History Creator / JamesRolfe

A film buff born in {{UsefulNotes/Philadelphia}} and raised in UsefulNotes/NewJersey with directing aspirations, James Duncan Rolfe (born July 10, 1980) remained mostly under the radar until 2006, when he posted a couple of joke reviews he made for his friends a couple years earlier on Website/YouTube, under the name "The Angry Nintendo Nerd". A few years of booming popularity later, he eventually evolved into ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''.

* OlderThanHeLooks: He still looks to be in his twenties when he's actually ''43''. It really shows in the ''Franchise/MegaMan'' episode of AVGN, when the Nerd goes back in time and meets his earlier incarnations (which are first shown through StockFootage, then played by himself). He hardly looked different than his decade-earlier videos, save for the hairline.

* MetalHead: He is a huge fan of heavy metal and hard rock occasionally name checking them in a video. He especially seems to like {{Music/ACDC}}. He very often wears metal band T-shirts when not in character. In Mailbag #3 he is wearing a Music/LedZeppelin hat and in the ''You Know What's Bullshit'' episode on iTunes, his music library consists mostly of hard rock and heavy metal bands. He even started a series podcasts called "Audio Slaughter" with his wife. He talks a great deal about his longtime love for heavy metal, particularly in the episodes on Music/{{Metallica}} and Music/BlackSabbath. In his "'Making of An Angry Video Game Nerd Episode" video, he mentions that one time, while editing an exceptionally difficult and time-consuming project, he managed to listen to the entire Music/IronMaiden discography. He's also mentioned in several videos that he likes the cult British DoomMetal band Witchfinder General, who no doubt [[ColbertBump recieved much more attention thanks to this.]]

* DudeNotFunny: In his review of ''Film/GameOfDeath'', James already finds the 1978 cut of the movie and its attempts to work around the fact they only had 11 minutes of footage of the real Creator/BruceLee awkward and strange, but he really doesn't mince words towards how tasteless the film is for -- as part of the new plot, where Lee's character [[FakingTheDead fakes his own death]] -- uses stock footage of ''Bruce Lee's real funeral.''

* DudeNotFunny: In his review of ''Film/GameOfDeath'', James already finds the 1978 cut of the movie and its attempts to work around the fact they only had 11 minutes of footage of the real Creator/BruceLee awkward and strange, but he really doesn't mince words towards how -- as part of the new plot, where Lee's character [[FakingTheDead fakes his own death]] -- the film uses footage of ''Bruce Lee's real funeral.''

* DudeNotFunny: In his review of ''Film/GameOfDeath'', James already finds the 1978 cut of the movie and its attempts to work around the fact they only had 11 minutes of footage of the real Creator/BruceLee awkward and strange, but he really doesn't mince words towards how -- as part of the new plot, where Lee's character [[FakingTheDead fakes his own death -- the film uses footage of ''Bruce Lee's real funeral.''

* ShownTheirWork: Invoked in his comparison of Literature/{{Dracula}}'s film adaptations with the [[Literature/{{Dracula}} book]]. He dissects each movie (at least the ones that are straight adaptations, anyway, which reduces the field to 12 films) in search of the book's plot points and character translations. In the end, ''Film/CountDracula1977'' and ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' were the closest ones he found (the former winning out by a tiny margin), even with the creative liberties each work took (such as, the former making Arthur Holmwood and Quincey Morris a CompositeCharacter, and the latter explicitly connecting Dracula to UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler).

* ShownTheirWork: Invoked in his comparison of Franchise/{{Dracula}}'s film adaptations with the [[Literature/{{Dracula}} book]]. He dissects each movie (at least the ones that are straight adaptations, anyway, which reduces the field to 12 films) in search of the book's plot points and character translations. In the end, ''Film/CountDracula1977'' and ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' were the closest ones he found (the former winning out by a tiny margin), even with the creative liberties each work took (such as, the former making Arthur Holmwood and Quincey Morris a CompositeCharacter, and the latter explicitly connecting Dracula to UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler).

* LongTitle: On a few occasions, James has mentioned a horror film that he's been planning to make for several years, titled ''The Confounded Crazy Critters who Devoured Neurotic Livestock and Couldn't Stop Dying So They Had to Carry Their Own Tombstones over Their Heads.''

* OffModel: Many of the examples in his "Top 20 [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Turtle]] Flubs" video.

* OlderThanHeLooks: He still looks to be in his twenties when he's actually ''42''. It really shows in the ''Franchise/MegaMan'' episode of AVGN, when the Nerd goes back in time and meets his earlier incarnations (which are first shown through StockFootage, then played by himself). He hardly looked different than his decade-earlier videos, save for the hairline.

** In the tenth anniversary video of "[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles You Can Just Walk Over It?]]", James made fun of his [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment repetitive writing]] in that AVGN episode.

** An entire series of them in the form of the "Cinemassacre Movie Location Tours", where James travels to different parts of the States to seek out real life locations used in famous films. Such locations include the mall from ''Film/DawnOfTheDead'', the town of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania as seen in ''Film/TheBlob1958'', and several ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' landmarks in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity.

* OlderThanHeLooks: He still looks to be in his twenties when he's actually ''42''. It really shows in the ''Franchise/MegaMan'' episode of AVGN, when the Nerd goes back in time and meets his earlier incarnations (which are first shown through StockFootage, then played by himself). He hardly looked different than his decade-earlier videos, save for the haircut.

* OlderThanHeLooks: He still looks to be in his twenties when he's actually ''41''. It really shows in the ''Franchise/MegaMan'' episode of AVGN, when the Nerd goes back in time and meets his earlier incarnations (which are first shown through StockFootage, then played by himself). He hardly looked different than his decade-earlier videos, save for the haircut.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Parodied. As the Bullshit Man, he mentioned that people complained about having to say "Happy Holidays" out of respect for other beliefs when they ''insist'' on saying "Merry Christmas." So he coined a new term called '''HAPPY SHUT THE FUCK UP!''' and has proceeded to use this in some of his Christmas specials, including the AVGN Winter Games, and even as himself at the end of his TMNT Christmas review.