Doctor Steel: Difference between revisions

[http://www.youtube.com/user/DoctorSteel/videos His YouTube channel is here], and [http://www.myspace.com/drsteel his MySpace is here]. Listen, and then [http://www.toysoldiersunite.com submit yourself] to the movement he spawned, dedicated to taking over the world in his name!

 

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= Tropes he displays: =

* [[Bald of Evil]]: Presumably intentional.

* [[Beard of Evil]]: A big pointy goatee.

* [[Big "Shut Up!"]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCKkcex6_Hg#t=3m20s STOP!]

* [[Black Shirt|Black Shirts]]: In a deliberate parody of fascist paramilitary organizations, Dr. Steel's Army of Toy Soldiers (his fan club base) wear black uniforms.

* [[Everybody Hates Mathematics]]: Averted so very much. "Fibonacci Sequence" is catchy as all hell.

** And it's one of his more popular songs.

** Also referenced in a line in his song, "On The Run": "‎Now I need a decoy, now where's that dancing monkey?"

* [[Evil Genius]]: Natch.

* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Of course! If you're not having fun, what's the point?

* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]], but it makes and sells them.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: The Doc can be heard engaging in one near the end of his self-titled song, "Dr. Steel."

* [[Evil Tastes Good]]: Mind control cookies! And cupcakes! (Well, maybe not so much the cupcakes. Dr. Steel calls the batch he made in ''The Dr. Steel Show'' Episode 2, "disgusting".)

* [[Fake Band]]: Dr. Steel has a "mechanical (robot) band" - which never seems to work, so he uses real musicians on those rare times he does live performances.

* [[Growing Up Sucks]]: Dr. Steel's other primary motivation, besides revenge. Sung about in "Childhood (Don't) A-Go-Go."

* [[Hammerspace]]: [[Played for Laughs]] in [http://www.toysoldiersunite.com/popups/videoplayer.php?mid=91 this edition of ]''[http://www.toysoldiersunite.com/popups/videoplayer.php?mid=91 Ask Dr. Steel]''.

* [[Happy Dance]]: Dr. Steel jauntily dances at the end of Episode 1 of ''The Dr. Steel Show''. There is also a section on his website where you can make him do several dance moves to some old-timey music. In Caleb Allen's [[Fan Vid]] of "Lament for a Toy Factory", the actor playing Dr. Steel breaks into these dance moves as the helicopter spotlight hits him - and the music from the website begins to play.

* [[Harmless Villain]]: Although having a villainous outer appearance, Dr. Steel's goals are really very positive and even kid-friendly. He just wants to make the world a better place (for himself). A running theme within his videos and songs (besides building giant robots/killer toys) is the virtue of independent thinking and imagination.

[[File:180-steelnurse.jpg|frame|Hello, Nurse!]]

 

* [[Homemade Sweater From Hell]]: Dr. Steel gets one in the ''Dr. Steel Christmas Special''.

* [[Hot Scientist]]: Quite a large number of women find Dr. Steel incredibly attractive.

* [[Mad Doctor]]: Not sure what he's a doctor ''of'', but he is attended by sexy nurses.

* [[The Mad Hatter]]: "I am crazy. And it's a great load off my mind."

* [[Mad Scientist]]: ''Duhurrrrrrr''.

* [[Mad Scientist Laboratory]]: In the music section of his site. Looks rather charming, too.

* [[Public Domain Artifact]]: "Curse of the Crystal Skull".

* [[Public Service Announcement]]: Dr. Steel has made several of these and posted them on [[YouTube]]. He also has mock [[Public Service Announcement|PSAs]] within his films ''The Dr. Steel Show'', Episodes 1 and 2.

* [[Pyromaniac]]: Dr. Steel destroys the toy factory that fired him with bombs and gasoline-filled Super Soakers.

* [[Radio Voice]]: The aforementioned epigraphs all have radio voices. (They are mostly sampled from old Public Service Announcements such as "Duck and Cover".)

* [[Shout-Out]]: Numerous.

** His song ''The Dr. Steel Show'' mentions and contains the tune of ''[[South Pacific|Bali Ha'i]]'', referencing his secret island base.

** ''Spaceboy'' samples ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey|Also Sprach Zarathustra]]''.

*** ''Spaceboy'' itself is a shout out to [[Calvin and Hobbes|Spaceman Spiff]]

** The end of his song, ''Lullabye-bye'', contains the beginning of the Eurythmics' ''Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This''.

** The opening lines of his song, ''Ode to Revenge'', are a very twisted version of Nat King Cole's ''Nature Boy''.

** ''Atomic Supserstar'' is about Godzilla

** ''Slapped By Moe'' is an ode to [[The Three Stooges]]

** Steel has also been interviewed by a transhumanist institute and authored a paper on the subject.

* [[Sinister Shades]]: He has yet to be seen without his thick black-lensed goggle-glasses. (In his music video for "Back and Forth", they [[Scary Shiny Glasses|reflect nonexistent flames]].)

* [[Skyward Scream]]: Used in ''The Dr. Steel Show'', Episode 1. As Dr. Steel checks his email, he becomes frustrated that his inbox is full of spam, and [[Milking the Giant Cow|cries to the heavens]] (with accompanying [[Sting|jarring chord]]), "Damn thee, spam! DAMN THEEEEEE!"

* [[Start of Darkness]]: ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvOJHyDypf8 Lament for a Toy Factory]''.

* [[Strange Salute]]: In several of his propaganda posters, Dr. Steel is shown saluting with his fist over his heart, looking up and (usually) to his right (toward a better future?). This has become the ''de facto'' salute of the Toy Soldiers.

* [[Subliminal Seduction]]: Dr. Steel uses subliminal messages and images in a lot of his videos.

** The multimedia displays during his stage shows also contained such messages.

* [[Subverted Kids Show]]: His video series, ''The Dr. Steel Show'' is largely this. Also his song, "Smokey's Theme". His live performances include [[Perverse Puppet|puppet]] shows, some of which are ''extremely'' subverted. (One of his recurring gags was he would be interrupted by a Lamb Chop-esque puppet, who was so annoyingly cute that he would eventually pull a revolver out and shoot it.)

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: He's a criminally insane mad scientist bent on world domination. What's not to love?

* [[Villain Song]]: Quite a few of them. As a supervillain musician, you know.

** His publicity is so good that his propaganda can be directly labeled "Propaganda" and we don't even give a slap because he's that awesome.

* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: In ''The Dr. Steel Show'' Episode 1, Dr. Steel [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot|gets an email from a fan]]. The voiceover as he reads the childlike letter sounds like a three year old boy. But if you read the screen closely at the bottom of the letter, it says, "Billy Ramos, 34 years old."