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• Before that, Hank trains to be a programmer. By drinking Dewitos (a Dorito-flavored Mountain Dew), he goes up the gaming rank. First he's attempting the Backwards Long Jump, then he becomes a pro Super Smash Bros. Melee player, and escalates (complete with a call back to Peridot reporting accused cheating) getting fatter from the Dewitos. Which eventually makes him resemble Junichiro and later grow wings. And this is all set as a training monstage.
• Zero is a Sore Loser. The Smash player.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: "Admiral Ackbar's Traptastic Sextravaganza" Episode 3 implies that most of his earlier Youtube Poops take place in the game universe of sorts. Meaning that Nemo would take over the world once he becomes part of the Illuminati. So when everyone gets back from the spaaace battle, they'll be coming back to a ruined planet taken over by a powerful clownfish.

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The Wonderful 101

• Relatedly, the reason why the "main weapon" (weapon of the main character) is a hand is because Red/the Hand users are giving a helping hand.

• The level select map screen shows several huge crators in the Earth. Granted, since one of them is where Blossom City is located, these are pretty hard to ignore, but it still raises the question of exactly what the hell did GEATHJERK manage to do in Earth Defense Wars I and II.

• Butt Monkey:
  • Homer Simpson, who is often used as a test punching bag. In fact, the whole reason why the Homer Army was a thing was because Fan wanted to make Homer into a game of fighting lots of clones of him.
  • His Nepeta character puts Vriska in this role when the former is in "Fan fic mode." (Where she somehow undergoes Xenafication, if that's believable, and gets a large number of overpowered batshit attacks) Not only is her block animation using Vriska as a human (well, troll) shield, but her strongest hyper involves ripping a hole in space itself to an alternate dimension causing several characters to fall out and crush the enemy... Vriska is one of them, and she's the only one who looks completely shocked about it.

• No, Strikers born on a certain holiday will not be "themed" after that holiday, except for maybe Valentine's Day (member #062. Huh, that's two spots after Yellow. Kinda cool how one of the main twelve is so close to that day). In fact I'm gonna try to plan it out to actively avoid that. Member #321 will not be one of the "Halloween-themed" members (IE whose alien race is based on a traditional old monster), #011 isn't going to have any Christmas references (it is tempting since that is a red color), #108 will not be based on April Fools, etc. That just seems like such an overly cliche and predictable thing to do — and I'm not exactly fond of strictly keeping themes to their holidays. Kind of like how I intentionally had a "Halloween Update" where a mild monster-themed chapter of TZ came out the day right before and the actual release on Halloween was a dumb romance story I'm now practically disowing, or how Homestuck Thanksgiving Special was advertized as a Thanksgiving special but it was really a "horror" zombie apocalypse called Kids Fight the Zombies... which came out on Christmas.
• "If Lord Carbon isn't named Lord Diamond shouldn't Pilot Bronze be Pilot Copper" no because those three felt more like going on a more known naming scheme and Carbon was just kind of... wanted to be unique or something. Also, "Lord Diamond" sounds slightly cliche for some reason. "Lord Carbon" just sounds silly enough to fit with the scheme of the story. I went with diamond/carbon instead of platinum because I felt like making the main villain of something that uses Wonderful 101 as its bigger inspiration a platinum-themed villain would feel like a dig at it or going "I can do better than that game." Since Wonderful 101 was developed by Platinum Games and this is something it reminds you all the time, especially near the end where there's a robot on the heroes' side named (if kinda unofficially, just something Wonder-Red thought up in a few seconds) "Platinum Robo."

• Back for the Finale:
  • All of the professors come back in the second-to-last chapter having switched sides and helping the Pines construct their own mecha to fight against Dove's, and continue a similar role in the finale.
• Humongous Mecha: Played with. While a lot of the AI's possessions come close to being used like mechas, none of them really fit the mark until near the end. The respective final antagonists possess the flying saucer under Gravity Falls and a massive planet respectively, they change both into mecha-like shapes. Then there's the massive cluster-thing made of what the previous 13 professors possessed to fight back against the UFO.
• The ending reveals that Dove was actually supposed to be a Token Mini-Moe type character in-game (if still being around the same actual age — she was just short and flat-chested), but absolutely despised that role, hense making herself look as tall as the other AIs and bustier. It also explains why her dialogue is so over-the-top "edgy" and she swears a lot. She's trying to distance herself from that role as much as possible, which is implied to be why she's obsessed with large things.
• There is one fix-y vibe from it, though. The love potion's effects get undone. Mabel considers trying to use the anti-love potion to tone down the AI's obsessive behavior, but Dove (who had been previously established to at least hold something against Mabel's stealing a love potion in the first place) snatches it and tosses it straight on Robbie and Tambry.

• This mod of Luigi, which gives him a number of absolutely bizarre attacks. Highlights include a throw where he finger-pokes the opponent's ass, himself apparently turning into a mecha with growing hands, feet, moustache, etc, and his "lose" animation (seen at the end of the video) being flipping off the winner of the battle.

Holy Shiitake!

• 
  You'd Expect: At least ask Rip directly what's in the bottle. Even if Rip flat-out lies, it's at least something, and Roxy could even try to get a tell from her.
  Instead: Rip claims "A love potion would help" without specifically calling it that, which is already a red flag. Roxy assumes it's one just because of the red coloring and heart-shapped vial, and then nabs it without giving the whole incredibly shady sequence another thought. The result? Rip pulled a classic Literal Genie Deal with the Devil move: That wasn't a love potion, but a hate virus (that could, strangely enough, be cured by listening to someone singing smooth jazz — among other, more reasonable cures) that quickly spreads and infects everyone.

• The fic's version of "Joust Like a Woman" ends with King Phillip still getting a lawsuit. As he realizes that his fair is as good as gone, he gives a Big "NO!" and the entire fair explodes for no reason.

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