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Jonathan "Jon" Wheeler (born November 8, 1985), better known by his online alias Proton Jon, is a Canadian YouTuber, Let's Player and Twitch Streamer who has been making content online since 2006. 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. Jon has 213 thousand subscribers and 67 million views as of 2023.

Jon found his debut from the Something Awful forums as one of the original Let's Players. He 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. Jon's early videos archived on his YouTube page where he played through the original Ninja Gaiden games, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and other several difficult games. The most well known videos coming from his attempts at Kaizo Mario, Early Super Smash Bros. Brawl, his Superman 64 Let's Play, and his playthrough of Resident Evil 5. Around the time of the Resident Evil 5 LP finishing off, Jon was moving to doing more streaming content on Twitch than YouTube. Jon is now considered a full time Twitch streamer, averaging out about 3 or 4 streams a week.

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 (1) 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.

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

Alongside his own Let's Plays, Jon was also a founding member of The Runaway Guys collaborative Let's Play YouTube channel, along with fellow Let's Play personalities Timothy Bishop (NintendoCapriSun) and Emile Rosales (Chuggaaconroy), who did 46 Collab LPs with their first being Mario Party and most recent being Kirby Star Allies, and while accompanied by numerous guests, and also did gaming live-streams for the charity Direct Relief, as well as the yearly Thrown Controllers convention that began in 2011. They reached 487 thousand subscribers and 397 total video views as of 2023. As of February 2024, the group's main projects are on indefinite hiatus due to controversies surrounding Chuggaaconroy that made it impossible to move forward with him involved in any capacity; however, Jon has confirmed that Thrown Controllers and Colosseum will continue under different branding. In March 2024, Jon revealed that colosseum has been rebranded as Thrown Controllers Colosseum. In a reply to a tweet mentioning the core group being split, Jon said that Emile is working on himself, and encouraged Jon and Tim to move forward while that happened. Time will tell how everything shakes out, but Jon revealed that he's not as worried as he was at first.

Early life

Jonathan Wheeler was born on November 8th 1995. He was born in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and was raised in a very conservative Christian household. According to Jon's Super Metroid Meta/Omega Boss battles playthrough, he graduated from university with a degree in Computer Engineering at the age of 22. For a time in his youth Jon was an active cosplayer, before his mom found out. Ninja Gaiden is Jon's favorite game, which lines up with Ryu Hayabusa being his channel icon.

Career

Let's Play career

"Playing video games and slamming my head against my desk in the process."
―Proton Jon
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Jon, circa 2008

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.

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Jon in the 2010s

Jon's most popular videos are his Super Mario World romhack LPs 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 (1) 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

"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]

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

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Jon in 2018

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

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

His 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 him working on clearing one game (or more than one fast-to-clear games), doing a podcast, racing his 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 Jon pulls an open multiplayer game on Fortune Cookie and it wins, or if it wins Cookie Jar or Power Trip, Jon 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 Jon or his mods (or his community, as of late) organizes tournaments for the stream at large to see. Lately these have exclusively been of Jon'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 Jon 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 - Jon and his friends/mods often use their platform to do good for the greater world. While Jon rarely does self-hosted charity streams, his channel hosts an annual event with TRG called The Runaway Guys Colosseum, which was established in 2018.

Schedule

Jon's stream types vary wildly, but the dates of his streams are pretty consistent. His "standard" stream schedule for a week is Monday (Game Clearing or Whatever Monday), Wednesday (Viewer Choices, Races, or Game Clearing), and Saturday (Fortune Cookie). He has said he plans to shift his schedule entirely towards the weekend (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). Fortune Cookie will almost always be Saturday on his 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, Jon has started inching his stream times earlier in the evening in this way to adjust his sleep schedule.

As of 2023, Jon 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 Jon or the streams. All Egg PAC members are eligible to submit existing art for this (the submission form is pinned in #announcements). Jon had experimented with this in 2021 and 2022 before making it regular starting January 2023.

Podcasting career

Alongside his regular Twitch streams, Jon 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 Jon's Twitch page the first Tuesday of each month, in which Jon, 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

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ProtonJon (left) with Chuggaaconroy (middle) and NintendoCapriSun (right)

Jon was a founding member of The Runaway Guys, a collab channel with Timothy Bishop (NintendoCapriSun) and Emile Rosales (Chuggaaconroy). Emile was in charge of maintaining the channel, although Jon made posts and comments for the channel as well. For the first two years, updates usually only occurred every Saturday, but this was changed to Saturday, Tuesday, and Thursday following an announcement on February 8, 2013. Videos for Mario Party games (starting with the third) and Fortune Street were also posted daily (each board beginning on Saturday and continuing every day until its end).

Their first Let's Play premiered on February 5, 2011. The three of them were the only ones participating, but many of their later videos featured additional players. After the creation of the channel in 2011, 46 main collab LPs were produced, along with five side collab LPs and six tournament LPs. Along with their official long-running LPs, they did 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 had their own panel, called Thrown Controllers, a live game show which focused on video game trivia and challenges. The event was 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 were 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.

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In May of 2018, The Runaway Guys Colosseum was live streamed as a weekend long event to raise money for Direct Relief. This was followed up in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. All of them once again in benefit of Direct Relief. With the combined efforts of the community, event staff, and the performers, a total over $1,000,000 was raised by 2023.

As of February 2024, the group's main projects are on indefinite hiatus due to controversies surrounding Chuggaaconroy that made it impossible to move forward with him involved in any capacity; however, Jon has confirmed that Thrown Controllers and Colosseum will continue under different branding. In March 2024, Jon revealed that colosseum has been rebranded as Thrown Controllers Colosseum. In a reply to a tweet mentioning the core group being split, Jon said that Emile is working on himself, and encouraged Jon and Tim to move forward while that happened. Time will tell how everything shakes out, but Jon revealed that he's not as worried as he was at first.[1]

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As of May 2021, Jon is also a member of the re-refreshed NormalBoots collective, joining longtime friends and collaborators The Completionist, PeanutButterGamer, and DidYouKnowGaming? creator Shane Gill, as well as fellow newcomers Chadtronic and Lady Pelvic. Jon disassociated with The Completionist following the charity fraud controversy in 2023, and revealed in 2024 he would not be involved in colosseum 2024.

Chuggaaconroy collaborations

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Pikmin 3 - Mission 2- Silver Lake with ProtonJon

On October 15th 2015, Jon was a guest feature on episode 6 of Chuggaaconroy'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 Jon for putting up with him, and said "I would say you played unusually well, but there's nothing unusual about that!".

Jon made a cameo appearance in Blaise of Glory! – Pokémon Black 2 & White 2: Episode 1, as RosaJon.

Personal life

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Jon and Reese on their wedding day

Jon 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.[2] Jon proposed marriage to her at Pax West 2017 and she accepted.[3] They married on September 28, 2018.[4]

Jon 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.[5] Bagel has also been affectionately nicknamed 'Big Boss', after the character from Metal Gear Solid 3, for only having one eye. Jon and Reese later got another cat and named her Eva (continuing the MGS3 reference). Bagel, as it turns out, doesn't like bagels.[6]

Games that Jon has Let's Played

When it's done

  • Superman 64

Current Let's Plays

  • Jet Set Radio Future

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)

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!"

Trivia

  • Many Let's Players, some of whom have become quite popular in their own right, list him as an inspiration.
  • Jon is often mocked by Emile for his upload schedule.
  • Jon has mentioned his least favorite series on The Runaway Guys was Mario Party 3 mostly due to the fact he was going through a break-up at the time of recording it.
  • On February 1st, following the 2024 Chuggaaconroy Allegations, Proton Jon issued a statement about the future of TRG's activities. He announced that he would be distancing himself professionally from Emile, who is taking time away from the internet for his own private self-betterment. He also announced that TRG would enter hiatus and a new channel with a different name will eventually launch, with Colosseum and other TRG projects eventually rebranding.
  • In 2022, Jon admitted that he was enjoying TRG Colosseum less and less over the years, due to the COVID-19 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 him. It's since gotten to the point where Jon has been considering giving up on the event altogether.
  • The original loading screen music from Jon'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 Jon changes to a new outro (featuring an animation from SmashToons), along with an untitled song occasionally used for intermissions.
  • 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 Jon discovered when he played it on his "Just Winging It - Semi-Random Game Night" stream in July 2013 (one of the earliest streams he ever did). He initially played the animation unchanged, starting with his 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.
  • Jon first played the first version of his '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 Jon'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 Jon's original video. The extended video was played in "Fortune Cookie - Time to Press Buttons Edition". After this, Jon cut MTT's enhanced video back down to the clips used in the original countermeasures video to make an improved version, which is the one currently used on the stream as of January 2019. The first appearance was it was 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 Chugga 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 Jon and other streamers have been added to the line of soldiers that RoboWaluigi shoots.
    • 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, Jon 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.
  • 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 Jon screaming that he 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 him, 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 Jon is sent back to Earth, with Rosa following him. 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, Jon also introduced an alternative brief animation that overlays his 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.
  • Jon's use of a wall of gifs as a Funny Background Event on his Intermission screen comes from "Random Game Night - The Fortune Cookie Strikes Back With A Vengeance" broadcast in August 2013, when he started showing off his gif collection and happened to put them on his existing Intermission screen. Prior to this he had just had a blank black screen with "Intermission" on. The music he 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 Jon'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 he used two tracks from Battletoads and Double Dragon to play in the background when he is showing what fanart has been posted on Twitter. When Twitter was replaced with a Booru the music also changed.

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