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Captain Disillusion (Web Video)
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Captain Disillusion is a web video series created by Latvian-born independent filmmaker Alan Melikdjanian. The series was started on September 18, 2007, and is still going on today.The titular Captain D is a skeptic from the future who uses his superior critical thinking powers and intimate knowledge of digital editing and effects to debunk viral hoax videos on the internet. These videos include but are not limited to ghosts, aliens, impossible stunts, and much more. But Captain D isn't alone, as he has to put up with an annoying living Lens Flare named Mr. Flare and, more occasionally, a giant floating head goddess named Holly.His YouTube channel can be found here. He also has a Patreon which can be found here. | |
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Daydream Surprise | |
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Daydream Surprise: Happens in "Rush Hour Explanation". Captain D and Mr. Flare are chatting and addressing the audience as if on a celebrity talk show, until the convivial atmosphere is broken when Mr. Flare claims the vehicles and pedestrians passing within inches of one another on a crosswalk were all stunt performers. Cap angrily calls Mr. Flare out, before going into a detailed explanation of the digital compositing tricks used to make the video. As the explanation concludes, Mr. Flare snaps Captain D out of his reverie and the friendly chat resumes as if the previous few minutes never occurred. May count as a daydream within a dream as the two then sign off with an incoherent string of pseudoscientific nonsense about astrological quantum chemtrails, then the scene cuts to the two of them unconscious on the set surrounded by clouds of green gas and a siren warning about a "credulin leak", so the whole chat show sequence may have been a hallucination. | |
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Subliminal Seduction | |
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The ending of "Mystery Boob Revealed" is an attempt at Subliminal Seduction, with the aim at replacing every hint of cleavage the viewer sees with the Captain's flabby, hairy chest. | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism: Despite the wide range of strange and impossible things Captain D deals within the videos, including but not limited to giant floating heads, cartoon characters visiting him, and sentient lens flares, he remains incredibly skeptical of supernatural claims. invoked This is the main topic discussed in "The Undebunkable". Captain D explains how sometimes outlandishly-appearing things can be in fact real, and how mistrusting and denying everything on the basis of "it looks fake" without doing proper research or accepting new information is ultimately unhelpful and sometimes flat-out wrong. He also cautions that such a mindset puts one in danger of becoming a Conspiracy Theorist. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: He freaks out when he can't easily identify the trick used in his Randi + Pantry Ghost... Debunk? video and when confronted by Randi he says he is "beaten and out of the game". He couldn't identify it because it was a practical effect instead of the more commonly used digital editing. | |
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Alternate Timeline | |
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Alternate Timeline: In "The Mandaellah Effekt", we're shown an alternate timeline where Holly is the skeptical superhero and Captain D is the malevolent deity. The two timelines are able to interact and hold conversations. "Time Travel DEBUNK" takes place in the same timeline from Back to the Future Part II, where Captain has his own campus, a subscription based channel, and Max Headroom style stuttering in his videos. When the DeLorean leaves at the video's end (right after Captain claims Time Travel into the past is impossible) everything vanishes, and a stunned Captain finds himself sitting in his usual corner. | |
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Kayfabe | |
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Kayfabe: Captain treats the creator, Alan, as his unpaid intern who just happens to look like him. Additionally, rather than an organic being who paints the bottom half of his face silver, he's canonically an android who paints the top half of his face flesh-colored. | |
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Sign Off Catch Phrase: "Love with your heart, use your head for everything else... Captain Disillusion!" | |
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Ambiguously Human | |
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Ambiguously Human: Although appearing to be human, it's never really clear what Captain D is. What is known for certain is that he is made out of chrome and mechanical parts. Whether he is a cyborg or a robot is unknown. Holly, who might be some kinda eternal being. | |
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Enraged by Idiocy | |
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Enraged by Idiocy: The Captain doesn't like it when people actually fall for the videos he shows. | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: Penn & Teller show up, in Captain D costume and makeup, to do the sign-off at the end of "Reptile Woman Debunk". James Randi helps the Captain debunk an illusion that relies on old-fashioned physical effects and not digital editing in "Pantry Ghost Debunk". He then had to do a rather embarrassed followup when the explanation he had Randi read turned out to be wrong. Mickey Mouse shows up when Captain D debunks a video of a supposed ghost at Disneyland, claiming he's there to audit the video because Captain D said "Disney" three times within a few seconds. Beakman of Beakman's World co-stars in an episode debunking perpetual motion machines to provide scientific explanations of thermodynamics and magnets. In the debunk video Quick D: Flying Girl, Cirque du Soleil performer Erica Linz has a brief appearance. Destin from Smarter Every Day makes an appearance in "A Fighter Jet Says Hi" to give the Captain permission to use clips from his own channel. Destin also takes the opportunity to dress up as the Captain and do a bit of lampooning after the Captain did the same thing in "Chinese Invisibility Cloak Hoax DESTROYED!!!". | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: Holly. Captain D even introduces her as having delusions of grandeur. | |
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Occam's Razor | |
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Occam's Razor: Captain D has a variation of this: The Captain's Quadruple Blade Hair Eradicator, which states that "Events cannot be explained by advanced VFX in a shot where crappy VFX are present". | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: Holly has mellowed considerably over the course of the series. She starts out as a short-tempered, know-it-all Stalker with a Crush in the early episodes, but by 2018's "Marble Sorting Machine DEBUNK" she is noticeably more humble, quietly melancholic about her shortcomings rather than indignantly defensive, no longer tries to force Cap to date her, and is actually interested in science and finding things out for herself. | |
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Mundane Solution | |
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Mundane Solution: Some videos Captain D covers don't use any video effects, objects are just accidentally hidden as they enter or leave frame (like the Russian Ghost Car, or Where Did the Ball Go?). Other times the stunt was staged, but using real props (like the Real Phaser). | |
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Take That, Audience! | |
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Take That, Audience!: In general, the Captain has no qualms with making fun of members of his audience who ask him to debunk things that are way too obvious, or things that are actually real but they just assumed were fake, not having done any basic research. Done a lot in Ghost Caught by Dog Debunk, where the Captain feels people were way too easily tricked by something really simple. He also responded to the massive amount of people that saw that Mickey Mouse had breasts on his Disneyland Ghost Debunk video. Who was playing Mickey? Himself. The Captain often expresses annoyance at people asking him to debunk conspiracy theories and cryptzoology stories despite his repeated statements that he's not going to. Sometimes, the effects that the Captain recreates end up being passed around so much that their origins get confused and they get sent back to him for debunk. In "Laminar Flow DISAMBIGUATION", he addresses this by festooning his episode-ending effect with a "FAKE" watermark and holding up a note that reads: "This is totally FAKE and created by me CAPTAIN DISILLUSION". | |
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Recycled Soundtrack | |
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Recycled Soundtrack: A few videos use the track "Song 3" from the 1998 PC game Remington Top Shot as background music. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: In "Heroic Feats of YouTube Debunkery", Alan performs a "typical skeptic's presentation". It's a PowerPoint Presentation filled with unreadable text, a "free trial" watermark in the corner, clipart stolen from Google Images, and clips played in tiny (mute) video players. Alan even has to dig through a (fake) desktop screen to find it, and hyperventilates through nearly the entire performance. The entire point of the talk is to walk the audience through the process of turning that presentation into an episode of Captain Disillusion. | |
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Worthy Opponent | |
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Worthy Opponent: Captain Disillusion will sometimes give credit to impressive effects that leave little to no trace of how they work. | |
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Two-Faced | |
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Two-Faced: A rare variant where the Captain's face is split horizontally rather than vertically, which the top half of his face being of normal skin tone while the lower half (and presumably the rest of his body) is chrome-colored. "Quick D: Mobile Drone" shows him with chrome legs, but "CD / Interlacing ADDENDUM" shows him with human legs. | |
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Race Against the Clock | |
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Race Against the Clock: Done in the episode "The Debunkathon". Captain D struggles to debunk viral videos while they still remain relevant, and each time he does another unit of a countdown appears on the wall behind him - seconds, then minutes, then hours... and everything beyond minutes is already at zero! As the clock ticks down, the set begins to glitch and fade out, Cap's hair starts turning grey, he even swallows his pride and tells his intern Alan that he's doing a good job... until the countdown ends and nothing happens. Cap reveals that it's just his own personal deadline which he is free to change, and he simply resets the counter, returning everything to normal. | |
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe | |
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe: In "Marble Sorting Machine Debunk", Holly briefly explains that the fewer people who believe in magic the less powerful she becomes. | |
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Letting the Air out of the Band | |
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Letting the Air out of the Band: Happens when the Captain tries (and fails) to debunk the Pantry Ghost. | |
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Long List | |
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Long List: When Captain D talks about the Fresno Nightcrawler. | |
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Butter Face | |
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Butter Face: In "Russian Ghost Car DEBUNK", Cap compares one car hiding behind the other to walking around a pole hiding someone else's face. The girl's face turns out to have scrambled facial features. | |
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Curse Cut Short | |
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Curse Cut Short: Subverted. Captain D shuts off Mr. Flare just when he's about to curse. Later, he turns him back on, and he finishes the curse. | |
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Amusing Injuries | |
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Amusing Injuries: The Captain frequently falls victim to these, mostly during his exit gags. A common image is the Captain taking off in flight, only to crash back to the ground, unconscious. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Captain D gives one to Holly in "Shark Surfer". The Captain also gave a subtle one to the uploader of a video he debunked in "TAM 6 Special + Reptile Woman Debunk" | |
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Moving the Goalposts | |
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Moving the Goalposts: Discussed at length in "Gateway to Sedona DEBUNK", where the creators attempt to present a plausible explanation for supernatural events but constantly come up with increasingly specific, evasive and arbitrary excuses when they don't work for others, all while maintaining it's still real (until they decide it isn't). | |
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Aspect Ratio Switch | |
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Aspect Ratio Switch: Quick D: "Quick D: Cup Levitation & Train Track Rescue" uses 4:3 ratio and Deliberate VHS Quality to show that a certain magic trick is "So old, [he] covered it in [his] pre-internet days". CD / series: "CD / Aspect Ratio" switches aspect ratios to demonstrate its subject matter. Although it uses white Letterboxing, presumably to blend in with YouTube's light mode interface. "CD / Interlacing Addendum" has scenes in 4:3 as part of its Deliberate VHS Quality, and switching to 16:9 and the style of a midcentury instructional video. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Zeitgeist — who is the actual Zeitgeist, formed by the current ideals and beliefs of humanity — resembles an evil version of Captain D because the skeptic movement of which the Captain is a member is giving rise to people so skeptical that they're doubting the moon landing, the 9-11 terrorist attacks, etc. All Captain D can do is remind people, as usual, to love with their heart, but use their head for everything else. | |
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Ratings Stunt | |
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Ratings Stunt: Spoofed in the episode "Fantasy Files Explanation", which opens with Captain D analysing his YouTube viewer statistics and concluding the best way to boost his audience is to spice his show up with gratuitous 3D, cheesy green-screen effects (despite the show already using very competent green-screen effects), and a topic chosen to appeal to the young male demographic. | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
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In general, the Captain has no qualms with making fun of members of his audience who ask him to debunk things that are way too obvious, or things that are actually real but they just assumed were fake, not having done any basic research. | |
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Do Wrong, Right | |
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Do Wrong, Right: In this Mr. Flare explains we see him improve an already fake video by finding the original source video and making the fakery more realistic...which is then extrapolated from the Mr. Flare explains for its own fakery that Captain Disillusion is requested to debunk. | |
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Mind Hive | |
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Mind Hive: Zeitgeist, who personifies the spirit of the time formed by the ideals and beliefs of society. | |
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Deconstruction | |
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Deconstruction: The "Escherian Stairwell" episode is named as such for a reason - on top of going over the usual editing and SFX tricks to prove the video is fake, it also argues that the Escherian Stairwell's intent of using a hoax to go viral and mimic the childlike wonder/discovery of old films will have easily-fooled believing superstition and psuedoscience and perpetuating a climate of fake news, it also is wrong in believing new movies lack that childlike wonder and discovery - Cap argues that old movies are "good" not just because they were well-made, but because their fans were easily-impressible kids, and that new movies are still "good" and don't need hoaxes to work. | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Stalker with a Crush: Holly is like this towards Captain Disillusion, badgering him for dates and insisting they were made for each other despite Cap's repeated rejections. | |
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SpecialEffectsFailure | |
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Special Effects Failure: Invoked. When debunking videos, Captain Disillusion points out the tells — some minor, some obvious — that show that the image was manipulated. | |
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You Keep Using That Word | |
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You Keep Using That Word: The Captain expresses disappointment at the comments of the UFO Over India video claiming it was done with "CGI."note Specifically, there's a distinction between "computer generated images" and "visual effects such as compositing done in post." | |
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Retraux | |
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Retraux: The magic trick VHS tape in "Cup Levitation & Train Track Rescue" shows a "pre-internet" Captain D, complete with ridiculous '80s Hair and cheesy video effects. "CD / Interlacing ADDENDUM" has two retro themes. One looks like a VHS tape, the other looks like a midcentury instructional video. | |
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Heel Realization | |
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Heel Realization: Done... semi-seriously, during the Unbearable Loneliness of Being Right talk. As the Skeptic Asshole Singularity continues to suck up more people, Alan As Himself approaches his laptop trying to do something about it, only for him — well, the live feed of him — show about to be sucked by the black hole. He breaks out of it. | |
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Visible Boom Mic | |
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Visible Boom Mic: Briefly invoked in "CD / Aspect Ratio" when he demonstrate how Open Matte works with 35mm film. As he expands the frame, a boom mic is revealed along with the end of the backdrop. | |
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Medium Blending | |
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Medium Blending: The show occasionally cuts to animated segments, such as the stories of how Holly and Cap met in the episode "Shark Surfer Debunk". | |
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Evil Counterpart | |
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Evil Counterpart: The Zeitgeist is Captain D and the idea of skepticism in general taken to its Logical Extreme. When you become so skeptical of the world that you start making up conspiracy theories just to say you're too smart to fool, you only end up spreading the very same misinformation you're attempting to debunk. | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
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A Day in the Limelight: Mr. Flare has four episodes of his own "Mr. Flare Explains" sub-series with no sign of Captain D. | |
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Mean Boss | |
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Mean Boss: Captain D to his intern Alan during "Heroic Feats of YouTube Debunkery". In addition to making Alan give a talk that Captain D was scheduled for (and berating him over Skype when he acts reluctant), Captain D also makes Alan's family and girlfriend film the episodes because "he loves exploiting free labor". Alan is also so intensely involved in the creation of every episode, sometimes he feels like 'he' is Captain Disillusion. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: In the video "The Undebunkable," Captain D's comment about Occam's Razor is alarmingly paired with the infamous scene from Luis Buñuel and Salvador DalÃ's short film Un Chien Andalou of a razor cutting open an eye. This is later revealed to be the villain Zeitgeist impersonating him. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: Captain D pauses in the "Miss Ping Debunk" video to advertise for "Knives; they cut... and they don't ask no f***ing questions!" before cheerily returning to the topic. The Patreon announcement video ends on a particularly disturbing note as show creator Alan Melikdjanian, talking directly to the viewers, is interrupted by Captain Disillusion with a harsh tirade about him selling out, while Alan covers his ears and screams "I don't have to listen to you any more!" | |
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As Himself | |
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Where the Captain is a bombastic, larger-than-life character, his intern, Alan, is shown to be meek, insecure, and kind of sad. | |
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Guyliner | |
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Guyliner: Appears on Zeitgeist as he starts to mutate and reveal his true colors. | |
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Deliberate VHS Quality | |
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The magic trick VHS tape in "Cup Levitation & Train Track Rescue" shows a "pre-internet" Captain D, complete with ridiculous '80s Hair and cheesy video effects. | |
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Spark Fairy | |
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Spark Fairy: Mr. Flare is technically a sentient image artifact, but he fits as a talking ball of light. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Mr. Flare often expresses disdain for being questioned about light. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: "Love with your heart, but use your head for everything else." | |
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Take That! | |
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"Skiing Ostritches DEBUNK" is a massive Take That! toward PewDiePie; particularly his reaction to the new YouTube Algorhithim. | |
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Science Hero | |
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Science Hero: A weird variation in that Captain Disillusion doesn't use gadgets to stop crime but rather promotes rationality (And might probably not count as a classical hero). | |
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Science Show | |
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Science Show: In a sense, as the show debunks internet videos by explaining the effects or tricks used to fake them, sometimes with easy-to-digest scientific explanations to prove they're fake, and is framed in a cartoonish and zany universe with an eccentric host. It's more explicitly so in "Free Energy Devices", a crossover with Beakman's World, with Beakman explaining why Perpetual Motion Machines don't work in real life, and the Captain explaining how the videos faked them. | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
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"The Mandaellah Effekt" features Captain D and Holly!Captain D showcasing how harmful conspiracy theorizing can be, with the "it's just interesting to think about" line of thinking going against the historical facts and encouraging illogical reaches. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: A somewhat unusual one that he admits is unusual — purposeful hoaxes, even if immediately debunked by their creators. It's best seen in the Escherian Stairwell Deconstruction — he argues that these hoaxes and myths can unwittingly help impressionable people into going down rabbit-holes of psuedoscience — if this video I'm watching is fake, could things like the Apollo Landings also be lies? If this video is real, could things like vaccines causing autism really be real? | |
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Celeb Crush | |
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Celeb Crush: His laptop's background as seen in "Heroic Feats of YouTube Debunkery" is a picture of Jodie Whittaker. | |
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Spoonerism | |
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Spoonerism: In "CD / Resolution", after talking about how resolution is typically measured with the vertical dimension (like 480 or 1080 lines) creates "sneaky marketing opportunities", the text on screen says "Dink Thifferent". | |
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Couch Gag | |
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Couch Gag: Or rather, Exit Gag. At the end of every video Captain Disillusion exits in a humorous way. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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He also responded to the massive amount of people that saw that Mickey Mouse had breasts on his Disneyland Ghost Debunk video. Who was playing Mickey? Himself. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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The entire "Chinese Invisibility Cloak Hoax DESTROYED!!!" video is a Shout-Out to Periodic Videos, bill wurtz, CGP Grey, Tom Scott, Vsauce, and SmarterEveryDay. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: When Mr. Flare almost takes over the show, he claims one of the changes he'll make is they'll stop using "debunk" as a noun. When the Captain discusses the "Escherian Stairwell Deconstruction" by Michael Lacanilao, he brings up how the project had an unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign. The Captain relies on a lot of self-depreciating humor, especially regarding his subscription numbers. Where the Captain is a bombastic, larger-than-life character, his intern, Alan, is shown to be meek, insecure, and kind of sad. | |
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Series Continuity Error | |
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Series Continuity Error: "Quick D: Mobile Drone" shows the Captain with chrome legs, but "CD / Interlacing ADDENDUM" shows him with human legs. | |
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Every Episode Ending | |
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Every Episode Ending: "But now it's time for me to go, kids..." followed by mentioning someone he needs to help (or hurt, on at least one occasion), followed by him leaving the set some way. | |
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History Repeats | |
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History Repeats: Defied. In Laminar Flow DISAMBIGUATION, the video starts with him showing clips of a Buddha statue floating down a street. However, the clip comes from from the video was created in response to a video of a statue of the "Virgin Mary" floating down the same street, which was debunked by Mr. Flare. At the end of the Laminar Flow video, Captain Disillusion puts up watermarks and holds a sign that shows what he's doing is visual effects fakery in an attempt to stop a cycle of making a demonstrative fake video for the intentions of showing how the fakery could look more realisitic. | |
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Disaster Dominoes | |
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Disaster Dominoes: At the end of "Miss Ping Debunk", Cap bats a ping-pong ball off screen, which breaks something, leading to a series of series of escalating sounds of destruction ending in the entire studio collapsing around him. | |
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A-Cup Angst | |
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A-Cup Angst: In "Mystery Boob Revealed", the female members of the crew tease the viewer to guess whose chest was in the Mickey Mouse costume from "Disneyland Ghost DEBUNK". When it's Lauren's turn, she takes a moment to indignantly say she shouldn't be counted out because her chest is smaller than Isabelle and Emily's. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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In "The Undebunkable", Captain D gives an uncharacteristically direct and passionate talk about the importance of not thinking everything is fake. He stresses critical thinking, not cynicism. | |
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In the Style of | |
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In the Style of: "Chinese Invisibility Cloak Hoax DESTROYED!!!" is effectively a 10-minute informative essay about the use and development of chroma key technology in a pastiche of the styles of The Periodic Table of Videos, bill wurtz, CGP Grey, Tom Scott, Vsauce, and Smarter Every Day. | |
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Malicious Misnaming | |
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Malicious Misnaming: In the "Superhuman Tape Measure Skills Debunk" he continually says Jackson Roberts' name wrong out of anger that Jackson did a substantial amount of debunking before he could. | |
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A Dog Named "Dog" | |
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A Dog Named "Dog": Mr. Flare, the lens flare. | |
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But Now I Must Go | |
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But Now I Must Go: Captain D used to end his videos by realizing some far-off event needs his attention and saying "But now it's time for me to go, kids." | |
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Anthropomorphic Personification | |
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Anthropomorphic Personification: In "The Undebunkable", we get one of the Zeitgeist. | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: A one-off segment in one episode is described as "Today's daily word of the day". | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Early in "Cicret Bracelet DEBUNK", the Captain makes a quip about how the projector's proposed light source won't display anything "on a sunny Miami day, projected onto the arm of my black son". Later in the video, apropos of nothing: | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Alan has experience in film production and visual effects, and has a background propped by his parents being circus performers during his adolescence, giving him early knowledge of professional tricks of the trade. Alongside additional research and a keen eye towards identifying illusions, every debunking is incredibly thorough, able to break down the technicals of how videos are made, as well as disprove them with scientific explanation. One notable instance was when the Captain identified the exact plugins and stock effects pack used in one video, right down to their individual file names. | |
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