History TheNostalgiaCritic / TropesAToC

* {{Corpsing}}:
** Even while her character's pissed off with him about it for the most part (and Malcolm just shies away from him), rl Tamara breaks and laughs once when Critic is re-enacting the ''Disney Afternoon'' theme song and forcing her and Malcolm to do it too.
** The “Supergirl” commercial for stamps has Doug trying to keep his laughing under control while Chaplin plays and runs around.

** He points out when [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]] does it in the ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' crossover episode.

* AscendedMeme: When ''Film/TheBatman'' came out, many people joked about how the white-faced gang leader looked like Doug Walker. This would later become the entire plot of the film's review, with Critic and "Comissioner" Malcolm investigating the mysterious look-alike. It even ends with Doug putting on the makeup and costume himself (and yes, the resemblance is uncanny).

** In his review of ''Film/MortalKombat'', in the beginning he states that playing violent video games like ''Mortal Kombat'' as a kid didn't affect his behaviour at all. [[HypocriticalHumor He then proceeds to shoot a gun in the air while drinking out of a skull.]] At the end of the video, he starts doing it again as he walks out.

* AbsenteeActor:
** Because real Tamara and Malcolm play plenty of other characters, character Tamara and Malcolm don't show up in the ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' despite having made Critic do it in the first place.
** Character Tamara and Malcom don't appear in ''Amazing Spider-Man: Old vs New'', instead replaced with Black Willy Wonka and the Hyper Fangirl; characters who certainly don't try and call Critic out like character Tamara and Malcolm.
** Tamara is missing from the ''Maximum Overdrive'' review because as the credits explain, she was too sick to work. She was also travelling for "Children Of The Corn". Needless to say, people were happy when she was around for ''Dreamcatcher''.
** TheVoiceless variation in “Rise of the Commercials”, as Malcolm and Tamara have no lines whatsoever.
** Malcolm doesn't appear in ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'', and the credits lampshade it with “Malcolm will return next week in ''Angst 2: Revenge Of The Crying''”. According to Orlando on his facebook, Doug thought Malcolm wouldn't be available (when he was) and so didn't write him in.
** Tamara was missing from the ''Film/TheLegendOfZorro'' review because she was busy touring with her RL boyfriend. In the ''Fantastic Four'' making of (when she came back), they spent some time mocking the fans who either demanded to know where she was or got confused about how she could apparently film in Chicago then be in another city.
** As of around 2017, every other week, Critic will review the film alone as in preboot style, while the next week will feature the actors.

* AdultFear: Especially as we've gotten to know him and what he was like as a child, his early line about shooting his TMNT doll because he was scared of it falls under this. Children shouldn't have guns anyway, let alone children with admitted issues.
** His kindergarten drawing of his monster parents ripping him in half has the same effect.

** In ''Rising Tides Crashing Skies'', he admits that the PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad-bashing ''When Does A Joke Go Too Far'' was intentionally done before ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' to get [=MRAs=] looking foolish (as they agreed with 'people get too offended' in the former but then got offended themselves).

* BoltOfDivineRetribution: In his comparisons of ''Film/TheTenCommandments'' vs. ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', he claims that God is more likely a kind and loving deity, rather than a vengeful god. [[spoiler:He was wrong.]]

** In his "Old vs. New: Film/TheTenCommandments vs. WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt" review, he says that one way ''The Ten Commandments'' is superior is that we learn Moses's last name. Clips are then shown of various characters saying "Moses, Moses..." Soon after, we see a clip of the "Super Mario Bros." movie where Luigi explains that he and Mario's last names are just "Mario". The Nostalgia Critic then threatens, "Don't start with me!"

* AdvertisingCampaigns: As of November 2020 the Critic has done eleven specials looking at 80s ads -- ''Nostalgic Commercials!'', ''Return of Nostalgic Commercials'', ''Revenge of the Commercials'', ''Dawn of the Commercials'', ''Rise of the Commercials'', ''Conquest of the Commercials'', ''Battle of the Commercials'', ''War of the Commercials'', ''Escape from the Commercials'', ''Planet of the Commercials'', and ''Curse of the Commercials'' - AKA "After These Messages...", "We'll Be Right Back...", "[[LuckyCharmsTitle !]]", "The Fourth One", "[[Film/HighlanderIITheQuickening The Quickening]]", "Ehenzeeahneh", "Like You Give a Shit", "Just Go!", "Do It!", "This Episode Brought to You by Commercials!", and "You Know the Drill!". He also did an editorial in December 2016 about the twelve best Christmas commercials.

** Critic reviewing ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' and [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} the anime series]] ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'' was based off of. He admitted he had never actually seen them, but argued in the latter case that it could be open to a broad audience not familiar with the franchise. [[invoked]]

** A few in "Freddy vs Jason": Ash from ''Franchise/EvilDead'' beats Ash from ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''[[note]](she deleted the tweet but Tamara wanted a whole show where Jim/Ash just slaughter her different pokemon)[[/note]], Malice stabs Dorothy and Devil Boner blows away both Chester and Santa Christ.

** "When Are Critics Wrong" is avbout how there's no wrong way to enjoy a piece of media.

** In ''AI'', [[NotSoDifferent nether TMZ or Critic]] seem to think that including crossdressing with sexual affairs and bigotry as "rotten stuff" is a little off.

** In ''Christmas With The Kranks'', it's more like “both prime and classic Critic have problems”, the former having more mean-spirited jokes and sometimes not using Tamara and Malcolm to full potential, and the latter's forced memes, random clips and bad lighting. There's also the acknowledgement that they're NotSoDifferent, bringing up all the skit heavy things before comeback too.

** He received criticism for reviewing Thomas and the Magic Railroad and stating that he has never seen [[WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine the show the movie was based on.]] This is featured in his third "Top 11 Fuck Ups" video and he states that he has done this before (like his Pokemon review mentioned above) and he received a lot of requests by fans to review the movie so he did. 

** The astronaut in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' likes the idea of reboots because then all her favorite childhood shows can be shown on the big screen, but has a breakdown when she sees the trailer poster for ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms''.

* {{Corpsing}}: Even while her character's pissed off with him about it for the most part (and Malcolm just shies away from him), rl Tamara breaks and laughs once when Critic is re-enacting the ''Disney Afternoon'' theme song and forcing her and Malcolm to do it too.

* AesopAmnesia: Gleefully lampshaded by Hyper in ''Christmas Story II'', after she tells Bennie she “finally knows what to do to the Critic”.
-->'''Bennie''': Don't you ever learn your frigging lesson?
-->'''Hyper''': No, and for ten grand neither do you.

** ''Film/TheWall'' review was a parody of the film in question, including fascists, love letter-y (Doug’s words) critiquey songs and DerangedAnimation.
* AgonyOfTheFeet: During Critic's time being held prisoner by Hyper, she apparently lopped off one of his toes. As punishment for something or because she's into that, we don't know.
* AIIsACrapshoot: During his review of ''Film/ShortCircuit'', the Critic comments that his microwave is now sapient, and it doesn't like him.

* MostFanficWritersAreGirls: Hyper's a {{straw fan}}girl who inevitably does fanfic and shipping fanart. Subverted in ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries II'' when she's kidnapped Critic, and while he thinks he's going to be swamped with ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' fanfiction, she's actually got a ton of comic books to try and prove she's OneOfTheBoys. In ''Cinderella Old Vs New'', she writes fic about her boyfriend Devil Boner and he's happy with that.

* TheAllSolvingHammer: Parodied in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' when he has an “evidence destroying hammer” in his storage space.

* AllPeriodsArePMS: Snarked on and gender-inverted, as when Critic acts like an abusive dick to Rachel, she snides that 'Aunt Flo' must be in town for him.
* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Critic’s drink order of “cupcake vodka” sounds made up, but it’s real and apparently gives the drinker a nasty sugar crash as well as a hangover.

* AndStarring: Orlando Belisle was credited this way in "You're a Dirty Rotten Bastard".

* AngstNuke: There is one scene where the Critic ends up destroying all of Chicago during his review of ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot''. He keeps demanding that [[TheLawOfConservationOfDetail the movie explain what is going on]] until his frustration finally [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx-97uRkzRg&feature=related erupted in an actual atomic explosion.]]
-->"Explain, movie! ''Explain!'' '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis JUUUST! EEEEX-PLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!!!!!!]]'''''" *causes a nuclear explosion leveling the city, then afterwards he {{double take}}s on the wreckage he just caused, then looks at the camera* "[-Sorry-]."
** And then:
--->'''''"Sorry, I'M GOING FOR TWO!"'''''
** LampshadeHanging: "Allow me to refer you to the previous nuclear explosion."
** Yet another one appears, though somewhat subdued: a miniature mushroom cloud bursts out of the Critic's forehead.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Fart Joke, who appears to be on some sort of Walkabout. "I am the breaking of the wind."

* AppealToObscurity: From the review of ''Film/ScoobyDoo'':
-->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' So the film opens with -- big shock -- a pop song.
-->'''Past Nostalgia Critic:''' Yeah, but so what? The original had pop songs too.
-->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' [[SarcasmMode Yeah, and I'm sure that never dated either]]. Just like having Sandy Duncan or the Harlem Globetrotters.
-->'''Past Nostalgia Critic:''' Who?
-->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' Exactly.

* ArousedByTheirVoice: Apparently, the Nostalgia Critic would "go ''gay''" for Creator/KeithDavid's voice. Earlier on, in ''Gargoyles'', he's jealous of the actor's (doesn't know his name yet) wife.
** Creator/VincentPrice leaving a taped message for the critic. Especially when he say "yes."

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In the ''Free Willy'' review, Critic alludes to whale as a fish.

* AsideGlance: In ''Turbo'', after Zordon says that all kid stars know how to do is go crazy, just to be sure that the audience gets the TakeThat.

* AwfulWeddedLife: In “Top 11 Worst Avatar Episodes”, he asks why there's so much bickering in romances, and says that's what marriage is for, followed by a rimshot.

** character!Tamara and Malcom don't appear in ''Amazing Spider-Man: Old vs New'', instead replaced with Black Willy Wonka and the Hyper Fangirl; characters who certainly don't try and call Critic out like character!Tamara and Malcolm.

** [[spoiler: Past!Critic]] keeps calling [[spoiler: Present!Critic]] a "narc" in the "Scooby Doo" review.

-->'''Past!Nostalgia Critic:''' Yeah, but so what? The original had pop songs too.

-->'''Past!Nostalgia Critic:''' Who?

** As Turl!Spoony found out, he's horrible at acting angry when he doesn't actually feel the emotion.

** In ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', Critic hires Tamara to make him suffer, and according to rl!Tamara's ShipTease, she goes between beating him every week and letting him be dominant at other times.

** Dinosaur!Rob's [[CaptainObvious "I'm a dinosaur."]]

** In Hyper's second vlog, Malcolm asks her how she gets into the studio every day and she tells him bye before very quickly moving onto dino!Rob. And when Tamara complains about the sexist questions, she doesn't even bother saying anything else before hounding Critic again.

** Again in ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', where Rachel!Katara says right off the bat that Critic's reviewing skills are awesome. Like Zordon, she's proven wrong.

* {{Corpsing}}: Even while her character's pissed off with him about it for the most part (and Malcolm just shies away from him), rl!Tamara breaks and laughs once when Critic is re-enacting the ''Disney Afternoon'' theme song and forcing her and Malcolm to do it too.

** Referenced in-universe during ''Film/JurassicParkIII'', as there's a sequel sketch of sorts to the child abuse scene from ''AI'' (with dad!Doug forcing child!Tamara to throw her doll away as she cries), and when it cuts back to Critic, he lampshades that he was in a dark place when he wrote that.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny Actually Pretty Funny: The Critic does semi-grudgingly point out jokes he finds funny in otherwise terrible movies. One near the end of ''Good Burger'' even causes him to drop in shock. In other reviews, he does acknowledge when the subject matter puts in some creativity or effort.

* AdvertisingCampaigns: As of December 2019 the Critic has done ten specials looking at 80s ads -- ''Nostalgic Commercials!'', ''Return of Nostalgic Commercials'', ''Revenge of the Commercials'', ''Dawn of the Commercials'', ''Rise of the Commercials'', ''Conquest of the Commercials'', ''Battle of the Commercials'', ''War of the Commercials'', ''Escape from the Commercials'', and ''Planet of the Commercials'' - AKA "After These Messages...", "We'll Be Right Back...", "[[LuckyCharmsTitle !]]", "The Fourth One", "[[Film/HighlanderIITheQuickening The Quickening]]", "Ehenzeeahneh", "Like You Give a Shit", "Just Go!", "Do It!", and "This Episode Brought to You by Commercials!". He also did an editorial in December 2016 about the twelve best Christmas commercials.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: {{Invoked|Trope}} multiple times.

** In ''Eragorn'', Malcolm and Tamara get annoyed with Critic because his eyes are talking to us, not them.

** "It's X the fucking Y!" seems to be becoming one, for whenever a movie tries way too hard for its subject matter, like, say, ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie.

** (Any time [[{{Demographically Inappropriate Humour}} something inappropriate comes up in a family film]]) "[[SarcasmMode You know, for kids!]]"
*** Alternately he might say [[SarcasmMode" A family picture!"]]

* CutLexLuthorACheck: The Critic notes that the titular Film/GhostDad could have made a lot of money for his children simply by proving his existence as a ghost to the public.

** Creator/ChuckNorris and the Burger King sit on the line between RunningGag and this.
** For the last time, the Critic [[Film/{{Hook}} doesn't believe in fairies!]] ''*watches [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Flora]] drop dead*''.
** In his ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' tribute, he drinks from a skull while firing his gun in the air randomly, a callback to him doing this in one of his very first reviews (''Film/StreetFighter'' and ''Film/MortalKombat'' films), [[BrickJoke two years prior]] (and again in his ''[[WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies1980s Pound Puppies]]'' review).

** He brings up the "It's ''Afterburner''!" gag from his ''Film/SuburbanCommando'' review during his Return of the Nostalgic Commercials episode.
*** In ''Revenge of the Commercials'', early on he talks about how now, the kid on the Zack the Lego Maniac commercials is probably a geeky psychopath who builds bombs to blow up the people who made fun of him. Guess what happens to the Critic in the end?
*** [[ItMakesSenseInContext The Buddhist monk saying "IT'S NOT POP-TARTS!"]] from the commercial reviews also returns in his review of ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest''.
** 'Pot Land' in ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' review. Twice.

* BrosBeforeHoes: In “Did Tom And Jerry Kill Themselves”, the main thing he takes from ''WesternAnimation/BlueCatBlues'' is not the grim punchline (which he likes but can see why it upsets people) but the use of this sexist trope in a kid's cartoon.

** (Any time [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar something inappropriate comes up in a family film]]) "[[SarcasmMode You know, for kids!]]"

** Then the animators of the anime ''Manga/ZettaiKarenChildren: The Unlimited'' [[http://ogiuemaniax.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/the-nostalgia-critic-in-zettai-karen-children-the-unlimited/ threw him]] and WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd in as background characters its fifth episode.