Man on the Internet / YMMV

Awesome Music:
- Alex manages to turn Molgera's theme into a hauntingly beautiful ballad sung by the great Sand Worm about how, despite the Hero of Time reincarnating throughout the ages along with Ganon, he, along with everything he stands for and protects, will eventually fall, as it is all in human nature; as such, Link is merely fighting an endless battle for nothing.
- The truly magnificent cover of "In the Final", from Bowser's Inside Story, with Alex playing the role of the Dark Star and Bowser, Kyle as Mario, and Juno as Luigi. The Dark Star and Bowser trade blows and verses with each other on the outside, truly feeling as if two titans are clashing with one another, while Mario and Luigi make their resolve known to what remains of Fawful after Bowser swallows him as they fight to protect the world just as they always have.
- "Cannon Ball", the theme for the final fight with Omega in Mega Man Zero 3, becomes a Villain Song with Omega proclaiming with pride and, at times, a sense of wonder that he is the ultimate weapon, and the world is his to destroy.
- Of all the songs done for Halloween Musical Bytes, by far the most impressive is "Mad Monster Mansion" from Banjo-Kazooie, which features every singer from the special singing the song at once, displaying utter glee in how spooky the song is. On top of that, not only do they sing over the original song, but they provide a second verse singing over the remix from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
- The entirety of Pokémon Legendary Bytes. Special mention goes to "Groudon vs. Kyogre" and "Ultra Necrozma".
- Zero Two's theme is a fairly haunting, yet beautiful depiction of the titular Zero. Giving the aura of inevitability, it really adds a lot to an already beloved song and villain.
- "Unbroken" is unique amidst the rest of Songtober 2022, as rather than being a proof of concept based on a pre-existing song, it's a fully original Villain Song for none other than William Afton, with Steel and Alex composing it together as if it were meant for a stage show the likes of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Napstachill providing breathtaking artwork of Afton in both of his major disguises to accompany it.
Complete Monster: See here.
Crazy Is Cool: "The Ultimate World Spun ft. Marx", based around a mashup uploaded to Tumblr in 2019, features all three chaotic jesters that had gotten a song on the channel singing and dancing together. The result is a simultaneously harmonic and cacophonous mix of the three's songs, with Dimentio forming a large basis of the lyrical backbone with an alternate set of lyrics for "The Ultimate Show", Jevil providing an accompanying harmony with a new version of "The World Revolving", and Marx chiming in every so often as he darts around cackling to himself with a couple bars off of "Vs. Marx".
Fandom Rivalry: With Juno Songs, due to covering the same songs and characters from one artist's cover sometimes Waxing Lyrical from the other's. In an attempt to avert this, the two artists have repeatedly said that they aren't "stealing" from the other, and actually collaborate quite a lot. It ends getting lampshaded hard in a background text box in "BIG SHOT", which itself is a collaboration with Juno, telling people to stop saying they steal from each other.
Spamton: (in the text box) HOLY[[Cungadero]]PEOPLE STOPSAYING[[Man On The Internet]]AND[[Juno Songs]]ARE[[Steal]]INGFROMEACHOTHER!
Friendly Fandoms: Likewise, there are those who support dual covers of the same song, and like both of the artists.
Funny Moments: The Ace Attorney Cover of Pursuit has what feels like a typical set up for such a cover: Phoenix and Maya singing the Pursuit theme for a court case, made funny because the target is Alex Beccam himself (I CAN'T STEAL FROM MYSELF!). Then it turns out that the entire thing was a part of another false murder charge aimed at Maya, and the judge, Maya, and Phoenix himself aren't sure what the point of the entire thing was. So essentially it was a Turnabot Big-Lipped Alligator Moment in-universe. Though the Judge took the random musical tangent to a completely different topic rather well, all things considered.
Heartwarming Moments:
- Alex's version of "A CYBER'S WORLD?" is essentially an ode to the Internet's potential to do good, to the extent that one comment described it as a post-redemption arc version of Welcome to the Internet.
  Ideas come together!/Here, you can find whatever/Your heart desires/A World Wide Web awaits!
- "Apex of the World" essentially opens with Dimitri stating that his family saved him from his insanity and ruthlessness, and goes on to say he will defeat Edelgard not for revenge, but for the sake of all of Fodlan.
Hilarious in Hindsight: The middle of "Vs. Cynthia" cuts to the piano theme that plays before Cynthia's battle, as Cynthia alludes to Giratina while clips from the Distortion World play. In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, we are introduced to Cynthia's evil (maybe?) ancestor, Volo, who allied himself with Giratina and whose battle theme is a slowed-down remix of the theme in question. In fact, the lyrics for this portion fit Volo just as much as they do Cynthia.
Magnificent Bastard:
- Undertale the Musical:
  - Mettaton here manages to be about as magnificent as he is in the original game. Being the egotistical yet charismatic robot celebrity he is, Mettaton helps Alphys befriend the human by pretending to be a murderous machine to make Alphys look like the hero. Eventually growing sick of the act, Mettaton tries to kill Frisk for real and take their SOUL for the whole Underground to see, intending to save the humans from King Asgore's potential genocide while also becoming a celebrity on the Surface in the process. In the Genocide Package, Mettaton has a bit of Adaptational Heroism as after he transforms into his NEO form, he puts up an actual fight with Chara instead of dying instantly. As they fight, Mettaton makes it clear that he will do whatever it takes to keep the monsters safe, even if it means making a Heroic Sacrifice.
  - W.D. Gaster is the former royal scientist of the Underground who watched the human's every move throughout the Underground from the Void. After they killed his two sons, Gaster would return to the physical world to confront Chara to stop their genocidal rampage, fighting them across time and space before eventually tricking them into stabbing themself. After trapping Chara in the Void, he would use their DETERMINATION to end the war between humans and monsters, resetting reality itself by changing the past for the better. In this new timeline, Gaster would have the SOUL create a vessel, only to discard it as he believed that choices didn't matter in this world, indirectly leading to the SOUL becoming part of Kris. At some point, he would speak to Spamton and drive him mad, telling him that he's "alone" which would lead him to become the mad businessman he is now. It is also implied that he may indeed be the mysterious Knight, creating several fountains that could have led to the destruction of the Balance between Light and Dark.
- Chrono Trigger: The Musical: Magus the Fiendlord was once a boy named Janus from the Kingdom of Zeal, until one day he was dislocated in time from his sister to the Middle Ages by Lavos. Swearing revenge against the being responsible, he grows up with the fiends and ascends to the rank of Fiendlord, manipulating the entire race of fiends in order to gain the power to summon Lavos and kill him. Eliminating anyone in his path to achieve his goals, his ritual is foiled by Crono and his group and Magus is sent back to his original time period. Taking advantage of this, Magus disguises himself as a prophet and uses his knowledge of the future to climb up Queen Zeal's ranks so that he may attempt to kill Lavos again. After the destruction of the Ocean Palace, Magus meets with the heroes on a cliffside and tells them how to resurrect the fallen Crono and joins them so that they can kill Lavos together. Later leading the charge on the Black Omen to kill his mother, Magus joins the rest of the party in fighting and killing Lavos after that, succeeding in his life's mission.
Memetic Mutation:
Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales: "Dingodile" has received an overwhelmingly positive reception from Alex's Australian fanbase, even considering how blatantly stereotypical the song's lyrics are, mainly because Australians already love Dingodile as a character for that exact reason, with many Australian fans in the song's comments section seeing the song as a matter of pride for their country.
Narm Charm: The lyrics to "Dire Dire Docks" are incredibly cheesy, trite, and repetitive, but it's made more pleasant thanks to the echoey chorus putting passion into the delivery of it, on top of the already-beautiful music.
Nightmare Fuel:
- "Giratina" has Giratina itself furiously screaming at the player how hopeless their fight is and boasting of its power over them. The last lines in particular have... unpleasant implications...
  Giratina: You still stand up to me!?
  You will fall, I'll be free!
  Dialga's time soon will be crushed!
  Palkia's space will become dust!
  Distortion wins against all odds
  I am the ending of the gods!
- The sheer uneasiness that "Arceus" conveys to fit the original track. Arceus proclaims its power and status very matter of factly, and contemptuously, and does it with a voice that seems to not just echo from all around, but feels like a direct implantation of its intentions of into your head.
- While "Ultra Necrozma" is mostly just badass, it's one of the few examples among the Legendary Bytes where the Legendary in question unambiguously wants to kill the player character.
  Ultra Necrozma: Die!
  Be drowned in the darkness
  As I condemn humanity to all despair!
  At the edge of the horizon lies the Light That Burns The Sky!
- And of course... Alex also gave lyrics to the infamous Lavender Town theme...
- Mimi from Super Paper Mario: Classicult does an excellent job portraying how utterly psychotic Mimi is, switching octaves and at some points outright screaming her lines:
  You will belong to ME! MIMIMIMIMIMIMIMI!!!
- “Vs Ridley” is nothing but four and a half minutes of Ridley expressing his clear intent to kill everyone and everything in the universe just because he can.
- Up until the ending,“Vs Marx” is this as Marx gleefully sings about his desire to kill Kirby and everyone else due to his inability to dream like the puffball can and hating him for it.
- “Cannonball” is basically Mega Man’s “Vs Ridley” as Omega happily declares his intention to slaughter everyone as he declares peace a lie.
- All of Bowser’s bits in “Adventure’s End” are the Koopa King singing about how he intends to not only kill the Mario Brothers in the worst way he can think of but also involve Bowser stating that he is the king of dreams.
- "Unbroken". Holy shit. A Villain Song for William Afton, the song demonstrates in spades just how cruel and sociopathic the infamous killer really is, with William gleefully boasting about how he got away with his murders, how he took advantage of the trust of his victims, how much he can't stand children (even referring to them as "the undeserving"), and how much he's looking forward to living forever, all over an eerie orchestral track which slowly transitions to electronica that can only be described as oppressive. Small wonder that many commenters praise the song for making Afton actually scary after years of perceived Villain Decay.
- “Groudon vs Kyogre” is all about how two titans are fighting to “expand” the world right after they’re done fighting each other while they both proclaim that the world is not ours but theirs.
- Grimm's theme starts out suave enough, but after switching to the Nightmare King form, the Troupe begins a chant:
BURN THE FATHER, FEED THE CHILD!
Nightmare Retardant: The "Freaky Fettuccini" video on "Mario.exe" invokes this by reading the titular character's lines in Mario's typical voice.
Tear Jerker:
- The part of "The Wayfaring Stranger" where Joel’s spirit appears to sing with Ellie. It reminds the viewers that no matter what they want to think, Joel is dead and nothing will bring him back.
- Amazingly, Marx gets some of this. As he sings in his chorus, all he's trying to do is follow his dreams, just like Kirby and implies that part of his motivation is him being Driven by Envy of Kirby's happiness as well as being terrified of him, calling him Demon In Pink. Pity his dream is so selfish and destructive.
- "Revali's Ballad" is actually pretty sad. It describes his desire to be admired and loved via proving himself in a sad, mournful musical tune. There's also the fact that Revali is already long dead and his life, for all his efforts, had a pretty Downer Ending.
- "Lavender Town" is as spooky as usual, but the song puts extra emphasis on the feeling of grief and how that grief can overwhelm you.
  "Tend the graves, remember what you've lost
  What remains did not come without cost"
  ...
  "Broken pieces, broken hearts
  Put together in the dark"
  ...
  "Easier to just swim down
  In the gloom upon this town"
  ...
  "Tears of grief for friends and family gone
  Underneath, the spirit shall live on"
- This one portion of "Vs. Zinnia", which lends itself to a rather different interpretation of Zinnia's plan:
  Zinnia: I'll see them again
  Finally be reunited with my brethren!
  Then this world can rest
  And all that will remain are whispers that I did my very best...
- "Sealed Vessel" is this in spades, fitting for the climactic fight against the Hollow Knight. Their part of the song shows their anguish at having to endure the suffering from the infection, and the despair that all their efforts to seal the plague away were for nothing. Of special note is their twist on the Pale King's mantra in making the vessels.
  Hollow Knight: No will to break.
  No mind to think.
  No voice to cry...
  MY SUFFERING!
They Copied It, So It Sucks!: Whenever he or Juno Songs make similar covers (especially around the same time), fans are quick to accuse one of them to copying each other. They have to both repeatedly clarify that they're not rivals, although that doesn't stop fans from assuming otherwise. For example, in Gruntilda Battle with Lyrics, Banjo and Kazooie use a line from Juno's Spiral Mountain with Lyrics with his permission ("Come let the news be heard, cheer for the bear and bird"), which Juno had to clarify that he was perfectly fine with it.

YMMV / Man on the Internet

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