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Doesn't mean you have to be ''nice'' about it.
Enter the Caustic Critic, whose job it is not only to review the work in question, but also to call it names until it cries like a little girl. Why? Because it's [[Rule of Funny|funny]]. That said, the Caustic Critic is almost always rather divisive, especially when he [[He Panned It, Now He Sucks|takes on a generally well-liked]] game / show/ movie/ album/ book/ manga/ anime/ webcomic/ webcartoon/ fanfic/ [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|plat]][[Everything's Better
They need not necessarily be reviewers; they might be essayists discussing trends, but the spirit is the same.
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== Literature ==
* Ellsworth Toohey of ''[[The Fountainhead]]''
** [[
* [[Charlie Brooker]], of ''[[TV Go Home]]'', ''Charlie Brooker's [[Screenwipe]]'' and "guy who inspired [[Zero Punctuation]]" fame.
* Dorothy Parker made her living as a literary and theatre critic, as well as writing several books of poetry and short stories. Famous for her acerbic wit, she's one of the most quoted writers in US literature. She's also known as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, the most prominent New York literary circle prior to [[World War II]].
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* Chris Hyatte from Scoops Wrestling and the early days of 411 Mania was a mixture of this and a rare example of a malicious [[Cloudcuckoolander]]. From placing a bounty on the daughters of Tony Schiavone's Daughter to turning the Villainos into an infamous [[Memetic Badass|crime family]] Hyatte's columns were a mixture of [[Non Sequitur]] and [[Refuge in Audacity]]. Sadly the end of Scoops and his falling out with several websites, have made his body of work [[Keep Circulating the Tapes|hard to find.]]
* Bill & Doug (RVDTito4Life) and Kent Jones, who claimed to be the first [[YouTube]] "shooter", which is a misnomer since he's not in the professional wrestling business. Bill & Doug, meanwhile, actually became shooters when they were hired by [[TNA]] to host their online show, ''TNA Addicts''.
* [[Noah Antwiler]] on [[
* [[Jim Cornette]]. The emotion of "vague or minor but tolerable dislike" does not seem to exist for this man.
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== Web Original ==
* [[
* ''[[
* Maddox of [[The Best Page in The Universe]].
* Being a collection of caustic critics is the stated mission of [[Pajiba]]. Their tagline is "Scathing Reviews. Bitchy People."
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* [[Retsupurae]] is this for [[Let's Play]].
* ''[[Seanbaby]]'' was one of the original online personalities to do this.
* [[
* Comixology's Tucker Stone, he is well educated and uses the full extent of his thinking power to utterly take apart mainstream comic books.
* [[Something Awful]]'s reviews of movies and older videogames go here.
* Noah Antwiler, also known as The Spoony One, of [[
** He also does this a lot with the movie reviews he use to do for a magazine that are posted on his website. Oddly enough, when he did a [[Let's Play]] of ''Phantasmagoria 2'' he noted that the he though the first game, which was one of the featured FMV games, was good and mostly just aged poorly.
** He very memorably did this with ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'', and was so funny that even some fans of the game enjoyed it. He later moves on to [[Final Fantasy X]], a game that while he despises, he also notes that he enjoyed the combat.
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* [http://sturgeonawards.blogspot.com/ The Sturgeon Awards]. The blogger will review anything he hates. However, he has written a positive review of [[Genetos]].
* [http://www.facebook.com/pages/FireBlog/154468544591691 The FireBlog] gives text reviews of overrated TV shows, and is currently working on [[The Middle]]. It will also make fun of idiots on [[IMDb]]. Apparently, nobody is safe from the [[Fire Blogger]].
* [[That Guy With
** The site also features [[
** [[Atop the Fourth Wall
*** Though not unusually vitriolic for this trope, Linkara is somewhat more dedicated to it than others listed here having repeatedly rejected fan requests to review good comic books stating that the whole point of his regular feature is to rant about the bad stuff.
** The Distressed Watcher is even more of a caustic critic than anybody on the website, covering trailers specifically, and is so hateful about it that a lot of the site’s members hate him.
*** It is worth noting that the Distressed Watcher is also known as [[The Amazing Atheist]], who is another controversial personality. Clearly, the actor enjoys being controversial.
*** Many, many of the reviewers on TGWTG fit this trope, to the point where it would take up a lot of space to list them all here. Visit the [[That Guy With
* John Solomon of the now-defunct webcomic review blog, ''Your Webcomic Is Bad And You Should Feel Bad''.
* Yahtzee of ''[[
* [http://www.bloggerbeware.com/ This blogger] reviews the [[Goosebumps]] books. He... doesn't like many of them.
** Parodied in [[The Flash Tub]]'s [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/flash-tub/furious-famicom-faggot.php Furious Famicom Faggot].
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** [http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport The Bad Movie Report]
** [http://www.badmovies.org Badmovies.org]
** [http://www.agonybooth.com/ The] [[The Agony Booth
** [http://www.spill.com/ Spill.com occasionally falls into this category.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1HFpZS6exk Case in point...]
* Parodied in [http://xninjared.deviantart.com/art/Happy-Valentine-from-XNinjaRed-153934205 this comic] where the Ninja is being a harsh critic over a Valentine card saying there's no plot, feeling or charm and says he can do better, only to basically make a threat card rather than a Valentines card.
* ''[[Red Letter Media]]'''s Mister Plinkett. He's also a [[Deconstruction]] and a satire of the stereotypical wannabe- critic youtuber's usual online persona: what kind of person would be as devoted, nerdy and angry to actually write a 60 minutes long review of [[Star Wars]] Episode 1, carefully deconstructing all of its flaws? Answer: [[Serial Killer|Not a nice one]].
* Since 2005, [http://mike-smith.livejournal.com/ Mike Smith] has been going through the entire ''[[Harry Potter (
* The former [[WoW]] podcaster [[The Cynical Brit|Total Biscuit (aka Total Halibut aka the Cynical Brit)]] loved the game back when he did postcasts, and still won't hesitate to rag on every perceived slip up, and outright tells anyone who doesn't like his reviews "there's the door". He thoroughly believes that reviews have to be critical to be effective.
* Although not formal critics, pretty much every user at the [[RPG Codex]] forum is this for any video game even nominally considered an RPG. Generally they consider most modern games, especially ones by Bethesda, to be "bland, banal, boring, shit" and refer to them as 'popamole'.
* In [[Fanfiction.net]], there are various fanfics that [[Follow the Leader|follow]] the initiative of [[
* [[Confused Matthew]]: He makes a point of targeting movies that were better reviewed and received than he thought they should be. He actually ends up playing devils advocate occasionally on movies that he feels got an excessive negative reaction. The common opinion he disagrees with is what has him confused.
* Wanna see someone try to be a caustic critic only to have the work he's harping on turn out to be be a classic game which he never actually played? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxLgFbNPB9s Here ya go]
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* [http://www.filmtracks.com/ Film Tracks]. When they don't give a positive review to an established composer, they will mercilessly trash a score by a newcomer, a score that features guitars and scores by [[Hans Zimmer]] and his company (though the third one is done by most film score circles). They also infamously trashed [[Trent Reznor]]'s score to ''[[The Social Network]]'' and suggested that the soundtrack would make better use as a frisbee.
* The Bad Webcomics Wiki is an entire wiki based on this. Due to the fact that it has many people, not all of whom are qualified critics, and many new members seem to be under the impression that it's a troll site where they can flame at comics they dislike, the quality, accuracy and fairness of the reviews may vary, but it doesn't change the fact that a considerable percentage of the comics reviewed are simply bad, one way or another.
* [[Warning! Readers' Advisory|Derek the Bard]] is caustic towards terrible books (and sometimes terrible movies based on good books).
* [[Mr. Coat and Friends]], although to a much lesser degree than similar sites.
* Subverted, strangely enough, by ''The Rageaholic'', who is not all that caustic; most of his reviews tend to be positive to neutral, and he'll even point out the good with the bad (and the bad with the good); heck, despite spending much of the [[Fallout: New Vegas]] review going after it for being standard Obsidian fare, he still cops to liking the game. Even more bizarrely, he was one of relatively few critics to give a good review to [[
* [[Reddit]], Hacker News, and Slashdot are full of programmers who love to rip their least favorite programming languages, coding paradigms, etc.
* Despite his own opinion (he says he's mixed almost equally on negative and positive reviews) Youtube user Razorfist AKA "The Rageaholic" is an easy fit. [[Berserk Button|Do NOT compare him to Yahtzee.]]
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== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
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