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=== Scorpions provide examples of the following tropes: ===
* [[Album Title Drop]]: As seen by the quote above, "Rock You Like a Hurricane" in ''Love at First Sting''.
* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]: "The Best is Yet to Come", closing track of their (presumably) final album, ''Sting in the Tail''.
** On a side note, this song was an outtake from ''Unbreakable'' that didn't make the cut.
* [[Big Brother Mentor]]: Somewhat. While it's not known if Rudolf taught Michael to play guitar or not, it is a fact that Michael became interested and started playing with his big bro after he (Rudolf) bought a guitar.
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* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Can you believe Rudolf's 62?
** Klaus counts too: he's the same age and still can sing and wail like that. '''Wow.'''
* [[Cover Version]]: Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog" and [[Little Richard]]'s "Long Tall Sally" in ''Tokyo Tapes'', [[The Who]]'s "I Can't Explain" for a collection album in the late 80s, [[Queen]]'s "Love of My Life", [[The Cars (Music)|The Cars]]' "Drive" and [[Kansas]]' "Dust in the Wind", the latter three from ''Acoustica'', as well as half of ''Comeblack''.
* [[Doing It for Thethe Art]]: The reason why Uli Jon Roth left the band: he felt they were getting too commercial.
** This rift is documented in "I've Got to be Free", from ''Taken By Force''. What's hilarious is that Roth wrote a song about his disgruntlement, and then ''made Meine sing it''.
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: "He's a Woman, She's a Man", from ''Taken by Force''.
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* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]: "Kami o Shinjiru" (lit. "Believe in God"), bonus track in ''Face the Heat'' - appropriately enough, in the Japanese edition only. Understandable, given the huge fanbase they have there.
** Note that the song is in English (except for the [[Title-Only Chorus]]), unlike the aforementioned "Koujou no Tsuki", which ''is'' a Japanese song.
* [[Grief Song]]: Roth took carrying on in [[Jimi Hendrix (Music)|Jimi Hendrix]]'s tradition so seriously that he took up with Hendrix's ex-girlfriend Monika Dannemann. Danneman contributed the lyrics to "We'll Burn the Sky", which are a lament for a deceased love.
* [[Heavy Meta]]: "Rock You Like a Hurricane", "We Let It Rock... You Let It Roll", "Raised on Rock", "Can't Live Without You"
** "Speedy's Coming" and "Steamrock Fever", from their earlier years.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[The Smashing Pumpkins (Music)|Billy Corgan]] does guest vocals in "The Cross", while [[Nightwish (Music)|Tarja Turunen]] sings in "The Good Die Young".
** Klaus himself pulled this with his appearance on [[Avantasia]]'s ''The Wicked Symphony''.
** Don [[Dokken (Music)|Dokken]] did some background vocals on '"Blackout", when Meine had voice problems.
* [[Intercourse Withwith You]]: Many songs, like "Loving You Sunday Morning" and "Rhythm of Love". Mostly the lyrics aren't really explicit, but you can't help thinking about intercoursing to these songs.
** So much that, in fact, "Still Loving You" sparked a baby boom in France in the mid-80s!
* [[Large Ham]]: Klaus Meine.
* [[Last-Note Nightmare]] / [[Careful Withwith That Axe]]: "Blackout". Klaus screaming. ''Shattering glass''.
* [[Lolicon]]: The original cover of ''Virgin Killer'' featured a naked pre-teen girl. Naturally, [[Moral Guardians|some people]] weren't pleased with this, so they had to change the cover.
* [[Long Runners]]: They've been around since 1965, and only now considered stopping.
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* [[Power Ballad]]: "Still Loving You", "No One Like You", "Holiday", "When the Smoke is Going Down", "Wind of Change", "Send Me An Angel"...
** "In Trance" is one of the earliest power ballads: not the [[Ur Example]], but a [[Trope Codifier]].
* [[Protest Song]]: Much in the same vein of [[U 2U2]], we have "Wind of Change", "Under the Same Sun", "China White" and "Living For Tomorrow". The latter may count as the most triumphant example - it's a plea for unity and laying down arms, played live in Leningrad at the end of the [[Cold War]].
* [[Rearrange the Song]]: What ''Moment of Glory'' was all about.
* [[Revolving Door Band]]: Lineup didn't stabilize until 1979.
* [[Rockstar Song]]: "Can't Live Without You". "Always Somewhere" provides another take, in which living on the road keeps the musician apart from his loved one.
* [[Sex Drugs and Rock N Roll]]: Well, minus the drugs. Very well illustrated in "Now!".
* [[Spell My Name Withwith a "The"]]: Averted. The name's Scorpions only - no "The" in front.
* [[Strictly Formula]]: ''Unbreakable'', in reaction to the bad reception its studio predecessor got.
* [[What Did I Do Last Night?]]: "Blackout" (the song):
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