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-->'''Critic''': Now granted I didn't grow up as a girl... for long. *looks embarrassed and about to cry* I have a history.

* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: Male version. Whenever someone else ([[DistressedDude Game Heroes]], [[BlackComedyRape Spoony]], [[BastardGirlfriend Chick]] etc.) makes him the victim.

** In their battles, WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd had a [[FoeYay special]] fondness for pulling it for the sake of pulling it.

* RaisedCatholic: Quite conservatively so, which provides a good excuse for his moments of uncertainty as to if being gay is a choice or not.

** He was on the verge of solving world hunger and cure all unknown diseases when ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' popped into his head and broke all concentration.

** For an example that happened in the same review, RealityEnsues for the ''Master Of Disguise'' breakdown and he gets in trouble, but he lucidly punches Rachel in the gut at the end of the episode and leaves her on the ground, not caring [[DomesticAbuse what that must look like in context]].

* TookALevelInJerkass[=/=]SanitySlippage: Things started to go wrong really quickly. There was "The Review Must Go On" where he gaslighted Doug, "An Odd Life Of Timothy Green" where he killed a cat, and both "Son Of The Mask" and "Food Fight" have him broken to a degree that the ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' breakdown can't reach. The "Master Of Disguise" review had RealityEnsues when he's forced to go an asylum for a freak out, then he went Jack Nicholson on Rachel during The Shining review, and it's just gotten worse from there. He's seriously injured Malcolm for ''extremely'' petty reasons, and outright MURDERED the Happy Maddison audience. He's reached a level of AxCrazy that is unprecedented by anything seen before. Perhaps taking him out of the plot hole WASN'T [[CameBackWrong the best idea.]]

** Although it seems he only does this with women who can give as good as they get. He's disgusted with ''Film/GoodBurger'' for Carmen Electra getting beaten up and having it played for laughs, which causes {{irony}} for later, as he hits Rachel and Tamara a lot and while Tamara will usually get her own back eventually, Rachel [[RealityEnsues cried when he was scaring her and stayed down when he beats her outside]].

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** The cheerleading outfit in ''Christmas Story II'' was to prove a point (if a {{fanservice}} one), but the accompanying vlog has him put the mini-skirt to his waist and swing it around curiously. Hyper then interrupts, lunging at him and making him freak before the video cuts out. It also got spoilered in the "Carpet Diem" vlog, as the review aired a few days later and Doug says that because he's been in drag a million times and will be again, the fans mock him constantly and say he's {{Transgender}}.

** After going through hell with Sequel Month, he gets to enjoy himself with ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons''.

* NotSoDifferent: There are an essay's worth of similarities between him and The Nostalgia Chick. Ask That Guy is also his EvilCounterpart.
** In his review of ''Bio-Dome'', the Critic screams "ASS!" to express rage -- a trademark of [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd his rival.]]
** Oddly enough, his reboot self to the (fictional) head of TMZ. Both are loud, both are hypocrites, both abuse their underlings until they cry, both like crossdressing and act obnoxiously manly to compensate for any queerness, and both have a lot of WeightWoe issues.
** He and Hyper have actually a lot in common, like he snuck into a woman's bedroom, watched her sleep and it ended badly, while she snuck into his room and kidnapped him, but because she refuses to see his flaws (or that he doesn't want her in the first place), she doesn't go for that angle and tries to be OneOfTheBoys (also not bothering to get that he's more femme than that.)
** After fuming about the HotterAndSexier Onceler from ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'', he's upset to learn that he's been calculatingly marketed to cater to hipster fangirls too.

* ReallyGetsAround: Just not quite in the way he wants. This quality increased for insecurity reasons in 2012. In the PQH Star Wars edition, he's glad for "what happens on [], stays on []" rule cos he's a massive slut.

** He tells Shyamalan in ''Film/AfterEarth'' that he killed him twice, but that's not remotely true. Aang killed him in ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' while Critic was useless, and the Devil sent him back to hell in ''{{Devil}}'' while Critic was a DistressedDude about to get talent bended for the second time.

* WeightWoe: As he gets thinner, he insults HollywoodPudgy actors more and more. Even WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob doesn't escape in the review of ''[[{{Film/Paranoia2011}} Paranoia]]''. In the ''Dragonbored'' review, he even bitches that Jimbroth (obviously played by Doug) is too doughy and could only bench-press two pounds at most.

* ProneToTears: Luckily he mixes this with more {{Hotblooded}} tropes, but he breaks down in tears often for no reason. The ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'' parody in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'' calls him a crybaby.

* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: He was raised as a girl for a short while in childhood and his identity issues are a bit of a RunningGag. He also cries literally in his first commercials special that he's not a man, which even if you take as just thinking he's too pathetic, is still pretty relatable to people with gender issues. And he goes between being proud of and sulking about his dick, a common trait of trans men.

* {{Transgender}}: At some point he grew up as female, he takes testostorone pills, and he has repeatedly asked if he was born as a girl. Plus he's able to get pregnant by Chick, even if it is by ''[[WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest Ferngully]]'' magic.

* PsychopathicManchild: He's like a twelve year old kid with a gun. During his Disneycember review, Doug says he took a lot of the character's "pathetic whiny brat in a grown person's body" part from the Red Queen in ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''.

* PsychopathicManchild: He's like a twelve year old kid with a gun. During his Disneycember review, Doug says he took a lot of the character's "pathetic whiny brat in a grown person's body" part from the Red Queen in ''Disney/AliceInWonderland''.

** Even though the Ghost Of Christmas Future has been an annoying, stalker-like bastard throughout the ''Film/BabesInToyland'' review, when the Critic sees that he's depressed, he acts very fatherly and comforting towards him. He then makes the mistake of letting the ghost choose what movie he should suffer through next, and the ghost ''immediately'' picks ''TheGrinch''.

* TragicHero: Tragically funny. He genuinely wants to be a NiceGuy or at least feel more optimistic about things, but he can never quite quell his temper. PlayedForDrama in ''ScoobyDoo'' and WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee.

* SpeakOfTheDevil: He pops up in the Chick's review of ''{{Transformers}}'' when she says the word "manchildren". Also when Maven says the words "nostalgia nostalgia nostalgia" in her Count Chocula review.

** In his review of ''Bio-Dome'', the Critic screams "ASS!" to express rage - a trademark of [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd his rival.]]

** After fuming about the HotterAndSexier Onceler from ''Film/TheLorax'', he's upset to learn that he's been calculatingly marketed to cater to hipster fangirls too.

** Inverted in ''Film/TheLorax'' when he asks the analysts didn't he kill them both in ''Film/TheCatInTheHat''. He didn't actually ''kill'' them himself, he just drove them to suicide.

** Deconstructed in ''Film/TheLorax'', where he realizes he's dressed the way he is to attract a female audience, and he's just as packaged as the new Onceler.

* SerialKiller: Technically, he is this, even if he's never called one InUniverze, as he has murdered numerous people over the years, from Dr. Bitch Spasms, to Lucky the Leprechaun, to the Madison family in ''Eight Crazy Nights'', to destroying entire planets with his love of Christmas.

** And there's ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'', where he wears a ''very'' skimpy costume. [[InnocentFanserviceBoy Critic]] didn't know what he was doing, but Doug evidently did.

* YaoiFanboy: He sees the HoYay in [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Superman/Lex Luthor]], [[LordOfTheRings Frodo/Sam]], [[Series/AmericanIdol Simon Cowell/Ryan Seacrest]], [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batman/Robin]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}} Leonardo/Raphael]].

* SandInMyEyes: In ''RomeoAndJuliet'', ''Why is Arthur Christmas a Masterpiece?'', ''The Looney Tunes Show - Good or Bad?'' and the ''E-Sults'' advertisement, his eyes are red and worn-out looking, a bit like he'd just been crying before filming. In no video is this addressed.

** At the end of ''Film/ExorcistIITheHeretic'' review, the "great spirits" let him know that he doesn't have to do Nostalgia-Ween anymore. What he has to do instead? ''WesternAnimation/Dougs1stMovie''. And not even that exchange was enough, as 2013 brought another Nostalgia-Ween that portrayed him as both a psychotically racist DomesticAbuser and a depressed zombie.

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