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== Critic character tropes A-M ==

A [[Deadpan Snarker|sarcastic]], [[Adult Child|bratty]] [[Troubled but Cute|mess]] who likes his [[Caustic Critic|temper tantrums]]. He's a reviewer of film and television from [[The Eighties]] and [[The Nineties|Nineties]] and the show's star.

 

* [[Adorkable]]: His awkwardness has a tendency to ''really'' come out during the "Old vs. New" segments and his intense, enduring love for Christmas is very sweet.

* [[Adult Child]]: [[Word of God|Doug]] seems to put the Critic's mental age at about twelve. A few examples of this being he still believes in Santa, and he also still eats at Chuck E. Cheese's.

* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: Liking himself or realizing he's worth something never lasts long. Possibly justified, as who really wants him to be happy or normal?

* [[Agent Scully]]: Despite all of the unexplained, magical things that have happened to him, he still demands logic in the movies he reviews.

* [[The Alcoholic]]: Even though even [[Back to The Future|Doc Brown]] would probably laugh at him for not being able to handle his drink, booze pops up a lot in his show.

* [[Alcoholic Parent]]: His mother, manipulative horror that she sounds like.

* [[Alcohol Hic]]: Because he's such a lightweight, appears very early on in his review of ''[[IT]]''. It only gets worse from there.

* [[Alter Ego Acting]]: The Critic's name is Doug, but he's still a fictional character whom Doug Walker plays.

* [[Always Someone Better]]: Or he thinks so as part of his [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]].

* [[Animals Hate Him]]: In the mindfucks list, a toy puppy turns into a giant gorilla to kill him. Close to being justified, as whenever there's a movie with an animal in the lead, he usually wants them dead.

* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Played with. He's annoying, but The Other Guy keeps him in place through disproportionate means. (Like punching him back into a review)

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type I most of the time, and Type IV when he's angry. Has leaned towards a Type III since Suburban Knights as he genuinely cares for his team mates and shows both courage and suprisingly strong leadership in the final battle.

* [[Anti Role Model]]: Never enough to be anvilly, but Doug tries to make it very clear that you ''shouldn't'' think of Critic as a badass or someone to look up to.

* [[Apologetic Attacker]]: "TO WAR! ...whenever you have the time."

* [[Apologizes a Lot]]: Who apologizes for saying they found something scary that others didn't? And then there's his guest spot on Ask That Guy, where he's freaked out but still says sorry for not answering the questions.

* [[Ass Shove]]: When talking about Walken's scene in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', he shudders at the reminder of seeing his proctologist.

* [[Ate His Gun]]: He puts his gun in his mouth due to the "Fast-Talking Supernatural Dick Club", but they stop before he pulls the trigger.

* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: As part of [[Hypocritical Humor]], he gets distracted by a housefly in ''Ferngully II''. In other reviews, according to him, the worst movie is a boring one.

* [[The Atoner]]: Said in his first fuck-ups list:

'''Critic''': And clearly I will only die for mine. }}

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|Aw Look He Really Does Like Her]]: With his relationship with the Chick, he mixes schoolboy playing, snark and equal dysfunction with a pretty deep amount of respect.

* [[Authority in Name Only]]: In the TGWTG universe, he's the boss. He gets walked over a lot, however, so that it really doesn't mean much. Phelous doesn't even remember his [[Catch Phrase]].

* [[Bad Dreams]]: Mostly [[Faux Horrific]] stuff from the movies he watches, but night terrors are pretty constant for him. Could be the reason why he's [[The Insomniac]].

* [[Bad Liar]]: [[Sarcasm Mode|Sure]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R7bz5lrhzs&feature=related they're treating you well, Critic].

* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: The mindfucks and taunting Disney villains turn his head into monstrous shapes.

* [[Basement Dweller]]: It's a lovely house, but he hasn't stopped living with his mom.

* [[Beard of Sorrow]]

* [[Belief Makes You Stupid]]: Inverted. Whenever religion gets brought up, the ditziness is downplayed and he'll have intelligent things to say.

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Due to his personality, with the majority of people he interacts with.

* [[Berserk Button]]: The "Bat Credit Card" and ''[[Doug]]'' drive him to psychopathic rage. He also can't stand children getting abused or having a film treating them like idiots and women not having the power they should have. He also hates it when a parent death is treated solely as a plot device with little emotional resonance.

* [[Berserker Tears]]: When he gets frustrated.

* [[Big Eater]]: If all the junk food in the first Commercials Special is any indication, especially as he'd been sitting in the same place and stuffing himself for a ''week''.

* [[Birthday Hater]]: Odd for such a [[Lonely Rich Kid]], but the only gift-giving holiday he enjoys is Christmas. He also loves Halloween, for slightly [[Ethical Slut|different]] [[Nightmare Fetishist|reasons]].

* [[Bi the Way]]: His prom date was a man, as he said "This is ''just like'' prom night all over again" at the end of "Spooning With Spoony II", when he's saying how much he loves prostitutes he keeps it gender-neutral, he has open man!crushes, and he seem to enjoy the idea of Linkara having a crush on him, as "The Next Nostalgia Critic Fuck Ups" noted.

** From the ''X-Men'' review, when they're discussing the prejudice subtext:

* [[Bizarre Taste in Food]]: He doesn't see the big deal about having a coffee, beer, pepto-bismal, Chinese food and pizza slurpie.

* [[Blasphemous Boast]]: "I'm unbelievable, I'm your Jesus". Although he crashes down to earth within minutes.

* [[Boisterous Weakling]]: Although the "getting ordered around" bit (and sometimes getting beaten too) [[Fetish|doesn't]] bother him.

* [[Boys Have Cooties]]: To say he acted grossly as a child when he heard there were going to be ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' movies coming out would be an understatement.

* [[Girls Love Stuffed Animals|Boys Love Stuffed Animals]]: He's a girly, overgrown kid with a vast array of cuddly toys.

* [[Brains and Bondage]]: He's a [[Genius Ditz]] masochist who loves toppy women. In the first Nerd Rant, he's ''proud'' of how he tortures himself.

** It turns out that the fuck-up lists were breaking him. He stopped fighting it at the beginning of the third episode, and at the end his frustration over ''[[Battlefield Earth]]'' leads into a screaming tantrum about everyone being horrible. Even ''Douchey'' feels bad for him.

* [[Break the Haughty]]: He thinks doing a [[Let's Play]] is going to be '''so''' easy, much easier than actually analyzing something. He really gets proven wrong.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Caustic Critic]]: The fact that he's a [[Deconstructive Parody]] of one, focusing on how ''miserable'' the job is, has become more clear as time goes on.

* [[Character Development]]: He's an [[Adult Child]] with a [[Dark and Troubled Past]] and lots of issues. The past couple of years however, he's still of course a brat, but also a [[Papa Wolf]] who has basically declared himself a defender of kids well-being and intelligence.

** As probably part of [[Misery Builds Character]], his attitude towards Harley Quinn and the Joker's relationship. In his Top Eleven Animated Women, he has the hots for her (naturally) and likes the couple because it "gives homicidal maniacs like him a chance". In his Top Eleven Batman Episodes, he feels sorry for her, talks about how the pairing sums up [[Domestic Abuse]] in a nutshell and his one complaint about the episode is the [[Fan Service]] of doctors in mini-skirts.

** In his first top eleven, the Scariest Nostalgic Moments, he calls the [[Villain Song]] in ''[[Care Bears]] In Wonderland'' gay and mentions that if you watch ''[[Care Bears]]'' long enough you see the face of the devil. When he actually reviews the three movies, he of course still thinks they're sickeningly sweet but is a lot more mature about explaining his problems with them.

** After the ''[[My Pet Monster]]'' debacle, he's learned not to be entitled and complain about having to watch something when it's a movie he actually bought or rented.

* [[Character Filibuster]]: If his "child abuse" [[Berserk Button]] gets hit, the review will stop for a few minutes so he can get all his rant out.

* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Going from a happy, fanboying proto-Chester to a manic-depressive cynic.

** He used to mention playing basketball and having therapy a lot. Both have died out because A) can you imagine the Critic [[Sissy Villain|as]] [[Psychopathic Manchild|he]] [[The Ditz|is]] [[Designated Monkey|now]] being any good at sports? and B) the therapist wouldn't survive the hour.

** At the start, he was much like a whiny adult who had nothing better to do with his time than take cartoons too seriously. Now though, he's more like an actual child, with all the brattiness that entails.

** And like even Doug said in the ''Cartoon Allstars'' commentary, the character was far less pitiful and a lot more threateningly manly back then.

** Also in the early days, he talked about kids' short attention spans and getting easily bored. With his hate for [[Lull Destruction]], can you imagine him saying that now?

** In his second Nerd rant, he doesn't even know what a compliment is. Fast forward to now and he's ''desperate'' for a movie to give him something good to say.

** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the second Christmas List. He's crying and begging that he doesn't want to [[The Star Wars Holiday Special]] while all the [[Star Wars]] characters laugh at him.

** Not that he doesn't often deserve it, but the other contributors really do enjoy humiliating him. Even a long-dead [[Vincent Price|guy]] has fun torturing him.

** Lampshaded in the ''[[Captain Planet]]'' review where he spent the whole episode getting smacked with a ruler everytime he says the word:

'''Critic''': '''Fuuuuck you, kid!''' }}

** In the first ''[[Care Bears]]'' movie, his main theory about why the villain's voice is so cool is that she's getting oral while she does her lines. He then proceeds to act it out. (Her responses, not the eating out part.)

** He actually gets on fairly well with the site ladies and doesn't treat them any differently, but he's stated that he finds them all nice-looking.

* [[Class Clown]]: Subverted. He got pitied and bullied for not acting his age in eighth grade, although that hasn't stopped him from ''still'' not acting his age.

* [[Close to Home]]: Anything that has kids getting hurt by adults, whether it's abuse, neglect, too much pressure or just bad messages. He has a big rant about ''[[A Troll in Central Park]]'' giving the message that dreams can do anything, with his two examples being a dead dog coming back to life or divorced parents getting back together.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: He's really not as level-headed and down-to-earth as he says he is.

* [[Conditioned to Accept Horror]]: The bad upbringing gives him a few moments, like thinking every family have regular giant arguments at dinner, rape not being considered a special type of evil or defending kinky fantasies at a very young age.

* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]: Lampshaded when he thinks the scrapped World Trade Centre promo was in the movie and they cut it out not to offend anyone.

* [[The Corrupter]]: He has this unintentional ability to turn otherwise basically decent people into sadists. (Like Lewis and Doug agreeing that Linkara put the idea to rape Critic into Spoony's head.)

* [[Corrupt the Cutie]]: He was a Catholic schoolboy, and while he's still religious, now he has an active sex life that isn't so big on [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]].

'''Critic B''': [instantly horny] Take me! }}

* [[Coy Girlish Flirt Pose]]: When he's fawning over [[Will Smith]].

* [[Crazy Survivalist]]: He prepares with his gun, a police jacket, a S.W.A.T helmet, knuckle dusters and a baseball bat to watch ''Secret Of NIHM 2''.

* [[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''.

* [[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.

* [[Cute but Psycho]]: Sometimes sweet and [[Adorkable]], sometimes blowing up an entire city by accident because of a tantrum.

* [[Cute Glasses Boy]]: It's not that Doug isn't attractive anyway, but his glasses make him look very baby-faced.

* [[Cute Mute]]: He's been traumatized into silence a few times, one of which was in Spooning With Spoony. Noah revealed in his commentary that the reason why Critic only had one line in that was because Doug wanted to play the victim as much as possible.

* [[The Danza]]: He's the only one of Doug's characters to share his name.

* [[Dating Catwoman]]: According to Doug and Lindsay, he and the Chick have this sort of relationship. There's an interesting contrast between the Chick's crazed addiction to get Todd noticing her and her mutually bitchy but fun and almost warm at this point dynamic with the Critic.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Mixed in with [[Stepford Snarker]] and bitterness.

* [[Death Seeker]]: You know, you could just leave the room or switch off the TV instead of trying to off yourself constantly.

* [[Deliberately Cute Child|Deliberately Cute Man-Child]]: In "Return Of The Commercials" after "killing things smaller than gives you power!" and an [[Evil Laugh]], he giggles like a puppy-eyed girl when she's just been caught painting the walls.

* [[Demonic Possession]]: In the AVGN vs. NC Final Battle, he gets possessed by the devil when he's losing and can only be killed for a short period by Super Mecha Death Christ.

* [[Designated Monkey]]: [[Word of God]] says he was ''created'' to suffer.

* [[Determinator]]: He'll run all the way from Chicago to Philly to fight the Nerd (which apparently takes two weeks) and he won't even get tired.

* [[Determined Defeatist]]: He knows he's pathetic, but carries on because at least he's resilient.

* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]:

* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]: Whenever he's in [[Cannot Tell a Joke]] mode.

* [[Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe]]: Like how Ask That Guy steals his gun when he wants to kill someone the old-fashioned way, he steals Ask That Guy's pipe for whenever he makes a posh detective joke.

* [[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.)

** Spooning With Spoony II probably counts, seeing as how he was the only canon one who was roofied and judging by the details, Spoony really went to town on humiliating him.

** Made fun of in the ''[[Sidekicks]]'' review where he acts like he's chained up.

** Also played for laughs in ''[[Care Bears]]'' II when Christy's screaming wears him down even though he knows it's a trap.

** 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.

** 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.

** Whenever he loses his patience with Douchey.

* [[Nobody Calls Me Chicken|Don't Call Me Chicken]]: He could never resist a challenge from the Nerd, no matter how hard he'd got his ass beat the previous time.

** After his "''[[Superman]]'' Top 11" review, the Critic mentions how the movies always make him smile, before remembering the tragic fates of Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder and the World Trade Center.

*** Not all ''Superman ''movies make him smile. From his ''Superman IV'' review. "How long is this movie again?" "Hour and a half." "BLAM!"

** The songs in ''The Pebble And The Penguin'' make him feel so dirty that he takes a bath with a toaster.

* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: At the start of his ''[[Full House]]'' review, he very pissily hopes we appreciate what he does for us.

* [[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]].

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: As much as he couldn't stand the Nerd, calling him [[The Irate Gamer]] is going too far.

** He does a [[Not Me This Time]] when Todd, Jesu, Y and Rollo T accuse him of making them watch ''[[The Last Airbender]]''. He doesn't even know who they are.

* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Falls for this trope with regard to [[Will Smith]] when reviewing ''[[Independence Day]]''.

** [[Keith David]] as well. It's the [[Audio Erotica|voice.]]

** Continuing the trend, he's so charmed by Ernie Hudson in ''Congo'' that he calls him a "black Clark Gable".

** His utter glee over [[Daniel Craig]] and [[Kate Winslet]] sharing a kiss suggests it's not just Miss Winslet he finds appealing.

** "Ohhh, George Takei, teach me the Spocker!" Said like he's having an orgasm, no less, and made slightly creepy because of the [[Call Back]] to SWS2.

** And now he wants [[Hugh Jackman]]. To be fair, everyone wants [[Hugh Jackman]].

* [[Everything Is Racist]]: Most of the time he has a good point, but at other times he can get on his soapbox a little too much.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: Done whenever he feels like it.

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Used in a number of reviews, such as his "Top 11 Disney Villains": "When you wish upon a star, '''evil will find you!'''"

* [[Extreme Doormat]]: While he's a brat who loves starting arguments, he does fall apart with little provocation.

** And when he does lampshade in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' review that he's not going to cave this time, he gets punished later by the utter dullness of the movie and tries to go crawling back to Joe.

* [[Face Your Fears]]: He tries to make it through the banshee that has always scared him so much. He doesn't succeed.

* [[Fan Boy]]: Whenever there's something he likes, or at least a hammy [[Guilty Pleasure]], he'll be gleeing and enjoying himself immensely. And whenever somebody famous calls him, even if they're confusing or treat him like a [[Chew Toy]], he'll be starstruck.

* [[Failure Hero]]: It's very rare that he'll get what he wants or win.

* [[Fan Hater]]: While refraining from it 99% of the time because Doug has a fear of [[Reviews Are the Gospel]], he does [[In-Universe|say]] that anyone who likes ''[[Hannibal]]'' and the [[Jim Carrey]] remake of ''[[The Grinch]]'' is stupid.

* [[Fan Service Pack]]: He looks much more put together physically than he did at the start, going from lazy nerd to [[Hollywood Nerd]]. Although better lighting and his older clothes getting worn out have probably helped.

* [[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''.

* [[The Fool]]: Deconstructed. ''[[Baby Geniuses]]'' and "NC Fuck-Ups III" proved once and for all he doesn't care if people find him stupid, but if they think he's not creative or funny, then life isn't worth living.

* [[Formerly Fat]]: Coupling with [[Fan Service Pack]], he's a lot skinnier now than when he was a teenager or even in the early days of reviewing.

* [[Friendless Background]]: And no sign of [[Social Services Does Not Exist|social services anywhere]].

* [[Friend to Psychos|Friend To A Psycho]]: With Ask That Guy. He's not too bothered about being teased by him, is severely icked by the questions he gets asked but lets him violate Ma-Ti, is able to survive living in the same house with him and looked about to cry when Ask That Guy didn't save him in ''[[Kickassia]]''.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Inverted. He had all kinds of bullying, shitty parents and retreated into obsessing over TV like the Chick, but he trashes this belief in ''[[The Cell]]'' by saying having a tragic past isn't a good excuse for doing things wrong as an adult.

* [[Freudian Slip]]: From the ''A Kid in King Arthur's Court'' review.

** ''[[Barb Wire]]'': "I remember it so you don't boobies! I mean, boobies, in the boobies boobies..."

* [[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.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: "I know how this works. If I say the entire title that means that I've got to review it next week."

* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Getting splashed with water is probably one of the [[Wet Sari Scene|nicer]] ways of doing that.

** When he has a whimpering breakdown about the [[Nightmare Sequence]] in ''[[Good Burger]]'', he has to take a minute to hit himself in the head and "pull it together". He needs to do it again at the bizarre yet so unfunny scene of Ed's hijinks as he tries to get to work.

** Lessened even more by ''Alien: Resurrection'', as he's mostly just confused by the Sigourney Weaver/Winona Ryder character flirting and gets angry by how they didn't even have all the balls to go beyond just teasing.

* [[Girls Have Cooties]]: Before he hit puberty early, they were cootie-filled loudmouth annoyances.

* [[Girly Run]]: Shows off an adorably flaily one in the beginning of ''Star Trek Insurrection''.

* [[The Glasses Come Off]]: Parodied. He takes them off for the big clapping scene in ''[[Rocky IV]]''.

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: He's a good man, but don't mistake that for him being nice.

* [[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.

** ''TMNT 3'' is horribafuckus (tm).

** 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.

** With [[Teens Are Monsters|what happened to him in that time period]], he's pretty sarcastic towards the lead's problems in ''[[Airborne]]'':

* [[Green Eyes]]: A greeny-blue, so that's his temper, naiveté and ditziness sorted.

* [[Growing Up Sucks]]: A slight variation of the trope:

* [[Grumpy Old Man|Grumpy Young Man]]: Comes with trashing the [[Nostalgia Filter]].

* [[The Grunting Orgasm]]: Subverted. As usual, he's stereotypically feminine about it and whenever he acts one out, it's about as high-pitched as you can get. And with the Chick also being established to be noisy in bed, one wonders how loud their sex was.

** You can also see smudges in other episodes, which nobody really makes a fuss about anymore.

** It makes a celebrated return in ''The Exorcist II'', being completely slathered on around his eyes and him wearing it with black lipstick.

** His kid fantasy was a naked April O'Neil covered in whipped cream and chocolate sauce.

* [[Hates Small Talk]]: The awkward, filled-with-this date with the Chick drove him to breaking point.

* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?]]: Critic does this to ''himself''.

** He does the same thing when he's porning over [[Hugh Jackman]] in the Chick's review of ''[[Kate and Leopold]]''. As he's basically giving a handjob to a stick of butter, it's even less credible than the first time.

* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today?]]: While ''very'' active, he tries to convince us that he's a player, and not that his sex life is a weird mess.

* [[Heartbreak and Ice Cream]]: When he's suffering from depression after being called pathetic, he eats his weight in junk food.

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely|He Cleans Up Nicely]]: In the Chick's ''Worst Witch'' review, despite the ridiculous wig, he manages to pull off an all-white suit quite impressively.

* [[He Knows Too Much]]: When he realizes the Olsen twins are evil bent on world domination, they keep trying to kill him.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Has one during ''[[Black Comedy Rape|Spooning With Spoony 2]]''.

** The Critic opens the ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' review like this, apparently still in shock from the insanity of the show.

** Another one happens in his ''My Pet Monster'' review, where in the end he gets asked by the producers of the movie why he is reviewing kids movies and getting incredibly wound up by them at the age of 28. He decides he needs ask himself some hard questions, and spends the credits just sitting on a chair while sad music plays. The depression lasts until the next week where he's pigging out on junk food, his self-esteem is six feet under and he would have given up completely if it hadn't been for an epic [[He's Back]] number.

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: He couldn't stop himself from saving a little girl in ''Care Bears II'' even when he knew it was a trap (thus getting himself kidnapped), and he still tried to protect his team against [[Suburban Knights|Malachite]] even after his groin must have been smashed into jelly.

* [[Hope Spot]]: His hopes for actual comedy in ''[[Bio-Dome]]'' went up when [[Tenacious D]] made a cameo. [[Something Completely Different|They were crushed quickly.]]

* [[Hotblooded Sideburns]]: In episodes where Doug's grown his hair out more.

* [[Hypocrite]]: Demanding pure logic in the silliest of cartoons, but running totally on emotion himself.

* [[I Call It Vera]]: Parodied. He hasn't named his gun, but he's called a very rarely used baseball bat Amber.

* [[Iconic Item]]: His tie has become this, and his gun to a lesser extent.

* [[Ignored Epiphany]]: At the end of ''[[Surf Ninjas]]'', after having a [[Dying Dream]] where he likes it, he says he'll never like anything ever again. The next episode after was the "Top 11 Nostalgic Animated Shows", so that really didn't last.

* [[Ill Boy]]: As we all know, he's very prone to losing his voice. Although when you shout the [[Losing Horns]] by yourself, you only have yourself to blame.

* [[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?

* [[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.

* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: His screaming rants have become little boy tantrums and Doug revealed he shouts at things because what's on the screen is scaring him, he can't hold onto being the "bad guy" for very long and he's easily prone to crying.

* [[Inelegant Blubbering]]: His knowledge of a traditional breakdown is one where you're puffy-eyed, sniffing, snorting and can barely talk.

* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]: He finally breaks down and says in the CR crossover that he doesn't want anyone going into his territory because they'd do it better than him, while the "Commercials Special" goes into his lack of self-esteem even more.

* [[In Vino Veritas]]: He's not all that surprisingly different to us, but Phelous and Snob get pretty shocked when they see him vulnerably hanging onto The Other Guy and totally wasted in their "Troll 4" review.

* [[I'm Your Biggest Fan]]: Said in-universe when [[Christopher Walken]] starts calling him. The strangeness doesn't deter him at all.

* [[It's All About Me]]: He cares about other people certainly, he's still pretty self-obsessed. He's not based off [[Daffy Duck]] for nothing.

* [[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.

* [[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.

** While he's actually pretty nice (or at least high on tolerating Douchey's shit) in the Top 11 NC Fuck-Ups, he beats on a guy who mistakenly caused him trouble until he's collapsed and bleeding.

* [[Kiddie Kid]]: At first it sounds like he's being sarcastic about acting like a monkey in eighth grade, but then he turns out he actually did.

* [[Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films]]: When he watched Cool World as a young'un, he ran for the exit like the screen was on fire.

* [[The Klutz]]: Parodied when Phelous throws a sock at his head. He falls around his house so much that he ends up shooting himself with his gun.

* [[Kubrick Stare]]: He often makes this expression (the grimacing kind) while reviewing movies that are frustrating him, most notably in ''[[North]]''.

* [[Leitmotif]]: You'd expect a theme of his to be loud and fast-paced, so it's a surprise when different parts of this soft, sad [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFZ7bBaYpcw piece] play for him the most instead.

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: According to the drawing in the Willy Wonka episode, he's worn the same clothes since kindergarten. However, he has another shirt with the words "I [donut] donuts" when he needs a break and watches commercials, and in the beginning he had the jacket, hat and jeans but he'd wear a different t-shirt each episode and the tie would come later.

* [[L Is for Dyslexia]]: He's ''seriously'' prone to misspellings.

'''Critic''': ..."Look out, a rhino"? }}

* [[Little Bit Beastly]]: Coming back from the future of seahorses gave him a temporary tail. The [[Furry Fandom]] suddenly started liking him then.

* [[Locked Out of the Loop]]: He complains in his ''[[Ernest Saves Christmas]]'' review that nobody ever tells him things like why the dinosaurs died out.

* [[Looks Like Cesare]]: Made fun of in the "Top 11 NC Fuck-Ups". He mentions the emails he got saying he looked like a goth's drag show when he wore eyeliner, when really he just looked slightly girlier.

* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: Evidently the only way his parents could give him any kind of love was to give whatever kind of toys he wanted.

* [[Loners Are Freaks]]

* [[Loser Protagonist]]: He lives with his abusive mother, has a load of issues, doesn't own a car, his job is the only life he has and the other one just was being a [[Crusty Caretaker]], doesn't particularly have a lot of talent and has [[No Social Skills]].

* [[Lovable Coward]]: He gets freaked out constantly and driven to tears by things he could just turn off, but he's fun to watch.

* [[Made Myself Sad]]: Remembering all the bad things that happened to the ''[[Superman]]'' cast makes him [[Downer Ending|end]] the episode by miserably going off to kill himself.

* [[Madden Into Misanthropy]]: His temper usually builds up using this method.

* [[Magnetic Hero]]: In a stereotypically feminine way. No matter how much the others like hurting him, no matter how dickish he can get, if there are tears they'll get sucked right in and want him to be okay.

* [[Female Misogynist|Male Misandrist]]: Oddly (given what [[Straw Feminist|she's]] [[Does Not Like Men|like]]), he's complained more about [[Male Gaze]], the [[White Male Lead]] trend and apparent "what about teh menz" feelings in movies more than the Chick ever has.

* [[Man of a Thousand Voices]]: Every episode he does will feature at least one impression or fake accent. He's usually very good at them, but his [[Morgan Freeman]] voice sounds nothing like the man.

* [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy]]: Feminine Boy to the Nostalgia Chick's Masculine Girl. He also acted as the Feminine Boy to [[Obscurus Lupa]] in ''[[Suburban Knights]]''.

* [[Memetic Outfit]]: Baseball cap, white t-shirt, black suit jacket and a loose red tie. (And jeans of course.)

* [[Men Are Uncultured]]: Back before he became a [[Sissy Villain]], he was much more interested in sports and it was far easier to get him bored.

* [[Miles to Go Before I Sleep]]: He admits in the ''[[Gordy]]'' review that he's so tired.

** You also get it in his "Top Eleven Villain Songs" when it comes to The Cell Block Tango from ''[[Chicago]]''. It's supposed to be an indictment of these horrible women who committed [[Disproportionate Retribution]] on their husbands, yet he'd actually be fine with them killing ''him'' if they played the song.

* [[Misery Builds Character]]: It's been said by fans and by Doug, he's far more entertaining and interesting when he's being a victim or breaking down.

* [[Mood Swinger]]: He's a bit like a Hollywood-style manic depressive.

* [[Momma's Boy]]: A rare tragically-funny one. Even in the ''[[Tank Girl]]'' review, his "better things to do than watching this movie" list includes calling your mother.

* [[My Beloved Smother]]: "Hey, she's my world!" But like Ask That Guy, he can't stop himself from having a fantasy about her dying every now and then.

* [[My Biological Clock Is Ticking]]: In late 2011/early 2012, there's been a reference in nearly every episode of wanting to be or acting like a father.

** In his third Nostalgic Commercials special, he orders an off-screen minion to inject five people with diabetes (however ''that's'' supposed to work...) then stops and says, "Dear God, I think I might be horrible."

** Accidentally killing [[Mary Poppins]], his first childhood icon, crushes him.

** The lyrics Lindsay used at the end of "Thanks For The Feedback" implies this:

** He breaks down immediately after shooting Floss for no reason other than getting a sad ending.

 

 

== Critic character tropes N-Z ==

** Three words, given by Spoony: "ride the pony".

** The Game Heroes also pull his tie while forcing him to promote their t-shirts. Slightly unnecessary as he's also tied up, at gunpoint and clearly not going anywhere, but nobody's complaining.

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: With the Chick. Seeing as how she's just as bad, she doesn't seem to mind too much.

** In ''Star Trek Insurrection'', he was close enough to That Sci-Fi Guy to look particularly molesty. Not to mention they were lying in bed together.

* [[Not So Above It All]]: At the end of his ''[[Lost in Space]]'' review, he rants to the first appearance of Dr. Smith about nobody can trust him, but then he's easily manipulated and gets shot by his own gun.

** He calls out the Care Bears for falling for Christie's and Darkheart's trap, but her screaming breaks him down and he goes to help, getting bagged in the process. He can't resist their [[The Power of Love]] moment either, and shouts out for Santa Christ.

* [[Not So Harmless]]: Shown in ''[[Kickassia]]'' where he's willing to commit mass murder-suicide through dynamite if anyone threatened the power he'd finally managed to gain.

* [[No Social Skills]]

* [[Older and Wiser]]: To a degree. A lot of his anger about Bella comes from the fact he at seventeen ''didn't'' make good choices or have results that worked out in his favor.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: He's thirty but the only thing's that changed in his basic face since he was sixteen is that he's lost the chubbiness. And when he got rid of the beard for two episodes, most of the comments were about how he looked like a teenager.

* [[One-Note Cook]]: He can only make cereal. Lampshaded in "Fuck Ups Part Three" where he notes he should probably spend more time in the kitchen and less time gobbling junk food.

* [[The Only One]]: It's in the [[Catch Phrase]], although if the movie's bad enough or he's miserable enough, it'll be forced on him.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: But only when compared to Chester and Ask That Guy. Which probably says a lot about them.

* [[Oral Fixation Fixation]]: That joystick can't have tasted all that nice.

* [[Out-of-Character Moment]]: In the middle bit of ''[[Airborne]]'', he comes across (unintentionally) as a bit of a [[Heteronormative Crusader]] who thinks the lead isn't a proper man because he wants to be a pacifist and not fight. He gets out of it near the end, but it was a weird period for a [[Sissy Villain]] who hates morals of "solve problems by fighting".

** In the ''[[Tank Girl]]'' review, he freaks over a possibly horny woman director wanting a [[Shirtless Scene]] for a man. He never acted like that before, he's never acted like that again and he's even made much use of the [[Female Gaze]] himself.

* [[The Perfectionist]]: One of his major problems is that he always expects too much out of everything and so sets himself up for disappointment.

* [[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''.

** [[Jennifer Connelly]] can roam his labyrinth any day.

** Shay in ''[[Blank Check]]'', although he's still squicked by the [[Shotacon]] aspect of the movie and doesn't get why she's not pissed at a nice outfit getting destroyed.

* [[Phobia]]: He sees a spider and chucks it so hard that the window breaks.

* [[Pink Means Feminine]]: His bedroom has pink curtains. Amusingly, the first time we saw them was when he was writing in his diary like a teenage girl in the ''[[My Pet Monster]]'' review.

* [[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]].

* [[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.

** When he's ready to snap and cry because he thinks he and his world is all Alec Baldwin's delusion, he's only a couple steps away from the truth.

* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]: Usually a side-effect of when he's really suffering, and not just because of bad movies. Turns into [[Quivering Eyes]] occaisonally.

* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: He's like a twelve year old kid with a gun.

** As much as he adores Christmas, ''[[Jingle All the Way]]'' pisses him off so much that he hunts down and shoots Santa. [[Kickassia|Before that other time.]]

* [[Raised Catholic]]: Most obviously implied in the ''[[IT]]'' review where he kisses a tiny silver cross out of fear. (Plus Doug is/was Catholic.)

* [[Rage Against the Reflection]]: In the "OTHER Titanic Movie", he has to take a few breaks to look at himself in the mirror and cry. According to the commentary, Doug helped the broken look by ''attaching clothespins to his scrotum''.

* [[Raging Stiffie]]: The target of the odd joke or two.

* [[Really Gets Around]]: Just not quite in the way he wants.

* [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses]]: [[In-Universe|Believes]] in this pretty heavily. As an example, Princess Peach using a frying pan to knock out an enemy disgusts him. As another example, he calls the possessed person in ''[[Star Trek]]'' with "no emotions, no feelings and no needs" the perfect woman. Although like Chick and Lindsay, this is just meant to be the character being an idiot and not Doug's real feelings on the subject. In Doug's own reviews of Disney movies, he even argues why leads like Ariel, Cinderella and Snow White aren't the feminist nightmares they're made out to be.

* [[Repressed Memories]]: From the review of ''[[Hook]]'': "I have the same unquestioned repressed childhood memories that everyone has." [[Beat]] "What?"

* [[The Resenter]]: Well-deserved or not, he's no good at moving on or letting go of a grudge.

* [[Sad Clown]]: Under all the jokes and snark, he's really quite depressed. He even takes it one step further by feeling insecure about his abilities for comedy.

* [[Screams Like a Little Girl]]: Very often and typically for long periods of time.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Sissy Villain|Sissy Anti-Hero]]: Although not with the usual [[Unfortunate Implications]]. He's a pathetic jackass, but not because he's "sissy". That's just part of his personality.

* [[Sir Swearsalot]]: The only episode where he didn't swear was in ''Follow That Bird'', which is very sweet.

* [[Skewed Priorities]]

* [[Slasher Smile]]: Not quite as much as Ask That Guy, but it can get creepy. Although at least he invokes [[When He Smiles]] just as much.

* [[Sleepyhead]]: While finding it hard to sleep at night, if it's a boring movie he'll go right to having a nap.

** Also occurs in his ''[[Tank Girl]]'' review, where his hat flies off his head when the title character kisses another girl. He says, "This movie just went up a notch... Or something else just went up a notch."

* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Showcased in ''[[The Room]]'' where he ends up shouting the "Dead Parrot Sketch" from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', and uses a quote from ''[[Shakespeare]]'' seconds later.

* [[So Proud of You]]: Doug most likely knew that Lindsay didn't invent the concept of [[The Smurfette Principle]], but Critic acted like the Chick did.

* [[Smart Ball]]: Invoked in ''[[The Chipmunk Adventure]]''. When he gives a too-well-reasoned argument about the Chick growing out of the site-planned [[Girl Show Ghetto]] and doing her own thing, Chick meta-brags that what he's saying sounds like her writing.

* [[Speak of the Devil]]: He pops up in the Chick's review of ''[[Transformers]]'' when she says the word "manchildren".

* [[Split Personality]]: Done in the more realistic fashion. Three times now something bad has happened to really trigger him off, he'll react with intense distaste ([[Hearing Voices]] with the ''[[Doug]]'' bullies, long [[Angrish]] with how childish ''[[The Happening]]'' remake was, exploding cities with ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'') and then he'll come back with apologies or would have to be made aware of what he just did.

* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: He has a [[Running Gag]] of whining after Christmas that he didn't get one specific thing in a large array of goodies, but he's the only TGWTG member nice to Chester, does charity work if the ''[[Tank Girl]]'' list is any indication, knows his economics and is naturally on the 99 percent's side in the Wall Street debate.

* [[Steel Ear Drums]]: Played straight most of the time and subverted once. All that shooting in close spaces doesn't affect him, but a girl's annoying voice pierces right through.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: A mix of type C/type A and much more than you'd expect from him. Like in the beginning of the ''[[Blues Brothers]]'' video game where he's waking up in the morning, it's actually rather unsettling.

* [[Stubborn Mule]]: He calls himself a stubborn old curmudgeon in the "Willy Wonka" Old vs New.

* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|Stupid Sexy]] [[Keith David]], [[Hugh Jackman]] and [[Will Smith]].

* [[Survival Mantra]]: Until the Burger King runs away in terror from ''Twister'', "elephant" serves as his call back to reality.

* [[Squee]]: As the "Follow That Bird" review proved, [[Up to Eleven|he can go higher than a teenage girl]] when he's excited.

** He even squees the trope name in his review of ''[[Alaska]]''.

* [[Sweet Tooth]]: He downs an entire bag of candy in ''[[Nicktoons]]''.

* [[Take This Job and Shove It]]: When he didn't get promoted in his [[Crusty Caretaker]] job, we get to see Doug's video of that "I QUIT!" [[Shirtless Scene]].

* [[Talkative Loon]]: When he gets worked up.

* [[Tears of Fear]]: During the Game Heroes [[Hostage Video]].

* [[Tears of Joy]]: When he celebrates how utterly terrible a joke was in ''[[North]]'' and when he sees just how awesome Sonic: SATAM is.

* [[Testosterone Poisoning]]: Literally. He takes pills that he owns to make him sound like Kevin Conroy, and his voice drops much lower as well as his balls.

** He almost certainly was trying to invoke this at the beginning. Sexist, homophobic, a lower-pitched voice, still wasn't smart but had much more [[Common Sense]], owned a [[Hair-Trigger Temper]], slobby, easily bored and none of the femmy, childish behavior we know him for.

* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: Even though it's his job to smash the [[Nostalgia Filter]], he's only human and can fall right into it, especially when there's a remake of something he loved as a kid.

** In the ''NickComs'' episode, [[Tempting Fate]] actually works in his favor for once and gives him ''[[The Adventures of Pete and Pete]]''.

** 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!".

** 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''.

* [[Took a Level In Dumbass]]: Not a bad thing, but he wasn't always lacking in a lot of common sense.

* [[Took a Level In Kindness]]: As a result of Doug deciding to do more stuff he likes (at least in a [[Guilty Pleasure]] sense) and saying what the movie actually did right. The [[Hidden Depths]] and the [[Pet the Dog]] moments help too. Of course he's still a broken, immature asshole.

* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Boy is pretty damaged.

* [[Troubled Child]]: He shot his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle doll because it scared him, hid in the cupboard whenever he got scared, drew his parents as monsters in kindergarten and went slightly overboard when it came to his excitement for the Ninja Turtles movies. On the other side, it's said in the commercials special that he had such dreams, promise and we know he went through some really awful bullying.

* [[Tsundere]]: Showcased in pretty much the entirety of the "Follow That Bird" review.

* [[Twinkle Smile]]: Done in the ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'' review, where he makes fun of how easy it is for Kaylee to come along.

* [[Uke]]: Even ''Chester'' lampshades the implications of "Nerd-On-Critic action". Not to mention that if he spends any time with a woman, it'll end up in [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy]].

** And then again for ''[[Blank Check]]''.

** For ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'' he gets so angry that the movie keeps making shit up with absolutely no explanation that his anger destroys a town with a nuclear explosion. Then it happens again mere moments later when one of the characters makes a horrible [[Dirty Harry]] pun.

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[Weapon of Choice]]: A [[Cool Gun]] he uses with wild abandon. [[Word of God]] says it was done for the funny, the menacing aspect and also because it's really quite pathetic.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: It's great that you want the Chick to be proud of herself, but forcing her to watch ''[[Bratz]]'' is kinda harsh.

* [[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 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.

** Douchey has a picture of him wearing [[Marilyn Monroe]]'s dress, which Critic gets embarrassed by.

** He once dressed up as a female irish janitor and recorded things in the girls locker room.

** And of course, there's ''[[Suburban Knights]]'', where he wears a ''very'' skimpy costume. [[Innocent Fanservice Boy|Critic]] didn't know what he was doing, but Doug evidently did.

** When his early teenager self says "I like to wear women's clothing" and dresses up in a blonde wig, present!Critic's already high embarrassment goes through the roof.

* [[Who's Laughing Now?]]: He's ''killed'' people who bullied him about ''[[Doug]]''.

** A bit more noble example occurs when he tries to shoot Lady Tremaine for her abuse of Cinderella.

** [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] is probably the only reoccurring person in his reviews that he can both make fun of and have affection for.

* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: He pouts pretty hard when he learns his temper tantrum destroyed a whole city in ''[[Quest for Camelot]]''.

** 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.

** 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.

** 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.

** 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?

* [[Running Gag]]: "TIMING!"

* [[Insufferable Genius]]:

"TIMING!" }}

* [[Jerkass]]: Whenever Critic tries to bring logic in, Casper just slaps him around.

* [[Nice Character, Mean Actor]]

* [[Small Annoying Creature|Small Annoying Ghost]]

* [[The Stoner]]: "...I don't know what I was smoking to say that."

* [[Old Shame]]: His in-universe opinion of his theatrical movie.

* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: No matter how many times he gets humiliated, insulted or beaten up for his crap, he'll keep annoying the TGWTG crew.

* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents]]: DOUCHEY!!! ARE YOU MASTURBATING AGAIN??!!

* [[Annoying Laugh]]: And he even thinks he's funny.

* [[Anti Role Model]]: The Critic tells you it's okay to point out any errors you find in his videos, as long as you're not an ass about it like Douchey.

* [[Basement Dweller]]: As of ''The Next Top 11 NC Fuckups''.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Hold it right there!", "OOOOOH!", and "(insert INSULT here)"

* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: Invoked. The Critic eventually offers him a position as his official fact checker, and he turns it down because then he wouldn't be able to complain about things.

* [[Everyone Has Standards]]: He's able to pity the Critic for his breakdown in part three of the fuck-ups, and tells the rest of the audience to pray for him.

* [[Fail O'Suckyname]]

* [[Fetish]]: He keeps ordering midget porn.

* [[Grammar Nazi]]: "'Made' is spelled wrong!"

* [[Heteronormative Crusader]]: He hates the Chick for not being his standard of beauty and one of the things he considers a fuck-up is the Critic wearing eyeliner. On the other hand, his standard of beauty turns out to be [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French|Benzaie]].

* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: The first kind; [[Nerd Glasses]], a permanent scowl, an unflattering shirt and unwashed, stringy hair.

* [[Internalized Homophobia]]: He's at the very least curious, but has deep loathing for anything not "normal".

* [[Internet Tough Guy]]: As soon as he meets up with the Critic and Linkara in person, he's a lot more cowardly.

* [[Jerkass]]: Douchey just loves to torment the Nostalgia Critic, even playing the ''[[Doug]]'' theme when he knows that would set him off. It's also telling that Douchey isn't the one to remind the Critic of the autism fuck-up.

* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Douchey still lives with his mother, which he tries to conceal.

* [[Name McAdjective]]

* [[Parental Obliviousness]]: His mother doesn't get that he and the Critic ''aren't'' friends.

* [[Perpetual Frowner]]

** When he's not masturbating to the Green M&M.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: He decides to leave the Critic alone after a particularly psychotic breakdown ensued in his third Fuck Ups video.

* [[Shadow Archetype]]: To Chester. Both have [[No Indoor Voice]], go off on random tangents and have the same wi- hair, but while Chester is generally a good guy who gets idealistic about every movie he sees and deals with a sucky life through drugs and alcohol, Douchey is an entitled whiner who disproportionately complains about ''everything''.

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Whenever he pops up to complain now (outside of fuck-up lists), Critic either just agrees or disagrees and then shoots him offscreen.

* [[Static Character]]: He's a personification of [[Jerkass]] fans, why would he change?

* [[Straw Fan]]: Doug and Rob have even reduced his appearances so that it doesn't look like they hate all their fans.

* [[Straw Man Has a Point]]: Invoked. He comes up whenever Critic does something "wrong", but does it in such a [[Jerkass]] way.

* [[They Copied It, So It Sucks]]: His in-universe reaction to both Linkara's Top 15 Screw-Ups and his comic book advertisement reviews.

** The Critic asks him honestly if he wants a job as a fact-checker, but Douchey refuses him.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: If he's the Critic's "biggest fan", then wouldn't he realize that pushing his patience beyond its limits (especially when Critic is trying his best to keep calm) is a ''really'' bad idea?

* [[Unpleasable Fanbase]]: [[In-Universe|He]] declares a pox on the Critic, IMMEDIATELY after the Critic sarcastically says "Who am I to doubt the logic of internet commentators?"

Doug plays the villain from the film version of ''[[Lost in Space]]'', always seen through a portal to the future. So far he has appeared in the review of that film, in the ''Quest for Camelot'', ''IT'', ''[[Kickassia]]'' and ''The Secret of NIMH 2''.

 

* [[Catch Phrase]]: ''Spiiiiiiders!''

** Sometimes extended to "''Spiiiiiders!'' A giant legion of ''spiiiiiiiders!!''", which appears to be his suggestion for anything.

=== Raoul Puke ===

 

 

* [[And Now for Something Completely Different]]: The whole reason he exists.

* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]: Inspired by the Raoul Duke shoutout in ''[[Rango]]'', he takes over the movie's Bum Review.

* [[Insufferable Genius]]: He knows his stuff, but he's an asshole to be around.

* [[Nice Hat]]

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Although it goes without saying since Thompson is, you know, [[Dead to Begin With]].

 

 

 

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: "SUCK MY BIG FAT FUCKING '''HEART'''!!! ...''I'm so alone!''"

* [[Everything Is Racist]]: His theory as for why he got the short end of the stick is that Ted Turner is prejudiced against Indians. This immediately raises suspicion, since Ma-ti is ''Brazilian'' on the show...

* [[Granola Girl|Granola Boy]]: In "Ask That Guy VIOLATES Ma-Ti", he comes to the house with a leaflet on how to save the environment.

* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]]

* [[Innocently Insensitive]]: There's a joke in the "Siskel & Ebert" tribute about him going to the hospital to get his balls removed, which makes him a pussy. Critic tries to set him straight, but he firmly confirms it.

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: As of ''[[Suburban Knights]]''. Unless the Critic ''does'' get around to finding the Necronomicon...}}

* [[Messy Hair]]: Although it ''is'' Bhargav, he probably can't help it.

** [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: As of [[Suburban Knights]].

 

 

Santa Christ is played by Doug's brother, Rob.

 

* [[Badass Santa]] / [[Kung Fu Jesus]]: Both!

* [[Big Damn Hero]]: When Critic is begging to be saved from the Star Wars Special, Santa Christ comes in to erase his memory, cure his diabetes and give him a hug.

* [[Big Good]]

* [[Cool Bike]]: He owns a harley.

* [[Cool Starship]]: He has a rocket ship!

* {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn]]}}

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Unless [[God Is Evil]], killing the guy he's supposed to be looking after would have immediately made him "fall".

* {{spoiler|[[Who's Laughing Now?]]: And he ''still'' fails.}}

 

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Dark Rob gets his ass kicked by the Critic for no reason.

* [[Cooldown Hug]]: When Critic works himself up into a state about ''[[Surf Ninjas]]'', he pushes him gently back down on the bed.

* [[Dull Surprise]] / [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: "Hey. I'm a dinosaur."

* [[Evil Makeover]]: Dark Rob looks a lot like [[Edward Scissorhands]]. Funnily enough, Elisa (who plays the Makeover Fairy) said on a stream that she was impressed by how well the boys did his make-up.

* [[Evil Overlord]]: When he dresses up like Palpatine, he says he's the dark, controlling overlord in real life too.

** He's the calm brother who's fine with being a dinosaur randomly.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: When he sees Critic dead and bloody in the shower at the end of ''[[IT]]''.

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: So far.