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Mustakrakish, the lake troll
The band accidentally summons an ancient demonic troll during a concert.

Tropes:

  • Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Mustakrakish fits this trope.
  • Awesome, but Impractical: The Dethphones. Dethklok designed them while drunk, and Toki complains that they're heavy and the spikes hurt his face.
  • Buffy Speak: Nathan's dubious public speaking abilities appear for the first time.
  • Chekhov's Gun: The Dethphones.
  • Gutted Like a Fish: A self-inflicted case - Mustakrakish gets a Dethphone stuck in his throat, and while trying to remove it ends up disemboweling himself!
  • Hypocritical Humor: Skwissgaar makes fun of Toki for being unable to read sheet music, but then admits that he can't either, blaming "music dyslexia".
  • Improvised Weapon: After the banishing ritual fails the band try throwing their Dethphones at the troll, but don't have much range. Except Murderface, who was a bit pissed by the other end of his call.
  • Noodle Incident: The "alleged happenings" that prompted the press conference at the beginning of the episode.
  • Shout-Out / Stealth Pun: Dethklok awakens a troll in Finland. A Finnish troll. Finntroll.
  • Skepticism Failure
    General Crozier: That's impossible. There's no such thing as trolls.
    Senator Stampingston: Then how do you explain the dead unicorns?
  • Weaksauce Weakness: Mustakrakish is incredibly vulnerable to electronics.

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