History DethroningMoment / TheNostalgiaCritic

** Tropers/DrZulu2010: While I prefer the pre-reboot Critic over the post-reboot one, he has some of the same problems. In fact, one thing I ended up hating from this classic review is his reaction on Alfred dying of a rare disease by saying, and I paraphrase: "Now we have to care about the butler dying?" I'm sorry, but as a ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' fan myself who has watched the movie, one of its silver linings is the relationship between Bruce and Alfred with their father/son dynamic as the latter was lethally ill. In fact, a huge aspect of Batman mythos is about how Alfred is the closest thing Bruce has as a father. This would be like ignoring how Uncle Ben's and ComicBook/GwenStacy's deaths helped forming Franchise/SpiderMan's philosophy of "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility". Hell, my favourite scenes in ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' are about the dynamics between Bruce and Alfred and how Bruce comes to realized he almost took him for granted. So, having the Critic saying "I don't care if the butler is dying" felt like a slap to the face of a character who helped define who Batman really is.

** Troper/StardustSoldier: I too would like to voice my displeasure over his "Grow a damn pair of balls!" comment. That's just an insenstitive thing to say at best and a downright cruel thing to say at worst.

** Tropers/InfinityLeague: While ''Christmas with the Kranks'' was bad enough for me to quit the show altogether (see the entries above for why), I must amend my DMOS as this review. First of all, it's another "clipless review", which isn't a review at all, but a super-low-budget remake of the movie with the Critic inserted into the plot to point out all the flaws. Look, guys, if you want to do a sketch show about movie parodies, fine, but don't call it a review when it is clearly not. Before the "review" proper starts, we get a painfully dragged-out sketch of Deadpool and Critic arguing before WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty show up for no reason other than the fact that their show was popular at the time of the review, and -- after an awkward non-joke about political correctness -- Rick appears frequently throughout the episode to act as Doug and Rob's mouthpiece to call Deadpool an unoriginal hack because his first movie is not the first R-rated superhero hit, the first R-rated comedy hit, or the first movie to extensively break the fourth wall...the problem is that [[TheWarOnStraw literally nobody has ever made any of those assertions to begin with]]; our argument is that his movie is one of the best of all those categories, not the first, and the fact that his movie is the first to [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs combine the three categories]] (an R-rated superhero comedy that breaks the fourth wall) is conveniently never addressed. The parts actually focused on reenacting ''Deadpool 2'' are just as infuriating, because -- like all clipless reviews -- certain plot points are either misrepresented or left completely unaddressed all just to make the movie out to be worse than it actually is (for example: Deadpool simply shoving a criminal in front of a truck instead of attempting MurderSuicide with him, Domino's BornLucky powers are portrayed much more cartoonishly than in the movie, X-Force are shown as hypocrites for killing the bad guys while trying to prevent Firefist from going down his dark path, and Cable's explanation for [[IChooseToStay choosing to stay behind]] is completely left out.) Other gripes include: every character breaking the fourth wall and not just Deadpool (which takes the uniqueness out of his character), Cable being replaced with [=DevilBoner=] so the Walkers can shove more of their schtick down our throats, and characters like Freakazoid and Kermit the Frog showing up out of nowhere to prove Rick's point that Deadpool is derivative (yeah, just ignore the fact that [[OlderThanTheyThink Deadpool actually predates Freakazoid by five years]]; that ''Freakazoid'' was a completely non-serious, child-friendly show with some superhero elements while Deadpool is an adult-oriented character who's serious enough to be a genuine superhero; or that Deadpool and the Muppets have absolutely nothing in common aside from fourth wall awareness). Again, nobody is saying that Deadpool is the first person to break the fourth wall. As you yourselves said in the ''Osmosis Jones'' review, it's not about whichever one did it first, but whichever one did it best.

** Alienhunter: I removed my earlier post about his Fox Kids review with the Toonami review. Starting off with an almost 10-minute skit of Critic being old and grumpy because he never really watched Toonami. Then the actual review starts off with Walter, Tamara, Heather, and Malcolm talking about each show for like two minutes. Now, this could still be cool to see with focusing on the history and the specials with Tom, but nope, instead, it focuses on random programs that don't really have much to do with Creator/{{Toonami}}. They would occasionally bring up anime like Anime/SailorMoon, Manga/OnePiece, and Anime/YuYuHakusho, but most of the review was based around on shows that were more played on Creator/CartoonNetwork, like WesternAnimation/TheBatman, WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague, WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls, WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce and...WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars...What. Not helping with the Critic (y'know, the reason most people watch the show) randomly sprouting one-liners about whatever show they were talking about and mostly getting screamed at by Walter in the most unfunny way. And don't get me started on the stupid "joke" they did multiple times about them all laughing obnoxiously loudly for like a minute straight, it's not funny, it's loud and, well, obnoxious. Although, I do have to admit that the costume for live-action!Tom was amazing and the voice used for him was spot-on. But that's about it for the nice things that I have for this "review".

* Tropers/{{Samusforce}}: You know, I was nice during the ''TMNT'' reviews, ''Hocus Pocus'', and ''Eragon'', but his latest review for ''Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief'' is without a doubt the worst one he has done! Let's ignore that he missed about a dozen and one joke opportunities. What really makes this horrible is the skit that plays during it. Calling it a "Wow, youngsters!" thing doesn't make sense in so many ways. OK, so we have Neo, Eragon, Jubilee, and Harry Potter together in a group. Why? Because they are all "outcasts who are chosen by a supernatural being to combat a threat, and what makes them an outcast gives them the ability to be a hero". What is the problem with this? First of all, Neo was an adult in the movies, had parents, and was not an outcast. Eragon was not an outcast, but a Luke Skywalker ripoff. Jubilee, while being a mutant, was loved by her parents. And Harry Potter was only an outcast with his aunt and uncle--the rest of the school loved him! He then tries to link all four with these tropes that they follow, but anyone with a passing knowledge of the source material would point out how wrong he was. Probably the only one he got right with anything was...NONE. He even tried to pull the "They don't do cool things while everyone else gets to be awesome." In front of Neo, who made a guy explode from the inside. That is 100% not true. But even ignoring all of that, and what puts this to second place of most hated reviews for me, was the constant smackdown of Harry Potter. I don't even read the books and haven't watched the movies in years, and the constant abuse pissed me off. It was like listening to a bad fanfic where he bashed his hated character. I know Doug constantly refused to put in any research, but this was the worst offender.

** PeaceAndLove: On top of him needlessly shitting on one of the greatest movies ever made, during the video's "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" segment, Doug seems to think that the song is representative of the modern school system with the lyric "LOL so school sucks? Grow a damn pair of balls!". Uh, what? The education system in 1940s Britain was absolute hell, with teachers abusing the students and humiliating them under the guise of education, as Roger Waters himself can attest to. I mean, WOW. Way to miss the point, Doug. Also, while less offensive (but still stupid), he called "Goodbye Blue Sky" an OscarBait song, which...doesn't even BEGIN to make sense.

** [=SenorCornholio=]: A bit late to the party as I'd essentially stopped regularly checking out the Nostalgia Critic due to a multitude of reasons, but then I actually decided to check out his ''The Wall'' "review" and...well, it looks like he learned ''nothing'' from the ''Hocus Pocus'' video. Honestly, what is there to say? Immense lack of actual commentary, piss-poor jokes, [[ShallowParody a parody more shallow than a kiddie pool]], a ''severe'' lack of understanding of the source material, and generally having no point aside from being a [[BlatantLies "loving parody"]] of the original rock opera while, at the same time, requiring you to have watched the movie to even get any of his "jokes." But since this is about moments and not entire videos, I'm gonna have to go with...ah, I know! How about "Waiting for the Point"? Regardless of what the original number is meant to be portrayed as, I highly doubt that turning a hallucination about being a Neo-Nazi (ItMakesSenseInContext) into an internet flame war with the chant of "hashtag" is going to help this video's reception in the slightest. There's a difference between modernizing a movie to make sense in the present, and unintentionally dating it to the point where it's another relic of the times. At this point, it's clear that while the original ''The Wall'' will still be fondly remembered, this review and its album will ultimately fade into the sands of time where they belong.

** Princesstwilight23: I hated the Deadpool review. Like it actually hurt my head. The worse part, bar none, his Rick and Morty segments. For someone who harped on how all Deadpool cosplayers are the same, he sure did a surface-level and unfunny version of Rick and poor Malcolm...poor, poor Malcolm did a very terrible version of Morty, but at least he had an excuse. Doug was just "This movie -brup- sucks and it stole from -burp- me." Then he ends his 'star quality' segment by showing his ass and doing a fake fart. There was nothing funny about it. Nothing clever. Nothing interesting. Again, for someone who spent an entire video saying all Deadpool cosplayers are just loud assholes (which they're not, someone on [=TikTok=] actually called him out on this) he sure doesn't seem to understand what Rick is like. Justin Roailind would probably be annoyed because he's seen this generic impersonation a hundred times. Actually, try to analyze the movie instead of saying it's a copy of something else. Because Doug seems to ignore he is basically a copy of every caustic critic before him. I hate how everyone in the comments was praising the performance, but if someone said it was bad they were bombarded by raging comments..

* Tropers/MightyMewtron: I love post-revival Critic, sketches and all, and I've been fine with Critic's clipless reviews- I really like his ''Pixels'' review, for example. But his ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' review feels like a flop. He spends a ''lot'' of time on the controversy and he portrays ''every side'' as a strawman, including a StrawFeminist side, which looks tacky for a male reviewer to do and exaggerating everyone's actions makes it harder to deliver the message to the fanbase [[{{Hypocrite}} (sort of like the point he was trying to make in his]] ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLorax2011 Lorax]]'' review). He spends so much time on this plot that it's even ''harder'' to understand the clipless parts of the review, and he mostly just repeats the same couple of criticisms over and over again about the movie cutting clips too short and ruining funny moments with unfunny moments as well as misrepresenting the characters and ideas in the movie (such as portraying the final ghost as a cutesy cartoon from the logo when the point of the ghost was that [[spoiler:it was a terrifying rendition of that cutesy cartoon from the logo]]). If the sketches were entertaining, maybe this wouldn't be as bad a problem, but instead, he relies on an unoriginal "everyone on the Internet is being a jerk about this movie".

** Tropers/{{Pgj1997}}: This review was definitely a low point for me. The review itself is riddled with CriticalResearchFailure, and the constant criticism that Thomas the Tank Engine can't be dark or depressing when [[NightmareFuel/ThomasAndFriends that's not true]] [[TearJerker/ThomasAndFriends at all]]. Now before anyone says it, I am aware that in one of his "Fuck ups" lists, he stated that the criticism towards the review was unjustified since he never said the show sucked despite him never watching it. Here's the thing though, [[LyingCreator he did]]. At the beginning of the review, he calls the show, quote, "the show Creator/{{PBS}} puts on when [[WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog Clifford the Dog]] is too intimidating", not to mention calling the show "brainless" a few seconds earlier. ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch at its finest.

* Tropers/TheFarmboy: Since the Wall Banger page as a whole got nixed, I figured I would post what would be a crummy moment from Nostalgia Critic. The RunningGag with WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain breaking up through-out ''Film/ThePurge'' review concludes with an animated short with Brain snapping and verbally chewing out Pinky. My problem with the short was that Brain blames Pinky for all of their plans failing, [[CriticalResearchFailure while completely forgetting the times where it wasn't Pinky's fault]] such as the Big-Ears and Noodle-Noggin episode, and the Gyp-Parody episode (where ''Pinky'' knew the answer for the final question while Brain lost all of the money). Not to mention that the show had established that Brain's plans were all doomed to fail whenever or not Pinky botches it. And I think it wouldn't make sense for Brain to keep his rage in until Pinky said one line too many, since in the show, Brain would often hit Pinky whenever Pinky said something stupid. I thought I would let it slide, but overtime, it grew worse in my mind. Shame that Creator/MauriceLaMarche and Creator/RobPaulsen were roped in to reprise their roles for this.

* Scsigs: Since people have stated good points about my other picks, ''Film/HocusPocus'' and the HypeBacklash video, I'll bring up his video about whitewashing. I get why he wanted to make the video. It was a hot button issue, especially in 2016 where ''everything'' was for little to no reason, depending on what you're talking about. However, his major talking points included live action people playing roles originally meant for people of other ethnicities or physical statures, roles played by people from other countries, and voice acting in both western animation and anime dubbing. First, the Critic is on the more liberal side of this argument, with saying various things about these topics, but succumbs to not really making any good points about them, with CriticalResearchFailure, [[DoubleStandard double standards]], and just a plain old failure to use common sense abound. He talks about whitewashing by bringing up ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017 (2017)'' with casting Creator/ScarlettJohansson as the Major. I can understand this criticism, since it's a film based on a Japanese anime film and its setting is still uniquely Japanese with Asian actors in most of the other roles, but he then praises films that RaceLift white characters. {{Double Standard}}s much? Then he brings up Creator/HenryCavill and Creator/AndrewGarfield playing Superman and Spider-Man, with them both being British (although Garfield was born in America) as disqualifiers for playing these roles. What? Ethnicity and race are 2 completely different things. He then talks about ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' casting regular actors over little people except for back shots in some scenes in the roles of the Hobbits. What? Hobbits aren't little people, they're fully grown people that just happen to be smaller than other races. Casting regular people and using either camera tricks, green-screening, or CGI was their best bet at portraying the world most accurately to the books. That argument makes no sense. Then, he also touches upon actors of other races voicing characters in animated works, including anime dubs, that aren't Japanese or whatever race or even gender or age of their characters. First of all, there ''are'' Asian actors working in the anime dubbing industry. Second, the acting pool for anime dubs, unless paid for by a larger company, is rather low, due to usually requiring non-union actors who'll accept the lower pay than union and prelay work, which is why we don't see many high-profile actors who'll slum for less money to do dub work that often. So, it makes sense to use not just Asian actors, who aren't probably going to settle for dubbing work anyways. Also, not every anime is set in Japan. There are several shows and films, Studio Ghibli's in particular, that are set more in worlds of multiple cultures, or just Germanic worlds, so that shouldn't matter anyways. Second, using adults to voice kids ''is'' an industry standard and the norm. It's done to maintain consistency in the characters' voices as long as possible if they don't change in any way, especially if a series goes on for multiple years where a kid's voice would break eventually, so it's a JustifiedTrope. However, there ''have'' been [[SubvertedTrope subversions]] of this in some productions. Third, not every child actor is going to be able to give the most believable performance out there. With how many films he's reviewed as the NC, you'd think he'd remember that. Fourth, anime dubbing is not the same as prelay. It's even challenging for experienced voice actors to do because they have to adapt to a completely different style of voice acting. Most kid actors can't act that well already, so they'd be pretty lost on what to do, though there certainly ''have'' been a few subversions here, like Aaron Dismuke as Al in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist,'' since he didn't have any mouthflaps to act against, and Daveigh Chase as Chihiro in ''Anime/SpiritedAway'', but they are outliers in this case. This topic is heavily debated everywhere and Doug's serious mishandling of this situation isn't helping matters so much as it confuses them, which is why I don't like this video. You can clearly see why.

** Tropers/{{Teleport_Ted}}: Not to mention the CriticalResearchFailure[=/=]FightSceneFailure: Pikachu just stands there like a deer-in-headlights while the walking lightning-rod with the chainsaw hand slowly approaches, and doesn't simply zap Williams in self-defense.

* Tropers/{{Samusforce}}: You know, I was nice during the ''TMNT'' reviews, ''Hocus Pocus'', and ''Eragon'', but his latest review for ''Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief'' is without a doubt the worst one he has done! Let's ignore that he missed about a dozen and one joke opportunities. What really makes this horrible is the skit that plays during it. Calling it a "Wow, youngsters!" thing doesn't make sense in so many ways. OK, so we have Neo, Eragon, Jubilee, and Harry Potter together in a group. Why? Because they are all "outcasts who are chosen by a supernatural being to combat a threat, and what makes them an outcast gives them the ability to be a hero". What is the problem with this? First of all, Neo was an adult in the movies, had parents, and was not an outcast. Eragon was not an outcast, but a Luke Skywalker ripoff. Jubilee, while being a mutant, was loved by her parents. And Harry Potter was only an outcast with his aunt and uncle--the rest of the school loved him! He then tries to link all four with these tropes that they follow, but anyone with a passing knowledge of the source material would point out how wrong he was. Probably the only one he got right with anything was...NONE. He even tried to pull the "They don't do cool things while everyone else gets to be awesome." In front of Neo, who made a guy explode from the inside. [[CriticalResearchFailure That is 100% not true.]] But even ignoring all of that, and what puts this to second place of most hated reviews for me, was the constant smackdown of Harry Potter. I don't even read the books and haven't watched the movies in years, and the constant abuse pissed me off. It was like listening to a bad fanfic where he bashed his hated character. I know Doug constantly refused to put in any research, but this was the worst offender.

** Tropers/{{Mariic}}: I originally hated his "Battle of the Commercials" video for his CriticalResearchFailure, but now, his ''Wall'' review, which is ''another'' clipless review, [[WaxingLyrical fills me with the urge to defecate]]. He completely missed the point of the film adaptation, not to mention completely ignored the context of when the original album was released. Not to mention his album for the review has some of the songs out of order.
** Gemidori: Seconded. I could just write off the entire episode as being one gigantic trainwreck, but to follow the guidelines, I will narrow it down to one short bit: when the Critic is told to do the actual review (after forty whole minutes of nothing but a marathon of CriticalResearchFailure and also cringe singing and lyrics), he gives one in about 10 seconds. That's it. And it still took him being goaded into giving it a final verdict as opposed to his intended ambiguous ending, thus trying to pull the old, tired card of "if the film can be whatever I'm perceiving it to be doing to a fault, it's only fair I do it too!" that he's pulled so many times in the past because, well, variety's no fun. And his end verdict of the film is, verbatim: "Okay! I liked it, fine. A bit full of itself, but good music and imagination." [[PunctuatedForEmphasis What. The. Fucking. Hell?]] Two things: firstly, his thoughts on the film were all anyone ever came to his show for, not for some unnecessary entire musical of backfired jokes and nearsighted guff complete with wasted talent (Corey Taylor of {{Music/Slipknot}} and Music/StoneSour, to name one) or his already boring cast of - to quote his ''Film/BioDome'' review - "really unfunny people, doing really unfunny things, and confusing it for something really funny". [[InsistentTerminology All of this still being dubbed a "review"]], even if the review is not even there to begin with. Secondly, this one moment finally confirms to me that Doug never wanted to continue the series after cancelling it - he was likely so disappointed with the overwhelming backlash caused by his pet project, ''WebVideo/DemoReel'', that he wanted to inject the lifeless, drab style of that show and pump it into another one, which at this point should have ended years ago. From here on out, if I am ever going to watch another video of his (which at this point, I will probably not), it will likely be one of his editorials until he inevitably makes unwanted changes to them like he did to the actual series. There is a very solid reason why this video is dubbed "the worst film review ever" - because it is not a review. It is, simply, garbage.

** [=SenorCornholio=]: A bit late to the party as I'd essentially stopped regularly checking out the Nostalgia Critic due to a multitude of reasons, but then I actually decided to check out his ''The Wall'' "review" and...well, it looks like he learned ''nothing'' from the ''Hocus Pocus'' video. Honestly, what is there to say? Immense lack of actual commentary, piss-poor jokes, [[ShallowParody a parody more shallow than a kiddie pool]], a ''severe'' [[CriticalResearchFailure lack of understanding of the source material]], and generally having no point aside from being a [[BlatantLies "loving parody"]] of the original rock opera while, at the same time, requiring you to have watched the movie to even get any of his "jokes." But since this is about moments and not entire videos, I'm gonna have to go with...ah, I know! How about "Waiting for the Point"? Regardless of what the original number is meant to be portrayed as, I highly doubt that turning a hallucination about being a Neo-Nazi (ItMakesSenseInContext) into an internet flame war with the chant of "hashtag" is going to help this video's reception in the slightest. There's a difference between modernizing a movie to make sense in the present, and unintentionally dating it to the point where it's another relic of the times. At this point, it's clear that while the original ''The Wall'' will still be fondly remembered, this review and its album will ultimately fade into the sands of time where they belong.

* Tropers/MightyMewtron: I love post-revival Critic, sketches and all, and I've been fine with Critic's clipless reviews- I really like his ''Pixels'' review, for example. But his ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' review feels like a flop. He spends a ''lot'' of time on the controversy and he portrays ''every side'' as a strawman, including a StrawFeminist side, which looks tacky for a male reviewer to do and exaggerating everyone's actions makes it harder to deliver the message to the fanbase [[{{Hypocrite}} (sort of like the point he was trying to make in his]] ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLorax Lorax]]'' review). He spends so much time on this plot that it's even ''harder'' to understand the clipless parts of the review, and he mostly just repeats the same couple of criticisms over and over again about the movie cutting clips too short and ruining funny moments with unfunny moments as well as misrepresenting the characters and ideas in the movie (such as portraying the final ghost as a cutesy cartoon from the logo when the point of the ghost was that [[spoiler:it was a terrifying rendition of that cutesy cartoon from the logo]]). If the sketches were entertaining, maybe this wouldn't be as bad a problem, but instead, he relies on an unoriginal "everyone on the Internet is being a jerk about this movie".

* Tropers/{{prettycoolguy}}: As someone who used to obsess over [=TGWTG=]/Channel Awesome during their "peak", for the lack of a better word, I will make the argument that, even up to today[[note]]Though, granted, I have not seen any Doug Walker videos since [=#ChangeTheChannel=] happened[[/note]], the worst moment in any Nostalgia Critic review is a joke in his ''Film/ErnestSavesChristmas'' review. And no, it isn't the one you think. [[note]]He caught flack for a bit during a moment where the future Santa is putting on a rather crummy puppet show for kids. Doug then says "Yes, I think he entertains the autistic children". This rightfully got instant and fierce backlash, and he reuploaded the episode shortly afterwards without the line. As someone on the spectrum, that "joke" was ignorant, barely logical and of horrendous taste, and a potential [=DMoS=] on its own, but it's still better than this one.[[/note]] It is when he reacts to a scene where Santa Claus gets thrown into a jail cell. In it, he turns around to see all the inmates walking around and giving him looks, and Santa makes a forlorn face because he is scared about the fate of Christmas. Doug, in his infinite wisdom, dubs over the scene to make it as if Santa says to the inmates "Wazzap, my n***?". And yes, Doug actually says the word. For him as a White person to use that word is one thing, but the content of this joke, when you dissect it, is confused at best and racist at worst. First of all, if the intent is to show that Santa is uncomfortable with his surroundings and he is trying to relate with them, which is what I can best assume Doug was going for, that doesn't line up because Santa doesn't look uncomfortable in the slightest. The inmates don't do anything remotely threatening. Sure, they stare, but that's to be expected when someone is thrown into a prison cell. Second, there is the whole African-American/street gang/criminal connection. What makes this sting is that, in that prison cell shot, there are more people in the room that are White than Black! There are four White men and three Black men in the shot, and one of the Black men laying down is hardly visible. The joke probably only sprang from Doug's head because one of the Black men is directly in frame for one shot and staring at the camera. In the context of this scene, it is made clear that this are just people in a cell and there is nothing social or political or even any kind of joke to take from the scene's execution, especially in an Ernest movie. So the only way I can see that joke materializing is assumptions in Doug's mind. Was the mere thought of a Black person in a prison staring someone enough to connect with gangs and saying the n-word despite, again, there being absolutely nothing to read about the scene? Even in the generous interpretation that this is supposed to be a misguided "fish out of water" situation for Santa in-universe, even though, again, more people in the cell are White, it sure wouldn't make sense for Santa Claus to say this, considering he delivers presents to every corner of the globe. I know he grew up in the Chicagoland suburbs, which I know from experience are pretty White, but there is still no excuse to make this tone-deaf comment that reads of ignorance above all else. The fact that he apologized for the autism joke in the same video and not this makes me feel he only is considerate for other viewpoints when he is in trouble, which screams disingenuous. That phony, inertial, antagonizing feeling is something I think is universal in all the Critic's worst moments, but I feel it reared its ugliest head here.

*** supernintendo128: As someone who enjoys traditionally "girly" things like romance stories, I hated this scene, but Doug's blatant sexism doesn't stop there. He also insults the opening sequence for featuring a ''Franchise/StarWars''-esque OpeningScroll, because what girl watches ''Star Wars'', am I right? This is some stereotypical 90s "NO GIRLS ALLOWED" nerd-type shit. This troper knows plenty of girls who like ''Star Wars'' and other traditionally "manly" things, so what the fuck, Doug? How does a married man know so little about women, or even other men? The 90s are over, girls can like boy things and boys can like girl things. Get with the times.

[[folder: 2007-2012 episodes (Pre-Revival)]]

[[folder: 2013-2017 episodes]]

** Tropers/{{Mariic}}: I originally hated his "Battle of the Commercials" video for his CriticalResearchFailure, but now, his , which is ''another'' clipless review, [[WaxingLyrical fills me with the urge to defecate]]. He completely missed the point of the film adaptation, not to mention completely ignored the context of when the original album was released. Not to mention his album for the review has some of the songs out of order.

* Troper/{{libertydude}}: My Dethroning Moment comes from his ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' review, simply because of how it showed the absolute worst aspects of modern NC: [[AuthorFilibuster Shoehorned political and social messages]], the frequent use of [[{{Strawman}} Strawmen]], and [[OverlyLongGag an overreliance on skits]] instead of criticism. The first two complaints are the worst parts, as the Critic dividing the film's [[StrawFeminist supporters]] and [[StrawMisogynist detractors]] into two [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] groups just makes him seem lazy. Here he is, in the unique position of finding a [[BrokenBase base-breaking]] film SoOkayItsAverage, which could allow him to really delve into specific aspects of the movie that do and don't work. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Instead, he focuses more on the reactions of viewers]], and he doesn't even do it very fairly. While the supporters of the film are portrayed as liking the film [[EstrogenBrigade for shallow reasons]], the detractors are portrayed far worse, being [[NerdsAreVirgins sexless nerds]] angry that there was a badass ActionGirl in the movie. Aside from the fact that there are plenty of other reasons to criticize the film ([[SpotlightStealingSquad the lack of focus on Max himself]], [[ExcusePlot the spectacle overcoming the story]] etc.), this really ignores the fact that there have been plenty of female action heroes that men enjoy (i.e. [[VideoGame/TombRaider Lara Croft]], Franchise/WonderWoman, [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell Motoko Kusanagi]], just to name a few). It just felt like Doug was really trying to invalidate negative criticism of the film by portraying the criticizers as worse as possible. It doesn't help that most of his attempted "criticisms" against the film feel really loose and shallow, just so Tamara can easily knock them down and validate approval of the film. It's this dismissive and misleading attitude that really makes this episode the worst for me personally.

* mine4ever: While my interest in Nostalgia Critic was already decreasing, where it really took a dive was in his review of ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed''. Specifically, when the character Heather Jasper Howe appears and Doug immediately says "She did it". Of course, you may be wondering how could he possibly know that a character we met literally 3 seconds ago was the villain without any foreshadowing or clues. Well, here's his reasoning: the actress playing Heather, Alicia Silverstone, was a big name in Hollywood at the time this film was released. Doug figured that they wouldn't cast an A-list celebrity in such a minor role, unless she had a bigger part to play, so she had to be the villain. OK, first off, celebrities have had minor roles in media literally since the dawn of time. Take ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}'', for example: Creator/DrewBarrymore was a big name at the time as well, which is why it was such a shock to so many people [[spoiler:when she died within the first 5 minutes]]. Secondly, what he doesn't realize is that this movie is targeted to kids. What child watching this film would know, or even care, who Alicia Silverstone was? I was five when this film came out and I sure didn't. Hell, most of the kids watching weren't even alive when Alicia Silverstone was popular, and even if they were, I highly doubt they where old enough to see the movies she was in. At the end, he criticizes the movie for not giving kids a good mystery because it was too obvious who the villain was, but it doesn't work since it wouldn't be obvious to the target audience.

* Tropers/InfinityLeague: While ''Christmas with the Kranks'' was bad enough for me to quit the show altogether (see the entries above for why), I must amend my DMOS as this review. First of all, it's another "clipless review", which isn't a review at all, but a super-low-budget remake of the movie with the Critic inserted into the plot to point out all the flaws. Look, guys, if you want to do a sketch show about movie parodies, fine, but don't call it a review when it is clearly not. Before the "review" proper starts, we get a painfully dragged-out sketch of Deadpool and Critic arguing before WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty show up for no reason other than the fact that their show was popular at the time of the review, and -- after an awkward non-joke about political correctness -- Rick appears frequently throughout the episode to act as Doug and Rob's mouthpiece to call Deadpool an unoriginal hack because his first movie is not the first R-rated superhero hit, the first R-rated comedy hit, or the first movie to extensively break the fourth wall...the problem is that [[TheWarOnStraw literally nobody has ever made any of those assertions to begin with]]; our argument is that his movie is one of the best of all those categories, not the first, and the fact that his movie is the first to [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs combine the three categories]] (an R-rated superhero comedy that breaks the fourth wall) is conveniently never addressed. The parts actually focused on reenacting ''Deadpool 2'' are just as infuriating, because -- like all clipless reviews -- certain plot points are either misrepresented or left completely unaddressed all just to make the movie out to be worse than it actually is (for example: Deadpool simply shoving a criminal in front of a truck instead of attempting MurderSuicide with him, Domino's BornLucky powers are portrayed much more cartoonishly than in the movie, X-Force are shown as hypocrites for killing the bad guys while trying to prevent Firefist from going down his dark path, and Cable's explanation for [[IChooseToStay choosing to stay behind]] is completely left out.) Other gripes include: every character breaking the fourth wall and not just Deadpool (which takes the uniqueness out of his character), Cable being replaced with [=DevilBoner=] so the Walkers can shove more of their schtick down our throats, and characters like Freakazoid and Kermit the Frog showing up out of nowhere to prove Rick's point that Deadpool is derivative (yeah, just ignore the fact that [[OlderThanTheyThink Deadpool actually predates Freakazoid by five years]]; that ''Freakazoid'' was a completely non-serious, child-friendly show with some superhero elements while Deadpool is an adult-oriented character who's serious enough to be a genuine superhero; or that Deadpool and the Muppets have absolutely nothing in common aside from fourth wall awareness). Again, nobody is saying that Deadpool is the first person to break the fourth wall. As you yourselves said in the ''Osmosis Jones'' review, it's not about whichever one did it first, but whichever one did it best.

* @/KevinKlawitter: In his reviews of ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' and ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'', he completely ignores two important subplots in the first movie. Now, this might seem reasonable if it were simply for brevity's sake, but then, he claims their absence to be plot holes. One of these subplots involves Shang Tsung killing Liu Kang's little brother. This is the reason Liu Kang enters the tournament; he wants revenge. This plot point is made incredibly obvious by the second act, and even comes back in the end. But why does the Critic say he entered the tournament? "Because he's...Asian". There's no way the Critic could not have known Liu Kang's motives, but yet, he still ignored them so he could make a race-based joke.

* Tropers/DrZulu2010: While I prefer the pre-reboot Critic over the post-reboot one, he has some of the same problems. In fact, one thing I ended up hating from his classic review of ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' is his reaction on Alfred dying of a rare disease by saying, and I paraphrase: "Now we have to care about the butler dying?" I'm sorry, but as a ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' fan myself who has watched the movie, one of its silver linings is the relationship between Bruce and Alfred with their father/son dynamic as the latter was lethally ill. In fact, a huge aspect of Batman mythos is about how Alfred is the closest thing Bruce has as a father. This would be like ignoring how Uncle Ben's and ComicBook/GwenStacy's deaths helped forming Franchise/SpiderMan's philosophy of "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility". Hell, my favourite scenes in ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' are about the dynamics between Bruce and Alfred and how Bruce comes to realized he almost took him for granted. So, having the Critic saying "I don't care if the butler is dying" felt like a slap to the face of a character who helped define who Batman really is.

* Tropers/{{Pgj1997}}: His ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad'' review was definitely a low point for me. The review itself is riddled with CriticalResearchFailure, and the constant criticism that Thomas the Tank Engine can't be dark or depressing when [[NightmareFuel/ThomasAndFriends that's not true]] [[TearJerker/ThomasAndFriends at all]]. Now before anyone says it, I am aware that in one of his "Fuck ups" lists, he stated that the criticism towards the review was unjustified since he never said the show sucked despite him never watching it. Here's the thing though, [[LyingCreator he did]]. At the beginning of the review, he calls the show, quote, "the show Creator/{{PBS}} puts on when [[WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog Clifford the Dog]] is too intimidating", not to mention calling the show "brainless" a few seconds earlier. ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch at its finest.

* Tropers/{{Kitchen90}}: One of the most nagging things that I didn't like about the ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' review was the complete overlooking of the rest of the Sailor Senshi (basically, the rest of the planets that help Sailor Moon, in case anyone who's not familiar with the series didn't know). The Critic compares the Inners gang (Sailors Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Mercury) to the Music/SpiceGirls and Music/{{Hanson}} because they (apparently) didn't have interesting enough characterization -- not to mention, not even telling the audience their (dubbed or original) names; he ignored Sailor Pluto entirely for a "Pluto isn't a planet anymore" joke, gave Tuxedo Mask a brief mention (but had many things to say about his civilian form, [[JerkAss Darien]]), and didn't tell us anything about Sailor Uranus and Neptune other than they suffered from the HideYourLesbians trope. The only person he talks about is Sailor Moon and how she spends the first few episodes cowering in the corner because she's been thrown into fighting creepy-looking monsters. Even her best friends from her class are given bigger screen-time yet they aren't around for most of the show's running time, and have no idea that their friend Serena dresses up as Sailor Moon and saves the world. I think that if he took time to research about everyone other than Serena (I am aware that the Canadian dub changed the characterizations as well, but there's no harm in reading about the original Japanese characters), perhaps most of his questions and criticisms would be resolved. Also, I get the feeling that the unexplained cameo from Creator/AmandaCelineMiller (the new English dub voice for Sailor Jupiter) in one of his videos after this was an AuthorsSavingThrow for the backlash from this episode.

* ''Film/HocusPocus'':
** BabyRodent: For the most part, I thought the video was enjoyable if flawed. Then came the moment near the end where, after Kiki from ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' makes an appearance to beat up the Sanderson Sisters, Critic makes a very mean-spirited jab at Billy Butcherson by stating that he was a “useless” character who contributed nothing to the plot of the film, which is my least favorite moment of the video. First off, Billy did serve a purpose in the film and not just “walk[ed] around in silence” and “shout obscenities” (Critic's words, not mine) when his stitches were removed—he was summoned by Winifred to go after the main characters because the witches could not step on hallowed ground. He also had a very particular grudge against Winifred for not only killing him and stitching his mouth shut, but also forcing him out of his own grave as a zombie. He wanted to get back at his former lover and is willing to help the kids break the curse so he can rest again, so I don’t see him as useless. Second off, Billy is by far one of Creator/DougJones’ more memorable roles and at least deserves some credit where credit is due in this review. But as is, it's just too mean-spirited to even warrant a chuckle out of me.

* EverM0re9117: My problem with his review of ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' is that the whole thing was just an excuse to bash it. He repeatedly throws Mowgli’s relationship with the wolves under the bus when the movie [[ShowDontTell shows us]] what we need to know rather than repeatedly tell us. Missing the point of Shere Khan’s motivation and blatantly ignoring the fact that the movie answers more than a few questions he asks. However, the final straw was his constant mockery about how this movie was supposed to be the "grown-up" or "adult version". The problem is ''no one'' called it that. Yes, it's a bit darker than the original film, but it’s nothing kids couldn’t handle (in general anyway) and it’s supposed to be an epic movie when compared to the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 1967 version]]''. But no one was calling it the "adult version". If there’s any recent adaptation of ''Literature/TheJungleBook'' that’s the "adult version", it’s likely the TruerToTheText, DarkerAndEdgier, PG-13 rated ''Film/{{Mowgli}}''. [[LighterAndSofter But not this movie]], Doug.

* Tropers/InfinityLeague: While ''Christmas with the Kranks'' was bad enough for me to quit the show altogether (see the entries above for why), I must amend my DMOS as his ''Film/Deadpool2'' review. First of all, it's another "clipless review", which isn't a review at all, but a super-low-budget remake of the movie with the Critic inserted into the plot to point out all the flaws. Look, guys, if you want to do a sketch show about movie parodies, fine, but don't call it a review when it is clearly not. Before the "review" proper starts, we get a painfully dragged-out sketch of Deadpool and Critic arguing before WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty show up for no reason other than the fact that their show was popular at the time of the review, and -- after an awkward non-joke about political correctness -- Rick appears frequently throughout the episode to act as Doug and Rob's mouthpiece to call Deadpool an unoriginal hack because his first movie is not the first R-rated superhero hit, the first R-rated comedy hit, or the first movie to extensively break the fourth wall...the problem is that [[TheWarOnStraw literally nobody has ever made any of those assertions to begin with]]; our argument is that his movie is one of the best of all those categories, not the first, and the fact that his movie is the first to [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs combine the three categories]] (an R-rated superhero comedy that breaks the fourth wall) is conveniently never addressed. The parts actually focused on reenacting ''Deadpool 2'' are just as infuriating, because -- like all clipless reviews -- certain plot points are either misrepresented or left completely unaddressed all just to make the movie out to be worse than it actually is (for example: Deadpool simply shoving a criminal in front of a truck instead of attempting MurderSuicide with him, Domino's BornLucky powers are portrayed much more cartoonishly than in the movie, X-Force are shown as hypocrites for killing the bad guys while trying to prevent Firefist from going down his dark path, and Cable's explanation for [[IChooseToStay choosing to stay behind]] is completely left out.) Other gripes include: every character breaking the fourth wall and not just Deadpool (which takes the uniqueness out of his character), Cable being replaced with [=DevilBoner=] so the Walkers can shove more of their schtick down our throats, and characters like Freakazoid and Kermit the Frog showing up out of nowhere to prove Rick's point that Deadpool is derivative (yeah, just ignore the fact that [[OlderThanTheyThink Deadpool actually predates Freakazoid by five years]]; that ''Freakazoid'' was a completely non-serious, child-friendly show with some superhero elements while Deadpool is an adult-oriented character who's serious enough to be a genuine superhero; or that Deadpool and the Muppets have absolutely nothing in common aside from fourth wall awareness). Again, nobody is saying that Deadpool is the first person to break the fourth wall. As you yourselves said in the ''Osmosis Jones'' review, it's not about whichever one did it first, but whichever one did it best.

* Alienhunter: I removed my earlier post about his Fox Kids review with the Toonami review. Starting off with an almost 10-minute skit of Critic being old and grumpy because he never really watched Toonami. Then the actual review starts off with Walter, Tamara, Heather, and Malcolm talking about each show for like two minutes. Now, this could still be cool to see with focusing on the history and the specials with Tom, but nope, instead, it focuses on random programs that don't really have much to do with Creator/{{Toonami}}. They would occasionally bring up anime like Anime/SailorMoon, Manga/OnePiece, and Anime/YuYuHakusho, but most of the review was based around on shows that were more played on Creator/CartoonNetwork, like WesternAnimation/TheBatman, WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague, WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls, WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce and...WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars...What. Not helping with the Critic (y'know, the reason most people watch the show) randomly sprouting one-liners about whatever show they were talking about and mostly getting screamed at by Walter in the most unfunny way. And don't get me started on the stupid "joke" they did multiple times about them all laughing obnoxiously loudly for like a minute straight, it's not funny, it's loud and, well, obnoxious. Although, I do have to admit that the costume for live-action!Tom was amazing and the voice used for him was spot-on. But that's about it for the nice things that I have for this "review".

* Tropers/{{Mariic}}: I originally hated his "Battle of the Commercials" video for his CriticalResearchFailure, but now, his "[[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS12E33 review]]" of ''Music/TheWall'', which is ''another'' clipless review, [[WaxingLyrical fills me with the urge to defecate]]. He completely missed the point of the film adaptation, not to mention completely ignored the context of when the original album was released. Not to mention his album for the review has some of the songs out of order.

* Tropers/InfinityLeague: While ''Christmas with the Kranks'' was bad enough for me to quit the show altogether (see the entries above for why), I must amend my DMOS as his ''Film/Deadpool2'' review. First of all, it's another "clipless review", which isn't a review at all, but a super-low-budget remake of the movie with the Critic inserted into the plot to point out all the flaws. Look, guys, if you want to do a sketch show about movie parodies, fine, but don't call it a review when it is clearly not. Before the "review" proper starts, we get a painfully dragged-out sketch of Deadpool and Critic arguing before WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty show up for no reason other than [[WereStillRelevantDammit the fact that their show was popular at the time of the review]], and -- after an awkward non-joke about political correctness -- Rick appears frequently throughout the episode to act as Doug and Rob's mouthpiece to call Deadpool an unoriginal hack because his first movie is not the first R-rated superhero hit, the first R-rated comedy hit, or the first movie to extensively break the fourth wall...the problem is that [[TheWarOnStraw literally nobody has ever made any of those assertions to begin with]]; our argument is that his movie is one of the best of all those categories, not the first, and the fact that his movie is the first to [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs combine the three categories]] (an R-rated superhero comedy that breaks the fourth wall) is conveniently never addressed. The parts actually focused on reenacting ''Deadpool 2'' are just as infuriating, because -- like all clipless reviews -- certain plot points are either misrepresented or left completely unaddressed all just to make the movie out to be worse than it actually is (for example: Deadpool simply shoving a criminal in front of a truck instead of attempting MurderSuicide with him, Domino's BornLucky powers are portrayed much more cartoonishly than in the movie, X-Force are shown as hypocrites for killing the bad guys while trying to prevent Firefist from going down his dark path, and Cable's explanation for [[IChooseToStay choosing to stay behind]] is completely left out.) Other gripes include: every character breaking the fourth wall and not just Deadpool (which takes the uniqueness out of his character), Cable being replaced with [=DevilBoner=] so the Walkers can shove more of their schtick down our throats, and characters like Freakazoid and Kermit the Frog showing up out of nowhere to prove Rick's point that Deadpool is derivative (yeah, just ignore the fact that [[OlderThanTheyThink Deadpool actually predates Freakazoid by five years]]; that ''Freakazoid'' was a completely non-serious, child-friendly show with some superhero elements while Deadpool is an adult-oriented character who's serious enough to be a genuine superhero; or that Deadpool and the Muppets have absolutely nothing in common aside from fourth wall awareness). Again, nobody is saying that Deadpool is the first person to break the fourth wall. As you yourselves said in the ''Osmosis Jones'' review, it's not about whichever one did it first, but whichever one did it best.

** [=SenorCornholio=]: A bit late to the party as I'd essentially stopped regularly checking out the Nostalgia Critic due to a multitude of reasons, but then I actually decided to check out his ''The Wall'' "review" and...well, it looks like he learned ''nothing'' from the ''Hocus Pocus'' video. Honestly, what is there to say? Immense lack of actual commentary, piss-poor jokes, [[ShallowParody a parody more shallow than a kiddie pool]], a ''severe'' [[CriticalResearchFailure lack of understanding of the source material]], and generally having no point aside from being a [[BlatantLies "loving parody"]] of the original rock opera while, at the same time, requiring you to have watched the movie to even get any of his "jokes." But since this is about moments and not entire videos, I'm gonna have to go with...ah, I know! How about "Waiting for the Point"? Regardless of what the original number is meant to be portrayed as, I highly doubt that turning a hallucination about being a Neo-Nazi (ItMakesSenseInContext) into an internet flame war with the chant of "hashtag" is going to help this video's reception in the slightest. There's a difference between modernizing a movie to make sense in the present, and [[WereStillRelevantDammit unintentionally dating it to the point where it's another relic of the times]]. At this point, it's clear that while the original ''The Wall'' will still be fondly remembered, this review and its album will ultimately fade into the sands of time where they belong.

** Tropers/{{Jackninja5SataniaLover}}: The NC considering Sailor Moon just being a sexy gaze for male fans is also very hypocritical. In his Top 11 Animated Hotties, he puts Daphne on there and says himself she contributes nothing to the plot (not entirely true but that’s beside the point) but forgives it because he finds her hot. This is even more irking as despite her reputation for getting kidnapped and to use his words, lack of contribution to the plot, he does not mention her at all in his Top 11 Dumbasses in Distress. Now what’s that about just focusing on looks?

* Troper/{{Jackninja5SataniaLover}}: My DMoS is probably the #ChangetheChannel fiasco but putting that here is [[CaptainObvious against the rules]] so instead I’m going to bring up one of his ''Disneycember'' reviews, specifically ''WesternAnimation/WALL-E''. For the most I actually agree with him but one thing that raised eyebrows was how he didn’t seem to particularly like the environmental message and said it felt a little forced when it was pretty subtle. A bit hypocritical since he praised the Sonic cartoon for making theirs subtle. It made me wonder if he has something against environmental messages. I’m aware that films with them are often clunky and forced but at least it’s a good message. Then when he got to Cars 2 which I agree sucks, he mentioned that it must be an environmental film as the villains were oil oligarchs who were sabotaging an alternative fuel (which was actually made by the villain himself so not exactly true). While it sucks in my opinion, it didn’t really have an environmental message at all. Unlike WALL-E, the environment did not seem to have a lot of issues despite the heavy reliance on oil and ultimately there was nothing pro-alternative fuel either. It makes me wonder if Doug simply doesn’t care about the environment as there was a bit of a bias against it even when it’s not there. Particularly HarsherInHindsight when you consider that I live in Australia which had severe bushfires worse than before back in 2020 as a result of the climate crisis. Even worse bushfires were reported close to my own home so yeah not quite comfortable with that.

** Tropers/{{Hylian-Highwind}}: I don't know how a show is less intimidating than Clifford with scenes like Henry's Crash in "The Flying Kipper" or the implications behind episodes like "Escape" and "Granpuff". This review's attitude has to go up for me as well. The thing that irritates me is that he has (or had at least) a policy that adaptations should be judged on their own, rather than in comparison to the original show, and yet, he slings insults at Thomas as a whole by calling it "brainless" before getting to the film. There are other misconceptions like thinking the show's model faces look low budget (despite the idea being the narration over figures), questioning the presence of big name actors despite the series having a pedigree that included Music/RingoStarr, Creator/GeorgeCarlin and Creator/PierceBrosnan already, wondering about bringing "normal" people as giants to Sodor despite the movie showing multiple times they'd just come out normally proportioned, and also his claim that Peter Fonda didn't need to bring his best acting, despite his ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' review having him note being for kids doesn't mean you can't make something good. Other things like the awkward and unfunny "train sperm" joke got on my nerves, but the overall distain he shows for a show he didn't watch and/or had a prejudice for soured the review for me, even as someone who also hates the film.

* @/Dvaderstarlord5: I used to be a fan of the Critic but an issue that I had with him back when I was a fan that has gotten stronger is his Old vs. New on the ''Franchise/Spider-Man'' movies. Now this isn't that he said that the Creator/AndrewGarfield movies are better than Creator/TobeyMaguire's, though I disagree on that front, I mean of the 3 live-action Spider-Men, I think Creator/TomHolland is the best so this is isn't a bitter fanboy. But the issue that I have is when he declares that Garfield is better as Spider-Man by connecting the times in both movie series where they hang up the cowl in ''Film/SpiderMan2'' and Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan 2 respectively where he says that Garfield has the edge because he has a more sympathetic reason for the hangup as Gwen died and he was grieving whereas with Maguire, it was the just the stress of the job and that it got hard for him. That stuck with me. The first half of ''Spider-Man 2'' is entirely dedicated to showing just how much Peter's life sucks so that it feels earned and believable when Peter temporarily gives up being Spider-Man. In the first half of the movie, Peter gets fired, is late for his classes at college, is constantly insulted and demeaned at the job that he does have, is living in poverty, with a jerk landlord, watches as a new friend of his becomes a supervillain, his relationship with his best friend is slowly falling apart, the woman he loves moves on and gets engaged to someone else and he can't do anything about it because he believes its the right thing to stay away from her for her safety, his aunt is also in poverty, and to top it off, his powers are failing for no reason that he can discern and as such it is now an even bigger risk to his life to fight crime. That is a far thing from simply life getting hard. So yeah, I really didn't like how that got ignored so that he could say that the Andrew Garfield stuff was better. I mean if that's your opinion, fine but give some actual fact.

* Tropers/TheFarmboy: Since the Wall Banger page as a whole got nixed, I figured I would post what would be a crummy moment from Nostalgia Critic. The RunningGag with WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain breaking up through-out ''Film/ThePurge'' review concludes with an animated short with Brain snapping and verbally chewing out Pinky. My problem with the short was that Brain blames Pinky for all of their plans failing, [[CriticalResearchFailure while completely forgetting the times where it wasn't Pinky's fault]] such as the Big-Ears and Noodle-Noggin episode, and the Gyp-Parody episode (where ''Pinky'' knew the answer for the final question while Brain lost all of the money). Not to mention that the show had established that Brain's plans were all doomed to fail whenever or not Pinky botches it. And I think it wouldn't make sense for Brain to keep his rage in until Pinky said one line too many, since in the show, Brain would often hit Pinky whenever Pinky said something stupid. I thought I would let it slide, but overtime, it grew worse in my mind. Shame that Creator/MauriceLamarche and Creator/RobPaulsen were roped in to reprise their roles for this.

** zeesims: [[CatharsisFactor I need a place to vent out my frustration since this has been bugging me for a while]]. There are several words that describe my feelings towards the ''Pokémon'' segment, infuriating, insulting, disgusting, and disrespectful. When it comes to that rant of his; about the [[ItsPopularNowItSucks overexposure]], adults not liking it, and it being a "fad"; my main issue with this reasoning is that some of the things that he likes are also guilty of the same thing, (such as the Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles in the late 80s and early 90s, and ''Franchise/{{Frozen}}''. [[DoubleStandard It just gives off the vibe that only the things he likes can be super popular]]). While overexposure can get annoying, is it really a good reason to hate something just for that? Then, there's that bit with adults not liking it; all this does is remind me of the [[AnimationAgeGhetto "Pokémon is for kids" stigma]] that plagues many adult fans. Then there's the fad bit; this just screams, "I don't like it, therefore it's a fad". This is just painful to watch; knowing that the franchise has grown to be more than just a kid's fad, with the games and TGC having [[MultipleDemographicAppeal multiple demographic appeal]]. [[{{Hypocrite}} Once again, the Ninja Turtles were guilty]][[http://www.themarysue.com/evil-ninja-turtles/ of the things mentioned above at]][[http://articles.latimes.com/1990-08-27/news/vw-116_1_teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles the height of its popularity]], but knowing him, [[DoubleStandard it's magically okay just because he grew up with it]]. Then there's this line, "we didn't know what it was, but we didn't care", so you hate it even though you know nothing about it? This whole rant just felt ignorant, arrogant, pretentious, and prejudicial to me. Then we get to the actual commercial...Ugh, this part is just ridiculous, the comments above definitely describe my feelings towards this bit, mean-spirited and unfair. How would he feel if someone pulled off the same thing with the Ninja Turtles? I've seen several comments giving him a free pass with the [[JustJokingJustification "just a character" excuse]], [[SarcasmMode because that will totally make people less angry]]; frankly, I don't even know how much of it is an act. Just like with the Franchise/PowerRangers mentioned above, Pokémon has brought joy and inspiration to many, a community has formed and brought many people together, young and old. So to see it getting treated so cruelly like this just makes me sick; joke or not. I've grown so tired of the CausticCritic [[AccentuateTheNegative accentuating the negative]] gimmick, and even some of his real life attitude towards certain things (such as ''Pokémon'', ''Power Rangers'', ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'', ''FranchiseSailorMoon'', ''Moulin Rogue!'') makes me regret the fact that I used to find him funny. I'm just done with him (and frankly any caustic critic) at this point.

* Tropers/{{SafetySmash}}: I thought his review of ''Film/{{Blade}}'' was pretty good except for a joke he said at the end. When he showed shock that Blade and Karen don’t get together, he said “Quickly, Tumblr, rewrite this ending so not only do they get together, but they have 20 children, all with different sexual identities; if 20 sexual identities don’t exist, make them up, you’re good at that.”. I have several problems with this. Why choose Tumblr to make fun of? Why not just fanfic writers in general? It really doesn’t make sense to mock Tumblr, especially because a lot of Tumblr users would love this ending. There are hundreds of posts with thousands of notes talking about how tired they are about forced love between men and women, and how surprised they are when a form of media let women and men be friends. Was the reason you singled out Tumblr to make fun of “made up sexual identities”? And what do you consider a “made up sexuality”? Do you consider Asexuality made up? Or Pansexuality? It didn’t ruin the review for me, but it seemed unnecessary and has some UnfortunateImplications.
* Scsigs: Since people have stated good points about my other picks, ''Hocus Pocus'' and the HypeBacklash video, I'll bring up his video about whitewashing. I get why he wanted to make the video. It was a hot button issue, especially in 2016 where ''everything'' was for little to no reason, depending on what you're talking about. However, his major talking points included live action people playing roles originally meant for people of other ethnicities or physical statures, roles played by people from other countries, and voice acting in both western animation and anime dubbing. First, the Critic is on the more liberal side of this argument, with saying various things about these topics, but succumbs to not really making any good points about them, with CriticalResearchFailure, [[DoubleStandard double standards]], and just a plain old failure to use common sense abound. He talks about whitewashing by bringing up ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017 (2017)'' with casting Creator/ScarlettJohansson as the Major. I can understand this criticism, since it's a film based on a Japanese anime film and its setting is still uniquely Japanese with Asian actors in most of the other roles, but he then praises films that RaceLift white characters. {{Double Standard}}s much? Then he brings up Creator/HenryCavill and Creator/AndrewGarfield playing Superman and Spider-Man, with them both being British (although Garfield was born in America) as disqualifiers for playing these roles. What? Ethnicity and race are 2 completely different things. He then talks about ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' casting regular actors over little people except for back shots in some scenes in the roles of the Hobbits. What? Hobbits aren't little people, they're fully grown people that just happen to be smaller than other races. Casting regular people and using either camera tricks, green-screening, or CGI was their best bet at portraying the world most accurately to the books. That argument makes no sense. Then, he also touches upon actors of other races voicing characters in animated works, including anime dubs, that aren't Japanese or whatever race or even gender or age of their characters. First of all, there ''are'' Asian actors working in the anime dubbing industry. Second, the acting pool for anime dubs, unless paid for by a larger company, is rather low, due to usually requiring non-union actors who'll accept the lower pay than union and prelay work, which is why we don't see many high-profile actors who'll slum for less money to do dub work that often. So, it makes sense to use not just Asian actors, who aren't probably going to settle for dubbing work anyways. Also, not every anime is set in Japan. There are several shows and films, Studio Ghibli's in particular, that are set more in worlds of multiple cultures, or just Germanic worlds, so that shouldn't matter anyways. Second, using adults to voice kids ''is'' an industry standard and the norm. It's done to maintain consistency in the characters' voices as long as possible if they don't change in any way, especially if a series goes on for multiple years where a kid's voice would break eventually, so it's a JustifiedTrope. However, there ''have'' been [[SubvertedTrope subversions]] of this in some productions. Third, not every child actor is going to be able to give the most believable performance out there. With how many films he's reviewed as the NC, you'd think he'd remember that. Fourth, anime dubbing is not the same as prelay. It's even challenging for experienced voice actors to do because they have to adapt to a completely different style of voice acting. Most kid actors can't act that well already, so they'd be pretty lost on what to do, though there certainly ''have'' been a few subversions here, like Aaron Dismuke as Al in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist,'' since he didn't have any mouthflaps to act against, and Daveigh Chase as Chihiro in ''Anime/SpiritedAway'', but they are outliers in this case. This topic is heavily debated everywhere and Doug's serious mishandling of this situation isn't helping matters so much as it confuses them, which is why I don't like this video. You can clearly see why.

* Alex Andre: His reactions towards disturbing [=PSAs=] not just from Canada, but later Britain and other English-speaking countries to the point that he declares them "the new Canada". The amount of xenophobia is just sickening. This is almost enough for me to move to Canada because people like Doug take their "I'm an American" mentality far, far too seriously to that extent. And I don't understand how he still retained his voice after losing it three times in the past. How can anyone still have their voice after spending years screaming in every single video? How can anyone still stand that stuff and not suffer from bleeding ears or impaired hearing? Why is this "overly negative, cynical and pissed-off reviewer" format still lingering in the 2020s? People like Doug Walker and James Rolfe are prime examples of dead horses still managing to not quite be dead.

** Alex Andre: For me, it's when he absolutely blows up at a couple of characters paying with wrenches just to get into an amusement park, and Felix using hats from his bag of tricks to distract evil birds. What part of "it's a cartoon, you shouldn't take everything seriously" don't you understand, Critic? There's absolutely zero reason for you to have a meltdown over stupid stuff.

** Alex_823: For me, it's when he absolutely blows up at a couple of characters paying with wrenches just to get into an amusement park, and Felix using hats from his bag of tricks to distract evil birds. What part of "it's a cartoon, you shouldn't take everything seriously" don't you understand, Critic? There's absolutely zero reason for you to have a meltdown over stupid stuff.

* @/KevinKlawitter: In his reviews of the ''Film/MortalKombat'' movies, he completely ignores two important subplots in the first movie. Now, this might seem reasonable if it were simply for brevity's sake, but then, he claims their absence to be plot holes. One of these subplots involves Shang Tsung killing Liu Kang's little brother. This is the reason Liu Kang enters the tournament; he wants revenge. This plot point is made incredibly obvious by the second act, and even comes back in the end. But why does the Critic say he entered the tournament? "Because he's...Asian". There's no way the Critic could not have known Liu Kang's motives, but yet, he still ignored them so he could make a race-based joke.
** Tropers/{{PutYaGunsOn}}: While I'm not necessarily offended at any of the Critic's race-related humor, this one just felt cheap and thrown in there. But that pales in comparison to his cringeworthy joke about Creator/PatMorita as Santa in Film/BabesInToyland. All I could see was "lol let's call him [[JapaneseRanguage Santa Craus]] and name the reindeer after Chinese food lol cus he's um...Asian". I don't feel attacked by his jokes at all, it's more about annoyance at the fact that his Asian-related humor at the time hadn't really evolved much past "14-year-old who thinks it's funny to call [[RacialFaceBlindness all Asian people]] Creator/JackieChan". His recent Yogi Bear review (released ''years'' after these reviews) certainly doesn't help his case. [[superscript:(As Yogi and Boo Boo drag a train of picnic tables with a dog on it) "We're eating the dog too! Korean food tonight!"]] While I don't think Doug is necessarily a racist or hateful towards East Asians, I'm convinced he still sees us as socially acceptable targets for a cheap laugh.

* Tropers/CheerfulOptimistic: I stopped watching Nostalgia Critic (and most Channel Awesome reviewers, prior to finding out about #[=ChangeTheChannel=]) after his ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' review. After a clip includes fairies, NC made a joke about gay people. This wasn't a case of making fun of a marginalized group back when bigoted jokes weren't really seen as a problem, he should have known full well that this was homoantagonistic and not OK.

** Two-Way Tad: For me, it's when he absolutely blows up at a couple of characters paying with wrenches just to get into an amusement park, and Felix using hats from his bag of tricks to distract evil birds. What part of "it's a cartoon, you shouldn't take everything seriously" don't you understand, Critic? There's absolutely zero reason for you to have a meltdown over stupid stuff.

* AnnoyedMechanoid: While I still watch his videos from time to time, I'm very irritated that his "Top 11 Simpsons Episodes" started with a gigantic Take That to modern ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]] episodes and unfairly painted all of them as "beating a dead horse with another dead horse" by using the infamous Music/{{Kesha}} Simpsons intro as one of the clips (the other being the Creator/{{Banksy}} intro) to "represent" modern Simpsons as a whole. It's sad to see NC of all people lumping almost 20 seasons of a TV show all into the same category of badness just to strengthen his own argument on what individual "classic" episodes he considers to be good. All of the episodes on that list (apart from every Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode) were from seasons 2-8. If you want to do a Top 11 on classic Simpsons episodes, just call it "Top 11 Classic Simpsons Episodes" and limit yourself to working with only certain seasons. Most importantly, don't write the rest off as bad in the process to make your own points stronger.

* Tropers/{{Michaelsar}}: One moment that always rubbed me the wrong way was the ending of the review of ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess''. Basically, after spending the entire episode calling the film "Diet Creator/{{Disney}}", the Nostalgia Critic is shown a bottle of soda called "Diet Creator/DreamWorks", which features ''WesternAnimation/TheNutJob'', the ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' movies, and the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'' movies. He then points out that this is the second review in a row where he's [[TakeThat insulted]] Creator/BlueSkyStudios [[note]]The otherwise pretty funny ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'' review also had a pretty harsh TakeThat towards the company[[/note]]...and then continues to do it, claiming that he should stop if they ever make something good. Then he's shown a bottle of "Diet Creator/Pixar", which features ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'' and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'', basically just a joke about Pixar not making good movies anymore (in his opinion, anyway). We get it, Doug, you hate Pixar and Blue Sky Studios. This joke was not funny, it was just needlessly harsh.

* mine4ever: While my interest in Nostalgia Critic was already decreasing, where it really took a dive was in his review of ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed''. Specifically, when the character Heather Jasper Howe appears and Doug immediately says "She did it". Of course, you may be wondering how could he possible know that a character we met literally 3 seconds ago was the villain without any foreshadowing or clues. Well, here's his reasoning: the actress playing Heather, Alicia Silverstone, was a big name in Hollywood at the time this film was released. Doug figured that they wouldn't cast an A-list celebrity in such a minor role, unless she had a bigger part to play, so she had to be the villain. OK, first off, celebrities have had minor roles in media literally since the dawn of time. Take ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}'', for example: Creator/DrewBarrymore was a big name at the time as well, which is why it was such a shock to so many people [[spoiler:when she died within the first 5 minutes]]. Secondly, what he doesn't realize is that this movie is targeted to kids. What child watching this film would know, or even care, who Alicia Silverstone was? I was five when this film came out and I sure didn't. Hell, most of the kids watching weren't even alive when Alicia Silverstone was popular, and even if they were, I highly doubt they where old enough to see the movies she was in. At the end, he criticizes the movie for not giving kids a good mystery because it was too obvious who the villain was, but it doesn't work since it wouldn't be obvious to the target audience.

* Tropers:SpaceProtagonist: Okay, so I'm a huge fan of the Nostalgia Critic and often take notes on anything I find useful, but I did notice something from his ''Film/OsmosisJones'' video. Doug was doing various comparisons to ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' since both films had a "secret world inside the human brain" plot. Although I did kind of enjoy the Inside Out-parody segments, but I do have a minor complaint to make. Nostalgia Critic's Joy was the one who made most of the complaints about the movie, wouldn't it make more sense if his Disgust was the one doing the criticism? I mean criticism is literally her job and personality! I get that Joy was the main lead in the film, but she's meant to look on the bright side of situations and her being this negative was pretty out-of-character for her. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Maybe Disgust and Joy could have had a rivalry or a battle to see who could find more upsides or downsides to the film, and then report back to Osmosis about it. This feels like a wasted opportunity.]]

** Branch_823: For me, it's when he absolutely blows up at a couple of characters paying with wrenches just to get into an amusement park, and Felix using hats from his bag of tricks to distract evil birds. What part of "it's a cartoon, you shouldn't take everything seriously" don't you understand, Critic? There's absolutely zero reason for you to have a meltdown over stupid stuff.

** Tropers/MorphinBrony: Since my latest Dethroning Moment was cut, I'm renominating the ''Pokemon'' bit from Conquest of the Commercials as my Dethroning Moment for the Critic. For the most part, I thought the episode was pretty good overall (hell, [[ActuallyPrettyFunny I even enjoyed the Power Rangers skit]], which is saying something because I am a Power Rangers fan), but the whole Pokemon segment was just unfair. Now, to be fair, I can understand where the Critic is coming from with how he feels about Pokemon. When you don't understand why something is popular and there's merchandise for it everywhere you look, [[HypeAversion you probably wouldn't be willing to give it a fair chance]]. This is a big part of why I've never watched ''Frozen''. But here's the thing: [[EveryoneHasStandards Even I would draw the line at]] [[DisproportionateRetribution burning Elsa to a crisp]]. To use another analogy, imagine someone who grew up in the late 70s making a video where the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Ninja Turtles]] (which was a major CashCowFranchise at its peak popularity, and yet [[{{Hypocrite}} the Critic sings its praises whenever he mentions it just because he grew up with it]]) were horribly murdered after he went out on a rant about how much the overexposure annoyed him. To see the Critic display such petty behavior is very unpleasant, and puts a dark spot on an otherwise stellar episode. I know that Doug Walker and the Nostalgia Critic are not one and the same, but good Lord, between this and the ''Film/FreddyVsJason'' review, I'm glad I stopped watching his videos before the whole [=#ChangeTheChannel=] fiasco destroyed any and all respect I had for him for good.

** Similar to when WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter spited his fans for wanting him to do requests in his WesternAnimation/RocketMonkeys review? This felt like an attack on the fans and the very concept of constructive criticism. Specifically, those who prefer when Doug did his reviews without time consuming skits and getting into the meat of what he was talking about. Doug made it very clear that he does not care about the opinions of others in any capacity here, essentially poking his audience with a stick. Completely oblivious to why some fans do not like the new style of reviews he's done. It is honestly no wonder I stopped watching his content after this, especially after the Channel Awesome controversy.