| 1 | [[center:[-[[Characters/{{Metalocalypse}} Main Character Index]] | '''Dethklok''' | [[Characters/MetalocalypseDethklokEmployeesAndFamilies Dethklok's Employees and Families]] | [[Characters/MetalocalypseTribunal The Tribunal]] | [[Characters/MetalocalypseRevengencers The Revengencers]] | [[Characters/MetalocalypseOtherCharacters Other Characters]]-]]] |
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| 4 | [[caption-width-right:350:The most brutal band in the world.]] |
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| 6 | ->'''Senator Stampingston:''' As you can see, Dethklok is no laughing matter. They're the world's greatest cultural force. A short time since the Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle Batsfjord Massacre Fest, every other coffee company has been obliterated. Completely blown out of the water. |
| 7 | ->'''General Crozier:''' Freaks. |
| 8 | ->'''Senator Stampingston:''' These freaks as you call them are currently worth billions. |
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| 12 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 13 | * AbusiveParents: PlayedForLaughs in "Fatklok". They're completely irresponsible to their new adopted kid, treating him more like a pet, naming him "Fatty Ding-Dongs", refusing to keep him from eating unhealthy foods and instead ''[[RefugeInAudacity neutering]]'' him in a misguided attempt to correct his rowdy behavior, tasering him when he continued to misbehave and finally leashing him to a pole on the front lawn of Mordhaus. When they decide that they can't keep taking care of him anymore, rather than returning him to a foster home, they just leave him on Krangor Island... which they've recently filled with wild, feral cats that quickly maul Fatty. |
| 14 | * TheAlcoholic: All the members are constantly drinking. When they go to the grocery store to buy the ingredients for a meal, Nathan has to outright state that they shouldn't just buy booze, to which Murderface says he would rather [[GroinAttack cut his dick off]] than accept that booze isn't food. |
| 15 | * AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Happens nearly every time they touch alcohol. They're ''somewhat'' aware that they tend to make very poor decisions when drunk, though it doesn't stop them from chugging the stuff at all. |
| 16 | * AloofBigBrother: Not by blood, but all of them act this way towards Toki to varying degrees, with [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther moments of caring]] sprinkled in. [[{{Jerkass}} Skwisgaar]], in particular, stands out. |
| 17 | * ApocalypseMaiden: The Tribunal believes Dethklok has a connection to the eponymous end-of-the-world prophecy. Dethklok's music itself seems to cause insanity and chaos to ensue. The process that Dethklok's scientists developed for Dethklok to record music onto water causes entire landscapes to turn to blight. |
| 18 | * ArtistDisillusionment: In-universe, the band hates their fans. ''All of them'' (even the hot ones). They also hate other people in the music industry. They even despise working on new albums. Offdensen has to keep forcing them to work so they meet release dates and don't slack off all the time. [[spoiler:They ultimately overcome this in ''Doomstar Requiem'' and ''Army of the Doomstar''; in the former, they actually help out other musicians, and in the latter, Nathan thanks their fans and realizes that they and those who have supported them throughout their careers are the true Army of the Doomstar]]. |
| 19 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: They increasingly start caring for each other by Season 3, despite their [[NoSympathy feelings]] on the matter. [[spoiler:They later fully acknowledge each other as "brothers" by ''The Doomstar Requiem''.]] |
| 20 | * BadBoss: PlayedForLaughs. Their employees frequently get injured, mutilated and/or brutally killed in all sorts of ways, and the band pretty much never bat an eye at any of it. While they usually don't actively mistreat their "Klokateers", the members of Dethklok don't care about the absolutely horrid working conditions their employees deal with, to the point where Klokateer corpses clog up the sewer system. In fact, they consider it very metal. |
| 21 | ** That said, they have made attempts to make themselves out to be [[BenevolentBoss Benevolent Bosses]], like in "Murdering Outside The Box". They apparently hold a "Dethklok's Annual Employee Evaluation Conference Conference and Raffle", where they try to improve morale with a motivational speaker, an exclusive look at their new song and, of course, a raffle for a prize (diamond-encrusted codpiece). It all [[{{Jerkass}} goes about as well]] [[TooDumbToLive as you'd expect]]. |
| 22 | * BadassCrew: When their backs are against the wall (and they know and care about it), they'll take the threat down and protect each other in the process. |
| 23 | * BarbarianLongHair: It goes without saying that they're incredibly unruly at the best of times. And, with the exception of Murderface, all of them have hair that goes down their backs at the very least. |
| 24 | * BerserkButton: While they're generally pretty ill-tempered and rude, there are a few things that '''really''' set them off. |
| 25 | ** Do not suggest anything that is not metal to them, or make fun of metal itself. They'll really fast. |
| 26 | ** As of "Dethcamp", [[spoiler:'''DO NOT BULLY TOKI'''. After a {{Jerkass}} decides to [[KickTheDog smash Toki's snow globe]], Dethklok shows up while the snow globe is being broken, and for the first time in the entire show, all of them look the angriest they've ever been, {{Death Glare}}s and all. Then [[PapaWolf Nathan]] decides to teach the punk a lesson with that very same smashed snowglobe]]. |
| 27 | * BrilliantButLazy: Brilliant as musicians, incompetent at most everything else, and unable (and unwilling) to lift a finger to do something without either having their Klokateers do it, or having Offdensen force them to do it. Except contract negotiations, at which they somehow bested ''the devil himself''. |
| 28 | * BrokenPedestal: To the Revengencers, former fans who were extremely pissed off by Dethklok's indifference and apathy towards them that they resorted to killing their former idols. The Metal Masked Assassin takes advantage of this by forming an army he can use to get revenge against Dethklok for killing his brother (even though Dethklok didn't do it themselves). |
| 29 | ** In "The Doomstar Requiem", everyone starts turning away from Dethklok [[spoiler: when it became clear that Toki was indeed missing and the band's use of a hologram proved that Dethklok can't be bothered to find him. It's later restored at the end, though]]. |
| 30 | * ButtMonkey: Toki and ''especially'' Murderface are the most prominent examples, though they've all had their moments of shit luck; and that's not even getting into their [[FreudianExcuse Freudian Excuses]]. |
| 31 | * TheCallHasBadReception: Dethklok is oblivious to their importance to the world until Season 4. [[spoiler: The band thinks Nathan Explosion destroyed their album under the influence of tequila, when it turned out to be prophecy.]] |
| 32 | * CelebrityPower: Deconstructed. Through four entire seasons, it's clearly shown that Dethklok's fans often get violent to the point of hurting society, themselves, and the celebrities they worship, much like how spectators in RealLife often get into confrontations over minor SeriousBusiness. This causes great emotional stress for Dethklok, who are often accompanied by Klokateers as a result to prevent anyone from getting to the band, and whose members are put on a pedestal so high that they feel incredibly lonely and cling to each other because they have no one else. This also results in Dethklok either ignoring their fans, treating them like shit, or drinking their problems away. |
| 33 | ** [[spoiler:Played straight in the Doomstar Requiem.]] |
| 34 | * TheChosenOne: [[spoiler:''All'' of them, as revealed in the Season 4 finale.]] |
| 35 | * CoolAirship: The "Dethcopter", an enormous multistory helicopter equipped with a rec room, a restaurant complete with a kitchen, dining hall and mini-bar, a living room with a scenic view, a [[BreadEggsMilkSquick small army's worth of mounted guns and ammunition]] and probably more. It's so cool that it even has a song dedicated to it, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-PfLaQhcA8 "Hatredcopter".]] |
| 36 | * CreateYourOwnVillain: |
| 37 | ** Their extreme callousness and mistreatment of their fans led to some of said fans becoming ''very'' disillusioned with their idols, and nursing intense grudges against them. This was how [[Characters/MetalocalypseRevengencers The Revengencers]] were born. |
| 38 | ** [[spoiler:To be fair, Magnus Hammersmith was an asshole to begin with, but Dethklok kicking him out of the band made him join the Revengencers and eventually resulted in him kidnapping Toki and Abigail to be tortured.]] |
| 39 | * CreepyShadowedUndereyes: The Black Metal-esque corpse paint they don for most concerts and some music videos evokes this image, combining it with stark-white painted skin. |
| 40 | * CripplingOverspecialization: They're all really good at making death metal, yet laughably incompetent almost everywhere else, with the first example being their disastrous grocery-shopping. It's why they heavily rely on their [[HyperCompetentSidekick manager and Klokateers]] when it comes to mundane things like feeding themselves. |
| 41 | * DarkIsNotEvil: For all their antagonistic brutality and gross LackOfEmpathy, Dethklok really can't be called evil; [[TooDumbToLive they're just]] ''[[TooDumbToLive really]]'' [[TooDumbToLive fucking stupid]]. |
| 42 | * DeadpanSnarker: They're usually just... well, dumb, but they can all be pretty snarky at times. [[TheSmartGuy Pickles]] is probably the best example. |
| 43 | * DeathGlare: |
| 44 | ** They give Offdensen very intense Death Glares in "Doublebookedklok" when he finds them again after they ran away, due to his previous neglectful behavior towards the band. |
| 45 | ** All of them save Toki sport this trope in "Dethcamp" [[spoiler: when they arrive at the Rock-a-Roonie Fantasy Camp just in time to see a {{Jerkass}} bully smash the snow globe they previously gave to the former]]. |
| 46 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Just how incompetent they are outside of making music. For starters, in some situations, they're easily tricked, while in others, they are master contract negotiators. In general, they constantly ping-pong between being lazy yet functional, and genuinely incapable of functioning independently, depending on RuleOfFunny. |
| 47 | ** Their exact level of wealth, power and prestige, as well how known and recognizable they are to the general public, likewise tends to fluctuate based on RuleOfFunny and the needs of the plot. |
| 48 | * DidYouJustScamCthulhu: When about to sign a contract to sell their souls to the Blues Devil in order to get the mastery of the Blues, the entire band decide to give the contract a thorough read through and rewrite. Using lots of legal jargon until they negotiated it down to a $5 Hot Topic gift card and received, along with blues talent, 7% on the backend of his soul. The Blues Devil actually tells them he will sleep on it. |
| 49 | * DoomMagnet: Whether it's every concert they're in, or the people close to them, Dethklok attract destruction and mayhem pretty much wherever they go. |
| 50 | * DrowningMySorrows: |
| 51 | ** Though [[TheAlcoholic Pickles]] stands out due to his relationship with his emotionally abusive parents, this trope applies to all of Dethklok, who often face problems from their fans and whatnot due to their massive fame and celebrity status. |
| 52 | ** "The Doomstar Requiem" is probably the most significant example, [[spoiler:specifically after Toki and Abigail are kidnapped by the Revengencers; the song "Partying Around the World" focuses on their attempts to get ''completely wasted'', drinking themselves silly and consuming lots of drugs to deny their hurting over Toki and Abigail's absences]]. |
| 53 | * DrunkenMaster: It's implied that they often drink alcohol before concerts, but it never seems to prevent them from putting on amazing performances. Special mention goes to Pickles, who is described as playing concerts "totally hammered" and never missing a note or beat. |
| 54 | * DudeLooksLikeALady: All of them manage to get hit with this in "Writersklok" when they take a vacation to some [[{{Qurac}} unnamed Middle-Eastern Country]] where absolutely everyone thinks they're women. It's likely a combination of in-universe ValuesDissonance and the whole band having [[BarbarianLonghair shoulder-length hair at least]], which the locals considered [[LongHairIsFeminine feminine]]. [[spoiler:It takes a turn a for the worse when they're kidnapped, forcibly added to the local tyrant's harem and are ordered to suck his dick if they aren't able to come up with a new song on the spot]]. |
| 55 | * DysfunctionalFamily: All five of them are psychologically messed up to varying degrees, and cling to each other because they have no one else, even though they act like they hate each other. From the Season 2 finale onward, they start caring and looking out for each other, [[spoiler:and then acknowledge each other as true brothers in "The Doomstar Requiem"]]. Invoked by Nathan himself in "Fatherklok": |
| 56 | --> '''Nathan''': This is '''MY''' band. You're MY stupid, dumb, (''[[SoundEffectBleep pinch harmonic]]'') up, dysfunctional family, alright?! |
| 57 | * DysfunctionJunction: In spite of all the money, brutality, and celebrity status, Dethklok is '''profoundly''' fucked up: |
| 58 | ** Pickles is a sad, alcoholic WellDoneSonGuy who was emotionally abused by his family and constantly favored over Seth, his mooching, older {{Jerkass}} conman of an older brother. |
| 59 | ** Skwisgaar was constantly emotionally neglected as a child by his [[ReallyGetsAround promiscuous mother]] and mentally scarred from seeing (and hearing) her [[ReallyGetsAround sexual exploits]], turning him into an AttentionWhore as an adult. |
| 60 | ** Toki is a childish, [[AxCrazy sometimes violently insane]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who suffered extreme abuse as a child at the hands of his parents, who were religious fanatics who punished him for the slightest infractions. |
| 61 | ** Murderface watched his father commit a murder-suicide with his mother when he was a baby, was constantly hated for his [[{{Gonk}} appearance]] and berated by his grandmother, Stella, and (in the comics) was bullied in high school. |
| 62 | ** While seemingly normal in comparison, Nathan is socially and emotionally stunted, [[HeroicSelfDeprecation believes he's really stupid]], and it's hinted that he is autistic. |
| 63 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: The very first episode of Season 1 is this for Dethklok as a whole: it's telling when people are ''willingly'' signing pain wavers and throwing their lives away to see the band perform live. In that same episode, their adventures at the grocery store just cements how utterly incompetent they are at everything that isn't death metal. |
| 64 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Despite being the most brutal death metal band in all of existence, there's plenty of stuff that horrifies even them. Their reaction to an insane fashion designer [[spoiler: skinning live and emaciated models for leather for Dethklok's fashion line]] and [[spoiler: their horrific but successful attempt at bringing their chef back to life]] are the prime examples. |
| 65 | ** When Skwisgaar and Toki were forced to attend a driving school, the instructional film's graphic, gore-filled depictions of car crashes visibly disturbed both of them. |
| 66 | * ExhaustedEyeBags: |
| 67 | ** Dethklok gets these in "Tributeklok" after spending several days in self-inflicted poverty in an attempt to get back to their roots as a garage band. |
| 68 | ** They also get this in "Doublebookedklok" [[spoiler:when they run away in despair after Offdensen angrily yells at them, only to find they are completely unprepared for living on their own in the wilderness]]. |
| 69 | ** It also happens in "The Doomstar Requiem" [[spoiler: by indulging themselves in sex, drugs, and lavish parties to suppress their pain and grief over losing Toki and Abigail to the Revengencers]]. |
| 70 | * FanHater: Of their own fanbase, who were described as "douchebags" and "regular jackoffs", and receive a whole "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_tGdfT_Vsc Fansong]]" where the band expresses how much they despite its supporters. Helps most [=DethFans=] are {{Loony Fan}}s with a violent (if not suicidal...) disposition. |
| 71 | * Fiction500: The amount of money they all possess is ridiculous. Their wealth is enough to surpass ''Belgium''. |
| 72 | * FireForgedFriends: They start out as five musicians living in the same house, who act indifferent to each other at best. However, as time goes on and they endure two brutal attempts on their lives, [[spoiler: as well as Toki's kidnapping]], they begin to develop a brotherly bond. |
| 73 | * FiveManBand: The band consists of five members, and each of their character dynamics are explored throughout the series. While the band members appear to be larger-than-life celebrities, deep down they're incompetent man-children who are disillusioned with their fans. When one band member leaves the quintet, the group falls apart as they rely on each other. |
| 74 | * ForgotAboutHisPowers: Thanks to being absolute dipshits, they all have a habit of forgetting how wealthy they are, and how easily this could be used to solve any problem they encounter. |
| 75 | * FreudianExcuse: All Dethklok members have utterly messed-up childhoods that would've been seen as criminal in real life... except for Nathan, who has a surprisingly good relationship with his parents, especially his father. |
| 76 | * GeniusDitz: They're completely and utterly incompetent man-children... when it comes to anything other than music, partying, drugs, or contract negotiation. And even the last one [[DependingOnTheWriter depends on how the writers are feeling that week]]. |
| 77 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: Pops up here and there in the aftermath of horrible disasters though mostly in season 1 episodes. Usually mixed with RedEyesTakeWarning. |
| 78 | * AGodAmI: The last line of their song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL8ShRWPfUw Impeach God]] expresses this sentiment but it's inverted in the show proper where they're implied to have God-like powers but are completely clueless about this [[spoiler: except for Skwisgaar]]. |
| 79 | * GodwinsLaw: They specifically equate any attempt to limit one's ability to eat the food they like with acting like a Nazi. |
| 80 | * GoodFeelsGood: [[spoiler:After four seasons of being selfish assholes, and treating everyone around them like crap, their actions are thrown in their faces in ''The Doomstar Requiem''. During their quest to rescue Toki and Abigail, they realize after defending themselves against a crowd of junkie musicians through kindness that being kind and generous is actually ''better'' than how they acted before.]] |
| 81 | --> [[spoiler:'''Pickles''': I can't believe how good it feels to be, giving to you, you're giving back to me!]] |
| 82 | * GroupieBrigade: Countless women across the globe are willing and eager to have sex with the members of Dethklok (except Murderface, who is so ugly and socially inept he has a very hard time getting laid). When Nathan Explosion begins exclusively dating Rebecca Nightrod in "Girlfriendklok", it sparks a wave of female suicides around the globe. |
| 83 | * HatesEveryoneEqually: Nathan says it best in "Diversityklok": |
| 84 | --> '''Nathan''': We are NOT racist. We don't give a (''[[SoundEffectBleep pinch harmonic]]'') what color our fans are because we don't give a (''[[SoundEffectBleep pinch harmonic]]'') about our fans. |
| 85 | * HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Nathan, Toki and Murderface's surnames aren't just their stage names; [[AwesomeMcCoolname they're their]] '''[[AwesomeMcCoolname legal names]]''', [[AwesomeMcCoolname as well]]. Given the setting and tone of the series, it's honestly not that surprising. |
| 86 | * TheHeavy: Each petty choice they make has social and economic shock-waves, setting topics for each episode. |
| 87 | ** At one point, the ''economy of the entire world'' is dependent on the release of their newest album. [[spoiler: And then "Prankklok" happened.]] |
| 88 | ** As it turns out [[spoiler: it wasn't "the right song" and the forces that be convinced Nathan to destroy it to do it right. The fifth season was supposed to cover this, but unfortunately, [adult swim] pulled the plug on the show]]. |
| 89 | * HeelRealization: Some of the episodes kick off with a member of the band realizing that despite their success, they're still [[DysfunctionJunction spoiled man-children who have major issues and are very unfulfilled]], [[TenMinuteRetirement and they leave the band to do something about it]]. [[CrapsackWorld Being the world this is]], [[IgnoredEpiphany they usually revert back to their old ways without much regret]]. |
| 90 | * HeManWomanHater: None of the group are particularly fond of women, beyond the fact that you can have sex with them. One episode has Murderface proclaim, upon seeing the all-female tribute band Ladyklok, that "women are physically incapable of achieving brutality." |
| 91 | * HeroicComedicSociopath: Despite being the main characters, they're hilariously deranged and thoroughly apathetic to the destruction they cause on a regular basis. |
| 92 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: The band, counter to what you may think, is very, very aware of its many flaws. In other words, Dethklok really hates Dethklok. |
| 93 | --> '''Nathan:''' '''''WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIIIIGHHHTTT!!!!''''' |
| 94 | * HiddenDepths: Just the fact that their home Mordhaus is equipped with a ''massive'' library, spanning several floors is rather shocking considering how BookDumb the band tends to be. That said, it's downplayed in the sense that the show rarely has them actually in there though. |
| 95 | * HollywoodAtheist: Parodied by Toki and Skwisgaar, who not only steadfastly refuse to believe God exists, but don't believe ''religion'' exists either. Skwisgaar later tries to correct this as them being nihilists who don't believe in anything after Nathan points out the fallacies in his thinking. Although considering Toki's insanely abusive childhood from his religious parents, he justifiably has more reason to dislike religion. |
| 96 | * HypocriticalHumor: |
| 97 | ** In "Dethhealth", they insist on saying [[UnusualEuphemism "Hamburger Time"]] in place of "death". And their band name is ''Deth''klok. |
| 98 | ** In "Tributeklok", the band chews out Murderface when his public antics make the world assume Dethklok is a bunch of wealthy, spoiled jackoffs... while they're getting pampered by their Klokateers. |
| 99 | * IJustWantToBeLoved: Surprisingly, every member of Dethklok display this in some fashion. |
| 100 | ** In "Fatherklok", Skwisgaar, having lacked a father figure his entire life, comes to really enjoy the opportunity to have a father in the form of his new stepfather Tyr in Sweden and even starts a relationship with a local girl. |
| 101 | ** Toki has expressed at several points a desire to make friends outside of his band and in "Fertilityklok" shows a strong desire to start a family with a non-groupie woman that he can genuinely love. |
| 102 | ** Murderface, while outwardly violent and angry, seems to often go through periods of loneliness and depression where he longs simply to be accepted, something he never gets from his family, classmates, bandmates or fans. |
| 103 | ** Pickles the Drummer is normally one of the more stable members of the band but in "Motherklok", it's revealed that his mother never recognizes any of his accomplishments and it tears him apart. Not to mention Murderface's brief stint as TeamDad in "Fatherklok" causing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBBp0duNeeY a whole lot of daddy issues to resurface]]. |
| 104 | ** Even their brutal leader, Nathan, strongly desires a serious monogamous relationship with another woman who loves him for who he is and every season except season 3 focuses on this aspect of his character for at least one episode. |
| 105 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: Whether collectively or individually, the band members often ponder what it would be like if they lived normal lives as "regular jack-offs" rather than insanely rich and powerful death metal musicians with deeply troubled pasts. To what degree varies member by member. |
| 106 | * ImpossiblyCoolWealth: They have so much money that they manage to surpass ''Belgium''. And most of said money is spent on things that they deem acceptable according to their metal standards. |
| 107 | * InformedAbility: [[spoiler:They seem to have god-like powers, but exactly ''what'' those powers are is left up in the air for the majority of the series.]] |
| 108 | ** [[spoiler:"Doomstar Requiem" reveals that these powers are the Dethlights or Morte Lumina, which are a powerful and destructive supernatural force. When used offensively it can outright atomize their enemies, but its also shown it can be used defensively as the band was able to share their powers with the fans in "Army of the Doomstar" to protect them from Salacia and then retaliate]]. |
| 109 | * {{Irony}}: The most brutal death metal band of all time... is sometimes ''afraid'' of death and violence, if they specifically aren't the cause of it. "Dethfashion" and "Dethhealth" are probably the most prominent cases. |
| 110 | * ItsAllAboutMe: The whole band is very selfish and self-absorbed, with Murderface easily being the worst of the five. A recurring gag is them considering a mild inconvenience on their part to be more important than even the largest catastrophe: for instance, in "Dethgov", they demand Offdensen show more empathy to them because they need to play a benefit concert in hot weather than to the governor of Florida being brutally lynched as a direct result of their actions. |
| 111 | * JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: When Nathan's poor relationship with his ControlFreak girlfriend, Rebecca starts to really affect the other band members' lives, their intervention amounts to kidnapping Nathan in the middle of the night and subjecting him to this to get him to admit he's unhappy and has to break up with her. |
| 112 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Their treatment of their own fans is ''horrid'', but most of the time, the fans bring said treatment on themselves due to [[LoonyFan being complete psychpaths]]. It says a lot about how deranged they are that [[EveryoneHasStandards even DETHKLOK are disgusted by them]]. |
| 113 | * [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Jerks With Hearts Of Gold]]: Yes, even Murderface. |
| 114 | * KarmaHoudini: Every member of the band is a sociopath in some way or another, and they are responsible for countless deaths and the ruined lives of countless more. They almost never have to deal with long-term consequences for their actions. However, it's subverted in cases where LaserGuidedKarma ''does'' strike, such as [[{{Jerkass}} Murderface]] becoming a KarmicButtMonkey. |
| 115 | * LackOfEmpathy: Despite the horrifying amount of deaths that happen around them on a daily basis, Dethklok usually has little to no sympathy for their fans ([[PsychoSupporter though with]] [[GroupieBrigade good reason]]), and really don't care what happens to them. This treatment initially extended to each other; because of their beliefs that caring for each other is not "brutal" and "metal", Dethklok will ignore whatever problems they are facing and leave them to confront said problems on their own. Toki, being the youngest and (usually) most compassionate, is often subjected to this. |
| 116 | ** They later grow out of this in "The Doomstar Requiem" [[spoiler: just in time to save Toki and Abigail from the Revengencers]]. |
| 117 | * LethalKlutz: Dethklok manage to kill fans at every show, the faulty and badly-conceived products they endorse cause countless deaths, and that's not even getting into the times when either they or their fans have people ''intentionally murdered''. |
| 118 | * LonelyAtTheTop: It's heavily implied that for all of their wealth and fame, they can't form meaningful relationships outside of their sphere, due to either being held on a ridiculously high pedestal by their fans, their DoomMagnet status, or some other factor. This becomes a plot point in "Dethdoubles" where they hire lookalikes to prevent assassination attempts but later become genuinely attached to them, [[spoiler:unaware that said lookalikes are undercover Tribunal agents led by Crozier]]. |
| 119 | * MadArtist: The ideas that the band have for their concerts are often insane, to say the least. The first episode has them deciding to pour hot coffee on their audience to promote their sponsor, and the band's approval propels that coffee brand to crush all its competitors and become the ''only coffee company left in the world.'' |
| 120 | * MassOhCrap: |
| 121 | ** [[spoiler:They all panic in "Dethcamp" when they learn that they left Toki at the Rock-a-Roonie Fantasy Camp with their former rhythm guitarist, Magnus Hammersmith, who's been nursing a grudge towards Dethklok for kicking him out years ago]]. |
| 122 | ** [[spoiler:In "The Doomstar Requiem", after entering the Depths of Humanity to find Toki, they find all the people they abandoned in their rise to stardom, including their ex-manager and guitar teacher, and their old groupies.]] |
| 123 | * MelodicDeathMetal: What the sound of their music is, though the show only ever refers to them as a DeathMetal band. Towards the end of the last season, however, they're now called an [[HeavyMetal Extreme Metal]] band, which somewhat fits the evolution of their music in the later seasons and their real-life album, "Dethalbum III". |
| 124 | * MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: See PhysicalGod and ApocalypseMaiden. |
| 125 | * MrFanservice: All of them are pretty good-looking, except for [[{{Gonk}} Murderface]]. |
| 126 | * MultinationalTeam: In Dethklok, we have a Swede (Skwisgaar), a Norwegian (Toki), and three Americans (Pickles is Irish, Nathan is Native American [or, in the show, 1/4 Yaneemango], and while Murderface is presumed to be from the US, his ethnicity is unknown). |
| 127 | * NGOSuperpower: The governments of the world are all reliant on the success of the band so they allow the band's military to get away with a lot of shit i.e. act as their own police force and imprison anyone that illegally downloads their music. |
| 128 | * NightmareFetishist: Mostly Murderface, but might apply to the rest of the band, given their fondness for brutal things. [[PlayingWithATrope However]], show them something extremely disturbing and/or gory ''up close'', and they'll understandably react with horror. |
| 129 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: They are all parodies of various real-life musicians. |
| 130 | ** Skwisgaar is based on Music/YngwieMalmsteen, another highly-skilled Swedish guitar player who is infamous for his arrogance. Appearance-wise, he is based on Alexi Laiho, deemed the world's fastest guitarist, from Music/ChildrenOfBodom. He's also similar to Jari Mäenpää of Music/{{Wintersun}}, down to having a rhythm guitarist with facial hair and long brown hair in their band - the {{Irony}} is that Jari and Teemu are good friends, while Skwisgaar treats Toki like crap. |
| 131 | ** Toki is one for Mikael Akerfeldt from Music/{{Opeth}}. Musically, Brendon Small compares his playing style to Music/IronMaiden. |
| 132 | *** In "Bookklok" he briefly becomes one to Music/SteveVai. In reference to Steve Vai replacing Music/YngwieMalmsteen in the band Music/{{Alcatrazz}}, Toki replaces Skwisgaar, a partial Malmsteen parody in performing at the Norwegian Ice Festival in Lillehammer. Toki even rips off Vai's more flashy style of clothing and guitar playing during said performance. |
| 133 | ** Murderface is one for [[Music/BlackSabbath Geezer Butler]]. |
| 134 | ** Pickles is based on Devin Townsend from metal band, Strapping Young Lad (appearance), [[Music/GunsNRoses Axl Rose]] (being the former front man of Guns N' Roses parody band, Snakes N' Barrels) and [[Music/{{Queen}} Roger Taylor]] (drum playing style according to Brendon Small). |
| 135 | ** Nathan is based on [[Music/CannibalCorpse George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher]] - tall, long-haired, physically imposing, leaning towards the chubby side, whips their heads around like windmills, and frontmen of their own bands. Nathan during his pre-Dethklok days even heavily resembled how George Fisher looked like when he was younger. |
| 136 | *** He is also said to look a lot like [[Music/JungleRot Dave Matrise]]. Also, an uncanny resemblance to Peter Steele from Music/TypeONegative. |
| 137 | *** The fact that Nathan Explosion is part Native American may also be a nod to Chuck Billy from Music/{{Testament}}. |
| 138 | ** Magnus is based on [[Music/{{Megadeth}} Dave Mustaine]], who was kicked out of Metallica in the band's early days and was resentful about it for decades afterward. Appearance-wise, he seems to be a mix of [[Music/SystemOfADown Serj Tankian]] and [[{{Music/Slayer}} Tom Araya]]. |
| 139 | * NominalHero: With the countless lives they've ruined and/or destroyed to maintain their massive success and power, they're far more destructive than event most of the villains in the show, and more successful to boot. All they really care about is spreading dark, bleak and '''''brutal''''' music that they like, and living comfortable, if hedonistic, lives, but they're apathetic at best to all the havoc they cause. Hell, they're sometimes shown outright '''reveling''' in it for being "metal". The only things keeping them from being outright [[VillainProtagonist Villain Protagonists]] are: |
| 140 | ** Their fans. The show makes it clear that the people who often suffer the most, the fans, are often irrational and psychotic in their idolization of the band and often terrible, violent people themselves. They're also willing to sign pain waivers when attending concerts. This means they are perfectly aware of how destructive these concerts are and don't care what happens to themselves as long as they get to see the band perform. |
| 141 | ** The vast majority of the mayhem they cause is unintentional, and often the result of negligence and stupidity. |
| 142 | ** The governments of the world are dependent on Dethklok's albums and concerts being successful. Every successful concert has statistically improved the economy of the location said concert is played. Often, if the economy falters, the world turns to Dethklok to step up and save the economy and they almost always do in their own '''''brutal''''' way. In other words, the world needs Dethklok and if Dethklok does well, the world in general does well. It borders on PragmaticVillainy though. |
| 143 | * OminousFloatingCastle: Their home, Mordhaus is converted into this for the entirety of season 3 after the attack in the season 2 finale necessitates major renovations. This lasts until its grand re-entry to Earth in the season 4 premiere episode. |
| 144 | * PetTheDog: They all have their moments of tenderness and empathy, if often PlayedForLaughs and mixed with InnocentlyInsensitive. Notably when [[LittlestCancerPatient a little girl dying of sickness]] visits to meet Toki, the band actually tries to cheer her up in her final moments, [[spoiler: albeit unsuccessfully]]. |
| 145 | * PhysicalGod: Hinted at throughout the series; naturally, the group themselves are totally oblivious to this, [[spoiler: at least until Skwisgaar starts to believe it]]. |
| 146 | ** [[spoiler: Officially established in the "The Doomstar Requiem".]] |
| 147 | * ThePowerOfRock: And there is no shortage of it. |
| 148 | * PsychopathicManchild: ''All of them'' are this. They have extremely poor common sense, are oblivious to other people's feelings, childish as hell, and show no regard for the chaos and destruction that they cause. |
| 149 | * RagsToRiches: They all come from fairly humble backgrounds and are now effectively a world power in regards to their wealth. In "Tributeklok", they decide to get in touch with their roots by taking over a tribute band of theirs after being accused of selling out, but years of being rich and pampered have left them unable to deal with being {{Starving Artist}}s again. |
| 150 | * RagtagBunchOfMisfits: All of them are psychologically messed up, with most of them coming from physically/emotionally abusive backgrounds. [[spoiler:And yet, it's hinted they each hold god-like power, and the Church of the Black Klok prophesied them as the chosen ones who'll save the world.]] |
| 151 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: It pops up occasionally whenever some catastrophic disaster happens and they are right in the center. |
| 152 | * RevisitingTheRoots: In-universe. in "Tributeklok", their rather embarrassing Pentuplemint Gum Commercial causes fans to vow to never buy their records again, so Dethklok tries to reconnect with their humble roots. It goes badly - they had to lug all of their equipment by themselves, they had to pay the bills by themselves, they had to live in a dingy apartment with almost no privacy (especially with [[ReallyGetsAround Skwisgaar]]), and they had to earn income to feed themselves. They had been living large for so long that they completely forgot what being a poor, aspiring DeathMetal band was like. |
| 153 | * RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Deconstructed. Despite being wealthier than a ''country'', all of them just blow their money on trivial or outright ridiculous things, and whatever ideas they have based on [[RuleOfCool Rule of Metal]] would make anyone bash their heads against the wall. |
| 154 | ** In "The Curse of Dethklok", they struggled to understand the concept of ''grocery shopping'', trying to understand the merchandise and their price, thinking that rice had to be ''poured'' into the shopping cart and not bought in a sack, and (in the case of Nathan) even breaking things just to get food displayed behind glass windows. At the end, they ''forgot'' to buy the food and take it with them, causing Nathan to launch a BigNo when he realizes the band left all the food at the store, making their efforts AllForNothing. |
| 155 | ** In "Renovationklok", without Offdensen to manage them, Dethklok blows almost all their money on things like a giant Dorito-themed amusement park (not open to the public), "the Super Tits Candy Snake Project" which was never completed or defined, scream-activated lights, a "sandscape" (which only got sand all over Mordhaus's living room), and a solid ruby metronome. This leads to many of their Klokateers ending up homeless, being forced to live in the streets and relying on soup kitchens to feed themselves. While the problem was partially caused by [[SmugSnake Damien Cornickelson]] withholding their money to spite Nathan for punching him, Dethklok would've lost Mordhaus altogether and be forced to live in the streets had Nathan not stepped up to take care of their finances. |
| 156 | * RuleOfCool: In-universe. A lot of things Dethklok approves of (or disapproves of) is based on how "brutal" or "metal" they are. |
| 157 | * RuleOfFunny: Dethklok's general level of competency is entirely dependent on what's funniest. They can either be relatively normal outside of the whole death metal thing, hopelessly dumb, or thoroughly apathetic to everyone but themselves if it serves the plot. |
| 158 | * SellOut: |
| 159 | ** Discussed in regards to their Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle by a newscaster and ultimately subverted. Though they end up making the Duncan Hills the biggest coffee company in the world, they're actually trying to make [[MundaneMadeAwesome everything metal, starting with coffee:]] |
| 160 | ---> '''Nathan''': We're here to make coffee metal. We're here to make everything metal. Blacker than the blackest black... times infinity." |
| 161 | ** Later played straight in "Tributeklok" in regards to their embarrassing Pentuplemint Gum Commercial which has Dethklok singing out of tune to a cheesy company jingle while riding jet skis and skiing. Immediately, a fan even outright calls him the trope name before vowing to never buy their records again. This pushes the band to try and reconnect with their humble roots. |
| 162 | * SeriousBusiness: Death metal in general, as well as their contracts and money. [[BerserkButton Making fun of one of these things will earn you a face punch from Nathan]]. |
| 163 | * SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: Two of the three (if not all three) will apply to all of them. |
| 164 | * SexualKarma: Averted. Despite the fact that the members of Dethklok are pretty much sociopaths, they have legions of women who want to sleep with them (well, except for Murderface, that is). |
| 165 | * SpannerInTheWorks: If Dethklok didn't exist, the Tribunal would have conquered the world a long time ago. |
| 166 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: Increasingly as the show progresses past the first season, Toki, Murderface and Pickles get more and more character focus to the point where Nathan and especially Skwisgaar are often OutOfFocus. |
| 167 | * TheStoner: All of the members of Dethklok use drugs, but Pickles has built up such a high tolerance to drugs that it made him immune to Totally Awesome Sweet Alabama Liquid Snake (though not from the Yopo they consume in "Dethcarraldo"). |
| 168 | * {{Supergroup}}: In "Snakes and Barrels", it's implied every member of Dethklok except Toki has played in a different band previously. In real-life, the musicians who work on Dethklok albums and play live-concerts (Brendon Small, Gene Hoglan, Bryan Beller and Mike Keneally) have played with Strapping Young Lad, [[Music/FrankZappa the Mothers of Invention]], and the Music/SteveVai band, which would make Dethklok's musical history a WriteWhatYouKnow case. |
| 169 | * TantrumThrowing: All of them have engaged in this sort of behavior at one point or another, often emphasizing how mentally and emotionally stunted they are. |
| 170 | * TooDumbToLive: They're so dimwitted and crass that they're almost [[InvertedTrope too dumb to DIE]]. |
| 171 | * TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:By "The Doomstar Requiem", after Toki is kidnapped by Magnus and the Revengencers, all members of Dethklok in the process of rescuing him discard their selfish, hedonistic, asshole ways and become truly caring and generous, which allows them to ascend and become gods. In ''Army of the Doomstar'', all five of them grow to genuinely see each other as brothers, going out on a limb to save Murderface from Salacia's possession. When Dethklok is captured and used by Salacia to draw power from the Doomstar, Nathan breaks himself free and nearly dies saving his bandmates, something he would never do in early seasons. They also get over their collective hatred and contempt for their fans, with Nathan recognizing the fans as the true [[TitleDrop army of the Doomstar]] and genuinely thanking them all for their support.]] |
| 172 | * TrueArtIsAngsty: In-universe; in "Dethsiduals", the band temporarily kicks out Murderface and Toki for embarrassing them with scandals. This vastly improves their productivity in making new music, as Skwisgaar, Nathan, and Pickles are the most musically-capable of the band. However, they're disgusted by how "happy" their music is without Murderface's negativity and Toki's (relative) ineptness, and they immediately delete all the music created without him and Toki. |
| 173 | * TrueCompanions: They'll never ever admit it (because "it's not metal") but they care for one another and for Offdensen, their manager. Okay, Toki may try to admit it, but they'll call him names. This becomes a plot point twice: [[spoiler:In "Church of the Black Klok," Nathan's eulogy turns into a public apology to his band for letting his love for Abigail drive the band apart and cause their breakup, admitting that his band is more important than a girl. It also forms the crux of the plot in "The Doomstar Requiem" where they come to realize they're more than just bandmates - they're ''family''.]] |
| 174 | * TheUnintelligible: Between their accents, broken English, Murderface's speech impediment and Nathan's constant grunt they can all be fairly difficult to understand without subtitles. |
| 175 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Much of the misfortune that happen to each band member is heavily PlayedForLaughs, since they're misanthropic, selfish, inconsiderate assholes, ''especially'' Murderface. |
| 176 | ** Subverted with Toki, who's by far the nicest member of Dethklok, and is instead a victim of BreakTheCutie moments [[PlayedForLaughs Played For]] [[BlackComedy The Darkest of Laughs.]] |
| 177 | ** Completely averted in "The Doomstar Requiem". [[spoiler:Toki's kidnapping and the band trying to overcome their selfish ways is all PlayedForDrama. The band knew that Toki's kidnapped but they decided to deal with their grief by getting themselves stoned and drunk all the time. It later comes to a head when they decide to use a hologram to replace Toki, [[EveryoneHasStandards which causes their fans to think they've callously abandoned him when said hologram shorts out]], [[LaserGuidedKarma and they abandon Dethklok in turn]]]]. |
| 178 | * UnusualEuphemism: PlayedForLaughs in "Dethhealth". The band uses "[[NeverSayDie Hamburger Time]]" as a metaphor for death, since they just got out of another horrible concert gone wrong, and didn't want to be reminded of the bodycount. |
| 179 | * UnusuallyUninterestingSight: On the receiving end; despite being world-famous celebrities, a lot of otherwise mundane people either fail to recognize them or simply don't treat them with any particular reverence. |
| 180 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Almost every episode has the band turning on each other, one of them quitting, or a couple members even getting kicked out. Regardless, they always have each other's backs. |
| 181 | * WeatherManipulation: Bizarre unexplained weather phenomena often occur during their concerts. Notable examples include: |
| 182 | ** In "Bluesklok", the band, frustrated with how depressed they are and how cheerful the hippies at a "Hippy Festival" are, decides to play a "blues" concert for them, summoning tornadoes that completely destroy the festival. |
| 183 | ** In "Dethgov", during their benefit concert in Florida, a storm begins to form as shadowy gigantic projections of the members of Dethklok appear in the sky. The strange images in the sky disappear right as soon as they realize a hurricane is coming. |
| 184 | * WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Thrice in ''The Doomstar Requiem'':]] |
| 185 | ** [[spoiler:The first time happens when Toki goes missing. To deal with the grief, the remaining bandmates get stoned and drunk off their asses, all while they're harassed by news media and the public asking about Toki. When Dethklok has to perform, they try using a hologram of Toki to make up for the absence. However, it shorts out, enraging their fans and causing them to leave the concert, thinking that Dethklok had callously abandoned one of their own the first chance they got]]. |
| 186 | ** [[spoiler:The second time happens after Dethklok refuses multiple times to acknowledge Toki as their brother and go rescue him from the Revengencers. Edgar Jomfru, whose own brother saved him from a car accident that crippled him, angrily chews the band out for treating Toki like shit.]] |
| 187 | ** [[spoiler:The third time happens when Dethklok goes to the Depths of Humanity and find their former manager and guitar teacher, and ex-groupies living there, who all hate Dethklok for abandoning them after helping the band rise to stardom and don't hesitate to pull them through the guilt wringer. Pickles starts repeating, "[[BigNo No]]" multiple times, while Nathan is reduced to incoherent screaming.]] |
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| 189 | |
| 190 | !The Band |
| 191 | |
| 192 | [[folder:Skwisgaar Skwigelf]] |
| 193 | !!Skwisgaar Skwigelf (Taller than a Tree) |
| 194 | [[quoteright:230:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dethklok_copy2_26.jpg]] |
| 195 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/BrendonSmall |
| 196 | ->''"I'm not a normal humans. I am a God."'' |
| 197 | |
| 198 | The band's legendarily skilled lead guitarist. An incurable manslut, and raging egotist. |
| 199 | ---- |
| 200 | * AGodAmI: He never met his father. He came to the conclusion that he was not born from man, but instead a ''God''. Amusingly enough, this also makes him practically the only member of the band to be semi-aware of their godhood before "Doomstar Requiem". |
| 201 | * AlliterativeName: '''Skwi'''sgaar '''Skwi'''gelf. Uniquely having ''four'' letters of his first and last name being similar. |
| 202 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: A rare dual example with Toki. While he is the superior musician, this is because he has more experience and practices constantly. Toki is the second greatest guitarist in the world on pure talent, as Swisgaar regularly points out that he doesn't practice. |
| 203 | ** It is revealed at one point that [[spoiler: Skwisgaar headhunted Toki to Dethklok specifically to invoke this trope. According to Skwisgaar, the looming threat that is Toki is the only thing that motivates him to put in the effort necessary to ''stay'' the world's best guitarist.]] |
| 204 | * AmbiguouslyBi: His legendary womanizing is practically his biggest character trait, but it's implied he had (multiple) threeways with Melmord, and following Dethklok's banter about the homo-eroticism of eating phallic-shaped foods, he comments "I would eat a hotdog. Just putting that out there." |
| 205 | * AnimalMotifs: Hawks and wolves. [[spoiler: In "Doomstar Requiem", it's horses.]] |
| 206 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "The Metalocalypse Has Begun": |
| 207 | -->'''Skwisgaar''': Dude, where's are we's?! What the (''[[SoundEffectBleep pinch harmonic]]'') we just flies in?! ...and what the hell was wrong with your guitar sounds tonight? |
| 208 | * AttentionWhore: Often suggests turning down Toki and Murderface's amps during concerts and is adamant that only he should perform the guitar solos. In earlier episodes he was also prone to boasting about himself. It could be justified by the way his mother is implied to have been neglectful towards him for pretty much his entire life. |
| 209 | * BeautyIsBad: Is stunningly beautiful, enough to attract large hoards of female fans wanting to have sex with him. Also an AttentionWhore and a {{Jerkass}} who looks down on other guitarists and (mostly) treats Toki like shit. |
| 210 | * BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted a few times actually. |
| 211 | ** In "Dethkomedy", while practicing their comedic act Toki punches Skwisgaar hard enough to makes his left eye bulge out and knock a few TeethFlying. |
| 212 | ** In "Skwisklok", Skwisgaar has an extreme allergic reaction to the cilantro in Nathan's barbecue sauce, making his hands and tongue swell horribly. |
| 213 | ** In "Dethlessons", he gets face-wrecking injuries from Toki in a sword duel, provided it was actually a metaphorical duel to symbolize their conflicted relationship with each other as guitarists. |
| 214 | ** In "Go Forth and Die" where CreepyCrows eat him alive until he's nothing but a skeleton. Thankfully, it was AllJustADream. |
| 215 | * BigNo: Skwisgaar gets one in "Dethlessons" when Murderface, Pickles and Nathan trick him into thinking that Toki is getting better at guitar than him. |
| 216 | * BookEnds: In "Fatherklok", a flashback shows a young Skwisgaar lying on a bed in his home in Sweden, playing with his Gibson Explorer and looking rather happy and content. When the flashback ends, the scene cuts to Skwisgaar years later, now an adult and lying on a bed in Mordhaus, but looking incredibly disillusioned with how his life turned out. |
| 217 | * BreakTheHaughty: In "Bookklok" After spending three seasons as a massively arrogant egotist who frequently treats Toki like garbage, Toki writes a tell-all book about their bad relationship, sending his popularity and stocks plummeting. There isn't even any indication that his reputation ever recovers in later episodes. |
| 218 | * BrokenAce: The world's most talented guitarist, with all the pressure and fragile ego that comes with it. |
| 219 | * CaptainErsatz: Of Swedish guitarist, Music/YngwieMalmsteen, a guitarist known for his arrogance, and Finnish singer and guitarist, [[Music/ChildrenOfBodom Alexi Laiho]], the world's fastest guitarist in real life. Some have pointed out that Skwisgaar looks similar to Jari Mäenpää of Music/{{Wintersun}}. |
| 220 | ** Conversely, ''VideoGame/GuitarHero World Tour'' also had a character who was a Captain Ersatz of Skwisgaar himself, complete with the exact same hair design, called Marcus [[MeaningfulName Fretshredder]]. |
| 221 | * TheCasanova: For much older women, specifically. |
| 222 | * CatchPhrase: "Dildos!" and "Pfft!" |
| 223 | * CurbstompBattle: [[spoiler:He easily trounced all the auditioning guitarists looking to join Dethklok in ''The Doomstar Requiem''. The only one who gave him a hard time was Toki, whom he also defeated, but accepted him into the band anyway because [[WorthyOpponent he was impressed by Toki's skill, inspiring him to continuously improve to keep topping Toki]].]] |
| 224 | * DisappearedDad: No one knows who Skwisgaar's true father might be, though it's implied that he might be a divine being [[spoiler:or the skeleton where his legendary Gibson Explorer was found could also have been his true father]]. His search for his missing dad kicked off the plot of "Fatherklok". |
| 225 | * DumbBlonde: Skwisgaar may be the fastest guitar player in the world, but when it comes to things other than music, he's just as clueless as the rest of the band. |
| 226 | * DudeLooksLikeALady: But he'll deny it if you say it to his face. |
| 227 | -->'''Toki:''' You a ladies, Skwisgaar!\ |
| 228 | '''Skwisgaar:''' [[SuddenlyShouting NO I'M NOT!]] |
| 229 | * DyingDeclarationOfHate: Did this to Toki when they thought they were about to die. |
| 230 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first thing he does in "Curse of Dethklok" is to try use a ''toaster'' to make coffee. |
| 231 | * EveryoneLovesBlondes: The blond of the band, and he has sex with more women than the rest of the band ''combined''. |
| 232 | * FacePalm: Does this in "Dethsiduals" when Toki and Murderface go on a drunken rampage in a French vineyard, forcing Dethklok to apologize to the vineyard's owner and pay for the damages. |
| 233 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 234 | ** To Toki. Both came from horrifically abusive childhoods, but Toki's parents were mostly physically abusive (and has the scars to prove it), while Skwisgaar's mother never laid a hand on him but she did neglect him frequently and emotionally scarred him by constantly having sex with other men in front of him. Toki is mostly naive and friendly, Skwisgaar is an arrogant {{Jerkass}} who doesn't know how to socially connect with others properly other than having sex with them. Skwisgaar is also a better guitar player than Toki, who himself isn't a slouch [[spoiler:and even gave Skwisgaar a hard time in "The Doomstar Requiem"]]; he just rarely gets the chance to really show it off. |
| 235 | ** Also, to Nathan. Nathan is dark-haired and broad-muscled, wants to settle down with a girlfriend but can't outside the groupies Dethklok has sex with (with his few relationships [[spoiler:except with Abigail]] ending badly), thinks practically and is [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]], and outside the concerts he performs in, he's socially awkward. Skwisgaar is blonde and skinny, a notorious ladies' man who has sex with anyone who wants to, an AttentionWhore who basks in the spotlight, and is a superficial {{Jerkass}}. Nathan has a good relationship with his parents, particularly his father, while Skwisgaar ''loathes'' his sex-happy mother for being a poor parent and has [[DisappearedDad no father of his own to speak of]]. |
| 236 | ** Also, to Murderface. Murderface is fat, ugly, and all-around terrible with women, and [[NobodyLovesTheBassist is a bass guitar player]]. Skwisgaar is a physically attractive guitar player who attracts women from all over the world. Murderface, [[BrilliantButLazy while a talented musician when he wants to be]], is also an amateur compared to Skwisgaar. |
| 237 | * FunnyForeigner: Not as bad as Toki, but he has his moments. |
| 238 | * FreudianExcuse: Part of why Skwisgaar's such a {{Jerkass}} and partakes in sexual intercourse so much was that as a child, his mother frequently neglected him and often had sex with other men, sometimes in full view of her son. While he did later become the fastest guitar player in the world, the ParentalNeglect really screwed him up and left him unable to love and socially connect with others (outside of sex) as an adult. |
| 239 | * HardWorkHardlyWorks: Averted. Skwisgaar is noted to train and practice his ass off to maintain his status as the greatest guitar player to ever live. He keeps the gifted but lazy Toki around as a threat to his position as constant motivation. |
| 240 | * HarmfulToMinors: It's implied that Skwisgaar's mother would constantly have sex in places where he might see (and didn't care about the fact), which left deep emotional scars. |
| 241 | * HasAType: Though Skwisgaar sleeps with any woman who seeks him out, he is the most sexually attracted to elderly women in particular. He also seems to like obese women. In a montage showing all the different women Skwisgaar has had sex with, he noticeably seems more happier when close to elderly or obese women. |
| 242 | * HeavyMithril: In a character interview, he mentions one of his side projects is a tribute band named [[Franchise/HarryPotter Ten Points to Gryffindor]]. |
| 243 | * HeroicBSOD: Undergoes this upon the release of Toki's tell-all book, [[TakeThat "Skwisgaar Is Ams Dick"]] |
| 244 | * HornyVikings: Skwisgaar is a descendant of these. No pun intended. |
| 245 | * HypocriticalHumor: Teases Pickles for being a "beautiful ladies" during his glam days. |
| 246 | * IAmTheBand: Or in his case, the entire guitar section. He writes Toki and Murderface's parts himself and goes so far as to ''perform'' Toki's parts and mix Murderface's to nigh-inaudibility on albums. |
| 247 | * IconicItem: Almost never seen without his black and white Gibson Explorer, which he is almost always seen practicing with as well. It gets {{Defictionalized}} by Gibson into the "Thunderhorse" Gibson Explorer. |
| 248 | * InstrumentOfMurder: The season 2 finale has Skwisgaar kill invading Revengencers with his Gibson. Which impresses him on how its still intact after being used as a weapon. |
| 249 | --> Wow! And the necks is still straights! |
| 250 | * {{Irony}}: Despite all the bickering he does with Toki, [[spoiler: he's the one that let him into the band in the first place.]] |
| 251 | * {{Jerkass}}: He's infamously arrogant, and regards all other guitarists with great contempt, since they'll never achieve his godly level of skill. Toki isn't exempt from this treatment, either. |
| 252 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Skwisgaar thinks that anyone else playing guitar besides him in a band is redundant since no one can play as well as he can, explaining his bad attitude towards Toki and Murderface. While it is kind of dickish, Toki has been shown numerous times to not practice his guitar work at all outside of band rehearsals, whereas Skwisgaar is constantly practicing. The few times Toki gets the stage all to himself, he tends to fall victim to his nerves and fall apart. Murderface has similarly poor work ethics regarding his bass work, though another reason could be that NobodyLovesTheBassist. |
| 253 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his arrogance, he nonetheless cares about Toki and is willing to stand by him when the chips are down. [[spoiler: He even let Toki join Dethklok after the others rejected him.]] It's just that caring is not "metal", according to Dethklok. |
| 254 | * TheLancer: To Nathan, the leader of Dethklok, though subverted in that outside of guitars, Skwisgaar knows little else and seems content with his place in the band. |
| 255 | * LeanAndMean: The skinniest and tallest of the band. He's also an arrogant asshole. |
| 256 | * LikesOlderWomen:''Really'' older women at that. |
| 257 | --> Hi, guess what you are a g-milf. That is a grandmother I would [[CurseCutShort like to-]] ([[SmashCut cut to the Mordhaus]]). |
| 258 | * LongHairedPrettyBoy: Has very long and blonde hair. |
| 259 | * MoneyFetish: In "Renovationklok", he blows a few billion on a solid platinum practice chamber and solid ruby metronome. "It's so expensive, it makes mes horny." |
| 260 | * MrFanservice: He's a pretty good looking guy, which DEFINITELY explains his [[TheCasanova Casanova]] reputation. It's summed up by the fact that fangirls swoon all over him and even make a line to fuck him. |
| 261 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In "Fatherklok", after he pushes his stepfather into a glass coffee table out of spite. |
| 262 | * TheNarcissist: Described by WordOfGod as "a handsome guy who thinks he's the greatest thing in the world", he can generally be counted on to be egotistical, arrogant and boastful in conversation. Gets gradually more and more downplayed past the 1st season though he never quite ditches the ego. |
| 263 | * NobleBirdOfPrey: His spiritual animal is an arctic hawk with fingers on his wings instead of feathers. |
| 264 | * NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Fell into a 30-something ft. chasm when he was a young child and walked away from the experience completely unharmed and with a new Gibson Explorer in hand. |
| 265 | * OddNameOut: His name stands out as being just [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign completely made up from whole cloth]], even Toki is an obscure Faroese name. |
| 266 | * OnlySaneMan: Becomes this in later seasons, replacing Pickles. A particular example is in "Diversityklok" [[spoiler:when he's the only one to notice that Toki tricked them into dressing up as racist characters during a diversity concert]]. |
| 267 | ** [[spoiler: Becomes a major plot point in "The Doomstar Requiem" when they go into the "Depths of Humanity" bar to search for clues to Toki's kidnapping only to be confronted by people who've helped the band in the past and were abandoned and left to live in obscurity and poverty. While the other members of the band are overwhelmed by guilt, Skwisgaar is the only one able to focus on finding a clue despite also clearly wanting to get out there.]] |
| 268 | * OutOfCharacterMoment: In "Skwisklok", he secretly starts crying from the sheer stress he was put under by his fans' ridiculously high expectations and his own perfectionist tendencies. |
| 269 | * OutOfFocus: Of all the bandmates, he seems to get the least amount of subplots focused on him, and has the least amount of his own songs. |
| 270 | * ThePerfectionist: Skwisgaar constantly plays songs on his guitar even when not on tour. One of the reasons why is because he wants to keep up his reputation as the fastest guitar player in the world, and has deep-seated fears and insecurities about losing his position and fame to potential rivals like Toki. |
| 271 | * PetTheDog: Shows genuine concern for Toki from time to time. |
| 272 | ** In "Dethkids" he was against Pickles' drunken suggestion of murdering Toki as an alternative to firing him. |
| 273 | ** In "Dethrace", when the driving instructor started yelling at Toki for not moving forward at an intersection Skwisgaar defended Toki. |
| 274 | ** In "Bookklok", he tries to save Toki when he was having a panic attack. Unfortunately, he used the defibrillators on Toki like he's having a heart attack. |
| 275 | * ThePhilosopher: Downplayed. In earlier seasons he would occasionally insert insightful observations regarding the deeper meaning of life into a discussion. It crossed into pseudo-philosophy at times. Averted in later seasons as he became more of an OnlySaneMan. |
| 276 | * PlotAllergy: "Skwisklok" revealed that he's allergic to cilantro. When he comes in contact with Explosion Sauce, his hands and tongue started swelling enormously, which ruined his guitar-playing (granted, his hands were put in protective containers that were hard to take off so there wasn't much choice). |
| 277 | * TheQuietOne: A [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] example, but still present. Starting in season 2, there are an increasing number of scenes in episodes where Skwisgaar is completely silent while all the other band members have lines. Even in scenes when he speaks, he frequently has the least amount of dialogue. While likely a side effect of being OutOfFocus, it serves to make him appear as one of the more detached and aloof characters in the show. |
| 278 | * ReallyGetsAround: A running joke is that he's not selective at all when it comes to groupies. |
| 279 | * SexyScandinavian: He's Swedish, he's a SexGod, and he is quite handsome. |
| 280 | * SharedFamilyQuirks: He's just as promiscuous as his mother. Even though he doesn't want to admit it. |
| 281 | * ShockAndAwe: Often depicted as being able to conduct lightning with his guitar-playing. He also shoots lightning out of his hands during his song in "Fatherklok". |
| 282 | * SkipOfInnocence: In "Fatherklok", [[http://i.imgur.com/hGk5Xcq.gif he's seen doing this during a flashback]], to show the stark difference between his past and current personalities. |
| 283 | * {{Sleepyhead}}: He's seen passed out or sleeping in several episodes, once or twice. He also has a tendency to practice guitar ''in his sleep''. |
| 284 | * TheSmartGuy: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] '''hard'''. He's knowledgeable about electric guitars, electric guitar equipment and some very specific parts of music, but he's otherwise a complete dumbass. Early on, he was a KnowNothingKnowItAll at best, making completely incorrect statements and failing to defend them. |
| 285 | ** [[DoubleSubversion That said]], as the show progresses he starts to serve this role better than Pickles, the actual smartest member of the band, who instead starts acting more like [[TheLancer an emotionally unstable yet reliable secondary leader.]] For one thing, he's later revealed to be the musical genius behind writing the lead guitar lines, the rhythm guitar lines and the bass guitar lines. He also becomes the most [[OnlySaneMan level-headed member]] of the band and prone to making completely logical and reasonable observations that the other members miss. |
| 286 | * StrawNihilist: Claims to be a nihilist, and his philosophical observations in earlier seasons imply that he doesn't consider mankind to be much more than [[HumansAreBastards just wild, violent animals.]] |
| 287 | -->''"Oh but it's not supposed to make sense for you see, wes are aimless, hate-filled animals, scamperings away into the nights."'' |
| 288 | * {{Tsundere}}: At times, he leans into this trope regarding Toki. |
| 289 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: A flashback in "Fatherklok" showed that Skwisgaar used to be fairly cheerful and innocent as a child...until he walked in on his mother having a threesome. It didn't help that said mother was such a slut that Skwisgaar would constantly hear (and see) her having sex with complete strangers. |
| 290 | * VerbalBackspace: |
| 291 | -->''"Well, there are two things to do in a blackout. Get drunk. One thing to do."'' |
| 292 | * VerbalTic: Because of his poor grasp of English, he tends to add an "s" to the end of every other word he says, often [[Pluralses pluralizing them unnecessarily]] or making them completely grammatically incorrect. |
| 293 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Toki. In any given episode, they could be palling around and shooting the shit one moment, and brawling with each other the next. At the end of the day, though, they ultimately care about each other. |
| 294 | * WearingAFlagOnYourHead: In flashbacks he used to wear a belt buckle depicting an all-white version of the Swedish flag instead of the skull buckle he wears currently. |
| 295 | * YouNoTakeCandle: Speaks like this due to his poor grasp of English. |
| 296 | [[/folder]] |
| 297 | |
| 298 | [[folder:Toki Wartooth]] |
| 299 | !!Toki Wartooth (Not a Bumblebee) |
| 300 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dethklok_copy2_6.jpg]] |
| 301 | ->'''Voiced by''': Tommy Blacha, Mike Keneally (''DSR''), Creator/BrendonSmall (teenager, ''DSR'') |
| 302 | ->''"I can'ts plays it. It's too damns hard. Skwisgaars always makes it so hard! Damns you stupid, slow, stubby fingers, don'ts looks at me! Awww shucks... Whats am I gonna do?!"'' |
| 303 | |
| 304 | Rhythm guitarist, and shortest tenured member of the group. Bears a nagging inferiority complex, and endless scarring memories from his childhood. |
| 305 | ---- |
| 306 | * AbsurdPhobia: He freaks out when seeing a Bicentennial coin that he had to be put in a medically induced coma to calm him down. That and Dr. Rockso running away from his concert brought him to a HeroicBSOD the others had to snap him out off. Murderface stealing a whole bag of Franklin Mints [[TraumaCongaLine brought him back to his coma again.]] |
| 307 | * AbusiveParents: He was treated horribly by both his parents as a child and they seemed to view him more as a slave than anything else, forcing him to do back-breaking hard labor and imprisoned him in a dark pit if he didn't do what they wanted. His father whipped, chained, and beat him for the slightest infractions, while his mother was emotionally abusive, glaring at her son and enabling her husband's behavior. This led him to be very insecure as an adult and was probably the reason why he acts so childish due to not being able to live like a kid when he was younger. He still fears his parents as an adult, his father in particular. |
| 308 | * AlwaysSecondBest: Played with. He's this to Skwisgaar, in terms of skill, but arguably its the other way around when it comes to raw talent. It's stated repeatedly that Toki never practices, whereas Swisgaar constantly has a guiltar in his hands, and yet Toki is the only guitarist alive who is able to keep up with him. Swisgaar seems to be the only person who is aware of this, however, and lives in fear of Toki actually working hard and surpassing him. |
| 309 | ** Toki's repressed issues about this trope emerge in "Fatherklok", where he's being excited of replacing Skwisgaar as lead guitarist due to Skwisgaar's DisappearedDad issues keeping him from functioning normally. This continues until Nathan slaps him hard in the face and tells him to [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan wake the fuck up]]. |
| 310 | * AmbiguouslyBi: In "Dethrecord", after he erases Skwisgaar's guitar track by mistake, he breaks down and starts to apologize, and he offers to suck his dick to avoid being kicked out of the band. |
| 311 | * AndZoidberg: One of the main reasons Toki doesn't show off his guitar skills very often is Skwisgaar, who is such an egotistical {{Jerkass}} that he is determined to keep him in his shadow. |
| 312 | * AnimalMotifs: Cats and rabbits. [[spoiler:In "The Doomstar Requiem", it's falcons.]] |
| 313 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: If not TheLoad, then he is seen as this, what with Dethklok sometimes teasing and/or excluding him from band-related activities. |
| 314 | * AxCrazy: At his most pissed off, he makes the rest of the notoriously brutal and uncaring Dethklok look like '''choir boys'''. Best shown in the last part of ''Snakes n' Barrels II'', where he '''beats an obnoxious fan into bloody paste'''. |
| 315 | * TheBabyOfTheBunch: He's the most naïve and childlike of the bunch, and the band loves to take advantage of him and ditch him when they can. But they also consider him their brother, and the band members do care for him even if they don't say it. |
| 316 | * {{Backstab}}: [[spoiler:By Magnus in "Church of the Black Klok".]] |
| 317 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: He's usually kind and friendly to everyone. Get him riled up enough, though, and he's every bit as dangerous as the rest of Dethklok, if not more. Out of the entire band, he's shown to have the most propensity and capability for violence, from brawling with Skwisgaar after one of their usual spats, to outright threatening a GroinAttack on Nathan via crossbow in his intervention, to beating the crap out of a very loud concert-goer till he's practically pulp. |
| 318 | * BigDamnHeroes: Although he was drunk at the time, Toki saving Nathan from Lavona Succuboso by [[GrievousBottleyHarm knocking her out with a vodka bottle to the head]] still counts as an example of this trope. |
| 319 | * BigNo: Did this in at least one episode. |
| 320 | * BodyHorror: His rabbit form, which is a horrifying mix of human and jackrabbit, and has ''bits of rabbit corpses all over his body''. |
| 321 | * BrilliantButLazy: A legitimately good guitarist. But he rarely bothers or remembers to practice, which leaves him miles behind Skwisgaar. |
| 322 | * BreakTheCutie: It seems every episode focusing on him is going to involve yet another horrible traumatic memory being added to his brain. |
| 323 | * ButtMonkey: Though not to the degree of Murderface, Toki still tends to be rather down on his luck; he's been trapped under a cross, matched with a [[{{Gonk}} hideous looking woman]] by ''e-Ladymates.com'', and constantly has to put up with shitty treatment from [[{{Jerkass}} Skwisgaar]], just to name a few examples. The main difference is that [[TheWoobie it's not as comedically portrayed as it is with Murderface]]. |
| 324 | * CantHoldHisLiquor: Anytime he has an alcoholic drink in his hand, he's bound to get drunk. ''Very quickly''. |
| 325 | * CartwrightCurse: Anyone or anything that Toki loves will die before the end of the episode. Fans, music teachers, pets, and even [[spoiler: his father after he finally forgave him for a lifetime of [[AbusiveParents abusive parenting]].]] Only Doctor Rockso seems to have avoided this, though JokerImmunity may be preventing his death by Toki's friendship. |
| 326 | ** Although his cat died because he let Pickles feed it booze, which was not a good idea. |
| 327 | * CatchPhrase: "Wowee!" |
| 328 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the pilot episode and some of season one, he is a lot more mellow and normal compared to his innocent squeaky voiced nature later on. |
| 329 | * ChasteHero: Out of the band, he's the least sexually active as he prefers to have a romantic relationship instead. |
| 330 | * ClarkKentOutfit: Toki is seen to be quite fit, in spite of the dissipated and hedonistic lifestyle in which he and his bandmates partake. |
| 331 | * CommonalityConnection: [[spoiler:In “Dethkids”, when Offdensen shows Toki a DVD containing a song about [[LittlestCancerPatient Little Julliette Sarmangsadandle]]'s wishes to be brutal, Toki has a TroubledBackstoryFlashback of his own brutal childhood and connects with her]]. |
| 332 | * DisneyAcidSequence: Whenever Toki sings a song. Also serves as SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel. |
| 333 | * DistressedDude: [[spoiler: Kidnapped by Magnus Hammersmith in "The Doomstar Requiem" to be used as bait to lure in Dethklok.]] |
| 334 | * DoYouWantToCopulate: Toki's {{Gonk}} internet date invoked this trope, to both his horror and the viewers'. |
| 335 | * DrowningMySorrows: The season 2 finale [[spoiler: after his dad dies]]. |
| 336 | * DrunkWithPower: Any time he has (or thinks he has) any amount of authority. Particularly in "Dethgov": |
| 337 | -->'''Toki''': You dos what I say or I haves you all killed! Now shits your pants!\ |
| 338 | '''Naathan''': Toki, your boner is showing. |
| 339 | * DyingDeclarationOfHate: Did this to Skwisgaar when they thought they were about to die. |
| 340 | * EmotionalRegression: In Season One he was portrayed as fairly level-headed, relaxed, and mature up until he reunited with his AbusiveParents in "Dethfam". In later seasons, he began acting childish and immature in regards to PTSD-related issues concerning his [[DarkAndTroubledPast childhood]]. In the Army of the Doomstar sneak peek, Pickles mentions that he age regresses when stressed. |
| 341 | * EyeScream: Had his eyes plucked out by CreepyCrows in the intro to "Go Forth and Die". Thankfully, it was AllJustADream. |
| 342 | * FanService[=/=]FanDisservice: Toki's pole-dancing. |
| 343 | * FatalFlaw: His extremely trusting nature. [[spoiler: Magnus uses it to his advantage.]] |
| 344 | * {{Foil}}: To Skwisgaar. While Toki lacks the talent and drives to be as good as Skwisgaar, he's really open-hearted and friendly compared to Skwisgaar's aloof indifference. |
| 345 | * FreudianExcuse: The reason why Toki acts so childish as an adult is because when he was a child, he was constantly subjected to severe abuse and torment by his religious parents. He was forced to do backbreaking chores such as carrying large piles of logs and sweeping the path to their house even though it always snowed in Norway. If he made even the slightest infractions, he would be slapped, chained and whipped to the point of scarring, and kept in a small underground chamber with a coin-like opening. It's also hinted that Toki harbors some deeply suppressed PTSD and anger issues because of this. |
| 346 | * FriendToAllChildren: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] He's the band-member most popular among kids. He initially hates this reputation and [[ChildHater hates children]], but has a weird epiphany of sorts. |
| 347 | * FunnyForeigner: Compared to Skwisgaar, his antics are far goofier. |
| 348 | * HairRaisingHare: His animal form is based on a mutilated jackrabbit. |
| 349 | * HappilyMarried: He's not married, but in "Fertilityklok" he believes he and his internet date will be this and have "lots of children" together...until he actually meets [[{{Gonk}} her]] in person. |
| 350 | * TheHeart: [[spoiler:In spite of how his and the band's actions will say, "The Doomstar Requiem" reveals that he's not only one for the band, but for the ''fans'' as well; the band descends into a death spiral of a bender, and the fans start actively revolting and leaving concerts.]] |
| 351 | * HeroWithAnFInGood: The few times he's tried to do good for others or be selfless have never ended well. It's generally [[PlayedForLaughs Played For]] [[BlackComedy Dark Laughs]] |
| 352 | * HiddenDepths: Knows how to build a website. Considering how incompetent the band is at everyday activities, that's fairly impressive. |
| 353 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He's willing to make friends with anyone he meets. [[spoiler: This nearly gets him killed when Magnus betrays him to the Revengencers in Season 4.]] |
| 354 | * IcyBlueEyes: When he gets mad, they're icier than one could imagine. |
| 355 | * IJustWantToBeYou: He wants to be like Skwissgar, or least have his skills and place as lead guitarist of the band. Taken to a comical extreme in "Tributeklok", where he acts as Skwissgar in the Dethklok tribute band Thunderhorse, even stealing his bandmate's clothes and wearing a blonde wig. |
| 356 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: He didn't have friends thanks to his AbusiveParents, which is why he befriended [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Dr. Rockso]] in the first place (that, and his love for clowns when he was a kid). It's also a driving motivation for him to go to Rock-a-Rooni Fantasy Camp as a camper and not a counselor, [[spoiler: where Magnus Hammersmith discovers him.]] |
| 357 | * InformedFlaw: Toki is said quite often to be a relatively poor guitarist, but by most appearances, he's just slightly inferior to Skwissgar. |
| 358 | * InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Crops up from time to time, given his childishness. |
| 359 | * KarmaHoudini: In spite of his ButtMonkey tendencies, Toki's done a ''lot'' of things that he's never really properly punished for. For starters, he's posted really embarrassing photos of Nathan on the Internet without his permission, manipulated Dethklok into appearing as racist people like Adolf Hitler and the KKK at a diversity concert (he DOES get left behind in Mordhaus, though that's it), embarrasses Offdensen in front of everyone during an important dinner by acting like a nuisance, and ruins Murderface's attempt to run for congress by making private pictures of him jacking off public (Murderface WAS going to kick his ass for that, though he backed off at the last second when he saw Toki in the middle of giving a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown). |
| 360 | * KindheartedCatLover: He cares for his cat a lot, and gets really sad when it [[CartwrightCurse inevitably dies]]. He even gives it a funeral fit for an Egyptian god. |
| 361 | * KnightInShiningArmor: Imagines himself as this in his ImagineSpot in "Fertilityklok", complete with a [[DamselInDistress helpless princess]] and a kid-friendly dragon. |
| 362 | * {{Leitmotif}}: Particularly in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx5XUhfecew&ab_channel=AdultSwim "Fertilityklok"]] and [[https://youtu.be/xZI6Pre_dt0?t=58 "Dethzazz"]], whenever he's feeling down or hopeful, he gets his own little theme in the form of an emotional music box. |
| 363 | * TheLoad: The band sees him like this, but in reality his guitar work is fine. He's just very shy and really naive. |
| 364 | ** There's also Skwisgaar's big fat ego to consider. |
| 365 | * LooksLikeJesus: He has long brown hair and a mustache |
| 366 | * LongHairedPrettyBoy: His brown hair goes all the way down to his lower back. |
| 367 | * MaddenIntoMisanthropy: The poor, annoying, Snakes N' Barrels fan didn't see it coming. |
| 368 | * MadeOfIron: It's glossed over but in "Dethwater", he was forced to swim without any sort of diving suit near the bottom of the deepest ocean on Earth's surface with absolutely no negative side effects from the freezing cold temperatures or extremely high water pressure. At worst, he was out of breath and puking up the liquid oxygen he was submerged in earlier. This could just be an extreme example of ArtisticLicensePhysics though. |
| 369 | * MrFanservice: Of all the band members, he's in the best shape, having a huge set of six pack abs. On top of that, his skin never gets sunburned; it only tans. |
| 370 | * NaiveNewcomer: Dethklok is his first band, and is pretty much clueless in anything related to music lifestyle. |
| 371 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Toki '''''Wartooth'''''. |
| 372 | * NiceGuy: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] compared to other examples, though still counts. As long as he's not riled up or in one of his brattier moods, Toki's perfectly decent most of the time. |
| 373 | * NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Let's not forget the backbreaking "chores" [[AbusiveParents his parents]] made him do as a child. If any person in real life tried to do that, they would've been dead. |
| 374 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Despite his naive and incredibly childish behavior, Toki is just as brutal and violent as the others. |
| 375 | * PreachersKid: The only son of an extremely abusive and cruel pastor who physically and emotionally tortured him for the slightest infractions. |
| 376 | * PsychopathicManchild: Though the entire band counts, Toki stands out as the most outright childish of the bunch, largely thanks to his AbusiveParents; he's usually shown to have the interests and behavior of someone FAR younger than he is, and is the most prone to casual violence of the five members of Dethklok. |
| 377 | * RagsToRiches: Unlike the others who were somewhat well off when they started the band, Toki literally had nothing when he met the group, save for his shabby clothes and a very beaten and taped up guitar. |
| 378 | * RecruitedFromTheGutter: At some point was either kicked out by his parents or ran away from home causing him to live as a StreetUrchin ([[AllThereInTheManual the script]] even saying he was around sixteen during this point) at the time he auditioned for Dethklok. |
| 379 | * ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler: For Magnus Hammersmith, something Magnus doesn't take well after learning about him.]] |
| 380 | * ScrabbleBabble: In "Klokblocked". |
| 381 | -->''"'Quhzks!' It's what the duck says!"'' |
| 382 | * StepfordSmiler: Toki seems to have developed this trait when talking about [[spoiler: his father now that he's dead (he mentions that he's come to peace with his father's death while a clip of Toki watching his father drown and freeze to death at the same time under a lake of ice while a horrible ScareChord plays).]] |
| 383 | * StunnedSilence: Being near his parents drives him to this; the first episode they're in, Toki has all of two words before they appear and ''none'' afterward (which Nathan comments on). |
| 384 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Toki’s endorsements with candy makers, nets him a vast supply of candy which he consumes constantly. By the end of Skwisklok, he ends up developing diabetes and falls under multiple diabetic comas before stopping his candy binge. |
| 385 | ** This later turns into a plot point in "Dethcamp", where Toki’s life is in danger after being force fed cake and his insulin shots are just out of his reach. |
| 386 | * SweetTooth: Especially when he was endorsing candy, eating only candy until he ended up falling into a diabetic coma. From that point on Toki has to worry about maintaining his diabetes. |
| 387 | * ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: In "Dethmas", Toki blows up at the rest of the band, saying he's going to buy them gifts for Secret Santa despite being told it wasn't metal. Nathan's reaction sums it up: |
| 388 | -->'''Nathan''': I don't believe I've ever been spoken to like that before. |
| 389 | * ThirdPersonPerson: Sometimes for comedic effect, and to show how childish he is. |
| 390 | * ThousandYardStare: Played for BlackComedy as he gets this reaction whenever his parents are mentioned. He even spends an episode staring blankly in catatonia after being forced to spend a day with them in "Dethfam". |
| 391 | * TokenGoodTeammate: [[DownplayedTrope Relatively speaking]], anyway. Since Toki is the most childlike member of the group, he's nicer than the other bandmates. |
| 392 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Candy, and lots of it. [[spoiler: Eating a lot of it contributed to his diabetes]]. |
| 393 | * {{Tsundere}}: Type B. He's generally the nicest member of the band, though he's an |
| 394 | * TraumaCongaLine: While every band member has their share of trauma, special recognition goes to him. He spent most of his childhood in Lillehammer being forced into manual labor and punished with physical abuse by his deeply religious father, to the point where Toki goes catatonic upon seeing him. Even after joining the band, he is one of the bigger [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkeys]] and always facing a lot of traumatic situations (his fan, his father, his guitar teacher, his cat, [[spoiler:Magnus]]) that's it's incredible that he stayed as one of the idealists of the crew. |
| 395 | * VerbalTic: Like Skwisgaar, his poor grasp of English leads him to unnecessarily pluralize every other word. |
| 396 | * VocalEvolution: His voice stays high pitched in later episodes, as contrasted by his lower sounding voice in the earlier seasons. |
| 397 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Toki has an irrational fear of bicentennial quarters. While it's never explained why during his therapy session with Dr. Twinkletits, it's possible that the entrance to the underground cellar Toki was constantly imprisoned in as a child greatly resembled bicentennial quarters. |
| 398 | * WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: Toki does this a few times; particularly after reuniting with his parents in "Dethfam" and meeting his [[{{Gonk}} internet date]] for the first time in "Fertilityklok". |
| 399 | * WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler: As revealed in "The Doomstar Requiem", he got in because Skwisgaar thought of him as this, having made him play at a level nobody else had done before in a duel.]] |
| 400 | * WouldHitAGirl: In "Dethrelease", he smashes one bottle of vodka on the head of Lavona Succuboso to save Nathan. But we should note that he was heavily drunk. |
| 401 | * YouNoTakeCandle: Like Skwisgaar, he also speaks like this due to his poor grasp of English. |
| 402 | [[/folder]] |
| 403 | |
| 404 | [[folder:William Murderface]] |
| 405 | !!William Murderface (Murderface Murderface) |
| 406 | [[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dethklok_copy2_0.jpg]] |
| 407 | ->'''Voiced by''': Tommy Blacha, Creator/BrendonSmall (''DSR'') |
| 408 | ->''"Why do I preempted?! You know why? 'Cause I'm just a stupid bass player."'' |
| 409 | |
| 410 | Bass player. Lazy, disliked and just a generally repulsive human being. |
| 411 | ---- |
| 412 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: In the comics, Murderface was frequently subject to severe bullying in high school, which later drove him to set a school bus on fire with his classmates still inside. In the show, despite being a world-famous celebrity and a member of Dethklok, he doesn't get much respect due to being [[NobodyLovesTheBassist the bassist]], his ugliness, and his overall repulsive personality. |
| 413 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Murderface plays this trope ''hard'' - to the point where he ''flips out'' if it's even hinted that he is gay, yet his behavior in certain episodes (e.g. "Dethfashion", "Dethhealth") suggests that he is. He's also shown attraction to Skwisgaar's mom Serveta in "Dethmas", and even tries to hook up with her in "Fatherklok". |
| 414 | * AndZoidberg: It is repeatedly stated that Murderface is the least popular and respected member of the band, to the point where many fans don't even recognize him as an actual band member at all. There are even times where the others turn off Murderface's amp for entire concerts without anyone noticing. |
| 415 | * {{Angrish}}: Reduced to this when the new band therapist Dr. Twinkletits denied him a banana sticker. |
| 416 | * AnimalMotifs: Tigers and pigs. |
| 417 | * BigEater: Deconstructed. Unlike most examples, his questionable eating habits eventually led to his current [[WeightWoe weight problems]]. |
| 418 | * TheBigGuy: Subverted. While seemingly a [[TheBrute Class 6]] (he has the stoutest build of his bandmates, has a thing with knives, and is an overall aggressive {{Jerkass}}), Murderface is actually a very uncertain and emotionally sensitive person putting up a tough front. |
| 419 | * BigShutUp: Murderface utters one during the band's interrogation about his sensitivity to penis-shaped food. |
| 420 | * BreakTheHaughty: In "Dethsiduals". |
| 421 | * BrilliantButLazy: "Dethsiduals" shows him put together an entire NuMetal record with just him and Toki, with the montage suggesting that he wrote the songs, performed the drum portions on top of his usual bass, and did a lot of the sound mixing--all this in under a month, while being worked to the bone by Get Thee Hence. While it doesn't quite stack up to the 43 songs his bandmates made in the same timeframe, it's still fairly revealing about Murderface's own talents when he isn't allowed to slack off. |
| 422 | * ButtMonkey: The absolute BIGGEST one in the band, bar none. Due to his egotistical and rude behavior, as well as [[NobodyLovesTheBassist being the bassist]], he's usually the guy who suffers all sorts of misfortune. |
| 423 | * BringMyBrownPants: The amount of times he pisses his pants are almost uncountable. |
| 424 | * CatchPhrase: "Piss!" and other variants. Also "Awesome!" |
| 425 | * CasanovaWannabe: In contrast to [[TheCasanova Skwisgaar]], any flirtations made by Murderface on the opposite gender are instantly shot down and always met with disgust, due to his [[{{Gonk}} grotesque appearance]] and [[{{Jerkass}} downright repulsive attitude]]. |
| 426 | * CaughtWithYourPantsDown: "Dethhealth" has a variation on this with Murderface. While he is getting the infamous "turn your head and cough" test administered, he imagines that a hot woman, not the doctor, has their hands on his penis. HilarityEnsues. |
| 427 | * ClusterFBomb: He already swears quite a bit but he really starts throwing out the F bombs when he's upset. A good example is when the other members of Dethklok refused to put him and Toki's song "Takin' It Easy" on the new Dethklok album. |
| 428 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He's mostly a moronic, mooching SmallNameBigEgo, but the man can play bass with body parts that weren't meant to touch an instrument. [[spoiler: He can also write music like the others, but he won't until his own money is in jeopardy]]. |
| 429 | * DrowningMySorrows: In "Mordland" during the dreaded "Fan Day" event. |
| 430 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The way the first two seasons treat Murderface as being popular enough that droves of fans wreak anarchy to celebrate his birthday can be quite jarring, considering how later episodes make it clear that he's the least popular member of Dethklok, to the point where he's barely considered a member of the band. |
| 431 | * EntitledBastard: A couple of times in the series, such as "Dethrecords", "Dethsiduals", and "Dethdinner", Murderface attempts to wriggle his way into songwriting credits for albums (which would give him a bigger cut of the profits). This is despite the fact that he doesn't actually write the songs on the albums (even the bass parts are written by Skwissgar), and quite frequently doesn't even perform the bass parts that make it onto there. It's also pointed out that even without songwriting residuals, he's ''still'' one of the wealthiest men on the planet. |
| 432 | * {{Facepalm}}: Murderface's reaction to Dr. Rockso's first appearance. |
| 433 | * FatBastard: And that's putting it VERY mildly. Not an episode goes by where he's not whining about something, being a dick, or disgusting even his own band members with his shenanigans. |
| 434 | * FlippingTheBird: Murderface loves this trope (especially when he's pissed off). |
| 435 | * {{Foil}}: To Skwisgaar, who's attractive, skinny, a really good guitarist, and attracts hordes of women while Murderface is fat, ugly, plays bass guitar, and isn't given much attention due to his looks and behavior. |
| 436 | * FormerlyFit: It has to be seen to be believed, but he actually used to be ''[[LeanAndMean gaunt]]'' when they first formed Dethklok, as seen in flashbacks. |
| 437 | -->[[{{Understatement}} I have put on a few pounds...]] |
| 438 | * FreudianExcuse: Murderface's life was anything but happy. When he was a baby he witnessed his father pulling a murder-suicide with his mother. He was subsequently raised by his grandparents, but his grandmother Stella was verbally and possibly physically abusive. In a Dethklok comic published by Dark Horse Comics, a flashback showed Murderface being frequently bullied during his high school years... to the point where he snapped and set a school bus on fire with his classmates trapped inside. |
| 439 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Even though he's in the most brutal and popular band of all time, he's barely tolerated by even his own bandmates, which is telling when only [[AllLovingHero Toki]] is friends with him. |
| 440 | ** Even Toki, his closest friend, has suggested kicking him out of the band.[[note]]For context in "Religionklok", Murderface's desperation to find the right religion was causing him to act bizarrely or as Toki puts it, "demom-possessed" and Toki was worried it would mess up their band.[[/note]] |
| 441 | * {{Gonk}}: He's fat and pug-nosed, for starters. He also has a frumpy face, a tooth gap, and a goofy hairdo. His very unappealing appearance is complimented perfectly by his [[FatBastard awful]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk personality]]. |
| 442 | * GroinAttack: Was subjected to this in "Fertilityklok" by an agent of an internet dating service looking to punish Toki, who backed out on a deal he made with said dating service, by attacking his "loved one". Murderface was set up, but only because he accompanied Toki to the dating service and interfered with his interview. He spends the rest of the episode/credits in a wheelchair with a cast on his crotch. |
| 443 | * HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Tries really hard to tell that he's not gay. Way too hard that Pickles notes that for this to bother him so much, he must be thinking about dicks in mouths all the time. And he even assures everyone that even though he is about to enter the fashion industry, he is not gay. |
| 444 | * HarmfulToMinors: Murderface witnessed his father murder his mother with a chainsaw and then use it on himself ''when he was just a baby''. It's implied to be so traumatic that he completely repressed it, and when Dr. Twinkletits brought it up in "Performanceklok", the mere act of remembering made Murderface [[BringMyBrownPants wet his shorts]]. |
| 445 | * HeManWomanHater: Known to refer to women as "soul murderers" and "poisonous serpents with tits". Pickles nearly refers to him by the trope name, calling him a "classic women hater". Deconstructed since his reputation for hating women interferes with his attempts to get them to sleep with him. |
| 446 | * HiddenDepths: He seems to really like history, as he owns various torture devices from different time periods, a statue of UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan, and a couple of documentary tapes about the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Civil War]]. He also cried TearsOfBlood in "Birthdayface" when he was given the limo JFK was shot in with the driver's seat replaced with the chair Abraham Lincoln was shot in. |
| 447 | ** While the rest of the band is also good at negotiating contracts, he apparently knows enough to be a notary. |
| 448 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: Despite being in the most famous and legendary death metal band in the world, Murderface is frequently hated and shunned by Dethklok's massive fanbase and even his fellow bandmates because of his {{Jerkass}} behavior, his [[{{Gonk}} ugly]] appearance, and the fact he's a bassist. To that end, he made several attempts in gaining public acceptance such as suing Dethklok for songwriting residuals, touting himself as Dethklok's frontman and main songwriter (much to Nathan's annoyance), and getting facial reconstruction surgery to make himself handsome. |
| 449 | * IdenticalGrandson: To his grandma, Stella. |
| 450 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Most of his issues revolve around this. Unfortunately for him, it's usually PlayedForLaughs. |
| 451 | * InformedDeformity: Murderface is definitely [[{{Gonk}} far from attractive]], but his ugliness tends to be exaggerated to the point of '''deformity'''. |
| 452 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: At times, he'll try to put on a charming facade for selfish reasons. |
| 453 | ** In "Klokblocked", he tries to act like a [[DoggedNiceGuy valiant hero to women solely just to get in their pants]]. [[PlayingWithATrope That said]], this episode is one where his {{Jerkass}} tendencies are milder than usual, and he ''does'' perform the selfless act of TakingTheBullet for Nathan later on. |
| 454 | ** Played straight in "Fatherklok", where he tries to act like the TeamDad towards the fatherless Skwisgaar, but is clearly only interested in getting it on with his mother. He also treats Pickles like TheUnfavorite, despite Pickles also wanting a father figure. |
| 455 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Anytime his obnoxious, selfish behavior goes too far, life always responds by throwing misfortune his way. |
| 456 | * LastNameBasis: You can probably count the number of times anyone's referred to him by any variant of "William" on one hand, and you'd probably have fingers left over if you discounted the time he's referred to by his full name. |
| 457 | * TheLoad: A persistent running gag is how little involvement Murderface has in actually making music. He doesn't write songs, his bass parts in recordings are frequently mixed out and rerecorded, he's been known to leave his instrument unplugged during live concerts without anyone noticing, and he's too much of a surly asshole to serve as a frontman (not that it's stopped him from trying). The biggest subversion of this is "Dethsiduals", where the band tries to go it without Murderface and discovers that, while their turnaround time becomes much faster, much of their creative process is [[TheFriendNobodyLikes channeling their hatred of Murderface]] into the albums. Fittingly for a bassist, while he seems to be providing nothing, his absence becomes very noticeable. |
| 458 | * MisterSeahorse: Well, that's how Murderface interpreted his infestation with parasites, anyway. |
| 459 | * NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Murderface brings this up in a roundabout way when Twinkletits [[spoiler: supposedly]] falls to his death. |
| 460 | -->''"Now that he's dead, it's easier to say...emotional things about him."'' |
| 461 | * NightmareFace: In "Dethvanity". Thank god it doesn't last long. |
| 462 | * NightmareFetishist: Is very interested in "morbid crap". His room is full of medieval torture devices. |
| 463 | * NobodyLovesTheBassist: In the episode "Religionklok", it's revealed that the band often mixes out his tracks on albums, and "Dethdinner" claims that the bass parts on many of their albums are redone by Skwisgar. The episode "Klokblocked" also saw Murderface get mocked by two women at a restaurant just because he's the bassist. |
| 464 | ** His creative input to the band being negligible is most likely a deliberate irony considering that the person his appearance is based on, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler Geezer Butler]], wrote most of the lyrics for Music/BlackSabbath. |
| 465 | * NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Has been frequently subjected to things that would normally kill a person, but always comes out alive (albeit usually with physical injuries). |
| 466 | * PantheraAwesome: His spiritual animal is a white Bengal tiger. |
| 467 | * PrankCall: He messes around with Toki and Skwisgaar this way in "Prankklok". |
| 468 | * RageAgainstTheReflection: Murderface punches the mirror in two episodes of the season 4 (In "Diversityklok" happens when Toki criticizes him for his mustache while in "Dethvanity" happens after Murderface discovers his disfigured face after a bad plastic surgery done in Mexico during a "The Brutalies Awards" conference at the end). |
| 469 | * GiveMeASign: Resorts to this when his temporary search for a religion is unsuccessful. He ends up getting his answer in the form of a phone call by the Church of Satan. |
| 470 | -->''"Just give me a sign. Show me the path of enlightenment, dear sweet demi-lord icon."'' |
| 471 | * ShowerOfAngst: After an "incident" at the doctor's office. |
| 472 | * SkywardScream: |
| 473 | ** Does this in "Dethsiduals" after losing a court battle with Dethklok over songwriting residuals that ''he'' started. |
| 474 | ** Lets out another one when he catches Serveta having a threesome after his attempts to score with her by acting as a father figure to Skwisgaar end up for naut due to her promiscuity. |
| 475 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Murderface is the laziest, least musically apt member of the band. Doesn't stop him from carrying around a huge ego. |
| 476 | * SourOutsideSadInside: He's a dick, yes, but deep down he desperately needs love and attention, which he can't get even though he's a world-wide celebrity. |
| 477 | * SnapBack: Whenever something bad happens to him, he is completely recovered by the next episode and no mention of the recovery is ever made. This includes being infested with parasites, dropped from a height of several stories into a mob of angry fans, having his junk broken, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking shaving his mustache]], and having his face infected by a botched surgery. |
| 478 | * SpeechImpediment: To the point where his voice actor used to stuff his mouth with paper towels to get the right lisp. |
| 479 | * StealingTheCredit: Loves to take credit of the songwriting residuals even though he didn't do jack shit that he (and Toki who had nothing to do with it and was just led on by him) was kicked out of the band in "Dethsiduals". |
| 480 | * TakingTheBullet: He saves Nathan from Lavona Succuboso's [[GroinAttack "loin extractor"]] this way during a concert in "Klokblocked". The bass he was holding takes the brunt of it but he still ended up getting electrocuted. |
| 481 | * TeamDad: Invoked in "Fatherklok" where he acts like a father figure to the fatherless Skwisgaar thinking that it'll lead to having sex with his mother. Averted in his treatment of Pickles as TheUnfavorite in the same episode. [[LaserGuidedKarma It comes back to bite him hard, when he ends up uttering Pickles' trigger word.]] |
| 482 | ** For added hilarity, he outright says that he considers him as the band's father right in front of Nathan, the team's band dad and PapaWolf to Toki. |
| 483 | * TearsOfBlood: In "Birthdayface" when Dethklok gives him a custom-made limousine built with memorabilia taken from history's most brutal moments as well as a place in a Dethklok-hosted demolition derby. |
| 484 | --> (''looking over his birthday presents'') "You mean, I get to destroy United States history ''literally''?" |
| 485 | * {{Troll}}: Gets a kick out of screwing around with others and making them miserable. Most notable in "Dethlessons" and "Prankklok". |
| 486 | -->''"I'm sorry! Sorry about being a dick, but sometimes it's hard to suppress the urge of ruining other people's lives! Why doesn't everyone of ya just go kill yourself!? Idiots!... I'm sorry! I'm just being a dick!"'' |
| 487 | * ThoseTwoGuys: With Toki, sometimes. |
| 488 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: Seems to be this to Toki at times, as he frequently drags him along into ridiculous schemes that end up with Toki being blamed just as much as Murderface when Dethklok catches them. |
| 489 | * {{Tsundere}}: Oftentimes he is rude, crude, and disrespectful to his bandmates and the world around him, but occasionally becomes emotional and insecure of himself (especially in ''Performanceklok'' and ''Birthdayface''). |
| 490 | * TurnYourHeadAndCough: Murderface became..."stimulated" when he reached this point of a medical exam in "Dethhealth", [[CoveredInGunge which was rather unfortunate for the doctor.]] [[spoiler: Except it wasn't. That was the doctor's goal in the first place.]] |
| 491 | * UseYourHead: Managed to give a Danish Prince a brain contusion and a fractured skull in with a single headbutt. Pickles remarks that he's gotten really good at it. |
| 492 | * VirusVictimSymptoms: [[spoiler:Due to being pricked by a spiked armband, the end of "The Doomstar Requiem" sees him infected with a virus that's beginning to spread over his body. Salacia mentioned that there would be a traitor within the group and most likely he plans to take control of William for his own ends.]] |
| 493 | ** [[spoiler:Which is finally put into action in "Army Of The Doomstar", where Salacia puts Murderface under DemonicPossession and has him sabotage Nathan's attempts to write the Song Of Salvation.]] |
| 494 | * VocalEvolution: A notable example. It took several episodes before Tommy Blacha could create an acceptable sound without stuffing his mouth with paper towels. |
| 495 | * VomitIndiscretionShot: A particularly nauseating (and for some reason, smoothly animated) example would be from [="DethHealth"=]. Right after he drinks about a gallon of bleach. |
| 496 | [[/folder]] |
| 497 | |
| 498 | [[folder:Pickles the Drummer]] |
| 499 | !!Pickles the Drummer (Doodily Doo, Ding Dong Doodily Doodily Doo) |
| 500 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pickles.jpg]] |
| 501 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/BrendonSmall |
| 502 | ->''"They're getting yopo!! Dude, if we're gonna die, we're gonna die high!!"'' |
| 503 | |
| 504 | Drummer/songwriter. One of the more stable members, despite a staggering alcohol problem and crappy family. |
| 505 | ---- |
| 506 | * TheAlcoholic: While the entire band could be described this way, the label applies most obviously to Pickles, whose drinking manages to put even the other members of the band to shame. It seems to be a holy calling for him: when his former band reforms without him and headlines an anti-alcohol event, he takes it as a mortal offense. |
| 507 | ** Pickles' drinking is also a not-so-subtle nod to his Wisconsin roots. |
| 508 | * AllDrummersAreAnimals: Zigzagged. He binges on more alcohol and drugs than the rest of the band, but he is also the most experienced and multi-talented from his time in Snakes N' Barrels. By Season 4, he is one of the most responsible members of Dethklok. |
| 509 | * AlwaysSecondBest: Pickles seems to view himself as this for his parents, being doomed to always play second fiddle to Seth, his lazy, mooching, con-man douchebag of an older brother. This is despite Pickles being a musician of many talents and a multi-billionaire. |
| 510 | * AmbiguousGenderIdentity: In "Rehabklok" there's a shot of him with no penis even in the uncensored edit causing much speculation albeit with some skepticism that it was merely an error or they just didn't feel like going through the effort of animating his junk flailing. However in 2024, [[https://x.com/buscemislut/status/1781459196615024751 a fan that claims to have spoken with Brendon at a tour meet n greet]] [[note]] bare in mind video and audio recordings are not allowed but there's at least photographic proof that the encounter occurred [[/note]] reported that this was no a mistake and it was a conscious decision to not give him a penis and even expressed support for the popular TransAudienceInterpretation of him. This clears up one misconception about him, but there's still arguably a fair amount that's still up in the air, trans man being the most popular but the possibility of him being intersex (particularly the lack of top surgery scars) is sometimes also floated. |
| 511 | * UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: Being from Wisconsin, he speaks with a sort of a hybrid of Inland North and North Central accents. |
| 512 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Pickles is sent to rehab, the doctors sing "Why do you drink?!" until Pickles breaks down and blames his brother for his drinking habit. |
| 513 | * AnimalMotifs: Octopi. |
| 514 | * BerserkButton: Being reminded that he's TheUnfavorite. That and sobriety it seems. Murderface accidentally learned this the hard way in "Fatherklok". |
| 515 | * BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Pickles saving his band from the drum machine at the end of "Rehabklok"]]. |
| 516 | * ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "By the power of all that is evil, I command you to awaken and MAKE ME A SANDWICH!" |
| 517 | * CallingTheOldManOut: He finally tells his mom to go fuck herself after he fully realizes she will never be proud of him in "Motherklok". And it is ''immensely'' satisfying. |
| 518 | * CantHoldHisLiquor: While he plays this straight in many episodes( and it's even the cause of him getting kicked to rehab), it's {{Averted}} and PlayedForLaughs in one scene. When the other band members are chastising him for losing control while drunk, the viewers are treated to quick flashbacks showing ''[[AlcoholInducedIdiocy everyone else being stupid or passed out]]'' while Pickles looks sober and mortified. |
| 519 | * CatchPhrase: "Douchebags!" or "Motherdouchebags!" |
| 520 | * CovertPervert: Secretly grabs the naked lady fan mail in "Dethwedding" as soon as Nathan tosses it away. |
| 521 | * DeadpanSnarker: As one of the smarter and more mature members of Dethklok, he often drops sarcastic comments while rolling his eyes in response to the antics of his bandmates. |
| 522 | * DeathGlare: Gave his father one hell of a glare in "Fatherklok" as Calvert kicked him out of the house. |
| 523 | * DeathByFallingOver: Ends up falling into a group of spikes while trying to run from CreepyCrows in the intro to "Go Forth and Die". Fortunately, it was AllJustADream. |
| 524 | * DelinquentHair: Sported a punk-like haircut in his teens. |
| 525 | * DreadlockRasta: Pickles started wearing dreads after his Snakes n' Barrels stint, and was a rebellious hellion when he was a child due to having abusive family members (he's balding by the start of the show but he still counts). |
| 526 | * DrowningMySorrows: Pickles' drinking habits can be seen as this, as he was seen drinking since age 6 due to mental and probably physical abuse by his brother and parents. |
| 527 | * FacePalm: Does this in "Rehabklok" during all the times his bandmates were rip-roaring drunk. |
| 528 | * FlippingTheBird: Pickles did this with Nathan once in "Prankklok", where an entire montage was dedicated to them flipping off several national monuments. |
| 529 | * FieryRedhead: A male example. Despite his social acumen and jaded, sarcastic personality, he's actually committed more on-screen acts of violence than any other member of the band and almost always because he'd lost his temper. |
| 530 | * FreudianExcuse: The reason Pickles drinks so much is revealed to be because [[spoiler: his brother Seth burned down their garage and blamed it on him. His parents believed it.]] He was also probably emotionally and physically abused by his entire family. |
| 531 | * {{Guyliner}}: When he was in Snakes N' Barrels back in the 80's. |
| 532 | * HairTodayGoneTomorrow: Had a massive mane of typical GlamRock EightiesHair when he fronted Snakes N' Barrels. By the time he joins Dethklok, he's already going bald. It's become an issue for him in "Dethvanity" when the Dethklok Minute shows the public photos of his balding hair. |
| 533 | * HellBentForLeather: Wore a leather biker jacket in his teens. |
| 534 | * HiddenDepths: Attacks a rival real estate agent (who was also a {{Jerkass}}, by the way) by hitting various critical spots on the body, [[GroinAttack including the agent's crotch]]. [[FridgeBrilliance Perhaps Offdensen taught him how to do that]]? |
| 535 | * ImmuneToDrugs: During Pickles' reunion tour with his old band Snakes n' Barrels, a radical new drug is introduced to the band, who then asks Pickles to do the drug with them before their first show. Snakes n' Barrels is completely destroyed by the drug; Pickles remains unharmed, however, since his growing up "smoking government weed every day" made him immune to just about any hard drug in existence and any drug to be invented. The only exception, for the sake of that episode, is the Yopo plant that the Amazonian natives use in "Dethcarraldo". |
| 536 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: |
| 537 | -->''"Nice one, what are you trying to do, depress us? Now I need a drink. A different one, not this one. And in a different place."'' |
| 538 | * InstrumentOfMurder: Pickles kills a Revengencer by making him choke with a drum stick. |
| 539 | ** Also earlier in the intro to "Performanceklok" when he threw a [[DeadlyDisc cymbal like a Frisbee]] at Toki in the midst of mid-concert in-band fighting, missing and getting it lodged into an audience member's neck. |
| 540 | * TheLancer: Arguably plays this role to Nathan better than Skwisgaar. He leads the band about as much as Nathan does and despite the two of them often having the friendliest relationship in the band, Pickles is the one that questions Nathan's decisions the most. Skwisgaar himself refers to Nathan and Pickles as "the guys that runs the band". [[spoiler:It's also the conflict between Nathan and Pickles that drives the plot in the last few episodes of season 4, nearly splitting Dethklok up for good and it's the resolution of said conflict that brings the band back together.]] |
| 541 | * LargeHam: In "Motherklok" during his dream sequence. |
| 542 | * ManHug: [[spoiler: Pickles shares one with Nathan in the fourth season finale, after Nathan apologizes for destroying the master record and pursing Abigail, telling Pickles that what he wants more than anything is for the band to stay together. That means that man hugs are officially Metal.]] |
| 543 | ** An earlier example is during "Girlfriendklok", when the band violently interrogates Nathan while he's tied to a chair to understand why he continues to be in a relationship with Rebecca when it clearly makes him miserable. When Nathan relents, admitting that he hates her but is too frightened of her to break up with her, he starts actually starts ''crying'' prompting the band to release him from his binds before Pickles and Nathan share one of these. |
| 544 | * MenDontCry: Pickles tells Toki that none of the band will talk about missing Offdensen because "Admitting sadness...makes you gay." |
| 545 | * MusclesAreMeaningless: Not as prominent as Offdensen, but he's a slender man of average height who nonetheless delivers [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown No Holds Barred Beatdowns]] anytime he gets violent. |
| 546 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatDown: Subjected Murderface to this after he (accidentally) pressed his BerserkButton regarding his WellDoneSonGuy issues with his father. He also subjected his brother Seth to this in "Dethwedding" and "Dethfam", though both times were interrupted due to bad timing. |
| 547 | ** He ALSO subjected Rikki Kixx to this in "Snakes N' Barrels II" for stealing his spot as the lead singer of his band, Snakes and Barrels and "brainwashing" his former bandmates into sobriety. |
| 548 | * NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Pickles gets two in "Rehabklok"; once when his hoverdrums "land" face-up, and once when he lands in SoftWater. |
| 549 | * OddNameOut: Really? [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude "Pickles" is the best name his parents could come up with]]? |
| 550 | * OhCrap: The thought of revisiting his family seems to affect him badly. In "Dethwedding", while on the way to attend his brother Seth's wedding in Tomahawk, Pickles was standing off the side in mute shock while in a disheveled state. |
| 551 | * OnlyOneName: Unless you count his title on the band. |
| 552 | * OnlySaneMan: To various degrees in comparison to the rest of the band. However, from Season 2 onward, he has become increasingly neurotic, leading Nathan and lately Skwisgaar to take his place. |
| 553 | * PerpetualFrowner: Was this as a child and as a teenager in flashbacks, [[AbusiveParents with very]] [[WellDoneSonGuy good reason]]. |
| 554 | ** Averted as an adult. With his distinctive, mischievous smirk and laid-back attitude, he comes across as one of the more cheerful members of Dethklok relatively speaking though the [[DrowningMySorrows heavy substance abuse probably "helps".]] |
| 555 | * SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: Pickles was a part of this culture in TheEighties. |
| 556 | * SharedFamilyQuirks: He probably won't admit it, but he shares his father's alcoholism and his older brother Seth's smirk-like grin. |
| 557 | * SharpDressedMan: Dresses up in a suit [[spoiler: to impress Abigail]] in ''Going Downklok''. |
| 558 | * ShorterMeansSmarter: He's the shortest musician out of the five, but he's more intelligent than any of them. |
| 559 | * ShoutOut: When [[spoiler: Dethklok breaks up in Season 4, Pickles starts up his own winery similar to Maynard James Keenan from Music/{{Tool}}]]. |
| 560 | * SingingVoiceDissonance: |
| 561 | ** His lower range sounds a lot like James Hetfield, as heard in "Hatredcopter" and parts of "Rehabklok". |
| 562 | ** ''[[WesternAnimation/MetalocalypseTheDoomStarRequiem The Doomstar Requiem]]'' [[PlayedForLaughs comically exaggerates this]] in several of its songs, most notably "Givin' Back To You," having him [[OohMeAccentsSlipping completely drop his silly accent]] to deliver a buttery smooth alto performance. |
| 563 | * TheSmartGuy: The smartest guy in Dethklok anyway. He's the most multi-talented of the group, because of his experience with Snakes N' Barrels, and is implied to be highly intelligent; he's able to explain polymeters to Nathan, and flashbacks showing him graduating (presumably college, since he left home at sixteen). However, it's subverted most of the time; Pickles' emotional immaturity, constant drug use/alcoholism, and the influence of his bandmates don't let him showcase his talents often. |
| 564 | * TakeAThirdOption: |
| 565 | -->''"I'm gonna get drunk AND save the band!"'' |
| 566 | * TeamMom: To Nathan's TeamDad at times. When Skwisgaar and Murderface start shit-talking Toki after he leaves for band camp, he snaps and scolds them. Capping it off with a "shame on you!" like a scolding mother. [[spoiler: Fully leans into this role by ''Army of the Doomstar'', especially during the church scene.]] |
| 567 | -->[[spoiler: ''"Toki, be a good boy and go get mommy his scotch, okay?"'']] |
| 568 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Aside from booze, he seems to really like cinnamon buns and is seen scarfing a plate full of them in "Writersklok". He even tried to buy the cinnamon buns franchise once but was too drunk at the time. |
| 569 | * TraumaButton: In "Fatherklok", when Murderface tells Pickles, ''"Get out. You belong in a garbage can,"'' Pickles has a flashback to his teen years where his abusive father told him the exact same thing the day he ran away from home. And unfortunately for Murderface, Pickles ''explodes'' and proceeds to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat him up in a fury]], with Toki joining in for the hell of it. |
| 570 | * TheUnfavourite: Despite being the drummer of ''the'' most brutal band in the world and a multi-billionaire with wealth surpassing Belgium, Pickles is often treated like scum by his [[AbusiveParents parents]], with Pickles' mother Molly blatantly favoring his older brother, Seth. The whole thing started when [[spoiler:Seth burned down the family garage and blamed it on Pickles, which their parents believed]], and when Pickles finally decided to run away from home, his father Calvert told him to get out because he "belong[s] in a garbage can". Molly also resents Pickles for being far more successful than his older brother and copes with it by criticizing everything her youngest son does. In "Fatherklok", this surfaces when Pickles sees Murderface play father to Skwisgaar, causing him to act like a neglected kid begging for attention. When Murderface tells Pickles in the end that he belongs in a garbage can in "Fatherklok", Pickles ''explodes'' and beats up Murderface in retaliation. He does get some much-needed closure when [[spoiler:he finally tells Molly to "go fuck [herself]" in "Motherklok"]]. |
| 571 | * VerbalTic: Tends to insert "dude" and "dudes" into his speech, usually at the beginning of sentences. |
| 572 | * VocalEvolution: It's a subtle example but Pickles initially had a deeper, more subdued voice sometimes sounding similar to Charles in the first season. |
| 573 | * WellDoneSonGuy: When Murderface tried to act fatherly to Skwisgaar, Pickles acted this trope, in part due to his own father's neglect. |
| 574 | * WhatTheHellHero: In "Dethcamp", he calls out both Skwisgaar and Murderface for badmouthing Toki after they grumble about the band's sweets (candy, ice cream, etc.) being made sugarless to accommodate Toki's diabetes. |
| 575 | [[/folder]] |
| 576 | |
| 577 | [[folder:Nathan Explosion]] |
| 578 | !!Nathan Explosion |
| 579 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dethklok_copy2.jpg]] |
| 580 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/BrendonSmall |
| 581 | ->''"So here's my message, my message to you, very simple message: Go forth. Go forth and '''DIIIIIE!!!'''"'' |
| 582 | |
| 583 | Lead singer/songwriter/general musical genius of the band. |
| 584 | ---- |
| 585 | * AbusiveParents: Notably averted. It is shown that Nathan is the only band member with a good home life to the point of openly admitting he loves his father. |
| 586 | * AllJustADream: The intro to "Go Forth and Die", where he dreamed that CreepyCrows killed his bandmates and forced him to become a BurgerFool just to get by. |
| 587 | * AnimalMotifs: Alligators. |
| 588 | %%* [[AntiHero The Anti]] [[TheHero Hero]] |
| 589 | * AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: |
| 590 | -->''"I think I know what you are all trying to say... I, um... I think we have to build a space helicopter."'' |
| 591 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: In "Religionklok", he asks Skwisgaar if nihilists don't believe in God after the latter claims that nihilists don't believe in anything. |
| 592 | --> '''Nathan:''' Can't a nihilist also not believe in God, too?\ |
| 593 | '''Skwisgaar:''' I... uh... I don't know. |
| 594 | * ArmorPiercingResponse: In "Religionklok", after Skwisgaar expresses disbelief in the existence of religion itself, he points out the logical fallacies and shows Skwisgaar the Bible as proof that religion exists. |
| 595 | --> '''Skwisgaar:''' Pfft! This is dildos. Doesn't he knows there's no such things as religion?\ |
| 596 | '''Nathan:''' You mean you don't believe in God. There is such thing as religion.\ |
| 597 | '''Skwisgaar:''' Well then proves it! Show me a, uh... miracles that religion exists!\ |
| 598 | '''Nathan:''' Well, um, you know, there's... the Bible right there. [points at a copy of the Bible on the floor]\ |
| 599 | '''Skwisgaar:''' Welllll... maybe I re... evaluates... my life, then. |
| 600 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Well, he wouldn't even be considered the leader of Dethklok if he wasn't so brutal. |
| 601 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Downplayed in the show proper, but played very straight in the DVD extras where he reads Shakespeare. He can't go two lines without going on tangents on everything from fighting babies to [[WesternAnimation/{{WallE}} Wall-E]]. |
| 602 | * BadassBiker: With a motorcycle with no less than '''four''' sidecars. |
| 603 | * BadassNative: "Dethcarraldo" reveals he's descended from the Yaneemango peoples through his mother's side. |
| 604 | * BarbarianLonghair: Well, he's descended from a cannibal tribe in South America, and he's often remarked as looking like a Death Metal Native American. Also, whenever he plays a Viking in the music videos. |
| 605 | * BerserkButton: |
| 606 | ** Don't ''EVER'' insult death metal within earshot. Damien Cornickelson learned the hard way. |
| 607 | ** Don't ''EVER'' call him "[[MaliciousMisnaming Tonto]]". In one episode, he looked just about ready to punch out the comedian who did that, but Offdensen got to him first by having a Klokateer kill the comedian. |
| 608 | ** Also, a couple of guys who teased him about giving him alcohol during a sobriety event got a mean face-slapping. |
| 609 | * BreakTheBadass: At the very end of "Dethhealth" where Nathan and his dentist are on a hunting trip; the dentist blows his head off in a sudden act of suicide. Nathan's expression is ''priceless''. |
| 610 | * BigBeautifulMan: According to the Tribunal's chart in "Dethvanity", Nathan is considered the second-most attractive member of the band in-universe, even though the show often refers to him (and shows him) as overweight. In the same episode, he lets himself go hard and ends up breaking the hot tub. |
| 611 | * BigEater: Deconstructed. While not as bad as Murderface, Nathan does consume huge portions in "Dethvanity" and eventually eats so much that he ends up breaking the band's favorite hot tub after he jumps into it. The Dethklok Minute even displays how obese he's become, shocking and embarrassing Nathan. It's possible that his rich lifestyle (along with exercising less than he used to) led to his current appearance in the show. |
| 612 | * TheBigGuy: Nathan is a mix between Class 1 and Class 2 -- he's a big, broad-shouldered man with some muscle left from his football-playing days, and he's the gruff, [[TheStoic stoic]] leader of Dethklok. Various episodes show that when sufficiently riled up, Nathan becomes a physical powerhouse capable of delivering a brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown [[spoiler:as shown with Magnus Hammersmith when he literally stabbed Nathan in the back during a dispute, and the bully who broke Toki's snowglobe that Nathan gave to him earlier in the episode]]. However, deep down, Nathan is something of a marshmallow who loves [[KindheartedCatLover cats]] and his father, and going to Disneyland. |
| 613 | * BillBillJunkBill: In "Dethwedding", Nathan goes through a pile of mail the band received that day. |
| 614 | -->''"Subpoena, subpoena, subpoena, Netflix. Huh, yeah, awesome, naked lady fan mail - possibly awesome, possibly horrible. Subpoena..."'' |
| 615 | * BloodFromTheMouth: Three times - once during "Fanklok", in the music video "Bloodlines", and in Season 4 [[spoiler:from the strain of apologizing to Pickles]]. |
| 616 | * BloodSplatteredInnocents: Nathan ends up with blood on him in "Dethgov" during second grade when a truck driver crashes his truck into his classroom, killing many while injuring some. Though the "innocent" part of the trope is called into question by his lack of reaction... |
| 617 | * BookDumb: Zigzagged. The only member to apparently never graduate high school yet he's generally tied with Pickles as being one of the smartest members of the band. In "Renovationklok" with Charles gone, he's the one who ultimately takes charge over their financial situation once it dawns on him how much money the band's been wasting. |
| 618 | * BurgerFool: Ends up working as one in the intro to "Go Forth and Die" after having his band killed by CreepyCrows, leaving him without a job as a musician. Fortunately, it was AllJustADream. |
| 619 | * BrutalHonesty: |
| 620 | ** In "Dethsiduals", he never hesitates to voice his hatred for [[TakeThat Get Thee Hence]] and outright calls Murderface a failure at band management. |
| 621 | ** He does not pull the verbal punches with Pickles, either. In "Dethwedding", he makes comments about what a greedy douchebag Seth is, and in "Motherklok", he advises Pickles to tell his mother "go *[[SoundEffectBleep pinch harmonic]]* herself" [[spoiler:which Pickles does after finally seeing her as a truly abusive and demanding bitch]]. |
| 622 | * BuffySpeak: When describing how Dr. Rockso ruined a reunion show with Zazz Blammymatazz by drinking LSD and spraying a woman in the chest with a hose, Nathan called it a "big spraying thing". |
| 623 | * CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler:When Nathan tries to apologize to Pickles for being the asshole that he is, it causes him to vomit blood before he's finally able to show any emotion and say he was sorry.]] |
| 624 | * CantHoldHisLiquor: Although he's a fairly solid drinker, Nathan still gets hammered whenever he drinks tequila, as shown in "Prankklok" he tends to go off on drunken rampages whenever he does. Pickles made him promise never to drink tequila on their traditional post-album friender-benders specifically for this reason. |
| 625 | * CassandraTruth: In "Skwisklok", he tells Toki that he'll get diabetes if he eats too much candy. Toki's response basically amounts to "Fuck off! I can do whatever I want!" You can kinda guess what happens next... |
| 626 | * CatchPhrase: "Brutal.", "[[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOO!]]", and, in Diversityklok, "That's doable." |
| 627 | * ChekhovsSkill: Nathan punching Damien in the first few minutes of "Renovationklok". [[spoiler: He later does it again to stop Damien from attacking the recently-returned Offdensen.]] |
| 628 | * CooldownHug: Attempts this on the band's adopted son in "Fatklok" when he's causing too much trouble during rehearsal though he only succeeds in making the kid "go to the bathroom" in his pants. |
| 629 | * DeathGlare: If he's not doing the KubrickStare, then he's doing this. |
| 630 | * DemotedToExtra: Nathan increasingly edges toward this trope in Season Three, what with the other band members [[SpotlightStealingSquad stealing the spotlight]]. |
| 631 | * DramaticThunder: |
| 632 | -->'''Nathan''': Guys. I've been thinking. (''thunder'') [[FauxHorrific IT'S TIME I STARTED DATING AGAIN]]. |
| 633 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: In "Dethmas", [[HilarityEnsues the band's mothers have insisted on spending some quality time with them, and Nathan is trying to find a parking spot at the mall on Christmas Eve...]] |
| 634 | -->'''Other Driver''': [[WatchThePaintJob You hit my car!]]\ |
| 635 | '''Nathan''': [[BackseatDriver Hey! I have four mothers telling me how to drive!]] What's your excuse, asshole? |
| 636 | * DreamingOfThingsToCome: This pops up on occasion, though they always come true; most notable is the infamous dream scene in "Dethhealth", [[spoiler: which [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadows]] the appointment with the suicidal dentist and the dentist's sudden suicide via AteHisGun]]. |
| 637 | ** He's also been doing this a lot in Season 4 via the Sea Prophet, which climaxed in [[spoiler: his destroying the Master Record]]. |
| 638 | * DrowningMySorrows: In "Mordland" during the dreaded "Fan Day" event. |
| 639 | * DumbJock: Was this as a teenager, as the only things he excelled that in high school were football and frog dissection. |
| 640 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: A male example. He boasts long, dark flowing hair, pale skin, and PerpetualFrowner tendencies, is generally TheStoic, and has a fascination with dark and bleak subject matter and a penchant for absolutely chilling [[DeathGlare glares]]. It's further exaggerated during concerts and music videos when he dons corpse paint. The stark white skin and painted on CreepyShadowedUndereyes combined with the way his hair tends to get more disheveled during said concerts makes him LooksLikeCesare. |
| 641 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Double-subverted. He's the brutal frontman and lead singer of Dethklok, thinks caring for others is not brutal, and openly expresses his hatred of his parents. At first it seems like he hates them because they're AbusiveParents much like the other families of Dethklok are shown to be, but it's actually not true - Oscar and Rose Explosion genuinely love their son even though they have flaws like being [[MyBelovedSmother a little too motherly]], and most of the things he says about them is actually out of embarrassment and awkwardness. In "Fatherklok", he openly states that he loves Oscar while a flashback montage shows them participating in some father-son activities like fishing, bumper car-riding, and Scrabble. |
| 642 | --> "I f''*[[SoundEffectBleep pinch harmonic]]*''ing love my dad. My dad's f''*[[SoundEffectBleep pinch harmonic]]*''ing awesome." |
| 643 | * FacialHorror: Nathan loses his ''entire lower jaw'' in "Dethhealth"'s NightmareSequence, and he reacts to it with as much horror as the audience. Thank goodness it's AllJustADream. |
| 644 | * FascinatingEyebrow: He does it a few times in every episode. |
| 645 | * FlippingTheBird: Nathan does it frequently, especially to his fans. "Prankklok" has a montage dedicated to him and Pickles flipping off several national monuments. |
| 646 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 647 | ** To Skwisgaar. Skwisgaar is blonde and skinny, a notorious ladies' man who has sex with anyone who wants to, an AttentionWhore who basks in the spotlight, and is a superficial {{Jerkass}}. Nathan is dark-haired and broad-muscled, wants to settle down with a girlfriend but can't outside the groupies Dethklok has sex with (with his few relationships [[spoiler:except with Abigail]] ending badly), thinks practically and is [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]], and outside the concerts he performs in, he's socially awkward. Nathan has a good relationship with his parents, particularly his father, while Skwisgaar ''loathes'' his sex-happy mother for being a poor parent and has [[DisappearedDad no father of his own to speak of]]. |
| 648 | ** Also to Pickles, who is short as Nathan is tall. While they're the most adjusted of the band, Pickles was treated like shit by his own parents, who favored his mooching, underachieving, con-man {{Jerkass}} of an older brother, and had his father tell him that he belonged in a garbage can. Nathan by contrast has a mostly good relationship with his parents, particularly Oscar whom he hangs out with quite often. |
| 649 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: In "Dethcarraldo", it's revealed his grandfather got together with his grandmother, who was already married before they met. [[spoiler:This is exactly what happens in "Going Downklok"; although Abigail was single, she chooses Nathan over Pickles who had been infatuated with her, leading to Nathan and Pickles' falling out and Dethklok's breakup]]. |
| 650 | * FormerlyFit: When first starting off Dethklok he was shown to have a more muscular physique as shown in the flashbacks of "Dethcamp" and "Doomstar Requiem". However he began to put on quite a bit of weight after their band became insanely successful. He even laments his much more pudgier figure upon seeing how ripped Toki is. |
| 651 | -->"My god, I have let myself go..." |
| 652 | ** He gets more in shape in "Going Downklok" though still not exactly the {{Hunk}} he used to be. |
| 653 | * FreudianExcuse: Subverted. Despite publicly claiming to hate his parents, it's heavily implied that it's more out of embarrassment towards them as well as keeping his brutal celebrity image. In private, he is fond of his parents and loves them both, especially his father, with a flashback montage dedicated to showing him and Oscar doing things like fishing, drag-racing, and playing Scrabble. If anything, Oscar and Rose Explosion are [[ParentsAsPeople flawed]] at worst and it's because of his relatively normal upbringing (aside from the incident where some crazy truck driver mowed down his entire second-grade class as a child) that Nathan became significantly more reasonable and emotionally well-adjusted compared to his bandmates, who had AbusiveParents (and grandparents). It's rather telling when Nathan openly declares in front of his bandmates in "Fatherklok" that he loves his dad. |
| 654 | * GaggingOnYourWords: [[spoiler: Nathan's apology to Pickles in the season four finale]]. The effort it takes him to say "I'm sorry" is comparable to another person uprooting a tree stump with their bare hands. |
| 655 | * GentleGiant: While not a straight example, Nathan is more amiable and warm-hearted than his reputation and appearance would have you believe. |
| 656 | --> '''Nathan''': "This is '''MY''' band. You're MY stupid, dumb, *[[SoundEffectBleep ''pinch harmonic'']]* up, dysfunctional family, alright?!" |
| 657 | * GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: When Murderface's unfathomably bizarre scheme to to get in good with Serveta Skwigelf makes Pickles and Toki start directing all their pent-up daddy issues at him, Nathan slaps the crap out of them both and tells them to wake the ''([[SoundEffectBleep pinch harmonic]])'' up. |
| 658 | * GoodAngelBadAngel: In "Dethhealth", Nathan experiences this in the form of Pickles (Good Angel) and Murderface (Bad Angel) while visiting his dentist, contemplating if he should be gassed or not before his teeth are worked on. [[spoiler:He sides with Murderface.]] |
| 659 | -->'''Murderface''': Gas means your wiener's being played with by a suicidal weirdo! Gas means you're ''gay''!\ |
| 660 | '''Pickles''': Dude! Who cares if he plays with your dick?? You'll totally be out! |
| 661 | * [[PresidentEvil Governor Evil]]: Of Florida. Though he didn't mean to or even want to in the first place. |
| 662 | * TheHeart: [[spoiler:Presumably held the group together after Magnus' expulsion until they recruited Toki]]. |
| 663 | * HeroicAmbidexterity: He shows signs of being cross-dominant as he writes with his right hand and uses it for melee weapons like axes and swords, but he's also seen firing a rocket launcher and an M60 with his left hand. When performing at concerts he can hold the mic in either hand. |
| 664 | * HenpeckedHusband: "Boyfriend" in Nathan's case when he starts dating the controlling and abusive Rebecca Nightrod in "Girlfriendklok". [[spoiler:Thankfully, it doesn't last, as Rebecca is put into a coma by a StaircaseTumble.]] |
| 665 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: Despite what you think, Nathan's pretty well aware that he's TheUnintelligible, and that his band is as stupid as he is. Summed up here perfectly in "Dethdoubles": |
| 666 | --> '''Nathan:''' ''(screaming)'' '''''WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIIIGHT!!!''''' |
| 667 | * HeyYouHaymaker: Delivers one to Murderface when the band gets into a fight onstage in "Performanceklok". |
| 668 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Hooked up with Rebecca Nightrod in "Girlfriendklok" despite her being a controlling and demanding bitch. |
| 669 | ** In "Fanklok" Nathan is ''very'' insistent that Trindle is [[spoiler: totally not a StalkerWithACrush towards anyone resembling him]]. |
| 670 | * HiddenDepths: Nathan has shades of this, which puts him on par with [[TheSmartGuy Pickles]]. To date, he is able to speak fluent French ("Mordland" and "Dethsiduals"), negotiate contracts with the Blues Devil ("Bluesklok"), is knowledgeable in the makeup of rockets ("Dethecution") is very proficient in firearms such as rifles and bazookas ("Doublebookedklok"), and took charge of the band's finances in Offdensen's absence ("Renovationklok"). He is also far more perceptive of other people than is given credit for (respecting Skwisgaar's DisappearedDad issues in "Fatherklok" and realizing that Offdensen hates the band in "Doublebookedklok"), and is often seen reading more than his fellow bandmates. And despite his hatred of Dr. Rockso, Nathan apparently knows enough about him that he's able to accurately recount all the times Dr. Rockso screwed himself and his band Zazz Blammymatazz over with his cocaine addiction. |
| 671 | * HulkSpeak: Generally averted in the show but some of his lyrics delve into this. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hLd3xA7GJQ Facefisted]] is the most notable example of this. |
| 672 | -->''"I am be dangerous now!''\ |
| 673 | ''Not me hurt when stairs fell down!''\ |
| 674 | ''Me pushed by you! Me hit head!''\ |
| 675 | ''Me nose broke! Soon you be dead!"'' |
| 676 | * HypocriticalHumor: Twice in "Tributeklok". |
| 677 | ** The first time is after Murderface makes an ass of himself on live TV and Nathan calls him out on it: |
| 678 | ---> '''Nathan''': (to Murderface) '''You''' consistently make us look like a bunch of dumb, rich, sheltered ''assholes!'' *([[IResembleThatRemark cue zoom-out to show the whole band being pampered by Klokateers]])* |
| 679 | ** Later, in the same episode, Nathan is lying in bed and seems to be having a conversation with himself asking if the band really is out of touch with regular people. The camera then zooms out to reveal that Nathan isn't talking to himself, but a room full of supermodels that he just finished having an orgy with. |
| 680 | * InASingleBound: Pulls off some impressive leaps during the concert in "Birthdayface". |
| 681 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: In "Dethtroll": |
| 682 | -->''"Oh, I hate Finland. I need a hundred beers. Exactly - exactly one hundred."'' |
| 683 | * IWasQuiteALooker: He's still attractive enough to be a BigBeautifulMan now, but as seen in flashbacks of Dethklok's younger days during "Dethcamp" and ''WesternAnimation/MetalocalypseTheDoomstarRequiem'', he used to be quite ripped. He does regain some of his former muscle in "Going Downklok", as he turned to weight-lifting as a substitute for masturbating due to suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome. |
| 684 | * InsaneTrollLogic: In "Dethhealth", Nathan uses this to justify why the band needs to drink bleach in order to get healthy again: |
| 685 | --> '''Nathan:''' Bleach is healthy. It's mostly water, and we're mostly water. Therefore, we are bleach. |
| 686 | * InSeriesNickname: Many characters have referred to him as "Tonto," an obvious jab at his Native roots. Though usually meant in a casual or even derogatory way, it happens enough to qualify as an unofficial nickname. |
| 687 | * KubrickStare: Does this a couple of times. One particular example is at the end of "Dethcamp", [[spoiler: seconds before punishing the douchebag bullying Toki with a broken snow globe.]] It's so epic that it turns the moon red! |
| 688 | --> '''Nathan:''' Tell me, [[PreAssKickingOneLiner which hand do you fret with?]] |
| 689 | * LackOfEmpathy: Largely acted this way towards everything (and everyone in particular) due to his belief that feelings being "gay" and "not brutal/metal". He slowly gets better over the seasons, and seems to have shed almost all of it by "The Doomstar Requiem". |
| 690 | * LargeAndInCharge: While Skwisgaar is just a bit taller, Nathan's definitely the bulkiest and one of the most muscular members of Dethklok, cutting an imposing figure as their frontman and leader. It helps that he once played football in high school. |
| 691 | * LargeHam: Besides his powerful on-stage presence, Nathan's HarshVocals and obsessions with [[RuleOfCool what he deems "metal" or "brutal"]] means that he tends to shout his words when he gets riled up. |
| 692 | * LittleNo: Due to running out of voice because ''someone'' forgot to press the record button in "Dethkids". |
| 693 | --> '''Pickles''': But, here's the good news: I'm sorry. |
| 694 | * MagicalNativeAmerican: Averted. While he's undeniably a badass and part-Native American, he's as normal as any other regular jackoff. In "Fertilityklok", he didn't take kindly to a stand-up comedian calling him "Tonto" and looked just about ready to punch his face out, but Offdensen got to the guy first. [[spoiler: Then in Seasons 3 and 4 Nathan's shown to have [[DreamingOfThingsToCome precognitive dreaming]], and he also has a spiritual animal guide in the form of a whale (the Sea Prophet)]]. |
| 695 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: In the pilot episode he nonchalantly forces his head and arm through a glass display containing meat while grocery shopping. He's clearly bleeding from the glass shards embedded in said head and arm but doesn't acknowledge this. |
| 696 | * MaliciousMisnaming: Nathan has been called "Tonto" several times. Nothing good happened to the people who called him that. |
| 697 | * ManHug: [[spoiler: Nathan and Pickles share one in the fourth season finale, after Nathan apologizes for destroying the master record and pursuing Abigail, telling Pickles that what he wants more than anything is for the band to stay together. That means that man hugs are officially Metal.]] |
| 698 | ** An earlier example is during "Girlfriendklok", when the band violently interrogates Nathan while he's tied to a chair to understand why he continues to be in a relationship with Rebecca when it clearly makes him miserable. When Nathan relents, admitting that he hates her but is too frightened of her to break up with her, he actually starts ''crying'' prompting the band to release him from his binds before Pickles and Nathan share one of these. |
| 699 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: This is Nathan's reaction to Christmas in "Dethmas". He's initially turned off by the idea of Toki wanting to put up a tree, etc., until he takes a moment to really look it over. He sees it as the corpse of a tree, further humiliated and desecrated by being strung up in Mordhaus and decorated. He feels the whole thing is pretty brutal. |
| 700 | ** In "Renovationklok", he invented a lighting system that allows people to turn on the lights by ''screaming''. |
| 701 | ** In the pilot episode "Curse of Dethklok", Nathan announces on the news that he will "make everything metal". |
| 702 | * NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Nathan's animal form is an alligator. |
| 703 | * NightmareFetishist: To some extent, given his love for anything brutal and metal. |
| 704 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: In "Dethcamp", [[spoiler:after Magnus snaps and tries stabbing Nathan in the back for calling him "crazy", Nathan retaliates by knocking him to the ground and beating him up, [[EyeScream destroying one of Magnus' eyes]].]] In the same episode, [[spoiler:he inflicts one on the bully who tormented Toki by ''cutting up the nerves in his hands with a broken snow globe''.]] |
| 705 | * NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Implied to have gone through ''hundreds'' of liver transplants, and is still going strong. |
| 706 | * NoSell: |
| 707 | ** In a flashback in "Dethcamp", [[spoiler: His only response to getting stabbed in back with a knife by Magnus was to briefly glare at him before delivering one hell of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.]] |
| 708 | ** He also didn't really react at all to [[spoiler: getting kicked in the face by Lavona Succuboso in "Dethrelease" and quickly restrained her afterwards.]] |
| 709 | ** In "Doublebookedklok", Nathan is shown to be the one least affected by Toki's punches. He even takes several punches in a row and barely shows signs that he's in pain, more just annoyed by it. |
| 710 | * NoSympathy: Initially, if someone in his own band is having a problem, Nathan would usually ignore it and leave them to their own devices, forcing them to deal with their problems on their own. He slowly grows out of this in later seasons. |
| 711 | * OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:He gets together with Abigail by the end of ''The Doomstar Requiem'', as they share a kiss after the band rescues her and Toki.]] However, [[spoiler:''Army of the Doomstar'' subverts it as they break up -- Nathan had pressured Abigail into marriage before she was ready. Nathan later realizes his mistake and lets her go.]] |
| 712 | * OnlySaneMan: Replaces Pickles as this from Season 2 onward, where Nathan has proven much more reasonable, socially adjusted, and intelligent while Pickles becomes increasingly neurotic. |
| 713 | * OrSoIHeard: In "Dethzazz", Nathan claims this trope in regards to how he knew so much about previous failed Zazz Blammymatazz reunions. |
| 714 | * PapaWolf: |
| 715 | ** Sort of. He'll mess with the guys and occasionally let them suffer the consequences of their idiocy. But when someone goes too far, he'll be the first to bust heads. |
| 716 | ** [[spoiler:Do NOT bully Toki. In "Dethcamp", after a bully harassed Toki and broke a snowglobe that Nathan and Pickles gave to Toki as a gift, Nathan chased him down and destroyed any musical future the guy may have had, by cutting up the nerves in his hands with a ''broken snow globe''.]] |
| 717 | * ThePerfectionist: Nathan is willing to delete tracks, even entire albums if they don't meet his standards. It's actually counter-productive since people tend to get violent if an album is delayed. |
| 718 | * PerpetualFrowner: Seems to be capable of only one expression. He does smile on occasion, though you can probably count them with one hand. |
| 719 | * PortmanteauCoupleName: In-universe as "Natebecca" or "Rebasplosion" with Rebecca Nightrod. |
| 720 | * PromotionToParent: Happens to Nathan after [[spoiler: their manager Charles Offdensen dies]] from Season 3 onward. Notable examples include taking care of the band's finances while Offdensen's gone, and looking after Toki. |
| 721 | * PunnyName: On "Napalm Explosion". |
| 722 | * TheQuietOne: As a child, he didn't speak at all until he was five. |
| 723 | * RhymesOnADime: Literally had to do this in ''Writerklok'' by coming up with a new song on the spot to save his band. |
| 724 | * SeriousBusiness: Chips, alcohol, and metal. |
| 725 | * SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Nathan is seen wearing glasses a few times, particularly when he's reading something. In "Renovationklok", he's wearing glasses while sitting in Offdensen's office, taking charge of the band's finances. While not as smart as Offdensen, he's still much smarter and emotionally-adjusted compared to his dysfunctional bandmates. |
| 726 | * SophisticatedAsHell: Generally averted in the show, but several of his lyrics tend to mix in some rather eloquent phrases like "Pistillate artifice" with cruder ones like "Bleed like a bitch". |
| 727 | * SpannerInTheWorks: Unwittingly. [[spoiler: Nathan's destroying the Master Record delayed the Tribunal's progress with the Falconback Project significantly as they needed a massive amount of funds for it to work.]] |
| 728 | * {{Squick}}: In-universe, how he views procreational sex (in other words, how babies are made). |
| 729 | * TheStoic: Nathan is the most stoic member of the band, making his {{Death Glare}}s and {{Kubrick Stare}}s very effective, though he is stoic in the sense that he's not really good with showing or handling emotions. The others joke that if he ever had to honestly apologize, his internal organs would explode. [[spoiler:They aren't far off; in the Season 4 finale, he goes into convulsions and vomits up blood while apologizing to Pickles for destroying their album and fucking Abigail.]] |
| 730 | * TeamDad: While Nathan would never admit it, his stoic, gruff demeanor and hidden GentleGiant side means he has a tendency to act fatherly towards his bandmates whenever Charles isn't around. Examples include making sure Toki is prepared for his trip to the Rock-A-Rooni Fantasy camp in "Dethcamp", and treating Toki and Skwisgaar like kids on their first day at school in "Dethrace". This also means he [[PapaWolf gets really terrifying when his bandmates are threatened]] [[spoiler:as shown with the bully who tormented Toki and broke his snowglobe that Nathan gave to him as a gift]]. |
| 731 | * TearsOfBlood: Does this in the Detharmonic video, because taxes are just that brutal. |
| 732 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Nathan has been seen eating chips quite a few times. |
| 733 | * TranquilFury: While Nathan has the occasional outbursts of rage here and there, he barely emotes beyond an ice-cold KubrickStare and his casual speaking voice when he ''really'' gets [[BerserkButton pissed off]]. The best examples would be [[spoiler:Nathan giving Magnus a brutal beatdown that destroys one of his eyes after the latter literally stabs him in the back with his knife]] and [[spoiler:Nathan's reaction to a bully breaking Toki's snow globe in "Dethcamp" -- he just glares at the snow globe, picks it up, and then delivers this chilling line:]] |
| 734 | -->'''Nathan:''' Oh shit little kid. ''You just fucked up real bad.'' |
| 735 | * TroubledBackstoryFlashback: In "Dethcamp", [[spoiler:Nathan was cleaning up Toki's room when he finds a brochure for the Rock-a-Roonie Fantasy Camp that Toki is attending. He learns that Magnus is working as a camp counselor there, causing Nathan to have a flashback of Dethklok's early days -- specifically, the day Magnus was kicked out of the band for his violent and controlling behavior.]] |
| 736 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: His response to watching an insane truck driver ram his truck into his school and kill his second-grade classmates and teacher in "Dethgov" is to stand there and calmly watch the scene unfold. |
| 737 | * TheUnapologetic: He excuses this, claiming to have an "apology problem". Managed to break free from this trope when apologizing to Pickles in "Church Of The Black Klok", but [[BloodFromTheMouth it wasn't pretty]]. |
| 738 | * TheUnintelligible: Though his unintelligibility is pretty standard fare for a death metal band. |
| 739 | * VocalEvolution: Music-wise, Nathan's singing voice started out as deeper and more guttural than it is now. This is TruthInTelevision - most death metal vocalists pitch up over time due to the stress being put on their vocal cords. |
| 740 | ** Conversely, his speaking voice on the show actually became deeper and more guttural in later seasons contradicting the change in his singing voice. |
| 741 | * WeightWoe: Alongside Murderface. Nathan isn't happy with how he's let himself go. |
| 742 | * WhenSheSmiles: Gender-inverted. With his tall, broad stature and his [[TheStoic perpetually pissed-off expression]], Nathan looks every bit as brutal as he appears to his fans. However, whenever he smiles, he looks friendly and approachable. While it isn't commented on in-universe, it's a hint to viewers that he's much warmer and kinder than he appears. |
| 743 | [[/folder]] |
| 744 | |
| 745 | !!Former |
| 746 | |
| 747 | [[folder:Magnus Hammersmith]] |
| 748 | !!Magnus Hammersmith (M.H., The Unknown Member, The Man Who Stands Behind Shadows) |
| 749 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/magnus_5.jpg]] |
| 750 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MarcMaron, Creator/BrendonSmall (''DSR'') |
| 751 | ->''"REVENGE IS COMING!"'' |
| 752 | |
| 753 | Ex-member of Dethklok, kicked out for his controlling and deranged nature. |
| 754 | ---- |
| 755 | * AFateWorseThanDeath: His desired revenge against the band is simultaneously more kind ''and'' more brutal than just killing them. He wants to bring them down to his level of obscurity, making them into "regular jackoffs". The band has repeatedly stated if they couldn't be famous, they'd just kill themselves. |
| 756 | * AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:He's seen stitching and cleaning the stab wound he gave Toki in "The Doomstar Requiem".]] He also saves Toki from dying from diabetic shock in "Dethcamp". |
| 757 | * BeardOfEvil: Has a Goatee of Evil. |
| 758 | * BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler: Serves as part of this in "The Doomstar Requiem", alongside the Metal Masked Assassin.]] |
| 759 | * BigBadFriend[=/=]BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: After Magnus saved Toki's life, Toki came to really consider him a good friend and evidently the rest of the band too since he was allowed to attend Roy Cornickelson's funeral at Mordhaus. This turned out to be a very bad idea as detailed below.]] |
| 760 | ** [[spoiler: In "The Doomstar Requiem", Toki still calls him a friend as he's begging for mercy.]] |
| 761 | * ChekhovsGunman: Unceremoniously introduced in a flashback in "Renovationklok" and didn't say a single word. He wouldn't make another appearance until one season later in "Dethcamp" where his past with the band is expanded upon and he meets Toki at the Rock-a-Rooni Fantasy Camp. [[spoiler: Then he ends up becoming a primary antagonist in the "Doomstar Requiem".]] |
| 762 | * DarkIsEvil: A violent, vindictive, dark-haired {{Jerkass}} dressed in black and gray clothing. |
| 763 | * TheDreaded: It goes to show how much of a douchebag Magnus is [[spoiler: when Dethklok completely panics at the thought of leaving Toki alone with him at a rock n' roll camp]]. Even Dr. Rockso, with his cocaine habit and low standards, [[EveryoneHasStandards knows how much of an asshole Magnus is]]. |
| 764 | -->'''Dr. Rockso''': He a dirty old hunk-a shit, Toki! He a g-g-g-garbage can! That's why he done been kicked outta Dethklok all those years back. |
| 765 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:He's outraged when he sees that the Metal Masked Assassin has murdered Ishnifus.]] |
| 766 | * EyeScream: He's blind in one eye [[spoiler: because when Nathan beat him up for trying to stab him in the back, he managed to mess up one of his eyes as well]]. |
| 767 | * HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Has this revelation in his dying moments, horrified at having gotten Ishnifus killed and still awestruck after seeing Dethklok manifest the power of gods.]] |
| 768 | * HiddenDepths: [[spoiler: In "The Doomstar Requiem", he's seen staring forlornly at a group photo of him and his ex-bandmates smiling happily implying that at one point they legitimately saw each other as friends.]] |
| 769 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Happens to him via a spear courtesy of the Metal Masked Assassin in ''The Doomstar Requiem''. He eventually frees himself and is left to bleed to death.]] |
| 770 | * InTheBack: [[spoiler: In "Dethcamp" it's revealed he tried to kill Nathan this way in the past, only for Nathan to physically retaliate and kick him out of the band permanently. In "Church of the Black Klok" he does this to Toki, after betraying him to the Revengencers]]. |
| 771 | * IResembleThatRemark: Nathan tells Magnus he's "sounding crazy". Magnus's reaction is to pull out a knife and stab him in the back. |
| 772 | * {{Jerkass}}: Massively! [[spoiler: It's revealed in "Dethcamp" that he was forced out of Dethklok after being a raging douchebag to everyone and getting in a fight with Nathan, which he promptly lost.]] |
| 773 | ** Though he [[spoiler: saved Toki's life]] in "Dethcamp", it is heavily implied that he did so not out of kindness. [[spoiler: "Breakupklok" confirms that he is the Revengencers' inside man, and heavily implies that he is using Toki to give his allies access to Dethklok.]] |
| 774 | ** [[spoiler: He ups it in the fourth season finale by kidnapping Toki and stabbing him.]] |
| 775 | * LeanAndMean: He's got a build similar to Skwisgaar and proved to be the biggest douchebag in the band before he got kicked out. |
| 776 | * ManipulativeBastard: Manipulated [[spoiler: Toki]] into becoming his friend, and then [[spoiler: betrayed him to the Revengencers just to spite Dethklok for kicking him out]]. |
| 777 | ** [[spoiler: It's implied he also told the bully from "Dethcamp" about Toki's diabetes so he can make himself a hero in Toki's eyes by saving him, and then set the same bully up as the FallGuy by timing the destruction of Toki's snowglobe so it'll deflect Dethklok's anger (namely [[PapaWolf Nathan]]) onto the kid]]. |
| 778 | * NotWhatISignedOnFor: [[spoiler: Dips into this when he sees the Metal Masked Assassin kill Ishnifus Meaddle. Gets impaled for his trouble.]] |
| 779 | ** [[spoiler: He showed signs of this during his first song in the Klok Opera. He has no intent to kill Toki and Abigail, and views Toki as another victim. He doesn't want to murder anyone, especially the band, but he does want them to suffer in obscurity like he has after being kicked out.]] |
| 780 | * ThePeteBest: In-universe; he was the band's original rhythm guitarist, but was kicked out before the band got big because of his violent behavior and shitty attitude. |
| 781 | * ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Played with, as he's on the receiving end of the unfairness of this trope. Like Dethklok, he doesn't particularly care about bystanders, and makes no effort to protect others' lives. Like them, he's a literally raging, controlling, narcissist. [[spoiler:But he doesn't have a prophecy backing him. In fact, he's even a necessary evil in the prophecy.]] |
| 782 | * RedBaron: The Man Who Stands Behind Shadows, according to the prophecy. |
| 783 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:At least he seems to believe so. Upon Toki and Abigail being rescued, he realizes how he has failed and how vastly he underestimated Dethklok's powers. Accepting his "role" as the villain, despite the fact that he'd most likely bleed to death from the impalement inflicted upon him by the Assassin anyway, he finishes the deed himself.]] |
| 784 | * {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:He never got over being kicked out of the band despite giving the group every reason to do so. He has slowly been biding his time to get revenge on Dethklok, even joining the Revengencers. He achieves it during "Church of the Black Klok", as he kidnaps and stabs his replacement in the band, Toki.]] |
| 785 | * TheResenter: [[spoiler:Towards Toki, for taking his place in the band, and Dethklok in general for kicking him out (although their reasons were quite justified)]]. |
| 786 | * ShadowArchetype: Ironically, several of Magnus' character traits - some of them being the very reason he was kicked out of the band - have been displayed by the current members of Dethklok to varying degrees, including his replacement, Toki: He's violent, selfish, manipulative, scheming, capable of psychotic outbursts, arrogant in his musical abilities, and too stubborn to realize his own mistakes. [[spoiler: It's rather fitting that right around the time Dethklok shed most of their personal shortcomings, he's already been dealt with by another villain and he ends up giving up on his vengeance.]] |
| 787 | * SympathyForTheHero: [[spoiler: During his VillainSong, he apparently sees Toki and Abigail as just more victims of the band's selfishness.]] |
| 788 | * VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:His realization that he descended into villainy has him scream to the heavens as he accepts his eventual death by blood loss.]] |
| 789 | * VillainSong: [[spoiler: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBnSdNTPA_g "Magnus and the Assassin"]] from "The Doomstar Requiem" with Magnus torturing Toki as he and the Assassin talk of their plots to exact vengeance upon Dethklok. The song focuses mainly on Magnus, though.]] |
| 790 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htjy65kW7Bo "The Hammer"]] might count as well. It's the only Dethklok song that Magnus definitely contributed to, and appears to be a fearsome BadassBoast written during his time in the band. |
| 791 | * WalkingSpoiler: There wasn't any indication that the band used to have a different rhythm guitarist until he showed up in a flashback in season 3. [[spoiler: And this is well before he turns out to be a major antagonist.]] |
| 792 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Apparently he thought was justified in his actions this whole time and it takes realizing he's the "bad guy" to get him to give up.]] |
| 793 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler: During the song "Do It All For My Brother", he's seen staring forlornly at a group photo of him and his ex-bandmates smiling with arms over each other's shoulders implying this. For Nathan's part, Magnus is one of the people he thinks about as part of a montage featuring those that aren't by his side (including Dick, Alicia and Edgar) in the finale of "Army of the Doomstar"]] |
| 794 | [[/folder]] |
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