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The main star who reviews girly awfulness from our childhoods. Very snarky, owns pigtails that defy gravity and has quite a few issues.
* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: To [[Todd in
* [[Abusive Parents|Abusive Parents As People]]: Her Dad never loved her, her uncle was sexually abusive and her Mum made her feel inadequate. Although when we see Teenage Chick, her mother is just complaining about [[Limp Bizkit]], which makes her whine about [[Emo Teen|nobody understanding her pain]]. We also hear her wanting Lindsay to come downstairs, but Lindsay's too busy writing [[Slash Fic]].
* [[Adorkable]]: Occasionally, like when she's dancing badly or is actually able to let the [[Fan Girl]] in her appear.
* [[Adult Child]]: She ''as a college student'' thought sex was hilarious, and as a thirteen year old she was excited about a doll meant for girls a third her age.
* [[Alcoholic Parent]]: Both her parents were apparently drinkers, which puts her own alcoholism in [[Generation Xerox|in a sadder light]].
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: She got manipulated into sex with rapey!Spoony (she even says "oh God, not again" when she starts to realize what happened), she dates a lot of drunk guys, she has something going on with her very damaged [[Spear Counterpart]] and she has it bad for [[Stalker
* [[All Take and No Give]]: With Nella.
* [[Alter Ego Acting]]: Like Doug and the Critic, the Chick's name is Lindsay but she's a fictional character separate from Lindsay Ellis herself.
** When Dr. Tease and Dr. Block corner her in the "Sexual Awakening" sketch about her hate of being called nerdy, she has to ask whether she's in-character or not.
* [[All Women Love Shoes]]: Yes, even ladettes like her. In the ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' commentary, Lindsay talks about how wearing high heeled boots for the long shooting of the first year brawl turned out to be a bad idea.
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* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: She distractedly squees over the "SHINY!" though pointless necklace in ''[[Teen Witch]]'' without shame. And of course you've got the "PUPPIES!" [[Running Gag]].
* [[Ax Crazy]]: There's a reason why people think she'd make a pretty good [[Super Villain]] if she got her mind together.
** Literally in the title card for ''[[The Lorax (
* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|Aw Look She Really Might Like Him]]: While she never admits it, there are plenty of moments that suggest she does care about the [[The Nostalgia Critic
* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin|A Woman Is Not A Virgin]]: She makes it very clear that she "got a lot of booty" in college. We then see Teenage Chick [[Adult Child|playing with her stuffed animals instead]].
* [[Bad Dreams]]: [[Faux Horrific|About the Will Smith fish]].
* [[Bad Boss]]: She's abusive and demanding to her crew, not even being able to call them any more than humans, as well as being totally oblivious to any issues they might have.
** According to the ''Crossroads'' review, she threatens anyone who goes into her territory of talking about girly shit. [[Not So Different|Critic really has rubbed off on her.]]
* [[Bad Liar]]: Although only to the audience, the people she's with can't see through her.
* [[The Baroness]]: If a slightly more three-dimensional, pathetic, little-girl-like version of the trope.
* [[Beautiful All Along]]: Parodied and subverted. She starts out with a prim, buttoned white shirt, the usual pigtails and her glasses. Then Madonna starts playing, she loses the shirt, takes off the glasses and shakes out her hair. But then she puts on a weird top, does her hair in a side-ponytail and puts the glasses back on, making her look ridiculously 80s-ish.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Due to her inflated ego, she gets mighty upset whenever someone calls her a nerd (the real Lindsay is [[Proud to Be
** Her character and real life self hate ''X Men III''. Lindsay even said in her and Nella's review of ''First Class'' that the Chick character came out of her fangirl heart dying from that movie.
** [[Glurge]] and [[Sequelitis]] have a tendency to drive her to madness.
** More seriously, she hates slut-shaming. This comes up in ''[[Cruel Intentions]]'' and much more rantily in ''[[Moulin Rouge]]''.
*** Unless [[Hypocritical Humor|she is shaming]] [[Butt Monkey|Nella]] for having a sex life. (It's the best counter to Catholic guilt.)
* [[Big Breasts, Big Deal]]: She's proud of them, as is evidenced by her new facebook [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.168000996573696.33798.167999883240474&type=1#!/photo.php?fbid=319865988053862&set=a.168000996573696.33798.167999883240474&type=3&theater avatar].
* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]
* [[Bi the Way]]: She flirts right back with Dr. Tease in the "Sexual Awakening" video and asks if she wants to amend her addiction to sexy men. The "want to amend that?" in regards to her love of men like Will Smith is implied to comes from, [[Where Da White Women At?|other places]] from her end.
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Turned [[Up to Eleven]] in ''[[Kickassia]]'', but [[Characterization Marches On|in more recent reviews]] she mixes this with [[Jerk
* [[Blind Without'Em]]: She seems to wear contacts most of the time, because when the Makeover Fairy steals her glasses she whines that she can't see.
* [[Bow Ties Are Cool]]: In the earlier episodes.
* [[Brains and Bondage]]: In her ''[[Hercules (
* [[Brainy Brunette]]: Goes into parody territory in the "Kirk vs. Picard" video when she's reading books like "Making out in Arabic".
* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]: "It's like they can see into my self-indulgent teenage mind!"
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** In ''Spooning With Spoony'', she's basically forgotten about and asked if she's still there.
** The Todd-stalking storyline mostly involves her making a complete idiot out of herself. Sometimes, he can't even remember her name. Elisa confirms this on formspring, that there's no real "reason" for it except to highlight the Chick's pathetic characterization.
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: Done in a passive aggressive way. Rather than the distant alcoholic her father was, she makes gushily clear that she wanted [[The Lion King|Mufasa]] to be her daddy instead.
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: She now fully admits to being a horrible person.
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: She's a trained soprano and she deeply enjoys showing this fact off.
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** "Hi, I'm your Nostalgia Chick. I remember it, because the dudes don't." This was abandoned and now it's "(Hi,) I'm your Nostalgia Chick, {{[[[Mad Libs Catchphrase]] situationally relevant comment}}]".
** [[Running Gag|"PUPPIES!!!"]]
** "[[
** "What does that even mean?!"
** "Movie? Hey, movie?"
** Whenever Teenage!Chick is seen, she'll be saying "[something mainstream] doesn't understand my pain."
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* [[Celeb Crush]]: For [[Will Smith]], hard. Not that she'd ever admit it.
* [[Celibate Hero]]: Against her will. ''[[Grease]] II'' and "The Top Ten Songs About Fucking" have her almost exploding in sexual frustration. She got over it by using Todd as a [[Captive Date]].
* [[Character Blog]]: Her [[
* [[Character Development]]:
** Although she still finds it hard, she's getting better at admitting when she enjoys something.
** She appears to have eventually made her peace with being [[Not So Different]] to the Critic.
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* [[Chronic Villainy]]: Lindsay even said in the "Kirk vs. Picard" commentary that while the Chick is definitely a [[Villain Protagonist]], she does go up and down in the evil stakes.
* [[Chubby Chaser]]: "I actually think fat guys are kinda hot." Although said with much embarrassment, and because she's trying to butter up Santa.
* [[Clark Kenting]]: When she appears in crossovers, the other reviewers are completely unable to recognise her if she's not playing the Nostalgia Chick role - particularly odd because unlike, say, [[
** [[The Angry Joe Show
* [[Close to Home]]: She wants to change Todd's mind about their "[[Stalker
* [[Closer to Earth]]: Defied. Does she rage less than the Critic? Of course. Is she nicer or saner than him? [[Magnificent Bitch|Hell no.]]
* [[Closet Geek|Closet Fangirl]]: Deep down, she's a nerdy fangirl who loves geeky things, but she likes to believe she's grown out of childish pursuits like comics, cartoons, fanfiction and excitement to be a serious, intellectual academic. However, she's really just suppressing the squeeing fangirl within, and it keeps escaping.
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* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: She's showing off her fangirl side and temper more these days, although it's been a long long process.
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Parodied at the end of her two-parter on [[Roland Emmerich]]. She gets [[Driven to Madness]] on how pathetic reviewing makes her but it's never brought up again.
** Also parodied with ''[[X
* [[Determinator]]: She's willing to invade Todd's house in Virginia in order to try seducing him!
** She'll run from LA or NYC to Chicago, just to fight with the Critic or chloroform him.
* [[Disappointed in You]]: She's not angry at the nineties for their bad nostalgia, just very disappointed.
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: She is very aware of her status as such to [[
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* [[Distracted
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Another case of the character being a [[Hypocrite]]. She calls out movies and pop music for treating guys badly, but she's a [[Bastard Girlfriend]] to the usual guys in her life and it's been established that she hates the gender because Todd keeps rejecting her. There [[Freudian Excuse|are]] [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|other]] [[Weakness Turns Her On|reasons]], but that's the most extreme. (And again, the real Lindsay is nothing like this.)
* [[Does Not Like Spam]]: She hates mayonnaise.
* [[Dogged Nice Guy|Dogged Nice Gal]]: [[Todd in
* [[Does Not Understand Sarcasm]]: She usually does, but she takes her [[Sex Bot]]'s sarcastic suggestion of using a portal to get to Nella seriously. And it works too!
* [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"]]/[[Embarrassing Nickname]]: In the Maven Of The Eventide review of ''[[Blade]]'', Elisa calls her Lindsay and responds by angrily telling her not to call her Chick and storms off, leaving Elisa confused.
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: The next episode after the major breakdown in SWS was "Top 11 Embarrassing Nostalgic Dance Crazes" where manic grins and Nella abuse abounded. A long time later, in the ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' review, she flinches when they spend a second at Spoony's place.
** In ''[[X
* [[Dreadful Musician]]: With the piano. Although Todd is slightly biased.
* [[Driven to Madness]]: The slowed down version of [[Alvin and The Chipmunks]] "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" seems to make her have some kind of fit at some point.
** She doesn't fare too well with "The Christmas Shoes" either.
** The stupidity of the [[Roland Emmerich]] films makes her go [[Motor Mouth]] and forces her to wonder why she spends her life reviewing shitty stuff.
** Pointing out all the [[Plot Hole
** A small one comes from [[Taylor Swift]]'s vapid song "You Belong With Me" being played over and over:
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** Trying not to make fun of the [[Homoerotic Subtext]] in ''[[He
** In ''[[Xanadu]]'' the BLAM sign turned against her and drove her crazy.
** ''[[Beauty and
** The octopus in ''[[Peter Pan]] II'' makes her scream "'''HAAAATE'''" over and over.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: In ''[[City of Angels (musical)|City of Angels]]'', she chokes herself with a plastic bag because "There Must Be An Angel" is so horrible.
* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: It's implied that she drinks herself to sleep. And of course there's her way of dealing with ''[[The Lorax (
* [[Dude, She's Like, in
** In "Rejected Spooning With Spoony Ideas", she puts her hand down a sleeping Todd's pants and humps him before everyone breaks character to laugh.
*** When Todd's on top of her when they're under the Christmas tree, he looks suspiciously unconscious.
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* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: [[Diamanda Hagan]] uses this unfortunate truth to [[Blackmail]] her.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: She says she loves playing in God's domain but cloning Nella is "going way too far".
** Even though she hates Kirk, even she thinks his [[Dropped a Bridge
** Despite her fear of kids, she's disgusted by the adults in ''The Christmas Shoes'' making the child work ''when his mom is dying'' and parents being okay with bad TV babysitting their crotch-dumplings.
* [[Even Nerds Have Standards]]: She's portrayed as an obsessively [[
** She gets to be on the other end of this when Elisa and Critic express disgust at her liking Scooby-Doo.
* [[Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs]]: Wore bows in her hair along with the usual [[Girlish Pigtails]] during the ''[[Beauty and
** Also during ''[[Kickassia]]'', although that was a wig.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Everyone Calls Her Chick]]: Except for Nella and Elisa, nobody calls her by her real name.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: She has one in the ''[[Les Misérables]]'' review and again in the "Top Ten Disney Sequels", when Tinkerbell looks dead.
* [[Evil Overlord|Evil Overlady]]: Her [[Sex Bot]] calls her a dictator and she wanted to be called the rulenatrix when she tried to take over ''[[Kickassia]]''.
* [[Expy]]: There are other people's influence in there of course (such as Critic, [[Tina Fey]], Mike from [[
* [[Fan Girl]]: Played with. Quoth Lindsay:
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* [[Fan Hater]]: Slips into it with ''[[The Lorax (
* [[Fat Slob]]: Parodied. After being away for a few months, Chick has a big belly (really a stuffed shirt), has spent all her time drinking beer/eating cheetos and looks like she's just crawled out of hibernation.
* [[Female Misogynist]]: [[Played for Laughs]]. "I don't know how we stand us."
* [[Femininity Failure]]
* [[Fetish]]: Robots, aliens (especially blue ones) and anything she can make do whatever she wants.
** She'll drift off into her own little world whenever there's a male [[Audio Erotica]] singing voice.
** As lampshaded by Lindsay in the ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' commentary, Critic squirming either literally or metaphorically gets the Chick way too excited.
** She's greatly disappointed when Shang (i.e "the only hot guy in the [[Mulan|movie]]") leaves the crossdressing to the side comedic male characters instead.
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** Bondage. She trades a lot of dommy innuendo with Spoony when she ties him up for their IRiff, and kidnaps Todd regularly to try and invoke [[Abduction Is Love]].
** Softcore porn from Cinemax is her [[Guilty Pleasure]].
* [[Flaw Exploitation|Flaw Exploiter]]: In ''[[From Justin To Kelly]]'', she somehow manages to grab Todd's income sheet and calls him with the given choice of a crossover with her or being so poor he has to dumpster dive.
* [[Fluffy Fashion Feathers]]: Has a white feather boa she wore in the myths of Chanukah video and the first part of the ''[[Showgirls]]'' review, and another one worn in the Critic's ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' crossover.
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* [[Formerly Fat]]: Forty pounds heavier, apparently.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Inverted. While emotional and sexual abuse, bullying in high school and feeling lonely at home are good explanations for why she is the way she is, she shows flashbacks of her being a smackable, bratty [[Emo Teen]] in equal amounts to the [[Dark and Troubled Past]] stuff.
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: She shoots lasers out of her eyes and gleefully hurts Nella's shoulder at the end of the video on Dance Crazes. This useful ability has never come up again.
* [[Funny Character, Boring Actor]]: Inverted. It's not so much that the Chick isn't really funny, but Lindsay is a lot happier and gigglier out of character.
* [[Fur and Loathing]]: Of the [[Rich Bitch]] variety. She's a vegetarian, but showed up for her [[Class Reunion]] in a limo and wearing fur.
* [[Genki Girl]]: When Dr. Tease doses her up on [[Truth Serum]].
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** [[Genre Blindness]]: But she makes a mistake by saying Dark Nella isn't putting her money where her mouth is because she hasn't killed anyone yet.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: She's worn them in various places on her head throughout the series, but they only started to be in the constant same style at "Kirk vs. Picard".
* [[Girl
* [[Glad I Thought of It]]: She steals Nella's idea of Disney needing someone to compete with and acts like it's her own.
* [[The Glasses Gotta Go]]: Parodied in her [[Beautiful All Along]] moment in ''[[Teen Witch (
* [[Going Commando]]: She doesn't wear a bra a lot of the time. Not for [[Fan Service]] reasons, just because the character's a slob.
* [[Gold Digger]]: She follows the path of Eartha Kitt, Madonna and Kylie Minogue and sings about putting out for Santa. Grad school's expensive, y'know.
* [[Go Mad
** Another small one happens when she sees the Spaniard frog...ette in ''[[Thumbelina]]'':
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** The numerous fake-outs of the ''[[She
** She doesn't react well to ''[[Shark Tale]]''. Like, at all. Even a minute of the movie gets her begging [[Will Smith]] to get out of there while he still can.
** The slowed down version of the Chipmunks "All I Want For Christmas" did... something weird to her brain.
** The ''[[
* [[Granola Girl]]: Deconstructed. She's a left-wing, vegetarian environmentalist, but she's also [[Straw Feminist]], [[The Slacker]], dips into [[Eagle Land]] and doesn't care about anyone but herself.
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Her jealousy over Lupa getting Todd's "affection" is enough to turn her into a [[Knife Nut]] and try to [[Murder the Hypotenuse]].
* [[Green Eyes]]: While she tries to keep it down, [[Not So Above It All|oh how she tries]], she has a temper and we saw in ''[[Kickassia]]'' that she's not exactly trustworthy.
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* [[Hates Everyone Equally]]
* [[Head-Tiltingly Kinky]]: In response to learning about Nella's "My Little Pony" obsession.
* [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue]]: The title card version of her has [[Curves in All
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Has a complete crying breakdown in "Spooning With Spoony".
** In her ''[[Hocus Pocus (
** She goes to the beach alone after Nella blows herself up and beforehand, she is genuinely upset about Nella's death by ladder.
** She has her own in the ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' review when Critic breaks down over killing [[
* [[Hidden Depths]]: She owns happy pills to get her at least up to perky levels.
** From the ''[[Hocus Pocus]]'' review, a cat she had got run over and she's ''still'' not over it.
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* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: She's 5"2, most of the guys are around 6 foot. She lampshades this in the ''[[Bratz]]'' review when Critic tries to make himself even taller and she pushes him back down.
* [[Hypocrite]]: She talks about the stupidity of [[Interspecies Romance]] but has a [[Sex Bot]] of her own. When he tries to [[What the Hell, Hero?|call her out on it]], she tells him to shut up.
** Also done intentionally in ''Grease''. She complains about the [[Be a Whore
** She has dislike of movies where the character(s) learn nothing. Even after the Dark Nella saga, she's too oblivious to even ''know'' there was a lesson in treating your friends nicer.
** She's left-wing with a strong dislike of conservative politicians and values, but the joke is that she's actually a racist misanthrope who has problems with both genders.
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* [[I Can't Dance]]: Lindsay can, but the Chick dancing is adorably goofy.
* [[Iconic Item]]: Used to be her bowtie, but now her [[Girlish Pigtails]]. When Lindsay's doing her vlogs or just wants to be out of character (either truly or just the Chick outside of doing reviews... [[Alter Ego Acting]] is complicated), she'll have her hair down or tied up in a different way.
* [[Identical Stranger]]: She looks like [[
* [[Ignored Epiphany]]:
** She ''breaks into Todd's house'' to tell him she's over him, but he offers her a dirty hot pocket and she's back in her obsession.
** There are times during the Dark Nella Saga where she's so close to realizing how she's treated her friend, but she never fully gets it.
** When claiming she's constantly busy but is really just writing hearts and Todd's name in a notebook, she has a brief moment of clarity and hopes she's not being too creepy. She's got worse since then.
** After being able to hear guy thoughts for a while, she has a short moment of believing she'll now be able to respect them and not objectify them anymore. She snorts at the very thought of it.
* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]:
** At the end of the ''[[Transformers]]'' review. Just a little bit "bad touch" there, Chick.
** She looks even more delighted when she has Todd taped to a chair in her apartment.
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* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: While manipulative, able to slip out of trouble easier and a much more credible threat than the Critic, she's just as pitiful, childish and likable.
* [[In Vino Veritas]]: Those pesky depressive emotions come out and get turned [[Up to Eleven]] when she's wasted.
* [[It's All About Me]]:
** Even when Nella is fighting off possession for her, all she can think about is the insult of being called nerdy.
** In ''[[The Craft]]'', the movie has "Protect you from harm against others and harm against yourself" to bind the crazycakes witch. Her version of it is "Protect you from harm against others and harm against ''myself''."
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* [[Jaded Washout]]: She knows it deep down.
** There's also a difference between the Chick and Lindsay on the topic of film school. Lindsay did wonderfully, needed donation money for her project and quit when she did her documentary because she learned all she needed to. Chick, on the other hand, knows about screenwriting but went to Extortion University for a "useless degree in film" and needed donation money to help her spy on Nella.
* [[Jerkass]] [[Jerk
* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]: Because Lindsay is a cool gal and noticed the [[Double Standard]] of people thinking Todd's pursuit of Lupa was automatically creepy but Chick's pursuit of Todd was adorable, the Chick's [[Stalker
* [[Karma Houdini]]: On one hand, she's miserable, lonely and pathetic. On the other, she has a wonderful knack for worming her way out of trouble.
* [[Kawaiiko]]: She tried to invoke this for the longest time. What's interesting though is that the character just couldn't pull it off. The girly smile was too wide, her [[Girlish Pigtails]] were too messy, hair decs seemed to induce insanity and the [[The Ladette]] just couldn't stop shining through.
* [[Kick the Dog]]:
** This hilariously cold comment. You can almost see poor Nella breaking.
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'''Nella:''' [miserably] Nella likes puns. <br />
'''Chick:''' As I was saying, nobody likes puns. <br />
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** According to her ''Grease'' review, she made the [[Sarah Palin]] wig by stealing hair from a hobo. We can only hope it wasn't Chester.
** She slaps her [[Sex Bot]] around unnecessarily in the "Playing God" video.
** She manages a few seconds of shock when learning Chicago got destroyed (i.e Critic's dead) before going back to normal and claiming she never liked the city anyway.
** Happily making Nella do her dishes when Nella had just speechified how she was going to treat her friends with more respect.
** Her trying not to laugh when Todd is crying and having a [[The One That Got Away]] breakdown. Out-of-verse, it's Lindsay giggling at her boy's acting, in-verse it makes the Chick look even more like a sociopath.
* [[Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films]]: How completely terrifying her child self found the shoe-killing-by-dip scene in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' has come up a few times.
* [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]]:
** In the early days, she was a condescending [[Insufferable Genius]]. Later on, she became more like this; an obsessive, still condescending know-it-all, but totally oblivious and it's been hinted that she's not as smart as she thinks she is.
** In a stealth [[Take That]], she gets her definition of [[MacGuffin]] from [[George Lucas]], the bastion of credibility and dignity. She also has the same degree as him.
** Showcased in the ''[[X
* [[Kubrick Stare]]:
** She gets one when she's faced with ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' in her ''[[Thumbelina]]'' review, and couples this with a [[Psychotic Smirk]] when she reminds the Critic he went into her territory and did ''[[
* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Which makes her rare [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|Aw Look She Really Does Care About Critic/Nella/Mignon]] moments all the sweeter.
* [[The Ladette]]: The Dudette, to be precise. Whenever she reviews something really girly, you can ''see'' her aching for some ''[[Transformers]]'' goodness.
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* [[Large Ham]]: Not quite up to the level of her comrades, but she can ham it up a storm whenever she likes.
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: She's not self-aware to see it as such, but she's had her total disregard for other people's privacy or personal space thrown back at her a few times.
* [[Licked
* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: She got spoiled enough that she could afford limos, furs and be a [[Southern Belle]] with very high standards, but Word Of Lindsay is that she felt really isolated at home.
* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: Nella and Elisa have the misguided notion that she's lonely and freakish because she can't stand ''[[The Little Mermaid]]''.
* [[Long Hair Is Feminine]]: Before the character cemented as a [[The Ladette|ladette]] with [[Girlish Pigtails]] constantly in the same place, most of the time she had ''really'' long hair with the pigtails much lower.
* [[Loser Protagonist]]
* [[Lovable Coward]]: Chick, honey, just ignore the red-eyed pony demon if she freaks you out that much.
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: While she usually just takes what she wants with fighting and chloroform (just ask the Critic), with Todd she's mostly a fawning fangirl who can't take a hint.
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* [[Loving a Shadow]]: It's been established twice that what she feels for Todd either isn't real or at least isn't love, yet she's willing to tape him to a chair to get him to stay.
* [[Made of Iron]]: Getting her head exploded doesn't kill her, it just induces unconciousness and a need for happy pills.
* [[Mad Love]]: Have a guess [[Todd in
* [[Madonna-Whore Complex]]: Gender-flipped. [[Todd in
* [[Madness Makeover]]: Her first kidnapping of Todd ( in "''[[Sleepless in Seattle]]'' vs. ''[[When Harry Met Sally...]]''), has her hair static-y and completely unbrushed.
* [[Madness Mantra]]: [[Showgirls|Everybody got AIDS and shit!]] and "[[Disney Animated Canon|Nobody]] [[Dreamworks Animation|likes]] [[Shark Tale|puns]]".
* [[Make an Example of Them]]: She says if she'd been the Evil Queen in ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White]]'', she would have nailed the huntsman to the wall as punishment and as a lesson to the other minions.
* [[Mama Bear]]: She still has no respect for children, but she'll be on their side if the adults in their lives are bad enough. She's fully in the trope for animals, however.
* [[Manipulative Bitch]]: She shows some most excellent qualities of this, especially in ''[[Kickassia]]''. It didn't quite work out, but she never got punished and even got her favorite game as a present from Santa Christ.
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* [[More Deadly Than the Male]]: Most evident in ''[[Kickassia]]'' but with her [[Manipulative Bitch|manipulation]] and [[Magnificent Bitch|magnificentness]], she can make the Critic look almost kitten-ish.
* [[Motor Mouth]]
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Not her primary persona, but she took on this role in these videos; "Linking Up With Linkara", her appearance in a [[Little Black Dress]] in an "[[The Angry Joe Show
* [[Mummies At the Dinner Table]]: No matter how bad Todd can get towards Lupa, at least he wouldn't be okay with making love to her dead body if there was no other option.
* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: She needs it so much that it's one of the functions her [[Sex Bot]] has.
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** It doesn't last long, but she at least has the decency to look guilty when the [[Sex Bot]] is telling her and Dr. Tease off about mistreating him.
* [[The Napoleon]]: She's a [[Tiny Tyrannical Girl|Tiny Tyrannical Woman]] and will often wear high heels to make herself seem taller.
* [[Never Hurt an Innocent]]: She might have a different idea to most as to what counts as "innocent" (see her loathing of kids), but she's horrified at the baby shoe being murdered in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''.
* [[Nice Hat]]: Her leather cap in her video on [[The Smurfette Principle]] and her top hat in ''[[Moulin Rouge]]''. She also wears a cute Santa hat in her "Dreamworks vs. Disney" episode.
* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: When she's fighting the others for Critic's Kickassia hat, she randomly shouts that God is dead and he doesn't exist.
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* [[Noble Bigot]]: Not in the usual meaning of the word "noble", but best showcased the review of ''[[Wild Wild West]]''. Lindsay needs to make feminist and anti-racism points while the Chick needs to remain her terribly racist and sexist self, so the two viewpoints will be meshed to create the trope.
* [[No Social Skills]]
* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]:
** With the Critic, especially in the ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' review. He's just as bad though.
** In a less consenty fashion, a lot of ''[[From Justin To Kelly]]'' is her hanging onto Todd while he looks like he wants to die.
* [[Not Good
* [[Not So Above It All]]: One of her defining traits.
** She likes to believe she's a serious intellectual and superior to [[
** It doesn't take long for the [[Homoerotic Subtext|gayness]] of ''[[He
** In ''[[Mulan]]'': "Oh no, this musical number... it's just so hard not to sing along with... LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS."
** In ''[[Grease]]'': We could go into how counter-intuitive this ending is and how it adds nothing to the story... but this song is... just so... catchy! I GOT CHILLS!" Followed by a sing-a-long and then an [[Oh Crap]].
** Despite all her cynicism and bitchery during the review of ''[[The Last Unicorn (
** When "baby [[Christian Bale]]" shows his face in ''[[Newsies]]'', she acts like the fangirls who she holds so much disdain for.
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** In ''[[The Fifth Element]]'', she does spreading-arms move Leeloo and the singer do before looking around embarrassed.
** A much nicer one occurred at the start of the ''Enchanted Christmas'' review. After spending an episode kvetching over [[Disney Princess
** The crowning example happened at the end of [[The Little Mermaid]], where after spending an episode hating on it, she can't resist singing along to "Part Of Your World".
** In the ''[[X
** Yes Chick, you're totally mature and not interested in Disneyworld. Oh [http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvhxm77ImE1qkxx84o1_500.gif wait...]
* [[Not So Different]]:
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** Due to their similar [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]] humor and some of the more... icky aspects she's revealed of her personal life, there's a few similarities to Ask That Guy too.
** Elisa said on formspring that Dr. Tease wants to take the Chick down on the road of evil science because she sees herself in her.
* [[Not So Stoic]]:
** "Spooning With Spoony". It was the first time where her [[Broken Bird|issues]] came up and she's never been that emotionally open ever again.
** The first time Dark Nella put her in the fridge was the only moment in the saga where she was actually scared. But by the next review (which likely took place only an hour or so later), she's just confused.
** After Critic gives her his heartfelt [[Secret Test of Character]] speech in the ''Bratz'' review, her voice is quivering when she tries to save face and ask if she can punch him.
** When she calls the Critic in the [[Roland Emmerich]] two-parter but finds he's dead and the city's been destroyed, there's a brief but visible look of horror on her face before she [[Kick the Dog|Kicks The Dog]].
* [[Not That There's Anything Wrong
* [[Hypocritical Heartwarming|The Only One Allowed To Beat On You]]: She shows up at the Brawl specifically to save Critic from getting beaten up by the Nerd.
* [[Obliviously Evil]]: It depends on who she's with if she realizes what she's doing to hurt them or not.
* [[Of Corsets Sexy]]: In the "Eight Myths About Hanukkah" video and Critic's ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' review, she wears a black bustier.
* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Woman]]: Well she ''was'', but [[Characterization Marches On|characterization marching on]] had an effect on her sanity.
* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]:
** ''[[Shark Tale]]'' and the horrendous rapping in ''[[Sister Act]] II'' had her tearfully begging the movies to stop. The latter even had [[Please, I Will Do Anything!]], and she's ''never'' done that before.
** She sang that she wouldn't cry about Nella's death because her mascara staying in place was more important? Well that's not the case in [https://web.archive.org/web/20131027030454/http://blip.tv/todds-pop-song-reviews/stronger-what-doesn-t-kill-you-a-pop-song-review-6093489 this] frantic breakdown over Todd.
* [[Oral Fixation Fixation]]: She chews on a pen in ''[[Grease]] II'', and moves to bite a phallic piece of food whenever she's really got it bad for a guy. ([[Todd in
* [[Sir Swearsalot|Madam Swears A Lot]]: Although the word "fuck" is always bleeped out now for [[Rule of Funny]] reasons.
* [[Moment Killer]]: When Mulan picks up the doll when the village is decimated, she does her rapey thrusty thing with 70s porn music.
* [[Narcissist]]: Self-obsessed, wants to control everyone, manipulative, chronically low self-esteem so she desperately needs to be admired, [[Lack of Empathy]], a slacker, doesn't like to admit when she's wrong, not as smart as she thinks she is, easily depressed and had a dismal childhood.
* [[Never My Fault]]: The only time she's apologized to Nella is when she's about to manipulate her.
* [[The Peeping Tom]]:
** While we don't know who the ex is, she sees nothing wrong with still spying on them at night while they sleep.
** She also has cameras scattered about Nella's apartment (including in the bathroom), and at Nella's parents' house.
* [[Pet the Dog]]:
** At the end of her ''[[Ever After (
** Despite abusing him just as much as he did her, she still petted the Critic when he was crying during their ''[[Fern Gully]]'' review.
** Even though she bitches about them a lot, she clearly has a love for Disney. [[Beauty and
** "Blonde Girls Now And Then", otherwise known as an overview on [[Guilty Pleasure]] music, has her asserting the belief to take [[Lady Gaga]]'s advice and just... dance.
** Even though the dog's name means "minion", she does love that puppy.
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** Although not nearly enough to treat her right when she comes back, she really does miss Nella when she dies.
** She takes pretty good care of the Critic in the ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' crossover, being the one to tell him that it's okay to like parts of the movie (even though she herself has problems with that) and looking visibly unhappy after he hits [[Empty Shell]] mode after killing Floss.
* [[Perverse Sexual Lust]]: Let's see... [[Pocahontas]], [[Carmen Sandiego]], [[Meat Loaf]]'s voice, [[David Bowie]], [[Justin Timberlake]], [[Jeff Goldblum]], [[Sean Connery]], [[Will Smith]], [[X
* [[Plain Jane]]: Slightly more understandable because her self-esteem is "biblically" low, but really, a lot of people would agree she's a very pretty woman.
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* [[Politically Incorrect Hero]]: [[Played for Laughs]]. Her only "black friend" is Nella and uses her to prove she's not racist, is a [[Bastard Girlfriend]] who hates men and [[In-Universe|believes]] [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses]], she insults other countries and she's just a touch homophobic when the characters don't meet her standards.
* [[Pretty Fly for
* [[Promoted Fangirl]]: As well as being a fan of TGWTG beforehand and getting on it, she also loves [[
* [[Psychopathic Womanchild]]: She's clearly having a lot of fun watching Nella getting tort- madeover in the ''[[Grease]]'' review. And she has a running gag of screaming "YAY!" with a creepy, overly girly smile on her face, sometimes clapping too.
** She has a few moments of being horrified at "Please Daddy, Don't Get Drunk This Christmas", but she's mostly dancing along happily when Nella and Brian The Sexual Predator act it out.
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* [[Purely Aesthetic Glasses]]: She occasionally wears hipster glasses to try and make herself look like an academic.
* [[Raging Stiffie|Raging Girl-Boner]]: For the ex-con [[Love Interest]] in ''Crossroads''. "Yeah, I got a mount right here for you, Anderson."
* [[Rape
* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]: Usually the lighting makes her seem quite tanned, but you can see her looking pale and pretty in the ''[[Song of the South]]'' and ''[[The Lorax (
* [[The Resenter]]: How she's turned [[Let's See You Do Better]] into a character trait - it's ''fun'' to bitch at people with a lot more success than you'll ever have
* [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses]]: Believes this in-universe as part of the character becoming a [[Straw Feminist]]. In real life, this is one of Lindsay's [[Berserk Button
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The blue to Nella's red
* [[Rich Bitch]]: She's surprisingly shallow.
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* [[Self-Serving Memory]]: In ''[[From Justin To Kelly]]'', she sulks that she was forced to take part in the [[Kickassia|two]] [[Suburban Knights|specials]]. Considering how badly she wanted to rule the former, it's probably best that she remembers it like that.
* [[Seme]]: A [[Rare Female Example]]. Sex where she's ''not'' in power or topping looks like she thinks of it as the worst thing imaginable.
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: [[The Angry Joe Show
* [[She's Got Legs]]
* [[Shotacon]]: While discussing the money-swindling pedophile manager of N*Sync and how he's in jail now, she adds "but not for the little boy touching, but who hasn't done that?"
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* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: Or at least her eleven year old self did... with an [[Dragonheart|honorable dragon]].
* [[The Slacker]]: A [[Rare Female Example]]. Ever since she [[Schedule Slip|came back]], her favorite activity is sitting on the couch, drinking beer and stuffing her face with cheetos.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: If [[Ask That Guy With
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: A [[Rare Female Example]]. She thinks herself as much better than a nerd or a fangirl and she stays in that place by abusing everyone else. In the ''[[Les Misérables]]'' review, she says to [[Jew Wario]] she's the "only one" who can review it properly.
* [[Smitten Teenage Girl|Smitten Woman Child]]: Coupled with [[Loving a Shadow]], her [[Sanity Slippage]] obsession with Todd hasn't been given a reason yet other than she's lonely and feels like she's in need of fixing.
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* [[The Sociopath]]: She has no empathy, is self-centered, doesn't know or care about social norms, uses manipulation and threats to get her way, only rarely shows remorse for her actions and has very little regard for personal boundaries. She also crosses over with [[Narcissist]] due to criminal lack of self-esteem.
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: She has a talent for using flowery explanations some of the time and at others, swearing or using rape analogies to describe how awful it is.
* [[So Proud of You]]: Parodied. In their ''[[Fern Gully]]'' review, when the Critic eventually gets what a [[
* [[Spy Catsuit]]: In her trying on clothes montage in ''Thanks For The Feedback III'', she tries on a catsuit and [[Plain Jane|thinks]] she looks bad.
* [[Stalker
* [[Stocking Filler]]: She's wearing fishnet garters for her cameo in the "Eights Myths About Hanukkah" video and they're part of her burlesque costume in the ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' crossover.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: In a world without Critic, she'd be all perfect smiles, but with an annoying baby and miserable husband.
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* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: [[Pocahontas]] and most of the characters on the ''Top 11 Nostalgic Villainesses''.
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: Along with the [[Tsundere|fire]]. The sugary part of her ''is'' there, it just comes out at very rare moments.
* [[Surrounded
* [[Sweater Girl]]: She has a few nice low cut v-necks in her wardrobe.
* [[Sympathetic POV]]: While we've seen a lot of flaws, we've also seen her damage, her fangirling, the [[Heroic BSOD
* [[Teens Are Short]]: Lindsay being so tiny is probably a good reason why the teenage flashbacks don't look ''completely'' ridiculous.
* [[Telepathy]]: She gains the ability to read guy thoughts for a while because she threw a [[Play Station 3]] controller into a man-bath.
* [[The Thing That Would Not Leave]]: After Nella kicks her out "for some reason", she drives [[Jew Wario]] crazy and refuses to leave. She even brains him with a game console so he could stop annoying her.
* [[Throw the Dog
** She fistpumps happily when Todd agrees to do the Nicholas Cage voice for her in the ''[[City of Angels (musical)|City of Angels]]'' review.
** She finally got a [http://www.facebook.com/toddintheshadows?sk=wall&filter=1#!/toddintheshadows/posts/327090030645107 date with Todd]. Lessened considerably by how much she had to get him wasted, but she's happy about the possibility of "[[Date Rape|blurred judgments and drunken regrets]]".
** A nicer one happens in ''[[Newsies]]''. When the Chick is heartbroken and alone on the beach after thinking Nella is completely dead, the original (and very wet) Nella comes out of the sea to give her a glomp. And as an extra bonus? Dark Nella was a clone, so [[Hannibal Has a Point|she doesn't have to change]].
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* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Tomboy to Obscurus Lupa's Girly Girl.
* [[Took a Level In Dumbass]]: She spends most of the Dark Nella saga being completely oblivious and just not getting anything, even if it's right in her face. Like the jerkass example below, this isn't a bad thing and makes her more fun.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Troll]]: For the greater good, [[Chris Brown]] and [[White Knighting]] fans get what they deserve from her.
* [[Tsundere]]: Tsun towards Critic ([[Jerkass Woobie|who deserves it]]) and deredere towards [[The Angry Joe Show
* [[Twitchy Eye]]:
** ''Enchanted Christmas'' gives her a bad case of this.
** Defied in her review of ''The Christmas Shoes''. As she doesn't have the facial muscle control to read out the lyrics, she hands it over to [[Patton Oswalt]].
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* [[The Unintelligible]]: In the rare times where she has no idea to worm her way out of something embarrassing, like trying to give reasons why she doesn't find Critic attractive, or trying to explain away a fangirly diary to Elisa.
* [[Unlimited Wardrobe]]: Unless it's an arc, she'll rarely wear the same thing twice.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: With [[The Angry Joe Show
* [[Unrequited Love Lasts Forever]]: Due to Lindsay confirming that Chick and in-character!Todd will never get together because of how creepy and wrong it would be, looks like Chick will be staying in hilarious "[[Butt Monkey]] stalker" mode for a while. Of course, on the other hand, she's still [[Ship Tease
* [[Unsettling Gender Reveal]]: As is his [[Jerkass|way]], Ask That Guy claims on the ''[[Kickassia]]'' DVD that she used to be "Nostalgia Chuck".
* [[Used to Be
* [[The Vamp]]: While not like this usually, she acts like it to have some fun with Joe's and Linkara's minds.
* [[Violently Protective Girlfriend|Violently Protective Fuck-Buddy]]: In the Brawl, she enters specifically to rescue the Critic's ass from getting beat up and for all her [[Lack of Empathy]], is pleased to see him safe.
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* [[Vocal Evolution]]: Her voice is lower, throatier and almost constantly tinged with cynicism, rather than the higher, girlier voice of her early days.
* [[Waistcoat of Style]]: Has one in her reviews of ''[[Spice World]]'' and ''[[Song of the South]]''.
* [[Weakness Turns Her On]]:
** Although she doesn't want to help them, she likes making them weaker. She squees that she wants to tie up "baby Christian Bale" when fangirling over him.
** Jareth telling Sarah he'll be her slave in ''[[
** She runs to the pool when she realizes she could get a guy who can bow to her beck and call.
** It's interesting that the most onscreen touch between her and Critic is when he's unconscious by her hand.
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* [[White Collar Worker]]: Before this job, she worked at an office and had a [[Girl Posse]] bitch about her behind her back.
* [[Who's Laughing Now?]]: Tried and failed, judging by how she says the revenge fantasy of showing up to your [[Class Reunion]] in a limo, wearing furs and weighing forty pounds lighter doesn't actually show people up in reality.
* [[Will Not Be a Victim]]: Thanks to her [[Dark and Troubled Past]], she's [[Unable to Cry]], has [[Stopped Caring]], thinks [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]] and tries hard to pretend that her [[Heroic BSOD
* [[Woman of a Thousand Voices]]: While not doing it as much as Doug, she's good at impressions and enjoys doing them.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: She has a love/hate thing going on with Disney. Also with [[Michael Bay]], even it includes a lot more hate than love.
** In-site, Oancitizen. They actually get on quite well (maybe because they both see themselves as above everyone else), but even though she likes using him as a punching bag, he'll call her out on being lazy and condescending.
* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: When the Critic shows up to bitch at her for reviewing ''[[Transformers]]'', she acts all pouty and co-operative so she can back him into a corner by reminding him he did ''[[
* [[White Knighting]]: She gets this from both sides. On one side, you get people forgetting that she runs on [[Black Comedy]] and trying to protect her from stuff ''that she's written''. On the other, you get people thinking her abuse of Nella is real and trying to protect Nella from ''her''. Lindsay has had some [[
* [[Yaoi Fangirl]]: Although she draws the line at [[Shotacon]] and guys who don't fit her version of hotness. One of the reasons why she likes ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'' so much is the [[Foe Yay]] between Basil and Rattigan.
* [[Yandere]]: She's willing to knife Lupa to defend Todd from her "insults" and destroy the competition.
* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]:
** In the "Top Ten Songs About Fucking", Todd gives in to spending time with her (mostly out of boredom), she puts on "Reproduction" from ''[[Grease]] II'' as seduction music and he runs away to iron his dog. Cue pissed off [[Entitled to Have You]] mode.
** In "Sleepless In Seattle vs. When Harry Met Sally", she steals Todd's phone and manages to manipulate him into going on a date with her to the Empire State Building. But then he finds it and walks off (still tied up), leaving her to sulk.
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=== BFF Nella ===
Lindsay's abused, codependent {{spoiler|hired Big Fat}} friend.
* [[Adult Child]]: Especially when [[My Little Pony|My Little Ponies]] are involved. It's all part of her charm.
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* [[Black Best Friend]]: She's adopted. ''Fo' shizzle''.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: When she and Chick first meet, she's confident, professional and backhandedly insulting ("I see I have my work cut for me.") while the Chick is shy as hell. Fast forward to the second half of "Dreamworks Vs. Disney" and she's near to tears when the Chick is mean to her.
* [[Bottle Fairy]]: One of the reasons she goes to the Renaissance Fair is to drink a guy under the table all the time.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: She gets a large bit of it. A "Thanks For The Feedback!" video even jokes that Nella plays this role to make a living.
* [[The Caretaker]]: She's the one who gets the Chick out of her beer and cheetos binge and back to work.
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* [[Chewbacca Defense]]: Whenever she thinks she's losing the "Kirk vs. Picard" debate, she always goes back to Kirk's "KHAAAAAN!".
* [[The Cutie]]
* [[Deal
* [[Designated Monkey]]: "Dance, monkey!"
* [[The Drag Along]]: She ''really'' doesn't want to embarrass herself with dancing in public.
* [[Drop
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* [[Extreme Doormat]]: She'd do ''anything'' for the Chick, although this has lessened since the Dark Nella saga.
* [[Fan Girl]]: The Chick even said she was there to provide mindless [[Squee]].
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* [[Not So Above It All]]: As Lindsay lampshaded on the commentary, she acts much more petty and bratty than usual in the "Kirk vs. Picard" debate.
* [[Only Friend]]: Even worse? Even though she loves her, she gets ''paid'' to be the Chick's friend. Ouch.
* [[Out of Focus]]: Ever since Nella moved to her new place, she's gone back to being more of a [[Drop
* [[Token Good Teammate]]
* [[Perverse Sexual Lust]]: [[In
* [[Proud to Be
* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]: Pulls off some epic ones whenever she gets [[Kick the Dog|kicked]].
* [[Raised Catholic]]: First brought up in "The Top Ten Hottest Animated Guys" and milked completely for laughs in ''[[Sister Act]]''.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The red to the Nostalgia Chick's blue
* [[Sidekick]]: The most straightforward and prominent example on all of [[That Guy With
** Also in the ''[[
* [[Shipper
** Played a little more fucked up when Dark Nella completely and utterly destroys the Critic and his home/city before the Chick can even talk to him.
* [[Weakness Turns Her On]]: In the opposite way to Chick. Her sexual awakening was Thomas from ''[[Pocahontas]]'' because he was a woobie and she wanted to cuddle him.
* [[Wide
=== Dark Nella ===
After Nella's death at the hands of a ladder, she was {{spoiler|cloned and}} resurrected by a quasi-demonic intergalactic force of evil and {{spoiler|the clone}} became Dark Nella, who Won't Take Lindsay's Shit any longer.
* [[Back
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Wears a long black leather coat, one of the clear signs of evil Nella [[Foreshadowing|warned Team NChick about]] in "Inside the NChick Labs".
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: a self-described "quasi-demonic intergalactic force of evil".
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* [[Demonic Possession]]
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: Her saga was this all over. {{spoiler|The Makeover Fairy gets tortured, Lord [[MacGuffin]] and Dr. Tease both get zapped and the Chick gets [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]] while still alive. Though, in the end, she didn't wail on the Chick that much, with a whole world to conquer.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Dying
* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Not that regular Nella isn't, but she got extra so when she turned dark.
* [[Everythings Better With Bunnies]]: Has one briefly. {{spoiler|Lindsay's dog ate it.}}
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* [[Excessive Evil Eyeshadow]]: How the Chick realizes that she's now evil.
* [[Hannibal Has a Point]]: The Chick treated her like shit and really is a pitiful waste of space. But because Dark Nella's a clone and "not the real Nella", everyone's favorite sociopath doesn't have to change. Yay!
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: ''Everyone'' calls her a "quasi-demonic intergalactic force of evil". Every single time.
* [[Kick the Son of
* [[Powers Via Possession]]
* [[Cosmic Horror|Quasi-Demonic Intergalactic Horror]]
* [[Shock and Awe]]/[[Psycho Electro]]: The trailer shows her shocking Lord [[MacGuffin]] and Dr. Tease with a "[[Star Wars|Force Lightning]]"-type power.
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]
* [[The Undead]]
* [[Took a Level
* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: She takes time out of her busy schedule to lounge by a pool and get some sun.
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* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Dr. Tease implanted a chip that suppresses all memory of her past life, including her beloved and yet deceased husband.
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Thanks to Dr. Tease's chip.
* [[Mad Scientist]]:<ref>"In fact, I'm [[Just for Pun|furious]]."</ref>
* [[Meganekko]]
* [[Moment Killer]]: Her name ''is'' Dr. Cock Block.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Don't ask her about Rio. ''Never'' ask her about Rio.
* [[Punny Name]]: '''Coch'''ram Block.
* [[Put
** [[The Bus Came Back]]: In the ''[[Tron]]'' review.
* [[Straight Man|Straight Woman]]: She hams it up a storm in her first appearance, but since then she's played this role to Dr. Tease, since she isn't the one injecting people with [[Truth Serum]], cloning unicorns, planning to experiment on nerds and so on.
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One of the Chick's friends, pressed into a supporting role in the videos when the video needs someone who isn't Nella, another TGWTG contributor, evil, or particularly crazy.
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* [[Adult Child]]: Her room is filled with ''[[Phantom of the Opera]]'' dolls and cuddly toys.
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: She has, to date, been chased by the Christmas Shoes, had to portray Kyle MacLachlan while P-Cash gave her an unenthusiastic lapdance while he was reading a book, and (as the Makeover Fairy) had a nervous breakdown trying to give Nella and Todd makeovers.
* [[Fag Hag]]: Although she doesn't fit the trope exactly, she is a bit of a fangirl for Beef from [[Phantom of the Paradise]], but who wouldn't be?
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: With Nella, while playing a little girl in the [[Parody Commercial
* [[Girl
* [[Informed Attractiveness]]: How attractive the other characters think she is depends on the joke - the Chick ignored her for every female role in the ''Showgirls'' review, but she was one of Lindsay's hotter friends in "Thanks For The Feedback".
* [[Large Ham]]: Nella even has to make a deal with her that if she has to limit her ''[[Star Trek]]'' references, Elisa has to tone down the morbid theatrics.
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* [[She's Got Legs]]: You can really seem them when she put on a Jem-like outfit or her [[Little Black Dress]] in "Thanks For The Feedback II".
* [[Split Personality]]: [[Welshy]] believes (or realises) that her characters are all the same person.
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** She's also genuinely confused when the Chick expresses surprise that she's not wearing her Maven "vampire shit".
* [[Women Prefer Strong Men]]: Unlike Nella who loves the [[Moe]] boys and Chick who wants someone to control, she prefers the [[Badass]] stoic type like Goliath and Batman.
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* [[Broken Bird]]: Getting her agitated and crying is ridiculously easy.
* [[Cute but Cacophonic]]: Unlike Elisa's normal voice and the suave tone she uses for Dr. Tease, the Makeover Fairy is rather shrill and screechy.
* [[
* [[The Fair Folk]]
* [[Fairy Sexy]]
* [[Fake Nationality]]: In the ''Grease 2'' review she claims to be [[
* [[The Fashionista]]
* [[Giggling Villain]]
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* [[Leitmotif]]: The "Makeover" song from ''[[Clone High]]''.
* [[Nervous Wreck]]
* [[Psychopathic Womanchild]]: Her boudoir is filled with pink, girly things.
* [[Retool]]: [[Atop the Fourth Wall
* [[Shadow Archetype]]: She's what the Chick would have been like if she was consumed with the need to be happy, popular and girly.
* [[Slasher Smile]]
* [[Speak of the Devil]]: Just talking about strange fashions is enough make her appear.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: She's very upbeat and cheerful, but when thing don't go to plan it starts seeming forced, with desperation and panic seeping through. When she can't get Nella or Todd looking "right", she has a [[Villainous Breakdown]].
* [[Unnecessary Makeover]]: Parodied and invoked in the ''Grease'' review, as she resorts to ever more desperate measures to make Nella look presentable. The [[Fan Dumb]] [[White Knighting|went crazy]] and it had to be explained over and over again that [[Self-Deprecation|Nella actually wrote the thing]] and Lindsay is a [[Mean Character, Nice Actor|Mean Character, Nice Actress]].
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* [[Brutal Honesty]]: When she's not lying to cover her ass anyway.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Exactly!"
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: She was a lot more muted in her first appearance. Even Lindsay think Dr. Tease got her character in ''[[X
* [[A Day in
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Not on the levels of, say, Ask That Guy, Master Bate and Spoony, but she's a horrible person who can't stop herself from hitting on everyone.
* [[For Science!]]: She likes to create cool things without any consideration for the consequences.
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* [[The Tease]]: Hell, it's even stated in her name.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Dr Block's the tomboy, she is the girly girl.
* [[Unkempt Beauty]]: Aside from her first appearance, her hair is always very disheveled.
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: [[Welshy]] manages to defeat her with a picture of an adorable puppy.
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Elisa at night. ''Major'' vampire fangirl and wannabe goth. Doesn't want to get a job. A pain in the Chick's ass.
* [[Alter Ego Acting]]: Even in-universe, she's really just Elisa's character indulging her pretentious vampire fangirl side.
** Welshy [https://web.archive.org/web/20140618182117/http://blip.tv/welshy/welshy-reviews-casino-royale-part-1-6012470 even asked] "what facet of your character am I talking to?"
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: She can be sweet and lovable when she wants to, but she selfishly ruined the Chick's computer with a virus, has admitted to doing horrible things and beats on Dan with Lindsay just because he drank some beer that didn't belong to him.
* [[Compassionate Critic]]: She complains because she loves, and even that's sprinkled amidst the fangirling.
* [[Clones Are People, Too]]: By a "freak accident of science", she's a clone of Dr. Tease.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: She might be the hammiest of Elisa's characters, but still has her moments.
* [[Drama Queen]]: Goes into tears at the slightest provocation.
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: She has a girl-crush on Lily Cole.
* [[Hair of Gold]]: To show off her childishness.
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* [[Genius Ditz]]: Fairly gullible and flighty, she's still genuinely good at analyzing the crap out of something.
* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: She doesn't realize the appeal of cat-suits, long gloves, low cut dresses and corsets.
* [[Loser Protagonist]]
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Her obsession for vampires is why she's doing the show in the first place.
* [[Not a Morning Person]]: Being a wannabe vampire and all, she's almost totally nocturnal.
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* [[Evil Redhead]]: He was the one that indirectly killed Nella.
* [[MacGuffin]]: Lord [[MacGuffin]] is introduced to describe what a [[MacGuffin]] really is. He even tries to inject them into the review itself.
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'''Nostalgia Chick''': What?
'''Lord [[MacGuffin]]''': The Spice must flow.
'''Nostalgia Chick''': See... I don't understand what you mean. See that's my problem with this movie in general is the fact that-
'''Lord [[MacGuffin]]''': [Pulls out a handgun, cocks it, and points it at the Chick] [[
* [[Nice Hat]]: A propeller beanie.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: He really is just doing his job.
* [[Purely Aesthetic Glasses]]: When he's explaining things.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have
=== Brian the Sexual Predator ===
Abusive husband and frequent rapist. Fond of roofies. And rapping.
* [[Anything That Moves]]: Hit on P-Cash, and left DNA in poor little Mignon.
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* [[Domestic Abuser]]
* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]
* [[Sarcastic Confession]]: He immediately tells the Chick that he put roofies in her drink when she asks, but she thinks he's kidding. Then she falls unconscious.
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Poor Nella.
=== P-Cash ===
A hooded non-actor more interested in books than his surroundings.
* [[Cool Shades]]: He never takes them off.
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=== Tammy ===
The woman responsible for the ''[[Wii Fit]]''. Still hanging from her pull-up bar after the last ''[[Hercules (
* [[A
* [[Gamer Chick]]: In contrast to the lazy Chick and Nella.
* [[Remember the New Guy?|Remember The New Girl]]: Her first appearance was hanging upside down in the ''[[Hercules (
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]
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* [[Aloof Ally]]: To be fair to her, the Chick and The Makeover Fairy didn't give her much reasons to like them.
* [[Darkness
* [[Goth]]
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]
=== Dish-Doing-Coffee-Making-Sentient-Robot-Sex-Slave ===
[[Exactly What It Says
* [[Character Blog]]: He has his own twitter [http://twitter.com/saucybot now]. He'd rather have a [[
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[I Cannot Self-Terminate]]: "Why was I programmed against suicide?"
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* [[Tin Can Robot]]
* [[Token Good Teammate]]: Took the role when Nella is dead. He could have left his abusive mistress in the fridge but he got her out anyway.
** [[Turned Against Their Masters|Turned Against His Mistress]]: The next time she's in there he doesn't help.
* [[What Happened to
=== Mignon ===
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* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: While it's stated that her name is French for "minion", "mignon" is actually French for "cute."
* [[Cuteness Proximity]]: Can turn the most cynical of reviewers and the most evil of forces into d'awwing piles of goo.
* [[Deal
* [[Dogs Are Dumb]]: As the Chick said, she wouldn't survive two days in the wild.
* [[Precious Puppies]]: For added cuteness... and more rape jokes.
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'''Brian:''' [Grinning suggestively] [[Squick|I put some]] [[Crosses the Line Twice|DNA in that puppy...]] }}
** Even {{spoiler|Dark Nella}} likes the puppy.
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* [[Moment Killer]]: She bounces up whenever she feels like it, the situation be damned.
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Any time a fellow contributor sees her, they have no choice but to cuddle her.
* [[Unfortunate Name]]: Her name is French for "minion". Must suck having a mistress with ego problems.
=== Fred the Bear ===
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: He's usually able to deal with his situation pretty well.
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Remember that Gallery of Ancient Horrors Video (Lindsay's old school project). Remember that guy in the video. That's him.
* [[Lovable Sex Maniac]]: Is revealed to be this when the Chick gains the ability to hear his thoughts. ''"Boobs boobs boobs."''
* [[Pretty Boy]]: Even if they can't remember him, Chick was his girlfriend in high school and Maven liked him enough to want to suck his blood. However they're more than willing to smash his face in for drinking their beer.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: In real life, he's very sweet and fiercely protective of his ladyfriends.
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