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* [[Acceptable Lifestyle Targets]]: [[Boy Band|Boy Bands]] slaughtered? [[Emo Teen]] zombies? Bondage-slave demons? My word!

* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: The Fire Baron [[Nerf]] saved a dying online community.

* [[Anvilicious]]: The [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly|Second Wave of American Tween Melodic Rap Metalcore]] band Kabbage Boy sounding awful and then getting their heads blown off.

** [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]]: [[Tim Schafer]] says he's overjoyed about the bands in the soundtrack getting exposure and creating new [[Heavy Metal]] fans. Which was exactly one of his goals.

* [[Awesome Music]]: Inevitable considering the soundtrack consists of 107 tracks of original work, remixes of various metal songs, or actual album compositions. Considering the game starts out with ''Children of the Grave'' in a low-volume riff until Riggs picks up the axe...

** Fighting the giant Metal Queen spider to Brocas Helm's Cry of the Banshee is considered one of the most memorable moments in the game. The song (and band) were impossible to find anywhere, until their popularity exploded from this game. Soon after, the Brocas Helm album [[Heavy Mithril|"Defender of the Crown"]] became available for digital download on iTunes.

** Most, if not all, of the set pieces involve Crowning Musical Moments Of Awesome.

* [[Best Level Ever]]: [[Brutal Legend]] fans and haters love the Metal Spider lair dearly.

* [[Broken Base]]: There are loyal fans who love all of Double Fine's work, fans who feel betrayed that it's a multiplayer focused Action/RTS and not a [[Dynasty Warriors]] esque brawler, and fans of just the multiplayer. There are also fans who loved the single player so much that the multiplayer focus did not deter them.

** PC Players complain that Double Fine has abandoned them. Double Fine responded that they make games on the consoles that their publisher allows them to make. And [[Electronic Arts]] refuses to make games for the pirate infested waters of PC gaming.

* [[Crazy Awesome]]: [[Tim Schafer]].

** Also, the game itself. It gives you achievements for throwing hedgehogs at an [[Everything's Worse with Bears|armored bear]] until it drops dead, jumping over a six-legged mammoth [[Ramp Jump|with your car]], and riding a motorcycle boar across half the continent to drown it in the sea of killer black oil. It's just as fun as it sounds, trüly.

* [[Cult Classic]]: However, [[Tim Schafer]] expressed the fact that he is very sick of his games reaching this status.

* [[Dead Horse Music Genre]]:

** Subverted because this is a game set in a world without critics to badmouth any specific genre. Any Metal in this game, that is not said to be awful in game, [[Word of God|is an affectionate nod to its genre]]. Rob Halford even said, "[Lionwhyte] is a cross-section of everything I know and love in Heavy Metal music.".

* [[Disappointing Last Level]]: While the actual quality of the game stays high throughout, after Lionwhyte's palace, the story moves at an almost uncontrollably fast pace. See [[Cosmic Deadline]].

* [[Ear Worm]]: Once you hear the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVo98qkUoTc commercial], you will never unhear it.

* [[Evil Is Cool]]: In universe, Eddie sure feels this way in the Temple of Ormagoden.

* [[Fan Dumb]]: Tell a fan you thought Brutal Legend was short or was an RTS in disguise, expect a tongue lashing.

** Don't EVER tell a fan you skipped the multiplayer, or ask them to help you cheat your way to achievements.

** Taken to truly extreme levels with the multiplayer. As has been mentioned, the campaign mode is essentially a very long tutorial. Apparently, those who ''haven't'' played the multiplayer are "ungrateful greedy posers" for expecting the campaign mode of a game to be enjoyable as a standalone, when for any other game, it would be a requirement.

* [[Game Breaker]]: The Heat Seeker makes Death Rack side-missions almost too easy.

** Multiplayer has too many to count. Before the balance patch, spamming Fire Barons was an instant winner. After the balance patch, Ironheade became the weakest, and players resorted to new things. An infinite combo with any character, spamming Grave Diggers and their Double Team, spamming Soul Kissers and using their suicide attack to wipe out the enemy army at an unfair ratio, summoning the player's car over and over, and the most community killing of them all, disconnecting while losing.

** One player angry about the Stage Battles publicly messaged [[Tim Schafer]] on Twitter and [[Misblamed|called him a liar]] and accused him of falsely advertising the game as strictly action. Tim Schafer responded with his [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGrK70GgTXM multiplayer reveal two months before release.]

* [[Hype Aversion]]: [[Electronic Arts]] and [[Tim Schafer]] each advertised very different things on this game. In many videos, [[Tim Schafer]] talked almost exclusively on the multiplayer aspect, because it's the part he worked on the most, and was the point of the whole game (the single player world and story were created after the multiplayer was finished.) EA on the other hand advertised the presence of [[Jack Black]], and hyped the game up immensely without actually talking about the gameplay. Players who went exclusively by the hype and the single player demo did not take the [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]] well. Double Fine did not enjoy the marketing push at all. EA completely and intentionally hid the gameplay that [[Tim Schafer]] wanted players to see the most.

* [[Internet Backdraft]]: The Stage Battles.

* [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks]]: Brocas Helm, due to their massive [[Colbert Bump]] from this game.

* [[It's Short, So It Sucks]]: A common criticism from players who aren't interested in the multiplayer.

* [[Just Here for Godzilla]]: Achievement whores are DESPISED by the online community.

** [[Tim Schafer]] met one who asked him to lose intentionally to boost achievements. He was pissed.

{{quote|'''[[Tim Schafer]]:''' "surrender plz? surrender plz??? This is what I go online for? To have some kid tell me "surrender plz" at my own game?"}}

* [[Memetic Mutation]]: '''DECAPITATION!!!'''

** [[Hate Dumb|LOL RTS!]]

'''Grave Diggers''': "[[Made Myself Sad|That song makes me want to kill myself, in a good way!]]"<br />

'''Battle Nun''': "How does he do that?!"<br />

* [[Music to Invade Poland To]]: The Tainted Coil get ''Blitzkrieg'' by Deathstars.

* [[Needs More Love]]: Fans believe [[Electronic Arts]] [[Executive Meddling]] send this game out to die.

* [[Nightmare Retardant]]: The [[Personal Space Invader|metal spider babies]]. Normally they're fairly creepy, but when you Earthshaker them off of Eddie, they die with the noise of ''popping popcorn''.

* [[Player Punch]]: There's ''three'' of them all caused by the same character.

* [[Scapegoat Creator]]: A number of people blame the game's rushed feeling towards the end on EA, based on their reputation for rushing games.

** Fans blame EA for poor sales due to marketing ''[[Brutal Legend]]'' as a massive single player adventure instead of marketing the Stage Battles, regardless of the fact they were considered good in their focus tests. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbpXAx_F-P0 This is the one and only multiplayer commercial from EA.] Not very convincing. No matter how much [[Tim Schafer]] tried to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGrK70GgTXM pour his heart out] on the Stage Battles months before release, it was drowned out by EA's hype, and especially the single player demo.

* [[Scrappy Mechanic]]: The Summon Flag. Like a Rally Point in [[StarCraft]], a special guitar solo creates a rally point that you can set on the ground for allies, or keep on your back so fresh units will come to you. But losing track of this flag is an easy way to cost you a match, even for the pros.