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A list of some of the [[Subjective Tropes]] found in ''[[
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* [[Actor Shipping]]: Doug has been shipped with pretty much everyone. What makes this less uncomfortable is that he's fully admitted to [[Ship Tease|pandering]] and being a [[The Tease|flirt]] at cons and interviews.
* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: Is the Critic a woobish, bratty, bisexual with deep parental issues showing off his masochistic tendencies by watching bad movies from his childhood... or is he just an angry twenty-something-old making hyperbolic remarks towards movies from the eighties and nineties?
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* [[Author's Saving Throw]]: He made a lot of derogatory gay jokes in his early days. But luckily, when Doug started making use of [[Ho Yay]] and [[Female Gaze]], these died out.
** Also sorted out with the Critic himself. [[Characterization Marches On]] and suddenly a lot more focus is put on his sissiness and patheticness, but with good writing, good comedy and Doug's charm and actually decent acting skills, he's a much more interesting character than he was in the beginning.
** Santa Christ is still a [[Big Good]] who everyone [[
** A few people complained that he over-relied too much on film clips instead of jokes, so Doug made this a character trait. When the Critic got called out on the above in ''[[Star Trek]]'' month and couldn't use footage from other stuff, he had no idea what to say.
* [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|Awesome Music]]: "Poor Critic", which gets him his confidence back at the end of the first commercials special.
** The operatic-singing at the end of ''[[
** All of the [http://ncmoulinrouge.bandcamp.com/ songs] in the Moulin Rouge musical review!
* [[Base Breaker]]: [[God Mode Sue|Santa Christ]]. Some fans love him because he's a [[Parody Sue]]. Other fans [[Parody Failure|don't think he's that funny]].
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* [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch]]: Think about it logically. If he really was screaming down the house every week like people say he is, Doug's voice would have been shot a long while ago.
** Quite a few people are praising Mara for "finally giving Critic some punishment". Guess they didn't notice he's a [[Failure Hero]] who gets [[Disproportionate Retribution]] for nearly every bad thing he does.
* [[Complete Monster]]: His interpretation of the adulterer on [[The Tommyknockers]], [[Papa Wolf|especially]] after he leaves the search for a missing child just so he can have sex.
** From a biased six year old's eyes with admitted issues, his parents.
* [[Continuity Lock Out]]: He doesn't have the long storylines that others do, but his show is probably one of the most character-based on the site and he's started being fond of [[Call Back|call backs]] first set up from at least a year ago. He's also in ''plenty'' of cameo appearances, which usually tell you things about the character as well. Of course, this doesn't apply to the section of fans who watch just for a trashing of a movie.
* [[Crazy Awesome]]: Not only is Santa Christ both Santa and Jesus, he rides a rocket ship, hangs out with Mr. T, played bass guitar for [[
He also atoned for all our sins, saved puppies from a fire, goes surfing in space, makes really good fondue, shoots lasers from his eyes, mends your curtains for free and fights monsters for fun.
In the review for ''[[End of Days]]'', he shows up and gives the Critic a Sega Genesis. No real reason, he's just that awesome.
He even turned [[Satan|THE DEVIL]] HIMSELF into a box of Ho Ho Ho's.
* [[Draco in Leather Pants|Critic In Leather Pants]]: Nice to know that fangirls will forgive you anything if you're cute and cry pretty.
** [[Ron the Death Eater|Critic The Death Eater]]: On the other hand, the [[Fan Dumb]] example of his care for children being turned into pedophilia is just one instance of people making him out to be far worse than he is.
* [[Crosses the Line Twice]]:
** The Critic's "Tickle Me Amy" doll in ''Congo'' manages this within the space of 30 seconds.
** Putting up pictures of starving children that could have been saved with the money wasted on ''[[Tank Girl]]'', and then dubbing it a "[[
* [[Ear Worm]]:
** "Holiday Clusterfuck" will never leave your brain. ''Ever''.
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** And [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Santa Christ's]] theme song. Being set to ''The First Noel'' doesn't help.
** "Boring" from the ''Junior'' review.
** The Top 11 [[Villain Song
*** Another [[Voltaire (
** His [[Cluster F-Bomb]] song describing the terrible ''[[Batman]] and Robin'' movie is also quite catchy.
** His parody of 'Zack he's a legomaniac' in ''Revenge of the commercials''.
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** Also, Orlando Belisle, Jr. who had portrayed the Critic's Guardian Angel as well as {{spoiler|[[Suburban Knights|Malachite]]}}.
** People already want more [[Evil Is Sexy|Mara]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Wil]][[Crowning Moment of Awesome|son]]
* [[Everybody Remembers the Stripper]]: To be as nice as possible, all people seem to remember about the "Surf Ninjas" review is either "[[Transformers:
* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: (Having kidnapped the [[
** The Other Guy is quite appealing when he's being a smarmy [[Bad Boss]] to Todd or being a "dark, shadowy puppet-master" that controls the Critic.
** At the end of ''[[A Simple Wish]]'', everyone agreed {{spoiler|Mara Wilson looked hot joining the long list of people who could make the Critic scream and cry}}.
* [[Fan Dumb]]:
** It is very easy to encounter people on the Internet who believe he is never wrong, even though he admits he [[Accentuate the Negative|exaggerates]] for entertainment value.
*** It gets worse when people repeat his opinions [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|without ever watching the movie he's reviewing]].
** Many people believe his feud with James Rolfe is real, even though they collaborate on projects all the time. It is merely [[
** His [[
*** And one very clingy girl said he was her one true love and quoted "Hellfire". Trolling or not, that's a new one.
** Conversely, some women have gotten upset at his fiancée because he's going to marry her. They've said some pretty nasty things about her.
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** Because of the [[Double Standard]] and how focused he is on looking after kids, there are some who insinuate that the Critic must be a pedophile.
** A particularly sad example is "fans" bothering Mara Wilson (the child star of ''[[Matilda]]'') with constantly talking about how the "Critic thinks her movie sucks". She now thinks Doug hides behind a thinly veiled character to just be horrible to people, when the opposite is true.
*** That doesn't seem to be the case any more, though.
* [[Foe Yay Shipping]]: Within a day of the episode showing, fangirls were shipping Mara Wilson and Critic. In their defense, he has a habit of having [[The Nostalgia Chick
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]:
** As mentioned on the main page, Mako in the ''TMNT'' review. "He sounds like [[The Karate Kid|Mr. Miyagi]] when he smoked a million Marlboros" becomes less funny after you realize his VA died of throat cancer.
** He made a few jokes directly at the expense of [[Michael Jackson]] in his ''Moonwalker'' review. However, even those few jokes range from a bit awkward to just plain uncomfortable after said celebrity's death over two months later.
** His rant about oil in the ''[[Saved
** There's his comment in the review of ''It'' about the girl of the group being "easy to get into". The book actually has the girl engage in underage sex.
** More Doug than the Critic, but in his early internet fame he joked about getting worried that he was going to get stalkers. Those jokes are kinda wince-making now after some of the examples under [[Fan Dumb]]. He even says in his video about movies he enjoys but everyone else hates that he enjoys ''[[The Cable Guy]]'' because it's like a "release".
*** In the Doug/Noah/Joe guide to making a good web show, Noah and Joe start talking about the trolls in a very mocking, "wtf is wrong with you" way. Doug stays mostly silent and has the most awkward look on his face. Even more uncomfortable if you've ''read'' some of the disgustingly skeevy crap he gets.
** From the Godzilla review:
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** In ''[[The Wizard (film)]]'' review, he makes a [[Running Gag]] of being a twenty six year old guy with a crush on the kid Lucas. This is made extremely awkward by the actor who played Lucas going on to be a [http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/9282/1299706734488.jpg child molester].
** In-character and if you're invested, the first True Internet Story painted a ridiculous life history for him, sponging off his parents and just generally having a cozy time. ...[[Hilariously Abusive Childhood|n]][[Abusive Parents|o]][[Rape
** It's also funny in a [[Black Comedy]] way, but in the early stages of his battle with the Nerd, there's a throwaway line about his job not being easy. It's pretty much just a throwaway line that lets him lead up to the challenge of the Nerd having to do a movie review. Oh Critic, you have no idea how much it'll get worse.
** When talking about the Child Catcher in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", he says his parents told him to stay away from strangers. Knowing what we know now, he would have probably been better off with a stranger.
** In his ''[[Alone in
* [[Growing the Beard]]:
** The Nostalgia Critic started out reviewing parts of the movies, and not the entire thing, but as his videos went on, the jokes eventually developed and the reviews eventually covered more of the story. While still fairly low by say, television standards, his production values have increased dramatically since starting the site. His review schedule has been consistent too.
** Arguably, the Critic really started catching fire around the time of ''[[Batman and Robin (
** As... bizarre as it sounds, character-wise, he was cemented and made consistent (i.e being more as like we know him today) from ''[[Sesame Street
* [[Gannon Banned]]: Referring to Doug's most well-known character as the Nostalgi'''c''' Critic is a surefire way to get yourself flamed to a crisp on the site's forums.
* [[Genius Bonus]]: The ''[[Roots]]'' homage in the ''Bebe's Kids'' review.
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** Watching him totally adore Santa Christ and their sweet friendship is just painful after the accident in Kickassia. Especially as when Santa Christ appears later in the show, he's understandably colder.
** Seeing him cry about how he can't give us any comedy about ''[[Junior]]'' because it's so boring becomes even worse when you find out later that making jokes is the only thing he thinks he's good at.
* [[Hate Dumb]]: While you get all the usuals, there's a section that hate him and are... attracted to him as well, so they want to hurt him. The [[Hate Fic]] "Beer Enema" is a perfect example of this.
** Last year, a few of these people apparently found his number and address. Nothing bad has happened and Doug is safe so they were probably just bluffing, but it's still pretty scary to think about.
* [[He Really Can Act (Sugar Wiki)|He Really Can Act]]: Not just probably being the most in-fully-fledged-character on the site and disregarding ''[[Kickassia]]'' and ''[[Suburban Knights]]'', Doug ''really'' did well in the first commercials special. Fuck, he even produced [[The Nostalgia Critic
** A lot of it is down to [[Fan Dumb]], but there's something to be said for how many people believe he really is suffering badly in real life when it comes to some of the movies he watches.
** All the more apparent when he interacts with con-goers. Nobody's taking it seriously of course, but while he's in-character making woobie faces or whatever the situation calls for, if the audience is meant to be - say - an angry mob, they'll be laughing instead.
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** During the review of ''[[The Room]]'', the Nostalgia Critic is visited by colleagues from the future who warn him that he "must not review this movie". Guess what? He later had to take the video down, because he was threatened with a lawsuit about the review.
*** After getting said threat, the Critic decides to satirize the situation with an impression of Tommy Wiseau doing a "Tommy Wi-show." More than a year later, Wiseau actually ''does'' come out with ''[[The Tommy Wi Show]]'' with the the help of Machinima.com.
** In the Spoony/Critic/Linkara review of ''[[Alone in
** In the "Jingle All the Way" review, the Nostalgia Critic jokes that "I'd just be upset if my father was Arnold Schwarzenegger." In light of Arnold's [[wikipedia:Arnold schwarzenegger#Infidelity and divorce|scandal]], this joke suddenly became way funnier.
** His Teddy Ruxpin review is very similar to [[Board James]]'s review of Mr. Bucket, complete with a similar [[Groin Attack]].
** Bhargo's characterization of Ma-Ti has been purely for fun... and now, Hollywood producers are interested in making a ''[[Captain Planet and
** This little piece of [[Tempting Fate]] (or at least {{spoiler|tempting The Hub.}}): {{spoiler|1=I mean, come on! [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** On Doug's Top 10 Movies he hates and everyone loves he lists {{spoiler|[[Moulin Rouge]]}} as his number one. Guess what movie [[
** The Nostalgia Duo's complaining about Batty in ''[[Fern Gully]]'' takes on a whole new amusing twist when Nella and Elisa find out much later that the Chick has major [[Perverse Sexual Lust]] for him.
* [[Ho Yay]]: Spoony/Critic/Linkara in the ''[[Alone in
* [[Hollywood Pudgy]]: He's a skinny guy, but he's got enough puppy fat to piss people off. Parodied in the Chick/Critic crossover of ''[[The Chipmunk Adventure]]'' when he mentions his manboobs and lifts up his shirt to reveal a perfectly slim chest.
* [[Hype Backlash]]/[[He Panned It, Now He Sucks|He Was About to Pan It, Now He Sucks]]: [[Word of God|Doug Walker]] put ''[[Matilda (
** He has apparently gotten a lot of flak for reviewing ''Last Action Hero''
** The fans really wanted him to review TMNT. When he finally did, at least half the fans got mad at him (though for some, it wasn't so much the review as it was the infamous Mako joke)
* [[Iron Woobie]]/[[Jerkass Woobie]]:
** Mainly because of Doug's [[Sincerity Mode|delightful]] obsession with making him look like a pathetic failure most of the time. No matter how many breakdowns, [[Go Mad
*** Doug says that the Critic is "pathetically proud and proudly pathetic".
** ''Showcased'' in the [[Baby Geniuses]] review. He randomly attacks pedestrians for no reason, but we're also hearing his [[Inner Monologue]] at the time, and he's ''seriously'' in need of a hug.
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* [[It Gets Better]]: The early videos are incredibly slow-paced, he shouts more, the jokes aren't fantastic and the character isn't exactly interesting. But then he starts challenging the Nerd and the quality in everything improves from there.
* [[Just Here for Godzilla|Just Here For Suffering]]: Hell, even Doug thinks the main reason why people watch the Critic is to see him work himself into a tantrum, cry and/or get victimized.
** Doug may have learned the hard way that this is not necessarily the case, as his Long Play of Bart's Nightmare (featuring him playing the horrible SNES game complete with cursing and palpable frustration) was met with... well, less than widespread approval. Thankfully, the next review, ''[[James and
* [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]]: In the fic world, nearly everyone on the site has had a go with him. And it's not just limited to the site either. As of writing; a [[Naughty Tentacles|giant squid]], [[Gargoyles
** You really do get the impression sometimes that the fanfic writers think his proper place is [[
* [[Memetic Molester|Memetic Molestee]]: He's a bit like the fanfic fandom's designated rape victim. Not for Hurt/Comfort purposes, just for [[For the Evulz|funsies]].
* [[Memetic Mutation]]:
** "Where are you?" from ''[[
** ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1kLfi-yFoA "Frying the coke."]''
** [[Jingle All the Way|PUT THAT COOKIE DOWN]]! [[Stupid Statement Dance Mix|~Down! Down, down, cookie down! Down, cookie down! PUT THAT COOKIE DOWN, NOW!~]]
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** "TASTE THE RAINBOW, MUTHAFUCKA!"
** [[The Cell|ASK ME WHAT IT MEANS!,]] [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|ASK ME WHAT IT MEANS! WOO-HOO!]]
** For whatever reason, "50 Impressions in 50 Seconds" gets a lot of use in [[
** "...fucking bubbles!!!..."
** "FUCK YEAH SPARKLE SPARKLE SPARKLE!"
** The [[Squee]] moment in ''[[Alaska]]'' is often used as a fangirling gif on tumblr.
* [[Memetic Sex God]]:
** Due to Ask That Guy licking his pipe and Doug's love of blowjob jokes, it has become heavy fanon that he's ''really'' good at oral. His [[Sarcasm Mode|totally necessary]] fellating a joystick in the rematch against [[The Angry Joe Show
** Not forgetting the whole "everyone loves seeing him in pain" thing.
** Every time he shows off his tenor voice, a girl's ovaries explode.
* [[Misaimed Fandom]]:
** This just in, the character is not a inspirational badass role model, he's a manic-depressive, pathetic manchild who reviews crap because he has nothing else in his life.
** Of course it's not just fan''boys'' who are guilty of this. The worst case scenario for fics is that he'll just be an [[Brainless Beauty|air-headed]] [[Bishonen|pretty boy]] who does nothing but [[The Woobie|cry]] and be in [[
** While of course humor is always subjective, the entire point of the LP was that Critic thought it was going to be the easiest thing he ever did and so failed miserably like he does at everything. If he did it perfectly, it would have been out of character.
*** Confirmed gently as "Critic's an idiot who has no common sense" by Doug in his commentary.
** Also, his show is ''not'' meant to be about a professional critic, it's comedic first and foremost, and thus complaining about the Nostalgia Critic "not being a real critic" is to miss the point.
* [[
* [[Moe]]: Cute? Check. Big eyes? Check. Subby? Check. Weak generally? Check. Socially awkward? Check. We could go on all night.
* [[Never Live It Down]]: Doug has admitted to regretting "Bat Credit Card" and the review it came from because having to do the joke constantly does a number on his voice and he felt he could have done better with the episode. But unfortunately it'll be a cold day in hell before Critic/BCC stop getting associated with each other.
* [[Padding]]: Doug's been known to occasionally make a few jokes about a movie, and then stretch them out a tad too far.
* [[Pandering to
** Also, by popular demand, the Critic finally reviewed [[The Movie]] of his childhood torment, ''[[Doug]]'', and ''boy'' did he not like what was in store for him (save for one character and one scene each in the entire film)!
* [[Periphery Demographic]]: Let's be honest, a fair amount of fangirls ([[Even the Guys Want Him|and guys]]) just watch him 'cuz he's cute and suffers in an appealing way, not because they care about what he's reviewing.
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* [[Villain Sue]]: [[Played for Laughs]]. Critic in the title cards is hard-lined, psychotic, is willing to belt kids or perform coat-hanger abortions and gets away with everything. The real Critic... [[Cosmic Plaything|doesn't]].
* [[Wangst]]: Played for laughs when he gets news that a friend of a very distant relative has just died.
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* [[What an Idiot!]]: In his '08 Halloween Special, he gets a baseball bat instead of his usual weapon, thus allowing Teddy Ruxpin to wake him up with his own gun in his mouth and later kill him.
** In the ''Star Trek III'' episode, with his complaints about never being listened to, you'd think he would have to started to realize something was wrong when The Sci Fi Guy was being far too nice to him when he was about to die.
* [[The Woobie]]: Dark Rob. It probably helped that Rob actually looked really good in the [[Edward Scissorhands]]-style outfit, which always helps win people over.
** Ma-Ti and Dr. Smith, although Ma-Ti's woobie-ness got played out far more in a certain [[Suburban Knights|special]].
* [[Yoko Oh No]]: Some of the ''creepier'' [[The Nostalgia Chick
** Doug's poor fiancée, Robin, gets a lot of hate, and she hasn't even appeared in any videos (that doesn't mean, however, that she is below making a voice-over cameo).
*** Which is sad, considering what [[Good Shepherd|she does]] for a living (she works with disabled children). And like her partner, she's [http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Sr8XoAXvlbI/Rmr76dIq2FI/AAAAAAAAAn4/kgzp036k128/Robin%252520Poage.JPG really] [[Big Beautiful Woman|pretty]] when [[Unkempt Beauty|not dressed up]].
*** The hate has died down somewhat since the ''[[Transformers]] III'' review, where, courtesy of her, his neck sported a big hickey and scratch marks.
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