History Music / TheMechanisms

** [[spoiler: Daedalus]] is rumoured to have killed his son [[spoiler: IcarusAllusion Icarus]] for being too ambitious,

* ForeverWar: "Alice" from ''Tales To Be Told Volume Two'' details a planet in which the war is still waging, sixty years after the battle of Zantine.

* LastFertileRegion: [[spoiler:Inside Ulysses' vault is the last living tree in existence when everything else was swallowed up by metal and ruin]].

* OffingTheOffpring:
** [[spoiler Daedalus]] is rumoured to have killed his son [[spoiler: IcarusAllusion Icarus]] for being too ambitious,

* AdaptedOut: No mention is made in this version of the son of Penelope and Odysseus, Telemachus,

%%* ThePatriarch: Zeus

* SurpriseIncest: Oedipus' wife turned out to be his mother. The scandal of it disgraced him, which is why he's involved in the plot in the first place.

* CassandraTruth: Merlin, [[spoiler: or to give his proper name, ''Brian'']], is not believed by Arthur when he tells him that his son is coming to Camelot, [[spoiler: because he knew his son Mordred as [[AdaptationalGenderIdentity his daughter Morgause]] who he believes to be dead]].

* ApocalypseWow: Terminus, the final track, depicts Yog-sothoth's emergence into the Yggdrasil system. It's not a song, so much as an escalating, crescendoing mass of overlapping distress calls.

* HeroVsVillainDuet: "Ragnarok II: The Calling" is a duet between [[AdaptationalHeroism Loki]] and [[BigBad Odin]] about Odin's complicity in the [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt eldritch apocalypse]] and Loki's failed attempts to stop it.

* SuccessionCrisis: It's impplied that Asgard suffered one of these after a good chunk of it's ruling class were on the ''Ratatask'' when it dissappeared.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Jonny refers to Oedipus as "the blind old motherfucker" several times, both because the Mechanisms don't think much of him and because, well... it's [[SurpriseIncest Oedipus]].

* CassandraTruth: Merlin, [[spoiler: or to give give him proper name, ''Brian'']], is not believed by Arthur when he tells him that his son is coming to Camelot, [[spoiler: because he knew his son Mordred as [[AdaptationalGenderIdentity his daughter Morgause]] who he believes to be dead]].

* ProfessionalKiller: Heracles is an assassin.

* CassandraTruth: Merlin, [[spoiler: or to give give him proper name, ''Brian'']], is not believed by Arthur when he tells him that his son is coming to Camelot

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: How Thor achieves the MutualKill on Jormungandr, shattering the cabin window with his hammer.

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Unusually for the Mechanisms, the Midgardian Resistance seem to genuinely be good people, fighting against an actual oppressor and the worst crime any of them are mentioned committing, Loki's murder of Baldur, [[spoiler:was arguably an accident, the intent was to destroy the Bifrost and avoid the annihilation of the Yggdrasil system]].

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Sigyn plugs Loki into the Ratatosk Express, and carefully controls the line feeding her blood into the engine, to keep it on the rails as long as possible, buying time for the Yggdrasil system]].

* MutualKill: As in the source material, Jormungandr and Thor, and Garm and Tyr.

* StealthPun: Years earlier, during the construction of the Express, Loki launched two missiles at it. Missile one destroyed the track, and Baldur was killed by "missile two". In the Norse myths, Baldur was killed by ''mistletoe''.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The Mechanisms depart shortly after learning the train has arrived. [[spoiler:At the end of the album, Lyfrassier says he's going to follow their example]].

* Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova: better known as Nastya Rasputina; [[RebelliousPrincess princess]] from the [[StealthPun Empire of Cyberia]]. Ship's engenieer who largely favours machines over people, Nastya is most often seen playing the viola and violin.

* AndIMustScream: Drumbot Brian's backstory; He was shot into space and drifted, still conscious, until Dr Camilla found him.

* MurderBallad: One-Eyed Jacks describes Jonny's backstory. He killed people as the titular character's debt collector, before turning on him.

* KillEmAll:
** Jonny killed his dad and everyone else. Tim blew up the moon. Ashes set their entire homeworld on fire.
** Just don't get attached to any characters in the story sets.
** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin True to the name]], [[spoiler: "Death to the Mechanisms", their farewell performance, kills off the band.]]
** Lampshaded in the live recording of the "Death to the Mechanisms" concert.
--->'''Jonny:''' Obviously there ''are'' stories where people live, we just choose not to tell them.\\
'''Ashes:''' Yeah, cause they're boring.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: The whole crew.

* RussianRoulette: Jonny plays this with the former crew of the Aurora, which is how he wins the ship.

* CoolTrain: The Ratatosk Express is a train designed to take the elite of Asgardian society in the heights of luxury through an artificial wormhole. [[spoiler:It's secretly meant to act as a vehicle by which Yo-Sothoth can manifest in the Yggdrasil system]].

* CoolTrain: The Ratatosk Express is a train designed to take the elite of Asgardian society in the heights of luxury through an artificial wormhole.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The Mechanisms depart shortly after learning the train has arrived.

* Marius von Raum: Ship's medic (not that they need one) and psychiatrist (not that they ''want'' one). He was found by the crew having already been mechanised by a mysterious stranger...

* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: [[spoiler: Arthur's kid, Morgause, is assigned female at birth,]] and grows up into a young man who takes the name Mordred.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Why have one musical genre when you can have them ''all?''

* [[RecycledInSpace Drumbot Brian]]: Despite his designation as Drumbot, Brian is more frequently seen playing the banjo and the accordion. A scientist who was launched into space and left to die, his entire body save his heart was replaced by Carmilla. One could describe him as the moral centre of the crew, but that would be foolish.