History YMMV / Voltaire

* CompleteMonster: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpDAIG5lBhk Robber Baron]]" & "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHjItxQq5cI Stakes And Torches (The Uprising of the Peasants)]]": [[WouldHurtAChild Robber Baron]] is an {{greed}}y elitist who [[CorruptCorporateExecutive represents the worst of the Industrial Revolution]]. A "[[LackOfEmpathy cold heartless beast]]" who [[IOwnThisTown rules an unnamed town]], Robber Baron forces children as young as 8 to work in his assembly lines, uncaring if they lose a limb or two. Keeping his peasants poor and starving as he dines on delicate food inside his castle, Robber Baron also sends his own police force out to keep his citizens in line and terrified.

* {{Applicability}}: ''Feathery Wings'' has been interpreted as being sung by a GuardianAngel, [[TheGrimReaper the Angel of Death]], or even [[SympathyForTheDevil the devil.]]
** The song could also be applied to someone trying to talk a loved one out of suicide.

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!

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: While he did do a song called "BRAINS!" for WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy, which airs on Cartoon Network, that is kid-friendly, his other songs, most notably "Cantina" and Zombie Prostitute, are not. Voltaire eventually did release a children's album, though that one is the opposite trope as it deals with subjects like cannibalism. Voltaire has stated that the album is specifically for [[CreepyChild creepy kids]].

** He made a song called [[{{Disney/Frozen}} "Let It Go"]] ''in 2002''.

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

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In "Crusade," was it ''really'' a dragon? Or was it just [[spoiler:the narrator dehumanizing an enemy, like his son would later do to Muslims]]?

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: While he did do a song called "BRAINS!" for WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy, which airs on Cartoon Network, that is kid-friendly, his other songs, most notably "Cantina" and Zombie Prostitute, are not. Voltaire eventually did release a children's album, though that one is the opposite trope as it deals with subjects like cannibalism. Voltaire has stated that the album is specifically for [[CreepyChild creepy kids.]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: While he did do a song called "BRAINS!" for WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy, which airs on Cartoon Network, that is kid-friendly, his other songs, most notably "Cantina" and Zombie Prostitute, are not. Voltaire eventually did release a children's album, though that one is the opposite trope as it deals with subjects like cannibalism. Voltaire has stated that the album is specifically for creepy kids.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: While he did do a song called "BRAINS!" for The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, which airs on Cartoon Network, that is kid-friendly, his other songs, most notably "Cantina" and Zombie Prostitute, are not. Voltaire eventually did release a children's album, though that one is the opposite trope as it deals with subjects like cannibalism. Voltaire has stated that the album is specifically for creepy kids.

* EarWorm: "BRAINS!", "When You're Evil", "Zombie Prostitute"... pretty much everything, actually.

* {{Applicability}}: ''Feathery Wings'' has been interpreted as being sung by a GuardianAngel, the Angel of Death, or even the devil.

* {{Applicability}}: ''Feathery Wings'' has been interpreted as sung by a GuardianAngel, Death, or even the devil.

** ...what the hell do they think the verse about vacuuming means?
*** [[WildMassGuessing The sound of the overly-religious people who shove it down everyone's throats?]]

* JerkassWoobie: Satan is portrayed as this in "Almost Human".

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! Voltaire The Performer

! Voltaire, the Author

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

* {{Even The Guys Want Him}}: At Anime Syracuse 2013, he asked the audience how many of them found him attractive. Most of them raised their hands. Including several men. And ''[[UpToEleven a lesbian]]''.

! Voltaire, the Author

* {{Even The Guys Want Him}}: At Anime Syracuse 2013, he asked the audience how many of them found him attractive. Most of them raised their hands. Including several men. And [[UpToEleven a lesbian]].

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