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* [[The Illuminati]]: Like it or not, she ''does'' use a lot of Masonic and Illuminati symbolism in her videos.
* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]: Some of her outfits are just jaw-droppingly bizarre. This includes the meat-dress and machinegun bra.
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* [[Impractically Fancy Outfit]]: Most of what she wears for public appearances.
** [[Parodied Trope]] when she had trouble sitting down to play the piano on ''[[Saturday Night Live|SNL]]'' because of the human gyroscope she was wearing around her.
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** Pretty much the point when her [[Camp|sensibilities]] started to become a lot more obvious to the general public.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: During her performance at met gala:
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** From her Radio One performance, right after saying she had been asked to limit the profanity:
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** Many times during her concerts, most notably ''Beautiful, Dirty, Rich:''
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** And ''Teeth:''
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* [[Product Placement]]: The video for "Bad Romance" features a man using a Wii remote to sell Lady Gaga as a prostitute.
** Also her "Heartbeats" headphones which are part of Dr Dre's "Beats" collection, as well as the Beats Edition HP Envy 15 laptops, both featured prominently in the same video.
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** To start with, her stage name is a shout-out to the [[Queen]] song "Radio GaGa".
** To [[Alfred Hitchcock]], in "Bad Romance". But...in a [[Unusual Euphemism|somewhat unusual way.]]
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''Want you in my [[Rear Window]], baby it's sick.''}}
** Also in "Telephone", ''[[Thelma and Louise]]'', [[Girls Behind Bars|Women In Prison]] films, [[Quentin Tarantino]], ''[[Silent Hill]]'', ''[[One Piece]]'', the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], ''[[Command and Conquer]]'', and ''[[Dune]]''
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* [[Take That, Audience!]]: At all the rumors of her being intersex/transsexual/whatever. She decided the best way to counter the rumors would be to do a photoshoot while wearing a huge strap-on dildo. [http://covers.q4music.com/Item.aspx?pageNo=6150&year=2010 In one of the top-selling music magazines in the UK.]
** At the start of the "Telephone" video, she is taken to prison for bitches and stripped naked by the jailers, who then walk away.
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'''Burly Jailer 2:''' [[Ms. Fanservice|Too bad]]. }}
* [[Talky Bookends]]: "Paparazzi"
* [[Teen Genius]]: After having been a [[Child Prodigy|piano prodigy]], she went on to write her first ballad at thirteen and has been writing music for other artists since fifteen.
* [[Title Drop]]: "Heavy Metal Lover" has two:
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* [[Title-Only Chorus]]: "Again Again".
* [[The Tyson Zone]]: Her persona means that hearing practically anything about her would be believable. Would you believe that she went on the [[David Letterman]] show, ate the host's notes and declared she was [[Batman]]? Apparently, she did.
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