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Douglas Darien "Doug" Walker, born November 17, 1981, ''is'' [[That Guy With
His original characters include:
* [[
* That Guy With The Glasses of ''[[Ask That Guy With
* Chester A. Bum of ''[[
* Dominic the Bartender of ''[[Video Game Confessions]]''
* Douchey McNitpick, a [[Straw Fan]] spoof of [[Troll]] commenters.
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His parody characters include:
* General Zod of ''[[Superman II]]''
* Raoul Puke, a character based on the works of [[Hunter S. Thompson]]
* Melvin, brother of [[Batman|the Joker]]
* Tommy Wiseau, director/writer/producer/actor/possibly-alien from ''[[The Room]]''
* Bitch Spasms, a ''[[Patch Adams]]'' analog highlighting why the movie character wouldn't make a good doctor. [[Killed Off for Real]] at the end of the ''[[Patch Adams]]'' review.
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* [[Adorkable]]
* [[Alter Ego Acting]]: Oh, so much of it...
* [[Apologizes a Lot]]: He's most definitely a people pleaser. You ''want'' to tell him nobody will be mad if he's too busy to do a Bum Review for a popular movie or he only does a couple videos in a week because he's tired or real life gets in the way, but we know that's a lie.
** See also [[The Spoony Experiment
*** [http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=329646427101825&id=127127037353766 This].
* [[Artist Disillusionment]]: He had it for a couple of days after the ''Bart's Nightmare'' [[Let's Play]], where he was already in a bad way from jetlag and coming back from vacation. He got upset over people acting like the video had kicked their dog and wanted to do a [[Take That]] with Douchey in place of Chester as the mouthpiece for the fans, but Michaud talked him down. He very clearly still regrets this.
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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.
* [[Catboy]]: No, really. See this [http://i56.tinypic.com/16knrf9.jpg picture].
* [[Careful
* [[Cosplay]]: He does an ''amazing'' [[Superman II|General Zod]].
** Of course, the Critic wouldn't ever have managed to take over [[Kickassia]] if it weren't for him being... well... [[Street Fighter (
** In ''[[Suburban Knights]]'', he dresses up as [[The Legend of Zelda
* [[Can't Hold His Liquor]]: In the commentary for ''[[IT]]'', he recalls how he tried the ''[[
* [[Chubby Chaser]]: He tends to perk up when heftier women are on scene. His fiancée and ex-girlfriend (shown in ''[[Suburban Knights]]'') are also both highly curvaceous.
* [[Creator Backlash]]: As far as he's concerned, Melvin, Brother of the Joker and Emo Jones are [[Unperson|UnPeople]].
* [[Creator Thumbprint]]: He has big things for tragic funniness, worlds where even the [[Straight Man]] is crazy and [[Jerkass Woobie|Jerkass Woobies]]. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Also]], whenever he needs a girl's name in Critic or Ask That Guy videos, it'll always be "Vanessa".
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Not Doug himself, but an [[Alter Ego Acting]] persona he put on in the third DVD advertisement. Shirtless, psychotic and threatening a tied up "pretty" guy with a knife.
* [[Designated Protagonist Syndrome]]: One of his main problems with ''[[Sleeping Beauty]]'' is that the leads are so deathly dull. And this is the guy that argued Snow White and Cinderella weren't all that bad from a feminist POV.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: In his [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]] review, he mentions that Aladdin and Jasmine, while do have chemistry, still follow the three dates and get married routine that other Disney movie followed. They were actually engage and didn't get married until the third movie, four years later in real life and in-between a second movie and tv series.
* [[Double Standard]]: While discussing ''[[Daria]]'' in his top favorite TV shows, he notices that men have a tendency to love Daria's monotone voice but hate the same thing in her boyfriend, while women react vice versa.
** [[Double Standard Abuse (Female
* [[Erotic Eating]]: With a banana and a lollipop, both [[Lampshaded]] to the best of his ability.
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: We won't go into audience examples, but [[In
** As for the guys he wants, he has a bit of a thing for Jacob from ''[[Twilight (
* [[Fan Service Pack]]: He's stopped with the middle-aged-man shirts and ridiculously baggy jeans to actually have clothes that fit him. God bless self-confidence.
* [[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 [[
* [[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.
* [[Guilty Pleasure]]: He has several, most notably being the ''[[Twilight (
* [[He
* [[I Am Not Spock]]: Even though [[
* [[Keet]]: He used to be pretty shy when he was starting out, but now he's pretty much always happy, hug-loving and very bouncy.
* [[Lampshaded the Obscure Reference]]: In a video where he was in Austria, he made a reference to Julie Taymor's work, and noted that about five people watching might get it.
* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: Watch any behind the scenes material with him and [[The Nostalgia Chick
* [[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
* [[
* [[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
** In a [http://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/85550919638450176 tweet], Lindsay called him one of the rare Really Nice Guys.
** On [[
** In [[Phelous]]'s ''[[House of Wax]]'' review, everyone else celebrates Paris Hilton's death in the film, while he's disgusted by their behavior.
** He invited Mara Wilson to appear in his A Simple Wish review as a way of saying sorry due to his fanbase sending her bad messages over her acting skills.
* [[Older Than They Think]]: In-universe, while talking about ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'', he brought up that it was really ''[[Pinocchio]]'' that started the whole "wish and you'll do fine" business that people dislike the [[Disney Princess]] range of movies for.
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Whenever Doug tries to do an accent it inevitably turns into some sort of weird Eastern European accent. See his "How To Be a Pirate" videos and his contributions to Lupa's [[The Room|Tommy Wiseau]] videos for examples.
* [[Opinion Myopia]]: An openly clear aversion. Playing himself in his videos, he has noted that he (usually) understands that some people just feel differently about works than he does.
* [[Oral Fixation Fixation]]: Put anything phallic in front of him and he ''will'' lick it. His [[Ask That Guy With
* [[Raised Catholic]]: Doug said he attended Catholic school when he was a kid in his ''[[Melody Time]]'' review.
** In some of his flashback videos, Catholic items (and a church) are seen. In his video "Off to Defeat the Nerd," he asks Rob what they were bapitized as.
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* [[Shirtless Scene]]: By this point he's had so many he might have actually topped [[Benzaie]] for most times half naked on the site.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: In his Disneycember review of ''A Goofy Movie'', he joke-cries that the shy, stuttering guy in the corner really ''can't'' get the hot girl in real life. Cue fangirl d'awwing.
* [[Sick and Wrong]]: He was particularly disgusted and upset by ''[[Twilight (
* [[Smarter Than You Look]]: People have a tendency to assume he's just as stupid as the Critic. He regularly proves this assumption wrong with his own reviews, commentaries and eloquent posts on facebook.
* [[So Bad
* [[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 ''[[
* [[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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