YMMV / Aviators

• Complete Monster—Bleeding Sun Universe (chronology): The Elder starts as a cult leader in the Southern United States. The Elder corrupts his flock of followers with promises of surviving the end times, then helps set off a nuclear apocalypse, bathing the world in both flood and nuclear fire, all in the name of ruling the ashes from a prophesied throne. The world's judge of the dead, The Watcher, offers The Elder both forgiveness and the immortality and godhood that he desires, with no drawbacks, if only he'll rebuild humanity from the ashes they've been reduced to. Instead, The Elder betrays the deal and sets up a despotic regime, using his new godhood to create the Ascended as his top lieutenants in oppressing all of humanity, until one Ascended betrays and kills the rest. As the tide turns against The Elder, he encourages his followers to be brutal overlords who try to take their enemies down with them, until eventually only he remains.
• Funny Moments: At one point in "Never Back Down", Yelling at Cats experiences the BGM getting cut out:
  "Wait. WHERE'D THE BEAT GO!? Uh... Oh, it's back"
• Growing the Beard: The matter of when is up for debate, but everyone agrees that The Adventure is when he started to take on his own musical style and stopped trying to imitate such legends as The Living Tombstone.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • His Avengers: Infinity War-themed song "Endgame" was released before the title of Avengers: Endgame was revealed.
  • The lyrics of "Shadows", a song about Discord's descent into evil, match up almost perfectly with the version of him in the Pony POV Series, a Jerkass God who was reborn as an innocent child, only to be tormented with visions of his evil self before it completely consumed him.