Gorillaz: Difference between revisions

* [[Animated Music Video]]: [[Logical Extreme]]; every single music video is animated due to the nature of the band.

* [[Arc Number]]: 23 (2D's birthday, his tattoo, Noodle's obsession with it, her number in the [[Super Soldier]] project, ect).

* [[Art Major Biology]]: Apparently, in the Gorillaz universe, brain damage turns your hair blue. Possibly crosses over with [[It Runs on Nonsensoleum]].

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Noodle

** From June 2010 onwards each member of the band {{spoiler|(including both the real and the cyborg Noodle)}} has his/her own twitter page.

* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: At the start, Gorillaz was more lighthearted; it had the funny Gorillabitez cartoons, 2D was far happier, Russel still had Del and the band generally seemed to be more at peace with each other. Then came Phase 2, which had Del taken away from Russel and [[Darker and Edgier|El Manana's video]] in which [[Moe|Noodle]] was {{spoiler|apparently KILLED}}. The following Phase 3 took things down an even darker route, having Murdoc {{spoiler|make a pretty sinister robot version of Noodle}} and [[Break the Cutie|push the formerly cheerful 2D to the edge of his sanity]] by kidnapping him and treating him in the way that only a [[Complete Monster]] would.

* [[Comically Small Bribe]]: The prize for the humiliating talent contest Murdoc's father made him perform in as a child was "£2.50 and the chance to humiliate yourself further in the biannual county finals".

* [[Concept Album]]: More like a concept ''band.'' That being said, ''Plastic Beach'' is probably the most clear-cut example of a concept album in their discography.

* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: Murdoc's sentence for running over 2D and putting him in a coma involved having to look after him.

* [[Cool Car]]

** The "Stylo" car may count as well.

* [[Cool Mask]]

* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: ''Nobody'' in this band seems to be mentally stable.

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: The Superfast Jellyfish logo appears on a billboard in the video for Stylo.

* [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome]]: 2D's got a mild case of this. It goes away completely when he sings, for obvious reasons.

* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: ''Rise of the Ogre'' reveals that the band wasn't told about the [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|300-foot elk]] at the end of the "19/2000" video so they'd react to it authentically. Also, {{spoiler|Noodle did know the island was going to be shot down in "El Mañana", but the stunt helicopters didn't show up; the ones depicted are actually trying to kill her, and everyone thought it was [[All Part of the Show]] until too late}}.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: "Don't Get Lost in Heaven" was originally going to sound [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn6D0xYDRDA a lot different.]

** Paula was originally meant be guitarist, until Jamie redesigned her as a ten-year-old. There was also a Bongo-playing Ape involved.[http://media.photobucket.com/image/paula%20cracker/KaoruArika/Blur%20and%20Gorillaz%20related/WTF_happened_here_by_DantesDevil.jpg\]

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: 2D has a morbid fear of whales. Murdoc knows this and is using it to his benefit. In the animatics for the (sadly unreleased) video for "Rhinestone Eyes", the whale finally does try to kill 2D. Russel takes care of it for him.

* [[Wife Husbandry]]: Not canon, but anytime fans [[Shipping|ship]] Noodle with one of her band mates, it falls into this situation.