I'm a Marvel... and I'm a DC

CONTINUITY! Boom.


I'm a Marvel... and I'm a DC is a popular Fan Film series on YouTube, created by ItsJustSomeRandomGuy and his former collaborator, who goes by ItsJustSomeRandomGal. The videos feature popular Marvel Comics and DC Comics characters (well, action figure versions of them, anyway) dealing with the successes and failures of their respective movies and comics, sometimes humorously, sometimes dramatically.

There are five main sub-series of videos in this series:

  • I'm A Marvel... And I'm A DC: The original series, focusing on Marvel and DC Comics characters arguing about their respective movies in the style of Apple's popular "I'm a Mac and I'm A PC" ads.
    • Superman v. Spider-Man: Some time after the release of Superman Returns, and before the release of the then-highly anticipated Spider-Man 3, RandomGuy made these first short films, contrasting DC's movie adaptations with Marvel's. Mainly, the videos focused on the more disappointing aspects of Superman Returns in comparison with the more successful parts of the Spider-Man films. Once it was a video with the villains (Lex Luthor and Green Goblin). Eventually, other Marvel and DC characters were brought in the put in their two cents, most notably Batman (who scoffed at the supposed "darkness" of Spider-Man 3), The Incredible Hulk (who reminisced with Superman about "the good old days", namely the 70s/80s), Wolverine (who argued with Superman over whether or not the Man of Steel "stole our director") and the Fantastic Four and the Silver Surfer who beat out DC that year due to lack of "competition".
    • Batman v. The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man: In the summer of 2008, RandomGuy took a break from the more dramatic storylines of "After Hours" to take advantage of the number of comic book movies coming out that summer (namely, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, and The Dark Knight Saga). This series focused on Batman facing off against either Iron Man or the Hulk. Since Hellboy II the Golden Army also came out that summer, Hellboy himself briefly joined in (he didn't quite fit in, though).
    • Wolverine v. Watchmen: During the first half of 2009, both the Watchmen film and X-Men Origins: Wolverine came out. So, RandomGuy made a series of videos where Wolverine debated with members of the Watchmen cast such as Rorschach, Dr. Manhattan, and the Comedian over their respective movies and source material. Eventually, Wolverine got bored with them, so he had Cyclops debate with Nite Owl, which led to both of them lamenting being the "nice guys" on their team. Wolvie came back, only to find out that he had to butt heads with last year's box-office winner, Batman, since the Watchmen movie tanked. There was also a brief PSA urging people not to watch the illegally-uploaded workprint of Wolverine. Finally, all the previously-seen Watchmen characters had to face off against one more cast member from Wolverine... Deadpool. Hilarity Ensues.
    • Deadpool vs. Green Lantern: After the news broke that Ryan Reynolds was cast as Hal Jordan in the Green Lantern film, Wade Wilson and Hal Jordan start comparing and contrasting themselves with each other. Then Hal tells Wade that Ryan Reynolds is going to play both of them, which Wade did not know. Wade doesn't take the news too well, and Hilarity Ensues. Again.
    • Iron Man vs. Jonah Hex: In May of 2010, Jonah Hex was brought on to go against Iron Man, in the wake of the Jonah Hex movie and Iron Man 2 both coming out that month. Iron Man questioned Jonah about his movie's commercials making it seem like "Constantine The Ghost Rider In the Wild Wild West" instead of a gritty realistic Western like in the comic, while Jonah pointed out the insane amount of Product Placement present in the Iron Man 2 ads. It doesn't go much further than that though, as Jonah Hex doesn't think there's any honor in trashing the competition's movies before they even come out.
    • Green Lantern vs. The Mighty Thor: Hal Jordan and the God of Thunder square off, with Hal initially having a hard time competing with Thor's numerous titles and faux-Shakespearean dialogue (luckily, his film "hath screenwriters that toneth things down substantially for thine MTV generation"). They nearly come to blows before admitting that they're both just covering their nervousness, and it looks like they've resolved their differences until Deadpool claims Jordan stole his actor, sparking some company loyalty in Thor.
    • Green Lantern vs. X-Men: First Class: Hal Jordan tries to debate with Magneto, only to be slammed by a locker repeatedly for twenty seconds before Hal strikes back. Then they argue about their franchises. Xavier tags in and uses a Jedi Mind Trick to end the debate. Hal realizes this and demands another go, and he gets Mystique. This is interrupted when he notices the blue person is naked.
    • Green Lantern vs. The Critics: Hal Jordan is confused when the other superheroes are all nice to him, Deadpool then shows him his films page on Rotten Tomatoes. Hal is shocked and angered by this, and eventually saddened. The rest of the superheroes cheer him up by reminding him that the fans are still on his side whether or not they liked the film. Deadpool then has a 'Reynoldsing' after Hal answers that he'll be fine with losing Reynolds, Hal now resigned to the fact that Green Lantern probably won't get a sequel.
    • Green Lantern vs. Captain America (comics): Hal Jordan at first didn't really want to debate with Captain America and quickly left before Cap stops him. Hal explained that he didn't want to be demonized for insulting the resident Captain Patriotic before Cap assures him that he won't take his insults personally. Instead, it was Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, and Deadpool who did and rushed to Cap's assistance, much to his chagrin.
    • Batman vs. The Avengers: Tony is maybe a little too happy about the odds possibly being in his favor against his perennial box-office opponent, while Butt Monkey Spider-Man is ignored.
  • Parodies: During the second half of 2009, the comic book movies stopped coming out. For lack of anything else to do, Spidey started making pitches of the cast as part of parodies of the other movies. Some of these are because Hulk spikes his milkshake.
  • After Hours: Originally an excuse to depict pretty much all the Marvel and DC characters hanging out together and arguing over their movies without sticking to the Mac/PC format, this series eventually gained its own storyline, filled to the brim with suspense, humor, and the occasional CMOA.
    • Season One: Season One begins with various Marvel and DC heroes hanging out in a superhero bar, discussing previous, current, and upcoming film projects. Eventually, a plot starts to form as, at a nearby villains' bar, Lex Luthor tries to convince Marvel villains such as Doctor Doom, Magneto, and Venom to join him in altering the past so their movies would turn out better. Failing that, Luthor goes with a second plan - to wipe out all Marvel comics. Throughout all this, Superman tries to come to grips with people perceiving him as too powerful, and not being as flawed and relatable as other heroes.
    • Season Two: Happy Hour: "Happy Hour," the second season, centers around a plan by the Joker to control all superheroes and make them like his "straight man" - Batman. The Joker's plan has one flaw, though: Spider-Man's immune to his mind control, due to his view of reality already being changed by Mephisto. Subplots include Spider-Man's eagerness to join Batman in crimefighting, the Green Goblin trying desperately to win Harley Quinn's heart, and both the Goblin and Lex Luthor tripping out on sedatives.
    • Season Three: Zero Hour: The current season, picking up where "Happy Hour" left off. All seems fine in the Randomverse: The bad guys are dealing with another loss, the hero bar ("Stan Lee's Place") is expanding, and Goblin and Harley are together following Joker's disappearance. All hell breaks loose, however, when Lance's head appears. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor is trying to make a vision he had come true, which predicted the good guys on the ground beaten and humiliated--but no one seems interesting in helping him besides Lars, the European Douche.
      • Rorschach & Deadpool: A tie-in series to Season 3. After being teased back in May 2009 and subsequently becoming a minor internet meme, the Sitcom featuring everyone's favorite Sociopath and The Merc With The Mouth as an Odd Couple is finally here! Rorschach is looking for a man "behind everything," but every lead he can find keeps getting shot by Deadpool before they talk. It originally appeared that the entire thing was, as Deadpool put it, an excuse to "give the people what they want," but now seems to have tied into the main plot with Rorschach's discovery of a Plan Q folder on the desk of Dark Future Joker.
  • Goblin Bloggin': This faux video blog, taking place within the continuity of "After Hours", takes a look into the life of the Green Goblin...or RandomGuy's extremely popular version of him, anyway. Viewers get to learn more about Gobby's life of crime, his parenting skills, his love life, and his odd obsession with Willem Dafoe. (Dafoe!)
  • Sh*t Superheroes Say: Each of these videos runs a minute and ten seconds. The superhero in question spouts several quotes, which define his respective philosophies, pivotal events, and relationships with other characters in a satirical and humorous manner.
Tropes used in I'm a Marvel... and I'm a DC include:

Hulk "First rule about reboot, do not talk about reboot."
Lex Luthor "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."

Lex Luthor: "Who was it that said, better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven?"
Batman: "The devil. You're in good company."

Deadpool: My guns allow me to kill for money, shoot fleeing suspects, and get free DVDs from Best Buy!

    • And when the Joker confronts Darkseid with the truth about their fictional existence.

Joker: Oh, I was mad long before you came along, oh Master of Pain and Suffering and... Blue Shorts.

  • Aside Glance: Iron Man gives one during the Spider-Man reboot video when he suggests one way to let studios know what mistakes to avoid is a "fair use parody video".
  • Awesomeness Is Volatile: "So does that mean both our movies together will make people's skulls cave in from sheer awesomeness?"
  • Bad Future: Green Goblin and Deadpool get sent to one at the end of Zero Hour #3, where Future-Lex was waiting for Superman to arrive. He is not amused.
    • Apparently the Bad Future is the result of 'Plan Q' and as Lex can attest, "Plan Q blows."
  • Back from the Dead: The Joker is back in Rorschach and Deadpool #2, possibly under the name of Joe Polachi
  • Batman Gambit: By Batman of course. One in particular happens in Zero Hour #2, when Batman convinces the heroes to let the villains leave with Lance's head. The villains teleport away, but they leave Lance's head; Batman correctly deduced that it was immune to teleportation.
    • Another example is from Happy Hour #5, when Batman realized that Spider-man's perception of reality was altered by Supernatural means, he let Lance try to brainwash Spidey, correctly deducing that Science and Supernatural would clash.
  • Berserk Button: Never, ever insult Willem Dafoe in front of the Green Goblin. Not even if you're The Joker.
    • Also, don't talk about herpes around Iron Man.
    • Also, don't mock Darkseid by claiming he doesn't understand the reality he lives in. Or saying that Stan Lee controls it more than him.
    • And don't try to mock Captain America (comics)'s movie. The other Avengers will get you.
  • Breakout Character: Ever since his fist appearance Deadpool has become a major character in all the shorts, he's now used more than what series main characters Spiderman, Superman and Batman generally are.
  • Boisterous Bruiser: In the second season Green Goblin becomes one to Batman and Spider-man.
  • Boring Invincible Hero: Superman (Deconstructed Trope)
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: This is the Joker's plan in Happy Hour.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: In this universe, it's not just reserved for Deadpool, though he is still able to go a step further than everyone else by acknowledging that he is an action figure.
    • Not to mention that, when there was a six month gap between the release of two episodes of Zero Hour, Deadpool has the line "I've waited 6 months for this!" even though in their world maybe two minutes passed between the two episodes.
  • Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Hal brings an American flag, an apple pie, and an apple flag pie to his sketch with Captain America.
    • In their parody trailer for Inglorious Basterds, Deadpool gives us quite the gem when he's giving the "Fear Speech." "And the Skrull will grow to fear the pain they will feel at our hands, and at the edge of our knives *camera cut to Wolverine* and at the edge of our knives that come from our hands."
  • Butt Monkey: The Green Goblin tends to get the most abuse out of any villain or hero.
  • Canon Foreigner: Lance, the bartender and "the perfect douche".
  • Call Back: Deadpool's "WOAH!" joke regarding Dr. Manhattan is repeated with Hal Jordan regarding Mystique.
  • Came Back Wrong: The Joker, done intentionally by Darksied to make him his slave.
  • Catch Phrase: "Hi, I'm a Marvel" "And I'm a DC". Other characters have their own interpretation, with Batman merely stating "I'm Batman", Hulk saying "Hulk Marvel", and Rorschach going "(hrmm)...DC". It didn't work out with Hellboy, who was, by his own words, "Independently owned by [his] creator who distributes his work through Dark Horse".
    • Also, with Iron Monger and the Joker: "Hi, I'm a Marvel." "And I'm the Joker."
  • Cerebus Syndrome: What eventually happened to "After Hours".
  • Character Blog: "Goblin Bloggin'"
  • Character Exaggeration: Impressively, this version of Harley comes across as even more obsessed with the Joker than the original - no mean feat. It can be a little striking if you rewatch something like Harley's Holiday.
  • Chekhov's Gun: "Bats, I think I might have been married and forgot about it..."
  • Chekhov's Gunman: The Punisher, naturally.
    • Also, Lance M. Donovan
    • The guy who works for Joe Polachi, someone previously mentioned in the 'Rorschach & Deadpool' segment.
  • Christmas Episode: "Twas the Dark Knight Before Christmas"
  • Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Deadpool tries to invoke to this get more ammo during his fight with the Goblin. When it fails, he asks if the audience is a bunch of amputees.
  • The Comically Serious: Batman, very much so.
  • Continuity Nod: Captain America's shield hanging up on one of the walls in the superhero bar in the first episode of "Happy Hour".
    • References to One More Day.
    • "This isn't the first dismembered head I've had to take care of!" - Said by Deadpool, a reference to him carrying around the head of Alternate Zombie Deadpool in his comic.
      • As well as his own severed head at the end of the movie.
    • The 100th episode was one giant musical number about how it didn't matter whether or not critics liked Iron Man 2 because it laid the ground for continuity in upcoming Marvel films.
    • And now Deadpool has taken to pointing out continuity exposition in the series itself.
  • Continuity Reboot: In-universe example. Darkseid's plan is to use it to reboot all comic book universes, so he can conquer them easily.
  • Cool Car: The Tumbler Batmobile's first appearance is accompanied by cool lighting and the Danny Elfman Batman theme.
  • Crazy Prepared: Deadpool keeps extra uniforms around because he goes through them so fast.
    • Doom was prepared for Lex's treachery in After Hours, while Lex was prepared for Doom's preparation, and Doom was prepared for that, and Lex for that. It could go on.
    • Batman, obviously. Spidey annoys him by quizzing him on the contents of his belt.

Spidey: And that pocket?
Batman: Meow Mix.

Batman: It's personal.

Lex: Wow, this is good shi--
Green Goblin: Guys? Guys? Oh, shi-

Lex (to Iron Man and the Green Goblin, holding the box with Lance's head): I would explain the importance of this item, but I'm afraid it would be too difficult to to comprehend, even for esteemed scientists such as yourselves. No, only someone as intelligent and sophisticated as me could- (discovers box is empty) MOTHERF-!!!!!

    • And again, after Future Lex gets Deadpool and Goblin out of the past instead of Superman.
  • Dark Reprise: Of the "Rorschach and Deadpool" Theme Song during their second spin-off video. Starts at 3:01.
  • Darker and Edgier: The Joker's Plan in Happy Hour is to do this to all the heroes. Goblin deconstructs this by saying that if all heroes are dark with no Lighter and Softer heroes then they lose what makes them interesting since there will be no contrast whatsoever.
  • Daydream Surprise: Green Goblin beats up all the heroes and frees him and Spider-Man... not. Shows up again in Zero Hour with Green Goblin and Deadpool's awesome epic nuclear fight to the death, complete with an announcer and an audience... not.
  • Deconstruction: Every season of After Hours takes a trope and examines its effects on the superhero genre. Tropes explored so far are...
    • Season 1: Boring Invincible Hero
    • Season 2: Darker and Edgier
    • Season 3: As the 5th episode shows, it becomes a deconstruction of the series itself - of the nature and ramifications of the hero bar, and what it would mean to people within to learn they are part of the fictional universes.
  • Defictionalization: The "Team Wade" shirt is real now (along with "Team Hal" ones).
  • Department of Redundancy Department: In the Spiderman Reboot parody:

Announcer: Sony presents Sony's Spiderman. By Sony!

  • Digital Piracy Is Evil: Played just about straight in "Public Service Announcement".
  • Do-Anything Robot: The LMDs that Lex employs. Their powers include teleportation, electrical beams, instantaneous knowledge transfer and nanobot control.
  • Dying Moment of Awesome: The Joker gets teleported to Apokolips and runs into Darkseid at the end of Happy Hour, and he attempts to explain what Stan's Place is. Naturally his captor loses his patience and sees it as insignificant fiction, stating he is only interested in reality's conquest. Cue his naturally very amused reaction and a surprisingly amazing speech on reality, explaining that the reality they live in IS fiction. It ends with the line "If there's anyone dominating reality around here, it's Stan Lee, not you." This is what ultimately gets him killed, but it's chilling in an absolutely awesome way.
    • The Joker's back, well sort of, in Rorschach and Deadpool #2, possibly under the pseudonym Joe Polachi
  • Dynamic Entry: Batman pulls one off, even saying the same quote as he did in The Dark Knight.
  • Electric Torture: The standard villain torture technique. Justified in that it's kind of hard to show action figures in pain.
  • Era Specific Personality: Lampshaded
  • Evil Counterpart: Lars to Lance.
  • Face Palm: Goblin's antics while drugged force Spider-Man into doing this.
  • Fantastic Racism: Wolverine accuses Superman of being an 'anti-Mutite' because Bryan Singer jumped ship from the X-Men movies to direct Superman Returns.
  • Filler: "Zero Hour" contains over a year's worth, much to the frustration of viewers.
  • First-Name Basis: Pretty much most of the superhero community call each other by their real names, even spanning across universes, such as Batman and Iron Man calling each other Bruce and Tony respectively and Superman calling Wolverine Logan.
    • A heartwarming example comes when Batman calls Spiderman "Peter".
  • Fluffy Cloud Heaven: Superman ends up in one of these (and meets up with Captain America (comics)) during a near-death experience. It's not his time yet, though.
  • Foreshadowing: An especially nice bit comes in "Happy Hour #1", when Harley suspects someone else than Batman might have a chance to ruin the Joker's plan. The Joker tells her "Name one who could possibly stop me" -- and the scene immediately cuts to Spider-Man, who indeed proves vital in stopping the Joker.
  • Fourth Wall Mail Slot: Goblin Bloggin.
  • Framed for Heroism: When the Big Bad dares the heroes to kill him...
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus: During the scene in the continuity song where different Marvel characters hold signs spelling the word, "continuity", Deadpool actually holds his decapitated head, with the letter Y located where his head should usually go.
  • Genre Savvy: There are FAR too many examples to put here.
  • Good Cop, Bad Cop: Rorschach & Deadpool. Who's the good cop in this situation? It's Rorschach.
  • Groin Attack: A variation - the Joker straps a bomb to the Green Goblin's crotch.

Batman: So, you went after Harley, huh?
Green Goblin: Yeah. The Joker tends to go for the really obvious jokes, doesn't he?

Batman: Best friends!
Superman: Best friends in a completely platonic way!
Batman: Best friends possible for two friends to be without going over any boundaries that would be indicative of being more than friends!
Superman: That's right, partner!

Deadpool: No, no, no, no, no, wait! Not the guitar -- *crash* Lucille!

    • Also a Shout-Out to legendary blues musician B. B. King's guitar, which he named Lucille.
  • I Have Your Wife: Darkseid reveals that he has taken Harley Quinn and Rorschach hostage to convince Green Gobin and Deadpool to take him seriously.
  • Imagine Spot: One Batman vs. Iron Man video featured Iron Man mulling over the success of The Dark Knight Saga. He imagines it to be so popular that people not only pre-order tickets, but also cryonically freeze themselves and go back in time from the future (where it's still sold out) just to see it. Even aliens, Santa Claus and Jesus Christ get in line to see it.
  • I'm Standing Right Here: During Batman vs the Avengers.

Fury: We're expanding our universe, while you'll probably end up rebooting and retelling your origin story after just three films. And really, who needs to see that?
Spider-Man: Aw, guys, come on, I'm standing right here.

  • Improbable Weapon User: The Stark Platinum Credit Card can shoot lightning. Goblin uses it to fight monsters.
  • Incoming Ham: When the Green Goblin attacks future!Lex in Zero Hour #4:

Green Goblin: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!! GET OUT OF MY LIFE!!!!"

Batman (on the Hulk spiking Alfred's tea to get an "Authentic" Harry Potter parody): I can't imagine how you can possibly humiliate him any more than this!
Alfred: Bruno! Rated R...
Hulk: He fluent in German too.

Green Goblin: Harley, we've been through this! He's not coming back!
Harley Quinn: But he always comes back! Every time he faked his death he always came and found me!

    • Possibly subverted in Zero Hour 1 of 2- after the Joker tells Darkseid that Stan Lee has the power that Darkseid wants, Darkseid zaps the Joker. It's then double subverted, with him returning using the alias Joe Palachi.
  • Killed Mid-Sentence: Deadpool did this to The Comedian when The Comedian made the mistake of explaining the skit as "We basically just fight over our movies".

Deadpool: I'm a Marvel.
The Comedian: And I'm a... * gunshot to the face*
Deadpool: And boom goes the dynamite. [Striking Victory Pose] Deadpool: Wins!

  • Large Ham: Green Goblin. And Deadpool.
    • And Thor.
  • Late Arrival Spoiler: It's hard to talk about the plot of After Hours Season 3, which revolves around Lance's head, without revealing the twist in Season 1 that Lance the bartender is actually an android.
  • Little No: Superman utters this twice in After Hours, first when Spiderman disappears from existence and again when Batman disappears too.
  • Long List: The Green Goblin's description of the what happened to him during Happy Hour.

"I had my heart broken, my bones broken, I was shot, electrocuted, a victim of attempted crotch bombing, run over, drugged, drugged again, really drugged, fake drugged, electrocuted while learning Spanish and Portuguese, defeated the Joker, got defeated by the Joker, was inexplicably rescued by the guy I helped put in prison, and then reunited, and it feels so good. So all in all, a pretty average Wednesday."

    • Also, when the "take away the armor" scene from The Avengers is applied to Batman.
  • Losing Your Head: Lance
    • Deadpool also, though he (and many others) would argue that it's not really his head. Currently uses it to shut up other heroes who angst about idiotic choices made in their films. So far, it's worked.
    • It also happened to Deadpool himself in Zero Hour #4. Good thing Deadpool can heal.
  • Mad Love: Between Harley and Joker, of course. It's impressively well-executed, not to mention not romanticized at all.
  • Man of a Thousand Voices: All of the voices are provided by ItsJustSomeRandomGuy and ItsJustSomeRandomGirl. All of them.
  • Massive Multiplayer Crossover
  • Meanwhile in the Future: Justified in that the time travel devices of Zero Hour can only send the user back and forth a very specific amount of time instead of to an exact point.
  • Medium Awareness: All of the characters are aware of their status as comic book characters who has movies based upon their stories, and discusses how well their movies are doing both in box office, in the press, and amongst the fans. Deadpool, of course, takes it all a step further, and is fully aware that he is an stop-motion animated action-figure in a fanmade show.

Deadpool: Hey! This is no time to be cryptic, I waited six months for this episode. Now give me some damn answers!

  • Mexican Standoff: Happens in the beginning of season 3 between the heroes and villains over Lance's head.
  • Mid-Battle Tea Break: Seen in the middle of Lex and Doom's zap battle in After Hours.
  • Missed the Call: Superman in Season 3. Who got the call instead? Green Goblin and Deadpool.
  • Mistaken for Gay: Rorschach decides in his Internal Monologue that Wolverine is gay.
  • Money, Dear Boy: Wade Sparrow's motivation for Pirates of the Caribbean.
    • Darkseid, after learning of his nature, believes this of all comic book creators.
  • The Mole: Lance the bartender
  • Mood Whiplash: Played for Laughs in the Parodies series, when they start with an Inglourious Basterds parody with the Skrulls serving as the Nazi-analogue complete with the scalping speech, causing the bar patrons to cheer at the violence, then move to a District 9 parody where the Skrulls are the Prawns-analogue (but they kept the scalping reference from the previous parody), and the bar patrons are all horrified at Man's Inhumanity to... Skrull.
  • Mushroom Samba: The Green Goblin, after being given a really powerful sedative, goes through one of these.
  • Musical Episode: In celebration of 100 videos.
  • My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: After having the entire languages of Spanish and Portuguese zapped into his brain, the Green Goblin threatens the Joker with a foreign phrase even Gobby himself doesn't understand. It turns out to translate to "What a nice dress. May I try it on?"
    • This was in fact a Night Court shout-out, wherein Dan Fielding uttered almost exactly the same line as the Goblin.
  • Naive Newcomer: Hellboy, who didn't really know how the series works.
  • No Fourth Wall: The Randomverse as it's known is designed so the characters are aware they are comic book heroes and movie stars. Naturally though, Deadpool seems to be the only one aware that they are in fact toys ("I always wanted my own action figure. Now I am my own action figure!"). Nite Owl, who is next to him, of course, has no idea what he's talking about. He also calls attention to the style of animation used in the series, via yellow subtitles.
    • He also does tries to use the yellow subtitles as a weapon against Hal Jordan, who will also be played by Ryan Reynolds in the upcoming movie.
    • One guy uses it to make a hilarious joke at Daredevil's expense. He then asks if he's going to Hell for making it (Ghost Rider: "Take it from me...")
  • Non Sequitur Thud: Iron Man, Green Goblin and Spider-Man have all uttered at least one.
  • Noodle Implements: Batman's meow mix. It's personal, apparently.
  • Noodle Incident:

Spider-Man: [about Green Goblin] Honestly, who's stupid enough to get that drunk?
Iron Man: Look, Comic-Con went really well, all right? I've been very good, everybody was celebrating, everyone was doing it, we thought we could make it to Tijuana, they dropped the charges, so just shut up, okay?!
[awkward silence]

  • Not So Different: Iron Man and Batman discover they are both rich, orphaned millionaire playboys with high-tech toys, a butler, a sidekick and hot love interests, despite Batman's insistence that he is completely different from Iron Man.
  • Not So Stoic: Batman when Joker was torturing Spiderman though this may have been part of his plan. Also when the Joker shot Harley.
  • Obfuscating Insanity: The Green Goblin in Happy Hour, after the sedatives have actually worn off, has to pretend to still be drugged.
  • Odd Couple: Used quite often regarding nearly every character.
    • This is taken to its most logical extreme when Deadpool gets the crazy idea that he should be in a sitcom with, who else? Rorschach. Hilarity Ensues.
    • Deadpool then tries to do a Odd Couple Sitcom Theme Song with Rorschach and Wolverine. He quickly realizes that both Wolverine and Rorschach have way too much in common for the premise to work.
  • One of Us: Random Guy and Random Gal, the creators of the series, are both big time comic book fans and overall geeks. Oh, and they know about TV Tropes, with Random Guy even commenting in one video blog "Our TV Tropes page got even bigger?"
    • Also, one of the things that really makes Random Guy and Random Gal stand out as Internet celebrities is their video blog that has been going on every Tuesday night since the summer of 2009. The regular fans are even referenced by name, and two of them were able to visit them in person and chat live with the other fans. Does it get any better than that?
  • Only Sane Man: Green Lantern comes off as this in his segments but considering who he's up against, not suprising.
  • The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Green Goblin's motivation for turning on Lex Luthor at the end of After Hours.

Green Goblin: You threatened to wipe out Spider-Man and everything he stands for! That's my job!

  • Offhand Backhand: Batman gives one to Green Goblin in Happy Hour #2.
  • Pacing Problems: A huge amount of season 3 has been spent just explaining the plot.
  • Perspective Magic: Many of the action figures are scaled differently, so they are placed different distances from the camera to appear that they are in the same scale - sometimes backfires when one of the two figures is out of focus because of this.
  • Playing Drunk: Goblin pretends to appear high, long after his sedatives have actually worn off in order to avoid being brainwashed by the Joker.

Superman "You sure Goblin's really drugged up?"
Ironman "Trust me, no one sings Grateful Dead songs like him without being on something"
Superman "I don't know, whatever trip he's on, it seems king of... generic"
Goblin (Dancing wildly) "Jeeze, you'd have to be on drugs to be this high!"

Batman: What about Lance's mind?
Professor X: All I got was a loop of 'My Humps' by the Black Eyed Peas

  • Public Service Announcement: The respective casts of Wolverine and Watchmen deliver one to discourage people from seeing the workprint of Wolverine someone uploaded online. Why? See Spoof Aesop below...
  • Reconstruction: Despite doing deconstruction on things, the series also reconstructed Boring Invincible Hero as well, and gave new credence to why Darker and Edgier Batman is still so cool.
  • Reset Button: Used at the end of Season One of "After Hours". Spider-Man was hoping for something more climactic, though, and goes on a rant about this trope. Batman gets in on the act with him as they debate the pros and cons of it.
  • Right Way, Wrong Way Pair: The original concept of the videos, as a parody of the “I’m A Mac / I’m A PC” commercials.
  • Running Gag: Both Lance and Lex sing "My Humps" while being interrogated. And Goblin's bizarre statements while tripped out on sedatives.
    • Also, Rorschach shooting Deadpool is turning into one.
    • Batman's utility belt contains a pouch filled with Meow Mix. When asked, Batman will respond that "It's personal."
    • "That's not a pocket."
    • "___ You're in the movie too, you know?" *blank stare* "I'm sorry, what?"
    • Iron Man loves to blast Spiderman.
    • Deadpool now likes to point out the series' continuity after breaks between subplots or individual videos.
    • --> Lars: "Ya?"

Someone else: "Yes."
Lars: "Ya?"
Someone else: "Yes!"
Lars: "Ya?"
Someone else:"YES!"
Lars: "Ooo-kay!"

  • Safe Word: Apparently, Green Goblin's word is "pumpkins", which he uses on a brainwashed Wonder Woman, as she breaks his wrist.
    • Hilariously, he uses it again when Batman grabbed his wrist.
  • Say My Name: Perhaps in one of the most touching moments, Batman calls Spiderman "Peter" to convince him to let go of Lance's head.
  • Scenery Censor: Deadpool was not expecting Dr. Manhattan to... well, let's just be grateful they only shot the two from the waist up.

Deadpool: Hi, I'm a Marv--WHOA!

Green Lantern "The hell?"

    • Also Dr. Manhattan.

Wolverine: "Wow, who wouldn't pay to see that for 3 hours?"

Rorschach: You don't die, do you?
Deadpool: Nope!

    • A variant of this is used with Wolverine, who finds out that even with adamantium claws, Stabbing Superman isn't going to work.

Superman: It's OK Logan, I've got you.
Wolverine: Oh, you've got me, eh? * claws pop out* Guess who's got you!
Superman: I wouldn't do that if I were you.
Wolverine: Oh you wouldn't eh? Well-* clanging sound is heard offscreen* DAAHHH!!! SONUVA-

Deadpool: He was a douche and now he's in a bag? Come on, people, the jokes practically write themselves!

  • The Stinger: At the end of each season of After Hours / Happy Hours. First season : The Joker comments and laughs at the failure of Luthor's plan. Second season : the Joker teleports on Apokolips and gets captured by Darkseid, who shows great interest in Stan's Place...
  • Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: In Deadpool's song about why he's better than Green Lantern:

I'm sure that his power ring's a lot of fun/ but can it ever really be as cool as my M16 with laser sided scope oh my GOD I love this thing.

  • Suicide as Comedy: The Green Goblin attempts to hang himself in the Spider-Man reboot video over dispair over Willam Dafoe. He survives due to a combination of his enhanced physiology and being the Ensemble Darkhorse.
  • Surveillance as the Plot Demands: Luthor does this a lot. Lampshaded in Zero Hour #2 when Iron Man and Goblin are watching live feed of the heroes from Luthor's laptop:

Iron Man: How many cameras do you have?
Green Goblin: What, did you buy out Google Earth?

Deadpool: [mutters to self] Tell me to shut up...

    • Superman delivers one against One More Day after discovering the truth:

Superman: "He sold his marriage to the Devil? My God, that's so... lame."

  • Talking to Himself: RandomGuy does all the voices. Except for the girls. All of those are done by his girlfriend.
  • Tear Jerker - Lex Luthor, standing in the midst of a world he accidentally destroyed, filled with regret.

"I never thought it possible it would be initiated, but it was. Not by my hand, perhaps, but, that hardly matters. It was my android. My plan. My fault."

Spider-Man: So, you finally went and changed your douche. Good Lord, that came out horribly.

  • The Other Darrin: Lampshaded by Batman and other characters who demand to know why Rhodey looks different in the second Iron Man film.
    • Real-life version: Starting from the Thanksgiving video, Random Guy's sister provided the voice of Batgirl (as it was revealed him and his girlfriend broke up), there is no information on who'll be voicing the female characters in the future.
  • The Other Action Figure: The Iron Man action figure used in the 2007 videos was replaced with the one licensed to the 2008 movie.
    • The convention videos use alternate Spider-Man action figures, as the regular movie-based figures aren't allowed due to orders from Marvel. The viewers are always confused.
    • This trope was also discussed in several videos.
    • And then there's the part in After Hours when Superman and Batman are arguing with each other, they then switch between that, and their Superfriends action figures, where they then proceed to be kind, and sweet and nice to each other. It's rather sickening, to be honest.
    • The Thing figure in the "Fantastic Four Quickie" differs from the one that made token appearances in later videos.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: There have been 2 prominent ones in the After Hours and Happy Hour segments.
  • Theme Song: Parodied with Rorschach And Deadpool
    • Along with Rorschach And Wolverine later on.
    • Played straight at the end of Happy Hour #2 when the BTAS Batman theme plays while Batman kicks superhero butt.
  • This Is the Part Where: Darkseid says this before revealing his plans.
  • Those Two Guys: Professor X and Magneto, they both always played cards or board games in the hero bar. Despite the fact that Magneto is a villain.
  • Time for Plan B: The Joker invokes Plan Q when Lance tells him that it's one that can teleport him out of harms way. It teleports him right into Darkseid's hands. Plan Q blows, apparently.
  • Time Marches On: A few of the earlier videos suffer from this when the characters make jokes about upcoming movies that later turn out differently than people expected they would. In one of the Batman vs. Iron Man videos, for example, Batman quips that Iron Man shouldn't be expecting any tie-in deals from Panda Express, since his movie features him beating up a diabolical Chinese mastermind named "The Mandarin" (at the time, Marvel had announced that the Mandarin would be the villain of Iron Man 2).
  • Time Travel: Lex Luthor's plan in Season One of "After Hours" centers on this.
    • Time Travel also shows up in season 3: Lance's head is from the future.
  • Training Montage: The last Batman vs. Iron Man video.
  • Tranquil Fury - Darkseid, after Joker tells him to his face he's just a meaningless comic book villain, and howling with laughter to his face.

"That's. Not. Funny."

Spiderman: "Wow. Supes must mean a lot to you for you to go all this trouble to find him."
Batman: " 'Supes' is a heastrong, naive idiot without the least bit of common sense for these situations."
(Spiderman laughs)
Batman: "But only I'm allowed to say that."

  • The Voice: Harry Osborn has only appeared as an off-screen voice during Goblin Bloggin segments and an episode of Zero Hour.
  • We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: Parodied in the first Jonah Hex video, where Iron Man is about to explain what happened to Rhodey's first actor, but the video cuts to a screen with the message "Whoops! Technical Difficulties." Turns out Iron Man didn't actually tell Jonah what happened, and instead just stood there for a few seconds while the Technical Difficulties screen popped up before saying "That's why!"
    • Then Lampshaded by Hex.

Hex: But all you did was just stand there for a few seconds and then say "that's why."

Wolverine: Except I've got ethics, and I'm not a sociopath... or a rapist... you know what, maybe you remind me of someone else...

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