YMMV / I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC

• Arc Fatigue: "Zero Hour" took three years to complete. Everyone lampshaded this sometimes.
• Awesome Music:
  • All the deadpool songs, and now this
  • The 100th episode brings us CONTINUITY!
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The Goblin's Lebowski-inspired hallucination.
• Complete Monster:
  • The Joker retains his twisted sense of humor upon becoming the Big Bad of "Happy Hour". Coming to the realization that a comedian is only a good as his Straight Man, the Joker decided to make every hero darker like Batman. After having Lance M. Donovan spike the heroes' drinks with nanomachines, he altered their memories so they believed their loved ones were slaughtered before their eyes. Now willing to use lethal force against their enemies, the Joker sent them to capture Spider-Man after his mind proved to be immune to the effects of the nanomachines. Joker then proceeded to torture Spider-Man until Batman promised to help him. Upon learning that Harley Quinn was secretly helping out the Green Goblin, the Joker shot her and tortured the Green Goblin as revenge. He was perfectly willing to use Harley as a Human Shield and left her to die inside his crumbling base to make a clean getaway. The Joker remained just as cruel under the control of Darkseid, transforming his fellow villains into vicious monsters and fatally wounding Rorschach. Standing out as the most sadistic villain in the series, the Joker tortures and maims others all for the sake of comedy.
  • Darkseid is the ruler of Apokolips and was the only comic book character unaware he was fictional. Being informed of his true nature by the Joker, Darkseid vaporized him, refusing to be reduced to a cosmic punchline. Digging deeper into the comic industry, Darkseid found solace in the sheer nihilism behind the Continuity Reboot and declared it to be the true Anti-Life Equation. He resurrected the Joker and had him sell Apokoliptian weapons that would transform their targets into hideous monsters under his control. He kidnapped Harley Quinn and Rorschach, and left the Joker behind to break the spirits of both the Green Goblin and Deadpool. Arriving at Stan's Place, Darkseid convinced the heroes that their lives were meaningless and subject to the whims of their creators, giving him enough time to install a device that would reboot every comic universe into a hellscape under his complete control. With a desire to subjugate life across the cosmos, Darkseid refused to be anything less than the most supreme being in the entire multiverse.
• Crazy Is Cool:
  • Deadpool, but special mention has to be made for trying to use his yellow text boxes against Green Lantern.
  • The Green Goblin also qualifies, when drugged-up and in a Cloudcuckoolander state. In Zero Hour Lex Luthor even drugs him specifically so he'll be on an equal playing field with Deadpool. Of course, the plan backfires when they end up just goofing around and pretending to fight rather than actually fighting, but the pretend fight is awesome.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • The local version of the Green Goblin is just hilarious to watch.
  • Ever since his introduction, Deadpool has become just as popular, maybe even moreso.
  • Lars M. Dusseldorf is probably a truer version of this trope, as since their popularity became apparent Deadpool and Gobby have been pushed increasingly to the fore, whereas we can be assured that Lars is not going to take centre stage. But he is very, very awesome.
• Genius Bonus: Deadpool's Trade Snark during the "Rorschach and Deadpool" song (Copy and I'll suuuuuuuue) is made all the funnier when you realise that the backing track (And the melody based off said backing track) is based on "West Precinct Medium", a piece of royalty-free music from Apple's iLife bundle included with most Apple products, which under most circumstances are perfectly legal to use in videos one is making money off of.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • After Spider-Man wakes up from a dream in which his incarnations from both of his movie franchises feud, he tells Batman that The Amazing Spider-Man might outgross The Dark Knight Rises. Even though Spidey's movie made enough money for the studio to greenlight a sequel, it still made about $200 million less than Dark Knight Rises.
  • In the Thanksgiving 2011 video, Bane says he's thankful that The Dark Knight Rises will give him "redemption from Joel Schumacher", who turned him into Dumb Muscle for Batman & Robin. After The Dark Knight Rises depicted Bane as an unintelligible brute who delivers Accidental Innuendo, most moviegoers still had trouble taking the character seriously.
  • The plotline of season two has the Joker attempting to make all the universes Darker and Edgier in the wake of The Dark Knight, which gets criticized because people would get uninterested with all of the heroes being too dark. This ended up being prophetic when Warner Bros. initially pushed the DC Extended Universe to be much darker than previous DC films as well as its rivals in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with their early films getting scathing reviews for the heroes being too dark and harder to root for.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • There was a story arc in I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC about Tony Stark feeling jealous of Batman's new movie taking his spotlight. So, Batman trained Iron Man in being a detective. Guess who played Sherlock Holmes in the 2009 movie?
  • So the trailer for the 2011 DC Universe Online premiered and in it a future Lex Luthor traveled back in time to warn the heroes that the world would be destroyed if they didn't stop him. Sound familiar? Hilariously enough, RandomGuy lampshaded this in a BlogTV chat:
    Random Guy: I'm not saying they got it from us but...CALLED IT! WHOO!
  • "Green Lantern vs. The Critics" ended with Deadpool going through the Reynolds-ing as he now has Ryan Reynolds to himself. This becomes much funnier now that Ryan Reynolds has been cast as Conner MacLeod for the upcoming reboot.
  • "Ways To Screw Up The Avengers Movie" had a running gag of butchering the phrase, "Avengers, assemble!" In the first movie, no one says the phrase at all. Even later, the second film actually did butcher the call, by cutting to end credits right after the first word.
  • Said gag ends with Cap saying "Avengers Assemble... a Human Centipede!" Come Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., "Centipede" is now the name for what can give regular humans superpowers.
  • Another part of this video was Nick Fury saying In Ways to Screw Up the Avengers Movie "I'm here to talk to you about the Avenger Initative...Howard." And now he's appeared in the climax of Avengers: Endgame.
  • Back in April of 2008, Happy Hour 1 was released, in which Logan was gloating about how he had an award-winning director, and thus was going to have a great movie. Hulk proceeded to point out this was no guarantee. X-Men Origins: Wolverine came out a year later, and it is remembered for being one of the worst superhero movies to date.
  • Once Iron Man called out the Misaimed Marketing for The Dark Knight, Batman replied with "This from someone whose next movie might market an evil, heartless villain called the Mandarin. Good luck not offending anyone with that!" Iron Man 3 caught flak from fans exactly for all the licenses the film took to portray the Mandarin without resorting to the usual Yellow Peril - namely, he's just an actor playing a seemingly Middle-Eastern Mandarin that serves as a front for a terrorist organization. And to make a more straightforward Mandarin, he had to fight someone other than Iron Man, namely a Chinese hero to make things less contentious.
  • In a video where Adam West's Batman and Howard the Duck face off, Batman makes a comment about Marvel Studios preferring talking raccoons to talking ducks. In Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) the studio has it both ways
  • The cutesy song about Disney forcing all the Marvels to act Lighter and Softer provides a rather amusing contrast with how much Darker and Edgier the Marvel Cinematic Universe became after Disney bought distribution rights to their movies (eg, Captain America: The Winter Soldier) and shows (eg, Daredevil (2015)). The song also includes a line about trapping Deadpool in the Disney Vault, which sounds ironic now when Deadpool made his first speaking TV appearance on a cartoon that aired on a Disney-owned channel.
  • "FIRE EVERYTHING!" "FIRE EVERYONE!"
  • During Hal Jordan and Magneto's debate, Hal states that "[Green Lantern] is the first of a trilogy while [X-Men First Class] is running on the fumes of a fifth." Guess which film ended up starting a trilogy?
  • In the very first episode—March 2007—Superman said DC "asked a few writers to think about the possibility of maybe what it might take to theoretically make a Justice Jeague movie in the next ten years or possibly more perhaps." The tentative release date for the Justice League movie is October 2017, ten years later.
    • Speaking of, RandomGuy made a parody of The Avengers by replacing the characters with the Justice League. Sure enough, Joss Whedon took over rewrites and reshoots for Justice League (2017).
  • Remember how The Stinger for "Wolverine Heroes and Watchmen Heroes" had Deadpool repeatedly shooting the severed head of Weapon XI? The ending of Deadpool 2 proceeded to do nearly the exact same thing when Deadpool travels back in time to X-Men Origins: Wolverine to kill Weapon XI and empties his entire gun into him.
  • In After Hours, part of Lex's plan involved erasing half the comic book characters from existence (specifically the Marvel characters). In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos wipes out half of the population of the universe.
    • Not to mention (it's downright lampshaded in one episode of 'Rorschach and Deadpool'):
    Spider-Man: Guys? I don't feel so good...
  • The Continuity song contains the line, "While Spider-Man's at Sony and the X-Men are at Fox. They'll never let them go as long as they keep up their stocks." Sony would later share Spider-Man with Marvel because The Amazing Spider-Man films were under-performing, while Disney outright bought Fox.
  • The voice used for The Punisher sounds a bit like Jon Bernthal.
  • Zero Hour gave us the image of the Joker from The Dark Knight Returns working for Darkseid. Come 2019, Frank Miller unleashed Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child and that exact imagery is now (semi-)canon.
  • The remake of The Avengers trailer with the Justice League has two things in the end, "In theaters, hopefully someday" (took 5 years, and with the same director involved!) and Starro (who wound up becoming the villain of The Suicide Squad).
  • A two-part video featured Spider-Man, who represented his original trilogy meeting his counterpart from The Amazing Spider-Man Series in a dream, with the two of them most arguing over their take on the character and how their films told their respective stories. Years later in Spider-Man: No Way Home, these two would meet each other for real, as well as their MCU counterpart, but got along much better with each other.
• Ho Yay:
  • Mostly on Deadpool's part towards Ryan Reynolds, and Rorschach. In the latter's case, Deadpool shoots an old man to steal his fedora (and hug it) because it reminds him of Rorshach.
  • The Silver Age World's Finest versions of Superman and Batman edge really close to this in After Hours. At one point in their rambling affirmation of their friendship, Superman clarifies that their relationship is in no way open for interpretation.
• I Knew It!:
  • For the people who guessed that season three would be called "Zero Hour."
  • In-universe, RandomGuy correctly guessed that Iron Man, Hulk, Ant-Man, Captain America and Thor movies, three more Spider-Man movies, Avengers, Wolverine, Magneto, and Justice League movies will happen within the ten years following 2007.
  Superman: Nailed it.
  • He also correctly called that the majority of the Justice League members will be simultaneously introduced in a single movie rather than individual films.
• Magnificent Bastard: Lex Luthor is the mastermind behind "After Hours" and one of the craftiest supervillains in the series. After creating Lance to spy on the heroes over at Stan's Place, Luthor kidnapped Stan Lee and replaced him with an Life Model Decoy. He intended on using Doctor Doom's time machine to fix all the mistakes the studios had made with the other villains' films. However, Luthor was surprised when they all refused to risk losing what little they had. Believing the heroes of the Marvel universe had created a culture content with remaining unambitious, Lex sought to travel back in time and prevent Stan Lee from creating Marvel Comics. After his plan was foiled by Superman, Luthor learned that the Joker had initiated "Plan Q"; a plan he had previously scrapped that led to Darkseid learning he was a fictional character. Believing Lance was the key to stopping him, Luthor recruited the Green Goblin to retrieve his head back from the heroes. Thanks to the warnings from his future self, Lex teamed up with the heroes to repair Lance and help them stop Darkseid's forces. Managing to persevere no matter the odds, Lex Luthor proves he still is the most ambitious criminal mind among both Marvel and DC.
• Memetic Badass: What Green Goblin considers Willem Dafoe to be.
• Memetic Mutation: Several things, often from a Running Gag or two.
  • "DAFOOOOOOOOOE!"
  • "RORSCHACH AND DEADPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!"
  • "That's NOT a pocket!"
  • "Dude. 'Sup." or "Dude. Sucks."
  • From their BlogTV shows - Blaming Soundwave for any Technical Difficulties.
• Moral Event Horizon: The Joker, naturally, crosses this in the final episode of "Happy Hour". After finding out Harley was secretly helping the Green Goblin, the Joker shoots her. Later, after tricking the heroes into thinking The Punisher killed him, the Joker leads Harley away as they try to escape. The Joker assures Harley he wasn't going to leave her there to die...and then tosses her aside, saying this is a much better spot.
• Seasonal Rot: Fall and Winter of 2011 is where things are considered to have first gone downhill, due to the length and frequency of the videos decreasing significantly and "Zero Hour" not wrapping up until 2013. This is at least partially due to circumstances beyond the creator's control.
• Shallow Parody: The movie trailer parodies sometimes fall into this, usually by copying the trailer and adding jokes based on which character replaced whom.
• Squick: Deadpool apparently started a website dedicated to The Golden Girls slash fan fiction.
  • It's also a Shout-Out to comic book Deadpool's unhealthy love of Bea Arthur.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: 2017 came and went and Wonder Woman didn't get to compare her movie with any of the Marvel films that year. Hell, she doesn't even speak during the Avengers: Infinity War vs. Justice League (2017) episode.
• Unintentional Period Piece:
  • The trailer parodies. Some of the movies tanked, and even the ones that successful likely had scenes that became far more iconic than the trailers.
  • After ten years of videos, the series is still a parody of the long-dead "Get a Mac" commercials.
  • Considering the fact that each video mocks and discusses upcoming releases of that time, many of its jokes and predictions come off as dated. Other times, they are shockingly on point to the point of eerie.
  • "Hi, I'm Twilight and I'm True Blood."
  • Many of the videos from the late 2000s are definitely products of their time, in the sense that it's easy to tell that they were made before the Marvel Cinematic Universe really started to take off in Hollywood. For example, the 2008 series have Iron Man spiral into a depression after The Dark Knight flies past his first film's box office numbers; nowadays, Marvel reigns supreme over the box office, while DC has been infamously hit-and-miss with the DC Extended Universe.

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