Characters / Metalocalypse: Dethklok

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The most brutal band in the world.

Senator Stampingston: As you can see, Dethklok is no laughing matter. They're the world's greatest cultural force. A short time since the Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle Batsfjord Massacre Fest, every other coffee company has been obliterated. Completely blown out of the water.

General Crozier: Freaks.

Senator Stampingston: These freaks as you call them are currently worth billions.

In General

• Abusive Parents: Played for Laughs in "Fatklok". They're completely irresponsible to their new adopted kid, treating him more like a pet, naming him "Fatty Ding-Dongs", refusing to keep him from eating unhealthy foods and instead neutering him in a misguided attempt to correct his rowdy behavior, tasering him when he continued to misbehave and finally leashing him to a pole on the front lawn of Mordhaus. When they decide that they can't keep taking care of him anymore, rather than returning him to a foster home, they just leave him on Krangor Island... which they've recently filled with wild, feral cats that quickly maul Fatty.
• The Alcoholic: All the members are constantly drinking. When they go to the grocery store to buy the ingredients for a meal, Nathan has to outright state that they shouldn't just buy booze, to which Murderface says he would rather cut his dick off than accept that booze isn't food.
• Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Happens nearly every time they touch alcohol. They're somewhat aware that they tend to make very poor decisions when drunk, though it doesn't stop them from chugging the stuff at all.
• Aloof Big Brother: Not by blood, but all of them act this way towards Toki to varying degrees, with moments of caring sprinkled in. Skwisgaar, in particular, stands out.
• Apocalypse Maiden: The Tribunal believes Dethklok has a connection to the eponymous end-of-the-world prophecy. Dethklok's music itself seems to cause insanity and chaos to ensue. The process that Dethklok's scientists developed for Dethklok to record music onto water causes entire landscapes to turn to blight.
• Artist Disillusionment: In-universe, the band hates their fans. All of them (even the hot ones). They also hate other people in the music industry. They even despise working on new albums. Offdensen has to keep forcing them to work so they meet release dates and don't slack off all the time. They ultimately overcome this in Doomstar Requiem and Army of the Doomstar; in the former, they actually help out other musicians, and in the latter, Nathan thanks their fans and realizes that they and those who have supported them throughout their careers are the true Army of the Doomstar.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: They increasingly start caring for each other by Season 3, despite their feelings on the matter. They later fully acknowledge each other as "brothers" by The Doomstar Requiem.
• Bad Boss: Played for Laughs. Their employees frequently get injured, mutilated and/or brutally killed in all sorts of ways, and the band pretty much never bat an eye at any of it. While they usually don't actively mistreat their "Klokateers", the members of Dethklok don't care about the absolutely horrid working conditions their employees deal with, to the point where Klokateer corpses clog up the sewer system. In fact, they consider it very metal.
  • That said, they have made attempts to make themselves out to be Benevolent Bosses, like in "Murdering Outside The Box". They apparently hold a "Dethklok's Annual Employee Evaluation Conference Conference and Raffle", where they try to improve morale with a motivational speaker, an exclusive look at their new song and, of course, a raffle for a prize (diamond-encrusted codpiece). It all goes about as well as you'd expect.
• Badass Crew: When their backs are against the wall (and they know and care about it), they'll take the threat down and protect each other in the process.
• Barbarian Long Hair: It goes without saying that they're incredibly unruly at the best of times. And, with the exception of Murderface, all of them have hair that goes down their backs at the very least.
• Berserk Button: While they're generally pretty ill-tempered and rude, there are a few things that really set them off.
  • Do not suggest anything that is not metal to them, or make fun of metal itself. They'll really fast.
  • As of "Dethcamp", DO NOT BULLY TOKI. After a Jerkass decides to smash Toki's snow globe, Dethklok shows up while the snow globe is being broken, and for the first time in the entire show, all of them look the angriest they've ever been, Death Glares and all. Then Nathan decides to teach the punk a lesson with that very same smashed snowglobe.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Brilliant as musicians, incompetent at most everything else, and unable (and unwilling) to lift a finger to do something without either having their Klokateers do it, or having Offdensen force them to do it. Except contract negotiations, at which they somehow bested the devil himself.
• Broken Pedestal: To the Revengencers, former fans who were extremely pissed off by Dethklok's indifference and apathy towards them that they resorted to killing their former idols. The Metal Masked Assassin takes advantage of this by forming an army he can use to get revenge against Dethklok for killing his brother (even though Dethklok didn't do it themselves).
  • In "The Doomstar Requiem", everyone starts turning away from Dethklok when it became clear that Toki was indeed missing and the band's use of a hologram proved that Dethklok can't be bothered to find him. It's later restored at the end, though.
• Butt-Monkey: Toki and especially Murderface are the most prominent examples, though they've all had their moments of shit luck; and that's not even getting into their Freudian Excuses.
• The Call Has Bad Reception: Dethklok is oblivious to their importance to the world until Season 4. The band thinks Nathan Explosion destroyed their album under the influence of tequila, when it turned out to be prophecy.
• Celebrity Power: Deconstructed. Through four entire seasons, it's clearly shown that Dethklok's fans often get violent to the point of hurting society, themselves, and the celebrities they worship, much like how spectators in Real Life often get into confrontations over minor Serious Business. This causes great emotional stress for Dethklok, who are often accompanied by Klokateers as a result to prevent anyone from getting to the band, and whose members are put on a pedestal so high that they feel incredibly lonely and cling to each other because they have no one else. This also results in Dethklok either ignoring their fans, treating them like shit, or drinking their problems away.
  • Played straight in the Doomstar Requiem.
• Character Development: By "The Doomstar Requiem", after Toki is kidnapped by Magnus and the Revengencers, all members of Dethklok in the process of rescuing him discard their selfish, hedonistic, asshole ways and become truly caring and generous, which allows them to ascend and become gods.
• The Chosen One: All of them, as revealed in the Season 4 finale.
• Cool Airship: The "Dethcopter", an enormous multistory helicopter equipped with a rec room, a restaurant complete with a kitchen, dining hall and mini-bar, a living room with a scenic view, a small army's worth of mounted guns and ammunition and probably more. It's so cool that it even has a song dedicated to it, "Hatredcopter".
• Create Your Own Villain:
  • Their extreme callousness and mistreatment of their fans led to some of said fans becoming very disillusioned with their idols, and nursing intense grudges against them. This was how The Revengencers were born.
  • To be fair, Magnus Hammersmith was an asshole to begin with, but Dethklok kicking him out of the band made him join the Revengencers and eventually resulted in him kidnapping Toki and Abigail to be tortured.
• Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: The Black Metal-esque corpse paint they don for most concerts and some music videos evokes this image, combining it with stark-white painted skin.
• Crippling Overspecialization: They're all really good at making death metal, yet laughably incompetent almost everywhere else, with the first example being their disastrous grocery-shopping. It's why they heavily rely on their manager and Klokateers when it comes to mundane things like feeding themselves.
• Dark Is Not Evil: For all their antagonistic brutality and gross Lack of Empathy, Dethklok really can't be called evil; they're just really fucking stupid.
• Deadpan Snarker: They're usually just... well, dumb, but they can all be pretty snarky at times. Pickles is probably the best example.
• Death Glare:
  • They give Offdensen very intense Death Glares in "Doublebookedklok" when he finds them again after they ran away, due to his previous neglectful behavior towards the band.
  • All of them save Toki sport this trope in "Dethcamp" when they arrive at the Rock-a-Roonie Fantasy Camp just in time to see a Jerkass bully smash the snow globe they previously gave to the former.
• Depending on the Writer: Just how incompetent they are outside of making music. For starters, in some situations, they're easily tricked, while in others, they are master contract negotiators. In general, they constantly ping-pong between being lazy yet functional, and genuinely incapable of functioning independently, depending on Rule of Funny.
  • Their exact level of wealth, power and prestige, as well how known and recognizable they are to the general public, likewise tends to fluctuate based on Rule of Funny and the needs of the plot.
• Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: When about to sign a contract to sell their souls to the Blues Devil in order to get the mastery of the Blues, the entire band decide to give the contract a thorough read through and rewrite. Using lots of legal jargon until they negotiated it down to a $5 Hot Topic gift card and received, along with blues talent, 7% on the backend of his soul. The Blues Devil actually tells them he will sleep on it.
• Doom Magnet: Whether it's every concert they're in, or the people close to them, Dethklok attract destruction and mayhem pretty much wherever they go.
• Drowning My Sorrows:
  • Though Pickles stands out due to his relationship with his emotionally abusive parents, this trope applies to all of Dethklok, who often face problems from their fans and whatnot due to their massive fame and celebrity status.
  • "The Doomstar Requiem" is probably the most significant example, specifically after Toki and Abigail are kidnapped by the Revengencers; the song "Partying Around the World" focuses on their attempts to get completely wasted, drinking themselves silly and consuming lots of drugs to deny their hurting over Toki and Abigail's absences.
• Drunken Master: It's implied that they often drink alcohol before concerts, but it never seems to prevent them from putting on amazing performances. Special mention goes to Pickles, who is described as playing concerts "totally hammered" and never missing a note or beat.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: All of them manage to get hit with this in "Writersklok" when they take a vacation to some unnamed Middle-Eastern Country where absolutely everyone thinks they're women. It's likely a combination of in-universe Values Dissonance and the whole band having shoulder-length hair at least, which the locals considered feminine. It takes a turn a for the worse when they're kidnapped, forcibly added to the local tyrant's harem and are ordered to suck his dick if they aren't able to come up with a new song on the spot.
• Dysfunctional Family: All five of them are psychologically messed up to varying degrees, and cling to each other because they have no one else, even though they act like they hate each other. From the Season 2 finale onward, they start caring and looking out for each other, and then acknowledge each other as true brothers in "The Doomstar Requiem". Invoked by Nathan himself in "Fatherklok":
  Nathan: This is MY band. You're MY stupid, dumb, (pinch harmonic) up, dysfunctional family, alright?!
• Dysfunction Junction: In spite of all the money, brutality, and celebrity status, Dethklok is profoundly fucked up:
  • Pickles is a sad, alcoholic "Well Done, Son" Guy who was emotionally abused by his family and constantly favored over Seth, his mooching, older Jerkass conman of an older brother.
  • Skwisgaar was constantly emotionally neglected as a child by his promiscuous mother and mentally scarred from seeing (and hearing) her sexual exploits, turning him into an Attention Whore as an adult.
  • Toki is a childish, sometimes violently insane Cloudcuckoolander who suffered extreme abuse as a child at the hands of his parents, who were religious fanatics who punished him for the slightest infractions.
  • Murderface watched his father commit a murder-suicide with his mother when he was a baby, was constantly hated for his appearance and berated by his grandmother, Stella, and (in the comics) was bullied in high school.
  • While seemingly normal in comparison, Nathan is socially and emotionally stunted, believes he's really stupid, and it's hinted that he is autistic.
• Establishing Character Moment: The very first episode of Season 1 is this for Dethklok as a whole: it's telling when people are willingly signing pain wavers and throwing their lives away to see the band perform live. In that same episode, their adventures at the grocery store just cements how utterly incompetent they are at everything that isn't death metal.
• Everyone Has Standards: Despite being the most brutal death metal band in all of existence, there's plenty of stuff that horrifies even them. Their reaction to an insane fashion designer skinning live and emaciated models for leather for Dethklok's fashion line and their horrific but successful attempt at bringing their chef back to life are the prime examples.
  • When Skwisgaar and Toki were forced to attend a driving school, the instructional film's graphic, gore-filled depictions of car crashes visibly disturbed both of them.
• Exhausted Eye Bags:
  • Dethklok gets these in "Tributeklok" after spending several days in self-inflicted poverty in an attempt to get back to their roots as a garage band.
  • They also get this in "Doublebookedklok" when they run away in despair after Offdensen angrily yells at them, only to find they are completely unprepared for living on their own in the wilderness.
  • It also happens in "The Doomstar Requiem" by indulging themselves in sex, drugs, and lavish parties to suppress their pain and grief over losing Toki and Abigail to the Revengencers.
• Fan Hater: Of their own fanbase, who were described as "douchebags" and "regular jackoffs", and receive a whole "Fansong" where the band expresses how much they despite its supporters. Helps most DethFans are Loony Fans with a violent (if not suicidal...) disposition.
• Fiction 500: The amount of money they all possess is ridiculous. Their wealth is enough to surpass Belgium.
• Fire-Forged Friends: They start out as five musicians living in the same house, who act indifferent to each other at best. However, as time goes on and they endure two brutal attempts on their lives, as well as Toki's kidnapping, they begin to develop a brotherly bond.
• Five-Man Band: The band consists of five members, and each of their character dynamics are explored throughout the series. While the band members appear to be larger-than-life celebrities, deep down they're incompetent man-children who are disillusioned with their fans. When one band member leaves the quintet, the group falls apart as they rely on each other.
• Forgot About His Powers: Thanks to being absolute dipshits, they all have a habit of forgetting how wealthy they are, and how easily this could be used to solve any problem they encounter.
• Freudian Excuse: All Dethklok members have utterly messed-up childhoods that would've been seen as criminal in real life... except for Nathan, who has a surprisingly good relationship with his parents, especially his father.
• Genius Ditz: They're completely and utterly incompetent man-children... when it comes to anything other than music, partying, drugs, or contract negotiation. And even the last one depends on how the writers are feeling that week.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Pops up here and there in the aftermath of horrible disasters though mostly in season 1 episodes. Usually mixed with Red Eyes, Take Warning.
• A God Am I: The last line of their song Impeach God expresses this sentiment but it's inverted in the show proper where they're implied to have God-like powers but are completely clueless about this except for Skwisgaar.
• Godwin's Law: They specifically equate any attempt to limit one's ability to eat the food they like with acting like a Nazi.
• Good Feels Good: After four seasons of being selfish assholes, and treating everyone around them like crap, their actions are thrown in their faces in The Doomstar Requiem. During their quest to rescue Toki and Abigail, they realize after defending themselves against a crowd of junkie musicians through kindness that being kind and generous is actually better than how they acted before.
  Pickles: I can't believe how good it feels to be, giving to you, you're giving back to me!
• Groupie Brigade: Countless women across the globe are willing and eager to have sex with the members of Dethklok (except Murderface, who is so ugly and socially inept he has a very hard time getting laid). When Nathan Explosion begins exclusively dating Rebecca Nightrod in "Girlfriendklok", it sparks a wave of female suicides around the globe.
• Hates Everyone Equally: Nathan says it best in "Diversityklok":
  Nathan: We are NOT racist. We don't give a (pinch harmonic) what color our fans are because we don't give a (pinch harmonic) about our fans.
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Nathan, Toki and Murderface's surnames aren't just their stage names; they're their legal names, as well. Given the setting and tone of the series, it's honestly not that surprising.
• The Heavy: Each petty choice they make has social and economic shock-waves, setting topics for each episode.
  • At one point, the economy of the entire world is dependent on the release of their newest album. And then "Prankklok" happened.
  • As it turns out it wasn't "the right song" and the forces that be convinced Nathan to destroy it to do it right. The fifth season was supposed to cover this, but unfortunately, [adult swim] pulled the plug on the show.
• Heel Realization: Some of the episodes kick off with a member of the band realizing that despite their success, they're still spoiled man-children who have major issues and are very unfulfilled, and they leave the band to do something about it. Being the world this is, they usually revert back to their old ways without much regret.
• He-Man Woman Hater: None of the group are particularly fond of women, beyond the fact that you can have sex with them. One episode has Murderface proclaim, upon seeing the all-female tribute band Ladyklok, that "women are physically incapable of achieving brutality."
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Despite being the main characters, they're hilariously deranged and thoroughly apathetic to the destruction they cause on a regular basis.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: The band, counter to what you may think, is very, very aware of its many flaws. In other words, Dethklok really hates Dethklok.
  Nathan: WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIIIIGHHHTTT!!!!
• Hidden Depths: Just the fact that their home Mordhaus is equipped with a massive library, spanning several floors is rather shocking considering how Book Dumb the band tends to be. That said, it's downplayed in the sense that the show rarely has them actually in there though.
• Hollywood Atheist: Parodied by Toki and Skwisgaar, who not only steadfastly refuse to believe God exists, but don't believe religion exists either. Skwisgaar later tries to correct this as them being nihilists who don't believe in anything after Nathan points out the fallacies in his thinking. Although considering Toki's insanely abusive childhood from his religious parents, he justifiably has more reason to dislike religion.
• Hypocritical Humor:
  • In "Dethhealth", they insist on saying "Hamburger Time" in place of "death". And their band name is Dethklok.
  • In "Tributeklok", the band chews out Murderface when his public antics make the world assume Dethklok is a bunch of wealthy, spoiled jackoffs... while they're getting pampered by their Klokateers.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Surprisingly, every member of Dethklok display this in some fashion.
  • In "Fatherklok", Skwisgaar, having lacked a father figure his entire life, comes to really enjoy the opportunity to have a father in the form of his new stepfather Tyr in Sweden and even starts a relationship with a local girl.
  • Toki has expressed at several points a desire to make friends outside of his band and in "Fertilityklok" shows a strong desire to start a family with a non-groupie woman that he can genuinely love.
  • Murderface, while outwardly violent and angry seems to often go through periods of loneliness and depression where he longs simply to be accepted, something he never gets from his family, classmates, bandmates or fans.
  • Pickles the Drummer is normally one of the more stable members of the band but in "Motherklok", it's revealed that his mother never recognizes any of his accomplishments and it tears him apart. Not to mention Murderface's brief stint as Team Dad in "Fatherklok" causing a whole lot of daddy issues to resurface.
  • Even their brutal leader, Nathan, strongly desires a serious monogamous relationship with another woman who loves him for who he is and every season except season 3 focuses on this aspect of his character for at least one episode.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Whether collectively or individually, the band members often ponder what it would be like if they lived normal lives as "regular jack-offs" rather than insanely rich and powerful death metal musicians with deeply troubled pasts. To what degree varies member by member.
• Impossibly Cool Wealth: They have so much money that they manage to surpass Belgium. And most of said money is spent on things that they deem acceptable according to their metal standards.
• Informed Ability: They seem to have god-like powers, but exactly what those powers are is left up in the air for the majority of the series.
  • "Doomstar Requiem" reveals that these powers are the Dethlights or Morte Lumina, which are a powerful and destructive supernatural force. When used offensively it can outright atomize their enemies, but its also shown it can be used defensively as the band was able to share their powers with the fans in "Army of the Doomstar" to protect them from Salacia and then retaliate.
• Irony: The most brutal death metal band of all time... is sometimes afraid of death and violence, if they specifically aren't the cause of it. "Dethfashion" and "Dethhealth" are probably the most prominent cases.
• It's All About Me: The whole band is very selfish and self-absorbed, with Murderface easily being the worst of the five. A recurring gag is them considering a mild inconvenience on their part to be more important than even the largest catastrophe: for instance, in "Dethgov", they demand Offdensen show more empathy to them because they need to play a benefit concert in hot weather than to the governor of Florida being brutally lynched as a direct result of their actions.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: When Nathan's poor relationship with his Control Freak girlfriend, Rebecca starts to really affect the other band members' lives, their intervention amounts to kidnapping Nathan in the middle of the night and subjecting him to this to get him to admit he's unhappy and has to break up with her.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Their treatment of their own fans is horrid, but most of the time, the fans bring said treatment on themselves due to being complete psychpaths. It says a lot about how deranged they are that even DETHKLOK are disgusted by them.
• Jerks With Hearts Of Gold: Yes, even Murderface.
• Karma Houdini: Every member of the band is a sociopath in some way or another, and they are responsible for countless deaths. They almost never have to deal with long term consequences for their actions.
• Lack of Empathy: Despite the horrifying amount of deaths that happen around them on a daily basis, Dethklok usually has little to no sympathy for their fans (though with good reason), and really don't care what happens to them. This treatment initially extended to each other; because of their beliefs that caring for each other is not "brutal" and "metal", Dethklok will ignore whatever problems they are facing and leave them to confront said problems on their own. Toki, being the youngest and (usually) most compassionate, is often subjected to this.
  • They later grow out of this in "The Doomstar Requiem" just in time to save Toki and Abigail from the Revengencers.
• Lethal Klutz: Dethklok manage to kill fans at every show, the faulty and badly-conceived products they endorse cause countless deaths, and that's not even getting into the times when either they or their fans have people intentionally murdered.
• Lonely at the Top: It's heavily implied that for all of their wealth and fame, they can't form meaningful relationships outside of their sphere, due to either being held on a ridiculously high pedestal by their fans, their Doom Magnet status, or some other factor. This becomes a plot point in "Dethdoubles" where they hire lookalikes to prevent assassination attempts but later become genuinely attached to them, unaware that said lookalikes are undercover Tribunal agents led by Crozier.
• Mad Artist: The ideas that the band have for their concerts are often insane, to say the least. The first episode has them deciding to pour hot coffee on their audience to promote their sponsor, and the band's approval propels that coffee brand to crush all its competitors and become the only coffee company left in the world.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!":
  • They all panic in "Dethcamp" when they learn that they left Toki at the Rock-a-Roonie Fantasy Camp with their former rhythm guitarist, Magnus Hammersmith, who's been nursing a grudge towards Dethklok for kicking him out.
  • In "The Doomstar Requiem", after entering the Depths of Humanity to find Toki, they find all the people they abandoned in their rise to stardom, including their ex-manager and guitar teacher, and their old groupies.
• Melodic Death Metal: What the sound of their music is, though the show only ever refers to them as a Death Metal band. Towards the end of the last season, however, they're now called an Extreme Metal band, which somewhat fits the evolution of their music in the later seasons and their real-life album, "Dethalbum III".
• Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: See Physical God and Apocalypse Maiden.
• Mr. Fanservice: All of them are pretty good-looking, except for Murderface.
• Multinational Team: In Dethklok, we have a Swede (Skwisgaar), a Norwegian (Toki), and three Americans (Pickles is Irish, Nathan is Native American [or, in the show, 1/4 Yaneemango], and while Murderface is presumed to be from the US, his ethnicity is unknown).
• N.G.O. Superpower: The governments of the world are all reliant on the success of the band so they allow the band's military to get away with a lot of shit i.e. act as their own police force and imprison anyone that illegally downloads their music.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Mostly Murderface, but might apply to the rest of the band, given their fondness for brutal things. However, show them something extremely disturbing and/or gory up close, and they'll understandably react with horror.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: They are all parodies of various real-life musicians.
  • Skwisgaar is based on Yngwie Malmsteen, another highly-skilled Swedish guitar player who is infamous for his arrogance. Appearance-wise, he is based on Alexi Laiho, deemed the world's fastest guitarist, from Children of Bodom. He's also similar to Jari Mäenpää of Wintersun, down to having a rhythm guitarist with facial hair and long brown hair in their band - the Irony is that Jari and Teemu are good friends, while Skwisgaar treats Toki like crap.
  • Toki is one for Mikael Akerfeldt from Opeth. Musically, Brendon Small compares his playing style to Iron Maiden.
    • In "Bookklok" he briefly becomes one to Steve Vai. In reference to Steve Vai replacing Yngwie Malmsteen in the band Alcatrazz, Toki replaces Skwisgaar, a partial Malmsteen parody in performing at the Norwegian Ice Festival in Lillehammer. Toki even rips off Vai's more flashy style of clothing and guitar playing during said performance.
  • Murderface is one for Geezer Butler.
  • Pickles is based on Devin Townsend from metal band, Strapping Young Lad (appearance), Axl Rose (being the former front man of Guns N' Roses parody band, Snakes N' Barrels) and Roger Taylor (drum playing style according to Brendon Small).
  • Nathan is based on George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher - tall, long-haired, physically imposing, leaning towards the chubby side, whips their heads around like windmills, and frontmen of their own bands. Nathan during his pre-Dethklok days even heavily resembled how George Fisher looked like when he was younger.
    • He is also said to look a lot like Dave Matrise. Also, an uncanny resemblance to Peter Steele from Type O Negative.
    • The fact that Nathan Explosion is part Native American may also be a nod to Chuck Billy from Testament.
  • Magnus is based on Dave Mustaine, who was kicked out of Metallica in the band's early days and was resentful about it for decades afterward. Appearance-wise, he seems to be a mix of Serj Tankian and Tom Araya.
• Nominal Hero: With the countless lives they've ruined and/or destroyed to maintain their massive success and power, they're far more destructive than event most of the villains in the show, and more successful to boot. All they really care about is spreading dark, bleak and brutal music that they like, and living comfortable, if hedonistic, lives, but they're apathetic at best to all the havoc they cause. Hell, they're sometimes shown outright reveling in it for being "metal". The only things keeping them from being outright Villain Protagonists are:
  • Their fans. The show makes it clear that the people who often suffer the most, the fans, are often irrational and psychotic in their idolization of the band and often terrible, violent people themselves. They're also willing to sign pain waivers when attending concerts. This means they are perfectly aware of how destructive these concerts are and don't care what happens to themselves as long as they get to see the band perform.
  • The vast majority of the mayhem they cause is unintentional, and often the result of negligence and stupidity.
  • The governments of the world are dependent on Dethklok's albums and concerts being successful. Every successful concert has statistically improved the economy of the location said concert is played. Often, if the economy falters, the world turns to Dethklok to step up and save the economy and they almost always do in their own brutal way. In other words, the world needs Dethklok and if Dethklok does well, the world in general does well. It borders on Pragmatic Villainy though.
• Ominous Floating Castle: Their home, Mordhaus is converted into this for the entirety of season 3 after the attack in the season 2 finale necessitates major renovations. This lasts until its grand re-entry to Earth in the season 4 premiere episode.
• Pet the Dog: They all have their moments of tenderness and empathy, if often Played for Laughs and mixed with Innocently Insensitive. Notably when a little girl dying of sickness visits to meet Toki, the band actually tries to cheer her up in her final moments, albeit unsuccessfully.
• Physical God: Hinted at throughout the series; naturally, the group themselves are totally oblivious to this, at least until Skwisgaar starts to believe it.
  • Officially established in the "The Doomstar Requiem".
• The Power of Rock: And there is no shortage of it.
• Psychopathic Manchild: All of them are this. They have extremely poor common sense, are oblivious to other people's feelings, childish as hell, and show no regard for the chaos and destruction that they cause.
• Rags to Riches: They all come from fairly humble backgrounds and are now effectively a world power in regards to their wealth. They decide to get in touch with their roots by taking over a tribute band of theirs but years of being rich and pampered have left them unable to deal with being Starving Artists again.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: All of them are psychologically messed up, with most of them coming from physically/emotionally abusive backgrounds. And yet, it's hinted they each hold god-like power, and the Church of the Black Klok prophesied them as the chosen ones who'll save the world.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: It pops up occasionally whenever some catastrophic disaster happens and they are right in the center.
• Revisiting the Roots: In-universe. in "Tributeklok", their rather embarrassing Pentuplemint Gum Commercial causes fans to vow to never buy their records again, so Dethklok tries to reconnect with their humble roots. It goes badly - they had to lug all of their equipment by themselves, they had to pay the bills by themselves, they had to live in a dingy apartment with almost no privacy (especially with Skwisgaar), and they had to earn income to feed themselves. They had been living large for so long that they completely forgot what being a poor, aspiring Death Metal band was like.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Deconstructed. Despite being wealthier than a country, all of them just blow their money on trivial or outright ridiculous things, and whatever ideas they have based on Rule of Metal would make anyone bash their heads against the wall.
  • In "The Curse of Dethklok", they struggled to understand the concept of grocery shopping, trying to understand the merchandise and their price, thinking that rice had to be poured into the shopping cart and not bought in a sack, and (in the case of Nathan) even breaking things just to get food displayed behind glass windows. At the end, they forgot to buy the food and take it with them, causing Nathan to launch a Big "NO!" when he realizes the band left all the food at the store, making their efforts All for Nothing.
  • In "Renovationklok", without Offdensen to manage them, Dethklok blows almost all their money on things like a giant Dorito-themed amusement park (not open to the public), "the Super Tits Candy Snake Project" which was never completed or defined, scream-activated lights, a "sandscape" (which only got sand all over Mordhaus's living room), and a solid ruby metronome. This leads to many of their Klokateers ending up homeless, being forced to live in the streets and relying on soup kitchens to feed themselves. While the problem was partially caused by Damien Cornickelson withholding their money to spite Nathan for punching him, Dethklok would've lost Mordhaus altogether and be forced to live in the streets had Nathan not stepped up to take care of their finances.
• Rule of Cool: In-universe. A lot of things Dethklok approves of (or disapproves of) is based on how "brutal" or "metal" they are.
• Rule of Funny: Dethklok's general level of competency is entirely dependent on what's funniest. They can either be relatively normal outside of the whole death metal thing, hopelessly dumb, or thoroughly apathetic to everyone but themselves if it serves the plot.
• Sell-Out:
  • Discussed in regards to their Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle by a newscaster and ultimately subverted. Though they end up making the Duncan Hills the biggest coffee company in the world, they're actually trying to make everything metal, starting with coffee:
    Nathan: We're here to make coffee metal. We're here to make everything metal. Blacker than the blackest black... times infinity."
  • Later played straight in "Tributeklok" in regards to their embarrassing Pentuplemint Gum Commercial which has Dethklok singing out of tune to a cheesy company jingle while riding jet skis and skiing. Immediately, a fan even outright calls him the trope name before vowing to never buy their records again. This pushes the band to try and reconnect with their humble roots.
• Serious Business: Death metal in general, as well as their contracts and money. Making fun of one of these things will earn you a face punch from Nathan.
• Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: Two of the three (if not all three) will apply to all of them.
• Sexual Karma: Averted. Despite the fact that the members of Dethklok are pretty much sociopaths, they have legions of women who want to sleep with them (well, except for Murderface, that is).
• Spanner in the Works: If Dethklok didn't exist, the Tribunal would have conquered the world a long time ago.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Increasingly as the show progresses past the first season, Toki, Murderface and Pickles get more and more character focus to the point where Nathan and especially Skwisgaar are often Out of Focus.
• The Stoner: All of the members of Dethklok use drugs, but Pickles has built up such a high tolerance to drugs that it made him immune to Totally Awesome Sweet Alabama Liquid Snake (though not from the Yopo they consume in "Dethcarraldo").
• Supergroup: In "Snakes and Barrels", it's implied every member of Dethklok except Toki has played in a different band previously. In real-life, the musicians who work on Dethklok albums and play live-concerts (Brendon Small, Gene Hoglan, Bryan Beller and Mike Keneally) have played with Strapping Young Lad, the Mothers of Invention, and the Steve Vai band, which would make Dethklok's musical history a Write What You Know case.
• Tantrum Throwing: All of them have engaged in this sort of behavior at one point or another, often emphasizing how mentally and emotionally stunted they are.
• Too Dumb to Live: They're so dimwitted and crass that they're almost too dumb to DIE.
• True Art Is Angsty: In-universe; in "Dethsiduals", the band temporarily kicks out Murderface and Toki for embarrassing them with scandals. This vastly improves their productivity in making new music, as Skwisgaar, Nathan, and Pickles are the most musically-capable of the band. However, they're disgusted by how "happy" their music is without Murderface's negativity and Toki's (relative) ineptness, and they immediately delete all the music created without him and Toki.
• True Companions: They'll never ever admit it (because "it's not metal") but they care for one another and for Offdensen, their manager. Okay, Toki may try to admit it, but they'll call him names. This becomes a plot point twice: In "Church of the Black Klok," Nathan's eulogy turns into a public apology to his band for letting his love for Abigail drive the band apart and cause their breakup, admitting that his band is more important than a girl. It also forms the crux of the plot in "The Doomstar Requiem" where they come to realize they're more than just bandmates - they're family.
• The Unintelligible: Between their accents, broken English, Murderface's speech impediment and Nathan's constant grunt they can all be fairly difficult to understand without subtitles.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Much of the misfortune that happen to each band member is heavily Played for Laughs, since they're misanthropic, selfish, inconsiderate assholes, especially Murderface.
  • Subverted with Toki, who's by far the nicest member of Dethklok, and is instead a victim of Break the Cutie moments Played For The Darkest of Laughs.
  • Completely averted in "The Doomstar Requiem". Toki's kidnapping and the band trying to overcome their selfish ways is all Played for Drama. The band knew that Toki's kidnapped but they decided to deal with their grief by getting themselves stoned and drunk all the time. It later comes to a head when they decide to use a hologram to replace Toki, which causes their fans to think they've callously abandoned him when said hologram shorts out, and they abandon Dethklok in turn.
• Unusual Euphemism: Played for Laughs in "Dethhealth". The band uses "Hamburger Time" as a metaphor for death, since they just got out of another horrible concert gone wrong, and didn't want to be reminded of the bodycount.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Despite being world-famous celebrities, a lot of otherwise mundane people fail to recognize them or simply don't treat them with any particular reverence.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Almost every episode has the band turning on each other, one of them quitting, or a couple members even getting kicked out. Regardless, they always have each other's backs.
• Weather Manipulation: Bizarre unexplained weather phenomena often occur during their concerts. Notable examples include:
  • In "Bluesklok", the band, frustrated with how depressed they are and how cheerful the hippies at a "Hippy Festival" are, decides to play a "blues" concert for them, summoning tornadoes that completely destroy the festival.
  • In "Dethgov", during their benefit concert in Florida, a storm begins to form as shadowy gigantic projections of the members of Dethklok appear in the sky. The strange images in the sky disappear right as soon as they realize a hurricane is coming.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Thrice in The Doomstar Requiem:
  • The first time happens when Toki goes missing. To deal with the grief, the remaining bandmates get stoned and drunk off their asses, all while they're harassed by news media and the public asking about Toki. When Dethklok has to perform, they try using a hologram of Toki to make up for the absence. However, it shorts out, enraging their fans and causing them to leave the concert, thinking that Dethklok had callously abandoned one of their own the first chance they got.
  • The second time happens after Dethklok refuses multiple times to acknowledge Toki as their brother and go rescue him from the Revengencers. Edgar Jomfru, whose own brother saved him from a car accident that crippled him, angrily chews the band out for treating Toki like shit.
  • The third time happens when Dethklok goes to the Depths of Humanity and find their former manager and guitar teacher, and ex-groupies living there, who all hate Dethklok for abandoning them after helping the band rise to stardom and don't hesitate to pull them through the guilt wringer. Pickles starts repeating, "No" multiple times, while Nathan is reduced to incoherent screaming.

The Band

Skwisgaar Skwigelf

Skwisgaar Skwigelf (Taller than a Tree)

Voiced by: Brendon Small

"I'm not a normal humans. I am a God."

The band's legendarily skilled lead guitarist. An incurable manslut, and raging egotist.

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• A God Am I: He never met his father. He came to the conclusion that he was not born from man, but instead a God. Amusingly enough, this also makes him practically the only member of the band to be semi-aware of their godhood before "Doomstar Requiem".
• Alliterative Name: Skwisgaar Skwigelf. Uniquely having four letters of his first and last name being similar.
• Always Someone Better: A rare dual example with Toki. While he is the superior musician, this is because he has more experience and practices constantly. Toki is the second greatest guitarist in the world on pure talent, as Swisgaar regularly points out that he doesn't practice.
  • It is revealed at one point that Skwisgaar headhunted Toki to Dethklok specifically to invoke this trope. According to Skwisgaar, the looming threat that is Toki is the only thing that motivates him to put in the effort necessary to stay the world's best guitarist.
• Ambiguously Bi: His legendary womanizing is practically his biggest character trait, but it's implied he had (multiple) threeways with Melmord, and following Dethklok's banter about the homo-eroticism of eating phallic-shaped foods, he comments "I would eat a hotdog. Just putting that out there."
• Animal Motifs: Hawks and wolves. In "Doomstar Requiem", it's horses.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In "The Metalocalypse Has Begun":
  Skwisgaar: Dude, where's are we's?! What the (pinch harmonic) we just flies in?! ...and what the hell was wrong with your guitar sounds tonight?
• Attention Whore: Often suggests turning down Toki and Murderface's amps during concerts and is adamant that only he should perform the guitar solos. In earlier episodes he was also prone to boasting about himself. It could be justified by the way his mother is implied to have been neglectful towards him for pretty much his entire life.
• Beauty Is Bad: Is stunningly beautiful, enough to attract large hoards of female fans wanting to have sex with him. Also an Attention Whore and a Jerkass who looks down on other guitarists and (mostly) treats Toki like shit.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted a few times actually.
  • In "Dethkomedy", while practicing their comedic act Toki punches Skwisgaar hard enough to makes his left eye bulge out and knock a few Teeth Flying.
  • In "Skwisklok", Skwisgaar has an extreme allergic reaction to the cilantro in Nathan's barbecue sauce, making his hands and tongue swell horribly.
  • In "Dethlessons", he gets face-wrecking injuries from Toki in a sword duel, provided it was actually a metaphorical duel to symbolize their conflicted relationship with each other as guitarists.
  • In "Go Forth and Die" where Creepy Crows eat him alive until he's nothing but a skeleton. Thankfully, it was All Just a Dream.
• Big "NO!": Skwisgaar gets one in "Dethlessons" when Murderface, Pickles and Nathan trick him into thinking that Toki is getting better at guitar than him.
• Book Ends: In "Fatherklok", a flashback shows a young Skwisgaar lying on a bed in his home in Sweden, playing with his Gibson Explorer and looking rather happy and content. When the flashback ends, the scene cuts to Skwisgaar years later, now an adult and lying on a bed in Mordhaus, but looking incredibly disillusioned with how his life turned out.
• Break the Haughty: In "Bookklok" After spending three seasons as a massively arrogant egotist who frequently treats Toki like garbage, Toki writes a tell-all book about their bad relationship, sending his popularity and stocks plummeting. There isn't even any indication that his reputation ever recovers in later episodes.
• Broken Ace: The world's most talented guitarist, with all the pressure and fragile ego that comes with it.
• Captain Ersatz: Of Swedish guitarist, Yngwie Malmsteen, a guitarist known for his arrogance, and Finnish singer and guitarist, Alexi Laiho, the world's fastest guitarist in real life. Some have pointed out that Skwisgaar looks similar to Jari Mäenpää of Wintersun.
  • Conversely, Guitar Hero World Tour also had a character who was a Captain Ersatz of Skwisgaar himself, complete with the exact same hair design, called Marcus Fretshredder.
• The Casanova: For much older women, specifically.
• Catchphrase: "Dildos!" and "Pfft!"
• Curbstomp Battle: He easily trounced all the auditioning guitarists looking to join Dethklok in The Doomstar Requiem. The only one who gave him a hard time was Toki, whom he also defeated, but accepted him into the band anyway because he was impressed by Toki's skill, inspiring him to continuously improve to keep topping Toki.
• Disappeared Dad: No one knows who Skwisgaar's true father might be, though it's implied that he might be a divine being or the skeleton where his legendary Gibson Explorer was found could also have been his true father. His search for his missing dad kicked off the plot of "Fatherklok".
• Dumb Blonde: Skwisgaar may be the fastest guitar player in the world, but when it comes to things other than music, he's just as clueless as the rest of the band.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: But he'll deny it if you say it to his face.
  Toki: You a ladies, Skwisgaar!
  Skwisgaar: NO I'M NOT!
• Dying Declaration of Hate: Did this to Toki when they thought they were about to die.
• Establishing Character Moment: The first thing he does in "Curse of Dethklok" is to try use a toaster to make coffee.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: The blond of the band, and he has sex with more women than the rest of the band combined.
• Face Palm: Does this in "Dethsiduals" when Toki and Murderface go on a drunken rampage in a French vineyard, forcing Dethklok to apologize to the vineyard's owner and pay for the damages.
• Foil:
  • To Toki. Both came from horrifically abusive childhoods, but Toki's parents were mostly physically abusive (and has the scars to prove it), while Skwisgaar's mother never laid a hand on him but she did neglect him frequently and emotionally scarred him by constantly having sex with other men in front of him. Toki is mostly naive and friendly, Skwisgaar is an arrogant Jerkass who doesn't know how to socially connect with others properly other than having sex with them. Skwisgaar is also a better guitar player than Toki, who himself isn't a slouch and even gave Skwisgaar a hard time in "The Doomstar Requiem"; he just rarely gets the chance to really show it off.
  • Also, to Nathan. Nathan is dark-haired and broad-muscled, wants to settle down with a girlfriend but can't outside the groupies Dethklok has sex with (with his few relationships except with Abigail ending badly), thinks practically and is brutally honest, and outside the concerts he performs in, he's socially awkward. Skwisgaar is blonde and skinny, a notorious ladies' man who has sex with anyone who wants to, an Attention Whore who basks in the spotlight, and is a superficial Jerkass. Nathan has a good relationship with his parents, particularly his father, while Skwisgaar loathes his sex-happy mother for being a poor parent and has no father of his own to speak of.
  • Also, to Murderface. Murderface is fat, ugly, and all-around terrible with women, and is a bass guitar player. Skwisgaar is a physically attractive guitar player who attracts women from all over the world. Murderface, while a talented musician when he wants to be, is also an amateur compared to Skwisgaar.
• Funny Foreigner: Not as bad as Toki, but he has his moments.
• Freudian Excuse: Part of why Skwisgaar's such a Jerkass and partakes in sexual intercourse so much was that as a child, his mother frequently neglected him and often had sex with other men, sometimes in full view of her son. While he did later become the fastest guitar player in the world, the Parental Neglect really screwed him up and left him unable to love and socially connect with others (outside of sex) as an adult.
• Hard Work Hardly Works: Averted. Skwisgaar is noted to train and practice his ass off to maintain his status as the greatest guitar player to ever live. He keeps the gifted but lazy Toki around as a threat to his position as constant motivation.
• Harmful to Minors: It's implied that Skwisgaar's mother would constantly have sex in places where he might see (and didn't care about the fact), which left deep emotional scars.
• Has a Type: Though Skwisgaar sleeps with any woman who seeks him out, he is the most sexually attracted to elderly women in particular. He also seems to like obese women. In a montage showing all the different women Skwisgaar has had sex with, he noticeably seems more happier when close to elderly or obese women.
• Heavy Mithril: In a character interview, he mentions one of his side projects is a tribute band named Ten Points to Gryffindor.
• Heroic BSoD: Undergoes this upon the release of Toki's tell-all book, "Skwisgaar Is Ams Dick"
• Horny Vikings: Skwisgaar is a descendant of these. No pun intended.
• Hypocritical Humor: Teases Pickles for being a "beautiful ladies" during his glam days.
• I Am the Band: Or in his case, the entire guitar section. He writes Toki and Murderface's parts himself and goes so far as to perform Toki's parts and mix Murderface's to nigh-inaudibility on albums.
• Iconic Item: Almost never seen without his black and white Gibson Explorer, which he is almost always seen practicing with as well. It gets Defictionalized by Gibson into the "Thunderhorse" Gibson Explorer.
• Instrument of Murder: The season 2 finale has Skwisgaar kill invading Revengencers with his Gibson. Which impresses him on how its still intact after being used as a weapon.
  Wow! And the necks is still straights!
• Irony: Despite all the bickering he does with Toki, he's the one that let him into the band in the first place.
• Jerkass: He's infamously arrogant, and regards all other guitarists with great contempt, since they'll never achieve his godly level of skill. Toki isn't exempt from this treatment, either.
• Jerk Ass Has A Point: Skwisgaar thinks that anyone else playing guitar besides him in a band is redundant since no one can play as well as he can, explaining his bad attitude towards Toki and Murderface. He may be right, though.
  • It has been pointed out a number of times that Toki doesn't practice his guitar work at all outside of band rehearsals whereas Skwisgaar is constantly practicing. The few times Toki gets the stage all to himself, he tends to fall victim to his nerves and fall apart.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For all his arrogance, he nonetheless cares about Toki and is willing to stand by him when the chips are down. He even let Toki join Dethklok after the others rejected him. It's just that caring is not "metal", according to Dethklok.
• The Lancer: To Nathan, the leader of Dethklok, though subverted in that outside of guitars, Skwisgaar knows little else and seems content with his place in the band.
• Lean and Mean: The skinniest and tallest of the band. He's also an arrogant asshole.
• Likes Older Women:Really older women at that.
  Hi, guess what you are a g-milf. That is a grandmother I would like to- (cut to the Mordhaus).

you ams a g-milf. this means you ams a grandmothers i like to...

• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Has very long and blonde hair.
• Money Fetish: In "Renovationklok", he blows a few billion on a solid platinum practice chamber and solid ruby metronome. "It's so expensive, it makes mes horny."
• Mr. Fanservice: He's a pretty good looking guy, which DEFINITELY explains his Casanova reputation. It's summed up by the fact that fangirls swoon all over him and even make a line to fuck him.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In "Fatherklok", after he pushes his stepfather into a glass coffee table out of spite.
• The Narcissist: Described by Word of God as "a handsome guy who thinks he's the greatest thing in the world", he can generally be counted on to be egotistical, arrogant and boastful in conversation. Gets gradually more and more downplayed past the 1st season though he never quite ditches the ego.
• Noble Bird of Prey: His spiritual animal is an arctic hawk with fingers on his wings instead of feathers.
• No One Could Survive That!: Fell into a 30-something ft. chasm when he was a young child and walked away from the experience completely unharmed and with a new Gibson Explorer in hand.
• Only Sane Man: Becomes this in later seasons, replacing Pickles. A particular example is in "Diversityklok" when he's the only one to notice that Toki tricked them into dressing up as racist characters during a diversity concert.
  • Becomes a major plot point in "The Doomstar Requiem" when they go into the "Depths of Humanity" bar to search for clues to Toki's kidnapping only to be confronted by people who've helped the band in the past and were abandoned and left to live in obscurity and poverty. While the other members of the band are overwhelmed by guilt, Skwisgaar is the only one able to focus on finding a clue despite also clearly wanting to get out there.
• Out-of-Character Moment: In "Skwisklok", he secretly starts crying from the sheer stress he was put under by his fans' ridiculously high expectations and his own perfectionist tendencies.
• Out of Focus: Of all the bandmates, he seems to get the least amount of subplots focused on him, and has the least amount of his own songs.
• The Perfectionist: Skwisgaar constantly plays songs on his guitar even when not on tour. One of the reasons why is because he wants to keep up his reputation as the fastest guitar player in the world, and has deep-seated fears and insecurities about losing his position and fame to potential rivals like Toki.
• Pet the Dog: Shows genuine concern for Toki from time to time.
  • In "Dethkids" he was against Pickles' drunken suggestion of murdering Toki as an alternative to firing him.
  • In "Dethrace", when the driving instructor started yelling at Toki for not moving forward at an intersection Skwisgaar defended Toki.
  • In "Bookklok", he tries to save Toki when he was having a panic attack. Unfortunately, he used the defibrillators on Toki like he's having a heart attack.
• The Philosopher: Downplayed. In earlier seasons he would occasionally insert insightful observations regarding the deeper meaning of life into a discussion. It crossed into pseudo-philosophy at times. Averted in later seasons as he became more of an Only Sane Man.
• Plot Allergy: "Skwisklok" revealed that he's allergic to cilantro. When he comes in contact with Explosion Sauce, his hands and tongue started swelling enormously, which ruined his guitar-playing (granted, his hands were put in protective containers that were hard to take off so there wasn't much choice).
• The Quiet One: A Downplayed example, but still present. Starting in season 2, there are an increasing number of scenes in episodes where Skwisgaar is completely silent while all the other band members have lines. Even in scenes when he speaks, he frequently has the least amount of dialogue. While likely a side effect of being Out of Focus, it serves to make him appear as one of the more detached and aloof characters in the show.
• Really Gets Around: A running joke is that he's not selective at all when it comes to groupies.
• Sexy Scandinavian: He's Swedish, he's a Sex God, and he is quite handsome.
• Shared Family Quirks: He's just as promiscuous as his mother. Even though he doesn't want to admit it.
• Shock and Awe: Often depicted as being able to conduct lightning with his guitar-playing. He also shoots lightning out of his hands during his song in "Fatherklok".
• Skip of Innocence: In "Fatherklok", he's seen doing this during a flashback◊, to show the stark difference between his past and current personalities.
• Sleepyhead: He's seen passed out or sleeping in several episodes, once or twice. He also has a tendency to practice guitar in his sleep.
• The Smart Guy: Subverted hard. He's knowledgeable about electric guitars, electric guitar equipment and some very specific parts of music, but he's otherwise a complete dumbass. Early on, he was a Know-Nothing Know-It-All at best, making completely incorrect statements and failing to defend them.
  • That said, as the show progresses he starts to serve this role better than Pickles, the actual smartest member of the band, who instead starts acting more like an emotionally unstable yet reliable secondary leader. For one thing, he's later revealed to be the musical genius behind writing the lead guitar lines, the rhythm guitar lines and the bass guitar lines. He also becomes the most level-headed member of the band and prone to making completely logical and reasonable observations that the other members miss.
• Straw Nihilist: Claims to be a nihilist, and his philosophical observations in earlier seasons imply that he doesn't consider mankind to be much more than just wild, violent animals.
  "Oh but it's not supposed to make sense for you see, wes are aimless, hate-filled animals, scamperings away into the nights."
• Tsundere: At times, he leans into this trope regarding Toki.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: A flashback in "Fatherklok" showed that Skwisgaar used to be fairly cheerful and innocent as a child...until he walked in on his mother having a threesome. It didn't help that said mother was such a slut that Skwisgaar would constantly hear (and see) her having sex with complete strangers.
• Verbal Backspace:
  "Well, there are two things to do in a blackout. Get drunk. One thing to do."
• Verbal Tic: Because of his poor grasp of English, he tends to add an "s" to the end of every other word he says, often [[Pluralses pluralizing them unnecessarily]] or making them completely grammatically incorrect.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Toki. In any given episode, they could be palling around and shooting the shit one moment, and brawling with each other the next. At the end of the day, though, they ultimately care about each other.
• Wearing a Flag on Your Head: In flashbacks he used to wear a belt buckle depicting an all-white version of the Swedish flag instead of the skull buckle he wears currently.
• You No Take Candle: Speaks like this due to his poor grasp of English.

Toki Wartooth

Toki Wartooth (Not a Bumblebee)

Voiced by: Tommy Blacha, Mike Keneally (DSR), Brendon Small (teenager, DSR)

"I can'ts plays it. It's too damns hard. Skwisgaars always makes it so hard! Damns you stupid, slow, stubby fingers, don'ts looks at me! Awww shucks... Whats am I gonna do?!"

Rhythm guitarist, and shortest tenured member of the group. Bears a nagging inferiority complex, and endless scarring memories from his childhood.

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• Absurd Phobia: He freaks out when seeing a Bicentennial coin that he had to be put in a medically induced coma to calm him down. That and Dr. Rockso running away from his concert brought him to a Heroic BSoD the others had to snap him out off. Murderface stealing a whole bag of Franklin Mints brought him back to his coma again.
• Abusive Parents: He was treated horribly by both his parents as a child and they seemed to view him more as a slave than anything else, forcing him to do back-breaking hard labor and imprisoned him in a dark pit if he didn't do what they wanted. His father whipped, chained, and beat him for the slightest infractions, while his mother was emotionally abusive, glaring at her son and enabling her husband's behavior. This led him to be very insecure as an adult and was probably the reason why he acts so childish due to not being able to live like a kid when he was younger. He still fears his parents as an adult, his father in particular.
• Always Second Best: Played with. He's this to Skwisgaar, in terms of skill, but arguably its the other way around when it comes to raw talent. It's stated repeatedly that Toki never practices, whereas Swisgaar constantly has a guiltar in his hands, and yet Toki is the only guitarist alive who is able to keep up with him. Swisgaar seems to be the only person who is aware of this, however, and lives in fear of Toki actually working hard and surpassing him.
  • Toki's repressed issues about this trope emerge in "Fatherklok", where he's being excited of replacing Skwisgaar as lead guitarist due to Skwisgaar's Disappeared Dad issues keeping him from functioning normally. This continues until Nathan slaps him hard in the face and tells him to wake the fuck up.
• Ambiguously Bi: In "Dethrecord", after he erases Skwisgaar's guitar track by mistake, he breaks down and starts to apologize, and he offers to suck his dick to avoid being kicked out of the band.
• And Zoidberg: One of the main reasons Toki doesn't show off his guitar skills very often is Skwisgaar, who is such an egotistical Jerkass that he is determined to keep him in his shadow.
• Animal Motifs: Cats and rabbits. In "The Doomstar Requiem", it's falcons.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: If not The Load, then he is seen as this, what with Dethklok sometimes teasing and/or excluding him from band-related activities.
• Ax-Crazy: At his most pissed off, he makes the rest of the notoriously brutal and uncaring Dethklok look like choir boys. Best shown in the last part of Snakes n' Barrels II, where he beats an obnoxious fan into bloody paste.
• The Baby of the Bunch: He's the most naïve and childlike of the bunch, and the band loves to take advantage of him and ditch him when they can. But they also consider him their brother, and the band members do care for him even if they don't say it.
• Backstab: By Magnus in "Church of the Black Klok".
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's usually kind and friendly to everyone. Get him riled up enough, though, and he's every bit as dangerous as the rest of Dethklok, if not more. Out of the entire band, he's shown to have the most propensity and capability for violence, from brawling with Skwisgaar after one of their usual spats, to outright threatening a Groin Attack on Nathan via crossbow in his intervention, to beating the crap out of a very loud concert-goer till he's practically pulp.
• Big Damn Heroes: Although he was drunk at the time, Toki saving Nathan from Lavona Succuboso by knocking her out with a vodka bottle to the head still counts as an example of this trope.
• Big "NO!": Did this in at least one episode.
• Body Horror: His rabbit form, which is a horrifying mix of human and jackrabbit, and has bits of rabbit corpses all over his body.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: A legitimately good guitarist. But he rarely bothers or remembers to practice, which leaves him miles behind Skwisgaar.
• Break the Cutie: It seems every episode focusing on him is going to involve yet another horrible traumatic memory being added to his brain.
• Butt-Monkey: Though not to the degree of Murderface, Toki still tends to be rather down on his luck; he's been trapped under a cross, matched with a hideous looking woman by e-Ladymates.com, and constantly has to put up with shitty treatment from Skwisgaar, just to name a few examples. The main difference is that it's not as comedically portrayed as it is with Murderface.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: Anytime he has an alcoholic drink in his hand, he's bound to get drunk. Very quickly.
• Cartwright Curse: Anyone or anything that Toki loves will die before the end of the episode. Fans, music teachers, pets, and even his father after he finally forgave him for a lifetime of abusive parenting. Only Doctor Rockso seems to have avoided this, though Joker Immunity may be preventing his death by Toki's friendship.
  • Although his cat died because he let Pickles feed it booze, which was not a good idea.
• Catchphrase: "Wowee!"
• Characterization Marches On: In the pilot episode and some of season one, he is a lot more mellow and normal compared to his innocent squeaky voiced nature later on.
• Chaste Hero: Out of the band, he's the least sexually active as he prefers to have a romantic relationship instead.
• Clark Kent Outfit: Toki is seen to be quite fit, in spite of the dissipated and hedonistic lifestyle in which he and his bandmates partake.
• Commonality Connection: In “Dethkids”, when Offdensen shows Toki a DVD containing a song about Little Julliette Sarmangsadandle's wishes to be brutal, Toki has a Troubled Backstory Flashback of his own brutal childhood and connects with her.
• Disney Acid Sequence: Whenever Toki sings a song. Also serves as Sweet Dreams Fuel.
• Distressed Dude: Kidnapped by Magnus Hammersmith in "The Doomstar Requiem" to be used as bait to lure in Dethklok.
• Do You Want to Copulate?: Toki's Gonk internet date invoked this trope, to both his horror and the viewers'.
• Drowning My Sorrows: The season 2 finale after his dad dies.
• Drunk with Power: Any time he has (or thinks he has) any amount of authority. Particularly in "Dethgov":
  Toki: You dos what I say or I haves you all killed! Now shits your pants!
  Naathan: Toki, your boner is showing.
• Dying Declaration of Hate: Did this to Skwisgaar when they thought they were about to die.
• Emotional Regression: In Season One he was portrayed as fairly level-headed, relaxed, and mature up until he reunited with his Abusive Parents in "Dethfam". In later seasons, he began acting childish and immature in regards to PTSD-related issues concerning his childhood. In the Army of the Doomstar sneak peek, Pickles mentions that he age regresses when stressed.
• Eye Scream: Had his eyes plucked out by Creepy Crows in the intro to "Go Forth and Die". Thankfully, it was All Just a Dream.
• Fanservice/Fan Disservice: Toki's pole-dancing.
• Fatal Flaw: His extremely trusting nature. Magnus uses it to his advantage.
• Foil: To Skwisgaar. While Toki lacks the talent and drives to be as good as Skwisgaar, he's really open-hearted and friendly compared to Skwisgaar's aloof indifference.
• Freudian Excuse: The reason why Toki acts so childish as an adult is because when he was a child, he was constantly subjected to severe abuse and torment by his religious parents. He was forced to do backbreaking chores such as carrying large piles of logs and sweeping the path to their house even though it always snowed in Norway. If he made even the slightest infractions, he would be slapped, chained and whipped to the point of scarring, and kept in a small underground chamber with a coin-like opening. It's also hinted that Toki harbors some deeply suppressed PTSD and anger issues because of this.
• Friend to All Children: Played with. He's the band-member most popular among kids. He initially hates this reputation and hates children, but has a weird epiphany of sorts.
• Funny Foreigner: Compared to Skwisgaar, his antics are far goofier.
• Hair-Raising Hare: His animal form is based on a mutilated jackrabbit.
• Happily Married: He's not married, but in "Fertilityklok" he believes he and his internet date will be this and have "lots of children" together...until he actually meets her in person.
• The Heart: In spite of how his and the band's actions will say, "The Doomstar Requiem" reveals that he's not only one for the band, but for the fans as well; the band descends into a death spiral of a bender, and the fans start actively revolting and leaving concerts.
• Hero with an F in Good: The few times he's tried to do good for others or be selfless have never ended well. It's generally Played For Dark Laughs
• Hidden Depths: Knows how to build a website. Considering how incompetent the band is at everyday activities, that's fairly impressive.
• Horrible Judge of Character: He's willing to make friends with anyone he meets. This nearly gets him killed when Magnus betrays him to the Revengencers in Season 4.
• Icy Blue Eyes: When he gets mad, they're icier than one could imagine.
• I Just Want to Be You: He wants to be like Skwissgar, or least have his skills and place as lead guitarist of the band. Taken to a comical extreme in "Tributeklok", where he acts as Skwissgar in the Dethklok tribute band Thunderhorse, even stealing his bandmate's clothes and wearing a blonde wig.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: He didn't have friends thanks to his Abusive Parents, which is why he befriended Dr. Rockso in the first place (that, and his love for clowns when he was a kid). It's also a driving motivation for him to go to Rock-a-Rooni Fantasy Camp as a camper and not a counselor, where Magnus Hammersmith discovers him.
• Informed Flaw: Toki is said quite often to be a relatively poor guitarist, but by most appearances, he's just slightly inferior to Skwissgar.
• In Touch with His Feminine Side: Crops up from time to time, given his childishness.
• Karma Houdini: In spite of his Butt-Monkey tendencies, Toki's done a lot of things that he's never really properly punished for. For starters, he's posted really embarrassing photos of Nathan on the Internet without his permission, manipulated Dethklok into appearing as racist people like Adolf Hitler and the KKK at a diversity concert (he DOES get left behind in Mordhaus, though that's it), embarrasses Offdensen in front of everyone during an important dinner by acting like a nuisance, and ruins Murderface's attempt to run for congress by making private pictures of him jacking off public (Murderface WAS going to kick his ass for that, though he backed off at the last second when he saw Toki in the middle of giving a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown).
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: He cares for his cat a lot, and gets really sad when it inevitably dies. He even gives it a funeral fit for an Egyptian god.
• Knight in Shining Armor: Imagines himself as this in his Imagine Spot in "Fertilityklok", complete with a helpless princess and a kid-friendly dragon.
• Leitmotif: Particularly in "Fertilityklok" and "Dethzazz", whenever he's feeling down or hopeful, he gets his own little theme in the form of an emotional music box.
• The Load: The band sees him like this, but in reality his guitar work is fine. He's just very shy and really naive.
  • There's also Skwisgaar's big fat ego to consider.
• Looks Like Jesus: He has long brown hair and a mustache
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: His brown hair goes all the way down to his lower back.
• Madden Into Misanthropy: The poor, annoying, Snakes N' Barrels fan didn't see it coming.
• Made of Iron: It's glossed over but in "Dethwater", he was forced to swim without any sort of diving suit near the bottom of the deepest ocean on Earth's surface with absolutely no negative side effects from the freezing cold temperatures or extremely high water pressure. At worst, he was out of breath and puking up the liquid oxygen he was submerged in earlier. This could just be an extreme example of Artistic License – Physics though.
• Mr. Fanservice: Of all the band members, he's in the best shape, having a huge set of six pack abs. On top of that, his skin never gets sunburned; it only tans.
• Naïve Newcomer: Dethklok is his first band, and is pretty much clueless in anything related to music lifestyle.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Toki Wartooth.
• Nice Guy: Downplayed compared to other examples, though still counts. As long as he's not riled up or in one of his brattier moods, Toki's perfectly decent most of the time.
• No One Could Survive That!: Let's not forget the backbreaking "chores" his parents made him do as a child. If any person in real life tried to do that, they would've been dead.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Despite his naive and incredibly childish behavior, Toki is just as brutal and violent as the others.
• Preacher's Kid: The only son of an extremely abusive and cruel pastor who physically and emotionally tortured him for the slightest infractions.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Though the entire band counts, Toki stands out as the most outright childish of the bunch, largely thanks to his Abusive Parents; he's usually shown to have the interests and behavior of someone FAR younger than he is, and is the most prone to casual violence of the five members of Dethklok.
• Rags to Riches: Unlike the others who were somewhat well off when they started the band, Toki literally had nothing when he met the group, save for his shabby clothes and a very beaten and taped up guitar.
• Recruited from the Gutter: At some point was either kicked out by his parents or ran away from home causing him to live as a Street Urchin (the script even saying he was around sixteen during this point) at the time he auditioned for Dethklok.
• Replacement Goldfish: For Magnus Hammersmith, something Magnus doesn't take well after learning about him.
• Scrabble Babble: In "Klokblocked".
  "'Quhzks!' It's what the duck says!"
• Stepford Smiler: Toki seems to have developed this trait when talking about his father now that he's dead (he mentions that he's come to peace with his father's death while a clip of Toki watching his father drown and freeze to death at the same time under a lake of ice while a horrible Scare Chord plays).
• Stunned Silence: Being near his parents drives him to this; the first episode they're in, Toki has all of two words before they appear and none afterward (which Nathan comments on).
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Toki’s endorsements with candy makers, nets him a vast supply of candy which he consumes constantly. By the end of Skwisklok, he ends up developing diabetes and falls under multiple diabetic comas before stopping his candy binge.
  • This later turns into a plot point in "Dethcamp", where Toki’s life is in danger after being force fed cake and his insulin shots are just out of his reach.
• Sweet Tooth: Especially when he was endorsing candy, eating only candy until he ended up falling into a diabetic coma. From that point on Toki has to worry about maintaining his diabetes.
• That Makes Me Feel Angry: In "Dethmas", Toki blows up at the rest of the band, saying he's going to buy them gifts for Secret Santa despite being told it wasn't metal. Nathan's reaction sums it up:
  Nathan: I don't believe I've ever been spoken to like that before.
• Third-Person Person: Sometimes for comedic effect, and to show how childish he is.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: Played for Black Comedy as he gets this reaction whenever his parents are mentioned. He even spends an episode staring blankly in catatonia after being forced to spend a day with them in "Dethfam".
• Token Good Teammate: Relatively speaking, anyway. Since Toki is the most childlike member of the group, he's nicer than the other bandmates.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Candy, and lots of it. Eating a lot of it contributed to his diabetes.
• Tsundere: Type B. He's generally the nicest member of the band, though he's an
• Trauma Conga Line: While every band member has their share of trauma, special recognition goes to him. He spent most of his childhood in Lillehammer being forced into manual labor and punished with physical abuse by his deeply religious father, to the point where Toki goes catatonic upon seeing him. Even after joining the band, he is one of the bigger Butt Monkeys and always facing a lot of traumatic situations (his fan, his father, his guitar teacher, his cat, Magnus) that's it's incredible that he stayed as one of the idealists of the crew.
• Verbal Tic: Like Skwisgaar, his poor grasp of English leads him to unnecessarily pluralize every other word.
• Vocal Evolution: His voice stays high pitched in later episodes, as contrasted by his lower sounding voice in the earlier seasons.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Toki has an irrational fear of bicentennial quarters. While it's never explained why during his therapy session with Dr. Twinkletits, it's possible that the entrance to the underground cellar Toki was constantly imprisoned in as a child greatly resembled bicentennial quarters.
• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: Toki does this a few times; particularly after reuniting with his parents in "Dethfam" and meeting his internet date for the first time in "Fertilityklok".
• Worthy Opponent: As revealed in "The Doomstar Requiem", he got in because Skwisgaar thought of him as this, having made him play at a level nobody else had done before in a duel.
• Would Hit a Girl: In "Dethrelease", he smashes one bottle of vodka on the head of Lavona Succuboso to save Nathan. But we should note that he was heavily drunk.
• You No Take Candle: Like Skwisgaar, he also speaks like this due to his poor grasp of English.

William Murderface

William Murderface (Murderface Murderface)

Voiced by: Tommy Blacha, Brendon Small (DSR)

"Why do I preempted?! You know why? 'Cause I'm just a stupid bass player."

Bass player. Lazy, disliked and just a generally repulsive human being.

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• All of the Other Reindeer: In the comics, Murderface was frequently subject to severe bullying in high school, which later drove him to set a school bus on fire with his classmates still inside. In the show, despite being a world-famous celebrity and a member of Dethklok, he doesn't get much respect due to being the bassist, his ugliness, and his overall repulsive personality.
• Ambiguously Bi: Murderface plays this trope hard - to the point where he flips out if it's even hinted that he is gay, yet his behavior in certain episodes (e.g. "Dethfashion", "Dethhealth") suggests that he is. He's also shown attraction to Skwisgaar's mom Serveta in "Dethmas", and even tries to hook up with her in "Fatherklok".
• And Zoidberg: It is repeatedly stated that Murderface is the least popular and respected member of the band, to the point where many fans don't even recognize him as an actual band member at all. There are even times where the others turn off Murderface's amp for entire concerts without anyone noticing.
• Angrish: Reduced to this when the new band therapist Dr. Twinkletits denied him a banana sticker.
• Animal Motifs: Tigers and pigs.
• Big Eater: Deconstructed. Unlike most examples, his questionable eating habits eventually led to his current weight problems.
• The Big Guy: Subverted in that despite his figure and tough front, he is actually a very uncertain and emotionally sensitive person.
• Big "SHUT UP!": Murderface utters one during the band's interrogation about his sensitivity to penis-shaped food.
• Break the Haughty: In "Dethsiduals".
• Brilliant, but Lazy: "Dethsiduals" shows him put together an entire Nu Metal record with just him and Toki, with the montage suggesting that he wrote the songs, performed the drum portions on top of his usual bass, and did a lot of the sound mixing—all this in under a month, while being worked to the bone by Get Thee Hence. While it doesn't quite stack up to the 43 songs his bandmates made in the same timeframe, it's still fairly revealing about Murderface's own talents when he isn't allowed to slack off.
• Butt-Monkey: The absolute BIGGEST one in the band, bar none. Due to his egotistical and rude behavior, as well as being the bassist, he's usually the guy who suffers all sorts of misfortune.
• Bring My Brown Pants: The amount of times he pisses his pants are almost uncountable.
• Catchphrase: "Piss!" and other variants. Also "Awesome!"
• Casanova Wannabe: In contrast to Skwisgaar, any flirtations made by Murderface on the opposite gender are instantly shot down and always met with disgust, due to his grotesque appearance and downright repulsive attitude.
• Caught with Your Pants Down: "Dethhealth" has a variation on this with Murderface. While he is getting the infamous "turn your head and cough" test administered, he imagines that a hot woman, not the doctor, has their hands on his penis. Hilarity Ensues.
• Cluster F-Bomb: He already swears quite a bit but he really starts throwing out the F bombs when he's upset. A good example is when the other members of Dethklok refused to put him and Toki's song "Takin' It Easy" on the new Dethklok album.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He's mostly a moronic, mooching Small Name, Big Ego, but the man can play bass with body parts that weren't meant to touch an instrument. He can also write music like the others, but he won't until his own money is in jeopardy.
• Drowning My Sorrows: In "Mordland" during the dreaded "Fan Day" event.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: The way the first two seasons treat Murderface as being popular enough that droves of fans wreak anarchy to celebrate his birthday can be quite jarring, considering how later episodes make it clear that he's the least popular member of Dethklok, to the point where he's barely considered a member of the band.
• Entitled Bastard: A couple of times in the series, such as "Dethrecords", "Dethsiduals", and "Dethdinner", Murderface attempts to wriggle his way into songwriting credits for albums (which would give him a bigger cut of the profits). This is despite the fact that he doesn't actually write the songs on the albums (even the bass parts are written by Skwissgar), and quite frequently doesn't even perform the bass parts that make it onto there. It's also pointed out that even without songwriting residuals, he's still one of the wealthiest men on the planet.
• Face Palm: Murderface's reaction to Dr. Rockso's first appearance.
• Fat Bastard: And that's putting it VERY mildly. Not an episode goes by where he's not whining about something, being a dick, or disgusting even his own band members with his shenanigans.
• Flipping the Bird: Murderface loves this trope (especially when he's pissed off).
• Foil: To Skwisgaar, who's attractive, skinny, a really good guitarist, and attracts hordes of women while Murderface is fat, ugly, plays bass guitar, and isn't given much attention due to his looks and behavior.
• Formerly Fit: It has to be seen to be believed, but he actually used to be gaunt when they first formed Dethklok, as seen in flashbacks.
  I have put on a few pounds...
• Freudian Excuse: Murderface's life was anything but happy. When he was a baby he witnessed his father pulling a murder-suicide with his mother. He was subsequently raised by his grandparents, but his grandmother Stella was verbally and possibly physically abusive. In a Dethklok comic published by Dark Horse Comics, a flashback showed Murderface being frequently bullied during his high school years... to the point where he snapped and set a school bus on fire with his classmates trapped inside.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Even though he's in the most brutal and popular band of all time, he's barely tolerated by even his own bandmates, which is telling when only Toki is friends with him.
  • Even Toki, his closest friend, has suggested kicking him out of the band.^note For context in "Religionklok", Murderface's desperation to find the right religion was causing him to act bizarrely or as Toki puts it, "demom-possessed" and Toki was worried it would mess up their band.
• Gonk: He's fat and pug-nosed, for starters. He also has a frumpy face, a tooth gap, and a goofy hairdo. His very unappealing appearance is complimented perfectly by his awful personality.
• Groin Attack: Was subjected to this in "Fertilityklok" by an agent of an internet dating service looking to punish Toki, who backed out on a deal he made with said dating service, by attacking his "loved one". Murderface was set up, but only because he accompanied Toki to the dating service and interfered with his interview. He spends the rest of the episode/credits in a wheelchair with a cast on his crotch.
• Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Tries really hard to tell that he's not gay. Way too hard that Pickles notes that for this to bother him so much, he must be thinking about dicks in mouths all the time. And he even assures everyone that even though he is about to enter the fashion industry, he is not gay.
• Harmful to Minors: Murderface witnessed his father murder his mother with a chainsaw and then use it on himself when he was just a baby. It's implied to be so traumatic that he completely repressed it, and when Dr. Twinkletits brought it up in "Performanceklok", the mere act of remembering made Murderface wet his shorts.
• He-Man Woman Hater: Known to refer to women as "soul murderers" and "poisonous serpents with tits". Pickles nearly refers to him by the trope name, calling him a "classic women hater". Deconstructed since his reputation for hating women interferes with his attempts to get them to sleep with him.
• Hidden Depths: He seems to really like history, as he owns various torture devices from different time periods, a statue of Genghis Khan, and a couple of documentary tapes about the Civil War. He also cried Tears of Blood in "Birthdayface" when he was given the limo JFK was shot in with the driver's seat replaced with the chair Abraham Lincoln was shot in.
  • While the rest of the band is also good at negotiating contracts, he apparently knows enough to be a notary.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Despite being in the most famous and legendary death metal band in the world, Murderface is frequently hated and shunned by Dethklok's massive fanbase and even his fellow bandmates because of his Jerkass behavior, his ugly appearance, and the fact he's a bassist. To that end, he made several attempts in gaining public acceptance such as suing Dethklok for songwriting residuals, touting himself as Dethklok's frontman and main songwriter (much to Nathan's annoyance), and getting facial reconstruction surgery to make himself handsome.
• Identical Grandson: To his grandma, Stella.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Most of his issues revolve around this. Unfortunately for him, it's usually Played for Laughs.
• Informed Deformity: Murderface is definitely far from attractive, but his ugliness tends to be exaggerated to the point of deformity.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: At times, he'll try to put on a charming facade for selfish reasons.
  • In "Klokblocked", he tries to act like a valiant hero to women solely just to get in their pants. That said, this episode is one where his Jerkass tendencies are milder than usual, and he does perform the selfless act of Taking the Bullet for Nathan later on.
  • Played straight in "Fatherklok", where he tries to act like the Team Dad towards the fatherless Skwisgaar, but is clearly only interested in getting it on with his mother. He also treats Pickles like The Unfavorite, despite Pickles also wanting a father figure.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Anytime his obnoxious, selfish behavior goes too far, life always responds by throwing misfortune his way.
• Last-Name Basis: You can probably count the number of times anyone's referred to him by any variant of "William" on one hand, and you'd probably have fingers left over if you discounted the time he's referred to by his full name.
• The Load: A persistent running gag is how little involvement Murderface has in actually making music. He doesn't write songs, his bass parts in recordings are frequently mixed out and rerecorded, he's been known to leave his instrument unplugged during live concerts without anyone noticing, and he's too much of a surly asshole to serve as a frontman (not that it's stopped him from trying). The biggest subversion of this is "Dethsiduals", where the band tries to go it without Murderface and discovers that, while their turnaround time becomes much faster, much of their creative process is channeling their hatred of Murderface into the albums. Fittingly for a bassist, while he seems to be providing nothing, his absence becomes very noticeable.
• Mister Seahorse: Well, that's how Murderface interpreted his infestation with parasites, anyway.
• Never Speak Ill of the Dead: Murderface brings this up in a roundabout way when Twinkletits supposedly falls to his death.
  "Now that he's dead, it's easier to say...emotional things about him."
• Nightmare Face: In "Dethvanity". Thank god it doesn't last long.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Is very interested in "morbid crap". His room is full of medieval torture devices.
• Nobody Loves the Bassist: In the episode "Religionklok", it's revealed that the band often mixes out his tracks on albums, and "Dethdinner" claims that the bass parts on many of their albums are redone by Skwisgar. The episode "Klokblocked" also saw Murderface get mocked by two women at a restaurant just because he's the bassist.
  • His creative input to the band being negligible is most likely a deliberate irony considering that the person his appearance is based on, Geezer Butler, wrote most of the lyrics for Black Sabbath.
• No One Could Survive That!: Has been frequently subjected to things that would normally kill a person, but always comes out alive (albeit usually with physical injuries).
• Panthera Awesome: His spiritual animal is a white Bengal tiger.
• Prank Call: He messes around with Toki and Skwisgaar this way in "Prankklok".
• Rage Against the Reflection: Murderface punches the mirror in two episodes of the season 4 (In "Diversityklok" happens when Toki criticizes him for his mustache while in "Dethvanity" happens after Murderface discovers his disfigured face after a bad plastic surgery done in Mexico during a "The Brutalies Awards" conference at the end).
• Give Me a Sign: Resorts to this when his temporary search for a religion is unsuccessful. He ends up getting his answer in the form of a phone call by the Church of Satan.
  "Just give me a sign. Show me the path of enlightenment, dear sweet demi-lord icon."
• Shower of Angst: After an "incident" at the doctor's office.
• Skyward Scream:
  • Does this in "Dethsiduals" after losing a court battle with Dethklok over songwriting residuals that he started.
  • Lets out another one when he catches Serveta having a threesome after his attempts to score with her by acting as a father figure to Skwisgaar end up for naut due to her promiscuity.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Murderface is the laziest, least musically apt member of the band. Doesn't stop him from carrying around a huge ego.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: He's a dick, yes, but deep down he desperately needs love and attention, which he can't get even though he's a world-wide celebrity.
• Snap Back: Whenever something bad happens to him, he is completely recovered by the next episode and no mention of the recovery is ever made. This includes being infested with parasites, dropped from a height of several stories into a mob of angry fans, having his junk broken, shaving his mustache, and having his face infected by a botched surgery.
• Speech Impediment: To the point where his voice actor used to stuff his mouth with paper towels to get the right lisp.
• Stealing the Credit: Loves to take credit of the songwriting residuals even though he didn't do jack shit that he (and Toki who had nothing to do with it and was just led on by him) was kicked out of the band in "Dethsiduals".
• Taking the Bullet: He saves Nathan from Lavona Succuboso's "loin extractor" this way during a concert in "Klokblocked". The bass he was holding takes the brunt of it but he still ended up getting electrocuted.
• Team Dad: Invoked in "Fatherklok" where he acts like a father figure to the fatherless Skwisgaar thinking that it'll lead to having sex with his mother. Averted in his treatment of Pickles as The Unfavorite in the same episode. It comes back to bite him hard, when he ends up uttering Pickles' trigger word.
  • For added hilarity, he outright says that he considers him as the band's father right in front of Nathan, the team's band dad and Papa Wolf to Toki.
• Tears of Blood: In "Birthdayface" when Dethklok gives him a custom-made limousine built with memorabilia taken from history's most brutal moments as well as a place in a Dethklok-hosted demolition derby.
  (looking over his birthday presents) "You mean, I get to destroy United States history literally?"
• Troll: Gets a kick out of screwing around with others and making them miserable. Most notable in "Dethlessons" and "Prankklok".
  "I'm sorry! Sorry about being a dick, but sometimes it's hard to suppress the urge of ruining other people's lives! Why doesn't everyone of ya just go kill yourself!? Idiots!... I'm sorry! I'm just being a dick!"
• Those Two Guys: With Toki, sometimes.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Seems to be this to Toki at times, as he frequently drags him along into ridiculous schemes that end up with Toki being blamed just as much as Murderface when Dethklok catches them.
• Tsundere: Oftentimes he is rude, crude, and disrespectful to his bandmates and the world around him, but occasionally becomes emotional and insecure of himself (especially in Performanceklok and Birthdayface).
• Turn Your Head and Cough: Murderface became..."stimulated" when he reached this point of a medical exam in "Dethhealth", which was rather unfortunate for the doctor. Except it wasn't. That was the doctor's goal in the first place.
• Use Your Head: Managed to give a Danish Prince a brain contusion and a fractured skull in with a single headbutt. Pickles remarks that he's gotten really good at it.
• Virus-Victim Symptoms: Due to being pricked by a spiked armband, the end of "The Doomstar Requiem" sees him infected with a virus that's beginning to spread over his body. Salacia mentioned that there would be a traitor within the group and most likely he plans to take control of William for his own ends.
  • Which is finally put into action in "Army Of The Doomstar", where Salacia puts Murderface under Demonic Possession and has him sabotage Nathan's attempts to write the Song Of Salvation.
• Vocal Evolution: A notable example. It took several episodes before Tommy Blacha could create an acceptable sound without stuffing his mouth with paper towels.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: A particularly nauseating (and for some reason, smoothly animated) example would be from "DethHealth". Right after he drinks about a gallon of bleach.

Pickles the Drummer

Pickles the Drummer (Doodily Doo, Ding Dong Doodily Doodily Doo)

Voiced by: Brendon Small

"They're getting yopo!! Dude, if we're gonna die, we're gonna die high!!"

Drummer/songwriter. One of the more stable members, despite a staggering alcohol problem and crappy family.

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• The Alcoholic: While the entire band could be described this way, the label applies most obviously to Pickles, whose drinking manages to put even the other members of the band to shame. It seems to be a holy calling for him: when his former band reforms without him and headlines an anti-alcohol event, he takes it as a mortal offense.
  • Pickles' drinking is also a not-so-subtle nod to his Wisconsin roots.
• All Drummers Are Animals: Zigzagged. He binges on more alcohol and drugs than the rest of the band, but he is also the most experienced and multi-talented from his time in Snakes N' Barrels. By Season 4, he is one of the most responsible members of Dethklok.
• Always Second Best: Pickles seems to view himself as this for his parents, being doomed to always play second fiddle to Seth, his lazy, mooching, con-man douchebag of an older brother. This is despite Pickles being a musician of many talents and a multi-billionaire.
• American Accents: Being from Wisconsin, he speaks with a sort of a hybrid of Inland North and North Central accents.
• Armor-Piercing Question: When Pickles is sent to rehab, the doctors sing "Why do you drink?!" until Pickles breaks down and blames his brother for his drinking habit.
• Animal Motifs: Octopi.
• Berserk Button: Being reminded that he's The Unfavorite. That and sobriety it seems. Murderface accidentally learned this the hard way in "Fatherklok".
• Big Damn Heroes: Pickles saving his band from the drum machine at the end of "Rehabklok".
• By the Power of Grayskull!: "By the power of all that is evil, I command you to awaken and MAKE ME A SANDWICH!"
• Calling the Old Man Out: He finally tells his mom to go fuck herself after he fully realizes she will never be proud of him in "Motherklok". And it is immensely satisfying.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: While he plays this straight in many episodes( and it's even the cause of him getting kicked to rehab), it's Averted and Played for Laughs in one scene. When the other band members are chastising him for losing control while drunk, the viewers are treated to quick flashbacks showing everyone else being stupid or passed out while Pickles looks sober and mortified.
• Catchphrase: "Douchebags!" or "Motherdouchebags!"
• Covert Pervert: Secretly grabs the naked lady fan mail in "Dethwedding" as soon as Nathan tosses it away.
• Deadpan Snarker: As one of the smarter and more mature members of Dethklok, he often drops sarcastic comments while rolling his eyes in response to the antics of his bandmates.
• Death Glare: Gave his father one hell of a glare in "Fatherklok" as Calvert kicked him out of the house.
• Death by Falling Over: Ends up falling into a group of spikes while trying to run from Creepy Crows in the intro to "Go Forth and Die". Fortunately, it was All Just a Dream.
• Delinquent Hair: Sported a punk-like haircut in his teens.
• Dreadlock Rasta: Pickles started wearing dreads after his Snakes n' Barrels stint, and was a rebellious hellion when he was a child due to having abusive family members (he's balding by the start of the show but he still counts).
• Drowning My Sorrows: Pickles' drinking habits can be seen as this, as he was seen drinking since age 6 due to mental and probably physical abuse by his brother and parents.
• Face Palm: Does this in "Rehabklok" during all the times his bandmates were rip-roaring drunk.
• Flipping the Bird: Pickles did this with Nathan once in "Prankklok", where an entire montage was dedicated to them flipping off several national monuments.
• Fiery Redhead: A male example. Despite his social acumen and jaded, sarcastic personality, he's actually committed more on-screen acts of violence than any other member of the band and almost always because he'd lost his temper.
• Freudian Excuse: The reason Pickles drinks so much is revealed to be because his brother Seth burned down their garage and blamed it on him. His parents believed it. He was also probably emotionally and physically abused by his entire family.
• Guyliner: When he was in Snakes N' Barrels back in the 80's.
• Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Had a massive mane of typical Glam Rock '80s Hair when he fronted Snakes N' Barrels. By the time he joins Dethklok, he's already going bald. It's become an issue for him in "Dethvanity" when the Dethklok Minute shows the public photos of his balding hair.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Wore a leather biker jacket in his teens.
• Hidden Depths: Attacks a rival real estate agent (who was also a Jerkass, by the way) by hitting various critical spots on the body, including the agent's crotch. Perhaps Offdensen taught him how to do that?
• Immune to Drugs: During Pickles' reunion tour with his old band Snakes n' Barrels, a radical new drug is introduced to the band, who then asks Pickles to do the drug with them before their first show. Snakes n' Barrels is completely destroyed by the drug; Pickles remains unharmed, however, since his growing up "smoking government weed every day" made him immune to just about any hard drug in existence and any drug to be invented. The only exception, for the sake of that episode, is the Yopo plant that the Amazonian natives use in "Dethcarraldo".
• I Need a Freaking Drink:
  "Nice one, what are you trying to do, depress us? Now I need a drink. A different one, not this one. And in a different place."
• Instrument of Murder: Pickles kills a Revengencer by making him choke with a drum stick.
  • Also earlier in the intro to "Performanceklok" when he threw a cymbal like a Frisbee at Toki in the midst of mid-concert in-band fighting, missing and getting it lodged into an audience member's neck.
• The Lancer: Arguably plays this role to Nathan better than Skwisgaar. He leads the band about as much as Nathan does and despite the two of them often having the friendliest relationship in the band, Pickles is the one that questions Nathan's decisions the most. Skwisgaar himself refers to Nathan and Pickles as "the guys that runs the band". It's also the conflict between Nathan and Pickles that drives the plot in the last few episodes of season 4, nearly splitting Dethklok up for good and it's the resolution of said conflict that brings the band back together.
• Large Ham: In "Motherklok" during his dream sequence.
• Man Hug: Pickles shares one with Nathan in the fourth season finale, after Nathan apologizes for destroying the master record and pursing Abigail, telling Pickles that what he wants more than anything is for the band to stay together. That means that man hugs are officially Metal.
  • An earlier example is during "Girlfriendklok", when the band violently interrogates Nathan while he's tied to a chair to understand why he continues to be in a relationship with Rebecca when it clearly makes him miserable. When Nathan relents, admitting that he hates her but is too frightened of her to break up with her, he starts actually starts crying prompting the band to release him from his binds before Pickles and Nathan share one of these.
• Men Don't Cry: Pickles tells Toki that none of the band will talk about missing Offdensen because "Admitting sadness...makes you gay."
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Not as prominent as Offdensen, but he's a slender man of average height who nonetheless delivers No Holds Barred Beatdowns anytime he gets violent.
• No Holds Barred Beat Down: Subjected Murderface to this after he (accidentally) pressed his Berserk Button regarding his "Well Done, Son" Guy issues with his father. He also subjected his brother Seth to this in "Dethwedding" and "Dethfam", though both times were interrupted due to bad timing.
  • He ALSO subjected Rikki Kixx to this in "Snakes N' Barrels II" for stealing his spot as the lead singer of his band, Snakes and Barrels and "brainwashing" his former bandmates into sobriety.
• Not the Fall That Kills You…: Pickles gets two in "Rehabklok"; once when his hoverdrums "land" face-up, and once when he lands in Soft Water.
• Odd Name Out: Really? "Pickles" is the best name his parents could come up with?
• Oh, Crap!: The thought of revisiting his family seems to affect him badly. In "Dethwedding", while on the way to attend his brother Seth's wedding in Tomahawk, Pickles was standing off the side in mute shock while in a disheveled state.
• Only One Name: Unless you count his title on the band.
• Only Sane Man: To various degrees in comparison to the rest of the band. However, from Season 2 onward, he has become increasingly neurotic, leading Nathan and lately Skwisgaar to take his place.
• Perpetual Frowner: Was this as a child and as a teenager in flashbacks, with very good reason.
  • Averted as an adult. With his distinctive, mischievous smirk and laid-back attitude, he comes across as one of the more cheerful members of Dethklok relatively speaking though the heavy substance abuse probably "helps".
• Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: Pickles was a part of this culture in The '80s.
• Shared Family Quirks: He probably won't admit it, but he shares his father's alcoholism and his older brother Seth's smirk-like grin.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Dresses up in a suit to impress Abigail in Going Downklok.
• Shorter Means Smarter: He's the shortest musician out of the five, but he's more intelligent than any of them.
• Shout-Out: When Dethklok breaks up in Season 4, Pickles starts up his own winery similar to Maynard James Keenan from tool.
• Singing Voice Dissonance:
  • His lower range sounds a lot like James Hetfield, as heard in "Hatredcopter" and parts of "Rehabklok".
  • The Doomstar Requiem comically exaggerates this in several of its songs, most notably "Givin' Back To You," having him completely drop his silly accent to deliver a buttery smooth alto performance.
• The Smart Guy: The smartest guy in Dethklok anyway. He's the most multi-talented of the group, because of his experience with Snakes N' Barrels, and is implied to be highly intelligent; he's able to explain polymeters to Nathan, and flashbacks showing him graduating (presumably college, since he left home at sixteen). However, it's subverted most of the time; Pickles' emotional immaturity, constant drug use/alcoholism, and the influence of his bandmates don't let him showcase his talents often.
• Take a Third Option:
  "I'm gonna get drunk AND save the band!"
• Team Mom: To Nathan's Team Dad at times. When Skwisgaar and Murderface start shit-talking Toki after he leaves for band camp, he snaps and scolds them. Capping it off with a "shame on you!" like a scolding mother. Fully leans into this role by Army of the Doomstar, especially during the church scene.
  "Toki, be a good boy and go get mommy his scotch, okay?"
• Trademark Favorite Food: Aside from booze, he seems to really like cinnamon buns and is seen scarfing a plate full of them in "Writersklok". He even tried to buy the cinnamon buns franchise once but was too drunk at the time.
• Trauma Button: "Get out. You belong in a garbage can."
  • Anyone who says this to him gets to be beaten down by him. Just ask Murderface.
• The Unfavorite: To his family. What's worse, his conman, leech of an older brother is the favorite.
  • Has flashes to this when Murderface tries to help Skwisgaar out of his BSOD, acting like a neglected kid begging for attention from his father figure. And he's almost losing it when he sees both getting along well.
• Verbal Tic: Tends to insert "dude" and "dudes" into his speech, usually at the beginning of sentences.
• Vocal Evolution: It's a subtle example but Pickles initially had a deeper, more subdued voice sometimes sounding similar to Charles in the first season.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: When Murderface tried to act fatherly to Skwisgaar, Pickles acted this trope, in part due to his own father's neglect.
• What the Hell, Hero?: In "Dethcamp", he calls out both Skwisgaar and Murderface for badmouthing Toki after they grumble about the band's sweets (candy, ice cream, etc.) being made sugarless to accommodate Toki's diabetes.

Nathan Explosion

Nathan Explosion

Voiced by: Brendon Small

"So here's my message, my message to you, very simple message: Go forth. Go forth and DIIIIIE!!!"

Lead singer/songwriter/general musical genius of the band.

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• Abusive Parents: Notably averted. It is shown that Nathan is the only band member with a good home life to the point of openly admitting he loves his father.
• All Just a Dream: The intro to "Go Forth and Die", where he dreamed that Creepy Crows killed his bandmates and forced him to become a Burger Fool just to get by.
• Animal Motifs: Alligators.
• Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?:
  "I think I know what you are all trying to say... I, um... I think we have to build a space helicopter."
• Armor-Piercing Question: In "Religionklok", he asks Skwisgaar if nihilists don't believe in God after the latter claims that nihilists don't believe in anything.
  Nathan: Can't a nihilist also not believe in God, too?
  Skwisgaar: I... uh... I don't know.
• Armor-Piercing Response: In "Religionklok", after Skwisgaar expresses disbelief in the existence of religion itself, he points out the logical fallacies and shows Skwisgaar the Bible as proof that religion exists.
  Skwisgaar: Pfft! This is dildos. Doesn't he knows there's no such things as religion?
  Nathan: You mean you don't believe in God. There is such thing as religion.
  Skwisgaar: Well then proves it! Show me a, uh... miracles that religion exists!
  Nathan: Well, um, you know, there's... the Bible right there. [points at a copy of the Bible on the floor]
  Skwisgaar: Welllll... maybe I re... evaluates... my life, then.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Well, he wouldn't even be considered the leader of Dethklok if he wasn't so brutal.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Downplayed in the show proper, but played very straight in the DVD extras where he reads Shakespeare. He can't go two lines without going on tangents on everything from fighting babies to Wall-E.
• Badass Biker: With a motorcycle with no less than four sidecars.
• Badass Native: "Dethcarraldo" reveals he's descended from the Yaneemango peoples through his mother's side.
• Barbarian Longhair: Well, he's descended from a cannibal tribe in South America, and he's often remarked as looking like a Death Metal Native American. Also, whenever he plays a Viking in the music videos.
• Berserk Button:
  • Don't EVER insult death metal within earshot. Damien Cornickelson learned the hard way.
  • Don't EVER call him "Tonto". In one episode, he looked just about ready to punch out the comedian who did that, but Offdensen got to him first.
  • Also, a couple of guys who teased him about giving him alcohol during a sobriety event got a mean face-slapping.
  • Bullying his band mates and putting them in danger will push him over the edge.
• Break the Badass: At the very end of "Dethhealth" where Nathan and his dentist are on a hunting trip; the dentist blows his head off in a sudden act of suicide. Nathan's expression is priceless.
• Big Beautiful Man: According to the Tribunal's chart in "Dethvanity", Nathan is considered the second-most attractive member of the band in-universe - even though the show often refers to him (and shows him) as overweight. In the same episode, he lets himself go hard and ends up breaking the hot tub.
• Big Eater: Deconstructed. While not as bad as Murderface, Nathan does consume huge portions in "Dethvanity" and eventually eats so much that he ends up breaking the band's favorite hot tub. The Dethklok Minute even displays how obese he's become, shocking and embarrassing Nathan. It's possible that his rich lifestyle (along with exercising less than he used to) led to his current appearance in the show.
• The Big Guy: Type 3.
• Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...: In "Dethwedding".
  "Subpoena, subpoena, subpoena, Netflix. Huh, yeah, awesome, naked lady fan mail - possibly awesome, possibly horrible. Subpoena..."
• Blood from the Mouth: Three times - once during "Fanklok", in the music video "Bloodlines", and in Season 4 from the strain of apologizing to Pickles.
• Blood-Splattered Innocents: Nathan ends up with blood on him in "Dethgov" during second grade when a truck driver crashes his truck into his classroom, killing many while injuring some. Though the "innocent" part of the trope is called into question by his lack of reaction...
• Book Dumb: Zigzagged. The only member to apparently never graduate high school yet he's generally tied with Pickles as being one of the smartest members of the band. In "Renovationklok" with Charles gone, he's the one who ultimately takes charge over their financial situation once it dawns on him how much money the band's been wasting.
• Burger Fool: Ends up working as one in the intro to "Go Forth and Die" after having his band killed by Creepy Crows, leaving him without a job as a musician. Fortunately, it was All Just a Dream.
• Brutal Honesty:
  • In "Dethsiduals", he never hesitates to voice his hatred for Get Thee Hence and outright calls Murderface a failure at band management.
  • He does not pull the verbal punches with Pickles, either. In "Dethwedding", he makes comments about what a greedy douchebag Seth is, and in "Motherklok", he advises Pickles to tell his mother "go *pinch harmonic* herself" which Pickles does after finally seeing her as a truly abusive and demanding bitch.
• Buffy Speak: When describing how Dr. Rockso ruined a reunion show with Zazz Blammymatazz by drinking LSD and spraying a woman with a hose, he called it a "big spraying thing".
• Cannot Spit It Out: When Nathan tries to apologize to Pickles for being the asshole that he is, it causes him to vomit blood before he's finally able to show any emotion and say he was sorry.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: Although he's a fairly solid drinker, Nathan still gets hammered whenever he drinks tequila, as shown in "Prankklok" he tends to go off on drunken rampages whenever he does. Pickles made him promise never to drink tequila on their traditional post-album friender-benders specifically for this reason.
• Cassandra Truth: In "Skwisklok", he tells Toki that he'll get diabetes if he eats too much candy. Toki's response basically amounts to "Fuck off! I can do whatever I want!" You can kinda guess what happens next...
• Catchphrase: "Brutal.", "NOOOOOOOOOO!", and, in Diversityklok, "That's doable."
• Chekhov's Skill: Nathan punching Damien in the first few minutes of "Renovationklok". He later does it again to stop Damien from attacking the recently-returned Offdensen.
• Cooldown Hug: Attempts this on the band's adopted son in "Fatklok" when he's causing too much trouble during rehearsal though he only succeeds in making the kid "go to the bathroom" in his pants.
• Death Glare: If he's not doing the Kubrick Stare, then he's doing this.
• Demoted to Extra: Nathan increasingly edges toward this trope in Season Three, what with the other band members stealing the spotlight.
• Dramatic Thunder:
  Nathan: Guys. I've been thinking. (thunder) IT'S TIME I STARTED DATING AGAIN.
• Drives Like Crazy: In "Dethmas", the band's mothers have insisted on spending some quality time with them, and Nathan is trying to find a parking spot at the mall on Christmas Eve...
  Other Driver: You hit my car!
  Nathan: Hey! I have four mothers telling me how to drive! What's your excuse, asshole?
• Dreaming of Things to Come: This pops up on occasion, though they always come true; most notable is the infamous dream scene in "Dethhealth", which foreshadows the appointment with the suicidal dentist and the dentist's sudden suicide via Ate His Gun.
  • He's also been doing this a lot in Season 4 via the Sea Prophet, which climaxed in his destroying the Master Record.
• Drowning My Sorrows: In "Mordland" during the dreaded "Fan Day" event.
• Dumb Jock: Was this as a teenager, as the only things he excelled that in high school were football and frog dissection.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: A male example. He boasts long, dark flowing hair, pale skin, and Perpetual Frowner tendencies, is generally The Stoic, and has a fascination with dark and bleak subject matter and a penchant for absolutely chilling glares. It's further exaggerated during concerts and music videos when he dons corpse paint. The stark white skin and painted on Creepy Shadowed Undereyes combined with the way his hair tends to get more disheveled during said concerts makes him Looks Like Cesare.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Double-subverted. He's the brutal frontman and lead singer of Dethklok, thinks caring for others is not brutal, and openly expresses his hatred of his parents. At first it seems like he hates them because they're Abusive Parents much like the other families of Dethklok are shown to be, but it's actually not true - Oscar and Rose Explosion genuinely love their son even though they have flaws like being a little too motherly, and most of the things he says about them is actually out of embarrassment and awkwardness. In "Fatherklok", he openly states that he loves Oscar while a flashback montage shows them participating in some father-son activities like fishing, bumper car-riding, and Scrabble.
  "I f*pinch harmonic*ing love my dad. My dad's f*pinch harmonic*ing awesome."
• Facial Horror: Nathan loses his entire lower jaw in "Dethhealth"'s Nightmare Sequence, and he reacts to it with as much horror as the audience. Thank goodness it's All Just a Dream.
• Fascinating Eyebrow: He does it a few times in every episode.
• Flipping the Bird: Nathan does it frequently, especially to his fans. "Prankklok" has a montage dedicated to him and Pickles flipping off several national monuments.
• Foil:
  • To Skwisgaar. Skwisgaar is blonde and skinny, a notorious ladies' man who has sex with anyone who wants to, an Attention Whore who basks in the spotlight, and is a superficial Jerkass. Nathan is dark-haired and broad-muscled, wants to settle down with a girlfriend but can't outside the groupies Dethklok has sex with (with his few relationships except with Abigail ending badly), thinks practically and is brutally honest, and outside the concerts he performs in, he's socially awkward. Nathan has a good relationship with his parents, particularly his father, while Skwisgaar loathes his sex-happy mother for being a poor parent and has no father of his own to speak of.
  • Also to Pickles, who is short as Nathan is tall. While they're the most adjusted of the band, Pickles was treated like shit by his own parents, who favored his mooching, underachieving, con-man Jerkass of an older brother, and had his father tell him that he belonged in a garbage can. Nathan by contrast has a mostly good relationship with his parents, particularly Oscar whom he hangs out with quite often.
• Foreshadowing: In "Dethcarraldo", it's revealed his grandfather got together with his grandmother, who was already married before they met. This is exactly what happens in "Going Downklok"; although Abigail was single, she chooses Nathan over Pickles who had been infatuated with her, leading to Nathan and Pickles' falling out and Dethklok's breakup.
• Formerly Fit: When first starting off Dethklok he was shown to have a more muscular physique as shown in the flashbacks of "Dethcamp" and "Doomstar Requiem". However he began to put on quite a bit of weight after their band became insanely successful. He even laments his much more pudgier figure upon seeing how ripped Toki is.
  "My god, I have let myself go..."
  • He gets more in shape in "Going Downklok" though still not exactly the Hunk he used to be.
• Freudian Excuse: Subverted. Despite publicly claiming to hate his parents, it's heavily implied that it's more out of embarrassment towards them as well as keeping his brutal celebrity image. In private, he is fond of his parents and loves them both, especially his father, with a flashback montage dedicated to showing him and Oscar doing things like fishing, drag-racing, and playing Scrabble. If anything, Oscar and Rose Explosion are flawed at worst and it's because of his relatively normal upbringing (aside from the incident where some crazy truck driver mowed down his entire second-grade class as a child) that Nathan became significantly more reasonable and emotionally well-adjusted compared to his bandmates, who had Abusive Parents (and grandparents). It's rather telling when Nathan openly declares in front of his bandmates in "Fatherklok" that he loves his dad.
• Gagging on Your Words: Nathan's apology to Pickles in the season four finale. The effort it takes him to say "I'm sorry" is comparable to another person uprooting a tree stump with their bare hands.
• Gentle Giant: While not a straight example, Nathan is more amiable and warm-hearted than his reputation and appearance would have you believe.
  Nathan: "This is MY band. You're MY stupid, dumb, *''pinch harmonic''* up, dysfunctional family, alright?!"
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: When Murderface's unfathomably bizarre scheme to to get in good with Serveta Skwigelf makes Pickles and Toki start directing all their pent-up daddy issues at him, Nathan slaps the crap out of them both and tells them to wake the (pinch harmonic) up.
• Good Angel, Bad Angel: In "Dethhealth", Nathan experiences this in the form of Pickles (Good Angel) and Murderface (Bad Angel) while visiting his dentist, contemplating if he should be gassed or not before his teeth are worked on. He sides with Murderface.
  Murderface: Gas means your wiener's being played with by a suicidal weirdo! Gas means you're gay!
  Pickles: Dude! Who cares if he plays with your dick?? You'll totally be out!
• Governor Evil: Of Florida. Though he didn't mean to or even want to in the first place.
• The Heart: Presumably held the group together after Magnus' expulsion until they recruited Toki.
• Heroic Ambidexterity: He shows signs of being cross-dominant as he writes with his right hand and uses it for melee weapons like axes and swords, but he's also seen firing a rocket launcher and an M60 with his left hand. When performing at concerts he can hold the mic in either hand.
• Henpecked Husband: "Boyfriend" in Nathan's case when he starts dating the controlling and abusive Rebecca Nightrod in "Girlfriendklok". Thankfully, it doesn't last, as Rebecca is put into a coma by a Staircase Tumble.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Despite what you think, Nathan's pretty well aware that he's The Unintelligible, and that his band is as stupid as he is. Summed up here perfectly in "Dethdoubles":
  Nathan (screaming): WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIIIGHT!!!
• "Hey, You!" Haymaker: Delivers one to Murderface when the band gets into a fight onstage in "Performanceklok".
• Horrible Judge of Character: Hooked up with Rebecca Nightrod in "Girlfriendklok" despite her being a controlling and demanding bitch.
  • In "Fanklok" Nathan is very insistent that Trindle is totally not a Stalker with a Crush towards anyone resembling him.
• Hidden Depths: Has shades of this, which puts him on par with Pickles. To date, he is able to speak fluent French ("Mordland" and "Dethsiduals"), negotiate contracts with the Blues Devil ("Bluesklok"), is knowledgeable in the makeup of rockets ("Dethecution") is very proficient in firearms such as rifles and bazookas ("Doublebookedklok"), and took charge of the band's finances in Offdensen's absence ("Renovationklok"). He is also far more perceptive of other people than is given credit for (respecting Skwisgaar's Disappeared Dad issues in "Fatherklok" and realizing that Offdensen hates the band in "Doublebookedklok"), and is often seen reading more than his fellow bandmates.
• Hulk Speak: Generally averted in the show but some of his lyrics delve into this. Facefisted is the most notable example of this.
  "I am be dangerous now!
  Not me hurt when stairs fell down!
  Me pushed by you! Me hit head!
  Me nose broke! Soon you be dead!"
• Hypocritical Humor: Twice in "Tributeklok".
  • The first time is after Murderface makes an ass of himself on live TV and Nathan calls him out on it:
    Nathan: (to Murderface) You consistently make us look like a bunch of dumb, rich, sheltered assholes! *cue zoom-out to show the whole band being pampered by Klokateers*
  • Later, in the same episode, Nathan is lying in bed and seems to be having a conversation with himself asking if the band really is out of touch with regular people. The camera then zooms out to reveal that Nathan isn't talking to himself, but a room full of supermodels that he just finished having an orgy with.
• In a Single Bound: Pulls off some impressive leaps during the concert in "Birthdayface".
• I Need a Freaking Drink: In "Dethtroll":
  "Oh, I hate Finland. I need a hundred beers. Exactly - exactly one hundred."
• I Was Quite a Looker: He's still attractive enough to be a Big Beautiful Man now, but as seen in flashbacks of Dethklok's younger days during "Dethcamp" and Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem, he used to be quite ripped. He does regain some of his former muscle in "Going Downklok", as he turned to weight-lifting as a substitute for masturbating due to suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome.
• Insane Troll Logic: In "Dethhealth":
  Nathan: Bleach is healthy. It's mostly water, and we're mostly water. Therefore, we are bleach.
• In-Series Nickname: Many characters have referred to him as "Tonto," an obvious jab at his Native roots. Though usually meant in a casual or even derogatory way, it happens enough to qualify as an unofficial nickname.
• Kubrick Stare: Does this a couple of times. One particular example is at the end of "Dethcamp", seconds before punishing the douchebag bullying Toki with a broken snow globe. It's so epic that it turns the moon red!
  Nathan: Tell me, which hand do you fret with?
• Lack of Empathy: Largely acted this way towards everything (and everyone in particular) due to his belief that feelings being "gay" and "not brutal/metal". He slowly gets better over the seasons, and seems to have shed almost all of it by "The Doomstar Requiem".
• Large and in Charge: While Skwisgaar is just a bit taller, Nathan's definitely the bulkiest and one of the most muscular members of Dethklok cutting an imposing figure as their frontman and leader.
• Large Ham: On occasion.
• Little "No": Due to running out of voice because someone forgot to press the record button in "Dethkids".
  Pickles: But, here's the good news: I'm sorry.
• Magical Native American: Averted. While he's undeniably a badass and part-Native American, he's as normal as any other regular jackoff. In "Fertilityklok", he didn't take kindly to a stand-up comedian calling him "Tonto" and looked just about ready to punch his face out, but Offdensen got to the guy first. Then in Seasons 3 and 4 Nathan's shown to have precognitive dreaming, and he also has a spiritual animal guide in the form of a whale (the Sea Prophet).
• Major Injury Underreaction: In the pilot episode he nonchalantly forces his head and arm through a glass display containing meat while grocery shopping. He's clearly bleeding from the glass shards embedded in said head and arm but doesn't acknowledge this.
• Malicious Misnaming: Nathan has been called "Tonto" several times. Nothing good happened to the people who called him that.
• Man Hug: Nathan and Pickles share one in the fourth season finale, after Nathan apologizes for destroying the master record and pursuing Abigail, telling Pickles that what he wants more than anything is for the band to stay together. That means that man hugs are officially Metal.
  • An earlier example is during "Girlfriendklok", when the band violently interrogates Nathan while he's tied to a chair to understand why he continues to be in a relationship with Rebecca when it clearly makes him miserable. When Nathan relents, admitting that he hates her but is too frightened of her to break up with her, he actually starts crying prompting the band to release him from his binds before Pickles and Nathan share one of these.
• Mundane Made Awesome: This is Nathan's reaction to Christmas in "Dethmas". He's initially turned off by the idea of Toki wanting to put up a tree, etc., until he takes a moment to really look it over. He sees it as the corpse of a tree, further humiliated and desecrated by being strung up in Mordhaus and decorated. He feels the whole thing is pretty brutal.
  • In "Renovationklok", he invented a lighting system that allows people to turn on the lights by screaming.
  • In the pilot episode "Curse of Dethklok", Nathan announces on the news that he will "make everything metal".
• Never Smile at a Crocodile: Nathan's animal form is an alligator.
• Nightmare Fetishist: To some extent, given his love for anything brutal and metal.
• No One Could Survive That!: Implied to have gone through hundreds of liver transplants, and is still going strong.
• No-Sell:
  • In a flashback in "Dethcamp", His only response to getting stabbed in back with a knife by Magnus was to briefly glare at him before delivering one hell of a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
  • He also didn't really react at all to getting kicked in the face by Lavona Succuboso in "Dethrelease" and quickly restrained her afterwards.
  • In "Doublebookedklok", Nathan is shown to be the one least affected by Toki's punches. He even takes several punches in a row and barely shows signs that he's in pain, more just annoyed by it.
• No Sympathy: Initially, if someone in his own band is having a problem, Nathan would usually ignore it and leave them to their own devices, forcing them to deal with their problems on their own. He slowly grows out of this in later seasons.
• Official Couple: With Abigail at Doomstar's conclusion.
• Only Sane Man: Replaces Pickles as this from Season 2 onward, where Nathan has proven much more reasonable, socially adjusted, and intelligent while Pickles becomes increasingly neurotic.
• ...Or So I Heard: In "Dethzazz", Nathan claims this trope in regards to how he knew so much about previous failed Zazz Blammymatazz reunions.
• Papa Wolf:
  • Sort of. He'll mess with the guys and occasionally let them suffer the consequences of their idiocy. But when someone goes too far, he'll be the first to bust heads.
  • Do NOT bully Toki. In "Dethcamp", after a bully harassed Toki and broke a snowglobe that Nathan and Pickles gave to Toki as a gift, Nathan chased him down and destroyed any musical future the guy may have had, by cutting up the nerves in his hands with a broken snow globe.
• The Perfectionist: Nathan is willing to delete tracks, even entire albums if they don't meet his standards. It's actually counter-productive since people tend to get violent if an album is delayed.
• Perpetual Frowner: Seems to be capable of only one expression. He does smile on occasion, though you can probably count them with one hand.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: In-universe as "Natebecca" or "Rebasplosion" with Rebecca Nightrod.
• Promotion to Parent: Happens to Nathan after their manager Charles Offdensen dies from Season 3 onward. Notable examples include taking care of the band's finances while Offdensen's gone, and looking after Toki.
• Punny Name: On "Napalm Explosion".
• Rhymes on a Dime: Literally had to do this in Writerklok by coming up with a new song on the spot to save his band.
• Serious Business: Chips, alcohol, and metal.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: While not as smart as Offdensen, Nathan is seen wearing glasses a few times, particularly when he's reading something. In "Renovationklok", he's wearing glasses again while sitting in Offdensen's office, taking charge of the band's finances. This goes to show how actually intelligent he is compared to his bandmates.
• Spanner in the Works: Unwittingly. Nathan's destroying the Master Record delayed the Tribunal's progress with the Falconback Project significantly as they needed a massive amount of funds for it to work.
• Squick: In-universe, how he views procreational sex (in other words, how babies are made).
• Sophisticated as Hell: Generally averted in the show, but several of his lyrics tend to mix in some rather eloquent phrases like "Pistillate artifice" with cruder ones like "Bleed like a bitch".
• The Stoic: In the sense that he's not really good with emotions. The others joke that if he ever had to honestly apologize, his internal organs would explode. They aren't far off; in the Season 4 finale, he goes into convulsions and vomits up blood while apologizing to Pickles for destroying their album and fucking Abigail.
• Team Dad: While Charles is usually this for the whole band. According to him, Nathan and Pickles are the most responsible members of Dethklok (much to their annoyance). Even when not put in charge of the band when Charles is away, he has a tendency to be paternal.
  • When sending off Toki to the Rock-A-Rooni fantasy camp, he rundowns a checklist of things Toki would bring like an attentive parent making sure their kid is adequately prepared before sending them off.
  • After dropping off Skwisgaar and Toki at driving school, he acts like a straight-laced father. From reminding them to call him if they need to be picked up, asking if they have their phones and lunches, telling them not to talk to people because there's weirdos out there, and even telling them to study hard before leaving.
• Tears of Blood: Does this in the Detharmonic video, because taxes are just that brutal.
• Tranquil Fury: While he has the occasional outbursts of rage here and there, when he really gets pissed off he barely emotes beyond an ice cold Kubrick Stare and his casual speaking voice. The best example would be his reaction to a bully breaking Toki's snow globe in "Dethcamp".
  "Oh shit little kid. You just fucked up real bad."
• Troubled Backstory Flashback: Has one regarding Dethklok's early days when he discovers that Magnus is working as a camp counselor at the Rock-a-Roonie Fantasy Camp that Toki is attending.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: His response to watching an insane truck driver ram his truck into his school and kill his second-grade classmates and teacher in "Dethgov" is to stand there and calmly watch the scene unfold.
• The Quiet One: He didn't speak at all until he was five.
• The Unapologetic: He excuses this, claiming to have an "apology problem". Managed to break free from this trope when apologizing to Pickles in "Church Of The Black Klok", but it wasn't pretty.
• The Unintelligible: Though his unintelligibility is pretty standard fare for a death metal band.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Nathan has been seen eating chips quite a few times.
• Vocal Evolution: Music-wise, Nathan's singing voice started out as deeper and more guttural than it is now. This is Truth in Television - most death metal vocalists pitch up over time due to the stress being put on their vocal cords.
  • Conversely, his speaking voice on the show actually became deeper and more guttural in later seasons contradicting the change in his singing voice.
• Weight Woe: Alongside Murderface. Nathan isn't happy with how he's let himself go.
• When She Smiles: Gender-inverted. With his tall, broad stature and his perpetually pissed-off expression, Nathan looks every bit as brutal as he appears to his fans. However, whenever he smiles, he looks friendly and approachable. While it isn't commented on in-universe, it's a hint to viewers that he's much warmer and kinder than he appears.

Former

Magnus Hammersmith

Magnus Hammersmith (M.H., The Unknown Member, The Man Who Stands Behind Shadows)

Voiced by: Marc Maron, Brendon Small (DSR)

"REVENGE IS COMING!"

Ex-member of Dethklok, kicked out for his controlling and deranged nature.

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• A Fate Worse Than Death: His desired revenge against the band is simultaneously more kind and more brutal than just killing them. He wants to bring them down to his level of obscurity, making them into "regular jackoffs". The band has repeatedly stated if they couldn't be famous, they'd just kill themselves.
• Affably Evil: He's seen stitching and cleaning the stab wound he gave Toki in "The Doomstar Requiem". He also saves Toki from dying from diabetic shock in "Dethcamp".
• Beard of Evil: Has a Goatee of Evil.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: Serves as part of this in "The Doomstar Requiem", alongside the Metal Masked Assassin.
• Big Bad Friend/Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: After Magnus saved Toki's life, Toki came to really consider him a good friend and evidently the rest of the band too since he was allowed to attend Roy Cornickelson's funeral at Mordhaus. This turned out to be a very bad idea as detailed below.
  • In "The Doomstar Requiem", Toki still calls him a friend as he's begging for mercy.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Unceremoniously introduced in a flashback in "Renovationklok" and didn't say a single word. He wouldn't make another appearance until one season later in "Dethcamp" where his past with the band is expanded upon and he meets Toki at the Rock-a-Rooni Fantasy Camp. Then he ends up becoming a primary antagonist in the "Doomstar Requiem".
• Dark Is Evil: A violent, vindictive, dark-haired Jerkass dressed in black and gray clothing.
• The Dreaded: It goes to show how much of a douchebag Magnus is when Dethklok completely panics at the thought of leaving Toki alone with him at a rock n' roll camp.
  • Even Dr. Rockso knows how much of an asshole Magnus is.
  Dr. Rockso: He a dirty old hunk-a shit, Toki! He a g-g-g-garbage can! That's why he done been kicked outta Dethklok all those years back.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He's outraged when he sees that the Metal Masked Assassin has murdered Ishnifus.
• Eye Scream: He's blind in one eye because when Nathan beat him up for trying to stab him in the back, he managed to mess up one of his eyes as well.
• Heel Realization: Has this revelation in his dying moments, horrified at having gotten Ishnifus killed and still awestruck after seeing Dethklok manifest the power of gods.
• Hidden Depths: In "The Doomstar Requiem", he's seen staring forlornly at a group photo of him and his ex-bandmates smiling happily implying that at one point they legitimately saw each other as friends.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Happens to him via a spear courtesy of the Metal Masked Assassin in The Doomstar Requiem. He eventually frees himself and is left to bleed to death.
• In the Back: In "Dethcamp" it's revealed he tried to kill Nathan this way in the past, only for Nathan to physically retaliate and kick him out of the band permanently. In "Church of the Black Klok" he does this to Toki, after betraying him to the Revengencers.
• I Resemble That Remark!: Nathan tells Magnus he's "sounding crazy". Magnus's reaction is to pull out a knife and stab him in the back.
• Jerkass: Massively! It's revealed in "Dethcamp" that he was forced out of Dethklok after being a raging douchebag to everyone and getting in a fight with Nathan, which he promptly lost.
  • Though he saved Toki's life in "Dethcamp", it is heavily implied that he did so not out of kindness. "Breakupklok" confirms that he is the Revengencers' inside man, and heavily implies that he is using Toki to give his allies access to Dethklok.
  • He ups it in the fourth season finale by kidnapping Toki and stabbing him.
• Lean and Mean: He's got a build similar to Skwisgaar and proved to be the biggest douchebag in the band before he got kicked out.
• Manipulative Bastard: Manipulated Toki into becoming his friend, and then betrayed him to the Revengencers just to spite Dethklok for kicking him out.
  • It's implied he also told the bully from "Dethcamp" about Toki's diabetes so he can make himself a hero in Toki's eyes by saving him, and then set the same bully up as the Fall Guy by timing the destruction of Toki's snowglobe so it'll deflect Dethklok's anger (namely Nathan) onto the kid.
• Not What I Signed on For: Dips into this when he sees the Metal Masked Assassin kill Ishnifus Meaddle. Gets impaled for his trouble.
  • He showed signs of this during his first song in the Klok Opera. He has no intent to kill Toki and Abigail, and views Toki as another victim. He doesn't want to murder anyone, especially the band, but he does want them to suffer in obscurity like he has after being kicked out.
• The Pete Best: In-universe; he was the band's original rhythm guitarist, but was kicked out before the band got big, because of his violent behavior and shitty attitude.
• Protagonist-Centered Morality: Played with, as he's on the receiving end of the unfairness of this trope. Like the rest of the band, he doesn't particularly care about bystanders, and makes no effort to protect others' lives. Like them, he's a literally raging, controlling, narcissist. But, he doesn't have a prophecy backing him. In fact, he's even a necessary evil in the prophecy.
• Red Baron: The Man Who Stands Behind Shadows, according to the prophecy.
• Redemption Equals Death: At least he seems to believe so. Upon Toki and Abigail being rescued, he realizes how he has failed and how vastly he underestimated Dethklok's powers. Accepting his "role" as the villain, despite the fact that he'd most likely bleed to death from the impalement inflicted upon him by the Assassin anyway, he finishes the deed himself.
• Revenge: He never got over being kicked out of the band despite giving the group every reason to do so. He has slowly been biding his time to get revenge on Dethklok, even joining the Revengencers. He achieves it during "Church of the Black Klok", as he kidnaps and stabs his replacement in the band, Toki.
• The Resenter: Towards Toki, for taking his place in the band, and Dethklok in general for kicking him out (although their reasons were quite justified).
• Shadow Archetype: Ironically, several of Magnus' character traits - some of them being the very reason he was kicked out of the band - have been displayed by the current members of Dethklok to varying degrees including his replacement Toki: He's violent, selfish, manipulative, scheming, capable of psychotic outbursts, arrogant in his musical abilities, and stubborn in realizing his own mistakes. It's rather fitting that right around the time Dethklok shed most of their personal shortcomings, he's already been dealt with by another villain and he ends up giving up on his vengeance.
• Sympathy for the Hero: During his Villain Song, he apparently sees Toki and Abigail as just more victims of the band's selfishness.
• Villainous BSoD: His realization that he descended into villainy has him scream to the heavens as he accepts his eventual death by blood loss.
• Villain Song: "Magnus and the Assassin" from "The Doomstar Requiem" with Magnus torturing Toki as he and the Assassin talk of their plots to exact vengeance upon Dethklok. The song focuses mainly on Magnus, though.
  • "The Hammer" might count as well. It's the only Dethklok song that Magnus definitely contributed to, and appears to be a fearsome Badass Boast written during his time in the band.
• Walking Spoiler: There wasn't any indication that the band used to have a different rhythm guitarist until he showed up in a flashback in season 3. And this is well before he turns out to be a major antagonist.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Apparently he thought was justified in his actions this whole time and it takes realizing he's the "bad guy" to get him to give up.
• We Used to Be Friends: During the song "Do It All For My Brother", he's seen staring forlornly at a group photo of him and his ex-bandmates smiling with arms over each other's shoulders implying this. For Nathan's part, Magnus is one of the people he thinks about as part of a montage featuring those that aren't by his side (including Dick, Alicia and Edgar) in the finale of "Army of the Doomstar"