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Alternately, as the above quote implies, a usually constructive critic is tempted to bring out the sarcasm guns by a unusually bad work or product.
Compare [[Sturgeon's Law]], which might either be the cause or the result of these critics (or both). See also [[Straw Critic]] and [[Accentuate the Negative]]. [[The Mean Brit]] is a [[Caustic Critic]] who gives immediate feedback in a competition setting, even if you're [[Break the Cutie|ten years old and your eyes shine with hope]].
Not to be confused with [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Like]].
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* Even [[Roger Ebert]] has been in on the act; he has said that in many cases it's more fun to write a review of a bad movie than it is to write a review of a good one (a sentiment voiced by several other critics). Many of his most negative reviews have been collected in his books, ''I Hated, Hated, Hated, Hated, '''Hated''' This Movie'' and ''Your Movie Sucks''.
* When not writing himself, [[Edgar Allan Poe]] was a well-known literary critic that ''tore apart'' everything, to the extent that he was known as "The Executioner".
** Such was his reputation as "The Executioner" that when other authors, as critics reviewed Poe's work when he was active, they gave him retaliatory negative reviews, diminishing Poe's chances at lifetime success as an author.
* Theatre critic George Jean Nathan unabashedly described himself as a destructive critic.
* [[Leo Tolstoy]], like Poe, is more famous for his own fiction, but he also mounted some scathing assaults on ''[[Der Ring Des Nibelungen]]'' and ''[[King Lear]]''.
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* [[Statler and Waldorf|Hecklers]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpYEJx7PkWE&feature=related Statler and Waldorf] added a grumpy (and extremely popular) streak of critical humour to the ''[[The Muppet Show]]''.
* ''[[Penn and Teller Bullshit]]''.
* ''[[Top Gear]]'' does this, particularly the modern incarnation and to older cars. Jeremy Clarkson has related a story about car manufacturers getting angry and retaliating by threatening to "take all our advertising off [[The BBC]]". [[Critical Research Failure|The BBC doesn't have any advertising]].
** Jeremy Clarkson (and presumably the rest of the Top Gear team) also passionately hates the Toyota Prius and [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=718900859924733158 went out of his way] to prove how absolutely terrible the car was in every way (including the obvious, but even fuel efficiency).
* Adam Sessler of ''[[X-Play]]''
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== Music ==
* Robert Christgau '''defines''' this trope.
** Sonic Youth wrote a song about him entitle, "I Killed Christgau With My Big Fucking Dick" after he labelled their music, pigfucker music. Also Lou Reed ranted about him on a live album.
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* [http://necrocritic.webs.com/ The Necro Critic]. He reviews both bad movies AND bad videogames.
** And as of recently, is even reviewing anime.
* Many of the reviews on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] for ''[[Seltzer and Friedberg|Epic Movie]]'', ''[[Seltzer and Friedberg|Meet the Spartans]]'', and ''[[Seltzer and Friedberg|Disaster Movie]]'' ended up like this.
* ''Screw These Comics'' was a site that did this for sprite comics, and had a group of characters review a given in dialogue. Eventually, the creator quit after realizing his own reviews had degenerated into the same kind of things that he criticized bad sprite comics for overusing. Where once the team would look at a comic's points legitimately while making fun of it, toward the end many reviews consisted solely of variations of the exchange:
{{quote|'''Nes''': Well, I think the comic is--
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** The site also features [[The Nostalgia Chick]], the Critic’s female counterpart.
** [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] who reviews old comic books that suffer from poor writing, bad artwork, and various other problems.
*** Though not unusually vitriolic for this trope, Linkara is somewhat more dedicated to it than others listed here having repeatedly rejected fan requests to review good comic books stating that the whole point of his regular feature is to rant about the bad stuff.
** The Distressed Watcher is even more of a caustic critic than anybody on the website, covering trailers specifically, and is so hateful about it that a lot of the site’s members hate him.
*** It is worth noting that the Distressed Watcher is also known as [[The Amazing Atheist]], who is another controversial personality. Clearly, the actor enjoys being controversial.
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* John Solomon of the now-defunct webcomic review blog, ''Your Webcomic Is Bad And You Should Feel Bad''.
* Yahtzee of ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'', with a heavy emphasis on "caustic".
* [http://www.bloggerbeware.com/ This blogger] reviews the [[Goosebumps]] books. He... doesn't like many of them.
** Parodied in [[The Flash Tub]]'s [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/flash-tub/furious-famicom-faggot.php Furious Famicom Faggot].
* There are quite a few websites dedicated to bad movies; here are a just a select few:
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* [[Confused Matthew]]: He makes a point of targeting movies that were better reviewed and received than he thought they should be. He actually ends up playing devils advocate occasionally on movies that he feels got an excessive negative reaction. The common opinion he disagrees with is what has him confused.
* Wanna see someone try to be a caustic critic only to have the work he's harping on turn out to be be a classic game which he never actually played? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxLgFbNPB9s Here ya go]
* Mark of [[Mark Reads Twilight]] was this towards Twilight, but only because it deserved it.
* [[
* [[SF Debris]], although what he mainly seems to be caustic towards is poor writing and idiocy. When he reviews something that is actually good, Chuck tends to lapse into impassioned monologues about why the work is so good. Even in otherwise terrible works, he takes time aside to point out things that are done well.
* ''Busy Street'' represents a Meta example of this. Thrashing and picking apart other internet "Angry Reviewers".
* [http://www.filmtracks.com/ Film Tracks]. When they don't give a positive review to an established composer, they will mercilessly trash a score by a newcomer, a score that features guitars and scores by [[Hans Zimmer]] and his company (though the third one is done by most film score circles). They also infamously trashed [[Trent Reznor]]'s score to ''[[The Social Network]]'' and suggested that the soundtrack would make better use as a frisbee.
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== [[Film]] - Animated ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSoHkadTAxc&feature=related Anton Ego] from ''[[Ratatouille]]''. Then again, this trope is lampshaded to a T during [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPfN_zYKxNQ his final review] in the film...
== [[Film]] - Live Action ==
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