History YMMV / Gorillaz

* {{Narm}}: The chipmunk voices at the beginning of "All Alone" qualify for some.

* MorePopularSpinoff: In America, where the band's first two albums have outsold {{Blur}}'s ''entire discography.''

** And somehow made still darker in Phase 3, what with [[spoiler: [[EvilTwin the Cyborg]]]] Noodle, [[CompleteMonster the now-complete monster]] known as Murdoc, a 2D that seems to be on the edge of [[SanitySlippage insanity,]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a giant-sized Russel.]]

--->'''Murdoc:''' Erm, Russel, if you touch my leg one more time in this interview, I’m calling the cops, OK?

--->'''Murdoc:''' Erm, Russel, if you touch my leg one more time in this interview, I’m calling the cops, OK?

* MorePopularSpinoff: In America, where the band's first two albums have outsold {{Blur}}'s ''entire discography.'' * MorePopularSpinoff: In America, where the band's first two albums have outsold {{Blur}}'s ''entire discography.''

* NeedsMoreLove: Every song has fans that feel this way, including "19/2000" and "O Green World."

--->'''Murdoc:''' Erm, Russel, if you touch my leg one more time in this interview, I’m calling the cops, OK?

--->'''Murdoc:''' Erm, Russel, if you touch my leg one more time in this interview, I’m calling the cops, OK?

* TearJerker: This band now has [[TearJerker/{{Gorillaz}} their own tearjerker page]].

* TearJerker: This band now has [[TearJerker/Gorillaz their own tearjerker page]].

* TearJerker: This band now has [[TearJerker/Gorillaz their own tearjerker page]]

* TearJerker: The "El Mañana" video notoriously devastated the entire Gorillaz fan-base.
** One of the inserts for the Experience Edition of ''Plastic Beach'' shows [[spoiler:Noodle with a black eye looking sadly at the viewer. You'd have to be heartless to see that and not want to give her a hug.]]
** And for the hardcore 2D fans, his ''Plastic Beach'' Ident could certainly count.
** The animatics for "On Melancholy Hill" feature a sad-looking manatee. The Boogieman tries to take this manatee towards the end. Murdoc tries to save the manatee by shooting the Boogieman, but it goes harmlessly through his cape and he successfully abducts the poor thing. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Murdoc looks pretty horrified]].
*** As if that weren't bad enough, in the actual video, the manatee is even more desolate-looking, with bits of trash all over it, and there's something in the way that it just sort of flops around as the Boogieman takes it that's just absolutely ''horribly'' pitiful. No, no, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I'm not crying, I've just got something in my eye...]]
** Also, remember those harmless and apparently sentient Superfast Jellyfish? They're apparently regularly being frozen, boxed up, microwaved, and eaten.
*** Possible allegory for those cute critters dying out across the world?
*** Which makes the song "Superfast Jellyfish" [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel High Octane Nightmare Fuel]].
--->"All mixed in the pot for momma's homemade from scratch, but not quite, toasted over flames, they be tasting quite right" *shudder*
** "Cloud of Unknowing" is this for Murdoc.
--->'''Murdoc:''' Bobby Womack's performance on this song can still bring tears to my eyes. That mixture of hope and uncertainty in his voice -- the age and the experience, the fear and the joy... 'scuse me.
** Maybe this Troper is just a softy, but I feel really bad for [[spoiler:what happens to that poor cop]] in the "Stylo" music video.
*** This Troper did feel bad when he was desperately crawling along the ground after his doughnuts. And the fact that we don't really know what exactly the Boogieman did with him doesn't really help things.
*** [[spoiler:A blog on the Gorillaz website pretty much stated that SMS is actually a demon, and Murdoc claimed that part of his deal was to grant the Boogieman access to the "souls of inoccent kids and stuff". Ence...]].

*** '''WARNING: DO NOT CLICK ON [[http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/v/?width=96&height=96&yt=_ue714d1V6I&flux=1&direction=rand THIS LINK]] IF YOU EVER WISH TO SLEEP AGAIN'''

** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZU9C6d5BE4 "Superfast Jellyfish"]] video is inexplicably terrifying.

* EarWorm: "Stylo", "DARE", "On Melancholy Hill", "Feel Good Inc.", "Clint Eastwood", "Superfast Jellyfish", "Doncamatic"...[[SoYeah yeah.]]

* EarWorm: "Stylo", "DARE", "On Melancholy Hill", "Feel Good Inc.", "Clint Eastwood", "Superfast Jellyfish", "Doncamatic"...

--->'''Murdoc:''' Erm, Russel, if you touch my leg one more time in this interview, I’m calling the cops, OK?

** Becoming? His actions before Plastic Beach aren't much different. There's his entire history with 2D. The fact he originally kidnapped Russel. And may or may have not have been keeping Paula inside a suitcase under his bed.

** If you look around his room when he wakes up at the end of "Dare", you can see a picture of a baby. He uses it as a dartboard.

*** Many fans have pointed out that the odd placement of the teeth marks on the love bite that 2D sports on the "Demon Days" cover rather heavily imply that said love bite was made by none other than Murdoc.

*** NightmareRetardant: The drums are sampled from Safety Dance.
** The last fifty or so seconds of ''Rock The House'' aren't particularly pleasant, either. {{Squick}}.
** The [[http://i878.photobucket.com/albums/ab346/SnowNerd/72069991.jpg inside]] of Robo Noodle.

** Seeing Robo Noodle all hooked up by wires in Plastic Beach was unnerving as well, but it's less unnerving than the art on the CD sleeve depicting her in the same situation... hunched over with a dark grin.
** Also in Plastic Beach for your enjoyment, Sarcasmo.

** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZU9C6d5BE4 Superfast Jellyfish]]" video is inexplicably terrifying.
** Several moments in the "On Melancholy Hill" video fall under this -- [[spoiler:Robo-]]Noodle puking up a (still alive) octopus frightens even those in canon (namely 2D) and, while the manatee-napping bit is more of a TearJerker than anything else, the way that Boogieman is sort of... massaging the poor thing definitely gives me the jibblies.

* ReplacementScrappy: EMI lost a lot of the fans' esteem when the originally-intended, storyboarded and plot-advancing music video for ''Rhinestone Eyes'' was cancelled in favor of ''Doncamatic''.
* {{Squick}}: In Murdoc's lair in the Plastic Beach game there are several boxes labeled "Edible panties", "Nipple tassles"... FetishFuel, maybe, if not for the ridiculous amount of flies hovering around them...
** In the "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HalCyn7z74&feature=channel 02 Priority Walk]]" video, keep in mind that Noodle is [[spoiler:an android build by Murdoc to replace the real Noodle.]] Then note that she's wearing hot-pants. Then remember that she's supposed to be a ''14-year old girl''. (This ''may'' be a reference to certain hullaboos involving MileyCyrus.)

**** [[spoiler:Does the cyborg age? It's made out of DNA from a teenage Noodle... then again, it's, y'know, a cyborg, so age-of-consent laws may not necessarily apply.]]

* TearJerker: The El Manana video notoriously devastated the entire Gorillaz fan-base.
** One of the inserts for the Experience Edition of Plastic Beach shows [[spoiler:Noodle with a black eye looking sadly at the viewer. You'd have to be heartless to see that and not want to give her a hug.]]
** And for the hardcore 2D fans, his Plastic Beach Ident could certainly count.

-->"All mixed in the pot for momma's homemade from scratch, but not quite, toasted over flames, they be tasting quite right" *shudder*

-->'''Murdoc:''' Bobby Womack's performance on this song can still bring tears to my eyes. That mixture of hope and uncertainty in his voice -- the age and the experience, the fear and the joy... 'scuse me.

*** MeToo

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwKcXfUmLkk This]] is the newest Gorillaz song, ''Doncamatic.'' Listen to it without looking at the comments. Good? Now read this: [[spoiler: The singer? It's a ''guy.'']]

* CompleteMonster: Judging from his recent actions (kidnapping and forcefully keeping 2D and several other musicians on Plastic Beach just to record the same-titled album), it seems Murdoc has started becoming this.
** Becoming? His actions before Plastic Beach aren't much different. There's his entire history with 2D. The fact he originally kidnapped Russel. And may or may have not have been keeping Paula inside a suitcase under his bed.
** Murdoc recently claimed to have burned down Kong studios for insurance money between phases 2 and 3 and blamed it on some local kids who landed in jail for the crime. He looks back on it FONDLY.
** Also, he's recently gotten in trouble with various shady groups for making illegal deals, and then delivering faulty goods... double whammy.
** If you look around his room when he wakes up at the end of "Dare", you can see a picture of a baby. He uses it as a dartboard.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Murdoc calling the bully out and getting his nose broken in ''Rise of the Ogre'' was the high point of his life until Gorillaz formed, and from the outside is pretty darn cool.
** Noodle kicking the zombie gorilla in the face during Clint Eastwood should count.
** In the "On Melancholy Hill" video, Murdoc assembles a team to [[spoiler:rescue the real Noodle]] comprised of all of their collaborators. What's so awesome about that? Each collaborator has their own submarine.
** In "Rhinestone Eyes", [[spoiler:Russel emerging from the sea just in time to save 2D from being killed by the whale, and tossing said whale into the pirate jets from "On Melancholy Hill"!]]
*** It just looks awesome, okay?
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Murdoc's tour of the IE9 beta. Full stop.
** From Rise of the Ogre, on having to recolor every frame with the cross on it in Dirty Harry:
--> Murdoc: I was hiding in a cupboard over at passion pictures, spying on him. When he got to frame 49,996 I burst out and demanded that he change the cross to a kind of 'magenta-y pink'. I live for things like that.
** Also from Rise of the Ogre:
--> 2D: Also, Murdoc always acts like such a dick. Every bus we go in, he goes over to the microwave and pops an egg in there when no one's looking. Two minutes later 'Pffffffhhh!!!' The egg's exploded everywhere. Murdoc always acts like he knows nothing about it So annoying. And when you accuse him, he ignores you or acts all indignant.
-->Murdoc (snootily): I have never put an egg in a microwave.
-->Noodle: You lie.
** Also involving Rise of the Ogre, Murdoc's general attitude to the technical interviews, the funniest easily being his making Charlie Brown "mwh mmah mwah" noises.
** "Kids! Gotta love 'em. Couldn't eat a whole one though."
** The seagull and pelican on the website. Made even better when you know that the [[HeyitsthatVoice seagull is Damon Albarn's voice and the pelican is Jamie Hewlett]].
** [[spoiler: Cyborg Noodle's]] [[http://gorillaz.com/profile/Cyborg_Noodle data log.]]
--> CMD:MALL RUMMSZ
--> Unknown Command detected "MALL RUMMSZ"
--> CMD:Yoohoo! Robocop! Fetch Rum Pour Favor!
--> Running Translation; Language Detected "Bad French"
* DieForOurShip: Paula, 2D's ex-girlfriend, is absolutely loathed by the fandom -- though this may not really count since she's not all that pleasant a person, and isn't supposed to be.
* FanService / FanDisservice: [[YourMileageMayVary Opinions vary on which applies]], but Murdoc fits one or both in pretty much everything he's in. In about half of his appearances he's naked and/or thrusting his hips in a way that starts making you feel kind of queasy. 2D could fall into either category as well, given his UncannyValley looks.
* FetishFuel: See above, and numerous other points, many of which cross over with NightmareFuel.
* FoeYay: Murdoc with both of the other male band members. See HoYay.
* HoYay:
-->'''Murdoc:''' "I saved your life, you owe me your soul."
-->'''2D:''' "[[SelectiveObliviousness Awww, I love you, Murdoc!]]"
** In another interview:
-->'''Murdoc:''' "Erm, Russel, if you touch my leg one more time in this interview, I’m calling the cops, ok?"
** Also the fact that Murdoc has repeatedly implied some homosexual desires.
*** Not the least of these incidents being the "DARE" video.
** WordOfGod when asked if there was anything between 2D and Murdoc was "Highly unlikely, but use your imaginations."
*** Many fans have pointed out that the odd placement of the teeth marks on the love bite that 2D sports on the 'Demon Days' cover rather heavily imply that said love bite was made by none other than Murdoc.
*** On the subject of 2D/Murdoc, the [[spoiler:chloroform]] scene would be quite suggestive if taken out of context, {{If You Know What I Mean}}. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoQH0ogWZsM&feature=related Just watch it.]]
*** Even before the [[spoiler:chloroforming bit]] there's a bit of Ho Yay - Murdoc slaps 2D for speaking out of turn (or something along those lines), and his high-pitched shriek of a response sounds ridiculously pornographic, especially considering it comes from a male. Murdoc ordering him around afterward doesn't really help things, either: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRrV5C8-uVA&feature=related "Silence! I'm spinning the disks here! You just sit there and shut it until I say so!"]]
*** "Get off my leg!"
*** There are, uh, [[DudeShesLikeInAComa rumours about what happened prior to the band's formation]], and given that [[CompleteMonster this is Murdoc we're talking about]], [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel it's disturbingly possible]].
** Also, Russel and Del. Del lived in Russel's brain for several years, and Russel called him his "soul mate" at one point. (IncrediblyLamePun?)
*** Murdoc recently answering a fan question about if it gets lonely on Plastic Beach with just 2D around had him responding with "I have measures in place to alleviate said loneliness, and I won't go into great detail about that."
* NightmareFuel: Some of the videos border on this.
** The "Rock It" video doesn't just border on it; it's HighOctaneNightmareFuel.

** The last fifty or so seconds of ''Rock The House'' aren't particularly pleasant, either. {{Squick}}.
** The [[http://i878.photobucket.com/albums/ab346/SnowNerd/72069991.jpg inside]] of Robo Noodle.
*** And [[http://www.youtube.com/gorillaz#p/c/4528AEA2B1EAE168 her creation]]. Erk.
** Seeing Robo Noodle all hooked up by wires in Plastic Beach was unnerving as well, but it's less unnerving than the art on the CD sleeve depicting her in the same situation... hunched over with a dark grin.
** Also in Plastic Beach for your enjoyment, Sarcasmo.
*** The fact that [[TruthInTelevision there really is]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch a Plastic Beach]]. [[{{Squick}} Ewwwwww.]]
** The way 2D turns around in "Feel Good Inc.", jerkily twisting his body around until his head is on completely backwards before he finally turns it too.
** The black body-bag looking thing in the lobby that moves when you click it. What's in there, anyway? Anyone brave enough to click it enough times to find out?
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZU9C6d5BE4 Superfast Jellyfish]]" video is inexplicably terrifying.
** Several moments in the "On Melancholy Hill" video fall under this - [[spoiler:Robo-]]Noodle puking up a (still alive) octopus frightens even those in canon (namely 2D) and, while the manatee-napping bit is more of a TearJerker than anything else, the way that Boogieman is sort of...massaging the poor thing definitely gives me the jibblies.
** The fact that this is a world in which Murdoc Niccals not only has yet to be safely locked away from society, but was in fact ''forced'' to care for a coma patient, was allowed to keep joint custody of a small child, and is now "legally entitled to experiment on monkeys" should be Nightmare Fuel enough.
** Murdoc drugging 2D during his radio show was exceptionally horrifying.
** Not to mention the bit when Murdoc is screaming about "the fog."
* {{Squick}}: In Murdoc's lair in the Plastic Beach game there are several boxes labeled "Edible panties", "Nipple tassles"... FetishFuel, maybe, if not for the ridiculous amount of flies hovering around them...
** In the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HalCyn7z74&feature=channel 02 Priority Walk]] video, keep in mind that Noodle is [[spoiler:an android build by Murdoc to replace the real Noodle.]] Then note that she's wearing hot-pants. Then remember that she's supposed to be a ''14-year old girl''. (This ''may'' be a reference to certain hullaboos involving MileyCyrus.)
*** Actually, she's been aging and she's turning 20 this year. Every October 31st people subscribed to the Gorillaz newsletter receive a "Noodle turns XX this year" mail. Quite jarring for her fans during the last couple of years with her disappeared.
**** [[spoiler:Does the cyborg age? It's made out of DNA from a teenage Noodle ... then again, it's, y'know, a cyborg, so age-of-consent laws may not necessarily apply.]]
** Noodle is often [[{{Shipping}} shipped]] with either 2D or [[CompleteMonster Murdoc]]. [[LoliCon Even when she was ''10'']]. Not squicky now as [[spoiler: Real!]] Noodle is 18-20.
* TearJerker: The El Manana video notoriously devastated the entire Gorillaz fan-base.
** One of the inserts for the Experience Edition of Plastic Beach shows [[spoiler:Noodle with a black eye looking sadly at the viewer. You'd have to be heartless to see that and not want to give her a hug.]]
** And for the hardcore 2D fans, his Plastic Beach Ident could certainly count.
** The animatics for "On Melancholy Hill" feature a sad-looking manatee. The Boogieman tries to take this manatee towards the end. Murdoc tries to save the manatee by shooting the Boogieman, but it goes harmlessly through his cape and he successfully abducts the poor thing. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Murdoc looks pretty horrified]].
*** As if that weren't bad enough, in the actual video, the manatee is even more desolate-looking, with bits of trash all over it, and there's something in the way that it just sort of flops around as the Boogieman takes it that's just absolutely ''horribly'' pitiful. No, no, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I'm not crying, I've just got something in my eye...]]
** Also, remember those harmless and apparently sentient Superfast Jellyfish? They're apparently regularly being frozen, boxed up, microwaved, and eaten.
*** Possible allegory for those cute critters dying out across the world?
*** Which makes the song "Superfast Jellyfish" [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel High Octane Nightmare Fuel]].
--> "All mixed in the pot for momma's homemade from scratch, but not quite, toasted over flames, they be tasting quite right" *shudder*
** "Cloud of Unknowing" is this for Murdoc.
--> '''Murdoc:''' "Bobby Womack’s performance on this song can still bring tears to my eyes. That mixture of hope and uncertainty in his voice – the age and the experience, the fear and the joy... 'scuse me."
** Maybe this Troper is just a softy, but I feel really bad for [[spoiler:what happens to that poor cop]] in the "Stylo" music video.
*** This Troper did feel bad when he was desperately crawling along the ground after his doughnuts. And the fact that we don't really know what exactly the Boogieman did with him doesn't really help things.

*** [[spoiler: A blog on the Gorillaz website pretty much stated that SMS is actually a demon, and Murdoc claimed that part of his deal was to grant the Boogieman access to the "souls of inoccent kids and stuff". Ence...]].