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* [[Attention Whore]]: Not in a bad way, but sometimes it can seem like he's putting on a show for entertainment when he's in [[Keet]] mode.
* [[Bias Steamroller]]: If there's a movie with a plot that's been done before, and doesn't add anything "new to the table", he'll probably despise it and usually would try to avoid it.
** Though in his "Old vs. New" videos, he prefers the remakes often enough to avert this trope (''[[Karate Kid]]'', ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', ''[[True Grit]]'', ''[[The Nutty Professor]]'').
** Also inverted. Anything that treats children or teenagers like they're intelligent and challenges them will at least be given a lot of respect.
* [[Big Eater]]: He said at a con that most of what he eats is a lot of junk food. Looking at him, you wouldn't suspect it.
* [[Black Comedy]]:[https://web.archive.org/web/20131120012246/http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/sketches-the-most-disturbing-aristocrats-joke-ever-1469521 The Most Disturbing Aristocrats Joke Ever].
* [[Break the Cutie]]: He used to love the ''[[Twilight]]'' movies for being so gloriously awful, but ''Breaking Dawn'' made him feel so dirty that he's very close to tears in his own review.
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: If you don't know that he's a good singer and knows it, you probably haven't watched his videos. Same with his love of doing impressions. And then of course there's the fact that before making videos full-time he was a professional illustrator and is not unwilling to show off his drawing prowess.
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* [[Female Gaze]]: Invoked. There are a lot of things he does that makes his girl fans squee and immature male fans reach for [[Brain Bleach]]. <ref> This might also possibly account for some of the more venomous reactions he gets.</ref>
* [[Friend to All Children]]: In a much less screwed up way than [[The Nostalgia Critic]]. He lampshaded his protectiveness of kids in the ''[[Ponyo]]'' commentary, adding that he's speaking as someone who doesn't have kids of his own.
* [[Funny Character, Boring Actor]]: He's usually funnier with his brother Rob, who helps write his videos.
* [[Good Feels Good]]: Sadly it's a [[Missing Episode]], but the commentary for ''[[A Simple Wish]]'' was basically twenty minutes of him discussing how awesome it feels to be a genuine [[Nice Guy]] and he doesn't care if people think he's weak for [[Apologizes a Lot|apologizing all the time]].
* [[The Glomp]]: He's a big fan of these at conventions.
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* [[Man of a Thousand Voices]]
* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]: Most of his characters are awful people or deeply screwed-up, or both. The Nostalgia Critic is a bratty lunatic and a bag of issues; "[[Ask That Guy With The Glasses]]" is a sadistic monster; in the trailer for the TGWTG Volume 3 DVD, Doug has kidnapped someone and glued them to a chair to torture them (and promote the DVD). Other TGWTG contributors and fans seem to agree that the real Doug Walker is a ridiculously nice guy. (See [[Nice Guy]] below.)
* [[Mis BlamedMisblamed]]: Fans have a tendency to blame him for whatever happens in crossovers or specials, forgetting that the majority of people on the site have their own character and will speak up if they feel he's writing them wrongly.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: As well as some of the things he does for the Critic and Ask That Guy, he takes every opportunity he can to flirt with people, start a striptease for con-goers or show off some skin.
* [[Nice Guy]]: He's a sweet man. In his commentary for ''Zombie 5'', [[The Spoony Experiment|Noah Antwiler]] (a nice guy on his own) said how Doug called him up to profusely apologize for coincidentally using his idea of dressing up like [[The Cinema Snob]] first.
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* [[So Bad It's Horrible (Darth Wiki)|So Bad Its Horrible]]: Doug has this opinion about ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1]]'' and ''[[The Garbage Pail Kids Movie]]''. In his commentary for the latter, he said that this was one of the rare times where he shares [[The Nostalgia Critic]]'s view on the movie.
* [[Stop Being Stereotypical]]: This is his problem with ''[[Enchanted]]''. He states that by the 90s Disney movies, the princesses and female leads ''weren't'' ditzy damsels and ''Enchanted'' was acting like they were.
* [[Talking to Himself]]: He does have loads of characters, and sometimes they interact with each other.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: He can get through ''[[Grave of the Fireflies]]'' alright, but ''[[Wolf's Rain]]'' always makes him cry.
* [[The Tease]]: He likes his flirting. A ''lot''. All for fun, though.
* [[Tethercat Principle]]: He will occasionally use defiance of this trope as a joke.
* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: He certainly comes off like this when he reveals he willingly and without regret put clothespins on his private parts for the second animated ''Titanic'' movie review.
* [[True Art Is Angsty]]: Doug went through this phase during his high school/college years and made a few short films during that time, which he now considers [[Old Shame|Old Shames]] to poke fun of.
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