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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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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."

* [[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. }}

** 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.

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

* [[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.

** 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:

* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: He's a feminist who gets upset at unneeded [[Fan Service]], [[Princesses Rule|princesses]], [[Distressed Damsel|damsels in distress]], [[Shallow Love Interest|male-dependent women]] and so on, but he'll make it clear if he's attracted to a (usually toppy or curvy) lady.

** In the ''[[Cool as Ice]]'' review:

'''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.

* [[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.

* [[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''.

** He gets a [[Break the Haughty]] [[Curb Stomp Battle]] once Joe gets a [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.

* [[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.

* [[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":

* [[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.)

* [[Distressed Dude]]: He got kidnapped by the Game Heroes and was made to promote their stuff at gunpoint.

** 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.

** 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.

** 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.

*** 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.

* [[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.

* [[Fainting]]: The emotional kind is played for laughs in his review of ''[[Judge Dredd]]'', ''[[The Wizard]]'', 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.

* [[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:

* [[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 <ref> he says this is the only way He-Man and She-Ra could get his attention</ref>, the Chick's firey temper and [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|six-breasted cats from outer space]].

* [[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..."

* [[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.

** 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]]''.

* [[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]]'':

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Literal Minded]]: To give an example from ''[[James and the Giant Peach]]''.

'''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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

** 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:

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

 

* [[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.

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[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''.

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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]].

** 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.

* [[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.

** 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.

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

* [[Insufferable Genius]]:

"TIMING!" }}

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

* [[Perpetual Frowner]]

* [[Perverse Sexual Lust]]: While arguing with [[The Nostalgia Chick]], we get this little line in the rapid fire insults.

** 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.

* [[Big Good]]

* [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs]]: What originally spurred his creation.

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

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