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** The Critic also mentions that Kevin from ''CaptainN'' should be able to use his powers, or the abundant warp zones, to just blast Mother Brain with little problem. He demonstrates both scenarios.
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** The Critic also mentions that Kevin from ''CaptainN'' ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' should be able to use his powers, or the abundant warp zones, to just blast Mother Brain with little problem. He demonstrates both scenarios.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: This annoys the Critic when he sees it. The Critic points out that the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' cartoon's princess Sally just kept the princess title because it sounds cute, [[spoiler:granted the show reveals the king ''is'' alive but for health reasons can't resume his duties]], so he tells her to "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZFYSUyONCE&NR=1 Queen it up]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!" He mocks [[CaptainN Princess Lana]] for this too. He makes a joke suggesting that Lana is staying a princess to avoid responsibility. "Politics is fun!"
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* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: This annoys the Critic when he sees it. The Critic points out that the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' cartoon's princess Sally just kept the princess title because it sounds cute, [[spoiler:granted the show reveals the king ''is'' alive but for health reasons can't resume his duties]], so he tells her to "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZFYSUyONCE&NR=1 Queen it up]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!" He mocks [[CaptainN [[WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster Princess Lana]] for this too. He makes a joke suggesting that Lana is staying a princess to avoid responsibility. "Politics is fun!"
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* FurryFandom: The Critic acknowledges them in-universe in his review of ''[[Series/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic SatAM]]''.
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* FurryFandom: The Critic acknowledges them in-universe in his review of ''[[Series/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic SatAM]]''.''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM''.
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* DamnedByFaintPraise: In his review of ''{{Steel}}'', he had the following to say about Shaquille O'Neal's acting:
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* DroppedABridgetOnHim: He is fervent in his belief that Rock Biter's wife (on ''Film/TheNeverendingStory 3'') is actually a cross-dresser.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_NeverEnding_Story_III#Cast He's not that far from the truth on that]]
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_NeverEnding_Story_III#Cast He's not that far from the truth on that]]
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*** His joke about Splinter's VA sounding like a chain-smoker in ''[[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles TMNT]]'' (2007). It was {{Mako}} Iwamatsu, who had died of throat cancer before the movie was released, and the movie was ''dedicated to his memory''. He apologized, mentioning he was completely unaware of any of it, and he's made a gag of walking on eggshells around his earlier roles, like in ''{{Sidekicks}}''.
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*** His joke about Splinter's VA sounding like a chain-smoker in ''[[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles ''[[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles TMNT]]'' (2007). It was {{Mako}} Iwamatsu, who had died of throat cancer before the movie was released, and the movie was ''dedicated to his memory''. He apologized, mentioning he was completely unaware of any of it, and he's made a gag of walking on eggshells around his earlier roles, like in ''{{Sidekicks}}''.
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Definitely averteed. In the ''DunstonChecksIn'' review:
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* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: This annoys the Critic when he sees it. The Critic points out that the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' cartoon's princess Sally just kept the princess title because it sounds cute, [[spoiler:granted the show reveals the king ''is'' alive but for health reasons can't resume his duties]],so he tells her to "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZFYSUyONCE&NR=1 Queen it up]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!" He mocks [[CaptainN Princess Lana]] for this too. He makes a joke suggesting that Lana is staying a princess to avoid responsibility. "Politics is fun!"
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* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: This annoys the Critic when he sees it. The Critic points out that the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' cartoon's princess Sally just kept the princess title because it sounds cute, [[spoiler:granted the show reveals the king ''is'' alive but for health reasons can't resume his duties]],so duties]], so he tells her to "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZFYSUyONCE&NR=1 Queen it up]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!" He mocks [[CaptainN Princess Lana]] for this too. He makes a joke suggesting that Lana is staying a princess to avoid responsibility. "Politics is fun!"
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** In his "Top 11 ''[[TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' Episodes" list, the Critic claims that the show was [[TooGoodToLast "taken off the air too quickly"]] only to be reminded that the show is in its 23rd season.
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** In his "Top 11 ''[[TheSimpsons ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' Episodes" list, the Critic claims that the show was [[TooGoodToLast "taken off the air too quickly"]] only to be reminded that the show is in its 23rd season.
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* {{Good Night Sweet Pri|nce}}ck: From ''TheRoom'':
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* DesignatedProtagonistSyndrome: During his review of ''FernGully 2,'' he repeatedly questions why Skip, a side character from the first movie, is the protagonist instead of Crysta, and notes that even annoying comic relief Batty is more competent than he is.
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* DesignatedProtagonistSyndrome: In-universe: During his review of ''FernGully 2,'' he repeatedly questions why Skip, a side character from the first movie, is the protagonist instead of Crysta, and notes that even annoying comic relief Batty is more competent than he is.
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** In-universe, this is his belief as to why Catherine Zeta Jones [[GirlOnGirlIsHot plays up her character's bisexuality]] in the remake of ''Film/TheHaunting''.
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** In-universe, this is his belief as to why Catherine Zeta Jones [[GirlOnGirlIsHot plays up her character's bisexuality]] in the remake of ''Film/TheHaunting''.''Film/TheHaunting1999''.
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** Also subverted by the poker game in ''ScoobyDoo''. It's made clear that this is just a start, not a fix, and he's still very broken in WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee.
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*** In his ''Film/{{Jaws}} 3D'' review, he simulates an offscreen sex scene by himself, providing the orgasmic-sounding voices for both the man and the woman. Goodness.
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*** In his ''Film/{{Jaws}} 3D'' ''Film/Jaws3D'' review, he simulates an offscreen sex scene by himself, providing the orgasmic-sounding voices for both the man and the woman. Goodness.
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** The opening of ''ScoobyDoo'' leaves it in the dust, as it goes over how he thinks he's never done anything in his life to make someone's better, he doesn't have any friends and [[{{Foreshadowing}} that his life is the worst thing anyone could possibly go through]].
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** Done in an equal-opportunity way for the ''Film/MoulinRouge'' review. Girls get pregnant from Critic singing while guys get the Chick, Elisa and Nella in boob-enhancing corsets. (Behind the scenes, apparently Team [=NChick=] had to strongarm Doug into allowing the corsets, as he was worried about them perved over by the creepier parts of the fandom.)
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** Done in an equal-opportunity way for the ''Film/MoulinRouge'' ''MoulinRouge'' review. Girls get pregnant from Critic singing while guys get the Chick, Elisa and Nella in boob-enhancing corsets. (Behind the scenes, apparently Team [=NChick=] had to strongarm Doug into allowing the corsets, as he was worried about them perved over by the creepier parts of the fandom.)
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** In the "Transformers" review, Optimus Prime states that Spike Witwicky would be known as Pussy Pillow by Cybertronian naming conventions.
* FailedASpotCheck: In his review of TheLangoliers, he points out that the pilot walks past ten rows of seats before realizing the plane is almost empty and later how the blind girl can detect the gun wielding maniac before the people who are looking directly in his direction miss him.
* FailedASpotCheck: In his review of TheLangoliers, he points out that the pilot walks past ten rows of seats before realizing the plane is almost empty and later how the blind girl can detect the gun wielding maniac before the people who are looking directly in his direction miss him.
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** In the "Transformers" ''Transformers'' review, Optimus Prime states that Spike Witwicky would be known as Pussy Pillow by Cybertronian naming conventions.
* FailedASpotCheck: In his review ofTheLangoliers, ''TheLangoliers'', he points out that the pilot walks past ten rows of seats before realizing the plane is almost empty and later how the blind girl can detect the gun wielding maniac before the people who are looking directly in his direction miss him.
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* FailureHero: In his reviews of ''Film/{{Steel}}'' and ''{{Captain America|1990}}'', the Critic seems to view the titular characters as this. Also HulkHogan's character in ''Mr. Nanny'' - he gets owned by the psychopathic kids he takes care of, as well as the mooks of the big bad.
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* FailureHero: In his reviews of ''Film/{{Steel}}'' and ''{{Captain America|1990}}'', the Critic seems to view the titular characters as this. Also HulkHogan's character in ''Mr. Nanny'' - he gets owned by the psychopathic kids he takes care of, as well as the mooks of the big bad.villain's {{mooks}}.
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** In his Top 11 [[TheSimpsons Simpsons]] Episodes list, the Critic claims that the show was [[TooGoodToLast "taken off the air too quickly"]] only to be reminded that the show is in its 23rd season.
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** In his Top "Top 11 [[TheSimpsons Simpsons]] Episodes ''[[TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' Episodes" list, the Critic claims that the show was [[TooGoodToLast "taken off the air too quickly"]] only to be reminded that the show is in its 23rd season.
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*** Likewise, Spooning With Spoony II had him shirtless, traumatized and shamelessly objectified.
** In the first CareBears movie, he thinks that the villain is getting eaten out while she does her lines. He then demonstrates by giving us a series of quite lovely orgasm noises.
*** In his Jaws 3D review, he simulates an offscreen sex scene by himself, providing the orgasmic-sounding voices for both the man and the woman. Goodness.
** In the first CareBears movie, he thinks that the villain is getting eaten out while she does her lines. He then demonstrates by giving us a series of quite lovely orgasm noises.
*** In his Jaws 3D review, he simulates an offscreen sex scene by himself, providing the orgasmic-sounding voices for both the man and the woman. Goodness.
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*** Likewise, Spooning "Spooning With Spoony II II" had him shirtless, traumatized and shamelessly objectified.
** In the firstCareBears ''WesternAnimation/CareBears'' movie, he thinks that the villain is getting eaten out while she does her lines. He then demonstrates by giving us a series of quite lovely orgasm noises.
*** In hisJaws 3D ''Film/{{Jaws}} 3D'' review, he simulates an offscreen sex scene by himself, providing the orgasmic-sounding voices for both the man and the woman. Goodness.
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** When you don't see Marobot's title card, the screenshot he used for his ''DuckTales'' episode is the PantyShot in ''SuburbanKnights''. (This one may have been more Blip TV's doing since they often go to stills within a video for screenshots, but it's still appreciated by many.)
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** When you don't see Marobot's title card, the screenshot he used for his ''DuckTales'' ''Film/DuckTales'' episode is the PantyShot in ''SuburbanKnights''. (This one may have been more Blip TV's doing since they often go to stills within a video for screenshots, but it's still appreciated by many.)
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** Done in an equal-opportunity way for the ''MoulinRouge'' ''Film/MoulinRouge'' review. Girls get pregnant from Critic singing while guys get the Chick, Elisa and Nella in boob-enhancing corsets. (Behind the scenes, apparently Team [=NChick=] had to strongarm Doug into allowing the corsets, as he was worried about them perved over by the creepier parts of the fandom.)
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** In-universe, this is his belief as to why Catherine Zeta Jones plays up her character's bisexuality in the remake of ''TheHaunting''.
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** In-universe, this is his belief as to why Catherine Zeta Jones [[GirlOnGirlIsHot plays up her character's bisexuality bisexuality]] in the remake of ''TheHaunting''.''Film/TheHaunting''.
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** Nostalgia Critic notes a painfully straight use of this, which he calls "[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Dumbass in Distress Disorder]]" in ''A Kid in King Arthur's Court''.
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* FauxHorrific: Really horrible things make Critic scream.
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* FauxHorrific: Really horrible things make Critic scream.scream or cause him [[SuckinessIsPainful pain]].
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* FlashbackTwist: In his 100th episode, the Critic prepares to roll out a "Crummy Ass ClipShow" while he goes off to smoke a joint. It starts with a clip from the ''CaptainPlanet'' review, with the Critic interviewing Ma-Ti. After a few moments, Ma-Ti notices that the Critic is doing nothing but rolling out a clip show for his 100th episode and calls him a wuss for not doing something special. The Past Nostalgia Critic agrees, and they convince Future Nostalgia Critic to review ''Film/BattlefieldEarth''. This means that the Critic re-created the Ma-Ti scene for that episode, down to the relative quality of that recording.
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* FlashbackTwist: In his 100th episode, the Critic prepares to roll out a "Crummy Ass ClipShow" while he goes off to smoke a joint. It starts with a clip from the ''CaptainPlanet'' review, with the Critic interviewing Ma-Ti. After a few moments, Ma-Ti notices that the Critic is doing nothing but rolling out a clip show for his 100th episode and calls him a wuss for not doing something special. The Past Nostalgia Critic agrees, and they convince Future browbeat the Present Nostalgia Critic to review into reviewing ''Film/BattlefieldEarth''. This means that the Critic re-created the Ma-Ti scene for that episode, down to the relative quality of that recording.
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* FanVid: Doug proclaimed [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiHpOEo6ZH4 this video]] to be the best tribute to the Critic he'd seen yet. Most comments agree that the song ("Testing 1, 2, 3" by Barenaked Ladies) match the character perfectly.
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-->"It's just Sonic and a group of industrial freedom fighters, trying to stop Robotnik and bring Green back to the valley. Wait Wait Wait, I can't comprehend this, an environmental message that is SUBTLE!"
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* DesignatedProtagonist: During his review of ''FernGully 2,'' he repeatedly questions why Skip, a side character from the first movie, is the protagonist instead of Crysta, and notes that even annoying comic relief Batty is more competent than he is.
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* DesignatedProtagonist: DesignatedProtagonistSyndrome: During his review of ''FernGully 2,'' he repeatedly questions why Skip, a side character from the first movie, is the protagonist instead of Crysta, and notes that even annoying comic relief Batty is more competent than he is.
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** He makes a similar observation about Shaq's character in ''Film/Steel,'' noting that his friend, Sparky, has an actual arc (learning to cope with her newfound disability) and gets a SuperWheelChair.
** He makes a similar observation about Shaq's character in ''Film/Steel,'' noting that his friend, Sparky, has an actual arc (learning to cope with her newfound disability) and gets a SuperWheelChair.
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** Thirty year old Doug is playing his teenage self in ''ScoobyDoo''. Luckily Doug's already pretty young-looking, so it doesn't come off as too stupid.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: ''ScoobyDoo''. His DesignatedMonkey status has finally broken him, the Doc Brown parody is closer to an intelligent old man feeling the beginnings of dementia, if he hadn't been TheDitz Roger would have been able to tell him more about the end of the world, young!Critic makes him realize his extreme interest in overly-dommy women is not exactly sane, a suicide actually means something this time around with him having to get sent back from purgatory instead of just a UnexplainedRecovery, and he learns by the end that he actually has to make choices to get his life better.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: ''ScoobyDoo''.''Film/ScoobyDoo''. His DesignatedMonkey status has finally broken him, the Doc Brown parody is closer to an intelligent old man feeling the beginnings of dementia, if he hadn't been TheDitz Roger would have been able to tell him more about the end of the world, young!Critic makes him realize his extreme interest in overly-dommy women is not exactly sane, a suicide actually means something this time around with him having to get sent back from purgatory instead of just a UnexplainedRecovery, and he learns by the end that he actually has to make choices to get his life better.
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** You could prove wrong most of the feelings expressed in his DespairEventHorizon rant at the beginning of ''ScoobyDoo''. As examples: he has nobody to bounce any ideas off with? ''{{It}}'' showed that he and The Other Guy work on scripts together. He hasn't contributed anything to anyone? He's done more crossovers than ever this year. He's never made a person's life better? Chester would be the first to disagree. The sadness comes from how he can't see any of that.
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** You could prove wrong most of the feelings expressed in his DespairEventHorizon rant at the beginning of ''ScoobyDoo''.''Film/ScoobyDoo''. As examples: he has nobody to bounce any ideas off with? ''{{It}}'' showed that he and The Other Guy work on scripts together. He hasn't contributed anything to anyone? He's done more crossovers than ever this year. He's never made a person's life better? Chester would be the first to disagree. The sadness comes from how he can't see any of that.
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** His chloroforming at the hands of TheNostalgiaChick in her ''{{Transformers}}'' review. Mostly due how to she's enjoying it and he's, well, [[CaptainObvious not]].
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** Slightly ickier example, but it's hard to miss the "I'm having an orgasm" face when he's pissing on the old ''{{Doug}}'' theme tune.
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* GRatedSex: With TheNostalgiaChick in the ''FernGully'' review. Confirmed as the characters fucking by Doug and Lindsay in their commentary.
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* GRatedSex: With TheNostalgiaChick WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick in the ''FernGully'' ''WesternAnimation/FernGully'' review. Confirmed as the characters fucking by Doug and Lindsay in their commentary.
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*** In the same episode, he acts like an entitled whiner about being "unfortunate enough to rent" the movie. The phone call actually serves as CharacterDevelopment, as it makes him realize just how stupid that sounds and never does it again.
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** In Doug and Rob's commentary of "The OTHER Animated Titanic Movie", Rob mentioned that Doug attached clothespins to his ''scrotum'' in order to shoot the crying scene.
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* GrandFinale: ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' is one for the Nostalgia Critic.
** The ''[[Film/ScoobyDoo Scooby Doo]]'' review is a secondary one. It's the last actual Nostalgia Critic episode and it has a definite "series finale" feel, drawing heavily from the series finale of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
** The ''[[Film/ScoobyDoo Scooby Doo]]'' review is a secondary one. It's the last actual Nostalgia Critic episode and it has a definite "series finale" feel, drawing heavily from the series finale of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
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* GrandFinale: ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' is one for the Nostalgia Critic.
**Critic. The ''[[Film/ScoobyDoo Scooby Doo]]'' review is a secondary one. one as a lead-in episode to ''To Boldly Flee''. It's the last actual Nostalgia Critic review episode and it has a definite "series finale" feel, drawing heavily from the series finale of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: ''ScoobyDoo''. His DesignatedMonkey status has finally broken him, the Doc Brown parody is closer to an intelligent old man feeling the beginnings of dementia, if he hadn't been TheDitz Roger would have been able to tell him more about the end of the world, young!Critic makes him realize his extreme interest in overly-dommy women is not exactly sane, a suicide actually means something this time around with him having to get sent back from purgatory instead of just a UnexplainedRecovery, and he learns by the end that he actually has to make choices to get his life better.
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* GrandFinale: ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' is one for the Nostalgia Critic.
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* [[spoiler: FullyAbsorbedFinale: Not that the Nostalgic Critic series's finale was ''bad'', but his story arc was ultimately wrapped up in ''ToBoldlyFlee''.]]
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Or, at least, it WAS an index, till people kept misusing it.
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* DidNotDoTheResearch: The Critic obviously has a strong bias towards the 1987 TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Cartoon, such as having no idea who Karai is in his review of the 2007 movie, and thinking April O'Neil's proper attire is a yellow jumpsuit.
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* DamnedByFaintPraise: In his review of ''{{Steel}}'', he had the following to say about Shaquille O'Neal's acting:
-->"But give him some credit, though. He's tall."
* DamselScrappy: A Top 11 full of them, the "Dumbasses in Distresses". [[invoked]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: In a few reviews, the Critic voices his disapproval over shows that were normally light-hearted becoming this, as he felt the changes weren't set-up properly.
** In his review of ''CoolAsIce'', he makes it to a scene where a kid is being kidnapped, being pulled into a corner, and ''being shot''... Before the Critic admits the kid didn't die, he says that would have been such a dark twist, possibly parodying the trope.
** But he has also praised those who apply this concept ''properly'', such as the more serious ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'' and TrueGrit.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: "Oh George Takei, teach me the Spocker!"
** At the end of ''BabyGeniuses II'', he and his friends go for a group fapping session in the bathroom.
* DawsonCasting: He thought the characters in ''SavedByTheBell'' were played by people in their twenties, but that's nothing but [[YoungerThanTheyLook a common mistake]].
* ADayInTheLimelight: The [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/1324-follow-that-bird review]] of ''[[SesameStreet Follow That Bird]]'' is a WebVideo/{{Bum review|s}} in disguise, as the Nostalgia Critic couldn't face snarking on the first show he ever saw and bowed out early.
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:VincentPrice]] made one so that he could see into the future with 100% accuracy. He used this to [[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat record a conversation]] with the critic for when he reviewed ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler''.
* DeathGlare: He delivers an effective one when he discovers Linkara impersonating him in the ''Superman IV'' review.
* DeathIsCheap: Although it doesn't stop him from trying again and again.
* DeconstructiveParody: Of TotallyRadical layabouts (such as those in ''Biodome'', which he was in the course of reviewing) with [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Mr. Lovhaug's]] help.
** Of InnocentFanserviceBoy. His naivete does get him punished, something of which Spoony in [=SWSII=] is quite happy to rub in his face.
** Even of being a CausticCritic, demonstrating just how pathetic, unhappy and masochistic you have to be to keep on doing it.
** Of DrunkWithPower. He's so powerless that one of Doug's main traits for him is that he's constantly the victim (he's said himself that's a glutton for punishment), so whenever he does get it, he clings down hard before it will inevitably slip out of his fingers again.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment / ShapedLikeItself:
** Regarding ''GoodBurger'': "It's like if shit could shit, and that shit could shit, and THAT shit could shit, and ''THAT'' shit could raise money to put together a team of filmmakers to produce a steamy flaming pile of ''shit!''"
*** Similarly, regarding "FelixTheCatTheMovie" "If a piece of shit took a piece of shit, and that PIECE OF SHIT TOOK A PIECE OF SHIT, AND THAT PIECE OF SHIT TOOK A PIECE OF SHIT etc., etc., etc.,... an that piece of shit made a MOVIE, AND THAT MOVIE TOOK A PIECE OF SHIT! THIS IS A PIECE OF SHIT!"
** "There are some things we forget about, some things we don't know about, and some things we forget about."
** "[deadpan] Look, they're all wearing glasses, so they must be part of the losers, because they're all wearing glasses. Losers, glasses, losers, glasses. They're one and the same."
** From Santa Christ's theme song: ''"He atoned for all our sins, but he also likes pancakes! He saved puppies from a fire, and he also likes pancakes!"''
** "Here's an insecure douche who's trying to look like a not insecure douche, and yet still comes across as an insecure douche. Douche!"
** "[[CareBears You know, the lack of logic in the characters' lack of logic really lacks of logic!]]"
* DesignatedHero: [[{{in-universe}} The Critic finds]] the heroes in ''TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' completely unsympathetic, pointing out that they can be held responsible for almost every death in the movie.
** In ''MoulinRouge'', Chick rants about how Christian's supposed to be sympathetic and the "good guy" but he completely humiliates Satine in front of everyone, leaving her a sobbing wreck. The boys agree with her.
** He's not impressed by Hulk Hogan in ''SuburbanCommando'' detonating a ship with the president on it, senselessly beating people, scaring the shit out the neighborhood and getting the reward of cake.
** He's equally unimpressed by the usage of this trope when discussing the fictionalized depiction of PatchAdams--perhaps moreso since the movie was supposed to be based around actual events--but ''especially'' after Patch and his friend steal from a hospital: "Movie, did you even ''say'' this part out loud? Your ''hero'' is ''stealing'' from a hospital?"
* DesignatedVillain: [[{{in-universe}} Mocked by the Critic in his reviews]] of ''The Wizard'' and ''{{Twister}}'', the "villains" of which were a man who finds lost children for a living, and a rival tornado chaser who dares to have corporate sponsorship.
** During his review of ''TheLegendOfTheTitanic'', the Critic wonders why any of the ''Titanic'' movies need a bad guy, considering what role the iceburg plays.
* DespairSpeech: Said in the first commercials special after he realizes what he's been doing:
-->'''Critic''': Oh my God that's even more pathetic! I spent all my time watching the shit that people skip? What the hell's wrong with me? God, this isn't life, this is make-believe I'm pathetic, I'm not a man, I'm not a man... [picks up picture of his younger self] Look at you, you had such dreams ahead of you, such promise, you were perfect back then - okay you had stupid glasses, teeth like a chipmunk and a dumb and dumber haircut that only got dumb and dumber - but you had such hope. There's nothing left me for me anymore, I am a loser. You were right, director of ''MyPetMonster'', I'm a loser, a weak, pathetic loser...
* DidntWeUseThisJokeAlready: Frequent when a meme he invented come up.
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: The hand-holding "now you're pregnant" line and the last scene in the ''{{Ferngully}}'' review left fans wondering as to this. In Doug and Lindsay's two years later commentary, they confirmed the characters banged.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The [[http://marobot.deviantart.com/art/NC-Sidekicks-126191725 Splash Page]] for ''{{Sidekicks}}'', it shows the Nostalgia Critic kicking ChuckNorris [[Music/UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny in his cowboy ass]].
** He also [[BoomHeadshot headshots]] an angel in the 2010 Christmas special.
* DiscussedTrope: Doug and Rob discuss the MagicalNegro trope, and Creator/StephenKing's involvement in it, in the commentary for ''It''. Yes, they reference TV Tropes.
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: In ''Film/TotalRecall1990'', he says that penicillin cleared up his "runny cock" once. For those of you who remember sex education, you'll know that he's referring to syphilis. Played for laughs instead of trying to be decent.
* DisneyAcidSequence: The dream sequence from the Critic's review of ''Film/{{Junior}}''.
* DisneyDeath: Rocko in ''ThePebbleAndThePenguin'''s apparent demise didn't fool the Critic one bit.
** He's ''never'' fooled by Disney Deaths...see also [[ATrollInCentralPark Rosie]].
* DisposableSexWorker: In the Last Angry Geek's 50th episode, he admits to accidentally strangling a hooker after the mess that was his {{Kickassia}} takeover.
* DisproportionateRetribution: He got sent to ''jail'' for making an unpopular LetsPlay.
** He gets terrorized and later killed by Teddy Ruxpin for giving a negative review.
** We only hear about it, but he mouthed off to his Dad once with "this is the nineties, old man" and was punished so badly that he never did it again.
** Douchey's whole shtick is to want the Critic hanged, waterboarded or tortured in some other fashion for the great crimes of things like wearing eyeliner, not being good at maths and mispronunciation of names.
* {{Dissimile}}: In the ''TankGirl'' review: "It's like a comic book coming to life... without it actually coming to life."
* DivideByZero: Happens in his review of ''The Garbage Pail Kids Movie'', [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/5300-garbage-pail-kids starting at 21:14]]
** When watched [[spoiler: by Past, Present and Future Nostalgia Critic]], Scooby Doo [[spoiler: nearly destroyed all of reality.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: From the way Oan, Chick and Critic were acting when he interrupted the review of ''MoulinRouge'', you'd think the latter two had just been caught cheating with each other.
* DomesticAbuse: He praises the Harley Quinn/Joker dynamic, especially the episode "Mad Love", for capturing the essence of abusive relationships.
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: In-universe. When the guy in ''Film/ReeferMadness'' warns the audience of all the ways drugs can be hidden (false heels and the like), the Critic starts taking notes.
* DontExplainTheJoke: He tends to fall into this a lot when targeting comedies, oftentimes substituting explaining a joke for pointing out why it isn't funny. This is most blatant in his review of the ''SuperMarioBrothers'' movie when he calls out the movie's use of a WhosOnFirst joke by asking whether or not it's supposed to be a WhosOnFirst joke.
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: He believes/grew up believing that the only way you can punish a child is to beat them.
-->It's like if Dr Seuss really hated children, and wanted to give parents a way of punishing them without necessarily beating them. And yet the psychological scars still remain the same.
** In the ''PatchAdams'' review he takes a belt to the ''movie''.
--->'''Critic''': Bad movie! Bad, bad movie! I'm so ashamed of you!
* DontShootTheMessage: In-universe. He knows full well that child abuse is bad, so destroys ''TheCell'' for showing graphic scenes just to show that obvious aesop.
* DoubleStandard: Pointed out in ''PatchAdams'', as the StrawFeminist BrokenBird love interest ''obviously'' has to have her defenses broken down because all women are fragile, but Patch himself - the king of masking his insecurity - doesn't because he's the male hero who we're supposed to laugh with.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale:
** Averted. Even when it's a woman he finds attractive, the "BAD TOUCH!" gag still comes out if she's inappropriate with a child.
** To a lesser extent (sexual harassment, not rape), mixed in with HypocriticalHumor with his ''Superman: Story Arc'' review. He complains that he only hit on "Amanda" once and got in trouble, while female employees can hit on their male co-workers and it's fine.
** Played with in the ''Ferngully'' review, the laughs again coming from how strange the situation is. Chick and Critic have happy GRatedSex to parody the movie and then she announces that she's made him pregnant. He starts screaming and crying while she grins and keeps a tight grip on his hands.
* DownerEnding: To parody the weird ending of the movie, the end to the ''My Pet Monster'' review has the Critic insecure and realizing how pitiful he is. This carried into the Commercials Special.
** The "Top Eleven Dumbest Superman Moments" has him miserable over what happened to the stars of the ''Superman'' movies and then going off to kill himself.
** The 2008 Halloween Special had Critic vs. Teddy Ruxpin. [[spoiler: Ruxpin wins at the end]].
* DramaticGunCock: During his review of ''JamesAndTheGiantPeach'' with HappinessIsMandatory, anytime the Critic says something not nice, cue the cocking and guns to his face.
* DramaticIrony: He hates himself for not having any power, but he can't see that he does. The other contributors might humiliate him, put him back in his place, not listen and so on, but they've [[{{Kickassia}} followed him]] [[SuburbanKnights willingly, twice]].
** You could prove wrong most of the feelings expressed in his DespairEventHorizon rant at the beginning of ''ScoobyDoo''. As examples: he has nobody to bounce any ideas off with? ''{{It}}'' showed that he and The Other Guy work on scripts together. He hasn't contributed anything to anyone? He's done more crossovers than ever this year. He's never made a person's life better? Chester would be the first to disagree. The sadness comes from how he can't see any of that.
* DramaticThunder: Combined with EvilLaugh for characters in "Return Of The Nostalgic Commercials", for characters who seem a bit too crazy.
* DrivenToSuicide: NC drives a woman to suicide by singing "Holiday Clusterfuck" to her.
* TheDreaded: [[WebVideo/BennettTheSage Sage]], to the Critic. [[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses Maybe because of what he did to Ask That Guy.]]
%% Examples directly pertaining to the Critic belong on the character page.
* DrinkingGame: Does a Creator/StephenKing-inspired one with ''{{It}}'', where he drinks for every time he notices a Stephen King cliche. [[HilarityEnsues He's drunk about a quarter of the way in; and]] ''[[HilarityEnsues shitfaced]]'' [[HilarityEnsues by the halfway point.]]
** [[spoiler:[[LostInSpace Dr. Smith]]]] remarks later in the review that aforementioned drinking game has been known to kill people.
** He does one for the number of scenes in the opening of ''DuckTales'' that aren't actually in the show.
* DrJerk: There's been several brought in to stop him killing himself or throwing up, but their only motive is to make him finish the review.
* DroppedABridgetOnHim: He is fervent in his belief that Rock Biter's wife (on ''Film/TheNeverendingStory 3'') is actually a cross-dresser.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_NeverEnding_Story_III#Cast He's not that far from the truth on that]]
* DudeNotFunny: Several {{in-universe}} uses.
** {{Lampshaded}} in the ''{{Casper}}'' review:
--->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' [[ItMakesSenseinContext I already had an abortion]].\\
''(Casper stares at the Critic, wide-eyed)''\\
'''Nostalgia Critic:''' Okay, that was a little disturbing--\\
'''Casper:''' Wow.\\
'''Nostalgia Critic:''' Okay, that was a little dark humor, I mean it's nothing--\\
'''Casper:''' Wow!\\
'''Nostalgia Critic:''' Okay, okay, let's just move on!\\
'''Casper:''' ...[[EveryoneHasStandards You sicken me.]]
** The Nostalgia Critic has one of these reactions in his review for ''TankGirl''.
--->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' Wow, that was offensive ''and'' unfunny. [[TakeThat It's like a female]] JeffDunham.
** NC took "Dude, Not Funny!" UpToEleven in his ''{{North}}'' review when he referred to a joke about Governor Ho's wife being barren as "the worst thing ever uttered by mankind".
** Brought up in ''TheRoom'' review, after Johnny laughs at Mark's story.
--->"Ha ha ha, that's not funny you sick fuck."
** This is his reaction to both the pranks that the two leads play on random children (which the Critic says are more cruel than funny) in ''LittleMonsters'', ''and'' to the aftermath.
--->"Well, maybe the kids' reactions will be funny..."\\
* scenes are the kids' parents screaming at the innocent children, the youngest of whom looks to be about four*\\
"....That was HORRIFIC!"
** His reaction to the scene in Alaska where one of the hunters use the mother's skin to disturb the baby bear.
** He found the pain of the robot in ''Doug's First Movie'' difficult to watch.
** He's called himself out on this one, twice;
*** His joke about Splinter's VA sounding like a chain-smoker in ''[[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles TMNT]]'' (2007). It was {{Mako}} Iwamatsu, who had died of throat cancer before the movie was released, and the movie was ''dedicated to his memory''. He apologized, mentioning he was completely unaware of any of it, and he's made a gag of walking on eggshells around his earlier roles, like in ''{{Sidekicks}}''.
*** In the initial version of his ''Ernest Saves Christmas'' review, he told a joke about autism as a pot-shot to the puppet show's quality. He considers this a bigger mishap than screwing up basic math, and later edited it out because he found it too offensive.
*** Sometimes, he catches himself about to make a quip that goes too far, stops himself, and the "Joke Aborted" screen shows.
%% Anything not explicitly lampshaded goes in YMMV.
* DullSurprise:
** The Critic mocks Shaq's acting in this fashion with his review of ''Kazaam'' and ''Steel''.
** There's also William Hurt's performance in ''LostInSpace''. "I love you, wife" indeed. "He's so boring the music has to do the acting for him!"
** And KevinCostner in ''{{Waterworld}}''. The Critic even reacts to a scene where it's said he will be "recycled" with "Into what? KeanuReeves?"
* DVDCommentary: Loads of episodes have these, with Doug alone, Doug and Rob, or Doug and whoever he did a crossover with.
* DyingDream: In ''Film/SantaClausTheMovie'', he makes a joke about this.
** He has his own near-death one in ''SurfNinjas'', praising the movie's "[[SarcasmMode GENIUS]]" after accidentally being shot by That Other Guy at the end of the last episode. He gets better due to Optimus Prime.
* DysfunctionJunction: Critic himself would turn a therapist's eyes into dollar signs, and none of his recurring guests escape having issues.
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* {{Eagleland}}: Type 2. He ashamedly apologizes for the post 9-11 PatrioticFervor shown in the ''{{Spiderman}}'' movies.
* EarlyBirdCameo: In ''TheWiz'' review, one can see [[AtopTheFourthWall Pollo's]] travel body in the background a week before it appeared on Linkara's show.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The lighting was bad, he didn't have the white shirt and tie, his voice was slower when he was talking and the screaming was more like screeching every word, the videos were much shorter because he was on Website/YouTube and the character was a lot more sterotypically masculine.
** His very first Transformers review which was very similar to his later Bum Reviews. His review of the sequel homages this.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: He has to genuinely almost lose the will to live before he gets his self-esteem back. Or at least enough to be proud of his patheticness for the time being.
* EarWorm: In-universe, ''DuckTales'''s theme is the biggest offender to Critic, along with the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' Theme, The PowerRangers theme, and others.
* EatsBabies: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, apparently.
* EmotionalTorque: The reason why he gives the point to the ''TrueGrit'' remake Mattie. The original has more realistic fear, but the "little girl version of ''TheTerminator'' is far more engaging because she's so damaged and determined.
* EpiphanyTherapy: Subverted. Epic singing helps him out of his larger funks, but only for a short period of time so he can continue working.
* EpisodeTitleCard: Rare; it usually just begins with The Critic's catchphrase and right into the review. But there are a couple exceptions:
** "We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story"
** "TMNT: The Making of The Coming Out of Our Shells Tour", which features an opening sequence followed by the title card "Critic and Nerd".
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Critic may hate [[TheScrappy Scrappy Doo]], but in the ''Scooby Doo'' reviews, even he's appalled at the Mystery Inc. ditching Scrappy even for his overall obnoxiousness, comparing it to 'ditching a premature kid to the wilds' and calls out OOC on Scooby, who is usually protective to Scrappy even in Scrappy's worst.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Definitely averteed. In the ''DunstonChecksIn'' review:
--> [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Monkeys! Aren't! Funny!]]
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: This annoys the Critic when he sees it. The Critic points out that the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' cartoon's princess Sally just kept the princess title because it sounds cute, [[spoiler:granted the show reveals the king ''is'' alive but for health reasons can't resume his duties]],so he tells her to "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZFYSUyONCE&NR=1 Queen it up]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!" He mocks [[CaptainN Princess Lana]] for this too. He makes a joke suggesting that Lana is staying a princess to avoid responsibility. "Politics is fun!"
** He also guesses that Princess Oriana in the ''Felix the Cat'' Movie legally changed her first name to "Princess" (her last name is the name of her kingdom after all...), since we know for certain that both her parents are dead.
* EvilLaugh:
** When NC denies the existence of the ''StarWarsHolidaySpecial'' on account of being too stupid to possibly exist, it is immediately followed by a sound clip of Yoda laughing in a menacing way, which freaks out the Critic.
** In the ''Junior'' acid dream sequence, the Judge (as played by Doug's friend Bhargav Dronamraju) has a drawn out evil laugh that borders on AffablyEvil.
** ''BennettTheSage'' chuckles villainously in both his appearances in the ''CareBears II'' and StarChaser reviews.
** In his review of ''Film/ASimpleWish'' [[spoiler:MaraWilson]] laughs while Critic is begging for mercy.
* EyeScream: At the end of ''{{Ponyo}}'', when everyone is beating him for not liking ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'', someone jabs a DVD edge into his eye. Not in real life obviously, but still looks painful.
* EyeTake: ''Constantly''.
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* FluffyTheTerrible: In his review of ''[[Film/TheExorcist Exorcist 2: The Heretic]]'', he thinks Pazuzu is a very silly name for a demon. It also leads into this joke:
-->'''Father 1:''' Quickly, father! We must get the holy water and destroy Squishy Puppy!
-->'''Father 2:''' What?
-->'''Father 1:''' Squishy Puppy!
-->'''Father 2:''' Aww, that sounds adorable.
-->'''Father 1:''' No, he's not! He's a horrible demon that eats children's brains! Look!
-->'''Father 2:''' Yeah, but when you put the name Squishy Puppy under him, he seems so much cuter.
-->'''Father 1:''' No, he doesn't! He's a... [[CutenessProximity Oh, you're right. Look at that. We should adopt one of those!]]
* FMinusMinus / BrokeTheRatingScale: In his {{TMNT}} trilogy movie review, after a {{Montage}} of his freaking out at the utter monstrosity that is the third movie, he makes this memorable quote;
-->"This movie is so bad, I have to make up a new word to describe how BAD it is. It's... it's... Horibifuckus! Horibifuckus!"
** At the end of the video, he even put the word on his screen to further prove his point.
* FacePalm: ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'' review opens with a two-handed facepalm.
** Happens again in his review of ''[[Film/TheNeverendingStory The Neverending Story III]]''.
** And again during one particular scene in [[FelixTheCatTheMovie Felix The Cat.]]
* FailOSuckyname / NameMcAdjective: Used by the Critic in his review of ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'', in which he acts out the pitch by its creator, whom he dubs "[=Fuckup McDumbass=]" Likewise with the Critic's worst fan, "[=Douchey McNitpick=]". The review of ''Pound Puppies'' gives us Pussy [=McPantaloon=]-Britches.
** In the "Transformers" review, Optimus Prime states that Spike Witwicky would be known as Pussy Pillow by Cybertronian naming conventions.
* FailedASpotCheck: In his review of TheLangoliers, he points out that the pilot walks past ten rows of seats before realizing the plane is almost empty and later how the blind girl can detect the gun wielding maniac before the people who are looking directly in his direction miss him.
** In ''Film/{{Alaska}}'', he mocks the search and rescue team flying right past the bright yellow plane they are specifically looking for.
** He has one of his own when he only just realizes Bitch Spasm's dead body has been on his floor for five episodes.
* FailureHero: In his reviews of ''Film/{{Steel}}'' and ''{{Captain America|1990}}'', the Critic seems to view the titular characters as this. Also HulkHogan's character in ''Mr. Nanny'' - he gets owned by the psychopathic kids he takes care of, as well as the mooks of the big bad.
* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: The Critic ''loves'' to [[{{In-universe}} point these out]].
** ''3 Ninjas'': What parents don't like the grandfather of their children (who happens to be Asian when the rest of the family is ''white'') teaching their kids to use shurikens and swords?
** ''TheWizard'': Too many to list.
** ''BlankCheck'': Money is root of happiness and kids should lie to their parents.
* FanonDiscontinuity: In-universe. The Critic says, of his disappointment concerning ''Film/TheNeverendingStory 2'', that he's glad that was the last of the series and they never made ''Film/TheNeverendingStory 3''. He then turns on the theme music, really loud, to drown out a bunch of voices insisting that they did. He later subverted this, only to regret it severely.
** In his comparison of the first ''Film/{{Batman}}'' movie and ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', The Critic makes an off-hand remark about how [[Film/BatmanForever Tommy Lee Jones's portrayal of Two-Face]] never happened.
*** Ditto for [[Film/BatmanAndRobin the Bat Credit Card]].
** In his Top 11 [[TheSimpsons Simpsons]] Episodes list, the Critic claims that the show was [[TooGoodToLast "taken off the air too quickly"]] only to be reminded that the show is in its 23rd season.
* FandomNod: Sage is practically an AudienceSurrogate when he gets creepily turned on by Critic's crying.
%% FanDumb belongs on the YMMV page.
* {{Fanservice}}: Giving a victory blowjob to his joystick after the battle with Angry Joe. The gesture is appreciated, Doug.
** He does like showing off his [[ShirtlessScene chest]], especially that often-shown scene of when he quits his job.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R7bz5lrhzs This commercial]], with the suffering factor set on deliciously high.
*** Likewise, Spooning With Spoony II had him shirtless, traumatized and shamelessly objectified.
** In the first CareBears movie, he thinks that the villain is getting eaten out while she does her lines. He then demonstrates by giving us a series of quite lovely orgasm noises.
*** In his Jaws 3D review, he simulates an offscreen sex scene by himself, providing the orgasmic-sounding voices for both the man and the woman. Goodness.
** The [=DVD=] menus seem to be made for this: the first consists of him wearing an [[WholesomeCrossdresser air hostess uniform]] and the second has Rob barging in on him while he's in the {{shower|Scene}}.
** When you don't see Marobot's title card, the screenshot he used for his ''DuckTales'' episode is the PantyShot in ''SuburbanKnights''. (This one may have been more Blip TV's doing since they often go to stills within a video for screenshots, but it's still appreciated by many.)
** His chloroforming at the hands of TheNostalgiaChick in her ''{{Transformers}}'' review. Mostly due how to she's enjoying it and he's, well, [[CaptainObvious not]].
** He's been soaked through at least three times. Doug even said he had to sell his old jacket partly because of it.
** Done in an equal-opportunity way for the ''MoulinRouge'' review. Girls get pregnant from Critic singing while guys get the Chick, Elisa and Nella in boob-enhancing corsets.
** Other than it being funny, the only reason why Doug's naked and playing a DepravedBisexual in this [[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/the-best-of-that-guy-with-the-glasses-vol-3-dvd-5979266 advertisement]].
** Slightly ickier example, but it's hard to miss the "I'm having an orgasm" face when he's pissing on the old ''{{Doug}}'' theme tune.
** In-universe, this is his belief as to why Catherine Zeta Jones plays up her character's bisexuality in the remake of ''TheHaunting''.
* FalseReassurance: In his ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' tribute, one of the writers for the show mentioned that he thinks Daffy Duck is the perfect cartoon character of all time, and thinks he was a big influence in the creation of the show. The Critic nonchalantly responds: "I-I would know nothing about him being an influence." For those of you who don't know the joke, Doug created the Nostalgia Critic to be a sort of real life version of Daffy Duck, copying his mannerisms and sarcastic and belligerent outlook on life.
* FauxActionGirl:
** Nostalgia Critic notes a painfully straight use of this, which he calls "[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Dumbass in Distress Disorder]]" in ''A Kid in King Arthur's Court''.
** Inverted with Sparky from ''Steel'', who was crippled by an accident from the beginning of the film. She was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of the movie, but in the film's climax, it was revealed that her wheelchair had weapons and she used them against the bad guys. The Critic points out that the movie probably should have been about ''her''.
** In the audio commentary for ''QuestForCamelot'', Doug says he wanted to reference Dumbass in Distress Disorder in reference to Kayley, but wasn't sure people would remember the joke after so long. He does later add her to his top 11 list of Dumbasses in Distress.
* FauxHorrific: Really horrible things make Critic scream.
* FemaleGaze: He'll sometimes point out MaleGaze in a negative way, but likes catering to his female fanbase. Just look at the {{fanservice}} entries.
* {{Filler}}: Regardless of how much Critic suffers or not, most episodes you can tell Doug is passionate and puts as much effort in as he can to produce a good show. But there a few reviews every now and then where it's obvious he just wants to quiet the fan demand and get it out the way, like ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''.
* FlashbackTwist: In his 100th episode, the Critic prepares to roll out a "Crummy Ass ClipShow" while he goes off to smoke a joint. It starts with a clip from the ''CaptainPlanet'' review, with the Critic interviewing Ma-Ti. After a few moments, Ma-Ti notices that the Critic is doing nothing but rolling out a clip show for his 100th episode and calls him a wuss for not doing something special. The Past Nostalgia Critic agrees, and they convince Future Nostalgia Critic to review ''Film/BattlefieldEarth''. This means that the Critic re-created the Ma-Ti scene for that episode, down to the relative quality of that recording.
* FlatWhat:
** The twist in the middle of ''TheSecretOfNimh 2'' is so incredibly stupid that the Nostalgia Critic can only respond like this, at least at first.
** During his review of ''JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', saying it isn't flat enough. He writes it on a piece of paper. Twice.
** In his ''Kazaam'' review, he says "What?" when Kazaam uses the rhyme, "Green Egg and Ham IT!" and later when Kazaam says he doesn't believe in fairy tales.
* FollowTheLeader: The Critic points out in-universe ''3 Ninjas'' tries to cash in on ''HomeAlone'' and ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' and later points out ''Surf Ninjas'' tries to rip off ''3 Ninjas''.
* ForcedMeme:
** "IWasFrozenToday" quote from ''SuburbanCommando''.
** Evil Popcorn Man from ''FreeWilly''.
** With ''DoubleTeam'', there's "Frying the coke". Acknowledged in that he knew it probably wouldn't catch on, but he at least wanted to throw it out there.
** in ''TheTommyknockers'', he explains the gag, which is essentially a moment that is so stupid and ridiculous, it wraps around and becomes a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. A...SoBadItsGood applied to specific moments, if you will.
* ForegoneConclusion: Many viewers already knew how the Nostalgia Critic would feel about ''Film/IndependenceDay'', because he already bashed the movie in his ''Film/{{Godzilla}}'' review.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: ''The WesternAnimation/{{HeMan|and the Masters of the Universe}} & SheRa Christmas Special'' contained some ominous signs for the upcoming ''TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' review. The month-long buildup to that review culminated in his ''Top 11 Christmas Specials'' review, which ends with a SequelHook.
** Early on in the review of "My Pet Monster", he said that he was pitied by his high school classmates for not acting his age. Cut to the end, and he gets pitied again by the director of the movie for the same reason.
** In his "Top Twelve Greatest Christmas Specials", he said he thought he was the only one to hide in the cupboard when he got scared. About a year later, in "Old vs. New: Willy Wonka vs. Charlie", we got what he was scared of.
** The ''CareBears'' review has another rant about how his job makes him lose any pride and the evil book tells him she can give him a happy ending. The very next week, he's [[{{Kickassia}} obsessively trying to keep control of a country]].
** His breakdown to LordKat about the damage done to his ego with LK beating ''BebesKids'' is lead-up to his admitting to CR that he can't cope with people going into his territory a few months later.
** During an argument with the Nerd before they switch jobs for an episode, he asks mockingly if the Nerd thinks his gig is easy. [[SarcasmMode That never came up again.]]
** In the Chick's ''{{Bratz}}'' review, his reason for forcing her to watch it was because he wanted her to be proud of being able to sit through the worst girly movie of all time. His conclusion at the end of his first commercials special is that he's "pathetic but proud".
** By how often Critic expressed his desire to not have Linkara around in Star Trek month, it would have been more of a surprise if Linkara ''hadn't'' shown up.
** He set up the ParentalNeglect angle early when he mentioned off-hand in the "Top 11 Scariest Moments" that he was allowed to have a gun as a kid.
** The choice of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' month and the new vast abundance of ''Series/DoctorWho'' jokes weren't just AuthorAppeal, it was setting us up for the fourth anniversary, which was announced as a sci-fi story.
** At the start of his "Top 11 Simpsons Episodes" episode, the background music used when he discussed the impact The Simpsons had is the same he uses when discussing his pick for the #1 episode: [[spoiler: "Bart Gets an F"]].
** During the meat session scene in ''PatchAdams'', he sarcastically states that he can clearly see the film is going to represent people accurately and with no forced manipulation. Wait fifteen minutes.
** Cross-show example, but Chick's glee over Critic's reaction to the ChildByRape bit in the ''{{Ferngully}}'' review sets up her willingness to guiltlessly take what she (physically) wants from Todd and exact her revenge on Spoony.
** In his ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' review, Critic makes a brief reference to ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' and how he accidentally was involved in blowing up the Psychlo home planet. The following week, ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' is released and it's revealed that Terl survived and wants revenge on the Critic.
* FreakierThanFiction: Well, fiction is stranger than some other fiction, anyway. In reality, he tried to make ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' DarkerAndEdgier as a joke by suggesting that Scrooge made all his money by racketeering, embezzlement and so on. However, [[Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck he actually made it in a far worse way: exploiting African natives.]]
* FreezeFrameBonus: During his review of "The Pound Puppies Movie", there's a parody of FightClub where The Nostalgia Critic splices a naughty frame into a children's movie. In this case, it's two dogs humping. The image is only on-screen for a frame.
** A fairly damning YouBastard one happens in ''OnceUponAForest'', as it shows "you" clicking on a porn site that has a barely legal girl being told to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything suffer for other people's enjoyment]]. Critic clearly doesn't have much love for his audience.
* FridgeBrilliance: In-universe, from his review of ''Chairman of the Board'':
-->"Wait a minute! Edison! Like Thomas Edison, the great inventor! I just got it!" *maniacal laughter*
* FridgeHorror: In-universe. "Wait a sec, next month is January, and you know what that means! SEQUELS MONTH!...... *his smile slowly turns into a look of worry and shock while he reaches for his Dennis Miller doll to try and cheer him up.*
* FridgeLogic: In his review of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', the Critic also points out in-universe the logic flaw of hiding in "plain, vulnerable sight" when they turn to stone during the day.
** The Critic also mentions that Kevin from ''CaptainN'' should be able to use his powers, or the abundant warp zones, to just blast Mother Brain with little problem. He demonstrates both scenarios.
*** Similar example used in ''Film/TheNeverendingStory II'', when he notes how Bastian could have wished all the troubles away.
** He also noted in the ''FreeWilly'' review that if Willy can jump over the rocks, why couldn't he jump over the net, which was considerably lower?
** In his review of the OTHER Titanic animated movie, he wonders why Tentacles the octopus can't move the iceberg out of the path of the Titanic if he can throw it there.
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* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: In his review of ''MilkMoney'', a mother asks her daughter who is with Ed Harris's character. The daughter replies that she's a hooker. The mother seems barely offended by such language. The Critic takes this to the extreme: "She's a bitch ass whore fuck!"
** He gives a few examples of the questions he as a child asked in the game of ''Guess Who'', and they're all cheerfully disturbing ones like "is your person Jewish?" or "did your person sleep with Mommy?".
* FruitCart: He is deeply disappointed when ''CopAndAHalf'', a 90's buddy cop movie, fails to take advantage of this.
* FurryFandom: The Critic acknowledges them in-universe in his review of ''[[Series/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic SatAM]]''.
-->"Let's just say in my ''Film/SpaceJam'' review, when I said there weren't people out there who wanted to fuck bunnies, I was wrong."
** He actually said that was a little harsh and gave the most general term of the fandom.
** He later followed this up in his review of ''RockADoodle'':
--->'''Edmond:''' I'm a[ll] furry!\\
'''Nostalgia Critic:''' Kid, you're a ''little'' too young to know what that word means. I'm an adult, and I'm still not exactly sure what it means!...Nor do I wish to find out.
** Though his review of RoverDangerfield completely ignores the furry connotations, he does create a furry version of himself at the end, "The Nostalgia Kitten."
--->'''Nostalgia Kitty:''' '''''[[IncrediblyLamePun A CAT CREDIT CARD]]?!?!'''''
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* GainaxEnding: The end of ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'' review, in which Critic turns into a [[TalkingPoo turd]] singing AlsoSprachZarathustra WithLyrics.
* GeniusBonus: Lampshaded in-universe in the ''Mr. Nanny'' review:
-->"Bonus points to whoever got that ''What's Up Doc?'' reference"
** In the commentary for the ''{{Leprechaun}}'' review, Doug notes that three people knew the song "Hop On Your Pogo Stick" from the Goofy cartoon "Victory Vehicles".
* GilliganCut: A RunningGag of his goes something like this:
-->'''Critic:''' The only way this could be any more lame/cliche/stupid is if they did [something].\\
''(Cut to a scene of the exact thing he described in whatever he's reviewing)''.
** Subverted in his review of ''CopAndAHalf'', where after wondering what the next stupid plot event is, it cuts to him for a moment of silence, and he says, "Oh, I don't have a vid, I'm just asking."
** Lampshaded in his review of ''North'', when he points out all the racial stereotypes North meets as he tries to find new parents.
-->'''Critic''': Why don't you have him just drop by France, where everyone wears berets, smokes, drinks wine, and every tv channel has 24 hours of Jerry Lewis-- it's the next scene, isn't it? ''(cuts to that exact thing)''
* GodIsEvil: And he's not pleased about being mistaken for kind and loving.
* GodwinsLaw: ''ALL HEIL MONDO BURGER!'' Though averted in his ''Garbage Pail Kids'' review -- think about it: a society where it's socially acceptable to imprison and kill ugly people.
** Also, Nostalgia Critic doing the Can-Can with Hitler.
** You're just standing there, thinking you're about to shake ha- PSYCH! HEIL HITLER * BANG!*
** Invoked in a serious way during ''BebesKids''. When Robin is supposed to redeem himself by going back to the kids, Critic's not impressed and likens "he acted abusive but at least he didn't leave them" to "he killed five hundred people but at least he's not Hitler".
*** Not even [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles April]] escapes his wrath when he believes she's joking about the loss of innocent families when her building falls down. Bit of a change since he accuses her of probably reacting the same to the Hindenburg disaster, but still counts.
* {{Good Night Sweet Pri|nce}}ck: From ''TheRoom'':
-->'''Critic:''' And flights of assholes sing thee to thy rest.
* {{Gorn}}: About 80% of the fanfic/fanart with him involves this. The majority of people who do them don't want to actually hurt him though and thankfully, Doug knows this.
* GrandfatherClause: Like many web review shows, he started out without any intro sequence, theme song or opening credits. Unlike those, however, he still doesn't have them, most probably because it would spoil his introduction style.
* GRatedSex: With TheNostalgiaChick in the ''FernGully'' review. Confirmed as the characters fucking by Doug and Lindsay in their commentary.
* GreenAesop: In the Sonic [=SatAm=] review.
-->"It's just Sonic and a group of industrial freedom fighters, trying to stop Robotnik and bring Green back to the valley. Wait Wait Wait, I can't comprehend this, an environmental message that is SUBTLE!"
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Tends to be the case. Santa Christ is a BigGood but can be pushed too far, yet Sage the devil is actually LighterAndSofter than normal Sage.
* GroinAttack:
** The Nostalgia Critic does this to ''himself with a hammer'' in his ''BlankCheck'' review.
** After {{Conan|TheBarbarian}} throws a sword into a guy, the Nostalgia Critic calls it a low blow and calls him "Conan the crotch-stabber".
** Among the gay overtones perceived by the Critic to exist in ''Masters of the Universe'' is the repeated laser shots to the crotch. Granted, the shots often seem, if you examine them closely, to be hitting fairly far away from the crotch, but at regular film speed and at a single glance it is easy enough to make the mistake and it doesn't always seem clear.
** In Doug and Rob's commentary of "The OTHER Animated Titanic Movie", Rob mentioned that Doug attached clothespins to his ''scrotum'' in order to shoot the crying scene.
** During the Ponyo review, voice actor Spike Spencer comes in and says how much he likes the Critic while the Critic says the same during overlapping conversations. Near the end, Spike Spencer plants a grenade in the Critic's groin and leaves before it goes boom.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy:
** The Critic points out the president has no secret service in ''Captain America''.
** In his review of ''The Wiz'' the Critic finds both Todd in the Shadows and Paw Dugan and [[spoiler:Linkara]] got into his hotel room when he had locked the door. He's questions the security of the hotel.
* GuiltyPleasures: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2cvmS4OITE IN SONG!]] (from the ''MoulinRouge'' crossover review)
** The Critic describes the ''Film/ShortCircuit'' movies and ''JudgeDredd'' as this.
** He also said that he denied watching ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' in public, but he'd actually watch it on a regular basis.
** He admits that ''Ernest Saves Christmas'' is a shallow, stupid movie. He also watches it every year.
** He just plain adores ''Film/{{Commando}}''. [[NarmCharm And who can blame him?]]
** He calls out ''Film/{{Hook}}'' for its stupidity, but on the whole, he loves the movie. Or at least the first two acts.
** Through all its faults, he loves ''RockyIV''.
** At a Bad Movies Anonymous meeting, he admits that he likes Spider-Man 3, much to the chagrin of the other members.
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* DamnedByFaintPraise: In his review of ''{{Steel}}'', he had the following to say about Shaquille O'Neal's acting:
-->"But give him some credit, though. He's tall."
* DamselScrappy: A Top 11 full of them, the "Dumbasses in Distresses". [[invoked]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: In a few reviews, the Critic voices his disapproval over shows that were normally light-hearted becoming this, as he felt the changes weren't set-up properly.
** In his review of ''CoolAsIce'', he makes it to a scene where a kid is being kidnapped, being pulled into a corner, and ''being shot''... Before the Critic admits the kid didn't die, he says that would have been such a dark twist, possibly parodying the trope.
** But he has also praised those who apply this concept ''properly'', such as the more serious ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'' and TrueGrit.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: "Oh George Takei, teach me the Spocker!"
** At the end of ''BabyGeniuses II'', he and his friends go for a group fapping session in the bathroom.
* DawsonCasting: He thought the characters in ''SavedByTheBell'' were played by people in their twenties, but that's nothing but [[YoungerThanTheyLook a common mistake]].
* ADayInTheLimelight: The [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/1324-follow-that-bird review]] of ''[[SesameStreet Follow That Bird]]'' is a WebVideo/{{Bum review|s}} in disguise, as the Nostalgia Critic couldn't face snarking on the first show he ever saw and bowed out early.
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:VincentPrice]] made one so that he could see into the future with 100% accuracy. He used this to [[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat record a conversation]] with the critic for when he reviewed ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler''.
* DeathGlare: He delivers an effective one when he discovers Linkara impersonating him in the ''Superman IV'' review.
* DeathIsCheap: Although it doesn't stop him from trying again and again.
* DeconstructiveParody: Of TotallyRadical layabouts (such as those in ''Biodome'', which he was in the course of reviewing) with [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Mr. Lovhaug's]] help.
** Of InnocentFanserviceBoy. His naivete does get him punished, something of which Spoony in [=SWSII=] is quite happy to rub in his face.
** Even of being a CausticCritic, demonstrating just how pathetic, unhappy and masochistic you have to be to keep on doing it.
** Of DrunkWithPower. He's so powerless that one of Doug's main traits for him is that he's constantly the victim (he's said himself that's a glutton for punishment), so whenever he does get it, he clings down hard before it will inevitably slip out of his fingers again.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment / ShapedLikeItself:
** Regarding ''GoodBurger'': "It's like if shit could shit, and that shit could shit, and THAT shit could shit, and ''THAT'' shit could raise money to put together a team of filmmakers to produce a steamy flaming pile of ''shit!''"
*** Similarly, regarding "FelixTheCatTheMovie" "If a piece of shit took a piece of shit, and that PIECE OF SHIT TOOK A PIECE OF SHIT, AND THAT PIECE OF SHIT TOOK A PIECE OF SHIT etc., etc., etc.,... an that piece of shit made a MOVIE, AND THAT MOVIE TOOK A PIECE OF SHIT! THIS IS A PIECE OF SHIT!"
** "There are some things we forget about, some things we don't know about, and some things we forget about."
** "[deadpan] Look, they're all wearing glasses, so they must be part of the losers, because they're all wearing glasses. Losers, glasses, losers, glasses. They're one and the same."
** From Santa Christ's theme song: ''"He atoned for all our sins, but he also likes pancakes! He saved puppies from a fire, and he also likes pancakes!"''
** "Here's an insecure douche who's trying to look like a not insecure douche, and yet still comes across as an insecure douche. Douche!"
** "[[CareBears You know, the lack of logic in the characters' lack of logic really lacks of logic!]]"
* DesignatedHero: [[{{in-universe}} The Critic finds]] the heroes in ''TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' completely unsympathetic, pointing out that they can be held responsible for almost every death in the movie.
** In ''MoulinRouge'', Chick rants about how Christian's supposed to be sympathetic and the "good guy" but he completely humiliates Satine in front of everyone, leaving her a sobbing wreck. The boys agree with her.
** He's not impressed by Hulk Hogan in ''SuburbanCommando'' detonating a ship with the president on it, senselessly beating people, scaring the shit out the neighborhood and getting the reward of cake.
** He's equally unimpressed by the usage of this trope when discussing the fictionalized depiction of PatchAdams--perhaps moreso since the movie was supposed to be based around actual events--but ''especially'' after Patch and his friend steal from a hospital: "Movie, did you even ''say'' this part out loud? Your ''hero'' is ''stealing'' from a hospital?"
* DesignatedVillain: [[{{in-universe}} Mocked by the Critic in his reviews]] of ''The Wizard'' and ''{{Twister}}'', the "villains" of which were a man who finds lost children for a living, and a rival tornado chaser who dares to have corporate sponsorship.
** During his review of ''TheLegendOfTheTitanic'', the Critic wonders why any of the ''Titanic'' movies need a bad guy, considering what role the iceburg plays.
* DespairSpeech: Said in the first commercials special after he realizes what he's been doing:
-->'''Critic''': Oh my God that's even more pathetic! I spent all my time watching the shit that people skip? What the hell's wrong with me? God, this isn't life, this is make-believe I'm pathetic, I'm not a man, I'm not a man... [picks up picture of his younger self] Look at you, you had such dreams ahead of you, such promise, you were perfect back then - okay you had stupid glasses, teeth like a chipmunk and a dumb and dumber haircut that only got dumb and dumber - but you had such hope. There's nothing left me for me anymore, I am a loser. You were right, director of ''MyPetMonster'', I'm a loser, a weak, pathetic loser...
* DidntWeUseThisJokeAlready: Frequent when a meme he invented come up.
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: The hand-holding "now you're pregnant" line and the last scene in the ''{{Ferngully}}'' review left fans wondering as to this. In Doug and Lindsay's two years later commentary, they confirmed the characters banged.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The [[http://marobot.deviantart.com/art/NC-Sidekicks-126191725 Splash Page]] for ''{{Sidekicks}}'', it shows the Nostalgia Critic kicking ChuckNorris [[Music/UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny in his cowboy ass]].
** He also [[BoomHeadshot headshots]] an angel in the 2010 Christmas special.
* DiscussedTrope: Doug and Rob discuss the MagicalNegro trope, and Creator/StephenKing's involvement in it, in the commentary for ''It''. Yes, they reference TV Tropes.
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: In ''Film/TotalRecall1990'', he says that penicillin cleared up his "runny cock" once. For those of you who remember sex education, you'll know that he's referring to syphilis. Played for laughs instead of trying to be decent.
* DisneyAcidSequence: The dream sequence from the Critic's review of ''Film/{{Junior}}''.
* DisneyDeath: Rocko in ''ThePebbleAndThePenguin'''s apparent demise didn't fool the Critic one bit.
** He's ''never'' fooled by Disney Deaths...see also [[ATrollInCentralPark Rosie]].
* DisposableSexWorker: In the Last Angry Geek's 50th episode, he admits to accidentally strangling a hooker after the mess that was his {{Kickassia}} takeover.
* DisproportionateRetribution: He got sent to ''jail'' for making an unpopular LetsPlay.
** He gets terrorized and later killed by Teddy Ruxpin for giving a negative review.
** We only hear about it, but he mouthed off to his Dad once with "this is the nineties, old man" and was punished so badly that he never did it again.
** Douchey's whole shtick is to want the Critic hanged, waterboarded or tortured in some other fashion for the great crimes of things like wearing eyeliner, not being good at maths and mispronunciation of names.
* {{Dissimile}}: In the ''TankGirl'' review: "It's like a comic book coming to life... without it actually coming to life."
* DivideByZero: Happens in his review of ''The Garbage Pail Kids Movie'', [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/5300-garbage-pail-kids starting at 21:14]]
** When watched [[spoiler: by Past, Present and Future Nostalgia Critic]], Scooby Doo [[spoiler: nearly destroyed all of reality.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: From the way Oan, Chick and Critic were acting when he interrupted the review of ''MoulinRouge'', you'd think the latter two had just been caught cheating with each other.
* DomesticAbuse: He praises the Harley Quinn/Joker dynamic, especially the episode "Mad Love", for capturing the essence of abusive relationships.
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: In-universe. When the guy in ''Film/ReeferMadness'' warns the audience of all the ways drugs can be hidden (false heels and the like), the Critic starts taking notes.
* DontExplainTheJoke: He tends to fall into this a lot when targeting comedies, oftentimes substituting explaining a joke for pointing out why it isn't funny. This is most blatant in his review of the ''SuperMarioBrothers'' movie when he calls out the movie's use of a WhosOnFirst joke by asking whether or not it's supposed to be a WhosOnFirst joke.
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: He believes/grew up believing that the only way you can punish a child is to beat them.
-->It's like if Dr Seuss really hated children, and wanted to give parents a way of punishing them without necessarily beating them. And yet the psychological scars still remain the same.
** In the ''PatchAdams'' review he takes a belt to the ''movie''.
--->'''Critic''': Bad movie! Bad, bad movie! I'm so ashamed of you!
* DontShootTheMessage: In-universe. He knows full well that child abuse is bad, so destroys ''TheCell'' for showing graphic scenes just to show that obvious aesop.
* DoubleStandard: Pointed out in ''PatchAdams'', as the StrawFeminist BrokenBird love interest ''obviously'' has to have her defenses broken down because all women are fragile, but Patch himself - the king of masking his insecurity - doesn't because he's the male hero who we're supposed to laugh with.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale:
** Averted. Even when it's a woman he finds attractive, the "BAD TOUCH!" gag still comes out if she's inappropriate with a child.
** To a lesser extent (sexual harassment, not rape), mixed in with HypocriticalHumor with his ''Superman: Story Arc'' review. He complains that he only hit on "Amanda" once and got in trouble, while female employees can hit on their male co-workers and it's fine.
** Played with in the ''Ferngully'' review, the laughs again coming from how strange the situation is. Chick and Critic have happy GRatedSex to parody the movie and then she announces that she's made him pregnant. He starts screaming and crying while she grins and keeps a tight grip on his hands.
* DownerEnding: To parody the weird ending of the movie, the end to the ''My Pet Monster'' review has the Critic insecure and realizing how pitiful he is. This carried into the Commercials Special.
** The "Top Eleven Dumbest Superman Moments" has him miserable over what happened to the stars of the ''Superman'' movies and then going off to kill himself.
** The 2008 Halloween Special had Critic vs. Teddy Ruxpin. [[spoiler: Ruxpin wins at the end]].
* DramaticGunCock: During his review of ''JamesAndTheGiantPeach'' with HappinessIsMandatory, anytime the Critic says something not nice, cue the cocking and guns to his face.
* DramaticIrony: He hates himself for not having any power, but he can't see that he does. The other contributors might humiliate him, put him back in his place, not listen and so on, but they've [[{{Kickassia}} followed him]] [[SuburbanKnights willingly, twice]].
** You could prove wrong most of the feelings expressed in his DespairEventHorizon rant at the beginning of ''ScoobyDoo''. As examples: he has nobody to bounce any ideas off with? ''{{It}}'' showed that he and The Other Guy work on scripts together. He hasn't contributed anything to anyone? He's done more crossovers than ever this year. He's never made a person's life better? Chester would be the first to disagree. The sadness comes from how he can't see any of that.
* DramaticThunder: Combined with EvilLaugh for characters in "Return Of The Nostalgic Commercials", for characters who seem a bit too crazy.
* DrivenToSuicide: NC drives a woman to suicide by singing "Holiday Clusterfuck" to her.
* TheDreaded: [[WebVideo/BennettTheSage Sage]], to the Critic. [[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses Maybe because of what he did to Ask That Guy.]]
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* DrinkingGame: Does a Creator/StephenKing-inspired one with ''{{It}}'', where he drinks for every time he notices a Stephen King cliche. [[HilarityEnsues He's drunk about a quarter of the way in; and]] ''[[HilarityEnsues shitfaced]]'' [[HilarityEnsues by the halfway point.]]
** [[spoiler:[[LostInSpace Dr. Smith]]]] remarks later in the review that aforementioned drinking game has been known to kill people.
** He does one for the number of scenes in the opening of ''DuckTales'' that aren't actually in the show.
* DrJerk: There's been several brought in to stop him killing himself or throwing up, but their only motive is to make him finish the review.
* DroppedABridgetOnHim: He is fervent in his belief that Rock Biter's wife (on ''Film/TheNeverendingStory 3'') is actually a cross-dresser.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_NeverEnding_Story_III#Cast He's not that far from the truth on that]]
* DudeNotFunny: Several {{in-universe}} uses.
** {{Lampshaded}} in the ''{{Casper}}'' review:
--->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' [[ItMakesSenseinContext I already had an abortion]].\\
''(Casper stares at the Critic, wide-eyed)''\\
'''Nostalgia Critic:''' Okay, that was a little disturbing--\\
'''Casper:''' Wow.\\
'''Nostalgia Critic:''' Okay, that was a little dark humor, I mean it's nothing--\\
'''Casper:''' Wow!\\
'''Nostalgia Critic:''' Okay, okay, let's just move on!\\
'''Casper:''' ...[[EveryoneHasStandards You sicken me.]]
** The Nostalgia Critic has one of these reactions in his review for ''TankGirl''.
--->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' Wow, that was offensive ''and'' unfunny. [[TakeThat It's like a female]] JeffDunham.
** NC took "Dude, Not Funny!" UpToEleven in his ''{{North}}'' review when he referred to a joke about Governor Ho's wife being barren as "the worst thing ever uttered by mankind".
** Brought up in ''TheRoom'' review, after Johnny laughs at Mark's story.
--->"Ha ha ha, that's not funny you sick fuck."
** This is his reaction to both the pranks that the two leads play on random children (which the Critic says are more cruel than funny) in ''LittleMonsters'', ''and'' to the aftermath.
--->"Well, maybe the kids' reactions will be funny..."\\
* scenes are the kids' parents screaming at the innocent children, the youngest of whom looks to be about four*\\
"....That was HORRIFIC!"
** His reaction to the scene in Alaska where one of the hunters use the mother's skin to disturb the baby bear.
** He found the pain of the robot in ''Doug's First Movie'' difficult to watch.
** He's called himself out on this one, twice;
*** His joke about Splinter's VA sounding like a chain-smoker in ''[[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles TMNT]]'' (2007). It was {{Mako}} Iwamatsu, who had died of throat cancer before the movie was released, and the movie was ''dedicated to his memory''. He apologized, mentioning he was completely unaware of any of it, and he's made a gag of walking on eggshells around his earlier roles, like in ''{{Sidekicks}}''.
*** In the initial version of his ''Ernest Saves Christmas'' review, he told a joke about autism as a pot-shot to the puppet show's quality. He considers this a bigger mishap than screwing up basic math, and later edited it out because he found it too offensive.
*** Sometimes, he catches himself about to make a quip that goes too far, stops himself, and the "Joke Aborted" screen shows.
%% Anything not explicitly lampshaded goes in YMMV.
* DullSurprise:
** The Critic mocks Shaq's acting in this fashion with his review of ''Kazaam'' and ''Steel''.
** There's also William Hurt's performance in ''LostInSpace''. "I love you, wife" indeed. "He's so boring the music has to do the acting for him!"
** And KevinCostner in ''{{Waterworld}}''. The Critic even reacts to a scene where it's said he will be "recycled" with "Into what? KeanuReeves?"
* DVDCommentary: Loads of episodes have these, with Doug alone, Doug and Rob, or Doug and whoever he did a crossover with.
* DyingDream: In ''Film/SantaClausTheMovie'', he makes a joke about this.
** He has his own near-death one in ''SurfNinjas'', praising the movie's "[[SarcasmMode GENIUS]]" after accidentally being shot by That Other Guy at the end of the last episode. He gets better due to Optimus Prime.
* DysfunctionJunction: Critic himself would turn a therapist's eyes into dollar signs, and none of his recurring guests escape having issues.
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* {{Eagleland}}: Type 2. He ashamedly apologizes for the post 9-11 PatrioticFervor shown in the ''{{Spiderman}}'' movies.
* EarlyBirdCameo: In ''TheWiz'' review, one can see [[AtopTheFourthWall Pollo's]] travel body in the background a week before it appeared on Linkara's show.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The lighting was bad, he didn't have the white shirt and tie, his voice was slower when he was talking and the screaming was more like screeching every word, the videos were much shorter because he was on Website/YouTube and the character was a lot more sterotypically masculine.
** His very first Transformers review which was very similar to his later Bum Reviews. His review of the sequel homages this.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: He has to genuinely almost lose the will to live before he gets his self-esteem back. Or at least enough to be proud of his patheticness for the time being.
* EarWorm: In-universe, ''DuckTales'''s theme is the biggest offender to Critic, along with the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' Theme, The PowerRangers theme, and others.
* EatsBabies: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, apparently.
* EmotionalTorque: The reason why he gives the point to the ''TrueGrit'' remake Mattie. The original has more realistic fear, but the "little girl version of ''TheTerminator'' is far more engaging because she's so damaged and determined.
* EpiphanyTherapy: Subverted. Epic singing helps him out of his larger funks, but only for a short period of time so he can continue working.
* EpisodeTitleCard: Rare; it usually just begins with The Critic's catchphrase and right into the review. But there are a couple exceptions:
** "We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story"
** "TMNT: The Making of The Coming Out of Our Shells Tour", which features an opening sequence followed by the title card "Critic and Nerd".
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Critic may hate [[TheScrappy Scrappy Doo]], but in the ''Scooby Doo'' reviews, even he's appalled at the Mystery Inc. ditching Scrappy even for his overall obnoxiousness, comparing it to 'ditching a premature kid to the wilds' and calls out OOC on Scooby, who is usually protective to Scrappy even in Scrappy's worst.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Definitely averteed. In the ''DunstonChecksIn'' review:
--> [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Monkeys! Aren't! Funny!]]
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: This annoys the Critic when he sees it. The Critic points out that the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' cartoon's princess Sally just kept the princess title because it sounds cute, [[spoiler:granted the show reveals the king ''is'' alive but for health reasons can't resume his duties]],so he tells her to "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZFYSUyONCE&NR=1 Queen it up]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!" He mocks [[CaptainN Princess Lana]] for this too. He makes a joke suggesting that Lana is staying a princess to avoid responsibility. "Politics is fun!"
** He also guesses that Princess Oriana in the ''Felix the Cat'' Movie legally changed her first name to "Princess" (her last name is the name of her kingdom after all...), since we know for certain that both her parents are dead.
* EvilLaugh:
** When NC denies the existence of the ''StarWarsHolidaySpecial'' on account of being too stupid to possibly exist, it is immediately followed by a sound clip of Yoda laughing in a menacing way, which freaks out the Critic.
** In the ''Junior'' acid dream sequence, the Judge (as played by Doug's friend Bhargav Dronamraju) has a drawn out evil laugh that borders on AffablyEvil.
** ''BennettTheSage'' chuckles villainously in both his appearances in the ''CareBears II'' and StarChaser reviews.
** In his review of ''Film/ASimpleWish'' [[spoiler:MaraWilson]] laughs while Critic is begging for mercy.
* EyeScream: At the end of ''{{Ponyo}}'', when everyone is beating him for not liking ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'', someone jabs a DVD edge into his eye. Not in real life obviously, but still looks painful.
* EyeTake: ''Constantly''.
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* FluffyTheTerrible: In his review of ''[[Film/TheExorcist Exorcist 2: The Heretic]]'', he thinks Pazuzu is a very silly name for a demon. It also leads into this joke:
-->'''Father 1:''' Quickly, father! We must get the holy water and destroy Squishy Puppy!
-->'''Father 2:''' What?
-->'''Father 1:''' Squishy Puppy!
-->'''Father 2:''' Aww, that sounds adorable.
-->'''Father 1:''' No, he's not! He's a horrible demon that eats children's brains! Look!
-->'''Father 2:''' Yeah, but when you put the name Squishy Puppy under him, he seems so much cuter.
-->'''Father 1:''' No, he doesn't! He's a... [[CutenessProximity Oh, you're right. Look at that. We should adopt one of those!]]
* FMinusMinus / BrokeTheRatingScale: In his {{TMNT}} trilogy movie review, after a {{Montage}} of his freaking out at the utter monstrosity that is the third movie, he makes this memorable quote;
-->"This movie is so bad, I have to make up a new word to describe how BAD it is. It's... it's... Horibifuckus! Horibifuckus!"
** At the end of the video, he even put the word on his screen to further prove his point.
* FacePalm: ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'' review opens with a two-handed facepalm.
** Happens again in his review of ''[[Film/TheNeverendingStory The Neverending Story III]]''.
** And again during one particular scene in [[FelixTheCatTheMovie Felix The Cat.]]
* FailOSuckyname / NameMcAdjective: Used by the Critic in his review of ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'', in which he acts out the pitch by its creator, whom he dubs "[=Fuckup McDumbass=]" Likewise with the Critic's worst fan, "[=Douchey McNitpick=]". The review of ''Pound Puppies'' gives us Pussy [=McPantaloon=]-Britches.
** In the "Transformers" review, Optimus Prime states that Spike Witwicky would be known as Pussy Pillow by Cybertronian naming conventions.
* FailedASpotCheck: In his review of TheLangoliers, he points out that the pilot walks past ten rows of seats before realizing the plane is almost empty and later how the blind girl can detect the gun wielding maniac before the people who are looking directly in his direction miss him.
** In ''Film/{{Alaska}}'', he mocks the search and rescue team flying right past the bright yellow plane they are specifically looking for.
** He has one of his own when he only just realizes Bitch Spasm's dead body has been on his floor for five episodes.
* FailureHero: In his reviews of ''Film/{{Steel}}'' and ''{{Captain America|1990}}'', the Critic seems to view the titular characters as this. Also HulkHogan's character in ''Mr. Nanny'' - he gets owned by the psychopathic kids he takes care of, as well as the mooks of the big bad.
* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: The Critic ''loves'' to [[{{In-universe}} point these out]].
** ''3 Ninjas'': What parents don't like the grandfather of their children (who happens to be Asian when the rest of the family is ''white'') teaching their kids to use shurikens and swords?
** ''TheWizard'': Too many to list.
** ''BlankCheck'': Money is root of happiness and kids should lie to their parents.
* FanonDiscontinuity: In-universe. The Critic says, of his disappointment concerning ''Film/TheNeverendingStory 2'', that he's glad that was the last of the series and they never made ''Film/TheNeverendingStory 3''. He then turns on the theme music, really loud, to drown out a bunch of voices insisting that they did. He later subverted this, only to regret it severely.
** In his comparison of the first ''Film/{{Batman}}'' movie and ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', The Critic makes an off-hand remark about how [[Film/BatmanForever Tommy Lee Jones's portrayal of Two-Face]] never happened.
*** Ditto for [[Film/BatmanAndRobin the Bat Credit Card]].
** In his Top 11 [[TheSimpsons Simpsons]] Episodes list, the Critic claims that the show was [[TooGoodToLast "taken off the air too quickly"]] only to be reminded that the show is in its 23rd season.
* FandomNod: Sage is practically an AudienceSurrogate when he gets creepily turned on by Critic's crying.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Giving a victory blowjob to his joystick after the battle with Angry Joe. The gesture is appreciated, Doug.
** He does like showing off his [[ShirtlessScene chest]], especially that often-shown scene of when he quits his job.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R7bz5lrhzs This commercial]], with the suffering factor set on deliciously high.
*** Likewise, Spooning With Spoony II had him shirtless, traumatized and shamelessly objectified.
** In the first CareBears movie, he thinks that the villain is getting eaten out while she does her lines. He then demonstrates by giving us a series of quite lovely orgasm noises.
*** In his Jaws 3D review, he simulates an offscreen sex scene by himself, providing the orgasmic-sounding voices for both the man and the woman. Goodness.
** The [=DVD=] menus seem to be made for this: the first consists of him wearing an [[WholesomeCrossdresser air hostess uniform]] and the second has Rob barging in on him while he's in the {{shower|Scene}}.
** When you don't see Marobot's title card, the screenshot he used for his ''DuckTales'' episode is the PantyShot in ''SuburbanKnights''. (This one may have been more Blip TV's doing since they often go to stills within a video for screenshots, but it's still appreciated by many.)
** His chloroforming at the hands of TheNostalgiaChick in her ''{{Transformers}}'' review. Mostly due how to she's enjoying it and he's, well, [[CaptainObvious not]].
** He's been soaked through at least three times. Doug even said he had to sell his old jacket partly because of it.
** Done in an equal-opportunity way for the ''MoulinRouge'' review. Girls get pregnant from Critic singing while guys get the Chick, Elisa and Nella in boob-enhancing corsets.
** Other than it being funny, the only reason why Doug's naked and playing a DepravedBisexual in this [[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/the-best-of-that-guy-with-the-glasses-vol-3-dvd-5979266 advertisement]].
** Slightly ickier example, but it's hard to miss the "I'm having an orgasm" face when he's pissing on the old ''{{Doug}}'' theme tune.
** In-universe, this is his belief as to why Catherine Zeta Jones plays up her character's bisexuality in the remake of ''TheHaunting''.
* FalseReassurance: In his ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' tribute, one of the writers for the show mentioned that he thinks Daffy Duck is the perfect cartoon character of all time, and thinks he was a big influence in the creation of the show. The Critic nonchalantly responds: "I-I would know nothing about him being an influence." For those of you who don't know the joke, Doug created the Nostalgia Critic to be a sort of real life version of Daffy Duck, copying his mannerisms and sarcastic and belligerent outlook on life.
* FauxActionGirl:
** Nostalgia Critic notes a painfully straight use of this, which he calls "[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Dumbass in Distress Disorder]]" in ''A Kid in King Arthur's Court''.
** Inverted with Sparky from ''Steel'', who was crippled by an accident from the beginning of the film. She was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of the movie, but in the film's climax, it was revealed that her wheelchair had weapons and she used them against the bad guys. The Critic points out that the movie probably should have been about ''her''.
** In the audio commentary for ''QuestForCamelot'', Doug says he wanted to reference Dumbass in Distress Disorder in reference to Kayley, but wasn't sure people would remember the joke after so long. He does later add her to his top 11 list of Dumbasses in Distress.
* FauxHorrific: Really horrible things make Critic scream.
* FemaleGaze: He'll sometimes point out MaleGaze in a negative way, but likes catering to his female fanbase. Just look at the {{fanservice}} entries.
* {{Filler}}: Regardless of how much Critic suffers or not, most episodes you can tell Doug is passionate and puts as much effort in as he can to produce a good show. But there a few reviews every now and then where it's obvious he just wants to quiet the fan demand and get it out the way, like ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''.
* FlashbackTwist: In his 100th episode, the Critic prepares to roll out a "Crummy Ass ClipShow" while he goes off to smoke a joint. It starts with a clip from the ''CaptainPlanet'' review, with the Critic interviewing Ma-Ti. After a few moments, Ma-Ti notices that the Critic is doing nothing but rolling out a clip show for his 100th episode and calls him a wuss for not doing something special. The Past Nostalgia Critic agrees, and they convince Future Nostalgia Critic to review ''Film/BattlefieldEarth''. This means that the Critic re-created the Ma-Ti scene for that episode, down to the relative quality of that recording.
* FlatWhat:
** The twist in the middle of ''TheSecretOfNimh 2'' is so incredibly stupid that the Nostalgia Critic can only respond like this, at least at first.
** During his review of ''JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', saying it isn't flat enough. He writes it on a piece of paper. Twice.
** In his ''Kazaam'' review, he says "What?" when Kazaam uses the rhyme, "Green Egg and Ham IT!" and later when Kazaam says he doesn't believe in fairy tales.
* FollowTheLeader: The Critic points out in-universe ''3 Ninjas'' tries to cash in on ''HomeAlone'' and ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' and later points out ''Surf Ninjas'' tries to rip off ''3 Ninjas''.
* ForcedMeme:
** "IWasFrozenToday" quote from ''SuburbanCommando''.
** Evil Popcorn Man from ''FreeWilly''.
** With ''DoubleTeam'', there's "Frying the coke". Acknowledged in that he knew it probably wouldn't catch on, but he at least wanted to throw it out there.
** in ''TheTommyknockers'', he explains the gag, which is essentially a moment that is so stupid and ridiculous, it wraps around and becomes a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. A...SoBadItsGood applied to specific moments, if you will.
* ForegoneConclusion: Many viewers already knew how the Nostalgia Critic would feel about ''Film/IndependenceDay'', because he already bashed the movie in his ''Film/{{Godzilla}}'' review.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: ''The WesternAnimation/{{HeMan|and the Masters of the Universe}} & SheRa Christmas Special'' contained some ominous signs for the upcoming ''TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' review. The month-long buildup to that review culminated in his ''Top 11 Christmas Specials'' review, which ends with a SequelHook.
** Early on in the review of "My Pet Monster", he said that he was pitied by his high school classmates for not acting his age. Cut to the end, and he gets pitied again by the director of the movie for the same reason.
** In his "Top Twelve Greatest Christmas Specials", he said he thought he was the only one to hide in the cupboard when he got scared. About a year later, in "Old vs. New: Willy Wonka vs. Charlie", we got what he was scared of.
** The ''CareBears'' review has another rant about how his job makes him lose any pride and the evil book tells him she can give him a happy ending. The very next week, he's [[{{Kickassia}} obsessively trying to keep control of a country]].
** His breakdown to LordKat about the damage done to his ego with LK beating ''BebesKids'' is lead-up to his admitting to CR that he can't cope with people going into his territory a few months later.
** During an argument with the Nerd before they switch jobs for an episode, he asks mockingly if the Nerd thinks his gig is easy. [[SarcasmMode That never came up again.]]
** In the Chick's ''{{Bratz}}'' review, his reason for forcing her to watch it was because he wanted her to be proud of being able to sit through the worst girly movie of all time. His conclusion at the end of his first commercials special is that he's "pathetic but proud".
** By how often Critic expressed his desire to not have Linkara around in Star Trek month, it would have been more of a surprise if Linkara ''hadn't'' shown up.
** He set up the ParentalNeglect angle early when he mentioned off-hand in the "Top 11 Scariest Moments" that he was allowed to have a gun as a kid.
** The choice of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' month and the new vast abundance of ''Series/DoctorWho'' jokes weren't just AuthorAppeal, it was setting us up for the fourth anniversary, which was announced as a sci-fi story.
** At the start of his "Top 11 Simpsons Episodes" episode, the background music used when he discussed the impact The Simpsons had is the same he uses when discussing his pick for the #1 episode: [[spoiler: "Bart Gets an F"]].
** During the meat session scene in ''PatchAdams'', he sarcastically states that he can clearly see the film is going to represent people accurately and with no forced manipulation. Wait fifteen minutes.
** Cross-show example, but Chick's glee over Critic's reaction to the ChildByRape bit in the ''{{Ferngully}}'' review sets up her willingness to guiltlessly take what she (physically) wants from Todd and exact her revenge on Spoony.
** In his ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' review, Critic makes a brief reference to ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' and how he accidentally was involved in blowing up the Psychlo home planet. The following week, ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' is released and it's revealed that Terl survived and wants revenge on the Critic.
* FreakierThanFiction: Well, fiction is stranger than some other fiction, anyway. In reality, he tried to make ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' DarkerAndEdgier as a joke by suggesting that Scrooge made all his money by racketeering, embezzlement and so on. However, [[Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck he actually made it in a far worse way: exploiting African natives.]]
* FreezeFrameBonus: During his review of "The Pound Puppies Movie", there's a parody of FightClub where The Nostalgia Critic splices a naughty frame into a children's movie. In this case, it's two dogs humping. The image is only on-screen for a frame.
** A fairly damning YouBastard one happens in ''OnceUponAForest'', as it shows "you" clicking on a porn site that has a barely legal girl being told to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything suffer for other people's enjoyment]]. Critic clearly doesn't have much love for his audience.
* FridgeBrilliance: In-universe, from his review of ''Chairman of the Board'':
-->"Wait a minute! Edison! Like Thomas Edison, the great inventor! I just got it!" *maniacal laughter*
* FridgeHorror: In-universe. "Wait a sec, next month is January, and you know what that means! SEQUELS MONTH!...... *his smile slowly turns into a look of worry and shock while he reaches for his Dennis Miller doll to try and cheer him up.*
* FridgeLogic: In his review of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', the Critic also points out in-universe the logic flaw of hiding in "plain, vulnerable sight" when they turn to stone during the day.
** The Critic also mentions that Kevin from ''CaptainN'' should be able to use his powers, or the abundant warp zones, to just blast Mother Brain with little problem. He demonstrates both scenarios.
*** Similar example used in ''Film/TheNeverendingStory II'', when he notes how Bastian could have wished all the troubles away.
** He also noted in the ''FreeWilly'' review that if Willy can jump over the rocks, why couldn't he jump over the net, which was considerably lower?
** In his review of the OTHER Titanic animated movie, he wonders why Tentacles the octopus can't move the iceberg out of the path of the Titanic if he can throw it there.
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* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: In his review of ''MilkMoney'', a mother asks her daughter who is with Ed Harris's character. The daughter replies that she's a hooker. The mother seems barely offended by such language. The Critic takes this to the extreme: "She's a bitch ass whore fuck!"
** He gives a few examples of the questions he as a child asked in the game of ''Guess Who'', and they're all cheerfully disturbing ones like "is your person Jewish?" or "did your person sleep with Mommy?".
* FruitCart: He is deeply disappointed when ''CopAndAHalf'', a 90's buddy cop movie, fails to take advantage of this.
* FurryFandom: The Critic acknowledges them in-universe in his review of ''[[Series/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic SatAM]]''.
-->"Let's just say in my ''Film/SpaceJam'' review, when I said there weren't people out there who wanted to fuck bunnies, I was wrong."
** He actually said that was a little harsh and gave the most general term of the fandom.
** He later followed this up in his review of ''RockADoodle'':
--->'''Edmond:''' I'm a[ll] furry!\\
'''Nostalgia Critic:''' Kid, you're a ''little'' too young to know what that word means. I'm an adult, and I'm still not exactly sure what it means!...Nor do I wish to find out.
** Though his review of RoverDangerfield completely ignores the furry connotations, he does create a furry version of himself at the end, "The Nostalgia Kitten."
--->'''Nostalgia Kitty:''' '''''[[IncrediblyLamePun A CAT CREDIT CARD]]?!?!'''''
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* GainaxEnding: The end of ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'' review, in which Critic turns into a [[TalkingPoo turd]] singing AlsoSprachZarathustra WithLyrics.
* GeniusBonus: Lampshaded in-universe in the ''Mr. Nanny'' review:
-->"Bonus points to whoever got that ''What's Up Doc?'' reference"
** In the commentary for the ''{{Leprechaun}}'' review, Doug notes that three people knew the song "Hop On Your Pogo Stick" from the Goofy cartoon "Victory Vehicles".
* GilliganCut: A RunningGag of his goes something like this:
-->'''Critic:''' The only way this could be any more lame/cliche/stupid is if they did [something].\\
''(Cut to a scene of the exact thing he described in whatever he's reviewing)''.
** Subverted in his review of ''CopAndAHalf'', where after wondering what the next stupid plot event is, it cuts to him for a moment of silence, and he says, "Oh, I don't have a vid, I'm just asking."
** Lampshaded in his review of ''North'', when he points out all the racial stereotypes North meets as he tries to find new parents.
-->'''Critic''': Why don't you have him just drop by France, where everyone wears berets, smokes, drinks wine, and every tv channel has 24 hours of Jerry Lewis-- it's the next scene, isn't it? ''(cuts to that exact thing)''
* GodIsEvil: And he's not pleased about being mistaken for kind and loving.
* GodwinsLaw: ''ALL HEIL MONDO BURGER!'' Though averted in his ''Garbage Pail Kids'' review -- think about it: a society where it's socially acceptable to imprison and kill ugly people.
** Also, Nostalgia Critic doing the Can-Can with Hitler.
** You're just standing there, thinking you're about to shake ha- PSYCH! HEIL HITLER * BANG!*
** Invoked in a serious way during ''BebesKids''. When Robin is supposed to redeem himself by going back to the kids, Critic's not impressed and likens "he acted abusive but at least he didn't leave them" to "he killed five hundred people but at least he's not Hitler".
*** Not even [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles April]] escapes his wrath when he believes she's joking about the loss of innocent families when her building falls down. Bit of a change since he accuses her of probably reacting the same to the Hindenburg disaster, but still counts.
* {{Good Night Sweet Pri|nce}}ck: From ''TheRoom'':
-->'''Critic:''' And flights of assholes sing thee to thy rest.
* {{Gorn}}: About 80% of the fanfic/fanart with him involves this. The majority of people who do them don't want to actually hurt him though and thankfully, Doug knows this.
* GrandfatherClause: Like many web review shows, he started out without any intro sequence, theme song or opening credits. Unlike those, however, he still doesn't have them, most probably because it would spoil his introduction style.
* GRatedSex: With TheNostalgiaChick in the ''FernGully'' review. Confirmed as the characters fucking by Doug and Lindsay in their commentary.
* GreenAesop: In the Sonic [=SatAm=] review.
-->"It's just Sonic and a group of industrial freedom fighters, trying to stop Robotnik and bring Green back to the valley. Wait Wait Wait, I can't comprehend this, an environmental message that is SUBTLE!"
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Tends to be the case. Santa Christ is a BigGood but can be pushed too far, yet Sage the devil is actually LighterAndSofter than normal Sage.
* GroinAttack:
** The Nostalgia Critic does this to ''himself with a hammer'' in his ''BlankCheck'' review.
** After {{Conan|TheBarbarian}} throws a sword into a guy, the Nostalgia Critic calls it a low blow and calls him "Conan the crotch-stabber".
** Among the gay overtones perceived by the Critic to exist in ''Masters of the Universe'' is the repeated laser shots to the crotch. Granted, the shots often seem, if you examine them closely, to be hitting fairly far away from the crotch, but at regular film speed and at a single glance it is easy enough to make the mistake and it doesn't always seem clear.
** In Doug and Rob's commentary of "The OTHER Animated Titanic Movie", Rob mentioned that Doug attached clothespins to his ''scrotum'' in order to shoot the crying scene.
** During the Ponyo review, voice actor Spike Spencer comes in and says how much he likes the Critic while the Critic says the same during overlapping conversations. Near the end, Spike Spencer plants a grenade in the Critic's groin and leaves before it goes boom.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy:
** The Critic points out the president has no secret service in ''Captain America''.
** In his review of ''The Wiz'' the Critic finds both Todd in the Shadows and Paw Dugan and [[spoiler:Linkara]] got into his hotel room when he had locked the door. He's questions the security of the hotel.
* GuiltyPleasures: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2cvmS4OITE IN SONG!]] (from the ''MoulinRouge'' crossover review)
** The Critic describes the ''Film/ShortCircuit'' movies and ''JudgeDredd'' as this.
** He also said that he denied watching ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' in public, but he'd actually watch it on a regular basis.
** He admits that ''Ernest Saves Christmas'' is a shallow, stupid movie. He also watches it every year.
** He just plain adores ''Film/{{Commando}}''. [[NarmCharm And who can blame him?]]
** He calls out ''Film/{{Hook}}'' for its stupidity, but on the whole, he loves the movie. Or at least the first two acts.
** Through all its faults, he loves ''RockyIV''.
** At a Bad Movies Anonymous meeting, he admits that he likes Spider-Man 3, much to the chagrin of the other members.
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