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* [[Archive Panic]]: Bad enough he's recorded so many albums and guest spots, and made so many music videos and concert films...but there's a whole ''filmography'' to explore too.
* [[Award Snub]]: Only one competitive Grammy win (1985) and a Lifetime Achievement Award (2006) that wasn't televised, since a lot of those are given out each year. The snubbing is partially due to his not actually being nominated until 1984, and ''Let's Dance'' had the bad luck of competing against [[
* [[Breakaway Pop Hit]]: "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)", partially because he included a rearranged version of the song on ''Let's Dance''. Now it's better-known for its appearance in ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'' rather than the film it was written for.
* [[Broken Base]]: Inevitable due to all his style and image makeovers, though the biggest split came when the mainstream-oriented ''Let's Dance'' arrived.
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* [[Dork Age]]/[[Fanon Discontinuity]]: Three major periods are commonly singled out by fans and even the man himself.
** Pre-''Space Oddity'' (1964-68) -- Covers all his early singles and first, self-titled album.
** Post-''Let's Dance'' (1984-1988) -- ''Tonight'' and ''Never Let Me Down'', which carried on the mainstream pop-rock approach of ''Let's Dance'', were not nearly as well-received, and the Glass Spider Tour supporting ''Never Let Me Down'' was much-criticized for its heavy [[Spectacle]]. Bowie has called this era his "[[
** The Tin Machine era (1989-92) -- This deliberate effort to shed the previous dork age was almost as poorly received, never mind the fact that it set up his work in [[The Nineties]]. (From that decade onward, how dorky a given album is becomes a matter of personal taste.) This period also has a generally-acknowledged bright spot in the solo Sound+Vision tour.
* [[Face of the Band]]: Bowie tried to avert being Tin Machine's face, but failed. The trope page uses lyrics from "Ziggy Stardust" as its header quote -- Ziggy was initially just a singer/guitarist in the Spiders from Mars, but he "became the special man" to the fans, much to the jealousy and resentment of the other Spiders.
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* [[Memetic Badass]]
** ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' portrays him as the shapeshifting overlord of the Guild of Calamitous Intent.
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** On ''[[Naruto the Abridged Comedy Spoof Series Show]]'', he's an indestructible ninja with a habit of breaking into song and insisting that he's not David Bowie.
** In ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]'' he is a sort of Gandalf-figure (portrayed, sadly, not by the man himself) who appears to Bret in three dreams, each time in the guise of a different character: {{spoiler|Ziggy Stardust, the Pierrot of "Ashes to Ashes", and Jareth}}.
** One member of ''[[Dr.
** ''[[The Sifl and Olly Show]]'' claims the Great Pyramids of Egypt were built in anticipation of his arrival.
* [[Memetic Outfit]]
** The lightning bolt makeup he wore for the ''Aladdin Sane'' cover and inner sleeve is probably his single most-referenced "look" in pop culture.
** The eyepatch he wore (due to conjunctivitis) during a Dutch television appearance in 1974 is forever tied to his character Halloween Jack from ''Diamond Dogs'', which he was promoting at the time.
* [[Memetic Sex God]]: "If you have seen ''[[
* [[Misaimed Fandom]]: "All the Young Dudes", written for [[
** [[Mad Artist|Julian Priest]], the character portrayed by Bowie in the television series ''The Hunger'', has gained a large amount of affection from fans over the years.
* [[Misattributed Song]]: An unusual case. "All the Young Dudes" was first performed by Mott the Hoople, but the cumulative effect of Bowie writing, producing, and performing backing vocals and saxophone on it (he also recorded his own version and made it a concert setlist staple) means they aren't properly associated with it.
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* [[So Bad It's Good]]: Some of his pre-1969 songs, especially the novelty tune "The Laughing Gnome", and his "Dancing in the Street" duet with Mick Jagger in 1985, mostly because of the goofy, [[Ho Yay]]-fueled video (another reason the mid-'80s are often called Bowie's big [[Dork Age]]).
* [[So Cool It's Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|So Cool It's Awesome]]: In particular, ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars'' is often considered one of the best albums of all time.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: See the [[David Bowie
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: Due to his frequent reinventions, Bowie has faced this constantly -- "I preferred him as singer-songwriter, space alien, blue-eyed soul singer, [[
* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]], [[True Art Is Angsty]], and [[Mind Screw]]: The premise of the ''1.Outside'' narrative.
* [[Vindicated
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
* [[The Woobie]]: As Bowie has a good deal of sympathy/empathy for the plight of the "freaky" folk of the world, tales of misunderstood, suffering souls turn up occasionally in his work.
** The old veteran in "Little Bombardier" (from his debut album). After years of loneliness and depression, things seem to turn around for him when he strikes up an [[Intergenerational Friendship]] with some schoolchildren -- and then the police, who suspect he means ill, nip that in the bud.
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