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[[center: [- [[Characters/TheNostalgiaCritic Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/TheNostalgiaCriticTheCritic The Critic]] ([[Characters/TheNostalgiaCriticTheCriticTropesAToE A-E]], '''F-M''', [[Characters/TheNostalgiaCriticTheCriticTropesNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/TheNostalgiaCriticDougsCharacters Doug's Characters]] | [[Characters/TheNostalgiaCriticMalcolmsCharacters Malcolm's Characters]] | [[Characters/TheNostalgiaCriticTamarasCharacters Tamara's Characters]] | [[Characters/TheNostalgiaCriticOtherCharacters Other Characters]]]]-]

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[[folder:F]]
* FailureHero: It's very rare that he'll get what he wants or win.
* {{Fainting}}: The emotional kind is played for laughs in his review of ''Film/JudgeDredd'', ''Film/TheWizard'', the "I love you, wife" line from ''Film/LostInSpace'' and he uses fangirls from Disney movies to do yet more swooning over Creator/WillSmith in ''Film/IndependenceDay''.
* FallenHero: In terms of symbolism, WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee had him in a PeacefulInDeath CrucifiedHeroShot as he sacrificed himself before practically becoming God, while ''Film/SonOfTheMask'' had him prostrate himself in front of the devil and weepingly begging for death. In terms of personality, the reboot started with him maiming a cat and it only got worse from there. [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/02d00a1540e9dc860f72092793b8caf2/tumblr_moxptkMjcY1rfwqaro1_1280.png The Master Of Disguise]] dropped another anvil.
* {{Fanboy}}: Whenever there's something he likes, or at least a hammy GuiltyPleasure, he'll be gleeing and enjoying himself immensely. When he's faced with Don Bluth himself in ''Conquest Of The Commercials'' he goes super sonic {{squee}} before he realizes Don is pissed off with him.
* FanHater: While Doug himself is fine with people liking things he doesn't like, Critic frequently judges anybody who enjoys films he considers stupid. Several reviews have given him some insight as to why people enjoy films he hates (such as ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''), but [[IgnoredEpiphany he often rejects them and insists he's always right]]. In the case of ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights,'' he finds the fans so annoying that he outright ''[[ExaggeratedTrope kills]]'' them!
* FantasticRacism: Where he's not actually being racist himself but accusing others. In ''Monster Mash'' he accuses Maven of not allowing zombies like him to get [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything get married in Florida]], and there's a joke in "Why Do We Love Zombies" about raising zombie awareness.
* FeigningIntelligence: In ''The Dark Knight Begins Rising'' when he spews off social issue gibberish analyzing just to get back at The Last Angry Geek (and [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/40488-the-last-airbender Doug]], and [[http://benthesage.com/reviews/aa/anime-abandon-the-guyver-with-nostalgia-critic/ Sage]]) for pointing that coming back from the PlotHole has degraded his smarts.
* {{Fetish}}: Plenty. As stated in a few reviews; masochism, being humiliated, dildos, roleplay, bondage, fingering, licking whipped cream off a hot body, the Chick's firey temper and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick six-breasted cats from outer space]]. Plus he's mixed between knowing ''Film/EyesWideShut'' style orgies are creepy and abusive, but also wanting one to happen to him.
* FlatEarthAtheist: Early in ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'', he vehemently denies the existence of magic. Linkara, who carries a magic gun he only moments ago shot Critic with, gets reasonably angry at this.
* FluffyTamer: He hates meant-to-be-liked animals in movies (and they usually hate him right back), but falls completely in love with the gross ones, like the targ from ''Star Trek III''.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish to the Other Guy's responsible. He's the {{Hotblooded}} PsychopathicManchild who gets wasted by 6PM.
* ForTheEvulz: In "The Plot To Frozen 2", his reasoning for spoiling everything that's going to happen is that he's an asshole.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He, Tamara and Malcolm have a dysfunctional abusive friendship, and they hate having to deal with his outbursts and complete disregard for their safety. Whenever they have the opportunity to take violent revenge on him, they seize it.
* FreudianSlip:
** From the ''A Kid in King Arthur's Court'' review.
-->'''Nostalgia Critic''': Hey, they're actresses first and sisters second, and that's good enough in my porno--book.
** ''Film/BarbWire'': "I remember it so you don't boobies! I mean, boobies, in the boobies boobies..."
%% * FriendlessBackground: And no sign of [[SocialServicesDoesNotExist social services anywhere]]. This comes back in the second episode of ''WebVideo/PopQuizHotshot'', as it's his FreudianExcuse for kidnapping people and forcing them to be his friends.
%% * FriendToAllChildren: Except the [[BrattyHalfPint annoying ones]].
* FriendToPsychos: Explicitly to the Devil in ''Spawn'', as he says going down to hell was fun and he should do it more often.
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[[folder:G]]
* GagPenis: [[spoiler:Thanks to Catherine Zeta-Jones, The Critic is unable to stand up from his chair and walk away at the end of his review of ''Film/{{The Phantom|1996}}''. Even he's embarrassed by it.]] It's also big enough that it keeps thumping against the desk during his review of ''Film/BlankCheck''.
* GeniusDitz: He's silly, gullible and not all there, but he's eloquent when not swearing up a storm, is very fond of black-and-white movies, can apparently follow black hole theories, is disgusted by the lack of history awareness in ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicVoyage'' and has a brain when it counts.
* GenreSavvy: "I know how this works. If I say the entire title that means that I've got to review it next week." [[GenreBlindness He always ends up saying it anyway]].
%% * GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Getting splashed with water is probably one of the nicer ways of doing that.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: In episodes like "A Kid in King Arthur's Court," he gets turned on thinking about lesbian subtext...even if they're also sisters. He justifies it by saying they're just actresses, "and that's good enough in my [[FreudianSlip porno]]-- I mean, book."
* GirlsHaveCooties: Before he hit puberty early, they were cootie-filled loudmouth annoyances.
-->'''Critic''': I don't know, maybe it's my inner little boy, but I just hate this fucking character [Webby], with her pwecious little bow and her cutie-cute dress and those cootie-filled eyes... boys forever! No girls allowed! I'm never going to like girls until the day I die! [shows cleavage] Aww shit, boobs ruin everything.
%% * GirlyRun: Shows off a flaily one in the beginning of ''Star Trek Insurrection''.
* GoGoEnslavement: In the Game Heroes promo. He's surprised and scared that he's wearing a different shirt, so he must have been unconscious and at least shirtless at some point.
* GoingCommando: When he creams himself at the end of ''Film/TheWorstWitch'', he sults that he's wearing a white suit so it's no problem.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation:
%% ** [[Film/BatmanAndRobin A Bat... credit card?]] A ''BAT'' '''CREDIT''' '''''CARD'''''!?!
%% ** "[[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry A cat and mouse]] are driving a ship trying to save the daughter of Franchise/IndianaJones while being chased by a purple people eater, a dog on a skateboard, a performing ship captain, his hand puppet Squawk, two Mexican wrestlers and a doctor riding an ice cream cart. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the [[MindScrew Mind Fuck]]."
** He does this in his ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' review. He has a "WE DON'T CARE" outburst when the chase scene pisses him off.
* GoldDigger:
** Manchild version, mixed with commentary-confirmed StockholmSyndrome. As soon as he sees that Hyper Fangirl has a ton of TestosteronePoisoning comics, he says he's under-estimated the perks of dating a psychopath. [[spoiler: Thankfully by the end he's thinking with his head brain, not his dick brain and tells her he'll never be into her]].
** In ''Film/DemolitionMan'', when Malcolm comes up with a good idea for the seashells, Critic tells him they'll marry and Critic can mooch off his money.
* GreenEyedMonster: Part of why he's a MeanBoss. This is the only thing he has so he's freaked out by people going into his territory and doing it better than him (or so he thinks).
* GrowingUpSucks: A slight variation of the trope, in that every stage of his life has proved to be a disappointment:
-->'''Critic''': "When you're a [[KidsAreCruel kid]] all you can think about is being in high school. When you're in [[TeensAreMonsters high school]] all you can think about is being in college. When you're in college all you can think about is being an adult. And when you're an [[JadedWashout adult]] all you can think about is being a [[ManChild kid again]]. LIFE FUCKING SUCKS!"
* TheGruntingOrgasm: Albeit not a very masculine-sounding one. Whenever he acts out an orgasm, it's about as high-pitched as you can get. Lampshaded by Doug's ''dad'' (because he'd been insulted by Doug previously) in the ''8 Crazy Nights'' behind the scenes video.
-->'''Mr. Walker''': You know with those sounds you make Doug you must have one hell of a home life.
%% * {{Guyliner}}: Most noticeable in the "Top Eleven Dumbest Superman Moments" and ''The Exorcist II''.
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[[folder:H]]
* HairTriggerTemper: Before he mellowed out in later episodes, he was an extremely moody, temperamental and hostile manchild who usually had moments of insane and manic fits of rage when a movie he reviews disturbs him or gets too stupid or confusing.
* HappyPlace: Catherine Zeta Jones wearing a tie, glasses, a baseball cap and a long sweater is the best ever image he can conjure up. As a kid, it was a naked April O'Neil covered in whipped cream and chocolate sauce.
** Less sexually, commercials. As he puts it: "It's like they exist in their own little world, a world that wants to scam you and be nice to you at the exact same time. Something about them strangely gives me comfort."
** DarkerAndEdgier in ''Disney Afternoon'', as he's trying very hard to forget that commenting on cartoons is a current thing he does, and gets violent or depressed at any intrusion of reality.
** At the end of ''Film/TheShining'', of course parodying the movie, the inside of Critic's head is a house, with a wall full of demented pictures, and himself surrounded by people.
** When he's knocked out with a baseball bat in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'', he's happily skipping in a purple meadow with birds flying behind him and pretty music playing.
* HasAType: Aside from being an AggressiveSubmissive AmazonChaser, he tends to like shorter brunettes, the more fucked up in the head the better. A joke in ''WebVideo/TheUncannyValley'' review lampshades this, as he's so repressed that his fantasy is the very blonde (but still playing psychotic) Jessica Lange. He also likes confident and charming black men like Will Smith and Ernie Hudson.
* HatesBeingAlone:
** In ''Film/JudgeDredd'', when given the choice of living in an abusive care home or walking alone until death, he chooses the former.
** He kidnapped Malcolm so that he could have a TokenBlackFriend, and installed a chip in his head so that he blows up if he tries to leave Chicago.
** In ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'', he's disappointed at having to do the review on his own and with [[ContinuityNod nobody to bounce off of]].
* HatesBeingTouched:
** He gets really skeeved by touchy feely in the reboot. So naturally he gets nearly everyone in his personal space, from Santa Christ to catwomen.
** In a specific-person example, he's shrunk back from Hyper twice when they've had a close conversation (mostly involving trying to get her to apologize for what she did to him), and just holding her hand in one of her vlogs makes him shudder.
%% * HatesSmallTalk: The awkward, filled-with-this date with the Chick drove him to breaking point.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Zig-zagged. While he sometimes gets into sexually-charged situations with male producers without making a big deal of it, he just as often catches himself fawning over male actors (notably Creator/WillSmith and Creator/HughJackman) and reminds the audience and himself how attracted he is to women.
-->'''Critic:''' [slaps himself after fantasizing about Will Smith] BOOBS! YOU LIKE BOOBS!
* HearingVoices: The voices of the kids who bullied him over ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' echo in his head, alongside genuinely creepy laughter.
* SheCleansUpNicely: In the Chick's ''Worst Witch'' review, despite the ridiculous wig, he manages to pull off an all-white suit quite impressively. Chick gets a little annoyed by how Elisa and Nella suddenly fangirl over him when he arrives.
** He looks better in Linkara's shirt and tie than [[http://blip.tv/at4w/at4w-superman-for-the-animals-1-6879891 Linkara does]].
* HeelRealization: At the ending of ''Matrix Revolutions'', Malcolm and Tamara are themselves again, and Critic notices that they haven't smiled in a while, and that's his fault. Though he's abusing them even harder by ''Film/DemolitionMan''.
* HerCodeNameWasMarySue:
** Critic in the title cards is far more villainous, masculine and competent than our version.
** In ''Film/TheMatrix'' review, he's TheChosenOne and it's his destiny to tell people why the film wasn't actually that good. As one can gather, when he complains about it Tamara tells him he wrote it so shh.
** Lampshaded in-universe at the beginning of ''Sharknado'', where Snob says he doesn't actually need Critic's help, he's just following the script Critic wrote.
* HeroicBSOD:
%% ** Has one during ''[[BlackComedyRape Spooning With Spoony 2]]''.
** Also, the Critic's "mourning" of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' a la ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' seems to have him rather depressed.
** ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'' has him starting the review feeling like he just got raped.
** The Critic opens the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' review like this, apparently still in shock from the insanity of the show.
** Another one happens in his ''My Pet Monster'' review, where in the end he gets asked by the producers of the movie why he is reviewing kids movies and getting incredibly wound up by them at the age of 28. He decides he needs ask himself some hard questions, and spends the credits just sitting on a chair while sad music plays. The depression lasts until the next week where he's pigging out on junk food, his self-esteem is six feet under and he would have given up completely if it hadn't been for an epic HesBack number.
** ''Film/BabyGeniuses'' had him aimlessly wandering around Animarathon recalling that the movie was so horrible it left him unable to review it. He scares a random cosplayer, angsts a lot in his hotel room, punches a guy's lights out, screams at the convention audience in his Q&A panel and stares at the wall three times, each time forcing himself to look away. He snaps out of it when he realizes that his inner monologue counts as a review.
* HeroicSacrifice: At the end of ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', [[spoiler:The Critic joins with the Plot Hole]] to save the universe.
%% * HeroicSuicide: Twice, in ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' and ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee''. They have noble reasons, but both times he's happily relieved to be ending it.
%% * HeroWorshipper: "Lucas! ...darling."
* HeManWomanHater:
** He plays himself up as a sexist he-man in ''Film/Catwoman2004'', which only draws the ire of the catwomen.
-->'''Critic''': Suck my sexist women-bashing chauvinistic stripper-watching porn-loving overly paid dick!
** Lampshaded and played for laughs in the ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' review, as he starts out the episode with "boys rule!", praises treating the sister badly because "that'll teach girls for not indulging our prejudice" and treats Tamara awfully throughout.
* HesBack: After spending the his first commercial special depressed and ready to quit reviewing, he sings a kickass song and says he's proud of his patheticness at the end. It might not have lasted, but it was still a proud moment.
* HiddenDepths: He knows his Chinese, he plays the clarinet, his childhood idol was Film/MaryPoppins and he's a Shakespeare and Greek Mythology buff.
%% * HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: His childhood and the TraumaCongaLine that went on is built on BlackComedy.
* HolierThanThou: To dig the knife into Sage even more after the events of ''The Guyver'', ''Lady Death'' reveals that he keeps sending the guy rosary beads because he ''still'' thinks he's evil.
%% * HolyHalo: Behind his head in [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/images/stories/front/ncearly.jpg this picture]]. It should be noted that with all the red and the threatening sword, the halo is not a good thing. (Link is dead, add real context before uncommenting.)
* HonorBeforeReason: He couldn't stop himself from saving a little girl in ''Care Bears II'' even when he knew it was a trap (thus getting himself kidnapped), and he still tried to protect his team against [[WebVideo/SuburbanKnights Malachite]] even after his groin must have been smashed into jelly.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: While easily being able to spot ObviouslyEvil in the movies he looks at, he's not so good when it comes to people in his own life. WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick and WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses are perfect examples.
* {{Hotblooded}}: He finds it incredibly difficult to hide any emotion, whether it's happy, depressed or angry.
* HumiliationConga: Pretty much the entire reason for the existence of the ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'' review is because the Critic was forced at gun-point to give a ''positive review of a movie everyone liked'' to rectify the public's shameful opinion of his first (and probably last) LetsPlay, which was posted a week earlier.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Doug put "Is It Right To Nitpick?" up on facebook noting the irony of Critic preaching about the subject.
** Sage calls him right out on this new trait in ''The Guyver'', telling him he has no right to bitch at other people (which he did) for enjoying something stupid and not letting anything go considering he does both things all the time.
** At the end of "When Is A Movie Just A Movie", after saying that it's your own problem if you get hurt by a movie and playing the [[invoked]] MST3KMantra song, he says that ''he'''s allowed to get upset at movies.
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[[folder:I]]
* IconicItem: His tie has become this, and his gun to a lesser extent. The former becomes somewhat important in ''Film/ScoobyDoo'', where it's only half-done when he's broken but tied properly when he's giving the poker game a shot.
* IconicOutfit: Baseball cap, white t-shirt, black suit jacket and a loose red tie. (And jeans of course.)
* IdenticalStranger:
** He shared a great resemblance to comic book writer Creator/EdBrubaker, known for his run on ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. And yes, that does make his review of the Matt Salinger ''Film/{{Captain America|1990}}'' movie hilarious for those that follow Captain America more than they do the Critic.
** In the ''Transformers 4'' crossover, Erod gets him confused with Creator/EdwardNorton.
** In "Curse of the Commercials," he's shocked how much a kid in a [=McDonald=]'s commercial looks like him as a child, and wonders if he had a twin brother he never knew about.
* IGaveMyWord: He might despise the movies he's forced to sit through, but if he's promised to do them then he'll try his best to get through the pain. Even for the ''Star Wars Holiday Christmas Special" he only put up a bit of fight before giving up and doing his job.
* IgnoredEpiphany:
** At the end of ''Film/SurfNinjas'', after having a DyingDream where he likes it, he says he'll never like anything ever again. The next episode after was the "Top 11 Nostalgic Animated Shows", so that really didn't last.
** He feels guilty and confused over driving the analysts in ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' to suicide, but quickly gets over it. Later in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'', he references it being his fault that they died but doesn't feel bad.
* IHatePastMe: ''Christmas With the Kranks'' has the Critic travelling back to 2007 so the review would be a "no effort deal' like his early videos. Eventually he has arguments with his past self and his modus operandi. But at the end, he remembers why he did the reviews in the first place (to be loved).
* IJustWantToBeBeautiful: In his "Film/WhereTheWildThingsAre" editorial, he briefly mentions feeling ugly and imagining himself as pretty.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: The business in the ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'' was partly HappinessIsMandatory and partly he really needs people to like him again. Another instance of showing just how bad this is, he's overflowing with joy at the end of the Anime/LittleNemoAdventuresInSlumberland review because "he's never felt so loved". Seeing as he's only being celebrated because he didn't make a ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' joke... oof.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: He kidnapped Malcolm to force him to be his TokenBlackFriend (and chloroforms him occassionally when he gets mouthy) and WebVideo/PopQuizHotshot has him kidnapping people because he's never had any friends and craves them.
* IJustWantToBeYou:
** He went from having an open crush on Creator/WillSmith in the ''Film/IndependenceDay'' review, to saying every guy is jealous of Smith in ''Film/AfterEarth''.
** In the ''Top 11 Disney Princess Conspiracy Theories'', he includes himself in wanting to be like one of the Disney princesses.
* ILetGwenStacyDie: The videos after [[spoiler: Ma-Ti's death in WebVideo/SuburbanKnights]], especially the [[DespairEventHorizon Scooby Doo review]] show how much the guilt is affecting him to break down that much.
* ImAHumanitarian: Taking TestosteronePoisoning and RealMenEatMeat to the overcompensating extreme, he takes a bite out of a heart in the beginning of ''Film/DemolitionMan''. In ''[[WebVideo/PopQuizHotshot David Bowie's Codpiece]]'', he calls eating "people" delicious.
* ImmortalityHurts: In ''Film/SonOfTheMask'', Evilina strongly implies that to punish him for his stupidity in coming down from the PlotHole, he'll have to live forever. (Until her dad comes for his soul anyway.)
* ImmuneToDrugs: He's taken ketamine, mixtures of nyquil and vicodin, tylenol and hell knows what else, and he hasn't been found dead yet. He also survives the "90% morphine" fuckitall at the end of ''Blues Brothers 2000'', only forgetting his own name for a while whereas commercial!Tamara died from it.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: The "Top 11 Best Avatar Episodes" confirms that his weapon is ''meta'', that being the only way he can protect himself with everything else failing.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Particularly bad reviews will have him reaching for stuff like Jack Daniels or Jagermeister. ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'' had him reaching for progressively larger bottles, culminating in one larger than ''he'' was. When he reviewed ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTheTitanic'', he had a skyscraper-sized bottle flown down via helicopters.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: His screaming rants are akin to little boy tantrums and Doug revealed he shouts at things because what's on the screen is scaring him, he can't hold onto being the "bad guy" for very long and he's easily prone to crying.
* InelegantBlubbering: His knowledge of a traditional breakdown is one where you're puffy-eyed, sniffing, snorting and can barely talk.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: He finally breaks down and says in the CR crossover that he doesn't want anyone going into his territory because they'd do it better than him, while the "Commercials Special" goes into his lack of self-esteem even more.
** Doug talks about it and Critic's relationship with others in the WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee commentary.
-->I usually find with a lot of insecure people, their closest friends, the people they depend on the most on for love, they can be the nicest to, and they can be the ''cruelest'' to.
%% * InformedAttribute: His AVGN-style song brags that he's the world's biggest and greatest cynic. If you say so.
* InformedFlaw:
** He's regularly making fun of himself for "screaming every other line", which is funny, but hasn't been relevant for the past few years. [[spoiler:Justified in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', where he uses it as an excuse of why he hates himself and nobody needs him.]]
** A slightly confusing joke in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' has Malice (for the second time) assuming Critic escaped from an asylum, this time because of the way he's dressed. Critic then reacts by telling her when she's dressed weird it's crazy, when he dresses weird it's avant-garde. A messy suit really isn't all that strange. [[spoiler: again explained later, as in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'' he's forced to realize that it has nothing to do with "avant-garde", his clothes were picked out just to appeal to female viewers]].
* InnocentlyInsensitive:
** Much like HorribleJudgeOfCharacter; fine with movies but sucks in real life. He doesn't get that being nice to Luke in front of Film Brain, congratulating the Chick on being a female version of him or assuming Chester didn't need the residuals of the BigLippedAlligatorMoment meme, would most definitely piss them off.
** He's been on purpose mean to Chester plenty of times, but genuinely feels bad about attributing his mental illness to assuming he's an alien at the end of ''Dreamcatcher''.
%% * TheInsomniac: Nyquil and Vicodin together? Ain't so healthy.
* InsufferableGenius: The Critic is a pretty intelligent and rational person but he can also be very stubborn, arrogant and opinionated at the same time.
* InsultOfEndearment: In ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'', the Chick called him a "stupid sack of shit" in the fondest tone she's ever had.
* InternalizedCategorism: He's Catholic and yet the religion is one of many on the list he's prejudiced against. The reloaded reviews, especially regarding WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee, are one of the more literal examples of internalized homophobia, as he ends up bitching a lot about whoever made this (i.e himself) must be gay.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: He's a girly, overgrown kid with a vast array of cuddly toys. In ''Garfield 2'' he thinks turning the estate into a spa "sounds lovely".
* InUniverseCatharsis: Shooting things mainly. When he was a child, it was particularly goofy acting, the kind that he would want to bury from the public forever.
* InVinoVeritas: Phelous and Snob get pretty shocked when they see him vulnerably hanging onto The Other Guy and totally wasted in their "Troll 4" review. We aren't, because we've seen it before -- just a facade.
%% * IResembleThatRemark:
%% ** He doesn't exactly defend himself well when Phelous jokes that he's an [[Film/ChildsPlay evil, insane, catchphrase-spewing doll]].
%% ** Thanks to his clothes, everyone (in reboot anyway) thinks he's a hipster, and as analyst 1 in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'' points out, it's not like he doesn't have hipster traits.
* IWantToBeARealMan: So desperate to be manly in reboot especially, though as he admits in "David Bowie's Codpiece", the only manly thing he feels he has is a penis, which is why he wears tight pants to accentuate it.
* IWorkAlone: In ''Bloodrayne'', he hates having to follow the tradition of having Linkara and Spoony review the movie with him, and tells them to piss off with no slapstick like before. They get their comeback with a pie in his face.

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[[folder:J]]
* JadedWashout: Best summed up here:
-->'''Critic:''' Look at you, you had such dreams ahead of you, such promise, you were perfect back then -- okay you had stupid glasses, teeth like a chipmunk and a dumb and dumber haircut that only got dumb and dumber -- but you had such hope.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's stubborn, egotistical and prone to anger and extreme violence. He fiercely protects kids but has no patience for annoying dogs, he trashes other people's nostalgia but can't make it through ''Follow That Bird'' without {{squee}}ing, he's demanding of Chester but is the only one to give him money and a place to stay, he's a bastard to people but is so very loyal to the ones he cares about, he has a temper but heartwarming moments come regularly... let's just say this guy can get complicated. His review of ''Film/IllBeHomeForChristmas'' shows that in a stark contrast to D-Bag, he genuinely cares about the people in his life like Santa Christ and Chester. It's especially heartwarming with the latter since he threatened him to hurt him if he didn't make another Bum Review and yet in the end, he tells him to take his time. He also decides to let him and his fiancée stay in his house.
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%% * {{Keet}}: When he's actually enjoying himself.
* KickTheDog:
** Played for BlackComedy, but how he treats animals - gleeing when dogs have a chance of dying, throwing rocks at pets to see if their owners laugh, chucking a spider through a window because he's scared of it - will remind you that he's a PsychopathicManchild if you ever forget it.
** In ''Master Of Disguise'', he tosses out a "happy birthday" to Rachel (which is all she wanted) after he beat the shit out of her and fired her.
** Mocking a [[Creator/AnnaSophiaRobb fourteen year old girl]] for quite a few minutes because she was "too pretty" in ''Film/BridgeToTerabithia''. He lampshading the audience's "wtf" reaction by mocking another kid in ''Film/TheShining'' and letting them know it was at least meant to be a douchey thing that he was just going to be doing now.
** In the ''Film/ManOfSteel'' review, making it very clear he doesn't care about Joe's abuse, especially given his own history. And when Joe actually wants to explain something, ignores him completely for a picture of naked Emilia Clarke.
** Literally in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lejPief-1EA&feature=youtu.be original]] ''Film/FaceOff'' ending, as Rachel is in a box about to be shipped off to California, and he kicks it while saying "good riddance".
** Even after everything that happened in ''The Guyver'', according to "Lady Death" he still sends Sage rosaries because he doesn't get that, out of the two of them, Sage isn't the one in need of help here.
** In ''The Dark Knight Returns'', gleefully making Brian sad by reminding him that Critic is still more popular after getting caught out for his TookALevelInDumbass moment of thinking Two Face liked the number three when he kept wanting sets of two.
** Knocking Chester out with a baseball bat in "Nostalgia Critic Talks Transformers 4" was bad enough, but hitting him again just for believing his "be nice" speech was just mean.
** In ''Disney Afternoon'', shoving Malcolm's hurt shoulder because Malcolm is suffering from the beatdown Critic gave him and hasn't learned how to repress pain yet.
** Literally again in the ''TMNT Christmas Special'', when he's using Tamara as a footstool and kicks her in the back when she talks.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Usually done with The Last Angry Geek. Like when Geek put massively pricey, not needed shoulder pads on his bill, he said he was going to stop the Geek's show.
* KidAnova: After calling a kinky fantasy starring [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles April]] every kid's dream, he defensively reminds people that he was an early bloomer.
* KiddieKid: At first it sounds like he's being sarcastic about acting like a monkey in eighth grade, but then he turns out he actually did.
* KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: When he watched Cool World as a young'un, he ran for the exit like the screen was on fire.
* KleptomaniacHero: In "Holiday Clusterfuck", he steals a woman's money after the Christmas stress drives her to suicide.
* TheKlutz:
** He managed to get three slashes on his right arm visible at 6.24 in the ''Film/Catwoman2004'' review, bruises on his mouth in the ''Film/JurassicPark'' review and a big cut across his neck at the beginning of ''Turbo''. In the ''Film/SonOfTheMask'' commentary, Doug asked very strongly to ignore them, especially marks from where he can't seem to stop hurting himself shaving.
** Parodied when Phelous throws a sock at his head. He falls around his house so much that he ends up shooting himself with his gun.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: He was as shocked as we were when he got to interview the crew of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' and they had actually liked his stuff. Same thing happened for Ebert enjoying his tribute and "Christopher Walken"/"Vincent Price" knowing who he is.
%% * KubrickStare: He often makes this expression (the grimacing kind) while reviewing movies that are frustrating him, most notably in ''Film/{{North}}''.
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* LackOfEmpathy:
** In his amnesia state for the anniversary reviews. He's confused as to why everyone is mourning Ma-Ti's death in ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'' as a "small Indian boy is no big loss", and he only just barely stops himself from calling WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee-Critic a girl for showing off emotion.
** In ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet'', his initial reaction to "making people feel better" is "who gives a shit?"
** Subtly played in ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', as Critic gets all the memories from Doug's vlogs (which would include the times he talked about having [[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/the-last-airbender-vlogs-nightmares-and-daydreams-6618162 nightmares]], [[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/the-last-airbender-vlogs-the-awakening-6617306 how it feels to be a failure]], and [[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/the-last-airbender-vlogs-the-desert-6612841 knowing about grief]]) and feels pain, but when they meet up and he's back to HotBlooded, ignores Doug's repeated attempts to have Critic actually get his name right.
** Despite having a horrible childhood himself, he cares nothing for Joe having flashbacks to his father abusing him.
** When he kills a Happy Madison audience in ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'', he fakes a moment of silence for them and deadpans a "that was fun".
** While trying to get Rachel back in the beginning of ''Film/FaceOff'', he tells her to "throw away your future for my personal needs".
** Commercial!Malcolm asks him for help because Commercial!Tamara's foaming at the mouth, but Critic doesn't even look at them because he's too busy getting on his Blues Brothers soapbox.
** In the ''TMNT Christmas Special'', his love of Christmas destroys the world. He's upset about this for a second until he's more interested in doing a review. He also treats a hurting Tamara like a punching bag, though he gets punished by being eaten by zombie for that.
** Chester dies in ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', and while Beth and Tim are horrified, Critic doesn't care and calls "murder a total aphrodisiac".
** In "Smurfs 2'', when he doesn't care about her abusive grandfather, Tamara stays disgusted at him for the whole review considering his own past.
%% * LargeHam: WordOfGod says that the hamminess comes from WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, Jack Lemmon's performance as Professor Fate in ''Film/TheGreatRace'', and the Red Queen from the Disney version of ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''.
* LaserGuidedKarma:
** Usually he wouldn't deserve getting beaten and tortured with a pitchfork by an AxCrazy guy who was pretending to be blind, but after stating that he was about to bludgeon said guy to death just for a movie, he kinda does in this instance.
** In 2019, he gets a deliciously nasty punishment for being obsessed with money, rejecting his PlotHole happy ending and being both sexually repressed and abusing his underlings because he needs power: [[spoiler: having the site getting taken over by Snob, and being forced to do nothing but be his SexSlave]].
** In ''WesternAnimation/FoodFight'', his sole motivation for doing the film is to get himself a ton of money and hits, yet when he gets told it didn't work because the net is fickle, he has a meltdown.
** As cruel as it is, he doesn't give a shit when Donnie's mom killed herself for his AesopCollateralDamage, so it makes sense that he NeverGotToSayGoodbye to his own mother.
** In the ''TMNT Christmas Special'', he's been abusing Tamara the whole episode, and gets his just desserts by being attacked by zombie-Malcolm.
* LaughingMad: In ''[[Film/TheNeverEndingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia The NeverEnding Story III]]'' review, after finishing the movie and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation getting mad]], in ''Chairman Of The Board'' where he laughs manically when he gets the meaning of Edison's name, when ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' ruins the one funny joke they had and when Zack shows his new haircut in ''Series/SavedByTheBell''. That last one gave him an orgasm.
* LastNameBasis: Everybody, friend or foe alike, unfailing calls him 'Critic'.
* LeaningOnTheFurniture: In a brief cool moment, he leans against the wall while the Grinch narrator is talking.
* LickedByTheDog: Even though they have their arguments, Chester always calls him nice and will be the first to defend him. Lampshaded in "I'll Be Home For Christmas'', where he says Chester has always been kind to him, and he's been more... mixed in response.
* LikesOlderWomen: As a sign of how desperate he is (and how pretty the grandma looks in "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer"), he asks in said review if any attractive eighty year old women are single and gets roundly booed.
* LimitedWardrobe: According to the drawing in the Willy Wonka episode, he's worn the same clothes since kindergarten.
* LiteralMinded: To give an example from ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach''.
--> '''Earthworm''': Remember what your parents said, James!
--> '''Critic''': ..."Look out, a rhino"?
* LittleBitBeastly: Coming back from the future of seahorses gave him a temporary tail, though [[InformedAttribute we don't get to see it]].
* LivingOnBorrowedTime: Post-reboot, he's soulless, has accepted he's going to hell, and two episodes (Maven's "Monster Mash" and his "Why Do We Love Zombies") cast him as a zombie, reminding everyone that he's not meant to be alive. In the former review, Maven literally calls him a "reanimated dead guy".
* LockedOutOfTheLoop:
** He complains in his ''Film/ErnestSavesChristmas'' review that nobody ever tells him things like why the dinosaurs died out.
** During ''Bloodrayne'', in a nod to Doug being on his honeymoon and so not being involved when the firing actually happened, Critic too is totally confused when Linkara starts to go on about the ElephantInTheLivingRoom regarding Spoony.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Ever since coming back from the PlotHole, he's more alone than ever and doesn't even have Rob or other producers trying to look after him. Episodes like ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise'' or ''Film/SonOfTheMask'' feature this issue prominently.
* LonelyRichKid: Evidently the only way his parents could give him any kind of love was to give whatever kind of toys he wanted.
%% * LongHairedPrettyBoy: When he was sixteen.
* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Even in 2009 he was forced to admit that his sex life is a complete clusterfuck.
-->'''Critic''': Ain't love a bitch?
* LoserProtagonist: He lives with his abusive mother, has a load of issues, his job is the only life he has and the other one was being a CrustyCaretaker, doesn't particularly have a lot of talent and has NoSocialSkills. The knowledge of all this hits him like a ton of bricks in ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' and he spends WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee trying to fix it.
* LovableCoward: He gets freaked out constantly and driven to tears by things he could just turn off, but he's fun to watch.
* LovableNerd: Being played by Doug certainly helps.
%% * LoveBeforeFirstSight: It's lucky that Lindsay!Chick had so much chemistry with him, but from the way he acted in the "Search For The Nostalgia Chick", he was going to be in love with whatever woman won.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Soulless getting tortured because of him gets a grim but happy smile, and that's what we end ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' review on.
* LoveRedeems: Disney can bring him back from being a psychopath and his enjoyment of Christmas can never be broken.
* LustObject:
** Spoony has lust for everyone, but he's ''really'' proud to have Critic as a conquest. And we're guessing he didn't blackmail others or break into their houses.
** The Hyper Fangirl storyline is all about how he's one for said fangirl, who keeps breaking into his house with the intent to make him her romantic property, which he's violently against to the point of threatening to kill her for not leaving him alone.
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%% * MaddenIntoMisanthropy: His temper usually builds up using this method.
* MadeASlave: In 2019, Snob takes over the site and Critic is forced to do nothing but serve him sexually.
* MadeOfIron: Lampshaded (and meta'd) in "The Best Avatar Episodes" when Critic complain-asks how his body can take so much abuse.
* TheMadHatter:
** Already crazy in the original run, in the reboot, he's more accepting/embracing his growing crazy (partly because he has more power) and openly says at the end of the ''Film/GhostRider2007'' review that "a new year of madness is on the way".
** Lampshaded in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' when the CuteAndPsycho Malice assumes three times that he's escaped from a mental asylum, and Critic never gets offended like a normal person would be.
** Lampshaded loudly and violently at the end of "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer", where Critic is free from sedation chains and it morphs him into an AxCrazy Riddler rip-off who sings about how much he 'loves' Christmas.
* MadnessMakeover: "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" does it a bit differently. Sedated Critic is in a safe jumper, with sparkling eyes and a pretty smile, openly saying he needs to be marketable. When he's free from this, he doesn't go into normal clothes with SanitySlippage or anything, but all the batshit coming out at once turns him into the Riddler.
* MadnessMantra: All he could write while watching ''Film/BioDome'' was "why why why why why why...", and in ''Film/DropDeadFred'', after the friend praises the lead for her craziness: "No! No! No! No! No! No!..."
* {{Manchild}}: [[WordOfGod Doug]] seems to put the Critic's mental age at about twelve. A few examples of this being he still believes in Santa, hiding under the desk when he's afraid and he also still eats at Chuck E. Cheese's. Lampshaded in "Rise Of The Commercials", where he's too busy laughing to say anything about the women's douching commercials, and demands to go to the next one because he's too immature.
* ManipulativeBastard:
** In "The Review Must Go On", as he wears Doug down and doesn't care that he's hurting him, insult-threatens him when Doug actually does try leaving, brightens up when he gets what he wants, but goes low and threatening again when Doug has another condition.
** He succeeds for a while in ''Film/GhostDad'' being awful to Tamara and Malcolm, but fails when he decides to tell them everything, as even Tamara points out. Whether this comes from extreme stupidity or masochism (or both) is left unanswered.
* MarriedToTheJob: Talking about Zelda in the cartoon, he tells her to back off pushing away loved ones so she can work more because he owns that.
%% * MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Feminine Boy to the Nostalgia Chick's Masculine Girl. He also acted as the Feminine Boy to WebVideo/ObscurusLupa in ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage:
** To the Hyper Fangirl. Not because he has any feeling towards her, but he doesn't help her deluded viewpoint when he pretends to be her friend (because he likes rejecting her attention), threatens to stalk her back (because he thought that would scare her) or when he admits to her that he wears silk boxers ([[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking because she asked and he's a vain puppy]]).\\
In a con panel, when she's forced him to "[[DoubleEntendre build a snowman]]" with her (to clarify he even asked her would any answer make her leave him alone and she said no), he gives her a hug and skips off with her, and then runs back alone after pushing her off the balcony.\\
The way he tells it, it was ShowSomeLeg to placate her and he wants to pawn her off to anyone he can because she's awful, but making her his silent business partner probably wasn't a good idea.
* MeanBoss: Deconstructed. Whenever someone's done something that's more his area or something's already done, he'll pop up and be a pain in the ass. However, he answers to puppet-master The Other Guy, he'll crumble and have a breakdown under any type of argument, he's revealed that he does this because he's so deeply insecure and when he [[YankTheDogsChain thinks]] Lupa listened to what he had to say, he was the most optimistic about life that he's ever been. Rachel tried to kill him for forgetting her birthday as part of the running joke. [[spoiler: Critic knocked her out and fired her.]] Crosses over with PsychopathicManchild when it comes to Malcolm and Tamara, as he routinely forces them to dress up in childish costumes and play along with his crazy, and taken to new heights in ''Film/DemolitionMan'', as he makes them find out how the three sea shells work, and says that he has two spinal cord removal machines, one for each of them.
* MessianicArchetype: [[spoiler: After he took on the PlotHole]]. He'd still snark, but protecting the universe did his temper, self-worth issues, intelligence and maturity a world of good. Completely reversed when he came back down though.
* MetaGuy: Deconstructed. He came back through tormenting his creator, and while straddling the fourth wall has given him more power and made him more dismissive of his own character and plot devices, it's also made him sadder and crazier because it's a defence mechanism that doesn't always work.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: He blew up a planet with his love for Christmas in the ''Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas'' review.
* MilesGloriosus: Aang killed Shyamalan in ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' and the Devil killed him in ''Film/{{Devil}}'', but Critic (who was the DistressedDude both times) takes all the credit for it in ''Film/AfterEarth''.
* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: He admits in the ''Film/{{Gordy}}'' review that he's so tired.
* MisterSeahorse: WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick forced him to get preggers through fairy sex one time.
* MommasBoy: Him getting a phone call that she died is genuinely PlayedForDrama, and even when the JumpScare RunningGag comes back he's screaming about the unfairness.
* MoodSwinger: He's a bit like a Hollywood-style manic depressive. Particularly evident in the first part of ''Disney Afternoon'', where he goes from giddy excited over the shows to anger just when the (younger) Malcolm and Tamara dare to not know exactly what he's talking about.
* MotiveDecay: Critic's reason for bashing Stephen King went from "he's a great writer but the adaptations can be really silly so let's point those flaws out" (The Langoliers) to "I just want to rip on something that's entertaining to people" (The Shining). The TookALevelInJerkass change was heavily lampshaded, to the point where he has to go catatonic when he realizes that King did something better than Kubrick.
%% * TheMovieBuff: It's part of his job.
* MrExposition: Is a very bored one to both Evilina in ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' and Malice in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', as they don't know Hollywood's relationship with Dr. Seuss and Creator/TimBurton's formula respectfully.
* MrImagination: He manages to outdream Stanley in the ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark'' review. Only his dreams are slightly more... painful to the titular troll. And when he can't stop himself from imagining the babies between Goliath and Elisa, he bitches that his mind never does what he tells it to.
%% * MustHaveCaffeine: Who in the right mind has coffee before going to sleep?
%% * MyBelovedSmother: "Hey, she's my world!" But like Ask That Guy, he can't stop himself from having a fantasy about her dying every now and then.
* MyBiologicalClockIsTicking: In late 2011/early 2012, there's been a reference in a lot of episodes about wanting to be or acting like a father.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** He has a crying fit when his Nintendo disappears after he stops playing it.
** In his third Nostalgic Commercials special, he orders an off-screen minion to inject five people with diabetes (however ''that's'' supposed to work...) then stops and says, "Dear God, I think I might be horrible."
** Accidentally killing Film/MaryPoppins, his first childhood icon, crushes him.
** After making the obligatory gay joke about Bert And Ernie, he breaks down to all the cast of ''Series/SesameStreet'' and apologizes for trying to review the first show he ever saw.
** The lyrics Lindsay used at the end of "Thanks For The Feedback" implies this:
--> "Baby come back, you can blame it all on me. I was wrong..."
** He breaks down immediately after shooting Floss for no reason other than getting a sad ending.
** If he didn't regret forcing Doug to bring him back by the time Santa Christ decided to be vindictive to him, then there's no doubt he did when the devil's daughter decided it was crueler to leave him alive.
** In an example where he hadn't done anything wrong, hearing that his dead mom didn't tell him about her illness because she knew he was a {{workaholic}} makes him look like he's dangerously close to crying right there and then.
** Twice in ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist''. First he betrays Santa Christ and leaves crying, and then when Santa Christ flips the bird at him and he tells the torturers to carry on, it cuts back to present day where he calls the flashbacks gross and gratuitous.
** In a moment of pouty lucidity, he realizes at the end of ''Disney Afternoon'' that bringing Malcolm's mom in "to be authentic" is probably going too far.
** In ''Spawn'', he has a moment of regret for helping the Devil take over the world, but when it's revealed the latter's army is a load of Kermits, he assumes it won't be so bad.
** He treats the abuse kids, Melody and Cliff, really badly in ''Monkeybone'', but when he finds out their parents are Aunt Despair and Uncle Lies, he connects the dots and feels bad. He makes it up to them in ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork'' and when his anxiety explodes after trying to keep the peace and getting his cereal mocked, scaring them, he's horrified with himself for "ruining everything". Luckily for him the other adults tell him [[PetTheDog it's alright]].
* MyGreatestFailure: Ma-Ti's death in ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'' made him disquietingly obsessed with responsibility and consequences.
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** Knocking Chester out with a baseball bat in “Nostalgia Critic Talks Transformers 4” was bad enough, but hitting him again just for believing his “be nice” speech was just mean.

* HollywoodDateless: Reboot only. He's so sex-starved that he uses Rogue figurines as wank tools, but he has people feeling him up all over the place.

** Already crazy in the original run, in the reboot, he's more accepting/embracing his growing crazy (partly because he has more power) and openly says at the end of ''Film/GhostRider'' review that "a new year of madness is on the way".

** He feels guilty and confused over driving the analysts in ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' to suicide, but quickly gets over it. Later in ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'', he references it being his fault that they died but doesn't feel bad.

** A slightly confusing joke in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' has Malice (for the second time) assuming Critic escaped from an asylum, this time because of the way he's dressed. Critic then reacts by telling her when she's dressed weird it's crazy, when he dresses weird it's avant-garde. A messy suit really isn't all that strange. [[spoiler: again explained later, as in ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' he's forced to realize that it has nothing to do with "avant-garde", his clothes were picked out just to appeal to female viewers]].

%% ** Thanks to his clothes, everyone (in reboot anyway) thinks he's a hipster, and as analyst 1 in ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' points out, it's not like he doesn't have hipster traits.

** He treats the abuse kids, Melody and Cliff, really badly in ''Monkeybone'', but when he finds out their parents are Aunt Despair and Uncle Lies, he connects the dots and feels bad. He makes it up to them in ''Film/HomeAlone 2'' and when his anxiety explodes after trying to keep the peace and getting his cereal mocked, scaring them, he’s horrified with himself for “ruining everything”. Luckily for him the other adults tell him [[PetTheDog it’s alright]].

* LaughingMad: In ''Film/TheNeverendingStory III'' review, after finishing the movie and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation getting mad]], in ''Chairman Of The Board'' where he laughs manically when he gets the meaning of Edison's name, when ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' ruins the one funny joke they had and when Zack shows his new haircut in ''Series/SavedByTheBell''. That last one gave him an orgasm.

* IHatePastMe: ''Christmas With the Kranks'' has the Critic travelling back to 2007 so the review would be a "no effort deal' like his early videos. Eventually he has arguments with his past self and his modus operandi. But at the end, he remembers why he did the reviews in the first place (to be loved), and it becomes NotSoDifferent.

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* MilesGloriosus: Aang killed Shyamalan in ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' and the Devil killed him in ''{{Devil}}'', but Critic (who was the DistressedDude both times) takes all the credit for it in ''Film/AfterEarth''.

* InLoveWithYourCarnage: He calls (fourteen year old) Azula a whore in his top 11 best Avatar episodes, but he sure gets very excited when she manipulates both Sokka and her way to the top in the second season finale.

* InLoveWithLove: He got upset when his many one-night-stands left him after sex, he could never decide whether he wanted commitment or not, he picked people who'll either hurt him or could never give him what he needed and he just kept on going with it all.

** He's bitchy to child actors who he thinks doesn't deserve the attention they get, not getting that they mostly lead really hard lives. One of the reasons he hates Satine from ''Film/MoulinRouge'' (who is ''a prostitute'' mind you) is because she's not satisfied with the attentive adulation she gets. He's genuinely confused as to why the Superman cartoon version of Lois Lane wants praise for her work instead of her tiny skirt. [[AttentionWhore Notice a]] [[IJustWantToBeLoved pattern]]?
** He went from having an open crush on Creator/WillSmith in the ''Film/IndependenceDay'' review, to having the more 'acceptable' “every guy is jealous of you” feelings in ''Film/AfterEarth''.

* TheGruntingOrgasm: Subverted. As usual, he's stereotypically feminine about it and whenever he acts one out, it's about as high-pitched as you can get.
** Lampshaded by Doug's ''dad'' (because he'd been insulted by Doug previously) in the ''8 Crazy Nights'' behind the scenes video.

* FalseFriend: At first, he tells the Hyper Fangirl nice things and lets her think he's her friend, but he tells Black Willy Wonka beforehand that he finds her obnoxious and just keeps her around because he likes rejecting the attention. This choice doesn't work out for anyone.

* FanDisservice: In the reboot. A SexySoakedShirt scene comes from him soaking himself in gasoline, he's super skinny[[note]]Doug explained in "All Your Fault" that he just doesn't eat because he's working constantly.[[/note]] and ashamed of any sort of shirtlessness, views of his ass crawling away from the camera are hide to enjoy when he's sobbing, and he gets pissy at anyone finding him good-looking.

* FanMyopia:
** In-universe. While Doug makes an intentional effort to avert it, Critic assumes that everyone who watches him are also familiar with everything he reviews. He also always gets disappointed when his fans don't know classical actors, black-and-white movies and operas. Exaggerated in ''Film/TheShining'', where he goes catatonic at the thought of King doing something better than his idol Kubrick.
** In ''When Does A Joke Go Too Far'', he accuses Meyrl Streep of falsely accusing Walt Disney of bigoted behavior. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney#Accusations_of_antisemitism_and_racism Even his biographers, while defending him, admit he wasn't exactly innocent]], [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/10574940/Walt-Disney-was-a-racist-great-niece-backs-up-Meryl-Streep.html and Walt's great niece]] backed Meryl up.
* FanservicePack: He looks much more put together physically than he did at the start, going from lazy nerd to HollywoodNerd. Although better lighting and his older clothes getting worn out have probably helped.
** {{Lampshaded}} in the ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' review:
-->'''Critic''': ([[SmugSnake being completely up himself]]) "It's hard to believe that such a handsome man could become even handso... hansomen... prettier."
** An amusing {{irony}} comes from watching ''Film/{{Kazaam}}'' where Critic mentions his “fat and hairy ass”, and yet as the years went on there's a ridiculous amount of FemaleGaze where said ass is concerned.
** Lampshaded in the ''Christmas With The Kranks'' behind the scenes but ultimately avoided in the actual review, as Doug planned to get baggier jeans for his 2007 self (to push that he was now thin enough to wear tighter clothes), but it would have been too much work swapping pants constantly.

* FirstGrayHair: ''AI'' prominently featured gray patches in his beard, and the episode is the first time in the reboot that he has a full-out mental slip with the flashback.
* {{Flanderization}}: The StepfordSmiler and screaming anger (that Doug made an effort to use sparingly in later reviews) increased significantly after he came back.
** His SincerityMode voice has become slower and more effected too instead of the more natural sounding tone from before. Might be deliberate, as Doug has noted the condescending hypocrisy of the nitpicking editorial in particular.

* TheFool: Deconstructed. ''Film/BabyGeniuses'' and "NC Fuck-Ups III" proved once and for all he doesn't care anymore if people find him stupid, but if they think he's not creative or funny, then life isn't worth living.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Downplayed, as he, Tamara and Malcolm do have a dysfunctional abusive friendship, but they constantly have to look after him and protect him from himself.
* FreudianExcuse: Inverted. He had all kinds of bullying, shitty parents and retreated into obsessing over TV like the Chick, but he trashes this belief in ''Film/TheCell'' by saying having a tragic past isn't a good excuse for doing things wrong as an adult.

* FriendlessBackground: And no sign of [[SocialServicesDoesNotExist social services anywhere]]. This comes back in the second episode of ''WebVideo/PopQuizHotshot'', as it's his FreudianExcuse for kidnapping people and forcing them to be his friends.
* FriendToAllChildren: Except the [[BrattyHalfPint annoying ones]].
* FriendToPsychos:
** With Ask That Guy. He's not too bothered about being teased by him, is severely icked by the questions he gets asked but lets him violate Ma-Ti, is able to survive living in the same house with him ([[{{Twincest}} and share the same bed]]) and looked about to cry when Ask That Guy didn't save him in ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}''.
** Explicitly to the Devil in ''Spawn'', as he says going down to hell was fun and he should do it more often.

* {{Gayngst}}: One explanation for why he was so happy to hit on guys pre-comeback and suddenly getting really bad with gay jokes both after and in Reloaded.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Getting splashed with water is probably one of the nicer ways of doing that.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot > YuriFan: He went from drooling over attractive, underage sisters having a bit of IncestSubtext, to explaining why BaitAndSwitchLesbians and {{fanservice}}y HaveIMentionedIAmGay aren't helping gay rights in the slightest.

* GirlyRun: Shows off an adorably flaily one in the beginning of ''Star Trek Insurrection''.

** [[Film/BatmanAndRobin A Bat... credit card?]] A ''BAT'' '''CREDIT''' '''''CARD'''''!?!
** "[[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry A cat and mouse]] are driving a ship trying to save the daughter of Franchise/IndianaJones while being chased by a purple people eater, a dog on a skateboard, a performing ship captain, his hand puppet Squawk, two Mexican wrestlers and a doctor riding an ice cream cart. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the [[MindScrew Mind Fuck]]."

* GoodCounterpart: To WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses, which gets reversed in reboot, as Ask That Guy was getting more human before he vanished (and even more so when he came back to die), and [=NuCritic=] gets special treatment and praise from the devil, something ATG never had.

* TheGruntingOrgasm: Subverted. As usual, he's stereotypically feminine about it and whenever he acts one out, it's about as high-pitched as you can get. And with the Chick also being established to be noisy in bed, one wonders how loud their sex was.

* {{Guyliner}}: Most noticeable in the "Top Eleven Dumbest Superman Moments" and ''The Exorcist II''. Both are celebrated by his fangirls.

** Less sexually, commercials. Let him explain:
-->'''Critic''': It's like they exist in their own little world, a world that wants to scam you and be nice to you at the exact same time. Something about them strangely gives me comfort.

* HasAType: Aside from being an AmazonChaser[=/=]AggressiveSubmissive, he tends to like shorter brunettes, the more fucked up in the head the better. A joke in ''WebVideo/TheUncannyValley'' review lampshades this, as he's so repressed that his fantasy is the very blonde (but still playing psychotic) Jessica Lange. He also likes confident and charming black men like Will Smith and Ernie Hudson.

Attempted rewrite:

* HearingVoices: Of the kids who bullied him over ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', as well as genuinely creepy laughter.
* HeartbreakAndIceCream: When he's suffering from depression after being called pathetic, he eats his weight in junk food.

* HeIsAllGrownUp: To be as kind as possible, thank all the Gods the greasy hair/acne/horrible teeth combo he had as a preteen didn't last long.
* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: Critic in the title cards is far more villainous, masculine and competent than our version.

* HeroicBSOD: Has one during ''[[BlackComedyRape Spooning With Spoony 2]]''.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:At the end of ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', The Critic joins with the Plot Hole to save the universe.]]
* HeroicSuicide: Twice, in ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' and ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee''. They have noble reasons, but both times he's happily relieved to be ending it.
* HeroWorshipper: "Lucas! ...darling."
* HeManWomanHater: Characterization sadly marched him on into one of these when he came back. He hates the women immediately in ''Film/PearlHarbor'', and doesn't even care when one of them dies. Why? Because they giggle too much. [[SarcasmMode Curse those irredeemable bitches!]]
** His female audience really didn't appreciate his assumption that majority of women want to be infantilized and get called "girls".
** He outright admits he's turned into one for ''Film/Catwoman2004''.

** In "Why Is Loki So Hot", he shows himself as one of the few guys who thinks that ''women'' display EntitledToHaveYou the most, saying that the reason AllGirlsWantBadBoys and [[invoked]] TheWoobie are such popular tropes are because women want a clinically depressed scary man to fight their battles, have his demons nurtured and as a result, be coerced into sleeping with them and being their sex toy.
** The ''Anime/SailorMoon'' review got two [[http://henshinjustice.com/2013/08/07/nostalgia-critic-takes-a-stab-at-sailor-moon/ whole]] [[http://shojopower.com/blame-it-on-the-sluts-nostalgia-critics-review-of-sailor-moon/ articles]] dissecting how sexist he was to Usagi and the show in general.

* HesBack: He gets to have a kickass song and say he's proud of his patheticness at the end of his first commercial special. It might not have lasted, but it was still awesome.
* HeteronormativeCrusader:
** The Frodo/Sam complaining in "Top 11 Dumbest Lord of the Rings Moments" made him look pretty bad, shoehorning a NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat before making disgusted faces at "romance novel" lines that were in the books and were given the praise of Ian [=McKellen=] for being so endearing, as well as refusing to believe any of it was intentional and having no clue of the {{bromance}} genre.
** The biggest complaint ''AI'' got was that the ending, while intending to show that Critic was just mad at the hypocrisy, came off as Critic being disgusted that the thought of his two favorite directors being gay, and that male crossdressing was both the punchline (instead of said hypocrisy) and seen as a worse sin than racism.
** In ''Princess Diaries 2'', he holds not-well-explained [[note]]as when gay marriage was legalized throughout America, Doug was apparently so delighted that Rob teased him for puking rainbows weeks later[[/note]] scorn for Mia and her friend cheering for a gay prince, demanding they be funny instead of “pro... something”.
** Before his character cemented and he had plenty of gay moments himself, his early episodes are pretty bad with this, like when he complains at the end of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' about “why is the [robot] so gay?”
* HesGotLegs: ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'' gives them a lot of [[FemaleGaze attention]]. And Lupa said in a stream that he didn't even shave them. You may now start hating him, ladies.

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: While also sad and inducing a lot of FridgeHorror, his childhood and the TraumaCongaLine that went on is built on BlackComedy.

* HollywoodAutism: With Doug relating [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse the autistic-coded Peridot]] to Critic multiple times in the vlogs, one can spot a lot of autistic traits with him (like not really registering other people exist, needs routine, doesn't get how conversations work etc), along with all his other issues.

** He's also jealous of Hugh Hefner owning loads of female attention, but he's got his very own stalker personification of all the out of universe fangirls he has.
* HollywoodNerd: How many "geeks" do you know that can pull off eyeliner as well as he did?
* HollywoodPersonalityDisorders: Easily suicidal, unstable mood swings, bad self image, doesn't have healthy relationships, binge eats when feeling bad, violent towards himself and others, doesn't like being abandoned and has a history of childhood trauma.
* HollywoodThin: Starting post-WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee filming, Doug has periods where he just looks strange (like ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI'' review where his head is tiny on his shoulders) yet nobody says a word and he's still meant to be seen as attractive. In 2014 Doug at least explained the weight loss in both an ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' vlog and Momocon, reassuring that he doesn't have an eating disorder (but also saying please don't aspire to be his level of not eating), just gets too wrapped up in work.
* HolyHalo: Behind his head in [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/images/stories/front/ncearly.jpg this picture]]. It should be noted that with all the red and the threatening sword, the halo is not a good thing.

* HumanHummingbird: He moves fast whenever he flails, whether it's while running, excitement or having a FreakOut.

* IAmNotMyFather: From what we've heard of Daddy Critic's... parenting attitudes, Critic is trying his best to go the opposite way and be like a designated defender of kids everywhere. Although also subverted in reboot, as his father probably wouldn't kill a child because they had mistaken him for someone else.

* IgnoredEpiphany: At the end of ''Film/SurfNinjas'', after having a DyingDream where he likes it, he says he'll never like anything ever again. The next episode after was the "Top 11 Nostalgic Animated Shows", so that really didn't last.
** At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' he admits he's been needlessly mean to Blue Sky, but casually dismisses that and keeps going with the dickishness.

* IHatePastMe: ''Christmas With the Kranks'' has the Critic travelling back to 2007 so the review would be a "no effort deal' like his early videos. And eventually he has arguments with his past self and his modus operandi. But he gets a CharacterCheck at the end, remembering why he did the reviews in the first place (to be loved), and it becomes NotSoDifferent.
* IJustWantToBeBeautiful: In his "Film/WhereTheWildThingsAre" editorial, he briefly mentions feeling ugly and imagining himself as pretty. There's been some "I Want To Be Skinny" mixed in as well, with a few pointed digs at his percieved overweightness.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Particularly bad reviews will have him reaching for stuff like Jack Daniels or Jagermeister. ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'' had him reaching for progressively larger bottles, culminating in one larger than ''he'' was.
** When he reviewed ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTheTitanic'', he had a skyscraper-sized bottle flown down via helicopters.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: His screaming rants have become little boy tantrums and Doug revealed he shouts at things because what's on the screen is scaring him, he can't hold onto being the "bad guy" for very long and he's easily prone to crying.

* InformedAttractiveness: Reboot has the trope in a weird way. The {{fanservice}} from before has gone down to barely nothing, he's steadily getting more HollywoodThin and any time there's a bit of nudity he looks ashamed of himself right after, but more people in-universe treat him like he's attractive. The Wicked Witch Of The West even uses her "my pretty" line on him, and despite the abuse he's given them, he gets unwanted groping from IC!Rachel and Malcolm.
* InformedAttribute: His AVGN-style song brags that he's the world's biggest and greatest cynic. If you say so.

* InnocentFanserviceGuy: Deconstructed. He likes teasing his audience and bragging about how cute he is, but he has no idea what he's doing in the real world. As examples, the skirt in ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'', drinking with [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] when he's a complete lightweight and getting a stalker partner when he was a teenager.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Much like HorribleJudgeOfCharacter; fine with movies but sucks in real life. He doesn't get that being nice to Luke in front of Film Brain, congratulating the Chick on being a female version of him or assuming Chester didn't need the residuals of the BigLippedAlligatorMoment meme, would most definitely piss them off.

* TheInsomniac: Nyquil and Vicodin together? Ain't so healthy.

* IResembleThatRemark:
** He doesn't exactly defend himself well when Phelous jokes that he's an [[Film/ChildsPlay evil, insane, catchphrase-spewing doll]].
** Thanks to his clothes, everyone (in reboot anyway) thinks he's a hipster, and as analyst 1 in ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' points out, it's not like he doesn't have hipster traits.
* IrrationalHatred: Even when there's not a GreenAesop around, he still has almost zero patience for hippies and preachy environmentalists.
* ItsAWonderfulPlot: A Christmass special has this PlayedForLaughs. Everyone would be ridiculously better of without him, including the Angel showing him this, which understandably makes him very bitter. However when you think about it, there's a huge ammount of FridgeHorror that he's a BarrierMaiden for by existing: Cinema Snob is reduced to being a porn character, Linkara is a drunk who's drawing Marvel and DC comics back by refusing to make movies, Angry Joe is a PresidentEvil who '''[[MoralEventHorizon blows the entire Canada sky high]]''', Spoony completely loses his show to take on the Critic's and can't do it right at all, not to mention the Critic's lack of help against threats like [[MadScientist Dr. Insano]] or [[EldritchAbomination the Entity]].
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Done in a more passive-aggressive style and God knows what the real situation, but even though he feels abandoned by the Chick's obsession with Todd, he tries to push the [[ClingyJealousGirl Clingy Jealous Boy]] feelings down and wants her to feel okay.

* IWasQuiteALooker: He's a cutie and knows it, but if you want this particularly stupid strain of insecurity, just remind him that he's balding.

* KaleidoscopeEyes: Like Creator/BenedictCumberbatch or Creator/ChrisColfer, his eyes change from blue to green to gray depending on the lighting.
* {{Keet}}: When he's actually enjoying himself.
* KickTheDog: Played for BlackComedy, but how he treats animals - gleeing when dogs have a chance of dying, throwing rocks at pets to see if their owners laugh, chucking a spider through a window because he's scared of it - will remind you that he's a PsychopathicManchild if you ever forget it.
** Hitting a child in the back of her head, and then shouting at her to shut up when she cried, isn't ''exactly'' fitting for someone who once had PapaWolf as his best quality.

* KnifeNut: In Hyper's second vlog, he threatens to gut her if she doesn't leave him alone. As she is wont to do, she ignores that [[SarcasmMode subtle hint]].

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The editorials where he fails to do research (like even just reading Romeo and Juliet) yet still does a condescending voice firmly place him in the trope.
* KubrickStare: He often makes this expression (the grimacing kind) while reviewing movies that are frustrating him, most notably in ''Film/{{North}}''.

* LackOfEmpathy: In his amnesia state for the anniversary reviews. He's confused as to why everyone is mourning Ma-Ti's death in ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'' as a "small Indian boy is no big loss", and he only just barely stops himself from calling WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee-Critic a girl for showing off emotion.
** Back in TestosteronePoisoning-character days, in ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet'', his initial reaction to “making people feel better” is “who gives a shit?”

* LargeHam: WordOfGod says that the hamminess comes from WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, Jack Lemmon's performance as Professor Fate in ''Film/TheGreatRace'', and the Red Queen from the Disney version of ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Usually he wouldn't deserve getting beaten and tortured with a pitchfork by an AxCrazy guy who was pretending to be blind, but after stating that he was about to bludgeon said guy to death just for a movie, he kinda does in this instance.

* LeanAndMean: Post-revival, due to Doug having some weight issues. How the suit just hangs off him doesn't really help. This is probably the reason why he wasn't in usual costume and wore bulkier, manlier clothes in ''Film/TheShining''. Hard to be scared of a swamped twig.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: His mom was an AlcoholicParent who called him up to insult him, and Dr Smith [[spoiler: his dad]] gets concerned when he's getting hammered in ''IT''.

* LIsForDyslexia: Shared with Doug himself.
-->'''Critic''': It's like if you cross a dyslexic with a complete idiot.

* LittleBitBeastly: Coming back from the future of seahorses gave him a temporary tail. The UsefulNotes/FurryFandom suddenly started liking him then.

* LongHairedPrettyBoy: When he was sixteen.
* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: His romantic life would put [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buff's]] to shame. Even in 2009 he was forced to admit that his sex life is a complete clusterfuck.

* LoveBeforeFirstSight: It's lucky that Lindsay!Chick had so much chemistry with him, but from the way he acted in the "Search For The Nostalgia Chick", he was going to be in love with whatever woman won.
* LoveMartyr: From his knowledge of how abusive relationships work, it's safe to say he's had experiences with going back to a horrible partner. PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/JurassicWorld'' as a mini-skit has him being done with the JP sequels' “abuse” and finally leaving before the former film's climax brings him back.

* LustObject: Spoony has lust for everyone, but he's ''really'' proud to have Critic as a conquest. And we're guessing he didn't blackmail others or break into their houses.
** The Hyper Fangirl storyline is all about how he's one for said fangirl, which he's violently against to the point of threatening to kill her for not leaving him alone.

* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: His temper usually builds up using this method.

** In one of her vlogs, Hyper would ''like'' to have him as a {{mind rape}}d toy, a casual opinion that disturbs Malcolm.

* TheMadHatter: Prime!Critic was a ReluctantPsycho and wanted to be better, Nu!Critic is more sadly accepting/embracing his growing crazy (partly because he has more power) and openly says at the end of ''Film/GhostRider'' review that "a new year of madness is on the way".

* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Shows this in "What's Up With All The Princess Hate", assuming that most women want to be called "girls" while showing Music/BritneySpears and Creator/KimKardashian (who both have made mistakes, but the latter especially has worked on encouraging young girls to be more business-savvy), but acknowledging that there are exceptions while showing a business-woman. Who is still attractive with a giant pouty lip-glossed mouth.
* MagneticHero: In a stereotypically feminine way. No matter how much the others like hurting him, no matter how dickish he can get, if there are tears they'll get sucked right in and want him to be okay.
* FemaleMisogynist: Oddly (given what [[StrawFeminist she's]] [[DoesNotLikeMen like]]), he's complained more about MaleGaze, the standard [[NobleMaleRoguishMale stereotypes]], the WhiteMaleLead trend and apparent "what about teh menz" feelings in movies more than the Chick ever has.

* ManOfAThousandVoices: Every episode he does will feature at least one impression or fake accent. He's usually very good at them, but his Creator/MorganFreeman voice sounds nothing like the man.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Feminine Boy to the Nostalgia Chick's Masculine Girl. He also acted as the Feminine Boy to WebVideo/ObscurusLupa in ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''.

* MeaningfulName: It's the job that he hates, and he doesn't even think himself as a good critic.

* MilitaryBrat: While his dad's occupation ([[spoiler: outside of being a spider]]) was never mentioned, he moved around a lot and Doug's a navy brat in real life.
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: It's been said by fans and by Doug, he's far more entertaining and interesting when he's being a victim or breaking down.

* MommasBoy: A rare tragically-funny one, with a few [[ParentalIncest uncomfortable]] [[OedipusComplex jokes]] here and there. Him getting a phone call that she died is genuinely PlayedForDrama, and even when the JumpScare RunningGag comes back he's screaming about the unfairness.

* MotorMouth: One of the issues with his LetsPlay is that he never stopped talking. Granted, ''Bart's Nightmare'' is not much to look at, but quiet moments in [=LPs=] are encouraged.
* TheMovieBuff: It's part of his job.

* MrFanservice: He's cute and knows it, suffers well, likes taking his shirt off, enjoys making orgasm noises, has given a blowjob to a joystick, looks very nice in a [[WebVideo/SuburbanKnights short tunic with no pants or tights]] and in the advertisement for Geek Fight, he says he won't get naked for the cards... yet.

* MustHaveCaffeine: Who in the right mind has coffee before going to sleep?
* MyBelovedSmother: "Hey, she's my world!" But like Ask That Guy, he can't stop himself from having a fantasy about her dying every now and then.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He has a crying fit when his Nintendo disappears after he stops playing it.

** Demanding pure logic in the silliest of cartoons, but running on emotion himself.
** Even though he has a ton of {{guilty pleasure}}s, he never fully gets that people can like movies that he can't stand.
** He's so unwilling to accept Ma-Ti's death that he'll try and find (or make Chester find) a supernatural book that would raise the dead, but even in the [[WebVideo/SuburbanKnights movie]] where the aforementioned dying happened, he never fought back when he thought ''he'' was about to be killed.
** In ''Film/TheOddLifeOfTimothyGreen'' and the ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' editorial, he makes rants about learning from your mistakes and growing up. The irony that this comes after ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' but he's back to screaming and having psychotic breaks like he did years ago has not been lost on people.
** He also jokes that the mother in ''Film/TheOddLifeOfTimothyGreen'' is “as unfruitful as her garden.” Remember when he called a similar joke in ''Film/{{North}}'' “the worst thing uttered by humanity”?
** Five minutes after a giant getting-up-on-his-high-horse rant about Bay showing the soldiers in a shitty light, he accuses Bay of "editing history" to make the soldiers look better. It's confusing.
** When Real!Critic and the others give Ma-Ti a funeral in ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'', he calls them awful people for cremating him. Says the guy who screamed for BrainBleach every single time one of the male reviewers had a {{fanservice}} moment.
** He acts pretty high and mighty with the TMZ crew considering that he's bashed actors for sexuality and weight just because his creator told him not to.
*** In ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'' he even uses a TMZ-like picture of Creator/AdamSandler being overweight on a beach because for whatever reason film!Sandler being trim pisses him off.
*** He's also disgusted by the head of TMZ slapping the crying Rachel character, but that's an awful lot like something he did a [[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/nostalgia-critic-the-cat-in-the-hat-6571199 few episodes previously]].

** Wanting to go back to his "nostalgic roots" in ''Dawn Of The Commercials'' after how proud he was of making Doug remove the cut-off date in ''The Review Must Go On''.
** Intentionally done at the end of "When Is A Movie Just A Movie", where after condescending that it's your own problem if you get hurt by a movie and playing the [[invoked]] MST3KMantra song, saying that if ''he'' gets upset then that's allowed.
** Sympathetic example at the end of ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', as he tells Burton that nothing good can come out of living in someone else's shadow, and when everyone finds out that he had a Burton shrine, Carrot Juice points out that Critic was living in Burton's shadow.
** The guy who openly admitted on several occasions that's he's [[invoked]] PanderingToTheBase and is OnlyInItForTheMoney with his own work preaches like mad to the focus group guys in ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' about how both of those things are wrong. This gets acknowledged at the end where the analysts are gone and he's with Black Willy Wonka being disappointed that he's not getting the secrets to money and happiness.
** After years of [[HypocriticalHumour pulverizing painfully pushed puns,]] he makes a [[IncrediblyLamePun really bad one]] in the ''{{Film/Doom}}'' review.
** For all his mocking of Linkara's clichés, [[http://blip.tv/at4w/at4w-superman-for-the-animals-1-6879891 he can't take it]] when Linkara trashes his screaming, [[invoked]] {{fountain of memes}} reputation and disrespect for his audience.[[note]]should be noted that this is in-character, and doesn't apply to Doug/Lewis's poking fun at each other.[[/note]]
** In the ''Film/AmericanBeauty'' editorial, he musters up disgust for the film making pedophilia “quirky”, but ends it thanking a sixteen year old Thora Birch for showing her breasts (who because she was a minor at the time, had to get her parents to approve).
** In “Why Do We Holiday Too Early”, he gets that he's the last person who should be lecturing other people regarding getting fixated on holidays and associating them with happiness.
** He absolutely hates children getting getting hurt or mistreated, but makes a child abuse joke in ''Cop and a Half'', hits and insults Evillina when he's supposed to be babysitting her in ''The Cat in the Hat'', and murders several kids during ''TMNT'14''.
** He apparently hates ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' for being a CashCowFranchise, but is a huge {{fanboy}} of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', the original hugest CashCowFranchise claiming he collecting all he could get, even some actually rather disgusting cookies. He even {{lampshade|hanging}}s it once even so slightly.

* FanHater: He [[{{inuniverse}} says]] that anyone who likes ''[[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal]]'' and the Creator/JimCarrey remake of ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' is stupid. (Note that Doug doesn't think this at all, and tries to actively fight this and ReviewsAreTheGospel.)
-->'''Critic''': I know it's just my opinion but I'm right.
** Subverted in the early ''Harry Potter'' video, as he trolls/mocks most of the fans there, but when the book is announced, has a {{squee}} FreakOut.
** ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' finally has him try to grow out of this, asking [[spoiler: Roger]] with genuine curiosity about why a film can do so well when everyone mocks it.
** Reboot brought him down even harder, as in ''Eight Crazy Nights'' he has a "Happy Madison Audience" laughing idiotically at every stupid thing he says and ends the bit with "it's funny because they shouldn't live". [[spoiler: He even kills them later]].
*** The extreme hatred he has for anyone who found some good in TMZ is such a turn from Doug's previous "like what you like" mantra that [[http://tgwtgsecrets.tumblr.com/post/51729890214/a-defense-of-tmz-from-an-avid-fan even his real-life friends are confused]].
*** "Is Parody Dead" features plenty of mocking of people who find anything good in films like ''Film/ScaryMovie'' or the ''Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg'' franchise. Like with his trashing of TMZ, nobody's defending those movies, but it still makes him look like he's kicking an easy target, and he should and has known better.
*** Not even five minutes into the review, he calls ''Film/ManOfSteel'' fans “blood-hungry psychopaths”, and later on he condescends why Joe and others would like it. Luckily Zod mocks him for it.
*** Lampshaded in ''Film/TheShining'' when literally his only reasoning to do another Stephen King mini-series is “nothing like celebrating the holidays by attacking a man who has done nothing to me and is making his living by entertaining others”.
*** Gets called out on it in ''The Guyver'', as Sage (who has been above and beyond gentle with him for the whole review) finally loses his temper and tells him to shut up when Critic can't get that he likes the movie and shouldn't be called stupid for it.
*** Anyone who likes ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' gets treated like they're stupid, but he reserves special scorn for Onceler fangirls, who scream every time he's mentioned, get treated like they're just hipsters and switch to perving on him when he compares himself to the Onceler.
*** He acts like everyone who enjoyed ''Transformers 4'' (note that this includes [[https://t.co/79NQetfDv7 Lindsay]], [[https://twitter.com/Nellachronism/status/482818339157180416 Nella]] and [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bj/bcmr/43852-transformers-age-of-extinction Brad]]) is giving Bay his penis and can't look after himself. In his own review, Doug says that this is just an asshole character talking, and he himself doesn't think (or is at least trying really hard not to) you're an idiot, he's just sad and tired and doesn't understand.
*** PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/EventHorizon'', as he thinks it's the film jocks watch when they think they're edgy.

* HatesSmallTalk: The awkward, filled-with-this date with the Chick drove him to breaking point.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Critic does this to ''himself''.
-->'''Critic:''' [[[StupidSexyFlanders fantasizes about]] Creator/WillSmith] [slaps himself] BOOBS! YOU LIKE BOOBS!
** He does the same thing when he's porning over Creator/HughJackman in the Chick's review of ''Film/KateAndLeopold''. As he's basically giving a handjob to a stick of butter, it's even less credible than the first time.
** The "Critic Reloaded" reviews. He makes like ten BrainBleach-needing jokes at ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'' for [[ItMakesSenseInContext himself]] showing his legs (both Critic and Doug have bragged about that {{fanservice}}), and mocks ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' for being like "Up with more homo-eroticism".
** After years of being [[HoYay/ChannelAwesome very]] [[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/nostalgia-critic-the-haunting-5634970 very]] ''[[WebVideo/DemoReel very]]'' queer-friendly, all the reboot's talk of putting dicks into women, making women pregnant and [[{{hypocrite}} mocking femmy guys]], comes off as trying way too hard.
** The entire joke of "Why Is Loki So Hot". One wonders why he even chose the video topic if he's turned that insecure.
** "The Strangest But Best Couples". Someone might want to tell him that he's been in bed with plenty of guys and this is the first time he's whined about wanting women instead. Not long after this, he shot the ''WebVideo/TheUncannyValley'' review where Critic slipped up and admitted he's been repressing sexuality for a while, which would explain a lot.
** When Sandra Bullock's character snarks that straight men show their affection by swearing at each other, he immediately has to add in a “fuck yeah” even though he knows he'll get shocked for it. He subverts it later by being an equal opportunity GoldDigger and telling Malcolm he'll marry him for the money.

** When he's knocked out with a baseball bat in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'', he's happily skipping in a purple meadow with birds flying behind him and pretty music playing.

** He outright admits he's turned into one for ''Film/{{Catwoman}}''.

** He managed to get three slashes on his right arm visible at 6.24 in the ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'' review, bruises on his mouth in the ''Film/JurassicPark'' review and a big cut across his neck at the beginning of ''Turbo''. In the ''Film/SonOfTheMask'' commentary, Doug asked very strongly to ignore them, especially marks from where he can't seem to stop hurting himself shaving.

** He kidnapped Malcolm so that he could have a BlackBestFriend, and installed a chip in his head so that he blows up if he tries to leave Chicago.

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: He kidnapped Malcolm to force him to be his BlackBestFriend (and chloroforms him occassionally when he gets mouthy) and WebVideo/PopQuizHotshot has him kidnapping people because he's never had any friends and craves them.

* {{Fetish}}: Plenty. As stated in a few reviews; strong, toppy women, charming black guys, masochism, being humiliated, dildos, roleplay, bondage, fingering, licking whipped cream off a hot body, crossdressing (for some reason ''this'' is the one he's ashamed of the most), fictional incest couples that are the right age and not parent-child [[note]] he says this is the only way He-Man and She-Ra could get his attention[[/note]], the Chick's firey temper and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick six-breasted cats from outer space]]. Plus he's mixed between knowing ''Film/EyesWideShut'' style orgies are creepy and abusive, but also wanting one to happen to him.