YMMV / Captain Disillusion

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• Adorkable: Whenever Captain D discusses a particularly ingenious or effective bit of effects work. Particularly apparent in his VFXcool series, where he gushes about the innovations in Hollywood effects in some of his favourite movies.
• Awesome Music: The music that plays at the end of each episode.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: At the end of the Russian Ghost Car Debunk Captain D starts talking about Vladimir Putin and the Illuminati. He starts speaking in a weird demonic whisper and then the footage cuts out before cutting to Captain D doing his normal farewell as if nothing had happened.
• Fridge Brilliance: The twist at the end of The Debunkathon will make sense to anyone who's seen Bicentennial Man - being a robot, Captain Disillusion lives as long as he keeps himself maintained. In the film, the last thing keeping the robotic protagonist from being considered human is his lack of mortality, so he accepts being given one. Captain Disillusion has evidently done exactly the same thing to himself - if even more voluntarily, with a concrete countdown that doesn't even automatically kill him.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • In "The Undebunkable", the Captain is replaced by an evil Doppelganger named "Zeitgeist". Zeitgeist, as Disillusion, initally starts by "debunking" some videos that are actually real, if hard to believe. However, he then says that we never went to the Moon and that the moon landings were faked, that Paul is dead, and that the 9/11 attacks were all elaborately staged, before delivering a speech about how every tragedy in recent memory is an elaborate hoax. The real Captain then bursts into the room and shuts Zeitgeist up.
    Zeitgeist: When a natural disaster, a bombing or a shooting causes innocent people to die, it's probably not real! And someone, even if they didn't have our best interests in mind, was in control. Because if no-one was in control...that would be terrifying.
    [explosion]
    Captain Disillusion: It is terrifying. But the terror wears off!
  • In a slightly more out-of-universe moment, the Captain's takedown of the Cicret Bracelet, not just focusing on the technical impossibility of their still-nonexistent product its creators made over a half-million dollars from, but also the seriously shady activity they've partaken in to gain it. The Captain even had the foresight to donate some of his own money just so he could have a legal reason to complain, and combined with the huge negative publicity Cicret gained from his debunking, they stopped soliciting donations out of panic and have effectively vanished from the web.
• Most Wonderful Sound: The shotgun sound effect when Captain D starts debunking a video.
• Paranoia Fuel: Quick D: Pop-up Videos. The video is about screamer pranks and how to detect and dampen the effectiveness of their Jump Scare, but the beginning of the video has Captain D mention how It's Quiet… Too Quiet where he is and worrying how a pop-up might appear. This might have the effect of leaving the viewer paranoid of it actually occurring mid-video, and thankfully, closest we get is a slight mid-sentence camera zoom on his face with a ghastly sound effect near the end.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: Helping demonstrate Captain D's knowledge of visual effects, the show has very high production values, great CGI and other visual effects included, often times being able to directly replicate the effects in the videos he debunks to demonstrate how simple they can be. This is the case right from the beginning: many recent viewers of his earliest videos are mind blown at how advanced his production values were for 2007.

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