
Spencer Scott, better known as TheRussianBadger, is a Canadian YouTuber and Twitch streamer known for playing multiplayer games with his friends, lending his comedy, sarcasm and self-deprecating style to his commentary.
Born on September 11th, 1992, he started up his channel on May 7th, 2010, originally playing single-player games before joining his friends to play some multiplayer games together. He commonly plays shooting games, providing tutorials, reviews and personal thoughts among the randomness of his friends' discussions.
As of February 14, 2024, he currently has around 6.28 million subscribers on YouTube, and an additional 822,000 followers on Twitch.
- Active Matter
- Among Us
- ARMA III
- Assassin's Creed:
- Batman: Arkham Knight
- Battlefield:
- Call of Duty:
- Counter-Strike (Source and Global Offensive)
- Crossout
- Dauntless
- Doom Eternal
- Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair
- Enlisted
- Fallout:
- Far Cry 5
- Fortnite
- Gears 5
- Ghost Recon Breakpoint
- Ghost Recon Wildlands
- Halo:
- Helldivers II
- Injustice 2
- Insurgency: Sandstorm
- Killing Floor
- Left 4 Dead 2
- Lethal Company
- Marvel vs. Capcom 3
- Marvel Rivals
- Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond
- PAYDAY 2
- Rainbow Six Siege
- Remnant: From the Ashes
- R.E.P.O.
- Robo Recall
- Space Hulk: Deathwing
- Spider-Man (PS4)
- Star Wars Battlefront II (2017)
- Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
- Valorant
- Warface
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
- War Thunder
- World of Tanks
- World of Warships
- World War Z (2019)
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- Absurdly High Level Cap: Badger talks about how the prerequesites for perk levels in Killing Floor go up exponentially (going from level 0-1 takes dealing about 25,000 damage with perk weapons, while getting to level 6 takes millions), which means that it takes a huge amount of grinding to get even a single perk up to level six. He has around 120 hours in the game and only has 1 out of 7 (Sharpshooter) maxed out. Naturally, everyone else rags on Sigrid for apparently no-lifing the game so much that all of her perks are maxed out and make a ton of jokes about her being unemployed.
- Accentuate the Negative:
- Inverted. By Badger's own admission in "Goblin Mode Brain Rot", he'd much rather talk about the things he likes rather than the things he dislikes, which is why even if a game has a lot of flaws or issues that would be dealbreakers for most people, he cares more about whether he and his friends got to have fun, leading him to accentuate the positives without ignoring the negatives.Badger: (Regarding Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II) First thing, I'm extremely based- biased, I mean biased. I only make videos about games I like and try to remain as positive as possible no matter the situation, which in a Call of Duty lobby makes me virtually one of a kind. I'd much rather tell you about something that I love than something that I hate, so my interpretation of the game is probably more optimistic than the reality. I'm not saying Modern Warfare II is "flawless" because it certainly isn't, especially those Hulu-ass menu animations — oh my God, who made these! — I just want it known that this whole video is gonna have a sunny, cheery, pizza party, slant to it.
- Inverted again in "melting my gpu by trying to render god in friendslop" where Badger dismisses comparisons between R.E.P.O. and Lethal Company, not only because the two games have enough differences to stand out on their own, but also because having fun is most important to him.
- Inverted. By Badger's own admission in "Goblin Mode Brain Rot", he'd much rather talk about the things he likes rather than the things he dislikes, which is why even if a game has a lot of flaws or issues that would be dealbreakers for most people, he cares more about whether he and his friends got to have fun, leading him to accentuate the positives without ignoring the negatives.
- Actually Pretty Funny: While playing Fortnite, Badger aims at someone and prompts them to emote for their lives.Player: [Does the Balance Board emote, which has them do surfboarding tricks on a board positioned on top of rolling a cylinder.]
Badger: ... [Audibly blown away by the emote] Alright, that was cool as fuck, you get to live. - All for Nothing: Badger leaned towards this in "Lore Accurate Vergil Stomps Marvel for $50 and Some Drip" when he made bracket winner Mickey fight him as the "boss battle" for the tournament. Ultimately defied; see The Battle Didn't Count
- all lowercase letters: Has become the case for the titles of his main videos (minus the annual "BEST OF" compilation videos) and even some of his YouTube shorts since the start of 2024.
- Always Accurate Attack: In "getting dumpstered by 40 yr old divorced electricians w aim assist", Geuce complains about the players in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 who, no matter their loadout, keep getting perfect shots.Geuce: I don't fucking get it, bro! These fuckers don't miss!
- Anachronism Stew: Invoked in Goblin Mode Brain Rot via a verbal slip-up by Badger.Badger: Ahh, they're all Xbox and PS3, we're gonna get our nuts handed to us.
Clu: PS3, bro? what? I’m sorry? PS3?
Skullker: Damn, they got Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II 2022 on the PS3! - Anti-Grinding: In "when the game lets you print unlimited replicas", the title of the video refers to how Active Matter lets you use a Matter Replicator to reproduce infinite copies of any gun you find out in the game for free. Badger then points out that while this might seem like you could therefore sell an infinite number of replicated guns for Credits and thereby generate an infinite amount of money by doing nothing at first glance, the game has a soft preventative measure against this. Any guns you create using the Replicator are designated as "Replicas" and only sell for about 1-2 Credits each (compared to the thousands that authentic guns sell for), so you would need to have a truly absurd amount of patience and dedication to make any meaningful amount of Credits by duplicating weapons as opposed to selling gear you retrieved on an actual operation.
- Arbitrary Gun Power: In [LAUGHS IN 71 ROUND DINNER PLATE], Grouse talks about how in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019), .38 caliber snakeshot, which is used to kill snakesnote , was a
Game-Breaker for two months. In real life, the ammo is unable to penetrate body armor.Grouse: They're pellets the size of flecks of pepper inside of ham. Like it is nothing.
Badger: Yo, I've been hit by Super Soakers with more penetrating power than a .38 special. - Art Evolution: The avatars representing Badger and his crew were usually animated frame-by-frame, until Badger got his hands on a mocap setup, and upgraded to full-motion animation for gags and skits.
- Artificial Intelligence: Starting in Banished to the Shadow Realm, Skullker has added various AI clones of his friends to his arsenal, programming them to say things and sounding scarily accurate to the real deal. Initially he only had Badger and Bing, the former described as "Badger if he went into public broadcasting", and Bing describing his own as a "DoodleBing". In Hamster Chief Lobsters the Fortbite however, he's added Heavenly to his repertoire. They aren't perfect though, as the cadence of their speaking can be off at times, and Heavenly's briefly glitched during its debut.AI!Heavenly: Yeah, man... oring. yah. lug. flarsh. shing. dingling.
Badger: Wait wait wait wait... Is that Swedish?
Heavenly: What the hell did I just say?
Digi: That is Heavenly as possessed by Beelzebub!
Herbokuu: The demons got him! Goddamn demons.
Heavenly: That shit was not real... I need you to take that away.
AI!Heavenly: Lurllurllurllurllurllurllurllurllurllurllurllurllurllurllurl!
Pasta: (starting to panic) I'm not liking this anymore...
Badger: Are you saying......are you saying "Lol"
Pasta: I'm not liking this anymore...
Skullker: He's saying "lurl".
Digi: The bot is having a stroke!
Badger: Did Heavenly just have a memory leak?
AI!Heavenly: And this shit right here. AHH-UHHHH...
Mickey: (over laughter) Wait, I just realized...I just realized...wait until Skullker makes the AI speak backwards...
Badger: Wait... what was that?!
Geuce: I thought that was actually you for a sec!
Badger: Yo, is this the Heavenly "fish moan" moment? - Artistic License – Geography: In "BANISHED TO THE SHADOW REALM", Dustin mistakenly claims that Swedish people come from Switzerland and not, well, Sweden.DigitalVagrant: SWITZERLAND IS NOT WHERE THE SWEDES ARE FROM!
- Artistic License – Law:
- Played for laughs in "Destroy All Taxpayer Dollars" when Badger gets killed by Napoleon Bonaparte's friendly fire. In a mock court scene, a lawyer says his client pleads "oopsie-daisy."
- Played for laughs in "Lore Accurate Vergil Stomps Marvel for $50 and Some Drip" where a mock court scene has Herboku plead "nuh uh" to the charge of wire fraud.Badger: (reading chat) "YOUR HONOR, SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU WASN'T EVEN THERE"
- Ascended Fanboy: Badger and Grouse were both hired by Overkill Software to make a short film parodying the infamous business card scene from American Psycho for 2023's April Fools Day.
- Ascended Meme: Badger has managed to wrangle a few sponsorship deals/additions to video games:
- An off-hand joke asking if there's a "comically large spoon" to use as an Improvised Weapon in PAYDAY 2 led to the developers adding one in along with a gold variant as an April Fools joke.
- Totally Accurate Battlegrounds approached Badger after a few videos to provide a voicepack of in-game words- including SWAWS- and a crocodile outfit for players to wear.
- And if Badger's not being sponsored by anything else, odds are he's selling his unique flavor of Gamer Supps, Guacamole Gamer Fart 9000, and his unique flavor of Gamer Soups, Swamp Ass(assin).
- "erm ackshually
" has Badger detail how shapekeys work by showing off how expressive Venom can be by giving him an overbite or underbite. One tweet responded by placing Nerd Glasses on Venom and saying "Erm, ackshually we awe Eddie Bwock and Venom." NetEase saw the meme blow up and added it as an emoji to Marvel Rivals.
- A-Team Firing: In "getting dumpstered by 40 yr old electricians w aim assist", one of the Twitch chat members heckles Badger with this. Badger is insulted, but after getting killed, he thinks the commenter was right.
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Author Appeal: Badger is a huge fan of Plastic Man. - Author Avatar: A rotating roster of models from various video games are used to represent Badger and his crew, usually (but not always) corresponding with whatever game they're playing.
- Badger is depicted as a soldier with a screen on his chest, usually displaying a meme related to what he's saying.
- Grouse is almost always depicted by Dallas.
- Heavenly is either a Cacodemon or the Doomguy. Alternatively in recent years his vtuber model will pop up from time to time.
- Skullker is a Combine grunt.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: The short "framerate" has two bots in an FPS game lament being outsmarted by a skilled human player. One hits a wall in frustration, and the other remarks that everything went laggy for a second, and after discovering that the player has a very outdated CPU, the two come up with a successful plan to break multiple objects around them to overload and crash his PC.
- Badass Boast: Heavenly lands one after body blocking Badger’s C4.Heavenly: Are your ancestors smiling upon you? MINE ARE! *explosion*
- Bait-and-Switch: In "BUILT DIFFERENT, BUILT STUPID", while Badger is describing Nick, it sounds like he's going to paint him as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, but subverts it by calling him a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk.Badger: And of course, Nick, the former conman gambler who's whiny, sarcastic, and never impressed by anything ever. But don't let his harsh demeanor fool you, because underneath that fistful of rings and $3000 dollar suit… he's a real piece of shit.
Nick: That's great. I run into the three people in Georgia not carrying a gun. - The Battle Didn't Count: A rare positive version. The secret rule of Badger's Marvel vs. Capcom 3 tournament in "LORE ACCURATE VERGIL STOMPS MARVEL FOR $50 AND SOME DRIP" is that fighting Badger doesn't mean the contestants lose the prize money if they lose and they only have to win the bracket. Badger explains that obviously being the nice guy that he is, he wasn't going to make his friends fight through a three hour tournament only to potentially keep the fifty grand by winning at the very end.
- Berserk Button: Geuce has, among others, issues with people lusting over fictional characters, bellowing "THEY'RE JUST POLYGONS".Geuce: (with gradually increasing anger) Stop calling the 3D avatar mommy. STOP CALLING THE 3D AVATAR MOMMY. STOP CALLING THE 3D AVATAR MOMMY.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: In Hamster Chief Lobsters the Fortbite, Badger reads a comment from his Twitch chat involving this with pictures of a real frog and Tsuyu Asui. Another clip has Bing as the Joker imply he's going to have sex with his Vaporeon.Badger: "Wasn't a zoo shut down due to a MHA fan trying to bang a frog?" I've never heard of this.
Bing: It's my Pokémon, Batman. I can do whatever I want with it. - Better than Sex: Badger notes that he has had sex with at least one woman, and it was still not as good as the original 2009 Highrise map.
- Beyond the Impossible:
- In Hamster Chief Lobsters the Fortbite, Badger makes a joke headline about Fortnite having one trillion active players just from adding Zero Build mode. Earth has a recorded population of 8+ billion.Badger: This has to be the first time ever that devs taking something out of the game made it perfect. "What if we made Fortnite without the Fortni—
BREAKING NEWS: Fortnite reaches 1 trillion active players.
Jesus Christ all they did was take out building how did this shit happen so fast? - In Goblin Mode Brain Rot, Heavenly is confused how Badger lived long enough to run out of ammo on "Shipment", the tiniest Call of Duty map ever where players normally die every few seconds.
- In Hamster Chief Lobsters the Fortbite, Badger makes a joke headline about Fortnite having one trillion active players just from adding Zero Build mode. Earth has a recorded population of 8+ billion.
- Big Eater: In "free is free
", Badger orders 16 McDoubles from McDonalds twice a day, equalling 32 burgers.note - Black Comedy: Used a lot in his videos in various conversations, whether it be for fictional or real life related stuff, or a combination of the two.
- Boomerang Bigot: Played for laughs in Hamster Chief Lobsters the Fortbite when Heavenly roleplays Vegeta as a racist towards anime characters despite being one himself, shown by carrying a sign that says "NO ANIME."
- Born in the Wrong Century: In "An Abstract Carnival of Pain", he describes the TOG2 tank as one built for the wrong war. The British designed it with the assumption that World War II would be like World War I, but the Germans went for the Blitzkrieg. It was only ever a prototype and never saw combat.
- Bowdlerise:
- The original version of Tomahawking Spiders For Trespassing ended up age-restricted on YouTube, prompting Badger to release a second version with small differences. The reason for the restriction pertained to the "Wing Diver" character, as Badger represented them using the character model for Kasumi from Dead or Alive, specifically one wearing Sensual Spandex, and joking that the Wing Diver's cries of pain sound more like they're about to orgasm, Badger hearing it prompting him to say he muted all his hentai tabs. The new version released has the latter scene cut to a short clip of Wing Diver stuck in a web with Garry's Mod ragdoll sound effects going off, and has Kasumi's character model changed to have her wearing a Sailor Fuku.
- Mustard Beef Turns Rainbow Six to Ash had to have the "Call my girl Sloppenheimer the way I get this bomb head" joke from Heavenly removed after it got the video age-restricted. However, the offending clip has been put back into the video now. The same video also had an AI!Badger clip censored to due to age restriction (This is also back in the video):AI!Badger: Opps thought I was lacking, so I cut a hole in a watermelon and stuck my di-
- In "this british zombie game is dumber than you can imagine", Badger had to physically boot up Unreal Engine 2 and make a custom mod replacing the Killing Floor Stalker and Siren models with less scantily-clad ones just out of the fear that YouTube would demonetize or age-restrict his video, as they have been very trigger-happy about doing so in the past and he didn't want to take any chances. He replaced the Siren with Dallas because it runs up and yells at you and the Stalker with the Green Goblin from Marvel Future Fight, because it goes invisible and then ambushes you.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: In "Built Different, Built Stupid", Badger describes the weapons in Left 4 Dead as ranging from "silly shit" to "deadly shit" to "silly deadly shit."
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: In "High Impact Constructive Criticism," Clu says one of the group's friends, Julius, will, for instance, go from posting pictures of his cat on Discord to "Here are the exact ingredients to make anthrax."
- Breathless Non Sequitur: Badger's editing style often sandwiches random lines and nonsensical conversation topics in-between whatever it is he's actually talking about, often without changing his or his friends' tones of voice. He calls it the "price of admission" in An Abstract Carnival of Pain and demonstrates such by showing the following clips in what's supposed to be a primer on the TOG's destructive power in World of Tanks:Badger: "The ocean is a soup." Well, it's filled with microplastics, so I hope you're hungry.
DirtbagDustin: That's him, officer, he wasn't using the Wii wrist strap!
Badger: Yeah, I cleared the house... off the fuckin' map.
Grouse: "I will fucking kill you if you change the [Costco] hot dog."note - Bulverism: Badger points out in "have video game skins gone too far?" that he often gets comments dismissing his (predominantly positive and negative-averse) opinions along the lines of "You only like this game because _____", particular getting a lot of comments saying that he only likes the games he plays because of the friends he plays them with making them entertaining. Badger responds to these criticisms by acknowledging that yes, his friends do a lot of the heavy lifting toward making a game fun, but he has also never really claimed to be a serious game reviewer and he's mostly just goofing off and having fun with them in videos.Sigrid: Like what's that one 4chan post?...Qualityslop. Like, you only like it cuz it's good.
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Clu: There was another guy that was like "You only call things fun because you can't think of an actual description". - Butch Lesbian: Parodied with Sigrid, who notes how she's started adopting stereotypically masculine idiosyncracies in "getting dumpstered by 40 yr old divorced electricians w aim assist":Sigrid: Dude! I've started doing like the "bro nod", like the little like, up nod to men on the street, and dude, they do it back and then they give me a look, it's awesome! I'm tall, I have a good handshake, I can do the bro nod, it is so funny.
[...]
Badger: You know what? This makes me a little self-conscious, cuz when you said you were gonna walk to the corner gas station, get some beef jerky and a beer, I kinda felt self-conscious. [...] Like, "Am I not as manly as Sigrid?" - Butt-Monkey: Digi is frequently seen by Badger and company as The Load and The Millstone when they play games with him and who often receives a torrent of verbal abuse when he screws up. And if he isn't being verbally brutalized for a screwup, he's usually a target for whatever pranks someone has planned, usually Heavenly.
- Can't Catch Up: Badger goes on a tangent in "getting dumpstered by 40 yr old divorced electricians w aim assist" about how his experience fighting 14-year-olds tweaking on dopamine every second in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was too much for his 30-year-old reflexes to handle. He also describes how he feels FPS players as a whole have gotten much better over the years compared to the casual gaming scene of The Oughties, and it's very hard for him and his friends to compete with the younger generation to the point that Black Ops 6's skill-based matchmaking was unable to put him in a lobby where he felt evenly matched after a string of losses in a row.Badger: There were occasions where the algorithm couldn't balance us with anybody! We are so rock-bottom bad that the SBMM truly could not find anybody worse to pair us up with.
- Capcom Sequel Stagnation: In "getting dumpstered by 40 yr old divorced electricians w aim assist", Badger claims every game in Call of Duty is a copy-paste game with a new skin on to give (then-CEO of Activision-Blizzard) Bobby Kotick a new jet.
- Catchphrase:
- For Badger and his buddies, it's generally some variation of "Hell yeah brother!" or "Ballin'."
- There's also "YEET!" or "Yaw/Yah YEET!", for when they're making some form of risky attack or one-in-a-million shot.
- SWAWS, initially made by someone just saying "SWA" and then instantly playing it in reverse. Badger has since expanded "SWAWS" to the name of a clothing line he runs, as well as creating a sound pack that includes the "SWAWS" sound in it.
- If there's something in a game that catches Badger's interest, like mods or a game mode, he's quick to say "Sign me the fuck up!"
- Getting a clutch kill in an FPS game will often lead to him shouting some variant of "I'm nuts!"
- If Badger steals kills from other players, he says "I'm such a rat!"
- Cephalothorax: Heavenly is sometimes depicted as a Cacodemon from Doom.
- Chairman of the Brawl: In "have video game skins gone too far?", one of Badger's Finishers in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is to beat someone to death with a steel chair, especially as Skeletor.
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Character Alignment: In "BANISHED TO THE SHADOW REALM", Badger says he is Chaotic Neutral at worst and usually Chaotic Good, with the evil AI clone created by Skulker being either Neutral or Chaotic Evil. - Character Derailment: In-universe, during "Sam Fisher Bodies Paid Actors", Badger considers Sam Fisher's appearance in Rainbow Six Siege to be this. He says Sam's meant to be a stealthy operative you never see coming, not going in guns blazing.Soldier: Boss, I swear there's nobody here. We swept the entire compound with 50 guys, the lasers are activated, and we've got a dozen dogs on patrol.
Sam makes his entrance playing Il Vento D'oro. - Chew Bubblegum: In "FOR THE EMPEROR", Badger says this as a Blood Angel.Badger: I came here to do two things and two things only. Purge heretics and steal property, and I already stole your property. So let's do this.
- Clickbait Gag: Lampshaded in the Cold Open of Built Different. Built Stupid.; the group acknowledges the insane titles they could get from their lightly modded Left 4 Dead 2 experience.Badger: That's like the worst YouTube clickbait title you could ever imagine. "Arkham Knight saves Master Chief from Elmo in front of Shrek while carrying gnome?"
Heavenly: "Not clickbait, gone wild! Sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends… Buy a Ridge Wallet…" - Collector of the Strange: Badger has spent nearly 2000 dollars on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III skins just to catalog how weird they are.
- Color-Coded Speech: Badger and his friends have different text colors to show who's speaking. Who has what text color is often found in the descriptions of each video; the only constant is Badger's text being white. Badger makes note of this at the end of the Among Us video, lamenting that his friends didn't stay the same color in-game to match their text colors.
- Commonality Connection: Parodied. Badger jokingly points out that if he ever wanted to complain about his wife (hypothetically speaking), Sigrid would also understand due to having a wife despite being a woman herself.Grouse: That's how we convinced red state legislators to get gay marriage goin'. We were like "you can bitch about your wife to other women", and they were like "OH MY GOD, that's so real". They're like "HOLY SHIT, I didn't even think of that".
- Content Warning:
- At the start of Tomahawking Spiders for Trespassing, he's quick to give a warning to viewers that Earth Defence Force 4.1, and the video by proxy, contains giant spiders.
- The very beginning of "robbing $124 from a free to play game" has an... interesting disclaimer:Badger: This video contains extremely loud noises, so if you're not a fan of landmines or rap songs from 2004, you should definitely leave, right now. (Cue an explosion sending his avatar flying)
- Costume Porn: In Goblin Mode Brain Rot, one segment is dedicated to Badger & co. gushing over how The Juggernaut's ensemble includes a pair of Timberland boots (commonly referred to as "Timbs").
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Played for Laughs in one video, where Badger recalls an incident involving Dustin killing a wasp by smothering it in ranch dressing and recording the whole thing to send to Badger and the rest of their friend group (more than once, if Badger's wording is anything to go by):Badger: No no no no no, we're not going in the direction of ranch. I don't wanna see another video of Dustin killing a wasp with ranch dressing. (over screencaps of Hidden Valley ranch being squeezed onto a wasp) "Fuck you, you're going to the ranch dimension!" (breaks down laughing)
- Curb-Stomp Battle: In "have video game skins gone too far?" Badger and his friends get on the wrong end of the Swarm killstreak, which continues to bomb them until the other team gets the Nuke.Grouse: Oh, they got a Swarm? Fellas, we're gonna fucken die. We're gonna fucken die.
Skulker: I'm getting legitimately farmed right now.
Digi: We let someone farm us so hard they get to just delete us from the map. I'm so entertained. - Dance Party Ending: Inverted. The title screen for "HAMSTER CHIEF LOBSTERS THE FORTBITE" features a dance party involving Badger, Heavenly, and Bing, only for The Joker to blow them up, followed by Arkham Knight Batman punching Badger through a wall, and then Thanos using the Infinity Gauntlet for a haymaker on Badger.
- Deadly Euphemism: In “why are people so addicted to war thunder”, Badger says that a tank torpedo is a great way of “turning someones birthdays off”.
- Deathbringer the Adorable: In "when the game lets you print unlimited replicas", while Bing is talking about dogs named Cupcake that will kill you, he says dogs with more violent names are teddy bears in comparison.Bing: But if it's like Megatron or something, it's gonna be like the nicest dog ever.
Geuce: Baphomet.
Bing: Aldrich the God Devourer. Nah he don't bite. He's cool. - Death from Above: Inevitable given some of the games they play, be it orbital bombardment or a guy with a physics gun from Garry's Mod.Badger: It's a bird, it's a plane—oh no, it's Lockheed Martin!
- Deep-Fried Whatever: In "when the game lets you print unlimited replicas", Badger brings up how when he went to the American South he was shocked at how they fry everything before eating it. Grouse then chimes in that he once had a deep-fried Caesar salad in Chattanooga.Grouse: The WHOLE HEAD OF LETTUCE was enCASED. The Caesar dressing was fried, it was crazy...I think the whole damn restaurant might have been fried, to be honest.
- Demonic Spiders: Badger talks in "I modded this zombie game to make loads of money" about how in his opinion, Gorefasts are the scariest enemy in Killing Floor compared to rarer but technically more dangerous Specimens like Scrakes or Fleshpounds. This is because Gorefasts are considered weak enough that the game spawns in huge droves of them, they do a ton of damage, they're disturbingly fast and they don't immediately die from headshots and have to bleed out first, so it's way easier and more common to get overwhelmed by a swarm of Gorefasts than other Zeds.
- Denser and Wackier: In "have video game skins gone too far?", Badger considers the Call of Duty series to have become far sillier than the gritty military shooters they were when he first got into the series around Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, especially in the multiplayer. He describes this by showing Makarov from the first Modern Warfare trilogy, then showing the variety of skins that are prevalent in multiplayer.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Played for laughs in Built Different. Built Stupid. when Badger has Arthur Morgan gun down Thanos."Everybody gangsta till Arthur Morgan starts fannin' Thanos with a Winchester."
- Dismissing a Compliment: In "Goblin Mode Brain Rot", Badger compliments a player for their skill; they, however, weren't so convinced.Badger: Yo, matty ice was killer with that knife. He was really fucking us up.matty ice: I died 67 times...
- Disproportionate Retribution: In "Destroy All Taxpayer Dollars", Clu tells a story about how he was driving in upstate New York and the license plate on the car in front of him said "IM HIM." (sic) Clu says the license plate made him laugh so hard he walked up to the driver's window and blasted him with a shotgun.
- Disqualification-Induced Victory: In "Lore Accurate Vergil Stomps Marvel for $50 And Some Drip", Calvin's failure to show up for the tournament allows Badda to move to the next round. It also disqualifies him from getting a share of the $8000 Mickey shared with the rest of the contestants.
- Do I Really Sound Like That?: In "BANISHED TO THE SHADOW REALM", Badger and company are exposed to Skullker's AI copies of their voices for the first time. The results are mixed...AI!Badger: I'm smoking on Bhutanese garden grown dark evil pack. They watered this shit with the blood of 36 dragons. Shit's so purple it should be asking me, "Where's Ronald?" GAMER. This shit will turn your pacemaker off. Nuclear levels of sour. This shit is what shot Tupac. RIP my gamer for real, dawg. Peace. (everyone else is laughing)
Badger: Wait, who is this supposed to be?
Geuce: THAT'S YOU!- And later, when Bing gets cloned, too...Bing: God, it's so much weirder when I don't know what the AI voice is gonna say. It feels like I'm sitting there with a Doodlebob Bing.
(Heavenly can be heard cackling)
AI!Bing: Don't call me Doodlebing, you fucking dingleborb. (everyone else laughs)
Heavenly: My fault, bot! My fault, slime!
- And later, when Bing gets cloned, too...
- Do Not Try This at Home: Badger takes a rare moment in "getting dumpstered by 40 yr old divorced electricians w aim assist" to add a disclaimer to Mickey's claim that you should deep-fry ice (i.e. put ice in boiling oil, which is a recipe for a ton of steam really quickly and a huge fiery explosion). Mickey doubles down and keeps trying to suggest that it's a really good idea.Badger: Hold on, this is one of the few times where I have to say "DO NOT PUT FUCKING ICE"—
Mickey: If you want it to taste really good!
Badger: If you work with an industrial fryer, do not put ice into it, you will burn your entire establishment down! Do not put ice in it!
Mickey: People who don't want you to eat tasty ice will tell you that. But I'm telling you it's so fucking good. - Don't Think, Feel: In "MUSTARD BEEF TURNS RAINBOW SIX TO ASH", Badger views his footages and realizes he was winning more when he plays "like a dumbass" instead of seriously. For example, pre-firing down halls and shooting through walls.
- The Dreaded: Cloakers in PAYDAY 2 cause instant fear in the group, with one instance where it crept into their real lives.Bing: Dude, I bought a disposable camera and I turned the flash on and it made the Cloaker noise and I actually got scared. Like for a second.
- There are also furries to Badger, as in Badger's joking words, "furries have such a huge power level they're not to be trifled with". He also notes that he's happy to have his videos become memes in the furry community so they don't pipe bomb his mailbox, and jokes that he's obligated to play Lethal Company because the creator's a furry lest he gets his kneecaps shattered and his mailbox pipe bombed.
- Dude, Not Funny!: During Hamster Chief Lobsters the Fortbite, when lifting up a Black Panther player in preparation to let an ally execute them, Badger makes a comment about him going to get chemotherapy, owing to the fact that Black Panther's actor, Chadwick Boseman, died of cancer. This ends up leading to shock and disappointment from everyone, including from Badger himself.Badger: Yo, come with me Black Panther, we're going to get some chemo thera—oh that—that's too soon, sorry...
Heavenly: Wait a minute, son—?! Naah! (cue calls of disappointment from the others)
Badger: WHY DID I THINK OF THAT FIRST, CHAT?!
Digi: ...HOLY SHIT.
Badger: Why did I think of that first...!? Chat, that's just one of those intrusive thoughts that like...
Heavenly: Nah.
Digi: Bro, rewind that fucking shit.
Heavenly: Cut the—cut the stream, dawg.
Badger: Just kill me. Just drag me to heaven, just take me out of this reality.
Heavenly: HEAVEN?! BITCH, YOU GOIN' TO HELL! - Dump Stat: In "Unstoppable Moron Makes Nuclear Wasteland Noticeably Worse," when creating his Courier, Badger puts all available points into Strength (10), Endurance (7), Agility (10), and Luck (10) SPECIAL attributes while his Perception, Charisma, and Intelligence all suffer at 1, resulting in a Dumb Muscle Courier who can barely speak, but has the fastest gun-draw in the Mojave.Badger: I am "Hercules' Bigger Cousin" strong with Tough-as-nails endurance, Walks on Water agility and Two-headed Coin Flip luck. If I so much as breathe on an organism in the Mojave, you better believe it'll end in a critical hit with enough force to overthrow a small government. However, it also means that I have the perception of a Deaf Bat, the charisma of a Misanthrope, and [Sub-brick] intelligence so low that calling me dumber than a fucking brick is perfectly accurate.
- Eagleland: The gang all invoke Type 2 for comedy pretty often, but none more so than Grouse. He uses American vehicles and characters in games wherever possible (even maining Captain America in Marvel vs. Capcom 3) and enjoys playing up his gun-loving jingoistic side.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Badger's earlier videos tended to feature actual footage of him interspersed throughout the video, mainly showing his reactions to more outlandish details or the like. Later videos however would shift to having him only appear at the very end of the video for a Signing-Off Catchphrase.
- Easy-Mode Mockery: In Tomahawking Spiders for Trespassing, Badger advises any would-be ranger players to bring a rocket launcher if they’re playing on a difficulty “higher than Journalist.”
- Embarrassing Damp Sheets: "ARMORLOCKARMORLOCKARMORLOCK" has Badger reveal that he was a chronic bedwetter until his early teens, and was so used to the experience that he has a comprehensive tier list for diapers. Goodnites are his personal favorite, apparently.Badger: "Hol' up, Badger, fourteen?" Yes, 1-4. I was well into junior high and I was still a threat to my parents.
- Enraged by Idiocy: Not quite idiocy but more like sheer absurdity - During Destroy all Taxpayer Dollars, when Badger makes a... very odd statement, it drives Heavenly insane from how absurd the statement was.Badger: It'd be cooler if God was like a Funko Pop or something.
Heavenly: ...That is the—
(Smash Cut to Badger seeing a chair being slammed clean through a window)
Badger: DAMN. That is how mad Heavenly was. Heavenly was so mad, he put a CHAIR through a plate glass window. Look at this, dawg! Oh my God, Heavenly is mad...!
Heavenly: I am pretty sure that was the most sacrilegious shit I've ever heard in my life. (Back at Badger, a few gun shots to said window do nothing) Holy—I'm going back—
Badger: My bullets won't even go through that glass, and Heavenly got a chair through it!
Heavenly: GOD AS A FUNKO POP?! (Breaks down laughing)
Eekaj: That is actually cursed.
Heavenly: I'm having cyberpsycho—I c—I can't—I c—someone help...call—call somebody... - Epic Fail:
- Digi ends up suffering from a big one in Hamster Chief Lobsters the Fortbite at the end of a Fortnite match. The only other remaining player ran behind a tree, causing Digi to lose track of the target, get mowed down, and choke away the game. Both Digi's friends and Badger's chat will not let him live it down, and even Digi sounds disappointed with how badly he messed that up.Heavenly: You have the world's... WORST. EVERYTHING!
Badger: Digi I feel like I got amphibians and frogs looking at me like, "this your boi?"
AceTheCaesar: YOU HAV FAILED THE VIBE CHECK
theghostmonkey08: GET HIM AWAY FROM THE STOVE!!!!;
TheBrokenBonez: My boy got that object permanence of a frog
Badger: Digi, we gotta lose more often just so I can see what the hell chat does to you.
InnySUS & bigboychungus89: DONT LET HIM COOK
Hazard_136: Damn digi threw
Hitman109109: DIGI WITH THE CHOKE
adorabomber123: THIS BOI COOKED THE MOST RARE STEAK
DigitalVagrant: I am...face down on my fucking desk. I got nothing. - Digi has another one in "When the $10 Youtube Poop outsells Call of Duty" where he accidentally kills the entire squad by prematurely launching the ship in a Lethal Company game, due to Digi thinking all of his teammates were dead. This ended up costing the team a lot of salvage that they could have used towards the quota, causing everyone to flip out on Digi.Herboku: We are beating Digi with hammers. We're beat— We are lining Digi up and beating him with a brick.
Geuce: HELLO!? HELLO!?
Digi: I THOUGHT YOU WERE ALL DEAD! I THOUGHT YOU WERE ALL DEAD!
Badger: Digi, you are such a stupid moron. Do you know how much loot we had!?
Herboku: We had THOUSANDS!
Badger: Digi, we're gonna beat you to death with hammers, I hope you know that. I say that we revoke Digi's oxygen privileges. I think that those need to...those need to go away.
[cheering from the rest of the squad]
Digi: I don't feel respected here. - This gets played straight and later subverted in one of the gang’s Among Us videos, in which they have multiple imposters mode on. Heavenly, one of the imposters, forgets to mute his mic before he makes a kill, and everyone hears him saying "The fuck you looking at bitch?" immediately before the kill. Not only that, but Heavenly made the kill directly in front of four witnesses; unsurprisingly, everyone proceeds to eject Heavenly off the ship. The subversion comes in at the end of the match, where it turns out that the imposters actually won that round after Radar, the other imposter,
pulled a 1v7 clutch. Badger lampshades the absurdity of the situation.Badger: How the hell did Heavenly win that round? Like, forget what Radar did, forget what Radar did. Four witnesses, mic unmuted, "The fuck you looking at bitch?". Turns into a W. - In "when the game lets you print unlimited replicas," Badger asks why the airdrop looks like a rocket; his friends inform him that it is, in fact, a rocket. Yet he still stands right below it and is surprised when it blows him up upon landing.
- Digi ends up suffering from a big one in Hamster Chief Lobsters the Fortbite at the end of a Fortnite match. The only other remaining player ran behind a tree, causing Digi to lose track of the target, get mowed down, and choke away the game. Both Digi's friends and Badger's chat will not let him live it down, and even Digi sounds disappointed with how badly he messed that up.
- Equal-Opportunity Evil: In his video on Space Marine, Badger makes plenty of jokes about how the Imperium is a human-supremacist theocracy, which means that they kill all non-humans on sight while not being racist.Blood Angel: Racist? Space Marines aren't racist, we love all races! As long as they don't have green skin. Or y'know...belong to a different religion. I dunno why anyone would call us racist, I'm a black priest, for Emperor's sake. We don't hate any races. Except Orks. And Eldar. And Dark Eldar. And Necrons. And Tau, because nobody likes dumbass weeaboo space communists. But at least they aren't trying to eat us like the Tyranids!—
- Everyone Has Standards: In Goblin Mode Brain Rot, Badger says Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 is "flat-out too racist for me to stream or record", showing that, while he and his friends may be fond of dark, raunchy humor, he doesn't permit outright bigotry.Hunter: We were in Warzone, [Badger] was like "Yeah I don't wanna hear anymore."
Badger: Well it's just straight up racism and it's not even, like, an occasional racism. It's like, this is full blast, firehose racism.
Dustin: It's the floodgate of racism!
DigitalVagrant: The Big Gulp of racism. - Everything Trying to Kill You: Badger lauds Helldivers II in "surviving a nuke by flipping a coin" for the controlled chaos of being surrounded by enemies, hostile plants/traps, and the antics of his own teammates.
- Evil Knockoff: A.I. Badger increasingly becomes this the more it appears, as Badger's friends force it to say things like incriminating itself for heinous crimes or threatening extreme violence.A.I!Badger: This dude killed me in Siege, so I tanked his credit score and stole his catalytic converter. I'm wanted in 7 countries for reversing the flow of time with ego-killing chrono-zaza.
I'm fighting the shadow people in the fucking 7-11 parking lot. I'm the one they wrote the PATRIOT act about. I'm under federal investigation for crimes of Schedule 1 Swag. Don't fuck with me, man, I own seven shell companies that sell gas station dick pills. - Expecting Someone Taller: Or rather, shorter. Badger's facecam being angled down towards him obfuscates the fact that he is over six feet tall, and he's gone on record saying people got metaphorical whiplash meeting him in person at public events. It ended up becoming a meme when him posing with the rest of Team T-Pain during a charity event for Rainbow Six Siege showed Badger stood a foot taller than everyone else.
- Fackler Scale of FPS Realism: In "Destroy All Taxpayer Dollars", he describes Insurgency: Sandstorm as having the perfect balance between a Call of Duty-like arcade shooter (classic) and an ARMA-like simulation shooter (semi-simulation).Badger: It is the perfect balance of dumbass lizard brain arcade shit...
Skullker: Observer, this is station. Here's a picture of my nuts. Transmitting now.
Badger: ...and hardcore airsoft simulator shit.
Clu: (sounding like various voice clips put together) Enemy. Man. 300 meters. North. Fast. Fast. Fast. - Failed a Spot Check: Heavenly fails one in the worst way. During "SCREAM AND LIE IN OUTER SPACE", Heavenly and Radar are both the Imposters, and right off the bat Heavenly goes to murder Badger. It's practically a miracle Radar managed to win the following 1v7.Heavenly: (Mic unmuted) The fuck you lookin' at, bitch?
(Heavenly murders Badger; after the killing cutscene, it briefly shows four witnesses around them before its reported...and people start breaking out in laughter)
Bing: Well, well, well...
Badger: Four witnesses, chat? Is that four witnesses?
Heavenly: I FORGOT TO MUTE MY MIC! (breaks down laughing)
Badger: Four. Fucking. Witnesses.
Heavenly: I'm so pissed! - Fastball Special: During "MAD MAX WITH SPIDERS", Badger gets the idea of using grappling cables and a high-velocity flying vehicle to fling teammates with grenade javelins at incoming enemies... whether or not they agree to the plan.Grouse: YOU GET AWAY FROM ME, YOU GODDAMN HOOLIGAN.
[Badger careens into a ceiling and explodes]
Grouse: THAT'S WHAT YOU GET. - Flowery Insults: AI Bing responds to his human counterpart comparing him to Doodlebob by defiantly calling him a "dingleborb".
- Fluffy the Terrible: In "when the game lets you print unlimited replicas", while Badger is talking about the Robot Dog, Bing brings up how you can tell if a dog is dangerous if they have a cutesy name.Bing: I'm not gonna lie, you can tell if a dog is dangerous by the name like nine times outta ten. If somebody got a dawg named like Cupcake, it's gonna vaporize you.
- Friendly Target: Goblin Mode Brain Rot opens up with Digi shooting Skullker in a case of friendly fire, and it's not the first time.Skullker: THAT'S THE FOURTH TIME YOU'VE SHOT ME!
Digi: Shut up! You just happen to be where my bullets are!
Skullker: Don't left click! You're wasting ammo. - The Friend Nobody Likes: Parodied with Sigrid, who the rest of Badger's friend group makes fun of for being a VTuber. She rolls with it and keeps insisting that everyone is her best friend.Sigrid: Geuce, we're friends, ok? Don't ever doubt yourself.
Geuce: Says fuckin' who, bitch?
Clu: DA-DAMN! DA-DAMN!
Geuce: You're one of the good ones, Sigrid. I've always said that.note
Sigrid: Yippee!
Heavenly: I think you should stop saying that.
Grouse: I think you should keep saying it, actually. - Funny Background Event: In Quirked Up Operator Goated with the Swaws, Skullker clutches a match at one point. Reading the chat beforehand has Heavenly beg for the enemy team to kill him so the crew won't have to put up with another round of his screeching and soundboard abuse. This only exacerbates Skullker's joy.Heavenly: Do NOT let him win
Heavenly: We will never hear the end of it
(...)
Skullker: (laughs while on heavy autotune) YOU FUCKING THOUGHT! - Fun with Acronyms: In "THE DAY OF RECKONING", he and his buddies come up with a different meaning of ADATS
...Badger: You know what "ADATS" stands for, right? Anti Dat Shit—whatever "dat shit" is.
Grouse: You may ask yourself, "What is 'dat shit'?" Just take your right index finger and point it at literally anything. "Dat shit. DAT SHIT." - Genre Savvy: In his Far Cry 5 episode when he goes after Faith Seed, he figures she's not really talking to him and punches her, proving him right when she disappears and turns into a hostage. He punches the hostage, who turns into a wolverine.
- Getting Crap Past the Radar: In "surviving a nuke by flipping a coin", Badger reveals his latest product from GamerSupps, Swamp Assassin, was titled so he could put out a product titled "Swamp Ass", but without getting into legal trouble. Badger says he wins again by saying the word "ass" is in the word "assassin" twice.thebreez333: You have the aim of a beaver with a learning disability.
Badger: Fuck you, breez. (Badger is taken out with a headshot) Oh my God, I got blasted immediately after that, I think you're right. - Gone Horribly Right: In The Empire Strikes Cringe, Badger mods Star Wars Battlefront II (2017) to have Spider-Man, Banana-kin Skywalker, Kirby, and Master Chief as Champions, only to end up against them 90% of the time.
- In Built Different, Built Stupid, Badger explains that by his own inability to "mod responsibly", he somehow made all the Left 4 Dead 2 player characters into the Payday gang. Without any animations and missing most of their textures. The fact that they spent several minutes walking around in static A-poses doesn't help...especially when said poses persist when Heavenly jumps off the roof...still with no animations.Badger: This is definitely what sleep paralysis is like.
Heavenly: And chat says I'm "down bad"; bro, I'm not down bad! I'm ascended, bitch!
Badger: "Bain! I'm missing my textures! Bain! BAIN!"
Heavenly: "BAIN! I DIDN'T DOWNLOAD SOURCE! BAIN!" (breaks down laughing) "I'M STUCK!"
Grouse: "Bain, what do you mean, 'I need GMOD'?!"
Badger: (as a still A-posing Heavenly drifts back up to the rooftop from the ground) That's how I revive you?! WHAT?!
- In Built Different, Built Stupid, Badger explains that by his own inability to "mod responsibly", he somehow made all the Left 4 Dead 2 player characters into the Payday gang. Without any animations and missing most of their textures. The fact that they spent several minutes walking around in static A-poses doesn't help...especially when said poses persist when Heavenly jumps off the roof...still with no animations.
- Harder Than Hard: In "this british zombie game is dumber than you can imagine", Badger describes Killing Floor's Hell on Earth difficulty like everybody's names were written into the Death Note before the round started.Badger: (as Ryuk) Light, that's not how the fucking book works!
- Heel: In "LORE ACCURATE VERGIL STOMPS MARVEL FOR $50 AND SOME DRIP", as the Final Boss of a $50,000 MvC tournament, he remarks on how everyone in the Discord call and Twitch Chat began not only rooting for his demise but also treating him like the villain. After Mickey stomps his shit in in the first round he describes how uncomfortable it feels, but after he manages to take the second round, he lets himself fall into the persona.Badger: On second thought, forget everything I just said.note This villian shit makes me feel unstoppable! Mickey's the champion that's beaten everybody else, the red hot crowd favorite, and he absolutely crushed me in round 1. To take all that momentum he's built up over the last 3 hours and take it away is downright sublime.
- Horrifying the Horror: In Clowns Robbing Banks With Spoons, Badger runs the Counterstrike Ace perk, which lets him automatically block and counterattack any melee attacks if he holds the melee button. This even works on Cloakers who very quickly start outright avoiding him, including running right past him to attack someone else.
- Humans Are Morons: In "framerate", two soldier NPCs discuss the intelligence of human players, with one arguing they can't make a game where the NPCs are smarter than the players. The second soldier counters by asking how dumb the average human is.Soldier 1: Human players have to be smarter than us. It's… part of the game.
Soldier 2: Says who?
Soldier 1: Says the creators. They can't make a game where the NPCs are smarter than the humans.
Soldier 2: Have you seen how dumb the average human is now? It's only a matter of time before every word out of their mouth is "@Grok, context?" - The Hyena:
- In "Quirked Up Operator Goated with the SWAWS," Badger says Pasta has a very hyena-ish laugh. Pasta considers his laugh more like Dr. Rockso's.
- Heavenly possesses a very distinct laugh. During Goblin Mode Brain Rot, Badger likened him to being a Scooby-Doo villain.
- Hype Aversion: In "surviving a nuke by flipping a coin". Badger describes this as being his rationale for not getting into Helldivers II quicker, because all his friends were telling him to play this new 4-player co-op shooter, a genre which is famously oversaturated."Oh man, Badger, you gotta play this new 4-player co-op shooter!" You mean like EDF or Darktide or Vermintide or DRG or Killing Floor 2 or Left 4 Dead 2 or PAYDAY 2 or Payda—
- Hyperactive Metabolism; In "Human Rock Basically Too Drunk to Die", the group talks about how in games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim the game pauses mid-action while you consume an enormous amount of food.Geuce: Bro, actually you're in the middle of a fight, his Nordic axe is swinging down towards to your face, you hit the PAUSE MENU. 80 wheels of cheese just going straight down your throat bro.
- Hyperspace Arsenal:
- In "Unstoppable Moron Makes Nuclear Wasteland Noticeably Worse", Badger shows off why his particular SPECIAL build in Fallout: New Vegas is broken by getting his entire arsenal past the weapons check-in at the Tops Casino.Badger: Okay. So they didn't find… two .357s, a .44 magnum, two 10mm pistols, THREE 9mm pistols, a combat knife, 8 sticks of dynamite, a frag grenade, three more sticks of dynamite, a mysterious magnum, a silenced .22, spiked knuckles, a switchblade, and a TIRE IRON. Sneak is broken. I'm gonna repair all this by the way. Don't have an aneurysm.
- In "Banished to the Shadow Realm", Badger's Twitch chat has him bind his Thrust key to his Flares, making him launch flares whenever he speeds his jet up. At first he questions why he listens to their suggestion, but doing so makes him unable to be targeted by missiles. He's more concerned that he has infinite flares.
- In "Unstoppable Moron Makes Nuclear Wasteland Noticeably Worse", Badger shows off why his particular SPECIAL build in Fallout: New Vegas is broken by getting his entire arsenal past the weapons check-in at the Tops Casino.
- I Do Not Own: He's had to do this in his videos for companies that have been known to take down other content creators just for using their content.
- In Built Different. Built Stupid., before he describes how the Special Infected in Left 4 Dead can pin players, he begs Games Workshop not to sue him for the following line beforehand…Space Marine: "BROTHER, I AM PINNED HERE!"
- Just about every part of Tomahawking Spiders for Trespassing that involves Erginus or the Balam (which Badger just outright calls a Gundam) has some flavor of this. The use of Godzilla and Gundam models as stand-ins for the animations definitely doesn’t help.Onscreen Captions: DO NOT SUE ME TOHO COMPANY LTD JESUS CHRIST I AM BEGGING YOU
Badger: I’m gonna be honest, I don’t think I have a permit to kill this [Non-Descript Lizard].
Heavenly: *Erginus starts glowing* Uh oh, it’s going [Non-descript powerup]!
Heavenly: The only thing stronger than this monster is Japanese copyright lawyers. - In Goblin Mode Brain Rot, he uses a picture of Black Panther in place of IShowSpeed so he doesn't get a copyright strike.
- In Built Different. Built Stupid., before he describes how the Special Infected in Left 4 Dead can pin players, he begs Games Workshop not to sue him for the following line beforehand…
- I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: In "almost superman
," Badger, as a Medic, has to deal with his friends testing out how much damage they can take in Insurgency: Sandstorm before they need to be healed.Badger: I'm a medic, not a sorcerer. I can't just sacrifice an NPC to cure his condition. - Immediate Self-Contradiction: In Human Rock Basically Too Drunk to Die, Badger shows off just how much he's getting into Duke's "Stoic" deck build...Badger: "Don't worry, dude. I won't lean into Stoic too hard." Two seconds later...
(Cut to Duke standing on a countertop, chugging from his flask with one hand while spraying automatic gunfire in the other, all while vigorously tea-bagging; behind him is a burning pallet of money, numerous defeated enemies, as well as Dallas slumped against the wall, crying out in pain) - Immigrant Patriotism: Loves his adopted country...especially using the Moon Landing to flex on the rest of the world, as seen in "THE DAY OF RECKONING"
:Badger: Any time any other country talks shit about anything, "I'm just gonna go check the moon for any OTHER FLAGS real quick; I'll be right back."
Kublikong: "Our military is completely equipped to handle the United States." "WE ATTACKED THREE BOATS—THEY DROPPED THE SUN ON US, TWICE." - Improbable Aiming Skills:
- In "Chuckles in Flammenwerfer", Koala shoots down Clu's plane from the ground with a Kar98 by shooting his wing. Both of them couldn't believe it.
- In "Banished to the Shadow Realm", Badger gets a kill while in a KW-2 on an M10 across the map even when the in-game range finder shows he has no target in range.
Badger: My rangefinder was like "You can't fucken hit that…" and I'm like, "Badger fucken ballin." No reticle, closing my eyes, just… hotness. - Insistent Terminology: In Goblin Mode Brain Rot, when Grouse is accused of spreading misinformation, he corrects Badger that that he "doesn't misinform, [he] just lies."
- Insult of Endearment: Badger and his crew have called each other "slime" both as an insult and as a term of endearment
- Insult to Rocks: In "dunking my wifes social credit score w a blob of symbiotic ranch", one Twitch viewer has a message that Badger cracks up at.joeswansongaming1964: This chat is one of the most autistic things I have ever seen and I am a regular Asmongold viewer.
- Irrational Hatred: Badger makes a point that he doesn't have one of the British when discussing their tank arsenal... unlike Clu, who does."I wanna bring Prince Charles back to life just so I can kill him again."note
- It Was His Sled: [invoked]In "ARMORLOCKARMORLOCKARMORLOCK", Badger drops the reveal that the ending of Halo: Reach is an "Everybody Dies" Ending due to it being a game released in 2010, with the episode airing in 2021, 11 years after the game's release.Badger:Everyone dies. (everyone in Noble Squad except Jun drop dead) Literally everyone dies. I guess Jun technically just dips, which is where the "Dying is gay. I'm out." meme comes from. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but everyone di—(Badger gets sniped, and he gets danced over by an Elite and a Grunt)
- Laser-Guided Karma:
- In Goblin Mode Brain Rot, Badger considers being put on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle as punishment for him and his friends bullying people in Bronze rank.Badger: Yo, I think that dude has a gunship by the way... (Badger gets blasted by a 135mm shell from an AC-130) Oh yeah he definitely has a gunship./Hmm… Why do I taste 135mm?/This is the lobby that we deserve after the last lobby. This is... I will totally take it. I will take it.
DigitalVagrant: We are being punished for our sins. - In "getting dumpstered by 40 yr old divorced electricians w aim assist", when Badger asks his Twitch chat who they'd put on Mount Rushmore, a user named brosky7000 suggested Adolf Hitler and was immediately banned by Badger. It's represented in the episode by Geuce shooting the offender repeatedly with a shotgun.Geuce: Shoot that guy.
- In Goblin Mode Brain Rot, Badger considers being put on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle as punishment for him and his friends bullying people in Bronze rank.
- Lethal Joke Character: The thesis of "An Abstract Carnival of Pain" is that the TOG II tank from WWII
is absolutely this. It "may not be a fast tank or a deadly tank, but it is definitely a problem tank."Badger: Every weapon you point at the TOG results in five weapons being pointed back at you. - Let's Get Dangerous!: Digi, Badger's friend group's resident Butt-Monkey and everyone's go-to guy for hilariously bad trainwreck-style plays, somehow manages to kill three kitted-out players with an M9 in the video on Active Matter. Badger even lampshades that his audience probably won't believe it if he puts it in the video.Badger: I'm not putting this in the video. This is—this is immersion breaking. This is so immersion breaking. Nope.
Digi: FUCK YOU! THE ONE TIME! GIVE ME MY FUCKING DUE! I WILL ACTUALLY FUCKING DRIVE TO YOUR HOUSE AND LIGHT IT ABLAZE!
reduxist: [in Twitch Chat] Lore Inaccurate Digi - Limited Animation: In “this british zombie game is dumber than you can imagine,” Badger modded the Green Goblin and Dallas into the game to replace the scantily clad Stalker and Siren, respectively. But after the time-consuming process of rigging the Green Goblin’s model, he decided to leave Dallas without animations, so in gameplay he’s in a static pose waddling towards the players.
- Mad Libs Dialogue: In "GOD HAS LEFT THE SERVER", Badger describes the gameplay in Totally Accurate Battlegrounds as asking if you can do (insert blank) and the answer is "yes", followed by some of the wild examples he's done in-game.Badger: The best way to capture the brilliance of TABG is with the question I constantly find myself asking: "OH SHIT, CAN YOU ____?" and most of the time the answer is "YES". Oh shit, can you put an 18' extended barrel with an ACOG on your taser? (Badger is shown tasing a dummy with what he just said) Oh shit, can you slap an 8x (scope) on your minigun and suppress all six barrels? Yes, but you're gonna go blind. (Badger fires a minigun and is blinded by the muzzle flash) Oh shit, can you make the Barrett-chambered in .50 BMG into a double barrel? Yes, but there's so much recoil it's impossible to fire while standing, but yes. (Badger fires off a shot from a double-chambered Barrett and goes flying)
- Mathematician's Answer: In Tomahawking Spiders for Trespassing, when the Rule of God weapon is used:Eekaj: What's the blast radius on this bitch?
Herboku: Yes. (lasers rain down from the sky) That.
Eekaj: That—OH MY—(everyone starts laughing as explosions ensue all over the battlefield)
Badger: Now I know what you meant by "The blast radius is YES." - Memetic Psychopath: In "dunking my wifes social credit score w a glob of symbiotic ranch", Badger brings up how the Marvel Rivals community unanimously agrees that Jeff the Landshark is the most evil creature in existence, calling him names like "Satan's strongest warrior" and "little Hitler" and saying that he's on the no-fly list for terrorism or that he's the most racist man in Nova Scotia. Badger chalks this up to Jeff not being well-liked both by his teammates (because he's a below-average healer that all the worst players like to pick) or his enemies (because his Ultimate is an incredibly annoying ability often used as a Suicide Attack to throw an entire team off a cliff at once and completely stuff a co-ordinated offensive).
- Microwave the Dog: The end of "Lore Accurate Vergil Stomps Marvel for $50 And Some Drip" has Badger reading a comment from the Twitch chat.myownmedic: hawkeye vs vergil gives me mad hampter in the microwave vibes, the most unpredictable death in the universe.
- Mistaken for Racist:
- In "LORE ACCURATE VERGIL STOMPS MARVEL FOR $50 AND SOME DRIP", Badger asks the innocent question of how he changes his character to "black Spider-Man", as in symbiote Spider-Man. The rest of his crew, already dead set on turning everything he says into a bit, play dumb and pretend he's talking about Miles Morales, a famously African-American Spider-Man. It quickly gets out of hand from there.Skullker: So when'd you realize you were racist, bro? Did that just come out naturally or did it...? Did you just wake up one day?
Bing: "On Juneteenth, popular YouTuber Russian Badger claims 'I will ACQUIRE Black Spider-Man'." - In "Robbing $124 from a Free-to-Play Game", Badger's chat runs wild with how he didn't know Pasta was half-black (he only knew that he was Hispanic) and asking about it somewhat interrogatively.Badger: So chat's like 'Oh, you're black? *Sips beer*' I'm just asking him if he's black! I didn't mean anything by it!
TarkBark: You said it in bold though - This is an obvious joke to make in the Marvel Rivals video when Badger starts repeatedly ranting about how much he hates Black Panther (because he's an assassin Duelist that Badger keeps getting bodied by). He even acknowledges that it isn't a great look that the longest segment in the video is him talking about vitriolically hating Black Panther, especially after already mentioning how he likes the "White Venom" (Anti-Venom) skin more than the default black Venom:Badger: I just feel like as soon as I kill Black Panther a few times, I'm just like, good on Punisher. [a moment later after some jokingly nonplussed reactions from the others] You guys are the one that are invoking this racial component. I just hate Black Panther. I don't hate him BECAUSE he's black, but he just happens to be Black Panther. Alright, look, if there was a White Panther, I would hate him equally.
- In "LORE ACCURATE VERGIL STOMPS MARVEL FOR $50 AND SOME DRIP", Badger asks the innocent question of how he changes his character to "black Spider-Man", as in symbiote Spider-Man. The rest of his crew, already dead set on turning everything he says into a bit, play dumb and pretend he's talking about Miles Morales, a famously African-American Spider-Man. It quickly gets out of hand from there.
- Mixed Metaphor: Played for laughs in "Banished to the Shadow Realm". Badger shows a meme about how to smoke a fish. Dustin's idea is to point a gun at a fish while Mickey's idea is to actually cook one on a grill.
- Mock Microphone: A Running Gag on his video on Helldivers II starts with him holding a microphone. But every few scenes, the object in his hand changes to something else, none of which are a microphone. These can include a paint brush, a water bottle, and a pair of needlenose pliers.
- Mood Whiplash: Courtesy of Goblin Mode Brain Rot, where the squad starts taking on a couple of kid players in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, with Badger using it as a point of skill-based matchmaking leading to easy wins and kids going wild. As such, we get a kid apparently calling Grouse the n-word, one going "Bruhhhhh", someone saying that Badger is "so mean", another kid sadly saying they don't want to play as a result of the Curb-Stomp Battle, another calling Badger a pendejo, and another giving a Big "SHUT UP!" and barking in anger as Badger tries to congratulate them on a good game.Badger: Your voice literally has to wait in line to be heard. I heard you say "good game" and then I heard "I'M GONNA BOMB YOUR TRAILER PARK."
- Morton's Fork: In "Scream And Lie in Outer Space", Electrical in the Skeld is treated like this as crewmate. No matter what, someone is going to die in that room.Crewmate: I hope you're ready to die in electrical.
Impostor: We're going to kill you in electrical. - Motion Capture: A major part of Badger's visual comedy involves the use of a motion capture setup used in tandem with Source Film Maker to create animated sketches based on discussions in the video and to augment his post-commentary.
- Mundane Object Amazement: In Goblin Mode Brain Rot, Badger's buddies bust on him for his enthusiastic and seemingly awestruck commentary of his gameplay (mostly because they're on Shipment, and Badger was snatching up Care Packages and Emergency Air Drops)Clu: Every time you pick up a Care Package, I'm just picturing you enthusiastically walking through a grocery store like, "Wet wipes, 2 for $5?"
Badger: "Yo, rising crust?"
Skullker: "Wait, the crust rises?"
Clu: "Italian bread for $6?! - Mundane Utility: In "dunking my wifes social credit w a glob of symbiotic ranch", Badger wonders if Venom could use his Overly Long Tongue could unclog a drain.Badger: I wanna see if Venom's mouth could, like, unclog a drain. Like I got a bunch of hair down there, his tongue can just reach down, rip it all out.
Grouse: That… That is possibly the most disgusting visual I've ever heard.
Themilk: Snake a drain? - Neck Snap: Played for laughs in High Impact Constructive Criticism when Skullker dares Bing to break his own neck.Skullker: Hey Bing, fall over break your neck, it'll be funny. (Bing snaps his own neck and falls limp, making Badger's party laugh)
Badger: If I have to put the entirety of this sponsorship money to Bing's medical bills, I'm gonna be mad.
Skullker: Well I mean it'd be pretty based, let's be honest. - Nerf Arm: Lampshaded by Grouse in "[LAUGHS IN 71 ROUND DINNER PLATE]", that in Modern Warfare, the .38 Special Snake Shot broke the game for being a One-Hit Kill on anyone even though in real life it "Has the same kinetic energy as a six year old with a Sockem Bopper."
- Never My Fault: Played for laughs in "Mustard Beef Turns Rainbow Six to Ash" when Badger tries to blame different factors on why he keeps losing despite having been a former pro. He tried using new Operators, background noise, and blamed his friends, but eventually realized he was his own worst enemy.
- NO INDOOR VOICE: Geuce is the most likely out of Badger's friend group to make a joke that involves him screaming at the top of his lungs. Tellingly, there are only a sparse few clips on Badger's channel of Geuce speaking at a normal conversational level.
- "No. Just… No" Reaction: "THE DAY OF RECKONING" has one in the first few minutes.Badger: Let me find a local 7-Eleven to roll over in this [ADATS]...
Geuce: You call it a gas station, I call it "a target-rich environment."
Heavenly: Oh...Jesus Christ...
Badger: Can I get a...can I get a "Phrases I Do Not Wish To Hear A Second Time" for $500, please? (everyone else is laughing) - Non-Indicative Name: His "Guacamole Gamer Fart 9000" Gamer Supps energy drink isn't guacamole (or fart) flavored; it's actually a strawberry-kiwi blend.
- No-Sell: In "The Empire Strikes Cringe", Badger tells how in Star Wars Battlefront II (2017), an exploit is used on multiple servers to make players immortal at 1 health. Badger doesn't see it being fixed in the future since EA has abandoned the game for other projects.
- "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer:
- In "BANISHED TO THE SHADOW REALM", Badger reiterates a statement from the War Thunder developers that leaking classified documents to them is very much not a good idea, referring to it as "TURBO illegal".
- In "this game ruins your life and sends you to jail", Badger says the developers of ARMA took such detailed pictures of the island a military installation was on that they nearly went to prison for espionage.
- Not the Intended Use: While playing Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts, Badger gleefully stacks up all his anti-tank mines near someone then shoots a mine to send them hurtling across the map.
- In Earth Defence Force 4.1, while discussing the Air Raider, who's basically the "support class", Badger had turned the class into a much more offense-based class due to their incredibly powerful weapons such as carpet bombs, orbital lasers, and Tomahawk cruise missiles, even calling it "nothing short of an insult to call Air Raider a support class". Best summarized in this quote:Badger: Much like how q-tips aren't designed for your ears, Air Raiders aren't designed for damage, but in both cases: (Cue an Air Raider causing a massive explosion in the city via carpet bomb) I don't care. If you want me to play a support class as a support class, then don't give me a Tomahawk cruise missile as a weapon!
- In Earth Defence Force 4.1, while discussing the Air Raider, who's basically the "support class", Badger had turned the class into a much more offense-based class due to their incredibly powerful weapons such as carpet bombs, orbital lasers, and Tomahawk cruise missiles, even calling it "nothing short of an insult to call Air Raider a support class". Best summarized in this quote:
- Not Using the "Z" Word: In "this british zombie game is dumber than you can imagine", Badger says Killing Floor fans get offended if you call the Zeds (which are Technically Living Zombies that are the result of depraved science experiments and not animated corpses) "zombies".
- Offhand Backhand: In "getting dumpstered by 40 yr old divorced electricians w aim assist", during the opening monologue, Badger casually shoots a clown behind him.
- Offing the Offspring: Played for laughs in "Space Vietnam with Teddy Bears", with Grouse as Darth Vader killing Luke Skywalker.Grouse: Pog! I just murdered my son!
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In “SCREAM AND LIE IN OUTER SPACE,” after Heavenly blows his cover spectacularly, he laments that he left his teammate Radar to fend for himself against the other players before joking that he could win with no problem; Smash Cut to the result screen showing that he did just that.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Throughout almost all of his videos, Badger and company never refer to each other by their actual names, only shortened versions of their usernames.
- Orphaned Punchline: In "Lore Accurate Vergil Stomps Marvel for $50 And Some Drip", Skullker is Suddenly Shouting, having heard the same joke over and over.Skullker: To read the same copypasta we've heard a DOZEN FUCKING TIMES!
- Painting the Medium: Throughout Ballin but at What Cost and the Cold Open of High-Impact Constructive Criticism, Bing’s microphone quality is so crusty and artifacted that his avatar (a soldier from Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare) is itself pixelated when it’s onscreen.
- It happens again during Goblin Mode Brain Rot, where he screams so loud that the audio software capturing his voice tries to dampen his very loud, very long scream and gives up part of the way through, shown by the camera physically pulling away from Bing, abruptly zooming back in once or twice, and then him turning greyscale and having a Windows 10 error.
- Perfectly Cromulent Word: In "Banished to the Shadow Realm", Badger has the Twitch chat spam the word "WHERMST" when there's a free plane unit during tank matches. It's defined as location, reason, and background context in one word.
- Phony Newscast: In "getting dumpstered by 40 yr old divorced electricians w aim assist", a fake news story is posted saying how Argentinian soccer player Lionel Messi has his foot insured for $700 billion dollars.BREAKING NEWS: Messi insures foot for $700 billion or whatever TF.
This is not real news please stop reading the fine print you asshole Jesus Christ. - Phrase Catcher: Skullker's default response to "why are you like this?" is to use his soundboard to loudly fart into the microphone.Eekaj: Why are you like this? Why do we—(Skullker plays a fart sound effect for several long seconds...it cuts out a couple times, and the clip sounds like it's breaking down by the end)...why does it sound like a fog horn?!
Geuce: It's Ezekiel's horn!note The Lord is coming back for us! TAKE ME, GOD! - Pistol-Whipping: Exaggerated. Geuce hates the Vorkuta map in Black Ops 6 because he got melee'd to death...with a Javelin, which caused him to go absolutely berserk.Geuce: I JUST GOT BEAT TO DEATH WITH A JAVELIN MISSILE LAUNCHER!?!? ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS!?
- Poor Communication Kills: In Mustard Beef Turns Rainbow Six To Ash, Badger accidentally kills one of his squadmates with a grenade and justifies it very poorly.Badger: I said "Oh no"; you should have known.
- Political Overcorrectness: Parodied. In "getting dumpstered by 40 yr old electricians w aim assist", Geuce accuses Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 of going "woke" by race swapping the "Black Ops 1" cover guy, which was an Internal Homage to the first game.Geuce: They race swapped the Black Ops 1 cover guy? Woke. Woke.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure:
- Martin Copping (the voice of Mozzy) leads to a couple during his appearance in Clowns Robbing Banks with Spoons. First, Martin tries to tell Badger about a TV show that aired in Australia in 1996, and is shocked that Badger would have been two years old when that show was on. Later, he’s browsing through masks when he sees “The 43rd” and mistakenly thinks it’s Ronald Reagan.
- Badger doesn't watch much anime — he's seen a few like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Dragon Ball, but he's unaware of some of the bigger hits in recent memory like My Hero Academia and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. Hamster Chief Lobsters the Fortbite displays this in particular, as Badger has no idea who All Might is, and mispronounces Nezuko's name. In the same episode, he says he may not know much about non-JoJo anime, but he has "stacks on stacks" of LeBron James lore.Badger: As someone who grew up on computers without the internet, it's unbelievable that I can go "Who's that smiley dude with the funky haircut?" and thirty of you My Hero Academia MFs will rise outta chat like— (Cue thirty All Mights marching menacingly towards Badger)
- Badger also admitted he "doesn't know the Tom and Jerry lore". Meaning, Badger doesn't know which one is Tom and which one is Jerry.Beans: Who do you think wins in a fight? Goku or Tom & Jerry?
Heavenly: Tom and Jerry.
Digi: Tom and Jerry, all day.
Badger: But that's Tom and Jerry; that's not fair. Which one is Tom and which one is Jerry?
Heavenly: Tom is the rat.
Beans: Tom is the...
Digi: ...JESUS CHRIST, BADGER.
Badger: (indignant) Yo, I don't know the Tom and Jerry lore! Fuck you! (the others laugh and talk over one another) Who's the guy that sticks the Mossberg .500 into the wall and it bends and comes back towards his head?
Heavenly: Tom! (pause) ...Jeremy Renner.
- Product Placement: Starting with "getting dumpstered by 40 y/o electricians w aim assist", Badger's model will have a QR code on his chest. Scanning it leads to a Guacamole GamerFart 9000 page on GamerSupps.
- Rage Breaking Point:
- Geuce reached this in Badger's Twitch Rivals video on Rainbow Six Siege, regarding Heavenly's antics during the game:Geuce: HEAVENLY WAS LITERALLY EATING A FUCKING PIZZA, BRO, LIKE COME ON! *Everyone else cracks up* DO YOU… (Beat) I'VE GOT A TEAMMATE EATING A FUCKING DOMINO'S PIZZA… WHILE I'M JUST OUT HERE TRYNA MAKE RENT!
Heavenly: (barely holding it together) That shit was boneless too, it was good. - In Goblin Mode Brain Rot, Geuce was so utterly fed up with the Taco Bell bong sound that he blows up at Pasta when he hears it.Pasta: I'm about to hit em with that... *bong*
Geuce: Stop soundboarding the Taco Bell bong! That's like a 8-month old meme! STOP! STOP!
Pasta: Cry about it...
Geuce: I FUCKEN—I'M SCREAMING ABOUT IT MOTHERFUCKER! STOP!
Badger: Genuine vitriol, dawg. If he was next to you, he was about to throw his kitchen sink at you. - Heavenly using Vergil in the Marvel vs Capcom 3 tournament gets Geuce more than a little heated both in chat where he's screaming they should have banned Vergil entirely and in person where he eventually snaps when Vergil continues to repeatedly get Heavenly out of situations that would be damned near hopeless for any other character.Geuce: HE'S PLAYING VERGIL, DUDE!!!
- In "have video game skins gone too far?", Sigrid is screaming at a riot shield user who blocked her for 30 seconds.Sigrid: You riot shield using fuck. How far are you down on the Norwood scale. Post your hairline!
Badda: What the—?
Sigrid: I was fighting them for like 30 seconds!
Zentreya: Oh, she's MAD mad. Oof. Is she okay?
- Geuce reached this in Badger's Twitch Rivals video on Rainbow Six Siege, regarding Heavenly's antics during the game:
- A Rare Sentence: In "have video game skins gone too far?", Digi is disgusted by Badger describing the current state of Call of Duty.Badger: Just the fact that Makarov has to stare Nicki Minaj in the eyes upon dropping into Rust is so funny.
Digi: I hate everything about that sentence you just spoke. - "The Reason You Suck" Speech: In "Banished To The Shadow Realm", Skullker uses AI to clone Badger's voice and deliver this absolute gem:AI!Badger: "YOU FUCKING FELL OFF, BRO. YOUR BEATS SOUND LIKE THEY WERE RECORDED IN AN ACTIVE WAR ZONE. YOUR BARS ARE SO FUCKING BAD THEY MAKE ME WANT TO DRILL OUT MY EARDRUMS WITH A POWER DRILL."
- Record Needle Scratch: One occurs in "THUNK THUNK ZOFIA" when Badger recounts Zofia's Freudian Excuse of nearly being drowned by three boys For the Evulz, followed by Badger taking a few seconds to contemplate the insanity of what he just read.Badger: Yeah, after jogging my memory, I can't ever remember doing that as a kid. It was always "Let's go play hockey at the rink!" or "Let's go ride our bikes!", not "Let's go drown a local village girl in the lake!", that just never came up.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning:
- In "Eyes Glow Crusade," Badger shows off the Hunter's Mark Weapon Mod which allows him and Grouse to do extra critical damage and see enemies through walls while it lasts, giving them glowing red eyes.
- In "have video game skins gone too far?", he shows off his preference for mixing and matching different Operators (player skins) with other Operator finishers by having Nicki Minaj zap someone to death with Homelander's heat vision.
- Reference Overdosed: Each video is filled to the brim with Shout Outs and discussions about different topics and media.
- Refuge in Audacity: A good portion of Badger's humor stems from this, making very over the top comments that would be offensive in many normal situations, yet are so over the top and exaggerated that it becomes comical. Such as punting Baby Yoda, saying the three alignments are "Lawful, Chaotic, and Autism", or casually talking about selling people into slavery in the Mojave Desert.Badger: I heard you say "good game" and then I heard "I'm gonna bomb your trailer park."
- Rodents of Unusual Size: In "dunking my wifes social credit w a glob of symbiotic ranch", a Twitch user asks if Badger would rather fight 50 rat-sized children or 1 child-sized rat. Badger chooses the giant rat.wallace2710: Hey Bager [sic], would you rather fight 50 rat-sized children, or 1 child sized rat?
Badger: Yo, I'm going with the bigass… bigass rat, alright? - Rooting for the Empire: Plenty of In-Universe examples:
- Sides with Caesar's Legion over The NCR in his Fallout: New Vegas playthrough because he doesn't want to pay taxes.
- He also makes it quite clear he sides with The Empire in Star Wars Battlefront II (2017), constantly referring to the rebels as scum.
- Rule of Fun: Enforced. Badger and the crew will frequently mess around with suboptimal strategies, characters, weapons, and so on in the name of making entertaining videos and/or having a good time. They’ve also lambasted the mentality of "Stop Having Fun" Guys on several occasions, saying that anyone who can only enjoy a game by playing optimally or otherwise thinking only about how to win isn't worth their time.Pasta on Tryhards: “Damn, you liked all this shit? Here’s me not giving a fuck.”
Heavenly on people who play World of Tanks exclusively in first-person: That's awful. Why would you handicap yourself like that? “hnnnng, my immersion”… How about you immerse yourself in a shower, bro? - Running Gag:
- Each video/stream contains at least one M1 Garand reload sound making an appearance.
- Badger's current motion capture avatar getting shot mid-sentence and the next one taking over happens a lot too.
- Many videos and streams that also feature Skullker will include moments where he spams meme sound effects and voice changing effects from his soundboard, with varying degrees of annoyance coming from both his Twitch chat and Badger's, as well as others playing alongside him and Badger.
- Starting with "Destroy All Taxpayer Dollars", his avatar has a tablet on his chest that displays memes and reactions.
- If there's a line about not asking for something, Badger either has a picture of Adam Jensen or has a clip of him saying "I never asked for this."
- In "Lore Accurate Vergil Stomps Marvel for $50 and Some Drip", Geuce is cut off by an error message when he gets into NO INDOOR VOICE territory.
- If the topic of furries comes up in either his videos or his Twitter, he will do everything to please them on the fear that they will send a pipe bomb in his mail.
- If a video involves Master Chief appearing in games outside of his own series, he's given funny names in the title (Hamster Cheese, Mustard Beef).
- Sanity Slippage: Played for Laughs with Goblin Mode Brain Rot, which details how Badger and his friends slowly succumb to "brain rot" and lose their minds as they play Modern Warfare II, until they enter "Goblin Mode" and become absolute degenerates. Special mention goes to Digi, who starts Laughing Mad every time he gets the helicopter and goes More Dakka on everyone.Digi: Yes! Chopper Gunner, bitches!
Badger: Call it in, call it in. Go off, Digi. Go off.
Digi: I actually earned one motherfuckers! (begins laughing like crazy as he pilots the helicopter.)
Grouse: Those noises that were coming out of you were inhuman. Like, what was that?
Badger: Digi can definitely go Goblin Mode really quickly, if he needs to. - Schmuck Bait: In "melting my gpu by trying to render god in friendslop", Badger prefaces a demo reel of gameplay from R.E.P.O. by encouraging the viewer to turn up the volume on their device. Immediately afterwards, it cuts to a clip of Geuce screaming as loud as he can, which would make it Sensory Abuse if the viewer turned up their device's volume.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
- In Hamster Chief Lobsters the Fortbite, Heavenly is upset about Digi costing their team the game, giving the team a breakdown on how he nearly saved the game. Heavenly is upset and logs off.Heavenly: I clutched us a game and Digi just had to look left, like… I had to fly in, rez y'all, fly out, get slurpnote , fly back in and Digi just had to figure out which way his wrist goes. What the fuck. I need, I need, I n- I gotta use the bathroom or something, bro. I gotta go to COLLEGE or something. I can't be with these muhfuckas.
- In "when the $10 youtube poop outsells call of duty", Badger gets whispered by Loaf to teleport him out of the bunker they're in. Badger says he's not gonna bother wasting resources rescuing him since he's busy looting. Just as he leaves, he hears Loaf scream "Oh shit!" Badger goes back inside to see if Loaf's still alive, only to find his dead body cocooned by a spider. Soon as he sees Loaf's body, he turns tail and heads back out.Badger: No way. I gotta see what happened. Yo Loaf, are you good? Loaf! Loaf, can you hear me? Is there a Loaf still alive in here? (Badger finds Loaf's body cocooned and hanging from the rafters) That answers my question. I think I'm done here.
- In Hamster Chief Lobsters the Fortbite, Heavenly is upset about Digi costing their team the game, giving the team a breakdown on how he nearly saved the game. Heavenly is upset and logs off.
- Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: In "Goblin Mode Brain Rot", during Badger's ad spot for Guacamole GamerFart 9000, one of the pictures on his chest monitor has a photoshopped picture of Donald Trump pointing a gun at the viewer.
- Seinfeldian Conversation: Another way of interpreting the banter between Badger and his friends when it's not specifically related to the game they're playing.
- Self-Imposed Challenge: invoked Anytime Badger does a sponsored episode where he has a press account that allows him to access every weapon or vehicle, he prefers to grind it out the old fashioned way like he was a new player, even taking advantage of his own promotional codes.
- Semper Fi: As noted during a podcast appearance, Badger completed basic Marine training, but dropped out on the day of his Boot Camp graduation to pursue a business degree.
- Sensory Abuse:
- In "HIGH IMPACT CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM", Skullker demonstrates that he has Auto-Tune on his setup. And he promises that he'll turn up the auto-tuning percentage by 1% for every 100 bits (US$1) donated. Badger points out that he's going to max that out in no time...note Skullker: (disgusted sigh) This is bad. We're already at 41% guys...
Badger: YO. Even your exhale was autotuned!
Skullker: 71%...(everyone else starts laughing)
Badger: What?! WHAT?!
Geuce: You sound like a fucking Decepticon charging up, bro! What the fuck?!
Skullker: SEVENTY-ONE! AAAAAAAAAGH—
Badger: Bring the pitch back down! It's—
Skullker: (highly autotuned) It's not the pitch moving, that's just me existing. - Most of Geuce's appearances in "Lore Accurate Vergil Stomps Marvel for $50" have his mic cranked up for several memorable lines:THAT'S MY BOI! THAT'S MY BOI! YES, SIR! YES, SIR! GOD DAMN! GOD—
HE'S PLAYING VERGIL, DU—
DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN, MICKEY WITH THE METAL CHAIR, OUTTA FUCKEN NOWHE—
THAT WAS FOR MANHATTAN! THAT WAS FOR THE BIG APPLE! THAT WAS FOR NI--
- In "HIGH IMPACT CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM", Skullker demonstrates that he has Auto-Tune on his setup. And he promises that he'll turn up the auto-tuning percentage by 1% for every 100 bits (US$1) donated. Badger points out that he's going to max that out in no time...note
- Serial Escalation: In "Tomahawking Spiders for Trespassing," Badger describes the Ravagers' strategy of invading Earth to be throwing waves of enemies at you, new variants, a bigger version of an enemy or make you fight in the dark. It starts off simply with ants, then moves up to spiders, then drones/robots. He then says that after the robots comes "the entire dragon population of Skyrim."Badger: I don't know what's happening anymore.
Heavenly: What's happening? My brother in Christ you are the Dragonborn. - Serious Business: Played for laughs. Near the end of Goblin Mode Brain Rot, Geuce and Bing get into a brief argument over pickles to the point where they're screaming at each other to continue the bit.Bing: dude i definitely love BITING into my sandwich... and then... leaving with an entire pickle slice in my mouth.
Badger: Dude, you're also transmitting in-game, this is getting way too intense for a pickle story.
Bing: NOBODY likes PICKLES!
Geuce: Bing, I will eat bread and butter by the fucken SLICE out the—
Bing: NO YOU WON'T!!!
Geuce: I WILL!!!
Bing: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA—[Audio cuts out fully]
Badger: Yo, you either broke Discord, or in-game audio. (Heavenly laughs)- Speaking of pickles, in "I modded this zombie game to make loads of money", the group gets into an argument over how to eat pickles with some arguing that it should be eaten raw and whole while others insist on slicing it instead.
- Shaped Like Itself: In "An Abstract Carnival of Pain", Badger's attempt to describe how heavy the TOG is at eighty tons is... less than helpful.Badger: For all you visual learners out there, imagine you have a ton. (a concrete highway divider drops into the background) Now imagine you have seventy-nine more tons. (seventy-nine more concrete highway dividers drop into the background)
- Shoddy Knockoff Product: In "Lore Accurate Vergil Stomps Marvel for $50 and Some Drip", when Badger is asked about what controller he's using for Marvel vs. Capcom 3, he considers it a "bootleg piece of shit." The controller is shaped like a Playstation controller with an Xbox button layout.Badger: Am I playing on pad or stick? I'm playing on a controller from China that I can barely read. I'm pretty sure I got the Dormammu 600 right here. It's got a D on it.
Zyzx: Bro, he got the PLOYSTATION dude.
Badger: I got the Smangsmug. - Short-Range Shotgun: Averted in "Destroy All Taxpayer Dollars." The KS23 does just as much damage at long range as it does point blank. Badger treats it more like a sniper rifle than the actual sniper rifles.
- Shouting Shooter: Digi is practically the namesake of Goblin Mode Brain Rot with how his demeanor goes from relatively collected to "cartoonish gremlin" the moment he gets an attack chopper killstreak.Digi: CHOPPER!! CHOPPEEEEEEERRR!!!
Badger: Remember, R is your missiles—
Digi: I'M ALREADY OUT! YOU THINK I DIDN'T USE 'EM ALL IN THE FIRST TEN SECONDS?! - Shown Their Work: Badger and his crew are very knowledgeable when it comes to guns and military terms and will flaunt that knowledge frequently when they notice inaccuracies in games, or just for the sake of a joke. Clu once jokingly compared their knowledge to him "sitting at the airsofters' lunch table".
- Silly Simian: In "REJECT CLOAKER, RETURN TO MONKE.", Heavenly shows off the monkey mask he plans to wear, which also initiates the third act of the video (wherein Badger describes shifting into his "final form" by putting a laser sight and a suppressor on his M1 Garand, "which only a literal ape would do")Badger: Who is it, Heavenly?
Heavenly: It's fucking Trainwrecks!
Badger: It's fucking Trainwrecks!
Heavenly: a.k.a. Fucked Up Day! a.k.a. Squad W!
Badger: Oh my god!
Heavenly: a.k.a. (leans into mic) RETURN. TO. MONKE. - Simple, yet Awesome: In "God Has Left The Server", Badger holds this view In-Universe regarding weapons like the M1 Garand, Steyr AUG, and Mossberg 500 shotgun in Totally Accurate Battlegrounds.Badger: Basic doesn't equal bad.
- Skewed Priorities: The short "air fryer" has a skeleton threatened by a group of soldiers; he is willing to give his safe full of money and family but is absolutely unwilling to part ways with his air fryer. The main soldier finds this so depressing that he opts to just take the safe and leave.
- The Smart Guy: Most of Skullker's appearances involve him tinkering with technology for the sake of comedy, such as autotuning his voice in real time, making AI voices of his friends, or increasing in-game text so that it covers the whole screen.
- The Smurfette Principle: Ever since first showing up in his Lethal Company video, Sigrid, a Vtuber, has been a recurring member of the friend group as the only female.
- Some Dexterity Required: In "Banished to the Shadow Realm", Geuce talks about how he had a
Self-Imposed Challenge during a stream of Death Stranding where his audience would change his keybinds when he fell.Geuce: I was streaming Death Stranding the other day and I had it to where every time I fell chat would change a keybind. Walk forward was on O, strafe left was on NUMPAD 3, aim was on 7, shoot was on SCRLWHL DOWN it was impossible to play.
Badger: I'm tryna picture an actual character using those binds. Just like… pain.
Geuce: I gave myself actual arthritis. - Spam Attack: Used by Digi during "Lore Accurate Vergil Stomps Marvel for $50 and Some Drip", as one of his final strategies is to spam Hulk's Gamma Wave during his match with Grouse... Much to Heavenly's anger from the audience, who demands for Digi's severed head as a result of his shameless strategy.Heavenly: KILL HIS ASS, PLEASE! Do not let this motherfucker progress, I don't wanna anyone else do this! Someone taught him how to play like a bitch and I'm mad! I don't wanna see this! KILL HIM! PUT THE CONTROLLER AROUND- (Breaks down laughing)
Badger: No, we are not putting a controller around somebody's neck and twisting it, it is a wireless controller, you can't even do that. - Stock Sound Effects: Badger regularly uses Combine soldier death sounds for his videos.
- "Stop Having Fun" Guys: Discussed and averted. Badger and his crew will frequently use sub-optimal strategies, low-tier characters, and generally "bad" choices in a game's meta. They do this not just for the sake of the Rule of Fun and making entertaining videos for the audience, but they also do it to mock the Serious Business mentality that some players have around video games.
- Badger has been shown to compliment the other team in a Call of Duty lobby after a match, win or lose, and he's actually trying to be nice. He'll only respond with vitriol when someone shouts at him or insults him, such as one particularly angry kid in a Call of Duty lobby barking at Badger like a dog. Also, Badger says he'll frequently use items with random elements like the Care Package killstreak (which gives you a random killstreak when you pick it up, including very powerful ones) because it increases the fun he's having. Finally, Badger also likes small maps because they frequently devolve into total chaos, which he finds amusing.
- Heavenly mocked people who play World of Tanks exclusively in first-person, because it "ruins the immersion" if they don't play in first-person or because they're doing it as a Self-Imposed Challenge. Heavenly mocks such players by telling them to "immerse [themselves] in a shower" and stop taking the game so seriously.
- Stunned Silence: In "An Abstract Carnival of Pain", a Twitch user says he's watching Badger's stream while also working on nuclear weapons. Badger tells a story how he met a fan at Denver International Airport who said he's in the Air Force and that he defends nuclear weapons. Badger had to pause to take it in.
- Suddenly Shouting:
- Inverted in Goblin Mode Brain Rot when Digi keeps shooting Skullker and the latter goes from shouting at the top of his lungs to speaking calmly between sentences.Skullker: THAT'S THE FOURTH TIME YOU'VE SHOT ME!
Digi: Shut up! You just happen to be where my bullets are!
Skullker: DON'T LEFT CLICK! You're wasting ammo. - Played straight in "Mustard Beef Turns Rainbow Six to Ash" when Heavenly goes from calm to screaming after saying he had been watching Jynxzi.note Heavenly: Listen, Garry, I'm sorry for shouting. I watched a lot of Jynxzi before we started to get into co—mindset. My bad bro. Hand to God, bro. Right hand on the Bible, THAT MOTHERFUCKER IS CHEATI—
- Inverted in Goblin Mode Brain Rot when Digi keeps shooting Skullker and the latter goes from shouting at the top of his lungs to speaking calmly between sentences.
- Take Our Word for It: In Goblin Mode Brain Rot, Badger discloses that streaming Call of Duty is nigh-impossible because the people he plays against are too racist to record, especially when Badger and company get called racial slurs by children.
- Take That!:
- His videos on Rainbow Six Siege has him express his irritation for Dokkaebi's character by saying she makes D.Va look likeable, shortly before having Filthy Frank throw D.Va in the trash.
- His video for Halo: Reach has him suggest the developers made such an amazing game by "Taking Rainbow Six Extraction... and doing none of that."
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: In "Tomahawking Spiders for Trespassing," while playing as Air Raider, Badger fires a Satellite Laser E on one single spider.Heavenly: Are you calling a satellite on that one spider?
Badger: Yes. - This Is Gonna Suck: While waiting to play War Thunder in "BANISHED TO THE SHADOW REALM"...Badger: (reading) "Have a pleasant flight." In an A-10 Warthog? Un-fucking-likely.
- Tongue-Tied: Clue, at the end of "Destroy All Taxpayer Dollars"Clu: Gamers joining CTE like, "Oh, I don't wanna impose..." I'm about to impo—im—im—I'm a—ah—(sounding like he's giving a lecture) The Industrial Revolution and its consequences...
Kublikong: *repair tool noises*
Geuce: ...what the—
Eekaj: What the fuck?!
Badger: Are you...are you repairing...
Geuce: HOW DO YOU DO THAT?
Badger: Are you repairing our conversation?! - Took a Level in Dumbass: Invoked in "ARMORLOCKARMORLOCKARMORLOCK" while talking about playing Halo: Reach. Badger says it starts off by being able to say "Master Chief is on the cover of that Mountain Dew bottle." After a couple hours of games, it devolves into "Dey put da Mamster Chief in da soda."
- Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup: In "melting my gpu by trying to render god in friendslop" Badger says that having extra teammates via mods ironically makes everyone less cooperative and more selfish.
- Too Much Information: At the start of "ARMORLOCKARMORLOCKARMORLOCK", Badger talks about his chronic bed-wetting as a child/teen...Badger: Take it from someone who wet the bed until he was like, fourteen: I have a real tier list for diapers. Good Nites cannot be topped. They are S-tier. S. Tier. Dawg, you can down three two-liters of Mountain Dew and you could go to sleep, your ass ain't wettin' the bed. That—that's basically like wearing a mattress around your pelvis, dawg.
Grouse: I don't think I was prepared for this conversation.
Geuce: I feel like I've been flashbanged by words!
(game play footage)
Jello: You're just kinda dropping this on us out of nowhere!
Badger: (reading the chat) "Hold up, Badger, fourteen?!" Yes; 1-4. I was well into junior high and I was still a threat to my parents. (everyone else laughs) - Tournament Arc: In "Lore Accurate Vergil Stomps Marvel for $50 and Some Drip", Badger's friends have a tournament where the winner gets $50,000 and a pair of Nike Air Jordans. Mickey is the ultimate winner, though he chooses to give away $8,000 to his friends.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: During Goblin Mode Brain Rot, the gang are left in shock-induced hilarity as a result of some... interesting encounters with kids in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.Grouse: Holy shit, that kid just called me the n-word...(wheezing in laughter) These kids are actually fucken psychopaths...!
(Later on, a kid proceeds to call Badger a "pendejo")
Badger: (On the verge of laughing) He just called me an asshole in Spanish! - Underestimating Badassery: In "banished to the shadow realm", Badger says he and his crew always underestimate how good the top War Thunder players are.Badger: With that said, welcome to War Thunder, a game where we always underestimate how good the best players are.
Geuce: How hard could this whole piloting thing be? (Geuce cracks open a can of Guacamole GamerFart 9000) Let's take a stab at it. (Geuce is blown up by a missile just as he's getting into his own jet) - The Unfettered: Badger's summary of his AI doppelganger in "Banished to the Shadow Realm"."I just love how aggressive AI me is. He's just going full throttle. He's tellin (sic) you how it is."
- Uniformity Exception: In "Lore Accurate Vergil Stomps Marvel for $50 And Some Drip", Badger is confused why, out of 50 characters in Marvel vs. Capcom 3, one of them is Amaterasu, who is a divine wolf goddess.Badger: Why is there a dog here named Amaterasu? (pronouncing it "amateur-asu")note Who brought a dog to a fight where half the characters have guns?
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: According to Sigrid, she's indirectly responsible for helping popularize Skibidi Toilet, as she's friends with the guy who first caused it to blow up on social media and introduced it to him by watching it on streams with him. Badger's other friends think that maybe she shouldn't be sharing this story around.
- Useless Useful Spell: Discussed in Warden? Wack
. Warden's gadget makes him immune to flashbangs and lets him see through smoke, but only when he's standing still. Since standing still when someone is throwing a flashbang or smoke grenade at you is suicide, Badger never uses the gadget as intended. - Victory Is Boring: In "this game lost 98% of its players", Badger says that the server lottery in Battlefield 2042 can put him in teams where he's either in a spawn-die loop or the one doing it to the other team. It's when he's doing it to the other team that when he considers the victory boring, since he has to wait for respawns at best and players from the other team quit at worst.
- Violation of Common Sense: In Goblin Mode Brain Rot, DigitalVagrant wonders how the "Shipment" map, which is a cargo ship, hasn't sunk from the constant gunfire, grenades and artillery hitting it.DigitalVagrant: How is there anything left of this boat? How is there anything left of this section of the ocean?
(Badger gets a kill with a 135mm shell on the AC-130)
Badger: Yes, sir!
DigitalVagrant: By sheer artillery alone we should've tunneled our way to Atlantis by now. - Vitriolic Best Buds:
- In Goblin Mode Brain Rot, while Badger is talking about expecting civility in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, he brings up that his friends aren't nice to him or each other, so he has no room to complain about strangers.
- Heavenly and Zyzyx are either chill bros at best or jumping at each other's throats at worst. One example is in "Mustard Beef Turns Rainbow Six to Ash" when the two of them are in a shouting match with each other that both of their mics are muted on their ends.
- "Wanted!" Poster: Badger (or rather, his crying seal avatar) appears on one in "Unstoppable Moron Makes Nuclear Wasteland Noticeably Worse":WANTED: INSUFFERABLE MORON
DEAD OR DEAD
PLEASE JUST KILL THIS FUCKING PRICK
5000 CAPS
EXTREMELY FUCKING DANGEROUS
APPROACH WITH CAUTION - Wham Line: In "MUSTARD BEEF TURNS RAINBOW SIX TO ASH", the same line serves as one both in and out of universe for Badger. For the latter; it makes him realize why he's not playing as good as he was, and helps him turn his game around. In-universe, well...Quesadilla: I have autism.
(long pause, before everyone else busts out laughing for several long seconds)
Pasta: What.
Quesadilla: I'm playing Jäger! And I actually do have it!
Heavenly: (cackling wildly throughout)
Bing: HE'S JUST LIKE ME! FOR REAL!
Badger: This was like, the last thing I was expecting to hear during a round MVP. What?
Digi: "I have autism!"
Quesadilla: I act—I was—it wasn't even a joke!
Heavenly: How did you catch the one moment where everybody shut the fuck up?!
Quesadilla: I don't know! (everyone else is still laughing) Usually everyone else talks over me! Oh, my face is hot...
Heavenly: (reading the chat) "Bro owns the spectrum!" (laughs more) - What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: In "server of weird superpowers
", Badgers 1 and 2 discuss having "weird superpowers. Badger 2's power is floating 3" off the ground, meaning he can't take fall damage and he can't trespass because he never sets foot on private property. One guy gains 10% speed which stacks every time he chugs a bottle of ketchup. They're trying to make him the fastest man ever, but he throws up on every fourth bottle. Another is Bready Fazbun whose power has every round in his gun be blank, but the last one is explosive. Another has a Master Chief who has unlimited spawns of the Halo 3 rat. One girl has a 99% critical hit chance while holding an empty beer can on Tuesdays. Another is the Purple Guy who removes textures when he feels threatened. Badger 1 wonders what his power is, and it's to reset the server if he squeezes his hand too hard, which restarts the short. - When All You Have Is a Hammer…: In "Destroy All Taxpayer Dollars," Badger states that during his games of Insurgency: Sandstorm, he treats sniper rifles this way.Badger: "You guys know I have a habit of using shotguns as sniper rifles, and sniper rifles as shotguns...and the Marksman class is no exception. Doesn't matter if it's for long range, short range, small map, big map, every situation I see is a nail and the M82 I'm holding is the hammer."
- When I Was Your Age...: Parodied. Badger is in this 30s but knows full well that a lot of people on the internet watching his stuff are a decade or two younger than him, so he sometimes like to play up how much of an "angry old man" he is for comedy.Badger: God, I fucking miss Rust!note You plastic-consuming zoomers will never understand what it felt like to play Rust! Fuck you!...Gah, dude, get this fuckin' boomer off my screen, he's so unfunn—
- Word Salad Title: Invoked in his 2023 Fortnite episode, Hamster Chief Lobsters the Fortbite. The game is a Massive Multiplayer Crossover and his Twitch chat spouts random words.Badger: "I'm on witches and tarot TikTok and I swear to god I always get hit with them creepy Mandela Catalogue clips." I don't hav- like… chat… you guys… The comments in this stream are now just like alphabet soup. It's like you saying lobster dolphin mac 'n cheese master chief light goblin super mode happy meal Guatemala. Like, what are you saying to me?
Bees: They literally speak in algorithm now. - World Half Full: Badger's overall MO, as explained in Goblin Mode Brain Rot:Badger: First thing: I'm extremely based—I mean, biased. I'm biased. I only make videos about games I like, and try to remain as positive as possible no matter the situation. Which, in a Call of Duty lobby, makes me virtually one of a kind.
- Would Hurt a Child: In "Space Vietnam with Bears and Laser", Darth Vader is casually blocking blaster fire at him to show how broken he is as a Hero unit while reading a book titled "How To Kill Kids", referencing his slaughter of the Padawan younglings.
- Wretched Hive: He treats basically any lobby in a Call of Duty game this way because of the things he's heard over voice chat in COD lobbies. Badger says that streaming a Call of Duty game is basically impossible for him to do without getting demonetized, and mentioned that he's heard racial slurs being used by literal children in Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 lobbies.
- And that's about it! I would like to thank you very much for reading, and be sure to tune in next time where we reflect how our lives got here.
