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| 9 | * DamnedByFaintPraise: |
| 10 | ** When referring to ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'', he says it's unfair to call it a cheap Disney knockoff, when it's actually an ''expensive'' Disney knockoff. |
| 11 | ** In his review of ''Film/{{Steel}}'', he had the following to say about Creator/ShaquilleONeal's acting: |
| 12 | --->''"But give him some credit, though. He's tall."'' |
| 13 | ** He feels really bad once he's forced to praise Creator/JimCarrey's [[Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas Grinch]] for at least being an effective translation compared to Mike Myers' ''Film/TheCatInTheHat''. |
| 14 | ** Critic had some for the ''Mortal Kombat'' movie by comparison after watching ''Mortal Kombat: Annihilation'': |
| 15 | --->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' Does this make ''Mortal Kombat'' a ''good'' movie? No. But it certainly makes it ''a movie'', which is more than I can say for this pigshit. |
| 16 | ** When reviewing ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'', he grudgingly admits that at least ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'' had a moral; even if it was poorly handled. |
| 17 | ** ''Film/{{Devil}}'': Coming from Shyamalan, his thinking that Critic's idea of the janitor as the bad guy is a good twist doesn't exactly mean much. |
| 18 | ** In "The WORST Christmas Special Ever" he notes that even ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians'' showed the right type of bear living in the Arctic. |
| 19 | ** In ''Film/MammaMia'', the only nice thing he can say about Meryl Streep singing “Winner Takes It All” is that she looks pretty. |
| 20 | ** In ''Old vs New Spider-Man'', Hyper gets upset when she can only defend MJ with "she has pretty hair". |
| 21 | * DamselScrappy: A Top 11 full of them, the "Dumbasses in Distresses". [[invoked]] |
| 22 | * DarkerAndEdgier: In a few reviews, the Critic voices his disapproval over shows that were normally light-hearted becoming this, as he felt the changes weren't set-up properly. |
| 23 | ** In his review of ''Film/CoolAsIce'', he makes it to a scene where a kid is being kidnapped, being pulled into a corner, and ''being shot''... Before the Critic admits the kid didn't die, he says that would have been such a dark twist, possibly parodying the trope. |
| 24 | ** But he has also praised those who apply this concept ''properly'', such as the more serious ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' and the 2010 version of ''Film/TrueGrit''. |
| 25 | ** He also believes the Spider-Man franchise would have been better if It had been DarkerAndEdgier. |
| 26 | ** Happened twice to the show: |
| 27 | *** After Ma-Ti died in ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'', to set up Critic's end in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee''. The crossovers were WordOfGod confirmed to be Critic's way of saying goodbye, the emotional moments increased, and Critic got so broken that even Douchey felt bad for him. |
| 28 | *** After he came back from the PlotHole. Jokes got nastier and more mean-spirited, [[GenreShift there were a lot more scares]], Santa Christ was revealed to have a big sadist side, and Critic ended his third episode begging for death again. |
| 29 | ** In terms of episodes, the first three commercial specials had dark character jokes (and angst in the first one), but were mostly focused on sweetly goofy adverts. The post-reboot commercial special included two rape awareness [=PSA=]s, which can be a shock even without Critic reacting badly. |
| 30 | ** Tamara in comparison to Rachel. Rachel was CuteAndPsycho and abused a lot but still tried to be the TokenGoodTeammate, Tamara is a CreepyGood KnightTemplar HeroAntagonist who has TheMasochismTango with Critic. |
| 31 | ** As discussed by Doug in Midwest Media Expo, he wanted to make Critic's love for Christmas more psychotic in reboot. Just compare “Holiday Clusterfuck” to “I Fucking Love Christmas”. The second episode of the month is always far less laughs and more emotion, something Doug enjoys. |
| 32 | ** As many people (and the commentary) noted, ''Disney Afternoon'' wasn't like Doug's usual brand of slapstick violence. Malcolm's bruised for the whole episode because he mentioned ''Doug'', screams when his arm is lifted, tearfully says he can't feel his teeth, and when he says the name “Duck Tales”, he's unconscious on the couch, Critic has blood on his hands, and Tamara wants to call an ambulance. |
| 33 | * DarkHorseVictory: In the Old vs. New on Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' and [[Film/Cinderella2015 its live action remake]], the winner is [[spoiler:''Film/EverAfter'']]. |
| 34 | * DarkReprise: The original "[[http://ncmoulinrouge.bandcamp.com/track/the-review-must-go-on The Review Must Go On]]" was still singing about how he hated his job, but the orchestral background and Doug's passionate voice made it triumphant. The stripped back rock [[http://tgwtg.bandcamp.com/track/the-review-must-go-on-nostalgia-critic-theme instrumental]] is a lot more bitter and resigned. Doug at a con confirmed that using a song about how he has to keep going anyway was intentional, calling it the best choice. |
| 35 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 36 | ** The [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/1324-follow-that-bird review]] of ''[[Series/SesameStreet Follow That Bird]]'' is a WebVideo/{{Bum review|s}} in disguise, as the Nostalgia Critic couldn't face snarking on the first show he ever saw and bowed out early. |
| 37 | ** While Critic still gets more attention, ''Film/TheShining'' is one of the only episodes with Rachel and Malcolm alone together without their boss, and has more insight into their characters than most. |
| 38 | ** ''The Monster Squad'' for Tamara, as she gets separated from the sexist boy squad and has to deal with things by herself. |
| 39 | ** Aside from more insight into the titular fangirl's twisted head, the Hyper Fangirl vlogs let Malcolm and Tamara flesh out their characters while Critic is only usually at the end serving as her LustObject. |
| 40 | ** Ironically given they're BrainwashedAndCrazy, but Matrix Month for Tamara and Malcolm. They have a lot of screentime in all three episodes and get to have more character beats than usual, as well as Critic realizing how much he needs them and how badly he treats them, though this doesn't last long. |
| 41 | ** Rob in the ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' skits, as he's trying to get Critic/Tamara/Malcolm to do something actually good with their powers. He also exposes himself to the meteorite so he can be a better hero than them, but just gets uselessness. |
| 42 | ** ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' is one for Devil Boner, giving him CharacterDevelopment from just TestosteronePoisoning TakeThat {{fanservice}} to a much nicer version of masculinity than the toxic version the meninists perpetuate. He also gets more limelight in ''Old vs New: Evil Dead'' and ''Old vs New: Cinderella'', although that's shared with Hyper, Benny and Critic's abuse/trauma issues. |
| 43 | * DealWithTheDevil: |
| 44 | ** [[spoiler:Creator/VincentPrice]] made one so that he could see into the future with 100% accuracy. He used this to [[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat record a conversation]] with the critic for when he reviewed ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler''. |
| 45 | ** The Critic was made to look after [[AntiChrist Satan's daughter Evilina]] in exchange for a good Zod impression. He's also accepted that his final fate will be hell. [[spoiler: And when Diamanda makes him explode in "The Uncanny Valley" epilogue, she enjoys watching him burn before she reverses time.]] |
| 46 | ** In a panel, Malcolm was dressed as the devil and was asked what would he give Hyper to make her give up her soul. He and Tamara both say giving her Critic's soul would do the trick. |
| 47 | ** "The Review Must Go On" has him note that Doug is just supposed to bringing a web-show back but he's playing it more like Critic as the devil trying to get a deal with him. |
| 48 | * DeathEqualsRedemption: Mama Critic takes an off-screen cue from [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee her son]] in ''Film/JurassicParkIII'', as she goes from AlcoholicParent who rips into him when she's drunk, to not letting him know she was sick because she didn't want to distract him from work. |
| 49 | * DeathGlare: |
| 50 | ** Gives a vicious one to [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] after he catches the latter impersonating him at the beginning of their ''Superman IV'' review. |
| 51 | ** [[spoiler:Don Bluth]] to Critic in ''Conquest of the Commercials'', along with silent treatment. Critic being [[ManChild himself]], he can't handle it. In the ''VideoGame/DragonsLair'' LP, he likens it to a scary disapproving grandparent. |
| 52 | ** In ''Princess Diaries II'', when Critic isn't looking at her after he asks when she'll let him go, Hyper's stepford smile slips and her face goes hard in his direction. |
| 53 | * DeathIsCheap: Although it doesn't stop him from trying again and again. |
| 54 | ** DeathAsComedy: Mostly because of this being extensively used. |
| 55 | * DeathIsDramatic: {{Retcon}} aside, Critic got a whole [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee movie]] dedicated to letting him die happy (no DeathAsComedy this time as he's a DeathSeeker who wants to fix his mistakes), and while it's offscreen, his mom actually gets a good few minutes in ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' about how she died and Critic's distraught reaction. |
| 56 | * {{Deconstruction}}: |
| 57 | ** In the ''Film/ScoobyDoo2002'' review, his ButtMonkey status has finally broken him, the Doc Brown parody is closer to an intelligent old man feeling the beginnings of dementia, if he hadn't been TheDitz Roger would have been able to tell him more about the end of the world, young Critic makes him realize his extreme interest in overly-dommy women is not exactly sane, a suicide actually means something this time around with him having to get sent back from purgatory instead of just a UnexplainedRecovery, and he learns by the end that he actually has to make choices to get his life better. |
| 58 | ** As noted below, Doug has been portraying Critic's job as pathetic and self-destructive ever since he began, with Critic himself telling Film Brain in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' that nobody needs him for many reasons including the fact that he's a shitty reviewer. The review of ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' opens with an almost three minute long "truthful preview" about this, ending up calling it "white privilege: the job". |
| 59 | * DeconstructiveParody: |
| 60 | ** Of TotallyRadical layabouts (such as those in ''Biodome'', which he was in the course of reviewing) with [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Mr. Lovhaug's]] help. |
| 61 | ** Even of being a CausticCritic, demonstrating just how pathetic, unhappy and masochistic you have to be to keep on doing it. ''Christmas With The Kranks'' confirms that he only started reviewing to get positive attention, and [[TragicDream try]] to fix all the bad stuff that had happened in the past, and in TBF, him thinking he's a bad critic and thus worthless to humanity is one of the reasons why he wants to commit suicide. |
| 62 | ** Of DrunkWithPower. He's so powerless that one of Doug's main traits for him is that he's constantly the victim (he's said himself that's a glutton for punishment), so whenever he does get it, he clings down hard before it will inevitably slip out of his fingers again. |
| 63 | ** More tragically than normal because DramaBombFinale, but of CashCowFranchise in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo''. Critic cry-rants in the beginning that he's only being made to suffer like this to get the site ratings, and his younger self's bitching that he's become a sold out narc quickly gets on his nerves. |
| 64 | ** Of being a DistressedDude. It's given him problems, both in that he kidnaps other people to get some control back and it's made him scared to wake up, and he gets made fun of by Devil Boner and Hyper who coo over who held him hostage best. |
| 65 | ** Devil Boner's a parody of TestosteronePoisoning. He's AxCrazy, super over the top manly, had a bad childhood… but he also have CharacterDevelopment, is a sweet progressive boyfriend and stands up for women. He's also genuinely shaken up at the thought of losing control and becoming abusive to Hyper. |
| 66 | ** Of CloudcuckoolandersMinder, as having to look after Critic has left a toll on Malcolm and Tamara, and Malcolm can take it to an extreme, less looking after him and more just keeping him under tight control when he can. |
| 67 | * DeepSouth: The moronic {{straw fan}}s who like Adam Sandler movies in ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'' are from here, with expository clothes like fedoras, sideways caps and cowboy hats. |
| 68 | * DemotedToExtra: |
| 69 | ** Rachel and Malcolm were part of an EnsembleCast with Doug in ''WebVideo/DemoReel'', with their own story arcs, but when it comes to being on Critic, they're treated as much less important than he is, with less screen-time and very little insight into any sort of character they have other than how they feel about NC. |
| 70 | ** Straighter examples whenever there's a crossover with another reviewer, as they and/or Tamara get even less time in said episode. A few minutes at best. |
| 71 | ** Lampshaded in ''Christmas With The Kranks'', when it turns out they're actually upset when he barely uses them and would knock him unconscious for promises of someone else giving them something to do. |
| 72 | ** Tamara on twitter has made it particularly clear that she loves the clipless reviews for avoiding this and giving her and Malcolm plenty of work. |
| 73 | ** Lampshaded in ''Jem'', where they tell him they're still there, and he raises his gun at them with a smile until they leave. (Though they come back later.) |
| 74 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: |
| 75 | ** Regarding ''Film/GoodBurger'': "It's like if shit could shit, and that shit could shit, and THAT shit could shit, and ''THAT'' shit could raise money to put together a team of filmmakers to produce a steamy flaming pile of ''shit!''" |
| 76 | ** Similarly, regarding ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie'': "If a piece of shit took a piece of shit, and that PIECE OF SHIT TOOK A PIECE OF SHIT, AND THAT PIECE OF SHIT TOOK A PIECE OF SHIT etc., etc., etc.,... and that piece of shit made a MOVIE, AND THAT MOVIE TOOK A PIECE OF SHIT! THIS IS A PIECE OF SHIT!" |
| 77 | ** "There are some things we forget about, some things we don't know about, and some things we forget about." |
| 78 | ** "[deadpan] Look, they're all wearing glasses, so they must be part of the losers, because they're all wearing glasses. Losers, glasses, losers, glasses. They're one and the same." |
| 79 | ** From Santa Christ's theme song: ''"He atoned for all our sins, but he also likes pancakes! He saved puppies from a fire, and he also likes pancakes!"'' |
| 80 | ** "Here's an insecure douche who's trying to look like a not insecure douche, and yet still comes across as an insecure douche. Douche!" |
| 81 | ** "[[Franchise/CareBears You know, the lack of logic in the characters' lack of logic really lacks of logic!]]" |
| 82 | ** Subtle, and almost certainly a genuine oversight, but "When did a [[WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|1987}} tuning fork]] turn into the fucking [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} BFG]]?" [[note]]The BFG's initials stand for Big Fucking Gun. In other words, he called it "the fucking Big Fucking Gun".[[/note]] |
| 83 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Film Brain in ''Film/ThePurge'' review and ''Forest Warrior''. The former is definitely a Critic/Doug-written episode, with more character sketch than review and LoveMakesYouCrazy, the latter is more like a BMB/Mat-written episode with 90% review, Film Brain as his usual smart analytical self and any character moments coming from Critic. |
| 84 | * DesignatedHero: [[invoked]] |
| 85 | ** The Critic finds the heroes in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' completely unsympathetic, pointing out that they can be held responsible for almost every death in the movie. |
| 86 | ** In ''Film/MoulinRouge'', Chick rants about how Christian's supposed to be sympathetic and the "good guy" but he completely humiliates Satine in front of everyone, leaving her a sobbing wreck. The boys agree with her. |
| 87 | ** He's not impressed by Hulk Hogan in ''Film/SuburbanCommando'' detonating a ship with the president on it, senselessly beating people, scaring the shit out the neighborhood and getting the reward of cake. |
| 88 | ** He's equally unimpressed by the usage of this trope when discussing the fictionalized depiction of the titular character in ''Film/PatchAdams''--perhaps moreso since the movie was supposed to be based around actual events--but ''especially'' after Patch and his friend steal from a hospital: "Movie, did you even ''say'' this part out loud? Your ''hero'' is ''stealing'' from a hospital?" |
| 89 | ** He's creeped out in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' when the boys blackmail the girl with pictures taken while she was changing. In the real thoughts, Doug adds on that she should have been the one blackmailing them cos it's illegal. |
| 90 | ** During the ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' review, Critic, Tamara and Malcolm show off their jerkassery while having powers and doing nothing, just because the film's characters do it too. Rob calls them out on this. |
| 91 | ** In ''Film/WildWildWest'', he hates Will Smith for letting Salma Hayek's character be raped and choked. |
| 92 | * [[invoked]]DesignatedLoveInterest: Lampshaded InUniverse. During ''Matrix Month'', Tamara's Trinity {{expy}} character informs that she is the Critic's love interest, despite the fact that the two have ''never'' interacted alone together beforehand. Hilariously, he's not even the first Messiah she's hit on. |
| 93 | * DesignatedVictim: Discussed literally in ''Is There Another Good Shyamalan Movie?'', as he's disturbed that YouCantFightFate means that the people who have been victimized in some way were just pre-destined pawns to be hurt. Being a bitter victim himself, and victimizing others because of it, he knows what he's talking about. |
| 94 | * [[invoked]]DesignatedVillain: |
| 95 | ** Mocked by the Critic in his reviews of ''The Wizard'' and ''Film/{{Twister}}'', the "villains" of which were a man who finds lost children for a living, and a rival tornado chaser who dares to have corporate sponsorship. |
| 96 | ** During his review of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTheTitanic'', the Critic wonders why any of the ''Titanic'' movies need a bad guy, considering what role the iceberg plays. |
| 97 | ** In his ''Dear Santa'' review, he and WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob continually jab at how often Jillian is viewed in the wrong, when Dereck was putting Crystal's needs over hers despite only ''just'' meeting Crystal. Plus, anything "wrong" she did were just relatable, mundane actions. |
| 98 | * DespairSpeech: Said in the first commercials special after he realizes what he's been doing: |
| 99 | -->'''Critic''': Oh my God that's even more pathetic! I spent all my time watching the shit that people skip? What the hell's wrong with me? God, this isn't life, this is make-believe I'm pathetic, I'm not a man, I'm not a man... [picks up picture of his younger self] Look at you, you had such dreams ahead of you, such promise, you were perfect back then - okay you had stupid glasses, teeth like a chipmunk and a dumb and dumber haircut that only got dumb and dumber - but you had such hope. There's nothing left me for me anymore, I am a loser. You were right, director of ''Film/MyPetMonster'', I'm a loser, a weak, pathetic loser... |
| 100 | ** The opening of the ''Film/ScoobyDoo2002'' review leaves it in the dust, as it goes over how he thinks he's never done anything in his life to make someone's better, he doesn't have any friends and [[{{Foreshadowing}} that his life is the worst thing anyone could possibly go through]]. |
| 101 | ** There's another one in “Why Do We Love Zombies”, only even more depressing than the last two because it's just stated as fact. |
| 102 | -->'''Critic''': You come to grips that you live in a world that is always trying to get you. You can never fully be safe, you can never fully let your guard down. But we also know if we wait too long or let our guard down, at just the wrong moment... [dying sound] you'll never get that moment back again. You feel the loss, you feel the hopelessness, and that's a different kind of horror. It beats you down, slowly eats away at your humanity to the point where you really do question what you're fighting for and if it's worth fighting for anymore. It's getting used to the terror, letting it slowly destroy whatever kind humanity that's left inside you, let every bad situation build on top of each other like every one zombie can build on top of each other. |
| 103 | ** Although it ends up more optimistic (he sees the Santa Lie as the first time you have to deal with this and you can grow from it because you can then take part in the illusion) than the above, his speech about how much it hurts to be lied to is one of the most melancholy things he's ever done, added on by his voicing over pictures of people suffering. |
| 104 | -->'''Critic''': Recently it hit me why the Santa lie is not only a good thing, but an important thing. Really think about all the surprises life has thrown at you. Just when you think you've got it all figured out, you have all the answers, a bit of truth you never expected falls in your lap and changes everything. As many of us have noticed, change is hard and there's been far too many situations that's fooled us; a person who did something we thought they could never do, or a mindset we held for years now has to be totally different because of something that's occurred in your environment. Everyone has to go through these rough times at some point in their life, where suddenly the perception of reality is destroyed and everything becomes uncertain; what else was I wrong about, what other surprises could be around the corner that can make me look foolish, what should I now question or be afraid of? |
| 105 | * DeusExMachina: In ''Film/ThePurge'', Film Brain desperately wants to do a review with Critic otherwise he threatens to blow up the studio. Critic tries to let him do the end, but says it himself, letting out an “...oops” when he realizes. It's only because Film Brain's destruction app sucking that everyone manages to keep alive. |
| 106 | ** His review of ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' contains one of the most blatant ones in [[SantaClaus Santa]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Christ]], a ParodySue which immediately solves all of the problems the Critic was going through and more. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools And it is absolutely wonderful.]] |
| 107 | ** Lampshaded in ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', where because Critic's usual speech failed, he namedrops the trope and [[spoiler: Avatar Aang]] saves the day instead. |
| 108 | ** As soon as Critic's taken hostage by Zod in ''Film/ManOfSteel'', Superman crashes in too. Necessary because otherwise Critic would have died slowly and painfully, but even Critic lampshades it. |
| 109 | ** Again with Avatar, “The Best Avatar Episodes” has a completely out of nowhere, sappy-music-backed [[note]]as it was never even mentioned beforehand and Critic had spent all review running away[[/note]] speech that tells Dante he's trying to please the fans by pretending to be Zuko, and he turns out to be right. |
| 110 | * DevelopingDoomedCharacters: In Alien 3 he talks about how the previous films bucked the horror cliché of disposal characters and made a sort of found family, and that’s why it sucks so much to have the opening of this film stuff Newt in the fridge. |
| 111 | * DevilInDisguise: In the Film/{{Devil}}, Satan, Critic, Santa Christ, and Rita are in an elevator. [[spoiler:Satan is actually the Shamyalan. And Rita is really Cthulu.]] |
| 112 | * DidntSeeThatComing: |
| 113 | ** When some Catwomen attack him they pull off their heels [[spoiler:and fire them like guns]]. The Critic is freaked and runs for his life. |
| 114 | ** More seriously in ''Christmas Story II'', where Critic lets loose on Hyper for all she's done and when she starts crying he gets upset and whimpers she's not meant to do that. [[spoiler: confirmed in-universe and out that she was manipulating him]]. |
| 115 | * DidntWeUseThisJokeAlready: Frequent when a meme he invented come up. |
| 116 | * DidTheyOrDidntThey: |
| 117 | ** The hand-holding "now you're pregnant" line and the last scene in the ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'' review left fans wondering as to this. In Doug and Lindsay's two years later commentary, they confirmed the characters banged. |
| 118 | ** Hyper and Critic in the (confirmed long) time she had him a CaptiveDate. On one hand their forced FallingInLoveMontage is the most cutesy little girl romance stuff you can imagine and their {{almost kiss}}es are a big deal to her. On the other, she's a firm believer in NoMeansYes, even with the cutesy stuff she admits her dreams sometimes involve torturing him, she's talked about kissing Critic's face like an aggressive pet and he says “I have worst tastes to wash out of my mouth” after calling her his psychotic kinda ex girlfriend, Doug and Rob compared her to Christian Grey, and when she's stalking Critic again at Midwest Media Expo, Rob's rape jokes make Critic look traumatized. [[https://www.facebook.com/127127037353766/photos/pb.127127037353766.-2207520000.1447283234./962134457186349/?type=3&theater Word of Doug-facebook-jokes]] seems to point to a "not even Critic is sure but they probably did". |
| 119 | * DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch: The Critic used to use "twat" as an insult towards idiot characters. However, he pronounces it as "twot". |
| 120 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: Hyper Boner love their ship name right up until the official wedding when they start having second thoughts. They even allowed Critic to leave because of all the jokes on their name. |
| 121 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The [[http://marobot.deviantart.com/art/NC-Sidekicks-126191725 Splash Page]] for ''Film/{{Sidekicks}}'', it shows the Nostalgia Critic kicking Creator/ChuckNorris [[Music/UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny in his cowboy ass]]. |
| 122 | ** He also [[BoomHeadshot headshots]] an angel in the 2010 Christmas special. |
| 123 | ** In ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', Tamara destroys ''reality'' with internet comments. |
| 124 | * DirtyOldWoman: In ''Film/BluesBrothers2000'', he likens Aretha Franklin's rendition of “Respect” to his grandma at a family gathering trying to dance in a sexy fashion. |
| 125 | * DisasterDodgingDog: Doug Walker's review of ''Film/IndependenceDay'' lampshades this trope. After we see the main characters surviving the first WaveMotionGun blast, Doug seems worried about Boomer's (i.e. the dog featured in the trope page) fate. In following reviews, it became a RunningGag whenever this trope occurs in a movie (plus a subversion in the Critic's review of ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''). |
| 126 | --> '''Critic''': (sobbing) Did Boomer make it out ok? |
| 127 | --> '''Voice''': [[https://youtu.be/UVoSGyx_YYs?t=625 Boomer...will live!]] (VictoriousChorus in the background) |
| 128 | --> ([[SkywardScream Doug Walker screams in joy]]) |
| 129 | * DiscontinuityNod: Somewhat, mixed in with ElephantInTheLivingRoom, as at the end of of the AVGN Movie review Critic says that so many people asked him if he was going to make a Critic movie. He did, [[WebVideo/{{Kickassia}} three]] [[WebVideo/SuburbanKnights big]] [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee ones]], but it blew up in his face so apparently they don't count anymore. |
| 130 | * DiscussedTrope: |
| 131 | ** Given that the show's main character is an internet film critic, he will naturally discuss common tropes in media. |
| 132 | ** The characters within the series' intervallic skits and recreations often discuss the tropes of the media they are currently in. Either by being GenreSavvy or BreakingTheFourthWall. |
| 133 | ** Doug and Rob discuss the MagicalNegro trope, and Creator/StephenKing's involvement in it, in the commentary for ''It''. Yes, they reference TV Tropes. |
| 134 | * TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: In ''Film/TotalRecall1990'', he says that penicillin cleared up his "runny cock" once. For those of you who remember sex education, you'll know that he's referring to syphilis. Played for laughs instead of trying to be decent. |
| 135 | * DisneyAcidSequence: The dream sequence from the Critic's review of ''Film/{{Junior}}''. |
| 136 | ** The "I Fucking Love Christmas" song from his review of ''WesternAnimation/GrandmaGotRunOverByAReindeer''. |
| 137 | * DisneyDeath: Rocko in ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin'''s apparent demise didn't fool the Critic one bit. |
| 138 | ** He's ''never'' fooled by Disney Deaths...see also [[WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark Rosie]]. |
| 139 | * DisposableSexWorker: In the Last Angry Geek's 50th episode, he admits to accidentally strangling a hooker after the mess that was his WebVideo/{{Kickassia}} takeover. |
| 140 | ** Double subverted in the ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' review, as when the strip club gets bombed Critic worries if the women got out safe, but That Sci-Fi Guy says "screw 'em". |
| 141 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Has [[DisproportionateRetribution/TheNostalgiaCritic his own page]]. |
| 142 | * DisappointedInYou: He hates Don Bluth's DeathGlare because it reminds him of shitty morbid grandparents shaming him for something. |
| 143 | * {{Dissimile}}: In the ''Film/TankGirl'' review: "It's like a comic book coming to life... without it actually coming to life." |
| 144 | * DistaffCounterpart: There was Chick for serious, and for a joke he wants to date Betty from ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'' because they're both insane masochists. |
| 145 | * DistractedByTheSexy: During the review of ''Bebe's Kids'', he rants about a useless music video included, until camera focuses on the main female's butt which results in a quick "Dayum" before he returns to ranting on how useless the music video is. |
| 146 | * DoWrongRight: At the start of his Adventures Of Rocky and Bullwinkle review, Critic is found is his room with a revolver preparing to commit suicide. Malcolm sees him, rushes up to him, and hands him a 9mm pistol. Less kickback. |
| 147 | * DodgyToupee: In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' behind the scenes, Tamara can't stand her Hyper wig, and Doug adds that all their wigs have got filthy, and Chester's wig is as gross as you think it is. |
| 148 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: From the way Oan, Chick and Critic were acting when he interrupted the review of ''Film/MoulinRouge'', you'd think the latter two had just been caught cheating with each other. |
| 149 | ** In-universe in “Is The Big Lebowski A Masterpiece”, where he shuts off Leon's analysis just because he's talking about castration, feeling like your penis is the only thing that makes you a man, and being a GunNut to compensate, all of which are issues for Critic. |
| 150 | ** He never outright mentions depression in “Why We Do Love Zombies”, but it's pretty clear he's using zombies as a metaphor for it with language like “let every bad situation build on top of each other like every one zombie can build on top of each other” and “it beats you down, slowly eats away at your humanity to the point where you really do question what you're fighting for and if it's worth fighting for anymore”. |
| 151 | ** The {{straw fan}}s in ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'' are treated as so dumb that they're close to having brain problems, and Critic talks down to them (later killing them) like they're five years old. With his “it's funny because they shouldn't live”, it comes across as less they're worthless because they're Sandler fans (as Doug keeps saying people should like what they like) and more “they should die because dumb”. |
| 152 | ** Less heavy is in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' where Critic runs after Tamara, tells her off for leaving him like he wasn't just tortured but they had sex and she's NotStayingForBreakfast, and makes the InterplayOfSexAndViolence more obvious by offering her a job to sate his masochism and need for views. |
| 153 | ** In “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”, while they're specifically talking about Critic's explosive Christmas joy; Critic under sedation saying he should be marketable and not scary, Tamara's well-meaning help blowing up in her face and Malcolm literally talking about how Critic should repress his sickness all give the undertone that it's about mental illness in general and how Critic needs to hide it for people to like him. |
| 154 | ** Hyper asking Critic in the MME panel if he “wants to build a snowman” somehow ends up as a rape reference. Rob teases "[[ImaginedInnuendo Is that what they're calling it now?]]", Critic looks like he might cry, Hyper proudly says even if he does what she wants she won't leave him alone, and when Critic comes back shuddering, Rob asks if he wants a ShowerOfAngst. |
| 155 | * TheDogBitesBack: |
| 156 | ** After ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', Malcolm joked on twitter that both he and Rachel enjoyed the chance to torture and manhandle Doug back for once. |
| 157 | ** The ''TMNT'' crossover BTS has the filming of when Doug is getting stuff thrown at him (he falls over at the end and Malcolm is delighted), and he notes that people must have been wanting to do this to him all day. |
| 158 | * DomesticAbuse: He praises the Harley Quinn/Joker dynamic, especially the episode "Mad Love", for capturing the essence of abusive relationships. |
| 159 | ** Joked about in ''Dawn Of The Commercials'' during the “Got Milk” ad. |
| 160 | -->'''girl Critic''': He beats me with a shovel but you can skate on those abs. |
| 161 | ** Indulges it himself with Rachel in ''Film/TheShining'', so much so that she was actually scared of Doug in real life during the threatening scene. |
| 162 | ** Alluded to in ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'', as even though Odette and Derrick don't fit this trope, he complains that it teaches abusing someone is fine if your only compliment for them is that you think they're pretty. |
| 163 | ** Like Doug in the vlog, he's really saddened and unnerved by Pacifica immediately silencing herself when the bell is rung in ''Northwest Manor Mystery''. |
| 164 | * DoNotDoThisCoolThing: In-universe. When the guy in ''Film/ReeferMadness'' warns the audience of all the ways drugs can be hidden (false heels and the like), the Critic starts taking notes. |
| 165 | * DontExplainTheJoke: He tends to fall into this a lot when targeting comedies, oftentimes substituting explaining a joke for pointing out why it isn't funny. This is most blatant in his review of the ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'' movie when he calls out the movie's use of a WhosOnFirst joke by asking whether or not it's supposed to be a WhosOnFirst joke. |
| 166 | * DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: He believes/grew up believing that the only way you can punish a child is to beat them. |
| 167 | -->It's like if Dr Seuss really hated children, and wanted to give parents a way of punishing them without necessarily beating them. And yet the psychological scars still remain the same. |
| 168 | ** In the ''Film/PatchAdams'' review he takes a belt to the ''movie''. |
| 169 | --->'''Critic''': Bad movie! Bad, bad movie! I'm so ashamed of you! |
| 170 | ** He believes a stupid scene in ''Film/TheLegendOfZorro'' is actually in the imagination of the kid getting disciplined, and proceeds to bend over his desk and act that out. |
| 171 | * DontShootTheMessage: In-universe. He knows full well that child abuse is bad, so destroys ''Film/TheCell'' for showing graphic scenes just to show that obvious aesop. |
| 172 | * DoorClosesEnding: The end of ''Christmas Story II'' has Critic keeping the main door open in case Hyper [[StalkingIsLove wants him again]] and dejectedly closing the inside door. The downer of this was mitigated in ''Film/TheMatrix'', when Chester is the one that uses it as a chance to be indoors and chat with Critic. (As shown in vlogs, Hyper would rather be TheDreaded to him anyway.) |
| 173 | ** When ''WesternAnimation/RapsittieStreetKidsBelieveInSanta'' ends on [[MoodWhiplash a very harsh one]], accompanied by the Creator/MarkHamill character shouting "Shut that door!", Critic plays the ending over several other famous Christmas movies, and even [[spoiler:ends his own review by shouting "Shut that door!" and having the door close on the screen.]] And then [[spoiler: [[CallBack the same thing]] happens to close off the review of ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork''.]] |
| 174 | * DopeSlap: |
| 175 | ** Rob is apparently known for them, as Malcolm and Doug complain in the ''Film/OsmosisJones'' behind the scenes. |
| 176 | --->'''Doug:''' I'd say he's slap-happy but he's never happy. |
| 177 | --->'''Malcolm:''' Slap-angry. |
| 178 | --->'''Doug:''' Slap-snarly. |
| 179 | ** In ''Ghost Rider II'', the Ghost Rider Pony comes in to just smack Critic on the back of his head. |
| 180 | ** In ''Jem'', Malcolm slaps Critic out of it when he borrows "but the chart says" from the execs. |
| 181 | --->'''Critic:''' Thank you. |
| 182 | ** In ''Dreamcatcher'', Barney lightly hits Doug over the head with a binder for letting Tamara do "one of his mistakes" by pronouncing "psychics" as "physics". |
| 183 | * DoubleStandard: |
| 184 | ** In ''Film/HowardTheDuck'', he think it's fucked up that you have to censor female nipples for the kids, but duck tits in a PG rated film is apparently fine. |
| 185 | ** In ''Barb Wire'', he calls out the difference in male/female torture scenes, with the guy fully clothed and the woman naked and writhing. |
| 186 | ** Pointed out in ''Film/PatchAdams'', as the StrawFeminist BrokenBird love interest ''obviously'' has to have her defenses broken down because all women are fragile, but Patch himself - the king of masking his insecurity - doesn't because he's the male hero who we're supposed to laugh with. |
| 187 | ** The ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'' review and commentary both discuss the idea that men walking around naked is unthinkable, but it's fine for women to strip down for no reason. |
| 188 | ** The end of the ''Sharknado'' review acts like women have a lot more variation in fiction while male characters are only allowed to be manly. [[http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/08/i-hate-strong-female-characters Not really]]. |
| 189 | ** The fact that Doug apologized for bashing [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} boy nostalgia]]'s sexism, but taunted anyone upset over his being gross at [[Anime/SailorMoon girl nostalgia]] was not lost on people. |
| 190 | ** He can partake in all the violent boy fantasies he wants, but just because Leslie in ''Film/BridgeToTerabithia'' likes to "make up details about her fictional world", she's a nutjob who'll grow up killing people. |
| 191 | ** Invoked in "Rise of the Commercials", where he hates Polly Pocket for being a toy where you can have a mini doll, walk around in a mini world and then put the compact in your pocket, but loves the masculine Mighty Max for the same thing. He then realizes that boys toys had so much less option than their girl equivalents (whether that's true or not is better left for places not here) and feels used. |
| 192 | ** In Midwest Media Expo 2015, Doug actually called people out for acting like Critic was the one in the wrong just because he yelled at Hyper in ''Christmas Story II'', and not Hyper for stalking him, breaking into his house and kidnapping him. In ''Disney Afternoon'', he went the other way, finding it creepy when people rooted for Critic abusing Tamara/Malcolm/Rachel but demanding punishment when they tried to get their own back, as he assumed it'd be pretty obvious you were meant to be on their side. |
| 193 | ** In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavaGirl'', when Lavagirl thanks Sharkboy for saving her, he says “technically you saved him first but fuck it, girl saving the guy never counts in movies”. |
| 194 | ** After the “bedtime barbie” commercial, he says while he doesn't want to enforce any gender stereotypes, he shows that it would be a lot creepier if it were boys snuggling up that much with a doll. |
| 195 | ** In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPlutoNash'', when they have to be movie gods and are clearly bored, Tamara and Malcolm ask Critic why he can still be popular when he admits to half-assing some stuff but they're never allowed. |
| 196 | ** In ''Blade'', he says good thing the gross blob isn't a woman or his nipples would suddenly be considered indecent. Also that the studio won't ''let'' the lead woman look bad, even though the movie is saying she is. |
| 197 | ** Pointed out in ''Film/WildWildWest'', as he notes the odd trend of white guys being horribly racist and then perving over a hot black woman. |
| 198 | ** In "Does PG Mean Anything Anymore", he talks about how inconsistant the PG rating is, saying kids getting slaughtered is okay, but you're not allowed to show a nipple. He also talks about how the ultra-violent ''Film/DragMeToHell'' got a PG-13 and a gay kiss in ''Film/LoveIsStrange'' got an R. |
| 199 | ** In "How Right Are Trailers", he talks about the reactions to the Civil War and Ghostbusters trailers, pointing out the flaws in the loved former one and defending the sexist-tinge-hated latter. |
| 200 | ** The ''Ghostbusters'' review has him pointing out that nobody gets upset at Batman being rebooted nigh-constantly, nor do they think that Christian Bale being cast ruined their childhood of seeing Michael Keaton, so it's stupid to claim that women are erasing the original Ghostbusters. |
| 201 | ** In "Unlimited Beers", Rachel and Tamara talk about how Doug and Malcolm don't care about dolling themselves up because they'll get objectified elsewhere anyway, but the girls constantly worry because the judging for them in comment sections is non-stop. |
| 202 | ** In ''Film/RogueOne'' video, the boys complain about constant brunette British women in the ''Star Wars'' series, but Tamara as Jyn points out that nobody complained about Anakin and Luke being so similar. |
| 203 | ** The beginning of the ''Film/{{Supergirl|1984}}'' review highlights the effort they put into ComicBook/{{Superman}}'s ''[[Film/SupermanTheMovie first movie]]'' to said ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} movie, and expands to how often female lead action movies have both less care and if they do badly it's treated as "women shouldn't have movies". |
| 204 | * DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale: Averted in "Conquest of the Commercials," albeit as a joke, as he's creeped out by the "Bedtime Barbie" commercial showing [[invoked]][[AccidentalInnuendo a girl kissing Barbie's nipple]] without consent. |
| 205 | * DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: |
| 206 | ** ''Film/Catwoman2004'' might not have been so funny if it had been four hunky guys chasing a frustrated and scared girl around, switching between either wanting to kill her or wanting to screw her, and her realizing that she ''should'' have been enjoying it ''because'' they were hot. |
| 207 | ** How the Santa Christ scene in the ''Christmas Story II'' review comes off. Critic is trying to say that Hyper was awful to him in a lot of ways (kidnapping, stalking) [[spoiler: the accompanying Hyper vlog still has her happily sneaking up on him]] and complains that Santa Christ will never be on his side, but Santa Christ tells him he's a douche and Critic blames it on the movie filling him with hate. And can you imagine an abused female reviewer having to make it up to her male stalker and ending the review leaving the door open for him? Doug's said a lot, both in cons and the behind the scenes, that the episode was meant to be intentional victim blaming, and complained at people who think Hyper was right to get her way. |
| 208 | ** Averted in the ''Film/{{Pixels}}'' behind the scenes where Tamara really doesn't want to slap Doug for real, despite Rob and Barney saying he can take it. |
| 209 | ** Showing Doug's complained about [[invoked]] MisaimedFandom of her in action, the second Hyper Midwest Media Expo vlog has the crowd “aww”ing when Critic gives up and hugs her right after he asked if he could do anything that would make her leave him alone. |
| 210 | * DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: |
| 211 | ** Averted. Even when it's a woman he finds attractive, the "BAD TOUCH!" gag still comes out if she's inappropriate with a child. |
| 212 | ** To a lesser extent (sexual harassment, not rape), mixed in with HypocriticalHumor with his ''Superman: Story Arc'' review. He complains that he only hit on "Amanda" once and got in trouble, while female employees can hit on their male co-workers and it's fine. |
| 213 | ** Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'' review, the laughs again coming from how strange the situation is. Chick and Critic have happy GRatedSex to parody the movie and then she announces that she's made him pregnant. He starts screaming and crying while she grins and keeps a tight grip on his hands. |
| 214 | *** This is also a parody of the similar event in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', where Charles Tucker was the victim. |
| 215 | ** But played straight in ''Dawn Of The Commercials'', when he assumes that all men just don't notice when a woman is harassing them, despite that Critic himself has complained about female creepers before. |
| 216 | *** And speaking of just a few of those female creepers, they don't get as far as rape, they're too self-obsessed and stupid for that, but ''Film/Catwoman2004'' wouldn't have flown with four guys punching a woman (who was already starting to look unhealthily skinny and tired) to the floor and making sexually toned threats towards her. |
| 217 | ** Goes back to being played with in the hyper fangirl's fourth vlog, as Malcolm doesn't call HF out for wanting to MindRape Critic into loving her, but is still clearly disturbed by her DissonantSerenity when she says it. (On the other hand, he's thought about it himself.) |
| 218 | ** In [[https://www.facebook.com/127127037353766/photos/a.962134380519690.1073741830.127127037353766/962134457186349/?type=3&theater one]] of Doug's con picture captions, he freaks out about a Hyper cosplayer with a baby, fearing that it's Critic's. Played for laughs, but still dark. |
| 219 | * DoubleStandardViolenceChildOnAdult: |
| 220 | ** He has the following reaction on seeing an adult beating up a twelve year old in ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'': "Dude, you're beating a twelve-year-old! What an ''asshole!''". Then not a second later, it cuts to the scene where the roles are reversed: "Dude, you're getting beaten up by a twelve-year-old! What an asshole!", with the tone completely changing from shock to amusement. |
| 221 | ** He has the opposite reaction when he reviewed ''Film/MrNanny'', where Hulk Hogan's character suffers abuse from the children he's supposed to watch over that would realistically have killed him. |
| 222 | --->'''Critic:''' Okay, there's a difference between ''pranks'' and ''attempted murder''. |
| 223 | * DownerBeginning: "The Top 11 Best South Park Episodes" both started and ended with Critic not being able to stand his fans. |
| 224 | ** ''Series/FullHouse'' starts with his first ever (but not the last) YouBastard rant at the audience for not actually caring about him. |
| 225 | ** The third fuck-ups starts with Critic totally having lost his “I am your Jesus” ego from the first one, and Douchey compliments him on his creative self-hate. |
| 226 | ** The ''Film/ScoobyDoo2002'' review starts with an improvised-from-Doug rant about how much Critic hates his job and has no friends. |
| 227 | ** The ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' review is not particularly happy for a few reasons, and it starts off with Critic having night-memes before sombrely stating the nightmares are yet to come. |
| 228 | ** "Was That Real: Teddy Ruxpin" starts off with Critic PTSD-ing about his experiences with Ruxpin, and not liking having been made to do this. It ends okay though. |
| 229 | ** The beginning of ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'' has Critic wailing about how he killed the movie and has a gun to his head. |
| 230 | * DownerEnding: Has [[DownerEnding/TheNostalgiaCritic his own page]]. |
| 231 | * DraggedOffToHell: Happens to Soulless at the end of ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' when the Devil collects his soul. The Critic takes a moment to recommend a [[AssShove very specific punishment.]] |
| 232 | * DramaBombFinale: While the 2012 season had more emotion than previously, the ''Film/ScoobyDoo2002'' review was a ContinuityPorn finale that had every hint that Critic was getting more depressed blow up into confirmation. It also leads into WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee, another DramaBombFinale that took all of his issues seriously. |
| 233 | * DramaticGunCock: During his review of ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'' with HappinessIsMandatory, anytime the Critic says something not nice, cue the cocking and guns to his face. |
| 234 | ** Gets played for laughs in his ''Film/Catwoman2004'' review when the Catwomen cock their heels like guns at him. |
| 235 | * DramaticallyMissingThePoint: In "Why Do We Love Stupid", he uses ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' as an example of "comedy is always based on misery" when Doug had praised it for being the upbeat exception to the rule. But then Critic is a lot more stubborn in his depression and cynicism than Doug. |
| 236 | * DramaticIrony: |
| 237 | ** He hates himself for not having any power, but he can't see that he does. The other contributors might humiliate him, put him back in his place, not listen and so on, but they've [[WebVideo/{{Kickassia}} followed him]] [[WebVideo/SuburbanKnights willingly, twice]]. |
| 238 | ** You could prove wrong most of the feelings expressed in his DespairEventHorizon rant at the beginning of the ''Film/ScoobyDoo2002'' review. As examples: he has nobody to bounce any ideas off with? The ''Literature/{{It}}'' review shows that he and The Other Guy work on scripts together. He hasn't contributed anything to anyone? He's done more crossovers than ever this year. He's never made a person's life better? Chester would be the first to disagree. The sadness comes from how he can't see any of that. |
| 239 | ** As also shown in the ''Film/ScoobyDoo2002'' review, teenage Critic is actually a WideEyedIdealist dork than the bitter cynic he grew up to be. |
| 240 | ** In ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', Rachel Katara says “Critic has a long way to go before he's capable of saving anything”. He doesn't prove her wrong, and she only knows him as a brat who keeps running away, but the audience knows something she doesn't: before he came back, he saved the world three times. |
| 241 | ** Goes both ways in ''Old vs New: Spider-Man'', as Hyper doesn't know (although she'll find out and still not care) that Critic doesn't even want her as a friend, just as a prop to fuel his ego, and Critic doesn't know (although he'll find out and regret it) how dangerous Hyper is. |
| 242 | ** 2007 Critic in ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks'' saying he started reviewing to get people to like him and fix things. 2015 Critic, who has gone through even more hell, sees this trope too and looks like he's going to cry. |
| 243 | ** In ''Monkeybone'', up until the end, Critic knows that the kids have been treated badly, but he doesn't know who their parents are and to what extent. When Aunt Despair and Uncle Lies comes in and he makes the connection, he feels bad. |
| 244 | * DramaQueen: Hyper's in-universe {{wangst}} about being friendzoned pisses off the Critic, his fictional mother went WhereDidWeGoWrong at any slight mistake and Critic himself is an overly emotional princess. |
| 245 | * DramaticThunder: Combined with EvilLaugh for characters in "Return Of The Nostalgic Commercials", for characters who seem a bit too crazy. |
| 246 | * DrivenToSuicide: NC drives a woman to suicide by singing "Holiday Clusterfuck" to her. |
| 247 | ** He nearly killed himself at the beginning of the ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' review. |
| 248 | ** Two executives kill themselves once the Critic shuts down the chart they were using as referencing. |
| 249 | ** NC has shot himself in the head ''many, many times'', sometimes several times during the same movie. Add in the number of times he's begged for death, and you get a very, very long list. |
| 250 | ** Played seriously in the ''Film/ScoobyDoo2002'' review and ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee''. While they're {{heroic suicide}}s, he makes it clear in both that he has other motives than just going out a hero. |
| 251 | ** Subverted in the ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise'' review, when he starts screaming to be lethally injected. When Rachel comes in to do so, he stops her before looking at her in horrific bewilderment and going "It was a joke, Rachel!" |
| 252 | ** Very likely Hyper at the end of ''Princess Diaries II'', as Critic makes it very obvious he'll never be into her and she has a VillainousBreakdown exploding herself on a faulty disc. Next time she appears she's even more StepfordSmiler and deluded than before (which is saying something), calling said explosion a “nice trip”. She confirms in a Todd cameo that she has major suicidal tendencies. |
| 253 | * TheDreaded: |
| 254 | ** [[WebVideo/BennettTheSage Sage]], to the Critic. [[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses Maybe because of what he did to Ask That Guy.]] Comes to a head in ''The Guyver'', as the normal version of Sage coddles Critic, trying to prove that the guy who tortured everyone isn't him. It doesn't work, but interestingly, ''Critic'' is the one who turns out to be the bad guy of the review. |
| 255 | ** In ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', Curiosa thinks this of the meninists because they believe they're being discriminated against when women want to be in movies, while [[spoiler: when Hyper comes in]], Critic tiredly says that she's even worse given what she's done to him. After this episode, Devil Boner joins the ranks with Hyper, Critic being nervous about him in ''Cinderella Old vs New" because of the kidnapping. Not helped by how they're both proud of holding him hostage. |
| 256 | %% Examples directly pertaining to the Critic belong on the character page. |
| 257 | * DrinkingGame: Does a Creator/StephenKing-inspired one with ''Literature/{{It}}'', where he drinks for every time he notices a Stephen King cliche. [[HilarityEnsues He's drunk about a quarter of the way in; and]] ''[[HilarityEnsues shitfaced]]'' [[HilarityEnsues by the halfway point.]] |
| 258 | ** [[spoiler:[[Series/LostInSpace Dr. Smith]]]] remarks later in the review that aforementioned drinking game has been known to kill people. |
| 259 | ** He does one for the number of scenes in the opening of ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|1987}}'' that aren't actually in the show. |
| 260 | ** Averted in his review for ''Literature/TheLangoliers'', another Stephen King movie (he stops after the first shot when it's revealed to take place in Maine), as he didn't want to have to deal with the hangover. |
| 261 | * DrivenToMadness: Critic does this to Rachel, Malcolm and even Tamara in different ways. Always putting Rachel in the abused role gifted her with a GuiltComplex, Malcolm's abuse makes him a LoveMartyr with vengeance issues, and Tamara TookALevelInDumbass due to all the infantalization. |
| 262 | * DrJerk: There's been several brought in to stop him killing himself or throwing up, but their only motive is to make him finish the review. |
| 263 | ** Malcolm's phone-doctor in ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' averts it, reassuring a tearful Critic that his mother fought as hard as she could with her illness, died in her sleep, and sweetly apologizes for his loss. |
| 264 | ** The doctor from ''Film/EventHorizon'' is more icky than jerkish, constantly touching Malcolm and Tamara's faces with a glove that's been up Critic's ass |
| 265 | * DroneOfDread: A recurring theme in the second half of ''Film/TheShining'' review, where Critic goes off the deep end and is completely terrifying. |
| 266 | ** The same rising-in-pitch note happens in ''Devil'' when Critic gets into SuicideByCop mode for a moment and tries to goad the Devil into killing him. |
| 267 | * DrowningMySorrows: When Critic is suffering at the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree'', there's an empty smirnoff bottle on top of the fridge. It turns out to be Rachel's or Malcolm's, as it's shown later that they drink heavily when Critic isn't around. |
| 268 | * DualMeaningChorus: “Are You Sick Of Let It Go”, both Critic and Tamara sing “I don't care if it's just a trend, it feels like there's no end”, but he's annoyed by said trend and she's excited, mostly because it's pissing him off. |
| 269 | * DuctTapeForEverything: |
| 270 | ** In ''[[Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance Ghost Rider II]]'', for some reason that it's probably best not to question, Critic has ''Franchise/HelloKitty'' duct tape. |
| 271 | ** He binds Sage in ''Film/SpeedRacer'' with duct tape, and an alternate ending (where Rob dragged Critic off) involves Malcolm asking if a sex thing is happening again. |
| 272 | * DudeShesLikeInAComa: All the DidTheyOrDidntThey between Hyper/Critic when he was a CaptiveDate ended in this trope being Word Of Doug what probably happened. |
| 273 | * DudeNotFunny: Has [[DudeNotFunny/TheNostalgiaCritic his own page]]. |
| 274 | * DullSurprise: |
| 275 | ** The Critic mocks Shaq's acting in this fashion with his review of ''Kazaam'' and ''Steel''. |
| 276 | ** There's also William Hurt's performance in ''Film/LostInSpace''. "I love you, wife" indeed. "He's so boring the music has to do the acting for him!" |
| 277 | ** And Creator/KevinCostner in ''Film/{{Waterworld}}''. The Critic even reacts to a scene where it's said he will be "recycled" with "Into what? Creator/KeanuReeves?" |
| 278 | ** When he finds out in the ''Film/TheChristmasTree'' review that he's been hallucinating, his only reaction is to ask Malcolm if he has any nyquil. Justified as he's used to SanitySlippage by that point. |
| 279 | * DumbStruck: ''[[Film/{{AloneInTheDark2005}} Alone in the Dark]]'' traumatized the Critic enough that he had to review the movie through a text-to-speech program on his laptop. Since he didn't want the whole review to go like that, [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] [[{{Crossover}} volunteered to help him]]. |
| 280 | * DutchAngle: |
| 281 | ** The camera immediately goes skewed at the end of ''Old vs New: Spider-Man'', when Hyper is very easily convinced into ignoring Critic's wish to be friends and to keep stalking him. |
| 282 | ** A lot of it in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' to disguise the fact that Critic and Tamara are HugeGuyTinyGirl. |
| 283 | * DVDCommentary: Loads of episodes have these, with Doug alone, Doug and Rob, or Doug and whoever he did a crossover with. |
| 284 | * DyingDream: In ''Film/SantaClausTheMovie'', he makes a joke about this. |
| 285 | ** He has his own near-death one in ''Film/SurfNinjas'', praising the movie's "[[SarcasmMode GENIUS]]" after accidentally being shot by That Other Guy at the end of the last episode. He gets better due to Optimus Prime. |
| 286 | * DynamicEntry: In ''Film/HocusPocus'', the DVD explodes and the witches suddenly appear in the doorway with {{evil laugh}}ing and in shadow. |
| 287 | ** Devil Boner's cameos nearly always have him coming in via explosion. |
| 288 | * DysfunctionalFamily: The abusive sweater-wearing father was bad enough to his kids, but ''Labyrinth'' reveals that he's married to the cocaine-addicted alcoholic mother. ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' behind the scenes add in that Hyper is Aunt Despair's daughter. Bonus horror points for Critic writing these in-universe after his parents died, so they're likely based on his own. |
| 289 | * DysfunctionJunction: Critic himself would turn a therapist's eyes into dollar signs, and none of his recurring guests escape having issues. In reboot, aside from Critic getting more issues, this got more pronounced as he had an EnsembleCast; Rachel acted like his abused wife, Malcolm was kidnapped but has a crush on him anyway, Tamara will stab people in the eye for coke, Hyper thinks NoMeansYes, Aunt Despair/Uncle Lies and their poor kids pop up every now and then (and Hyper is their daughter as well), Devil Boner is over-compensating with masculinity because of MommyIssues and Santa Christ is a FallenHero. |
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| 291 | |
| 292 | [[folder:E]] |
| 293 | * {{Eagleland}}: |
| 294 | ** He ashamedly apologizes for the post 9-11 PatrioticFervor shown in the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' movies. |
| 295 | ** Doug's father having served during his childhood, the Critic takes special offense to disrespectful portrayals of the military. In his review of ''Film/PearlHarbor'', he takes offense to Creator/MichaelBay's portrayal of the US military, and insists that Bay should've been more respectful towards the country and its history that he had been tasked with portraying. As his rant about that ended up being wrong in a lot of ways however, he apologized for it in "When Is a Movie Just a Movie". A briefer but more apt criticism of Michael Bay comes at the end of ''Freddy vs Jason'', where he complains Bay always tries to over glorify the military but ends up portraying them as idiots. He also called Creator/StephenKing a "disrespectful asshole" for his bone-headed portrayal of fighter pilots in Literature/Dreamcatcher. |
| 296 | ** As sweet as the sentiment was, the speech with stirring music about America needed ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' to make them laugh again after 9/11 is pretty opposite his point above about the PatrioticFervor shown in the ''Spider-Man'' movies. |
| 297 | ** The obnoxiousness of the reboot's heavy patriotism was lampshaded in the TGWTG 4 DVD menu. |
| 298 | --->'''Doug:''' We have the American flag flying in the background even though I'm not saying anything about America... intentionally. |
| 299 | ** Parodied in the ''WebVideo/DarkSideOfTheInternet'', where when Holly says you can't just put your fingers in your ears and hope bullying will go away, Critic gets offended because “as an American” it's his god-given right to dodge responsibility. |
| 300 | ** His favorite part of ''Transformers 4'' is when the lead murders a guy with an American football for this reason. |
| 301 | ** Parodied in the Dennys portion of ''Dawn Of The Commercials'', where he gets obsessively patriotic about the red, white and blue pancakes tasting like “America”, until he 'realizes' that the man saying they taste like America is mentally ill and that word is all he can say. |
| 302 | * EarlyBirdCameo: In ''Film/TheWiz'' review, one can see [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Pollo's]] travel body in the background a week before it appeared on Linkara's show. |
| 303 | ** Tamara Chambers was one of the "Catwomen" in the ''Film/Catwoman2004'' review. She is now taking Rachel's place starting with the ''[[Film/TheWickerMan2006 Wicker Man]]'' review. |
| 304 | ** According to the commentary track on his [[WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012 Lorax]] Review, A early version of the character Hyper Fan Girl appears in his top 11 ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episodes played by Rachel Tietz wearing glasses and an orange shirt instead of a sweater. She's later played by Tamera Chambers and is a recurring character on the show. |
| 305 | ** There have been a few jokes here and there that first appeared on Doug's Facebook page or one of his Vlogs before finding their way into a review proper. |
| 306 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The lighting was bad, he didn't have the white shirt and tie, his voice was slower when he was talking and the screaming was more like screeching every word, the videos were much shorter because he was on Website/YouTube and the character was a lot more stereotypically masculine. |
| 307 | ** His very first Transformers review which was very similar to his later Bum Reviews. His review of the sequel homages this. |
| 308 | ** While the bad childhood stuff was always there, the early videos had a few "childhood was amazing because of TV/hot female characters/etc". Later on this got retconned as the only way he could cope with everything else. |
| 309 | ** In his review of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'', his pistol appears to be a Heckler and Koch USP, rather than the Beretta 92FS in other reviews. |
| 310 | ** Nostalgiaween, in it's current form, didn't appear until the Critic's third Halloween. Prior to that he did one Halloween-related video in October. |
| 311 | ** He was much more willing to make gay jokes whenever he noticed characters and situations looking or acting CampGay. When viewers started complaining about UnfortunateImplications, he ended up lampshading it in the ''He-Man She-Ra Christmas Special'' by putting up a counter for all the gay jokes he ''could'' have made during the special, before dropping such jokes altogether. |
| 312 | ** In both early videos and Rob's articles [[note]]which have jokes about injuring Doug as a child or selling him into slavery, but still kept calling him TGWTG [[/note]] on the old website, it's funny noting how much they tried to hide their names considering how many videos they've done as themselves in current times. |
| 313 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: He has to genuinely almost lose the will to live before he gets his self-esteem back. Or at least enough to be proud of his patheticness for the time being. |
| 314 | ** He got there properly in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' after a serious meltdown in the ''Film/ScoobyDoo2002'' review made him realize he actually had to put effort into changing things, involving saving the world and atoning for Ma-Ti's death. It just got [[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/the-review-must-go-on-6510378 subverted pretty horribly]] a few months later. |
| 315 | ** Twisted at the end of ''Film/TheShining'', showing off everyone's low expectations. Rachel and Malcolm get some much needed time away from Critic, and Critic is better off in a fucked up HappyPlace. Lampshaded by the lyrics playing over: |
| 316 | --->'''Singer''': Every morning, every evening/Ain't we got fun?/Not much money, oh, but honey/Ain't we got fun? |
| 317 | ** The end of ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', after all the kidnapping and chasing and MRA abusive. Devil Boner and Hyper go off together, the meninists get their just desserts, there's cheering in the distance and Critic and Curiosa are sorta friends. |
| 318 | * EarWorm: |
| 319 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|1987}}'''s theme is the biggest offender to Critic, along with the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' theme, the ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' theme, and others. |
| 320 | ** Lampshades ''Frozen'''s "Let It Go" as a huge ear worm by singing a parody about it using "Let It Go"'s music. |
| 321 | ** In ''Film/HocusPocus'', "I'll Put A Nostalgic Spell On You"'s catchiness was lampshaded in the lyrics. |
| 322 | -->'''Winifred''': This ear worm will stay you with you until blood spurts out your nose. |
| 323 | ** In his Disneycember review of ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'', when talking about the songs, he shows a fragment of "We Don't Talk About Bruno" with "I can NOT get this song out of my head" as a caption. |
| 324 | * EasilyForgiven: |
| 325 | ** Played with in ''Christmas Story II'', as Hyper proudly says she won't learn her lesson and Critic hasn't forgiven her for what she did, but pressure from Santa Christ makes him concede anyway. (Though even when she's over him in ''Fury Road'', he still makes it clear he doesn't want to be near her and is allowed to feel that way.) Also subverted, as even in her wedding he still can't deal with her, Doug has confirmed any friendliness towards her being just needy for attention, and all he can manage is a very small smile at her being happy away from him. |
| 326 | ** Earlier on in the ''Top 12 Christmas Specials'', he likes the fact that Kevin doesn't immediately forgive his mom for abandoning him, and she has to at least acknowledge what she did. |
| 327 | * EasyComeEasyGo: Judging from the opening by the Critic (back in normal clothes) in the ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' review, his/Malcolm's/Tamara's superpowers only seemed to last a weekend. Though if Critic's worry about his exploding powers in ''Christmas With The Kranks'' is any indication, they may be just be lying dormant. |
| 328 | * EatingTheEyeCandy: |
| 329 | ** The Hyper Fangirl vlogs, portrayed in a bad way. Tamara calls out the Hyper Fangirl on making her vlogs all about the men and acting like she's the YokoOhNo, and in the third vlog HFG tells Malcolm she likes him more than Tamara because he's nice and pretty. |
| 330 | ** In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' behind the scenes, Tamara and Beth very much enjoy getting a close-up of Doug's ass. Kind man that he is, he then twerks for them. |
| 331 | ** In the behind the scenes of ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'', Tamara gets amusingly YaoiFangirl at her boyfriend Rob Scallon gripping Doug's thighs. |
| 332 | -->'''Tamara''': Good for you, Doug. |
| 333 | ** Hyper and her friends, as well as Curiosa, are all very appreciative of Devil Boner at the end of ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', both for his looks and calling out of the meninists. |
| 334 | * EatsBabies: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, apparently. |
| 335 | * ElectricTorture: In the ''Transformers 4'' crossover, Critic happily rigs Erod's chair to electrocute him every time he tries to bring logic into the review. |
| 336 | * ElephantInTheLivingRoom: |
| 337 | ** ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' gets mentioned once early on post-comeback and the context gets choking and sobbing from the Critic, but it hangs around for a lot longer, with recycled music from it playing when Critic is making a point, Critic not quite remembering what happened when Sage alludes to the plot, the same white ProphetEyes when he died showing up as a {{motif}} for FallenHero reasons, Zod being the only villain to terrify him, and Critic getting extremely upset when a movie tells him "you always win when you are good". |
| 338 | ** An animated elephant appears in the room Critic is doing his review for ''Film/TheNeverendingStoryIITheNextChapter'' to tell him to tell the audience that Creator/JonathanBrandis, the actor who played Bastian in it, committed suicide in 2003, so that they can get it out of the way already. |
| 339 | ** PlayedForLaughs and trope-named by Linkara in ''Bloodrayne'', building up to Spoony's breakdown before leaving the site but [[SubvertedTrope actually]] talking about how he didn't have a right to wear a Castleton t-shirt in ''Film/AloneInTheDark2005'' because he didn't actually go. |
| 340 | ** Parodied in his review of ''Film/{{Pixels}}'' with a literal elephant singing "WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}" until Critic points out how similar the plot is to an episode of ''Futurama.'' |
| 341 | * EmbarrassingButEmpoweringOutfit: Referenced and PlayedForLaughs in the ''Fantastic Four'' behind the scenes when Tamara is complaining about her outfit, Rob and her talk about Doug just wanting to embarrass everyone again, but at least he has the worst outfit. And later on, Doug has a “moment of sobriety” (as Rob puts it) about how stupid he looks. |
| 342 | * EmotionalTorque: The reason why he gives the point to the ''Film/TrueGrit'' remake Mattie. The original has more realistic fear, but the "little girl version of ''Film/TheTerminator''" is far more engaging because she's so damaged and determined. |
| 343 | * EnemyMine: Donnie and Critic don't like each other (Donnie ranting about how damaging AccentuateTheNegative is even before he knew Critic was a thing, and Critic adamant that Donnie's a ReplacementGoldfish for him) but both of them pull [[WhatTheHellHero What The Hell Creator]] for the in-universe AssPull ending. |
| 344 | * EnforcedPlug: Later episodes are often interrupted by sponsors. For an example, "The Wall" had a Honey sponsor it. |
| 345 | * EntitledBastard: |
| 346 | ** What he deems his fans in ''[[Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance Ghost Rider II]]''. Or to put it in his words, "barking dogs of entitlement". |
| 347 | ** In the TRMGO DVD review, when Critic comes back, he says “and a new era of entitled shamelessness begins”, though whether he's talking about himself or the fandom (having already called them out for hypocrisy) is unclear. |
| 348 | * EpicFail: |
| 349 | ** In the “Princess Diaries 2” behind the scenes video, Doug gets mocked for being so weak and frail that he could only do ''one'' pull-up. |
| 350 | ** Even [[https://www.facebook.com/thelindsayellis/posts/612511292122662?comment_id=99948226&offset=0&total_comments=1 Lindsay]] (who once said she hates the show so much she hates sushi by cultural association) felt like Doug's review of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' was a complete failure. |
| 351 | ** In ''Cinderella Old vs New'', he wishes for "someone with an opposite opinion of [him]", and it takes three tries for Hyper to finally show up. Of course he calls her out on fucking up the one time he needs her for something. |
| 352 | * EpilepticFlashingLights: While not on initial release, ''Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer'' got a pre-video sign and tag warning people with seizures to skip the part between 25.02 and 25:15. |
| 353 | ** There's a recent change to the intro to his videos that adds a second of this sequence without warning. |
| 354 | * EpiphanyTherapy: Subverted. Epic singing helps him out of his larger funks, but only for a short period of time so he can continue working. |
| 355 | ** Also subverted by the poker game in the ''Film/ScoobyDoo2002'' review. It's made clear that this is just a start, not a fix, and he's still very broken in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee''. |
| 356 | * EpisodeTitleCard: Rare; it usually just begins with The Critic's catchphrase and right into the review. But there are a couple exceptions: |
| 357 | ** "We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story" |
| 358 | ** "TMNT: The Making of The Coming Out of Our Shells Tour", which features an opening sequence followed by the title card "Critic and Nerd". |
| 359 | ** With the revival of the Nostalgia Critic, it appears that this will be played straight since the review for ''The Odd Life of Timothy Green'' opens up with one of these set to a metal remix of "The Review Must Go On" |
| 360 | * EquivalentExchange: KnightInSourArmor version. In ''Anime/TheAnimatrix'', he thinks that even though incredible things might happen in your life, there's always a dark, troubling side waiting on the other end. |
| 361 | * EscapistCharacter: Variant with the Aw Girls, as Doug describes them as wanting to turn off the world and just enjoy some cute fluff without really paying attention. |
| 362 | * EtTuBrute: Name-dropped by Critic in Dia's review of ''BMX Bandits'', where General Anesthetic holds him at gunpoint to do the crossover. |
| 363 | * EurekaMoment: Parodied at the end of some of the Critic's reviews. |
| 364 | ** ''Series/FullHouse'': The Critic attributes the show's longevity (eight seasons, all of which he considered boring) to the Olsen twins being actually mutant aliens sending subliminal messages to viewers to submit to their will. |
| 365 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'': The Critic pinpoints Jar Jar Binks as the director of the film (explaining why it is considered one of the worst animated productions of all time), causing him to send a missile at his house. |
| 366 | ** Has a genuine one at the end of his ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' review, where (while he thinks it's good) he is wondering why it is so immensely beloved. When he finally realizes that the movie was basically an R-rated [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteandTheRoadrunner Roadrunner]] cartoon with its ShowDontTell style and hidden intelligence, and that there's not a single scene he could imagine skipping, he decides that it really is as amazing as everyone says it is. |
| 367 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 368 | ** In ''Ghostbusters'', even the meninists aren't evil enough to trash little girls enjoying the 2016 movie, and tell [[spoiler: Evilina]] that they're glad she likes it. |
| 369 | ** In ''Film/It2017'', New Pennywise is shocked that the Critic tried the Stephen King drinking game (Old Pennywise not so much). |
| 370 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Perhaps unintentionally, in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'' review, he refers to Gene as "Meh", the emotion he supposed to be trying to convey. |
| 371 | * EveryoneIsBi: Fitting as Doug has this as such a CreatorThumbprint that even Rob gets annoyed.[[note]]Note that this is all characters, not actors themselves, though Tamara and Malcolm are both in the LGBT community[[/note]] Critic goes between bisexual and a TransparentCloset, and has been RaisedAsTheOppositeGender, Malcolm has a big crush on Critic as does Jim (who is according to Malcolm, also a transgender man), Rachel had sex with the female ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'', Hyper is hot for Rachel and Creator/CarrieFisher (and also has some hints of genderfluidity such as her desire to grow stubble), and Tamara lampshades in ''Film/JupiterAscending'' that they all like playing different genders. |
| 372 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 373 | ** The Critic may hate Scrappy Doo, but in the ''Scooby Doo'' reviews, even he's appalled at the Mystery Inc. ditching Scrappy even for his overall obnoxiousness, comparing it to "ditching a premature kid to the wilds" and calls out OOC on Scooby, who is usually protective of Scrappy even if the latter is being obnoxious. |
| 374 | ** He was pretty disgusted with the Adulterer from ''Literature/TheTommyknockers'' for not just cheating on his wife, but rejecting her sandwiches, laughing at her behind her back, and sleeping with his mistress instead of looking for a missing child. He even said that Darth Vader would be upset by it all. |
| 375 | ** He cannot bring himself to badmouth ''Film/SesameStreetPresentsFollowThatBird''. He breaks down 3 minutes 45 seconds into the review, crying over the crude jokes he already made, how this was the first show he remembered watching and genuinely loved it so much. He gives the rest of the review to Chester Bum. |
| 376 | ** Creator/MNightShyamalan is a frequent target of the Critic's rants in the reboot, but even he gives a NoJustNoReaction to the twist[[note]]the supposed Dragon was actually the BigBad, built herself a human robot and recalled sunshine, then "stole [Sunshine's] essence to make [her] elixir for Brand X"[[/note]] in ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}''. |
| 377 | * EvilLaugh: |
| 378 | ** When NC denies the existence of the ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' on account of being too stupid to possibly exist, it is immediately followed by a sound clip of Yoda laughing in a menacing way, which freaks out the Critic. |
| 379 | ** In the ''Junior'' acid dream sequence, the Judge (as played by Doug's friend Bhargav Dronamraju) has a drawn out evil laugh that borders on AffablyEvil. |
| 380 | ** WebVideo/BennettTheSage chuckles villainously in both his appearances in the ''Franchise/CareBears II'' and StarChaser reviews. |
| 381 | ** In his review of ''Film/ASimpleWish'' [[spoiler:Creator/MaraWilson]] laughs while Critic is begging for mercy. |
| 382 | ** At the end of "Why Do Good Directors Go Bad", after he says [[YouBastard not to worry]], the rest of Shya month will be nastier. |
| 383 | ** Aiyanna as Harley in ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' gives out a good cackle to the camera. |
| 384 | * EvilUncle: In the TMNT movie review, Shredder tells Critic that this is his family, and Critic responds that means he's the drunk uncle who beats up pets. |
| 385 | * EvolvingCredits: |
| 386 | ** Since the reboot and with Rachel's departure, images from ''The Shining'' review and other newer reviews have been spliced into the credits. |
| 387 | ** With the bringing back of ''Old Vs. New'' the opening has changed from the cartoon kid and old man dueling it out to now a live-action version with Tamara as the kid and Malcolm as the old man. |
| 388 | ** DVD reviews will mix Prime clips with a couple of reboot moments to show where said review is on the timeline. Like ''Paranoia'' has ''Film/PearlHarbor'' jokes in the credits so it's set after that episode, and ''The Uncanny Valley'' only has Critic getting his balls beaten amidst prime clips so it's set after ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' review. |
| 389 | ** Season 10 onward has changed the intro sequence from a clip show to some stylized combination of clips flying around the scene and shots of the side characters such as Santa Christ and Hyper Fangirl, all done by Fard Muhammed. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m10ji0CaP-Q 2017 intro]] is based off of [[WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest]]'s intro, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ssjxfrkUpY 2018 intro]] shows the actors on large screens surrounded by clips of their biggest characters, and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt3ej0psk-w 2019 intro]] zooms in on a sea of clips from the show and passes by various characters in the meantime. |
| 390 | * ExactWords: |
| 391 | ** How he undertook his Ice Bucket Challenge without giving in to fan demands for {{Fanservice}}. [[spoiler:The Ice was a DVD of ''Film/CoolAsIce''.]] |
| 392 | ** In the crossover review of ''BMX Bandits'', he wishes he were dead and tells the General (who is holding him at gunpoint) that it's just a figure of speech. |
| 393 | * ExcessiveMourning: While it ''is'' his fault, the SK-TBF season is Critic having a slow breakdown over Ma-Ti’s death until it’s one of the reasons he wants to kill himself. |
| 394 | * ExcusePlot: |
| 395 | ** Doug said on the Donation Drive that the only reason "The Top 11 Dumbest LOTR Moments" existed was Rachel only being a geek of Tolkien and wanted to play an elf in something. |
| 396 | ** In ''Film/ThePurge'' commentary, Doug admitted that the entire episode was written around the “voice actors reprising their roles” joke, and that was the main thing he cared about. |
| 397 | * EyesNeverLie: |
| 398 | ** When he's sedated in ''Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer'' and is in forced StepfordSmiler mode, he has a nice marketable smile, but his eyes are always looking hysterical. |
| 399 | ** In ''Christmas Story II'', when he's been told that he's in the wrong and should make it up to Hyper, she runs up to him and he backs up a little while still looking terrified of her. Same thing happens at the end of ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', although at least this time he gets to call her out for her bullshit and not get punished. |
| 400 | ** Even with all the {{psychotic smirk}}s and the demonic music, when Critic puts the hat on in “The Review Must Go On” his eyes look painfully sad. |
| 401 | * EyeScream: |
| 402 | ** At the end of ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'', when everyone is beating him for not liking ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'', someone jabs a DVD edge into his eye. Not in real life obviously, but still looks painful. |
| 403 | ** In ''Film/ManOfSteel'', one of Joe's ideas of how to torture Critic (that he's unaware that Zod is taking seriously) is gouging out his eyes with a vacuum. |
| 404 | ** When Malice kills Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, she's holding both a brain and an eye in her hand. |
| 405 | ** The fall out from the (not actually seen) TakeThatAudience at the end of ''Film/MammaMia'' has Critic with an eye popped right out of the socket. |
| 406 | ** In ''Film/OsmosisJones'', when trying to put fake eyelashes on someone during a bus ride like the film, he gets jolted and ends up with the person's eyeball in his hand. |
| 407 | ** In ''Jem'', Tamara stabs Malcolm in the eye with a pen for taking her diet coke. |
| 408 | ** Lucy Lacemaker, the alien that takes Critic to the Trial portion of the Wall review, has one good eye and the other is an... eye socket full of blood. |
| 409 | %%* EyeTake |
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| 412 | [[folder:F]] |
| 413 | * FacePalm: ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'' review opens with a two-handed facepalm. |
| 414 | ** Happens again in his review of ''[[Film/TheNeverEndingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia The NeverEnding Story III]]''. |
| 415 | ** And again during one particular scene in ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie''. |
| 416 | ** By the last time the meninists are whining in their car in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', Devil Boner has gone from migraines to just having his face in his hands. |
| 417 | * FacialDialogue: In ''Disney Afternoon'', when Critic hits Malcolm for talking about ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', Tamara says nothing, but shows concern for Malcolm and panic that Critic is being so creepy with her face all while Critic is talking. |
| 418 | * FacialDialogue: Briefly in “Is The Big Lebowski A Masterpiece”, when Leon explains “figurative castration” as “feeling like you're losing the qualities that make you a man”, Critic's eyes go straight to his crotch in agreement. Remember the [[Film/BridgeToTerabithia last episode]] had him reveal that he'd lost a load of feeling down there. |
| 419 | * FailedASpotCheck: In his review of ''Literature/TheLangoliers'', he points out that the pilot walks past ten rows of seats before realizing the plane is almost empty and later how the blind girl can detect the gun wielding maniac before the people who are looking directly in his direction miss him. |
| 420 | ** In ''Film/{{Alaska}}'', he mocks the search and rescue team flying right past the bright yellow plane they are specifically looking for. |
| 421 | ** He has one of his own when he only just realizes Bitch Spasm's dead body has been on his floor for five episodes. |
| 422 | ** At the end of ''Film/SmallSoldiers'', Hyper is standing creepily at the foot of his bed and he doesn't notice her at all. |
| 423 | ** In ''Film/TheGarfieldMovie'', he doesn't notice Malcolm playing a ghetto Santa Christ, a ValleyGirl Tamara playing Devil Boner, or Tamara again as Uncle Yo. |
| 424 | ** In ''[[Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed Scooby-Doo 2]]'', he fails to notice that Roger is back (even calling him Tamara), much to the angel's frustration. |
| 425 | -->'''Critic''': Some people never open their eyes. |
| 426 | * FailureHero: In his reviews of ''Film/{{Steel}}'' and ''Film/CaptainAmerica1990'', the Critic seems to view the titular characters as this. Also Wrestling/HulkHogan's character in ''Film/MrNanny'' -- he gets owned by the psychopathic kids he takes care of, as well as villain's {{mooks}}. |
| 427 | * FakeActionPrologue: The opening of the ''Maximum Overdrive'' review has someone [[spoiler:(WebVideo/JonTron)]] in a mask stalking through Critic's house and stabbing him. After the credits, Critic's on a food binge and acts like that never happened. Not so cheap as the usual trope, because reboot Critic has a tendency to hallucinate. |
| 428 | * FakeOutOpening: |
| 429 | ** The Critic ends the review very quickly at the beginning of the ''Film/ScoobyDoo2002'' review. Of course, after he acknowledges he can't do that, so the review continues after the credits had started rolling. Also serves as CharacterDevelopment from the ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' review, as back then he had to be forced to go back to a review by past Critic and past Ma-Ti. |
| 430 | ** The start of ''Film/Garfield'' review has five minutes of Critic starring in a Coen Brothers parody film before he actually gets to the review. |
| 431 | * FallingInLoveMontage: Subverted. ''Princess Diaries II'' starts off with Critic and Hyper Fangirl doing cliched romantic things with sappy music playing, but then it turns out that [[spoiler: Hyper Fangirl kidnapped him and is forcing her to love her at gunpoint. If you rewatch, you'll notice that while Hyper is having genuine fun, Critic's face always looks he's struggling to keep the façade up and is going to crack.]]. |
| 432 | * FalseReassurance: |
| 433 | ** In his ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' tribute, one of the writers for the show mentioned that he thinks Daffy Duck is the perfect cartoon character of all time, and thinks he was a big influence in the creation of the show. The Critic nonchalantly responds: "I-I would know nothing about him being an influence." For those of you who don't know the joke, Doug created the Nostalgia Critic to be a sort of real life version of Daffy Duck, copying his mannerisms and sarcastic and belligerent outlook on life. |
| 434 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}}'', he bitterly says that in his experience, “I'll be with you in spirit” means the person saying it to you is a DirtyCoward. |
| 435 | * FalseSoulmate: [[spoiler: despite being with Devil Boner]], the song “Hyper Fangirl” has her believing that she and Critic “have been destiny, right from the start”, despite the fact that even the “start” was him refusing to sleep with her. |
| 436 | * FamilyOfChoice: Hyper in her Q&A refers to Devil Boner, Benny, and Bill as her family. |
| 437 | * FanBoy: Of Sesame Street. When he reviewed ''Follow That Bird'' he squeed at the sight of every muppet. |
| 438 | * FanDisservice: Has [[FanDisservice/TheNostalgiaCritic his own page]]. |
| 439 | * FandomHeresy: |
| 440 | ** Invoked during ''TMNT'' with the RunningGag of putting up captions inducing nerd rage (like “Greedo shot first”) to distract people from getting too angry at when they actually have positive stuff to say about the movie. |
| 441 | ** ''Weaponized'' in “The Best Avatar Episodes”, as his power is meta, and he tells the comments that Joss Whedon is overrated just so he can have more ammo. |
| 442 | * FanonDiscontinuity: [[invoked]] |
| 443 | ** The Critic says, of his disappointment concerning ''Film/TheNeverendingStoryIITheNextChapter'', that he's glad that was the last of the series and they never made ''[[Film/TheNeverEndingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia The NeverEnding Story III]]''. He then turns on the theme music, really loud, to drown out a bunch of voices insisting that they did. He later subverted this, only to regret it severely. |
| 444 | ** In his comparison of the first ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' movie and ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', The Critic makes an off-hand remark about how [[Film/BatmanForever Tommy Lee Jones's portrayal of Two-Face]] never happened. Ditto for [[Film/BatmanAndRobin the Bat Credit Card]]. |
| 445 | ** In his "Top 11 ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' Episodes" list, the Critic claims that the show was "taken off the air too quickly" only to be reminded that the show is in its 23rd season. |
| 446 | * {{Fanservice}}: Has [[Fanservice/TheNostalgiaCritic his own page]]. |
| 447 | * FantasticFireworks: When he uses his ruining power in ''Matrix Revolutions'', the PlotHole explodes in his face and then fades away with firework sound effects. |
| 448 | * FanVid: |
| 449 | ** Doug proclaimed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiHpOEo6ZH4 this video]] to be the best tribute to the Critic he'd seen yet. Most comments agree that the song ("Testing 1, 2, 3" by Barenaked Ladies) match the character perfectly. |
| 450 | ** He also recced a very similar conceit (Critic's depression/lots of WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee) video a few years later, [[https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=861905027209293&id=127127037353766 complimenting it]] for making him look epic. |
| 451 | * FashionHurts: |
| 452 | ** While Critic only skims over how Claire is treated in the ''Film/JurassicWorld'' review, Tamara [[https://instagram.com/p/4SFpd6vMst/?taken-by=thetamaracamera was angry about having to wear heels]]. Subverted with her Matrix outfit, as in the first behind the scenes she's dreading wearing it and looks like she's gonna cry, but says later on that it's actually pretty easy to move in. |
| 453 | ** Doug himself with the Link outfit in ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''. He was proud of the {{fanservice}}, but they filmed in cold weather and Rob even told Michaud in the meeting that bro was really shivering. |
| 454 | ** According to Doug at Fan World, the Winifred costume was the hardest to put on (as it took forever and he had difficulty with the hair and the nails), but he was really proud and happy to wear it. |
| 455 | ** Name-dropped by Malcolm in the Underworld BTS, when Walter finds a spray-painted umbrella that stinks the room out. |
| 456 | * FauxActionGirl: |
| 457 | ** He notes a painfully straight use of this, which he calls "[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Dumbass in Distress Disorder]]" in ''A Kid in King Arthur's Court''. |
| 458 | ** Inverted with Sparky from ''Steel'', who was crippled by an accident from the beginning of the film. She was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of the movie, but in the film's climax, it was revealed that her wheelchair had weapons and she used them against the bad guys. The Critic points out that the movie probably should have been about ''her''. |
| 459 | ** In the audio commentary for ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'', Doug says he wanted to reference Dumbass in Distress Disorder in reference to Kayley, but wasn't sure people would remember the joke after so long. He does later add her to his top 11 list of Dumbasses in Distress. |
| 460 | ** Angsteen in the ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' review. Somewhat of a RedundantParody as she doesn't do anything but lampshade that she's useless even before dying. |
| 461 | * FauxHorrific: Really horrible things make Critic scream or cause him [[SuckinessIsPainful pain]]. |
| 462 | * FearIsTheAppropriateResponse: Discussed more seriously in “Should We Scare The Shit Out Of Our Kids”, as he wants people to understand that it's ''okay'' to be scared by life and that everyone copes with that in their own way. |
| 463 | * FelonyMisdemeanor: His reaction to the "[[Film/BatmanAndRobin Bat Credit Card]]". |
| 464 | * FemaleGaze: |
| 465 | ** In his original run, while he would sometimes fall for MaleGaze, as the female audience increased he would point it out more in a negative way and give all the {{fanservice}} himself. Reboot had a lot more MaleGaze for a while, with Critic admitting in ''The Uncanny Valley'' that he was repressing sexuality, but gradually got more balanced, with Doug and Tamara sharing the {{fanservice}} role. |
| 466 | ** Outright subverted in [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/44579-see-nc-editorials-early-on-maker the promo to see editorials early]], where he promises shirtlessness at the end but the video cuts off before you can see anything. |
| 467 | ** After Malcolm has some in-universe MaleGaze by creating Chun-Li, Critic tells him “hey! Something for the lady?” and he creates Zangief for Tamara. What's amusing is that Critic, while not female [[note]]though his gender issues are a RunningGag[[/note]], seems to enjoy the latter more than the former. |
| 468 | ** Disparaged in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavaGirl'' where he calls a shirtless Jacob carrying Bella something “just to make some horny cougar's fantasy come to life”. |
| 469 | ** ''Labyrinth'' is full of non-mocking comments about David Bowie being really appealing to women. |
| 470 | ** In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' behind the scenes, Tamara and Beth have fun focusing the camera on Doug's ass, and when he twerks for them, Beth glees “happy international women's day”. |
| 471 | ** The 'music video' at the start of the ''Jem'' review. In-universe as well, as the execs got Critic dancing and posing prettily in drag, and a camera gaze pans up his body, making him uncomfortable. |
| 472 | ** A music video that Malcolm guest starred in had his cameo be washing a car and shaking his ass at the camera. |
| 473 | ** In the first DVD, there's an extended behind the scenes bit after the Ghostbusters chase, where Doug strips out of wet clothes for Rob, and Doug's commentary hopes a woman will masturbate to it. |
| 474 | ** Two of Hyper's favorite movies are ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' and ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'', both of which have juicy Critic angst, gay subtext and a lot of male skin. |
| 475 | ** The gay kind. [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BVSK3WkDsBd/?taken-by=channelawesome Tamara, Heather]] and [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BVSTT7lAcEo/?taken-by=awesomeaiyanna Aiyanna]] all look like badass queens, not sexualized for the MaleGaze, and so queer girls have gone harder on the {{squee}}. |
| 476 | ** Gay version played for laughs in the Aladdin live action remake debate [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sULCYNBPxs video]], where Tamara admits she missed the Jasmine slave outfit, and makes a running gag of wanting it on everyone, including trying to get Doug to wear it. |
| 477 | * FierySensuality: The Critic lampshades this trope in his review of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryANutcrackerTale'' when he gets to the part where the heroes enter a dragon's cave to retrieve the elf's head and are helped by a fiery aparition in the shape of a nude fairy. The Critic even references the fiery apparition of Esmeralda from Disney's ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''. |
| 478 | -->I swear animated films are trying to create a fetish for sexy fire. |
| 479 | * {{Filler}}: Regardless of how much Critic suffers or not, most episodes you can tell Doug is passionate and puts as much effort in as he can to produce a good show. But there a few reviews every now and then where it's obvious he just wants to quiet the fan demand and get it out the way, like ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''. This is invoked in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPlutoNash'', in which the Critic says that the movie has so little effort put in it that he's doing the same thing, and has pre-recorded it while he's preparing for the next review. Also serves as BreatherEpisode, as the last was six-months-in-making ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' and next is [[https://twitter.com/TamaraLChambers/status/715997172068704256 “beast of a review”]] ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''. |
| 480 | ** Like Pluto Nash (an episode before a big clipless video), ''Clockstoppers'' has Critic telling everyone that he's not going to make a big thing of it, and Malcolm/Tamara take a day off. |
| 481 | * FinaleSeason: The ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''-''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' season was meant to be this, with more feminist speeches and bisexuality moments as an ease-in to what ''WebVideo/DemoReel'' consisted of, more character drama and less jokes, {{foreshadowing}} Critic's end in what Doug said was in every episode, getting all the crossovers he could out of the way, and Critic learning to be a better less-FanHater person. |
| 482 | * FireAndBrimstoneHell: Where the Devil and Evilina reside. Lots of lava waterfalls, screaming and naked tortured bodies. |
| 483 | * FirstWorldProblems: |
| 484 | ** Exaggerated in ''Blue Brothers 2000”, when Critic ends up killing a woman second-hand because he was too pissy about the original movie getting a bad sequel to help. |
| 485 | ** Doug's (which is practically a sequel vlog) “The Ice King's Glasses Issue” is much... more passionate about the subject, but “When Is A Movie Just A Movie” also touches on it, saying movies are there to help, and you can point out problematic stuff but leave it alone if it pisses you off. (That doesn't apply to him of course, hypocrisy played for laughs.) |
| 486 | ** Mocked by name in ''Care Bears Nutcracker'', as he does a short [[invoked]] ActingForTwo bit about how the Care Bears only care about white kids crying instead of ruthless dictators slaughtering brown people. |
| 487 | ** The TMNT review opening song lampshades that Critic and Nerd are sheltered manchildren in their thirties and whining over nothing. |
| 488 | ** The fake trailer for himself in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' replaces his logo with “White Privilege: The Job”. |
| 489 | ** In ''Christmas With The Kranks'', he says the trope by name when it comes to people complaining about Starbucks not putting Christmas on their cups. |
| 490 | ** His response to Sarah's complaining in ''Labyrinth''. |
| 491 | -->'''Critic''': The first step to accepting my white privilege is acting like I hate it. |
| 492 | ** Complaining about [=MRA=]s in the ''Fury Road'' commentary, Doug says that while there is shit men go through, it's nowhere near as bad as what women and other minorities deal with. This comes back in ''Ghostbusters'', when after hearing how excited Evilina was for the 2016 movie, the meninists bluster a bit before they realize they should complain about real problems, not whine about how men are oppressed. |
| 493 | ** In ''Smurfs 2'', he mocks Smurfette's angst of having her birthday forgotten, saying blue privilege should be a thing. |
| 494 | ** Considering that ''he'' has dyslexia and ADHD, he takes great relish in mocking ''Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' for thinking that this combo is the worst ever. |
| 495 | * FiveEpisodePilot: The "Raiders of the Story Arc" episodes have the Critic watching these sorts of pilot episodes and determine whether or not the show still holds up. |
| 496 | * FiveSecondForeshadowing: |
| 497 | ** At 35 seconds in to “The Best Avatar Episodes”, you can hear a door opening, less than a minute before Dante Basco comes in and blasts Critic with a fireball. |
| 498 | ** Literally right after he mentions his amusement of Rick being like a funny pervert uncle he had (but avoided), Best Friends makes him think that Rick is fucking his niece. Turns out to be a con, but [[TraumaButton he’s not having a good time for a minute]]. |
| 499 | * FiveTokenBand: Parodied in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', with Critic as the WhiteMaleLead with an ''ComicBook/XMen'' [[CallBack t-shirt]], Malcolm as the black kid, Jim as the cool kid, Rob as the geeky kid and Jason as the HollywoodPudgy kid. |
| 500 | ** Talking about the [=McDonalds=] kids, (with two girls!), he's glad for the diversity but says his problem is just that they're bland characters. |
| 501 | * FireForgedFriends: Not particularly ''great'' friends, but Rachel and Malcolm - and more extreme with Tamara and Malcolm as she has more confidence than Rachel - will look out for each other and team up against Critic's abuse. |
| 502 | * FixFic: Rob branched out on his own (with Walter) for WebVideo/{{Fanscription}}, including a video fixing the problems of "Return Of The Jedi'' along the lines of what if Luke had died in that movie. The Critic episode of “Ghostbusters 2” where they redo the movie is what inspired the show. |
| 503 | * FlashbackTwist: In his 100th episode, the Critic prepares to roll out a "Crummy Ass ClipShow" while he goes off to smoke a joint. It starts with a clip from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}}'' review, with the Critic interviewing Ma-Ti. After a few moments, Ma-Ti notices that the Critic is doing nothing but rolling out a clip show for his 100th episode and calls him a wuss for not doing something special. The Past Nostalgia Critic agrees, and they browbeat the Present Nostalgia Critic into reviewing ''Film/BattlefieldEarth''. This means that the Critic re-created the Ma-Ti scene for that episode, down to the relative quality of that recording. |
| 504 | * FlatCharacter: The Aw Girls in ''Alvin And The Chipmunks''. Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, as they represent girls who just want to turn their brains off for cute media, but the episode lampshades they don't have personalities to work off of. |
| 505 | * FlatWhat: |
| 506 | ** The twist in the middle of ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNimh 2'' is so incredibly stupid that the Nostalgia Critic can only respond like this, at least at first. |
| 507 | ** During his review of ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', saying it isn't flat enough. He writes it on a piece of paper. Twice. |
| 508 | ** In his ''Kazaam'' review, he says "What?" when Kazaam uses the rhyme, "Green Egg and Ham IT!" and later when Kazaam says he doesn't believe in fairy tales. |
| 509 | * FlawlessToken: He's really not a fan of Disney making their reboot female leads perfect, as it kills any character growth or interest in their journey. |
| 510 | * FlippingTheBird: In Hyper's third vlog, Doug AsHimself's reaction to Rob AsHimself wanting him as a sidekick because “you're only in it to abuse the sidekick”. |
| 511 | * FluffyTheTerrible: In his review of ''[[Film/TheExorcist Exorcist 2: The Heretic]]'', he thinks Pazuzu is a very silly name for a demon. It also leads into this joke: |
| 512 | -->'''Father 1:''' Quickly, father! We must get the holy water and destroy Squishy Puppy!\ |
| 513 | '''Father 2:''' What?\ |
| 514 | '''Father 1:''' Squishy Puppy!\ |
| 515 | '''Father 2:''' Aww, that sounds adorable.\ |
| 516 | '''Father 1:''' No, he's not! He's a horrible demon that eats children's brains! Look!\ |
| 517 | '''Father 2:''' Yeah, but when you put the name Squishy Puppy under him, he seems so much cuter.\ |
| 518 | '''Father 1:''' No, he doesn't! He's a... [[CutenessProximity Oh, you're right. Look at that. We should adopt one of those!]] |
| 519 | * FMinusMinus: In his ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'' trilogy movie review, after a {{Montage}} of his freaking out at the utter monstrosity that is [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII the third movie]], he makes this memorable quote; |
| 520 | -->"This movie is so bad, I have to make up a new word to describe how BAD it is. It's... it's... Horibifuckus! Horibifuckus!" |
| 521 | ** At the end of the video, he even put the word on his screen to further prove his point. |
| 522 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 523 | ** In ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', even before he yells at them, Devil Boner and the meninists in term of masculinity. His thought of being a real man is playing football or building muscle, while their version of it is rant videos at women they don't like. |
| 524 | ** Also Curiosa to Hyper. Curiosa's tired of dealing with misogyny, while Hyper has issues with that herself. The former actually listens to Critic while the latter never has, plus Hyper just likes any man because pretty, and Curiosa is only attracted to Devil Boner after the feminist rant. |
| 525 | * FollowTheLeader: The Critic points out in-universe ''3 Ninjas'' tries to cash in on ''Film/HomeAlone'' and ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'' and later points out ''Surf Ninjas'' tries to rip off ''3 Ninjas''. |
| 526 | ** In-universe, he does a “Top 11 Movie Trailers” right after Watch Mojo did that list themselves, and after brief complaining he lampshades all the complaints (even from producers) that he's been doing a lot of reviews of movies that other TGWTG people have done. |
| 527 | ** WebVideo/JonTron ''stabs'' him in the beginning of ''Maximum Overdrive'' for reviewing ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'' after he did, and homaging quite a few scenes of Jon's own review. |
| 528 | ** In a SelfDeprecation[=/=]TakeThat mode, ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' calls him a entitled nitpicking whiny crybaby giving birth to other nitpicking whiny crybabies, showing Snob, Film Brain, Linkara, Chick and Mike J. Also adding on that Critic himself did the same thing for the Nerd. |
| 529 | ** In ''[[Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance Ghost Rider II]]'', Mike J passive-aggressives about Critic re-reviewing about ten things he's already done. |
| 530 | * FootPopping: Given that ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'' is the TropeNamer, obviously pops up in the review of the sequel. And even more [[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy obviously]], Critic's the one to do it in his first AlmostKiss with Hyper. |
| 531 | * ForcedMeme: |
| 532 | ** "IWasFrozenToday" quote from ''Film/SuburbanCommando''. |
| 533 | ** Evil Popcorn Man from ''Film/FreeWilly''. |
| 534 | ** With ''Film/DoubleTeam'', there's "Frying the coke". Acknowledged in that he knew it probably wouldn't catch on, but he at least wanted to throw it out there. |
| 535 | ** in ''Literature/TheTommyknockers'', he explains the gag, which is essentially a moment that is so stupid and ridiculous, it wraps around and becomes a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. A...SoBadItsGood applied to specific moments, if you will. |
| 536 | ** In the ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'' parody in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'', “bat credit card”, “frying the coke” and BigLippedAlligatorMoment all get listed as “forced painful memes”. |
| 537 | ** Doug admitted in Fan World 2016 that there was a time where he was obsessed with pushing memes, and in ''Christmas With The Kranks'' it's a big part of why he hates his 2007 self. |
| 538 | * ForcedToWatch: |
| 539 | ** While Rachel and Malcolm don't particularly like Critic, and have made him suffer themselves, they still don't like watching (or hearing) him get talent-bended in ''Film/TheLastAirbender''. Mostly because it's them next. |
| 540 | ** The first viewing of "Angry Birds" is more SuckinessIsPainful than the Critic review, with an angry Rob at one point grabbing Doug's head and forcing him closer. |
| 541 | * ForcefulKiss: In ''WebVideo/SharkJumping'', Hyper checks off this box by wanting a poster of the time she passionately kissed Critic's face “like an aggressive pet”. Critic himself states this in ''Christmas Story II'' when he says he has worst tastes than her to wash out of his mouth. |
| 542 | * ForgotAboutHisPowers: In the review of ''Film/TheNeverendingStoryIITheNextChapter'', he notes that Bastian could simply wish his troubles away. Likewise, he also noted in ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' that the poorly-defined powers of Kevin could simply be used to warp to the villains and shoot 'em point-blank. And in ''Film/TheNeverEndingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia'', juxtaposing that the villains and Bastian's sister wished for things while the IdiotHero didn't. |
| 543 | * ForgottenFallenFriend: |
| 544 | ** {{T|ragicBromance}}acoma? {{Re|placementGoldfish}}becca? [[BigBrotherInstinct Karl]]? [[VitriolicBestBuds Quinn]]? Who on earth are they? Double subverted as everyone but Rebecca ([[https://twitter.com/michaelltd/status/805312884209164288 Donnie's alive too!]]) has popped up again, but Critic always has other things to do and doesn't notice them. |
| 545 | * ForgottenThemeTuneLyrics: A lot of new fans don't know that his “The Review Must Go On” theme tune actually came from the ''Film/MoulinRouge'' review, and both parodied “[[Music/{{Queen}} The Show Must Go On]]” and foreshadowed his end [[note]]as this was the review where Doug decided he should wrap up[[/note]]. Doug pointed this out himself in Connecticon 2016, saying that when he came back, that song about having to carry on made the most sense to use. |
| 546 | * ForegoneConclusion: Many viewers already knew how the Nostalgia Critic would feel about ''Film/IndependenceDay'', because he already bashed the movie in his ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}'' review. |
| 547 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Has [[Foreshadowing/TheNostalgiaCritic his own page]]. |
| 548 | * FormulaBreakingEpisode: Several examples of episodes which deviate from the norm: |
| 549 | ** By definition, the episodes which don't follow the formula of trashing one bad movie count: "Top 11", "Old vs. New", "Raiders of the Story Arc". The "Old vs. New"s are usually a lot more analytical than usual. |
| 550 | ** Anytime The Nostalgia Critic reviews a movie with another reviewer. See {{Crossover}} for the list. |
| 551 | ** "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Launch", which isn't a Nostalgia Critic review but stars the character. |
| 552 | ** "Bebe's Kids", which was the only time The Nostalgia Critic reviewed a video game. It was done as part of a deal between WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd and himself where the two would perform each other's jobs for one review (James Rolfe reviewed the obscure ''Rocky'' parody "Ricky 1"). |
| 553 | *** He would later review ''The Blues Brothers'' on a DVD, and do a LetsPlay of the NintendoHard ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart's Nightmare]]''. |
| 554 | ** "Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird", which broke The Nostalgia Critic: he was unable to make fun of it because he loves ''Series/SesameStreet''. He invites Chester A. Bum to take his place for the last minute of the video. |
| 555 | ** "Drew Struzan Tribute". ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. |
| 556 | ** "Teddy Ruxpin", which was not only the first review based on a toy, but also was done in the format of a slasher/thriller movie in the second half of the video. |
| 557 | ** "The Good Son". Doug Walker had temporarily lost his voice in real life, so he performed this review by remaining silent and writing out his thoughts on cue cards. The only word he uttered in the entire review was "ASS!" |
| 558 | ** "TMNT". While it's still in the typical format, it's from a very recent film (2007), so that breaks tradition of doing solely nostalgic movies from the '80s and '90s. |
| 559 | ** "Transformers 2", which took the format of his earliest reviews, i.e. no film clips, and more like what his Bum Reviews series would evolve into. |
| 560 | ** "We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story" had Doug in character as Raoul Duke (here named "Raoul Puke") from ''Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas''. |
| 561 | ** "Alone in the Dark", which had The Nostalgia Critic again unable to speak, but this time using Mac speak to convey his thoughts. He was also accompanied by Spoony and Linkara, and the review took place in a different environment than usual. |
| 562 | ** "Baby Geniuses" took the form of a disturbed Nostalgia Critic walking around a convention in a daze after having seen this film, and narrating in the style of film noir. |
| 563 | ** "Commercials", which didn't feature the typical white wall or his usual attire but instead The Nostalgia Critic sitting in a recliner wearing an "I Donut Donuts" T-shirt and watching TV. His review was focused on commercials, not TV shows or movies like it usually is. |
| 564 | ** "You're a Rotten Dirty Bastard Christmas Special" was a parody of ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' where the Critic sees what things would be like if he was never born. Only problem is, everyone involved with Channel Awesome is well off, and the angel sent to show the Critic the error of his ways lost out on being God's number one guy just because the Critic existed. |
| 565 | ** "Jungle 2 Jungle'" was reviewed in the style of a nature documentary. |
| 566 | ** "Raiders of the Story Arc: Transformers" has Doug playing the character of Optimus Prime. |
| 567 | ** ''Film/JurassicWorld'' has zero clips of the movie. Instead Malcolm, Tamara, Jim, Rob and Doug act it out as [[invoked]] NoBudget as possible while Critic sums up what happens. |
| 568 | ** In the ''Pixels'' commentary, Doug says that if he has to do jokes in front of a wall that's fine, but if he has the idea to do something new and more visual and story/character-based, he's always got far more excited. Plus they satisfy his {{workaholic}} side. |
| 569 | * TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: |
| 570 | ** Critic's MediumAwareness is PlayedForDrama in the reboot, he saves the worst beating for [[TakeThatAudience you]] in the ''Master Of Disguise'' breakdown and he shoots a hole into the audience's wall in every opening theme. |
| 571 | ** A running thread is that he also knows Doug exists and is pissed off, calling him the powerless character multiple times. |
| 572 | * FreakierThanFiction: Well, fiction is stranger than some other fiction, anyway. In reality, he tried to make ''Franchise/DuckTales'' DarkerAndEdgier as a joke by suggesting that Scrooge made all his money by racketeering, embezzlement and so on. However, [[ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck he actually made it in a far worse way: exploiting African natives.]] |
| 573 | * FreedomFromChoice: In The Wicker Man, he muses that being a SexSlave who just stays inside and doesn’t talk to people sounds like a fun vacation. |
| 574 | * FreezeFrameBonus: During his review of "The Pound Puppies Movie", there's a parody of ''Film/FightClub'' where The Nostalgia Critic splices a naughty frame into a children's movie. In this case, it's two dogs humping. The image is only on-screen for a frame. |
| 575 | ** A fairly damning YouBastard one happens in ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest'', as it shows "you" clicking on a porn site that has a barely legal girl being told to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything suffer for other people's enjoyment]]. Critic clearly doesn't have much love for his audience. |
| 576 | ** In ''AI'' there's post-it notes everywhere about forcing yourself to be thin (on the TMZ side, but given Critic's weight-bashing...) and pleading that it'll be over soon on the Critic's side. |
| 577 | ** Hyper's [[invoked]] {{wangst}}y facebook in ''Old vs New: Spider-Man'' shows she was born in 1984, making [[WomanChild her]] only a couple of years younger than Critic. |
| 578 | ** In keeping with the meta aspect, the pick-up artist book Jason is reading in the “Top 11 Best Avatar Episodes” has a portion of Doug apologizing because he's been starving himself ([[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee again]]) due spending all of his time editing. The page contains these lines: |
| 579 | ---> Do you really think anyone's going to be attracted to you when you say "Oh yeah, [[TakeThatAudience I pause online videos to see if they put in secret jokes?]]" God, I'm surprised several women haven't just stripped naked shouting "Take me!" from reading that line. Jesus Christ! We'll spare you from pausing the video to look up any any other secrets, because there aren't any. |
| 580 | ** In the ''Film/TheLegendOfZorro'' review, he lists all of America's problems as: |
| 581 | ---> fast food, pride, dependence on phones, dick pics, porn, bad governments, corruption, Michael Bay movies, pollution, overtaxing, causing climate change, TMZ, youtube comments, pretty much any comments online, watching TLC, still calling it TLC, bitching about nothing, white privilege, bad education, cat memes, any memes, kryptonite (yes we are actually allergic to that), chipmunk films, giving Kanye West work, high cholesterol, Fox News, MSNBC, Kim Kardashian, tabloid magazines, weird greeting cards, White Castle, obsessing over bad fashion, drugs, that creepy bald guy from those Six Flags commercials, snobby hipsters, crime, bad Zorro sequels. |
| 582 | ** [[https://41.media.tumblr.com/1640abaf494fd3f74727d9a09bbc8e00/tumblr_nr542deVhO1u1e35so1_540.png The]] people telling him to do an Honest Trailer of himself in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' are all (the ones who would leave insulting YT comments anyway) Doug's other characters, including Ask That Guy who is [[LampshadeHanging slightly annoyed]] by his own [[DroppedABridgeOnHim death]]. |
| 583 | ** In ''Conquest Of The Commercials'', the kids are playing [[https://t.co/Wn6SvhN8i3 with the meninist car prop]] from the ''Fury Road'' review. [[SarcasmMode More A+ parenting there]], abusive dad character. |
| 584 | ** The 2017 credits intro is one of those where you travel through and see clips and characters fly by, so you're going to spot something new every time you see it. Like there's Uncle Lies and Aunt Despair surfing on a blunt, the scene of Devil Boner threatening Benny with a gun blowjob and the second to last clip is the (intentionally) scary Critic being revealed in the mirror during TRMGO. |
| 585 | * FriendshipMoment: It’s toxic and messy, but Malcolm and Tamara have been there long enough to have some with Critic, like the hugging when they’re celebrating his OverlyLongGag in ''Final Fantasy.'' |
| 586 | * FrenchMaid: [[NotDistractedByTheSexy Nobody mentions it in-universe]], but Tamara’s got one of these costumes in Film/TheWall. |
| 587 | * FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Critic's childhood was hell, and provides a lot of insight for how messed up he is, but he showed this trope in ''Film/TheCell'' where he talked about having a bad childhood not being a good excuse for being a bad person as an adult. |
| 588 | * FriendlyRivalry: After ''Old Vs New Cinderella,'' Benny and Devil Boner seem to have developed this. At his wedding, Devil Boner teases Benny about being a better shot than him, and they laugh about it before exchanging a DeathGlare. |
| 589 | * FridgeBrilliance: |
| 590 | ** In-universe, from his review of ''Chairman of the Board'': |
| 591 | -->"Wait a minute! Edison! Like Thomas Edison, the great inventor! I just got it!" *maniacal laughter* |
| 592 | ** In-universe. "Wait a sec, next month is January, and you know what that means! SEQUELS MONTH!...... *his smile slowly turns into a look of worry and shock while he reaches for his Dennis Miller doll to try and cheer him up.* |
| 593 | ** After years of making fun of Creator/StephenKing's works for not being as scary as people make them out to be, the Critic has an epiphany after watching ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'': |
| 594 | -->I don't think he wanted to scare us with this; I think he wanted to make us laugh. I mean let's be honest, no film using AC/DC is intending to scare anyone. In a strange way, I think he's not only mocking horror tropes, but his own tropes as well. When he says 'I just wanted someone to do Stephen King right.', maybe he's referring to the fact that he's never meant to be taken too seriously. There's always a bit of otherworldly insanity that even he can poke fun of and laugh at. |
| 595 | * FridgeLogic: In his review of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', the Critic also points out in-universe the logic flaw of hiding in "plain, vulnerable sight" when they turn to stone during the day. |
| 596 | ** The Critic also mentions that Kevin from ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' should be able to use his powers, or the abundant warp zones, to just blast Mother Brain with little problem. He demonstrates both scenarios. |
| 597 | *** Similar example used in ''Film/TheNeverendingStoryIITheNextChapter'', when he notes how Bastian could have wished all the troubles away. |
| 598 | ** He also noted in the ''Film/FreeWilly'' review that if Willy can jump over the rocks, why couldn't he jump over the net, which was considerably lower? |
| 599 | ** In his review of ''The Legend of The Titanic'', he wonders why Tentacles the octopus can't move the iceberg out of the path of the Titanic if he can throw it there. |
| 600 | %% |
| 601 | %% In-character examples of the Fridge Tropes only. |
| 602 | %% |
| 603 | * FromBadToWorse: The reboot had already less time between TakeThatAudience complaints than prime did because of demands to bring the show back, but Critic finding out that he was a designated protagonist ''to a wall'' in ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI'' just intensified the problem. |
| 604 | ** ''Master of Disguise'' foreshadows a lot of awful yet to come. To give a few examples, he complains about the Happy Madison audience being stupid -- he kills some off in ''Eight Crazy Nights''. Rachel is angry about her birthday being forgotten and gets fired - she'll be treated much worse in ''The Shining'', and will leave by ''Face/Off''. Critic beats the shit out of innocent people with a baseball bat -- he'll kill a child by bludgeoning her to death in WebVideo/VampireReviews' ''Monster Mash'' episode. |
| 605 | ** According to Doug, Critic's Christmas love gets more extreme (in "Top 12 Santa Clauses", he wants to kidnap Christmas, tie it up in his basement, visit it every night and chop off its body so he could consume it and slowly become Christmas) every year until it culminated in "I Fucking Love Christmas", which was the nastiest he could twist it. |
| 606 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012'' and Spider-Man are just Hyper whining about being friendzoned, not leaving Critic alone but not actively hurting him either. Fat Grandma convinces her to start stalking and not stop at the end of the latter. |
| 607 | * FromTheMouthsOfBabes: |
| 608 | ** In his review of ''Film/MilkMoney'', a mother asks her daughter who is with Ed Harris's character. The daughter replies that she's a hooker. The mother seems barely offended by such language. The Critic takes this to the extreme: "She's a bitch ass whore fuck!" |
| 609 | ** He gives a few examples of the questions he as a child asked in the game of ''Guess Who'', and they're all cheerfully disturbing ones like "is your person Jewish?" or "did your person sleep with Mommy?" |
| 610 | * FrothyMugsOfWater: At the end of “What You Never Knew About Ghostbusters”, Doug shares a cute story of his dad telling him (due to not wanting to explain to a young child what alcohol was) that the alcohol drunk in the film was actually a “magic drink that turned them into ghostbusters”. |
| 611 | * FruitCart: He is deeply disappointed when ''Film/CopAndAHalf'', a 90's buddy cop movie, fails to take advantage of this. |
| 612 | * FullyAbsorbedFinale: [[spoiler:Not that the Nostalgic Critic series' finale was ''bad'', but his story arc was ultimately wrapped up in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee''.]] |
| 613 | * FunTShirt: In ''Disney Afternoon'', when he tries regressing to being a kid, he switches out his normal clothes for a “No Fear” brand t-shirt. Ironic as even Tamara's scared of him in this one. |
| 614 | ** For every commercials special (which were initially meant to be LighterAndSofter), he wears a comfy looking "I [donut] donuts" t-shirt. |
| 615 | * FunWithAcronyms: Critic suggests that [[spoiler:the attacking cat]] women are suffering from C.R.A.H.B.S. [[spoiler:Catwomen Raging Against Halley Berry Syndrome]]. |
| 616 | ** In the review of ''Film/SmallSoldiers'', the critic tries to research on what Joe Dante's problem is after seeing the deformed Gwendy dolls. -->[[spoiler:"Apparently it's called "Justification Experimentation Serving Unusual Sexuality", or in abbreviated terms... '''J.E.S.U.S.'''!!"]] |
| 617 | [[/folder]] |
| 618 | |
| 619 | [[folder:G]] |
| 620 | * GainaxEnding: The end of ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'' review, in which Critic turns into a {{t|alkingPoo}}urd singing Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra WithLyrics. |
| 621 | * GainingConfidenceSong: The first commercial special features a parody of "[[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas "Poor Jack"]] after Critic gets depressed over his career and wastes his day watching commercials. It begins with Critic slowly lamenting how he feels useless and unappreciated, but he soon begins boasting about how he ''is'' a good reviewer, dons his trademark jacket, and gets back to work. |
| 622 | * {{Gaslighting}}: In ''Christmas Story II'', a mix of Hyper's WoundedGazelleGambit and Santa Christ's UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming make Critic blame his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Hyper on the movie filling him with hate, even when he openly told her that wasn't the case and he loves Christmas. Doug in Midwest Media Expo confirmed that it was meant to be Critic being treated like crap, not “you should be on Hyper's side”. |
| 623 | * GeekyTurnOn: The canonically married chart guys ask each other out for a math date in the IT review. |
| 624 | * GenderFlip: |
| 625 | ** When he comes to the sexual harassment PSA in ''Dawn Of The Commercials'', he suddenly wonders what it would be like gender reversed and decides it wouldn't work because men are too stupid to realize they're getting harassed. |
| 626 | ** Subverted in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' where it looks like Critic is going to be the Alice (with [[{{fanservice}} conspicuous shots of his butt being the only thing in view]] before he falls down the rabbit hole), but then “Malice” is introduced. |
| 627 | ** While sadly stopping before Critic can make a leather catsuit, in ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'' the start is him parody Selina Kyle's breakdown in ''Film/BatmanReturns''. The exact moment after he's been triggered is a genuinely natural copy of a woman losing it. |
| 628 | ** The opening/possible hallucination parody of ''Film/{{Halloween 1978}}'' beginning 2015's nostalgia-ween month has Critic taking the place of the teenage sister Judith while [[spoiler: Jon-Tron]] is Michael Myers. |
| 629 | ** At Midwest Media Expo 2015, after complaining that fandom ignores everything Hyper did to Critic and made Critic seem like the bad guy for yelling at her about it, Doug and Rob agree with an audience member that Hyper's logic is like Christian Grey's and Critic's her Ana. |
| 630 | ** In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', [[spoiler: “The Fandumb of the Opera” is after Beth]], playing the franchise genders straight, but [[spoiler: Hyper is still after Critic, angry that he's not interested and trying to manipulate him again.]] |
| 631 | ** The FramingDevice in the IT remake review is a parody of "Almost Got 'Im" from Batman, and Critic enters like Poison Ivy. Like in ''WesternAnimation/FoodFight'', there's no making fun that he's in the girl role. |
| 632 | * GeniusBonus: Lampshaded in-universe in the ''Mr. Nanny'' review: |
| 633 | -->"[[LampshadedTheObscureReference Bonus points to whoever got that ''What's Up Doc?'' reference]]" |
| 634 | ** In the commentary for the ''Film/{{Leprechaun}}'' review, Doug notes that three people knew the song "Hop On Your Pogo Stick" from the Goofy cartoon "Victory Vehicles". |
| 635 | ** He assumes you don't get it but he [[http://chieftain-of-dogs.tumblr.com/post/83763417294/there-were-a-few-requests-for-this-x wants a St. Sebastian homage in]] ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess''. St. Sebastian was stabbed to death with arrows, and ImprobableAimingSkills are a problem in the movie. |
| 636 | * GenreKiller: He [[{{InUniverse}} implies this]] during his [[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/nc-is-parody-dead-6583177 "Is Parody Dead?"]] editorial with regard to ''Film/SpyHard'' being the start of a downward trend, and ''Film/ScaryMovie5'' taking off the brakes on tumbling down that slope. Curiously, those movies and every other horrible parody he has seen since then were created by Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg. Though he never calls them out directly, he does point out that their movies are the only ones still selling because all other parody has been driven out of theaters and "there is a sucker born every minute" for the bad parody films to capitalize on. He goes on to say that most parody now come from places like Creator/ComedyCentral and {{Web Original}}s. |
| 637 | * GenreShift: For whatever reason, maybe because Doug realized with "The Review Must Go On" that he was eerily good at triggering people, the reboot shifted from prime's character-based tragicomedy to horror. Good examples are ''Son Of The Mask'' where even Santa Christ is evil, ''The Cat In The Hat'' where Critic acts like a BabysitterFromHell and ''The Shining'', where Critic terrorizes Rachel in an upsetting way (being a parody of the film but working in its own context). |
| 638 | ** ''Film/Catwoman2004'' in terms of what audience he wants to play up to. He literally has a speech calling himself a sexist, and he explains to the catwomen how MaleGaze will give him more views than the FemaleGaze Doug was feeding on before. This was only temporary though, and he went back to casting [=MRA=]s as villains. |
| 639 | ** According to Doug, the ''Film/MoulinRouge'' review was when he decided that Critic should be wrapped up for good but also that episodes with their own subplots (in addition to the overall StoryArc and character) were far more fun than basic reviews. |
| 640 | ** Critic himself has always had a lot of sex, but 2016 introduced genuine romance, with Hyper/Devil Boner (and other characters as sometimes partners), Chester/Doe, and Aunt Despair/Uncle Lies. Chart Guys and Snyder/Bay are also couples. |
| 641 | * GetOut: In the Hyper Fangirl's fourth vlog, when she comes across him, Spoony and Linkara (both of whom are freaked out/annoyed by her), Critic grits at her to leave and literally chases her out the room. She just screams “I love you too!” |
| 642 | * TheGhost: Double subverted with Critic's parents, as they're monstrously abusive and Doug can't exactly ''show'' that, plus his mom felt bad for even shouting one line at him. He told everyone in The Christmas Tree that Doug's real parents were his parents, but then it was revealed that was just in Critic's head and these people don't know who he is. |
| 643 | * GildedCage: |
| 644 | ** The reboot has him a lot more powerful and gaining pleasure and safety from being the MetaGuy who can hurt Malcolm, Tamara and Rachel in any way he wants, but he's also so much sadder and confused, stating outright in “WTF Is Up With The Ending With The Graduate” that the prison bars are getting stronger. |
| 645 | ** Tamara even taunts him about it in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', saying it's not like he can leave or call anyone for help. |
| 646 | ** Literally in ''Film/TheMatrix'', as the CameraAbuse ending shows his world having a limit, much to his annoyance. |
| 647 | ** In the BadFuture 2019, he's still in the studio, but he's not allowed to do anything or go anywhere without prostituting himself for Snob's pleasure. |
| 648 | ** In ''Princess Diaries II'', Hyper wants her BigFancyHouse to be one for Critic, as she tells him she think he'll like it there, and Doug on commentary saying he chose the place because it would make Critic almost fall into the trap. |
| 649 | ** In “Hyper Fangirl”, the analysts try to make the studio one for Hyper, saying that if she stays stalking Critic, she'll be “loved all her days” by naïve teenagers who use her as an AudienceSurrogate, but she can't leave “there's nowhere else to go”. She buys it, singing she'll be Hyper Fangirl “always”. |
| 650 | ** It's no surprise then, that Doug revealed on his [=GOTG2=] Disneycember review that he loves this set-up of feeling more like you're an emotional prisoner than say, being chained to a wall. |
| 651 | * GilliganCut: A RunningGag of his goes something like this: |
| 652 | -->'''Critic:''' The only way this could be any more lame/cliche/stupid is if they did [something].\ |
| 653 | ''(Cut to a scene of the exact thing he described in whatever he's reviewing)''. |
| 654 | ** Subverted in his review of ''Film/CopAndAHalf'', where after wondering what the next stupid plot event is, it cuts to him for a moment of silence, and he says, "Oh, I don't have a vid, I'm just asking." |
| 655 | ** Lampshaded in his review of ''North'', when he points out all the racial stereotypes North meets as he tries to find new parents. |
| 656 | -->'''Critic''': Why don't you have him just drop by France, where everyone wears berets, smokes, drinks wine, and every tv channel has 24 hours of Jerry Lewis-- it's the next scene, isn't it? ''(cuts to that exact thing)'' |
| 657 | ** Lampshaded in a different way the [[RunningGag third time]] it's used in the ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' review, where he double dares the movie to once again cut to his sarcastic prediction (this time it's Poison Ivy proclaiming [[EvilIsHammy "curses!"]] upon defeat) and goes crazy when it does. |
| 658 | ** A different sort of GilliganCut happens in his ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI'' review: he comments on how he won't sell out for some musical fad, just before [[spoiler:a "Harlem Shake" sequence... [[SubvertedTrope wherein he shoots all the dancers]].]] |
| 659 | ** In ''Film/SonOfTheMask'' [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Kim Kardashian]] assures that she put the movie where no one would find it. Cut to Critic finding the DVD in a public trash can and deciding it must be worth reviewing. |
| 660 | * GirlShowGhetto: An invoked trend in ''Film/BridgeToTerabithia'', where he mocks ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', ''Series/NewGirl'', ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', ''Music/OneDirection'', ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'', and ''Music/TheJonasBrothers'' just because they're references to girl things. |
| 661 | ** In his ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|1987}}'' video, Critic paused the review for a good few minutes to complain about what he thought to be a huge drop in quality in one of the episodes. The cause? It starred Webby and so had apparently turned into a 'girls' show'...which was obviously something very bad to the Critic from the way he tore it up. The message seemed to be: boys' show = awesome entertainment. Girls' show = vomit inducing mess that no little boy would ever want to watch. |
| 662 | ** [[invoked]] Going from Doug's Disneycember hatred of the film, the stinger for the ''Film/SmallSoldiers'' review plays ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'' sequel (a cute ChickFlick) out like impending torture. In the actual episode, he still acts like it should give a message to girls and not just be fun nonsense, but at least he's self aware in having Hyper Fangirl distract him with TestosteronePoisoning boy things. |
| 663 | ** His main criticism of ''Theatre/MammaMia'' is that it's a prime example of what exactly is wrong with the ChickFlick genre. While many films that fit the criteria can be smart, funny, or interesting, he feels like many film-makers feel they don't need to put any effort into them simply because "it's for women". This in turn makes the films feel like they look down on the viewer. |
| 664 | ** In the beginning of ''Film/LadyInTheWater'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' gets praise for pointing out all the flaws in the previous Disney films, having two female leads (one of them a Queen), and having a song so popular that even boys like it. Rob's character even snides that “13 year old boys are the most important demographic”. |
| 665 | ** Averted when it comes to a female character Doug likes however, as if he relates to a woman then he can endearingly gush/defend her for hours on end, and if you add up he probably has. Examples include Harley Quinn, the Disney princesses especially Cinderella, Bubblegum from Adventure Time, the Gems from Steven Universe, and Jane from Daria. |
| 666 | * GirlsVsBoysPlot: In his crossover with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick to review ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'', the video escalated into the two of them having their own battle of the sexes in song. |
| 667 | * TheGlomp: In ''Freddy vs Jason'', Hyper leaps into Devil Boner's arms, they land offscreen and they do loud ''things'' together. |
| 668 | * GloryDays: Every so often he'll refer to the pre-reboot days as his, but ThatManIsDead and he has to find new ways of doing things. Comes to a head in ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks'', where he's tired and wants to go back to the early times of reviewing. |
| 669 | * GlowingEyes: In a ShoutOut to the show's Avatar State, Critic in the ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' title card has glowing white eyes. However, [[spoiler: as he fails all the time in the episode]], it's really just a CallBack to his blanked out eyes in WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee. |
| 670 | * GodwinsLaw: ''ALL HEIL MONDO BURGER!'' Though averted in his ''Garbage Pail Kids'' review -- think about it: a society where it's socially acceptable to imprison and kill ugly people. |
| 671 | ** Also, Nostalgia Critic doing the Can-Can with Hitler. |
| 672 | ** You're just standing there, thinking you're about to shake ha- PSYCH! HEIL HITLER * BANG!* |
| 673 | ** Invoked in a serious way during ''WesternAnimation/BebesKids''. When Robin is supposed to redeem himself by going back to the kids, Critic's not impressed and likens "he acted abusive but at least he didn't leave them" to "he killed five hundred people but at least he's not Hitler". Same thing goes for using [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark a dino-baby]] as bait, which he calls "Hitler-level douchey". |
| 674 | *** Not even [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles April]] escapes his wrath when he believes she's joking about the loss of innocent families when her building falls down. Bit of a change since he accuses her of probably reacting the same to the Hindenburg disaster, but still counts. |
| 675 | ** He calls Zod and Turrell's ship in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' the "SS Leather Bar". With their WordOfGay LikeAnOldMarriedCouple status, this has some QueerPeopleAreFunny connotations too. |
| 676 | ** Taking the Care Bears' tendency to help only white blonde girls to the extreme, he assumes they do that because one day they'll rebuild “the master race”. |
| 677 | ** In "Rise of the Commercials", he describes the greyed-out dystopia of "cookie boredom" in the TMNT Cookies commercial as being ruled by "Cookie Hitler". |
| 678 | * GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Aunt Despair has four children, and Uncle Lies casually asides to her that they need the morning after pill more often. |
| 679 | * GoodLookingPrivates: PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/AfterEarth'', as Doug, Tamara and Malcolm (all attractive people) play soldiers more interested in looking good than actually protecting themselves. |
| 680 | * GoodNightSweetPrince: Critic eulogizes Johnny from ''Film/TheRoom2003'' with a parody of the quote: |
| 681 | -->'''Critic:''' Good night, sweet prick, and flights of assholes sing thee to thy rest. |
| 682 | * GoKartingWithBowser: Critic will go between hating the chart guys and what they stand for, and being friendly with them when he thinks they can help him get money. |
| 683 | * GorgeousPeriodDress: In ''Film/HocusPocus'', Doug's dress is even prettier than Bette Midler's in the movie. Beth's and Tamara's costumes are really nice as well, especially as Beth said Jim got bits of the dresses from thrift shops. |
| 684 | * {{Gorn}}: |
| 685 | ** About 80% of the fanfic/fanart with him involves this. The majority of people who do them don't want to actually hurt him though and thankfully, Doug knows this. In a 2011 con, he talked about TorturePorn fanart specifically, and reassures that he's fine with it and that he never thinks “who's watching me? Why do they think this?” |
| 686 | ** Plenty of it is shown in {{hell}}, with bleeding women in their underwear hanging from nooses, and shirtless men getting impaled. |
| 687 | ** "Old vs New: Evil Dead'' has Hyper and Devil Boner both into gore, but Hyper has to see that it's personally causing pain (and she's admitted to Critic that some of her happy dreams involve torturing him) and Devil Boner just wants it as bloody and creative as possible. |
| 688 | * GoryDiscretionShot: PlayedForLaughs in the Lupa crossover “A Talking Cat”, when she shoots him (after he shot her) and he says in a goofy voice “hey my organs are down here!” |
| 689 | ** The end of ''Film/GhostDad'' has Tamara and Malcolm beating Critic offscreen (for treating them like crap) to the point where he's begging “Sexy Dorothy” to stop. |
| 690 | ** Malice killing everyone in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' is always offscreen, with Critic's reactions and the person's screaming being the only clues to what's happening. |
| 691 | * GoshDangItToHeck: Film/TheHaunting1999's "[[ThePowerOfLove It's about family!]]" scene and comparing it to the climax of [[Film/TheHaunting1963 the original]] causes the Critic to imitate the remake's director acting like a ManChild claiming his work is more adult. To emphasize his point, he never uses mature language in this monologue, at worst resorting to [[BigStupidDoodooHead playground level insults]]. |
| 692 | * GrandfatherClause: Like many web review shows, he started out without any intro sequence, theme song or opening credits. The show gained a theme song during the second run of the series, just after ''The Review Must Go On''. The theme song? A metal version of the properly named song used to herald the return of the Critic in the aforementioned video. |
| 693 | * GRatedSex: With WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick in the ''WesternAnimation/FernGully'' review. Confirmed as the characters fucking by Doug and Lindsay in their commentary. |
| 694 | * GratuitousJapanese: In The Last Airbender review's opening, the text 'この映画は吸う' appears over the Nostalgia Critic name, which means [[spoiler:This movie sucks]]. |
| 695 | * GratuitousPrincess: This annoys the Critic when he sees it. The Critic points out that the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' cartoon's princess Sally just kept the princess title because it sounds cute, [[spoiler:granted the show reveals the king ''is'' alive but for health reasons can't resume his duties]], so he tells her to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZFYSUyONCE&NR=1 Queen it up]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!" He mocks [[WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster Princess Lana]] for this too. He makes a joke suggesting that Lana is staying a princess to avoid responsibility. "Politics is fun!" |
| 696 | ** He also guesses that Princess Oriana in the ''Felix the Cat'' Movie legally changed her first name to "Princess" (her last name is the name of her kingdom after all...), since we know for certain that both her parents are dead. |
| 697 | * GreenAesop: In the Sonic [=SatAm=] review. |
| 698 | -->"And it's just Sonic and a secret group of Freedom Fighters who try to stop this industrial takeover and bring the green back to the forest. ...Wait, wait wait wait wait wait, I can't comprehend this. An environmental message that's... ''SUBTLE'' ?!" |
| 699 | * GreyAndGrayMorality: Tends to be the case. Santa Christ is a BigGood but can be pushed too far, yet Sage the devil is actually LighterAndSofter than normal Sage. |
| 700 | * GroinAttack: |
| 701 | ** The Nostalgia Critic does this to ''himself with a hammer'' in his ''Film/BlankCheck'' review. |
| 702 | ** After Film/{{Conan|TheBarbarian1982}} throws a sword into a guy, the Nostalgia Critic calls it a low blow and calls him "Conan the crotch-stabber". |
| 703 | ** Among the gay overtones perceived by the Critic to exist in ''Film/MastersOfTheUniverse'' is the repeated laser shots to the crotch. Granted, the shots often seem, if you examine them closely, to be hitting fairly far away from the crotch, but at regular film speed and at a single glance it is easy enough to make the mistake and it doesn't always seem clear. |
| 704 | ** For the crying/wibbling scene in “The OTHER Titanic Animated Movie”, Doug put clothespins on his scrotum. We don't know why either. |
| 705 | ** During the ''Ponyo'' review, voice actor Spike Spencer comes in and says how much he likes the Critic while the Critic says the same during overlapping conversations. Near the end, Spike Spencer plants a grenade in the Critic's groin and leaves before it goes boom. |
| 706 | ** Malcolm hits him with a bat there in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' review. In the commentary, Doug talks over the scene with he'd ''like'' to have kids one day, but if attacks such as this (because he didn't wear protection) have made him unable to, then so be it. |
| 707 | ** In the ''Ghost Dad'' review [[spoiler:for tricking them into thinking he was dead and made them do embarrassing things, Tamara and Malcolm beat him up off screen. It is implied Tamara hits him there as "Sexy Dorothy" singing "Somewhere over his nut sack."]] |
| 708 | ** In ''Film/TheMatrix'', Schmuck gets Critic (in high pitched squeaking mode) to shut up by threatening to liquidate his balls. |
| 709 | ** In ''Film/TheLegendOfZorro'', when he sees Catherine Zeta Jones, he whips down his erection. For obvious reasons he regrets it. |
| 710 | ** Self-inflicted in ''Film/DemolitionMan'', as to cut down on his swearing (even saying “balls” or “Jesus”), he put a electric shock device on his crotch. |
| 711 | ** In "Old vs New: ''Evil Dead''", Hyper cheerfully perks that if Critic doesn't do what she wants, she'll destroy his testicles. |
| 712 | ** He's very disappointed that the sexual deviant in Mars Attacks doesn't get his dick cut off as a KarmicDeath. |
| 713 | ** RareFemaleExample in ''[[Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance Ghost Rider II]]'', as Tamara's date character is frozen in horror at [[ItMakesSenseInContext smoke coming out of her burned vagina]]. Of course Doug still has to get his AuthorAppeal in, as he-as-Cage starts to masturbate onscreen and his dick decays in a poof. Twice. |
| 714 | * TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: |
| 715 | ** The Critic points out the President has no Secret Service in ''Film/CaptainAmerica1990''. |
| 716 | ** In his review of ''Film/TheWiz'' the Critic finds both Todd in the Shadows and Paw Dugan and [[spoiler:Linkara]] got into his hotel room when he had locked the door. He's questions the security of the hotel. |
| 717 | * GuiltyPleasures: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2cvmS4OITE IN SONG!]] (from the ''Film/MoulinRouge'' crossover review) |
| 718 | ** The Critic describes the ''Film/ShortCircuit'' movies and ''Film/JudgeDredd'' as this. |
| 719 | ** He also said that he denied watching ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' in public, but he'd actually watch it on a regular basis. |
| 720 | ** He admits that ''Ernest Saves Christmas'' is a shallow, stupid movie. He also watches it every year. |
| 721 | ** He just plain adores ''Film/{{Commando}}''. [[NarmCharm And who can blame him?]] |
| 722 | ** He calls out ''Film/{{Hook}}'' for its stupidity, but on the whole, he loves the movie. Or at least the first two acts. |
| 723 | ** Through all its faults, he loves ''Film/RockyIV''. |
| 724 | ** At a Bad Movies Anonymous meeting, he admits that he likes ''Film/SpiderMan3'', much to the chagrin of the other members. |
| 725 | * GunTwirling: In reboot credits. RuleOfCool applies, as he'd just shot the fourth wall, looks as sulky as possible and there's a huge explosion of fire behind him. |
| 726 | * GutPunch: |
| 727 | ** Critic's mom dying in ''Film/JurassicParkIII''. It's a punch for Critic as well, who goes from bored and pissy over what he thinks is going to be an irritating hospital call to a tearful “w...what?” |
| 728 | ** Even leaving aside the fact that it got undone as the series finale, a lot of people have said they can't watch the ''Film/ScoobyDoo2002'' review more than a couple of times as it's just too emotionally painful. Doesn't help that Doug improvised the opening rant. |
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