Line #80 Music/DangerDaysTheTrueLivesOfTheFabulousKilljoys


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:''Sing it out for the ones that'll hate your guts!'']]
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4	-> "''Look alive, sunshine... 109 in the sky, but the pigs won't quit. You're here with me, Dr. Death Defying! I'll be your surgeon, your proctor, your helicopter, pumpin' out the slaughtermatic sounds to keep you alive! A system failure for the masses, antimatter for the masterplan, louder than God's revolver and twice as shiny! This one's for all you rock-and-rollers, all you crash queens and motor babies. Listen up! The future is bulletproof. The aftermath is secondary. It's time to do it now and do it loud! Killjoys, '''make some noise!'''''"
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6	''Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys'' is the fourth studio album by Music/MyChemicalRomance, released on November 22, 2010, by Creator/RepriseRecords.
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8	The [[ConceptAlbum concept of the album]] is based around the lives of the "Fabulous Killjoys", with each band member posing as a different member. The Killjoys are a group of outlaws who are fighting against the evil corporation [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Better Living Industries (BL/ind.)]], led by [[Creator/GrantMorrison Korse]], in the year 2019. Their guide is pirate radio DJ Dr. Death Defying. A website for Better Living Industries, betterlivingindustries.jp, was launched in mid-November 2010, featuring a mission statement, a report from the Zones and a merchandise store.
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10	In terms of music, ''Danger Days'' is very much a {{lighter and\|Softer}}-- wait, no, that doesn't quite fit. It's definitely less angsty than previous MCR albums, even with the requisite rock opera [[DownerEnding ending]], and while many tracks keep the anthemic feel of their previous works, they're infused with a straightforward [[DrivesLikeCrazy high-octane]], [[MoreDakka raygun-laden]] [[CrazyIsCool psychotronic enthusiasm]]. The album also ties together the band's well-known PopPunk and {{Emo\|Music}} styles with new influences from modern IndieRock, PowerPop, and [[ElectronicMusic electronic rock]].
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12	In addition, Creator/DarkHorseComics published ''The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys'' comic, a six part miniseries that started in June 2013. The comic serves as a sequel to the album and the official ending to the Killjoys storyline, focusing on the Girl and the continued fight against BL/ind 12 years after the Killjoys' deaths. The series was released in 2020 in hardcover under the name The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: California.
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14	On July 21, 2020, Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, and Dark Horse Comics revealed another six-part comic book miniseries, ''The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem''. Instead of continuing the Dangerverse storyline told in the album and "California", the series tells the story of the original unreleased Killjoys concept, set in a [[AlternateContinuity different continuity]] with a 1990s-2000s timeframe.
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16	This one involves the Killjoys and their leader, Mike Milligram, bending reality to keep the real world's status quo safe in a realm called the Unseen. When access to the Unseen is lost, the Killjoys are forced to join the doldrums of polite society. When Mike's TV breaks and his Ramones records seem to have been erased, he eventually sets off on a journey to reveal a cover-up that could change the past, present, and future course of history.
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18	Preceded by ''Music/TheBlackParade''.
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20	!! Tracklist:
21	# "Look Alive, Sunshine" (0:29)
22	# "Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)" (3:25)
23	# "Bulletproof Heart" (4:55)
24	# "SING" (4:29)
25	# "Planetary (GO!)" (4:06)
26	# "The Only Hope for Me Is You" (4:32)
27	# "Jet-Star and the Kobra Kid/Traffic Report" (0:26)
28	# "Party Poison" (3:35)
29	# "Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back" (3:49)
30	# "S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W" (4:27)
31	# "Summertime" (4:06)
32	# "Destroya" (4:32)
33	# "The Kids from Yesterday" (5:24)
34	# "Goodnite, Dr. Death" (1:58)
35	# "Vampire Money" (3:37)
36	----
37
38	!! Bonus Tracks:
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40	# "We Don't Need Another Song About California" (4:29)
41	# [[HiddenTrack "Zero Percent"]] (2:47)
42	----
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44	!!The Fabulous Killjoys and others
45	* Party Poison: Gerard Way
46	* Jet Star: Ray Toro
47	* Fun Ghoul: Frank Iero
48	* Kobra Kid: Mikey Way
49	* The Girl: Grace Jeanette
50	* DJ Death Defying: [[Music/MindlessSelfIndulgence Steve Montano]]
51	* Show Pony: Ricky Rebel
52	* Korse: Creator/GrantMorrison
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54
55	!!''Danger Days'' features the following tropes
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57	[[foldercontrol]]
58
59	[[folder: Dangerverse Tropes]]
60	* AlternateContinuity: Many are quick to note a ContinuitySnarl or two between the album and the events in the videos, the most obvious being [[spoiler: Jet Star and Kobra Kid being reported as dead]] in "Jet Star and Kobra Kid" on the album and [[spoiler: the Killjoys possibly dying]] in the video for "SING". It all depends on how you interpret all the information gathered together, whether or not everything happens in one timeline. (Or, possibly, whether the villains are using stun bolts.) There's also [[http://sometimesophie.livejournal.com/80561.html a nice piece of fanfic]] that tries to explain how the Killjoys keep surviving.
61	** The comics serve as an official sequel to the album. However, some have noted the similarities of [[http://www.tfaw.com/Comics/Profile/True-Lives-of-the-Fabulous-Killjoys-2-Becky-Cloonan-cover___427364/?pagemode=popup&from=profile DJ Cherri Cola in the comics]] to Mikey's portrayal of [[http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/evyrossen/default/kobra-kid--large-msg-129596115096.jpg Kobra Kid]]. The solit for issue 3 even mentions Cherri as [[http://www.tfaw.com/Comics/Profile/True-Lives-of-the-Fabulous-Killjoys-3-Becky-Cloonan-cover___429280/ "a former Killjoy"]]. Yet again, this comes into conflict with Kobra's fate in "Jet Star and Kobra Kid". This is subverted, however, in that it was revealed Cherri Cola was indeed a Killjoy, but he didn't go to Battery City to rescue the Girl with the other Killjoys [[spoiler: so he wasn't dusted, leaving him the only apparent original Killjoy survivor until his death protecting the Girl]]. Any resemblance to Kobra Kid seems to be just a coincidence.
62	* ApocalypseHow: The enigmatic event when "The Lights Went Out" is an implied Class 1. [[spoiler: Another is implied at the end of the album with Doctor D's line "The lights are out and the party's over."]]
63	* TheApunkalypse: The Killjoys world isn't a million miles away from that seen in ''Film/MadMax''.
64	* BadassAndChildDuo: The girl with all four Killjoys.
65	* BaldOfEvil: Korse
66	* BlindIdiotTranslation: As Battery City is implied to be Japanese funded, some of the text and dialogues that appear in the videos, albums and comics are read in mangled bad translated English.
67	* BuccaneerBroadcaster: Doctor Death Defying.
68	* CharacterBlog: The mysterious Twitter accounts for [[https://twitter.com/drdeathdefying Dr. Death Defying]], [[https://twitter.com/agentcherricola Agent Cherri Cola]], [[https://twitter.com/newsagogo News A Go Go]], and [[https://twitter.com/tommychowmein Tommy Chow Mein]].
69	* CoolMask: The Killjoys all have personalized masks to kick ass in, which have become a common fashion statement both with fans and those influenced by the Killjoys in the comics.
70	* CrapsackWorld: When your only shot at freedom is to flee to the desert and risk getting "ghosted" nearly every day of your life, that might qualify. Not that people in Battery City have it any better, not following BL/ind's orders can lead to getting killed, replaced with a robot, or turned into a Draculoid. While the Danger Days story takes place around the West Coast, Better Living Industries is a Japanese company and what little is implied about the rest of the world isn't too good.
71	* DeusExNukina: [[WildMassGuessing Possibly part of the backstory]] of the post-apocalyptic world in Danger Days, though promotional material hinted at the 2012 doomsday prediction as a possible cause.
72	* EliteMooks: The Draculoids.
73	** The Dracs might just be regular {{Mooks}} while the Exterminators (like Korse) are the real EliteMooks. WordOfGod seemed to suggest that the Dracs were higher than S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W, who were higher than the police. Korse seems more like TheDragon. In the comic, The Girl stated Dracs weren't worth her time to off and she only targeted Scarecrows, which implies Dracs are lower. Also in the comic, Korse is demoted to Lobby Patrol for the BL/ind compound, which while a significant step down from being a Scarescrow is ''still'' higher than a Draculoid.
74	* EpicRocking: "The Kids from Yesterday", at 5:24.
75	* FacelessGoons: The S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W unit and the Draculoids
76	* FakeBand: As a very punk rock inspired post-apocalyptic world, it has at least four stated fictional bands. ''The Mad Gear and The Missile Kid'', ''Vacation Adventure Society'', ''AKA Loretta'' and ''The Cause and Effect''.
77	** Issue 5 of the comic introduces Richard Ai Yai Yai and [[{{VideoGame/Gauntlet}} Wizard Needs Food]].
78	* FateWorseThanDeath: Agent Cherri Cola, who went into Battery City on a one-Killjoy killing spree, was captured alive, and was turned into a Draculoid. According to the Twitter accounts anyway, he's still very much not a Drac in the comics.
79	** Issue 1 of the comic shows that putting on a Drac masks [[MindRape forces you]] to see everyone around you as giant insects. One girl forced to wear the mask nearly kills her brother out of fear.
80	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Oh so much between the album and the comics. To wit: [[spoiler: ''Destroya'' on the album ostensibly describes Party Poison's RoaringRampageOfRevenge...except it also verbatim describes Blue's story arc in the comics. She doesn't believe in luck. And she finds Destroya...who, as a robot, doesn't believe in God. Together they become the enemy of Battery City, ultimately destroying it]]
81	* FutureSlang: "Slaughtermatic", "clap", "Costa Rica", "Crash Queens" and "dusted" to name but a few.
82	* HandicappedBadass: Dr Death Defying.
83	* ImprovisedWeapon: Nintendo Power Gloves and Zappers are the weapon of choice in 2019.
84	* LargeHamRadio: Doctor Death Defying
85	* LighterAndSofter: While still embodying the band's strong language and edgy themes, this album seems like a much lighter direction in themes and musical style, particularly considering that the emo factor and dark imaginery are non-existent here. Instead, the band here opted for a much more punk rock style and musical elements of power pop and pop rock.
86	* MadeOfIron: Possibly ''everyone''. There are, after all, four levels of dead in the wastes.
87	* MegaCorp: Better Living Industries.
88	* RobotGirl: "FTWWW" by Mad Gear & The Missile Kid imply sex with [[RobotGirl android girls]].
89	** The comics feature a subplot with Red and Blue, android "porno bots" who just so happen to be in a committed relationship.
90	** The Free Comic Book Day short "Dead Satellites" shows BL/ind sending down decommissioned porno bots from the skies to draw out Zone dwellers who mistake them from the sky as meteors or something else and go to investigate.
91	* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Better Living Industries took control in 2012, the events of the album and the videos take place in 2019, and the comics take place 12 years after the events of the album.
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94	[[folder: The Album and Music Videos]]
95	* ArcWords: ''Run,'' ''Live Forever,'' and variations thereof.
96	** There's also ''Summertime'' mentioned throughout the album.
97	*** And something about ''The lights going out'' or variations mentioned in almost every track.
98	*** And ''The aftermath is secondary'', as it's said by Dr. Death Defying in the intro, and it also appears to be the slogan for BL/ind.
99	* BigDamnHeroes: The Killjoys, especially in the "Sing" video.
100	** According to the Twitter feeds, Agent Cherri Cola attempted to do this for News A Gogo. [[spoiler:He failed. Gogo escaped on her own, and Cherri was turned into a Draculoid.]] Which may have been retconned or wasn't canon in the first place as DJ Cherri Cola is in the Killjoys comic and is still very much not a Drac.
101	* BigRockEnding: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OVGjXYW0BY Two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMUdfJoks30 of them]].
102	* CerebusSyndrome: Sort of a self-contained example. The songs start out fun and even uplifting, but at about the halfway point after [[spoiler: Jet Star and Kobra Kid die]], things start sounding [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge angrier]], sadder rather sinister, and the storyline ends with a positively ''grating'' LastNoteNightmare DownerEnding.
103	** And then comes Vampire Money, an out-of-story song that's [[MoodWhiplash kind of perplexing]] coming after everything that just happened...but ends the album on the same note it started on. Except if you listen to the words of Vampire Money, they finish exactly opposite of Na Na Na, that is, caving in and submitting to the life they fought in the beginning...if it was actually in-story. Canon-wise, the Killjoys [[spoiler: that were shown in the video at least]] died during the events of the "SING" video and Vampire Money was written as a TakeThat after being asked to do a song for the soundtrack to one of the Twilight movies. Note that Gerard's roll call in the beginning refers to the ''band'' and not the Killjoys. ''Borderline'' positive!
104	* CharacterBlog: The mysterious Twitter accounts for [[https://twitter.com/drdeathdefying Dr. Death Defying]], [[https://twitter.com/agentcherricola Agent Cherri Cola]], [[https://twitter.com/newsagogo News A Go Go]], [[https://twitter.com/tommychowmein Tommy Chow Mein]], [[https://twitter.com/djhotchimp DJ Hot Chimp]]. [[https://twitter.com/bobfillmore Bob Fillmore]] and [[https://twitter.com/garylevko Gary Levko]]. [[WildMassGuessing We think.]]
105	** As of the Killjoys comic, the accounts might be non-canon. While Cherri Cola and Tommy Chow Mein show up in the comics, the Twitter storyline had Cherri Cola turned into a Drac. As of Issue 2, he's still living in the Zones as ''DJ'' Cherri Cola along with DJ Dr. Death Defying.
106	* ConceptAlbum: Following in the heels of Music/TheBlackParade.
107	** There's been misunderstandings in the fandom about Gerard saying that Danger Days ''wasn't'' a concept album. This is often explained as fans taking outdated information out of context, as these early interviews refer to the scrapped album (eventually given a release in the form of Conventional Weapons) that Danger Days replaced. For what it's worth, Gerard and Shawn Simon in [[https://www.altpress.com/news/gerard-way-new-killjoys-comic-national-anthem/ the Alternative Press reveal]] of Killjoys: National Anthem clearly describe Danger Days as a "concept record".
108	%%* CoolCar: The Trans Am, known as the Danger Car.
109	* DarkReprise: Na Na Na Na Na ''(Na Na Na Na Na)'' is repeated in [[HeroicSacrifice Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back]].
110	%%* DeathByCameo: Jimmy Urine of MSI as a Draculoid in the video for "SING".
111	* DeusExNukina: [[WildMassGuessing possibly part of the plot or universe]] of the album. The Better Living Industries mentions "the great fires of 2012", but there hasn't been [[NoodleIncident much about that]] since.
112	* DogFoodDiet: In the video for "Na Na Na", the band is seen eating [[http://l4906227.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/power-pup.jpg "Power Pup"]] from cans.
113	* DoomedMoralVictor: The prelude to the album states that the Killjoy's are greater than God's revolver and twice as shiny. The intro to Na Na Na states that ''the future is bulletproof, the aftermath is secondary.'' The song later states outright that there are many people who want to change this CrapsackWorld, [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption but are afraid to die]]. The Killjoys are the only ones who have the balls to change the world at the face of certain death.
114	** Also note that in all the music videos thus far, [[spoiler: the Killjoys are handed their asses in the end. The "SING" video is treated as canon in the Killjoys continuation comic...which is to say that they are one of the four commonly accepted levels of dead.]]
115	* DrivesLikeCrazy: We ''have'' to assume this is the only way to drive out in the Zones.
116	** Or, possibly, that they were entertaining the little girl. [[GoodIsDumb Kids]] ''[[GoodIsDumb love]]'' [[GoodIsDumb dangerous stuff.]]
117	* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: The whole Sing video, though especially Fun Ghoul. He's like the [[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing Boromir]] of the group!]]
118	* EyepatchAfterTimeSkip: [[spoiler:Jet Star]] has one in "SING". Probably an injury from the fight at the end of "Na Na Na".
119	* FakeRadioShowAlbum: Done throughout with Dr. Death Defying's broadcasts, the tracks "Look Alive, Sunshine," "Jet Star and the Kobra Kid/Traffic Report," and "Goodnite, Dr. Death" are all done in this style.
120	* GratuitousJapanese: In Party Poison.
121	** Also the music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvfNmXbVHi4 Planetary (GO!)]].
122	* HeroicSacrifice: Taken literally, this trope is the main focus of "Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back".
123	* HeroicBSOD: Party Poison has one in the music video for SING when he realizes that [[spoiler:the Draculoid he just killed is Agent Cherri Cola, an ally of the Killjoys]]. This causes him to hesitate and leads to [[spoiler:Korse taking advantage of the moment by killing him]]. This is shown better in the Director's Cut version.
124	** In issue 2 of the comic, this is clarified/retconned. The actual Cherri Cola wasn't there during the events of the video, making the Draculoid that Party shot into some random mook (with no resemblance to the Cherri Cola in the comics) rather than someone of any emotional significance. The issue does explain that the Killjoys didn't want to kill but did so in order to protect The Girl. Party Poison's Heroic BSOD could have come from the lifestyle the Killjoys took on finally taking a mental toll on him.
125	* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: At the end of the 'SING' video, it's pouring down rain.
126	* {{LARP}}: Overlaps with AudienceParticipation, since the band encourages fans to come up with their own Killjoy names and costumes. A "secret" part of the Transmissions page on the official site also encourages fans to send in their own; some of these videos are then broadcast from Dr. Death Defying's WKIL channel.
127	* LastNoteNightmare: "Goodnite, Dr. Death" has a really bad one. It doesn't help that "The Star-Spangled Banner" starts playing after Dr. Death Defying's final broadcast [[spoiler:(after all of the Killjoys have been murdered, the government has taken over, and all hope seems lost)]]. It REALLY doesn't help when the last note of the track explodes into a loud burst of distortion, louder than almost anything else on the album. Not a nice thing to listen to when half-way asleep.
128	* LittleMissBadass: The Little Girl, traveling with the Killjoys.
129	* LyricalDissonance: Many technological, club-style dance songs are thrown in with lyrics fitting the Killjoys' story of rebellion. Most notable example is "Planetary (GO!)"
130	** "Party Poison" is arguably the most fun, high energy, dance-y song on the album. The chorus begins, "This ain't a party, get off the dance floor."
131	* {{Mesodiplosis}}: In "Destroya":
132	-->"You don't believe in God, I don't believe in luck\
133	They don't believe in us, but I believe we're the enemy!"
134	* MetallicarSyndrome: Seriously, a painted-up Trans Am is maybe not the most inconspicuous car.
135	* MoodWhiplash: When you first hear the album, you go through it all fine. Then, you start to listen to the songs, apart of 'em all, and you feel like you are hearing a mixtape of a lot of genres and favorite songs you just picked, all mixed up in between songs. Helped by the Dr. D's reports, it could very well be a cassette being left recording a whole afternoon of radio. And it's awesome.
136	** The whiplash really starts to bite when, after the first handful of songs, all of which are fist-pumping, party-inducing anthems, "The Only Hope For Me Is You" throws in a little hint about bombs and war. No big deal, just a little hint. And ''then'' the normally-cheerful Dr. Death Defying breaks in to tell us that [[spoiler: Jet Star and the Kobra Kid "got themselves ghosted"]], and encourages us to "die with your masks on if you have to" before adding "Here...is the traffic". The rest of the songs sometimes fit the "anthem" style and sometimes dip into melancholy, but they tell the story of [[spoiler: everyone else dying, too.]]
137	* OdeToYouth: "Sing".
138	-->Sing it out\
139	Boy, you've got to see what tomorrow brings\
140	Sing it out\
141	Girl, you've got to be what tomorrow needs\
142	For every time that they want to count you out\
143	Use your voice every single time you open up your mouth
144	* ProductionThrowback: The "Na Na Na" video shows a skeleton half-buried in the desert wearing a [[Music/TheBlackParade Black Parade]] jacket. [[FauxSymbolism Gerard Way's personal Black Parade jacket.]]
145	* {{Retraux}}: "Bulletproof Heart" has a distinct mid/late-70s vibe.
146	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: "Party Poison", [[EpilepticTrees or so it has been theorized.]]
147	* RockOpera: Sort of. The album lacks a definite narrative in places, alluding to more than it states. It's more like the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist.
148	* TheSongBeforeTheStorm: "Party Poison."
149	* SoundEffectBleep: "BL/ind" bleeped the cuss words and "drugs" from the "Na Na Na" music video using standard bleeps and a nice, briefly interrupting screen that said "BL/ind" right on it.
150	** Doubles as a TakeThat.
151	** Then done straight in the video, at the line, ''And all the juvie halls and the Ritalin rats ask angels made from neon and [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] garbage...'', where it's censored with a laser noise.
152	* ShoutOut:
153	** "Vampire Money" is gosh darn full of it. The song was written in response to the band's choice [[TakeThat to not write a song]] for the ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' movies, Music/DavidBowie and Mark Bolan get a {{shout out}} and the opening is almost a perfect copy of "Ballroom Blitz" by Sweet. There's also a shout-out to [[Music/TheWho "The Kids Are Alright"]].
154	---> The kids don't care if you're alright, Honey!
155	** "Destroya" is possibly a reference to the Destoroyah monster in the Godzilla-franchise film ''Godzilla vs. Destroroyah''.
156	* TakeThat: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3L6T0dfHa0 "Vampire Money"]] is a pretty snarky one directed at ''Film/{{Twilight}}''. Specifically, it takes the mickey at artists who contribute songs to the film franchise's soundtrack, written after they were asked to do a song for one of the films and refused.
157	* TagalongKid: The Little Girl. Rather than being TheLoad, however, she's seen hacking into vending machines, wielding a giant bazooka, and basically not panicking when she's captured by Better Living Industries during the "SING" video.
158	* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler: The Killjoys know that they don't stand a chance against BL/ind. So they plan to live forever by making a memorable stand against their enemy.]]
159	* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies:]] [[spoiler: All four of them.]] In the music videos anyway...
160	* TheStinger: "Vampire Money," the last song on the album, which comes after Dr. Death Defying's final broadcast, is sung by MCR [[AsHimself as themselves,]] and is seemingly unrelated to the Killjoys. It's about selling out, further adding to the [[EpilepticTrees listeners' confusion.]]
161	** Specifically, it's based on a request to do a song for the Twilight soundtrack, which they turned down despite the financial potential. In one interview, Gerard is quoted as saying [[TakeThat "Vampires are the new Jonas Brothers."]]
162	* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Gerard killing a Draculoid in the "SING!" video, having a 'wait a second I just killed that guy moment' (because he removed the Drac's mask), and this leads to [[spoiler: Gerard getting killed]] -- it's seen even better in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgGo4WTseOQ Director's Cut]].
163	* YouShallNotPass: Pulled off by [[spoiler:Fun Ghoul]] in the Music Video for SING. Doubles as both [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]] and [[spoiler:DyingMomentOfAwesome]].
164	** Also, the song "Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back" on the album if taken literally. As rumoured above, it is most likely [[spoiler:Party Poison]] making the sacrifice this time as both [[spoiler:Jet-Star and Kobra Kid]] are dead at this point.
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167	[[folder: The Comics (2013)]]
168	* ArcSymbol: The Killjoys' spider emblem. [[spoiler:A live spider resembling it gets into the brainwashing machine with Korse, allowing him to fight back and escape]]
169	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Volume of the Ultra V's.
170	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Draculoid masks inflict this on whomever is forced to wear them. With an added bit of AndThenJohnWasAZombie involved since they appear to be able to resurrect the dead to do so.
171	* ComingOfAgeStory: According to Gerard, the comics are this for The Girl.
172	* DespairEventHorizon: Korse. [[spoiler: After his boyfriend is killed, the SCARECROWs that come to arrest him comment 'he looks like he's dead already'. Thankfully he snaps out of it in time.]]
173	* DownerEnding: The '''Free Comic Book Day''' mini issue, Dead Satellites. [[spoiler: Vacation Adventure Society, a pair of musicians, rogues, and possibly Killjoys allies, are killed, and a boy loses his mom to BL/ind, replaced by a cyborg-mom.]] And that was only on that issue.
174	* FieryRedhead: Val Velocity after dyeing his hair red.
175	* HeelFaceTurn: Korse. [[spoiler: The more we see him the more sympathetic he becomes, until he outright defies his old role as villain by letting Blue escape.]]
176	* HeelRealization: Korse and [[spoiler:Val Velocity.]]
177	* HeroAntagonist: Val Velocity's just a little too bloodthirsty and WrongGenreSavvy to be the comic's hero.
178	* HeroicSacrifice: Subverted. The Girl thinks that [[spoiler:Cola's death]] was this, but the [[spoiler:Phoenix Witch]] questions the idea that it was intentional. Then later [[spoiler: The Girl herself believes she'll likely die when she unleashes the "soul" of Battery City, trapped by [=BLind=] only for her to survive as well]]
179	* HumongousMecha: Destroya. [[spoiler: We get to see just how humongous when he comes back to life.]]
180	* ImportantHaircut: The Girl gives herself one [[spoiler: before she leads the Killjoys to Battery City to destroy it]]
181	* InkSuitActor: Korse, the [=BLInd=] elite S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W, takes a great resemblance to his original actor, Creator/GrantMorrison. Similarly, Steve, righ?'s character, Dr. Death Defying, is basically himself in a comic book.
182	* OfCorsetsSexy: The head of [=BLI=] combines this and WhipOfDominance to create an intimidating {{Dominatrix}} look when she's not wearing a suit.
183	* OfficiallyShortenedTitle: If [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CC9I3K1p-oM/ Gerard]] is any indicator, the official abbreviation for The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: California is TLFK: California.
184	* ThePowerOfHate: The force that makes [[spoiler:The Girl]] so special. It's so potent that it [[spoiler:could kill everyone]] in Battery City [[spoiler:or free them.]]
185	* ThePowerOfLove: Explicitly defined as a weakness by [=BLind=] who try to [[spoiler:try to brainwash Korse after finding out about his boyfriend. Korse then demonstrates how absolutely [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge wrong they are]]]]
186	* ProperlyParanoid: Val Velocity is VERY suspect of BLI spying on the Killjoys, suspicions that lead him to do some truly horrible things. He's right in the end, though the spy was the last person [[spoiler:or rather, animal]] that anyone ever would have suspected.
187	* RightOnQueue: Poor Blue is subjected to a truly ridiculous degree of this. It is NOT played for laughs.
188	* SequelSeries: The comic is a sequel to Danger Days, the album.
189	* ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler: Korse' entire arc becomes this after he's brought in to be brainwashed. First he pulls one on the machine trying to brainwash him, then on the [=BLind=] CEO when she tries to BreakThemByTalking, ''then'' he pulls one on her after she reveals he cant simply kill her body]]
190	* TeenageWasteland: Implied, most characters seen in the Zones appear to be in their early teens to mid twenties and the oldest non BL/ind character seen in the Zones in issue 1 are the salesman Tommy Chow Mein, DJ Death Defying, and DJ Cherri Cola. The Ultra V's mistrust DJ Death Defying due to him being '''super old''' (like, forty something).
191	* ThoseTwoGuys: Vaya and Vamos. Equally vain and languid, if it wasn't for their different hair colors and clothes, you'd be hard pressed to tell them apart.
192	* TimeSkip: Takes place 12 years after the events of the album.
193	* WarriorPoet: DJ Cherri Cola speaks in very haunting verses when we heard him. Plus, he's a Dr. Death Defying ally, and former Killjoy, surviving the TimeSkip in the Zones, so we must assume he's a great fighter.
194	[[/folder]]
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196	[[folder: The Comics (2020)]]
197	* AlternateContinuity: Based on the first concept for Killjoys before it ever became an MCR project proper, the series features similar visual elements but a much different cast of characters and world. We're not in California 2019 (rather the 1990s-2000s).The only characters with ties to ones we see in Danger Days and California are Mike Milligram, Red, and Blue.[[note]]Mike bears an obvious resemblance to Party Poison. Red and Blue share appearances with Red and Blue from California but play a much different role as members of "The Codes" alongside Kyle 100% and Animax, who we don't see in other Killjoys media.[[/note]]
198	* BigBad: The Control.
199	* ExtraStrengthMasquerade: The Analog War in general. The populace is unaware of the paranormal war happening around them, and every death is explained away as an accident, a murder-suicide, something mundane. After the war it becomes obvious that this is being enforced by products such as Sterelax as well as mass media control.
200	* ImmuneToBullets: Milligram's specialty.
201	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The fate of the victorious Exterminators who won the Analog War. For our protagonists, it doesn't stick.
202	* OrwellianRetcon: How Animax breaks out of his brainwashing. [[spoiler: An entire chapter on Rosa Parks vanishes from the history books, no one seems to know about the Civil Rights movement, and he's the only one in his faculty that notices.]]
203	* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The guns the Exterminators use turn trauma into ammunition.
204	** This eventually runs into SuperpowerLottery territory. [[spoiler: Animax can tear throats out like a tiger while wearing his mask, and Jaime turns rubber Halloween costume gloves into actual claws by focusing.]]
205	* {{Surrealism}}: Runs rampant, between Milligram's WordSalad poetry, the SurrealHorror inhuman entities that get blasted, the fact that Mom and Dad (the leaders/employers of the Exterminators) are a pair of CRT televisions...
206	* YearX: Years given in the comic always have the last digit blurred out by technicolor static.
207	[[/folder]]

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