History YMMV / TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny

** OK, OK. [[spoiler: Jables is clearly the greatest [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] the world has ever known. He gave the Devil his terms: either he could have taken his sorry ass back to Hell and pay their rent or he could take Kage back to Hell to be his little bitch. In accepting this arrangement, the Devil agreed to shell out about $300 or [[{{Squick}} take home a brand]] [[UnfortunateImplications spankin]] [[{{Squick}} new, rotund personal sex slave]] and ''go back to Hell either way''.]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Jack Black an Iconic, if hammy, baddass who does what he does for the rock? Or is he just fighting for his daddy's love the only way he can, through music, as suggested by "Baby" and "Sasquache"?

* SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Jables wears the Pick around his neck and starts to sing. On the first high note he hits, the microphone bursts into flames. They call it "Master Exploder" for a reason, as you can see a few seconds later.
** After getting a spanking from his dad, getting all his rock posters ripped to shreds and getting grounded, Jables prays to a poster of ''RonnieJamesDio''(which survived being ripped to shreds by not being visible behind his room door). '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmU7FshBwgg DIO ANSWERS]]'''(the awesomeness starts at 2:12).

** The first song in the film features guest vocals from both Meat Loaf ''and'' RonnieJamesDio.

*** [[spoiler: Sure they won. It's no coincidence that [[DiegeticMusic drums, amp effects, and backup vocals come out of nowhere]] in the middle of the song, even though all they have are their unamplified guitars and their own voices. They literally have [[ThePowerOfRock the power of rock]] on their side, and maybe even a little help from [[{{God}} The Big Man]] himself.]]

* 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.

* SoBadItsGood: One of the very few examples that manages to pull this off intentionally.
* 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?

* CompleteMonster: Satan.

* SoBadItsGood: One of the very few examples that manages to pull this off intentionally.

** The first song in the entire film features guest vocals from both Meat Loaf ''and'' RonnieJamesDio.

* CompleteMonster: Satan, of course.

*** [[spoiler: Unfortunately for them, they didn't actually win the rock-off, they just reflected satan's attack with JB's guitar (a symbol of friendship between JB and KG. Yeah, symbolic stuff tends to do well against the supernatural). In a deleted scene, they mooch off of Lee after the events of the movie. Or maybe the guitar only reflected the attack because they had won; it's not really clear.]]

** OK, OK. [[spoiler: Jables is clearly the greatest [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] the world has ever known. He gave the Devil his terms: either he could have take his sorry ass back to Hell and pay their rent or he could take Kage back to Hell to be his little bitch. In accepting this arrangement, the Devil agreed to shell out about $300 or [[{{Squick}} take home a brand]] [[UnfortunateImplications spankin]] [[{{Squick}} new, rotund personal sex slave]] and ''go back to Hell either way''.]]

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Jables wears the Pick around his neck and starts to sing. On the first high note he hits, the microphone bursts into flames. They call it "Master Exploder" for a reason, as you can see a few seconds later.

* LawfulEvil: "The demon code prevents me from declining a rock-off challenge!" (then again)
** ChaoticEvil: "I'm the devil, I can do what I want!"

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Jables wears the Pick around his neck and starts to sing. On the first high note he hits, the microphone bursts into flames.

* LawfulEvil: "The demon code prevents me from declining a rock-off challenge!"

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Jables wears the Pick around his neck and starts to sing. On the first high note he hits, the microphone bursts into flames.
** After getting a spanking from his dad, getting all his rock posters ripped to shreds and getting grounded, Jables prays to a poster of ''RonnieJamesDio''(which survived being ripped to shreds by not being visible behind his room door). '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmU7FshBwgg DIO ANSWERS]]'''(the awesomeness starts at 2:12).
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The main reason to watch this movie. Especially "Beelzeboss".

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: See MushroomSamba.
-->'''Cripple:''' Now come over here...so I can cut you.
-->'''Kage:''' ...no, dude.
-->'''Cripple:''' Fine. Then stay there...so I can cut you. ''(starts shuffling forward)''
-->'''Jables:''' ''(to Kage)'' Dude, this guy's totally slow, I think we can outrun him.
** One word: '''[[color:red:J]][[color:orange:U]][[color:yellow:I]][[color:lime:C]][[color:blue:Y]][[color:purple:!]]'''

* LawfulEvil: "The demon code prevents me from declining a rock-off challenge!"

** For a non-Tenacious D example, "Agnus Dei" [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkObnNQCMtM the song playing when Jables gets his first guitar]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Jack Black an Iconic, if hammy, baddass who does what he does for the rock? Or is he just fighting for his daddy's love the only way he can, through music, as suggested by "Baby" and "Sasquache"?