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| 9 | * HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Referenced in his review of ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNimh2TimmyToTheRescue'', in which one of the characters says something about changing his underwear despite not even wearing pants. |
| 10 | * HalloweenEpisode: Nostalgiaween is a month long (sometimes more if there is more editorials in October) celebration of the holiday. |
| 11 | * HamAndCheese: Discussed every now and then. In ''The Cat in the Hat'' they even add a "Not Caring Meter", topped by Jeremy Irons in ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000''.[[invoked]] |
| 12 | ** He also seems to single out and adore certain performances in bad movies for being seemingly intentionally hamtastic, such as Bullseye in ''Film/Daredevil2003'' and Linus/Minus in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavagirl''. |
| 13 | * HamToHamCombat: The Critic and Mati in the ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' review. |
| 14 | -->'''Critic:''' ''YOU DON'T MEAN-''\ |
| 15 | '''Mati:''' ''YYYESSSSS!! BATTLEFIELD EAAAAARTH!!!'' |
| 16 | ** Once Rachel and Malcolm become part of the cast, they will indulge in this between themselves or with Doug. Sometimes (and not applying to when he wants to do something more emotional) in the behind the scenes, Malcolm or Tamara will do a more downplayed line-reading and Doug will tell them to go bigger. |
| 17 | ** A NoSenseOfPersonalSpace screaming match between Devil Boner and Trevor-Warboy in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' is pretty homo ham. |
| 18 | * {{Hammerspace}}: In “The Dark Knight Returns”, he for some reason has a Batman mask and when Brian asks him where it got it from he replies: |
| 19 | -->'''Critic''': I don't know, I just put my hand behind my back and I have things sometimes. |
| 20 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'', Tamara literally pulls the Seuss-zero bottle out of her ass. And in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPlutoNash'', Malcolm pulls a champagne bottle out of nowhere and tells Tamara she doesn't want to know where he got it from. |
| 21 | * HannibalLecture: Played with, the director of ''Film/MyPetMonster'' just pitied him and asked him a few questions which he gave the answers to with increasing shame. His own self-esteem did most of the breakage. |
| 22 | * HappierHomeMovie: Critic may have been ungodly embarrassed by the videos Mara showed of him as a thirteen year old, but they're the nicest backstory for him that we're ever going to get. |
| 23 | ** A straighter example occurs in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', with sad music playing over teenage Critic's Tim Burton shrine, Malice thinking it's adorable, and Critic depressed in the background at how hopeful he used to be. |
| 24 | * HappilyEverBefore: According to the ''Film/ChildsPlay2'' crossover review, he's always wanted to hear a version of Hansel And Gretel where the parents don't abandon them and they all live happily ever after in the forest. Boy's got ParentalIssues, it's to be expected. |
| 25 | * HappinessIsMandatory: The Critic during his review of ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach''. Whenever he starts complaining, it results in a multiple DramaticGunCock untill he backs down. |
| 26 | %% * HappyDance: Frequently. |
| 27 | * HarsherInHindsight:[[invoked]] |
| 28 | ** An InUniverse example in his "Top 11 Dumbest Superman Moments" |
| 29 | -->"But I have to admit, for all the bad times, the ''Superman'' movies really do manage to put me in a good mood. Like seeing Creator/ChristopherReeve right before he had that tragic accident and died... Or Creator/MargotKidder before she went mentally insane... Or the shots of New York with the World Trade Center in the background... I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I'm going to go kill myself." |
| 30 | ** In-universe during ''Conquest Of The Commercials'', he's made extremely uncomfortable by a Jared Fogle ad, Bill Cosby and a ''mid-80s'' commercial for “ayds” chocolate. |
| 31 | ** When the 2007 Alvin sequel makes a joke about Donald Trump's most famous words being "you're fired", January 2017 Critic gets deeply uncomfortable. |
| 32 | ** He's made very uncomfortable by Ebert and Siskel trashing Bill Cosby for ''Film/LeonardPart6'' like it's the worst thing he's ever done, them obviously talking before the sexual abuse was known. |
| 33 | ** The "Spider-Man 3" advert script for Stamps was written before the Coronavirus outbreak, and Doug points out the awkward aptness of a site where you don’t have to go outside. |
| 34 | * HaveIMentionedIAmGay: Despite it making his guy parts happy, he still takes ''Film/TheHaunting1999'' remake to task for how horribly blatantly lesbian they made Creator/CatherineZetaJones's character to be compared to the original, who was more subtle (along with the horror), and how her sexuality is just used for {{fanservice}}. |
| 35 | * HauntedHeadquarters: Critic's reboot house (the one with red walls) is directly built over hell, and the studio is explicitly stated to worsen his craziness. |
| 36 | ** Lampshaded both in ''Film/TheShining'', where Critic suddenly doesn't want to film at his home anymore, and calls the studio “located on a harmless Indian burial ground that rests below the remains of a burned down insane asylum for homicidal schizophrenic orphans”. |
| 37 | * {{Headdesk}}: |
| 38 | ** He begins his review of ''Film/AKidInKingArthursCourt'' desperately trying to literally knock the memories of that movie out of his head upon the table. |
| 39 | ** He also does a wall version when reviewing "The Room". |
| 40 | ** He's absolutely desperate while reviewing ''Howard the Duck''. He bangs his head pretty severely. |
| 41 | %% The Review Must Go On is not HesBack. The trope applies to characters who have angsted, not ones who were killed off. |
| 42 | * HeIsAllGrownUp: ''Stuart Little'' has multiple pictures of the child actor showing off his six pack. Not really a case of Critic crushing on anyone, just pointing out that the guy could probably beat his skinny ass now. |
| 43 | * HehHehYouSaidX: The Critic does this to ''himself'' thanks to the Stephen King drinking game. |
| 44 | -->"Heh heh, 'come'." |
| 45 | ** And again when looking back at his unfortunate Mako incident. |
| 46 | --->"Heh heh, 'marlboros'" |
| 47 | * HeldGaze: He and Chick share quite a few in their review of ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest''. And Malcolm and Tamara also have a lot of these when they're onscreen (as 'themselves') together. |
| 48 | * {{Hellevator}}: The title card of the ''Film/{{Devil}}'' has Critic looking terrified while doors close and a hellish background is behind him. |
| 49 | * HellIsThatNoise: |
| 50 | ** The title song of "The Review Must Go On". It's not the sadly triumphant original of ''Film/MoulinRouge'', or the resigned metal version of the reboot, it's one with really flat notes, fade outs in wrong spaces and a ghostly choir backing the guitar. |
| 51 | ** At the end of ''Garbage Pail Kids'', when he's transported to the bad movie, there are a lot of low, altered ...''sounds'' that just make you feel uneasy. |
| 52 | %% The Critic's HeroicBSODs, especially the "My Pet Monster" one, belong on the character page. |
| 53 | * HePannedItNowHeSucks: After giving a negative review to ''Film/{{Hook}}'' while admitting up front that he still really liked it, the Critic was flooded with requests from fans to review more mainstream nostalgic fare, in the hopes that he'd give similar "snarky, but positive" reviews to the movies that they requested. After giving ''very'' negative reviews to fan-requested films like ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'' and ''Film/TheFlintstones'', he was attacked for bashing the films by the very same people who had requested that he review them, leaving the Critic to wonder why exactly they had requested them in the first place. |
| 54 | ** His review of ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'' is an InUniverse example of this. |
| 55 | ** Then there's his ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'' review, in which guest stars and convention audiences ''assume'' he's going to pan it and beat the snot out of him in increasingly creative and brutal ways. |
| 56 | ** In “Top 11 Worst Avatar Episodes”, he ducks “for no particular reason” while the audience shoots at him. Malcolm and Tamara also tell him that this is a bad idea, and he tries his best to dodge hate by saying these are just “worse by default”. Plus! [[spoiler: He gets Creator/DanteBasco in for the next week's “Top 11 Best Avatar Episodes” to make up for it.]] |
| 57 | ** The reaction to Matrix Month was lampshaded by Tamara and Malcolm in ''Film/MammaMia'', both of them complaining that said movie won't get hits and that he should do another month because people keep on hate-watching that. |
| 58 | ** Inverted in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', as men want him dead for liking ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'' the best, and even Curiosa doubts that he's a man because of it. |
| 59 | * HereWeGoAgain: After commercial Tamara dies from fuckitall in the ''Blues Brothers 2000'' review, Critic wants some at the end so he can forget his own name. Considering he totally blanked out the former happening, it's tough to say whether he knew what was going to happen or not. |
| 60 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: Villains for sure, but Hyper Boner and Aunt Despair/Uncle Lies definitely have lives outside of Critic. Hyper even condescends that to Critic at the end of Phantom when he’s pissed off for her chasing him while still being with Devil Boner, and Critic lampshades the latter, saying the more he finds out about them and the crazy shit they do, the less he knows. |
| 61 | * HiddenSupplies: Malcolm has a whiteface costume in the woods just in case Critic decided to try and kill him. |
| 62 | * HighlyVisibleNinja: The Critic chastises the ninjas in ''3 Ninjas'' for not being stealthy. |
| 63 | * HighSchoolIsHell: |
| 64 | ** In his review of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', he says the show was what he thought high school would be like before his dreams were shattered. |
| 65 | ** "The classroom is where dreams go to die, get it right!" |
| 66 | ** In ''Disney Afternoon'', he says in a StepfordSmiler tone that watching the titular cartoon program was a way to deal with the “mental scars of a tremendously flawed education system” and “awkward social punishment”. |
| 67 | ** In ''Christmas With The Kranks'', we actually get to ''see'' teenage Critic sitting in an emo corner, getting bullied by the “Doug Funnie” people. |
| 68 | * HilariousOuttakes: His review of ''Film/TurboAPowerRangersMovie'' includes them over the credits, including Rachel as Rita leaning her head back and her headdress falls off, [[spoiler:Linkara]] struggling to get his ranger helmet off for TheReveal, and the Critic's "posing" in ranger form including the Macarena. |
| 69 | * HistoricalInJoke: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the ''We're Back!'' review, as a quote from the Critic flat-out states that anyone unfamiliar with Creator/HunterSThompson won't understand most of the jokes used in the review. |
| 70 | * HitlerCam: Used on Evilina and the Devil in ''Film/SonOfTheMask'' while Critic is crying on the ground. Gets an IronicEcho in ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', where it's Evilina being infantalized on the floor, and Critic is with the Devil helping him out with torture methods. |
| 71 | * HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: The Critic complains about Bastian refusing to use the Auryn to escape danger on ''Film/TheNeverendingStoryIITheNextChapter'', predominantly because while the potential for backfire is revealed, there's no way Bastian could have known. |
| 72 | ** Which is nothing compared to his frustration in the third movie, where said disadvantage does not exist yet he still doesn't think to use it, unlike his sister and the Nasties, whom the critic feels are better heroes (more accurately, they'd make better protagonists). |
| 73 | * HollywoodDarkness: The Critic points this out in his review of "Cop & 1/2". |
| 74 | * HollywoodHealing: Points this out in ''The Secret of NIMH 2''. |
| 75 | -->"You could be dying of ''CANCER'' and a fucking bandage on your head would fix it!" |
| 76 | * HollywoodHomely: |
| 77 | ** [[invoked]] In ''Film/Catwoman2004'', the BigBeautifulWoman friend with ample cleavage is dubbed over by the Critic as not reaching Creator/HalleBerry's attractiveness. |
| 78 | ** He gets angry with ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPlutoNash'' for acting like Rosario Dawson (who in his view, flawless-looking) needs a better bust and ass. |
| 79 | * HollywoodHypeMachine: Mentioned in the review of ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsMovie''. |
| 80 | -->"He's played by Mickey Rooney. Former biggest star in the world and now doing, eh, Care Bears." |
| 81 | * HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: |
| 82 | ** ''Film/BridgeToTerabithia'' had Malcolm and Rachel strongly imply they thought Critic is going through this, as they complain at him to take his childhood fantasies elsewhere and both want to leave him by the end. |
| 83 | ** In a ContinuityNod to both the first commercials and ''Film/ScoobyDoo'', the middle of ''Disney Afternoon'' (the whole episode is him trying to delude himself that he's a kid again), has him realize that [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee despite his best efforts]], he's still talking about cartoons for a living and nothing's changed. |
| 84 | ** When Critic and the others have a “boy club” in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', Tamara outright tells them off for being middle-aged men trying to recapture childhood. This comes after her saying she's having her own problems with this trope and wants to join in their hiding away from reality. |
| 85 | ** Also visible in the ''TMNT'' crossover with the Nerd, especially with the opening song lampshading that they're over thirty, whining about nothing and have wasted their lives. |
| 86 | ** His first main StoryArc was how much he hated his job and what his life had become. It was a long one (and still pops up every now and then), his motivation in the movies and multiple episodes devoted to it. |
| 87 | * HollywoodToneDeaf: With Doug, you're either going to get him showing off his opera voice or a purposely cringey one used for comedy. Even Beth wished he'd shown off more in the ''Film/PhantomOfTheOpera'' review commentary. |
| 88 | * {{Homage}}: The entirety of the ''We're Back'' review is performed InTheStyleOf Creator/HunterSThompson. |
| 89 | ** A few parody specific scenes. The opening of "The OTHER Titanic Movie" is Darth Vader's birth in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', a scene with [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]] in ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' parodies the infamous "[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan KHAAAAAN!]]", and ''Film/SonOfTheMask'' has Santa Christ doing Gandalf in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing Fellowship of the Ring]]''. |
| 90 | * HookersAndBlow: Pops up every now and then. In what is a nice change from the norm, though, he doesn't act like all prostitutes are women (he in fact becomes one himself in a BadFuture) and he's pissed at ''Film/MilkMoney'' for implying that it's easy to get out of that life. |
| 91 | * HopeSpot: In the climax of ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', Tim Burton reminds Critic that one bad film does not mean an artist's career is doomed forever, and [[Film/BigEyes his next film]] is something Critic actually finds original and interesting. But then that movie gets replaced with a gothic ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' adaptation, and he and Malice are depressed and Critic is angrily saying he's forgotten what he's learned. |
| 92 | ** Chester believes that Critic telling the viewers to take care of themselves at the end of “NC Talks About Transformers 4” is him starting to get nicer again, but Critic disproves with another hit from the baseball bat. |
| 93 | ** ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' has Critic getting visions of Doug bouncing around in his Avatar vlogs (before he even says anything about the franchise) and then the implication that he absorbed everything [[note]]as there were quite a few personal rants in said vlogs[[/note]] that Doug had said. You'd think both of those would humanize the creator to the creation, but it just ends up in a particularly bitter scene later on in the episode. |
| 94 | ** Two in one for maximum sad at the end of ''WebVideo/TheUncannyValley'' review, as first he angsts in a mirror about being redeemed [[spoiler: turns out he was just talking about fixing the actual mirror]] and secondly he asks why would he demean something others enjoyed [[spoiler: for money]]. |
| 95 | ** Even though there are brief moments, Hyper never understands in ''Princess Diaries II'' that manipulating Critic and distracting him from what's going on with boy stuff is wrong and not love in the slightest. |
| 96 | ** With the site needing him back to make money and TRMGO making his sacrifice a paradox, Critic trying desperately to be better in Scooby Doo and TBF and succeeding becomes this. Accordingly, he gives up, gets worse and morosely mentions later that CharacterDevelopment isn't always positive. |
| 97 | * HopeSpringsEternal: Unlike the Chick, who sees the world in a HopeIsScary light, he's a sucker for anything that shows people are/will eventually be good at heart. |
| 98 | * HorribleHollywood: |
| 99 | ** Doug's bitterness about Hollywood (and how someone like him wouldn't survive there) carries over from ''WebVideo/DemoReel'', though less “Hollywood treats women badly” and more “Hollywood execs are corrupt and the place is full of hypocrites not getting the meaning of fair use”. |
| 100 | ** Played for laughs in ''Film/TheRocketeer'' section of ''Top 11 Underrated Nostalgic Classics'', as he says he always knew Hollywood was run by nazis. |
| 101 | ** For not shocking reasons (especially as people have noticed that Demo Reel and Bojack tackle similar themes), he thinks ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' is one of the best shows ever because it deals with how much of a broken illusion Hollywood is. |
| 102 | * HostileShowTakeover: Critic's ''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' review ended up [[spoiler:being done by Chester A. Bum after he sued him for stealing his style.]] |
| 103 | ** In ''Transformers 4'', Chester starts reviewing it but Critic knocks him out (with a quick summary of this 'storyline') with a baseball bat so he can rant. |
| 104 | ** In ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks'', 2007-Critic locks 2015-Critic in a cupboard so he can do 'old style reviews', but it works out more depressing than you'd expect. |
| 105 | * HomoeroticSubtext: Has [[HomoeroticSubtext/TheNostalgiaCritic his own page]]. |
| 106 | * HowlOfSorrow: PlayedForDrama finally in ''Film/ScoobyDoo''. Listen to the Walker commentary and you'll hear Doug making embarrassed noises. |
| 107 | * HowWeGotHere: ''WesternAnimation/FoodFight'' begins with the Critic crossing the DespairEventHorizon before destroying a bunch of food products. It then flashes back an hour to show the Nostalgia Critic reviewing Foodfight. |
| 108 | * HumanPackMule: Both Rachel and Malcolm get to be Critic's in the beginning of ''Film/TheShining'', as he has one box of furniture and calls that heavy lifting, while they have tons and are exhausted. |
| 109 | * HumansAreCthulhu: Invoked while reviewing environmentalist movies. |
| 110 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTg5Ldqm8ME MAN!]] |
| 111 | * HumiliationConga: |
| 112 | ** Mara Wilson ends up giving him one at the end of his review of "A Simple Wish". |
| 113 | ** Tamara and Malcolm get quite a few of these, for the most part undeserved because Critic is a MeanBoss DrunkWithPower. As Doug said, for the most part he treats them like his dolls instead of actual people. |
| 114 | * HurricaneOfEuphemisms: In the review of ''Film/TheRoom2003'', when Lisa asks if Johnny is dead [[AskAStupidQuestion as he lies with his blood pooling on the floor]]: |
| 115 | --> '''Lisa:''' Is he dead? |
| 116 | --> ''[The Critic looks shocked and frustratingly re-enacts the moment, trying to comprehend what Lisa just said and before exploding, he calmly says...]'' |
| 117 | --> '''Critic:''' Well, yes. Yes, he is, young lady. He has passed on. This person is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff. Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If he didn't shoot himself, he'd be pushing up daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket! He's shuffled off the mortal coil! Run down the curtain and joined the friggin' choir invisible! ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis This...is an ex...PERSON!]]'' |
| 118 | * HurricaneOfPuns: In his review of the ''Film/DoubleDragon1994'' movie, he criticizes the film for poorly-done puns ("What a head case!"). He then gives numerous examples of puns they ''could'' have used instead: |
| 119 | --> '''Critic''': It's ''curtains'' for you! May I ''sweep'' you off your feet? Ball's in ''your'' court! It's time to get ''pinned''! |
| 120 | * HumongousMecha : in his review of Turbo a power rangers movie he uses one to effectively quell a monster and later to grapple with the giant version |
| 121 | * [[invoked]]HypeBacklash: |
| 122 | ** Doug himself has done videos with his own examples, including "The Top 10 Movies Everyone Loves But I Hate" ([[Film/MoulinRouge the #1]] even got a review of its own!) and some WebVideo/BumReviews/Doug's Take (latest being ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''). |
| 123 | ** In ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' he states that Mike Myers was not that funny to deserve being ubiquitous, and that movie marked the point where his routine of SoUnfunnyItsFunny and OverusedRunningGag started to run thin. |
| 124 | ** In his parody of “Let It Go”, he and Tamara sing about how obnoxiously everywhere both the song and movie are. Some ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' fans sent him enough hate that Doug pointed out he was singing in character and AsHimself he was one of those irritating people who were singing the OST five months on. |
| 125 | ** Discussed again in “Can Hype Kill A Good Film”, mostly about ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', although his conclusion ends up with “just be grateful you have backlash on a film (I assume) you liked”. |
| 126 | ** Double subverted in-universe as he builds up [[spoiler: Film/TheMonsterSquad]] all throughout the “Top 11 New Halloween Classics”, decides to do a review of it, realizes he probably shouldn't hype it up too much, but then comes back and says he should because it's amazing. |
| 127 | ** Critic has this for a while about ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', thinking it's a great film but not the ''best'' of the franchise, but being chased and a non-straw conversation with Curiosa changes his mind. |
| 128 | ** Both Doug and Rob really love ''Film/HomeAlone'' and told Tamara and Jim they'd enjoy it as well (and cry at the mom). The latter two weren't so keen. |
| 129 | * HypocrisyNod: He has a giant rant about ''Transformers 4'' about how you should be nice and form your own identity and want to be challenged, but when Chester buys into the pretty speech, Critic hits him again with the bat, showing that he himself has no intention of being nice to someone he once looked after. |
| 130 | ** While he mentions and shows how the movie version of Avatar pronounces the names differently, he also references the ''long'' backlash from Doug's pronunciation issues (not helped by Rob coming in later openly wanting to pronounce the names wrong) by saying “to harp on this would be too hypocritical”. |
| 131 | ** In the ''Garfield'' behind the scenes, they mock Hulk Hogan's racism, and Doug points out that they're doing this while whitening up Malcolm. |
| 132 | ** In ''Film/TheSmurfs'', he has a rant about bad movies distracting kids with “movement porn” because they have nothing else, and then Chester ends up admitting that ''his'' show is full of jump cuts because Doug is still working out what to say. |
| 133 | ** In the ''Dreamcatcher'' review, the Critic expresses his frustration about having run out of ways to lampshade the recurring tropes in Creator/StephenKing's works, complaining that while King might be comfortable with doing the same things all the time, he is not. All the show's RunningGag then briefly flashes on screen, and the Critic quickly adds "For the most part..." |
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| 137 | * InconsistentEpisodeLengths: Older episodes are usually about 10-30 minutes long, but post-cancellation usually episodes range from 20 minutes to a half-hour. Editorials tend to be shorter than that, but clipless episodes and other intensive reviews can go as long as 45 minutes or even an hour at the latest. Compare Critic's old review of the Nicktoons and SNICK blocks, which are about 15-20 minutes, and the modern reviews of the Fox Kids and Toonami blocks, which fall within 45-60 minutes. |
| 138 | * IAmNotLeonardNimoy: If the actor in any film is famous enough, the Critic will not even bother to learn the characters' names, just referring to them by their actors' names. |
| 139 | --> '''Critic''': So we see our main character Ian Malcolm. Oh fuck it, let's just call him "Creator/JeffGoldblum" because we all know that's who he's really playing. |
| 140 | * IAmNotShazam[[invoked]]: In his ''Film/MaryPoppinsReturns'' review, Critic refers to [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Simba]] as simply "Lion King." |
| 141 | * IAmNotSpock[[invoked]]: If an actor is not too well known but did play a well known character in the past, the Critic will refer to them by that character's name. |
| 142 | * IdeaBulb: Tamara [[https://twitter.com/CallumOReilly2/status/733092355906150400 retweeted]] that when Hyper gets an idea, a picture of the Joker appears over her head instead of a lightbulb. |
| 143 | * IDidntTellYouBecauseYoudBeUnhappy: Mama Critic's reasoning for not telling her child that she was sick. As she's always been abusive and he's basically in tears when he hears of her death, it's ambiguous whether this is genuine and she really did love him in the end, or the doctor is making her look nicer. |
| 144 | * IdiosyncraticWipes: Derides the overuse of curtain wipes in ''Film/BattlefieldEarth''. In the ''Sonic The Hedgehog'' episode, Nostalgia Critic tried to push the clip with Bison away. In a later review, he kept pulling another shot into frame to see if the Cinema Snob was still talking about ''Series/{{Manimal}}''. |
| 145 | * IdiotBall: Malcolm and Tamara's mutual intelligence rapidly increases/decreases depending on whether Doug needs Critic to be in the right during a particular episode or not. Like with many things this was 'solved' with meta, as Critic says in ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'' that their smart levels are at the mercy of his writing. |
| 146 | * IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: In the ''Transformers 4'' crossover, when they still think that [[spoiler: Bay]] is human, Erod tries to kill him [[FelonyMisdemeanor for inducing nerd rage]] but remembers Linkara saying this so can't. Critic, who has had some moral screws loose ever since comeback, shoots him anyway. [[spoiler: Then it turns out Bay's a transformer so he gets a CruelAndUnusualDeath with no guilt.]] |
| 147 | * IgnoranceIsBliss: |
| 148 | ** While Doug has defended/discussed this in more detail during his own vlogs, “Why Lie About Santa” brings this up, as although realizing Santa isn't real can be beneficial because you now make it fun for younger kids, there are a lot of times where the truth is just destructive and you're better not knowing anything. |
| 149 | ** At the end of ''Matrix Revolutions'', Critic clearly knows something is wrong, realizing Malcolm/Tamara haven't smiled in a while and walking outside his studio in a reversal of the “leaving your universe” scene in WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee, but he only consents to hanging out with them if they promise to talk about nothing heavy. |
| 150 | * IgnoredConfession: Tamara and Malcolm both tell Critic at the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' that they hate him and want revenge, but he dismisses them with a “that's great” until they reveal they're making him do ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}''. |
| 151 | * IgnoringBySinging: Hyper does this when Devil Boner argues [[Film/EvilDead2013 the remake]] is better than the original ''[[Film/TheEvilDead1981 Evil Dead]]'' in in ''Old Vs New: Evil Dead.'' She keeps doing it even when Devil Boner starts shooting off his gun to make her stop, though he calls her out when she stops for Critic (and then she goes back to doing it). |
| 152 | * IHatePastMe: ''Christmas with the Kranks'' has the Critic trying to do a non-effort video similar to his early reviews. So it eventually comes down to arguments with his past self ("[[ICantBelieveImSayingThis I never thought I'd say this]], but you have my permission to beat the shit out of me"), and complaining on how he filled his work with gratuitous clips, awkward acting, and many a ForcedMeme attempt. |
| 153 | * IHaveYouNowMyPretty: |
| 154 | ** The beginning of ''Starchaser'' has Sage commit the great feat of giving off major vibes of this without even being in the same room as Critic. |
| 155 | ** Some of the con members in the ''Anime/{{Ponyo|On The Cliff By The Sea}}'' end credits look a little too lusty when they're holding him down or strangling him. |
| 156 | ** Referenced in ''The Guyver'' when “Evil John Kerry” has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace with a kidnapped woman. |
| 157 | -->'''Sage''': How would you like that staring at you in the morning? |
| 158 | -->'''Critic''': I would literally shit my own dick. |
| 159 | ** In the BadFuture of 2019, Snob keeps Critic as a SexSlave, and Brad plays up the sleazy pimp aspect, getting in his personal space, grinning as he says “get cracking sugar”, and limbering up as Critic kneels down to do the thing. |
| 160 | ** At the end of ''Film/SmallSoldiers'' review, Hyper has the most disturbing smile ever when she's at the foot of a sleeping Critic's bed. |
| 161 | ** Hyper Boner in “Evil Dead Old vs New” make it pretty obvious that kidnapping Critic is a kink for them. |
| 162 | * ImAManICantHelpIt: In "Why Is Loki So Hot", he forces a close-up on Black Widow's cleavage, stating that as a man her boobs can't let him look away. Never mind that he's bashed this trope before. |
| 163 | ** When Critic questions why ''Turbo'' made Zordon's special effects so bad again, Malcolm Zordon explains that they gave all their money to Divatox's cleavage. Critic agrees it was a sacrifice that had to be made. |
| 164 | ** Hyper Fangirl manipulates his need to think with his dick by distracting him with TestosteronePoisoning comics, Playboy, and violent video games. He ends up seeing right through her when she fucks up regarding the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' franchise. |
| 165 | * ImaginedInnuendo: |
| 166 | ** In Hyper's MME vlog when she crashes the panel, she asks Critic if he wants to build a snowman with her, Rob responds with “is that what the kids are calling it now”. |
| 167 | ** In the early ''Harry Potter'' video, Critic gets all YaoiFanboy for Frodo/Sam and says “is the 'Gray Haven' what they're calling it now?” when the Gandalf cosplayer tries to steer away from that topic. |
| 168 | * ImAHumanitarian: In the "Follow That Bird" review: |
| 169 | --> '''Chester A. Bum''': Meanwhile, Bert and Ernie are flying, Super Grover is flying, and Oscar is flying, except on the ground, and Cookie Monster ate his car because he thought it was a cookie! I thought ''my'' car was a cookie once! But it wasn't a cookie. Or a car. It was ''MAN''. |
| 170 | * ImGoingToHellForThis: Invokes this trope after he finished ''Film/DunstonChecksIn''. |
| 171 | * TheImmodestOrgasm: Critic is apparently loud in bed (Doug was even mocked about it by his dad), and Spoony tells The Other Guy [[http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11256735 in Spooning With Spoony 3]] that “you make noises just like your brother”. |
| 172 | ** As heard by "Freddy vs Jason'', Hyper and Devil Boner are very loud together, to the [[BattleCouple surprise of nobody]]. |
| 173 | * ImmuneToBullets: The Critic's gun works on anyone he shoots at, except for [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} Lady Tremaine]]. |
| 174 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: The NC parodies this in his ''Film/{{Commando}}'' review by firing his pistol in every random direction he can think of (including ''at his own head'') and still hitting soldiers. |
| 175 | * ImpliedDeathThreat: In his review for The Smurfs 2, he asks to himself if Blue can fit in a blender. |
| 176 | * InCharacterLetsPlay: His LetsPlay of Bart's Nightmare has him playing while in character for the whole video. |
| 177 | * IncestSubtext: |
| 178 | ** In behind the scenes videos, Doug and Rob Walker have flirted with this on a couple of occasions. During their slightly drunk Christmas video they managed to go from "I love you, man, you're a kick-ass brother" to "Gay and incestuous! You heard it here, folks!" in about two minutes, via a discussion of Doug's balls. |
| 179 | ** The DVD also has Doug stripping slowly out of wet clothes while Rob films and hums supposedly stripper music, bantering back and forth with lines like "I'm saving this for our honeymoon" and "You know you want this shit". According to Doug in the commentary, they did this a lot. |
| 180 | ** In the second DVD's menu, Rob (or his camera) is rather insistent on seeing Doug in the shower. |
| 181 | ** In the Snob/Phelous review of ''Troll 4'', a weepy, wasted Critic moves his arm down from the Other Guy's shoulder to his waist. |
| 182 | ** In an interview with Random Odds, they admit to being so baity that they didn't even need fic, but Rob still wants more, 1,000 word minimum. |
| 183 | ** In a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYZc3vC7b2g& rehearsal video]], Doug acts like a pony and asks Rob to ride him. Rob tackles him to the floor and noms on his neck instead. |
| 184 | ** People making fun of them tend to go for the “Doug and Rob are married to each other” joke. |
| 185 | ** Briefly at the beginning of the ''50 Shades'' review, as Doug wants to do a joke where he's in Ana's position and Rob in Grey's. Comes up again in ''50 Shades Darker'', where it's still Doug = Ana looking to be hurt and Rob = Christian Grey doing the spanking. |
| 186 | ** The ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' behind the scenes has a fair amount, from Rob aggressively asking Doug what ''hasn't'' been in his mouth, to an AlmostKiss near the end. |
| 187 | ** In the ''Film/HocusPocus'' behind the scenes, Rob squeezes Doug's Wilfred breasts and Doug fakes being turned on. |
| 188 | ** Teased in ''Chille-Tid'', when Doug rests his head on Rob's shoulder with PuppyDogEyes, kisses it and tells him “I really need you, you're my fusion.” |
| 189 | -->'''Doug''': [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Twincest!]] Even though he's older than me. |
| 190 | ** In ''Cry For Help'', Doug wants at least five fusion fanart of him and Rob, and Rob says the incest fanart they keep getting is bad enough. |
| 191 | * IncrediblyLongNote: He's a master of these. In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', Beth and Tamara give him a run for his money, each having one at the end of "Fandumb Of The Opera" and "Hyper Fangirl" respectively. |
| 192 | * IndecisiveParody: The reloaded reviews. The premise is that Critic's bashing his own movies and being completely innocent of that fact, but there's more than a few moments where he complains of RealitySubtext (like the Nazi joke was thought to ruin the internet of the time) and it descends into less bashing of the plot holes and more attacking their FemaleGaze. This could be explained by the reviews being Michaud's idea, not Doug's. |
| 193 | ** As the PreviouslyOn for the second half lampshades, the review of ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' has no focused idea about whether it's satirizing the Avatar show or Korra. |
| 194 | ** Much like the film, the ''Film/DemolitionMan'' review can't decide whether it wants to mock TestosteronePoisoning (it starts by having him eat a heart) or celebrate it (female-heavy tumblr is an acceptable target for example). |
| 195 | * IndividualismVsCollectivism: Parodied in a Christmas Special, which turns the ItsAWonderfulPlot formula on its head by revealing that ''everyone'' would have had a better life if the Critic had never existed, including the angel that was originally sent to convince him otherwise. After defending himself when said angel tries to eliminate him, Critic concludes that it doesn't matter if everyone else's life is worse without him, because he knows one person who benefits from it: [[ItsAllAboutMe himself]]. |
| 196 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: |
| 197 | ** Critic likes to pull out ''massive'' bottles of Jagermeister for certain reviews. As in, ''as big as the entire planet.'' |
| 198 | ** In the Shark Jumping/Critic crossover ''Critic Tank'', Tim immediately pours himself some wine when Hyper starts going on about forcefully kissing Critic. |
| 199 | ** Tamara's spot in the 2018 intro features her downing a bottle. |
| 200 | * INeedToGoIronMyDog: In ''Literature/BridgeToTerabithia'' review, The critic does an image spot of an adult Jesse and adult Leslie meeting up and it is very clear Leslie doesn't remember Terabithia as a fantasy world but ''real world'' and ''the people want their King (Jesse) to be with their Queen'' once more, adult Jesse uses this trope and runs for his life. |
| 201 | * InferredHolocaust: |
| 202 | ** In his review of ''Film/{{Congo}}'', the Critic points out in-universe that destroying the satellite puts thousands of people out of their jobs. |
| 203 | ** He points out that in ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark'' that causing plants to grow all over the city most likely killed thousands of people and destroyed the city. |
| 204 | * {{Infodump}}: The Nostalgia Critic often criticizes movies for having forced exposition, like in ''Congo'', ''The Next Karate Kid'' (see quote below), and ''Casper''. |
| 205 | -->'''Julie:''' My name is Julie! My mother's name was Susan! She was killed in a car accident with my father and they're both dead! |
| 206 | -->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' And the award for "Worst Exposition Ever to be Uttered in a Movie" is... "The Next Karate Kid"! (applause heard) You suck! |
| 207 | ** He also criticizes ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' for dumping too much exposition. |
| 208 | * InformedAbility: The Critic points out the warriors in ''Film/WarriorsOfVirtue'' show none of their described attributes. |
| 209 | * InMediasRes: ''FoodFight'' begins with Critic supposedly so broken after just watching the movie that he's triggered into a meltdown, but by the ending it's revealed that he managed the film, but it's the fact that it was a waste of time and he won't be getting money that drives further down the insanity. |
| 210 | * InNameOnly: The Critic describes ''Masters of the Universe'' like this in-universe. |
| 211 | * InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: |
| 212 | ** ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet'' is an early episode but has a few first appearances of things that would become important later, like Ma-Ti, Critic being bitter about abusiveness in his past and getting out of depression for a minute only to be literally smacked out of it. |
| 213 | ** ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' introduced his penchant for being in abusive relationships (break up with someone three times and they start stalking you), habit for crossdressing and going overboard with drugs (mescaline in this case) to help with his brain. |
| 214 | ** TMNT 2007. Aside from accidentally starting the Mako RunningGag, his insecurity and fucked up sex life gets first explicit mentions, and Doug said later that this was the first [invoked] PanderingToTheBase he did. ''Series/FullHouse'' adds on the first time that he hates his audience for making him live like this. |
| 215 | ** ''Junior'', a review done in early 2010, has Critic getting upset because he's not doing his job well, something that'll keep on recurring, and his dream sequence has [[{{foreshadowing}} Ma-Ti judge him for crimes against humanity]], a phrasing he even calls back to in WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee. |
| 216 | ** ''Film/RichieRich'' managed to get an entire plot summary of WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee in a random joke, and nobody even noticed it until months later. |
| 217 | ** In ''Thomas And The Magic Railroad'', Critic has a mini-breakdown over him and his world being Adam Baldwin's delusion. [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee He's half right]]. |
| 218 | ** Not innocent in that sense, it's very dark, but ''AI'' had a breakdown from the Critic ''and'' a cameo from Doug. What makes innocent is that neither were addressed, but what makes it important is that Critic's SanitySlippage and all the reality lines fading got established for later. It's also right before "Master Of Disguise" which really kicks the former storyline into gear. |
| 219 | ** "Is It Right To Nitpick" is the first editorial to talk about illusion, the most common theme in the reboot, and it wouldn't be the last time he makes a point of it. It also talks about noticing the mistakes behind the curtain, something his show shoves right in the audience's face from ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' review onwards. |
| 220 | ** "Are Superheroes Whiny Little Bitches?" is an editorial talking about superhero films and whether the leads complain too much, but Critic makes a reference to being the PlotHole, comparing himself to the Superman of ''Film/SupermanReturns'' and setting up DarkMessiah implications. |
| 221 | * InsaneTrollLogic: The way he tries to crack the "secret message" in the Angry Video Game Nerd's reply to his message. To his credit, he ''was'' close. It was actually "Lick my balls, you piece-of-shit Nostalgia Critic." |
| 222 | * InstantlyProvenWrong: In ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks'', he calls being back "home" the "good old days" before his abusive mom yells at him. |
| 223 | * InsistentTerminology: His conviction that Robin's father from ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'' is Indiana Jones (complete with theme music). |
| 224 | ** When watching ''Film/TheMatrix'', upon hearing that Neo's birth name was Thomas Anderson, he refuses to call him anything other than Tom. |
| 225 | * InstrumentalThemeTune: A lyric-less version of "The Review Must Go On" opens all reviews from 2013 onward. |
| 226 | * InsultToRocks: He says the Olsen twins are like Barbie dolls but adds that "but to be fair, I think the dolls are a little less plastic." |
| 227 | * TheInternetIsForPorn: |
| 228 | ** Pops up in his reviews of ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest'' and ''Milk Money''. And when he reviews Ponyo and sees Ponyo's [[TinyGuyHugeGirl human father and spirit-of-the-ocean mother]] holding the father in her hands, he comments macrophiles are enjoying this before telling the viewers to get away from the search tab to look up what he meant. |
| 229 | ** When reviewing the live-action ''Scooby Doo'', the younger Critic asks "Does the internet ever become anything or do we still just use it for porn? ({{beat}}) It's porn isn't it?" |
| 230 | * InternetJerk: The meninists in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' can only hurl abuse at women online, and instantly get nervous when they meet up with Curiosa. Doug also says in commentary that men who mansplain about women and other minorities have never actually tried to get the actual subject's opinion on anything. |
| 231 | * InternalHomage: |
| 232 | ** In the ''Film/LesMiserables2012'' review, Kyle and Paw get in Critic's personal space and put him on the spot like Brent and Chick did in ''Film/MoulinRouge'' for the “El Tango De Roxanne” number. He gets out of it easier this time by having a middling opinion. |
| 233 | ** [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BTXFHI1CUAA50n1.png This shot]]. Rachel, Critic and Malcolm are in the exact same position as Rebecca, Donnie and Tacoma, but to again show that the niceness is gone, Rachel then bloodbends Critic and he yells at her. |
| 234 | ** "Is The Big Lebowski A Masterpiece?" takes place in the computer room instead of the usual just so Critic could take the same position as Doug did before the two started interacting in "The Review Must Go On". |
| 235 | ** When Critic goes catatonic at the end of ''Film/TheShining'', Rachel doesn't understand what he's doing and Malcolm explains to both her and the audience Critic's thought processes, in a way that is far too close to [[WebVideo/DemoReel Rebecca and Tacoma]] doing the same thing after finding out Donnie's mom died. Of course (character, not actor) Rachel and Malcolm are much less nice than those two and decide not to care. |
| 236 | ** A Doug character going crazy in a kitchen while a Malcolm character tries to gently deal with him. Are we talking about the opening for "A Worst Christmas Special Ever" or the opening for "The Review Must Go On"? |
| 237 | ** It happens again with the beginning of ''Film/TheWickerMan2006''. Both Donnie and Critic hummed "The Review Must Go On" and then got freaked out by weird things happening. |
| 238 | ** The burst of flame in the opening theme song is exactly the same one we see in ''Film/SonOfTheMask'' when the Devil hears Critic's screaming and gets off on it. |
| 239 | ** Malcolm hitting Critic with the baseball bat in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' is the same camera shot used when Rebecca beat the turkey in WebVideo/DemoReel. |
| 240 | ** In ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries II'' and ''[[WebVideo/DemoReel Blue Patches]]'', a Doug character asks someone keeping him captive how long they're going to keep him there, and they lie until they see a movie together when really they're not about to let him go at all. |
| 241 | * InterplayOfSexAndViolence: |
| 242 | ** Parodied in his review of ''Film/PearlHarbor'', attributing Creator/MichaelBay's successes to him filming non-sexual shots like they were porn, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything ending in mind-blowing explosions]]. |
| 243 | ** In "Freddy vs Jason'', Critic wants a death battle between Devil Boner and Hyper, and the offscreen sex is violent enough for him to call it a draw. Plus the sounds are filthy. |
| 244 | * InTheStyleOf: |
| 245 | ** WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob, for a review with him. He drops it after a few minutes and the realization that he lacks the Snob's pitch range. |
| 246 | ** ''We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story'', copying Creator/HunterSThompson. |
| 247 | * IRejectYourReality: |
| 248 | ** In his review of The Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan's ability to resist bloodbending similar to [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Amon]] is attributed to him caring nothing for the basic rules of the setting and blatantly ignoring them. |
| 249 | ** ''Everyone'' does it in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', the men literally hiding away from reality and Tamara destroying it, all so they can not have to think about anything (like money) that's bothering them. |
| 250 | * IronicEcho: Has [[IronicEcho/TheNostalgiaCritic his own page]]. |
| 251 | * {{Irony}}: Has [[Irony/TheNostalgiaCritic his own page]]. |
| 252 | * IrritationNightmare: In "[[Film/JurrasicPark Jurassic Park]] III," Critic gets recurring nightmares of memes that he never wanted to do again but keep popping up anyway, which he dubs "night-memes." |
| 253 | * ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: He says it's unfair to call ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' a cheap Disney knockoff: It's an expensive Disney knockoff. |
| 254 | * ItMeantSomethingToMe: ''Cinderella Old vs New'' offers up a big ShipTease for Benny/Hyper, when she says her being with Devil Boner won't mean anything to Benny, and we cut to him quivering. |
| 255 | * ItsAWonderfulPlot: The 2010 Christmas special has the Critic's Guardian Angel show him what others' life would be like if the Critic had never existed. Turns out most of them would have much more successful careers (ranging from WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob being a successful porn star to [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]] being PresidentEvil) and his Guardian Angel would be God's NumberTwo. |
| 256 | * ItTastesLikeFeet: Smell variant in ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'', as Tamara hates the closet because “it smells like dead armpit”. Of course Critic's killed plenty of people, and she's good at torturing guys, so they (Malcolm doesn't say anything) probably do know what that smell is like. |
| 257 | * ItsBeenDone: The commentary of the above mentioned video reveals Doug's disappointment upon finding out that {{subvert|ed trope}}ing ItsAWonderfulPlot wasn't as original an idea as he thought it was. Though at least he's the first to have the story explore what the Guardian Angel's own life would be like without the protagonist. |
| 258 | ** This is also why he said he will never review ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' -- ''everyone'' has riffed it, there's nothing new he could bring to the table by taking his turn at it. A few years later, when he backtracks and does the ''Star Wars'' movies for Disneycember, he admits he's saying the same thing as everyone else. |
| 259 | * ItsPersonal: As a UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}an, he felt personally offended and betrayed by Creator/DanAykroyd for making ''Film/BluesBrothers2000'', given how [[Film/TheBluesBrothers the original film]] is considered an iconic part of the city's pop culture legacy. |
| 260 | * ItWillNeverCatchOn: |
| 261 | ** Critic's attitude towards ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' when he was younger, which he explained in his review of the Power Rangers movie and "this is why [he] is not in the stock market". |
| 262 | ** The beginning of ''The Dark Knight Returns'' has Critic get excited about a new [[WebVideo/DemoReel show he's planning]], before getting crushed by Brian (who in reality is very open about missing the show) who cackles and says nobody will watch it. |
| 263 | * IWantSong: [[https://sharkjumping.bandcamp.com/track/hyper-fangirl Hyper Fangirl]]. While Critic understandably doesn't want to hear a gloating song about his stalker and takes the focus away from it, it has the execs wanting her to stay so they can use her, and Hyper declaring her and Critic as “destiny”. |
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| 267 | * JackassGenie: In his ''Film/{{Kazaam}}'' review, the Critic wishes that the movie never existed. This ends up with him bashing ''Film/CitizenKane'', much to the audience's displeasure. |
| 268 | * TheJailbaitWait: He calls a sixteen year old Kirsten Dunst in ''Film/SmallSoldiers'' “not old enough to be considered hot yet”. |
| 269 | * TheJeeves: Three have popped up. One called Carl in the ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'' review to give him a drink, and another called Bernard in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavaGirl'' to give a joke on a silver platter and leave when Critic wants to be bratty. Another one with yet another name, Garçon (who snarks that his name means “boy” and Critic is an idiot for calling him that), appears in the ''Film/OsmosisJones'' review to give him a menu of bad jokes. |
| 270 | * JeopardyThinkingMusic: Used in the ''North'' review when trying to find a joke, and then again in the ''WesternAnimation/RoverDangerfield'' review when Rover in thrown into a truck with a bunch of corn. |
| 271 | -->"What is dumbest fucking possible joke that could be used as a punchline for this scene?" (answer: [[[spoiler:I'm turning into a corn dog]]). |
| 272 | * JawDrop |
| 273 | ** When he sees the Rock Biter singing while riding a rock motorcycle in ''Film/TheNeverEndingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia''. |
| 274 | ** Also, when reviewing ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTheTitanic'', after the scene where the girl's tear magically lets her speak with dolphins, the Critic [[TemptingFate jokingly speculates that a gang of sharks]] sank the ''Titanic''. This gets confirmed in the very next scene, and the Critic reacts accordingly. |
| 275 | * JekyllAndHyde: In ''The Mask'' editorial, he likes the comic because it's about giving into your demons and how much of that giving in is needed and how much goes too far, even bringing up the story of Jekyll and Hyde. |
| 276 | * {{Jerkass}}: The Nostalgia Critic considers Peter Banning from ''Film/{{Hook}}'' to be this, then acts out a hypothetical scenario where Peter's kids ask him questions and he answers them bluntly, like refuting the existence of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and God. After Peter's kids cry from this startling info, he insensitively asks, "Oh, ''WHAT''??" |
| 277 | * JerkassHasAPoint: How the Critic feels towards Creator/CharlieSheen when, in a scene from ''[[Film/ScaryMovie Scary Movie 3]]'' parodying ''Film/{{Signs}}'', Sheen points out the biggest gripe the Critic has with the parodied film: |
| 278 | -->'''Charlie Sheen''': [The aliens] mastered space flight, but they can't get through a wooden door?\ |
| 279 | '''Critic''': You see what you did there, [[Film/{{Signs}} movie]]?! You see what you did?! ''[[FelonyMisdemeanor You just made Charlie Sheen right about something!]]'' |
| 280 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'' behind the scenes involves essentially this, as Rob doesn't disagree about the fangirl flaws Tamara's character embodies, but tries to tell Doug that making her look like a crazy BasementDweller is pretty shitty to the real fangirls who just want to like him. |
| 281 | ** In his review of ''Princess Diaries 2'', Chris Pine's character (who is trying to steal the throne) tells Mia's grandmother that Mia is unfit to rule since she knows nothing about the people of Genovia; she was born in another country and has spent little time in the nation she's meant to rule, while he was born, raised, and schooled there. The Critic notes this is a perfectly valid point. |
| 282 | ** Critic insults ''WebVideo/TheUncannyValley'' a lot in his DVD-exclusive review of it, admitting it's because he's a jealous brat who wasn't there, but calling ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' Doug's [[invoked]] masterpiece while TUC was just him being exhausted, is something that nobody is going to argue with. Not even Doug and Rob, who admitted in an interview that they only did another anniversary special because Michaud told them to. |
| 283 | * JewishMother: Rachel for a sketch in the ''Film/ManOfSteel'' review. Notable because even Malcolm expressed criticism in the behind the scenes video, as Doug (who is part German) wanted to make her “the most obnoxious JewishMother” ever. |
| 284 | * JigsawPuzzlePlot: There's loads of subtle bits of foreshadowing, hints, characterization, and backstory revealed over the course of the series. It's common for people to find that one-off lines in some episodes take on whole new meanings after later developments. Sometimes people don't even realize that there ''is'' an overarching storyline until the Critic says or reveals something that causes loads of RewatchBonus. |
| 285 | * JokeExhaustion: This is a common gag in the reviews. |
| 286 | ** At the start of his ''{{Film/North}}'' review, the titular character hyperventilates and faints, and his father is quick to suggest "loosen his pants" as treatment. What follows is the Critic's top ten list of jokes, most of them suggesting the main character's father is [[CrossesTheLineTwice an incestuous pedophile rapist]]. |
| 287 | *** He does a top ''fifteen'' list of jokes he could make about David Bowie's crotch bulge in ''Film/Labyrinth.'' |
| 288 | ** During ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', he comes across a scene where a woman's hair is shaped like a penis. [[FreezeFrameBonus A list of possible penis hair jokes appears on the screen]], and he selects one. |
| 289 | ** Again, after seeing the infamous scene in 'Film/TheWickerMan2006'' in which Nicolas Cage's character [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext clotheslines a woman while wearing a bear suit]], the Critic is tormented as to which joke to make, and eventually goes with all of them. |
| 290 | * JustJokingJustification: While Critic certainly is no doubt a character different from Doug with his own evolution, [[http://lindsayetumbls.tumblr.com/post/85265948108/tgwtgsecrets-its-only-a-character-for-years Lindsay]], [[https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/463735541926596608 Kyle and other producers]] have criticized the “Critic's a character and so you can never get offended by anything he says” excuse that a lot of fans trot out. |
| 291 | ** Up for debate how about self-aware it is, but Critic bashes this himself in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'', when he responds to the executives excuse of "it's satire" with "how does laughing at the bad things you do make them any less bad?" |
| 292 | ** When Doug tries it in the behind the scenes of ''Lorax'', overly defending the fangirl jokes before anyone even complains, Rob needles him a lot, reminding him that he trashed Loki fangirls too and his not wanting to look Tamara to look normal doesn't exactly reassure anyone that he's not being a sexist dick. Doug ends up admitting that all the mean sexual comments made about him are to do with the character creation, and will talk about that more in later vlogs. |
| 293 | ** After the ''Fury Road'' review, [[https://twitter.com/MalcolmtheRay/status/656253382252982272 Malcolm]] told meninists in the comment sections that if nobody gets that they're apparently satire, it's not good satire. Doug also insulted them in ''Rising Tides Crashing Skies'', saying that for a group that apparently doesn't exist, they sure got defensive and proved the review's point. The commentary also points out that there is literal footage of Tom Hardy being asked did it suck to work with women, so you can't act like the misogyny against the film isn't real. |
| 294 | ** Discussed in “When Does A Joke Go Too Far”, as he concludes that it comes down to intent. Some (in his view) can use the “it's satire” excuse, while others (who he thinks have proved asshole behavior elsewhere) can't. |
| 295 | |
| 296 | * JustTheWayYouAre: Twisted a little as they've both unapologetically done awful things, but Devil Boner wants Hyper just the way she is. |
| 297 | * JugglingLoadedGuns: The Critic accidentally shoots Bert and Mickey Mouse after watching ''Quest for Camelot''. |
| 298 | * JumpingTheShark: Used correctly in-universe a few times, but misused other times, like with ''Film/IndependenceDay'' and ''Film/TheNeverEndingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia'' uses (since he didn't think those movies were good before the points he mentioned). |
| 299 | ** Though in the latter case, he did say "This is not jumping the shark." |
| 300 | -->'''Critic:''' This is jumping the shark, coming back, shooting it in the balls, raping it, eating its flesh, consuming its soul, mounting its head on the wall... ''AND THEN DOING THE SAME THING TO TWELVE MORE FUCKING SHARKS JUST TO BE SAFE!'' |
| 301 | * JumpScare: CAAAAATTTT!!! |
| 302 | ** [[Film/DoubleTeam CHAAAAIR!]] |
| 303 | ** [[Literature/{{It}} BALLOOOON!]] |
| 304 | ** In his review of Care Bears In Wonderland, he takes [[NightmareFace the freaky face]] the wizard makes during his [[VillainSong song]] and attaches it to the end of the Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark trailer. DAMN, is it effective! |
| 305 | ** In his Superman The Animated Series review he intentionally uses this to draw away the perverts from [[ItMakesSenseInContext Lois Lane's]] PantyShot. |
| 306 | ** In his Old VS. New of Manhunter/Red Dragon, at the last second of the review, as he's ordering take-out [[ShoutOut liver with fava beans and a nice Chianti]], [[CallBack Casper]] jumps out of the phone and latches onto his face. |
| 307 | ** The ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' review has "Alan!", though the repeated attempts to scare him with it (outside the movie) irritate him more than scare them. |
| 308 | ** In the review of ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', he comments the obnoxiousness of using a "vroosh!" sound-effect to make a Jump Scare scarier. Then Malcolm walks by with new sneakers that make the sound. Tamara also does lots of them in the same review, prompting the Critic to say "it's a bad day to be me." |
| 309 | --> '''Critic as Nicolas Cage''': Are you there? I can hear your vroosh. |
| 310 | ** In ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', Carrot Juice popping up to steal Critic's “home movies” memory stick. Effective because Critic was actually doing something mundane for once and so it's more of a surprise. |
| 311 | ** In "The Review Must Go On" review, before episode-Critic shows up in the mirror, review-Critic tells people that if you're in something with a creepy atmosphere, doing anything in front of a mirror is a bad idea because this always happens. |
| 312 | ** A common RunningGag for the later "Commercial Specials" is that they open with the usual sponsorship message... before the Critic appears out of nowhere to giddily scream "COMMERCIALS!" right in your face. While it is PlayedForLaughs, it's jarring enough to get a jump out of you. |
| 313 | * JustBetweenYouAndMe: In ''Devil'', Shya-Amon has Critic alone and on the floor, and wastes more time talking at him instead of just doing the MindRape thing he did in ''Film/TheLastAirbender''. |
| 314 | * JustHereForGodzilla: In-universe during his review of his home movies, as he refuses to do them even though he [[YouBastard knows]] one of the main reasons you bought the DVD is because you want to see him humiliate himself. |
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| 316 | |
| 317 | [[folder:K]] |
| 318 | * KarmicDeath: According to him in ''Film/TheCinemaSnobMovie'', a "mobile phone in the eye" death is appropriate punishment for spying on someone getting undressed. |
| 319 | * KeepingTheEnemyClose: In the review of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', Optimus Prime discusses this trope when wondering why Megatron keeps [[TheStarscream Starscream]] around despite the latter [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder always trying to betray the former]]. According to Optimus Prime, Autobots [[DefiedTrope don't believe in this trope]] and instead JustShootHim. |
| 320 | * KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Literally (but played for laughs) [[https://t.co/hx6eK58KQt when they're all screeching about Muppet Babies]], Doug fake dies and Rob kicks him. |
| 321 | * KidHasAPoint: The little girl in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' review keeps calling out the inconsistencies and inaccuracies in Aunt Despair's story of the review, but Aunt Despair doesn't try to correct them because she thinks the girl is stupid. |
| 322 | * KilledMidSentence: |
| 323 | ** The alien in the ''Film/IndependenceDay'' review is starting to realise that "Stephanie's" spaceship isn't piloted b-- *BOOM* |
| 324 | ** Spoony-as-Terl in the ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' review only gets out "Oh—" as his final words before he's blown to smithereens. |
| 325 | * TheKillerInMe: Invoked for laughs in his review of Film/TheCell: |
| 326 | --> All right, people, after months and months of research we have come to the conclusion that our suspect does officially have hands. Put on search everybody with hands! Move it, move it, MOVE IT!!!... My God... What if I'm the...? |
| 327 | * TheKindnapper: Subverted by Hyper Fangirl in ''Princess Diaries 2'', who pretends to be OneOfTheBoys with Playboy, comics and video games because she wants Critic to have StockholmSyndrome, but played straight by her assassin who goes from holding Critic at gunpoint to being on his side at the end of the review. |
| 328 | * KinkyCuffs: |
| 329 | ** In ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', when Critic's kidnapped by the fanboys, there's a shot of his hands chained behind him. Next shot is him managing to get out of them. |
| 330 | ** In ''Spy Kids 3D'', he randomly takes out some handcuffs that he [[BrainsAndBondage just so happened]] to have under his desk. |
| 331 | ** When Devil Boner and Hyper tie him up in ''Old Vs New: Franchise/EvilDead'', they put him in fuzzy pink handcuffs apparently designed by Hyper herself. |
| 332 | * KinkySpanking: Brad added more fuel to the Critic/Snob ship in his Jesus Bro livestream, saying he's Critic's pretend daddy and that's why he spanks him so much. |
| 333 | * KnightOfCerebus: The introduction of the Devil in ''Film/SonOfTheMask'' made things ten times darker very early on in reboot, and Critic is always more of a DeathSeeker around him. |
| 334 | ** Because of their [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee history]], Zod is far more threatening than the Reboot RoguesGallery because his threats actually terrify Critic, he's allowed to cut through all the straw, and manages to hold him hostage. |
| 335 | ** Before VillainDecay, Shya-Amon was the only reboot RoguesGallery villain (apart from Zod) to scare and hurt Critic without being made straw, and his shown talent-bending is much less like the explained “make any good actor give a DullSurprise performance” and more like MindRape. |
| 336 | ** While she's more pitiful than the other two, things tend to get darker when Hyper is around. Doug said at a con early on that he wanted to make the arc "a miserable love story" (with clarifying that Critic was never going to be in love with her back). |
| 337 | ** Critic's abusive parents have provided angst and blacker comedy since the show started. |
| 338 | * KudzuPlot: Critic canon was always a JigsawPuzzlePlot, even in early years, but with reboot and all its meta and different characters and arc words of illusion, remembering everything for whatever PlotThread he'll have this week is somewhat difficult. Even when explanations do come, very little gets resolved. Lampshaded by Doug in ''The Last Airbender'', as he complains that he's been making the world too convoluted. |
| 339 | [[/folder]] |
| 340 | |
| 341 | [[folder:L]] |
| 342 | * LameComeback: In ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'', Tamara telling Critic to lick her ass isn't a great insult either, but his "fuck you" reply back is pretty lame. |
| 343 | * LamePunReaction: |
| 344 | ** In ''Film/TheNeverendingStoryIITheNextChapter''... |
| 345 | --->'''Critic:''' I guess she had to put her face on.\ |
| 346 | '''Audience:''' [[CollectiveGroan Boo!]] |
| 347 | ** Goro [[note]] The four-armed "alien prince"[[/note]] from ''Mortal Kombat'' has "really been working on his forearms." |
| 348 | --->'''Audience:''' [[CollectiveGroan Boooo!]]\ |
| 349 | '''Critic:''' Oh, what? What? |
| 350 | ** From The Avengers, when the heroine gets tackled by her clone, who's wearing a giant teddy bear suit. |
| 351 | --->'''Critic:''' Well, it looks like ''somebody's'' having a bad ''bear'' day. *ducks as the audience tries to shoot him.* |
| 352 | ** In the ''Film/DemolitionMan'' behind the scenes, when Jim tries on the pink cuffs and calls them actually comfortable, Doug puns “they're cuff-torble” and Rob tells him genuinely to "shut the fuck up". |
| 353 | ** When Benny tells Critic he ''aims'' to please (context: he's pointing a gun to Critic to keep him hostage for Hyper), Critic only lets out a bitter laugh. |
| 354 | * LampshadedDoubleEntendre: |
| 355 | ** Rapey example in the second Midwest Media Expo vlog. Hyper wants Malcolm to give her Critic's hotel room number, and when he says no “because he wouldn't appreciate it”, she [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud does the wink wink thing]], still in usual NoMeansYes mode. |
| 356 | ** Nothing's made of it in the review, but in the ''Alvin'' behind the scenes, Tamara gets a bit YaoiFangirl at Scallon/Jim clinging onto Doug's thighs, and Rob is asked about it by Malcolm and sighs "it doesn't really matter". |
| 357 | ** Hyper Boner is an apt name for Hyper and Devil Boner's SickeninglySweethearts CasualKink BattleCouple, [[https://www.facebook.com/TamaraLChambers/photos/a.696509190379301.1073741828.695308043832749/1269742796389268/?type=3 and when a technician saw Tamara's file name]], he thought it was porn. The ''Chipwrecked'' review spends about half of the wedding sketch cracking jokes at the ship name. |
| 358 | * LampshadeHanging: At the end of his ''Film/DoubleDragon1994'' review, after having had a pretty rough month: |
| 359 | -->(after getting shot in the forehead) "Is it just me or have I been dying a lot recently?" (dies) |
| 360 | ** Sad version in the ''Film/{{Paranoia|2011}}'' review, as "Demo Reel was the PlotHole the whole time" is included as a twist that doesn't make sense, leaving him to blink back tears. |
| 361 | ** He complains in ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise'' that the music is trying harder than Dana Carvey, a complaint aimed at Critic too for his music-backed-speeches. |
| 362 | ** In ''Film/LesMiserables2012'', Critic sing-shouting to Floss that he's got it covered with his current crew and doesn't need any more help was seen as less talking about him, Paw and Kyle, but more about how isolated he's been since he got Rachel and Malcolm. |
| 363 | ** In ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', Rachel shills Critic's reviewing ability but it's his/Doug's ability to act that actually gets him into trouble, lampshading again that Critic's not there to be a reviewer ([[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee which even he knows he's bad at]]), he's there to be a character. |
| 364 | *** After having a concerned rant about white actors playing Inuit characters, and Indian characters playing Japanese characters, he asks Rachel (a white woman playing Katara) and Malcolm (a black man playing Sokka) if they can imagine constantly misrepresenting characters by constantly getting their skin colors wrong. They all obliviously agree it's awful. |
| 365 | *** Critic's sappy reboot speeches have never worked, but the episode is the first one to openly mock them with both Malcolm and Shya pointing out they're useless. |
| 366 | ** In “WTF Is Up With The Ending With The Graduate”, he calls playing “Sound Of Silence” three pivotal times in the movie “a crazy fucking idea that involves the song actually playing a purpose”, well aware that his playing the first WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee trailer instrumental (that came from ''Film/TheGraduate'') is serving a purpose too. |
| 367 | ** When Critic decides in ''Film/TheShining'' that why bother filming at home when he has a perfectly good studio, Rachel and Malcolm get in on the meta game by complaining that where they actually filmed was really inconsistent. Rachel also tells Critic that she wishes she could remember a time when he's ever been nice to her, but can't think of any moment. And after insulting Creator/AnnaSophiaRobb's looks in ''Film/BridgeToTerabithia'' and getting backlash, in this he makes fun of the little boy's teeth, gets booed, and is made to look like a StrawHypocrite with defending himself weakly but then getting mad when a picture of himself as a kid is shown. |
| 368 | ** Huge in ''The Dark Knight Returns'' crossover with WebVideo/TheLastAngryGeek, as the beginning takes place after WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee, and the thought of coming back to life upsets him because “it'd be a major cop-out and everyone would see me as a total phony”. |
| 369 | ** The ''Uncanny Valley'' review is overloaded with it, even ''starting off'' self-deprecating on the [[invoked]] ToughActToFollow nature of WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee. |
| 370 | -->'''Critic''': What happens when you make a successful [[WebVideo/TGWTGYearOneBrawl website anniversary special]]? And then make an even bigger one the [[WebVideo/{{Kickassia}} the next year]], make an even ''bigger'' one the [[WebVideo/SuburbanKnights next year]], and then [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee make the biggest, most viewed and most expensive one that they've ever made]]? You say “fuck you, I'm tired and would rather have other people contribute to cover up the fact that I have nothing left to offer”. These are their [[WebVideo/TheUncannyValley tablescraps]]. |
| 371 | *** Also, by TMI-ing that he's been building up sexual repression for a while, he turned the SexIsEvil tone of the reboot into SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny. |
| 372 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'', [[HypocriticalHumor before he does a load of speeches anyway]], he barges in to the office, and Analyst 1 snarks that he's a Seuss nazi who'll be giving them a “pep talk”. This is also the review that gets shown when ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' self-deprecates about him acting like no other opinion matters but his. |
| 373 | ** The “Top 11 Best Avatar Episodes” has Critic groaning about how his body can take so much abuse but not even get a scratch. Also works for how (as he's talked about in several cons [[note]]and even jokes in-video-freeze-frame that he hasn't eaten for days[[/note]]) Doug is horrible to his body in various ways just to get shit done and it still hasn't bitten him in the ass. Yet. The episode also has Critic hiding in the comment sections (it makes sense in context... kinda) and Dante lampshading the ridiculously heavy meta on the reboot by shouting “your fourth wall jokes won't save you!”. |
| 374 | ** Critic's tiresome speeches get called out again in ''Maximum Overdrive'', as Malcolm's character (who had bored Critic with his own explanation of why King is so great) rolls his eyes and says he got bored halfway through. He also took a hit at his anvilly foreshadowing tendencies, with Cenobite Malcolm revealing himself to Critic and Critic complaining about how heavy and obvious it was. |
| 375 | ** In ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', it's shown that Critic is more than aware he's a [[invoked]] VanillaProtagonist, saying he knows that the other characters are more interesting but he's the WhiteMaleLead so he gets the focus. |
| 376 | ** In ''The Sixth Day'' crossover with That Sci-Fi Guy, he's accidentally beamed onto Guy's lap and obviously has his arms around him. When he's beamed back, he asks why he was in that position to begin with. |
| 377 | ** At the beginning of “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”, he's suspiciously calm (with a chill pill patch) and states that he's not doing a big Christmas joy explosion because a lot of people found it scary. And of course he needs to be pretty and marketable and not get in trouble. |
| 378 | ** In ''Matrix Reloaded'', Tamara's characters always wanting Doug characters somehow was mocked when she under brainwashing randomly tells him she's in love with him. |
| 379 | ** The Montage Of Skits in ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'' has Doug fully admit to saying they're perfectly good ideas, but they're usually too filled with pointless violence, too much straw and even usual characters (mindless puppets as Chester said) being just there for acting like the author's mouthpiece. |
| 380 | ** In the Nerd movie, when Mandy does this by hoping she wouldn't have to objectify herself with a CatFight but has to, Critic tells her “just because you say you're doing it doesn't make it any better”. Which doubles as HypocriticalHumor on his part. |
| 381 | ** He knows you'll think ''The Plot To Frozen II'' is just clickbait to get him views, and combines it with [[invoked]] PanderingToTheBase when the unseen audience makes him do the Bay TMNT movie with the Nerd. |
| 382 | ** In another show, Beth says how fucked up it is to have a woman isolated from all her friends. [[TheSmurfettePrinciple Cue Tamara]]. |
| 383 | ** After he got a load of heat for doing ''Film/JurassicWorld'', he self-deprecates in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' that he doesn't do much nostalgic stuff any more, and mentions that review by name. |
| 384 | ** ''Film/Garfield'' has Critic note that the reviews he does always manage to tie into his personal life somehow. |
| 385 | ** Once Hyper comes in to ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', Critic reacts with fake surprise and calls her “punchline” instead of her 'name', lampshading that she's only ever been a TakeThatAudience at fangirls who have creeped on him. |
| 386 | ** ''Christmas With The Kranks'' acknowledges Doug's weight loss over the years, with Santa Christ calling 2007 Critic “slightly overweight”. The behind the scenes takes it further, with Doug saying he needed a different costume for his younger self because it was too hard to make himself look fatter, and would have bought baggier jeans if it hadn't meant changing clothes constantly. |
| 387 | ** In ''Tangled vs Frozen'', he says he doesn't know anyone who actually has the mindset of FourthDateMarriage, before showing a picture of Hyper and complaining “that's not a person, that's a nuisance”. |
| 388 | ** In particularly lecture-y editorials, he'll often put in a line before or afterwards acknowledging that he's a hypocrite who has no room to talk. |
| 389 | ** The end of ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'' mocks his tendency for "Critic vs the world" episodes, with Critic getting his head up his ass about this very thing and yet the priest is asleep. |
| 390 | -->'''Priest''': God you do go on. |
| 391 | ** In ''Dreamcatcher'', when Malcolm and Tamara are convinced that wetting themselves means alien invasion, Critic admits he feels bad for writing them so dumb sometimes. They agree that it's annoying. |
| 392 | ** To mock ''TMNT 2'' and the MadonnaWhoreComplex, the review has Aiyanna as Sexy Harley and Heather as Strong Bitch, and Heather says "it's okay, I'm here so she's allowed to look like that". In the behind the scenes, Tamara completely cracks laughing and sarcasms "that's how female characters work!". |
| 393 | ** In a MUD2MMO cameo, he sympathizes with Tyger not wanting to do reviews, referencing how Doug keeps saying he'd rather play with characters and stories. |
| 394 | ** In "Old vs New: Evil Dead", Critic deadpans he might as well be Princess Peach the amount of times he gets kidnapped. |
| 395 | ** In his X-Men 2 commercial for Audible, Doug comes out of SanitySlippage mode to say that Animal Farm is a genuinely good book and he doesn’t know what he’s doing with these commercials. |
| 396 | ** The Aww Girls, women who like watching cute stuff, are regularly mentioned to be flat as hell, being better adjusted versions of the complicated Hyper and can be replaced with "D'aww Girls". |
| 397 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: Santa Christ does this to Critic to help him forget the ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial''. |
| 398 | ** Bennet the Sage claims to be the devil, and that he can do this for the Sequel Month. When the Critic takes him up on it, Sage angrily rebukes him for actually believing him. Critic says he would have given Sage "everything" in return, and Bennet decides to play along after all. Strangely, [[YourMindMakesItReal it seems to work]], leaving Sage pondering whether he really ''is'' the devil. |
| 399 | * LaterInstallmentWeirdness: The later episodes of the first run definitely qualify as this, starting with the ''Film/MoulinRouge'' review in November 2011 (the point where the show's creator Doug Walker realized that he was ready to move on from the Critic). From there the reviews became more analytical as opposed to just fake ranting, he started covering more high profile nostalgic films (such as ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' and ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''), and most of the videos became either crossovers with other Website/ChannelAwesome reviewers or filled with cameos up until the end of the show's run in June 2012 (and [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee the official end of the character]] in August). The episodes done after the series' [[{{Uncancelled}} revival]] in February 2013 have more or less picked up this approach, with the addition of a larger cast and the Critic reviewing newer, non-nostalgic films as well. |
| 400 | * TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: Doug has a thing for years-long {{call back}}s, so something said off-hand even in the beginning episodes (like being allowed to have a gun as a child) is eighty percent likely to either serve as a bigger storyline (in this case his TraumaCongaLine backstory) or as as BrickJoke much later. |
| 401 | * LeastRhymableWord: Like ''The Grinch'' review, the Critic starts off ''The Lorax'' with rhyming lines. Then he hits '''orange''' and drops it. |
| 402 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "Everything You Know is Wrong" by Weird Al Yankovic has become synonymous with the ''Fuck-Ups'' episodes. |
| 403 | * LetsSeeYouDoBetter: While Doug's proud of all three, the epic rip on himself at the start of ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' mocks how he's an asshole who rips apart bad movies and shows, but has made movies and shows (''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'', ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' and ''WebVideo/DemoReel'') that others have ripped apart. |
| 404 | * LetThemDieHappy: Despite being insulted by him for most of his scenes, Critic asks if there's anything he can do for Terl when they learn the Psychlo planet is getting blown up. This kindness comes back to bite him in the ass for WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee, as Terl still blamed him for "being a distraction". [[note]]Of pure satisfaction.[[/note]] |
| 405 | * LetsMockTheMonsters: Several times. Comes back to bite him in the Top 11 Disney Villains video; several villains blast him with magic for joking about them. (Often, considering what he reviews, the monsters ''are'' completely worthy of the mockery.) |
| 406 | ** More seriously with "Battle Of The Commercials", as Doug had said earlier (because of Trump winning) that he wanted to create a safe space for scared people, and the episode has a lot of being terrified of Nightmare Fuel commercials (and breaking) but still mocking them, along with a rant about equal pay still not being a thing and making peace with Canada. |
| 407 | * LetsPlay: Of ''Bart's Nightmare''. WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} really, ''really'' didn't like it, and [[CreatorBacklash neither did Doug himself.]] |
| 408 | * LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: |
| 409 | ** ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'' has Critic regret his and Snob's holiday because he got Santa Christ tortured. He tells Snob in present day that they promised to never talk of it again, but Snob gleefully shows the scenes instead. |
| 410 | ** In ''Film/HocusPocus'', the witches are disturbed by the creepy bus driver thinking they're sexy. |
| 411 | * LifeIsntFair: Has a rant about it in "The Top 11 Saddest Nostalgic Moments": |
| 412 | -->'''Critic''': When someone dies, birds and flowers don't pop up and make everything better. You have to deal with it, like everything else in this cruel, depressing, [[SarcasmMode kid-friendly]] world. |
| 413 | * LighterAndSofter: |
| 414 | ** Aside from a creepy scene (that may have been a hallucination), in the beginning where [[spoiler: WebVideo/JonTron]] stabs Critic, the ''Maximum Overdrive'' review is a lot easier start of ''Nostalgia-Ween'' than ''The Shining Mini-Series'' review a year before, where Critic went deep into insanity and terrorized his underlings. |
| 415 | ** Because it's a Lupa episode rather than a Doug one, “A Talking Cat” has Critic shoot her twice (which he lampshades in the bloopers as worse when she does to him) and there's just a blood splurt special effect the first time and she goes right back to her house the second time. Compare that to Critic's next episode, ''Disney Afternoon'', where Critic punches Malcolm and the bruises stay. |
| 416 | ** While there's plenty of misogyny, TestosteronePoisoning being treated as a bad thing, and Rob plays “Impractical Joe”, there's very little rape mentioned in the ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' review considering how widespread it is across the franchise. Most likely for the best. Also Critic is just captured and tied up for a few minutes of {{fanservice}}, not tortured like Max was. |
| 417 | ** Lampshaded in the real thoughts of ''Scooby Doo'', as Doug points out that the first movie review was Critic's emotional finale, and the second... was just a ''Series/{{Psych}}'' parody for no reason. |
| 418 | ** Hyper's Q&A vlog to her first five vlogs, since while she does reference some creepy behavior, she's not stalking and harassing the cast and crew and instead answers questions herself about things like fandom and her (obviously mutual) relationship with Devil Boner. |
| 419 | ** The ''Film/{{Home Alone 2|Lost In New York}}'' episode definitely has some heartwarming preachy moments, but is generally a lot more comedic in tone than the [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS6E23 other]] [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS7E25 final]] [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS8E26 Christmas]] [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS9E24 reviews]], even poking fun at how Critic forces a connection between the story and the movie. |
| 420 | * LiteralMinded: Rachel in ''The Master of Disguise'', trying to fulfill the Critic's [[HitMeDammit death wishes]]. |
| 421 | * LockAndLoadMontage: He tools up with a pistol, knuckle dusters, cricket bat, padded jacket and SWAT helmet to...review ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNimh2TimmyToTheRescue''. "BRING IT ON!" |
| 422 | * LongList: In the video where The Critic is pissed because WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd made a review of ''Film/TheWizard'' before he did, The Critic called The Nerd a ton of vulgar, disparaging names: |
| 423 | --> '''Critic''': You... dirty, stuck-up, sadistic, shit-eating, cocksucking, buttfucking, penis-smelling, crotch-grabbing, ball-licking, semen-drinking, dog-raping, Nazi-loving, child-touching, cow-humping, perverted, spineless, heartless, mindless, dickless, testicle-choking, urine-gargling, jerk-offing, horse face, sheep-fondling, toilet-kissing, self-centered, feces-puking, dildo-shoving, snot-spitting, crap-gathering, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking big nose]], monkey-slapping, bastard-screwing, bee-shitting, fart-knocking, sack-busting, splooge-tasting, bear-blowing, head-swallowing, bitch-snatching, handjobbing, donkey-caressing, mucus-spewing, anal-plunging, ho-grabbing, uncircumcised, whore mongering, piss-swimming, midget-munching, douche bag, ho-biting, carnivorous mail order prostitute...''ASSHOLE''! |
| 424 | * LookBehindYou: DoubleSubverted in the ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' review. Spider-Critic doesn't fall for it, but [[StealthHiBye NC disappears between cuts]]. |
| 425 | * LoopholeAbuse: He got a lot of request to review ''Film/TheRoom2003'', but it was made in 2003 - too recently for the "nostalgia" subject. Fortunately, the Critic's future self turned up to take him ahead in time so he could do it. |
| 426 | * LosingHorns: He uses the ones from ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' in his review of ''The Next Karate Kid'', ''Film/SimonSez'', and ''Total Recall''. |
| 427 | ** He has also used the generic "wah wah wah" ones a few times, including one review where he uses his own voice to make them… and keeps increasing the volume every subsequent time. |
| 428 | ** Sage in ''The Guyver'' brings this joke back in an effort to make Critic feel more comfortable, and it almost works until he makes a nostalgia pun and gets a DeathGlare. |
| 429 | * LostAesop: Even Santa Christ can't figure out what the moral of "You're a Rotten Dirty Bastard" is. |
| 430 | -->'''Santa Christ:''' And the moral of the story is...! [stares about blankly] Um...[Credits roll] |
| 431 | * LostEpisode: Old vs. New on ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. As confirmed in the Next Top 11 Fuck-Ups, he decided not to do the video because he felt neither movie held up well enough. Thankfully, Creator/TommyWiseau sued them so they had an excuse to get out of it. |
| 432 | * LonelyPianoPiece: Ones from various soundtracks play when he's alone and ''really'' miserable. |
| 433 | ** A sad piano track plinks away when Critic gets the news that his mother died in ''Film/JurassicParkIII''. As cliche as the use is, Malcolm's comforting voice and Doug's broken acting make the scene as effective as it should be. |
| 434 | * LongingLook: When Tamara plans to leave at the end of ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', Malcolm stares after her like he's completely in love. |
| 435 | * LoveAtFirstSight: |
| 436 | ** Subverted with Hyper. When Critic tells her she can't love someone just because he's really nerdy, obsessed with retro media and wears a bunch of half-professional, half-grungy clothes (realizing right after that he's describing himself), she immediately wants to have sex with him, and he {{oh crap}}s and tells her that's not going to happen. It's only when he keeps refusing her does she think what she's feeling is love. Doug discussed this in his review of ''Love Letters'', saying he thinks "''attraction'' at first sight" exists, but acting like you love someone immediately is harmful. Also a displayed subversion with her and Devil Boner, as she's turned on by him being a feminist, not just his looks, and their relationship grew from there until they were HappilyMarried. |
| 437 | ** Parodied in ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' where Jim and Heather 'fall in love' because they're both colorblind. |
| 438 | ** Played straighter with Michael Bay and Zac Snyder at the end of ''Freddy vs Jason'', who are totally into each other but are too in the closet to admit it. |
| 439 | * LoveHurts: Or as he puts it... "ain't love a bitch?" |
| 440 | * LoveMakesYouCrazy: Most likely the case for Film Brain taking a level in dumbass in ''Film/ThePurge''. Not even in the anniversary specials was he as stupid as that, and in his own reviews he prides himself on actually ''reviewing'', as opposed to Critic who has openly admitted that he doesn't live up to his name. |
| 441 | * LoveItOrHateIt: His in-universe opinion of ''Film/{{Hook}}''. He loves it. |
| 442 | ** As for himself, also in-universe, Doug says in the real review of ''Thomas And The Magic Railroad'' that he doesn't mind this designation because “intense love or intense hate gets intense numbers”. |
| 443 | * LoveTriangle: |
| 444 | ** Hyper and (according to Malcolm) Benny both want Critic, whose making it clear that he's not in the slightest bit reciprocating [[NoMeansYes is completely ignored]]. |
| 445 | ** Critic/Malcolm/Tamara. Malcolm wants Critic, who uses and abuses him constantly. Critic wants Tamara broken but also wants her to dominate him. Tamara hates Critic, but still gets off on his pain yet also wants his care, and has looked after Malcolm, who seems to think of her as a ReplacementGoldfish for Rachel. According to Malcolm on twitter, somewhere along the years the three became an OfficialCouple. Enjoy unpacking that. |
| 446 | ** In ''Phantom of the Opera,'' Hyper/Devil Boner are dating, but she's still after Critic (egged on by the analysts), and Critic both hates her for what she's done to him and Word Of Doug has confirmed UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome. Averted as of ''Cinderella: Old vs New'', as Hyper's over Critic, he still doesn't like her, and Devil Boner matter of factly calls him her "ladyfriend" (though in ''Evil Dead Old Vs New'' Devil Boner does call her out on ignoring him and not Critic, which she tries to drown out). |
| 447 | * LowCountGag: In his review of ''[[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney's Great Adventure]]'', when the Critic questions if the first scene of the titular film is the point-of-view from his blindfold after Barney kidnapped him: |
| 448 | -->'''Critic:''' ''[as Barney]'' Oh, boy! We're gonna make so much money ransoming off your body parts! Let's count how many toes you have left! One... that was fun! ''[laughs]'' |
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| 451 | [[folder:M]] |
| 452 | * MacGyvering: In ''Disney Afternoon'', Critic in {{jerkass}} mood mocks Tamara for 'only' being able to make a pick up truck out of rubber and ice. |
| 453 | * MadeOfExplodium: The Nostalgia Critic's Pun-O-Meter can't count to 6 without exploding. |
| 454 | ** A RunningGag in his and WebVideo/{{Phelous}}' review of ''Film/ChildsPlay1988'' has the Critic 'testing' various objects by hitting them with a hammer, only for them to explode in his face before he can even do it. |
| 455 | * MadeOutToBeAJerkass: Reboot Critic usually has no problem with being a jerkass, but when he loses it and rages at Hyper Fangirl for stalking him, kidnapping him and thinking that those actions will make him love her, she starts crying, he feels extreme guilt and Santa Christ (who is biased against Critic) calls him a douche and lets him make it up to her. Except Hyper is a stalker who has done all the things Critic has yelled at her for, and outright told Benny that she is never going to learn her lesson. Doug confirmed in a later panel that Hyper was the bad guy and Critic was right to have his speech, but that still doesn't explain why she gets what she wants. |
| 456 | * MadonnaWhoreComplex: Discussed in ''TMNT 2'', where Critic calls out Bay for putting Megan Fox in a skimpy schoolgirl outfit and coupling that with Laura Linney as the Strong Woman being nasty at everyone. |
| 457 | * MagicMirror: When Hyper complains in ''Old vs New: Spider-Man'' that “all [she'll] ever be is a friend” to Critic, the reflection in the mirror changes to Fat Grandma telling her to fuck what Critic wants and keep stalking him. |
| 458 | * MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: In That Sci Fi Guy's ''The Sixth Day'' crossover, Critic threatens him that if he doesn't do most of the work, next time they're at a con, he'll slit TSFG's wrists and then make housekeeping think it was suicide. |
| 459 | * MaleGaze: Has [[MaleGaze/TheNostalgiaCritic his own page]]. |
| 460 | * ManicPixieDreamGirl: One of his major complaints with ''Literature/BridgeToTerabithia'' is that Leslie as a character has very little traits beyond being "whimsical" and "inspiring" to Jesse, and as a result her death doesn't have as much as an impact as it should due to her being quirky and essentially [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth perfect]]. |
| 461 | * ManipulativeEditing: |
| 462 | ** In his ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' review, the Critic shows us the scene where Ted's reindeer chases Howard through the house. Since he never mentioned the reindeer previously, it's made to look like this reindeer comes out of nowhere in the film (and thus, sort of a BigLippedAlligatorMoment). In reality, the reindeer was introduced early in the film, where it had a nasty disposition towards Howard. So the reindeer's re-appearance is a BrickJoke. |
| 463 | *** In the same review, the Critic makes fun of Howard's line, "I didn't make it." upon seeing the empty school gym. The Critic thought this was pointing out the obvious, but it's meant to be an IronicEcho to a line Howard said at the start of the film: "I'm gonna make it.", referring to Howard wanting to arrive at Jamie's karate promotion on time. But those clips were never shown. |
| 464 | ** Possibly lampshaded in the review of ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'', as he calls Real Critic an idiot for getting the glove taken away from him but neglects to mention Malachite forced it out of his hand with magic. |
| 465 | ** A bad case in ''Film/ManOfSteel'' where, when Joe calls Critic out for sexism, he brings up a clip of Joe singing "ass and titties" to shut him up. In reality, the clip he took was from the review "Metro: Last Light" and out of context. Joe was actually ranting about how unneeded the {{fanservice}} was and the singing was what he assumed the writers were thinking. |
| 466 | ** The ''Film/{{Garfield}}'' review claims that Jon and Liz show up at the end "to pretty much contribute nothing", skipping over a shot of Jon [[Awesome/{{Garfield}} punching the villain out]]. Especially glaring because the footage that Critic talks over does show said villain hitting the ground after said punch, making it clear that he saw the scene in full and chose to lie about it. |
| 467 | ** In-universe in “Cats And Dogs”, as Aunt Despair comes in, tells Critic to act like a cat and splices that footage into a poorly done negative review of ''Deadpool''. |
| 468 | * AManIsAlwaysEager: |
| 469 | ** Defied. He says, with disgusted sarcasm, "imagine that, a boy being pressured into something" while discussing how awful Bella is. |
| 470 | ** Also defied with him as a character. Despite his perviness and love of sex, we've mostly seen or heard about the times where [[BlackComedyRape he really hasn't wanted to]] instead of vice versa. |
| 471 | ** But played straight in ''Film/PearlHarbor'', where he doesn't get why Ben Affleck would deny himself sex the last night he's home. |
| 472 | ** "Realized" in ''Film/Catwoman2004'', where he decides it was apparently silly to be scared of [[HystericalWoman Hysterical Women]] who switch between wanting to kill and screw him, and switches to perving on them instead. |
| 473 | ** Even in crazytown during the imaginary bar scene during ''Film/TheShining'', there's a sign that says “she has to be in the mood, he just has to be in the room”. |
| 474 | ** Creepy straight in ''Dawn Of The Commercials'' when he says that women not wanting men just makes men want them more, over a picture of an angry woman pushing a guy away. |
| 475 | ** Spoony's reaction to seeing Critic for the first time post-WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee isn't surprise that he's back or apologizing for the consistent Spooning abuse, but to call him a cockblocker for taking the flirting Tamara away. |
| 476 | ** In ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', his sub side pops up for the first time in a while when he sees no problem with being subservient to women, staying at home, not talking to anyone and being used as a breeding object. |
| 477 | ** “Is Eyes Wide Shut Artsy Porn” is all about bad dreams and LoveHurts, but he still rushes off for a night of anonymous masked sex at the end. Whether it's trying to ignore his issues or he's in desperate masochist mode again is up for debate. |
| 478 | * TheManIsStickingItToTheMan: Doug in Disneycember points out that ''Lemonade Mouth'' has a basic good message of anti-authority and anti-capitalism, but it's coming from the most capitalist company. |
| 479 | * MarsAndVenusGenderContrast: No pun intended, but the ''Anime/SailorMoon'' review literally says that girls who like the show wouldn't like ''Franchise/StarWars'' and that the franchises are complete opposites. Plenty of people like both. |
| 480 | * TheMasochismTango: |
| 481 | ** Critic and Tamara. He's interested in exploiting her FetishizedAbuser persona to get himself views but wants to break her, and she'll pull any trick to get him hurting because she hates him (even had a FandomNod moment of liking him better dead) and can fight back his abusive behavior unlike Rachel. |
| 482 | ** Preboot had him with Chick. They chloroformed each other, fought onscreen and had canon sex offscreen, but cared about each other in their fucked up way and she was there for him in WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee. |
| 483 | * AMatchMadeInStockholm: Benny/Critic is a friendship version, the latter having helped kidnap the former. While still an UnequalPairing - Malcolm saying Benny would stalk Critic if he could and helping Hyper when she pays him - Critic likes the guy (while still hating Hyper) enough to recommend him to the Devil as an assassin. |
| 484 | * MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: During Critic's rant on how much he hates “Blue Brothers 2000”, a woman collapsing and her friend eventually mourning her death. |
| 485 | ** When Linkara mentions plastic swords in fights and a WebVideo/SuburbanKnights DVD appears in his hand, watch Critic's mass confusion in not knowing anything about what Linkara is referring to. |
| 486 | * MeaningfulName: While it started as just as a mash up of their titles, Doug and Tamara make sure Hyper Boner lives up to their name, giving them a ''very'' actively kinky sex life. |
| 487 | * MediumAwareness: Often used for comedy. |
| 488 | ** In his review of the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' when he says that Robotnik plans to take over the world it cuts to him sitting in his chair. And he refuses to use the "OF COURSE!" gag and in fact pushes back the transition to the "OF COURSE!" gag when it tries to slide its way in. |
| 489 | ** In his ''Kazaam!'' review, he notices all the parallels between the way the hero treats the titular character and slavery, but he can't quite figure out the word. As he tries figure it out, it slowly appears on the screen below him. He then notices the word on the screen and figures it out. |
| 490 | ** In his review of "Baby Geniuses", he looks down as if to look at the video loading bar when trying to see how long he's been talking about the film in his Noir Monologue. |
| 491 | ** Now that advertisements support the show, the Critic starts a joke about advertisements that is usually completed after the commercial break. |
| 492 | * MemeticBadass: Mocked in-universe in the ''Film/{{Sidekicks}}'' video which was a clear ego project about how awesome Creator/ChuckNorris was. '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdpdjzp-89g&feature=related A-CHUCK A-NOOOORIIIIIS!]]''''' |
| 493 | ** There's also Lucas, the kid with the Power Glove in ''Film/TheWizard'' who the Critic makes out to be [[AGodAmI a God amongst Men]]. |
| 494 | ** Parodied with Santa Christ. |
| 495 | ** '''[[Film/JurassicPark I'M A MOTHERFUCKIN' T-REX!!]]''' |
| 496 | * MediumBlending: The Trial portion of Film/TheWall has Critic being shoved around by CGI monsters, he looks justifiably terrified. |
| 497 | * MidReviewSketchShow: Very common in his series, and (along with WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd) the reviewer who popularized the usual TGWTG style of mixing sketch comedy with reviews. Doug has talked about the most important thing to him being character, plus writing the non-review parts for Critic has helped him learn more about himself. |
| 498 | * MenAreBetterThanWomen: ''Film/Catwoman2004''. Critic might have been the one scared and threatened, but the catladies are the ones who are {{Small Name Big Ego}}s who hate each other and Creator/HalleBerry, can't walk in heels or on cold floors, get easily outwitted by Critic, are swayed by his STD joke and in the end are happy to exploit themselves for MaleGaze viewcounts. |
| 499 | ** PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', as he starts out praising 80s movies for telling boys that they're better than girls, excludes Tamara from their boys club, and calls her worthless even when she defeats the monster. There's even a “men are evil” StrawFeminist in the comment section, who is kinda right in this instance considering how Tamara gets treated so badly by the boys in the episode. |
| 500 | * MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: Not that Dayna isn't pretty, but subverted and PlayedForLaughs in the “Princess Diaries 2” behind the scenes video where she shows off her weight lifting skills by picking Doug up off the floor three times, and Rob and the others mock him for being so weak and useless unless he's doing {{fanservice}}. |
| 501 | * TheMenInBlack: The security guards in ''WesternAnimation/BebesKids'', which prompt the Critic to reference a [[Film/TheMatrix couple]] [[Film/MenInBlack other]] instances of this trope. |
| 502 | -->*sunglasses-clad Nostalgia Critic*: "Mr. African-American." |
| 503 | * MerchandiseDriven: Alluded to in ''Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer'', when a docile chill-patched Critic says he has to be marketable by hiding his insanity. |
| 504 | * MetaphoricallyTrue: In "Old vs New: Amazing Spider-Man", the Hyper Fangirl asks Critic if he's ever had a JekyllAndHyde situation being the tormented one. He says no, [[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/the-review-must-go-on-6510378 because he was the one doing the tormenting]]. |
| 505 | * {{Metaphorgotten}}: When comparing ''Schnookums and Meat'' to ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'': |
| 506 | --> '''Critic:''' It's like watching a kid dance well, and then another less-talented kid says he can do the same thing, and then ends up copying a terrible cartoon show. |
| 507 | * MexicanStandoff: One happens between Santa Christ and Critic in ''Devil''. Happens because there was one in the movie, but more effective because of their WeUsedToBeFriends history. |
| 508 | * MicDrop: His review of ''Film/JurassicPark'' provides the page quote; he says the T-Rex should have done a mic drop at the end. Cue editing a mic into the T-Rex's last scene. He himself does one at the end of the review for the hell of it. |
| 509 | * AMillionIsAStatistic: The Critic points out the glossing over of deaths in ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn''. |
| 510 | * MindScrew: |
| 511 | ** "The Top 11 Nostalgic Mindfucks"... complete with nonsensical numbering system. |
| 512 | ** And the crazy scenes in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'' and ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' also made the Nostalgia Critic go berserk. |
| 513 | ** The Critic/Doug situation wasn't exactly not confusing before (see The Review Must Go On with all its NoYay), but ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' makes it somewhat headache-inducing. Doug becomes the original asshole reviewer, Critic is just another life, and he has to remember all of Doug's vlogs, but there is a still a ton of baggage for in-universe RealLifeWritesThePlot on Critic's side and CreatorBacklash on Doug's side. |
| 514 | ** Karl and Quinn cameoing in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' review was so confusing to people that Rob immediately invoked the MST3KMantra, somewhat forgetting that's for nitpicking complaints and not "oh hey these people got fridged why do they suddenly exist again?" |
| 515 | ** The Hyper Fangirl's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=286TgavfyfE first vlog]] establishes that her StoryArc is going to be a little more complicated than in a simple StalkerWithACrush plot, as she and Tamara, and Critic and Doug [[note]] the former running the show, while the latter just gets twitchy and confused[[/note]], [[RecursiveCanon are all in the same place for her]]. |
| 516 | ** Lampshaded in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavaGirl'' when present Critic sees a SurprisinglyCreepyMoment and calls Critic from twenty minutes ago, the past Critic gets confused about how they're even doing this. |
| 517 | * MindRape: In her forth vlog, Hyper Fangirl {{squee}}s about how if she had super powers she would force Critic to love her. Malcolm's slightly freaked, although he says that'd be a possibility for him too. |
| 518 | ** In “Ghost Rider 2”, Evilina, who has been sent to live in Texas, has learned to torture Angry Joe with her mind. |
| 519 | ** What “talent bending” essentially is. Aside from losing all emotion and willingness to do anything other than what he's told, Critic even goes from being in a heap on the floor to kneeling after Shya takes all his talent. |
| 520 | ** Before it was confirmed in ''Matrix Month'' that he was a RealityWarper, ''WesternAnimation/FoodFight'' tossed off that he had power to do that by by being able to change Malcolm's and Tamara's intelligence levels on a a whim. The rapey part comes in because they're still aware enough to know what he's doing to them and don't like it. |
| 521 | ** What Black Willy Wonka does to Critic to make him review his old home movies. Critic starts off refusing, and then Black Willy Wonka (who is watching him on the TV) alters his brain [[TakeThatAudience because that's what the audience wants]]. |
| 522 | ** The “reality monster” in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' uses PsychicPowers to make the boys depressed after they lock it out. |
| 523 | * MisaimedFandom: In-universe, Hyper loves the book ''Fangirl'' and calls it like her life, but the book involves forming ''healthy'' relationships, not being StalkerWithACrush. |
| 524 | ** Hyper took ''Film/MeanGirls'' as you ''should'' want to be one of the mean/popular girls, and that Cady was a hater. |
| 525 | * [[invoked]]MisBlamed: |
| 526 | ** [[{{InUniverse}} The Critic starts]] a CharacterFilibuster on Creator/StevenSpielberg adding a sappy ending to ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'', only to find out original director Creator/StanleyKubrick had planned it all along. The summation at the end even has the Critic revealing he hated the movie at first, but came to notice it's better than he thought and Spielberg was in a no-win situation anyway. |
| 527 | ** “What You Never Knew About TMNT”'s tagline blames Bay for “getting his hands on the franchise”, but really he just produced it. |
| 528 | ** Critic blames Shyamalan so much for ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' that he made him a literal BigBad from that said review, but as bad as Shyamalan can be, that movie actually wasn't his fault. [[http://forums.avatarspirit.net/index.php?topic=22897.msg2391414#msg2391414 It was the producers pulling most of the strings]]. For his part, by the Dante Basco interview Doug at least understands that it wasn't completely Shyamalan's fault. |
| 529 | ** In his review of ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'', he points out several unexplained strange things the cartoon added, one of which is a bullet-spitting snake. But the snake is a Cobrat, an enemy from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', and is portrayed completely faithfully; it spat bullets in the game, too. |
| 530 | * MissingTime: In “Is Tree Life Full Of Shit”, he mentions relating to ''Film/SynecdocheNewYork'' because he too gets confused about whether events have taken place in recent time or a few years ago, and it's getting worse as he ages. |
| 531 | * MissingTrailerScene: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BWz8p8_YJ4 sneak peek]] for ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' review has ''no'' scenes actually in the episode. |
| 532 | * MissingMom: The trend of killing off moms in films is mocked in the ''Film/GhostDad'' review as "Get-the-bitch-out-of-the-film-isis”. |
| 533 | * MistakenForMasturbating: Played with in "Next Nostalgia Critic Fuck-Ups"; Douchy's mom doesn't even come into the room and assumes Douchy is doing it. |
| 534 | --> '''Douchy's mom''': Are you ''masturbating'' again? |
| 535 | --> '''Douchy''': Mom! |
| 536 | --> '''Douchy's mom''': Just stop doing it to the pictures of the Green M&M! It's unnatural! |
| 537 | * MistakenForPedophile: A running gag in the Critic's review of ''Film/{{Kazaam}}'', which points out how problematic is is that after following him around and offering him ice cream (with a very creepy SlasherSmile), the genie - a 7 foot tall man - sleeps in bed with Max, takes a shower in front of him and then ''kisses'' the boy late in the movie. Mind, Max is a preteen boy. |
| 538 | * MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: While delayed somewhat, Malcolm manipulating and torturing Critic with Tamara is due to Critic trying to kill him just for being black in ''Film/TheShining''. |
| 539 | * TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: In the short film leading up to the return of the series, Doug Walker is debating internally and externally whether or not to bring the critic back. One scene (which is impressively cut to look like a single take) involves him in the bathroom opening the medicine cabinet after looking at his own face in the mirror. When he closes it, the Nostalgia Critic is staring back at him. |
| 540 | ** The above was alluded to in the ''AI'' Ruxpin flashback, where a scared Critic gingerly touches his mirror reflection in what can only assumed as a bit of writer-karma. |
| 541 | * MoeAnthropomorphism: Sort of in ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'', where Critic violently has sex with the movie (because its whored itself out to everyone and he's seeing what it's like) and the movie for some reason makes female-voiced sex sounds. |
| 542 | * MondegreenGag:[[invoked]] In the third commercial special, The Nostalgia Critic misheard Usagi Yojimbo as "You sucky your Jimbo!" |
| 543 | ** He also can't understand what Music/MichaelJackson is singing in Smooth Criminal. |
| 544 | * MoneyDearBoy: [[invoked]] The Nostalgia Critic frequently points out when good actors appear in films he pans; i.e. Abe Vigoda (''Film/GoodBurger'', ''Film/{{North}})'' and Christopher Plummer (''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle''). He figures they only do it for the money. |
| 545 | ** In ''Chairman Of the Board'', Critic announces ''he's'' going to do a movie called ''Critic and Trout'' (co-starring an actual trout). The reason? They offered him too much money to refuse. |
| 546 | ** Assumes this is why Carole King sounds so bored when singing the opening song for ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsMovie''. |
| 547 | --->"Care-a-lot is paying for my new car\ |
| 548 | So I might as well sing it." |
| 549 | ** Used for an in-universe joke in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'' review. When Critic is told by Malcolm and Tamara that the movie's infamy is leading to reviews of the film to be widely viewed online, Critic realizes he can capitalize on this by getting lots of views and ad revenue by simply doing a review of his own. He even punctuates the joke with a cash register "ka-ching!" sound effect while superimposing himself onto a $100 bill, which has made it on the third iteration of reboot credits and is the last clip of Critic before reality blows up. [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Symbolism!]] |
| 550 | ** Referenced in his ice bucket challenge, where he asks himself if he's so desperate for views that he would participate in "a trend that's like Harlem Shake for charity". |
| 551 | ** Also reportedly the reason why Doug changed his mind about ending the series, on the ground that he'd be losing the money he was making off Nostalgia Critic. |
| 552 | ** Averted in his 2011 “Top Nostalgia Critics I'll Never Do”, where he points out that another Sonic related video would get views flying through the roof, but he wouldn't be fair because he never grew up with the shows people keep demanding he review. |
| 553 | ** The whole FramingDevice for the ''Anime/SailorMoon'' review is Critic hiring Dr. Hack to help him find a formula he can coast on and make loads of money. |
| 554 | ** Rachel and Malcolm both state in ''Film/TheShining'' commentary that they won't complain about the sexist/racist stuff they have to do as long as they get paid. |
| 555 | ** As blunt as possible at the end of ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' review, as he tells Tamara to come work for him because views always go up when he's in pain. |
| 556 | ** Played for sad at the end of ''WebVideo/TheUncannyValley''. |
| 557 | -->'''Critic''': Others can look at and find enjoyment in this. And in the end, why would I want to demean something as beautiful as that. Unless you paid a lot of money for me to do so. Which you did, this special sucks. |
| 558 | ** In ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'', Malcolmus and Tammity want a TrilogyCreep because they got more money out of the last review. Tammity got lip injections with the cash she got. |
| 559 | ** At the start of ''Film/MammaMia'', Rob, Tamara and Malcolm complain at him that nobody is gonna watch that, and reviews with fart jokes and Nicholas Cage would get far more hits. |
| 560 | ** Doug joke-bragged in a post that maybe he likes ''Film/ManOfSteel'' after all just because the review hit two million views. |
| 561 | ** He outright lampshades “The Plot To Frozen 2” as clickbait to get views. |
| 562 | ** The start of ''Film/TheSmurfs'' has Malcolm and Tamara following Critic, and trying to get him to do the 2015 Fantastic Four movie. At the end, he and Black Nerd try and copy the Smurfs formula to get money from a movie about a rock. |
| 563 | ** At the end of ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn1984'', he creates a haunted house where people just get the shit beaten out of them, and with cash in hand gleefully points out “the world loves to pay an asshole”. |
| 564 | ** ''What You Never Knew About National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'' is just there to get a review out, as Critic even says he doesn't care and just wants to get it over with so he can celebrate Christmas. |
| 565 | ** In ''Blues Brothers 2000'', he does a song about Ghost Rider Pony and when Malcolm asks hasn't he done this joke before, he tells him that any mention of the word “pony” makes the views increase, and they just end shouting the word over and over. |
| 566 | ** As early as the ''Catwoman'' review, Critic tells the catladies that MaleGaze on even boobs that are covered up would get him the views he needs. |
| 567 | ** In the ''Top 11 Disney Princess Conspiracy Theories'', he calls it a feeble attempt to cash in on Franchise/DisneyPrincess clickbait. |
| 568 | ** Lampshaded in "Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel", when he says happily he doesn't understand things, he just exploits for cash. |
| 569 | ** In the Batman crossover with Linkara, he smirkily whores himself out because he knows Linkara would want the extra ad revenue of doing an episode with him. |
| 570 | ** In his whitewashing editorial, he talks about how 18% of Marvel's income comes from China and so they'll change things to cow to their biases. |
| 571 | -->'''Critic''': But it's still wrong. They're still putting money ahead of not being prejudiced. |
| 572 | * MonochromeCasting: |
| 573 | ** He'll often mention it when there's just a movie full of white people or a TokenBlack character gets shown for only a few seconds. |
| 574 | ** In ''Film/MammaMia'', he complains that it's made in Greece and has no Greek actors. |
| 575 | * MoodWhiplash: |
| 576 | ** The Critic points out the sudden dark tone the previously light-hearted ''Film/ShortCircuit 2'' takes in its third act. |
| 577 | --->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' ''[[BigNo NOOOO, JOHNNY FIIIIIVE]]! STOP, YOU MONSTERS! HE'S ALREADY DEA-EA-EA-EAAAAAAAD..! *Breaks down crying* '' |
| 578 | ** In his "Top 11 Saddest Nostalgic Moments", he notes how the death of WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'s mother is followed by a scene of birds singing a cheerful song. |
| 579 | ** He points it out while parodying the concept in ''Film/CoolAsIce'', where, after the entire movie was spent with the titular character chasing down the hot daughter of conservative parents, the girl's brother is kidnapped by gangsters, they pull him off screen and you hear a gunshot. The Critic points out that the gunshot didn't happen, but it'd be cool if it did. |
| 580 | ** In his Top 11 Scariest Nostalgic Moments video, he comments on how the creepy tunnel scene in ''[[Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory]]'' [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment comes out of nowhere in an otherwise upbeat movie, and is never mentioned again afterwards.]] |
| 581 | ** In "Top 11 Dumbest Spiderman Moments", he mentions the Mood Whiplash following the dance scene from ''Film/SpiderMan3'', where, after said dance scene, Peter hits Mary Jane, then sulks about it. He then play it out... |
| 582 | --->(dances for a few seconds with happy dance music playing, interrupted by him punching someone offscreen) I'm a monster. (turns and blocks his face with thunder sound effect) |
| 583 | ** Happens in-universe in "WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon" retrospective. Before the commercial break there is a gag involving Critic, Tamara, and Malcolm all pulling out items relevant to their childhoods[[note]]Critic with Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles gummy fruit snacks, Tamara with a Pinkie Pie Franchise/MyLittlePony plush toy, and Malcolm with an [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]] action figure[[/note]], each person being asked if said items are literally from their childhoods, and then correcting the others that the items in question are actually the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 modern]] [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic day]] [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime equivalents]]. The sudden realization that the pop culture trends of the early [[TheNewTens New Tens]] are eerily similar to that of the late 1980s/early 1990s causes the Critic to declare "...nothing's changed" and the mood of the scene to suddenly change to one of deep confusion at this realization. |
| 584 | ** In an episode shift example, ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', ''Film/GhostDad'', ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', ''Disney Afternoon'' and ''WesternAnimation/FoodFight'' (five episodes in a row, excepting ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess which also had lampshading of Critic abusing underlings) were all dark in their own way and meta'ed about Critic being a TroubledAbuser. ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'' on the other hand, featured a ''lot'' of speeches delivered by Critic to straw execs and was notably sappier, even with a CharacterCheck at the end that Critic just wants money. |
| 585 | ** The ''Film/BridgeToTerabithia'' review got a lot of DudeNotFunny reactions because he didn't know/care that Leslie was based off a real kid who died, but it's mostly just mocking. The middle part however, has the obligatory reboot horror moment (Rachel Leslie as a psychotic adult hitting on Jess Critic and then torturing a crying Malcolm) and does it effectively. |
| 586 | ** In his review of the Pound Puppies movie he eagerly tells the audience "Let's all go to the pound!" before it cuts away to a picture of an actual pound with whimpering puppies in the background. |
| 587 | ** ''Film/JurassicPark III'' goes from Critic being driven crazy by an imaginary dinosaur to a doctor on the phone telling him that his mother has died. |
| 588 | ** The ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' review wasn't exactly a LighterAndSofter BreatherEpisode, but the tone gets a lot sadder from Critic's home movies being played up until the DownerEnding. In another sort of whiplash, the last ten minutes or so are less about the movie and more Critic's issues. |
| 589 | ** He's really angry at ''Film/WildWildWest'' for their 'serious' scene about women and children being used as target practice, as 1) they didn't earn it 2) they follow it up with jokes about Hayek's ass. |
| 590 | ** Doug in a behind the scenes said that he intentionally makes Christmas episodes with one dark/extreme episode and the following being some kind of TearJerker. |
| 591 | ** He makes fun of ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' for doing this a few times, notably when they follow up a very poignant line about Balto not fitting in with an awkward scene with a toy cat rolling across the room and "comedy" from the goose. |
| 592 | ** In the videos that feature a Charity Shoutout, it can be quite jarring to see Critic angrily and sarcastically bashing a bad film followed immediately by Doug sincerely explaining people's needs for a worthy cause. |
| 593 | * MookChivalry: Mocked in the reviews of ''Film/SurfNinjas'' and ''Film/{{Hook}}''. |
| 594 | * MoralEventHorizon |
| 595 | ** Invoked. The adulterer in ''Film/TheTommyknockers'' loses all hope when he leaves a search for a missing child to go fuck his mistress. |
| 596 | ** Subverted at the end of ''Film/MrMagoo''. He would have certainly never been able to come back from beating an old blind man to death, so Doug did the sensible thing of revealing Magoo to be a psychotic who was just pretending to be blind and tortured the Critic with a pitchfork. |
| 597 | * MoreThanMindControl: Sage realizes that maybe he ''is'' the devil when Critic acts ditzier than normal, giving him all his money and jumping off a cliff because Sage off-handedly told him to. |
| 598 | * MorphicResonance: Personality version with Malcolm and Tamara in ''Matrix Month'', to foreshadow that the 'characters' are just them but brainwashed. They both still snark at Critic while wanting him to get more money for them, Tamara's in love with him and Malcolm likes being in control. |
| 599 | * {{Motif}}: |
| 600 | ** Since ''The Odd Life Of Timothy Green'', fire. The opening theme is full of it, hell is the most [[FireAndBrimstoneHell well-known incarnation]], it takes over every background in the TGWTG 4 DVD, and pops up in the "Should We Scare the S#*% Out of Kids?", Twilight, Turbo, and ''Film/SonOfTheMask'' title cards. Either Doug's working on heavy RuleOfCool, or it has something to do with Critic signing his soul to an eternity of torture in ''Film/TheCatInTheHat''. |
| 601 | ** ProphetEyes, specifically referencing his WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee death. Said scene is the longest in the first reboot opening theme, the ''Master Of Disguise'' title card eyes were there to make him look demonic, ''The Last Airbender'' title card gave him the Avatar State eyes [[spoiler: for no reason because he was useless in the episode]], and the ''Why Do We Love Zombies'' title card has the eyes because he's a decaying zombie. |
| 602 | ** Mirrors tend to be a trend with him too. The creepiest scenes in "The Review Must Go On" is when he's in the bathroom mirror and {{psychotic smirk}}-ily torturing Doug, he paws a mirror in the ''AI'' episode, the studio has a random gold-lined mirror to suit his vain needs, and Hyper's visions in her hand mirror are what push her to start stalking Critic. Not surprisingly, Doug in ''Mirror Gem'' confirmed that if such a thing as a mirror fetish existed, he'd have it. |
| 603 | * MouthingTheProfanity: Does this a few times in his videos, one of the examples being the ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' review, where a silent "What the fuck?" is his reaction to being suddenly teleported to a white room with his Angel Guardian in it ([[ItMakesSenseInContext whom the Critic killed before during one of the specials]]). |
| 604 | * [[invoked]]MST3KMantra: At the end of "When Is a Movie Just a Movie", where condescending that it's your own problem if you get hurt by a movie he plays this song. [[{{Hypocrite}} Then he says that if ''he'' gets upset then that's allowed]]. |
| 605 | * MusclesAreMeaningful: In her ''Film/WonderWoman2017'' review, Tamara makes it very clear that she's not body shaming, but is a little disappointed at Gal Gadot's skinny arms. |
| 606 | * MultiPartEpisode: |
| 607 | ** ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' and “WTF Is Up With The Ending With The Graduate” can easily be considered the latter concluding the former. The former episode introduced a ridiculous amount of meta worldbuilding, with in-universe CreatorBacklash from Doug to an oblivious Critic, while the latter is Critic on his own, playing WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee music and regretting “fighting too hard for [his] freedom”. |
| 608 | ** ''Film/TheShining'' review[=/=]''Why Do We Love Zombies''. The first has Critic going deeper into insanity, giving both Rachel and Malcolm a TraumaCongaLine, and the second has him as a literal sadly groaning monster, comparing zombies to how his humanity is getting eroded. |
| 609 | * MundaneFantastic: The Critic never finds it strange that people from the movies he watches visit him or any of the other weird things that happen to him. He's explained this as just getting used to all the trauma that happens to him. |
| 610 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: {{Parodied| Trope}} often: |
| 611 | ** ''Film/TheWizard'' review, during the infamous Power Glove sequence. |
| 612 | --->'''Critic:''' ''(angry)'' '''LUCAS.''' ''{[[MoodWhiplash lovingly]])'' Darling! |
| 613 | ** In his "Alaska" film review, the grand and whimsical music (while a plane is flying with nothing happening), leads him to sing "''Clear/You're clear clear/Clear/You're clear clear/CLEAAAAAAAAAAR!''" |
| 614 | ** "Fuck ''yeah'', sparkle sparkle sparkle!" (from his review of ''Thomas and the Magic Railroad'', when he decides that the line "sparkle sparkle sparkle" is actually profoundly meaningful and awesome) |
| 615 | ** The opening credits of ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'', which features a car in space. He repeatedly mentions to his co-host, WebVideo/DiamandaHagan, that said car in space renders all logical fallacies in the film invalid. At the end, The Critic is riding the previously mentioned car in space with [[WebVideo/FamiliarFaces CR]]. |
| 616 | ** He parodies how the leads in ''Film/BridgeToTerabithia'' are so enthusiastic about everything by having skits where he has a thrilled expression and bold music plays when he takes a shit or eats some chips. |
| 617 | * MurderArsonAndJaywalking: While watching The Tommyknockers he was offended by the adulterer abandoning a search for a lost child, disregarding a sandwich his wife made for him and laughing evilly while leaving his home to have sex with his mistress. |
| 618 | * MurdererPOV: Being a parody of ''Film/{{Halloween 1978}}'', the opening to his 2015 Nostalgiaween. The camera turning into just eyeholes also works so that Critic getting stabbed is a GoryDiscretionShot. |
| 619 | * MusicalEpisode: The Critic's reviews of ''Film/MoulinRouge,'' ''Film/LesMiserables2012,'' and ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004.'' |
| 620 | * MusicalSpoiler: In his "Top 11 [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]] Episodes", the same background music he uses in the beginning is the same he uses for his #1 spot: [[spoiler: the background music from "''Bart Gets an F''"]]. |
| 621 | ** The very sad "WTF is with the Ending of The Graduate?", where he talks about regretting choices, is underscored with the exact same music as the tune playing in the first WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee [[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/to-boldly-flee-the-4th-year-anniversary-of-tgwtg-com-teaser-6224605 trailer]]. |
| 622 | ** “Dance Macabre” is playing during “Why Do We Love Zombies”, which works in a few ways. Other than generically being used to talk about the dead, ''Critic'' is also technically a dead puppet for Doug, and the last time the instrumental played was when Spoony's perception of Critic as a screaming doll/puppet occurred. |
| 623 | ** ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' and ''WebVideo/DemoReel'' combine in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', as the sad trailer music plays over Critic's guilt over how nice he used to be, and the Donnie's confidence music plays when it looks like Critic is for once going to take on a lesson since comeback. [[spoiler: which ends up just a HopeSpot when Burton lets him down with another shitty adaptation and he goes back to reboot normal]] |
| 624 | ** When he's confessing sins that had nothing to do with him in ''WesternAnimation/FoodFight'', "[[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee Fatal Fight]]" is the soundtrack, being that little hint of what he ''should'' be apologizing for. |
| 625 | *** It was also the soundtrack for Avatar Aang defeating Shya at the end of ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' (also abruptly ends as he leaves), giving the pretty clear message of Critic is in no way the hero any more. |
| 626 | ** The stuttery EtherealChoir from the ''WebVideo/DemoReel'' Batman parody is usually used as a sign that something bad is going to happen, or when Critic is getting abused or threatened. In particular it plays at the end of ''Old vs New: Spider-Man'' when Fat Grandma is enabling Hyper to stalk him, and she puts on a copy of his clothes in a ''The Review Must Go On'' homage. |
| 627 | * MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: In his review of "The Magic Voyage" Critic criticizes the German company who made this film for making such a historically inaccurate film. Then he turns the tables by adding: "We can't even get our own history right!" and shows the poster for Disney's "Pocahontas" film. |
| 628 | * MyFriendsAndZoidberg: In "Unlimited Beers", Rachel and Tamara talk about how the comment sections will give Doug and Malcolm a variety of comments... but all they'll get is "Tamara/Rachel, you looked pretty/not pretty". |
| 629 | * MyOwnGrandpa: Since ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' ripped off ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', which itself was inspired by the in-development version of the film, the Critic views the situation as animated inbreeding. |
| 630 | * MythologyGag: Rachel plays Shakira in the ParodyCommercial sketch of ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI''. This is a reference to her Shakira imitation in her ''WebVideo/DemoReel'' audition. |
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| 635 | * NakedFreakOut: The title card of “Is Eyes Wide Shut Just Artsy Porn”, to go with the feeling exposed theme, and Doug's executive in “Rise Of The Commercials." |
| 636 | * NameMcAdjective: |
| 637 | ** Used by the Critic in his review of ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'', in which he acts out the pitch by its creator, whom he dubs "[=Fuckup McDumbass=]" |
| 638 | ** Likewise with the Critic's worst fan, "[=Douchey McNitpick=]". The review of ''Pound Puppies'' gives us Pussy [=McPantaloon=]-Britches. |
| 639 | ** In the first ''Film/ChildsPlay1988'' crossover with Phelous, he and Critic had dolls named [=Nasty McBrain-Eat=] and [=Slashy McKillKill=] respectively. |
| 640 | * NeckLift: A rather strong-looking fan does this to him as punishment for disliking ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle''. In the commentary for ''Anime/{{Ponyo|On The Cliff By The Sea}}'', Doug reveals that he actually got lifted up for real and ''really'' wanted the picture to be taken quick. |
| 641 | * NecktieLeash: Analyst 1 pulls Analyst 2 by the tie to stop the boys and girls realizing that their (the CGI one) franchise is inferior. |
| 642 | * NerdsAreSexy: The Critic/Tamara/Malcolm era loves to lampshade that they know they're really pretty, both in videos and [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BK3z5C3jLgP/?taken-by=channelawesome Instagram]]. Even before reboot, you could take a drink every time Doug acknowledged a lot of fandom thought he was cute. |
| 643 | * NerdsAreVirgins: Doug's a firm believer in "misogynist nerds are virgins", with any MRA joke being about how they've probably never even met a woman. This applies to creeper women being awkward and inexperienced too. |
| 644 | * NeutralFemale: He points out that [=JLo=]'s character in ''Film/TheCell'' must have a blank slate for a mind, as it was easy to enslave her and also easy to free her. |
| 645 | * NeverASelfMadeWoman: |
| 646 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Ferngully}} II'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH2TimmyToTheResuce'' draw his ire for making Christa and Mrs. Brisby stay home and look after things, nobody giving them any credit for what they did in the first installments, and the sequels instead focusing on minor male characters. |
| 647 | ** Alluded to in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavagirl'', as he interprets her name as actually Amanda, and annoyed that the main kid feels like he can name her himself. |
| 648 | * NeverGotToSayGoodbye: As abusive as she was, Critic is still broken-hearted when he gets a call that his mother died and didn't tell him she was sick because he was working. And then when he doesn't even get to hear her final words because of the dinosaur, he has a screechfest. |
| 649 | * NeverHeardThatOneBefore: "There's only a handful of people that have the name Doug, you know, and they're scarred for life because of [[WesternAnimation/{{Doug}} this damned show]]. So many people come up to you and say 'Oh hey, Doug, where's Patti Mayonnaise?' Yeah, I've never heard that one before, [[GodwinsLaw you bunch of Hitlers!]]" |
| 650 | ** He also says this trope word for word during his "Film/BattlefieldEarth" review with the Psyclos mistook dogs as the dominant species of Earth simply because they believed they got the man animals to chauffeur them around. |
| 651 | * NeverSayThatAgain: Paraphrased in the ''Film/BioDome'' review: |
| 652 | --> '''Doyle''': Bio-Dome. You think that means it goes both ways? |
| 653 | --> '''Bud''': I don't know, but we do. (pretends to kiss Doyle while making an obnoxious noise and waggling tongue) |
| 654 | --> '''Critic''': ''NEVER DO THAT AGAIN, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.'' |
| 655 | ** The Critic requests this in the "Top 11 Coolest Clichés" in regards to a Klingon Chorus. |
| 656 | * NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: He received a lot of flack for supposedly making fun of {{Creator/Mako}} in his WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}} review, as well as several Music/MichaelJackson jokes in his ''Film/{{Moonwalker}}'' review despite the fact that the review came out BEFORE Jackson died. |
| 657 | ** Downplayed subversion after his mom dies in the ''Film/JurassicPark III'' review. He mentions the abusive past less after that, but the same review has an abuse sketch (that he lampshaded as being a CreatorBreakdown) and the “Top 11 New Halloween Classics” has him mention in a traumatized tone all the crap in his family history. After all, she may have got redeemed before she died, but she still abused him. |
| 658 | * NeverTrustATrailer: |
| 659 | ** The ''American Beauty'' editorial tagline makes it sound like he's going to be attacking the movie for the normalizing of pedophilia, but he actually glosses over that (and makes a joke about underage Thora Birch's boobs) and talks about how it's a product of its time. |
| 660 | ** Double subverted with Doug's preview of Critic's “Eyes Wide Shut” editorial. He plays to SexSells, calling it steamy and teases that there's {{fanservice}}, but fact that he's completely in the dark and kinda twitchy makes it fairly obvious that it's not exactly going to be a BeachEpisode. |
| 661 | ** The editorials tend to have pretty clickbait titles in general, even if the videos themselves are more nuanced. For example "Is Whitewashing Really Still A Thing" makes it sound like he's arguing against that thought when really he's saying it's more ingrained than we think. |
| 662 | ** A mild example: the promotional card for the Hyper Boner wedding in the ''Chipwrecked'' review claims the movie will be shown at the reception, implying the review happens at the wedding. In the review proper, Critic leaves the wedding early to review the movie when the cringey puns about the ship name remind him of the movie's cringey title. |
| 663 | * NewMediaAreEvil: Surely well aware of the hypocrisy, in “Rise Of The Commercials”, he {{sarcasm mode}}s “no long will we be braindead lifeless zombies who plug ourselves into the system” over people with headsets on trains and communicating with friends on their phones. |
| 664 | ** The stinger at the end of ''Old vs New: Spider-Man'' has him be particularly pissy about having to join twitter, although it's not even him doing it, just an official CA account. |
| 665 | ** In ''Film/TheHauntedMansion2003'', he makes fun of the daughter's DullSurprise by saying “dude, we're the iphone generation, the only time we're shocked is when facebook changes the layout”. |
| 666 | ** “Why Does Everyone Hate Film/TheCableGuy” has him digging at social media again, saying it gave creepy {{basement dweller}}s an outlet to obsess over someone (namely him). |
| 667 | ** Subverted while talking about ''Dark Side Of The Internet'' though, as he says people were awful even before internet and that he doubts Mussolini was on tumblr. |
| 668 | ** In a rare occurrence, Uncle Lies crapping on iphones and Tinder in the Amadeus editorial is actually him being the villain. |
| 669 | ** He likes ''Film/{{Unfriended}}'' because a) the teens are meant to be [[TeensAreMonsters revolting]] and b) it shows the dangers of spending too much time on the computer. |
| 670 | * {{Newsreel}}: The "man is evil" gag from his "Ferngully 2" and "Once Upon a Forest" reviews is executed in the style of a newsreel, complete with Jack Shaindlin stock music. |
| 671 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: In ''Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer'', Critic freaks out Malcolm and Tamara and they end up giving him a wide berth for ''Christmas Story 2'', where he's alone and vulnerable for Hyper to get at him. The accompanying vlog for the latter also goes over their reasons for not caring about him getting stalked again. |
| 672 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: His meta writing of Tamara and Malcolm as much smarter so they can find him bandwagons to jump on in ''WesternAnimation/FoodFight'' segues into ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' where they're brainy enough to manipulate him into doing ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}''. No wonder that next time they have significant screen-time together (''Film/ThePurge''), they TookALevelInDumbass. |
| 673 | * NighInvulnerability: No matter how many times [[Film/SupermanII Zod]] is "killed", he always returns somehow. |
| 674 | * NightmareFace: Lucy Lacemaker makes plenty in the review of Film/TheWall, and god love her, but she’s got a pretty scary face to begin with. |
| 675 | * NightmareFuel:[[invoked]] The Critic has several {{inuniverse}} lampshadings and invocations of this concept (be it {{accidental|NightmareFuel}} or intentional). |
| 676 | ** His "Top 11 Scariest Nostalgic Moments" and "Top 11 Scariest Performances" lists. |
| 677 | ** The Critic's review of ''Film/{{Junior}}''. Specifically the baby [[UnintentionalUncannyValley with Arnold's face grafted on]]. |
| 678 | ** The premise behind SCARY SLOW-MO takes already creepy scenes and slows them down to enhance the nightmare factor. |
| 679 | ** The giant baby from the ''Baby Geniuses'' review. Oh God... |
| 680 | ** Basically everything in ''Film/SonOfTheMask'' causes the Critic to [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl shriek in fear]]. |
| 681 | ** In one video, he discusses the use of Nightmare Fuel at length in media aimed towards children in an editorial titled "Should We Scare The Shit Out Of Our Kids?", in which he admits that he's still scared of [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Lampwick's transformation into a donkey]]. |
| 682 | * NightmareRetardant: Several in-universe failures. |
| 683 | ** ''Literature/{{Hannibal}}'' and the remake of ''Film/{{Psycho|1998}}'', according to the Critic in his Top 11 Scariest Performances. |
| 684 | ** He does the same thing with Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{It}}'', and turns it into a drinking game. |
| 685 | ** He turns the rather creepy scene from ''Film/Signs'' with the aliens trying to break into the house into a laugh riot by adding subtitles. |
| 686 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: |
| 687 | ** In his ''Film/JackFrost1998'' review, the Critic points out that the movie would be much more [[RuleOfCool awesome]] if Creator/MichaelKeaton's character had come back from the dead as [[ChainedByFashion chained-up]] Franchise/{{Superman}} with Franchise/{{Batman}}'s head, rather than a horrendously creepy {{snow|lems}}man. |
| 688 | * NoAntagonist: After ''My Pet Monster'', people directed their anger at the director for the Critic's BSOD. But listen to the phone call again and you'll find he didn't do anything wrong, just defending himself from the idiot that called him. Critic's low self-esteem was the real "evil" there. |
| 689 | * NoEndorHolocaust: Referenced in his ''Film/DoubleDragon1994'' review. He points out that the film takes place in the (then) future date of 2007. Since the review was made in 2008, Critic mocks that it was a funny couple of months cleaning up the mess seen in the film. |
| 690 | * NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Referenced in "The Top 11 Hottest Animated Women", as he says a lot of men don't want a woman stronger than them, but he's not one of those guys. Not the last time he shows off being an AmazonChaser either. |
| 691 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: |
| 692 | ** On ''Film/TheNeverEndingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia'''s disk. |
| 693 | ** Also, to ''WesternAnimation/BebesKids'' cartridge for his [[OutOfGenreExperience only video game review]] (as a challenge between him and the Nerd). |
| 694 | ** Referenced and not played for laughs at all in Webvideo/VampireReviews' “Monster Mash” episode, where he comes in, casually talking about beating a girl to death because she confused him for the Nerd. |
| 695 | ** In ''Film/EventHorizon'', Malcolm and especially Tamara are a little too eager to hit Critic with wrenches. |
| 696 | * NoHuggingNoKissing: |
| 697 | ** Has to apply with Critic and Hyper Fangirl, as unlike Chick and Todd (who were together IRL so it was allowed, plus nobody was the boss of each other) with-boyfriend Tamara can't feel/tie up married Doug, so they have to find other ways – and OffstageVillainy – for Hyper to be gross to Critic. |
| 698 | ** In a non-Hyper example, Doug and Beth are even amused on the ''Phantom'' commentary about holding each other's hand. |
| 699 | ** Hyper and Devil Boner never physically touch each other in ''Cinderella Old vs New'', but there's plenty of innuendo and love shown regardless. Subverted in ''Film/FreddyVsJason'' when Hyper tackle-hugs him, though their subsequent affection happens offscreen. |
| 700 | ** [[spoiler: Averted when they get married in the ''Chipwrecked'' review and naturally seal it with a kiss.]] |
| 701 | * NoJustNoReaction: The Critic has one of these, word for word, to the ''{{Toys/Lalaloopsy}}'' Diaper Surprise toys during the fifth commercial special. |
| 702 | * NoKillLikeOverkill: ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH2TimmyToTheRescue'' made him so angry he called in '''''[[Franchise/StarWars The Death Star]]''''' to blow up the DVD. |
| 703 | ** Then in ''Film/TurboAPowerRangersMovie'' he summons the giant 10 story fighting robot to crush the monster that was only a foot taller than himself. |
| 704 | * NoMeansYes: Hyper's a firm believer in this, with all the issues regarding consent that implies. Even in her first vlog, she asks Critic if she can film in the studio and he very vehemently says no multiple times, but she's so in her world that she takes it as being granted permission. |
| 705 | * NoMoreForMe: During ''Literature/{{It}}'', the talking head in the refrigerator forces the Critic to end his in-universe DrinkingGame early. |
| 706 | * NonIndicativeName: The editorials are for the most part positive, but are given really irritatingly bashy titles like “What The Fuck Was Up With [The Movie] ''Film/WhereTheWildThingsAre''?”. |
| 707 | * NonSequiturThud: At the beginning and end of the ''A Kid In King Arthur's Court'' review, he repeatedly hits his head in an attempt to forget all about the movie, resulting in {{mondegreen}} titles like "A Cat in Bea Arthur's Cooch". Also, at the end, he accidentally says "I remember it so you don't WesternAnimation/BluesClues", instead of his usual catch phrase. |
| 708 | * NoodleIncident: In the future, seahorses have somehow taken over the world. The only explanation we get is Future Nostalgia Critic saying that they really should've seen it coming. |
| 709 | ** Although the ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'' saga isn't a NoodleIncident, the Critic speaks of it as one. |
| 710 | --->'''Critic:''' There was an...''incident'' in Nevada...many people injured. I-[[PersonaNonGrata I can never go back.]] |
| 711 | ** In ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'': |
| 712 | --->'''Critic:''' So while participating in post boat-burning, stepdaughter-kidnapping, inevitable death sex - which let's be honest ''is'' the best sex. |
| 713 | ** According to the [[Film/StarTrekInsurrection Insurrection]] review, the Amish hate [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]. |
| 714 | *** Critic's kami-con Q&A ends with him finishing off the story of the first time he ever fucked a melon. |
| 715 | *** And to mock a too-brief Picard character moment, he starts stalking about when he was a [[RaisedAsTheOppositeGender little girl]] [[CallBack in Alaska]] before the room shakes to stop him. |
| 716 | ** Whatever Angry Joe's father did to him with [[NoodleImplements a lobster costume, nipple tazers, and nitroglycerin]] in the flashback in their ''Man of Steel'' crossover. |
| 717 | ** The DarkAndTroubledPast element of Critic's characterization comes back in “Top 11 New Halloween Classics”, where he PTSD-modes he has a history of bad things happening in his family on Halloween, but doesn't say what. |
| 718 | ** In ''Film/SmallSoldiers'', he calls Kirsten Dunst's character leaving her brother tied up a “typical sibling response”. |
| 719 | ** In ''WebVideo/TheUncannyValley'' review, his bad luck with toys continues. |
| 720 | --->'''Critic''': I'm glad your Mr Popples did that. Mine just cut me with glass and called me ethnic slurs. ...probably should have had that looked at actually. |
| 721 | ** In ''Alaska'', his dad did ''something'' that made Critic never mouth off to him again, and this moment got an IronicEcho in ''The Uncanny Valley'', with Critic mentioning the last time he crept into a woman's bedroom and watched her sleep really ''was'' the last time. |
| 722 | ** When Tamara freaks him out at the start of ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', he says “as if this week couldn't get any creepier”, giving the impression that other bad things have happened, but doesn't elaborate. |
| 723 | ** In an example that is PlayedForLaughs (because he shows a picture of a drunk man with a cigarette) and isn't (because this is said after the masked people threaten a ShamefulStrip), in “Is Eyes Wide Shut Just Artsy Porn”, he's had times where he's been naked and exposed to everyone. |
| 724 | ** The ball-gags are comfy line in ''Pixels''. His reasoning for how he knows being "research" doesn't exactly come off as truthful, but he changes the topic fast. |
| 725 | ** According to ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'', pay-day and Malcolm/Tamara pointing guns in Critic's face apparently go together. |
| 726 | ** In an alternative ending to ''Film/SpeedRacer'', Rob drags Critic away and Malcolm comes across Sage tied up. He immediately assumes a kink thing is happening again. |
| 727 | ** Somehow Devil Boner gets gunpowder in Hyper's cleavage when they go on dates. |
| 728 | ** How Snyder and Bay escaped from the Platypus Bunny involved "snapped necks, explosions and a lot of passion". |
| 729 | * NoSell: During the fight with Nostalgia Chick in the ''Ferngully'' review she tried poking him in the eyes but his glasses stop her. |
| 730 | * NostalgiaFilter: Averted, since the Critic's purpose is showing that the eighties and early nineties had their fair share of terrible or otherwise disappointing shows and movies, and mocked on occasion. The exception is his Top 11 lists, which are much more positive. Also, some normals reviews and "Old Vs New", where he picks two versions of one work (both exceptionally good) and compares one to the other to find the better one. |
| 731 | ** Some reviews - like ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' or ''Film/{{Hook}}'' - he will heavily admit that he truly likes, but even so he still pick out flaws and fridge logic in them. |
| 732 | ** The one time the Critic succumbs to the Nostalgia Filter is during his review of ''Film/FollowThatBird'', forcing Chester A. Bum to finish it for him. |
| 733 | ** Critic himself is also subject to this. Those who didn't like WebVideo/DemoReel or just hate the Rachel/Malcolm/Tamara sketches just because they're sketches [[note]]obviously doesn't apply to those who think the new skits are bad because they think they're bitter and heartless, which even Rachel and Doug agreed with[[/note]] think Critic Prime was solely fifteen minute reviews when it was seriously character-based (just look at what was meant to be his finale) always had him wandering off to banter with Rob or have angst about his job. This was pointed out in-universe during ''Christmas With The Kranks'', with the Nerd feud, the crossovers and the anniversary specials being used as examples of him evolving as a character and how that was the most important thing. |
| 734 | ** Shows the darker, more idiotic side of this feeling in ''Forest Warrior'', by Critic dismissing all of Chuck Norris's documented homophobia and wanting him to go back to the [[invoked]] MemeticBadass of his childhood. |
| 735 | ** Confirmed by Doug, ''Disney Afternoon'' showed the darker side too. Because said afternoon is so beloved and nostalgic (and he and Rob were saying that the episode was their favorite to film, plus Doug kept the movie posters and sweets from his childhood) that you get sucked in and relate, but Critic went too far and hurt anyone who tried to get him back to reality. |
| 736 | ** Subverted much to his pain in ''Are Kid's Shows Now Better Than Ever'', as while as he doesn't love the shows he grew up on any less, he thinks shows like ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', ''WesternAnimation/Adventure Time'', ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' and ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' are far better because they tackle painful issues in a relatable but also enjoyable way. ''Transformers'' would never have an episode about depression for example. |
| 737 | ** Tamara calls it out at the end of ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'', telling the boys to get over it and stop living in the past so girls can have something to have fun with for once. |
| 738 | ** According to a con, Tamara used to love ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'' until Critic reviewed it and she realized that it wasn't actually good. |
| 739 | ** “Comfortably Dumb” from Film/TheWall ends up being about how he wishes he wasn’t a bored adult who feels dumb for being bored, and could be an excited-about-the-film kid again. |
| 740 | * NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Discussed in-universe in “Why Is Nothing Original Anymore”, comparing ''Film/TheSmurfs'' and ''Film/{{Melancholia}}'', saying how even though you're pissed off at the former, management banks on you still having more of a connection to it than than the latter.[[invoked]] |
| 741 | ** The [[{{WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic}} Critic's]] portrayal of Casper appears to believe in this, as he gets angry when the Critic eventually deems [[{{Film/Casper}} his live-action movie]] to be SoOkayItsAverage, rather than going full CausticCritic on it. |
| 742 | -->'''Casper''': That's it! I'm tired of leaving no lasting impact on the creative media |
| 743 | ** The Critic wanted to avert this in ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' review series because the villains wanted him to utterly slam [[Film/TheMatrixReloaded the]] [[Film/TheMatrixRevolutions sequels.]] |
| 744 | -->'''Stranger:''' No! You must hate them! You must hate them so much that people have to see them! |
| 745 | ** Interestingly enough, Tamara mentioned that they profit from making ''[[Franchise/TheMatrix Matrix]]'' fans so enraged that they watch the reviews multiple times in the ''Film/MammaMia'' review. |
| 746 | ** He expressed shame for bringing attention to ''WesternAnimation/FoodFight,'' right before expressing glee over how many views the review will get. |
| 747 | -->'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:''' Everybody should be ashamed for even acknowledging it exists. I feel like Beelzebub's ballsack just for drawing attention to it! |
| 748 | ** Mentioned in the ''Film/JurassicWorld'' review to complain about Hollywood taking some of their videos down. |
| 749 | -->'''Mr. Puppy:''' I mean, even your reviews of bad movies have led to higher sales due to your exposure! |
| 750 | ** In the editorial on trailers, discussing the ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' one, he doesn't specifically mention the more sexist “raped my childhood” people, but he alludes to them when he tells them they're so angry about it they'll go see it anyway. |
| 751 | *** During the Sibling Rivalry for ''Film/Ghostbusters2016,'' Rob claimed that the film would have come and went if not for the controversy, also noting that plenty of hated movies are forgotten like ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015.'' |
| 752 | * NotDistractedByTheSexy: In ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'', everyone is surprised that Harley can beat up people, and when Critic asks why (who has always related to her), they assumed she was just there for fanservice and he gets annoyed. |
| 753 | * NothingIsScarier: In the end credits for ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', the brief moment of silence followed by another gunshot was more effective in painting a horrific picture of what was happening to the Critic than a gorily seen shootdown ever could. |
| 754 | ** Discussed in his review of ''Film/ChildsPlay1988'', where he and Phelous comment that the movie was far more creepy when Chucky wasn't moving and talking; they feel it gets very goofy once this happens. |
| 755 | ** PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/TheHauntedMansion2003'', where Zod's crotch is apparently so mutilated that it makes his co-star scream. |
| 756 | ** Critic's time with Hyper is mostly left to the imagination, but just enough is given away (like an announcer saying he's missing and terrified over a PreviouslyOn, or a reference to her torturing him and {{forceful kiss}}es) to know he didn't have fun and had trauma about it even after she got shot off. |
| 757 | ** PlayedForLaughs at the end of ''Film/MammaMia'', as whatever venting Critic has at his fanbase is so awful that their resulting rage explosion makes him lose an eye. |
| 758 | ** Having gone way too big with Christmas joy in 2017, they went for offscreen horror in 2018 that Critic desperately pretends he didn't hear. |
| 759 | ** They’re still scary as themselves, but in ''Film/TheWall'' there’s plenty of quick shadowy images of Fennah’s creatures before they make their appearances. |
| 760 | * NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: Tends to be the victim of these, as a result of his masochism, neediness and explicit attention whoring. In the eyes of Spoony, for example, the spooning was acceptable because Critic had a book that gave him inspiration for the spocker. |
| 761 | ** While it clearly was, and Critic is the only one to actually have ongoing PTSD over Spoony, Doug asided in a con that it might not have been rape because Critic just likes attention. |
| 762 | ** In ''Princess Diaries II'', Hyper defends what she did by saying Critic did actually enjoy reviewing the movie with her (so ergo he should have kissed her). Critic and Doug on the commentary respond that he wasn't really, just falling into StockholmSyndrome after being kept captive, tortured and manipulated for a long time. ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' shows she still has this mindset, remembering “there on the couch/laughing out loud”, and thinking the kidnapping context as an unfortunate snag before she decides to make him hers by any means necessary. |
| 763 | * NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: |
| 764 | ** In his review of ''Film/SpaceJam'', he refers to Michael Jordan's misguided attempt at playing baseball: |
| 765 | --->"That's not bad writing; that actually happened." |
| 766 | ** At the start of his review of ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'', he not only declares he's not making it up, he holds up the DVD case to prove it. |
| 767 | ** Yes, that really was the Rock Biter in ''Film/TheNeverEndingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia'' on a rock motorcycle, singing "Born to Be Wild". |
| 768 | --->"YES, THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING!" |
| 769 | ** Early in the review of ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'', he gives a Not Editing This Footage Disclaimer -- he wanted it made clear that he did not shoehorn in the Yahoo! jingle. |
| 770 | ** Also done in ''Captain N'', to say he didn't add "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz OO-WEE-OH!]]" noises to a march of guards. |
| 771 | ** Likewise he pointed out that he did not edit the scene in ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'' where the dialogue actually goes: "Get over it." "[[AngstWhatAngst Okay!]]" |
| 772 | ** In the ''Film/Catwoman2004'' review: "Yes, Sean Young, we all remember how you ambushed Creator/TimBurton dressed as Catwoman in order to force him to put you in the role" *Looks at the camera* "That's not comedic writing; she really did that, folks." |
| 773 | ** He had a sign that he pulled down that more or less stated this during his review of ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI''. |
| 774 | ** In his video on MethodActing, he gets in quick anger at Dustin Hoffman slapping Meryl Streep on the set of “Kramer vs Kramer”, showing an article to prove that happened. |
| 775 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Critic attracts it, even from people frustrated with him. Two good examples being Paw in the ''Film/LesMiserables2012'' review, and Sage in the ''Film/TheGuyver'' review. |
| 776 | * NotSoDire: Snarked on in ''Film/SuburbanCommando'' where Shelley Duvall was only screaming "for health". He thinks next week it'll be running down the street yelling rape to "ease the tension." |
| 777 | * NotStayingForBreakfast: In ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'', he complains about being used to one night stand women always leaving when he goes to sleep after sex. |
| 778 | * NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat: |
| 779 | ** He points out a couple times in his review of ''The Wiz'' that, [[DoubleEntendre double entendres]] notwithstanding, he's making fun of Joel Schumacher for sucking at his job, not for being gay. |
| 780 | ** More organic in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', when Devil Boner asks if the meninists are gay, because if they are that's fine but they clearly have some rage issues with women. Their SuspiciouslySpecificDenial suggests that they're just sexist homophobes. |
| 781 | * NoSympathy: The fifth hyper vlog, accompanying the ''Christmas Story II'' review, establishes why while everyone knows Hyper is a creepy stalker who kidnapped Critic, everyone has their reasons for not being on Critic's side. Malcolm's more interested in work where he's not the ButtMonkey, Santa Christ has hated Critic since Kickassia while Hyper fangirls him, and Tamara's tired of the sexist boy club where she has to be MsFanservice. |
| 782 | * NotWantingKidsIsWeird: ''Jurassic World'' having SkewedPriorities with Claire in regards to this is alluded to, as her sister is played as an HystericalWoman who cares more about how she should like kids instead of the divorce or Claire's job. |
| 783 | * NotWearingPantsDream: Noted seriously in his “Eyes Wide Shut” editorial, after the main male character is forced to take off his clothes or the mask wearers will do it for him, admitting that he's had quite a few nightmares where he's been completely exposed. |
| 784 | * NoYay: Sometimes pointed out by the Critic in-universe, ''Film/{{Kazaam}}'' being a major offender. |
| 785 | -->'''N.C.:''' Bad touch! BAD TOUCH! |
| 786 | ** [[FridgeHorror Think]][[invoked]] about his relationship with [[BlackComedyRape Spoony]] too hard and you might be squicked out. |
| 787 | * NutritionalNightmare: The Nostalgia Critic and his obnoxious fan Douchey [=McNitpick=] love to eat Sugar Frosted Burrito Stuffed Hot Pockets. |
| 788 | -->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' I’m sure a lot of this comes from spending less time in the kitchen and more time eating sugar frosted burrito-stuffed hot pockets.\ |
| 789 | '''Douchey''': Oh, I love those! With the extra lard on the side? ''(Speaks simultaneously with NC)'' And the delicious crumbled up things ever!\ |
| 790 | '''Nostalgia Critic:''' ''(simultaneously)'' Yeah, I know! And the creamy buttery tastes for real liposuctions.\ |
| 791 | '''Douchey:''' And the side of oil found in most suntan lotions? |
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