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• Alternative Character Interpretation: Are Tommy and Gina from "Livin' on a Prayer" two poor lovers who will hold on no matter what, or are they about to cross the Despair Event Horizon and give up?
  • Judging from "It's My Life," which mentions the same lovers, it's the former.
  • Although, in the Breakup Song "Novocaine", Jon says that there's "a different kind of meaning now to living on a prayer", which suggests that maybe it didn't work out so well after all.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: "Blood on Blood":

  Through the years and miles between us
  It's been a long and lonely ride
  But if I got that call in the dead of the night
  I'd be right by your side.

  • The video for "Who Says You Can't Go Home", where the band helps build a house for Habitat For Humanity.
  • "Always":
    Well there ain't no luck in these loaded dice
    But baby if you give me just one more try
    we could pack up our old dreams and our old lives
    and find a place where the sun still shines
• Crowning Music of Awesome:
  • Have A Nice Day
  • It's My Life-
• Iron Woobie: Tommy and Gina
• Memetic Mutation: The smirking smiley face from the "Have A Nice Day" video.
  • Some folks like to Drop "WHAA-OOH! LI-VIN' ON A PRAYER!!!" on random, sometimes in rhyme. And, in general, people tend to give that as a response whenever someone mentions being "halfway there."
• Misattributed Song: Lots of people tend to misattribute songs from Jon's solo career as songs from his band ("Blaze of Glory" is but one example). Many fans simply put them together with the official Bon Jovi releases.
• Narm: due to their over-the-top anthems, which are soppily sweet with cliches.
  • Narm Charm
• Tear Jerker: Many of their power ballads. Which are many.
  • Especially the acoustic versions of them.
  • The video for This ain't a love song, describing the Star-Crossed Lovers affair between a Vietnamese girl and an American Intrepid Reporter during the war, is this in spades. Specially the sequence playing during the guitar riff, in which the girl is apparently gunned down in a crossfire, while her lover can only scream in horror. And then there's the ending, which turns into a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming when the reporter comes back decades later... and finds out that his old flame actually survived. And also meets their daughter. Earn Your Happy Ending? You bet.
• Yoko Oh No: Poor Dorothea! As Jon's wife, she was a massive target of fangirl hate in the first years of their marriage.