The Nerd (AVGN)

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“	When I think back to Contra, I'm not just remembering the '80s. I'm remembering that time in the 2000s when I was remembering the '80s. It's a memory that's been photocopied countless times. It's been through many filters and distortions. There's even major holes when I forgot about Contra for a bit. You know what happened to my original cartridge? I sold it. I sold it. Some time after the N64 came out, I took a handful of my games and I brought them over to the local FuncoLand. They offered me 7 bucks for Contra, and I accepted. You know what I did with that 7 bucks? Went over to the deli, and bought a sandwich. To this day, I'll never remember any details of that sandwich. Did it, um, have lettuce? Uh... was it any good? I don't know. Today, if you were to ask me "hey, you remember that sandwich?", I'd say, "I don't know what the fuck you're talkin' about." But Contra... that sticks with me. And even if I had to part with it for a while, sometimes you have to temporarily forget about something, before you fall in love with it again. And when you come back to it... it's the same as it was. Even though everything else has changed. Life has changed. The world has changed. But sealed in that plastic slab, is a time capsule of your youth, fossilized in ROM data on a circuit board. It's read-only memory, the type that doesn't change. As soon as you pop that fucker in your NES, you're back. You're back... to an innocent summer day, with no such thing as Internet. Instead, you and your friends are running around with Nerf guns and Super Soakers, pretending you're the guys from Contra. You're standing on a swing, holding on to its chains, like a ladder of a helicopter. Ya jump off, rolling into the grass, the jungle. If it's not that, you're setting up GI Joe figures in the mud, to stage epic battles. That skill you had, of creating a fantasy land out of nothing, that wild imagination and backyard adventure was fueled by those pixelated military dudes blasting away alien creatures and robots. That's what Contra's all about. And, maybe, you lost touch with those old friends, but when you play that game once more, ya think of them again. And maybe, just maybe, somewhere, in some part of the world... they're remembering it too. Almost as if they're still sitting on the living room floor beside you. And maybe ya had a grandparent, or family member who you lost, and they're still watching ya play. Even as strangers, we can have a shared connection of talking about old games, and... that is nothing to be angry about. That joy in its simplest form comes down to simply asking someone, "hey, remember Contra?" And the answer... is "fuck yeah!"	„
	~ The Nerd's thoughts on Contra in his Contra video

“	This game sucks...	„
	~ The Nerd's first spoken words

“	What were they thinking?!	„
	~ The Nerd's famous quote whenever the gaming developers game he's reviewing does a questionable decision

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ASSSS!

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“	Wow, look at how "bad-ass" this game is. Yeah, this is the hot shit right here. You'd be so cool going around wearing this thing. Yeah, you'd be walking around school, and you got this on and everybody else is talking about what the new hot game system is gonna be. Nintendo 64? The bit wars? 64 bits. 32 bits. 16 bits. 8 bits. 4 bits! 2 BITS! 1 BIT! HALF BIT! QUARTER BIT! THE WRIST GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!!!	„
	~ The Nerd reacting to the Tiger Electronic wrist game

“	WHO'S GONNA DODGE THAT!? NOBODY! NOT THE FIRST TIME!	„
	~ The Nerd reacting to the first second of playing Star Evil in Action 52

“	Cowa-fuckin' piece of dog shit!	„
	~ The Nerd during the review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on NES

“	He's gonna take you back to the past To play the shitty games that suck ass He'd rather have a buffalo Take a diarrhea dump in his ear He'd rather eat the rotten asshole Of a road killed skunk and down it with beer He's the angriest gamer you've ever heard He's the Angry Nintendo Nerd He's the Angry Atari Sega Nerd He's the Angry Video Game Nerd When you turn on your TV Make sure it's tuned to channel three He's got a nerdy shirt and a pocket pouch Although I've never seen him write anything down He's got a Power Glove and a filthy mouth Armed with his Zapper he will tear these games down He's the angriest gamer you've ever heard He's the Angry Nintendo Nerd He's the Angry Atari Sega Nerd He's the Angry Video Game Nerd He plays the worst games of all time Horrible abominations of mankind They make him so mad he can spit Or say cowabunga, Cowa-fuckin'-piece'a dog shit They rip you off and don't care one bit But this nerd, he doesn't forget it Why can't a turtle swim? Why can't I land the plane? They got a quick buck for this shitload of fuck The characters names are wrong. Why's the password so long? Why don't the weapons do anything? He's the angriest gamer you've ever heard These games suck so bad, he makes up his own words He's the angriest most pissed off gaming nerd He's the Angry... Atari Amiga CDi Colecovision Intellivision Sega Neo Geo Turbo Grafix 16 Odyssey 3DO Commodore Nintendo Nerd He's The Angry Video Game Nerd	„
	~ His theme

“	Breath of the Wild 2 will be MID. ARGHHHHH!	„
	~ The Nerd's opinion on BOTW 2 after being asked by Plainrock124 at PAX East

Background

The Nerd (Also known as The Angry Video Game Nerd, AVGN for short, formerly the Angry Nintendo Nerd, often abbreviated as simply Nerd, and the Fucking Nerd) is the titular protagonist of the Angry Video Game Nerd web series, portrayed and created by James Rolfe.

In most episodes he reviews a different variety of video games he considers poorly made, he does this by complaining and overreacting while often shouting and swearing at the graphics, controls, difficulty, music, quality, or gameplay.

Since episode 25 of the Board James series, many viewers believe that the AVGN and Board James character are the same person, however, James Rolfe has said that he sees the two characters as separate existences rather than Board James' split personality.

General Information

Name: The Nerd

Origin: The Angry Video Game Nerd

Sex: Male

Age: 41

Classification: The Angry Video Game Nerd, The Nintendo Nerd, The Atari Sega Nerd, The Angry Atari Amiga CDi Colecovision Intellivision Sega Neo Geo Turbo Grafix 16 Odyssey 3DO Commodore Nintendo Nerd

Species: Human

Occupation: Video game reviewer

Status: Alive

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (The Nerd has extreme anger issues and shows very little remorse to others he affects or kills. Going out of his way to be jerks to kids wanting candy for halloween, and excreting in their bags and casually pushed a guy into burning orange soda after he had to be killed so that no more pepsimen remained. However, it is shown in the movie that he has a strong love and care for his fanbase and puts himself in danger quite frequently to keep them safe)

Codex Statistics

Key: Regular | Episode 100 Super Suit

Tier: 9-B, Higher with the Power Glove, Far Higher with the prayers of all his fans | High 8-C

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Wall level (Casually broke his TV with a single punch. Could one-shot a shark, can harm those who can harm him), Higher with the Power Glove (Could one-shot Freddy Kregur, who could cut apart The Nerd’s entire body in seconds), Far Higher with the prayers of all his fans (The prayers of all of his fans allowed him to defeat Giygas, the universal cosmic destroyer) | Large Building level (Larger then skyscrapers in a city in size)

Durability: Wall level (Tanked multiple explosions. Tanked a stick of dynamite at point blank range. Tanked an anvil falling on his head. Tanked flying back at incredibly fast speeds) | Large Building level (No-selled a shot from R.O.B.)

Striking Strength: Wall Class | Large Building Class

Lifting Strength: Class G (Can lift a million tons)

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Outran a zombie wolf with the rest of the STARS team), At most Relativistic+ flight speed (Flew to the sun within seconds, which would result in these levels) | Unknown, At most Relativistic+ flight speed

Attack Speed: At most Relativistic+ (Can tag Freddy who could cut apart The Nerd’s entire body before he could even react) | At most Relativistic+

Reaction Speed: At most Relativistic+ (Avoided a laser shot out at him) | At most Relativistic+

Stamina: Superhuman (Screamed for an entire day without tiring), Limitless as a cyborg

Range: Standard Melee, Kilometers with NES Accessories (The NES Zapper is treated the same as a real gun, which should give it the same range), Multiversal+ with Dimensional Travel (Could dimension hop within a reality of infinite dimensions)

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius Intelligence (Created his own Franken-Nerd to play the games for him, unlike Dr. Frankenstein, he made sure to have a way to shut down the monster if it went rogue. Cloned himself from his own feces making the Nerdy-turd. Created a beer droid, created the “Beat a game” button, a single button that once pressed beats the entire game instantly. Learned about infinite alternate universes and learned about truth of parallel realities. Created a UFO)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Genius Intelligence, Skilled in CQC (Could fight and beat down the Joker in hand to hand combat), Stealth Mastery (Snuck into someone's house), Weapon Mastery (Can skillfully use a whip to pull a NES cartridge out of the slot without messing with the cartridge itself), Accelerated Development (Training;Other & Speed. Trained with the ninja master to get better at Ninja Gaiden, being able to move his thumbs into and out of a fan before the fans blades can even hit him. After repeatedly trying a code in Akari Warriors for a hour, he became “faster then greased lightning”. In the Lightspan Adventures episode, his brain was considered "rotten" and as the episode went on, he started to become smarter and smarter quickly), Hacking (Able to create a device that instantly beats a game in a single button on any console regardless of anti piracy measures), Self-Sustenance (Respiratory Self-Sustenance; Could travel in outer space just fine), Flight & Spaceflight (Has the ability to fly all the way to the sun in seconds), Transformation (Can turn into a cat), Cyborgization (Partial. Is revealed as a cyborg in the terminator episode. Normal in the Robo-Cop episode. Became the Robo-Nerd), Cartoon Physics (Displayed this in the entire Crazy Castle episode and the Sega Activator episode), Rage Power (In the Crazy Castle episode, The Nerd repeatedly got outskilled by Bugs Bunny, as Bugs was about to kill him The Nerd's rage allowed him to beat Bugs Bunny, completely ripping off his head), Resurrection (Came back in the next episode after dying from hitting a door. Came back in the next episode after being sent to hell. As shown in the AVGN series he has acknowledged past episodes and even mentions all the way back to the Nintendo Nerd era. He has also acknowledged his deaths in the past), Supernatural Resilience (Removed his heart. Could live with his arms, legs, eyes, and ears removed), Time Travel (When he gave up begin The Nerd, he was sent to different time periods of his episodes to recapture the nostalgia, which included going into dreams), Dimensional Travel (Can travel across an infinite number of universes), Reality Warping (Can cause a crack in reality with a kick), Information Analysis (Can analyze objects, with his data giving him retorts of what to say), Mimicry (Power Mimicry & Technique Mimicry; The Nerd has consistently shown to use abilities from the different games he's played even when he has distributed them previously, such as being able to fly after the Superman 64 episode, shooting ice after the Mortal Kombat Sub-Zero Mythologies episode, becoming a Terminator in the Terminator episode, becoming the Robo-Nerd in the Robo-Cop episode, etcetera), Summoning (Can summon Super Mega Death Christ), Explosion Manipulation (Can throw a cartridge so hard it explodes. Can drop f-bombs which are bombs that explode whenever he says “fuck”), Energy Projection (Can fire out hadouken), Sound Manipulation (Can create sonic booms), Fusionism (Can merge with all of the other nerds to become the angry video game nerd), Immortality Negation (With the NES Zapper, The Nerd permanently killed Jason Vorhees, who The Nerd notes always comes back to life, Jason’s death was acknowledged in the recent Halloween episode as Jason was still in hell until he and Freddy Kregur transferred themselves out of hell through the game cartridges), Ice Manipulation (Could freeze the game cartridge with a concentrated ice blast), Text Manipulation (Can use words in a turn based battle), Plot Manipulation (Narrative Manipulation; Reader Authority; Corrupted and essentially deleted a Nostalgia Critic episode before Nostalgia Critic could announce his movie), Data Manipulation and Immersion (Pulled a video game character into real life), Transmutation (Turned Chex into Brutal Chex), Magicant Creation (Created his own magicant in the EarthBound episode).

Resistance to Extreme Heats (Can sleep on lava), Reality Warping, Spatial Manipulation, & Corruption (He and his room was fine in the next episode after the Game Graphic Glitch Gremlin corrupted him and his room), Gravity Manipulation, Biological Manipulation & Cosmic Radiations (Could travel in outer space just fine)

Attack Reflection (Can reflect back attacks with the U-Force), Energy Projection & Explosion Manipulation (Can shoot out energy balls with the Super Scope that explode), Electricity Manipulation (Can shoot electricity out of the Konami LaserScope), Sealing (Can seal cartridges and ghost into the proton pack), Power Nullification (The Power Pad negates attacks sent at him), Erasure (Physical Erasure; Erased a Klingon from existence), Absorption (Can siphon energy with the power glove to grow into a far more powerful and larger being), Resurrection (Can bring one back to life with his NES controller by pressing A B B A), Time Travel (With his sega dreamcast he can move the time forward, moving time in the real world forward and can move time backwards), Wish Granting (With a thermos, summons a genie that will grant him 3 wishes)

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Equipment

NES Zapper, SNES Scope, U-Force, Konami Laserscope, Power Pad, Various game consoles and their controllers

Optional Equipment

Thermos that summons a genie

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Other

Standard Tactics: AVGN in most of his battles will mainly go into hand to hand combat, he will also use abilities relevant to what he's recently played. He will also sometimes in battle use his equipment. If the enemy is too strong, he will use the super suit.

Weaknesses: The Nerd can get angry incredibly easily, even to people being nice to him. He has a similar PTSD-like response to the games Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde & ET for the Atari 2600.

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