The Runaway Guys Colosseum 2021 - Custom Smash

[@PyraXadon]

And to this day, we never knew what "Pyra Bites Emile" meant. And we never will.

[@pikasparkle485]

Maybe next time...

[@Guardian-of-Light137]

Do we still not know?

[@JAnne_Bonne]

“I just want to kill Jon ONCE! He hasn’t died!” “You weren’t supposed to notice that!” “Of course I noticed! YOU WERE NEVER AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAGE!”

[@homuraakemi103]

My favorite Shadow line is, “This is like taking candy from a baby, _which is fine by me!_ “

[@Axletowns]

Same

[@JCBro-yg8vd]

I kind of prefer "Where's that DAMN fourth chaos emerald?!"

[@ShadowMasterOfArmageddon]

We need to find the computer room!

[@freezeblazestar1079]

all shadow lines are dumb and worst same time

[@freezeblazestar1079]

@@JCBro-yg8vd worst line ever

[@eviltables8510]

I resonate with Chugga for about his story with Lucas, Shulk, and Pyra/Mythra. I felt the same way when it was announced Snake came back for Ultimate. Not necessarily for the same reasons as him but rather, in the Smash fandom I swear if a character even has one projectile, the whole fandom erupts into flames.

[@uberlord983]

And then you have characters like Little Mac, DK, & Ganondorf, which the community flames as "awful" because they have no projectiles.

[@omega13whitelucario95]

@@uberlord983 ah yes Let's give 3 trucks a projectile Not like they can't hit for a lot up close

[@redtutel]

I need to take Jon’s advice of not carrying what other people think to heart

[@theoaremevano3227]

Yeah, I definitely wish I had an easier time doing that. Emile's comment on Smash Bros. characters is basically me with every game I wanted to play in the past decade or so. :/ The most obnoxious opinions are always the least deserving of any attention. Conversation starts at 43:25. I like listening to it. :)

[@Club_Weeg]

Dan's response to how he keeps going will never fail to kill me cuz thirsty Dan jokes or not that was just an A-Class response.

[@StormrangerOmega]

_Custom Stages List:_ Stage 1: The Pits, 0:00 Stage 2: Jacked Hammers, 8:45 Stages 3 & 4: Spin Cycle (HD and Regular editions), 16:22 & 21:40 Stage 5: Moondrop Summit, 25:50 Stage 6: The Ball, 30:25 Stage 7: Reap What You Sow, 37:46

[@fuschiawarrior2159]

You are awesome. Thx.

[@RickachuCXVI]

28:05 I'd say chugga had evolved from being innocent to being juvenile

[@WildFox-h1u]

Jon calling Emile “Conroy” has so much raw energy. NVM, that wasn’t Jon I’m just stupid.

[@Guardian-of-Light137]

@@WildFox-h1u Oh my god it DOES

[@chriswilson9661]

"Block those people and call them assholes" i really like jon.

[@TrisAndAsura]

More shenanigans with Tom Fakes and Custom Smash. This was such a joy to watch in the past two years, and I love to see them replayed again! The only regret is to not see what "Pyra bites Emile" means, missed oppourtunity for maybe what could have been one of the best TRG Colosseum moments but oh well. They rest of the segment was great!

[@andrewpappas9311]

19:22 You know, of all the years I've been watching TRG I'd have thought that Emile would've been excited to smash Daisy

[@Rexaura888]

In which Tom brings back some Custom Smash favorites (and maybe a new stage) with Emile, Jon, Dan, and Josh. Their taunt buttons don’t seem to be working as intended however, and what’s this incentive about Emile getting bit? We may never know what that last part’s about.

[@Rexaura888]

@@nicholasseim5738 As lovely as Skye Bennett would look as Pyra, that sounds rather dangerous, irresponsible (both in terms of potentially putting Emile in physical harm’s way and due to the current pandemic situation), and rather costly, and I’m unsure as to whether she’d be comfortable with such an idea in the first place.

[@dragozeronova]

@@nicholasseim5738 lol that would be really funny but I don't think that would've happened even pre pandemic. However, the VA could've been involved, just for the voice

[@Rexaura888]

@@dragozeronova Depending on what her contract reads, I don’t think even the voice would be an option. Nintendo’s rather strict on their contracts about what VAs for their characters can and cannot say (similar to Cast members at theme parks like Disneyland and the like). I know some have gotten into trouble with Nintendo as a result of their ignorance on that.

[@dragozeronova]

@@Rexaura888 that's fair, since different companies see things differently. Wesker had no issues, but pythra might

[@RandomUser11170]

I'm guessing it may have had something to do with dentalanche, maybe with everyone playing Pyra? Idk, just a guess

[@fryespikachu153]

For context: the reason why Tom had to stress that Stephen was alive at the start was because the lamp bumper aired right before this segment.

[@Xenowolf8]

Did we ever find out what “Pyra bites Emile” means? If not than I have a Theory, Emile has a red Aegis sword and he could poke himself with it while moaning, since Pyra is the sword in a sense.

[@pikasparkle485]

I'm afraid not. It wasn't enough time and donations. TBH I wanted to see it too.

[@loftwingheropon2743]

PikaSparkle485 I thought it was a pet named pyra.

[@pikasparkle485]

@@loftwingheropon2743 Probably

[@PrincessSunnyoftheSandWings]

I’m glad one of Tom’s regular things is in this

[@blue_boo3171]

How fitting this video came out on Tuesday, as I always ear *Smashburger* on Tuesdays.

[@cripplepickle87]

Bruh all the smashburgers near me keep closing 😭 I'm jealous

[@segonyosoftendo]

I identify very much with Emile's Smash Bros rant.

[@bluemario610]

11:20 OF COURSE I NOTICED IT! 27:56 YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE DOING CONROY!

[@slimballs9650]

Sometimes I wish Jon was there for the second one.

[@JustCrazyDK]

5:05 Josh jabbed Jon and saved his life.

[@pikasparkle485]

16:04 Thanks, Tom! I wanted to play your maps with my cousins so badly! So it won't be always normal smash. And I want to have some actions!

[@BlueFire98]

46:25 Dan The Ladies Man!!! He'll flex then he'll take your chick

THAT CHARACTER BEING IN SMASH IS WHY GINO IS NOT IN SMASH! ...Or its because Nintendo never cared enough to make that character appear again after Super Mario RPG 30 years ago. Or the rights for Gino are in a legal tumble between Nintendo and Square so they cant.

[@hank2815]

27:55 He said that on PROTONJON'S stream so you could imagine the chat at that moment.

[@Jygerthe2nd]

46:58 Oh God, yes, I fucking love that moment. XD

[@codytoeung5089]

I empathize with Chugga liking characters that the rest of the Smash fandom hates. It's Byleth and Pyra/Mythra especially as of late. Also Sephiroth and Hero would legitimately be characters you could blame for Geno not being included, and chances are other circumstances could have had them be chosen over Geno.

[@angel-of-light-kelly1355]

As a fire emblem fan that mains Hero, I’m sadly used to the complaints. I’m more annoyed when people go “oh, another anime swordsman,” and then non-ironically ask for Sora. Geno I don’t really get why he’s so popular, as I found him bland, but I guess he would have a different move set than most characters. But Sora is another anime swordsman, even if his sword is a key. I do like Sora, but I will call out hypocrisy.

[@Vaithegamingwarrior]

Same here, although to a lesser degree When Joker was announced, SO MANY FUCKING PEOPLE I KNOW DISSED HIM I was SUPER EXCITED when I saw his trailer, but the moment I told a friend about it, he said "oh, you mean that punk ass teenage emo crybaby?" I got so pissed off at his comment! And then the entire place started thinking I was weird for being excited for Joker being in Smash! Like, what the actual hell?!

[@DoubleDeeEddBoyChannel]

You should see Twitter explode all over JRPGs negatively... all because a character from Dragalia Lost beat Crash in a fan poll. My most wanted character is a Tales of character. It used to be Lloyd Irving form Tales of Symphonia, that recently changed to Yuri Lowell form Tales of Vesperia. And I hate this stigma agaisnt swordsman and JRPG characters so much because one look and boom, dismissal. You know what Banjo's reveal did for me? Pushed me to want to finally play a Banjo Kazooie game and now it's become a "Where have you been all my life" game (I grew up with an N64 but Banjo Kazooie wasn't in my mind at the time and the most I've interacted with the series was Masae's LP of it). I wanted people to have that experience with a Tales character in Smash just like Banjo did for me, but I guess I'm never going to get that happiness of knowing someone got into my favorite series of all time because of Smash.

[@codytoeung5089]

@@Vaithegamingwarrior “Punk ass teenage emo crybaby” Come on, give Ryuji some slack. XD For real though, I think the people hating on Joker was the *minority* but I was surely surprised seeing even he got hate. Also why “crybaby”? Did they even see his trailer?

[@codytoeung5089]

@@DoubleDeeEddBoyChannel A shame we went from people being totally curious about unknown franchises like FE in Melee to the point of it being localized, to hating on new unknown franchises because we don’t know who they are. Like... Didn’t we like stuff for being new and unknown? At the very least it popularized Xenoblade.

[@miatheneko189]

I did mistake tom fawkes for toby fox the first colosseum actually I wont lie.... also then mistook tom for the lord donator fellow

[@MrCubFan415]

32:54 "ARE YOU ON THE BALL?" - Billy Mays

[@munchrai6396]

The ball is such a cool idea for a stage even cooler when you find the comment that I left on the Box video that suggested something similar

[@SuperNobody64]

Did they just call Filthy Frank the "time to stop guy"?

[@loftwingheropon2743]

“This is not ok” also glad I am not the only one who thought Tom reminded me of him.

[@SuperNobody64]

@@loftwingheropon2743 They need to show the king a little more respect

[@XerxesTexasToast]

Man, it's not any other fighter's fault that Geno isn't in, except MAYBE Cloud. Geno isn't in for the same reason he hasn't appeared in a Mario game in 25 years: Square owns the copyright. And given how stingy Squenix has been with the FF music until Sephiroth's reveal, my hopes for Geno are all but dashed. I'll pin my hopes on a different dream character for the time being... Magolor for Smash.

[@aidancristea2177]

What actually happened at 5:07 wasn’t a footstool. Josh was spamming to use the pitfall and accidentally jabbed Jon stopping his fall

[@genemelendez8157]

I never got why people complain about certain characters making it into Smash Bros. Usually when there’s a character I don’t know, but is fun to play, they usually act as incentive to play the games that they came from. That’s how I got into Dragon Quest and Bayonetta. Maybe it’s because the characters I’ve always wanted are Pac Man and Ridley, and they’re already in the game. I’m not picky about who gets included

[@YourPalRal]

They really just compared Tom to Filthy Frank. Was not expecting that!

[@Xenowolf8]

I used to think Filthy Frank was Tom

[@tnevadi8370]

We shall now name him "Papa Tom"

[@MathematicalVoid]

I remember my most hyped character for this game got hate for being for weebs. That character was Banjo & Kazooie, the first playable character(s) in Smash history to come from a series of non-Japanese origins (if you count the Donkey Kong games before DKC as part of the same series as DKC, as well as counting Metroid Prime as part of the Metroid series) and being one (or two depending on if you see them as one character because gameplay or two because they're two separate entities) of the least anime-looking characters.

[@Xenowolf8]

Steve is from a franchise that didn’t originally come from Japan, so that’s two.

[@MathematicalVoid]

@@Xenowolf8 I never said Banjo and Kazooie were the only ones, just the first.

[@GameGod77]

Why does Dan have the best comebacks? God damn boy!

[@Lazer_Specter]

Legit tactic I came up with for the ball. Play as Lucario. Get in the ball. Hope to get out. Try not to die. Also I like when Emile was mentioning Mother 3 localization and Lucas in Brawl he said "Back when we still had hope." 😂 It's true and it hurts. 😂😭 Also Emile. It's not always your character's fault. Sometimes it's Minecraft Steve or Sephiroth. I was actually upset they made Geno a costume and not even a deluxe but Pyra and Mythra made up for that. In part because of Emile's XC2 lp I was happy they got in. They were the dlc I was happiest for.

[@LordCowCow]

Dan is absolutely hilarious

[@aparks1437]

i guess you can say that if tom plays with lord d'onator he's ... .. .. .. .. .. playing with himself

[@SuperCaptureDevice]

Corner. Now!

[@blairsnyder3472]

What does Tom have to do with Lord Dona’tor?

[@PrincessSunnyoftheSandWings]

46:25 “‘Hey!!!! Thirsty Dan is back!!!!’”-Tom 2021

[@MrLunaBoy1996]

As people said in the chat during this segment: "Geno is overrated"

[@PixelHead777]

"Back when we still had hope"

[@xXThatGuy275Xx]

The ball looks like place of magic and suffering and i love every MIN OF IT

[@SportsGaming-ll3ru]

So Emile, you were wondering about Shulk and pythra being hated for joining smash? They weren’t the most hated, in smash 4 that probably goes to Bayonetta, and in ultimate, that would probably be min min or byleth, but do remember this is the smash community we’re talking about and they can be pretty toxic, but it’s also just up to opinion, not everyone is going to like the same thing, and in this case, not everyone will like xenoblade

[@penguinman2233]

Ultimate was Byleth. Though to be fair Etika would’ve busted a big one for Byleth…

[@morgancrabtree6248]

I'm fine with people having opinions but they really need to stop being toxic.

[@SportsGaming-ll3ru]

@@penguinman2233 bro Etika will live on forever, I wish we could see his reaction to everyone else so far 😔

[@warriorofdawn876]

I wish we could've seen Etika's reaction to Pyra and Mythra making it into Smash! ...Said pretty much everyone. XD

[@SportsGaming-ll3ru]

@@morgancrabtree6248 yes, people need to accept the inclusion and move on, am I the biggest fan of Pythra, no, but do I respect their inclusion, yes, Sakurai and his team worked very hard on them

[@Buglin_Burger7878]

The stage doesn't come back because of the mechanism you use, it needs a brace and something to knock it down, the problem with this is that when the main platform respawns it is influenced by the materials and some random rotation. It ends up getting stuck on the brace or knock down... both of which exist outside of playable space where spawning/collision is messed up. You'd need a visible contraption and different build to fix this completely destroying the theme.

[@newdonktimes2034]

I miss the custom smash on Tom’s channel.

[@MantaKizaemonFTW]

Hold up, Pyra bites Emile?

[@hoots1225]

Ah Spin Cycle, or as I like to call it, Umbrella Corporation during Pride Month

[@Kitsunestorm365]

When are we getting Emile plays BanjoKazoie??

[@theoaremevano3227]

Maybe once he's had enough orange juice. :D

[@Kitsunestorm365]

@@theoaremevano3227 😂😂

[@dylanshadowstar9779]

Good news!

[@jra7852]

I missed this segment, because I was spending time with my family during this time. But I'm finally gonna be able to watch it!

[@WeldonSirloin]

I share the the sentiment of chuga and jon that the smash community is extremely salty about characters even tough they got their "dream" characters as part of the main roster or dlc. I never cared about Banjo or K.Rool but I was ecstatic when Terry got announced because I never thought an SNK character, much less someone featured in KOF, would get into smash.

[@BigKlingy]

I miss the earlier Smash community, no-one complained about reps back in Melee, and in Brawl it was some mild salt over too many clones. (Apart from some vocal Sonic-haters) I chalk this up to the rise of social media and game creators paying more attention to it, leading to fans feeling like they have a personal relationship with the creators and so feel "betrayed" when they aren't given what they want. You barely know these people, and they do NOT owe you anything.

[@angel-of-light-kelly1355]

People focus too much on the new characters, and not on the effort of getting so many in, on how there are so many characters, all here to represent the many generations of gaming. Showing the trends in the series, representing both the biggest in the industry as well as some of the forgotten. How much work is put into every stage and every character to make sure they represent the series they’re from. All the work into getting the music and even making new songs to fit the games. All the balancing work in order to try to keep the game balanced and fun. Sakurai doesn’t have to put in as much effort as he did, but he cares about the small details. I just wish people wouldn’t get so upset because of petty things like “oh, Geno isn’t in,” or “oh, another anime swordsfighter.”

[@TheShockinator1000]

i will admit, i never knew people had any negative reviews about lucas being a new character back in brawl then shulk in the wii u/3ds then pyra/mythra, but i have to say, i love pyra/mythra in smash ultimate, i've been using them all the time since their release but i can understand that some players prefer one game series rather than the other cause like with final fantasy or dragon quest series, i'm not a massive fan of those games at all and sometimes i get annoyed that they create so many characters from those series in smash and not allow other series a time in the sun like the kirby games for example since the only characters we have are kirby, king dedede and meta knight, would it hurt to add another character in the game.

[@Jygerthe2nd]

OMG, the Ball is INSANE! LOL

[@andrawthecantdraw5045]

“Inkling has an incredible recovery”

[@Richiedoesmc]

I love Pyra/Mythra an annoying fast character that can transition into hitting as hard as Gannondorf the best of both worlds.

[@danthemanthemasterextraord621]

therunawayguys vs the underdogs

[@krvgames9258]

I’m surprised no one told Emile to play as Minecraft’s Steve.

[@omega13whitelucario95]

"If I was able to connect I would be dropping hydrants like dollars at a strip club"

[@mustbeavalidhandle]

Wait, what would've happened if Pyra bit Emile?

[@guguig9746]

He would have become Pyra Man

[@Gota0014]

And now they're calling Kazuya niche

[@WilliamX5000]

For the people that complain Geno isn't in Smash Bros, deal with it. Geno's overrated and unnecessary.

[@GmodPlusWoW]

Y'know, Jon being the winner has the same energy as "Stuart's won again", if any of you guys remember Barshens.

[@VanishEclipse4867]

So what would have happened with Pyra bites Emile?

[@guguig9746]

Pac-Man winning? Stephen would be proud

[@catluvr2]

I miss Custom Smash videos.

[@JosephHk743]

Custom Smash is back!

[@mutalord]

I am gonna try to get these stages

[@ZmanAce]

I continue to be early! “8 minutes ago!”

[@JCBro-yg8vd]

How is Dan somehow worse than Emile when it comes to saying things he shouldn't?

[@AlfonsoSRT]

Are those levels public?

[@BlueKnight85]

Gotta like how we got art with the girls and smashing with the boys.

[@dwinters6291]

Not being able to see the stocks due to the banner at the bottom makes this unwatchable for me.

[@sslegend5219]

This issue gets fixed about 6 minutes into video, just so you know.

[@MxPokirby]

Why did Tom's face need to be in this?

[@dmaster342]

He was running the segment..? They usually have the cam on the main person for each game/segment.

[@adamrhodes9533]

Because most, if not all, of the Colosseum events have had facecam. Heck, even Jon, who normally doesn't use one, has one. The last art segment is one of the few exceptions to that, and even then, it had Lucah's VTuber avatar, which is more or less the same thing.