YMMV / The Best Page in the Universe

• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Look at the screenshot montage on his Xbox rant, written in 2002. The games shown are Metal Slug 3, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and Radiant Silvergun, three games Maddox ranted would never appear on the Xbox. All three games eventually made it to the Xbox or Xbox 360.
  • One of his complaints about Revenge of the Sith was the unimaginative name given to General Grievous, suggesting that they call all future bad guys "Evil" and "Bad" if they're not even going to try coming up with good names. Come Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 4 and its introduction of Darth Maul's brother named "Savage Oppress". Then there's this Game Informer article revealing that Galen Marek of The Force Unleashed did not get a "Darth" title because the ones George Lucas offered to the development team were "Darth Icky" and "Darth Insanius".
  • His anti-iPhone page, which features a "non-biased, side-by-side comparison" of key features of the original iPhone and the Nokia E70. Several of the features the E70 had and the iPhone didn't would become standard in later generations of the iPhone, including custom ringtones, sound and video recording, MMS, voice dialing (through Siri), and instant messaging.
  • This 2010 article rants about the overuse of the word "epic" and shows several examples of things having the word in their title. Come 2013, and there exists a movie called, well, Epic.
  • One secret page listing his favorite movies includes Happy Gilmore, which features Maddox unironically calling Adam Sandler "the sovereign of ass kicking & all around ruler." Given the rest of his career, this was not to last.
  • His video on E3 2015 has him complain about the trailer for Mad Max (2015), drawing comparison to the trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road and specifically naming the latter using fire tornadoes, while noting their absence in the former. Come the game's launch, and it turns out said tornadoes do appear in the game.
• Misaimed Fandom: A good portion of his fanbase are the same exact people Maddox rags on.
• Nightmare Fuel: Though his portrayal of violent imagery is pretty much always Played for Laughs, the description of a girl peeling off and eating her face while bleeding to death in this article comes off as way more disturbing than funny.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: The Best Page in the Universe was a pioneering website in its day, but after a long while of infrequent updates, Maddox's online behavior during his attempt to return to the spotlight, especially his vendetta with Dick Masterson, ended up tarnishing his reputation. Maddox's fights with Dick almost always ended with him looking bad and his disaster of a lawsuit was the final nail in the coffin.

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