— Simon, Part 5: 'The Legend of Pig Island' The Minecraft Series is a catch-all description for the content based around. It started as a of the sandbox game with and on the flagship BlueXephos channel. However, after a few unusual events and weird encounters with a mysterious character named Israphel it grew into an ambitious. From late 2010 through early 2012, the bulk of the Minecraft series was composed of a semi-improvised comedy drama, where Lewis and Simon 'play' the parts of a Xephos, a heroic 'Spaceman', and Honeydew, a mighty dwarf, respectively. The series is set in the fictional land of Minecraftia, where Xephos and Honeydew encounter a range of colorful characters, and, by virtue of their talent and skill (or a succession of lucky flukes), become worshiped as mighty heroes by the citizens of the land. This series is known Shadow of Israphel, though a survival multiplayer Minecraft and Survival Island series are generally considered to be a part of this series, with the BlueXephos channel lumping together the somewhat narratively linked series under the YouTube playlist '.

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Other videos in the series include custom map play throughs, series showcasing Minecraft mods such as YogLabs, and Minecraft update coverage. •: Often invoked and lampshaded by the other saying 'I'm sorry?' •: The hostile mobs, supposedly, and, according to Simon, cows. •: Simon and Lewis. •: Professor Grizwald only appeared in writing in an adventure map, but his memorable done by Simon made him into a that made him become a part of the Shadow of Israphel backstory (spelled 'Grizwold') in the Legend of Verigan special.

•: They have often chased an enemy, found several more enemies (or just one they didn't expect) and quickly backed off. Doesn't usually help.

•: Simon doesn't appreciate enemies attacking him in the middle of speaking. Lewis: •: For a shortish period in 2011, Honeydew had an S (for Simon.and Superman) emblazoned on his chest. He seems to always be the first one enemies go after. He also doesn't see when they sneak up on him (and Lewis only remembers to warn him some of the time), usually causing him to be stealth-bombed. • Lewis as well, though mainly due to Simon hitting him for seemingly no reason.

•: Wolves, whenever any of the Minecrafters have one. They usually die after a few minutes. •: • Simon's 'Follow me!' And 'Cooooome 'eeeeeeere!'

('Come here!' ) • Simon's girlish 'Awwww!' Along with Lewis' somewhat less girlish one. • Lewis and Simon call each other 'Friend' or 'Pal' an awful lot. • Given a callback when they first arrive at the Mistral City graveyard and find their pre-planned graves. The prepared epitaph on Xephos's (Lewis's) grave is, rather touchingly, 'Goodbye, Friends!' • Any official merchandise is sent with a thank-you card containing the message 'Thanks for the support, Friend!'

• Humming the chest opening music from whenever they find some rare treasure. The 'found a secret' from the same series and a simple angelic choir sound also pops up in a similar fashion. • The charming but odd way Simon says 'Hellloooooo!' • 'Balls to it' and variations. • Asking/saying that someone's 'Ballsed it up' whenever someone severely screws something up. • 'Hooraaaaaay!'

Whenever they escape a deadly situation or find something good. Simon tends to say this more, with Lewis sometimes following up with his less-excited one. • Simon says 'WHOOP' when trying to be cautious or coming very close to danger. • The Diggy Diggy Hole song, as well as all of its variations. • Lewis' 'hup!' When ever he does a jumping puzzle. • Fuckin' Hell's bells • Why would you do that?!! Robert Plant Midi Files more.

• See you later, shitlord! • 'This is A-MA-zing.!' • Simon's 'What game is this?' Or 'It's like a new game!' Whenever there's and update to the game or they test a mod, no matter HOW minor the change.

Seriously, he almost uttered this after taking off a jack-o-lantern and being able to see clearly again. • 'Don't worry about it' Lewis to Simon, typically during Yoglabs when Simon questions something with horrible implications about what Yoglabs does, or something Lewis appears to just be hiding for reasons unknown. •: Lewis is sometimes subjected to this, with Simon hitting him for no real reason at all, to cheer him up, when he is pissed, because he wants to dye him black, to knock him over a bottomless pit, or because he's 'pressing' him. •: Simon and Lewis. They spend a good bit of the journey goofing off, causing, and generally having a laugh.

And then an NPC does something like try to attack a wall they're rebuilding or and they kick so much arse it's unbelievable. •: Simon and Lewis both manage this when the other is being particularly silly or dense. •: • Some Shadow of Israphel NPCs participate in non- Shadow of Israphel videos. For example, Fumblemore was participating in the first livestream event, and Old_Peculier helped the Yogscast explain the 1.2 Beta update. Fumblemore also tagged along in the Yogscast's adventure in the 'Super Hostile Canopy Carnage' maps, along with Swampy_Bogbeard. • More recently, the Fumblemore and Old_Peculier accounts have been used by Lewis and Sjin, respectively, in Duncan's Project Ozone, after their main accounts lost all their lives and were banned from the server.

Sjin also used the Strawfingers and Squib accounts, and lost all lives in both. They mostly lost lives thanks to their obstination to open Chance Cubes, despite the fact they mostly been terrible. •: When the duo isn't dressed in stronger armor already given to them for a big battle, Simon normally takes weaker armor when he and Lewis have to share. This usually means leather. This is because Lewis ostensibly needs the more durable armor for the hits he will inevitably take, as he is the aggressive melee fighter, while Simon, who is an Archer, doesn't get hit quite as much, unless an enemy gets the drop on him from behind... •: The typical method of dealing with creepers when playing.

•: In their earlier videos. When presented with a 'jumping across lava' challenge, they decide that they won't tunnel around the lava or just make a pathway across because it isn't in the spirit of the challenge. Their later videos.well, given all the '/give Xephos 46 1' that goes on whenever they can't solve a challenge, this can safely be called total aversion. Lewis in the tourist adventure map, right before cheating. •: • Simon is quite naive whenever it comes to puzzles, traps, or communication with NPCs. • Arguably both Lewis and Simon are this, though Lewis isn't quite as bad, especially at communication.

•: • Lampshaded by them, too, calling it their nonconventional weapons of choice. •: Taken to almost an art form; the only thing stopping Simon and Lewis from mining out entire buildings for loot in is a combination of a and their own incompetence.

• This is just ridiculous with them. In some episodes, Lewis stole arrows from dispenser traps whenever they come across one.

Possibly justified, since the arrows would hurt them if the dispensers were activated, which is nearly unavoidable. Plus they need arrows because they use their bows a lot. And technically there stealing arrows from the dispensers. •: • Seems to be Simon's preferred method of combat, other than being the bowman of the pair. Bonus fit, seeing as how a good half of the vanilla creatures they fight in are supernatural (Zombies and Skeletons).

Simon: • Lewis temporarily adopted this way of fighting as well with a bucket of lava and. •: Played with a little bit, but Simon is arguably this, while Lewis is the one who comes up with most of their ideas and communicates with most of the NPCs. The Yogscast Wiki also claims that Lewis is the de facto leader of the duo. •: A PRIME EXAMPLE OF THIS TROPE WOULD BE THE BRILLIANT PROFESSOR GRIIZZZWAAAAAALLLD!!!

HE YELLS EVERYTHING HE SAAAAAYYYYS!!! • Somehow made even more hammy in the Calmere Nightmare adventure map. Lewis: You're like doing. •: What the Minecraft videos were before the addition of NPCs and a story arc. • The custom map playthroughs are straight examples of this.

• Shadow of Israphel is still basically this, in so far as they're playing a game and recording their commentary in reaction to it (they've said in interviews they aren't told the story, so their commentary is mostly unscripted). The game just isn't being played as intended. •: • 'That's a very nice everything you have here' occasionally replaces 'everything' with something else, depending on the situation. • 'I'm an X, and I'm Y-ing a Z.' Where X was first 'Sean Bean', then most famously 'Swampy', and later just 'Simon', who does the same voice every time. •: Happens a lot when tries to cast spells, with (except when he makes the for Old Peculier or ).

•: Lewis is sometimes subjected to this whenever Simon starts making impulsive decisions. •: • with MoonQuest and surprisingly with Voltz, despite the fanbase thinking so.

Voltz really was finished, as shown by the fact that the final episode didn't have a 'Next Episode' button at the end unlike the other videos (That, and it had one to justify ending it). MoonQuest was deemed dead for a while after Simon crashed on the moon, with most people blaming him for killing it, but they uploaded a new episode two weeks later involving a rescue mission. Moonquest later went on to become Marsquest, and then went on to the Jaffa factory. • Sort of happened with Feed the World owing to the Heartbleed patch. •: Dwarves, if it will be taking any material from. Played straight with Simon's character, Honeydew, who is quite proud of his heritage. •: The Yogscast became bored with their first Tekkit server and decided to start a new one, giving rise to Duncan and Sjin's world-destroying war, and then to Rythian's story of getting revenge on them for it.

•: In the Yogscast Teaches Athene Minecraft video, the Yogscast theme is interrupted to play another track. •: Simon is red, eager to cause damage and wreak havoc and clearly the most spirited about this experiment. Lewis is blue, thinking things through sometimes too carefully, and hardly unnerved. During Planetoids in Minecraft, while Simon was loudly crying over mobs spawning, at night, left alone, and having died earlier, Lewis ignored him and commented on how the clouds were 'causing some trouble for him.' • with in their Tekkit game where Lewis has a sapphire pick-axe and Simon has a ruby one. •: They always run into a Creeper (an enemy that explodes) every few episodes or so and they almost always • Explosions in general, considering their tried-and-tested way of solving puzzles in Minecraft.

'/give Honeydew 46 1' (the server command to give Simon a block of TNT) has become a fan in-joke in its own right. Lewis: I need to go get some wood. Simon: I'm sorry?

• Simon punching Lewis down holes and ladders in adventure maps. • Their hatred of jumping puzzles, especially ones with lava. • Simon and Lewis have also come to hate lever and button puzzles as well. • There's been various mentions of a character named 'Bob', usually to break or mock a serious mood. • Simon's breaking of the laws of physics perplexing Skylord_Lysander seems to be becoming one of these. • Going 'Blehhh' whenever they drop items via the Q key, due to the game making it look like a character is vomiting when dropping multiple items. •: • What happens with excessive use of TNT.

In the third part of their playthrough of the Forgotten Temple, they asking note (the cheaters, who had apparently skipped to the end). • In their Shadow of Israphel series, after escaping Grimjaw's little dungeon thing with Tinman, Simon and Lewis got separated from Tinman by being by a giant dragon sculpture. They ended up hiding in a tomb of some kind because of a thunderstorm and giant enemy instead of heading back to Barbecue Bay like Tinman did. They soon lampshaded this when they left, with one of them saying they probably 'weren't supposed to be there yet.'

•: • 'Maybe we should just get up on the wall and until he's forced to retreat.' • 'There's probably something on about that.' • Simon and Lewis remark on how is probably a reference to. • 'I have a good idea who did this..' • At one point, Fumblemore asks, 'Can in this game?'

• A reformed Creeper in Mistral City is named Astley, and Lewis was afraid he might get 'd. • ' • Apparently, the papers to climb the Skylords' tower are blank because they're. Lewis and Simon also assume that the Skylords are related to the Time Lords. • The two leads are a dwarf from and. • ' • 'What can I do for you?' • The undead pirate dwarf called.

• The house from is behind Dread Pirate Norris' ship. • ' ' • ' • ' • Episode 30 of Shadow of Israphel is titled. • 'It's turtles all the way down' from Episode 30 is a reference to the first chapter of 's A Brief History of Time. • The last episode of the first season ends in a manner similar to an episode of, with the logo slowly rotating and the exact same sound playing as in the show. • ' • They reference the method of killing vampires a couple of times. • ' • 'That's a very nice X you have there.' Is a (very frequent) reference to the popular meme, which ironically became even more popular with their series.

• Simon has taken to humming the theme song whenever Lewis mentions bedrock. • Lewis and Sjin name one of their sprinkler systems ' in Sjin's Farm. •: • This is what happens whenever Simon gets his hands on some TNT.

• This is modus operandi. • Creeper_Boss. •: Their 2.5 million subscriber special, which was a trailer for a Shadow of Israphel movie that isn't actually being made. Features,, and (particularly with greenscreening). • The highlight would have to be when Simon and Lewis 'meet' and go for a handshake.which doesn't look like one at all due to the greenscreening having Lewis closer to the camera than Simon and their hands not being synchronized at all.

•: 'Man up, bitch!' •: Jaffa cakes. •: Simon and Lewis, snap at each other (especially when stressed), hit each other and on one memorable occasion Lewis outright kills Simon's character so. Similar stuff goes on in all their other videos.

But hugging is also attempted, and the odd moment of comedic sappiness making it blatantly obvious they're good friends. •: Simon's character, Honeydew. •: • Even considering they once defended the wall near Verigan's Hold from their boss, Simon and Lewis will panic if a Creeper is nearby.

Simon also tends to go utterly berserk around spiders. • Bees in Minecraft are something of a sore spot for Lewis, Simon, Duncan and Sjin (especially Simon and Duncan), since it directly related to what they felt invoked caused the Jaffa Factory series to and get canned for MoonQuest.

•: Old_Peculier, who is a retired knight, has a smattering of prowess with the sword (enough to keep him from becoming ), but is not as good as Simon or Lewis, and needs to rest often and drink a ton of water because of his age. This is then subverted twice, but in two different ways.

First, he becomes because of. Then, he and becomes Knight_Peculier. •: First was Terrorvale, a small, out-of-the-way town with only three NPCs and a couple quests built on top of a vast cave system. Then came Mistral City, an immense city of airships, floating castles, shops, NPCs and even a mine dungeon, now burnt to a crisp then entirely covered by trees thanks to Swampy.

Then there was the Carnivale de Banjo, a carnival owned by an eccentric man. Then came Barbecue Bay, a port under siege from pirates built right on top of a nether portal. Then was the Skyhold, home to the Skylords and new location of the Carnivale. Then was Stoneholm, subterranean home to the dwarves.