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** He also has a cameo towards the end in, OF ALL THINGS, [[spoiler:Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Trip]]. ''NO'', really, he's the extra behind [[spoiler:Dave and his girlfriend during the last performance.]]

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** He also has a cameo towards the end in, OF ALL THINGS, [[spoiler:Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Trip]].Chip]]. ''NO'', really, he's the extra behind [[spoiler:Dave and his girlfriend during the last performance.]]
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** He also has a cameo towards the end in, OF ALL THINGS, [[spoiler:''Film/Alvin and the Chipmunks'']]. ''NO'', really, he's the extra behind [[spoiler:Dave and his girlfriend during the last performance.]]

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** He also has a cameo towards the end in, OF ALL THINGS, [[spoiler:''Film/Alvin [[spoiler:Alvin and the Chipmunks'']].Chipmunks: The Road Trip]]. ''NO'', really, he's the extra behind [[spoiler:Dave and his girlfriend during the last performance.]]

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** Going the other way, his ''Zombie Apocalypse" review had him being constantly interrupted by the various horror and b-movie reviewers who wanted to collaborate with him on the review/steal the review from him

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** Going the other way, his ''Zombie Apocalypse" review had him being constantly interrupted by the various horror and b-movie reviewers who wanted to collaborate with him on the review/steal the review from himhim.
** He also has a cameo towards the end in, OF ALL THINGS, [[spoiler:''Film/Alvin and the Chipmunks'']]. ''NO'', really, he's the extra behind [[spoiler:Dave and his girlfriend during the last performance.]]
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* TeleportationMisfire: In ''The Sixth Day'', he accidentally beams Critic onto his lap, which starts the crossover and creates another version of Critic who wakes up in his closet after the review is over.
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* DescriptionCut: In ''Film/{{Splice}}'', he complains that using you own DNA in an hybrid is akin to a bad SelfInsertFic. Cue BennettTheSage reading a fic-like diary of the scientist...

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* DescriptionCut: In ''Film/{{Splice}}'', he complains that using you own DNA in an hybrid is akin to a bad SelfInsertFic. Cue BennettTheSage WebVideo/BennettTheSage reading a fic-like diary of the scientist...
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Shouldn\'t have done Buffy Speak in the first place, sorry.


* YaoiFanboy: For a joke, he casually suggests at the end of “The Sixth Day” review that original!Critic keep his cloned self as a SexSlave. He and Critic have a lot of HomoeroticSubtext generally, but usually Critic's the only one being molested.

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* YaoiFanboy: For a joke, he casually suggests at the end of “The Sixth Day” review that original!Critic keep his cloned self as a SexSlave. He and Critic have a lot of HomoeroticSubtext generally, but usually Critic's the only one being molested.doing the molesting.

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* DescriptionCut: In ''Film/{{Splice}}'', he complains that using you own DNA in an hybrid is akin to a bad InsertFic. Cue BennettTheSage reading a fic-like diary of the scientist...

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* DescriptionCut: In ''Film/{{Splice}}'', he complains that using you own DNA in an hybrid is akin to a bad InsertFic. SelfInsertFic. Cue BennettTheSage reading a fic-like diary of the scientist...scientist...
* DesignatedHero: Calls out Jonathan from the ''Rollerball'' remake for this, along with being a SupportingProtagonist.[[invoked]]



* NiceGuy: One of the few critics on ''That Guy With The Glasses'' not to play a total asshole.

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* NiceGuy: One of the few critics on ''That Guy With The Glasses'' Channel Awesome not to play a total asshole.



* YaoiFanboy: For a joke, he casually suggests at the end of “The Sixth Day” review that original!Critic keep his cloned self as a SexSlave. He and Critic have a lot of HomoeroticSubtext generally, but usually Critic's the only one being molesty.

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* TopTenList: His are "Five Best and Five Worst".
* YaoiFanboy: For a joke, he casually suggests at the end of “The Sixth Day” review that original!Critic keep his cloned self as a SexSlave. He and Critic have a lot of HomoeroticSubtext generally, but usually Critic's the only one being molesty.molested.
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* YaoiFanboy: For a joke, he casually suggests at the end of “The Sixth Day” review that original!Critic keep his cloned self as a SexSlave. He and Critic have a lot of HomoeroticSubtext generally, but usually Critic's the only one being molesty.
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* CrossOver: He co-reviewed ''TitanAE'' with MarzGurl on the grounds that it was a sci-fi movie.

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* CrossOver: He co-reviewed ''TitanAE'' ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'' with MarzGurl on the grounds that it was a sci-fi movie.



* ExplosiveDecompression: A slip-up on his part. In the ''TitanAE'' review, there is a scene where two characters are thrown into space, and manage to make it back into a ship, relatively unharmed. The characters in question exhale before leaving the ship.

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* ExplosiveDecompression: A slip-up on his part. In the ''TitanAE'' ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'' review, there is a scene where two characters are thrown into space, and manage to make it back into a ship, relatively unharmed. The characters in question exhale before leaving the ship.
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Leo Thompson is That [=SciFi=] Guy, a producer on Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses and Website/SpaceMonkeyMafiaStudios [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin who reviews SciFi]]. His show can be found [[http://blip.tv/thatscifiguy/ here]], [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/that-scifi-guy here]] and [[http://spacemonkeymafiastudios.com/categories/263/that-scifi-guy-1.aspx here]].

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Leo Thompson is That [=SciFi=] Guy, a producer on Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses and Website/SpaceMonkeyMafiaStudios [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin who reviews SciFi]].SciFi. His show can be found [[http://blip.tv/thatscifiguy/ here]], [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/that-scifi-guy here]] and [[http://spacemonkeymafiastudios.com/categories/263/that-scifi-guy-1.aspx here]].
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** Then joined WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic to review the original ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' to mark the release of [[TotalRecall2012 the remake]].

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** Then joined WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic to review the original ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' to mark the release of [[TotalRecall2012 [[Film/TotalRecall2012 the remake]].



* DescriptionCut: In ''{{Splice}}'', he complains that using you own DNA in an hybrid is akin to a bad InsertFic. Cue BennettTheSage reading a fic-like diary of the scientist...

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* DescriptionCut: In ''{{Splice}}'', ''Film/{{Splice}}'', he complains that using you own DNA in an hybrid is akin to a bad InsertFic. Cue BennettTheSage reading a fic-like diary of the scientist...
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* HurricaneOfPuns: Frequently when The League of Inebriated Gentlemen meet, both intentional and unintentional.

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** He appeared in a "Previously on WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall" section.



* CrossOver: He appeared in a "Previously on WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall" section.
** He co-reviewed TitanAE with MarzGurl on the grounds that it was a sci-fi movie.

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* CrossOver: He appeared in a "Previously on WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall" section.
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co-reviewed TitanAE ''TitanAE'' with MarzGurl on the grounds that it was a sci-fi movie.


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* HypocriticalHumor: With lampshaping in the ''SupermanReturns'' episode. Leo spends the episode showing off his UnlimitedWardrobe of Superman shirts. At a certain point he complains about the film's problems with inconsistency looking down at the shirt that kept changing...


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* SamuraiPonytail: His hair.
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* BadassLonghair: Which he wears in a ponytail.

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* ExplosiveDecompression: A slip-up on his part. In the TitanAE review, there is a scene where two characters are thrown into space, and manage to make it back into a ship, relatively unharmed. The characters in question exhale before leaving the ship.

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* DescriptionCut: In ''{{Splice}}'', he complains that using you own DNA in an hybrid is akin to a bad InsertFic. Cue BennettTheSage reading a fic-like diary of the scientist...
* ExplosiveDecompression: A slip-up on his part. In the TitanAE ''TitanAE'' review, there is a scene where two characters are thrown into space, and manage to make it back into a ship, relatively unharmed. The characters in question exhale before leaving the ship.



* HilariousinHindsight: He says in his G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra review that they should have brought in Roadblock as a character, and could have cast the Rock as someone...In G.I. Joe Retaliation...

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: A "foreshadowing hammer" is used as a complaint on how ''Splice'' is unsubtle with it.
* HilariousinHindsight: He says in his G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra ''GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' review that they should have brought in Roadblock as a character, and could have cast the Rock as someone...In G.I. Joe Retaliation...someone... cue ''GIJoeRetaliation''.
* NeverTrustATrailer: He complains that ''Splice'' used only one out of context scene to imply it had many horror elements.


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* TheStinger: He always closes with a "Sci-Fi Clip" adequate to the reviewed movie.
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* Hilarious in Hindsight: He says in his G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra review that they should have brought in Roadblock as a character, and could have cast the Rock as someone...In G.I. Joe Retaliation...

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* Hilarious in Hindsight: HilariousinHindsight: He says in his G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra review that they should have brought in Roadblock as a character, and could have cast the Rock as someone...In G.I. Joe Retaliation...
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* Hilarious in Hindsight: He says in his G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra review that they should have brought in Roadblock as a character, and could have cast the Rock as someone...In G.I. Joe Retaliation...
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* NiceGuy: One of the few critics on the site not to play a total asshole.

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* NiceGuy: One of the few critics on the site ''That Guy With The Glasses'' not to play a total asshole.
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* BrainBleach: His reaction to seeing WillSmith's... "hancock" in ''Film/WildWildWest''.

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* BrainBleach: His reaction to seeing WillSmith's...Creator/WillSmith's... "hancock" in ''Film/WildWildWest''.



** [[spoiler: And did this combined with DeadStarWalking in ''ToBoldlyFlee'']]

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** [[spoiler: And did this combined with DeadStarWalking in ''ToBoldlyFlee'']]''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'']]
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* NiceGuy: One of the few critics on the site not to play a total asshole.
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** Going the other way, his ''Zombie Apocalypse" review had him being constantly interrupted by the various horror and b-movie reviewers who wanted to collaborate with him on the review/steal the review from him
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** Then joined TheNostalgiaCritic to review the original ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' to mark the release of [[TotalRecall2012 the remake]].

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** Then joined TheNostalgiaCritic WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic to review the original ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' to mark the release of [[TotalRecall2012 the remake]].
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Removing wick to Did Not Do The Research per rename at TRS.


* ExplosiveDecompression: A case of DidNotDoTheResearch on his part. In the TitanAE review, there is a scene where two characters are thrown into space, and manage to make it back into a ship, relatively unharmed. The characters in question exhale before leaving the ship.

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* ExplosiveDecompression: A case of DidNotDoTheResearch slip-up on his part. In the TitanAE review, there is a scene where two characters are thrown into space, and manage to make it back into a ship, relatively unharmed. The characters in question exhale before leaving the ship.
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* CollectiveGroan: When he reacts to a "[[LiterallyShatteredLives frozen then crushed]]" death in ''JasonX'' with "Well, that was cold".

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* CollectiveGroan: When he reacts to a "[[LiterallyShatteredLives frozen then crushed]]" death in ''JasonX'' ''Film/JasonX'' with "Well, that was cold".

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** The Disaster-O-Matic.

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** The [[MonumentalDamage Disaster-O-Matic.]]
** The [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief Suspension of Disbelief flag]].
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** [[spoiler: And did this combined with DeadStarWalking in ''ToBoldlyFlee'']]

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* CollectiveGroan: When he reacts to a "[[LiterallyShatteredLives frozen then crushed]]" death in ''JasonX'' with "Well, that was cold".



** Then joined TheNostalgiaCritic to review the original ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' to mark the release of the remake

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** Then joined TheNostalgiaCritic to review the original ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' to mark the release of [[TotalRecall2012 the remakeremake]].
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** Then joined TheNostalgiaCritic to review the original TotalRecall to mark the release of the remake

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** Then joined TheNostalgiaCritic to review the original TotalRecall ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' to mark the release of the remake



** Due to the fan reaction, in his cross-over TotalRecall review Sci-Fi, when asked, has to put up the disclaimer that the effects of ExplosiveDecompression have never been tested on humans and as such cannot comment.

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** Due to the fan reaction, in his cross-over TotalRecall ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' review Sci-Fi, when asked, has to put up the disclaimer that the effects of ExplosiveDecompression have never been tested on humans and as such cannot comment.
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Leo Thompson is That [=SciFi=] Guy, a producer on Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses and Website/SpaceMonkeyMafiaStudios [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin who reviews SciFi]]. His show can be found [[http://blip.tv/thatscifiguy/ here]], [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/that-scifi-guy here]] and [[http://spacemonkeymafiastudios.com/categories/263/that-scifi-guy-1.aspx here]].

His Twitter account can be found [[http://twitter.com/#!/That_SciFi_Guy here]].

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* BadassLonghair: Which he wears in a ponytail.
* BrainBleach: His reaction to seeing WillSmith's... "hancock" in ''Film/WildWildWest''.
* {{Cameo}}: He has one in WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Star Trek 3''.
** And another in the Critic and Linkara's review of ''Star Trek 9''.
* CaptainObvious: Dr. Wiki appears to explain various scifi terms that people may not understand well - and things that everyone understands perfectly, such as what a bicycle is.
* CrossOver: He appeared in a "Previously on WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall" section.
** He co-reviewed TitanAE with MarzGurl on the grounds that it was a sci-fi movie.
** Then joined TheNostalgiaCritic to review the original TotalRecall to mark the release of the remake
* ExplosiveDecompression: A case of DidNotDoTheResearch on his part. In the TitanAE review, there is a scene where two characters are thrown into space, and manage to make it back into a ship, relatively unharmed. The characters in question exhale before leaving the ship.
--> '''That Sci-Fi Guy:''' A human body exposed to the vacuum of space like that would experience ExplosiveDecompression. [[SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay They would literally be ripped apart]].
** Due to the fan reaction, in his cross-over TotalRecall review Sci-Fi, when asked, has to put up the disclaimer that the effects of ExplosiveDecompression have never been tested on humans and as such cannot comment.
* NonHumanSidekick: Dr. Wiki, a personification of ThatOtherWiki which is voiced by various people including [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]].
* OneOfUs: One example: he uses a screenshot of the BlackDudeDiesFirst page in the ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' review.
* RunningGag:
** The Disaster-O-Matic.
** The harp when he [[VisualPun harps on things]] in the ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' review.
* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: [[spoiler: Ma-Ti comes back to life during the ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' episode, only for the stinger to reveal it was all a pre-recorded message for anyone that would review the movie.]]
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