| 1 | [[center: [- [[Characters/TheNostalgiaCritic Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/TheNostalgiaCriticTheCritic The Critic]] | [[Characters/TheNostalgiaCriticDougsCharacters Doug's Characters]] | [[Characters/TheNostalgiaCriticMalcolmsCharacters Malcolm's Characters]] | '''Tamara's Characters''' | [[Characters/TheNostalgiaCriticOtherCharacters Other Characters]]]]-] |
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| 3 | After ''Film/FaceOff'', Tamara Chambers replaced Rachel Tietz as the Token Actress of the show. She also appeared as one of the Cat-Women in [[Film/Catwoman2004 said review]]. |
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| 10 | [[caption-width-right:350:Tamara as herself.]] |
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| 12 | * AesopAmnesia: In ''Film/MammaMia'', she tells Critic to yell at his fans because it'll be cathartic. It goes just as badly as the last time [[WesternAnimation/GrandmaGotRunOverByAReindeer as the last time she told him to]] BeYourself. |
| 13 | * AbusiveParents: Her grandfather never considered her part of the family and she expects Critic (with his own past) to understand and be comforting. Also implied when she has a quietly traumatized reaction like Critic does to the molested kids scene in ''Freddy Got Fingered''. |
| 14 | * ActingForTwo: [[invoked]]Lampshaded in ''Film/TheExorcist'', where she came off filming ''Freddy vs Jason'' that had her in lots of different make-up, and apologizes for her face looking so scrubbed. |
| 15 | * AscendedExtra: Initially appeared only once as a one-shot Catwoman character. Starting with ''The Wicker Man'' review, she is taking over Rachel's role. |
| 16 | * AttentionWhore: When they get powers in the ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' review, she pushes Critic out the way because his arm is blocking her from view. |
| 17 | * BeneathTheMask: She is genuinely a NightmareFuelStationAttendant, but the NoSocialSkills MsFanservice [[TheVamp Vamp]] shown in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' is just an act to lure stupid men in and torture them. |
| 18 | %%%* BigBeautifulWoman |
| 19 | * BreakTheHaughty: Critic tries to do this to her to in ''Film/GhostDad'' as punishment for torturing him, but she gets her sadism back when he tells her he wasn't actually dead. |
| 20 | ** Crossing over with BreakTheCutie because the episode shows off her HiddenHeartOfGold the best, but ''Disney Afternoon'' has her suffering a lot. Not in a physical way like Malcolm, but she's scared of Critic the moment he mood swings into anger with her, keeps getting her boundaries crossed (making her scream even), is concerned for Malcolm's abuse and gets mocked for 'only' sculpting a pick up truck out of rubber and ice. |
| 21 | ** ''Jurassic Park III'' implies that he may have actually succeeded a little bit, as he's always tried to degrade her by treating her like a little girl, and in said review she asks him to check her stomach because she's feeling sick, when she could clearly sort that out herself before. |
| 22 | ** In the ''TMNT Christmas Special'', she suffers pretty badly (given that Malcolm's an unavailable zombie), in pain because of the apocalypse that Critic created and used as his footstool when she collapses. To her credit it doesn't take, as she snarks at him even when he's kicking her in the back. |
| 23 | ** In ''Film/DemolitionMan'', she's scared of Critic's torture threats and is the one to get PoliceBrutality at the end while Malcolm gets (relatively) positive attention from Critic. |
| 24 | * BrokenSmile: As noted by Doug (who felt bad but not enough to stop), her smile gets more and more forced every time Critic insults her for what she's doing in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006''. When he offers her a job, both her voice and face relax. |
| 25 | * BrutalHonesty: She's both a ManipulativeBitch and far more honest than other stepford and repressed characters. She'll quite happily tell Critic how bitter she is against him and that she wants her revenge, or taunt him about how insane he is when nobody else wants to say anything. |
| 26 | * BullyingADragon: In the beginning at least, as Critic's UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming at the end of ''Film/GhostDad'' initially upsets her, but then she TranquilFury decides to make him wish he were dead. |
| 27 | * ButNowIMustGo: After she got [[spoiler:the Critic to comment on the "Not the Bees!" meme with torture]] she departs the studio to go get others to watch ''The Wicker Man''. Subverted in five minutes when the Critic catches up to her and offers her a job. |
| 28 | * TheCastShowOff: [[invoked]] As Anne Hathaway!Catwoman, when she started to sing [[Film/LesMiserables about her shattered dreams]]. |
| 29 | ** Again in the Editorial of "Let It Go." |
| 30 | ** She sings a GroinAttack version of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” while beating the shit out of Critic at the end of ''Film/GhostDad''. |
| 31 | ** ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' gives her three songs, along with an IncrediblyLongNote at the end of "Hyper Fangirl", and the commentary has Beth and Doug gushing over how amazing her voice is. |
| 32 | * CatharticScream: When they're beating on Critic's character in a ''Rise Of The Commercials'' skit, she screams in his face while he's cowering on the floor. |
| 33 | * CelebCrush: When she plays a sketch scientist in the ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' review, she keeps a magazine cover of Creator/IoanGruffudd for “research”. |
| 34 | * CharacterDevelopment: In ''Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer'', she's completely naïve to Critic's Christmas crazy and has no clue how to cope with Malcolm taking advantage. By ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' she does. |
| 35 | * ChurchOfHappyology: Seems to be a member of the "Church of Wasted Lives". |
| 36 | * CloudcuckoolandersMinder: By ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'', she's become Critic's carer when he goes whacked out, while Malcolm takes advantage and tries to get him to kill himself. |
| 37 | * CombatPragmatist: To go with Critic's CombatSadomasochist. Even her suggestions in ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' are for Odette “to sneak up behind him and knock the fucker out” or for Rothbart to threaten someone she loves so she'll have to do what he wants. |
| 38 | * ComfortFood: In ''Disney Afternoon'', when Malcolm has been beaten so badly he's unconscious on the couch and she tries to get him to the hospital but Critic stepfords that it's not allowed, she grabs a chocolate bar, obviously stressed. |
| 39 | * ContemplateOurNavels: When she's shyamalanized in ''Film/TheHappening'' she spews a load of it about the ramifications of evil. |
| 40 | * CosplayOtakuGirl: Though not by choice. Critic makes her wear a “sexy Dorothy” costume as both “punishment” and finding it appealing to humiliate her. |
| 41 | * CrazyCatLady: In Hyper's second vlog, she wants to remake ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' into a live-action film because “''serious whisper'' I love cats”. |
| 42 | * CrosscastRole: Skits where Doug is the adult and she's playing the younger version of him are common. |
| 43 | * {{Crossdresser}}: In ''The Lorax'' opening she is dressed as a young boy who is hanging around a [[Literature/TheGivingTree Giving Tree-like]] tree. In ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', she dresses up like a cowboy to get in with Critic's “boy club”, and is good enough to fool the idiots. When she acts like this is important at the end, Critic dismisses her because in his world crossdressing is just casually done. RL!Tamara [[https://instagram.com/p/5s4Is7PMot/?taken-by=thetamaracamera lampshaded]] this, saying you could probably guess what gig was the girly pretty commercial and what was the Critic shoot. |
| 44 | * CustomUniformOfSexy: In the two episodes when Critic ramps her and Malcolm's intelligence up because he's lazy, Malcolm gets to wear a nerdy suit while she's - while obviously sciencey - in fetishy gloves at the end of ''WesternAnimation/FoodFight'' and a corset that goes full MaleGaze in ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess''. |
| 45 | * CuteAndPsycho: Tortures Critic in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' review, knocked out Rachel in the original ''Film/FaceOff'' storyline, and was just as crazy as the other [[Film/Catwoman2004 catwomen]]. |
| 46 | * CuteBruiser: She's the shortest member of Critic's team, yet is the one to give the most {{No Holds Barred Beatdown}}s. Mostly to Critic himself. |
| 47 | * DarkActionGirl: Her first two choices for what fictional world she wants to live in is either ''Series/{{Lost}}'' or ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', both franchises where EverythingIsTryingToKillYou. |
| 48 | * DefiantCaptive: In ''We Wish You A Turtles Christmas'', she still snarks at Critic even when he's using her a footstool and kicking her every time she speaks. Sure she gets eaten by Malcolm-Zombie, but so does he. |
| 49 | ** While Malcolm's afraid of Film Brain in ''Dreamcatcher'', she very easily gets away and manages a Brexit reference while she's at it. |
| 50 | * DesperatelyCravesAffection: |
| 51 | ** In a {{tsundere}} fashion. She's disgusted by Critic majority of the time, but still wants his care and to work for him. |
| 52 | ** 2007-Critic uses it to his advantage when she's about to shoot him with a bow and arrow, promising her and Malcolm that he'll use them more than present-Critic. [[spoiler: She just gets used as a tripod]]. |
| 53 | * DistractedByTheSexy: In ''Film/TheFly1986'', she looks up who's playing the woman and gets distracted by the Geena Davis pretty. |
| 54 | * TheDitherer: In the fourth vlog, Hyper complains at her for not being able to make up her mind on what fictional universe she'd rather live in. |
| 55 | * {{Dominatrix}}: RL!Tamara fueled the ship by 'revealing' in her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwQHAbd9RQA&list=UUwWxwqgHiD656E7cAWBmO8w answer video]] that her character beats up Critic every week, the audience just doesn't see it happen for... reasons. She's also [[https://twitter.com/TamaraLChambers/status/633481011062571009 joked]] about wanting to make a video where she walks Doug like a dog. |
| 56 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: She defeated the reality monster, got a new laptop and crossdressed to be in Critic's boy club, but he dismisses everything she did for him. |
| 57 | * EmptyShell: Joked about (but assured on Instagram that she wasn't) in ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'' when she says her slogan should be "I'm Tamara and I feel nothing". |
| 58 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: At the very start, she really enjoys creeping Critic out, but also wants him to remember and praise her. |
| 59 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: When Critic gets Malcolm's mom in at the end of ''Disney Afternoon'', she {{squee}}s about the possibility of him getting her mom as well. |
| 60 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: She's upset and wants to call an ambulance when Critic punches Malcolm so hard (for reminding him of the ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|1987}}'' theme song) that he's unconscious and Critic has blood on his hands. |
| 61 | ** While she loves torturing, dominating and insulting Critic, she's disgusted by, in “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”, Malcolm making him NotHimself and docile by giving him a chill pill patch. But thing is, she ends up regretting this when she bears the full brunt of Critic's insanity. |
| 62 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: There was [[https://twitter.com/TamaraLChambers/status/716025671085121536 apparently]] a #[=GayForTamara=] hashtag on Twitter after she posted pictures of herself as Wonder Woman for the ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' review. |
| 63 | * EveryoneHasStandards: She refuses to be Ana for a ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' review, much to Critic and Malcolm's perverted annoyance. (Although she would have been happy with a GenderFlip version.) |
| 64 | * EvilLaugh: She has a very scary laugh...what's more, it's her ''normal'' laugh. |
| 65 | * EvilSoundsDeep: When she's [[spoiler: brainwashed]] as Tammity, her voice is much lower even before Critic and the audience find out she's evil. |
| 66 | * {{Fangirl}}: She loves ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' enough to dress up like early!Elsa and tease Critic about the extreme number of “Let It Go” videos. ''Disney Afternoon'' has her also being a fan of ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'', reconnecting with her childhood through a Pinkie Pie doll. |
| 67 | * FemaleMisogynist: The cat-women hated Creator/HalleBerry and each other, and the original goodbye storyline for Rachel had her and Rach be just as catty to each other (in real life they're best friends) because Tamara wanted to be in Critic more. |
| 68 | * FriendlyEnemy: She and Beth Elderkin from WebVideo/SharkJumping (who, like Rachel, is good friends with Tamara in real life). They sing about it to the tune of "Defying Gravity". |
| 69 | -->'''Beth/Tamara''': It isn't right, but I guess we're frenemies/The stupid plot has made us frenemies/ I think we'll have to become frenemies/Cause girls can't get along. |
| 70 | * FriendToAllChildren: From her CutenessProximity over a singing fetus in the ''Frozen'' video, and {{squee}}ing with Malcolm over the young attorney general of Crimea, she seems to have a soft spot for kids. |
| 71 | * FourthWallObserver: Stops and pushes back ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' ending credits (with [[NothingIsScarier no sound]] and the regular SlasherSmile) to torture Critic some more. |
| 72 | * TheGadfly: When there's no danger of anyone else (especially not her) suffering for it, she takes great, almost fetishy, joy in fucking with Critic's head. |
| 73 | * GenderConcealingVoice: In the review for ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', Tamara attempts to get into the boys-only club by dressing as a cowboy, complete with fake mustache. She uses a deeper voice and southern drawl to try an mask her identity, which ends up working too well. |
| 74 | * GoodIsNotNice: Doug confirms in the ''Disney Afternoon'' commentary that while she has plenty of problems, she's still better than Critic. |
| 75 | * GoGoEnslavement: When she's brainwashed in Matrix Month, she's in a leather catsuit that barely does up over her cleavage and, when it rips, Critic takes a peek at her ass. At least Malcolm could move freely in his Morpheus costume. |
| 76 | * HardDrinkingPartyGirl: In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPlutoNash'', she's upset that she can't have a day off to 'get drunker than someone who's watched the movie'. And in the "Third Titanic Movie", she and Malcolm drink Critic's Jagermeister planet. |
| 77 | * HatesBeingTouched: Critic just putting his hand on her shoulder makes her give the look of death, and his childishly hugging her makes her feel even worse. |
| 78 | * HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: Hyper asks her if her OfficialCouple thing with the Critic is just for show and she angrily replies that everyone keeps asking her this and she has a RL boyfriend. |
| 79 | * HeroAntagonist: [[KnightTemplar She really does have things wrong with her brain]] and [[PayEvilUntoEvil her methods are extreme]], but Doug confirmed in the “Disney Afternoon” commentary that between her and [[VillainProtagonist Critic]], she's the one people are meant to root for. |
| 80 | ** For ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', she ''saves'' Critic from crushing depression because reality seeping in (literally, “reality” is the monster) and is never thanked. In fact he denies she even did anything. |
| 81 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 82 | ** Thanks to Tamara's talent with PuppyDogEyes, her DesperatelyCravesAffection side was well established before it got ADayInTheLimelight for''Film/TheMonsterSquad''. |
| 83 | ** [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cultural-Competence-Practice-Stages-Systems/dp/0534631983 The homework book]] she's studying at the end of ''Disney Afternoon'' is for social worker students who want to learn about different patient's cultures. |
| 84 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: For all her evil and snideness, her childhood is still [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic ponies]], she's excited to potentially see her grandma, and she's genuinely concerned for Malcolm after Critic beats the shit out of him. |
| 85 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: She's half the height of Critic, which makes it worse when a Doug character is scaring her, but better when she has the upper hand. |
| 86 | ** ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries II'' lampshaded and exploited how intimidating the height difference can be, with the camera angles making him looking taller and her even shorter while he looms over Hyper and yells. |
| 87 | ** Possibly learning from how freaked Rachel was from filming ''Film/TheShining'', the behind the scenes of “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” reveals that Doug wasn't actually screaming in Tamara's face and filmed her reaction separately, avoiding the uncomfortableness of this trope in real life at least. |
| 88 | * {{Hypocrite}}: She's pretty sexist herself, wanting to CatFight Rachel originally because for some reason she wanted the token chick space on Critic, and also using a misogynist stereotype to lure men in during ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' review, but hates Hyper Fangirl's sexism. (mostly because it's directed at her) |
| 89 | * HypocriticalHeartwarming: She's the only one allowed to fuck with Critic's head and hurt him it seems. She's legit concerned about someone doing harm to him at the end of “Top 11 Worst Avatar Episodes”, she saves him from reality making him depressed in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', and she's disgusted with RestrainingBolt Malcolm put him in during ''Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer''. |
| 90 | * IdenticalStranger: Critic calls her [[Series/GameOfThrones Ayra Stark]] in her first review appearance, likely referring to the similar personality as well as the babyface. |
| 91 | * IJustWantToBeBadass: Aside from wanting to live in ''Series/{{Lost}}'' or ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', she wants to be in the Marvel universe so she can have a power, or be ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''. |
| 92 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: In ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', she outright asks Critic and company if she can join with her own midlife crisis. It's only when they insult her does she get guarded again. |
| 93 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: While they hurts her enough to make her eyes roll back, she defeats the “reality monster” in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' with internet comments. |
| 94 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: While it's not really on the same level as what he did to her throughout ''Disney Afternoon'', and it's not serious mocking like she's done in other episodes, she laughs and pushes Critic when his mom (Doug's actual mom [[note]]who has been established in Critic's world as a random person who he thinks is his mom[[/note]]) yells at him to do his homework, having no clue about the extent of/reason behind Critic's MommyIssues. |
| 95 | * InsaneEqualsViolent: Played with. She's not even the bad guy (as Doug points out, you're meant to be on her side rather than Critic's) and her stepford {{gaslighting}} shtick in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' was just a shtick, but she does genuinely have issues and they usually manifest in being violent. |
| 96 | * TheLadette: When Critic girls her up in "Disney Afternoon", she immediately complains about having to wear loads of hair decorations. |
| 97 | * LargeHam: She manages to be even more hilariously exaggerated than Rachel. |
| 98 | * LoonyFan: She's introduced with a psychotic love for ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' remake, though she's a regular {{fangirl}} for other things. |
| 99 | * LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: While holding Critic up for torture in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', she goes between pleasure at his pain and business-like telling him to do what she wants. No wonder he ended up thinking she was AbusivelySexy. |
| 100 | * MadeOfIron: After drinking Critic's Jagermeister planet, she and Malcolm end up drunkenly flying into the sun. Pretty sure they'll be fine. |
| 101 | * ManipulativeBitch: In ''Film/TheWickerMan2006''. Malcolm lampshades this by defending his actions to Critic with “she was very persuasive!” |
| 102 | * MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: With Critic. She's a ladette sociopath who would rather crossdress than be the MsFanservice, while he consistently either doubts his own gender or feels uncomfortable in it, and crossdresses plenty too. |
| 103 | * MetaGirl: She gets the most [[invoked]] {{fandom nod}}s regarding Critic being a dick, like taunting him on his GildedCage in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' and bemoaning that she thought she'd like him better dead in ''Film/GhostDad''. |
| 104 | * MsFanservice: ''Film/Catwoman2004'' loved her cleavage, Critic takes her on because he thinks of her as AbusivelySexy, and she almost successfully flirts with Spoony and Snob to make them do Wicker Man reviews. She's also exploited as "Sexy Dorothy" in ''Film/GhostDad''. And to generate hype for the game show, Tamara tweeted a [[https://twitter.com/TamaraLChambers/status/499302716670091264 picture]] of herself in a LittleBlackDress, heels and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick pink handcuffs]]. [[https://twitter.com/TamaraLChambers/status/519570926187192321 And another one]], in an even more cleavage-happy dress. |
| 105 | * MysteriousWoman: There's a lot of questions raised but unanswered with her. For example, in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', she's terrified of “reality” but it never gets said why. Compare that to when Critic sees the monster, and he gets taunted by all his money problems. |
| 106 | * NeverHeardThatOneBefore: Her response to being called a "hobbit chick" in the hate comments video is this along with "do you write for ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. |
| 107 | * NervesOfSteel: ''Disney Afternoon''. While she's obviously afraid and not having a good time when Critic gets in his PsychopathicManchild mood, she knows what the wrong thing would be to say unlike Malcolm (who innocently presses his {{berserk button}}s and gets punished), and keeps her cool even when he points a {{BFG}} at her. |
| 108 | * TheNicknamer: She talks in ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' about how, like Doug, she doesn't retain names all that well, and also how, like Doug, the comments are sure to violently correct her. |
| 109 | * NightmareFuelStationAttendant: There's a HiddenHeartOfGold buried in there somewhere, but most of her personality and typecasted characters are based around how strange and creepy she is. |
| 110 | * NoblewomansLaugh: At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess''. Different from her usual EvilLaugh, as it's more a high-pitched cackle at getting one over Critic. |
| 111 | * TheNoseKnows: While played as a joke, she's the only one who realized that the studio smelled of dynamite before Film Brain told them. [[note]]for those who don't, it smells like bananas but will give you a headache[[/note]] |
| 112 | * NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Reality in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' makes her scream and run away at first, and she's clearly still scared when she confronts it, but is able to defeat it with internet comments and save the boys (who treated her awfully and it's not like she had to help them). |
| 113 | * NotSoAboveItAll: In ''Disney Afternoon'', while she's pissed off and awkward with Critic playing with her and Malcolm for his re-enacting the afternoon's theme song, she's just as into it as he is when the ''Gummi Bears'' theme song plays. |
| 114 | * OfCorsetsSexy: ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' gives her a white corset, and [[MaleGaze camera shots go right to her bust with not even her face in frame]]. |
| 115 | * OlderThanTheyLook: She's in her mid-twenties, but has a babyface that makes her look younger. Lampshaded by Jon Bailey when he did a voiceover for her make-up tutorial. |
| 116 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: She only goes along with the HumiliationConga of ''Film/GhostDad'' because she'll be out of a job otherwise. And in Robocop 2014 she works with Critic and the chart guys to make big return movies with as little effort as possible. |
| 117 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Saying something about rl!Tamara's abilities, they managed to do this early on. Having the [[ManipulativeBitch character]] be scared of Critic in ''Disney Afternoon'' even just a minute in, shows how deep in SanitySlippage he's being. |
| 118 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: When she gets SuperStrength in ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' review, she immediately destroys a building and calls herself the clobberer. |
| 119 | * ProperlyParanoid: In the “Top 11 Worst Avatar Episodes”, she's worried that someone out there will do something bad to the Critic because of the title. He dismisses her, but she's right. [[spoiler: the someone is Dante Basco.]] |
| 120 | * ReluctantFanserviceGirl: By the fifth hyper vlog (at which point she's been working with him for a year), she's so frustrated by all the make-up and slutty costumes Critic makes her wear that she's desperate for another girl to talk to. And later when she learns that Linkara's characters don't have to wear Poison Ivy costumes, she wants to work for him. |
| 121 | * ReplacementGoldfish: |
| 122 | ** While we get no insight into them other than how they revolve around Critic, she could be considered as Malcolm's replacement for Rachel. It would explain why he got attached to her so quickly and always follows her lead. |
| 123 | ** She's a short psychotic brunette who Critic wants to make him suffer and also push her temper. It's like a much more abusive, much less equal version of his pre-comeback relationship with the Chick. There's also ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'', where he misses Chick and there's Tamara in his tie and dancing/song-battling him at the end like he did with the former in ''The Chipmunk Adventure''. |
| 124 | * SadClown: The Nostalgia Critic 2018 intro seems to hint that Tamara is one, going from laughing and smiling in her intro credit before [[DrowningMySorrows chugging down a bottle of alcohol]]. |
| 125 | * SatelliteLoveInterest: Stated as much by Critic at the end of ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', as he wants someone there to just obsessively hurt him (and be punished likewise) because views go up when he's in pain. |
| 126 | ** Noticeable in “Ghost Rider 2”, where she only has two short appearances as two different characters, and they're ''both'' a fuck-buddy to a Doug-played character. (both also either get killed or left with a smoking vagina) |
| 127 | ** Possibly lampshaded when Tammity (who is clearly Tamara) ends up telling Critic she's madly in love with him, much to his and Malcolm's annoyance. She also tries to grope him later. |
| 128 | * SexyShirtSwitch: She's wearing Critic's tie when she's acting as his (sorta) chipmunk-DistaffCounterpart in the ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' review. |
| 129 | * ShipperOnDeck: She tells Malcolm “good job” when she learns that every time Critic watches a film about racism, he takes Malcolm out on a date to dinner. |
| 130 | * SkewedPriorities: When she thinks she, Malcolm and Critic are going to die at Film Brain's hand, she's at least glad that Pinky and the Brain are still together. |
| 131 | * SlasherSmile: Has one on for most of the ''The Wicker Man'' review. |
| 132 | * SmallNameBigEgo: In “Are You Sick Of Let It Go”, she sings “I don't care, I sing it so well, I'm like Idina Menzel”, complete with HairFlip. |
| 133 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: As much as she dislikes Hyper, she missed her while she was gone because she was tired of being the only girl. |
| 134 | * StealthExpert: Hyper must have got lessons from her, as she's constantly just behind Critic in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006''. |
| 135 | * StealthHiBye: Her ''re''introduction in ''The Wicker Man'' review. |
| 136 | ** OffscreenTeleportation: Seems to be her main flavor of the above trope. |
| 137 | * SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Justified in ''Disney Afternoon'', as even though she's apparently a sculptor who can make cars out of ice and this never comes up again, she was new at this point and so could still be fleshed out, has low self-esteem about it for some reason, and Critic crushes her even more. |
| 138 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Pretty much. Replaces Rachel as a CuteAndPsycho MsFanservice Token Chick, but while Rachel also got BreakTheCutie, Tamara is DarkerAndEdgier. |
| 139 | * ThrowTheDogABone: After all her frustration at being the only girl in Critic's sausagefest, the WebVideo/SharkJumping ''Glee'' musical review has her sing with Beth Elderkin about being [[FriendlyEnemy friendly enemies]], and said review even lampshades how fucked up it is that she's so isolated. |
| 140 | ** She throws ''herself'' a bone after dealing with ''Film/TheFly1986'', by watching the far easier and more enjoyable ''Film/BackToTheFuture1''. |
| 141 | * TookALevelInDumbass: While it's justified because of him trying to BreakTheHaughty, when she grabs the IdiotBall (like in “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” removing Critic's RestrainingBolt) it's a lot more noticeable because she was in so much control in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' review. |
| 142 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: Has poked Critic's bitterness and FatalFlaw of being desperate for money ever since she arrived, sometimes just to fuck with him, other times because he's reality warped her into enabling him, and every so often she's into MoneyDearBoy herself. In ''Film/TheSmurfs'', he eventually punches her out for non-stop telling him to do ''Film/FantasticFour2015'' movie. |
| 143 | * TranquilFury: Her reaction to Critic trying to BreakTheHaughty in ''Film/GhostDad'' is to go from upset to a very calm deciding to bring all the pain possible. |
| 144 | * {{Tsundere}}: The harsh kind. She'll tell Critic off for his crap, mess with his head and dominate him, but she melts when she thinks he's saying he needs her in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', and cares about him in a HiddenHeartOfGold sense. |
| 145 | * UncannyValleyGirl: In ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' review. It's just a TheVamp act though, and while she is indeed crazy, she's actually TheLadette. |
| 146 | * WrongGenreSavvy: In ''Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer'', she thinks she's in a Christmas special where cynicism takes a backseat for once in favor of the truly holiday spirit, but Critic makes it rapidly clear she's actually in a show with someone who is really fucked up and is only going to get worse at Christmas. |
| 147 | * YaoiFangirl: She's completely fine with the idea of ''Malcolm'' being the [[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Ana]] to Critic's Christian, but only gets upset when both men want ''her'' to be the Ana[[note]]Because it'd be extra demeaning considering she just came off having to wear heels and a low cut top for [[Film/JurassicWorld Claire]], and she's made it clear she prefers the dom role.[[/note]] |
| 148 | * {{Yandere}}: In the original ''Film/FaceOff'' video she knocked out Rachel and eventually succeeded in replacing her all because she wanted to be on Critic again and Critic liked her for being more psychotic than Rachel's often HystericalWoman. ([[DomesticAbuser which was his own fault]]) |
| 149 | * YankTheDogsChain: In the end of ''Disney Afternoon'', she's excited to potentially see her mother, but as Critic was too lazy to get her from California, she gets Fat Grandma instead and looks disgusted with it. |
| 150 | * YokoOhNo: Hyper treats her like this because her [[TheMasochismTango Masochism Tango]] with Critic, and doesn't believe HeIsNotMyBoyfriend. |
| 151 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: Much like Malcolm's joke up above of working for CA ages you, [[https://www.facebook.com/119355004801944/photos/a.126607124076732.19749.119355004801944/937199399684163/?type=3 Rob did the same]] for Tamara in age make-up. [[https://twitter.com/TamaraLChambers/status/690436695708151808 She joked]] that at least she managed to hold out for a while. |
| 152 | [[/folder]] |
| 153 | |
| 154 | [[folder:Malice]] |
| 155 | !!Malice |
| 156 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/malice_nc.jpg]] |
| 157 | * AffablyEvil: She's sweet and friendly a good chunk of the time, but is also an escaped mental patient who will casually and brutally murder people for the pettiest of reasons. |
| 158 | * AtLeastIAdmitIt: While she is indeed crazy and dangerous, she makes it quite clear that Critic is far more broken than she is. |
| 159 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: For a value of “nice”. While she's being patient, she's perfectly friendly, but piss her off too much and she'll kill you horribly. Critic even complains that she'd be really sweet if it weren't for the whole murder thing. |
| 160 | -->'''Malice''': Well. I tried to be nice. Excuse me. |
| 161 | * BloodSplatteredWarrior: As the review goes on, she gets more and more blood on her. Critic's creeped out, but she's done it so much she doesn't mind. |
| 162 | * CuteAndPsycho: She is even stated to have escaped from the [[VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice American McGee Mental Institute]] to try and prove she's not crazy. Her apron also shows this by having a kitty emoticon on one side and an angry face on the other. |
| 163 | * CutenessProximity: While she used her knife nut side to make it happen, she's genuinely endeared by Critic's Burton shrine. |
| 164 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Before she displays politeness and concern for him being okay, she's first seen towering over Critic, unsmiling, with DramaticThunder and fog behind her. |
| 165 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: She's a psychotic killer but she also gets panicky at Critic's Underland rant, hides behind her hair when he goes as far as to say “Care Bears In Wonderland” was a better adaptation, and is ''certain'' he's escaped from an asylum when he gets PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy. |
| 166 | * ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: The red and black eyeshadow is a clue that she's not as polite and nice as she seems at first. |
| 167 | * {{Expy}}: Of the version of Alice from [[VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice the American McGee's game]]. Not only is she a DarkerAndEdgier take on the Alice story, when Critic meets her, she references that she escaped from an asylum like in the plot of the game. |
| 168 | * MeaningfulName: A character called "Malice" isn't a NiceGirl. |
| 169 | * {{Meido}}: She's anything but subservient, but the way she's dressed resembles this style and immediately makes Critic assume she's from ''Franchise/TheAddamsFamily'' maid café. |
| 170 | * MoralityPet: They're awful together, but she's willing to destroy the world to make Carrot Juice less sad. |
| 171 | * PsychoForHire: As a one-off moment, she and Critic get attacked by a monster who writes bad movies, and all he has to do is nod to her and she destroys said monster with GiantFootOfStomping. |
| 172 | * SilkHidingSteel: Exaggerated, as she has a GirlyRun, a posh accent and a polite disposition while showing that she's also an AxCrazy PsychoKnifeNut who can make Critic whimper when he tries to assert power over her. |
| 173 | * SoftspokenSadist: Even when she's torturing people she keeps her prim and proper demeanour, and hides behind her hair when Critic goes on a rant. |
| 174 | * StealthExpert: Parodied when she kills Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp in the split second that Critic turned his head away. |
| 175 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' had a lot of parallels to ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', and Malice is like a smarter, more-in-control version of Evilina that Critic can soapbox his points to. |
| 176 | * TheBusCameBack: She made a return appearance in Critic's review of ''Film/AliceThroughTheLookingGlass'' |
| 177 | * VagueAge: Tim Burton calls her a creepy girl of indiscernible age. |
| 178 | * WhatBeautifulEyes: [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=758136037549949&set=pb.695308043832749.-2207520000.1399855263.&type=3&theater Exploited]] with one of Tamara's profile pictures. |
| 179 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She's back in the studio with Critic at the end of ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', and they even have a bit of VillainousFriendship going, but she's never been seen again aside from being in the theme montage. She does cameo in "Freddy Vs Jason", but her relationship with Critic still isn't explored. She finally returns in a prominent appearance in Critic's review of ''Film/AliceThroughTheLookingGlass'', but the GainaxEnding leaves her fate unknown, as opposed to Carrotjuice who ''did'' return in a later review. |
| 180 | [[/folder]] |
| 181 | |
| 182 | [[folder:Hyper Fangirl]] |
| 183 | !!Hyper Fangirl |
| 184 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2017_09_10_at_21912_pm.png]] |
| 185 | |
| 186 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: |
| 187 | ** When Critic realizes that she likes him, he immediately {{Oh Crap}}s and tells her he's not going to have sex with her before trying to get rid of her feed. |
| 188 | ** As vlogs went on, and while he's her main obsession, her targets expanded beyond Critic, and none of them were interested. Snob only agreed to go on a date with her because he's bored, Malcolm talks the most to her but he's still made uncomfortable, and both Spoony and Linkara think she's gross. |
| 189 | * AbusiveParents: According to Doug and Tamara at Connecticon, they like the idea of Hyper being Aunt Despair's daughter, which would explain why she (Hyper) gets randomly angry when Critic calls AD a bitch even when he's had a phone dropped on his face. In ''Cinderella Old vs New'', while Critic identifies with "gaslighted from childhood", she relates to "fragile ControlFreak parent pushing towards abuse". |
| 190 | ** In her Q&A, this becomes canon onscreen, yet she doesn't seem to consider them abusive and calls them great. |
| 191 | * AesopAmnesia: |
| 192 | ** A running theme seems to be her getting pouty at Critic's rejection, and then five minutes later deciding she needs to stalk him ''harder''. |
| 193 | ** In the ''Phantom'' commentary, anytime she comes up, Doug talks about how he fretted about having her regress because he loves [=HyperBoner=] so much and that it was good she moved on, but decided to do it anyway because watching Hyper chasing Critic with the knowledge that she's happy with Devil Boner makes her behavior all the more tragically/hilariously awful. |
| 194 | ** In her Q and A video, referencing the end of Princess Diaries 2, she says she didn't even need to learn anything, but Critic needed the love lesson. |
| 195 | * TheAlcoholic: At the end of ''Cinderella Old vs New'', she admits she's always drunk. Her Q&A also establishes her as enough of a lightweight that she gets drunk after a can and a half of light beer. |
| 196 | ** She also seems to drink a lot with Devil Boner, having been drunk on their hot air balloon date and drinking nightly in their hot tub. The first thing they do after getting engaged ''and'' after getting married is go get drunk. |
| 197 | -->'''Hyper:''' Hooray for booze! |
| 198 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The PrettyBoy Onceler, the emo version of Spider-Man, and of course Critic. When Critic yells in her face for getting into the studio, she just wants to marry him all the more. |
| 199 | -->'''Critic''': [seeing the “marry me/hold me” text on the screen] ...this can't end well. |
| 200 | ** Played with in regards to Devil Boner, who's definitely an AxCrazy bad boy, but she only gets into him after his feminist rant and they genuinely love each other. |
| 201 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: Towards the Critic, who only wants to be ''very distant'' friends, while still being very creeped out by her. But when she gets worse with the stalking, that FalseFriend act dies and he threatens to kill her. She still adores him. |
| 202 | * AlterEgoActing: In a parallel to the post-TRMGO Doug/Critic relationship, she has interaction with Tamara who treats her like she's an obnoxious child. She even showers at Tamara's place sometimes. |
| 203 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Despite her misogyny and latching onto men, the only nice things she's said about other women is their attractiveness: Velma's her “homegirl” who she based her look on, and all she can say about Mary Jane Watson and Rachel Tietz is that they're hot. Even with Tamara, she steals the Seuss-zero drink just because it came out of her ass. She's happy to talk about her girl crushes in her Q&A and settles on Creator/CarrieFisher as her biggest one. |
| 204 | * AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Downplayed, since she's clearly okay identifying with the label of "girl", but seems pretty loosely connected to that, crossdressing as Spider-Man and Critic and mentions that she wants to grow stubble. At the end of "Old vs New: Cinderella'', she's grateful at Devil Boner considering her "an honorary dude" sometimes and female at other points.[[note]]In addition, the person who partly inspired Hyper is genderfluid and supportive of this interpretation of Hyper.[[/note]] |
| 205 | * AntiRoleModel: Like Douchey being a lesson in the wrong way to tell Doug about the mistakes he's made, she's a lesson in how not to express love for him. |
| 206 | * AxCrazy: Tamara's very blunt about considering the character "[[https://t.co/lNnebjM1eq a crazy bitch]]". She wouldn't be remiss without the standard ''Film/{{Misery}}'' reference. |
| 207 | -->'''Critic''': And did that dream also involve toe decapitation? |
| 208 | -->'''Hyper''': Sometimes. |
| 209 | ** A good random example would be in the Anime Midwest video, where she sees Doug walking by and suddenly decides to freak him out by pretending to recreate the ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' shower scene with him. |
| 210 | * BadLiar: In her third vlog she says she has loads of questions to ask, but her caption immediately clarifies she doesn't really and she's “lying so hard”. |
| 211 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Tamara, Rob and Doug have all tried very hard to convince people that she's a horrible person, and for all her deluded cutesyness, she's demonstrated time and time again that she doesn't give a crap about what Critic actually wants. For example, in a panel ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uftck3AuXYI and vlog]], she asks him to build a snowman with her and he says “if I say yes, will you go away and never bug me again?”. She very happily says no. [[spoiler: he gives her a hug and they go off together, but he runs back after having pushed her off the balcony.]] |
| 212 | * BlindWithoutThem: When her NerdGlasses fall down accidentally, she says she's gone blind. |
| 213 | * BornLucky: Tamara talked on a [[https://www.twitch.tv/videos/254882920 Twitch stream]] about how Hyper might be a stalker mess who has done awful things, but she lucked out pretty damn hard, getting the husband and FamilyOfChoice of her dreams. |
| 214 | * BrokenSmile: The end of ''Old vs New: Spider-Man'' has the camera staying on her face with a blissed out frozen grin at how she's wearing Critic's clothes and the thought of forcing him to love her. The same in ''Film/SmallSoldiers'' when she's standing over Critic's bed and is about to kidnap him. |
| 215 | * CantHoldHerLiquor: She gets drunk off her "adult beverage of choice", two cans of light beer. |
| 216 | * CantTakeCriticism: If Critic calls her out on her taste in movies or on her awful behavior, she'll either ignore it or have a complete meltdown. She also nearly killed herself over a bad review of her fanfiction, and when Devil Boner criticizes the original ''Evil Dead'', she covers her ears and tries to drown him out. When she did a video responding to hate comments, at least half of the comments weren't even actual hate, with one comment upsetting her because they called her "fun and cute" without mentioning her ''other'' good qualities. |
| 217 | * CelebCrush: She falls hard enough for Tom Hardy in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' that she leads a cult worshipping him, though she gets turned off by him being a method actor. She's also happy to admit in her question and answer video that Carrie Fisher is the OG girl crush. |
| 218 | * CharacterBlog: Tamara created [[https://www.facebook.com/hyperfangirl one]] just a couple of days after the Spider-Man review (which is currently inaccessible), and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9lx6Xu9M80&list=PL5J57rG9DzEiSixVR3F838HVRQmsD0Dy1 Tamara's personal channel]] hosts the Hyper vlogs and some other content involving Hyper. |
| 219 | * CharacterCatchphrase: Both in the beginning of the Old vs. New Spider-Man video and in her now real Facebook page, she's ended quite a lot of her posts with "Don't ask why!"...DON'T ASK WHY! |
| 220 | * CharacterDevelopment: She has steadily gone from a villainous, insane fangirl parody who stalks the Critic to a more amicable character who seems to be friends with him: |
| 221 | ** Zig-zagged in ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', as while she at least finally apologizes to Critic for what she did and is happily dating Devil Boner, she's still chasing the former despite his protests (singing that she'll use coercion to own him again), he even calls her out on the SelfServingMemory when her apology involves the implication that she remembers their history better than he does, and she gets angry whenever he doesn't do what she wants. |
| 222 | ** Her development in general is realistically two steps forward, one step back, as she's over Critic but still is possessive and finds joy in her and her husband torturing him, is less self-loathing but still an AxCrazy narcissist, and has a FamilyOfChoice (plus is less misogynistic) but seems unaware that her parents are monsters. |
| 223 | ** After ''Chipwrecked'', she still has zero shame of what she did to him, and is proud of her other past creepy behavior (such as stalking Dwayne Johnson), but is more often used for her fangirl qualities than her stalker qualities. She and Critic hang out with her creepy behavior towards him rarely coming up, and some episodes (namely ''Hannibal'' and ''Ready Player One'') even have her ''annoyed'' at having to listen to his ramblings. On the flip side, she [[PetTheDog shows actual kindness and concern towards Critic in a few later episodes with no ulterior motive,]] notably ''The Santa Clause 3,'' and she's consistently shown to be one of his friends alongside other recurring characters. Her vlogs on Tamara's channel have also skewed more towards [=YouTuber=] parodies where Hyper's massive ego and energy is the main feature. |
| 224 | * CharacterTics: Shakes her fists when she gets really excited. |
| 225 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: While there are a lot of lines in "Old vs New: Spider-Man" that foreshadow her later actions, and she's still plenty mentally ill, the SplitPersonality and HearingVoices “of a loved one tormenting [her]” never came up again. Her original obsession with the Onceler has yet to be brought up again.[[note]]Though she does affirm she's still attracted to him in her Q&A.[[/note]] |
| 226 | * ClingyJealousGirl: During the [[spoiler: forced]] FallingInLoveMontage, she swaps out out her usual orange shirt for a blue “HE'S MINE” one, despite the fact that Critic has never been hers and never will be. Even after getting over him, she doesn't want him to date anybody else. |
| 227 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Of the evil sort. The analysts in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'' probably didn't think that their chosen easy to manipulate fangirl spokesman could kidnap men she wanted or have already blackmailed them into giving her a house and money. |
| 228 | * ConditionedToAcceptHorror: She doesn't get that being BuriedAlive by a brother is not a normal thing. Even Critic, who has his own conditioning issues, is disturbed. |
| 229 | * ConflictingLoyalty: She's obsessed with Critic and usually forgives him for everything, but she can't deal with him bashing the Raimi Spider-Man films because she wants Spider-Man to treat her like a goddess. |
| 230 | ** Similarly, despite hating having to fight with him, she can't get over Devil Boner preferring the remake of ''Evil Dead'' to the original. |
| 231 | * ControlFreak: A way of showing how her obsession with Critic isn't love, but what she has with Devil Boner is healthy. The only way she can be happy with Critic is forcing him to do what she wants, either as a hostage boyfriend or [[https://twitter.com/TamaraLChambers/status/967146721821315078 forced]] Butler Of Honor, but she and Devil Boner get to do their own evil thing and she's more relaxed. |
| 232 | * {{Cosplay}}: In a video on Tamara's personal channel and later in the ''Film/ScoobyDooTheMysteryBegins'' review, she puts together a [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Velma Dinkley]] cosplay, though it's just modification of her regular outfit. |
| 233 | * CreepyCrossdresser: She puts on Critic's outfit over her Spider-Man cosplay as an indicator that she's completely gone off the rails. Much later, she and Devil Boner go out on Halloween with her dressed as Critic and him dressed as her. It's their favorite day of the year. |
| 234 | * DaddysLittleVillain: To her credit she’s not as awful as her parents, Aunt Despair and Uncle Lies, but she’s the worst out of the kids, being an AxCrazy StalkerWithACrush. |
| 235 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: She sulks that "weirdos have stories too", she says the only time she's been happy is when she's holding Critic captive, and Doug has (as well as Christian Grey) compared her to Harley Quinn, his go-to character for what abusive relationships can do to you, so there's obviously been ''some'' tragedy in her life. The specifics given so far are the behind the scenes talk that confirms [[AbusiveParents Aunt Despair]] as her mother, and "Old Vs New: Evil Dead" heavily implying she had an abusive brother who buried her alive. |
| 236 | * DependingOnTheWriter: The dark comedy and violent traits that come out in her main show appearances are mostly downplayed when Tamara plays her on her own channel, particularly after the resolution of the "stalking Critic" arc when Hyper's videos branched out beyond sneaking around the studio. This is justified since many of her later appearances teamed her up with Devil Boner, bringing out their [[NightmareFetishist shared bloodlust,]] while the Tamara appearances (even the few that ''do'' feature Devil Boner) mostly play her as a very excited, if somewhat egotistical, vlogger, with little to no references to her tendencies for stalking and violence. It also helps that sadistic comedy is Doug's main AuthorAppeal, while fun fandom culture is Tamara's. |
| 237 | * DesperatelyCravesAffection: In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' behind the scenes, Doug notes Tamara's improvising of Hyper looking ''happy'' at disturbing older men liking her, and Tamara says that Hyper likes ''all'' praise. In-show, she doesn't seem to understand if the praise is forced (like when Critic is being made to call her kidnapping him “delightfully quirky”) or sarcastic either, just takes it as sincere. |
| 238 | * DisneyDeath: Lampshaded in ''Princess Diaries 2'', where after she explodes through the season, Critic says whether she's dead or not depends on if the fanbase wants to see her back again. Sure enough, she returned in ''Christmas Story 2.'' |
| 239 | ** [[spoiler:Happens again in ''Film/ScoobyDooTheMysteryBegins'' where Roger murders her and she is immediately revived by a fairy. [[GainaxEnding If that happened at all.]]]] |
| 240 | * DistaffCounterpart: To Douchey [=McNitpick=], with the difference that she is a fangirl obsessing over the Nostalgia Critic. |
| 241 | * DoggedNiceGirl: Deconstructed in that she'd love to ''think'' she's this, but her actions aren't nice in the slightest. Even when she's keeping Critic as a CaptiveDate, he notes that she wants him to call what she did “delightfully quirky”. |
| 242 | * TheDreaded: |
| 243 | ** [[https://www.facebook.com/hyperfangirl/posts/299217033573563 She finds out the days when Critic is filming]] and hopes he's ready for her because she'll be there. |
| 244 | ** In the fifth vlog, she's delighted that Critic doesn't know she's there yet, and lunges at him at the end while he's trying out the cheerleading skirt. |
| 245 | ** When she rushes into a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uftck3AuXYI panel]] (pre-planned obviously), he tries to hide behind one of the chairs. |
| 246 | * DramaQueen: Critic gets annoyed because all her Facebook status had ''"[Something depressive and sad], [[LargeHam DON'T ASK WHY!!]]"'' |
| 247 | * DrivenToSuicide: The 2014 Anime Midwest panel had Lewis and Doug think that making her suicidal (and mixing her with the suicidally depressed StrawFan persona that Doug for some reason wants to have) would be a good funny idea. |
| 248 | ** According to her WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows cameo, she nearly threw herself into a jet engine because she got a bad comment on her fanfiction and only changed her mind because of a Music/GoodCharlotte song. When Todd says the song isn't that good, she starts berating herself and looking for another airport until he takes it back. |
| 249 | * EarlyBirdCameo: If Rachel had wanted to stay, her StrawFan in “The Top 11 South Park Episodes” would have returned to be the resident stalker. |
| 250 | * EmbarrassingTattoo: She did actually get that tattoo of Critic's neck on her face, and while she loves it, everyone else thinks it makes her even crazier. |
| 251 | * EntitledToHaveYou: When Critic rejects her, she spends ages in passive-aggressive waves of self-pity, and when he wants to be friends (his [[AllTakeAndNoGive usual]] type of 'friends' these days but she doesn't know that), she acts like she's been friendzoned. |
| 252 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: |
| 253 | ** Even before full-blown stalking happens, Critic tells her straight off that he's not going to have sex with her and she completely ignores his refusal to either keep trying or guilt him into it. |
| 254 | ** Even gets a re-introduction moment in ''A Christmas Story 2'', as after she sadly waves to the Critic and he drops to the ground out of fear, she miserably walks into the distance... but then she stops, turns with an angry look on her face and looks for a reason to stalk him again. |
| 255 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: After confirming that Aunt Despair and Uncle Lies are her parents, she says they're great despite treating her siblings so badly. |
| 256 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 257 | ** Even with all her stroking of male ego (something Tamara calls her out on), when dino!Rob tells her he wears human skin instead of boxers or briefs, all she can muster up is an “...oh”. |
| 258 | ** She tortured Critic at least once during the time she kept him as a CaptiveDate, and hired Benny to keep him at gunpoint, but is confused and horrified when he gives her a knife and turns his back. When Benny is all too willing to plunge it in there, she stops him and tells him “be cool”. |
| 259 | ** She gets angry at Critic calling Aunt Despair a bitch in ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004''. This makes sense with the confirmation that Aunt Despair is her mom, who Hyper thinks is great. |
| 260 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: She even calls ''herself'' “Hyper Fangirl”. ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' explains it as less her real name, more of an identity that she can't let die, and in ''Film/ScoobyDooTheMysteryBegins'' she responds to Roger questioning her name with, "It's a way of life." Tamara added on that she's [[https://twitter.com/TamaraLChambers/status/887665789687521281 repressed her real name]]: Joan or Ruth. |
| 261 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: She genuinely thinks that love is just “enjoying the same things” (not even that, as she was just pretending to like what she thought he might like), and even when Critic tries to get it through to her that it's actually about challenging someone and making them want to be better, doesn't want to know. |
| 262 | * EvilCounterpart: To [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Nella]]. Nella's fangirling was charming, adorable and involved plenty of {{squee}} to lighten up Chick's BrokenBird, but the Hyper Fangirl intentionally looks like a mess, only gets into franchises for the pretty boys, and is TheMentallyDisturbed. |
| 263 | * {{Fangirl}}: She's a personification of the worst traits of his fangirls, just like how Douchey was a personification of the worst traits of his fanboys. |
| 264 | ** She goes nuts over several fandoms besides Critic; ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', and Disney in general seem to be her favorites. |
| 265 | * FemaleMisogynist: |
| 266 | ** All it takes is Tamara having no romantic feelings for Doug and the Hyper Fangirl immediately wants to shun her. In the second vlog, Tamara calls her out on the [[EatingTheEyeCandy male]]-centric questions and asks if they're meant to be against an attack on Tamara (who is clearly the YokoOhNo in Hyper Fangirl's eyes). Hyper Fangirl quickly moves onto the Critic. |
| 267 | ** Also visible in [[https://www.facebook.com/hyperfangirl/posts/438629559632309 this post]], where she twists support for Tamara not wanting to wear make-up in vines (because she doesn't care about attracting more male followers) into again refusing to believe that Critic doesn't want her. |
| 268 | ** There are times when it seems like she doesn't even want to be a woman, like when she dresses up in Spider-Man's outfit and acts like the costume's pecs are her own, dresses up like Critic when she decides to stalk him harder, and tells Malcolm in a vlog that she's trying to grow stubble. |
| 269 | ** By her Q&A, however, she seems to be growing out of this, having a rant about how much she loves women, including her younger sisters. She also has a fairly positive relationship with Tamara, or at least enough to come onto Tamara's show and to use her shower. |
| 270 | * FemininityFailure: While she's in princess gear for ''Cinderella Old vs New'', she's late for Critic's request because she's not used to wearing heels. And in the ''Phantom'' behind the scenes, Rob thinks her in the Belle dress looks so unnatural that it's like she's been assaulted. |
| 271 | * {{Fetish}}: According to the third vlog, she has a thing for necks, telling Malcolm that she has to leave halfway through the day because she wants a tattoo of Critic's. |
| 272 | ** "Old Vs New: Evil Dead" confirms that she and Devil Boner have a thing for tying up Critic, that "[they're] bound tighter when [he's] bound tighter". |
| 273 | ** In Tamara's Velma cosplay video, she calls up asks Devil Boner in a hushed tone to do something they had discussed ''last night''. The thing in question is to scream "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!" |
| 274 | * FreudianExcuse: Parodied at the end of ''Old Vs New Evil Dead''. Apparently her need for attention comes from [[NoodleIncident a past of wrestling polar bears.]] |
| 275 | * GenkiGirl: Particularly when the less-creepy side of her fangirling comes out. |
| 276 | * GunNut: While she says she doesn't like having guns in her house, that's relative to Devil Boner and Benny. She glees at the WallOfWeapons, hugs a big gun in an instagram picture and kisses DB's dick gun. |
| 277 | * HappilyMarried: To Devil Boner, as of the ''Chipwrecked'' review. |
| 278 | * HasAType: According to her Q&A, Devil Boner is a departure from her usual type and she usually is attracted to less masculine guys, like Once-ler or Critic. |
| 279 | * HeteronormativeCrusader: While she still lunges at him, it's notable that the only time she's weirded out by Critic and gets all sneery is when he's seeing how the cheerleader skirt looks on him. |
| 280 | * {{Hipster}}: She adores hipster characters (she even made a tumblr for [[WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012 The Once-ler]]), and falls for the Critic because she thinks he is this for his obsession with old media and his clothes. |
| 281 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Complains about Cinderella's LoveAtFirstSight when she wanted to bang Critic as soon as she saw him (Critic calls her out on this one) and claims to love Tom Hardy's feminism when all she cares about is his good looks (which she acknowledges as hypocritical but swears that isn't her reasoning). |
| 282 | ** In ''Old Vs New Evil Dead,'' she calls Devil Boner out for gloating when he wins one round, but rubs it in every time ''she'' wins a round and has an over-the-top victory dance when [[spoiler:the original film wins the match.]] |
| 283 | ** In her Q&A, she insists Critic wants her even though she's no longer attracted to him, and calls that "kind of pathetic". |
| 284 | * HystericalWoman: She's a mentally ill person who hears voices, has a SplitPersonality, wails melodramatically when Critic doesn't want to bang her and convinces herself by the end of ''Old Vs New Spider-Man'' that he's just lying to himself and totally loves her. |
| 285 | * IgnoredEpiphany: She has a brief moment of guilt when Critic asks who would be desperate enough to use gender manipulation to get what they want, but then she distracts him with Playboy cartoons. The second time he starts to realize, she's just worried that her plan will fall apart and has an insane relieved smile when he's distracted again. And when he actually tells her off, she has a VillainousBreakdown and desperately tries to make him watch the movie again. |
| 286 | * IJustWantToBeYou: At the end of the ''Spider-Man'' review she has a copy of Critic's clothes (and dresses as him for Halloween according to her Q&A), and it's probably this mixed with hate for her own gender that she's trying to grow stubble. |
| 287 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: She's so desperate that she calls the questions asked by other fans “her little friends” and says they get her though the week. |
| 288 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: She says things like “when I win, we all win”, and is a vindictive SoreLoser, but she dehumanizes herself as much as she does Critic, saying she's like his pet or even his animated sidekick. Also a case of her dodging responsibility and being his SelfProclaimedLoveInterest, as he's made it very clear he doesn't want her in any capacity and that she should own up to what she's doing. |
| 289 | * LackOfEmpathy: Played with. Early on, she had no concern for people's well-being, especially her crushes (besides her general lack of care for Critic's well-being, her reaction to Snob telling her she shouldn't have brought his dead cat up is to immediately fangirl over how “sensitive” he is and how much she loves him). She does, however, have compassion for fictional characters and her boyfriend (later husband) Devil Boner[[note]]In "Evil Dead" alone, she genuinely looks worried when he's about to cut his hand off, apologizes immediately when her joke about the "dead" Mini Boner upsets him, and really doesn't enjoy fighting with him[[note]]. Following some CharacterDevelopment, she shows more kindness towards others, most evidently in ''The Santa Clause 3'' where she worries about Critic overworking himself. |
| 290 | * LaughingMad: In the ''A Christmas Story 2'' vlog, she says Critic doesn't know she's there yet, and giggle {{squee}}s that “surprising” him will be great. |
| 291 | * LikeMotherLikeDaughter: She says in "Cinderella Old vs New'' that she's always drunk, Aunt Despair is her mother, and it's well-established that woman has never been sober. They're also both manipulative (towards Critic in particular, albeit for different reasons) with little concern for others' well being. Hyper herself claims that she inherited being awesome and beautiful from her mom. |
| 292 | * LikesOlderMen: Stalked Joe Dante who is almost fifty years older than her, and actually smiled when she heard 65-70 year olds had taken an interest in her. Despite everything, Critic and Devil Boner are at least age appropriate (though Critic is still ten years older than her and [[VagueAge Devil Boner's age is unconfirmed]]). |
| 293 | * LoonyFan: Constantly breaks into the Channel Awesome studio in order to hang out with everybody and make Critic love her. |
| 294 | * LoveHungry: Keeps begging Critic to like her, even manipulating him with cool pop culture merch to remain her kidnapping victim, and manipulates herself into thinking that everybody loves her. |
| 295 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: We have no idea when or where her stalking tendencies come from, but Critic isn't even the first man she's stalked, and he's tried desperately to make her see that kidnapping someone and forcing them to take part in your delusion isn't love. |
| 296 | * LoveMakesYouCrazy: If the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEAfDs2l6y0 second vlog]] is any indication, she can actually have some lucid moments until she thinks about Critic and turns deluded again. |
| 297 | * LoveMartyr: Aside from her MadLove with Critic, there's a trend of her idolizing or at least blindly following horrible people who don't value her (the chart guys and her AbusiveParents) just because they give her the slightest bit of attention. Thankfully her relationship with Devil Boner doesn't follow this trend. |
| 298 | * LovingAShadow: ''The Princess Diaries 2'' makes it very clear that she has no actual affection for Critic, and would rather have him as a CaptiveDate than be a person with his own thoughts and feelings. By her Q&A she can admit she just wanted him because she thought he was hot. |
| 299 | * TheMadHatter: She only rarely has moments of depressed lucidity (like admitting that fan questions get her through the week) before going right back into giggly insanity (like right after sing-songing that they're like her friends). |
| 300 | * MadLove: In the ''Island Adventure'' vlog, when they're talking about Sadie trying to force Lars to love her by lying to him and keeping him somewhere he doesn't want, Doug compares her to Harley and Hyper in that she did a really fucked up thing to try and get someone who is a horrid person anyway. |
| 301 | * ManicPixieDreamGirl: Attempts to invoke this, as when she's holding Critic prisoner and forcing him to do boyfriend things, she makes him call her actions “delightfully quirky” when they're [[AxCrazy clearly not]]. |
| 302 | * MadeOfIron: She's been exploded with a [=PS3=] and has been pushed off a balcony by Critic, and she's shown up perfectly fine and still cheerfully bugfuck right after both of those. |
| 303 | * ManipulativeBitch: Less off the rails and more cunning than she appears. In ''Princess Diaries II'' she proudly tells Critic that she got the BigFancyHouse and the money to hire Benny from her blackmail of a previous stalking victim. |
| 304 | * MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Their individual gender expression [[DependingOnTheWriter depends on the episode]], but Critic often serves as the feminine boy to Hyper's masculine girl, with Hyper constantly dominating him while Critic acts submissive and emotional. "The Princess Diaries 2" emphasizes Hyper's tomboy interests and ends with Critic becoming InTouchWithHisFeminineSide. Note that in "Old vs New Cinderella," Devil Boner mocks Critic as a girl, but later embraces Hyper as an "honorary dude." |
| 305 | * MessyHair: In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'' behind the scenes, Doug makes an effort to choose the most unwashed-looking wig he can find for her. |
| 306 | * MoralityPet: For Devil Boner, her boyfriend. She's the only person who can pause his murderous rampages, and the only one he won't shoot down in two seconds. |
| 307 | * MostFanficWritersAreGirls: Hyper's a {{straw fan}}girl who inevitably does fanfic and shipping fanart. Subverted in ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries II'' when she's kidnapped Critic, and while he thinks he's going to be swamped with ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' fanfiction, she's actually got a ton of comic books to try and prove she's OneOfTheBoys. In ''Cinderella Old Vs New'', she writes fic about her boyfriend Devil Boner and he's happy with that. |
| 308 | * {{Narcissist}}: She overinflates all of her accomplishments (especially as a "famous [=YouTuber=]) while also breaking down at the slightest bit of criticism, with many suggestions that her self-esteem is pretty terrible without affirmation from all her fans. Even after her CharacterDevelopment, she still avoids admitting fault for her stalker tendencies towards Critic, claiming ''he'' was the one who can't get over her and who needed to learn a lesson. |
| 309 | * NerdGlasses: She's a nerdy fangirl wearing chunky black plastic glasses with thick lenses. When Tamara wears the costume without the glasses but with a stalkerish expression in the ''Film/JupiterAscending'' BTS, Doug says she actually looks even scarier. |
| 310 | * NeverMyFault: |
| 311 | ** She never actually says anything when Critic tries to get her to understand that they aren't gonna be a couple and what she did was wrong, just looks sad and makes non-committal bobs of the head. She also doesn't believe he doesn't like her until he screams in her face (and he's threatened to kill her if she doesn't leave him alone before), and tells Benny she hasn't learned a thing. |
| 312 | ** Plus in the accompanying vlog, she sees Critic talking to Santa Christ, and goes from happy when Santa Christ calls him a douche, to put out when Critic mentions the horrible things she's done, to happy again when Santa Christ assumes he's still in the wrong. Also in the behind the scenes, when Rob as Santa Christ says he's used to her being the douche, played for laughs when she in character shouts “hey!” from the other room. |
| 313 | * NightmareFetishist: Gets creepily excited over violence, which backfires for Critic since his threats to stab her stomach in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEAfDs2l6y0 Hyper Fangirl vlog 2]] just makes her like him more. |
| 314 | ** She {{squee}}s really hard at art of Disney Princesses dead from a huge battle and imagining herself as the victor. |
| 315 | ** She gleefully enables Devil Boner's violent nature throughout their relationship: in "Old Vs New Cinderella", she stares lovingly at him as he plans to start a random war with Jamaica and gives him a gun with more bullets when he goes after Benny (which she kisses!), in "Old Vs New Evil Dead" they have a mutual thing for holding Critic hostage, and in "Green Lantern" she squees with delight when he proposes to her with a Deadpool cosplayer's severed finger. Not to mention how cute she finds all his violent nicknames for her. |
| 316 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: With Critic, as much as NoHuggingNoKissing can allow. In ''[[Film/ThePrincessDiaries The Princess Diaries 2]]'', she sits as close to him as possible and is about to feel him up when he stiffly leans in for a kiss, and in ''[[Film/AChristmasStory A Christmas Story 2]]'', she has to get a snuggle in when he's asleep but has tried again to convince her she can't have him. |
| 317 | * NotGoodWithRejection: As in literally denies that it exists. Critic pulls a gun on her in the third vlog and she screams and runs away, but is still deluded to be getting a face tattoo of his neck afterwards. |
| 318 | ** After Critic drops to the floor when she waves at him (before he reverses time), she puts on a meek face and leaves. But five minutes later, the music stings and she has an angry expression. Note this is before she knew what he was reviewing. |
| 319 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: She's batshit insane and severely deluded, but she's not as gullible as she first appeared, having blackmailed another victim into giving her a BigFancyHouse, and having the sense to keep Critic captive while forcing him to call her ''Film/{{Misery}}''-like behavior “delightfully quirky”. |
| 320 | * ObliviouslyEvil: She has no clue how obnoxious she is, nor fully comprehends even when kidnapping someone how wrong her actions are, it's just she also has no idea of when people are angry with her or want her to leave them alone. The ''Princess Diaries II'' commentary has Doug compare her to a confused child who just keeps fucking up and doesn't understand why she's being told off for valid reasons. In her Q&A, she still considers herself a hero and can't even comprehend people thinking of her as a villain...as the screen shows a picture of Critic tied up and handcuffed from "Old Vs New Evil Dead". |
| 321 | * OnlyFriend: In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' behind the scenes, Tamara says that Hyper only has two numbers on her phone, and one of them is Benny's. |
| 322 | * ThePeepingTom: In her Midwest Media Expo video, she freaks someone out by saying her biggest exploration has been Critic's bedroom, and in her Q&A, she nonchalantly recalls a time she watched Critic showering through his window. |
| 323 | * PerverseSexualLust: She gushes over the hipster looks of the Once-ler when she debuts in the review of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'', and in the next episode she has self insert art shipping herself with Spider-Man. |
| 324 | * ThePigPen: In the behind the scenes where she's being created, Rob imagines her as unwashed, and when she shakes Trevor's hand in Anime Midwest, he's disgusted. |
| 325 | * PraisingShowsYouDontWatch: In-universe, she's only excited about Shark Jumping because she hasn't actually watched their show and thinks they're about sharks. |
| 326 | * PrincessPhase: She never left, with an Elsa crown, wanting to live in a castle, Critic insulting her for taking Disney too seriously and even Devil Boner mocking her belief in HappilyEverAfter. |
| 327 | * PsychoExGirlfriend: In the review of ''Christmas Story II'' even though the only boyfriend duties he had were at gunpoint and he's still adamant she'll never get him, he calls her his psychotic kinda ex girlfriend. |
| 328 | * PsychopathicWomanchild: In her fourth video, Malcolm is made uncomfortable by her {{squee}}ing about wanting to MindRape the Critic into falling in love with her and having no idea how twisted that is. |
| 329 | * SilentPartner: In ''Critic Tank'', she has an assistant who never speaks while she's a MotorMouth. |
| 330 | * SkewedPriorities: Forgives Critic for actually shitty stuff he says and isn't sorry about, but would be willing to liquify his insides for different opinions about movies. |
| 331 | * SelfProclaimedLoveInterest: No matter what Critic does in order to try and convince her otherwise, she'll believe even the most violent refusals are a sign of his love. By ''A Christmas Story 2'', he's been broken down enough (while still hating her) to believe this too, and calls her his psychotic kinda ex-girlfriend. |
| 332 | * SelfServingMemory: |
| 333 | ** She [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEjjrCDi-eE&list=UUwWxwqgHiD656E7cAWBmO8w refers]] to her breakdown then explosion as “sailing over the air”, “exploding a little bit” and mostly just as a trip. |
| 334 | ** A focus of ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' episode, as she angstily sings about her and Critic having fun (when he was kidnapped and when he was guilted into apologizing to her) and Critic even tells her at the end that he remembers these events ''differently''. |
| 335 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Blackmailing Joe Dante gave her the available cash to get whatever she wants. Like when Bennie calls her out on still stalking Critic, she's able to casually throw ten grand at him to get her way. |
| 336 | * SickeninglySweethearts: With Devil Boner. Whenever they're on screen together in "Old Vs. New: Cinderella", they give each other cutesy nicknames, to the Critic's chagrin. |
| 337 | * SmallGirlBigGun: [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BFsBOGYPGnH/?taken-by=channelawesome Like Tamara's caption says]], it's best not to mess with her. |
| 338 | ** Also in the beginning of the ''Film/It2017'' review, after she warns the audience about the review having opinions and they heckle her over it, she (at Devil Boner's suggestion, naturally) shoots them down. |
| 339 | * SmallNameBigEgo: |
| 340 | ** [[https://www.facebook.com/TamaraLChambers/posts/763741896989363 Word Of Tamara]] is that Critic grudgingly asking for her help stroked her ego enough to create a (now defunct) CharacterBlog. Actually getting noticed by people [[https://www.facebook.com/hyperfangirl/posts/298980763597190 inflates it even more]]. |
| 341 | ** She also says at Anime Midwest that everyone loves her, when in reality most of the people she ambushes are either really scared, angry in Doug and Critic's case, or trying desperately to be polite. |
| 342 | ** She tells her silent assistant in ''Critic Tank'' to make a note that she's great, and assumes a random trophy is for her. |
| 343 | ** Critic in the ''Phantom'' review casts her as Carlotta, and she has no idea why “[he] would cast her as an egocentric prima donna”. He responds with pretending to not speak English. |
| 344 | ** In her vlogs on Tamara's channel, it's become a mild RunningGag that she sees herself as a famous "[=YouTube=] sensation" with tens of millions of fans. |
| 345 | -->"I always thought that I was universally loved...and I still do." |
| 346 | * SecretKeeper: She gleefully agrees to keep both Jim's and Malcolm's crushes on the Critic to herself, squeeing those are her favorite type of secrets. |
| 347 | * SecretlyWealthy: Critic is shocked that she can afford a BigFancyHouse with a ton of comics, and she tells him that she got it and a lot of money from stalking Joe Dante. |
| 348 | * SelectiveObliviousness: |
| 349 | ** Aside from refusing to believe that Critic doesn't want her, her first vlog clearly shows Malcolm and Jim (and Doug) being intensely uncomfortable with her being there, but she refuses to budge until Malcolm squirms that they're friends. |
| 350 | ** As Critic vehemently points out to her in ''Christmas Story II'', she thinks every attempt of his to ignore her is him hating the movie instead of her, even though she knew full well that his “I hate Christmas” was just hyperbole and she told Bennie she just wanted to bother him somehow. |
| 351 | * SheCleansUpNicely: She stuns the audience in ''Chipwrecked'' when she walks down the aisle in her wedding dress and veiled tiara. Benny calls her beautiful and Critic even gives a reluctant smile. |
| 352 | * SoreLoser: Gets really upset when she has to admit defeat on anything, even something as small as the original Spider-Man films not getting the point for best romantic interest, even when the only nice thing she can say about Mary Jane is that she has pretty hair. |
| 353 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: It's not quite clear whether her surname is two words or one. It's typically spelt as "Hyper Fan Girl" on social media and in the titles of in-character vlogs, but a few spell it as "Hyper Fangirl" (such as her Q&A video). Hyper lampshades in her [[https://youtu.be/AAeSRUqeo2o?list=PLvj-UkzUV-hm7tbO82E9VyfmEzHBQKrvu hate comments video]] how many fans misspell her name, but she singles out "Fan Girl" as the misspelling, despite that being the spelling used in that same video's title. |
| 354 | * StalkerWithACrush: She really doesn't care that Critic would rather be very ''distant'' friends with her (because he wants the ego-stroking she gives him but doesn't want her), and plans to stalk him even harder by the end of Old vs. New: Spider-Man video. |
| 355 | ** After a while of steadily getting crazier in her vlogs, she returns at the end of ''Film/SmallSoldiers'' to break into Critic's house, watch him sleep, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and to make him watch]] Film/ThePrincessDiaries sequel. |
| 356 | * StealthExpert: When she wants to be. In the MME vlog, she dances behind Todd and blows kisses at his head, and he [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/588442056055390209 legit didn't know what was happening]]. |
| 357 | * StepfordSmiler: In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'' commentary, Doug said that while she tries to be positive and happy and enjoy everything, she's mean and bitter at heart and obviously her stalking is a sign of how bad she really is. A good example of the stepford act breaking is in ''Princess Diaries II'' where she's all smiley about how it's her dream to watch a bad movie with him, and when he asks does her dreams involve torturing him (which she has done), her face falls and admits sometimes. |
| 358 | * StrawFeminist: |
| 359 | ** The instant he complains about Tobey Mcguire's crying scenes in the Raimi films, she accuses him of having something against boys having feelings in movies. She only does this so he can say he doesn't have any problems with that, he in fact relates to hating your job. |
| 360 | ** Double subverted in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', as when Critic tells her off for not caring about actual feminism but just her physical attraction to Tom Hardy, the meninists get mocked more because they butt in to call the girls feminazis, but the fact that she gives feminist cookies to Hardy for basic decency while being squicked at Patrick Stewart is still meant to be a bad thing. |
| 361 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Doug admits in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'' that she's meant to be a replacement for Douchey, just female, dangerously in love with him and mentally ill. |
| 362 | * SympatheticPOV: Played with in her vlogs. Not that she's not portrayed as fucked up and in the wrong on Critic, it's just that her delusions, inability to read social situations that aren't actually in her favor and her complete disregard for Critic's feelings are more blatantly obvious when she's the one holding the camera. It makes her insidious behavior more obvious, but also makes her more of a TragicVillain (and also plays up her more likeable GenkiGirl qualities). Her post-2017 vlogs also downplay her more nightmarish qualities (since that's more Doug's AuthorAppeal than Tamara's). |
| 363 | * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Everything in the house during ''The Princess Diaries II'' is just trying to manipulate Critic's StockholmSyndrome and she has no clue what he actually likes, but her first two episodes show that she does actually like mostly gender-neutral stuff (''The Matrix, Alf, X-Men, Lord of the Rings, Transformers'') with the occasional girly thing like ''Music/TheJonasBrothers'' and ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. |
| 364 | * TookALevelInKindness: Contrast her relentless pursuit to make Critic like Christmas again despite him clearly not wanting to see her in ''Christmas Story 2,'' to her calmly encouraging him to take care of himself and [[spoiler:letting him sleep comfortably while she and the other cast members film the Christmas video]] with no ulterior motives in ''The Santa Clause 3.'' |
| 365 | * TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: |
| 366 | ** To everyone in the studio except for Jim and Barney. Critic wants to kill her, Rob and Tamara think she's annoying, Doug too but he's too much of an ExtremeDoormat to say anything, and Malcolm is only polite to her because she gives him the affection he needs. |
| 367 | ** Crosses over to ''WebVideo/SharkJumping'', partly because she wants to change Beth and Tim's house into a StalkerShrine for Critic. |
| 368 | ** Several episodes imply that she hangs around even more than what we see. |
| 369 | * TragicVillain: She has severe issues like mental illness, a DarkAndTroubledPast and zero actual friends, plus Doug says you ''should'' pity her, but it's made pretty clear both in-universe and out that it doesn't excuse what she's done to Critic or that she's 'owed' him. |
| 370 | * TroubledAbuser: Her DarkAndTroubledPast is vague, but she clearly has one, and everyone in ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' behind the scenes seems to think she's been abused herself. Tamara says she likes ''all'' praise, even from creepy old men. |
| 371 | * UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Even Critic giving in on something very minor gets a smug “when I win, we all win” comment from her. |
| 372 | ** In Old vs New: Evil Dead, her film wins and she's literally victory dancing as an angry Devil Boner has Critic shoved up against the wall and is about to kill him. |
| 373 | * VibrantOrange: Hyper Fangirl always wears a bright orange shirt, emphasizing her [[GenkiGirl constant excitement]] and [[StalkerWithACrush obnoxious, intrusive nature]]. |
| 374 | * VillainousBreakdown: Completely loses it when Critic rejects her (in a pleading way this time, not using her or being violently willing to shoot her like the past six) in ''Princess Diaries 2'' and ends up electrocuting herself by trying to play the movie again. |
| 375 | * VillainProtagonist: Every vlog of hers counts as ADayInTheLimelight for her, and shows off her fucked up point of view. Episodes where she's on Critic's side may qualify her as a Villain Deuteragonist. |
| 376 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Even if you're Tamara, don't imply that Devil Boner needs better gun skills. |
| 377 | * WeaknessTurnsHerOn: She initially just wants to have sex with Critic because he's pretty, but the more he tries to get her away from him, the more she tries to delude herself that she's actually in love with him. She finally admits in her Q&A video that a big reason why she liked him was because he was feminine and subby. |
| 378 | * WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: In the ''Princess Diaries 2'' commentary, Doug talks about how she just doesn't understand romance, and even though she does terrible things because of that, she's meant to be pitiable. He also said he'll bring her in for any “abusively done love story” movie. |
| 379 | * WomanChild: She still acts like an EmoTeen, but is as at least as old as Tamara.[[note]]Her Facebook shows she was born in 1984, but her Q&A states her birth year as 1991.[[/note]] This trait gets played with in ''Film/SpiderMan1'' when she dresses and acts like a fancy snob to prove how much the film she used to love is ''totally'' beneath her, but by the end of the review accepts it as a GuiltyPleasure and goes to watch them with Benny in their pajamas. |
| 380 | * WoundedGazelleGambit: She has a talent for gaslighting Critic into thinking he's the bad guy for not wanting her, mostly through self-pity and manipulation. Mostly in the ''Christmas Story II'' ending/accompanying vlog, but this trait was apparent even back in ''Old vs New: Spider-Man'' where she guilt-tripped him for two weeks because he said no to going on a date with her. |
| 381 | ** Similarly, she threatens suicide when WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows insults a song she likes, but when he backtracks and calls it the best song ever, she drops the act immediately and just glares at him. |
| 382 | ** While Critic does still say he’ll make it up to her, he’s better in X-Month where she pouts and sulks about not getting to fly around like Rogue and he tells her to shoo. |
| 383 | * YaoiFangirl: In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=286TgavfyfE first vlog]], she squees when Malcolm admits he has a crush on the Critic, and again when Jim implies the same. |
| 384 | * {{Yandere}}: Critic waving a gun in her face and shouting that he'll get a restraining order makes her think he's choosing ''her'' as a sidekick, even when she screams and runs away. That's one of ''many'' examples of this trope from her. |
| 385 | * YoureJustJealous: [[https://www.facebook.com/hyperfangirl/photos/a.301681503327116.1073741830.298689220293011/339736599521606/?type=1 She even made a "haters gonna hate" cake for anyone who doesn't like her,]][[note]]Which is essentially everyone in-universe.[[/note]] thinking they're just angry because she gets to be 'with' Critic and they don't. |
| 386 | ** Post-[=HyperBoner=], she insists she's no longer into Critic, but thinks he's jealous and still wants her, though he obviously doesn't. |
| 387 | [[/folder]] |
| 388 | |
| 389 | [[folder:Astronaut]] |
| 390 | !!Astronaut |
| 391 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20200711_005322.png]] |
| 392 | * FishOutOfWater: She's been in hypersleep for the past fifteen years and is confused about all the reboots. |
| 393 | * NoNameGiven: She's not Tamara the character, as they lampshade, but she never gives her name. Critic mocks her situation by calling her [[Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt Kimmy Schmidt]]. |
| 394 | * OnlySaneWoman: Breakdown at the end aside, she stands out for not having any of the usual Tamara-character psychotic tendencies while also lampshading a Critic-review's tropes (in this instance how lazily he goes from conversation to review like the person he's not talking to isn't there). |
| 395 | * RageAgainstTheHeavens: She has a ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001''-parody breakdown when she realizes they're remaking ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015''. |
| 396 | * TriggerHappy: When Critic does a clumsy [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Review-and-Story Segregation]], she shoots him four times in the leg for just abandoning her in the middle of a conversation. |
| 397 | [[/folder]] |
| 398 | |
| 399 | [[folder:Lady Lovembrace]] |
| 400 | !!Lady Lovembrace |
| 401 | * AffablyEvil: "Greetings friends! I am Lady Lovembrace! Your terrifying villain for the evening!" |
| 402 | * CardCarryingVillain: She introduces herself as a villain and never claims otherwise, despite [[PrincessClassic not acting like one at all]]. |
| 403 | * DesignatedVillain: Invoked to demonstrate how the appearances of the toys in ''Film/SmallSoldiers'' don't match their good-evil roles; Lady Lovembrace is supposed to be a "terrifying villain". |
| 404 | * {{Expy}}: She looks a lot like Queen Elsa. |
| 405 | * FeatheredFiend: She apparently has "Tweeting Birds of Evil". |
| 406 | * NamesToTrustImmediately: Subverted since she's a "villain". |
| 407 | * PrincessClassic: Acts like one, even though she's supposed to be a villainess. |
| 408 | * SoftSpokenSadist: Technically, even though the point was to show how talking and acting like both a PrincessClassic and a {{Villain}} doesn't make a lot of sense. |
| 409 | * SpontaneousHumanCombustion: Lady Lovembrace blows up for no real reason other than because [[TestosteronePoisoning Devil Boner]] suggested her to. |
| 410 | * TrueBlueFemininity: Her dress is a very dark blue color. |
| 411 | * VillainousPrincess: Implied to be a princess or queen because of her crown. |
| 412 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: While Devil Boner showed up a few times afterwards, Lovembrace was only in one skit, probably because she got blown up. |
| 413 | [[/folder]] |
| 414 | |
| 415 | [[folder:Curiosa]] |
| 416 | !!Curiosa |
| 417 | |
| 418 | * ClothesMakeTheSuperman: In the commentary, Doug talks about how sometimes he'll put Tamara in a badass role and she'll struggle a bit because she says she's too girly, but as soon as she got in the Furiosa outfit she was there instantly. |
| 419 | * HandicappedBadass: If you look at behind the scenes photos on facebook, you'll see Jim (who made it and the sets) looking very proud of the prosthetic arm he made for Tamara. She also saves the day in the review, and the meninists (who have already been implied to be the part of the audience that Doug doesn't like so much) whine that she should have let Critic do it. |
| 420 | * MeaningfulName: Is the only one in the ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' review willing to listen to Critic. |
| 421 | * NotSoAboveItAll: She's irritated by the fangirls swooning over Tom Hardy for basic decency to women, but gets into Devil Boner for the same thing. |
| 422 | * StrawCharacter: Unlike the acknowledged many creations that are just there to prove him right and have no argument of their own, Curiosa averts this in that she listens to Critic, but she defends her movie and changes his mind on a lot of points, including on the film's quality as a whole. |
| 423 | * WomenAreWiser: Not that she doesn't listen to Critic as well, but out of respect to how cool everyone thought Furiosa was, she's the smartest in the review and changes Critic's mind on a lot of points. |
| 424 | * WomenDrivers: Downplayed, because she's more interested in defending how good her film is rather than driving when they're under fire. |
| 425 | [[/folder]] |
| 426 | |
| 427 | [[folder:Aunt Despair]] |
| 428 | !!Aunt Despair |
| 429 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aunt_despair.jpg]] |
| 430 | A heavily-wrinkled, alcoholic woman and wife of Uncle Lies, who often shows neglect to her children. |
| 431 | |
| 432 | * AbusiveParents: Though more JadedWashout neglect than the active abuse her husband gives. Malcolm calls it going into [[Series/HereComesHoneyBooBoo Honey Boo Boo]] territory. |
| 433 | * TheAlcoholic: Doug reckons she's never been sober, and that she's a “recovering alcoholic” because she's recovering with alcohol. |
| 434 | * AlcoholicParent: She drinks straight vodka and it effects her quite badly. |
| 435 | * AwfulWeddedLife: Zig-zagged. She usually gets along fine with her husband, but her cameo in ''The Santa Clause 3'' shows them in some sort of argument and she also has this to say as the lunch lady in ''Film/{{Hop}}:'' |
| 436 | -->You want it to be so boring you'll forget it even entered you? Ha ha ha- ''Don't get married.'' |
| 437 | * BadLiar: She's way too drunk to be any good at it, not that it stops her from bullshitting about studio connections. Her daughter calls her out on how many facts she gets wrong when "recapping" Critic's ''Balto'' review. In the ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork'' review, she swears she didn't leave behind Bum Jr. even though her husband later admits that they did. |
| 438 | * BeautyInversion: An impressive make-up job makes Tamara look at least twenty years older. |
| 439 | * CasualKink: A one-off line in ''Film/Hop'' implies she drinks Uncle Lie's urine. |
| 440 | * ConsummateLiar: Despite being terrible at it, Tamara's first name for her is Aunt Deceit and in ''Phantom'' she keeps trying bullshit lies on Critic, and tries to convince Bum Jr. that she wasn't abandoned in ''Home Alone 2.'' |
| 441 | * ConspiracyTheorist: She claims [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]] was a fraud put on by Satanists. |
| 442 | * DealWithTheDevil: She has satanic powers that allow her to put words on the screen. How she got them, we don't know. |
| 443 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: She and Uncle Lies do think that [[spoiler:homeless people should be given proper care]] and she apparently tries to teach Cliff lessons of accepting others' opinions. |
| 444 | * EvilAunt: Her name according to Tamara is “Aunt ''Despair''”, and treats all the children under her care with slurred contempt. |
| 445 | * EvilIsPetty: |
| 446 | ** Proves herself as much of a {{jerkass}} as her husband in the ''Film/CatsAndDogs'' review, as she makes Critic both act like a cat and a dog, and uses the footage to make a clickbait negative review of ''Deadpool'' so everyone will hate him and Fox will take his job away. She also takes a long time to abandon her daughter in ''Balto'', with even Uncle Lies asking what took her so long. |
| 447 | ** They kidnapped Mr T’s son for kicks, and blame Critic for it, happy to see him get beaten up. |
| 448 | -->'''Aunt Despair''': He’s the Nostalgia Critic and he remembers it so you don’t have to, though probably not for long. |
| 449 | * {{Gaslighting}}: She and Uncle Lies tell Bum Jr. she didn't abandon her in the ''Balto'' review and that it was probably another kid, though her husband at least remembers. |
| 450 | * GlurgeAddict: As horrible as she is, her main outfit is a purple dress with a twee picture of deers in snow. |
| 451 | * HardDrinkingPartyGirl: More than likely was one when she was younger, and the only ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' song she takes part in is the bouncy “Metaphor”, complete with her vodka bottle. |
| 452 | * HotGuyUglyWife: By virtue of Tamara having a ton of wrinkles drawn on her face and Doug's only difference is a bad sweater, slicked back hair (later replaced with a toupee) and larger glasses. |
| 453 | * IconicItem: A cigarette is always hanging from her mouth. In a behind the scenes, Doug loves it because it adds that extra dose of pathetic to anything she says. |
| 454 | * IHaveManyNames: The ''Cats and Dogs'' behind the scenes calls her “Aunt Deceit”, ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' review calls her “Aunt Despair” and the behind the scenes of that calls her “Hyper Grandma”. All three are fitting descriptions, though "Aunt Despair" has been canon since the ''Balto'' review. |
| 455 | * JadedWashout: According to Doug, she gave a fuck at one point but doesn't anymore. |
| 456 | * {{Jerkass}}: Fittingly she treats Critic as badly as she does her kids, relishing making his life difficult and once deliberately dropping a phone on his face before staggering off. |
| 457 | * LethalChef: Implied in the ''Labyrinth'' behind the scenes, as she apparently eats cold hot dogs because she can't even cook those. Confirmed in “Cats And Dogs”, when daddy asks what's for dinner and she replies that it's cold hot dogs again. |
| 458 | * LowerClassLout: She's like the embodiment of "white trash", and Malcolm makes it explicit in one of the behind the scenes when he compares her to Honey Boo Boo's mom. |
| 459 | * ManipulativeBitch: In ''Balto'' she manipulates (badly) her daughter into thinking they're in the future and Critic's dead, and when gets caught out, tries to excuse her lying by saying she at least learned something. |
| 460 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', she names herself "Aunt Despair". |
| 461 | * OfficeLady: Her job is a vague "does shift work"[[note]]though she plays a lunch lady in ''Film/{{Hop}}''[[/note]], which after the third shift she needs some booze. |
| 462 | * OutlawCouple: With Uncle Lies in ''Film/XMen1'' where they're being chased by cops and bringing prostitutes back to life. |
| 463 | * PerpetualFrowner: She's only smiling when she's fucking with Critic or being condescending to her kids. |
| 464 | * PetTheDog: Subverted, as she pays lipservice to not wanting to get in trouble for hurting her kids, but really just wants an out to plead innocence. |
| 465 | ** Played straight in the ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork'' review where she concedes to the Bum family's different opinions and then lets Critic scream at her and her family for hating Christmas Crunch and assures him that they don't hate him for it afterwards, even calling him a good kid. |
| 466 | * PoliticallyCorrectVillain: She, along with Uncle Lies, think [[spoiler:the homeless deserve to be treated as equals]]. |
| 467 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Implied in “Cats And Dogs”, as she says “make America great again”, a phrase that's been heavily connected with Republican politics and Donald Trump. |
| 468 | * TheStoner: The 2017 intro has her and her husband ride in on a giant blunt. |
| 469 | * VagueAge: She is at the very least over fifty, though all the wrinkles make her look older. |
| 470 | [[/folder]] |
| 471 | |
| 472 | [[folder:Abused Daughters]] |
| 473 | |
| 474 | !!In General |
| 475 | |
| 476 | * OnlySaneMan: They tend to call out their parents' or brother's horrible behavior when no one else in the family will. |
| 477 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: One wears baggy t-shirts, likes ''Franchise/StarWars'' and plays with cars, while the other has GirlishPigtails. |
| 478 | * WhiteSheep: Aside from some normal childish brattiness, both seem to be the only non fucked up ones of the family. |
| 479 | |
| 480 | !!Red Jumpsuit/Bum Jr |
| 481 | * ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Her being the subversion (screaming that her parents suck) is what causes Uncle Lies to punish her with scary movies in the first place. |
| 482 | * {{Fangirl}}: She gets all starry eyed about the Critic, which Aunt Despair manipulates in the ''Balto'' review and tries to pawn her off at the end. |
| 483 | * GirlishPigtails: In the ''Labyrinth'' review where she's particularly child-like. Also because Tamara's hair had grown to the length where pigtails can be done. |
| 484 | * GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: She has a teddy bear that she clings to when she's scared. |
| 485 | * HappilyAdopted: Despite being dirty and homeless, she's far sunnier living under Chester and Doe than she ever was with her birth family. |
| 486 | * {{Hikikomori}}: In the behind the scenes of ''Labyrinth'', Tamara improvises her as someone who never goes outside and wants a facebook. |
| 487 | * NiceGirl: Melody and Doe are nice, but Melody is a NightmareFetishist (not to abusive levels, but likes dark weird stuff) and Doe complains about the homeless, so it's just Bum Jr who holds the title of "NC Character Who Has Never Done Anything Wrong". |
| 488 | * NoNameGiven: Lampshaded in ''Balto'' when Aunt Despair tells her she'll drink to forget her name, of which we don't know. The "Bum Jr." moniker, which was only used on [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BR9lNb1jCYS/?taken-by=channelawesome a single Instagram post,]] is the closest we get even after her adoption. |
| 489 | * ParentalAbandonment: Both her parents apparently died in erotic asphyxiation and Aunt Despair ditches her immediately after telling her this. Luckily Critic offers [[spoiler:Chester]] as a ParentalSubstitute. |
| 490 | * SecurityBlanket: She ends up clinging and rocking with her teddy bear in ''Labyrinth''. She's clinging to it again and trying to not cry when Aunt Despair abandons her in ''Balto''. |
| 491 | * TearsOfFear: Her sobbing "no Daddy no!" when he tries to force her to love the Barbie doll is genuinely hard to hear. |
| 492 | * ThrowTheDogABone: She's confused and upset and will probably go back to her horrible family, but the end of ''Balto'' gives her actually loving parents with Chester and Doe. |
| 493 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: According to ''Rise Of The Commercials'', her favorite food is Campbells Soup. |
| 494 | * VagueAge: She's at the very least younger sounding than her siblings, as she has a lisp in ''Jurassic Park III'', plays with dolls and stuffed animals, wears a onesie and has a tantrum in ''Labyrinth''. |
| 495 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite Doe and Chester being loving parents to her in ''Home Alone 2,'' she hasn't appeared with them or even been mentioned since that review, even though Doe and Chester have appeared again. |
| 496 | * WiseBeyondTheirYears: Despite Aunt Despair constantly calling her an idiot, she's bright for a small child and can call out plot holes. |
| 497 | |
| 498 | !!Melody |
| 499 | * BetterWithNonHumanCompany: Unlike her brother, she gets upset and twitchy at animals being hurt and can't get anywhere with her family. |
| 500 | * BringMyBrownPants: In ''Conquest Of The Commercials'', she squeaks that she needs to be potty trained again because her dad was so scary. |
| 501 | * FutureLoser: Extra depressing because as a result of being abused for so long, she and Cliff go from trying to write movies to having soul sucking accounting jobs. |
| 502 | * NoNameGiven: Until ''Hulk'' gave her name as Melody. |
| 503 | * TomboyishBaseballCap: To differentiate her from her hair decorations sister. |
| 504 | * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: In her first appearance, she has on a ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' t-shirt with a yellow skirt underneath it. |
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