't even wear socks.- Their James Bond Extravaganza videos has Some Jerk with a Camera and Derek the Bard.
- Their review of Darby O'Gill and the Little People includes Doggans, Spazzmaster, Trickster-Belle, and Iannone.
- Their April Fool's Day 'review' of Citizen Kane focuses on a conversation between her and the Rap Critic.
- At the beginning of their review of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Some Jerk with a Camera, R.L. King, Trickster-Belle, Spazzmaster, Calluna, GonzoLink, Iannone, Chris the Nerd, and The Obscure appeared together just to yell at Lady Jess.
Everyone: You're doing Bond again?!- Since their review of Grease is also their show's fourth anniversary, it has quite a few cameos. It includes the Rap Critic, Linkara, Captain McKay, Miss Nightmare, Steve the Wicked, Iannone, Sunny Jim, the Cartoon Physicist, Cferra, and the Unemployed Historian.
- Offscreen Teleportation: Lady Jess tries to kick Magic Steve out of their hotel room. But once they close the door, they're right behind them.Lady Jess: How did you get in here?!Magic Steve: Magician. Remember?
- Catchphrase'[...] the worst fight in cinematic history.'
- Convenient Color Change: Each outfit the film adaptation of Dante's Inferno changed Lady Jess into had a different colour and thus represented a certain sin. Blue was gluttony, purple was pride, red and black was wrath, the dark blue baggy T-Shirt was sloth, green was envy, gold was greed, and red was lust.
- Crossover:
- They have occasionally reviewed films with the World's Sexiest Geek.
- Their review of Cowboy Bebop with ZenithWillRule.
- They review the 1911 film adaptation of Dante's Inferno with Oancitizen.
- They and The Rosen Hacker review Ready to Rumble.
- Their review of Who Framed Roger Rabbit with Magic Steve.
- They review Darby O'Gill and the Little People Some Jerk with a Camera.
- They review On Her Majesty's Secret Service with The Cinema Snob.
- They appear on Iannone's review show, The Sports Reel, to review Knightriders.
- Lady Jess is a guest co-reviewer on an episode of The Cartoon Physicist's Noughtie List in which they and the Cartoon Physicist review the silent film adaptation of The Call of Cthulhu.
- On The Rap Critic, Lady Jess gets the Rap Critic to review The Jazz Singer with them.
- They appear on Miss Nightmare to review Babes In Toyland Babes In Toyland.
- Dark Reprise: During the credits of their review of Metropolis, the Hacker sings his own creepy version of "There Are No Strings On Me".
- Episode Title Card: After the initial episodes, Jess eventually asked to get title cards drawn by Casey K., who is responsible for Miss Nightmare, another review show.
- Formula-Breaking Episode:
- Episode 14 was a trip to MAGFest.
- They review an anime movie from the 2000s in Episode 17.
- In Episode 31, they review a wrestling movie from the year 2000.
- Episode 34 takes place on a subway.
- Episode 38/39 is a review of the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
- In Episode 49, they talk about a wrestling team.
- Instant Costume Change: The ancient hellish powers of the 1911 film adaptation of Dante's Inferno keeps changing Lady Jess's outfit throughout the review as well as their character.
- My God, You Are Serious!: Their character cracks up laughing in the review of Captain America every time a character within the movie mentions the secret weapon known as
"the vibrator" with grave seriousness. - Laser Blade: The World's Sexiest Geek wields a lightsaber.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Their reviewer personna drops near the end of their review of Kitten with a Whip to talk about mental illnesses and the creator's own bipolar disorder.
- The Only One I Trust: The reviewer is so desperate for help regarding the Hacker, they called the World's Sexiest Geek. Twice. Though the second time happened after they asked several other people who all said no.
- Second Episode Introduction: The World's Sexiest Geek first appears at the end of the The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies review, the fourth episode, and is fully introduced in the review of Sex Madness a.k.a. the fifth episode.
- Seven Deadly Sins: Throughout their crossover review of the earliest film adaptation of Dante's Inferno, the film's powers constantly changed their character based on the seven deadly sins with their spontaneous outfit changes being a dead giveaway. The only way to stop the film's power over them was to finish the review.
- Shared Universe: Because of their many crossovers and cameos, they're part of the Reviewaverse.
- Shout-Out: The Ready to Rumble review with The Rosen Hacker is one long one to pro-wrestling, complete with their own commentary team and the two of them playing the 'Internet CM Punk' and 'Internet A.J. Lee'.
- "Shut Up" Kiss: Lady Jess does to the World's Sexiest Geek at the end of their Ivan the Terrible Trilogy review as a thank you for all he has done.
- Sudden Musical Ending: At the end of their My Fair Lady review, they sang their own parody of 'Why Can't the English?' called 'Why Can't the Internet?' with various cameos scattered throughout the song.
- Third-Person Person: The Hacker never refers to himself as 'I', only as 'we'.
- Valentine's Day Episode: In which Lady Jess reviews Sex Madness and the World's Sexiest Geek tries to convince them to be his valentine, even though Valentine's Day was weeks before the review itself.
- Wildlife Commentary Spoof: During the Murder By Television review, the reviewer pretends to treat the movie's characters as wildlife.Narrator: And here we see a herd of Agathesis Cristiethisis, commonly known as Wild Murder Suspects. Seen here in their natural habitat, a mansion's drawing room. They're distinguishable by their formal attire and frequently faked look of innocence and confusion. They were common in Britain and the United States in the '20s, '30s, and '40s, but eventually died out as their audiences grew brains.
- World of Weirdness: Fool's Gold is set in the Reviewaverse, weird stuff is the universe's thing. Such as a movie from 1911 having demonic powers.
