Mikeburnfire

mikeburnfire is an American YouTuber who plays video games. Sometimes he is joined by friend and fellow YouTuber Zach Hazard.
==About==
Inspired by other YouTubers such as AlChestBreach, SovietWomble, Many A True Nerd, and Videogamedunkey, Mike began their channel with parodies of other YouTubers' videos. He started his most famous series, a Fallout New Vegas let's play with Zank, in 2016 which rapidly grew in popularity and became a staple of the channel. A wide variety of other games have been played and reviewed, including games in the Mass Effect and Resident Evil franchises.
The Fallout New Vegas is notable because every episode is painstakingly subtitled by Mike himself, which is why their release is limited to once per week (on Wednesday). Other videos on the channel are not manually subtitled.
==Character==
Mike tends to avoid vulgarity and profanity in most instances and has a generally laid-back approach to most things, although pestering Zach to the brink of insanity is one of his hobbies.
His counterpart, Zach, is less constrained and more absurd, quicker to pull the trigger on a gun or shoot off at the mouth recklessly. He has a deep wealth of knowledge when it comes to military history, firearm specifications, memes, shoebill birds, and Gilmore Girls.
Anne is Mike's Girlfriend and a new addition of the channel who first appeared in the video Inscription (with Anne). She's a fan of the Alien franchise(a liking shared by Zach) and the 3D Platformer game Tak and the power of Juju(which she has an ongoing playthrough series with Mike on the channel), and she doesn't like the character Keira from Jak Series since one of the episode of the Tak series was dedicated to her rant against the character.
==Fallout Series==
Mostly taking place within Fallout New Vegas, the Fallout series is the center point of the channel. The game usually follows Zach's point of view with Mike filling the role of companion. Together they complete both vanilla quests and fan-made mods. Occasionally, Mike tinkers with the modding tools to enhance the experience or to edit in a joke. Companions are swapped in and out, with Hope Lies and Vincent Vincent from the Interesting NPCs mod usually joining them. Many of the running gags for the channel stem from this series.
Zach's insistence on singing, killing, memeing, and quoting TV shows makes it difficult for Mike to stay sane sometimes. Likewise, Zach becomes incredibly agitated watching Mike play games poorly. Additionally, Mike has been known to intentionally agitate Zach by making false claims (EG, Foot fetishism, Gilmore Girls fandom, etc)
Zach primarily uses a shotgun for efficiency and comedic effect, although he switches out to scoped and projectile weapons frequently. Mike typically uses an assault rifle, but often throws dynamite and grenades erratically (sometimes at the enemy!).
The series enjoys a healthy dose of running gags and self-referential humor. For example, two hostile NPCs, both named "Big Dave" were encountered at one point. A few episodes later, two NPCs both named "Bigger Dave" attacked. Eventually (several months later), a gargantuan enemy called "Biggest Dave" besieged the town of Westside and was defeated in spectacular combat.
The NPC Malcolm Holmes has shown a penchant for coming back to life and going hostile to the group (episode 10), creating clones (episode 21) as well as robots (episode 28) to attack the duo. In episode 100, Mike and Zach faced Mlaclom Homes and his clone army in a final, epic showdown. Mike, conveniently owning a cloning machine/shower himself, cloned Zach a couple of dozen times, and the duo led their clone army to siege the NCRCF, where Malcolm had holed up. Mike, Zach, and all the Zach clones stormed the prison, freeing their companions who had been kidnapped by Malcolm, and after long last, killed the original Malcolm Holmes for good. The Zach clones and remaining Malcolm clones were rewarded for their service by being allowed to kill themselves, which they all promptly did. With this, the battle against Malcolm and his clone army was finally finished, and Mike and Zach triumphantly left the NCRCF with one less person attempting to kill them for their blue star bottlecaps.
===Companions===
Due to the numerous amount of vanilla and mod companions, most do not stick around for more than a few episodes. There were a few that have received special treatment so far:
*Hope Lies: The first companion recruited by the duo, Hope has undergone many changes in appearance over the series, but always retained her positive personality. After dying to radiation poisoning, she returned as a ghoul before being killed by raiders. Her brain was subsequently put into a robot body. Unfortunately, Hope's robot body was prone to malfunctions, like her head falling off randomly. When that became tiresome, her brain was transplanted into that of a (functioning) sexbot.
**Vincent Vincent: A wandering survivalist by trade, Vincent is an odd character that openly rants about sex, drugs, and guns. His crude mannerisms always catch the duo off-guard, and they are frequently blindsided by his absurd comments. He was also killed by raiders and implanted into a robotic body.
**Joshua: A Sarcastic Bottlecap counterfeiting expert from england who fled to the Mojave to operate interdependently with his friend Rocko and his Brother Samuel. However they were pursued by the "New World Parliament" which is the british equivalent of the Enclave. thanks to the Efforts of Mike, Zach, Joshua and Rocko the Mojave was saved from Post-Apocalyptic British Colonialism. Joshua has long since been deported by the NCR Back to England. 
**Billy: A Security robot with a thirst for blood and a servo to pick with anything alive. Confirmed to be a libertarian ethno-nationalist. 
**Dino Jackson: A Ghoul from Hollywood who mostly starred in action movies before the bombs fell. he originally hire Mike and Zach to help him find the killer of his beloved pet rat Lorraine only to confront his evil version of him. he does also do some bounty hunting work. its later revealed dino jackson was slated to be in Alvin and the chipmunks 4 which would be a "Dark turn for the series" 
**Niner: a drug smuggler whom both Mike and Zach despised. often times niner would be high on chems and be ultimately useless and get our heroes into trouble. he was later left for dead at quarry junction to be eaten by death claws. 
**Platform Goliath: A Geth Goliath who likes squishing things. 
**Rusty: a teddy bear who serves in the NCR Army in exchange for Cocaine 
**Doc Friday: A gun slinging dentist and a friend of Randall, a former employer of Mike and Zach. he joins up with them to hunt bounties alongside Russel 
**Russel: a former desert ranger who recruited Mike and Zach to aid in the search of a former contractor of the NCR named Clayton. who was fighting against a raiding tribe. Mike and Zach soon turned on Russel and defended clayton as in accordance to wasteland justice "the first person to stab the baby is the one in the wrong." 
**Balls: a demonic talking dog that forced mike and zach to collect his things 
**Cass: Zach's Love Interest, Ex Girlfriend and the head of Cassidy Caravan. 
**Willow: Zach's other Ex Girlfriend 
**Eliza: Zach's current Girlfriend, a drug smuggler and a gun nerd like Zach. 
**Brooklyn: a former lieutenant of war-trash and head of the Brooklyn mercs. she was abandoned by Mike and Zach when she wanted to attack the NCR for pursuing a huge slaver into arizona. Mike and Zach vowed to kill her and Edmond if they returned. 
**Edmond: An Ex member of the Department of Allied Intelligence of the NCR and current member of brooklyn's crew. He was abandoned by Mike and Zach and vowed to be shot by the two allies of the NCR. 
**Huey Duey and Luey: the 3 Tau drones bought by Mike as a Gift for Zach. they were unfortunately destroyed by raiders.
*Bad Mothafucka: A supermutant that only knows one obscene word, Bad Mothafucka was fast and powerful, one-shotting most enemies that got within melee range. He was a staple of the team until dying pitifully in a wild beast attack. Mike was able to salvage his brain and would later put it in Rex the Robotic Dog's body.
*ARES model Andrea: A pre-war sexbot that was repurposed as a flight instructor, Andrea's quest involved recovering a derelict aircraft. After retiring to Novac, her body was disassembled and repurposed for Hope. Her CPU is stored in the radio in Zach's room.
==Other Videos==
Zach and Mike fill the week playing other video games, sometimes picking a well-loved game for the other to experience. Mike has persuaded Zach to do a blind playthrough of the Mass Effect series, while Zach encouraged Mike to finish Alien: Isolation. Mike has also shown a hearty love for episodic, narrative-heavy, and strategy games, while Zach is typically in favor of a more action-oriented experience.
==Mass Effect Series==
Another popular series on the channel was the Mass Effect Series. Mike convinced Zach to play the series, which Zach was originally against due to his hatred of the gameplay. Mike had already played the series and had a playthrough of Mass Effect Andromeda on the channel. Zach went in almost completely blind to the trilogy for the channel playthrough.
The main character of the series, Commander Shepard, was quickly re-characterized by the duo from a brave, Marty-Stu-Esque character into the dorky Terrance Shepard, a complete nerd with a strong speech impediment, but a surprisingly prolific Sonic the Hedgehog fanfic writer. Through some stroke of luck or file mix-up, Terrance Shepard became the first human Spectre and got his command.
Over the series, Zach chose mostly paragon choices, usually only choosing renegade options against hated characters or when the option was too funny to pass up.
==Quotes==
* "Here I am! Rock you like a hurricane!" - Zach, when fighting scorpions.
* "What reputation? As a terrible shot and a poor conversationalist?" - Zach, when told of his reputation.
* "You see the corn? The corn is very important to the story!" - Zach, at the Boomer mural.
* "In Heaven, Pa has all his body parts and is not on fire" - Mike, comforting a grieving woman.
* "You're not invited to any orgies from now on" - Mike, after being told by Zach to "Twist those dirty bags."
* "Bet you haven't seen a ping-pong ball go THIS far up a mans rectum!" - Mike, when distracting Jeanne May.
* "Sorry, I'm just mediocre at best" -Zach, referring to his combat prowess.
*"I don't care about your sexual preference, just shut up and die quietly!" - Zach, on occasion when killing people.
==Trivia==
* The name "MikeBurnFire" comes from an old email address that Mike used to use. It became his online alias, which became the name of the channel.
* The original purpose of the channel was for Mike to showcase his digital animations. His 3D modeling movies and fan animations of ManyATrueNerd and Hello Internet are still publicly available.
* The happy duck icon has almost no relation to the channel, aside from being representative of Mike's positivity and enthusiasm and love of ducks. Conversely, Zach uses a wry shoebill as his avatar on Twitter, as he is fond of that particular species.
* In the video "MikeBurnFire Art Show", They state that the duck featured in the channel icon is a frame from the Little Mermaid "Kiss The Girl" music video.
* Comparing the drawing of the duck in the channel icon and the one in the frame itself, The duck in the icon has a few mistakes, such as the duck's hair being backward and it not having eyebrows.
* Both Mike and Zach are veterans of the United States Armed Forces, with Zach having served in the Army during the War on Terror in Iraq from 2004 until 2009 as a Small Arms Repairman whereas Mike served in the Marine Corps as a Hygiene Equipment Operator from 2006 until 2010 but was never deployed.
==Gallery==
duck2.png|Photo of the original duck drawing. (see above)
mikeburn.jpg|MikeBurnFire's channel icon.
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