History Music / TwistedSister

* BerserkButton: Snider hated being associated with pop-metal, or at the very least, had very little respect for the subgenre at large, which he very notably nicknamed "happy metal". He was especially irritated by its growing tendency towards acoustic power ballads in the 1990s.
** In fact, he classified his band under the genre name "hid-metal", coined by Snider himself ("hid" standing for ''hideous'', as opposed to glam).
* CarefulWithThatAxe: ''"You can't escape from the bed you've made; when your time has come, you'll accept the..... '''BBBLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADE!!!"'''''

* AsHimself: Dee Snider had a guest appearance as himself in an episode of ''Series/CobraKai''.

* AlanSmithee: They performed some smaller shows under the name Bent Brother.

* StickyBomb[=/=]ThrowThePin[=/=]DunkingTheBomb: In the music video for "I Wanna Rock", TheNeidermeyer teacher tries to stop the band by throwing a grenade at them, but he ends up throwing the pin, and the grenade gets stuck on his hand, so he jumps into the school swimming pool to try defusing it, but ends up getting blasted upward, hitting his head on the diving board.

* [[DeathByAdaptation Death by Cover Version]]: In this version of "Leader of the Pack" [[spoiler:it is the girl Betty who dies in an automobile accident in the rain, not Jimmy.]]

* EightiesHair: One of the most blatant examples, which they kept alive into the 21st century.
* TheEighties: While they started the previous decade, they really blew up in the 1980s.

* HeavyMeta: "I Wanna Rock".

* HesBack: "The Kids are Back"

* LargeHam: Just look at the above picture!
** The teacher in the music video for "I Wanna Rock".

** ActorAllusion: The "I Wanna Rock" video also features a cameo by Creator/StephenFurst as [[Film/AnimalHouse Kent "Flounder" Dorfman]], who finally gets to spray Neidermeyer's expy with a water spritzer.

After the band split up, the various surviving members went onto other projects. Dee Snider has continued as a solo artist and has released three albums since. French retired from music, giving away all his guitars to the band's road crew after the final concert and now works as a writer and motivational speaker. Ojeda has his own hot sauce brand. Mendoza now works in multimedia and broadcasting production.

* BerserkButton: Snider hated being associated with pop metal, or at the very least, had very little respect for the subgenre at large, which he very notably nicknamed "happy metal". He was especially irritated by its growing tendency towards acoustic power ballads in the 1990s.

* PopCulturalOsmosis: The two above songs/videos were iconic, as was the band's trashy get-up. Other than those, most of the bands other work was hardly known by the mainstream public.

* {{Slapstick}}: A prominant part of the videos for "I Wanna Rock" and "We're Not Gonna Take It".

* DungFu: During the 1982 Reading Festival, which is already a traditional location of [[ProducePelting patrons tossing fruit and bottles]], one of the audience members actually crapped out a turd and flung it at the band.

* HeavyMetal

** ActorAllusion: The "I Wanna Rock" video also features a cameo by Stephen Furst as [[Film/AnimalHouse Kent "Flounder" Dorfman]], who finally gets to spray Neidermeyer's expy with a water spritzer.

* ShoutOut: The spoken line "You're all worthless and weak!", heard in the background of "We're Not Gonna Take It", is a quote from ''Film/AnimalHouse'', said by Doug Neidermeyer to his subordinates in ROTC. The band's music videos take it a step farther: Neidermeyer's actor, Creator/MarkMetcalf, actually appears in the videos for both "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock", with Stephen Furst (Kent Dorfman) playing the high school principal in the latter. Around half of Metcalf's dialogue in the skit portion of "We're Not Gonna Take It" is taken from ''Animal House'', and his wife even calls him "Douglas C." when trying to calm him down. Yeah, it's safe to say that Dee and the boys were fans.

* TheNeidermeyer: Played by the TropeNamer himself in the videos for "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock".
** ActorAllusion: The "I Wanna Rock" video also features a cameo by [[Film/AnimalHouse Kent "Flounder" Dorfman]], who finally gets to spray Neidermeyer's expy with a water spritzer.

* NotableMusicVideos: "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock" were early Creator/{{MTV}} classics.

* AnimatedMusicVideo

* AsHimself: Dee Snider had a guest appearance as himself in an episode of ''[[Series/CobraKai Cobra Kai]]''.

* {{Determinator}}: "Stay Hungry".

* EveryoneHasStandards: During the club days, the band and its fans were a big part of the anti-Disco backlash. One of the things they did, hanging a Music/BarryWhite effigy during concerts, was stopped once a gig in upstate New York raised racist chants from the crowd, making the group realize they didn't need that kind of support -- though it seems they either didn't understand or care about the incident since they supported President Trump well ''after'' his election until 2017.

* ShoutOut: The spoken line "You're all worthless and weak!", heard in the background of "We're Not Gonna Take It", is a quote from ''Film/AnimalHouse'', said by Doug Neidermeyer to his subordinates in ROTC. The band's music videos take it a step farther: Neidermeyer's actor, Mark Metcalf, actually appears in the videos for both "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock", with Stephen Furst (Kent Dorfman) playing the high school principal in the latter. Around half of Metcalf's dialogue in the skit portion of "We're Not Gonna Take It" is taken from ''Animal House'', and his wife even calls him "Douglas C." when trying to calm him down. Yeah, it's safe to say that Dee and the boys were fans.

* EveryoneHasStandards: During the club days, the band and its fans were a big part of the anti-Disco backlash. One of the things they did, hanging a Music/BarryWhite effigy during concerts, was stopped once a gig in upstate New York raised racist chants from the crowd, making the group realize they didn't need that kind of supporter.

* DungFu: One of the audience members at a concert actually crapped out a turd and flung it at the band one time.

* CreepyCrossdresser

* TheEighties

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Dee Snider
** TheLancer: Jay-Jay French
** TheSmartGuy: Eddie Ojeda
** TheBigGuy: Mark "The Animal" Mendoza
** TheHeart: A.J. Pero
** SixthRanger: Mike Portnoy

* BerserkButton: Snider hated being associated with pop metal, or at the very least, had very little respect for the subgenre at large, which he very notably nicknamed "happy metal". He was especially irritated by it's growing tendency towards acoustic power ballads in the 1990s.

* StickyBomb[=/=]ThrowThePin: In the music video for "I Wanna Rock", TheNeidermeyer teacher tries to stop the band by throwing a grenade at them, but he ends up throwing the pin, and the grenade gets stuck on his hand, so he jumps into the school swimming pool to try defusing it, but ends up getting blasted upward, hitting his head on the diving board.

* PopCulturalOsmosis: The two above songs/videos were iconic, as was the band's trashy get-up. Other than that, most were hardly known by the mainstream public.