History Characters / ToddInTheShadows

* TheFaceless: Always reviews InTheHood and with his FaceFramedInShadow. Apparently, this is because he was planning on getting a job teaching public school when he began making videos and wanted to avoid professional repercussions; when the show took off instead, he kept the gimmick since it was already in place.

** While vilifying Peter Cetera yet again in his Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1976, he makes it clear that he doesn't hate all similar soft rock acts. PhilCollins, Music/BryanAdams, and Richard Marx are fine by his book, but he stops just short of praising Michael Bolton along with the others (though still admits that he's better than Peter Cetera).

** He thinks NickiMinaj made the music video for '"Anaconda" to specifically appeal to him personally, because it includes an allusion to MysteryScienceTheater3000.

* BiasSteamroller: Regarding both Music/ChrisBrown and the "White Guys With Acoustic Guitars" genre.
** In regard to the former, it's interesting to see the difference between his review of "Deuces" where he did bring up Chris Brown's crimes, but to illustrate why the particular song (about how his girlfriend is a whiny bitch) is really TooSoon to be sung by Chris Brown. By the time of the "Turn up the music" review...
-->'''Todd:''' Let's listen to his new song, ''Turn up the music''. [Three seconds of the clip] [[LampshadeHanging Actually, let's not, cause I don't give a crap.]]

* HeManWomanHater: Todd references this trope by name in the prologue to the TGWTG-upload of the "Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2009" review, saying that he was afraid he would come off as this for including three {{Beyonce}} songs on the list.

'''Lupa:''' I have had live bunnies air-dropped onto my house. My front yard looked like the Cliff's Notes for ''WatershipDown''!

* TheFaceless: Always reviews InTheHood and with his FaceFramedInShadow.

* ButNotTooForeign: Apparently, Todd is a 13-and-57-year-old black, white, beige, chola, Lebanese, Oriental Asian-American girl with blonde hair who looks like JimCarrey wearing a Creator/DannyDeVito mask with a [[JayLeno Leno]] chin... '''''[+as far as we know+]'''''.

** Did the signature move of the reviewed song "Raise Up" in the crossover of TheRapCritic and Creator/MarcMues.

* InTheHood: [[LimitedWardrobe And it's the same hood]] (which he's had for [[http://twitter.com/#!/shadowtodd/status/44167050498805760 quite some time]]) for every review... until he [[http://www.facebook.com/toddintheshadows/posts/268427866511324 forgot it in New York]] and had to buy another. One of the two was sold on eBay since Todd compiled several parking tickets in NYC. The crossover with TheRapCritic shows one Todd's mom made to him... with "Todd in the Shadows" written on the back! See more at LimitedWardrobe.

** He makes an inflated version of himself and his achievements in comparison to TheRapCritic in "Lighters".

* WithFriendsLikeThese: He is this to the other producers. The only ones who are constantly trying to give him moral support are [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Kyle]], [[WebVideo/PawDugan Paw]], [[WebVideo/VampireReviews Elisa]] and TheRapCritic.

* SourSupporter: Whenever he teams up with PushingUpRoses for an LetsPlay, he's always this.

** Threatened [[WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou Nash's]] stick figure over ObscurusLupa.

** Sacrificed himself for ObscurusLupa in her ''Birdemic'' review, composed ''The Black Ninja'''s theme, and in a Lupa/Chick crossover, causes a CatFight between the two.

* HePannedItNowHeSucks: Inverted in-universe--He mentions the brief flak he got for admitting he liked Katy Perry, following it up with several fellow site members calling him out over it [[spoiler:and [[ObscurusLupa one]] doing the same for stealing her hair.]]

* LoveTriangle: [[TriangRelations Type 5 triangle]], as he wants ObscurusLupa [[StalkerWithACrush to an unhealthy level]], while WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick is equally fixated on him and is [[SanitySlippage losing her mind rapidly]]. Taken to a natural conclusion on a [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/ol/specials/31893-honor-and-glory Chick/Lupa crossover]], where Todd crashes the Chick's apartment, Lupa rejects him, and an angered Chick starts a CatFight.

** Todd's [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption always-doomed]] attempts to romance ObscurusLupa, which develop into making him a StalkerWithACrush, as well as his rejection of The Nostalgia Chick's attempts to romance him, which makes her a StalkerWithACrush for him.

** [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=19563&hilit=Todd&start=180#p270831 Towards]] [[ObscurusLupa Lupa]]. During his review of "OMG" he repeatedly tries horrible pickup lines from the song on her until she finally threatens to get a restraining order. When he goes to his computer during the "Like a G6" review, we see that his wallpaper is picture after picture of Lupa.

** Gets an e-mail with the Chick (and her co-horts) doing a ''MoulinRouge''-like attempt of seduction on WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of it.

*** And the only time he's unmasked and uncensored in {{Benzaie}}'s [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/31605-a-frog-in-chicago-again vlog]], it's too blurry.

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Breaks out mad vocabulary skills for his Deep Lyrical Analysis segments, ''especially'' for [[{{LMFAO}} "Sexy And I Know it."]] He holds this out for ''six minutes'' before giving up.
--->'''Todd''': But, although the {{LMFAO}} oeuvre, as a whole, marks them as admirably resolute in their retro-classicism, it in turn makes the satirical elements of "Sexy and I Know It" out of touch and archaic.

** His reaction to being featured on [[Website/AVClub Good Job Internet]]? [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/728330504450248704 "Man, the AV Club really is going downhill."].

** He references How I Met Your Mother a fair bit too
** He thinks NickiMinaj made the music video for ''My Anaconda'' to specifically appeal to him personally, because it includes an allusion to [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike And The Bots]]

* TheCastShowoff: Boy, can he play piano. And he's not a bad singer himself either.

** [[{{Adele}} "Never gonna hear from this person again, you hear me?!]] '''SHE'S A NOBODY, A NOBODY!'''"

** Made a guest appearance on ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' when Linkara reviewed two {{KISS}} comics, and previously, was among the contributors who [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkA0ilNTuYU sang AT4W's theme in the 100th episode]] (where somewhat appropriately, he was immediately before Lupa...) and appeared in one of the PreviouslyOn segments:

** When it comes time for Todd to do a joint review, though, this gets turned around on him, as the rest of the [=TGWTG=] crew soundly refuse to review ''[[Film/{{Crossroads2002}} Crossroads]]'', ''[[Series/AmericanIdol From Justin to Kelly]]'', or ''Film/BodyOfEvidence'' with him.

** In ''From Justin to Kelly'' he mentions how he's been on a few "[[WebVideo/SuburbanKnights silly productions starring a bunch of not-actors.]]"

--->'''Todd''': ...they lack the pure, almost method-actor conviction of the brilliant members of [[RightSaidFred Rightly Said Frederick.]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI4T6pvbIAY This video]] shows Todd out of the shadows ''multiple'' times!

* ScrewYourself: When asked on the forums what would happen if he traveled to a gender-swapped universe and met his female self, he stated that "Hot me-on-me action would be on the agenda, immediately."

** Any time Todd claims he lives an exciting, happy or sociable life, there's a [[DescriptionCut cut to his normal life]], which ranges from mundane to pitiful.
** When listing off what's cooler than Mike Posner, he lists "Constantly self-Googling", illustrated by a picture of himself at a computer. (He admitted in interviews that he does that.)
** Reviewing "Firework"/"Born This Way", he says he no need for "pick-me-up songs" because he leads such a fantastic life. Cut to a clip of him sitting in front of his computer where he downs spirits, mopes for a while and tries to shoot himself in the head.
** Todd recites the MST3KMantra during the "Party Rock Anthem" review. In doing so, however, he endangers his very purpose for being, and he [[DelayedRippleEffect almost fades from existence]]. [[invoked]]
** In "Moves Like Jagger", he says at least moving like Jagger it's better than moving like [[{{Radiohead}} Thom Yorke]] (referencing [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOa1a8hYP8 this]]) or... moving like SouljaBoy (referencing [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/31575-channel-awesome-dance-spectacular-3 Todd himself]]).
** In ''From Justin to Kelly'' he mentions how he's been on a few "[[WebVideo/SuburbanKnights silly productions starring a bunch of not-actors]]".

** TheReveal: Accidental in the early, unfinished version of "5 O'Clock". Once Todd found out his face was being shown, he quickly took it off blip.tv and replaced with a re-edited version. Same with the "Mr. Awesome Goes to Washington" above - Todd spent a good part unmasked as you cannot go to senators in costume, but Lindsay missed the censoring for just one second and had to pull it back.

** In his episode of [[http://channelawesome.com/watch-me-whipnae-nae-by-silento-pop-song-review/ "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)"]], Todd opens by bragging about his musical talents... but the oly thing he can't do is dance. He even trips trying to use the pedals of his piano.