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  • Broken Base: Just by the title of the video alone you know that "Why I Hate Undertale" is this. At the time of its release, the video had an incredibly narrow margin in terms of likes and dislikes, with a ratio of 3695 likes and 3696 dislikes, along with the comment section also exhibiting this trope. Many agree with Git while just as many disagree with him (politely or not.) In later years, this has changed (along with the comments) with the ratio being 17,000 likes and 9,800 dislikes in November 2021.
  • He Panned It, Now He Sucks!: Expectably, his "My Unpopular Opinions" video made him lose a good part of his subscriber base, especially when he compared Lucina to Scrappy Doo and when he gruffly stood by said opinions in the comments of the video. Also, the Broken Base entry from above.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • His Creepy Bad Endings video on Final Fantasy V has him compare Exdeath's final form to something out of Waxworks (1992)...and promptly reacts to the very boxart of that game with revulsion. And then came Creepy Bad Endings #42, which covered...Waxworks.
    • One of the dreams mentioned in the first of his Leave My Mind Alone! videos features him as Koga living with Janine in London. He then jokes about a Pokémon game taking place in a region based on England/the United Kingdom. Then, two years later, a certain pair of games were announced...
    • In Boss Analysis #56, he discussed a hypothetical scenario for a game where the levels and bosses level up the more stages are beaten. One of the bosses used as an example was Whispy Woods, who if left as the final opponent, would turn into an Eldritch Abomination in the shape of a tree. Nearly a year later, Kirbys Return To Dreamland Deluxe is released, and the Final Boss of the Magolor Epilogue mode bears a striking resemblance in concept and execution to what he brainstormed in the video, to an almost hilarious degree. This did not go unnoticed by Git himself, who made a community post about it not too long after.
  • Moment of Awesome: Super Castlevania IV, or rather a video where he mapped all the game's functions to one button so that Simon Belmont jumped, whipped and throw a subweapon all at once. Then not only did whoisthisgit proceed to show how to defeat all of the bosses with this wacky control scheme, but also showed off some No Damage Runs he managed.
    • He pulled off another one on Castlevania: Symphony of the Night by completing the Naked Alucard run. This includes beating the main bosses and even finding exploits for any that gave him trouble. Yeah, the game is way easier than most Castlevania games, but a Naked Alucard run is usually considered as hard as the game can get and bosses on Naked Alucard mode actually give players a hard time, so him pulling it off is still worth the praise. Even then, however, he did not even attempt to fight Galamoth like that. Not that anyone could blame him...
  • Nightmare Fuel: Naturally, with the bad endings he covers, this happens:
    • All three Dead Rising games.
    • Even though it doesn't feature multiple endings per se, Waxworks (1992) is an entire Nightmare Fuel game for him as well as other players. Thanks to its exquisitely detailed art and old design, Git thus has the good graces to not show any of the game's infamous death screens in the video)
    • Older 3D games and their primitive graphics can cause this in Git as well, such as Possessed!Hwang's face in his bad ending in Soul Blade.
    • #3 is about creepy bad endings in the Sonic games. The first few endings he talks about are unsettling at worst, but when he talks about the 8-bit version of Sonic 2, things get creepy. He introduces this segment using the creepy music from "Final Fantasy VII" when Cloud sees Jenova. And when he sees the starry picture of Tails in the stars, he comes to the conclusion that Tails is dead, accompanied by "Trail of Blood".
    Git: Robotnik is no longer an even slightly comical, egg-shaped villain. This man truly has the heart of a cold-blooded killer.
    • #45 is about Theme Park and its creepy Game Over animation...unintentionally made even MORE creepy in the Genesis and SNES versions which couldn't do the animated scene and thus had a freeze frame of the failed theme park owner mid-suicide jump. In the animated PC version, the drop was...only about half a foot high, and the owner gets up just fine. Git points this out, of course.
    • #46 is part this, part Tear Jerker, since Git is doing a video of Live A Live. Especially when it comes to Oersted's segment and being able to play as Odio.
    • #66 becomes this given that Git is covering Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, which describes the remains of its two Why Am I Ticking? victims in visceral detail. It actually causes Git to compare it to Waxworks of all games! At the very least, he admits 999 is the lesser of two evils since 999 only tells the player what happened to the Ninth Man and Guy X, whereas Waxworks, if you die midgame, is all too happy to show you.
  • That One Boss: "Boss Analysis" sometimes goes into these, with the first and most notable one being Raymond Sullivan in #5.
  • That One Level: "Worst Levels Ever" has him goes through some infamous ones. The Advance Wars series comes to mind, because that video game has 4 videos on it. Not a main one and its extra, but FOUR full-fledged ones (Advanced mode "Kanbei's Error?", both versions of "Rivals!", the hard version of "Jake's Trial", and "Waylon Flies Again"; the last one provided by request of a Patreon indicated to be disgruntled with the Advance Wars community).

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