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Real name Joel Zimmerman, he was born and raised in Niagara Falls, Ontario (though he considers his current city of residence, [[Toronto]], his hometown). As a child, he had a hobby of tearing apart household electronics to figure out how they worked, which carried over to his later fascination with electronic music production - as opposed to solely using plugins and software to make his sounds (which he derisively calls "laptop music"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D26U26fFojw he uses huge racks of modulation and MIDI devices] to produce them. After dropping out of high school, doing many odd jobs over the years (including being contracted for an IT job for two years using [[Badass|only his own self-taught computer programming skills]]), and starting a design business on the side, all while producing music in his free time as a hobby, he found himself being paid to do music for advertising until he got discovered by DJ Chris Lake. This and the appearance of his first hit as deadmau5, "Faxing Berlin", on Pete Tong's radio show led to him being signed onto Ultra Records, later creating his own label, mau5trap, and thus becoming a hit electronic artist doing music full-time.

While known for his music and his mau5head image, he is also known for being one of the [[One of Us|nerdiest musicians]] to ever exist, being extremely open with his fans, and causing controversy, usually by speaking what is ''exactly'' on his mind, PR and sugarcoating be damned. These, combined with his [[Cluster F-Bomb|constant cursing]], his [[Trolling|sense of humor]], his [[I Just Want to Be Normal|personal problems]], and the tendency for people to take anything he says out of context, result in a rather ''interesting'' individual.

 

* ''Get Scraped'' (2006)

* ''Vexillology'' (2006)

* ''For Lack of a Better Name'' (2009)

* ''4x4=12'' (2010)

 

* [[Accent On the Wrong Syllable]]: The lyrics in "Sofi Needs a Ladder" start out with "Let's play MU-si-CAL-chairs, one of my favorite gaaaaames".

** This trope also applies to him when he's actually speaking. Occasionally he'll pronounce a word oddly, such as "epitome" ("epi-tohm" instead of "ee-pi-toh-mee"). Possibly related to [[Canada, Eh?]] below.

* [[Adorkable]]: Any time he [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRYFeHcwbFQ dances], this trope seems to take effect.

* [[Arc Words]]: "United We Fail", which is the name of his upcoming graphic novel project. What does it mean, and what significance does it have in the story? We have no idea, and he's not talking.

* [[Ascended Meme]]: The phrase "go to bed", usually used by fans as a response against one of his trolling attempts, was championed by him as a response to any hate Tweets he got about his outburst at [[Madonna]].

** [[Gratuitous Foreign Language]]: After enough times of using the phrase, he asked his fans on Twitter to send him versions of it in different languages. The result was him spamming the phrase to angry Madonnna fans in a variety of different languages.

** Even autotuning his own vocals is occasionally subverted: his vocals in "Edit Your Friends" are only autotuned in the last thirty seconds of the song, and only the "Getting Warmer" mix for the unreleased song "Sleeping Beauty Pills" has his vocals autotuned.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Several.

** Telling him how to live his life or work his career is a ''big'' one. There are fewer ways to piss him off faster than to [http://choleric-mau5.blogspot.com/2011/04/fanmail.html insinuate that he's "doing it wrong"].

** Marijuana also seems to be a huge one for him (as Rusko learned the hard way), even though his [http://choleric-mau5.blogspot.com/2010/09/psa-15-stuffs-you-may-or-may-not-have.html official stance on drugs is that he doesn't care]. This [[Wild Mass Guessing|may or may not be]] related to an incident he cited on the Joe Rogen podcast in which he tried it once and his body reacted ''very badly'' to it. Of course, it could also be related to the [[Properly Paranoid|very real and practical fear]] of being deported back to Canada if he's found with people who use it.

** [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|And lastly]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr0ZnZEt9nQ spraying his gear with champagne]. Also cited by deadmau5 himself as "[http://choleric-mau5.blogspot.com/2010/10/ed-hardly.html reason #32 for not giving [him] a microphone]".

* [[Big Eater]]: Implied by several of his Tweets and Facebook posts. Best part is, the guy is still insanely thin.

* [[Blue with Shock]]: The line variety, in this [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150581506596806&set=a.100357766805.100899.9980651805&type=1&theater fan-made image] that he posted of him playing [[Skyrim]] - [[Call Back|trying to fight off a bear]] [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|with a wooden bowl and a spoon]].

* [[Book Ends]]: One of his old songs, "You Need a Ladder", starts and ends with 8-bit Zelda overworld music.

** "Raise Your Weapon" starts and ends with the same solemn piano chords.

* [[Buffy-Speak]]: While teasing [[Skrillex]] about driving and [[Expecting Someone Taller|how short he is]]: "[https://twitter.com/#!/deadmau5/status/167141951517360128 @skrillex but... like... how do reach the pedally things? :D]"

** Also doubles as [[Hypocritical Humor]], as deadmau5 himself can't drive.

** Has appeared several times at Skrillex's shows, sometimes in his ghost costume from "Ghosts 'n' Stuff". In one instance, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ziWYIX5r4Y he came onstage] to help Skrillex smash his Mac.

** He also has a random cameo in the middle of the tour music video for Skrillex's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOofWzI3flA Rock and Roll (Will Take You to the Mountain)].

** He has made a cameo at the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtP5KbxDXS0 beginning of a CSI episode], though [[Did Not Do the Research|that's not his gear]] (he doesn't use turntables).

** He's also shown up on two episodes of [[EPICMEALTIME]].

** In [[Minecraft]]'s [[Couch Gag|main menu splash]], one of the possible sayings is "[[First-Name Basis|Joel]] is neat!".

*** And in the 1.2 Minecraft release, three kinds of tamed cats were introduced, one of which looks ''suspiciously'' like deadmau5's cat, Professor Meowingtons. This is pretty much confirmed by a Mojang staff member's tweet to deadmau5 about it:

** Appears in ''[[DJ Hero|DJ Hero 2]]'' as a playable character. Like the CSI example, he uses turntables, but unlike that example, it's more of a case of being required in gameplay as opposed to [[Did Not Do the Research|not doing the research]].

* [[Canada, Eh?]]: He's Canadian, and he really does say "Eh". His Canadian accent is much more prominent in his earlier online videos.

** And true to what the page says, he really ''does'' call Macaroni and Cheese "Kraft Dinner" and is obsessed with Tim Hortons coffee. He also pronounces "sorry" as "soarhy", even when his accent is barely there. Some stereotypes are true after all, eh?

** Also invoked when someone Tweeted to him that he "lost a fan" because he's Canadian, which he responded to with a [http://youtu.be/ovzvSzXwFZo?t=6m45s hilariously stereotypical heavy Canadian accent].

* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: As he comes back to life at the end of the "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" music video.

* [[Chiptune]]: He first started making music by making chiptune tracks as a teenager. He still uses chiptunes in a few of his songs, such as the unreleased "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqdHyinGj4U Meowingtons Enables Hax]".

** A glorious illustration of this trope applying to [http://www.facebook.com/deadmau5/posts/10150636761541806 one of his text posts]:

** As of the March 13th 2012 stream, he's actually trying to scale this back a bit, at the request of the mother of a fan who watches his livestreams.

* [[Country Matters]]: Yes, "cunt" is in his repitoire of cuss words. It only shows up when he is ''[[Oh Crap|absolutely enraged]]''.

'''deadmau5''': "Fuck you! You should handle my--" *pauses, smiles at the camera* }}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Not always deadpan, but very snarky at ALL hours.

** [[Dubstep]]: A few officially released songs, such as "Raise Your Weapon" and "One Trick Pony", with several experimental demos up on his SoundCloud.

** [[House Music|House]]: Easily the subgenre he's most prolific in, as well as the one he's best known for. Includes Electro House, Progressive House, and Tech House, and contains FAR too many songs to list here; a few well-known examples are "Faxing Berlin", "Ghosts 'n' Stuff", and "Strobe".

** Minimal: A few, though not officially listed. Examples include "Complications", "The Reward is Cheese", and "[[Limit Break]]", with "Cthulhu Sleeps" leaning more towards this genre (but listed officially as Electro House).

** Trance: While no songs are officially listed in this genre, several of his songs have "trance-y" overtones, such as "I Remember", "HR8938 Cephei", and "Faxing Berlin".

** In the Joe Rogen podcast the night before the 2012 Grammys, he told the hosts that if any of them starts smoking weed in the studio, he'll be in the bathroom, shaking, waiting for the cops to show up...[[Mama Bear|or his mom]].

** He once said on Twitter that he gets his "telling it like it is" from his mother (after a mention about how his mom said that fellow DJ Kaskade's haircut sucked).

** When asked by a fan to take a picture of a pixel with his new camera lens during a livestream, he decides to take a picture of the word "pixel" instead.

** "How's United We Fail going?" "[[Development Hell|It's not ''going'' anywhere!]]"

** The video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwPf8KGj0kU Musical Chairs].

* [[Executive Meddling]]: "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" was originally titled "Ghosts 'n' Shit", but his higher-ups wouldn't let him release the song with that title.

** United We Fail was put on hold in part because of this trope: he was sick of the suits and businesspeople getting involved in the project and making it "not fun".

* [[The Faceless]]: Surprisingly averted for someone rather known for wearing a mask while performing. He rarely does interviews wearing the helmet, he never wears it during his livestreams, and he doesn't even wear it during his entire performance unless it's a really short one, because he gets too hot inside the head.

** However, he stated in an interview on ''Last Call with Carson Daly'' that he briefly toyed with the idea of always being [[The Faceless]], but decided against it after realizing that, no matter how hard he tried, people would eventually see his face.

** And from ''4x4=12'', "Raise Your Weapon" fades into "One Trick Pony", though this is not present in the version of the song released as a single.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: "Deer Bus" for "Professional Griefers". Before the official title was revealed, the fandom gave the song that name after someone mentioned that the hard-hitting bassline sounded like "a deer getting hit by a bus".

* [[Hearts Are Health]]: His nearly [[Memetic Mutation|memetic]] tattoo on his left arm, which is four pixellated hearts (but are only filled in to two-and-a-half). It's a Zelda reference, though new fans often mistake it as a [[Minecraft]] one; he got the tattoo before Minecraft existed.

* [[Heroic RROD]]: In July 2010, he collapsed on stage while performing at the 9:30 Club, caused by performing shows every day and a bad diet. This resulted in his hospitalization and the cancellation of the rest of the shows on that tour. [http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150242849007527 It's still a sore spot for him.]

** [http://choleric-mau5.blogspot.com/2010/08/kids-today.html He loves kids], and says that they're his favorite fans.

* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]: Invoked in the promotional materials for the Meowingtons Hax tour, which involve the titular cat wearing a broken mau5head and tying up the real deadmau5.

* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: During the 2011 Montreal livestream, he broke into a series of squirrel puns.

* [[I Always Wanted to Say That]]: Directly after tweeting about how his "tweet level" is [[Dragonball Z|over 9000]]: "[https://twitter.com/#!/deadmau5/status/185825703370039296 Seriously, I've been waiting 4 years to tweet that.]"

** This even applies to things like awards (which you'd only likely know about from looking on Wikipedia because he ''never talks about them'')...on the Christmas 2011 stream, he stated that he doesn't really care about the Grammys all that much because he "doesn't need a plastic statue to validate that I make music".

* [[Idiosyncratic Cover Art]]: All of his album and single covers have some kind of mau5head on them. ''Vexillology'' is the only aversion, and even then the art still has a [[Visual Pun|dead mouse]] on it.

* [[Ignore the Fanservice]]: [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150194381311806&set=a.10150194380116806.307482.9980651805&type=3&theater Surrounded by scantily-clad women wearing mau5heads?] He looks like he'd rather be somewhere else. Though SOFI hugging him [[Hates Being Touched|might not help matters]].

** A pretty amusing example is when [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhaKb_950ZM someone handed him a circuit-bent Speak and Spell] and he just played with it while ignoring the girls trying to talk to him.

* [[Image Boards]]: Goes on (and is well-liked by) /b/, but has a mutual hatred of /mu/. He says that he doesn't post, though, only preferring to lurk.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: ''Hates'' being called a DJ, as "there is no jockeying of discs going on".

* [[Irony]]: A house producer [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XLkFNzKgeM complaining about how obnoxiously loud his neighbors are].

** For extra irony, they even play ''his own music''.

* [[Large Ham]]: He normally already has a little of this in his personality (and it really comes out when he's drunk), but he brings it [[Up to Eleven]] when he's performing or on camera. [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150208292111806&set=a.10150208285616806.311444.9980651805&type=3&theater For] [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150208294766806&set=a.10150208285616806.311444.9980651805&type=3&theater example].

** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKfzd_Gq7Eo Suicide a la mau5]" is a totally hamtastic example.

** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ZSfTvhE-o deadlob5ter]" is three minutes of prime ham.

** He somehow successfully cooked lasagna one night, [https://twitter.com/#!/deadmau5/status/170412037132922880/photo/1 but it still looks a little off].

* [[Line-of-Sight Name|Line of Sight Tattoo]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRGzh7h2Ugk The origin of the scissors tattoo on his left arm]. He was hanging out with [[Motley Crue|Tommy Lee]] and arbitrarily decided to get a tattoo, but didn't know what to get until he saw some packaging with the scissors-and-dotted-line symbol on it.

** Likewise, he has stated that when told not to curse, he literally thinks of it as not cursing someone, as in hexes and such.

** Also, he has a ''literal'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck66ML-ByrM flying fuck].

** He's also mentioned struggling with depression and anxiety over the past year and is still reluctant about saying that he's "happy" when asked by fans ("...I'm getting there, but I wouldn't consider myself fucking ''blissfully happy''! In my house, all by myself, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|looking for a Coke]]!")

** The blog post "[http://choleric-mau5.blogspot.com/2010/08/falling-up.html Falling Up]" (where the page quote is taken from) also has shades of this.

* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: [[Ray Bradbury|The Veldt]]

* [[Mama Bear]]: His mother.

* [[Mondegreen]]: In the "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y8pmWokh4I deadmau5 - o2 wireless festival intro]" video, some of the lyrics are [[Mondegreen|Mondegreened]] to mau5-related ones.

* [[Must Have Nicotine]]: A good way to tell during livestreams if he's stressed out or depressed is to watch how many cigarettes he smokes in a given time period. The worse his emotional state (even if [[The Stoic|he doesn't outwardly show it]]), the more he'll smoke.

* [[Name's the Same]]: Joel Zimmerman is also the name of his agent.

* [[Off the Wagon]]: Fell off ''hard'' at the end of 2011. His house renovation, lack of a studio (but majorly itching to work on music), break-up with his girlfriend of a year, and his struggle with his depression, combined with no touring to keep his mind off of things, led to him [[Must Have Nicotine|taking up smoking again]], as well as far more mentions of him getting [[Drowning My Sorrows|really drunk]] after his unhooked performances at the beginning of 2012. It looks like he's doing better now, though.

* [[Old Shame]]: The really old and obscure song "Hey Baby" is this for him.

** Judging by his distinct lack of responses to the other songs in that series, it's safe to say that ''all'' of the songs he did with Mellefresh, not just "Hey Baby", is this for him.

* [[Older Than He Looks]]: [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150289025606806&set=a.100357766805.100899.9980651805&type=3&theater This guy is 31]. It's been said that he can pass for 18 when he shaves.

*** He's also quoted and mentioned Final Fantasy X ''many'' times on Twitter. "Yuna may pass.... Guardians may pass..... SOFI NOT PASS!!"

*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTFpMYhRbkQ His Sundays] apparently involve making [[Castlevania]] midis ("Waste of time? [[Crazy Awesome|I think not.]]"), and "You Need a Ladder" is a very blatant Zelda reference.

*** Want more proof? The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWAuTrMjd0g early December 2011 livestream in Los Angeles] is a three-hour-long shining example of this.

** ''Constantly'' references memes, both on the internet and in real life. Often overlaps with [[Trolling]].

** Rumor has it he's a [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|a brony]].

*** At the least an argument could be made for him being a [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FrxXbq0y9tA/T9B9UNzmcSI/AAAAAAAAsgk/e8tTq1Girx4/s1600/1.jpg Fluttershy fan.]

** He explictly stated in the Valentine's Day 2012 stream that he is, indeed, a [[Vocaloid]] fan.

** As a whole, he doesn't just fulfill the "major nerd" part of this trope, but the ''literal'' meaning of it, being a pretty normal guy who is close to his fans. He watches his Twitter like a hawk, answers questions, reads and keeps all of his fanmail, does livestreams in his home, and makes silly videos (some of which involve his beloved cat). Several comments on YouTube reprints of his livestreams are along the lines of "he seems more like a friend than a celeb".

* [[Oral Fixation Fixation]]: The only possible reason why [http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000tTSlxE3CIpw/s/750/Lolla-2011-Day3030.jpg this photo] exists.

* [[Out-of-Genre Experience]]: So you go into "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnwfTHpnGLY Raise Your Weapon]" thinking that it's yet another standard deadmau5 electro house song...and then the [[Dubstep|drop happens]].

** One unreleased song on his SoundCloud, "[http://soundcloud.com/fuckmylife/deadmau5-sleeping-beauty-pills-pre-production-version?page=9 Sleeping Beauty Pills]", is a...''rock'' song? With him doing vocals?

* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: The number of photos of him frowning, stoic, or making some silly face ''far'' outnumber the few photos you can find of him outright, genuinely smiling.

** Averted in his videos and in live streams, in which he actually smiles a bit more often.

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: He came on stage in a live performance in Montreal ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9NnkSSDcfA without any pants on]''.

* [[Renaissance Man]]: On top of making awesome electronica music, he skateboards (badly), snowboards, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTYH0vh0ap0 jet-skis], [[One of Us|plays video games]], does web design and web programming, computer programming, 3D modeling and animation, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBKueTCYBhQ Flash animation], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr8TTRPGal0 plays the piano] and is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF6vYOZ3a_o learning the guitar], and ''[[Hidden Depths|photography]]''. The best part? Nearly all of that is self-taught, and he encourages his fans to do the same.

** He's not only a pianist, but a ''[[Hidden Depths|classically trained]]'' pianist. He said on the Joe Rogen podcast that his parents enrolled him in "piano boot camp" since "I was, like, ''three''".

* [[Rule 34]]: There is indeed porn of him. [[Ho Yay|With]] [[Skrillex]]. He's rather chill about it.

"…well now the world knows what you think about it. go outside or somethin for a while dude." }}

** There's also a decent amount with him and [[Daft Punk]].

** His own music is prone to being sampled by other artists - famous incidents include the [[Black Eyed Peas]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh2giDlkc_w sampling of "You And I" in "The Time"], Alexis Jordan sampling [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJguxZ2QTSs "Brazil (2nd Edit)" in "Happiness"], and Nick Cannon's [[What an Idiot!|very blatant]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLGdtRUO2dc sampling of "I Remember"].

* [[Say It with Hearts]]: Often while posting to his fandom. Likes to use emoticons in everyday online speech, too.

* [[Schedule Slip]]: His new studio and house renovation was originally supposed to be done in December 2011. The end-date for the studio was moved to February 2012, and then ''again'' to March 2012. Consequently, the official release of "Professional Griefers" and his next album have also been pushed back.

** As seen in [[Executive Meddling]] above, "Maths" was originally supposed to be released mid-January 2012, before finally coming out mid-''February'' 2012.

** On his interview on ''The Last Call With Carson Daly'', he referred to himself as a "loudmouthed, opinionated idiot".

* [[Shirtless Scene]]: [http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ugj54BSQ1rseofso1_1280.png This picture] of him drunk with [[EPICMEALTIME|Muscles Glasses]].

* [[Shout-Out]]: Many of them.

** The song title "[[Limit Break]]".

*** Speaking of which, "You Need a Ladder" starts with the 8-bit Zelda overworld theme.

** The animations for his live shows reference Pac-Man, [[Minecraft]], [[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]], and [[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]. Past ones have also referenced the original [[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The Legend of Zelda]].

** In earlier shows, [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=385179301805&set=a.385178291805.171699.9980651805&type=3&theater the LED Mau5head] would occasionally have the face of a [[Battlestar Galactica|Cylon]].

** The video "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC7cJSuKZe0 The Unveiling]" turns out being a [[Shout-Out]] to {{spoiler|[[The Lazer Collection]]}}.

** Upon arriving in Johannesburg for his latest tour, he Tweeted a bunch of [[District 9]] references.

"FREE CAT FOOD AT H2O TONIGHT!" }}

** One of his upcoming songs is titled "[[Ray Bradbury|The Veldt]]", and has lyrics that explicitly reference the story.

* [[So Proud of You]]: To [[Skrillex]] [http://twitter.com/#!/deadmau5/status/142179392251117568 for getting five Grammy nominations.]

** And to the same person for ''winning'' three of those, even beating deadmau5 himself for all of them.

"[https://twitter.com/#!/deadmau5/status/168823138841399298 And @skrillex cleans out the mau5. ;) I wouldn't let anyone else do it. Oh well, I got a rad gift bag! :)]" }}

* [[Stage Names]]: Deadmau5, with his real name being Joel Zimmerman, as previously stated.

* [[Take That]]: His first ever hit, a collaboration with Steve Duda under the BSOD alias titled "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo9wJaFl1Ww This Is The Hook]", is a Take That against how formulaic house music is.

** Issuing [[Take That|Take Thats]] on [[David Guetta]] is practically a [[Running Gag]] (though it's less animosity towards the guy himself and more towards his style of producing - "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiT3_sQbq24&t=42m17s He's like a human-fucking-mashup!]"). One such example of this case is in the [[Canada, Eh?]] trope above, though there are many, ''many'' other examples of this.

"david guetta." }}

** While talking about Boxx, the company that made the laptop he was using at the time: "It's like Alienware, but it doesn't suck."

** A particularly glorious example is when he trashed the entirety of the [[So Bad It's Horrible (Darth Wiki)|So Bad Its Horrible]] internet song "Hot Problems" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kRwaN8zGOb4 during a livestream], which also crossed heavily into [[Disproportionate Retribution]] and [[Crosses the Line Twice]].

"I am extremely looking forward to social collapse."<br />

"[[Disproportionate Retribution|...I am going to use the one on the left's skull as a FUCKING SOUP BOWL!]]" }}

* [[Tattooed Crook]]: Subverted in that, while he looks the part with the many, many tattoos he has, the most trouble he ever seems to get into is silly stuff like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RtEtv3LzrI accidentally breaking some glass doors while riding on a flight case] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-q0anRDGto jumping into a pool from a balcony].

** A non-musical-equipment example is in the video "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdfDWiGXbGA Pretty Princess Paul]", in which the camera lovingly pans over the Ducati he bought for his tour manager.

** There's a verbal example in the Valentine's Day 2012 stream where he's [http://youtu.be/oiT3_sQbq24?t=5m10s gushing about the awesome new features and specs] of the [[Expressive Mask|LED Mau5head 2.0]].

** He's already started joking about naming his next album ''IDK'' (''I Don't Know'') or ''IDFK'' (''I Don't Fucking Know''), after being asked about what he's going to name it by a fan on Twitter.

** His [[Dubstep]] demos on SoundCloud have [[Sarcasm Mode|creative titles]] such as "Dub5tepthingie2".

* [[Unsound Effect]]: Anytime a notification sound on his computer plays during one of his livestreams, he always follows it up with a verbal "DING!".

* [[Visual Pun]]: The video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqMKelSpgNM My Cat Hates My Fans].

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Type 2 with Skrillex. The "vitrolic" part is mostly one-sided, though, as deadmau5 generally makes fun of Skrillex far more than Skrillex makes fun of him.

** "Meowingtons Enables Hax", "Sleeping Beauty Pills", and various Minecraft-related projects have yet to have been released or have had new versions posted.

** "To Play Us Out" is never going to get an official release because of [[Sampling|licensing issues]].

** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj6DMScl2R4 October]" was a song originally written for what later became "Raise Your Weapon"'s vocal track. It was later scrapped so that he could do something different with it (namely, a dubstep track instead of his "usual" electro or prog house). [[Wasted Song|Unfortunately, this means that "October" will never get an official release.]]

** "Aural Psynapse" is actually a re-edit of a song that he made ''in 2001'' under his old Halcyon441 name, also titled "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufyx6Yqy2CM Aural Psynapse]". Not only are the synth lines similar, but the background effects used in the song (which are especially obvious right at the beginning) later showed up in "Strobe" and "HR8938 Cephei".

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