Web Video / Sidequest Party

Sidequest Party (or simply Sidequest) is a collaborative Youtube group consisting of Choctopus, Vernias, tgtkai, Caggmoney and TinyTaru. The channel was created near the end of 2021 and primarily focuses on Nintendo multiplayer games, though they have played other games that were similar. They have posted a few vlogs on the channel as well.

Sidequest Party provides examples of:

• Animal Nemesis: Played for Laughs; Choctopus and Cagg are distracted from a minigame due a fly buzzing around and annoying them, leading the group to insist that it is taunting them.
• Birthday Episode: For Tom's birthday in 2024, Sidequest streamed a modded version of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
• Blatant Lies: Downplayed. For someone who says "I'm good at video games", Cagg's track record (specifically how he plays New Super Mario Bros. and Sonic Dream Team) will prove otherwise with the amount of screwups and lack of knowledge over the most basic controls in those games. He is able to play other games more competently, however.
• Butt-Monkey: Cagg tends to have the highest amount of continues in the New Super Mario Bros. videos due to him getting killed most of the time, whether it be to him failing platforming sections, not moving out of danger in time, getting friendly fired or being Collateral Damage. He also got made fun of for eating a burrito with a fork and knife.
  • After reading this very page in a Wii Party U video, Choctopus encourages the viewers to continue adding funny edits, especially ones that make fun of Danny.
• Character Catchphrase: Tiny tends to say "You scum of the earth!" whenever someone does something bad to him, though there are a few cases where he said this without this being the case. There's even a compilation of him saying this on their channel.
• Compilation Re-release: Much like on Choc's own channel, videos in a series will usually be uploaded part by part with a video compiled of every part with the title of "The Complete Run" being uploaded not long after that series' conclusion.
• Crossover: With the Party Crashers, another Let's Play collaborative group that Vernias is also a part of. This was thanks to a real-life event that allowed both groups to meet in person. The two groups would play two Jackbox games, the 8-player mode of Mario Party 7 and go golfing in real life. The Crashers (sans Brent, who watched and later joined via Discord call) also appeared during their Mario Party 5 livestream.
• Demonization: Choc often jokes about Tiny being the devil himself, much to the latter's chagrin. This even extends to the channel's subscriber emojis, as one of them is a cartoonized version of his face with devil horns on it.
• Epic Fail:
  • During the Rope Sling minigame in one of their Wii Party videos, Megg and Casey manage to launch themselves 3 yards (or in Megg's case, negative 3 yards) due to poor timing. When this minigame comes up in another Wii Party video, Choc makes the same mistake and travels 18 yards, but this is nothing in comparison to Tom, who somehow managed to travel negative 38 yards.
  • Tiny fails the Air Darts segment in Wii Party U due to misunderstanding the controls, scoring zero. Meg then proceeds to do the exact same thing, leading the whole group to laugh hysterically and joke that their side of the couch is drunk.
• Failed a Spot Check:
  • They didn't realize that they skipped the entirety of Sparkling Waters in their New Super Mario Bros. U playthrough, due to both that and Frosted Glacier being accessible after completing Layer-Cake Desert via a split path. When multiple people left comments regarding this, Sidequest looked at their save file on the start screen and the world map seen when using a cannon, the latter of which has an entire part of the world map that they went around with no ability to fast travel to it and came to the conclusion that their comment section was baiting them.
  • In this short, Vernias doesn't realize there was a wrapper over the Reese's Cup until he bites into it.
• The Gambling Addict: Downplayed and Played for Laughs. When they discover the slot machine in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, they waste all of their coins on it in seconds. When Vernias points out that he played the slots only twice, Choc jokes that Vern has a gambling problem.
• Groin Attack: Choc accidentally makes this happen to Mario during their playthrough of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, courtesy of being in the wrong place at the wrong time when playing through World 6's tower.
• Guest-Star Party Member: Megan, an affiliate of the group, has appeared in numerous videos, sometimes filling in for one of the group. As of late, she's made more appearances on the channel to the point where she could be considered an unofficial member.
• Idiot Ball: Cagg frequently makes very bad decisions in the New Super Mario Bros. videos, especially when it revolves around him not doing something, only for him to do it anyways. This also somewhat plays a role in his high number of continues.
• Interrupted by the End: At the end of their Petoons Party video, Cagg becomes semi-convinced that Vernias designed the game. Vernias' protests against this only goes on for 20 seconds before the channel's outro starts playing.
• Mascot: Sidequest has a channel mascot in the form of a green-skinned goblin in an adventurer's getup dubbed Grub the Goblin.
• Nickname Basis: Played Straight with Vernias, who's real name is Carnig, Averted with Kai, Tiny and Cagg, who go by their real names Tom, Casey and Danny respectively, Zig-Zagged with Choc, as he's referred to by his YouTuber handle and real life name (Rob) at random.
• Periphery Demographic: In-Universe. When the group found out that they had TV Tropes page, they thought that TV Tropes was a (traditional) wiki, and was then confused that the page added non-facts (i.e. the trope examples), not knowing that TV Tropes is not like Wikipedia at all.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Vernias is usually seen playing characters who have pink colorations, like Birdo and Toadette or any character in Smash with a pink alternate color. Even in person, he's usually wearing an article of clothing that is pink in some fashion (and has also dyed his hair pink at one point).
• The Smurfette Principle: Despite not being an official member of the channel, Megan is the only female that has played with the group.
• Special Guest:
  • Prior to appearing in a few videos with the rest of the Party Crashers, TCNick3 appeared as one in a video where Sidequest fought over Secret Santa gifts through Mario Party.
  • GamesCage appears in their video of Sonic and the Secret Rings's party mode.
• Wolverine Publicity: The thumbnail for "We changed the rules of Mario Party" features Mario front and center, despite the fact that none of the members actually play as him in the video.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: During their trip to a trampoline park, Vern spots a claw machine with Mario-related plushes. Before he could get to the machine, a child begins using it while Vern waits for the child to finish. Choc then (jokingly) tells Vern to assert dominance and shove the child out of the way of the machine, which Vern completely objects to.