"Na Na Na"'s intro is technically not part of the song, but it's awesome nonetheless:
Look aliiiive, sunshine. 109-in-the-sky but the pigs won't quit. You're here with me, DOCTOR DEATH-DEFYING. I'll be your surgeon, your proctor, your helicopter! Puttin' out the scotamatic sounds to keep you live. A system failure for the masses. Antimatter for the master plan!Louder than God's revolver and twice as shiny! This one's for all you rock-n-rollers, all you crash queens and motor babies. LISTEN UP! The future is bulletproof! The aftermath is secondary! It's time to do it now and do it loud. Killjoys! Make someNOISE!.
"Party Poison", a rabid rocker of an anti-establishment anthem with an infectious riff and serious rebel vibes.
"I Never Told You What I Do For A Living" has an EPIC guitar drop, punctuated by Gerard's equally-epic screaming.
Given the high profile of the reunion concert in the goth/emo/punk world, Youtube user Dietshampoo managed to record the whole thing, down to the multiple encore songs. Pretty soon after, several other dedicated fans uploaded their own two-hour videos.
"The End" has a magnificent, epic bassline that's catchy as hell. Being a reference to "Five Years" makes it even more awesome
Their first new song in almost a decade, "The Foundations of Decay", is pretty much a CMOA for the band. Releasing just before their 2022 tour began (delayed from their planned 2020 tour by the COVID-19 Pandemic), the song is six minutes of declaring the band's underlying concepts and continual themes, such as Gerard Way's experience witnessing 9/11 in-person, his preoccupation with Joan of Arc and gender non-conformity, mental illness, and continuing to live despite the difficulties one might face.
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Performed an (admittedly sweet, once you get over the absurdity of it all) song about uniqueness on Yo Gabba Gabba!. Promptly never brought up by the band afterwards. Subverted in the case of the fandom, who do like to bring that up every now and again.
Broken Base: Hoo, boy... Where do we start? For starters, which era of the band is better? The Three Cheers era? The Black Parade era? Or the Danger Days era? Also, a large portion forgets about I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love.
The announcement of the Greatest Hits album caused this, which was not helped by the promos for it implying the band was reuniting when it wasn't.
Crazy Is Cool: Arguably the biggest appeal of the band and later discussion about them. It went up to eleven with the release of The Black Parade and until the last album Danger Days.
It's especially apparent as the band was determined to keep going into crazy runs of awesome with the aesthetic changes even before Black Parade with Three Cheers sporting the emo image they were known for.
A whole forest was planted before The Black Parade was released, resulting in lots of Wild Mass Guessing. Come to think of it, the forest might still be expanding, as there's no real agreement on whether it's the story of The Patient as he's dying or after he dies.
There was a whole lot surrounding Danger Days before its release. You can find some of it in the archives here.
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The band was, early on, more popular in the UK and other parts of Europe. Why? Well, British people love dark humor, and because their first album had better distribution across the Atlantic than in their own home country.
Growing the Beard: I Brought You My Bullets... is a good, if decent debut, just not having the flare for the band to stand out. Then came out Three Cheers when the band incorporated the theatrics image they became known for and continued until the final album.
LGBT Fanbase: The band's sincerity and theatricality has garnered an increasing fanbase, as well as themes dealing with outcasts and emotional turmoil.
Memetic Mutation: Gerard will smash your face in for six bucks and a Dr Pepper. He'll also break into your house and suck your blood if you illegally copy I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love.
WHEN I WAS (From a post meme on 4chan that tried to chain the lyrics of The Black Parade without any c-c-c-combo breakers.)
Inversely, on tumblr, it was common to derail a chain-post of (usually) song lyrics by adding "to join the black parade".
Pedicone stole everything. EVERYTHING.
Thanks to My Immortal a variety of memes relating to how characters resemble Gerard Way or how they're replaced by Voldemort have come into being.
Gerard's love of wheat is often joked about after a post he made describing the sight of wheat as "calming".
Milton Keynes, for UK fans.note The reunion tour's UK leg is started as 1 date in Stadium MK in Milton Keynes, which is hard to get to from anywhere except London. After they just added 2 more in response to demand rather than adding any at a stadium in the north like Manchester, fans started joking about the band being obsessed with Milton Keynes.
The G notenote It's a common joke in the MCR fandom that a single G note on a piano (in reference to the opening of "Welcome to the Black Parade") will trigger anyone who has ever had an emo phase.
Never Live It Down: Their reputation as one of the faces of "emo". The band has gone back and forth on whether they consider themselves an emo band, at certain points being extremely hostile to the label. In fact, they gradually moved away from their emo image on their later work, most notably Danger Days.
"Welcome to the Black Parade" and "Teenagers", without a doubt. The former is their highest-charting song on the Billboard Hot 100 and the most recognized outside of their fanbase, and the latter is their most popular song on streaming services overall.
Before this, it was "I'm Not Okay (I Promise") or "Helena". Both are songs recognized as their Breakthrough Hit, the latter with a correspondingly popular music video that cemented their image.
To a lesser extent, "Famous Last Words" and "The Ghost of You".
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Happened with the release of every new album as each one shifted further from their post-hardcore roots, especially with the more theatrical sound of The Black Parade, until they left their roots behind completely for more upbeat pop-rock with some electronics on Danger Days in an attempt to distance themselves from their "emo" label. Also tends to happen whenever Gerard changes his hair, most notably when he cut it short and dyed it platinum blond for The Black Parade era.
They Copied It, So It Sucks!: Queen is a strong influence on the band, especially on The Black Parade, with Gerard frequently mentioning his admiration of Freddie Mercury and his desire to potentially sing for Queen (before Adam Lambert took the spot). This had led to some high expectations and arguments between those who admire their Queen influence and those who feel they can't measure up to the legacy of Queen.
Viewer Gender Confusion: Depending on the picture, Gerard has a way of getting this treatment by those unfamiliar with the band. It doesn't help his case that there's a crossdressing story in his past, told by the man himself.
Gerard has also gone through a lot of gender-identity issues, greatly supports transgender issues, and is officially listed on Wikipedia as "androgynous".
Vindicated by History: While the band was successful throughout the mid-to-late 2000s, they had the misfortune of being the main poster boys for the emo subculture, with them bearing the brunt of it being one of pop culture's go-to punching bags at the time. Only after their initial break-up in 2013 have many review sites and magazines realized how great and important to their generation they were, with even Rolling Stone in their album guide calling The Black Parade "an instant classic". It also helps that the band had been steadily gaining new fans among the younger generation who don't necessarily have the same context.
's intro is technically not part of the song, but it's awesome nonetheless:Look aliiiive, sunshine. 109-in-the-sky but the pigs won't quit. You're here with me, DOCTOR DEATH-DEFYING. I'll be your surgeon, your proctor, your helicopter! Puttin' out the scotamatic sounds to keep you live. A system failure for the masses. Antimatter for the master plan! Louder than God's revolver and twice as shiny! This one's for all you rock-n-rollers, all you crash queens and motor babies. LISTEN UP! The future is bulletproof! The aftermath is secondary! It's time to do it now and do it loud. Killjoys! Make some NOISE!.
