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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Film/TropicThunder Jeff Portnoy]] escapes the tyrannical rule of his dad [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Eddie]] by being inspired by [[Music/RonnieJamesDio the greatest voice in heavy metal history]], starts a band with... [[JustForFun/YouKnowThatGu [[JustForFun/YouKnowThatGuy What's His Face]], receives cryptic advice from [[Film/MeetTheParents Gaylord Focker]], dreams of performing in front of [[Film/{{Enchanted}} Giselle]], is nearly killed by [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption Andy Dufresne]] & has a battle of the bands with The Devil... who looks a lot like [[Music/FooFighters That One]] [[{{Nirvana}} Drummer]].
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* BadassBoast: "I DO NOT NEED. NEED - (he does not need...) - A MICROPHONE - (a microphone...) MY VOICE IS FUCKING - (fucking) - '''''POWERFUL!!!'''''"
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Film/TropicThunder Jeff Portnoy]] escapes the tyrannical rule of his dad [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Eddie]] by being inspired by [[Music/RonnieJamesDio the greatest voice in heavy metal history]], starts a band with... [[YouKnowThatGuy [[JustForFun/YouKnowThatGu What's His Face]], receives cryptic advice from [[Film/MeetTheParents Gaylord Focker]], dreams of performing in front of [[Film/{{Enchanted}} Giselle]], is nearly killed by [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption Andy Dufresne]] & has a battle of the bands with The Devil... who looks a lot like [[Music/FooFighters That One]] [[{{Nirvana}} Drummer]].
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[TropicThunder [[Film/TropicThunder Jeff Portnoy]] escapes the tyrannical rule of his dad [[TheRockyHorrorPictureShow [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Eddie]] by being inspired by [[RonnieJamesDio [[Music/RonnieJamesDio the greatest voice in heavy metal history]], starts a band with... [[YouKnowThatGuy What's His Face]], receives cryptic advice from [[MeetTheParents [[Film/MeetTheParents Gaylord Focker]], dreams of performing in front of [[{{Enchanted}} [[Film/{{Enchanted}} Giselle]], is nearly killed by [[TheShawshankRedemption [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption Andy Dufresne]] & has a battle of the bands with The Devil... who looks a lot like [[Music/FooFighters That One]] [[{{Nirvana}} Drummer]].
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Shooting lightning from your fingers in considered mundane?
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** "Taste my lightning, fuckers!"
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* StonersAreFunny: The movie has several gags revolving around drug use. The funniest of which probably being Jables' mushroom-induced hallucination.
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* MicDrop: JB knocks the mic stand over after the D's first "concert" (a one-song amatuer/open mic night). The audience is not impressed.
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* HonourBeforeReason: Turns out that even ''the Devil'' must abide by the Demon's Code and accept any declaration of a rock-off challenge. Keep in mind, he presumably ''wrote'' this part of the code in the first place!
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A 2006 film starring TenaciousD founders Kyle Gass and JackBlack, known in the story as Jables and Kage. It's a [[BigDamnMovie spin off]] of a lesser known HBO series that premiered back in 1997. In it, the explicit details of the band's origins are explored, and a strong change in dynamic is observed ([[RandomEventsPlot from just sitting around doing random shit]] to sitting around doing random shit and going on an adventure on the big screen).
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A 2006 film starring TenaciousD ''Music/TenaciousD'' founders Kyle Gass and JackBlack, known in the story as Jables and Kage. It's a [[BigDamnMovie spin off]] of a lesser known HBO series that premiered back in 1997. In it, the explicit details of the band's origins are explored, and a strong change in dynamic is observed ([[RandomEventsPlot from just sitting around doing random shit]] to sitting around doing random shit and going on an adventure on the big screen).
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'''TenaciousD''': Fuuuuuuuuuuu-''[[AtomicFBomb uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!]]''\\
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* StonerComedy: The audience is now baked.
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* StonerComedy: StonerFlick: The audience is now baked.
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* CelebrityLie: Kage lies to Jables and claims that he's friends with the guys in Music/BlackSabbath.
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* CallBack: The D's part in "Beelzeboss" is strongly implied to be the song they refer to in "Tribute", as it gets referred to afterwards as "The Greatest Song In The World".
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* UnDuet: KG ends up preforming one of Tenacious D's songs to find he only remembers his lines, which are mostly just for backing.
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* BrokenAesop: The film starts off with Jables being ranted at by his fundamentalist Christian dad, who claims that rock and roll is evil and the work of Satan, to which JB says it's "not the Devil's work, it's magical and rad". The rest of the movie is spent searching for a pick that makes you an awesome rock star through the power of the Devil.
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* PlotHole: Pointed out in the DVD Commentary by Jack, during the training montage, Jables collects $10 worth of coins in a cup while performing on the boardwalk. How can he assume he collected ten exact bucks just by looking into the cup?
** Soon after in the same scene, Jables goes to a nearby payphone and uses 10 cents from the cup to call Kage at home, making it $9.90. Would Jables still have enough money for the dime-bag he obtains after this scene?
** Soon after in the same scene, Jables goes to a nearby payphone and uses 10 cents from the cup to call Kage at home, making it $9.90. Would Jables still have enough money for the dime-bag he obtains after this scene?
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** [[Series/HowIMetYourMother Marshal Erikssen]] shows up in a deleted scene, mocking Cage savagely.
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** Cage gets another one during Satan's RockMeAsmodeus when he reveals his collection of [[DepravedHomosexual BDSM gear]]. Watch the look on his face switch from "awesome performance" to "I'm screwed" in a split second.
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** Cage Kage gets another one during Satan's RockMeAsmodeus when he reveals his collection of [[DepravedHomosexual BDSM gear]]. Watch the look on his face switch from "awesome performance" to "I'm screwed" in a split second.
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-->''Oh the dragons balls were blazin' as I stepped into his cave, then I sliced his fuckin' cockles, with a long and shiny blade!/'Twas I who fucked the dragon, fuckalize sing-fuckaloo!/And if you try to fuck with me, then I shall fuck you too!''
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-->''Oh the dragons balls were blazin' as I stepped into his cave, then I sliced his fuckin' cockles, with a long and shiny blade!/'Twas I who fucked the dragon, fuckalize fuckaly sing-fuckaloo!/And if you try to fuck with me, then I shall fuck you too!''
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* MthologyGag: [[spoiler:The D are met by Satan and have to play a song to save their lives (and the world).]] After surviving, they are unable to remember the kickass tune they played, so they try to rewrite it from scratch. Mayhaps a ''Tribute'' to that song?
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* MthologyGag: MythologyGag: [[spoiler:The D are met by Satan and have to play a song to save their lives (and the world).]] After surviving, they are unable to remember the kickass tune they played, so they try to rewrite it from scratch. Mayhaps a ''Tribute'' to that song?
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** Cage gets another one during Satan's RockMeAsmodeus when he reveals his collection of [[DepravedHomosexual BDSM gear]]. Watch the look on his face switch from "awesome performance" to "I'm screwed" in a split second.
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* AsHimself: RonnieJamesDio appears as his himself in the film's intro.
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: See the spoiler above.
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: See the spoiler above.YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle
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trope renamed at TRS; not sure all these fit, but it\'s possible, I suppose
* MundaneMadeAwesome:
** "It's a sign...a legacy." *proceeds to show birthmark on ass*
** "Taste my lightning, fuckers!"
** Power sliding [[spoiler: past the security guards under the security door]].
** "It's a sign...a legacy." *proceeds to show birthmark on ass*
** "Taste my lightning, fuckers!"
** Power sliding [[spoiler: past the security guards under the security door]].
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** "It's a sign...a legacy. *proceeds to show birthmark on ass*
** "Taste my lightning, fuckers!"
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** "It's a sign...a legacy. *proceeds to show birthmark on ass*
** "Taste my lightning, fuckers!"
** Power sliding [[spoiler: past the security guards under the security door]].
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A 2006 film starring TenaciousD founders Kyle Gass and JackBlack, known in the story as Jables and Kage. It's a [[BigDamnMovie spin off]] of a lesser known HBO series that premiered back in 1997. In it, the explicit details of the band's origins are explored, and a strong change in dynamic is observed ([[RandomEventsPlot from just sitting around doing random shit]] to sitting around doing random shit and going on an adventure on the big screen).
The film has two main parts to the plot. The first part deals mainly with the formation of the band. In the beginning, Jables, a young rocker living in an oppressive, religious household, prays to a poster of RonnieJamesDio, and is given a vision of his future. He is bidden to [[TheRunaway run away]] from home to California, where he is to meet [[HeterosexualLifePartners his best friend]] and [[TheLancer band partner.]] [[TravelMontage After traveling far,]] he meets this man, Kage, who turns out to be something of a bum wanna-be. Kage gives him extensive rock "training."
The second part involves the two trying to create a masterpiece song to pay their rent. During a jam session, they stumble onto the secret of [[MacGuffin an ancient rock artifact known as the Pick of Destiny.]] It happens to be [[RuleOfCool Satan's tooth.]] The two then go on an adventure to retrieve said artifact, and get into all sorts of trouble along the way.
[[CultClassic The movie, like the band itself, has a strong cult following.]]
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!!TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny'' provides examples of:
* AnimatedCreditsOpening
* BadassBoast: "I DO NOT NEED. - (he does not need...) - A MICROPHONE - (a microphone...) MY VOICE IS FUCKING - (fucking) - '''''POWERFUL!!!'''''"
* BigBrotherMentor: Kage.
* BigEater: Kage, who orders fried chicken, steak, ''and'' [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs chicken fried steak]] during the diner scene.
* BigNo: Jables lets one out after realizing that the Devil has him and Kage outmatched. [[spoiler:By the end of the rock-off, the Devil ends up having an even bigger 'no' while being sent back to Hell.]]
* BigRedDevil: Provides the page image.
* BirthmarkOfDestiny: JB and Kage have matching birthmarks, one says "TENAC" and the other says "IOUS D"
* BlackComedyRape: [[spoiler:If Tenacious D would have lost the rock off against Satan, Kage would have become Satan's sex slave.]]
* BlackSheep: JB by his own admission: he's an aspiring rock star in a family of anal-retentive fundamentalist Christians.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In the diner scene:
--> "Let me have the fried chicken, and a steak, and the chicken fried steak."
* TheCameo: NeilHamburger has a very short one as himself, performing at the same open mic night as Tenacious D themselves.
** Meat Loaf playing Jables's dad, and Ronnie James Dio singing as a poster of himself, [[UpToEleven IN THE SAME SONG.]]
** Ben Stiller also plays a receptionist at Guitar Center who actually ends up telling the D all about the legend of the Pick of Destiny.
* ChaseScene: "Car Chase City".
* ChekhovsArmory
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler: Power-slides and cock push-ups]] both turn out to be very useful tools for stealing the Pick of Destiny.
* ChessWithDeath: [[{{Dissimile}} Not so much chess as a rock off, and not so much Death as Satan himself.]]
* ClusterFBomb: Throughout the movie, but especially whenever Jables is improvising song lyrics. Just listen to "Classico".
** Satan's initial boast and reaction definitely qualifies. See OhCrap below.
** Also in "Kickapoo":
-->''Oh the dragons balls were blazin' as I stepped into his cave, then I sliced his fuckin' cockles, with a long and shiny blade!/'Twas I who fucked the dragon, fuckalize sing-fuckaloo!/And if you try to fuck with me, then I shall fuck you too!''
* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: Suggested between Satan and Kage.
* EtTuBrute
* FantasyForbiddingFather
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jables' father warned him that the rock music would make him Satan's puppet and bring chaos to the world. He would have been right if Jables and Kage hadn't defeated Satan in the rock-off.
* FunWithAcronyms: "That's where the POD lies now." "POD?" "The Pick of Destiny!" "Oh."
** BrickJoke: "Pass the B.O.D."
* GroinAttack: Jack slips and falls, straddling a tree branch. "OW, SWEET BABY!" indeed.
* GroupieBrigade: Seen during Jables' dream sequence.
* GuileHero: [[spoiler: Jables, see FridgeBrilliance.]]
* HeroicFantasy: The second half of the movie, when Jables and Kage go after the Pick of Destiny, the plot basically [[GenreShift shifts]] to this. I mean, it's still set in the real world, but all the tropes are there.
* HeterosexualLifePartners Jables and Kage Their "Friendship Song" on the original Tenacious D album.
** Kage refers to Jables as his "partner" in an awkward way in the sequence where they're apart.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[TropicThunder Jeff Portnoy]] escapes the tyrannical rule of his dad [[TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Eddie]] by being inspired by [[RonnieJamesDio the greatest voice in heavy metal history]], starts a band with... [[YouKnowThatGuy What's His Face]], receives cryptic advice from [[MeetTheParents Gaylord Focker]], dreams of performing in front of [[{{Enchanted}} Giselle]], is nearly killed by [[TheShawshankRedemption Andy Dufresne]] & has a battle of the bands with The Devil... who looks a lot like [[Music/FooFighters That One]] [[{{Nirvana}} Drummer]].
** [[Series/HowIMetYourMother Marshal Erikssen]] shows up in a deleted scene, mocking Cage savagely.
* IdiotBall: [[spoiler: JB agrees to put KG up as a bet for their rock-off with the devil...despite the Devil having said that he literally CANNOT decline a rock-off challenge.]]
** Averted: [[spoiler: In order to send Satan back to hell from whence he came. Jables HAD to strike a deal with him of some sort. Souls are probably the only thing The Devil would substantially benefit from (thus making it a deal), and he was about to take both their souls anyway if they lost. Plus it's quite likely that Satan, being who he is, wouldn't have let an opportunity like this slide by without specifically defining a Rock-Off as having some sort of stakes involved.]]
* InvisibleBackupBand
* LargeHam: Jables, JackBlack after all. And [[Music/FooFighters Dave]] [[{{Nirvana}} Grohl]] as Satan.
* LaserHallway
* LouisCypher: [[spoiler:The open mic night host.]]
* MacGuffin: The eponymous Pick of Destiny.
* MagicFeather: An inspiring, heart-rousing speech about how "[[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop the devil is inside all of our hearts]]."
* {{Metalhead}}
* MushroomSamba: When Jables gets lost out in the woods, he survives by eating unidentified mushrooms, which results in this trope.
** Specifically, he has a trip wherein he becomes a baby sasquatch, and then begins singing about how his dad is awesome and shall protect him.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Literally, breaking it: Jables and Kage fight over the pick and break it in half. It then gets picked up by the devil, and [[OhCrap the shit immediately hits the fan.]] ]]
* NoIndoorVoice: An in-story example, Jables ends up daydreaming that with the eponymous pick, his voice will become so loud he will lose any need for microphones.
* OhCrap: The song that plays when Satan gets the pick
-->'''Satan''': ''I AM COMPLEEEEEEEEETE!''\\
'''TenaciousD''': Fuuuuuuuuuuu-''[[AtomicFBomb uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!]]''\\
'''Satan''': YES, YOU ARE FUCKED! SHIT OUT OF LUCK!\\
NOW I'M COMPLETE, AND MY COCK YOU WILL SUCK!
** Satan gets one a few seconds later:
--->'''Jables''': "Wait! Waiit, you muthafucka! We challenge you to a rock off! Give us one chance to rock your socks off!"\\
'''Satan''' (realizing he can't decline because of the demon's code): [[ClusterFBomb *angrily*]] "FUCK! '''FUCK!!''' *dramatically* '''''FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK...'''''"
** Satan gets yet ''another'' one when [[spoiler:after accidentally blowing off his own horn, he realizes that he has given Jables a way to send him back to Hell.]]
* ParentalFavoritism: ''"You disobeyed my orders son, why were you ever born?/Your brother's ten times better than you, Jesus loves him more!"''
* RockMeAsmodeus
* RuleOfCool: Overused in the songs to the point that it becomes [[CrossesTheLineTwice funny]] how much it's overused. Particularly in the Master Exploder dream sequence.
* RuleOfFunny
* {{Satan}}
-->'''Satan''': ''[[LargeHam I'M THE DEVIL!]] '''[[ChewingTheScenery I LOVE METAL!]]'''''
* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: During the reunion, Kage says it was supposed to be in that order. Kage goes off to a party, Jables into the forest and eats [[MushroomSamba mushrooms]], and then they both get the Pick together.
* ShoutOut: The Devil's guitar is Dimebag Darrell's famous lightning bolt Dean ML.
* SlasherSmile: Jack Black shows his off a few times, revealing that it looks like a cross between the Joker and the Grinch.
* StonersAreFunny: The movie has several gags revolving around drug use. The funniest of which probably being Jables' mushroom-induced hallucination.
* TarotMotifs: The opening sequence is based around them.
* TheQuest
* ThePowerOfRock: Obviously. Taken to ridiculous extremes in "Master Exploder" and "Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown)".
* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: Jables does some while breaking into the Rock and Roll History Museum, and yet the camera continues to see him ([[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy and only the camera]]).
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome
** "It's a sign...a legacy. *proceeds to show birthmark on ass*
** "Taste my lightning, fuckers!"
** Power sliding [[spoiler: past the security guards under the security door]].
* WhenYouSnatchThePebble: "When you snatch the remote control out of my hand, you will have earned the right to change the channel."
* YourHeadAsplode: In the "Master Exploder" ImagineSpot, Jables causes a man's brain to fly out by singing [[ThePowerOfRock epically]].
--> Jables: "I did not mean . . ."
--> Kage: ''(He did not mean)''
--> Jables: "To blow your mind!"
--> Kage: ''(To blow your mind!)''
--> Jables: "But that shit happens to me . . . ''all the tiii-yiii-hiiiime!''"
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: See the spoiler above.
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A 2006 film starring TenaciousD founders Kyle Gass and JackBlack, known in the story as Jables and Kage. It's a [[BigDamnMovie spin off]] of a lesser known HBO series that premiered back in 1997. In it, the explicit details of the band's origins are explored, and a strong change in dynamic is observed ([[RandomEventsPlot from just sitting around doing random shit]] to sitting around doing random shit and going on an adventure on the big screen).
The film has two main parts to the plot. The first part deals mainly with the formation of the band. In the beginning, Jables, a young rocker living in an oppressive, religious household, prays to a poster of RonnieJamesDio, and is given a vision of his future. He is bidden to [[TheRunaway run away]] from home to California, where he is to meet [[HeterosexualLifePartners his best friend]] and [[TheLancer band partner.]] [[TravelMontage After traveling far,]] he meets this man, Kage, who turns out to be something of a bum wanna-be. Kage gives him extensive rock "training."
The second part involves the two trying to create a masterpiece song to pay their rent. During a jam session, they stumble onto the secret of [[MacGuffin an ancient rock artifact known as the Pick of Destiny.]] It happens to be [[RuleOfCool Satan's tooth.]] The two then go on an adventure to retrieve said artifact, and get into all sorts of trouble along the way.
[[CultClassic The movie, like the band itself, has a strong cult following.]]
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!!TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny'' provides examples of:
* AnimatedCreditsOpening
* BadassBoast: "I DO NOT NEED. - (he does not need...) - A MICROPHONE - (a microphone...) MY VOICE IS FUCKING - (fucking) - '''''POWERFUL!!!'''''"
* BigBrotherMentor: Kage.
* BigEater: Kage, who orders fried chicken, steak, ''and'' [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs chicken fried steak]] during the diner scene.
* BigNo: Jables lets one out after realizing that the Devil has him and Kage outmatched. [[spoiler:By the end of the rock-off, the Devil ends up having an even bigger 'no' while being sent back to Hell.]]
* BigRedDevil: Provides the page image.
* BirthmarkOfDestiny: JB and Kage have matching birthmarks, one says "TENAC" and the other says "IOUS D"
* BlackComedyRape: [[spoiler:If Tenacious D would have lost the rock off against Satan, Kage would have become Satan's sex slave.]]
* BlackSheep: JB by his own admission: he's an aspiring rock star in a family of anal-retentive fundamentalist Christians.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In the diner scene:
--> "Let me have the fried chicken, and a steak, and the chicken fried steak."
* TheCameo: NeilHamburger has a very short one as himself, performing at the same open mic night as Tenacious D themselves.
** Meat Loaf playing Jables's dad, and Ronnie James Dio singing as a poster of himself, [[UpToEleven IN THE SAME SONG.]]
** Ben Stiller also plays a receptionist at Guitar Center who actually ends up telling the D all about the legend of the Pick of Destiny.
* ChaseScene: "Car Chase City".
* ChekhovsArmory
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler: Power-slides and cock push-ups]] both turn out to be very useful tools for stealing the Pick of Destiny.
* ChessWithDeath: [[{{Dissimile}} Not so much chess as a rock off, and not so much Death as Satan himself.]]
* ClusterFBomb: Throughout the movie, but especially whenever Jables is improvising song lyrics. Just listen to "Classico".
** Satan's initial boast and reaction definitely qualifies. See OhCrap below.
** Also in "Kickapoo":
-->''Oh the dragons balls were blazin' as I stepped into his cave, then I sliced his fuckin' cockles, with a long and shiny blade!/'Twas I who fucked the dragon, fuckalize sing-fuckaloo!/And if you try to fuck with me, then I shall fuck you too!''
* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: Suggested between Satan and Kage.
* EtTuBrute
* FantasyForbiddingFather
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jables' father warned him that the rock music would make him Satan's puppet and bring chaos to the world. He would have been right if Jables and Kage hadn't defeated Satan in the rock-off.
* FunWithAcronyms: "That's where the POD lies now." "POD?" "The Pick of Destiny!" "Oh."
** BrickJoke: "Pass the B.O.D."
* GroinAttack: Jack slips and falls, straddling a tree branch. "OW, SWEET BABY!" indeed.
* GroupieBrigade: Seen during Jables' dream sequence.
* GuileHero: [[spoiler: Jables, see FridgeBrilliance.]]
* HeroicFantasy: The second half of the movie, when Jables and Kage go after the Pick of Destiny, the plot basically [[GenreShift shifts]] to this. I mean, it's still set in the real world, but all the tropes are there.
* HeterosexualLifePartners Jables and Kage Their "Friendship Song" on the original Tenacious D album.
** Kage refers to Jables as his "partner" in an awkward way in the sequence where they're apart.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[TropicThunder Jeff Portnoy]] escapes the tyrannical rule of his dad [[TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Eddie]] by being inspired by [[RonnieJamesDio the greatest voice in heavy metal history]], starts a band with... [[YouKnowThatGuy What's His Face]], receives cryptic advice from [[MeetTheParents Gaylord Focker]], dreams of performing in front of [[{{Enchanted}} Giselle]], is nearly killed by [[TheShawshankRedemption Andy Dufresne]] & has a battle of the bands with The Devil... who looks a lot like [[Music/FooFighters That One]] [[{{Nirvana}} Drummer]].
** [[Series/HowIMetYourMother Marshal Erikssen]] shows up in a deleted scene, mocking Cage savagely.
* IdiotBall: [[spoiler: JB agrees to put KG up as a bet for their rock-off with the devil...despite the Devil having said that he literally CANNOT decline a rock-off challenge.]]
** Averted: [[spoiler: In order to send Satan back to hell from whence he came. Jables HAD to strike a deal with him of some sort. Souls are probably the only thing The Devil would substantially benefit from (thus making it a deal), and he was about to take both their souls anyway if they lost. Plus it's quite likely that Satan, being who he is, wouldn't have let an opportunity like this slide by without specifically defining a Rock-Off as having some sort of stakes involved.]]
* InvisibleBackupBand
* LargeHam: Jables, JackBlack after all. And [[Music/FooFighters Dave]] [[{{Nirvana}} Grohl]] as Satan.
* LaserHallway
* LouisCypher: [[spoiler:The open mic night host.]]
* MacGuffin: The eponymous Pick of Destiny.
* MagicFeather: An inspiring, heart-rousing speech about how "[[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop the devil is inside all of our hearts]]."
* {{Metalhead}}
* MushroomSamba: When Jables gets lost out in the woods, he survives by eating unidentified mushrooms, which results in this trope.
** Specifically, he has a trip wherein he becomes a baby sasquatch, and then begins singing about how his dad is awesome and shall protect him.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Literally, breaking it: Jables and Kage fight over the pick and break it in half. It then gets picked up by the devil, and [[OhCrap the shit immediately hits the fan.]] ]]
* NoIndoorVoice: An in-story example, Jables ends up daydreaming that with the eponymous pick, his voice will become so loud he will lose any need for microphones.
* OhCrap: The song that plays when Satan gets the pick
-->'''Satan''': ''I AM COMPLEEEEEEEEETE!''\\
'''TenaciousD''': Fuuuuuuuuuuu-''[[AtomicFBomb uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!]]''\\
'''Satan''': YES, YOU ARE FUCKED! SHIT OUT OF LUCK!\\
NOW I'M COMPLETE, AND MY COCK YOU WILL SUCK!
** Satan gets one a few seconds later:
--->'''Jables''': "Wait! Waiit, you muthafucka! We challenge you to a rock off! Give us one chance to rock your socks off!"\\
'''Satan''' (realizing he can't decline because of the demon's code): [[ClusterFBomb *angrily*]] "FUCK! '''FUCK!!''' *dramatically* '''''FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK...'''''"
** Satan gets yet ''another'' one when [[spoiler:after accidentally blowing off his own horn, he realizes that he has given Jables a way to send him back to Hell.]]
* ParentalFavoritism: ''"You disobeyed my orders son, why were you ever born?/Your brother's ten times better than you, Jesus loves him more!"''
* RockMeAsmodeus
* RuleOfCool: Overused in the songs to the point that it becomes [[CrossesTheLineTwice funny]] how much it's overused. Particularly in the Master Exploder dream sequence.
* RuleOfFunny
* {{Satan}}
-->'''Satan''': ''[[LargeHam I'M THE DEVIL!]] '''[[ChewingTheScenery I LOVE METAL!]]'''''
* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: During the reunion, Kage says it was supposed to be in that order. Kage goes off to a party, Jables into the forest and eats [[MushroomSamba mushrooms]], and then they both get the Pick together.
* ShoutOut: The Devil's guitar is Dimebag Darrell's famous lightning bolt Dean ML.
* SlasherSmile: Jack Black shows his off a few times, revealing that it looks like a cross between the Joker and the Grinch.
* StonersAreFunny: The movie has several gags revolving around drug use. The funniest of which probably being Jables' mushroom-induced hallucination.
* TarotMotifs: The opening sequence is based around them.
* TheQuest
* ThePowerOfRock: Obviously. Taken to ridiculous extremes in "Master Exploder" and "Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown)".
* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: Jables does some while breaking into the Rock and Roll History Museum, and yet the camera continues to see him ([[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy and only the camera]]).
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome
** "It's a sign...a legacy. *proceeds to show birthmark on ass*
** "Taste my lightning, fuckers!"
** Power sliding [[spoiler: past the security guards under the security door]].
* WhenYouSnatchThePebble: "When you snatch the remote control out of my hand, you will have earned the right to change the channel."
* YourHeadAsplode: In the "Master Exploder" ImagineSpot, Jables causes a man's brain to fly out by singing [[ThePowerOfRock epically]].
--> Jables: "I did not mean . . ."
--> Kage: ''(He did not mean)''
--> Jables: "To blow your mind!"
--> Kage: ''(To blow your mind!)''
--> Jables: "But that shit happens to me . . . ''all the tiii-yiii-hiiiime!''"
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: See the spoiler above.
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