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** Played straight in ''Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu'', where he opens the review saying the games are fun, then makes sure to ask about everything that's absurd on the franchise (10 year-olds being warranted the license to train monsters which can level towns; weird monsters which include rocks, ghosts, and plants being somehow genetically related; and how [[Evolution Power Up|Pokémon evolution]] is more growing up than evolving). He then proceeds to pick apart the entire comic like one of his regular reviews... only to end the review proclaiming it doesn't suck at all and was a rather enjoyable read.

* [[Acting for Two|Acting For Several]]:

** Iron Liz has also played herself, and two alt. versions of herself.

** Will Wolfgram has played Vyce, [[Large Ham|SNOWFLAME!]], and now {{spoiler|a Gunslinger from another world}}.

'''Linkara:''' Huh? Buh? Whu-with the bowtie-and-buh...''What?'' }}

* [[Anything but That]]: Read ''Warrior'' #2 and #3 or watch ''[[TNA Impact]]''. Take the former.

** And for 2011, he did a Triple Feature; Bear "reviewed" ''[[One More Day]]'', he gave a 'very' brief review of Titans #23, and introduced a radical [[The Irate Gamer (Web Video)|new direction]] in [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Mighty and Morphing Power Rangers]].

* [[Arc Fatigue]]: His in-universe words (not ours) on the Clone Saga

** During ''Electric Tale of Pikachu #1'', Linkara exclaims that ghosts exist, have special attacks, and ''smile.''

* [[Artifact Title|Artifact Catchphrase]]: Linkara mentions in the ''Mightily Murdered Power Ringers'' review that some viewers have complained about the lack of comic-burning in later reviews.

** Linkara points out Brazil's dominant religion is Christianity, as opposed to what was seen in ''Zero Patrol'' #1.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Pollo the Robot started out as a [[Brick Joke]] in his Amazons Attack review to illustrate that "not even robots can handle" the bad comic. However, since then Pollo has become a ''very'' important character on ''Atop the Fourth Wall'', more so even than Burton himself on the ''Experiment''. He appears to have taken on the on-screen role of Linkara's producer. The prop itself was a puppet made for the [[MST3K]] fan-vid he made in high school and was used as Lewis even said in his "Origins" VLOG that he was concerned that people would see it as derivative of Spoony's Burton (indeed, many assume Pollo was created to be an Expy of Burton).

** '''<big> BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLL! CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP! </big>'''

** When summing up the unaired Wonder Woman pilot, even Linkara joins [[Bad Movie Beatdown (Web Video)|Film Brain]] in a heartfelt '''[[Memetic Mutation|FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU-]]''' 

*** Tom Servo appears--in a case--at the start of the ''Transformers #4-5'' review.

** Linkara has a brief run-in with [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]] in his review of ''Wolverine: Adamantium Rage''.

* [[Canon Dis Continuity]]: The joke in ''Superman/Terminator'' about his future self still living with his parents has now become this with his moving in with Iron Liz.

* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Ensign Munroe, from the game ''Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force,'' has shown up several times (played by Linkara).

** I AM A MAN! ''*punch*''

* [[Catchphrase Interruptus]]: In the [[Silent Hill]] Dead/Alive #5 review, he gets through "Hello and welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where..." before being interrupted by the fog and sirens.

* [[Cheshire Cat Grin]]: In his review of the '90s Justice League movie with [[What the Fuck Is Wrong With You (Web Video)|Nash]], he stares at Nash with one of these until Nash breaks down and agrees to watch the movie.

* [[The Chessmaster]]:

* [[Crazy Awesome]]: An in-universe example, in which Linkara describes the image of [[Neutro]] riding a whale as being quite possibly the most awesome thing he or anyone else will ever see in their lives, possibly surpassed only by Robo-bear versus Cyber-gorilla! 

** He also (essentially) said that there is nothing more awesome than [[Bruce Campbell]] (Ash from The Evil Dead movies) laying the [[Smack Down]] on the [[Marvel Zombies]], except for Robo-bear vs. Cyber-gorilla! Where Neutro stacks up is anyone's guess.

* [[Critical Backlash]]: [[In-Universe|Linkara experienced this]] with the Spiderman comic [[Maximum Carnage]].

* [[Critical Research Failure]]: During a video of missed jokes, he notes how he has no idea how he missed making a joke at a comment giving the length of Wolverine's claws as ''longer than he was tall'', noting just how blatantly obvious it was that the line fell under this.  

* [[Do Not Taunt Cthulhu]]: From ''Silent Hill: Dying Inside'' #5 "Important safety tip: do not mock [[Silent Hill|Pyramid Head!]]"

* [[Don't Try This At Home]]: He sees an improbable backwards kick and tries it himself. He just hurts his spine.

* [[Doing It for The Art]]: Linkara points out Izaak's desire to do this does not work realistically. Musicians still need to eat, and they also need money for guitar strings and keeping their musical instruments in good shape, among other things.

** He says more like, [[Doing It for The Art]] isn't exactly what they are doing, writing music for the art isn't the same as writing it for free. Just because you're being paid for it doesn't mean you aren't doing it for the art. He even said that [[Leonardo Da Vinci|Da Vinci]] ''demanded'' to be paid every time someone wanted him to paint something, and he was [[Doing It for The Art]].

* [[Dramatic Ellipsis]]: After a number of comics abusing the use of this particular punctuation mark, he has finally diagnosed their overuse as a disease seen in comics similar to Youngblood's Disease. He dubbed it "Ultimate Warrior's Ailment" in his review of Zero Patrol.

* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: Frequently calls out Countdown to Final Crisis, Cry for Justice, and Ultimatum for this. Accuses the first of representing an attitude that killing characters is the best form of plot point.

** Iron Liz dual-wields scimitars.

** Enforced aversion. It is [http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/seibertrons-twincast-podcast-episode-4-win-and-cake/19934/ revealed in a podcast] Linkara could not find another fake flintlock pistol at a reasonable price, thus he cannot dual wield magic guns.

** He points out that, in Action Comics #593, Superman and Big Barda are essentially raping each other, [[Rape As Drama|which is a terrible plot point]].

** In the [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/9479-countdown2 Countdown Part 2 review], from 90s kid, who can usually be counted on to defend the decade's excesses.