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The FanFiction Critic is a reviewer on [[YouTube]], with currently over 1,000 subscribers. Her forte is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], bad fanfics. But not just any fanfics, oh no. She reviews some of the dumbest, worst written, most perverted, and just plain oddest fanfics out there, armed only with her snark and her never-ending fountain of [[Shout-Out|shout outs]] to things much, much better than the things she's reviewing. Wish her luck, everyone, she's gonna need it.

=== Tropes featured include: ===

* [[Author Catchphrase]]: Several reviewed fanfics have these to the point where she makes fun of it, especially "ne'er-do-wells" and "furry friends" in The Disney Seven.

* [[Berserk Button]]:

** Homophobia, see the review of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brdR-dVa2mI&feature=related Face the Strange.]

* [[Big No]]: More of a big "Why?" during her review of [[Face the Strange]] when [[The Nightmare Before Christmas|Jack Skellington]] makes an appearance.

* [[Captain Obvious Aesop]]: The sheer depravity, stupidity, and [[Values Dissonance]] of the writers she reviews occasionally forces her dispense one of these. Paraphrased.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: The page quote.

** "Oh NO!"

* [[Out, Damned Spot!]]: A rare humorous version. She feels dirtied by quoting a racist fanfic, and begins scrubbing her mouth with a toothbrush. Overlaps with [[Shower of Angst]] below.

* [[Reason You Suck Speech]]: Done on multiple occasions, most notably with "[[Face the Strange]]" and "[[Back to the Frollo]]," where she calls the writers out on their homophobia and misogyny (respectively). Paraphrased:

* [[Running Gag]]: The Cube of Profanity becomes this in some reviews.

** In Episode 18, referring to the illustrations of [[Harry Potter|girl!Harry,]] [[Gender Bender|girl!Ron,]] etc. ''"You can never un-see that. Ever."''

** Every time the stuffed wolf toy appears, it has a different name (examples include Smoopykins, Mister Snickerdoodle, Fluffykins, and Grumpytumpkins).

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: During the worst of her reviews, she edges into this. In her (paraphrased) words:

* [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]]: Detroit, who reviews bad movies, is basically this.

* [[Shout-Out]] - All of her reviews include several.

* [[Snarky Non-Human Sidekick]]: Diane the text reader in the review of "[[Titanic|Seven Years Later]]"

* [[Special Effects Failure]]: Her alter ego the "Fanfiction Devil's" horns. Lampshaded the hell out of it.

'''Critic:''' Oh, [[Off-the-Shelf FX|the costume store was out of horns]]? }}

* [[The Swear Jar]]: She uses the Cube of Profanity.