You know what? No Linkara. A Bat Credit Card is not believable. A Bat DEBIT card, sure, but a CREDIT card? You think he's gonna want to rack up a bunch of credit debt under his Batman alias? No.
For the layman Credit and Debit are the same thing. And yes, it's entirely believable that Bruce managed to game the system for Batman to have a credit debt that's paid for with one of the many seemingly ownerless shell companies. It'd make an easy bait for hacking criminals to go after and leave a massive paper trail for Batman to track while itself having a paper trail that only goes as far as Bruce allows it to.
@@CouchSpud91 For the layman, Batman just has a bunch of money from Wayne Tech. Most people don't know about offshore accounts and fake names and all that. We're already splitting hairs just having this conversation.
@@dillonf1905 Hairs were being split by the people trying to act all incensed that Batman (the guy whose superpower is having contengiency plans for anything and everything) would have some sort of cashless payment method available on hand for sudden necessary purchases that wouldn't leave a means of discovering his alternate identity.
@@CouchSpud91 It's an interesting thought. Bruce Wayne could probably force a bank to issue a Bat Credit Card but he would need an excuse, since Batman is a criminal (except the Adam West version). Maybe Bruce makes up a story about Batman saving him, and out of gratitude he creates the Bat Credit Card and gives it to Batman, which is why a charity would actually accept the card instead of treating it as stolen or something.
Doug Walker's clearly doing this as a contrived skit, but The Lightbringer has the stare of a man who has been through World War 1 and watched his father die at the hands of a manticore, and the intensity of his raw passion about Batman genuinely startles Doug into leaving the room.
There's another sketch where the two meet and Doug tries to put a bit together with Linkara as a joke, only for Linkara to retort that he doesn't do sketches, but films real things that happen to him while reviewing. So canonically, every weird thing that happens to Doug is fake, and every weird thing that happens to Linkara is real.
I remember one of Linkara's old 'We'll be right back after the ad break' transitions. Doug would do a comical impression of Linkara and Linkara would do a comical impression of the Nostalgia Critic. And what a surprise, the impression of Linkara isn't any actual jabs at him, but at his fans getting overly defensive because Linkara is so amazing while the impression of the Nostalgia Critic is an actual joke about the Nostalgia Critic persona.
Doug is pretty stupid in a lot of ways, but I've yet to see him do that thing most online personalities do where they get defensive, or argue with criticisms or people poking fun at them. Like, the polar opposite of Linkara, who got really salty about the OneyPlays riffing, Doug publically acknowledged it and took it on the chin. Admitted it would be hypocritical to get mad about it. His The Wall review was atrocious, but I almost respect him more for not putting out a video afterwards trying to 'explain' what he did and why, and why criticisms weren't valid. I don't recally seeing him get mad or salty about it publically at least. Maybe he did behind the scenes, but at least in public he had the good sense to take it on the chin. It's amazing how many people just don't understand what an easy PR win it is sometimes to say nothing, and move on.
It's funny that Linakras rant isn't just "Batman and Robin is just a big budget Adam West episode, and that's why it's got a Bat credit card." Having to be all serious like Batman would have a credit card with his name on it regular stories, and not the obvious thing, excellent.
That's the thing, though. It makes complete sense? What if Batman has to suddenly buy spare tires for the Batmobile or something? It makes way more sense to use credit for that crap.
@@dracocrusher He's got a guy for that. Besides, it's not like he's just gonna get some run-of-the-mill Michelin tires - he's going to get special tires that are bulletproof and have excellent tracking and durability.
@@oneblacksun You're not going to have a guy at all times, though. Like, what? If someone sheers off a Batmobile tire he's going to call someone to drive all the way out into the city to get him a spare? Or is he just going to use more convenient options if they're available?
You could 100% remove a chip from one card and put it in another, if batman has some shell company that isn't associated with Bruce Wayne he could just make his own card and move the chip to that.
Linkaras speech is funny because it includes a clip of Batman just using cash and it feels way less contrived than thinking about the entire operation that would allow Batman to borrow funds in a way that wouldnt compromise his identity in the specific cases Batman just needs to spend immediate money. It asks so much for the idea to be taken seriously, it has no place in Batman narrative beyond being a very stupid gag.
The entire concept of Batman is a stretch of the imagination and yet it's the idea that he uses a credit card for emergency purchases as part of his work that breaks you out of the suspension of disbelief?
@@CouchSpud91 Just because Batman already asks a lot of the imagination, doesnt mean there isnt a breaking point, or concepts that go against the tone or the idea of Batman(although it was used well in the movie). You wouldnt say Han Solo pulling a stormtrooper-repelling spray isnt ridiculous just because the lore could probably justify it. The bat-credit-card is a similarly immediately goofy concept that isnt very cool, doesnt add a sense of style, nor adds to a story and doesnt solve any unique problems by being introduced, but adds an extra load to the sense of disbelief regardless of how much it can be justified. Theres a reason it was only ever used as a punchline in a very exaggerated portrayal of the character, it is a VERY dumb idea.
@@DeepCDiva Except as Linkara points out, Batman makes purchases of various kinds throughout his time as Batman in order to help others and himself. The Bat Credit Card is merely keeping to the whole concept and theme of Batman that he always has a bat-themed item on hand for various circumstances. With all the other over-the-top crap Batman has at his disposal even in the 'serious' portrayals of the character, to get incensed that Batman (the guy whose superpower is having contengiency plans for anything and everything) would have some sort of cashless payment method available on hand for sudden necessary purchases that wouldn't leave a means of discovering his alternate identity is specious at best.
@@CouchSpud91 This just circles back to my first point that Batman just using cash(or making a few calls) feels way less contrived than the bat-themed credit card. Introducing something so cheesy as a THEMED credit card, while it can solve a narrative problem, just sets a different tone and opens up way more questions than the alternatives. That those questions can be answered just adds a lot of clutter to something that adds SO little (even in terms of style, coolness, plot, etc) that you might as well be arguing why Batman should carry his shark-repellent at all times - he's just prepared! I dont think the credit card is as big of a deal as the Critic does ofc, and if you think its fine, thats ok too, but i dont think its insane to think that some things are sillier than others, that this mismatch can be bad, and that trying to solve that with LORE might be a lot of trouble and not even offset the initial tone shift.
@@DeepCDiva Cash is limited and Batman always prefers to do things himself unless he can't or specifically strategizes someone else doing it. And again we're talking about the guy known for having contengiency plans for contengiency plans that are designed for other contengiency plans. Unlimited Batarangs, Batclaws, Batmobile parts, Batwing parts, Bat Sonar tech, Bat Weapon tech, BatSuits, Bat Capes, and multiple Bat Caves, all bought and paid for through all kinds of similar shell company purchases to hide his identity are all fine but a Bat Credit Card is the thing that feels contrived? Do you not see how much of an absurd and arbitrary line this is? At least with something like the Shark Repellent there is legitimate question of how often would he need to use it to justify it taking space in his belt, but we're talking about a piece of plastic barely the size of a business card that enables instant access to whatever he might need to grab from any store instantly should the need arise.
You know what the best part is? Linky's tismic spiel doesn't even invalidate Doug's point. Yeah, in a serious context, Batman would need to have some means to access his wealth to solve certain problems, but that doesn't translate to him walking around with a single goofy-ass credit card with his name and logo on it.
Why not? It makes more sense than carrying thousands of dollars in hard cash. And it's Batman, he's not going to just have a generic Master Card, he's going to just be like "Yeah, make it look like this, it fits my aesthetic."
No the entire idea is stupid because the entire point of credit cards is that they're tied to someone's ID so that the bank can know who's spending the money and then get paid back for it. What bank would ever give a credit card to someone who's identification can never be confirmed?
Actually, Linkara, Batman having a bat credit card IS not just weird but also foolish. If Batman had to open up an offshore account to get a credit card for his batman alias and transfer money from wayne enterprises to his batman account, it would be easily traceable by records, purchase history and government agencies which would figure it out in under an hour. So no, bat credit card rants are justified
That's the whole purpose of the shell companies though. Put the right ones the right ways in the right places and they become dead ends to any investigation, and being the mastermind that he is Batman would no doubt know all the loopholes and backdoors to creating such without any trace to him beyond that card.
Only a true alpha superhero runs away from slave traders while they're in middle of kidnapping women for s*x slavery. (thats a real plotpoint in lightbringer btw)
@@thisjustincomicsThere was a video that was a kind of RU-vid trailer/dub of parts of it. Unfortunately, it's gone now, but (god)damn, was it hilarious
He wasn’t wrong, though. By that point, the Bat-Credit card joke had long overstayed its welcome and it’s about time somebody finally put it to rest once and for all.
@@eon1014 how is he not wrong? His only point is that batman is rich. If you're rich, please go down to your nearest bank in a super hero costume, refuse to give them your real name and see if they give you a credit card.
The sincerity of the channel awesome creators is genuinely endearing i cant even lie Its a nice change of pace from a generation of people who think acting like aloof w*nkers is the epitomy of coolness
The History of Bat Credit Cards HAS NO SET SCHEDULE. They'll be done when they're done, and released when they're done. DON'T ASK ME FOR A LINK WHEN IT'S UP.
Linkara really needed a speech teacher to tell him you're supposed to speak from your chest, not through your nose. Had a speech teacher that told me it was RUDE to speak in a high-pitched, nasally voice.
I mean you can’t not feel Doug’s enthusiasm but it’s coupled with not taking himself too seriously and ability to laugh at himself that makes him actually pretty likable. Linkara is just pure autism but in a very wholesome way
Linkara: Prepared for multiple eventualities, shell companies, Batman is so hot bla bla... Meanwhile Comics: The Joker steals Batman's entire friggin money and he loses much of his equipment and the manor.
I only ever seen like a few channel awesome vids way back in the day but the moment I heard these impression on Oneyplays, it blew my mind how good they sounded.
As someone who actually saw that video live. It’s so funny seeing it being brought back, but even funnier is seeing all the comments here saying how this is the first time they’ve ever heard Linkara 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It’s actually crazy to me how much lower quality linkaras content is to Doug’s. I mean nostalgic critic hasn’t been funny in a decade, but linkara is literally unwatchable
A lot of that comes down to how they portray themselves. Doug comes off as an absolute goofball in his videos, like a cartoon in live action. But he's so charming at doing it that you can forgive the cringe parts of his vids at times. Lewis comes off as your typical angry unlikable reviewer who always thinks he's right with none of the charm Doug brings to the table. Not only that, but Linkara treats his show's lore like serious business and that saps out any potential fun you can find in skits. Sure, skits always suck in any Channel Awesome vid, but they're at their worse in Lewis' content because he takes them WAY too seriously.
There's the occasional critic video that's funny, and dougs other content where he isn't the critic is usually good too! Linkara on the other hand, I am genuinely not sure if I've ever laughed at him
Hard disagree. The exact opposite, actually. Doug has become unwatchable and unlikable while Linkara is no less enjoyable than he was when he started. Doug is insufferable in his attempts to 'act', trying oh so hard to seem like a badass and silly person but it feels so painfully forced. There are moments where Linkara has the same issue, but he's gotten a lot more better with acting his role in a believable fashion while Doug is still stuck being way too overdramatic in his performance like he was when he started, only a lot slower now thanks to his age. James is right that it's in how they play the characters; NC is a tryhard douchebag caricature whereas Linkara is just Lewis with more snark and skepticism. As such NC comes off as tryhard douche, and Linkara comes off as just another nerd who reviews comics with comedy thrown in. Though I don't get the whole 'always thinks he's right' thing. Lewis repeatedly and constantly admits his faults and moments where he's wrong throughout each video, even still doing an annual video series highlighting the worst of such. And Lewis's skits are so much better he cares about the lore of his show and the characters in it. They aren't just random bullshit for the sake of random bullshit.
It’s very simple. It all comes down to the people portraying these characters. There isn’t some secret voodoo magic behind it that’s making it so one is more acceptable than the other it’s the people behind them. No matter what anyone has ever said about Doug, Doug has always come across as someone who is only in it for the love of the game itself. He’s earnest to a fault and brings this level of “in what way can I keep things light and enjoyable for myself and my co workers today.” Watch him in interviews, behind the scenes, his live streams. The dude is really just that down to earth. He’d allow someone like angry Joe or linkara to verbally castrate him time and time and time again because he’d believe that it would somehow further a character point and Doug believes and has said over and over “I got famous by ridiculing and mocking people and things. What kind of narcissist would I be if I couldn’t be the butt of a joke myself?” Linkara is the exact opposite. Everything from his demeanor outside his videos, his 20 page twitter rants where he demands you take every moment of his life seriously and you give him his flowers immediately and admit he’s the most intellectual person you’ve ever met or he’ll block you on the spot, the way you can see in old videos he manipulated Doug and would do anything he could to try to feed into Doug’s ego just so he could stay at a high position in Doug’s videos. Linkaras comics and books that only exist to wag their finger at you and insist he is a higher level being than you and you just don’t understand yet why he’s ahead of the curve while he continually writes stories that portray women as helpless creatures who are continually being beaten, abused, and violently graped so the LIGHTBRINGER can save them and be rewarded with the gift of a woman’s affection. Linkara has never come across as earnest or a real person and it bleeds into his performances and that’s why people who watch him see him for the miserable and unhappy person he really is.
In all honesty Doug probably at some point stopped being genuinely annoyed by the bat credit card and wanted to finally end the bit so it seemed logical The Lightbringer would be the one to help kill it lol
I wanna see a story now were Batman gets his Bat Credit Card stolen, and then has to go through a bunch of verification and get on the phone with his bank.
I love how even they agree its one of the most genuinely funny moments of the series... and like most jokes Linkara singlehandedly ruins it. His only true talent, killing the most long running jokes
i have a feeling a lot of the people who watched this don't know what an oneyplays is, and people who can't hear good impressions are on their way to becoming hellen keller.
Wow Linkara is actually THAT stupid. Bruce Wayne is in no way shape or form a creditor. He does not have the ability to make his own "accessorized" credit card. In other words, Linkara doesn't understand even remotely how the world operates.
I wouldn't say I miss blip per se, but there were a lot of things on blip that didn't exist anywhere else, there was this one thing I recently wanted to rewatch and I realized it was only on blip so I could never see it again.
The rant Linkara went on was really corny, but I'll admit the "Get in the corner" part was funny, if only because I thought oney was exaggerating about that part lmao
It was kinda a minor running gag on Channel Awesome. It started in Nostalgia Critic’s The Wiz review he did with Todd In The Shadows where a running joke was Sci-Fi Guy kept sneaking in trying to join the review only to be banished to the corner, that would come up every now and again in other reviews (I recall Linkara demanding Sci-Fi Guy get in the corner during the Les Miserables review)
“They are a RU-vidr who is the one who’s re- who’s pop- who- who make- who constantly mocks me, makes fun of me, and- and apparently they do an impression of me that is- that it- that- that everyone loves- everyone has to point out ‘Wow! His impression of you is so accurate!’”
Hmm…yeah that’s actually a great point. Batman would need some kind of way to carry money with him to help the odd person here and there, and a card is more efficient than stacks of cash. And it sure as hell can’t say Bruce Wayne on it.
@@fajam00m00 You can't slap your personal logo on them. You don't get to use an alias as they require you to have your legal name. They're the easiest way to track people and where money goes. And no, you can't set up a bank just for yourself because you need permits from the government, never mind the services of something like visa or mastercard. There's no logic to it if you want your identity hidden. It's just a silly joke and nothing else.
You do know that Doug and Lewis were both both reading from a script, right? Of course their dialogue won’t sound completely natural, it’s all been pre-written.
The thing is Batman doesn’t buy those things. Bruce does and writes it off into the bylines of the balance. Wayne Tech makes all his weapons, he’s not buying them.
The OneyPlays video was part 5 of their Luigi's Mansion 3 playthrough, the bat credit card section starting at around 5:48 The Linkara video was from Linkara's Atop the Fourth Wall video on the Batman and Robin comic adaptation, the rant starting at around 3:17
all that effort to epic pwn Doug for a lame bit, when I could just put that batman logo on any debit card I wanted and call it a bat-credit card. dude is the try-hardiest I've ever seen in this business.
I wasn't paying attention to the screen when I first watched this so I couldn't tell the parts where Linkara talks were actually him, I thought it was still Chris doing his impression.
The thing is that there are some things that seem so over the top that while it's probable, it just looks silly when shown. For example, as we know matter, Star Trek's replicators didn't just create things out of thin air (though TNG era did make it seem possible), while Star Trek Discovery revealing that replicators created things from waste, it just became the butt of a joke rather than something interesting.
@@crankywriter1738 Technically, they both did, in a more primitive form A protein resequencer was a technology utilized by Humans which could be programmed to replicate certain foods. (ENT: "Breaking the Ice") Arik Soong used a protein resequencer in the 2130s, along with a water purifier, to sustain a small colony of Augments he was raising on a planet in the Trialas system. (ENT: "Cold Station 12") A protein resequencer was installed aboard Enterprise NX-01, launched in 2151, supplementing the ship's galley and hydroponic greenhouse. The resequencer was capable of replicating a variety of foods, including potatoes, scrambled eggs, chicken sandwiches, and meatloaf, although crewmembers often claimed they couldn't taste the difference. (ENT: "Fight or Flight", "Unexpected", "Breaking the Ice", "Fortunate Son", "Shadows of P'Jem") When Coridanite dissidents interrogated Captain Archer about Enterprise in October 2151, the ship's protein resequencer was the only part of the ship Archer was willing to talk about, stating that it made chicken sandwiches. (ENT: "Shadows of P'Jem") The food synthesizer, food replicator or food processor was a common device used aboard 23rd century starships and starbases for synthesizing foods and beverages. Replacing the older protein resequencer, these food receptacles served as a supplement to the ship's chef and were predecessors to 24th century replicators. Unlike replicators, with which food orders were made by voice command, food orders given to food synthesizers were usually made by program tapes or cards inserted into a slot. Nurse Chapel offered the surviving children of the Starnes Exploration Party a selection of cards with differing flavors of ice cream to choose from. All they had to do was pick a card and the computer would mix their favorite combination. (TOS: "And the Children Shall Lead") Upon taking on a contingent of Klingon officers, led by Kang, aboard the Enterprise, Captain James T. Kirk ordered Johnson to have the food synthesizers programmed to accommodate their guests. (TOS: "Day of the Dove") By 2270, the food synthesizers aboard the Enterprise were converted over to a voice-command ordering system. (TAS: "The Practical Joker") Romulan D7-class battle cruisers were also equipped with food synthesizers. (TAS: "The Practical Joker") The term food synthesizer was still used occasionally while explaining the more advanced replicator to others. (TNG: "The Vengeance Factor")
I bet good ol egotisical Linkara’s was giggling and kicking his feet when writing this. Like he legit got so fucking serious over something that’s obviously a joke, you can’t even say the thing itself was a joke, because there’s nothing of jokey value to it.
The Joke had long overstayed its welcome, and it’s about time somebody finally put it to rest. Besides, Doug probably gave him permission to do it to finally kill that joke once and for all, otherwise he wouldn’t have allowed Linkara to do it.
The funniest thing to me is that their impressions are legit spot on, like, you know how some of their impressions are like, bastardized versions of the people they're impersonating? These voices sound 99% them.
Love all these dumb people that were apparently laughing at an impression of a voice they've never heard before. "Wow, his impression sounds JUST like Linkara!" Wow, no way.
@@wanshitong5101 My point is that these people have never even heard Linkara's voice but somehow still find the impression funny for some reason and I'm just like... how? It's just some random silly voice to these people so... how is it even funny to them? They're not in on the joke at all but still act like they are, it's actually fucking goofy. Everyone knows what Trump sounds like, so that's not exactly a fair comparison. Zach's awful impression *is* the joke, but you wouldn't know that if you never heard Trump speak before.
@@bat6353 Uuuh.. sorry if explaining something in detail is suddenly *too much for you* You should go back to reading books instead of RU-vid comments, maybe then you'll grasp the concept of 'explaining.'
Honestly? I think the bit is geniuenly funny on paper but what ruins it is that it's Linkara who says it. Like you can tell by the way it's written that it's him subliminally saying "My show is better than the stupid stuff on Doug's channel!"
