YMMV / NateWantsToBattle

• Evil Is Cool:
  • The man Nate plays in the video for "Phantom." He's eerie, Red and Black and Evil All Over and likes to give aspiring folks a change to fulfill their dreams if they're willing to pay the price. And fans absolutely love him.
  • The same goes for his obligatory dark side character, Natemare, who first shows up in the Mangled music video. Despite having very few appearances, he has a large following by many of Nate's fans. He even has an enamel pin available for pre-order in Nate's newest album, What You Want.
• Harsher in Hindsight: "Misty", a love song dedicated to Misty from Pokémon Red and Blue, features the line "Misty, you're gonna miss me when I'm gone, I'm gone forever". With Misty's fan-preferred love interest Ash Ketchum being retired from the anime, this line hits very differently. He really is gone forever now...
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In the original video for "Phantom", Nate plays a Red and Black and Evil All Over, deal maker. Hazbin Hotel grants us Alastor, who fits that description almost beat for beat. So well, in fact, that Nate repurposed the song for him!
• Magnificent Bastard: "The Phantom" from Paid in Exposure: The titular Phantom, heavily implied to be the Devil himself, is a smooth, charming demon who makes deals with people. He relentlessly stalks them into taking up a deal, and, either out of fair sportsmanship or reverse psychology, leave clues as to how risky the deal is, while still playing up the benefits, leaving the client with a choice. The music video shows him in action, effortlessly charming a struggling stage magician into signing his contract, then taking his soul when all is said and done.
• Narm: "The Evil King" is a cool Villain Song, but the redundant overuse of the word "now" makes the following lines a bit hard to take seriously:
  Now I aim to take what is mine
  And now there's only one thing left to do now