Line #75 Music/MyChemicalRomance


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: The band as of the reunion.[[note]]L-R: Ray Toro, Frank Iero, Mikey Way, Gerard Way.[[/note]]]]
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4	Influences:
5	+Music/BlackFlag, Music/TheMisfits, Music/{{Queen\|Band}}, {{Music/The Beatles}}, Music/{{AFI}}, Music/PinkFloyd, Music/JoyDivision, Music/{{The Cure\|Band}}, Music/TheSmashingPumpkins, Music/{{My Bloody Valentine}}, Music/{{David Bowie}}
6	Influenced:
7	+ Music/FiveSecondsOfSummer, Music/HeyViolet, Music/LilPeep, Music/PinkPantheress, Music/MaisiePeters, Music/SleepingWithSirens, Music/TwentyOnePilots, Music/CarrieUnderwood, Music/TheWarning, Music/{{Waterparks}}, Music/{{YUNGBLUD}}
8	]
9	->''I am not afraid to keep on living\
10	I am not afraid to walk this world alone.''
11	-->-- "[[Music/TheBlackParade Famous Last Words]]"
12
13	My Chemical Romance (commonly abbreviated to MCR) is an American {{alternative rock}} band from Newark, UsefulNotes/NewJersey formed in 2001.
14
15	Their music is best described as a mixture of PostHardcore, PopPunk accessibility, horror punk-influenced lyrics and stylings, and a heaping dose of over-the-top theatrics and album rock storytelling straight out of the 1970s -- all of this presented with the look of a GothRock band. To boot, they're often cited as a quintessential example of the [[EmoMusic emo]] genre (but don't tell them that -- also, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools that's not a bad thing]]). They also have a notoriously bad BrokenBase; enter at your own risk, but don't let that distract from the crazy-awesome music.
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17	After witnessing the [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror September 11 attacks]], Gerard Way formed the band the following day with Mikey Way, Ray Toro, and Matt Pelissier. According to Way, the track "Skylines and Turnstiles" was based on these events, which in turn influenced the themes and style of the band as a whole during their formative years.
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19	MCR released their debut album ''I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love'' in 2002, combining elements of the aforementioned post-hardcore and emo alongside HardcorePunk. Its lead single, "Vampires Will Never Hurt You," became a hit on college radio. Their 2004 sophomore album ''Music/ThreeCheersForSweetRevenge'' proved to be their breakthrough release, spurred on by the success of the singles "Helena" and "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)". It is now viewed as an essential album of the early 2000s emo scene for its theatrical sound, gothic aesthetics, and powerful mix of post-hardcore aggression and strongly crafted songs.
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21	In 2006, drawing on their love of Music/PinkFloyd's {{progressive rock}} and {{glam rock}} bands such as Music/{{Queen\|Band}} and [[Music/MarcBolan T.Rex]], the band combined their new influences with their old post-hardcore sound to create what is considered their defining work, entitled ''Music/TheBlackParade''. While most popular rock bands of that time were focused on a raw, garage-influenced sound, ''The Black Parade'' was intentionally bombastic and excessive, reflecting the '70s rock bands that lead vocalist Gerard Way loved and the hip, indie establishment treated with disdain. Throw in a {{rock opera}} storyline of a dying cancer patient and his experiences in the afterlife, and you have a 1970s album brought to life in the 21st century. The album was a critical and commercial success, with several review sites and magazines placing it as one of the best albums of the decade.
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23	The band's next album, 2010's ''Music/DangerDaysTheTrueLivesOfTheFabulousKilljoys'', divided their fanbase with its lighter sound and design, adopting heavy influences from GlamRock and PowerPop along with indie rock, dance rock, and [[Music/TheStooges Stooges]]-era garage rock. It also features a storyline, but this one is more frantic, enthusiastic, and exuberant than the morbid tragedy of ''The Black Parade''.
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25	(As noted before, "dividing the fanbase" is [[BrokenBase actually quite easy]]. Starting from their first album, fans were constantly arguing over anything from [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks different themes/moods of the music]] to [[SeriousBusiness the color of Gerard's hair]].)
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27	MCR [[http://www.mychemicalromance.com/blog/mcr/my-chemical-romance announced that they had broken up]] [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/gerard-way-on-my-chemical-romance-we-were-spectacular-20130325 as of March 22, 2013]]. The news proved [[MemeticMutation infamously]] devastating to their fans; however, the members still remained close friends, and Gerard released singles featuring both bassist Mikey Way and lead guitarist Ray Toro.
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29	In summer 2016, the band uploaded a video ending with the date of September 23 of that year, and it was also found that they had deleted the tweet announcing their breakup. The prospects of a potential reunion instantaneously set the Internet ablaze. Although the video was revealed to be promo for a 10th-anniversary reissue of ''The Black Parade'' -- with the band confirming that they had no touring or reunion plans -- the message that they still had a place in music was loud and clear.
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31	The band [[https://twitter.com/MCRofficial/status/1207909921930371072?s=19 privately got back together in 2017]] and played a reunion show in Los Angeles in December 2019, with plans for a small tour (with Australian, Japanese, and New Zealand dates) and festival appearances in 2020 (later postponed to 2022 due to COVID-19). In May 2022, they released a new single entitled "The Foundations of Decay", which was their first song released since 2014.
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33	Outside the band, Gerard Way has a second career as a comics writer, beginning with ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' (he is an executive producer on the comic's [[Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy live-action streaming adaptation]]). In the 2010s, he curated his own boutique imprint for Creator/DCComics, Creator/YoungAnimal, for which he wrote [[ComicBook/DoomPatrol2016 the 2016 run]] of ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' and co-wrote ''ComicBook/CaveCarsonHasACyberneticEye''. He has also co-written two comics miniseries set in the world of the band's concept album ''Danger Days'', titled ''The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys'' and ''The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem''.
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35	Please don't confuse them with Music/MyBloodyValentine, who are a British {{shoegazing}} band who have nothing to do with them, though Gerard admits they inspired the "My" in their band name. (The "Chemical Romance" part is a quote from the back of the Creator/IrvineWelsh novel, ''Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance''.)
36	----
37	!!Members:
38	!!!Current:
39	[[AC: Official Members]]
40	* Gerard Way - lead singer
41	* Ray Toro - lead guitar, backing vocals
42	* Frank Iero - rhythm guitar
43	* Mikey Way - bass
44
45	[[AC: Touring Members]]
46	* Jarrod Alexander - Drums (2011-2013, 2019-present)
47	* Jamie Muhoberac - Keyboards (2019-present)
48
49	!!!Former:
50	* Matt Pelissier - drums[[note]]First two albums and first tour[[/note]]
51	* Bob Bryar - drums[[note]]Three Cheers tour through to Conventional Weapons recording[[/note]]
52	* For the last couple of years, there was no permanent drummer, going with Michael Pedicone as a touring drummer until September 2, 2011,[[note]]He was fired when he got caught trying to frame a crew member for theft. His only recording being the Mad Gear and Missile Kid EP[[/note]] whose replacement was Jarrod Alexander for the remainder of the band's run.[[note]]Appeared on ''Fake Your Death'' and most of the members' solo projects since, implying he might have been confirmed as a full member if they made another album[[/note]] Jarrod has since been confirmed as the drummer for the 2019 reunion shows.
53	* James Dewees recorded and toured as a session member for their last 2 albums before being promoted to a full time member a few months before the break up. However, James will not be returning for the reunion shows, instead being replaced by LA Session Keyboardist Jamie Muhoberac, who played on both The Black Parade and Danger Days. [[note]] Though it was not officially confirmed, it is speculated the reason may be due to allegations of him interacting with underage fans in an inappropriate manner, as others have come forward about his predatory behavior, in addition to him scamming fans of his other band out of their money. As a result, he's all but disappeared. Jamie's involvement was confirmed on twitter by his daughter, Nico Muhoberac. [[/note]]
54	----
55	!!Discography:
56	[[AC: Studio Albums]]
57	[[index]]
58	* ''Music/IBroughtYouMyBulletsYouBroughtMeYourLove'' (2002)
59	* ''Music/ThreeCheersForSweetRevenge'' (2004)
60	** "Music/{{Helena}}"
61	* ''Music/TheBlackParade'' (2006)
62	* ''Music/DangerDaysTheTrueLivesOfTheFabulousKilljoys'' (2010)
63	[[/index]]
64
65	[[AC: Compilations]]
66	* ''Conventional Weapons'' (2013)
67	* ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum May Death Never Stop You]]'' (2014)
68	!!Filmography:
69	* ''Life on the Murder Scene'' (2006)
70	* ''The Black Parade is Dead'' (2008)
71	----
72	!!Welcome to the Tropes Parade:
73	%%
74	%%
75	%% NO TROPING REAL PEOPLE. Performance-related examples only. Please put album-specific examples on their appropriate pages.
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77	%%
78	* AlternateMusicVideo: "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" has a music video made of footage from concerts and their daily lives while touring, and the other, far more well-known RealTrailerFakeMovie music video featuring the members as misfits in high school. Only the latter has been uploaded to the official Youtube channel, though the former was aired on television too in some places.
79	* AscendedExtra: James Dewees, who was the band's touring keyboardist since ''The Black Parade'' era became a full-time member in 2012 . . . [[EleventhHourRanger And then the band split up a year later]]. His only appearance as a member is their final single, "Fake Your Death".
80	* AttractiveZombie: The music video of "Helena" has a beautiful zombie girl dancing in her own funeral.
81	* AutoTune: In the bridge of "The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You". Also used much more subtly in "Cancer".
82	* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: The covers of ''Music/ThreeCheersForSweetRevenge'' and the live album ''Life On The Murder Scene'' (itself a photo recreation of the former album's drawn cover) feature a woman in a blood-splattered wedding dress (though it's much easier to tell she's in a wedding dress on the latter's cover).
83	* {{Bowdlerize}}: ''Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'' has a couple examples.
84	** The AlbumSingle version of "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" changes the line "I'm not o-fucking-kay" to "I'm really not okay".
85	** One of the songs is titled "It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Deathwish" on the album's back cover, but "It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a '''Fucking''' Deathwish" on the disc itself, as well as in the lyric sheet.
86	* CarefulWithThatAxe: From Gerard, Frank and sometimes guest singers.
87	** ''"Just '''''SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!'''''"''
88	** ''"You're just a ghost, so I can't hurt you anymore - SO I CAN'T HURT YOU '''''ANYMOOOOOOOOOORRRRAAAAAAAAAHH!!'''''"''
89	** ''"LET ME GO, '''FUCK!'''"''
90	** ''"I'm ok... I'm o-'''''KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!'''''"''
91	** ''"And if they get me take this spike, and...'''''YOU PUT THE SPIKE IN MY HEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART!'''''"''
92	** ''"And down we go... AND WE ALL! FALL! DOWN! '''I TRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIED!"'''''
93	** ''"When I '''GROW UP!''' I want to '''BE!''' '''NOTHING AT ALLLLLLL!"'''''
94	* ClusterFBomb: "Our Lady of Sorrows." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXmEB_N_T0I Full Stop]].
95	* ConceptAlbum: Each of their albums has an intricate backstory and concept behind it.
96	** This is especially true for ''Music/TheBlackParade'', a RockOpera about the final moments of a dying cancer patient and eventual death. When death comes for him, it takes the form of his fondest memory, which is a parade that he saw as a child.
97	** ''[[Music/DangerDaysTheTrueLivesOfTheFabulousKilljoys Danger Days]]'' is the story of the Killjoys, a group of outlaws in a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalypic]] version of Calfornia who fight against the rule of an evil cooperation known as BL/ind.
98	** ''Music/ThreeCheersForSweetRevenge'' is meant to be about a man and a woman who are separated by death. He goes to {{Hell}}, while she is still alive. The man makes a deal with the devil that he will be allowed to leave hell and be with her again once he collects the souls of a thousand evil men. The record ended up being more about themes of loss, based on experiences that the band were going through while recording the album.
99	* ConceptVideo: Most, if not all of them. Their most popular being "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" made to look like a movie trailer and "Welcome to the Black Parade," which sums up the plot of the album it comes from in about four minutes.
100	* ConcertKiss: Frank and Gerard were especially well-known for their antics onstage in 2007, the most famous being [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzs4HMJCsFM a passionate kiss]] at the beginning of the Projekt Revolution tour.
101	* CoverVersion: The band has done several of these. Examples include:
102	** Music/BobDylan's "Desolation Row" for the Film/{{Watchmen}} soundtrack.
103	** Music/TheMisfits' "Astro Zombies".
104	** Music/{{Pulp}}'s "Common People".
105	** Music/{{Blur}}'s "Song 2".
106	** [[Music/TheSmiths Morrissey's]] "Jack The Ripper".
107	** Music/MariahCarey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You".
108	** Music/{{Queen\|Band}} & Music/DavidBowie's [[Music/HotSpace "Under Pressure"]] with The Used.
109	* CreepyChild: Gerard often takes on this persona during the more theatrical moments, and especially seems to be channeling this in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2YJNBmNK8U live version of "Mama" at the iTunes Festival: London 2011]] where he says this little gem:
110	--> (raises his arms and smiles) Mama! Up.
111	* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:Mikey]] in the music video for "The Ghost of You".
112	* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: [[PlayedForLaughs This is]] the anti-piracy warning on the back of "I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love":
113	--> Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws and will result in Gerard coming to your house and sucking your blood.
114	** [[ThreatBackfire Unfortunately, some of their fans would probably like that.]]
115	* DissonantSerenity: Crops up a lot, often in the middle of an otherwise very hardcore song. The instrumental will suddenly cut to gentle piano or strings and Gerard will start crooning, the new vocal style utterly at odds with the dark/nihilistic/violent words he's singing. However, this is a sure sign that the song is going to explode back to life in a few bars' time, even more loudly and aggressively than before.
116	** Sometimes there's just a single ''{{beat}}'' of quiet and then either Gerard or Frank [[CarefulWithThatAxe starts screaming bloody murder.]]
117	* DocumentaryEpisode: ''Life on the Murder Scene''.
118	* [[DyeOrDie Dye or Be Recognized at Comic Con]]. Apparently, the blonde hair at the 2010 SDCC was Gerard's "costume" so he could buy action figures in peace.
119	* {{Dying Alone}}: "Cubicles" mentions this in the chorus.
120	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: They try new things on every studio album they make, but compare ''Music/IBroughtYouMyBulletsYouBroughtMeYourLove'' to ''Music/ThreeCheersForSweetRevenge''. ''Bullets'' is rawer in production and doesn't have as much of a theatrical feel as subsequent releases, in addition to having prominent {{screamo\|Music}} influences that are mostly absent in subsequent releases.
121	* [[EmphasisOnTheWrongSyllable EmPHAsis ON the Wrong SyllAble]]: "Skylines and Turnstiles," ''You're not in this '''a'''-lone''.
122	* EmoMusic: Although the band would disagree, they do have a lot in common with classic/post-hardcore emo. While some people will claim otherwise, they aren't really emo-pop since they have too much of a HardcorePunk influence to really be an emo pop band. In addition they were an important band in the early 2000's post-hardcore scene along with Thursday and Music/{{AFI}}.
123	* EpicRocking: Over 5 minutes - "Vampires Will Never Hurt You" (5:26), "Early Sunsets Over Monroeville" (5:04), "Demolition Lovers" (6:06), "Welcome to the Black Parade" (5:11), "The Kids from Yesterday" (5:24), "The Light Behind Your Eyes" (5:12) and "The Foundations of Decay" (6:01).
124	* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: "Early Sunsets Over Monroeville", which doubles as a ShoutOut to ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978''.
125	* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "Helena" -> "Give 'em Hell, Kid", "The Ghost of You" -> "The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You".
126	* {{Fanservice}}: Unintentionally. WordOfGod says a lot of that (such as the "Frerard" gimmick) was done to piss people off, which is why a lot of that stopped after they realized people were into it.
127	* FauxYay: Tended to be a staple of live shows. Became most prevalent during the 2007 Projekt Revolution tour, where it was done to make a statement against homophobia.
128	* GlamorousWarTimeSinger: My Chemical Romance as a WWII army band in “The Ghost of You.”
129	* GratuitousPanning: Destroya.
130	* [[SheIsAllGrownUp He Is All Grown Up:]] Mikey was never unattractive, but definitely overshadowed by his PrettyBoy and LargeHam brother. Fans have reacted quite strongly to Mikey's Kobra Kid persona, where [[TheGlassesGottaGo he loses the glasses]] and dyes his hair blond.
131	* IconicItem: Feathered boas, striped ties, the leather jacket (that'll turn your stomach), the bat belt buckle from ''Life on the Murder Scene''... Coffee and cigarettes might even count with this band.
132	** Mikey's now-departed glasses.
133	** Likewise, Frank's departed guitar [[ICallHerVera Pansy]].
134	* IconicOutfit: Each album brought out a new outfit/costume that has defined the band members.
135	** The black clothing and red ties of ''Music/ThreeCheersForSweetRevenge''. Gerard's black hair and eyeliner are also a particular mention.
136	** The black marching band uniforms of ''Music/TheBlackParade'', with Gerard's DiseaseBleach white hair.
137	* ImprovisedWeapon: Towards the end of the "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" video, the band is squaring off against the jocks. Their weapon of choice? Croquet mallets.
138	** Nintendo Power Gloves and Zappers are the weapon of choice in 2019.
139	* IrisOut: The music video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDWgsQhbaqU&feature=related Welcome to the Black Parade]]" has a rather persistent one, which keeps on trying to end the video.
140	* JerkJock: The apparent "enemy" in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOnI5GGpXck&ob=av3n "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)"]] video.
141	* JumpPhysics: A live show will make you wonder if they've harnessed some kind of ability to alter this.
142	* KaleidoscopeHair: Gerard has changed his hair a lot. He's had it black, bleached blond and cut short, then long and bright red for Danger Days.
143	* LargeHam: Gerard owns this trope and then some. If he were an actor, [[ChewingTheScenery he'd constantly have a belly full of scenery]].
144	* LighterAndSofter: ''Music/DangerDaysTheTrueLivesOfTheFabulousKilljoys''. While still embodying the band's strong language and edgy themes, this album seems like a much lighter direction in themes and musical style, particularly considering that the emo factor and dark imaginery are non-existent here. Instead, the band here opted for a much more punk rock style and musical elements of power pop and pop rock.
145	* LongestSongGoesLast: "Demolition Lovers" (6:06) from ''I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love'' and "I Never Told You What I Do for Living" (3:51) from ''Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge''.
146	* LyricalColdOpen: "Teenagers", "Famous Last Words", "Boy Division" and "Helena".
147	* LyricalDissonance: The songs that aren't sad have awesome music that you can't get out of your head, set to lyrics that sometimes induce {{squick}} or fear when you actually ''listen''.
148	** Example: ''Headfirst for Halos.'' A rather upbeat song until you listen to the lyrics. ''"I think I've blown my brains against the ceiling. And as the fragments of my skull begin to fall, fall on your tongue, like pixie dust..."''
149	** As Gerard once said:
150	--> [[http://www.imnotokay.net/my-chemical-romance/gerard-way/ "That's what happens when you're all borderline psychotic and therein lies the beauty of this band - our duality. There's a duality to each band member too. There's a desire to have this constant conflict. If we write a write a song and it turns out really poppy, we have to make the lyrics really fucked up. There's psychosis to everything we do for sure. One day we're probably gonna write this number one pop tune that will be about a massacre!"]]
151	** "Teenagers" is a cheery sounding song about how TeensAreMonsters and how that leads the POV character to implicitly ''shoot up the school''.
152	** The duality also goes the other way around: Gerard often uses {{Metal Scream}}ing for lyrics that are quite cheerful or romantic when you read them on paper.
153	* MadArtist:
154	** Some people consider Gerard to be a not-so-villainous version of this.
155	** As some bands do, Gerard enjoys crowd participation. Unlike most bands, he sometimes SINGS the instructions to replace the lyrics. [[https://youtu.be/B8liy0pDq5Y Catch the 2008 performance of "Mama" in Mexico]] where he sings a cartoonish intro and tells folks to start clapping.
156	---> ''"Everybody in the whole place, whole place, clap!"''
157	* {{Mesodiplosis}}:
158	** "[[Music/IBroughtYouMyBulletsYouBroughtMeYourLove Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough For The Two Of Us]]: 2 segments:
159	*** I'm:
160	----> "The amount of pills I'm taking\
161	Counteracts the booze I'm drinking\
162	And this vanity I'm breaking
163	*** "the" into "I'm":
164	----> Well, I'll choose the life I've taken\
165	Never mind the friends I'm making\
166	And the beauty that I'm faking"
167	** "[[Music/ThreeCheersForSweetRevenge Thank You for the Venom]]": "Give me"
168	---> "So give me all your poison, and give me all your pills\
169	And give me all your hopeless hearts and make me ill"
170	** "[[Music/TheBlackParade House of Wolves]]": Split as sentences instead of just comma-separation: "You better" {{Anaphora}} and "the [noun] 'cause they're never gonna [other noun]" Mesodiplosis:
171	---> "You better run like the devil, 'cause they're never gonna leave you alone\
172	You better hide up in the alley, 'cause they're never gonna find you a home"
173	** "[[Music/DangerDaysTheTrueLivesOfTheFabulousKilljoys Destroya]]":
174	---> "You don't believe in God, I don't believe in luck\
175	They don't believe in us, but I believe we're the enemy!"
176	* MindScrew: The video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO9Lj0T93Xk I Don't Love You]]".
177	* MoodWhiplash: More common in the live shows and the actual albums.
178	* NonAppearingTitle: Album by album, excluding instrumentals, spoken word interludes and bonus tracks:
179	** ''I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love'': entire album.
180	** ''Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'': all songs except for "To the End", although "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" only omits the "I promise" part.
181	** ''The Black Parade'': "The End.", "This Is How I Disappear" (near-avertion: the lyrics say "Without you is how I disappear"), "Welcome to the Black Parade", "House of Wolves", "Cancer", "Disenchanted" and "Famous Last Words".
182	** ''Danger Days'': "Planetary (Go!)", "Party Poison" and "Summertime"
183	** ''Conventional Weapons'': "Boy Division", "Tomorrow's Money", "AMBULANCE", "Kiss the Ring" (lyrics say: "Kiss that ring"), "Surrender the Night" and "Burn Bright (It's "burning bright" in lyrics).
184	* OdeToFamily: "Helena" is about a dead relative.
185	* OneWomanSong: ''Helena''.
186	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: "Vampires Will Never Hurt You". Might contain a bit of TheDeadCanDance, as one verse refers to the vampires hanging out at a nightclub.
187	** Draculoids! Which are not really vampires. Just {{mooks}} in Halloween masks.
188	* OutOfGenreExperience: "I'm Not Okay" sounds like a Music/JimmyEatWorld, Music/FallOutBoy, or Get Up Kids style {{Pop Punk}}-influenced Emo song, in contrast to the rest of ''Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'' which veers closer to PostHardcore and classic Emo.
189	* PintSizedPowerhouse: Vocal version--Frank's pretty skinny and short, but [[VocalDissonance he screams like a maniac.]]
190	* PornStache: Frank sports one sometimes.
191	* PrecisionFStrike: Played straight in the case of ''Three Cheers of Sweet Revenge'', where "fuck" is only heard twice in the whole album. (It still got a Parental Warning sticker.)
192	** Also happens in individual songs, like ''Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back'', which has one loud F-bomb in the middle.
193	* PrisonRape: "You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us In Prison", which seems to be a subversion of DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale. The laughter at the end is the singer going insane and threatening to commit arson.
194	* PromotedFanboy: Gerard Way was a fan of ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'', which he went on to write.
195	* RealTrailerFakeMovie: The basic theme of the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZudX66IBat8 I'm Not Okay (I Promise)]]" video.
196	* RockOpera: ''The Black Parade'' and ''[[Music/DangerDaysTheTrueLivesOfTheFabulousKilljoys Danger Days]]''.
197	* SesameStreetCred: They appeared on a Christmas episode of ''Series/YoGabbaGabba'' (billed as "MCR").
198	* ShoutOut: A fair number of their songs contain references to other things.
199	** "It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Death Wish" paraphrases one of Death's most famous quotes from Creator/NeilGaiman's ''ComicBook/TheSandman'':
200	-->''"For what you did to me, for what I'll do to you, you get what everyone else gets--you get a lifetime!"'' [[note]]The original quote is: ''"You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more, no less."''[[/note]]
201	* ShotForShotRemake: "The Ghost Of You"'s music video closely imitates ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'''s Omaha Beach scene.
202	** [[ShownTheirWork They did such a good job that many people on YouTube thought the scenes were from the movie.]]
203	* SirSwearsALot: Gerard onstage.
204	* SlasherSmile: Gerard has a particular affinity for breaking into wide, eerie grins as he performs. The music video for "Famous Last Words" is a striking example.
205	* SomethingWeForgot: Ray Toro has, according to him and other members of the band, been left at truck stops by accident while on tour.
206	** The fandom sometimes seems to forget that Mikey exists.
207	* TakeThat: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a_Pj5B4h4Y We Don't Need Another Song About California]] may qualify as one towards the current pop music trends at the time. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTVJTt-Gfx8 Cough,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhBorPm6JjQ cough.]]
208	* TextlessAlbumCover: ''Danger Days,'' ''Living With Ghosts,'' and several special-edition vinyl versions of ''The Black Parade.''
209	* TitleOnlyChorus: DESTROYA, DESTROYA, DESTROYA, DESTROYA...
210	* UndeathlyPallor: Everybody in the protagonist's non-hospital scenes in "Welcome to the Black Parade," [[AmbiguousSituation whatever's going on there]]. (Is it post-death or somewhere between life and death? Whatever the case, the non-hospital people are sickly pale, whereas the protagonist actually has color to his skin while battling for his life in the hospital, and so do the nurses.)
211	* VocalDissonance: Ray is a literal example of the trope, and the band themselves often surprised people in their early days being a bunch of emo/goth-looking guys [[CarefulWithThatAxe who love screaming and guitar solos.]]
212	* WarIsHell: "Mama" and "The Ghost of You."
213	* WholePlotReference: Their Music Video for their song "Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough for the Two of Us" recounts the plot of the movie ''Film/{{Audition}},'' interspersed with clips of them playing.
214	----
215	-> ''So long, and good night...''

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