Nostalgia Critic/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[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.

{{quote|'''Optimus Prime''': I died for your sins.

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

* [[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]]''.

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

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

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

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

* [[Beard of Sorrow]]

* [[Beautiful All Along]]: We've seen him as a fairly [[Gonk|gonky]] dork as a young teenager, and he complains about being bullied because he looked and acted too much like ''[[Doug]]'', but he's grown up into a traditional [[Pretty Boy]].

* [[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.

{{quote|'''Critic''': [totally normal] Really? Because I heard from the conservative right that we chose to be this way.}}

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

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

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

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

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

** 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.

** 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.

** 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.

{{quote|'''Critic''': [when slow-motioning Rogue's bust] I'm a dirty young man yes I am.}}

* [[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.

{{quote|'''Critic''': Yeah, how's that supposed to put you in a trance, taking two sticks and putting them up and down, up and down, up and down, [''cut to Dulcia in her [[Battle Bikini]]''] up and down...up and down... [''picture slowly zooms in on her breasts'']...up and down...up and down... [''gets his hat knocked off''] [[[Beat]]] You win this round, Dulcea.}}

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

{{quote|'''Spoony''': "That's the coward's way out, and you know it, Critic!"}}

** 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

{{quote|'''Critic''': I know it's just my opinion but I'm right.}}

** 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 "[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]].

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

{{quote|'''Critic''': Yeah, if High School has taught us anything it's that it's very, very difficult to be a beautiful, white, athletic male.}}

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

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

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

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

* [[He's All Grown Up]]: To be as kind as possible, thank all the Gods the greasy hair/acne/horrible teeth combo he had as a preteen didn't last long.

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

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

** Also, the Critic's "mourning" of ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' a la ''[[Hamlet]]'' seems to have him rather depressed.

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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]]

* [[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.

* [[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 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]]''.

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[Laughing Mad]]: In ''[[The Neverending Story (film)|The Neverending Story]] III'' review, after finishing the movie and [[Go Mad From the Revelation|getting mad]], in ''Chairman Of The Board'' where he laughs manically when he gets the meaning of Edison's name, when ''[[Jingle All the Way]]'' ruins the one funny joke they had and when Zack shows his new haircut in ''[[Saved by the Bell]]''. That last one gave him an orgasm.

* [[Leaning on the Furniture]]: In a brief cool moment, he leans against the wall while the Grinch narrator is talking.

* [[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.

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

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

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

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

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

{{quote|"Baby come back, you can blame it all on me. I was wrong..."}}

* [[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.

** 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.

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

{{quote|'''Critic''': If the KGB is watching you, then there's something wrong with you!}}

* [[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".

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

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

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

** 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]]''.

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

* [[Rape as Backstory]]: On his prom night, even. Low blow.

* [[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.

* [[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."

* [[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.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: In his teenage years, he broke up with someone three times.

{{quote|'''Nostalgia Critic''': How many times can you break up with someone before they turn into a psycho and start stalking you? *looks around scared and whispers* Three. }}

* [[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.

* [[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 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.

* [[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.

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

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

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

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

* [[Name McAdjective]]

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

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

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

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

* [[Nice Hat]]

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

* [[The Not-Secret]]: He's under the impression that nobody knows he's done drugs.

 

=== [[Captain Planet and the Planeteers|Ma-Ti]] ===

* {{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.

* [[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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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