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Portrayed by James Rolfe:

    The Angry Video Game Nerd 
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The one, the only, the man who made Internet reviewing a genre singlehandedly—the Angry Video Game Nerd. A bespectacled man in a white button-down shirt with a pocket protector, the Nerd sits in his basement and vents his impotent rage over terrible video games of days gone by. He has a perennial rivalry with The Nostalgia Critic.


  • Aesop Amnesia: There are several cases where the Nerd learns to appreciate the games he has instead of complaining about them in one episode, but by the next he has forgotten about and goes ranting as before.
  • The Alcoholic: A regular drinker of Rolling Rock.
  • Angrish: Occasionally, when he runs out of curse words.
  • Anti-Hero: Of the Unscrupulous Hero variety. He has a very short temper, swears like a sailor, and is brutal towards enemies, but for all of his flaws, he is unmistakably a force of good. See Good Is Not Nice below for further details.
  • Anti-Role Model: A lonely, alcoholic, foul-mouthed young man with an uncontrollable temper who has nothing better to do with his life than to hole himself up in his basement and put himself through the torture of playing shitty games all day although he knows full well he hates it.
  • Anything but That!: For a long time, he swore off on reviewing E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial on Atari due to its notorious reputation of being one of the worst gaming titles for its time. He eventually gets to it in The Movie/Episode 120, and ultimately concludes that despite its flaws, it's not the worst game of all time.
  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Claims to be an ADD sufferer in his M.C. Kids review. While he doesn't display any of the stereotypical symptoms, he does take issue with any games that require more attention than they should, such as the aforementioned M.C. Kids.
  • Author Avatar: Whenever he recounts events from his childhood or shows footage of such (e.g. "Dick Tracy" and "Christmas Carol Part 2"), they're more often than not actual memories/footage of James Rolfe as a child. In addition, most of his opinions on the games he reviews are James' actual thoughts, albeit exaggerated. It's also been hinted a few times that his real first name might also be James; specifically in the "Winter Games", "Spider-Man", "Superman (NES)" and "Action 52" episodes.
  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Played with in the "R.O.B. the Robot" episode. The episode opens with the Nerd going on a rant about all of his shitty games before simply stating "I don't like them!" In the end, after thwarting R.O.B.'s plan to turn all games into Gyromite and Stack-Up, he grabs an armful of his shitty games and hugs them.
  • Badass Boast: He proclaims himself to be the domination of the internet, complemented with an Evil Laugh, in a confrontational exchange between him and the Nostalgia Critic.
  • Badass Bookworm: A nerd who can take on Jason Voorhees himself in a fist fight and win.
  • Badass Normal: While most of his enemies have cartoonish, fantasy, or outright superhuman powers, the Nerd is, in the end, just a guy who owns some light guns that function like the real thing. He's also not bad in a fistfight.
  • Basement-Dweller: Downplayed. He lives in his own house but just spends most of his time in the basement.
  • Bile Fascination: The Nerd is an in-universe example, having a... somewhat unhealthy obsession with bad games, and repeatedly being shown to prefer playing them over games he actually enjoys.
  • Blatant Lies: 2004 Nerd, baffled that 2016 Nerd is still torturing himself with shitty games twelve years later, questions whether or not he played Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a second time. 2016 Nerd denies it, to 2004 Nerd's relief.
  • Borrowed Catchphrase: Whenever he reviews a movie-based game, he almost always quotes the film in question. "Yipee-ki-yay, motherfucker!" (throws Die Hard NES cartridge behind him, which explodes)
  • Butt-Monkey: He suffers the misfortune of playing horrible video games for a living, which causes him great amounts of misery more often than not. It's also not uncommon for characters from the games he reviews (e.g. Bugs Bunny, Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger) to intrude his house and torment him in some way. He also, on more than a few occasions, has suffered horrific injuries and even deaths, such as dying by walking into his door in "Dragon's Lair" and having his limbs violently ripped off in "Earthbound".
  • Caustic Critic: He's the video game critic.
  • Character Catchphrase:
    • "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!"
    • "AAAAAASSSSSSS!"
    • "What a shitload of fuck!"
    • "Fuck this game, watch it go!"
    • "I'd rather (insert over-the-top nasty and/or painful action)!"
  • The Chew Toy: His suffering and anger caused by the horrible games is for the audience's amusement.
  • Cluster F-Bomb: A huge signature of his. He even literally shouts out bombs with the letter F on them in one of his Phillips CD-i reviews.
  • Comical Overreacting: With lots of swearing.
  • Conspiracy Theorist: Has shades of this in a handful of episodes:
    • The Super Mario Bros. 3 episode reveals the game's ties to Satanism: inverted crosses, pentagrams, the seven Koopalings representing the Seven Deadly Sins, The Wizard and its climactic "Video Armageddon" tournament, demonic subliminal messages when the game is played in reverse...
    • In the Hong Kong '97 episode, the Nerd realizes the game, that came out in 1995, predicted the death of Deng Xiaoping in 1997. This leads to a string of logic that ultimately concludes with the game being the meaning of life. Since life is primarily about procreation and eating, and since eating leads to excretion, the Nerd ultimately concludes that the game is fucking shit.
    • In the Seaman episode, the Nerd realizes Seaman is part of a conspiracy by Sega (the Sentient Electronic Global Annihilator) to take over the world.
    • In the The Berenstain Bears episode, he is absolutely convinced that the books are actually titled "Berenstein Bears" that, after an encounter with an alternate timeline version of himself, he discovers on the internet that false memories are an indication that one's living in the wrong reality.
  • Deadpan Snarker: When he isn't being obnoxious or having an Unstoppable Rage moment, he's prone to making snide remarks about the shitty games he plays.
  • Disco Dan: Rarely does the Nerd ever reference modern games.
    • When he's presented with an Xbox 360, he seems to hardly know what it is.
    • A Flash Forward reveals that by the time he's 80, he'll finally be reviewing Nintendo Wii games. He dies of a heart attack playing Boogie.
    • In "AVGN Games", he uses a Commodore 64 to play games made for a modern Windows system, and uses an old rotary dial phone (which inexplicably has a screen for some reason) to play a smartphone game. However, at one point he does come clean and say, still in-universe, that he's not really playing on a Commodore/rotary phone, it's just edited to look that way for Rule of Funny. Although he pretty much had to come clean, since one of the games kept crashing on him and giving him error messages that are very obviously from Windows 8/8.1.
    • In The Movie, he again uses a Commodore 64 to play a modern game, this time an MMO, which has 2D 8-bit graphics for him but 3D modern graphics on Cooper's modern gaming PC. He also brings along a record player to play music in the car.
  • Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: The Nerd doesn't get serious during the Super Mario Bros. 3 review until the possessed game cartridge tells him "Your mother sucks cocks in Hell!"
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": It has been suggested numerous times that the character's real name is simply The Nerd or the The Angry Video Game/Nintendo Nerd. He'll usually introduce himself as such or as The fucking Nerd. Even when he sees his future tombstone, it is engraved with the name AVGN, and every time he receives a package, the boxes are directed to AVGN. One of the only exceptions to this is a scene in the Winter Games episode: while he complains about how he can't type more than four letters in the name entry screen, we can see he (unsuccessfully) tries to type the name James.
    • In the Spider-Man episode, Spider-Man calls him James.
    Spider-Man: "James likes the little web."
    • In the movie, however, he directly says that his name is "Nerd".
    • Whenever he shows emails he received from fans (e.g. the "Superman" and "Action 52" episodes), they tend to show the name "James" on them.
  • Excrement Statement: One of his favorite means of displaying how much he hates a game is by taking a dump on either the cartridge or system.
  • Failed a Spot Check: Took half of the "Home Alone Games" episode that the pizza guy is actually Macaulay Culkin.
  • Flanderization:
    • In earlier videos, he seemed to be at least somewhat familiar with modern games and technology as he occasionally mentioned games that were modern at the time and was even shown using a cell-phone a few times (specifically in the "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" and "Ghostbusters" episodes). Fast-forward to more recent episodes, where he went from simply preferring vintage stuff while having moderate knowledge of modern-day things to being a full-blown Disco Dan who's almost completely out-of-touch with modern-day equipment, appearing to have little to no knowledge of newer games and even using an old Commodore computer and vintage cell-phone on a regular basis.
    • He also started out as merely moderately disgruntled and pessimistic, with him only getting absolutely enraged if something really pissed him off; but as the series went on, his anger and Hair-Trigger Temper were exaggerated to the point where he'd absolutely explode at the slightest provocation, with him being almost perpetually angry and aggressive. Just compare him in the first episode (Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest) to him in later episodes such as "Dick Tracy", "Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout", and "Batman" (all of which are arguably among his angriest moments in the series).
  • Friend to All Living Things: He is disgusted by the overly graphic animation of the dog getting run over by a car in the Genesis version of Action 52.
  • Future Loser: Looks like he's stuck playing shitty games for the rest of his life. He even gets shocked when he learns that he will die from a heart attack while reviewing Boogie for the Wii at an old age, and decides to swear off playing shitty games after that incident, popping in Super Mario World and proclaiming that he will only play good games from that point onwards. Needless to say, it doesn't last very long, and he simply says "fuck it" and decides that he prefers to bash shitty games anyway.
  • Fury-Fueled Foolishness: There were countless times that The Nerd's anger-prone nature led him to do goofy, ridiculous stuff for the sake of comedy like a genuine Cloud Cuckoo Lander would do.
  • Geek Physique: Zigzagged. "EarthBound" shows that he's actually very lean and fit, with other characters from his subconscious complaining that his choice in clothes hides this.
  • Good Counterpart: The Anti-Hero to the Critic's broken wreck. You can even see it in how they deconstruct being a Caustic Critic; while Critic locks himself in a pit of self-loathing because he hates his job and what it does to his life, it's made explicit in the Nerd movie that Nerd is driven by love of his fans, not his hate of games.
  • Good Is Not Nice: He is notorious for his very short temper and legendarily colorful language, but the Nerd is unmistakably a force for good, and he can be quite friendly and passionate about a game he loves when he's not railing off on a bad game or dueling another foe—but he isn't afraid to call things as he sees it when it comes to crappy games, or even flaws in things he likes (i.e. the Zelda II review, a game he admires as a legitimate classic, but isn't above acknowledging its flaws, such as its schizophrenic, hair pulling difficulty), and he is more than willing to give his foes more than a taste of their own medicine.
  • Grammar Nazi: James does this to the credits for the NES Ghostbusters game. Though in fairness to James, those were really obvious errors and deserved to be corrected.
  • Gratuitous German: Slips into this during his Deadly Towers video (the one where everything was written by the fans), exclaiming "Das Spiel ist Scheiße! Dieses Spiel fickt dich härter als das Leben!". According to the comments on the video, it translates to "This game is shit! This game fucks you harder than life!"
  • Gratuitous Japanese: Slips into this when singing along part of the Zyuranger theme song.
    The Nerd: "Zyuranger! Zyuranger! Densetsu no senshi-tachi yo! Zyuranger!"
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: He's not called the Angry Video Game Nerd for nothing.
  • Heroic Second Wind: After thoroughly getting his ass kicked by R.O.B., the Nerd falls unconscious and seems to be done for while R.O.B. grows into a giant and goes on a rampage in the city while making everyone play the only two games it's compatible with. The Nerd thinks about all the shitty games he could no longer play and declares he won't stand for it. He gets up, grab his Super Scope and other gear, and returns for a rematch.
  • Hidden Depths: Many of the Nerd reviews have him trashing the games, swearing his head off, and probably destroy the disc or cartridge in the process, or beat up a character from the game. Every now and then James Rolfe will put the Nerd persona aside in a Nerd video and give an in depth and detailed look at topic like the Jaguar or the 16 bit wars, where the Caustic Critic only occasionally comes out.
  • Hot Blooded Sideburns: Has been sporting a hell of a pair, and well, he's certainly... enthusiastic.
  • Hypocritical Humor:
    • Owns a Simon's Quest Tiger handheld. From when he was 11.
    • Criticizing the physical state some games he receives from other people and stores:
    "I would never do this, I take good care of my games!"
    "What kind of masochist would you have to be to beat this game more than once? If you did it one time, what would you have to prove to do it again? You'd have to be some kind of fucking idiot!" (resumes playing)
    "You know, there's really no point in going on. It's not like there's some kind of reward, or some pot of gold sittin' on top of your TV. If you beat the game, it probably just says 'The End', and that's it! So to keep playing it, you've gotta be a fuckin' nerd!" (So what does he do? Keeps playing it.)
    • In his Atari Sports review, he complains about how football can make people "act like fucking maniacs" while undergoing one of his trademark rages.
    • In a cross with Self-Deprecation, complaining that Alien³ got a video game instead of the previous 2 only for promotion excuses. "How shameless is that, to do something to promote something else? *hides mouth with hand* Monster Madness" (he posted this on the same day as the MM review of Aliens).
    • From the Wally Bear and the NO! Gang review:
    "Let's say no to drugs." (immediately takes a swig of beer)
    • In the Lightspan Adventures episode, he calls the hosts of "Math on the Move" dweebs who wear geeky clothing.
    • He's legitimately surprised that someone would own two Aladdin Deck Enhancers. And that's coming from the guy who owns several Intellivoices and lots of copies of the worst video game in existence - E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600!
  • Iconic Outfit: Nerd Glasses, a white dress shirt with a pocket protector and pens, and khaki pants. In the "Making Of" video, James says that he was subject to backlash when he forgot the pocket protector for one episode.
  • I Need a Freaking Drink: Now and then.
    • Exaggerated in the Beavis and Butthead episode where it briefly cuts to him downing several bottles at once whilst screaming "FUUUUUUUUCK!" in response to the game's continue password not giving him any more lives and depleting his health to near death.
    • Exaggerated even more in his review of Ecco the Dolphin, where he starts chugging from an entire keg in frustration. Later in the episode, he bathes in a tub full of it as he screams underwater.
  • Ineffectual Death Threat: On a call with Jessica Rabbit, he threatens to end her and her entire family's lives over his frustrations with the Roger Rabbit NES game. He doesn't go through with it, though.
    Nerd: This is Jessica Rabbit? Well, I got your number, and I'm calling just to say "fuck you!"
    Jessica: I hope you're proud of yourself!
    Nerd: Yeah, well, I hope you're proud of yourself, and you know what I mean, you fucking whore!
    Jessica: I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
    Nerd: Yeah, well, wait until I draw your suicide note in your own blood, you bunny fucking bitch! I'm coming over and I'm gonna kill ya! I'm going to kill your whole motherfucking family!
  • Insane Troll Logic: Because of the graffiti inside the castle in Dark Castle that writes "Saddam was here" and "Gamers rule", the Nerd deduces that Saddam Hussein must have been a hardcore gamer.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Yes, the Nerd is a rude, vulgar and overly hostile negative Nancy who takes video games way too seriously, but that doesn't make his much-needed commentary on the constant wrongs of game and hardware developers throughout the history of the medium any less valid.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may have a bad temper, be quite abrasive with his criticism, and even treat other characters rather unpleasantly at times, often with little to no provocation (such as the Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout review) but he's unmistakably a force for good, seeing as the whole reason he does this show in the first place is to warn people about bad games and steer them away from playing them.
    • In the Mario 3 review, he doesn't take kindly to the possessed game cartridge insulting his mother.
    • In the Battletoads review, he's initially quite hostile toward the Guitar Guy when the latter wants to sit with him while he does the review, angrily telling him to get back behind the couch, but after seeing him upset he feels bad and decides to let him sit on the couch, and eventually even allows him to do the review with him.
    • In the Cheetahmen video, when reviewing the Sega Genesis version of Action 52, he expresses disgust at the overly graphic animation of the dog getting run over by a car.
    • The ending of the R.O.B the Robot episode indicates that he does love the bad games he plays deep down, seeing as he thwarts R.O.B's plan to turn all games (including his least favorite Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which he acknowledges) into Gyromite and Stack-Up and afterwards grabs an armful of his shitty games and hugs them.
  • Kindhearted Cat Lover: While he's no Nice Guy, he owns an unnamed black cat (James Rolfe's now-deceased cat, Boo) who appears in "NES Accessories", the second part of the Atari Jaguar review and "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing". "Purr Pals" reveals that he has a Turkish Van cat named Yeti, who he dotes on for the rest of the episode as the review goes on.
  • Large Ham: Zig-zagged. He can switch between being calm and composed or screaming frothing rants at the drop of a hat.
  • Loser Protagonist: He's a grown man who has nothing better to do all day than complain about shitty 20-30 year older video games from his childhood. This was most emphasized in the first few reviews which were a lot more grounded.
  • Madness Mantra: In the Polybius episode, the Nerd repeatedly remarks "It won't let me go... It won't let me go... It won't let me go... It won't let me go!".
  • Mad Scientist: He did create the FrankenNerd and the Nerdy Turd.
  • Manchild: A central part of the Nerd's character; he is very immature, short-tempered and foul-mouthed, and has an obsessive passion for old video games and 80's pop culture (right down to still owning a huge collection of video games, board games, movies and vintage toys) and he literally lives in his basement, spending his days complaining about games he hates. Sometimes these traits are celebrated, but usually they're played for laughs.
  • Mood-Swinger: He can go from chill and collected to unhinged and immature in a matter of seconds depending on the game he's playing.
  • Nerd Action Hero: (See Badass Bookworm above). The Nerd's badass moments show acts of being an Anti-Hero (whether if it's based on violent crossovers with The Nostalgia Critic or special episodes) strongly shows this in him.
  • Nerd Glasses: Along with his trademark white buttoned shirt, he always wears a pair of glasses.
  • Perpetual Frowner: Rarely smiles due to his lifestyle of playing and reviewing abysmal video games.
  • Pet the Dog: His Swordquest review. Rather than lampoon the game series' rather apparent flaws, he instead praises it for the worldly symbolism it uses in its level design as well as the overarching Atari contest that the games were a part of, where gamers would compete using clues found in-game and in the enclosed tie-in comic books to win actual treasures made of gold and precious stones. Ultimately, he laments how the Video Game Crash of 1983 terminated the contest halfway through, crushing a lot of nerds' dreams, and at the end of the video, he rallies the viewer to help him solve the mystery of exactly where the three treasures that were never given away have ended up.
  • Proud to Be a Geek: He proudly refers to himself as "The Fucking Nerd".
  • Pyromaniac: He deals with Amiga CD32 by setting it on fire with a huge glee.
  • Serious Business: He takes his duty of reviewing "shitty doody" very seriously.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: Swears so much that he makes you almost never even notice his rival the Nostalgia Critic swearing when watching the two in comparison.
  • Sitcom Archnemesis: The Nostalgia Critic. "CRITIIIIIIC!!"
  • Sophisticated as Hell: There are times when the Nerd will use a far more eloquent vocabulary, even launching into full mini-essays or conspiracy theories... before ending it with classic Nerd swears.
  • Specs of Awesome: The man's triumphed over foes no ordinary nerd would stand a chance against.
  • Split Personality: He has one... Board James. Although the Nerd seems to be the original personality, and manages to do a Split-Personality Takeover by making Board James realize that he isn't real, and put on the glasses and white shirt willingly... only for Board James to assume control at the end of the 2015 Halloween special.
  • Strong as They Need to Be: The Nerd is able to beat Jason and dream-world Freddy Krueger in a fight (albeit with the Power Glove for the later), but has trouble beating the Nostalgia Critic (though he does tend to be on the winning end of the struggle more often than not). And his fights with Bugs Bunny can go anywhere from him completely dominating Bugs, to being a close match, or getting his own ass handed to him, sometimes all within the same video! He has, likely as per Ruleof Funny, transformed into a super nerd to fly a game into space, and thrown another game around the world, despite once having reeled from having a heavy power adapter fall on his foot.
  • Superpower Lottery: When he wears his Nintendo accessories, like in his Super Mario Bros. 3 review, he's an unstoppable force.
  • Talks Like a Simile: And how! With many of the similes usually related to animal diarrhea.
  • Temporarily a Villain: In "How the Nerd Stole Christmas" (a parody of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and its 1966 animated adaptation), he plays the role of the Grinch, trying to ruin Christmas for the citizens of Gameville by replacing their good games with terrible ones. Like the Grinch, he eventually has a Heel–Face Turn later, though, returns everything that he stole and partakes in the feast.
  • They Killed Kenny Again: There's about enough doomed Nerds to accommodate an egg carton by the dozen.
    • In "Dragon's Lair", he is turned into a skeleton when he touches the door.
    • In "Dracula", he commits suicide by exposing himself to the sun (he was a vampire in that episode).
    • In "Frankenstein", he gets (possibly) killed by a TV explosion along with the Franken-Nerd.
    • In "Transformers", Optimus Prime shoots him with a laser.
    • In "Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle", he and Woody Woodpecker are blown up by a bomb.
    • In "Alien 3", the Cinemassacre chainsaw logo bursts out of his chest while falling into a lava furnace.
    • In "Seaman for Dreamcast", he dies after playing the titular game for nearly a thousand years.
    • In "Nintendo World Championships", he is possibly strangled to death by Pat the NES Punk.
    • In "Mega Man Games", he jumps out the window after playing Mega Man Soccer.
    • In "RoboCop Games", he (as a RoboNerd) runs out of fuel for his jetpack and falls to his doom.
    • In "Paperboy", he explodes after crashing into the Grim Reaper.
    • In "The Immortal", he gets incinerated by a dragon's fire breath and the subsequent "Spawn Games" episode takes place in Hell.
    • In "Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown", he is burned to death inside a wicker man in Shrek's likeness.
  • Too Kinky to Torture:
    • It's heavily implied that the main reason why he keeps playing all these shitty games is because he's a masochist. At the end of "Sonic 2006 Part 2", he is seen having a BDSM session with the titular game.
    • In "Spawn Games", after being killed and sent to Hell, he is offered a chance to be brought back to life if he can complete a selection of Spawn video games. To make it even more torturous for him, he must do it in "the most vile, despicable game room ever imagined by Hell", designed to break men's souls in mere minutes. He is unimpressed by it, as it looks exactly like his own game room. Except for the shelf full of copies of E.T. for the Atari 2600. The Nerd says his own shelf has even more copies of it.
  • Trademark Favorite Drink: Rolling Rock beer, though he'll get out something stronger if the game is shitty enough.
  • Uncertain Doom: In "Polybius". He finally breaks down and shows the gameplay footage, there's a couple of Jump Scares, and when the owner of the shop comes in the Nerd is gone.
  • Unkempt Beauty: When he has a bit of Perma-Stubble and slightly messy hair.
  • Unstoppable Rage: When a game pisses him off just right...
  • Vocal Evolution: His voice has gotten a lot softer and more relaxed as he aged. The change started becoming obvious by 2015 if not earlier.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He hates bats, although really it's just because they're so overused in games. He is genuinely terrified of E.T. Atari, though. At least, until he plays it at the end of The Movie and concludes that it's actually not the worst game of all time.
  • Would Hit a Girl: A 2007 GameTrailers interview sees him throwing a pen at the interviewer, all because she asked him if there are any video games he enjoys.
  • Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: He spends a majority of the time in his The Immortal review speaking in olden English.
    "Anguish. Lament. Oh, how hath ye been cursed, if thou hath playeth a game, as archaically diarrhetically shitholic, as The Immortal, on thy NES."
  • Your Answer to Everything: His lifestyle revolves around ranting about shitty, nostalgic games.
    The Bullshit Man 
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You know what's BUUUULLLSHIT?!

A frustrated gentleman who vents his annoyance at everyday inconveniences. Eventually revealed to be a man whose face is bullshit.


  • Berserk Button: Too much cream cheese!! ...yeah, he's got a lot of these.
  • Body Horror: His face is a mass of bovine feces due to being a constant victim of everyday bullshit.
  • The Cameo: When the Nerd struggles to open the packaging containing the Batman wrist game, the Bullshit Man appears after the Nerd says "You know... you know what's bullshit...?", hands him a pair of scissors, and proceeds to briefly rant about blister packaging.
  • Character Catchphrase: Commences his rants with "You know what's BUUUULLLLSHIT?!" (later changed to "You know what's BS?!" starting with "Apple's Lack of Buttons" to comply with YouTube's monetization rules), and concludes his rants with some variation of "That's bullshit!".
  • Cosmic Plaything: Pretty much everything is out there to make the Bullshit Man's life bullshittier.
  • Crossover: Normally the star of his own series, You Know What's Bullshit?, but appeared in the AVGN's "Tiger Games" episode to rant about blister packaging.
  • Dung Fu: In Adventures, he can fire blasts of bullshit from his hands. Said attack also happens to be as strong as a Super Scope.
  • The Faceless: Until The Reveal, where he shows that his face is bullshit.
  • No Indoor Voice: Especially when delivering his catchphrase.
  • Organ Autonomy: His asshole has a mind of it's own, and they hate each-other.
  • Perpetual Frowner: Unlike the Nerd, who smiles every now and then, the Bullshit Man never smiles once, not even in illustrations.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: Perhaps even more than the Nerd himself!
  • Talking Poo: His entire head is literally this. And it looks as disgusting as it sounds.
  • Took a Level in Badass: His role as a playable character in The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
  • Tranquil Fury: Besides putting great emphasis on the "bullshit" in his catchphrase with pure fury, he rarely raises his voice while doing his rants.
  • Visual Pun: He is literally a bullshit man.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: The Bullshit Man used to look like a normal human (as evidenced by an illustration from "Pay Toilets"), however, he has endured so much bullshit in his life to the point where his face was literally turned into bullshit.
    The Bullshit Man: I used to look normal before all this bullshit happened to me!
  • Your Answer to Everything: His life revolves entirely around ranting about minor everyday inconveniences.

    Shitpickle 
A taking pickle with shit on his head. He appears in Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu to help the Nerd give commentary on the game, though his vocabulary is limited to shit and pickle.

    Super Mecha Death Christ 2000 B.C. v4. 0 Beta (bitch!) 
A killer cyborg version of Jesus and a recurring character. He first appeared in "Wizard of Oz 3: Dorothy Goes to Hell" as a pawn of the Devil, returning in the Super Mario Bros. 3 review to help the Nerd take down the Devil.
  • Been There, Shaped History: He was present for a bewildering array of historical events.
  • BFG: All over his body/chassis.
  • Blood Knight: Revels in violence, gore and slaughter.
  • Character Catchphrase: "FUCKERS!!!"
  • Cluster F-Bomb: He loves saying his catchphrase a lot as well as the F-word in general.
  • Deus ex machina: In the Super Mario Bros. 3 review:
    Nerd: The power of Super Mecha Death Christ compels you!
  • Eye Beams: He has those too. He'll use everything he's got on his enemy!
  • Heel–Face Turn: He's originally shown to be an agent of Satan in Dorothy Goes To Hell. As of the Super Mario Bros. 3 review, he helps the Nerd take down Satan, who is possessing a video game cartridge.
  • Hypocritical Humor: "WATCH YOUR FUCKING LANGUAGE!!!" Note that this was in response to the Nerd exclaiming "Holy shit!". It suggests that Super Mecha Death Christ, though not taking kindly to blasphemy, is otherwise fine with vulgarity.
  • Kung-Fu Jesus: A mechanized Jesus with tons of weapons and armor strapped all over in.
  • Mirror Match: Fights against the Nostalgia Critic's own blasphemous creation, Giant Robotic Donkey Kong Jesus Riding a Puff of Smoke, in the TGWTG Team Brawl.
  • No Indoor Voice: Look at his catch phrase.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: Even when everything is nice and calm, he still swears.
  • Tank Goodness: That's what his main body consists of: a tank with tons of guns built on it.

    Nerdy Turd 
A clone of the Nerd made of his own shit. He helps the Nerd review the Megavox Odyssey by serving as a second player.
  • Artificial Human: "I cloned him from my own shit."
  • Back for the Dead: Comes back in ASSimilated as the miniboss of Browntown, only to canonically die.
  • One-Shot Character: The only major role the Nerdy Turd ever got was in the Odyssey episode.
  • Sudden Anatomy: He first hops on screen without any limbs, but when it comes time to play the Odyssey, hands suddenly appear so he can pick up the controller.
  • Talking Poo: Sort of.
  • The Unintelligible: He communicates by making sloppy farting sounds through his teeth and lips.

    Rex Viper Rigs 
A version of James who appears in mock commercials to advertise the game of the episode. He first appears in the Big Rigs episode.
  • Ascended Extra: Originally a one-off character from a joke in the Big Rigs episode, before turning into a recurring character in the Nerd's lore.
  • Cool Shades: Wears shades to fit his manly attitude.
  • Deep South: His design is meant to evoke the image of rough truckers from southern American States.
  • Given Name Reveal: Didn't reveal his name until his fourth appearance.
  • Large Ham: He needs to be, otherwise his commercials would suck as much as the games he promotes.
  • Meaningful Name: In his first appearance, he advertised Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and lo and behold, his last name actually is "Rigs".
  • Never Needs Sharpening: All of his commercials consist almost entirely of him taking the biggest, most glaring flaws of the game he's currently advertising and rephrasing them to sound positive.
  • No Indoor Voice: Generally speaks loudly but doesn't outright shout, unless he's in a commercial where he will shout like a boss.
  • Parody Commercial: His only real purpose is to do over-the-top commercials for the worst games imaginable, though he also appeared in the Nerd's version of Magicant to give him some advice.
  • Sleeves Are for Wimps: Always wears tank tops to show off his manly tattoos.
  • Testosterone Poisoning: His main defining character trait.

    Letule 
The evil spirit that resides in the NES game Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
  • Expy: One of Pazuzu from the Exorcist series.

Portrayed by Kyle Justin:

    The Guitar Guy 
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(The one on the left.)

A guitar player who lives behind the Nerd's couch, and writes songs based on the Nerd's angry utterances. He occasionally joins the Nerd in playing co-op games.


  • Back from the Dead: Comes back to life thanks to the Nerd inputting the Ikari Warriors 1UP code.
  • Basement-Dweller: Well, kinda. He lives behind the Nerd's couch. The Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle review implies it's actually his couch.
  • Butt-Monkey: The Nerd treats him very poorly and he's forced to live behind a couch.
  • A Day in the Limelight:
    • In the Battletoads review, he gets to play the game alongside the Nerd after complaining that he never gets any screentime.
    • He gets to play again in the Ikari Warriors review, where he plays the game (after coming back to life thanks to the ABBA code) alongside the Nerd for a bit before going back to guitar strumming.
  • Dead Guy on Display: His hat-wearing guitar-holding skeleton is used as a background prop in several Halloween reviews.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: His skeleton behind the couch appears in the Schwarzenegger Games review without explanation. At all. It's somewhat implied the Nerd forgot about him and Guitar Guy starved.
  • Friendly Fire: He and Nerd do this to each other in Battletoads, but not intentionally. The Nerd blasts the game for even including a compulsory friendly fire option at all.
  • Instrument of Murder: That guitar isn't just for songs... the Nerd tries to use it to kill Bugs Bunny.
  • The Lancer: Before Mike started making appearances in person, he was this to the Nerd in some aspects. Specifically, the Battletoads video and the TGWTG Year One Brawl.
  • Never Bareheaded: He's always seen with his brown hat just as much as his guitar.
  • No Name Given: He's just The Guitar Guy (although he's referred to by his real name in the Channel Awesome first anniversary special).
  • Perma-Stubble: He usually has a noticeable six o'clock shadow despite being pretty tan.
  • They Killed Kenny Again: Lampshaded by the Nerd during the AVGN Games episode.
    The Nerd: Is that guy dead again?
  • Warrior Poet: Occasionally proves himself capable in a fight.

    Spider-Man 
The titular superhero who appears in the Spider-Man episode to help the Nerd review his games.
  • Characterization Marches On: His first appearance played him similar to his quipping persona in most media, just more prone to swearing. His reappearance has him more meek and reserved.
  • I Need a Freaking Drink: Not Rolling Rock, though; he prefers local brews to corporate brands.
  • Nice Guy: He's genuinely friendly and actually tries to help the Nerd. Though that's not to say he won't get pissed off when a game is particularly frustrating.
  • The Bus Came Back: Reappears in the Fear and Loathing in Vegas Stakes episode, though neither he or the Nerd seem to recognise the other.

Portrayed by Mike Matei:

    Motherfucker Mike 
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It's a moniker he wears with pride, funnily enough.

A character from Board James.


  • Alliterative Name: Mike Matei and his nickname Motherfucker Mike.
  • Combat Pragmatist: A non-combat example, he tends to cheat when going against James at board games.
  • The Faceless: At first he only played the Nerd's masked enemies. While in Board James he shows his face, in AVGN, he doesn't (the only time he's unmasked is playing The Joker, and thus with make-up, and at the end of the Lethal Weapon review, where he appears as himself).
  • Jerkass: He's called Motherfucker Mike for a reason.
  • The Lancer: Acts as this to James when it comes to putting out videos and other media-related assistance.
  • Not the Way It Is Meant to Be Played: He has his own series alongside James' videos that are dedicated to finding glitches of all kinds in old games as well as other content that wouldn't fit the Nerd's repertoire.

    Bugs Bunny 
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The famous character of Looney Tunes fame, who is a minor foe of the Nerd. He appears in four reviews, Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout, Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle, Mega Man Games, and Garfield.


  • Adaptational Villainy: Starts off as merely obnoxious in the Birthday Blowout review, but in his second appearance, he becomes more aggressive and violent; a far cry from the Bugs Bunny we all know and love. Heck, he's even the True Final Boss of AVGN Deluxe!
  • Amusing Injuries: Zig-zags between this and giving some really brutal injuries to the Nerd in Crazy Castle.
  • Animals Not to Scale: He's about the same size as the Nerd, in contrast to his Looney Tunes counterpart who's shorter than a full-grown human.
  • Annoying Laugh: He gets this when he transforms into Woody Woodpecker near the end of Crazy Castle.
  • Back from the Dead: He inexplicably returns, no worse for wear, at the end of the Mega Man Games review, although he's not back for revenge—in fact, he's willingly playing the crappy games so that the Nerd doesn't have to play them anymore. The Nerd gives him a beatdown and takes his job back.
  • Berserk Button: Being shat on.
  • Body Horror: When the Nerd rips off his head, he immediately sprouts another one, albeit the head of another character altogether.
  • Butt-Monkey: Has shades of this in Birthday Blowout, with the Nerd smashing a beer bottle on his head, offhand backhanding him, and lunging at him, all before his birthday beating at the end. He goes through the routine again at the end of the Mega Man Games review.
  • The Bus Came Back: He makes a cameo appearance at the end of the Mega Man Games review, saying he's taken the Nerd's place while he was time traveling so that the Nerd doesn't have to play bad games anymore. The Nerd will have none of it and delivers another brutal beatdown to him.
  • Captain Ersatz: A brown and demonic version of him, using the name "The Fucking Rabbit", shows up in AVGN Deluxe as the True Final Boss. He even lampshades the trope.
    The Fucking Rabbit: What da fuck did you expect, after gettin' shit on and blown up so much? ...Besides, this way you ain't gettin' sued.
  • Continuity Nod: In the Crazy Castle review, he's back for revenge on the Nerd, and he references the Nerd defecating all over his face at the end of his last appearance. In the end of the Mega Man Games review, he makes a brief return, ironically playing Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout, telling the Nerd he's taken his job and that he doesn't have to play bad games anymore. He promptly gets yet another brutal beatdown, courtesy of the Nerd.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle:
    • The Nerd effortlessly beats him to a pulp in both the end of the Birthday Blowout and Mega Man Games review.
    • In the Crazy Castle episode, on the other hand, Bugs is more than a match for the Nerd in combat.
  • Everyone Has Standards: He may like getting beaten up, but he hates being shat on.
  • Fire and Brimstone Hell:
    • Sent there with the Nerd at the end of the Crazy Castle review.
    • And again at the end of AVGN Deluxe.
  • Furry Reminder: The shit that falls out of his ass and onto the Nerd's face is ball-shaped, just like the poop of a real rabbit.
  • Humiliation Conga: Bugs gets his worst since Tortoise Wins by a Hare by the end of the Birthday Blowout review, where the Nerd goes ballistic at the game's ending, and delivers a well-earned No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Bugs, topping it off with him crapping all over Bugs' face.
  • Karmic Trickster: This being Bugs Bunny, he still has shades of this despite being more aggressive.
  • Killer Rabbit: A literal one, mainly in the Crazy Castle review.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: After heckling the Nerd throughout all of the Birthday Blowout review, the Nerd is more than willing to turn the tables on him at the end. Bugs returns the favor in the follow up.
  • Made of Iron: In both of his appearances, he takes an excruciating amount of punishment from the Nerd, and even gets his head ripped off in his second appearance, and still keeps on kicking. It takes a Cartoon Bomb to bring him down.
  • Mythology Gag: He sprouts the head of Woody Woodpecker in the climax of the Crazy Castle review, a nod to the earliest Bugs being similar to Woody, being co-created by Ben Hardaway, and both characters initially being voiced by Mel Blanc.
  • Off with His Head!: The Nerd rips off his head, but it doesn't kill him.
  • One-Winged Angel:
    • When the Nerd rips off his head, he sprouts the head of Woody Woodpecker and continues fighting.
    • Becomes a gigantic Background Boss for the second phase of his fight in AVGN Deluxe.
    • In the Garfield review, after the Bugs Bunny and Woody Woodpecker heads are punched off, he spawns, in order, the heads of Mickey Mouse, Egon Spengler, Kid Klown, Roger Rabbit, and Garfield.
  • The Prankster: Mixed with his Karmic Trickster elements.
  • Stylistic Suck: He's portrayed by Mike Matei in a cheap Bugs Bunny halloween costume.
  • Taking You with Me:
    • How the Nerd bests him in Crazy Castle.
    • Bugs Bunny ends up returning the favor when fought as the True Final Boss of AVGN Deluxe, dropping a massive Cartoon Bomb after his defeat that sends both of them to Hell.
  • Toilet Humor: He gets shat on the face by the Nerd at the end of the Birthday Blowout review, and while battling him in the Crazy Castle review, gets to return the favor by defecating rabbit feces on the latter's face.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: In contrast to his generally cool, laid back passive aggressive persona, this Bugs is a foul-mouthed jerk who is not above a one-on-one fight.
  • Too Kinky to Torture: Lampshaded by the Nerd in the Crazy Castle episode.
    The Nerd: Come on, I thought toons like to get beat up.
    Bugs Bunny: We do, Doc, but you know what we don't like? Getting shit on the fucking face!
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Carrots, as usual.
  • True Final Boss: In AVGN Deluxe, beating both games unlocks one final chapter. Turns out Bugs wasn't happy that he wasn't invited for the first two games, so he decides to screw with the Nerd for their Updated Re-release.
  • Walking Spoiler: Discussing the Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle and Mega Man Games reviews, and a certain video game is difficult without giving away something big.

    The Joker 
The antagonist of the Batman episodes, who forces the Nerd to play shitty Batman games.
  • Ass Shove: Subjected to one when the Nerd shoves no fewer than five shitty Batman games up his ass.
  • Creepy High-Pitched Voice: This version of the Clown Prince of Crime has a rather shrill voice.
  • Sadist: Downplayed: he laughs whenever something bad happens to the Nerd in a game.

Portrayed by Kevin Finn:

    The Ninja Master 
A ninja who appears in the Ninja Gaiden episode to help the Nerd beat the game.
  • Ambiguously Gay: In the outtakes, played for laughs.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: He even drinks beer without removing his mask.
  • Deadpan Snarker: "It's not a woman."
  • Ninja: It comes naturally with being a ninja master.
  • Stern Teacher: He has Nerd relentlessly train his thumbs until they're fast enough to dodge fan blades and catch Q-tips in the air.
  • The Worf Effect: Despite initially being shown to effortlessly play through even the more challenging stages of Ninja Gaiden, he later on struggles with most of the same stages to prove a point of the game's relentless difficulty.

    The Game Graphic Glitch Gremlin 
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Mmm, glitches! Ya like 'em?

A little gremlin who is a personification of game glitches and a recurring character in the series. He first appears as the antagonist of the Game Glitches episode, glitching every game the Nerd tries to play.


Miscellaneous characters:

    R.O.B. 
The antagonist of his titular episode, R.O.B. The Robot. He is a sentient NES accessory compatible with Gyromite and Stack-Up. Because those are the only games he is compatible with, he tries to force the Nerd to only play those two games.
  • A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Obviously, Nintendo never intended for R.O.B. to turn all video games into games that only R.O.B. can play.
  • Big Bad: Of Episode 100.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: To an extent. He sees Gyromite and Stack-Up as perfect games, probably since they're the only ones he can play.
  • Dark Messiah: Believes he's destined to rid the world of bad games... by turning all games into copies of Gyromite and Stack-Up, and he also believes that he's the sole reason as to why Nintendo succeeded in repairing the damages to the video game industry done by The Great Video Game Crash of 1983.
  • Grotesque Cute Machines
  • It's All About Me: He views Gyromite and Stack-Up as the only good video games in the world, because those are the only two games that he knows how to play.
  • Pintsized Powerhouse: Even when he's tiny, he manages to punch the Nerd with his claws hard enough to make him spit up blood.
  • Reality Warper: Once he gets angered, he changes all the games the Nerd has to just Gyromite and Stack-Up.
  • Robot Buddy: It's in his name, but sharply subverted in that he not only attacks the Nerd and nearly reduces him to a bloody mess, but attempts to purge every single video game in existence except Gyromite and Stack-Up.
  • Robo Speak: He has a sightly deep, monotone, male voice.
  • Technopath: Once he shows his full power, he controls the consoles that the Nerd has, tying him down with controller wires.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: He firmly believes that whittling down the entire video game library to just two games will rid the world of bad video games forever.

    Death Kitty (Boo) 
The Nerd’s pet Bombay cat.

    Macaulay Culkin 
The star of Home Alone, along with many other roles. He appears in the Home Alone episode as a pizza boy to help the Nerd review the games based on the Home Alone movies.
  • Adam Westing: Appears to be portraying himself as a washed-up Former Child Star since the Nerd is utterly unable to recognize him for the entire first half of the episode despite the many hints he keeps dropping.
  • Noodle Incident: The Nerd criticizes one of the Home Alone games for having a boss fight against an evil living tree, since that never happened in any of the movies. While it's true that Kevin McCallister never fought an evil tree, Culkin himself apparently has, and is extremely concerned as to how the game developers found out about it.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: His disguise as "The Pizza Boy" isn't very good, and only really succeeds because the Nerd can't recognize him as Macaulay Culkin anyway. It includes a nametag that literally says "Pizza Boy"... which peels off to reveal a second nametag that says "Macaulay Culkin".

    Fred Fuchs/Fred Fucks 
Portrayed by: Gilbert Gottfried

A programmer at LJN and recurring antagonist. He first appears as the villain of The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures, where he traps the Nerd and his friends in Game Land, a shitty game of his creation. He then appears as the (fictionalized) creator of Life of Black Tiger, and hides out in the jungles of Asia. He returns as the secondary antagonist of The Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation, specifically the ReASSimilated version, as he tries to steal the parts of the Fucks Capacitor and fights the Nerd for them.


  • Big Bad: Is the creator of Game Land and final boss of The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures, which was made before his main series appearance. Deluxe also replaces the Nostalgia Critic fights with him and makes him the antagonist of the sequel, which removes all the movie characters and replaces the final boss with his haywire supercomputer, the Fuckotron 9000.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Well, when it comes to building hardware, anyway. After all, he managed to make a functional computer out of bamboo, coconuts and hyena feces despite being a complete loon. That being said, this is definitely not the case for him as a game designer, since the games he makes are barely functional garbage.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: He's just... Holy. Shit.
  • Dung Fu: As the Final Boss of the first game, raining shit from above is one of his attacks.
  • The Hermit: He lives all alone in a dense jungle somewhere in Asia.
  • Jet Pack: He uses one of these in the first game.
  • Mad Artist: A jungle-dwelling lunatic who programs "games" using computers built out of jungle foliage and animal droppings, while threatening to shoot people who criticize his work.
  • No Indoor Voice: It's Gilbert Gottfried. What did you expect? This extends to the Deluxe version of the game, where his dialogue is rendered in all capitals.
  • Recurring Boss: Not only is he the Final Boss of the first game, in the Deluxe version of ASSimilated he's fought as a Break Man-esque miniboss five times.
  • Spell My Name With An S: His name is based on Fred Fuchs, a producer and and long-time associate of Francis Ford Coppola, whose last name was read by the nerd as “Fucks” in the Dracula episode.
  • You Don't Look Like You: His original incarnation in Adventures was different from his more well-known appearance, looking like an Evil Counterpart to the Nerd. The Deluxe version of the game changes his sprites to more accurately reflect his appearance in the show.

    Seamus Blackley 
The programmer of Jurassic Park: Trespasser who appears in the episode where the Nerd plays his game.
  • Adam Westing: To a degree. Not only are his first lines a parody of Dennis Nedry's infamous "you didn't say the magic word" taunt, he's portrayed as a thin-skinned schemer with a fondness for Disproportionate Retribution.
  • Affably Evil: He comes off as friendly and chill at first... but then you find out what he does to people who criticize Jurassic Park: Trespasser.
  • Can't Take Criticism: When people criticize Trespasser, he arranges for them to be stranded on an island where he'll drive them insane so they'll love the game.
  • Driven to Madness: This is what he tries to do to caustic critics that pan his game.
  • Walking Spoiler: As you can probably tell, it's hard to talk about him without giving away something pretty big.

    Pepsiman 
Portrayed by: Xander Arnott

The antagonist of his titular episode. He is Pepsi's Japanese superhero mascot who delivers Pepsi to those in need of it. He shows up and forces the Nerd to review his game. He has the ability to turn just about everything into Pepsi or his game, and plots to turn all of existence into Pepsi.


  • Adaptational Villainy: Canon Pepsiman is nothing more than a plucky Iron Butt Monkey who lives to serve those in severe lack of Pepsi. Here, he's an experiment Gone Horribly Wrong that wants to turn everything into Pepsi and is very Not Good with Rejection.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: As annoying as it is for the Nerd to constantly have things being turned into bottles of Pepsi, Pepsiman is a pretty silly guy that likes to prank people. Once the TV Game Guy reveals Pepsiman's true nature, the silly side is tossed out the window as the titular character becomes very dangerous when he attacks the duo. His attack causes the TV Game Guy to start turning into Pepsi.
  • Boisterous Weakling: At the end of the video, when Pepsiman imposes a death threat to the Nerd, he's easily defeated by TV Game Guy's Freshmaker Bazooka.
  • Butt-Monkey: Even when given Adaptational Villainy, some of his Butt-Monkey elements exist, especially when his music gets interrupted on a low note because he 'has a sad existence' or the background burns him.
  • Forced Transformation: Has the ability to turn anything into Pepsi. Even human beings.
  • Soda-Candy 'Splosion: His Kryptonite Factor is shown to be, naturally, Mentos. The TV Game Guy's ultimate weapon is revealed to be a bazooka that fires a massive amount of Mentos, blowing a hole right in the middle of Pepsiman and sending him falling to his death in a parody of the T-1000's destruction.
  • Terminator Impersonator: He's depicted here as a parody of the T-1000, and the Nerd also describes him as a "weird T-1000-looking mascot". Like his inspiration, he meets a fiery end when he's dropped into a vat of Fanta.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: Mentos. Having them thrown at him causes him to recoil in pain, and being shot with a Mentos bazooka causes him to explode and lose his humanoid shape.
  • Yandere: He's affable and jokey when you're dealing with Pepsi. But he will make you focus on nothing but Pepsi, or else.
  • You Need a Breath Mint: The Nerd remarks that his breath stinks, likely as a sign of tooth decay from drinking nothing but Pepsi.

    TV Game Guy 
Portrayed by: Mike Butters

A man who shows up in the Pepsiman game's live-action cutscenes, drinking Pepsi, eating chips, and shouting weird slogans like “Pepsi for TV Game”. He has been enslaved by Pepsiman to do his bidding by advertising his product.


  • Crusading Widower: His whole family were turned into Pepsi by Pepsiman, and he's been plotting revenge.
  • Flipping the Bird: Does this to the Nerd as he melts in the vat of Fanta in a parody of the Terminator 2 thumbs-up.
  • Revenge: Pepsiman ruined his whole life and it's no wonder this guy wants him destroyed, never mind Pepsiman being out to do the same thing to others.
  • Undignified Death: Instead of getting the Dying Moment of Awesome he requests, the Nerd just anti-climactically pushes him to his death.

    Clown/Violator 
Portrayed by: Justin Silverman

The Spawn villain who serves as the secondary antagonist of the Spawn episode. He has the Nerd play all the Spawn games, with the promise of releasing him from Hell should he do so, and periodically appears to offer cheat codes.


  • Adaptational Nice Guy: Make no mistake, he's still a bad guy, but he's not as much of an obnoxious asshole as his counterpart from the comics, nor is he as violent or murderous.
  • Affably Evil: While he's chummy for the most part, he's still a malevolent demon.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Claims that Spawn being paid DLC in Mortal Kombat 11 is "pretty evil, even by Hell's standards".
  • Fat Bastard: He's a fat demonic clown who tries to prevent the Nerd from beating Satan's challenge legitimately.
  • Freak Out: He finally flips his lid when he realizes his punishment for failing Satan's backup challenge is having to review the Spawn movie, transforming into his Violator form while screaming about how he's sick of Spawn.
  • Manipulative Bastard: He convinces the Nerd to use cheat codes so he won't beat Satan's challenge legitimately.
  • Monster Clown: No surprise, given his name.

    Satan 
Artwork by: Mike Matei

The Devil himself and a recurring antagonist. He first appears in the Super Mario Bros. 3 episode possessing the Nerd's cartridge. He is also the boss of “Thy Farts Consumed” in The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures, and reappears as the antagonist of the Spawn Games episode where he forces the Nerd to play Spawn games.


    Skylar 
A computer guide from Cybermorph and Battlemorph who appears in the Atari Jaguar episode. She dislikes the Nerd's flying skills and does not hesisgate to tell him over and over again. She appears as the boss of “Future Fuckballs 2010”.

    The Bloodstain Bears 
An alternate version of The Berenstain Bears who appear as the antagonists of the Berenstain Bears episode. They are a family of violent, bloodthirsty bears who attack the Nerd.

Alternative Title(s): The Angry Video Game Nerd The Nerd, The Angry Video Game Nerd Other Characters

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