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Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg (b. October 24, 1989), better known as PewDiePie, is a Swedish YouTuber known for his gaming content and comedic formatted videos and shows.

Felix owns one of the most subscribed-to and viewed channels on YouTube, with over 111 million subscribers and over 28 billion views across his videos. He was the owner of the single most subscribed-to independentnote  channel on YouTube from August 2013 to November 2022, when he was surpassed by MrBeast, and his channel was also the most viewed on the platform from December 2014 to February 2017.

After creating his channel in 2010, Felix gained a following for his Let's Plays, mainly of horror games, with cited factors for his videos' appeal including his reactions, recurring characters, Running Gags (namely a hatred of barrels), colorful language, exceptional hamminess, and general bizarre sense of humor. His YouTube career became his main life venture after dropping out of a university business degree due to personal dislike of schoolnote , although he has stated since that he did it first and foremost out of love for making videos, as there were no prominent gaming YouTubers or means to make money from the website when he started.

Felix's channel grew substantially in the following years, becoming one of the fastest-growing on YouTube in 2012 and 2013 before eventually overtaking Smosh as the most-subscribed channel in August of the latter year. Between 2014 and 2017, he diversified his content to include vlogs, sketches, music videos and recurring series. Some of the most popular of these series include Pew Newsnote , Meme Reviewnote , and LWIAYnote . Towards the end of the 2010s and entering the 2020s, Felix would become more reserved online and eventually consider himself semi-retired, only uploading videos for fun.

Saying that Felix is a prominent figure on not just YouTube but the Internet — especially for outsiders and media personalities looking in — is an understatement. His prominence has given him the ability to Colbert Bump whatever he chooses to give exposure to, especially if it's obscure, but it has also made him one of the most polarizing YouTubers on the platform for a variety of reasons, especially following a number of serious controversies in the late 2010s.

Felix has also been known to collaborate with the higher-ups of his networks. In late 2015, following the announcement of YouTube Rednote , a paid subscription service for the site, news broke of Felix starring in a series named Scare PewDiePie, made by the creator and executive producers of The Walking Dead (2010) and revolving around him going through real-life places designed after the horror games he became famous for playing. The first season of the show was released from February to April of 2016, the same year that Felix also initiated his own personal YouTube network under Maker Studios named Revelmode. Both his network and plans to release a second season of Scare PewDiePienote  were shut down following a particularly nasty controversy.

Felix has also collaborated with studio Outerminds to produce the games PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist, PewDiePie's Tuber Simulator, and PewDiePie's Pixelings, alongside writing a de-motivational self-help parody book titled This Book Loves You and raising over one million dollars for multiple charities with the help of his fans.

His Italian wife, Marzia Kjellberg (née Bisognin), a since-retired creator in the YouTube beauty community, has her own page here. The two began dating in 2011, married on August 19, 2019, and currently live in Japan with their dogs Edgar and Momo. Their first child, a son named Björn, was born on July 11, 2023.

He has accounts on Facebook and Instagram.


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His videos include instances of:

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  • Abhorrent Admirer: Pewds is certain that the ghost from the ventilation shaft in Exmortis 2 wanted to make out with him.
    • Jennifer is an immobile one.
  • Accidental Aiming Skills: How he once managed to chop off the head of a man with one swipe of an axe while flying out of his chair in fright.
  • Achievements in Ignorance: More then once has managed to win a difficult section by merely doing a stupid thing, that ended up being both smart, and crazy. Notably in his Outlast videos he accidentally exited a locker while a enemy was right in front of it with his back turned. Pewdie quickly hid in the one next to it, only for the enemy to check the locker he was originally in.
  • Aerith and Bob: His Mooks in Pulse: Jennifer, Lisa, Marcus, Annabelle... then Bengt and Fuckface.
  • Alas, Poor Scrappy: Happened in-universe with Duck in the Walking Dead. Despite constantly hating on the character and showing visible disappointment when he wasn't killed on two occasions, Pewdie made it clear that he didn't want to shoot the infected Duck, showing surprise that he wasn't happy to see the kid die.
    Pewds: I'll let you be Robin next time. I'll let you be Robin.
  • All Love Is Unrequited: Neither Jennifer or Piggeh get the love they want from Pewdie, no matter how often they try.
  • All Men Are Perverts: Stephano once slept with a Bro's girlfriend, Pewdie admires the asses of the grunts as well as the "assets" of any female he comes across, and Piggeh often tries to seduce Pew.
  • Amusing Injuries: His tendency to kick his table when he gets scared. Most notably when reading the story of the Bong Cheong Dong ghost.
  • Angrish: Is literally reduced to a mix of this and Laughing Mad when playing Unfair Mario.
  • Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Piggeh got stuck with his head in a chest twice, and hoped that Pewdie would take advantage of the situation. He was disappointed.
  • Animal Motif: Felix seems to be associated with ducks quite a lot.
  • Arc Symbol: The brofist.
  • Arc Words: He's been saying "100%" a lot as of late.
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In his Trials Evolution video, he begins to wonder what the point of some things are, gradually escalating until he begins to question the meaning of life...and then he questions the meaning of vegetables, since they taste like shit.
  • Artifact Title: He frequently lampshades how much he doesn't release Fridays with PewDiePie videos on actual Fridays.
  • As Long as It Sounds Foreign:
  • Ascended Fanboy: Falcon Lover. One of his comments was noticed by Pewdie, and he later turned into a fairly important meme of his.
    • His wife, CutiePie AKA Marzia, was originally just a fan he would talk to over Facebook.
  • Aside Glance: He does these when completely dumbfounded.
  • Atomic F-Bomb:
    • In episode 27 of his Calling playthrough, after a botched attempt to teleport to the basement using Hina's cell phone.
      "AHH! NO! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to do it! Please don't kill me! NO, NO, NO! AH, NEJ, NEJ! AHH, NO! NOOOOOOOOOO! I DIDN'T SAAAAAVE! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!"
    • Many of them in his The Impossible Quiz playthrough. A very notable one is on question 98, when he is asked to re-input the "blue, red, blue, yellow" code, only to get a game over right when he was going to input "yellow".
  • Audience Participation: Pewdiepie loves interacting with fans and sometimes asks the viewers what he should do next in games that give him choices. During his Dark Souls playthrough he even asked fans in the comments for hints or tips to help him progress through the Nintendo Hard game.
  • Ax-Crazy: When the game he plays allows him to be insane(r), he will try it out. Taken literally with his Condemned LP and the fire axe.
  • Bad Santa: A really sadistic Santa in Happy Wheels.
    Run you dirty peasants/little shits!
  • Bag of Holding: The new PewDiePie backpack, if Pewdie is to be believed.
    • In the video, the backpack contained graphic novel, a guitar, a little Smough statue, a skateboard, Maya, a Jake the Dog hat, and a pair of glasses.
  • Beat: "PewDiePie Processing Mode"
  • Berserk Button:
    • The mere sight of BARRELS!
    • In his walkthrough of The Walking Dead (Telltale), he becomes very attached to and protective of Clementine, the little girl the player character takes in. Her being in danger often gets always gets a spazzy scream out of Pewds.
    • You can make fun of his hair all you want, but do not make fun of his hare. He'll fucking stab a bitch.
    • Pewds throws an epic fit after seeing that he lost over 600,000 subscribers due to YouTube's deletion bug. It ends with him flushing his Diamond Play-button award down the toilet.
  • Big Brother Instinct: For Clementine and Ellie most obviously, but also for Jodie. This is most glaring when Jodie has her shower scene and rather than eating the eye candy, he comments on her drying method.
  • Big "NO!": Sometimes even in Swedish.
    • Happened while playing "Limbo", when he thought in the end that he had gone to where he started from and thought he'd have to do it all again. Luckily, he didn't.
    • Occurs in "Ikenie No Yoru: Night of the Sacrifice", when the yellow character which Pewds named Stephanie (because she resembles Stephano) jumps off a cliff, killing herself. Pewds is heartbroken at this.
    • He lets out a very prolonged one in Corpse Party when he discovers that Mayu has been smashed against the wall and turned into a shapeless pile of gibs.
    • He does one at the end of "Pizza Delivery".
      Pewdie: I was a pizza all along! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO—
      (THANKS FOR WATCHING!)
      Pewdie: --OOOOOOOO! Actually, that's a good thing.
    • In his video of I Am Bread (he's playing as a cracker), he spends a lot of time in the start struggling to locate the cheese. When he finally does (after struggling to get on the table), he finds another challenge in that the cheese is under a lid that he must remove. When he finally does remove the lid, the cracker he's playing as breaks apart, getting him an F. He lets out of one these that is so long it starts breaking up like a glitch.
    • In his Can Your Pet? video when he selects the exercise bike and watches his chick Stephano getting shredded up between two sawblades.
    • The ending of "EXPLODING NIPPLES", where Pewdie hits #1 on the leaderboard of his Agar.io server, only to be promptly eaten.
    • A Swedish variant in his Cat Mario 3 video when he decides not to trust a purple pipe and jumps onto the floor next to it, which then collapses.
  • Big Word Shout: As a general rule, most of the things that come out of Pewdie's mouth are shouted. However, he was prone to shouting "STEPHANOOO!" and "PIGGEEH!" especially loud almost every time he encountered them in earlier playthroughs. His most well known shout, however, has to be BARRELS!.
    • "Holy shit! I can't fap! I CAN'T FAP! I CAN'T FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!"
  • Big "YES!":
    • He dropped many of these during the Ao Oni playthrough whenever he managed to escape from the titular Oni.
    • Subverted at one point in the same walkthrough, when he's hidden behind a chair and thinks that the Oni has disappeared. He raises his arms up and begins to shout "YES", only for another one to blast through the closet and start the chase again.
      Pewdie: Da FUCK, Man? Da FUCK?
  • Bilingual Bonus:
    • The Italian spoken at the menuscreen in the playthrough of Afraid of Monsters. Pewdie didn't know what was said either.
    • Anytime he finds Martin or a POLISBILnote , he will speak Swedish.
    • Sometimes he curses in Italian, like in the first episode of the Unfair Mario playthrough and in his Get On Top video, where he said "Vaffanculo" ("fuck you") a few times, and often curses in Swedish when exasperated.
    • He has a habit of cursing in Swedish.
    • "Felix", "arvid", and "ulf" (his first name and two middle names) mean "happy", "forest", and "wolf", respectively.
  • Bittersweet Ending: His Journey (2012) playthrough. Part four (the penultimate episode) has a jarring Downer Ending when Pewdie's accomplice Bengt freezes to death on the mountain, but part five concludes the series with bucketfuls of Sweet Dreams Fuel, and Pewdie manages to complete the game for Bengt.
  • Black Comedy: He tends to lapse into this at frequent intervals.
  • Black Comedy Rape: Infamous for frequently joking about it in his pre-Retsupurae videos. The parody in question shows how often Felix made jokes along these lines (in their 7.5 minute video montage, he said it at least twenty times, the first instance is the second word uttered), which accounts for the outcry against rape jokes being strong enough that he stopped making them entirely.
  • Blatant Lies: During his playthrough of Cat Mario 3, Pewds promises not to swear after doing so quite a bit for the first half of the video. After 15 deaths in a very short amount of time, he predictably snaps and lets loose a lengthy Cluster F-Bomb.
    • Then there's this gem:
      Marzia: Felix?
      Pewdie: Yeah?
      Marzia: Are you using my high heels?
      Pewdie: ...no. [beat]
  • Blessed with Suck: Felix has admitted to sometimes disliking his status as the owner of the biggest YT channel (mainly from all of the attention that it brings). He stated that he would at times wish that he had a smaller channel so he could have more creative freedom, and has genuinely considered deleting his channel and starting from scratch, backing down only at the thought of the intense repercussions it would have with his company ties.
  • Body Horror: Too many instances to count, whether it be thumbnails or in-game.
  • Book Ends: His 2015 New York vlog starts with him pulling the camera from his mouth, and ends with him pulling the camera into his mouth. The same sound effect is used for both instances.
  • Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick:
    • In one of his own custom mods.
      "You wake up with a pounding head, a slight pain in your neck and a swollen penis."
    • Letting Piggeh talk for too long causes this.
    • His response to Dan and Phil's 7 second challenge app, which has him naming three things that would ruin a wedding.
      "Too much alcohol, diapers, and... dead babies."
  • Broken Tears:
    • At the end of the first part of his Dark Souls II LP.
    • At the end of the Luna Game video, where he gets caught off-guard by a huge scare at the very end while trying to do the outro.
  • Bullying a Dragon: He made several commentary videos and diss tracks targeting the professional corporation T-Series, where he throws insults at the company and accuses them of several scandelous activities. Whether or not he was joking, T-Series still responds by banning his diss tracks throughout all of India.
  • Bumbling Dad: Exaggerated with Pewdie's voice over.
    Son: Dad, I lost my arm!
    Dad: I DON'T CARE!
  • Buxom Beauty Standard: Rebecca from Nosferatu strongly motivated him to play the game.
  • Call-Back: In his Outlast LP, Pewdie comes across a wall of rocks that are blocking his path. He then says "Jennifer has fucked us." When he finds a giant boulder in Goat Simulator, guess what he calls it?
  • Camp Straight: Despite his Pretty Boy persona, going to the extents of crossdressing at times, he is straight and has a wife.
  • Cartwright Curse: Pewds suffers this in his Minecraft Let's Play. Throughout the series Pewds has gained many pets which he has loved greatly and taken with him on his adventures, but Minecraft can be very dangerous if you're not careful and animals in particular tend to be fairly fragile. It started with Joergen, who died in episode 5, then it was Water Sheep in episode 14, then Joegen #2 in episode 19. Starting from episode 20, at least one of Pewd's pets have died in nearly every episode.
  • Catchphrase:
    • In almost every video: "H-H-How's it going, bros? My name is PeeeeewDiePiiieee!"
      • Double Subverted in a couple of Happy Wheels videos: "My name... why do you always need to know my name? Of course my name is PeeeeewDiePiiieee!.
      • Subverted during his playthrough of McPixel, where he opened one of his videos with "My name is Macpewdie and welcome back to more McPixel."
      • Subverted during his newer videos, where he says "My name is (gibberish)".
    • Another main one is "And welcome toooo...(name of game)!"
    • "Notice me, senpai!"
    • When playing horror games, he often says "Hello?"
    • Whenever he dies in Alice: Madness Returns, he'll say "I became a butterfly!"note , and eventually it made its way to other series starting with HOW TO BE A SALAD!.
    • In The Last of Us, while using the El Diablo gun he'll say "EL DIABLO!"
    • When he picks up a confidential in Outlast, he'll say "Confidential? Not anymore!"
    • "I DON'T CAAAAARRRRE" for Irresponsible Dad.
    • Piggeh has "I'm Pumped!" and "Yeaaahh."
    • Stephano says "Allos, Pewdie" so often that it could be considered his catchphrase.
    • THAT'S HOW I ROLL! That's how I get all the laaadieees!
    • He tends to call people/things "little shits" quite a bit.
    • "What is this? What is all of this?"
    • When waking up in Lucius, Pews will say "Waking up in the Morning, not giving a single Fuck."
    • He will often yell "SHUT UP!" at things that scare him, animate or inanimate.
    • "That's how we do it in the PewDiePie town!"
    • In Cry of Fear and Afraid of Monsters at least, he tends to say "Oh no no no no senoritas everywhere!"
    • "Genius Pewds strikes again!" when solving a puzzle.
    • BARRELS!!!
    • "So kawaii!"
    • In Alice: Madness Returns, he yells "I'M ON MY PERIOOOOD!" whenever he activates the "Hysteria" power.
    • He will often say "DEUTSCHLAND!" to Edgar.
    • "THAT'S HOW WE DO IT IN THE POODIEPIE TOWN!"
    • A new one as of late is "Alright, alright, alright", in reference to Matthew McConaughey's Catchphrase.
    • "Jesus Christ!" as of late.
    • "WHAAAAAT?" as of late.
    • In Video Game/Minecraft, "He was like a father to me, I loved him like a son..." when his pets die.
  • Catchphrase Spouting Duo: Pewdie and any character he manages to get hold of.
  • Chainsaw Good: He's positively ecstatic when he finds the bloody chainsaw weapon in Rise of Nightmares.
  • Character Development:
    • Deciding to stop making rape jokes after the internet's outcry grew high enough thanks to the Retsupurae's video on him. Even the Retsupurae themselves were surprised that he stopped making rape jokes.
    • His playthrough of the Five Nights at Freddy's games show him becoming progressively less scared of the Jump Scares, to the point where he straight-up believes the games aren't scary and that he really just can't get scared of horror as much as he used to. And a lot of his fans keep on wanting him to play horror games.. The only time he did have genuinely scared reactions was playing the first game, and that was since he knew nothing about the game going into it.
    • His playthrough of Sonic.exe as well; when he is greeted with the "I AM GOD" picture, Pewdie doesn't so much as freak out as he just gives the picture a solid look and then going, "Okay, I mean, Sonic, you're not that beautiful. Let's be honest."
  • Christmas Episode: He has many. Usually he plays a Christmas mod or Christmas-related game, but sometimes he pays homage to classic carols and classic TV shows.
  • Clickbait Gag: Felix parodies, discusses, and criticizes the practice in "YOU WONT BELIEVE THIS CLICKBAIT (Pewdiepie React)", by looking through a variety of videos with clickbait, spoiling the fact that their titles don't reflect the content, and then ending with a brief Author Filibuster on how clickbait is necessary to succeed on YouTube, even if it isn't ideal.
    "I can spend days on a video, and it can get less views than a video we shit out in ten minutes... that has a better title."
  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Pewdie invokes this heavily, whenever he isn't in the company of one of his many "friends." Its been shown that, despite Marzia (CutiePie, his wife) has acted as the "straight girl" when both play a videogame, she's more likely to fall into this territory.
    Pewdie: Don't be hating, I'm a fucking unicorn.
  • Cluster F-Bomb: Both in English and Swedishnote . Expect this trope to come into play during rage games.
  • Comically Missing the Point: In his playthrough of Thirty Flights of Loving:
    Pewds: "Wanted: Armed Robbery, Conspiracy, Forgery, Bootlegging. Winston Borges." What? Your name's Winston?? You LIAR!
  • Comical Overreacting: Felix and CinnamonToastKen both do this during their game of "Oh Sir: The Insult Simulator"
  • Companion Cube: Pewdie has a lot of these.
    • Stephano is a "talking" golden statue that shares most of Pewdie's fan art, and is usually found early on in custom stories made specifically for him.
    • Before he found Stephano, he would sometimes carry a human skull, Skully, who shared the same exact voice.
    • When Stephano is otherwise unavailable, Pewdie seeks the company of a diverse array of other characters, such as Piggeh (a dead pig), Mr. Chair (a chair) and Jennifer (a rock).
    • In his playthrough of Ghost Hunt, a survival horror map made with Garry's Mod, he calls the ghost detector Herky. He's apparently afraid of ghosts.
    • Segway Guy really like his vehicles, but especially Vespanote .
    • Subverted in his Black Snow playthrough:
      Pewdie: "Alright flowers, tell me where your leader is."
      [beat]
      Pewdie: "Forgot flowers can't talk, shit!"
  • Control Freak: Has subtly admitted to being one in an interview, considering that he prefers to work on his videos and content independently, and whenever he has to cooperate and collaborate to produce a video, it can turn into a nightmare. On this note, Felix brought up the "STORMTROOPERS VS PEWDIEPIE" video.
    Disney recently sent over a bunch of people dressed as Stormtroopers to make a video together with me, for charity. First of all, they got upset when they found out that there was no specific room for them to change clothes. And then, they didn’t agree to do basically anything in the video because it was not OK with “The Star Wars universe”. It all turned into chaos and it took a very long time. Finally, we ended up with something that they were going to edit but it was so bad I had to do it over and edit it myself. Furthermore, I don’t want Pewdiepie to be some kind of trademark that I loose control over …so well, OK. Perhaps a bit of a control freak.
  • Epic Fail:
    • One jumpscare in Ao Oni had him jumping in fright, alt-tabbing out of the game, and revealing the walkthrough he was using.
    • In general, jump scares leave his leg in pain a lot, especially in the reading of Bongcheon Dong Ghost were he had to get a pillow in case another jump scare happened during the reading. He was right.
    • In general, first-person jump scares is something Pewdie is terrible at, but even more so for first-person platform jumping. Once, he wound up hitting the "record" button by mistake as a result, which meant about a minute of game footage wasn't recorded (his webcam, however, was still on).
    • During the playthrough of Condemned: Criminal Origins, crashes caused him to cut the video short twice—in a row.
    • During his No Swear Electric Challenge, he manages to save himself from saying "fuck" via Last-Second Word Swap...only to swap it with another swear ("fine ass bitch").
    • His Deltarune playthrough had him getting genuinely stumped by Rouxls Kaard's joke puzzle, which is solved by simply pushing a block one tile to the left.
      PewDiePie: I was stuck on the puzzle that was supposed to be easy! [Face Palm]
  • Even the Guys Want Him: RoomieOfficial (a fellow Swedish YouTuber) made a whole song about how goddamn fabulous Pewdie is.
  • His Harlem Shake video, which featured him dancing in women's underwear. Through the underwear, his penis was rather...er...noticeable in the original video (which got flagged), so he had to re-upload it with a big censor on the spot.
  • Filler: Often, when he plays an Amnesia mod that is short in time length, Pewds would play another Amnesia mod, or, on one occasion, plays another horror game.
  • Flanderization: Compare Pewdie thennote  and Pewdie nownote .
  • Flipping the Bird:
  • Foreign Cuss Word:
    • "Vaffanculo!"note . Greetings from Italy too, PewDie.
    • He also has a tendancy to say jävla helvetes, fan, and fitta. note .
  • Foreign-Language Tirade: Dark Souls is so rage inducingly difficult for him that he spends most of the first episode speaking Swedish.
  • Full-Frontal Assault: TELEPORTING NAKED GUYS!
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus: A common feature in his montage videos, usually poking fun at what Pewdie is saying or doing.
    • In select videos, you will see his desktop and you might be able to see some folders containing various types of porn.
  • Freudian Excuse: The reason Irresponsible Dad is so....irresponsible towards his son is because Santa didn't give him any presents during his childhood.
  • Fun with Acronyms: While playing To the Moon, Pewdie pronounces ADG to stand for "Angry Dinosaur Guillotine".
    • Similarly, in his playthrough of Slender: The Arrival, he pronounces PFD to stand for "PewDiePie's Fucking Dick".
    • Additionally, in his playthrough of The Crooked Man, he pronounces AED to stand for "Angry Evil Dick".
    • And then in the video "THE ILLUMINATI REVEALED", he pronounces Illuminati to stand for "I Love Louis's Uncle Man I'm Not A TIt".
  • Fun with Subtitles: He'll usually subtitle his Swedish swears into English, and add little comments when something doesn't make sense. His early montage videos wrote what he and his characters said, but sometimes replaced words with images and punctuated with emoticons.
  • Gay Moment: For Valentine's Day, Pewds and Cry read a fanfiction about themselves.
  • Genre Savvy: Pewdie can generally predict certain twists in stories, such as Takuro actually being a traitor after having miraculously escaped the Oni. He's also this way about his fans' behavior in response to his actions, stating that he'll get "fifty-million comments about it" when he forgets the name of a game in his Shadow of the Colossus walkthrough.
  • Gilligan Cut: After receiving a ceramic barrel and a ceramic Slender Man, he tries standing Slendy upright in the barrel. One cut later, and Slendy's head first instead.
  • Giver of Lame Names: QWOP named his cat Rickulus, if Pewdie is to be believed.
  • Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex: Pewdie wanted to make babies with Stephano after surviving House of Creeps 3. Stephano reacted with disgust and anger... but after 15 seconds he said the exact same thing to Pewdie.
  • Gone Horribly Right: In "HOT SAUCE FAIL", where Pewdie decided to do a challenge where he'd have to eat some hot sauce every time he swore. (Doesn't sound like much until you realize that Pewdie got this sauce from a guy in a back alley, had to sign a contract, and was advised to never eat more than a toothpick's worth.) Eventually, he does swear, and after taking the sauce he is too distracted by the pain and agony to swear. He does eventually acknowledge this.
  • Gratuitous Foreign Language: Has a habit of slipping back into Swedish and, oddly enough, Spanish, French or Italian. Despite this, in his Swedish commentary of Happy Wheels, Pewdie slips some English words in by accident several times.
  • Gratuitous German: Occasionally. "EDGAR! DEUTSCHLAND!"
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  • I Just Want to Be Normal: He has said in numerous videos that he doesn't want special treatment because of his job and doesn't want his fans to be hostile and aggressive to people who don't like his videos or for fans to pester him too much when he is off camera.
    • On several occasions, he publicly considered deleting his channel for reasons ranging from being tired of algorithm issues to wanting to start over from scratch, but YouTube and his advertisers essentially make that impossible.
  • Inherently Funny Words: Has used them on occasion.
    "[after a Jump Scare in PT] OHHH! [Beat] Snoop Dogg!"
  • Interspecies Romance: Piggeh wants some with Pewdie, but so far has only enjoyed the company of everything but Pewdie.
  • Insane Troll Logic: Used extensively in his Impossible Quiz series.
    Pewds: "Deal or no deal?" How is there a correct fucking answer to a fucking dick? "Deal" rhymes with "seal", and seal doesn't have a deal. And the people who don't have a deal, are usually...not a seal. (clicks "no seal"; wrong answer)
  • Intentionally Awkward Title: Part 8 of his The Forest LP is called "THE GREAT HAND JOB".
  • It Makes Sense in Context:
    Pewdie: I nearly collapsed in a vagina!
  • I Was Quite a Looker: Skully claims to have been attractive once. Now he's a skull with two fleshy legs.
  • Irony: In his early playthrough of Man of Medan, he doesn't like Julia's character and often makes fun of her out of spite. But in just a single episode later, Felix unfortunately missed a few Quick Time Event sequences that led to the deaths of Julia's lover Alex and her brother Conrad.
  • The Joy of First Flight: He's utterly delighted when first flying around his Minecraft world with the Elytra in Minecraft just became 10x better!
  • Jump Scare:
  • Kaleidoscope Hair: It's not his hair, but his Razer headphones, which come in practically every color of the rainbow (green, pink, white, etc).
  • Kent Brockman News: Pew News is a parody of mainstream news outlets like CNN and YouTube drama shows like Keemstar's DramaAlert. It's supposedly the most unbiased news show, though the reporters constantly inject their opinion on the subject (even if they're not supposed to).
  • Kick the Dog: His Calling LP was loaded with him saying how he didn't care about Reiko, who was already Driven to Suicide.
  • Left It In: He has a habit of saying things like "Pewds of the future, edit this part out", or some variation, usually after messing up or saying something bad.
  • Left the Background Music On: In "NEW VIRAL DANCE MOVE", Pewdie wakes up in a joyful mood with background music accompanying it, only for him to angrily yell "Turn that shit off!" and go back to sleep.
  • Made of Explodium: A series of shelves with chemicals in part three of Ghost Hunt. Cue explosion and ringing.
  • Manly Tears: Pewds cries on-camera for the first time during one of the particularly heart-wrenching moments during his walkthrough of The Walking Dead (Telltale). The second time he cries, during the same walkthrough, he actually has to look away from the camera.
  • Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: When he and his wife play Amnesia together. While Pewdie Screams Like a Little Girl, she laughs.
  • Mathematician's Answer: In his second Cleverbot video, he asked "What about you?" and it came out as "What about your ear?" Cleverbot replied "Yes."
  • Mind Screw:
    • The Small Horse arc. Even Pewdie has no clue what the hell he's playing.
    • The GUESS WHICH ONE IS REAL? video, which contains two versions of Pewdie, and you must figure out which version is the real Pewdie. The story goes into strange territory rather quickly. And then Pewdie tried to explain the story:
      Disguised fake Pewds tries to poison Pewds 1 in cinnamon challenge. Disguised fake Pewds is actually Hitler Pewds PLOT TWIST Hitler Pewds tries to finish Pewds 1 off. Pewds 1 escapes without Hitler Pewds notices by replacing himself with Ragdoll Jerry. Hitler Pewds gets shot by Pewds 1. Hitler Pewds is actually in love with Ragdoll Jerry PLOT TWIST. Pewds 1 finishes Hitler Pewds off and dies much drama Pewds 1 steals Ragdoll Jerry for his girlfriend. A few days later ragdoll Jerry is depressed and thinks of the times him and Hitler Pewds had together. Ragdoll Pewds kills himself. Pewds 1 realizes he is broken/dead. The universe get's altered. Alpha and Omega. All that shit. The End.
    • The TIME FOR REVENGE! video, which is a sequel to the aforementioned video, features two new versions of Pewds as well as Pewds 2 aka Hitler Pewds. He goes into a bathroom, shaves, and becomes a priest. Then the video ends on a Cliffhanger.
  • My Greatest Failure: Pewdie truly regrets that infamous comment he made in the midst of the Retsupurae controversy.
    N-T 
  • Never My Fault: In his video complaining about the problems with YouTube and saying how he will delete his channel at fifty million subscribers. One of his complaints is that he thinks that the site is unsubscribing his followers or his videos are not being shown in the subscribers YouTube feed. He didn't consider the fact that some of the subscribers may have become distrustful due to the amount of clickbait he has been using despite claiming he's used them as a joke.
  • Nightmare Face:
  • "No. Just… No" Reaction: His response to finding out that Xuarest Xth killed his mother in Mad Father, and afterwards wiped the blood off of her face just to notice how pretty she was was essentially:
    Pewds: That's... That's just... No.
  • Nonindicative Name:
    • Piggeh is actually a snake, according to one playthrough of an Amnesia mod.
    • The "statues" that he blames so often while playing Amnesia are actually suits of armour.
    • In his playthrough of "The Stanley Parable" he called a radiator a refrigerator and a refrigerator a radiator.
    • The 'title card' for his Amnesia Custom Story "Through the Portal" video implies it's a crossover of Portal, when it really is a Fan Sequel.
  • Not Distracted by the Sexy: Nothing Piggeh has tried in a attempt to seduce Pewdie has suceeded.
  • Nothing Is Scarier: CATACOMBS CHALLENGE. Just imagine having to navigate by yourself through the real Paris catacombs with little information on what to do besides getting three keys. Not to mention the feeling that someone's going to pop out and scare you at any given moment, or at the same time be following you silently...
  • Not Quite Dead: Irresponsible Dad and JB can still talk even after being decapitated or turned into Ludicrous Gibs, lampshaded once in a while.
  • N-Word Privileges:
    • The first time he used it was in this GTA 5 video.
    • The second time was when he found out he had the 18th most handsome face of 2016. Subverted example as the N-word was cut short.
    • The third, and by far the most infamous instance was when he said the N-word to another player during that Player Unknowns Battlegrounds live stream.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Averted, as the majority of the bros know his real name.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
    • Whenever he breaks character, it will be because he is genuinely scared. The second part of the Afraid of Monsters playthrough has him terrified for minutes.
    • The only other time he breaks character is when he's genuinely saddened and on the verge of tears.
  • Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Pewds sometimes switches from English to Swedish in his walkthroughs, but he usually gives us subtitles when this happens.
  • Orphaned Series: Including, but definitely not limited to...
    • His playthrough of Parappa The Rapper was only three parts long for a while, and Pewdie never got past the Full Tank level. He does eventually finish the game.
    • His Alice: Madness Returns LP is a more popular example. It went up to part 15 but will unfortunately never see a part 16, since Pewdie forgot his save file for the game when moving.
    • His Seaman playthrough, due to being too freaked out by the Out with a Bang scene.
  • Out-of-Character Moment: In his walkthrough of the Cry of Fear custom story, The Stairway, there's one Jump Scare that doesn't get him. Pewdie himself is surprised.
  • Overly Long Gag: His speech/eulogy after killing the patient named Bob in Surgeon Simulator 2013.
    Pewds: ""Surgery Failed"..."And it was going so well..."... Bob has left us, Bros... He was such a good friend... He was always there for me... I'm going to miss him so much... *sobs* ... His beautiful face, that I haven't seen.. Half of his nose, that I haven't seen either. It was.. special. What me and Bob had, it was something you see once in a lifetime... Bob was one of those guys you could just go out and have a beer with. And make out a little bit with. And it wouldn't be awkward the day after. Bob was that guy. He would actually touch my butt a lot, and it would tickle. In the nicest way... Bob knew how to treat me like a princess... *sigh* ... Bob... You will be remembered... I love you. One day, we'll meet again. And then... I will kiss you. I will gather the courage... and I will lick your nipples. Bob... Bob... *sobs*..."
  • Overly Narrow Superlative: Pewdie called Quickscope Simulator "the most accurate no-scope simulator" he's ever seen.
  • Papa Wolf:
    • In his Playthrough of The Walking Dead (Telltale), he becomes very protective of Clementine, the little girl that the player character takes in. At one point he even explicitly states that he'll stop playing the game if she gets killed off. The same applies towards Ellie from The Last of Us.
    • He's also very protective of Fluffy. He even states that he would uninstall the game if he died ( he doesn't, by virtue of never existing in the first place).
  • The Perils of Being the Best: He has created multiple videos showing some of the problems of being a channel with the highest number of subscribers. The most notorious examples are the anti-semitism scandal in 2016 and the Christchurch mosque shooting in 2019. The former caused Felix to be accused of being racist and anti-semitic due to a bad joke being blown out of proportion. The latter caused people to blame him for the shooting after the shooter referenced the "Subscribe to Pewdiepie" meme. Lighter examples include lesser YouTubers challenging him for the title of "The King of YouTube" or other YouTubers bullying him for the sake of drama and bragging rights.
  • Pet the Dog: Quite literally, as Pewdie has had several dogs, the most famous being Maya (or Puga as they sometimes call her). Edgar's probably a close second.
  • Play the Game, Skip the Story: In-Universe. This was averted in his early playthroughs where he would take care to read the journals so common in horror games- however as time progressed he began to skip them more and more.
  • Pretty Boy: He was rated the 18th most handsome celebrity in 2016. And the 7th most handsome celebrity in 2017.
  • Previously on…: Sometimes in LP series, Pewdie will give a quick recap of the previous episode. It usually follows this template:
    Pewdie (in strange accent): In the previous episode...
    (one-second recap of something from previous episode)
    Pewdie (in same accent): And the epic story continues...
    • The second episode of "Things You Should Never Google" begins one with "Previously on Lost".
  • Pun:
    • In some of his recent montage-esque videos, the transition from scene to scene will show an image with a pattern of Felix the Cat heads. Get it, because Pewdie's name is Felix...
    • In his Christmas gift idea video, he shows a fake piece of poop which he is clearly disgusted by. He then asks "Who came up with this shit...literally?"
  • Rage Quit:
    • In part 17 of his Fahrenheit LP, he just got up out of his chair and left his house for about a minute after Carla says "I love you" to Lucas after actually knowing him and being in the same room as him for about five hours tops.
    • He has done this several times now in his Dark Souls LP, often not coming back for several hours or even a day. To be fair though, the game tries its hardest to elicit this reaction out of anyone who plays it and is very good at inducing rage.
    • He also decided to quit playing Five Nights at Freddy's after dying too many times at the hands of Foxy in the fourth night. He does finish the sequel, though.
  • Relax-o-Vision: Invoked in his playthrough of the Amnesia mod House of Creep 3 - he gets so spooked by the sheer amount of Teleporting Naked Guys in the hallway, he has to quit the game and look up pictures of kittens. He refers to it as "Kitten Therapy" and sometimes does the same with puppies.
  • Revisiting the Roots: Since June 2019, PewDiePie has been uploading Let's Plays of Minecraft, something he used to do back in his early days.
  • Rhymes on a Dime: From one of his QWOP videos:
    Haters gonna hate,
    I laugh cuz you skate,
    This is not my fate,
    Because I ate.
  • Rhyming with Itself:
    I know you love me, I don't care
    I sing Justin Bieber, I don't care
  • Ridiculously Cute Critter: Most of the dogs that he and Marzia own qualify, the most recent one being Maya, or Puga as many fans have called it. Maya still qualifies after having lost an eye.
  • Running Gag: Now with its own page.
  • Subverted Catchphrase:
    • In one of his videos co-hosted by Cry, PewDiePie invites him to do the outro. However Cry can't remember it so instead of "Stay awesome, bros, bah-hiiiiii" he comes up with "Bro day, every day," which has become a Catchphrase of it's own.
    • It turns out that brandishing a hammer will just make Smashnese.
  • Suddenly Speaking: A certain German creator of custom stories for Pew has the statues greet him. HALLO FREUNDE!
  • Suicide as Comedy: He once got so surprised by a jumpscare in one of his Amnesia LPs that he jumped out the window and killed himself in-game.
    Pewdie: Uuuuuuggggghhhhhhhhhh (jumps out window) fuuuck thiiiis shhiiiiiiiiiiiiiittt!
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial: After a jump cut, he will categorically deny that he looked up a walkthrough.
  • Synchro-Vox: In a Clip Show of his Ao Oni LP, Pewdiepie superimposes his own mouth on a close-up of the titular monster as he opens the closet and goes "IT'S RAPING TIME!".
  • Take Our Word for It: His "TOP 5 SHOCKING WEBSITES" video has the shock sites in question being blurred to indecipherable extents or just not shown altogether, instead just showing Pewdie's reaction full-screen along with accompanying sounds and music.
  • Take That!:
    • Him Fabulizing Sarah Jessica Parker into a pair of feet and then saying he barely did any shopping on her.
    • "BARRELS!" pokes fun at Justin Bieber and at his haters (essentially).
    • One to YouTube in his "Teach Me Senpai" video; one of the suggestions is to show how to get lots of subs, so he purposely and hilariously overreacts to a Five Nights at Freddy's 2 Jump Scare as we see his sub count increase exponentially the longer he overreacts.
      • Doubles (maybe) as a Take That, Critics!, since one of his selling points used to be screaming at everything.
  • Take That, Audience!: In his Miley Cyrus: Twerk Ball video.
    Pewdie: You clicked on a video called "Miley's Twerk Ball". (Sarcastic Clapping) Congratulations, you must be bored out of your fucking mind.
  • Tempting Fate: He does it all the time when playing horror games, and a Jump Scare will happen virtually on cue moments later.
    • In Part 4 of Paranormal. What else can happen? Something else happens.
    • In Corpse Party, as he is playing the Ayumi and Yoshiki section of Chapter 4, he hopes he won't reach a Wrong End. He does.
      • At the time, however, he was actually begging for that to be the case.
  • That Came Out Wrong: During a video on Super Smash Bros. with Marzia, Kirby (Marzia's character) eats Link (Pewds' character), causing Marzia to exclaim "You came in my mouth!" She then realises what she said and starts laughing while Pewds looks awkward.
  • The Scapegoat: Barrels and statues are not always the cause of Pewdie's misfortune, but always get hated and blamed for everything with passion.
  • Thinking Out Loud: Unlike most Let's Players, Pewdie says everything that comes to mind.
  • This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: He uses this a lot but none more so than his diss track against T-Series called "Bitch Lasagna".
  • Title Drop: The title of each of his episodes are usually dropped somewhere in the episode.
  • Too Dumb to Live:
    • Occasionally crosses into this territory with particularly obvious blunders, resulting in near (in-game) death. Especially bad when he ignores text on the screen telling him what to do, then complains about being lost.
      • In particular, his SCP: Containment Breach Let's Play where he ignores the sheet of paper he picks up near the beginning telling him that SCP-173 moves when he blinks. The information's even highlighted.
    • When playing Cat Mario, Pewdie has a tendency to try moves and strategies over and over again... even after they're shown to be ineffective when used the first five or so times.
  • Too Much Information: Piggeh is never too ashamed to tell Pewdie about his post-death coitus.
  • Trolling Translator:
  • Tropey, Come Home: During part 4 of Pewdiepie's Minecraft Let's Play, he discovered a washed-up pirate ship filled with loot. When Pewds came back to where Joergen was he found the horse was nowhere to be seen. While this was the second time Pewds had found his horse had gone, this was the first time he wasn't able to find Joergen quickly. Pewds spent a full in-game day trying to find Joergen to no avail. Eventually he found Joergen, still having no idea where he disappeared to. The episode ends with Pewds losing Joergen once again. It turns out that due to a glitch, disembarking from a horse causes it to disappear and remain invisible. Pewds later figured out how to deal with this glitch to his relief, but sadly Pewds would lose Joergen coming home from the Nether not too long after.
  • Trouser Space: Lampshaded during a play of Bully in which for some reason he decided to control Jimmy in his underwear delivering a package during an Errand: "Where the fuck would I keep this package? ... I put it inside my asshole! That's disgustingly nice."
    U-Y 
  • Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Pewdie's rendition of the Irresponsible Dad from Happy Wheels is a homophobic, abusive, uncaring Jerkass. Yet everything he says is hilarious.
  • Unusual Dysphemism:
    • He likes saying "penis" in place of random words.
    • There is no color called red; only period.
    • One was lampshaded in a Rise of Nightmares video.
      Pewds: I'm so fucking sweaty I could eat a diarrhea. That doesn't even make sense.
  • Urine Trouble:
    • In TIME FOR REVENGE!, as one version of Pewds eats soup, his mother (who isn't even his actual mom) tells him that she peed in the soup.
    • The new PewDiePie backpack is advertised as being able to prevent strangers from pissing on you.
    • "TOAD SHITS ON ME!!" is really Self-Explanatory.
      "Here's a little pro-tip to you: If your toad starts making fart noises, abort mission."
  • Victory Is Boring: Being ranked as the number one most subscribed channel multiple times in a row exhausted Felix's passion for YouTube, he still enjoys making videos but he modified his channel by adding new forms of content in order to prevent personal burnout and stagnation. Felix and his editor, Brad, admitted that they have both given up on making good quality videos because the videos get insulted either way and they have lost their ambition with the channel.
  • Video Game Cruelty Potential:
    • He's quite abusive towards his Mokos in Pulse. One example:
      (after leaving one of his Mokos to be killed) "Nice going, Lisa! Are you angry? Hey, Lisa, I didn't mean to throw you away." (monster comes back) "OH SHIT I'M SORRY EAT LISA!" (Lisa dies)
    • Who could forget his hilarious abuse of Irresponsible Dad's son in Happy Wheels?
  • Violation of Common Sense:
    • During his Cry of Fear playthrough:
      "Should I really go down here? I don't think it's a good idea... but let's do it anyway!"
    • Stephano frequently warns Pewdie that looking back never works in Amnesia. And immediately after he warns Pewdie, guess what Pewdie does?
  • Visual Pun:
    • In "HOW TO SMILE!", Pewds lists "foot tattoos" as one of the Little Reasons to Smile. We then see a close-up of Pewds' face, and then it zooms out to show an actual drawing of a foot on his forehead. He then says "I don't get it."
    • In "8 MILLION BROS!", one Pewdie says how much he loves playing Candy Crush Saga. Another Pewdie says how much he loves crushing candy (with a hammer).
    • At the end of "YOUTUBE COPYING!", Pewdie is shown copying...with a copier.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Pewdie and his dog Edgar. He dedicates many a tweet alternating between how he thinks Edgar is a demon sent to make his life a living hell and how much he loves him nonetheless.
  • Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Downplayed in the disgusting bean challenge, where Pewds doesn't actually vomit but goes regurgitate..something.
  • What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: "Chair Mode Activated. Boop." However, due to various invocations of Artificial Stupidity, this sometimes turns into Heart Is an Awesome Power, like in Ao Oni, where Chair Mode kills either Pewdie or the Oni, depending on whether or not Pewdie is in the room.
  • What the Hell, Player?: What we are greeted with in his Miley Cyrus' Twerk Ball video.
    "You clicked on a video called "Miley's Twerk Ball". (Sarcastic Clapping) Congratulations, you must be bored out of your fucking mind."
  • Wholesome Crossdresser: Videos like "Harlem Shake FAIL" and some "Fridays With Pewdiepie" have involved him in womens' underwear.
  • Word Salad Title: His name. The "PewDie" part breaks down thusly; the pew is an onomatopoeia of a gun going off in a video game, after which someone presumably dies. He started an account going as just "Pewdie", but forgot the password to it, at which point he decided to add "pie" to the end since he liked pie.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: In his I Am Bread video (he's playing as the cracker), he struggles to get on top of the table to reach the cheese, and then struggles to remove the lid that the cheese is under. When he finally does, the cracker breaks apart and he gets an F.
  • Your Soul Is Mine!: Said verbatim in "BARRELS!" by a demonic Justin Bieber.
    Your soul is mine now, bitch!

 
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