Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Playing Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor after he was done with Assassin's Creed: Unity: Tear: I don't want to break the illusion, but I'm having a really fucking hard time playing this after switching between Unity. The counter button is something completely different, : I don't want to break the illusion, but I'm having a really fucking hard time playing this after switching between Unity. The counter button is something completely different, I keep pressing fucking B Trying to get back into Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin after having played Bloodborne: Tear: It is so awkward healing these days, after playing Bloodborne. In Bloodborne, you press it, you're done. In this game, you got to get into a fucking queue to heal!

Deadpan Snarker: Tear's general commentary when he starts getting frustrated with the difficulty of a game or its game mechanics.

Death by Irony: In episode twelve of Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, Tear was finally killed by a mad Uruk called Ishgha the Mad (who would always open his fights by saying "Buttons!") because once he was downed, he didn't press the right button to counter Ishgha's attack.

Delayed Reaction: In Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, almost every single time Tear gets downed it seemingly takes him a couple of seconds to even realize there is a QTE counter on the screen, let alone react to it.

Determinator: Tear's Dark Souls 2 NG+3 deprived boss runs, NG+10 broken ladle and bare fists runs and Dark Souls 3 torch-only runs; regardless of how many times Tear would die and how many consumables he had to waste, he would still get back and try to defeat the bosses, even if he did end up summoning help for some of them.

Didn't Think This Through: While running through the Tomb of the Giants in Dark Souls, Tear planned to evade the horde of enemies that were chasing him and eventually went down a slope where he thought he remembered a bonfire being. There was no bonfire, and he just cornered himself on a ledge.

in Dark Souls, Tear planned to evade the horde of enemies that were chasing him and eventually went down a slope where he thought he remembered a bonfire being. Later on in the same game , Tear was once again chased by a bunch of enemies while trying to retrieve an item on a ledge. Once he got to the item, he realized that there was no way back and had to fight his way through a bunch of Wooden Scarecrows. After killing them he stopped to reflect on how close he was to falling off when suddenly, two giant Guardians appeared and killed him

Die, Chair, Die!: In Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin in the Lost Bastille area, Tear isn't satisfied with just opening the door, no, he has to actually destroy it. OVERKILL!

Disney Villain Death: Tear's preferred method of dealing with the Uruk captains in Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor was to throw them off cliffs (which started in the fifth episode of the playthrough when one of the Uruk captains he wanted to recruit was killed by a random Uruk soldier, prompting Tear to throw him off a nearby cliff). He went to such great lengths to do so that he would sometimes carry captains for miles around just to throw them, regardless of any other enemies that would aggro on him.

of the playthrough when one of the Uruk captains he wanted to recruit was killed by a random Uruk soldier, prompting Tear to throw him off a nearby cliff). He went to such great lengths to do so that he would sometimes carry captains for miles around just to throw them, regardless of any other enemies that would aggro on him. This tradition also continued in Middle Earth: Shadow of War.

He also started to really enjoy kicking enemies off ledges in Dark Souls, so much so that by the end of the game, he went out of his way to Back Stab the Black Knights before the Gwyn, Lord of Cinder boss encounter in such a way that when the animation was done, they would be thrown to their deaths (even if that meant that any loot that they might have dropped was going to be lost).

Disproportionate Retribution: In Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor , while fighting the Uruk captain Mûzglob Gold-Fang during his recruitment attempt. After Ûkrom Blood-Storm, another captain that continued to hunt down Tear, quite literally storms the encounter, humiliates Tear and then leaves, Tear decides that it's not enough just to kill Mûzglob and so he murders the rest of the regular Uruks that Mûzgblob wanted to recruit.

The Dreaded: Prâk "Bane" Jaws, Krûk Blood-Axe, Pigug the Shadow, Ûkrom Blood-Storm, Zog Bag-Head, as well as a couple of other nemesis who hunted down Tear in Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, became this.

The Haunt, a particularly difficult boss in The Binding of Isaac, especially since Tear seemed to frequently encounter it while playing as the Lost and having a decent build.

The Pursuer(s) also became this in Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin.

Driven to Suicide: At the end of his Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare video , Tear spends a few seconds lamenting his family's death as well as the fact that he killed everybody he ever met in the game before jumping into the water while riding his horse.

Drives Like Crazy: In both his Grand Theft Auto V singleplayer and Online series.

Early Installment Weirdness: His older videos were almost completely unedited, had worse microphone quality and very few if any bad jokes and puns. Tear also spoke a lot slower and frequently put on various accents, mostly American and Irish (though that hasn't completely gone away).

El Spanish "-o": In episode 112 of The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth, after playing as the Keeper and picking up Holy Water: Tear: I mean I'll take that, why not, it's kind of useful when I get hit and make a little bit of a splash but overall it's kind of what they say in France, le useless.

Epunymous Title: Almost every single one of his video titles.

Even Evil Has Standards: Refenced in the fifth episode of Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, where one of Tear's Uruk captains, Pûgrish the Beheader was ambushing a rival captain, Flak the Brute. During the fight, Tear noticed that his captain and his other Uruks mooks all stood around Flak and were repeatedly stabbing him whenever he turned his back on them, prompting him to say: Tear: This is dirty even by my standards, seriously with this, this is mean.

Even the Subtitler Is Stumped: Always done in post-production by his future self or his editors: In episode 109 of The Binding of Isaac: Aferbirth: Tear: For anyone that wants to use this seed themselves "freel?" free to, you know, let me know how stupid I was by re-rolling that a few times and pointing out what an awful mistake it was for me taking this, feel free. Played for Laughs in the last episode of Sonic Unleashed where Chip's wing flapping was captioned as "FAPPING".

Evil Laugh: His Prâk Jaws laugh impression is a combination of insanity and evilness.

Exact Words: In the first episode of Dark Souls 3, after lighting the very first bonfire: Tear: [BONFIRE LIT] You know with the recent surge of use of that particular word, you'd expect me to make a joke about that, wouldn't you? You thought wrong...I'm gonna make a bunch of them, : [BONFIRE LIT] You know with the recent surge of use of that particular word, you'd expect me to make a joke about that, wouldn't you? You thought wrong...I'm gonna make a bunch of them, cause I'm that comedically crippled

Eye Scream: The Surgeon Simulator 2015 video where Tear jabs the patient in both eyes with scalpels, only to have them wiggle around as he was moving.

Fast-Forward Gag: Was used quite heavily in his Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2 and Bloodborne videos when running back to a boss after having been killed. It was usually accompanied by sped up music as well.

Flat "What": Has his own version, "U wot mate".

Freudian Slip: Referenced during his Dark Souls 2 Ivory King armor build, while facing the same opponent for the third time (DamCemX), and thinking about another opponent that he had just fought three times before (ChrisXRedfield): Tear: Did you have no arrows left, is that embarrassing for you Chris...Chris, oh fucking hell, there's a God damn Freudian slip.

Freeze-Frame Bonus: Rarely used, short versions of his staple visual puns. In his The Witcher 3 Patreon request video , Tear points out an in-game audio glitch when he talks to the NPC quest giver which is only visible for a split-second.

Friendly Enemy: "Obnoxious VIRGIN", a human invader that got summoned into the Looking Glass Knight fight during Tear's Dark Souls 2 NG+10 broken ladle run, quickly saw what Tear was trying to do and instead of attacking him, he just stood by and watched the whole challenge unfold.

Friend to All Living Things: He seemingly dislikes killing animals, even if the animals in question are hostile (such as the Caragors in Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor or the Wolves in Skyrim. He even disliked killing the Moonlight Butterfly in Dark Souls).

Funny Background Event: His videos are usually filled with them, from Uruks falling from ledges in Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor to weapons inexplicably jumping around in Dark Souls and zombies rolling down stairs in Dying Light. Most of the time Tear is incredibly quick at pointing them out.

Fun with Acronyms: In Rainbow Six Siege, due to his horrible aiming skills, Tear got killed by a random terrorist wearing a mannequin mask, causing him to remark that he was supposed to be S.A.S. followed by a caption where S.A.S stood for "Significantly better At Shooting".

by a random terrorist wearing a mannequin mask, causing him to remark that he was supposed to be S.A.S. followed by a caption where S.A.S stood for "Significantly better At Shooting". After playing Cuphead for a while, Tear stated that he was beginning to think that StudioMDHR stood for "Murder Death Hate Regret".

Gag Dub: The beginning of the fourth episode of The Binding of Isaac: Antibirth features a live action ad for CrunchyRoll where one of the characters that Tear plays is a poorly dubbed "ninja".

Gainax Ending: Many of Tear's videos end with surreal imagery and music: The ending of his first Fallout 4 video.

Fallout 4 video. The ending of episodes 153 and 154 of The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth Plus.

Game Mod: One exists which adds Tear's rants to The Binding of Isaac .

Gasshole: At times.

Genki Guy: In the very first episode of Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition {TU13}. Tear even commented on this: Tear: Have you noticed how weirdly animated I am? I don't know why, I'm just suddenly bursting with energy!

Gilligan Cut: In episode 63 of Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, Tear sent one of his recently branded Uruk captain, Rûg Blood-Storm, to duel with another random captain, Malmûg Guard Master. He then jumped down to observe the fight and said he won't get involved. The footage immediately cuts to Tear introducing himself to the Malmûg.

of Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, Tear sent one of his recently branded Uruk captain, Rûg Blood-Storm, to duel with another random captain, Malmûg Guard Master. He then jumped down to observe the fight and said he won't get involved. The footage immediately cuts to Tear introducing himself to the Malmûg. In the very first episode of Bloodborne, Tear is confronted by two Scourge Beasts. He manages to pull one away and fight it and upon realizing how much health it has, Tear prays that the second one doesn't get involved. The video then cuts to him fighting both Beasts at the same time.

of Bloodborne, Tear is confronted by two Scourge Beasts. He manages to pull one away and fight it and upon realizing how much health it has, Tear prays that the second one doesn't get involved. The video then cuts to him fighting both Beasts at the same time. In the third episode of Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin, after Tear died to the two Ogres in the starting area and lost all of his souls, he decided to go back and kill them stating that he wished not be trolled by the "fat cycloptic twats" anymore. Cue him immediately getting killed by one of the Ogres.

of Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin, after Tear died to the two Ogres in the starting area and lost all of his souls, he decided to go back and kill them stating that he wished not be trolled by the "fat cycloptic twats" anymore. Cue him immediately getting killed by one of the Ogres. In the first episode of the re-released Dead Rising, while holding out in the Willamette Parkview Mall, Tear notices a lot of NPC characters around him and states that he "should probably get to know their backstories, their motivations, their wants and needs in life" so they can support each other through their time of need. The footage then immediately cuts to the NPCs dying to the zombies while Tear sarcastically bemoans their death.

Gonk: He doesn't call his Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin character "Googley-eyed Ganon" for nothing.

Good Parents: Played for Laughs in episode 111 of The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth. After failing to make any kind of progress with the Keeper, Tear gives up and the video cuts to an image of the Keeper on fire and surrounded by a humorous caption that reads: "like a loving father, I will never beat you". note beating the Keeper refers to unlocking all of its achievements

Goshdang It To Heck: Accidentally, while playing Overwatch: Tear: That's what you get for being : That's what you get for being McGreedy you God damn McGrunt . I inadvertently censored myself there, wasn't going for it.

Greater-Scope Villain: During his playthrough of Sonic Unleashed, Tear comes to realize that the greatest villain of the story is in fact the camera and the controls.

Groin Attack: See "cosplaying as his dick", above.

Hair-Trigger Temper: When a settler started coughing on him in the very first episode of Fallout 4: Tear: Did you just cough on me? Alright, no, I've had enough of him already, this is bullshit! [Tear then pulls out a shotgun and headshots him]

Hello, [Insert Name Here]: Tear generally names his video game character Nobs. While playing The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, Tear regretted this decision while talking to a certain inhabitant of the island: Tear: [sigh] I've made a small boy say Nobs...

Heroic BSoD: After accidentally killing his own branded Uruk captain, Blorg the Marauder, in the tenth episode of Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, Tear became absolutely frozen, so much so that he allowed a random Uruk to kill him

of Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, Tear became absolutely frozen, In the sixth episode of Sonic Unleashed, while trying to point out a level pop-in issue, Tear turns werewolf Sonic around, accidentally getting between a pot and a concrete railing and picking up a Sun Medal that he didn't even know was there, causing him to remain speechless for a couple of seconds.

of Sonic Unleashed, while trying to point out a level pop-in issue, Tear turns werewolf Sonic around, accidentally getting between a pot and a concrete railing and picking up a Sun Medal that he didn't even know was there, causing him to remain speechless for a couple of seconds. After witnessing the Orphan of Kos' transition to its second phase in Bloodborne: The Old Hunters.

Heroic RRoD: While trying to complete the Super Expert mode for the first time in Super Mario Maker, Tear loses 49 lives at the antepenultimate level, throws his controller on the floor and leaves the game running while monologuing about his failure, losing 3 more lives in the process before attempting to beat it again.

He Who Must Not Be Seen/The Faceless: He used to be one for more than four years of his YouTube career during which he never showed his face, but had occasionally given clues to how he looked like in real life, stating that he had a shaved head, a beard and wore glasses. He also usually modeled his in-game characters after him. On March the 30th, 2016, Tear had officially revealed his face on Twitter, and then also edited the photo into one of his videos.

Hilarious Outtakes: Between September 2015 and March 2017, he used to dedicate the last part of his videos to short, funny clips that he couldn't fit anywhere else in his videos.

His Name Really Is Tear: Brett Tear, that is.

His Own Worst Enemy: Invokes this while mentioning his unfamiliarity with Rogue Legacy : Tear: I think it's safe to say that I'm going to be my worst enemy by the end of this. In the NG+10 broken ladle fight against Fume Knight Raime in Dark Souls 2: Crown of the Old Iron King, during his first attempt against the boss, Tear accidentally healed instead of rolling away which caused him to die, prompting him to state that: Tear: I think the biggest battle is going to be with my brain, trying to get it to fucking work!

Hitbox Dissonance: Tear often complained about the hitboxes in Dark Souls 2, especially when he only used a broken ladle to take down bosses. While fighting Fume Knight Raime in the Crown of the Old Iron King expansion, Tear remarked that: Tear: If my character model is making contact with your character model, how in the blue fucking dickens does my weapon not make contact with you? Makes no sense. If my arms and legs, which are holding my weapons can touch your fucking leg, why doesn't the weapon that I'm swing at it hit it?

Hong Kong Dub: The "ninja" that Tear plays in his various live-action CrunchyRoll ads.

Humiliation Conga: He experiences this while running through the Catacombs in Dark Souls . First he gets hit by a skeleton that he couldn't hit, then he falls thorough the floor, lands in front of a Black Knight, gets hit by said Knight and is left with only a sliver of health left, runs to heal and the Black Night from before jumps through a wall and kills him.

100% Completion: His obsession with getting every single achievement in The Binding of Isaac. As of March 2016, he has successfully completely every single one of them.

Hurricane of Puns: Being a master of puns, Tear sometimes tends to go overboard with them: During his fight with the Duke's Dear Freja in Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin: Tear: This is just depressing, your children won't defend you because I'm wielding a flame. Dear bloody me, I think it' safe to say they're bloody fickle, aren't they? I guess you could also say that their love and care for you kind of burned out. Either that, or when it comes to defending their own God damn family, that they aren't all too bright. And I guess with all the rage you've been showing, that it's safe to say your children's lack of shit giving for your life has certainly got you fired up! Later on in the same game while fighting Mytha, the Baneful Queen: Tear: You know, I've got my own personal theory why this silly woman is without a head. I think it might be because she fell in love with a man and lost her God damn mind, and because he was a cruel piece of shit, he said "you know if you cut your head off, you'll be immortal and live forever", and as I'm about to kill her, that makes it a bold faced lie, so you could say he Ana"CONNED"her. Terribly proud of myself on that one, terribly proud. And you could also say that she did that in order to get ahead in life. And when it came to the women's baseball team, she didn't quite make the cut. After stumbling across an in-game ad for a man with a burger head in Trials of the Blood Dragon: Tear: It's fucking : It's fucking Burger Man running around. I've seen Pepsi Man, I've seen fucking Burger Man. What the hell? You know, they should make a God damn anime about that man, about how he's got beef with everyone...and I'm going to kill myself. I'm not sorry though. You can give him a saucy relationship and you can have him relish his victories.

The Hyena: He regularly descends into this after witnessing bugs and glitches in the games that he's playing.

Hypercompetent Sidekick: During the Desolation of Mordor DLC, Tear's bodyguard Tahaar of the Sands quickly got stronger by saving Tear's ass from near-death more than once, and now gets more kills than even Tear himself in any given battle. The latter gets a little annoyed after some time; while he can't blame him for killing orcs he can't help but feel his thunder thoroughly stolen.

Hypocritical Humor: The entire fight with Petrus in Dark Souls , where Tear calls him a son of a bitch for repeatedly healing yet right after that, he also heals as well: Tear: Oh you son of a bitch, you healed. You son of a bitch, nobody said you could do that! No one. Now can you give me a moment to heal. Another, much grander and absolutely golden example comes up in his Shadow of War playthrough. Throughout the game, whenever he encountered the Nazgul, he bemoaned the fact that he couldn't simply join forces with the Nazgul, claiming he'd be much more fond of that than the (human) idiots he has to put up with for the sake of plot. When Talion finally does so after having been abandoned by Celebrimbor, taking one of the Nine Rings for himself, Brett angrily calls him an insane idiot. Minutes later, when he has to fight the Witchking once more, he's back at wanting to join forces.

Idea Bulb: Only the clinging sound which is a post-production editing trick that he commonly employs, particularly before flashing a caption on the screen to laugh at or in some cases accentuate what he just previously did or said in the video.

I Hate Past Me/Unreliable Narrator: Used as a Running Gag in the form of an caption popping-up on screen which mocks what he just previously said or did in the video, sometimes also accompanied by the sound of an Idea Bulb.

I Have No Son!: In the beginning of his Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare video , after John Marston's wife is attacked by a zombie, Tear discovers that his son just stood next to the window and watched all of it happen without doing a thing, prompting him to declare that he's not his son and even trying to shoot him: Tear: I'm really trying to kill a fucking useless prick, I really am.

Implacable Man: Prâk Jaws, Krûk Blood-Axe and a couple other Uruk captains in Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor who keep returning even after Tear has consistently killed them.

Improbable Weapon User: The ladle, in Dark Souls 2. And not just any ladle, but a broken one.

Also, the torch in Dark Souls 3.

Indy Escape: In the second episode of his second playthrough of Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty, Tear goes running past an obstacle course of bombs, on fast forward, with the Indiana Jones theme playing in the background.

Inherently Funny Words: "Soggy", probably because of the amount of times he had used it in combination with the word "nob". In the second video of Don't Starve: Reign of Giants, after it started raining and all of Tear's inventory items became wet, he was surprised to discover that the name of the mushroom lying on the ground changed to: Tear: A soggy cooked Green Cap...the word soggy is now in this game.

Innocent Innuendo: Referenced in the tenth episode of Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, when Tear was facing a screaming Uruk captain called Ûggû Black-Thorn: Tear: You know, if you were to play that to a black screen...that would be pretty misleading, and you could imagine it would be something completely different.

Instantly Proven Wrong: In the eight episode of Super Mario Maker, while passing through to the second stage of a user made level in Super Expert mode, Tear is too slow and the platform in front of him is blown up by Bob-ombs. Just as he finishes mentioning that the game gave him a reset (the pipes) and how that makes it both challenging and fair... he is instantly proven wrong when the Bob-ombs detonate just as he gets back, prompting him to say it's neither of those things.

Intentionally Awkward Title: When his video titles don't contain some sort of pun, they are usually quote awkward (E.g: "Submerged - LIFE IS BETTER DOWN WHERE IT'S WETTER").

Interface Spoiler: In Dark Souls 2, he's not fooled by an NPC disguising as a friendly unit that's actually hostile. Tear: NO. Nothing's ever friendly when you can lock on to it, NOTHING.

Interrupted Suicide: After being chased by a bunch of ghosts in the New Londo Ruins in Dark Souls , Tear eventually reached the item he wanted to get and upon realizing that he was trapped, decided to kill himself by throwing himself into the bottomless body of water next to him. He didn't even manage to do that as the ghost that chased him prevented him passing through a crevice and killed him .

...In That Order: After being defeated by the Uruk captain Hoshû Manhunter in Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor : Hoshû: With you sweetness, the fun never ends! Tear: Everything in this game wants to kill, love and fuck me, specifically in that order! Averted, in Don't Starve: Reign of Giants . Tear: I really need to find an animal that's big, kill it, fuck it, then eat it, maybe not specifically in that order. Cuz' you know, I prefer a hot date!

I Regret Nothing: Killing Rhea of Thorlund in Dark Souls . note She became hostile to him since he killed her bodyguards before she arrived at the Firelink Shrine After seeing the loot she dropped, Tear said he regretted nothing.

. After seeing the loot she dropped, Tear said he regretted nothing. While playing a seeded The Binding of Isaac run and discovering the Black Market, Tear apologizes for having to kill the key and coin beggars since he didn't have any coins and didn't want to spend any keys. After discovering that they dropped an eternal heart, four coins and a bomb, Tear quickly said that he in fact regretted nothing.

Jump Scare: His old Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs playthrough was filled with them.

While trudging through the wasteland in Fallout 4, Tear saw that a Ghoul that appeared to be stuck while navigating a ledge, only to jump at him after he got too close to it and quickly looked away for a second.

through the wasteland in Fallout 4, Tear saw that a Ghoul that appeared to be stuck while navigating a ledge, only to jump at him after he got too close to it and quickly looked away for a second. In the third episode of Bloodborne: the Old Hunters, Tear gets jump scared within second of playing the game, after going through a door in the Research Hall and having an enemy instantly lunge at him.

of Bloodborne: the Old Hunters, Tear gets jump scared within second of playing the game, after going through a door in the Research Hall and having an enemy instantly lunge at him. In the second episode of Dark Souls 3, while going through the Undead Settlement, Tear gets jump scared in an item gank by a Cage Spider after expecting the hanging corpses in the room to be the actual disguised enemies.

of Dark Souls 3, while going through the Undead Settlement, Tear gets jump scared in an item gank by a Cage Spider after expecting the hanging corpses in the room to be the actual disguised enemies. High Lord Wolnir also gave him a good scare in the fifth episode of Dark Souls 3.

of Dark Souls 3. His Resident Evil 7: Biohazard video also features a lot of jump scares.

Kick Them While They Are Down: Played for Laughs after dying to the hollow Master in Dark Souls 3: Tear: He was applying a negative status effect to me when I was already dead. Talk about : He was applying a negative status effect to me when I was already dead. Talk about kicking a dog when he's down...good God, he was kicking the God damn dog on its way down.

Killed Mid-Sentence: Due to his Motor Mouth commentary style, this happens surprisingly often.

Kindhearted Cat Lover: He apparently loves cats, and according to his twitter photos, he had a lot of them running around his former house (even a couple that he didn't actually own).

Lame Pun Reaction: Almost every single time he made a particularly bad pun or joke, he would point out how bad it was and that a child could do better, or lament on how that qualifies as a joke or how this was in fact his job, etc.

Last-Second Word Swap: In the fourth episode of Bloodborne: The Old Hunters, whilst getting overpowered by Maria of the Astral Clocktower, and dying to her: Tear: Fuck a...[he gets killed]...an exceptionally attractive woman with protection to avoid infection.

Laughing Mad: Has become quite a running gag, especially after facing the mad Uruk captain "Bane" in Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, Tear has started to imitate his mad laugh, accompanied by various distorted audio effect.

Laugh Themselves Sick: Literally, he said he got a headache after laughing so much when one of the mad Uruk captains that killed him started chanting "Prick Prick Prickle!". This, along with a few other mad Uruk quotes such as "Buttons!", "Sticky Glue!" and "Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle!" became catch phrases/memes in the comment sections of his videos.

Leave No Survivors: At the end of the Dark Souls 3: The Ringed City expansion, after accepting that he has doomed the world, Tear stumbles across a figure in the distance and, mistaking it for a beetle, goes in to kill it stating: Tear: Also I believe there's a...there's a buzzy beetle over there. I'm not sure what's occurring with it but : Also I believe there's a...there's a buzzy beetle over there. I'm not sure what's occurring with it but I'm going to go murder it as it's the last thing that's somehow...*realizes that it's an undead*.

Left Hanging: In the seventh episode of Shadow of Mordor, Tear declares that after last time (the previous episode where he was repeatedly killed by the Uruk captain Krûk Blood-Axe), he has a bit of a to-do list. Phase one was to get the "cool guy" (the Uruk captain Hork the Corrupt) on his side, and that's about the only phase he even mentioned.

Leeroy Jenkins: He had one such moment while playing through the Summoning Pits raid in Destiny. A few minutes into the fight with the end boss, Phogoth the Untamed, one of the random enemies around dropped an engram right next to the boss. A few second later, Tear decided to just run in to get it, even if it meant that he could end up dying and jeopardizing the mission.

Long Runner: His Grand Theft Auto V series, at over 300 episodes.

His Minecraft series, at over 230 episodes.

His Dark Souls 2 series, at over 190 episodes.

His The Binding of Isaac series, at over 150 episodes.

Long Title: Most of Tear's older videos had incredibly long titles (E.g: "Trials Evolution - EXTREME TRACK RAGE - Failing/Raging/Bailing - BEST/WORST OF THE BEST/WORST").

Lovable Coward: In his playthrough of Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs.

Love Floats: Played for Laughs in Assassin's Creed: Syndicate where glitches would frequently cause NPCs to float in the air for a short period of time. In episode two , after seeing an NPC couple floating around in the air, Tear remarks: Tear: Well, they're popping in the air again. For the love of the Lord, every single loving couple has to levitate, it's like the sign of true romance in this city.

Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: The first time Tear played Dark Souls 2, he was overly reliant on tanking all the damage with his shield rather than learning how to dodge properly. note Made even worse by the fact that the shield he used didn't even fully block all of the damage.

Manchild: Most of his bad jokes and immature attitude reflects this, and he even calls himself one in the comments section of one of his videos on his alternate channel.

Manipulative Editing: In his Destiny Vault of Glass raid video, Tear pretends like he finally managed to receive the much sought-after Gjallarhorn, only to quickly reveal that he actually edited that in. Tear: And just like that, I can fake getting a good item. Subverted in episode 154 of The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth Plus. While walking into a room, Tear said that he had a feeling that the secret room was behind the wall on the left, bombed it and failed, then did the same thing with the wall on the right and succeeded. Ashamed of the blunder, he left a message for his editor: Tear: Editor, only use the last half of that.

Man of a Thousand Voices: Tear started out his channel pretending to be American, then made a series of video where he sounded Irish. He still occasionally does Irish imitations in some videos.

Married to the Job: Between January 17 and June 14, 2015, Tear uploaded two fully edited videos per day. He later stated that during this time, he barely had time to leave his house, let alone do anything else.

Meaningful Name: Azdûsh Spear Master, an Uruk captain that Tear encountered in episode 19 of Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor. As if his introductory line to Tear wasn't enough, saying that "the whole of Mordor comes running when he opens his mouth and blows", Tear noticed how it was even worse that he was called a "spear master".

Medium Awareness: In his Destiny 2 video , at the end of the cutscene where Dominus Ghaul pushed the Guardian off a ledge, Tear scolded Ghaul for putting the title screen up while he was still talking to him.

Mirror Match: During one of his matches in Dark Souls 2 PvP, while cosplaying as Jester Thomas, Tear ran into another opponent (his friend, Darth Kalz) wearing the same exact armor and wielding almost the same exact spells as him.

in Dark Souls 2 PvP, while cosplaying as Jester Thomas, Tear ran into another opponent (his friend, Darth Kalz) wearing the same exact armor and wielding almost the same exact spells as him. Many of Tear's NG+10 broken ladle challenge runs against bosses in Dark Souls 2 featured him wearing the bosses's armor.

Mondegreen: In Super Mario 64: Chaos Edition , Tear interprets Mario's last line when throwing Bowser into the lava as "So long gay Bowser".

Mood Whiplash: He goes from incredibly happy to incredibly annoyed in the span of a second in the first The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth episode after he gets two keys to give to the Key Beggar and receives nothing in return: Tear: Hey, mister man, I think, I think there's a God up there and he's looking down on you and... : Hey, mister man, I think, I think there's a God up there and he's looking down on you and... he's calling you a greedy son of a bitch that can go burn in hell! In the second episode of The Binding of Isaac: Antibirth, Tear finds himself in a room with bombs behind obstacles and decides to get to them by using a Tower card, destroying a marked rock containing a golden chest in the process. After getting hit and realizing that he still didn't get to the bombs, he gets enraged and says it wasn't worth it...then immediately opens the golden chest and, upon discovering that it contained Cricket's Head, yells that it was worth it.

Motor Mouth: Part of his charm.

Multiple Demographic Appeal: Tear plays a very wide variety of games, including Sandbox games, Shooters, Action-Adventure games, Dungeon Crawlers, Roguelike games, Action-Roleplaying games, etc. His longest lasting series were focused mostly on Nintendo Hard games.

My Greatest Failure: His failure to pick up Brimstone the first time he saw it in the fifth episode of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, because he thought it wasn't very good. His decision caused an uproar in the comments section of that video and he has referenced this blunder a couple of times since then.

Name McAdjective: After taking longer than normal to spot an enemy in the second episode of Salt & Sanctuary: Tear: Suddenly my eyes are working and I'm seeing Strained Man McFuck Shit! In the fourth episode of Dark Souls 3, Tear discovers a bonfire and rests at it despite knowing that he would respawn "Shit McGuiness back there".

Nerd Glasses: According to his twitter face reveal.

The Nicknamer: He had the tendency to do this with the Uruk captains in Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor. Prâk Jaws was nicknamed "Bane" due to his muzzle, "Hoshû the Blue" was named "Sonic the Hedgehog", "Narûg the Poisoner" was named "The Viper", etc.

Nintendo Hard: He enjoys the challenge that these games present and he's actually quite decent at them. He sometimes makes them even harder with self imposed challenges.

No-Dialogue Episode: Tear made two Halo: Reach trolling videos early on during his YouTube career which contained no dialogue whatsoever, only captions.

No Indoor Voice: While fighting Gravelord Nito in Dark Souls : Tear: Oh my God, that's a lot of damage...Nito, my boy, MY LAD... : Oh my God, that's a lot of damage...Nito, my boy, MY LAD... I just said that out loud In the very first episode of Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, while Tear was fighting the Uruk captain Pûgrish Beast Slayer,a spear thrower with a damage bleed effect: Tear: Did you just...you just made me bleed, and I'm not talking about it in a sexual manner either. [after the introduction, he gets hit again] Tear: Can you please stop making me bleed...I need to stop fucking saying that out loud!

No Pronunciation Guide: His inability to pronounce "Reiterpallasch" and "Chikage", two of the weapons from Bloodborne.

No Sense of Direction: Trying to navigate the Depths in Dark Souls.

in Dark Souls. Navigating through the Tomb of the Giants later on in the same game.

Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught: The tactic that he employed during his second series of Minecraft trolling videos by becoming invisible and luring people into traps and then hiding and turning off invisibility to suggest that he was not the one behind those deeds.

Not Even Bothering with an Excuse: In the first episode of Kingdom Come Deliverance, after Henry's father asks him why he threw dung at Deutsch's house, Tear nonchalantly replies with: Tear: Uh, the quest step. It told me to do it so I did it.

N-Word Privileges: Referenced while fighting a group of Nekkers in The Witcher 3 : Tear: It's a Nekker! You're about to be facing the God damn Geralt guillotine...are there more of these Nekkers, aren't there? If I mispronounce that just a little bit, it's the end of my : It's a Nekker! You're about to be facing the God damn Geralt guillotine...are there more of these Nekkers, aren't there? If I mispronounce that just a little bit, it's the end of my YouTube career, just so you know.

OOC Is Serious Business: Mainly during The Binding of Isaac when playing as the Lost or the Keeper and trying to make any sort of progress with them. He even referenced this once, in episode 99 of Afterbirth: Tear: Ladies and gentleman...this is the part where I make no jokes and focus...like fuck.

Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Tear started his YouTube career with a video where he put on a Fake American accent, however it was very obvious that he had problems holding it.

Opening Narration: Most of his videos start with: "Right then ladies and gentleman, welcome (back) to <insert name of the game here>".

Sometimes used as a Running Gag, typically during the first episode of a new series which usually starts with something along the lines of "In a world where X has happened, it is up to Y to solve this".