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'''Ozzy''': "Say it. Out loud."
'''Bella''': "...Vampire."
'''Ozzy''': "Vampire? Vampires are pussies. '''I'm the Prince of fucking Darkness!'''" }}
Born John Michael Osbourne on December 3, 1948 in Aston, Birmingham. Also known as [[Stage Names|Ozzy]]. Or the "[[Fan Nickname|Prince of Darkness]]", if you want. As one of, or possibly ''the'', first Heavy Metal singer, he has been called the "Godfather of Heavy Metal" while he prefers to call himself "The Prince of Darkness."
He's known in many circles as the original voice of [[
After his firing from the band, he [[Start My Own|started his own]] solo project and recorded his most critically acclaimed album,
If you want to read about ''[[
▲If you want to read about [[The Osbournes (TV)|The Osbournes]], pick this way. '''To all the tropers: PLEASE, put the tropes referring to the show there, not here.'''
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==== Black Sabbath ====
* 1970 - ''[[Self-Titled Album|Black Sabbath]]''
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* 1975 - ''Sabotage''
* 1976 - ''Technical Ecstasy''
* 1978 - ''
* 2013 - ''13''
==== Solo career ====
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* 2007 - ''Black Rain''
* 2010 - ''Scream''
* 2020 - ''Ordinary Man''
* 2022 - ''Patient Number Nine''
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* [[The Alcoholic]]: He went through issues with alcoholism, which is the focus of the songs "Suicide Solution" and "Demon Alcohol."
* [[Ass Shove]]: He went for a colonoscopy, and while the doctors kept trying to knock him out [[Immune to Drugs|and failing]], he was watching the display and commented that it was "like [[Ted Nugent
* [[Badass Beard]]: Zakk Wylde, former guitar player for Ozzy.
* [[Badass Boast]]: "Not Going Away"
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* [[Berserk Button]]: He used to have some chickens, back when he was with his first wife. Said chickens never laid any eggs. One night, after having not slept for 24 hours, and doped up on cocaine and booze, the button was finally pressed, leading to one of the most [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|hilariously twisted]] moments in his book.
** He blows a few chickens away with a shotgun, chases after the rest with a katana, sets the chicken coop on fire, and tosses the rest of his shotgun ammunition into the burning coop, causing many small explosions. And then his neighbor comes walking out, sees Ozzy wearing a tattered, chicken-bloodstained bathrobe, and simply says, "[[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|So...you've come back from touring, then?]]"
* [[Black Sheep Hit]]: "Close My Eyes Forever", "Mama, I'm Coming Home" (co-written by [[Motorhead
* [[Body Horror]]: The cover of ''Ozzmosis'' depicts Ozzy's body covered with extra [[Eyes Do Not Belong There|eyes]] and [[Too Many Mouths|mouths]].
* [[Break Up Song]]: "Goodbye To Romance", a song about him leaving Sabbath, and not, contrary to popular beliefs, about his first wife.
* [[Useful Notes/British Accents|British Accents]]: He has a very thick Brummie accent that is part of the reason he's so hard to understand when he speaks- the other reason being he's completely and utterly brainfried from so many years of hardcore drug abuse... though older videos prove he's almost always been [[The Unintelligible]], even when sober, due to his accent.
* [[The Cameo]]: He appeared briefly in ''[[Little Nicky]]'' and sung in [[
* [[Canon
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Averted in his music. While he's portrayed as a language blasphemer in ''[[
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''"Go fucking crazy for me!"'' }}
** From a live performance of "Mr Crowley":
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* [[Cool Old Guy]]
* [[Cool Shades]]: A key part of his overall look.
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* [[Cover Version]]: Several.
** [[Cover Album]]: ''Under Cover''.
** [[In the Style Of]]: Osbourne-Dweezil-Zappa, doing "[[The Bee Gees
* [[Domestic Abuse]]: Ozzy and Sharon's marriage has turned violent on multiple occasions. He has knocked out her two front teeth; she retaliated by throwing a full bottle of Scotch at his head. Nevertheless it is clear that they do [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|love each other very much]].
** The worst incident of domestic abuse for the Osbournes happened when, in a cocaine and alcohol-fueled rage, Ozzy attempted to strangle Sharon. This led to Sharon threatening to leave Ozzy unless he entered rehab.
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** "The Almighty Dollar", from ''Black Rain'', at 6:57.
** "Let It Die", (6:06) and "Diggin' Me Down" (6:03) from ''Scream''.
* [[Everyone Has Standards]]: He was kicked out of [[
* [[Evil Laugh]]: From time to time, and not just in songs. He can sound pretty evil when he's just laughing at something he finds amusing, without even trying. If not evil, than at the very least a bit crazy.
* [[Forbidden Fruit]]: In "Walk on Water" he sings about sharing this with the daughter of a magic man.
* [[Green Aesop]]: "Revelation (Mother Earth)" from ''Blizzard of Ozz'' and part of "Dreamer" from "Down To Earth".
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: First with Randy Rhoads (until he died), then later with Zakk Wylde. Ozzy and Zakk have been close friends ever since Ozzy hired him in 1987, despite Zakk getting fired from the band twice. Ozzy is also very close with the drummer from [[
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Had one when Randy Rhoads died. See also [[Creator Breakdown]] in the Trivia tab.
** He had another one when he was fired from Black Sabbath. Ozzy being Ozzy, he assumed that his life as a rockstar would be over and he'd have to move back to his hometown to be a bartender or plumber or something. With this in mind he decided to go on the ultimate bender. He rented a hotel room, [[Drowning My Sorrows|got all the drugs and booze he could afford and went to town.]] Sharon stopped by three months later and said he was curled up on the ground surrounded by bottles, cocaine wrappers and empty pizza boxes and at a total loss of dignity or self-preservation.
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* [[Immune to Drugs]]: To the point where he's having his genome mapped to figure out how he's still alive. The Cambridge project that did so found several genes that allow him to metabolize opiates and alcohol far more efficiently than most humans.
* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: Ozzy's undead warlock in the [[World of Warcraft]] "What's Your Game?" ad. Granted it was crafted out of the actual in-game models, but you have to admit that the resemblance is spot-on and that only an undead warlock character would fit the man.
** His character as the Duke of Dreary in Disney's ''[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs|Snow White]]'' spin-off ''[[The 7D]]'' was clearly modelled after him (both his wife and daughter also played recurring roles in the series as well).
* [[International Pop Song English]]: When singing.
* [[Irony]]: When news of the robbery at the Osbourne residence broke out, some noted the ironic twist of fate Ozzy had based on his prior criminal history when he attempted to rob a store in his teens. Ozzy made the following rebuttal in his memoirs: "I was just a stupid kid when I broke into Sarah Clarke’s; I was hardly the fucking night stalker. And I learned my lesson."
* [[Kill the Cutie]]: What happened to Randy Rhoads. Depending on your view, Randy and the other passenger (the band's hairdresser, who was also killed in the crash) not noticing the pilot was on cocaine at the time might be [[Too Dumb to Live]].
* [[Knuckle Tattoos]]: He has "OZZY" in his left knuckles.
* [[Large Ham]]: Not as large as [[
* [[Made of Iron]] / [[Made of Indestructium]]: Probably Ozzy's brain and liver. Nobody's really quite sure how they both lasted for more than 35 years of hardcore drug abuse and alcoholism. But as noted above, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131014224610/http://www.indyposted.com/123988/scientists-say-ozzy-osbourne-is-a-genetic-mutant-are-you-surprised/ geneticists] at Cambridge University, who wanted to study that very question, found part of his genetic structure really ''is'' [[Made of Indestructium]]. He's literally a genetic mutant.
* [[Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness]]: Despite his reputation as the King Of Heavy Metal, Ozzy's music is usually only a 6 or a 7. With some songs in the 2 or 3 range and a couple (such as Dee) even dropping to a 1.
* [[Moral Guardians]]: Not so much a target of them anymore since he's [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|not quite as shocking as he once was]], but he was a frequent target of them in [[The Eighties]].
* [[Nobody Thinks It Will Work]]: He and Sharon were practically the poster couple for this trope, and now they're regarded as one of the few bastions of hope for celebrity marriages, having been married 29 years.
* [[One-Woman Wail|One Man Wail]]: "Black Rain".
* [[Only Known
** [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"]]: His real name is John Michael Osbourne, but he doesn't like it, to the point that he doesn't even respond to it anymore.
* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: "Bark at the Moon"
* [[Power Ballad]]: "Mama I'm Coming Home", "Close My Eyes Forever", "Goodbye To Romance", "So Tired"
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* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: "I Don't Wanna Stop"
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''I don't need another savior''
''Don't try to change my mind''
''You know I'm one of a kind''
''Ain't gonna change my bad behavior'' }}
* [[Rockstar Song]]: "Hellraiser".
* [[Sanity Slippage Song]]: Several examples.
* [[Scary Musician, Harmless Music]]: While he did make a tongue-in-cheek remark "thanking" his infernal beliefs for being able to dodge COVID-19, [https://youtu.be/L3oAU-LBO40?t=276 this video] giving a young percussionist a heartwarming "God bless you!" is one proof he's far from the evil shock rocker persona he adopted in his career.
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: While some have speculated about tax-related issues, Osbourne expressed his intentions to leave America in a 2022 interview, citing disillusionment over the country's sociopolitical climate and intense partisanism as well as his fear and disgust over the epidemic of mass shootings throughout the States due to lax firearms laws and the deeply-seated gun culture keeping any meaningful firearms reform from ever taking place.
* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: "Bark At The Moon":▼
* [[Sesame Street Cred]]: Surprisingly enough, he also played roles in a number of film and television productions aimed towards children, like in ''The 7D'', ''[[Bubble Guppies]]'', ''[[Trolls|Trolls World Tour]]'' (where a toned down version of "Crazy Train" was featured), and in ''[[Gnomeo and Juliet]]'' ([[Elton John]], who contributed to the film's soundtrack, would later lend guest vocals with Ozzy in his song "Ordinary Man" in 2020) among others.
{{quote| ''Years spent in torment''<br />▼
''Buried in a nameless grave''<br />▼
''Now he has risen''<br />▼
''Miracles would have to save''<br />▼
''Those that the beast is looking for''<br />▼
''Listen in awe and you'll hear him...''<br />▼
''[[Title Drop|Bark at the moon]]'' }}
* [[Serial Killer]]:
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*** Specifically, Ozzy Osbourne has said that the song is about [[Jack the Ripper]].
** The song "Bloodbath In Paradise" is about the Manson family.
* [[Sex, Drugs and Rock
* [[Shout-Out]]: "[[Aleister Crowley|Mr. Crowley]]", "[[Perry Mason]]".
* [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]: For all the craziness in their marriage, it's pretty clear Ozzy and Sharon really do love each other. And they are not afraid of showing it. As opposed to being [[Tastes Like Diabetes|diabetes-inducing]], it's just sweet enough to be [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|absolutely]] [[Happily Married|adorable.]] The video for his cover of "[[The Beatles (
* [[Signature Song]]: "Crazy Train"
* [[Sinister Minister]]: The title character of "Miracle Man", which is a [[Take That]] toward [[Real Life]] Sinister Minister, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, with whom Ozzy feuded in [[The Eighties]].
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* [[Start My Own]]: Twice. After getting fired by Sabbath he started his own solo project and after being told he wasn't cool enough for big rock festivals he started Ozzfest.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Before Zakk Wylde got buff and grew a beard he was considered to be one of these for Randy Rhoads, what with the long blond hair and cream Les Paul. He himself admits this (on the grounds of hero worship) and says that when he got hired for Ozzy he had a bullseye painted on his guitar so people wouldn't just assume he was a Randy Rhoads clone. He's since become the longest lasting member in Ozzy's band, having played on five studio albums released between 1988 and 2007.
* [[Sure, Let's Go
* [[Take That]]:
** "Miracle Man", towards Jimmy Swaggart.
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** The songs "I Don't Wanna Stop" and "Not Going Away" from ''Black Rain'' are Ozzy's responses to critics who say he should retire.
* [[Theme Naming]]: ''Blizzard of '''Ozz''', The '''Ozz'''man Cometh, ''and'' '''Ozz'''mosis''. ''Diary of a Madman'' could count as well.
* [[The Unintelligible]]: Though he's actually way more coherent nowadays than the character he was portraying in ''[[
* [[Unlimited Wardrobe]]: Subverted. Ozzy is rarely seen in colors that aren't black or dark blue. In the '70s and '80s, he played this trope much straighter with tassels, tight pants, and everything else that made the eighties as ridiculous as they were.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Ironically, not with bats. It's ''rats'' that drive him crazy.
* [[Chrono Trigger
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