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Nostalgia Critic
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Portrayed by
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Occupation
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Internet Film/Media Critic
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First Appearance
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Transformers movie review; AVGN Rant (on AVGN)
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The Nostalgia Critic is a character created by Douglas Darien Walker. He is the Nerd's mortal enemy. Despite this, He and James are great friends in real life.
Style
The Nostalgia Critic opens and closes all his videos with "Hello I'm the Nostalgia Critic, I remember it so you don't have to". Usually, his reviews are of movies or TV shows from the 1980's or 1990's.
Feud with the Nerd
The feud began when the Nostalgia Critic posted an online video where he satirically expressed his disgruntlement at the AVGN for failing to keep his fans "under control". He railed against comments, written by the Nerd's fans, which the Critic sees as "unfair comparisons between the two of them."This began a series of tongue-in-cheek video responses between The Nostalgia Critic and Angry Video Game Nerd.
The Nerd, posted on his forum that he himself was a fan of the Nostalgia Critic. In response, The Critic created another video, trying to figure out the code behind the Nerd's complimentary message (which turned out to say "LICK MY SHIT NOSTALGIA CRITIC" spelled backwards,) a la the Da Vinci Code, and another video in which he blasted The Nerd for reviewing The Wizard before him, calling him a dirty, stuck-up, sadistic, shit-eating, cock-sucking, butt-fucking, penis-smelling, crotch-grabbing, ball-licking, semen-drinking, dog-raping, Nazi-loving, child-touching, cow-humping, perverted, spineless, heartless, mindless, dickless, testicle-choking, urine-gargling, jerk-offing, horse-faced, sheep-fondling, toilet-kissing, self-centered, faeces-puking, dildo-shoving, snot-spitting, crap-gathering, big-nosed, monkey-slapping, bastard-screwing, bean-shitting, fart-knocking, sack-busting, splooge-tasting, bear-blowing, head-swallowing, bitch-snatching, handjobbing, donkey-caressing, mucus-spewing, anal-plugging, ho-grabbing, uncircumcised, sewer-sipping, whore-mongering, piss-swimming, midget-munching, douchebag, ho-biting, carnivorous, mail-order prostituting asshole. When The Critic did review the Wizard, he fictionally discovered that one of the main characters Jimmy, is actually the Nerd when he was a kid, which in part angered the Critic even more as he was trying to prove that no one from the film had a successful career after doing the movie. The Critic has also recognized Chris Bores, as in one comment he stated "Welp, it looks like Angry Video Game Nerd is now the Irate Gamer", prompting huge uproar.
Finally, in early June, the Nerd responded in a satirical video (with disclaimers throughout) stating his "distaste" for the Critic. After watching the video, fans went to Walker's website, which immediately flooded Walker's server with over two thousand new unique visitors within the first two hours - with over 18,000 videos viewed. The Critic then challenged the Nerd to review an awful nostalgic film. Later in the month, The Critic went to the Nerd in person at a video game convention in Clifton, New Jersey, exchanged satirical fighting words (one included on Critic's stay on Youtube) and the two had a fake brawl in the parking lot, along with another Internet personality, Captain S. The Nerd agreed to review a bad film, as long as the Critic reviewed a poor video game. Eventually, the Nerd reviewed the low-budget spoof film Ricky 1, and the Nostalgia Critic reviewed the video game version of the animated film Bébé's Kids. The culmination of the rivalry, called the Final Battle, features a lengthy fight scene parodying popular films and cliches; in particular, The Matrix Reloaded and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. The video also borrows elements from the Nerd's review of Super Mario Bros. 3, including his "battle armor" and Super Mecha Death Christ 2000 B.C. Version 4.0 Beta. The entire "fight" takes place in the Nerd's room. In the end, the fight was won by the Nerd when the aforementioned Super Mecha Death Christ attacked the Critic.
Return
At the end of the Final Battle, the Critic appears to be dead. However, the Critic's bloody hand is seen reaching up. The Critic later returned in the TGWTG Team Brawl.
To Boldly Flee
In the episodes of the Nostalgia Critic's [Boldly Flee]], the Nerd stars in it by playing a robot like character that aids the Nostalgia Critic. The first was helping him fight a bunch of mooks and second was to help the Critic in showing the solution to the plot hole by making it bigger. The two shake hands claiming they will "see each other on the other side."
Trivia
- The Nostalgia Critic is one of three villains to be knocked into a pile of boxes (the other ones being The Joker and Bugs Bunny)
- The Nostalgia Critic is one of three villains to be defeated with NES accessories (the others being The Devil and ROB.)
- AVGN And NC are really friends and are pretending to hate each other