| 1 | * BreakupBreakout: hide became most famous after leaving Yokosuka Saber Tiger and joining Music/XJapan, and his career only improved more when he went solo from Music/XJapan to his own career. |
| 2 | * CreatorBreakdown: One that, in retrospect, seems horrifically, blindingly obvious, but that seemingly either went ignored by most of the people around him, or that concerned them but they had no way to act upon their fears. At the point of [[http://www.xjapantranslations.com/arena-37c-aug-1994-be-friends-with-alcohol this interview with Arena 37C magazine]] in 1994, he was a ''textbook'' case of alcoholism (If you doubt this, run any alcohol screening test as if you were him, with the information he freely divulged in said interview. You ''will'' get the result of severe, life-threatening alcoholism), as well as showing symptoms of severe Bipolar 1 mania and depression which he even referenced in several of his songs and in other interviews. [[Music/YoshikiHayashi Yoshiki]] mentioned hide's bulimia in his own autobiography - that hide often vomited when he felt that he'd eaten too much, and he'd often find himself holding hide's hair out of his face as he purged. That said, all or most of the warning signs were dismissed by almost everyone, and those who were close enough to know something was wrong at the time (specifically Yoshiki and Pata) likely weren't educated enough in mental health to know that they were seeing serious, horrific problems unfold before their eyes. |
| 3 | * DiedDuringProduction: 1964-1998. Probably one of the most notable and tragic examples in recent memory. When hide died, he had not yet finished his third album, ''Ja, Zoo'', and many of his singles and other works hadn't been finished or released yet. |
| 4 | * DyeHard: hide's hair is either red or pink. |
| 5 | ** Sometimes it was blonde with a pink or red streak in the early days of the band. Which could be confusing to n00b fans seeing a redhead... and therefore confusing hide and [[Music/TomoakiIshizuka Pata]], who had *entirely* red hair off and on from around 1989 to 1991. |
| 6 | * FountainOfExpies: So, so, SO many in VisualKei. Probably, in one aspect or another, the most imitated artist in Visual Kei. |
| 7 | * FranchiseZombie: LEMONED, Lemoned Plant, and the entire hide "estate" or "empire." It can be argued fairly well that Hiroshi Matsumoto has ''no'' idea of what hide would have wanted for it, and is solely using it as a personal ATM to gain payment from fans and from artists who admired hide. |
| 8 | * NoBudget: The ''Misery'' PV, unless it was StylisticSuck. The film quality is awful even for the mid 1990s. |
| 9 | * OutlivedItsCreator: Zilch is a straight example (it outlived both hide and Paul Raven), but a more meta example would be pretty much all of hide's career and artistic output. As an example, the "Pink Spider" musical just opened in Japan... |
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