The Shadows of the Past is an online Video Review Show hosted by a guy called The Shady Reviewer. Inspired by other reviewers like Il Neige, The Unusual Suspect, and Film Brain, Shades (as he like to be called) reviews mostly mediocre movies. With his more positive outlook on movies and his sarcastic tone, Shades takes a look at the best (mostly) of what the last 20 years have to offer. So long as it fits into his schedule. You can find his videos on YouTube here.
Relevant tropes:
- Accentuate the Negative: Suprisingly averted. He tends to stay more positive with his reviews so far.
- Ascended Fanboy: He is a part of the Those Dudes With A Hat team, The Review Reviewer's team.
- The Cameo:
- He makes a cameo in Some Jerk With a Camera's Back to the Future: The Ride review as Doc Brown.
- He also makes a cameo in The Review Reviewer's review of Nostalgia Critic's Let's Play of Bart's Nightmare.
- Cool Mask: It's just a simple black covering over his mouth that can be bought at any local Lowes.
- Cool Shades: Well, he is The Shady Reviewer.
- Fan Boy:
- Of pretty much every other internet reviewer out there. Especially Il Neige and Some Jerk with a Camera.
- At the end of his Phantom Menace review, he begs Disney to let Star Wars be in Kingdom Hearts 3.
- Motif: Shadows seems to be his main theme.
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Schedule Slip: His videos are uploaded almost, if not more sporadically than The Unusual Suspect's. - Shared Universe: His other cameos made him part of the Reviewaverse.
- The Team Wannabe: He has a expressed burning a desire to be on Website/Geekvision. Shockingly more so than Channel Awesome.
