Trivia / Metalocalypse

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• Acting for Two: Brendon Small, Tommy Blacha, Mark Hamill, up to eleven. Go ahead, check out Wikipedia. See how many characters these people voice, not including background characters. Regular voices are more than double the regular voice actors. The entire band and CFO are voiced by two people.
• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Dethklok is not the sixth/seventh largest economy in the world, just above Belgium. In the first season, "[Dethklok is] now the twelfth largest economy in the world, having just surpassed Belgium", in the second season they are declared the seventh-largest economy in the world, in the third season, "[Dethklok is] now the sixth-largest economy in the world". It can be assumed that they have become the World's Top Economy by Season Four, since they send the entire planet's economy spiraling downwards after all the copies of their new album end up lost/destroyed.
• Celebrity Voice Actor: Aside from Mark Hamill who voiced a lot of characters in the show, Metalocalypse had an impressive amount of guest celebrities, and was able to have the leads from other metal bands voice characters too. Most notable is George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher of Cannibal Corpse fame, Jack Black, Janeane Garofalo and even Guns N' Roses' Slash!
• The Danza: In the Latin American Spanish dub of the Army of the Doomstar film, Oscar Explosion is voiced by Oscar Gomez.
• Defictionalization:
  • Brendon Small has done several live tours as Dethklok, not to mention released The Dethalbum, which has the honor of being the highest-charting Death Metal album in Billboard's history. There have since been two more Dethalbums and a fourth for The Doomstar Requiem.
    • The Dethklok Minute is partially defictionalized, existing as a news community on LiveJournal and a devoted thread on the Adult Swim boards.
    • The Dethklok Fountain has now also been defictionalized, for those of you with $40,000 to drop on Adult Swim merchandise.
    • Skwisgaar's signature guitar, the Gibson "Thunderhorse" Explorer, was available for sale for a limited time, then an Epiphone version was also released. Followed by Gibson "Snow Falcon" Flying V, which became Toki's signature guitar.
  • Florida has since adopted Purple Alerts. When there is an active Purple Alert, special signs along Florida's highways will flash the words "Purple Alert"... and nothing else. ^note A Purple Alert notifies the public of a missing adult in the manner of an Amber Alert for a missing child or Silver Alert for a missing elder, but the marquees that deliver them often don't have room for additional information, or scroll to that information without the context of the alert unless you look it up yourself.
• Executive Meddling: Season 3 was shockingly tame compared to the first season; this was due to the fact that Adult Swim ordered the carnage be toned down, since Superjail! (which had a similarly bloody tone) had debuted and they wanted to avoid people comparing it to Metalocalypse as far as ripping off its tone.
• No Dub for You: A rather odd case. The TV series didn't got any dubbed version elsewhere, except in German, but the Army of the Doomstar film did got international dubs instead.
• Non-Singing Voice: Mike Keneally as Toki in "Doomstar Requiem". Averted in all other episodes.
• The Other Darrin: Tommy Blacha was unavailable for the Doomstar Requiem special, so Toki's singing was provided by Mike Keneally, with Brendon Small filling in for younger Toki. Murderface and Dr. Rockso also had their singing provided by Brendon Small. According to a Reddit AMA from Small, this was due to Blacha being unable to sing in key.
• Prop Recycling: All over the place and often Played for Laughs much like other Flash-animated Adult Swim shows of the era. Be prepared to recognize the same animation of a random bystander looking up before suddenly dying brutally.
  • Also heavily present in the official animated music videos which often simply reuse animations, backgrounds, and other such assets from the show. While some of it is justified as they're reusing from the episode the video's song first appeared in, you sometimes have scenarios like the music video for "The Galaxy" reusing the giant Spider Tank stage from the episode "Dethecution" as an alien mothership, Offdensen's flying drones or "Dethspiders" from the episode "Dethrelease" as alien assault ships, and X2P1158 from the episode "Rehabklok" as the alien robot who's had Nathan chained up and tortured.
• Screwed by the Network: One more season to tell the rest of the story and Adult Swim declined to produce it. Apparently disagreements between Brendon Small and them wound up leading to the show's cancellation. Brendon tried to rally fan support but Adult Swim just flat out didn't care. Adult Swim's Mike Lazzo and the Metalocalypse team also have publicly feuded before.
• Trolling Creator: Adult Swim were absolutely brutal with taunting fans hoping for some kind of a revival, from recording a livestream shredding fan comments asking about a new season or movie to making a bumper that joked about how fans petitioning a company resulted in Zack Snyder's Justice League... But wouldn't work for Metalocalypse. The trolling died down after they announced the movie.
• Unfinished Dub: There was a German dub that aired on TNT in 2010 (even getting similar guest voices from the German metal scene such as Doro Pesch and Marcel Schirmer) but it only lasted one season.
• What Could Have Been: According to Adult Swim during the "History of Adult Swim" marathon, the initial pitch revolved around the in-universe band that performed "Beware The Wolf" in the second episode's opening of Perfect Hair Forever.
  • Metalocalypse was initially titled "Deathclock", which had to be changed to "Dethklok" to write around trademark issues. However, the title soon became "Dethklok Metalocalypse" and was then shortened to keep it from being too complicated.
  • The earliest designs from 2005 show a much different look for Pickles as well. According to Brendon Small, Pickles' design had to be overhauled due to likeness issues involving Devin Townsend (his basis).
  • Because of the show's abrupt ending due to Adult Swim pulling the plug on the show, Brendon Small was forced to turn the originally planned Dethalbum IV into what became known as his new album GALAKITKON: Become the Storm and serves as audio Grand Finale to the series but without the names or references to Metalocalypse or Dethklok, as Adult Swim owns the rights to the name. This however can be considered moot as Adult Swim has allowed Brendon to make the film that will close off the Metalocalypse story.

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