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| 9 | * AbductionIsLove: |
| 10 | ** In the ''Princess Diaries 2'' review, Hyper Fangirl comes ''this close'' to succeeding at the more realistic version of the trope by kidnapping Critic, keeping him there at gunpoint and manipulating him so much that he's ready to kiss her, with Doug confirming in the commentary that the plot of the episode was essentially just Critic almost falling into StockholmSyndrome. Amusingly, them both kidnapping him is what ''helps'' Devil Boner and Hyper stay in love. |
| 11 | ** In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', while the Hyper>Critic thing is still going on, Beth is abducted by the “Fandumb of the opera” and is [[IronicEcho more into him than she should be, even while knowing he's a gross stalker]]. |
| 12 | * AbortedArc: At one point there was a lot of "The Other Guy is the true evil boss of the site", but as soon as it started, it seemed to stop just as fast. Although it did come back with Sage's review of ''Film/SpeedRacer'', with Critic's DrunkWithPower kidnapper act crumbling when Rob comes in and shouts at him. |
| 13 | * AccentuateTheNegative: |
| 14 | ** The Critic always relishes a chance to make fun of a film, even if it's one he likes or that has a large fanbase. However, at the end he'll sum up the film and mention if they did anything right. To this end, he mentions when a film isn't particularly ''bad'', it just isn't very good, and in such had both flaws and strengths. SoBadItsGood and GuiltyPleasures are also common comments made in the summations. The one exception to the rule is his review of ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'', as he himself said that his review of that film was his honest opinion. |
| 15 | ** In the Sonic review, he exaggerates both his hate for the former show and his love for the latter, saying in the real thoughts that if adulting is being particularly hard, he'll want to watch the silly one. |
| 16 | ** In his review of ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'', he notes that Costner is boring and the little {{plot hole}}s add up over time, but otherwise Dennis Hopper is [[HamAndCheese enjoyably hammy]], in spite of his running joke of "[[TechnologyPorn STUFF!]]" saving the day, he likes the detail that went into the machinery of the world as it makes the film seem more practical and real, and as an overall shoot-em-up action film, it's not all that bad. |
| 17 | ** {{Lampshaded}} in the review for ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea''. He says right out that it's a movie he genuinely likes, despite a few issues, but as soon as he announces it (before a crowd at Anime Convention Anime Milwaukee) he's attacked by a mob when everyone assumes that he's going to do a [[CausticCritic heavily negative review]]. This continues to be a running theme throughout the review as the 200th Episode [[TheCameo cameos]] all consist of people showing up to beat up the Critic for slamming a film by anime legend Creator/HayaoMiyazaki. [[spoiler:At the end, the mob had calmed down, but then he insults ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'', and the mob attacks him again.]] |
| 18 | ** He also notes about Stephen King and Robin Williams, to name two examples, that he thinks King has done some amazing stories and Williams is a genuinely funny and talented actor. Their films just don't play to those strengths very well. |
| 19 | ** Defied in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' month, as he takes a look at the odd-numbered movies that will usually get the fandom frothing at the mouth, and succeeds at being fair to them, analyzing the stuff they did well as well as the bits that didn't work. This was made explicit with ''Insurrection'', as Linkara (the diehard ''Trek'' fan) was much angrier about the flaws, while Critic (the casual fan) tried to be optimistic. |
| 20 | ** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in the ''Top 11 GOOD Things About the Star Wars Prequels'' where he lists the things in the much-hated Star Wars Prequel trilogy that actually work or are done well, even going so far as to point out positives about Hayden Christensen's performance as Anakin. |
| 21 | ** Noted sadly at the end of ''WebVideo/TheUncannyValley'' review, as he can't even sum-up-praise the special because accentuating is the negative is what people paid for. |
| 22 | %% ** In ''Film/TheMatrix'', he says he likes the scene with the spoon, but because he's bound by comedy show rules, shows WesternAnimation/TheTick's catchphrase. |
| 23 | ** After a nice editorial on how any director can have ups and downs at the start of Shyamalan month, he tells us “don't worry, I won't be this fair the rest of the month” before cackling evilly. |
| 24 | ** Invoked in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'', as even though he likes the movie, the film is on Nostalgia Critic, and that means inevitable destruction. |
| 25 | * AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: |
| 26 | ** In ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'', there's a random ShoutOut to ''Series/{{Friends}}'', saying “could I ''get'' any heavier foreshadowing?” |
| 27 | ** Some of his songs' lyrics fit under this trope. "The Real Chipmunks Movie" in particular has a ''lot'' of this. While he loved it, [[https://twitter.com/tonygoldmark/status/753095939540254720 even Some Jerk With A Camera]] talked about it. |
| 28 | * AccidentalInnuendo[[invoked]]: |
| 29 | ** Pointed out in his review of ''Film/TheNeverendingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia''. |
| 30 | --->'''[[BlatantLies The "Childlike" "Empress"]]:''' We must not give in to the Nasty. |
| 31 | ** Old vs. New: ''Film/TheKarateKid'': |
| 32 | --->'''Critic:''' Which is the movie that everyone {{wax| on wax off}} [[MemeticMutation off]] to? [[ThatCameOutWrong That sounded really bad]]. |
| 33 | ** When the evil aunt in ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'' says "I'll be blowed," the Critic has to do his best to ignore it because HappinessIsMandatory, and the fans of the movie will [[DisproportionateRetribution kill him if he doesn't praise it enough.]] |
| 34 | ** Old vs. New: ''Film/{{Manhunter}}'' vs. ''Film/RedDragon'': |
| 35 | --->'''Critic:''' The only thing better than a hero is an anti-hero, the person who constantly walks the line between good and evil, and these are two great nuts! (''beat'') That sounded bad. |
| 36 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Ferngully}} 2'': |
| 37 | --->'''Pips''': Boys, we've found ourselves some action! |
| 38 | --->'''Critic''': What? His ass? |
| 39 | * AccidentalMisnaming: |
| 40 | ** He frequently does this to Matthew Broderick's character in ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}''. |
| 41 | --> '''Nostalgia Critic:''' Good old Testosterone... |
| 42 | --> '''Matthew Broderick:''' It's Tatapolous. |
| 43 | --> '''Nostalgia Critic:''' Whatever. |
| 44 | ** Then: |
| 45 | ---> '''Nostalgia Critic:''' So after Mr. Tin-Man-Apolous- |
| 46 | ---> '''Matthew Broderick:''' It's Tatapolous. |
| 47 | ---> '''Nostalgia Critic:''' Whatever. |
| 48 | ** And [[RuleOfThree finally]]: |
| 49 | ---> '''Nostalgia Critic:''' So after that, we see Audrey as she comes across Mr. Teka-novan-humpa-shiar-rikki-tikki-hamster-mamster-polly-wolly-wadda-bing-bang-supercalifragilisti-knick-knack-patty-whacky-give-the-dog-a-bannana-fanna-fo-fresca-hickory-dickory-hockety-pockety-wockety-whack-angelina-francesca-the-third. |
| 50 | ---> '''Matthew Broderick:''' It's Tatapolous. |
| 51 | ---> '''Nostalgia Critic:''' Whatever. |
| 52 | ** He also can't seem to pronounce Creator/ElleFanning's name right, recurringly calling her either Ellie or Ella. |
| 53 | * AccidentalNightmareFuel: Every now and then, [[InUniverse the Critic ends up facing movies filled with this]] and ScreamsLikeALittleGirl. It's a PetPeeveTrope of his, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids especially exaggerated and misguided examples]].[[invoked]] |
| 54 | * ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Really likes these, putting a lot of them in TBF, and talks about the trope in Underworld, saying he’s not doing the sexist thing of telling a woman to smile, but any notion of joy would help him relate to all the characters more. |
| 55 | * ActorAllusion: [[invoked]] In his review of ''Film/FreddyVsJason'', one of the horror mashups he auditions is between the {{Stringy Haired Ghost Girl}}s from ''Literature/TheRing'' and ''Film/TheGrudge''. [[Creator/DaveighChase The girl from]] ''The Ring'' wins by siccing [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Stitch]] on the girl from ''The Grudge''. |
| 56 | -->'''Critic:''' Look up [[Creator/DaveighChase the actress]], you'll get it. |
| 57 | * ActuallyPrettyFunny: The Critic does semi-grudgingly point out jokes he finds funny in otherwise terrible movies. One near the end of ''Good Burger'' even causes him to drop in shock. In other reviews, he does acknowledge when the subject matter puts in some creativity or effort. |
| 58 | %% ** Also happens when Ivan Ooze [[ThrowItIn shouts]] "''Series/TheBradyBunch [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Reunion]]''" in ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''. |
| 59 | ** He does say that Larry Miller's performance is the one funny thing in ''Chairman of the Board'' starring Carrot Top. |
| 60 | ** Inverted with a scene in ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' that contained a funny moment but dropped the funny, which caused the Critic's laughs to slowly turn into roar of anger. |
| 61 | --->'''Critic:''' You did it! You actually did it! You ruined the only funny joke in the movie you jingle balls of ass! Damn you! Damn you all to hell! |
| 62 | %% ** When Granny gets tackled in ''Film/SpaceJam''. |
| 63 | %% ** And when the reaction the gangster makes in ''Film/{{Steel}}'' when the grenade falls in front of him. |
| 64 | %% ** ''Film/RichieRich'' gets both Actually Pretty Funny and Actually Pretty badass. The former is a double, consecutive one during the vault scene, while the latter is at the "take a seat" scene. |
| 65 | %% ** The "Smooth Criminal" music video in ''Moonwalker.'' |
| 66 | ** Lampshaded in his review of ''Film/{{Junior}}'', where he brings in WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer to help him look for a funny joke somewhere in the movie. She does manage to find one...eventually. |
| 67 | ** In his review of ''WesternAnimation/ThePagemaster'' he complains about all of the [[HurricaneOfPuns bad book-related puns]] but he thinks the pick up line Adventure says to Fantasy is funny. |
| 68 | --->'''Adventure''': Would you like to curl up with a good book? *gets slapped by Fantasy* |
| 69 | --->'''Critic''': Okay, Give them a point for a funny line. |
| 70 | ** In ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise'', when the film's antagonist makes a dramatic speech and evil laugh only for it to be interrupted by his farting a second later, the Critic does wind up laughing a little and admits he's impressed that it was able to make him laugh at a fart joke. Unfortunately, it then tries reusing it again later, and his reception for it being reused is less than pleased. Though he laughs again when the villain manages to laugh without farting, only to fart ''after'' he finished. |
| 71 | ** In ''Film/ErnestScaredStupid'', he laughs at a cut-away where Ernest's teacher says that he never knew when to quit, prompting the Critic to show a "funny scenes count". |
| 72 | ** Despite his intense disdain for ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPlutoNash'', he does give credit to a blink-and-you'll-miss-it gag where the main character punches and breaks a mirror thinking it's his evil clone and the clone immediately punches him from behind the mirror afterwards. He makes the point, however, that despite one funny joke, the movie is still absolutely terrible. |
| 73 | %% ** ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'' is so charming that, in his words, "I want it to kiss me and carry me off to a castle". |
| 74 | * AdamWesting: In ''The Review Must Go On'', several Channel Awesome members appear as... ''versions'' of their real life personas. |
| 75 | ** [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Lewis Lovhaug]] gives Doug reasonable advice, but then insists that his characters, Vegas Lounge Singer Harvey Finevoice and RobotBuddy Pollo are real. [[spoiler: He's shown treating an inanimate Pollo and a pair of homemade [[Series/DoctorWho Cybermats]] like they were real even though they don't respond. Oddly, [[Franchise/PowerRangers Astro Megaship]] actually ''can'' talk, but no one cares what it thinks.]] |
| 76 | ** [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Lindsay Ellis]] suggests strongly that Doug stand by his decision for his own integrity and not because she's been trying to fill the Nostalgia Critic's niche, having had his blessing and the "Nostalgia monopoly" granted to her by Critic in her ''Film/CutthroatIsland'' review. [[spoiler: Then she sends [[ButtMonkey Nella]] to kill him. Except Nella gets confused and simply drives up to him, advises him to not revive the Nostalgia Critic, and drives off. For double confusion points, she actually does this to Doug's brother Rob, and not Doug himself.]] |
| 77 | ** Creator/BradJones immediately declares he doesn't care about any of it and hangs up on Doug mid-sentence. [[spoiler:In a Stinger, he demands to know when Doug is reviving [[OldShame Melvin, Brother of the Joker]].]] |
| 78 | * AdaptationDisplacement[[invoked]]: |
| 79 | ** Doug's never read the book of ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'', because he keeps forgetting that there ever ''was'' a book. |
| 80 | ** The Critic seems to have no knowledge of the ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' comics. Doug does, however, as evidenced by his own review of ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever''. |
| 81 | ** In a bit of {{irony}} (because he totally admits that he almost never reads the books the movies are based on, not even The Hobbit), Barnes and Noble got Doug to appear at one of their events talking about books like ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'' and ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead''. He announces this at the end of “Top 11 Movie Trailers”, and even he seems a little confused as to why they wanted him. |
| 82 | ** A plot point in the Phantom review, as Beth is disappointed that nobody but her appreciates the original book. |
| 83 | ** He expresses annoyance that the book of The Jungle Book had themes of wanting to belong but stand out, but Disney made it the funny monkey movie. |
| 84 | ** Discussed with ''Film/TheMummy1999'' (the Brendan Frasier movie) taking the place in modern pop culture over [[Film/TheMummy1932 the original 1930s film]]. |
| 85 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: |
| 86 | ** In his review of the ''Bebe's Kids'' video game. |
| 87 | -->'''Critic''': This game is a bucket of BALLS! |
| 88 | ** In his review of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster''. |
| 89 | -->'''Critic''': "Anything was better than watching this piss-poor putrid pixelated pile of pig shit!" |
| 90 | ** Devil Boner gets one in "Old Vs New Cinderella": "I need to bury my bullets in the body of a bastardized '''bitch!'''" |
| 91 | * ADogNamedDog: In Hyper's Q&A, she says all her cats are named Cat because she loves them too much to label them. |
| 92 | * AdvertisedExtra: Before ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', there was a lot of [[https://twitter.com/TamaraLChambers/status/645417552252936192 “Hyper's]] [[https://www.facebook.com/hyperfangirl/posts/512725622222702 Back!”]], but she's only in the review for a few minutes, and Critic literally calls her “[[LampshadeHanging punchline!”]] |
| 93 | ** It's commonplace for the Instagram account to promote the new review by showing the cast in outfits for a sketch, whether they be recurring characters, one-shot characters, or parodies of pop culture. Usually these are only present in the episode for a quick gag. |
| 94 | * AdvertisingCampaigns: As of November 2021 the Critic has done twelve specials looking at 80s ads -- ''Nostalgic Commercials!'', ''Return of Nostalgic Commercials'', ''Revenge of the Commercials'', ''Dawn of the Commercials'', ''Rise of the Commercials'', ''Conquest of the Commercials'', ''Battle of the Commercials'', ''War of the Commercials'', ''Escape from the Commercials'', ''Planet of the Commercials'', ''Curse of the Commercials'', and ''Commercials Resurrection'' - AKA "After These Messages...", "We'll Be Right Back...", "[[LuckyCharmsTitle !]]", "The Fourth One", "[[Film/HighlanderIITheQuickening The Quickening]]", "Ehenzeeahneh", "Like You Give a Shit", "Just Go!", "Do It!", "This Episode Brought to You by Commercials!", "You Know the Drill!", and "We Good? Okay.". He also did an editorial in December 2016 about the twelve best Christmas commercials. |
| 95 | * AffectionateParody: |
| 96 | ** The "Boring" song from his ''Junior'' review seems to owe a lot to the hallucination scene from ''[[WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead Beavis and Butt-head Do America]]'', with an equally trippy, guitar-laden backing tune ("Phantoms" by American space-rock band "Paik", to be precise). |
| 97 | ** Also, the end of his review of his ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'' review there is a direct parody of the end of ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''. |
| 98 | ** The end of ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' is a direct nod to ''Film/MaryPoppins'', complete with DrivingADesk-style superimposition upon the original footage. |
| 99 | ** Rob and Doug note that the ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' episode has some nods to Linkara's storylines, mainly that all this intense stuff is going on but the actual review still continues. |
| 100 | ** The opening and ending sequences of the ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' review are good-spirited parodies of the opening and ending from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. |
| 101 | ** The opening of Nostalgiaween 2016 is a recreation of the opening of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. |
| 102 | ** ''Film/TheWall'' review was a parody of the film in question, including fascists, love letter-y (Doug’s words) critical songs and DerangedAnimation. |
| 103 | |
| 104 | * AlasPoorVillain: Ever since the beginning of Critic, his mother has always been portrayed as abusive in every way. But when he gets a call about her death in ''Jurassic Park III'', and reacts stuttering and heartbroken, she's a lot more humanized. |
| 105 | * AlasPoorYorick: In the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'' review after the titular characters speak. Doug actually improvised the speech, surprising his friends and Rob. |
| 106 | * AlcoholInducedIdiocy: While hilarious, Doug and Rob get so smashed in the ''Film/KangarooJack'' first viewing (Rob spends most of it on the floor, Doug collapses on the couch a couple of times, they’re both shouty and slurred words and Rob eggs on Doug to give a blowjob to the bottle) that a sober Doug has to explain what happened in the beginning video. |
| 107 | -->'''Rob''': [at the end] do you remember how to turn the camera off? |
| 108 | -->'''Doug''': probably not! |
| 109 | * AlcoholIsGasoline: Inverted in one of Hyper Fangirl's vlogs, where she says her boyfriend [[TestosteronePoisoning Devil Boner]] drinks straight gasoline to get drunk. |
| 110 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: |
| 111 | ** Noted seriously in ''Tangled vs Frozen'', as girls who like Edward ''or'' Jacob are probably doomed to crappy relationships. |
| 112 | ** In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', Beth is with NiceGuy Tim (irl too), but develops a bit of StockholmSyndrome for the “fandumb of the opera” and is in love with the book version of the Phantom because of his tragedy. Even Critic acknowledges that the character is “psychologically sexy”. |
| 113 | * AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Gleefully invoked by Doug in the ''Christmas Story II'' behind the scenes, as his flirty poses make Rob uncomfortable to the point where he jokes he can't enjoy Catholic Schoolgirl anime anymore, and Malcolm even notes that he's surprisingly natural at the cheerleader moves. Out of universe it turned into "All Girls Want Men In Cheerleader Uniforms", as there is plenty of cheerleader Critic fanart both safe for work and… not. |
| 114 | * AllThereInTheManual: |
| 115 | ** In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', while Critic takes the focus away in the former and the song starts later in the latter, “[[https://sharkjumping.bandcamp.com/track/hyper-fangirl Hyper Fangirl]]” and the start of “[[https://sharkjumping.bandcamp.com/track/wishing-that-this-sh-never-happened Wishing This Shit Never Happened]]” provides insight for why she keeps hanging around and gives a reason why she's so fixated on Critic. |
| 116 | ** If you don't watch Sibling Rivalry, Real Thoughts or even the vlogs, you can sometimes miss the context or more detail of scenes in Critic. For example, a lot of his points in ''Ghostbusters'' for example, both positive and negative, were explained in more detail in the Sibling Rivalry and WebVideo/AwesomeComics reviews. |
| 117 | ** In-video, all that was shown of Hyper Boner's wedding party was Benny as Best Man and Critic as maid of honor, but extra media has Tamara as their wedding planner, Bill filming the wedding and Doug as the photographer. |
| 118 | * AllJustADream: The end of the [[spoiler:''Series/FullHouse'' review]], which turns out to be a [[spoiler:DreamWithinADream]], which turns out to be a [[spoiler:Dream Within A Dream Within A Dream, [[OverlyLongGag which then turns out to be A Dream Within A Dream Within A Dream Within A Dream, which turns out to be A Dream Within...]]]] |
| 119 | ** Alternately, the end of the [[spoiler:''Kazaam'' review, where the film never truly existed and the Critic mistakenly is poorly reviewing the DVD of ''Citizen Kane'' in its place.]] |
| 120 | ** [[SeriesFauxnale The Scooby Doo review]] is also implied to be this. After his HeroicSacrifice, he wakes up and is invited by Rob ([[RunningGag he's a dinosaur]]) to play poker with WebVideo/EightiesDan and TheGrimReaper, finally deciding to move on in his life. |
| 121 | ** Film/SurfNinjas is revealed to be this, but the entire review is an OutOfCharacterAlert seeing as the critic is only overly positive and lauding the film for how "good" it is. |
| 122 | ** Film/ThatDarnCat’s review, with darker-than-normal jokes about Mario brothers being rapists, Tamara in love with her cat, Malcolm collecting skeletons and it all just being a promo for Snob’s movie, is just a dream from Lloyd. |
| 123 | * AllMenArePerverts: |
| 124 | ** He, Bhargav, Rob and another guy go wild over a MudWrestling CatFight in "Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation". |
| 125 | ** In the ''Film/DemolitionMan'' behind the scenes, there's jokes made about Tamara banging the monkey (she's sleeping on it and strokes it with the gavel to clarify) and she snarks “working with boys”. Doug [[TakeThat responds]] that if you work with girls they talk about you behind your back. |
| 126 | ** In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', Tamara gets creeped out at Malcolm and Critic wanting to recreate ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' with her. This doesn't go to AllWomenArePrudes though, as she was fine with it until she found out she had to be one getting abused. |
| 127 | ** Even the supposed fetishy elements in ''Film/SmallSoldiers'' aside, the review of the film seems to have sex on the brain, with thinking Alan has a vibrator in his bag, referencing Kirsten Dunst as TheJailbaitWait, obsessing over the dolls being sexualized (though to his credit he's creeped out), and having a sketch where the director is clearly being interpreted as a pedophile. |
| 128 | ** He has an annoyed shipper moment in X-Men 2 of all the women suddenly wanting Wolverine (not that he doesn’t want Wolverine himself) and asks why Jackman didn’t complain, but then assumes he was happy with three women in total on top of him. |
| 129 | * AlmostHoldingHands: The Nostalgia Critic tries to hold The Nostalgia Chick's hand in their awkward date, but chickens out and looks as if he's about to cry. |
| 130 | * AlmostKiss: |
| 131 | ** Twice between Hyper and Critic in ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries II''. First time is stopped for her to say she's never been so happy in her whole life, and second is interrupted by Benny foiling her plan. Note that both times Critic looks like he wants to be anywhere else, [[CaptiveDate for obvious reasons]]. |
| 132 | ** At the end of ''Freddy vs Jason'', Snyder and Bay nearly kiss each other before chickening out. Luckily the next time they appear they've had a FusionDance, so they must have dealt with their closeted issues offscreen. |
| 133 | ** At the end of the Fury Road behind the scenes, Doug and Rob jokingly nearly kiss each other. |
| 134 | * AllWomenAreLustful: He thinks the villain's voice in ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsMovie'' was a result of her getting oral (he then proceeds to act this out), while we also get this line from ''Film/ShortCircuit'': |
| 135 | -->'''Critic''': It's like a mix between a vibrator and a man who can't get me pregnant. This is every woman's dream come true! |
| 136 | ** Most of Tamara's characters, either one-shot or recurring, are sexually interested in Critic or some other Doug character, who a lot of the time (especially with Hyper) don't feel the same. She lampshaded this on her tumblr (after ''Fury Road'' where both Curiosa and Hyper are attracted to Devil Boner), saying that all her characters end up falling in love with a Doug persona. |
| 137 | ** Aiyanna, Heather and Tamara were all delighted to have Doug dress up as them in the Awesome Stream sketch Aiyanna directed. |
| 138 | * AlternateCatchphraseInflection: The Critic usually opens his videos in either a nonchalant or cheerful tone with the line "Hello, I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so you don't have to." Sometimes the video is unusual and he says it excitedly or angrily or doesn't say it at all. |
| 139 | * AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: {{Invoked|Trope}} multiple times. |
| 140 | ** The Critic thinks Barry from ''Film/{{Sidekicks}}'' is schizophrenic. He also believes ''everyone'' in ''Drop Dead Fred'' is insane, especially the main character in her interactions with her ImaginaryFriend. It makes a lot more sense if you see it as a horror movie (not least because it fails as a comedy). |
| 141 | ** And apparently, WesternAnimation/{{Casper|TheFriendlyGhost}} is psychotic! |
| 142 | --->"''TIMING!''" |
| 143 | ** He says that Bella of ''Twilight'' infamy could actually have made a fairly good Shakespeare villain if her actions were intentional. |
| 144 | *** In a later video about the series, he notes that because the idea of "imprinting" is so poorly explained, he thought that Jacob chose Renesmee as his future mate so the other wolves wouldn't harm her, or through some sort of scrying power saw the future and knew that she would grow up to be his perfect match. |
| 145 | ** Presents Sonny, the mascot of Cocoa Puffs cereal, as having gotten addicted to the cereal as a result of his grandfather constantly feeding it to him, then trying to live a normal life once his grandfather vanished, but continuously tempted by kids who offer him more cereal. |
| 146 | ** For his ''Film/MilkMoney'' review, he believes that Frank was traumatized by the experiences of the movie, grew up in complete social awkwardness, changed his name, moved to San Francisco and became Denny from ''Film/{{The Room|2003}}''. |
| 147 | ** According to the Critic, Rob Reiner made his infamously bad movie ''Film/{{North}}'' because he wanted to [[VacationDearBoy take vacations all over the world and still get paid]]. |
| 148 | ** NC is convinced that Bronx from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' is actually a Gargoyle with special needs, and everyone just lets him pretend he's a dog. |
| 149 | ** He interprets Santa of ''Film/SantaClausTheMovie'' as a mostly unwilling slave to the elves. |
| 150 | ** He also interprets the old man at the beginning of ''Rad'' as being grumpy because he killed a family in WWII and contracted PTSD. |
| 151 | ** [[spoiler: Past Critic]] keeps calling [[spoiler: Present Critic]] a "narc" in the "Scooby Doo" review. |
| 152 | ** He says that Winchell, the evil kid from ''Film/{{North}}'', is actually a young Dick Cheney. |
| 153 | ** In his ''Film/PearlHarbor'' review, he portrays Michael Bay as "the Son of Schlock", a Jesus-like figure sent to the Earth by God to make some of the most awful yet somehow successful movies of all time. |
| 154 | ** He also theorizes that Bay's movies are filmed with excessive slow-motion, close ups and low angled shots because Bay is trying to film everything like it's porn. |
| 155 | ** He believes that Jimmy from ''Film/TheWizard'' grew up to be WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd. |
| 156 | ** Film/MrMagoo is actually [[ObfuscatingDisability pretending to be blind]] and is really a violent psychopath. |
| 157 | ** In his ''Film/JurassicPark'' review he theorizes that Creator/{{Steven Spielberg}}'s excessive use of spotlights pointed against the camera stems from some bizarre sexual fetish. |
| 158 | ** Mrs. Mavilda from ''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree'' suffers from multiple personality disorder and the Mayor, from the same movie, is a traumatized, flashback-prone Vietnam vet who counts money by how much of it he can fit in bags rather than by it's numerical denomination. |
| 159 | ** Duke from ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' is actually Skeletor from ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' before he lost his skin and became a living skeleton. |
| 160 | ** Jar Jar Binks was the director of ''WesternAnimation/FoodFight''. He also attributes the film to why Creator/CharlieSheen, who voices the lead character, went barmy. |
| 161 | ** A mercifully short skit portrays the director of ''Film/SmallSoldiers'' as sexually interested in sixteen year old Kirsten Dunst, and having a bondage fetish. |
| 162 | ** In his review of ''Film/{{Airborne}}'' he believes that the protagonist, Mitchel, has a surfboard fetish. |
| 163 | ** Zack Snyder and Michael Bay are in the closet (either gay or bisexual) and use a load of MaleGaze to try and compensate. Nicer than it sounds. |
| 164 | ** The [[https://youtu.be/Jad77nHSmbw ending animation]] of ''[[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas]]'' suggests that Penny [[spoiler: is [[EvilGenius a maniacal genius]] who [[EvilAllAlong was plotting to take over the world this whole time]] and created Gadget and MAD to fight each other to distract the government while she slowly took over]]. |
| 165 | * AmusinglyAwfulAim: The Critic accuses General Esperanza's entire battalion of being guilty of this trope in his review of ''Film/{{Commando}}''. |
| 166 | -->Look at this -- it's an entire army and they can't stop this one guy. How hard is it to hit one giant Austrian man? He's the size of a mountain! If anybody says "you can't hit the broad side of a mountain", ''this is the mountain they're talking about!'' |
| 167 | * AnachronismStew: |
| 168 | ** During the ''Film/HomeAlone3'' review, The Critic pretends to be John Hughes and says that ''Home Alone 3'' is his plan to get out of screenwriting, as [[SpringtimeForHitler no director would ever think to direct it]]. He asks who would possibly want to direct it, and then mentions the guy who directed ''Beverly Hills Chihuahua'' (Raja Gosnell). Said movie wouldn't be released until 11 years after ''Home Alone 3''. |
| 169 | ** For the origin of Creator/MichaelBay subplot in the Film/PearlHarbor review, the use of smartphones... during scenes set in 1990 and the early 2000s... |
| 170 | * AnAesop: There's a few genuine ones scattered around, like "darkness should have a point", and "kids shouldn't be mistreated or their intelligence underestimated" The Hyper storyline also brings us "just because you like someone's work doesn't mean you know/are in love with them" and the ever classic no means no. |
| 171 | ** The Was That Real of Teddy Ruxpin has "sometimes the thing you were super anxious about was just in your head", which makes sense as Doug has talked a lot about having anxiety. |
| 172 | ** From the ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' review, “abusing women online is pathetic and just makes you look like less of a man." |
| 173 | ** ''Film/GreenLantern2011'' has an important message for cosplayers: just because you dress up like a character (particularly ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}) does not give you permission to act obnoxious and harass people just because it's in character. |
| 174 | ** From 2015, the Emotional Christmas Episode of the year [[note]]While The Nutcracker 3D was the emotional one of 2018, Elf Bowling was the last review[[/note]] always has some kind of RealitySubtext speech/moral line for the next year. |
| 175 | *** Christmas With The Kranks: "We're always gonna get angry at ourselves, but, as long as you always try to learn and get better, you'll find it doesn't last that long. And trust me when I say...you're definitely worth the time." |
| 176 | *** I'll Be Home For Christmas: "There'll be a lot of hate and a lot of love, use them both wisely." |
| 177 | *** Home Alone 2: "people really are kind of like movies. Some you can be around, some you can't, but they're always worth a shot." |
| 178 | *** The Nutcracker In 3D: "Just do your best and try to get inspired by those who understand it better than you." |
| 179 | *** Elf Bowling: "Whatever changes come your way, may you make the best of them." |
| 180 | *** Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause: "You've worked hard enough. Enjoy your time off. You deserve it....we ''all'' deserve it." |
| 181 | * AmicableExes: Averted, as even after they died Critic makes references to his parents divorcing and needing to stay ''far'' away from each other. |
| 182 | * AmbiguousSituation: |
| 183 | ** The beginning of every 2015 Nostalgiaween episode, where [=JonTron=] stabs Critic in a parody of ''Film/{{Halloween 1978}}''. Did it actually happen (in-universe obviously) or is Critic just hallucinating? |
| 184 | ** In ''Alaska'', people are divided between whether "I remember the last time I [mouthed off] to my dad... it really was the last time" means Critic got the shit beaten out of him or that was when his dad left. |
| 185 | * AnalysisChannel: It started out as a review show of 1980s and earlier films. In the 2010s he rebranded himself to include recent films and analysis of films. Eventually admitted it character-wise too, as for a while he didn’t want to take anything seriously, even stopping others from analyzing, but later stopped that. Still big on character and using skits to make a point, but you’d expect nothing less from him. |
| 186 | * AnimalMotifs: He's been linked to zombies twice, and for an extra bonus, the zombies in question were an allegory for depression [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2nhL9_CZiI the first time]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oge1HvXbik sexuality the second]], both of which he has issues with. And while Jack from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' is a skeleton and not a zombie, he's still dead and Critic has played him twice in big character moments. |
| 187 | %% * AndStarring: Orlando Belisle was credited this way in "You're a Dirty Rotten Bastard". |
| 188 | * AndThatsTerrible: |
| 189 | -->"Nintendo: Now, you're playing with pedophilia. And that's just wrong." |
| 190 | * AndYouWereThere: [[AmbiguousSituation May]] have been the case for ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', as he brings up obvious symbolism (before Santa Christ appears) of the 'real world' appearing in fictional, and Tamara/Malice and Malcolm/Carrot Juice have a lot of traits in common. In fact a skit starring Malcolm in the studio gets YouLookFamiliar from Critic and he instantly turns into Carrot Juice. |
| 191 | * AngerIsHealthyAesop: In his review of "I'll be Home for Christmas", the Critic is stuck with a character called D-Bag and he's an obnoxious jerk who loves to bring misery to others just to entertain himself. After enduring his actions for the entire episode, the Critic finally snaps when D-Bag tries to figure out why he hasn't gotten angry with him yet. The critic explains that he was always angry with D-Bag but didn't express it because he knew D-Bag would just revel in the attention and not learn anything from it. The critic goes on to further explain that being angry about injustices is important and good as it's the first step to making real change. At the same time, being uncontrollably angry and easily upset will lead to you being manipulated by those who want to exploit you. It should be worth noting that this episode was released in 2016 after ''UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump'' had been elected president, the election had divisive reactions from the American population and Doug Walker (who plays the Nostalgia Critic) did not support his presidency. |
| 192 | --> '''Nostalgia Critic''': (snaps) BECAUSE IT'S TOO EASY!! (pause) It's the easiest thing in the world to do! Any imbecile can hate! It's lazy!! (pause) You wanna know what takes effort? Being nice. It is so hard to be nice to some people! But what am I supposed to do? Call you a jerk over and over and over, and hope that one day, you'll wake up and go (slaps both sides of his head) "I'M CURED!" Yeah, the first million times didn't work, but the millionth and one, that was the magic number! That's what got through! How likely is that gonna happen?! And don't get me wrong, there's times when we need to be angry. We need to fight. If not, we'd be goose-stepping our way to work right now! But, it should be one of the last options, not always the first, because when you get angry, you don't think straight, and people take advantage of that. And maybe you disagree with me. Okay, fine. You know what? I'll listen. I'll listen to what you have to share. And even though so much of what you say feels wrong, I'll still keep it in my mind that you could possibly be right. Because if I'm not willing to change for you, how am I supposed to expect you to change for me? I want to be patient enough to see more how we're similar rather than fear how we're different. And you know what? It's gonna be hard. It's gonna be so hard, and I'm gonna fail a lot. Hell, I've failed a lot already, but this is the one thing I'm certain the more I do it, the better I can get at it. (sighs) I may be a screw-up, but I'm tired of being lazy. And if you're tired, too... maybe we can work on being screw-ups together. |
| 193 | * {{Angrish}}: |
| 194 | ** The Nostalgia Critic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPtR-Zjy204&NR=1 gets two]] in during a review of the ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'' when Grounder blew into his hand and one of them turns into a pumpkin: |
| 195 | --->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BksfByBxNNk What!? Pumpkin!? Buh? Pumpkin!? What!? What!? What!? Pumpkin?! What?]] |
| 196 | *** Which is [[CallBack called back]] in his review of ''The Thief and the Cobbler''. |
| 197 | ** ...and another when his buddy Scratch pulled the string on his glove and made a beautiful woman: |
| 198 | --->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2xDJPc-yaM&feature=related Wha-!?]]''' |
| 199 | ** He pulls one off where is he actually rendered unable to speak during the beginning of the ''Film/GoodBurger'' review and he is reduced to terrified whimpering. |
| 200 | ** In the middle of his review of ''Film/DropDeadFred'', he is able only to utter the word "No" repeatedly (and at various volume levels) for almost a full minute. |
| 201 | ** ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark'' reduces him to shrieking incoherent obscenities. |
| 202 | ** ''Film/{{The Room|2003}}'', after Lisa asks if Johnny is dead. He then goes into the "[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Dead Parrot]]" sketch. |
| 203 | ** ''Film/TheNeverendingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia'' review (a specific scene in particular at the end) drives the Nostalgia Critic into so much built-up {{angrish}} that he goes [[LaughingMad mad with laughter.]] [[UnstoppableRage Then he leaves the house and drives to Home Depot to buy a crowbar, and back again...]] |
| 204 | ** In ''Film/TheHaunting1999'' he goes on an epic freakout over how much he hates the film at the end for nearly two straight minutes that's really rather intense. |
| 205 | ** At the start of ''Film/AfterEarth'' instead of explaining the movie like usual when the trailer runs, he shouts "no" a lot, mixed in with other disconnected expressions of disgust. |
| 206 | ** The ''BMX Bandits'' review has Diamanda Hagan manipulate him into some angrish, literally just because it's cute to watch. |
| 207 | %% * AngryFistShake: Does this to mock how horribly a work presents something. |
| 208 | * AngstWhatAngst[[invoked]]: The Critic points out that both Calvin from ''Film/AKidInKingArthursCourt'' and Ryan in ''Film/WarriorsOfVirtue'' ignore the fact they are in different worlds with no idea what's going on. And echoing fan criticism, he also notices that Rebecca/Tacoma/Karl/Quinn are “bizarrely okay with fading into nothing” in “The Review Must Go On”. |
| 209 | * AnswersToTheNameOfGod: In ''BMX Bandits'', Critic casually thanks God for something, Diamanda Hagan tells him he's welcome, leaving him confused. |
| 210 | * {{Antiantichrist}}: Satan's daughter in the ''Son of the Mask'' review is a bubbly, happy girl due to her mother, Kim Kardashian, having her watch ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''... |
| 211 | * {{The Antichrist}}... but she gets better (er, worse... more evil) after seeing ''Son of the Mask''. Her cousin D-Bag is a straight example, having no humanity and really wanting to be hated. |
| 212 | * {{Applicability}}: |
| 213 | ** In-universe, he'll often apply fictional situations to his own (which yes, are fictional too). A notable example would be "Why Do We Love Zombies", where he segues from talking about the show to clearly real world depression and back again several times. |
| 214 | ** In “Is Tree Of Life Full Of Shit”, he discusses this personally, admitting he has no clue what ''Film/MulhollandDrive'' was about, but mostly remembers dreams, nightmares, passion for success and anxiety about failing. Same thing for ''Film/SynecdocheNewYork'', where he relates to going into a bad situation even though you know it's going to be bad, and getting older with memory fading. |
| 215 | ** One of the reasons he gives for "Are Kid Shows Now Better Than Ever" is more relatability, like ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' tackling issues like alzheimer's, or ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' portraying abandonment, anxiety, sexuality, inferiority, depression and control in ways that kids will understand as well as adults. |
| 216 | ** "What Happened To Great Disney Villains" is mostly about the trade off from visually based pure evil villains but passive heroes to relatable heroes grappling with identity (showing Elsa and Moana mainly) but less memorable villains. |
| 217 | * ArcFatigue: Referenced in-universe at the end of “The Princess Diaries 2” review, where Hyper Fangirl is shot off into the sky after Critic sinks her hopes. Benny asks Critic if they'll ever see her again, and Critic says he'll draw the arc out and bring her back if he's promised more views with her around. Sure enough she came back, though ''slowly'' gaining more CharacterDevelopment (while still being horrible) and the arc dealing with Critic's issues post-kidnapping. |
| 218 | * ArcWords: For the reboot, "illusion". There's been at least three editorials centered around it, Critic is all too aware he's getting more evil and insane, and there are multiple episodes that show the [[invoked]] RealitySubtext strings of both his own show and the circumstances of his comeback. Fittingly enough comes to a head with ''Matrix Month'', the “reality is an illusion” franchise: [[spoiler: Critic can warp his own reality because he ruins everything]]. |
| 219 | * ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: |
| 220 | ** In the behind the scenes of ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', Mr Walker teases Tamara that men who don't assault her have no taste. |
| 221 | ** In ''Film/TheWiz'', Critic is upset that Todd isn't a masked intruder about to rape him. |
| 222 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: Backfires on him beautifully when he asks Welshy if he'll just keep coming back after a couple of farewells already. Welshy literally scoffs at him and says he's one to talk. |
| 223 | * ArousedByTheirVoice: |
| 224 | ** Apparently, the Nostalgia Critic would "go ''gay''" for Creator/KeithDavid's voice. Earlier on, in ''Gargoyles'', he's jealous of the actor's (doesn't know his name yet) wife. |
| 225 | %% ** Creator/VincentPrice leaving a taped message for the critic. Especially when he say "yes." |
| 226 | ** Invoked with his rather spot-on impersonation of ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''-era Creator/TimCurry (both singing and speaking) when he does "Everyone's A Whore On Halloween". |
| 227 | ** In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' commentary, Doug says that he loves Malcolm's devil voice and Tamara's British accent, and always forgets how amazing they both sound. |
| 228 | ** At the end of ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', Hyper giggles with delight over Devil Boner's low growly "I'm whatever you want to be". |
| 229 | ** In the ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', Beth has a {{squee}} over Doug's singing voice and wishes he could have sung more as the Critic instead of HollywoodToneDeaf Fandumb. |
| 230 | ** In the IT remake review, Critic's "hello boys" entrance is a reference to Poison Ivy's entrance in "Almost Got 'im", and for want of a better word, he plays it straight. |
| 231 | ** Lloyd’s dream review of Film/ThatDarnCat casts Ike as a SexGod with a smooth voice. |
| 232 | * ArsonMurderAndAdmiration: Critic rants to Tamara at the end of ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', who just gets more and more BrokenSmile-face until he reveals what he actually wants. |
| 233 | --->'''Critic''': You are by far the craziest, nastiest, meanest, sadistic, psychotic, criminally insane, unwell, mentally ill, fucking obsessed nutjob I have ever seen in my entire life and I'm gonna do what needs to be done about it... you wanna come work for me? My views always seem to go up when I'm in pain. |
| 234 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: |
| 235 | ** Inverted in the Critic's review of ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', in which he says of the film, "Thumbs up! Five stars! Greatest adequately-satisfying movie of all time! And I ''liked'' it, too." |
| 236 | ** In Nostalgia Critic's [[MindScrew Top 11 Mindfucks]], when he is confused about one of the stages of ''VideoGame/DragonsLair II: Time Warp'': "Why is the piano flying into the air? Why is the cat breathing fire?! And...why did [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] suddenly turn into Music/EltonJohn?" |
| 237 | ** John Travolta's character in ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' is involved in "harvesting gold, torturing humans and ChewingTheScenery." |
| 238 | ** From the ''Film/EndOfDays'' review: "I mean, Creator/{{Arnold|Schwarzenegger}}'s already fought [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 savages]], [[Film/{{Commando}} terrorists]] and [[Film/{{Junior}} the horrifying threat of pregnancy]]..." |
| 239 | ** Also, during the Critic's rant about the AVGN reviewing ''Film/TheWizard'', he calls the Nerd an [[OverlyLongGag overly long list]] of [[ClusterFBomb unmentionably vulgar adjectives]] and punctuates the list with a comparatively mild insult of "asshole". This trope is more evident after the cluster F bomb establishes the contrast. This was followed by him comparing AVGN to WebVideo/TheIrateGamer, prompting a CrossesTheLineTwice style reaction from the audience. |
| 240 | ** In the review of the two ''Film/ShortCircuit'' movies, the Critic says this in regard to the functions of the robots: |
| 241 | ---> '''Nostalgia Critic''': It turns out these machines are built by Nova, as they look forward to having all the robots destroy evildoers, annihilate their enemies, and serve gin and tonics. |
| 242 | ** At the end of the review of the ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', he rants a long list of "how come"s regarding how it doesn't make sense, ending with "[[DistractedByTheSexy how come Kimberly is so hot?]]" |
| 243 | ** In ''AI'', nether TMZ or Critic seem to think that including crossdressing with sexual affairs and bigotry as "rotten stuff" is a little off. |
| 244 | ** The FreezeFrameBonus of what's wrong with America in the ''Film/TheLegendOfZorro'' review mixes important stuff like white privilege, the porn industry and crime with Michael Bay movies, Kim Kardashian/Kanye West and cat memes. |
| 245 | ** He starts off his ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'' review by listing the hardships Jewish people go through, like years of oppression, prejudiced assholes still being out there, and that said film exists. |
| 246 | * ArtifactTitle: He started out with a clear cut off date and only doing ''his'' nostalgia, but as he became an unintended LongRunner and his audience started including younger viewers who wanted him to talk about what they found nostalgic, he had to futz with the "nostalgia" part a lot, like clipless reviews can be of movies still in cinemas, but they're at least tied to nostalgic properties in some way. |
| 247 | * ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: During a high-five freeze frame during ''Monster Squad'', Rob high-fives with his gun pointing into the hand of one of the other people. |
| 248 | * ArtisticLicenseHistory: |
| 249 | ** Invoked in a joint review on ''Film/SimonSez'' with WebVideo/ObscurusLupa. The Critic compares a "snappy comeback" with a misinformed take on the famous banter between Lady Astor and UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill. [[LampshadeHanging Lupa questioned his take, and he admitted he took a few liberties.]] |
| 250 | ** In the review of ''Film/PearlHarbor'', he gives an extremely long rant about the undisciplined and unpreparedness of the American Military during the attack. What he fails to realize? It was a surprise attack, many of the people on the ships weren't only their compliment, but workers from all over the base so it makes sense that a few can't swim. Not to mention the fact he claims that the Doolittle Raid killed many civilians... when in reality only a few died (despite the fact that the targets were factories which are military targets). |
| 251 | * ArtisticLicensePhysics: In his review of ''Film/TheNeverendingStoryIITheNextChapter'', when they claim that the speed of darkness is faster than the speed of light, a picture of Einstein appears that... shall we say, calls them liars. |
| 252 | * AsiansEatPets: |
| 253 | ** In his review of ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks: The Squeakquel'', when Ian threatens to send the Chipettes to a restaurant that serves roasted chipmunk, Critic questions if it's a Korean place. |
| 254 | ** In his review of ''Film/YogiBear'', when at the end Yogi steals three picnic tables, one of which has a dog, Critic imitates Yogi and says "We're gonna eat the dog, too! Korean food tonight!" |
| 255 | * AscendedFanboy: In his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seAspGAyRJY audition]] for WebVideo/DemoReel, Malcolm Ray was ecstatic at the opportunity given when Doug sent out casting calls. After getting and playing the role of Tacoma Narrows until "The Review Must Go On", it was revealed both he and co-star Rachel Tietz were retained and are now main castmembers for the Nostalgia Critic's second run. |
| 256 | * AscendedMeme: |
| 257 | ** When ''Film/TheBatman2022'' came out, many people joked about how the white-faced gang leader looked like Doug Walker. This would later become the entire plot of the film's review, with Critic and "Comissioner" Malcolm investigating the mysterious look-alike. It even ends with Doug putting on the makeup and costume himself (and yes, the resemblance is uncanny). |
| 258 | ** The ad break during the ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'' review calls back to the “Doug Walker crying at the computer” meme, with Doug jokingly treating the meme like some cinematic masterpiece. |
| 259 | --->'''Doug:''' Yes, it’s such an achievement to have people all over the world say, [[SelfDeprecation “Who is this bald freak, and why is there always a GIF of him on my computer?”]] |
| 260 | * AsideGlance: |
| 261 | ** In ''Turbo'', after Zordon says that all kid stars know how to do is go crazy, just to be sure that the audience gets the TakeThat. |
| 262 | ** Parodied on multiple occasions such as the Film/{{Home Alone 2|Lost In New York}} and WesternAnimation/ScaryGodmother reviews, where we see the trope invoked from another person's point of view. |
| 263 | %% * AnAssKickingChristmas: Gives the quote for that page. |
| 264 | * AssShove: The FramingDevice for ''Film/EventHorizon''. The Devil put hell in Critic's ass, and at the end (wanting further suffering), he sticks a Stephen King book up there. |
| 265 | * AssPull[[invoked]]: The Critic calls out ''Film/TheNeverendingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia'' when Bastian suddenly kicks the Nasties' asses with kung fu because ...he does. |
| 266 | * AStormIsComing: Clouds and lightning start appearing behind him when he proves once more that he's TooDumbToLive and asks for ''[[TemptingFate anything]]'' so he can finish off Nick Month. |
| 267 | * AsYouKnow: |
| 268 | ** Tamara's character in ''Film/TheHappening'' parodies this trope, starting every sentence with it to reflect the film's unrealistic dialogue. |
| 269 | ** He insists multiple times that using this phrase in a movie is a sign that it's going to be bad, because it's not a good way to get out exposition, and if the person already knows, there's no reason to be saying it. |
| 270 | * AttractiveBentGender: |
| 271 | ** In the behind the scenes, whenever Doug is in girl's clothes (like the cheerleader outfit or the Winifred dress), he'll be teased for how good he looks, and Malcolm will nearly always say how bizarrely natural he acts crossdressing. Also in a later con, he said how happy he was when he saw himself as Winifred because he looked so much like Creator/BetteMidler. |
| 272 | -->'''Malcolm''': You look so pretty. |
| 273 | -->'''Doug''': Thank you! |
| 274 | ** In the ''Film/OsmosisJones'' behind the scenes, Malcolm gets complimented for looking good in drag as well, and he's appreciative. |
| 275 | ** Malcolm is attracted to Tamara as a boy when she crossdresses in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad''. |
| 276 | ** How good the three of them look crossdressing was lampshaded in the beginning of ''Film/JupiterAscending'', as Tamara says they all enjoy playing different genders. |
| 277 | ** Aiyanna's Awesome Stream had her, Heather and Tamara all helping Doug to look like them, complete with their clothing/make-up aesthetics, and were pleased with the result. He obviously had fun too. |
| 278 | * AudienceAlienatingPremise: His attempts at setting up ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest'' leads to [[TheInternetIsForPorn porn]] being looked up instead and he himself is alienated by the premise of ''Film/MilkMoney''.[[invoked]] |
| 279 | * AudienceSurrogate: Occasionally Malcolm, Rachel and Tamara (all about ten years younger than Doug and Rob) will play a downplayed surrogate of Critic's younger audience who might not know something he's referencing. Whether this ends up natural or Critic being MrExposition varies on the episode. Some more recent reviews invert the format by having the younger cast explain a fan-favorite topic that was past Doug's prime, such as the Creator/{{Toonami}} review. |
| 280 | * AudienceWhatAudience: |
| 281 | ** In ''Film/TheMatrix'', when Mr Schmuck wants Critic to explain to him why he doesn't like the film, Critic looks into the camera as he starts the review. Schmuck asks him why, and Critic admits “I don't know, it just feels right.” |
| 282 | ** Earlier in ''Disney Afternoon'', he says “DW” as initials just has a good ring to it, while Malcolm looks confused and Tamara (who is also more than knowledgeable of the fourth wall) looks disgusted. |
| 283 | ** In ''Eragon'', Malcolm and Tamara get annoyed with Critic because his eyes are talking to us, not them. |
| 284 | ** Lampshaded in "Rubber" as Malcolm asks if Critic is talking to them or the audience, and Critic chooses whatever option that makes him look clever. |
| 285 | * AuthorAppeal: The Critic's mentioned in a few videos how he prefers subtlety in shows and movies' messages. |
| 286 | ** Speaking of, any narrative show that features the Critic and ''isn't'' a review has at least one climactic fight scene, with lightning-quick punches. |
| 287 | ** More in the "bow chicka" vein of this trope, he's made his love for assertive women well known. He even wrote Rachel and Tamara as naturally dominant (though it's slightly more complicated as Critic liked breaking both of them) and Malcolm as an AmazonChaser like himself. |
| 288 | ** Also, the suggested reason why William Shatner wrote a triple-breasted feline hooker into ''Film/{{Star Trek V|The Final Frontier}}''. |
| 289 | ** Because Doug is the kind of guy who puts his clothespins on his scrotum, and wants to redo scenes where [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJWUQ77JheY&feature=youtu.be&a his balls are getting hit for real]], there's a lot more {{Groin Attack}}s in the show than there probably should be. By ''Film/DemolitionMan'' and ''Film/TheLegendOfZorro'' it's not being subtle any more and Critic is self-inflicting pain on his crotch with ElectricTorture and whipping. Amusingly, Rob said in ''Film/TheHaunting'' real thoughts that {{groin attack}}s are one of the only three things (the others being EyeScream and {{Fingore}}) that squick him out. |
| 290 | ** In 2014 alone, there were multiple instances of sex slavery[=/=]StockholmSyndrome being played for {{fanservice}}. For a few examples, ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' review had Critic being totally okay with the possibility of staying in the kitchen and being used for sex, later cons have Doug and company making gender-reversed 50 Shades references about Critic's CaptiveDate time with Hyper, his punishment in Last Angry Geek's BadFuture episode ''was'' being Snob's personal prostitute, he wants to keep his clone self for fucking at the end of the Sci-Fi Guy crossover, and Tamara plays a MsFanservice character called Miss Stockholm in the DevelopmentHell game show. Critic has even called himself Princess Peach with the amount of times he's been kidnapped, and Hyper Boner tie him up for kinks and giggles. |
| 291 | ** As demonstrated in his out-of-character vlogs and the behind the scenes vids, Doug loves bad puns. It shows with a lot of the Critic's jokes. The behind the scenes for his ''Top 11 Episodes of Avatar'' episode has him delight in the "my cab bitches!" joke while Rob and Malcolm groan. In the behind the scenes of ''Film/DemolitionMan'', Doug makes one pun about the pink handcuffs and Rob tells him to "shut the fuck up". |
| 292 | ** Noticed in the AVGN movie, as he says “there's more people bound up in the film than ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey''”. |
| 293 | ** Doug's pointed out in many a behind the scenes video that everyone crossdresses in the studio (him most of all, though Malcolm is gaining) and how great it is. Also lampshaded positively in "The Third Titanic Movie" where Tamara wants to play Marilyn Monroe but Critic and Malcolm tell her that because it's the Nostalgia Critic, Malcolm would wear the dress. And then there's ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' where he dismisses Tamara's crossdressing cos ''everyone'' does that on his show and it's fun. |
| 294 | ** In their vlog for "Carpet Diem", Doug says he really loves bodyswap episodes and Rob teases it might be because he's actually female. |
| 295 | * AuthorTract: |
| 296 | ** He points out that his reasons for disliking a part in Film/DunstonChecksIn with several people in getting wet, as well as ''Mr. Magoo'' (both [[WesternAnimation/MrMagoo the cartoon]] and [[Film/MrMagoo the film]]) is because there isn't comedic suffering, which Doug Walker is well-known for including in his CreatorThumbprint. |
| 297 | ** In the 2011/2012 days, rants about gay stereotypes, misgendering people and sexist matters happened with more frequency. |
| 298 | ** “Nostalgia Critic Talks Transformers 4”, which is less of a review, and more the critic ranting for twelve minutes about the ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' and the people who watch them. |
| 299 | ** Both ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'' and ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' have a ''lot'' of speeches given to strawly corrupt executives about how pandering doesn't work and the books are timeless. |
| 300 | ** In the reboot he's gone on several rants about how any franchise needs to change and challenge itself and try new things, but they got stopped by executives manipulating the audience into milking up the same old crap and not being able to handle anything new. The ''Kranks'' review confirmed what people had suspected for a while; that he's talking about himself/CA as well. |
| 301 | * AvoidTheDreadedGRating: ''Film/{{Casper}}'' was mocked for its brief usage of salty language: "We gotta get that '''''damn''''' PG rating somehow." Discussed more in "Does PG mean anything anymore", mostly talking about G rated films like Snow White or The Lion King dealt with harsh topics in a clever way because they had to work around the rating, and they should be appreciated instead of "one edgy joke to make it PG". |
| 302 | * AwfulTruth: Referenced in “Why Lie About Santa”, where he talks about having things figured out, and then being told something that destroyed his perception of reality and made him feel scared of what's next. |
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| 306 | * BadassInANiceSuit: Satan, ever since the show returned. Unsurprising, since it's the same suit [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Alucard]] wears in Brazil, and Music/MarilynManson wore in the 1990s. That suit seems to be the go-to for "satanic badass." |
| 307 | * BadBadActing: In the ''Film/MoulinRouge'' review, after a lot of very good breakdown, he shoots Music/{{Brentalfloss}} "for a sad ending" and acts ridiculous to parody Christian's crying that sounded more like laughter. |
| 308 | ** As Turl Spoony found out, he's horrible at acting angry when he doesn't actually feel the emotion. |
| 309 | * BadPowersBadPeople: In ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' review, [[BloodKnight Critic]] can summon explosions at will, [[CuteAndPsycho Tamara]] has SuperStrength and can lay waste to buildings, and [[ControlFreak Malcolm]] can turn anything into a video game character. Luckily for the world, they just sit around and do nothing. |
| 310 | * BaitAndSwitch: |
| 311 | ** An important one in the Reloaded Kickassia review. Critic starts off swooning about how the PlotHole is a "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CItRyDt6whs purgatory of hell]]", but then his butler comes to give him a drink and he's forced to admit he's having a great time. |
| 312 | ** His ''Film/OsmosisJones'' review began with the Critic gushing about a brilliantly written animated feature about the inside workings of the human body: ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut''. |
| 313 | ** In ''Rising Tides Crashing Skies'', he admits that the PoliticalOvercorrectness-bashing ''When Does A Joke Go Too Far'' was intentionally done before ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' to get [=MRAs=] looking foolish (as they agreed with 'people get too offended' in the former but then got offended themselves). |
| 314 | ** Both the audience and Critic assumes the teenager in the X-Men movie review is at least related to Aunt Despair and Uncle Lies, not Cliff but someone new, but it turns out they’re more evil/petty than thought and kidnapped Mr T’s son, letting Critic get the blame/beatdown. |
| 315 | ** It turns out in Home Alone 2 that Aunt Despair and Uncle Lies (abusive awful Republicans) are the ones who think homeless people deserve support, while Chester and Doe (good left-wingy parents, homeless themselves) think there’s too many hand outs. Even Critic is surprised. |
| 316 | * BaitAndSwitchComment: A thing for him to do is to repeat some idiot action from the movie he's watching in apparent SarcasmMode, but then finish it off in SincerityMode with an added how it went wrong for him. For example: |
| 317 | -->'''Critic''': Yeah, I remember acting like a monkey in ''eighth grade''... God, I was pitied. |
| 318 | * BaitAndSwitchLesbians: Much like the HaveIMentionedIAmGay stuff from ''Film/TheHaunting1999'', ''Film/AlienResurrection'''s teasing between Winona Ryder and Sigourney Weaver gets on his nerves because it was just there to get teen boys excited and the only result is a male/male kiss played for laughs. |
| 319 | * BalloonOfDoom: In his review of the ''[[Film/It1990 It]]'' miniseries, the Nostalgia Critic frequently comments on how he does not find the balloons scary. That is, until a sentient balloon with hyper-realistic eyes begins stalking him, and at the end of the review seemingly murders him. The killer balloon would become a cameo character in the Nostalgia Critic's various Halloween specials in later years. |
| 320 | * BarbaricBully: Doug specifically calls this trope out in his "Doug's Top 10 WORST Cliches" video, where it's #1 on the list. As he points out, such characters are practically never interesting or even ''entertaining'', and have little to no depth because they never actually seem to enjoy their bullying--just doing it because they're evil. |
| 321 | %% * BathtubScene: Interesting that in all the [[ShowerOfAngst Showers of Angst]] on Website/ChannelAwesome, he was the only one to be half naked. |
| 322 | * BattleCouple: Hyper and Devil Boner are an evil (but adorable) version, with him being violently protective of her, her calling the shots, and when he goes to war in Jamaica, she totally supports him. |
| 323 | * BeatWithoutABut: In "Commercial Resurrection," Critic caps off his review of the creepy stretchable toys by remarking, "It's pretty sick and demented, but... Nope, that's all I've got." |
| 324 | * BetterIfNotBornPlot: A ChristmasEpisode of showed him what life would have been if he never became the critic, which showed amongst other things Linkara as the owner of both Marvel and [=DC=] Comics, Angry Joe as President of the United States and Spoony as the Nostalgia Critic himself and beloved by all trolls, including Douchey [=McNitpick=]. |
| 325 | * BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Parodied and PlayedForLaughs in ''Fantastic Four'', where Tamara's the Brawn (flexing her muscles and getting SuperStrength), Malcolm's the brains (getting to turn anyone he doesn't like into a video game character) and Critic's the beauty, getting the tightest skimpiest outfit and the camera being right in between his legs in long shots. |
| 326 | * BeautyEqualsGoodness: |
| 327 | ** He takes ''Film/BabesInToyland'' to task for the wedding message of "only pretty should marry pretty and ugly people are evil". |
| 328 | ** Subverted in ''Fantastic Four'', as Critic {{spoof aesop}}s that they were inspired by the movie to be attractive assholes in tight clothes and do nothing to help humanity. |
| 329 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'' behind the scenes, Doug makes such a point of making Hyper look as messy and unwashed as possible that even Rob and Malcolm call him out on it. Fixed in ''Film/FreddyvsJason'' where she's still evil but boyfriend Devil Boner thinks she's stunning. |
| 330 | * BeautyIsNeverTarnished: He's amused by the fact that the Robocop in 2014 actually has a better face after being burned, and wishes his car would blow up so he could get clearer skin. |
| 331 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: |
| 332 | ** At the end of his ''Kazaam'' review, he wishes that the movie never existed, causing it to disappear, and his review to turn into a review explaining why ''Film/CitizenKane'' is the worst movie of all time. |
| 333 | ** At the end of ''Dawn Of The Commercials'', Angry Joe wants to do ''Film/ManOfSteel'' with Critic, but gets mocked and condescended to [[note]]Doug even apologized for making him a StrawCharacter in the commentary[[/note]] the entire episode. |
| 334 | ** The astronaut in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' likes the idea of reboots because then all her favorite childhood shows can be shown on the big screen, but has a breakdown when she sees the trailer poster for ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015''. |
| 335 | *** Lampshaded at the start, when [=YouTube=] comments want him to do a parody of ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers''. He does! While mocking everything about himself and addressing every flaw about his show that he hadn't done in Matrix Month (which is why the problems with the skits aren't mentioned). |
| 336 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: When he's talking about how good Stand By Me is, he discusses friendship made through having nobody else, and how you want to return the favor no matter how troubled that person might be. |
| 337 | * BearsAreBadNews: The Critic's HalloweenSpecial shows the Critic giving a negative review of Toys/TeddyRuxpin. Teddy retaliates by coming to life -- ''without'' his tape -- and trying to ''kill'' the Critic, if he doesn't review him positively. |
| 338 | -->'''The Critic:''' Just answer me one thing: what the hell are you?\ |
| 339 | '''Teddy Ruxpin:''' You ''really'' want to know?\ |
| 340 | ''(Critic nods)\ |
| 341 | '''Teddy Ruxpin:''' ''(voice turns demonic, [[RedEyesTakeWarning eyes turns red]])'' I'M THE DEVIL!!!\ |
| 342 | ''(Critic [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl screams his head off]]) |
| 343 | * BeneathSuspicion: In ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'', all it takes is fifteen minutes of them not being around for Critic to forget that Tamara and Malcolm have been brainwashed and are going to hurt him. |
| 344 | * BeneathTheMask: Beneath the preaching, ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'' did this for both Black Willy Wonka and Critic. For all his hate of the film and speechifying against pandering, Critic still wants all the money for himself and isn't happy to realize that he's designed as nerd-girl bait like the Once-ler is, and for all Willy Wonka's aesops, he's still a killer who made a bad movie. |
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| 356 | * BestialityIsDepraved: |
| 357 | ** In ''AI'' poor Rachel has to stumble in an alleyway, zip up her pants, wipe her mouth and compliment an offscreen goat on "being amazing". |
| 358 | ** In the real review of ''Congo'', Doug makes a quick joke about being on the receiving end of a hippo in ''that'' way. |
| 359 | * BetterByADifferentName[[invoked]]: ''Film/BarbWire'' was this to the Critic, [[SerialNumbersFiledOff back when it was called]] ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''. |
| 360 | * SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds: In "Is Weird The New Brilliant", he discusses this InUniverse about ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' and ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', detailing how they're sold as "teenage boy having adventures" but are far deeper than that. |
| 361 | * BeYourself: Subverted in “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”, as Tamara complains that Critic should celebrate Christmas however he wants, but is terrified along with Malcolm at the... extent of his Christmas joy. |
| 362 | * BigDamnHeroes: In “Top 11 Best Avatar Episodes”, Dante Basco keeps on throwing fireballs at a whimpering stuck Critic, but Malcolm comes in to save him. Subverted when Critic makes him TheBait and he winds up enflamed on the ceiling. |
| 363 | * TheBigDamnKiss: After a lot of NoHuggingNoKissing, Hyper Boner touch lips at the wedding. |
| 364 | * BigFancyHouse: Both houses that belonged to the Walker boys are as gorgeous, huge and prettily decorated as each other. |
| 365 | ** Averted with Doug's marriage house however, as while it's pretty, it's mostly used for a creepy lonely atmosphere, some examples being ''WesternAnimation/FoodFight'', ''Film/SonOfTheMask'' and obviously TRMGO. |
| 366 | ** Hyper got a huge house (with a lot of land and a lake by it) from Joe Dante when she found out what he did with barbies in his private time. In the commentary, Doug said he chose the place cos it's so gorgeous and Critic with GoldDigger eyes would almost fall into the trap. |
| 367 | * BigLippedAlligatorMoment[[invoked]]: His joint review of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ferngully}}'' with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick is The TropeNamer. The review itself ends on a BLAM with the Chick playing the accordion while the Critic dances. |
| 368 | ** NC's ''Junior'' review features a "boring" song that has nearly nothing to do with the review. After the song ends, he even [[LampshadeHanging asks for the BLAM graphic]] to be brought up. |
| 369 | ** The final clip from his Top 11 Villains review; he reveals why he's having trouble getting reviews out on time; ''his computer is haunted. By Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}.'' |
| 370 | --->'''Critic:''' Now it's going to say, "Excuse me, this is the Ghostbusters, isn't it?"\ |
| 371 | '''Dana Barrett:''' Excuse me, this is the Ghostbusters, isn't it?\ |
| 372 | '''Critic:''' "Yes, it is; can I help you?"\ |
| 373 | '''Janine Melnitz:''' Yes, it is; can I help you?\ |
| 374 | '''Critic:''' '''''You see?!''''' |
| 375 | ** The gist of the ''Top 11 Most Awkward Creator/ChristopherWalken Moments''. |
| 376 | ** The Critic's review of ''Film/{{Flubber}}'' has an overly long BLAM scene that he can't even bring himself to completely say it. |
| 377 | --->''"A big-lipped--oh god I'm bored..."'' |
| 378 | ** During the Film/Catwoman2004 review, one of the Catwomen shows up out of nowhere riding a [[Franchise/{{Dune}} Sandworm]]. The worm goes back underground, and it's never brought up again. |
| 379 | ** In the middle of ''The Swan Princess'', an alligator, remarkably similar to the one from ''All Dogs Go To Heaven'', appears. The Critic calls out "Big-Lipped Alligator Stealing". |
| 380 | %% Actual examples apart from when called out by the Critic belong in YMMV. |
| 381 | * BigNo: During the ''Film/ShortCircuit'' Nostalgia Critic review. |
| 382 | ** Also happens when the Critic sees Creator/RichardRoundtree in ''Film/{{Steel}}''. |
| 383 | ** Also when the Critic discovers that ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' really exists. |
| 384 | ** He even list this trope at number 4 during his "Top 11 Coolest Cliches", citing that it's essentially all of drama condensed into one word. |
| 385 | ** Once again during the beginning of his [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTheTitanic OTHER Animated Titanic Movie]] review. And the ending, [[spoiler:when he discovers a third]]. (both "NO!" directly taken from ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/RevengeOfTheSith'') |
| 386 | ** Screams [[RuleOfThree three]] [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl particularly high-pitched ones]] after discovering that he is to review an ''[[Film/TheAvengers1998 Avengers]]'' movie different from [[Film/TheAvengers2012 the one he was expecting]]. |
| 387 | ** When Malice in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' gets his home videos, he lunges screaming this, but then she holds up her knife and he whimpers not to hurt him. |
| 388 | * BigScrewedUpFamily: Critic’s family includes Ask That Guy, parents he drew as monsters and a lot of lines about drunk or homophobic relatives. There’s also the sweater family which is Ask That Guy BackFromTheDead, his wife, Hyper and some poor children (at least Bum Jr is happier with Chester and Doe). |
| 389 | * BigShutUp: Rob has done it to Doug a few times when he wants to be the only one talking or Doug's made a particularly bad pun. |
| 390 | * BigWhat: Repeatedly screams this after seeing one particularly hideous grocer from ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'', leading to the BaitAndSwitch moment mentioned above. |
| 391 | * BilingualDialogue: During the ''Top 11 Most Awkward Creator/ChristopherWalken Moments'', he imagines the [[TheUnintelligible screaming]] [[Film/SleepyHollow1999 Headless Horseman]] at a Taco Bell drive-thru. |
| 392 | * BitingTheHandHumor: |
| 393 | ** He frequently takes shots at the advertisements that he allows on his videos, usually lampshading and insulting their presence at the halfway transition. It fails if the ads don't play at the halfway point, however, and in the ''Maximum Overdrive'' review, he fakes out the audience with a made-up ad with a "skip" button moving away from reach. |
| 394 | ** As well as SelfDeprecation, the ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' review snips at Michaud for milking all he can out of the Critic. |
| 395 | ** The 2016 ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' Nostalgiaween opening replaces the Mystery Shack with Channel Awesome studios falling apart. |
| 396 | ** In Doug/Rob/Malcolm's Anime Midwest 2015 panel, Lindsay did a "I Quit" joke (because she had quit CA a few months earlier) and referenced Allison being fired. Malcolm did an "ooh burn" noise and Doug hugged her. |
| 397 | ** In ''TMNT 2'', he lampshades that while he has many other character qualities, his ''marketable'' characteristic is "asshole". |
| 398 | ** In ''Garfield'' behind the scenes, Malcolm finds a wheelchair that Doug/Rob think Michaud brought on, and it devolves into "Mike stole a wheelchair and is implicating all of us in the crime". |
| 399 | * BittersweetEnding: The end of To Boldly Flee. Just... just watch it. Also ''Film/ScoobyDoo'', the video that was meant to his finale and lead into WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee. Critic is still very sad, but puts the job that makes him miserable aside and plays a poker game with his friends who tell him he was always welcome. |
| 400 | ** Really more bitter than sweet, because the only positive thing to come out of ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' is that Critic still really loves the franchise. When you weigh up that against failing all the episode, getting mind raped by Shyamalan, blood-bended by a vengeful Rachel, and of course having your creator be angry at you, it doesn't really seem like much. |
| 401 | ** The end of ''Matrix Revolutions''. Malcolm and Tamara are freed from brainwashing and are actually smiling for a change, while Critic leaves the studio and his making-him-miserable reviewing life for a short time, but he just got told his power is ruining, his HeelRealization of getting he treats them badly doesn't last, and he's adamant he's not going to talk about his issues. |
| 402 | ** Nobody's actually ''happy'' at the end of ''Film/TheShining'', Critic having gone even worse with crazy, Rachel dealing with his abuse, Malcolm nearly dying just because he's black, but they distract themselves with pumpkin FoodPorn, and a catatonic Critic going into an old-timey HappyPlace. |
| 403 | ** ''Christmas With The Kranks'' is the "reassuring but sad" type, with Critic giving a speech about how we change (for good and bad) but having a WebVideo/DemoReel reminder on his phone, and Santa Christ respectfully taking 2007-Critic back to his time but Critic/Tamara/Malcolm ending the review arguing. Critic also tries to get better with his own self loathing and imparts an aesop about it, but doesn't quite manage to stop hating himself. |
| 404 | ** "I'll Be Home For Christmas" has Critic have a thinly veiled rant about Trump supporters, saying he's terrified and will fuck up but will try to help and be kind, but Chester has found love. Summed up in Critic's last line: |
| 405 | -->'''Critic''': There's going to be a lot of anger, but there will also be a lot of love. Use them wisely. |
| 406 | ** In ''Phantom of the Opera'', Hyper tries to apologize to Critic and reveals she's happily dating Devil Boner, but still doesn't ''really'' show self-awareness of her horrible behavior, and leaves him confused about both the movie and that Hyper had been pursuing him. |
| 407 | ** The Nutcracker 3D ends with the GutPunch fact that what they were gearing up to watch was Doug/Rob's (deceased) mom talking in their Christmas Tree review. It's very sweet, especially with RealLife best friends Rachel and Tamara cuddling, but sad for all the obvious reasons. |
| 408 | * BlackComedy: Not to the extent of [[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses some]] [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick on]] [[Creator/LordKaT the]] [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment site]], but he'll employ this whenever he feels like it. |
| 409 | * BlackComedyRape: Zig-zagged. Like with most of his suicides, the scenarios are played for dark laughs but he's always affected badly by them. |
| 410 | ** His ''Film/{{Paranoia|2011}}'' review ends with Brad promising Critic that a scary-looking horse-masked man will give him a good raping, leading to Critic running away scared. |
| 411 | ** In a subtle yet gross example, his TMZ rant in "The Top 11 South Park Episodes" includes saying the people who watch the show have to rub bloody tampons on the crotches to make themselves look like they've been laid. There's only one conclusion you can draw from that image. |
| 412 | ** He jokes in the WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee reloaded review that Mechakara can't keep his drill in his pants. Only there as a [[invoked]] RealitySubtext TakeThat, as Lewis was upset about the scene and Doug was beating himself up for accidentally making it worse so much (when he figured that adding more noises would convince Film Brain it was a fun time) that Lindsay had to defend him by saying he was a WideEyedIdealist with a HappyPlace. |
| 413 | *** In the same review, regarding Ma-Ti/Spoony, "Just point to the doll and tell us where he touched your hole." |
| 414 | ** He dedicates a part of “Top 11 Things You Never Noticed About Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}” to making fun of Dana getting felt up and having one of her breasts pop out. |
| 415 | ** He ends his ''Blues Brothers 2000'' review with both “may God rape you with a pick-up truck, slowly, with vengeance” and wanting to remove the film's cock from inside his ass. |
| 416 | ** In ''Film/ThePurge'' review, he makes a joke about how if crime were legal he'd be vacationing in Canada, but then changes his mind “because that's not the safest either”. Cue the PSA trying to protect girls from being raped. This 'joke' transferred over to real life too, as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOBlKoDBi7Q at a Canadian con]], he got a rape whistle. To Doug's slight credit he seems a little creeped out at first, ''hoping'' he'd never have to actually use it. Same thing (and same freaked expression) happened [[https://www.facebook.com/127127037353766/photos/a.1115539858512474.1073741841.127127037353766/1115540111845782/?type=3&size=1328%2C747&fbid=1115540111845782 at]] Anime Iowa. |
| 417 | ** In ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' real review, Doug calls the film “anal raping” Dr Seuss and Rob [[FauxHorrific thinks]] that's not harsh enough and calls it skullfucking. |
| 418 | ** In NightmareFuelStationAttendant mode at the end of ''Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer'', he sings that if Christmas was a person, he'd fuck it to death. |
| 419 | ** In ''Film/TheSmurfs'', he continues his bondage = automatic sex thought when he hopes that Harris doesn't get 'smurfed' by the Smurfs (for some reason) tying him down. |
| 420 | ** In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' behind the scenes, Rob remarks that (a very tired) Tamara in the Belle dress doesn't look right, and jokes that it seems as if Hyper's been assaulted. Plus according to Doug, Critic isn't sure if Hyper raped him or not, though his trauma is treated as both TheChewToy and Woobie. |
| 421 | ** In the ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' behind the scenes, Barney jokes that because Tamara didn't get attacked on the way there, the Uber driver has no taste. |
| 422 | ** In a couple of con panels, Rob jokes about Doug getting raped by con guests. |
| 423 | ** He’s annoyed (in that sarcastically cheerful way) when a creep in “Doom” says he’s gonna strip search the women and it’s played for casual laughs. |
| 424 | * {{Blackface}}: He refers to 'bad' geeks like ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' as “geek blackface”. |
| 425 | ** In ''Dear Santa'', he gets annoyed over the gross gay sterotype chef and calls it "gay blackface". Doug continues in the bloopers, saying there's not a single ounce of actual gay in the actor. |
| 426 | * BloodFromTheMouth: In ''Disney Afternoon'', when Malcolm makes the mistake of mentioning ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', there's a cut to him bruised, rubbing his face and with a blood stream coming from his mouth. |
| 427 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Aside from a few characters who relish being evil like Uncle Lies and Aunt Despair, Tamara said that the majority of the DysfunctionJunction, not just Critic, all want to be good ''in their own way'', even if it’s bad morals to the rest of the world and they can’t always manage it. |
| 428 | * BizarroEpisode[[invoked]]: |
| 429 | ** Raoul Puke calls ''WesternAnimation/WereBackADinosaursStory'' one and the Nostalgia Critic does likewise for the ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial''. |
| 430 | -->'''Raoul:''' Big lipped alligator moment? Try Big Lipped Alligator Movie! |
| 431 | ** Creator/ChristopherWalken. |
| 432 | --->'''Critic:''' ...I don't know where I am when he calls. |
| 433 | ** The "Rotten Dirty Bastard" special. After that sketch, the Critic went back to [[JerkassWoobie his]][[invoked]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold usual]] [[SadClown characterization]], the others carried on like normal (and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick even got her best friend killed) and it was never mentioned again. |
| 434 | ** [[spoiler: Subverted as of the "Scooby-Doo" review, wherein Critic ends up in Purgatory and encounters Roger again. Plus the implication that Roger potentially forshadowing WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee.]] Both of these were explained by Rob in the latter's commentary, saying Santa Christ was the one telling the former's story and has RealityWarper powers so willed Roger into existence. |
| 435 | * {{Blackmail}}: Hyper Fangirl got a BigFancyHouse from a guy she stalked when she found out he had private time with barbies. |
| 436 | ** Earlier on, Spoony threatened Critic with pictures of Critic being in drag while he was being roofied and raped, but would only release them if the latter didn't [[SeriousBusiness give his opinion]] on ''Captain America''. |
| 437 | * BlandNameProduct: Mocked in his reviews of ''Steel'' and ''It'' about a beer named Beer, with this quote from the latter. |
| 438 | -->'''Critic:''' Oh no, she dropped a can of "Beer" beer. Is that the drink that [[BrickJoke Steel made famous?]] |
| 439 | * BlatantLies: |
| 440 | ** In his first of the Star Trek reviews, he promises to never have another commercial break - after the camera decides to take him seriously when told to - and a break has happened in every NC review since then. |
| 441 | ** In ''Film/StreetFighter'', he says all the violence and gore from the games had no effect on his “decent” childhood, right before drinking from a skull and shooting his gun. |
| 442 | -->'''Critic''': Sorry, I have to do that every ten minutes. |
| 443 | ** ''Turbo'' has him tell Rita that he's not afraid of any movie. ''Film/SonOfTheMask'', ''WesternAnimation/FoodFight'', ''Starchaser'' and countless others would beg to differ. |
| 444 | ** In ''The Top 11 Worst Avatar Episodes'', he tells Malcolm and Tamara that he's not scared of fanboys and fangirls complaining about the title, but then when the actual title comes up, he backtracks and scribbles in “by default” after the word “worst”. |
| 445 | ** In ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries II'', Hyper's claim that she's only going to keep Critic there until he fulfills her “dream” of reviewing the film with her. Lying because her face goes hard line right after, when they get to the house she tells him she'll think he'll like it there, and has filled it with boy-pandering comics and video games. |
| 446 | ** In his ode to batshittery at the end of ''Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer'', his saying "nothing's wrong here" is the last straw for Tamara who calls him a mad man. |
| 447 | * BobRossRib: In the beginning of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKpM33kdG1Y review]] of ''Film/GhostbustersII'', they do a brief Bob Ross-parody sketch (with Doug Walker as Bob Ross) used as a visual metaphor for how the conception behind the film's plot may have turned out, even replacing whatever curse words he is accustomed to saying with "God bless". |
| 448 | -->''"Hello my happy little viewers, hello. As you recall last time, we did a happy little painting on the happy little ''[[Film/Ghostbusters1984 Ghostbusters]]''. You all seem to like this one and I don't blame you, its a wonderful piece. So today, we're going to do a happy little follow-up to this happy little picture, because you like it so much, you deserve to see it explored even more... except the parents, you didn't care for the swearing and the smoking, so uh this one we're going to make it more family friendly."'' |
| 449 | * BodyHorror: |
| 450 | ** The Devil's minions look like they've had their skin stripped off to only leave muscle. |
| 451 | ** The title card for ''Why Do We Love Zombies'' rots Critic's face until he looks like one himself. |
| 452 | ** Tamara's gored, sizzling hands in the ''Film/GhostRider2007'' review. |
| 453 | * BondOneLiner: The Critic makes a few jokes on this trope in the ''Film/{{Commando}}'' review, even punctuating one with the [[BigYes YEEEEEAAAAAAHHHH!!]] from ''Series/CSIMiami''. |
| 454 | ** And "[[MundaneMadeAwesome The name is Santa Claus]]." From the ''Ernest Saves Christmas'' review. |
| 455 | * BoomerangBigot: Criticizes the Vital Information sketch from Series/AllThat for unnecessary yelling and then yells, "ANYONE WHO THINKS YELLING IS FUNNY SHOULD BE SHOT!" [[LampshadeHanging (gets shot in the head)]] |
| 456 | * BorrowedCatchphrase: Less borrowed and more mangled, but we get this from Spoony during the eponymous spooning: |
| 457 | -->'''Spoony:''' In case the Nostalgia Critic here doesn't remember it so I don't have to, I can tell you why. Three words - Ro-hyph-nol! |
| 458 | ** The Chart Guys reference Hyper Fangirl's "Don't ask why" catchphrase in the lyrics of her eponymous song. |
| 459 | ** In ''Jem'', the Chart Guys beat down Critic enough somehow to get him to say "but the chart says". Malcolm slaps him out of it. |
| 460 | * BothSidesHaveAPoint: |
| 461 | ** The “fuckitall” commercial (and Critic refusing to help someone dying because he wants to rant about a sequel) in ''Film/BluesBrothers2000'' seems to go for the aesop “you should be emotionally invested in what you watch, but movies are not that big of a deal compared to life issues”. |
| 462 | ** The FramingDevice for ''Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer''. Tamara and Malcolm both end up being right and wrong. Malcolm's right in that Critic is really fucked up, and even Critic knows that he needs to be restrained. Tamara's right in that for all Critic's insanity, he needs to celebrate how he wants, and after the song, he treats it like it was cathartic. |
| 463 | ** In ''Christmas With The Kranks'', it's more like “both prime and classic Critic have problems”, the former having more mean-spirited jokes and sometimes not using Tamara and Malcolm to full potential, and the latter's forced memes, random clips and bad lighting. There's also the [[NotSoDifferentRemark acknowledgement that they're not that different]], bringing up all the skit heavy things before comeback too. |
| 464 | %% * BottomlessMagazines: Seen in his ''Captain America'' review. |
| 465 | * BoundAndGagged: At the start of the Game Heroes [[DistressedDude promo]]. And you can see him squirming but not getting much leeway throughout the few minutes it's on. |
| 466 | ** Still on his obsession with trying to get Critic to do a Christmas Carol parody, the Ghost Of Christmas Future ties up Lupa with tape and tinsel. Critic's not amused. |
| 467 | ** Referenced a couple of times in ''Film/SmallSoldiers'', with Malcolm having handcuffs, Critic assuming that with a sixteen year old Kirsten Dunst tied up the director must have been a pedophile, and also saying that an older sibling leaving the younger one helpless is typical. [[spoiler: Plus inevitably assumed after the end where Hyper breaks into Critic's bedroom while he's sleeping and kidnaps him.]] |
| 468 | ** When Tamara asks him in ''Pixels'' how would he know that ball-gags are comfy, he pauses, side-eyes the camera as he says "research" and quickly moves on. |
| 469 | ** While he can still talk, Critic gets captured by Devil Boner and other War Boys in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' and is chained and muzzled like Max in the film. In the Steampunk Build of Awesome Build, Jim talks about how Doug would have been fine with anything gaggy, but he personally wanted to quickly put together a blood-bag mask (that would be easy for Doug to wear and still talk) to replicate the movie. |
| 470 | ** In ''Cats And Dogs'', when the kid is way too relaxed at being held hostage, Critic says that no matter what age he's been, the situation is always way more terrifying than that. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Cue Hyper and their issues being a big thing in the next episode]]. |
| 471 | ** Critic's chained up with pink handcuffs in "Old vs New: Evil Dead", and gagging other times is implied when Devil Boner tells him Hyper Boner are tighter when he's tied tighter. |
| 472 | * BloodlessCarnage: The Critic emphasizes that even though Drake's death in ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin'' didn't have blood, it's still really violent for a kids' movie. |
| 473 | * BoltOfDivineRetribution: In his comparisons of ''{{Film/The Ten Commandments|1956}}'' vs. ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', he claims that God is more likely a kind and loving deity, rather than a vengeful god. [[spoiler:He was wrong.]] |
| 474 | * BoobBasedGag: Rachel wears a ridiculously large pair of fake breasts when portraying Creator/MichaelBay's roommate, adult film star "[[PunnyName Tina A.]]", in the ''Film/PearlHarbor'' review. |
| 475 | * BookEnds: With some exceptions, the Critic begins and ends each of his reviews by saying "I'm the Nostalgia Critic: I remember it so you don't have to". |
| 476 | ** Both his first review and what was intended to be his last review were of live-action adaptations of cartoon franchises. |
| 477 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree'' both starts and ends with Critic hallucinating and then the episode revealing what actually went on. |
| 478 | ** "Matrix Month" begins and ends with Critic talking friendly with someone he's mistreated in the past few years, Chester at the beginning and going off with Malcolm/Tamara for a chat at the end. |
| 479 | ** In ''Film/TheSmurfs'', the beginning has Tamara trying to get Critic to do the Fantastic Four movie in order to get money, and the end has Critic trying to copy the Smurfs and selling a movie about a rock because he wants money. |
| 480 | ** ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' acknowledges that he did the 80s Chipmunk movie with the Chick both at the beginning when he thinks he's doing the latter, and at the end when Analyst 1 is sure he ended a Chipmunk review with a song before. |
| 481 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: We never ''see'' them get brainwashed (and they're more snarkily lampshading Critic's stupidity than being crazy), but [[spoiler: Malcolm and Tamara]] in the Matrix reviews. Critic literally reality warps to get them back. |
| 482 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs: How he invokes Santa Christ — by asking Santa to save him, then Jesus, then… Santa Christ. |
| 483 | ** The Critic mocks this when a character in ''Anime/LittleNemoAdventuresInSlumberland'' introduces himself this way: |
| 484 | --->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' Well, I find that name obnoxious, and uncreative. I'm going to call you: obnoxiously uncreative. |
| 485 | ** "Nintendo games ROCK. Movie based off Nintendo games BLOW. Therefore, movies about Nintendo games BLOW ROCKS." |
| 486 | ** "It sucks ASS! It sucks BALLS! It sucks ASS-BALLS!" |
| 487 | * BreadEggsMilkSquick: A few, but the one most seem to remember is in his review of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'': |
| 488 | -->'''Critic:''' I'll do anything! Shave your back, do your taxes, '''prostitute''' myself for money! Just please not another song! |
| 489 | ** From [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS2E6 "A Kid in King Arthur's Court"]]: |
| 490 | ---> ''A Kid in King Arthur's Wart''. ''A Kid in King Louie's Cart''. ''A Cat in Creator/BeaArthur's Cooch''. |
| 491 | ** What ''Disney Afternoon'' consists of. Critic's trying really hard to forget his adult life for an episode and be excited for the cartoons, but he keeps mentioning his abusive school life, if Tamara and Malcolm say anything even in the slightest bit wrong he gets angry at best and violent at worst, even his excitement is... ''[[PsychopathicManchild wrong]]''. |
| 492 | ** A joke in ''WebVideo/TheUncannyValley'' review starts off about his and other reviewer's tendency to lose focus, and ends up slipping out that he's sexually repressed for a while. |
| 493 | ** When Critic tells Tamara in ''Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer'' why he has to wear a RestrainingBolt. |
| 494 | -->'''Critic''': I don't want to scare the sweet people at home with my disturbing obsession. I wanna be relaxed, soothing, ''marketable''. |
| 495 | ** In the ''TMNT Christmas Special'', the reasons why he loves Christmas include “Santa, snow and apocalyptic flames”. |
| 496 | * BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: One of his {{Pet Peeve Trope}}s, as seen in ''Film/MoulinRouge'' and ''Film/SpiderMan3''. When he does the same thing in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', pretend to be a coward so he'll go off on his own to the PlotHole, it's more for selfish suicidal reasons than anything heroic like the movies claim it is. |
| 497 | * BreakTheCutie: The children in the abuse family all react differently to their AbusiveParents. Bum Jr cries, clings onto a teddy bear and rocks in the corner, Melody has a PottyFailure when she's afraid, and Cliff zig-zags between creepy and terrified. And as Hyper is confirmed as the oldest daughter, she comes pre-broken. |
| 498 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: |
| 499 | ** One of the common jokes in the series is to replace the in-work dialogue with something production/actor-related, like "Well, I'll be featured in the sequel anyway". Rare aversion in "Is Sleepy Hollow Secretly Brilliant", where he (obviously) knows Nerd, but has watched the ''Monster Madness'' series and can't remember James's name. |
| 500 | ** Given that in the same con Doug complained about [[invoked]] her MisaimedFandom, Tamara as Hyper turning the camera saying “I'm gonna stalk [Critic]. ''Like I do''.” feels more like a reminder to the audience than anything else. |
| 501 | ** In ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', Devil Boner says "oh what a glaze, what a lovely glaze" and then turns to the camera with "yeah that's the one we're going with, blow me". |
| 502 | ** Literally in Film/TheWall, as Critic starts talking in front of a wall on a tv screen that Corey Taylor is watching, then things get weird and he smashes his way out for clipless playtime. |
| 503 | * BreakingTheReviewersWall: The Critic frequently uses his gun to shoot one of the characters in the movie or cartoon he's reviewing. Sometimes he calls a character from the work on the phone and has a conversation with them. |
| 504 | * BreatherEpisode: Has [[BreatherEpisode/TheNostalgiaCritic his own page]]. |
| 505 | * BrickJoke: |
| 506 | %% ** Creator/ChuckNorris and the Burger King sit on the line between RunningGag and this. |
| 507 | %% ** For the last time, the Critic [[Film/{{Hook}} doesn't believe in fairies!]] ''*watches [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Flora]] drop dead*''. |
| 508 | ** In his ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' review, the Critic is warned by [[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat a voice recording of]] Creator/VincentPrice to "Watch out for that pumpkin." Upon getting ''hit'' by said pumpkin, the critic splutters in a manner near-identical to his ''Sonic The Hedgehog'' review. |
| 509 | ** His questioning if Care Bears show up whenever someone says they "don't care" about something came back to haunt him during Sequel Month. |
| 510 | ** In ''Revenge of the Commercials'', early on he talks about how now, the kid on the Zack the Lego Maniac commercials is probably a geeky psychopath who builds bombs to blow up the people who made fun of him. Guess what happens to the Critic in the end? |
| 511 | %% ** 'Pot Land' in ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' review. Twice. |
| 512 | ** In his review of ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'', in the beginning he states that playing violent video games like ''Mortal Kombat'' as a kid didn't affect his behaviour at all. [[HypocriticalHumor He then proceeds to shoot a gun in the air while drinking out of a skull.]] At the end of the video, he starts doing it again as he walks out. |
| 513 | ** In his 2009 review of ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', Nostalgia Critic did a rapid style review similar to his WebVideo/BumReviews. The Bum appears in the stinger complaining about the Critic stealing his act. '''2 years later''', Critic starts to do the same for ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' only to get interrupted by the Bum who decided to sue him over plagiarism. |
| 514 | ** In the review of ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'', Critic notices Cinema Snob when he receives a ball of paper in his back. At the end of the review, after the silliest moment in the movie, both he and Snob throw paper balls at the film. |
| 515 | ** In Hop, Black Willy Wonka finally makes good on his threat to caramelize someone, and it’s Carrot Juice. Having been slapped around by the bunny all episode, Critic’s fine with it. |
| 516 | ** At the start of the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanVsTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' review, Devil Boner mentions that he's fighting a group of time travellers, and lampshades that he's setting up a time travel joke. At the end of the review, Hyper tells him to throw all the fanfiction into one of the time travel portals, sending it back in time to [[spoiler:Kathleen Kennedy]]'s office as a TakeThat to the [[spoiler:''Franchise/StarWars'' sequel trilogy]]. |
| 517 | -->"Time travel joke!" |
| 518 | %% * BrosBeforeHoes: In “Did Tom And Jerry Kill Themselves”, the main thing he takes from ''WesternAnimation/BlueCatBlues'' is not the grim punchline (which he likes but can see why it upsets people) but the use of this sexist trope in a kid's cartoon. (ZCE - how is the trope used?) |
| 519 | * BrokenAesop: created in his ''Pokemon'' review in terms of the "fighting is wrong" Aesop when the franchise revolves around fighting. |
| 520 | ** He makes a similar argument about ''Airborne''--the main character refuses to use violence against anyone, but still humiliates them. |
| 521 | --->"So as you see kids, it's not about physical violence; it's just about hurting somebody somehow. That's what really counts in life." |
| 522 | ** In ''Film/ThePagemaster'', he points out that having an Aesop on literacy makes no sense when the main character is already a bookworm. |
| 523 | ** ''Film/ThreeNinjas'', it's so nice Grandpa is giving his (white) grandkids lethal weaponry to fool around with like shuriken, nunchucks, swords... |
| 524 | ** In ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'', he notes that a message about protecting endangered species and the environment becomes very much lost when the protagonists who hold to this end up causing most of the problems throughout the film (involving death, destruction, sabotage). There was also the BS about taking the dinosaurs from their "natural habitat," when, in fact, the dinosaurs were CLONED FROM FOSSILS, and therefore, were completely unnatural in the first place. |
| 525 | ** Doug always had a justified obsession with "everyone's opinion is worth something, whether you like or dislike a show/movie doesn't matter, just talk with other people and discuss it". So why did the Looney Tunes editorial have a section where a SimpletonVoice fanboy laughed stupidly at the worst scenes of shows that Critic didn't like, but act entitled and insulting at the best scenes of the show that he did? |
| 526 | ** In ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', the speech about how kid's entertainment should be treated with respect rings hollow since the once-PapaWolf character had been treating Evilina abusively throughout the episode. |
| 527 | ** "Everyone you criticize from this point on has a face," was broken already by the giant misinformed Bay rant, but had to be purposely done when Critic outright insulted a child actress's face for being too photoshopped. |
| 528 | ** The "fad is just one letter away from fade" speech from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'' review has the Critic arguing that content creators shouldn't follow trends or base their material around pop culture jokes and references, and instead should focus on "timeless" content. It's a great message... which is undercut by the fact that the Critic has been basing a good chunk of his material around pop culture jokes since his show started - in ''The Lorax'' review alone he makes references to ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]], and [[Film/TheMuppets2011 the 2011 Muppet film]]. |
| 529 | ** In his review of ''Princess Diaries 2'', he gives a lecture to Hyper Fangirl that she just wants to surround him in nostalgia and feed him opinions and things he likes rather than challenging him to be a better person, and that kind of behavior isn't love. While the speech itself is powerful, it loses a lot of its impact coming from the Critic, who has repeatedly demonstrated an inability or unwillingness to move beyond his childhood nostalgia. |
| 530 | ** He gets upset with ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' preaching “the past may have sucked, but take responsibility” (a good message) but having nobody on Simba’s side until it’s revealed he didn’t kill Mufasa. |
| 531 | * BrokenBase: InUniverse example with WebVideo/AngryJoe arguing about whether Film/ManOfSteel is good or bad. [[spoiler:The Nostalgia Critic eventually says that while he can't understand why people like the movie, he says that what they see is that they witness one of their most beloved superhero take on one of their biggest challenges makes it more interesting, and tells him to enjoy it.]] |
| 532 | * BrownNote: The Critic has a tumour in his brain that grows whenever he listens to the theme song from ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}''. He calls it "Porkchop". |
| 533 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Dwells on it in his review of ''Patch Adams'', where his growing impatience with "Patch" gets worse as the eccentric medical student achieves grades near the top of his class, even though he conspicuously ''never'' seems to really study; he contrasts this depiction with ''Amadeus'', where (as he would later dwell on in detail) Mozart's genius with music is shown with his having been raised in obsession with it. |
| 534 | * BuffySpeak: All the times he describes the action and TechnologyPorn of ''Waterworld'' as "Stufff!" Also "putting things into things" in the "Arnold" song from the ''Film/{{Commando}}'' review. |
| 535 | * TheBusCameBack: After a long time away, or just getting beaten by Critic in his own show, Chester makes a cameo in ''Christmas Story II'' and plays an important part in Matrix Month. |
| 536 | * ButHeSoundsHandsome: When Jim plays Jared Leto playing Joker in the ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' review and gets too into character. |
| 537 | -->'''Jim:''' Jim? Who's Jim? Sounds like a handsome guy. |
| 538 | * ButWaitTheresMore: |
| 539 | ** The Critic notes that the Rock Biter's sitcom antics in ''Film/TheNeverEndingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia'' wasn't enough. It gets worse. |
| 540 | ** Tamara sings this to the Critic before going off on the other ways Frozen's fanbase is ruining everything. |
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| 542 | |
| 543 | [[folder:C]] |
| 544 | * CallBack: |
| 545 | ** In his "Old vs. New: {{Film/The Ten Commandments|1956}} vs. WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt" review, he says that one way ''The Ten Commandments'' is superior is that we learn Moses's last name. Clips are then shown of various characters saying "Moses, Moses..." Soon after, we see a clip of the "Super Mario Bros." movie where Luigi explains that he and Mario's last names are just "Mario". The Nostalgia Critic then threatens, "Don't start with me!" |
| 546 | ** In his review of ''Film/TheNeverEndingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia'', the Critic asks to be taken to Fantasia. The camera zooms in and out on him, repeatedly hitting him. As he's shouting in agony, he calls back to his review of ''Literature/{{It}}'' as he yells "WHY IS IT SO MEAN?!" |
| 547 | *** Speaking of which, in said ''Literature/{{IT}}'' review, after mentioning that one of the characters as a child is played by Jonathan Brandis, the {{elep|hantInTheLivingRoom}}[[LiteralMetaphor hant]] from his ''Film/TheNeverendingStoryIITheNextChapter'' review shows up for a moment, [[ShutUpHannibal only to be told to "Piss off!"]] |
| 548 | ** In his ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' review, when a pumpkin falls on his predicted by a past recording sent to his phone, he says "WHAT?!? PUMPKIN?!? WHAT?!?! WHAT!?!...PUMPKIN?!? WHAT?!?!" This was done before in his ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' review when he says this after Grounder blows into his hand and a pumpkin pops out the other. |
| 549 | ** Though he doesn't play his Stephen King Drinking Game (from his review of ''Literature/{{It}}'') during his review of ''Literature/TheLangoliers'', he takes a shot anyway after he finds out that it's set in Maine. |
| 550 | ** In his ''Little Monsters'' review, Fred Savage's character said "I want my ''BROTHER!!''", to which the Critic said, "As well as some ''[[Film/{{Waterworld}} FOOD!!!"]]'' |
| 551 | ** In his ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicVoyage'' review, when the Critic asks what you'd call someone pulling a telescope out of their pants, there's a callback to the second commercial special; specifically the Wunder Boner ad. "My wife would like that!" |
| 552 | ** In his ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'' review, the Critic pondered when Inspector Gadget would ever need bubbles. Cuts to a clip from his second "Commercials" special where he said "Fucking bubbles!" |
| 553 | ** The third ''Top 11 Fuck Ups'' video has a callback to his [[{{Undercrank}} sped-up]] "Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" breakdown in ''Film/BattlefieldEarth''. Only this time it keeps going. |
| 554 | ** His ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' review refers back to his ''Film/SpaceJam'' review when explaining what a furry is. |
| 555 | ** The ''Film/GhostRider2007'' title card has one of Critic's psychotic faces from ''Film/TheShining'' review. |
| 556 | ** Never mentioned, [[https://twitter.com/FB_BMB/status/494272175441186816 but Film Brain is wearing a Gryffindor tie]] in ''Film/ThePurge'', like he did in WebVideo/SuburbanKnights. |
| 557 | ** As well as being [[invoked]] RealitySubtext (Doug said in one of his vlogs that he wanted firebending so he could hurt people), Critic failing at firebending in “Top Best Avatar Episodes” is a nod back to “Top 11 Adult Jokes We Never Got As Kids” where he set some poor random guy on fire. |
| 558 | ** The Rogue figurine, revealed by Chester to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtKbx2B84zo be Critic's wank doll]], is reacted to with delight by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=286TgavfyfE the hyper fangirl]], who might not like Critic so much if she knew what it was used for. |
| 559 | ** The quick panic in ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' about his joke file (old memes) and not being able to find a Soprano's reference, is a nod back to ''Star Trek V'' where he runs out of references and finds it hard to make an actual joke. |
| 560 | ** In the ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavaGirl'', he has a Jeeves-style servant (just differently named) just like he did in the PlotHole reviews. |
| 561 | ** Many years back, an Ask That Guy-lite Doug did a black and white video (starring a Mr Puppy) about Hollywood taking down five second movies. In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', he does another one about copyright people taking down Critic reviews. |
| 562 | *** “The review must go on” wording gets mentioned twice, and Critic ends up on the floor like Donnie did (only much less afraid and sad). Plus there's an indulgent [[invoked]] SplitPersonality moment of one Critic being a LoveMartyr abuse victim of another version of him. |
| 563 | ** Hyper desperately going for shallow prettiness when she's got nothing to defend happens in both ''Old vs New Cinderella'' (where she just wants to defend Cindy's CostumePorn) and ''Old vs New Spider-Man'' (where all she likes Mary Jane Watson for is her pretty hair). |
| 564 | ** At the end of Rogue One, when he realizes Sequel Month 2 will suck, his face falls just like the last time he announced Sequel Month. |
| 565 | ** Hyper (along with Tamara) cosplays [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Velma Dinkley]] as she had said she wanted to do in her Q&A video. Her calling Devil Boner to imitate Scooby Doo also calls back to her likening him to her pet dog in the Q&A video. |
| 566 | * CallForward: |
| 567 | ** Critic wanting [[ScrewYourself himself]] as a forced SexSlave in “The Sixth Day” crossover makes Snob taking over the site and keeping ''him'' as a broken hooker in the BadFuture feel even more like karma. And given that Critic/Snob sex-slavery cameo was filmed when ''WebVideo/PopQuizHotshot'' pilot was trying to be got out, a lot of people assume it was a reference to that, where Snob kidnaps Critic, Tamara and others. Although the second episode of the show made that CanonDiscontinuity. |
| 568 | * TheCameo: Everyone in TGWTG appears in at least one episode (the co-reviewers are seen below in CrossOver). But the most notable was [[spoiler: Mara Wilson in ''A Simple Wish''.]] |
| 569 | ** He's made a few cameos [[spoiler: in death]] for WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick, showing what he's been doing since then and even displaying some more CharacterDevelopment in the process. |
| 570 | ** Then the animators of the anime ''Manga/UnlimitedPsychicSquad'' [[http://ogiuemaniax.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/the-nostalgia-critic-in-zettai-karen-children-the-unlimited/ threw him]] and WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd in as background characters its fifth episode. |
| 571 | ** Much to his French fans' surprise, he also cameoed in two episodes of the web series ''WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier'', in which he plays an evil Russian soldier. |
| 572 | ** In a creepy scene of ''AI'' (one of a few), Doug himself appears (usual room, usual clothes, usual voice) as an abusive parent who bludgeons his child's furby to death. |
| 573 | ** At the end of the Fourth Commercial special, he got [[spoiler:Greg Sestero from ''Film/{{The Room|2003}}'' to take part in a partial reenactment.]] |
| 574 | ** In his review of ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', Carl Copenhagen and Quinn from ''WebVideo/DemoReel'' make a brief cameo at the bar. As do [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] and WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob. |
| 575 | ** Doug (as his InUniverse creator self) makes a appearance in the Hyper Fangirl's first vlog, and while Critic reacts with anger to her, Doug is just twitchy, afraid and confused. |
| 576 | ** The ending of his review of ''Film/ThePurge'' features a short animated parody of ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'', with Creator/RobPaulsen and Creator/MauriceLaMarche voicing the characters (and questioning Critic's apparent claim that the profanity-laden work was for a kid's show). |
| 577 | ** The ending of his Top 11 Worst ''[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar]]'' Episodes, he got [[spoiler: Creator/DanteBasco to appear at the end, with a SequelHook that he will appear in the next episode as well]] |
| 578 | ** Because of a [[invoked]] ThrowItIn moment from Malcolm, [[WebVideo/DemoReel Tacoma]] shows up at the end of the Hyper Fangirl's second vlog, with half of his face burned off. |
| 579 | ** The ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'' review begins with WebVideo/JonTron "killing" the Critic for reviewing ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'', which the former already released two months ahead of the Critic's own take. |
| 580 | ** [[spoiler: Rachel as Evilina]] appears in the ''Ghostbusters'' review, representing all the girls who are excited to see themselves in a movie. |
| 581 | * CanonDiscontinuity: Even though his character hadn't been cemented at that point, there are still lines in the "Top 11 Animated Hotties" that have been proven wrong or he wouldn't dare say now. |
| 582 | ** From the existence of Hyper Fangirl (and Critic being very aware of her), and how the rape whistle commercial mocking is a trend but nothing else from “Dawn Of The Commercials” has been mentioned again, the whole “men can't be harassed and women's anger to being harassed makes them hotter” subplot of that episode has been probably for the best erased from memory. |
| 583 | ** While there are a lot of {{foreshadowing}} lines of hers in ''Spider-Man Old vs New'', Hyper HearingVoices and having hallucinations that push her to go stalk Critic were never brought up again, and her “Saga” recap on the DVD ignores that scene. |
| 584 | ** Invoked in ''We Wish You A Turtles Christmas'', as Critic tells Tamara [[RealityWarper he'll]] make his destroying the world not canon. |
| 585 | * CanonWelding: |
| 586 | ** ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' ties Doug's Avatar vlogs (and ''[[TooMuchInformation everything]]'' he says) to the Critic canon. The reverse happens in Doug's WesternAnimation/AdventureTime vlog of “Business Time”, with Critic appearing at the start and end of the review. Hyper is also aware of Doug and Rob's vlog of ''Film/ScoobyDoo'', and credits herself with "them getting into it". |
| 587 | ** An WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses episode established that Rob is the brother of Ask That Guy as well, leading to both shows' AbusiveParents ending up as the same people. |
| 588 | * CaptainErsatz: He {{lampshade|Hanging}}s the use of fast talking supernatural characters by multiple in the 1980s in his ''Little Monsters'' video, complete with a long segment of 4 characters (Film/DropDeadFred, [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Genie]], Film/{{Beetlejuice}}, and Maurice from said movie) all talking at the same time in the same tone of voice. |
| 589 | * CaptainObvious: |
| 590 | ** Referenced in the ''Film/RedSonja'' review; after Red Sonja's sister dies, Kalidor tells her, "She's dead." The Critic responds to this with, "THANK YOU, CAPTAIN OBVIOUS. If I get hit by an arrow, you'll be sure to tell me, right?!" |
| 591 | ** In-universe example: In his ''Series/FullHouse'' review, after The Critic shoots the heads off the Olsen Twins, he remarks: "Ah. I did it. ({{Beat}}) They're dead." |
| 592 | ** Other times, if a character says something painfully obvious, the Critic will smack his head mock-dramatically and exclaim "a-DOOOOOIIIIIIII!" |
| 593 | ** In his crossover "Familiar Faces" episode on the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' character Baby Doll, a scene from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' is shown where Batman looks at a TimeBomb readout for two seconds before exclaiming "it's a bomb!" The Critic comments that Batman must be "THE WORLD'S GREATEST DETECTIVE!" |
| 594 | ** In his review of ''Film/{{The Room|2003}}'', after Johnny [[spoiler:[[AteHisGun kills himself]]]], Lisa's CaptainObvious moment leads to the Critic [[spoiler:paraphrasing the "Dead Parrot" sketch from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' to describe Johnny's current state.]] |
| 595 | ** In his review of ''Bebe's Kids'': |
| 596 | *** '''Critic''': Perhaps you remember my video game review of ''Bebe's Kids''. ''[Clips of Critic destroying the game angrily]'' I didn't like it. |
| 597 | ** In his ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'' review after seeing two musical numbers with lyrics full of blatantly obvious matter, the Critic devises some names for potential songs on the soundtrack, such as "The Sky Is Blue", "Butts Make Poo", and "My Tongue is in My Mouth". |
| 598 | * CaptiveDate: At the end of ''Film/SmallSoldiers'', Hyper breaks into Critic's bedroom and kidnaps him, forcing him to be this at gunpoint for two weeks. Actually treated as a big deal, as Critic tries (but fails) to get sympathy for it and Midwest Media Expo 2015 had Doug confirm it was her MoralEventHorizon. |
| 599 | ** He's suffered this before in Spooning With Spoony 2, having to lie there catatonic while Spoony hammers it in how much he got used and fucked when he was roofied. |
| 600 | * CardCarryingVillain: TMZ. "Just swallow your dignity and remember...'''you have no soul to lose.'''" |
| 601 | * CatharsisFactor: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] talking about ''Film/TheCableGuy'' in “Top 10 Films I Like But Everybody Else Hates”, Doug admitted that the main reason why he enjoyed the film was because he's had a lot of boundary-crossing people in his life since getting this job, and “it's an unfair self-indulgent release” to think that they're as wacky obsessive as Jim Carrey in the film. Critic says the same thing in “Why Does Everyone Hate [the film]”. |
| 602 | * CatharticScream: |
| 603 | ** “I Fucking Love Christmas” is batshit and loud enough to considered one, and afterwards Critic tells a terrified Malcolm and Tamara that he needed that. |
| 604 | ** Showing some AesopAmnesia, ''Film/MammaMia'' has Tamara tell Critic to say what he hates about his fanbase, because she thinks nobody is listening and it'll be like screaming into a pillow. Doesn't work out well. |
| 605 | * CasualKink: |
| 606 | ** In the Top 11 Best Villain Songs, he ends his discussion on ''[[Film/{{Chicago}} The Cellblock Tango]] with he'd be glad to let the women kill him as long as they played the song. |
| 607 | ** When Tamara says she crossdresses in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' like she wants it to a big deal, Critic snorts and tells her everyone crossdresses in his show, with Malcolm and Jim in the background agreeing that it's fun and Jason being asked his dress size. |
| 608 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'', both Malcolm and Rachel are up for a threesome with Critic, but he's in a HatesBeingTouched mood and angrily gets them off him. |
| 609 | ** In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', Critic, Tamara and Malcolm all want to re-enact ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' with each other. Tamara only refuses because the men want her to be Ana. |
| 610 | ** In ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', Critic hires Tamara to make him suffer, and according to rl Tamara's ShipTease, she goes between beating him every week and letting him be dominant at other times. |
| 611 | ** In ''Pixels'', he tells Tamara that ball-gags are actually pretty comfortable. |
| 612 | ** Hyper Boner in ''Cinderella Old vs New'' have a couple, like being proud of the other one kidnapping Critic (much to his annoyance), her writing fanfic about him and being ''quite'' happy with his penis gun. In ''Freddy vs Jason'', they have loud offscreen sex in front of Critic, and he calls that "battle" a draw. ''Evil Dead Old Vs New'' implies they take Critic hostage regularly to bond with each other. Even in Tamara's Velma cosplay video, Hyper shamelessly calls up Devil Boner to imitate Scooby Doo, and her tone implies she's ''into'' it. |
| 613 | ** While Critic sleeps in ''Film/JurassicParkIII'', Rob watches over him while reading tentacle porn. |
| 614 | ** In ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'', Critic is perfectly happy with unused anal beads. |
| 615 | ** Devil Boner mistakes a make-up applicator for a butt plug in the Hyper Boner make-up vlog, and Hyper encourages him to play with it. |
| 616 | ** Brad jokingly but knowingly gave Critic a daddy kink in his Jesus Bro livestream, {{ship tease}}ing that he's Critic's pretend dad and that's why he spanks him so much for all the cursing in the videos. |
| 617 | * CatapultNightmare: Played straight (if just referenced) in WebVideo/ThatScifiGuy's ''Film/The6thDay'' crossover review, where Critic says he wakes up swearing and screaming every morning. Not even treated as a joke, he just has issues. |
| 618 | * CatchphraseInterruptus: In several introductions, he fails to get through his catchphrase before breaking down in rage, weeping, or laughter (See ThisIsGonnaSuck). |
| 619 | ** The BLAM signal was cut off partway through on at least two reviews (''Film/{{Flubber}}'' and the ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial''). |
| 620 | ** At the end of the ''Full House'' review, his attempts to sign off with his catchphrase get interrupted by [[ItMakesSenseInContext demonic mutant alien Olsen Twins]], causing him to wake up from a CatapultNightmare each time. After going through this several times, he just looks at the camera and says, "You know what I do, and you know why I do it." |
| 621 | * CatFight: |
| 622 | ** The whole plot of the original ''Film/FaceOff'' review, with Tamara and Rachel fighting each other to be Critic's [[TokenMinority Token Chick]]. They both end up being the ButtMonkey, as Rachel gets boxed up and sent to California, and Malcolm tells Tamara that she has to clean up Critic's vomit. They admitted in a co-vlog some years later that they were glad the ep got lost, as it wouldn't have helped misogyny aimed at them any (which Doug understood when Tamara told him). |
| 623 | ** Gender-inverted with Devil Boner and Benny in ''Cinderella Old vs New'', as they fight over who gets to be Hyper's outlet for violence. They settle it over both of them loving ''Film/EverAfter''. |
| 624 | * CatGirl: Reviewing ''Film/Catwoman2004'' causes the Critic's house to be attacked by a League of Catwomen. And the Eartha Kitt stand-in [[spoiler:(and later, the Halle Berry stand-in)]] is [[WholesomeCrossdresser a man]]! |
| 625 | * CatharsisFactor: |
| 626 | ** In-universe, going with the RecursiveCanon trend, two skits in ''Rise of the Commercials'' have Malcolm and Tamara characters getting hurt by a Critic character and then gleefully humiliating/beating him. Critic himself gets to write another [[note]]the first one established to be written by him after his mom died[[/note]] “abusive parent treats Tamara badly” sketch too. |
| 627 | ** Doug had said anyway that Critic uses the commercial episodes to take a break from shit (and that's why they can be so dark), but Critic himself says in ''Film/HocusPocus'' that it's been too weird of a Halloween and he needs some familiar comfort. |
| 628 | * CatholicSchoolgirlsRule: Doug's flirty posing in the cheerleader costume during ''Christmas Story II'' behind the scenes makes Rob bemoan that he'll never able to be able to watch Catholic schoolgirl anime again. |
| 629 | * CameraAbuse: Completing a RuleOfThree for meta jokes in the episode, ''Film/TheMatrix'' ends with Critic flying into the sky, and when he hits the limit he crashes into the camera, cracks it and falls back down. |
| 630 | * CareerVersusFamily: According to Doug at the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree'', his mom gave up a career in opera to take care of two boys. |
| 631 | * CaughtWithYourPantsDown: In the big group review of ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', the reviewers think that he set it up like he did for ''Film/DragonballEvolution'' the year before. It turns out that he doesn't even know their names and they catch him fapping to George Takei's biography for further insult. |
| 632 | -->'''Critic:''' ...this is awkward. |
| 633 | %% * CausticCritic: Obviously Critic, even if he’s a deconstruction of one, and Aiyanna, Heather and Malcolm all get a turn in the worst top 5 Full House episode. Aiyanna especially just bubbles with rage at her pick. |
| 634 | * CentralTheme: Prime was taking responsibility, which kicked into overdrive after Ma-Ti died, while reboot is SanitySlippage and meta, with Critic (also Hyper Fangirl, and Rachel/Malcolm/Tamara aren't particularly sane) losing more of his mind, and for the most part either rejecting the idea that he's a character or playing into that by doing whatever it takes to get views. |
| 635 | * CerebusRetcon: |
| 636 | ** In early episodes, he's proud of how his generation got raised by television. In later ones, not so much. Check out the bitterness when he discusses how Mike Teevee's parents are useless for letting the box take care of their child. |
| 637 | ** Started in ''The Guyver'' and returned to in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', even his FountainOfMemes reputation got turned more dramatic. The former has Sage trying to get his old memes back because Critic had more fun back then and isn't so much with trying to force things like "platypus bunny", and the latter has Critic actually making a scrapbook of his old bear jokes and nearly crying because he has no idea what one to pick. |
| 638 | ** Fans suspected something was up with the insane amount of crossovers in 2012, but Lewis reassured them it was just a way for Doug to work on the fourth year, nothing more. But then ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' ended, and Doug revealed they were Critic's [[Series/DoctorWho Tenth Doctor]]-like way of saying goodbye, and even if the PlotHole didn't exist, would have still found a way to kill himself for good. |
| 639 | ** It was around from the beginning, but ''Christmas With The Kranks'' makes the entire show more of a TragicDream as it's outright said Critic only started reviewing to get people to like him and stop abusing him. |
| 640 | ** "Hyper Fangirl" was a ridiculous name like any other character (Tamara hadn't even thought about her having a real name), until "Phantom Of The Opera" where she sings that it's an identity she can't get out of. |
| 641 | * CerebusRollercoaster: Doug has a talent for writing comedy, then slamming you in the face with feels, then woo! Back to funny! |
| 642 | * CerebusSyndrome: |
| 643 | ** The show has got steadily darker as time goes on, with Critic's AbusiveParents and job issues getting more involved, post-SK episodes setting up his death and guilt over Ma-Ti, and the revival heavy on the disturbing imagery. In a [[https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=965199400213188&id=127127037353766 post]], Doug said that he enjoys having a more emotional edge to his stuff]]. |
| 644 | ** Lampshaded in ''Batman Forever'' where Schumacher was hired to make the show more family friendly after being too dark. |
| 645 | * TheChainOfHarm: Critic’s a perpetual victim, so he hurts Rachel/Malcolm/Tamara and sometimes they hurt him back or each other. Uncle Lies and Aunt Despair are also happy to admit that HistoryRepeats with abuse. |
| 646 | * ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: |
| 647 | ** In ''The Guyver'', when Sage asks if Critic remembers the plots of WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}, WebVideo/SuburbanKnights and WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee, he gives a very unsure “...yes?” and stutters that he doesn't know when asked if Sage was at evil then. He then jumps the subject and accuses Sage of having an EvilTwin. |
| 648 | ** In Hyper's second vlog, Malcolm asks her how she gets into the studio every day and she tells him bye before very quickly moving onto dino Rob. And when Tamara complains about the sexist questions, she doesn't even bother saying anything else before hounding Critic again. |
| 649 | ** In ''Christmas Story II'', he reintroduces Hyper and says ItsALongStory regarding what [[DidTheyOrDidntThey happened]] between them before stating “[he] has worse tastes to wash out of [his] mouth” regarding the Christmas Story franchise. |
| 650 | ** When "Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakuel", makes a joke about "you're fired" being the most famous words Trump will say, Critic gets super awkward and can't even get a line out before Trump tweets about him. |
| 651 | ** In ''Speed Racer'', he slips out that he knows chloroform makes you a little delusional, and when asked how, he changes subject to knocking out Malcolm even though that doesn't answer how. |
| 652 | * CharacterCatchphrase: |
| 653 | ** "(Hello,) I'm the Nostalgia Critic, I remember it so you don't have to!" At the end of ''Why Do We Holiday So Early'', he stumbles over the "nost-" part, and giggles that he's never screwed that up before. |
| 654 | ** "They did it! They actually did it!" when the film does something bad he thought wouldn't happen. |
| 655 | ** "Why [[TopTenList top 11]]? Because I like to go one step beyond." Lampshaded and changed sometimes, depending on the circumstances. |
| 656 | ** "BUT WAIT!! BUT ''WAIT''!! WAIT A MINUTE!!" |
| 657 | ** (Witnessing a disturbing, morally awkward or offensive scene or line) "...really? You're gonna (description)?" shrugs "All right..." |
| 658 | ** "Which makes the previous scene, ENTIRELY POINTLESS.", complete with a point of the index finger and a ding. |
| 659 | *** "This has been another... POINTLESS MOMENT." |
| 660 | ** "Are you even trying?" |
| 661 | ** "An abomination of ASSNESS!" |
| 662 | ** "It's X the fucking Y!" seems to be becoming one, for whenever a movie tries way too hard for its subject matter, like, say, ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie''. |
| 663 | ** "BOOBS, you like BOOBS!" whenever he's trying to snap himself out of [[StupidSexyFlanders getting distracted by his man-crushes.]] |
| 664 | ** "You see?" |
| 665 | ** Dinosaur Rob's [[CaptainObvious "I'm a dinosaur."]] |
| 666 | ** "By the way, that's [actor name] as [character]." |
| 667 | ** (Any time [[DemographicallyInappropriateHumour something inappropriate comes up in a family film]]) "[[SarcasmMode You know, for kids!]]" |
| 668 | *** Alternately he might say [[SarcasmMode " A family picture!"]] |
| 669 | ** (Any time something that everyone already knows about appears in one of his countdowns) "Yeah, yeah, you all knew THIS was coming!" |
| 670 | ** "Pretty lame", as a punchline to a highly underwhelming scene in a movie. |
| 671 | ** "Hey?! You know that (person or thing) that (attribute or action of said person or thing)....Well; They made a (movie or thing), now...." |
| 672 | --->'''*About Tommy Wiseau in Film/{{The Room|2003}}*:''' "You know that creepy guy who always looks at you funny on the subway? Yeah, he made a movie, apparently." |
| 673 | --->'''*About "Chia Pets" in the first ''Commercials'' special*:''' "You know how they say something is so boring, that they'd rather watch grass grow? Well, now they made a toy out of it!" |
| 674 | ** Hyper Fangirl's was "Don't ask why!" in "Old Vs New Spider-Man" and on her Facebook page for a long while. It came back twice in her Q&A video. |
| 675 | * CharacterFocus: The whole point of the show is to be a character piece for Critic, but "Old vs New: Cinderella'' especially focuses on the different ways he was abused by his parents vs Hyper being abused by Aunt Despair. |
| 676 | * CharacterShilling: |
| 677 | ** In ''Turbo'', Zordon tells Critic "your criticisms are restoring braincells to the viewers, and the movie's powers are getting weaker". Subverted later when Critic proves how awful he can be, and Zordon is mad at him for not being honorable. |
| 678 | ** Again in ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', where Rachel Katara says right off the bat that Critic's reviewing skills are awesome. Like Zordon, she's proven wrong. |
| 679 | ** Lampshaded in ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'', as Malcolm and Tamara realize telling Critic he's TheChosenOne was a bad idea because he already thinks he's the messiah anyway. (plus even telling him that was Critic's writing) |
| 680 | ** Subverted in ''Christmas Story II'' with Hyper, as Critic (after telling her very firmly that there was no issue with him losing his love of Christmas) acts like she helped him see that the original movie was still good, but Doug said at a con later that she was still the bad guy and Critic was just getting his head fucked with. |
| 681 | * CharactersMostHatedSong: Critic really hates the ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' theme song because it reminds him of his childhood mockery for sharing a name with the main character. Whenever he hears it, he goes into a screaming murderous tantrum. |
| 682 | * ChekhovsGun: The big monkey toy was actually first seen in the ''Film/{{Transformers|DarkOfTheMoon}} III'' Bum/Critic review, but only started getting used as a trauma cure attempt as of ''Film/PatchAdams''. |
| 683 | * CherubicChoir: There's a heavenly choir at the beginning of ''Dawn Of The Commercials'', for the SeriousBusiness joke of him being like Jesus because he's [[invoked]] PanderingToTheBase who want more commercial episodes. |
| 684 | * ChewbaccaDefense: |
| 685 | ** In his ''Suburban Commando'' review, the Critic suggests using the line "I was '''FROZEN''' today!" for this. |
| 686 | ** He thought ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' was so bad that lawyers can use this that their client's offense was a lesser crime than making the movie. |
| 687 | * ChewingTheScenery: Aside from the Critic himself being a jewel of an example of this, he points this out in a couple reviews. |
| 688 | ** Specifically the ''Film/DropDeadFred'' review. Fred: AGGH! The death breath! SHE KILLED ME WITH THE DEATH BREATH! [[ThisCannotBe BEEGONNNNNNE, EEEVILLL ONNNNNNE!!!]] Nostalgia Critic: "This scenery is wonderful! Oh, hey, there's even more background I can chew!" |
| 689 | ** Also, the ''[[Film/BattlefieldEarth BAATTLEFIEELD EAAARTH!!]]'' review. |
| 690 | * {{Chiaroscuro}}: For "The Review Must Go On" and ''Film/SonOfTheMask'', Doug makes his house look extremely dark, lonely and uninviting. |
| 691 | * {{Chickification}}: He calls this "Dumbass in Distress Syndrome." Although originally only used for women went stupid in the third act, he expands the trope to include {{Distressed Dude}}s later on. |
| 692 | ** He's somewhat irritated that the strong, independent teacher in ''Film/{{Sidekicks}}'' being reduced to the [[DamselInDistress lowest common denominator]] in Barry's teenage mind. |
| 693 | ** In ''Film/SmallSoldiers'', he's pissed about the dolls having badass dresses like an Egyptian Queen and a Spartan Warrior, but acting like shallow {{valley girl}}s. |
| 694 | %% * ChildByRape: |
| 695 | ** Parodied and inverted by Chick and Critic in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ferngully}}'' review. After perfectly happy GRatedSex, she forces a never-to-be-mentioned-again pregnancy on him and is seconds away from {{Evil Laugh}}ing while he has a breakdown. |
| 696 | ** [[https://www.facebook.com/127127037353766/photos/pb.127127037353766.-2207520000.1447283234./962134457186349/?type=3&theater When a Hyper cosplayer has an additional baby carriage]], Doug jokingly freaks that it might be Critic's. The implication of rape comes from the fact Critic was kidnapped and dating Hyper against his will. |
| 697 | * ChirpingCrickets: The ''Film/GoodBurger'' review uses the tumbleweed variation. On third instance, the ''tumbleweed [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits it]]''. |
| 698 | * ChristmasEpisode: Multiple ones per season: "Top 12 Greatest Christmas Specials", "Jingle All the Way", "He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special", "Jack Frost", "The Return of the Christmas Specials", "The Star Wars Holiday Special", "Ernest Saves Christmas", "Rover Dangerfield", "You're a Rotten Dirty Bastard", "The Grinch", "Babes in Toyland", "Santa Claus: the Movie", "Top 12 Santa Clauses", "Why Lie About Santa Claus?", "The Worst Christmas Special Ever", "Why Is Arthur Christmas a Masterpiece", "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer", "A Christmas Story 2", "What You Never Knew About Christmas Vacation", "Care Bears Nutcracker Suite", and "We Wish You a Turtle Christmas". |
| 699 | * ClarkKenting: Mocked by the Critic in his "Top 11 Dumbest ''Film/{{Superman|FilmSeries}}'' Moments". |
| 700 | ** Also extensively mocked during the end of ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' review, where the main character's wife and son are unable to recognize him despite the fact that he is Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger: |
| 701 | --->'''Man in Turboman Costume Who is Obviously Ahnold:''' Your dad is not mad at you. |
| 702 | --->'''Kid:''' How do you know all that. |
| 703 | --->'''Critic, as Kid:''' Yes, do tell strange, muscle-bound, big-teethed, square-jawed, Austrian-accented he-man who isn't in any way my father. |
| 704 | %% * ClassicallyTrainedExtra: NC identifies Abe Vigoda as one of these in ''Good Burger''. |
| 705 | * CliffHanger: At the end of ''Conquest Of The Commercials'', Critic gets tired of [[spoiler: Don Bluth's]] staring, screams PleaseIWillDoAnything, and then it cuts to “will continue next week”. |
| 706 | * ClipShow: Parodied and subverted; the Critic plans to foist a 'crummy-ass clip show' on his viewers for his 100th episode, but unfortunately the characters in the clip he shows -- Ma-Ti and an earlier version of the Critic -- take exception to this. According to the episode's commentary, Walker ''was'' originally planning on doing a ClipShow...albeit one with original clips ("[[CutawayGag Hey, remember when I fought Satan?"]]). |
| 707 | ** The "Top 11 F*ck-Ups" may serve as a clip show in and of itself. |
| 708 | * CloneAngst Poor clone Critic in That Sci-Fi Guy's “The Sixth Day” review either has to be TSFG's maid or original Critic's SexSlave. |
| 709 | * CloseEnoughTimeline: After returning from reviewing ''Film/{{The Room|2003}}'' in the future, the Critic discovers that everything is exactly the same except his walls are a different color and he somehow has a tail. |
| 710 | * ClosetKey: In ''Conquest Of The Commercials'', he jokingly (but still sweetly) recommends ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' for a little girl who is way too into her barbie, because they might help her work things out. |
| 711 | * ClosetSublet: Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'', as Critic thinks he's making Malcolm and Tamara live in the studio closet until whenever he needs them again, but really they're out and plotting bitter vengeance against him for his MeanBoss ways. In Connecticon 2016 Doug joked that he still keeps them in the closet and going to cons is a rare treat out. |
| 712 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Creator/ChristopherWalken. |
| 713 | -->'''Walken:''' ''Jelly donut... Jelly donut. Goodbye.''\ |
| 714 | '''Critic:''' ''I... I don't even know where I am when he calls.'' |
| 715 | * ClusterFBomb: |
| 716 | ** [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/207-avgn-wizard-rant This video]], in which he rants about [[spoiler:WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd's review of ''Film/TheWizard'' (which came out exactly twelve days before the Critic's review, and one day after he posted his list of movies to review)]]. His insult lasts for well over a ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIqRxBtNrFs&feature=related minute]]''. |
| 717 | ** At one point in the "final fight" between the Nostalgia Critic and WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, they start firing insults at each other, and eventually it degrades into them just saying "Fuck" at each other repeatedly. A "Making of" video shows that this caused them both to crack up. Rob jokes that the entire Nerd/Critic rivalry can be summed up by this one exchange. |
| 718 | ** A notable one in his ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' review. It was {{undercrank}}ed because it is [[RuleOfFunny much, much funnier]] that way. |
| 719 | ** Also "fuck" was heard a lot in one part of his ''Film/TheNeverEndingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia'' review, especially in his comparisons of Rock Biter and his family to a sitcom. |
| 720 | --->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' You've turned this character into a '''''fucking''''' sitcom! Like the '''''fucking''''' [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Flintstones]] and the '''''fucking''''' {{Series/Dinosaurs}}! Don't '''''fucking''''' believe me? Take a '''''fucking''''' look at these '''''fucking''''' scenes of those '''''fucking''''' shows and then '''''fucking''''' tell me they don't '''''fucking''''' look like the '''''fucking''''' same thing, you '''''fucking fuck FUCK!''''' |
| 721 | ** He unleashes another one in his review of ''Film/MilkMoney'' when a kid brings a prostitute to class for an oral presentation that breaks... just a few rules. |
| 722 | ** TheReveal of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'''s Once-ler induces an acceleratingly rapid-fire cluster of "Fuck you!" repetitions from him. |
| 723 | ** Related and amusing, the MME Channel Awesome panel had Rob talk about how their mother complains because she wants to show their stuff to her church group (or even watch it herself) but can't because of all the swearing. Lampshaded in ''Christmas With The Kranks'' when Critic's mom asks him to stop swearing, and he tells her to shut up because people find it charming. A while after she died, Doug made sure to not say the F word for a little over a year, just to prove to her and himself that he didn’t have to rely on it. |
| 724 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: The police-boyfriend in ''Film/Catwoman2004'' gets roundly mocked for calling a piece of art "elegant and whimsical", but it's not like he's working or saying it when he's interrogating someone. |
| 725 | * ColorBlindCasting: Due to the limited number of actors, it's common for Malcolm and Rachel/Tamara to play characters that don't match their race or gender. Malcolm has played [[Film/WonderWoman2017 the white Steve Trevor]] and [[Film/JurassicWorld the Indian Simon Masrani,]] while Tamara has played boys several times, as well as [[Film/SuicideSquad2016 the Japanese Katana.]] |
| 726 | * ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: |
| 727 | ** Critic reviewing ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' and [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries the anime series]] ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'' was based off of. He admitted he had never actually seen them, but argued in the latter case that it could be open to a broad audience not familiar with the franchise. [[invoked]] |
| 728 | ** He received criticism for reviewing Thomas and the Magic Railroad and stating that he has never seen [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends the show the movie was based on.]] This is featured in his third "Top 11 Fuck Ups" video and he states that he has done this before (like his Pokemon review mentioned above) and he received a lot of requests by fans to review the movie so he did. |
| 729 | ** In ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' review, Critic, Tamara and Malcolm all agree that the [[Film/FantasticFour2015 2015 film]] is going to suck because of how bad the former film was. Unlike the other examples, PlayedForLaughs as they're all being jerks. |
| 730 | ** In the chorus of booing the ''Paranormal Activity'' trailer at the start of "Should Found Footage Stop", one guy shouts "fuck you movie I don't have to see". |
| 731 | ** As mentioned above, what’s nostalgic to his audience can vary, and people will demand that he talk about their nostalgia, so Doug either had to find time to watch something he didn’t grow up with or form a sometimes negative opinion based on not much of a show. (As Rob complained, saying no and meaning it is apparently not an option.) The solution is the younger EnsembleCast, who get to talk about Sailor Moon, Dragonball or Power Rangers and make everyone happy. |
| 732 | * ComplainingAboutPeopleNotLikingTheShow: [[invoked]] He did this himself with ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', characterizing the people who didn't enjoy it as whiny babies who couldn't appreciate good humor. |
| 733 | * ComplexityAddiction: [[StatingTheSimpleSolution Lampshaded several times by the Critic.]] |
| 734 | ** ''We're Back'': A horde of superintelligent dinosaurs are helpless to stop an old man because he has a contract. |
| 735 | ** ''Film/RedSonja'': the sorcerer could have [[HollywoodVoodoo kept stabbing Sonja]] when she charged him. |
| 736 | --->Maybe I should stab her again. Maybe I should stab her again. ''Maybe I should stab her again.'' |
| 737 | ** ''A Kid in King Arthur's Court'': he points out King Arthur could easily had Balasko executed for treason rather than employ the contrived plot they planned instead. |
| 738 | ** ''Captain N'': He notes that Kevin could have easily used his reality altering abilities in several ways to simply shoot Mother Brain. |
| 739 | ** ''Literature/{{It}}'': He wonders why the clown torments the children (badly) when he could simply kill them on the spot. |
| 740 | ** ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'': He notices that Kevin Costner's character manages to deliver a long speech ''and'' drop a flare blowing the boat up while being surrounded by a ton of armed Smokers. |
| 741 | ** Also in Waterworld he wonders why the normal humans treat mutants like scum and won't let them live in their society despite the mutants having gills can do dozens of things that can make life easier for the normals. |
| 742 | * CondescendingCompassion: He’s made a couple of jokes about mansplaining, like in the ''Film/WonderWoman2017'' clipless review with Batman saying “let me batsplain”. |
| 743 | * ConspicuouslyLightPatch: Makes fun of this in ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie'': |
| 744 | -->'''Critic:''' Look out for that bat! It's painted into the background, so obviously it's not going to move! |
| 745 | * ContinuityNod: Has [[ContinuityNod/TheNostalgiaCritic his own page]]. |
| 746 | * ContinuityPorn: |
| 747 | %% ** Let's just say the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' review won't work for you at all if you've only been watching the site for a short time. |
| 748 | ** ''Christmas With The Kranks'' was full of it, from reminders to how bad Critic's childhood was, to what his clothes were in the episodes before his normal outfit, plus the many memes he's tried to force over the years. |
| 749 | ** In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', there is a ''lot'' of nods to previous Hyper>Critic episodes; clips are shown from ''Princess Diaries II'' and ''Christmas Story II'' when Hyper is singing about [[spoiler: refusing to give up on Critic]], he's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uftck3AuXYI still]] showing some leg in order for worse things not to happen, and the [[spoiler: Hyper/Devil Boner ship from Fury Road is still going on]]. Hyper's statement of only being happy when she's got Critic as a CaptiveDate gets looked at again too, plus ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'' analysts using her. |
| 750 | ** The abuse family sketches have a lot of references to what Critic had said happened in his childhood, and Malcolm-child slowly turning horrible out of what he's exposed to is a reference to Ask That Guy's experience. |
| 751 | ** Fittingly for the last review in the 2013-2018 studio, The Nutcracker 3D is full of it, with Rachel acting more like Rebecca/Donnie (crazy and deluded but still decent) from WebVideo/DemoReel, even the Express VPN ad having a TRMGO CallBack with a Critic-ish Doug stealing the original's identity, Critic's WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee insecurity about people only watching him because he's loud, Rachel finding out her version of Home Alone sucks like 2007 Critic wrt his review in Kranks, and everyone watching Mrs Walker talk from the ending of the Worst Christmas Special. |
| 752 | * ContinuitySnarl: In a super minor behind the scenes example, when filming the Third Animated Titanic Movie, Doug said having his mum in the audience would be confusing as Critic's mom is meant to be dead. (This was before she passed in real life as well.) |
| 753 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: If you can consider movies to be "antagonists" then his treatment of [[Film/PatchAdams two]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Balto}} movies]] that are VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory come to mind. Both films arguably disrespected the people involved in the real events they covered, but whereas ''Patch Adams'' was emotionally manipulative {{Glurge}} which [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] its title character, ''Balto'' was at least legitimately entertaining and heartwarming on its own merits. |
| 754 | * ConvenientMiscarriage: He's rather disgusted by the miscarriage in ''Blair Witch II'' being there for no other purpose than {{gorn}}. |
| 755 | * ConvulsiveSeizures: Averted in ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks'', as he gets made to have a siezure and instead of flailing, he slows down, his eyes roll back and he collapses. |
| 756 | * CoolCar: When he reviews ''Film/SonOfTheMask'', the only thing in the entire film that he genuinely compliments is the "Charlie Sheen-mobile" that Mask-Tim gets for the final chase against Loki. |
| 757 | ** Devil Boner's car is so cool that the model of it gives Doug a boner in the behind the scenes. |
| 758 | * CoolOldGuy: |
| 759 | ** His grandfather ate sandpaper, told people that haunted woods existed and called himself Vanessa, but Critic still seems to like him. |
| 760 | ** [[spoiler: Don Bluth]] is a more threatening example, but awesome nonetheless. |
| 761 | * CoolVersusAwesome: During the "Cinderella: Old vs. New" segment, a grudge match breaks out between Benny the assassin and Devil Boner. Critic badly wants to go and watch, but Hyper Fangirl forces him to stay and finish the debate. |
| 762 | * CornerOfWoe: |
| 763 | ** As a kid, he used to hide in the cupboard when he was afraid, and loves ''Film/AChristmasStory'' for validating that detail and making him feel like he wasn't alone. |
| 764 | ** In ''Conquest Of The Commercials'', he's so upset about the ''mid-eighties'' AYDS chocolate commercial and their ignorance that he has to curl up in a corner. |
| 765 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: Joe Don Baker's character in ''Congo''. The Critic also comments that shooting down his satellite as revenge for putting the mission before the death of Bruce Campbell's character would put thousands out of work, [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality but was acceptable as long as JDB learned his lesson.]] |
| 766 | ** [[MeaningfulName Peter Soulless]] from the Critic's ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' review, the man who purchased the rights to every Dr. Seuss book so he could make movies out of them. Not only is he soiling your childhood with focus-grouped money-making ploys, but [[spoiler: he sold his soul to {{Satan}} to make them profitable.]] |
| 767 | * {{Cosplay}}: |
| 768 | ** There's been plenty of fans dressing like every character of Doug's, [[https://www.facebook.com/127127037353766/photos/a.465719730161160.105344.127127037353766/956423727757422/?type=3 but this woman]] got the honor of being called the best version of him he'd ever seen. |
| 769 | ** Tamara was really [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BIf9eR2DLJx/?taken-by=thetamaracamera delighted]] about someone dressing up as Aunt Despair. |
| 770 | ** Amusingly, according to Doug at Fan World, he'll pretend he's not actually himself and just a good cosplayer when he's not in the mood to get noticed. |
| 771 | ** On Halloween, apparently Hyper dresses as Critic and Devil Boner dresses as Hyper. Tamara's personal channel also included Hyper in a Velma Dinkley cosplay contest. |
| 772 | * CounterpointDuet: In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', “Wishing This Shit Never Happened”. Beth is singing about her love for the book Phantom, wishing that the musical version never happened, while Hyper is singing about missing the happiness she felt when she had Critic as a CaptiveDate, wanting to go back to times where she could imagine he liked her. |
| 773 | * CouchGag: |
| 774 | ** Every episode since the 100th ends with a quote from the movie played over the Channel Awesome VanityPlate at the end. |
| 775 | ** The [[DiscreditedMeme writings on]] [[TakeThat the gravestones]] as well as the people on the couch in the 2017 Nostalgiaween opening sequence are different in each episode. |
| 776 | * CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Black Willy Wonka says at the very start of the Hyper StoryArc that Critic could just unfriend her on facebook and stop seeing her EntitledToHaveYou posts, but Critic's need for attention wins out. |
| 777 | * CourtroomAntics: In his ''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' review, [[WebVideo/BumReviews Chester A. Bum]] takes the Critic to court for stealing his act. |
| 778 | * CoversAlwaysLie: |
| 779 | ** Critic's face and placement in the ''Film/LesMiserables2012'' title card make it look like this will be another angsty-arc episode for him. In the actual review however, he's given very little spotlight. |
| 780 | ** One picture on the TGWTG 4 DVD had Critic pointing a gun at his head with a desperate look on his face. This was nowhere to be found in any review. |
| 781 | ** ''Film/ThePurge'' title card, with Critic's PsychoticSmirk, makes it look like he'll be the bad guy. He's not, it's Film Brain. |
| 782 | ** One would assume from the ''Film/TheShining'' CallBack title card that ''Film/GhostRider2007'' would be a heavy episode. It isn't, understandably so given ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' being so dark and story-based. |
| 783 | ** Devil Boner is only in the ''Film/DemolitionMan'' review for a minute. |
| 784 | * CrazyPrepared: Creator/VincentPrice apparently thought that a conversation with the Nostalgia Critic while he was reviewing The Thief and the Cobbler was so important that he recorded many lines of conversation that somehow were the ''exactly right'' lines needed at the right time, decades before this review took place, long after his death. |
| 785 | * CreatorBacklash: Doug towards Critic in-universe, with ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' having a scene between them that isn't ''exactly'' like the WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee talk. |
| 786 | -->'''Doug''': God why did I write you so stupid? |
| 787 | * CreatorBreakdown: |
| 788 | ** Referenced in-universe during ''Film/JurassicParkIII'', as there's a sequel sketch of sorts to the child abuse scene from ''AI'' (with dad Doug forcing child Tamara to throw her doll away as she cries), and when it cuts back to Critic, he lampshades that he was in a dark place when he wrote that. |
| 789 | ** The Critic review of ''WebVideo/TheUncannyValley'' mocks-slash-lampshades that Doug is tired and has nothing left to offer so is getting other people to contribute to disguise that fact. |
| 790 | * CreepyDoll: |
| 791 | %% ** Teddy Ruxpin. And Tickle Me Amy. |
| 792 | ** The Traumatic Childhood-Cure Monkey Plushie. The actual plushie itself looks awesomely cuddly, but with a name like that and how he [[OnlyFriend treats it]] (not to mentioned it was properly introduced to try and make a victim of child sexual abuse laugh), the giggles are going to be uncomfortable. |
| 793 | ** He doesn't have much luck with bear toys especially, like in “The Uncanny Valley”, his popples toy cut him with glass and called him racial slurs. |
| 794 | ** Cindy in the ''Film/The6thDay'' review he did with That Sci-Fi Guy, although complaining about how scary it is ends up with a moment of him randomly pretending to give a blowjob. It doesn't even make that much sense in context, aside from {{fanservice}}. |
| 795 | * CringeComedy: |
| 796 | ** Jason, Jori, Rachel and Malcolm's TMZ characters yelping and clapping like seals in ''AI''. Even Critic looks embarrassed. |
| 797 | ** In a similar vein, the {{straw fan}}s in ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'' being treated as so dumb they make animal noises when Critic condescendingly gives them a “feeding time”. |
| 798 | ** Critic's PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy routine in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' after the Mad Hatter does his breakdance. Malice lampshades it by asking for the third time if he's sure he didn't escape from an asylum. |
| 799 | ** The opening of the TMNT crossover, with a song about how Critic and Nerd are wasting their lives playing over a montage of them failing at being any form of badass. |
| 800 | ** Critic being pathetic with the big guns in ''Doom'' while Hyper, Benny and Devil Boner look annoyed is both in character and hard to watch. |
| 801 | * CriticBreakdown: |
| 802 | ** The Critic has built a large part of his reputation on this sort of reaction, especially in regards to ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'''s notorious 'Bat Credit Card'. |
| 803 | ** ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' had him undergo such a breakdown that he had to be restrained by orderlies in three [[TimeSkip Time Skips]] throughout the video. Even after calming down, could not say or hear the words "Bat Credit Card" for years afterwards without leaping into another homicidal rage. |
| 804 | ** His review of ''WesternAnimation/FoodFight'' opens with him wandering into his home in a daze. He then snaps, destroying the DVD with the garbage disposal followed by frantically smashing every product in the kitchen which was featured in the film (or on the DVD jewel case). |
| 805 | ** ''Film/TheNeverEndingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia'' causes the Nostalgia Critic to go LaughingMad, go to the hardware store and buy a hammer, and smash the [=DVD=] in a fit of rage. |
| 806 | ** He gets so depressed during his review of ''Film/SonOfTheMask'' that he literally ''begs'' ''TheDevil'' ''himself'' ''[[DrivenToSuicide to kill him]]''. The Devil refuses, because he just loves idea the Critic is undergoing a FateWorseThanDeath. |
| 807 | * CriticalBacklash[[invoked]]: |
| 808 | ** In his review of ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'', he said the movie did have its good points, and overall was just [[SoOkayItsAverage mediocre]] rather than horrible. |
| 809 | ** In ''Rogue One'' behind the scenes, Tamara liked ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' (in an ironic way she has to explain) and Rob jokingly gets pissed at her. |
| 810 | * {{Crossover}}: Quite a lot.[[note]]Note that this list only includes crossover episodes that are hosted under The Nostalgia Critic channel other than anniversary specials. The show has done several other crossovers counted as episodes of the other shows, such as ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries: Baby Doll'' with CR, ''The Chipmunk Adventure'' with The Nostalgia Chick, two ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' sequels with Phelous, and Count Chocula with [[WebVideo/VampireReviews Maven Of The Eventide]].[[/note]] |
| 811 | ** ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'': WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick |
| 812 | ** ''[[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles TMNT Coming Out of Their Shells Tour]]'': WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd |
| 813 | ** ''Film/{{Alone In The Dark|2005}}'': [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] and [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]. |
| 814 | ** ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'': Linkara |
| 815 | ** ''Film/{{Leprechaun}}'': WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob |
| 816 | ** ''Film/SimonSez'': WebVideo/ObscurusLupa |
| 817 | ** ''Film/MoulinRouge'': Music/{{Brentalfloss}} and The Nostalgia Chick. |
| 818 | ** ''Film/ChildsPlay1988'': WebVideo/{{Phelous}} |
| 819 | ** ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'': Linkara |
| 820 | ** ''WesternAnimation/StarchaserTheLegendOfOrin'': WebVideo/BennettTheSage |
| 821 | ** ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'': WebVideo/DiamandaHagan |
| 822 | ** ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'': WebVideo/JesuOtaku |
| 823 | ** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'': The cast of ''WebVideo/EightiesDan''. |
| 824 | ** ''Film/TheWiz'': WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows |
| 825 | ** ''Film/TotalRecall1990'': WebVideo/ThatSciFiGuy |
| 826 | ** ''Film/LesMiserables2012'': [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]], WebVideo/PawDugan, and Brentalfloss. |
| 827 | ** ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'': The Cinema Snob |
| 828 | ** ''Film/ManOfSteel'': [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]] |
| 829 | ** ''Film/BloodRayne'': Spoony and Linkara. |
| 830 | ** ''[[Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance Ghost Rider 2]]'': WebVideo/MikeJ |
| 831 | ** ''Forest Warrior'': [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] |
| 832 | ** ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'': The Angry Video Game Nerd |
| 833 | ** ''Film/TheSmurfs'': WebVideo/AndreTheBlackNerd |
| 834 | ** ''Film/TheForceAwakens'': The Cinema Snob |
| 835 | ** ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'': Angry Joe |
| 836 | ** ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows'': The Angry Video Game Nerd and Andre the Black Nerd |
| 837 | ** ''Film/RogueOne'': WebVideo/ChrisStuckmann |
| 838 | ** ''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice'': WebVideo/SomeJerkWithACamera |
| 839 | ** ''Film/TheMummy2017'': The Angry Video Game Nerd |
| 840 | ** ''Film/DragonballEvolution'': Creator/MasakoX and Creator/LittleKuriboh |
| 841 | ** ''Film/TheLastJedi'': The Cinema Snob and Chris Stuckmann |
| 842 | ** ''Film/BatmanForever'': WebVideo/TheLastAngryGeek |
| 843 | ** ''Film/ThatDarnCat'': The Cinema Snob |
| 844 | ** ''Film/TheWall'': Corey Taylor of ''Music/{{Slipknot}}'', [[WebVideo/SatelliteCity Sam Fennah + The Kivouachians]] |
| 845 | ** ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'': The Cinema Snob, WebVideo/CinemaSins, and the Angry Video Game Nerd |
| 846 | ** ''Film/{{Cats}}'': The Cinema Snob |
| 847 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: In ''Man Of Steel'', Zod reveals what would have been Critic's fate if he'd given himself up in TBF: tortured until his corpse wouldn't be recognized as human. |
| 848 | * CryingIndian: When WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry start singing and dancing in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie''. |
| 849 | * CryIntoChest: |
| 850 | ** When Nash tells them he's going to do ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'', Malcolm cries on Tamara's shoulder. |
| 851 | ** After the first viewing of X-Men Origins Wolverine, Doug fails at being hitty and ends up crying on Rob’s shoulder, gripping his arm and saying he wants to die. Funnily enough, Critic in the actual review managed to keep pretty calm. |
| 852 | * CrystalDragonJesus: Evidently, the city of Cincinnati according to ''Film/BabesInToyland'', where the characters manage to be immune to a HatePlague by singing a song about Cincinnati. |
| 853 | * {{Cult}}: In ''Jem'', after making them sing a C note when Tamara stabs Malcolm in the eye, he then tells them to get their cult clothes on because they're having kool-aid later. |
| 854 | * CurbStompBattle: |
| 855 | ** Creator/LittleKuriboh guest stars on the Ponyo review and promptly beats the Nostalgia Critic up with a bat while casually telling him how angry he is that he assumes Critic is going to be insulting towards Ponyo. |
| 856 | ** While all of it was off-screen, Mr. Magoo delivers one to the Critic when the latter attempted to kill him. |
| 857 | ** ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' annihilating its remake 4-1 in the second "Old vs. New" battle (compared to most 3-2 match-ups). The Critic even admits that the 1971 film was the superior version ''even before starting the review''. |
| 858 | ** ''Film/TrueGrit'''s 2010 remake over its 1969 original also 4-1. |
| 859 | ** A few in "Freddy vs Jason": Ash from ''Franchise/EvilDead'' beats Ash from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''[[note]](she deleted the tweet but Tamara wanted a whole show where Jim/Ash just slaughter her different pokemon)[[/note]], Malice stabs Dorothy and Devil Boner blows away both Chester and Santa Christ. |
| 860 | ** Critic might abuse Malcolm and Tamara emotionally, but they always win when it comes to physical revenge beatings. |
| 861 | * CueTheFlyingPigs: In his review of ''Film/JackFrost1998'', the Critic is astounded by the idea that a light rock band playing "Frosty the Snowman" could make it big. "Yeah, right, and I'm in this month's edition of ''Entrepreneur''." He is. [[RealLifeWritesThePlot No, really,]] [[http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2009/december/204086.html he is.]] |
| 862 | -->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' They'll print anything these days. |
| 863 | * CurseCutShort: |
| 864 | ** This happens at the end of the ''Film/FreeWilly'' review, when the Critic tries not to say the title of the next movie (because if he says it he will have to review the movie), and finally does say it: |
| 865 | -->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' "''FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--''" *cut to the evil popcorn man* |
| 866 | ** After the ClusterFBomb over the initial [[TheReveal reveal]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'''s Once-ler, his hope that he will at least be a relateable {{Everyman}} becoming dashed by footage of his YoungerAndHipper personality produces an extended, restrained AtomicFBomb during a massive FreakOut. |
| 867 | -->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' "[[{{Angrish}} Ffffffff-ffffffffffff-ffffff-fffffff-ffff-fffffff-fffffffffffffffffffffff—]]... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking I don't care for that]]." |
| 868 | ** WebVideo/MikeJ's cameo in the ''Christmas Story II'' review, angry at Critic for reviewing yet another movie he's already done, calls him a “cu-” before getting cut off. |
| 869 | * CuteKitten: Doug got a new cat called Chaplin before the Critic's Alien vs Predator: Requiem, and spends most of the commercial break showing him off. He appears in several later reviews in either cameos or ad breaks, and later gets his own subplot with [[WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob Lloyd]] in the ''Film/ThatDarnCat'' review. |
| 870 | * CutenessProximity: Doug likes doing cutesy voice to Chaplin when the kitty comes in for pets during the first viewings. |
| 871 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: |
| 872 | ** The Critic notes that the titular Film/GhostDad could have made a lot of money for his children simply by proving his existence as a ghost to the public. |
| 873 | ** He also notes in the Flintstones Cocoa/Fruity Pebbles cereal commercials, Barney's constant zany schemes to steal Fred's cereal are easily hundreds if not thousands of times more expensive than just going down to the store and buying a box. |
| 874 | * CutSong: In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' commentary, Beth talks about wishing Doug as Critic could have sung more, and that they did actually have one where he's mocking both Phantom actors, but it was cut for time. |
| 875 | * CyanidePill: The Critic has one hidden away when he watches ''Batman & Robin'' after being deprived of all his other means of suicide. He tries to swallow it after hearing only two lines of dialogue. |
| 876 | * CycleOfRevenge: What will happen is Critic will make Rachel/Malcolm/Tamara suffer because he's a TroubledAbuser (even says in the ''Film/TheShining'' that he's RevengeByProxy-ing), they'll try to hurt him back, and he'll just make them suffer more with no question as to why they're angry. Doug is slightly disturbed by a lot of fandom being on Critic's side, and said in the ''Disney Afternoon'' commentary that Tamara and Malcolm are the ones to feel pity for. |
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