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* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: The Fire Baron [[Nerf]] saved a dying online community.

* [[Anvilicious]]: The [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly|Second Wave of American Tween Melodic Rap Metalcore]] band Kabbage Boy sounding awful and then getting their heads blown off.

* [[Bait and Switch]]: Against the wishes of Double Fine, who were very proud of the Stage Battles.

* [[Best Level Ever]]: [[Brutal Legend]] fans and haters love the Metal Spider lair dearly.

** A few of the bands featured in the game received some healthy boosts in popularity after the game's release. Wikipedia reports that sales of the included tracks went up 700%.

** And Brocas Helm, which was so obscure you couldn't purchase anywhere, now enjoys sales on digital services all around due to popularity of their song [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Cry of the Banshee.]]

* [[Complacent Gaming Syndrome]]: The multiplayer has a handful of infamous exploits. During release, players would "Baron Spam," creating over a dozen Fire Barons and wiping out opponents in a short amount of time, driving away frustrated players. Double Fine responded by making several nerfs to Ironheade, which was very effective...until players started cheating the leaderboards by consistently disconnecting if they started losing or simply if they got matched up with someone who beat them in the past. Then there's Car Spam, Soul Kisser Spam, Grave Digger Spam, Infinite Combos, or players just trying to collect achievements.

* [[Crazy Awesome]]: [[Tim Schafer]].

* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Given the source material, it's impossible not to have a couple.

** The moment just after Eddie defeats the first boss, wailing a guitar solo on his axe. {{spoiler|And repeated again when he does the same to Doviculus.}}

** One player angry about the Stage Battles publicly messaged [[Tim Schafer]] on Twitter and [[Mis Blamed|called him a liar]] and accused him of falsely advertising the game as strictly action. Tim Schafer responded with his [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGrK70GgTXM multiplayer reveal two months before release.]

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight|Rockin In Hindsight]]: Depending on when you find and unlock the Legends, some dialogue takes on greater meaning - for example, the Guardian of Metals little poem {{spoiler|contains the elements that Ormagodden exploded into.}}

** Tim Schafer played [[Alan Wake]] and tweeted in [http://twitter.com/TimOfLegend/status/20610212053 two] [http://twitter.com/TimOfLegend/status/20610293266 posts]:

{{quote| '''Tim Schafer''': Holy crap. Did I just defend a rock stage from a inky-shadowy army using pyrotechnics and light...in Alan Wake? I need to immediately travel back in time and base a whole game on this!}}

{{quote| '''[[Tim Schafer]]:''' "surrender plz? surrender plz??? This is what I go online for? To have some kid tell me "surrender plz" at my own game?"}}

* [[Lowest Common Denominator]]: EA's '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQo2kf4Y4hQ ENTIRE.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4QdYFa-eAc&feature=rec-LGOUT-exp_stronger_r2-2r-1-HM MARKETING.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFWM8sUkd_E&feature=channel CAMPAIGN.]'''

* [[Memetic Sex God]]. Doviculus. Voiced by [[Tim Curry]].

* [[Memetic Mutation]]: '''DECAPITATION!!!'''

* [[One of Us]]: [[Tim Schafer]] plays on online matchmaking sometimes. His tag is [[Timof Legend]] on Xbox Live and PSN.

** Skeletonwitch was boasting their track "Soul Thrashing Black Sorcery" was in the game before performing it live.

* [[Player Punch]]: There's ''three'' of them all caused by the same character.

* [[Polish the Turd]]: While virtually all players and critics agree that ''Brutal Legend'' is most certainly '''not''' a turd, the EA marketing department seemed to '''think''' that this is what they were doing, by ignoring major components of the game while playing up others.

** Fans blame EA for poor sales due to marketing ''[[Brutal Legend]]'' as a massive single player adventure instead of marketing the Stage Battles, regardless of the fact they were considered good in their focus tests. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbpXAx_F-P0 This is the one and only multiplayer commercial from EA.] Not very convincing. No matter how much [[Tim Schafer]] tried to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGrK70GgTXM pour his heart out] on the Stage Battles months before release, it was drowned out by EA's hype, and especially the single player demo.

* [[Scrappy Mechanic]]: The Summon Flag. Like a Rally Point in [[Starcraft]], a special guitar solo creates a rally point that you can set on the ground for allies, or keep on your back so fresh units will come to you. But losing track of this flag is an easy way to cost you a match, even for the pros.

* [[So Bad It's Good]]: It is difficult to deny the whimsical charm of the song "Girlfriend."

* [[That One Attack]]: [[Fan Nickname|The Buzzsaw,]] a pseudo-infinite combo discovered after Double Fine's big balance patch. It can allow one player to endlessly wail on the other, scoring an easy kill and undermining the idea that the combat is about [[The Power of Friendship|combining Buffs with Double Teams]], rather than lone combos. A source of frustration of casual players.

* [[Too Good to Last]]: A sequel was planned that was going to include much of the stuff that was cut from the first time due to time and budget constraints. However, when sales of ''[[Brutal Legend]]'' were not as high as EA was hoping the plans for a sequel were scrapped.