Redundancy / Web Original

• Anything that fits into the "X Y is X" meme (where X is an adjective and Y is a noun), like "Obvious troll is obvious◊". Spawned from "Longcat is long."
• In her Gag Dub of Harry Potter the German YouTube comedian Coldmirror features the "unsichtbar machenden Unsichtbarkeitsmantel, der unsichtbar macht" (Translation: invisible making invisibility cloak which makes you invisible")
• "Yup. Sorry. The Lich King is going to die. Blizzard didn't have any problem killing Kael'thas, Illidan, Kael'thas, Lady Vashj, or even Kael'thas" Said in a post by Boubouille of mmo-champion.com (There is a smallish meme about Kael'thas' death(s) being merely a setback)
• A note from the unprofessional, arrogant, unprofessional, insensitive, unprofessional, immature, inconsiderate, unprofessional, irresponsible, unprofessional, juvenile, unprofessional, tactless and unprofessional Wall of Shame founder and caretaker (or more appropriately, "crap-taker"... you'll see), Emerson
• COME HAVE SEX WITH MY VAGINA
• This video review of the legendary video game Superman 64 ironically praises the game's features: "The fight moves!... The giant eels!... The explosions!... The rings!... The rings!... The rings!..."
• Gavin's list of enemies in the KateModern episode "Deal with the Devil" consists of the names "The Watcher, Patricia Neilson, Dave, Tariq, Lee, Kate" repeated three times over, followed by "TERRENCE" ten times.
• The Department of Redundancy Department and the Repetitive Department of Repetition are actual departments in the Protectors of the Plot Continuum. Reporting to them is very annoying as the agents have to repeat everything in a slightly different way at least once.
• The title character from The Redundant Man Who Was Redundant is called Steven Stevenson II. He works in the Department Of Redundant Acronyms with his secretary, Dora.
  • "Author's Note: Funnily enough, I agonized forever over whether to call this story 'The Redundant Man' or 'The Man Who Was Redundant'…"
• Done several times for comic effect in a certain review of FATAL, with such lines as:
  Here, in fact, is where stupid and vicious and offensive and juvenile and brutal and stupid join together like a multiple-robot Transformer and destroy anything in the universe that is even close to being good or nice or true or good.
  • For added hilarity, this page of the "rebuttal" apparently doesn't recognise the concept of "comic effect".
• The Evil League of Evil in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
  Bad Horse, Bad Horse, Bad Horse, he's bad!
  • Also, in the song "The Art" from Commentary! The Musical, Felicia Day sings the line "Magic as a magic thing and lovely as love".
• history of japan makes this a Running Gag. Japan could be walked to, and some people walked to it. The Mongols, who have invaded China, have invaded China.
• The Nostalgia Critic gets this gem in his review of the animated Titanic movie:
  Nostalgia Critic: Some Italian fart over in Italy...
  • You can be an Italian, and not currently be in Italy...
  • There's also Santa Christ's song from The Star Wars Holiday Special review. Makes it better.
  • The "I Heart Love" bit from The Thief and the Cobbler review is an excellent example. He found the existence of the song redundant in itself, so he made it even more redundant.
• The Cinema Snob is a fan of this trope:
  Cinema Snob: If I want to watch a Terminator II movie, I'll watch real Terminator II movies like Terminator 2, thank you very much.
  Cinema Snob: I knew The '70s were... seventies but I didn't realise they were that seventies.
  Cinema Snob: I would rather date a bipolar manic depressive... again.
• Sir Ron Lionheart's Let's Play of div-r-6-HM Mega Man X, part 1:
  Ron: It's so heavy metal, it's so heavy metal!
• raocow's "cat planet cat planet planet cat cat planet" LP of cat planet.
  • Also, Tap-Tap the Tap-Tap the Tap-Tap the Tap-Tap...
• This LOLCats.
• This hilarious Uncyclopedia page.
• Syd Lexia created a list of The Top 100 Virtual Boy Games Ever. ALL of them are Virtual Boy Wario Land.
• Theodore Gray created a "periodic table table", which collects samples of (almost) all known elements in the periodic table in slots in an actual table. It became so popular that he decided to sell printed posters of it and announced their availability on Usenet. Promptly, it was pointed out that if he ever repeated that announcement, he might become a periodic periodic table table poster poster. (This isn't actually an example of redundancy...).
• In Living in Oblivion, Nondrick kills a bandit by administering a lethal dose. A lethal dose of death.
• A rather classic line from The Tourettes Guy: "Suck my dick...or cock!!"
• Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music uses this term to describe Funky House.
• The Nostalgia Chick says "gets killed to death" in her review of Dragonheart.
• Atop the Fourth Wall has a Santa Claus Conquers the Martians comic with the line "Obediently, Torg obeys." Linkara comments that "Redundantly, the comic is redundant."
  • His review of Superman #701 has him accidentally say that Superman solves problems "of all sizes, big and large." Lampshaded in an annotation: "Editing your script? What's that?"
• This Cracked article has a list of DMX's criminal charges:
  Assault, Possession of Illegal Substances, Possession of an Illegal Weapon, Animal Cruelty, Driving Without a License, Possession of Illegal Substances, Possession of False Identification, Possession of Illegal Substances, Impersonating a Federal Agent, Hijacking a Car, Possession of Illegal Substances, and finally, Possession of Illegal Substances.
  • In a column on stock photos: "Sure, I may be crazy, but at least I'm crazy."
• All of the articles on Bulbapedia about Pokémon species have page titles that appear as "(insert Pokémon name here) Pokémon".
  • Justified as you could be searching for the cards of the same name.
• MarzGurl points this out in her Land Before Time XII review after this line: "Many changes had occurred on this Day of Changes."
• Happens a lot with The Irate Gamer. His quotes page has multiple examples.
• According to The Other Wiki, "A leather jacket is a type of clothing, a jacket made of leather."
• Epic Meal Time: Cheesy Grill Cheese Tower.
• In episodes 18 and 19 of Warning! Readers Advisory!, Derek the Bard is stranded in "THE IN-BETWEEN PLACE! THE PLACE THAT IS IN-BETWEEN!" And it is always referred to with those two statements.
• Go search "recursion" on Google. Right now. This very moment.
• In a LP collaboration of Battletoads by ProtonJon, NintendoCapriSun, SuperJeenius, and PCULL 44444, we get this (Cluster F-Bomb warning)
• In this Poundland Special by Ashens he reviews a hat with a label that reads "Outdoor Hat."
• The Cocaine Energy Drink website posted a message from the FDA that explained to them, in great detail, why their product is not a dietary supplement or an alternative to the illicit drug. It included the sentence "As explained in greater detail below, dietary supplements are products that e (sic) intended to supplement the diet."
• The Angry Video Game Nerd is known to do this.
  About the poor quality of the label on the Nintendo World Championships gold cartridge: They just cut out the logo with cheap paper and they glued it on. With glue!
  About the shitty controls in a Conan the Barbarian game: YOU PRESS DOWN TO JUMP! Whoever came up with that is a real cocksucker! ...That sucks cock.
• NationStates measures normality on the Average Standard Normality Scale.
• The Platoon of Power Squadron. When it's title dropped, the gang have to come up with a team name on the spot, so they just throw together some terms they were using interchangeably in an earlier conversation.
• The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: Lizzie in episode 33, talking about Darcy: "The only thing he wanted was for me to say that I liked popular music so that he could mock me with his mocking words, and his mocking face, and BEADY little mocking eyes!" Punctuated! For! Emphasis!, naturally.
• Many YouTube channels contain a link at the top of the descriptions of their videos that subscribe the user to the channel...just beneath the actual Subscribe button.
• The Adventures of Captain Bucky and his Space Marshals, in Outer Space.
• Being a parody of The Irate Gamer, Third Rate Gamer has a few of these:
  • His description of Paperboy's music: "As you start playing you'll notice this horrendously horrendous music. It's driving me insane! Listen to it too much and it'll drive you to brink of insanity! This music is so bad that I'm about to go insane!"
  • He describes Super Mario Bros. 2 as "a video game created by Nintendo for the Nintendo NES System System made by Nintendo."
  • From his Home Improvement review: "More 'enemies'?! More dinosaurs?! More redundancy?! More redundancy?!"
  • From his Cool Spot review:
  Third Rate Gamer: An MP3 player! Awesome! I wonder if they have any Van Halen songs by Van Halen.
  YouTube Warning: This joke has been removed due to a Van Halen copyright claim by Van Halen.
  Third Rate Gamer: Bitchin'!
• In Reasons to Celebrate! by Matt Santoro, Matt says that Victoria Day is big in Canada (where he lives), because they get to drink beer, let out fireworks, drink beer, see their family and friends, drink beer, get a day off paid, and drink beer.
• TEAM LADS ACTION NEWS TEAM!!!
• HowToBasic occasionally indulges on this. For example, in his "How to make Dr. Pepper" video, his usual mish-mash of food includes adding Dr. Pepper.
• The RIP in Peace meme.
• Random Assault: Episode 013's title: "Post Apocalyptic Snowboard Apocalypse".
• Gigguk had this gem from his list of Top 20 Epically Cool Anime Characters:
  And I know that now I've mentioned Samurai's with afro hairstyles a group of you are going to butt in now and go "Ooh, what about that samurai who has an afro from that show about a samurai with an afro, y'know, Afro Samurai, who's awesome 'cause he has an afro and he's a samurai and his name is well, Afro, and he's a samurai!".
• Don't Hug Me I'm Scared features Tony the Talking Clock, who's teaching about the nature of time is so shallow that he resorts repeating the word time over and over.
  Tony the Talking Clock: Watch it go round like a merry-go-round, going so fast like a merry-go-round.
  Tony the Talking Clock: Let's go on a journey, a journey through time! The time is changing all the time, it's time to go to TIME!
• Are we there yet? How many times are you going to ask that, Missy? Are we there yet? How many times are you going to ask that, Missy? Are we there yet? How many times are you going to ask that, Missy? Are we there yet? How many times are you going to ask that, Missy? Are we there yet? How many times are you going to ask that, Missy?...
• Also Frank Miller, repetition and whores
• What Uncyclopedia has to say about the content of this article and what this article has to say.
• Every time someone double-posts by accident because of a server hiccup, Baby Jesus cries.
  • Every time someone double-posts or worse deliberately, God kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens.
    • Then NuBecky and Mark walk through.
• Honey, I Shrunk the Audience at the Disney Theme Parks: "But please, do not put on the safety goggles until you are safely seated safely inside the theater safely."
• We now has a new department head of department!
• The Erotic Mind Control Story Archive has a "Mind Control" category and yes every single story on the site is tagged with it.
• Yahoo posted a collection of Comic-Con costumes. One picture had the stunning caption: "Comic-Con attendee Brianna Corral attends Comic-Con 2010 held at the San Diego Convention Center on July 22, 2010 in San Diego, California." Thank you Yahoo News.
• In The Website Is Down, a woman named Nancy Johnson has married someone who is also called Johnson and asks IT to change her username to reflect her new name of Nancy Johnson-Johnson.
  “Please make my new username nancyjohnsonjohnson or nancyjohnson-johnson or nancyjeaninejohnsonjohnson if possible because my mother’s sister died from a blood clot and I took her middle name also so.”
• From The Other Wiki's article on Pokey the Penguin.
  "whom Pokey suspects of intending to steal his Arctic Circle-Candy (which grows in the Arctic)."
• Acccording to Cracked, BPA "trolls the body's endocrine system, which is crucial for sexual development, metabolic processes, sexual functioning, growth, mood, and sex. There are also sex-related effects."
• The Thrilling Adventure Hour has the MurderMen race doing nothing but this. They repeatedly talk about murder. They can "MurderMan" someone, turning them from a Man into a MurderMan. They can ManMurder people, otherwise know as murder. They are in a Man-MurderMan war, in which they indulge in plenty of MurderManning and ManMurdering, especially those that have been recently MurderManned. As for their six letter wifi password... you have three guesses, and the first two don't count.
• In the Brain Dump review of the Powerpuff Girls reboot, Max calls the show "a baby show for babies that only babies would like because they're stupid babies."
• In How to Deal with a Yandere, Penelope's drink is poisoned... with poison!
• The Happy Video Game Nerd: "Good games are great because they're good." Gets the appropriate response from the 'guest star' of the episode.
• Entertainment Weekly has a podcast called A Twin Peaks Podcast: A Podcast About Twin Peaks.
• Defunctland once described Disney's California Adventure as "a California-themed theme park located in the already California-themed California."
• Jim Sterling of the Jimquisition describes 2018 as 'the longest year that's ever been a year long'.
• CinemaSins review of 10 Cloverfield Lane describes a character as wielding a "makeshift Molotov Cocktail" As opposed to the pre-packaged, mass-produced kind you can get at Wal-Mart appparently…
• In Adult Wednesday Addams, the protestor outside Planned Parenthood says "I hope you're wearing sunscreen cause it's hot as Hell in Hell".
• Pissed Off Angry Gamer: Pissed off and angry mean the same thing.
• In Kohdok's video about set rotation, he lists eight reasons why Collectible Card Games introduce them. Every other one is "to sell more cards".
• The list of things CellSpex thinks is bad about Norm of the North: animation, music, animation, voices, animation, script. "Did I mention that the animation is kind of shit? I'm sure no one else has!"
• SCP Foundation: The joke SCP object SCP-TTKU-J, A Thing That Kills You. Object Class: "Keter, because it can and will kill you." Its Special Containment Procedures explain that it's located in a facility "far away from you, whom it wants to kill," a procedure that "would render you effectively immortal as far as SCP-TTKU-J's killing-you objective is concerned." The Object Description starts off by stating that SCP-TTKU-J is (again) "a thing that kills you", and explains ways it can kill you, such as "killing you until your life functions cease, then continuing to kill you."
  "In the event of a total containment breach of SCP-TTKU-J, the inevitable result would be a URK-class you-are-about-to-be-killed event, followed by a UHK-class you-have-been-killed scenario."
• In this video by Military History Not Visualised, the presenter refers to "a lack of ammunition shortage." A subtitle then appears:
  "Lack of ammunition shortage" was brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department.
• Present in spades in the Heavy is Dead.
  Soldier: What's that? A weapon? That thing is why the Heavy is dead!
  Engineer, Spy, and Sniper: The Heavy is dead?!
  Soldier: Yes! [Ace Attorney-style overdramatic gesture] He died!
• This meme◊, which basically involves plastering an image or forum post as much as humanly possible with the name "Revolver Ocelot" (Revolver Ocelot) ^{Revolver Ocelot}Revolver Ocelot
  Revolver Ocelot: Revolver Ocelot
• In Turnt Red, a YouTube Poop based on Turning Red, Meilin Lee reminds the audience numerous times in the opening that she is, in fact, Meilin Lee.
• In Welcome Back, Potter, Jarry calls a pair of marks in the second episode his "girlfriend-having friend and his girlfriend."
• Mom Can't Cook!: Due to it being their favourite Disney Channel Original Movie, the description for the Brink! episode begins like this:
  Hey everyone, it's Brink! It's Brink week! This week we're talking about Brink!
• TFWiki.net has the pages "Dinosaur(dinosaur)", "Circuit(circuit)" and "Moon(moon)."

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