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->''"It is I, ODERUS URUNGUS, lead singer of the sickest band in metal history, Earth's only openly extra-terrestrial rock band, and the destined destroyers of not only the human race but also reality itself. GWAR! Hulking, heaving, dribbling WAR-GOD’s who like nothing better than putting hordes of our sniveling fans to the sword while playing the marauding mutant metal that we are famous for! Star's of stage and screen, carvers of stem and spleen! GWAR LIVES!"''\\
-- '''Oderus Urungus''', [[http://www.gwar.net/mythos GWAR Mythos]]''

What happens when you take the theatrical stage performances of Music/AliceCooper, the costumes and makeup of Music/{{KISS}}, AudienceParticipation of ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', and throw it in a [[UpToEleven meat grinder]]? You get the [[EvilOverlord self-proclaimed overlords]] of all existence known as GWAR.

Originally hailing from UsefulNotes/{{Antarctica}}, then somewhere past [[LikeABadassOutOfHell Hell’s Eighth Lock]], yet somehow having a mailing address in Richmond, Virginia all the while, GWAR is a [[TheNewRockAndRoll shock rock]]/Heavy Metal band whose on-stage antics spray their audiences with [[KensingtonGore blood, drugs, toxic waste, and other fluids]].

'''Studio albums:'''
* ''Hell-O!'' (1988)
* ''Scumdogs of the Universe'' (1990)
* ''America Must Be Destroyed'' (1992)
* ''This Toilet Earth'' (1994)
* ''[=RagNaRok=]'' (1995)
* ''Carnival of Chaos'' (1997)
* ''We Kill Everything'' (1999)
* ''Violence Has Arrived'' (2001)
* ''War Party'' (2004)
* ''Beyond Hell'' (2006)
* ''Lust in Space'' (2009)
* ''Bloody Pit of Horror'' (2010)

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!!This band provides examples of
* ActionGirl: Sylmenstra Hymen. During her tenure with the band she dished out as much punishment as any of the men.
* AlienInvasion: Many tours have at some point featured aliens. Especially the Ragnarok tour.
** An reversal of the trope taks place in most tours where one of the aliens is anally ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice. Sleazy P. Martini refers to this as "AnalProbing, GWAR style."
** The fact that the band themselves are portrayed as space barbarians seeking to destroy the planet counts towards this as well.
* AnimatedAdaptation: Parodied in Skulhedface.
* AnythingThatMoves: Oderus is far from picky.
* AntiLoveSong: "I hate love songs and I hate lovers/I hate everything that I can't have so I hate you"
* BadassNormal: Sleazy P. Martini.
* BikerBabe: One of Orderus' former girlfriends. You can guess how the relationship ended.
* BlackComedy: The live version of "Have You Seen Me" off the Road Behind single epitomizes this:
->''This kid is eighteen years old! Besides, I happen to know the law here in Cananananada, and I happen to know that it's not rape if it's dead! *baby crying sound effect*''
* BlasphemousBoast:
--> "I call out your God till before me he stands\\
But don't send me Jesus\\
He's only a man."
** Later in the video he beats Jesus in basketball.
*** And then they [[RefugeInAudacity barbecue and]] [[ImAHumanitarian eat him.]] Roast Lamb of God, anyone?
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Averted. If there's any moral system that exists where GWAR comes from, it's pretty clear that they're violating it.
--> "Little did we know, we were undermining our entire value system!"
* CoolSword: Oderus' trademark broadsword, lovingly named Lick.
** That's "Unt Lick."
* CreationMyth: GWAR created the human race by having sex with apes. TheMaster was not happy about this, so He froze GWAR in antarctic ice.
** In the beginning, TheMaster farted, thus creating the universe.
*** Actually "Approximately 40 billion years ago, the Master of all Reality took a shit, and thus the universe was born."
**** "But that was not enough. He had to wipe. And what better way to wipe than with war? So he created the Scumdogs of the Universe."
* CrowdSong: "Sick Of You". Also, when it's done live, the audience shouts out the answers to the questions in "Slaughterama".
* DeadlyGame: Slaughterama. Because when your life is shit, you haven't got much to lose.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu?: The entire premise of "Beyond Hell". GWAR is sent to Hell, and to escape they must defeat Jewcifer.
** Before "Beyond Hell" was released, GWAR wrote Anti-Anti-Christ.
--> "I choose to be a blasphemer\\
To bring your kind to heel\\
Bring forth the beast and cleave him with my steel"
** Before that, from their "Scumdogs of the Universe" album, was the song "The Horror of Yig," about an elder from Cthulhu lore. They dismembered the creature on stage for a few tours.
* DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal:
--> "My quest for sex consumes all my life\\
Being a God I do what I like"
* EvilVersusEvil: On their quest to destroy all existence, GWAR often faces off against and destroys other evil entities.
* FictionalPoliticalParty: Their album ''War Party'' centers around a political party (named "[[TitleDrop The War Party]]") that supports policies dedicated especially to the eradication of the human race through global war and hatred. The party's symbol is said to be the "Krosstika," a combination of the Christian cross and the Nazi swastika, representing "two great hates that hate great together." According to GWAR lore, the political party has since disbanded.
* GagPenis: Oderus's "Cuttlefish of Cthulhu"
* GodzillaThreshold: During the Beyond Hell tours, GWAR has been beaten down and sodomized by Jewcifer. There seems to be no hope, except for when Gor-Gor comes and eats Satan. Gor-Gor then tries to eat GWAR, but is killed by Oderus.
* HeavyMeta: Metal Metal Land.
* HighPressureBlood: A staple of their live shows. Lampshaded by Sleazy P. Martini in "The Gwarnage Campaign".
--> "Wow, look at all the PSI in his main aorta artery."
* HumansAreMorons: "Back on the road, it's no lie, stupid fucking humans pay money to die."
* IAmTheBand: Dave Brockie aka Oderus Urungus, as he's the only remaining founding member and the idea of the band was his in the first place. In fact, several characters in the band have had multiple people play them.
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes
* InsignificantLittleBluePlanet: The Master banished GWAR to the worst place in the universe he could find: Earth
** As Oderus calls it in many instances, "This stinking mudball planet", among others.
* InitialismTitle: Averted. Despite the bands mention of the below in fan club newsletters and interviews, some fans still vehemently proclaim the band name is an acronym.
** One of the more popular ones accepted is [[FunWithAcronyms God What A Racket]].
* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: A main staple of the band from their songs, to their albums, to their videos, to their tours, to their et. all...
* {{Kayfabe}}: For music, perhaps the definitive example.
* KickTheDog: Almost literally. Oderus throws a dog into a whirling death machine. And then has sex with it.
** [[ComicallyMissingThePoint The dog or the machine?]]
* KilledOffForReal: After Cory Smoot died on tour, the band decided to retire his character. Officially, Flattus has returned to his home planet and is never to return.
* MoralGuardians: Parodied in "The Morality Squad"
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Averted. GWAR trash talks and re-kills the deceased (Laci Peterson, Music/MichaelJackson and El Duce, to name a few) on stage.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Most times Gor Gor, their pet TyrannosaurusRex, is resurrected as a cyborg-zombie dinosaur. Who was force-fed crack as a baby. Who might be Oderus' bastard son.
* OfficiallyShortenedTitle: When in its infancy as a mere joke opening for Death Piggy, the original name was "GWAAARRRGGHHLLLGH." [[ReverseCerebusSyndrome It was later shortened after they noticed people would come to see the joke band and leave before the headlining Death Piggy played.]]
* OldShame: The band is not very fond of We Kill Everything.
* OmnicidalManiac: "I want to murder everything in the entire world, Every man and woman and every boy and girl."
** Also from the self-titled song on [[OldShame "We Kill Everything"]]- "We will kill everything, including ourselves."
* PartsUnknown
* PedophilePriest: Father Bohab. Phallus in Wonderland has him caught waving his "lucky charms" at an alter boy. He was then sodomized with a large cross, a fate met in later tours.
* PunyHumans: Oderus constantly refers to Earthlings as "human filth."
* RefugeInAudacity: Many of their songs and most of their live show.
* RockOpera: Pretty much every one of GWAR's albums, along with accompanying movies/videos and even comic miniseries.
* RunningGag: Among GWAR fans: "So......how do you hide money from a hippie?" "PUT IT UNDER THE SOAP!"
* ShoutOut: "The Salaminizer". Sung to the rhythm of "Gangsta Gangsta" by rap group Music/{{NWA}}. Dave Brockie enjoyed NWA's work and decided to put his own spin on it.
** Urungus's penis is named after [[Creator/HPLovecraft Cthulhu]]. The band also fought [[EldritchAbomination Yig]] regularly early on.
* Squick: From showering their audience in fake blood and semen to songs like [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Fuckin' An Animal"]], GWAR runs the gamut of stomach-churning.
** A nice example from "Bloody Mary", the lovely phrase "Her womb explodes in a meat maggot mesh".
* StockSoundEffects: Used in their live shows.
* TheShowMustGoOn: During Tour De Scum GWAR had protesters on stage who blocked the show from happening. After asking if they are in show business (no? Well then get the fuck off the stage!) Sleazy P. Martini declares the show must go on.
** A serious version of this trope occured when Cory Smoot (AKA Flattus Maximus) died while on GWAR's Fall 2011 US tour. Shortly after his death, Dave Brockie announced that the tour would resume as planned and that the character would be resigned permanantly in honor of Cory.
* TakeThat: They bring celebrities and politicians on stage for ritualistic public execution.
** [[SubvertedTrope Oddly enough]], Oderus considers being killed by GWAR to be flattering.
* ThoseWackyNazis: They come up pretty often.
** One of the victims in Slaughterama is a Nazi skinhead.
** Wharghoul is about an American zombie troop who joined the SS.
** Sonderkommando's title is taken from death camp units.
** KZ Necromancer mentions Mengele and a plot to save Hitler's semen.
** Poor Ole' Tom was killed by Nazi skinheads.
** Hitler's vomiting face and a Nazi soldier were in the flesh column.
** Beyond Hell (and the tours following it) featured a half Hilter half Jesus. Jesus was a dick, but Hitler was (in Orderus' own words) pretty cool.
** Dave Brockie has pissed on Hitler's RealLife grave.
* TyrannosaurusRex: the aforementioned Gor Gor.
* VillainProtagonist
* VillainSong: "The Insidious Soliloquy of Dr. Prof. Skullheadface", "Morality Squad", "Surf of Syn", "Private Pain of Techno Destructo" and "Techno's Song" are all sung by GWAR's enemies.
** Also "The Salaminizer", "Crack In The Egg" and many more... [[VillainProtagonist About the band themselves.]]
* WorldOfHam
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