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* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Given the source material, it's impossible not to have a couple.

** The moment just after Eddie defeats the first boss, wailing a guitar solo on his axe. {{spoiler|And repeated again when he does the same to Doviculus.}}

** Escaping from Lionwhyte's palace {{spoiler|after Doviculus kills Lars and starts raining down fiery destruction}} while "[[Dragon Force|Through The Fire and Flames]]" plays from the speakers. Though it was [[What Could Have Been|originally supposed to be]] "Run to the Hills" by Iron Maiden, [[Executive Meddling|legal screws from Activision nixed that]].

* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: Jack Black's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Uu_vFjlok self-affirmation video] for dealing with online douchebags.

* [[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]].

* [[Dude, Not Funny]]:

'''Mangus:''' ''Hey. Not cool! I wear this thing so I don't have to stop the bus to take a leak!'' }}

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

** The "Wall of Death" is a full Drowning Doom army, with every debuffer available, and lots of Broods.

* [[Follow the Leader]]: [[Guitar Hero]] - Warriors of Rock.

* [[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.

** Bobby Kotick claimed [[Brutal Legend]] was not a good game. It's a [[Spiritual Successor]] to an [[Activision]] game called ''[[Battlezone (1998 video game)|Battlezone 1998]]''.

** Tim Schafer played [[Alan Wake]] and tweeted in [http://twitter.com/TimOfLegend/status/20610212053 two] [http://twitter.com/TimOfLegend/status/20610293266 posts]:

* [[Hollywood Hype Machine]]: EA's multimillion-dollar attempt to hide the gameplay against the wishes of [[Tim Schafer]].

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Lowest Common Denominator]]: EA's '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQo2kf4Y4hQ ENTIRE.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4QdYFa-eAc&feature=rec-LGOUT-exp_stronger_r2-2r-1-HM MARKETING.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFWM8sUkd_E&feature=channel CAMPAIGN.]'''

* [[Meaningful Name]] / [[Punny Name]]: Lita, the {{spoiler|future [[Punny Name|Leader]] of Ironheade.}} Not to be confused with [[The Runaways|Lita Ford]] or [[Judas Priest|RobHalford]], though [[Word of God|her name is a combination of theirs.]]

* [[Mis Blamed]]: [[Tim Schafer]] and Double Fine get all the flack for the [[Misaimed Marketing]], when it was [[Electronic Arts]] fault.

* [[Most Wonderful Sound]]: In both single player and multiplayer, the guitar solos are excellent, and your units react with hilariously joyful comments.

'''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 />