History Characters / TheNostalgiaCriticTheCritic

** 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.

* TheAlcoholic: Even though even [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]] would probably laugh at him for not being able to handle his drink, booze pops up a lot in his show.

** For ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'' he gets so angry that the movie keeps making shit up with absolutely no explanation that his anger destroys a town with a nuclear explosion. Then it happens again mere moments later when one of the characters makes a horrible DirtyHarry pun.

** Chester dies in ''Film/PhantomOfTheOpera'', and while Beth and Tim are horrified, Critic doesn't care and calls “murder a total aphrodisiac”.

** In ''Film/PhantomOfTheOpera'', his immediate reaction to Beth being missing is to tell Tim to get in the Christine dress.

* {{Workaholic}}: Doug being Doug, this creeps into Critic every now and then. Like in ''Film/GhostDad'', he says death is no excuse to stop working, or the GutPunch in ''Film/JurassicPark III'', when the doctor says his [[spoiler: dying]] mom didn't want to bother him from his work.

** His screaming at the Chick about does she even care about him goes into this trope when WordOfGod confirmed they had sex in the ''{{Ferngully}}'' review.

** He shocks Film Brain in ''Forest Warrior'' by ''agreeing'' with Chuck Norris's homophobia, calling him misunderstood and the world has turned against him. (to clarify, Doug gets past this potential shitstorm with much SarcasmMode about how ChuckNorris is in a TransparentCloset, and Critic's meant to be an oblivious idiot)

* ThatManIsDead: In the beginning of ''Forest Warrior'', he refuses to do the ChuckNorris RunningGag because that was the old him, and the new version needs to create new memes that he can be obnoxious about.

** The Critic opens the ''AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' review like this, apparently still in shock from the insanity of the show.

* HatesBeingAlone: In ''Film/JudgeDredd'', when given the choice of living in an abusive care home or walking alone until death, he chooses the former.

* {{Fanboy}}: Whenever there's something he likes, or at least a hammy GuiltyPleasure, he'll be gleeing and enjoying himself immensely.

* IResembleThatRemark: He doesn't exactly defend himself well when Phelous jokes that he's an [[Film/ChildsPlay evil, insane, catchphrase-spewing doll]].

* MilesGloriosus: Aang killed Shyamalan in ''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''.
* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: He admits in the ''{{Gordy}}'' review that he's so tired.

* PrettyBoy: He and others certainly think so: he calls himself pretty rather than handsome in his ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' review, Spoony made him dress in drag and took pictures while raping him, the Chick went into bad touch land after chloroforming him, the Game Heroes had fun manhandling him while he was their DistressedDude and both Linkara and [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] have fairly obvious crushes on him.

** He complains in his ''ErnestSavesChristmas'' review that nobody ever tells him things like why the dinosaurs died out.

** The other contributors think that he's the (ineffectual) MeanBoss of the site. In reality, it's The Other Guy and Critic's just a puppet with woefully poor self-esteem.

** One that he will dedicate entire episodes to are frivolous copyright claims to silence criticism. See: Tommy Wiseau, Hollywood in general...

* 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.

* AbusiveParents: His parents broke him really bad, making him an easily scared, naive, weepy PsychopathicManchild who thinks parents shouting at each other happens all the time and has children getting hurt as a BerserkButton, but they've done a couple of nice things for him that keep them out of "totally irredeemable" territory. Plus both of them have died (at different points) and he sounded completely destroyed hearing and talking about it.