RadicalSoda

Robert "Rob" (born: ), better known online as RadicalSoda, is a gaming YouTuber residing in New Zealand, specializing in commentary. He is known for formerly making Markiplier fan-games and Five Nights at Sonic's, more recently known for reviewing Sonic games, and overall is iconic for his absurdist humour.
==Review Series==
===RadicalSoda===
RadicalSoda has created a diverse amount of videos in his time on YouTube; in recent years, his style has honed in on comedic commentary and game reviews. Notably, some of RadicalSoda's most famous videos include his Doki Doki Literature Club video, his Pokemon Sword & Shield review series, and his Sonic Forces review, a game he notoriously loathes.
Primarily, RadicalSoda is known for his Sonic content, initially a more prevalent theme for his much older videos, many of which have since been privated in favor of a more consistent brand/style. He also occasionally streams on Twitch, and runs a second channel for VODs.
==Characters==
Over the course of RadicalSoda's channel history, his videos have given life to a number of iconic characters, some of which playing more major roles than others.
===Poppy===
Poppy is a girl with green eyes, brown hair, and a large bust. Though she wears a number of different outfits, her "normal" outfit is a red polo shirt, a pair of blue jeans, and a pin designed to look like the YouTube demonetization symbol. She began as a self-portrait of RadicalSoda that would be placed into his thumbnails, but given the androgynous appearance of this self-portrait, it became a running joke that new fans often mistook him a girl. Because of this, RadicalSoda changed the appearance of self portrait to become more clearly female. This resulted in the first iteration of Poppy, who quickly became the channel mascot. Initially, her appearance remained consistent throughout all thumbnails, but RadicalSoda started dressing Poppy in different outfits relating to the content of the video. Now, every new thumbnail contains a unique illustration of Poppy. Many of these illustrations are heavily suggestive, to the point of RadicalSoda having to tone down some of them, and NSFW versions of these thumbnails are part of the highest tier of RadicalSoda's Patreon, although they are removed two weeks after.
Though Poppy is typically just the mascot and nothing more, she occasionally will make an appearance in videos. Primarily, she appeared as part of a brief skit in RadicalSoda's video, "The Incredibles for PS2." Poppy's appearance still regularly gives unsuspecting newcomers to RadicalSoda's channel the impression that RadicalSoda is a girl, perhaps more so than before he'd adopted the mascot, which occasionally leads to confusion on his gender identity. RadicalSoda addressed this.
===Bear Grylls===
A parody of the British TV Star of the same name primarily known for his number of survival TV series and for drinking his own "piss," Bear Grylls is one of the few characters to appear more consistently as part of RadicalSoda's videos, and has appeared in more videos than any other characters. He seems to have a passion for Sonic Horror Games, and Sonic in general. Bear Grylls looks identical to RadicalSoda apart from his outfit, which generally consists of a black shirt, a black, blue, or green jacket with a hood, bright blue fingerless gloves, and a black beanie. Whenever he appears, he's given a Super Smash Bros. style introduction. Bear typically acts as a comic relief character, appearing to be quite naive and stupid, speaking in an exaggerated British accent, and constantly talking about his love of drinking "piss." 
Bear Grylls is implied to have broken into RadicalSoda's house one day, and over the course of several years eventually warmed up into becoming his roommate, and possible friend, as RadicalSoda grows more attached to him with each subsequent video. Bear Grylls is shown to have an affinity for survival, especially in the Minecraft video, and apart from drinking his own piss, is also known for eating grass.
Bear Grylls has also made his own video, in which he lists his top 10 favorite video games.
===Zeti=== 
For the thumbnails of RadicalSoda's series on "Sonic Lost World," rather than using Poppy again, he elected to create entirely new characters loosely based on "The Deadly Six," although one does seem to heavily resemble Poppy. Afterward creating Ziti, he created more to round out the cast for the purpose of making T-shirts. These characters have yet to be officially named.
===The "Son, I cold" Guy=== 
In "Sonic Horror Games 2," RadicalSoda covered a game called "Sonic Old." However, he pointed out how the title of the game could be interpreted as "Son, I cold." This was followed up by a skit where a man identical to RadicalSoda, completely nude except for a fake moustache, laments "Son, I cold," before RadicalSoda brushes him off to continue playing. This character occasionally makes appearances, but does not play any major roles. RadicalSoda occasionally calls him "Dad." 
===The Violet Demon=== 
Unlike RadicalSoda's other characters who are either RadicalSoda in a different outfit or simply a drawing, The Violet Demon is a purple Muppet-style character who first made his appearance in "Garfield's Spooky Scavenger Hunt." Originally being mistaken to be the YouTuber Arlo, the Violet Demon wants to kill RadicalSoda for unknown reasons. Not much else is known besides this. The Violet Demon was killed by Bear Grylls after attempting to attack RadicalSoda. 
===Mr. Incredibazinga===
Mr. Incredibazinga is a character first introduced in [insert here ill get back to this]. Like his namesake, Mr. Incredibazinga acts as a superhero-type character, albeit a more pathetic version, similar to Bear Grylls acting as a watered-down counterpart to the real life celebrity. He is shown to have some knowledge on hacking and coding. 
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