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  • Adorkable:
    • Nico himself has a particular fondness for certain characters who tend to fit this trope, such as Apollo, Shuichi, Gonta, and Dimitri.
    • A lot of characters who have received certain voices from Nico, such as the "Mo-She-rige" voice, tend to be this in some shape or form, be it in or out of Nico's ad-libs.
  • Alas, Poor Scrappy: In his Judgment Let's Play, he considers Nanami to be his least favorite of Yagami's girlfriends due to her aloofness, but he genuinely felt bad when Yagami and her friend Yukko essentially manipulated her into dating Yagami and could hardly blame her for being mad when she found out.
  • Alternative Character Interpretation:
    • Several of Nico’s ad-libs and skits turn characters in his LPs into completely different people, though it's mostly Played for Laughs.
    • A good example of this would be the "Horny Rangers" (from his Chroma Squad LP), who are based entirely on his own versions of several characters from previous LPs.
  • Arc Fatigue:
    • Nico started Kingdom Hearts in January 2016, and kept playing the other Kingdom Hearts games back-to-back until 358/2 Days, which he finished in August. For the record, that's FOUR games over almost SEVEN MONTHS. It would really be easy for a non-KH fan to be tired of the lack of variety Nico's channel had during that time.
    • Downplayed, but his Judgment LP lasted for six monthsnote  at 48 episodes, while Yakuza 0 only lasted four monthsnote  at 47 episodes. It didn't help that Nico had started moving to a new apartment in the middle of the LP, putting it on temporary hiatus, and had started going from generally 5 videos a week, to 3-4 videos a week since October 2019 (not including livestreams or announcements for them).
    • By Nico's own admission, 2019 as a whole was "the year of long series." On top of Judgment and (the Blue Lions route of) Fire Emblem: Three Houses, there was The Great Ace Attorney and most of Steins;Gate 0, and all of them took a long time to complete, which contributed to Nico's burnout in early 2020. It also didn't help that said burnout resulted in less videos per week, causing more time to be spent on each series (see Judgment's section above). Additionally, Nico had returned to his previous LP of Kingdom Hearts III to play Re:Mind, and about half of the fights against Data-Organization XIII in the Limit Cut episode each took Nico about two days to finish.
    • Downplayed again, but the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 let's play went to the lengthy, but rather reasonable account of 53 episodes, compared to the first game's 30 and the second game's (combined with the Torna DLC) 41. However, at the same time, Nico was editing an analysis video of 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, which would take him around a month to complete, meaning that he would only upload Xenoblade 3 for that entire month with no second series being uploaded alongide it. This would however be rectified a bit due to after uploading both the analysis and the finale of XC3, he would upload two new series next week.
  • Awesome Music: Nico has a few favorites from the games he's played:
  • Broken Base: Nico’s AI: The Somnium Files Let’s Play LP is easily his most contentious and divisive one. There are three camps that revolve around this. One camp is accepting of Nico’s opinion of the game and even praise him for his honesty. Another camp thinks that Nico is nitpicking and disagree with many of his criticisms. The final camp is extremely disappointed and angry that Nico “disliked” the game (despite the fact that Nico said he still liked the game overall) when he liked similar games, with some even dropping the Let’s Play altogether when they got tired of Nico’s negativity.
  • Captain Obvious Reveal: Due to Kodaka's track history with previous Danganronpa entries, it was easy for Nico to predict in V3 that Kaede was Rantaro's killer, which was jarring as it wasn't obvious at all to the majority of players. It's a pity he was wrong.
  • Cargo Ship: Nico’s initial portrayal of Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa 2) having a bagel obsession and the Judge (Ace Attorney) loving turkey sandwiches has since grown into what can only be considered cargo shipping.
  • Crack Ship:
    • On Valentine’s Day of 2015, Nico uploaded a video portraying the fateful encounter of the bagel-crazed Komaeda (Danganronpa 2) and the turkey sandwich-enamored Judge (Ace Attorney). It was thus that the Turkey Bagel Sandwich ship (a.k.a. TurkeyBagel a.k.a. Judgemaeda) came to be. This ship has since continually been referenced in Nico’s videos.
    • Hilariously subverted in his second "Council of Voices" video. A similar situation is set up between Kazuichi Soda (Danganronpa 2) and Franziska von Karma (Ace Attorney), making use of the same music and zooms from the Judge/Komaeda video, only for von Karma to completely reject Kazuichi. Although, this seemed to be Double Subverted by Episode 4, where Franziska whips Kazuichi for hitting on the other girls.
  • Draco in Leather Pants: Certain villains in the games Nico plays like Monokuma and Ace/Gentarou Hongou have their evil deeds downplayed because of how much he liked them. The latter is to the point when the Judge asks if Ace was involved in the Nonary Game: Council of Voices Edition, he replies that Nonary Games are the last thing on his mind after the shit he has been through, despite being the mastermind of one. While this could be referring to how he was tricked into murdering his colleagues in Akane's Nonary Game, the fact that the Bad Boyz (aka a group of detectives) don't seem to suspect him that much can make him this trope.
  • Ending Fatigue: This is what eventually happened with his Danganronpa V3 LP to some fans when its bonus mode entered the scene. While people were alright with Salmon Mode, the equivalent of School/Island modes from DR 1 and DR 2 respectively, Talent Development Plan took 10 episodes to finish, which split Picky Penguins over people that still wanted to see Nico do more characters and people that just wanted to see a new LP already. It wasn't exactly helped by Nico himself, who stated that he'd finish the mode "in a few episodes," only further angering the second group. V3 eventually came to an end with 63 episodes, and the controversy died down.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • From the Danganronpa franchise:
      • Aoi Asahina, or "Ashina," from the first game is a favorite because of how Nico found her positive attitude and hilarious donut obsession endearing.
      • Also in the first game, Chihiro Fujisaki got into a bit of a wild ride before Nico unapologetically liked the Ultimate Programmer. Due to his Wholesome Crossdresser status, he at first got mixed feelings as he was playing the first game, but after sometime revising his feelings on the matter and playing Chihiro on the Talent Development Plan of Danganronpa V3, he cemented that it didn't matter, and that Chihiro still had the same cute personality regardless.
      • From the second game, Gundham Tanaka became a favorite for being a Large Ham of the highest caliber while claiming to be an Evil Overlord, despite being a blatant Friend to All Living Things, especially to his adorable pet hamsters. In Nico's tier list for the Danganronpa characters, he even received an S rank. While a lot of other characters in the S rank or above can be considered as main characters, Gundham is one of the two only students in those ranks to not be a major character.note 
      • Also from the second game is Kazuichi, just for how much Nico loves to ad-lib as him, leading him to bring him up multiple times in later entries. He's even been one of the more memorable characters for Nico, as in Danganronpa: Another Episode, he's the only one he remembers in the top of his head (aside from Komaeda).
      • Ryoma Hoshi from Danganronpa V3 is liked for being a Badass Adorable with a Dark and Troubled Past, so much so that Nico went back to Chapter 2 to complete his Free Time Events. Not to mention that there's this.
      • Also in V3 is Himiko Yumeno, for her adorableness and the Running Gag about believing in magic for the most absurd things. She also gets the most amount of ad-libbing in later parts of V3, including Kokichi professing his love to her.
    • From Persona 5:
      • Hifumi Togo, who's Chuunibyou tendencies made her a very likely candidate for Nico to pick to be his "one true waifu" of the game, and even mentioned she was probably a close second from his actual choice.
      • Kawakami is considered by Nico to be the best girl in the game (or tied with the best girl) and pretty much the only reason Nico didn't choose to date her is that she was also Joker's teacher.
      • "Mo-She-Rige," an NPC in the game became popular to Nico because she continued the Running Gag of "Running Morishige" from Persona 4, and felt she had an amusing Stalker with a Crush character. When it turned out that she had a Mementos request based on her, Nico felt conflicted because, despite her Yandere-style actions, he found her pretty funny.
    • Tyrell Badd became one of Nico's favorite characters in the franchise after just a single case, owing to being an intelligent, hard-boiled badass with a sympathetic side. He is audibly delighted when he returns in Investigations 2 via flashbacks.
    • In Like a Dragon, we got Yuki from Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami 2, who easily made Nico's favorite hostess in the series for being Adorkable, her comical roles, and having one of the best voice work among the hostesses.
    • From Fire Emblem: Three Houses:
    • From Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, out of all his party members, Nico enjoyed Vivian the most in terms of character. More specifically, being a cute Shrinking Violet who had a character arc of "reluctant baddie to close ally" is what set her high in his books.
    • From Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Nico really became a fan of Fiona and everyone from Colony Mu, for being very adorable in their interactions and really felt bad whenever something bad happenned to them, while also really liking how everyone including it's respective Consul really cared for Fiona herself.
  • Fan Nickname:
    • "Ultimate Comedian," due to his voice acting habits, is starting to be a popular nickname for Nico.
    • "Ultimate Plot Guesser," due to his ability to make guesses that come true, whether joking or not.
    • In the same vein, "Ultimate Bullshit"note , due to his overabundance of luck involving difficult gameplay elements, bosses, and random events.
  • Fourth Wall Myopia: In Case 4 of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, he calls out Phoenix on not realizing that the diary page was a forgery. The thing is, this fact was something the game told Nico himself about, whereas chronologically-speaking, there was no way Phoenix would have known at the time. Many also pointed out that Nico accepted the forged bloody Ace in the first case, which was given to him in a similar manner to how Phoenix was given the diary page, without even questioning it. Thankfully, he admitted his mistake and that he was needlessly harsh.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • In Danganronpa:
      • In Episode 13 of Nico's Danganronpa 2 LP, he said "I would be really sad if you (Chiaki) died." It happened, and he was sad about it, but he carried on. When it happened again, on the other hand...
      • In Nico's Danganronpa V3 LP, he felt that the twist of Kaede being Rantaro's killer was too obvious to him personally, even if the majority of the fanbase disagreed with him on that. Come Chapter 6, Kaede was revealed to have been framed and wrongfully executed.
      • A somewhat hysterical example occurs in Trial 3 of V3, where Nico pulls a fakeout during the identification segments and pretends to accuse Gonta, then Kaito, and then Tsumugi. All three of them are revealed as killers in the latter half of the game, in that exact order. Nico naming Gonta as a killer is less hysterical though as the reveal of Gonta killing Miu became a huge Player Punch, thanks to his memory loss that made him forget he even committed murder in the first place.
      • At the end of Trial 4 of V3 Nico mentions that it's hard to imagine Kokichi sacrificing himself, in the next chapter Kokichi willingly let himself crushed to death to create a murder not even Monokuma could figure out in hopes to end the killing game.
      • Nico joked near the end of the LP that after Shuichi convinced all of Danganronpa's viewers to stop watching the killing game, ending it for good, Nico's actual viewers stopped watching the video and started unsubscribing from him en masse, destroying his livelihood. While Nico's actual popularity hadn't waned, it turned out he was one of many YouTubers affected by the "Adpocalypse," threatening his monetary income.
    • For his Legend of Zelda LPs
      • In the Breath of the Wild LP, Nico ad-libbed the Champions reprimanding King Rhoam for his harsh treatment of his daughter, Zelda. In the king's diary, he gives regret and remorse for being too hard on Zelda, and vowed to be a better father to her right before the Calamity started.
      • In his Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time videos, at one point Nico has Link wear the Spooky Mask (which resembles a ReDead's face), and talks to the old man in Castle Town. Nico ad-libs that the Old Man thinks that the Zombie Apocalypse has finally come and shoots Link with a shotgun. The very next episode, Link pulls the Master Sword out of the pedestal and is sealed away for seven years. When he emerges, he goes back to the Castle Town and Nico realizes that the town really did experience a Zombie Apocalypse. Nico even jokes how the old man was right all along.
    • The end of the fourth episode of Yakuza Kiwami 2 has Nico's game crashing on him. While it was funny at first, it became a lot less funny when the crashing became too problematic as Nico ended up having to replay the entire game from scratch to fix the issue. He even nearly considered canceling the LP until further notice.
    • In Episode 25 of Omori, Nico jokingly lists random bonding events that could happen with Sunny and his friends in the real world, one of which is "hiding a dead body together". The next episode then reveals that Sunny and Basil's trauma stems from their attempt to cover up Sunny's accidental murder of Mari by making it look like she hanged herself.
    • In the final episode of the Mother 3 LP, Flint says he finally found Lucas' brother Claus (who was the brainwashed Masked Man), who went missing at the beginning of the game. Nico ad-libs as Lucas, saying Flint may have found his son, but he lost another one. In the Final Boss battle only a couple of minutes later, Flint ends up Taking the Bullet for Lucas against Claus, and after Claus himself comes to his senses, he commits suicide in front of both his brother AND father.
    • Nico posted a comment in his Kingdom Hearts III LP basically stating that he doesn't want the Realm of Darkness to do anything to Aqua. As it turned out, Aqua ended up being corrupted by darkness in this game. Not to mention how it was revealed in one of the trailers that Nico did not watch (he even stopped right before seeing that very trailer), so he ended up being Locked Out of the Loop by the time he posted that comment.
    • From Fire Emblem: Three Houses:
      • In Episode 4, Sylvain jokes about losing his brother to bandits, and Nico mockingly follows up by ad-libbing as him, saying "Ah, my brother's dead!" as a way to win over girls. Not only was Sylvain telling the truth (in that his brother Miklan became a bandit), but his brother DOES actually end up biting the dust in a horrible way...
      • Episode 8: Nico managed to beat the Death Knight in the first encounter, with Mercedes doing the finishing blow. Afterwards, when everyone talks about his escape, Nico jokingly claimed that Mercedes actually "turned him to ash." Later on in the game, the paralogue "The Face Beneath" confirms that the Death Knight is Mercedes' brother, Emile.
      • Episode 17: He makes a prediction about how the other houses could possibly end up killing each other in the upcoming "Battle of the Eagle and Lion" mock battle. This is exactly what happens after the five-year Time Skip before, during and after the "Blood of the Eagle and Lion" chapter, and Nico ended up killing off the recruitable students he didn't get (aside from Hilda in his Blue Lions run).
      • Episode 27: When Dimitri is talking about not being able to attend the planned reunion party in five years, Nico proceeds to yell at him to stop raising his death flags, then imagines a scenario where he dies off-screen in a battle and freaks out some more over it all. He voiced these worries while Dedue was in view of the camera, who actually would have died off-screen during the Time Skip, had Nico not passed his Paralogue's special requirement of saving most of the Duscur people. Furthermore, what Nico described is exactly what eventually does happen to Dimitri on the Golden Deer and Church of Seiros routes (though the latter is more ambiguous); in fact, Blue Lions is the only route where he doesn't die (implied or confirmed).
      • In Episode 34, Nico makes a joke about Ashe losing an eye and started wearing an eyepatch (thanks to Flayn using a spatula). What Nico joked about would eventually come true for Dimitri after the Time Skip.
      • Also from Episode 34, Nico's increasing suspicion of Rhea being Evil All Along makes him think she may be the Final Boss of the game. However, this line of thinking makes him confused because of her possible S rank, making Nico wonder how that could possibly work. Rhea does end up being the Final Boss on both the Crimson Flower and Silver Snow routes, but in vastly different circumstances. In Crimson Flower, Rhea undergoes Sanity Slippage and becomes the truly corrupt Big Bad of the route, while in Silver Snow, Rhea is forcibly driven mad and has to be given a Mercy Kill. The only way she survives the latter route is if her A rank is reached.
      • In Episode 49, after he points out how Dedue has the highest HP stat (71) next to everyone else, Nico wonders if he'd be able to reach triple digits. After thinking he'd just stop at 99HP, he muses that Dedue would instead grow an extra HP bar and "become a monster" at that point. At the end of the Crimson Flower route, Dedue and several other soldiers turn themselves into Demonic Beasts, thus becoming monsters and gaining extra HP bars.
    • In his livestreams of NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139..., Nico and several Picky Penguins had expressed dislike for Gideon while being more favorable to his older brother Jakob. In Grimoire Nier, the short story "The Magic Mountain" reveals that Jakob used their father's supposed death to give Child!Gideon his fear and hatred of robots in order to keep him in their house, and even nearly crippled Gideon to make him bedridden and easier to take care of.
    • In Xenoblade Chronicles 2:
      • Episode 11 has Nico joke about not sending any money home to Rex's family. The part of the bit where Nico theorizes that "Rex could have no parents" isn't as funny when you remember that Rex was orphaned at an extremely young age.
      • Early on the let's play, Nico jokingly throws the idea that there is probably a blade exclusive sex ring. In Episode 31, we get a cutscene of a flashback where Amalthus and Zeke discuss the fact that Blades usually get trafficked around the black market, where it is mentioned that is basically selling them to sex rings. Amalthus mentions that this is one of the reasons why he wants to extinguish humanity.
    • Episode 12 of AI: The Somnium Files has Nico ab-libbing as Bizzlead to Renju (who has the same voice actor for Dimitri from Fire Emblem: Three Houses) about how they could’ve adopted a daughter and called her Mizuki. The sequel reveals that Mizuki actually was adopted by Renju and Shoko, and given Renju's Parental Neglect, and Shoko's status as an Abusive Parent, this comment becomes a lot less funny.
    • During Chapter 5 of Master Detective Archives: Rain Code, one of his And now back to... segments has Yuma singing Rick Astley's Never gonna give you up. The game ends with Yuma going off on his own after losing his memories of Shinigami and regaining his ones as Number One, meaning he actually does do quite a few things the lyrics say he wouldn't.
  • He Really Can Act: As silly as Nico's voice acting can get, he definitely has genuine talent - being able to do all of his various voices, half of which he is the wrong gender for, is not an easy task.
    • He also can put a lot of emotion into his acting. See the Steins;Gate finale.
    • His voice-acting for Kristoph in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney is also pretty worthy to take note. Unlike most of the time Nico voices a character, Kristoph was done quite seriously - with almost no ad-lib or over-the-top theatrics. Especially noteworthy considering Kristoph's breakdown. Even when Kristoph shows his true colors, Nico continued to portray him quite seriously. This particular instance was taken note of by the Picky Penguins.
    • He's also gotten quite a bit of praise in the comments for his Blaise Debeste voice due to how it fluctuates from airy and soft to something growling and much more sinister, which gave the character an interesting variation.
    • His acting when Juniper tells Athena her doubts about Hugh in Dual Destinies sounds like real emotion and is genuinely heartbreaking. He puts a similar level of emotion into Apollo's speech in the middle of Case 4, as Apollo reminisces about his time with Clay and finally breaks down as he confronts his friend's death head-on. On a lighter note, his portrayal of L'Belle's breakdown is also more subtle and nuanced than you might expect.
    • His acting as Kokichi in Episode 36 of Danganronpa V3 is masterful, truly encapsulating the terror of the character in that moment.
    • In Episode 34 of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, Nico drops the ad-libs as soon as it's revealed that Dhurke was Dead All Along to effectively portray everyone's reactions to this revelation. In particular, his portrayals of Apollo going through an enormous Heroic BSoD and Maya sorrowfully recounting Dhurke's final moments are truly heartbreaking.
    • Nico's acting has gotten a lot of praise towards the end of his OMORI playthrough for how he handles moments, like Aubrey's reconciliation with her old friends and Sunny's confrontation with Basil in the good ending route. Some Picky Penguins have even said that they could see Nico becoming a professional voice actor in the future.
    • In Episode 4 of The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve, Nico manages to perfectly portray Menimemo's rage and frustration with Jezaille Brett getting off the hook for murder, and Japan's general kowtow to the British government's corruption.
      • Also from Resolve, Nico's performance in Episode 26 as Gossip/Daley Vigil got an immense amount of praise from viewers for not only perfectly capturing the characters Yorkshire accent, but then after revealing himself as Vigil, switching to a more distinguished tone, but retaining the accent, making the two sound seamlessly as the same person. This is all capped off by a horrifying Skyward Scream after Vigil recalls his attempted suicide. As such, many consider it among Nico's best voice work.
    • In the very first episode of Paranormasight, Nico delivers a masterful monologue as the Storyteller, not breaking character for the entire first six minutes of the video. It was so well-done, some commenters believed it to be the actual in-game voice-acting until Nico broke character at the title screen.
  • He Panned It, Now He Sucks!: His opinions on AI: The Somnium Files gained a mild case of this, due to him being relatively unimpressed by the game, in spite of many feeling that it’s Kotaro Uchikoshi's best work. He even discussed it in a few intros, at one point actually feeling bad that he wasn't jiving with it like a lot of other people did.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: A lot of Nico's jokes tend to come true one way or another.
    • In Episode 10 of his Danganronpa 2 LP, when Komaeda points out that protagonist Hajime Hinata still doesn't remember his alternate talent, Nico says "I'm the Ultimate Ultimate! I'm the Ultimate Everything!" As it turns out, Hajime underwent brain surgery to become Izuru Kamukura, who has the talents of every single student of Hope's Peak.
    • In Nico's 999 playthrough, he jokes about Junpei being Zero, and the whole world exploding from how mind-blowing that kind of revelation would be. In the sequel, Virtue's Last Reward... let's just say Nico has a pretty good memory (at least, sometimes).
    • Depending on YMMV, this could either be a Hilarious in Hindsight moment or Harsher in Hindsight for his Virtue's Last Reward playthrough (Spoilers for a major plot point in Zero Time Dilemma) All those "Horny Sigma" jokes? All those jokes about Sigma and Phi making out, and making babies, etc, etc? Phi turns out to be Sigma's DAUGHTER. Nico himself even pointed this out.
      • A similar thing happened in Fire Emblem: Three Houses after joking about Seteth having a crush on Saint Cethleann, aka, his daughter Flayn.
    • For the Persona 4 Golden LP:
      • Episode 48's thumbnail depicts a ruined Moel (the gas station the protagonist visits at the beginning of the game) in the middle of Magatsu Inaba. It is later revealed that the mastermind behind all of the events of this game was the gas station attendent.
      • Nico says a very interesting phrase at a very interesting time in Episode 1: When Adachi runs past to throw up while they're discussing the murder, he jokingly says that he's the murderer.
      • Nico ended up finding a random crow and he made it to the "Crow Social Link." In Persona 5, there is a Phantom Thief who ended up going by the nickname "Crow," so the "Crow Social Link" actually became canon in a way. Episode 55 even has Nico lampshading this.
    • In Elizabeth's story mode in Persona 4: Arena, Nico made a suggestion that all of the girls would beat the protagonist up for cheating on them on Valentine's Day. This is exactly what happens if you ended up dating all the girls in Persona 5.
    • Also from Persona 5, Nico makes a joke about Igor being at the bottom of Mementos as well him being the Final Boss of the game. Turns out later in the game that "Igor" is indeed at the bottom of Mementos, and he is the Final Boss.
    • Early on in Danganronpa 3, Nico jokingly stated Kazuo Tengan was the Big Bad of Side:Future, in which the penultimate episode confirmed that he was the mastermind of the final killing game.
    • A lot of things from his Danganronpa V3 Let's Play can be viewed as this.
      • Nico's thumbnail for the first investigation was Tsumugi Shirogane, both the mastermind of the killing game and true culprit of the first case, as revealed in the last trial.
      • Nico calls Maki a "Maki-Roll" in which one episode later, Kaito called her that exact nickname. Bonus points for Kokichi and Himiko stating that nickname towards her as well later in the game.
      • Korekiyo was given a variation of Yusuke Kitagawa voice. Fast-forward to his execution, Kiyo died in a similar way to Ishikawa Goemon (the person that Yusuke's Persona is based on).
      • Near the end of one episode of V3, Nico remarks on how he is actually enjoying the game even more than the previous two, and it will likely be his favorite game in the series unless something really weird and stupid happens near the end. Those who are familiar with the current state of the fandom will remember that the game's infamous ending is exactly why V3 has been so controversial with the fans. Ironically, while Nico had initially mixed feelings towards the ending of the game (although he grew to like it more by the official end of the LP), he still believes that it was his favorite game in the series.
      • Nico rationalizes Kokichi having Miu build him the Electrohammers as having happened, by saying that the game wouldn't fake a flashback. The game later does exactly that, showing a "flashback" in Chapter 6 that features dialogue not in the actual scene, which a great number of fans have suggested indicates that Tsumugi was lying about the case's big reveals. Not to mention the fact that the entire game ended up faking flashbacks via the flashback lights.
      • After the final Monokuma Theater is done, Nico jokes that Monokuma will return in "Danganronpa 35: Komaeda's Return." Little does Nico know that there was actually a Danganronpa 35 in-universe. Also, if he had those numbers around the other way, he would've gotten the actual title of the current killing game. Nico actually lampshades this when this is revealed.
      Nico: "What? I feel like I made jokes about this too. Did I-I- did I make jokes about this shit? Did I say stuff about like Komaeda and like Return of Komaeda or something? I thought I said that... Did I say that? Was that real or was that a lie too!?"
      • Nico spends the first few minutes of Episode 37 talking about how unsurprised he is that V3 takes place in the same universe as the other games, and how he didn't believe Kodaka's claims- or those of the YouTube comments- for a second. Those who finished the game at that point grinned with the knowledge that the games do actually take place in separate universes. Nico definitely ate his words in a big way come Case 6.
      • Around the end of the Let's Play, Nico came up with a theory that all of the students were mere clones. While this theory was very much wrong, it can be still viewed as this as in the Ultimate Talent Development Plan, any student can come across a doppelganger of themselves.
      • The above theory becomes even funnier once you take a look at the next game developed by the team behind the Danganronpa games (excluding Kodaka), where the central mechanic is that the playable characters are actually clones and are able to essentially revive thanks to this after each death, making Nico's theory correct, but not for the right game he thought.
    • The Like a Dragon series LPs:
      • In Episode 43 of the Yakuza 0 playthrough, Nico tries to jokingly rationalize how Kiryu did an entire car chase with a myriad of explosions and car crashes without killing anybody. One of his theories involved rubber bullets. During his playthrough of 4, the comments would call back to this joke when the spoiler occurred.
      • After Lau Ka Long's death in Yakuza 3, Nico quips that ""he ain't gonna be in Yakuza 4." He's right, Lau comes back in Like A Dragon.
    • The Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice LP:
      • In Episode 3, Nico gives Inga a modified version of the Ace voice, setting him up for a Brick Joke that didn't land until well into case 5: Both characters suffered from prosopagnosia, have that affliction used against them, and have an adversary who continues to come after them after being shot several times.
      • Episode 11 has Nico jokingly stating that Acolyte Puhray Zeh'lot is going to die, when he was actually Dead All Along at the time.
      • When Nico ends the final case, he mentions that the comment sections told him not to check the DLC screen and introduction out of spoilers, to which Nico blindly agrees, thinking that it will be the return of someone he like, like Detective Gumshoe. If only he knew that Larry Butz was coming back after shitting on him every time a faceless NPC talks.
    • In his Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom LP, Nico ab-libs as Evan, stating he wishes that his kingmaker was a dragon. Later on, Lofty actually turns into a dragon, making this wish come true.
    • The Xenoblade Chronicles 1 LP:
      • He jokingly stated that Erik and Monica (aka two minor NPCs) have the most important relationship in the game, and they are going to hook-up by the end of the game. Later on, when Nico does have the chance to hook Erik and Monica up via a sidequest, he actually didn't, and he went out of his way to hook Monica with somebody else.
      • In Episode 4, Shulk talks with Dickson about the Monado and Nico jokes that Shulk will "become a god of this world" and that he'll obtain Monado 3. A reminder that at that point of the game it's not even hinted that Shulk will get the second version of his weapon and that you cannot obtain Monado 3 until the final boss fight.
    • Hunter × Hunter Reaction Abridged Series:
      • Watching Episode 9 has Nico suggest for Gon to play Rock–Paper–Scissors against his opponent during his match-up in the third phase of the Hunter Exam. Later down the line, Gon eventually gained nen abilities based on that very game.
      • Within the first episode, Nico jokingly refers to Gon as Gonta. This comparison to the entomologist becomes ironic given how one of the major antagonistic factions in the anime were the Chimera Ants.
    • The Kingdom Hearts series LPs:
      • You want more Bug Heartless to fight at once, Nico? (Shadows, not the Re:Coded heartless.) How about an entire swarm of them as the FINAL BOSS of Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep -A fragmentary passage-. And it used to be That One Boss before a patch gave them some extra tells.
      • Nico acknowledges the specific order that every character says the three main protagonists names, "Sora, Donald, and Goofy," with it's own dedicated counter that ticks up every time it is said in that exact order and jokes that if it is ever said in the wrong order the order of the universe would collapse. After three years of keeping track of "Sora, Donald, and Goofy"'s in the games, Rapunzel in Kingdom Hearts III finally says them out of order, which causes a cataclysmic event resulting in Earth's destruction (until Nico rewound time and edited her sentence).
      • During his viewing of Kingdom Hearts χ, Nico made a sarcastic joke about the Master of Masters actually being Xigbar, as a reference to his previously misinformed and wildly inaccurate assumptions earlier on. As Kingdom Hearts III reveals, Nico would have been completely correct if he accused the other dark-coated figure in χ.
      • At one point, Nico voices a skit where Donald will one day "go Super Saiyan" and "unleash his demon power." One word: ZETTAFLARE!!!
    • The Fire Emblem: Three Houses LP:
      • Episode 2: Nico falsely stated that Rhea was not the woman stabbing Nemesis at the beginning of the game, when the truth is that Rhea, or rather Seiros, was the one who killed him.
      • Episode 25: During one of Manuela's support conversations, Nico imagines Byleth using Sothis's powers to rip a hole through the space-time continuum and escape her advances. This is a fairly accurate description of Byleth escaping Solon's trap in episode 31.
      • Episode 34: Nico ad-libs the Death Knight showing up in Mercedes and Alois' support, and being The Friend Nobody Likes. In a nutshell, this is Jeritza's relationship with most of everyone in the Crimson Flower route, due to his reputation.
      • Nico once joked that all of the green-haired people in the game are related in some way. With the exception of Linhardt, what Nico said is very true.
    • Near the end of the first The Great Ace Attorney LP, Nico discusses the Anachronism Stew that is Sherlock/Herlock's gadgets, noting how the game didn't go too over-the-top in what the detective utilized. Cue the last case of Resolve, where Sherlock decides to bust out a live two-way holographic communication system.
    • In Case Two of The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve, Nico ab-libs van Zieks stating that he lacks a sidekick and that he wants a "Maya." In the very next case, while van Zieks did not get a Maya per se, he actually manages to get an assistant/sidekick that stood by him in the prosecution bench though said assistant didn't exactly talk much during the trial.
    • His main issue with the girlfriend system in Judgment is that while he does have the option to reject the girls, he feels that the rejections make Yagami seem like so much of a Jerkass that he finds himself getting guilt-tripped into saying yes, which is especially noticeable with Nanami who he pretty much spends her storyline trying to convince to give him a chance. Well, he didn't have to worry about that in Lost Judgment, since you don't have the option to reject confessions anyway!
    • An example that is either this or Harsher in Hindsight depending on how you feel about the character designs of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, as in the start of Episode 4 of Nico's LP, he talks about the character designs, and states that he prefers Nia's design over Pyra's design since Nia's design is not "too fan-servicy." Considering Blade Nia's Stripperific design, it was expected that he would react in a similar way. However, come in Episode 24, he actually liked the design regardless.
    • AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative:
      • One moment has Nico stating "Too soon" after Tama made a poor joke regarding the death of Chikara Horadori. In actuality, due to the true twist of the game, Tama made that joke six years after Chikara's death; making it a case of it not being too soon to tell a joke about his death.
      • Another moment has Nico joking that the Masked Woman is Mizuki from the future. Who the Masked Woman actually is not too far from what Nico said.
    • In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Episode 5 has Nico ad-lib as Link considering ditch the King of Red Lions for a submarine he found since it can go underwater, to which the latter says "I'm still working on that upgrade, okay?", to Link's skepticism. As it would turn out, the King of Red Lions will indeed go underwater later in the game, bringing Link down to the sunken remains of Hyrule beneath the Great Sea.
    • Towards the end of his Xenoblade Chronicles 3 LP, Nico, upon realizing that the Time Skip between the previous game and this one may not have been as long as the story made it appear, starts to wonder what the cast of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 could possibly be up to, before making a joke about Rex having sex with his Blade waifus. Needless to say, he did not expect the ending photo. For even more hilarity, the same LP had him joke about Noah and Mio never being allowed to kiss, only for exactly that to happen in the ending, much to his delight.
    • At the start of his Master Detective Archives: Rain Code LP, Nico suggests that nobody on the train is going to die by the end of the game. If only he knew how long they actually ended up lasting...
      • On a related note, Nico would make it a point to jokingly use concept art for the dead detectives while pretending they're still alive in the comments throughout the series. He would end up using Zilch's art just two episodes before Yuma ran into the resurrected Fake Zilch.
    • In Episode 4 of his Fate/Samurai Remnant LP, two of Nico's guesses for Rogue Rider's true identity prior to her True Name reveal are Joan of Arc and a reincarnation of Amaterasu. Lancer's identity is Jeanne D'Arc and is in fact the real one who willingly became an Alter unlike the fictitious copy created by Gilles de Rais in Fate/Grand Order. One of the two avatars that split off from Amaterasu is Tamamo-no-Mae, of whom Tamamo Aria is an Alter Ego of.
  • Ho Yay: Despite identifying as straight, Nico isn't above affection for male characters.
  • It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: Nico typically avoids playing multiple games in the same series back-to-back partly to prevent this sort of reaction from marring his enjoyment of a game. For example, there is almost always a considerable gap between playthroughs of Ace Attorney games, and on the rare occasion where this is not the case (JFA and GAA), Nico openly expresses disappointment in the lack of changes. There are exceptions to this trend, Kingdom Hearts being the biggest one, but they are few and far between.
  • Like You Would Really Do It: Inverted. See Captain Obvious Reveal above.
  • Love to Hate:
  • Memetic Badass: Bisk, Nico's creation during the Deltarune livestream. Capable of lifting Susie by the neck while she lifts them (causing them to levitate) and can defeat Sans and Chara in a single blow, the game had to discard them or there would be no challenge.
  • Memetic Loser: Iori Fuyusaka from the 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim LP, as Nico didn't touch her route for nearly 20 episodes due to him being interested in other characters. To top it off, all of the time he actually had her unlocked, as her last lock required to get mere 3 Mystery Files. Let's just say the Picky Penguins didn't wait long to point this out◊.
  • Memetic Mutation:
    • Bullshit Powers/Ultimate Bullshit Explanation
    • Let us beat that rubbish X into submission! Explanation
    • Hope Bagels Explanation
    • On The Meat Bone Explanation
    • The Pancake King!!! Explanation
    • P.F. Chang's Explanation
    • Turkey Sandwiches Explanation
    • I've Still Got a WAAAYYYS To Go! Explanation
    • Korekiyo's SEESAW! Explanation
    • Kokichi's Creepy Faces Explanation
    • Really Guy! Explanation
    • Kiryu/Yagami Never Killed Anybody Explanation
    • Yeah, You Just Get It, Professor! Explanation
  • Nausea Fuel:
    • Nico had to keep pausing Danganronpa 3's Episode 7 of the Despair Arc, because it was too gruesome for him to handle all at once.
      Nico (in a Tweet prior to the video): Really shouldn't have watched that before dinner...
    • While reacting to Episode 44 of Hunter × Hunter, Nico audibly gagged as Uvogin both received and gave out incredibly gross attacks while fighting the Shadow Dragons.
  • Never Live It Down:
    • The infamous "Meat on the Bone" puzzle from Danganronpa 2 is one for Nico that he even acknowledges, due to how long it took for him to figure out the correct order of the words.
    • Asshole!Phoenix. In Dual Destinies, Nico adlibs Phoenix being an asshole, typically to Apollo, based on how he acted in Apollo Justice. Despite no longer acting as he did back then, Nico said that he thinks he was still kind of an asshole, and Asshole!Phoenix stuck.
    • Iris blackmailing Date in AI: The Somnium Files is something Nico always brings up when it comes to his criticism towards the idol.
  • Nightmare Fuel: Has its own page.
  • Play-Along Meme: Throughout his Master Detective Archives: Rain Code LP, Nico ended up putting the portraits of all the characters that died in Chapter 0 as thumbnails throughout the series even after they have all longed died. As a result of this, Nico along with many Picky Penguins all pretend like as if they have some sort of role in that episode.
  • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap:
    • Kaepora Gaebora was disliked greatly by Nico, due to his nonsensical rambling of things the latter already knew about, and for appearing in locations where Nico has already talked to him. However, come Majora's Mask, he viewed him much more favorably for only showing up twice in that game, and being legitimately helpful both times.
    • During his livestreams of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Nico was less than endeared to Mia, on account of her attacking him/Ethan at the beginning of the game and cutting his arm off, as well as being the one to allegedly call him over to the Baker residence, often demanding that they get a divorce and suggesting that Ethan just leave without her. In fact, the only reason he chooses to cure her over Zoe, who he stated that he liked more for being more helpful throughout the game, is because he was Genre Savvy enough to guess that there's a good and bad ending dependent on who you choose, and deducing that Mia needs to be chosen for the former (which was confirmed by the chat). However, he does warm up to her a bit while playing as her during the ship segment, liking how she talks smack to Eveline and how she saved Ethan at the risk of her own life, saying she turned out to be a bit of a badass. It also helped that the exact circumstances behind her previous actions became more fleshed out during that time.
    • From JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood, George Joestar I was rather infuriating to get by Nico, due to confusing the Obviously Evil Dario Brando as his saviour and seemingly having Parental Favoritism towards Dio than Jonathan, which was definetly not helping the Trauma Conga Line that Jonathan was going through by Dio. However, come in Episode 3, as he was dying, a servant of his mentioned his backstory and how he actually knew that Dario was trying to steal from him and that he was no good at all, however, he decided to give him a ring of his to sell in an attempt to help his poor situation, and that it was actually a Horrible Judge of Character on his partnote  rather than actually favoring Dio over Jonathan. Couple that with him apologizing how he treated Jonathan as he was dying, and him seeing the true nature of Dio, it was enough for Nico to actually feel bad for the guy and his death.
  • The Scrappy:
  • Shipper on Deck:
  • Shocking Moments:
    • In general, when a reveal truly takes Nico by surprise, it REALLY takes him by surprise. Many notable examples exist, just a few games to name being:
      • Steins;GateSPOILER
      • Virtue's Last RewardSPOILER
      • Danganronpa 2SPOILER
      • Zero Time DilemmaSPOILER
      • Persona 5SPOILER
      • Danganronpa V3SPOILER
      • Spirit of JusticeSPOILER
      • Xenoblade ChroniclesSPOILER
      • Kingdom Hearts IIISPOILER
      • The Great Ace AttorneySPOILER
      • Mega Man Zero 3SPOILER
      • AI: The Somnium FilesSPOILER
      • Fire Emblem: Three HousesSPOILER
      • 13 Sentinels: Aegis RimSPOILER
      • OMORISPOILER
      • NEO: The World Ends With YouSPOILER
      • Xenoblade Chronicles 2SPOILER
      • AI: The Somnium Files Nirvana InitiativeSPOILER
      • Live-A-LiveSPOILER
      • Kingdom Hearts: Dark RoadSPOILER
      • Xenoblade Chronicles 3SPOILER
      • Spirit Hunter: Death MarkSPOILER
    • One towards the Picky Penguins more-so, but a lot of people didn't expect Nico to continue his Hunter × Hunter Reaction Abridged series after many of his videos from the Yorknew Arc got infamously hit with many copyright claims. So, seeing Nico doing a video on the Greed Island arc was surprising to many. Nico even lampshades how surprising and unexpected of him continuing the series is at the start of his Reaction Abridged for the first episode of the Greed Island arc.
  • So Bad, It's Good: The Toilet in Wonderland LP which, despite being extremely bizarre and at times disturbing, was still an entertaining game for Nico and most Picky Penguins.
  • Take That, Scrappy!: Part 22 of his Danganronpa V3 Let's Play pretty much has Nico ab-libbing as certain characters with them showing some distaste towards Angie such as Maki stating that Angie annoys her, and Kokichi asking if anybody actually likes Angie.
  • Unexpected Character: In Persona 5, until he made a joke about it, Nico had no idea of "Igor" being the Final Boss, let alone an imposter. Giving this voice to said imposter also means that not only has he unknowingly given the Igor voice to another character, but has created a Vocal Dissonance with said (Unexpected) Character.
  • The Un-Twist: When it comes to predicting Nico's true waifu in Persona 5, a lot of people predicted he was going to be choosing Haru Okumura, with how many similar traits she had with the type of characters Nico loved in previous LPs. Doesn't help that he never tried to hide his gushing and praising of her throughout her entire time she was on-screen.
  • Viewer Gender Confusion: Sometimes Nico has no idea what a character's gender is from time to time, especially if they look androgynous or even look like the opposite gender.
    • Taken up to eleven with Morgana. Nico had gone back and forth from thinking Morgana's a boy to thinking he's a girl as far back as his analysis videos for the Persona 5 trailer up to the beginning of Persona 5. Even when it's confirmed In-Universe that Morgana's male, Nico tends to slip up and use "she" before backtracking when referring to him almost every time. He even lampshades it in Episode 44 of his playthrough, admitting that he's kept calling Morgana a girl constantly up to that point.
    • Luka Urushibara is an even more extreme example. Despite being completely aware that he's a boy, Nico keeps accidentally referring to him as a she because of his appearance and voice. It got even more complicated when Luka ended up as a girl in the Beta Worldline.
  • Visual Effects of Awesome: Viva Reverie has really taken Council Of Voices up to the next level; one stand-out example being the animation in Episode 7, far exceeding anything previously seen in the series, to the point that it even includes sections of full 3D animation!
  • The Woobie: The end of Side:Despair #10 had Nico in absolute tears, due to the Cruel And Unusual Undignified Death that Chiaki went through. As of 2021, Nico has stated that he has not gone back to rewatch it unlike the other Danganronpa 3 episodes, due to how much it emotionally hurt him back in 2016.

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