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== Critic character tropes A-M ==
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* [[Abusive Parents]] [[Parents as People|As People]]: They broke him really bad, making him an easily scared, naive, weepy [[Psychopathic Manchild]] who thinks parents shouting at each other happens all the time and has children getting hurt as a [[Berserk Button]], but they've done a couple of nice things for him that keep them out of "totally irredeemable" territory.
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* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[Aggressive-Submissive]]: A force of nature personality coupled with an [[Extreme Doormat]] need to be loved will make you one of these.
* [[Ain't Too Proud to Beg]]: He'll even whore himself out as long [[Tom and Jerry|you]] don't play another song.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[The Anti-Nihilist]]: Whenever he has a [[Heroic BSOD]], of the feeling useless but ultimately still wanting to help variety.
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* [[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."
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* [[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:
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'''Critic''': And clearly I will only die for mine. }}
** His accidental admission that he'd killed a Reno hooker by accident gives a new spin on his anger with the [[Unproblematic Prostitution]] in ''[[Milk Money]]''. Less [[Common Sense]], more trying to make up for what he did.
* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Attention Whore]]: [[The Nostalgia Chick]] gently bitches about his hogging all the limelight when he shows up dressed as [[Tim Curry]] in her review of ''[[The Worst Witch]]''.
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* [[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].
* [[Bait and Switch Tyrant]]: In the Transformers-Bratz arc, after he wakes up from getting chloroformed, he hides angrily in the bushes, shoots the Chick with a tranquilizer dart and sinisterly says it's his turn. It turns out that he just wanted to pretend he had power while trying to give her a self-esteem boost.
* [[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]]
* [[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.
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Due to his personality, with the majority of people he interacts with.
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* [[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:
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* [[Bizarre Taste in Food]]: He doesn't see the big deal about having a coffee, beer, pepto-bismal, Chinese food and pizza slurpie.
** No wonder he had to be cured of diabetes when he spends most of his time eating sugar-frosted burrito-stuffed hotpockets with lard on the side and butter taken from real liposuctions.
* [[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.
* [[Hollywood Personality Disorders|Borderline Personality Disorder]]: Easily suicidal, unstable mood swings, bad self image, doesn't have healthy relationships, binge eats when feeling bad, violent towards himself and others, doesn't like being abandoned and has a history of childhood trauma.
* [[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.
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* [[Break the Cutie]]: Finally driven home in the "Commercials Special" when he bemoans that he used to have such dreams and promise. And in a more simple use of the trope, any time he gets a seriously bad movie - ''[[The Neverending Story (film)|The Neverending Story]] 3'' springs immediately to mind.
** 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.
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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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** There's been a nice shift in power dynamics with his relationship with [[The Nostalgia Chick]]. At first, he's condescending and just treats her like an extension of him, also being so awkward that he has to pretend to be Rasputin to hit on her. But as she grew into the sociopath we know and love, he trusts her ([[Kickassia|to almost dumbass degrees]]), wants her to be proud of herself and wants to spend time with her.
** 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.
** He's become a lot more respectful towards women, dislikes stereotypical manliness (he's quite a [[Sissy Villain]] himself) and has undying love for [[Badass]] girls. The "Top Eleven Hottest Animated Women" list had skeeviness reminiscent of [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses]].
** 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.
** He started being calmer(ish) and giving a general review at the end of his episodes after ''[[The Garbage Pail Kids Movie]]'' became the utter pinnacle of badness in his eyes.
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** 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.
** In the ''Super Mario Brothers'' movie, he's grossed out by the [[Big Beautiful Woman]] and makes no fuss about the [[Shallow Love Interest]] either being a [[
** 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.
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** 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:
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* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: He's a feminist who gets upset at unneeded [[Fan Service]], [[Princesses Rule|princesses]], [[
** In the ''[[Cool as Ice]]'' review:
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*Kristin Minter starts undressing, Critic starts grinning, the brother comes in and his face falls*
'''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.
* [[Chubby Chaser]]: Most of the women he's attracted to are on the voluptuous side.
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* [[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.
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* [[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]].
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'''Critic B''': [instantly horny] Take me! }}
* [[Coy Girlish Flirt Pose]]: When he's fawning over [[Will Smith]].
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* [[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''.
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** 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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* [[Determined Defeatist]]: He knows he's pathetic, but carries on because at least he's resilient.
* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]:
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* [[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.
* [[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":
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* [[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.)
* [[
** When he was chloroformed by [[The Nostalgia Chick]], he got just as much into the victim role.
** 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.
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** Also played for laughs in ''[[Care Bears]]'' II when Christy's screaming wears him down even though he knows it's a trap.
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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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** 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.
* [[Dragged Into Drag]]: According to Spoony in his ''[[Captain America (comics)]]'' video, he forced Critic to dress up like a dirty ballerina during Spooning With Spoony 2 and took pictures for blackmail.
* [[Dragon with an Agenda]]: The other contributors think that he's the (ineffectual) [[Bad Boss]] of the site. In reality, it's The Other Guy and Critic's just a puppet with woefully poor self-esteem.
* [[Driven to Madness]]: ''[[Battlefield Earth (film)|Battlefield Earth]]'' does this to the Critic in his 100th episode. It does it out of the ''sheer stupidity'' of the movie. So much so they sped the camera up for most of his breakdown.
** And ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]]'' drives him [[Incredibly Lame Pun|'batshit insane']], until he takes some pills. "Tranquilizers. Always come prepared when Schumacher is involved."
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: In [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony's]] review of Captain America, he asks for the Critics opinion on the movie, [[Serious Business|making sure he knows that if he doesn't]], [[Kick the Dog|he'll get blackmailed with crossdressing pictures from when he was roofied and raped]]. Cut to a shot of the Critic's elevated feet dangling from side to side while squeaking from a rope is heard.
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** Also became a [[Running Gag]] throughout the ''Batman and Robin'' review. Though it's actually subverted, as precautions were apparently made to prevent him from killing himself.
** He also becomes suicidal during a scene in ''[[Howard the Duck (film)|Howard the Duck]]''.
** 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.
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*** Not all ''Superman ''movies make him smile. From his ''Superman IV'' review. "How long is this movie again?" "Hour and a half." "BLAM!"
** ''[[Bio-Dome]]'' made him slash his wrists, although either he or someone else put plasters on them afterwards.
** 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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** [[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".
** He has a [[Played for Laughs]] crush on Lucas from ''[[The Wizard (film)]]''.
** 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]].
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Everyone Calls Him Critic]]: Although Rob/The Other Guy will occasionally call him by his real name.
* [[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.
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** 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.
* [[Fainting]]: The emotional kind is played for laughs in his review of ''[[Judge Dredd]]'', ''[[The Wizard (film)]]'', the "I love you, wife" line from ''[[Lost in Space]]'' and he uses fangirls from Disney movies to do yet more swooning over [[Will Smith]] in ''[[Independence Day]]''.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
** [[Lampshaded]] in the ''[[Battlefield Earth (film)|Battlefield Earth]]'' review:
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* [[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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* [[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.
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** ''[[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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** 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.
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* [[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]]''.
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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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* [[Green Eyes]]: A greeny-blue, so that's his temper, naiveté and ditziness sorted.
* [[Growing Up Sucks]]: A slight variation of the trope:
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* [[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.
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** 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.
* [[Happy Place]]: Catherine Zeta Jones wearing a tie, glasses, a baseball cap and a long sweater is the best ever image he can conjure up.
** 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''.
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** 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.
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* [[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
* [[He Knows Too Much]]: When he realizes the Olsen twins are evil bent on world domination, they keep trying to kill him.
* [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue]]: Critic in the title cards is far more villainous, masculine and competent than our version.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Has one during ''[[Black Comedy Rape|Spooning With Spoony 2]]''.
** Also, the Critic's "mourning" of ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' a la ''[[Hamlet]]'' seems to have him rather depressed.
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** During his review of ''[[Howard the Duck (film)|Howard the Duck]]'', near the end, he sees Howard talking like a Dark Overlord, and says, "Oh good, he's possessed! Does that mean we can kill him?"
* [[Hot-Blooded]]: He finds it incredibly difficult to hide any emotion, whether it's happy, depressed or angry.
* [[Hot Dad]]: For a [[Mister Seahorse]] joke in the ''[[Fern Gully]]'' review.
* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: While easily being able to spot [[Obviously Evil]] in the movies he looks at, he's not so good when it comes to people in his own life. [[The Nostalgia Chick]] and [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses]] are perfect examples.
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: Pretty much the entire reason for the existence of the ''[[James and the Giant Peach]]'' review is because the Critic was forced at gun-point to give a ''positive review of a movie everyone liked'' to rectify the public's shameful opinion of his first (and probably last) [[Let's Play]], which was posted a week earlier.
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* [[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.
* [[Identical Stranger]]: He shared a great resemblance to comic book writer [[Ed Brubaker]], known for his run on [[Captain America (comics)]]. And yes, that does make his review of the Matt Salinger [[Captain America (comics)]] movie hilarious for those that follow [[Captain America (comics)]] more than they do the Critic.
* [[If You Taunt Him You Will Be Just Like Him]]: During one exchange with the [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]].
* [[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.
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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.
* [[In Touch with His Feminine Side]]
* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: Particularly bad reviews will have him reaching for stuff like Jack Daniels or Jagermeister. ''[[Titanic: The Legend Goes On]]'' had him reaching for progressively larger bottles, culminating in one larger than ''he'' was.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Done in a more passive-aggressive style and God knows what the real situation, but even though there's hints that he feels abandoned by the Chick's obsession with Todd, he doesn't push anything too much and he generally just wants her to be okay.
* [[I Want to Be a Real Man]]: In his Top 11 Cereal Mascots, he mentions that the cool, strong, athletic Tony the Tiger is the cereal mascot everyone wanted to be, and he praises the Geek Fight cards for making him look strong and masculine. He's mostly grown out of the mindset and gone into full [[In Touch with His Feminine Side]].
* [[Jade-Colored Glasses]]: Put on when he's faced with [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] films, although they keep falling off when it comes to ''[[Sesame Street]]''.
* [[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.
** 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.
* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: Usually done with The Last Angry Geek. Like when Geek put massively pricey, not needed shoulder pads on his bill, he said he was going to stop the Geek's show.
* [[Kidanova]]: After calling a kinky fantasy starring [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|April]] every kid's dream, he defensively reminds people that he was an early bloomer.
* [[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.
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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.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places]]: His love life sucks. He has much more of an enjoyable time [[Foe Yay|fighting]] with people.
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* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: He has a crying fit when his Nintendo disappears after he stops playing it.
** 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.
** After making the obligatory gay joke about Bert And Ernie, he breaks down to all the cast of ''[[Sesame Street]]'' and apologizes for trying to review the first show he ever saw.
** The lyrics Lindsay used at the end of "Thanks For The Feedback" implies this:
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** He breaks down immediately after shooting Floss for no reason other than getting a sad ending.
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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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* [[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 Different]]: There are an essay's worth of similarities between him and [[The Nostalgia Chick]]. Ask That Guy is also his [[Evil Counterpart]].
** In his review of ''Bio-Dome'', the Critic screams "ASS!" to express rage - a trademark of [[The Angry Video Game Nerd|his rival.]]
* [[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.
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* [[The Only One Allowed to Insult You]]: When he [[Insult Misfire|thinks]] Linkara is calling [[The Nostalgia Chick]] a wussy, he tells him he's not allowed to insult her in that way.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: But only when compared to Chester and Ask That Guy. Which probably says a lot about them.
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* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: Even disregarding angry [[Cluster F-Bomb|cluster f bombs]], swearing is a fairly natural part of his vocabulary. So when he goes [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]] or doesn't swear at all, something's either gone very wrong or very right.
* [[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".
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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 [[
* [[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.
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* [[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.
** In the ''[[Captain America (comics)]]'', he electroshocks the lead three times while giggling that he hates humanity.
** 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.]]
** During his Disneycember review, Doug says he took a lot of the character's "pathetic whiny brat in a grown person's body" part from the Red Queen in ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Alice in Wonderland]]''.
* [[Raised as the Opposite Gender]]: For a short period.
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* [[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.
* [[Rape as Backstory]]: On his prom night, even. Low blow.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: Somewhat creepily, seeing as how he was so traumatized when it actually happened. In the big ''Avatar'' review, Critic was getting off to the same book Spoony had in SWS2 remarking on the prospect of "The Spocker", and at a con, he dreamily remembered Spoony as very giving as well as taking.
* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]: He's incredibly pale (he even disappears due to ''[[Cool as Ice]]'' being far too white), and is at least meant to be attractive. The downside of this is that it makes it very obvious when Doug demonstrates his lack of familiarity with sunscreen.
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Just not quite in the way he wants.
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* [[The Resenter]]: Well-deserved or not, he's no good at moving on or letting go of a grudge.
* [[The Rival]]: To [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]], who really doesn't know why he hates him so much.
* [[Reluctant Fanservice Girl|Reluctant Fanservice Boy]]: Whenever someone else ([[
* [[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.
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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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* [[Something Else Also Rises]]: Nostalgic Critic's finger in his reviews of ''[[Red Sonja]]'', ''[[Barb Wire]]'' and ''[[Full House]]'' (Becky was talking about playing Romeo in her all-girl high school's production of ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', where he reconsidered then kept it up).
** 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."
* [[Some of My Best Friends Are X]]: Parodied when people accuse him of being an anti-groundite. He goes on to say they're hard-working, have feelings and some of his good friends are floors. His own floor then tries to shoot him.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: In his teenage years, he broke up with someone three times.
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** He himself approaches stalker territory when he first pretends to be Rasputin to have a conversation with the Chick and secondly hides in the bushes to capture her and make her watch ''[[Bratz]]''. She finds the former endearingly annoying and doesn't seem to mind the latter, however, probably because she chloroformed him first.
* [[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.
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* [[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]].
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* [[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.
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* [[Sweet Tooth]]: He downs an entire bag of candy in ''[[Nicktoons]]''.
* [[Sympathetic POV]]: It's his show, so we get to see him break down, fanboy, be a victim, be a jackass, be smart, be dumb... the works. If we knew him from [[Bad Movie Beatdown|Film Brain]]'s POV for example, he wouldn't nearly be as likable.
* [[Take a Third Option]]: When Spoony gives him a choice of reviewing the Reb Brown ''[[Captain America (comics)]]'' movie or letting the forced crossdressing pictures of Spooning With Spoony 2 leak out, he chooses a noose instead.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
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* [[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.
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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''.
* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: When he's parodying being a [[
* [[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.
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* [[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.
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* [[Tsundere]]: Showcased in pretty much the entirety of the "Follow That Bird" review.
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* [[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]].
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** 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.
** ''[[The Neverending Story (film)|The Neverending Story]] 3'' certainly did piss off the NC to no end, but the last straw was, instead of the theme song to the series, they place Rockbiter singing "Born To Be Wild" during the motorcycle scene on the end credits. This sends the NC laughing all the way to Home Depot, buying a crowbar, coming home, and then mercilessly beating ''and raping'' the DVD to pieces.
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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.
** 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.
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** 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]]''.
* [[Wife-Basher Basher]]: Due to that scene in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]'', he shoots the lead in ''[[
** A bit more noble example occurs when he tries to shoot Lady Tremaine for her abuse of Cinderella.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]. He even says "You are indeed the most worthy adversary" during the second episode of the feud.
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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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* [[Running Gag]]: "TIMING!"
* [[Insufferable Genius]]:
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Critic goes on with his review for a minute.
"TIMING!" }}
* [[Jerkass]]: Whenever Critic tries to bring logic in, Casper just slaps him around.
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* [[Nice Character, Mean Actor]]
* [[Small Annoying Creature|Small Annoying Ghost]]
* [[Took a Level
* [[The Stoner]]: "...I don't know what I was smoking to say that."
* [[Old Shame]]: His in-universe opinion of his theatrical movie.
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* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: It takes Linkara less than a minute to confuse Douchey by easily countering his [[Insane Troll Logic]] right back at him.
* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: The first kind; [[Nerd Glasses]], a permanent scowl, an unflattering shirt and unwashed, stringy hair.
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: According to him, posting on the internet makes him right, using people you admire for cameos is stupid, and [[Frank Miller]] is God.
* [[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 God, What Have I Done?]]: At the end of “Fuck Ups Part Three”, he finally realizes that Critic really has had a number put on him by, well, everything and so tries to make up for his part by leaving in peace.
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Douchey still lives with his mother, which he tries to conceal.
* [[Name McAdjective]]
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* [[Perpetual Frowner]]
* [[Perverse Sexual Lust]]: While arguing with [[The Nostalgia Chick]], we get this little line in the rapid fire insults.
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** 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.
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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''.
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Like in the movie, he doesn't attempt to hide that he's evil, though in the ''Quest for Camelot'' review, he does point out that since he's now a spider hybrid, pretending to ''not'' be evil probably wouldn't work anyway.
▲* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Like in the movie, he doesn't attempt to hide that he's evil, though in the ''Quest for Camelot'' review, he does point out that since he's now a spider hybrid, pretending to ''not'' be evil probably wouldn't work anyway.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: ''Spiiiiiiders!''
** Sometimes extended to "''Spiiiiiders!'' A giant legion of ''spiiiiiiiders!!''", which appears to be his suggestion for anything.
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* [[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.
* [[Jerkass]]: Punching Chester unconscious just because ''[[Rango]]'' had a Raoul Duke parody that lasted for a few seconds.
* [[Nice Hat]]
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Although it goes without saying since Thompson is, you know, [[Dead to Begin With]].
* [[The Not-Secret]]: He's under the impression that nobody knows he's done drugs.
* [[The Stoner]]: Like Critic, none of the stereotypical traits, but he stops the review of ''[[
=== [[Captain Planet and the Planeteers|Ma-Ti]] ===
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* {{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.
* [[Race Lift]] / [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Ma-Ti is supposed to be Brazilian; Bhargav is Indian. [[Lampshaded]] when the Critic first realizes he's a fake.
* [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]: He gets to have an amazing, honorable {{spoiler|death and funeral}}, despite the Quakers Can.
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: He is a living [[Lampshade]] for this trope.
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Santa Christ is played by Doug's brother, Rob.
* [[Badass Santa]] / [[Kung Fu Jesus]]: Both!
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* [[Big Good]]
* [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs]]: What originally spurred his creation.
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* [[Cool Bike]]: He owns a harley.
* [[Cool Starship]]: He has a rocket ship!
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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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* [[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.
* [[Drop
* [[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.
* [[Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling]]: The responsible to the Nostalgia Critic's foolish.
** 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]]''.
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* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: So far.
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