Wham Episodes in The Nostalgia Critic.
- More personal than most but the ending of My Pet Monster has his low self-esteem and job insecurity (which have been building up from at least the review of Full House) hit him right in the face. The depression carries on to the next episode.
- Review of Scooby-Doo. Critic reviewing the movie with his younger and older self, all three dying to save the world (Critic gets better though), returning characters coming back (most notably Roger as the angel from "You're A Dirty Rotten Bastard"), is a prequel for To Boldly Flee, and his self-hate running deeper than anyone realized.
- "The Review Must Go On" starts off as a Demo Reel episode with Donnie, Tacoma and Rebecca happy with life, but then switches to Critic pushing Doug into killing that show off and bringing him back into existence.
- Son of the Mask introduces a hell right under Critic's home with the devil and Evilina as recurring characters, Santa Christ comes back a lot nastier, and Critic really regrets coming down from the Plot Hole.
- The Last Airbender. Not just that it's a big movie with big demand and build-up, but Doug's vlogs get welded into Critic canon, Doug himself becomes another life, Shyam-Amon becomes the first reboot Big Bad who talent-bends Critic, Critic and Doug (as a platypus bunny) meet up again, and there's more meta and Lampshade Hanging than we care to name.
- The Wicker Man (2006) introduces Tamara, has Critic tortured both mentally by her and physically in a Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal by Malcolm, and Karl and Quinn show up to retcon the “The Review Must Go On” retcon.
- Princess Diaries 2. Hyper Fangirl kidnaps Critic to her Big Fancy House that she got from another stalking victim, proves much more desperate and disturbing than even first appeared by trying to manipulate him into loving her. And it almost works, but he gets back to himself, tells her that he will never give her what she wants, but she has a breakdown because of this and vanishes.
- Matrix Month as a whole. Tamara and Malcolm are Brainwashed and Crazy, it's only the 'month' with a Story Arc both in itself and continuing the overall plot, Critic's meta powers are explained with Self-Deprecation, To Boldly Flee homages are common, and he reality warps to get things back to normal World Gone Mad.
- Mad Max: Fury Road is done with entirely built sets and green screen, Devil Boner gets Character Development, Hyper Fangirl gets over Critic (though nobody thinks it will stick) which he is more than fine with, and meninists are sent by Obama to fight in women's place as Laser-Guided Karma.
- The Phantom of the Opera (2004). A clipless musical with a large cast, Chester gets killed (although Beth confirmed he's okay
), Beth is kidnapped by the Fandumb Of The Opera in a parallel to Hyper>Critic, and speaking of Hyper, she's still chasing Critic but she gets more insight into her fucked up brain. - "I'll Be Home For Christmas". Satan has a nephew, Chester has a girlfriend and not subtly in light of 2016 politics, Critic gets To Boldly Flee feelings back and wants desperately to be good.
- Green Lantern (2011) is mostly a light comedic episode until the last five minutes, where Devil Boner swoops in to punish a Deadpool cosplayer for trying to touch Hyper, and then proposes marriage to Hyper, which she eagerly accepts.
- The Chipwrecked review is the Wedding Episode between Hyper Fangirl and Devil Boner, effectively wrapping up the Hyper Fangirl arc, featuring cameos from several other sketch characters.
- The Most HATED Nutcracker Movie Ever Made has Critic and company move studios (motivation later trying to run from Aunt Despair and Uncle Lies), Rachel comes back very… Donnie-like, trying to remake Home Alone and Critic essentially apologizes, saying they were a good person even if making something shitty, Critic himself reveals he hadn’t said the F word all year, and the review ends with all of them watching the late Mrs Walker talk from “The Christmas Tree”.
