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Extra Credits (Web Animation)	comment	Extra Credits (Later rebranded to Extra History) is an animated Analysis Channel, formerly published by The Escapist, then PATV and later self-published. The series is hosted by James Portnow (writing), Matt Krol (narration), Dan Jones and Scott Dewitt (art), the latter three's spots formerly belonging to Daniel Floyd, Allison Theus and Elisa "LeeLee" Scaldaferri before they left to work on other projects.The initial version of the channel had the hosts use the series as a means to cover many issues pertinent to the video games industry, in particular what goes into the creation and development of video games, what video games have to do to become recognized as a legitimate artform, and creating intellectual discourse on important issues in the video game community. Though as time passed on, the focus of the channel would steadily shift over to history and mythology as a side project of theirs would prove to be more popular.The series uses a voiceover over top of static (although animation has been incorporated as the show progressed), minimalist illustrations and funny pictures culled from various Internet sources, with emphasis on Visual Puns. This aspect is heavily inspired by another series made famous by The Escapist.The show strove to be both lighthearted and humorous while providing an insightful look into the inner workings of the video game industry, in a topic of the week format, often tackling many of the most prevalent and controversial topics in the gaming industry, such as topics regarding Diversity in games, piracy, video game addiction, and the unreasonable working conditions faced by many game developers. The show also manages to be thoroughly researched on the topics it is covering. This shouldn't be surprising, as James, Daniel, and Allison are all well-immersed in the industry; James is a game designer himself, Daniel was an animator for Pixar Canada (and contributor to OC ReMix), and Allison is a concept artist.Due to a money-related misunderstanding, Extra Credits' run on The Escapist drew to a close. After a brief "hiatus" period on YouTube, they moved to PATV. Proof, if needed, that the two groups are on the same wavelength. Although as of January 2014, PATV has ended their 3rd party hosting, meaning Extra Credits primarily hosts using their YouTube channel once again.Pre-Escapist episodes can be watched here.The entire archive from during and after their days at The Escapist can be watched here. The episode guide can be found here.It doesn't stop there—besides EC, a few more series started on the channel:
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_100b0199	comment	The Wicked Stage: Played Straight with Julie d'Aubigny, who spent years as a singer at the Paris Opera. During her tenure, she dueled and slept with many of her co-stars regardless of gender.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_11a7da4	comment	Superweapon Suspense Subversion: In the opening of episode 3 of the Cuban Missile Crisis, as tensions run high between Russia, Cuba and America, Dan describes a Soviet bomber dropping a bomb 20 times as powerful as the one used on Hiroshima ... it's a standard atmospheric test taking place in the Arctic Circle, and was scheduled before the crisis began.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: There are many in "The First Crusade" mini-series. Baldwin de Boulogne, who used Appeal to Force to take the city of Tarsus from Tancred, despite the fact that Tancred was the one to take the city and the fact that they were supposed to be allies. When the reinforcements Tancred called in from his uncle arrived, Baldwin would not even allow them to stay in Tarsus and made them camp outside the city where hundreds were slaughtered by the Turkish garrison that Tancred had spared. Baldwin reacted by locking himself indoors until his men were no longer clamoring for his blood, and later he abandoned the crusade for Jerusalem and instead took over Edessa. Stephen of Blois, who before the siege of Antioch abandoned the Crusade and began marching back to Europe. On his way back he told the Byzantine reinforcements to abandon the crusade as well, putting those still on the Crusade in danger. For this, Stephen would be mocked and ridiculed for the rest of his days. Hugh of Vermandos, who was sent to ask the Byzantine Emperor for reinforcements. When the Emperor refused to grant them, Hugh abandoned the crusade and returned to Europe. Like Stephen of Blois, he too would be mocked and ridiculed for the rest of his days. "The Punic Wars" has Gaius Terentius Varro, a Roman Commander at the Battle of Cannae. Despite the fact that the defeat (and the subsequent loss of roman lives) was largely his fault, he was more than willing to flee the battlefield instead of staying to die with his men. In "Admiral Yi", the title character is the only Korean military leader mentioned with any integrity or talent. The rest are backstabbing corrupt useless cowards. They try to get Yi arrested and killed on trumped up charges even when he is the only person saving Korea from conquest. Won Kyon is especially craven, considering he ignored a Japanese invasion and then afterwards proceeded to scupper his own fleet rather than actually put up a fight.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_12c6bf73	type	Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_12c6bf73	comment	Horsemen of the Apocalypse: "The Thirty Years War" series showcases the titular event as a humanitarian crisis, with the fallout of the conflict being compared to the Book of Revelation and the Four Horsemen specifically. In order, there are Conquest (the domination of Europe between the Catholics and Protestants, with the Calvinists being seen as heretics by both sides), War (the Escalating War between the various nations involved causing increasing loss of life and property, such as the burning of Magdeburg, as militaries continued to grow out of control), Famine (the strain on the European economies, including debasement of currency and food shortages due to theft, sending the majority of the population into poverty), and Death (poor living conditions and the crowding effects of the amassed militaries leading to mass die-offs from infectious diseases).
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_132d93f1	type	Human Shield
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_132d93f1	comment	The Warsaw Uprising was crushed brutally, broken completely only after Nazis began using women as human shields. The population was relocated from Warsaw, with the luckiest people being thrown aside as refugees, and the unlucky being sent to labor and death-camps.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: Discussed in "In Service to the Brand", the original BioShock had features which fit the world of Rapture, but in Infinite, those features were included because they were in the originals, but otherwise didn't make sense in Columbia.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: invoked Discussed in the episode "Hard Boiled". They explain why Darker and Edgier tends to happen with video game franchises, taking Max Payne 3 which they had just played as an example. Some of the reasons cited are misplaced ideals that Darker and Edgier makes something seem more Serious Business, assumptions about what a young audience wants to buy, and the game industry's egregious tendency to Follow the Leader. Revisited in the episode "Growing With Our Heroes", which in contrast to the earlier "Hard Boiled" episode discusses some of the positive reasons why people keep being drawn more mature reboots of older franchises. A lot of it boils down to nostalgia factor, wanting to keep our "childish" things rather than discard them, but try to make them relevant to us at a different age. The key difference in whether it ends up being good or bad has a lot to do with why such a thing happened: if it is to appreciate something from a new perspective of experience that tends to work out well, but if it to try making it seem more serious in fear of judgment, then it tends to end poorly.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Bailing was this to Cheng I Sao, being a government official seeking to end the destructive piracy. During her sacking of the Pearl River Delta Bailing opposed her by training the village militia, hired British and Portuguese Mercenaries to aid his navy, and almost annihilated Cheng I Sao's fleet in a bay. Ultimately Cheng I Sao outmaneuvered him, and forced Bailing to pardon her entire navy and let them keep their loot.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1645005b	comment	The Haitian Revolution is all about this, with an occasional dose of Evil Versus Evil peppered in for good measure. Pre-Revolution, all four castes (the "big whites," "small whites," "free people of color," and slaves) wanted changes that benefited themselves with little regard for the others, and all castes committed atrocities and betrayals that horrified the world (and, at times, their own allies), and no one walked away from the Revolution morally clean. (Only the slaves had the truly sympathetic motive of just wanting to not be slaves anymore, and even the best of them committed war crimes aplenty.)
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_18150c85	type	Democracy Is Flawed
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_18150c85	comment	Democracy Is Flawed: At the end of the Brothers Gracchi series, Dan states that democracy is not immune to human error.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1843bf38	comment	Visionary Villain: Charles Trevelyan sought to transform what he felt were the natural predisposition of the Irish toward sin and laziness, by using the famine to force the Irish into being more hardworking and self-reliant. He transformed it, for the worse. Robert Moses was a brilliant urban architect and city planner who created a new model of American city. He was also an aggressive and unpleasant racist and classist whose projects went out of their way to displace and inconvenience minorities he openly regarded as "animals."
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1869b4b1	comment	Suhkra in Iran, accused Kavadh of being this after being dismissed from court. Suhkra talked openly about how Kavadh wouldn't have a throne if it weren't for him. In Kavadh's defense, Suhkra had been undermining the shah's authority and acting in the shah's name without permission. And while Suhkra was a helping factor in securing the throne, Kavadh could have taken it with the Hephthalite army he had just marched into Iran with. So Suhkra is an Unreliable Narrator from the beginning.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_18ce8f1d	comment	The SS Divisions in The Battle of Kursk, who "fought with the madness and ferocity that had come to characterize these war-criminals and butchers". One specific example within The SS was 2nd Lieutenant Joachim Kruger, who charged a Soviet tank by himself despite being twice wounded. At one point a bullet ignited a smoke grenade in his pocket, and Kruger simply took his now-burning pants off and charged nude.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_19851b86	comment	The series on Ibn Battuta depicts Muhammad bin Tughluq, the sultan of Delhi during his travels, as outright psychopathic. By Battuta's own account, Tughluq's personality was unpredictable and he had an insanely flippant disregard for those he remotely disliked, torturing and/or executing them in bizarre ways. As much as he was showered with praise, power, and riches for his work at first sight, Battuta acknowledged it was excessive and realized he had to escape from Delhi as he feared for his life.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: This happens to Bismarck when he captures Napoleon III during the Franco-Prussian War.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_19d1c1ae	type	Always Someone Better
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_19d1c1ae	comment	Always Someone Better: Jonathan Wild carefully managed his public face, and he was damn good at it. However, it was all a faÃ§ade. Jack Sheppard, on the other hand, didn't need a faÃ§ade. He was popular enough without it.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_19fc58a2	type	A Lighter Shade of Black
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_19fc58a2	comment	A Lighter Shade of Black: While Temujin's actions are often violent and barbaric, he nonetheless comes across as more-upright than his competition, who are no less ruthless, but are also treacherous and without his redeeming qualities or vision. Additionally, while Temujin's changes to Mongolian society often benefit him personally, he goes out of his way to protect and lift up those crushed by the system that left him behind as a child.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1a68856b	type	Cats Hate Water
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1a68856b	comment	Cats Hate Water: During their series on Majapahit, a dog made out of water is used as a metaphor for the Indonesians' maritime expertise; said dog appears at the end of one episode in the background, prompting Zoey to enter a hilarious chase scene around Matt's legs.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Red and Blue make a cameo on December 3, 2018 episode, "Izanami and Izanagi" to promote a crossover for their Jorogumi video.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1b6d7d29	type	The Creon
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1b6d7d29	comment	The Creon: Odenathus, the governor of Palmyra who helped to repel an invasion of the Roman empire by the Sassanians. Even though he probably controlled more people and territory than any other Roman noble at the height of his power, was bestowed the ceremonial title "King of Kings" and could conceivably have crowned himself emperor, he considered himself to be just another citizen of the empire and fought solely on behalf of the legitimate emperor and his heir.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: When talking about Kavadh becoming a Mazdakite a kite with Mazdak's face on it is shown. Any time Dan talks about Yi "drilling his men" in "Admiral Yi", it's depicted as him holding a power drill against a soldier's head. During the April Fool's video about "Ra Ra Rasputin", Zoey and Empress Alexandra ride bales of hay while Matt narrates "hey, hey, hey..."
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1c0718c5	type	The Problem with Licensed Games
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1c0718c5	comment	The Problem with Licensed Games: Discussed in In-Universe for the "Shovelware" video which shows how this trope exploits consumers and the industry from an economical standpoint.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1c263b9f	type	The Purge
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1c263b9f	comment	The Roman Senate unleash The Purge on Tiberius Gracchus and his supporters, killing and executing hundreds of them, beating Tiberius to death with wood and stone, and then dumping their bodies into the Tiber. Made worse by the fact Tiberius Gracchus wasn't really asking for a crown as he was accused of doing (he was pointing to his head to warn his supporters that someone wanted to kill him), and that the Senators who killed him were the same type of aristocrats who cheated Roman veterans out of their lands.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Diplomacy usually breaks down in the series because both sides misread other peoples' opinions or misjudge each others' intentions, as well as due to failures to hand down orders properly through the chain of command. This is the case in both the "Seminal Tragedy" (World War I) and the Opium Wars, and nearly ends the world in nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: When Simon Bolivar leads five hundred revolutionaries to Venezuela to liberate the colony, he has absolutely no mercy for the Spanish military and executes most Spanish prisoners of war he comes across. Meanwhile the Spanish military and their allies, the Legion of Hell, are massacring Venezuelan civilians with utter brutality. Khosrau chose to humiliate Justinian in his invasion, primarily because the Romans had snubbed him first (according to him), first and foremost with proposing to adopt Khosrau not as a Roman, but as a barbarian, which was downright insulting. Secondly, Justinian had refused to make peace with Khosrau when he was the new king due to the succession crisis in Iran, and wanted to make life very difficult for Khosrau and sow as much chaos as he could into Iran. Consequently, Khosrau was eager and hungry for revenge.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: There are in several of the stories where things suddenly take a turn for the worse through nobody's fault. In the Justinian and Theodora storyline, a Plague from Egypt rips across The Mediterranean and cripples The Roman Empire. This pretty much ensures that Justinian's dream of a Restored Roman Empire will never come to fruition. In the Seminal Tragedy storyline, near the end, two diplomats are working out an agreement that will minimize the effects of WWI and prevent it from becoming more than a regional conflict ... then one of the diplomats drops dead. For no reason whatsoever. Moments before he could sign the document that would prevent WWI. In the Mary Seacole storyline, her business burns to the ground AND her husband dies on the same day. Not only are these unrelated, but they also happen out of nowhere.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: Each video is framed as Matt telling two people at a campfire one of the myths.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1e584efa	comment	The Haitian slaves, not very keen about the system that mutilated and disfigured their bodies while literally working them to death, but also not keen on being boiled to death in sugar vats, eaten alive by mosquitos, blown to bits by being tied to lit kegs of gunpowder, or other barbaric punishments for open revolt engaged in passive resistance by pretending not to understand orders, feigning illness, and generally underperforming. This had the useful side effect of convincing everyone else that they were stupid and lazy... and causing them to make the all-too-literally fatal mistake of underestimating their ability and will to resist.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1f0c1d33	type	Couldn't Find a Pen
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1f0c1d33	comment	Couldn't Find a Pen: When Pizarro, the conqueror of the Inca Empire, is betrayed by his own men and assassinated, it is said his last act was to draw a cross on the ground in his own spilled blood.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1f6ec528	type	Would Not Shoot a Civilian
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1f6ec528	comment	Would Not Shoot a Civilian: Enforced with Kamehameha the Great and his Law of the Splintered Paddle. He outright stated that every man, woman, and child should be safe to sleep on the side of the road and that anyone who attacked them would be executed.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_203141e3	type	Cute and Psycho
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_203141e3	comment	Cute and Psycho: Allison, as she grows more crazed looking as each episode wears on. Lampshaded repeatedly: The guest artist Erin too.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_20d965e	type	Gentleman Thief
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_20d965e	comment	The "Policing London" examples includes examples of this. Jonathan Wilde, Thieftaker-General, was secretly the head of a giant criminal of thieves. He got his throat cut open by a thief from a rival gang after he refused the man's plea-bargain, and his empire was torn apart by his private war with Jack Sheppard, a charming Gentleman Thief who exposes what he is to the public. The third episode in this series talks about Constables and Deputies in London. A large number of these were either outright corrupt or too lazy to actually do their jobs, and even those who were honest were often elderly or had to support themselves with other careers as well.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Dan sometimes overlooks something he passes right by. He encourages commentators to let him know he passed something interesting after the fact so he can come back and check it out, but prefers if people avoid spoilers. A particularly strong example is in the Tomb of the Giants, throughout which Dan repeatedly complained that he wished he had some kind of light source. That he did not make the connection to the Skull Lantern he found a few hours earlier in the Catacombs is understandable, that he picked up another Skull Lantern in the Tomb and missed the hint there is less so. Lampshaded by Dan himself in the comments after he uploaded it.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: Emperor Justinian may have created a legal code considered so just that it's still used today, but don't expect him to be lenient if you try to remove him from his throne.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_21f60711	type	Good Is Not Soft
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_21f60711	comment	Good Is Not Soft: Archbishop John Hughes is as genial as you'd expect a priest to be. However, he makes it clear he will burn New York to the ground if his flock continue to be victimized.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_22fbf816	type	Flat Joy
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_22fbf816	comment	Flat Joy: What Daniel does when revealing that they're going to be talking about Call of Juarez: The Cartel. "Ta-daaa."
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_243cbd0d	comment	Dope Slap: invoked In "Easy Games", James delivers one to a hardcore gamer who says that real gamers work for their fun.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_246c5b47	type	Ascended Fanboy
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_246c5b47	comment	Ascended Fanboy: Matt mentions that he's been a huge fan of the show since the Escapist days when he makes his debut.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: Discussed in the Amnesia episode (see Three Act Structure below), and in the Starting Off Right episode.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: The Brothers Gracchi episode ends up describing the Roman Republic as a "democracy" basing itself on the modern equation of a Republic (a Representative Elected Government) with a Democracy ("government by direct vote"). The view of the Romans and most philosophers until The Enlightenment was that Democracy was mob rule and unworkable and utopian and the Roman Republic is precisely an elite oligarchy, who would certainly take offense to hear their institutions being described as a "democracy". James outright states that if a British Flag is shown in any of their episodes, then it is probably the wrong flag for that era. Simon Bolivar seeing Paris for the first time in 1803. Paris is shown with The Eiffel Tower, which was only completed in 1889. This was intentionally done by the creators with adding the word "l'anachronisme".
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_25d95a37	type	Principles Zealot
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_25d95a37	comment	Principles Zealot: The ultimate dark version came on the eve of the Haitian revolution. After the French assembly voted to grant full franchise and rights to the free people of color on Saint-Domingue, the big and little whites joined forces to rise in rebellion, choosing to break away from their mother country rather than make the smallest concession or compromise on the issue of white supremacy. The resulting chaos and civil war pave the way for the ultimate victory of their enslaved people, and the only successful slave uprising in human history.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The first official episode of "Extra Credits", "Bad Writing - Why Most Games Tell Bad Stories" reuses a joke from the first ever "Extra Credits" episode, "Video Games and Storytelling":
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2727c89a	type	Pride Before a Fall
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2727c89a	comment	Similarly, the Latin American revolutionaries in the SimÃ³n BolÃvar series. The same factionalism which kept the colonists from overturning Spanish imperial rule before the Peninsular War undermined their attempts to unite against the restored crown of Spain, and would repeatedly give the Spanish openings to try to retake their South and Central American possessions. Later, after Spain was finally ejected for good, BolÃvar's attempts to unit the former colonies into a Republic of Gran Panama ran aground on factionalism, provincialism, and BolÃvar's own intransigence towards the governments he'd help establish.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: In episode four of The First Opium War mini-series, Charles Elliot's ship was smashed against a rock. He survived, but had to swim several miles to shore to avoid being imprisoned and perhaps killed by a nearby Chinese ship. He reached the shore, was greeted by British soldiers... and promptly told that he had been fired months ago.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2737c505	comment	Empress Theodora convinces her husband Emperor Justinian to execute a pretender to the throne. The reason this is disproportionate is that the pretender not only DIDN'T want to be Emperor, but actually hid under his bed and had to be pried away from it by the mob hoping to crown him. This also counts as Shoot the Dog, as Theadora's reasoning was that there would never be peace so long as there was another pretender.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Sultan Suleiman of the Ottoman Empire. First he inherited because his father executed his two brothers, and despite vowing not to repeat such mistakes he still executed two of his sons and his grandson.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_28b2f93a	type	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_28b2f93a	comment	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Drawings of slavery are used in "The Brothers Gracchi" when discussing slavery's economic aspect on Rome. Said drawings show slaves covered in dirt and utterly miserable. One scene shows two slaves performing backbreaking labor while a Roman Aristocrat sits back and watches them. "Catherine the Great" goes into detail about the horrors of Imperial Russian serfdom, which for all intents and purposes might as well be slavery. Addressed directly in their series on the Haitian Revolution, and, as if to emphasize that it's going to be dark, the background of the first episode's thumbnail is pitch-black, with a shackle in the foreground.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_294ed981	comment	Simon Bolivar seeing Paris for the first time in 1803. Paris is shown with The Eiffel Tower, which was only completed in 1889. This was intentionally done by the creators with adding the word "l'anachronisme".
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_299df4d0	type	Gender and Sexuality Tropes
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_299df4d0	comment	Gender and Sexuality Tropes: Discussed in a few episodes. "Diversity" hints at the several episodes to come. "Sex in Games" introduces the topic, exploring why developers might wish to include sexuality as part of theme or characterization, citing games like ICO as an exploration of intimacy even without sexuality. "Sexual Diversity" uses Persona 4 as a case-study in how including some diversity of sexual orientations can greatly add to characterization in games. "True Female Characters" discusses how to write female characters. It also cements a theme through these episodes that writing a character like this requires thinking about what expectations that character's society places on them, and what aspects of those expectations they choose to embrace and what they choose to reject, saying that someone who rejects every social expectation placed on them is just as stereotypical as someone who embraces every expectation.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: While the punny title Extra Credits is still appropriate for the series, the word Extra has become a form of branding used for many of the later series. It's a superfluous call-back to the original series. The Credits part of the title also became this once Extra History became the most popular series on there and the channel's shift away from video game content in favor of general education content.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2bf1fd90	type	Proud Merchant Race
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2bf1fd90	comment	Proud Merchant Race: Discussed in the series on the empire of Majapahit, which projected power as much with its control over trade through the Strait of Malacca as through maritime force of arms.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: How Genghis Khan is interpreted, someone who grew up surrounded by brutality, resolved to change the world to be free of it, and in the process became one of the bloodiest-handed conquerors in human history.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2c27353f	type	Was It Really Worth It?
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2c27353f	comment	The corrupt oligarchy of the Roman Senate crushes the Gracchi and brutally kills them and their followers. Of course in less than a century later, the Republic would fall because they rejected their reforms, so it's a question of Was It Really Worth It?. For those who support the Populares, this can count as a case of Hope Springs Eternal.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2c3ec06e	type	Better as Friends
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2c3ec06e	comment	Better as Friends: Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin. Their romantic relationship didn't work since he could not get over their Unequal Pairing or his jealous fear that she might leave him for someone else. However, severing romantic ties just strengthened their bond. They became Platonic Life-Partners who cared deeply for and worked closely with each other for the rest of his life, and he even became her wingman!
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: The SS Divisions in The Battle of Kursk, who "fought with the madness and ferocity that had come to characterize these war-criminals and butchers". One specific example within The SS was 2nd Lieutenant Joachim Kruger, who charged a Soviet tank by himself despite being twice wounded. At one point a bullet ignited a smoke grenade in his pocket, and Kruger simply took his now-burning pants off and charged nude. Most of the Crusaders in The First Crusade. They massacre cities, and at one point even commit cannibalism. The Legion of Hell in Simon Bolivar. They come by their name honestly, murdering civilians indiscriminately, raping women, and torturing children to death.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2d768e2d	type	Succession Crisis
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2d768e2d	comment	The Ottoman court's approach to succession, where upon taking the throne, the crown prince would murder his brother, nephews and in-laws is something that strikes audiences as especially cruel and bloody. The Lies section notes that this was the historical practise of Ottoman succession, and he notes that this kind of inter-family purge was meant to prevent the kind of Succession Crisis based Civil War of the kind in Western Europe, and to keep the family dispute from spilling on to the people.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2da9567	type	Stealth-Based Game
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2da9567	comment	Stealth-Based Game: Discussed in "Like a Ninja", which points out the differences between stealth-based games and action-oriented games, and why stealth games are either really good or really bad. They also cover why it's hard to put Stealth-Based Missions in action games, because the core feeling of stealth is overcoming obstacles despite being underpowered and plays out more like a puzzle, while action games tend towards overpowering your enemies through combat.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: The corrupt oligarchy of the Roman Senate crushes the Gracchi and brutally kills them and their followers. Of course in less than a century later, the Republic would fall because they rejected their reforms, so it's a question of Was It Really Worth It?. For those who support the Populares, this can count as a case of Hope Springs Eternal. Ned Kelly gets captured, sentenced to death, denied pardon despite the widespread petitions and protests, and is hanged. Such is life. During the Warsaw Uprising, the Polish Rebellion fights valiantly against seemingly hopeless odds, without food, organization or even anti-air cannons to protect against bombers. The rebellion breaks when the Nazis begin hauling out civilian women and elderly in front of rows of tanks to be used as Human Shields. After the Polish resistance surrendered, Warsaw was evacuated, with the lucky civilians being released as refugees, and the less fortunate being sent to the Death Camps. The city was razed, leaving a mere 15% of the infrastructure intact. Although, the Nazi's victory was short lived and Warsaw was eventually rebuilt.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Downplayed with Julie d'Aubigny. The narrator presents her as a Lovable Rogue, but she was still prone to fist-fights and duels throughout her life and on one occasion even committed arson.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2f6b63aa	type	Land of One City
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2f6b63aa	comment	Land of One City: Two examples. Urbino; an Italian city-state whose ruler Federico da Montefeltro turned it into a cultural and intellectual wonderland. When he died, the Borgias invaded the city and snuffed out its influence. Palmyra; an ancient eastern city-state which retained independence from the Roman Empire, saved it from Persian Invasion, and helped prolong its life by centuries. Eventually the city was fully absorbed after Odenathus died and his daughter tried to take on the Roman Empire. Sadly, the ruins of Palmyra and all of its architectural value is being destroyed by ISIS.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: When Grigory Potemkin was Catherine the Great's lover, the fact that she had all the power in their relationship made him afraid that she would break up with him. This fear put such a strain on their relationship that she decided it would be best for both of them if they saw other people.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_316e9da2	type	Memetic Mutation
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_316e9da2	comment	invoked The "PLAY ALL THE THINGS" pictures are a shout out to Hyperbole and a Half.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: While Cheng I Sao was a ruthless pirate queen, her codified laws for her massive pirate alliance specified the death penalty for two actions: holding out on one's brother pirates after securing a score and raping captives.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_31d592a	type	Crossover Cameo
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_31d592a	comment	Crossover Cameo: "The Mass-Murdering Mongoose", which is sponsored by Rovio Entertainment, has Red, Chuck, and Bomb make several cameo appearances through-out the episode, which is about how the introduction of mongooses to Hawaii drove many native bird species to extinction.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_32768814	type	Kick the Son of a Bitch
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_32768814	comment	Kick The Son Of A Bitch: In the Lies episode of The Opium Wars, James states that at the time of the Opium Wars there were many people in the West who considered it to be this trope. These days the British war for the right to sell drugs has somewhat less sympathy. The defeat of Count Emicho's Band at the Siege of Mosin (during which Count Emicho's Crusaders were slaughtered almost to a man) certainly counts as this trope considering they had just finished off massacring the Jews in The Holy Roman Empire.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3496b29a	type	Heart Is an Awesome Power
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3496b29a	comment	Heart Is an Awesome Power: It is speculated that while Rasputin probably didn't have divine healing powers, his praying may have had an important psychological benefit for Alexei: simply by calming both the tsarevich and his nervous mother down with soothing messages of faith, Rasputin made the boy's bleeding far less severe.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: In order to peacefully resolve the First Opium War, the Chinese official Qisan and the British official Charles Elliot work out a reasonable deal (one which the series claims is the best China could have hoped for). In return for doing what they were told to ... Charles Elliot was fired by Lord Pamerston and Qison was given a suspended death sentence by the Chinese Emperor (though he didn't go through with it, the sentence was still too harsh). Also from the First Opium War, the British officers burned entire villages to the ground and used Chinese prisoners of war as target practice. The Ostrogoth massacre of Mediolanum in which they kill most of the city and enslave the survivors, refusing to spare them even when the garrison asked them to. Every time in the First Crusade that crusaders Rape, Pillage, and Burn en-route to Jerusalem, and finally when they sack Jerusalem itself. Likewise every time the Japanese invaders murdered civilians in Korea. The Viking raid on Lindisfarne, in which the Vikings destroyed sacred religious items, murdered numerous unarmed and innocent peasants and clergymen, and enslaving the survivors. The Roman Senate unleash The Purge on Tiberius Gracchus and his supporters, killing and executing hundreds of them, beating Tiberius to death with wood and stone, and then dumping their bodies into the Tiber. Made worse by the fact Tiberius Gracchus wasn't really asking for a crown as he was accused of doing (he was pointing to his head to warn his supporters that someone wanted to kill him), and that the Senators who killed him were the same type of aristocrats who cheated Roman veterans out of their lands. Cheng I Sao was "the most ferocious pirate China had ever known", and so is shown to do some terrible things. During her invasion of the Pearl River Delta, her Pirate Confederation sacked and extorted every village and town from Macau to Canton. The Black Flag Fleet killed 10,000 people in a single expedition. Consciously averted at the start of the Haitian Revolution, as revolting slaves would spare plantation owners known for being kind to slaves. However, by the end of the Revolution everyone's hands were bloody. Special mention goes to the final Revolutionary leader, who ordered all whites to be massacred. (Something even most of his men resisted carrying out unless he was physically there to enforce it.)
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_35a24c16	type	Geo Effects
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_35a24c16	comment	Geo Effects: Scipio Africanus successfully besieges the city of Carthago Nova by having 500 men wait near a lagoon to the north of the city while the rest of his army attacks the west gate. When the weather drains the lagoon, his men are able to cross and attack the one part of the walls the Carthaginians didn't station defenders at. Admiral Yi chooses Myeongnyang for one of his naval battles against the Japanese because its currents have a peculiar property of changing direction every few hours. This confuses the Japanese and causes several of their ships to crash into one another when they try to retreat.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: During the #3 play for Bound, Dan says that the artist/animator in him believes strongly in the rule of, "I don't care, it's cool."
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: The tone of the series is extremely idealistic: it views the recognition of video games as art as inevitable, treats virtually all developments in the industry as furthering this cause, and views most obstacles in the way as easily overcome.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_391d6577	type	Sequel Escalation
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_391d6577	comment	Sequel Escalation: Discussed in "Spectacle Creep", pointing out how making games "bigger and better" eventually leads to games becoming absurd, and even losing sight of what made their predecessors so successful. This leads to a Continuity Reboot in order to get a franchise back to a more sane level, before spectacle creep sends it back into absurdity.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_392ccbc9	type	Close-Range Combatant
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_392ccbc9	comment	Close-Range Combatant: A noted weakness of the Japanese navy in "Admiral Yi"; because the Japanese army specialise in land-based siege warfare, their navy consists mostly of troop transports that rely on arquebus fire and boarding during combat, and are vulnerable to the superior long-range cannons of the Korean navy.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_396e1c2a	comment	Ned Kelly's mother gets sentenced to hard labor for threatening a cop with a shovel, and the man himself ends up losing his friends before being captured and hauled to a noose, resignedly saying, "Such is life."
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: invoked Discussed in the "How to Play Like a Designer, Part 2" episode in which they explain that "First Order Optimal Strategies" (which require little player effort but give good results such as the "noob tube" or "hundred hand slap") are necessary to allow new players to have a competitive edge and allow them to gain enough confidence and experience to start using more difficult but ultimately even more effective strategies necessary for more difficult levels or matches. He cautions though that any such thing needs to be carefully developed and thought through, as it can create unintentional Game Breakers which might flatten an otherwise expertly plotted difficulty curve.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3a1c2171	comment	Next came Gajah Mada. He helped save Jayanagara from an uprising by manipulating the capitol city's population to support him against the rebels, and immediately afterwards executing any civilians who celebrated at a rumor that Jayanagara died (a rumor Gajah Mada started to wipe out the rule). Then when Jayanagara was killed by his surgeon, Gajah Mada installed as his sucessor one of Jayanagara's relatives who appointed him Prime Minister. Using this power Gajah Mada ruled as The Man Behind the Man for thirty years and united all of Indonesian Islands. Not to mention the theory that he arranged and covered up Jayangara's death. Gajah Mada takes after Raden Wijaya. After escaping the Kediri's onslaught of his family, he took shelter in a remote village while building his own small army. Then he sent a message to the invading Mongol that he wanted to play along with their schemes of getting rid of the current ruler of Java (Kediri) and when he's back in throne, he promised he'll be subservient to the Mongol. He joined forces with Mongol to reclaim his capital, but left the Mongols do the most fighting. Once he reclaimed the throne, Raden Wijaya led the Mongol to his village saying that the tribute they sought is there... actually leading them to an ambush by the majority of the army he kept in secret. In one fell swoop, Raden Wijaya not only reclaimed his throne, but also drove away the Mongol while establishing his own independent Empire.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3a29c5c8	type	Villainous Legacy
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3a29c5c8	comment	Villainous Legacy: Robert Moses's racist method of developing urban infrastructure by displacing minority neighborhoods was copied by cities all across America.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: The 21 Sikh officers manning the communication post of Saragarhi. When the Afghan tribes rebelled against British Rule, these officers fight them off for as long as possible. Every single one of them is killed, but they take down hundreds of rebels with them and their sacrifice allows Fort Gulistan and Fort Lockhart to fortify themselves and suppress the rebellion.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3b39c254	type	Dystopia
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3b39c254	comment	Dystopia: A video series goes through the origins of the dystopian novel, discussing where the genre came from and how we can interpret it today.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3bfd638c	type	Warts and All
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3bfd638c	comment	Warts and All: Their even-handed video on John W. Campbell. On the one hand, a talented writer and editor who almost single-handedly dragged the genre into the Golden Age, with his exacting standards for science and writing quality and his desire to make it into something meaningful beyond pulpy escapism or a dry vehicle to educate, who pushed forward the careers of many of the science fiction's greatest early masters. On the other hand, a narrow-minded reactionary, authoritarian bigot, frequently enthralled by pseudoscience, who, by using his influence to limit what could and could not be published, based on his personal vision and private bugbears, put arbitrary limits on what science fiction was or could be that the next generation of authors would need to outgrow.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3cd3a0f1	type	Femme Fatalons
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3cd3a0f1	comment	Femme Fatalons: Allison sometimes draws herself with some pretty nasty claws for the sake of a visual cue.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: The First Opium War. Britain had more advanced ships, a stronger military, and more disciplined soldiers. Meanwhile the Chinese military was left in shambles due to mismanagement, inadequate military equipment, and poor discipline, all exacerbated by opium addiction of their soldiers, which they were fighting to stamp out. Most of Admiral Yi's battles have him crushing Japanese fleet after Japanese fleet with minimal losses. "Saipan: Suicide Island" also discusses the concurrent naval battle. Officially, it's referred to as the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Due to Japan suffering incredibly heavy losses, including hundreds of experienced pilots and three fleet carriers, it's colloquially referred to as the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. The Battle of Denmark Straight in "Hunt for the Bismarck" ended with HMS Hood sunk and Prince of Wales severely damaged and forced to retreat, while Prinz Eugen was unharmed and Bismarck was still functional. Bismarck was on the receiving end of this during his final battle several days later, failing to inflict any notable damage on the British ships attacking him.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: In his personal YouTube channel where he posted his game design presentations before starting Extra Credits, Daniel (or rather his animated self, Cartoon!Daniel) used to express slightly more often (most likely jokingly intended) mean behavior than in during Extra Credits, such as stealing his guest's or James's notes to use them as a script and giving James's email address to the audience despite Cartoon!James jumping onto Cartoon!Daniel's desk and holding a "NO!" sign. In-universe, he didn't escape the consequences, often resulting him to be chased by his target during closing credits. It appears that this kind of behavior was solely intended for comedy. Nevertheless, nowadays Cartoon!Daniel rarely pokes fun of anyone (at least not the staff or guests) and is more often himself a target of jokes.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3e463af8	type	Prison Escape Artist
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3e463af8	comment	Prison Escape Artist: Shah Kavadh I. "Alas, though the Fortress of Oblivion continued to have a very very cool name, it also continued to be very very bad at containing Kavadhs." Jack Sheppard, an early 18th century London thief, became famous for this after breaking out of increasingly secure prisons and making London authorities look like chumps. (And London sentiment at the time was very anti-authority after the English government's South Sea Bubble screwed them over.)
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3e853a3	type	Race Tropes
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3e853a3	comment	Race Tropes: Touched upon in the episode "Race in Games". In particular, they look at how the context of race-relations can inform the player about a character, using L.A. Noire as an example. They elected to go for that perspective rather than a "how to write racial minorities" bent because they were concerned that would only lead to stereotypes. They went on to say that many of their suggestions about how to handle Gender and Sexuality Tropes apply to Race Tropes as well.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: The series on Justinian gives his reign and overall campaign to reconquer and restore The Roman Empire a Historical Hero Upgrade. In truth, these conquests were devastating to Italy, and left Rome a shell of its former self and was the principal reason for its decay and depopulation until The Renaissance. The creators admit that they 'like' Justinian and they do insist that he was a dreamer and too overly ambitious to properly sustain his goals but this does mean that the show sentimentalizes his conquest of Italy and demonizes the Ostragoths (whose opinions, views, and side of the story is left untold). A strange in-universe case for Joan of Arc. While she was a selfless hero, Matthew explains she was also primarily interested in settling a French civil war, and mostly fought Bergundian French soldiers. However, 18 years after her death Burgundians' relations with England soured, power consolidated under King Charles VII of France, and the French people retroactively cast her as a universal French hero who only fought the English. To this day, most people don't know that Joan's goal was to resolve a French civil war (and she mostly fought French soldiers), not just to drive out the English. Suleiman the Magnificent in his Extra History series was portrayed with a sympathetic light, largely thanks to his nature as the POV character of the series. Many viewers, however, pointed out that Suleiman's troubles were largely brought about by his Hair-Trigger Temper, and that murdering his best friend, two of his sons, (thus leaving the Ottoman Empire in the hands of Selim II), and unintentionally sowing the seeds for his empire's decline made him too unlikeable a protagonist. (It could be argued that since Suleimanâ€™s wife was the one who convinced her husband to commit those actions as she hated Ibrahim Pasha and wanted her son, Selim II, to be Sultan and saw the others as rivals, she is just as much to blame as her husband, but James is openly skeptical of the sources in question, drawing another parallel between her and the similarly-hated and blamed Theodosia.)
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: Princess Sophie succeeds in submerging herself into Russian culture. She learnt the language, converted from Lutheranism to Russian Orthodoxy and adopted a new Russian Orthodox name Ekaterina (or Catherine in English) and eventually is so embraced that she becomes Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias, giving a speech that promised to protect the Russian people from foreign influence, with the irony that she was German and Lutheran at birth, entirely lost on her and her audience. Incidentally, her husband Peter's downfall happened because he's a Category Traitor, a Russian Prince who is perceived as a Sell-Out who scorns Russian culture in favor of Germany.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Mentioned by name in the Amnesia episode, complete with a Captain America like drawing.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: Charles VII of France to Joan of Arc. After she personally leads his armies to victory against his Burgundian enemies and restores his crown as King of France, he tries to have her Kicked Upstairs by honorably discharging her with a knighthood, then has her Reassigned to Antarctica when she won't retire quietly, then after she's captured by the English he doesn't even bother trying to get her back, since he's already replaced her with a new spiritual adviser (a peasant boy with the stigmata), and barely seems to react after she's tried as a heretic and burned at the stake. Suhkra in Iran, accused Kavadh of being this after being dismissed from court. Suhkra talked openly about how Kavadh wouldn't have a throne if it weren't for him. In Kavadh's defense, Suhkra had been undermining the shah's authority and acting in the shah's name without permission. And while Suhkra was a helping factor in securing the throne, Kavadh could have taken it with the Hephthalite army he had just marched into Iran with. So Suhkra is an Unreliable Narrator from the beginning.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_40bb59d0	comment	In Genghis Khan #4, Temujin is given a note from Ong Khan that reads "Invite to: not a trap".
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: This is how the Admiral Yi mini-series ended. The Japanese were driven entirely out of Korea and almost all of the Japanese War-Criminals were killed by Admiral Yi while attempting to retreat, but Admiral Yi died in the last naval battle of the war and would not get to enjoy the victory he had given so much to achieve. Also how the Bolivar Series ends. Simon Bolivar dies a slow lingering death of the same illness that killed his parents, he lost almost all of his friends, he watched his hope for a united South America completely fall apart, and he was not even allowed to retire. But his life was not for nothing; the show ended with the mention that he is "El Libertador", reminding us that for all his failures at government building Simon Bolivar still ended Spanish Rule in South America.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_42c8293a	type	Sibling Team
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_42c8293a	comment	Sibling Team: Henry and John Fielding, who worked together to build London's first police force.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Deconstructed by the Japanese military in both the Japanese Militarism and Road to Pearl Harbor. Lower ranked officers refusing to obey what they see as cowardly orders restraining Japanese potential is what repeatedly drags Japan into wars they can't win, and right-wing assassins regularly drag the government along by murdering anyone they see as insufficiently nationalistic. But framing it as this trope protects them from well-deserved punishment.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_44989f6f	comment	How the Seminal Tragedy of World War I is presented. They make it a point to note that as damaging as Princip's assassination of the Archduke was, it was neither the key action that triggered the war, nor did it make the events that happened inevitable. He noted that the other powers "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot had there not been so much Poor Communication Kills, had there been better timing when messages were sent and delivered, and had anyone made a real effort to avoid war.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Federico da Montefeltro - the protagonist of the Urbino episode - once demanded that a merchant in his city sue HIM after he forgot to pay the merchant for the products. Federico even wrote the writ against himself personally.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_453871ec	type	What Could Have Been
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_453871ec	comment	What Could Have Been: When describing the events leading to Archduke Ferdinand's assassination, Daniel discusses this In-Universe. He explains that if the Archduke visited Serbia on a day that wasn't a rallying point for Serbian Nationalists then the visit would likely have gone down as a footnote in the story of a long and successful Austrio-Hungarian Emperor's rule. This claim even includes a drawing of a textbook from an alternate universe (in which Ferdinand wasn't assassinated), detailing what a great ruler he would have been.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_45a60d75	type	Character Derailment
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_45a60d75	comment	Character Derailment: invoked They argue that this happened to Kratos in the God of War sequels, which was only exacerbated by Flanderization. invoked They also argue that this is basically what happened to Samus with Metroid: Other M, stating that Samus already had a workable characterization that emerged from the mechanics and backstory of the previous games, and that suddenly ramming a new characterization down the player's throat made Samus worse for it rather than better.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: Scipio Africanus and his brother are revealed to have become this in their later careers, with Tiberius Gracchus the Elder originating as one of their clients but eventually becoming a Noble Top Enforcer.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: FranÃ§ois Capois, also known as Capois the Death, was leading a charge when his horse was blown apart by a cannonball at the Battle of VertiÃ¨res, then his hat shot off his head when he stood up. Undaunted, he continued to lead the charge. The entire French army cheered and applauded his bravery, and even General Rochambeau, a racist who'd imported man-eating dogs to put down the insurrection, had a horseman ride out to the enemy lines to complement him.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4782e60f	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: After Khosrau Anushirawan conquered Antioch he took the entire population as prisoners, and instead of enslaving or executing them he built an exact copy of Antioch in his own Empire for them to live in. He didn't do this out because he cared about the well-being of the civilians - he did not, and in fact massacred civilians several times before - but because their labor would make his own Empire prosperous and would humiliate Emperor Justinian.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_479d4e5a	comment	Also implied to be the cause for the Battle of Blood River; in the mini-series on the Zulus, they murder Boer men who came to negotiate peacefully and then after they attacked the undefended wagon train where those men's families were. The next Boer wagon train to come that way was armed to the teeth and mad as hell ...
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger for "Our Oscars":
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: In "Evil Races are Bad Design", Matt argues that this trope presents problems not only because of the unfortunate implications, but also because it just ruins morality in the game overall. If all orcs are inherently evil and all elves are inherently good, how can they be either if they didn't have a choice? Are NPCs held to different standards to players? What if a player wants to sympathize with these evil races?
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_49d56e94	type	Jock Dad, Nerd Son
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_49d56e94	comment	Jock Dad, Nerd Son: While Frederick William loved the military and was prone to hypermasculine posturing, his son Fritz loved music and high culture. This becomes Played for Drama, as the elder Frederick was prone to physically and verbally abusing his son over his "unmanly" habits.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4af26a14	type	Explaining Your Power to the Enemy
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4af26a14	comment	Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: The Warlock in "Warlocks and Warriors" tells the soldier that the only way to kill him would be to burn his body on a pyre of aspen logs, then kill all the vermin that burst from his body.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4c8a0849	type	Mirror Universe
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4c8a0849	comment	Mirror Universe: It's been argued that the show as a whole is a Sugar Bowl take on Zero Punctuation, respectively representing the polar ends of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism in respect to how they view the game industry.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Tancred of Hauteville in the First Crusade. During the Sack of Jerusalem, he went out of his way to try to save civilians and even gave his banner to a group that was taking shelter in a Mosque in the hopes that others would see it and spare them. Despite having Tancred's banner, the civilians in the mosque were slaughtered by the Crusaders anyway. In fact, he's the only Crusader commander for whom capturing a city doesn't result in a violent massacre. Many bishops, priests, and monks also gave sanctuary to Jews during the Rhineland massacre... and many were massacred alongside the people they tried to defend.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line:invoked The South Sea Bubble mini-series ends with The Narrator dropping the anvil on the dangers of letting political power and big money "oversee" each other in the "interest" of common people, and finishes with this:
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Bartolome de las Casas, a Spanish soldier, conquistador and bishop who spent the early years of his adult life committing atrocities in the Caribbean and profiting from the Encomienda system of enslaving indigenous peoples and stealing their land. He later had a My God, What Have I Done? moment after reading a passage of the Bible condemning those who profited by stealing from the poor, set his slaves free, and spent the rest of his life advocating for better treatment of indigenous peoples and refusing confession from slave owners.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: They like exploring how certain concepts took a while to coalesce into its familiar shape: Early Christian Schisms explores how Christianity evolved carefully to a more familiar form by exploring and documenting the various divergent and contradictory attitudes rival beliefs and faiths had, each of which was declared as "heretic" by the nascent Christian orthodoxy. The History of Money likewise documents in exhaustive detail how the modern economic understanding of money evolved over the years, going from being backed by pre-existing objects of value to becoming valuable in and of itself. The Articles of Confederation likewise depicts the government of America during and just after the Revolution, at a time when the US Constitution and the organs of the federal government were not even conceived or planned out until circumstances made these institutions a pressing demand.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4f4602da	type	They Changed It, Now It Sucks!
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4f4602da	comment	They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: invoked Discussed in "The Hidden Price of Changing a Game", where developers have to balance between following corporate orders and listening to the playerbase when changing certain game elements. It also explains that it's natural to feel resistant to change, but it's also why some mechanics never get improved despite the potential: it costs time and money to teach users new mechanics from the ones they've been used to for a long time.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Hitchens, like Johnathan Wild, also used thief-taking to build his own criminal empire. Hitchens, however, was far more brazen in his corrupt activities. When Wild moved in, Hitchens was completely outclassed.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: The "Awesome Per Second" episode, in which Dan talks about the often-forgotten principle in games that a condensed amount of great is better than a convoluted amount of good. To accentuate this point, the episode is one of the shortest they've done yet but boasts some of their most detailed and in-depth art yet. Played for Laughs in Scott's 2016 PAX video: when he gets to the "audio" step of making an EC video, he asks a cashier for their finest microphone and is turned of by the price tag. He then asks if anyone would notice if he used "[his] old Rock Band microphone." During this line (and only this line), the audio is marred by static and clipping.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_504e271f	type	But Thou Must!
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_504e271f	comment	But Thou Must!: "The Illusion of Choice" discusses how this is pretty much inevitable in most games and showcases a few tricks that game designers use to give the player the illusion that their choices are meaningful when they don't really make that much of a difference in the long run.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The British Commanders during the First Opium War used strict discipline to ensure none of their soldiers looted or murdered...but beat up a captured British soldier and they'll burn your village to the ground. Like with the British above, Sultan Suleiman prevented his soldiers from looting or murdering (even executing his men for letting their horses eat grass from a peasant's field) ... yet he still massacred Belgrade for daring to resist being conquered by the Ottoman Empire. Sultan Suleiman also threatened to do the same to Rhodes if The Knights of Rhodes didn't surrender, but in the end he they capitulated to his demands. On a personal level, Suleiman had his best friend and two of his sons murdered for perceived slights. The Chinese Emperor orders the execution of one of his diplomats as punishment for making a deal he dislikes. Subverted in that rhe Emperor doesn't actually go through with it. Empress Theodora convinces her husband Emperor Justinian to execute a pretender to the throne. The reason this is disproportionate is that the pretender not only DIDN'T want to be Emperor, but actually hid under his bed and had to be pried away from it by the mob hoping to crown him. This also counts as Shoot the Dog, as Theadora's reasoning was that there would never be peace so long as there was another pretender. The English Bloody Code was noted to be this, as stealing objects as cheap as 12 pence was punishable by a death sentence.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_52600ad6	type	Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_52600ad6	comment	Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: How they view Justinian. He build fantastic monuments and retook Rome for the Roman Empire, but spend so much of the empire's resources that he doomed it in the process.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_52aa0c4a	comment	The Caligula: Jayanagara proved to be this. He slept with his step-sisters, the wives of his court officials, the daughters of his court officials, the wife of his surgeon, and Gajah Mada's wife. Moreover, the animations very much suggest that these women were coerced as they are shown being extremely uncomfortable with the situation. Eventually he gets assassinated by his surgeon, possibly at Gajah Mada's prompting. The series on Ibn Battuta depicts Muhammad bin Tughluq, the sultan of Delhi during his travels, as outright psychopathic. By Battuta's own account, Tughluq's personality was unpredictable and he had an insanely flippant disregard for those he remotely disliked, torturing and/or executing them in bizarre ways. As much as he was showered with praise, power, and riches for his work at first sight, Battuta acknowledged it was excessive and realized he had to escape from Delhi as he feared for his life.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_537261b0	type	Cardiovascular Love
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_537261b0	comment	Cardiovascular Love: In "The History of Paper Money - Origins of Exchange":, it's used with Heart Symbols being between a man and a woman trading while "we not only loved to trade" is being said.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: The Alpha Alp from "The Alps - Sleep Paralysis & Night Terrors - European - Extra Mythology" is quite an encouraging and friendly sort for a demon of night terrors, chastisting his fellow alps for taunting one of their own for losing their hat (the source of the Alps' powers), pointing out that they've all lost their hat at one point, and praised another Alp for accidentally being stuck as a human woman and starting a family with one of his targets, noting how those children would eventually become new Alps. And when the Alp who lost his hat decides to leave to get his hat back, the Alpha Alp gleefully proclaims that they would join him to spread terror...after he makes sure to pay his bar tab.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_53edc953	type	Disobeyed Orders, Not Punished
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_53edc953	comment	Disobeyed Orders, Not Punished: The perpetual headache of the post-Meiji pre-American occupation Japanese government. Their right wing and military are completely out of control, regularly murdering anyone they consider insufficiently nationalistic and manufacturing casus belli to start endless wars Japan has no chance of actually winning. But any attempt to hold these assassins and insolent soldiers accountable invariably provokes enraged reactions from the populace and the rest of the right-wing and militaristic factions within society, so judges and officials trying to hand down sentences or restrain people supposed to be following their orders are risking their lives, and doing so in the knowledge that there might be others further up the chain of command without their moral fortitude who will overturn their principled decisions anyway. The result is what observers cynically describe as "government by assassination."
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_559b4bb3	type	Call to Agriculture
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_559b4bb3	comment	Call to Agriculture: General Belisarius does this after finally retiring from the army. Otto von Bismarck takes on managing his family estates after his mother dies and his father proves inept. This is subverted as the government gives him another post and his farming career ends.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_55bf1a48	type	At Least I Admit It
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_55bf1a48	comment	At Least I Admit It: Part of why Jack Sheppard was so popular in early 18th century London. He was perceived as a Lovable Rogue, and at least honest about being a thief (an "Honest Jack" if you will), unlike the shady English government that swindled them with that South Sea debacle.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_5628a3	type	Vindicated by History
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_5628a3	comment	Vindicated by History: An In-Universe example for Admiral Yi, who spent his life being kicked around by the nation he was trying to protect. Once he was dead, he was mourned by all of Korea and hailed as a legendary hero.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Defied, in that each mini-series includes a "Lies" episode in which James talks about all the things that were simplified, mistaken, and lied about (as well as telling all the interesting stories they couldn't fit in). However, in some cases, especially those parts of history that are controversial and don't really fit a consensus, the series does lean to one interpretation and bias, which to the credit of the creators, is openly admitted: Played straight with the Suleiman mini-series. The episode with him dying shows him hallucinating all his deceased loved ones (all dead, all as a result of his actions) and thinking he was young again before his life became miserable. While the miniseries was based in part on Suleiman's own poetry and writings, there is no way to know for sure what his last thoughts were. Invoked for the series on "The Battle of Kursk", when the Nazi Swastika was converted into Iron Cross. The reasons for this, as stated at the start is that the Nazi logo is banned in Germany and other parts of Europe, and they want the videos to be accessible and widely exhibited, which is why they made this small compromise. The series on Justinian gives his reign and overall campaign to reconquer and restore The Roman Empire a Historical Hero Upgrade. In truth, these conquests were devastating to Italy, and left Rome a shell of its former self and was the principal reason for its decay and depopulation until The Renaissance. The creators admit that they 'like' Justinian and they do insist that he was a dreamer and too overly ambitious to properly sustain his goals but this does mean that the show sentimentalizes his conquest of Italy and demonizes the Ostragoths (whose opinions, views, and side of the story is left untold). More controversial is their series on The Battle of Kursk, where the first episode suggests that Stalin was rejected from membership with the Axis alliance and it portrayed Stalin for resenting this rebuff, presenting the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact not as a treaty of neutrality but as a prelude to an actual partnership between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. This neglects the political context of the Pactnote Namely the Munich Agreement, where the Soviet Union proposed a partnership with England and France to check Hitler's ambition, and the former decided to favour appeasement, while granting territory to Germany and Poland, both of them historical enemies to the Soviet Union and Russian, and which Stalin, in typical paranoid style, interpreted as an invitation by France and England to Germany to invade East, and the fact that Stalin, as recent research has shown, used the Pact as "grace period" to rebuild his forces (much as Neville Chamberlain did with the Munich Agreement) and that the main mistake he made was believing that they would invade the Soviet Union at a later date then they did. In Urbino, they blame the decline of the court on an invasion by the Borgia, but the truth is Guidobaldo fled Urbino before Cesare Borgia arrived, and a year later after the death of Pope Alexander VI, Borgia's hold ended and Guidobaldo returned to Urbino now peacefully incorporated into The Papal States. It also fails to mentions that Guidobaldo had supported the Borgia initially only to turn sides (as his father never did). The decline of Urbino had more to do with the fact that Rome envious of other city states for its fame and prestige started to reassert itself in cinquecento (The 1500s). In "The last Samurai", they repeatedly claim that Samurai had the right to kill commoners whenever they pleased. In reality the practice they are referring to had strict conditions and rules, and failure to follow which could result in a Samurai being executed himself. As they themselves admit, they often get flags wrong. Either they use the wrong flag for a specific period in time, or they'll end up using the wrong colors, or even flipping the flag upside down. The "Battle of Britain" episode used much older information that suggested the UK was on the verge of collapse when aerial campaigns against the populace galvanized them and turned the situation around. In reality, the results were much less close. note The British vastly overestimated the German air capacity and the Germans vastly underestimated the Royal Air Force; German estimations for fighter capacity were off the mark by a factor of 6 times by September of 1940. The change in tactics to bombing civilians only cemented their fate as it not only gave the populace stronger emotions but took pressure off the airfields, the previous attacks targets. In their "Sack of Lindisfarne" segment, they claim the Viking Age marked "the first time since the Fall of Rome [that] Christendom would contract", nevermind the early Muslim conquests that'd overrun the Christian-ruled territories of the Holy Land, Syria, Armenia, Egypt, North Africa, Iberia, and (briefly) part of southern France in the previous two centuries, not to mention the fact that Britain itself had to be re-Christianized by St. Augustine of Canterbury more than a century after the Fall of Rome. While they admit to conjecture in their segment on the Collapse of the Carolingian Empire, a couple mistakes still stand out: invoked The episode is predicated on the misguided implication that Louis the Pious foolishly and arbitrarily divided his empire among his three sons and thereby set the stage for a millennium of Franco-German conflict in an Anvilicious Does This Remind You of Anything? of the Treaty of Westphalia or the Sykes-Picot Agreement. In reality, however, the borders they show only coalesced after Louis the Pious' death when his two younger sons, Charles and Louis, joined forces against their elder brother Emperor Lothar in a bloody Civil War that succeeded in carving off the (existing) Frankish and Teutonic halves for Charles and Louis but didn't completely destroy Lothar, who kept the leftovers. Thus Middle Francia didn't cause conflict by being "haphazard" (as it's described half-a-dozen times) but rather was made haphazard by conflict. They note that, "We often criticize primogeniture as it [...] leaves women out entirely". Technically, primogeniture only denotes preference by birth order while gender is a separate set of criteria. The British monarchy, for instance, recently adopted "absolute primogeniture", which favours the first-born child regardless of gender. In their series on the sinking of Bismarck they keep calling it the biggest warship on earth. The Japanese Yamato had been launched a year earlier, although to be fair, Yamato didn't officially enter service until after the sinking of the Bismarck, and the HMS Hood was longer, but roughly equal in tonnage and a narrower beam. In the Exploring the Pacific series, they implied that the USS Enterprise in Star Trek was a play on the name of the HMS Endeavor. The fictitious spaceship was, per Gene Roddenbery's own statement, named for an American aircraft carrier. The series on the Kingdom of Majapahit repeats the myth that Europe loved spices to cover the taste of rotten meat. This is a complete falsehood. Anyone who had money to buy spices had the money to buy fresh meat, and while Medieval hygiene standards were less advanced than today, people weren't eating rancid meat unless they were really desperate.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_566a3389	type	The Aggressive Drug Dealer
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_566a3389	comment	The Aggressive Drug Dealer: The British Empire and the East India Company formed the first multi-national drug cartel, illegally encouraging the smuggling of opium into China and "pushing drugs on an unprecedented scale". Ironically, they did this to support their own drug habit — namely importing a staggering amount of tea from China, resulting in a massive trade deficit.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: In "Wine Land", when Freydis gets sick of tensions between her party of explorers and a rival party led by two brothers, she manufactures a crisis, claims one of the brothers struck her and badgers her husband into helping her get revenge.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_56d5b88f	type	Divided We Fall
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_56d5b88f	comment	Divided We Fall: The success of the First Crusade was as much the result of in-fighting among the Muslim world as it was the result of determination on the part of the Crusaders. To start with, the Crusaders are able to sally forth and defeat a numerically superior and better-fed Turkish army at the Battle of Antioch because all the Turkish officers individually had nothing to gain from winning the battle and would have less power in their government if their boss won, so they all fled at the first opportunity. After that, the other Sunni Muslims on the road to Jerusalem actively supported the Crusaders by supplying them with goods and funds in the hopes that they would give the Shiite Muslims in Jerusalem a severe defeat.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_56e8b9a6	type	Rage Against the Legal System
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_56e8b9a6	comment	Rage Against the Legal System: Ned Kelly goes on one after the the Australian police keep bullying him and his family. Treated as completely justified because the police are shown to be corrupt bullies who serve evil rich landholders at the expense of poor farmers.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_5860c090	type	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_5860c090	comment	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Scott (in the episodes he produces) despite literally working with him, considers James to be this, feeling like he is competing with James for fan attention and comically failing. For their part, both James and the fans enjoy the shorts he's done.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_590e1c70	type	Frontline General
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_590e1c70	comment	Frontline General: Inca Generals were expected to be this. It worked perfectly fine when conquering other South American tribes, but when fighting conquistadors with muskets and cannon, it often resulted in the General's death and the army being routed.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The police in the story of Ned Kelly are not only corrupt and lazy, but cowardly. When a member of the Kelly gang turned informant, four cops were stationed in his house to catch members of the gang when they arrived. Once two gangmembers arrived to kill the informant, the cops hid in his bedroom while the informant was shot infront of his pregnant wife and her mother.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_59da9841	type	Skill Gate Characters
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_59da9841	comment	Skill Gate Characters: Discussed in "Balancing for Skill." Essentially, these strategies (which can be character selects or something else) provide a lot of power for very little skill, allowing new players to easily conquer the early part of a single-player game or allow some level of competition against veterans in multiplayer (such as Call of Duty's grenade launcher, or "noob tube"). These are necessary to get new players interested and help them feel some sense of accomplishment, but they run the risk of either becoming a Game-Breaker, or of players getting frustrated and quitting when they run up against the limits of the strategy. The video recommends some form of Wake-Up Call Boss as an antidote, preferably early in the game once the player has gotten their feet under them, to force them to learn more tactics and develop their skills. invoked
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_5c17c12f	type	Bribing Your Way to Victory
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_5c17c12f	comment	Bribing Your Way to Victory: invoked Warned against in the "Microtransactions" episode, with a crossed-out picture of Jareth from Labyrinth.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Charles F. "Boss" Murphy, head of Tammany Hall, ended up supporting the progressive reformers because he saw them gaining momentum and knew he had to be on the winning side to maintain his cash-flow.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Each history series has an underlying theme. "Policing London": How do you fight crime while protecting liberty? "Teddy Roosevelt the Trustbuster": Regulating corporate crime when Democracy Is Flawed. "Grigori Rasputin": How easily rumors and lies can shape the perception of a human being.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_5d44228f	type	Cheese Strategy
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_5d44228f	comment	Cheese Strategy: In-Universe. They're called "First-Order Optimal" (or Foo) strategies in their "Balancing for Skill" video, with E. Honda's Hundred-Hand Slap as the main example. An experienced player can defeat them (which is the difference between this trope and an outright Game-Breaker), but they're good enough to get you past most AI and unskilled human players.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_5eb3a0a0	type	Audience-Alienating Premise
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_5eb3a0a0	comment	Audience-Alienating Premise: An In-Universe example for their episode in Hatred. They urge the viewer not to buy the game- not because it's evil or will turn you into a killer, but because killing and hurting people For the Evulz isn't an enjoyable activity for most people, and a full-blown sadist would probably only be titiliated by it.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_60a3f0ba	type	Monty Hall Problem
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_60a3f0ba	comment	Monty Hall Problem: Presented as the Cold Open to "How Games Twist Probability", with Matt as the game show host and the viewer as the contestant. Matt assumes that the viewer picks the first door, reveals the goat behind the third one, and then asks the viewer if they want to switch doors. However, the viewer's choice isn't revealed as Matt then explains the puzzle in detail in the episode proper.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_60b4a128	type	The Last DJ
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_60b4a128	comment	The Last DJ: Despite the portrayal of a Sugar Bowl community surrounding them, their criticisms of weaker aspects of gaming make them out to be a textbook example of this trope.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Tadodaho had one after Jigonsaseh told him how greedy and cruel he's been in his life.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_62259825	type	Nintendo Hard
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_62259825	comment	Nintendo Hard: Discussed in the "When Difficult Is Fun" episode, distinguishing what is a difficult-but-fun game and what is a punishing game. Specifically: Difficult but fun: The game consistently follows its own internal rules, provides players alternate options to overcome challenges, and offers short respawn times that allow the player to quickly get back into the action after failing. Punishing: the game breaks its own internal rules, doesn't give a player options but rather forces repetition until the players memorise the correct approach, has challenges that rely on luck as opposed to player skill, and arbitrarily forces players to sit through long waiting periods between reattempts after failure.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_63b02752	comment	Suleiman the Magnificent in his Extra History series was portrayed with a sympathetic light, largely thanks to his nature as the POV character of the series. Many viewers, however, pointed out that Suleiman's troubles were largely brought about by his Hair-Trigger Temper, and that murdering his best friend, two of his sons, (thus leaving the Ottoman Empire in the hands of Selim II), and unintentionally sowing the seeds for his empire's decline made him too unlikeable a protagonist. (It could be argued that since Suleimanâ€™s wife was the one who convinced her husband to commit those actions as she hated Ibrahim Pasha and wanted her son, Selim II, to be Sultan and saw the others as rivals, she is just as much to blame as her husband, but James is openly skeptical of the sources in question, drawing another parallel between her and the similarly-hated and blamed Theodosia.)
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In "The Alps - Sleep Paralysis & Night Terrors - European - Extra Mythology", the Alpha Alp is portrayed as this. Alps are shown to be bringers of night terrors, nightmares, and sleep paralysis, but the Alpha Alp befriended a Protestant Midwife...who had the misfortune of being born in Wurzburg, Germany in the 1600s, when the German Catholics was using the excuse of witchcraft in order to execute anyone who wasn't Catholic. When his dear friend was one of those killed, the Alpha Alp tormented the bishop who ordered her killed in return, to the point of causing said bishop's heart to burst from sheer terror and hours of psychological torture.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: In the Palmyra Today Episode, Dr. Khaled al-Asaad (the head of antiquities at Palmyra) stayed behind during the evacuation of the city to ensure that as many historical artifacts are hidden and/or secreted away instead of running. Because of this he was captured by ISIS, tortured for the location of the artifacts (he never broke, even after a month), and beheaded. He died to save a piece of the shared human heritage.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: The Book of Job is explored with a video subtitled "A Very Bad Tuesday". To hammer it home:
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_65efc6dc	type	Appeal to Force
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_65efc6dc	comment	Baldwin de Boulogne, who used Appeal to Force to take the city of Tarsus from Tancred, despite the fact that Tancred was the one to take the city and the fact that they were supposed to be allies. When the reinforcements Tancred called in from his uncle arrived, Baldwin would not even allow them to stay in Tarsus and made them camp outside the city where hundreds were slaughtered by the Turkish garrison that Tancred had spared. Baldwin reacted by locking himself indoors until his men were no longer clamoring for his blood, and later he abandoned the crusade for Jerusalem and instead took over Edessa.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: James really likes the Cyberpunk genre and Horror Video Games, dedicating several episodes to exploring facets of each of them. The web series loves to bring up and talk about First Person Shooters and Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games more than any other game genre.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6638c7f7	type	Stealth-Based Mission
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6638c7f7	comment	They also cover why it's hard to put Stealth-Based Missions in action games, because the core feeling of stealth is overcoming obstacles despite being underpowered and plays out more like a puzzle, while action games tend towards overpowering your enemies through combat.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_663ffef6	type	Majored in Western Hypocrisy
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_663ffef6	comment	Majored in Western Hypocrisy: After Sitting Bull defeated General Custer, white journalists circulated false biographies stating that he was adopted by white people and educated in American and European schools. This allowed white Americans to cope with a white general being defeated by a Native American and maintain their illusion of cultural superiority.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6a1c2a6	type	Cosmic Horror Story
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6a1c2a6	comment	Cosmic Horror Story: In "Why Games Do Cthulhu Wrong", they discuss why video games can't do the cosmic horror genre any justice, at least not without subverting almost everything mainstream video games are about. Video games are usually about presenting the player with a challenge to overcome, and while portraying Cthulhu as such a challenge hits the notes of Lovecraft, it completely misses the music; true Lovecraftian horror is about forces so completely beyond humanity that just seeing one leads to madness, and that are impossible to even fight, let alone defeat.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6a2486cd	type	Graying Morality
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6a2486cd	comment	Graying Morality: The "Grigori Rasputin" series takes a more nuanced look at the historical reputation of the titular monk and how he played a role in the downfall of Tsarist Russia. The series does show that Rasputin did have many genuine flaws like public drunkenness and excessive promiscuity and possible sexual assault on his own followers. However, his presence in the Romanov family itself was actually pretty benign: he may have genuinely helped both Alexei and Alexandra with his presence and was seen by the other children as a friendly uncle. While he may have used his position as an adviser for his own gain, he did also support decent ideas like keeping Russia out of the First World War, at least partly out of genuinely humanitarian concern for the common people he knew would suffer as a result. His opponents, meanwhile, were not exactly selfless in their hounding of Rasputin: the newspapers often exaggerated, if not outright fabricated, stories about him for selling newspapers, and many of his rivals either envied the power he had or used him as a scapegoat for the problems plaguing Imperial Russia.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6a25c388	type	Mummies at the Dinner Table
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6a25c388	comment	Mummies at the Dinner Table: Because of the huge reverence the Incas placed on their ancestors, dead nobles retained the right to all the properties they owned in life and their descendants were merely allowed to be "stewards" on their ancestor's behalf, and mummified royals would regularly be taken to visit the properties of their relatives.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: The "Early Christian Schisms" does a good job in explaining how and why debates on whether Christ was both man and God, or part-man and part-god, or all man and all god and other smaller hairs split between these examples were deadly serious in the later Roman era and played a role in the shaping of Christianity.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6b5a92dc	comment	The Uncanny Valley episode pokes fun at the show's art and Daniel's narration.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Never directly addressed, but the South Sea Bubble happened thanks to the machinations of a man named Blunt who owned a sword-making company. Perhaps some of the people involved should've thought about what that said about his true nature.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: The Urbino Episode states that these are what the city-states of Italy used to fight wars against each other and that Federico da Montefeltro commanded one as a means of bringing money to Urbino.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6ca9bb24	type	Eternal Sexual Freedom
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6ca9bb24	comment	Eternal Sexual Freedom: Julie d'Aubigny was openly bisexual, having affairs with numerous men and women throughout her life. Justified in that this was an unusually lenient time for two reasons; the first being that King Louis XIV was intentionally funding counter-cultural artists (like Julie) in an attempt to undermine the power of the Church, and the second being that he was unwilling to crack down on homosexuality because he did not want to hurt his brother Philippe I.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: When Admiral Yi is mortally wounded during the last battle of the Korea/Japan war, one of his sons dons his armor and takes over the war drum his father was beating, so the rest of the fleet won't be demoralised by their admiral's death.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6d81667b	type	Rule of Cute
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6d81667b	comment	Ruleof Cute: Pretty much every single video's artwork is super adorable. Especially this part of a Sengoku video.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: Episode 4 of "The History of Paper Money" has a British businessman named John using a plan involving government debt paying for a new financial institution and inflating the price of an overhyped New World "trading company". In the Lies Episode of "The History of Paper Money", James admits that there is still some debate as to whether the US dollar is really fiat currency (currency that isn't backed by anything and that only has value because we agree it does) or if it is just backed by petrol instead of gold (because OPEC will only accept US dollars). James predicts that we will find out once OPEC accepts other nations' currencies as well (if the US dollar is fiat then there will be no crisis, but if it isn't than there will be one). During the second half of the Early Christian Schisms, whenever the disputes appeared to have been resolved, there would inevitably be either someone bringing the problems back, or a new Christian faction showing up to split the church once more.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_70321789	type	Video Game Remake
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_70321789	comment	Video Game Remake: "A Generation of Remasters" noted that remakes were becoming more and more common, and discussed the pros and cons of remakes. While it's a good thing as it helps preserve video games and helps new players appreciate the older classics, it is rife with problems. The people in charge of the remake might not understand the fundamentals of the original and screw it up, remakes draw talent away from making new games, and they become a crutch for game companies who see remakes as a safe bet. There is also the cost issue, as any game old enough to need a remake would cost as much as a new game to make.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_70ade2c4	type	Culture Clash
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: The main reason why the negotiations between the Christian Alfred and the Viking Guthrum were such a farce. ([Swear to me on these Holy Relics!] â€�What, you mean this box of remains? Sure, whatever.â€�) Ibn Battutah suffers this during his visit to the empire of Mali, expecting them to be pious Muslims and instead finding their beliefs to be a mix of Islam and pre-Islamic African tradition.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_70e6a866	type	Inferred Holocaust
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_70e6a866	comment	Inferred Holocaust: invoked The last episode of the Punic Wars episode mentions that Rome burned Carthage to the ground, but they don't show it on-screen and they don't go into details (such as that the Romans killed off much of the city and enslaved the survivors).
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Extra Credits: Mailbag #1 3m35s: "If you love games, music and game music,"
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_72757e0d	type	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_72757e0d	comment	Ned Stark also shows up when they assure us that, yes, his name really was John Snow.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_729c69f3	comment	Charles Trevelyan sought to transform what he felt were the natural predisposition of the Irish toward sin and laziness, by using the famine to force the Irish into being more hardworking and self-reliant. He transformed it, for the worse.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: Most episodes of Extra Histories try to look at things from all sides. "The Seminal Tragedy" explores the events that led to World War I. The various actors in those events, from the diplomats and world leaders, to the assassins who pulled the trigger on Ferdinand, are portrayed as flawed beings whose actions were driven by a mixture of paranoia, national pride, and bad communication. Toussaint Louverture, the self-taught military genius who hoped to bring about a prosperous, independent, post-racial Haiti, found himself in power struggles with Andre Rigard, a former Free Person of Color who'd created a caste system in the part of Haiti he controlled with his own people on top. Each wrongfully accused the other of wanting to restore slavery and rightly accused the other of war crimes and trying to make the deliberately-dysfunctional economy of Saint-Domingue work through force. The final result was civil war... on the eve of Napoleon seizing power in France and hoping to restore slavery. Subverted in The First Crusade, as during the Lies episode of that mini-series James explains that he tried very hard to look at both sides, yet found the Crusaders more reprehensible the more he researched the subject. James still made a point of mentioning the Token Good Teammates of the Christians to show that not everyone on that side of the war was a monster. The Haitian Revolution is all about this, with an occasional dose of Evil Versus Evil peppered in for good measure. Pre-Revolution, all four castes (the "big whites," "small whites," "free people of color," and slaves) wanted changes that benefited themselves with little regard for the others, and all castes committed atrocities and betrayals that horrified the world (and, at times, their own allies), and no one walked away from the Revolution morally clean. (Only the slaves had the truly sympathetic motive of just wanting to not be slaves anymore, and even the best of them committed war crimes aplenty.)
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: In the "Admiral Yi" series, Korean soldiers and ships are red, Japanese are yellow and Chinese are blue.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Mentioned in the diversity episode as a bad solution to accusations that there aren't enough female, black, or other minority groups.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Several of the series have a phrase that gets repeated multiple times The Broad Street Pump: You know nothing John Snow! Otto von Bismarck: Bismarck had a plan, Bismarck ''always'' had a plan. Joan of Arc: GET â€˜EM!
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_74b5724e	type	We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_74b5724e	comment	We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: The Project Ten Dollar episode ends this way, after Allison threatens to erase Daniel with her pencil eraser for not ending the episode on time.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_75f626a5	type	Nostalgia Filter
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_75f626a5	comment	Nostalgia Filter: The topic is touched upon in "Videogame Music". Daniel ponders why gamers are more fond of the old NES themes, despite the better resources available to video game composers these days. Like most topics, he chooses the middle road, stating that there's still great soundtracks being made today, while encouraging composers to stay grounded in their roots and create a strong melody that will endure for years after the fact. Discussed in more detail in the episode "A Little Bit Of Yesterday" where they discuss the popularity of Retraux games and what exactly is that certain something about those older-style games that we are trying to recapture.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs in Scott's 2016 PAX video: when he gets to the "audio" step of making an EC video, he asks a cashier for their finest microphone and is turned of by the price tag. He then asks if anyone would notice if he used "[his] old Rock Band microphone." During this line (and only this line), the audio is marred by static and clipping.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_76468dfa	type	Internet Jerk
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_76468dfa	comment	Internet Jerk: Not by name, but the episode "Harassment" lays out some ideas on how these people can be expunged from the gaming community. The later episode "Toxicity" discusses the way people treat each other online, including this.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_766c1cc6	type	Who Would Be Stupid Enough?
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_766c1cc6	comment	Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: ...to surrender all the French lands conquered by England during the Hundred Years War, in exchange for a french noblewoman as a bride and an incredibly vague promise of peace? King Henry VI, that's who.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_76db0ef5	type	Slobs Versus Snobs
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_76db0ef5	comment	Slobs Versus Snobs: At the beginning of the Hundred Years War, the English were the Slobs to the French's Snobs, with French being the language of nobility and English being the language of the peasants and commoners. This is even displayed in how the two armies fought; the French relied on heavily armored, aristocratic knights, while the English relied heavily on the humble, lightly-armored peasant longbow archers.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_77848bc1	type	The Sons and the Spears
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_77848bc1	comment	The Sons and the Spears: In Hiawatha, The Peacemaker demonstrates this trope to the warriors of the five tribes to show them that they are better off as allies than fighting amongst themselves.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_78d0ebcf	type	Crying Wolf
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_78d0ebcf	comment	Crying Wolf: This was why the Romanovs were willing to keep Rasputin around: the willingness of the press and politicians to bash Rasputin with hyperbolic accusations of ridiculous crimes they personally knew to be false led the royal family to ignore more credible charges against the minister.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: Their series on World War 1 and how the weeks leading to it is a seminal tragedy is chock-full of it, mixed with Poor Communication Kills. They put it as history often rides on tiny things, and who would expect one wrong turn would lead to an assassination that would change the course of the entire world.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_79a80b74	type	Fair for Its Day
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_79a80b74	comment	Fair for Its Day: Invoked. In the Weird Tales episode, they say that Robert E. Howard was an avowed feminist... for the time (1920s and 30s). Their opinion of Isaac Asimov. He was progressive for his time but bits of post-war America culture still influence his works, in particular his belief that obedience to rightful authority is a cornerstone of morality in his robot stories. Pointedly averted with John W. Campbell. They flat-out describe him as a racist and explicitly state that they see no reason to sugar-coat that statement, before going into damning detail about his impassioned defenses of slavery and segregation. They also make no bones about his authoritarian politics and love of Scientology.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_79cf6c4e	type	Join or Die
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_79cf6c4e	comment	Discussed in the Ghengis Khan series. Over time, Ghengis Khan reconized that the Steppe tradition of raids and counterattacks created an endless cycle of raiding, kidnapping, and looting with no clear winner and no way to stop revenge-driven raids, kidapping, and looting. To stop the cycle, he revolutionized warfare to fully integrate the conquered into Mongol society as citizens with full rights and social mobility so they'd have no desire or means of revenge... or wipe them out entirely if they resisted.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: Joan of Arc is depicted as struggling with this after she achieves her goal of having Charles VII crowned King of France. Rather than routing out the English and their Burgundian allies like she expected, Charles VII instead makes peace talks and compromises. The moral greyness of making concessions to keep the peace against people she considers evil troubles her, and Charles VII promptly has her Reassigned to Antarctica.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: The Legion of Hell, a gang of Venezuelan cavalrymen who support Spanish rule. They carried fire-hardened spears, murdered civilians, raped women, and tortured children to death.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7d5324cf	type	The Federation
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7d5324cf	comment	The fifth episode on Simon Bolivar actually discusses many of the issues that made a modern Republic so difficult to create. Bolivar wanted to serve as Dictator and President for Life, but promotes constitutions with equality before the law and abolishes slavery (far before the Republic of the United States of America), yet many of the independent states want The Federation with greater autonomy and emphasizing regional powers and influences (as well as regional abuses) while Bolivar wanted a strong centralized state to govern territory bigger than the Napoleonic Empire, and create equal laws and institutions across the Continent. Bolivar's desire to promote the best features of the Empire with the best features of the Republic leads to a Golden Mean Fallacy.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7db984b1	type	Rule-Abiding Rebel
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7db984b1	comment	Rule-Abiding Rebel: Bismarck was a slacker, class-clown, prankster known as "The Wildman Bismarck" but despite his rebellious tendencies, he was an anti-democratic authoritarian who supported the Monarchy. Teddy Roosevelt is depicted as someone who detested the excesses of large corporations. But in practice, he was mainly a regulator of trusts than a buster. In fact, Teddy was supportive of big businesses that followed the rules, and ridiculed genuine socialists like Upton Sinclair as crackpots.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7e499910	type	Obligatory Joke
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7e499910	comment	Obligatory Joke: Did you really think they were gonna do a series on John Snow and not make a Game of Thrones reference. Did you really think they were gonna do a series on King Kamehameha and not make a Dragon Ball reference? Did you really think they were gonna do a series on Medieval English kings/knights fighting the French (The Hundred Years War) and not make a Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference? (Or two? Or five?) Did you really think they were gonna do a series on Joan of Arc informing French lords that she is on a mission from God and not make The Blues Brothers reference?
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7ea2a915	type	Animation Bump
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7ea2a915	comment	Animation Bump: Episode 200 featured a fully-animated dance party at the beginning, and even a few of the usually-still shots of Dan at the lectern had more movement than usual. Awesome Per Second has more detailed pictures and a flashy "Awesome Per Second" logo that pops up. Episode 400 has more fluid animation than usual for the intro and outro. The switch to EC's conventional style in the middle is lampshaded, with the "production time big budget machine" apparently having ran out of fuel.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Justinian's attempt to mend the Schism between orthodox and monophysite Christianity not only failed but also laid the groundwork for a schism between Orthodox and Catholic Christianity. Gavrilo Princip's assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, an act he committed in defense of Serbian interests, resulted in one of the worst wars in history (during which hundreds of thousands of Serbians perished). The delays caused by those in Austria-Hungary who wished to avoid war caused the Empire to miss its brief window of opportunity to invade Serbia without objection (the episode stated that nobody would have defended Serbia in a war after the Archduke and his pregnant wife were murdered during a goodwill mission). The desire for peace ironically resulted in a regional conflict turning into the biggest war in history. Simon Bolivar ended up ruining the Supreme Junta of Caracas mission to get aid from Britain due to his arrogance trying to convince the British to help Venezuela seek independence from Spain as he accidentally gave Britain's foreign minister a secret note from his superiors that they should lie to the British that the Junta are still loyal to their ally Spain and not reveal they want said aid to seek independence. As a result, not only did Bolivar humiliated and exposed the Junta delegation true mission but also made the British not help them. During the Warsaw Uprising, the Americans tried to provide some relief for the Polish Resistance by air-dropping supplies into Warsaw. 85% of said supplies either got lost or landed behind German lines instead.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Early on in the first episode of the Cleopatra series, Matt tells the story of Cleopatra dissolving one of her priceless pearl earrings in vinegar and drinking it to win a drunken bet against Mark Antony. He then cites this as an example of 3 things - the lengths Cleopatra would go to to win, her refusal to let anyone else, even the most powerful men of her era, get the better of her, and how to make an expensive but gnarly cocktail.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: Used in a few series: "Admiral Yi" opens with a shot of the devastated Japanese navy from the battle of Noryang Strait, then cuts to Yi taking a military exam 26 years earlier. "Suleiman the Magnificent" opens with Suleiman as an old man standing on the banks of the Bosphorus, and the first episode is presented as him remembering taking the throne as a younger man. "Mother Seacole" opens with Mary Seacole attempting to bring comfort to a dying soldier in the Crimea, then cuts to Mary's first visit to the city of London in 1821, several years earlier. "Akhenaten" opens with all references to the titular pharaoh being stricken from historical records in a state-wide Unpersoning being carried out some time after his rule.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The Stinger for "Our Oscars": Mentioning examples of serious "mechanics villains" in "Big Bad I - The Basics of Villains in Video Game Design":
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_820133fd	type	Tragic Hero
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_820133fd	comment	Tragic Hero: Both Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus come of as this. They wanted the best for the people of Italy, but face opposition, betrayal, cruel murder and ultimately the consequences of their actions pave the way for the end of the Republic.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_82f5ced1	type	Conservation of Ninjutsu
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_82f5ced1	comment	Conservation of Ninjutsu: Despite being consistently outnumbered by the Japanese Navy, Admiral Yi's tactical knowledge allows him to inflict heavy losses, often without losing any vessels himself.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_83535879	type	Tall Poppy Syndrome
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_83535879	comment	Tall Poppy Syndrome: Because of the way military and political hierarchies functioned in the Inca Empire, generals were discouraged from acquiring too much glory during their campaigns, as it made them potential rivals to the emperor and increased the risk of him ordering their execution when they returned home.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8386a7a	type	Three-Act Structure
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8386a7a	comment	Three-Act Structure: Discussed in the Amnesia episode, particularly with video games and their habit of starting in Act 2.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_83d3bf25	type	Anvilicious
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_83d3bf25	comment	invoked The episode is predicated on the misguided implication that Louis the Pious foolishly and arbitrarily divided his empire among his three sons and thereby set the stage for a millennium of Franco-German conflict in an Anvilicious Does This Remind You of Anything? of the Treaty of Westphalia or the Sykes-Picot Agreement. In reality, however, the borders they show only coalesced after Louis the Pious' death when his two younger sons, Charles and Louis, joined forces against their elder brother Emperor Lothar in a bloody Civil War that succeeded in carving off the (existing) Frankish and Teutonic halves for Charles and Louis but didn't completely destroy Lothar, who kept the leftovers. Thus Middle Francia didn't cause conflict by being "haphazard" (as it's described half-a-dozen times) but rather was made haphazard by conflict.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Tiberius Gracchus was Blue while his brother Gaius was Red.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_85474aa1	type	Power Creep
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_85474aa1	comment	Power Creep: Discussed in the appropriately-titled episode "Power Creep" as an issue that tends to subtly sneak into Long Running persistent games, be they Collectible Card Games or MMORPGs. They cover why this issue is ultimately bad for business, bad for the player, and how to mitigate it.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_85ca9dab	type	Second Love
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_85ca9dab	comment	Second Love: In "Viking Expansion - The Serpent-Riders", the unnamed Norwegian Merchant that the story follows ends up being divorced by his wife because she didn't want to share the demands of his career. He ends up remarrying, and his second wife is the one who buries him when he dies.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Admiral Yi's response to being informed that the Korean government wants to disband the navy:
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_87551a53	type	B-Roll Rebus
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_87551a53	comment	B-Roll Rebus: Done in a similar style as Zero Punctuation, the narrative is accompanied by relevant and/or related pictures and drawings.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8767b1f3	comment	Subverted in The First Crusade, as during the Lies episode of that mini-series James explains that he tried very hard to look at both sides, yet found the Crusaders more reprehensible the more he researched the subject. James still made a point of mentioning the Token Good Teammates of the Christians to show that not everyone on that side of the war was a monster.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Johnathan Wild, subject of the first episode of the "Policing London" series, managed to get himself appointed to the post of London's Thieftaker General, one of the most prestigious positions in law enforcement at the time, while secretly acting as the kingpin of a very powerful criminal empire. Robert Moses in "Interstate Displacement", was seen as a master-builder who helped develop American urban infrastructure as well as a job-creator. However, the episode also describes how he demolished minority neighborhoods to build his projects - sometimes going out of his way to do so.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_87bc9c07	type	Fire/Water Juxtaposition
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_87bc9c07	comment	Fire/Water Juxtaposition: In the Kamehameha series, the artist's interpretation of Mana is a flame inside a water droplet.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_87ce0385	type	Series Mascot
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_87ce0385	comment	Series Mascot: Sort of, considering the nature of the show; the little green boxed "games" complete with faces and stubby arms and legs that show up in nearly all of the regular Extra Credits videos basically serves as this. invoked The Extra History series has a mascot of sorts in the form of Robert Walpole, who cameos in every Extra History series ever since the South Sea Bubble due the Running Gag of "It was Walpole".
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Cheng I Sao was a brutal, greedy pirate warlord, and the episode makes no bones about the horrors she inflicted on the innocent people of China. But she was also a capable, daring commander and organizer, and her success was as much a result of the crippling problems facing Qing China as her merely being ruthless. The First Crusaders are depicted as the greedy, entitled, back-stabbing, fatally stupid, power-hungry mass-murderers they were. Their entire (accurate) quest, motivations and actions for obtaining it are depicted so unsympathetically that their Islamic enemies come off as Hero Antagonists.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_89baee12	type	Space Opera
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_89baee12	comment	Space Opera: Discussed in their video on Asimov's Foundation stories. While the idea of an interstellar empire is laughable in any logistical sense, and psycho-history is essentially ridiculous, the Hand Wave lets the writer explore a great story with great themes anyway.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8a6d2168	type	Beat Them at Their Own Game
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8a6d2168	comment	Beat Them at Their Own Game: Towards the end of the Punic Wars, Scipio Africanus ends up adopting many of the tactics Hannibal had used against the Romans to great effect, including using terrain to attack from a completely unexpected direction (Hannibal had his army cross the Alps in the middle of winter, Scipio besieges Carthago Nova and has his men cross a drained lagoon to attack the one part of the city that wasn't well-guarded), and deploying strong troops on the flank of an army with weaker troops in the middle then having the weaker troops fall back while the stronger flanks pincer the enemy.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: The series on Khosrau Anushirawan is this to the series on Justinian. To clarify, in his own series, Justinian is a Self-Made Man who, with his team of capable companions, seeks to restore the glory of Rome and the unity of the Christian church. In Khosrau's series, however, Justinian is a bigoted, ambitious, Manipulative Bastard who is perfectly willing to crush other nations in the name of his imperial dreams.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8ace85ef	type	Audience Surrogate
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8ace85ef	comment	Audience Surrogate: Varied a lot before, but has recently settled as a young game designer with red hair in pigtails and freckles.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8cb259f4	type	Overshadowed by Awesome
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8cb259f4	comment	Overshadowed by Awesome: invoked Discussed in the episode on Tiberius Gracchus the Elder who they note had an amazing career as a Roman politician and soldier and was someone both Gracchi brothers sought to follow in his footsteps but historically was reduced to a footnote in the history of his sons, whose actions and careers are far more important to history. As they say, that's why the brothers have five episodes while Dad just gets one.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8cb4ea46	type	By-the-Book Cop
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8cb4ea46	comment	By-the-Book Cop: "Policing London - The Bow Street Runners" provides an example the form of the Bow Street Constables, a group of honest and capable parish constables under the command of Constable Saunders Welsh and Justice Henry Fielding. This is notable because it was an era in which the justice system in London was horribly corrupt at all levels, yet this one police force was wholly honest in their dealings.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: The art sometimes does this with some figures of speech. In their Uncanny Valley episode, for example:
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: The Japanese army in the 1930s is depicted as being a bunch of arrogant hotheads who started massive wars without a long term strategy of securing their conquests or defending against the incursion of major powers like Soviet Russia or America. Once he becomes Prime Minister, even the militarist Hideki Tojo decides to pursue diplomacy once he sees just how perilous Japanâ€™s situation is.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8e92e125	type	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8e92e125	comment	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: Singing the chorus of "You're Welcome" couldn't be helped in "Maui", but it was substituted for synonyms for the phrase to avoid being sued by Disney.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: Tancred of Hauteville in the First Crusade. During the Sack of Jerusalem, he went out of his way to try to save civilians and even gave his banner to a group that was taking shelter in a Mosque in the hopes that others would see it and spare them. Despite having Tancred's banner, the civilians in the mosque were slaughtered by the Crusaders anyway. In fact, he's the only Crusader commander for whom capturing a city doesn't result in a violent massacre. Many bishops, priests, and monks also gave sanctuary to Jews during the Rhineland massacre... and many were massacred alongside the people they tried to defend. Charles Elliot in The First Opium War. He was the ONLY British person in this story who is even trying to be fair to the Chinese; he disapproved of the opium trade, he tried to reach a reasonable peace agreement with the Chinese, and he wanted to minimize bloodshed. In return for these good deeds ... he was fired and sent back to Britain.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8f9f71a8	type	Crazy Enough to Work
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8f9f71a8	comment	Crazy Enough to Work: In a last desperate attempt to unify an unstable Brazil, the government forced Pedro II to take the throne when he was still a teenager...and it actually worked!
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Discussed by James in the Lies section for the Justinian and Theodora as well as the Suleiman the Magnificent series. He notes that both Empress Theodora and Roxelana have negative reputations based on chronicles of its time, but he sees this as stemming from the general sexism of the culture and misogyny to women in power, as such he has tried to give both of them the benefit of the doubt. He does admit that it is likelier that Roxelana was Lady Macbeth to Suleiman than Theodora vis-a-vis Justinian. Likewise with Catherine the Great.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: In "Innovation", and whenever a guest artist is invited. They generally imitate the style while putting their own twists on it. In Season 4, they added LeeLee to their ranks, and while her and Allison's styles were mostly similar, difference between the two could be seen during certain points. "The Economics of Obsession" is presented in Extra Sci-Fi's art style, but when Matt's casual self shows up at the end to promote Nebula, the episode switches to its usual art style.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: In "Viking Expansion - The Serpent-Riders", the unnamed Norwegian Merchant goes on his first voyage as a youth. He is shown to be uncomfortable with the fact that his father sells Irish Slaves to the Emirate of Cordoba. While he grows up to be a merchant like his father, the narration doesn't say that he trades in the same cargo.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: An entire set of videos were devoted to examining various fictional apocalypses, and what messages they had for their times, as well as today.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_921f5a6d	type	Recurring Location
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_921f5a6d	comment	Recurring Location: Whether by creator preference or its importance to history as the crossroads of the Old World, that many named city on the Bosphorus plays a part or is the center of many series in the show.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: In the "Rasputin" series, the crew makes the case that Rasputin's nasty reputation as an evil wizard who manipulated the tsar was largely an exaggeration cooked up by jealous reactionaries who envied Rasputin's proximity to the tsar, those looking for a scapegoat for the tsar's own failings, and a sensationalist press that wanted to sell newspapers and discredit the tsar. Rasputin is portrayed as having a more benign presence within the Romanov family. note While he probably didn't have healing powers, he may have helped Alexei and Alexandra by simply calming them down through prayer. He also had many good sides, like advising the tsar against entering World War I. That said, he did have some genuine flaws; public drunkenness and excessive promiscuity, and may have been very inappropriate with his female followers even beyond that.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_927da0d4	type	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_927da0d4	comment	Punishing: the game breaks its own internal rules, doesn't give a player options but rather forces repetition until the players memorise the correct approach, has challenges that rely on luck as opposed to player skill, and arbitrarily forces players to sit through long waiting periods between reattempts after failure.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9421aa41	type	Flipping the Table
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9421aa41	comment	Flipping the Table: The episode "Delta Of Randomness" depicts a player doing a Rage Quit in this manner.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_945b15da	type	PassiveAggressiveCombat
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_945b15da	comment	The Haitian slaves spent so many years convincing their cruel masters that they were stupid, lazy, and incompetent (partly to passive-aggressively resist slavery) that by the time they launched their well-planned and well-organized revolt, Haiti's free castes were so unwilling to believe that they were capable of such an organized resistance that they accused each other of helping slaves for their own ends. And the other castes paid dearly for their mistake.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_950bbfa7	comment	The topic is touched upon in "Videogame Music". Daniel ponders why gamers are more fond of the old NES themes, despite the better resources available to video game composers these days. Like most topics, he chooses the middle road, stating that there's still great soundtracks being made today, while encouraging composers to stay grounded in their roots and create a strong melody that will endure for years after the fact.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: During the plot to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand, one of the assassins decided not to go through with it because he felt sympathy for the Archduke's pregnant wife. Tadodaho has one after Jigonsaseh sharply rebuked him for his warlike nature.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: The British Aristocracy in "The South Sea Bubble" are almost to a man corrupt liars who end up bringing down the national economy. In "The First Opium War", they go on to sell drugs on an unprecedented scale and use outright invasion to force China to allow this. In "Ned Kelly", the Squatter Aristocracy steal land that the government reserved for all the Australians, and when the government asked them to give some of it back (so the poor could have something), they gave up only the worst land and even then harassed poor families to get that land back. The Roman Aristocracy in "The Gracchi Brothers" are greedy cowards who conquer foreign lands, enslave indigenous peoples, force Roman Veterans off their lands, and use those slaves to work that land for free (depriving Free Romans of jobs). And they use money, peer-pressure, and, fatefully, murder to keep in line any politicians who attempt to speak for the common people. Genghis Khan was of this viewpoint, as he executed every aristocrat in the places that he conquered. The way he saw it, "Aristocrats offered nothing of value to the Mongols, and were the most likely to resist them successfully in the future." During the pellagra episode, the Southern aristocracy actively block Dr. Goldberger's findings that pellagra is the result of a dietary deficiency rather than a pathogen because admitting that meant admitting that there was something deeply wrong and unjust about the economic system they'd created in the American South. The Haitian "big whites" in pre-revolutionary Haiti take the cake. They become unspeakably rich in the indigo, sugar, and coffee trade by literally working their mutilated slaves to death. They don't even bother buying food or clothing for them, preferring to just buy more manpower from the slave ships, and the methods they use to terrorize their workforce into compliance would've been barbaric centuries before their own time.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: The Captal de Buch, one of Edward III's commanders in the Hundred Years War, spent his final days captured by the French, held in a dungeon because he was "too dangerous" to release. He's portrayed as attempting to strangle his guard through the bars of his cell as this is said.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_97c6b148	type	Allegedly Free Game
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_97c6b148	comment	Allegedly Free Game: In "Free to Play Is Currently Broken", Dan talks about how free to play games are targeting "whales", or players who spend lots of money on in-app purchases, ignoring players who spend little to no money. This results in games that are devoid of content without spending lots of money, and it alienates players who literally cannot afford to play a "free game".
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: Admiral Yi may have been one of the greatest war assets of the Korean navy and largely responsible for repelling the Japanese invasion, but that doesn't stop his enemies in the Korean bureaucracy from trying to stifle him, get him demoted out of the military and tried for treason.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Since a lot of patriarchal societies ran on patrilineal inheritance laws, yet paternity tests didn't exist yet, you can bet this crops up every now and again. Temujin's wife Borte was kidnapped shortly after they married, was raped by a soldier, then gave birth nine months later. While Temujin embraced her son as his own, most others weren't convinced and his legitimacy as heir was never fully realized. Catherine the Great, similarly, had many affairs during her awful marriage to Peter III, and while her son mostly resembled her husband, no one was ever sure if he was her husband's or one of her lover's. (Thankfully, most of Russia didn't care as long as they had an heir.)
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_998360a	type	Take Up My Sword
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_998360a	comment	Take Up My Sword: In "Policing London - The Bow Street Runners", Henry Fielding basically assembled what was the first real police force in London and did so out of a personal desire to fight crime. The episode ends with him dying of gout and cirrhosis, and with his brother John Fielding taking over his post.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Tsar Nicholas II, in the days immediately preceding World War I, wanted to call off the mobilization of Russian forces in a last-ditch effort of averting the global conflict. Unfortunately, a young aide de camp accidentally hit his Berserk Button of being an indecisive ruler by saying "We know how hard it must be for you to decide". While likely meant as a sympathetic gesture, this offhand comment sparked one of the largest, deadliest wars in global history.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: Following the South Sea Bubble series showcasing Walpole's skill as The Chessmaster, it's become a Running Gag to have him frequently appear in other episodes and manipulate the events in some way.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9a7f6233	type	Fictional Video Game
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9a7f6233	comment	If Dan or Matt ever says "heck", expect a tiny snake to appear somewhere onscreen, a reference to their Fictional Video Game Hecknomancer, where the snake is the mascot.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9aa3d869	type	Creative Sterility
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9aa3d869	comment	Creative Sterility: The Mongols under Genghis Khan. Everything they gained, they gained through conquest. During his reign they produced no significant art, literature, inventions, or scientific discoveries.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: For the Catherine series, Frederick the Great comes off as this. He was the one whose recommendation played a part in setting up her career, his angling of geopolitics led to Catherine's husband coming to bail him out, and in gratitude, he drags his feet in helping out Russia and instead becomes the mastermind of the destruction of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Inverted in "Interstate Displacement". Henry Barnes is a heroic counterpart to Robert Moses because he tried to develop Baltimore's roadways without needlessly displacing minority neighborhoods, as opposed to Moses who went out of his way to do that.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9bfbf9f3	comment	Chainmail Bikini: They're actually okay with the trope being used so long as the player is the one deciding to use it. Once the power level of the equipment becomes intrinsically linked to the skimpiness of said equipment, it's no longer okay.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9c6ba43a	type	Values Dissonance
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9c6ba43a	comment	Values Dissonance: invoked Discussed by James in some of the Lies episodes where he describes how certain customs and events were seen differently in its time than modern audiences would: The Ottoman court's approach to succession, where upon taking the throne, the crown prince would murder his brother, nephews and in-laws is something that strikes audiences as especially cruel and bloody. The Lies section notes that this was the historical practise of Ottoman succession, and he notes that this kind of inter-family purge was meant to prevent the kind of Succession Crisis based Civil War of the kind in Western Europe, and to keep the family dispute from spilling on to the people. In The First Opium War mini-series, the main criticism of the British government is that they were imperialists who resorted to drug dealing after their incompetent diplomacy failed them. The stigma against opium and drugs, as well as the negative stereotypes associate with drug dealing did not really exist in its time. In Britain it was perfectly legal and even used as a medicine, and at that time it was seen as purely a trade dispute. In the Lies section, they note that many observers such as President John Adams supported the English position seeing the Chinese Emperor as a monarch oppressing merchants, while Karl Marx with typical snark noted that the English did evil, but this evil probably played a role in helping the Chinese society modernize itself, albeit in a way that the English did not intend or aim to achieve. James largely sees it as Poor Communication Kills, the British did not really bother researching and learning about Chinese society before making their demands, while the Chinese underestimated the English, having grown complacent in isolation. Lampshaded in Killing Smallpox, where Edward Jenner invents the first vaccine by exposing a person to cowpox, a milder form of smallpox... and he tests this on his gardener's eight-year-old son. Matthew even pauses to acknowledge that medically experimenting on a human child would be seen as wildly unethical today, but at the time it would be seen as practical, since smallpox was so endemic that children were the only ones unlikely to have contracted smallpox or cowpox already.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: Their brief one-shot episodes on figures who they find interesting but who don't have enough material for an extensive series, examples include Odenathus, Mary Seacole (which is a 2-parter), Samuel Ha-Nagid, Federico de Montefeltro, Lindisfarne, Tiberius Gracchus the Eldernote The latter appearing as an extra episode to their five part series on the Gracchi (and writen by Mike Duncan Of The History of Rome fame.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Despite almost single-handedly fighting off a raiding party while heavily pregnant, Freydis from "Wine Land" ends up being scolded by the men of her village for her unwomanly behaviour. A random peasant girl claims to receive visions from God Himself to lead the French army to victory against the English and their Burgundian allies and have King Charles VII crowned the rightful king of a united France? Ha ha! Yeah right. Run back home, girlie. Oh wait, you might be legit? Ehh... just stand there and look pretty. War rooms and battlefields are no place for a teenage girl—hey wait, get back here!note Admittedly, Joan was a peasant girl with no military experience. Divine mission or not, putting her in charge of a military campaign would be a terrible idea. She was mostly a Hope Bringer, a symbol for the French that God was on their side
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9ce26d15	type	Video Game Movies Suck
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9ce26d15	comment	Video Game Movies Suck:invoked The phenomenon is brought up in the video "Why Are There No Good Video Game Movies". There's no single answer, but the biggest ones are that most people who are currently in the film industry (either executives or creative folk) aren't that familiar with video games, since video games themselves are such a new medium while other properties such as works of literature have been around for decades before being properly put into a film format (citing The Lord of the Rings as an example of this). Also films based on comic series went through a similar Audience-Alienating Era.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9d1a935f	type	Brought to You by the Letter "S"
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9d1a935f	comment	Brought to You by the Letter "S": James was always shown wearing his blue "J" T-shirt. This was changed after the change in artstyle in Season 6. Generic characters are shown wearing letter-coded clothing, such as "D" ones for Developers and "G" for gamers. Frequently used in Extra History to label the main historical figure or figures being discussed.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: While covering the Zulu Empire, Extra History depicted topless tribal women, which the limited art style showed as having breasts but no nipples.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: After receiving her shoulder surgery, Allison's avatar has had a Bionic Arm drawn in some episodes.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9dffef16	type	Colbert Bump
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9dffef16	comment	Colbert Bump: Invoked. They are not so subtle trying to do this with obscure but important Science Fiction authors. James completely shamelessly dedicates an entire episode to Lord Dunsany, the forgotten father of Fantasy, up to the point of publishing an edition of his short stories in order to "Save him from Obscurity."
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Dan occasionally uses this technique in his speeches.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9f4a47f2	comment	Competitive Balance: invoked Discussed in "Perfect Imbalance" in which they, counter-intuitively, suggest that a designer should deliberately introduce an slight element of minor imbalance into play. The idea being that Complacent Gaming Syndrome will set in if everything is perfectly balanced, as players will find the optimal strategies and only play to those. However, with calculated imbalances, players are forced to adjust their strategies as the Meta Game keeps shifting. They recommend a balancing technique of "cyclical balance" as a kind of extended Tactical Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors, where Element A is obviously powerful, but has an exploitable weakness to a strategy involving Element B, which in turn has a weakness to something using Element C, etc. League of Legends is cited as a good example of this.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9f81bd21	type	Stealth Parody
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9f81bd21	comment	Stealth Parody: Discussed briefly at the end of the "Hard Boiled" episode, where they suggest that the Modern Warfare series has become self-aware of how over the top they have gotten through Serial Escalation, and the end text of the episode recommends playing Modern Warfare 3 with the mentality that it is a send-up of modern shooters.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a01f88a7	type	General Failure
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a01f88a7	comment	General Failure: Most of the Korean military are portrayed as incompetent and/or corrupt in "Admiral Yi", but special mention goes to Won Kyon. When the first Japanese landing parties arrive in Korea, he misses a chance to strike the troop transports while at sea, when his ships would have the advantage, and instead has to scuttle most of his own ships to prevent the Japanese seizing them. Later, when he's chosen to lead an attack on the Japanese navy, he falls for an Obvious Trap, Leeroy Jenkins his forces despite being massively outnumbered, and, when he realises how outmatched he is, suffers a Heroic Blue Screen of Death and becomes incapable of giving orders to his troops, resulting in the most humiliating defeat the Korean navy suffers in the entire war. The British Generals during World War 1, naturally. Due to a century of wealthy nobles being able to essentially buy the rank despite having little to no military experience, this bit them hard when a massive war with hundreds of thousands of young men's lives on the line reared out, and their lack of experience and expertise showed.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a0a005d1	type	Protagonist Journey to Villain
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a0a005d1	comment	Protagonist Journey to Villain: Ned Kelly starts out as a strong kid who saves another boy from drowning, and gets a scarf for it, gets pushed into crime by an unjust system of wealthy landowners and crooked cops trying to keep his family down, tries to keep up some standards by only killing in self-defense and maintaining a rough chivalry and code of conduct among his gang, and finally gets caught after a bloody standoff following an attempt to derail a train to kill hundreds of cops. Temujin starts out as a boy living in the cruel world of the Mongol steppes and scraping by to survive with his mother and siblings. But he murders his brother to gain control of the family, starting down the path that will lead him to massacre millions of civilians across Asia in pursuit of his imperial ambitions.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a0cf200f	type	Digital Piracy Is Evil
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a0cf200f	comment	Digital Piracy Is Evil:invoked Discussed in the "Piracy" episode. Daniel and James' viewpoint in a nutshell: if it's not available in your country or has been lost in the sands of time, then pirate away. Otherwise, if you like something, just pay for it, and don't be a dick. The episode addresses the flawed arguments on both sides of the debate: For game companies: By releasing their games with annoying DRM, they just provide pirated games the advantage of being free, and giving them the additional advantage of being unrestricted and less buggy, and therefore is not going to help the developers in the long run. For pirates: Any justification you have for piracy based upon the argument that "the game is not worth buying/playing" for whatever reason instantly becomes hypocritical and meaningless once you pirate said game, because by doing so you have just proven that the game is worth playing.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a20d4674	type	Techno Babble
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a20d4674	comment	Technobabble: The subject of an entire episode. They link it to the difference between the extremes of science fiction settings, with hard science fiction on one end and future fantasy on the other, saying that the really inaccurate use of technobabble tends to come when an author cannot commit to a fantastical idea and tries to tenuously ground it with sciencey-sounding language. They then go on to briefly define a few commonly used ideas in physics to give viewers a slightly better understanding of those terms.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Hannibal is forced to gouge out one of his own eyes after it becomes infected with disease during a swamp campaign.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a3121d7	type	Socially Scored Society
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a3121d7	comment	Socially Scored Society: The video "Propaganda Games: Sesame Credit - The True Danger of Gamification" discusses Alibaba's Sesame Credit algorithm, which purportedly analyzed/"gamified" users' online activity and score them. According to the video, users could raise their scores by doing things in accordance with the party line.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a3f1531b	type	Standard Snippet
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a3f1531b	comment	Standard Snippet: The intro to all three seasons features the famous opening riff from Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger"—appropriate for a series that's all about gitting gud while having the crap beaten out of you.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Justice Henry Fielding, the Magistrate of Bow Street. While his official duty was to examine suspects to decide whether or not to send them to trial. He was noted as being honest and diligent in an otherwise corrupt system, and went out of his way to fight crime by organizing a group of Constables to catch thieves and gang members for him.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Izanami has just unleashed the Shikome on Izanagi and is going to chase the god out of the underworld.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: The episode "Palmyra Today", which consists of James describing the destruction of this melting pot's artifacts and architectural masterpieces at the hands of ISIS.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a52b90b6	type	Floating Limbs
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a52b90b6	comment	Floating Limbs: The main art style has these for all human characters that are not Daniel or Matt behind their lectern. Guest artists might or might not follow this.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a632f7fa	type	Cool Train
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a632f7fa	comment	Cool Train: The Defence of Poland has Armored Train 53 used by the Polish Army, a "steel behemoth" bearing anti-tank guns.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: LeeLee, previously a guest artist, joined the team in the 100th episode. Dan Jones, also previously a guest artist, replaced her in "Big Bad I - The Basics of Villains in Video Game Design". Same goes for Scott DeWitt.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a681bfc6	type	Amicable Exes
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a681bfc6	comment	Amicable Exes: Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin. They were lovers for a time and might have even married in secret, but Potemkin's fear that Catherine would stop loving him put such a strain on their relationship that they broke up. Yet despite this they remained close friends and trusted allies for the rest of Potemkin's life, and Catherine was utterly distraught when he died. Doubles as Better as Friends.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: The corresponding Lies episode acknowledges that Joan's tactics were more advanced than Get 'em, but clarifies that the creators not only wanted to avoid being too bogged down in military history after the recent Siege of Vienna episode but were trying to capture Joan's leadership ability and sense of righteousness more than literally describe them.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: After massacring countless Jews across the Rhinelands, Count Emicho quietly returned to his estate and lived the rest of his life as though nothing had happened. Despite murdering his kin and ordering (or at the very least sanctioning) the massacre of Mediolanum, the Ostrogothic King Vitiges was made a Byzantine Patrician after being disposed. He got an estate outside of Constantinople and lived out his days in peace and comfort. Subverted with Sultan Suleiman. The mini-series on his life made it clear that while he wasn't directly punished for the various ruthless things he did in his life, he died alone and weighed down with regrets over his life's choices. John Blunt, who was mastermind behind the South Sea Bubble (making him responsible for tanking The British Economy and for all the resulting suicides), still died with a lot more money than he started out with AND he got to keep the Baronet that the government gave him as a reward for managing the South Sea Company. Robert Walpole actually invoked this trope, pulling the webs behind the scenes to ensure that the only people whose corruption was discovered were those whose fall could help his rise to power. Potentially justified, as the episode claimed that everyone's corruption being revealed would result in the British Government itself collapsing. The two British sailors who beat a Chinese civilian to death were tried by Charles Elliot and sentenced to a decade of hard labor back in England ... and as soon as they arrived in England the government immediately threw out the case and let those two sailors go scot-free. Cheng I Sao and her whole crew, including her adoptive-son-turned-lover-turned-husband, not only get away with years of brutal piracy and racketeering with total amnesty and getting to keep all their loot, the pirate queen successfully forces the government to let her men join the army (being given handsome sums to establish themselves in that case), and gets to keep a few ships of her own for supposedly-legitimate trading. She settles down to a long, happy, comfortable life running a gambling house. Despite having caused a horrible famine out of racism and classism, Charles Trevelyan was given knighthood and maintained a prosperous career in civil service. Beckwith, the murderer of Medgar Evers, escaped all consequences for his crime for decades thanks to his powerful connections via the Klu Klux Klan within Mississippi government, and was only convicted in 1994.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a70f9aba	type	Accentuate the Negative
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a70f9aba	comment	Accentuate the Negative: Averted. Extra Credits tries to avoid outrage and flaming and provide as nuanced a view of their topics as they can fit into a seven-minute YouTube video. At least half the time, they explain the worst of a backlash as resulting from somebody's Marketing department putting their foot in their mouth, when the actual issue was a moderately-problematic thing that could have been done better but didn't deserve the vitriol that the Internet was calling forth.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: The Haitian slaves, not very keen about the system that mutilated and disfigured their bodies while literally working them to death, but also not keen on being boiled to death in sugar vats, eaten alive by mosquitos, blown to bits by being tied to lit kegs of gunpowder, or other barbaric punishments for open revolt engaged in passive resistance by pretending not to understand orders, feigning illness, and generally underperforming. This had the useful side effect of convincing everyone else that they were stupid and lazy... and causing them to make the all-too-literally fatal mistake of underestimating their ability and will to resist. The People's Crusade was so incompetent that it convinced the larger Muslim world that the rest of the crusade was nothing to worry about. As a result, they turned their attentions elsewhere and were not prepared for the professional armies of the Prince's Crusade.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a7ebd729	comment	When loot boxes are briefly discussed in an episode on competitive gaming ladders as a suggestion for more microrewards, the on-screen loot box declares "It's me! Your favorite guy!" This is in reference to the infamously-divisive episodes of the show discussing Revenue-Enhancing Devices.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a7f4710f	type	Mood Dissonance
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a7f4710f	comment	Mood Dissonance: In the "Open Letter to EA Marketing" video, Daniel reads out-loud the original mission statement for Electronic Arts, a highly idealistic vision for the evolution of video games as an art form. While he's reading this, he shows clips of EA's various cynical ad campaigns that embrace the worst of gaming stereotypes and do little to advance the medium as an art.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a8076bdf	type	War Elephants
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a8076bdf	comment	War Elephants: Hannibal's famous use of elephants against the Romans is discussed in "The Punic Wars"; Dan notes that given most Roman soldiers had probably never heard of or seen an elephant before they went into battle against the Carthaginians, it's probably the closest thing to a "humans versus monsters" fight that's ever occurred in real life.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a80ad52c	comment	Hanging Judge: Salathiel Lovell, who sentenced John Law to death, is described by Daniel as being one. This also counts as an Informed Attribute because the only defendant Lovell is shown judging really did commit the murder he was accused of, and back then hanging was the prescribed punishment for murder.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a8559a9f	comment	The importance of balancing gaming with Real Life and the serious consequences of game compulsion was detailed over two episodes, and broke the usual style of the show by having James speak directly.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Dan could hardly be considered stoic, but he generally keeps to his calm and even tone while narrating. While he rarely raises his voice, his avatar is occasionally drawn noticeably annoyed or angry, such as when in the episode on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, when mentioning how the managers had locked some of the doors so they could check each worker for theft.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a969c74a	type	Final Solution
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a969c74a	comment	Final Solution: This trope appears a few times. This was a modus operandi for Shaka Zulu. Where in the past combat between South African tribes had been ceremonial (the men from each side stood facing each other, throwing spears and taunting, and casualties are low), the introduction of European crops greatly increased the population and the competition for resources. As a result, Shaka Zulu would have his men kill all enemy soldiers, all enemy prisoners of war, and almost all enemy civilians. His conquest, and the adoption of his methods by other tribes, came to be known as "The Crushing". Genghis Khan used this tactic as well. First he used this tactic against the Tartars - executing every Tartar man who was taller than a wagon wheel. After this he adopted the military policy where by he would kill every single person in any city that refused to surrender, and would kill all the aristocrats in the cities that did. By the end of his life Genghis Khan had killed millions. The final leader at the end of the Haitian Revolution, tired of whites constantly going back on their promise to honor free people of color's rights and/or keep slavery abolished, orders every white in Haiti to be massacred. Even his own men were horrified, and spared every white they could.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: King Alfred is portrayed as one in part 1 of "The Danelaw." He had fallen victim twice to Guthrum's backstabbing antics, the first due to an absolutely boneheaded decision to pay Guthrum a danegeld to simply return to his conquered holdings, and the second time simply failing to calculate with knowledge on his enemy when making demands. However, Alfred manages to slip away during a surprise attack Guthrum lays on Christmas, and proceeds to wage a guerilla campaign against both Guthrum and the nobles who accepted his bribes. Alfred then proceeded to reclaim his throne and get Guthrum to fully accept the terms of the treaty, be it because of the latter's conversion to Christianity or proving to be too much trouble to be worth conquering. The Haitian slaves spent so many years convincing their cruel masters that they were stupid, lazy, and incompetent (partly to passive-aggressively resist slavery) that by the time they launched their well-planned and well-organized revolt, Haiti's free castes were so unwilling to believe that they were capable of such an organized resistance that they accused each other of helping slaves for their own ends. And the other castes paid dearly for their mistake.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: "Izanami and Izanagi" has Izanagi being chased by the Shikome as Yakity Sax plays in the background.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: As the Bismarck sinks, the British sailors feel more than a touch of pity for the German sailors fighting for their lives.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ac928039	type	Four-Star Badass
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ac928039	comment	Four-Star Badass: Numerous examples since it focuses on many wars: Belisarius, who in the name of the Roman Empire took Carthage back from the Vandals, took Italy back from Ostrogoths, drove back the Persians, and routed a nomad horde threatening Constantinople. All while outnumbered. Admiral Yi, who single-handedly drove the Japanese invaders out of Korea while constantly outnumbered. The mini-series on him describes him as though he were the ONLY Korean military leader at the time who wasn't incompetent or corrupt. Hannibal Barca, who makes Rome tremble and almost destroys Rome itself and later, Scipio Africanus, who un-does everything Hannibal accomplished.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The People's Crusade was such a total failure that the Sultanate of Rum completely ignored the more-competent Baron's Crusade which came after them, allowing the Crusaders to gain the momentum and footholds necessary to become a very serious threat. James even speculates that all of the Crusaders would have been defeated at Anatolia if the People's Crusade had been less of a failure.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: The Signalman in the battle of Saragarhi report to the two nearby forts as the Sikh Officers fight to the last.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ad806839	type	Sexual Extortion
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ad806839	comment	Sexual Extortion: In the third episode of "Policing London", it was mentioned that one unnamed previous Justice in this era would offer prostitutes lenient sentences "in exchange for their services". It was mentioned to highlight just how corrupt the justice system in London during this era had become. As one of the many abuses that built the slave society of pre-revolutionary Haiti, so many Frenchmen had so many coerced sexual relationships with female slaves that it literally created an entire social class, the free people of color.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ae4b1ce1	type	Caustic Critic
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ae4b1ce1	comment	Caustic Critic: A beautiful aversion. While there are things that piss off the EC team, most of their analysis are done fairly, and often conceding to the problems and troubles the other side of the debate goes through. Even their Call of Juarez: The Cartel review, which is possibly the most negative and judgmental thing they've produced, always speaks professionally and thoroughly justifies every complaint. This is in part due to James working in the industry and both being sympathetic to the troubles that lead to flawed games and not wanting alienate his colleagues. The upside is that they do then share their insights into how these problems come about.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_afd181c7	type	Xtreme Kool Letterz
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_afd181c7	comment	Xtreme Kool Letterz: The URL of the YouTube channel is spelled as "ExtraCreditz."
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "Argh, dog!" every time Dan gets jumped by a dog.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: After Ned Kelly gets out of jail, the police stalk him and his family in the hopes of finding something with which to arrest him on. Kelly decides enough is enough and that if they wanted him to be a criminal then he would give them one.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b0cac376	type	The Usurper
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b0cac376	comment	The Usurper: Kamehameha the Great. He was prophesied at birth to hold this position, and after the previous king died Kamehameha used his control over the war god to take over the kingdom.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Frederick The Great's father, who bullied his son, mocked his "unmanly" talents and interests, and had his son's lover executed before his very eyes.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b23e7ba9	type	Real Is Brown
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b23e7ba9	comment	Real Is Brown: Poked fun at several times.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b2f4114e	type	Heir Club for Men
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b2f4114e	comment	They note that, "We often criticize primogeniture as it [...] leaves women out entirely". Technically, primogeniture only denotes preference by birth order while gender is a separate set of criteria. The British monarchy, for instance, recently adopted "absolute primogeniture", which favours the first-born child regardless of gender.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b38b6147	type	Science Fantasy
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b38b6147	comment	Science Fantasy: This video theorizes that many of the game we play that we believe are of the Science Fiction genre (e.g. Mass Effect, Fallout, and System Shock) are, in reality, this.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: While the slaves of the Haitian Revolution were vicious toward their oppressors, they often spared women, children, and overseers who weren't overtly cruel.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b4de919d	type	Make an Example of Them
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b4de919d	comment	The British Commanders during the First Opium War used strict discipline to ensure none of their soldiers looted or murdered...but beat up a captured British soldier and they'll burn your village to the ground.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: The People's Crusade as detailed in the Extra History concerning the First Crusade. But then, it turns out that it directly helped the actual crusade in the process, causing the Turks to initially fatally underestimate what they were facing.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: "The Dodo Bird: What ACTUALLY Happened" describes the eponymous bird as "a dawdling dumpy little dolt doomed to be devoured by Dutch deckhands until demographic decline destroyed it within decades."
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: In "Law of the Splintered Paddle", Dan says that Kamehameha wanted a stable system, not one riven by conflict. The first part of the sentence is accompanied by the Windows XP logo, while the latter has Kamehameha angrily throwing a rock at the logo for Windows Vista. In the Tulip Mania video, Matt is not subtle about his distaste for NFTs, outright calling them a scourge and comparing them to the (heavily exaggerated) popular culture perception of the tulip bubble.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b55e8979	type	Science Hero
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b55e8979	comment	Science Hero: There are a number of these. Dr. Joseph Goldberger spent his whole life battling diseases and catching every one of them. He'd saved thousands of lives, won five nobel prizes, and worked even when terminally ill with cancer. Specifically discussed in his episode was his discovery that pellagra was a nutritional disease rather than a germ, and how niacin could prevent it. John Snow discovered how cholera was a bacteria spread through unclean water, rather than through miasma. He couldn't cure it, but he figured out how to prevent it in London by avoiding water contamination. The episode "The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry" is about several of these, and how over millennia they developed geometry and calculus. Robert Koch from "Curing Tuberculosis" ends up being a deconstruction. As a result of his rivalry with Louis Pasteur, he buys into the myth of a scientist as a heroic singular figure, rather than part of a community building on each other's work. This results in him abandoning the rigorous methodical practices he relied on early in his career and pushing his "cure" for tuberculosis before he understands the mechanisms at play and can guarantee its effectiveness, leading to a medical scandal. Edward Jenner from History of Vaccines - Killing Smallpox - Extra History, who cured smallpox and developed modern vaccination.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b58b4e3c	comment	The First Crusaders are depicted as the greedy, entitled, back-stabbing, fatally stupid, power-hungry mass-murderers they were. Their entire (accurate) quest, motivations and actions for obtaining it are depicted so unsympathetically that their Islamic enemies come off as Hero Antagonists.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: On the one hand, Robert A. Heinlein's quasi-libertarian politics show through in his science fiction writing and make for fascinating and influential ideas and topics of discussion. On the other hand, they are frequently perhaps a bit shallow and sophomoric where it counts, such as exploring free love in a manner that, in practice if not in philosophy, basically just lets the male main character sleep around without getting attached, ignoring that the colonists in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress were only able to build their superior libertarian society thanks to a supercomputer built with government funding that they steal for themselves, or presenting and idealizing a government in Starship Troopers which demands harsh government service to earn franchise. And they describe his later work as degenerating into an almost obsessive examination of incest.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b5c56995	type	Corrupt the Cutie
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b5c56995	comment	Corrupt the Cutie: Prince Sophie, a girl with progressive values and ideas ends up becoming the expansionist, imperialist, reactionary serf-oppressing Empress Catherine.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b7042372	type	Cycle of Revenge
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b7042372	comment	Also discussed in Cycle of Revenge, this was common in Steppe tradition. Temujin's mother Hoelun had been kidnapped from her tribe and forced to marry Temujin's father. Over 20 years later, her tribe decide to "avenge" her by kidnapping her son's wife, just because she was a young woman from the tribe that kidnapped . (To add insult to injury, they chose not to "rescue" Hoelun since she was an old widow now, and their soldiers raped the girl they kidnapped.)
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b7227261	type	Shocking Defeat Legacy
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b7227261	comment	Shocking Defeat Legacy: The Opium Wars were this for China, as it marked the first of many cracks in an Empire that had seen itself as stable and prosperous and entirely isolated. The treaties are known in China and other parts of Asia as "the unequal treaties".
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b77eb3b2	type	Revenge by Proxy
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b77eb3b2	comment	Revenge by Proxy: See Cycle of Revenge above, and note that none of the targets of revenge had anything to do with the previous transgression. The civilians killed by the Eleanora weren't the ones who killed the crewman, the four crewmen of The Fair American weren't the ones who massacred the civilians. Also discussed in Cycle of Revenge, this was common in Steppe tradition. Temujin's mother Hoelun had been kidnapped from her tribe and forced to marry Temujin's father. Over 20 years later, her tribe decide to "avenge" her by kidnapping her son's wife, just because she was a young woman from the tribe that kidnapped . (To add insult to injury, they chose not to "rescue" Hoelun since she was an old widow now, and their soldiers raped the girl they kidnapped.)
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b7b1aa73	type	And Then What?
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: After Genghis Khan successfully united the Mongol steppe under his banner, he moved on to conquer neighboring kingdoms to the west, east, and south, since he was a lifelong conquerer who seemed unable to settle down and enjoy the peace he had created. Otto von Bismarck worked his whole life to unite many German-speaking provinces under a single German Empire. Once that goal was accomplished, he seemed to have no real plan and had to grapple with how to actually govern it. After Joan of Arc swiftly routed Burgundian French and their English allies and had Charles VII crowned King of France, she seemed unsure of what to do with herself now that her holy mission from God seemed complete. (Tragically, her next bit assignment leads to her capture, trial, and execution by the English.)
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: The mini-series on The First Crusade includes The People's Crusade (the peasants who followed Peter the Hermit to Turkey and killed everything along the way) and The Barons Crusade (knights and lords who hacked and stabbed their way from Constantinople to Jerusalem). During The Great Northern War, Charles XII repeatedly refuses to make peace and consolidate his gains, despite the eventual ruin of his nation's economy, diplomatic isolation, and finally, military collapse. In the end, he literally fights until he is dead.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b8d3f642	type	Illegal Religion
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b8d3f642	comment	Illegal Religion: Pharaoh Akhenaten attempted to unify Ancient Egyptian religion around a single god, Aten, by outlawing the worship of all other gods. This went over poorly with most of the citizens of Egypt, to the point that his son immediately reinstated the old religion as soon as he took the throne and Akhenaten was eventually Unpersoned by a later pharaoh named Horemheb.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b8dbbc07	type	Ink-Suit Actor
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b8dbbc07	comment	Ink-Suit Actor: All the characters are loose caricatures of the related characters. Dan is usually the only one speaking, but the other people involved in the project will pop up from time to time. Mike Rugnetta from PBS Idea Channel makes a cameo appearance in an Extra Credits video to mention a related video on the same topic.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b91eaeea	type	Must Be Invited
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_b91eaeea	comment	Must Be Invited: A criminal went to hide in a house in 15th century Hungary and a squad of soldiers came to look for him there. Unfortunately, the owner of the house turned out to be Vlad the Impaler, aka Dracula, who ordered their sergeant to be executed. He argued successfully that they hadn't been invited to look for the criminal.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ba5bd7	comment	The Broad Street Pump: You know nothing John Snow!
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ba6cf869	comment	The Mongols have these whenever they go raiding.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Princess Sophia's mother was, by all accounts, a very vain and narcissistic woman. She saw her daughter merely as a tool for her own social advancement, and then often openly begrudged and tried to upstage her daughter's rising status. Extra History makes it clear that the Haitian Revolution probably would not have been so violent or complicated if the four castes weren't solely out for themselves. The wealthy "big whites" wanted to remove economic restrictions placed on them by France but otherwise maintain the current class and race structure since it put them on top of both. (Refusing to budge on even the tiniest black rights.) The "small whites" wanted to gain more economic advantages like the "big whites" yet restrict rights of the "free people of color" who were generally more prosperous and educated than them. The "free people of color," in turn, wanted to lift racial policies against themselves but were fine with (and actively enforced) the institution of slavery for other Africans. The slaves were the only ones who wanted abolition. During the revolution, pretty much all sides made and broke alliances with the others to advance their own interests at the expense of others (with even many slaves trying to screw over other slaves for their freedom/advancement), with no one able to find a compromise that worked for everything.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: In "Art Is Not the Opposite of Fun," Daniel uses this trope while questioning the claim that studying what makes games unique will cause them to become worse or less fun. In Call of Juarez: The Cartel towards the end. In "Games You Might Not Have Tried (Horror Games)," when talking about Song of Saya: In Extra Remix - Sixto Sounds, in a less heavy sense. And in part 2 their Extra History segment about World War I:
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Poorly-made propaganda games. Well-made propaganda games don't always set their world on fire either, but poorly-made propaganda games inspire epic rants like these. The big problem they have with propaganda games is willfully misinforming the audience. While Call of Juarez: The Cartel can't really be described as propaganda, it is such a disrespectful hack-job of the Mexican Drug War that it deserves everything it gets.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Appears sometimes. The Mongols have these whenever they go raiding. The surgeon who killed Jayanagara was also sporting one before taking his revenge.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_bd50ec63	type	Battle in the Rain
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_bd50ec63	comment	Battle in the Rain: The Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years War, and in a fitting bit of symbolism, the battle was won because both the rain and the arrows of English Longbowmen bogged down the heavily-armored French knights too much.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_bddb820f	type	Must Have Caffeine
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_bddb820f	comment	Must Have Caffeine: The second artist, Leelee, might be this, judging from the sheer number of coffee cups in the "Energy Systems" episode.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_bdf2a460	type	Tragic Dream
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_bdf2a460	comment	Tragic Dream: Toussaint Louverture hoped to build a peaceful, racially-integrated post-slavery Haiti, and to bind up the wounds of war. Despite his incredible ability, he fell short, partly due to structural problems of an economy designed to be dysfunctional thrice over, partly due to feeling he had to enforce autocratic actions he disliked through military force to keep the fledgling nation together and free, the machinations of France and the other global powers, power struggles among the revolutionaries blossoming into civil war... He'd lost that battle before Napoleon's armies even invaded Saint-Domingue.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: In "Policing London," the creation of a police force has supporters and opponents. While one side claims that order is needed in the streets of London, others point out police would be used to oppress poor people.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c18c22e8	type	Colonel Kilgore
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c18c22e8	comment	Colonel Kilgore: Chief Tadodaho, who is determined to keep his tribe in its Forever War with the other Haudenosaunee Nations so as to ensure he continues to remain in power.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c250346f	type	Generic Doomsday Villain
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c250346f	comment	Generic Doomsday Villain: In the Villains 2-parter, they pointed out narrative villains are not supposed to be evil just to make the world worse. Some could be Well Intentioned Extremists, for example.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c2e2a445	type	Jade-Colored Glasses
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c2e2a445	comment	The pre-Escapist videos (and even some of the early Escapist episodes) are more representative of Floyd's college-requisite Jade-Colored Glasses, and have been incrementally re-made with new scripts and new art whenever Writer's Block sets in...
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Roosevelt and Ben Tillman despised one another with a passion, but still worked together to regulate the railroads.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c3ae3893	type	Rerun
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c3ae3893	comment	Re Run: Almost every episode from the show's run on YouTube was revamped for The Escapist. The "Uncanny Valley" episode they uploaded to PATV was the third time they've covered that topic, once for each incarnation of the show. It was remade from scratch instead of using clips from either of the other versions.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Anthony Foxx's appointment to secretary of transportation proved to be this. He wanted to reform his department to serve all communities, but red tape prevented him from making the meaningful changes he wanted to.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c4240537	comment	Moral Event Horizon: invoked The murder of Tiberius Gracchus and his followers. Dan points out that since Tiberius was a Tribune, his person was considered sacrosanct. In other words, killing him was not only murder; it was sacrilege. The mob that murdered Tiberius broke the taboo and escaped unpunished, which set the stage for more violent upheaval and constant civil war that didn't end until Augustus created the Empire 106 years later.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c52ac939	type	Helium Speech
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c52ac939	comment	Helium Speech: Daniel Floyd constantly narrates the videos with a voice that's been computer-shifted into this by using Audacity. (Originally it was the result of speeding up the video of his original class project presentation in order to cut down its run time.) His videos on Extra Play show what he actually sounds like. Tried briefly with Scott in one video before he just coughed and used his actual-sounding voice. Scott revisited the gag for James' voice, even hanging a lampshade on it.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: Charles Elliot received word from an opium smuggler that the Chinese were planning on breaking the ceasefire, so he preemptively broke it first. The episode very much implies that the smuggler was lying. When Japan invades Korea in "Admiral Yi", the Koreans initially refuse to counter-attack because they mistake the Japanese transports for a trade fleet, or possibly a Japanese ambassador coming to apologise for Japan's rudeness during previous negotiations.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c63e7d67	type	Invoked
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c63e7d67	comment	Invoked for the series on "The Battle of Kursk", when the Nazi Swastika was converted into Iron Cross. The reasons for this, as stated at the start is that the Nazi logo is banned in Germany and other parts of Europe, and they want the videos to be accessible and widely exhibited, which is why they made this small compromise.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c6655b23	type	Fallen Hero
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c6655b23	comment	Fallen Hero: The Black Prince in the Hundred Years War became one, at least by medieval standards; in the beginning of the war, he was a shining example of chivalry, youthful vigor, and a true, proud heir to the throne Edward III was christening. After catching the Black Death, though, he became much more brutal and violent in his campaigns, slaughtering people left and right, and crushing practically anyone underneath his boots. By the end of his life his mother has died from the plague, and his father is a shell of what he once was, while also being taken advantage of by his new mistress.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c6bc89f7	type	Curb-Stomp Cushion
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c6bc89f7	comment	Curb Stomp Cushion: A major theme of "The Defense of Poland"; Poland's ability to fight back against Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union collapsed after five weeks, but the Polish army spent that time fighting fiercely. There were also thousands of Polish soldiers, tankers, and pilots who escaped and carried on the fight from the UK. The one bit of success the Royal Navy had during the Battle of Denmark Straight was a shell from Prince of Wales hitting Bismarck. This caused Bismarck to start leaking oil, forcing the Kriegsmarine to abandon the plan to raid supply convoys in favor of going to occupied France for repairs.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c75c63a3	type	Blackout Basement
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c75c63a3	comment	A particularly strong example is in the Tomb of the Giants, throughout which Dan repeatedly complained that he wished he had some kind of light source. That he did not make the connection to the Skull Lantern he found a few hours earlier in the Catacombs is understandable, that he picked up another Skull Lantern in the Tomb and missed the hint there is less so. Lampshaded by Dan himself in the comments after he uploaded it.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: There are several, but the most obvious one is in The Broad Street Pump mini-series. Whenever they show a miasma-proponent poo-pooing John Snow's research, they always say "You know nothing, John Snow!". Ned Stark also shows up when they assure us that, yes, his name really was John Snow. In The South Sea Bubble, when talking about Robert Knight adding phony names to his ledger in an attempt to hide the rampant corruption in the British government, some of the fake names he added include Ser Jorah Mormont, Micky the Mouse, and Bart. In the episodes on the Constitution when Alexander Hamilton is introduced they draw him doing the pose from the Hamilton posters. Nelson Muntz shows up during a diagram of the Uesugi taking over the Takeda in the fourth Sengoku Jidai episode. In the second D-Day episode, a image showing King George VI doing a inspection visit and being shown in a movie theater is a direct shoutout to the Gracie Films intro, complete with the shushing woman. Later, when talking about the Enigma codes, the unreadable German message is "fhqwhgads". When Justinian hires an assassin to kill Vitalian, the assassin wears a white cape with a beak-shaped hood and is armed with a hidden blade. Admiral Yi realising the dire straits their costal defences are in is represented by him looking at a music album labelled Dire Straits The Viking Expansion episodes feature a couple of Professional Wrestling shout outs, with cameo appearances by Famous B, Kenny Omega, and The Young Bucks. "Agincourt" has guest narrator David Crowther quoting Monty Python and the Holy Grail, claiming that the French told Henry V that "his mother was a hamster and his father smelt of elderberries". Matthew compares Joan of Arc 's expected role to be like Captain America's: show up in fancy armor, bring supplies, boost morale, and basically be a glorified mascot while the army does the actual fighting. Like Captain America, she's not having it, and charges into the fray. Additionally, Joan got taunted by the English soldiers in a reverse of what happened in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (where it was the French who taunted the English hero): "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!" When Joan states to be on a "mission from God" upon joining the army, she briefly appears dressed as one of The Blues Brothers. In the "Policing London" series, Matt's line describing Jonathan Wild as "Lord of the Underworld" is accompanied by a shot of Wild standing in front of a werewolf.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: The first episode on Genghis Khan, who is primarily known for his brutality, discusses the young TemÃ¼jin's terrible childhood and how it taught the future Great Khan to see brutality as necessary for survival.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c917adb7	type	Criticism Tropes
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c917adb7	comment	Criticism Tropes: Discussed in the "Game Reviews" episode. Analysis focuses specifically on the differences between the informational content of typical movie reviews and the informational content of typical game reviews. The former tends toward more contextual information as to how the film compares to other films, while the later tends toward more descriptive information as to what is in the product. While they concede that the descriptive information is essential, if that is all a video game review is, all reviews end up looking alike and it becomes difficult for a reader to glean perspective. They also briefly touches on the "Four-Point Scale" problem, mentioning that to someone who comes into the hobby from outside of it and is more familiar with rating systems for other works such as movies, game reviews would often seem quite misleading when giving numbers.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: The Uncanny Valley episode pokes fun at the show's art and Daniel's narration. One episode of Extra Remix had Dan Floyd take a potshot at the OC Remix user "sephfire," which caused a bit of confusion in the comments section until Dan clarified that "sephfire" was his old screen name. When loot boxes are briefly discussed in an episode on competitive gaming ladders as a suggestion for more microrewards, the on-screen loot box declares "It's me! Your favorite guy!" This is in reference to the infamously-divisive episodes of the show discussing Revenue-Enhancing Devices.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c9993b95	type	Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_c9993b95	comment	Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage: In "The History of Paper Money", John Law offered to pardon any French Prisoner who was willing to marry a prostitute and move to the Louisiana Territory.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_cb6b5864	type	New Wave Science Fiction
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_cb6b5864	comment	New Wave Science Fiction: Detailed in one part of the video series about the early work of William Gibson, and touched on in a few others, as the sea change away from the Golden Age of idea-driven science fiction towards a more literary approach to the genre.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: The Chinese revolutionaries of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sun Yat-sen (the subject of the relevant series) was the one who came closest to uniting them before the 1947 revolution, and is still regarded as the father of modern China by both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Taiwan, but even his influence wasn't enough to keep the various factions from turning on each other in the 1910s and 1920s. Similarly, the Latin American revolutionaries in the SimÃ³n BolÃvar series. The same factionalism which kept the colonists from overturning Spanish imperial rule before the Peninsular War undermined their attempts to unite against the restored crown of Spain, and would repeatedly give the Spanish openings to try to retake their South and Central American possessions. Later, after Spain was finally ejected for good, BolÃvar's attempts to unit the former colonies into a Republic of Gran Panama ran aground on factionalism, provincialism, and BolÃvar's own intransigence towards the governments he'd help establish. Even before the revolution began, Haiti had four social classes all struggling with each other. The "big whites" who owned the plantations wanted to keep everyone else in their place while breaking free of French mercantilist policies to market their huge stock of agricultural goods elsewhere. The "little whites" wanted to get rich upon immigrating, and resented both the "big whites" for their wealth and privilege, and the free people of color for often having more wealth and education than themselves. The free people of color resented having many openly racist laws (proposed and supported by "little whites") stripping their rights with a fairer system still in living memory. And, of course, all three groups looked down on and oppressed the slaves, who lived in unspeakable conditions and misery, and plotted to get their freedom through violent force of arms. After the French Revolution proper begins, both whites and free people of color in the slave-owning castes are too busy wrestling with one another over power, especially the whites who fight the French government and attempt to gain independence rather than give up white supremacy, to see the slave uprising coming right under their nose. And once it begins, the other parties never manage to crush the rebellion and reinstitute slavery because of their inability to unite, and the whites' unwillingness to compromise on racial supremacy. Tragically, the freed Haitians end up fighting each other over power after repulsing several foreign and domestic enemies, but it's averted in the end, when Napoleon sends an army to reinstitute slavery, with the explicit aim of asserting white supremacy long-term. None of the freed slave factions want that, and the threat of it unites them against the invaders like nothing else could.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Everyone involved with the South Sea Company, which at its height had to make other shipping businesses illegal simply because there wasn't enough currency in existence for both. And all the while the South Sea Company never made any actual money by trading. The Honorable East India Company, which opened an opium market in Calcutta and encouraged smugglers to sell it to China despite it being illegal there.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ce104b8e	comment	Jack Sheppard, an early 18th century London thief, became famous for this after breaking out of increasingly secure prisons and making London authorities look like chumps. (And London sentiment at the time was very anti-authority after the English government's South Sea Bubble screwed them over.)
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Implied to be why Belisarius disobeys Emperor Justinian and finishes off the Ostrogothic Kingdom, as the end of the Gothic War was shown as happening soon after the Massacre of Mediolanum. Also implied to be the cause for the Battle of Blood River; in the mini-series on the Zulus, they murder Boer men who came to negotiate peacefully and then after they attacked the undefended wagon train where those men's families were. The next Boer wagon train to come that way was armed to the teeth and mad as hell ... Played straight with Admiral Yi, who at the end of the war assaults and destroys the Japanese navy as they attempt to evacuate from Korea. The reason the episode started for him doing this is to punish the Japanese forces for their war-crimes in Korea. Following the Battle of the Denmark Strait, Churchill has a personal order for every available ship in the Atlantic and they follow it as well as transmit it over the airwaves. The order? Sink the Bismarck. Sink the Bismarck. Sink the Bismarck.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_cf314438	type	Warrior Heaven
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_cf314438	comment	Warrior Heaven: When Eric Bloodaxe, the last Danelaw King, is killed by one of his own men his family commissions a poem showing him ascending to Valhalla.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_cf48c17	type	Nightmare Face
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_cf48c17	comment	Nightmare Face: The Strigoi. Check the page image of the Nightmare Fuel page for the disturbing imagery.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Bismarck is shown predicting WWI (he compared Europe to a munitions room full of men smoking cigars), its cause (he stated it would be something in the Balkans), and what would happen to his boss (he predicts that Kaiser Wilhelm II would lose his crown in twenty years ... and was off by four months). Nobody heeded Otto von Bismarck's warning.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_cfc55f21	comment	Heroic Wannabe: In "Napoleon in Egypt" series, Napoleon and his entourage are depicted as a pack of mall ninjas who trying to cosplay as an ancient Romans and ancient Egyptians while doing ridiculous things.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_cfda0ecb	type	Escort Mission
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_cfda0ecb	comment	Escort Mission: Discussed in "Escort Mission - Dragging Dead Weight" episode, in which why they are frustrating towards players and how they can improve on them.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d03fc3f1	type	Good Shepherd
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d03fc3f1	comment	Good Shepherd: The priests and monks who opposed Count Emicho's Crusade. Specific examples listed by the episode include the Bishop of Speyers (gave Jews in his community his protection), the Bishop of Worms (hid local Jews in his own home ... sadly to no effect as the Crusaders burned it to the ground and killed them anyway), and the Bishop of Mainz (barred the city against the Crusaders, then sent his personal guard to help defend it and the Jews inside from Count Emicho's men).
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d1ebedfb	type	Armchair Military
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d1ebedfb	comment	Armchair Military: The Japanese militarists of the 1930s and 40s are depicted as as ultranationalist ideologues who put their fantasies of conquest and power above any actual long term strategic goals, to the point that they stumbled from one undeclared war to another, undermined their own diplomats, and united much of the world against them.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d24ed873	type	Developer's Foresight
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d24ed873	comment	Developer's Foresight: More-or-less discussed in Negative Possibility Space.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d2a8b268	type	Death Montage
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d2a8b268	comment	Death Montage: Doesn't happen quite as often as you might expect during Dan Plays Dark Souls, but one notable example is when he tries to fight Seath the Scaleless, and repeatedly gets flattened by his tail lash attack, as they edit out all of the return trips back to the boss chamber, only for Dan to die extremely quickly, forcing him to do it again. After Dan completed his playthrough of Dark Souls 2 and Dan Jones was embarking on one of Bloodborne, they put out a complete compilation video of all 115 of Dan's deaths in Dark Souls 1, then soon followed it with another one of all 210 deaths he had in Dark Souls 2.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d332bf54	type	Lampshaded
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d332bf54	comment	Allison, as she grows more crazed looking as each episode wears on. Lampshaded repeatedly:
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d3beb0de	type	Precocious Crush
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d3beb0de	comment	Precocious Crush: Princess Anna Komnenos has one on Bohemond of Taranto, who tried to overthrow her father Emperor Alexios.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d41832cc	type	Written by the Winners
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d41832cc	comment	Written by the Winners: An interesting aversion in the case of the Haitian revolution, since the eventual winners, the enslaved peoples who won their freedom, were deliberately kept illiterate by their former owners and couldn't keep records of their own, forcing a bit of detective work in piecing together their history.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d42fb539	type	Our Monsters Are Weird
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d42fb539	comment	Our Monsters Are Weird: Allison is really good at that. Often borders on horror. Notably, after she left the team - this element of the show in terms of visuals became increasingly uncommon.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d4c98262	type	Unconventional Learning Experience
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d4c98262	comment	Unconventional Learning Experience:invoked "Tangential Learning", which discusses how games can also have educational merits for showing players factoids they've never seen. A game like God of War, for example, can push someone to look into Greek Mythology in spite of its inconsistencies.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d558b013	type	Un-person
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: Because of the damage his religious reforms did to ancient Egyptian society and the economy, Pharaoh Akhenaten's name is stricken from all historical records by one of his successors. It's only due to a lucky archaeological find of several intact cuneiform tablets that modern archaeologists even know of his existence.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Sir Robert Walpole, who in the aftermath of the economic collapse caused by The South Sea Bubble pulled all the strings to ensure that the only people punished were those whose ruined careers he could climb to greatness. Walpole is such a Chessmaster that in the Lies episode for every series, James finds some way in which Walpole is connected to the events discussed. They even released "It was Walpole" T-shirts. And then there came Otto von Bismarck. He is able to prevent democracy from taking hold in Prussia, and unite Germany under his rule. Bismark has a plan, Bismark 'always' has a plan! Next came Gajah Mada. He helped save Jayanagara from an uprising by manipulating the capitol city's population to support him against the rebels, and immediately afterwards executing any civilians who celebrated at a rumor that Jayanagara died (a rumor Gajah Mada started to wipe out the rule). Then when Jayanagara was killed by his surgeon, Gajah Mada installed as his sucessor one of Jayanagara's relatives who appointed him Prime Minister. Using this power Gajah Mada ruled as The Man Behind the Man for thirty years and united all of Indonesian Islands. Not to mention the theory that he arranged and covered up Jayangara's death. Gajah Mada takes after Raden Wijaya. After escaping the Kediri's onslaught of his family, he took shelter in a remote village while building his own small army. Then he sent a message to the invading Mongol that he wanted to play along with their schemes of getting rid of the current ruler of Java (Kediri) and when he's back in throne, he promised he'll be subservient to the Mongol. He joined forces with Mongol to reclaim his capital, but left the Mongols do the most fighting. Once he reclaimed the throne, Raden Wijaya led the Mongol to his village saying that the tribute they sought is there... actually leading them to an ambush by the majority of the army he kept in secret. In one fell swoop, Raden Wijaya not only reclaimed his throne, but also drove away the Mongol while establishing his own independent Empire. Jonathan Wild, thieftaker general of London. He ran the biggest gang in London, making sure to keep all his thieves at a tight enough leash that he could get rid of them at any point, while at the same time presenting a public face as London's beloved crime fighter. This guy was so good at keeping up his faÃ§ade that the only thing that caused his downfall was someone who didn't need a faÃ§ade to be popular.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d7c65f26	type	Introduced Species Calamity
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d7c65f26	comment	Introduced Species Calamity: The Spanish would often leave breeding pairs of pigs in places they explored. The pigs would reproduce so quickly that future voyages would be able to use these pigs to resupply. However, this also damaged many native ecosystems.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d7cdaa5c	type	Blank White Eyes
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d7cdaa5c	comment	Blank White Eyes: Artist Scott DeWitt's style features these when beady-eyed characters are shocked/surprised, like here.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d83f3588	type	Depending on the Artist
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d83f3588	comment	Depending on the Artist: Dan's sleeves tend to disappear whenever he's not standing behind the lectern.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d99add77	type	Symbolic Weapon Discarding
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_d99add77	comment	Symbolic Weapon Discarding: In part 2 of Hiawatha, the Peacemaker orders the former warriors of the five tribes to bury their weapons beneath the roots of a white pine tree as a symbol of them rejecting their war-like past.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_da19c62a	type	Leave No Survivors
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_da19c62a	comment	Leave No Survivors: When Ostrogothic forces were laying siege to the city of Mediolanum, they offered to spare the garrison if they opened the gates. When the garrison asked that the civilians inside be spared, "the Ostrogoths made no secret of the savage vengeance they wished to wreak on this town". Sure enough, when the Ostrogoths take the town they kill every man inside and enslave every woman and child.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Julie d'Aubigny was a duelist through her life, at one point dueling three noblemen at once and defeating all of them. Cheng I Sao, the leader of Pirate Confederation, was able to bring the Chinese Empire to its knees and defeat a far stronger fleet. Freydis from "Wine Land", a female Viking explorer who, at one point, almost single-handedly fights off a group of Native Americans threatening her settlement by terrifying them into fleeing.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_db83faa8	type	Badass Normal
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_db83faa8	comment	Bad Ass Normal: The Bow Street Constables in "Policing London - The Bow Street Runners" are this. The episode makes it clear they were only a semi-formal police force, all of whom had to work at normal day jobs in addition to fighting crime. The leader of this force, Jonathan Welsh, was grocer in addition to his police duties.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_db912a80	type	The Good King
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_db912a80	comment	An otherwise wise and intelligent king making the spectacularly boneheaded decision of splitting his kingdom between all of his heirs, who then proceed to grow jealous of each other and destroy everything he created in a civil war. It happens so often that at the end of Kingdom of Majapahit: The Golden Reign, Matt hangs a mocking lampshade on it by singing to the tune of The Itsy, Bitsy Spider.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_dcbddebe	type	Pregnant Badass
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_dcbddebe	comment	Despite almost single-handedly fighting off a raiding party while heavily pregnant, Freydis from "Wine Land" ends up being scolded by the men of her village for her unwomanly behaviour.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Arthur Conan Doyle in "Curing Tuberculosis". The intro mentions that he was one of the journalists denied entry at Koch's medical conference, he later writes an article that exposes the extreme side effects of Koch's "cure" to the world.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_dd28eb85	type	Black Cap of Death
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_dd28eb85	comment	Black Cap of Death: In the second episode of the series on Jonathan Wild, Matt describes (and the artist draws) the judge puttin on his black cap. "Wild would hang by dawn."
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_dd2fe8c3	type	Porky Pig Pronunciation
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_dd2fe8c3	comment	Porky Pig Pronunciation: "Pedagog... pedagodag..." (shows word "pedagogically" on screen) "This word." Scott in one episode has trouble saying the word "palatable".
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: The overwhelming opinion of the Chinese government towards opium, which they kept trying to prohibit while the British kept funneling it into their shores. Eventually their own troops get hooked, and end up losing a war against the British because of this.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_de999021	type	Rage Quit
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_de999021	comment	Rage Quit: Dan was able to stand up to pretty much everything the Dark Souls trilogy could throw at him... until near the end of Dark Souls II he realised that he had to fight his way through the entire final stage of the Dark Chasm of Old (which cost a Human Effigy even to attempt) before he could even take a shot at beating Darklurker. Then he just threw in the towel.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_deecc9eb	comment	Catherine the Great, similarly, had many affairs during her awful marriage to Peter III, and while her son mostly resembled her husband, no one was ever sure if he was her husband's or one of her lover's. (Thankfully, most of Russia didn't care as long as they had an heir.)
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_df1793de	type	Updated Re-release
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_df1793de	comment	Updated Re-release: the Uncanny Valley episode, mk. 3! The pre-Escapist videos (and even some of the early Escapist episodes) are more representative of Floyd's college-requisite Jade-Colored Glasses, and have been incrementally re-made with new scripts and new art whenever Writer's Block sets in...
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_dfc3e10a	type	The Dung Ages
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_dfc3e10a	comment	The series on the Kingdom of Majapahit repeats the myth that Europe loved spices to cover the taste of rotten meat. This is a complete falsehood. Anyone who had money to buy spices had the money to buy fresh meat, and while Medieval hygiene standards were less advanced than today, people weren't eating rancid meat unless they were really desperate.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e00b1dc1	type	Unluckily Lucky
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e00b1dc1	comment	Unluckily Lucky: Ibn Battuta had such a remarkable history of travelling that it's hard to tell if he was Born Lucky or Born Unlucky, ending up in wild positions of power and losing everything immediately several times. The most drastic showcase of this was during his mission by the Sultan of Dehli to China: in just a few weeks, he was separated from his caravan after a bandit raid, robbed, nearly executed, and was left stranded and almost starving to death. Miraculously, he was taken in by a Muslim samaritan who was able to reunite him with his mission... which not only proceeded to disembark on ship without him, but ended up either sinking in a storm or seized and never heard from again, leaving him not only broke and stranded, but a failure in the eyes of the mad Sultan.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e061cb06	comment	Rightful King Returns: After being removed from power, Chetshwayo was reinstalled as ruler of the Zulus by the British; the very people who removed him from power in the first place. The reason he was reinstalled was a combination of his popularity within Britain as an eloquent, civilized king, and that the puppet rulers the British put in power after imprisoning Chetshwayo were fighting among themselves and the British hoped he could bring some stability to the area.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e0904aa4	type	No Party Like a Donner Party
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e0904aa4	comment	No Party Like a Donner Party: In "The First Crusade", after massacring the city of Maarat, many of the Crusaders proceeded to cook and eat the people they killed because they ran out of food and were starving.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e0f75086	type	Good Republic, Evil Empire
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e0f75086	comment	Good Republic, Evil Empire: Averted in their series on the Brothers Gracchi exposes that The Roman Republic was just as expansionist as The Roman Empire, horribly oppressive to the vast majority of the people and built on slavery and plunder, with the government catering to a small minority of privileged landowners who screw over the soldiers whose sacrifices they are leeching off. In contrast, the more autocratic-minded Populares - the party that ultimately ended up overthrowing the Republic and turning Rome into an Empire - actually cared for the common man and passed reforms in order to ensure their well-being. The fifth episode on Simon Bolivar actually discusses many of the issues that made a modern Republic so difficult to create. Bolivar wanted to serve as Dictator and President for Life, but promotes constitutions with equality before the law and abolishes slavery (far before the Republic of the United States of America), yet many of the independent states want The Federation with greater autonomy and emphasizing regional powers and influences (as well as regional abuses) while Bolivar wanted a strong centralized state to govern territory bigger than the Napoleonic Empire, and create equal laws and institutions across the Continent. Bolivar's desire to promote the best features of the Empire with the best features of the Republic leads to a Golden Mean Fallacy.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e150c4c7	comment	Catherine the Great's first husband, Petter III of Russia. Not only is he a petulant, alcoholic Manchild who alienates everyone at court, but he openly scorns the Russian language, culture, and religion, openly buddies up with foreign leaders that Russia is at war with, and then gives back all the land that Russian soldiers spent seven years fighting and dying to obtain. He then ignores his advisers when they try to warn him that a plot to overthrow him is in motion... until the mob is knocking at his door. Then he ditches his guards to camps out alone at his private island palace, rather than do... anything else. When he learns the coup is led by his own wife (whom he's mistreated their entire marriage) the best counter-offer he can think of is that they share the empire. It's unclear whether he really died in a drunken tavern brawl a few months later or assassins (possibly hired by Catherine) used the brawl to Make It Look Like an Accident, but either way, it's clear that his demise was self-inflected and long-coming.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: An In-Universe Example. The mini-series on Justinian and Theodora mentions that Procopius, the court historian of Justinian, wrote a "Secret History" in which Justinian is depicted as a monster - not a metaphorical monster in the sense that he painted Justinian as abnormally evil, a literal monster in the sense that the historian claimed Justinian could detach his head and summon plague to ravage the Mediterranean. This book was discovered 1000 years later in an archive in a convent, and historians aren't quite sure what to make of it. Rasputin's series is devoted to explaining how, due to circumstances and forces largely outside his control, Rasputin became a dark legend in his own lifetime and long afterwards. Downplayed in the series on Wu Zetian. While it's made clear that she's almost certainly suffered this trope, on account of being China's sole female ruler against the background radiation of some pretty intense misogyny, that doesn't mean she was a good or nice person either.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: Once it became clear that the Pirate Confederation was falling apart, due to the Black Flag Fleet's defection, Cheng I Sao used her position of power to gain a pardon for herself and her followers (they didn't even have to return their stolen plunder).
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e27693	type	The Coup
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e27693	comment	The Coup: Catherine the Great uses this to take the Russian throne from Peter III.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: Extra Sci-Fi's artwork has also evolved, starting with a more or less Extra History style for humans and humanoids, then mixing that style with a more realistic style for humanoid aliens and monsters, and now currently tends to reserve its classic style mostly for real life figures — though the styles do still mix to the point of having realistic humans mixed with super-deformed humans in the same frame.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e45ce099	type	The Wise Prince
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e45ce099	comment	The Wise Prince: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. He was a supporter of Serbia, which made his assassination by a Serbian all the more horrific in the eyes of The Austro-Hungarians.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e4ba33fc	type	Disaster Dominoes
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e4ba33fc	comment	Disaster Dominoes: How the Seminal Tragedy of World War I is presented. They make it a point to note that as damaging as Princip's assassination of the Archduke was, it was neither the key action that triggered the war, nor did it make the events that happened inevitable. He noted that the other powers "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot had there not been so much Poor Communication Kills, had there been better timing when messages were sent and delivered, and had anyone made a real effort to avoid war. Ditto with the later Cuban Missile Crisis, averted only at the last minute despite a lengthy series of unfortunate coincidences and failures to communicate mixing with the pushing of hawks on both sides dragging things to the brink.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Ben Tillman is described as this: a nasty, belligerent, violent racist. The crew (non-verbally) call him "a piece of sht".*
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Dan is definitely not two children in a trench coat.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e63228a7	type	InfoDump
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e63228a7	comment	Info Dump: The earlier science fiction stories in the first science fiction magazines, before Campbell revolutionized the genre, thought it was important to always use the medium to teach the reader about how the marvelous devices within worked. Unfortunately, this didn't exactly make for riveting fiction.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e6630c8b	type	GameplayAndStoryIntegration
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e6630c8b	comment	Gameplay and Story Integration: Touched upon briefly in "Amnesia and Story Structure" but taken to its logical extreme in "Narrative Mechanics" where they cite Missile Command as a case-study in how a game can tell a story using only its game mechanics.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e68b72	type	The Load
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: In the episode "Minority", they point to this as one of the bad uses of children in games, comparing it to Clementine from The Walking Dead, who is a useful ally.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e7502007	type	Pull-the-Trigger Provocation
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e7502007	comment	Pull The Trigger Provocation: In "The Seminal Tragedy", as Tsar Nicholas agonises over signing an order to declare war on Germany, an aide de camp approaches him and tries to comfort him with the words "Majesty, we know how difficult it must be for you to decide"... not realising that the one thing the Tsar hates above all else is the idea that others perceive him as a weak, indecisive leader. Hearing these words convinces him to sign the declaration of war that begins World War One.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e7db27c7	type	Sympathetic P.O.V.
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e7db27c7	comment	Sympathetic P.O.V.: The team has a knack of making some of the most controversial people in history seem relatable. The audience can some to pity Genghis Kahn, Ned Kelly, and Grigori Rasputin while their heinous actions are brought to light.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e7fd5cdc	type	Brain Bleach
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e7fd5cdc	comment	Brain Bleach: In the first "Western & Japanese RPGs" episode, Allison does a search for "Eroge visual novels" while working on the episode, only to start scrubbing her eyes out with bleach on viewing the results.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When America gives it's response to the Soviet's ultimatum in "Cuban Missile Crisis", the Russian ambassador notes that the usually bravado-filled Bobby Kennedy is completely solemn.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e8e0a952	type	Obvious Beta
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e8e0a952	comment	Obvious Beta: invoked Their episode on "Why Do We Ship Buggy Games?" goes into explanations of why this happens. Dan stresses that they are not defending buggy releases, as they tend to be bad for long-term business, but rather details the kinds of situations that put developers in no-win scenarios where it was either a buggy release or something worse.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e8e9068f	type	ObviousTrap
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e8e9068f	comment	Obvious Trap: In Genghis Khan #4, Temujin is given a note from Ong Khan that reads "Invite to: not a trap". The Japanese Navy tries to lure Admiral Yi into one of these, sending Yi a letter with the co-ordinates of their fleet which appears to be from one of their captains trying to sell out a rival. Yi doesn't fall for it, but unfortunately this gives his enemies in the Korean bureaucracy an excuse to have him tried for treason and removed from his post, and his successor Won Kyon does fall for it when the try the same trick again.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e9550e66	type	Nun Too Holy
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e9550e66	comment	Nun Too Holy: Julie d'Aubigny took monastic vows and joined a convent to rescue her girlfriend from it, starting a fire in the convent as cover for her escape. Subverted near the end of her life, when d'Aubigny joins a convent for real after a later girlfriend died.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e993a60f	type	Defensive Feint Trap
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e993a60f	comment	Defensive Feint Trap: A favored tactic of Admiral Yi's against the Japanese navy.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_eac3ee70	type	April Fools' Day
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_eac3ee70	comment	April Fools' Day: Their 2020 video about Grigori Rasputin was actually "Ra Ra Rasputin" narrated in the series' style, with text discussing the Historical Villain Upgrade. They would eventually make an actual series about him the following year.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_eadc018f	type	Pinball Protagonist
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_eadc018f	comment	Pinball Protagonist: Rasputin's series focuses more on the environment of late-tsarist Russia than on Rasputin himself, and on how his legend was born from wild rumors and the malicious slander of his enemies. He has little control over the forces that subsume his life, seeing him as a symbol of whatever they, personally, think is wrong with Russia.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: The Australian police are shown to be this in "Ned Kelly". They look the other way when wealthy landholders steal what is supposed to be government property, then when poor farmers are driven to crime they respond by giving the harshest punishment possible. Ned Kelly later gets imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit and sentenced to three years of hard labor, and when he gets out the police stalk him and his family until he decides enough is enough and turned to bushranging. The "Policing London" examples includes examples of this. Jonathan Wilde, Thieftaker-General, was secretly the head of a giant criminal of thieves. He got his throat cut open by a thief from a rival gang after he refused the man's plea-bargain, and his empire was torn apart by his private war with Jack Sheppard, a charming Gentleman Thief who exposes what he is to the public. The third episode in this series talks about Constables and Deputies in London. A large number of these were either outright corrupt or too lazy to actually do their jobs, and even those who were honest were often elderly or had to support themselves with other careers as well.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_eb6da8ef	type	Crossover
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_eb6da8ef	comment	Crossover: Extra History has a crossover with The Great War. The presenters of both shows make brief appearances in each others' videos, in EC's video on The Zulu Empire IV and TGW's episode South Africa in the Great War respectively.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In The First Opium War, Charles Elliot (Britain) and Qisan (China) were both sent to negotiate a peace deal and both worked out a reasonable one. Their reward? The former was fired and ridiculed by his countrymen for the rest of his life, the later was fired and sentenced to death (though the sentence was lifted). John Snow spent his life trying to prevent cholera from wiping out London again, and his work proved the link between human waste and diseases. Instead of being recognized and rewarded for this, he was ridiculed and dismissed as a crazy person by the leading scientists of the day (the leading theory was that diseases were caused by "miasma"). invoked Yi Sun-sin spent his whole life serving Korea, fighting its enemies, and protecting and avenging its civilians. In spite of this he was often demoted and falsely accused. While he was honored for what he did, that only came after his death. When TemÃ¼jin's family was abandoned to starve by his father's tribe, an old man from said tribe attempted to vouch for the family by stating that the wives and children of a warrior should be better cared for. In response this old man was speared to death.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ecbf37ff	type	Disposable Sex Worker
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ecbf37ff	comment	Disposable Sex Worker: The third episode of the "Policing London" series mentioned how a few prostitutes robbed sailors, and how as a result the sailors in the city started burning brothels and rioting in the city. The only effect this has on the episode is to provide Justice Henry Fielding and the Bow Street Constables a chance to prove themselves further by helping the city garrison to quell the riots. No mention is made of how many prostitutes, if any, died in the arson and riots.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ecc99ac2	type	Fire Keeps It Dead
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ecc99ac2	comment	Fire Keeps It Dead: In "Wendigo", the hearts of the wendigo family are burned in a fire to melt the ice around them and prevent them from resurrecting. In "Warlocks and Warriors", a fire of 100 aspen logs is the only thing that can finally kill the warlock.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ede89ad6	type	Parental Hypocrisy
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ede89ad6	comment	Parental Hypocrisy: Genghis Khan. In his youth he murdered his elder brother and his best friend because he didn't want to answer to them. Yet when his own sons have a rivalry he tries his hardest to make them get along. It's played with, in that Genghis Khan wants them to see that the world has changed and that such violent power struggles are no longer necessary, but ultimately he himself is never happy or comfortable unless he's on the warpath and preparing for conquest. Princess Sophia was neglected as a child in favor of her mother's ambitions, so naturally after she became a mother (as Catherine the Great) she neglected her own son in favor of her own ambitions (for the Russian Empire).
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted; Daniel Floyd is later joined by Daniel Emmons and Dan Jones. Floyd does the narration, Emmons works on Design Club, and Jones helps create the art. This fact was made into somewhat of an inside joke within the fanbase, with Daniel Floyd being referred to as 'Dan Prime', and when Dan Jones shows up, Dan Floyd lampshades this. Ultimately became less apparent once Dan Prime left.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ef43c232	type	Downloadable Content
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_ef43c232	comment	Downloadable Content: They touch upon the process behind the creation of this, particularly the reason for Day-1 DLC, in their Mass Effect 3 DLC video. They do acknowledge that publishers and developers can abuse this, but state the reasons that sometimes DLC should be necessary to not only keep up the value of the product, but increase the available content in the game, especially in shorter games.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Those who exclusively watch Extra History were 2 months late to finding out Matt was taking over as showrunner, but he gets a brief cameo during the "History of Non-Euclidean Geometry" as recording in a studio.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Near the end of her life, Julie d'Abigny fell head over heels in love with Madame La Marquis De Florensac. When De Florensac died Julie retired from opera, joined a convent, and spent the rest of her days in mourning.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f0fc6873	type	Confirmation Bias
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f0fc6873	comment	Confirmation Bias:invoked A constant problem throughout history. John Snow, for instance, lived during an era where most doctors assumed sickness was caused by noxious miasma, and they would shoo down his theories about cholera spreading through water. Even if he presented evidence that everyone who got sick had gotten their water from the Broad Street pump, they would just say that there was miasma in the area, and the pump was coincidental.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f12c6fb1	type	Surprisingly Sudden Death
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f12c6fb1	comment	Surprisingly Sudden Death: Charles XII's death, which is a famous real-life case of this. The narration emphasizes how anti-climactic it was, and how the musket ball that killed the King was a soft sound in the night wind. Takeda Shingen is shot in the middle of a siege and dies. Uesugi Kenshin dies without an heir right before his attack on the Oda.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Admiral Yi Sun-sin was repeatedly screwed over by his own government, falsely accused and imprisoned for crimes he didn't commit, demoted from naval officer to the rank of common soldier multiple times, but still fought and died to save his country. Its little wonder he was called "The Martial Lord of Loyalty" after his death.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: This series does not hide the horrors of warfare. From the exuberantly high casualty rates to the widespread atrocities, war is shown in its bloody detail. "The Seminal Tragedy", "The First Crusade", and "The Punic Wars" are especially gruesome in their descriptions of war's horrors. It is this mindset that causes Hiawatha (a man who lost his wife and eldest daughter to warfare), Jigonsaseh (a woman who spent years making peace between individual warriors from rival tribes), and The Peacemaker (who convinced his tribe to abandon warfare) to set out to unite the Five Haudenosaunee Nations under The Law of Peace. The Saipan series emphasizes the high casualties suffered by both the Americans and Japanese.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f2c895f	type	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f2c895f	comment	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: Gavrilo Princip and his fellow conspirators. While James portrays them in a very negative light on the basis that they murdered two innocent people and started the worst war in history, he does mention in the "lies" portion of The Seminal Tragedy that Gavrilo is seen as a hero in Serbia and that there is a statue there to honor him. The Viking attack on Lindisfarne is shown from both perspectives. It's presented initially from the perspective of the monks and the dominant narrative is of a pagan attack on Christendom; peasants are slaughtered in their fields, monks and holy men are slaughtered in their church, sacred artifacts are stolen and dismantled, and the survivors are taken away as slaves. Then the episode shows the perspective of the Vikings; they saw Christians and other monks as busybody fundamentalists who attacked their religious beliefs and swindled them in trade. Also shown is how the vikings established great trade routes, and how they saw the weak state of Christendom as an opportunity to gain massive amounts of wealth and to forge new kingdoms for themselves and for their people.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f4a0408f	type	Wake-Up Call Boss
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f4a0408f	comment	Wake-Up Call Boss: In "Balancing for Skill," it's presented as a necessary corollary to the Skill Gate Character. It's good to have an easy strategy to help the player get their feet under them and succeed in the first stretch of the game, but that'll become a Game-Breaker if you can go through the entire game with that strategy. So, the alternative is to provide a challenge that the Skill Gate Characters can't beat, forcing the player to diversify their strategies and get good at the game. invoked
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: The episode "The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - Horror in Manhattan" ends this way. It began with 146 textile workers, most of whom were teenage girls, dying in a disaster. It ended with the passing of laws and reforms that made life better for workers across the country.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f6f6adeb	type	Railroading
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f6f6adeb	comment	Railroading: Discussed in the episode "The Illusion of Choice". For players to feel agency within a game, they must feel like their choices in the game are meaningful, but since any player choice requires extra work from the developers, there is a limit to how much freedom games can give; therefore, games will give an illusion of choice, keeping players on a set path with various tricks to make them think they are the ones in control. It's only bad if the illusion falls apart and the gamers realize they're being herded by the game.
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Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f76b8969	type	Anthropomorphic Personification
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_f76b8969	comment	Anthropomorphic Personification: Several abstract concepts discussed on the show are represented visually by some kind of creature. Micro-Transactions by "micro-transaction-raptor", a small blue feathered dinosaur; First-Order-Optimal (or FOO) strategies by a foo dog, and user choices by a two headed kangaroo-like beast. Games themselves are represented by green rectangles (probably to emulate the green cases that Xbox games are generally sold in). James is shown to have a plush-doll version of the green rectangle "Game" during the South Sea Bubble "Lies" episode of Extra History. These plush-dolls are for sale in Extra Credits' store
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