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* [[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.
** It's also the title of his (entirely unrelated to said novel) [https://web.archive.org/web/20131106032207/http://deadmau5.tumblr.com/ tumblr], too, but the significance of ''that'' is also unknown.
* [[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.
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** 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.
** DJs, both calling him one and the ''subject'' alone. It's actually become more of an amusing [[Running Gag]] over time, rather than an outright [[Berserk Button]] now, merely being a subject for tamer [[Take That|Take Thats]] ("[http://deadmau5.tumblr.com/post/14297842208/hi-i-want-to-be-a-dj-too-tips 'Hi. I want to be a DJ too. Tips?' get disc. hit play. profit!]{{Dead link}}") as opposed to the controversial insults (the "All DJs are cunts" fiasco) earlier in his career. This could either be due to him getting bored with it or because of his general [[Character Development|mellowing out over the years]].
** 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.
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* [[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.
* [[Bound and Gagged]]: In one of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20150908014942/http://www.clubglow.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/1.jpg promotional artworks] for the [[Hostile Show Takeover|Meowingtons Hax Tour]]. [[It Makes Just As Much Sense in Context|By his cat]].
* [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs]]: "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120618011105/http://soundcloud.com/fuckmylife/get-in-the-october-cart-pig Get in the October Cart Pig]", a combination of the unreleased songs "Get in the Cart, Pig" and "October". Mainly invoked by what he posted on Twitter about it:
{{quote|"like October? Like get in the cart pig? im kinda making headway on both... at the same time...."}}
* [[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]"
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** 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)].
** And he shows up at [https://web.archive.org/web/20120116163636/http://www.rollingstone.com/videos/new-and-hot/tommy-lee-dj-aero-live-duo-gear-up-for-new-years-eve-cruise-20111111#ixzz1e22MDMwR Tommy Lee's shows, too].
** 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]].
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** [[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".
*** He has a demo on his SoundCloud titled "[https://web.archive.org/web/20111223201827/http://soundcloud.com/fuckmylife/today-im-french today, im french]", which is his one and only outright foray into French House music. The unreleased song "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130121192253/http://soundcloud.com/fuckmylife/riff6-mp3 Swinged]" is also really European-House-ish, if not outright French House.
** 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).
** Techno: A few, but mostly obscure. Some examples are "Subvert", "Full Bloom", and "Secondary Complications".
** 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".
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|Even Scrawny Miscreants Love Their Mamas]]: [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=457796646805&set=a.457793736805.248938.9980651805&type=3&theater He's still really close to his mom]. He has referred to her as "awesome", pays her to keep an eye on his place while he's gone, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20110319194729/http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2861405 often talks to her on the phone]. The red spiral staircase in his loft that can be seen in some of his older livestream footage was painted by her, and she makes [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=486424106805&set=a.486421321805.263949.9980651805&type=3&theater awesome] [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=486424196805&set=a.486421321805.263949.9980651805&type=3&theater paintings] of him. In [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=486424046805&set=a.486421321805.263949.9980651805&type=3&theater one case], you can see it [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150561918916806&set=a.10150561918441806.375354.9980651805&type=3&theater framed in his renovated living room].
{{quote|"[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid{{=}}457796781805&set{{=}}a.457793736805.248938.9980651805&type{{=}}3&theater hello mother]...Thanks for the many years of patience, love...AND CHEAP RENT! [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Your estranged mau5y son...Joel Zimmerman.]]"}}
** 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]].
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** 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.
** In the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auzdtl-aLQs January 11 2012 stream], he called up his manager and asked to release "Maths", then stating that it would come out later that week. "Maths" came out a ''month'' later, and [http://deadmau5.tumblr.com/post/17312022683/when-are-you-digitally-releasing-maths-i-only-ask deadmau5 has confirmed that it's because of this trope]{{Dead link}}.
** 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.
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* [[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.]
{{quote|"I pass out from over exhaustion in DC. YES 2 month long tours of playing shows back to fucking back MIGHT ACTUALLY DO THAT TO A HUMAN. dear media, get off my case and move on."}}
* [[Hidden Depths]]: For someone who describes himself as a "loudmouthed, opinionated idiot", he has several moments where he displays amazing amounts of insight and intelligence. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120309235503/http://deadmau5.tumblr.com/post/18924546282/me-my-awareness-and-my-big-mouth Case] [http://choleric-mau5.blogspot.com/2010/08/falling-up.html in] [http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150609243922527 point].
** [http://choleric-mau5.blogspot.com/2010/08/kids-today.html He loves kids], and says that they're his favorite fans.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131102154751/http://deadmau5.tumblr.com/post/19570452553/collaborations-songwritting-and-the-like According to his post about musical collaborations and such], he likes to read short stories (since he doesn't have enough time to read full-fledged novels). Given the subject matter of songs such as "[[H.P. Lovecraft|Cthulhu Sleeps]]" and "[[Ray Bradbury|The Veldt]]", he seems to enjoy reading [[Cosmic Horror]] and depressing sci-fi.
* [[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.
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** For extra irony, they even play ''his own music''.
{{quote|"Dude, I ''know'' they're listening to me, that's the ''sad'' part. And they...''blast'' my ''shit'' like they ''want'' me to hear it. And I don't get it...why they do that. It's so annoying."}}
* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: There are several songs that are on his [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101022303/http://soundcloud.com/fuckmylife
* [[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.
* [[Lethal Chef]]: In one of his really, really [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oex6sjhzNM old videos], he managed to screw up making an omelette (it somehow resulted in ''scrambled eggs''). In the 2011 Christmas Eve stream, reheating soup in a pot was considered a huge success for him ("This soup was made with magnets!"), and his caption for a picture of his [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150561919571806&set=a.10150561918441806.375354.9980651805&type=3&theater newly-renovated kitchen] was "the kitchen, where cooking will likely never get done". [http://deadmau5.tumblr.com/post/14296981705/you-consider-yourself-intelligent He can apparently]{{Dead link}} make [[Canada, Eh?|Kraft Dinner]], though.
** 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.
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* [[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?
** "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120608064323/http://soundcloud.com/fuckmylife/deadmau5-failbait-ft-cypres Failbait]" is a ''hip-hop'' song featuring [[Cypress Hill]].
* [[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.
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{{quote|"[http://deadmau5.tumblr.com/post/14298175708/im-a-female-who-enrolled-in-full-sail-university-to ahhh! Full Fail! dude! save the cash! learn on the internets!]"}}
** 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''".
* [[Right-Hand-Cat]]: Professor Meowingtons is his cat, who shows up in several of his official [[YouTube]] videos and is the namesake of his [[Hostile Show Takeover|Meowingtons Hax]] tour. He also has three songs about him: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqdHyinGj4U Meowingtons Enables Hax]", "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjoAZrHPupg Have You Seen My Cat?]", and "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120411151619/http://soundcloud.com/fuckmylife/professor-meowingtons Professor Meowingtons]". He also brings [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luf1vV85M1E Meowingtons] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTxQhz4ADiI on] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-c8u6Pm1Bc livestreams], often at the (very vocal) requests of his fans.
* [[Rule 34]]: There is indeed porn of him. [[Ho Yay|With]] [[Skrillex]]. He's rather chill about it.
{{quote|"[http://deadmau5.tumblr.com/post/10758917947/what-do-you-think-of-all-the-porn-of-you-with-skrillex What do you think of all the porn of you with skrillex. haha]"
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{{quote|"He's running a cracked version of Silent. What, DJing doesn't pay enough for you to buy a two-hundred-dollar plugin?"}}
** During the March 26 2012 livestream, he joked that he has likely issued some kind of [[Take That]] against ''everyone'' at this point (a small list of people so far includes [[Avicii]], [[Justin Bieber]], Ed Hardy, [[Lady Gaga]], [[David Guetta]], Neon Hitch, [[Madonna]], Pauly D, Snooki, [[Britney Spears]], and Tiesto).
** After posting a demo of "Sunspot" on his SoundCloud, he later posted "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120409202625/http://soundcloud.com/fuckmylife/sunspot-da-exxxxxxtreme-drop Sunspot (da eXXXXXXtreme drop mix)]", a 15-second dubstep version demo lampooning all of the recent dubstep trends "of the past year", including seemingly-random effects and sampling, like the style found in [[Skrillex]]'s work.
** 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]].
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* [[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.
* [[Wasted Song]]: Is practically a [[Running Gag]] with him. He has TONS of unfinished or just plain unreleased projects in various computers and drives at home and items up on his SoundCloud, either because he simply forgot about them, got bored working on them, or thinks they are too flawed, which is a shame, because a decent amount of said songs are actually quite good. For instance, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130121192253/http://soundcloud.com/fuckmylife/riff6-mp3 Swinged]" was mentioned in a later livestream as "too busy", and he hasn't really worked on it since he first posted it.
** "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]].
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Feast your ears on an [https://web.archive.org/web/20100429023007/http://soundcloud.com/fuckmylife/old-ghosts old track] from 2004 that later became "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" after "at least 10" revisions.
** "[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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