History Characters / TheAngryVideoGameNerd

* UndignifiedDeath: The Nerd anti-climatically pushes him to his death.

* ThrowTheDogABone: He is this to the AVGN, since he's one of the few guest characters to be nice to him.

** [[spoiler:He may not like a lot of the games he reviews (in fact, some of them, he hates!), but if you try to get rid of them and replace them with even crappier versions, it doesn't matter if you're even replacing ''Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde'', he will destroy you!]]

* YourAnswerToEverything: Ranting about shitty, nostalgic games.

* YourAnswerToEverything: His life revolves entirely around ranting about everyday inconveniences.

** [[LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading Loading times]]. His annoyance with them is most pronounced in the ''Superman'' (Commodore) and ''Zelda's Adventure'' reviews.
*** Also seen in the ''Batman Forever'' review, which ironically was a cartridge game.
-->'''Nerd''': ...Whenever you access a new part of the game, it says "Hold On". Hold on for what? It has to fucking ''load''?!

-->'''Nerd''': [[spoiler:...no more ''Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde''... '''''I WON'T FUCKING HAVE IT!''''']]

* {{Adorkable}}: When he's not in a rage.

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->'''Portrayed by:''' Kyle Justin

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* TheFaceless: At first he only played the Nerd's masked enemies. While in WebVideo/BoardJames he shows his face, in AVGN, he doesn't (the only time he's unmasked is playing SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, and thus with make-up, and at the end of the Lethal Weapon review, where he appears as himself).

* {{Jerkass}}: While he's unmistakably a force for good, he's still a violent, short-tempered, abrasive, and often hostile asshole with a tendency to do rude and immoral things such as beating the living shit out of Bugs Bunny just because he was annoyed with the game he was reviewing at the moment, insulting and threatening to kill Jessica Rabbit over the phone (also merely because he was frustrated with the game he was playing), acting very rude to two kids who came to his door on Halloween, swearing at them and literally giving them shit instead of candy, and rudely, angrily yelling and lashing out at the Guitar Guy just for trying to be a part of his review.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: But then again, he seems to genuinely love and care about his fans, and the whole reason he does this series to begin with is to warn people about bad games and keep them away from them. He also acts relatively friendly toward Spider-Man and is utterly disgusted by the overly graphic animation of a dog getting run over by a car in the Sega Genesis version of Action 52.

* AuthorAvatar: Whenever he recounts events from his childhood or shows footage of such (e.g. "Dick Tracy" and "Christmas Carol Part 2"), they're more often than not actual memories/footage of Creator/JamesRolfe as a child. In addition, most of his opinions on the games he reviews are James' actual thoughts, albeit exaggerated. It's also been hinted a few times that his real first name might also be James; specifically in the "Winter Games", "Spiderman", "Superman (NES)" and "Action 52" episodes.

--> '''Spiderman:''' "James likes the little web."

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: But then again, he seems to genuinely love and care about his fans, and the whole reason he does this series to begin with is to warn people about bad games and keep them away from them. He also acts relatively friendly toward Spiderman and is utterly disgusted by the overly graphic animation of a dog getting run over by a car in the Sega Genesis version of Action 52.

** "I'd rather (insert over-the-top nasty and/or painful action)"

* BasementDweller: Comes with being a HollywoodNerd and all.

* HeelFaceTurn: He's originally shown to be an agent of Satan in ''Dorothy Goes To Hell''. As of the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' review, he's firmly on the side of good.

** In "Spawn Games", after being killed and sent to Hell, is offered a chance to be brought back to life if he can complete a selection of Spawn video games. To make it even more torturous for him, he must do it in "the most vile, despicable game room ever imagined by Hell", designed to break men's souls in mere minutes. [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth He is unimpressed by it]], as it looks exactly like his own game room. Except for the shelf full of copies of E.T. for the Atari 2600. The Nerd says his own shelf has ''even more'' copies of it.

** In "Spawn Games", after being killed and sent to Hell, is offered a chance to be brought back to life if he can complete a selection of Spawn video games. To make it even more torturous for him, he must do it in "the most vile, despicable game room ever imagined by Hell", designed to break men's souls in mere minutes. [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth He is unimpressed by it]], as it looks exactly like the Nerd's own game room. Except for the shelf full of copies of E.T. for the Atari 2600. The Nerd says his own shelf has ''even more'' copies of it.

* TooKinkyToTorture: It's heavily implied that the main reason why he keeps playing all these shitty games is because he's a masochist. [[spoiler:At the end of "Sonic 2006 Part 2", he is seen having a BDSM session with the titular game.]]

* BiTheWay: Critic's "Smurfs 2" review confirmed that he and the Nerd have had sex at least once. Might be IfItsYouItsOkay as while Critic ReallyGetsAround with men and women, Nerd's show doesn't really have that factor.

* TooKinkyToTorture: It's heavily implied that the main reason why he keeps playing all these shitty games is because he's a sadomasochist. [[spoiler:At the end of "Sonic 2006 Part 2", he is seen having a BDSM session with the titular game.]]

* TooKinkyToTorture: [[spoiler:At the end of "Sonic 2006 Part 2", it's revealed that he's into BDSM.]]

* ButtMonkey: Playing all the bad games is torture to him. He also sometimes gets harassed and tormented by fictional characters from whatever game he's reviewing at the moment, with them often forcing him to play said games against his will.

* TheChewToy: The viewers are clearly supposed to be amused by his suffering and anger caused by the horrible games he plays and reviews.

* AmbiguousDisorder: As his name implies, the Nerd has [[HairTriggerTemper extreme anger issues]]. While it is understandable given his job involves him playing frustrating games, it can be argued that his rages are [[DisproportionateRetribution disproportionate]] to the stimuli and often reacts to mildly frustrating things with colorful profanity and excessive violence, hinting that he suffers from Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED). His excessive alcoholism probably does not help his mood, either.
** He is constantly hounded by outlandish and fictional characters (Shit-Pickle, Super-Mega Death-Christ, Satan, the Joker, Jason Vorheese, Freddy Krueger, etc.) who are all out to do him harm, hinting that he could be suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. Though considering this is set in [[WorldOfWeirdness the Reviewerverse]] where literally anything could happen, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane it is hard to argue whether or not any of it is real or not]].

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Played with in the "ROB the Robot" episode. The episode opens with the Nerd going on a rant about all of his shitty games before simply stating "I don't like them!" [[spoiler:In the end, after thwarting ROB's plan to turn all games into ''Gyromite'' and ''Stack-Up'', he grabs an armful of his shitty games and hugs them.]]

** Any game that has annoying design element that just makes the game more irritating to play--''Kid Kool'' is one example he particularly singled out, where he lists numerous design flaws (fittingly named "Seven Deadly Sins of Game Design") that blatantly hamper the experience, such as "One Way Bullshit" [[note]]Referring to the games RatchetScrolling, which can cause you to accidentally lose your method of attack[[/note]] "Topside Aquatic Ass" [[note]]A bizarre game mechanic where you have to do a mandatory jump by skipping across water three times, with the third time having to be ''perfectly'' timed or you die on the spot[[/note]] and "Two-Gear Diarrhea" [[note]] You can only run at two speeds, super slow or at uncontrollable speeds, and this also ties into the fact that the limited view ahead of the character makes it easy to collide into enemies, and some jumps require you to build momentum on ''very'' tiny ledges [[/note]].

** Guns; specifically guns and kids. For his Wish List Christmas episode The Nerd was horrified by children's toys advertised alongside enough guns to resemble Charlton Heston's Xmas catalogue. Which makes sense, in an earlier video he reviews The Odyssey which included a gun: unpacking it and when showing it off he showed very good gun safety despite it being a toy.
* BiTheWay: Critic's "Smurf 2" review confirmed that he and the Nerd have had sex at least once. Might be IfItsYouItsOkay as while Critic ReallyGetsAround with men and women, Nerd's show doesn't really have that factor.

* {{Flanderization}}: In earlier videos, he seemed to be at least somewhat familiar with modern games and technology as he occasionally mentioned games that were modern at the time and was even shown using a cell-phone a few times (specifically in the "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" and "Ghostbusters" episodes). Fast-forward to more recent episodes, where he went from simply preferring vintage stuff while having moderate knowledge of modern-day things to being a full-blown DiscoDan who's almost completely out-of-touch with modern-day equipment, appearing to have little to no knowledge of newer games and even using an old Commodore computer and vintage cell-phone on a regular basis.

* FutureLoser: Looks like he's stuck playing shitty games for the rest of his life. He even gets shocked when he learns that he will die from a heart attack while reviewing ''Boogie'' for the Wii at an old age, and decides to swear off playing shitty games after that incident, popping in Super Mario World and proclaiming that he will only play good games from that point onwards. Needless to say, [[IgnoredEpiphany it doesn't last very long]], and he simply says "fuck it" and decides that he prefers to [[AccentuateTheNegative bash shitty games anyway]].
* GeekPhysique: Zigzagged. Earthbound shows that he's actually very lean and fit, with other characters from his subconscious complaining that his choice in clothes hides this.

* GoodIsNotNice: He is notorious for his very short temper and legendarily colorful language, but the Nerd is unmistakably a force for good, and he can be quite friendly and passionate about a game he loves when he's not railing off on a bad game or dueling another foe--but he isn't afraid to call things as he sees it when it comes to crappy games, [[BrutalHonesty or even flaws in things he likes]] (i.e. the ''Zelda II'' review, a game he admires as a legitimate classic, but isn't above acknowledging it's flaws, such as it's [[NintendoHard schizophrenic, hair pulling difficulty]]), and he is more than willing to give his foes more than a taste of their own medicine.

* {{Jerkass}}: While he's unmistakably a force for good, he's still a violent, short-tempered, abrasive, and often hostile asshole with a tendency to do rude and immoral things such as beating the living shit out of Bugs Bunny just because he was annoyed with the game he was reviewing at the moment, insulting and threatening to kill Jessica Rabbit over the phone (also merely because he was frustrated with the game he was playing), acting very rude to two kids who came to his door on Halloween, swearing at them and literally giving them shit instead of candy, and rudely, angrily yelling and lashing out at the Guitar Guy just for trying to be apart of his review.

* ManChild: A central part of The Nerd's character; he is very immature, short-tempered and foul mouthed, and has an obsessive passion for old video games and 80's pop culture (right down to still owning a huge collection of video games, board games, movies and vintage toys) and he literally lives in his basement, spending his days complaining about games he hates. Sometimes these traits are celebrated, but usually they're played for laughs.

* SirSwearsalot: Swears so much that he makes you almost never even notice his rival the Nostalgia Critic swearing when watching the two in comparison.

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: The Nerd is able to beat Jason and Freddy Krueger in a fight, but has trouble beating The Nostalgia Critic (though he does tend to be on the winning end of the struggle more often than not). And his fights with Bugs Bunny can go anywhere from him completely dominating Bugs, to being a close match, or getting his own ass handed to him, sometimes all within the same video!

** In "Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle", him and Woody Woodpecker are blown up by a bomb.

* SirSwearsalot: Even when everything is nice and calm, he still swears.

* AscendedExtra: Originally a one-off character from a joke in the ''Big Rigs'' episode, before turning into a recurring character in The Nerd's lore.

* BasementDweller: Well, kinda. He lives behind The Nerd's couch. The ''Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle'' review implies it's actually ''his'' couch.

* TheFaceless: At first he only played The Nerd's masked enemies. While in WebVideo/BoardJames he shows his face, in AVGN, he doesn't (the only time he's unmasked is playing SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, and thus with make-up).

* NotTheWayItIsMeantToBePlayed: He has his own series alongside James's videos that are dedicated to finding glitches [[GoodBadBug of]] [[GameBreakingBug all]] [[CheatCode kinds]] in old games as well as other content that wouldn't fit The Nerd's repertoire.

The famous character of WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes fame, who is a minor foe of the Nerd. He appears in three reviews, ''Bugs Bunnys Birthday Blowout'', ''Bugs Bunnys Crazy Castle'' and [[spoiler:''Mega Man Games''.]]

* ButtMonkey: Has shades of his in ''Birthday Blowout'', with the Nerd smashing a beer bottle on his head, [[OffhandBackhand offhand backhanding]] him, and lunging at him, all before his birthday beating at the end. [[spoiler: He goes through the routine again at the end of the ''Mega Man Games'' review.]]

* ContinuityNod: In the Crazy Castle review, he's back for revenge on the Nerd, and he references the Nerd defecating all over his face at the end of his last appearance. [[spoiler: In the end of the ''Mega Man Games'' review, he makes a brief return, ironically playing ''Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout'', telling the Nerd hes taken his job and that he doesn't have to play bad games anymore. He promptly gets yet another brutal beatdown, courtesy of the Nerd.]]

** In the ''Crazy Castle'' episde, on the other hand, Bugs is more than a match for the Nerd in combat.

* FireAndBrimstoneHell: [[spoiler: Sent there with the nerd at the end of huge Crazy Castle review.]]

* HumiliationConga: Bugs gets his worst since ''WesternAnimation/TortoiseWinsByAHare'' by the end of the ''Birthday Blowout'' review, where the Nerd goes ballistic at the [[AWinnerIsYou games ending]], and delivers a well earned NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Bugs, topping it off with him crapping all over Bugs' face.

* MythologyGag: [[spoiler: He sprouts the head of Woody Woodpecker in the climax of the Crazy Castle review, a nod to the earliest Bugs being similar to Woody, being co created by Ben Hardaway, and both characters initially being voiced by Creator/MelBlanc.]]

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: How the nerd bests him in ''Crazy Castle''.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: In contrast to his generally cool, laid back passive aggressive persona, this Bugs is a foul mouthed jerk who is not above a one on one fight.

* FriendlyEnemy: He may screw up video games, but he isn't really that horrible to the Nerd. He's even a friendly power-up in ''VideoGame/TheAngryVideoGameNerdAdventures''

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: To an extent. It sees Gyromite and Stack-Up as perfect games, probably since they're the only ones it can play.
* DarkMessiah: Believes it's destined to rid the world of bad games... by turning '''all''' games into copies of ''Gyromite'' and ''Stack-Up''.
* [[GrotesqueCute Grotesque]] CuteMachines
* ItsAllAboutMe: He views ''Gyromite'' and ''StackUp'' as the only good video games in the world, because those are the only two games that he knows how to play.

* RealityWarper: Once he gets angered, he changes all the games the Nerd has to just ''Gyromite'' and ''Stack-Up''

* BigBad: Is the creator of Game Land and final boss of ''VideoGame/AngryVideoGameNerdAdventures'', which was made [[YouDontLookLikeYou before his main series appearance]].

* AdaptationalVillainy: Originally Pepsiman is nothing more than an plucky IronButtMonkey who lives to serve those in severe lack of Pepsi. Here, he's an EldritchAbomination that wants to turn everything into Pepsi and ''very very'' NotGoodWithRejection.