The Runaway Guys

"This is a collab channel started by ProtonJon, NintendoCapriSun, and Chuggaaconroy! We'd like to do many collaborative projects, and it's not restricted to just us! Either way, hope you enjoy the show!"

―The Runaway Guys' channel description

The Runaway Guys, often abbreviated as TRG, are a collaborative group of Let's Players on YouTube, comprising of Proton Jon, NintendoCapriSun, and Chuggaaconroy. Emile is in charge of maintaining the channel, although Claire has made posts and comments for the channel as well. They have had special guests for many of their projects, with guest collaborators MasaeAnela and Tom Fawkes being considered the 'co-producers' of the channel.

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 are also posted daily (each board beginning on Saturday and continuing every day until its end). Since the creation of the channel in 2011, 46 main collab LPs have been produced, along with five side collab LPs and six tournament LPs. They have 480 thousand subscribers and 421 total video views as of 2024.

At PAX East 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. 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 from 2019 to 2024, all of them once again in benefit of Direct Relief, raising over $1,000,000.

History

YouTube channel (2011-present)

Chuggaaconroy and Claire Wheeler 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.

Thrown Controllers (2012-present)

The Runaway Guys hosting Thrown Controllers at 2018 PAX West

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.

Colosseum (2018-2024)

Members of Colosseum during the 2019 event

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.

Main Members

Chuggaaconroy

The first of the main three Runaway Guys, Chuggaaconroy is usually the best or at least better players of whatever game the group is playing. He is the loudest and most energetic of the three main guys. He also tries to annoy Claire as much as possible and allow for situations where the viewers can laugh at the group's collective suffering.

In the Mario Parties (up to Mario Party 4), he played Donkey Kong. In Mario Party 5, he switched to Daisy. In Mario Party 7, he switched again to Toad. In Super Smash Bros, he played Ness. In Mario Kart 64, he played Wario. In the New Super Mario Bros. series, he played Mario, but switched to Yellow Toad in New Super Luigi U. In Kirby's Return to Dreamland, he played Kirby. In Fortune Street, he played Bowser Jr. for the first three boards, then switched back to Donkey Kong starting from Slimenia. In the Tournament Arc of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, he played Lucas. In Mario Power Tennis, he played Bowser Jr. In Mario Kart: Double Dash, he played Toad on Team Streetpassers with Masae Anela. In the Rayman series, he played Rayman. In Castle Crashers, he played Red Knight. In The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, he played Red Link. In Secret of Mana he played the Boy. In 100% Orange Juice!, initially he played as QP, but later switched to Sumika. In Super Mario Bros wonder he played Mario.

NintendoCapriSun

The second of the main three Runaway Guys, NintendoCapriSun (also just "NCS" or "Tim") is the quietest and nicest of the three. This usually means Chugga and Claire will beat him, though he's not by any means bad at games and can hold his own as well often times.

In the Mario Parties, Mario Kart 64 and Fortune Street, he played Yoshi. In the New Super Mario Bros.series and Super Mario Bros Wonder, he played Luigi. In Kirby's Return to Dream Land, he played King Dedede. In Super Smash Bros, he initially played Yoshi in his match against Chugga, then switched to Fox for the remainder of the video. In the Tournament Arc of Super Smash Bros Brawl, he played Diddy Kong. In Mario Power Tennis, he played Yoshi. In the Rayman series, he played a Teensie. In Castle Crashers, he played Green Knight. In The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, he played Green Link. In Secret of Mana he played the Sprite. In 100% Orange Juice!, he plays as Suguri.

Proton Jon

The third of the three main Runaway Guys, Proton Jon is also a great player, but is usually messed up by the game or Chugga. 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). In Super Mario Bros Wonder she played Toadette.

TRG Members and Friends

Listed in order of first video appearance.

• Chuggaaconroy (core)
• NintendoCapriSun (core)
• ProtonJon (core)
• JoshJepson (NSMBWii)
• Lucahjin (Smash Bros. Brawl invitational tourney before LittleBigPlanet)
• Donnabellez (Smash Bros. Brawl invitational tourney before TRG Colo 2021)
• SuperJeenius (Mario Power Tennis invitational before Castle Crashers)
• TheCompletionist (Bomberman Live Battlefest invitational before TRG Colo 2021)
• StephenGeorg (MK: Double Dash invitational before Zelda Four Swords Adventures)
• MalMakes (MK: Double Dash invitational before TRG Colo 2018)
• [“Co-Owner”] MasaeAnela (Super Mario 3D World)
• [“Co-Owner”] TomFawkes (Rayman Legends)
• AttackingTucans (Smash 4 Wii U invitational before TRG Colo 2018)
• Marriland (TRG Colo 2018)
• FamilyJules (TRG Colo 2018)
• ToxicxEternity (TRG Colo 2018)
• AdrianaFigueroa (TRG Colo 2018)
• SuperMCGamer (TRG Colo 2018 Tech)
• Jyggy11 (TRG Colo 2018 Tech)
• KampyDK (TRG Colo 2018 Tech)
• Insaneintherain (TRG Colo 2019)
• Sab Irene (TRG Colo 2019)
• The8BitDrummer (TRG Colo 2019)
• MotionDan (TRG Colo 2019)
• FireLordBrooke (TRG Colo 2020)
• Chatia (TRG Colo 2020)
• Bassoonify, Klinkit, Romscout (TRG Colo 2023 Tech)
• BrettUltimus (Thrown Controllers Colo 2024)
• LaughingBoyLP (Thrown Controllers Colo 2024)
• Lacey Johnson (Thrown Controllers Colo 2024)

VIPs

• Haurka Karibu (appeared in Claire, Reese, and Tom's streams, but not in a formal TRG video or stream)

Collabs

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 Claire 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 Claire watch and guide)
• Mario Party 7
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Emile plays, Tim and Claire watch and guide)
• Pikmin (Claire plays, Tim and Emile watch and guide)
• Kirby & the Amazing Mirror (ft. StephenPlays)
• Star Fox 64 (Emile plays, Tim and Claire watch, guide, and occasionally take over)
• Mario Party 8
• Luigi's Mansion (Tim plays, Emile and Claire watch and guide)
• Overcooked! (ft. Tom Fawkes)
• Secret of Mana
• Battletoads Arcade
• 100% Orange Juice!
• Banjo-Kazooie (Emile plays, Tim and Claire watch and guide)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Both arcade and SNES versions; Emile and Tim play the SNES version while Claire guides)
• Mario Party DS
• Donkey Kong Country Returns
• Metroid Prime Remastered (Emile plays, Tim and Claire watch and guide)
• Kirby Star Allies
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder (ft. JoshJepson)
• Mario Party 9 (current LP)

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

Tournaments

• Super Smash Bros. Brawl, with 10 competitors featuring JoshJepson, Lucahjin, ALoyalGamer, SuperJeenius, Donnabellez, SKArmedageddon, and Diabetus. This tournament was double-elimination style (if you lose a round, you go to the loser's bracket. If you lose another round, you're out of the tournament).
• Mario Power Tennis, with 9 competitors featuring JoshJepson, Lucahjin, CloudFangLP, PurpleRodri, ALoyalGamer, and Jon Paula. This tournament was single-elimination style (if you lose a match, you're out of the tournament).
• Super Smash Bros. again, this time with 16 competitors featuring Lucahjin, PurpleRodri, Donnabellez, Pcull 44444, Super Jeenius, Stephen and Mallory, AttackingTucans, JoshJepson, and the crew from Wii Rike to Pray. Double-elimination style.
• Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, with 22 competitors (2 on a team) featuring Curly Mustaches (CloudFangLP and GaiaCrusher9), Purple Pwniez (SullyPwnz and PurpleRodri), StephenPlays (Stephen and Mallory), PressBallsToContinue (Lucahjin and Dodger), Beard Willis (ProtonJon and The Completionist), Orange Yoshis (MunchingOrange and YoshiToMario), Jepsons (NintendoCapriSun and JoshJepson), StreetPassers (Chuggaaconroy and MasaeAnela), Koopa Krew (SirEnobmort and KoopaKungFu), Retsupurae (Slowbeef and Diabetus), and 41 Pimps (ShadowMario41 and MadameWario). Single-elimination style.
• Bomberman Live: Battlefest, with 24 competitors featuring Brutalmoose, MasaeAnela, PurpleRodri, StephenPlays (Stephen and Mallory), The Completionist, Dodger, LiamSixx, MunchingOrange, KoopaKungFu, SirEnobMort, SullyPwnz, Lucahjin, AttackingTucans, Jon Paula, ALoyalGamer, Pcull 44444, KoshiSushi, SpaceHamster, and WiiRikeToPray (Chris and Tyson). Single-elimination style.
• Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. Tournament, with 17 competitors featuring Lucahjin, MasaeAnela, JoshJepson, AttackingTucans, Yoshiller 2, Stephen and Mal, Cobanermani456, JonTron, Tom Fawkes, Edobean, PKSparxxx, SullyPwnz, SmoothMcGroove, GlitchxCity, SomeCallMeJohnny, ExandShadow. Single-elimination style.

The Runaway Gaiden

• Super Smash Bros. Round Robin Tournament
• Mario Kart 64
• Wii Sports
• New Super Mario Bros. 2 (Coin Rush mode)
• Burnout Revenge (ft. Lucahjin and MasaeAnela)
• Wii Play
• Dokapon Kingdom Battle Royale
• Heavy Burger (ft. MasaeAnela)
• Killer Queen Black (ft. Tom Fawkes)
• Sanrio World Smashball
• Buck Up And Drive
• Chessplosion
• Metal Wolf Chaos

Lost/Status Unknown

• Kirby Air Ride as filler with SuperJeenius (revealed on one of ProtonJon's streams)  Confirmed as lost by Claire in a stream. She said that Jake won with relative ease.
• Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament (revealed on StephenVlog and by Stephen's friend Dan on his vlog)
• Power Stone 2 and ChuChu Rocket! for Gaiden according to a stream of Claire's on 24th of August 2016.
• Mario Party-e Revealed by Claire on a Fortune Cookie 2017 stream whilst playing The Choicest Voice on Mario Party: Island Tour. She owned the game and they recorded it, but were unable to use the footage, so this remains lost. They once again tried to do this game before Mario Party 9 but where again unsuccessful.
• Pac-Man Vs.  Revealed in a tweet by Claire in 2019. No update about its current status.
• Nintendo Land
  • Pikmin Adventure (ft. Tom Fawkes and MasaeAnela)
  • Mario Chase (ft. MasaeAnela)
  • Balloon Trip Breeze
  • Donkey Kong's Crash Course

Recording locations

• The Mario Party 1 LP was recorded at Magfest 2011.
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii was recorded at PAX East 2011.
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl ("Subspace Emissary") was recorded at E3 2011 and at Claire's home in Canada.
• Mario Party 2 was mostly recorded at Claire's house, and the rest was at PAX East 2012.
• Kirby's Return To Dream Land was recorded between the two 2012 PAXes.
• LittleBigPlanet started at PAX Prime 2012, and continued at Chugga's house.
• Wii Party was recorded at Chugga's house.
• Mario Party 3 was recorded at Chugga's house.
• Donkey Kong Country Returns was recorded at Chugga’s house

Recording Dates

. Mario Party 9 was recorded November 24 2023

Quotes

• "Doh, I missed!" - EVERYONE, whenever they miss something.
• "To the left, to the left, to the left..." - Chuggaaconroy and often others, whenever they have to go left...
• Chuggaaconroy: "Hey, [Claire!] Hey, [Claire!] Don't Eat The Mushroom!"
• Claire: (with a mocking voice) "Hey Chugga! Don't eat the mushroom!"
• Claire: "GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!" - Proton Jon, getting screwed over by Mario Party multiple times
• Chuggaaconroy: 'I, Chugga, am going to be Mario!
• Nintendo Capri Sun: I will be Luigi, because I'm greeeeeen!
• Josh Jepson: I'm going to be Yellow Toad, and I'll be the best Yellow Toad you've ever seen!
• Proton Jon: And I'll be leaving, thank you. *hits 1 and Blue Toad runs offscreen*" - Character selection in New Super Mario Bros Wii
• JoshJepson: "Hey everybody, it's Josh Jepson!"
• Chuggaaconroy: "Howdy folks, it's Chuggaaconroy!"
• NintendoCapriSun: "Hey, this is Nintendo Capri Sun, but you knew that already."
• Proton Jon: "I want a catchphrase to steal too..." - Another intro Crossover
• Claire *with Chugga sobbing in the background* 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." - Claire exploiting Chugga's Berserk Button
• Chugga: "Onto our fourth project in the time that it's taken [Claire] to make five videos!"
• Claire: "YOU ARE A DICK." - The intro to Mario Party 2.
• Claire: "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!" - Claire gets fed up with constantly having to play the Mario Party 2 minigame Day at the Races.
• Claire: "I am the strongest of the Guys! I RUN AWAY THE MOST!"
• Claire: [singing] "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." Claire singing a Space "X" song.
• Claire: "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!!!" - Claire when told to say a big fat lie in WarioWare Inc: Mega Party Game$!.
• Tim: "CURSE YOU, KIRBY! CURSE YOU, KING DEDEDE! But most of all...CURSE YOU, RUNAWAY GUYS!" - After defeating the final boss in Kirby's Return to Dream Land
• Chugga: "So, this has been Chuggaaconroy..."
• Tim: "Nintendo Capri Sun..."
• Lucahjin: "Lucahjin!"
• Claire: And the king of all CAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRDDSSS! (as she says this, a King of Hearts enlarges and the others start screaming like crazy) - The Runaway Guys (and Lucahjin) at the end of LittleBigPlanet, Episode 1.
• Claire: "Yeah coffee! Yeah coffee! Yeah coffee!" - Claire during the LittleBigPlanet finale.
• Chugga: "Timstones! Meet the Timstones They're the modern Runaway family! From the Mushroom Kingdom. Come the friends who need to L to P! Now Let's Play with [Claire] and the other three! [She] couldn't even upload a bee! When you read our fanfics, you'll have a gay old tiiiime!...But you knew that already!" - Chugga in Episode 2 of New Super Mario Bros.
• Tom: "How do we still have synergy during this?"
• Claire: "'CAUSE THIS IS HOW TRG WORKS! WE GET ANGRY, AND WE FOCUS!" - Tom gets a lesson in how TRG functions when the group performs well in a stage in Overcooked! while Claire and Emile argue

Trivia

• Originally, the group was going to be a duo, only Emile and Claire. Tim was originally a guest before becoming the third member permanently.
• The Runaway Guys sometimes had other Let's Players joined in as a guest, such as MasaeAnela, JoshJepson, Lucahjin, SuperJeenius, etc. Some of the guests have since gone on to be very important:
  • Lucah has since married Claire.
  • Masae doubles as the guys' tech expert for their game show Thrown Controllers.
• The channel rebranded in 2013, omitting the several gaming references previously seen in their banner instead focusing on their arrow-based logos, as well as adding animated faces of the core members, made by ACFan120, who has previously The Runaway Guys animations.
  • MasaeAnela has drawn the logo currently being used.
  • Two ACFan120 animations accompanied the #1 moment to two different TRG LPs, with the animation of Emile accidentally choosing to fight Claire at the end of Chapter 7 in Dokapon Kingdom and the 'Six Inches Incident' from the first E. Gadd's Garage match in Mario Party 6. The former was the third of three animations (by different animators) to appear in the Dokapon Kingdom Top 15, with JoliVector's animations being used for #5 (Steve the Magic Poohead) and a Plox animation accompanying #2 (Robbery Sale).
• 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 channelling 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 him. 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.
• Emile has admitted multiple times that he wasn't happy with how the Mario Party 3 project turned out. He's admitted the jokes at Claire's expense were mean-spirited and should have relented, especially considering Claire was recovering from a nasty break-up with her ex. Emile later reaffirmed he believes it's the worst playthrough the Guys produced because everyone was in a bad mental spot; aside from the end of Claire's five-year relationship, Tim had also gotten sick and Emile was suffering from food poisoning during the recording trip.
• 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 led 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 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 her. It's since gotten to the point where Claire has been considering giving up on the event altogether.
• On February 2024, the group had gone under hiatus due to controversies surrounding Emile that made it nigh-impossible to move forward with him involved in any capacity; however, Claire confirmed that Thrown Controllers and Colosseum would continue under different branding. Later in March, that year's Colosseum was confirmed to be happening in May, rebranded as Thrown Controllers Colosseum. Although the controversies had since managed to settle and Emile returned to uploading videos on his own channel in August, the Runaway Guys channel did not properly return to uploading videos until December 14th, 2024 having waited for Emile himself to feel fully comfortable again. Although they have yet to record any new LPs since the controversy as of April 2025.