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* [[And Zoidberg]]: It is repeatedly stated that Murderface is the least popular and respected member of the band, to the point where many fans don't even recognize him as an actual band member at all. There are even times where the others turn off Murderface's amp for entire concerts without anyone noticing. Runner up for least popular band member is Toki, who is considered the worst player in the band. This is why Murderface and Toki are frequently hanging out together. On the other hand, when Nathan, Skwisgaar and Pickles try to write songs without them, while they manage to write 47 songs in a short time, they end up dismissing them all as crap.

** When Murderface discusses a solo television special with Dick Knubbler, Knubbler refers to him as "almost part of Dethklok".

{{quote| '''Nathan:''' "I think I know what you are all trying to say... I, um... I think we have to build a [[You Fail Physics Forever|space]] helicopter."}}

{{quote| '''Skwisgaar:''' "Dude, where's are we's?! What the ''[[Sound Effect Bleep|(pinch harmonic)]]'' we just flies in?! What the hell was wrong with your guitar sounds tonight?"}}

* [[Art Evolution]]: The quality of the animation gets much more fluid and improved with each season, with much more movement as opposed to standing rigidly in place at all times.

{{quote| '''Skwisgaar''': Ands listens, yous the best butler wes ever had so, we no want yous to quit.<br />

'''Ofdensen''': I'm not a butler. Never mind. }}

* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Brutally averted in just about every episode.

* [[Bedmate Reveal]]: Played with. In Tributeklok, Nathan lies in an unfamiliar bed, speaking to someone beside him about the band (uses 'we' and 'us'). The shot lingers on Nathan for awhile before abruptly revealing him to be speaking to a room full of naked, passed out supermodels.

'''Ibsen:''' Pay for what? Journalistic integrity?'' }}

** When Nathan tries to record the entirety of Shakespeare's works for books on tape ''in a single session'' and a very drunk Pickles tells him he forgot to press 'Record', his [[Big No]] turns into a [[Little No]] because he's all out of voice.

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The Jomfru brothers. Jomfru is the word for "virgin" in some Scandinavian languages such as Icelandic and Danish, although it usually refers to female virgins.

** Ofdensen is Danish for "son of the house" or, literally, "homeboy".

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Hilariously subverted and then played straight in Dethtroll, with the Dethphones. There tend to be quite a few of these in the series, many of them also acting as Chekhov's [[Brick Joke]]Brick Jokes.

* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: Nathan punching Damien in the first few minutes of Renovationklok. {{spoiler|He later does it again to stop Damien from attacking the recently-returned Ofdensen.}}

* [[Christmas Episode]]: Dethmas

** [[Christmas Special]]: In-universe example. During Dethmas, Murderface and Knubbler hold a Christmas special that ended up being funded by the Christian church. Nathan is not pleased.

*** With the exception of General Crozier (whose primary worry is that Dethklok stirs the world to ridiculous levels of ultraviolence) and Selatcia ({{spoiler|who wants Dethklok to cause the Metalocalypse}}), the Tribunal is primarily worried that because Dethklok does what they want, how they want to do it, regardless of any consequences or obstacles, they will actually ''improve'' the life of the common folk by setting an inspirational example. The release of "Blood Ocean" stirred fear of the return of creative control to artists, and Nathan's pursuit of his GED stirred fear that people would realize that the working class is just as smart as the upper class.

** Nathan's lack of leadership resulted in the entire state of Florida becoming a lawless no-man's land. He introduced a state currency that became immediately worthless due to inflation and nothing to back it up, he chose to NOT warn the citizens of an a hurricane that was going to hit the state (rather, he chose to just name it), and things became so bad that every police officer left. [[Karma Houdini|Nathan was still voted as the best governor the state ever had.]]

* [[Cryptic Background Reference]]: Both the [[Cold Open]] and Credits of Renovationklok.

* [[Cute and Psycho]]: Toki, and [[It Got Worse|it gets harder and harder for him to control himself]] [[Break the Cutie|as the season progresses]]. Only time will tell {{spoiler|if hugging it out with Ofdensen helped}}.

** Dethklok Minute is partially defictionalized, existing as a [http://community.livejournal.com/dethklokminute/ news community on Livejournal] and [http://boards.adultswim.com/adultswim/board/message?board.id=metal&thread.id=49502=true a devoted thread on the Adult Swim boards].

** [http://www.adultswimshop.com/cat/Metalocalypse/Metalocalypse-Dethklok-Fountain.html The Dethklok Fountain] has now also been defictionalized, for those of you with $40,000 to drop on Adult Swim merchandise.

** So has the Tribunal. A few episodes don't even have them show up at all.

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: The "Church of Christian Churchology"

** Seeing their ad for Pentuplemint Gum, even Nathan is forced to admit that it is absolutely irredeemable as anything but selling out.

* [[Dramatic Thunder]]:

* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: In Dethmas, [[Hilarity Ensues|the band's mothers have insisted on spending some quality time with them, and Nathan is trying to find a parking spot at the mall on Christmas Eve...]]

{{quote| '''Other driver:''' [[Watch the Paint Job|You hit my car!]]<br />

* [[Drunk Driver]]: Nathan almost kills Murderface in Religionklok.

** Skwisgaar and Toki in Dethrace.

** She later breaks up with him and gets a new boyfriend while still in a coma.

* [[Eats Babies]]: One of the anti-Dethklok prisoners in Dethecution.

{{quote| "The perfect specimen of devolution: —cro-magnon brow, distended jaw, clammy hands, buckled stomach, back pimplage, hitchhiker thumbs, hammer-assed, fallen arches, chicken-plucked legs, sandpapery, eczema-styled skin, dry, unkempt triangle hair."}}

** Also Toki's hideous internet date.

{{quote| Murderface: Gas means your wiener's being played with by a suicidal weirdo! Gas means you're ''gay''!<br />

Pickles: Dude! Who cares if he plays with your dick?? You'll totally be out! }}

** In Rehabklok, Pickles is confronted with this {{spoiler|after the drum machine kidnaps the rest of the band in order to kill them, locking Pickles in a room with an entire table's worth of alcohol after he had just completed his last rehabilitation step}}. The devil tells him to get drunk; the angel tells him to save the band. Pickles decides [[Take a Third Option|to just do both]].

* [[Gorn]]: ''Where to begin?''

* [[Green Eyes]]: Nathan has striking green eyes, Pickles has darker ones, and Murderface's are yellow-green. Charles' generally fade from a hazel color to a light green.

* [[Groupie Brigade]]: Dethklok is so famous and powerful that they have their own huge army of employees, despite the fact that the training process has at least a 60% mortality rate.

** Female groupies around the world broke out into open warfare upon learning that Nathan was single.

* [[Heavy Mithril]]: One of Skwisgaar's side projects is a [[Harry Potter]] tribute band called "Ten Points to Gryffindor".

** The "Thunderhorse" music video.

* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]: Each member of the band, albeit in a naive way.

* [[He's Back]]: Doctor Rockso in Snakes & Barrels II and {{spoiler|Ofdensen}} in the season 3 premiere.

* [[High Turnover Rate]]: The chefs, up to Jean-Pierre. Not because they couldn't handle the job, because they literally get killed doing it. Also, the Klokateer army.

* [[Holy Backlight]]: {{spoiler|Ofdensen}} during his [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment at the end of Renovationklok.

{{quote| '''Murderface''': I got his pension! Dibs! Called it.}}

* [[Badass Transplant]]: Knubbler lost both of his eyes due to resurfacing far too fast {{spoiler|while trying to outrun a giant mutant seahorse}}. He appears in a [[Blipvert]] at the very end of the episode [[Heel Face Turn|as Dethklok's new music producer]] with new robotic eyes.

* [[I'm Standing Right Here]]:

{{quote| '''Skwisgaar:''' Just let me record it. Each take is worse. He's slowly learning how to un-play the guitar.<br />

* [[Intercontinuity Crossover]]: [[Brutal Legend|Eddie Riggs]] once worked as their roadie or something like that...

** Dr. Rockso sings one for his old [[Lolita]] girlfriend.

* [[Its Pronounced Tropay]]: John Twinkletits. It's not pronounced the way it's spelled (Twinkle-tits); the accent is on the "kle" part of his name (Twin-kletits).

* [[Jerkass]]: While most of the band members fulfill this trope (usually unintentionally), Murderface is an unrepentant asshole to everyone he meets.

* [[Madden Into Misanthropy]]: Toki

* [[Made of Plasticine]]: Used to comic effect.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: '''C'''harles '''F'''oster '''O'''fdensen, Dethklok's manager.

** His first and middle name come from "Charles Foster Kane" of the movie ''[[Citizen Kane (Film)|Citizen Kane]]''. To those who haven't seen the movie, Ofdensen is an entrepreneur whose practices follows much along the line of his namesake.

* [[Men Don't Cry]]: Pickles tells Toki that none of the band will talk about missing Ofdensen because "Admitting sadness...makes you gay."

* [[Mind Rape]]: Done to {{spoiler|General Crozier by Mr. Selatcia}} during the season 2 finale.

* [[Mister Seahorse]]: Well, that's how Murderface interpreted his infestation with parasites, anyway.

*** From season 2 onwards, however, Pickles has become increasingly neurotic, and Nathan has proven much more reasonable, socially adjusted, and intelligent. Lately, Skwisgaar seems to be sharing this status as well.

* [[Opening Shout Out]]: Senator Stampingston's descriptions of Dethklok's members in the first episode are taken verbatim from the opening lyrics. He concludes by saying that that's all they know. Of course, this was literally all the viewers knew about them at that point, too.

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Do not mess with [[The Stoic|Ofdensen]]'s boys.

* [[Pass the Popcorn]]: Nathan and Murderface watching Pickles beat the living crap out of his brother at his own wedding.

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]:

** For one, the Endangered Species Furniture Room.

** Renovationklok is just ''loaded'' with poor spending decisions. Skwissgar's ruby metronome and champagne humidore, Pickles' endangered species furniture room, scream-activated lighting, ''the list goes on and on''.

* [[Rule of Cool]]: The band make all their decisions based on how "brutal" they perceive a course of action to be. ALL of their decisions. For example, there is an extended scene in which they will fully accept that they have conditions in which their employees are dying and rotting on-site at great numbers as long as the situation is "metal". They even refuse to care about this suffering specifically because doing so is also metal.

** See "Death By Looking Up" }}

* [[Scrabble Babble]]: In Klokblocked.

{{quote| '''Nathan:''' '''''WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIIIGHT!'''''}}

* [[Serious Business]]: Metal in general, and Dethklok in particular, especially to The Tribunal.

** "I'M EATING ''CHIPS!!!!!''"

** "Don't you ever ''[[Sound Effect Bleep|guitar riff]]'' with [[I Need a Freaking Drink|me and alcohol]]. Got it?"

* [[Sexual Karma]]: Averted. Despite the fact that the members of Dethklok are pretty much sociopaths, they have legions of women who want to sleep with them (well, except for Murderface, that is).

* [[Shout Out]]: Discussing how their previous chef "blow his brain in" and how it made "a good album cover" is a reference to metal band Mayhem; lead singer Per Yngve Ohlin committed suicide with a shotgun blast to his head, and the band used a photo of his body ''in situ'' as the cover for the bootleg album "Dawn of the Black Hearts".

** Also, Ofdenson and Melmord both fence left-handed.

* [[Space Does Not Work That Way]]: Nathan suggests they create a space helicopter in Fat Kid at the Detharmonic. [[Defied Trope|They get one]].

* [[Start of Darkness]]: Start of Alcoholism, anyway. Rehabklok reveals that Pickles became the drunk he is now as a way to cope with being blamed for the burning down of his family's garage. (Seth did it.)

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Toki seems to have developed this trait when talking about {{spoiler|his father now that he's dead (he mentions that he's come to peace with his father's death while a clip of Toki watching his father drown and freeze to death at the same time under a lake of ice while a horrible [[Scare Chord]] plays)}}.

* [[Take That]]: The Dethsiduals episode contains a very obvious [[Take That]] against Papa Roach and other Rap Metal Alternative bands.

** The fashion designer from Dethfashion is a hilarious exaggeration/parody of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Lagerfeld Karl Lagerfeld], head of Chanel and real-life supervillain.

** Go on, look at Doctor Rockso. Doesn't he look like a thinly-veiled insult at a certain 1980s cartoon series about music and its similar character designs?

* [[Talking to Himself]]: Brendon Small, Tommy Blacha, Mark Hamill, [[Up to Eleven]]. Go ahead, check out Wikipedia. See how many characters these people voice, not including background characters. Regular voices are more than double the regular voice actors. The entire band and CFO are voiced by '''''two people'''''.

* [[Unpleasable Fanbase]]: ([[In Universe]] example) The little boy calling Dethklok, as the Dethklok tribute band called Thunderhorse, sellouts even after they decided to go back to their roots as a tribute band in Tributeklok.

** Also a [[Brick Joke]] and [[Hypocritical Humor]]; that was the same kid from the beginning of the episode who told Dethklok, before being a tribute band, that they were sellouts (the former for doing a health benefit, the latter for doing an ad for European gum).

** Also, as mentioned above, Nathan. Though his unintelligibility is pretty standard fare for a death metal band.

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: Dethklok isn't too comfortable when talking about <s>dying</s> "Hamburger Time", despite the fact that they have witnessed and/or caused [[Over Nine Thousand]] "Hamburger Time"s. They're just uncomfortable about ''their'' "Hamburger Time".

* [[We Wait]]: Mr. Selatcia tells the Tribunal to do this every time they want to do something to curb Dethklok's growing power. {{spoiler|When Cardinal Ravenwood and General Crozier try to assassinate Dethklok, Selatcia kills Ravenwood and eventually brainwashes Crozier for their refusal to follow orders.}}

* [[Wham Episode]]: Black Fire Upon Us, Renovationklok, and The Metalocalypse Has Begun, and Doublebookedklok.

** "Let the blackness that is the fashion industry take its intended path."

** The Dethklok Home for Wayward Kitties. "Release...the '''KITTIES'''!"

** This is Nathan's reaction to Christmas in Dethmas. He's initially turned off by the idea of Toki wanting to put up a tree, etc., until he takes a moment to really look it over. He sees it as the corpse of a tree, further humiliated and desecrated by being strung up in Mordhaus and decorated. He feels the whole thing is pretty brutal.

** "[[Let Me Get This Straight|Ok, hold on now]], so you're telling me that you put these little guys in boiling water and they shriek and they turn red, and they die. ...That is the most metal thing I ever heard in my whole life."

** *earthquake* '''Coooommmmmedyyyyyyyy!'''

** Somewhere in Scandinavia until the third season, where it really could be anywhere (and likely does move around regularly).

** Returning from space at the beginning of "Fanklok".

* [[Worst Aid]]: When the band catch colds, they try to cure themselves with leeches and bloodletting, in a sauna, with predictable results.

* [[Writing Around Trademarks]]: When the show was first pitched, it was titled ''Deathclock Metalocalypse'', later shortened to ''Deathclock''; when it was discovered that there was already a band with that name in existence, the band became ''Dethklok'' and the show's name eventually became ''Metalocalypse''.

** When musing on what their lives would be like if they stopped being famous, the process is referred to as becoming "a regular old jack-off".

** Subverted slightly with Toki, in that there are times where he'll connect with a fan enthusiastically. However, he generally resumes his hatred for everyone shortly thereafter.

 

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