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Douglas Darien "Doug" Walker, born November 17, 1981, ''is'' Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses (Which is to say, he's the bespectacled man the site is named after, not that he has a case of ''[[IAmTheNoun l'etat c'est moi]]''), the main star of the site and has so many characters you'd think he had Multiple Personality Disorder.

His original characters include:
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic
* Donnie Dupre, the director in ''WebVideo/DemoReel''.
* That Guy With The Glasses of ''WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses''
* Chester A. Bum of ''WebVideo/BumReviews''
* Dominic the Bartender of ''VideoGameConfessions''
* Douchey [=McNitpick=], a StrawFan spoof of {{Troll}} commenters.
* Black Dog Bill, a {{Pirate}} telling MemeticBadass jokes about Bloodbeard Joe.
* Emo Jones, a spoof of [[invoked]]{{Wangst}}y people.
* Reverend Nutjob, a spoof of preachers. His antics include just being, well, nutty. He once looked at a guy in a light yellow suit and asked God to "[[ImpossiblyTackyClothes heal this man's fashion sense]]".
* Himself, credited initially as The Writer, in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' and ''The Review Must Go On''

His parody characters include:
* General Zod of ''{{Film/Superman II}}''
* Raoul Puke, a character based on the works of Creator/HunterSThompson
* Melvin, brother of [[Film/TheDarkKnightSaga the Joker]]. Has been KilledOffForReal in a vid for charity.
* Tommy Wiseau, director/writer/producer/actor/possibly-alien from ''Film/TheRoom''
* Dr. Bitch Spasms, a ''Patch Adams'' analog highlighting why the movie character wouldn't make a good doctor. KilledOffForReal at the end of the ''Film/PatchAdams'' review.
* The spider-mutant version of Dr. Smith from the ''LostInSpace'' movie.
* Lori Prince, a news personality in both the ''{{Franchise/Batman}}'' universe, and the Channel Awesome universe (according to WordOfGod, since his father, Larry Prince, is a news anchor on ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''). A parody of newscaster LarryKing.
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!!Notable tropes invoked by Doug Walker:
* {{Adorkable}}
* AlterEgoActing: Oh, so much of it...
* ApologizesALot: He's most definitely a people pleaser. You ''want'' to tell him nobody will be mad if he's too busy to do a Bum Review for a popular movie or he only does a couple videos in a week because he's tired or real life gets in the way, but we know that's a lie.
** See also [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony's]] DVDCommentary for the ''Zombie 5'' review, where Spoony details how both men had come up with the ''exact same idea'' to open up a crossover with WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob (Impersonating the Snob, only for him to interrupt) without knowing the other crossover was planned; after Doug got to shoot with Brad first & learnt that Noah was planning the same bit afterwards, Doug was so sorry about it that he called Noah up to apologise about it.
* ArtistDisillusionment: He had it for a couple of days after the ''Bart's Nightmare'' LetsPlay, where he was already in a bad way from jetlag and coming back from vacation. He got upset over people acting like the video had kicked their dog and wanted to do a TakeThat with Douchey in place of Chester as the mouthpiece for the fans, but Michaud talked him down. He very clearly still regrets this.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: He admits in one of his [=Vlog=] reviews that he has ADD.
* AttentionWhore: Not in a bad way, but sometimes it can seem like he's putting on a show for entertainment when he's in {{keet}} mode.
* AuthorAvatar: As "The Writer" in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' and ''The Review Must Go On''. There's virtually no difference between that 'character' and Doug, the former special hints that his name actually is Doug, and the latter one outright confirms this.
* AuthorTract: Donnie ended "Blue Patches" learning that he couldn't obsess over his past and needed to look forward to the future, Critic ended his live ''{{Twilight}}'' review telling everyone that he wasn't going to do this anymore and that he was going to stick to being happy in the PlotHole, and the Vampire Support Group Simon Belmont goes to in VideoGameConfessions tells him they've had a good run and it's time to try new things.
* BerserkButton: It's hard to get Doug really riled up on something, although condescending kids is a good place to start.
** Regarding this, the ''Garbage Pail Kids'' movie ''really'' got him angry, because it was meant for kids, or, in his words, "''forced down their throats''". The "defender of kids" trait from the Nostalgia Critic is truly his, as he demonstrates here. The thing that hit home was that he begged his mom to let him watch this film when he was a kid and she refused, something he thanks God for after watching it now, because it would have seriously messed up a little kid's mind at that age. His face was very red and his eyes were wild, even his famous hat fell off during it and he didn't care. Plus, his hate against the movie is fully justified and he gives good reasons as to ''why'' it is horrible, and he strives to meet that person who actually likes that movie, because he wants to know why they like it.
** Hell, he is ''on the wikapedia page for that movie,'' under the Reviews section.
** The first ''Breaking Dawn'' film's treatment of the issue of abortion. He actually starts shaking and turning red while railing against this.
** Some of the cliches that he really hates: the plot where a liar gets revealed (because he's SeenItAMillionTimes), and movies that think they're saying something more deep and profound than they really are.
* BiasSteamroller: If there's a movie with a plot that's been done before, and doesn't add anything "new to the table", he'll probably despise it and usually would try to avoid it.
** Though in his "Old vs. New" videos, he prefers the remakes often enough to avert this trope (''Film/TheKarateKid'', ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''TrueGrit'', ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor'').
** Also inverted. Anything that treats children or teenagers like they're intelligent and challenges them will at least be given a lot of respect.
** A movie having a "LiarRevealed" trope is almost guaranteed to get absolutely trashed by Doug. ''Almost'', which is why it surprises him that he ended up liking other movies that used such as ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' or ''{{WesternAnimation/Madagascar}} 3''.
* BigEater: He said at a con that most of what he eats is a lot of junk food. Looking at him, you wouldn't suspect it.
* BigBrotherWorship: In "The Top 11 Favorite NC Jokes", Rob gets about three minutes of gushing for his directing skills.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: For jokey interviews and sketches "AsHimself", he enjoys acting like his niceness is just an front for someone who is a dominating DepravedBisexual dictatorish psychopath. Of course in real life, he really is just as nice as he seems.
* BlackComedy:[[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/sketches-the-most-disturbing-aristocrats-joke-ever-1469521 The Most Disturbing Aristocrats Joke Ever]].
* BreakTheCutie: He used to love the ''{{Twilight}}'' movies for being so gloriously awful, but ''Breaking Dawn'' made him feel so dirty that he's very close to tears in his own review.
** In his video [[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/the-worst-movies-nostalgia-critic-s-reviewed-6391323 The WORST Movies Nostalgia Critic's Reviewed]], he spends most of the retrospective calmly explaining why he disliked the films he was bringing up, only occasionally getting angry when remembering something that he really disliked. Then he gets to [[TheGarbagePailKidsMovie his number one pick]] and it's the near-crying and shaking of ''Breaking Dawn'' all over again.
* CastingCouch: He likes to joke that he got noticed and popular by stripping for anyone who'd help him get there.
* TheCastShowoff: If you don't know that he's a good singer and knows it, you probably haven't watched his videos. Same with his love of doing impressions. And then of course there's the fact that before making videos full-time he was a professional illustrator and is not unwilling to show off his drawing prowess.
* CatBoy: No, really. See this [[http://i56.tinypic.com/16knrf9.jpg picture]].
* CarefulWithThatAxe: He has a very high pitch range and is not afraid to flaunt it. Occasionally, it manifests itself in this trope (e.g.''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'', ''Film/{{Junior}}'', ''{{Flubber}}'', ''It'')
* CerebusSyndrome: There's still comedy involved, but the last Critic and WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee played the character's brokenness for complete drama, Ask That Guy (as of writing) is hanging on a ToBeContinued, sweet innocent Chester had a breakdown over selling out in the ''WreckItRalph'' review and hasn't yet got back to his hyperactive self, and the pilot-following episodes of WebVideo/DemoReel are heavy on the emotions.
** When asked about this, Doug said he just enjoys seeing how much drama he can put in and get away with before people beg him to stop.
* CharacterDevelopment: Freely admits to being addicted to it, even calling Spooning With Spoony his favorite series because "everyone evolves to a new place".
* CompassionateCritic: In his [=Vlogs=]. Even with his agony over ''{{Twilight}}: Breaking Dawn'', he still keeps to his firm belief that people who like it aren't idiots, and he just hopes the grisly stuff about abortion will fly over their heads.
* {{Cosplay}}: He does an ''amazing'' [[Film/SupermanII General Zod]].
** Of course, the Critic wouldn't ever have managed to take over {{Kickassia}} if it weren't for him being... well... [[Film/StreetFighter M. Bison]].
** In ''SuburbanKnights'', he dresses up as [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]].
** In ''ToBoldlyFlee'', he is [[Film/JudgeDredd Judge Dredd]].
* ChubbyChaser: He tends to perk up when heftier women are on scene. His wife and ex-girlfriend (shown in ''SuburbanKnights'') are also both highly chubby.
** This seems to be more of a trait of the Nostalgia Critic, actually, because in his Top 10 Hottest Animated Women list, he doesn't seem to be focused on their size, but rather focused on nice girls, workaholics, and girls with southern accents (Though he admits that he thinks the British accent is more attractive).
* ComicalOverreacting: A lot of his characters are prone to this. His comedic influences video even showed characters who overreact a lot.
* CreatorBacklash: As far as he's concerned, Melvin, Brother of the Joker and Emo Jones are {{UnPe|rson}}ople.
** He's bashed the WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic concept as a whole more than once. Critic's rant about being a shitty reviewer in WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee was improvised, Donnie's rant in WebVideo/DemoReel about taking something miserable from the past and obsessing over it was a direct reference to TGWTG's usual shtick, and he's had to ask con-goers to stop requesting memes and actually ask questions. He's also pretty horrified when anyone implies that they see the character's obsession with movies as something to emulate.
* CreatorThumbprint: He has big things for tragic funniness, worlds where even the StraightMan is crazy and [[invoked]] {{Jerkass Woobie}}s. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also]], whenever he needs a girl's name in Critic or Ask That Guy videos, it'll always be "Vanessa".
** Having a breakdown about your job or at least feeling miserable about it is an oddly common theme in his work.
** His main characters (Critic, Ask That Guy, Chester and Donnie) have all had at least one moment where they're ready to [[DyingAlone die alone]]. [[DownerEnding Donnie actually does]].
* DepravedBisexual: Not Doug himself, but an AlterEgoActing persona he put on in the third DVD advertisement. Shirtless, psychotic and threatening a tied up "pretty" guy with a knife.
** The 'persona' makes a fandom-rejoicing reappearance in a Conbravo interview where he ends up riding the guy like a pony, and comes out a little in a Youmacon game of charades, where the guy Doug made out with compared him to Claudia from ''InterviewWithAVampire''.
** AmbiguouslyBi: He's married to his lady love, but his lack of gender preference when being TheTease is regularly brought up by other site members.
* DesignatedProtagonistSyndrome: [[invoked]] One of his main problems with ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'' is that the leads are so deathly dull. And this is the guy who argued that ''Disney/SnowWhite'' and ''{{Disney/Cinderella}}'' weren't all that bad from a feminist POV.
** He's also found DanielRadcliffe and DanielCraig to be the worst parts of the ''Film/HarryPotter'' and ''JamesBond'' franchises respectively.
* DoubleStandard: While discussing ''{{Daria}}'' in his top favorite TV shows, he notices that men have a tendency to love Daria's monotone voice but hate the same thing in her boyfriend, while women react vice versa.
** DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Defied. In ''{{Twilight}}'', as much as he hates Edward for the usual reasons, he also loathes Bella just as much for being such a manipulative, uncaring DomesticAbuser.
* EroticEating: With a banana and a lollipop, both {{lampshaded}} to the best of his ability.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: We won't go into audience examples, but InUniverse he's been nearly kissed twice and managed to get out of a hug before he got his ass groped.
** As for the guys he wants, he has a bit of a thing for Jacob from ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He practically exhausts himself in trying, and even gets upset because he fails, but he just can't see the worth in ''Breaking Dawn'' and the movies on "The Top 11 Worst NC-Reviewed Films".
* ExtremeDoormat: Has a... reputation for it. For one example, at Connecticon a girl asked him if he could sign her friend's cleavage. He said no because private parts were the only things he didn't sign, but after a bit of pouting and refusing anything else, his spine crumbled and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx7Kw8K-jL8&t=7m17s did it anyway]]. Even gave her a kiss on the cheek because he's a gentleman.
** Despite Holly's protests, he's also the only one who ''lets'' people steal his work and income by uploading everything he does on YouTube because he thought it would be mean-spirited to complain. Nobody else (Linkara, Todd, Phelous, Lindsay etc.) has this viewpoint and refuse "can I put your videos up on YT" every time.
* FanservicePack: He's stopped with the middle-aged-man shirts and ridiculously baggy jeans to actually have clothes that fit him. God bless self-confidence.
* FemaleGaze: Invoked. There are a lot of things he does that makes his girl fans squee and some of his younger male fans reach for BrainBleach. [[hottip:*: This might also possibly account for some of the more venomous reactions he gets.]]
* FirstWorldProblems: Did it to himself in an interview once, stating that compared to not being able to eat or going off to be a soldier, hate-filled or creepy comments against him really don't measure up as that bad.
* FriendToAllChildren: In a much less screwed up way than WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic. He lampshaded his protectiveness of kids in the ''{{Ponyo}}'' commentary, adding that he's speaking as someone who doesn't have kids of his own.
* FunnyCharacterBoringActor: He's usually funnier with his brother Rob, who helps write his videos.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: More than enough people have expressed surprise at how charming, intelligent and sweet he is, especially when they just assumed first that he was just a less exaggerated version of the Critic.
* GoodFeelsGood: The commentary for ''A Simple Wish'' is basically twenty minutes of him discussing how awesome it feels to be a genuine NiceGuy and he doesn't care if people think he's weak for [[ApologizesALot apologizing all the time]].
* TheGlomp: He's a big fan of these at conventions.
* GuiltyPleasure: He has several, most notably being the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' movies, which he's admitted to ''loving'' for being so stupid.
* {{Guyliner}}: He'll wear it for shows and usually won't bother to wash it off afterwards because of fans saying it makes his eyes look even nicer.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: In the review of ''RiseOfTheGuardians'', Rob makes sure we know that he's married and straight after calling himself the expert on fairy lore. Doug of course just cracks up.
* HeIsAllGrownUp: As this [[http://www.facebook.com/pages/Doug-Walker/127127037353766#!/photo.php?fbid=129804960447390&set=o.127127037353766&type=1&theater picture]] so [[SarcasmMode eloquently]] states.
* HollywoodHomely: Invoked regarding only his hair-loss, as he's appreciative of everything else he has. He mocks himself for it ''all the time'', but while it is receding at a young age, it's still thick, fluffy and he's shown on various occasions that he can grow it out any way he wants.
* HorribleHollywood: He regularly talks about how he originally studied to work in film, but soon realized that someone like him wouldn't be able to survive in that industry and so went into illustration.
* IAmNotSpock: Even though WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic is a hyperbolic wreck who would have probably died in the real world long ago, people still confuse Doug with his character.
** After the Doug/Critic scene in WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee and Critic being mostly retired, the people ''still'' calling Doug "Critic" all the time are probably just doing it to try and annoy him.
* IWasJustJoking: Rare example where the audience is worried, not offended. He once tried to pass off his brokenly crying, shaking rants on Garbage Pail Kids and ''BreakingDawn'' as them being played for laughs and him acting like Critic. Seeing as this was only one half-hearted attempt and he went right back to emotions over both in the next con, nobody bought it.
* {{Keet}}: He used to be pretty shy when he was starting out, but now he's pretty much always happy, hug-loving and very bouncy.
* LampshadedTheObscureReference: In a video where he was in Austria, he made a reference to Julie Taymor's work, and noted that about five people watching might get it.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Watch any behind the scenes material with him and [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Lindsay Ellis]]; they're this trope.
* MaleGaze: In his interview with Mara Wilson, they bring up disparagingly on how much attention her bust gets because child actresses grow up. Unfortunately, if you look at the (male-dominated [[hottip:*: female fans tend to congregate elsewhere]]) comment sections, this point - that it's ridiculous to objectify her just because you remember her as {{Matilda}} - seems to have flown over their heads.
* [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Manic Pixie Dream Boy]]: The image he tries best and most to portray.
* ManlyTears: As his AuthorAvatar in "The Review Must Go On". Plenty of lip-quivering and eye-tearing, not so much with the happy.
* ManOfAThousandVoices
* RealLife/MeanCharacterNiceActor: Other TGWTG contributors and fans seem to agree that the real Doug Walker is a ridiculously nice guy. (See NiceGuy below.) Most of his characters are awful people or deeply screwed-up, or both.
** The Nostalgia Critic is a bratty lunatic and a bag of issues.
** "WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses" is a sadistic monster.
** Chester A. Bum is a delusional drug addict.
** Played with in the trailer for the TGWTG Volume 3 DVD, where Doug kidnapped someone and glued them to a chair to torture them (and promote the DVD).
* {{Misblamed}}: Fans have a tendency to blame him for whatever happens in crossovers or specials, forgetting that the majority of people on the site have their own character and will speak up if they feel he's writing them wrongly.
** He also doesn't own one bit of the site, so can't do anything about contributor or layout issues. In fact, a 2012 con had him not even ''knowing'' there was a site redesign planned.
* MostWritersAreMale: He discusses this ([[MaleGaze and]] [[GirlsNeedRoleModels other]] [[MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial related]] DoubleStandard [[WomenAreWiser tropes]]) in the "Top 11 Favorite NC Jokes", detailing how ridiculous it is that male writers are almost ''scared'' to give their female characters flaws and personalities.
* MrFanservice: As well as some of the things he does for the Critic and Ask That Guy, he takes every opportunity he can to flirt with people, start a striptease for con-goers or show off some skin.
* NiceGuy: He's a sweet man. In his commentary for ''Zombie 5'', [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]] said how Doug called him up to profusely apologize for coincidentally using his idea of dressing up like WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob first.
** In a [[http://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/85550919638450176 tweet]], Lindsay called him one of the rare Really Nice Guys.
** On {{Website/Facebook}}, a {{troll}} was calling Doug every single sexually degrading thing he could think of for a long while. He then asked when he lost his virginity. Doug finally responded with a YourMom joke... and then ''apologized'' for having to be "needlessly cruel" sometimes.
** In {{WebVideo/Phelous}}'s ''Film/HouseOfWax2005'' review, everyone else celebrates Paris Hilton's death in the film, while he's disgusted by their behavior.
** He invited Creator/MaraWilson to appear in his ''A Simple Wish'' review as a way of saying sorry due to his fanbase sending her bad messages over her acting skills.
* NiceGuysFinishLast: Subverted. In the ''A Simple Wish'' commentary, he reveals that he's aware that a lot of people take advantage of his apologetic nature and tend to blame him for stuff he has no say in, but doesn't mind because being GoodFeelsGood.
* NeverBareheaded: The only thing he's self-conscious about look-wise is his receding hairline, so he'll nearly always wear the Critic hat when he does [=vlogs=]s by himself.
* OffscreenInertia: He will occasionally use defiance of this trope as a joke.
* OlderThanTheyThink: In-universe, while talking about ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'', he brought up that it was really ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' that started the whole "wish and you'll do fine" business that people dislike the DisneyPrincess range of movies for.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Whenever Doug tries to do an accent it inevitably turns into some sort of weird Eastern European accent. See his "How To Be a Pirate" videos and his contributions to Lupa's [[TheRoom Tommy Wiseau]] videos for examples.
* OpinionMyopia: An openly clear aversion. Playing himself in his videos, he has noted that he (usually) understands that some people just feel differently about works than he does.
* OralFixationFixation: Put anything phallic in front of him and he ''will'' lick it. His WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses pipe, a lollipop, a lightsaber (three times), a banana, a joystick... [[PlayingToTheFetishes Women were pleased]].
* RaisedCatholic: Doug said he attended Catholic school when he was a kid in his ''MelodyTime'' review.
** In some of his flashback videos, Catholic items (and a church) are seen. In his video "Off to Defeat the Nerd," he asks Rob what they were bapitized as.
** In ''The Odd Life of Timothy Green'' review, he calls God "the Life of the World to Come, Amen." That title is actually the last line of the Nicene Creed.
* RhymesOnADime: He is surprisingly good at writing lyrics for satirical or humorous songs, as shown in "Holiday Clusterfuck" and a few smaller moments in Nostalgia Critic reviews. He states that simple rhyming just comes naturally for him when explaining how he managed to write the ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' review entirely in rhyme and still post it on schedule.
* PenName: For a while he went by "Douglas Darien" in his Website/{{That Guy With The Glasses}} material, as he worried that it might jeopardize his career as an illustrator. He dropped it when the site became very successful on its own.
* PerpetualSmiler: He can't seem to help himself, even when he's getting annoyed at something.
* PerverseSexualLust: His own list of the Top 10 Hottest Animated Women shows that Doug has a type, or at least facets of a type: kind-hearted women who get shit done, and a Southern accent and a nice design are a plus.
* PetPeeveTrope: He really hates the LiarRevealed trope, which he brings up in his ''[[DreamWorksAnimation DreamWorks]]''-uary videos, as they used it pretty often. [[invoked]]
** TropesAreNotBad: In his review of Madagascar 3, It is one of the few times that he does not hate the use of this trope. [[invoked]]
* PlayingAgainstType: His role in WebVideo/{{Sonic}}. He's played drama and plenty of {{distressed dude}}s before, but Critic, Ask That Guy, Chester or Donnie could never be silent or stoic or manly.
* PrettyBoy: Lampshaded often by both him and others.
* PrimaDonnaDirector: His "[[AlterEgoActing persona]]" in "The {{Kickassia}}n War". In real life he's a nice but firm perfectionist version.
* QuitYourWhining: Has a tendency to do this to himself. Most people would consider complaints about becoming sick from overwork, creepy fans or having to rage every con because of a meme you're tired of justified, but he'll always find a way to act like he was just bitching unnecessarily.
* SadClown: While he's fine now, the character of the Critic came from a quite extreme "nostalgia phase"/"mid-midlife crisis" and he's one of those comedians that believes some of the best comedy comes from being miserable.
* SarcasmFailure: Towards the end of his ''Boys Beware'' riff. He can only say "...wow" to the assertion that gay people are mentally ill.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the Forced Viewing podcast, he gives a carefully worded explanation on how mentally ill people cling onto things like family or teddy bears and then bolts, not even sticking around for the "thank you for joining us today" at the end.
* SelfDeprecation: One of the ruling champions.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: You already know it if you watch con videos or listen to commentaries, but "Sibling Rivalry" proved it for Doug and Rob. Doug's giggly, emotional and [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me8683Bheg1r4g53lo1_400.png shakes hands]] like a ProperLady, while Rob's stoic and snarkier.
* [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Shameless Fanservice Boy]]: As seen by the donation drives and some cons with Rob, he carries on the teasing even when others are uncomfortable.
* ShipperOnDeck: As Rob's not really a fan of that kinda thing, he's usually responsible for all the ShipTease flying around in the shows and anniversary specials.
* ShirtlessScene: By this point he's had so many he might have actually topped {{Benzaie}} for most times half naked on the site.
* ShrinkingViolet: In his Disneycember review of ''A Goofy Movie'', he joke-cries that the shy, stuttering guy in the corner really ''can't'' get the hot girl in real life. Cue fangirl d'awwing.
* ShowDontTell: He's maybe a little too much a fan of this. He said absolutely nothing from the ''ScoobyDoo'' review to the end of WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee, letting the trailers, the characters and the plot speak for itself.
* SickAndWrong: He was particularly disgusted and upset by ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Breaking Dawn, Part 1]]'' trying to discuss the topic of abortion, stating that a subject like that requires you to, among other things be highly knowledgeable on the subject and know what you're talking about, neither of which fits the film's take on the subject.
** If "The Worst Movies NC Has Reviewed" is any indication, child abuse of any kind is on the same level as badly handling a hot topic like the above.
* SigningOffCatchPhrase: Several of his characters have one.
* SlidingScaleOfPlotVersusCharacters: Doug is a bigger fan of characters in a story rather than the plot. He says that he can last through a mediocre story if the characters are interesting, and his shows do focus more on character interaction & analysis rather than having a deep plot.
* SmarterThanYouLook: People have a tendency to assume he's just as stupid as the Critic. He regularly proves this assumption wrong with his own reviews, commentaries and eloquent posts on facebook.
* DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible: Doug has this opinion about ''[[{{Literature/Twilight}} Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1]]'' and ''{{The Garbage Pail Kids Movie}}''. In his commentary for the latter, he said that this was one of the rare times where he shares WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's view on the movie.
* StepfordSmiler: Even when he's really upset he can't seem to stop smiling or giggling.
* StepfordSuburbia: Played for the occasional laugh in his videos, to explain why nobody is noticing the [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic crazy man flailing across the street]], the ''[[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses other]]'' [[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses crazy man with a gun]], or the [[WebVideo/BumReviews poor homeless guy freezing to death on a snowy night]].
* StopBeingStereotypical: This is his problem with ''{{Enchanted}}''. He states that by the 1990s/2000s, Disney's princesses and female leads ''weren't'' ditzy damsels and ''Enchanted'' was acting like they were.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: He views Bo-Peep's "exit" in ''Toy Story 3'' as her getting "insultingly sidelined".
* TalkingToHimself: He does have loads of characters, and sometimes they interact with each other.
* TearJerker: [[invoked]] He can get through ''GraveOfTheFireflies'' and ''Schindler's List'' alright, but ''WolfsRain'' always makes him cry.
* TestosteronePoisoning: Most of his characters are either pretty femmy or neutral, so when he creates a persona that's meant to be manly, it'll either come off as an over-compensating guy in the closet or have all the stereotypically worst traits of masculinity (bigotry, hardass shouting, acts like he's seconds away from a heart attack) played for laughs.
* TheTease: He likes his flirting. A ''lot''. All for fun, though.
* TooKinkyToTorture: He certainly comes off like this when he reveals he willingly and without regret put clothespins on his private parts for the second animated ''Titanic'' movie review.
* TomHanksSyndrome: It's obvious from commentaries, conventions and all the {{Cerebus Syndrome}} in his shows (detailed up above) that he's pleased at the positive reaction over his more dramatic acting and wants to continue doing it, while still keeping his love for character jokes in-tact.
* TrueArtIsAngsty: Doug went through this [[invoked]] phase during his high school/college years and made a few short films during that time, which he now considers {{Old Shame}}s to poke fun of.
* UndyingLoyalty: He's fiercely attached to the other contributors and will always look after them, even going so far as to feel guilty when they got sunburned in ''{{Kickassia}}''. They care just as much about him in return.
* VocalEvolution: The Critic lost Doug's Chicago accent and become broader, Ask That Guy's voice become posher and Chester's voice is a bit lower now.
* WideEyedIdealist: Gets accused of this quite a bit. He agrees when it comes to dealing with people and making business decisions (stating it as the reason why he doesn't get involved in site matters), but will always argue when it comes to "you shouldn't expect children to want to be taken seriously".
** Really came back to bite him in the WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee filming of Chick-assimilation scene, as he added innuendo lines and then violent sex sounds to Rob's original scene in the hope that there'd be no question that Film Brain would think it was all consensual. Turns out that no, most people don't think that high-pitched, glass-breaking, wall-pounding sex is completely vanilla, and he handed it over to Rob after some getting himself upset over how naive he could be.
* TheWoobie: [[InvokedTrope He really loves playing these]], whether they're pure woobie or the [[JerkassWoobie jerkass kind]]. The only characters of his that don't have issues of some nature are Dominic and Raoul Puke. The former is a bartender dealing with the personal problems of video game characters and the latter is a druggie. That should tell you something.
* WomenAreWiser: In his AsHimself review of ''Paranormal Activity 3'', he not-very-seriously calls the films anti-men for always having them be idiots.
* TheWorkaholic: Rob said on a forum post that Doug's fiancée (now wife) doesn't get to see him as often as she'd like because they're always working. And with that in mind, Doug himself understandably gets a bit frustrated with people who call him "lazy".
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