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After Face/Off, Tamara Chambers replaced Rachel Tietz as the Token Actress of the show. She also appeared as one of the Cat-Women in said review.

In General

In General

Tamara as herself.

• Aesop Amnesia: In Mamma Mia!, she tells Critic to yell at his fans because it'll be cathartic. It goes just as badly as the last time as the last time she told him to Be Yourself.
• Abusive Parents: Her grandfather never considered her part of the family and she expects Critic (with his own past) to understand and be comforting. Also implied when she has a quietly traumatized reaction like Critic does to the molested kids scene in Freddy Got Fingered.
• Acting for Two: invokedLampshaded in The Exorcist, where she came off filming Freddy vs Jason that had her in lots of different make-up, and apologizes for her face looking so scrubbed.
• Ascended Extra: Initially appeared only once as a one-shot Catwoman character. Starting with The Wicker Man review, she is taking over Rachel's role.
• Attention Whore: When they get powers in the Fantastic Four (2005) review, she pushes Critic out the way because his arm is blocking her from view.
• Beneath the Mask: She is genuinely a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant, but the No Social Skills Ms. Fanservice Vamp shown in The Wicker Man (2006) is just an act to lure stupid men in and torture them.
• Break the Haughty: Critic tries to do this to her to in Ghost Dad as punishment for torturing him, but she gets her sadism back when he tells her he wasn't actually dead.
  • Crossing over with Break the Cutie because the episode shows off her Hidden Heart of Gold the best, but Disney Afternoon has her suffering a lot. Not in a physical way like Malcolm, but she's scared of Critic the moment he mood swings into anger with her, keeps getting her boundaries crossed (making her scream even), is concerned for Malcolm's abuse and gets mocked for 'only' sculpting a pick up truck out of rubber and ice.
  • Jurassic Park III implies that he may have actually succeeded a little bit, as he's always tried to degrade her by treating her like a little girl, and in said review she asks him to check her stomach because she's feeling sick, when she could clearly sort that out herself before.
  • In the TMNT Christmas Special, she suffers pretty badly (given that Malcolm's an unavailable zombie), in pain because of the apocalypse that Critic created and used as his footstool when she collapses. To her credit it doesn't take, as she snarks at him even when he's kicking her in the back.
  • In Demolition Man, she's scared of Critic's torture threats and is the one to get Police Brutality at the end while Malcolm gets (relatively) positive attention from Critic.
• Broken Smile: As noted by Doug (who felt bad but not enough to stop), her smile gets more and more forced every time Critic insults her for what she's doing in The Wicker Man (2006). When he offers her a job, both her voice and face relax.
• Brutal Honesty: She's both a Manipulative Bitch and far more honest than other stepford and repressed characters. She'll quite happily tell Critic how bitter she is against him and that she wants her revenge, or taunt him about how insane he is when nobody else wants to say anything.
• Bullying a Dragon: In the beginning at least, as Critic's Victim-Blaming at the end of Ghost Dad initially upsets her, but then she Tranquil Fury decides to make him wish he were dead.
• But Now I Must Go: After she got the Critic to comment on the "Not the Bees!" meme with torture she departs the studio to go get others to watch The Wicker Man. Subverted in five minutes when the Critic catches up to her and offers her a job.
• The Cast Show Off: invoked As Anne Hathaway!Catwoman, when she started to sing about her shattered dreams.
  • Again in the Editorial of "Let It Go."
  • She sings a Groin Attack version of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” while beating the shit out of Critic at the end of Ghost Dad.
  • The Phantom of the Opera (2004) gives her three songs, along with an Incredibly Long Note at the end of "Hyper Fangirl", and the commentary has Beth and Doug gushing over how amazing her voice is.
• Cathartic Scream: When they're beating on Critic's character in a Rise Of The Commercials skit, she screams in his face while he's cowering on the floor.
• Celeb Crush: When she plays a sketch scientist in the Fantastic Four (2005) review, she keeps a magazine cover of Ioan Gruffudd for “research”.
• Character Development: In Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer, she's completely naïve to Critic's Christmas crazy and has no clue how to cope with Malcolm taking advantage. By Rocky and Bullwinkle she does.
• Church of Happyology: Seems to be a member of the "Church of Wasted Lives".
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: By The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, she's become Critic's carer when he goes whacked out, while Malcolm takes advantage and tries to get him to kill himself.
• Combat Pragmatist: To go with Critic's Combat Sadomasochist. Even her suggestions in The Swan Princess are for Odette “to sneak up behind him and knock the fucker out” or for Rothbart to threaten someone she loves so she'll have to do what he wants.
• Comfort Food: In Disney Afternoon, when Malcolm has been beaten so badly he's unconscious on the couch and she tries to get him to the hospital but Critic stepfords that it's not allowed, she grabs a chocolate bar, obviously stressed.
• Contemplate Our Navels: When she's shyamalanized in The Happening she spews a load of it about the ramifications of evil.
• Cosplay Otaku Girl: Though not by choice. Critic makes her wear a “sexy Dorothy” costume as both “punishment” and finding it appealing to humiliate her.
• Crazy Cat Lady: In Hyper's second vlog, she wants to remake Cats Don't Dance into a live-action film because “serious whisper I love cats”.
• Crosscast Role: Skits where Doug is the adult and she's playing the younger version of him are common.
• Crossdresser: In The Lorax opening she is dressed as a young boy who is hanging around a Giving Tree-like tree. In The Monster Squad, she dresses up like a cowboy to get in with Critic's “boy club”, and is good enough to fool the idiots. When she acts like this is important at the end, Critic dismisses her because in his world crossdressing is just casually done. RL!Tamara lampshaded this, saying you could probably guess what gig was the girly pretty commercial and what was the Critic shoot.
• Custom Uniform of Sexy: In the two episodes when Critic ramps her and Malcolm's intelligence up because he's lazy, Malcolm gets to wear a nerdy suit while she's - while obviously sciencey - in fetishy gloves at the end of Food Fight and a corset that goes full Male Gaze in The Swan Princess.
• Cute and Psycho: Tortures Critic in The Wicker Man (2006) review, knocked out Rachel in the original Face/Off storyline, and was just as crazy as the other catwomen.
• Cute Bruiser: She's the shortest member of Critic's team, yet is the one to give the most No Holds Barred Beatdowns. Mostly to Critic himself.
• Dark Action Girl: Her first two choices for what fictional world she wants to live in is either Lost or The Hunger Games, both franchises where Everything Is Trying to Kill You.
• Defiant Captive: In We Wish You A Turtles Christmas, she still snarks at Critic even when he's using her a footstool and kicking her every time she speaks. Sure she gets eaten by Malcolm-Zombie, but so does he.
  • While Malcolm's afraid of Film Brain in Dreamcatcher, she very easily gets away and manages a Brexit reference while she's at it.
• Desperately Craves Affection:
  • In a tsundere fashion. She's disgusted by Critic majority of the time, but still wants his care and to work for him.
  • 2007-Critic uses it to his advantage when she's about to shoot him with a bow and arrow, promising her and Malcolm that he'll use them more than present-Critic. She just gets used as a tripod.
• Distracted by the Sexy: In The Fly (1986), she looks up who's playing the woman and gets distracted by the Geena Davis pretty.
• The Ditherer: In the fourth vlog, Hyper complains at her for not being able to make up her mind on what fictional universe she'd rather live in.
• Dominatrix: RL!Tamara fueled the ship by 'revealing' in her answer video that her character beats up Critic every week, the audience just doesn't see it happen for... reasons. She's also joked about wanting to make a video where she walks Doug like a dog.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: She defeated the reality monster, got a new laptop and crossdressed to be in Critic's boy club, but he dismisses everything she did for him.
• Empty Shell: Joked about (but assured on Instagram that she wasn't) in Army of Darkness when she says her slogan should be "I'm Tamara and I feel nothing".
• Establishing Character Moment: At the very start, she really enjoys creeping Critic out, but also wants him to remember and praise her.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: When Critic gets Malcolm's mom in at the end of Disney Afternoon, she squees about the possibility of him getting her mom as well.
• Even Evil Has Standards: She's upset and wants to call an ambulance when Critic punches Malcolm so hard (for reminding him of the DuckTales theme song) that he's unconscious and Critic has blood on his hands.
  • While she loves torturing, dominating and insulting Critic, she's disgusted by, in “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”, Malcolm making him Not Himself and docile by giving him a chill pill patch. But thing is, she ends up regretting this when she bears the full brunt of Critic's insanity.
• Even the Girls Want Her: There was apparently a #GayForTamara hashtag on Twitter after she posted pictures of herself as Wonder Woman for the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice review.
• Everyone Has Standards: She refuses to be Ana for a Fifty Shades of Grey review, much to Critic and Malcolm's perverted annoyance. (Although she would have been happy with a Gender Flip version.)
• Evil Laugh: She has a very scary laugh...what's more, it's her normal laugh.
• Evil Sounds Deep: When she's brainwashed as Tammity, her voice is much lower even before Critic and the audience find out she's evil.
• Fangirl: She loves Frozen (2013) enough to dress up like early!Elsa and tease Critic about the extreme number of “Let It Go” videos. Disney Afternoon has her also being a fan of My Little Pony, reconnecting with her childhood through a Pinkie Pie doll.
• Female Misogynist: The cat-women hated Halle Berry and each other, and the original goodbye storyline for Rachel had her and Rach be just as catty to each other (in real life they're best friends) because Tamara wanted to be in Critic more.
• Friendly Enemy: She and Beth Elderkin from Shark Jumping (who, like Rachel, is good friends with Tamara in real life). They sing about it to the tune of "Defying Gravity".
  Beth/Tamara: It isn't right, but I guess we're frenemies/The stupid plot has made us frenemies/ I think we'll have to become frenemies/Cause girls can't get along.
• Friend to All Children: From her Cuteness Proximity over a singing fetus in the Frozen video, and squeeing with Malcolm over the young attorney general of Crimea, she seems to have a soft spot for kids.
• Fourth-Wall Observer: Stops and pushes back The Wicker Man (2006) ending credits (with no sound and the regular Slasher Smile) to torture Critic some more.
• The Gadfly: When there's no danger of anyone else (especially not her) suffering for it, she takes great, almost fetishy, joy in fucking with Critic's head.
• Gender-Concealing Voice: In the review for The Monster Squad, Tamara attempts to get into the boys-only club by dressing as a cowboy, complete with fake mustache. She uses a deeper voice and southern drawl to try an mask her identity, which ends up working too well.
• Good Is Not Nice: Doug confirms in the Disney Afternoon commentary that while she has plenty of problems, she's still better than Critic.
• Go-Go Enslavement: When she's brainwashed in Matrix Month, she's in a leather catsuit that barely does up over her cleavage and, when it rips, Critic takes a peek at her ass. At least Malcolm could move freely in his Morpheus costume.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: In The Adventures of Pluto Nash, she's upset that she can't have a day off to 'get drunker than someone who's watched the movie'. And in the "Third Titanic Movie", she and Malcolm drink Critic's Jagermeister planet.
• Hates Being Touched: Critic just putting his hand on her shoulder makes her give the look of death, and his childishly hugging her makes her feel even worse.
• He Is Not My Boyfriend: Hyper asks her if her Official Couple thing with the Critic is just for show and she angrily replies that everyone keeps asking her this and she has a RL boyfriend.
• Hero Antagonist: She really does have things wrong with her brain and her methods are extreme, but Doug confirmed in the “Disney Afternoon” commentary that between her and Critic, she's the one people are meant to root for.
  • For The Monster Squad, she saves Critic from crushing depression because reality seeping in (literally, “reality” is the monster) and is never thanked. In fact he denies she even did anything.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Thanks to Tamara's talent with Puppy-Dog Eyes, her Desperately Craves Affection side was well established before it got A Day in the Limelight forThe Monster Squad.
  • The homework book she's studying at the end of Disney Afternoon is for social worker students who want to learn about different patient's cultures.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: For all her evil and snideness, her childhood is still ponies, she's excited to potentially see her grandma, and she's genuinely concerned for Malcolm after Critic beats the shit out of him.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: She's half the height of Critic, which makes it worse when a Doug character is scaring her, but better when she has the upper hand.
  • The Princess Diaries II lampshaded and exploited how intimidating the height difference can be, with the camera angles making him looking taller and her even shorter while he looms over Hyper and yells.
  • Possibly learning from how freaked Rachel was from filming The Shining, the behind the scenes of “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” reveals that Doug wasn't actually screaming in Tamara's face and filmed her reaction separately, avoiding the uncomfortableness of this trope in real life at least.
• Hypocrite: She's pretty sexist herself, wanting to Cat Fight Rachel originally because for some reason she wanted the token chick space on Critic, and also using a misogynist stereotype to lure men in during The Wicker Man (2006) review, but hates Hyper Fangirl's sexism. (mostly because it's directed at her)
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: She's the only one allowed to fuck with Critic's head and hurt him it seems. She's legit concerned about someone doing harm to him at the end of “Top 11 Worst Avatar Episodes”, she saves him from reality making him depressed in The Monster Squad, and she's disgusted with Restraining Bolt Malcolm put him in during Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer.
• Identical Stranger: Critic calls her Ayra Stark in her first review appearance, likely referring to the similar personality as well as the babyface.
• I Just Want to Be Badass: Aside from wanting to live in Lost or The Hunger Games, she wants to be in the Marvel universe so she can have a power, or be Kim Possible.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: In The Monster Squad, she outright asks Critic and company if she can join with her own midlife crisis. It's only when they insult her does she get guarded again.
• Improbable Weapon User: While they hurts her enough to make her eyes roll back, she defeats the “reality monster” in The Monster Squad with internet comments.
• Innocently Insensitive: While it's not really on the same level as what he did to her throughout Disney Afternoon, and it's not serious mocking like she's done in other episodes, she laughs and pushes Critic when his mom (Doug's actual mom ^note who has been established in Critic's world as a random person who he thinks is his mom) yells at him to do his homework, having no clue about the extent of/reason behind Critic's Mommy Issues.
• Insane Equals Violent: Played with. She's not even the bad guy (as Doug points out, you're meant to be on her side rather than Critic's) and her stepford gaslighting shtick in The Wicker Man (2006) was just a shtick, but she does genuinely have issues and they usually manifest in being violent.
• The Lad-ette: When Critic girls her up in "Disney Afternoon", she immediately complains about having to wear loads of hair decorations.
• Large Ham: She manages to be even more hilariously exaggerated than Rachel.
• Loony Fan: She's introduced with a psychotic love for The Wicker Man (2006) remake, though she's a regular fangirl for other things.
• Loves the Sound of Screaming: While holding Critic up for torture in The Wicker Man (2006), she goes between pleasure at his pain and business-like telling him to do what she wants. No wonder he ended up thinking she was Abusively Sexy.
• Made of Iron: After drinking Critic's Jagermeister planet, she and Malcolm end up drunkenly flying into the sun. Pretty sure they'll be fine.
• Manipulative Bitch: In The Wicker Man (2006). Malcolm lampshades this by defending his actions to Critic with “she was very persuasive!”
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: With Critic. She's a ladette sociopath who would rather crossdress than be the Ms. Fanservice, while he consistently either doubts his own gender or feels uncomfortable in it, and crossdresses plenty too.
• Meta Girl: She gets the most invoked fandom nods regarding Critic being a dick, like taunting him on his Gilded Cage in The Wicker Man (2006) and bemoaning that she thought she'd like him better dead in Ghost Dad.
• Ms. Fanservice: Catwoman (2004) loved her cleavage, Critic takes her on because he thinks of her as Abusively Sexy, and she almost successfully flirts with Spoony and Snob to make them do Wicker Man reviews. She's also exploited as "Sexy Dorothy" in Ghost Dad. And to generate hype for the game show, Tamara tweeted a picture of herself in a Little Black Dress, heels and pink handcuffs. And another one, in an even more cleavage-happy dress.
• Mysterious Woman: There's a lot of questions raised but unanswered with her. For example, in The Monster Squad, she's terrified of “reality” but it never gets said why. Compare that to when Critic sees the monster, and he gets taunted by all his money problems.
• Never Heard That One Before: Her response to being called a "hobbit chick" in the hate comments video is this along with "do you write for Family Guy.
• Nerves of Steel: Disney Afternoon. While she's obviously afraid and not having a good time when Critic gets in his Psychopathic Manchild mood, she knows what the wrong thing would be to say unlike Malcolm (who innocently presses his berserk buttons and gets punished), and keeps her cool even when he points a BFG at her.
• The Nicknamer: She talks in Blazing Saddles about how, like Doug, she doesn't retain names all that well, and also how, like Doug, the comments are sure to violently correct her.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: There's a Hidden Heart of Gold buried in there somewhere, but most of her personality and typecasted characters are based around how strange and creepy she is.
• Noblewoman's Laugh: At the end of The Swan Princess. Different from her usual Evil Laugh, as it's more a high-pitched cackle at getting one over Critic.
• The Nose Knows: While played as a joke, she's the only one who realized that the studio smelled of dynamite before Film Brain told them. ^note for those who don't, it smells like bananas but will give you a headache
• Not Afraid of You Anymore: Reality in The Monster Squad makes her scream and run away at first, and she's clearly still scared when she confronts it, but is able to defeat it with internet comments and save the boys (who treated her awfully and it's not like she had to help them).
• Not So Above It All: In Disney Afternoon, while she's pissed off and awkward with Critic playing with her and Malcolm for his re-enacting the afternoon's theme song, she's just as into it as he is when the Gummi Bears theme song plays.
• Of Corsets Sexy: The Swan Princess gives her a white corset, and camera shots go right to her bust with not even her face in frame.
• Older Than They Look: She's in her mid-twenties, but has a babyface that makes her look younger. Lampshaded by Jon Bailey when he did a voiceover for her make-up tutorial.
• Only in It for the Money: She only goes along with the Humiliation Conga of Ghost Dad because she'll be out of a job otherwise. And in Robocop 2014 she works with Critic and the chart guys to make big return movies with as little effort as possible.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Saying something about rl!Tamara's abilities, they managed to do this early on. Having the character be scared of Critic in Disney Afternoon even just a minute in, shows how deep in Sanity Slippage he's being.
• Person of Mass Destruction: When she gets Super-Strength in Fantastic Four (2005) review, she immediately destroys a building and calls herself the clobberer.
• Properly Paranoid: In the “Top 11 Worst Avatar Episodes”, she's worried that someone out there will do something bad to the Critic because of the title. He dismisses her, but she's right. the someone is Dante Basco.
• Reluctant Fanservice Girl: By the fifth hyper vlog (at which point she's been working with him for a year), she's so frustrated by all the make-up and slutty costumes Critic makes her wear that she's desperate for another girl to talk to. And later when she learns that Linkara's characters don't have to wear Poison Ivy costumes, she wants to work for him.
• Replacement Goldfish:
  • While we get no insight into them other than how they revolve around Critic, she could be considered as Malcolm's replacement for Rachel. It would explain why he got attached to her so quickly and always follows her lead.
  • She's a short psychotic brunette who Critic wants to make him suffer and also push her temper. It's like a much more abusive, much less equal version of his pre-comeback relationship with the Chick. There's also Alvin and the Chipmunks, where he misses Chick and there's Tamara in his tie and dancing/song-battling him at the end like he did with the former in The Chipmunk Adventure.
• Sad Clown: The Nostalgia Critic 2018 intro seems to hint that Tamara is one, going from laughing and smiling in her intro credit before chugging down a bottle of alcohol.
• Satellite Love Interest: Stated as much by Critic at the end of The Wicker Man (2006), as he wants someone there to just obsessively hurt him (and be punished likewise) because views go up when he's in pain.
  • Noticeable in “Ghost Rider 2”, where she only has two short appearances as two different characters, and they're both a fuck-buddy to a Doug-played character. (both also either get killed or left with a smoking vagina)
  • Possibly lampshaded when Tammity (who is clearly Tamara) ends up telling Critic she's madly in love with him, much to his and Malcolm's annoyance. She also tries to grope him later.
• Sexy Shirt Switch: She's wearing Critic's tie when she's acting as his (sorta) chipmunk-Distaff Counterpart in the Alvin and the Chipmunks review.
• Shipper on Deck: She tells Malcolm “good job” when she learns that every time Critic watches a film about racism, he takes Malcolm out on a date to dinner.
• Skewed Priorities: When she thinks she, Malcolm and Critic are going to die at Film Brain's hand, she's at least glad that Pinky and the Brain are still together.
• Slasher Smile: Has one on for most of the The Wicker Man review.
• Small Name, Big Ego: In “Are You Sick Of Let It Go”, she sings “I don't care, I sing it so well, I'm like Idina Menzel”, complete with Hair Flip.
• The Smurfette Principle: As much as she dislikes Hyper, she missed her while she was gone because she was tired of being the only girl.
• Stealth Expert: Hyper must have got lessons from her, as she's constantly just behind Critic in The Wicker Man (2006).
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Her reintroduction in The Wicker Man review.
  • Offscreen Teleportation: Seems to be her main flavor of the above trope.
• Suddenly Always Knew That: Justified in Disney Afternoon, as even though she's apparently a sculptor who can make cars out of ice and this never comes up again, she was new at this point and so could still be fleshed out, has low self-esteem about it for some reason, and Critic crushes her even more.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Pretty much. Replaces Rachel as a Cute and Psycho Ms. Fanservice Token Chick, but while Rachel also got Break the Cutie, Tamara is Darker and Edgier.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After all her frustration at being the only girl in Critic's sausagefest, the Shark Jumping Glee musical review has her sing with Beth Elderkin about being friendly enemies, and said review even lampshades how fucked up it is that she's so isolated.
  • She throws herself a bone after dealing with The Fly (1986), by watching the far easier and more enjoyable Back to the Future.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: While it's justified because of him trying to Break the Haughty, when she grabs the Idiot Ball (like in “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” removing Critic's Restraining Bolt) it's a lot more noticeable because she was in so much control in The Wicker Man (2006) review.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Has poked Critic's bitterness and Fatal Flaw of being desperate for money ever since she arrived, sometimes just to fuck with him, other times because he's reality warped her into enabling him, and every so often she's into Money, Dear Boy herself. In The Smurfs, he eventually punches her out for non-stop telling him to do Fantastic Four (2015) movie.
• Tranquil Fury: Her reaction to Critic trying to Break the Haughty in Ghost Dad is to go from upset to a very calm deciding to bring all the pain possible.
• Tsundere: The harsh kind. She'll tell Critic off for his crap, mess with his head and dominate him, but she melts when she thinks he's saying he needs her in The Monster Squad, and cares about him in a Hidden Heart of Gold sense.
• Uncanny Valley Girl: In The Wicker Man (2006) review. It's just a The Vamp act though, and while she is indeed crazy, she's actually The Lad-ette.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: In Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer, she thinks she's in a Christmas special where cynicism takes a backseat for once in favor of the truly holiday spirit, but Critic makes it rapidly clear she's actually in a show with someone who is really fucked up and is only going to get worse at Christmas.
• Yaoi Fangirl: She's completely fine with the idea of Malcolm being the Ana to Critic's Christian, but only gets upset when both men want her to be the Ana^note Because it'd be extra demeaning considering she just came off having to wear heels and a low cut top for Claire, and she's made it clear she prefers the dom role.
• Yandere: In the original Face/Off video she knocked out Rachel and eventually succeeded in replacing her all because she wanted to be on Critic again and Critic liked her for being more psychotic than Rachel's often Hysterical Woman. (which was his own fault)
• Yank the Dog's Chain: In the end of Disney Afternoon, she's excited to potentially see her mother, but as Critic was too lazy to get her from California, she gets Fat Grandma instead and looks disgusted with it.
• Yoko Oh No: Hyper treats her like this because her Masochism Tango with Critic, and doesn't believe He Is Not My Boyfriend.
• Younger Than They Look: Much like Malcolm's joke up above of working for CA ages you, Rob did the same for Tamara in age make-up. She joked that at least she managed to hold out for a while.

Malice

Malice

• Affably Evil: She's sweet and friendly a good chunk of the time, but is also an escaped mental patient who will casually and brutally murder people for the pettiest of reasons.
• At Least I Admit It: While she is indeed crazy and dangerous, she makes it quite clear that Critic is far more broken than she is.
• Beware the Nice Ones: For a value of “nice”. While she's being patient, she's perfectly friendly, but piss her off too much and she'll kill you horribly. Critic even complains that she'd be really sweet if it weren't for the whole murder thing.
  Malice: Well. I tried to be nice. Excuse me.
• Blood-Splattered Warrior: As the review goes on, she gets more and more blood on her. Critic's creeped out, but she's done it so much she doesn't mind.
• Cute and Psycho: She is even stated to have escaped from the American McGee Mental Institute to try and prove she's not crazy. Her apron also shows this by having a kitty emoticon on one side and an angry face on the other.
• Cuteness Proximity: While she used her knife nut side to make it happen, she's genuinely endeared by Critic's Burton shrine.
• Establishing Character Moment: Before she displays politeness and concern for him being okay, she's first seen towering over Critic, unsmiling, with Dramatic Thunder and fog behind her.
• Even Evil Has Standards: She's a psychotic killer but she also gets panicky at Critic's Underland rant, hides behind her hair when he goes as far as to say “Care Bears In Wonderland” was a better adaptation, and is certain he's escaped from an asylum when he gets Pretty Fly for a White Guy.
• Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: The red and black eyeshadow is a clue that she's not as polite and nice as she seems at first.
• Expy: Of the version of Alice from the American McGee's game. Not only is she a Darker and Edgier take on the Alice story, when Critic meets her, she references that she escaped from an asylum like in the plot of the game.
• Meaningful Name: A character called "Malice" isn't a Nice Girl.
• Meido: She's anything but subservient, but the way she's dressed resembles this style and immediately makes Critic assume she's from The Addams Family maid café.
• Morality Pet: They're awful together, but she's willing to destroy the world to make Carrot Juice less sad.
• Psycho for Hire: As a one-off moment, she and Critic get attacked by a monster who writes bad movies, and all he has to do is nod to her and she destroys said monster with Giant Foot of Stomping.
• Silk Hiding Steel: Exaggerated, as she has a Girly Run, a posh accent and a polite disposition while showing that she's also an Ax-Crazy Psycho Knife Nut who can make Critic whimper when he tries to assert power over her.
• Softspoken Sadist: Even when she's torturing people she keeps her prim and proper demeanour, and hides behind her hair when Critic goes on a rant.
• Stealth Expert: Parodied when she kills Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp in the split second that Critic turned his head away.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Alice in Wonderland (2010) had a lot of parallels to The Cat in the Hat, and Malice is like a smarter, more-in-control version of Evilina that Critic can soapbox his points to.
• The Bus Came Back: She made a return appearance in Critic's review of Alice Through the Looking Glass
• Vague Age: Tim Burton calls her a creepy girl of indiscernible age.
• What Beautiful Eyes!: Exploited with one of Tamara's profile pictures.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: She's back in the studio with Critic at the end of Alice in Wonderland (2010), and they even have a bit of Villainous Friendship going, but she's never been seen again aside from being in the theme montage. She does cameo in "Freddy Vs Jason", but her relationship with Critic still isn't explored. She finally returns in a prominent appearance in Critic's review of Alice Through the Looking Glass, but the Gainax Ending leaves her fate unknown, as opposed to Carrotjuice who did return in a later review.

Hyper Fangirl

Hyper Fangirl

• Abhorrent Admirer:
  • When Critic realizes that she likes him, he immediately Oh Craps and tells her he's not going to have sex with her before trying to get rid of her feed.
  • As vlogs went on, and while he's her main obsession, her targets expanded beyond Critic, and none of them were interested. Snob only agreed to go on a date with her because he's bored, Malcolm talks the most to her but he's still made uncomfortable, and both Spoony and Linkara think she's gross.
• Abusive Parents: According to Doug and Tamara at Connecticon, they like the idea of Hyper being Aunt Despair's daughter, which would explain why she (Hyper) gets randomly angry when Critic calls AD a bitch even when he's had a phone dropped on his face. In Cinderella Old vs New, while Critic identifies with "gaslighted from childhood", she relates to "fragile Control Freak parent pushing towards abuse".
  • In her Q&A, this becomes canon onscreen, yet she doesn't seem to consider them abusive and calls them great.
• Aesop Amnesia:
  • A running theme seems to be her getting pouty at Critic's rejection, and then five minutes later deciding she needs to stalk him harder.
  • In the Phantom commentary, anytime she comes up, Doug talks about how he fretted about having her regress because he loves HyperBoner so much and that it was good she moved on, but decided to do it anyway because watching Hyper chasing Critic with the knowledge that she's happy with Devil Boner makes her behavior all the more tragically/hilariously awful.
  • In her Q and A video, referencing the end of Princess Diaries 2, she says she didn't even need to learn anything, but Critic needed the love lesson.
• The Alcoholic: At the end of Cinderella Old vs New, she admits she's always drunk. Her Q&A also establishes her as enough of a lightweight that she gets drunk after a can and a half of light beer.
  • She also seems to drink a lot with Devil Boner, having been drunk on their hot air balloon date and drinking nightly in their hot tub. The first thing they do after getting engaged and after getting married is go get drunk.
  Hyper: Hooray for booze!
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: The Pretty Boy Onceler, the emo version of Spider-Man, and of course Critic. When Critic yells in her face for getting into the studio, she just wants to marry him all the more.
  Critic: [seeing the “marry me/hold me” text on the screen] ...this can't end well.
  • Played with in regards to Devil Boner, who's definitely an Ax-Crazy bad boy, but she only gets into him after his feminist rant and they genuinely love each other.
• All Love Is Unrequited: Towards the Critic, who only wants to be very distant friends, while still being very creeped out by her. But when she gets worse with the stalking, that False Friend act dies and he threatens to kill her. She still adores him.
• Alter-Ego Acting: In a parallel to the post-TRMGO Doug/Critic relationship, she has interaction with Tamara who treats her like she's an obnoxious child. She even showers at Tamara's place sometimes.
• Ambiguously Bi: Despite her misogyny and latching onto men, the only nice things she's said about other women is their attractiveness: Velma's her “homegirl” who she based her look on, and all she can say about Mary Jane Watson and Rachel Tietz is that they're hot. Even with Tamara, she steals the Seuss-zero drink just because it came out of her ass. She's happy to talk about her girl crushes in her Q&A and settles on Carrie Fisher as her biggest one.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: Downplayed, since she's clearly okay identifying with the label of "girl", but seems pretty loosely connected to that, crossdressing as Spider-Man and Critic and mentions that she wants to grow stubble. At the end of "Old vs New: Cinderella'', she's grateful at Devil Boner considering her "an honorary dude" sometimes and female at other points.^note In addition, the person who partly inspired Hyper is genderfluid and supportive of this interpretation of Hyper.
• Anti-Role Model: Like Douchey being a lesson in the wrong way to tell Doug about the mistakes he's made, she's a lesson in how not to express love for him.
• Ax-Crazy: Tamara's very blunt about considering the character "a crazy bitch". She wouldn't be remiss without the standard Misery reference.
  Critic: And did that dream also involve toe decapitation?
  Hyper: Sometimes.
  • A good random example would be in the Anime Midwest video, where she sees Doug walking by and suddenly decides to freak him out by pretending to recreate the Psycho shower scene with him.
• Bad Liar: In her third vlog she says she has loads of questions to ask, but her caption immediately clarifies she doesn't really and she's “lying so hard”.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Tamara, Rob and Doug have all tried very hard to convince people that she's a horrible person, and for all her deluded cutesyness, she's demonstrated time and time again that she doesn't give a crap about what Critic actually wants. For example, in a panel (and vlog, she asks him to build a snowman with her and he says “if I say yes, will you go away and never bug me again?”. She very happily says no. he gives her a hug and they go off together, but he runs back after having pushed her off the balcony.
• Blind Without Them: When her Nerd Glasses fall down accidentally, she says she's gone blind.
• Born Lucky: Tamara talked on a Twitch stream about how Hyper might be a stalker mess who has done awful things, but she lucked out pretty damn hard, getting the husband and Family of Choice of her dreams.
• Broken Smile: The end of Old vs New: Spider-Man has the camera staying on her face with a blissed out frozen grin at how she's wearing Critic's clothes and the thought of forcing him to love her. The same in Small Soldiers when she's standing over Critic's bed and is about to kidnap him.
• Can't Hold Her Liquor: She gets drunk off her "adult beverage of choice", two cans of light beer.
• Can't Take Criticism: If Critic calls her out on her taste in movies or on her awful behavior, she'll either ignore it or have a complete meltdown. She also nearly killed herself over a bad review of her fanfiction, and when Devil Boner criticizes the original Evil Dead, she covers her ears and tries to drown him out. When she did a video responding to hate comments, at least half of the comments weren't even actual hate, with one comment upsetting her because they called her "fun and cute" without mentioning her other good qualities.
• Celeb Crush: She falls hard enough for Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury Road that she leads a cult worshipping him, though she gets turned off by him being a method actor. She's also happy to admit in her question and answer video that Carrie Fisher is the OG girl crush.
• Character Blog: Tamara created one just a couple of days after the Spider-Man review (which is currently inaccessible), and Tamara's personal channel hosts the Hyper vlogs and some other content involving Hyper.
• Character Catchphrase: Both in the beginning of the Old vs. New Spider-Man video and in her now real Facebook page, she's ended quite a lot of her posts with "Don't ask why!"...DON'T ASK WHY!
• Character Development: She has steadily gone from a villainous, insane fangirl parody who stalks the Critic to a more amicable character who seems to be friends with him:
  • Zig-zagged in The Phantom of the Opera (2004), as while she at least finally apologizes to Critic for what she did and is happily dating Devil Boner, she's still chasing the former despite his protests (singing that she'll use coercion to own him again), he even calls her out on the Self-Serving Memory when her apology involves the implication that she remembers their history better than he does, and she gets angry whenever he doesn't do what she wants.
  • Her development in general is realistically two steps forward, one step back, as she's over Critic but still is possessive and finds joy in her and her husband torturing him, is less self-loathing but still an Ax-Crazy narcissist, and has a Family of Choice (plus is less misogynistic) but seems unaware that her parents are monsters.
  • After Chipwrecked, she still has zero shame of what she did to him, and is proud of her other past creepy behavior (such as stalking Dwayne Johnson), but is more often used for her fangirl qualities than her stalker qualities. She and Critic hang out with her creepy behavior towards him rarely coming up, and some episodes (namely Hannibal and Ready Player One) even have her annoyed at having to listen to his ramblings. On the flip side, she shows actual kindness and concern towards Critic in a few later episodes with no ulterior motive, notably The Santa Clause 3, and she's consistently shown to be one of his friends alongside other recurring characters. Her vlogs on Tamara's channel have also skewed more towards YouTuber parodies where Hyper's massive ego and energy is the main feature.
• Character Tics: Shakes her fists when she gets really excited.
• Characterization Marches On: While there are a lot of lines in "Old vs New: Spider-Man" that foreshadow her later actions, and she's still plenty mentally ill, the Split Personality and Hearing Voices “of a loved one tormenting [her]” never came up again. Her original obsession with the Onceler has yet to be brought up again.^note Though she does affirm she's still attracted to him in her Q&A.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: During the forced Falling-in-Love Montage, she swaps out out her usual orange shirt for a blue “HE'S MINE” one, despite the fact that Critic has never been hers and never will be. Even after getting over him, she doesn't want him to date anybody else.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Of the evil sort. The analysts in The Lorax probably didn't think that their chosen easy to manipulate fangirl spokesman could kidnap men she wanted or have already blackmailed them into giving her a house and money.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: She doesn't get that being Buried Alive by a brother is not a normal thing. Even Critic, who has his own conditioning issues, is disturbed.
• Conflicting Loyalty: She's obsessed with Critic and usually forgives him for everything, but she can't deal with him bashing the Raimi Spider-Man films because she wants Spider-Man to treat her like a goddess.
  • Similarly, despite hating having to fight with him, she can't get over Devil Boner preferring the remake of Evil Dead to the original.
• Control Freak: A way of showing how her obsession with Critic isn't love, but what she has with Devil Boner is healthy. The only way she can be happy with Critic is forcing him to do what she wants, either as a hostage boyfriend or forced Butler Of Honor, but she and Devil Boner get to do their own evil thing and she's more relaxed.
• Cosplay: In a video on Tamara's personal channel and later in the Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins review, she puts together a Velma Dinkley cosplay, though it's just modification of her regular outfit.
• Creepy Crossdresser: She puts on Critic's outfit over her Spider-Man cosplay as an indicator that she's completely gone off the rails. Much later, she and Devil Boner go out on Halloween with her dressed as Critic and him dressed as her. It's their favorite day of the year.
• Daddy's Little Villain: To her credit she’s not as awful as her parents, Aunt Despair and Uncle Lies, but she’s the worst out of the kids, being an Ax-Crazy Stalker with a Crush.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She sulks that "weirdos have stories too", she says the only time she's been happy is when she's holding Critic captive, and Doug has (as well as Christian Grey) compared her to Harley Quinn, his go-to character for what abusive relationships can do to you, so there's obviously been some tragedy in her life. The specifics given so far are the behind the scenes talk that confirms Aunt Despair as her mother, and "Old Vs New: Evil Dead" heavily implying she had an abusive brother who buried her alive.
• Depending on the Writer: The dark comedy and violent traits that come out in her main show appearances are mostly downplayed when Tamara plays her on her own channel, particularly after the resolution of the "stalking Critic" arc when Hyper's videos branched out beyond sneaking around the studio. This is justified since many of her later appearances teamed her up with Devil Boner, bringing out their shared bloodlust, while the Tamara appearances (even the few that do feature Devil Boner) mostly play her as a very excited, if somewhat egotistical, vlogger, with little to no references to her tendencies for stalking and violence. It also helps that sadistic comedy is Doug's main Author Appeal, while fun fandom culture is Tamara's.
• Desperately Craves Affection: In The Phantom of the Opera (2004) behind the scenes, Doug notes Tamara's improvising of Hyper looking happy at disturbing older men liking her, and Tamara says that Hyper likes all praise. In-show, she doesn't seem to understand if the praise is forced (like when Critic is being made to call her kidnapping him “delightfully quirky”) or sarcastic either, just takes it as sincere.
• Disney Death: Lampshaded in Princess Diaries 2, where after she explodes through the season, Critic says whether she's dead or not depends on if the fanbase wants to see her back again. Sure enough, she returned in Christmas Story 2.
  • Happens again in Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins where Roger murders her and she is immediately revived by a fairy. If that happened at all.
• Distaff Counterpart: To Douchey McNitpick, with the difference that she is a fangirl obsessing over the Nostalgia Critic.
• Dogged Nice Girl: Deconstructed in that she'd love to think she's this, but her actions aren't nice in the slightest. Even when she's keeping Critic as a Captive Date, he notes that she wants him to call what she did “delightfully quirky”.
• The Dreaded:
  • She finds out the days when Critic is filming and hopes he's ready for her because she'll be there.
  • In the fifth vlog, she's delighted that Critic doesn't know she's there yet, and lunges at him at the end while he's trying out the cheerleading skirt.
  • When she rushes into a panel (pre-planned obviously), he tries to hide behind one of the chairs.
• Drama Queen: Critic gets annoyed because all her Facebook status had "[Something depressive and sad], DON'T ASK WHY!!"
• Driven to Suicide: The 2014 Anime Midwest panel had Lewis and Doug think that making her suicidal (and mixing her with the suicidally depressed Straw Fan persona that Doug for some reason wants to have) would be a good funny idea.
  • According to her Todd in the Shadows cameo, she nearly threw herself into a jet engine because she got a bad comment on her fanfiction and only changed her mind because of a Good Charlotte song. When Todd says the song isn't that good, she starts berating herself and looking for another airport until he takes it back.
• Early-Bird Cameo: If Rachel had wanted to stay, her Straw Fan in “The Top 11 South Park Episodes” would have returned to be the resident stalker.
• Embarrassing Tattoo: She did actually get that tattoo of Critic's neck on her face, and while she loves it, everyone else thinks it makes her even crazier.
• Entitled to Have You: When Critic rejects her, she spends ages in passive-aggressive waves of self-pity, and when he wants to be friends (his usual type of 'friends' these days but she doesn't know that), she acts like she's been friendzoned.
• Establishing Character Moment:
  • Even before full-blown stalking happens, Critic tells her straight off that he's not going to have sex with her and she completely ignores his refusal to either keep trying or guilt him into it.
  • Even gets a re-introduction moment in A Christmas Story 2, as after she sadly waves to the Critic and he drops to the ground out of fear, she miserably walks into the distance... but then she stops, turns with an angry look on her face and looks for a reason to stalk him again.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: After confirming that Aunt Despair and Uncle Lies are her parents, she says they're great despite treating her siblings so badly.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Even with all her stroking of male ego (something Tamara calls her out on), when dino!Rob tells her he wears human skin instead of boxers or briefs, all she can muster up is an “...oh”.
  • She tortured Critic at least once during the time she kept him as a Captive Date, and hired Benny to keep him at gunpoint, but is confused and horrified when he gives her a knife and turns his back. When Benny is all too willing to plunge it in there, she stops him and tells him “be cool”.
  • She gets angry at Critic calling Aunt Despair a bitch in The Phantom of the Opera (2004). This makes sense with the confirmation that Aunt Despair is her mom, who Hyper thinks is great.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": She even calls herself “Hyper Fangirl”. The Phantom of the Opera (2004) explains it as less her real name, more of an identity that she can't let die, and in Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins she responds to Roger questioning her name with, "It's a way of life." Tamara added on that she's repressed her real name: Joan or Ruth.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She genuinely thinks that love is just “enjoying the same things” (not even that, as she was just pretending to like what she thought he might like), and even when Critic tries to get it through to her that it's actually about challenging someone and making them want to be better, doesn't want to know.
• Evil Counterpart: To Nella. Nella's fangirling was charming, adorable and involved plenty of Squee to lighten up Chick's Broken Bird, but the Hyper Fangirl intentionally looks like a mess, only gets into franchises for the pretty boys, and is The Mentally Disturbed.
• Fangirl: She's a personification of the worst traits of his fangirls, just like how Douchey was a personification of the worst traits of his fanboys.
  • She goes nuts over several fandoms besides Critic; Scooby-Doo, Spider-Man, and Disney in general seem to be her favorites.
• Female Misogynist:
  • All it takes is Tamara having no romantic feelings for Doug and the Hyper Fangirl immediately wants to shun her. In the second vlog, Tamara calls her out on the male-centric questions and asks if they're meant to be against an attack on Tamara (who is clearly the Yoko Oh No in Hyper Fangirl's eyes). Hyper Fangirl quickly moves onto the Critic.
  • Also visible in this post, where she twists support for Tamara not wanting to wear make-up in vines (because she doesn't care about attracting more male followers) into again refusing to believe that Critic doesn't want her.
  • There are times when it seems like she doesn't even want to be a woman, like when she dresses up in Spider-Man's outfit and acts like the costume's pecs are her own, dresses up like Critic when she decides to stalk him harder, and tells Malcolm in a vlog that she's trying to grow stubble.
  • By her Q&A, however, she seems to be growing out of this, having a rant about how much she loves women, including her younger sisters. She also has a fairly positive relationship with Tamara, or at least enough to come onto Tamara's show and to use her shower.
• Femininity Failure: While she's in princess gear for Cinderella Old vs New, she's late for Critic's request because she's not used to wearing heels. And in the Phantom behind the scenes, Rob thinks her in the Belle dress looks so unnatural that it's like she's been assaulted.
• Fetish: According to the third vlog, she has a thing for necks, telling Malcolm that she has to leave halfway through the day because she wants a tattoo of Critic's.
  • "Old Vs New: Evil Dead" confirms that she and Devil Boner have a thing for tying up Critic, that "[they're] bound tighter when [he's] bound tighter".
  • In Tamara's Velma cosplay video, she calls up asks Devil Boner in a hushed tone to do something they had discussed last night. The thing in question is to scream "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!"
• Freudian Excuse: Parodied at the end of Old Vs New Evil Dead. Apparently her need for attention comes from a past of wrestling polar bears.
• Genki Girl: Particularly when the less-creepy side of her fangirling comes out.
• Gun Nut: While she says she doesn't like having guns in her house, that's relative to Devil Boner and Benny. She glees at the Wall of Weapons, hugs a big gun in an instagram picture and kisses DB's dick gun.
• Happily Married: To Devil Boner, as of the Chipwrecked review.
• Has a Type: According to her Q&A, Devil Boner is a departure from her usual type and she usually is attracted to less masculine guys, like Once-ler or Critic.
• Heteronormative Crusader: While she still lunges at him, it's notable that the only time she's weirded out by Critic and gets all sneery is when he's seeing how the cheerleader skirt looks on him.
• Hipster: She adores hipster characters (she even made a tumblr for The Once-ler), and falls for the Critic because she thinks he is this for his obsession with old media and his clothes.
• Hypocrite: Complains about Cinderella's Love at First Sight when she wanted to bang Critic as soon as she saw him (Critic calls her out on this one) and claims to love Tom Hardy's feminism when all she cares about is his good looks (which she acknowledges as hypocritical but swears that isn't her reasoning).
  • In Old Vs New Evil Dead, she calls Devil Boner out for gloating when he wins one round, but rubs it in every time she wins a round and has an over-the-top victory dance when the original film wins the match.
  • In her Q&A, she insists Critic wants her even though she's no longer attracted to him, and calls that "kind of pathetic".
• Hysterical Woman: She's a mentally ill person who hears voices, has a Split Personality, wails melodramatically when Critic doesn't want to bang her and convinces herself by the end of Old Vs New Spider-Man that he's just lying to himself and totally loves her.
• Ignored Epiphany: She has a brief moment of guilt when Critic asks who would be desperate enough to use gender manipulation to get what they want, but then she distracts him with Playboy cartoons. The second time he starts to realize, she's just worried that her plan will fall apart and has an insane relieved smile when he's distracted again. And when he actually tells her off, she has a Villainous Breakdown and desperately tries to make him watch the movie again.
• I Just Want to Be You: At the end of the Spider-Man review she has a copy of Critic's clothes (and dresses as him for Halloween according to her Q&A), and it's probably this mixed with hate for her own gender that she's trying to grow stubble.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: She's so desperate that she calls the questions asked by other fans “her little friends” and says they get her though the week.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: She says things like “when I win, we all win”, and is a vindictive Sore Loser, but she dehumanizes herself as much as she does Critic, saying she's like his pet or even his animated sidekick. Also a case of her dodging responsibility and being his Self-Proclaimed Love Interest, as he's made it very clear he doesn't want her in any capacity and that she should own up to what she's doing.
• Lack of Empathy: Played with. Early on, she had no concern for people's well-being, especially her crushes (besides her general lack of care for Critic's well-being, her reaction to Snob telling her she shouldn't have brought his dead cat up is to immediately fangirl over how “sensitive” he is and how much she loves him). She does, however, have compassion for fictional characters and her boyfriend (later husband) Devil Boner^note In "Evil Dead" alone, she genuinely looks worried when he's about to cut his hand off, apologizes immediately when her joke about the "dead" Mini Boner upsets him, and really doesn't enjoy fighting with him[[note]]. Following some Character Development, she shows more kindness towards others, most evidently in The Santa Clause 3 where she worries about Critic overworking himself.
• Laughing Mad: In the A Christmas Story 2 vlog, she says Critic doesn't know she's there yet, and giggle squees that “surprising” him will be great.
• Like Mother, Like Daughter: She says in "Cinderella Old vs New'' that she's always drunk, Aunt Despair is her mother, and it's well-established that woman has never been sober. They're also both manipulative (towards Critic in particular, albeit for different reasons) with little concern for others' well being. Hyper herself claims that she inherited being awesome and beautiful from her mom.
• Likes Older Men: Stalked Joe Dante who is almost fifty years older than her, and actually smiled when she heard 65-70 year olds had taken an interest in her. Despite everything, Critic and Devil Boner are at least age appropriate (though Critic is still ten years older than her and Devil Boner's age is unconfirmed).
• Loony Fan: Constantly breaks into the Channel Awesome studio in order to hang out with everybody and make Critic love her.
• Love Hungry: Keeps begging Critic to like her, even manipulating him with cool pop culture merch to remain her kidnapping victim, and manipulates herself into thinking that everybody loves her.
• Love Makes You Evil: We have no idea when or where her stalking tendencies come from, but Critic isn't even the first man she's stalked, and he's tried desperately to make her see that kidnapping someone and forcing them to take part in your delusion isn't love.
• Love Makes You Crazy: If the second vlog is any indication, she can actually have some lucid moments until she thinks about Critic and turns deluded again.
• Love Martyr: Aside from her Mad Love with Critic, there's a trend of her idolizing or at least blindly following horrible people who don't value her (the chart guys and her Abusive Parents) just because they give her the slightest bit of attention. Thankfully her relationship with Devil Boner doesn't follow this trend.
• Loving a Shadow: The Princess Diaries 2 makes it very clear that she has no actual affection for Critic, and would rather have him as a Captive Date than be a person with his own thoughts and feelings. By her Q&A she can admit she just wanted him because she thought he was hot.
• The Mad Hatter: She only rarely has moments of depressed lucidity (like admitting that fan questions get her through the week) before going right back into giggly insanity (like right after sing-songing that they're like her friends).
• Mad Love: In the Island Adventure vlog, when they're talking about Sadie trying to force Lars to love her by lying to him and keeping him somewhere he doesn't want, Doug compares her to Harley and Hyper in that she did a really fucked up thing to try and get someone who is a horrid person anyway.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Attempts to invoke this, as when she's holding Critic prisoner and forcing him to do boyfriend things, she makes him call her actions “delightfully quirky” when they're clearly not.
• Made of Iron: She's been exploded with a PS3 and has been pushed off a balcony by Critic, and she's shown up perfectly fine and still cheerfully bugfuck right after both of those.
• Manipulative Bitch: Less off the rails and more cunning than she appears. In Princess Diaries II she proudly tells Critic that she got the Big Fancy House and the money to hire Benny from her blackmail of a previous stalking victim.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Their individual gender expression depends on the episode, but Critic often serves as the feminine boy to Hyper's masculine girl, with Hyper constantly dominating him while Critic acts submissive and emotional. "The Princess Diaries 2" emphasizes Hyper's tomboy interests and ends with Critic becoming In Touch with His Feminine Side. Note that in "Old vs New Cinderella," Devil Boner mocks Critic as a girl, but later embraces Hyper as an "honorary dude."
• Messy Hair: In The Lorax behind the scenes, Doug makes an effort to choose the most unwashed-looking wig he can find for her.
• Morality Pet: For Devil Boner, her boyfriend. She's the only person who can pause his murderous rampages, and the only one he won't shoot down in two seconds.
• Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls: Hyper's a straw fangirl who inevitably does fanfic and shipping fanart. Subverted in The Princess Diaries II when she's kidnapped Critic, and while he thinks he's going to be swamped with Frozen fanfiction, she's actually got a ton of comic books to try and prove she's One of the Boys. In Cinderella Old Vs New, she writes fic about her boyfriend Devil Boner and he's happy with that.
• Narcissist: She overinflates all of her accomplishments (especially as a "famous YouTuber) while also breaking down at the slightest bit of criticism, with many suggestions that her self-esteem is pretty terrible without affirmation from all her fans. Even after her Character Development, she still avoids admitting fault for her stalker tendencies towards Critic, claiming he was the one who can't get over her and who needed to learn a lesson.
• Nerd Glasses: She's a nerdy fangirl wearing chunky black plastic glasses with thick lenses. When Tamara wears the costume without the glasses but with a stalkerish expression in the Jupiter Ascending BTS, Doug says she actually looks even scarier.
• Never My Fault:
  • She never actually says anything when Critic tries to get her to understand that they aren't gonna be a couple and what she did was wrong, just looks sad and makes non-committal bobs of the head. She also doesn't believe he doesn't like her until he screams in her face (and he's threatened to kill her if she doesn't leave him alone before), and tells Benny she hasn't learned a thing.
  • Plus in the accompanying vlog, she sees Critic talking to Santa Christ, and goes from happy when Santa Christ calls him a douche, to put out when Critic mentions the horrible things she's done, to happy again when Santa Christ assumes he's still in the wrong. Also in the behind the scenes, when Rob as Santa Christ says he's used to her being the douche, played for laughs when she in character shouts “hey!” from the other room.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Gets creepily excited over violence, which backfires for Critic since his threats to stab her stomach in Hyper Fangirl vlog 2 just makes her like him more.
  • She squees really hard at art of Disney Princesses dead from a huge battle and imagining herself as the victor.
  • She gleefully enables Devil Boner's violent nature throughout their relationship: in "Old Vs New Cinderella", she stares lovingly at him as he plans to start a random war with Jamaica and gives him a gun with more bullets when he goes after Benny (which she kisses!), in "Old Vs New Evil Dead" they have a mutual thing for holding Critic hostage, and in "Green Lantern" she squees with delight when he proposes to her with a Deadpool cosplayer's severed finger. Not to mention how cute she finds all his violent nicknames for her.
• No Sense of Personal Space: With Critic, as much as No Hugging, No Kissing can allow. In The Princess Diaries 2, she sits as close to him as possible and is about to feel him up when he stiffly leans in for a kiss, and in A Christmas Story 2, she has to get a snuggle in when he's asleep but has tried again to convince her she can't have him.
• Not Good with Rejection: As in literally denies that it exists. Critic pulls a gun on her in the third vlog and she screams and runs away, but is still deluded to be getting a face tattoo of his neck afterwards.
  • After Critic drops to the floor when she waves at him (before he reverses time), she puts on a meek face and leaves. But five minutes later, the music stings and she has an angry expression. Note this is before she knew what he was reviewing.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: She's batshit insane and severely deluded, but she's not as gullible as she first appeared, having blackmailed another victim into giving her a Big Fancy House, and having the sense to keep Critic captive while forcing him to call her Misery-like behavior “delightfully quirky”.
• Obliviously Evil: She has no clue how obnoxious she is, nor fully comprehends even when kidnapping someone how wrong her actions are, it's just she also has no idea of when people are angry with her or want her to leave them alone. The Princess Diaries II commentary has Doug compare her to a confused child who just keeps fucking up and doesn't understand why she's being told off for valid reasons. In her Q&A, she still considers herself a hero and can't even comprehend people thinking of her as a villain...as the screen shows a picture of Critic tied up and handcuffed from "Old Vs New Evil Dead".
• Only Friend: In The Phantom of the Opera (2004) behind the scenes, Tamara says that Hyper only has two numbers on her phone, and one of them is Benny's.
• The Peeping Tom: In her Midwest Media Expo video, she freaks someone out by saying her biggest exploration has been Critic's bedroom, and in her Q&A, she nonchalantly recalls a time she watched Critic showering through his window.
• Perverse Sexual Lust: She gushes over the hipster looks of the Once-ler when she debuts in the review of The Lorax, and in the next episode she has self insert art shipping herself with Spider-Man.
• The Pig-Pen: In the behind the scenes where she's being created, Rob imagines her as unwashed, and when she shakes Trevor's hand in Anime Midwest, he's disgusted.
• Praising Shows You Don't Watch: In-universe, she's only excited about Shark Jumping because she hasn't actually watched their show and thinks they're about sharks.
• Princess Phase: She never left, with an Elsa crown, wanting to live in a castle, Critic insulting her for taking Disney too seriously and even Devil Boner mocking her belief in Happily Ever After.
• Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: In the review of Christmas Story II even though the only boyfriend duties he had were at gunpoint and he's still adamant she'll never get him, he calls her his psychotic kinda ex girlfriend.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: In her fourth video, Malcolm is made uncomfortable by her squeeing about wanting to Mind Rape the Critic into falling in love with her and having no idea how twisted that is.
• Silent Partner: In Critic Tank, she has an assistant who never speaks while she's a Motor Mouth.
• Skewed Priorities: Forgives Critic for actually shitty stuff he says and isn't sorry about, but would be willing to liquify his insides for different opinions about movies.
• Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: No matter what Critic does in order to try and convince her otherwise, she'll believe even the most violent refusals are a sign of his love. By A Christmas Story 2, he's been broken down enough (while still hating her) to believe this too, and calls her his psychotic kinda ex-girlfriend.
• Self-Serving Memory:
  • She refers to her breakdown then explosion as “sailing over the air”, “exploding a little bit” and mostly just as a trip.
  • A focus of The Phantom of the Opera (2004) episode, as she angstily sings about her and Critic having fun (when he was kidnapped and when he was guilted into apologizing to her) and Critic even tells her at the end that he remembers these events differently.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Blackmailing Joe Dante gave her the available cash to get whatever she wants. Like when Bennie calls her out on still stalking Critic, she's able to casually throw ten grand at him to get her way.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Devil Boner. Whenever they're on screen together in "Old Vs. New: Cinderella", they give each other cutesy nicknames, to the Critic's chagrin.
• Small Girl, Big Gun: Like Tamara's caption says, it's best not to mess with her.
  • Also in the beginning of the It (2017) review, after she warns the audience about the review having opinions and they heckle her over it, she (at Devil Boner's suggestion, naturally) shoots them down.
• Small Name, Big Ego:
  • Word Of Tamara is that Critic grudgingly asking for her help stroked her ego enough to create a (now defunct) Character Blog. Actually getting noticed by people inflates it even more.
  • She also says at Anime Midwest that everyone loves her, when in reality most of the people she ambushes are either really scared, angry in Doug and Critic's case, or trying desperately to be polite.
  • She tells her silent assistant in Critic Tank to make a note that she's great, and assumes a random trophy is for her.
  • Critic in the Phantom review casts her as Carlotta, and she has no idea why “[he] would cast her as an egocentric prima donna”. He responds with pretending to not speak English.
  • In her vlogs on Tamara's channel, it's become a mild Running Gag that she sees herself as a famous "YouTube sensation" with tens of millions of fans.
  "I always thought that I was universally loved...and I still do."
• Secret-Keeper: She gleefully agrees to keep both Jim's and Malcolm's crushes on the Critic to herself, squeeing those are her favorite type of secrets.
• Secretly Wealthy: Critic is shocked that she can afford a Big Fancy House with a ton of comics, and she tells him that she got it and a lot of money from stalking Joe Dante.
• Selective Obliviousness:
  • Aside from refusing to believe that Critic doesn't want her, her first vlog clearly shows Malcolm and Jim (and Doug) being intensely uncomfortable with her being there, but she refuses to budge until Malcolm squirms that they're friends.
  • As Critic vehemently points out to her in Christmas Story II, she thinks every attempt of his to ignore her is him hating the movie instead of her, even though she knew full well that his “I hate Christmas” was just hyperbole and she told Bennie she just wanted to bother him somehow.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: She stuns the audience in Chipwrecked when she walks down the aisle in her wedding dress and veiled tiara. Benny calls her beautiful and Critic even gives a reluctant smile.
• Sore Loser: Gets really upset when she has to admit defeat on anything, even something as small as the original Spider-Man films not getting the point for best romantic interest, even when the only nice thing she can say about Mary Jane is that she has pretty hair.
• Spell My Name With An S: It's not quite clear whether her surname is two words or one. It's typically spelt as "Hyper Fan Girl" on social media and in the titles of in-character vlogs, but a few spell it as "Hyper Fangirl" (such as her Q&A video). Hyper lampshades in her hate comments video how many fans misspell her name, but she singles out "Fan Girl" as the misspelling, despite that being the spelling used in that same video's title.
• Stalker with a Crush: She really doesn't care that Critic would rather be very distant friends with her (because he wants the ego-stroking she gives him but doesn't want her), and plans to stalk him even harder by the end of Old vs. New: Spider-Man video.
  • After a while of steadily getting crazier in her vlogs, she returns at the end of Small Soldiers to break into Critic's house, watch him sleep, and to make him watch The Princess Diaries sequel.
• Stealth Expert: When she wants to be. In the MME vlog, she dances behind Todd and blows kisses at his head, and he legit didn't know what was happening.
• Stepford Smiler: In The Lorax commentary, Doug said that while she tries to be positive and happy and enjoy everything, she's mean and bitter at heart and obviously her stalking is a sign of how bad she really is. A good example of the stepford act breaking is in Princess Diaries II where she's all smiley about how it's her dream to watch a bad movie with him, and when he asks does her dreams involve torturing him (which she has done), her face falls and admits sometimes.
• Straw Feminist:
  • The instant he complains about Tobey Mcguire's crying scenes in the Raimi films, she accuses him of having something against boys having feelings in movies. She only does this so he can say he doesn't have any problems with that, he in fact relates to hating your job.
  • Double subverted in Mad Max: Fury Road, as when Critic tells her off for not caring about actual feminism but just her physical attraction to Tom Hardy, the meninists get mocked more because they butt in to call the girls feminazis, but the fact that she gives feminist cookies to Hardy for basic decency while being squicked at Patrick Stewart is still meant to be a bad thing.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Doug admits in The Lorax that she's meant to be a replacement for Douchey, just female, dangerously in love with him and mentally ill.
• Sympathetic P.O.V.: Played with in her vlogs. Not that she's not portrayed as fucked up and in the wrong on Critic, it's just that her delusions, inability to read social situations that aren't actually in her favor and her complete disregard for Critic's feelings are more blatantly obvious when she's the one holding the camera. It makes her insidious behavior more obvious, but also makes her more of a Tragic Villain (and also plays up her more likeable Genki Girl qualities). Her post-2017 vlogs also downplay her more nightmarish qualities (since that's more Doug's Author Appeal than Tamara's).
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Everything in the house during The Princess Diaries II is just trying to manipulate Critic's Stockholm Syndrome and she has no clue what he actually likes, but her first two episodes show that she does actually like mostly gender-neutral stuff (The Matrix, Alf, X-Men, Lord of the Rings, Transformers) with the occasional girly thing like The Jonas Brothers and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Contrast her relentless pursuit to make Critic like Christmas again despite him clearly not wanting to see her in Christmas Story 2, to her calmly encouraging him to take care of himself and letting him sleep comfortably while she and the other cast members film the Christmas video with no ulterior motives in The Santa Clause 3.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave:
  • To everyone in the studio except for Jim and Barney. Critic wants to kill her, Rob and Tamara think she's annoying, Doug too but he's too much of an Extreme Doormat to say anything, and Malcolm is only polite to her because she gives him the affection he needs.
  • Crosses over to Shark Jumping, partly because she wants to change Beth and Tim's house into a Stalker Shrine for Critic.
  • Several episodes imply that she hangs around even more than what we see.
• Tragic Villain: She has severe issues like mental illness, a Dark and Troubled Past and zero actual friends, plus Doug says you should pity her, but it's made pretty clear both in-universe and out that it doesn't excuse what she's done to Critic or that she's 'owed' him.
• Troubled Abuser: Her Dark and Troubled Past is vague, but she clearly has one, and everyone in The Phantom of the Opera (2004) behind the scenes seems to think she's been abused herself. Tamara says she likes all praise, even from creepy old men.
• Unsportsmanlike Gloating: Even Critic giving in on something very minor gets a smug “when I win, we all win” comment from her.
  • In Old vs New: Evil Dead, her film wins and she's literally victory dancing as an angry Devil Boner has Critic shoved up against the wall and is about to kill him.
• Vibrant Orange: Hyper Fangirl always wears a bright orange shirt, emphasizing her constant excitement and obnoxious, intrusive nature.
• Villainous Breakdown: Completely loses it when Critic rejects her (in a pleading way this time, not using her or being violently willing to shoot her like the past six) in Princess Diaries 2 and ends up electrocuting herself by trying to play the movie again.
• Villain Protagonist: Every vlog of hers counts as A Day in the Limelight for her, and shows off her fucked up point of view. Episodes where she's on Critic's side may qualify her as a Villain Deuteragonist.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Even if you're Tamara, don't imply that Devil Boner needs better gun skills.
• Weakness Turns Her On: She initially just wants to have sex with Critic because he's pretty, but the more he tries to get her away from him, the more she tries to delude herself that she's actually in love with him. She finally admits in her Q&A video that a big reason why she liked him was because he was feminine and subby.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: In the Princess Diaries 2 commentary, Doug talks about how she just doesn't understand romance, and even though she does terrible things because of that, she's meant to be pitiable. He also said he'll bring her in for any “abusively done love story” movie.
• Womanchild: She still acts like an Emo Teen, but is as at least as old as Tamara.[[note]]Her Facebook shows she was born in 1984, but her Q&A states her birth year as 1991. This trait gets played with in Spider-Man when she dresses and acts like a fancy snob to prove how much the film she used to love is totally beneath her, but by the end of the review accepts it as a Guilty Pleasure and goes to watch them with Benny in their pajamas.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: She has a talent for gaslighting Critic into thinking he's the bad guy for not wanting her, mostly through self-pity and manipulation. Mostly in the Christmas Story II ending/accompanying vlog, but this trait was apparent even back in Old vs New: Spider-Man where she guilt-tripped him for two weeks because he said no to going on a date with her.
  • Similarly, she threatens suicide when Todd in the Shadows insults a song she likes, but when he backtracks and calls it the best song ever, she drops the act immediately and just glares at him.
  • While Critic does still say he’ll make it up to her, he’s better in X-Month where she pouts and sulks about not getting to fly around like Rogue and he tells her to shoo.
• Yaoi Fangirl: In the first vlog, she squees when Malcolm admits he has a crush on the Critic, and again when Jim implies the same.
• Yandere: Critic waving a gun in her face and shouting that he'll get a restraining order makes her think he's choosing her as a sidekick, even when she screams and runs away. That's one of many examples of this trope from her.
• You're Just Jealous: She even made a "haters gonna hate" cake for anyone who doesn't like her,^note Which is essentially everyone in-universe. thinking they're just angry because she gets to be 'with' Critic and they don't.
  • Post-HyperBoner, she insists she's no longer into Critic, but thinks he's jealous and still wants her, though he obviously doesn't.

Astronaut

Astronaut

• Fish out of Water: She's been in hypersleep for the past fifteen years and is confused about all the reboots.
• No Name Given: She's not Tamara the character, as they lampshade, but she never gives her name. Critic mocks her situation by calling her Kimmy Schmidt.
• Only Sane Woman: Breakdown at the end aside, she stands out for not having any of the usual Tamara-character psychotic tendencies while also lampshading a Critic-review's tropes (in this instance how lazily he goes from conversation to review like the person he's not talking to isn't there).
• Rage Against the Heavens: She has a Planet of the Apes (2001)-parody breakdown when she realizes they're remaking Jem and the Holograms (2015).
• Trigger-Happy: When Critic does a clumsy Review-and-Story Segregation, she shoots him four times in the leg for just abandoning her in the middle of a conversation.

Lady Lovembrace

Lady Lovembrace

• Affably Evil: "Greetings friends! I am Lady Lovembrace! Your terrifying villain for the evening!"
• Card-Carrying Villain: She introduces herself as a villain and never claims otherwise, despite not acting like one at all.
• Designated Villain: Invoked to demonstrate how the appearances of the toys in Small Soldiers don't match their good-evil roles; Lady Lovembrace is supposed to be a "terrifying villain".
• Expy: She looks a lot like Queen Elsa.
• Feathered Fiend: She apparently has "Tweeting Birds of Evil".
• Names to Trust Immediately: Subverted since she's a "villain".
• Princess Classic: Acts like one, even though she's supposed to be a villainess.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Technically, even though the point was to show how talking and acting like both a Princess Classic and a Villain doesn't make a lot of sense.
• Spontaneous Human Combustion: Lady Lovembrace blows up for no real reason other than because Devil Boner suggested her to.
• True Blue Femininity: Her dress is a very dark blue color.
• Villainous Princess: Implied to be a princess or queen because of her crown.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: While Devil Boner showed up a few times afterwards, Lovembrace was only in one skit, probably because she got blown up.

Curiosa

Curiosa

• Clothes Make the Superman: In the commentary, Doug talks about how sometimes he'll put Tamara in a badass role and she'll struggle a bit because she says she's too girly, but as soon as she got in the Furiosa outfit she was there instantly.
• Handicapped Badass: If you look at behind the scenes photos on facebook, you'll see Jim (who made it and the sets) looking very proud of the prosthetic arm he made for Tamara. She also saves the day in the review, and the meninists (who have already been implied to be the part of the audience that Doug doesn't like so much) whine that she should have let Critic do it.
• Meaningful Name: Is the only one in the Mad Max: Fury Road review willing to listen to Critic.
• Not So Above It All: She's irritated by the fangirls swooning over Tom Hardy for basic decency to women, but gets into Devil Boner for the same thing.
• Straw Character: Unlike the acknowledged many creations that are just there to prove him right and have no argument of their own, Curiosa averts this in that she listens to Critic, but she defends her movie and changes his mind on a lot of points, including on the film's quality as a whole.
• Women Are Wiser: Not that she doesn't listen to Critic as well, but out of respect to how cool everyone thought Furiosa was, she's the smartest in the review and changes Critic's mind on a lot of points.
• Women Drivers: Downplayed, because she's more interested in defending how good her film is rather than driving when they're under fire.

Aunt Despair

Aunt Despair

A heavily-wrinkled, alcoholic woman and wife of Uncle Lies, who often shows neglect to her children.

• Abusive Parents: Though more Jaded Washout neglect than the active abuse her husband gives. Malcolm calls it going into Honey Boo Boo territory.
• The Alcoholic: Doug reckons she's never been sober, and that she's a “recovering alcoholic” because she's recovering with alcohol.
• Alcoholic Parent: She drinks straight vodka and it effects her quite badly.
• Awful Wedded Life: Zig-zagged. She usually gets along fine with her husband, but her cameo in The Santa Clause 3 shows them in some sort of argument and she also has this to say as the lunch lady in Hop:
  You want it to be so boring you'll forget it even entered you? Ha ha ha- Don't get married.
• Bad Liar: She's way too drunk to be any good at it, not that it stops her from bullshitting about studio connections. Her daughter calls her out on how many facts she gets wrong when "recapping" Critic's Balto review. In the Home Alone 2: Lost in New York review, she swears she didn't leave behind Bum Jr. even though her husband later admits that they did.
• Beauty Inversion: An impressive make-up job makes Tamara look at least twenty years older.
• Casual Kink: A one-off line in Film/Hop implies she drinks Uncle Lie's urine.
• Consummate Liar: Despite being terrible at it, Tamara's first name for her is Aunt Deceit and in Phantom she keeps trying bullshit lies on Critic, and tries to convince Bum Jr. that she wasn't abandoned in Home Alone 2.
• Conspiracy Theorist: She claims 9/11 was a fraud put on by Satanists.
• Deal with the Devil: She has satanic powers that allow her to put words on the screen. How she got them, we don't know.
• Even Evil Has Standards: She and Uncle Lies do think that homeless people should be given proper care and she apparently tries to teach Cliff lessons of accepting others' opinions.
• Evil Aunt: Her name according to Tamara is “Aunt Despair”, and treats all the children under her care with slurred contempt.
• Evil Is Petty:
  • Proves herself as much of a jerkass as her husband in the Cats & Dogs review, as she makes Critic both act like a cat and a dog, and uses the footage to make a clickbait negative review of Deadpool so everyone will hate him and Fox will take his job away. She also takes a long time to abandon her daughter in Balto, with even Uncle Lies asking what took her so long.
  • They kidnapped Mr T’s son for kicks, and blame Critic for it, happy to see him get beaten up.
  Aunt Despair: He’s the Nostalgia Critic and he remembers it so you don’t have to, though probably not for long.
• Gaslighting: She and Uncle Lies tell Bum Jr. she didn't abandon her in the Balto review and that it was probably another kid, though her husband at least remembers.
• Glurge Addict: As horrible as she is, her main outfit is a purple dress with a twee picture of deers in snow.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: More than likely was one when she was younger, and the only The Phantom of the Opera (2004) song she takes part in is the bouncy “Metaphor”, complete with her vodka bottle.
• Hot Guy, Ugly Wife: By virtue of Tamara having a ton of wrinkles drawn on her face and Doug's only difference is a bad sweater, slicked back hair (later replaced with a toupee) and larger glasses.
• Iconic Item: A cigarette is always hanging from her mouth. In a behind the scenes, Doug loves it because it adds that extra dose of pathetic to anything she says.
• I Have Many Names: The Cats and Dogs behind the scenes calls her “Aunt Deceit”, The Phantom of the Opera (2004) review calls her “Aunt Despair” and the behind the scenes of that calls her “Hyper Grandma”. All three are fitting descriptions, though "Aunt Despair" has been canon since the Balto review.
• Jaded Washout: According to Doug, she gave a fuck at one point but doesn't anymore.
• Jerkass: Fittingly she treats Critic as badly as she does her kids, relishing making his life difficult and once deliberately dropping a phone on his face before staggering off.
• Lethal Chef: Implied in the Labyrinth behind the scenes, as she apparently eats cold hot dogs because she can't even cook those. Confirmed in “Cats And Dogs”, when daddy asks what's for dinner and she replies that it's cold hot dogs again.
• Lower-Class Lout: She's like the embodiment of "white trash", and Malcolm makes it explicit in one of the behind the scenes when he compares her to Honey Boo Boo's mom.
• Manipulative Bitch: In Balto she manipulates (badly) her daughter into thinking they're in the future and Critic's dead, and when gets caught out, tries to excuse her lying by saying she at least learned something.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: In The Phantom of the Opera (2004), she names herself "Aunt Despair".
• Office Lady: Her job is a vague "does shift work"^note though she plays a lunch lady in Hop, which after the third shift she needs some booze.
• Outlaw Couple: With Uncle Lies in X-Men where they're being chased by cops and bringing prostitutes back to life.
• Perpetual Frowner: She's only smiling when she's fucking with Critic or being condescending to her kids.
• Pet the Dog: Subverted, as she pays lipservice to not wanting to get in trouble for hurting her kids, but really just wants an out to plead innocence.
  • Played straight in the Home Alone 2: Lost in New York review where she concedes to the Bum family's different opinions and then lets Critic scream at her and her family for hating Christmas Crunch and assures him that they don't hate him for it afterwards, even calling him a good kid.
• Politically Correct Villain: She, along with Uncle Lies, think the homeless deserve to be treated as equals.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Implied in “Cats And Dogs”, as she says “make America great again”, a phrase that's been heavily connected with Republican politics and Donald Trump.
• The Stoner: The 2017 intro has her and her husband ride in on a giant blunt.
• Vague Age: She is at the very least over fifty, though all the wrinkles make her look older.

Abused Daughters

In General

• Only Sane Man: They tend to call out their parents' or brother's horrible behavior when no one else in the family will.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: One wears baggy t-shirts, likes Star Wars and plays with cars, while the other has Girlish Pigtails.
• White Sheep: Aside from some normal childish brattiness, both seem to be the only non fucked up ones of the family.

Red Jumpsuit/Bum Jr

• Conditioned to Accept Horror: Her being the subversion (screaming that her parents suck) is what causes Uncle Lies to punish her with scary movies in the first place.
• Fangirl: She gets all starry eyed about the Critic, which Aunt Despair manipulates in the Balto review and tries to pawn her off at the end.
• Girlish Pigtails: In the Labyrinth review where she's particularly child-like. Also because Tamara's hair had grown to the length where pigtails can be done.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She has a teddy bear that she clings to when she's scared.
• Happily Adopted: Despite being dirty and homeless, she's far sunnier living under Chester and Doe than she ever was with her birth family.
• Hikikomori: In the behind the scenes of Labyrinth, Tamara improvises her as someone who never goes outside and wants a facebook.
• Nice Girl: Melody and Doe are nice, but Melody is a Nightmare Fetishist (not to abusive levels, but likes dark weird stuff) and Doe complains about the homeless, so it's just Bum Jr who holds the title of "NC Character Who Has Never Done Anything Wrong".
• No Name Given: Lampshaded in Balto when Aunt Despair tells her she'll drink to forget her name, of which we don't know. The "Bum Jr." moniker, which was only used on a single Instagram post, is the closest we get even after her adoption.
• Parental Abandonment: Both her parents apparently died in erotic asphyxiation and Aunt Despair ditches her immediately after telling her this. Luckily Critic offers Chester as a Parental Substitute.
• Security Blanket: She ends up clinging and rocking with her teddy bear in Labyrinth. She's clinging to it again and trying to not cry when Aunt Despair abandons her in Balto.
• Tears of Fear: Her sobbing "no Daddy no!" when he tries to force her to love the Barbie doll is genuinely hard to hear.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: She's confused and upset and will probably go back to her horrible family, but the end of Balto gives her actually loving parents with Chester and Doe.
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to Rise Of The Commercials, her favorite food is Campbells Soup.
• Vague Age: She's at the very least younger sounding than her siblings, as she has a lisp in Jurassic Park III, plays with dolls and stuffed animals, wears a onesie and has a tantrum in Labyrinth.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Despite Doe and Chester being loving parents to her in Home Alone 2, she hasn't appeared with them or even been mentioned since that review, even though Doe and Chester have appeared again.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Despite Aunt Despair constantly calling her an idiot, she's bright for a small child and can call out plot holes.

Melody

• Better with Non-Human Company: Unlike her brother, she gets upset and twitchy at animals being hurt and can't get anywhere with her family.
• Bring My Brown Pants: In Conquest Of The Commercials, she squeaks that she needs to be potty trained again because her dad was so scary.
• Future Loser: Extra depressing because as a result of being abused for so long, she and Cliff go from trying to write movies to having soul sucking accounting jobs.
• No Name Given: Until Hulk gave her name as Melody.
• Tomboyish Baseball Cap: To differentiate her from her hair decorations sister.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: In her first appearance, she has on a The Empire Strikes Back t-shirt with a yellow skirt underneath it.