Martincitopants is a YouTube channel about a Motor Mouth frog-headed streamer named Martin who goes very in-depth into the games he plays and streams his suffering on Twitch for all to see.
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Games covered on the channel
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- The Alcoholic: His character in part 2 "My Summer Car" becomes an outright alcoholic who gets blackout drunk and deep in debt.
- Animal Motif: Frogs. Martin uses a neon version of the Something Awful frog for a head.
- Artificial Stupidity: In his "Battlefield 2042" tier list, bot servers are on C-tier but work in Martin's favor since they allow him to unlock weapons faster by farming kills. The bot players can barely even hit him even at point blank, allowing Martin to kill them with astounding ease.
- Apocalyptic Montage: In the Factorio videos, whenever Martin does an expansion segment, it becomes this for the Biter Nests.
- Awesome, but Impractical: Martin lays out in "Battlefield 2042" how Paik's Specialist ability allows her to spot all enemies. Of course, it means everyone else in the entire map can see her and she is given "a big ass diamond above your head."
- "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: In his Factorio videos, he will use an extreme amount of such "Corporate" language in regard to destroying biters such as "Eviction Notice" for when he winds up killing off Biters and destroying their nests, and pollution as "Fresh Air" as well as anything what would be considered by our standards as unethical in regard to industrial expansion.
- Boring, but Practical: In his "Battlefield 4" and Battlefield 2042" tier lists, C and B-tier is for weapons, mechanics and characters that aren't flashy, but get the job done.
- Brick Joke: In the Minecraft Hardcore video, Stephen ruins many of the group's attempts with dumb pranks. At the end of the Skyblock video, which (in the narrative) takes place during the last attempt, the group beat up Stephen for all the pain he caused them.
- The Cameo: He lends his voice to Max0r's Incorrect Summary of Elden Ring as White Mask Varre. He does so again for Max's Incorrect Summary of Resident Evil 4 (Remake) as the Veteran Officer.
- Cool, but Stupid: Ramming the jet into enemy tanks in his Battlefield 4 tier list and rushing the enemy spawn on a VTOL or jet in the Battlefield 2042 tier list.
- Determinator: He stayed up for 32+ hours straight on his "Just Cause 2" speedrun, stopping only to eat and go to the bathroom.Martin: (after 20 straight hours) I feel unwell.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: The way that he kills the 4 original Kerbals sans Jeb:Martin: Val died in a tragic time acceleration accident while trying to get to our capsule on The Mun. Bob also died in a tragic time acceleration accident while trying to land on the Mun. And Bill died while taking this horrible affront to God (referring to a bad land vehicle he made) on a high speed test drive.
- Deteriorates Into Gibberish: Sometimes his sentences will devolve into this.
- Fate Worse than Death: Poor, poor Obson Kerman. Used to generate science for 8 years straight and being abandoned on the hellscape that is Eve. He doesn't even die onscreen when Kevin attacks the Kerbol System, instead being left facedown in a highly corrosive lake.
- Game-Breaking Bug: Discovers one with waterfill in his Factorio video. Waterfill replaces land with water, but it also deleted anything on it, whether that be structures, entities or cliffs. This led to the mass genocide of Biters by flooding their nests and killing them via drowning. The mod author had to patch this out and by this writing, this no longer works.
- GIS Syndrome: His KSP videos use many, many, stock images, from the interior of the space classroom, to Kevin, to spoilers: the various rooms on Kevin's warship.
- Here We Go Again!: Defied at the end of his third Just Cause 3 speedrun, where he angrily shouts that he's not doing any more JC3 content ever again.
- In Medias Res: Part 3 and the first half of Part 4 of his KSP series use this. He starts part 3 with him stranded on Eeloo, and uses part 3 and the first half of part 4 to explain how he (and his classroom) got there.
- Killed Off for Real: In his first video covering Kerbal Space Program, he crashes the capsule containing Jebidiah "Jeb" Kerman into the ocean while travelling at Mach 2, and since he's playing on hard mode, cannot revive him by reverting the flight.Martin: So Jeb, is actually dead. Rest In Peace.
- In the very next video, he also kills off the remaining 3 Kerbals in his crew (Bill, Bob, and Valentina Kerman).
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: In his "Battlefield 2042" tier list, Dozer's ballistic shield allows him to move quickly, block anything shot at him, including rockets, and one-hit kill anyone with a Shield Bash.
- Missing Backblast: Averted in "Battlefield 2042." Martin shows the trope in realistic effect, then weaponizes it in-game by flying behind an enemy and shooting a rocket to kill him with the backblast.
- Mood Whiplash: At the end of his "My Summer Car" series, Martin wins the Rally Race, celebrates with a beer and reflects on what it took to get to that point. It's when he drives over the bridge he spots something different: Jokke hanging by his neck from a noose off the bridge.
- Only Sane by Comparison: Somehow, fulfils this role during his and his friends' attempt to beat Minecraft on Hardcore. While he is still, well, Martin, and beats one of his friends to death in a fistfight in attempt 12 due to not liking them spawning in a Mesa biome, he's the only person really invested in actually beating the game. Everyone else is much weirder and more of an impediment to their goal. Stephen especially.
- Product Placement: He does advertisements for Raid: Shadow Legends, World of Tanks, and War Thunder. Additionally, he also advertises his merch (twice), a plush of himself, and his youtooz.
- Running Gag:
- He often says "let us begin," often accompanied by a stock image of lettuce, at the end of his video's intros.
- Any time a boat comes up during his "Just Cause" streams, the chat will spam BOAT.
- This has evolved into where he loathes to even say the work BOAT and his chat has to spam words other than BOAT.
- He frequently invokes Murphy's Law in his episodes.Martin: Did I (do the objective successfully)? No.
- He uses the Vine boom when he's either making a point or very upset.
- He will start a video on his second channel with:Martin: Hello again gents, and welcome back to the live channel.
- "X was/would turn out to be a Terrible Mistake."
- The Scottish Trope: The "BOAT" gag was blocked across various spellings, though the Twitch chat gets around it by spamming "AQUATIC VEHICLE", for example.
- This carried over into one of his merch plugs, where instead of saying BOAT, he instead says "funny water vehicle."
- Suicide Attack: Using the jet as a battering ram in both Battlefield tier list videos.
- Thrown Out the Airlock: Several times in his KSP series: Twice with Kevin, and once more with a random student named Jimmy.
- We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: His Just Cause speedruns have the games crash on him randomly. Once he realized he can turn his game's framerate from unlimited to 60, he experienced less crashes.
- With Friends Like These...: EVERYONE in the Minecraft Hardcore video, but Stephen especially. He ruins many attempts, including 14 and 29 - the best attempts until they succeed - with stupid pranks. Naturally, everyone else gets more and more annoyed at him, leading to them all beating him up after they succeed. And in attempt 15 as well.Martin: Attempt 15: Ben beat up Stephen. That was the attempt. And, uh... we ended the day on that note.
- Yet Another Stupid Death: Invoked during "My Summer Car" when he pisses on the TV, causing him to die via electrocution.
- This is done countless times during his Multiplayer Minecraft Hardcore run, if one person dies, the entire world must be deleted. This goes pretty much as well as you expect given how many people are active at the same time.
- This is done countless times during his Multiplayer
