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* AbnormalLimbRotation: Is shown turning his head ''360 degrees'' during the 2010 BRITs performance of "Clint Eastwood".
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* CloudCuckooLander: Some interviews, particularly around Phase 4, portray him as an absolute nutjob incapable of holding a normal conversation without convulsing wildly or going on bizarre tangents.
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* DarkIsEvil: He generally dresses in dark clothes and he's most definitely evil.
* DarkIsEvil: He generally dresses in dark clothes and he's most definitely evil.
* KickTheDog: His speciality when it comes to his horrible treatment of 2D. A great example is in the music video for "[=DoYaThing=]", where he violently smacks 2D with a shoe for no reason whatsoever, all while 2D was naively reading a comic where Murdoc and he are lovey-dovey friends.
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* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: He has a rather bad sense of personal hygiene, and he's generally a very, very unpleasant person to be around.
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* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: He has a rather bad sense of personal hygiene, and he's generally a very, very unpleasant person to be around. Oh, and he may also be the Antichrist.
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* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: A platonic example with 2D in Phase 3. He spends Phases 1 and 2 constantly getting pestered by 2D, and ends up doing the same to him throughout ''Plastic Beach''.
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* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: A platonic example with 2D in Phase 3. He spends Phases 1 and 2 constantly getting pestered by 2D, and ends up doing the same to him throughout ''Plastic Beach''. It gets flipped around again by Phase 5, where 2D spends most of the album staunchly anti-Murdoc until the last few songs in which he appears to begrudgingly admit that he needs Murdoc in his life, no matter how much pain he puts him through.
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* CardCarryingVillain: Murdoc revels in all manner of abuse, depravity, and outright super-villainy; he considers his brief stint as the Antichrist a great badge of honour. Damon and Jamie have both claimed that he's a villain through and through, and while they may play up his sympathetic traits occasionally, they have no intention of giving him a typical "redemption arc".
* DarkIsEvil: He generally dresses in dark clothes and he's most definitely evil.
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* SignatureLaugh: In interviews and other media, he tends to let out a few nasally chuckles that don't even sound like real noises.
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* SignatureLaugh: In interviews A throaty guffaw, which can be heard in almost every interview and other media, he tends to let out a few nasally chuckles media appearance. Occasionally, it devolves into random grunts and groans that don't even sound like real noises.noises a human can make.
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* StepUpToTheMicrophone: "White Light" apparently, though it wasn't so much sung as whisper-rapped.
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* StepUpToTheMicrophone: "White Light" apparently, though it wasn't so much sung as whisper-rapped. He also gets to sing with Damon Albarn's voice in "Saturnz Barz"... while hovering naked in outer space.
* StrawNihilist: He often espouses very pessimistic views about humanity and our future on this planet, with Plastic Beach being the metaphorical "end of the road" for where we're going as a species, though he mainly uses nihilism as an excuse for his unpleasant and hedonistic behaviour.
* StrawNihilist: He often espouses very pessimistic views about humanity and our future on this planet, with Plastic Beach being the metaphorical "end of the road" for where we're going as a species, though he mainly uses nihilism as an excuse for his unpleasant and hedonistic behaviour.
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* BadassBaritone: His voice is ''deep'', but also rather soothing, reflecting his nature as a BruiserWithASoftCenter and GentleGiant.
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* BareYourMidriff: She occasionally wears outfits that show her stomach in Phase 2 and Phase 4.
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Having managed to keep him under control for most of Phases 5 and 6, the band agrees to help Murdoc with his spontaneous plan to create a cult with the intention of hijacking it to create a force for good. As ''Cracker Island'' shows, it went badly for everyone who wasn't Murdoc, although it didn't go quite as Murdoc planned either.
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Having managed to keep him under control for most of Phases 5 and 6, the band agrees to help Murdoc with his spontaneous plan to create a cult with the intention of hijacking it to create a force for good. As ''Cracker Island'' shows, it went badly for everyone who wasn't Murdoc, although it didn't go quite as Murdoc planned either.Murdoc... almost.
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* TheBadGuyWins: In a roundabout sort of way. ''Cracker Island'' has the band being arrested following the evens of ''Silent Running'', meaning the Last Cult will most likely be disbanded. Murdoc, however, manages to evade arrest and successfully resurrects the female leader of the Forever Cult, whom he hooks up with.
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* TheBadGuyWins: In a roundabout sort of way. ''Cracker Island'' has the band being arrested following the evens of ''Silent Running'', meaning the Last Cult will most likely be disbanded. Murdoc, however, manages to evade arrest and successfully resurrects the female leader of the Forever Cult, whom he hooks up with. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted as, according to [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XbJ-5d1YVI8 The Hollywood Ending]], Moon Flower shortly crumbled to dust, rendering his escape all for nought. He does keep her ashes in an urn, though.]]
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* PinkMeansFeminine: Noodle starts wearing pink clothing during the ''Cracker Island'' era, even going so far as to dye her hair pink as well.
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* Cult: The story arc of the ''Cracker Island'' album has Murdoc start one based on a dream he has, with the others tagging along in the hope it can be used for good.
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Having managed to keep him under control for most of Phases 5 and 6, the band agrees to help Murdoc with his spontaneous plan to create a cult with the intention of hijacking it to create a force for good. As ''Cracker Island'' shows, it went badly for everyone who wasn't Murdoc.Murdoc, although it didn't go quite as Murdoc planned either.
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* TheBadGuyWins: ''Cracker Island'' concludes with Murdoc evading arrest and succeeding in resurrecting a dead woman who he proceeds to make out with.
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* MultinationalTeam: Murdoc and 2D are both British, Noodle is Japanese and Russel is American.
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* MultinationalTeam: Murdoc and 2D are both British, Noodle is Japanese Japanese-British, and Russel is American.
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** Despite being a horrible person who constantly puts his teammates in danger through recklessness and poorly thought ideas, even Murdoc is freaked out by Noodle's DrivesLikeCrazy antics in the music video for "Valley of the Pagans".
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* SexyWalk: In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arBrHQ9ZuSs O2 Priority promo]]
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* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: A platonic example with 2D in Phase 3. He spends Phases 1 and 2 constantly getting pestered by 2D, and ends up doing the same to him throughout ''Plastic Beach''.
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** After ''Cracker Island'', he takes over the band's social media platforms to frame the rest of the group as not in their right minds, with whatever criminal activity allegedly taking place during or leading up to the events of the music video as AllPartOfTheShow.
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: A platonic example with 2D in Phase 3. He spends Phases 1 and 2 constantly getting pestered by 2D, and ends up doing the same to him throughout ''Plastic Beach''.
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: A platonic example with 2D in Phase 3. He spends Phases 1 and 2 constantly getting pestered by 2D, and ends up doing the same to him throughout ''Plastic Beach''.
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* TheChick: The only girl in the band is also the emotional center. When she "died" in Phase 2, the band split up.
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i'm confident 2d says mum!
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* JerkassHasAPoint: As pointed out in his above mentioned GenreSavvy moment, splitting up in a creepy old house you just wandered into isn’t a very intelligent idea, ahem [[GenreBlind Russel]]!
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process
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* InformedAttractiveness: He's supposedly considered incredibly good looking in-universe to the point of becoming an international sex symbol during Phase 2. Out of universe, while he certainly has his fans, he's generally considered something similar to UglyCute at best or something out of the UncannyValley at worst.
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* InformedAttractiveness: He's supposedly considered incredibly good looking in-universe to the point of becoming an international sex symbol during Phase 2. Out of universe, while he certainly has his fans, he's generally considered something similar to UglyCute at best or something out of the UncannyValley at worst.best.
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* UncannyValley: InUniverse, his bizarre rail-thin proportions and creepy black eyes sometimes evoke these reactions from other characters. A struggling skater in the "Humility" music video acts quite disturbed when 2D extends a hand to help him and the guy shoos him away.
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* {{Gainaxing}}: In the “Momentary Bliss” music video, her boobs bounce [[DownplayedTrope ever so slightly]] while she’s [[JustifiedTrope dancing]].
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* HeelRealization: Phase 6 seems to put him through one, as he is faced with the results of some of his worst actions, and struggles with the band no longer being as under his thumb as before. "The Lost Chord" music video shows him witnessing Plastic Beach's destruction, waking up with the mask of The Boogeyman on his face, seeing the dead Cyborg Noodle (which actually brings him to ''tears''), and being seemingly left behind by the band...only for [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther 2D to come back for him at the last moment]].
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Ambiguous Disorder is not a trope anymore, but a redirect to a YMMV entry.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Beyond his stupidity, 2D shows some signs of being on the Autistic Spectrum, with his odd body language/hand movements, social awkwardness and obsession with music and horror movies.
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* SharedUniverse: Being from the ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'', he makes Gorillaz this towards said franchise. It goes both ways, as Gorillaz and ''The Powerpuff Girls'' have made [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] to each other as early as Phase 1[[note]]This is likely due to the fact that Jamie Hewlett is friends with the franchise's original creator, Creator/CraigMcCracken, who would eventually recreate some of the ''The Now Now''[='=]s illustrations in the art style of the franchise's [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 1998 series]] for a Gorillaz art book released in 2022.[[/note]]; for instance, the back cover of ''G-Sides'' [[http://www.vblurpage.com/images/gorillaz_gsides_backcover_big.jpg features 2D wearing a Mojo Jojo shirt]], and ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'' features a [[TheCameo cameo advertisement]] [[https://2static.fjcdn.com/large/pictures/64/2d/642dde_6124862.jpg for Gorillaz Live in a newspaper]].
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* SharedUniverse: Being from the ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'', he makes Gorillaz this towards said franchise. It goes both ways, as Gorillaz and ''The Powerpuff Girls'' have made [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] to each other as early as Phase 1[[note]]This is likely due to the fact that Jamie Hewlett is friends with the franchise's original creator, Creator/CraigMcCracken, who would eventually recreate some of the ''The Now Now''[='=]s illustrations in the art style of the franchise's [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 1998 series]] for a ''The Gorillaz art book released in 2022.Art Book''.[[/note]]; for instance, the back cover of ''G-Sides'' [[http://www.vblurpage.com/images/gorillaz_gsides_backcover_big.jpg features 2D wearing a Mojo Jojo shirt]], and ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'' features a [[TheCameo cameo advertisement]] [[https://2static.fjcdn.com/large/pictures/64/2d/642dde_6124862.jpg for Gorillaz Live in a newspaper]].
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* SharedUniverse: Being from the ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'', he makes Gorillaz this towards said franchise. It goes both ways, as Gorillaz and ''The Powerpuff Girls'' have made [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] to each other as early as Phase 1[[note]]This is likely due to the fact that Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett are friends with the franchise's original creator, Creator/CraigMcCracken, in real life.[[/note]]; for instance, the back cover of ''G-Sides'' [[http://www.vblurpage.com/images/gorillaz_gsides_backcover_big.jpg features 2D wearing a Mojo Jojo shirt]], and ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'' features a [[TheCameo cameo advertisement]] [[https://2static.fjcdn.com/large/pictures/64/2d/642dde_6124862.jpg for Gorillaz Live in a newspaper]].
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* SharedUniverse: Being from the ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'', he makes Gorillaz this towards said franchise. It goes both ways, as Gorillaz and ''The Powerpuff Girls'' have made [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] to each other as early as Phase 1[[note]]This is likely due to the fact that Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett are is friends with the franchise's original creator, Creator/CraigMcCracken, who would eventually recreate some of the ''The Now Now''[='=]s illustrations in real life.the art style of the franchise's [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 1998 series]] for a Gorillaz art book released in 2022.[[/note]]; for instance, the back cover of ''G-Sides'' [[http://www.vblurpage.com/images/gorillaz_gsides_backcover_big.jpg features 2D wearing a Mojo Jojo shirt]], and ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'' features a [[TheCameo cameo advertisement]] [[https://2static.fjcdn.com/large/pictures/64/2d/642dde_6124862.jpg for Gorillaz Live in a newspaper]].
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Shes Got Legs is currently a disambiguation
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* ShesGotLegs: Now that she has become older, she more often than not wears either short skirts, hot pants or stockings. Then again, [[AuthorAppeal almost every female Jamie Hewlett character does]].
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* AngryBlackMan: Subverted. Though Russel admits to having problems with managing his anger, Russel's actual rage seems to be limited to minor annoyance or TranquilFury at worst. Given his role as a GentleGiant, one wouldn't be at fault for not knowing he has anger management issues.
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* SharedUniverse: Being from the ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'', he makes Gorillaz this towards said franchise. It goes both ways; at one point in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'', a newspaper advertisement for ways, as Gorillaz can be seen, and 2D wears a shirt featuring what appears ''The Powerpuff Girls'' have made [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] to be Mojo Jojo's head each other as early as Phase 1[[note]]This is likely due to the fact that Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett are friends with the franchise's original creator, Creator/CraigMcCracken, in real life.[[/note]]; for instance, the back cover of ''G-Sides''.''G-Sides'' [[http://www.vblurpage.com/images/gorillaz_gsides_backcover_big.jpg features 2D wearing a Mojo Jojo shirt]], and ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'' features a [[TheCameo cameo advertisement]] [[https://2static.fjcdn.com/large/pictures/64/2d/642dde_6124862.jpg for Gorillaz Live in a newspaper]].
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* TheLeader: For better or worse, he's the band's co-founder and most consistent (or at least [[AttentionWhore most vocal]]) creative force; he also seems to be the most involved with contract negotiation and PR. Downplayed somewhat from "Humanz" onward, where [[CharacterDevelopment the other three have settled more confidently into their roles as contributors]] and [[TookALevelInKindness he's lost a bit of his teeth]], and completely gone during the release of "The Now Now", where his arrest ended up pushing 2D into temporarily stepping up as leader.
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* TheLeader: For better or worse, he's the band's co-founder and most consistent (or at least [[AttentionWhore most vocal]]) creative force; he also seems to be the most involved with contract negotiation and PR. Downplayed somewhat from "Humanz" ''Humanz'' onward, where [[CharacterDevelopment the other three have settled more confidently into their roles as contributors]] and [[TookALevelInKindness he's lost a bit of his teeth]], and completely gone during the release of "The ''The Now Now", Now'', where his arrest ended up pushing 2D into temporarily stepping up as leader.
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* OverlyLongTongue: Claims that Gene Simmons ripped off his tongue.
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* MrFanservice: He ''tries'' to be one. Whether his shirtless scenes and bass gyrating are hot or [[FanDisservice kinda gross]] is up to the viewer. He appears completely nude in the video for Phase 4's "Saturnz Barz", and it was ''[[MaleFrontalNudity uncensored]]'' until [=YouTube=] cracked down and it was blurred. Back in Phase 1, he also stripped off in a proposed video for "5/4" which only reached the animatic stage.
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* MrFanservice: He ''tries'' to be one. Whether his shirtless scenes and bass gyrating are hot or [[FanDisservice kinda gross]] is up to the viewer. He appears completely nude in the video for Phase 4's "Saturnz Barz", and it was ''[[MaleFrontalNudity uncensored]]'' until [=YouTube=] cracked down and it was blurred. Back in Phase 1, he also stripped off in a proposed video for "5/4" "5/4", which only reached the animatic stage.
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* SharedUniverse: Being from the ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'', he makes Gorillaz this towards said franchise. It goes both ways; at one point in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'', a newspaper advertisement for Gorillaz can be seen, and 2D wears a T-shirt shirt featuring what appears to be Mojo Jojo's head in the back cover of ''G-Sides''.
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* SharedUniverse: Being from the ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'', he makes Gorillaz this towards said franchise. It goes both ways; at one point in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'', a newspaper advertisement for Gorillaz can be seen, and 2D is seen wearing wears a T-shirt featuring what appears to be Mojo Jojo's head in the back cover of ''G-Sides''.
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