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* SuperOCD: Doug apparently inherited it from him, as he says in a panel that he likes the way comic panels are set up because it soothes his OCD.

* DepravedHomosexual: ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' commentary had Doug deciding he was gay, and he's regularly a shitty human, but he's awful because he's a corrupt ControlFreak, not because of any sexuality.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: According to Doug in ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' commentary, he and Analyst 2/Black Willy Wonka are HappilyMarried.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He and Analyst 2 went from pathetic {{straw character}}s in ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'', to {{gaslighting}} Hyper in ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' and even cowing Critic at the beginning of ''Jem''.

* PoisonousFriend: In ''Film/MammaMia'', Critic's worried about saying what he actually thinks of the audience because he doesn't want to lose them, and it's Rob calling him a pussy and giving him a DopeSlap that makes him do it.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting, InvoluntaryShapeshifting or BalefulPolymorph: Its unclear which, but he's a dinosaur.

* McLeaned: Critic's [[invoked]] “great idea” for her goodbye was to kill her gruesomely. For obvious reasons she doesn't want to come back and reshoot that.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Spends a lot of time staring into space with a vacant-eyed grin while her parents talk about her and while she's had some CruelMercy manipulation moments, doesn't have a whole lot of intelligence in her brain.

* TookALevelInBadass: While still cutesy and AmbiguousDisorder, time away from Daddy (and Critic's abusive babysitting) has got her being able to torture people with MindRape, specifically Joe.

* IHaveTheHighGround: He loves to pose dramatically on rooftops.

* DynamicCharacter: Originally just a one-note joke, the three specials really fleshed him out.

* BadassBeard: Though Rob doesn't seem to think so, as it gets in his mouth and makes him sound like he's coughing up a hairball in the ''Rotten Dirty Bastard'' bloopers.

* TheGoodShepherd: As of the "Rocky and Bullwinkle" review he's started acting like a real priest.

* TheDragon: As [[Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn1984 Malachai, for Isaac]].
* EvilRedhead: As [[Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn1984 Malachai]].

* UnfortunateNames[=/=]NeverHeardThatOneBefore: Yes, she's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0B_5hV2n84 aware]] of her last name being like boobs thank you.

See Characters.TheNostalgiaCriticRobWalkerTheOtherGuy

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!Malcolm Ray's Characters

After ''WebVideo/DemoReel'' ended, Malcolm Ray and Rachel Tietz started to perform in The Nostalgia Critic's skits and storylines, playing different characters.

!! In General

* ActionSurvivor: While he loses, and is a NonActionGuy most of the time, he puts up a much longer fight against Dante Basco than Critic did, and Critic actually seems sincere when he says he assumed that Malcolm could sort it out himself.
* TheAlcoholic:
** In the ''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree'' review, it turns out that when Critic doesn't need him, he drinks from a flask that he tries to hide when Critic bursts in.
** In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPlutoNash'', he keeps a champagne bottle in {{hammerspace}} and gets wasted with Tamara on their days off. When she asks where he gets the booze from, he tells her she doesn't want to know.
* AlterEgoActing: At Connecticon, Malcolm said that aside from the Devil, his favorite 'character' to play is this exaggerated version of himself.
* AmazonChaser: Not to the extremes of Critic, but he prefers to let the more dominant Rachel or Tamara lead the way.
* AngryBlackMan: Occasionally, like in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' where he edgily asks if the confederates were popular in the 80s, and the white guys try to hide evidence that they were. And while it's not angry, Carrot Juice's reason for being so happy in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' is there finally being a main black man in a Tim Burton movie.
* TheAntiNihilist: What's under the StepfordSmiler trait. His pretentious ContemplateOurNavels in Matrix Month is about how life is full of lying to yourself and that the past informs the present, but spinning it in a positive way.
* BadassBoast: After saving him in ''Matrix Reoaded'', he tells Critic to never deny his pretentiousness again, while putting his katana sword back in its sheath. It's cooler than it sounds.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Doug likes putting him in snazzy suits (even saying at a con, quite rightfully, that he fills them out beautifully), see the characters of Satan, Carrot Juice and Black Willy Wonka, all of whom command authority.
* TheBait: Critic uses him as such in “The Best Avatar Episodes”, starting with WeNeedADistraction against Dante Basco, pretending he's going to fight behind him and leaving him to fend for himself. He also gets used by Dante, telling Critic that everything's fine (when it's not) to lure him out.
* BatterUp: His WeaponOfChoice is a baseball bat, and he's given Critic a couple of {{no holds barred beatdown}}s with it.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Talks the most to Hyper because she compliments him and calls him pretty. Note that he still thinks she's slightly scary.
* BeleagueredAssistant: More so than Tamara or Rachel. In “The Best Avatar Episodes”, he has to be the target practice for Dante's firebending, and when Critic is an UngratefulBastard saying “you can't get good help these days”, apologizes for being weak.
* BlackAndNerdy:
** When Critic chases him through the woods because BlackDudeDiesFirst, he tries to counter with movies where the trope isn't true.
** In ''Film/TheSmurfs'', Andre The Black Nerd shows up, and Malcolm thinks Tamara's talking to him when she calls the former “black nerd”.
* ButtMonkey: In the original ''Film/FaceOff'' video, Rachel and Tamara's fighting ended up giving him bruises. This is generally par for the course for his characters as he often plays the StraightMan.
* BoomerangBigot: His TMZ character is a black man who wants to wipe out the Chinese.
* BreakTheCutie: In the same vein as Rachel and Tamara, Critic has made him more fucked up and desperate for boss's affection, and he went from only helping Critic out because it might lose him his job otherwise (''Shining'') to dealing with Dante's fire-bending alone because Critic was a coward (''Best Avatar Episodes'').
* CaptiveDate: Somewhat platonic, somewhat not, as Critic kidnapped him for the job and Malcolm isn't allowed to leave Chicago, but [[StockholmSyndrome fancies Critic]].
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Wearing the Sokka costume in “The Best Avatar Episodes” makes him go from an ExtremeDoormat NonActionGuy to willing to fight against someone with fireball powers. And when Critic abandons him, while he's really afraid and of course loses, he still holds out for a while.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: In ''Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer'', he's the one in charge of keeping Critic under control, in the abusive but well-meaning use of the trope. This comes back in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'', when he keeps trying to push a broken Critic to suicide, but in better ways that won't leave gore everywhere.
* ConflictingLoyalties: He's in love with the Critic and wants to help him out (usually this ends up in getting used), but also wants him to suffer. So essentially he's a typical person with a Critic crush.
* ContemplateOurNavels: When he's [[spoiler: brainwashed]] in Matrix Month, he relishes every opportunity to have a rambling speech.
* ControlFreak: In Hyper's fourth vlog, he wants to be able to read minds and control matter. It gets darker when he talks about evolving and breaking down the matter while you're controlling it.
* TheCorruptible: Because he's an ExtremeDoormat who needs affection, he can switch from following Tamara and punishing Critic for being awful, enabling Hyper Fangirl when she wants to force Critic to love her (because she's been nice to him), or being on Critic's side and acting just as sexist to Tamara as he is.
* CowardlyLion: He might be WeakWilled, but he fends off against Dante Basco's firebending for a decent amount of time because Critic asked him to help but proved how cowardly ''he'' was by leaving him to it.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: [[WholesomeCrossdresser When playing]] the Eartha Kitt Catwoman.
* CrazyPrepared: He hid a whiteface costume in the woods just in case a “crazy white person” tried to kill him. And because both Critic and Rachel are racist white people, they don't recognize him.
* CreepyGood: Carrot Juice freaks out Critic with a dead-eyed smile and popping right up in his personal space, but tells him not to be upset and that it's “the greatest day ever”, shows everyone Critic's home movies (not in a malicious way) and was just happy to have representation.
* CutenessProximity: He goes all gooey with Tamara over the young Attorney General of Crimea, wanting to eat her up.
* ADarkerMe: With Critic lampshading YouLookFamiliar, there's a strong implication that Malcolm and Carrot Juice are the same person, or at least the latter is Critic's version of the former.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection:
** He doesn't particularly like the Hyper Fangirl (for obvious reasons), but her complimenting his clothes and camera gets him acting a lot nicer to her.
** 2007-Critic uses this to his advantage, preying on his and Tamara's need to be included by promising them he'll use them more than present-Critic. [[spoiler: He uses Malcolm as a table.]]
* DidNotGetTheGirl: Comes off as the case when he's friends with Rachel up until hitting on her and getting blocked by Critic, but then just not caring when she leaves.
* DisguisedInDrag: Malcolm had to play Eartha Kitt for the Catwoman review.
* DistressedDude: In ''Film/BridgeToTerabithia'', he plays a poor crying random who is tied to a chair by Rachel!Leslie and is starved and tortured with scrotum waxings.
** Critic chases him through the words, trying to kill him because he's black, and he dresses up in whiteface to escape it.
** Apparently Critic kidnapped him for this gig, as in ''Film/TheSmurfs'', Black Nerd makes to call the police saying “Critic kidnapped another black guy again”, and Malcolm looks alarmed, say it's true, and gets punched by Critic to make him shut up.
* EthnicScrappy: [[invoked]] Plays parodies of this. Although as Malcolm IRL has noted, the parodies can sometimes end up redundant and therefore just as racist.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim:
** Judging by the “Awesome Comics” promo, he seems to fancy Shaun Mendez, wanting a pervy magazine with him in it and calling him the “future of America”.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** When Hyper asks him at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uftck3AuXYI Midwest Media Expo]] to give her Critic's hotel room number, he thinks that's going too far and outright runs off when she's still oblivious. He also backs off very quickly (helped on by Rob urging him to run) when Hyper tells him she likes him more than she does Tamara.
** He might like Critic taking him out for dates to assuage his WhiteGuilt, but during ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'', he moves in and gives him a DeathGlare when he has no idea what he's talking about regarding slavery, and punches him when he gets a patronizing “boop” on the nose.
** There's a running joke that he has some weird fetishes, but even he's disgusted at the prospect of shipping a sister and brother.
** He has creepy issues with kids, but has concern for the “boring protag kids” Critic is torturing in Percy Jackson.
* ExtremeDoormat: For the most part he either just takes Critic's shit (with some EveryoneHasStandards) because it's easier that way, or combats with passive-aggressiveness. He's also the one enabling Hyper the most (like telling her they're friends when clearly not meaning it) because he wants affection even though he finds her disturbing, although it's not like she understands when he even tries to stop her doing anything.
* FalseFriend:
** Acts like a NiceGuy to Critic's pain in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', but is really on Tamara's side and is all too happy to torture him with a bat. Also doubles as KickTheSonOfABitch as Critic had always been abusive and wanted to kill him in ''Film/TheShining'' just because he was black. He deserves some retribution.
** More understandably, while he's nice to Hyper (and tries valiantly to ignore her more disturbing comments), he's not actually her friend. When she asks him to be, his reply is a very halting “...s-sure?”.
** He's turned on Tamara quite a few times as well, mostly because Critic is being mean to her but treating him nicer in comparison.
* {{Fanboy}}: In ''Film/GhostDad'' he turns out to be a big fan of ''Franchise/SamAndMax'', and tells Tamara how to do both voices right. In ''Disney Afternoon'', he also likes ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' and has an Optimus Prime action figure.
* FourthWallObserver: While he's probably the least aware of the fourth wall than other characters, he still recognizes in the “Top 11 Worst Avatar Episodes” that there's two minutes left in the episode and something will go wrong.
* GenreSavvy: In The Shining Mini-Series review, Malcolm was hesitant of returning to Psycho-Critic, [[BlackDudeDiesFirst because he knows what happens in these kind of movies to the black guy]]. Promptly, he only returns with an armor on [[spoiler:and a WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant disguise in store]].
* GoodIsNotSoft: When Jason is wearing a Confederates hat at the end of ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', he very happily waves a gun in his face while also slinging a friendly arm around him. It gets the message across.
* HandsomeLech: At the end of ''Jurassic World'', he joins Critic in leering at Tamara, wanting her to be the Ana in the ''50 Shades'' review, even though she makes it very clear she doesn't want to.
* HiddenDepths: He's reading “Understanding Human Behavior And The Social Environment” at the end of “Disney Afternoon”.
* HoodOrnamentHottie: RareMaleExample PlayedForLaughs, as his clip in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hle2-bGDh10 Moustache music video]] is him working on a car and shaking his ass at the camera.
* HypocriticalHumor: In ''Film/BridgeToTerabithia'' he tells Critic to live his childhood fantasies at some other time, but then does the exact same thing. He's not ''as'' bad as Critic though, because when Critic does it again, he agrees with Rachel that they should try working for ''Website/CollegeHumor'.
* IdenticalStranger: Fans noticing that Malcolm looks like [[Series/{{Psych}} Dule Hill]] was lampshaded in one throwaway line during the TMNT movie crossover.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: He tells Hyper in her fourth vlog that he wants to live in the ''Creator/{{Marvel}}'' universe because that would mean he has powers. Telekinesis to be exact.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: In ''Disney Afternoon'', he praises ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' and tells Critic unknowingly that it “must have had some impact on [his] life”. Critic reacts violently. The same happens when he reminds Critic of the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' theme song.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Not as extreme as Critic, but still there. Like when he's reacting to the obnoxiousness of ''WesternAnimation/SchnookumsAndMeat'', he's clinging to Pinkie Pie's doll like she's a SecurityBlanket.
* InstantExpert: In the TMNT crossover BTS, he's shown to be almost perfect at wielding nun-chucks. Doug on the other hand, sucks at that and deprecates he's better at posing like a cheerleader with them, FootPopping and all.
* ItsAllMyFault: He's the first one to think in ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' that Critic is a FailureHero, but when Rachel admits that he's pathetic, he blames himself.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Issues aside, he has LoveMartyr affection for Critic and tries to take care of him in ways he knows how, is reasonably optimistic about chances for anything, and when he senses Rachel is hurting in ''Film/TheShining'', invites her out for pumpkin stuff.
* JokeCharacter: Subverted in the ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' review, he gets the power to turn objects into video game characters. It's a joke ability (if based on him being a ControlFreak) and is treated as such even in-universe. That is, until he becomes a LethalJokeCharacter, when he defeats Cthulhu by turning him into a video game character. Effectively making him the strongest member of the team.
* KubrickStare: Mixing with SlasherSmile at the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'', as when Critic learns he has to do ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'', Malcolm grins, cocks his head down and glares evilly at him beneath his eyebrows.
%% * LargeHam
* LoveMartyr: He knows full well how abusive and awful Critic is, but by the Hyper Fangirl's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=286TgavfyfE vlog]], he's realized he also thinks Critic is ''really'' cute.
* MadeOfPlasticine: In comparison to most other TGWTG characters at the very least. While they can take much worse punishment without a scratch, Critic can beat on him and he'll be in bruised/bleeding pain for the rest of the episode.
* ManChild: While he gets annoyed at Critic's mid-life crisis affecting his life negatively, he also wants to stay in his childhood.
* ManipulativeBastard: While he needs a boost from Tamara, he does a good job playing friendly and supportive when Critic is crying from not knowing what meme to use when in reality he just wants to hurt him.
* MartyrWithoutACause: While with much screaming at Critic for being a coward, he still distracts Dante Basco with being target practice for at least five minutes, and even apologizes to Critic's ungratefulness for being “weak”.
* MommasBoy: ''Disney Afternoon'' has him beaten hard enough to get bruises all over his face, but the only thing he gets angry about is Critic using his mom for his HollywoodMidlifeCrisis illusion.
* MoralityPet: While he doesn't make Tamara a nicer person generally, when he cries or gets hurt she's always comforting him or wants to help. Reversed every so often though, like when Critic is vulnerable and she's the one who has to tell him to stop taking advantage.
* NonActionGuy: In contrast to Tamara's NervesOfSteel during ''Disney Afternoon'', he is far more helpless and keeps glancing over to her when Critic is sticking a gun in his face. And while he puts up a good fight against Dante's firebending, he obviously didn't last.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: A lot of the time he plays stupid or harmless to make Critic feel like the boss. At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' he outright tells him that they've been out of the ClosetSublet for a while and just making him think that they hadn't. In Matrix Month, being brainwashed and so clearly knowing something Critic doesn't, allows him to take the lead and show off.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: In ''Blue Brothers 2000”, he comes around to Critic's thinking when Critic shows him that just saying the word “pony” gets them views and cash.
* PerpetualSmiler: Carrot Juice. As grouchy Critic asks, “what's he so happy about anyway”? It's revealed in the end that he's just happy that ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' had a black man in a main role.
* PluckyComicRelief: As Malcolm!Sokka
* PoisonousFriend: Will occasionally enable Critic's need for money and anger at his audience. Notably though, the first time he did this, Critic lampshaded that he'd {{mind rape}}d him and Tamara into being his scientists.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Not as bad as Critic, but he's still willing to be misogynist to curry favor with his boss, reminding Tamara that “girls suck!” after the first time they're terrible to her in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' review.
* PowerFantasy: He shows a little too much joy at the thought of torturing someone (and it couldn't be anyone else than Critic) with telekinesis in Hyper's fourth vlog.
* ProneToTears: He breaks down sobbing on Tamara's shoulder just because Nash told him there's going to be a review of ''Film/{{Highlander}}''.
* ProperlyParanoid: He buried a whiteface kit in the woods just in case the white people he works with went crazy. He was right to do so.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue oni to Critic's (and sometimes Tamara's) red. This even goes for cartoon shows in ''Disney Afternoon'', as Critic likes the energetic timeless cartoons, while Malcolm likes the more suburban laid-back ones like ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'', ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' and unfortunately for him, ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}''.
* TheResenter: The conflict part in his ConflictingLoyalties. Being chased through the woods and nearly dying just because you're a black guy would give anyone resentment issues, even if you're a LoveMartyr.
* SecurityBlanket: While both Jason and Critic borrow it, he spends most of ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', both when he's StepfordSmiler mode and when he's depressed, cuddling the Appa plushie.
* ServileSnarker: But never on his own. If Rachel or Tamara are in a snarky mood, he'll join in. He's too scared of/in love with the Critic otherwise.
* ShamelessSelfPromoter:
** In the fifth vlog, Hyper says she's going to go off and stalk the Critic again and he responds with quick approval (even if he's disturbed by how she even gets into the studio so much) before going back to talk about his voiceover work.
** Played for laughs in the ''Film/EventHorizon'' behind the scenes, as he has one of the site's Critic t-shirts and jokes that he's selling out for the company.
* SharpDressedMan: In the two episodes where Critic changes his and Tamara's personalities because he's just that lazy with his job, he switches out Malcolm's usual casual clothes for suits and Lennon glasses.
* SkewedPriorities: He thinks Pinky And The Brain splitting up is depressing enough to be considered America taking steps back after the plus of legalizing gay marriage.
* SlasherSmile: As much as Critic deserves it, he sure looks pleased at the thought of torturing his boss with a baseball bat.
* SmallNameBigEgo: In the ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' review, he whores himself, Critic and Tamara out to the press, saying they're still amazing even when they've done nothing, and when press calls him out on it, he turns the guy into a video game character.
* SourSupporter: It's clearly not her reasoning, otherwise she wouldn't be so desperate to 'help' Critic, but Rachel only convinces him to go back to their boss by saying they could be out of a job if something bad happens. This is justified, as he's more than aware of racist tropes in scary movies and funnily enough doesn't want to die.
* StepfordSmiler: Check out his blank happy smile even when ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' reveals that “Scary German Guy” is a holocaust survivor, or when they're trying to stop reality from getting to them. And while reality's MindRape makes him stop, ''WesternAnimation/GrandmaGotRunOverByAReindeer'' shows he still has this trait, telling Tamara that Critic's solution for being mentally ill should just be repression.
* StockholmSyndrome: According to ''Film/TheSmurfs'', Critic kidnapped him, and according to the first Hyper vlog, he's also Malcolm's ClosetKey.
* StraightMan: Most of his characters.
* StrawFeminist: In ''Ghostbusters'', he's on the side of Critic is sexist because he maybe didn't like the new movie and not for the actual sexist things he's done.
* SweetOnPollyOliver: When Tamara dresses up like a cowboy in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' to get into Critic's boy club, it fools everyone and has Malcolm thinking “he's” hot. Rare example where the male character is (in-universe) bi already.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Befitting his role as NonActionGuy and StepfordSmiler, he saves Critic from Schmucker by blowing up the latter's henchmen with babbling about nihilism.
* TokenBlackFriend: For a loose definition of “friend”. He's one of the only people that Critic even talks to, and the fact that he's treated as a TokenMinority is lampshaded pretty often. Given ''Film/TheSmurfs'', he might have been kidnapped just for this purpose.
* TokenMinority: He's the Black Kid in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' review, and shows in the opening to ''Film/JupiterAscending'' that he's irritated with people treating him like he has to represent all black people.
* ThrowTheDogABone:
** In ''Care Bears Nutcracker'', he gleefully tells Tamara that he likes the WhiteGuilt films because Critic will be nice to him for a while and take him out for dinner after. She congratulates him on this plan. The end of ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'' is something similar, as after reassuring Critic that it won't be anything heavy, he and Tamara get their abusive boss to agree to have coffee with them and talk like equals for once.
** In ''Film/DemolitionMan'', his seashell idea makes Critic want to marry him and he's celebrated at a con. [[note]]Although according to Rob, filming that got Malcolm his first ass-grab, which he's slightly terrified about.[[/note]]
** In ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'', when Critic makes racist comments and condescendingly boops him on the nose, he gets to punch Critic in the face with no repucussions.
** According to twitter, Critic, in-universe Malcolm and in-universe Tamara are in a relationship, so he got the "bromance" and more with Critic that he'd wanted.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Althought is played as an episode joke, Malcolm wants to find all the pumpkin goodies he can find during The Shining Mini-Series review. Subverted in ''Film/TheHappening'', as he's suddenly obsessed with oranges but that's just because he's [[ItMakesSenseInContext being controlled by them]].
* UngratefulBastard: While he latches onto Tamara like a ReplacementGoldfish, he was friendly with Rachel yet happily tells Critic in ''Film/FaceOff'' after her video that he's more interested in Cage month than missing her at all.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: While he's unsettled by it, he makes Hyper think that her wish to MindRape Critic into loving her is totally okay, which is most likely the final push she needed to kidnap Critic at the end of ''Film/SmallSoldiers''.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: In ''Fantastic Four'', along with Tamara and Critic, as he whores them out to the press and turns anyone who criticizes them into a video game character.
* WaistcoatOfStyle: In ''Jurassic World'', he looks very handsome in a brown waistcoat.
* WeaponOfChoice: [[WebVideo/DemoReel Rebecca]]'s baseball bat, fittingly enough. He's hit Critic in the face (and the groin) with it at least twice.
* WholesomeCrossdresser:
** In the ''Film/{{Pixels}}'' behind the scenes, he says he's lost count of how many times he's been in drag.
** In ''Jem'', he happily takes Critic's and Tamara's place in drag and a wig for the executives to make a crappy 80s movie at the end.
* YankTheDogsChain: In ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'', Critic says you can click away from the review, and it cuts to Malcolm getting with Rachel. Critic, being a dick, separates the two and doesn't even let Malcolm get any booty from him either.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: In the ''Garfield'' behind the scenes where he's getting wrinkle make-up, he jokes about looking aged is a side-effect of working in CA.
* YouKnowImBlackRight: The thought is clearly on his face when he sees Fat Grandma for the first time.

[[folder:Satan]]
!!Satan
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Made his debut in the Critic's review of ''Film/SonOfTheMask'', where he tried to raise his daughter Evilina into a real spawn from Evil.

* AffablyEvil: He is both pleasant and cheerful when he runs into Santa Christ, giving the impression that he'd be someone you wouldn't mind meeting while he's not there to collect your soul.
* AntiHero: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyae98GFVOs&feature=youtu.be&a How Malcom sees him at least]], [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil keeping the balance between Hell and everything else]].
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: In every appearance.
** Satan arrived in time before the ''Son of The Mask'' DVD could destroy Santa Christ and the Critic.
** Arrived in time before Peter the Producer could show Critic and Evilina all the Creator/DrSeuss movies [[spoiler:and [[DraggedOffToHell collects his soul]] as payment for his DealWithTheDevil]].
** Was [[spoiler:pursuing Shyamalan who escaped from Hell]] in the Devil review and [[spoiler: [[DraggedOffToHell apprehended him]] once he revealed himself before he could talentbend Critic]].
* BadassBaritone[=/=]EvilSoundsDeep: Played straight for the most part, except when he says "what" in a normal tone.
* BreakoutCharacter: Alongside Santa Christ and Rick, Satan appears as a character in ''Film/JesusBro''.
* ChickMagnet: Surprise, the HotAsHell devil in a nice suit [[https://twitter.com/MalcolmtheRay/status/680969482894876672 gets a lot of ladies]].
* DealWithTheDevil: Pretty obvious, though in this case he was responsible for Critic's great [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Zod]] impression and Souless' success with bad Creator/DrSeuss movies. He also gave Aunt Despair demonic powers and would be more than happy to give Hyper Critic if she sold her soul over.
* TheDevilIsALoser: People started to see him this way after the [[Creator/MNightShyamalan Shyamalan]] movie so he responded by acting like the devil from ComicBook/{{Spawn}} unfortunately he took inspiration from the [[Film/{{Spawn}} movie]] instead of the [[ComicBook/{{Spawn}} comic]]
* DomesticAbuser: The emotional kind. As stupid as Kim is made out to be, she still doesn't deserve to be called a whore for wanting her daughter to be good, and he and Santa Christ laugh about how he's never kind to her.
* EldritchAbomination: His [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit the Frog]] form from the "Spawn" review.
* EndearinglyDorky: Shows his softer side every now and then, with RealMenWearPink thrown in there too. For example, the ''Spawn'' ending has him dancing with an army of Kermits and even Critic thinks it's endearing.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. Since he's trying to convert his daughter into Pure Evil, he's disgusted by cute shows like ''My Little Pony'', ''The Care Bears'' and ''Dora the Explorer'', while ''Bratz'' is not that bad for the purpose.
** Played straight when he's shocked to learn that the Critic doesn't think Mike Myers was as funny as people tend to remember. Moreover, he's not exactly fond of the Dr. Seuss movies either, and seemed actively disgusted by Soulless.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: According to a panel at Midwest Media Expo, Doug apparently fangasmed over how cool Malcolm looked as the devil when he first saw him.
* FairWeatherFriend: He and Critic might have a villainous friendship, but Malcolm says that he'd still hand Critic over like a toy to Hyper if she were to sell her soul.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He tends to make appearances when the villains who make [[DealWithTheDevil deals with him]] get out of hell or when their time is up. And with Malcolm headcanoning that he keeps the balance between hell and everything else, he comes off a lot more heroic than Critic ''or'' Reboot!Santa Christ.
* HotAsHell: It's lampshaded that he's sexy, and Doug had EvenTheGuysWantHim feelings when seeing Malcolm in the suit for the first time.
* {{Hunk}}: While it's really [[spoiler:Shyamalan]] talking, ''Devil'' lampshades his attractiveness by having him be proud of his “pretty profile”.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Doug's CreatorThumbprint so even a devil has this trait. In ''Spawn'', he feared he wasn't as popular as he used to be, so took notes from the movie even though it's awful.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Like Sage [[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/nostalgia-critic-star-chaser-6093534 before him]], is delighted by Critic's pain.
-->'''Satan:''' (hears Critic scream in fear from fanged baby in ''Film/SonOfTheMask'') That's my music!!!
* ManipulativeBastard: At Midwest Media Expo, Malcolm-as-Satan says he would know exactly how to make Hyper make a DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: give her Critic's soul and let her play with him]].
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He dresses in a very sharp and stylish suit.
* MisterSeahorse: In the shocking twist at the end of the fourth Nostalgic Commercials video, he reveals that [[spoiler: he's pregnant!]]
%%* NiceHat
* OnlySaneMan: In reboot's DysfunctionJunction, he stands out at being good at his job, is happily evil yet a cool and collected ManipulativeBastard, and the only time he displayed issues was when he was NotHimself.
* PapaWolf: He's very involved with his daughter's upbringing as the Spawn of The Devil.
* RealMenWearPink: When he casually sets his hell up in Critic's ass, he spends most of his time putting in nice plants. He also has a girly notepad in ''Spawn'', and when Critic side-eyes, fiercely says to not judge him. He also has an adorable pink tentacle pen.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Thanks to his [[SharpDressedMan Nice Suit and red dress shirt]].
* {{Satan}}: Just not the horned devil kind.
* SlasherSmile: In ''Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance'', when he's proud of Evilina growing up so fast, i.e making Joe's life a misery (and mutilating him somehow) with her mind.
* SharpDressedMan: Satan Is Stylish. At Connecticon 2016 Doug said that it's actually Malcolm's own suit, and "it wears him beautifully".
* SoProudOfYou:
** He likes the way Critic's sadistic mind works. Critic hearing this and fluttering happily tells you all you need to know about where his brain is at.
** He also tells Evilina this in ''Ghost Rider II'', when she's learned to do horrible things to Joe with her mind.
** At Midwest Media Expo, after Tamara says that Hyper would get Critic if she sold her soul, Malcolm-as-Devil tells her he likes the way she thinks.
* SurprisePregnancy: At the end of ''Dawn Of The Commercials''.
* ToughLove: He sent Evilina on a trip to Texas to help her grow up and hone her skills better, while still keeping contact and telling her how proud he is.
* VillainDecay:
** [[spoiler: Subverted]] in the review of ''Film/{{Devil}}''-it seems like he's lot more silly and stupid than normal... [[spoiler: except the one who acts stupid is actually ''Shyamalan'', while the real one is quickly shown to still be a MagnificentBastard]].
** Played straight in the ''Film/{{Spawn}}'' review, though, where his idea of taking over the world is getting multiple Kermit the Frogs to sing and he needs to be reminded how to be a devil just because a bad movie stopped making people take him seriously.
* YourSoulIsMine: Critic sold his soul to him in ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' review, and Malcolm thinks that his character has power to give said soul away to, for example, Hyper if she wanted to DealWithTheDevil.

[[folder:Dog Johnson]]
!!Dog Johnson
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Creator/MichaelBay's ghetto roomate.
* BlaxploitationParody: In particular, he is a parody of Bay's rather questionable and insensitive approach to non-white characters.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: While Bay is a recurring villain, neither him or Tina A appeared again, mostly because even Rachel thought it was a RedundantParody.
* OnlySaneMan: After Creator/MichaelBay rises, he and Tina A. question his direction choices (too much slow motion and explosions) for being ''too much''.
* StraightMan: Aside from his stereotypes, he's the one who talks Bay into his senses to cheer him up.

[[folder:The Breaking of the Wind]]
!!The Breaking of the Wind
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The mystical, living personification of the Fart Joke.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: He's a humanized representation of [[ToiletHumour fart jokes]].
* DisneyDeath: Film/TheMasterOfDisguise ruins the Fart Joke, [[spoiler:temporarily]] erasing The Breaking of the Wind from existence.
* MagicalNegro: At least, the Critic seems to think he's one, at any rate.
* OnlyFriend: Because he's pushed everyone else away by this point, Critic is practically crying when he begs Fart Joke not to leave him.
* WalkingTheEarth: He goes [[StealthPun wherever the wind blows him.]]

[[folder:Shyamalan]]
!![[Creator/MNightShyamalan Shyamalan]]
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A once-promising film director who now prides himself on plot twists he likes but others find convoluted and lame. He appears wearing a mask and wearing a dark robe.

-->Played by Malcolm, Voiced by Rob.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Compared to the real-life M. Night Shyamalan, this one actively enjoys making awful films and revels in the destruction of the ''Franchise/{{Avatar|The Last Airbender}}'' franchise.
* TheArtifact: He wears an [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Amon]] mask since his first appearance was the Critic's ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' review, but he continues to wear it in later appearances that have nothing to do with ''Avatar''.
* BackFromTheDead: In ''Film/TheHappening'', Critic asks how come Shyamalan keeps coming back after dying at least twice in his reviews.
* BeneathTheMask: Literally at the end of ''Film/LadyInTheWater'', as he takes off his mask when Critic/Tamara/Malcolm indulge him, and is revealed to be genuinely excited about movies (if awful at them).
* BigBad: Of the much anticipated ''The Last Airbender'' review, [[spoiler:and of the ''Devil'' review]].
* BlackCloak: Combines it with MalevolentMaskedMan.
* CardCarryingVillain: He boasts about being able to strip good actors of their talent and openly admits to making bad films on purpose.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Before he actually appears in the ''The Last Airbender'' he appeared to be a Fire Lord Ozai parody, but when he actually showed up became a Amon parody.
* CompositeCharacter: He's based in appearance and methods on ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'''s Amon, wearing a black robe and mask and delivering a video taped threat similar to Amon's addresses to Republic City.
* CreepyMonotone: He never raises his voice above a monotone, just like Amon.
* DeathIsCheap: He reappears in the review of [[spoiler:''After Earth'']], where the Critic [[SelfServingMemory says]] he's already killed Shyamalan twice. Shyamalan proclaims that anything with his name attached to it makes no sense, and to [[SelfDeprecation go to a Linkara video if he expects continuity]].
* DefeatMeansFriendship: After his VillainDecay in ''Film/AfterEarth'', Critic helps him in ''Film/{{Pixels}}'' to “sandlerize” Peter Dinklage instead of “shyamalanize”, and for his part he's thankful.
* DePower: He has mastered the art of "Talentbending". Just like Amon can strip benders of their ElementalPowers, Shyamalan can strip people of their acting ability.
* DevilInDisguise: [[spoiler: Inverted. He was disguised as The Devil in the "Devil" review]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** His reaction to the twist to WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}} was a pained NoJustNoReaction.
** In the ''Film/{{Pixels}}'' review, even ''he'' finds the movie making a bad joke and thinking it's funny awkward.
--->"[[LampshadeHanging Christ, this is to awkward even for me! AND I AM SHYAMALAN!]]"
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Implied at the end of ''Film/TheHappening'', as he sulks that Critic probably hates the movie, and when Critic says he finds it enjoyably bad, he's pleased and says he doesn't have to MindRape anyone else then. Confirmed at the end of ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' where Critic, Malcolm and Tamara give him the attention he wants, and he takes off his mask and talks excitedly about his movies.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: As useless as he's portrayed, he's still the only enemy able to make Critic a literal EmptyShell, and would have done it again in ''Film/{{Devil}}'' if he hadn't been stopped.
* PastVictimShowcase: He shows Critic a talentbended Wahlberg in an attempt to get him to stand down, and shows Critic himself to Malcolm and Rachel before he tries to take their minds away too.
* RedBaron: The "Fuck-Up Lord", as a parody of the Fire Lord from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''.
* TookALevelInJerkass: During the shows original run when he reviewed ''Signs'', the Critic expressed sympathy and pity for Shyamalan, claiming he has genuine talent for writing, acting, ''and'' directing, and made several great films, but was brought down to a joke due to a string of half-baked film ideas that flopped. Since the revival, Shyamalan is actively trying to the destroy the ''Avatar'' franchise, boasts of his ability to strip actors of their talent, and is generally a CardCarryingVillain when it comes to being a horrible filmmaker.
* VillainDecay: Starts off a a genuine threat in his first appearances, but latter grows harmless.
** In the ''The Last Airbender'' and [[spoiler:''Devil'']] reviews, he is depicted as [[TheDreaded terrifying everyone around him]] and require a DeusExMachina to defeat him each time.
** In [[spoiler:''After Earth'']], he just trolls the Critic rather than harming him and exits by doing a Woody Woodpecker-esque laugh and jumping through the ceiling.
** In ''Pixels'' the Critic helps him “Sandlerize” Peter Dinklage, and he is thankful. Once he sees the results of this, even he thinks it is awkward.
** In ''The Happening'' Malcolm, Tamara, and Jim get Shyamalized but Shyamalan is not directly responsible this time, and once the group finds out they are immediately cured. The Critic then admits that he likes ''The Happening'' in a SoBadItsGood way, and Shymalan agrees to not Shyamalize anyone again. [[invoked]]
** In ''Lady in the Water'' he genuinely seems to enthusiastic describing his movie idea to the director's at the poker game, even through they think his ideas are ridiculous. When the Critic summons him, the Critic and group are willing to talk to him about and Shymalan is eager to explain them.

[[folder:Bennie]]
!!Bennie
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The Hitman Hyper-Fangirl hired to keep the Critic a CaptiveDate.
* TheAlcoholic: He agrees with Hyper that it's never too early to start drinking.
* BigDamnHeroes: Subverted in "Old vs New: Evil Dead", when he comes to save a hostage Critic from Hyper Boner, but gets distracted by the movies.
* BigWhat: When both Critic and Hyper-Fangirl are lost for words during a stupid scene, Bennie is the first to voice a confused "What?!"
%%* CoolShades
* DefrostingIceQueen: He starts out just pointing his gun at the Critic completely deadpan. As the review progresses, he joins them with the commentary.
* GutturalGrowler: He's got a very gruff voice. It makes his RealMenWearPink shtick all the funnier.
* HeelFaceTurn: While only a PunchClockVillain in the first place, he goes from indulging Fangirl's obsession by keeping Critic at gunpoint and forcing him to be a CaptiveDate, to blowing the lid on her plan and siding with Critic when he's telling her that what she feels isn't love.
** HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: And he's back to being on her side in ''Christmas Story II'', although this is lampshaded by him asking if she'll ever learn her lesson and her replying no and neither will he for ten grand. He's also friends with Critic in ''Spawn'' [[SomethingWeForgot but leaves him tied up in ''Old vs New: Evil Dead'']].
* HiredGuns: He's literally there to follow Hyper around while she makes Critic do whatever she wants, and to shoot Critic if he doesn't comply. Hyper thinks he blends into the background after a while, Critic doesn't quite agree.
* HitmanWithAHeart: Well, more of a heart than his [[AxCrazy employer]], at any rate.
* HypercompetentSidekick: He's good at his job. Really good. ''Insanely good.''
-->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' (picks up phone) Bennie, I need you!
-->'''Bennie:''' (on the phone) I'm already there.
* IfICantHaveYou: When Hyper replaces him with Devil Boner as her outlet for violence, he tries to assassinate her.
* InLoveWithTheMark: At Midwest Media Expo, Malcolm said he's perfectly willing to play a male StalkerWithACrush to Critic, and thinks Benny would be the one to do it. So it's more like... “thinks the mark is hot but doesn't actually care about him”.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: To a much healthier, balanced extent than Critic. Bennie is RealMenWearPink, while Critic's issues with masculinity could go on for pages.
* LackOfEmpathy: Aside from the PetTheDog moment at the end of ''Princess Diaries 2'', he's OnlyInItForTheMoney and had no qualms about helping Hyper do whatever she wants to Critic for two weeks as long as he was paid.
* LimaSyndrome: Malcolm said at Midwest Media Expo that he'd totally be fine playing a male stalker of Critic, and teases that Benny should be the one to do it.
* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Despite agreeing with Critic that Hyper is wrong, he really does think that the signs of a good relationship are bickering, manipulating, lying and insulting each other. To his credit he's embarrassed by it.
* MomentKiller: For the good, as if he hadn't found the ''Transformers 4'' tape, Critic would have kissed Hyper and completed the falling into StockholmSyndrome.
* NoSocialSkills: More than his employer, but he's far more likely to get what he wants by using his gun than actually even saying anything to the other person (who is usually Critic).
* NotSoAboveItAll: In ''Old vs New Cinderella'', he proves he's not quite so OnlySaneMan, trying to kill Hyper because she doesn't need him anymore, and having a dude-fight with Devil Boner.
* NotSoStoic: Downplayed when he starts quivering at the idea that Hyper doesn't need him anymore, but played straighter when he has a great time talking about ''Evil Dead'' with Hyper Boner and laughs out loud with them.
** He's surprised at how beautiful Hyper looks in her wedding, and looks choked up multiple times during the ceremony.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: When he's irritated at Fangirl for never learning her lesson about not leaving Critic alone, she gives him ten grand and he says he'll be there in ten minutes.
* OnlySaneMan: His calm demeanor is a welcome distraction from Hyper Fangirl being crazy and Critic being a (lampshaded) sexist hypocrite.
* OpportunisticBastard: The moment he sees a knife, he's ready to plunge it into Critic's back. Hyper has to be the one to stop him.
* TheOmniscient: He claims to know where everyone is at a given moment.
* PunchClockVillain: He only takes part on kidnapping the Critic because Hyper Fangirl hired him. Outside of that, he is seen enjoying the testosterone collection with the Critic and even does jobs for in ''Spawn'' and (briefly) "Old Vs New Evil Dead."
* RealMenWearPink:
** He admitted that he was crying like a bitch during Film/RunawayBride. When the review is over, he joins the Critic to watch ''Film/TheExpendables3'' while reading Creator/JaneAusten.
** This evolves into a running gag, as he is seen in the ''Christmas Story II'' review cleaning a gun and reading ''Emma'' lamenting the fact that "''Clueless'' is a fucking ripoff."
** In Hyper's Q & A vlog, she says he lives with her and Devil Boner in their basement, and spends most of his time reading Jane Austen and polishing his guns.
* VillainousFriendship: According to ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' behind the scenes, Devil and him get on decently, and he spends his vacations down there.
** He befriends Devil Boner at the end of "Old Vs New Cinderella" and betrays Critic's request for help to spend time with him and Hyper in "Old Vs New Evil Dead". According to Hyper, he lives with them and all are happy in this arrangement.
* SharpDressedMan: He wears a completely black suit. This might be one of the reasons why Hyper thinks “he blends into the background after a while”. In the episode's commentary, Doug says that Malcolm looking handsome in the suit is why the character got popular in the first place.
* StealthHiBye: So good at stealth that he pulls one of these on Devil Boner while he was looking ''directly'' at him.
* TheStoic: He typically speaks in a tough monotonous voice and keeps his face straight.
* TookALevelInJerkass: He agreed (and bonded) with Critic in the end of ''Princess Diaries II'' that what Hyper was feeling wasn't love, but is back helping her in ''Christmas Story II''. Lampshaded as Hyper says she'll never learn her lesson, and for ten grand neither will he.
* VoiceChangeling: The ''Film/ReadyPlayerOne2018'' review reveals that he can imitate Hyper's voice ''perfectly''. Apparently, "it's not so hard if you practice."
* WildCard: He's on the side of whoever can pay him best.
* WomanScorned: A male example but his reaction to Hyper replacing him with Devil Boner is to try and kill her.

[[folder:Pencilhead the Troperaiser]]
!!Pencilhead the Troperaiser
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A spoof of Pinhead, with pencils instead of pins.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He explains in great detail how great Stephen King's cliches are, and even he's bored by Critic's patentedly sappy speech at the end of the movie.
* HumanoidAbomination
* ShoutOut: He's a parody of Pinhead from ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}''.
* TheSpock: Says “this is fun” in a completely deadpan manner, and obsesses over Stephen King tropes instead of critically enjoying the movie.
* TooKinkyToTorture: He loves Stephen King movies because the tropes bring him pain.

[[folder:Black Willy Wonka]]
!!Black Willy Wonka
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* AffablyEvil: He makes no promises to not destroy anything, and suggests to caramelize Hyper's insides, all with a laidback smile.
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Analyst Two is really Black Willy Wonka. He set out to make the horrible Dr. Seuss movies to make sure people remember the books, and will appreciate how great they really are now that they're contrasted against the adaptations.]] Though given that we later find out he likes to just be a dick for no reason and make up excuses after the fact, this might not be true.
* BookDumb: He's cunning, manipulative and has fourth wall powers, but thinks a passage from ''A Midsummer's Night's Dream” is rap lyrics.
* TheChessmaster: He made the Seuss films purposely terrible and dated, assuming everyone would hate them (despite the review of ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' having the moral be "you can like it if you want to") so they would appreciate the books more.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Killing "the man who had got what he always wanted" and stealing all his belongings implies that the guy he killed was the original Willy Wonka.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: He is initially presented as the mastermind of ''The Matrix'' films at the end of the ''Reloaded'' review, but admits he was just working under orders from someone else.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: According to Doug he's married to Analyst 1 and does actually love him.
* EvilFeelsGood: He created all the bullshit around Ghostbusters because "being a trolling asshole is fun".
* FourthWallObserver: In "Spider-Man: Old vs New", he calls himself a "popular holdover from the last review", and in ''Matrix Reloaded'' he takes the place of Doug as a "creator" Critic talks to. Also in the 2015 DVD, he {{mind rape}}s Critic to get him to do what the audience wants.
* HairTriggerTemper: In the {{tranquil fury}} sense. He'll caramelize anyone who disagrees with his views.
* MagicalNegro: Played with a little because his DissonantSerenity is meant to be creepy, but his whole purpose is to make things go the way Critic wants them to and stroke his ego.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Played for laughs in Critic's review of his home movies, as he quite literally decides he should have MindRape powers.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: They had only just met for five minutes and he ends the ''Lorax'' review giving an uncomfortable Critic a big hug. As he'd also just told him he'd killed a man, this is most likely just to freak him out.
* OnlySaneMan: If only Critic had listened to his initial suggestion of just unfriending Hyper when she's trying to guilt him into being with her. Of course the second suggestion, liquefying her insides, isn't exactly ''sane'', but Critic ends up wanting to do that more than once.
* ScaryBlackMan: In a SoftSpokenSadist "acts like he's on your side but probably isn't" kinda way.
* SoftSpokenSadist: He speaks in a quiet, lilting voice, even as he casually admits to stuff like killing a man and stealing all his possessions and caramelize anyone who disagree with his views.

[[folder:Barack Obama]]
!!UsefulNotes/BarackObama

* TheComicallySerious: Every time he appears, he delivers funny lines in a completely deadpan manner.

[[folder:Cliff]]
!!Cliff

* CreepyChild: Unlike his nicer but traumatized sister(s), he gets excited about animals being hurt and has a concerning fascination with naked Barbies, though this has been downplayed from the ''Film/{{Monkeybone}}'' review onwards.
* KidAnova: In a creepy way, as his 'playing' with a Barbie in ''Conquest Of The Commercials'' doesn't bode well for how he'll treat human girls.
* MommasBoy: In ''Film/LadyInTheWater'', Aunt Despair is wrecked as ever and falls over, but he's still glad it's better than nothing.
* NoNameGiven: Up until ''Hulk'' where it's revealed his name is Cliff.
* SecurityBlanket: When Aunt Despair is pathetically reading him a bedtime story, he clings to a [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Waddles]] plushie.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: His sadism and harassment of the aforementioned Barbie were concerning enough, but assuming he's her only brother, ''Old Vs New Evil Dead'' suggests he once ''buried Hyper alive.''
* UsedToBeASweetKid: It's only when his parents start scaring him more often does he go into enjoying animals being abused and being disturbing with Barbie dolls.

[[folder:Carrotjuice]]
!!Carrotjuice

* CompositeCharacter: He's a mashup of the White Rabbit (Or in this case, Black Rabbit) and Beetlejuice.
* EasterBunny: Is revealed to be this in "Hop".
* NoodleIncident: He got Malice sent to a mental institution, leading her to want to capture him to prove she isn't crazy.
* RascallyRabbit: His debut episode has him steal Critic's old home movies hard drive as his Establishing Character Moment. He also says "Wa-hey!" and zips around.
* SadClown: Is this in "Alice Through the Looking Glass".
* {{Troll}}: Likes to mess with Critic for kicks.

[[folder:D-Bag]]
!!D-Bag
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* TheAntichrist: By the end of the ''Film/IllBeHomeForChristmas'' review, it is revealed that D-Bag was [[spoiler:the Devil's nephew.]]
* HateSink: Deconstructed. He's so easy to hate, and actually ''begs'' people to hate him, but Critic finds it so pointless to hate him because it takes more effort to be kind and find ways to ''relate'' to someone else.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: On the way to the Critic's place, he comes across a little kid who pours his heart out to D-Bag about how he could not go home for the holidays and be with his family. In reaction, D-Bag then burned the boy's house down just 'cause.
** Somewhat deconstructed in that he deliberately wants people to hate him, but the Critic finds that far too easy to do and that his attitude isn't worth it.
* {{Sadist}}: By every meaning of the word.
* StrawmanPolitical: Subverted in that he says nothing political while being evil, but from the way Critic treats him it's clear he's meant to be to a Trump supporter stand-in.

[[folder:Bill]]
!!Bill
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* {{Asexuality}}: Doug and Rob joke on the [=ReLife=] Project livestream that Bill is asexual.
* NiceGuy: Every character he interacts with loves him and praises how nice he is. In "Flinstones: Viva Rock Vegas'', Critic says he's the only Bill he knows who isn't a cheater or a rapist.
* ParodySue: Let's see: He gets introduced without us knowing who he is, gets along with everyone due to him being a super nice person, can solve Hyper's and Devil Boner's relationship issues via convenient cuople therapy skills, [[NoodleIncident was briefly the king of Iceland,]] and dresses in an over the top colorful fashion, similar how most [[MarySue Mary Sues]] are designed. He fits the [[{{Pun}} bill.]]
* RememberTheNewGuy: He's created to mock this trope, appearing for the first time as the Critic asks him why movies don't introduce new characters and just assume viewers know them, though Critic insists he's always been there. He also turns out to be Benny's brother.
* RummageSaleReject: His costume is best described as throwing whichever props were available on Malcolm and see which one sticks.
* TheShrink: He works in therapy and is the only one who can handle Hyper Boner's crazy.
* TalkingWithSigns: He does this at one point to give away subject of the next review.
* TeamDad: He helps Hyper Boner's relationship, is the daddy in Harley's Daddy Little Monster shirt, and Critic freaks out because without Bill nobody will look after him.
* TheVoiceless: He communicates entirely in hums of varying pitch and tone.

!Rachel Tietz’s Characters
After ''WebVideo/DemoReel'' ended, Malcolm Ray and Rachel Tietz started to perform in The Nostalgia Critic's skits and storylines, playing different characters.

[[folder:In General]]
!!In General
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[[caption-width-right:350:Rachel as herself.]]

* TheAlcoholic: According to ''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree'' review, she drinks right from the bottle in her spare time.
* AllWomenAreLustful: In ''Dawn of the Commercials'', Rachel's Wicked Witch of the West is trying to seduce a henchman, the Critic and [[spoiler: Mark[[note]]played by his actual actor Greg Sestero[[/note]] from Film/TheRoom]] and none of them catch on.
* AttentionWhore: When it comes to singing at least. During her and Malcolm's song in the ''Film/LesMiserables'' review, she keeps trying to hide him from Critic's view with her fan.
* BerserkButton: She'll put up with almost anything, but don't condescend to her. During ''Film/TheShining'' review phone call, when Critic is being disgusting, she goes from guilt over 'abandoning' him to meta-ing that he's a horrible person. Of course she goes right back to “it's not his fault!” after he hangs up on her.
* BrainlessBeauty:
** Creator/KimKardashian, who attempts to cut an apple with a pizza slicer.
** Also Tina A. from the Pearl Harbor review, the one flipping her hair in Dog's face all the time.
** Because Doug admitted PutOnABusToHell, Rachel herself in the original ''Film/FaceOff'' review.
-->'''Rachel''': I don't think this is what I signed up for. I mean, you have to act, remember lines, and create new characters every week.
-->'''Tamara''': That is what you signed up for. That is acting.
* BreakTheCutie: There was a trend to have her or her characters abused until tears or humiliated in some way, and the original ''Film/FaceOff'' review had her tell Tamara this isn't what she signed up for.
* BrokenBird: Working with Critic gave her some issues, as shown by her willingness to kill him in ''Master Of Disguise'' and how quickly she becomes a real HystericalWoman in ''Film/TheShining''. Thankfully she gets better once she's free of him, and is more relaxed when it's just her and Malcolm.
* TheBusCameBack: Aside from cameos as Evilina in the ''Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance '' and ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' reviews, she would make appearances in the ''Nutcracker 3D'' and ''Con Air'' reviews
* {{Catchphrase}}: [[{{Pun}} Tietz out]].
* TheChewToy: Critic liked to dominate and toy with her the most while she was around, and when she left, moved onto Malcolm. (He fucks with Tamara too, but that's more of a CombatSadomasochist thing.)
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: She went from a BrokenBird to a lot more... Donnie Dupre-ish when she returns in the Nutcracker 3D. She was more herself again in a brief cameo in the ''Film/ConAir'' review.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: As the Michelle Pfeiffer Catwoman for the ''Film/Catwoman2004'' review.
* ConvertedFangirl: In real life, Rachel didn't have much clue of Doug's work before ''WebVideo/DemoReel'', and in a vlog asked for entertaining Critic reviews. ''Signs'' became her favorite.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: Not shown as much as Malcolm (who was only allowed to make it a clear character trait when RL!Malcolm improv'd in the vlogs), but she really wanted a “Happy Birthday” from Critic, and needed his attention in the ''Film/LesMiserables'' review. She didn't get either.
* DistressedDamsel: Given Malcolm is apparently only with Critic because he's been held hostage, it's safe to assume that she was with him for the same reason. Would explain the BreakTheCutie and SanityStrengthening when she got away from him.
* DontYouDarePityMe: When Critic is locked in another room and Malcolm's around, she pretends that she was fine all along. But when Critic is scaring her again and Malcolm's gone, she goes back to a panic fit, and then switches to being in control when Malcolm comes in again.
* DotingParent: Kim Kardashian showed her little girl "age appropriate programming".
* DrunkWithPower: Justified reasons aside, she enjoys the ability to torture Critic with bloodbending way too much.
* DullSurprise: As Tara Reid.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Hyper Fangirl is a FemaleMisogynist who would rather bother all the men than have anything to do with Tamara, but thinks Rachel is beautiful and gets an interview with her.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She ''really'' tries to let Critic prove himself as the hero for the majority of ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', but when his answer to saving the franchise is “do nothing”, she gives up and admits he's useless.
* ForgottenBirthday: Ticks her off during the Master of Disguise review, and she tries to kill Critic several times.
* GagBoobs: Exaggerated with Tina A.
* GirlInABox: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lejPief-1EA&feature=youtu.be original ending]] had Critic sending her off to California in literal shipping.
* GuiltComplex: Even when she gets treated like shit in ''Film/TheShining'', she still calls Critic to make amends, feeling really bad for “abandoning” him.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Her big problem. Even in the Shining review, while she knows at heart that Critic is a horrible person, she keeps having faith in him, even saying it's not his fault after their abusive phone call, and he keeps failing her.
* HystericalWoman: In ''Film/TheShining'' she's terrified to the point of tears and huddles in a corner having a panic attack while he tries to get in. It says something about the episode though that she still manages to be the OnlySaneWoman too.
* InformedFlaw: Doug in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' commentary said he wrote her as very mean and brainless, but for the most part she was sensible and the TokenGoodTeammate, just had to ''play'' bitchy beauties in Critic's sketches.
* IdenticalStranger: In his review of ''WebVideo/TheUncannyValley'', Critic wonders what her character's job is (as it's never mentioned) and assumes she works as a Maggie Gyllenhaal stand-in.
* InnocentBigot: She has no idea what happens to black guys in movies and doesn't much care.
* LargeHam: Given the website is home to both WebVideo/DiamandaHagan and [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Team NChick]], her overacting is in good company.
* LongHairIsFeminine: Was cast as a HystericalWoman or a little girl personality a lot of the time, and usually had GirlishPigtails coding to hammer it in.
* LoveMartyr: To less extent than Malcolm (who also knows at heart that Critic is awful and deserves to suffer) but it's notable how she immediately goes to “something must be hurting Critic” in ''Film/TheShining'' review after he's abusive to her.
* McLeaned: Critic's [[invoked]] “great idea” for her goodbye was to kill her gruesomely. For obvious reasons she doesn't want to come back and reshoot that.
* MoralityPet: For Malcolm. She's nicer and more sensible than he is, so following her lead ends up in him doing the right thing, whereas with Tamara he shows off more a darker, more cynical side.
* MsFanservice: Even the child character (Evilina) is sexualized with her bust accentuated.
** In the Cat in the Hat review commentary, Doug explained that he had a lot of problems finding a dress for Rachel to wear as Evilina, seeing how most women's costumes he could find were of the "slutty [character name]" kind.
** Rachel talked about this in her vlog with Tamara, saying Doug was genuinely upset that they couldn't find any decent clothes for her and always asked if she was okay.
* NerdNanny: She never got to be a {{fangirl}} of anyone or anything (not even RL!Rachel's love of JR Tolkien came through), mostly because she was having a horrible time, but Malcolm and Tamara have a bad time as well and they at least get to fanboy[=/=]fangirl occasionally.
* NeverMyFault: Being the TokenGoodTeammate she doesn't have a lot to feel bad for, but she blames Malcolm and Shyamalan for her torturing Critic with blood-bending, and her trying to kill Critic in ''Master Of Disguise'' on less that he's broken her and more that he just forgot her birthday. Speaking of breaking though, between ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' and ''Film/TheShining'', this trait was eroded and she has a well-trained GuiltComplex instead.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: She wanted to help Critic in ''Film/TheShining'' because she was positive that it wasn't actually his fault that he was acting so awful (even though he's been abusive to her before) and all she gets is abused even more.
* OnlySaneMan: Gets this role in ''The Shining'', insisting that the Critic find something the miniseries did better than the Kubrick movie, as well as [[MetaGuy pointing out that his craziness is satirizing the movie rather than the miniseries]].
* PeoplePuppets: As Katara, she uses bloodbending to make the Critic review ''Film/TheLastAirbender''.
** Her abilities didn't work on Shyamalan, thought. His logic-defy was stronger than her blood-bending.
** Sometimes she made the Critic hit himself just for fun.
* PrimaDonnaDirector: When she returns from California in ''Film/TheNutcrackerIn3D'' review, she's become an egotistical director who convinces the Critic and crew to star in her interpretation of ''Film/HomeAlone'' with famous real-life {{serial killer}}s and doesn't listen to any criticism.
* PutOnABus: As of the [=Face/Off=] review, when Rachel moved back to California.
** PutOnABusToHell: Her original send-off, with Doug saying later that he'd written her as "being very mean and brainless" and is still upset that they had to do something else nicer because he'd deleted it accidentally. Also, the ''Film/GhostDad''-starting credits only have scenes of her being abused and crying, and not even Malcolm mentions her after she's gone.
* SanityHasAdvantages: She's the only one who can see how Jack is far better in the mini-series than the Kubrick film, because she has enough empathy to see the tragic progression of a man who wanted to be good but was doomed to fail.
* SanityStrengthening: She's a lot better away from Critic, as when she's in California resting in the sun, she's able to not bow down to his demands to come back. In a later behind the scenes, Doug admitted to actually being jealous of how healthy and relaxed she looked in that footage.
* ServileSnarker: Occasionally when she's reached the end of her patience with Critic. She mostly does it in ''Film/TheShining'' review, which might tie in with how badly she gets treated later.
* SleepingWithTheBoss: Implied with her and Critic in a not particularly healthy way, as they slip extremely easy into abusive husband/abused wife whenever they're alone together, and she's both relieved and hiding her real pain feelings whenever Malcolm is in the picture.
* TeamMom: Deconstructed. Plays Katara in ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' with a vengeful side, is Malcolm's MoralityPet but is also an InnocentBigot, and doesn't want Critic to hurt himself even when that's not the case and he's just hurting her.
* TerritorialSmurfette: As shown in the ''Film/FaceOff'' recreation, originally she would have tried to sabotage best friend Tamara being in another review because she wanted Critic for herself.
* ThousandYardStare: Every time she tries to kill Critic in ''Master Of Disguise'', until he yells at her and she's just awkward.
* ThrowTheDogABone:
** After suffering a lot of abuse from Critic (''Literature/TheShining'' review in particular) and wanting to leave by ''Film/BridgeToTerabithia'', she gets to escape to California and due to RealitySubtext doesn't give into his demands of coming back and reshooting her sexist farewell.
** Speaking of ''Film/TheShining'', while she has to deal with a lot of shit, she gets to deliver the speech at the end, and she and Malcolm are free from Critic for a while.
* TokenGoodTeammate: She has her own issues and a vengeful side, but compared to Critic's VillainProtagonist, Malcolm being WeakWilled and Tamara's sadism, she's the nicest and most willing to see the good in people.
* UnfortunateNames[=/=]NeverHeardThatOneBefore: Yes, she's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0B_5hV2n84 aware]] of her last name being like boobs thank you.
* ValleyGirl: Voices Kim Kardashian like this.

[[folder:Evilina]]
!!Evilina
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Satan's spawn of Hell. Outside of that, she's like any other little girl who enjoys ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' a little too much.
* AffablyEvil: She is, basically, a happy-go-lucky adorable child. It would probably be easy to get along with her in a conversation if you didn't know she were a spawn of Satan and ignored her creepier comments.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Spends a lot of time staring into space with a vacant-eyed grin while her parents talk about her and while she's had some CruelMercy manipulation moments, doesn't have a whole lot of intelligence in her brain.
* AntiVillain: She's the Devil's daughter who knows how to hurt people, especially when it's CruelMercy, but she also gets lonely, cries when she's hit by the Critic, and isn't immune to just wanting to see women like her in a movie.
* TheBusCameBack: She comes back for one scene during the Ghost Rider 2 review. Apparently, the Devil sent her off to Texas, where she learned to cause suffering to others through her mind. Which she demonstrates by dropping a jet onto [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe.]]
** [[spoiler: She comes back again for the Ghost Busters 2016 review to tell the meninists how much she loved the movie.]]
* TheCameo: [[spoiler: In the review of ''Ghost Rider 2'' she makes a brief appearance to cause Angry Joe some trouble.]]
** [[spoiler: She also Skypes in during the "Film/Ghostbusters2016" review.]]
* CoolCrown: Wears a tiara.
* CreepyChild: Can sound nice and innocent, then say something really disturbing, in the exact same tone as before.
%%* TheCutie
%%* CreepyCute
* CruelMercy: At the end of the ''Film/SonOfTheMask'' review, Critic begs Satan to kill him to end his torment but Evilina refuses because "it's more cruel this way."
* CuteIsEvil: Refuses to kill the Critic, because [[CruelMercy it would be more cruel to leave him to live with the memories]]. Her other justification, of course, is that [[LampshadeHanging he died before and some didn't like it.]]
* DaddysGirl
* DaddysLittleVillain
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She's as shocked and repulsed by ''The Cat in The Hat'' movie as the Critic. She calls the Cat what happens when [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Pepé Le Pew]] makes whoopee with [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Ronald McDonald]].
** Her jaw drops when Critic states he didn't find Mike Myers as funny as he's remembered.
* FluffyFashionFeathers: Wears a [[PinkMeansFeminine pink feather boa]].
* FourthWallObserver: Her reason for leaving Critic alive is knowing that Doug wanted to get rid of him in the nicest way possible but was forced to bring him back, so now he has to stay miserable and breathing.
%%* GenkiGirl
* GuestStarPartyMember: For the ''The Cat in the Hat'' review.
* HasTwoDaddies: While Critic is abusive, included at a distance and Doug called Evilina's acceptance of him at the end of ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' more StockholmSyndrome than anything else, he's still more active in her life than Kim is, who even Santa Christ mocks.
* HatesBeingAlone: While she takes pleasure in telling Critic that her dad will kill him if he finds out he left her alone, she mostly just wants him back because she's lonely without ''some'' company.
* HumanoidAbomination: Being Satan's daughter and all.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Bonds with CR (a [[PeripheryDemographic brony]]) over ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
%%* LaughablyEvil
* {{Leitmotif}}: An OminousMusicBoxTune plays most times she appears.
%%* LittleMissBadass
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: While Critic has enough humanity to feel guilty for them, the analysts having a breakdown and committing suicide is nothing but hilarious to her.
* ManipulativeBitch: In the end she sings the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' knowing the minions would laugh at her and Satan for attempting to scare them. [[spoiler: Then she scared them for real.]]
* MeaningfulName: A girl called 'Evilina' isn't exactly going to grow up a PuritySue.
%%* NightmareFace
* NightmareFetishist: Her response to seeing an evil worse than Hasbro is an excited "ooh!".
* PerpetualSmiler: Aside from when she's with [[BabysitterFromHell Critic]], she always has a happy face and perky voice no matter if she's being creepy or not.
* PrincessPhase: Yes, even the Spawn of Satan can go through this.
* PutOnABus: Possibly averted; apparently Rachel took the costume with her when she moved to California, and in commentaries Doug has mentioned the possibility of her still making appearances.
* TookALevelInBadass: While still cutesy and AmbiguousDisorder, time away from Daddy (and Critic's abusive babysitting) has got her being able to torture people with MindRape, specifically Joe.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Was never all that bright, but at least got to be a MetaGirl ManipulativeBitch at the end of ''Film/SonOfTheMask''. After that her intelligence steadily decreased.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Wears a blue dress.
* VagueAge: Doug has been unclear whether she's meant to be a little girl and Rachel is DawsonCasting it, or she's an actual grown woman who just acts like a young girl. The latter would make the MaleGaze slightly less creepy and would at least explain why she gets abused by others so much. ''Ghostbusters'' confirms she's supposed to be a young child around the same age as the little girls they show in the pictures.
* VillainDecay: She definitely has a lot less agency in ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' than she did in ''Film/SonOfTheMask'', and in [[spoiler:''Devil'', where she started to play with the buttons instead of letting Critic and her dad leave the elevator]].

[[folder:Rita Repulsa]]
!!Rita Repulsa
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The ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' villain who seeks to make the world suffer by airing ''Film/TurboAPowerRangersMovie'' over the airwaves. She's played by Rachel, with Doug (badly) dubbing her voice.
* AcceptableTargets: [[invoked]] The entire review is her trying to remind the world how stupid the show was.
* DCupDistress: For a throwaway gag in ''Devil'', she looks insulted when Santa Christ keeps taking pictures of her chest.
* DisposableWoman: DoubleSubverted. She dies first in ''Devil'' and the three men (Santa Christ, Critic and [[spoiler:Shyamalan]]) who have all seen and done horrible things are disgusted by her dead body, but TheStinger has her alive and really [[spoiler:Cthulhu in disguise]].
* FanDisservice: Rachel wearing an outrageously pointed version of Rita's spiral-cone breastplate.
* HongKongDub: Parodied to a ridiculous extent. Doug doesn't even try to match Rachel's lip movements. [[StylisticSuck Which is kinda the point]], since for the original first season Rita was a Japanese actress dubbed in English.
* LargeHam: Just like the original, just exaggerated.
* TheScrappy: In-universe. Zordon tells the Critic that Rita is their most embarrassing and pathetic enemy.

!Tamara Chambers' Characters
After ''Film/FaceOff'', Tamara Chambers replaced Rachel Tietz as the Token Actress of the show. She also appeared as one of the Cat-Women in [[Film/Catwoman2004 said review]].

[[folder:In General]]
!!In General
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[[caption-width-right:350:Tamara as herself.]]

* AesopAmnesia: In ''Film/MammaMia'', she tells Critic to yell at his fans because it'll be cathartic. It goes just as badly as the last time [[WesternAnimation/GrandmaGotRunOverByAReindeer as the last time she told him to]] BeYourself.
* AbusiveParents: Her grandfather never considered her part of the family and she expects Critic (with his own past) to understand and be comforting. Also implied when she has a quietly traumatized reaction like Critic does to the molested kids scene in ''Freddy Got Fingered''.
* AscendedExtra: Initially appeared only once as a one-shot Catwoman character. Starting with ''The Wicker Man'' review, she is taking over Rachel's role.
* AttentionWhore: When they get powers in the ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' review, she pushes Critic out the way because his arm is blocking her from view.
* BastardGirlfriend: Her psychoticness and Critic realizing that views always go up when he's in pain is what makes him request her to come work for his team.
* BeneathTheMask: She is genuinely a NightmareFuelStationAttendant, but the NoSocialSkills MsFanservice [[TheVamp Vamp]] shown in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' is just an act to lure stupid men in and torture them.
%%%* BigBeautifulWoman
* BreakTheHaughty: Critic tries to do this to her to in ''Film/GhostDad'' as punishment for torturing him, but she gets her sadism back when he tells her he wasn't actually dead.
** Crossing over with BreakTheCutie because the episode shows off her HiddenHeartOfGold the best, but ''Disney Afternoon'' has her suffering a lot. Not in a physical way like Malcolm, but she's scared of Critic the moment he mood swings into anger with her, keeps getting her boundaries crossed (making her scream even), is concerned for Malcolm's abuse and gets mocked for 'only' sculpting a pick up truck out of rubber and ice.
** ''Jurassic Park III'' implies that he may have actually succeeded a little bit, as he's always tried to degrade her by treating her like a little girl, and in said review she asks him to check her stomach because she's feeling sick, when she could clearly sort that out herself before.
** In the ''TMNT Christmas Special'', she suffers pretty badly (given that Malcolm's an unavailable zombie), in pain because of the apocalypse that Critic created and used as his footstool when she collapses. To her credit it doesn't take, as she snarks at him even when he's kicking her in the back.
** In ''Film/DemolitionMan'', she's scared of Critic's torture threats and is the one to get PoliceBrutality at the end while Malcolm gets (relatively) positive attention from Critic.
* BrokenSmile: As noted by Doug (who felt bad but not enough to stop), her smile gets more and more forced every time Critic insults her for what she's doing in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006''. When he offers her a job, both her voice and face relax.
* BrutalHonesty: She's both a ManipulativeBitch and far more honest than other stepford and repressed characters. She'll quite happily tell Critic how bitter she is against him and that she wants her revenge, or taunt him about how insane he is when nobody else wants to say anything.
* BullyingADragon: In the beginning at least, as Critic's UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming at the end of ''Film/GhostDad'' initially upsets her, but then she TranquilFury decides to make him wish he were dead.
* ButNowIMustGo: After she got [[spoiler:the Critic to comment on the "Not the Bees!" meme with torture]] she departs the studio to go get others to watch ''The Wicker Man''. Subverted in five minutes when the Critic catches up to her and offers her a job.
* BuxomIsBetter: She gets the most cleavage shown in ''Film/Catwoman2004'' and ergo the most {{gaze}}.
* TheCastShowOff: [[invoked]] As Anne Hathaway!Catwoman, when she started to sing [[Film/LesMiserables about her shattered dreams]].
** Again in the Editorial of "Let It Go."
** She sings a GroinAttack version of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” while beating the shit out of Critic at the end of ''Film/GhostDad''.
** ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' gives her three songs, along with an IncrediblyLongNote at the end of "Hyper Fangirl", and the commentary has Beth and Doug gushing over how amazing her voice is.
* CatharticScream: When they're beating on Critic's character in a ''Rise Of The Commercials'' skit, she screams in his face while he's cowering on the floor.
* CatSmile: She has a very Natalie Dormer-like smirk in instagram pictures.
* CelebCrush:
** When she plays a sketch scientist in the ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' review, she keeps a magazine cover of Creator/IoanGruffudd for “[[ADateWithRosiePalms research]]”.
* CharacterDevelopment: In ''Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer'', she's completely naïve to Critic's Christmas crazy and has no clue how to cope with Malcolm taking advantage. By ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' she does.
* ChurchOfHappyology: Seems to be a member of the "Church of Wasted Lives".
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: By ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'', she's become Critic's carer when he goes whacked out, while Malcolm takes advantage and tries to get him to kill himself.
* CombatPragmatist: To go with Critic's CombatSadomasochist. Even her suggestions in ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' are for Odette “to sneak up behind him and knock the fucker out” or for Rothbart to threaten someone she loves so she'll have to do what he wants.
* ComfortFood: In ''Disney Afternoon'', when Malcolm has been beaten so badly he's unconscious on the couch and she tries to get him to the hospital but Critic stepfords that it's not allowed, she grabs a chocolate bar, obviously stressed.
* ContemplateOurNavels: When she's shyamalanized in ''Film/TheHappening'' she spews a load of it about the ramifications of evil.
* CosplayOtakuGirl: Though not by choice. Critic makes her wear a “sexy Dorothy” costume as both “punishment” and finding it appealing to humiliate her.
* CrazyCatLady: In Hyper's second vlog, she wants to remake ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' into a live-action film because “''serious whisper'' I love cats”.
* CrosscastRole: Skits where Doug is the adult and she's playing the younger version of him are common.
* {{Crossdresser}}: In ''The Lorax'' opening she is dressed as a young boy who is hanging around a [[Literature/TheGivingTree Giving Tree-like]] tree. In ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', she dresses up like a cowboy to get in with Critic's “boy club”, and is good enough to fool the idiots. When she acts like this is important at the end, Critic dismisses her because in his world crossdressing is just casually done. RL!Tamara [[https://instagram.com/p/5s4Is7PMot/?taken-by=thetamaracamera lampshaded]] this, saying you could probably guess what gig was the girly pretty commercial and what was the Critic shoot.
* CuteAndPsycho: Tortures Critic in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' review, knocked out Rachel in the original ''Film/FaceOff'' storyline, and was just as crazy as the other [[Film/Catwoman2004 catwomen]].
* CuteBruiser: She's the shortest member of Critic's team, yet is the one to give the most {{No Holds Barred Beatdown}}s. Mostly to Critic himself.
* DarkActionGirl: Her first two choices for what fictional world she wants to live in is either ''Series/{{Lost}}'' or ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', both franchises where EverythingIsTryingToKillYou.
* DefiantCaptive: In ''We Wish You A Turtles Christmas'', she still snarks at Critic even when he's using her a footstool and kicking her every time she speaks. Sure she gets eaten by Malcolm-Zombie, but so does he.
** While Malcolm's afraid of Film Brain in ''Dreamcatcher'', she very easily gets away and manages a Brexit reference while she's at it.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection:
** In a {{tsundere}} fashion. She's disgusted by Critic majority of the time, but still wants his care and to work for him.
** 2007-Critic uses it to his advantage when she's about to shoot him with a bow and arrow, promising her and Malcolm that he'll use them more than present-Critic. [[spoiler: She just gets used as a tripod]].
* DistractedByTheSexy: In ''Film/TheFly1986'', she looks up who's playing the woman and gets distracted by the Geena Davis pretty.
* TheDitherer: In the fourth vlog, Hyper complains at her for not being able to make up her mind on what fictional universe she'd rather live in.
* {{Dominatrix}}: RL!Tamara fueled the ship by 'revealing' in her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwQHAbd9RQA&list=UUwWxwqgHiD656E7cAWBmO8w answer video]] that her character beats up Critic every week, the audience just doesn't see it happen for... reasons. She's also [[https://twitter.com/TamaraLChambers/status/633481011062571009 joked]] about wanting to make a video where she walks Doug like a dog.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: She defeated the reality monster, got a new laptop and crossdressed to be in Critic's boy club, but he dismisses everything she did for him.
* EmptyShell: Joked about (but assured on Instagram that she wasn't) in ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'' when she says her slogan should be "I'm Tamara and I feel nothing".
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: At the very start, she really enjoys creeping Critic out, but also wants him to remember and praise her.
* EvenBadWomenLoveTheirMamas: When Critic gets Malcolm's mom in at the end of ''Disney Afternoon'', she {{squee}}s about the possibility of him getting her mom as well.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She's upset and wants to call an ambulance when Critic punches Malcolm so hard (for reminding him of the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' theme song) that he's unconscious and Critic has blood on his hands.
** While she loves torturing, dominating and insulting Critic, she's disgusted by, in “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”, Malcolm making him NotHimself and docile by giving him a chill pill patch. But thing is, she ends up regretting this when she bears the full brunt of Critic's insanity.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: There was [[https://twitter.com/TamaraLChambers/status/716025671085121536 apparently]] a #[=GayForTamara=] hashtag on Twitter after she posted pictures of herself as Wonder Woman for the ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' review.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She refuses to be Ana for a ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' review, much to Critic and Malcolm's perverted annoyance. (Although she would have been happy with a GenderFlip version.)
* EvilLaugh: She has a very scary laugh...what's more, it's her ''normal'' laugh.
* EvilSoundsDeep: When she's [[spoiler: brainwashed]] as Tammity, her voice is much lower even before Critic and the audience find out she's evil.
* {{Fangirl}}: She loves ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' enough to dress up like early!Elsa and tease Critic about the extreme number of “Let It Go” videos. ''Disney Afternoon'' has her also being a fan of ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'', reconnecting with her childhood through a Pinkie Pie doll.
* FemaleMisogynist: The cat-women hated Creator/HalleBerry and each other, and the original goodbye storyline for Rachel had her and Rach be just as catty to each other (in real life they're best friends) because Tamara wanted to be in Critic more.
* FriendlyEnemy: She and Beth Elderkin from WebVideo/SharkJumping (who, like Rachel, is good friends with Tamara in real life). They sing about it to the tune of "Defying Gravity".
-->'''Beth/Tamara''': It isn't right, but I guess we're frenemies/The stupid plot has made us frenemies/ I think we'll have to become frenemies/Cause girls can't get along.
* FriendToAllChildren: From her CutenessProximity over a singing fetus in the ''Frozen'' video, and {{squee}}ing with Malcolm over the young attorney general of Crimea, she seems to have a soft spot for kids.
* FourthWallObserver: Stops and pushes back ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' ending credits (with [[NothingIsScarier no sound]] and the regular SlasherSmile) to torture Critic some more.
* TheGadfly: When there's no danger of anyone else (especially not her) suffering for it, she takes great, almost fetishy, joy in fucking with Critic's head.
* GoodIsNotNice: Doug confirms in the ''Disney Afternoon'' commentary that while she has plenty of problems, she's still better than Critic.
* GoGoEnslavement: When she's brainwashed in Matrix Month, she's in a leather catsuit that barely does up over her cleavage and, when it rips, Critic takes a peek at her ass. At least Malcolm could move freely in his Morpheus costume.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPlutoNash'', she's upset that she can't have a day off to 'get drunker than someone who's watched the movie'. And in the "Third Titanic Movie", she and Malcolm drink Critic's Jagermeister planet.
* HatesBeingTouched: Critic just putting his hand on her shoulder makes her give the look of death, and his childishly hugging her makes her feel even worse.
* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: Hyper asks her if her OfficialCouple thing with the Critic is just for show and she angrily replies that everyone keeps asking her this and she has a RL boyfriend.
* HeroAntagonist: [[KnightTemplar She really does have things wrong with her brain]] and [[PayEvilUntoEvil her methods are extreme]], but Doug confirmed in the “Disney Afternoon” commentary that between her and [[VillainProtagonist Critic]], she's the one people are meant to root for.
** For ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', she ''saves'' Critic from crushing depression because reality seeping in (literally, “reality” is the monster) and is never thanked. In fact he denies she even did anything.
* HiddenDepths:
** Thanks to Tamara's talent with PuppyDogEyes, her DesperatelyCravesAffection side was well established before it got ADayInTheLimelight for''Film/TheMonsterSquad''.
** [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cultural-Competence-Practice-Stages-Systems/dp/0534631983 The homework book]] she's studying at the end of ''Disney Afternoon'' is for social worker students who want to learn about different patient's cultures.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: For all her evil and snideness, her childhood is still [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic ponies]], she's excited to potentially see her grandma, and she's genuinely concerned for Malcolm after Critic beats the shit out of him.
* HotScientist: In the two episodes when Critic ramps her and Malcolm's intelligence up because he's lazy, Malcolm gets to wear a nerdy suit while she's - while obviously sciencey - in fetishy gloves at the end of ''WesternAnimation/FoodFight'' and a corset that goes full MaleGaze in ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess''.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: She's half the height of Critic, which makes it worse when a Doug character is scaring her, but better when she has the upper hand.
** ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries II'' lampshaded and exploited how intimidating the height difference can be, with the camera angles making him looking taller and her even shorter while he looms over Hyper and yells.
** Possibly learning from how freaked Rachel was from filming ''Film/TheShining'', the behind the scenes of “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” reveals that Doug wasn't actually screaming in Tamara's face and filmed her reaction separately, avoiding the uncomfortableness of this trope in real life at least.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She's pretty sexist herself, wanting to CatFight Rachel originally because for some reason she wanted the token chick space on Critic, and also using a misogynist stereotype to lure men in during ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' review, but hates Hyper Fangirl's sexism. (mostly because it's directed at her)
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: She's the only one allowed to fuck with Critic's head and hurt him it seems. She's legit concerned about someone doing harm to him at the end of “Top 11 Worst Avatar Episodes”, she saves him from reality making him depressed in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', and she's disgusted with RestrainingBolt Malcolm put him in during ''Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer''.
* IdenticalStranger: Critic calls her [[Series/GameOfThrones Ayra Stark]] in her first review appearance, likely referring to the similar personality as well as the babyface.
* IJustWantToBeBadass: Aside from wanting to live in ''Series/{{Lost}}'' or ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', she wants to be in the Marvel universe so she can have a power, or be ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: In ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', she outright asks Critic and company if she can join with her own midlife crisis. It's only when they insult her does she get guarded again.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: While they hurts her enough to make her eyes roll back, she defeats the “reality monster” in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' with internet comments.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: While it's not really on the same level as what he did to her throughout ''Disney Afternoon'', and it's not serious mocking like she's done in other episodes, she laughs and pushes Critic when his mom (Doug's actual mom [[note]]who has been established in Critic's world as a random person who he thinks is his mom[[/note]]) yells at him to do his homework, having no clue about the extent of/reason behind Critic's MommyIssues.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: Played with. She's not even the bad guy (as Doug points out, you're meant to be on her side rather than Critic's) and her stepford {{gaslighting}} shtick in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' was just a shtick, but she does genuinely have issues and they usually manifest in being violent.
* TheLadette: When Critic girls her up in "Disney Afternoon", she immediately complains about having to wear loads of hair decorations.
* LargeHam: She manages to be even more hilariously exaggerated than Rachel.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Lampshaded in ''Film/TheExorcist'', where she came off filming ''Freddy vs Jason'' that had her in lots of different make-up, and apologizes for her face looking so scrubbed.
* LoonyFan: She's introduced with a psychotic love for ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' remake, though she's a regular {{fangirl}} for other things.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: While holding Critic up for torture in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', she goes between pleasure at his pain and business-like telling him to do what she wants. No wonder he ended up thinking she was AbusivelySexy.
* MadeOfIron: After drinking Critic's Jagermeister planet, she and Malcolm end up drunkenly flying into the sun. Pretty sure they'll be fine.
* ManipulativeBitch: In ''Film/TheWickerMan2006''. Malcolm lampshades this by defending his actions to Critic with “she was very persuasive!”
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: With Critic. She's a ladette sociopath who would rather crossdress than be the MsFanservice, while he consistently either doubts his own gender or feels uncomfortable in it, and crossdresses plenty too.
* MetaGirl: She gets the most [[invoked]] {{fandom nod}}s regarding Critic being a dick, like taunting him on his GildedCage in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' and bemoaning that she thought she'd like him better dead in ''Film/GhostDad''.
* MsFanservice: ''Film/Catwoman2004'' loved her cleavage, Critic takes her on because he thinks of her as AbusivelySexy, and she almost successfully flirts with Spoony and Snob to make them do Wicker Man reviews. She's also exploited as "Sexy Dorothy" in ''Film/GhostDad''. And to generate hype for the game show, Tamara tweeted a [[https://twitter.com/TamaraLChambers/status/499302716670091264 picture]] of herself in a LittleBlackDress, heels and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick pink handcuffs]]. [[https://twitter.com/TamaraLChambers/status/519570926187192321 And another one]], in an even more cleavage-happy dress.
* MysteriousWoman: There's a lot of questions raised but unanswered with her. For example, in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', she's terrified of “reality” but it never gets said why. Compare that to when Critic sees the monster, and he gets taunted by all his money problems.
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: Her response to being called a "hobbit chick" in the hate comments video is this along with "do you write for ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
* NervesOfSteel: ''Disney Afternoon''. While she's obviously afraid and not having a good time when Critic gets in his PsychopathicManchild mood, she knows what the wrong thing would be to say unlike Malcolm (who innocently presses his {{berserk button}}s and gets punished), and keeps her cool even when he points a {{BFG}} at her.
* TheNicknamer: She talks in ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' about how, like Doug, she doesn't retain names all that well, and also how, like Doug, the comments are sure to violently correct her.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: There's a HiddenHeartOfGold buried in there somewhere, but most of her personality and typecasted characters are based around how strange and creepy she is.
* NoblewomansLaugh: At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess''. Different from her usual EvilLaugh, as it's more a high-pitched cackle at getting one over Critic.
* TheNoseKnows: While played as a joke, she's the only one who realized that the studio smelled of dynamite before Film Brain told them. [[note]]for those who don't, it smells like bananas but will give you a headache[[/note]]
* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Reality in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' makes her scream and run away at first, and she's clearly still scared when she confronts it, but is able to defeat it with internet comments and save the boys (who treated her awfully and it's not like she had to help them).
* NotSoAboveItAll: In ''Disney Afternoon'', while she's pissed off and awkward with Critic playing with her and Malcolm for his re-enacting the afternoon's theme song, she's just as into it as he is when the ''Gummi Bears'' theme song plays.
* OfCorsetsSexy: ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' gives her a white corset, and [[MaleGaze camera shots go right to her bust with not even her face in frame]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's in her mid-twenties, but has a babyface that makes her look younger. Lampshaded by Jon Bailey when he did a voiceover for her make-up tutorial.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: She only goes along with the HumiliationConga of ''Film/GhostDad'' because she'll be out of a job otherwise. And in Robocop 2014 she works with Critic and the chart guys to make big return movies with as little effort as possible.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Saying something about rl!Tamara's abilities, they managed to do this early on. Having the [[ManipulativeBitch character]] be scared of Critic in ''Disney Afternoon'' even just a minute in, shows how deep in SanitySlippage he's being.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: When she gets SuperStrength in ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' review, she immediately destroys a building and calls herself the clobberer.
* PoisonousFriend: Has poked Critic's bitterness and FatalFlaw of being desperate for money ever since she arrived, sometimes just to fuck with him, other times because he's reality warped her into enabling him, and every so often she's into MoneyDearBoy herself. In ''Film/TheSmurfs'', he eventually punches her out for non-stop telling him to do ''Film/FantasticFour2015'' movie.
* ProperlyParanoid: In the “Top 11 Worst Avatar Episodes”, she's worried that someone out there will do something bad to the Critic because of the title. He dismisses her, but she's right. [[spoiler: the someone is Dante Basco.]]
* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: By the fifth hyper vlog (at which point she's been working with him for a year), she's so frustrated by all the make-up and slutty costumes Critic makes her wear that she's desperate for another girl to talk to. And later when she learns that Linkara's characters don't have to wear Poison Ivy costumes, she wants to work for him.
* ReplacementGoldfish:
** While we get no insight into them other than how they revolve around Critic, she could be considered as Malcolm's replacement for Rachel. It would explain why he got attached to her so quickly and always follows her lead.
** She's a short psychotic brunette who Critic wants to make him suffer and also push her temper. It's like a much more abusive, much less equal version of his pre-comeback relationship with the Chick. There's also ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'', where he misses Chick and there's Tamara in his tie and dancing/song-battling him at the end like he did with the former in ''The Chipmunk Adventure''.
* SadClown: The Nostalgia Critic 2018 intro seems to hint that Tamara is one, going from laughing and smiling in her intro credit before [[DrowningMySorrows chugging down a bottle of alcohol]].
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Stated as much by Critic at the end of ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', as he wants someone there to just obsessively hurt him (and be punished likewise) because views go up when he's in pain.
** Noticeable in “Ghost Rider 2”, where she only has two short appearances as two different characters, and they're ''both'' a fuck-buddy to a Doug-played character. (both also either get killed or left with a smoking vagina)
** Possibly lampshaded when Tammity (who is clearly Tamara) ends up telling Critic she's madly in love with him, much to his and Malcolm's annoyance. She also tries to grope him later.
* SexyShirtSwitch: She's wearing Critic's tie when she's acting as his (sorta) chipmunk-DistaffCounterpart in the ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' review.
* ShipperOnDeck: She tells Malcolm “good job” when she learns that every time Critic watches a film about racism, he takes Malcolm out on a date to dinner.
* SkewedPriorities: When she thinks she, Malcolm and Critic are going to die at Film Brain's hand, she's at least glad that Pinky and the Brain are still together.
* SlasherSmile: Has one on for most of the ''The Wicker Man'' review.
* SmallNameBigEgo: In “Are You Sick Of Let It Go”, she sings “I don't care, I sing it so well, I'm like Idina Menzel”, complete with HairFlip.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: As much as she dislikes Hyper, she missed her while she was gone because she was tired of being the only girl.
* StealthExpert: Hyper must have got lessons from her, as she's constantly just behind Critic in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006''.
* StealthHiBye: Her ''re''introduction in ''The Wicker Man'' review.
** OffscreenTeleportation: Seems to be her main flavor of the above trope.
* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Justified in ''Disney Afternoon'', as even though she's apparently a sculptor who can make cars out of ice and this never comes up again, she was new at this point and so could still be fleshed out, has low self-esteem about it for some reason, and Critic crushes her even more.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Pretty much. Replaces Rachel as a CuteAndPsycho MsFanservice Token Chick, but while Rachel also got BreakTheCutie, Tamara is DarkerAndEdgier.
* ThrowTheDogABone: After all her frustration at being the only girl in Critic's sausagefest, the WebVideo/SharkJumping ''Glee'' musical review has her sing with Beth Elderkin about being [[FriendlyEnemy friendly enemies]], and said review even lampshades how fucked up it is that she's so isolated.
** She throws ''herself'' a bone after dealing with ''Film/TheFly'', by watching the far easier and more enjoyable ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.
* TranquilFury: Her reaction to Critic trying to BreakTheHaughty in ''Film/GhostDad'' is to go from upset to a very calm deciding to bring all the pain possible.
* TookALevelInDumbass: While it's justified because of him trying to BreakTheHaughty, when she grabs the IdiotBall (like in “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” removing Critic's RestrainingBolt) it's a lot more noticeable because she was in so much control in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' review.
* {{Tsundere}}: The harsh kind. She'll tell Critic off for his crap, mess with his head and dominate him, but she melts when she thinks he's saying he needs her in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', and cares about him in a HiddenHeartOfGold sense.
* UncannyValleyGirl: In ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' review. It's just a TheVamp act though, and while she is indeed crazy, she's actually TheLadette.
* WrongGenreSavvy: In ''Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer'', she thinks she's in a Christmas special where cynicism takes a backseat for once in favor of the truly holiday spirit, but Critic makes it rapidly clear she's actually in a show with someone who is really fucked up and is only going to get worse at Christmas.
* YaoiFangirl: She's completely fine with the idea of ''Malcolm'' being the [[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Ana]] to Critic's Christian, but only gets upset when both men want ''her'' to be the Ana[[note]]Because it'd be extra demeaning considering she just came off having to wear heels and a low cut top for [[Film/JurassicWorld Claire]], and she's made it clear she prefers the dom role.[[/note]]
* {{Yandere}}: In the original ''Film/FaceOff'' video she knocked out Rachel and eventually succeeded in replacing her all because she wanted to be on Critic again and Critic liked her being more of a BastardGirlfriend than Rachel's often HystericalWoman. ([[DomesticAbuser which was his own fault]])
* YankTheDogsChain: In the end of ''Disney Afternoon'', she's excited to potentially see her mother, but as Critic was too lazy to get her from California, she gets Fat Grandma instead and looks disgusted with it.
* YokoOhNo: Hyper treats her like this because her [[TheMasochismTango Masochism Tango]] with Critic, and doesn't believe HeIsNotMyBoyfriend.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Much like Malcolm's joke up above of working for CA ages you, [[https://www.facebook.com/119355004801944/photos/a.126607124076732.19749.119355004801944/937199399684163/?type=3 Rob did the same]] for Tamara in age make-up. [[https://twitter.com/TamaraLChambers/status/690436695708151808 She joked]] that at least she managed to hold out for a while.

[[folder:Malice]]
!!Malice
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* AffablyEvil: She's sweet and friendly a good chunk of the time, but is also an escaped mental patient who will casually and brutally murder people for the pettiest of reasons.
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: While she is indeed crazy and dangerous, she makes it quite clear that Critic is far more broken than she is.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: For a value of “nice”. While she's being patient, she's perfectly friendly, but piss her off too much and she'll kill you horribly. Critic even complains that she'd be really sweet if it weren't for the whole murder thing.
-->'''Malice''': Well. I tried to be nice. Excuse me.
* BloodSplatteredWarrior: As the review goes on, she gets more and more blood on her. Critic's creeped out, but she's done it so much she doesn't mind.
* CuteAndPsycho: She is even stated to have escaped from the [[VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice American McGee Mental Institute]] to try and prove she's not crazy. Her apron also shows this by having a kitty emoticon on one side and an angry face on the other.
* CutenessProximity: While she used her KnifeNut side to make it happen, she's genuinely endeared by Critic's Burton shrine.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Before she displays politeness and concern for him being okay, she's first seen towering over Critic, unsmiling, with DramaticThunder and fog behind her.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She's a psychotic killer but she also gets panicky at Critic's Underland rant, hides behind her hair when he goes as far as to say “Care Bears In Wonderland” was a better adaptation, and is ''certain'' he's escaped from an asylum when he gets PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy.
* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: The red and black eyeshadow is a clue that she's not as polite and nice as she seems at first.
* {{Expy}}: Of the version of Alice from [[VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice the American McGee's game]]. Not only is she a DarkerAndEdgier take on the Alice story, when Critic meets her, she references that she escaped from an asylum like in the plot of the game.
* KnifeNut: She kills everyone with a giant knife. She even holds it up to Critic when he hits her and makes him back off, and again when she has his home videos. She quite happily stabs Dorothy to death in "Freddy vs Jason''.
* MeaningfulName: A character called "Malice" isn't a NiceGirl.
* {{Meido}}: She's anything but subservient, but the way she's dressed resembles this style and immediately makes Critic assume she's from ''Franchise/TheAddamsFamily'' maid café.
* MoralityPet: They're awful together, but she's willing to destroy the world to make Carrot Juice less sad.
* PsychoForHire: As a one-off moment, she and Critic get attacked by a monster who writes bad movies, and all he has to do is nod to her and she destroys said monster with GiantFootOfStomping.
* SilkHidingSteel: Exaggerated, as she has a GirlyRun, a posh accent and a polite disposition while showing that she's also an AxCrazy KnifeNut who can make Critic whimper when he tries to assert power over her.
* SoftspokenSadist: Even when she's torturing people she keeps her prim and proper demeanour, and hides behind her hair when Critic goes on a rant.
* StealthExpert: Parodied when she kills Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp in the split second that Critic turned his head away.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' had a lot of parallels to ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', and Malice is like a smarter, more-in-control version of Evilina that Critic can soapbox his points to.
* TheBusCameBack: She made a return appearance in Critic's review of ''Film/AliceThroughTheLookingGlass''
* VagueAge: Tim Burton calls her a creepy girl of indiscernible age.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=758136037549949&set=pb.695308043832749.-2207520000.1399855263.&type=3&theater Exploited]] with one of Tamara's profile pictures.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She's back in the studio with Critic at the end of ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', and they even have a bit of VillainousFriendship going, but she's never been seen again aside from being in the theme montage. She does cameo in "Freddy Vs Jason", but her relationship with Critic still isn't explored. She finally returns in a prominent appearance in Critic's review of ''Film/AliceThroughTheLookingGlass'', but the GainaxEnding leaves her fate unknown, as opposed to Carrotjuice who ''did'' return in a later review.

[[folder:Hyper Fangirl]]
!!Hyper Fangirl
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* AbhorrentAdmirer:
** When Critic realizes that she likes him, he immediately {{Oh Crap}}s and tells her he's not going to have sex with her before trying to get rid of her feed.
** As vlogs went on, and while he's her main obsession, her targets expanded beyond Critic, and none of them were interested. Snob only agreed to go on a date with her because he's bored, Malcolm talks the most to her but he's still made uncomfortable, and both Spoony and Linkara think she's gross.
* AbusiveParents: According to Doug and Tamara at Connecticon, they like the idea of Hyper being Aunt Despair's daughter, which would explain why she (Hyper) gets randomly angry when Critic calls AD a bitch even when he's had a phone dropped on his face. In ''Cinderella Old vs New'', while Critic identifies with "gaslighted from childhood", she relates to "fragile ControlFreak parent pushing towards abuse".
** In her Q&A, this becomes canon onscreen, yet she doesn't seem to consider them abusive and calls them great.
* AdjustingYourGlasses: In her third vlog, her glasses slip when she has a rare moment of confessing she finds it difficult to get through the weeks, and she pushes them up by the corner with her whole hand before going right back to blissful ignorance.
* AesopAmnesia:
** A running theme seems to be her getting pouty at Critic's rejection, and then five minutes later deciding she needs to stalk him ''harder''.
** In the ''Phantom'' commentary, anytime she comes up, Doug talks about how he fretted about having her regress because he loves [=HyperBoner=] so much and that it was good she moved on, but decided to do it anyway because watching Hyper chasing Critic with the knowledge that she's happy with Devil Boner makes her behavior all the more tragically/hilariously awful.
** In her Q and A video, referencing the end of Princess Diaries 2, she says she didn't even need to learn anything, but Critic needed the love lesson.
* TheAlcoholic: At the end of ''Cinderella Old vs New'', she admits she's always drunk. Her Q&A also establishes her as enough of a lightweight that she gets drunk after a can and a half of light beer.
** She also seems to drink a lot with Devil Boner, having been drunk on their hot air balloon date and drinking nightly in their hot tub. The first thing they do after getting engaged ''and'' after getting married is go get drunk.
-->'''Hyper:''' Hooray for booze!
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The PrettyBoy Onceler, the emo version of Spider-Man, and of course Critic. When Critic yells in her face for getting into the studio, she just wants to marry him all the more.
-->'''Critic''': [seeing the “marry me/hold me” text on the screen] ...this can't end well.
** Played with in regards to Devil Boner, who's definitely an AxCrazy bad boy, but she only gets into him after his feminist rant and they genuinely love each other.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Towards the Critic, who only wants to be ''very distant'' friends, while still being very creeped out by her. But when she gets worse with the stalking, that FalseFriend act dies and he threatens to kill her. She still adores him.
* AlterEgoActing: In a parallel to the post-TRMGO Doug/Critic relationship, she has interaction with Tamara who treats her like she's an obnoxious child. This morphed into potential LesYay, with Tamara wearing Hyper's shirt and Hyper showering at her place.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Despite her misogyny and latching onto men, the only nice things she's said about other women is their attractiveness: Velma's her “homegirl” who she based her look on, and all she can say about Mary Jane Watson and Rachel Tietz is that they're hot. Even with Tamara, she steals the Seuss-zero drink just because it came out of her ass. She's happy to talk about her girl crushes in her Q&A and settles on Creator/CarrieFisher as her biggest one.
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Downplayed, since she's clearly okay identifying with the label of "girl", but seems pretty loosely connected to that, crossdressing as Spider-Man and Critic and mentions that she wants to grow stubble. At the end of "Old vs New: Cinderella'', she's grateful at Devil Boner considering her "an honorary dude" sometimes and female at other points.[[note]]In addition, the person who partly inspired Hyper is genderfluid and supportive of this interpretation of Hyper.[[/note]]
* AmbiguousDisorder: She's definitely not well, but it's hard to pin down what mental illness she has outside of having delusions, violently not being able to cope with reality, and not understanding the most obvious of social cues.
* AntiRoleModel: Like Douchey being a lesson in the wrong way to tell Doug about the mistakes he's made, she's a lesson in how not to express love for him.
* AxCrazy: Tamara's very blunt about considering the character "[[https://t.co/lNnebjM1eq a crazy bitch]]". She wouldn't be remiss without the standard ''Film/{{Misery}}'' reference.
-->'''Critic''': And did that dream also involve toe decapitation?
-->'''Hyper''': Sometimes.
** A good random example would be in the Anime Midwest video, where she sees Doug walking by and suddenly decides to freak him out by pretending to recreate the ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' shower scene with him.
* BadLiar: In her third vlog she says she has loads of questions to ask, but her caption immediately clarifies she doesn't really and she's “lying so hard”.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Tamara, Rob and Doug have all tried very hard to convince people that she's a horrible person, and for all her deluded cutesyness, she's demonstrated time and time again that she doesn't give a crap about what Critic actually wants. For example, in a panel ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uftck3AuXYI and vlog]], she asks him to build a snowman with her and he says “if I say yes, will you go away and never bug me again?”. She very happily says no. [[spoiler: he gives her a hug and they go off together, but he runs back after having pushed her off the balcony.]]
* BlindWithoutThem: When her NerdGlasses fall down accidentally, she says she's gone blind.
* BornLucky: Tamara talked on a [[https://www.twitch.tv/videos/254882920 Twitch stream]] about how Hyper might be a stalker mess who has done awful things, but she lucked out pretty damn hard, getting the husband and FamilyOfChoice of her dreams.
* BrokenSmile: The end of ''Old vs New: Spider-Man'' has the camera staying on her face with a blissed out frozen grin at how she's wearing Critic's clothes and the thought of forcing him to love her. The same in ''Film/SmallSoldiers'' when she's standing over Critic's bed and is about to kidnap him.
* CantHoldHerLiquor: She gets drunk off her "adult beverage of choice", two cans of light beer.
* CantTakeCriticism: If Critic calls her out on her taste in movies or on her awful behavior, she'll either ignore it or have a complete meltdown. She also nearly killed herself over a bad review of her fanfiction, and when Devil Boner criticizes the original ''Evil Dead'', she covers her ears and tries to drown him out. When she did a video responding to hate comments, at least half of the comments weren't even actual hate, with one comment upsetting her because they called her "fun and cute" without mentioning her ''other'' good qualities.
* CatchPhrase: Both in the beginning of the Old vs. New Spider-Man video and in her now real Facebook page, she's ended quite a lot of her posts with "Don't ask why!"...DON'T ASK WHY!
* CelebCrush: She falls hard enough for Tom Hardy in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' that she leads a cult worshipping him, though she gets turned off by him being a method actor. She's also happy to admit in her question and answer video that Carrie Fisher is the OG girl crush.
* CharacterBlog: Tamara created [[https://www.facebook.com/hyperfangirl one]] just a couple of days after the Spider-Man review (which is currently inaccessible), and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9lx6Xu9M80&list=PL5J57rG9DzEiSixVR3F838HVRQmsD0Dy1 Tamara's personal channel]] hosts the Hyper vlogs and some other content involving Hyper.
* CharacterDevelopment: Zig-zagged in ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', as while she at least finally apologizes to Critic for what she did and is happily dating Devil Boner, she's still chasing the former despite his protests (singing that she'll use coercion to own him again), he even calls her out on the SelfServingMemory when her apology involves the implication that she remembers their history better than he does, and she gets angry whenever he doesn't do what she wants.
** Her development in general is realistically two steps forward, one step back, as she's over Critic but still is possessive and finds joy in her and her husband torturing him, is less self-loathing but still an AxCrazy narcissist, and has a FamilyOfChoice (plus is less misogynistic) but seems unaware that her parents are monsters.
** As of ''Chipwrecked'' especially, she still has zero shame of what she did to him, and is proud of her other past creepy behavior (such as stalking Dwayne Johnson), but is more often used for her fangirl qualities than her stalker qualities. She and Critic hang out with her creepy behavior towards him rarely coming up, and some episodes (namely ''Hannibal'') even have her ''annoyed'' at having to listen to his ramblings. On the flip side, she [[PetTheDog shows actual kindness and concern towards Critic in a few later episodes with no ulterior motive,]] notably ''The Santa Clause 3.'' Her vlogs on Tamara's channel have also skewed more towards [=YouTuber=] parodies where Hyper's massive ego and energy is the main feature.
* CharacterTics: Shakes her fists when she gets really excited.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: While there are a lot of lines in "Old vs New: Spider-Man" that foreshadow her later actions, and she's still plenty mentally ill, the SplitPersonality and HearingVoices “of a loved one tormenting [her]” never came up again. Her original obsession with the Onceler has yet to be brought up again.[[note]]Though she does affirm she's still attracted to him in her Q&A.[[/note]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: During the [[spoiler: forced]] FallingInLoveMontage, she swaps out out her usual orange shirt for a blue “HE'S MINE” one, despite the fact that Critic has never been hers and never will be. Even after getting over him, she doesn't want him to date anybody else.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Of the evil sort. The analysts in ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' probably didn't think that their chosen easy to manipulate fangirl spokesman could kidnap men she wanted or have already blackmailed them into giving her a house and money.
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: She doesn't get that being BuriedAlive by a brother is not a normal thing. Even Critic, who has his own conditioning issues, is disturbed.
* ConflictingLoyalty: She's obsessed with Critic and usually forgives him for everything, but she can't deal with him bashing the Raimi Spider-Man films because she wants Spider-Man to treat her like a goddess.
** Similarly, despite hating having to fight with him, she can't get over Devil Boner preferring the remake of ''Evil Dead'' to the original.
* ControlFreak: A way of showing how her obsession with Critic isn't love, but what she has with Devil Boner is healthy. The only way she can be happy with Critic is forcing him to do what she wants, either as a hostage boyfriend or [[https://twitter.com/TamaraLChambers/status/967146721821315078 forced]] Butler Of Honor, but she and Devil Boner get to do their own evil thing and she's more relaxed.
* {{Cosplay}}: In a video on Tamara's personal channel and later in the ''Film/ScoobyDooTheMysteryBegins'' review, she puts together a [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Velma Dinkley]] cosplay, though it's just modification of her regular outfit.
* CreepyCrossdresser: She puts on Critic's outfit over her Spider-Man cosplay as an indicator that she's completely gone off the rails. Much later, she and Devil Boner go out on Halloween with her dressed as Critic and him dressed as her. It's their favorite day of the year.
* DaddysLittleVillain: To her credit she’s not as awful as her parents, Aunt Despair and Uncle Lies, but she’s the worst out of the kids, being an AxCrazy StalkerWithACrush.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She sulks that "weirdos have stories too", she says the only time she's been happy is when she's holding Critic captive, and Doug has (as well as Christian Grey) compared her to Harley Quinn, his go-to character for what abusive relationships can do to you, so there's obviously been ''some'' tragedy in her life. The specifics given so far are the behind the scenes talk that confirms [[AbusiveParents Aunt Despair]] as her mother, and "Old Vs New: Evil Dead" heavily implying she had an abusive brother who buried her alive.
* DependingOnTheWriter: The dark comedy and violent traits that come out in her main show appearances are mostly downplayed when Tamara plays her on her own channel, particularly after the resolution of the "stalking Critic" arc when Hyper's videos branched out beyond sneaking around the studio. This is justified since many of her later appearances teamed her up with Devil Boner, bringing out their [[NightmareFetishist shared bloodlust,]] while the Tamara appearances (even the few that ''do'' feature Devil Boner) mostly play her as a very excited, if somewhat egotistical, vlogger, with little to no references to her tendencies for stalking and violence. It also helps that sadistic comedy is Doug's main AuthorAppeal, while fun fandom culture is Tamara's.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' behind the scenes, Doug notes Tamara's improvising of Hyper looking ''happy'' at disturbing older men liking her, and Tamara says that Hyper likes ''all'' praise. In-show, she doesn't seem to understand if the praise is forced (like when Critic is being made to call her kidnapping him “delightfully quirky”) or sarcastic either, just takes it as sincere.
* DisneyDeath: Lampshaded in ''Princess Diaries 2'', where after she explodes through the season, Critic says whether she's dead or not depends on if the fanbase wants to see her back again. Sure enough, she returned in ''Christmas Story 2.''
** [[spoiler:Happens again in ''Film/ScoobyDooTheMysteryBegins'' where Roger murders her and she is immediately revived by a fairy. [[GainaxEnding If that happened at all.]]]]
* DistaffCounterpart: To Douchey [=McNitpick=], with the difference that she is a fangirl obsessing over the Nostalgia Critic.
* DoggedNiceGirl: Deconstructed in that she'd love to ''think'' she's this, but her actions aren't nice in the slightest. Even when she's keeping Critic as a CaptiveDate, he notes that she wants him to call what she did “delightfully quirky”.
* TheDreaded:
** [[https://www.facebook.com/hyperfangirl/posts/299217033573563 She finds out the days when Critic is filming]] and hopes he's ready for her because she'll be there.
** In the fifth vlog, she's delighted that Critic doesn't know she's there yet, and lunges at him at the end while he's trying out the cheerleading skirt.
** When she rushes into a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uftck3AuXYI panel]] (pre-planned obviously), he tries to hide behind one of the chairs.
* DramaQueen: Critic gets annoyed because all her Facebook status had ''"[Something depressive and sad], [[LargeHam DON'T ASK WHY!!]]"''
* DrivenToSuicide: The 2014 Anime Midwest panel had Lewis and Doug think that making her suicidal (and mixing her with the suicidally depressed StrawFan persona that Doug for some reason wants to have) would be a good funny idea.
** According to her WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows cameo, she nearly threw herself into a jet engine because she got a bad comment on her fanfiction and only changed her mind because of a Music/GoodCharlotte song. When Todd says the song isn't that good, she starts berating herself and looking for another airport until he takes it back.
* EarlyBirdCameo: If Rachel had wanted to stay, her StrawFan in “The Top 11 South Park Episodes” would have returned to be the resident stalker.
* EmbarrassingTattoo: She did actually get that tattoo of Critic's neck on her face, and while she loves it, everyone else thinks it makes her even crazier.
* EntitledToHaveYou: When Critic rejects her, she spends ages in passive-aggressive waves of self-pity, and when he wants to be friends (his [[AllTakeAndNoGive usual]] type of 'friends' these days but she doesn't know that), she acts like she's been friendzoned.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** Even before full-blown stalking happens, Critic tells her straight off that he's not going to have sex with her and she completely ignores his refusal to either keep trying or guilt him into it.
** Even gets a re-introduction moment in ''A Christmas Story 2'', as after she sadly waves to the Critic and he drops to the ground out of fear, she miserably walks into the distance... but then she stops, turns with an angry look on her face and looks for a reason to stalk him again.
* EvenBadPeopleLoveTheirParents: After confirming that Aunt Despair and Uncle Lies are her parents, she says they're great despite treating her siblings so badly.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Even with all her stroking of male ego (something Tamara calls her out on), when dino!Rob tells her he wears human skin instead of boxers or briefs, all she can muster up is an “...oh”.
** She tortured Critic at least once during the time she kept him as a CaptiveDate, and hired Benny to keep him at gunpoint, but is confused and horrified when he gives her a knife and turns his back. When Benny is all too willing to plunge it in there, she stops him and tells him “be cool”.
** She gets angry at Critic calling Aunt Despair a bitch in ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004''. This makes sense with the confirmation that Aunt Despair is her mom, who Hyper thinks is great.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: She even calls ''herself'' “Hyper Fangirl”. ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' explains it as less her real name, more of an identity that she can't let die, and in ''Film/ScoobyDooTheMysteryBegins'' she responds to Roger questioning her name with, "It's a way of life." Tamara added on that she's [[https://twitter.com/TamaraLChambers/status/887665789687521281 repressed her real name]]: [[spoiler: Joan or Ruth]].
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: She genuinely thinks that love is just “enjoying the same things” (not even that, as she was just pretending to like what she thought he might like), and even when Critic tries to get it through to her that it's actually about challenging someone and making them want to be better, doesn't want to know.
* EvilCounterpart: To [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Nella]]. Nella's fangirling was charming, adorable and involved plenty of {{squee}} to lighten up Chick's BrokenBird, but the Hyper Fangirl intentionally looks like a mess, only gets into franchises for the pretty boys, and is TheMentallyDisturbed.
* {{Fangirl}}: She's a personification of the worst traits of his fangirls, just like how Douchey was a personification of the worst traits of his fanboys.
** She goes nuts over several fandoms besides Critic; ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', ''Franchise/SpiderMan'', and Disney in general seem to be her favorites.
* FemaleMisogynist:
** All it takes is Tamara having no romantic feelings for Doug and the Hyper Fangirl immediately wants to shun her. In the second vlog, Tamara calls her out on the [[EatingTheEyeCandy male]]-centric questions and asks if they're meant to be against an attack on Tamara (who is clearly the YokoOhNo in Hyper Fangirl's eyes). Hyper Fangirl quickly moves onto the Critic.
** Also visible in [[https://www.facebook.com/hyperfangirl/posts/438629559632309 this post]], where she twists support for Tamara not wanting to wear make-up in vines (because she doesn't care about attracting more male followers) into again refusing to believe that Critic doesn't want her.
** There are times when it seems like she doesn't even want to be a woman, like when she dresses up in Spider-Man's outfit and acts like the costume's pecs are her own, dresses up like Critic when she decides to stalk him harder, and tells Malcolm in a vlog that she's trying to grow stubble.
** By her Q&A, however, she seems to be growing out of this, having a rant about how much she loves women, including her younger sisters. She also has a fairly positive relationship with Tamara, or at least enough to come onto Tamara's show and to use her shower.
* FemininityFailure: While she's in princess gear for ''Cinderella Old vs New'', she's late for Critic's request because she's not used to wearing heels. And in the ''Phantom'' behind the scenes, Rob thinks her in the Belle dress looks so unnatural that it's like she's been assaulted.
* {{Fetish}}: According to the third vlog, she has a thing for necks, telling Malcolm that she has to leave halfway through the day because she wants a tattoo of Critic's.
** "Old Vs New: Evil Dead" confirms that she and Devil Boner have a thing for tying up Critic, that "[they're] bound tighter when [he's] bound tighter".
** In Tamara's Velma cosplay video, she calls up asks Devil Boner in a hushed tone to do something they had discussed ''last night''. The thing in question is to scream "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!"
* FreudianExcuse: Parodied at the end of ''Old Vs New Evil Dead''. Apparently her need for attention comes from [[NoodleIncident a past of wrestling polar bears.]]
* GenkiGirl: Particularly when the less-creepy side of her fangirling comes out.
* GunNut: While she says she doesn't like having guns in her house, that's relative to Devil Boner and Benny. She glees at the WallOfWeapons, hugs a big gun in an instagram picture and kisses DB's dick gun.
* HappilyMarried: To Devil Boner, as of the ''Chipwrecked'' review.
* HasAType: According to her Q&A, Devil Boner is a departure from her usual type and she usually is attracted to less masculine guys, like Once-ler or Critic.
* HeteronormativeCrusader: While she still lunges at him, it's notable that the only time she's weirded out by Critic and gets all sneery is when he's seeing how the cheerleader skirt looks on him.
* {{Hipster}}: She adores hipster characters (she even made a tumblr for [[WesternAnimation/TheLorax The Once-ler]]), and falls for the Critic because she thinks he is this for his obsession with old media and his clothes.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Complains about Cinderella's LoveAtFirstSight when she wanted to bang Critic as soon as she saw him (Critic calls her out on this one) and claims to love Tom Hardy's feminism when all she cares about is his good looks (which she acknowledges as hypocritical but swears that isn't her reasoning).
** In ''Old Vs New Evil Dead,'' she calls Devil Boner out for gloating when he wins one round, but rubs it in every time ''she'' wins a round and has an over-the-top victory dance when [[spoiler:the original film wins the match.]]
** In her Q&A, she insists Critic wants her even though she's no longer attracted to him, and calls that "kind of pathetic".
* HystericalWoman: She's a mentally ill person who hears voices, has a SplitPersonality, wails melodramatically when Critic doesn't want to bang her and convinces herself by the end of ''Old Vs New Spider-Man'' that he's just lying to himself and totally loves her.
* IgnoredEpiphany: She has a brief moment of guilt when Critic asks who would be desperate enough to use gender manipulation to get what they want, but then she distracts him with Playboy cartoons. The second time he starts to realize, she's just worried that her plan will fall apart and has an insane relieved smile when he's distracted again. And when he actually tells her off, she has a VillainousBreakdown and desperately tries to make him watch the movie again.
* IJustWantToBeYou: At the end of the ''Spider-Man'' review she has a copy of Critic's clothes (and dresses as him for Halloween according to her Q&A), and it's probably this mixed with hate for her own gender that she's trying to grow stubble.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: She's so desperate that she calls the questions asked by other fans “her little friends” and says they get her though the week.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: She says things like “when I win, we all win”, and is a vindictive SoreLoser, but she dehumanizes herself as much as she does Critic, saying she's like his pet or even his animated sidekick. Also a case of her dodging responsibility and being his SelfProclaimedLoveInterest, as he's made it very clear he doesn't want her in any capacity and that she should own up to what she's doing.
* LackOfEmpathy: Played with. Early on, she had no concern for people's well-being, especially her crushes (besides her general lack of care for Critic's well-being, her reaction to Snob telling her she shouldn't have brought his dead cat up is to immediately fangirl over how “sensitive” he is and how much she loves him). She does, however, have compassion for fictional characters and her boyfriend (later husband) Devil Boner[[note]]In "Evil Dead" alone, she genuinely looks worried when he's about to cut his hand off, apologizes immediately when her joke about the "dead" Mini Boner upsets him, and really doesn't enjoy fighting with him[[note]]. Following some ChaarcterDevelopment, she shows more kindness towards others, most evidently in ''The Santa Clause 3'' where she worries about Critic overworking himself.
* LaughingMad: In the ''A Christmas Story 2'' vlog, she says Critic doesn't know she's there yet, and giggle {{squee}}s that “surprising” him will be great.
* LikeMotherLikeDaughter: She says in "Cinderella Old vs New'' that she's always drunk, Aunt Despair is her mother, and it's well-established that woman has never been sober. They're also both manipulative (towards Critic in particular, albeit for different reasons) with little concern for others' well being. Hyper herself claims that she inherited being awesome and beautiful from her mom.
* LikesOlderMen: Stalked Joe Dante who is almost fifty years older than her, and actually smiled when she heard 65-70 year olds had taken an interest in her. Despite everything, Critic and Devil Boner are at least age appropriate (though Critic is still ten years older than her and [[VagueAge Devil Boner's age is unconfirmed]]).
* LoonyFan: Constantly breaks into the Channel Awesome studio in order to hang out with everybody and make Critic love her.
* LoveHungry: Keeps begging Critic to like her, even manipulating him with cool pop culture merch to remain her kidnapping victim, and manipulates herself into thinking that everybody loves her.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: We have no idea when or where her stalking tendencies come from, but Critic isn't even the first man she's stalked, and he's tried desperately to make her see that kidnapping someone and forcing them to take part in your delusion isn't love.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: If the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEAfDs2l6y0 second vlog]] is any indication, she can actually have some lucid moments until she thinks about Critic and turns deluded again.
* LoveMartyr: Aside from her MadLove with Critic, there's a trend of her idolizing or at least blindly following horrible people who don't value her (the chart guys and her AbusiveParents) just because they give her the slightest bit of attention. Thankfully her relationship with Devil Boner doesn't follow this trend.
* LovingAShadow: ''The Princess Diaries 2'' makes it very clear that she has no actual affection for Critic, and would rather have him as a CaptiveDate than be a person with his own thoughts and feelings. By her Q&A she can admit she just wanted him because she thought he was hot.
* TheMadHatter: She only rarely has moments of depressed lucidity (like admitting that fan questions get her through the week) before going right back into giggly insanity (like right after sing-songing that they're like her friends).
* MadLove: In the ''Island Adventure'' vlog, when they're talking about Sadie trying to force Lars to love her by lying to him and keeping him somewhere he doesn't want, Doug compares her to Harley and Hyper in that she did a really fucked up thing to try and get someone who is a horrid person anyway.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Attempts to invoke this, as when she's holding Critic prisoner and forcing him to do boyfriend things, she makes him call her actions “delightfully quirky” when they're [[AxCrazy clearly not]].
* MadeOfIron: She's been exploded with a [=PS3=] and has been pushed off a balcony by Critic, and she's shown up perfectly fine and still cheerfully bugfuck right after both of those.
* ManipulativeBitch: Less off the rails and more cunning than she appears. In ''Princess Diaries II'' she proudly tells Critic that she got the BigFancyHouse and the money to hire Benny from her blackmail of a previous stalking victim.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Their individual gender expression [[DependingOnTheWriter depends on the episode]], but Critic often serves as the feminine boy to Hyper's masculine girl, with Hyper constantly dominating him while Critic acts submissive and emotional. "The Princess Diaries 2" emphasizes Hyper's tomboy interests and ends with Critic becoming InTouchWithHisFeminineSide. Note that in "Old vs New Cinderella," Devil Boner mocks Critic as a girl, but later embraces Hyper as an "honorary dude."
* MessyHair: In ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' behind the scenes, Doug makes an effort to choose the most unwashed-looking wig he can find for her.
* MoralityPet: For Devil Boner, her boyfriend. She's the only person who can pause his murderous rampages, and the only one he won't shoot down in two seconds.
* MostFanficWritersAreGirls: Hyper's a {{straw fan}}girl who inevitably does fanfic and shipping fanart. Subverted in ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries II'' when she's kidnapped Critic, and while he thinks he's going to be swamped with ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' fanfiction, she's actually got a ton of comic books to try and prove she's OneOfTheBoys. In ''Cinderella Old Vs New'', she writes fic about her boyfriend Devil Boner and he's happy with that.
* {{Narcissist}}: She overinflates all of her accomplishments (especially as a "famous [=YouTuber=]) while also breaking down at the slightest bit of criticism, with many suggestions that her self-esteem is pretty terrible without affirmation from all her fans. Even after her CharacterDevelopment, she still avoids admitting fault for her stalker tendencies towards Critic, claiming ''he'' was the one who can't get over her and who needed to learn a lesson.
* NerdGlasses: She's a nerdy fangirl wearing chunky black plastic glasses with thick lenses. When Tamara wears the costume without the glasses but with a stalkerish expression in the ''Film/JupiterAscending'' BTS, Doug says she actually looks even scarier.
* NeverMyFault:
** She never actually says anything when Critic tries to get her to understand that they aren't gonna be a couple and what she did was wrong, just looks sad and makes non-committal bobs of the head. She also doesn't believe he doesn't like her until he screams in her face (and he's threatened to kill her if she doesn't leave him alone before), and tells Benny she hasn't learned a thing.
** Plus in the accompanying vlog, she sees Critic talking to Santa Christ, and goes from happy when Santa Christ calls him a douche, to put out when Critic mentions the horrible things she's done, to happy again when Santa Christ assumes he's still in the wrong. Also in the behind the scenes, when Rob as Santa Christ says he's used to her being the douche, played for laughs when she in character shouts “hey!” from the other room.
* NightmareFetishist: Gets creepily excited over violence, which backfires for Critic since his threats to stab her stomach in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEAfDs2l6y0 Hyper Fangirl vlog 2]] just makes her like him more.
** She {{squee}}s really hard at art of Disney Princesses dead from a huge battle and imagining herself as the victor.
** She gleefully enables Devil Boner's violent nature throughout their relationship: in "Old Vs New Cinderella", she stares lovingly at him as he plans to start a random war with Jamaica and gives him a gun with more bullets when he goes after Benny (which she kisses!), in "Old Vs New Evil Dead" they have a mutual thing for holding Critic hostage, and in "Green Lantern" she squees with delight when he proposes to her with a Deadpool cosplayer's severed finger. Not to mention how cute she finds all his violent nicknames for her.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: With Critic, as much as NoHuggingNoKissing can allow. In ''[[Film/ThePrincessDiaries The Princess Diaries 2]]'', she sits as close to him as possible and is about to feel him up when he stiffly leans in for a kiss, and in ''[[Film/AChristmasStory A Christmas Story 2]]'', she has to get a snuggle in when he's asleep but has tried again to convince her she can't have him.
* NotGoodWithRejection: As in literally denies that it exists. Critic pulls a gun on her in the third vlog and she screams and runs away, but is still deluded to be getting a face tattoo of his neck afterwards.
** After Critic drops to the floor when she waves at him (before he reverses time), she puts on a meek face and leaves. But five minutes later, the music stings and she has an angry expression. Note this is before she knew what he was reviewing.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: She's batshit insane and severely deluded, but she's not as gullible as she first appeared, having blackmailed another victim into giving her a BigFancyHouse, and having the sense to keep Critic captive while forcing him to call her ''Film/{{Misery}}''-like behavior “delightfully quirky”.
* ObliviouslyEvil: She has no clue how obnoxious she is, nor fully comprehends even when kidnapping someone how wrong her actions are, it's just she also has no idea of when people are angry with her or want her to leave them alone. The ''Princess Diaries II'' commentary has Doug compare her to a confused child who just keeps fucking up and doesn't understand why she's being told off for valid reasons. In her Q&A, she still considers herself a hero and can't even comprehend people thinking of her as a villain...as the screen shows a picture of Critic tied up and handcuffed from "Old Vs New Evil Dead".
* OnlyFriend: In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' behind the scenes, Tamara says that Hyper only has two numbers on her phone, and one of them is Benny's.
* ThePeepingTom: In her Midwest Media Expo video, she freaks someone out by saying her biggest exploration has been Critic's bedroom, and in her Q&A, she nonchalantly recalls a time she watched Critic showering through his window.
* PerverseSexualLust: She gushes over the hipster looks of the Onceler when she debuts in the review of ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax,'' and in the next episode she has self insert art shipping herself with Spider-Man.
* ThePigPen: In the behind the scenes where she's being created, Rob imagines her as unwashed, and when she shakes Trevor's hand in Anime Midwest, he's disgusted.
* PraisingShowsYouDontWatch: In-universe, she's only excited about Shark Jumping because she hasn't actually watched their show and thinks they're about sharks.
* PrincessPhase: She never left, with an Elsa crown, wanting to live in a castle, Critic insulting her for taking Disney too seriously and even Devil Boner mocking her belief in HappilyEverAfter.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: In the review of ''Christmas Story II'' even though the only boyfriend duties he had were at gunpoint and he's still adamant she'll never get him, he calls her his psychotic kinda ex girlfriend.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: In her fourth video, Malcolm is made uncomfortable by her {{squee}}ing about wanting to MindRape the Critic into falling in love with her and having no idea how twisted that is.
* SilentPartner: In ''Critic Tank'', she has an assistant who never speaks while she's a MotorMouth.
* SkewedPriorities: Forgives Critic for actually shitty stuff he says and isn't sorry about, but would be willing to liquify his insides for different opinions about movies.
* SelfProclaimedLoveInterest: No matter what Critic does in order to try and convince her otherwise, she'll believe even the most violent refusals are a sign of his love. By ''A Christmas Story 2'', he's been broken down enough (while still hating her) to believe this too, and calls her his psychotic kinda ex-girlfriend.
* SelfServingMemory:
** She [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEjjrCDi-eE&list=UUwWxwqgHiD656E7cAWBmO8w refers]] to her breakdown then explosion as “sailing over the air”, “exploding a little bit” and mostly just as a trip.
** A focus of ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' episode, as she angstily sings about her and Critic having fun (when he was kidnapped and when he was guilted into apologizing to her) and Critic even tells her at the end that he remembers these events ''differently''.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Blackmailing Joe Dante gave her the available cash to get whatever she wants. Like when Bennie calls her out on still stalking Critic, she's able to casually throw ten grand at him to get her way.
* SickeninglySweethearts: With Devil Boner. Whenever they're on screen together in "Old Vs. New: Cinderella", they give each other cutesy nicknames, to the Critic's chagrin.
* SmallGirlBigGun: [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BFsBOGYPGnH/?taken-by=channelawesome Like Tamara's caption says]], it's best not to mess with her.
** Also in the beginning of the ''Film/It2017'' review, after she warns the audience about the review having opinions and they heckle her over it, she (at Devil Boner's suggestion, naturally) shoots them down.
* SmallNameBigEgo:
** [[https://www.facebook.com/TamaraLChambers/posts/763741896989363 Word Of Tamara]] is that Critic grudgingly asking for her help stroked her ego enough to create a (now defunct) CharacterBlog. Actually getting noticed by people [[https://www.facebook.com/hyperfangirl/posts/298980763597190 inflates it even more]].
** She also says at Anime Midwest that everyone loves her, when in reality most of the people she ambushes are either really scared, angry in Doug and Critic's case, or trying desperately to be polite.
** She tells her silent assistant in ''Critic Tank'' to make a note that she's great, and assumes a random trophy is for her.
** Critic in the ''Phantom'' review casts her as Carlotta, and she has no idea why “[he] would cast her as an egocentric prima donna”. He responds with pretending to not speak English.
** In her vlogs on Tamara's channel, it's become a mild RunningGag that she sees herself as a famous "[=YouTube=] sensation" with tens of millions of fans.
-->"I always thought that I was universally loved...and I still do."
* SecretKeeper: She gleefully agrees to keep both Jim's and Malcolm's crushes on the Critic to herself, squeeing those are her favorite type of secrets.
* SecretlyWealthy: Critic is shocked that she can afford a BigFancyHouse with a ton of comics, and she tells him that she got it and a lot of money from stalking Joe Dante.
* SelectiveObliviousness:
** Aside from refusing to believe that Critic doesn't want her, her first vlog clearly shows Malcolm and Jim (and Doug) being intensely uncomfortable with her being there, but she refuses to budge until Malcolm squirms that they're friends.
** As Critic vehemently points out to her in ''Christmas Story II'', she thinks every attempt of his to ignore her is him hating the movie instead of her, even though she knew full well that his “I hate Christmas” was just hyperbole and she told Bennie she just wanted to bother him somehow.
* SheCleansUpNicely: She stuns the audience in ''Chipwrecked'' when she walks down the aisle in her wedding dress and veiled tiara. Benny calls her beautiful and Critic even gives a reluctant smile.
* SoreLoser: Gets really upset when she has to admit defeat on anything, even something as small as the original Spider-Man films not getting the point for best romantic interest, even when the only nice thing she can say about Mary Jane is that she has pretty hair.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: It's not quite clear whether her surname is two words or one. It's typically spelt as "Hyper Fan Girl" on social media and in the titles of in-character vlogs, but a few spell it as "Hyper Fangirl" (such as her Q&A video). Hyper lampshades in her [[https://youtu.be/AAeSRUqeo2o?list=PLvj-UkzUV-hm7tbO82E9VyfmEzHBQKrvu hate comments video]] how many fans misspell her name, but she singles out "Fan Girl" as the misspelling, despite that being the spelling used in that same video's title.
* StalkerWithACrush: She really doesn't care that Critic would rather be very ''distant'' friends with her (because he wants the ego-stroking she gives him but doesn't want her), and plans to stalk him even harder by the end of Old vs. New: Spider-Man video.
** After a while of steadily getting crazier in her vlogs, she returns at the end of ''Film/SmallSoldiers'' to break into Critic's house, watch him sleep, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and to make him watch]] Film/ThePrincessDiaries sequel.
* StaticCharacter: In ''Christmas Story II'', she proudly tells Benny that she'll never learn her lesson about Critic not wanting her. Deconstructed in the song “Hyper Fangirl”, as the analysts want her to ''always'' stay like how she is, as there's no use for her anywhere else. She buys it.
** Subverted now that she's no longer desperately chasing Critic, even when her husband isn't around, but she's still convinced that he wants her to pursue him and still enjoys dragging Critic into her life. The later episodes (specifically after her [[spoiler:wedding]]) have her pretty much totally over Critic (to the point where she quickly gets annoyed listening to his rant in ''Film/{{Hannibal}}'') and Critic's previous fear of her almost never comes up, though she's still an egomaniac who can't admit her own guilt.
* StealthExpert: When she wants to be. In the MME vlog, she dances behind Todd and blows kisses at his head, and he [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/588442056055390209 legit didn't know what was happening]].
* StepfordSmiler: In ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' commentary, Doug said that while she tries to be positive and happy and enjoy everything, she's mean and bitter at heart and obviously her stalking is a sign of how bad she really is. A good example of the stepford act breaking is in ''Princess Diaries II'' where she's all smiley about how it's her dream to watch a bad movie with him, and when he asks does her dreams involve torturing him (which she has done), her face falls and admits sometimes.
* StrawFeminist:
** The instant he complains about Tobey Mcguire's crying scenes in the Raimi films, she accuses him of having something against boys having feelings in movies. She only does this so he can say he doesn't have any problems with that, he in fact relates to hating your job.
** Double subverted in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', as when Critic tells her off for not caring about actual feminism but just her physical attraction to Tom Hardy, the meninists get mocked more because they butt in to call the girls feminazis, but the fact that she gives feminist cookies to Hardy for basic decency while being squicked at Patrick Stewart is still meant to be a bad thing.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Doug admits in ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' that she's meant to be a replacement for Douchey, just female, dangerously in love with him and mentally ill.
* SympatheticPOV: Played with in her vlogs. Not that she's not portrayed as fucked up and in the wrong on Critic, it's just that her delusions, inability to read social situations that aren't actually in her favor and her complete disregard for Critic's feelings are more blatantly obvious when she's the one holding the camera. It makes her insidious behavior more obvious, but also makes her more of a TragicVillain (and also plays up her more likeable GenkiGirl qualities). Her post-2017 vlogs also downplay her more nightmarish qualities (since that's more Doug's AuthorAppeal than Tamara's).
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Everything in the house during ''The Princess Diaries II'' is just trying to manipulate Critic's StockholmSyndrome and she has no clue what he actually likes, but her first two episodes show that she does actually like mostly gender-neutral stuff (''The Matrix, Alf, X-Men, Lord of the Rings, Transformers'') with the occasional girly thing like ''Music/TheJonasBrothers'' and ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
* TookALevelInKindness: Contrast her relentless pursuit to make Critic like Christmas again despite him clearly not wanting to see her in ''Christmas Story 2,'' to her calmly encouraging him to take care of himself and [[spoiler:letting him sleep comfortably while she and the other cast members film the Christmas video]] with no ulterior motives in ''The Santa Clause 3.''
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave:
** To everyone in the studio except for Jim and Barney. Critic wants to kill her, Rob and Tamara think she's annoying, Doug too but he's too much of an ExtremeDoormat to say anything, and Malcolm is only polite to her because she gives him the affection he needs.
** Crosses over to ''WebVideo/SharkJumping'', partly because she wants to change Beth and Tim's house into a StalkerShrine for Critic.
** Several episodes imply that she hangs around even more than what we see.
* TragicVillain: She has severe issues like mental illness, a DarkAndTroubledPast and zero actual friends, plus Doug says you ''should'' pity her, but it's made pretty clear both in-universe and out that it doesn't excuse what she's done to Critic or that she's 'owed' him.
* TroubledAbuser: Her DarkAndTroubledPast is vague, but she clearly has one, and everyone in ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' behind the scenes seems to think she's been abused herself. Tamara says she likes ''all'' praise, even from creepy old men.
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Even Critic giving in on something very minor gets a smug “when I win, we all win” comment from her.
** In Old vs New: Evil Dead, her film wins and she's literally victory dancing as an angry Devil Boner has Critic shoved up against the wall and is about to kill him.
* VillainousBreakdown: Completely loses it when Critic rejects her (in a pleading way this time, not using her or being violently willing to shoot her like the past six) in ''Princess Diaries 2'' and ends up electrocuting herself by trying to play the movie again.
* VillainProtagonist: Every vlog of hers counts as ADayInTheLimelight for her, and shows off her fucked up point of view. Episodes where she's on Critic's side may qualify her as a Villain Deuteragonist.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Even if you're Tamara, don't imply that Devil Boner needs better gun skills.
* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: She initially just wants to have sex with Critic because he's pretty, but the more he tries to get her away from him, the more she tries to delude herself that she's actually in love with him. She finally admits in her Q&A video that a big reason why she liked him was because he was feminine and subby.
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: In the ''Princess Diaries 2'' commentary, Doug talks about how she just doesn't understand romance, and even though she does terrible things because of that, she's meant to be pitiable. He also said he'll bring her in for any “abusively done love story” movie.
* WomanChild: She still acts like an EmoTeen, but is as at least as old as Tamara.[[note]]Her Facebook shows she was born in 1984, but her Q&A states her birth year as 1991.[[/note]] This trait gets played with in ''Film/SpiderMan1'' when she dresses and acts like a fancy snob to prove how much the film she used to love is ''totally'' beneath her, but by the end of the review accepts it as a GuiltyPleasure and goes to watch them with Benny in their pajamas.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: She has a talent for gaslighting Critic into thinking he's the bad guy for not wanting her, mostly through self-pity and manipulation. Mostly in the ''Christmas Story II'' ending/accompanying vlog, but this trait was apparent even back in ''Old vs New: Spider-Man'' where she guilt-tripped him for two weeks because he said no to going on a date with her.
** Similarly, she threatens suicide when WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows insults a song she likes, but when he backtracks and calls it the best song ever, she drops the act immediately and just glares at him.
** While Critic does still say he’ll make it up to her, he’s better in X-Month where she pouts and sulks about not getting to fly around like Rogue and he tells her to shoo.
* YaoiFangirl: In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=286TgavfyfE first vlog]], she squees when Malcolm admits he has a crush on the Critic, and again when Jim implies the same.
* {{Yandere}}: Critic waving a gun in her face and shouting that he'll get a restraining order makes her think he's choosing ''her'' as a sidekick, even when she screams and runs away. That's one of ''many'' examples of this trope from her.
* YoureJustJealous: [[https://www.facebook.com/hyperfangirl/photos/a.301681503327116.1073741830.298689220293011/339736599521606/?type=1 She even made a "haters gonna hate" cake for anyone who doesn't like her,]][[note]]Which is essentially everyone in-universe.[[/note]] thinking they're just angry because she gets to be 'with' Critic and they don't.
** Post-[=HyperBoner=], she insists she's no longer into Critic, but thinks he's jealous and still wants her, though he obviously doesn't.

[[folder:Astronaut]]
!!Astronaut
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* FishOutOfWater: She's been in hypersleep for the past fifteen years and is confused about all the reboots.
* NoNameGiven: She's not Tamara the character, as they lampshade, but she never gives her name. Critic mocks her situation by calling her [[Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt Kimmy Schmidt]].
* OnlySaneWoman: Breakdown at the end aside, she stands out for not having any of the usual Tamara-character psychotic tendencies while also lampshading a Critic-review's tropes (in this instance how lazily he goes from conversation to review like the person he's not talking to isn't there).
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: She has a ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001''-parody breakdown when she realizes they're remaking ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015''.
* TriggerHappy: When Critic does a clumsy [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Review-and-Story Segregation]], she shoots him four times in the leg for just abandoning her in the middle of a conversation.

[[folder:Curiosa]]
!!Curiosa

* BaldWoman: As close to the look as they could without Tamara having to shave/cut her hair.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: In the commentary, Doug talks about how sometimes he'll put Tamara in a badass role and she'll struggle a bit because she says she's too girly, but as soon as she got in the Furiosa outfit she was there instantly.
* HandicappedBadass: If you look at behind the scenes photos on facebook, you'll see Jim (who made it and the sets) looking very proud of the prosthetic arm he made for Tamara. She also saves the day in the review, and the meninists (who have already been implied to be the part of the audience that Doug doesn't like so much) whine that she should have let Critic do it.
* MeaningfulName: Is the only one in the ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' review willing to listen to Critic.
* NotSoAboveItAll: She's irritated by the fangirls swooning over Tom Hardy for basic decency to women, but gets into Devil Boner for the same thing.
* StrawCharacter: Unlike the acknowledged many creations that are just there to prove him right and have no argument of their own, Curiosa averts this in that she listens to Critic, but she defends her movie and changes his mind on a lot of points, including on the film's quality as a whole.
* WomenAreWiser: Not that she doesn't listen to Critic as well, but out of respect to how cool everyone thought Furiosa was, she's the smartest in the review and changes Critic's mind on a lot of points.
* WomenDrivers: Downplayed, because she's more interested in defending how good her film is rather than driving when they're under fire.

[[folder:Aunt Despair]]
!!Aunt Despair
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A heavily-wrinkled, alcoholic woman and wife of Uncle Lies, who often shows neglect to her children.

* AbusiveParents: Though more JadedWashout neglect than the active abuse her husband gives. Malcolm calls it going into [[Series/HereComesHoneyBooBoo Honey Boo Boo]] territory.
* TheAlcoholic: Doug reckons she's never been sober, and that she's a “recovering alcoholic” because she's recovering with alcohol.
* AlcoholicParent: She drinks straight vodka and it effects her quite badly.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Zig-zagged. She usually gets along fine with her husband, but her cameo in ''The Santa Clause 3'' shows them in some sort of argument and she also has this to say as the lunch lady in ''Film/{{Hop}}:''
-->You want it to be so boring you'll forget it even entered you? Ha ha ha- ''Don't get married.''
* BadLiar: She's way too drunk to be any good at it, not that it stops her from bullshitting about studio connections. Her daughter calls her out on how many facts she gets wrong when "recapping" Critic's ''Balto'' review. In the ''Film/HomeAlone2'' review, she swears she didn't leave behind Bum Jr. even though her husband later admits that they did.
* BeautyInversion: An impressive make-up job makes Tamara look at least twenty years older.
* CasualKink: A one-off line in ''Film/Hop'' implies she drinks Uncle Lie's urine.
* ConsummateLiar: Despite being terrible at it, Tamara's first name for her is Aunt Deceit and in ''Phantom'' she keeps trying bullshit lies on Critic, and tries to convince Bum Jr. that she wasn't abandoned in ''Home Alone 2.''
* ConspiracyTheorist: She claims [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]] was a fraud put on by Satanists.
* DealWithTheDevil: She has satanic powers that allow her to put words on the screen. How she got them, we don't know.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She and Uncle Lies do think that [[spoiler:homeless people should be given proper care]] and she apparently tries to teach Cliff lessons of accepting others' opinions.
* EvilAunt: Her name according to Tamara is “Aunt ''Despair''”, and treats all the children under her care with slurred contempt.
* EvilIsPetty:
** Proves herself as much of a {{jerkass}} as her husband in the ''Film/CatsAndDogs'' review, as she makes Critic both act like a cat and a dog, and uses the footage to make a clickbait negative review of ''Deadpool'' so everyone will hate him and Fox will take his job away. She also takes a long time to abandon her daughter in ''Balto'', with even Uncle Lies asking what took her so long.
** They kidnapped Mr T’s son for kicks, and blame Critic for it, happy to see him get beaten up.
-->'''Aunt Despair''': He’s the Nostalgia Critic and he remembers it so you don’t have to, though probably not for long.
* {{Gaslighting}}: She and Uncle Lies tell Bum Jr. she didn't abandon her in the ''Balto'' review and that it was probably another kid, though her husband at least remembers.
* GlurgeAddict: As horrible as she is, her main outfit is a purple dress with a twee picture of deers in snow.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: More than likely was one when she was younger, and the only ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' song she takes part in is the bouncy “Metaphor”, complete with her vodka bottle.
* HotGuyUglyWife: By virtue of Tamara having a ton of wrinkles drawn on her face and Doug's only difference is a bad sweater, slicked back hair (later replaced with a toupee) and larger glasses.
* IconicItem: A cigarette is always hanging from her mouth. In a behind the scenes, Doug loves it because it adds that extra dose of pathetic to anything she says.
* IHaveManyNames: The ''Cats and Dogs'' behind the scenes calls her “Aunt Deceit”, ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' review calls her “Aunt Despair” and the behind the scenes of that calls her “Hyper Grandma”. All three are fitting descriptions, though "Aunt Despair" has been canon since the ''Balto'' review.
* JadedWashout: According to Doug, she gave a fuck at one point but doesn't anymore.
* {{Jerkass}}: Fittingly she treats Critic as badly as she does her kids, relishing making his life difficult and once deliberately dropping a phone on his face before staggering off.
* LethalChef: Implied in the ''Labyrinth'' behind the scenes, as she apparently eats cold hot dogs because she can't even cook those. Confirmed in “Cats And Dogs”, when daddy asks what's for dinner and she replies that it's cold hot dogs again.
* LowerClassLout: She's like the embodiment of "white trash", and Malcolm makes it explicit in one of the behind the scenes when he compares her to Honey Boo Boo's mom.
* ManipulativeBitch: In ''Balto'' she manipulates (badly) her daughter into thinking they're in the future and Critic's dead, and when gets caught out, tries to excuse her lying by saying she at least learned something.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', she names herself "Aunt Despair".
* OfficeLady: Her job is a vague "does shift work"[[note]]though she plays a lunch lady in ''Film/{{Hop}}''[[/note]], which after the third shift she needs some booze.
* OutlawCouple: With Uncle Lies in ''Film/XMen1'' where they're being chased by cops and bringing prostitutes back to life.
* PerpetualFrowner: She's only smiling when she's fucking with Critic or being condescending to her kids.
* PetTheDog: Subverted, as she pays lipservice to not wanting to get in trouble for hurting her kids, but really just wants an out to plead innocence.
** Played straight in the ''Film/HomeAlone2'' review where she concedes to the Bum family's different opinions and then lets Critic scream at her and her family for hating Christmas Crunch and assures him that they don't hate him for it afterwards, even calling him a good kid.
* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: She, along with Uncle Lies, think [[spoiler:the homeless deserve to be treated as equals]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Implied in “Cats And Dogs”, as she says “make America great again”, a phrase that's been heavily connected with Republican politics and Donald Trump.
* TheStoner: The 2017 intro has her and her husband ride in on a giant blunt.
* VagueAge: She is at the very least over fifty, though all the wrinkles make her look older.

[[folder:Abused Daughters]]

!!In General

* OnlySaneMan: They tend to call out their parents' or brother's horrible behavior when no one else in the family will.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: One wears baggy t-shirts, likes ''Franchise/StarWars'' and plays with cars, while the other has GirlishPigtails.
* WhiteSheep: Aside from some normal childish brattiness, both seem to be the only non fucked up ones of the family.

!!Red Jumpsuit/Bum Jr
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Her being the subversion (screaming that her parents suck) is what causes Uncle Lies to punish her with scary movies in the first place.
* {{Fangirl}}: She gets all starry eyed about the Critic, which Aunt Despair manipulates in the ''Balto'' review and tries to pawn her off at the end.
* GirlishPigtails: In the ''Labyrinth'' review where she's particularly child-like. Also because Tamara's hair had grown to the length where pigtails can be done.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: She has a teddy bear that she clings to when she's scared.
* HappilyAdopted: Despite being dirty and homeless, she's far sunnier living under Chester and Doe than she ever was with her birth family.
* HasTwoMommies: Subversive example. She's adopted by Chester in the ''Balto'' review who identifies as her mother, and Doe.
* {{Hikikomori}}: In the behind the scenes of ''Labyrinth'', Tamara improvises her as someone who never goes outside and wants a facebook.
* NiceGirl: Melody and Doe are nice, but Melody is a NightmareFetishist (not to abusive levels, but likes dark weird stuff) and Doe complains about the homeless, so it's just Bum Jr who holds the title of "NC Character Who Has Never Done Anything Wrong".
* NoNameGiven: Lampshaded in ''Balto'' when Aunt Despair tells her she'll drink to forget her name, of which we don't know. The "Bum Jr." moniker, which was only used on [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BR9lNb1jCYS/?taken-by=channelawesome a single Instagram post,]] is the closest we get even after her adoption.
* ParentalAbandonment: Both her parents apparently died in erotic asphyxiation and Aunt Despair ditches her immediately after telling her this. Luckily Critic offers [[spoiler:Chester]] as a ParentalSubstitute.
* SecurityBlanket: She ends up clinging and rocking with her teddy bear in ''Labyrinth''. She's clinging to it again and trying to not cry when Aunt Despair abandons her in ''Balto''.
* TearsOfFear: Her sobbing "no Daddy no!" when he tries to force her to love the Barbie doll is genuinely hard to hear.
* ThrowTheDogABone: She's confused and upset and will probably go back to her horrible family, but the end of ''Balto'' gives her actually loving parents with Chester and Doe.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: According to ''Rise Of The Commercials'', her favorite food is Campbells Soup.
* VagueAge: She's at the very least younger sounding than her siblings, as she has a lisp in ''Jurassic Park III'', plays with dolls and stuffed animals, wears a onesie and has a tantrum in ''Labyrinth''.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite Doe and Chester being loving parents to her in ''Home Alone 2,'' she hasn't appeared with them or even been mentioned since that review.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Despite Aunt Despair constantly calling her an idiot, she's bright for a small child and can call out plot holes.

!!Melody
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: She's always wearing something tomboyish along with a girly thing, and so she could easily be non-binary.
* BringMyBrownPants: In ''Conquest Of The Commercials'', she squeaks that she needs to be potty trained again because her dad was so scary
* ElectraComplex: Uncle Lies being "domineering" towards her is her main issue, and what she tries to use the Hulk figurine to deal with.
* {{Fangirl}}: She loves ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' and ''Franchise/TheFlash'', even though she's probably too young for both.
* FutureLoser: Extra depressing because as a result of being abused for so long, she and Cliff go from trying to write movies to having soul sucking accounting jobs.
* NoNameGiven: Until ''Hulk'' gave her name as Melody.
* NotGoodWithPeople: Unlike her brother, she gets upset and twitchy at animals being hurt, and can't get anywhere with her family.
* TomboyishBaseballCap: To differentiate her from her hair decorations sister.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: In her first appearance, she has on a ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' t-shirt with a yellow skirt underneath it.

!Heather Reusz

Along with Aiyanna Wade, Heather Reusz came from WebVideo/AwesomeComics and plays either a TownGirls group with her and Tamara, or her main role as Doe, Chester's girlfriend.

[[folder:Doe]]

* DistaffCounterpart: To Chester A. Bum.
* GoodParents: To Bum Jr.
* NiceGirl: She's a total sweetie.
* InternalizedCategorism: Despite her family being homeless, she ends up arguing that homeless people shouldn't get any support from the government.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: She and Chester are obviously the liberals to Aunt Despair/Uncle Lies’ Republicans, but the latter are the ones who think homeless people should get support.
* SickeninglySweethearts: With Chester. Enough that he cries when she calls him the handsomest man in the world just because she usually says "in the ''universe.''"

!Orlando Belisle Jr.'s Characters

Orlando Belisle Jr. is one of the recurring guest actors for the show, better known as Roger the Guardian Angel and Malachite from ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''.

[[folder:In General]]
!!In General

* DisguisedInDrag: As Catwoman!Halle Berry.

[[folder:Roger]]
!!Roger
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[[ItsAWonderfulPlot An angel-in-training that "helps" the Nostalgia Critic]] in the 2010 Christmas Special, officially called "You're a Rotten Dirty Bastard", and returns in the review of ''Film/ScoobyDoo''.

%%* ButtMonkey
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: His attitude tends to change depending on how Critic is acting like. In Santa-Christ-created "Rotten Dirty Bastard", Critic is being a prick so Roger thinks it'd be best to kill him. In ''Scooby-Doo'', he grudgingly praises Critic for saving the world, and in ''Scooby-Doo 2'', where Critic has got dumber and meaner, it's back to murder.
* LightIsNotGood: Unless GodIsEvil, killing the guy he's supposed to be looking after would have immediately made him "fall".
* {{Parody}}: Of Clarence from ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:He explodes into a ninja costume and proceeds to whup the Critic's ass once he realizes that he would become God's number one man and buddy if the Critic did not exist.]]
* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler:Returned back to life in the second Scooby-Doo review, as per tradition, nobody gives a damn about him, or how he got out of purgatory in the first place.]]
* WhosLaughingNow: [[spoiler:And he ''still'' fails.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Peter Soulless]]
!!Peter Soulless
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A studio executive who purchased the film rights to Creator/DrSeuss' books, and highlighted Creator/MichaelBay's previous films in the 90's. Appears in the review of ''Pearl Harbor'' and ''Film/TheCatInTheHat''.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He doesn't care how awful his films are, as long as they bring in the cash.
* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler:At the end of the ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', Satan drags him off to Hell by collecting payment on his DealWithTheDevil.]]
* FirstNameBasis: In the Pearl Harbour review he was only known as "Peter". Averted later when the Nostalgia Critic informs his last name is "Soulless".
* IgnoredEpiphany: The Critic has to explain he has his WellIntentionedExtremist traits backwards -- the Dr. Seuss books don't need modern slang because they're timeless, and throwing in adult jokes makes them seem childish. He seems to be getting through to Soulless for a minute, then Soulless throws it back in his face.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: There's a few hints he's actually just very misguided and is doing what he thinks is right, but it turns out to be an act.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Sold his soul to Satan in exchange for the Dr. Seuss movies being successful despite completely bastardizing the source material. At the end of the ''The Cat in the Hat'' review, Satan comes to collect.]]
* MeaningfulName: He has no conscience or empathy about destroying the works of Dr. Seuss, as long as his movies are popular and make money. [[spoiler:And he [[DealWithTheDevil sold his soul to Satan to make them successful.]]]]
* StrawCharacter: Rob and Doug admitted in ''The Lorax'' commentary that he and his analysts were just wispy bits of straw for Critic to preach at.
* TotallyRadical: Loves putting hip slang into his movies to appeal to modern audiences.
* VillainousBreakdown: At the end of the ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', he goes berserk after the Critic [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech deconstructs his attempt to paint himself]] as a WellIntentionedExtremist.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He seems to think that his changes to the books to make them into films improve them, like updating them with modern slang and throwing in adult jokes to make it more mature. Subverted with his IgnoredEpiphany.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Angst]]
!!The Angst

A parody of 90s and early 2000s film superheroes who repeatedly invokes and lampshades the expected tropes of the genre at the time. Appears in the ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' review.

* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Has a giant "A" emblazoned on his mask and chest.
* ClosestThingWeGot: Meta-example. The role was written for Malcolm, but he was going to be unavailable, and thus Orlando stepped in. Even when Malcolm got to stick around after all, Orlando played the part.
* DramaticThunder: It strikes whenever he says his name.
* HandicappedBadass: Parodied in reference to Daredevil being blind but having supersenses to the point he might as well be able to see. The Angst is deaf, but his superpowers include superhearing.
* IHaveTheHighGround: He loves to pose dramatically on rooftops.
* LargeHam: Orlando leaves no scenery unchewed; he's constantly grandstanding and talking in a dramatic fashion.
* NinetiesAntiHero: A parody of them.
* MovieSuperheroesWearBlack: And purple.
* {{Wangst}}: [[invoked]] Per his insistence, he has to angst and brood all the time, even if he has nothing to angst and brood over.
[[/folder]]


!Jim Jarosz's Characters

[[folder:In General]]

Also known as the Ghost of Christmas Future, and Quinn from ''WebVideo/DemoReel'', Jim also does the photoshop tricks for the show and minor characters for the sketches.
* TheAce: He's cast as the cool kid in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' review, and in the Truthful Preview at the start of ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'', gets called “that one guy who's better than everyone else”.
* DistressedDude: In the ''Pop Quiz Hotshot'' pilot, while he's not seen after that point, he's kidnapped to design the game show set.
* FairCop: In the ''Film/DemolitionMan'' review, he's the guard that “arrests” Tamara. More clear in the behind the scenes where they jokingly flirt together regarding those pink handcuffs.
* GunNut: According to Doug in behind the scenes, all the guns on the WallOfWeapons are his.
* HeroesPreferSwords: He's meant to be the coolest one in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', and the LockAndLoadMontage has him unsheathe a katana.
* {{Hunk}}: He's Doug's go-to guy in clipless reviews for a eye-candy male character, like Kylo Ren in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', or Kevin in ''Film/Ghostbusters2016''.
* IdenticalStranger: Tamara in her review of ''Army Of Darkness'' asks if him and Jim Carrey have ever been seen in the same room.
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Like Hyper Fangirl and Malcolm he's got a crush on the Critic, unlike those two he's fine with keeping it a secret and just enjoying the eye candy.
* InTheHood: As Ghost of Future Christmas.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: You can't help feeling sorry for Ghost of Future Christmas for not succeeding to scare the Critic, even Critic himself offers to review any movie he wants, even if it was ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''.
* MrFanservice: He wears a lot of tight t-shirts in The Hyper Fangirl vlogs and she loves him showing off his amazing muscular arms. Plus in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', he plays Kylo Ren to prove Critic's point that the character is really pretty.
* RealMenWearPink: He takes zumba dance classes, and says they have more twists than Shyamalan does. In real life, he's the prop designer, set designer and make up artist.
* SharpDressedMan: In the ''Rise Of The Commercials'' behind the scenes, Doug tells him he wears suits really well.
* ThoseTwoGuys: He's generally the second silent guy in the sketches and usually accompanies Doug or Rob.
* TransEqualsGay: Averted. He told Malcolm he was a trans guy, and he let Hyper know he had a crush on Critic, but they're treated as two different things.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Harvey Levin]]
!!Harvey Levin

The editor of TMZ.

* DaEditor: For the TMZ sketch.
* {{Jerkass}}: As the Chief editor of TMZ, the way he tries to dig up people's secrets.
* LargeHam: As Harvey Levin in the ''A.I.'' review.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Malachai]]
!!Malachai

Issac's dragon.
* ChainPain: In the Mentos [[invoked]] RealitySubtext commercial, he beats up Critic's character by whipping him with a chain.
* TheDragon: As [[Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn1984 Malachai, for Isaac]].
* EvilRedhead: As [[Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn1984 Malachai]].
[[/folder]]

!Walter Banasiak characters
[[folder:Father Venkman]]
!!Father Venkman

A man who's so obsessed with Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} he built a religion around it.

* ChurchOfHappyology: He and his community are so devoted to the original Ghostbusters movies that they started a cult religion to worship them and bash the remake.
* EveryoneHasStandards: While he doesn't like [[Film/Ghostbusters2016 the Ghostbusters reboot]] he's not a StrawMisogynist and is just as annoyed when the "menenists" show up as anyone else.
* TheFundamentalist: Over ''[[SeriousBusiness Ghostbusters.]]''
* TheGoodShepherd: As of the "Rocky and Bullwinkle" review he's started acting like a real priest.
* HeelFaceTurn: Becomes a lot calmer and more reasonable when the Critic and the Chicago Ghostbusters spray him with Ecto-cooler soda.
* LoonyFan: Downplayed. While still very much a Strawman, he still made a religion based on the cult to a movie.
* OnlySaneMan: Shares this role with Tamara in ''The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zack Snyder]]
* AdaptationalWimp: The Snyder in this version is a nasal voiced dweeb obsessed with pandering and embelishment.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Along with Michael Bay, they both have a fascination for Female Fanservice, and the trailer narrator suggests that this is a way to overcompensate... while showing clips from both their movies showcasing even more FemaleGaze on muscular men.
* BadBoss: He has to have a Christmas Carol parody to get him to be nicer to his underlings.
* BirdsOfAFeather: With Michael Bay, since both love explosions, loose source material, slow motion, poor representation of military forces and overuse of {{Fanservice}}.
* CampGay: He's bi, but he's completely the jaunty scarf and nasal voice stereotype.
* EffeminateMisogynisticGuy: When he notices that Aiyanna is a girl, he makes her cry by instantly switching her from Captain America to a skimpy Wonder Woman outfit.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He and Bay love explosions and fighting, but would never actually fight each other.
* GiftedlyBad: He's completely naïve about what makes decent film-making, but thinks he's amazing.
* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: In his Q&A, he clearly loves Bay but squirrely denies that they're together.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: He ''really'' wants you to reassure him that he's cool.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: To him, Batman and Superman have been stone cold killers for years.
[[/folder]]

!Groups
[[folder:The Meninists]]
A group of mens rights' activists that debuted in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' who do nothing but rant about the feminist agenda in movies.

* HateSink: They have no redeeming qualities and annoy everyone they come across.
* NerdsAreVirgins: This may be why they're so bitter about strong women in films.
* NoSocialSkills: For all their tough guy talk, they're incapable of speaking coherently to an actual woman.
%%* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Aww" Girls]]
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Debuted in the ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' review, they only watch the Chipmunk movies because they're addicted to all things cute. ''Alvin and Tthe Chipmunks: The Squeakquel'' introduced the "D'aww" Girls, who are the exact same characters.

* CatchPhrase: "Awwww!!" Or "D'awwww!" for the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "D'aww" Girls.]]
* CutenessOverload: Almost always hypnotized by something adorable.
* {{Expy}}: Their outfits are based off of the Chipettes in ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure.''
* FlatCharacter: They exist to gush over cute things and that's it.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: The "D'aww" girls in ''The Squeakquel,'' who are identical to the girls in every way except they have obscure shirts with pictures of countries on them (as a TakeThat to Zachary Levi's character basically being Dave again.)

[[/folder]]


!Recurring Actors
[[folder:Jori and Jason Laws]]
!! Jori and Jason Laws

Better known as the crazy family from ''WebVideo/DemoReel'' and the Adventure Time VLOGS co-hosts, they also contribute as background characters for the sketches. Their daughter Brianna also participates in some of the sketches as well. The two of them also maintain their own movie review site, [[http://forcedviewing.com/ Forced Viewing]].
* AudienceSurrogate: In the AT vlogs, whether it's confused, irritated or uncomfortable, Jason's reaction to Doug's behavior will usually mirror the person watching.
* BigBeautifulWoman: Doug says in “Root Beer Guy” that Jori's got the curves of Mrs Incredible and means that as a compliment, but she doesn't like the comparison.
* DisposableWoman: Jori juices herself at the end of “Too Old” and Doug/Jason act like she's dead (or that her laughing is another voice of Jason's) in a joke that they both admit got milked dry really fast.
* EveryoneHasStandards: PlayedForLaughs in “Betty”, as Jason says while he hates kids and old people, Doug is a horrible person for not wanting to take care of his wife if she was mentally sick.
** As he says, he'll rag on Doug because it's fun to see him defensively rant for ages, but will stop and reassure him about whatever when he needs it.
* FemaleMisogynist: Jori isn't really, but the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' vlogs have Doug and Jason mock her for it whenever she {{Ron The Death Eater}}s Princess Bubblegum, or when she called Flame Princess the creepy stalker while Finn was just "lovestruck".
* HappilyAdopted: Jason talks about it in ''The Visitor'', saying also he's met his birth mom and they get on, he considers his adoptive family his ''real'' family.
* HystericalWoman: Jori (with plenty of helpful mocking from Doug) plays this up a lot in the vlogs, especially with her hatred of Bubblegum that she says in "Lady And Peebles" isn't completely genuine.
* LittleMissSnarker: Bri's (Jason and Jori's daughter) a teenage girl who (good-naturedly of course) teases Doug for his memory issues, and crows to her mom about everyone else liking Bubblegum in “The Suitor”.
* MamaBear: In contrast to her ''WebVideo/DemoReel'' [[AbusiveParents counterpart]], Jori's an awesome one. In "Princess Cookie", she says that if Bri were one of the hostages, she'd slit Cookie's throat in front of Bubblegum.
* NiceGuy: Jason was asked once why he did the vlogs when he doesn't get paid, and replied he just wanted to help out a friend who needed it. There's also all the times when Doug will apologize for something minor (like even just a different opinion) and Jason will reassure him that it's okay.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: At the end of "Lady And Peebles", Jason reminds Jori that, like PB, she's nice but also knows how to defend herself. Jori then leaves upset at the realization that she and Bubblegum have something in common. She also joke-pouts when Jason calls her Bubblegum for correcting Doug on sciencey things in "Jake The Dad".
* ObsessedWithFood: Jason's role as the “Fat Kid” in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' review is to eat as much as humanly possible.
* ParentalSubstitute: Both of them act like it to Doug in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' vlogs, with Jason calming him down a few times by telling him he's still cute and Jori grounding him in "Hitman" and "Too Young".
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: In the Monster Squad Review, "Fat Kid" is a South Confederate.
* RonTheDeathEater: [[invoked]] Jori is so willing to blame Bubblegum for every little thing and act like all the problems are her fault that in "Burning Low" she actually gets pissed off when PB is in the right the whole time.
** Doug has a rant at her when she doesn't know why Ice King likes Betty in the first place because she's apparently “not sweet enough”.
* SingleIssueWonk: [[invoked]] Jori explains in “The Tower” that she wants Bubblegum to be a nice sweet princess, and feels like that's how she's supposed to be (even when everything in the show says she's actually GoodIsNotNice), and so that's why she's so against the character normally. It's basically a case of BlackAndWhiteMorality goggles.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: From "Lady And Peebles", Doug likes to tease Jori by saying she's only there in vlogs to "represent all women's opinions".
* StraightMan: In ''Web Weirdos'', Jason points out that Doug's the animated {{workaholic}} {{cloudcuckoolander}} of the two of them and he's just there to listen, help with the vlogs and reel him back when "[he's] all over the place".
* TokenGoodTeammate: Jason lampshades in "Who Would Win" that he's the one in vlogs that fans want to kick the least, as Jori gets both sexism and complaints about her "Bubblegum is the devil" SingleIssueWonk, and Doug/fandom issues don't need to be documented any further.
* ToughLove: Jason's specialty. As he said in “Jake The Dog” and other episodes, Doug's a good guy who should be allowed to rant about whatever he wants without being mocked or feeling the need to apologize, but needs to brought back to reality and called out whenever he acts stupid.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Jason is frequently seen drinking Mountain Dew in the vlogs.
* WhatTheHellHero: Jason's secondary purpose on the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' vlogs, after helping Doug analyze the show, seems to be bringing him back (or at least trying) whenever he acts too crazy or jerkish.
** Notably in “Holly Jolly Secrets 2”, when Doug is obsessing over the glasses and not the big reveal; Jason notes that as the show goes on he's less making himself get upset over the deep things in the comedy (like in "Donny") and more trying to hide in focusing on things like fries and glasses.
* YaoiFangirl: The boys want it too, but Jori is the first one to ask for SlashFic of Jason and Doug, and enjoys a particularly clingy hug between the two of them at the end of "Hug Wolf".
** In "BMO Lost", she wants Jason to "hit Doug sexy-like", and Robin (Doug's wife) agrees with her that should happen.
* YesMan: Both of them as the TMZ reporters for the Chief Editor.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Barney Walker]]
!!Barney Walker
Doug and Rob's father. He does many of the behind scenes work (instrumentals, costumes and props) and some extras.
* AscendedExtra: Lately, he is very prominent in commentaries and background characters in both the show and the anniversary specials.
* CoolOldGuy: Malcolm and Tamara love him, and he's very nice to them.
** Half his contributions to the commentary on the Disney Afternoon is trivia about the history of Disney, some of the voice actors, and previous inspirations for the shows. He's pretty interesting to listen to.
* DeadpanSnarker: Mostly at Doug in behind the scenes for various reasons, but there's a nice moment in Midwest Media Expo 2015 talking about the TroubledProduction of ''WebVideo/PopQuizHotshot'' and how “benevolent overlord” Michaud just ordered a set built.
* DirtyOldMan: Clearly not in real life, but he's supposed to be a bit creepy when in the fifth hyper vlog he tells her he's applauding her stalking efforts and he's her biggest fan.
* PapaWolf: According to Doug in ''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree'' review, he joined the navy to help support his family.
* SuperOCD: Doug apparently inherited it from him, as he says in a panel that he likes the way comic panels are set up because it soothes his OCD.
* SoProudOfYou: Inverted for laughs in the ''Fantastic Four'' making of, when Doug is wearing his costume, he says “you know fathers always want to be proud of their sons, but what can I say about Doug?”
* TeamDad: Literally. When he's on set and Doug/Rob get into bratty fights with each other, he'll yell at them and they'll stop.
* {{Troll}}: In the Last Jedi behind the scenes, he puts a rebel sign on Malcolm's imperial hat to see if anyone would notice. Rob and Doug complain that they get enough shit for "getting things wrong" as it is.
[[/folder]]


!Real people [[AsHimself as themselves]]

[[folder:Mara Wilson]]
!!Creator/MaraWilson
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->''"Well, so long, Critic. I'm sure now the that the public have seen your brilliant choices as a child, they'll be just as accepting as you were of mine.''"

A former child actress who started in such films and ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' and ''Film/ASimpleWish'', playing herself in a... rather different persona than the roles she's known for. She is currently the WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's neighbor.

%% * AdamWesting
* AntagonistInMourning: She's genuinely saddened after the Chick breaks the news that the Critic died in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee''. Averted when she sees Critic again in the “Monster Mash” review, where she's just disgusted with him and wants him gone.
* BigWhat: Her reaction upon hearing about the Critic's demise.
* CameBackWrong: IMDB.com mistakenly claimed that she died a few years ago... or so we thought. In fact, she ''did'' die, only to come back to life with the power to make her eyes glow and an insatiable desire for revenge. Not against anything in particular, just revenge in general, though the Nostalgia Critic is her target of choice.
* TheCameo: The site's first ''celebrity'' cameo, at that.
* DiabolicalMastermind: Catches the Critic in a rather cruel BatmanGambit to ruin part of his reputation.
%% * EvilCounterpart: Claims to be this towards Film/{{Matilda}}.
* EvilGloating: Complete with OminousLatinChanting as she declares her victory over the Critic.
%% * EvilLaugh
%% * ExactWords: Catches the Critic in this, and proceeds to dish out a HumiliationConga.
%% * GlowingEyesOfDoom: With a RedFilterOfDoom, to boot.
* HumanoidAbomination: Implied. [[http://blip.tv/nostalgia-chick/nostalgia-chick-matilda-6395162 Even more in her second appearance.]]
* NiceCharacterMeanActor: [[FormerChildStar She's come a long way from the cutesy roles she was originally known for.]] In real life, this isn't the case.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: She's extremely well-preserved for one of the walking dead, though. You can't really tell she's undead just by looking.
%% * {{Revenge}}: Her eternal quest, and the reason why she came back from the dead. Though she's a bit vague on who or why.
%% * RevengeByProxy: She once tried to do this to the Chick.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Her Critic appearance makes nothing of her adult looks, but the Nostalgia Chick and Nella notice her boobs rather happily.
* WorthyOpponent: Considers her escapades with the Critic to be "organic".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dante Basco]]
!!Creator/DanteBasco
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->"The time has come to reclaim my honor you dishonorably dishonored by honorably honoring my honorable honor!"

The voice actor of Zuko from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', he attacks the Critic in his countdown of the Top 11 Best Episodes of the show.

* AdamWesting: Plays himself as a delusional nutcase that thinks he's his character, and plays said character as an over-the-top parody of the show's version.
* BerserkButton: Two. Dishonoring the Avatar franchise, and, even when he think he's his character, being confused for another role he's played.
* BeYourself: The Lesson the Critic teaches him. [[spoiler:It doesn't stick.]]
* BigStupidDoodooHead: "You man! You stupid, stupid man!"
* CallingYourAttacks: Shouts "HONOR!" as he shoots his fireballs.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "HONOR!"
* CompositeCharacter: In-universe, of a sort. Though Dante is quite obviously playing like he thinks he's Zuko, there's a bit of [[Film/{{Hook}} Rufio]] in his behavior too, and at the end of the review he starts to think he's [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong Jake Long]] instead of Zuko. Additionally, his portrayal of Zuko is heavily taken from the Ember Island Players in-universe portrayal of Zuko as an honor-obsessed EmoTeen.
* {{Determinator}}: No matter how much the Critic keeps running, he keeps up the pursuit.
* HeroAntagonist: He's only attacking the Critic for dishonoring the ''Avatar'' franchise with his previous Top 11 Worst Episodes list. The Critic eventually talks him down and they settle things peacefully. And when he's not attacking the Critic, he seems perfectly nice to other people as long as they aren't in his way. He's certainly nicer to Malcolm and Tamara than Critic is, sympathizing with the former while Critic's a coward, and telling Tamara that dressing up like a ninja is a nice try while Critic condescends to her.
* NoSell: The Critic's firebending in the form of Mario-like fireballs didn't hurt him at all.
* PlayingWithFire: He can firebend.
* VillainsOutShopping: Takes a time-out from attacking the Critic to read an ''Avatar'' comic and enjoys it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Don Bluth]]
!![[Creator/DonBluth Don Bluth]]
* AsHimself
* CoolOldGuy He can beckon people to the computer through ''VideoGame/DragonsLair'' symbols and take over TV channels, though it's not quite explained yet how.
* DeadpanSnarker: He pulls no punches in mocking the Critic while playing 'Dragon's Lair'. Goes into ''Shut Up And Talk'' as well, as he sarcastically (but affectionately) praises Doug for “not staying on any image longer than a nano second”.
* DeathGlare: Intimidates the Critic throughout ''Conquest of the Commercials'' with nothing but a hard, piercing gaze.
* TheQuietOne: The only time he speaks in ''Conquest of the Commercials'' is him saying he's waiting for the Critic to make his move.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Michael Salvatori]]
!!Michael Salvatori
* AsHimself: He appears to talk about his real-life work on the Flintstones gummies theme.
* TheBore: Subverted. Critic tries to get rid of him because his story about the Flintstones gummies jingle is so boring, but everybody else in the univese finds the story fascinating. It's also revealed that [[spoiler:he's a beloved composer for several well-known video games, so even Critic wants to talk to him after that]].
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: No matter what Critic does to get rid of him, he always manages to return to the couch.
[[/folder]]

!Other Characters

[[folder:Superman]]
!!Franchise/{{Superman}}

->Played by [[https://www.youtube.com/robs70986987 Rob Scallon]] and WebVideo/AngryJoe.
* CombatPragmatist: Why he had to kill Zod and also [[spoiler:[[GroinAttack lasers out Zod's balls off]] to save the Critic]], which even shocks Batman.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: He has one of this when he realizes [[spoiler: he and Batman are [[WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded at a Café discussing the latest events]]]].
* ExpositoryThemeTune: All his opening intro in ''The Man of Steel'' review explains why all his characterization and storyarc is the same as Nolanverse Batman's.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: To Batman. The song in the ''Man of Steel'' review points out that they have the same backstory, the same circumstances and even the same type of costume.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Both Sups and Batman do this with a "Fuck you, Snyder" when it's announced that a movie of both of them, being ''Polar Opposite superheroes'', is on production... Right after the entire ExpositoryThemeTune stated the complete opposite of that premise.
* WhatTheHellHero: Gets this twice from Batman for his CombatPragmatism.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ghost Pony Rider]]
!!Ghost Pony Rider

A pony-fied version of the ComicBook/GhostRider, a skeletal unicorn with a leather jacket and flaming skull who appears for related jokes.
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* CaptainErsatz: He's a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' version of the comic book character.
* FlamingSkulls: Naturally has one.
* HellBentForLeather: His leather jacket.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Uses computer-generated vector art to match the show instead of the traditional animation done for other such characters.
* OddFriendship: Seems to have one with Fluttershy.
* TragicHero: The Critic sings of him as such as a joke in ''Blues Brothers 2000''.
* WolverinePublicity: Invoked, lampshaded and parodied. Aware of the attention the review got from the brony community after the Rider debuted in the ''Ghost Rider'' review, the Critic sings about him randomly in ''Blues Brothers 2000'' and explains to Malcolm that mentioning "pony" in internet videos seems to bring in more viewers.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zack the Psycho Maniac]]
!!Zack the Psycho Maniac

A grown-up version of "Zack the Lego Maniac" from the old Lego commercials of the '90s. He still lives with his grandmother and has graduated from building Lego sculptures to building bombs, which he uses to take revenge on anyone who's slighted him. Played by Jay Chapman.

%%* AscendedExtra: From a commercial.
* BasementDweller: He lives at his grandma's house.
* FutureLoser: The cool kid from that commercial doesn't exactly grow up well.
%%* MadBomber
* PsychopathicManchild: He's still obsessed with Lego and he blows up the people he doesn't like.
* TheSlacker: All he collects now are unemployment checks.
%%* WhosLaughingNow
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ma-Ti]]
!![[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Ma-Ti]]
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The [=TGWTG=] version of the ''Captain Planet'' character with [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway the power of heart]] (or at least someone CLAIMING to be him), as played by Doug's friend Bhargav Dronamraju. Appears in the Nostalgia Critic's ''Captain Planet'' review, the anniversary brawl video, NC's ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' review, ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'', and ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''. Might actually just be a delusional Indian guy with a mysterious grudge against Ted Turner and a [[WebVideo/SuburbanKnights completely unrelated magic ring]], nobody's quite sure. Sadly, his actor has left the series.

* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** "SUCK MY BIG FAT FUCKING '''HEART'''!!! ...''I'm so alone!''"
** After nearly getting raped by Ask That Guy, he gives a YouBastard to the audience before raping ATG himself. Because that's what we all want to see, right?
* ButtMonkey:
** In the one-year anniversary video. ''Everyone'' tried to kick his ass.
** Again in the third-year anniversary, ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''. He wants to join the team's quest, but the Critic continuously sends him away on increasingly ridiculous [[SnipeHunt snipe hunts]] just to get rid of him.
** [[spoiler:All of this treatment REALLY turns out to bite the Critic and the rest of the site's reviewers collective asses in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' when, having had his conciousness merge with [[NegativeSpaceWedgie the Plot Hole]] giving him [[RealityWarper powers over the Awesomeverses' "Plot"]] means he resents the world so much he wants to destroy it.]]
* CatchPhrase: "Heart!", to the point that it's basically a VerbalTic for the character.
%%* ChewToy
* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: After invoking the "Heart!" gag a few times in his ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' review and getting no response, the Critic runs off to find him. Ma-ti is sipping tea and reading Creator/JaneAusten.
* TheDogBitesBack: Raping Ask That Guy in "Ask That Guy VIOLATES Ma-Ti".
* DynamicCharacter: Originally just a one-note joke, the three specials really fleshed him out.
* EverythingIsRacist: His theory as for why he got the short end of the stick is that Ted Turner is prejudiced against Indians. This immediately raises suspicion, since Ma-Ti is ''Brazilian'' on the show…
* GranolaBoy: In "Ask That Guy VIOLATES Ma-Ti", he comes to the house with a leaflet on how to save the environment.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: As of ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''.
* HiddenDepths: As of the Inspector Gadget review, it's apparent that he enjoys drinking tea while reading (and praising) Jane Austen while The Dance Of the Hours plays.
%%* IJustWantToHaveFriends
* InnocentlyInsensitive: There's a joke in the ''Series/SiskelAndEbert'' tribute about him going to the hospital to get his balls removed, which makes him a pussy. Critic tries to set him straight, but he firmly confirms it.
* IWantToBeARealMan: He has such issues with “looking like a pussy” that even Critic (whose gender problems are well-known) points out that he's a little extreme.
* JadeColoredGlasses: He's bitter about life by the time of the ''Captain Planet'' review. Getting subjected to the Critic and his friends doesn't help.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:As of ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''. Unless the Critic ''does'' get around to finding the Necronomicon... He doesn't, and Ma-Ti is still dead. But still involved.]]
* MessyHair: Although it ''is'' Bhargav, he probably can't help it.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: He complains about being 14 years old, even though he was that age back in the [=90s=] when ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' was on. As has been pointed out, he may just be a delusional Indian guy.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: To Critic in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee''. Sage, Film Brain and Critic himself all figure out at the same time that both of them just needed love their entire lives, and need to move on because there's nothing left for them in TGWTG.
* PaperThinDisguise: His disguise is literally just a paper Planeteer symbol taped to his shirt.
* RaceLift[=/=]AmbiguouslyBrown: Ma-Ti is supposed to be Brazilian; Bhargav is Indian. {{Lampshaded}} when the Critic first realizes he's a fake.
* ThrowTheDogABone: He gets to have an amazing, honorable [[spoiler: death and funeral]], despite the Quakers Can.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: He's the one who defeats the all-powerful wizard in Suburban Knights.]]
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: He is a living {{lampshade}} for this trope.
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* {{Transgender}}: Not confirmed one way or another, but Critic watches ''Film/MammaMia'' and because of the suffering involved, assumes he's actually female in a man's body.

* {{Transgender}}: According to Malcolm in ''Film/JupiterAscending'', Jim told him while drunk that he "used to be a woman". It's unclear if he was just rambling or it was InVinoVeritas.

* RealMenWearPink: He admitted that he was crying like a bitch during Film/RunawayBride. When the review is over, he joins the Critic to watch ''Film/TheExpendables3'' while reading Creator/JaneAusten.

* TheStoicL He typically speaks in a tough monotonous voice and keeps his face straight.

* TheStoic

* RageAgainstTheHeavens: She has a ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001''-parody breakdown when she realizes they're remaking ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms''.

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:"The power is yours."]]

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of [[ToiletHumour Fart Jokes]]

* {{Hunk}}: He's never in the {{fanservice}} role for Critic, that's always Doug or Rachel/Tamara, but he still has those muscled arms, pretty smile and big eyes. It's worth noting that at least twice Doug has put on a costume that Malcolm filled out nicely, and it completely swamps him because he's a twig now.

* LargeHam

* NotSoDifferent: In ''Film/BridgeToTerabithia'' he tells Critic to live his childhood fantasies at some other time, but then does the exact same thing. He's not ''as'' bad as Critic though, because when Critic does it again, he agrees with Rachel that they should try working for ''Website/CollegeHumor'.

* NotSoDifferent: A common trend between her, her characters and Critic. She screws with the forth wall in ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', he literally blows it apart in every instance of the opening theme. Malice asks him three times in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' if he's sure he's not as crazy as her, and ends up thinking he's more psychotic than she is. Even goes into the Hyper Fangirl where her choice to stalk Critic is shot like a "Review Must Go On" parallel, and '[[AlterEgoActing Tamara]]' is as frustrated with her as Doug is with Reboot!Critic. Tamara even mocks him for it in the first review, saying they're both too crazy and he'd need to bring a ton of sane and rational people in to level out their insane playing field.

* NotSoDifferent: At the end of "Lady And Peebles", Jason reminds Jori that, like PB, she's nice but also knows how to defend herself. Jori then leaves upset at the realization that she and Bubblegum have something in common. She also joke-pouts when Jason calls her Bubblegum for correcting Doug on sciencey things in "Jake The Dad".

* NotSoDifferent: "PanderingToTheBase by acting like a character the fandom can't get enough of" is an awful lot like what Critic has freely admitted to doing post-comeback, and it's just lucky that his projecting apparently fits what Dante is doing in the episode. [[invoked]]

* ExpositoryThemeTune: All his opening intro in ''The Man of Steel'' review explains why all his characterization and storyarc is the same as Nolanverse!Batman's.
* NotSoDifferent: To Batman. They have the same backstory, the same circumstances and even the same type of costume.

* NotSoDifferent: To Critic in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee''. Sage, Film Brain and Critic himself all figure out at the same time that both of them just needed love their entire lives, and need to move on because there's nothing left for them in TGWTG.

* NotSoDifferent: In ''Film/BridgeToTerabithia'' he tells Critic to live his childhood fantasies at some other time, but then does the exact same thing. He's not ''as'' bad as Critic though, because when Critic does it again, he agrees with Rachel that they should try working for ''WebSite/CollegeHumor'.

* {{Affably Evil}}: She is, basically, a happy-go-lucky adorable child. It would probably be easy to get along with her in a conversation if you didn't know she were a spawn of Satan and ignored her creepier comments.

* ManipulativeBitch: In the end she sings the MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic knowing the minions would laugh at her and Satan for attempting to scare them. [[spoiler: Then she scared them for real.]]

* AscendedExtra: From a commercial.

* MadBomber

* WhosLaughingNow

* BewareTheNiceOnes

* ButtMonkey

* ChewToy

* IJustWantToHaveFriends

** HeartIsAnAwesomePower: As of ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''.
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* AdamWesting
* AntagonistInMourning: She's genuinely saddened after the Chick breaks the news that the Critic died in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee''. Averted when she sees Critic again in the “Monster Mash” review, where she's just disgusted with him and wants him gone. His bludgeoning a little girl to death [[MoralEventHorizon probably had something to do with it.]]
* AsHerself

* EvilCounterpart: Claims to be this towards Film/{{Matilda}}.

* EvilLaugh
* ExactWords: Catches the Critic in this, and proceeds to dish out a HumiliationConga.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: With a RedFilterOfDoom, to boot.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Type R--Revenant. She's extremely well-preserved for one of the walking dead, though. You can't really tell she's undead just by looking.
* {{Revenge}}: Her eternal quest, and the reason why she came back from the dead. Though she's a bit vague on who or why.
** RevengeByProxy: She once tried to do this to the Chick.

** In ''Son Of The Mask''. Aside from burning Critic's hands just for giggles, we also find out that he's good friends with Satan. Rob has actually said (in a Midwest Media Expo panel) that he enjoys episodes like ''{{Devil}}'' better than Santa Christ's old characterization because acting the prick is fun. He's also [[https://www.facebook.com/119355004801944/photos/a.126607124076732.19749.119355004801944/816781221725982/?type=1 called]] the still of using Doug's tie as NecktieLeash one of his favorites.

* TheDevilIsALoser: People started to see him this way after the [[Creator/MNightShyamalan Shyamalan]] movie so he responded by acting like the devil from ComicBook/{{Spawn}} unfortunately he took inspiration from the [[{{Film/Spawn}} movie]] instead of the [[{{ComicBook/Spawn}} comic]]

* EldritchAbomination: His [[{{Franchise/TheMuppets}} Kermit the Frog]] form from the "Spawn" review.

* NiceHat

* CoolShades