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Here we're going to list tropes which are exclusive to the band members. For general tropes about the band, go to the Main page.

 

 

* [[The Big Guy]]: Ollie is the biggest at 6'7".

* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]

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The [[Face of the Band]]. He was born in [[East Germany]] in 1963. He participated in Germany's swim team for the Moscow olympics of 1980, but was sacked. His musical career started with First Arsch, a [[Punk Rock]] band where he met his later bandmates Richard Kruspe and Paul Landers before Rammstein. He's also a poet and is the father of four children.

* [[Badass Baritone]]

* [[The Big Guy]] He's ''extremely'' muscular. A recent issue of ''Kerrang!'' magazine described him as having "the physique of a professional wrestler".

* [[Dyeing for Your Art]]: If not played to the letter, the spirit's played straight. He got a hole pierced into his cheek to run a LED light through it for most of the "Ich tu dir weh" video. (The hole healed up during filming.) Of course, this is nothing ''new'' for him. How many times has he beaten himself up with a microphone, or set himself on fire, now?

* [[Evil Chef]]: He dresses up as one during "Mein Teil" in the Volkerball tour/DVD.

* [[Incendiary Exponent]]: He ''is'' a licensed pyrotechnician after all.

** [[Pyromaniac]]

* [[Large Ham]]: During live performances he's known to overact.

* [[Man On Fire]]: He used to wear a jacket that was on fire during live performances of the song "Rammstein". Now he just wears flamethrowers on his arms, but that still counts. He upgraded this to fire ''wings'' for performances of "Engel" in the newest tour.

* [[Millionaire Playboy]]: His character in "Pussy".

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]

* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: In all the pictures of him floating out there in music magazines, sanctioned official pictures, and candid shots from fans, he's seen cracking a smile a ''handful'' of times.

* {{spoiler|[[Porn Stache]]}}: In "Haifisch".

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The band's main guitar player. Born as Richard Zven Kruspe in 1967. He was living with his future bandmates Oliver Riedel and Christoph Schneider, and left his first band, "Orgasm Death Gimmicks", when in the mid-nineties he co-founded Rammstein with both of them, Till Lindemann and Paul Landers.

 

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: It's his signature clothing item. He wears a new Badass Longcoat in almost every tour. And two different ones in Emigrate videos "My World" and "New York City".

* [[Dye Hard]]: A natural blonde who kept it that way in the band's early days, tends to keep his hair dyed black nowadays.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: He's referred to as "Reesh" a lot by some fans, with some also refering to him as "Fly Boy".

* [[Yoko Oh No]]: Caron Bernstein, his ex-wife. Other significant others have gotten this treatment too, but not to the extent Caron had.

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* [[The Big Guy]]: Even him, the shortest member of the band, is around 5'9".

* [[Cowboy]]: His character in "Pussy".

* [[Fan Nickname]]: "Paulchen", and, to a lesser extent "The Littlest Rammstein".

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== Oliver "Ollie" Riedel - bass ==

* [[Badass Beard]]

* [[Bald of Awesome]]

* [[Playing to The Fetishes]]: The "Pussy" video has him playing a BDSM fetishist character.

* [[The Quiet One]]: He's often noted to come across as introverted and shy when meeting fans.

* [[Creator Backlash]]: He's made no secret of the fact that he personally finds "Pussy" to be "completely stupid".

* [[Doomy Dooms of Doom]]

* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: As Frau Schneider.

* [[Man On Fire]]: His character in the video for "Du Hast".

* [[Transvestite]]: In the "Mein Teil" video, and during the ''Made in Germany'' tour.

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* [[Badass Long Hair]]: On occasion.

* [[Butt Monkey]] / [[The Chew Toy]]: He was blown up in "Ich Will", jumped off a building in "Benzin", played a hermaphrodite in "Pussy" (hardly the most flattering role) and was left standing and unable to return to his wheelchair at the end of "Keine Lust". And in live performances, he has been sodomised, cooked, faux-sodomised, and God knows what else. Ironically, this is ''exactly'' why Flake is a fan favorite. Not in the schadenfreudeic sense, of course.

* [[Cool Shades]]: Often wears them during live performances.

* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]}}: His character in the "Benzin" video.

* [[Dye Hard]]: He has dyed his hair various different colours over the years.

* [[Its Pronounced Tropay]]: His (nick)name is actually pronounced "Flah-kuh", not "Flay-ke", as some believe.

* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]: Sometimes, he's been credited as Doktor Christian Lorenz. He has no known degree; the moniker came about because at one point he had wanted to be a surgeon, but was unable to enter school to become one because he was a conscientious objector, at a time when conscription into the East German army was mandatory.

* [[Playing to The Fetishes]]: The live performance of "Bück Dich" involves him in bondage gear on all fours.

* {{spoiler|[[Suicide Attack]]}}: His character {{spoiler|has a bomb strapped to his chest}} in the video for "Ich Will".