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* NoodleIncident: Quite a few, almost always due to AlcoholInducedIdiocy, and his death itself was one.
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* BiTheWay: hide seemed to think "all sex is good sex." The song "50% & 50%" is arguably a direct reference to coming out as bisexual.
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* OdeToIntoxication: ''Drink Or Die!!!'' is definitely this, as well as DrowningMySorrows, DrunkenSong, and ''much'' HarsherInHindsight. ''Lemoned I Scream'' is this for either alcohol or hallucinogens or both. ''Sold Some Attitude'' is so much of a deconstruction of the idea (bitterly referencing either mania or amphetamine psychosis) that it is arguably an OdeToSobriety.
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* [[RoseHairedGirl Rose Haired ... whatever hide identified as.]]
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** ''Doubt'' and ''Bacteria'' reference political sex scandals and sex as a loveless act of mindless reproduction respectively. ** ''Rocket Dive'' is a long series of DoubleEntendre about mutually satisfying sex (and possibly gay sex depending on who you ask/who's translating).
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** ''Doubt'' and ''Bacteria'' reference political sex scandals and sex as a loveless act of mindless reproduction respectively. respectively.
** ''Rocket Dive'' is a long series of DoubleEntendre about mutually satisfying sex (and possibly gay sex depending on who you ask/who's translating).
** ''Rocket Dive'' is a long series of DoubleEntendre about mutually satisfying sex (and possibly gay sex depending on who you ask/who's translating).
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* BreakupSong: ''Hey Man So Long,'' is a breakup song directed toward another man with whom the singer was in a relationship. It's even sprouted three EpilepticTrees: that the song was about X Japan in general and the band's breakup, that the song was about Toshi's having left for Home of Heart and his bitter take on that, or that the song was about him and Yoshiki having broken up. No one knows if any of the above are true and what the song was about, though.
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* IntercourseWithYou: Many of hide's songs, whether it's the main theme of the song or the "B plot" of it, though hide's takes on the theme were often nightmarish and twisted.
** ''Sadistic Desire'' (about MurderersAreRapists, from [[CrossingTheLineTwice the murderer/rapist's perspective]]) and ''Joker'' (about [[CompensatedDating mitsu]]) were the most famous from his X Japan days.
** ''Eyes Love You'' and ''Genkai Haretsu'' reference DateRape and drugged sex/sex as manipulation/loveless sex, perhaps as metaphors for the music industry/Hollywood.
** ''Beauty And Stupid'' seems to be about one-sided love during sex/sexual manipulation.
** ''Hi-Ho'' is about sex with prostitutes and sex as a prostitute, both of the ordinary and mitsu/host varieties.
** ''Natural Born Onanist'' is a celebration of [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbation]].
** ''Doubt'' and ''Bacteria'' reference political sex scandals and sex as a loveless act of mindless reproduction respectively. ** ''Rocket Dive'' is a long series of DoubleEntendre about mutually satisfying sex (and possibly gay sex depending on who you ask/who's translating).
** ''Electric Cucumber'' and ''Leatherface/Inside The Pervert Mound'' and ''Fuctrack #6'' are all about BDSM and various aspects of it.
** ''Psyche'' references the sexual element of the titular mythos somewhat graphically.
** ''Sadistic Desire'' (about MurderersAreRapists, from [[CrossingTheLineTwice the murderer/rapist's perspective]]) and ''Joker'' (about [[CompensatedDating mitsu]]) were the most famous from his X Japan days.
** ''Eyes Love You'' and ''Genkai Haretsu'' reference DateRape and drugged sex/sex as manipulation/loveless sex, perhaps as metaphors for the music industry/Hollywood.
** ''Beauty And Stupid'' seems to be about one-sided love during sex/sexual manipulation.
** ''Hi-Ho'' is about sex with prostitutes and sex as a prostitute, both of the ordinary and mitsu/host varieties.
** ''Natural Born Onanist'' is a celebration of [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbation]].
** ''Doubt'' and ''Bacteria'' reference political sex scandals and sex as a loveless act of mindless reproduction respectively. ** ''Rocket Dive'' is a long series of DoubleEntendre about mutually satisfying sex (and possibly gay sex depending on who you ask/who's translating).
** ''Electric Cucumber'' and ''Leatherface/Inside The Pervert Mound'' and ''Fuctrack #6'' are all about BDSM and various aspects of it.
** ''Psyche'' references the sexual element of the titular mythos somewhat graphically.
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* BeggarWithASignboard: Done in the ''Misery'' PV, with the song title and with lyrics of the song in English.
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** Which has led to some (hopefully) unintentional creepiness, when fans go overboard, especially on exposing their kids to his stuff way too early. For example, [[TroublingUnchildhoodBehavior the Youtube video of the 3 year old singing "Rocket Dive."]] Do not look it up - there is not enough BrainBleach in the world.
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** Which has led to some (hopefully) unintentional creepiness, when fans go overboard, especially on exposing their kids to his stuff way too early. For example, [[TroublingUnchildhoodBehavior [[AgeInappropriateArt the Youtube video of the 3 year old singing "Rocket Dive."]] Do not look it up - there is not enough BrainBleach in the world.
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** Ironically enough, that attitude would actually ''confirm'' eligibility for being a Bodhisattva in some Buddhist views of the Mahayana strain, as humility and sincerity are often considered higher virtues than sexual morality or abstinence from alcohol in those views (which could possibly make this trope very applicable to him), unlike Theravada Buddhist belief where they are equivalent virtues, and someone who is not celibate and an alcoholic would be seen as utterly incapable of becoming a Bodhisattva without several cycles of reincarnation free of sexual vice and drunkenness.
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* NoBudget: The ''Misery'' PV, unless it was StylisticSuck. The film quality is awful even for the mid 1990s.
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* NoBudget: The ''Misery'' PV, unless it was StylisticSuck. The film quality is awful even for the mid 1990s.
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* TeamMom: Despite his issues, he was, according to everyone else, this forXJapan Music/XJapan while he lived.
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* OutlivedItsCreator: Zilch is a straight example (it outlived both hide and Paul Raven), but a more meta example would be pretty much all of hide's career and artistic output. As an example, the "Pink Spider" musical just opened in Japan...
** VisualKei itself is a straight example, as he was one of the predominant influences in ''many'' parts still existent in VisualKei aside from the direct cloning attempts: he was the one who pioneered GenreRoulette and NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly as essential parts of a VK band repertoire, he (and COLOR) were the first to introduce the idea of hair colors other than black, brown, or blonde along with the over the top styles, why lead guitarist is such an important role in VK (as opposed to Western rock where it's usually vocalist), (along with X Japan itself) the idea of making PerformanceVideos or promotional videos art pieces themselves. Even artists who aren't directly or intentionally cloning him have drawn much from his influence on the scene.
** VisualKei itself is a straight example, as he was one of the predominant influences in ''many'' parts still existent in VisualKei aside from the direct cloning attempts: he was the one who pioneered GenreRoulette and NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly as essential parts of a VK band repertoire, he (and COLOR) were the first to introduce the idea of hair colors other than black, brown, or blonde along with the over the top styles, why lead guitarist is such an important role in VK (as opposed to Western rock where it's usually vocalist), (along with X Japan itself) the idea of making PerformanceVideos or promotional videos art pieces themselves. Even artists who aren't directly or intentionally cloning him have drawn much from his influence on the scene.
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* CreatorBreakdown: In the worst way possible.
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* DyeHard: hide's hair is either red or pink.
** Sometimes it was blonde with a pink or red streak in the early days of the band. Which could be confusing to n00b fans seeing a redhead... and therefore confusing hide and [[TomoakiIshizuka Pata]], who had *entirely* red hair off and on from around 1989 to 1991.
** Sometimes it was blonde with a pink or red streak in the early days of the band. Which could be confusing to n00b fans seeing a redhead... and therefore confusing hide and [[TomoakiIshizuka Pata]], who had *entirely* red hair off and on from around 1989 to 1991.
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* FountainOfExpies: So, so, SO many in VisualKei. Probably, in one aspect or another, the most imitated artist in Visual Kei.
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* TheRedStapler: Fernandes guitars (pretty much every one of his guitars was a Fernandes), Necromance (a shop in Los Angeles where he tended to buy jewelry and magickal items), and Mild Seven cigarettes.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Probably one of the most notable and tragic examples in recent memory. When hide died, he had not yet finished his third album, ''Ja, Zoo'', and many of his singles and other works hadn't been finished or released yet.
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* EasilyForgiven: Massive popularity and then NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead led to this for him, along with the unfortunate fact that few people took his alcoholism, his dangerous or violent actions under the influence, or his mental illnesses seriously at the time.
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* AlternativeMetal[=/=]AvantGardeMetal: [[UrExample One of the early pioneers]], when both genres were pretty much {{Unbuilt Trope}}s. Zilch is a rather bizarre mix of the former with NuMetal and IndustrialMetal.
* AlternativeMetal[=/=]AvantGardeMetal: [[UrExample One of the early pioneers]], when both genres were pretty much {{Unbuilt Trope}}s. Zilch is a rather bizarre mix of the former with NuMetal and IndustrialMetal.
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* VindicatedByHistory: In regard to the metal community, in that as his works became more and more known globally, that he isn't only recognized as an iconic popstar (an image he himself felt trapped in), but has earned slow recognition, especially with the Zilch works and his last track that would later become the backbone of Music/XJapan's ''IV,'' as one of the premiere innovators of his time (and even ahead of it) in HardRock / HeavyMetal.
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* VindicatedByHistory: In regard to the metal community, in that as his works became more and more known globally, that he isn't only recognized as an iconic popstar (an image he himself felt trapped in), but has earned slow recognition, especially with the Zilch works and his last track that would later become the backbone of Music/XJapan's ''IV,'' as one of the premiere innovators of his time (and even ahead of it) in HardRock / HeavyMetal.
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Was the first late musician to be made into a ProjectedMan / VirtualGhost in ''live stage performance'' as opposed to video alone (where Music/NatKingCole was the first) in X Japan's shows in 2008 and 2009, predating the more commonly known Music/TupacShakur Coachella performance.
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* {{Hologram}}: How INA accomplished bringing him back to "life" for several Music/XJapan concerts in 2008 and 2009 - he created a hologram consisting of footage of hide playing guitar to various songs, speaking, and otherwise acting onstage to create a very natural looking reconstruction of him.
* ProjectedMan: One of the most successful and scarily UncannyValley (even to Yoshiki, to whom this was so much so that he personally ended the practice) examples ever in regard to the hologram. He was the first musician to have a believable holographic form onstage, this having been accomplished in 2008, long before Music/TupacShakur at Coachella.
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* FormerlyFat: One of the more sad examples of this trope. All of his family seems to be overweight to some degree (as exemplified in his brother, who is well over 200 pounds at this point), and he was mercilessly abused/teased in school for being a fat child and fat teen. As he hit his late teens, he discovered alcohol, bulimia, and possibly amphetamines. His weight dropped, he joined his first band Yokosuka Saber Tiger, and from then on felt that he ''had'' to maintain perfect thinness to keep the new life as something other than a target of abuse, and even when he had gotten to the point that no one would have cared had he gained weight again, his eating disorders and alcoholism had taken on a life of their own. It could even be argued that he was a "delayed bullycide" as in, someone ''so'' emotionally damaged from the childhood abuse and mockery that he resorted to the behaviors that would in part later on lead to his death.
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* FormerlyFat: One of the more sad examples of this trope. All of his family seems to be overweight to some degree (as exemplified in his brother, who is well over 200 pounds at this point), and he was mercilessly abused/teased in school for being a fat child and fat teen. As he hit his late teens, he discovered alcohol, bulimia, and possibly amphetamines. His weight dropped, he joined his first band bands Dementia and Yokosuka Saber Tiger, and from then on felt that he ''had'' to maintain perfect thinness to keep the new life as something other than a target of abuse, and even when he had gotten to the point that no one would have cared had he gained weight again, his eating disorders and alcoholism had taken on a life of their own. It could even be argued that he was a "delayed bullycide" as in, someone ''so'' emotionally damaged from the childhood abuse and mockery that he resorted to the behaviors that would in part later on lead to his death.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Hiroshi has began to get this, to the point where he's the target of an ongoing InternetCounterattack, which began with angry Yoshiki fen and only widened with the Music/KodaKumi cover of ''Pink Spider''.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Hiroshi has was occasionally seen as such by hide in life, and large sections of the fandom pretty much began to get this, to treat him as such after the point where he's the target events of an ongoing InternetCounterattack, which began with angry Yoshiki fen 2008-10 and only widened with the Music/KodaKumi cover of ''Pink Spider''.cover.
* AttentionWhore: Out of necessity, and why this trope isn't necessarily bad. That said, he hated being one, and "felt trapped in the body of a pop star" after his BreakupBreakout and career ascendance.
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* BarBrawl: hide, along with Taiji and Yoshiki, were the biggest troublemakers in regard to the fighting and damage that XJapan caused in its earlier days. If running around a hotel fighting with the desk people for no reason at all can be considered under this trope...
* {{Bishonen}}: Often crossing into true androgyne.
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*{{Bishonen}}: BerserkButton: Lots and lots of things, and ''anything'' once hide had consumed enough alcohol.
* {{Bishonen}} / {{Biseinen}} : Often crossing into trueandrogyne.[[AmbiguousGender androgyne]] better than even Music/DavidBowie, his inspiration for androgyny.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Hiroshi has began to get this, to the point where he's the target of an ongoing InternetCounterattack, which began with angry Yoshiki fen and only widened with the Music/KodaKumi cover of ''Pink Spider''.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Being TheAlcoholic invoked this trope ''too'' often for hide, the final time being his death. Being drunk led him into repeatedly engaging in the BarBrawl and other seemingly pointless physical aggression and assaults, at least one major accident with pyrotechnics, a fall that left him with a broken leg and skull fracture, at least one car accident, and alcohol poisoning itself on at least one occasion prior to his death, and he committed suicide either accidentally during a drunken sex act, or intentionally when so drunk and high he was pushed beyond his emotional limits.
** His song ''Drink Or Die!!!!'' is ''about'' AlcoholInducedIdiocy with a subtext of DrowningMySorrows, and is actually one of his saddest songs in retrospect, despite being a "happy" song when it was created.
* AngelUnaware: Some of hide's fandom actually thinks he ''was'' this. He himself would have probably laughed at the idea or been embarrassed at such though, and those fans are often seen as [[CloudCuckoolander weird]], too willing to give his bad behavior a pass, and FanDumb. That said, Hiroshi Matsumoto seems to have no problem encouraging them and making money off of them.
* AngerBornOfWorry: There was this back and forth between hide and his friends.
** Most prominently between him and Yoshiki, to the point of eventually undermining their relationship, because he and Yoshiki were both TheAlcoholic and out of control, but at the time, Yoshiki had less severe mental health problems in general and yet little knowledge of mental illness or how he could actually ''help'' hide, and things only got worse from there.
** [[Music/TomoakiIshizuka Pata]], Music/{{Sugizo}}, J, [[Music/TaijiSawada Taiji]], and pretty much all of hide's other close friends near the end of his life 1996-98 all suspected something was horribly wrong, and would later mention this at various points, that hide seemed almost terrified of being alone, that his drinking was worsening by the day, and that he was emotionally falling apart - yet if they acted or said anything, hide would become angry and deny that anything was wrong, which only made matters worse.
** Hiroshi Matsumoto claimed that he and hide fought a lot at the end of hide's life. That said, whether this was actually this (as he claims it to be) or over financial issues and hide seeking new management is ''very'' much in question.
** His song ''Drink Or Die!!!!'' is ''about'' AlcoholInducedIdiocy with a subtext of DrowningMySorrows, and is actually one of his saddest songs in retrospect, despite being a "happy" song when it was created.
* AngelUnaware: Some of hide's fandom actually thinks he ''was'' this. He himself would have probably laughed at the idea or been embarrassed at such though, and those fans are often seen as [[CloudCuckoolander weird]], too willing to give his bad behavior a pass, and FanDumb. That said, Hiroshi Matsumoto seems to have no problem encouraging them and making money off of them.
* AngerBornOfWorry: There was this back and forth between hide and his friends.
** Most prominently between him and Yoshiki, to the point of eventually undermining their relationship, because he and Yoshiki were both TheAlcoholic and out of control, but at the time, Yoshiki had less severe mental health problems in general and yet little knowledge of mental illness or how he could actually ''help'' hide, and things only got worse from there.
** [[Music/TomoakiIshizuka Pata]], Music/{{Sugizo}}, J, [[Music/TaijiSawada Taiji]], and pretty much all of hide's other close friends near the end of his life 1996-98 all suspected something was horribly wrong, and would later mention this at various points, that hide seemed almost terrified of being alone, that his drinking was worsening by the day, and that he was emotionally falling apart - yet if they acted or said anything, hide would become angry and deny that anything was wrong, which only made matters worse.
** Hiroshi Matsumoto claimed that he and hide fought a lot at the end of hide's life. That said, whether this was actually this (as he claims it to be) or over financial issues and hide seeking new management is ''very'' much in question.
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* FranchiseZombie: LEMONED, Lemoned Plant, and the entire hide "estate" or "empire." It can be argued fairly well that Hiroshi Matsumoto has ''no'' idea of what hide would have wanted for it, and is solely using it as a personal ATM to gain payment from fans and from artists who admired hide.
* FreakinessShame: hide is widely admired as one of the most absolutely beautiful paragons of VisualKei by almost anyone in the scene on a basis of appearance and style if nothing else (trolls and anti-fans aside), and yet viewed himself as ugly and disgustingly fat, partially due to a severe eating disorder and childhood abuse and bullying.
* FreakyFashionMildMind: Zigzagged. Sometimes hide could be far crazier and scarier than ''anything'' done onstage or that hide dressed like (when drunk and fighting for no reason but to fight, as in the hotel anecdote) and yet was the TeamMom for Music/XJapan almost as soon as joining the band, one of the more calming influences in Yoshiki's life, often tried to help other bandmen as much as he hurt them in fights (and once actually ''avoided'' a fight that Yoshiki had picked and became close friends with Tomoyasu Hotei of Music/{{Boowy}} as a result) and did some incredible charity work, specifically reaching out to sick and injured children.
* FreakinessShame: hide is widely admired as one of the most absolutely beautiful paragons of VisualKei by almost anyone in the scene on a basis of appearance and style if nothing else (trolls and anti-fans aside), and yet viewed himself as ugly and disgustingly fat, partially due to a severe eating disorder and childhood abuse and bullying.
* FreakyFashionMildMind: Zigzagged. Sometimes hide could be far crazier and scarier than ''anything'' done onstage or that hide dressed like (when drunk and fighting for no reason but to fight, as in the hotel anecdote) and yet was the TeamMom for Music/XJapan almost as soon as joining the band, one of the more calming influences in Yoshiki's life, often tried to help other bandmen as much as he hurt them in fights (and once actually ''avoided'' a fight that Yoshiki had picked and became close friends with Tomoyasu Hotei of Music/{{Boowy}} as a result) and did some incredible charity work, specifically reaching out to sick and injured children.
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* HumansAreBastards: A VERY frequent theme in hide's work. ''Genkai Haretsu,'' ''Eyes Love You,'' and ''Blue Sky Complex'' center around protagonists or the concept that humans are rapists/will happily take advantage of other humans. ''Junk Story'' was inspired by a molested child's diary entries. ''Oblaat'' was aimed at ApatheticCitizens who still found time to judge each other over petty issues living under constant surveillance, ''Damage,'' ''Bacteria'' and ''Doubt'' are all denunciations of politicians and leaders and similar, combined with GaiasLament and WarIsHell, and in ''Bacteria,'' humans are the bacteria killing the world.
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* FingerGun: Used in the "Death Hollywood" remix/live of ''Eyes Love You.'': hide mimes a gun with his fingers, wildly aiming around the stage to the sound of FX gunshots, until finally pointing it at himself and falling to the sound of the last gunshot.
* FlameWar: Discussing hide's death and the circumstances of it has led to more than one raging flame war, to the point that it's almost considered InternetBackdraft especially when participated in by newbies or people in places where not everyone will agree on what is stated.
** Also, whether hide or Toshi was Yoshiki's true love created possibly the biggest of X Japan fandom's ShippingWars. It's also considered InternetBackdraft, especially if invoked with claiming hide killed himself to punish Toshi or Yoshiki.
* FlameWar: Discussing hide's death and the circumstances of it has led to more than one raging flame war, to the point that it's almost considered InternetBackdraft especially when participated in by newbies or people in places where not everyone will agree on what is stated.
** Also, whether hide or Toshi was Yoshiki's true love created possibly the biggest of X Japan fandom's ShippingWars. It's also considered InternetBackdraft, especially if invoked with claiming hide killed himself to punish Toshi or Yoshiki.
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* ApatheticCitizens: ''Oblaat'' is in part a furious and snarky (and prophetic, see below) denunciation of apathetic citizens, as is ''Bacteria.'' ''Doubt'' is aimed at apathetic, corrupt, and lazy leaders and politicians.
* AttractiveBentGender: One of the earliest examples in VisualKei, and the other one making up the more "androgynous" part of 87-92 Music/XJapan (along with Yoshiki), in contrast to the more masculine Taiji, Toshi, and Pata.
* AxCrazy: A common theme in hide's photoshoots (there's even one of him as Chucky, and one of him as the main character of Film/AClockworkOrange) and occasionally in his lyrics.
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* CassandraTruth / JunkieProphet: People who knew hide around 1997-1998 mentioned that he insisted on telling them a story about a nightmare he often had. About a massive earthquake, followed by a nuclear disaster.
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* DrunkDriver: See the incident listed under CoolCar above - that crash was how hide lost his California driver's license (which it was amazing that he ever had in the first place), though it was never really known whether it was hide or [[Music/TomoakiIshizuka Pata]] who was the drunk driver that time, as everyone fled and both claimed to have been driving.
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* DisabilitySuperpower: Bipolar 1 was this for him in that had he ''not'' been bipolar he likely wouldn't have conceived of some of the MindScrew nightmarish lyrics he did (which actually made for incredible music), likely would not have even considered half of his onstage antics and his public persona, and more. The "outsider looking in"/"uncontrollable emotions" view it gave him arguably fueled much of his work.
* DramaticShattering: Combined with RockersSmashGuitars and CameraAbuse, see above. A common trope in his videos and in his life - he was almost if not more famous for breaking stuff than Yoshiki.
* DrunkDriver: See the incident listed under CoolCar above - that crash was how hide lost his California driver's license (which it was amazing that he ever had in the first place), though it was never really known whether it was hide or [[Music/TomoakiIshizuka Pata]] who was the drunk driver that time, as everyone fled and both claimed to have beendriving. driving.
* DoomedSupermarketDisplay: There's one in the ''Misery'' PV. Which gets a shopping cart crashed into it and hide sitting in the middle of the debris eating some of it.
* DramaticShattering: Combined with RockersSmashGuitars and CameraAbuse, see above. A common trope in his videos and in his life - he was almost if not more famous for breaking stuff than Yoshiki.
* DrunkDriver: See the incident listed under CoolCar above - that crash was how hide lost his California driver's license (which it was amazing that he ever had in the first place), though it was never really known whether it was hide or [[Music/TomoakiIshizuka Pata]] who was the drunk driver that time, as everyone fled and both claimed to have been
* DoomedSupermarketDisplay: There's one in the ''Misery'' PV. Which gets a shopping cart crashed into it and hide sitting in the middle of the debris eating some of it.
* DrivenToSuicide: ''Misery,'' ''Goodbye,'' ''Oblaat,'' and ''arguably'' ''Pink Spider,'' though the "suicide" in it is symbolic for jumping into a new life. As for hide in RealLife, there's a few theories that claim that he was driven to intentional suicide.
* DrunkenMaster: Not as much of one as Pata, but very close - it's often impossible to tell his level of intoxication onstage watching him perform unless he makes a major mistake, and that's a rare occurrence.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: ''Genkai Haretsu'' PV's ending involves this and/or ILoveTheDead. Despite the light musical sound, the PV makes it one of hide's creepiest songs.
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* EpicRocking: hide's guitar parts in "Art of Life" and "Rose of Pain" with Music/XJapan, and for almost all of his solo music, though "Oblaat," "Junk Story," and "Dice" are all some of the best examples. "Dice's" vocals are especially epic for the rapid-fire delivery and breakdown.
** His vocal parts on the Stab Me In The Back live version...
** His vocal parts on the Stab Me In The Back live version...
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* EpicRocking: hide's guitar parts in "Art of Life" and "Rose of Pain" with Music/XJapan, and for almost all of his solo music, though "Oblaat," "Junk Story," and "Dice" are all some of the best examples. "Dice's" vocals are especially epic for the rapid-fire delivery and breakdown.
**breakdown. His vocal parts on the Stab ''Stab Me In The Back Back'' live version...version also qualify.
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* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Played straight AND averted like hell. InternetBackdraft tends to happen when extreme partisans of playing this straight and of averting it end up in the same location. [[FanDumb One side will deny things that hide actually *did on stage,*]] and [[FanDumb the other will post accusations that are patent falsehoods just to "look cool"]] or out of Shipping related rage.
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* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Played straight AND averted like hell. InternetBackdraft tends to happen when extreme partisans of playing this straight and of averting it end up in the same location. [[FanDumb One side will deny things that hide actually *did did on stage,*]] stage,]] and [[FanDumb the other will post accusations that are patent falsehoods just to "look cool"]] or out of Shipping related rage.
