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* FanDumb: People tweeting the band members (especially Patrick, poor guy) with offensive, inane, or flat out weird stuff merely to get validation. Yes, through a tweet. Yes, even when the band members have said it makes them feel uncomfortable. It's safe to say the band probably doesn't read fanfic (especially shipping) on the daily, doesn't like seeing casual homophobia on their timelines, and that Patrick doesn't find your repeated Spongebob references nearly as clever as you do.

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* FanDumb: People tweeting the band members (especially Patrick, poor guy) with offensive, inane, or flat out weird stuff merely to get validation.validation from their response. Yes, through a tweet. Yes, even when the band members have said it makes them feel uncomfortable. It's safe to say the band probably doesn't read fanfic (especially shipping) on the daily, doesn't like seeing casual homophobia on their timelines, and that Patrick doesn't find your repeated Spongebob references nearly as clever as you do.

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* BrokenBase: Over Folie a Deux, though you'll find more people defending it these days than when it was first released. More generally, people who don't like the direction Fall Out Boy has taken since Take This To Your Grave/From Under The Cork Tree versus...everyone else.



* EnsembleDarkhorse: Pete Wentz. He also qualifies as TheScrappy.

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Pete Wentz. He also qualifies (qualified?) as TheScrappy.



* MagnumOpus: Most fans consider it to be "Take This To Your Grave", with the song "Saturday" being a particular fan favorite.

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* FanDumb: People tweeting the band members (especially Patrick, poor guy) with offensive, inane, or flat out weird stuff merely to get validation. Yes, through a tweet. Yes, even when the band members have said it makes them feel uncomfortable. It's safe to say the band probably doesn't read fanfic (especially shipping) on the daily, doesn't like seeing casual homophobia on their timelines, and that Patrick doesn't find your repeated Spongebob references nearly as clever as you do.
** People were apparently going to Patrick's solo shows simply to tell him to go back to Fall Out Boy instead of just being respectful and waiting a few years like everyone else did. Who's willing to bet they were some of the fans that booed the band for playing songs off of Folie a Deux before the hiatus?
** As the band will tell you, if you hear anyone claiming that they were a fan since Evening Out With Their Girlfriend, they're likely lying. Evening Out was released a little over a month before Take This To Your Grave with no fanfare back in the days where Fall Out Boy wasn't a household name in their local scene, let alone in the mainstream. As in, the amount of people claiming to be fans since Evening Out is highly disproportionate to the amount of people who would have actually known of the release back in the day. While the EP has gone gold in the United States, the brunt of that came from the 2005 re-release (see: their former label trying to capitalize on From Under The Cork Tree's success)
* HarsherInHindsight: Take This To Your Grave's [[https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6fre6A6wU1r17ikto1_1280.jpg distinctive cover]] has all the band members and their names on the cover, an uncommon move. This was done to show that, despite Pete's perceived frontman status, Fall Out Boy as a group was the most important thing. After the band gained mainstream success, the media swarmed in on Pete (who took on a more active frontman role due to the rest of the band's reluctance to do interviews and the like) and his status as the BaseBreaker and TheScrappy was secured up until the hiatus. While Fall Out Boy post-hiatus gives much more consideration to the group instead of merely Pete when it comes to interviews, on-stage banter, and the like, that means it took them a ''decade'' to get back to their original intent for the group's representation.
* HypeBacklash: "Take This To Your Grave", the band's first album, is highly considered to be not only one of the band's best albums (if not THE best), but one of the best pop-punk albums EVER. To say that fans of their later material are somewhat disappointed that people seem more inclined to overhype what they perceive to be an above-average pop punk album at the expense of their other works would be an understatement.
* MagnumOpus: Most A decent chunk of fans consider it to be "Take This To Your Grave", with the song "Saturday" being a particular fan favorite.favorite. Folie a Deux appears to getting this status among fans over time, especially considering that back in the day, the critical reception was mostly positive, but the fan reception was [[BrokenBase heavily split]], to the point where the band was getting booed for performing the songs on their last tours before hiatus.


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* OldShame: Evening Out With Your Girlfriend, mainly due to the recording circumstances and the intent for it not to be released. Whenever the band discusses their history, Evening Out almost never comes up. "Growing Up" was acknowledged on "What a Catch, Donnie" and it made an appearance on the greatest hits compilation released before their hiatus, mainly due to it being the band's first song.
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* MagnumOpus: Most fans consider it to be "Take This To Your Grave", with the song "Saturday" being a particular fan favorite.
** Patrick Stump has said that "Dance, Dance" is the best song that he's ever done, both with Fall Out Boy and in his solo career.
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* CrackShip: Pete and Creator/TaraStrong, the ship captains of which are [[https://twitter.com/tarastrong/status/413101083339522048 pretty much]] [[https://twitter.com/tarastrong/status/413414444387938304 themselves]]. [[https://twitter.com/tarastrong/status/413414444387938304 And yes, it's been ponyfied]]. Pony fans and Fall Out Boy fans appear to be having more fun than brain aneurisms with the ship. (Mind you, both fandoms ARE big on shipping, even if it's not usually heterosexual...)

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* NarmCharm: While many found the "My Song's Know What You Did in the Dark" music video to be very unnerving, keep in mind, that's ''2 Chainz'' in in the music video.
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Those who don't like Pete's face/bass playing/''everything'' probably still have their reasons for keeping him in the heap, but those who think he's an irritating attention whore don't have that much ground to stand on these days. His status as TheFaceOfTheBand has been de-emphasized for the whole band taking part in promotion and interviews and parenting has given him perspective and a grounded attitude. He's not all that interested in celebrity anymore either.

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* NarmCharm: While many found the "My Song's Songs Know What You Did in the Dark" music video to be very unnerving, keep in mind, that's ''2 Chainz'' ''[=2Chainz=]'' in in the music video.
video, burning most of Fall Out Boy's backlog for no apparent reason.
** The guest stars seem to cause a lot of it: [[spoiler: the death of]] Big Sean in "The Mighty Fall" is less scary considering he ''raps'' his way through his verse which doesn't fit the mood of the scene (and this is right after he [[spoiler: snaps a kid's NECK]]. In "Just One Yesterday", when Foxes sings her verse, she ''takes her hands off the wheel'' and starts hanging out the window, leaving Patrick to take the wheel and drive while she's singing.
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Those who don't like Pete's face/bass playing/''everything'' probably still have their reasons for keeping him in the heap, but those who think he's an irritating attention whore don't have that much ground to stand on these days. His status as TheFaceOfTheBand has been de-emphasized for the whole band taking part in promotion and interviews and parenting has given him perspective and a grounded attitude. He's not all that interested in celebrity anymore either. As for his bass playing, the jury is still out on that one.


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** On Fall Out Boy's last headlining tour, Believers Never Die Part Deux, Music/FiftyCent was an opening act for three shows. While some people weren't pleased, most were just ''very'' confused as to why a major rapper would be willing to open for ''Fall Out Boy'' on a lineup that also featured Music/AllTimeLow, Music/CobraStarship, Hey Monday, and Metro Station (though some people were ''very'' pleased he was replacing Metro Station on the dates he was scheduled for). Hollywood Holt's brief run opening for the band on the first two and last three dates of the Save Rock and Roll small venue tour was also confusing, but caused way more anger than 50 Cent ever did, to the point where he left the tour before the second to last show. Mind you, having a song about twerking and responding to nearly every negative tweet about him with even more negativity to the point of threateningly inviting those who tweeted their displeasure with him during the show to meet him at the merch table didn't exactly change minds about him.
** Patrick, what are you doing on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cy4Z1dXSZQ a Weekend Nachos song]] doing hardcore screaming? Ah well, at least you got it out of your system, dude.
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* NarmCharm: While many found the "My Song's Know What You Did in the Dark" music video to be very unnerving, keep in mind, that's ''2 Chainz'' in in the music video.
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** "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light 'Em Up)" is rapidly becoming this, due to its popularity.
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** "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light 'Em Up)" is a big one lately.
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** Not to mention Pete on ''{{CSINY}}'' and ''{{Californication}}''! And ''OneTreeHill'', but the less we say about that, the better.

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** Not to mention Pete on ''{{CSINY}}'' and ''{{Californication}}''! ''Series/{{Californication}}''! And ''OneTreeHill'', but the less we say about that, the better.
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* OneOfUs: One of their first tours in support of From Under The Cork Tree was the Nintendo Fusion tour, they did two [[AlternateRealityGame alternate reality games]] for Folie a Deux and their Greatest Hits album, did an entire photoshoot with lightsabers, and on one of their blink-182 reunion support dates, they did a set dedicated to {{Lost}}.
** In terms of One Of Usness...Andy, Pete, Patrick, Joe. Arguably.
** Pete really loves him some Franchise/{{Transformers}}, has a ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'' tattoo and admits to [[http://petewentz.com/post/28246115224/alright-i-always-wanted-to-be-an-anime-character always wanting to be an anime character]].
** Andy is a big comic book fan, Patrick has a preference for oldschool video games (when he gets a chance to play), and Joe used to go into long, elaborate blog posts about StarWars back in the Take This To Your Grave days.
** [[ComicBook/FallOutToyWorks They have their own comic book.]]
** As a promotion for ''Folie a Deux'', they even rolled out their version of Oregon Trail.
** Patrick's Twitter Q&As have a lot of this. In just one session he talked about [[https://twitter.com/PatrickStump/status/303436488656433152 Star Wars]], [[https://twitter.com/PatrickStump/status/303437044863094785 Arrested Development]], and [[https://twitter.com/PatrickStump/status/303436354690363392 Miyazaki]].
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* NauseaFuel: Pete [[spoiler: eating that apple-heart and then vomiting up blood ''and a snake'' in the "Just One Yesterday" video.]]

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* FaceOfTheBand - Pete, and sometimes Patrick. Not many casual fans can name Joe or Andy.

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* FaceOfTheBand - FaceOfTheBand: Pete, and sometimes Patrick. Not many casual fans can name Joe or Andy.



* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: That one {{incredibly long note}} in "The Take Over, The Break's Over." Also, Patrick's voice, generally.



* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: That one {{incredibly long note}} in "The Take Over, The Break's Over." Also, Patrick's voice, generally.
* WTHCastingAgency - Patrick, what are you doing on ''Series/LawAndOrder'' and ''{{Series/House}}''? (PlayingAgainstType and being {{Adorkable}}, respectively.)

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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: That one {{incredibly long note}} in "The Take Over, The Break's Over." Also, Patrick's voice, generally.
* WTHCastingAgency -
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* SignatureSong: "Sugar, We're Going Down" or "Dance, Dance".
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* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Those who don't like his face/bass playing/''everything'' probably still have their reasons for keeping him in the heap, but those who think he's an irritating attention whore don't have that much ground to stand on these days. His status as TheFaceOfTheBand has been de-emphasized for the whole band taking part in promotion and interviews and parenting has given him perspective and a grounded attitude. He's not all that interested in celebrity anymore either.

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* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Those who don't like his Pete's face/bass playing/''everything'' probably still have their reasons for keeping him in the heap, but those who think he's an irritating attention whore don't have that much ground to stand on these days. His status as TheFaceOfTheBand has been de-emphasized for the whole band taking part in promotion and interviews and parenting has given him perspective and a grounded attitude. He's not all that interested in celebrity anymore either.

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** Very slowly being subverted after their 2013 return. The majority of their interviews so far have been full band, Andy and Joe are more talkative during interviews, and Patrick and Pete bantered back and forth much more than they did in shows before the hiatus. Time will tell if it sticks.

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** Very slowly Gradually being subverted after their 2013 return. The majority of their They're doing full band interviews so far have been full band, as much as possible and even when they're doing interviews only in groups of two, they're avoiding sticking to the tried and true Pete and Patrick combinations. Andy and Joe are more talkative during interviews, and Joe more so than Andy. Patrick and Pete bantered banter back and forth much more than they did in shows before the hiatus. Time will tell if hiatus, and even Andy joins in! Album wise, lyric writing is no longer solely Pete's role and Andy now has a role with backup vocals alongside Joe and Pete. Let's hope it sticks.


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* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Those who don't like his face/bass playing/''everything'' probably still have their reasons for keeping him in the heap, but those who think he's an irritating attention whore don't have that much ground to stand on these days. His status as TheFaceOfTheBand has been de-emphasized for the whole band taking part in promotion and interviews and parenting has given him perspective and a grounded attitude. He's not all that interested in celebrity anymore either.
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** Patrick's Twitter Q&As have a lot of this. In just one session he talked about [[https://twitter.com/PatrickStump/status/303436488656433152 Star Wars]], [[https://twitter.com/PatrickStump/status/303437044863094785 Arrested Development]], and [[https://twitter.com/PatrickStump/status/303436354690363392 Miyazaki]].
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** Very slowly being subverted after their 2013 return. The majority of their interviews so far have been full band, Andy and Joe are more talkative during interviews, and Patrick and Pete bantered back and forth much more than they did in shows before the hiatus. Time will tell if it sticks.
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** As a promotion for ''Folie a Deux'', they even rolled out their version of Oregon Trail.
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** Pete really loves him some {{Transformers}}, has a HowlsMovingCastle tattoo and admits to [[http://petewentz.com/post/28246115224/alright-i-always-wanted-to-be-an-anime-character always wanting to be an anime character]].

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** Pete really loves him some {{Transformers}}, Franchise/{{Transformers}}, has a HowlsMovingCastle ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'' tattoo and admits to [[http://petewentz.com/post/28246115224/alright-i-always-wanted-to-be-an-anime-character always wanting to be an anime character]].

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** Andy is a big comic book fan, Patrick has a preference for oldschool video games (when he gets a chance to play), and Joe used to go into long, elaborate blog posts about StarWars back in the Take This To Your Grave days.

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** [[ComicBook/FallOutToyWorks They have their own comic book.]]
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* BaseBreaker: Pete. Fans of the band either worship him and think he's gorgeous and a great bassist, or they think he's an irritating attention whore.

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* BaseBreaker: Pete. Fans of the band either worship him and think he's gorgeous and a great bassist, bassist or they think he's an irritating attention whore.whore who can't play bass at ''all''.
** [[TakeAThirdOption Or they think that he's a decent enough guy in the attitude and/or bass playing department]] and find most (if not all) of the hateraide thrown at him to be unjustified.



** Patrick in the eyes of some fans, especially more considering Pete's unconventional frontman role.



* OneOfUs: One of their first tours in support of From Under The Cork Tree was the Nintendo Fusion tour, they did two [[AlternateRealityGame alternate reality games]] for Folie a Deux and their Greatest Hits album, did an entire photoshoot with lightsabers, and on one of their blink-182 reunion support dates, they did a set dedicated to {{Lost}}.
** In terms of One Of Usness...Andy, Pete, Patrick, Joe. Arguably.
** Pete really loves him some {{Transformers}}, has a HowlsMovingCastle tattoo and admits to [[http://petewentz.com/post/28246115224/alright-i-always-wanted-to-be-an-anime-character always wanting to be an anime character]].
* Andy is a big comic book fan, Patrick has a preference for oldschool video games (when he gets a chance to play), and Joe used to go into long, elaborate blog posts about StarWars back in the Take This To Your Grave days.
* TheScrappy: Pete. The {{Hatedom}} for this band is mostly because a lot of people really, really, really, REALLY don't like his face/attitude/bass playing/celebrity/''everything''.



* WTHCastingAgency - Patrick, what are you doing on ''Series/LawAndOrder'' and ''{{Series/House}}''?
** Not to mention Pete on ''{{CSINY}}'' and ''{{Californication}}''! And ''{{OneTreeHill}}'', but the less we say about that, the better.

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* WTHCastingAgency - Patrick, what are you doing on ''Series/LawAndOrder'' and ''{{Series/House}}''?
''{{Series/House}}''? (PlayingAgainstType and being {{Adorkable}}, respectively.)
** Not to mention Pete on ''{{CSINY}}'' and ''{{Californication}}''! And ''{{OneTreeHill}}'', ''OneTreeHill'', but the less we say about that, the better.better.
** People have plenty to say about Pete's appearances on TV (especially OneTreeHill) for [[SoBadItsGood one huge reason]]. People also have plenty of things to say about Patrick's appearances on TV for [[HeReallyCanAct a completely different reason]].
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** Not to mention Pete on ''{{CSINY}}'' and ''{{Californication}}''! ''{{And OneTreeHill}}'', but the less we say about that, the better.

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** Not to mention Pete on ''{{CSINY}}'' and ''{{Californication}}''! ''{{And OneTreeHill}}'', And ''{{OneTreeHill}}'', but the less we say about that, the better.
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** Not to mention Pete on ''{{CSINY}}'' and ''{{Californication}}''!

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* WTHCastingAgency - Patrick, what are you doing on ''Series/LawAndOrder'' and ''Series/House''?

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** Oddly enough, Patrick, Joe, and Andy were quite comfortable with Pete being the band's face as it meant the rest of them could lead more normal lives without the media intrusion.
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* WTHCastingAgency - Patrick, what are you doing on ''Series/LawAndOrder''?

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* WTHCastingAgency - Patrick, what are you doing on ''Series/LawAndOrder''?''Series/LawAndOrder'' and ''Series/House''?
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* {{Mondegreen}} - Lots! HilarityEnsues.
** "Down, down in a lulaleerah" and "I'm a little man, I'm also evil, also into cats" are fan favourites. Some of these are acknowledged by the band.

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - That one {{incredibly long note}} in "The Take Over, The Break's Over." Also, Patrick's voice, generally.
* {{Ensemble Darkhorse}} - Pete Wentz. He also qualifies as {{The Scrappy}}.

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* {{Ensemble Darkhorse}} - EnsembleDarkhorse: Pete Wentz. He also qualifies as {{The Scrappy}}.TheScrappy.



* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: That one {{incredibly long note}} in "The Take Over, The Break's Over." Also, Patrick's voice, generally.



* ThoseTwoGuys: Joe and Andy.



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* TearJerker: "Golden" is this to some people. "Atavan Halen (7 Minutes in Heaven)" is about Wentz attempted suicide by overdose. Once you know what it's about, you will cry eventually. And lastly, "What a Catch Donnie" now that the band is on "hiatus" has become known as their official "goodbye" song.



** Not to mention Pete on {{CSINY}} and {{Californication}}!

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