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* [[Actor Shipping]]: Lindsay/Nella is quite popular, mostly for people who want unabashedly fluffy [[Ho Yay|Les Yay]] instead of abuse and fucked-upness.

** Even though he's engaged and she's dating Todd, Lindsay/Doug is also popular. The reason is basically the same - fluff and cuteness. And both of these are just for fun.

* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: Is the Chick a hypocritical [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]] who abuses people constantly to make herself feel better and is just as messed up as the Critic, or an intelligent, calm [[Closer to Earth]] feminist? There are enough people who believe either choice.

* [[Arc Fatigue]]: To some fans (that being why it's on this page) "The Dark Nella Saga" just kept going and going and going... (Well, it ''is'' a [[Fridge Brilliance|saga]].) But the problem was probably less the length of the arc itself - seven episodes, probably edging on three hours, all told - and more how an arc that seemed like it would be played out over a few weeks took two and a half months to release.

** Nella's road trip-style summary of ''[[Showgirls]]''.

** Lindsay leading her friends in a performance of ''[[Newsies]]''' "Seize the Day."

* [[Base Breaker]]: See [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] below. Check the comments for many videos Nella appears in and you'll find plenty that lament her getting screen time.

** Fans of the [[Disney Renaissance]] tend to [[Understatement|hate]] her.

** Her [[Driven to Madness]] [[Heroic BSOD]] over how pathetic reviewing makes her was never brought up again.

* [[Broken Base]]: Usually between those who prefer the style of her newer reviews - i.e. the ones featuring the supporting cast and based more around analysing tropes - and those who liked the linear reviews she originally put out.

* [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch]]: The people who think of her as a militantly feminist, unfunny hippie lovechild. The [[Politically Incorrect Hero]]-ism and the [[Black Comedy]] aren't ''that'' hard to spot.

* [[Crosses the Line Twice]]:

** Nearly all the "[[Christmas Songs]]" video qualifies. She gets roofied by Brian the Sex Predator, makes her face look like a skeleton at one point and does a pretty good imitation of [[The Joker]] when she's mocking the "Christmas Shoes" [[Glurge]]. The video that accompanies "Please, Daddy, Don't Get Drunk This Christmas" goes from disturbing to hilarious when {{spoiler|the realistic domestic abuse gives way to stop-hitting-yourself's and noogies}}. It was also her first [[Black Comedy]] video, which set the standard for the following episodes.

** The [[Creepy Uncle]] joke in her "Enchanted Christmas" review.

** [[Noah Antwiler|Spoony]] said in his commentary that "[[Black Comedy Rape|Spooning With Spoony]]" was her creation, not his.

** Her response to the guy in ''[[Showgirls]]'' saying his girlfriend is having a baby: "Why not just shove her down the stairs and hope for the best?"

* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: In her second "Thanks For The Feedback" video, she made a music video featuring [[Black Comedy Rape|a rap song about rape]]. The video was almost universally reviled as being in poor taste, and has since been taken down. Although not for that reason; [[Word of God]] says that she wasn't happy with the edit and didn't want it to be put up anyway.

** While the backlash was much bigger when the Critic made his joke, her comment about "autistic temper tantrums" got people rather angry.

** While the majority loved both episodes for [[Refuge in Audacity]], there was a certain [[Yaoi Fangirl|section]] of the fanbase that ''hated'' her for coming up with the idea of the [[Het Is Ew|first]] "Spooning With Spoony".

** P-Cash was pretty much the only thing in the infamous "Rape Rap" video that got a consistently positive reaction.

** The [[Sex Bot]] went away for a long time, but was loved and now is in a lot more episodes.

** Elisa has actually gotten her own show: Maven of the Eventide. She's come a long way from the Makeover Fairy.

* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: The Chick's [[Slasher Smile]] when she's being evil is both adorable and utterly terrifying.

** We also have Dr. Tease, The Makeover Fairy and even Brian The Sexual Predator has his fans when he wears a leather jacket.

* [[Fan Dumb]]: Her fans can be extremely clingy at times. On the forums, the personal nature of her FAQ thread drove her away and it took a while before they got that she wasn't coming back to answer any more questions.

*** This is a genuine comment on her Facebook page: "Compared to Lindsay's brand of humor, Doug is like a monkey throwing feces at a sad zoo-going child eating a tarnished ice cream cone." Uh, a touch unfair, don't you think?

** Even though she made fun of this attitude ''herself'' in ''[[Kickassia]]'', they also seem to think that she has the very worst [[Hate Dumb]] and she only gets criticized because she's female. While the shit-stirring trolls ''do'' go for sexism with her, everyone on TGWTG gets threats and creepiness and other nasty things. It just shows that they think she's a woman to be protected first and a person (who can so clearly look after herself) second.

** She's made two abortion jokes, one in ''Grease'' about coat hangers and the other in ''Showgirls'' about pushing the pregnant woman down the stairs. Even though she can joke about whatever the hell she wants, people didn't like these because of her own abortion about half a year prior.

* [[Fountain of Memes]]

* [[Growing the Beard]]: She began to develop more of her own review style starting roughly around the time of her ''[[Armageddon]]'' review, after which her BFF Nella became a regular on the show. Around this point is when her reviews took on a more trope based look with a lot more [[Sketch Comedy]]. Then again, see [[Broken Base]] above. And arguably, her "Top 10 Disturbing and Inescapable Christmas Songs" list proved that [[Black Comedy|dark, disturbing humor]] is what she's ''really'' good at.

** The Chick as a character really cemented finally at "Playing God", when she got her [[Sex Bot]].

* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: She took quite a bit of heat for her [[Schedule Slip]] during 2009-10. Which is pretty painful after the news came out that she was a little busy ''getting an abortion'', and then making a documentary about it for her master's thesis. She should be respected for still being around and making funny videos for the internet even while that was happening.

** In her weight-issues-discussing "Thanks For The Feedback", she mentions that people judge her appearance far more than they do the Critic's. The playing field is leveling out a bit more now, with comments about the "cellulite" on his legs in ''[[Suburban Knights]]'', how he would look much better if he lost a few stone and how he should stop raiding his fridge more than five times a day.

** You get people willfully ignoring that Chick is a very different persona from Lindsay and calling the latter a snobby fandom-hater when she's clearly not.

* [[Heartwarming in Hindsight]]: In the first "Thanks For The Feedback", the Critic breaks down and shout-asks her if she even cares about him. She doesn't have time to answer before he storms off, but various episodes later on show pretty clearly that he's one of the very few people she ''does'' give a shit about.

** In her early reviews, she liked making fun of [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] between characters and how people seemed to think that was entertaining. She has a [[The Masochism Tango|Masochism Tango]]/[[Dating Catwoman]] thing with the Critic that's incredibly enjoyable for both us and them.

** "And besides, who's going to be interested in a female character who's pretty shamelessly a knock-off of her already popular male counterpart?" Seeing how fricking huge the character sheet is, evidently quite a lot of people.

* [[Hollywood Homely]]: Nella, especially in the ''[[Grease]]'' review. Many [[Comically Missing the Point|Comically Missed the Point]] and treated her like a [[The Woobie|woobie]], not listening to the fact that Nella wrote that sideplot ''herself'' and is perfectly happy with her appearance.

* [[Ho Yay]]: Actually a Les Yay with BFF Nella:

** Also with MarzGurl in "Linking up with Linkara", although that was a prank.

* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: The Chick is horrible to Nella, has an abused [[Sex Bot]] and tried to overthrow the Critic for [[The Starscream|her own gain]] in ''[[Kickassia]]'', but she has terrible self-esteem, has a heart of... not gold exactly but bronze, had an bad childhood that she still has issues over and totally broke down in "Spooning With Spoony".

** And now we have her crush on Todd, who ignores her entirely no matter how hard she tries because of his continual obsession with Lupa. It's pathetic, kinda scary (a parody of ''[[Misery]]'' was even cut for ''too'' much creepiness) and established as not love, but like his own pathetic obsession, she's so fucked up about it that you kinda have to feel bad for her.

* [[Memetic Molester]]: The TGWTG [[Kink Meme]] usually paints the Chick as a [[Bastard Girlfriend|dommy]] [[Comedic Sociopathy|sociopath]] who likes to pick up guys (and girls) with chloroform.

* [[Misaimed Fandom]]: In the Chick/Todd/Lupa [[Fan Nickname|Triangle Of Rejection]], the only one you're meant to feel properly sorry and root for is Lupa. Chick and Todd are only sympathetic because they're so pitiful and for either of them to get what they want (when the object of their affections ''really'' doesn't return the feelings) would be creepy as hell.

** To Lindsay's irritation, the character is seen sometimes as a feminist role model, and [[Girls Need Role Models|even gets bashed for not being one]]. While she says plenty of valid things, she's at heart an abusive, judgmental, stalking, over-exaggerated comedy character not to be taken seriously.

* [[Moe]]: Nella for being an abused [[Woman Child]] and Maven for being a pretentious but lovable [[Perky Goth]] fangirl.

* [[Narm Charm]]: The last half of the "Kirk vs. Picard video", where Chick and Nella meet to do battle, is ''gloriously'' cheesy.

* [[Never Live It Down]]: Even though it was [[Lost Forever|taken off the site]] quickly, the "Rapping About Rape" video and all the drama surrounding it.

** Her [[Refuge in Audacity]] "worse than seven holocausts" comment seems to be getting there too.

** God, you chloroform one guy in a sexualized, enjoying-yourself-immensely way and suddenly you're the chloroform queen. (This is a lighter example than the rest, obviously.)

** In an also lighter sense and around twitter, being an "obsessive compulsive stickler for pitch" and autotuning the majority of people in the musical numbers. Even though mostly by one or two notes.

* [[Older Than They Think]]: Fred The Bear predates [[Image Boards|4chan]] itself and therefore Pedobear by at least four years.

* [[Paranoia Fuel]]: She seems to know exactly when Todd is miserable and is willing to make him feel even worse so he can do what she wants. For anyone who's been stalked, it'll hit too close to home even though it's [[Played for Laughs]].

* [[Rewatch Bonus]]: You'll be surprised to see just how many moments in the earlier reviews that seemed like a prototype of the messed up, trying-to-be-sane-but-failing [[Psychopathic Manchild|Psychopathic Womanchild]] character we have today.

* [[He Panned It, Now He Sucks|She Panned It, Now She Sucks]]: She pissed off quite a few people with her negative review of ''[[Dune]]''.

*** Notably, Lindsay's actual opinion of Hercules sums up to "It was flawed, but I DO enjoy it."

** People who liked ''[[Dragonheart]]'' for more than just the "fucking dragon", bitched heavily after her review of it too.

** Not everyone agrees with her view that ''[[Shrek]]'' was a hate-filled [[Take That]] at Disney.

** ''[[The Fifth Element]]''. Many people think she really misrepresented this film, especially when she didn't show Leeloo kicking ass so she could complain about her being [[The Chick]].

** Many fans of ''Jem'' were very angry at Lindsy for her panning the series, the biggest complaint came from her not even bothering to watch the series entirely before she reviewed it.

* [[He Really Can Act (Sugar Wiki)|She Really Can Act]]: Nella in the Dark Nella Saga. Funny, genuinely scary and able to go to between "a quasi-demonic force of evil" and her usual fangirly self.

* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: Nella and Elisa have gained more prominence in her newer reviews.

* [[Unpopular Popular Character]]: Nella, oh so much.

* [[Vocal Minority]]: Like how Critic fangirls don't actually want him [[Bound and Gagged]] in their basement, most Chick fanboys are respectful people who think she's great fun to watch (so not just something pretty to look at) and don't insult other contributors when praising her.

* [[Yoko Oh No]]: While the majority of Critic fangirls love her, there are a crazy few with either a [[Double Standard]] regarding skits and humor or just like talking about how they'd enjoy beating the shit out of her while calling him adorable. The fact that Doug seems to love Lindsay like a little sister doesn't seem to enter into their heads.