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Characters who have appeared on [[
== Critic character tropes A-M ==
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* [[Basement Dweller]]: It's a lovely house, but he hasn't stopped living with his mom.
* [[Beard of Sorrow]]
* [[Beautiful All Along]]: We've seen him as a fairly [[
* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Parodied for silly laughs. With all the suicides, shots to the head and occasional getting the shit kicked out of him, you'd think he'd at least be a little scarred.
* [[Belief Makes You Stupid]]: Inverted. Whenever religion gets brought up, the ditziness is downplayed and he'll have intelligent things to say.
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: While he tries to act like a successful [[Bad Boss]] during crossovers, either the others get the upper hand or his own patheticness does him in.
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: The look on his face after he just can't get up the nerve to hold the Chick's hand in "Thanks For The Feedback" (and she doesn't notice) is almost depressing.
* [[Cannot Tell a Joke]]: When whatever it is refuses to give him any more film clips for ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and tells him to actually make people laugh on his own, he's completely clueless about what to do.
* [[Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest]]: Before his [[Freak-Out]] at the end, the date with the Chick was probably the first time we saw him mind-splittingly shy. Having [[The Masochism Tango]] benefits them much more.
* [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin']]: {{spoiler|The Critic never suspected that God would be watching his "Old vs. New" video of ''[[The Ten Commandments]]'' vs. ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]''. He thought God was a benevolent and kind being, but God didn't let him get away with that statement.}}
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* [[Can't Hold His Liquor]]: Five minutes into the ''[[IT]]'' review and the audience was already spinning. Five minutes ''later'', he's having to knock his head on the desk to get some sense back into his brain.
** Even earlier in the Snob/Phelous crossover, he was drunk and weepy by 6pm, not even knowing who Rob was, messier than usual, craving Ninja Turtles (even the third movie) and crying that he used to like ''[[The Garbage Pail Kids Movie]]''. Snob called it "shockingly depressing" and Phelous wanted to hang himself.
** When playing the ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' [[Drinking Game]], he passes out after six shots of Malibu.
* [[Cant Keep A Secret]]: He might have [[Undying Loyalty]], but his promise to Chester that he'd keep the Search For The Necronomicon just between them lasted for about twenty seconds.
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Before he got a [[Fan Service Pack]] and morphed into a [[Chivalrous Pervert|perverted]] [[Ethical Slut]], he was portrayed as an unattractive, overweight, chauvinist prick.
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* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Remember that video with ''Bebe's Kids''? Remember how he complained so much? Remember how he did not complete the game? Apparently he is a good enough gamer to slam Angry Joe into next week in ''Marvel vs Capcom 2''.
{{quote|'''Angry Joe:''' This man WHUPPED MY ASS!"}}
** He gets a [[Break the Haughty]] [[Curb Stomp Battle]] once Joe gets a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130923125609/http://www.blisteredthumbs.net/2011/02/mvc3-grudge-match-angry-review/ brand new joystick though].
* [[Crusty Caretaker]]: The only other job he's had is Doug's factory cleaner gig (this was when Doug was still in school) and he got in trouble for hitting on "Amanda" too much.
* [[Cute but Cacophonic]]: In his early days. His normal voice wasn't animated enough so when the shouting/screeching happened, it made him seem more like a howler monkey.
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* [[Distracted by My Own Sexy]]: When he's being all determined to face down the Nerd at Digital Press, he checks out his reflection in a shop window.
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: Dulcia of the ''[[Power Rangers]] Movie'' defeats a mob of "giant black chickens" by swinging two stick-weapons "throwing them into some kind of hypnotic trance":
{{quote|'''Critic''': Yeah, how's that supposed to put you in a trance, taking two sticks and putting them up and down, up and down, up and down, [''cut to Dulcia in her [[Battle Bikini]]''] up and down...up and down... [''picture slowly zooms in on her breasts'']...up and down...up and down... [''gets his hat knocked off'']
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: He's mentioned very rarely and Critic still lives with his mom. There's been a few hints that the parents got divorced. (This is in-character of course, Doug's dad - Barney Walker - has helped out a lot with music and such, therefore gets thanked in the credits.)
* [[Dude in Distress]]: He got kidnapped by the Game Heroes and was made to promote their stuff at gunpoint.
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** Teddy Ruxpin forces a gun in his mouth and makes him write a more positive review, killing him when he screams for help.
** Before Ma-Ti comes in to take the brunt of the abuse in the brawl, he spends most of the beginning on the floor. Both [[Chronic Hero Syndrome|Linkara]] and the [[Violently Protective Girlfriend|Chick]] joined in specifically to save him.
** Looks to be the case in Linkara's [["Previously On..."]] for ''Countdown'', with Chester in control and shot with [[
** The amount of [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]] moments he's been subjected to would make this list even longer.
* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: He's nearly always barefoot when playing around in his house.
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** The songs in ''The Pebble And The Penguin'' make him feel so dirty that he takes a bath with a toaster.
* [[Drunk with Power]]: Seeing as how he has so little of it usually, when he does get the faintest whiff of power he'll try and cling to it as hard as he can.
* [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma]]: He pinches [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: At the start of his ''[[Full House]]'' review, he very pissily hopes we appreciate what he does for us.
* [[Dumb Struck]]: Because Doug lost his voice again, ''[[Alone in
* [[Dynamic Character]]: He's pretty three-dimensional for an internet personality, and there's a fair amount of both good and bad [[Character Development]] involved.
* [[Effeminate Misogynistic Guy]]: Mostly a feminist, he still has his moments that come out in either [[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses]] beliefs or trying to see how far he can go until he gets [[Fetish|put back in his place]].
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{{quote|'''Critic''': ([[Smug Snake|being completely up himself]]) "It's hard to believe that such a handsome man could become even handso... hansomen... prettier."}}
* [[FBI Agent]]: Special Agent in the Department of Criticism, if you believe the ''[[The X-Files]]'' expy intro.
* [[Fetish]]: Plenty. As stated in a few reviews; strong, toppy women, charming black guys, masochism, being humiliated, dildos, roleplay, bondage, fingering, crossdressing (for some reason ''this'' is the one he's ashamed of the most), fictional incest couples that are the right age and not parent-child
* [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110902131609/http://whytheyrehot.com/post/376763884/why-hes-hot-hes-the-nostalgia-critic-not This] "Why He's Hot" entry makes a pretty good case for his appeal.
* [[Fluffy Tamer]]: He hates meant-to-be-liked animals in movies (and they usually hate him right back), but falls completely in love with the gross ones, like the targ from ''Star Trek III''.
* [[Foe Yay]]: Invoked with the Nerd. "Nerd-on-Critic action" (which was lampshaded by Chester), the retrospective with "[[Nightwish|Ghost Love Score]]", one of the TGWTG women telling them to make out in the Brawl bloopers... what more could you ask for?
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{{quote|'''Nostalgia Critic''': Hey, they're actresses first and sisters second, and that's good enough in my porno--book.}}
** ''[[Barb Wire]]'': "I remember it so you don't boobies! I mean, boobies, in the boobies boobies..."
* [[Funny Character, Boring Actor]]: Doug isn't really ''boring'', he's funny and the commentaries on his own have some very nice character information, but he's gold bantering with Rob.
* [[Gag Penis]]: {{spoiler|Thanks to Catherine Zeta-Jones, The Critic is unable to stand up from his chair and walk away at the end of his review of ''[[The Phantom (film)|The Phantom]].'' Even he's embarrassed by it.}} It's also big enough that it keeps thumping against the desk during his review of ''[[Blank Check]]''.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: He's silly, gullible and not all there, but he's eloquent when not swearing up a storm, is very fond of black-and-white movies, can apparently follow black hole theories, is disgusted by the lack of history awareness in ''[[The Magic Voyage]]'' and has a brain when it counts.
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* [[Going Commando]]: When he creams himself at the end of ''[[The Worst Witch]]'', he sults that he's wearing a white suit so it's no problem.
* [[Go-Go Enslavement]]: In the Game Heroes promo. He's surprised and scared that he's wearing a different shirt, so he must have been unconscious and at least shirtless at some point.
* [[Go Mad
** [[Batman and Robin (film)|A Bat... credit card?]] A ''BAT'' '''CREDIT''' '''''CARD'''''!?!
** ''TMNT 3'' is horribafuckus (tm).
** "[[Tom and Jerry|A cat and mouse]] are driving a ship trying to save the daughter of [[Indiana Jones]] while being chased by a purple people eater, a dog on a skateboard, a performing ship captain, his hand puppet Squawk, two Mexican wrestlers and a doctor riding an ice cream cart. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the [[Mind Screw|Mind Fuck]]."
** He does this in his ''[[Jingle All the Way]]'' review. He has a "WE DON'T CARE" outburst when the chase scene pisses him off.
** The opening of "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130924030936/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/30972-the-other-animated-titanic-movie The OTHER Titanic animated movie]" is a parody of [[Star Wars|Darth Vader's]] birth in ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'', where Rob dressed as Palpatine tells the Vader-Critic that he has to review the movie... cue [[Big No]].
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Part of why he's a [[Bad Boss]]. This is the only thing he has so he's freaked out by people going into his territory and doing it better than him (or so he thinks).
** With [[Teens Are Monsters|what happened to him in that time period]], he's pretty sarcastic towards the lead's problems in ''[[Airborne]]'':
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* [[Informed Attribute]]: His AVGN-style song brags that he's the world's biggest and greatest cynic. If you say so.
* [[Informed Flaw]]: Joked about in the ''[[Junior]]'' [[Dream Sequence]]. What are these "crimes against humanity" again?
* [[Innocently Insensitive]]: Much like [[Horrible Judge of Character]]; fine with movies but sucks in real life. He doesn't get that being nice to Luke in front of Film Brain, congratulating the Chick on being a female version of him or assuming Chester didn't need the residuals of the [[
* [[The Insomniac]]: Nyquil and Vicodin together? Ain't so healthy.
* [[Internalized Categorism]]: He's Catholic and yet the religion is one of many on the list he's prejudiced against.
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* [[Jaded Washout]]: He's usually too childish to notice how pathetic he is, but he has a few moments of self-awareness. The "Commercials Special" is a good example.
* [[Jerkass Facade]]: Not that he isn't a genuine dick, but coupled with [[Sympathetic POV]], there's no indication that the other characters know what we know about him. Or that he'd be willing to tell them.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: He fiercely protects kids but has no patience for annoying dogs, he trashes other people's nostalgia but can't make it through ''Follow That Bird'' without [[
* [[Keet]]: When he's actually enjoying himself.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Played for [[Black Comedy]], but how he treats animals - gleeing when dogs have a chance of dying, throwing rocks at pets to see if their owners laugh, chucking a spider through a window because he's scared of it - will remind you that he's a [[Psychopathic Manchild]] if you ever forget it.
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* [[Kubrick Stare]]: He often makes this expression (the grimacing kind) while reviewing movies that are frustrating him, most notably in ''[[North]]''.
* [[Large Ham]]: [[Word of God]] says that the hamminess comes from [[Daffy Duck]], Jack Lemmon's performance as Professor Fate in ''[[The Great Race]]'', and the Red Queen in ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Alice in Wonderland]]''.
* [[Laughing Mad]]: In ''[[The Neverending Story (film)|The Neverending Story]] III'' review, after finishing the movie and [[Go Mad
* [[Leaning on the Furniture]]: In a brief cool moment, he leans against the wall while the Grinch narrator is talking.
* [[Licked by the Dog]]: Even though they have their arguments, Chester always calls him nice and will be the first to defend him.
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* [[Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book]]: That drawing of his parents. Fangs, claws, bb!Critic getting bloodily torn apart... and this was done in ''kindergarten''.
* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]: More minor than Ask That Guy, but he still does things like drink from a skull while shooting at the air.
* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: He hates his audience for being sadistic, ungrateful pricks <ref>
** Even though the Ghost Of Christmas Future has been an annoying, stalker-like bastard throughout ''[[Babes in Toyland]]'', when the Critic sees that he's depressed, he acts very fatherly and comforting towards him. He then makes the mistake of letting the ghost choose what movie he should suffer through next, and the ghost ''immediately'' picks [[The Grinch]].
* [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]]: Subverted with a passion. Put an [[Action Girl]] in a movie (but don't chickify her) and he'll fall in love.
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* [[Persona Non Grata]]: In his review of ''[[Jaws 3|Jaws 3D]]'', NC states that due to an [[Kickassia|incident]], he can never go back to Nevada.
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: In his ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'' review, he got so angry with the movie for not explaining anything that he accidentally caused a massive explosion that destroyed an entire city. ''Twice''.
* [[Perverse Sexual Lust]]: For Catherine Zeta Jones, as we find out in his [[Top Ten|Top]] [[Up to Eleven|11]] [[Villain Song
** He also has one for most of his Top 11 Hottest Animated Characters, especially [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|April O'Neil]].
** [[Jennifer Connelly]] can roam his labyrinth any day.
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* [[Plain Jane|Plain John]]: You wouldn't think it now with the way he brags about being cute, but he used to think of himself as just another doughy nerd. But even then he had half-clothed [[Shower of Angst|Showers Of Angst]].
* [[Please, I Will Do Anything!]]: Quite frequently. He did it when ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' were going to sing another song, when he was made to review the Star Wars Holiday Special and even though it wasn't begging, he did say he would give Devil Sage everything if he took his memories of Sequel Month away.
* [[Prematurely Bald
* [[Pretty Boy]]: He and others certainly think so: he calls himself pretty rather than handsome in his ''[[Battlefield Earth (film)|Battlefield Earth]]'' review, Spoony made him dress in drag and took pictures while raping him, the Chick went into bad touch land after chloroforming him, the Game Heroes had fun manhandling him while he was their [[Dude in Distress]] and both Linkara and [[Bad Movie Beatdown|Film Brain]] have fairly obvious crushes on him.
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: He drives himself crazy trying to decipher the Nerd's "compliment", but when he's ready to give up and admit that the Nerd might be a nice guy, he finds the insult.
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* [[Sexy Coat Flashing]]: Done in his review of the Flinstones Movie, where he acts out Halle Berry trying to comfort the audience.
* [[Sexy Stewardess]]: In the first DVD menu, he bizarrely (but not problematically) dresses up like a flight attendant who has a lot of skin showing.
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|She Is Not My Crush]]: The boy doth protest too much about having a thing for [[
* [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids]]: Although he's an easily emotional, giggly kid himself, he's nearly never impressed with [[The Power of Love]], a lot of picks for his Top 11s are actually kinda sad and he has a big rant about believing in dreams in his ''[[A Troll in Central Park]]'' review.
* [[Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids]]: No question that he likes the [[Determinator]] kind of love, it's mushiness that he can't stand.
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** After being so deathly boring for the majority of time, ''[[Junior]]'' gets funny and stupid with Arnold in a dress and spouting one-liners.
** ''[[Double Team]]'' more than satisfies him with the "BEST! DEATH! EVER!".
** After going through hell with Sequel Month, he gets to enjoy himself with ''[[Dungeons
** Considering how depressed he was that he couldn't muster up the courage to talk to the Chick during the failure date, their relationship becoming [[Dating Catwoman]] probably counts.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Plenty of instances. Examples include taunting Disney villains, tempting an angel to kick his ass and God to strike him down, trusting people he shouldn't and following the orders of Sage ''when he believes he's the devil''.
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* [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]: Not in the "was nice but is now evil" way, but the "hoped for far more than this" version.
* [[Vanity Is Feminine]]: He frantically paws at his face before running off to print out pictures of it in the photocopier. This is apparently his secret hobby.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: The Critic has an extremely prevalent one that typically appears multiple times in the span of every single review. Once you notice it you'll hear it all the time.
** He will almost always provide a summation of his review along the lines of "The <noun> is <adjective>, the <noun> is <adjective>, the <noun> is <adjective>... In short, it's an <adjective> <noun>."
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Chester. Critic steals Chester's drugs and lets him search for the necronomicon by himself while Chester is somewhat of an [[Ungrateful Bastard]] who will blow up cities just to upset Critic. However, Critic gave Chester a job, a safe place to stay and is the only one on the site to give him money, while Chester will be one of the first to defend Critic against anyone else.
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* [[What Beautiful Eyes!]]: They're large, change between gray, blue or green and he uses them to his [[Puppy Dog Eyes|advantage]].
* [[When She Smiles|When He Smiles]]: Look at the top picture of the three Critics on his blip page. The first is him being goofy, the second is him looking angry while pointing a gun, and what does the third involve? A cute smile with his dimple showing.
* [[White Knighting]]: While [[Double Standard|obviously]] not as hardcore as [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s fanbase, his fangirls do have a tendency to believe that he's like a four year old boy who needs protective [[Mama Bear
* [[White Male Lead]]: He doesn't fit the description (you couldn't really view him as privileged other than having a fair amount of money and he's not overshadowing any minority), but he views himself as one.
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: On the TGWTG Vol. 1 DVD, he dresses up like an airline stewardess.
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* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Mostly [[The Nostalgia Chick]]. Naturally, she likes beating on him just as much.
** Although it seems he only does this with women who can give as good as they get. He's disgusted with ''[[Good Burger]]'' for Carmen Electra getting beaten up and having it played for laughs.
* [[Yaoi Fangirl|Yaoi Fanboy]]: He sees the [[Ho Yay]] in [[Superman|Superman/Lex Luthor]], [[The Lord of the Rings|Frodo/Sam]], [[American Idol|Simon Cowell/Ryan Seacrest]], [[Batman|Batman/Robin]] and [[TMNT|Leonardo/Raphael]].
* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: Looking forward to ''[[The Neverending Story (film)|The Neverending Story]]'' theme at the end of ''[[The Neverending Story (film)|The Neverending Story]] 3'', Critic? {{spoiler|How about a montage of extreme [[Character Derailment]] instead?}}
** When he starts to be sure that ''[[Jingle All the Way]]'' has ended on at-least-not-so-bad note, the movie proves him wrong. He doesn't take it well.
** He was on the verge of solving world hunger and cure all unknown diseases when ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' popped into his head and broke all concentration.
** After having an adorably fun time with the creators of ''[[Animaniacs]]'', he fucks up at the end because of an immature request.
** In ''[[Simon Sez]]'', when [[Obscurus Lupa]] accepts him not wanting to do a crossover with her, he's almost heartbreakingly delighted that someone actually ''listened'' to him. Of course she's only messing around.
** At the end of ''[[Exorcist II the Heretic]]'' review, the "great spirits" let him know that he doesn't have to do Nostalgia-Ween anymore. What he has to do instead? ''[[Doug
** As soon as he says he doesn't want ''anything'' more to do with ''[[Doug]]'' after making it through without having to hear the dreaded theme song, guess what plays?
** He spends most of Star Trek month paranoid that Linkara will show up and nitpick in his usual way. When he thinks it's over and he's free, guess who shows up?
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* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Unless [[God Is Evil]], killing the guy he's supposed to be looking after would have immediately made him "fall".
* [[Parody]]: Of Clarence from ''[[It's a Wonderful Life]]''
* {{spoiler|[[Took a Level
* {{spoiler|[[Who's Laughing Now?]]: And he ''still'' fails.}}
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* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: So far.
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