Tuna Boat Tony
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| First Appearance: 2017 |
| Last Appearance: N/A |
| Portrayed By: Mike Stewart, Jr. |
Tuna Boat Tony is an indie actor and former amateur wrestler. He's been a guest host on Gatorbox since 2017 and has co-commentated a variety of content, however he is best remembered for his role as Draco's wingman for all five broadcasts of Angels with Scaly Wings -- the dragon dating visual novel. Tony and Draco famously flopped badly and received the game's worst ending despite their efforts at courting the game's female characters. In 2019 Tony and Draco hosted a playthrough of YIIK: A Post-modern RPG that famously took three years to finish due to the geographic distance between the two hosts posing a major barrier to getting their schedules to align. During the stream of YIIK Tony blurted out the phrase "PS5 REVEAL DATE?!" as a way to make fun of the expression made by the game's protagonist because it resembled the type of face commonly seen in "clickbait" style YouTube reaction thumbnails. The quote immediately became one of the most widely known and oft-quoted remarks in the history of the show. The emote that resulted from the outburst, Alex Yiik, consistently places in the top five emotes used throughout the year on Twitch every year since it was added and has taken the #1 spot multiple times.
Outside of Gatorbox, Tony is a director and writer of independent films and web series; he is credited with working on Articles of Conflagration as a consultant. He's also a big fan of tabletop games and enjoys writing comprehensive breakdowns and analyses of various games and expansion sets. For a period, a line of hand-painted tabletop game miniatures was available in the Gatorbox Store that he'd painted.