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The band also made a full-length horror film, ''KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park'' (1978). [[Old Shame|They don't like to talk about it.]]

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* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Gene's bass got this shape.

* [[Audience Participation Song]]

** Apparently their breakthrough album ''ALIVE!'' had guitar overdubs, sound-check songs with the audience added in the studio, and other less-than-live shenanigans (over and above the normal studio mixing and whatnot).

** ''Dynasty'' credits Peter Criss with drums and vocals. In reality, he only played drums on his song, "Dirty Livin'", the rest of the songs being recorded by studio drummer Anton Fig.

* [[Cash Cow Franchise]]: One of the most [[Egregious]] examples in any medium. They have all kinds of licensed merchandise, including action figures, comic books, ''condoms'', and, last but not least, the infamous '''Kiss Kaskets''' (in one of which [[Pantera|Dimebag Darrell]] was buried).

* [[Chorus-Only Song]]: Hard to find someone who knows the verses for "Rock and Roll All Nite".

* [[Concept Album]]: ''Music from "The Elder"'', a big and ambitious project that even involved ''a big-budget movie'' and a world-wide tour for a while, but...

* '''[[Costume Porn]]'''/'''[[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]'''/'''[[Unlimited Wardrobe]]''': '''And HOW !!!''' The band is ''infamous'' for this.

* [[Iconic Item]]: Ace Frehley isn't Ace Frehley without his Gibson Les Paul. And then there's Gene Simmons' Axe...

** Sort of. How do you know when Vinnie Vincent is playing the lead guitars? Easy! It's when the guitar solo is ''COMPLETELY MINDBLOWING INSANE.''

** Calling them sellouts.

** Back when the ''Knights in Satan's Service'' rumor was all the rage, seeing religious fanatics and the like shouting and screaming quotes from the Old Testament at the group wasn't unheard of. Neither was seeing Gene Simmons (a theology major) quoting them back.

* [[Intercourse with You]]: ''Many'' songs, mostly those sung by Simmons. In fact, most of their songs are this, from "Christeen Sixteen" (which is a song about a guy lusting after a sixteen year old) to "Hotter Than Hell" (which is about a guy lusting after a married woman) to "Heaven's On Fire" (which is about a guy having sex, and may or may not have inspired a large amount of the sex dialog seen in all kinds of fandoms' fanfic sex scenes).

* [[Kneel Before Zod]]: In "God of Thunder"

{{quote|I am the lord of the wastelands

* [[Love It or Hate It]]: Actively invoked and encouraged (!) by the band.

{{quote|'''Paul Stanley:''' "If you want to hate us, God bless you! If you love us, that's great too. If you're in the middle... get out!"}}

** Arguably Frehley, as he was electrified during an early concert but recovered well enough to finish the show. Since then, the band use wireless guitars (one of the first bands to do so !), and Ace wrote a song about this accident, "Shock Me", which became his vocal debut. [[Fridge Brilliance|Which is fitting, considering that iron conduct electricity...]]

** When KISS was starting and some of their (now famous) concert's antics hadn't been perfected yet, there was one occasion were Simmons accidentally swallowed the (highly toxic) kerosene of his fire breathing stunt. Gene ignored the excruciating abdominal pain and finished the show instead of stopping the concert there and rushing to the hospital. Gene's also [http://the-trukstop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/09.jpg set his hair on fire at least once] doing his firebreathing stunt.

* [[No Swastikas]]: Due to German law, the band's usual logo (the band name with the two S characters depicted as lightning bolts) cannot be used in Germany (because the double-S resembles the Schutzstaffel logo). While the band has been accused of being Nazis, it seems unlikely that Simmons or Stanley (both being ''Jewish descendants of concentration camp survivors'') intended the logo that way. Hence, the alternative logo with two backwards Z.

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Mark St. John, KISS' third lead guitarist. Only played on one album (''Animalize''), got reactive arthritis, and was replaced almost instantly with Bruce Kulick. Accounts vary on how many shows of the album's tour he played in, but most agree that St. John played very few, if any, and that Kulick ended up filling up for him in most of them.

* [[Overly Long Tongue]]: Gene Simmons, infamously.

* [[Performance Video]]: Most of their videos.

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