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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
* [[Ain't Too Proud to Beg]]: He'll even whore himself out as long [[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|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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* [[Alter Ego Acting]]: The Critic's name is Doug, but he's still a fictional character whom Doug Walker plays.
* [[Always Someone Better]]: Or he thinks so as part of his [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]].
* [[Am I Just a Toy To You?]]: His screaming at the Chick about does she even care about him goes into this trope when [[Word of God]] confirmed they had sex in the ''[[Fern Gully]]'' review.
* [[Animals Hate Him]]: In the mindfucks list, a toy puppy turns into a giant gorilla to kill him. Close to being justified, as whenever there's a movie with an animal in the lead, he usually wants them dead.
* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Played with. He's annoying, but The Other Guy keeps him in place through disproportionate means. (Like punching him back into a review)
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type I most of the time, and Type IV when he's angry. Has leaned towards a Type III since Suburban Knights as he genuinely cares for his team mates and shows both courage and suprisingly strong leadership in the final battle.
* [[The Anti
{{quote| '''Critic''': It's like trying to save a sinking ship with a bandaid. Anything I try to do would be completely pointless. '''Save me'''.}}
* [[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.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: The "Bat Credit Card" and ''[[Doug]]'' drive him to psychopathic rage. He also can't stand children getting abused or having a film treating them like idiots and women not having the power they should have. He also hates it when a parent death is treated solely as a plot device with little emotional resonance.
* [[Berserker Tears]]: When he gets frustrated.
* [[The "B" Grade]]: Inverted. An A- was such a rare occasion that he got a trip to Chuck E Cheese whenever that happened. Bullies tearing up his homework constantly likely had something to do with it.
* [[Big Eater]]: If all the junk food in the first Commercials Special is any indication, especially as he'd been sitting in the same place and stuffing himself for a ''week''.
* [[Big Name Fan]]: In-universe. He was as shocked as we were when he got to interview the crew of ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' and they had actually liked his stuff.
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* [[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 ''[[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
* [[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.}}
{{quote| '''God:''' [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|"Your ass is grass."]]}}
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** 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.
* [[The Chew Toy]]: Part of the fun is seeing just how much he can suffer through a bad film before [[Freak
** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the second Christmas List. He's crying and begging that he doesn't want to [[The Star Wars Holiday Special]] while all the [[Star Wars]] characters laugh at him.
** Not that he doesn't often deserve it, but the other contributors really do enjoy humiliating him. Even a long-dead [[Vincent Price|guy]] has fun torturing him.
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* [[Close to Home]]: Anything that has kids getting hurt by adults, whether it's abuse, neglect, too much pressure or just bad messages. He has a big rant about ''[[A Troll in Central Park]]'' giving the message that dreams can do anything, with his two examples being a dead dog coming back to life or divorced parents getting back together.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: He's really not as level-headed and down-to-earth as he says he is.
* [[
* [[Conditioned to Accept Horror]]: The bad upbringing gives him a few moments, like thinking every family have regular giant arguments at dinner, rape not being considered a special type of evil or defending kinky fantasies at a very young age.
* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]: Lampshaded when he thinks the scrapped World Trade Centre promo was in the movie and they cut it out not to offend anyone.
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'''Critic B''': [instantly horny] Take me! }}
* [[Coy Girlish Flirt Pose]]: When he's fawning over [[Will Smith]].
* [[Crack! Oh, My Back!]]: The lame jokes and the ensuing shrugs of ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' make his back hurt.
* [[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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** 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 [[Hitler Cam]], and Critic being shown in the opposite camera angle and surrounded by darkness. He recovers (with snark) better in this instance than he does the others.
** 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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** He does a [[Not Me This Time]] when Todd, Jesu, Y and Rollo T accuse him of making them watch ''[[The Last Airbender]]''. He doesn't even know who they are.
* [[Even Nerds Have Standards]]: The dorky dancing Peter does in ''[[Spider Man]] III'' is too dorky even for him.
** Subverted in the Harry Potter book launch. After spending the majority of the video bitching about it, he has a [[Freak
** There's an affectionate potshot at erotic fanfic writers when George Lucas and Carrie Fisher are the couple in ''[[Hook (Film)|Hook]]''.
** He gets to be on the other side of it when even [[Bum Reviews (Web Video)|Chester]] laughs at him because he watches ''[[Wild West Cowboys of Moo Mesa]]''.
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* [[Foe Yay]]: Invoked with the Nerd. "Nerd-on-Critic action" (which was lampshaded by Chester), the retrospective with "[[Nightwish (Music)|Ghost Love Score]]", one of the TGWTG women telling them to make out in the Brawl bloopers... what more could you ask for?
* [[The Fool]]: Deconstructed. ''[[Baby Geniuses]]'' and "NC Fuck-Ups III" proved once and for all he doesn't care if people find him stupid, but if they think he's not creative or funny, then life isn't worth living.
* [[Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling]]: The foolish to the Other Guy's responsible. He's the [[Hot
* [[Formerly Fat]]: Coupling with [[Fan Service Pack]], he's a lot skinnier now than when he was a teenager or even in the early days of reviewing.
* [[Fragile Flower]]: Luckily he mixes this with more [[Hot
* [[Friendless Background]]: And no sign of [[Social Services Does Not Exist|social services anywhere]].
* [[Friend to All Children]]: Except the [[Bratty Half
* [[Friend to Psychos|Friend To A Psycho]]: With Ask That Guy. He's not too bothered about being teased by him, is severely icked by the questions he gets asked but lets him violate Ma-Ti, is able to survive living in the same house with him and looked about to cry when Ask That Guy didn't save him in ''[[Kickassia]]''.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Inverted. He had all kinds of bullying, shitty parents and retreated into obsessing over TV like the Chick, but he trashes this belief in ''[[The Cell]]'' by saying having a tragic past isn't a good excuse for doing things wrong as an adult.
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** When he has a whimpering breakdown about the [[Nightmare Sequence]] in ''[[Good Burger]]'', he has to take a minute to hit himself in the head and "pull it together". He needs to do it again at the bizarre yet so unfunny scene of Ed's hijinks as he tries to get to work.
* [[Getting Smilies Painted On Your Soul]]: The heart ring in ''[[Captain Planet]]'' makes him feel perfectly fine before a ruler snaps him out of it.
* [[Girl
** 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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* [[Hope Spot]]: His hopes for actual comedy in ''[[Bio-Dome]]'' went up when [[Tenacious D]] made a cameo. [[Something Completely Different|They were crushed quickly.]]
** 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
* [[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 (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]] and [[Ask That Guy With the Glasses (Web Video)|Ask That Guy With the Glasses]] are perfect examples.
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* [[Innocent Fanservice Boy]]: Deconstructed. He likes teasing his audience and bragging about how cute he is, but it's been hinted a few times that he has no idea what he's doing. As examples, the skirt in ''[[Suburban Knights]]'', drinking with [[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|Spoony]] when he's a complete lightweight and getting a stalker partner when he was a teenager.
* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]: He finally breaks down and says in the CR crossover that he doesn't want anyone going into his territory because they'd do it better than him, while the "Commercials Special" goes into his lack of self-esteem even more.
* [[In
* [[In Vino Veritas]]: He's not all that surprisingly different to us, but Phelous and Snob get pretty shocked when they see him vulnerably hanging onto The Other Guy and totally wasted in their "Troll 4" review.
* [[I'm Your Biggest Fan]]: Said in-universe when [[Christopher Walken]] starts calling him. The strangeness doesn't deter him at all.
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* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: Evidently the only way his parents could give him any kind of love was to give whatever kind of toys he wanted.
* [[Loners Are Freaks]]
* [[Long
* [[Loser Protagonist]]: He lives with his abusive mother, has a load of issues, doesn't own a car, his job is the only life he has and the other one just was being a [[Crusty Caretaker]], doesn't particularly have a lot of talent and has [[No Social Skills]].
* [[Lovable Coward]]: He gets freaked out constantly and driven to tears by things he could just turn off, but he's fun to watch.
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** In the ''[[Tank Girl]]'' review, he freaks over a possibly horny woman director wanting a [[Shirtless Scene]] for a man. He never acted like that before, he's never acted like that again and he's even made much use of the [[Female Gaze]] himself.
** In the ''Child's Play II'' review; "Yeah, when you're going to tie up a child, do it for the same reason I would. To beat him." 'Cos that sounds like the guy who invokes [[Godwin's Law]] on [[Bebes Kids|someone who is an asshole to their kids and then leaves them]].
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Even if he thinks the kid's a [[Bratty Half
* [[Patriotic Fervor]]: Subverted. He apologizes on behalf of America for the corny lines of ''[[Spider Man]]'', explaining that it was after 9/11.
* [[The Perfectionist]]: One of his major problems is that he always expects too much out of everything and so sets himself up for disappointment.
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** Shay in ''[[Blank Check]]'', although he's still squicked by the [[Shotacon]] aspect of the movie and doesn't get why she's not pissed at a nice outfit getting destroyed.
* [[Phobia]]: He sees a spider and chucks it so hard that the window breaks.
* [[Ping
* [[Pink Means Feminine]]: His bedroom has pink curtains. Amusingly, the first time we saw them was when he was writing in his diary like a teenage girl in the ''[[My Pet Monster]]'' review.
* [[Plain Jane|Plain John]]: You wouldn't think it now with the way he brags about being cute, but he used to think of himself as just another doughy nerd. But even then he had half-clothed [[Shower of Angst|Showers Of Angst]].
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* [[Weapon of Choice]]: A [[Cool Gun]] he uses with wild abandon. [[Word of God]] says it was done for the funny, the menacing aspect and also because it's really quite pathetic.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: It's great that you want the Chick to be proud of herself, but forcing her to watch ''[[Bratz]]'' is kinda harsh.
* [[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 (Web Video)|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|Mama Bears]] to save him from the trolls.
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** 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
** 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 (Web Video)|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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=== Raoul Puke ===
A pioneer in "<s>Gonzo</s> [[The Muppet Show|Fozzie]] Journalism", essentially a [[Shout
* [[Affectionate Parody]] / [[Shout
* [[And Now for Something Completely Different]]: The whole reason he exists.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Raoul Puke (pioneer in <s>[
* [[Cool Shades]]: Just like the ones in ''[[Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas]]''.
* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]: Inspired by the Raoul Duke shoutout in ''[[Rango]]'', he takes over the movie's Bum Review.
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* [[Nice Hat]]
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Although it goes without saying since Thompson is, you know, [[Dead to Begin With]].
* [[The Not
* [[The Stoner]]: Like Critic, none of the stereotypical traits, but he stops the review of ''[[Reefer Madness (Film)|Reefer Madness]]'' to complain about the inaccuracies.
=== [[Captain Planet and The Planeteers|Ma-Ti]] ===
The TGWTG version of the ''Captain Planet'' character with [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|the power of heart]] (or at least someone CLAIMING to be him), as played by Doug's friend Bhargav. Appears in the Nostalgia Critic's ''Captain Planet'' review, the anniversary brawl video, NC's ''[[Battlefield Earth]]'' review, ''[[Kickassia]]'', and ''[[Suburban Knights]]''.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: "SUCK MY BIG FAT FUCKING '''HEART'''!!! ...''I'm so alone!''"
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* [[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.
** [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: As of [[Suburban Knights]].
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* [[Big Damn Hero]]: When Critic is begging to be saved from the Star Wars Special, Santa Christ comes in to erase his memory, cure his diabetes and give him a hug.
* [[Big Good]]
* [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs]]: What originally spurred his creation.
{{quote| '''Critic:''' Help me, Santa! Help me, Jesus Christ! Help me...''Santa'' Christ!}}
* [[Cool Bike]]: He owns a harley.
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