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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.
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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]].
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* [[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.
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* [[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 (Disney film)|Hercules]]'' review, she tells anyone [[They Just Didn't Care|complaining about how the movie isn't like the Greek myths]] to "go put a ballgag in your mouth and sit in the corner".
* [[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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* [[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.
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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 [[
{{quote| "Who's going to be interested in [[She Ra|a female character]] who's quite obviously a knock-off of her more popular male counterpart? ... Heh." (pouts)}}
* [[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|Plot Holes]] in the ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]'' culminate in a tearful "Why isn't anyone listening to me?!"
** A small one comes from [[Taylor Swift]]'s vapid song "You Belong With Me" being played over and over:
{{quote| '''Chick''': '''Enough!'''}}
** 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 Beast The Enchanted Christmas]]'' drives her to yelling, twitching and crying multiple times.
** The octopus in ''[[Peter Pan]] II'' makes her scream "'''HAAAATE'''" over and over.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: In ''[[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 [[Geek|geeky]] shut-in obsessed with nostalgic movies, and she enjoys making fun of [[Fan Girl|fangirls]] and bad [[Fanfic]].
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* [[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:
{{quote| "I think Nostalgia Chick kinda embodies the self hate of the fangirl, like I'm not like that, I don't write Mary Sue fanfiction, I'm far better than that."}}
* [[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."
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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.
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** 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]].
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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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* [[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.
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** 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]]''.
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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 (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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** 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 [[Squee|squeeing]] fans, but deep down she's a nerdy fangirl, and it often slips out.
** 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.
{{quote| '''Chick''': [looking guilty] I'm sure that's maybe part of it.}}
** 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|Disney Princesses]], she admits gushily that she loves the hell out of [[Beauty and
** 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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** 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.
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** ''[[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 [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.
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** 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.
{{quote| '''Chick''': [crying] I'm so ashamed of my body!}}
* [[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|Berserk Buttons]].
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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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* [[So Proud of You]]: Parodied. In their ''[[Fern Gully]]'' review, when the Critic eventually gets what a [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]] is, she proudly pinches his cheek like he was a child.
* [[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|Heroic BSODs]], how she regrets the past and showing that she actually does care about certain things.
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* [[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]]'' 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]]".
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* [[Took a Level In Jerkass]]: But she's ''much'' more fun this way.
* [[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.
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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|Ship Teased]] heavily with the [[Les Yay|usual]] [[The Nostalgia Critic
* [[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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* [[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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* [[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 [[Troll|trolling]] fun with this, making a new account to insult herself on livestreams and watching the white-knights swarm like flies.
* [[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.
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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.
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* [[Out of Focus]]: Ever since Nella moved to her new place, she's gone back to being more of a [[Drop in Character]].
* [[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 ===
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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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* [[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]]
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* [[Noodle Incident]]: Don't ask her about Rio. ''Never'' ask her about Rio. <ref> Drug her, then ask her about Rio.</ref>
* [[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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* [[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|Parody Commercials]] for "Nostalgic Baby Dolls".
* [[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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* [[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]]
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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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* [[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 ===
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=== Tammy ===
The woman responsible for the ''[[Wii Fit]]''. Still hanging from her pull-up bar after the last ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]'' [[Drinking Game]].
* [[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 (Disney film)|Hercules]]'' review. Her real introduction was the "Wii Fit" sketch months later. (Presumably, she's been around the whole time and has just never joined in the fun before then.)
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]
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=== 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 [[Live Journal]].
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* [[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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