Proton Jon

"Hey there, welcome to my Twitch channel! I'm Proton Jon, and I've been making content online for over 16 years now (as of March 2023). You might know me from that time I yelled at a cactus in Kaizo Mario World, that time it took me forever to fly through rings in Superman 64, all the times I've yelled playing Mario Party in The Runaway Guys, you might know me for something else entirely, or you might be meeting me for the very first time. No matter how you got here, thanks for being here. I stream a variety of content 3 times a week, from the NES up to modern day systems. You'll never know what we'll end up playing next, so hang out and come along for the ride. Hope you enjoy your time here!"

―Proton Jon^[src]

Claire Carlton Wheeler (née Jonathan "Jon" Wheeler; born November 8, 1985), better known online as Proton Jon, is a Canadian Let's Player and Twitch streamer who has been making content online since 2006, including YouTube Let's Plays and numerous Twitch streams. She is a founding member of The Runaway Guys collaborative Let's Play YouTube channel, along with Timothy Bishop (NintendoCapriSun) and Emile Rosales (Chuggaaconroy), who have produced 47 main collab LPs, along with five side collab LPs and six tournament LPs, and have 480 thousand subscribers and 421 total video views as of 2024.

Claire found her debut from the Something Awful forums as one of the original Let's Players. She is largely responsible for the spread of the Let's Playing phenomenon to YouTube, with many Let's Players who have become quite popular in their own right citing her as an influence. Claire's early videos archived on her YouTube page where she played through the original Ninja Gaiden games, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and other several difficult games. The most well known videos coming from her attempts at Kaizo Mario, Early Super Smash Bros. Brawl, her Superman 64 Let's Play, and her playthrough of Resident Evil 5. Around the time of the Resident Evil 5 LP finishing off, Claire was moving to doing more streaming content on Twitch than YouTube. Claire is now considered a full time Twitch streamer, averaging out about 3 or 4 streams a week.

As of the mid-2010s, Claire has made streaming on her Twitch page her main source of content, with Let's Plays and other YouTube videos on the side. Signature among the varying types of streams she does are "Game Clearing" streams, where she attempts to beat as many of the unfinished games in her massive collection as she can, and various types of "Fortune Cookie" streams, where Claire rolls a set number of randomly-selected games, and then puts up a poll to see which one the stream audience wants to see her play. Claire has 104.9K Twitch followers as of 2024. Since Twitch automatically deletes archived streams after two months, Claire created a second YouTube channel, where all of her streams will be uploaded.

The third of the three main Runaway Guys, Claire is also a great player, but is usually messed up by the game or Emile. She tends to act like she's surrounded by idiots. Emile also tries to annoy Claire as much as possible and allows for situations where the viewers can laugh at the group's collective suffering. In 2012, the group established a video game trivia and challenge show that would go on to become Thrown Controllers, which has grown into a hugely popular show, appearing in the United States and Canada at several conventions. From 2018 to 2024, The Runaway Guys Colosseumwas live streamed as a weekend long event to raise money for Direct Relief, which raised over $1,000,000.

Early life

Claire Wheeler was born on November 8th, 1985, as Jonathan Wheeler. She was born in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and was raised in a very conservative Christian household. According to Claire's Super Metroid Meta/Omega Boss battles playthrough, she graduated from university with a degree in Computer Engineering at the age of 22. For a time in her youth, Claire was an active cosplayer, before her mother found out. Ninja Gaiden is Claire's favorite game, which lines up with Ryu Hayabusa being her channel icon.

Career

YouTube career

"Playing video games and slamming my head against my desk in the process."

―Proton Jon

Jon was part of the original group of Let's Players from Something Awful. Like most of them, he created a YouTube account to host the videos he made. One day, he posted a two part LP of a level from Kaizo Mario World. It became a huge hit, and one of the seminal LP videos on YouTube, eventually leading to him becoming a YouTube Partner on October 18, 2010. Jon is largely responsible for the spread of the Let's Playing phenomenon to YouTube, with many Let's Players who have become quite popular in their own right citing him as an influence. Depending on both when a video he's done was made and whatever's happening in the game he's playing, his commentary style can alternate between wry, witty commentary and hysterical, profane, and incomprehensible rambling, sometimes in the same sentence. Many of his unique turns of phrase have gone viral, sometimes to his chagrin.

Jon's most popular videos are his Super Mario World romhack Let's Plays and his posts of Super Smash Bros. Brawl matches with his friends, both of which are on indefinite hiatus, especially the former, due to having become burned out on Mario World romhacks as a whole. He is perhaps more infamously known for his long-running Let's Play of Superman 64. In addition to his Let's Plays, he also did an occasional brief review series called "You Should Play/Avoid This", starting with Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons.

In 2021, Jon briefly returned to making Let's Plays with the help of a couple of his Twitch mods for editing support, starting Let's Plays of Jet Set Radio Future and Super Metroid (as well as uploading one video of Superman 64 as a treat). He also started posting stream highlight compilations to catch up his unsuspecting YouTube fanbase to his stream shenanigans (his 2020 update video notwithstanding). The LP channel is currently in hibernation once again, but his Twitch VOD channel is updated every time he streams. Jon has 213 thousand subscribers and 67 million views as of 2023.

Twitch Streaming career

As of the mid-2010s, Claire has made streaming on her Twitch page her main source of content, with Let's Plays and other YouTube videos on the side. Signature among the varying types of streams she does are "Game Clearing" streams, where she attempts to beat as many of the unfinished games in her massive collection as she can, and various types of "Fortune Cookie" streams, where Claire rolls a set number of randomly-selected games (usually 5, with additional options added by viewers and whomever is commentating with her), and then puts up a poll to see which one the stream audience wants to see her play.

Since Twitch automatically deletes archived streams after two months, Claire created a second YouTube channel, where all of her streams will (eventually) be uploaded. Currently, barring any issues on Claire's end, newer streams are generally uploaded to this channel roughly a day after they initially went live. Claire has 104.9K Twitch followers as of 2024.

Claire is a variety streamer, so she likes to play many types of games from all the consoles she owns, spanning multiple decades of gaming. She may also surface bugs and glitches without even trying... but she can't help that. Turning the increasingly difficult and competitive hobby of video game collecting into a job, she welcomes viewers to seek her wares on stream for amusement and whatever chaos comes of it.

Her signature (but not exclusive) stream type is the Fortune Cookie, powered in part by video game cataloguing site Backloggery. There is a "Fortune Cookie" puller on the site that picks a random game (based on parameters chosen by the user) out of your game catalog. Pulling a few games out of what comes up is the basis of a poll that is then run by chat to see what plays next. Outside of that and its variations, you may see her working on clearing one game (or more than one fast-to-clear games), doing a podcast, racing her mods on specific games, and more!

List of Stream Types

Fortune Cookie - Chat votes on what game we play based on a randomized list & viewer suggestions we pull every 45 minutes. Typically the stream type with the most creative traffic. Drawpile canvases are uploaded onto the Booru these nights, if they occur.
Game Clearing - We try to finish a game that I've never beaten before, either picked by myself, mods, or subs.
Power Trip - We run raffles, and whoever wins them gets to pick the next game we play on stream.
Race Night - Myself and the mods race against each other in different retro games.
High Risk Fortune Cookie - We run the cookie, and the first game that comes up, we play it.
Whatever -day - I just pick whatever I wanna play, sometimes do polls.
Community Night/Sub Night - Community-focused streams playing one or more games. Sometimes, Twitch subs are the only ones who can join. If Claire pulls an open multiplayer game on Fortune Cookie and it wins, or if it wins Cookie Jar or Power Trip, Claire may open up a room for viewers as if it were a community night even on those streams.
- Tournament Streams - An extension to community nights where Claire or her mods (or her community, as of late) organizes tournaments for the stream at large to see. Lately these have exclusively been of Claire's community leagues, the most prominent being the Proton Splat League which was made in response to a Splatoon 2 Turf War tournament that was done near the end of Splatoon 2's content cycle.
Disc Only - A monthly meme-turned-podcast hosted by Claire alongside Jerod, Tom, and Stephen. Typically airs live on Twitch on the first Tuesday of a month unless something comes up. Audio-only versions come soon after thanks to the producer, MotionDan.
Charity Events - Claire and her friends/mods often use their platform to do good for the greater world. While Claire rarely does self-hosted charity streams, her channel hosts an annual event with The Runaway Guys called The Runaway Guys Colosseum (later rebranded to Thrown Controllers in 2024), which was established in 2018.

Schedule

Claire's stream types vary wildly, but the dates of her streams are pretty consistent. Her "standard" stream schedule for a week is Monday (Game Clearing or Whatever Monday), Wednesday (Viewer Choices, Races, or Game Clearing), and Saturday (Fortune Cookie). She has said she plans to shift her schedule entirely towards the weekend (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). Fortune Cookie will almost always be Saturday on her schedule, and the consistency of this has brought viewers back every week for more shenanigans. All streams start AROUND 6-7PM Mountain Time. As of mid-2023, Claire has started inching her stream times earlier in the evening in this way to adjust her sleep schedule.

As of 2023, Claire has been consistently posting a weekly schedule graphic on Twitter and the Egg Farm Discord (which is cross-posted to the Egg PAC) on Sunday or Monday. It has a feature spot for community art related to Claire or the streams. All Egg PAC members are eligible to submit existing art for this (the submission form is pinned in #announcements). Claire had experimented with this in 2021 and 2022 before making it regular starting January 2023.

Podcasts

Alongside her regular Twitch streams, Claire currently co-hosts two podcasts: a weekly gaming podcast called Top Down Perspective, and The Disc Only Podcast, an inside joke taken way too far that generally airs live via Claire's Twitch page the first Tuesday of each month, in which Claire, Tom Fawkes, Stephen Georg, and The8BitDrummer discuss everything from things that have happened in their personal lives to the South of the Border tourist trap.

The Runaway Guys

Claire and Chuggaaconroy had spoken a lot about collaborating on a project where they could meet up and play games together. They had been great friends for quite awhile, in fact Emile was inspired by Claire to pursue a YouTube career. At Magfest 9, they began to record games with who was at the time a guest, NintendoCapriSun. They had the dynamic of playing together in the same room instead of what was done at the time which was post commentary or video calls. The first game they played for the channel was Mario Party 1 for N64. Overtime, Tim became a permanent member to the group. Their next LP was New Super Mario Bros Wii (filmed at PAX East), where they brought on their actual first guest, fellow Let's Player Josh Jepson. This became a running trend where in some Let's Plays, player 4 would be guest YouTubers such as MasaeAnela, Lucahjin, SuperJeenius, StephenPlays and Tom Fawkes.

The channel had a variety of ideas for names. The prototype name for the channel was Kaizo, as to hide the idea of the channel in public as it shared the same name as Claire's, at the time, recent playthrough. The team struggled to come up with a name with one infamous name being a joke name, 'PressL2P'. However, in the end, TheRunawayGuys stuck and the channel was created on 2 December 2010. From the beginning, the group filmed in hotels near the Convention venue, as at the time it was the only convenient time for everyone to meet up to record, however after 2016, the group decided to record at Emile's house where they would marathon one or two games over a three-day period to pad out an entire year's worth of content. They meet up together 2 to 3 times a year. With multiplayer games, the three core members playing the video game, featuring their commentary, experience with (and opinions of) the chosen game, as well as related and unrelated discussions. Sometimes they'll bring on another youtuber as a 4th member/guest. With single player games, 1 member with barely any experience with the game and play through it to the end with the other two co-commentating and giving pointers. The channel uploads every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday until the LP is done. Once the LP is done, they'll play the a 'Side Collab' until the next LP is finished editing. Along with their official long-running LPs, they have done one-shot filler LPs (labeled "The Runaway Gaiden"), tournaments featuring multitudes of guest players, and side collab projects that they gradually update and use as filler between regular projects.

On occasion at various conventions, the Runaway Guys have their own panel, called Thrown Controllers, a live game show which focuses on video game trivia and challenges. The event has been broadcast on numerous gaming conventions such as PAX, Magfest and Momocon. In its debut at PAX East 2012, two teams took turns answering questions and playing video game challenges, either against each other, solo, or against members of the audience. At PAX Prime 2012, they retooled the game into a single-person quiz show with challenges, similar to the initial concept except for one person at a time, and this is how it has been done since. Many prizes are awarded at these panels, ranging from character pins from Fangamer to (as a grand prize) an actual video game console, such as a Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, or Nintendo Switch. At conventions, the group have also held Q&As where fans can come up and ask questions to The Runaway Guys. This became a trend at Momocon 2015 and has continued through most of their panels.

In 2018, Claire was approached by charity organisation Direct Relief if the The Runaway Guys would like to do a charity marathon similar to Zeldathon, a Zelda games marathon. Claire agreed and they teamed up to create a 3-day charity marathon event called The Runaway Guys Colosseum, which ran from 2018 to 2024. This event benefitted and was in partnership with Direct Relief Gaming, under their Direct Relief Colosseum event series. Direct Relief is a humanitarian charity giving medical support to people around the world regardless of politics, religion, or ability to pay. Since the channel is known best for Mario Party, their inaugural and signature collab game series, the theming of the event was centered around the Mario Party series. This didn’t end with a Mario Party segment being thrown in almost every year, it even went down to the donation sounds originating from games across the Mario Bros. and Mario Party series. All 12+ hours of air time between the three days were jam packed with entertainment. The events and games played varied each year included incentives for the audience to donate toward. These incentives could be as simple as impeding the players' progress of current games, to bonus streams such as the aftermath of the Chaos Cookie (playing the top 10 or so games donated by the end of the segment). In 2025, it was announced by SuperMCGamer, the event coordinator, that the entire event would be retired. Scheduling issues with the various cast members (due to personal lives & projects) left them with less people available than expected, and they didn't want to bring in a bunch of new faces to make up for it and thus risk straying away from what the event was meant to be. So they opted to retire it on a high note instead. Future event plans with the group have not been announced at this time.

The third of the three main Runaway Guys, Claire is also a great player, but is usually messed up by the game or Emile. Tends to act like he's surrounded by idiots. In Mario Party 1, Mario Kart 64, Mario Party 2, and Super Smash Bros. 64, she played Mario. In the New Super Mario Bros series, she played Blue Toad. In Kirby's Return to Dream Land, she primarily played as Meta Knight. In Fortune Street and all Mario Party titles starting from 3, she played Waluigi (or Rosalina in games where she is available). In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, she played Ike. In Mario Power Tennis, she played Luigi. In the Rayman series, she played Globox. In Castle Crashers, she played Blue Knight. In The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, she played Blue Link. In Secret of Mana she played the Girl. In 100% Orange Juice!, she played as Kyousuke before switching to Sora (Military).

Collaborations and Guest Appearances

Claire has collaborated with several other YouTubers. She has also made several guest appearances. Claire and Emile have worked together on 47 Collab Let's Plays as members of The Runaway Guys, and have also participated in various tournaments and other LPs.

In 2012, Claire guest starred on the multiplayer episode of Emile's Kirby's Epic Yarn Let's Play, which originally supposed to be a collaborative LP on The Runaway Guys, but was rejected due to the 2-player mode not working very well, especially due to the fact that they could not screw each other over in gameplay.

In 2013, Claire helped Emile out on the Sonic Simulator bonus videos in Emile's Sonic Colors series by playing the two-player mode. Emile played as Sonic (or rather the Sonic droid) while Claire played as Captain Falcon (the Mii version of her pre-transition Emile created).

On October 15th 2015, Claire was a guest feature on episode 6 of Emile's Pikmin 3 Mission Mode series entitled Pikmin 3 - Mission 2: Silver Lake with ProtonJon, where they played the Silver Lake stage and got the platinum rank. The end of the video features a message from Emile which thanks Claire for putting up with him, and said "I would say you played unusually well, but there's nothing unusual about that!".

Claire guest starred in episode 24 of Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, and episode 51 of Splatoon 2. She made a cameo appearance in the first episode of Emile's Let's Play of Pokémon Black 2 & White 2, as RosaJon. A short clip of Claire voicing Bottles the Mole from The Runaway Guys' Let's Play of Banjo-Kazooie was used in an episode of Emile's redux Let's Play of Paper Mario.

Personal life

"I know the world right now is scary for those in and out of the closet, but the bravery you all show just being your true selves despite everything is inspirational, and the world needs more of that right now. Be proud of who you are. To those still unsure, haven't quite cracked yet, or are hidden in the closet, there may never be a good time to truly find yourself, but don't be afraid to try out or look into things. Exploration is healthy, normal, & support is out there. It's better to know than to wonder. I'm rooting for ya."

―Claire on truly finding yourself

In a 2011 interview, Claire admitted that she wasn't too proud of her behavior in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, as she felt like she spent much of the game up to World 8 trying to kill Emile after falling victim to an incident that nearly gave her a black eye before recording started. This resulted in Claire channeling that resentment into the LP by actively targeting Emile at the behest of being a teammate to Tim and Josh, and being very confrontational and irritated overall. When the guys started playing through the sequel a few years later, Claire promised that she would try to avoid this behavior, so long as nobody draws first blood on her. In true TRG fashion, it doesn't last very long, but thankfully it also doesn't completely overtake her play style and only crops up every so often.

As it continued on, Claire has mentioned openly hating the Dokapon Kingdom Let's Play because of people harassing her both in the comments and on social media about her choices, when in fact the episodes were recorded months in advance and she was already long behind her decisions, meaning there was nothing she could do about it. This toxicity eventually lead her to having a massive explosion and going into a scathing rant towards said people after she was pushed a bit too much about it on her personal streams, following the Arc Fatigue nearing episode 100.

In 2022, Claire admitted that she was enjoying TRG Colosseum less and less over the years, due to the pandemic severely limiting what the participants could do together, as well as the overall stress of trying to prepare for each event remotely weighing hard on her. It got to the point where Claire had been considering giving up on the event altogether, which she ultimately did in 2025.

Claire vented about the Metroid Prime: Remastered LP during one of her own streams of Prime 2, not so much about Emile's performance, but about how she was absolutely sick of all of the commenters who "had a stick up their ass" about the playthrough and sucking the fun out of exploration and learning through mistakes, which is the exact point of the game. Claire stated that it was getting to the point where Metroidvania games were far less likely to be done on the channel in the future, unless she was in charge.

Claire has stated that she shifted her main focus from Let's Plays to streaming as she did not at all enjoy the stress and pressure that came with releasing a Let's Play despite her high level of care and quality and found streaming a much more enjoyable endeavor. That being said, she is still an active Let's Player and produces new projects on the side but has stated that she will never go back to Let's Playing as her main content.

On January 25th, 2024, amid the controversy surrounding misconduct allegations against Emile that he later cleared up, Claire released a short statement in which she said: "I hear everyone wanting me to speak about Emile. I have a lot of feelings that I’m sorting through. I’m extremely disappointed and confused on what’s next. Please be patient while I process things. Just know I don't condone his actions. I’ll share my thoughts when I am ready." She also unfollowed Emile on Twitter, amid both her and Tim temporarily distancing themselves professionally from Emile. On February 2nd 2024, Claire released her full statement, which revealed that The Runaway Guys would be going on indefinite hiatus, but Thrown Controllers and The Runaway Guys Colosseum would continue under different branding. After a long talk with Emile and Tim, Claire decided to put the The Runaway Guys channel on indefinite hiatus. Claire also revealed that the projects they had already recorded for The Runaway Guys that hadn't been posted, would likely not be posted, as she believed it wouldn't feel right to just post it as if nothing happened. She said that maybe sometime down the road they would get posted, but that it would be a ways off. Claire also said that she and Tim were considering starting a new channel, and getting some of their close friends involved so it could embody the core energy of The Runaway Guys while cutting free of the name, but said that this wouldn't be for a while as they needed a break after the previous few months. Claire revealed that The Runaway Guys Colosseum would still be moving forward, and was still planned for 2024, but it would be rebranding slightly and removing the The Runaway Guys name, as they feel it's bigger than just one person and puts out too much good into the world to lose.^[1]^[2] On March 16th 2024, Claire revealed that The Runaway Guys Colosseum has been rebranded as Thrown Controllers Colosseum. In a reply to a tweet mentioning the core group being split, Claire said that Emile was working on himself, and encouraged Claire and Tim to move forward while that happened, revealing that she was not as worried as she was at first.^[3] Following the release of Emile's full statement on April 16th 2024 which clarified several things and either disproved much of the allegations or showed the full context of them, Claire refollowed Emile on Twitter. Although the controversies had managed to settle and Emile returned to uploading videos on his own channel, the Runaway Guys channel did not properly return to uploading videos until December 14th, 2024.

In the years prior to coming out, Claire had been vocal on streams about her support of the LGTBQ+ community and the transgender community in particular, saying trans rights a number of times on stream. On Trans Day of Visibility in March 2025, Claire revealed she came out as Girlflux in November 2024 to spite "transphobic jerks" and planned on living as her in spite.^[4] She also encouraged her audience to not be afraid to try out or look into things as exploration is healthy and normal, and support is out there, stating "I know the world right now is scary for those in and out of the closet, but the bravery you all show just being your true selves despite everything is inspirational, and the world needs more of that right now. Be proud of who you are."^[5] Claire also joked that she doesn't have a shortage of trans folks, or plural, or both, in her chat.^[6] In April 2025, Claire came out as a transgender female, , having been on hormone replacement therapy since April 20 2023, and goes by Claire and she/her pronouns. She said she continues to respond to Jon and will continue to use the username Proton Jon professionally for the future. In the Fortune Cookie stream where she came out, Claire played a pre-recorded video of her as Jon sitting down for a serious talk about gender identity, leading up to her coming out as transgender. The chat then exploded with love and support for Claire's newfound identity, wishing her the best going forward, with similar positive messages being posted to Claire on Twitter and BlueSky.^[7] Emile commented on the stream that he figured the truth out because of how long the RosaJon thing lasted compared to other jokes on the channel. Claire also said that Emile outright asked if she was trans at one point when he saw her nails painted black and sparkly and she said no at the time due to not even knowing she was herself.

Relationships

Claire revealed that the real reason she was so bitter during The Runaway Guys' Mario Party 3 LP was that her girlfriend of five years had split up with her shortly before. It also did not help that during the stream, she was still living with her ex at the time and she admitted that if it wasn't for Jake being there for her, she would have strangled Emile, who has since admitted the jokes at Claire's expense were mean-spirited and should have relented when he should.

DoMxwULXoAAJooi — Claire and Reese on their wedding day

Claire entered a relationship with fellow Let's Player, The Runaway Guys member, and now-VTuber Reese (Lucahjin) on January 7th, unknown year, as they celebrated their anniversary at MagFest.^[8] Claire proposed marriage to her at Pax West 2017 and she accepted.^[9] They married on September 28, 2018.^[10]

Claire and Reese adopted a cat that only has one eye, and Reese was the one who named the cat Bagel. The reason for the name was because of how, when it curls up, it looks like a bagel.^[11] Bagel has also been affectionately nicknamed 'Big Boss', after the character from Metal Gear Solid 3, for only having one eye. Claire and Reese later got another cat and named her Eva (continuing the MGS3 reference). Bagel, as it turns out, doesn't like bagels.^[12]

Reese has been in Claire's corner in the years prior to Claire coming out, but it's been challenging for her. Being in the closet and not out to many put her in a position where she was unable to talk to anyone about it and her feelings for years. She's been on her own journey while Claire's been on hers, and she saw people putting labels on Reese that don't fit who she is. Reese is cis/het, so Claire asked people to please give her some grace, because like any life changing event, this has its own set of challenges to navigate. Claire and Reese are working through things together with all the love and grace they have, but it's had hurdles for both of them to navigate. Claire hopes Reese can get some support in this as well, so he asked people to please be patient with them while they deal with what comes next with Claire now being out.^[13]

Games that Claire has Let's Played

When it's done

Superman 64

Current Let's Plays

Jet Set Radio Future (known as "Project: Sweet Bike" back when Jon was teasing this game, this LP is unique in that the game's been modded such that images from outside the game can replace the pre-existing graffiti tags, which is much preferred over the game's generally lackluster graffiti editor. Art submissions are currently being taken on Twitter using the hashtag #JSRFGraffiti. Currently stuck on hiatus, as the Xbox Jon was using to make this possible broke mid-LP)

Previous Let's Plays

Batman: Return of the Joker (GB) (One-shot LP)
Battletoads (a four-player race to the finish versus NintendoCapriSun, PCULL44444 and Super Jeenius)
Blaster Master Zero
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (initially done to help promote the Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Kickstarter, which featured Jon as the leader of one of the Backer "clans")
Crash 'n' the Boys
Dead Rising 2 (with PCULL44444)
Double Dragon II: The Revenge (with Heisanevilgenius)
Donkey Kong (the 1994 Game Boy remake)
Donkey Kong Country (All three versions)
- Donkey Kong Country 4 (played in its entirety as a Bait-and-Switch joke in the second episode)
- The Donkey Kong Country Competition Cartridge (played in the fifth episode to override the trial period of the main game).
- Donkey Kong 5: The Journey of Over Time and Space (Well, in a Sonic 2: Special Edition sense, anyway. It's complicated.)
Ducktales (NES) (One-shot LP; with Lucahjin)
Gunstar Heroes (with The Completionist)
Kabuki Quantum Fighter (One-shot LP)
Kirby's Dream Land (One-shot LP featuring both regular and Extra Game playthroughs)
Kirby Super Star
Knytt Stories
Mario's Early Years
Ninja Gaiden (the entire trilogy)
- Ninja Gaiden Shadow (One-shot LP)
Pikmin (mostly blind, via The Runaway Guys)
Resident Evil 5 (twice; once with Super Jeenius, and again with D.C. Douglas)
Numerous romhacks of Super Mario World
- Kaizo Mario World
Superman for the Game Boy (played in its entirety during the fifth episode of his Superman 64 LP)
Super Adventure Island II
Super Metroid (both the main game and a romhack, Meta/Omega Boss Battles)
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan (One-shot LP)
The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes (with Tom Fawkes and JoshJepson)
The Lion King (SNES) (One-shot LP)
Vice: Project Doom
Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3

Upcoming Let's Plays

Star Fox 2

Status unknown

Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (with TheAwfulgamerHD, MD7, and Exfauxsure)
Castle Crashers (with TheAwfulgamerHD, MD7, and Exfauxsure)

Games played on stream

Asura's Wrath
Bomberman Act:Zero (online 8 player matches)
Dead Space (blind, available on his second YouTube channel)
Dead Space 2 (blind)
Dead Space 3 (blind, with EightEK)
Dead Rising 3 (blind, with Patty)
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (blind, incomplete)
Final Fantasy V (blind, part of Four Job Fiesta)
Gears of War (with NYVideoGameFreak)
The Jackbox Party Pack
Kirby's Dream Land 3 (mostly blind)
Paper Mario: Sticker Star (Colosseum donation incentive, with Chuggaaconroy)
Pepsiman (a Stream Highlight on his main channel)
Resident Evil 6 (blind, with Exfauxsure)
Saints Row IV (with PCULL44444, available on the second channel)
Touhou Luna Nights
Xenoblade Chronicles (Definitive Edition, mostly blind, Colosseum donation incentive)

Collab Let's Plays

Main Collabs

Mario Party
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (ft. JoshJepson)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Subspace Emissary)
Mario Party 2
Kirby's Return to Dream Land
Wii Party
LittleBigPlanet (ft. Lucahjin)
New Super Mario Bros. U (ft. JoshJepson)
Castle Crashers (ft. SuperJeenius)
Mario Party 3
Wario Ware Inc.: Mega Party Game$
New Super Luigi U
Dokapon Kingdom Story Mode
Mario Party 4
Rayman Origins
LittleBigPlanet 2 (ft. Lucahjin)
Super Mario 3D World (ft. MasaeAnela)
Super Mario Bros. 3
Sonic Adventure
Mario Party 5
Kirby's Dream Course
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (ft. StephenPlays)
Rayman Legends (ft. Tom Fawkes)
Super Metroid (Emile plays, Tim and Jon watch, guide, and occasionally take over)
Mario Party 6
The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes
Wii Party U
Pokémon Snap (Tim plays, Emile and Jon watch and guide)
Mario Party 7
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Emile plays, Tim and Jon watch and guide)
Pikmin (Jon plays, Tim and Emile watch and guide)
Kirby & the Amazing Mirror (ft. StephenPlays)
Star Fox 64 (Emile plays, Tim and Jon watch, guide, and occasionally take over)
Mario Party 8
Luigi's Mansion (Tim plays, Emile and Jon watch and guide)
Overcooked! (ft. Tom Fawkes)
Secret of Mana
Battletoads Arcade
100% Orange Juice!
Banjo-Kazooie (Emile plays, Tim and Jon watch and guide)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Both arcade and SNES versions; Emile and Tim play the SNES version while Jon guides)
Mario Party DS
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Metroid Prime Remastered (Emile plays, Tim and Jon watch and guide)
Kirby Star Allies
Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Mario Party 9

Side Collabs

Fortune Street:
- Yoshi's Island
- The Observatory (ft. Lucahjin)
- Mario Stadium (ft. JoshJepson)
- Slimenia and Delfino Plaza (ft. SuperJeenius)
- Mt. Magmageddon (ft. MasaeAnela)
- Robbin Hood Ruins (ft. Lucahjin)
- Mario Circuit (ft. MasaeAnela)
- Peach's Castle (ft. StephenPlays)
- Pirate Ship (ft. Tom Fawkes)
- Starship Mario (ft. Tom Fawkes)
- Castle Trodain (ft. MasaeAnela)
- Super Mario Bros. (ft. StephenPlays)
- Alefgard (ft. MasaeAnela)
- Bowser's Castle (ft. Tom Fawkes)
- Good Egg Galaxy (ft. Tom Fawkes)
Wheel of Fortune (THQ's 2012 Wii U version)
Wheel of Fortune (PS4)
Wheel of Fortune (THQ's 2010 Wii version)
Wheel of Fortune (Hasbro's 2000 second edition version)
Wheel of Fortune (Ubisoft's 2018 Switch version)
Anticipation
Mario Party Superstars:
- Yoshi's Tropical Island (ft. JoshJepson)
- Space Land (ft. Tom Fawkes)
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp

Quotes

[sounding defeated before even entering the stage] "...why am I agreeing to do this? Why?..."
"All right, what have we got? We got - a hundred seconds?! Oh, mother fuck, this is not gonna be good!"
"I'm not sleeping tonight, guys; this is my nightmare sound."
"FOR THE LOVE OF BATMAN, JUMP! BILL COSBY! IS ANGRY! STIMPY! I NEED SPACKLE!"
"Move faster, Pokey! Faster! FASTER! For the love of God, faster!"
"Jump! Jump you... fuckin' football player! MEGAMAN! JUMP MEGAMAN!"
"Catch. [dies] Catch. [dies] Catch. [dies] Ca.. don't catch death! Stop catching death!"
[sees a block he needs to hit] "HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO HIT THAT?!?!" [immediately hits an invisible block to get to it] "Oh..."
"Not gonna mess up. Not gonna fuck this up. [dies, loads state] You didn't see that."
"Drillstomp!...360!...Kickflip McTwist!...Christ Air!...900!...I'm already out of Tony Hawk moves."
"Go, go, go, go, Mario! I'm-a Mario!"
"I said let's not die!"
"...oh, what?!... WHAT?! WHAAAT?! ...What the fuck? What the fuck? What...the...fuck? What the..." [bursts into tears] "Are you serious?! [silence, as Jon calms himself] Maybe I imagined that..."[Reloads save-state, which shows Mario dying via Kaizo Trap...again] [distraught] "Oh FU-HU-HU-HU-HU-HUCK I didn't imagine that!"
"OH MY GOD! ZERO SECONDS!? WHAT!?" While trying to navigate a tricky set of jumps with Thwomps and spikes: "Hop. Slight hop. Mega hop!" [Dies] "Sliiight -" [Dies] "Sliight, Mega, Man!" [succeeds] "Did it." [Column of Munchers crushes him suddenly from above] "OH WHAT THE HELLL!?!?!?!?!?" And when the mid-level save drops him into a pit. "WHA.A.A.T???" "HOLY FUCK!!!" "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudgesicles!" [singing, to the Super Mario World castle music] "This... is the castle... a fucking hard one..." "Yeah! [nearly dies] FuuuUUUUUUUUUuuuuck!"
"Death Water!"
"I've lost some of my powers of randomness today...I'm wearing a tie."
"THERE'S A TIME LIMIT?!"
"SO FUCKIN' METAL!"
"FUCKIN' EXTREEEEEME!"
"I'm gonna flip this copy of Super Mario Advance: Yoshi's Island." [Beat] "It landed on its corner..."
"Ridiculous? That's ridiculous! Nothing can be as ridiculous as ridiculousness! ...How ridiculous are you?"
"WHY ARE THEY FALLING OUT OF THE SKY?!"
"Is it a secret? Is it pizza? Is it secret pizza? It's... a KAIZO TRAP! You sadistic son of a bitch. I didn't fall for that."
"No! You know my feelings on those!"
"AWWWWW, that's not cool, that is not kosher... in fact it is very anti-kosher, like eating a pig...raw."
"No, no, stop it, STOP IT."
"YOU SON OF A BI-...okay, that was kinda funny..."
[posh accent] "There was something I wanted to discuss. Very important. It involves Fist of the North Star. It is quite perhaps the best Japanese animation ever made. D'you know why? Because it has a man that yells "ATATATA" a lot. And as an immature teenage boy, I find it hilarious."
"Das Frankenstein un liebund... schnitzel... walrus.. The third."
"Why did I die - THERE'S TIME! AHH! GETINTHEDOORGETINTHEDOORGETINTHEDOOR!"
"Would you stop raining—! It does not rain football players in Mario Land! I don't care what you think!"
"It will involve me sending a email of Captain Falcon Falcon-Punching someone, and it will say "Xanaboy! You've been Falcon-Punched, how do you feel? Dead, I hope, 'cause it's a Falcon Punch!"
"It's like trying to make me revisit a Nam flashback, even though I wasn't there...or maybe I was, you guys don't know how old I am."
"Well, I guess I have no choice, I guess I have to eat the mushroom. Oh, wow. Imagine that. Imagine that; you have to do something the game tells us not to do. That's incredible, that's amazing, that's... mushroom! [eats mushroom] ...Huh? ...Huh? That... that did nothing. Aw, it's not gonna be some stupid psychedelic Freak Out, is it? Like, I'm not gonna talk to her and she's gonna eat my head or something?"
"I got the 'I Forget' move. HOORAY!"
"Yes! More! More Jim Carrey!"
"Probably shouldn't have eaten that mushroom. Oh you..."
"I am climbing myself. What the hell?"
"WHO MADE THIS THING?!"
"Aww, Internet Explorer? 6?! Oh, no wait, it's 7, never mind."
"It's nice and atmospheric, especially later o— [falls into water] ...fuck."
"Great, just great."
"And now apparently I can't walk up the stairs. Superman, walk up the stairs. Stop jumping like a pony and walk up the stairs. Don't jump over the stairs! Thank you. - Fly, Superman, into that wall!"
"Let's show off our lovely hero's face ... AND THEN HIS CHEST!"
"WOW. DUUUUDE!"
"You probably can't find [a copy of the strategy guide for Superman 64] unless you look online or you know some very deranged people... and I do. I know more about this game than the guide does, which is really depressing... and makes it hard to sleep at night."
"Each piece of paper - which magically disappears after you've read it, because apparently you've put it in your Superpocket or some other... where are the pockets on S- I don't even want to know where Superman has pockets."
"GAAAAAAAAAAME!" (Multiple times during Mario Party)
"Hey Chugga! Don't eat the mushroom!" (To Emile during Mario Party)
"Number X.... is a bad choice." (When a contestant picks a Brutal Question on Thrown Controllers)
"I love how Falcon's like, MAJESTIC. And Olimar and Steve are just like, what the heck is he doing? Olimar's like, "Hey Steve, this guy is really weird man. Should we hang out with him?" And Steve's all like, "I don't know, that Chuggaaconroy guy, I don't think he's playing as Steve this time, it's really weird."
"YOU ARE A DICK."
"Day at the races. Day at the races! Day at the races! Hey, I heard you like races. Here's some days! Spend them at the races!"
"I am the strongest of the Guys! I RUN AWAY THE MOST!"
"I'm dreaming of a space Christmas, just like the one I used to know... where the space-tops glisten, and space-children listen to hear... Mario at the show... oh woah... ...woah... ehhh."
"I LOVE CHUGGAACONROY HE’S MY BEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE WORLD, WE GET ALONG SO WELL, AND NONE OF THE FANFICTION ONLINE BOTHERS ME AT ALL!!!"
"Why do we hang out with him again?"
"SLIPPERY SHOOOOOOES!!"
"Damnit, Emile!" (On multiple occasions during Runaway Guys LPs)
"IT MEANS VAGINA!" (To Emile, when he asked what heart-shaped box meant)
"The Metropolitan Mutant of Ark? Are you a real human being?" (To Emile during Wheel of Fortune)
"CAUSE THIS IS HOW TRG WORKS! WE GET ANGRY, AND WE FOCUS!"

Trivia

The original loading screen music from Claire's streams is taken from the file select screen from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. After 6 years of use, this was retired in 2019 in favour of an original song ("Initalize"). The song's artist, Popskyy, also made the closing song "Farewell Friends" when Claire changes to a new outro (featuring an animation from SmashToons), along with a song used for intermissions fittingly called "Intermission".
The "ProtonCop" head logo from the loading screens is derived from an absurd-looking cutscene animation of RoboCop talking in the RoboCop NES game, which Claire discovered when she played it on her "Just Winging It - Semi-Random Game Night" stream in July 2013 (one of the earliest streams she ever did). She initially played the animation unchanged, starting with her next stream Cloudberry Kingdom - Slow Descent Into Madness, but then decided for copyright reasons to combine it with Waluigi's face (lampshading the fact that for some reason combining two copyright characters together is considered fine). The combined version was first used in the intro to "Fortune Cookie Stream - Hell If I Know What I'm Doing Edition" from October 2013. The composite character is also sometimes called "RoboWaluigi" or "Robertcop", the latter being a reference to a memetic Chinese-made Shoddy Knockoff Product of a Robocop toy that was named that.
Claire first played the first version of her 'Raid Countermeasures' video in "Super Ghouls & Ghosts Round 2" (January 2016, video played at 23:59 in). The countermeasures video is based on clips of the Rambo sequence from UHF, edited together and with Claire's emotes overlaid on the characters' faces. It also randomly ends with animations of Donkey Kong Jr angrily spinning in his kart from the original Super Mario Kart; in the first version a white pixel appeared in the corner of the animation in the final frame due to an editing error, which though taken out of later versions is often still referenced as an in-joke.
In May 2017, MasterTimeThief made an extended version of the Countermeasures video using the whole Rambo sequence from UHF, but animated the whole thing from scratch and added some graphical improvements over Claire's original video. The extended video was played in "Fortune Cookie - Time to Press Buttons Edition". After this, Claire cut MTT's enhanced video back down to the clips used in the original countermeasures video to make an improved version, first used in "Fortune Cookie: Predictable Predictions Edition" on June 24th 2017. The changes between the two versions are:
- The siren at the start of the video is significantly different in terms of the footage used, the text effects applied, and the sound played.
- The footage in the new version is taken from the Blu-ray release of the film rather than a low-quality rip from a 4:3 fullscreen DVD. Consequently, the new version is both in 1080p and in the film's original 1.85:1 aspect ratio.
- The emote faces of RoboWaluigi and Chuggaaconroy are larger and better animated, with RoboWaluigi now facing forward while screaming in the helicopter. Contrary to popular belief, RoboWaluigi facing right in the original version was actually consistent with the source footage from UHF, but it looked incorrect out of context.
- Emote faces from both Claire and other streamers have been added to the line of soldiers that RoboWaluigishoots.
- The enemy helicopter is piloted by Dr. Weird rather than Josh "Kappa" DeSeno.
- When RoboWaluigi bursts into the room at the end, it no longer shows a rapidly-scrolling view of a Twitch chat being raided. Instead, we see a view of the room showing Chugga being held hostage by four Kappas.
- The rotating Donkey Kong Jrs are now larger and approach from both sides at once, and no longer have the erroneous stray white pixel.
- However, Claire chose not to keep one change from the extended video, that Weird Al was replaced with regular Waluigi rather than RoboWaluigi when he is "himself" when bursting into the room at the end of the video, as opposed to in the dream sequence.
- Following the controversies surrounding Chuggaaconroy in January 2024, this video was altered to replace Chugga with Claire's cat Bagel (concurrent with the removal of emotes featuring Chugga), with this version first appearing in Fortune Cookie: Gaming Edition - Sponsored Apollo Justice Trilogy on January 27th, 2024.
In December 2017, MasterTimeThief also submitted a version of the raid video presented in the style of an NES 8-bit game intro, which was first played in "High Risk Fortune Cookie - No Votes, One Pull Per Round".
In March 2022, PhillipDraco sumbitted a new raid video where Ryu rushes off to stop the invaders, first on the ground, then on top of a a missile, with it ending with him looking toward the sky at RoboWaluigi, who gives him a thumbs up. This video has several variants, including one where the bird enemy from Ninja Gaiden knocks Ryu off the missile, ending the attack, and another starring the bird instead of Ryu. The original variant of this video made its debut in "Fortune Cookie: Where Do We Go Tonight Edition".
A year later, PhillipDraco, using leftover voice clips of Claire screaming that she gave to him to use for the CAB bumper for that year's Colosseum, created another new raid video where, after reading the script given to her, Jon, wielding a lightsaber, goes inside NOVA from Kirby Super Star and destroys the heart, gets blasted outside, and gets redirected by Rosa back into NOVA, destroying it, after which Claire is sent back to Earth, with Rosa following her. This version made its debut in "Fortune Cookie: Back to the Cookies Edition"
Other, similar raid videos have also been submitted for specific purposes (such as reflecting the time of the year or the specific person who is raiding). The only ones of these which have appeared regularly (rather than one-off gags) are a Hallowe'en 'Spooky Scary Skeletons' one (incorporating some other footage from UHF), a 'one-man raid' version with the clip being shrunk to 20% as in Superman 64, a 'fake raid' one which cuts to Lakitu saying 'Nice Try' from Mario Kart 8, and a Tom Fawkes raid one, which instead uses edited footage from Hot Shots! Part Deux (which, also being a Rambo parody, blends surprisingly well into The 'Verse).
- In 2018 the "20%" one-man raid video was replaced by a new video based on a different part of the UHF Rambo sequence, showing RoboWaluigi being ineffectually shot at by a lone Kappa with a machine gun (accompanied by 'pew pew pew' voice clip), then RoboWaluigi blowing him up with a bow and arrow. This one ends with a rotating Koopa Troopa rather than Donkey Kong Jr, and the Koopa Troopa collides with a large white square (in reference to the old white pixel) and explodes.
- Later in 2018, in part due to a large number of one-man raids, Claire also introduced an alternative brief animation that overlays her stream footage rather than cutting away to a clip—showing RoboWaluigi bombing the line of targets from the full video using his helicopter.
- Another new one-man raid video was created by PuppetMaster9 in 2019 and replaced the previous one-man raid video in 2020, this one using footage from the ending of Blood Debts.
Claire's use of a wall of gifs as a Funny Background Event on her Intermission screen comes from "Random Game Night - The Fortune Cookie Strikes Back With A Vengeance" broadcast in August 2013, when she started showing off her gif collection and happened to put them on her existing Intermission screen. Prior to this she had just had a blank black screen with "Intermission" on. The music she used to accompany this was originally "Summer Samba" by Walter Wanderley, but after Twitch started muting portions of VODs containing copyrighted audio (or more specifically audio registered with copyright claimant bots on sites like YouTube), the song was replaced with the track "Pizza Time" from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Back from the Sewers for the Game Boy.
- The same stream was also the first appearance of Bomberman: Act Zero and the first use of the 'Stream Over' animation at the end, which shows RoboCop shooting at the viewer accompanied by "Jet Set Groove #4" (the Game Over theme) from Jet Set Radio Future and finishing with the 'DIS! APP! OIN! TED!' shout from (an out-take from) Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. As of March 14, 2020, this has been replaced with a new animation and original song ("Farewell Friends"), though the 'DIS! APP! OIN! TED!' remains.
- And to clarify the rest of the music typically used on Claire's streams, the theme for Fortune Cookie rolls is "Smile Game" from Tamagotchi for the Game Boy, the Strawpoll theme is the online results screen theme from Bomberman Online, and the silly trumpet muzak that sometimes replaces the standard intermission theme or gets used for general dumbfuckery is the lobby theme from Fibbage. In 2018-19 she used two tracks from Battletoads and Double Dragon to play in the background when she is showing what fanart has been posted on Twitter. When Twitter was replaced with a Booru the music also changed.

Gallery

References

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