Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-71.241.143.98-20200125172247

I know everyone's kinda busy with their Kfad parodies and such at the moment this thread was started, but I had an interesting think about the main lore.

I know there's Figments that aren't the same as their real life versions like Robbie Rotten, but what about the non-Wood Man takeover characters?

Two in particular stand out, Gadget and the Nostalgia Critic, because they're actually linked in real life.

I've been watching, and reading the TVTropes pages for  some stuff I wouldn't normally because I'm been kinda familiarizing myself with characters and sources used in Lawls (fake Smash Bros. moveset series made by multiple users, each with their own series) and while watching Board James (who is in Lawl Liquid Crystal) and seeing Mike Matei's name in the credits that really made me think about the SiIvaGunner lore.

Since of course, our Gadget is the same one as from Minecraft with Gadget, but then there's also the Nostalgia Critic. As some of you may or may not know Nostalgia Critic and the Angry Video Game Nerd are actually arch-enemies so they'd had a couple of crossovers and mention each other a lot.

Nostalgia Critic IS actually a fictional character in his universe and is aware of this, this is actually why he's gotten more and more bitter and unstable in later seasons, in fact there was an entire episode (The Review Must Go On) dedicated to him having an arguement with with his creator and actor Doug Walker, since Doug had to bring the Critic back from a heroic sacrifice he had in a mega-crossover special involving literally every contributor to ThatGuyWithTheGlasses/Channel Awesome, To Boldly Flee, which needless to say the Critic wasn't very happy about and has been implied since to have come back wrong.

My question is, since the Critic is a fictional character himself in his OWN world, does that mean he is a figment too, and is our Critic that took over the channel the exact one in the same meaning he continued to review movies and upload rips at the same time? Or is he something other than a figment?

Then there's Gadget, as through connections, he actually exists in the Critic's universe as well. James Rolfe, the creator of The Angry Video Game Nerd and his site Cinemassacre is pretty nonchalant when it comes to what is canon, as he makes videos both as himself, as the Nerd and as Board James, three seperate characters with different personalities (although the latter is more connected to Nerd than that, but that's a spoiler), so does that mean that the Mike Matei that plays games with both James Rofle and Inspector Gadget exists? And that in and of itself makes a paradox as he also plays one of Board James' friends, Motherfucker Mike and since the Board James and AVGN universes are one in the same and AVGN constantly crosses over with the Nostalgia Critic, does that mean Board James' friends exist in the Nostalgia Critic/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses continuity as well??

Many many questions and I'm sure there's a bunch more if you really look at the lore.

Just a very interesting topic I think merits it's own thread and I'm very surprised that there hasn't been one like this yet. 🤔 