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* [[Rage Quit]]:

{{quote| "Well I'm back from being imprisoned onboard Lord Vyce's ship and I'm ready to review again! That's why today we're digging into ''Cable #2''! [[Beat|*realizes what he just said* ]] ...I quit!"}}

* [[A Rare Sentence]]:

{{quote| "So Superman...you know what, I'm not gonna call him that. ''Bearded Idiot'' flies off with the remaining kids to fight the mutant hordes of the [[You Cloned Hitler|twin Hitlers]]. Dear God in Heaven, I can't believe that this comic makes that sentence possible!"}}

* [[Reference Overdosed]]: To the point of a [[Lampshade Hanging]] about it.

* [[Refuge in Vulgarity]]: Linkara complains about comics attempting to be funny solely by being obscene.

* [[Repeating So the Audience Can Hear]]: Linkara [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] Commissioner Gordon's use of this trope in his review of ''Detective Comics No. 27''.

{{quote| '''Linkara (as Gordon):''' Repeat what you say so we don't have to show the other side of the conversation?}}

* [[Robot Buddy]]: Pollo.

* [[Rock Beats Laser]]: Called on ''Amazons Attack'' for taking the trope way too far.

* [[Rule of Cool]]: He really don't care about physics if something really awesome is happening, like two giant robots fighting each other.

* [[Rule of Funny]]: During "Secret Origins Month", he says repeatedly that he is judging these decades-old comics based on modern standards just because it is funny, and [[Fair for Its Day|they were good for their time.]] This is also why he does the entire last fourth of his New Kids on the Block review in rhyme.

* [[Schedule Slip]]: Linkara has made a [[Running Gag]] out of the continued delays in writing and publishing issue 2 of ''Revolution of the Mask''. His actual reviews avert this and he manages to turn out new ones very consistently, updating once per week since ''Godzilla vs. Barkley'' (his ninth episode), almost always on Monday. So much so that Lee from Still Gaming pointed out that Linkara was the only [[That Guy With the Glasses]] contributor who wasn't incredibly sick from MAGFest 9. The closest thing to missing a week since then was on 7th November 2011, and he still had a live episode from Youmacon to show that week, and he decided to air that week's properly scheduled episode in a double-bill with the following week's.

* [[Screaming At Squick]]: At a guy dreaming he has his head on [[Lady Gaga (Music)|Lady Gaga]]'s body.

{{quote| ''Speaking of running...''<br />

''*Tries to run away but is forced back by his promise to recap the three comics.*'' }}

* [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You]]: Harvey Finevoice points this out about the cover of ''Anita Blake: The Laughing Corpse'' <nowiki>#1</nowiki>.

* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: Still appears to be baffled as to Dr. Insano's true identity. {{spoiler|After stealing Neutro from Dr. Insano, he remarks offhandedly that Insano parked it behind Spoony's house, but seemed to be dismissing this as Dr. Insano just being careless.}}

** Parodies his own [[Schedule Slip]] in his ''Superman vs. The Terminator'' review, where his self-published comic ''Revolution of the Mask'' has still not come out with a third issue 30 years from now.

** The [http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s102/Linkara/New%20Guardians-2/NG-2-3.jpg caption] of his text review of ''New Guardians'' #2 [http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2008/05/new-guardians-2.html\]:

** Linkara calls Sonic the Hedgehog's quips in ''Sonic Live'' #1 worse than his own.

** He openly calls himself overweight in the ''Mightily Murdered Power Ringers'' review.

* [[Shameless Self Promoter]]: Linkara occasionally does this in his reviews to promote his own comic, Revolution of the Mask. However, at Power Morphicon he was trying not to draw any attention away from the actual stars of the convention and when someone else in the crowd at the ''Time Force'' panel drew attention to him he was mortified.

* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: Linkara says the worst moment of Countdown is the entirety of Countdown. Also, "[[JLA Act of God (Comic Book)|Steel is dead, ergo, he is dead]]."

* [[Shout Out]]: [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)/Shout Out|Has its own page.]]

* [[Shown Their Work]]: Quite evident when discussing comic history, or when he points out an egregious error made by the writers of a certain issue. In his [[Captain Planet and The Planeteers]] #3 Review he notes that just launching a Nuclear Bomb into space just does not work, citing that there are several problems with this, mainly that in doing it it would cause an [[Inferred Holocaust]]. He has, in response to internet responses to the errors in some of his works, given lectures on [[Schrodingers Cat]] and the effects of a [[Space Is Cold|vacuum environment on a liquid]]; capped by the admission [[One of Us|that we are all nerds]].

{{quote| '''Linkara:''' When debating, solve your disagreements not with words, but by screaming ''''I AM A MAN!!!'''' and punching them in the guts. Allow me to demonstrate... '''''[[Memetic Mutation|I AM A MAN!!!!]]''''' [[Memetic Mutation|*punch*]]}}

** Linkara once flung a magnet at Cable to get him to stop his awful, ellipses-ridden self-narration.

** Uncanny X-Men #423. [[Sarcasm Mode|"OH MY GOD! ANGELO IS DEAD!]] NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! WHY, CRUEL WORLD, WHY DI- wait, who's Angelo?"

** And in his very first review — (Adjective-less) ''Spider-Man'' #56 — when he realizes that the Gwen Stacy clone is going to dissolve into goop. In his later commentary about his early work (where he jokes about his terrible lighting and slow line delivery back then), he says that a slow-mo [[Big No]] is ''always'' funny.

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Harvey Finevoice, although...

{{quote| '''Pollo:''' Do you ever light that cigarette?<br />

'''Harvey:''' Shut up! }}

** It's also his reaction to ''Gameboy #1''.

** And ''US-1''.

* [[Something Completely Different]]:

** "Ninja-style dancing".

** Invoked in his ''Zero Patrol'' #1 review: when one of the characters [[Straw Feminist|is calling another a chauvinist for no good reason]], Linkara says "I gotta say, my feminist senses are not tingling with that one."

** In the Action Comics #593 review, the villain and the porn producer are talking about the possibility of making a Superman exploitation porn film - Linkara reacts by saying that [[The Cinema Snob (Web Video)|The Cinema Snob]] should be reviewing this if that is where the comic is going. Cut to [[The Cinema Snob (Web Video)|The Cinema Snob]] - "My Snob Senses are tingling!"

{{quote| "No, Wasp. It's still incredibly creepy. You don't see Superman shacking up with his mom.... BECAUSE IT'S '''''CREEPY!'''''"}}

* [[Stating the Simple Solution]]: Frequently finds himself doing this.

* [[Take Our Word for It]]: Used word-for-word at the start of the ''[[Manimal]]'' comic review; he says he bought the comic off some guy he met in the elevator, then adds this trope because the hotel won't let them film outside their rooms.

* [[Take That]]:

** In ''Sultry Teenage Super-Foxes #1'' he suggests that an alchemy machine could make Hardee's into edible food.

** In the ''Act of God'' review, he brings up Bill's speech about Superman from ''[[Kill Bill]] Vol. 2'', then dismisses it with "Well, that's a load of crap."

** In ''Sonic: Live'', when Robotnik is gloating about how sick and twisted he is, Linkara suggests that he's going to force his hostages to play [[Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (Video Game)|Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]].

** From the ''Silent Hill: Dying Inside'' review: "What has two heads, one mouth and no brains?" "Ooh! [[Michael Moore]]!"

{{quote| '''Linkara(as Sonic)''': Hmmm? Oh, sorry; while you were talking about how evil you were, I rescued everybody, got something to drink, ''and'' gave you a wedgie.<br />

'''Linkara(as Robotnik)''': *shifts uncomfortably* ...so you have. }}

** In a crossover review of the ''Alone in the Dark'' movie with Spoony and Nostalgia Critic, Jesse Ventura's character kicks a door down and then crashes through a window.

{{quote| '''Linkara:''' What is with this guy and his fear of doors? Did a door kill his family?}}

* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: Several in-universe invocations of comics he believes are better in theory than practice.

** Linkara provides the page quote in reference to ''Bearded Idiot: At Earth's End'', which is a story about how Superman fought clones of [[Adolf Hitler]] in the future. Despite the interesting conflict that this idea presented the final result was the first comic to actually be [[Kill It With Fire|burned]] on the show.

** A staple of his reviews, but the funniest is probably when he silently raises his gun to his head after he says that the character Troll in ''Extreme Super Christmas Special'' #1 is a member of Youngblood.

** In his Yu-Gi-Oh! duel with Iron Liz, he reacts this way when Iron Liz draws ''two'' [[Made of Explodium|Balloon Lizards]].

** "It's MAGIC, bitch!"

** "Because I am [[Transformers|Optimus Prime]]... bitch!"

* [[Tranquil Fury]]: He does this in his review of ''Justice League: Cry For Justice'', regarding {{spoiler|[[Stuffed Into the Fridge|Lian Harpers death.]]}} It's... unsettling.

* [[Trekkie]]: Has a large collection of various Starfleet uniforms, which he wears whenever he reviews something ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]''-related (as well as in ''[[Kickassia]]'').

{{quote| [[Gannon Banned|I only follow]] [[The Irate Gamer]].}}

* [[Tuxedo and Martini]]: Linkara does not like this type of secret agent. Said best at the end of the Sci Spy review:

{{quote| '''Linkara:''' '''REAL SPIES ARE NOT LIKE JAMES BOND!'''}}

** However, he does expect a character named [[Spin Offspring|James Bond Junior]] to have ''something'' to do with this trope.

* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: Quite literally at the start of "Law and Order #1"

* [[Unpleasable Fanbase]]: [[In-Universe|He stated]] [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bt/aj/ajs/13236-youmacon02 in a Youmacon Q&A panel] that part of why he had not done any of the [[Sonic the Hedgehog (Comic Book)|Archie Sonic comics]] at that point was because he was afraid of what the fans would do if he screwed it up.

** However, by picking Sonic Live! as his target, he did the only thing that ''could'' please them: Tear apart one of the few things in the franchise that gets universal hatred.

* [[Unsound Effect]]: Notes the "Run" sound effect in ''Archie Meets the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''.

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Linkara becomes so frustrated with the video game ''Wolverine: Adamantium Rage'' that he starts shouting "Adamantium Rage!" and punching various objects including [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony]], a [[Kirby]] doll, a pillow and a can of soda...but ends up getting punched himself by [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]].

** Ensign Munrooooe!!!

* [[Video Review Show]]

* [[Villain Sue]]: Calls Prometheus this during ''[[Cry for Justice]]'', pointing that that he has a ridiculous amount of counters to every super hero he comes across, like a magic bullet for Supergirl, his bombs have the absurd ability to counter the powers of any superhero from the respective cities, even the Shade, despite Prometheus supposedly not knowing who he is because he didn't keep a database on villains/antiheroes (which Linkara points he would if he was [[Informed Ability|as much of a genius as the comic makes him out to be]]), and easily taking the Shade down after earlier comics had raised him to "Mega badass status." As he puts it, Prometheus was made too powerful for there to be any believable way for him to be defeated, and this turns out to be true as he's defeated by Green Arrow breaking into his hideout and shooting him the head. 

* [[Vocal Evolution]]: His voice was a lot calmer in earlier episodes. The difference is notable even when looking at his first two episodes; in his review of Adjectiveless ''Spider-Man'' #56, he almost sounds like he is whispering so as to not disturb the neighbours. Compare that to his reaction to the letters column of ''Doom's IV'' #2 just eight days later.

** With Peter Parker being married to Mary Jane, he calls on the writers for including pointless scenes of her since then, and making her say stupid things.

* [[Waxing Lyrical]]: He does this a lot. Examples he has quoted include [[The Beatles (Music)|The Beatles]]' "I Am the Walrus", Nancy Sinatra's "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)", Avril Lavigne's "Complicated," Eagle-Eye Cherry's "Save Tonight," [[The Bee Gees (Music)|The Bee Gees]]' "Staying Alive," Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)," and Nickelback's "How You Remind Me." In his final ''[[Silent Hill]] Dead/Alive'' review, the {{spoiler|book from the Other World}} is full of quotes from Coldplay's "42" in a rather angsty use of this trope. 

* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Linkara's house prior to the 100th episode.

* [[Wham Line]]: Linkara gives one to those who have not read ''[[Cry for Justice]]'': 

{{quote| "Meet Lian Harper... Or rather... {{spoiler|Lian Harper's ''corpse.''}}"}}

** He gives even more to the Man of Steel in ''Superman #701'', particularly for making a little boy deliver a warning to a gang he just pissed off.

** "Because, um... '''EXTREME!'''" (hand waving, flashing ad banners, electric guitar version of Pachelbel's Canon in D)

** Now provides (part of) the page quote!

* [[A Wizard Did It]]: "What part of 'it's magic' don't you understand?!?"

* [[You Are Not Alone]]: Used in the showdown with Mechakara when 90s Kid, The Ninja Style Dancer and Harvey Finevoice show up to help. {{spoiler|Subverted when they are not much help and they run away.}}

* [[You Bastard]]: The last ''Ultimates 3'' review has a rant about how the audience is to blame for the comic being created.{{spoiler|..delivered by Mechakara.}}

* [[Yet Another Christmas Carol]]: [[Defied Trope]]; Linkara refuses to do this, but he does a great parody of Dickens' classic for his Christmas special review. Complete with {{spoiler|what looks like Mechakara as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come and Pollo saying that the "Day of reckoning is at hand."}}

* [[You Keep Using That Word]]: