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* TransAudienceInterpretation: Some have interpreted Gina from "The Last Halloween Party" as a trans girl, due to her and her dad's fight being triggered by him disapproving of the dress she plans to wear to a party, and the chorus' emphasis on gender and what people choose to wear not mattering. The line from her father, "Boy, you've really gone too far," becomes harsher if you think he's misgendering her, but the ending arguably becomes even sweeter, since Gina and her dad make up and he tells her that even if he doesn't understand her, he loves her unconditionally.
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** Voltaire HIMSELF, being abused physically, emotionally and sexually as a child, being severely bullied, and losing his girlfriend to suicide as a teenager. Because of this he was DrivenToSuicide at various points in his life.

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** Voltaire HIMSELF, being abused physically, emotionally and sexually as a child, being severely bullied, and losing his girlfriend to suicide as a teenager. Because of this he was DrivenToSuicide at various points in his life.
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** In Aurelio Voltaire's song "The Vampire Club" he talks about someone named Missy "losing a fang." Come 14 years later there would be a (part)vampire character named Missi animated to some of his songs!

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** In Aurelio Voltaire's song "The Vampire Club" he talks about someone named Missy "losing a fang." fang". Come 14 years later there would be a (part)vampire character named Missi animated to some of his songs!



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* Squick: {{Squick}}: Cantina and The Straight Razor Cabaret can get pretty gruesome.

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* Squick: Cantina and The Straight Razor Cabaret can get pretty gruesome.




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** Voltaire HIMSELF, being abused physically, emotionally and sexually as a child, being severely bullied, and losing his girlfriend to suicide as a teenager. Because of this he was DrivenToSuicide at various points in his life.
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* FriendlyFandoms: Many ''Creator/ArtixEntertainment'' fans are quite familiar and even became fans of Voltaire since he has been a staple special guest (mostly on Friday the 13th events) in their games and even features some of his songs as event stories.

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* ValuesDissonance: Unfortunately, though progressive in many respects, Voltaire held some of the negative views common to his time. He was quite racist toward Black people, once saying their intelligence was in relation to Whites like that of the chimpanzees. Further, his antisemitism was pretty harsh as well (in fairness however, he did say good things of Jews too, and recanted his negative remarks later). He also promoted certain historical myths, such as saying Hypatia of Alexandria was murdered due to being a pagan/scientist (it was over a political dispute, not religion/science) and attributing the saying "Credo quia absurdum" ("I believe because it is absurd") to Creator/AugustineOfHippo (it's loosely based on a phrase Tertullian wrote, but he might more like "this was too strange for people to have invented"), specifically.

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* ValuesDissonance: Unfortunately, though progressive in many respects, Voltaire held some of the negative views common to his time. He was quite racist toward Black people, once saying their intelligence was in relation to Whites like that of the chimpanzees. Further, his antisemitism was pretty harsh as well (in fairness however, he did say good things of Jews too, and recanted his negative remarks later). He also promoted certain historical myths, such as claiming the Council of Nicaea compiled Literature/TheBible (despite what Creator/DanBrown says, they only decided the fine details of the Trinity and some rules for bishops), saying Hypatia of Alexandria was murdered due to being a pagan/scientist (it was over a political dispute, not religion/science) and attributing the saying "Credo quia absurdum" ("I believe because it is absurd") to Creator/AugustineOfHippo (it's loosely based on a phrase Tertullian wrote, but he might more like "this was too strange for people to have invented"), specifically.
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the woobie is NRLEP


** Voltaire HIMSELF. He lost his father at a young age, was sexually abused by a family friend from infancy to when he was a teenager, was abused physically and emotionally by his stepfather, lost a girlfriend to suicide, was bullied relentlessly growing up and has struggled with depression because of all of this.

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** Voltaire HIMSELF. He lost his father at a young age, was sexually abused by a family friend from infancy to when he was a teenager, was abused physically and emotionally by his stepfather, lost a girlfriend to suicide, was bullied relentlessly growing up and has struggled with depression because of all of this.

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* ValuesDissonance: Unfortunately, though progressive in many respects, Voltaire held some of the negative views common to his time. He was quite racist toward Black people, once saying their intelligence was in relation to Whites like that of the chimpanzees. Further, his antisemitism was pretty harsh as well (in fairness however, he did say good things of Jews too, and recanted his negative remarks later). He also promoted certain historical myths, such as saying Hypatia of Alexandria was murdered due to being a pagan/scientist (it was over a political dispute, not religion/science) and attributing the saying "Credo quia absurdum" ("I believe because it is absurd") to Creator/AugustineOfHippo (it's loosely based on a phrase Tertullian wrote, but he might more like "this was too strange for people to have invented"), specifically.
* ValuesResonance: Voltaire defended freedom of speech, religious toleration and secularism in a time when these things were highly controversial notions (totally contrary to French laws). Not only with words either-he campaigned to save religious dissidents persecuted under his country's government, saving some. He also criticized slavery harshly. Voltaire endorsed cultural pluralism, saying Europeans had slandered the Chinese since they held different beliefs, praising Confucianism, Hinduism and the Persian culture at a time when Western thinkers often disparaged the East wholesale. He also praised Native Americans, such as the Incan Empire.
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* {{Anvilicious}}/SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: "God Thinks" is a huge TakeThat to anyone who uses the name of "{{God}}" to further their own agendas.

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* {{Anvilicious}}/SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: %%* {{Anvilicious}}: "God Thinks" is a huge TakeThat to anyone who uses the name of "{{God}}" to further their own agendas.

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