History TheNostalgiaCritic / TropesDToG

* EveryoneIsBi: Fitting as Doug has this as such a CreatorThumbprint that even Rob gets annoyed.[[note]]Note that this is all characters, not actors themselves, as Tamara is the only one out as bisexual.[[/note]] Critic goes between bisexual and a TransparentCloset, and has been RaisedAsTheOppositeGender, Malcolm has a big crush on Critic as does Jim (who is according to Malcolm, also a transgender man), Rachel had sex with the female ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'', Hyper is hot for Rachel and Creator/CarrieFisher (and also has some hints of genderfluidity such as her desire to grow stubble), and Tamara lampshades in ''Film/JupiterAscending'' that they all like playing different genders.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Invoked in ''Blade'', as Marvel execs plan ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', the ''Blade'' tv series, and ''Series/Daredevil2015'', as "depressing, harsh and making you want to kill yourself" shows. Subverted though, as the Walkers both love Daredevil, and at least Rob also loves Jessica Jones.

** FanDisservice in the “Ghost Rider 2” review, as Doug!Cage starts rubbing himself onscreen, but the disservice is his penis disappearing and him making a horrified expression.

** ''Film/ScoobyDoo''. His ButtMonkey status has finally broken him, the Doc Brown parody is closer to an intelligent old man feeling the beginnings of dementia, if he hadn't been TheDitz Roger would have been able to tell him more about the end of the world, young!Critic makes him realize his extreme interest in overly-dommy women is not exactly sane, a suicide actually means something this time around with him having to get sent back from purgatory instead of just a UnexplainedRecovery, and he learns by the end that he actually has to make choices to get his life better.

-->'''girl!Critic''': He beats me with a shovel but you can skate on those abs.

** In ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', Rachel!Katara says “Critic has a long way to go before he's capable of saving anything”. He doesn't prove her wrong, and she only knows him as a brat who keeps running away, but the audience knows something she doesn't: before he came back, he saved the world three times.

* FakeActionPrologue: The opening of the ''Maximum Overdrive'' review has someone [[spoiler: WebVideo/JonTron]] in a mask stalking through Critic's house and stabbing him. After the credits, Critic's on a food binge and acts like that never happened. Not so cheap as the usual trope, because reboot!Critic has a tendency to hallucinate.

** In ''Film/RogueOne'' video, the boys complain about repeat with brunette British women in the series, but Tamara as Jyn tells them Anakin and Luke were pretty repeat too.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale: While a joke (considering it's about a girl and a barbie), averted in "Conquest of the Commercials" as he's creeped out by “Bedtime Barbie” and even mentions not getting consent as gross.

* FaintInShock: The highly girly Nostalgia Critic does this in his review of ''Film/JudgeDredd''. He even does the hand to the forehead thing.

** When ''WesternAnimation/TheRapsittieStreetKidsBelieveInSanta'' ends on [[MoodWhiplash a very harsh one]], accompanied by the Creator/MarkHamill character shouting "Shut that door!", Critic plays the ending over several other famous Christmas movies, and even [[spoiler:ends his own review by shouting "Shut that door!" and having the door close on the screen.]] And then [[spoiler: [[CallBack the same thing]] happens to close off the review of ''Film/HomeAlone 2''.]]

** As noted below, Doug has been portraying Critic's job as pathetic and self-destructive ever since he began, with Critic himself telling Film Brain in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' that nobody needs him for many reasons including the fact that he's a shitty reviewer. The review of ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'' opens with an almost three minute long “truthful preview” about this, ending up calling it “white privilege: the job”.

** The fake trailer for himself in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'' replaces his logo with “White Privilege: The Job”.

** In a SelfDeprecation[=/=]TakeThat mode, ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'' calls him a entitled nitpicking whiny crybaby giving birth to other nitpicking whiny crybabies, showing Snob, Film Brain, Linkara, Chick and Mike J. Also adding on that Critic himself did the same thing for the Nerd.

** In the ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'' parody in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'', “bat credit card”, “frying the coke” and BigLippedAlligatorMoment all get listed as “forced painful memes”.

** [[https://41.media.tumblr.com/1640abaf494fd3f74727d9a09bbc8e00/tumblr_nr542deVhO1u1e35so1_540.png The]] people telling him to do an Honest Trailer of himself in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'' are all (the ones who would leave insulting YT comments anyway) Doug's other characters, including Ask That Guy who is [[LampshadeHanging slightly annoyed]] by his own [[DroppedABridgeOnHim death]].

** When he comes to the sexual harassment PSA in ''Dawn Of The Commercials'', he suddenly wonders what it would be like gender reversed and decides it wouldn't work because men are too stupid to realize they're getting harassed. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Would be best to leave it there.]]

** ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'' might not have been so funny if it had been four hunky guys chasing a frustrated and scared girl around, switching between either wanting to kill her or wanting to screw her, and her realizing that she ''should'' have been enjoying it ''because'' they were hot.

*** And speaking of just a few of those female creepers, they don't get as far as rape, they're too self-obsessed and stupid for that, but ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'' wouldn't have flown with four guys punching a woman (who was already starting to look unhealthily skinny and tired) to the floor and making sexually toned threats towards her.

** Gets played for laughs in his ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'' review when the Catwomen cock their heels like guns at him.

** Tamara Chambers was one of the "Catwomen" in the ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'' review. She is now taking Rachel's place starting with the ''[[Film/TheWickerMan2006 Wicker Man]]'' review.

** ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'' in terms of what audience he wants to play up to. He literally has a speech calling himself a sexist, and he explains to the catwomen how MaleGaze will give him more views than the FemaleGaze Doug was feeding on before. This was only temporary though, and he went back to casting [=MRA=]s as villains.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: [[invoked]] In ''3 Ninjas'', he observes "What parents don't like the grandfather of their children (who happens to be Asian when the rest of the family is ''white'') teaching their kids to use shurikens and swords?"

* DestructiveRomance: Before Critic and Tamara had TheMasochismTango, he and Rachel had a more one-sided abusive relationship. He makes her go to extreme lengths just for a simple happy birthday, even after a condescending, violent, BecauseISaidSo phone call she still rationalizes his behavior, he takes disturbing joy in seeing her upset, he keeps wanting to punish her “because someone has to pay”, and her goodbye video had nothing to do with anything on Critic.

* EvilVersusEvil: Critic vs Soulless in ''Film/TheCatInTheHat''. Soulless has no respect for children or anyone and blissfully makes bad movies, but Critic sold his soul, abused an AmbiguousDisorder child, drove two people to suicide and impressed the devil with torture suggestions.

** ''Film/ScoobyDoo''. His DesignatedMonkey status has finally broken him, the Doc Brown parody is closer to an intelligent old man feeling the beginnings of dementia, if he hadn't been TheDitz Roger would have been able to tell him more about the end of the world, young!Critic makes him realize his extreme interest in overly-dommy women is not exactly sane, a suicide actually means something this time around with him having to get sent back from purgatory instead of just a UnexplainedRecovery, and he learns by the end that he actually has to make choices to get his life better.

* DesignatedVillain

** But he has also praised those who apply this concept ''properly'', such as the more serious ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'' and the 2010 version of ''Film/TrueGrit''.

* DarkHorseVictory: In the Old vs. New on Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' and [[Film/{{Cinderella2015}} its live action remake]], the winner is [[spoiler:''Film/EverAfter'']].

* EveryoneIsBi: Fitting as Doug has this as such a CreatorThumbprint that even Rob gets annoyed.[[note]]Note that this is all characters, not actors themselves, as Tamara is the only one out as bisexual.[[/note]] Critic goes between BiTheWay and TransparentCloset, and has been RaisedAsTheOppositeGender, Malcolm has a big crush on Critic as does Jim (who is according to Malcolm, also a transgender man), Rachel had sex with the female ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'', Hyper is hot for Rachel and Creator/CarrieFisher (and also has some hints of genderfluidity such as her desire to grow stubble), and Tamara lampshades in ''Film/JupiterAscending'' that they all like playing different genders.

* DarkHorseVictory: In the Old vs. New on Disney's ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'' and [[Film/{{Cinderella2015}} its live action remake]], the winner is [[spoiler:''Film/EverAfter'']].

** In the beginning of ''Film/LadyInTheWater'', ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' gets praise for pointing out all the flaws in the previous Disney films, having two female leads (one of them a Queen), and having a song so popular that even boys like it. Rob's character even snides that “13 year old boys are the most important demographic”.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: This annoys the Critic when he sees it. The Critic points out that the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' cartoon's princess Sally just kept the princess title because it sounds cute, [[spoiler:granted the show reveals the king ''is'' alive but for health reasons can't resume his duties]], so he tells her to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZFYSUyONCE&NR=1 Queen it up]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!" He mocks [[WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster Princess Lana]] for this too. He makes a joke suggesting that Lana is staying a princess to avoid responsibility. "Politics is fun!"
** He also guesses that Princess Oriana in the ''Felix the Cat'' Movie legally changed her first name to "Princess" (her last name is the name of her kingdom after all...), since we know for certain that both her parents are dead.
** In “Are Kid Shows Now Better Than Ever”, he plays this straight with Princess Bubblegum from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', mostly because she at least acts more like a queen than a princess.
** Aside from Bubblegum, he loves and relates to most of the Disney princesses, wanting to be them on occasion.

** In-universe, ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'''s theme is the biggest offender to Critic, along with the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' Theme, The Franchise/PowerRangers theme, and others.

* FlatCharacter: The Aw Girls in ''Alvin And The Chipmunks''. TropesAreNotBad, as they represent girls who just want to turn their brains off for cute media, but the episode lampshades they don't have personalities to work off of.

** His review of ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' contains one of the most blatant ones in [[SantaClaus Santa]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Christ]], a ParodySue which immediately solves all of the problems the Critic was going through and more. [[TropesAreNotBad And it is absolutely wonderful.]]