YMMV / Super Eyepatch Wolf

• Bizarro Episode: Space Jam 2: How Warner Bros is Lying to You is nothing like SEW's usual fare. Sure, it looks reasonably similar for the first few minutes, if laughably farfetched and with heavy Self-Parody elements, but after that, it spirals out of control into a deeply bizarre conspiracy theory and then finally into an elaborate Crack Fic.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • With Mr. Clemps both having risen to prominence around the same time with their video subjects on anime and gaming attracting an overlapping fan base. Clemps even kicked off his podcast series with Eyepatchwolf as his first guest and both can be seen in the same circles as the Best Friends.
  • Speaking of the former Best Friends Zaibatsu, he's maintained a close relationship with the man who sparked his career, Woolie. Guest starring on his channel and in his "Gon in 60 seconds" videos where he forces Woolie to watch the show that started it all.
  • With Ryan Hollinger, that other popular Irish YouTuber who does video essays about horror works. It helps that Ryan left a comment on John's video on disturbing horror movies.
• Funny Moments:
  • He reveals a dark secret in his Favorite Things of Summer 2018 video: Geoff Thew really likes Sword Art Online.
  • During his guest appearance on the Super Best FriendCast, he revealed his origin. Due to Woolie insulting Hunter × Hunter during an episode of the podcast, he was so incensed that he made his very first video as a passive-aggressive shot at the notion. During said podcast, he also learned that his ire was misplaced since Woolie was talking about the older, lower quality anime adaptation.
  • In "Buying a PC With Dell: My Journey Into Hell", John recounting how, in response to Dell's resolution manager asking him how he would like to resolve his computer problems, he very nearly screamed "I WANT BILL GATES'S FUCKING HEAD" before realising how insane that would make him sound.
  • In "The Cruelest Video Game", he points out that Fear & Hunger doesn't have its own Wikipedia page when even Buck Bumble does, which leads to this delightful line:
  John: So I hope that the purpose of this video is clear. WE MUST DESTROY THE BUCK BUMBLE WIKIPEDIA PAGE.
• Genius Bonus: In his video on professional wrestling heels, John cites the wrestling tax collector Irwin R. Schyster (Mike Rotunda) as a quintessential example of a terrible heel, but cites "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt as an example of a great heel. This is infinitely more amusing if you know that Bray Wyatt (real name Windham Rotunda) is Irwin R. Schyster's son.
• Growing the Beard: At first focused on analyzing anime and manga franchises with a melancholic tone, his channel really found its identity around 2019 when he started to tackle other media such as video games but also delve into more unusual and sometimes utterly bizarre territories, such as the Internet culture surrounding specific franchises or real life oddities. All with an added sense of humor and theatrics that was absent from his early work, his trademark melodramatic diction being occasionally exaggerated for a comedic effect.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The last leg of Dragon Ball GT: What The Hell Happened? highlights Akira Toriyama's rather apathetic attitude towards modern Dragon Ball media, which John speculates to ultimately stem from a decades-long battle with creative burnout. This becomes even harder to watch after hearing John talk about how burnt out he's feeling at the end of his next video, Why You Should Still Watch Hunter x Hunter, making it abundantly clear he was speaking from experience.
  • The amount of love and admiration John gives to Shenmue in his "Shenmue and the Fall of Sega" becomes rather awkward and borderline heartbreaking considering how infuriated and disappointed he was with Shenmue III, to the point where he makes it clear he's not going to stick around for the fourth game.
• He Panned It, Now He Sucks!:
  • His "Fall of Bleach" video didn't resonate well with Bleach fans despite trying to cover its decline that lead into the abrupt and disappointing finale then outright mockery of the series, with many pointing out his lack of research. While he acknowledged his mistake with a follow up vid that had more accurate facts and constructive criticism, even pointing out his video is just his own opinion on the matter and no one should take it as gospel, some of the more hardcore fanbase of the series still lambasted him for even daring to speak ill of the manga. One of them, DBZimran in particular even made his own videos to counter his arguments (with him even dubbing the second vid as "The Rise of Bleach" for good measure).
  • John's comments on PPPPPP in his 2022 Jump video weren't well received by many of the series fans, both with him mocking the series title as ridiculous (in spite of it being actual piano terminology), and using half of a two-page spread to "prove" his argument of the series having poor artistic composition, both of which came off as disingenuous. His continued dismissal of Mission: Yozakura Family has had a similar reaction from its fans.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: John's criticisms about Silent Hill 3 over what it could have been considering it's a Tough Act to Follow to the highly beloved Silent Hill 2 becomes this when later interviews revealed that the "What Could Have Been" he lamented of the game was going to be a rail shooter. It makes the game being a sequel to the original a lot more of a dodged bullet.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Heavily Discussed in his video The Bizarre Modern Reality of The Simpsons, where he notes how the show's massive cultural impact has inspired countless online content creators for nearly 30 years since its inception. Much attention is also brought to the fact that these memes have enabled massive amounts of Alternate Character Interpretation which would be impossible in the show itself due to Status Quo Is God.
  • John's appearance has often been jokingly compared to generic characters made in create-a-character systems, with a common Running Gag among his fanbase being when they identify his haircut as "male character #4."
  • THE FINAL GAMER has become a meme thanks to John referring to himself as such in gaming streams, as well as putting on an "Awesome Ego" persona.
• Moral Event Horizon: Parodied. In Space Jam 2: Battle for Reality, Michael annihilates the soul of Bugs, his own lover, to become NEO MICHAEL JORDAN: THE INFINITY SLAYER.
  Jordan: Bugs, I know you're a cartoon, but sometimes, it's like...you're the only thing...keeping me human.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The Bizarre World of Fake Psychics, Faith Healers and Mediums is scary because it's full of Realism-Induced Horror, that being the destructive world of pseudoscience and psychics who prey upon vulnerable people seeking comfort for their daily horrors. It's also one of the few episodes with a content warning. Most of the horror stems from the fact that not only are some of the psychics terrible at their jobs and are often caught on live television, they still end up being massively successful, with cable networks constantly backing them up and reintroducing them to a new audience. Then there's the fact that thousands of people have destroyed the lives of themselves and their children with the pursuit of alternative medicine instead of traditional medicine and used psychics in "solving" missing person cases. The fact that the ongoing pandemic has made matters even worse is not helping things, with Wolf even stating at the end that "if we can't decide what to believe in, what hope do we have".
  • What the Internet Did to Garfield might be the scariest episode yet. That includes the videos focusing on fake healers and mediums, or any of the ones about horror media in general. It's an hour-plus-long essay about the existential, depression-inducing nightmare of Jon Arbuckle, as well as the Lovecraftian cosmic horror fan art inspired by his parasitic relationship with Garfield. A lot of it is Wolf speaking with incredulity that someone could turn something so mundane into something so scary.
    • Arguably the scariest aspect of the episode is "Sex Survey Results", a 4+ hour video where Jon repeatedly answers the door, only to find a mannequin version of himself telling both their name and number of sexual partners. This goes on mind-numbingly long and slowly distorts and becomes something much more disturbing until Jon answers the door one last time and sees himself. The focus now switches to the "other" Jon who ages several decades in seconds. What comes after that is... nonsensical to say the least, but let's just say that the final scene is so disturbing it's a miracle that Lasagna Cat, the account behind said video, got away with the otherwise strict user terms of YouTube.
  • John describing his experience with the "Garfield Effect". Where if you go looking for Garfield, you will find Garfield. Seeing him in TV shows, social media, news articles, even when watching the newest Dexter: New Blood episode, Garfield was there. All of it culminating in a conversation with his mother where she mentions finding an old picture of John with his Garfield doll. John didn't believe that as he claimed he couldn't remember growing up liking Garfield, only to show the picture and confirm that is him. Garfield has somehow reached into the past.
  • The Influencer video gives us a more lowkey type of horror with its anecdote about how you, as a smalltime YouTube content creator, could and will get destroyed by the culture it brings. Celebrity Is Overrated does not begin to describe what happens — while you start out innocent enough, the dopamine rush of people liking and reacting to your content makes you seek out their attention; makes you hyper aware of all the faceless, sneering "Andrews" that only grow in number the more famous you are, who then start networking and joining together in their hatred of you; makes you try to adjust your content to better fit what they like and what will get more hits, rather than what you want; makes you paranoid when the haters start getting more personal (like telling you they know where you live); and most of all, makes you alienated from the struggles of both your fans and your inner circle, while all of them think you still have it made. Worse yet, you haven't actually become your own person — your boss is just YouTube itself, a silent, looming robotic entity that dictates how much money you earn and if your content gets seen at all, but will never tell you how to succeed let alone talk to you.
  • The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games covers some rather disturbing media one after another, such as the Lacey Games, Valle Verde, and the artwork of horror creators such as @ghostgods or @plastiboo (most notably Vermis I for the latter). The terrifying imagery or jumpscares by Nightmare Faces in these works, plus their intentionally cryptic nature as walkthroughs/screenshots/guides of horror games that do not exist and are implied to be more than just games, which are all topped off by John's ominous and suspenseful analysis of all the creepy details and the background music... definitely not a video to watch late at night.

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