YMMV / Dingo Doodles

• Awesome Art: Just look at the artwork in these videos and tell us that Dingo can't draw.
  • She also has some speed paint videos up, showing the process of creating her art in only a few moments.
• Awesome Music: This tribute to Gothi, "My Own Eyes". It's an epic song that not only sums up Gothi's mysterious nature, but also the magnitude of her character arc. Also crosses over into heartwarming.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Abby the red panda, after the events of Episode 16. After seeing Bouclaire dead and left to the crowd, she breaks up with Erina, saying that she doesn't know who the bad guy is anymore. This immediately broke the fandom into opposing sides:
    • One side says that Abby is in the wrong. They say the fact that she can't see the difference between Erina, who killed Bouclaire in self-defence with her team to keep her from killing anyone else, and Bouclaire, who poisoned tens of thousands of people, killed Erina's parents (making it rather personal), and usurped a nation, speaks to Abby's naivete and Black-and-White Morality. That Bouclaire had already caused an uprising which wanted her dead anyway is pointed to as a fact that it could never have been resolved peacefully.
    • The other side says that the way Erina dealt with Bouclaire's corpse was brutal and rather harsh, with even the crowd being a little freaked out too. That Abby points more towards that than Bouclaire's death in general is used as justification for treating Erina as heading towards He Who Fights Monsters territory.
  • "The Destroyer" Xanu, as of episode 18. The Foreclaimers were utter bastards, being an entire race who considered emotions pointless and willing to torture a living being For Science! and powered most of their tech by harnessing the souls of the recently dead, but was Xanu justified in killing them all? They were an entire civilization, consisting of countless men, women and children. He also only mentions their sociopathic tendencies in passing, and doesn't bother to mention their Soulpowered tech in any other capacity than how he used it, so he does have some signs of It's All About Me.
• Crosses the Line Twice: The house the group destroyed on Halloween? A little kid lived there. But with Sips' cheerful "Happy Halloween" as the group flies off on the mech dragon, you won't feel too bad for very long.
  • The entirety of the Cheating Death video.
• Catharsis Factor: Despite that it was followed by Sips' 'death', one can't blame Erina's sigh of relief when she kills Bouclaire and avenges her parents.
• Complete Monster: Fool's Gold's "Kylandria" arc: Bouclaire is a ten-year-old girl who wants to be a princess; unlike most ten-year-old girls, she displays no trace of love, empathy or affection towards anyone. Bouclaire's first act of villainy is the murder of her own parents, and from there she discovers a way to produce poison by cultivating contaminated potatoes. After testing said poison on several innocent victims to her own amusement, she makes her way to Kylandria, where she "schemes, lies and poisons her way to the top", leaving a trail of corpses in her wake before she finally achieves her dreams after tricking the royal family into adopting her. Then, Bouclaire decides she'd prefer to rule for herself and kills the King and Queen, threatening the legitimate heirs into allowing her to take control. Queen Bouclaire proves to be a bloodthirsty tyrant who declares war on neighbouring cities, poisons entire villages for harbouring a single dissident, and paints almost everything in the kingdom glittery pink before the Fool's Gold party is finally able to end her reign of terror.
• Creepy Awesome: Quinn-Ora has an obsession with cutting off hands and feet, to the point where she even offers to pay Sips' original owner for his hands and feet. Said hands and feet are then telepathically controlled by her and attached to several whips. Not to mention her having worked out how to control a Tarrasque with her brand of sympathetic magic. Yup, those things have insane regeneration, so lopping limbs off when they're tied down to then preserve them, convert them to specialised fetishes (the ones used for witchcraft, she probably didn't use them for that) and then use the resulting... uh, "interesting fashion statement"... against them as an emergency control measure is viable.
  • Related to the above: the more the curse's influence over Sips grows, the creepier (along with jerkier) he gets — along with more random in often cool and powerful ways. Which is very directly related to Quinn-Ora's choice of profession, of course.
• Friendly Fandoms: With a number of fellow D&D YouTubers, including JoCat, who guest-starred on her channel while she (as Sips) and Felix guest-starred in his "A Crap Guide to D&D: Dungeon Master".
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In the Fools' Gold Vines video, one of the bits is Erina showing shock that a character represented by Sips was dead. It was meant to be funny, of course. Come Episode 14, with Sips ACTUALLY dying, that becomes less funny.
  • In another vine parody, Sips tells Erina that he's leaving her, so she yells (with tears in her eyes) that she's leaving him first. Only for Gothi to point out that they're in Erina's house. Played for Laughs at the moment, but becomes a lot less funny after Erina confides in Gothi about her abandonment issues.
  • Jack stabbing Gothi was already pretty intense, though quickly revealed to be benign since he was actually returning her power crystal. But the reveal that this was the second time Gothi was caught unawares by someone she trusted? And that this person cut off her face? Ouch.
• He Really Can Act: Dingo, as far as we're aware, has zero acting experience, and yet she's able to portray all these characters without any kind of difficulty. She also gets better and better at vocal work as the series goes on.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Fool's Gold's Abby, an adorable red panda girl who wears glasses, predates the release of Disney/Pixar's Turning Red, which also features an adorable red panda girl who wears glasses (though not in panda form) and a character named Abby.
• Ho Yay: Dingo explains that Gorthan and Julian are Out of Focus because they had a baby... then quickly clarifies that she meant the players, not the characters.
• Love to Hate: Bouclaire. The little girl who may as well be a reincarnated Drow matriarch for all the crap she pulls to get ahead. Yet it's kind of awesome. In a really hateful (and very pink) way.
• Memetic Mutation: Quack.
  • "Don't use Dancing Lights. Bad things happen."
  • "The first time (insert misunderstanding here). The second time was for me."
• Moral Event Horizon: In episode 15, Goddrick's back stabbing Gothi was treacherous enough. But his disfiguring her by carving her face off out of pure malice? Dingo fittingly calls this not only cruel, but also monstrous...
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Gothi's face, or lack thereof, falls under this.
  • When it's not acting funny, the aptly named Soul Prowler is a giant, winged embodiment of nightmares. Its eyes have multiple pupils, and it has multiple personalities to match. It is festering with souls who erratically fight for control of the creature. One minute it can be amicable and cordial and in a snap instant, it will threaten you. Its personality borders on schizophrenic!
  • Emperor Godrick. The third. Full stop.
    • Generally, his cold, merciless attitude drives home Xanu's argument: the Foreclaimers are still a dangerous people! At least, the half that traded off morality for progress.
  • Sips' 100% curse form, as seen in episode 30. It's a completely unstoppable, completely evil monster that very nearly kills Gothi, Erina and Jawbone, and the battle wasn't even close. Who knows what kind of destruction it would have caused if Sips' soul hadn't started collapsing, petrifying the monster.
  • Episode 33 ending on the implication that our heroes may be too late: Emperor Godrick is about to siphon another sun.
  • In Episode 34, Sips uses a spell to detect power crystals. ...and is startled to detect hundreds of them piled into a small space. Sips suspects this could be a trap...