History Characters / MetalocalypseDethklok

* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler:By "The Doomstar Requiem", after Toki is kidnapped by Magnus and the Revengencers, all members of Dethklok in the process of rescuing him discard their selfish, hedonistic, asshole ways and become truly caring and generous, which allows them to ascend and become gods.]]

** Murderface, while outwardly violent and angry seems to often go through periods of loneliness and depression where he longs simply to be accepted, something he never gets from his family, classmates, bandmates or fans.

** [[spoiler:They all panic in "Dethcamp" when they learn that they left Toki at the Rock-a-Roonie Fantasy Camp with their former rhythm guitarist, Magnus Hammersmith, who's been nursing a grudge towards Dethklok for kicking him out]].

* RagsToRiches: They all come from fairly humble backgrounds and are now effectively a world power in regards to their wealth. They decide to get in touch with their roots by taking over a tribute band of theirs but years of being rich and pampered have left them unable to deal with being {{Starving Artist}}s again.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Despite being world-famous celebrities, a lot of otherwise mundane people fail to recognize them or simply don't treat them with any particular reverence.

* JerkAssHasAPoint: Skwisgaar thinks that anyone else playing guitar besides him in a band is redundant since no one can play as well as he can, explaining his bad attitude towards Toki and Murderface. He may be right, though.
** It has been pointed out a number of times that Toki doesn't practice his guitar work at all outside of band rehearsals whereas Skwisgaar is constantly practicing. The few times Toki gets the stage all to himself, he tends to fall victim to his nerves and fall apart.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: In "Dethcamp", [[spoiler:after Magnus snaps and tries stabbing Nathan in the back for calling him "crazy", Nathan retaliates by knocking him to the ground and beating him up, [[EyeScream destroying one of Magnus' eyes]].]] In the same episode, [[spoiler:

* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: While not as smart as Offdensen, Nathan is seen wearing glasses a few times, particularly when he's reading something. In "Renovationklok", he's wearing glasses again while sitting in Offdensen's office, taking charge of the band's finances. This goes to show how actually intelligent he is compared to his bandmates.

* SophisticatedAsHell: Generally averted in the show, but several of his lyrics tend to mix in some rather eloquent phrases like "Pistillate artifice" with cruder ones like "Bleed like a bitch".

* TranquilFury: While he has the occasional outbursts of rage here and there, when he ''really'' gets [[BerserkButton pissed off]] he barely emotes beyond an ice cold KubrickStare and his casual speaking voice. [[spoiler: The best example would be his reaction to a bully breaking Toki's snow globe in "Dethcamp".]]
-->''"Oh shit little kid. You just fucked up real bad."''

* TheQuietOne: He didn't speak at all until he was five.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Nathan has been seen eating chips quite a few times.

* ThePeteBest: In-universe; he was the band's original rhythm guitarist, but was kicked out before the band got big, because of his violent behavior and shitty attitude.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Played with, as he's on the receiving end of the unfairness of this trope. Like the rest of the band, he doesn't particularly care about bystanders, and makes no effort to protect others' lives. Like them, he's a literally raging, controlling, narcissist. [[spoiler:But, he doesn't have a prophecy backing him. In fact, he's even a necessary evil in the prophecy.]]

* ShadowArchetype: Ironically, several of Magnus' character traits - some of them being the very reason he was kicked out of the band - have been displayed by the current members of Dethklok to varying degrees including his replacement Toki: He's violent, selfish, manipulative, scheming, capable of psychotic outbursts, arrogant in his musical abilities, and stubborn in realizing his own mistakes. [[spoiler: It's rather fitting that right around the time Dethklok shed most of their personal shortcomings, he's already been dealt with by another villain and he ends up giving up on his vengeance.]]

--> '''Nathan''': '''''WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIIIIGHHHTTT!!!!'''''

* KarmaHoudini: Every member of the band is a sociopath in some way or another, and they are responsible for countless deaths. They almost never have to deal with long term consequences for their actions.

** Bullying his band mates and putting them in danger will push him over the edge.

* BigBeautifulMan: According to the Tribunal's chart in "Dethvanity", Nathan is considered the second-most attractive member of the band in-universe - even though the show often refers to him (and shows him) as overweight. In the same episode, he lets himself go hard and ends up breaking the hot tub.

* BillBillJunkBill: In "Dethwedding".

* BloodFromTheMouth: Three times - once during "Fanklok", in the music video "Bloodlines", and in Season 4 [[spoiler: from the strain of apologizing to Pickles]].

--> '''Nathan''' (screaming): '''''WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIIIGHT!!!'''''

* LargeAndInCharge: While Skwisgaar is just a bit taller, Nathan's definitely the bulkiest and one of the most muscular members of Dethklok cutting an imposing figure as their frontman and leader. It helps that he once played football in high school.
* LargeHam: On occasion.

* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:With Abigail at Doomstar's conclusion.]]

* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: In "Rehabklok" there's a shot of him with no penis even in the uncensored edit causing much speculation albeit with some skepticism that it was merely an error or they just didn't feel like going through the effort of animating his junk flailing. However in 2024, [[https://x.com/buscemislut/status/1781459196615024751 a fan that claims to have spoken with Brendon at a meet n greet]] [[note]] bare in mind video and audio recordings are not allowed but there's at least photographic proof that the encounter occured [[/note]] reported that this was no a mistake and it was a conscious decision to not give him a penis and even expressed support for the popular TransAudienceInterpretation of him. This clears up one misconception about him, but there's still arguably a fair amount more in the process that's up to interpterion.

* TheBigGuy: Subverted in that despite his figure and tough front, he is actually a very uncertain and emotionally sensitive person.

* FacePalm: Murderface's reaction to Dr. Rockso's first appearance.

* TraumaButton: ''"Get out. You belong in a garbage can."''
** Anyone who says this to him gets to be beaten down by him. Just ask Murderface.
* TheUnfavorite: To his family. What's worse, his conman, leech of an older brother is the favorite.
** Has flashes to this when Murderface tries to help Skwisgaar out of his BSOD, acting like a neglected kid begging for attention from his father figure. And he's almost losing it when he sees both getting along well.

** Don't ''EVER'' call him "[[MaliciousMisnaming Tonto]]". In one episode, he looked just about ready to punch out the comedian who did that, but Offdensen got to him first.

* BigEater: Deconstructed. While not as bad as Murderface, Nathan does consume huge portions in "Dethvanity" and eventually eats so much that he ends up breaking the band's favorite hot tub. The Dethklok Minute even displays how obese he's become, shocking and embarrassing Nathan. It's possible that his rich lifestyle (along with exercising less than he used to) led to his current appearance in the show.
* TheBigGuy: Type 3.

* BuffySpeak: When describing how Dr. Rockso ruined a reunion show with Zazz Blammymatazz by drinking LSD and spraying a woman with a hose, he called it a "big spraying thing".

* HiddenDepths: Has shades of this, which puts him on par with Pickles. To date, he is able to speak fluent French ("Mordland" and "Dethsiduals"), negotiate contracts with the Blues Devil ("Bluesklok"), is knowledgeable in the makeup of rockets ("Dethecution") is very proficient in firearms such as rifles and bazookas ("Doublebookedklok"), and took charge of the band's finances in Offdensen's absence ("Renovationklok"). He is also far more perceptive of other people than is given credit for (respecting Skwisgaar's DisappearedDad issues in "Fatherklok" and realizing that Offdensen hates the band in "Doublebookedklok"), and is often seen reading more than his fellow bandmates.

---> '''Nathan''': (to Murderface) '''You''' consistently make us look like a bunch of dumb, rich, sheltered ''assholes!'' *[[IResembleThatRemark cue zoom-out to show the whole band being pampered by Klokateers]]*

* InsaneTrollLogic: In "Dethhealth":

* LargeAndInCharge: While Skwisgaar is just a bit taller, Nathan's definitely the bulkiest and one of the most muscular members of Dethklok cutting an imposing figure as their frontman and leader.

* TheDreaded: It goes to show how much of a douchebag Magnus is [[spoiler: when Dethklok completely panics at the thought of leaving Toki alone with him at a rock n' roll camp]].
** Even [[VillainousHarlequin Dr. Rockso]] [[EveryoneHasStandards knows how much of an asshole Magnus is.]]

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* ButtMonkey: His egotistical, rude attitude tends to bring in a lot of pain and embarrassment for him.

* CasanovaWannabe: In contrast to Skwisgaar, any flirtations made by Murderface on the opposite gender are instantly shot down and always met with disgust.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The way the earlier seasons treats Murderface as being popular enough that droves of fans wreak anarchy to celebrate his birthday can be quite jarring considering how later episodes make it clear that he's the least popular member of Dethklok to the point where he's barely considered a member of the band.

* {{Foil}}: To Skwisgaar, who's beautiful, skinny, a really good guitarist, and attracts hordes of women while Murderface is fat, ugly, plays bass guitar, and isn't given much attention due to his looks and behavior.
* FormerlyFit: It has to be seen to be believed but he actually used to be ''[[LeanAndMean gaunt]]'' when they first formed Dethklok as seen in flashbacks.

* FreudianExcuse: Murderface's life was anything but happy. When he was a baby he witnessed his father pulling a murder-suicide with his mother. He was subsequently raised by his grandparents, but his grandmother Stella was verbally and possibly physically abusive. In a Dethklok comic published by Dark Horse Comics, a flashback showed Murderface being frequently bullied during his high school years...to the point where he snapped and sent a school bus on fire with his classmates trapped inside.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Even he's in the most brutal and popular band of all time, he's barely tolerated by even his own bandmates, which is telling when only [[AllLovingHero Toki]] is friends with him.

* {{Gonk}}: To the point there is not a woman on earth that will sleep with him.

* InformedDeformity: Murderface definitely isn't attractive, but his ugliness is exaggerated to the point of deformity for laughs.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: At times he'll try to put on a charming facade for selfish reasons.
** In "Klokblocked" he tries to act like a [[DoggedNiceGuy valiant hero to women solely just to get in their pants.]] That said this episode is one where his {{Jerkass}} tendencies are milder than usual and he does perform the selfless act of TakingTheBullet for Nathan later in the same episode so it might be subverted a bit.
** Played straight in "Fatherklok" where he tries to act like the TeamDad towards the fatherless Skwisgaar but is clearly only interested in getting it on with his mother. He also treats Pickles like TheUnfavorite despite Pickles also wanting a father figure.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Anytime his obnoxious, selfish behavior goes too far, life often throws misfortune his way.

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Has been frequently subjected to certain circumstances that would normally kill a person, but always came out alive (albeit usually with physical injuries).

* TheAlcoholic: All the members are constantly drinking. When they go to the grocery store to buy the ingredients for a mea Nathan has to outright state that they should not just buy booze, to which Murderface says he would rather [[GroinAttack cut his peepee off]] than accept that booze isn't food.
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Happens nearly every time they touch alcohol. They're somewhat aware that they tend to make very poor decisions when drunk. Not that it ever stops them.
* AloofBigBrother: Not by blood, but all of them act this way towards Toki to varying degrees, with [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther moments of caring]] sprinkled in. [[{{Jerkass}} Skwisgaar]] in particular stands out.

* ArtistDisillusionment: In-universe, the band hates their fans. ''All of them'' (even the hot ones). They also hate other people in the music industry. They even despise working on new albums. Offdensen has to keep forcing them to work so they meet release dates and don't slack off all the time. [[spoiler:They ultimately overcome this in ''Doomstar Requiem'' and ''Army of the Doomstar'', where in the former they actually help out other musicians and in the latter Nathan thanks their fans and realizes that they and those who have supported them throughout their careers are the true Army of the Doomstar]].

* BadBoss: PlayedForLaughs. Their employees frequently get injured, mutilated and/or brutally killed in all sorts of ways and the band pretty much never bat an eye. While they usually don't actively mistreat their "Klokateers", the members of Dethklok don't care about the absolutely horrid working conditions their employees deal with to the point where Klokateer corpses clog up the sewer system. In fact they consider it very metal.
** That said they have made attempts to make themselves out to be [[BenevolentBoss Benevolent Bosses]] like in "Murdering Outside The Box". They apparently hold a "Dethklok's Annual Employee Evaluation Conference Conference and Raffle" where they try to improve morale with a a motivational speaker, an exclusive look at their new song and of course a raffle for a prize, this time a diamond-encrusted codpiece.

* BarbarianLongHair: With the exception of Murderface, all of them have hair that goes down their backs at the very least. And it goes without saying that they're incredibly unruly at the best of times.
* BerserkButton: While they're generally ill-tempered, there are a few things that truly set them off.

** As of "Dethcamp", [[spoiler:''DO NOT BULLY TOKI''. After a {{Jerkass}} decides to [[KickTheDog smash Toki's snow globe]], Dethklok shows up while the snow globe is being broken, and for the first time in the entire show, all of them look the angriest they've ever been, {{Death Glare}}s and all. Then [[PapaWolf Nathan]] decides to teach the punk a lesson with that very same smashed snowglobe.]]
* BrilliantButLazy: Brilliant as musicians, incompetent at everything else (usually), and unable (and unwilling) to lift a finger to do something without either having their Klokateers do it, or having Offdensen force them to do it. Except contract negotiations, at which they somehow bested ''the devil himself''.

* ButtMonkey: Toki and Murderface are the most prominent examples, thouigh

* CelebrityPower: Deconstructed. Through four entire seasons, it's clearly shown that Dethklok's fans often get violent to the point of hurting society, themselves, and the celebrities they worship, much like how spectators in RealLife often get into confrontations over minor SeriousBusiness. This causes great emotional stress for Dethklok, who often are often accompanied by Klokateers to prevent anyone from getting to the band, and whose members are put on a pedestal so high that they feel incredibly lonely and cling to each other because they have no one else. This also results in Dethklok either ignoring their fans, treating them like shit, or drinking their problems away.

** Their extreme callousness and mistreatment of their fans led to some of said fans becoming ''very'' disillusioned with their idols and nursing intense grudges against them. This was how the Revengencers was born.

* CripplingOverspecialization: They're all really good at making death metal, yet laughably incompetent everywhere else, with the first example being their disastrous grocery-shopping. It's why they heavily rely on their [[HyperCompetentSidekick manager and Klokateers]] when it comes to mundane things like feeding themselves.

* DeadpanSnarker: They're usually just... well, stupid, but they can all be pretty snarky at times. [[TheSmartGuy Pickles]] is probably the best example.

* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: When about to sign a contract to sell their souls to the Blues Devil in order to get the mastery of the Blues. The entire band decide to give the contract a thorough read through and rewrite. Using lots of legal jargon until they negotiated it down to a $5 Hot Topic gift card and received, along with blues talent, 7% on the backend of his soul. The Blues Devil actually tells them he will sleep on it.
* DoomMagnet: Something bad happens at every concert and people that are close to them.

** Though [[TheAlcoholic Pickles]] stands out due to his relationship with his emotionally abusive parents, this trope can apply to all of Dethklok, who often face problems from their fans and what not due to their massive fame and celebrity status.
** All of them later do this in "The Doomstar Requiem" [[spoiler:after Toki and Abigail are kidnapped by the Revengencers; the song "Partying Around the World focuses on their attempts to get ''completely wasted'', drinking themselves silly and consuming lots of drugs to deny their hurting over Toki and Abigail's absences]].
* DrunkenMaster: It's implied that they often drink alcohol before concerts but it never seems to prevent them from putting on amazing performances. Special mention goes to Pickles, who is described as playing concerts "totally hammered" and never missing a note or beat.

* DysfunctionalFamily: All members are psychologically messed up to various degrees and cling to each other because they have no one else, even though they hate each other's guts (on the outside). From the Season 2 finale onward, they start caring and looking out for each other, [[spoiler:and then acknowledge each other as true brothers in "The Doomstar Requiem"]]. Invoked by Nathan himself in "Fatherklok":

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The very first episode of Season 1 is this for Dethklok as a whole - it's telling when people are ''willingly'' signing pain wavers and throwing their lives away to see the band perform live. In that same episode, their adventures at the grocery store just cements how utterly incompetent they are at everything that isn't death metal.

* FireForgedFriends: They start out as five musicians put in the same house and acting more or less indifferent to each other, but as time goes on and they endure two brutal attempts on their lives [[spoiler: and Toki's kidnapping]], they began to develop a brotherly bond.
* FiveManBand: The band consists of five members and each of their character dynamics are explored throughout the series. While the band members appear to be larger-than-life celebrities, deep down they're incompetent manchildren who are disillusioned with their fans. When one band member leaves the quintet, the group falls apart as they rely on each other.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Individual members of Dethklok all have a habit of forgetting how wealthy they are, and how easily this could be used to solve any given problem in their way. They're idiots, after all.

* GeniusDitz: They're completely and utterly incompetent man children... when it comes to anything other than music, partying, drugs, or contract negotiation. And even the last one [[DependingOnTheWriter depends on how the writers are feeling that week]].

* GodwinsLaw: They specifically equate any attempt to limit one's ability to eat the food they like with acting like nazi.
* GoodFeelsGood: [[spoiler:After going through four seasons being selfish assholes, and treating everyone around them like crap, their actions are thrown in their faces in ''The Doomstar Requiem''. During their quest to rescue Toki and Abigail, they realize after defending themselves against a crowd of junkie musicians through kindness that being kind and generous is actually ''better'' than how they acted before.]]

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Much of the misfortune that happen to each band member is heavily PlayedForLaughs since they're misanthropic, selfish, inconsiderate assholes. Especially true for Murderface.
** Subverted with Toki who's by far the nicest member of Dethklok and is instead a victim of BreakTheCutie moments [[PlayedForLaughs Played For]] [[BlackComedy The Darkest of Laughs.]]

* UnusualEuphemism: In "Dethhealth", The band uses "[[NeverSayDie Hamburger Time]]", since they just got out of another horrible concert gone wrong and they didn't want another reminder of death.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Almost every episode has the band turning on each other, one of them quitting, or a couple members even getting kicked out. But they'll stick together again in the end.

** [[spoiler:The first time happens when Toki goes missing. To deal with the grief, the remaining bandmates get stoned and drunk off their asses, all while they're harassed by news media and the public asking about Toki. When Dethklok has to perform, they try using a hologram of Toki to make up for the absence. However, it shorts out, enraging their fans and causing them to leave the concert, thinking that Dethklok had callously abandoned one of their own first chance they got]].

* CelebrityPower: Deconstructed. Through four entire seasons, it's clearly shown that Dethklok's fans often get violent to the point of hurting society, themselves, and the celebrities they worship, much like how spectators in RealLife often get into confrontations over minor SeriousBusiness. This causes great emotional stress for Dethklok, who often are often accompanied by Klokateers to prevent anyone from getting to the band, and whose members are put on a pedestal so high that they feel incredibly lonely and cling to each other because they have no one else. This also results in Dethklok either ignoring their fans and/or treating them like shit, or drinking their problems away.

* DarkIsNotEvil: It's just really, really stupid.
* DeadpanSnarker: Downplayed overall, but each member has their moments. Pickles is definitely the snarkiest.

** They also give Offdensen very intense Death Glares in "Doublebookedklok" when he finds them again after they ran away, due to his previous neglectful behavior towards the band.
** All of them save Toki sport this trope in "Dethcamp" [[spoiler: when they arrive at the Rock-a-Roonie Fantasy Camp just in time to see a {{Jerkass}} bully smash the snow globe they previously gave to Toki]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[DownplayedTrope "Evil" is a stretch]], but they're still the most brutal and metal band in all of existence. Regardless, there's plenty of stuff that horrifies even them. Their reaction to an insane fashion designer [[spoiler: skinning live and emaciated models for leather for Dethklok's fashion line]] and [[spoiler: their horrific but successful attempt at bringing their chef back to life]] are the prime examples.

* FreudianExcuse: All Dethklok members have utterly messed-up childhoods that would've been seen as criminal in real life...except for Nathan, who has a surprisingly good relationship with his parents, especially his father.

* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Nathan, Toki and Murderface's surnames are not stage names and are actually their legal names since their own families go by said names.

* InformedAbility: [[spoiler:They seem to have God-like powers, but exactly what those powers are? That's still up in the air.]]

* {{Irony}}: The most brutal death metal band of all time... is afraid of death and violence. (Example? See "Dethfashion" and "Dethhealth".)

* JerkassHasAPoint: Their treatment of their own fans is ''horrid'', but most of the time, the fans brought said treatment upon themselves by being really psycho with their devotion, to the point of causing Dethklok stress.

* LethalKlutz: Dethklok manage to kill fans at every show, the faulty and badly-conceived products they endorse cause countless deaths, and that's not even getting into the times when either they or their fans have people murdered intentionally.

* MadArtist: The ideas that the band has for their concerts are insane. The first episode has them deciding to pour hot coffee on their audience to promote their sponsor, and the band's approval propels that coffee brand to crush all its competitors and become the ''only coffee company left in the world.''
* ManChild: All of them to some extent (often crossing over into PsychopathicManchild). Toki is probably the most childlike, but Murderface rivals him in terms of overall immaturity.

* MrFanservice: All of them, save [[{{Gonk}} Murderface]] (the most popular among fans seem to be [[LongHairedPrettyBoy Skwisgaar]], [[RightHandHottie Offdensen]], [[TheCutie Toki]], and [[BigBeautifulMan Nathan]]).

* NightmareFetishist: Mostly Murderface, but might apply to the rest of the band, given their fondness for brutal things. However, show them something extremely disturbing and/or gory up close and they'll react with horror, thus subverting the trope.

* NominalHero: With the countless lives they've ruined and/or destroyed to maintain their massive success and power, they're actually far more destructive than most antagonists and more successful too. All they really care about is spreading dark, bleak and '''''brutal''''' music that they like and living comfortable if hedonistic lives but they're apathetic at best to all the havoc they cause if not outright reveling in it for being "metal". They're ''this'' close to being outright [[VillainProtagonist Villain Protagonists]] but for a few reasons they aren't:
** First of all, the show makes it clear that the people who often suffer the most, the fans are often irrational and psychotic in their idolization of the band and often terrible, violent people themselves. They're also willing to sign pain waivers when attending concerts. This means they are perfectly aware of how destructive these concerts are and don't care what happens to themselves as long as they get to see the band perform.
** Second, the vast majority of the mayhem they cause is unintentional and often the result of negligence and stupidity.
** Third, the governments of the world are dependent on Dethklok's albums and concerts being successful. Every successful concert has statistically improved the economy of the location said concert is played. Often, if the economy falters the world turns to Dethklok to step up and save the economy and they almost always do in their own '''''brutal''''' way. In other words, the world needs Dethklok and if Dethklok does well, the world in general does well. It borders on PragmaticVillainy though.

* PetTheDog: They all have their moments of tenderness and empathy here and there if often PlayedForLaughs and mixed with InnocentlyInsensitive. Notably when [[LittlestCancerPatient a little girl dying of sickness]] visits to meet Toki, the band actually tries to cheer her up in her final moments, [[spoiler: albeit unsuccessfully.]]
* PhysicalGod: Hinted at throughout the series, the group themselves are totally oblivious to this, [[spoiler: at least until Skwisgaar starts to believe it]].
** [[spoiler: All but established in the "The Doomstar Requiem".]]

* PsychopathicManchild: ''All of them'' are this. They have extremely poor common sense, are oblivious to other people's feelings, and show no regard for the chaos and destruction that they cause.

* RuleOfFunny: Dethklok's general level of competency is dependent entirely on what makes for the funniest situation.

* TooDumbToLive: Inverted. They're too dumb to die.
* TrueArtIsAngsty: In-universe; in "Dethsiduals", the band temporarily kicks Murderface and Toki for embarrassing them with scandals. This vastly improves their productivity in making new music, as Skwisgaar, Nathan, and Pickles are the most musically-capable of the band. However, they're disgusted by how "happy" their music is without Murderface's negativity and Toki's ineptness, and they immediately delete all the music created without him and Toki.

* DependingOnTheWriter: Just how incompetent they are outside of making music. For starters, in some situations, they're easily tricked, while in others, they are master contract negotiators. In general, they constantly oscillate between being broadly lazy and genuinely incapable of functioning independently, depending on RuleOfFunny.

* DysfunctionJunction: Dethklok is this once you take away the money, brutality, and celebrity status:

** Toki is a childish {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who suffered extreme abuse as a child at the hands of his parents, who were religious fanatics who punished him for the slightest infractions.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: "Evil" is a bit of a misnomer, but just because they are the most brutal and metal band in all of existence doesn't mean they aren't capable of being horrified from time to time. Key points include their reaction to an insane fashion designer [[spoiler: skinning live and emaciated models for leather for Dethklok's fashion line]] and [[spoiler: their horrific but successful attempt at bringing their chef back to life.]]
** When Skwisgaar and Toki were forced to attend a driving school, the instructional film's graphic, gore-filled depictions of car crashes visibly horrified both of them.

* GeniusDitz: They're completely and utterly incompetent man children... when it comes to anything other than music, partying, drugs, or contract negotiation. And that last one is subject to the whims of the writers...

* HeroicComedicSociopath: "Heroic" is definitely a stretch though. "Comedic sociopath"? Not so much.

* PsychopathicManchild: All of them are this. They have extremely poor common sense, are oblivious to other people's feelings, and show no regard for the chaos and destruction that they cause.

* BrokenAce: The worlds most talented guitarist, with all the pressure and fragile ego that comes with it.

** To Toki. Both came from horrifically abusive childhoods, but Toki's parents were mostly physically abusive (and has the scars to prove it), while Skwisgaar's mother never laid a hand on him but she did neglect him frequently and emotionally scarred him by constantly having sex with other men in front of him. Toki is mostly naive and friendly, Skwisgaar is an arrogant jerkass who doesn't know how to socially connect with others properly other than having sex with them. Skwisgaar is also a better guitar player than Toki, who is implied to do just fine on his own [[spoiler:and even gave Skwisgaar a hard time in "The Doomstar Requiem"]]; he just never gets the chance.

** Also, to Murderface. Murderface is fat, ugly, and all-around terrible with women, and [[NobodyLovesTheBassist is a bass guitar player]]. Skwisgaar is a physically attractive guitar player who attracts women from all over the world. Murderface, [[BrilliantButLazy while a decent musician when he wants to be]], is also an amateur compared to Skwisgaar.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: On the other hand, he cares for Toki just as much. [[spoiler: He even let Toki join Dethklok after the others rejected him.]] It's just that caring is not "metal", according to Dethklok.

* MrFanservice: Most certainly in-universe; fangirls swoon all over him and even make a line to fuck him.

* TheQuietOne: A downplayed example but beginning in season 2, there are an increasing number of scenes in episodes where Skwisgaar is completely silent while all the other band members have lines. Even in scenes when he speaks, he frequently has the least amount of dialogue. While likely a side effect of being OutOfFocus, it serves to make him appear as one of the more detached and aloof characters in the show.

* TheSmartGuy: Uh, Not really. He could be said to be smart '''ONLY''' if the subject is electric guitars and electric guitar equipment. Aside from that and some very specific knowledge of music, he's generally one of the least knowledgeable members of Dethklok. Early on he was a KnowNothingKnowItAll at best making completely incorrect statements and failing to defend them.
** That said as the show progresses he starts to serve this role better than Pickles, the actual smartest member of the band who instead starts acting more like [[TheLancer an emotionally unstable yet reliable secondary leader.]] For one thing, he's later revealed to be the musical genius behind writing the lead guitar lines, the rhythm guitar lines and the bass guitar lines. He also becomes the most [[OnlySaneMan level-headed member]] of the band and prone to making completely logical and reasonable observations that the other members miss.
* StrawNihilist: Claims to be a nihilist and his philosophical observations in earlier seasons imply that he doesn't consider mankind to be much more than [[HumansAreBastards just wild, violent animals.]]

* {{Tsundere}}: Towards Toki at times.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's usually kind and friendly to everyone. But get him riled up enough and he can be just as dangerous if not more so than the others. Out of the entire band, he's shown to have the most propensity and capability for violence, from outright threatening a GroinAttack on Nathan via crossbow in his intervention, to beating the crap out of a very loud concert-goer till he's practically pulp.

* ButtMonkey: Although less so than Murderface.

* CrucifiedHeroShot

* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide

* {{Manchild}}: Toki has the behavior and interests of a little boy. Justified, as he suffered an [[AbusiveParents abusive childhood]].
* MrFanservice: Of all the band members, he's in the best shape, having a huge set of six pack abs. Also, his skin never gets sunburned, it only tans.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Despite his incredibly childish behavior, he is just as dark and violent and metal as the others.

* ThirdPersonPerson: Sometimes for comedic effect and to show how childish he is.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Relatively speaking, since Toki is the most childlike member of the group, he's nicer than the other bandmates.
* TookALevelInJerkAss: Season 4 has him doing various things that he [[KarmaHoudini should be punished for]]. For starters, he starts posting really embarrassing photos of Nathan on the Internet without his permission; manipulated Dethklok into appearing as racist people like Adolf Hitler and the KKK at a diversity concert ([[{{Irony}} only to get left behind again that time]]); embarrasses Offdensen in front of everyone during an important dinner by acting like a nuisance; and ruins Murderface's attempt to run for congress by making private pictures of him jacking off public (Murderface backed off at the last second when he saw Toki in the middle of giving a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown).

* {{Tsundere}}: Toki's a Type B; verges into CuteAndPsycho at times.

''Skwisgaar:''' [[SuddenlyShouting NO I'M NOT!]]

* GutturalGrowler: '''His normal voice sounds just like a death growl.'''

* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:He's seen stitching and cleaning the stab wound he gave Toki in "The Doomstar Requiem".]]

* FormerlyFit: Compare how he normally looks without a shirt to his brief shirtless scene in the flashback in "Dethcamp" and it's clear he's put on quite a bit of weight since he first started Dethklok.

* LargeAndInCharge: While Skwisgaar is just a bit taller, Nathan's definitely the bulkiest and most muscular member of Dethklok cutting an imposing figure as their frontman and leader.

* NoSell: In a flashback in "Dethcamp", [[spoiler: His only response to getting stabbed in back with a knife by Magnus was to briefly glare at him before delivering one hell of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.]]

* HollywoodAtheist: Parodied by Toki and Skwisgaar, who not only steadfastly refuse to believe God exists, but don't believe ''religion'' exists either. Skwisgaar later tries to correct this as them being nihilists who don't believe in anything after Nathan points out the fallacies in his thinking.

** Pickles the Drummer is normally one of the more stable members of the band but in "Motherklok", it's revealed that his mother never recognizes any of his accomplishments and it tears him apart.

* InstrumentOfMurder: The season 2 finale has Skwisgaar kill invading Revengencers with his guitar.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's usually kind and friendly to everyone. But get him riled up enough and he can be just as dangerous if not more so than the others.

* BookDumb: The only member to apparently never graduate high school yet he's generally tied with Pickles as being one of the smartest members of the band. In "Renovationklok" with Charles gone, he's the one who ultimately takes charge over their financial situation once it dawns on him how much money the band's been wasting.

* CooldownHug: Attempts this on the band's adopted son in "Fatklok" when he's causing too much trouble during rehearsal though he only succeeds in making the kid piss himself.

* TeamDad: According to Charles, Nathan and Pickles are the most responsible members of Dethklok (much to their annoyance). Because of this, they are put in charge when Charles is away on business. Creating a TeamDad and TeamMom combo between the two.
** When sending off Toki to the Rock-A-Rooni fantasy camp, he rundowns a checklist of things Toki would bring like a parent making sure their kid is adequately prepared before sending them off.
** After dropping off Skwisgaar and Toki at driving school, he asks to be called if they need to be picked up, asking if they have their phones and lunches, don't talk to people because there's weirdos out there, and then telling them to study hard before leaving them.

* AGodAmI: He never met his father. He came to the conclusion that he was not born from man, but instead a ''God''.
* AlliterativeName: '''Skwi'''sgaar '''Skwi'''gelf.

* AttentionWhore: Often suggests turning down Toki and Murderface's amps during concerts and is adamant that only he should perform the guitar solos. In earlier episodes he was also prone to boasting about himself.
** It could be justified by the way his mother is implied to have been neglectful towards him for pretty much his entire life.

* CaptainErsatz: Of Swedish guitarist, Music/YngwieMalmsteen, a guitarist known for his arrogance, and Finnish singer and guitarist, [[Music/ChildrenOfBodom Alexi Laiho]], the world's fastest guitarist in real life.

** Some have pointed out that Skwisgaar looks similar to Jari Mäenpää of Music/{{Wintersun}}.

* DisappearedDad: No one knows who Skwisgaar's true father might be, though it's implied that he might be a divine being. His search for his missing dad kicked off the plot of "Fatherklok".

* FreudianExcuse: Part of why Skwisgaar's such a {{Jerkass}} was that as a child, his mother frequently neglected him and often had sex with other men, sometimes in full view of her son. While he did later become the fastest guitar player in the world, the ParentalNeglect really screwed him up and left him unable to love and socially connect with others (outside of sex) as an adult.

* HasAType: Though Skwisgaar sleeps with any woman who seeks him out, he is sexually attracted to elderly women in particular. He also seems to like obese women.

* IconicItem: Almost never seen without his black and white Gibson Explorer.

* LikesOlderWomen: ''Really'' older women.

** In "Bookklok", he tries to revive Toki after he had a panic attack. Unfortunately, he used the defibrillators on Toki like he's having a heart attack.

* VerbalTic: Because of his poor grasp of English, he tends to add an "s" to the end of every other word he says, often pluralizing them unnecessarily or making them completely grammatically incorrect.

* ArtistDisillusionment: In-universe, the band hates their fans. ''All of them'' (even the hot ones). They also hate other people in the music industry. They even despise working on new albums. Offdensen has to keep forcing them to work so they meet release dates and don't slack off all the time. [[spoiler:They ultimately overcome this in ''Doomstar Requiem'' and by the end of ''Army of the Doomstar'', where in the former they actually help out other musicians and in the latter Nathan thanks their fans and realizes that they and those who have supported them throughout their careers are the true Army of the Doomstar]].

* TeamMom: To Nathan's TeamDad at times. [[spoiler: Fully leans into this role by ''Army of the Doomstar'', especially during the church scene.]]

** [[spoiler:Do NOT bully Toki. In "Dethcamp", after a bully harassed Toki and took advantage of his diabetes, Nathan chased him down and destroyed any musical future the guy may have had, by cutting up the nerves in his hands with a ''broken snow globe''.]]

* TeamDad: Has some of this towards Toki.
** According to Charles, Nathan and Pickles are the most responsible members of Dethklok. Because of this, they are put in charge when Charles is away on business.

* TheAlcoholic: All the members are constantly drinking. When they go to the grocery store to buy the ingredients for a meal they have to be told to not just buy booze, to which Murderface says he would rather [[GroinAttack cut his peepee off]] than accept that booze isn't food.

* SkywardScream: Does this in "Dethsiduals" after losing a court battle with Dethklok over songwriting residuals that ''he'' started.

* TeamDad: Invoked in "Fatherklok" where he acts like a father figure to the fatherless Skwisgaar thinking that it'll lead to having sex with his mother. Averted in his treatment of Pickles as TheUnfavorite in the same episode. [[LaserGuidedKarma It comes back to bite him hard.]]

* VomitIndiscretionShot: A particularly nauseating example would be from [="DethHealth"=]. Right after he drinks about a gallon of bleach.

* RecruitedFromTheGutter: At some point was either kicked out by his parents or ran away from him causing him to live as a StreetUrchin ([[AllThereInTheManual with the script]] even claiming he was around sixteen during this point) at the time he auditioned for Dethklok.

* TheAlcoholic: All the members are constantly drinking.

* ArtistDisillusionment: In-universe, the band hates their fans. ''All of them'' (even the hot ones). They also hate other people in the music industry. They even despise working on new albums. Offdensen has to keep forcing them to work so they meet release dates and don't slack off all the time. [[spoiler:They ultimately overcome this by the end of ''Army of the Doomstar'', where Nathan thanks their fans and realizing that they and those who have supported them throughout their careers are the true Army of the Doomstar]].

** As of "Dethcamp", [[spoiler:''DO NOT BULLY TOKI''. After a {{Jerkass}} decides to [[KickTheDog smash Toki's snow globe]], Dethklok shows up while the snow globe is being broken, and for the first time in the entire show, all of them look the angriest they've ever been, {{Death Glare}}s and all. Then [[PapaWolf Nathan]] decides to teach the punk a lesson.]]
* BrilliantButLazy: Brilliant as musicians, incompetent at everything else, and unable (and unwilling) to lift a finger to do something without either having their Klokateers do it, or having Offdensen force them to do it. Except contract negotiations, at which they bested ''the devil himself''.