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== Critic character tropes A-M ==

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

 

{{quote| '''Critic''': Yeah, I remember the last time I said "this is the nineties, old man" to my Dad... [shakily and looking traumatized] i-it really was the last time.}}

* [[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.

* [[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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

** 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]]

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

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

* [[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''.

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

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

* [[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.

{{quote| '''Critic''': So what's the point in seeing The Lost World? For you, none. For me, I'm a glutton for fucking punishment.}}

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

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

* [[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-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.

{{quote| '''God:''' [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|"Your ass is grass."]]}}

* [[Can't Hold His Liquor]]: Five minutes into the ''[[IT]]'' review and the audience was already spinning. Five minutes ''later'', he's having to knock his head on the desk to get some sense back into his brain.

* [[Cant Keep A Secret]]: He might have [[Undying Loyalty]], but his promise to Chester that he'd keep the Search For The Necronomicon just between them lasted for about twenty seconds.

* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Before he got a [[Fan Service Pack]] and morphed into a [[Chivalrous Pervert|perverted]] [[Ethical Slut]], he was portrayed as an unattractive, overweight, chauvinist prick.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

{{quote| '''Critic''': I really hate this episode.}}

* [[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.

{{quote| '''Critic''': You know, I'm not for the objectification of women, but the only thing that can possibly save this movie is a nude scene. I mean, at least go for flat-out smut and entertain som- oh hey, I got my wish.<br />

*Kristin Minter starts undressing, Critic starts grinning, the brother comes in and his face falls*<br />

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* [[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.

{{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.)

* [[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.

* [[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]]'' video, he forced Critic to dress up like a dirty ballerina during Spooning With Spoony 2 and took pictures for blackmail.

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

** 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.

** 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.

{{quote| ''"I'm the Nostalgia Critic, I'm going to go kill myself."''}}

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

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

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

* [[Dumb Struck]]: Because Doug lost his voice again, ''[[Alone in The Dark]]'' was so awful that Critic lost the ability to talk.

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

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

** Subverted in the Harry Potter book launch. After spending the majority of the video bitching about it, he has a [[Freak-Out]] [[Squee]] larger than anyone when the books start coming out.

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

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

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

* [[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.

{{quote| '''Critic''': ([[Smug Snake|being completely up himself]]) "It's hard to believe that such a handsome man could become even handso... hansomen... prettier."}}

* [[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]].

* [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]]: [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''.

* [[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-Blooded]] [[Psychopathic Manchild]] who gets wasted by 6PM.

** ''[[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.

* [[Genius Ditz]]: He's silly, gullible and not all there, but he's eloquent when not swearing up a storm, is very fond of black-and-white movies, can apparently follow black hole theories, is disgusted by the lack of history awareness in ''[[The Magic Voyage]]'' and has a brain when it counts.

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

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

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

* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: He appreciates two girls together very much. This has lessened lately however, in the ''Haunting'' remake his [[Celeb Crush]] Catherine Zeta Jones plays a bisexual woman. He loves this plenty, but also calls out the movie for her offensively [[Fan Service|fanservicey]] writing.

** 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.

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

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

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

* [[Going Commando]]: When he creams himself at the end of ''[[The Worst Witch]]'', he sults that he's wearing a white suit so it's no problem.

* [[Go-Go Enslavement]]: In the Game Heroes promo. He's surprised and scared that he's wearing a different shirt, so he must have been unconscious and at least shirtless at some point.

* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]:

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

** He does this in his ''[[Jingle All the Way]]'' review. He has a "WE DON'T CARE" outburst when the chase scene pisses him off.

** 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]].

* [[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]]''.

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

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

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

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

* [[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.

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

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

* [[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]]. And yes, that does make his review of the Matt Salinger [[Captain America]] movie hilarious for those that follow [[Captain America]] more than they do the Critic.

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

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

* [[Informed Attribute]]: His AVGN-style song brags that he's the world's biggest and greatest cynic. If you say so.

* [[The Insomniac]]: Nyquil and Vicodin together? Ain't so healthy.

* [[Internalized Categorism]]: He's Catholic and yet the religion is one of many on the list he's prejudiced against.

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

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

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

* [[In-Universe Catharsis]]: Shooting things mainly. When he was a child, it was particularly goofy acting, the kind that he would want to bury from the public forever.

* [[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.

* [[Jaded Washout]]: He's usually too childish to notice how pathetic he is, but he has a few moments of self-awareness. The "Commercials Special" is a good example.

* [[Jerkass Facade]]: Not that he isn't a genuine dick, but coupled with [[Sympathetic POV]], there's no indication that the other characters know what we know about him. Or that he'd be willing to tell them.

* [[Keet]]: When he's actually enjoying himself.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Played for [[Black Comedy]], but how he treats animals - gleeing when dogs have a chance of dying, throwing rocks at pets to see if their owners laugh, chucking a spider through a window because he's scared of it - will remind you that he's a [[Psychopathic Manchild]] if you ever forget it.

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

* [[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.

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

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

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

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

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

{{quote| '''Critic''': It's like if you cross a dyslexic with a complete idiot.}}

{{quote| '''Earthworm''': Remember what your parents said, James!<br />

'''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.

{{quote| '''Critic''': Ain't love a bitch?}}

* [[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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

** 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..."}}

 

== Critic character tropes N-Z ==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* [[No Social Skills]]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Even if he thinks the kid's a [[Bratty Half-Pint]], treat a child badly or don't take responsibility, and Critic will '''hate''' you.

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

* [[Persona Non Grata]]: In his review of ''[[Jaws 3|Jaws 3D]]'', NC states that due to an [[Kickassia|incident]], he can never go back to Nevada.

* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: In his ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'' review, he got so angry with the movie for not explaining anything that he accidentally caused a massive explosion that destroyed an entire city. ''Twice''.

* [[Perverse Sexual Lust]]: For Catherine Zeta Jones, as we find out in his [[Top Ten|Top]] [[Up to Eleven|11]] [[Villain Song|Villain Songs]] video. It's an inverted example as the Critic is a fictional character while Catherine Zeta Jones is a real life actress.

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

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

* [[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]].

* [[Prematurely Bald|Prematurely Balding]]: Lampshaded this, noting that he used to have a mop of hair back in high school. He promptly breaks down in tears. Also inverted. For comedy and bad wigs, older versions of him have his hair longer and blonde.

* [[Properly Paranoid]]: He drives himself crazy trying to decipher the Nerd's "compliment", but when he's ready to give up and admit that the Nerd might be a nice guy, he finds the insult.

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

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

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

** In the ''[[Captain America]]'', 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.]]

{{quote| '''Critic''': Now granted I didn't grow up as a girl... for long. *looks embarrassed and about to cry* I have a history.}}

* [[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 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.

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

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

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

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

* [[Reluctant Fanservice Girl|Reluctant Fanservice Boy]]: Whenever someone else ([[Distressed Dude|Game Heroes]], [[Black Comedy Rape|Spoony]], [[Bastard Girlfriend|Chick]] etc.) makes him the victim.

* [[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.

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

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

* [[Skewed Priorities]]

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

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

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

* [[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.

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

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

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

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

{{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. }}

** 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.

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

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

* [[Take a Third Option]]: When Spoony gives him a choice of reviewing the Reb Brown ''[[Captain America]]'' 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]].

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

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

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

** After being so deathly boring for the majority of time, ''[[Junior]]'' gets funny and stupid with Arnold in a dress and spouting one-liners.

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

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

{{quote| ''[[Captain Obvious|I'm fucking the DVD! I'm fucking the DVD!]]''}}

* [[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. <ref> It's "on top of that".</ref>

* [[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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

** Although it seems he only does this with women who can give as good as they get. He's disgusted with ''[[Good Burger]]'' for Carmen Electra getting beaten up and having it played for laughs.

* [[Yaoi Fangirl|Yaoi Fanboy]]: He sees the [[Ho Yay]] in [[Superman|Superman/Lex Luthor]], [[Lord of the Rings|Frodo/Sam]], [[American Idol|Simon Cowell/Ryan Seacrest]], [[Batman|Batman/Robin]] and [[TMNT|Leonardo/Raphael]].

** When he starts to be sure that ''[[Jingle All the Way]]'' has ended on at-least-not-so-bad note, the movie proves him wrong. He doesn't take it well.

** In ''[[Simon Sez]]'', when [[Obscurus Lupa]] accepts him not wanting to do a crossover with her, he's almost heartbreakingly delighted that someone actually ''listened'' to him. Of course she's only messing around.

** 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|Dougs]] First Movie''.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* [[Fail O'Suckyname]]

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

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

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

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

* [[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.

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

* [[Perpetual Frowner]]

{{quote| "Jokes on you! I'm still going to masturbate to your picture tonight!"}}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== Raoul Puke ===

 

 

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

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

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

* [[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.

 

 

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]]''.

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

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

* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]]

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

* [[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.

* [[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]].

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

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

* {{spoiler|[[Took a Level In Badass]]: He explodes into a ninja costume and proceeds to whoop the Critic's ass once he realizes that he would become God's number one man and buddy if the Critic did not exist.}}

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