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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Everyone, but Phil Collins (no, seriously!) especially.

* [[Double Entendre]]: Pretty much all of "Counting Out Time" from ''[[The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway]]''. Also, some people think "Silver Rainbow" from the 1983 self-titled album ''Genesis'' fits this trope too.

* [[Double Meaning Title]]: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pxvSxv7O8M Snowbound]" from ''And Then There Were Three...''. "Snowbound" refers to being snowed in on a winter day, and to...what that song is really about. See: [[Lyrical Dissonance]] below.

* [[Fake Nationality]]: The group dresses up in fake mustaches and Mexican garb for the video for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_61hzuGGJX0 ''Illegal Alien''].

* [[Fan Service]]: The video for "Anything She Does" features [[Benny Hill]] and his usual collection of scantily-clad girls.

** [[The Hero]]: [[Phil Collins]]

** [[The Lancer]]: Steve Hackett

* [[Former Child Star]]: Phil Collins, averted. Though he was a child model/actor who played [[The Artful Dodger]] in a West End production of ''[[Oliver (Theatre)|Oliver]]'' and had teeny tiny blink-and-you'll-miss-him roles in ''[[A Hard Days Night]]'' and ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]'', his success as an adult far eclipsed his success as a child actor/model.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The band's huge hit "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" is about a drug addict trying to score. It was then used in a beer commercial, which could be interpreted as sending the message that beer drinkers were drug addicts (although I'm not sure whether that was intended on the band's part or not).

* [[Greatest Hits Album]]: One of them (Turn It On Again: The Hits). The live albums might arguably qualify here. Averted ''hard'' with the box sets, which are more like a bootlegger's paradise, with rare live shows, demos, and BBC sessions.

* [[Grief Song]]: [[Word of God]] says that "Since I Lost You" from ''We Can't Dance" is about the death of a child.

* [[Jerkass]]: Phil Collins spent part of ''Duke'' and four solo albums whining about how his first wife had [[Your Cheating Heart|done him wrong]], while his second wife stood by him patiently and steadfastly. How did he repay her for her years of emotional support? If you guessed by [[Moral Event Horizon|cheating on her]], you'd be right.

** So wait? How can he be a [[Jerkass]], a [[Woobie]] and [[Break the Cutie]] at the same time?

*** [[Word of God]] was that Collins met up with an high school girlfriend around the time of ''Both Sides'' during a mid-life crisis. They grew closer and closer as he and Jill were growing further apart, one thing led to another, and it became an affair. Collins claimed that the FAX he sent Jill asking for a divorce came after a gradual period of growing apart, and was not much of a surprise for her or Phil, but more of a shock to the public in general.

** Peter Gabriel (see: [[Take That]] below).

** ''Trespass'' might be the most straightforward example of this trope, since it was much closer to the progressive sound for which Genesis eventually became famous than the folksy light psychedlic pop of ''From Genesis To Revelation''.

* [[Nightmare Face]]: Phil in the video for "Mama" when he does the [[Evil Laugh]]. Also repeated in live performances of the song as well.

* [[The X of Y]]: Land of Confusion.

* [[Obsession Song]]: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLVrB3FXbPA Misunderstanding]" from ''Duke'' is arguably about a [[Stalker With a Crush]].

* [[The Pete Best]]: Anthony Phillips, who was replaced by Steve Hackett, and John Mayhew, who was replaced by Phil Collins.

* [[Progressive Rock]]: One of the big ones.

** And ''Nursery Cryme''.

* [[Putting the Band Back Together]]: The 2006-2007 reunion tour.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: Most of the facts about the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Hogweed Giant Hogweed] are accurate. Well, apart from its invulnerability, sentience and desire for revenge...

** [[This Is Sparta|GIANT HOGWEED LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]

** Rutherford thows a cigarette up in the air, catching it with his mouth in the video for "Illegal Alien".

* [[Stable Time Loop]]: the plot of "One For the Vine", from ''Wind and Wuthering''.

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** See also: [[Twist Ending]] and [[It Was His Sled]].

* [[Uncommon Time]]: "Turn It On Again" is in 13/8 time. Beyond that, bizarre meters were used liberally during their prog rock days.

** Again, the solo in "Cinema Show" which is in 7/8, as is (almost) all of "Dance on a Volcano."

* [[Up to Eleven]]: "Whodunnit", again. Phil Collins dials his Cockney accent up to eleven for that song. Oh yeah, and he does the same for his solo song "Like China" from the album ''Hello, I Must Be Going''.

* [[Vaudeville Hook]]: Almost. At the end of both the "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb9UND65mto I Can't Dance]" and the "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugZq9hiuCJo Jesus He Knows Me]" music videos, Mike and Tony come in from offscreen to drag [[Large Ham|Phil]] away.

* [[Word Salad Lyrics]]: "Willow Farm", which is part of "[[Suppers Ready]]".