History TheNostalgiaCritic / TropesHToN

* HamAndCheese: Discussed every now and then. In ''The Cat in the Hat'' they even add a "Not Caring Meter", topped by Jeremy Irons in ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons''.[[invoked]]

*** During the Sibling Rivalry for ''Film/Ghostbusters2016,'' Rob claimed that the film would have come and went if not for the controversy, also noting that plenty of hated movies are forgotten like ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms.''

* IAmNotShazan[[invoked]]: In his ''Film/MaryPoppinsReturns'' review, Critic refers to [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Simba]] as simply "Lion King."

** IAmNotSpock: If an actor is not too well known but did play a well known character in the past, the Critic will refer to them by that character's name.

* [[invoked]]MisBlamed: [[{{InUniverse}} The Critic starts]] a CharacterFilibuster on Creator/StevenSpielberg adding a sappy ending to ''Film/{{AI}}'', only to find out original director Creator/StanleyKubrick had planned it all along. The summation at the end even has the Critic revealing he hated the movie at first, but came to notice it's better than he thought and Spielberg was in a no-win situation anyway.

* MissingMom: Referred to in ''Film/GhostDad'' as "Get-the-bitch-out-of-the-film-isis”.

** A common criticism of the review of the film adaptation of Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'' is that you can't understand a ''thing'' the CGI characters are saying due to the voice actors' accents and singing being extremely hard to understand coupled with there being no subtitles or released lyric sheets available to read what Doug wrote for the lyrics.

* HereWeGoAgain: After commercial!Tamara dies from fuckitall in the ''Blues Brothers 2000'' review, Critic wants some at the end so he can forget his own name. Considering he totally blanked out the former happening, it's tough to say whether he knew what was going to happen or not.

** When Critic questions why ''Turbo'' made Zordon's special effects so bad again, Malcolm!Zordon explains that they gave all their money to Divatox's cleavage. Critic agrees it was a sacrifice that had to be made.

** Critic's tiresome speeches get called out again in ''Maximum Overdrive'', as Malcolm's character (who had bored Critic with his own explanation of why King is so great) rolls his eyes and says he got bored halfway through. He also took a hit at his anvilly foreshadowing tendencies, with Cenobite!Malcolm revealing himself to Critic and Critic complaining about how heavy and obvious it was.

** ''Christmas With The Kranks'' acknowledges Doug's weight loss over the years, with Santa Christ calling 2007!Critic “slightly overweight”. The behind the scenes takes it further, with Doug saying he needed a different costume for his younger self because it was too hard to make himself look fatter, and would have bought baggier jeans if it hadn't meant changing clothes constantly.

* MadeOutToBeAJerkass: Reboot!Critic usually has no problem with being a jerkass, but when he loses it and rages at Hyper Fangirl for stalking him, kidnapping him and thinking that those actions will make him love her, she starts crying, he feels extreme guilt and Santa Christ (who is biased against Critic) calls him a douche and lets him make it up to her. Except Hyper is a stalker who has done all the things Critic has yelled at her for, and outright told Benny that she is never going to learn her lesson. Doug confirmed in a later panel that Hyper was the bad guy and Critic was right to have his speech, but that still doesn't explain why she gets what she wants.

** Possibly lampshaded in the review of ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'', as he calls Real!Critic an idiot for getting the glove taken away from him but neglects to mention Malachite forced it out of his hand with magic.

** Lampshaded in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavaGirl'' when present!Critic sees something [[invoked]] SurpriseCreepy and calls Critic from twenty minutes ago, the past Critic gets confused about how they're even doing this.

** Happens in-universe in "WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon" retrospective. Before the commercial break there is a gag involving Critic, Tamara, and Malcolm all pulling out items relevant to their childhoods[[note]]Critic with TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles gummy fruit snacks, Tamara with a Pinkie Pie MyLittlePony plush toy, and Malcolm with an [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]] action figure[[/note]], each person being asked if said items are literally from their childhoods, and then correcting the others that the items in question are actually the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 modern]] [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic day]] [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime equivalents]]. The sudden realization that the pop culture trends of the early [[TheNewTens New Tens]] are eerily similar to that of the late 1980s/early 1990s causes the Critic to declare "...nothing's changed" and the mood of the scene to suddenly change to one of deep confusion at this realization.

--> '''Critic''': You... dirty, stuck-up, sadistic, shit-eating, cocksucking, buttfucking, penis-smelling, crotch-grabbing, ball-licking, semen-drinking, dog-raping, Nazi-loving, child-touching, cow-humping, perverted, spineless, heartless, mindless, dickless, testicle-choking, urine-gargling, jerk-offing, horse face, sheep-fondling, toilet-kissing, self-centered, feces-puking, dildo-shoving, snot-spitting, crap-gathering, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking big nose]], monkey-slapping, bastard-screwing, bee-shitting, fart-knocking, sack-busting, splooge-tasting, bear-blowing, head-swallowing, bitch-snatching, handjobbing, donkey-caressing, mucus-spewing, anal-plunging, ho-grabbing, uncircumsized, whore mongering, piss-swimming, midget-munching, douche bag, ho-biting, carniverous mail order prostitute...''ASSHOLE''!

* [[invoked]]MisBlamed: [[{{InUniverse}} The Critic starts]] a CharacterFilibuster on Creator/StevenSpielberg adding a sappy ending to ''Film/{{AI}}'', only to find out original director Creator/StanleyKubrick had planned it all along. The summation at the end even has the Critic revealing he hated the movie at first, but came to notice it's better than he tought and Spielberg was in a no-win situation anyway.

* InternetToughGuy: The meninists in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' can only hurl abuse at women online, and instantly get nervous when they meet up with Curiosa. Doug also says in commentary that men who mansplain about women and other minorities have never actually tried to get the actual subject's opinion on anything.

** Though in the latter case, [[FromACertainPointOfView he did say "This is not jumping the shark."]]

* MoralDissonance: Invoked at the end of the ''TMNT Christmas Special'' and mocking other times of sentiment that came off false, when he's letting Tamara getting attacked by zombie-Malcolm while speechifying to the audience about the TrueMeaningOfChristmas.

* LetsSeeYouDoBetter: While Doug's proud of all three, the epic rip on himself at the start of ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'' mocks how he's an asshole who rips apart bad movies and shows, but has made movies and shows (''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'', ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' and ''WebVideo/DemoReel'') that others have ripped apart.

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'', [[HypocriticalHumor before he does a load of speeches anyway]], he barges in to the office, and Analyst 1 snarks that he's a Seuss nazi who'll be giving them a “pep talk”. This is also the review that gets shown when ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' self-deprecates about him acting like no other opinion matters but his.

** After he got a load of heat for doing ''Film/JurassicWorld'', he self-deprecates in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'' that he doesn't do much nostalgic stuff any more, and mentions that review by name.

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'', [[HypocriticalHumor before he does a load of speeches anyway]], he barges in to the office, and Analyst 1 snarks that he's a Seuss nazi who'll be giving them a “pep talk”. This is also the review that gets shown when ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'' self-deprecates about him acting like no other opinion matters but his.

* IdenticalLookingAsians:
** In the Top 11 Best Avatar Episodes, Critic confusing Dante Basco with Dev Patel angers Dante enough that Critic is punched down into the comment section.
** In his made up plot of ''Frozen II'', Anna confuses a random black woman in a green dress for Tiana, and thus gets exiled for being racist.
** [[https://twitter.com/BethElderkin/status/718181918739689474 With women instead of race]], but bizarrely, one of the comments for ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' mistook Beth and/or Tamara with Lindsay. The three look nothing alike aside from being white women with brown hair.
** Contrary to what some fans believe, Heather, Lindsay and Rachel are all different women.

* HetIsEw: In ''Forest Warrior'', Critic says that because Chuck Norris “wants to put himself in every man”, getting his wife involved “would be an abomination unto God”.
--->'''Film Brain''': Oh I see your point.
--->'''Critic''': Really?
--->'''Film Brain''': No.
** Earlier in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', he tells Robin that he's just confused when he's kissing Poison Ivy.

** [[invoked]] In ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'', the BigBeautifulWoman friend with ample cleavage is dubbed over by the Critic as not reaching Creator/HalleBerry's attractiveness.

** "Realized" in ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'', where he decides it was apparently silly to be scared of [[HystericalWoman Hysterical Women]] who switch between wanting to kill and screw him, and switches to perving on them instead.

* MenAreBetterThanWomen: ''Film/{{Catwoman}}''. Critic might have been the one scared and threatened, but the catladies are the ones who are {{Small Name Big Ego}}s who hate each other and Creator/HalleBerry, can't walk in heels or on cold floors, get easily outwitted by Critic, are swayed by his STD joke and in the end are happy to exploit themselves for MaleGaze viewcounts.

** In the ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'' review: "Yes, Sean Young, we all remember how you ambushed Creator/TimBurton dressed as Catwoman in order to force him to put you in the role" *Looks at the camera* "That's not comedic writing; she really did that, folks."

** “Is Eyes Wide Shut Artsy Porn” is all about BadDreams and LoveHurts, but he still rushes off for a night of anonymous masked sex at the end. Whether it's trying to ignore his issues or he's in desperate masochist mode again is up for debate.

* LullDestruction:
** One of his main criticisms of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicVoyage''.
** Ditto with the ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' movie, which he feels was '''worse''' because in ''The Magic Voyage'', you could at least make out what they were saying and the constant noise was all the dialogue, whereas ''Felix'' had the background noise being heard ''over the character's thoughts and sentences.''

* NakedFreakOut: The title card of “Is Eyes Wide Shut Just Artsy Porn”, to go with the feeling exposed theme, and Doug's executive in “Rise Of The Commercials”, just for {{fanservice}}.

* HopeSpot: In the climax of ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', WebVideo/DemoReel and WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee references combine to have Critic actually learning something and get away from his SlowlySlippingIntoEvil StoryArc. But then Burton's good adaptation gets canceled, and it turns into a ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' CallBack where Malice is depressed and Critic is angrily saying he's forgotten what he's learned.

* HistoryRepeats: With WebVideo/DemoReel being the ElephantInTheLivingRoom and Critic destroying that show, it's only fair that an awful thing that happened to Donnie happens to him too. Twice. In ''Film/JurassicPark III'' he gets news that his mother died and it breaks him, and in ''Small Soldiers/The Princess Diaries 2'' he's kidnapped by a rapey StepfordSmiler LoonyFan who wants to keep him there indefinitely.
** In ''Labyrinth'', Uncle Lies, confirmed as Ask That Guy, says that the abuse "that made him stronger" will scar his kids for his life.

* HappyDance: Frequently.

** In ''Dawn of the Commercials'', to some extent, with the 'Toys "R" Us Kid' commercial, due to the store's bankruptcy and closing.

* MisBlamed: [[{{InUniverse}} The Critic starts]] a CharacterFilibuster on Creator/StevenSpielberg adding a sappy ending to ''Film/{{AI}}'', only to find out original director Creator/StanleyKubrick had planned it all along. The summation at the end even has the Critic revealing he hated the movie at first, but came to notice it's better than he tought and Spielberg was in a no-win situation anyway.

* MissingMom: [[SarcasmMode Lovingly]] referred to in ''Film/GhostDad'' as "Get-the-bitch-out-of-the-film-isis”. A few months later, ''his'' (fictional) mom dies, much to his distress, which might be cruel if somewhat deserved LaserGuidedKarma.

* HypeBacklash: