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"Hello, everyone! This is GoldGleeGamer1 and we're back with a brand new race!"
— GoldGlee

SuperLPHeroes is a collaborate Let's Play channel on YouTube that mostly focuses on races through video games of all ages. Each race consists of three to six people recording in tandem and each segment is a half hour long with the channel usually updated on both Fridays and Saturdays. The rules are simple: No save states, turbo or slowdown and the winner of the race chooses the next game that the group races through (or, if the person wins his/her own race, the runner-up gets to choose what's next). If the group doesn't have any race footage ready for the channel, they'll upload a stand-in video with group commentary over a single-player run of a different game.

The Currently Active Members Are:

Former/Guest Channel Members Include

     2013 Races 

     2014 Races 

     2015 Races 

     2016 Races 

     2017 Races 

     2018 Races 

    Let's Play Group Commentary 

    Lost Races 

The races provide examples of:

  • 100% Completion: Averted for Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, and the Donkey Kong Country trilogy. It was optional for Mega Man X and Super Metroid (not that a whole lot of people were willing to go for it in the latter).
    • Mercifully averted for the racers in Banjo-Tooie as in-game cheats were allowed and encouraged, cutting the race down to taking less than 2 hours instead of 20.
  • The Ace: Everyone specializes in a particular genre.
    • Brightwolfz is definitely the one for the Donkey Kong Country trilogy as he took the hat trick by winning all three of those.
    • CaptainTurbo for Sonic titles.
    • Gold for Super Mario titles.
    • Dyne for a good mix of 8 and 16-bit titles, having grown up with a huge collection of them.
    • Midi for racing games.
    • Sinisterkun for Classic Mega Man
  • Advancing Wall of Doom: Called out in Sonic 3.
  • Alice Allusion:
    • Played with in that three different Alices are discussed within a minute: the Alices from The Honeymooners, The Brady Bunch and Alice Margatroid.
    • Played with in Castlevania III though Sinisterkun refers to "Tweedle Dee" and "Tweedle Dum" rather than Alice.
  • All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles: Discussed with the fact that the first boss in Final Fantasy IV after Rydia joins the party is a tentacle monster.
  • Alternative Character Interpretation: In-universe:
    • The dark theory as to why Donkey Kong wears a tie.
    • Dyne theorized that Kazooie is really saying "Strega!" when separating from Banjo in Banjo-Tooie.
  • Anachronic Order: In general, there are sometimes instances where the order the races are recorded in do not match the order the races are uploaded in.
    • The team mentions recording a race of Super Castlevania IV during Part 6 of Adventure Island II and reference it even though it hadn't been uploaded yet.
    • Streets of Rage 2 was recorded before Felix the Cat and Metroid: Zero Mission, but two latter were uploaded first due to Gold having all of the racers' footage of them before having everyone's from SoR2. As of the latest update, it is slated to go up after Mario Kart 64.
    • As of Chrono Trigger, the group had recorded footage for F-Zero X and Metroid, but they weren't ready for upload.
  • Analogy Backfire: Dyne compares the close race between Sinisterkun and CaptainTurbo in Super Castlevania IV to how close he and Gold were during Yoshi's Island and Gold chimes in with, "But Sinisterkun wasn't even in Yoshi's Island."
  • Are We There Yet?:
    • People asking the one in first place if they've beaten the game yet in The Lion King and Adventure Island II just so the pain would end.
    • Also happens a lot when nearing the end of a part in case the group decides to either extend the video or go another part.
  • Arbitrary Headcount Limit: While people are allowed to join in a race if they so wish, there can only be a maximum of 6 per game.
  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!:
    • Averted. Gold doesn't let Skype or Facebook messages distract him in the middle of a race.
    • Happens to Dyne in Super Metroid by getting distracted by his stream chat and accidentally wasting all of his missiles on a group of enemies that all die from one regular shot.
  • Badass Boast:
    • "I am going to keep this lead and expand on it. I'm going to win this race." He does.
    • "That's all for this video, we'll catch you back next time-" "When I win!"
  • Bag of Spilling: Discussed in Mega Man X2.
  • Berserk Button:
    • Turbo is from Sheffield, not London. Get it right!
    • Lexi gets annoyed at anyone who talk badly or is not experienced with the Zelda franchise
  • Beware the Nice Ones: If Gold gets angry at a game then you know it's Nintendo Hard.
  • Big "NO!":
    • Brightwolfz unleashes several consecutive ones in Super Mario World.
    • Green Thorne is the master of the "Machine Gun No" as well.
    • Dyne firing off several prior to his Skyward Scream moment in Buster Busts Loose.
  • Big "YES!": Sometimes immediately followed by a Big "NO!" instead.
  • Big "WHAT?!":
    • Part 3 of Yoshi's Island when Dyne learns the key he needed was back at the beginning of the level.
    • Sinisterkun has a great one when the Let's Play curse hits him in Sonic 2.
    • Three consecutive ones when the team learns Mark is in second place during Ninja Turtles.
    • The reaction to Turbo dying 20 seconds into the Power Blade race.
  • Bizarre Alien Biology: Lexi leads a discussion on how Spore Spawn could even exist in Super Metroid.
  • Bladder of Steel: CaptainTurbo doesn't let things like needing to use the bathroom interrupt him during a race.
  • Borrowed Catchphrase:
    • Jokes related to Ixzion's Running Gag of "I wanna see my ending!" from Let's Race With RPGM pop up now and then.
    • Gold uses Dyne's, "And dead," a lot in Kirby's Dream Land 2.
  • Brain Bleach: In-Universe, when Kyle mentions that Yakra "pulled a Sailor Moon," Dyne reminds everyone that the transformation sequences in the anime have the girls naked. Once the two ideas are connected, everyone tries to unsee the image.
  • Break the Haughty:
    • Sinisterkun goes into Sonic 2 with full confidence of winning. He gets more game overs than the rest of the team and ends up in last place by the end of Part 2.
    • Becomes a Running Gag in F-Zero when Sinisterkun proudly announces his time only for Midi to announce a better time. Sinister takes it well.
  • Brick Joke:
    • Set up during the lost Castlevania IV recording as Part 1 ends with the group singing Michael Jackson's "Beat It" and Part 2, which the youtube viewers would have seen a day later has Dyne belting out "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Eat It."
    • Combined with Mood Whiplash at the end of Part 2 and the start of Part 3 of Castlevania III with Dyne's hysterical sobbing and then switching back to normal tone.
    • The group quotes The Room (2003) in Part 2 of Mischief Makers and its followed up with a reiteration with Dyne using his Kefka voice for the movie lines in Part 4.
    • Part 5 of Final Fantasy IV ends with Dyne standing on the surface of the moon. Come Part 6, it begins with him voicing the party clamoring for air after having held their breaths for three weeks between recording sessions.
  • Buffy Speak:
    • Dyne falls into this three times when trying to describe the same thing in Yoshi's Island.
    • Happens again in Super Metroid when talking about the "standy-uppy guys" and "hidey corners."
    • "Giant swingy spikey thing hitting me in the face!"
    • "Die! Dairy Queen-wannabe thing!" in Kirby's Dream Land 2.
    • "I finally hit that launch pad that launched me over that damn... thingy!"
  • Butt-Monkey:
    • Sinisterkun usually is in the races he participates in, especially when Dyne and/or Turbo are also in.
    • Gold often defaults to this in every other race, especially in recent years. Not helping matters is he always shows up in every race, regardless of whether or not he has any understanding of the game in question.
  • By "No", I Mean "Yes":
    • This exchange in Kirby's Adventure.
      Dyne: No, I do not want Ball! It is the most worthless power-up in this game.
      Green Thorne: Whoa, Ball is amazin- Ball is horrible.
      Dyne: Horribly amazing, gotcha.
    • "Oh, Crap!, I didn't need to come in here! Or did I? I remember fighting this guy in practice."
    • "No, they don't take more hits. ...Or maybe they do."
    • Inverted in Circle of the Moon:
      Dyne: Hmm, how about we get a hearty, refreshing Brain Floatnote  after this race?
      Mark: Yum! Er, no. Disgusting!
  • Call-Back:
    • Gold does this most often in terms of recalling events from the original team's races back when the channel first started.
    • "It's Yoshi's Island all over again!" in terms of how close Gold and Dyne are in Part 1 of Kirby's Adventure.
    • "Remember, you're surrounded by 14-year old boys," in Castlevania III. A reference to Super Metroid.
    • "Sounds like someone fell down a cliff." "No, the scream would be much longer, like what happened in Mystical Ninja."
    • The Serious Business discussion on exactly what kind of meat is in the walls of Castlevania III returns in Castlevania IV.
    • Gold is very disappointed with his performance in Pitfall II and Turbo says, "Now you know how I felt in Sonic 3."
    • "Pitfall II is Power Blade all over again!"
    • Mark makes a hilarious connection back to Lexi's claiming to secretly being Sinister's wife from Adventure Island II during Wizards and Warriors after Sinister calls her "Woman!"
    • When Dyne uses his Sean Connery voice for Frog in Chrono Trigger, Mark calls back to his using the same voice for Morris in Circle of the Moon.
  • Call-Forward: Dyne had beaten Yoshi's New Island shortly before the Yoshi's Island race and compares a lot of tweaks made to the new game's mechanics to the original.
  • The Cameo: Dyne's gotten into the habit of breaking out his popular Kefka voice once or twice per race he's been in lately.
  • Captain Obvious:
    • Gold is the most prone to being this.
    • A humorous example from Buster Busts Loose:
      Mark: Does anyone know the trick with the jump rope?
      Sinisterkun+Dyne: Jump.
  • Catchphrase:
    • Sinisterkun owns, "Sucks to be you!" and "Deuces!" (and "Shut up, woman!" whenever his wife Trolls him).
    • Dyne tends to quip, "And dead," whenever the player character dies or is about to die on the group commentary videos. His Gratuitous Japanese victory expression is also catching on as one as the team fully expected it in Kirby's Adventure.
  • The Chew Toy: Sinisterkun is the game's in the Sonic 2 race.
  • Clip Show: The "Best Of" videos for every 10 races.
  • The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: Invoked during the Ball event of Mischief Makers Level 3-10 where the game throws 5 red balls for every 1 white.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle:
    • The Lion King vs. Sinisterkun, CaptainTurbo and Dyne. The game wins.
    • CaptainTurbo delivers one to the rest of the group in Sonic 2.
    • Dyne immediately becomes the favorite to win Super Metroid, especially after Raziel99 had to forfeit due to technical difficulties.
    • The group expected Turbo to deliver one on Ninja Turtles but Mark does a very good job in staying close behind.
    • Dyne was fully expected to win Mischief Makers so he told the viewers to watch everyone else for a closer race.
    • Turbo delivers one again to the group in Alex Kidd.
    • Mark runs away with Super Empire Strikes Back by the end of the first part.
    • Mark pretty much leaves the pack behind only a few minutes into Metroid Zero Mission.
  • Curse Cut Short:
    • "Oh, you pain in the aaaaaeear...!"
    • "Holy... cow!" "I thought you were going to say something else," in Kirby's Dream Land 2.
  • Damn You, Muscle Memory!:
    • In the Super Mario Kart race Dyne quickly realizes that it doesn't play like later games in the series.
    • Joked with in Super Metroid in that Dyne was used to playing a graphics hack version.
    • Happens to Dyne again in the NES Metroid when he drops down a shaft to pick up a missile expansion that's in Zero Mission but not the original.
  • Deadpan Snarker:
    • CaptainTurbo has a few good moments of this. He explains he's a sarcastic person in general in Part 3 of Super Metroid.
    • Dyne has several moments during Castlevania III, especially in response to Green Thorne.
  • Déjà Vu: MidiGuyDP gets strong vibes of the fight against Prince Froggy from Yoshi's Island during the mini-bosses in 4-3 of Mischief Makers.
  • Department of Redundancy Department:
    • "Press Start to... start." in Part 3 of Banjo-Tooie.
    • "On to 3 Clancer Kids. It's the one where you have to retrieve the 3 Clancer kids."
    • In Circle of the Moon, Mark states, "[Vampire Killer] is the Observatory music. It plays in the Observatory."
  • Designated Hero: Discussed in-universe about Marina in Mischief Makers.
  • Despair Event Horizon: In-Universe, Sinisterkun apparently crosses it at the end of Kirby's Dream Land 2, especially as he can be heard banging on his keyboard.
  • Determinator: Despite going in blind on a few and declaring she wants to give up a lot, Lady Lexis still has yet to Rage Quit a game.
  • Distinction Without a Difference: "You just made it to Float Islands?" "No, I just made it to the second area of Float Islands."
  • Does Not Understand Sarcasm:
    • Gold. A lot.
    • After Gold is the butt of yet another joke early in Final Fantasy IV, Dyne and Turbo suggest implementing a "Gold Burn Counter," to which he replies he doesn't have any burn marks on him.
  • Doomy Dooms of Doom: Mark talks about Duck Vader's Death Ray of Deathly Death in Buster Busts Loose.
  • Don't Explain the Joke: Gold has the tendency to explain jokes and running gags from earlier videos when they get referenced in later videos.
  • Driven to Suicide:
    • In the form of drowning a lion cub by the time The Lion King ended.
    • Lady Lexis has invoked this in every race she's been in so far.
  • Dub Name Change: It takes Gold a bit to realize that Kid Ying is Goemon's name only in the US version of Mystical Ninja.
  • Dude, Not Funny!: In-Universe:
    • After Lady Lexis suggests punching the baby.
    • Dyne to himself after the "Does that mean you were gay before?" joke in Part 1 of Castlevania III.
    • When Paris fails to cross the line twice in Circle of the Moon by turning a wife beating joke into a child abuse joke. He readily agrees it wasn't funny.
    • When Johnny is introduced as "The Man," in Chrono Trigger, Dyne asks, "I thought black guys were always fighting against the man," followed by himself saying, "Oh, thud!" when it doesn't get any response.
  • Ear Worm:
    • The group discusses how the theme song of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon is what everyone remembers.
    • They also discuss how catchy the main theme of the first video game is.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: The first few races not ending until everyone finished the game, even if there was only one person left.
  • The Eeyore: Lady Lexis can be like this at times.
  • Embarrassing Nickname: CosmicMetaKnight got saddled with "Peach" and it still stuck even after changing his handle to RedemptionsEdge.
  • Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Not understanding it prompts Michael to ask Gold, "Do you even Final Fantasy?"
  • Epic Fail:
    • "Previously, I got in last place because I didn't save."
    • Drakmanka likes to mention this a lot.
    • The entirety of The Lion King for 3 of the 4 racers.
    • Dyne dies in the worst possible areas- most of the way through long, auto-scrolling segments- three times in Part 5 of Yoshi's Island.
    • Sinisterkun's, "I didn't even get off the plane!" death in Sonic 2.
    • Gold getting flattened by a bulldozer within seconds of starting Ninja Turtles.
    • Lady Lexis forgetting to map her control inputs at the start of Wizards and Warriors.
    • Brightwolfz accidentally having to do the boss rush twice in Mega Man X4 due to selecting the wrong menu option. It costs him the win.
    • When Brightwolfz quotes the "I'm ending the call now," line in Mega Man X4, Gold thought he was ending the actual Skype call.
    • Sinisterkun informing Gold that he was 40 minutes behind the rest of the group in Circle of the Moon when they'd only been racing for 20!
    • Both Gold and Kyle forget to retrieve Marle after rescuing Queen Leene in Chrono Trigger and try to return to the present without her.
    • At the end of Part 3 of Final Fantasy VII, both Nova and Turbo accidentally return to Floor 1 of the Shinra building and softlock their game trying to get back into the elevator.
  • Everything Trying to Kill You:
    • CaptainTurbo invokes this with "Why does everything keep eating me?!"
    • Brought up in musical fashion in Part 6 of Adventure Island II.
    • Gold takes this concept a bit too far and continually attacks the innocent women in Mystical Ninja without realizing that you aren't supposed to attack them until being told otherwise.
  • Evil Laugh: Sinisterkun and Dyne break them out now and then, especially when the latter pulls out his Kefka voice.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: Dyne gives Golbez a very deep voice for Final Fantasy IV.
  • Eviler than Thou: Gold got a lot of flak for choosing The Lion King but he didn't completely revel in everyone's misfortune the way that Sinisterkun does in Adventure Island II.
  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin: During Final Fantasy IV, "Well, there's a command if I've ever seen one: 'Hold gas.'"
  • Failed a Spot Check: Celtics was hoping to run into Agile instead of Violen in Mega Man X2 and fails to notice that you can look at the map to see which X hunter is where.
  • Failure Is the Only Option: Joked with when saying, "Speed running tactics aren't working! Normal tactics aren't either!"
  • Fake Difficulty: Recognized as the reason why Ninja Turtles is as hard as it is.
  • Finagle's Law:
    • Sinisterkun was all ready and able to join in the Yoshi's Island race when his power went out right before recording.
    • Happens to Raziel99 who misses out on the re-do of Super Metroid after his computer crashed twice when trying to record. He did join in to commentate though.
  • Finishing Each Other's Sentences: This happens now and then, though the person who started the sentence doesn't always appreciate the finish.
  • Flat "What": CaptainTurbo's reaction to finding out that beating Burt the Bashful in Yoshi's Island requires pantsing him.
  • Foreign Cuss Word: Dyne's foul language is usually in Japanese.
  • Freudian Slip: "She's happy she's beating freaking Gringo- Green Thorne."
  • Funny Background Event:
    • Brightwolfz's mother often gets picked up on the audio.
    • Lady Lexis pulls off a few wall jumps during Part 1 of Super Metroid during her very first time playing the game, making her count higher than many players who were attempting to pull one off in it.
  • Game-Breaker: In-Universe discussion regarding Coo for levels and Needle!Rick for bosses in Kirby's Dream Land 2.
  • Gender Reveal:
    • Gold always thought Tails was a girl until being corrected during the Sonic 2 race.
    • Once again Gold is surprised to find out Tweetie Pie is a boy during the Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout race.
    • He also played Super Mario RPG before any Metroid games and first thought Samus was a guy from her cameo.
  • The Ghost: Due to a couple of audio mishaps, Turbo has no audible commentary in Streets of Rage 2.
  • Glad You Thought of It: Despite Dyne having the most experience with Final Fantasy IV, he quickly adopts one of Turbo's strategies at one point due to being a bottleneck on a high level run as he simply forgot that he could attack himself.
  • Goddamn Bats:
    • Invoked in-universe just to add it to this page, though actual bats were involved at the time.
    • The pink frogs in Adventure Island II are named as such, especially Turbo cursing them out with an uncharacteristic voice of doom.
      • If the game has a frog enemy, it will no doubt be the bane of at least one racer's existence. Averted in Final Fantasy IV as the path they take avoids the optional dungeons with the frog enemies.
    • The bats are Dyne's worst enemy in the second run of Castlevania IV.
    • Invoked literally during Wizards and Warriors.
  • Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Utilized in an attempt to keep the channel PG. Doesn't always work.
  • Graceful Loser: Dyne stating he'd rather have a hard fight for 2nd place instead of winning an easy 1st place.
  • Gratuitous Japanese:
    • Combined with Precision F-Strike in Yoshi's Island.
    • Done again at the end when Dyne wins and exclaims, "Yosha! Ore wa ichiban da!" or, "Yes! I'm number 1!"
    • A little more blatant after Super Metroid when Dyne and Sinisterkun trade Japanese insults.
    • A few of Goemon's phrases from Mystical Ninja 64 pop up in Mystical Ninja.
  • Gratuitous French Accent: Though even Dyne doesn't know why he slipped into one regarding Salvo the Slime in Yoshi's Island.
  • Gretzky Has the Ball: Sinisterkun declares the Heartless are enemies from Pokemon. Turbo immediately corrects him that they're from Kingdom Hearts.
  • Guest-Star Party Member:
    • Green Thorne in Adventure Island II as he plays along the game without joining the race.
    • CaptainTurbo in Kirby's Adventure due to computer problems.
    • RedemptionsEdge joined for the first half of the lost Castlevania IV race but had to bow out due to not feeling well.
  • Handicapped Badass: Turbo's emulator gives him massive slowdown during Pitfall II but he's able to use that to his advantage.
  • Hard Work Hardly Works:
    • Kurobei's creed is, "Practice is for the weak!"
    • Despite two practice runs in Yoshi's Island, Dyne falls hard into second place by dying three times in the worst possible places: in the middle of long, automatic scrolling sections in Part 5. Averted in the end, he makes a near-flawless comeback through World 6.
    • Averted for CaptainTurbo on the second run of Castlevania IV as his intention was to beat Dyne after losing 2nd place to him on the first run.
  • Have a Gay Old Time: Played with as Lady Lexis asks Sinisterkun not to use "that word," he asks what it was (faggot) and Dyne answers back with one of its other definitions as, "a bundle of sticks."
  • He Knows About Timed Hits: Averted in Sinister forgetting how to do timed blocks at the start of Mario RPG.
  • Heroic BSoD:
    • Three of the four racers during The Lion King.
    • Dyne gets another in Yoshi's Island after dying twice in 5-4 despite having done that level flawlessly in both practice runs.
    • Gold sounds very tired and defeated by the end of Part 5 of Adventure Island II.
      • By Part 7 of Adventure Island II the entire group is just too tired and defeated to even care about getting angry anymore.
    • Dyne has a minor one when he thinks he fails on his No Death Run of Kirby's Dream Land 2.
  • Heroic Second Wind: Dyne in Mischief Makers as Part 1 ends with him struggling against the World 2 boss while Part 2 begins with finishing the battle near-flawlessly.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • In-universe, done unintentionally. During the Mushroom Cup of Super Mario Kart Dyne relates a story of how he and a CPU racer once got the exact same time on Mario Circuit 2. Later, in Flower Cup, he and Gold get the exact same time in Ghost Valley 2.
    • A small exscript from the Magic Sword Race: Turbo; Don't forget I'll be owed about 15 seconds since I'm have to stop to record the cal. Sinisterkun; It won't matter. It matters, they both beat the final boss within seconds of each other.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Gold would have solidified 2nd place in The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle if he had not insisted in extending the race for one more part, especially as he already had a clear enough lead from 3rd at the end of Part 3. Instead, he got stuck at stage 59 and DeadZergling passed him to take 2nd.
  • Hollywood Tone-Deaf:
    • Dyne knows he's not a great singer but loves to do it anyway.
    • Averted with Lady Lexis, clearly the best singer of the group.
  • How Do I Shot Web?:
    • Gold doesn't learn about being able to throw money in Mystical Ninja until nearly the end of Part 2.
    • Examples in Castlevania III include how to walk up stairs, use sub-weapons and duck!
    • Green Thorne when it comes to recruiting Mumbo with glowbos in Banjo-Tooie.
    • Green Thorne again when selecting sub-weapons in Ninja Turtles.
  • Humiliation Conga:
    • Poor Sinisterkun finishes Sonic 2 with one of these.
    • Sinisterkun gets another throughout all of Ninja Turtles in losing Leo and Don twice in the dam level in the same way, forgetting to save state upon first reaching Areas 3 and 4, and falling/getting knocked into the water more times than everyone else combined in Area 3.
  • Hypocrite: Dyne gives those who enter the secret area in Stage 6 of Castlevania IV a hard time over the Video Game Cruelty Potential moment therein but later enters the same area. He does apologize to the dog though.
  • I Lied:
    • Dyne whispers a disclaimer that he's lying when claiming to quote someone from his stream chat during Castlevania IV.
    • Did so on two accounts to create a Hope Spot for the two runners who could have potentially beaten him at Power Blade.
    • Dyne again in Circle of the Moon when claiming he got two rare drops in a row from two of the same enemy.note 
  • In the Name of the Moon: Dyne quotes the Trope Namer phrase in Metroid.
  • Incredibly Lame Pun:
    • Dyne talking about "double-crossing" the first boss of Castlevania IV.
    • Followed up with, "Unhand me!" when grabbed by a hand enemy in the next level.
    • "I need a Maximato otherwise I'm going to lose my Coo."note  in Kirby's Dream Land 2.
    • Dyne's many "Justice Man" jokes in Mega Man Rock Force:
      "What kind of name is Justice Man, anyway? It just is, man."
      "Who all is going on this mission? Just us, man."
      "What do you want in your drink? Just ice, man."
      "I can't follow the plot. Will somebody tell me what the gist is, man?"
      "He's the villain? Surely you jest us, man!"
      "Take him apart, chop him up, and serve him with a side of au justice, man!"
      "That's done. Who wants to unwind with a classic game of Joust? Us, man!"
  • Innocent Innuendo: "This is where I died in practice. Maybe now I'll beat myself here."
  • Insane Troll Logic:
    • Brought up a few times during Donkey Kong Country.
    • Of which the universal answer is, "Video games."
    • Gold thinks it's the silver carrots that cause the chandeliers to fall during stage 2 of Buster Busts Loose.
  • Ironic Echo: Sinisterkun bragged he was going to pull off a No Death Run of Castlevania IV and ended up dying in Stage 3. Dyne immediately used Sinister's Catchphrase against him and reveled in doing so.
  • Irony:
    • Dyne talking about liking the chomp shark portion of Marching Milde's Fort in Yoshi's Island and dying twice to it.
    • Gold getting called out on explaining himself over his tendency to fall into Don't Explain the Joke and getting called out on that on this wiki during Mega Man X4.
  • Is This Thing Still On?:
    • Even after Green Thorne drops out of Banjo-Tooie to do something else, he stays in the call with his mic on, so a lot of what he's doing in the background gets picked up.
    • An unusual example during Hook in that Dyne had not played the game in a long time and still had cheat codes turned on. He quickly disables them and starts over.
    • Two different pronunciations of "Guardian" in Chrono Trigger with the first syllable being "Guard" or "Gourd."
  • Jump Scare:
    • The Gargantuan Blarg of Yoshi's Island elicits this reaction.
    • One of Dyne's deaths at the end of Part 2 of Castlevania IV and his reaction scream give Lexi a pretty good scare.
  • Just Eat Gilligan: CaptainTurbo decides Baby Mario isn't worth the trouble and ends Yoshi's Island by letting Kamek's toadies take him away.
  • Karmic Death: Sinisterkun gets quite a few in Sonic 2 after openly wishing for the leader's death.
  • Kick the Dog: On both Mario Kart games raced by the group so far, Dyne had his flawless run of Rainbow Road ruined by falling off the course on the final stretch of the last lap.
  • Kleptomaniac Hero: Turbo wishes you could be this in Mystical Ninja.
  • Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Gold has a few instances of this courtesy of putting his foot in his mouth by speaking too soon. The crowning example is during the Lion King on Broadway discussion in Wizards and Warriors.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em:
    • Dyne in Sonic 2.
    • The entire group after a winner is declared in Castlevania III.
    • Green Thorne in Ninja Turtles.
  • Konami Code:
    • Sinisterkun whispers it during Castlevania III.
    • Brought up again, combined with Serious Business in Banjo-Tooie.
    • Used by the racers in Ninja Turtles.
  • Kryptonite Factor:
    • The players whilst having their strengths also have their weaknesses
    • Gold has a difficult time with Mega Man and Castlevania games
    • Greenthone seems to have trouble with older platformers in general
    • CaptainTurbo considers N64 games as a whole his personal Kryptonite
  • "L" Is for "Dyslexia": Dyne does this now and then, accidentally swapping words or letters.
    "Did I just nearly say, 'I know death got a no-Gold run on that one?'"
  • Lampshade Hanging:
    • Dyne's gotten in the habit of pointing out what tropes will be added to this page during each race he's in.
    • Starting around Mystical Ninja, more group members are beginning to do this too.
    • "One of these days your constant death threats will make the tropes page."
    • Mark saying, "You're a video game character, you have infinite stamina!" when Dyne jokes that Crono's getting tired from running up four flights of stairs in Chrono Trigger.
  • Large Ham:
    • Sinisterkun goes this route in Part 5 of Adventure Island II.
    • Dyne has a lot of fun with this when breaking out his Kefka and Simon Belmont voices.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler:
    • Inverted. Dyne streams his race footage during recording sessions, so anyone who watches those broadcasts can learn who wins those races from the commentary before the main race videos are compiled and uploaded to youtube.
    • Also played straight in watching a newer race will often have someone mention who won a previous race.
  • Late to the Party: Green Thorne joins the group and plays along during the second half of Adventure Island II even though he didn't join the actual race.
  • Late to the Realization: Nearly 30 minutes after defeating the twin dragon zombies in Circle of the Moon, Dyne realizes he could have sung the Double Dragon theme while fighting them.
  • Laughing Mad:
    • Dyne does this at times. He claims it's to de-stress after overcoming a major obstacle and is readily seen when he wins on Castlevania III.
    • Dyne again after succeeding against King Dedede in Kirby's Dream Land 2.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Some of Dyne's commentary in Mystical Ninja deals with reacting/responding to movie lines audible in the background.
  • Leeroy Jenkins: Green Thorne is very convinced he'll keep up with the racers in Kirby's Adventure despite not having nearly as much experience in the game. It bites him. Hard.
  • Let's Get Dangerous!: Sinisterkun invokes this with "Skill Mode engaged!"
  • Let Us Never Speak of This Again: The general attitude towards The Lion King and Adventure Island II.
  • Literal-Minded:
    • Gold tends to play this pretty straight, but others often use it for humor.
    • Sinisterkun: "You's a bum!" Level27MarkerMan: "He has no job?" in Ninja Turtles
    • The group plays the quiet game during Silence in F-Zero.
  • The Load: Baby Mario is recognized as one in Yoshi's Island.
  • Lost Episode:
    • Pokémon Gold, Super Punch-Out!! and the first runs of Super Metroid and Super Castlevania IV.
    • The original Super Metroid and Super Castlevania IV races count as this as the group has decided to start over and re-record it at a later date. Dyne was able to stream the recording sessions of both and they are available on his channel, but the tropes still apply.
  • Madness Mantra: Dyne could only just repeat "What?" after one of his deaths in the Wario Land race when he walked off a ledge and the forward momentum didn't carry Wario into another opening.
  • Malaproper: Sinisterkun calls the Energy Tanks in Super Metroid "Reserve Tanks," despite having already gotten one of the actual Reserve Tanks during the race.
  • Man of a Thousand Voices: Dyne carries this over from his channel.
  • Manly Tears: CaptainTurbo literally cries tears of happiness after clearing the second ostrich in level 2 of The Lion King.note 
  • Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.": In-universe for Gold, he played Kirby's Dream Land 3 before Metroid games and compares Metroids to the jellyfish enemies in that.
  • Masochism Tango:
    • After PsychoticRanboob wins Banjo-Tooie he immediately goes back into the game to do the Canary Mary races.
    • Mark suggests a race to see who can earn the Super Suit first in Mario RPG.
  • Minimalist Run: How Brightwolfz won Mega Man X.
  • Missing Main Character: Sinisterkun has no commentary in Part 6 of Adventure Island II due to keeping his mic on mute to eliminate background noise.
  • Mission Control:
    • Raziel99 takes on this role in Super Metroid since computer problems kept him from participating in the race. Lampshaded by him in Part 4.
    • Raziel reprised this role and BloodyThunderX joined in for Banjo-Tooie as well.
  • Mister Exposition: Gold for his tendency to spend a lot of time explaining various race mechanics or rules.
  • Mondegreen Gag: Several times:
    • When Dyne finishes a Yoshi's Island level and says he's exiting, it sounds like a bad pun of "Egg-xiting." No one catches it.
    • "I died again! I'm God!" from Super Metroid.
    • Gold mishears "anti-dandruff shampoo" as "anti-gender shampoo" during Castlevania IV.
    • Gold thinking the "Omochau edition" of Sonic 2 was the "Obi Quigon Jin edition."
      • Wherein Dyne thought he said, "OB-GYN edition."
    • Talking about Zeromus from Final Fantasy IV sounds like "Zero Mist" during Mario RPG.
  • Mutual Kill: Happens to Mark and the Buster Busts Loose Stage 3 boss.
    • Also happens to Turbo in the Mega Man marathon against Ice Man.
    • Happens to Mark again in the Circle of the Moon race on the final boss's final form and phase.
    • Happens to Gold in Mega Man at Ice Man again.
  • My Friends... and Zoidberg:
    • Baby Mario gets this treatment in Yoshi's Island.
    • From Final Fantasy IV: "Wow. Dyne, Michael, and me are less than five minutes apart. And Gold is... here as well."
  • My Greatest Second Chance: GoldGleeGamer1 wanted redemption in SMB3 by avoiding the glitch that got him disqualified from his first time racing it.
  • My Name Is *Belch*: A well-timed burp answers the question of when the king of World 6 asks for Mario's name during the group commentary of Super Mario Bros. 3.
  • Nightmare Fuel: In-universe in Part 1 of Kirby's Adventure as Green Thorne admits being scared by Dyne and Turbo's voice of doom. One commenter also admitted to getting legitimately freaked out too.
  • No Death Run:
    • Gold pulls one off in Super Mario Bros. 3.
    • CaptainTurbo in Hook.
    • Dyne in Power Blade despite lying about it.
    • Dyne again in Kirby's Dream Land 2.
    • Mark in Metroid Zero Mission.
    • Dyne in Circle of the Moon.
    • Mark in Gunstar Heroes.
    • Paris in Mega Man 4.
    • Mark in Metroid.
  • No Fair Cheating: Subverted in Final Fantasy IV as the group uses a cheat code to instantly level up to 99 for the sake of saving time.
  • "No. Just… No" Reaction:
    • Sinisterkun's reaction to Dyne's version of The Lion King opening.
    • Multiple reactions to Gold's thinking Sonic and Tails were boyfriend and girlfriend.
    • The reaction to Gold comparing Cerberus to a chameleon due to his color change mechanics in Circle of the Moon.
  • No Indoor Voice: Sinisterkun can out-yell the rest of the racers combined. Based on his wife and daughter in the background at times, it runs in the family.
  • Noob Bridge:
    • The Trope Namer catches at least one of the racers during the lost Super Metroid race.
    • Happens to Lady Lexis in Super Metroid as she immediately forgets to manually advance the prologue text and again when she doesn't realize that doors need to be shot to be opened.
      • The funny thing, however, is the actual bridge does not trap her.
    • Sinisterkun thinks he's in the Trope Namer room in Part 3 of the second Super Metroid race, but that only led to confusion.
      • It's actually inverted for him in Part 4 when he tries to diagonally shine spark (a move that most first-time players have no clue about) across a chasm when he simply needed to do a regular speed boost-assisted running jump.
  • Not So Stoic:
    • In-universe, Lady Lexis learns this about Dyne near the end of Part 2 of Castlevania III when he acts in a manner that had been done in previous races but in a way that she hadn't yet seen since joining the group.
    • Dyne is rather happy when he gets his 8th race win in Pitfall II and Lampshades it as a "Show of emotion that's once in a blue moon."
  • Noodle Implements: What Lexi plans to kill Sinisterkun with during Adventure Island II.
  • Off with His Head!: Turbo declares this at the end of Part 3 of Mario Kart 64.
  • Oh, Crap!: Said a lot.
    • Turbo when he realizes he wasn't recording during the first portion of Part 6 of Adventure Island II.
    • Sinisterkun when he realizes he forgot to save his state and when it came back to bite him in both Ninja Turtles and Alex Kidd.
    • Celtics in Mega Man X2 when he thinks he's taking a short cut and ends up running into Violen.
  • Once Done, Never Forgotten:
    • It will be a long time before GoldGlee is forgiven for The Lion King.
    • Though the rage at that has been redirected towards Sinisterkun for Adventure Island II, mostly because it took 9 parts compared to Castlevania III. Turbo even later threatens to fire him from the group during Alex Kidd if he thinks of choosing another Adventure Island.
    • Averted with CaptainTurbo choosing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, again because it was less than half as long.
  • One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Happens in Part 3 of Sonic 2 when Dyne announces his reaching the boss of Wing Fortress Zone and Sinister immediately says, "You gotta be kidding me!" but in response to something on his own screen instead. And it gets reversed not two minutes later in the same video.
  • Once an Episode: Each Castlevania race can be expected to have a reference to, "Die, monster! You don't belong in this world!"
  • Only Sane Man:
    • CaptainTurbo is the most prone to remaining calm even when frustrated.
    • On another scale it takes a lot to get Gold frustrated.
  • Orphaned Punchline: The, "It worked for The Runaway Guys," at the start of Part 3 of Final Fantasy IV refers back to the blooper at the end of the video (but happened earlier during recording).
  • Over Nine Thousand: The Trope Namer is played straight in Mystical Ninja and gets a lampshaded Call-Back in Castlevania III.
  • Overly Long Gag:
    • "Ah, ah, ah! You didn't say the magic word," in Sonic 3. Lampshaded by the racers.
    • "Rosa gained a level. Rosa gained a level. Rosa gained a level," used to illustrate what it's like to do a high-level run of Final Fantasy IV without speeding up the game.
  • Parental Abandonment: Discussed in Final Fantasy IV as to what happened to Palom and Porom's parents. They decide the parents didn't want to keep Palom.
  • Parody Displacement: In-universe as the team begins to sing American Pie but Dyne doesn't know the full lyrics so he sings Weird Al's Star Wars: Episode I parody version instead.
  • Pet the Dog: The team playing through Sonic 2 as an unofficial race for CaptainTurbo since it's a game he's very familiar with as compared to many of the games they've raced.
  • Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Inverted! Dyne mentions "a Siren's song" and Gold responds with, "Oh, the one by Cher Lloyd?"
  • Precision F-Strike:
    • Dyne gets a little frustrated against his That One Boss in Wario Land.
      Dyne: [as Wario] "Wario is going to take great pleasure in killing this fucking bird!"
    • Averted by both Sinisterkun and Dyne during The Lion King when they each pull a, "Ssssssssssssss-imba!"
    • Dyne again the second time he gets Furball's bonus game in Buster Busts Loose at the end of Part 1.
  • Previously on…:
    • Duelpro likes doing these in Donkey Kong Country.
    • Mark's, "Previously on… the Circle of the Moon race, Dyne flew his chopper into a volcano and Paris survived his operation."
  • Product Placement:
    • Joked about during Sonic 2.
    • During Ninja Turtles a few of the guys plug their preferred pizza franchises.
  • Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "Yes! I. Win. Take. That! Fuck. You!"
  • The Quiet One:
    • CaptainTurbo started off as this, both in terms of not saying as much as the rest of the group (but mostly in games he's not familiar with) and being the least prone to yelling.
    • Sinsterkun literally during Sonic 2 and Kirby's Dream Land 2 as he's very hard to hear due to lowering his mic volume to cut down on background noise.
    • Captain Turbo was completely mute for the entire Streets of Rage 2 race due to a audio issue where his commentary wasn't picked up on recording.
  • Rage Quit:
    • DjMo12 in Kirby Super Star & Sonic 1, Brightwolfz in New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Sinisterkun in Sonic 2.
    • Green Thorne in Banjo-Tooie.
  • Rake Take: Turbo describes how this once happened to him with a shovel. Fortunately it only grazed his cheek.
  • Rape as Comedy: Invoked by Dyne as he's caught by Elmyra in a Tiny Toons game he's playing off-camera during Part 3 of Kirby's Dream Land 2.
  • Rapid-Fire Interrupting: Happens to Gold a lot, especially early in Mega Man X2.

  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
    • The group got one from a viewer of the Super Metroid recording session asking to stop comparing themselves to Let's Race With RPGM (the channel that inspired Gold to start this one).
    • Lexi gives an indirect one to Sinisterkun during Power Blade when stating that people who randomly insert the words "douche bag" into things aren't funny.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni:
    • Sinisterkun is the red to Dyne's blue when it comes to each other.
    • Sinisterkun considers Lexi and Thorne another pair of this.
  • Reference Overdosed:
    • If Dyne's seen it, he'll reference it.
    • Played up even more during the Hook race as he quotes the movie at every opportunity.
  • Rhymes on a Dime: "Die more, boar!" in Kirby's Dream Land 2.
  • The Rival:
    • Green Thorne wants to be Lexi's, but she'll have none of that.
    • Midi and Thunder for racing games.
    • Dyne and Sinsiterkun at times.
    • Turbo and Mark for a slew of different games.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Lexi has vowed bloody vengeance on several of the designers for the games she's gone into blind.
  • Rule of Three:
    • Castlevania III, Banjo-Tooie and Ninja Turtles are done in a row and all of them are finished in three parts.
    • Dyne also yells, "Ah!" three times at the start of Part 2 of Mischief Makers though the 3rd time wasn't necessary.
    • Subverted in Wizards and Warriors as Paris does his "Because I'm Batman!" twice and sounds like he's about to do it a 3rd time but instead says, "Because Skype is evil!"
  • Rule 34: Invoked after Dyne mentions having a hard time finding clean images of mermaid Yae during Mystical Ninja.
  • Running Gag:
    • CosmicMetaKnight received the nickname of "Peach" early on and it stuck, even after changing his handle to RedemptionsEdge and it really got milked during Super Mario Bros. with the quotation of "Our CosmicMetaKnight is in another castle."
    • "X faster!" and referring to Kamek's toadies as "Social Services" in Yoshi's Island.
    • Any Shout-Out to another channel is not advertising, otherwise the racers would be getting paid for it.
    • Using various transformation phrases for when Yoshi transforms into a vehicle in Yoshi's Island.
    • Referring to the Yoshi's Island as a ping-pong match between Gold and Dyne as the former will get ahead when Dyne gets lost and Dyne gets ahead whenever Gold dies.
    • Dyne repeatedly falling into the water in Chemical Plant Act 2 in Sonic 2 turns into one.
      • Quickly surpassed by the number of times Sinisterkun gets knocked into the sewer water in Area 3 of Ninja Turtles.
    • Dyne doing various Item Get! jingles when picking up power-ups in Super Metroid.
    • Dyne doing an acapella of the Castlevania IV stage clear theme along with the game after each level.
    • Dyne again in Castlevania III with a Squee of "Meat!" when refilling health, referencing a segment of John Cleese's How to Irritate People.
    • The line, "Or we could have a 30-minute debate on how to pronounce Lakitu's name" has popped up outside of its original source race.
    • "Die!" "You don't belong in this world!" comes up a lot in Castlevania games.
    • Mostly seen in group commentary videos rather than races, but a running gag of Gold having a gambling addiction and needing an intervention carries over from his channel.
    • Marina's "Shake! Shake!" Catchphrase gets a few tweaks during Mischief Makers.
    • Gold has the tendency to compare easy bosses to Bear Hugger from Super Punch-Out.
    • Dyne quoting Dennis Nedry's "Ah, ah, ah! You didn't say the magic word," whenever Sonic does his finger wave in Sonic 3. Acknowledged as an Overly Long Gag by the end.
    • Pointing out how many elements in The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout have absolutely nothing to do with the source cartoons.
    • During Final Fantasy IV, Dyne says, "This is where I'm going to get lost," for several dungeons.
      • The exchanges of, "Kweh?", "Kweh.", "Kweh!"
      • Coming up with crazy conspiracy theories Played for Laughs on how unrelated series manage to secretly connect with the game.
    • "THREE EXTRA LIVES!" whenever someone happens to get three extra lives either all at once or within a short span of time.
  • Russian Reversal: "In Soviet Russia, hammer drops you!" in Castlevania IV.
  • Sadist:
    • Sinisterkun demonstrates shades of this by talking about his choice of Adventure Island II being "a slaughter" and a "punishment" towards the others. He also laughs at several of Turbo's deaths.
    • The group has a discussion about subjecting Green Thorne to evil games such as I Wanna Be the Guy and Super Meat Boy just to witness his reactions during Banjo-Tooie.
  • Sanity Slippage:
    • Very very noticeable during The Lion King.
    • Sinisterkun slowly loses it over the course of Sonic 2.
    • Happens to everyone who participated in Adventure Island II.
    • Again to everyone in Castlevania III, but it's mercifully shorter.
    • Green Thorne during Banjo-Tooie. One person says, "He's snapped and become the disciple of Kefka."
    • Sinisterkun has some very noticeable moments of this during Castlevania IV.
    • Dyne loses it more and more every time his bonus round spins land on the Furball mini-game in Buster Busts Loose courtesy of it taking the most time.
  • Sarcastic Confession: Dyne towards Sinisterkun at the end of Super Metroid prior to calling him "Aho!"
  • Say My Name:
    • "Cooooooooooooooooooooo!!!"
    • "FURRBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL!!!"
  • The Scrappy: In-universe:
    • Kiddy Kong in Donkey Kong Country 3.
    • Edward in Final Fantasy IV. The group calls for Levianthan to eat him.
  • Screams Like a Little Girl:
    • DjMo12 when trying to avoid being eaten in Super Mario 64. Sinisterkun and Dyne have their moments of this too.
    • Sinisterkun has several crowning examples in Ninja Turtles.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Part 4 of Mystical Ninja ends a couple of minutes early since the standings had been solidified.
  • Sdrawkcab Name: In Chrono Trigger, Dyne renames Marle as Adina, a simple anagram of her real name, Nadia.
  • Second Place Is for Losers: Averted. Racers are often more disappointed with their shortcomings that cause them to fall behind 1st place rather than not winning.
  • Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Dyne did two practice runs of Yoshi's Island between Parts 4 and 5 of the race and falls into a few traps during the race he warned himself about in the practice runs.
  • Sequence Breaking:
    • Employed very... little in the first Super Metroid race, which makes sense as none of the racers had ever done a speed run of the game before.
    • Played straight in the re-race though as Dyne and Turbo had done a few practice runs between the two races.
    • Sinisterkun attempts this in Castlevania: Circle of the Moon by attempting to clear the Underground Waterway without the Cleansing. He fails.
  • Serious Business:
    • The argument over exactly what kind of animal the wall meat in Castlevania games comes from.
    • The Speed Run discussions of the Tower of Tragedy Quiz in Banjo-Tooie.
    • CaptainTurbo and Sinisterkun arguing over which of the 1980s or 2003 Ninja Turtles cartoon series was superior.
    • The difference between beating and 100% Completion of movies.
  • Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Race:
    • Dyne sort of takes this role when he joins the Adventure Island II and Banjo-Tooie commentary at various points but it's more making quips while doing his own thing.
    • Lampshaded by him when doing a repeat during Banjo-Tooie by saying, "Hi, I'm not in this."
  • Shout-Out: Now on its own page.
  • Sink or Swim Mentor: Super Metroid becomes this for Sinisterkun the moment he saves his game in the wall-jump tutorial area.
  • Skyward Scream:
    • Dyne does this to vent after his flawless run of Rainbow Road is ruined when turning the last corner of the track on the final lap, then again when the same thing happens in the Super Circuit version.
    • Also does the infamous "What am I fighting for?!" line during Mystical Ninja.
    • His cry of "Furrbaaaaaall!" in Part 2 of Buster Busts Loose is epic.
  • The Smurfette Principle: Played straight with Drakmanka until Lady Lexis joined the channel.
  • Squee: Dyne is playing Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 3DS during the Banjo-Tooie race and he does this twice when encountering the Pookas from Dig-Dug and the Mad Taxi from the Mother series in-game.
  • The Starscream: "Kefka" fires Gold and declares himself the new host after Gold messes up Dyne's into Catchphrase in Buster Busts Loose.
  • Stock Scream: Sinisterkun told Dyne that he sounds like Stormtrooper when he screams at an in-game death in Sonic 2, but he can't quite pull off the Wilhelm Scream.
  • Stupid Crooks: Dyne points out what a lousy bank robber Montana Max is in Buster Busts Loose by wearing no kind of disguise and giving his name very loudly to the sheriff.
  • Suddenly Shouting: Dyne's done this a couple of times. Once after a failed Flawless Victory in Super Mario Kart and in response to a very Narmish movie line from the background in Mystical Ninja.
  • Surfer Dude: The accent is poked fun at in Adventure Island II.
  • Suspect Is Hatless: "What part of the forest are you in?" "Uh... there are trees," from Alex Kidd in Miracle World.
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial: Sinisterkun loading state when meaning to save state and saying, "Not like it bothers me none."
  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
    • Discussed with how a real life Rake Take could break a person's nose.
    • In Final Fantasy IV there are jokes made about how Cecil recovers from Golbez's almost-fatal attack in the Tower of Zot without being healed and how the entire group has situations where they fall from great heights, land on their feet, and no one breaks their legs.
  • Surrounded by Idiots:
    • Lexi laments, "I am surrounded by 14-year old boys," in Part 4 of Super Metroid.
    • Lexi again laments, "You people are so uncultured," after no one picks up her quoting Romeo and Juliet during Power Blade.
  • Survival Mantra: "I will not die this time. I will not die this time. I will not die this time." in Super Mario World.
  • Take a Moment to Catch Your Death:
    • Happens to CaptainTurbo after defeating Kabula in Kirby's Dream Land.
    • Happens to at least one racer in each of the two Sonic games.
  • Take That!:
    • A playful jab at the parent channel's Running Gag of "I wanna see my ending!" and declaring that it only works when being loud and angry when shouting it.
    • Quoth PsychoticRanboob, "Hey everyone, it's Chuggaaconroy! I'm going to scream now!"
    • Dyne declares the, "Character gained a level," messages that appear every level if a character levels up multiple times in one battle in Final Fantasy IV almost as bad as drawing spells in Final Fantasy VIII.
    • One of Dyne's stream viewers compared Kain to Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequel films. Dyne immediately declared that an insult to Kain.
    • ** "I love the Roc Wing. It's so bad." "You mean like the Power Glove?" "Yes, but this is actually useful."
  • Tempting Fate:
    • Gold tries to weaponize this near the end of Yoshi's Island. It doesn't work.
    • "I'm almost done with Whispy! ...Well, I was."
    • Paris reaches the second-to-last island by Part 3 of Adventure Island II and declares he should finish up in 1-2 more parts.Oh yeah? 
    • Two instances during Pitfall II with Dyne taking a hit immediately after saying he hadn't taken any yet and Sinisterkun stating he only had to catch up to Dyne a split-second before the latter wins.
      • Dyne invokes this and averts it later on simply by avoiding the situation that would have tempted fate entirely.
  • That Came Out Wrong:
    • Dyne falls victim to a Tongue Twister when saying "Plant that flag faster" and ends up saying, "Plant that fag faster."
    • Green Thorne's "It will not let me suck you in!" in the same part.
    • "Rise faster, Harry!" in Pitfall II.
    • "I am sucking on Dedede big time!" in Kirby's Dream Land 2.
    • In Buster Busts Loose, Sinisterkun gets Hamton's bonus stage. Marks says, "Oh, you can do him really fast."
    • "Don't touch the chocobo more than one time, Cecil!"
  • That One Boss: In-universe:
    • Naval Piranha is this to CaptainTurbo.
    • Kabula for everyone in Kirby's Dream Land.
    • Kraid for Gold in Super Metroid.
    • The twin dragons for Sinisterkun and Death for CaptainTurbo in Castlevania III.
  • That One Level:
    • In-universe, Maridia for Raz and Dyne in Super Metroid (though just one room in particular for the latter).
    • Sinisterkun constantly warns the others about Ice Isle in Adventure Island II.
  • That's What She Said:
    • Plenty of 'em in Castlevania III.
    • Including a literal example in Castlevania IV.
  • Then Let Me Be Evil: Sinisterkun declares himself the villain of the group during Wizards and Warriors.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: In-universe, CaptainTurbo declares that someone deserved to be fired for how the intro of Yoshi's New Island alters the original ending of Yoshi's Island.
  • Third-Person Person: Dyne's impressions of Wario turn him into this.
  • This Cannot Be!: Gold gives this vibe when Lexi beats him on Death Wind 1 in F-Zero.
  • This Is Gonna Suck:
    • Sinisterkun and CaptainTurbo didn't quite know what to expect from Kirby's Dream Land Extra Mode.
    • Lady Lexis invokes this the first time she sees Ridley as she did Super Metroid completely blind.
    • CaptainTurbo begins Adventure Island II by declaring, "And the hell begins."
    • Dyne indirectly invokes this at the start of Legend of the Mystical Ninja by telling Sinisterkun they were counting on him to keep the race short compared to Adventure Island II.
    • Yet again at the start of Castlevania III. "Welcome to Castlevania, where all your hopes and dreams go to die."
    • "Oh crap, I just died!" "Get used to it, it's going to happen a lot." in Ninja Turtles.
    • CaptainTurbo begins Super Empire Strikes Back with "And the hell begins...again" in reference to Adventure Island 2.
    • Completely inverted in Final Fantasy IV as the group talks about how they'd been looking forward to it.
  • This Is Unforgivable!:
    • Sinisterkun doesn't react too well to Turbo getting ahead of him at the first island of Adventure Island II.
    • Turbo jokes that Gold can't be forgiven for missing another Michael Jackson reference during Part 3 of Mystical Ninja.
  • This Is Your Premise on Drugs: "This is your Spekkio on drugs. Any questions?" in Chrono Trigger.
  • Too Much Information: The response to Dyne's stating, "That was a good fart!" during Circle of the Moon and done again a few minutes later with a burp.
  • Took a Level in Badass:
    • CaptainTurbo takes one for Super Metroid as, during the original race he did very poorly. Between that and the re-race he beat the game twice and does much better in the re-do.
    • Another for him in the second Super Castlevania IV race as he became a strong contender for 1st place over the course of the whole thing.
  • Tranquil Fury: Dyne tries to maintain this during The Lion King but CaptainTurbo does a better job maintaining it overall.
  • Troll:
    • Sinisterkun's wife during Mega Man X.
    • CaptainTurbo has a little fun ribbing on Green Thorne in Kirby's Adventure for being a Leeroy Jenkins.
    • Turbo takes great delight in ribbing Sinisterkun for his fails in Ninja Turtles, which is expected as he chose that game for revenge.
    • Dyne often enters this territory when ribbing Sinisterkun if his wife isn't already after him.
    • Dyne again in Power Blade, even though what he'd planned didn't quite work out.note 
    • Gold gets trolled by the same bat several times in Pitfall II.
    • Turbo ends up giving Gold a lot of flack for being so behind even at the beginning of Final Fantasy IV.
  • Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Discussed in Final Fantasy IV when the group talks about how, for a six-year old, Rydia gets over her hatred for Cecil pretty quickly.
  • Two Lines, No Waiting:
    • Dyne streams the race recording sessions and sometimes tries to balance commenting with the group along with responding to the stream chat at the same time.
    • Done in the commentary of Banjo-Tooie while the racers talk about the game while Dyne and Raziel99 talk about Smash Bros. 3DS.
    • Done in Part 3 of Kirby's Dream Land 2 as Dyne fires up different games after getting his ending.
  • Unintentionally Unwinnable: The Magic Sword rules cause Gold to be placed in this situation as he save states on the final floor with very little health and no more continues, making it virtually impossible to win and allowing Mike to catch up to and pass him.
  • Unwanted Assistance: In-Universe. The Bonus Challenges in Yoshi's Island are treated as this as they slow progress in the race.
  • Urban Legend of Zelda: In-Universe claiming that Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in the film version of Power Blade.
  • Valley Girl: Lexi and Dyne poke fun at the stereotype in Super Metroid.
  • Video Game Cruelty Potential: Dyne mentions loving to knock the people off the bridge who are otherwise doing nothing to hurt you in Zone III of Mystical Ninja just to enjoy watching them fall.
  • Viewers Are Goldfish: If someone in the group makes a Call-Back to an earlier race or a reference to another Lets Player, GoldGleeGamer1 has to explain it every single time!
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Sinisterkun and Dyne rib on each other a lot but all in good fun.
  • Well, Excuse Me, Princess!:
    • Discussed in Sonic 2.
    • Gold walks right into this one in Part 4 of Super Metroid.
    • He walks into it again in Ninja Turtles.
  • What Could Have Been: In-universe, the group wishes for a Cranky Kong Country game.
  • What Did I Do Last Night?: Dyne was very sleep-deprived during the Mega Man 4 race. When talking about it later on he says he couldn't remember recording it at all.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Gold got one from Lexi at the end of the lost Castlevania IV race when he decided the rankings would be based on the furthest each person got rather than their current position. She was not happy about that as she was ahead of him at the time but he had gotten further beyond that before gaming over.
  • What's a Henway?:
    • This pops up now and then in conversations of, "Do you know how to defeat this enemy?" to be answered with, "Hit him until he dies."
    • "Any tips for the disappearing platforms?" "Don't die." in Castlevania IV.
    • "How do I use the Lightsaber?" "Swing it". in "Super Empire Strikes Back"
  • With Lyrics:
    • Brightwolfz attempts a song in Donkey Kong Country but it doesn't last long.
    • Dyne adds some to the Ghostbusters theme to joke about how doing so would get the video flagged for copyright for them humming the theme.
    • Lexy adding lyrics to the classic Tetris theme during Wizards and Warriors.
    • The One-Woman Wail title theme of Circle of the Moon is met with, "Waiter, this soup is too-ooo cold."
  • Wrong Turn at Albuquerque:
    • The participants will occasional get lost during racing, especially in the more open games.
    • Sinisterkun, Gold and Lexi all get lost during Super Metroid. note 
    • Metroid Zero Mission, Gold constantly looses track of his location and also gets stuck several times.
    • Turbo also gets lost during the Kraid section of MZM. note 
  • You Bastard!:
    • Sinisterkun says this to Gold when having to pause in a very bad spot at the end of Part 3 of Adventure Island II.
    • Lady Lexis at the same game when losing a dino.
    • RedemptionsEdge to Dyne at the start of Castlevania IV when the latter calls him Peach.
    • Sinisterkun when CaptainTurbo declares that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is payback for Adventure Island II.
    • Sinisterkun to CaptainTurbo again when Turbo passes him during Part 2 of Castlevania IV.
    • Sinisterkun to Dyne after the latter one-cycles the Yellow Devil in Mega Man.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Dyne does this to a chomp rock in level 1-3 of Yoshi's Island.
  • You Look Familiar: In-Universe, Dyne compares the video hostess girl from Mystical Ninja to Nei of Phantasy Star II.
''"That's it for this race. We'll catch you back next time!"
-GoldGlee

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