Note: If you have not watched To Boldly Flee yet, then there will be spoilers below! Read at your own risk.
- For those who haven't seen it, the Suburban Knights DVD has a stinger where Mechakara reclaims Malachite's Hand. Based on comments from Linkara on his Twitter, this is going to tie into To Boldly Flee somehow.
- CONFIRMED! Part one does show Mechakara with Malachite's hand after he captures Linkara.
From this, and the lines in the trailer, one might assume that there's going to be a lot of continuity nods to the other TGWTG shows. Based on the space theme, Lord Vyce's ship and the Angry Joe watchtower might show up at some point, and Dark Nella was described as a "quasi-demonic intergalactic force of evil", so she might show up again as well (even though Dr. Block is in the teaser).
- Actually Dr. Block was instrumental in defeating her the first time, they are explicitly different characters. Even Lindsy was surprised.
As for the plot? It's probably going to involve a lot of running away and a planet blowing up (potentially via Colony Drop from the Channel Awesome satellite), but other than that, it's not really possible to tell from the teaser alone. It also suggests that the Critic might have to perform a Heroic Sacrifice at some point, but knowing the TGWTG cast, it'll be subverted in some way: he'll be easily brought back by Linkara's cloning technology, he'll survive, Ma-ti will do a Big Damn Heroes in some way, or something else.
They were looking for help in designing, modeling, and animating CG shots of a spaceship in space and doing other things, so this will inevitably involve a spaceship of some kind, possibly one that the Channel Awesome crew boards and spends a good amount of time on.
- Confirmed. The Critic fashions his house into a working spaceship!
- VERY confirmed.
- And since Suburban Knights, a lot of cameos and crossovers have had people finally calling him out for being a bit of a freak. Maybe the mass rise in sci-fi jokes aren't the only foreshadowing that's being going on.
- Confirmed. Or at least the "issues are important and everyone knowing" parts. He's also trying to deal with them like a grown-up this time around.
- Apart from a few segments, everything in the Suburban Knights trailer ended up in the film. So while a a few minor things may or may not be in the film from the To Boldly Flee trailer, none of it was made just for the trailer. And if your talking about the first teaser, the teasers for To Boldly Flee were vastly diffrent from the one for Suburban Knights and even then the group walk from the teaser of Subruban Knights did appear in the film, if played for laughs.
- Jossed. Was anyone really expecting this to be confirmed?
- Jossed. Terl wants Critic dead, but they go into space because Critic wants to save Ma-Ti and Spoony.
- Although two things have been brought up - a deal with Blip and this interview with Derek the Bard - neither of them go out of their way to confirm or deny that The Nostalgia Critic series is continuing, only that Doug is.
- The article from blip states "The first partners Blip Studios has struck deals with already represent hundreds of millions of views through the Blip platform. They include Nostalgia Critic, a long-running series that features Doug Walker critiquing stuff like television and video games from the 80s and 90s". How does that not confirm that the Nostalgic Critic is not going to continue?
- Jossed
- Also, one of the reviewers is or is mistaken for an alien.
- Jossed. They're from the government and there to shut the team down.
- This is possibly proven by the Fourth Year Anniversary photo sales as it was said that this might be the last big anniversary special.
- "on this scale". You can't really go much more scale-y than space. They'll probably dial it down a bit, but fans have come to expect a week-long series and will riot if it goes back to a half hour thing.
- Whilst Holly has stated that there will be future anniversary specials, the part about the NC continuing on has been decisively nostalgia-critic Jossed...
- Though it was Un-Cancelled
- This is possibly proven by the Fourth Year Anniversary photo sales as it was said that this might be the last big anniversary special.
- Given the recent announcement by Doug Walker about The Nostalgia Critic series ending, and new ventures beginning, possible at least.
- It would be great if an over-the-top villain like Dr. Insano possessed one of the other characters, since it would really give that reviewer a chance to overact!
- A couple of gloves, and Mechakara could easily substitute Linksy.
- Wouldn't be the first time that it happened.
- Confirmed! Mechakara takes Linkara's place, and later modifies The Nostalgia Chick in a manner similar to Seven of Nine along with Todd in the Shadows as Robocop.
- Confirmed for That Sci-Fi Guy, Welshy, Diamanda Hagan, Suede, Rap Critic and Handsome Tom
- And later, Benzaie, Jillian, Nash and Mike J
- Jossed - Space Guy doesn't appear, but Nash does.
- Confirmed.
- Doubly confirmed — both the starting villain (Lame R. Prick) and (apparently) the Big Bad the Executor ( also known as Christopher Clod, head of the MPAA) are connected to it.
- Confirmed. Aside from a few snags, he's actually being a good leader and being honest with people about what he's feeling. Also, he finally finds his purpose as he absorbs the Plot Hole
- Confirmed.
- Jossed. They had their own separate plots.
- Actually, semi-confirmed. Not quite as dramatic as most were expecting, but Film Brain beams Luke onto the Executor's ship. Not a life-or-death situation (well, not for Luke, anyway), but still.
- Confirmed for the most part. Turrell and Zod both work under the Executor, and Mechakara allied with them for his own purposes until he finds out they couldn't fulfill their part of the deal. However, Insano was there mainly for the critics to swipe his stuff. And no one had considered that Ma-Ti technically was a villain
- A Spirit Advisor / force ghost a la Obi Wan in the two [original trilogy] Star Wars sequels.
- A vision in a dream Critic is having.
- Really Ma-Ti, who has survived somehow and has come back to Critic.
- The Spock to Critic's McCoy, his memories and personality somehow alive within Critic.
- Partially Confirmed His character has been transfered to Spoony's body.
- A Black Lantern, used by the Big Bad to strike at the Critic. The Critic won't know anything about Black Lanterns, which the undead Ma-Ti will capitalize on. It would fit, considering the sci-fi nature of the source material and the dark twist to his heart motive.
- Or just an illusion, created by the bad guys to either get the Critic so broken he's out of commission (something we've seen a bit of already) or to be their Unwitting Pawn. Fans have noted that the voice sounded more feminine than Bhargav, and Critic isn't exactly the strongest when it comes to being manipulated.
- He isn't actually back; the Critic is just losing it [possibly from guilt].
- Malachite.
- A redeemed Malachite.
- An unredeemed Malachite forced into an Enemy Mine situation upon learning that Mechakara has his gauntlet.
- An amnesiac Malachite.
- A completely new character.
- Who is (considering the lab coat and the actor's martial arts skills) a Badass Bookworm and/or Minored in Ass-Kicking.
- A scientist who is studying the weird thing in space and and possibly designed the spacedrive for the Exit Strategy.
- Roger the Guardian Angel. He's back from the dead and pissed off.
- Possible Joss - Considering his newest Nostalgia Critic appearance, they appear to be on (relatively) good terms.
- Now completely jossed.
- When Ma-Ti died, his last action was to slap his hand against Critic's face. When he did this, he used the last of his power to turn Critic into a Soul Jar, allowing Ma-Ti's essence to live on. This is why, since Suburban Knights, Critic has been showing somewhat different personality traits. Whereas before he was almost 100% Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight, now he's trying to get over that and seems to derive some pleasure from his work, which is Ma-Ti exerting influence over him trying to get him to live and enjoy life via The Power of Love.
- That... hasn't... really been the case. He's always had good traits (loyalty, defending children, brave when it matters) and bad traits (temper, violent, refuses to tell anyone anything), even way back before the brawl. If anything's changed since SK, it's that he goes into dumbass Guilt Complex mode more.
- OP here, and I deleted the negative part about the Critic. You are right; it's just been a long day, and I was WMGing from a bad place.
- And jossed. Ma-Ti is in Spoony's body and Critic's just been having a year long Heroic BSoD.
- Big Bad: Mechakara, who will use his experience fighting Linkara and Manipulative Bastard tendencies to war against Channel Awesome
- The Dragon: There will actually be more than one. The first will be Malachite-a Dragon with an Agenda and The Starscream who's allying to get back his gauntlet. The second, in order to counteract Malachite, will be General Zod, who wants to teach us a lesson about Christmas trees.
- The Brute: The Ultimate Warrior, who will be a dangerous fighter thanks to his Red Lantern ring and bringing people to madness with insane rambling. Terl will join as well, though his only use will be farting nuclear bombs.
- The Evil Genius: Corporate Commander, who helps finance their actions. Dr. Insano will also join in the fun, helping to build inventions.
- The Heart: Dark Nella.
- Sixth Ranger Traitor: Douchey McNitpick, who will try to be the Big Bad, but fail miserably and hilariously.
- Mostly Jossed.
- It's extremely likely that Mechakara's pretending to be Linkara again, 7-of-9 Chick is followed by a guy in the same sort of helmet as the men in the field, Dredd!Critic is shown outside fighting while suit!Critic is only seen inside his house/ship, Spoony is dragged by guys in black suits and strapped to something making his eyes go white, Zod and Terl are in this being played by Doug and Noah obviously, plus the site has a hard-on for evil sides and shadow archetypes in general.
- Jossed - Dredd!Critic is explictly stated to just be the Critic in "battle armor" & the shot of him outside comes when the ship's teleporter isn't working correctly and accidentally beams him outside of the bunker Spoony was kept in.
- While he has yet to be absent from an entire segment, large portions of segments have kept the focus on the other reveiwers. Most notably part 5, which mainly focuses on Snob and Film Brain.
- Somewhat confirmed by an entry on Kyle's twitter: "My role is a very subtle nod to Tarkovsky's Solaris. I play THE VERY EARTH ITSELF."
- Assuming it wasn't sarcasm, of course...
- Jossed as of Part 7 - He's just himself.
- Let's see what happens to him just from the trailers. Ma-Ti is blaming him for his death, Terl wants him to die painfully, suited guys are putting him under house arrest, his friends and crew are getting assimilated, he seems to think he's never done anything good in his life, he's getting consumed by the blue thing, there's a lot of nods to there being a choice, and it looks like he's talking to Film Brain about how reviewing life sucks. Even if he doesn't actually have suicidal tendencies this time, nobody would be able to blame him if he did.
- Confirmed, if not before To Boldly Flee began then definitely by Part 7.
- Jossed: Anything involving Spoony's character being written off like this has been thoroughly busted by everyone involved in the production, including Spoony himself.To Boldly Flee was filmed long before Spoony's departure from TGWTG, and everyone has stated that there were no changes made to the film because he left.
- Hell, Spoony never had much of a role besides Distressed Damsel anyway. Most of Noah's energy went into Turrell.
- Maybe even Wheatly or the cores will make an apperence
- Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger might get referenced as well
- Not that it'd be bad if they were just enjoyable fanservice and friends taking the opportunity to work together, but with everyone getting a go with him (not like that!) and the teaser making it look like the days of leading through Nazis are long gone, it's a reasonable theory.
- Or, with the addition of Doug letting his facebook fans decide next week's episode subject, they're a way of making people keep on thinking that it's the end of the Critic (as probably only a minority know about the blip deal). Tick off all the crowd-pleaser boxes, as it were.
- Jossed by Linkara, who's said the Critic's crossovers are just a way to split the workload for the weekly NC's in half so Doug can spend the majority of his time editing the anniversary stuff.
- But confirmed by Doug at Shadocon, as he told everyone that the character was going to be gone soon, so if they wanted to get a crossover with him, "come and get it now".
- Given how his insecurity is set up in Part 3, it seems likely that he might show it to somebody, if not the audience.
- Semi-Confirmed. He shows his face to Lupa and Seven of Eleven, but not the audience. According to the latter's reaction, it's absolutely terrifying.
- 1. Linkara's is already linked to Suburban Knights, and his magic being de-powered is awfully convenient if this is a straight-up sci-fi. His ship is also explicitly still working, and exists in the same universe as Angry Joe's station.
- Jossed, by Linkara. He has already confirmed that his current storyline is set after To Boldly Flee. However, they do (Coincidentally or not) tie-in to one another, with everyone viewing Mechakara's behaviour as in-character for Linkara, effectively serving as Futureshadowing for Linkara's current arc on Atop the Fourth Wall.
- 2 Spoony is coming to the end of his Black Gate story, which goes all the way back to the first Warrior crossover between them which was the genesis for several characters in both series.
- Jossed, Spoony wrapped up the Black Gate plot before the first part of To Boldly Flee was released, and it leads into his ongoing meta-plot, not this.
- 3 Both have been treading water story-wise for weeks. This is normal for Spoony's usual slow release speed, but comes off as playing for time for Linkara.
- 'Jossed by Linkara, his current plot is partially dependent on when other people are free.
- Plus Critic says "the sky's the limit" in the poker game, which is just too perfect foreshadowing to be coincidental, and if he's imitating Picard here then he's sure to imitate Kirk in the special.
- How would Critic bring himself back to normal?
- He'll FIND A WAY.
- Jossed
- Technically Jossed. The Executor is just a Palpatine Expy.
- Confirmed in Part 3.
- Or, probably more likely, he's a Never My Fault dick who wants to take his frustrations out on the last human he had a conversation with.
- Linkara's been stuffed into a closet for the moment and Mechakara has taken his place, at some point the Critic's space-house will be severely damaged and Comicron 1'll swoop in to save the day.
- I'll go one better: He'll open communications with Terl or Zod, and when they put him on-screen, he'll be in his Starfleet uniform with Ironside (1967)'s theme playing, just like in his crossover review on Star Trek: Insurrection.
- Original WMG person here. I'll go one better. He'll start blasting his Theme Song through the speakers of both ships Tony Stark style.
- Either that or he'll pull a Han Solo — "You're all clear, Critic, now let's blow this thing and go home!"
- This one is partially Jossed, since the Critic is no longer on board the USS Exit Strategy. However, he could still rescue the other critics during a Death Star run.
- Linkara just escaped from the closet and he reads TV Tropes. Here's hoping that, if he does pull a Big Damn Heroes, he'll reference the Trope Namer. Come on, how can you have a sci-fi special without Firefly?
Linkara: We arrived just in the nick of time. What does that make us?Iron Liz: Big Damn Heroes, sir.Linkara: Ain't we just?- Or, he'll go with all of the above, and be criticised by the others for trying too hard.
- Comicron-1 is also a good possible method of getting Oancitizen close to the action, and would explain why he only shows up on viewscreens in the trailers.
- Jossed, Oan literally travels by Offscreen Teleportation.
- Or get shot at by the Exit Strategy while trying to pull a Big Damn Heroes. After all, they know Mechakara is still out there somewhere, and it's been proven that the crew can't tell the two apart.
- He's going to save the day Battlestar Pegasus-style.
- Based off of a clip in the fourth Channel Awesome Dance Spectacular, which was briefly posted early, this seems likely.
- Confirmed
- Actually Terl being alive is not a plot hole. His Psyclone that was in Spoony's Wing Commander review is likely the Terl we're seeing here.
- Confirmed by Insano in Part 2
- Considering that new footage of Bhargav has already been shown in the special, this seems unlikely.
- Curiously, this WMG is confirmed by the credits, despite the above. Rob Walker provides Ma-Ti's voice in all subsequent scenes.
- Either that, or in reference to the Plot Hole Theory above, he is really dead but will come back with no explanation.
- Confirmed at the very end
- This is somewhat helped by the fact that upon interrogating Paw about his show, Linkara actually revealed who (and what) Mechakara was. Out of all the people involved in this, the only other one who's even met Mechakara is Spoony, who...conveniently enough...is not in his best state of mind right now. Theoretically speaking, somebody has to see through the ruse sooner or later, and right now Paw's the only one who knows even remotely enough to do that.
- Actually Spoony met Mechakara, during the Blackest Night review. Mechakara converted Spoony to Black Lantern Spoony as a ploy against Linkara
- Either him or CR. Anyone else see the way he looked at Mechakara during part 2?
- Paw explicitly mentions that Linkara reviews comics in Part 3, which could mean he's feeling guilty and is now paying more attention.
- Jossed, Paw has nothing to do with The Reveal.
- As the actual scene of the death was shown at the beginning, and The Last Angry Geek mentioned the friendship line, this is very likely.
- Jossed.
- Doubtful, Suede was on a hiatus, he didn't actually leave the site.
- Little Miss Gamer cameod in The Blockbuster Buster's review of Phantom Menace, and if I recall Goggles had real life problems that made her leave. The same problems didn't stop her from voicing the Magic Gun Margaret.
- Goggles was still on the site when she voiced the Magic Gun in Linkara's Silent Hill: Dead Alive review.
- Little Miss Gamer cameod in The Blockbuster Buster's review of Phantom Menace, and if I recall Goggles had real life problems that made her leave. The same problems didn't stop her from voicing the Magic Gun Margaret.
- No TGWTG contributor, but The Angry Video Game Nerd returned for a scene with Critic. And I mean the character: James Rolfe did do roles in Kickassia and Suburban Knights but they were not as the AVGN.
- Jossed as of now, with the Nostalgia Critic series ended, but there's still opportunities for specials.
- Confirmed in Part 7.
- Unlikely, Linkara mentioned in a post on Spoony's forum that he put that post-it there because he realised he would have noticed Mechakara through the peephole.
- It might be a small case of Lying Creator though. Whilst what Linkara said might be true (and makes sense), the theory of his landlord finding him could still apply.
- A bigger problem is that the note is a full foot above the peephole on the door. It doesn't come close to covering it.
- Jossed, Part 2 has us hear the police at the door before Mechakara is teleported out due to the Plot Hole. Therefore, it's safe to bet that the police broke down the door, did a sweep of the area, and found Linkara in the closet during the search (if he isn't still unconscious, that is). Then, he probably informs the police of what happened, finds out about what's going on with the others, and goes in Comicron 1 to help them.
- I wonder if Mechakara was setting Linkara for a fall. Mechkara spree of killings might have been a way to get Linkara in trouble with the law, and preventing him stopping Mechkara. That explains why the poice were there.
- Considering that would mean the police arrest Linkara thinking "It must be him, the guy in a chinese finger trap & locked in a closet! THE FIEND!", they were probably called after someone heard the struggle between Linkara & Mechakara, or they had Linkara (And the other potential targets) under surveillance in case he was attacked next.
- I wonder if Mechakara was setting Linkara for a fall. Mechkara spree of killings might have been a way to get Linkara in trouble with the law, and preventing him stopping Mechkara. That explains why the poice were there.
- Josssed. Linkara was seen managing to escape the closet on his own.
- Hence the Seven of Nine look for her in the trailers, she's not fully assimilated, and Lupa using Ripley's famous line in the trailer.
- Jossed - Film Brain nearly walks in on it, but mistakes the noises for the two of them having sex. However, Lupa does realise that something's not right.
- Two problems: 1) The review schedule through September has already been posted, and 2)Neutro only appeared in one issue of one book.
- Linkara has changed the schedule before (often as a result of the comic not being as bad as he thought it was), and he has stated that there will be more Neutro in the future.
- Except he probably meant in the context of his show using Neutro, not a Neutro comic - Kind of hard to review something that doesn't exist.
- Linkara has changed the schedule before (often as a result of the comic not being as bad as he thought it was), and he has stated that there will be more Neutro in the future.
- Jossed when the moment passes in Part 7 without this occuring.
- In Part 8, a separate "Doug Walker" character appears.
- It has been stated that: Nostalgia Chick will never get Todd, The Critic and The Chick have slept together at least twice and The Critic is in love with her and that the Chick may possibly be aware of it. Also their relationship, whatever it was, was around way before The Triangle existed. Someone, possibly Todd will ask the Chick about her and the Critic or have a throwaway line about thinking she was with the Critic. This will wake her up to the reality she's been avoiding since the beginning and she and the Critic will have a heart-to-heart about it. Also was The Chipmunk Adventure review filmed before or after To Boldly Flee? If it was after then perhaps they broke up or if it was before they at least have tried to date but most likely her feelings for Todd got in the way.
- Filmed after, but canonically took place before this series. And it might have been decided that they're Better As Flirty Friends, seeing how the Part One conversation went a lot better than the painful-sounding one in Chipmunk adventure.
- In the finale to Spoony's Final Fantasy X review, the original Spoony and the clone Spoony were merged together. Terl and the Executor will somehow cause the clone to regain the original Spoony's personality, and possibly his Black Lantern powers.
- The clone already has the original's personality.
- Jossed.
- Jossed
- Jossed
- I propose that Spoony will use the line, after being freed from 'cardboard freezing'
- Jossed completely
- I propose that Spoony will use the line, after being freed from 'cardboard freezing'
- Jossed
- Jossed - No one dies in Part 3.
- Possibly not jossed, if you want to hold onto a glimmer of hope. Mechakara is a robot wearing the dead skin of an alternate universe's Linkara. It's possible that Part 3 did feature Nostalgia Chick's death, and Seven of Eleven is actually a robot wearing her skin.
- Though they DID mention the Red Shirt effect. And with Phelous, of all people!
- He wasn't in Suburban Knights, but this special is Sci-Fi themed.
- Jossed by way of Real Life Writes the Plot - The make-up is too much of a hasslefor just a cameo.
- Jossed. It's shown in Part 3 that Ma-Ti is still inside of Spoony. And even arguing with him.
- Jossed
- He seemed suspicious during Mechakara's "you lose, I win" speech, and did not cheer with the others when he was done.
- a) Obligatory cameo, and b) Prick and co. stole his box to put Spoony in.
- Not necessarily; that could have easily resulted from either the machine she and CR were building or just as general craziness created by The Hole.
- Possibly, but it's mighty suspicious that when they're talking about characters going from actor to actor, and not long later JesuOtaku starts acting like Ed. I think the key will be in the rest of the, for lack of a better term, cosplaying critic, whether they act like themselves or their characters. Angry Joe refers to himself as Snake in a trailer, but that's not necessarily indicative of anything.
- More or less Jossed, seeing how it happened only to JO.
- It's pretty much a Foregone Conclusion that all the critics will return to normal either during or after the special since they have all made videos since To Boldly Flee was made
- Partially Jossed - She is returned, but there is a reason.
- It's pretty much a Foregone Conclusion that all the critics will return to normal either during or after the special since they have all made videos since To Boldly Flee was made
- Jossed. Both JesuOtaku (in her Highschool of the Dead review) and Holokara (Marville 3) referenced it. To quote Holokara "If this is outer space... where is the Plot Hole near Europa?" Also, Critic technically doesn't make it out alive.
- Partly confirmed. No sign of the personality, but she does retain at least one of the abilities.
- Significantly: The character is introduced before the characters learn anything of the plot, so basically every single site-reviewer introduced so far can be ruled out.
- Could be James Rolfe.
- Oh PLEASE let that be so.
- It would make for a pretty neat twist, and it isn't too out of the blue considering how James makes some kind of appearance in every special.
- Confirmed.
- Considering he hasn't even cameoed yet, Oancitizen is starting to sound likely.
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) is just pretentious enough that Oan might cosplay from it.
- If this is true, someone will reference the Keanu Reeves remake and he will be offended.
- Jossed - Oancitizen is Yoda, evidenced by the official signed photo released before the special started. And it is very likely that Gort will be someone special.
- How about he's The Executor's back up man? His minion after he put Turrell under Zod's control.
- Jossed for the moment - He does save Critic's life in Parts 4 & 7.
- Perhaps he's a literal Deus ex Machina?
- His character's name will literally be Dues X. Makina. ...... yes, he'd be Japanese.
- Spacelancer Steve
- Because it would be awesome and why not?
- Sci-Fi Guy
- Jaffers
- Linkara
- Nope, still locked in his closet at the time, as seen in Part 5.
- Critic from the future.
- He's either Ask That Guy or Chester A. Bum. If it's bum, looks like this is what all that change was going to.
- Dan Rizzo aka That Aussie Guy ! He has become an unperson on the TGWTG site. But time has passed and recently, Sad Panda made jokes about him in his first anniversary review. Given how Sad Panda 'stole' the Lamp reviewer joke, maybe he has done some Rizzo joke for a reason. Maybe he wants to redeem himself?
- He had gotten away with acting like a creepy cyborg that talks about nothing but killing the team but when he mentions that he likes 'One More Day', everyone will realize something is wrong.
- That's such a horrible opinion it HAS to happen.
- Jossed, he's revealed when part of his face is blown off in an explosion.
- After he confesses his love to Lupa, she says she can't share his feelings because of how he hides his face, she can't be confident with someone who isn't confident in himself. This will eventually lead Todd to take off the mask and reveal his face to Lupa.
- Alternate: Todd revealing his face to Chick will be what makes frees her from the hive mind.
- Confirmed in Part Six.
- Also, the audience will not see Todd's face. The camera will cut to behind him as he unmasks so that the mystery for the audience remains. Afterall, he is Todd in the Shadows. It's his whole character that we never know what he looks like.
- Again, confirmed in Part Six.
- Alternate: Todd revealing his face to Chick will be what makes frees her from the hive mind.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Much of the film is a reference to the third Star Trek movie, in which the U.S.S. Enterprise was destroyed. Also, the last pre-To Boldly Flee episode of Nostalgia Critic (aside from crossovers with Phelous and Maven of the Eventide) ended with a parody/homage of the final Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. The first Star Trek: The Next Generation movie, Generations, had the Enterprise NC-1701-D destroyed. With both of these in mind, and recent changes in Doug's life to consider, it wouldn't be surprising if this film writes out the house the Nostalgia Critic has filmed in for the past two years.
- Extending this, the destruction of the U.S.S. Exit Strategy will be more on par with the destruction of the original Enterprise in Search For Spock, mainly in that the critics will commandeer Turrell's house-ship like the Enterprise crew took over the Bird of Prey. In the end, Critic will keep it as his new house when he returns to Earth.
- .... Maybe? It didn't make it very clear what happened to the USS Exit Strategy. We saw Insano hold everyone up to get his stuff back, the ship zoom around, and then cut to Luke saying that's that.
- In keeping with the Search For Spock motif, at some point Terl will take prisoners and have one of them executed. In the trailers, there is a brief clip of Critic taking a step back towards the Captain's seat and starting to fall to the floor. Their ignonimous death will lead the Critic to cross the Despair Event Horizon and will lead to Critic flying the Exit Strategy into the Plot Hole in an attempt to Put Right What Once Went Wrong.
- Confirmed partially. Turl does in fact take prisoners and have one murdered...but said prisoner happened to be Phelous, So it pretty much turned out okay.
- ... which means everything will get back to normal, Sci-Fi Guy will live again, everyone will loose the memory of the big universe secret (if there's one) and after Todd and NChick hook up during the adventure, they will forget everything and return to their previous interactions (she stalking him and Todd freaked out).
- Jossed
- Which also connects with his critic-nirvana during the crossover with JesuOtaku.
- As of Part 7, he is just himself.
- Probably with Linkara turning up ready to help, only to be dismissed since they've already dealt with everything.
- Possibly Jossed since in Part 5, he freed himself, which indicates that he is going to play a role in saving the day.
- We've already had "Gort" save the Critic twice before, so odds are he'll do it a third time, which means Linkara lost the opportunity for a dramatic save. And if we can't have that, we might as well get an anticlimactic comedy moment instead, with Linkara all psyched for a major space fight, only to realize there's nothing left for him to shoot at.
- Jossed - He shows up just in time to save the crew.
- In the style of Blazing Saddles. They'll meet their actors working on the film and Critic will punch Doug for writing his life as hell.
- Confirmed - he does meet Doug Walker, but he doesn't attack him.
- I watched again the Battlefield Earth review. It begins when Critic decides to make a clip show, until he's stopped by the first clip he shows... where Ma-Ti forces him to do something much better, which turns out to be the review of a movie he had been asked to do very often. He does; that brings in the character of Terrl. At the end, Terrl's planet explodes indeed, but because of another Psyclon who lit up a cigarette. It wasn't the critic's fault in any way- oh wait, I digress. Now, To Boldly Flee says the Plot Hole created all Plot Holes in all past videos and reviews, and possibly the future ones too. But, wait a second; it's never explained how Ma-Ti could have a different dialogue in the clip show before the review of Battlefield Earth... It's just too fantastic and technically impossible. Which would mean it's a plot hole, thus created by the Plot Hole. Which was triggered by Ma-Ti's funeral. That also technically means Ma-Ti basically caused the entire story behind To Boldly Flee, because hadn't it been from that plot hole in the first place, Critic would never have met Terrl and would never have gained him as an enemy. Which would then mean that To Boldly Flee would never have had a reason to be made. I sense some ultimate Fridge Brilliance here, and possibly a plot detail that might prove of extreme importance in the following parts...
- Semi-Jossed, Ma-Ti was responsible for everything, but it wasn't unitentional.
- Parts 1 and 2 established pretty clearly that he desperately wants to be a good guy and is miserable enough to ignore everything nice he's already done, we see from Snob's scene that the bad guys are trying to convince the crew to betray the others, the Dredd shooting bit is the only scene that has him outside, and Critic/Dredd are not particularly similar personalities. (Unlike, for instance, how Chick and 7of9 both try to be ice queens because human emotions are scary.)
- Jossed, at least as far as him becoming an evil Judge Dredd - Dredd!Critic is explicitly stated to just be the Critic dressed as Dredd.
- Outside of the fact that he is very much a sci-fi themed villain, when we last saw him, he was now a being made of data, floating through the vast emptiness of space swearing revenge against Linkara.
- Jossed
- Since they did in the last three anniversaries, it's almost a guarantee.
- CONFIRMED!!!
- At the very end of Part 2, the last thing the Executor says is that he's sending a new master for Turl to keep him on schedule, even though no schedule has been mentioned or referred to at any point in their conversations. Either the Executor or the Plot Hole is responsible for the delay on the movie parts.
- After playing out the relevant scenes and dialogue from Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Her name was Luke at the time, why would they waste that?
- And considering the fact that she's going to dress up as Luke Skywalker, based on the trailers, as well as Oancitizen dressing as Yoda, this seems fairly likely.
- Who appeared at the beginning of Part III when CR had his daydream about building the machine? The Space Man! He's helping them by having them build a machine that alters their minds and gives them skills they'd otherwise won't have! This already happened to JO, who now has the genius level intelligence to invent weapons that they use in Part IV, and it will happen to more reviewers!
- Jossed in Part 5, the machine allows them to see into people's dreams. Plus, several reviewers are just making a Whole Costume Reference & aren't being transformed (The Critic, Sad Panda, 8-Bit Mickey, Film Brain & the Last Angry Geek come to mind), whilst the people who are being transformed have (Excluding JO) been assimilated by Mechakara.
- A combination of the above WMGs. CR! will tell Mechakara he's planing on doing a Familiar Faces on a character from The Boys and when this is all over, he can do a crossover with him. Mechakara will say that he'd love too, and that The Boys is one of his favorite Comic series.
- Jossed, he's unveiled as part of a chain reaction set-off by Lupa managing to break Todd free of his assimilation.
- With the connection Luke made between the critics and family, and her dressing and fighting as Luke, and her mentorship under Snob, it makes sense that Zod, Terl, and the Executor will turn Snob into a Vaderlike figure, tempting him with a way to continue on even after criticism has run his course, much like Palpatine tempted Anakin with a way to save Padme from death. That said, since Luke is....well, Luke, she'll find a way to bring Snob back, much like Vader was brought back by his love for his son.
- Pretty obvious as of Part 5, as Snob is being seduced to the Dark Side in a nod towards Anakin's fall to the Dark Side in Episode III, with the same dialogue being used; plus the DVD cover art shows him with Vader's helmet.
- It would explain Chick with the drill in the trailer and why MarzGurl is playing a robotic character. Plus, Lupa uses the line "Get away from her you bitch!" so that could mean both parties are female, or she didn't feel like paraphrasing.
- She was tied up, tossed in Mechakara's closet, and replaced by a robot double. The others will find her once they destroy Seven of Eleven and grieve for her loss.
- How does that explian the drill noises we heard?
- Building/finishing up with the robot duplicate?
- And what loss?
- Believing her to be dead. Either from destroying 7 of 11, thinking it's really her, or believing Mechakara killed her and replaced her with a robot double. Then they'll find her and realise she's fine.
- Continuing with this theory, 7-of-11 will try to kill the Bound and Gagged Chick after all usful infomation has been extracted from her. Lupa, having put 2&2 together to make 4, will then burst in all Ripley style and give out the famous line from the trailer.
- Jossed in Part 5, Mechakara & Seven of Eleven outright state their plan is to assimilate the rest of the crew.
- How does that explian the drill noises we heard?
- And to win the final battle, someone will push a red button that will simply kick Terl and Zod's robot in the crotch.
- Part 7 shows that The Nostalgia Critic's car has an Autobot symbol, so it's pretty likely.
- Jossed - The one sci-fi franchise that they don't reference, unless you count the Michael Bay jokes.
- Part 7 shows that The Nostalgia Critic's car has an Autobot symbol, so it's pretty likely.
- Because Part 8 was originally going to be released on a Thursday, and the post-Schedule Slip release still puts it on a Thursday.
- Jossed, however the Executor describes Snob completing his Face–Heel Turn & the death of The Last Angry Geek as "All in all, a successful Tuesday" in Part 6, which would have been released on a Tuesday if not for the Schedule Slip.
- Terl wants his death, the trailers suggest he'll be separated from the rest of the crew, he has a history of it in his own show and attractive Distressed Dudes seem to be a trend in this special.
- Jossed
- I don't know who it'll be, but it'll be a parody/Shout-Out to Star Trek V: The Final Frontier where "God" was actually Sybok's negative traits or something.
- Variation: an earlier WMG is that there are two "Ma-Ti"s giving different messages. This will be the fake one playing on Critic's insecurities, the other is the one arguing with Spoony and is real.
- Jossed.
- Linkara contacted the Exit Strategy to see if they are okay and after reviewing the footage he became enraged at the fact that his friends and fellow critics couldn't tell an obvious robot duplicate from him. After a long rant about how he had been through enough drama with Kickassia and Suburban Knights and how that he had saved the universe from the Enity he ended with a huge 'F*ck You!' and turned off the com link. Then in a scene similar to Han Solo saving Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, Linkara will pull a big heroes moment and saved NC.
- Can't see it - if anything, he'd want to prove that he's nothing like Mechakara & everyone should've really figured out that it wasn't really him on the ship.
- Jossed, by the time Linkara makes it, Critic's gone in the hole, and Linkara is more than happy to play the target.
- He'll die as he predicted, but force Bradakin to become Snob Vader, and Luke will have to redeem him in part 8. This will mirror the whole Star Wars saga, and has been set up since Brad and Luke became "friends" in part 1.
- Jossed, Last Angry Geek dies fighting the Executor in the same manner as Mace Windu's death against the Emperor (Because an assumed ally turned on him because he believed that he needed the person he was fighting alive. Snob only puts on the Vader helmet after the Executor throws coffee in his face to burn him.
- Which she will almost immediately admit to be completely false, after (or possibly before) he snaps out of it.
- Not quite, she says she'll go on a date with him if he fights back.
- Not saying he's a bad character or anything, Doug's made sure of that, but the suicides, the unexplained recoveries, the extreme past he's built up, ingesting insomnia pills like candy with no effect, being the Designated Monkey that the universe seems to loathe no matter what happens? People have said he would have died long ago in the real world...
- Jossed more or less, Critic went into the Plot Hole and ended up confronting Ma-Ti to apologize, and then he became the Plot Hole to keep it stable.
- Since both Marzgurl and Joe's costumes in the trailers are based on Ghost in the Shell and Metal Gear respectively, can be possible, since Nostalgia Chick and Todd have been transformed into technological characters.
- First of all, this makes no sense - None of the Snakes are half-robot, so why would Joe be assimilated into an organic character? Secondly, Jossed as of Part Six - Mechakara's deception is uncovered & he beams off the ship.
- This would go with the Star Wars parallels, and may explain the Executor/Christopher Clod's preference to bad arts-just as how Palpatine was the avatar of the Dark Side, the Executor is a human manifestation of bad writing itself(or, if you will, the Dark Side of the Plot). This is why the Executor hired Terl and is trying to destroy critics everywhere. Terl is from a bad movie, of which the Executor loves. The critics would motivate writers to work on and improve their films, and he can't have that. The Plot Hole intrigues him because its generally what helps empower bad writing. His goal? True to his nature(Evil Has Bad Taste?), the Executor desires nothing more or less but to destroy good culture and storytelling itself, leaving nothing but Bile Fascination-worthy fiction to bask in. In essence, the degradation of humanity's very artistic nature.
- This seems to be more or less true from what I'm seeing.
- Given that Spoony revealed in one of his reviews that Terl has a number of "Psychlones" after the Nostalgia Critic blew up his planet, this seems kinda obvious to me.
- Or maybe it's the real one and it's just another disturbance in the plot.
- Critic going into the Plot hole will be like when Picard went into the Nexus: it will be a place outside the space/story-arc continuum, where he will meet an unlikely ally. They will then use the Hole to go back in time to stop the event that created the Hole in the first place.
- Kinda confirmed. Going into the plot hole presented him with the choice to Set Right What Once Went Wrong or go into the real world. He chose Set Right What Once Went Wrong (namely, getting Ma-Ti's forgiveness) and then became the plot hole.
- Despite the fact she now knows what he looks like, she still finds the mask sexy.
- Jossed, the second she saw his face, she was so disgusted that she 'broke up' with him.
- Bonus points if it turns out the Snob is Luke's father. It doesn't have to be true, but it's too good a line to not be used.
- To be honest, many of us would prefer that they use the "Luke, I am your father" line in a context relevant to his actual father.
- Snob theory jossed and Colin theory confirmed! Luke makes a "like my father before me" comment, which explicitly refers to everybody's favorite Canadian improve comedian.
- Which isn't exactly Citizen Kane, in the Executor's opinion.
- To be honest, many of us would prefer that they use the "Luke, I am your father" line in a context relevant to his actual father.
- Doubtably, both from the things pointed out on the YMMV page and perhaps the greater problem: why wouldn't Mechakara be finally dealt with in the series that spawned him — IE, Atop the Fourth Wall?
- They could still have the same happening, only with Mechakara ending up exiled in a lost planet somewhere, or literally lost in space.
- Doubtably, both from the things pointed out on the YMMV page and perhaps the greater problem: why wouldn't Mechakara be finally dealt with in the series that spawned him — IE, Atop the Fourth Wall?
- It would fit with the Star Trek referencing, and of the 'one starship arrives to save another starship' scenes in the movies, First Contact has the drawback that it was the main starship of the movie that arrived to save the day (and it would be hilarious to see JewWario's reaction when he hears Linkara say "Fly her apart then!")...
- Partially confirmed - Comicron-1 promptly opens fire on Terl's ship after it arrives, with Linkara noting his intention is to give the enemy something else to shoot at instead of the Exit Strategy, however the closest thing to a reference to The Undiscovered Country is Linkara wearing a Starfleet uniform.
- Because we really need to have a Let's Get Dangerous! moment from these two, having Zod use his powers to go in a Foe-Tossing Charge across the Critics would be a pretty good way to do that, and then someone (probably Linkara making a Big Damn Heroes moment) will finish him off with a piece of Kryptonite.
- He doesn't even need that. Kryptonions are still completely vulnerable to magic.
- Jossed - Spoony stated on his forum beforehand that Zod will never use any Kryptonian powers during the special, and as of the ending, he didn't.
- In that case, he's going to be asked why he didn't use his Kryptonian powers. He's going to say "Ah crap!" As for why his invulnerability didn't kick in... Plot Hole!
- Jossed, it's not clear if Terl even KNEW that Zod had kickass powers.
- Where else would Mechakara go after finding out he'd been tricked? He probably won't kill him until the end, after whatever hijinks the critics and villains will get into.
- Mechakara did appear to have every intention of killing both Terl & Zod, and most likely would have if the grenade he'd swallowed earlier hadn't gone off. However, Sad Panda is the one who detonates the grenade, so it's up to you which applies - Confirmed because Mechakara's intent was to kill Terl & he was the one who brought the grenade, or Josssed because Mechakara didn't actually kill anyone, it was Sad Panda detonating the grenade.
- Either Cloud, Squall, Tidus, or Snow Villiers since their respective games have Sci-Fi elements.
- Cloud's a possibility, but I doubt he'd dress up as Squall or Tidus since he already did that on his own show, and he might save Snow for his Final Fantasy XIII review.
- Jossed.
- This both is a nice bookend to the 40 minute part 1, and seriously, they have a Ton of things still to clear up in The Plot.
- Rob already said, after Part I was uploaded, that the last Part would also be around 40 minutes.
- With a barrel roll.
- Or he'll be prevented from saving the day by not being allowed to do a barrel roll.
- Jossed.
- With Terl & Zod's ship being dragged into the Hole as it closes, and Critic & Terl playing the roles of Kirk & Nero respectively, with Zod would having an Only Sane Man reaction to Terl refusing Critic's offer of aid, asking why he would be that stupid as their shipis destroyed. Alternately, Comicron-1 will turn up & open fire on the enemy ship as Terl & Zod bicker over accepting Critic's offer.
- As he's already had one in the role of Terl.
- Confirmed.
- And ultimately lead to the destruction of Terl's ship. Well it was the only thing tying the room together.
- Critic will do some revamp to his reviews that will be included in Doug's succeeding NC videos after Part 8 is online!
- Jossed The credits is simply alternative takes for the executor's death scene
- Ma-Ti appears in the review of Junior, where he says, dressed as a Judge, that Critic will have to pay for his crimes against humanity... something the Critic himself quotes in To Boldly Flee.
- Ma-Ti appears in a recording from a past episode at the beginning of the Battlefield Earth review, and the recording suddenly speaks to Critic. Recording!Ma-Ti is even the one who tells Critic to review Battlefield Earth for his 100th episode. In that episode, Critic meets Terl...
- Ma-Ti appearing the Hell out of nowhere in Web Video/Kickassia can be explained by it actually being Plot Hole!Ma-Ti, who wouldn't have had to travel all the way from Chicago to Molossia to talk to Critic. However, him telling Critic to "stop being a douchebag" can be viewed as Ma-Ti trying a final thing to see if the Critic is redeemable:
- If Critic stops being a jerk to te other contributors, Ma-Ti would realize his plans were wrong, that Critic can change, and thus that there isn't a reason to enact revenge.
- If Critic doesn't change, Ma-Ti realizes that Critic will never change and the Channel Awesome universe deserves to die.
- Alternatively, he regains his corporeal form and justified it with "I'm one with the Plot Hole, and the Plot Hole is now one with the universe, therefore I am one with the universe. Being one with the universe effectively makes me God, so I can do whatever the hell I want. HA! Anyway, this shitty film..."
- Not any time soon, apparently. While Doug Walker left the door open for specials, the Nostalgia Critic series is done.
- Jossed. His return is seen in The Review Must Go On.
- The ending basically confirmed it.
- The entire movie was filmed long before Spoony's departure, though. It's just a...weird coincidence at best that things played out the way they did.
- There's nothing stopping a reconciliation.
- No, there isn't, but my point is that it will really have nothing to do with the events of the movie or the implications of the ending.
- Based on Spoony's commentary, it's not likely that he'll be back on the site.
- The entire movie was filmed long before Spoony's departure, though. It's just a...weird coincidence at best that things played out the way they did.
- During the scenes doug filmed alone, the critic really came to our world, and really had to take that decision. And the only way to communicate and help the others was to film the scenes we saw.
- Even if it didn't really really it would be great if the TGWTG talent and Doug treated the situation as real.
- While he may be at peace now, remember, The Critic has gone through quite a lot of shit in his life. No offense, but something tells me that this could backfire easily.
- Not if Doug Walker ending the series is any indication
- Ah, but he's said the Critic will quite likely return in specials so who knows?
- Mainly? It would just seem like a gigantic dick move to do that to him.
- I'm not saying that it would be undone period. Rather, I'm thinking that someone would see The Critic's merging with the plothole and essentially becoming God as THEIR chance to become all-powerful if they can Sever the Critic from it. It might be Insano, or Lord Vyce, or a certain dictator who once came back from the dead and declared herself a "fucking goddess; someone who would be pissed to learn that some idiot now supersedes her. And who would decide that Critic and the rest of Channel Awesome are LONG overdue for some retribution.
- Mainly? It would just seem like a gigantic dick move to do that to him.
- The Writer said that the loss of any character would do it, but Lord Kat, Goggles, and others had already left at this point and Spoony was gone by the time it came out. Critic is actually a fairly minor player in the shared universe, his series has almost no over-arching story beyond the specials compared to The Spoony Experiment and Atop the Fourth Wall which cross over so much they don't even make sense separately.
- It would probably affect things in the middle of the story. You can't have a main character up-end and walk away in the middle of it.
- It would probably result in Doug and Rob scrapping the script and starting again, which would indeed delete the fictional universe, but would replace it with another one where their previous memories were still intact. The ethics of such an action can be argued in multiple directions.
- Spoony has made cameos for angry joe and Linkara. So The Spoonyexperiment is still part of the Awesomeverse.
- As far as LordKaT, Goggles, and Spoony go, I think there's a fundamental difference there. Like if the actor quits or gets fired, only the actor is gone, but the essence of the character is still there, like how Ma-Ti survived beyond Barghav. But if the character himself literally gets up and leaves the entire fictional universe, everything collapses.
- It would probably affect things in the middle of the story. You can't have a main character up-end and walk away in the middle of it.
- Why not a multiverse theory? In the one we saw, yes, Critic is the one that it centers on, but in some other universes, it could be Chick meeting Lindsay Ellis, or Linkara meeting Lewis Lovhaug.
- The first Nostalgia Critic review will start off with Chester A. Bum trying to do a Nostalgia Critic review only to be interrupted by NC.
- Jossed via the Nostalgia Critic's series being cancelled. But there's still the possibility of a special.
- He is the plot hole, might as well put his powers to the test.
- Probably something small, that would likely be filmed on the cheap at MAGFest to ensure both the maximum amount of producers and minimal travel expenses paid by the company.
- Another brawl
- A Hyperlink Story that features a handful of reviewers in each segment.
- You got to remember that Channel Awesome leased a studio. They can now do pretty much anything.
- A musical. Makes sense given the oddly (sans music reviewers) high amount of singing talent in nearly all of the site's members.
- The Great Critics War: Now that the Nostalgia Critic's place is empty, many reviewers will try to take his position as the leader of the site. Ultimately forming three factions (Team TGWTG, Inked Reality, and Blistered Thumbs) who will have one last brawl.
- Team TGWTG will obviously be led by the Chick, since the the Critic himself encouraged her, and Inked Reality will be led by Linkara, by far the most prominent of that team. Hard to tell with Blistered Thumbs but chances are it would be Angry Joe.
- Doug Walker As Himself leading the Channel Awesome crew.
- Add in JesuOtaku's new split personality and we have a team member who can't pick a side (though they have no idea they switching sides)...
- This seems like the most likely possibility given the hints that have been going around
- Ever since the brawl ended, the Nerd has been pulling strings to ensure the ultimate downfall of the Nostalgia Critic, just to get back at him for the burn the Critic made against him in the review of Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. To wit:
- He could potentially have been the one who (anonymously) alerted the Critic about the existence of Molassia, thus kickstarting the events of Kickassia
- He made a cameo as Board James to throw suspicion away from himself while the group was planning to rebel against the Critic
- He could potentially have allowed the Critic to obtain the video cassette that would make him buy into the chain letter map Malachite sent; kickstarting Suburban Knights
- He hijacked the ancient spirit that gave the group information about the ring that'd have an effect against Malachite; making the group (and the Critic especially) root for and encourage Ma-Ti battling Malachite in his ultimately last struggle
- He was calling to the Critic to reach the plot hole even before he went into space
- He supplied JesuOtaku and CR with the machine that would allow them to communicate with Ma-Ti and the plot hole
- He prevented the Executor's forces from killing the Critic, so he could still reach the plot hole
- He stopped Turrell from blasting the Critic to pieces so he could freely enter the plot hole
- He ultimately gave the Critic the idea to make the plot hole bigger, so he'd make his Heroic Sacrifice
- While disjointed, the last appearance the Nerd makes could him be playing the Critic for a fool (like he did when he originally taunted the Critic before their fight in the Nerd's basement); acting like a good sport while secretly reveling in the fact that the Critic would soon be gone for good. Given how the Critic doesn't question how the Nerd somehow found a way to warp between the worlds, it's possible that the Nerd didn't even start his trek as Gort from the Critic's universe, but from the real world instead.
- Well, if the Cuthroat Island review The Nostalgia Chick did is any indication, Critic certainly WANTS us to think he's a god. Even if he's a muppet.
- Not how the conversation goes. She asks if this now makes him God, but he dodges the question with a 2001 reference.
- Actually, he's more like Tetsuo, the character Sage referenced and cosplayed as in Part 8. In the film, AKIRA, The character, Tetsuo, becomes super powerful and unstable, eventually turning into a giant blob of energy and teleporting away where he BECOMES A UNIVERSE. At the end of the film, he states to his new domain "I AM TETSUO." This is is what the last scene was referencing. Also Madoka's ending's been used in Serial Experiments Lain back in the 90's.
- Well, if the Cuthroat Island review The Nostalgia Chick did is any indication, Critic certainly WANTS us to think he's a god. Even if he's a muppet.
- He is the last of the Three Smuckheads left.
- More likely to be The Nostalgia Chick, keeping the nostalgia name alive.
- I second this, Linkara is technically head of the Inked Reality part of Channel Awesome, I think.
- Somewhat confirmed in the "Cutthroat Island" review. While in the Plot Hole, the Critic tries to persuade the Chick to take over.
- Alternately, it could be The Other Guy. Possibly as a figurehead.
- The special seemed to be setting up Marzgirl as the next natural leader.
- More likely to be The Nostalgia Chick, keeping the nostalgia name alive.
- I think I heard a rumour of a complete site redesign, as Spoony quite rightly points out in his commentary of To Boldly Flee the thing is a bit of a mess to navigate.
- Now THAT sounds like a plot hole.
- Not totally. Rob said that a deleted scene had Spoony dying and Critic bringing him back to life.
- Somewhat unlikely given what he said in his commentary. According to him the reason he left is that he realized that his suspension had had no effect on him at all, since the majority of his fans watch his videos on his own site he wasn't actually getting anything out of the partnership. He is still appearing in crossovers though and says he still has a good working relationship with the management, so it isn't entirely ruled out.
- Highly unlikely as films reviewed by Chester A. Bum are on the Nostalgia Critic's blacklist (films that Doug will not review as the Critic).
- Well, exceptions have been made before, and the movie would be considered nostalgic by 2019.
- Even more unlikely because Doug knows full well people got tired of him bashing it constantly. That's why he explained both that and District 9 on his "Top Ten Films I Hate But Everybody Else Loves".
- Well, exceptions have been made before, and the movie would be considered nostalgic by 2019.
- Or what D List Internet Celebrities that have access to magical artifacts, spaceships, etc and frequently save all of reality would think of their Real Life counterparts that...um...don't.
- He's definitely, undoubtedly real, and assists the Critic after finally learning to respect him.
- He was another illusion of the Critic's mind, and the scenes featuring him represent the Critic finally becoming enough of a Hero to fight for his friends no matter what.
- Confirmed by the review of Man of Steel, he's alive, and for no explained reason has superpowers even he didn't have any in the crossover.
- Possibly jossed in Atop the Fourth Wall. Douchey McNitpick refers to the Critic as having left the site and retired, although that may mean that's he's refused to accept the Nostalgia Critic's death.
- The Nostalgia Critic is still a human, since humans in the "Star Trek" universe are notorious for thinking their values and opinions are superior to those of other species, which fits with the Critic's character.
- Linkara is now an Android, of Data's design. This allows him to essentially be both the perfect Starfleet officer (as Linkara would be), and a human database on everything in the "Star Trek" universe (as Linkara already is). And it now makes even more sense for him to have an evil robotic twin, as Data had one too (Lore).
- Seven of Eleven is in the process of regaining her human identity as Lindsay Ellis, with the help of the ship's doctors T'Lisa and T'Nella. In the Collective, Seven of Eleven assimilated vast quantities of data related to famous fictional characters. She now works in the Exit-Strategy's Canonmetrics Bay, where she monitors fluctuations in various canon universes that the ship encounters (such as the Marvel Universe, the realm of Disney Animated Canon, and so on).
- Phelous is still a redshirt, but it's even worse. He is a Trill/Vorta hybrid, who is joined, who also happens to hold the deadly rank of Crewman and sport a red-shirted uniform. As a joined (half)Trill, Phelous has not only experienced many gruesome deaths, but is haunted by the consciousnesses of several past hosts sharing his brain (some of whom are psychotic murderers, others of which are just super obnoxious characters who interrupt his thoughts with things like "Duyeeee!" and "My god!"). Being half Vorta, Phelous has a never-ending supply of clone-bodies, leading to even more immortality. Plus, his eyes are very wide and striking, certainly inherited from his Vorta parent. Being only half-Vorta however, he doesn't worship the Founders; he just heckles them. Add to that the curse of the redshirt, and you have....well, a pretty believable explanation for Phelous in a nutshell.
- Sage is still a Betazoid and ship's counselor. And he's still just as useless in both endeavors.
- Obscurus Lupa is El Aurian (Guinan's species), being the only one able to sense changes onboard that no one else notices. Also, only someone with powerful mental abilities would be able to put up with all the horrible movies she's reviewed, and a nut like Phelous. When Seven of Eleven criticizes Lupa's "slutty" red hair, the latter chooses to cover it with an even more attention-grabbing alien hat (a-la Guinan).
- MarzGurl is Andorian. Why? Because even when everyone's an alien, MarzGurl still has to stand out as a tad more "alien." As a human she stands out with cool hair; in space, she can stand out with cool hair, cool skin, and cool antennae. Plus, Andorians have a militaristic side, which fits with her persona in all the movies (especially "Kickassia"). MarzGurl is Chief of Security.
- The Cinema Snob is a Romulan posing as a Vulcan. Like most of his species, the Snob secretly loves violence and has a healthy sexual appetite, but must conceal it under his logical, snobbish, pompous Vulcan mask. He reaches points of Becoming the Mask, and like a real Vulcan, sometimes comes close to losing his sanity.
- Benzaie is a human, and the token "foreign" character (from the perspective of the American audience "Star Trek" is aimed at). He constantly points out that the French "invented" this or that, and his accent is now a tad exaggerated.But he also loves to remind everyone that at least he doesn't have a British accent.He even goes on a French vision quest to ask for guidance from his ancestors, Napoleon, Joan of Arc, and Andre the Giant.
- Luke is a human and (identifying-at-the-time-as-a) boy genius, hence why she hangs out with who she thinks is a Vulcan. Shut up, Luke!
- Todd is a Breen—you know, the species that never removes their helmets, and no one has ever seen what one looks like.
- Spoony is a joined Trill, whose most recent previous host was a mad scientist. Like any proper Trill, Spoony has an ample amount of past-host-related-angst to fuel compelling story arcs.
- Film Brain is a Fernegi. Look at how he acts in the movies. He's a Ferengi. He even has the psycho eyes and grin. His ears don't look too Ferengi normally, but huge Ferengi ears would be fitting for the character who eavesdropped on the mutiny in "Kickassia" and rushed to tattle on everyone.
- JesuOtaku is Ocampan. Small and meek in appearance, untold powers ready to emerge if only triggered (in this case, with electrocution)? Sounds Ocampan to this troper. J.O.'s transformation into Ed from "Cowboy Bebop" made him into a higher entity, in a sense, at least in terms of scientific intelligence. On a more serious note, one could arguably compare a person coming out as transgendered to Kes's choice to allow her powers to emerge rather than continuing to attempt fitting in with the Humanoids.
- Angry Joe is a Klingon. Because...duh.
- 8-Bit Mickey is a Human/Klingon hybrid. He attempts to control the raging Klingon within him, and keep to his technical human engineer side, but isn't always successful. Don't call him short.
- Paw is a Vulcan. He wanted to be one anyway, if his Vulcan-eared headphones are any indication.
- Elisa is now T'Lisa, and Paw's mate. She is also one of the ship's doctors.
- T'Nella is another doctor, and Vulcan. She finds both T'Lisa and Seven highly illogical, but is herself prone to breaking with her sanity and turning evil (a common Vulcan trait).
- Malcolm and Tamara are both Founders (Changelings). They take so many different forms its ridiculous! Malcom is a very important Founder, his fondest form being his black-and-red suit and Santan-like demeanor. Tamara meanwhile likes to use her shape-shifting powers to disguise and spy on people, and then report on all the weird sights she's just seen for the first time.
- Handsome Tom is the same as before, but with a Commander Riker-esque beard.
- The Rap Critic is a hologram, and as such, is able to quickly analyze the lyrics of any rap number within seconds, and rip it to shreds.
- Sad Panda is from a race of highly intelligent pandas, and is one of the only non-humanoids aboard. Hence why he's sad.
- That Scifi Guy is a joined Trill/Vulcan hybrid and former Borg drone. Because he can.
- That Chick With The Goggles is now a female Geordi La Forge, and the Chief Engineer.
- Little Miss Gamer is another hologram, of the sort who can't leave the holodeck. She is in charge of making sure the holodecks run smoothly. Not surprisingly, she spends most of her time tirelessly battling rogue holograms, photonic aliens, and all other manner of holodeck malfunctions that crop up.
- The Nostalgia Christian is now the Nostalgia Bajoran. Holding the Sacred Orbs to the same standards as all other space anomalies.
- Ma-Ti posed as a human, but was a Q all along. How else would he be able to randomly appear out of thin air, as he literally does in "Kickassia," and seems to the rest of the time?