- Broken Base: James' speech at the end of his Penny's Big Breakaway about how you don’t need dormant franchises to revived when there’s other games that carry on its mechanical legacy has divided fans. Some agree with James' point that it’s fruitless to be begging for comebacks and one should take advantage of the wide platformer library, while detractors believe that James is missing the forest for the trees and people begging for series revival are often doing so for as the world and characters as much (if not more) than the actual gameplay that other franchises can’t offer.
- Friendly Fandoms: James and Antdude share a fanbase due to their similar content style, and the types of games that they cover. There is even an affectionate fandom in-joke that the two are the same person, a joke both have acknowledged on multiple occasions.
- Fandom Rivalry: Despite the aforementioned, there are many people on the internet who accuse James of ripping off Antdude's content and vice versa. Both James and Antdude take this in stride however and simply poke fun at this rivalry, Jacksfilms vs JennaMarbles style.
- Harsher in Hindsight:
- James' glowing praise of A Hat in Time upon release can be sadder in retrospect, when James admitted in his review of Penny's Big Breakaway that his annoyance towards platformers that rely on a Double Jump that lacks any downside has grown to the point he doesn’t find A Hat in Time fun anymore.
- In the Drake & Josh DS game review, James and Brady say that we don’t talk about Dan Schneider anymore... Come 2021, and for a time, we don’t talk about Drake Bell anymore either, and then the exposure of everything that happened to a lot of child actors with the Quiet on Set documentary meant we were talking about Dan Schneider again... but for worse reasons.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- In one of his older videos, he mentioned he doesn't play many indie games. Considering indie games have gone on to be a staple on the show, it's very amusing looking back at that video.
- In his review for Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, he insists the game needs an HD rerelease. That ended up happening.
- In the beginning of his video rebuttal to Jimmy Whetzel's review of Yo-kai Watch, James brings attention to how little subscribers he has, and then compares to how many Jimmy has. Fast forward to present day: James has nearly 200,000 more subscribers than him now.
- In his review of Pac-Man World, he makes a comment on Pac-Man's classic design versus his "Ghostly Adventures" look, comparing it to Mickey Mouse, preferring the classic look over the modern one. He also uses a photoshopped image of Sonic with smaller eyes as an example of how ugly it looks. Then the first trailer for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie shows a Sonic very similar to that design. Even better is that Sonic's designer, Naoto Ohshima, compared Sonic to Mickey in that he's not supposed to look like a real hedgehog.
- I Am Not Shazam: Nitro Rad is the title of the review series, not an alias of James himself. Many people in the comments section, however, tend to call him Nitro Rad despite this. However, this was actually subverted as time went on, as not only would James start referring to Brady as "Nitro Brady" on the show, but has seemingly silently accepted the show's title as his own alias due to how often he's referred to by it.
- Memetic Mutation: NitroRad, Traitor to AmericaExplanation
- Nightmare Fuel:
- During the Fatal Frame II review, James laughs while focusing on a part of the box that warns players not to play alone ("Or what? What's gonna happen, a ghost is gonna get me?"). When the video cuts back to him, the normally closed door behind him is now open, with a ghost in the doorway that does... nothing. Not helping is the fact that nothing is done to draw the viewer's attention to her, making it quite possible to miss her.
- The ending of his April Fools Day 2020 video. It seems and acts like a continuation of last year's Nitro Andre Show bit but when one of the special guests is Nitro Rad, things go off the rails.
- The April Fools Day 2021 video starts normally enough, but quickly dives into surreal horror as James finds himself in a loop of constantly reviewing the iCarly game for the Wii, with Brady getting more malicious with each iteration. And when James disconnects himself from the tub, he's covered in blood from... something that the real Brady doesn't bother explaining.
- Nightmare Retardant: Makes a rant in his Crooked Man video
about why jump scares aren't scary. Appropriately, he has a montage of jump scares going on onscreen, but dubbed over them with voice clips from Banjo.
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